Weiss Schnee

NMPD Headquarters

3 hours after drop

Weiss and Ruby made it to one of the Police landing pads, so Blake and Yang could pick them up, and they opened the door. Ruby was looking behind them, while Weiss was making sure the landing pad was clear. "Clear?" Ruby asked. Weiss lowered her sniper rifle, as the landing pad was clear. "Yeah, we're good." Weiss answered. Ruby began to walk towards the landing pad and tried to contact Jaune as Weiss followed from behind her. "Hey, Jaune. You out there? Respond! That's an order!" Ruby waited for a response, but there was nothing. "Damn it! I thought that we had extended frequencies here!" Ruby yelled. "Just give it up Ruby, even if he's alive, he's lost in that fog. Our comms can't cut through that." Weiss pointed to the fog that formed at the bottom of the building. "Just give up? What if it were you down there?" Weiss walked past Ruby and onto the landing pad. "I'd be scared shitless, but good thing i'm up here."Ruby turned to Weiss, and sighed. "You're a real piece of work, Weiss.

Then Weiss and Ruby saw Blake and Yang's pelican fly past a skyscraper and towards the landing pad. Yang got on the comms. "All aboard, Ladies! Next stop: anywhere but here." She said.

As Ruby and Weiss were about to enter the pelican, Ruby noticed something purple, out of the corner of her eye. She turned around and saw two banshees flying straight towards their pelican. "Banshees on your six!" The banshees started to fire at them. Ruby grabbed Weiss and threw her on the ground as the shots hit the pelican. "Hit the deck!"

The pelican quickly turned around, and almost crushed Weiss and Ruby. It started to fly away, but one of it's back thrusters were smoking. Blake got on the comms, "We're losing her! Watch out!" she yelled. Weiss heard something crash, and it was followed by a few explosions.

Ruby got up and tried to contact Blake and Yang. "Blake! Yang! Status!" they remained silent. Weiss could hear fear in Ruby's voice, so she got up. She then noticed that Ruby's hands were shaking. Weiss deactivated her visor, ran over to Ruby. She put both of her hands on Ruby's shoulders, and made Ruby face her. "No matter what happens, we're pulling them out! You hear me?!" Weiss yelled. Then Ruby deactivated her visor. "okay." she said. Weiss turned around and started to walk to the door that the pair just came from. She turned around and noticed that Ruby took off her helmet and was wiping something off of her face. "Ruby, get yourself together.. your our squad leader remember?" Weiss tried to comfort her with a joke, and it worked. "Yeah, sorry, let's go." Ruby said

"So, what about the covenant we saw on the way up here?" Weiss asked. "Now we get to kill them." Ruby answered. The pair walked up a staircase and towards another door. "Thank for picking such a tall building, i really love walking up all these stairs." Weiss said sarcastically. "Shut up, Weiss." Ruby replied.

The door opened, so Weiss looked around it's corner, and saw a courtyard with a phantom on the other end of it. Ruby started to walk out the door but Weiss stopped her. "Wait! They haven't seen us yet! try to get to the door over there!" She pointed to another door directly in front of them. "I'll cover you. Now go." Weiss slapped Ruby's butt. "Hey!"

Ruby quickly ran over to the door, and was signaling Weiss to go. Weiss made a mad dash to it, but the phantom dropped a shade turret, which started firing at her. Ruby ran inside the door while Weiss followed from behind. After they made it through, Ruby saw a door panel, so she ripped it off if it's hinges, and shot at it, so the door would lock.

"That should stop them." Ruby then jumped back, as a brute let out a roar, and banged on the closed door. "Let's just go." Weiss pouted. They were now in a corridor, which was littered with dead NMPD officers. "We need to move, Weiss, you take point, I've got your back."

They reached another door, and When it opened, there was a grunt behind it. Weiss covered it's mouth, and pulled it back inside the corridor, she then bludgeoned it's head with the stock of her sniper rifle.

"That was close!" Ruby whispered. Weiss looked outside the door and saw a small squad if brutes and a shade turret. She looked up and saw another squad of four jackal snipers that nested on a bridge above the brutes. "Go for the ones on the ground, ill get the snipers." Ruby smiled. "Yes, 'ma'am'." Ruby mocked her. Weiss lowered her sniper's bipod, and took aim. "Ready?" She asked Ruby. "Just get to work Weiss…" Ruby said.

Weiss fired the first shot, which hit the first Jackal's head, killing it instantly. "One down, three rounds left." Weiss thought to herself. She fired again, and hit the second's throat. The third and fourth jackal saw Weiss, so they tried to shoot her. Weiss got back behind the door, and got on the comms. "Ruby, a little help here?" A grenade flew next to the two jackals and killed one of them, and Ruby rejoiced over the comms. "DID YOU SEE THAT?! HA! IN YOUR FACE COVIES!" Weiss then quickly sniped the last jackal. "Is it clear Ruby?"

A brute was pushed onto the ground next to her, and it's armor was depleted. It started to back away from something, but a silenced bullet went through it's skull. "Ruby walked in front of Weiss, and reloaded her sidearm. "What do you think?" Ruby said as she put her M6S in her holster. "Come on we're almost there!" Ruby yelled at Weiss as they sprinted towards the next door.

They reached another corridor, and then the comms switched on. "Ruby, Weiss! We crashed down on a rooftop northeast of you guys!" it was Yang. "Okay! Stay put, We're coming! Weiss! Hurry up!" Ruby said as she sprinted towards the corridor exit.

The door opened, and there was a landing pad. Ruby looked across to the roof of a construction site and saw a crashed pelican on it. "How are we going to get over there?" Ruby asked, and turned towards Weiss who was staring at something. "Wow, would you look at that." Weiss pointed to a small, and flat platform that was being held by a crane, and acted as a bridge between the two buildings.

"That's so convenient it's scary." Ruby said. Weiss walked passed her and jumped on the platform. "Come on, I'll hold your hand if you want, Ruby." Weiss said sarcastically. "Yang, Blake we're coming!"

Blake got on the comms. "I see you guys! Hurry up!"

The pair started to walk on the platform, and when they reached the end of it, they jumped onto the roof of the construction site. When their feet hit the floor, Yang immediately ran over to Ruby, and gave her a bear hug. "im so happy you're okay!" She yelled. The tank gunner walked next to the group. "Her too?" He asked Blake. "Hey! She's my sister!" Yang then hugged Ruby tighter. "Yang, you're crushing me!" Ruby whispered.

Yang then let go of her. "What the situation?" Weiss asked. Blake walked over to her teammates. "Pilots are dead, and another one died on impact." Ruby turned and saw a dead police officer sitting in one of the pelican's passenger seats. "Look you ladies better wrap this up, we got banshees inbound." The gunner said as he cocked a machine gun turret.

"Weiss, use your Sniper to clip those banshee's wings, Blake, use your Rocket launcher, and Yang…. Amaze me." Ruby said. Yang handed Ruby her spartan laser. "Don't drop her." she said. Yang then walked over to a missile pod, and held it with both of her hands. "Prepare to be blown away!" Yang yelled.

"Here they come!" the gunner yelled as a green plasma mortar struck the crashed pelican.

Banshee squadrons littered the skies in front of the group, and they were followed by multiple Phantoms.

Two banshees approached Weiss, and started to fire plasma bursts at her. "Steady, your breathing, exhale when you pull the trigger, and go for the wings." She then fired at the one on the left, and it tried to evade the shot, but it hit the banshee's wing, which caused it to flip to the right, and crash into the second banshee, killing them both. "Ha! Two Birds with one stone!" Weiss yelled.

Blake and the gunner focused on the Phantoms, she would blow it's thrusters apart, and the Gunner would take out it's Plasma cannon. One of the phantoms tried to land above them, but it was Heavily damaged, so Blake shot the ships belly. It tried to fly away, but Ruby finished it off with Yang's spartan laser.

Yang, on the other hand, probably had the highest kill count, as if the banshees even tried to escape, her missile pod's rockets would heat seek their target. "Hahaha! this is for Harvest!" she yelled. a phantom started to float towards her, so she fired every rocket she had left, and obliterated the ship. "You just got blown back to planet jackass, Jackass!" she yelled.

Eventually the on pour came down to one last phantom. Ruby looked at it, and saw that is was moving towards them, and it was accelerating. "One phantom left, but it's not slowing down!." Ruby then looked at the right side of it, and saw that it's bay doors were open, and there was a big brute that had a gravity hammer, and it was hanging onto the side of the phantom. "Look out! Chieftain!" she yelled.

The chieftain dropped in the middle of the group. The gunner tried to shoot at it, but the brute slammed it's hammer into his skull, and knocked him aside. "Scatter!" Ruby yelled. Weiss was the closest to the chieftain, so it began to charge her. She fired three sniper bullets into the brute's torso, but it did nothing.

The chieftain slammed his hammer into the ground, and the shock pushed her onto the ground and against a construction pole. The brute flipped his hammer onto it's back, which had a huge blade on it. The Chieftain raised his hammer, and began to thrust it downward. Weiss tried to block it with her rifle, but it didn't work, as the blade went through her chest plate and into her lung cavity. She let out a bloodcurdling scream, as the brute pulled it's hammer out of Weiss's chest.

The hammer's blade had Weiss's sniper stuck to it, so the brute yanked it off and threw it off of the building. The chieftain brought his hammer up again, but before he could strike, Ruby jumped onto the brute's back, causing the hammer to fall to the ground. Ruby pulled her combat knife out of the sheath on her chest plate, and began to stab the brute's neck. "DON'T-YOU-TOUCH-HER!" she yelled as she repeatedly stabbed into the brute's neck. The brute was coughing up blood, but he was still standing, So Blake tried to push him down, but he still didn't budge. Finally, Yang charged in, and knocked the brute to the floor.

Yang took off her helmet, and spat onto the brute's now dead body. Blake stood up next to her. "Nice!" she said. Ruby started to speak, but her voice was muffled. "Get this thing off of me!" Ruby was apparently under the brute's body. Yang and Blake looked at each other, and pushed the brute off of their squad leader. Ruby got up, took off her helmet and immediately ran to Weiss's side. "Weiss!"

Weiss deactivated her visor, but her face was blocked by a patch of blood. Ruby took off her helmet, and grabbed her partner's face, so they were looking into each other's eyes. "Weiss! Look at me! Please!" Ruby's voice was shaking. "I'm-I'm still here Ruby." Weiss said as she coughed up more blood. "Yang give her some water!" Blake yelled. Yang held her canteen to Weiss's face and poured the water down her throat, keeping more blood from coming up. "Blake...will i be okay?" Weiss asked. Blake looked at Weiss's stab wound in her chest. Blake sighed, "Only thing we can do is stitch it, give you some antibiotics, and hope for the best" she answered. The group hear a low voice from behind them. "Am... Am i the odd man out here? *cough* *cough* i mean… shit, my brains are on the ground next to me…." Team RWBY looked behind them, and saw who it was…. it was the gunner. Yang took off her helmet, quickly ran to him, and saw something she'll never forget.

The man's right eye was ripped out of it's socket, and his brains were spilling onto the floor."O-oh my god." Yang muttered, as she covered her mouth. Ruby and Blake stood behind 's voice shattered and her knees buckled. "I…..Im…" The gunner looked out of his only eye, and saw a young, blonde girl, with tears in her eyes. "S-Stop…. this… this isn't anyone's fault, death is never...anyone's fault." his voice got quieter. "Gunner…*sniffle* that isn't your name… What's *sniffle* What's your real name?" Yang asked. "Here…. im not going to need this anymore." The gunner handed Yang his dog tags. Yang turned to Blake. "Will he…*sniffle* will he…" Blake shook her head sadly. The gunner quietly chuckled. "Heh…. At least i died doing something…. Right?" The gunner held out his hand, and Yang held onto it with both of her hands. "Make sure…. your friends get out of this...this….hell hole….. all of them." he let out one final breath, and he passed the torch.

His hand left Yang's and she let out a small wail. Blake tried to comfort Yang, so she hugged her from behind. Yang looked down, and saw that her hands were now stained with blood, and so was the Gunner's dog tag. She looked at it and it read, "Simon R. Porter." She then put the tag in her chest plate pocket, and closed his remaining eye. Ruby put her hand on her sister's shoulder. "He's in a better place Yang." Yang turned towards Ruby who also had tears in her eyes. "We *sniffle* We need to find Jaune…. and Pyrrha, and get them out of here.." Yang said.

Ruby, Yang, and Blake heard Weiss coughing, and ran over to her. "How bad?" Yang asked, while sniffling. "Not good." Weiss said. Ruby got down next to her. "We're going to find the others and we're going to get you out of here." Blake interrupted them "Not by air, we're not."

Ruby pulled her knife out of the dead Brute's neck, and placed it back in it's sheath. She reached for Weiss's hand. She made Weiss stand up and put her arm around Ruby. "That's alright, I know another way." she said. The group of four then looked over the city as the sun started to set.