CHAPTER XI
A/N: omg here it is! the second-to-the-last chapter of the Allied Opposite! :O I cannot believe I have gone this far. With you all, it's been better. Thank you for everything. It means so much to me. Reviews, comments, whatevers are greatly appreciated :3
Disclaimer (long overdue): I don't own RWBY.
Ka-blam! went the steel door!
"Here they are," Roman said to the other three who were with him before the Junior Huntresses and the cat Faunus entered. "Miss Schnee, your saviors are here."
The first person Blake looked for was Weiss. The girl she was looking for was surrounded by Roman, Adam, and a new guy with grey hair. Her wrists and ankles were tied together with rope, a little too tightly that her hands started to pale from lack of blood circulation. A large piece of tape covered her mouth, making her barely able to breathe properly. The Faunus' first thought was to attack Roman, who was the mastermind of all this, but Ruby held her shoulder.
"That's the wanted criminal from the news!" the brunette exclaimed, pointing her sniper scythe at the orange-haired man. "I will fight you!"
"Oh, look," said criminal chuckled, opening his arms wide. "If it's not Red Riding Hood coming after me again. Come at me, Red!"
"Careful, Ruby!" her sister warned, watching as Ruby's weapon turned into a gigantic scythe. "He won't go easy on you!"
"I won't go easy on him, either!" the scythe-wielder said and charged towards Roman. "Hiii-yaaah!"
Ruby's scythe met Roman's silver cane and she quickly switched her position to better swing her weapon. This, Roman easily backed off of, and countered with a shot to Ruby's head.
"Ruby, look out!"
The red-caped Junior Huntress was not to be underestimated. She was as fast as lightning, disappearing from everyone's view in a shower of rose petals.
"Got you now!" someone yelled from above. Not a second later, gunshots were heard, but they unfortunately missed.
Yang yelled, "Sis, fix your aim!"
"Got it!"
It was a little too late now to fix that as she was about to land, so Ruby switched to scythe mode again, to be blocked by Roman's silver cane. Again.
"I can't land a hit," Ruby muttered under her breath. "Gotta try something new!"
A change of strategy ensued and now Ruby was attacking relentlessly, swinging her scythe at a very high speed so that she was almost a blur to anyone watching her. The cigar-loving man blocked her every swing with his rocket cane, but his face showed that he was not doing this easily. Ruby was getting faster and faster after each swing, and the criminal's energy was running out. The better thing for Roman to do now was to retreat.
"'Til we meet again, Red!" he exclaimed as he shot a rocket at her feet. He knew he would escape today; he wasn't about to get caught by a young girl! The fired rocket hit the ground before Ruby and barely missed her feet, and she was blown back a few meters. Now was Roman's time to escape through the only exit.
"Ruby!" the blonde Junior Huntress exclaimed and ran to aid her sister who was still a bit dazed from the explosion, only to be caught by her scarf by the man known to us as Mercury.
"Not a chance, blondie!" the villain exclaimed as he watched her struggle against his grip. What he noticed at the last second was that her gauntlets were changing in form, revealing several orange bullets.
"Not a chance, grey-face!"
Yang fired her right fist to her front, giving her right arm enough strength to strongly hit Mercury's stomach. As soon as he was hit by her right elbow, the blonde girl twisted around to face her adversary as she fired her left gauntlet upwards, hitting his chin hard. She gave him no time to recover and sent a kick to his torso while she was in midair, making him stagger backwards.
"Nice one, blondie," the grey-haired fighter grinned, wiping blood off his face. "If you specialize with punches, I specialize with kicks!"
Mercury stomped his feet, activating the weapon concealed in his shoes. Black cylinders appeared at the sides of his feet attached to his boots, and whirring and clicking sounds were heard.
"Oh no," Yang muttered, her eyes widening. She turned to her sister to make sure she was okay, but she saw only a tiny blizzard of rose petals. "Ruby?!"
"I'll be back, Yang!" she heard Ruby cry out as she ran for the exit after Roman Torchwick. "I've contacted the Vale Police Department!"
Yang flashed a thumbs-up at her sister's direction before turning back to Mercury. She prepared to fight him, who was already charging at full speed with the blessing of his weaponized shoes. What took her by surprise, though, was the charging red blur that was not Ruby from her left side. She had an idea, and hoped she could time this one right like she did the rocket fired from Junior's bazooka.
"I have a bad feeling about this!" she laughed nervously as she jumped high in the air. At the same time, she fired her gauntlets downward to give more power to that jump.
Adam and Mercury, who were charging at full speed towards Yang, crashed into each other as soon as the girl made her jump of faith. The two rolled toward the exit and were having difficulty getting up thanks to the collision.
"Mercury!" Adam exclaimed, still trying to find his bearings. Mercury wasn't doing so well, either. "Red Riding Hood contacted the Vale Police Department!"
Realization was evident on Mercury's face as he absorbed the meaning of this situation. It was time to run away.
And set off the timer.
Blake's eyes widened at the sight of the device in Mercury's hands and her ears picked up the click that sounded at the push of one of the buttons. Wait, there was only one button…
And a ticking sound that could only mean one thing.
"Adam!" she yelled at the two runaways. "Deactivate that timer, now!"
The bull Faunus sneered. "This won't be the last time you'll see us, Blake," he said as he dragged Mercury away. "There's no deactivation to this timer, of course! It only goes 'boom' once it's down to zero."
"You can't do this, Adam," Blake almost pleaded. "She hasn't done anything wrong to you!"
"Her father has!" he exclaimed. "Her whole family has, to the Faunus!"
"She hasn't," the ninja shot back. "She's innocent."
"She carries the blood of the Schnees. That's not innocence unless she makes things right."
Mercury hit Adam's head. He had seen Yang before Adam did, and she was not very happy. It was like her entire body was on fire. "Blondie's still after us! Run for it, Adam!"
With that, Mercury and Adam escaped with Yang on their tails, leaving only Blake, Weiss, and the bomb to be taken care of in the warehouse. The cat Faunus saw Weiss nearby, her face pale and showing panic to the world, and ran to her.
"Weiss!" she exclaimed as she carefully tore the tape from the heiress' mouth. "I'll get you out of this quickly, don't panic."
Weiss was breathing heavily, getting used to the sudden abundance of oxygen in her system. "Blake, oh my gods, Blake…"
"Tell me about it later!" Blake interrupted as she took out a knife from her pocket and started sawing off the ropes holding Weiss' ankles and wrists together. "We have to go—"
She felt a strong grip on her hands once she was through with cutting the wrist ropes, and she felt a stronger, panicked stare from the person she was saving.
"I can't get out of here," Weiss told Blake. "If I so much as shift in my seat, the bomb goes off!"
Realization dawned on Blake's face as she heard this information. Mercury took Roman's words literally – Weiss should never get out of that chair. Her life was on the line.
"All bombs have an off switch," Blake mumbled under her breath. "If we could just find it—"
"We don't have time!" Weiss said with even more panic. "It goes off in fifteen seconds!"
Blake paled and wasted a second. In the next, she was withdrawing her katana tied with long, black ribbon and throwing it with so much force that it landed blade-first into the ceiling at the very center of the warehouse.
Ten seconds.
She grabbed the end of the black ribbon and ran up a wall. Yes, like a normal person wouldn't have been able to do. Her plan had better work.
Nine.
"What are you doing?!" Weiss asked, still glued to her seat. "I hope this works, Blake!"
Eight.
Blake was still running up the wall. The ribbon was not yet taut.
Seven.
"I have faith in this plan," she told Weiss.
Six.
"I've seen it happen before!" she said as the ribbon became taut.
Five.
She prayed to the heavens that this would actually work. She silently played in her head the outcome.
Four.
"I have faith in you, Blake," Weiss said. She knew Blake would hear that.
Three.
"I hope I have faith in myself," Blake shouted back, kicking off the wall and swinging down towards Weiss Tarzan style.
Two.
"Grab on!" she told Weiss, stretching out her hand for the heiress to reach.
One.
Weiss caught Blake's hand and away they swung at the last second.
Zero.
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