Chapter X – You Mess with the Bull, You Get the Horns
We watched as an orange-haired girl in a somewhat old fashioned dress investigated the area where we had fought the White Fang and Roman. In terms of accessories, the only real visible thing I could see was a big pink bow on the back of her head.
"Penny? What are you doing here?" Ruby suddenly said, surprising me, before running off in the girl's, now known as Penny, direction. I just shrugged after quickly getting over my surprise and ran after Ruby. I heard footsteps behind me as everybody else followed. "Hello, Ruby and friends. I have absolutely no idea how I got here. One moment I was in Vale and next thing I know, I'm here." the girl said in a quite robotic form of speaking.
"Hmm. That's odd indeed." Weiss said. "So who are these new guys here?" Penny suddenly asked as she got too close for it to be even comfortable. "Hasn't this girl ever heard of personal space?" I thought to myself as Bob, Jack, Iris, and I backed slightly.
"Oh. They're some people we ran into as soon as we got here. They're also helping us get back to Remnant." Yang said. "Might I come along, then?" the orange-haired girl asked. "Sure. Besides, the more people we have with us, the better of a chance we have against the White Fang My name's Jordan, by the way. Jordan Freeman." I said, straightening my cloak before holding my hand out for a handshake. After a rather long amount of time spent making introductions, we finally deciding to move on.
"So where is our next destination?" Bob asked. "I really don't know. I haven't even fully figured out how we're going to get to Greece." I answered, shaking my head. "Why not by plane?" Jack asked. "Actually, that's not a bad idea. There's still the problem about money, though." I said. "Darn it. I forgot about that." Jack said, a little frustrated that he had forgotten about it. Iris put a hand on his back and started moving it around in small circles, which actually seemed to calm him down.
"What's that?" Iris asked, pointing towards the sky. "That isn't good. Looks like the White Fang are coming back around again." Blake said, the wind blowing her hair back as the Bullheads flew in on our location. When they stopped and hovered over the area, the doors opened and several grunts along with somewhat in a distant black and red outfit and more decorated mask.
"Who's the new guy?" I ask team RWBY, as he was clearly from their world. "That would be Adam. One of the higher ups in the White Fang." Blake answered. And right after that, he pulled out his weapon. Just as he fired, I instinctively drew and threw the Bowmerang in its Boomerang Form. I then see a black object attached to a black ribbon fly by me and alongside my weapon.
I follow the ribbon all the way back to its owner, who was Blake. I then immediately return my attention to the White Fang as I hear a clatter of metal on the ground. What lay on the ground as my Bowmerang continued on its flight path undeterred was a red and black sword. It looked kind of like the ones that ninja used in movies I had seen.
Anyway, the group in front of us spread out as the two weapons approached them, either jumping over them, sliding under them, or sidestepping them. "Wow. Impressive reaction time. For a human." Adam said, as he picked up his sword. "Wait for it." I said, counting down. Unfortunately, when I got to zero, Adam just knocked my Boomerang out of the air just as it was about to hit him. "Darn it. I did not see that coming." I said, drawing my sword and charged at them, followed by my friends.
I went directly towards Adam slashing at him with my sword in a reverse grip as I went into a slide. This was blocked and countered rather hard. I was thrown back several feet before sliding to a stop. I switched back to my normal sword position and charged again. I noticed as I charged that Blake had also engaged him in combat.
"Try this on for size!" I said, shooting a fireball at him as I ran. He just raised his sword and absorbed it into his weapon. "What in Hades is that thing made of?!" I quickly thought before pushing all thought away once more. When I finally reached the Bowmerang, I attempted to stab him in the back of his foot, which would cause him to hobble, leaving him vulnerable.
Adam dodged the attack and countered, only to have his attack countered by Blake's. I changed the Bowmerang to its Edge Form and then picked my sword back up before getting back into the fight. I narrowly dodged a green laser as I started running at Adam again. I looked and saw that Penny was using it to wipe out group after group of White Fang grunts. Now that's overkill.
I finally landed a hit as I struck him from behind. Blake took this opportunity to cut away at him from the front. After that, I kicked his legs out from under him and as he fell, I threw a knee against the back of his head, which landed. As we were going to continue our assault, he suddenly got up and unleashed an attack so fast, it temporarily blinded all of us in the area.
Once everything cleared up, we found that there was nobody in the area except us. "Where did they go?" I asked, confused. "No idea. I didn't even see that one coming myself." Yang said, scratching her head. We all put away our weapons as we thought over the current events. "Hey guys! There's a ship we could use here." Jack said from the cockpit of a Bullhead that had apparently not been taken. "Nice going, brother." Iris said, her eyes changing to a bright blue. "Does anybody know how to fly these thing?" I ask, looking around.
"I think I can give it a shot." Bob said. "Alright! Let's get going, then. I call shotgun!" Yang said, running after Bob. The rest of us followed along.