Yeah it's been so long, but I got pretty busy with work and I was in a trip so I couldn't write anything lately. Also I noticed that no one really cares about this story, so updates will be less frequent than usual. Maybe I'm not that good as a writer, or even as fan of RWBY since I'm trying to make it this concise for a lot of people.
Disclaimer: RWBY Characters, places and terminologies with the exception of the Original Characters, belongs to Rooster Teeth Productions.
*BANG*
Ironwood started to shoot Quinn while he repelled the bullets with his weapon like he was swinging them like a ball game with smaller targets to hit. The big guy started to rush towards the General as he kept shooting at him.
Despite blocking some of the projectiles, he still got hit by some of them but not too badly to stop him as he was getting closer. The as he got Ironwood on his reach, Quinn swung his weapon against him, but he blocked it with his right hand while hearing metals clashing against each other.
"Hmph, I guess that piece of junk on your body really helps you, General." Quinn said while Ironwood was still guarding.
"You still have a lot to learn… such as not letting your guard down!" He started to pull Quinn's weapon until he punched him on the face with the left arm. The big guy countered-attack as he pulled his weapon too and head-butted Ironwood's face, making him release Quinn's weapon.
They stepped back for a moment, but the General took charge and started to punch Quinn multiple times. He tried to withstand some of the blows while Ironwood continued delivering hooks and jabs on him. Quinn couldn't move from where he was standing as Ironwood got a pretty fast offensive.
"Gotcha!" Quinn dodged the attacks while putting his palm on Ironwood's chest. His Aura was surrounding his body as all the energy started to concentrate on his hand. He depleted it on the General, sending him flying a couple of feet away from Quinn.
"Not bad…" Ironwood complemented to the escapee while trying to stand firmly.
"Dammit, that still hurts…" Quinn said it in pain as he got his hand on the chest.
"You are depending way too much of your Semblance. Do you ever learn, Quinn?"
"Like hell you even care, my Semblance 'Charge' is the only thing that keeps me alive for so long." The big guy was holding his weapon with both hands while changing stance.
"We will see that…" Ironwood was getting his guard ready for anything. Quinn did big swings almost spinning around but the General dodged the attacks as how slow the big guy was. Despite that, it was still too dangerous getting too close to Quinn.
After another swing, Quinn started to hold his weapon with the right hand while using the left hand to punch Ironwood from a blind spot. Finally having an opening, he made another swung as it landed on his opponent's left arm, hurting him enough but reacted quickly by keeping his distance.
"What's the matter General? You are getting way too soft than before." Quinn said in a taunting tone while extending his arms.
Ironwood remained silent while on his knees in pain.
"Huh? Already giving up? Fine by me, I have to catch a plane anyways." Quinn started walking around Ironwood while heading to the vehicle.
*BANG*
Ironwood shot at Quinn's back, but he barely felt anything while he turned back at him.
"Hmph, do you want some more? If that's what you are asking for..." The big guy walked toward Ironwood and holding both hands like his is ab out to hit the ball. But in a blink and miss moment, the General punched the escapee on the guts and grabbed him from the collar.
He threw Quinn against the floor with a judo technique with a single hand. Vulnerable, Ironwood was on top of him and tried to stop him with consecutive punches from left and right hooks.
The big guy was between a tough opponent and kissing the floor. With every strike he received, he started to feel heavier and resilient to the point that Ironwood's punches felt like mosquito bites.
As Ironwood threw a left punch, Quinn head-butted the fist as it made the General to stagger. Quinn saw the chance and used some of his Aura on his open palm to send Ironwood flying a few feet away from him. He wasn't hurt but at least Quinn got more space to breathe. "Dammit, dammit, dammit…" He started to feel rather exhausted due to the energy he used.
"What was that? You got too cocky, Quinn."
"Tch, that was really stupid of me." The big guy felt that his Aura was reaching its limit, not even a strong defense could help him to survive another attack.
"So are you going to surrender? Or you want me to convince you more?" Ironwood walked towards Quinn, only making him stepping back away from the General.
It was pointless, no matter how many times he attacked his opponent, that fight was more on his favor than Quinn's. The robotic parts on Ironwood's body wouldn't stop him to keep fighting. "Grrrr…I'm not strong enough, crap." The escapee said to himself in disappointment.
"I have to admit it, Quinn. You are giving much of a fight than any other student could ever accomplish in this life." Ironwood complemented as slowly walked towards Quinn, cornering him on the edge of the platform.
"I made a promise; I would beat every person on Remnant in order to accomplish it."
"Don't forget that you are only this strong because of me!"
"This is the kind of strength I never asked for! You are so desperate to make perfect soldiers!" Quinn yelled with an angry tone, feeling regretful.
"It was your choice to become like this, I gave you a choice and you accepted!"
"With what!? Preparing us for a never-ending conflict!? Creating stupid robots to defend us until they went rouge!? You are creating monsters, General! It is only getting worse when there are people doing the same damn thing right under your nose!"
"What!? What are you talking about!?" Ironwood dropped his guard after hearing what Quinn said.
"Can't you see it? You said there is a huge threat coming for us, but they made a fool out of you! If you ever have the chance to talk with Zinc, you will understand it what I'm talking about." Quinn made a slight step, already on the border as he was looking to the huge height from the platform.
"I will, after I put you back on your cell." He putted his gun away while cornering Quinn.
The big guy looked at the height once again; he started smiling for no reason while his sight turned back the General. "Sorry to disappoint you, but that won't happen."
"How can be so sure!? You have nowhere to go!"
"I don't, but I don't care what you or other people say. I'll always do the opposite." Quinn was getting more on the edge, wanting to jump on purpose.
"Don't take another step, Quinn. Just be rational and don't do another stupid thing." The General said out of concern.
"I'm a contrarian, General. I will do whatever the hell I want, even with people I respect." Ironwood got his eyes wide open for Quinn's statement. "As for now, I must go back with my teammates; we are done talking here and I wish you good luck with the interrogation…farewell." Done talking, Quinn jumped out of the platform as the snow storm was blinding Ironwood. He rushed towards the edge to see where he landed despite the visibility. He was dumbfounded that he actually did it.
On the door, a soldier came out of the door and saw his superior standing while freezing due to the weather. "General we have a problem!"
"Mhhh? What are you doing here? I ordered you to take Zinc and go back to HQ!" He turned his sight back to the soldier with an upset attitude.
"That's the thing, someone stole out transport!"
"What!?" In shock, those two started to hear a noise like a machine coming from the bottom. They started to get closer look of what was happening. Some lights were turning on while showing the stole Dropship.
As the storm started to calm down, it slowly showed who was inside. Much for his surprise, Ironwood saw Quinn on the back of the vehicle while looking at the pilot. Neopolitan was piloting the stolen vehicle with Quinn standing on the hatch and saluting towards the General as they went flying, escaping from the floating prison island.
"Send air troopers after them, we cannot let them cross Atlas' borders." Ironwood ordered to his subordinate.
"Yes sir!" The soldier obeyed as soon he started to use his Scroll for the chase. "Attention, General Ironwood's request to send troops to chase two prisoners coming to the border in a stolen vehicle… What!?" The soldier's mood changed as he didn't like what was hearing.
"What's the matter, lieutenant?" Ironwood asked as he noticed something wasn't right.
"But…is General's direct orders…this can't be…seriously, why…? I…I understand it, I will tell him right away." The soldier hung up the call with a long face. "General, they won't send troopers after them."
"Why!? Under whom authority…!?" Ironwood sound angry as they refused his request.
"Colonel Clover's orders, he wants you back to HQ as soon as possible. They will deploy only two chasers while the torrents will defend the walls."
"This can't be…" Ironwood shrugged, but if something like that must be important as it started to think everything what Quinn said about Zinc. "Alright, let the chasers and torrents handle them."
"But sir, are you sure about that!?"
"I'm sure; if Clover wants him go then it must be important. Besides, I have the feeling that chasing them will be a waste anyways."
"How can you tell, General?" The soldier looked confused of how easily he complied.
"Because something tells me that his leader will come back to Atlas, no matter what." Ironwood decided to head to his vehicle while the soldier ordered the rest of his squad to come to the hangar and bring Zinc.
Things are getting weird as the Great General couldn't stop thinking of so many things are going to change, a different threat is arising from the shadows of Atlas. If what Quinn told about his leader's innocence, then the kingdom would get upside down. Without Ozpin's whereabouts, he would take matters in his own hand, even if that means trapping his own people.
James Ironwood: Under stress and losing his mind.
"Are you sure you can pilot this damn thing!?" Quinn asked Neo while experiencing turbulence due to the storm. Neo replied as she waved her hands to berate the big guy. "Man, I really hate flying..."
They vehicle was shaking a lot that made Quinn a little dizzy of how bad things are going. As he opened the door to throw up, he saw two chasers right behind them. "Crap, we got company!" He tried to look at the panel, but there was a small inconvenience.
"Where the hell are the weapons!?" Neo shrugged as she couldn't find them either. "What kind of Atlas vehicle isn't equipped with weapons!? No missiles or a torrent!? Not even flares…!?" He started punching the door out of frustration. "Whatever, I will try to find something on those boxes."
As soon he started searching, the chasers shot missiles at them. Neo maneuvered around to avoid them, something that complicated Quinn to find anything around as they were going upside down. The storm made things worse for both sides since there were a lot of hills and floating chunks of earth on the way.
"Stay still, dammit!" Quinn yelled while trying to not lose his stomach. As soon Neo stabilized the vehicle, the big guy was looking on the boxes until he finally found where the supplies were. Quinn was grinding from ear to ear for his discovery. "Alright, try to put them close to us. I will stop them with those babies." He started using his weapon to change, 'Titan's Nightmare' into a rocket launcher form. He grabbed some explosives from the box and loaded ready for some action.
"Heads up!" He shot the explosives towards the chasers as they were evading the projectiles. Their movements were unpredictable as they were able to hide on the storm when turning off the lights.
Quinn noticed it was pointless to waste ammo on them while they were obscure; he grabbed a flare gun from next to the co-pilot's seat and shot in front of them. He finally was able to see them and shot another rocket that landed on one of the chaser's wings. It slowed down enough to make it retreat but still got another one to deal with.
"One less, but the other won't go down without some battle." Quinn said while reloading his weapon. The remaining chaser fought back with heavy weaponry too as the big guy closed the door to take cover. Neo did her best effort to avoid critical damage. Unfortunately, the chaser was able to hit one of the turbines, losing balance but still capable to maintain altitude.
"Son of a…! We are losing speed!" Neo looked at Quinn as he was yelling; she got the expression of someone really annoyed. "What? Don't tell me you have a better plan."
Neo gave the instructions to Quinn with some junk around while still piloting. "You have to be kidding me, you expect me to do that!?" He yelled at her as it sounded bad news. Neo insisted as she looked angry at him. "I will blame you if we die for this." As the muted pilot nodded back, she started to gain altitude and going above the chaser.
Quinn got his weapon ready with the door closed while leaving him in his thoughts. 'Dammit, and I thought Ace's ideas were the craziest ones…' He was definitely not excited for what it was coming. Neo turned the vehicle into 90 degrees as Quinn opened the door. He was holding really tight with one hand while aiming with his weapon with the other hand. "Get lost, sucker!"
*KABOOM*
It was a direct shot at point blank range. Quinn destroyed the chaser as the pilot ejected from his seat moments ago before the big guy could destroy it. The Atlesian pilot was falling with a parachute while looking at the criminals getting away.
"Huzzah, we are done with them." Neo gave the thumbs up to Quinn. "Don't celebrate just yet; we are still inside Atlas territory. Our last obstacle is the border, but you are pretty sure that is not going to be easy since they have like who-knows how many torrents defending there." They focused their eyes forward while Quinn was gathering more ammo for the worst.
They were getting closer to the walls; some lights were showing to them while the torrents started to aim at them. Atlas' forces begun shooting while Neo maneuvered around as fast as possible while Quinn was getting ready to shoot some torrents. The storm was getting visibly thicker and all spotlights never stopped losing them from sight.
"This is stupid; we will never go through that bloody wall as long they can see us. Can you do some of your tricks with this vehicle!?" Sadly for Quinn, Neo replied by shaking her head. She tried to explain that she can't make illusions that big. "Oh this is great, we are screwed then."
As Neo tried to look around, she pointed at the spotlights for Quinn. "Want me to get rid of them?" She nodded at his question. He sighed and got his weapon ready while trying to aim at the lights. "Are you sure you don't want the torrents out instead? I really don't understand you."
*RATATATATATA…*
The torrents were all over the place as it was raining bullets from all directions. Quinn tried to destroy the spotlights as fast he could without being hit by them. The damaged turbine was troublesome as it made a difficult task to aim well due to the poor balance. "Steady…" Quinn mumbled as he tried to focus his aim. He shot one but it didn't exploded. "Keep flying next to the wall, I will make things wild."
As the torrents couldn't shoot as the fugitives were in a blind spot underneath them. Some guards were shooting instead, but they weren't much of a problem since their weapons were weaker. Neo piloted at high speed to send some of them flying. It wasn't really necessary but it amused both her and Quinn.
It was the end of the border; Quinn was done shooting as he used all the ammo. They turned back and flew away from them; some of the guards looked confused of why they are returning to the kingdom without fighting back.
"Lights out!" On his weapon, he pressed a red button under the trigger. Some of the missiles that got stuck on the lights started blinking red lights for a moment.
*KABOOM*
All lights and chunks of the wall were crumbling; the storm was causing major signal interference on the torrents that couldn't follow their targets. The border guards were completely on the dark, as they couldn't hear where they vehicle was. Everything went quiet for them.
Only the sound of cold winds was raising the tension. Despite they were stronger, the idea of not knowing where they are was more than enough to feel goosebumps. They started hearing whistles as the storm was calming down. They couldn't tell from where it was coming from but definitely wasn't normal.
*Someone whistling Atlas theme song*
The guards focused their sights to the front, hearing the noise from the distance. Slowly, a vehicle was approaching towards them. The lights were off and some people used the torrent in manual mode to destroy the fugitives. "Ready…" One of the guards raised his hand while holding the orders. "…Aim…" The torrents got the target on their sight. "…FIRE!" The torrents shot at the vehicle at the same time.
*CRASH*
The vehicle shattered into pieces like if they were behind a glass. "What in the world…?" One of the guards exclaimed as they saw disappearing.
"*Whistle* Hey you are facing the wrong side, idiots!" Someone yelled on their backs, they saw a vehicle flying away from them. They were already outside of the wall. "Suck on that, Atlas!" Quinn was taunting them as he was getting away. Neo and Quinn finally escaped out of the kingdom.
"Phewww, that was close…I thought you said you couldn't make an illusion that big." The big guy asked to the lady as she replied with a shrug. "That was a lie…?" She nodded. "Oh I get it, you can't make illusions if there was light towards us…not a bad idea I must say." Neo was laughing of how the guards' expressions looked like.
"Do you have any plans now that we are out?" Neo replied with signs as she pointed at the monito with a map. "Vale? Why you would go there if it is infested with heck-tons of Grimm?" Neo insisted, explaining she must go to find someone. "Really…? Well that is going to be your problem then. As for me, I have a long trip to Mistral." Quinn started to look at the map for the distance between where they are, Vale, and Mistral. "Mhhh, I guess we can got to Vale first and leave you there, I will pilot it to my destination later."
The big guy went to his seat and sat of how tired he was after a long day. The fight with Ironwood really left him a mark, despite he fought tougher opponents. While relaxing, he reached one of his pockets to look what he had on himself. He found a silver earring with a purple jewel inside one of his interior pockets from his jacket. "*Sigh* Good thing no one stole this thing." He said to himself while wearing it.
The day started to get darker; the night fell after hours of flying around. Neo's eyes felt heavier after piloting the vehicle for so long. "Tired?" Quinn asked her as he noticed the way she looked like, she replied with a nod. "Let me pilot it for a moment, you should get some rest right now. I will wake you up until then."
The muted lady left her seat while Quinn took it over and started piloting it. She lied down over one of the seats while using some emergency blankets to keep her warm as how cold the environment was. She closed her eyes slowly as finally got the time to start looking for Roman.
Rule number 2, never hesitate to eliminate anyone who is on your way. In this world, fear and strength are your only tools to survive. Did you like the present I gave you? This umbrella has a hidden blade on it but only use it to eliminate your enemies with a single strike since it is fragile.
Aside of that, you are getting better with your training. Although, you are pretty weak physically to engage combat against Grimm or bigger opponents. As long no one is able to hit you then you should be fine.
This may sound unprofessional of me, but I'm really enjoying of your company. This style of life can be solitary at time when you don't have someone to share all your achievements. So promise me to always staying by my side, no matter what you have to do in order to accomplishment. There's no one more important than you in my life, Neo.
"Warning, multiple Grimm in close proximity."
"Damn you stupid Lancers! Get out of my way!" Quinn yelled as he was under attack.
The alarm wake up Neo so abruptly, the vehicle was shaking violently that made her fall off the seat. Wasp-like Grimm were tackling the vehicle, getting massive damage as they finally were flying over the continent of Sanus.
"Ah you finally woke up; take control of this while I squash some of those insects." Neo switched places with Quinn while he grabbed his weapon and opened the door to fight some of Grimm. The flight was troublesome since Grimm were cornering them. Some of the Lancers tried to get into the vehicle, but got annihilated by Quinn pretty quickly. "What the hell…? I'm getting tired of those bugs!" He said it while crushing Lancers' heads on the air.
The longer she was piloting, Neo started noticing something wasn't right. Grimm readings on the radar were increasing as they kept moving forward. Chaos was unleashed until Griffons were approaching towards them. "You have to be kidding me! More of them…? Seriously…!?" The creatures were stomping on top of the dropship. One Griffon destroyed the left wing, causing them to lose control.
Despite their best efforts, it was pretty useless as their trajectory was heading towards a destroyed Atlesian Airship on the ground. They were pretty close to the evacuated city of Vale, where Beowolves and Ursai were roaming around. "Watch out!" Quinn ran towards Neo as it was useless to control it. The big guy used himself as a shield to protect Neo from the impact. They went through a hole, making a rough impact.
Their freedom didn't last enough. After escaping and trying to survive the trip, they crashed inside another prison where Grimm roamed around the ruins of the airship. At the end, they just ended on a much worst place. Where there's 0% of rescue, and monsters were their jailers.
The noise of the impact made one of the Grimm to awake. Deep underground a roar was unleashed as something huge as ready to bring calamity on that place. Hungry, angry, and definitely terrifying, the creature was arising from the ground while crawling towards the Airship ruins.
The battle for survival has began.
