Chapter 11
Crashing through a tree with a lycanthropic Lucien catching him. Naruto rolled onto his feet as he held his right shoulder, looking up with a glare to the alpha Beowolf that was being clubbed to death by Jason as Summer and Raven were dispatching Creeps, looking to the right where Qrow and Taiyang were fighting an Ursa alongside Vlad who slit it's throat with two serrated Daggers, daggers he called Bloody Mary.
Dropping down with the Grimm's body fading as they regrouped, with Jason ripping the spine out of his target.
Walking to Summer and Naruto the two teams stood ready.
"Alright, this much Grimm in the middle of the day, something is definitely up with Atlas" Naruto said as he replaced his empty weapon with a LMG.
Loading in fire dust imbued rounds Naruto pulled the lever back to fire, looking around the two teams moved to the landing point of the Atlas military unit.
Rolling his shoulders while the others followed, with Raven noticing Naruto's bleeding shoulder.
Walking for a good hour or more with Raven keeping an eye on Naruto, they stopped at hearing an inhuman roar followed with gunfire.
Looking amongst each other the two teams rushed forward with Raven keeping close to Naruto who winced due to his shoulder.
"Naruto, are you alright?" Raven questioned with the blonde looking to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine!" Naruto grunted as he kept up with the others, until they turned to the left in time to see a monstrous monster explode from the ground, looking like a mix of a Creep and a human, going for a bite at Naruto Raven tackled him out of the way as the Creep monstrosity landed, snarling with a maw of teeth gnashing wildly until its head was stabbed in place by Jason's machete.
Looking to Raven and Naruto he saw Naruto's shoulder bleeding from a nasty wound.
"Naruto!" Jason yelled as he ran to his partner, while Raven sat him up.
"Why isn't his aura healing him?" Vlad questioned as Qrow had a frown of guilt.
"I'm fine, just give me a minute" Naruto said as he was about to channel Kurama's chakra until Raven stopped him.
"We're not going any further until we get your Aura up and running, how you managed to get into Beacon without it is a surprise" Raven said as she placed a hand onto Naruto's chest, making the two stare each other in the eyes before Naruto sighed.
"Let's get this over with, we have a mission to do" Naruto said as Raven rolled her eyes, turning to the others she spoke.
"You all go on ahead, we'll catch up" Raven said with the two teams nodding, moving ahead as Naruto and Raven stood up, with Naruto holding his shoulder Raven placed her left hand on his shoulder and her right hand on his forehead, with Naruto catching her red cheeks.
"For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee." Raven said as she glowed a shimmering white while Naruto's aura to the colour of crimson red that flickered into cerulean blue before he let out a groan, making Raven open her eyes in worry as he fell forward, making her catch him as his shoulder began to heal with the effort of his newly unlocked aura and Kurama who felt like he was given an adrenaline rush.
'What was that/ what was that?" the two spoke In unison as Naruto felt drained before his energy began to return, making him blink as he found his face in Raven's breast as she tried to stay standing, until he stood up on his own feet, feeling his balance return he let out a grunt while shaking his head.
"That felt weird" Naruto said with Raven smiling.
"If you say so, and it looks like your shoulders healed" Raven said with Naruto looking to said shoulder before he smiled.
"Nice, thank you, Raven" Naruto said with the beauty looking away with a blush.
"No need to thank me, let's go, we have a mission to do, remember?" Raven said before running after the others, with Naruto letting out a chuckle as he ran after her.
Finding the rest of their teams hiding in a bush, Naruto looked to the clearing to see Atlas soldiers setting a perimeter with two large cages closed, five smaller ones already open and forgotten, but what kept getting his attention was the red shaders the usual Armor had.
"What is this, are they capturing Grimm?" Summer questioned with Lucien and Vlad narrowing their eyes.
"No, those cages look like something broke out of them, and I can take a guess as to what's in the big ones" Vlad said as one of them shook violently with a human roar echoing outward, making Lucien's skin crawl as it evolved into a howl, making him breath more heavily in panic until Vlad and Naruto placed a hand on his shoulders.
"Don't panic" Naruto said with his eyes glued to the cages.
"They haven't released what's in there yet" Vlad said before they noticed the Atlas soldiers moving into positions away from the cage.
"Releasing Specimen in two minutes, get clear people"
Turning to the Bat Faunus with a deadpan look, Vlad groaned in annoyance.
"I'll admit, I jinxed it big time" Vlad said before Jason spotted the cockpit of the lead ship with a soldier waiting.
"If we get to that control deck before the two minute mark, we'll be able to stop whatever their doing and have a little peak of what they have caged up" Jason said with Summer nodding as she raised her cutlass', loading their revolver barrels with fire dust rounds the blades glowed, with Naruto bringing out two 9mm handguns with gravity dust loaded and ready.
"We'll split up, we'll circle around while you guys go to the right" Naruto said with Summer nodding, nodding to his own team, Naruto led them around with silent ease, with Jason keeping low with his mask in his right hand while his left held his machete, Lucien following on all fours, similar to Kiba but at a calm pace.
Vlad merely followed by walking, his steps showing impossible silence.
Ducking behind a tree as a soldier jogged by, the four continued on before the four stopped and scouted any targets, ignoring the roaring from within the cage.
Looking for any sign of team STRQ Naruto spotted Taiyang crouched low behind two guards, seeing Raven beside him he waited for a signal…
Which happened to be Summer dive bombing a group of soldiers who cried out in surprise, followed by Naruto turning to Jason, nodding to each other Naruto jumped up with Jason's right fist colliding with his feet, the force in the punch sending Naruto forward with Vlad and Lucien following, Lucien swinging an axe downward into the head of an unfortunate soldier who let out a dying cry of pain as Lucien rushed forward as Naruto shot at any soldier he saw, sending them flying back with the gravity rounds he was joined by Summer and her team knocking out the soldiers, with Vlad aiming his sniper at the one who was at the controls.
"Sleep tight" Vlad said with a resounding crack echoing with his shot, watching the poor soldier fall down backwards the Bat Faunus went to help clear any runners.
Taking down his good share of soldiers the teams now stood in the middle of the camp with the cage rumbling with a roar echoing out.
"Alright, let's take a peek" Jason said as he moved to the side of the cage in silence, with Lucien following closely with Taiyang and Qrow following, leaving Raven and Summer to check on Naruto who rolled his shoulder.
"That shoulder holding up?" Summer questioned as they followed after the others.
"Yeah, still sore but fine" Naruto said as they followed Jason to the controls, seeing a screen Jason was about to look over the controls until Vlad ushered him aside.
"I'll handle the technology, thank you" Vlad said with Jason sighing.
"Oh come on, your scroll short circuited once" Jason said with Naruto adding his own words in.
"Along with it becoming a home made EMP" Naruto said with Jason rolling his eyes as Summer giggled at the scene as Vlad's fingers flew over the controls before the holographic screen on the console came to life, showing what was inside his skin lost all of what colour it had at what he saw inside the cage.
"Guys… we may have a total shit storm on the horizon" Vlad said with Naruto and Summer moving to see what he saw they paled at the sight of two human Beowolf inside, horrifically Mutated beyond standards, unlatching limbs, short or elongated Lucien stared with a look of understanding as he watched one of the mutated Faunus writhe in pain as it grabbed his left arm as it grew.
"My god, what have Atlas been doing?" Taiyang questioned as he stepped back from the screen.
"Nothing good, contact the Headmaster, he'll want to know of this" Naruto said with Summer nodding as she stepped aside while he stared at the screen.
"What will we do with them?" Lucien questioned as he palmed his axe, looking to Naruto expectantly.
"Their obviously in pain from what Atlas has done to them, we show them mercy, Vlad see if theirs an emergency terminate option in the system" Naruto requested with Vlad nodding, looking through the system he flinched with a frown beneath his glasses as the screen showed data being run.
"What the hell?" Vlad questioned before he and everyone heard the cages gears shifting.
"VLAD!?" Naruto questioned urgently.
"It's not me, someone's remotely opened the cages" Vlad said with a hysteric voice as his hands went to work stalling the doors from opening until they heard a crash, making them all freeze at hearing a loud roar from the now opened cage, making Lucien unlatch his axe he held it with both hands, a look of genuine fear as they hid from the mutated Faunus.
"The Pain… make it stoooop"
Closing his eyes at hearing the pleading tone, Naruto went to take aim at the poor sods head until it let out a roar of anger mixed with agony, followed by the other one before they stopped suddenly, making Naruto frown in confusion, peeking out he saw them frozen in a trance before suddenly bolting away into the forest… away from vale.
"Okay, anyone have a sense of foreboding right now?" Qrow questioned with Raven narrowing her eyes.
"Vlad what happened?" Naruto questioned the Bat faunus as he went over the terminal with a furrowed brow.
"I don't know, I was about to activate the emergency kill system before I was shut out, someone opened the doors remotely" Vlad said as he turned to the others, who stood in silence at the idea of someone from Atlas being the cause of this.
Walking into an office within Atlas, a man in his early twenties stood in full lieutenant gear of the Atlas Military with added red lines running down his sides, staring forward with eyes of pure focus and restrained power, Lieutenant Jacob Hyde stood at attention to a man in his forties wearing General attire in all red.
"Report, Lieutenant Hyde" the General spoke in a commanding voice.
"The outpost near vale has been breached sir"
"Any casualties?"
"Many on our side, along with the loss of the specimens"
"Who ordered their release?"
"Ordered is such a simple word, general…" stepping aside Lieutenant Hyde stared at the lead scientist of the subdivision of the Atlas Military with a look of disgust and slight respect.
"Doctor Cellulam, am I to understand that you are the one who put our division in the spotlight?" turning to the thinly built doctor, the general saw him smile wickedly.
"of course I released them, it was the only way to gain the attention of our chosen specimens" the doctor said as he brought up four holographic images, one showing three young faces.
"One Dominic Grave, one Lucien WolfBlood one Jason Vincent Voorhees and fifth and one Vlad Depes Drakula, from what little history I gained from my sources, their bloodlines have come from outside of remnant, Mr Drakula's blood showing signs of increase agitation to Sun light, Mr wolfbloods strength of his immune system and Mr Voorhee's tolerance to fatal wounds" Doctor cellulam said with the general frowning at the last one to be spoken of.
"And what of Mr Grave's blood?" the increased look of excitement the doctor showed made him frown further.
"Accelerated healing without the use of Aura, his genes are what we need to solidify our work, no more dying subjects or rabid outbreaks, no more…" looking to Lieutenant Hyde the two stared each other down Hyde's eyes slowly melting into blood red.
"No more barely successful subjects like him"
"Be that as it may, doctor, Lieutenant Hyde has been spear heading our tests by the dozens, what can these four hope to help us with?" the general questioned with the doctor lowly smiling wickedly.
"The simulations… are deadly"
