Onyx

Monday, 2:10am

Wow, between both mine and Neo's semblances this was almost too easy.

Neo was using her semblance to make herself appear invisible. Not quite as good as Onyx's, but it did the job. Only problem was, Neo still emitted Aura. Aura which the Atlesian Knights could see. So while the ice cream girl and the assassin moved through the capital ship, it fell to Onyx to take out the robots. As they neared the General's room, they found an increase in security.

However, none of them stood a chance against Onyx's semblance. He snuck between the Knights and guards in each hallway, taking them out in an order which meant no alarm was raised.

Finally, they stood outside the General's room. Onyx motioned for Neo to stay and stand guard, while he crouched down next to the security panel and entered in the password Queen sent to his scroll. Soon enough he was standing over the General's bed, looking down at the sleeping man. Unsheathing Ammon's blade (and thanking himself for designing the process to be silent), he prepared to stab down into Ironwood's neck.

And that's when everything went wrong.

He heard a shout from outside. It was muffled, but apparently enough, as the General instantly opened his eyes and rolled the opposite way off the bed, causing the blade to pierce the pillow instead of his intended target.

Fuck! Dammit Neo, you had ONE JOB!

As the assassin dashed back from the bed, it flipped over, and would have crushed him but for the dash. Ironwood stood there in his sleepwear, a scowl on his face as he stared down the assassin. Onyx simply lunged.

As they fought, they destroyed most of the furniture in the General's bedroom, dashing back and forth. Onyx needed to end this fast. He was never great in combat, stealth was more his area of expertise. As he thought this, a punch from Ironwood sent him into the wall. Onyx lunged off it to take a stab at Ironwood's side, and it seemed to work...

Except that the blade didn't pierce anything.

Confused, Onyx glanced at Ironwood's side to see a large gash in his shirt, and through it... Metal. The General was half robot, a cyborg of sorts. This was almost unheard of, but it made sense for the leader of Atlas' academy and army.

Well, shit. Plan B: Run like fuck.

That's exactly what Onyx did. He bolted out the door, and spotted his partner fighting Winter Schnee. So that's who caused the shout. By this point alarms were blaring throughout the ship.

"Neo! Time to go!"

The ice cream girl looked around and nodded, before teleporting to his side. They quickly bolted out of the hallway, running until they spotted something they never would have expected to see in a thousand years.

Team RWBY, standing with their weapons raised.

"Give up now and we promise a fair trial." The younger Schnee spouted.

Onyx wasn't listening, he was staring at a certain girl in red... And she was staring back.

Her eyes widened.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

"Neo grab on." Neo quickly grabbed his arm.

Fuck, here goes nothing.

Onyx pushed his semblance to the max, instantly turning them both invisible, and as they started to feel more than invisible, he altered the gravity. They immediately started sinking through the floor of the ship. All the while Onyx was struggling to not scream in pain. Neo could see this, and was trying to lend him some of her Aura to ease the process.

It didn't help much.

As they finally sunk through the final floor of the ship, they were suddenly under normal gravity, and in freefall. Neo noticed they were also no longer invisible. She looked to her left, and Onyx looked like he was about to pass out. She shook him roughly, and he came back to his senses.

"Huh, wha-? Oh, Neo. Where...? OH SHIT. Right. Hang on... again."

Once again Neo hung on for dear life as they plummeted to the ground. At the last minute, Onyx used one last-ditch effort with his semblance to alter their gravity - now they would hit the ground like a feather instead of a cannonball. As they landed on the roof of a building, however, Onyx immediately collapsed, unconscious.

Neo

Monday, 2:30am

Neo took 1 look and immediately knew something was very, very wrong. There was blood coming from his nose, eyes, mouth and ears, as though his very brain had tried to escape his head. She needed to get him to a doctor or a hospital, now. She guessed he'd never pushed his semblance that far before.

Then again, Torchwick knew a doctor who could fix almost anything... But Torchwick and the doctor were on the other side of Vale.

Neo glanced at the assassin she considered to be like an older brother to her. Screw it. If he could push his semblance beyond its normal limits, so could she. So Neo grabbed Onyx, and pushed her Aura, her semblance, with all her might...

There was a flash of light from the rooftop, and the pair vanished.

Torchwick

Monday, 2:30am

Roman Torchwick was lying in bed, sleeping. After he found out that Neo and Onyx were to assassinate Ironwood, he had shrugged and gone to sleep, confident they would be fine.

He remained so right up until the moment there was a white flash and a loud bang, right next to his bed.

Jerking awake, Roman instinctively grabbed Melodic Cudgel, but relaxed for a second once he saw it was only Neo and Onyx. But only for a second. Then he noticed the state Onyx was in, and Neo coughing up a little bit of blood.

"Fucking Christ!" Roman yelled, taking in their horrible conditions.

Need doctor or die, Neo managed to sign clumsily before she too collapsed.

Roman immediately called a doctor he knew would keep quiet, and explained the situation quickly over loudspeaker as he loaded the unconscious duo into the back of his car. He jumped into the front seat with the doctor still on speaker as he broke several traffic laws to get them to the hospital.

Torchwick parked in the rear carpark and carried the pair in over his shoulder. This was no easy task, as Onyx was much heavier than Neo.

He rushed to the room the doctor pointed him to and dumped the two forms on the medical beds while the doctor continued to set up equipment as fast as possible.

Roman could only stand to the side as the doctor began to do everything he could to save the lives of Torchwick's only family.

For the love of everything, you had better both be okay. Because when you wake up... I am gonna kill you for making me worry so much...

Reckless idiots.

Author's Note:

'No plan survives first contact with the enemy'.

Cinder's hand has been shown, but fate dealt a better one to the Atlesian General and his forces.

More to come.