HUZZAH I AM NOT DEAD...well that tis up for debate but I care not. I tried to make up for lost time without advancing too much of the plot...which I believe I failed at but who cares. Anyway here ya go and someone is going to hate me but...eh take it to the sub-Reddit and find someone who cares.
You know the usual: I don't own Titanfall or RWBY, I only own...actually I won nothing but the plot...and Alex...now I sound like a slaver so yay. read review rant, complain, bitch moan, whatever. no interesting thing today seeing as I can not think of anything at the moment.
Alex took a step back and examined the reassembled and repaired reaper. Lazu was wiping sweat from her forehead, looked to him and gave him a smirk accompanied by a thumbs up. Melody was finishing up welding the extra armor plats and covering the connectors from the body to it's joint of the arm.
"Verdinia, is the coding and A.I ready?" the Titan merely 'nodded' via tilt "Yes, the upload process will require power of the reaper's low level functions and transmitter" Alex grabbed his datapad and hooked it up to begin brining it's hybrid power core to life. "I have no idea what that cylinder you made uses as power but you say it is capable of powering all of Vale for a week...I shutter what happens when it explodes" Lazu said in obvious awe at the hybrid power source.
"Well lightning dust is the more…" He tried to think on how to explain it. Alex then shrugged signifying his 'fuck it' decision, "More easily manipulated when you want to create a power source i suppose. What I made uses three to for lightning dust crystals and once hooked in use the initial spark to agitate a resonator that is in the core of the cell giving off large amounts of energy while it has enough juice it will send small jolts to the dust crystals to get them to give off magnetic waves to further agitate the resonator, giving off more energy, and the cycle repeats"
Lazu looked surprised and nodded, she diverted ehr attention to the Reaper, the strange triangle head was funny with the small little antenna on the side of it made it look funny. She jumped slightly once the Reaper turned on giving off a loud electronic sounding vocalization of error. The Reaper, still suspended, looked around with it's blue optics.
Alex stepped forward and his helmet deconstructed. The reaper's head snapped to him and stayed staring at him. "Alex, judging from its processes it is searching it's IFF database on you...so far it is getting positive feedback. Just then it started looking around again. "And appears it has identified you as ally...otherwise it is curious as to where it is" Alex nodded and snapped his fingers.
The reaper once again looked to him "Alright listen, odds are you are wondering where the IMC went. Nod once for yes or twice for no" the Reaper nodded once "Well to answer your question some form of dimensional anomaly" The reaper stayed staring at him and cocked its head. "Yea even I don't know how that works, anyway you were very bangged up when we found you and you may have noticed some new gadgets yet the same gadgets"
Said Reaper looked at its arms to see it's three pronged bits and the launchers were the same. "Only internally was replaced or repaired, weapon wise the same with a addition of a weapon similar to the X-55" the reaper used the weapons name and it's left arm started to shift.
The plating extend in all directions a few inches only for a 3 cm radius barrel extended out and the arm plating depressed back into its arm's original look. It raised the arm closer to it's optics and started movinging slightly. Melody detached the suspensions which did not sturr the Reaper only for the arm to extend, suck in the barrel, and its arm is back in its launcher variant.
Lazu started to move to the left which got the Reaper's immediate attention and aimed its launchers at her. Alex went into action and stepped in between the two. "She is a ally, designate her biometrics and face as ally" The reaper's optic flashed three colors: red, green, then back to its normal blue. It then lowered its arm launchers. Alex sighed at the crisis being averted, Lazu then grabbed her water bottle and took a swig.
"Nice reflects Alex" she said which caused Melody to growl over the speakers. Alex rolled his eyes at her. "Verdinia get the Reaper up to speed I need to look over plans to replace that burnt out battery of yours" Alex said as he walked to his work bench and pulled out a stack of five papers and began looking over them.
Melody returned to her mechanical body and made her way to look over Alex's shoulder to help him plan to build Titan Batteries. Lazu brought out her scroll to check up on her friend Meril.
/\[V]/\
Yang Sighed and gripped her laser pointer and steeled herself. 'Just got to annoy her with it enough for her cat instincts to take over...then lure her to me' she nodded and looked past the bookshelf and saw Blake at one of the various holo-monitors do 'research'. Yang shined the laser pointer expertly and saw it began to annoy her, she stopped once Blake looked around to locate the culprit.
After a few more tries, Yang got the cat to chase after the laser angrilly. Yang put her smile when Blake, who merely focused on the laser point on the floor stood a few inches from Yang. Blake finally noticed the boots, looked up, and saw a grinning Yang.
After a few minutes and dragging Blake as she pathetically tried to get out of her grasp. They entered a classroom that was deserted. Yang dragged ehr further behind the desk which Yang made her seat as she casually swung her legs.
"Why did you drag me here Yang I was doing research" Yang hand to cover her mouth to help stifle the giggle she had. "Blake we both know what you were doing is bullshit and I have a grade four bullshit detector" Blake rolled her eyes and crossed her arms "Why did you drag me here, if it's about telling me to stop what I am doing then you can forget it"
Yang grinned "Nope, here to tell you to slow down" Blake was about to tell her to shove it but was puzzled "Slow down?" Yang merely nodded "I do not have the luxury to even think about slowing down Yang". Yang sighed and patted next to her, "It's not a luxury Blake it is a necessity" Blake raised a eyebrow before Yang pulled her up and over to sit on the desk and Yang jumped off the desk and turned to face her. Blake just resigned to her fate at the moment. "Now listen to what I have to say on the matter or so help me I will get my brother in here" Blake groaned "Fine what do you have to say".
"Ruby and I grew up on Patch, a island off the coast of Vale. Our parents were huntsmen, dad taught at Signal and Mom was gone for weeks or months on end doing missions. But when ever she came back she was Super Mom:Baker of cookies" yang's face held a nostalgic feel but there was a underlying sadness Blake barely picked up on. Our mom was named Summer Rose and she was the only mom I will hand the Super Mom title to hands down in a contest...but one day she left and was gone and never came back" Yang's face fell into sadness as she looked at her feet and her hands mimicked Ruby's anxious twitch.
Blake had no idea what she was in for. "Ruby was too young to know what is going on, Dad just shut down. It was then I learned Summer was not the first love he lost...she was the second, It's difficult to lose your first love but it's near impossible to recover from opening your heart a second time" Blake felt sympathy for Yang's past. "His first love was...my mother" Blake was puzzled "Wait i thought…" Yang nodded "Summer is Ruby's mom while the first love of my dad's was my mother".
Blake merley sared wide eyes as she could muster given her sleep deprived state. "Why did she leave?" Yang nodded That is the question: why...what Dad could tell me was the two he loved were on his team along with our uncle Qrow, he told me mom left me with him and fell off the face of the earth shortly after, then Summer married dad and had Ruby" she turned slightly to look at the chalkboard and had a sudden urge to draw something.
She looked back to Blake, "I was fueled with some kind of drive to find my mother, I asked everyone I could who lived on Patch who knew where she went...by some miracle I got a clue…" she returned to looking at the chalkboard and grabbed a spare piece of chalk. "The clue lead me to a decrepit building somewhere off in the dangerous area of Patch"
Blake had a feeling this was not going to end well. Yang stared at the chalk in her hand and sighed "I waited for dad to go to sleep, put out cold Ruby on a wagon, and walked there...it took me several hours, I was exhausted, cuts and bruises covered my legs and arms but i was not going to let nothing stop me" she began to draw something.
Blake was getting a feeling where this was going but noticed the lack of Alex anywhere in the tale. "I finally found the decrepit hovel, I was so exhausted I could barely stand but here I was...then I saw those red eyes" Blake gasped knowing she found the grimm.
"Here I was serving myself and my sister on a silver platter to the Grimm, my stupidity should have gotten me killed that day!" she growled at herself as her other hand gripped the row attached to the chalkboard nearly breaking it in half out of the self hate.
"Yang I am sorry and you have my sympathies and I get what you are saying but this is not like findin-" the row broke into dust as Yang growled "I told you to slow down not stop and to this day I am still trying to find her!" Blake gulped and stayed silent and vaguely wondered what she was drawing. Yang was still facing the board, "I still want to find her to ask her why she did these things I let my search control me to the point I was no more helpless then a newborn Blake!" the seething self hate was putting her off.
"Then he came" her hand she once held the Chalk started so fly fludly "He came in the biggest metal...thing that at the time I did not know what to call it" Blake's eyes widened again. "He tore the Grimm apart, made them suffer...I saw the raw anger and hate radiate vividly from the metal behemoth that it made ME wonder if it was Grimm or not" Yang was shaking and Blake's cat ears picked up on something hitting the floor, looking down she saw water droplets.
"Alexavier...he saved us...he saved a stupid child and her sleeping sister from certain death" her arm wiped something from her face and the chalk dropped from her other hand. "He also suffered the same thing we both went through...he hunted for his family's killer and it drove him...took over every aspect of his life and at one point he questioned why he was even living after all the shit life took from him and was staring down the barrel of his own gun!" Blake covered her mouth as she gasped.
Yang turned around tears were falling and threatening to fall. "Now do you see, I am not telling you to stop, just slow down before you harm yourself!" Blake sighed and got off the desk. "I understand everything Yang, and you have my sympathies but you have to understand my view, The White Fang never sided with a human and especially one as Torchwick!" Blake said wanting to explain her reasoning.
"Okay I get that but what would you do if he came through that door right now?" Yang question which was easy for Blake "I will fight him!" Yang scoffed "Yea you will fight him you can barely fight me!" she pushed her into the desk and Blake retaliated with a very weak shove back which she was shocked at "See Blake you can't even fight me! So please get some rest, slow down, and ask me for help! And I will help you" she started to cry and she hugged Blake. "Please, promise me you will" Blake was stunned into silence while subconsciously hugging back "I promise".
They stayed hugging for a few extra seconds before breaking off and Blake leaned on Yang for support. "Could you help me to my bed...it is suddenly better than the floor" Yang smiled, wiped her tears, and nodded.
/\[V]/\
Alex was looking over Melody building the replacement battery as he looked between it and the holographic blueprint. "Be sure to connect the cells to the appropriate resonators, we do not want a bleed off" Melody groaned "Alex it's alright, I will build the replacement battery. Go outside and get some fresh air nothing will happen while you are away" Lazu tapped his shoulder "It is for the best, my superiors asked me to attend some photo shoot to boost the morale of the Vale frontline troops. So please do it? I do not want to see a anxious Alexi when I return" she said worry emanating from her and hope in her eyes.
Alex sighed "Alright...alllright I will step out" Lazu sighed happily and Melody did the same surprisingly and not growling at Lazu for once. Alex did step out in his civilian clothes but momentarily forgot Zwei was taking up residence next to the Shop in his custom dog house. He yelled in surprise which woke the sleeping Ursa whole opened a red eye to look at him.
Obviously the eye was half lifted but he returned to his snoozing. Alex sighed, 'I will die before I am 60 if this keeps happening' he thought as he check to make sure he had solace on his hip, two clips of rubber and actual bullets, his scroll, and wallet. He gently scratched behind Zwei's ear "Be good alright? Hold down the fort while I am gone" Zwei merely grunted in hearing him but actually doing what was asked/ordered is up in the air.
Alex began to walk to the Bullhead departures when he heard someone yelling his name and the word wait. Looking puzzled, looked back to see Sienna. She wore blue shorts that covered her knees, black tennis shoes, a red t-shirt. "Sienna why are you flagging me down?" Sienna rolled her eyes "Today is the weekend and I wanted to run to town and grab some things, you?" Alex shrugged and boarded a bullhead with her "Got kicked out of the Shop, may as well get materials for a few things and making ammunition for my weapons" Sienna giggled "You got kicked out?".
Alex smiled "I was kicked out for being a negative nancy" he threw his hands up "But that is my only redeemable quality!" sienna started to laugh "But noooo they had to kick me out as I tried to help...My sister is so evil" he crossed his arms pouting which made Sienna hold her sides. "Now i got a mutt laughing at my woes" he placed his face in his hands and started to shake like his crying "WOE IS ME!".
Sienna knew he said mutt as a joke and laughed harder with him. Alex leaned back letting his hands rest on his legs as he chuckled lightly.
When they landed they decided to get the things Sienna needed. "So you have a list?" she nodded and pulled out ehr scroll and searched for her app she wrote them on. "I need a few cases of varying dust, some replacement weapon oils, a sharpening stone, some primers, blasting caps, and some metal plates" Alex raised a eyebrow.
"You plan on becoming a terrorist?" Sienna looked hurt "You, Alex, my wonderful partner who I trust, would think that I would be a lowly terrorist bomber! I am hurt" she caused her arms and looked away in mock dissatisfaction. "Well I am sorry if the miss here would only rate as a terrorist bomber and not a mass murderer" he msirkled which got her to giggle "Hey! I could be one" they drifted into silence both smiling.
Alex looked around and joined her a few times in the various weapon shops as she got some of her items. But nearing the food stores he began to pick up someone was watching him. He stopped to look behind him, trying to find anyone staring directly at him and not past him.
Sienna stopped and looked to him "Something wrong?" she asked and followed his searching eyes. He found no one but Sienna's animal eyes picked a suspicious blue eyed individual who then somehow vanished when someone walked through her sight of said person. Alex held a paranoid grimace, "Alex let's just get what is left and leave" Sienna's hairs on her neck stood on end and let her floppy faunus ear act as a detector for anyone getting closer to them.
"Yes, let's do that" he turned around and walked with her.
/\[V]/\
Felicity expertly claimed herself and deactivated her cloak system. "That was close pilot, any sooner the Faunus would have pointed you out" Scar told her over the com-link. "I know Scar, where the hell is Cinder" she whispered/yelled waiting for the girl in question at a cafe. "She could not be there in present and is sending a proxy someone by the name of Emerald who will be posing as a tourist with the key phrase Queen of hearts and you will respond with King of Clubs when asked who should the queen marry" Felicity growled and took a sip of her water. A dark skinned girl wearing light green shirt under a grey jacket zipped past her bust, brow shorts only going to a little above the middle of her thighs, and black combat boots stood by her table.
"May I sit here?" she asked which Felicity shrugged and nodded. As the girl sat a waiter questioned her about her beverage and she ordered a decaf cup of coffee. "So miss I have this weird thing about face cards, specifically the Queen of hearts...and every queen needs a king so I have been wondering which King she should marry…"
Felicity raised an eyebrow "Well there is always the King of diamonds who would probably be a better match but I think the King of Clubs is a much better match if she is after the dangerous ones" The girl smiled "Interesting may I ask your name?" Felicity stared "Only if you will tell me yours" she nodded "Name is Emerald" Felicity nodded "Mine is Felicity" she smiled and outstretched her hand in offering a handshake.
It was reciprocated "Well, Felicity, let's leave here and go talk somewhere with less ears" she nodded and they left after Felicity fronting the bill. After some walking they arrived at a warehouse bought under the name of someone named Arthus. They ignored the empty interior and walked up some stairs.
Sitting behind the desk was Cinder. Felicity was not amused and let it be shown as the girl sat a seat cushion away from a grey haired boy who looked all kinds of bored. "Now that you are here we can get to work" Cinder said as she gestured to the other seat across from the other two. Felicity rolled her eyes and took a seat, The door opened with Torchwick stepping through the threshold followed by a White Fang member, who's mask was more of a mask then anything.
"Nice to see we have a full house" he said as he lit one of his cigars. Taking a puff of it he tapped it the loose ashes into a ash tray. "Now as per the Mistress's order, you four got your very legal transcripts from a man on the inside of Haven and are set to infiltrate Beacon is that aprt correct" Cinder merely nodded "Right and the White Fang and I are making preparations for Gatecrasher as you specified using the old tunnel system" He tapped a old diagram of the tram system which showed a line from Vale to Glenn. Cinder nodded again "Yes you are to draw the Atlas security force ever more inward to make them commit more forces to show Atlas is to here to help blah blah blah, now where is the fun part" the gray haired boy said which got a eye roll form Emerald.
"As Mercury put it so delicately" Cinder stayed smiling "You will grab those new prototypes Atlas developed as I hear they are transporting them to Vale for the Security forces to also do some field tests am I clear" Torchwick nodded and the sudden aggression and killing intent from the Fanus was apparent, they were not even trying to keep their cackling secret.
"I will try to snag the first production line full then anymore questions?" Cinder did have one "How goes transport of Miss Felicity's...weapon" she glared at cinder form the corner of the eye. She really hated it how she kept her iron grip on her. The burly Faunus spoke "The weapon was, as requested, housed in the structure you told us to drop it off at" Felicity's worry was lessened "Though it did kill some brothers and sisters" the Faunus glared at her and she glared back.
"They did not try to pilot it did they?" she asked which got a growl from the Faunus which Cinder put a end to "Now children let's not get ahead of ourselves, we still need to work together so let's put this behind us before someone does something they will regret" she said it as a threat but she smiled as if she was not threatening. Felicity leaned back into her chair and the Faunus grumbled, plotting Felicity's death.
"I will begin moving the dust to the train" Torchwick said and one could infer he ran out but he calmly walked out, the white fang lackey with him. "Now...onto the important part. I hope your target is still oblivious to you" Felicity looked at Cinder form the corner of her eyes. "I am sure he does not but his paranoia is to not be underestimated" Cinder nodded.
"That will be taken into consideration, but not what I was referring to" Felicity was confused. Mercury spoke up "Tuskon is not aware we know, we did get a tip that he has a ticket out of Vale to Vacuo" Emerald nodded "Torchwick is slipping miss" Cinder merely nodded "You two will take care of him, Miss Felicity will accompany me to run a errand for Torchwick".
Felicity merely nodded and stood up to walk out.
/\[V]/\
Alex and Sienna were on the Bullhead as it waited till a certain time, the sun was currently at its highest point, they were casually talking about stuff. Just not inappropriate stuff, Alex was interrupted on a rant about Ruby and Nora raiding the cafeteria sweet stores with Neo when Sienna's scroll went off.
She took it out to see who interrupted them and it was a message from Ozpin to all Team leaders to muster at the auditorium in their uniforms. She told Alex who looked confused as her.
After several minutes team MGTA arrived and stood next to the sister teams of RWBY and JNGR along with the whole student body of Beacon. "Now I called you all here today to tell you that next month is the Vytal Festival, and I expect you all to represent beacon well" there were some cheers Alex merely rolled his eyes. "But next week is where you will begin your first assignments to get a feel for how a Hunter operates" everyone was silent in awe at their first assignments.
Alex rolled his eyes. "That is all" Ozpin left behind the curtain and the teams left. Alex looked over to RWBy seeing the two sisters laugh over something, Weiss roll her eyes, and Blake hold her laughter in. Alex felt a nudge it from Liam of all people, he laughed at Alex's confusion. "So what mission do you think we will get" Alex shrugged "It is up to our leader's decision on that front not mine" Liam rolled his eyes "Well, Sienna talks to you more so I assumed you may have a idea".
"Well if you must know, and going off my limited data on the person in question, I assume a mid risk mission that may require supervision" Alex said satisfying Liam who smiled then thanked him and returned to Anza side. Alex felt yet another nudge and looked at his other shoulder at Sienna.
"Yes?" Alex was wondering why everyone today was seeking his counsel. "What mission do you think we will get" Alex shrugged "Considering 'we' are all first years" he had to emphasize we "I assume low risk missions and maybe mid risk missions to the more worthy first years and I assume we are allowed higher risk mission as time goes on" Sienna nodded and stayed by his side walking to their dorm.
They split from RWBY and JNGR with a wave. Alex split from the group to pet poor Zwei but Lazu was already there giving the poor Ursa attention who was putty in her hands.
He snuck up on her, "You do know you are going to spoil him right?" Lazu shrieked and jumped a foot, to the left a foot, and looking at him wide eyed. "Alex please DO NOT do that!" she held her hand over her chest. Alex was laughing and Zwei was upset at the sudden drop in blissful feelings.
Alex put him to sleep with a series of quick surgical scratches to his left ear and was out like a light. "How did your photo op go?" Lazu groaned and walked into the shop. Alex chuckled and followed, "That bad?" he set about removing his uniform regardless if Lazu, Melody, Sizz and Lavender held the possibility of seeing him.
He donned his civilian clothes, and took note of two spark based mini explosions, and a sound of fans. He looked to Lazu who was looking away red faced. He shrugged and sat at his workshop and began looking for his satchel prototype.
Horus carried both of its 'siblings' to their berths, Melody had to step in front of the AC to cool herself and Lazu looked anywhere but at him but a Idea entered her mind. She grinned evilly and her semblance activate hiding from sight. Lazu secretly grabbed the prototype and walked away.
Alex was very much like a neat freak, so as he checked where it was last placed and it not being there he promptly freaked. He started to search the immediate area. Once he got up Lazu took up residence on the Workbench and waited. When Alex sat back on his chair and rolled forward his paranoia went off and he looked around.
Lazu stayed near perfectly still as to not give a shimmer to her location. "Well now...those eyes are being very lecherous now" she rematerialized and had her legs spread out with each leg preventing him from rolling the chair left or right. He stared straight and wide eyes, then snapped his head at the ceiling. "Please get off my work place" he asked still looking at the ceiling.
"Hmmmmm...okay" she scooted back, move her left leg to her right without smacking Alex with it, and hopped down. "And hand me the satchel" he said without looking at her, his hand outstretched to receive the item. Lazu smirked and put the item on his hand but the other one ready for something.
When Alex turned to face the item Lazu's hand shot out, gripped his upper arm dragged him towards her and planted a kiss on his lips.
/\[V]/\
Yang snapped up from her bed form her nap. The magazine of hers on what the best beauty products are right now floated to the floor. Blake leaned over to see the magazine, then looked up at the side of her mattress. "You alright Yang? Bad dread?" she asked then felt a light thump to her right.
Leaning back onto her bed and looking right she saw Yang stare out the window of their dorm. "I felt a disturbance…" she said that while Blake was more confused than ever, marked her page, and set the book down on the nightstand by their bunker bed.
"What?" was all she said, "I must follow the disturbance…" Yang emotionlessly said as she turned towards the door. Thankfully she turned showing her face to Blake, unfortunately Blake saw said face was devoid of ALL emotion.
"Uhhh…" was all Blake said she she followed her out to make sure she did not hurt her self. After leaving the room they passed Ruby and Weiss who were confused and followed. "So Yang felt some disturbance and is following it like a B-rate zombie?" Weiss asked with Blake merely nodding.
"You know i felt a disturbance to a few minutes ago but not the level Yang felt" Ruby said getting a raised eyebrows. "What? I have no idea why she is doing this...and we're oddly walking the path to the shop" when they got within visible acquisition Zwei was out of his large mini house and staring at the metal gate obviously worried.
"ZWEI!" Ruby worriedly or fake worriedly said as she jogged to the still unbelievable pet grimm and started petting it trying to figure out why he was worried. Yang walked to the large metal door and with one hand gripped the door, deforming the metal around her hand and threw it up.
To RWBY's eyes stood Melody being held back by Verdinia and Horus single handedly keeping Sizz and Lavender from killing Lazu. Cause there Alex was locked to Lazu at their lips. Yang, seeing this, was a light with rage and was about to charge when Weiss understood what was going on and froze Yang in a sub-zero temp icy cage that was already beginning to melt.
Lazu opened her eyes, saw Yang and smirked. She withdrew from Alex who was in a haze, ignorant to the world. Weiss, returning to her normal self, pointed to the two adults "you two are on school grounds, commiting a very indecent act, not to mention it was so shocking Melody, the two...strange robots, and Yang want your head! Why did you not take that into account?!" she ranted.
Blake was more still in shock at seeing this and was covering Ruby's eyes who was in a vain attempt to remove her visual blockers. "Well am i allowed to do such a 'indecent act' to the one who holds my heart?" she said smirking at Weiss, and sending a look at Yang whose head was freed but still neck down in ice.
Yang merely growled, "yes but somewhere that does not hold so many witnesses" Weiss said and dragged Ruby away who was still confused as to what happened. Blake stood there unaware she was one: petting Zwei, and two: still trying to process what happened.
Alex seemed to regain his senses and shook his head, and looked around. He was in silence at Horus holding the two specters, Melody's mechanical shell being held back and a Yang on ice. He then looked to Lazu who was smirking at what she did, this was all it took to tell him all he wanted and needed to know.
And presumed to slam his forehead on his workplace surface and was out like a light.
Blake snapped out as Alex's head hit the surface, and dragged the Yang sculpture to their dorm. Lazu waived them goodbye as she closed the metal gate. The Reaper just looked at the specter restraining two others, a titan holding some weird specter, and the odd two humans touching their faces.
/\[V]/\
The next week came by slowly, Yang used every excuse during their sparring match with Alex presiding to try and inflict harm onto Lazu who decided to drop by for some help on more trained foes. The final score was Yang: 0 Lazu: 10. Everyone was divided into their partner pairs and told to train each other without pulling punches. With the two sisters being obvious reasons seeing as if they went all out with their partners they would crater them or cut them in half.
Upon the Monday, the Beacon student body assembled in the auditorium as per Ozpin's message. All the teams from 1st year were assembled, "Now your aspiring hunters and Huntresses are here to learn the basics of what it takes to do your job. What you see around you are job boards that can be access at anyone of the four kingdoms or your scrolls to accept missions be they from any...employer" he had to push his glasses up on employer.
He took a sip of his mystery beverage, "This is to help you acclimate to the job expected of you as Hunters and Huntresses once you leave this academy, and the jobs you take you will be exempted from any school work for the duration of the mission while getting that week as credit to the subjects you were exempted from but it is on you to make up for the material that was covered in your absence" was all he said as he he walked off the stage leaving the first year teams to mingle and look at the boards.
"So me and Blake uncovered some useful...intel" Yang said scratching the back of her head. "What does this intel say" Weiss said with skepticism that it was relevant to the situation at hand. "Well, you checked with your company about the dust shipments with Ruby while I went to a place that sells information, and Blake went to a WF rally" Weiss nodded while she was still unsure about all this.
"Well Blake said the newer recruits were being halved with some staying in vale for something while others are being sent out of the kingdom to mountain Glenn" Weiss started to piece it together. "That coincides with a Dust shipment that was shot down in the skies above " Ruby was wide eyed "And your informant?" Yang nodded with a grin "said Torchwick hired some muscle to help me with a job and that they never came back".
Ruby looked to a free board and searched for a job at Mt Glenn. "There is a search and destroy mission at Mt. Glenn" Ruby signed her team up but was met with a denied. "Problem girls?" everyone jumped and turned to see Ozpin with a Datapad scroll. "Umm...we...err….ummm" ruby tried to think of a excuse and Ozpin chuckled.
"Well you seem adamant about going to Mountain Glenn given its reputation, but seeing as you are going to go anyway and thus breaking every rule and throwing self-preservation out the window, why not bend them instead of breaking them" with a few swipes they were registered for the mission but there was a catch.
"But, you will be accompanied by another and a Huntsmen...seeing as you two are going into hostile territory and I am sure he will carve his way through every single Grimm creature to get to you there I assigned him there as a extra guardian" Ozpin said and left to 'help' other students.
"That was…" Weiss started with Yang finishing "strange...wonder who he m-" Yang stopped as Ruby yipped as her hair was ruffled by Alex. "Care to explain why I was dragged from my team and Ozpin keeping a very angry Sienna from dragging me to a beach?" he sounded calm, odds are his face behind the helmet was to but there was a underlying sorrow at not going to the beach.
"We kinda signed up for a high risk mission normally made for 2nd or 3rd year students…" Ruby said looking at the floor ashamed. Her hair was ruffled again "Nothing to be sad about...explains why I was chosen to aid you guys…" Alex looked at his scroll to see when they are to leave.
He was wide eyed and started shoving them towards the exit. "HEY HANDS OFF YOU MISCREANT!" Weiss yelled "No time the airship is tasked with leaving in five hours, you need to create packs...and I need to get Verdinia and my own pack" Alex said hastily and took off to the shop. RWBY did as well and waited at the meet point in front of said airship. It was not the Leviathan much to Yang's sadness.
They felt the familiar footfalls of the large mech as Alex walked in front of it with unfortunate baggage. The specters, the 'Reaper', and Melody were tagging along. "Ozpin told me to take the others for some obscene reason...that guy is a cryptic lock that I doubt a data knife could hack" he said mostly to himself.
"At this point we may as well not have the huntsmen shepard us" Yang said and jinxed her team as a Oobleck just magiced into existence to their right. "That would be a shame...IF IT WERE NOT FOR SCIENCE!" he yelled then took a sip of his coffee. RWBY jumped in surprise and Weiss shrieked, Verdinia fought to smash the professor into the ground, two specters jumped onto Horus's arms and fell down, The Reaper was held back by Verdinia from making the professor paint the floor and Melody fell down from shock.
Alex rolled his eyes and Oobleck looked like he was offended. "No matter, leave your packs here for I already have packed your essentials...and Ruby...what is that" Oobleck looked at her strangely perfect square backpack. "ummm...I have insomnia?" she hopped it passed off as a excuse to lure Zwei to them. "Miss Rose i doubt your 'insomnia' will be withheld from…" he took a few sniffs of the air "Why do I smell honey?" and another series of thumping was heard from a Ursa Major with a collar came barreling at them. Ruby ripped the backpack off, Yang grabbed it and hurled it into the cargo hold of the Airship. Verdinia was already inside with the Specters and reaper when the Ursa Major came inside jostling the occupants.
Oobleck just stares with neutrality, then to Ruby with the same neutrality. The girl in question looked like the epitome of innocence. "This will be a interesting documentary on the ability to domesticate Grimm...if anyone would believe this hogwash...onward I suppose" he zipped off into the airship as everyone else gathered their essentials from heir packs and boarded.
Onboard was similar to the Leviathan but minus the kitchen area, T.V, and as many rooms. "Seems like each of the three rooms hold two people…" Weiss said and Melody took the far right one with a missing Alex. "Guess me and Blake got the far left and you and Weiss get the middle" Yang said sighing as she deposited her stuff inside the room. They left their rooms after setting their packs in the grey spartan rooms to see Alex rubbing his arm and a Melody who looked 'happy'.
Oobleck was in front of a self built whiteboard. As RWBY sat down Oobleck took out a collapsible stick and black marker. "Now Mountain Glenn was the first expansion by Vale to expand the living space for many of Vale's residents now who can tell me how they ferried people, supplies, and materials to Glenn" RWBY groaned at the impromptu lesson but Weiss held up her hand.
"Vale build metro tunnels that connected the two and was later abandoned and sealed off when they discovered subterranean Grimm" Oobleck nodded and began to make a rough sketch of Vale's map symbol and Glenn's connected by a line with a x on it. "Now where we are going to is one of highest areas that is saturated with negativity that attracts Grimm of all species to it can anyone tell me why?"
Blake raised her hand "As Glenn held no natural barriers, the surface was overrun and forced the residents underground which kept them safe only to be exposed to the aforementioned Grimm and with the sealing of the tunnels and created...the largest tomb…" Alex and Melody were surprised, Melody went further to feel sorrow while Alex only felt surprise.
Oobleck took note of this "Alex you seem curious...any questions?" he had some "Did they attempt to evacuate some of the civilians?" was one of the questions. "Yes Vale sent several hunter teams to delay the Grimm...only 20% of the residents of Glenn survived as the hunters left the rest to their new tomb" then his other wustion "How many were men, women and children" Oobleck grimaced "out of the twenty percent were largely men some pregnant mothers, some women, and not enough children" Alex leaned back, crossed his arms, and stared at his feet. "What are you thinking about Alex?" Ruby asked her innocence finding his current nature to be reminiscent of their first meeting. "Yes I very much want to know…" Oobleck was cut off by a glare from Melody's green eye.
Ruby and Yang got message pings and the tone said it was from Verdinia with the simply message of 'Lapse' Yang snapped into action in standing in front of Oobleck with a stare that told him to leave. Ruby was by Alex's side trying to get him to move back to his room with Melody's help. Blake and Weiss were worried about the situation.
/\[V]/\
It was a slow two day flight and Oobleck stopped any 'pop lessons' after he shared sensitive common place history. Upon reaching Glenn they airship was strangely told to wait 1-2 kilometers from the ground, doing so they suddenly felt their ship several tons lighter and was given the green light to leave but be on call for extraction when needed.
What happened was Oobleck, RWBY, Zwei somehow being carried by Verdinia, and the Specters were riding on Verdinia as she fell acting as a express elevator for everyone. Alex double checked his gear before joining them using his jump kit to soften his landing.
They began to their journey to the outskirts of Mt. Glenn's walls, the overall mood of the group was showing no signs of recovery.
Once they are at the wall they camped out with the backs to the wall itself as Verdinia calculated the best position to act as a improved wrecking ball. The Specters and Reaper literally deterred the Grimm on the outside for some odd reason. After everyone set up camp Alex was currently in the pilot seat of Verdinia keeping to himself, and not piloting the large mech seeing as the mannerisms were too robotic.
Melody helped set up the tents, but every once in awhile would lapse into a stillness then return to her work. "Everything alright Mel?" Yang asked which snapped the female mechanical out of her stupor.
She nodded "yea, just...worried" she said as she hammered the finals take in securing the last tent to the earth. "I am sure he is weeping over the loss of children" Melody looked to her with a knowing confused look. "He told a story about raiding a mercenary depot that housed some slaves to be sent to the Militia...he saved a lot of women and girls and a majority of children…" She looked off at the mech in worry yet remembrance.
"There was one child that made their mark in his heart and later died in a orphanage" Melody of course was surprised and happy he helped those girls but sad at the last part. She looked to the mech as wel "He doe shave a big heart...but those with big hearts" Yang finished her sentence "Are the ones who fall the hardests".
Once night befell the group everyone turned in except Alex who stayed staring at the several areas they could break the wall. "Alex...it's best you join the others and sleep. Me, the specters, the Reaper, and Melody can keep watch" Alex looked to the window of her avatar that appeared looking worried.
"I am fine Verdinia...just trying to…" the Avatar's face grimaced a little "you were remembered of her weren't you" he only nodded. "It was not your fault...how many times will you realize it. Take solace in that you gave her a good memory as she passed with a smile" the avatar smiled in hoping it would get to him.
Alex sighed, and leaned back. Verdinia's smile grew slightly "I know you're right but I can't forgive myself for getting there sooner" Verdinia knew this was as far as she was going to get and accepted it. "I understand, you also made it your personal mission to ensure no other children suffer the same fate I presume?" the avatar now smiled in happiness at the promise.
Alex nodded and the hatch opened and her hand was waiting to set him down. Once he got down he passed Zwei's sleeping form and gave him a soft rub brighting his dream a little. Melody sat on a chair, hear him approaching, and looked to him. The look told him her question.
He whispered, "I am fine for now, so don't be worried about me for now I will just get some sleep...where is my tent" Melody pointed to the third one in the middle of the two. Alex gave her the near silent thanks and retired to the tent.
Once he closed the flaps The Reaper was puzzled by the exchange and queried Melody about it and why her designation was Melody and about the specter's designations. "Simple, I was born as a human when given this name, the Specters were given the name by Alex...I can ask him to give you one at a future point in time" she sent back the electronic message that sorta acted like a form of telepathy to her. The Reaper's head merely nodded and resumed it's vigil.
/\[V]/\
Once the sun gave the world of Remnant it's dawning light Alex was already up fixing and attempting to make their rations...tasteful. "Oh shut it Melody...but fine you take over" he said as Melody pointed out numerous time she had no idea what he was doing and asked to take over.
Blake was the first up and in sleep wear that also double as combat gear on a moment's notice (use your non-lewd imaginations for the others as well). She looked to see Alex already up and eating bar. "Morning Blake" Alex said in his happy-neutral medium like always and was relieved he was not skulking like normal. She smelled something rather tasteful.
"That is the pot you smell" he said after finishing his bar, but his helmet was not on. "Yes...I took over before Alex ruined the meal" Melody said hoping to get a reaction from Alex who looked hurt. Blake stifled her laughter as she sat down on the ground some inches from Melody. Ruby was the next to rise and yawned which made Melody stop to look at the purest form of innocence she has ever seen, then returned to the task at hand.
Then Ruby noticed Alex was not sad and hugged him. Surprised but he hugged back and she took a seat on his right, munching on a 'healthy' but tasteful cookie. Weiss woke up and grumbly sat next to Blake still trying to wake up but said nothing. Yang took the longest seeing as Oobleck appeared to not have slept and already back into his attire with his safari lead hat, and a coffee maker in hand.
"Good morning students, I assume everyone is well rested? Good once we finish this morning's meal we shall head into Mt. Glenn to do some scouting" he said as he powered on his portable coffee maker to brew his morning, afternoon, and evening coffee.
The Reaper returned from the Forest with some scratches with Sizz and Lavender dragging a stag with Horus lugging a deer on its shoulders. "Oh they returned with the food...wait where is the fish" The reaper turned around and a impromptu woven basket held some fish. Yang woke up to the smell of something roasting and it smelt good. Surprisingly after cutting and all the likes of the meat it was all eaten leaving nothing to waste. Once the camp was dismantled and packed into the container Verdinia lugged, they mustered in front of one weak point in the wall. Alex waited for the all clear on the other side from Melody who was perched on top of the wall.
She stayed surveying the Grimm there and took out her rifle, it was visually appealing being a gunmetal grey all through out and did not have a ejection port like others and its magazine was rather a large rectangular box that, if it held actual bullets, could fit 200-300 rounds. As she got adjusted to it she depressed the trigger and sounds only found in sci-fi films and shows that Yang and Ruby used to watch were heard. (think of the Volt or X-55 Devotion for sound effects).
After a minute of her burst firing she stood up to turn to the others and gave a thumbs up. Melody jumped to the rooftop of a derelict building as Verdinia shoulder rush the weak wall section. It did next to nothing in stopping the titan as she created the needed 5 meter hole in the wall and also an extra 10 cause the wall was brittle.
Verdinia stopped at a four way intersection and looked around before waving the others through. The specters and reaper moved the debris out of the meat bags' way. "Now when you picked this mission it was a search and destroy but Ozpin changed it last minute to Criminal reconnaissance and capture...which is strange" he seemed to contemplate something but seemingly stopped.
"Now, Mt. Glenn is a hotspot for Grimm activity mainly for the negativity the likely criminal element here and the infused material around us from the so many dead" Oobleck made sure to muffle his voice about the dead. Team RWBY nodded, "So basically what you're implying is we find a Grimm, it will lead to its pack, and it will lead us to our criminal element" the girls knew he was glaring at him but he was physically not looking at them.
"Precisely, and there is one now" Alex looked over not worried in the slightest. The Reaper was told by the titan that the creature in front of them now is called Grimm and anything like it was hostile. The reaper stood at the ready with the Specters already aiming at it. RWBY turned around and readied themselves. "Now as Mr. Barnett has said wait till this lone wolf leads us to their pack and then follow the pack to the crime-and there is whole pack" at least 50 other beowolves appeared all 'scavenging' or 'hunting' for something, one was even 'digging' in the dirt.
Zwei just stared ready to squash some Grimm, which Oobleck was wondering if the Grimm would actually fight its own kin. Yang looked to Oobleck "Your the huntsmen...what do we do" Oobleck merely pushed his glasses up "What you were trained to do girls" he said and RWBY went into action. (just look at the episode search and destroy for their fight scenes, not bothering to type all that). Alex merely sat on his ass leaning against a building as he watched. Sizz just started walking towards the grimm, its Spitfire LMG at her hip and its finger on the trigger spraying a ungodly amount of bullets. Lavender was to its right but behind taking its time at firing the energy rounds at the red eyes, with Horus just crippling them so Lavender or Sizz's hail of literal bullets kills them.
Melody jumped from wall to wall and fired her weapon into a black mob of beowolves managing to kill a few and holstered her rifle and pulled out the sword on her back(for sake of not a text wall we shall use a broadsword and you guys can apply whatever you want to it). She jumped from her wall and impaled a beowolf and bisected it. Standing up, she looked over her shoulder and flung her sword to send the blood on it into the ground. A beowolf charged her and she dashed behind it. The Beowolf was once again cleave in half by the line of its jaw. She pointed her sword at the other creatures of death and they charged. She gripped the sword's hilt with both hands and started dashing left and right either bisecting or just gutting them.
The Reaper, Alex is still debating a name, just charged its 'fists' and started punching them into chunks every so often. Then Alex noticed something and remembered it: The reaper was jumping on to a rooftop that surprisingly did not give way, and prepare to let forth ticks. Alex jumped up and screamed "YANG RUBY GET THE OTHERS BACK HERE!" the specters formed a line with Verdinia making sure said line could hold back the bigger Grimm with Zwei who swatted charging boartusks like they were pebbles.
Team RWBY, along with a confused Oobleck, were pondering why he sounded scared when they sall the four legged, triangular prism, machines. They started as diskes the reaper launched over a area, then later sprouted the triangular prism and started walking towards the beowolves.
What shocked them was three got to a certain point in front of a pack thirty strong and started to glow and twitch. As the Beowolves ignored them, and the tip of the core of the pack passed them, they exploded. The blood, fur, and bone of the Grimm went everywhere. Weiss had to turn around and vomit into a dead bush, Ruby was torn between feeling happy at the sight and doing the same as Weiss, Blake just stared wide eyed and practice kept her ears from falling down, and Yang's jaw dropped.
Oobleck was astounded "The amount of Dust needed to pull that explosion off from three of those little machines...Alex what was that" The Reaper jumped down as more explosions went off and more Grimm pieces, some from ursa and boartusk this time, and walked over to the group nec tot Alex.
"Later now let's set up camp" Alex said as he walked forward as the other mechanicals followed him and Melody walked happily next to him. RWBY walked with behind them with Zwei carrying a exhausted Ruby. Oobleck just sipped his coffee and comically and less like a scared child gave a wide berth to a Tick remain.
As the team RWBY unpacked their sleeping bags, and the specters setting up a fire, Ale sat on top of Verdinia with the Reaper at her flank. He heard Oobleck's, Alex knew it was his due to the lack of sound his feet made, foot falls and knew he was going ask something.
"Mr. Barnett, a question or two if you permit" Alex merely grunted which made Verdinia give him a thumbs up. "Right, your...firearms, technology, tactics, everything...It seems it's largely...what's the term: overkill" Alex looked at him from the corner of his eyes "When you are constantly at war, you will develop new means to try and end said war quickly...even if it seems like it is overkill to one, it's seen as the norm for the other".
Oobleck seemed to ponder this, "But what does all this death hope to achieve in the end?" Alex fully looked at him, staring at him like a insect "I will tell you this: War is never about who is the most humane or not, in the end all that matters is how fast it can end without care to the dead in your wake" he looked back to the derelict city watching for any Grimm activity. Oobleck more concerned for the future of Remnant than ever
/\[V]/\
Yang was sitting on her sleeping bag as night began. She was looking at Alex's perch on his titan gazing at the stars. She overheard his response 'without care to the dead in your wake' kept bouncing around her head and she tried to make sense of it. The question on her mind is the why not how...but she did not want to bring it up directly with Alex or should she deserve his ire.
She shook her head in vain to rid her of that sentence and tried to get some sleep. But it eluded her as that sentence refused to leave. She stood up and walked to Verdinia's side. To her minor surprise her hand was ready to lift her up, she took a step onto it and was lifted to the vacant side of Verdinia's 'head'. She took a seat and jumped lightly at Alex's voice "shouldn't you be asleep?" Yang groaned "yea but...obviously I can't" he rolled his eyes "So what is on your mind It has been a while since the three, or four counting Tai, been out under the stars" Yang smiled at those happy memories.
"Yea those were the nights, staring at the stars, not caring about what tomorrow brought" Alex grunted in agreement "But there is something on your mind...your never philosophical at all" he sounded concerned which made Yang all the more scared of his reaction.
But, she decided to put her big girl pants on and go at the issue fists swinging, "It's about your chat with Oobleck" she maintained balance as she hugged her knees. ALex spoke in calmness she thought would not be existent "What about it?" he looked at her the red glare not so much a glare but a concerned look a brother gives to their sibling when the sibling is in despair.
"Just the 'without care to the dead in your wake' just wouldn't leave me alone and considering all the stories and your view on the world...it made me wonder if you loss some of your humanity along the way" she looked at the derelict city meets the world's horizon.
Alex looked back to the stars in contemplation, 'She does have a point...when did I lose my humanity to say that' he thought as he tried to piece together a response. "You don't have to answer...it's not something anyone knows the exact answer to even if it seemed like a yes or no answer" she sounded so broken right now.
That fact alone made him growl at himself. Yang knew that self-loathing growl, "Bro it's alright you don't have to beat yourself up over it cause I would not trade the Alex I see now for any other version" she hugged him for dear life which calmed Alex who threw a arm around her and hugged her as the other arm made sure he did not get tackled off Verdinia.
"Thanks Yang…"he said then realized she was sound asleep. Sighing to himself he jumped down carrying Yang on his back. Walking to her sleeping bag, he proceeded to unzip it and put Yang on it. Once done he retook his perch on top of Verdinia, "It seems Yang Ruby are once again shown to be positive influences" Alex patted her plating in agreement.
"Unfortunately for them at least" he said getting a near silent laugh from Verdinia as to not wake the five sleeping beings behind them. "Mountain Glenn would be beach fro-" Verdinia stopped as she went silent for some reason. "Verdinia what's wrong" he asked already on edge.
"After doing some scans, I had a idea. It involved Glenn's history and its subterranean section" Alex was already putting two and two together to get four. "There is a large concentration of heat signatures and power readings...and one that stands out"
"What stood out" he asked not going to like the answer.
"That would be the power signature of a Titan Alex...one that I have scanned in my memory banks to a Ronin titan that 'gifted' us Memoria Amissa" Verdinia's findings seemed to resonate somewhere cause Verdinia suddenly opened her hatch in sync with his wants.
He took out Memoria Amissa from its mag lock on the back and looked through Verdinia's optics at it. "You plan on doing something dangerous and stupid don't you" Alex merely nodded and started to move. Ignorant to the fact Ruby woke up first at the sound of the large foot falls.
/\[V]/\
Alex stood above the coordinates Verdinia provided. "If we were to generate enough force, we could destabilize this section to allow us a inside the cavern above the Titan" Alex put the sword on its maglock housing and reard the metal fist back. Then drove it into the ground.
"So far the heat signatures are either oblivious or used to the occurrence" Alex kept punching the ground still ignorant of Ruby and Zwei watching him from afar. One finally punch started to create a cascade effect and the floor gave way under him causing him to lose balance and fall like it was a accident.
Ruby ran to the edge with Zwei on her heels, and used its mouth to grab her cloak to catch her before she fell after him. "Let me go Zwei! I gotta help him!" the Ursa did not obey and dragged her back to a safe distance. Behind them the rest of the Team and Oobleck were at the ready and wide awake.
"Where is alex?" Weiss was the first to ask as the Reaper had the three specters all holding onto it as it jumped down. "That explains it then" Blake stated the obvious than a door to their left opened showing two White Fang grunts who almost pissed themselves.
Yang grinned "Well hello...you wouldn't happen to know wh-ah forget it" she cocked her arm back and through some miracle knocked the both of them out in one hit. WBY and Oobleck went through the entrance while Ruby stayed with Zwei, "Now listen I need you to trust me" the ursa held a very bad feeling about this idea but trusted the little girl.
/\[V]/\
When Alex was able to orientate the titan to land on its feet, he looked around at the shocked faces of the White Fang everywhere. "What the FUCK was that sound and why are you animals not work-" a guy in a white suit and black bowler hat was walking around and stopped his thought at the sight of Verdinia.
"QUICK SOMEONE GET THE GIRL OUT HERE!" a WF grunt literally took off kicking up dirt. "I want some muscle to load the goods the others: STALL THAT THING!" he ordered as he ran to the Train.
The Grunts did as told and Alex had to give them respect: they had balls to stay around him. He raised a foot and flattened three grunts who had the idea to try and climb the mech. A thought crossed his mind and Verdinia's avatar winked to life at the top corner "Alex we both know the amount of death that will deal" the face she gave was neutral but she too held a grin underneath.
"Precisely why" Alex raised the vortex shield to catch some of the rockets that was sent at him, the other arm unholstered and leveled Rubrum Mortem at the hip. He let the vortex shield fling the rockets at a cluster of WF grunts who were simple bits of gore on the floor. Majority of the WF grunts and veterans either hurled or ran.
Alex merely Rubrum Mortem at hip level and depressed the trigger. The amount of torn bodies were unbelievable. For the opening ten seconds, the 100 or so WF grunts that were present were reduced to 20...and those were the ones who survived without dying. Everyone else either died to having 40% of their bodies ripped apart, turned into paste, or survived missing good chunks of their self.
Alex just started walking to the Train spraying wherever WF grunts were. He saw on the miniap the three specters behind him firing at what WF grunts Alex did not see and the Reaper used its modified X-55 look alike weapons to avoid collapsing the cavern also not using Ticks that the Reapers had a infinite supply of through divine intervention.
As Alex Reached the Train, RWBY and Oobleck took the scenic route of all the destruction down below. "This is the power of death...a level of that power I never want you girls to ever associate with or use ever again" Oobleck told sternly as he took off faster to the Train in hopes do lessen the bloodshed. Weiss and Blake once thought of Alex as the stern but lovable brother that Yang and Ruby always spoke about but now...the looks and saddened faces and tones they spoke about Alex's past and life as a soldier made them fear this version.
The version who willing wielded the Grim Reaper's scythe and was made death personified.
The sisters ignored the death below either accepted both versions or were unnaturally used to it, both scared the heiress and the fanus teammates.
/\[V]/\
Felicity was in the middle of calibrating a unaligned shock in Scar's leg when a WF grunt barged in. "MISS TORCHWICK ASKED FOR YOU AND THE MECH RIGHT AWAY!" the grunt then hastily left raving about death. Felicity was hastily put into the cockpit of her ronin, "I do believe Alexavier, aka The Black Reaper, is here" Felicity merely nodded and grabbed a new and much more...oriental looking blade.(look up the Ronin Prime's sword..again idc about describing right now)
She dashed from the housing, and reduced the sheet metal large door to paste and sprinted down the road taking care to not step on the retreating of charging WF grunts. Coming to a intersection, she locked eyes with the Black Reaper's relic Ogre titan. She had a moment of panic but was stamped out in a fit of rage. She entered a stance with the sword tip pointing at the Ogre's core.
The Ogre seemed to acknowledge her presence and crushed a WF veteran spraying red blood everywhere and dropped a...words could not describe what the poor fanus was reduced to. The Ogre took out the sword of her shame, her old sword perverted and corrupted if the sharper and serrated edges were anything to go by.
"Now isn't this a surprise...did not expect to find YOU of all people here...then again It doesn't really matter. You WILL die here this time and when I am through with you pilot, I will rip that Ronin's datacore out and begin make it a gift" Scar sent a pulse of justifiable panic through their link "pilot i recommend we disengage, he does not know your face, and I could still slip away...we can not have a fight here seeing as my shocks still need calibration" Felicity growled "anyway we can do it without needing to runaway again" she asked tensed and ready to run still.
"Yes but it may cost us precious seconds and damage to my hull" she hated it but if she wanted to at least damage the Ogre relic she accepted "do what you have to I will keep him busy" Scar sent a pulse of agreement through the link and gave control to her.
/\[V]/\
Ruby sat on Zwei's back as the ursa slid down the cavern walls and landed on a derelict rooftop, "Alright Zwei let's find Alex and the others" the Ursa roared in agreement and took off. Ignoring the running WF grunts. A few were shooting at the ursa in fear but they were swatted away like they were insects to the Ursa.
Zweis turned to a building that had a highway running next to it and used the building to scale up to it. Using the less body heavy road Zwei made up time with Ruby looking at the road running parallel to the highway. So far Zwei was moving at 10-13 Miles per hour...and it was starting to wear him down but the Ursa fought it.
"THERE!" Ruby pointed to a familiar blonde headed sister and Zwei turned, preserving momentum, and launched himself off the highway. Unbeknownst to the flying Ursa, Yang and Weiss were keeping a mech that was shown by Atlas as a new line of guardian mechs was nailed to the floor by a Ursa Major who had a cape around its neck.
"RUBY?" Yang yelled in surprise and anger for obvious reasons. The ursa ripped the hatch open and bit the top section of the operator off and climbed off the wrecked mech. Ruby just scratched her head. "Yeeep that's me"
"Well don't do that again" Yang said still angry but just put it off for later "Come one we have to stop the train before Alex does" Ruby was confused as Zwei kept in lockstep with the others. "Why!" she yelled over the ech of the fight Alex was having. "The train is holding more of those mechs and enough explosives to level a city and he does not know about it!" Yang yelled back emphasising the mech part more than anything.
When they arrived at the middle section of the train, Oobleck spoke up "Ruby, you and Weiss will go to the head of the train and make sure the train can not depart, leave...Zwei with us. Blake, Yang with Zwei and myself we will start finding the cars with explosives and begin neutralizing them let's MOVE" he yelled ordering the girls and Ursa. Ruby got off of Zwei and patted his cheek "Take good care of Yang alright" The ursa whimpered but did as told and took off with Yang.
Ruby and Weiss looked at the train "Don't suppose you have a idea how to make a train inoperabel" Ruby said which Weiss scoffed "I am hurt you think I would not" she rummages around in a satchel on her side "I do have some dust we could use along with some brute strength we could derail it" Ruby nodded and they ran to the front of the train.
After several minutes, the sound of battle from Alex was still louder as ever...and was slowly getting louder but no one on train dismantling duty were paying attention. When they reached the side of the head of the train they looked it over till they heard a tsk tsk.
"Red...how long has it been since we last seen each other? I'd say about a month or so but please introduce me to your friend here" he rested haphazardly on his cane looking smug. "Torchwick…" Ruby growled with aggression that was never present with her before. Weiss was once again surprised by her sudden change in personality, "Oooh you grew fangs last w-" he looked surprised and jumped right to avoid being impaled by a scythe "Now Red, it's impolite to INTERRUPT" he aimed his cane at Ruby and fired a dust round at her and exploded.
Weiss, in Torchwick's momentary distraction, sabotaged the train engines and wheels if the melted train car to the tracks and ice punctured engine was anything to go by. She was about to help ruby when a single look that she remembered Alex having once before was sent at her. She stayed where she was out of fear than anything else.
The way Ruby fought was all about distance and misdirection, but now it was savergy mixed with the intent to kill. If it was not for Trochwick's agility alone he would have been in pieces by now. But Ruby...she looked like a animal. Baring her teeth, pupils shrunk and dilated, face twisted with anger, she was entirely different then before.
And this scared Weiss deeply. Then there was a howl of pain and a Scythe was embedded deep into Torchwick's left shoulder blade...and the blade edge was aimed at the other shoulder. "You can't kill me Red...it would go against all you believe in" Weiss remembered a 'lesson' Alex taught everyone 'Your opponent will not relent, will not show mercy' then it hit Weiss.
Ruby was going to kill Torchwick in cold blood and not think twice about it. Weiss knew she had to act and using her glyphs she propelled her self to stop Ruby but was too late. With a single twist, Torchwick was bisected from the arms up. And some of his blood landed on her cheek as she stopped in her tracks surprised. Ruby then spat on the corpse of the thief.
"That was for everyone you killed" she said coldly then noticed Weiss's shocked state and rolled her eyes still in her other personality "Come on, We still need to regroup with the others" she said which Weiss robotically agreed more out of wanting to leave the corpse there. They regrouped with Yang and Blake but Zwei was nowhere to be seen
But,Yang was covering her face in her hands and shaking.
Ruby dropped crescent rose and was instantly by Yang's side with Blake just across from the two sisters by a few yards. "W...what happened" Weiss managed Blake seemed to snap out of it "we found so many bombs in the cars and a mech barely resembling the White Fang ones came through a building and it was crumbling down...Zwei pushed the three of us out of the way and the building fell on him...most likely crushing him"
Weiss looked to the now two crying sisters "What was wrong with Ruby she did not carry her usual...innocnet aura" Weiss had a flashback to the rage filled bisection "Ruby killed torchwick" was all she said as Weiss looked to the ground. Blake was momentarily surprised before her practice at keeping emotions from surfacing kicked in and her face was back to neutrality.
Oobleck seemed to want to say something but held it in from where the two non-grief filled girls stood. And Verdinia's battered frame came into view. The hatch opened and Alex launched himself, landed some feet away from the sisters then ran to them. "What happened" Alex was worried while Ruby pointed to the rubble then noticed a lack of a concerned Zwei "VERDINIA the rubble" the titan went into action along with the specters and Reaper while Melody ran to Alex "Sorry bro...All i managed to get from the Train's computer was basic logs and a general time table all with cryptic information" Alex nodded then looked to Verdinia who waved him over. Alex ran to the titan and looked at the large black Ursa who had blood seeping from bone spikes that were ripped out. "He still lives but requires immediate medical attention. "Let's get him out and make sure the girls know" Horus took off to the sisters to bring them to the incapacitated Zwei and Verdinia, with the reaper's and specter's help carefully lifted Zwei out of the rubble.
/\[V]/\
Once topside and the Airship was able to land, they all boarded with the sisters along with Alex stayed in the cargo hold to heal and comfort the pet Ursa. Blake and weiss were then grilled for information by Ozpin who spoke through Oobleck's scroll. "What happened down there...the sisters are in no position to coherently give me information at the time and Alex will most likely not tell me anything but you two could give me some much needed clarity on the subject"
Blake and Weiss shared a stare then Weiss began. "Ozpin...what we saw…" she sounded conflicted which Blake took over "Alexavier murdered so many White Fang...and was most likely happy about it sir" she sounded neutral and sure of it. Ozpin waved it away "I was aware of the consequences of what he could bring but I was asking about your other teammates...specifically Miss Rose"
Ozpin grimaced at Weiss's sudden rigid posture and dilation of her eyes. "Something happened…" he was interrupted by Weiss blurting out "Ruby Killed Roman Torchwick" this elected a response of shock from Oobleck and Ozpin to intertwine his fingers and hide his lower portion of his face with them.
"This is troubling...what of Yang" Blake was the one to freeze up "She...when we saw Zwei at the time die by a Mech that collapsed a building on top of us...he pushed us all to safety and Yang just lost it and started killing…" Oobleck then added on "She kept killing against my direct ord-" Ozpin silenced him and looked more troubled then normal.
"This will stay between the four of us you understand" the three nodded "What you have told me is what their father warned me about...Alex may be a good influence on them and vice versa but according to their father...that bridge also influenced them negatively...seeing as they were quick to kill" The bomb that was dropped on them seemed to connect some pieces.
"In the event this were to happen I am forced to contact the authorities to arrest them...seeing as they murdered with witnesses who can say and show they saw it...but unfortunately this is what we need in these dark time and I won't call the authorities" Oobleck seemed to choke on something and was about to retort till he was hushed "Hunters and Huntresses are taught to be honorable and noble but, times change and so to must our methods must change"
Weiss and Blake stared at Ozpin "What you saw was what you need to become for the near future girls...whether we like it or not" was all he said as the call was ended.
Weiss and Blake looked to each other contemplating whether to do so or not till Oobleck spoke up "While i trust and respect Ozpin, I must tell you girls to not do this...i have seen this corrupted view destroy once respected hunters…"
Weiss looked Oobleck "But professor...Torchwick...the White Fang...what Alex said held true they were trying to kill us and you want us to incapacitate them?" she said pointing out how Torchwick and Ruby's fight looked. Blake then spoke up "The white Fang used to be peaceful but now they are violent and while I must say that violence never gets results yet seeing what I saw today…" her silence spoke the rest of her reason itself.
"If this is what you want girls just...do not try to let it consume you like it did to Yang and Ruby" Weiss and Blake could at least agree to that.
/\[V]/\
Felicity was panting, she felt this much fear before when he killed her teammates, you can never get used to this. "Pilot we are arriving at the rendezvous point" she nodded and at reaching the camp, taking her a longer time to ensure she lost any pursuers, she disembarked and was in front of Cinder.
"Report what happened at the train" she sounded angry but Felicity stood up not deterred "Alex arrived suddenly shocking everyone...not to mention four girls, a hunter, and a Ursa started sabotaging the train" Cinder seemed confused "A Ursa was helping them?" the pilot nodded.
Cinder looked to the sky in thought "Well it dosent matter...leaked information of that little scuffle to the right people have just the right effect and Atlas stepped up security for the Vytal Festival and a few arrests are being asked for…" Cinder grinned as she waved Felicity forward. They entered a building prefab that held a news story on the subject coincidentally.
"A anonymous source leaked this well defined video of a battle in the derelict underground city of Mt. glenn and four huntresses in training, a hunter, and a mech were seend causing most of the damage" the picture of a blonde haired lilac eyed girl showed, then a Black haired with red tipped girl with silver eyes appeared next to her, then Alex's helmeted face appeared next to the silvered eyed one.
"These three are wanted for murder in Vale's borders, they are considered extremely dangerous and all residents are asked to report their whereabouts to the local law enforcement" Cinder then turned the holo-vision off. "Phase two is complete and so Phase three will commence" Felicity did not like this one bit…
/\[V]/\
Ozpin looked to his monitor of the same newscast "seems she made the first move...with her pawn…" his scroll beeped from a message from a scrambled name but the message was clear 'The Queen has Pawns' which was not new but the new one was special and worrisome
'and the rook is nearing checkmate'.
AND THEY MET AND WE DO NOT SEE THE EPIC FIGHT...bitch at me later I am saving that fight for later. As for the guest the previous chapter or introduction of Neo replacing a dead Pyrrha *sees a few people get angry but ignoring them* I have said JNGR is Jungle Green as Neo's new last name is that G part so have fun with that.
So I may have fucked with the order of things...but hey I get to do what ever I want with this story even make some characters to complete 180s on personality cause I can. All things considered Alex is not a good role model...the one hell bent on revenge version the other one is a better one but who am I kidding I am a evil prick.
Next on my agenda: That weird poll...do know I will not drop WaC for the new one, it is there for me to get a feel for what you, my readers, will want me do next, seeing as I have four other ideas to pick once WaC is over. SO HELP MY INDECISIVE BICTH DECIDED please...anyway I will keep the poll up till chapter 20 and remove it a few days after the chapter is posted. So give me feedback not on the grammar/spelling wise cause fuck the American English education system.