Chapter 10: On the job accident
"I don't believe I asked for your help." Robin huffed.
"Ozpin doesn't want you to be reckless, so I have been sent to keep an eye on you." Glynda retorted.
"Doesn't Oz need you at Beacon?" Robin asked bitterly.
"You know as well as I do that Ozpin can handle himself." Glynda responded calmly, Robin was quiet for the rest of the journey.
The bullhead touched down on an empty landing platform.
"Because that's discreet." Robin sighed.
"Would you have preferred to walk?" Glynda asked rhetorically, Robin began mumbling under his breath.
"A console?" Robin questioned, he connected his scroll and began typing furiously.
"What are you doing?" Glynda asked.
"Getting some data." Robin responded quickly, his eyes never leaving the screen.
"Do you have to rush that much?" Glynda inquired.
"Well it doesn't do us well to over stay our welcome." Robin half joked.
"Yes, but you're typing like you're out of time." Glynda pointed out. "Why are you so fixated on finding out why your daughter was created?"
"Because..." Robin trailed off for a few seconds. "I know what it's like to be a mistake." Robin choked out, his typing slowed down. "I'm not saying that I don't want Blanc in my life, I'm glad she exists." Robin stated as his typing came to a halt.
"Then this is a deeply personal reason." Glynda deduced.
"Right as always." Robin confirmed. "I wasn't planned for." Robin said solemnly, his hand brushing his hair back while he let out a long sigh. "I was the mistake of a drunk man who didn't think things through." Robin spat out, his tone grew angry.
"So you want to have a reason for your daughters existence besides the fact that she's alive." Glynda said, Robin nodded and went back to typing. A few minutes passed before an alarm went off.
"Seems we have a pair of intruders." An old voice rang out from the speakers.
"Well... He knows we're here." Robin sighed as his shoulders drooped down, he grabbed his scroll and drew Senbonzakura. "Ready to fight?" Robin asked Glynda.
"I'm ready to clean up another of your messes." Glynda sighed.
"Hey, I didn't start this one." Robin pointed out.
"But you followed it through." Glynda reputed.
"True." Robin conceded.
A horde of robots began rushing into the room. Robin and Glynda headed back the way they came, there was a big space just behind them.
"This will give us more room at least." Robin laughed nervously as he cut down a robot, another robot would have landed a hit if Glynda hadn't sent it flying into a wall.
"Focus." Glynda warned.
The two faced the onslaught of robots, they weren't thinning in numbers and before too long mutated grimm started appearing.
"Merlot did experiments on grimm!?" Robin yelled as he avoided a slash from a mutant Beowolf, he retaliated in kind by slashing the mutant grimms head off.
"That I did boy, I furthered science." Merlot confirmed over the speakers.
"You furthered your own delusions." Robin yelled.
"Then what do you call this?" Merlot asked, a second alarm rang and a heavy yet fast sound began resounding. Then it crawled in.
"A mutant Deathstalker!" Robin yelled as he took out a few more robots and mutant grimm, he was was getting tired and his aura was getting low. "Red." Robin whispered to himself, he looked down at his katana. 'You can't hold out much longer either, huh?' Robin thought, a sad smile apparent on his face.
Robin and Glynda managed to deal some damage to the enemies numbers, but the Deathstalker was making things difficult. The mutants stinger headed straight for Glynda's back, Robin got behind Glynda and raised his weapon to defend himself.
"Bring it!" Robin taunted.
The Deathstalkers stinger smashed right through Senbonzakura and Robins aura, Robin felt the intense pain of the stinger running him through.
"Robin!" Glynda yelled as the mutant Deathstalker threw Robin against a wall, his body fell to the floor with a thud. Robin was motionless.
Glynda hurriedly dispatched the rest of her foes and sent a blast of dust at the Deathstalker, a giant icicle pierced right through its head and the mutant dropped down.
"No!" Merlot shouted over the speakers. "Fine, if my research is going down the drain... we'll all go down with it!" Merlot yelled as yet another alarm went off.
"Self-destruct imminent." A robotic voice called out over the speakers, Glynda levitated Robin and hurried back to the bullhead.
The entire building went up in flames as the bullhead flew off.
"Is he gonna be alright?" The pilot asked.
"I hope so." Glynda responded as she patched up Robins wound with an emergency health kit.
"What happened?" Winter asked Glynda as the paramedics loaded Robin into the ambulance.
"He attempted to block an attack aimed for me, his weapon broke and the attack went straight through his aura." Glynda informed Winter as she handed her the remains of Senbonzakura.
"That fool, he never puts himself first." Winter sighed.
"Excuse me, would you like to accompany the patient to the hospital?" One of the paramedics asked.
"Yes, I would." Winter replied. "Miss Goodwitch, could I ask you to bring Blanc to the hospital later?" Winter inquired.
"Very well." Glynda nodded.
Robin was put into intensive care as soon as the ambulance reached the hospital, Winter didn't leave his side.
"You fool." Winter whispered. Robin had a heart monitor hooked up to him, its slow beeps seemingly the only noise in the melancholic room. A doctor entered the room a couple of nurses.
"I'm sorry Ma'am, there is a high chance that Mr. Branwen won't make it. You have my condolences." The doctor apologized as the nurses adjusted the equipment.
"You don't know this man like I know him, he would come back from the dead just to spite whoever or whatever killed him." Winter smiled, though the thought of Robin potentially dying hung in the back of her mind.
"I'm sorry, but that is not how the human body works." The doctor reminded Winter.
"I'm aware, but it is how he works." Winter emphasised the 'is' in her statement.
"Very well, they say denial is the first stop." The doctor mumbled as he and the nurses left the room. A short time later Glynda and Blanc entered the room, Winter lifted Blanc onto her lap.
"What did the doctor say?" Glynda asked.
"Robin probably won't make it." Winter responded as Blanc grabbed a hold of Robins left hand.
"I'm sorry." Glynda apologised.
"He'll make it." Winter stated matter of factly.
"Yes, he wouldn't let near death stop him." Glynda agreed.