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Note: Hi! I realize that FanFictions story alerts have been kinda screwed but I'll post anyways.
Time for yet another chapter of this wonderful story! I've got an announcement, then we will look at some reviews and get onto the story.
I am re-writing my other story. That's right. My main, super huge and big story is getting re-written. Now, you may be going: "What!? But it was so good!" but let me stop you there. I'm rewriting it to make things much better.
Meaning, that you fellows over here should read the rewrite. Since you guys leave a ton of reviews I feel like you can make the better version better! It'll come out in two weeks or so, be prepared my friends!
(Laughs evilly underneath a blood moon.) Time for the chapter!
Criminal Mastermind!
Chapter XI
Jaune got back onto his cot moments after the prison song ended. People filtered through their small rooms back onto their own cots tucking themselves in. Looking around his room he went over the math one last time figuring that he had about five hours of sleep until it was early enough in the morning for 'The Great Flush Of Our Lord And Saviour John Watson'.
Getting into his bed he closed his eyes waiting for sleep as Merlot mumbled something about needing new glasses before he too got into bed. Welcoming the darkness as the entire cell blocks lights dimmed at the usual scheduled time Jaune went over the math, one last time to assure himself nothing would go wrong.
He couldn't have another clusterfuck like the bank happen again now could he?
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A couple hours later Jaune woke up and rubbed the sleep from his eyes before looking over at the sleeping Merlot. Deciding that joking around wouldn't be a funny thing to do right now Jaune got up off his ass and went over to Merlot gently shaking his shoulder.
"Wake up doctor."
Shaking him harder as he hadn't responded immediately Jaune looked down at the sleeping bastard before having a wonderful idea of how to wake him up without making any unnecessary noise.
Tiptoeing back to his bed Jaune got his small and crappy pillow off of his bed holding the small and limp thing away from himself and towards the doctor. Creeping back over through the mainly dark darkness Jaune got real close before pushing his pillow into the man's face.
A few seconds later once his body realized it wasn't getting oxygen he began flailing around screaming into the small pillow. Jaune realized now that since he was screaming into the pillow it was unlikely he would be quiet once he took it off.
Deciding it was time for the flush anyways Jaune took the pillow of the man's face and heard him let out an ear wrenching screech which woke up everybody as they in turn all started screaming.
Talk about a whole bunch of…. What do you call a group of people that scream anyways?
After a moment everyone there was awake including the guards who were likely napping at the camera controls. They watched befuddled as once everyone realized what was going on began chanting 'Viva Le Revolution!' and ran to their toilets flushing them all at once.
Slowly ever so slowly as the people began going about rampantly in a loud rage of revolution loving screams as they flushed toilets over and over again while arming themselves. Jaune eventually let the still recovering Merlot head over to the toilet to continue pressing down on the lever while he got out his own weapon.
Taking the cardboard boxes off the ceiling as well as the jar of cabbage oil Jaune put them on his bed taking his pillow case off his pillow. Throwing his pillow onto the ground which now had a very low amount of water on it, Jaune put the jar of cabbage oil into the pillowcase and admired his handiwork.
Jaune had just made a makeshift mace.
Too bad he didn't have a battery as it would be more effective for making a mace but there was a good reason for him using cabbage oil. For one, the first person he hit with it would be so shocked by the cabbage smell that they would stumble and become open. The second reason was that as soon as the jar broke he would have a mace and or sling which was filled with razor sharp glass shards.
Looking down at his feet he checked the water levels. Now about three inches high here was water constantly flushing onto the floor as more and more water came in from the sewage system as it thought it was trying to flush a particularly nasty shit.
There was sloshing as people began jumping up and down. Ther water was about five inches high now going up to his ankles. Jaune knowing that they only had seconds hopped onto his mattress gesturing for Merlot to do the same.
Tucking one of the cardboard boxes under his arm while tossing Merlot the other one Jaune raised his voice so that it could at least be heard by the cells closest to him. That way they would echo it along the other cells and it would get everywhere.
"Everyone! Up on the mattresses! GET UP THERE NOW!"
There was more sloshing as most people managed to get onto the mattresses. Those that didn't weren't the lucky ones. But they knew what they were signing up for. They knew that there was a risk.
The water reached the various sockets in the hallways and then everything went dark.
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"OH MY GOD MS. SCHNEE WE'VE GOT AN EMERGENCY!"
"What is it Walter!?" Winter jolted upwards from her arms which she had been resting on. It was a slow day and nothing of interest had happened despite her waiting in her office for the news on what would be a potential prison break.
"We've lost all contact with the Sherrinford rehabilitation facility!"
"How?" This did not sound good. This did not sound good at all. But then again some fire lit in her eyes and her heart as she realized this might mean that
"We don't know ma'am. One second we're getting a progress report from the man in charge in the forest about them flushing toilets and the next it seems like their wifi got cut out… I know they were piggybacking off of the detention facilities wifi but that means that their wifi is out too does it not?"
Damn it! The routers in places like that were near impossible to unplug. It was built that way so that in the case of any Grimm getting into some sort of facility they can't take down the wifi. The only way it could really be out was if the power was out as well.
But how had they managed that? No. How had he managed that. She was sure of it now.
The Rogue was escaping a prison made to be inescapable while surrounded by Atlas guards who were nothing but tin cans repurposed into soldiers. Oh no… Another thought hit Winter as she truly realized what would happen now that the power was out.
The doors would automatically shift to physical opening mode which was nothing in the way of some of the larger prisoners, thereby releasing them into the prison in a rampant rage. The staff wouldn't have light to fight back… The turrets on the walls and the snipers in the towers would be without light and power meaning one very scary thing.
The built up negativity which was now even more crazy than before would draw more grim than usual while the prison had no defenses. The only thing standing between the escaping prisoners and grimm alike was eighty soldiers and five experimental stage Paladins without a single hunter on their side.
Since she hadn't decided to send them one. Since she had screwed up big time.
They had just been pincered. Somehow this one stupid criminal mastermind managed to think past her. Some murderous hooligan had managed to outthink her a specialist. Winter didn't deserve the specialist badge she wore proudly.
"Walter! Call the Valeans immediately! Get them to send their paratroopers at once! Get them to send the bullheads anything! Send whatever hunter they have in reserve we may have another Mt. Glenn on our hands!"
"W-what!? But ma'am if we were to send all those soldiers they wou-"
"Does it look like I care about some stupid secret base that shouldn't be there in the first place!? This is about saving lives Walter! CALL THEM NOW! Get me a Bullhead."
Winter got up quickly, not bothering to straighten out her ruffled uniform as she did so. Clipping her blade to her hip she got up and brushed past Walter on her way to the door.
"W-where are you go-"
"I'll go there myself."
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Jaune watched as all the dimmed lights in the hall went out all at once. There was a small amount of unfamiliarity as he took in not what sound was there now, but what sound was missing. Instead of the steady hum of the broken air conditioner and lights along with the locks on the doors, there was simply silence.
Silence which was quickly replaced with chaos.
People stopped flushing and ran over to the doors and gripped the bars sideways putting their backs into it along with a metric ton of elbow grease. Slowly the screeching sound covered up by the water, each door opened the smallest amount possible that it took for a prisoner to get through.
Squeezing through himself Jaune stood in the darkened hallway as his eyes adjusted. In the hallway now was a flood of prisoners joining the flood of water on the floor as they charged as quickly as they could down the hallways walking through the water makeshift weapons held high.
It was glorious.
Joining the cries of "Viva La Revolution!" he grabbed Merlot and, making sure he was following behind continued through the middle of the pack as they surged through the hall.
Looks like things had gone better than he thought. It was a one in seven chance for actually succeeding the way he thought it would. You see, once the water got up to the outlet it had shocked through and the power killed itself afterwards. Really, quite unlikely but, it worked so he wasn't complaining.
As they made it to the door there was a steady clanging sound as people banged on the elevator door with their sock weapons. Getting to the front while shaking his head Jaune got there with his still folded up cardboard box under his arm.
"Oi! It's easy you idiots! Just pull them open!"
They looked at each other before registering the order and pressing their hands onto the door. More and more hands joined until they were all pushing the doors apart back into the wall. Once they were about an inch apart they stuck in their hands until they made it open.
Looking into the elevator shaft Jaune looked upwards then downwards as everyone gave him his space. The elevator was near the bottom likely having fallen in the power outage. The brakes built in to slow down the falling elevator had kicked in though so it was still intact.
'Looks like it's down on the level for the loading bays… Huh, funny how that worked out well. Then again it couldn't have really worked any other way as when an elevator falls it's pulled by gravity downwards not upwards! Oh god that was so lame… I don't even know. Snap out of it Jaune! Be professional! Remember you're these people's idol! Act professional and like you know what you're doing!'
Heading into one of the cells as people watched what he did Jaune wrapped another pillowcase around his hands and gave both his weapon and the cardboard box to Merlot. The water was spilling from the hallway and into the elevator shaft as he spoke.
"Alright. I'll slide down, while you guys get ready to do the same okay?"
Leaping from the landing he crashed into the elevator wires the cloth around his hands being pushed against the wire. He gripped on and slid downwards accelerating until he stopped accelerating.
Looking down at the slightly smoking cloth in his hands he thanked his past self for coming up with the idea to protect his hands. "Don't come down yet!"
Reaching down and scrabbling around in the water for a moment Jaune eventually found the hook on the top of the elevator escape hatch. He pulled it open and the water threatened to drag him with it for a moment before he was fine again.
"You guys can come down now! Doctor! Throw me my weapon then my box!"
Jaune caught his jar of cabbage oil mace in his arms before also catching his folded up cardboard box. More and more people began sliding down the wires using either their socks to cover their hands or their jumpsuits, there was even a speedo in there but he didn't know whose that was so he made sure to avoid it.
At last came Doctor Merlot.
He slid down ungracefully like a penguin trying to use stairs while they were covered in magma. So, if it still isn't clear allow him to rephrase. It was very, very ungraceful.
Once they were standing together on the top of the elevator Jaune made sure to pull Merlot aside gesturing for the other released convicts to continue on without them. As they continued on with 'Woots' and pats on the back for Jaune he made sure all had passed before speaking.
"Listen… My entire mission was simply to get you out. You know that yeah?"
The disgraced doctor nodded showing he understood. The man was bright there was no denying that. It was likely he already knew what Jaune was going to say.
"Well. You aren't going to escape. Alright? You're going to do exactly what I say next and let them rampage outside while I make my way up to the roof. You okay with that?" Jaune said beginning to fold his box into the proper box shape it should be in.
"Well… Can't say I'll miss you what with all your pranks and stuff kid. But you know what? I'll still miss you… If only so that I can't shank you with my glasses on day when I'm bored." Mr. Merlot replied with a chuckle making Rogue laugh as well.
"Alright… Here's the plan. It's got to be perfect. Remember! If you get hungry, eat the cabbage."
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Note: Mwahahahahah!
I ended it on a cliffhanger all building up to the grand finale! What will happen next!? Will the influx of soldiers and hunters quash this rebellion? Will the Rogue make it out alright? What will the political consequences be for the secret Atlas army in Vale!?
Find out next time on TOTAL DRAMA RWBY!
No but seriously. Have a fantastic day and leave a review! Suggest criminal girls for Jaune to get with you guys! I've got all eight picked out already but if someone suggests someone better I can always mix and match.
See you!
-DragonManMax
