Chapter 20
POV: Rocket
I'm so glad they gave team leaders trackers for their team's scrolls. We were able to pinpoint Blake's exact location using it, and we calculated where to intercept their path. We got in touch with Weiss, Blake, and Yang to make a plan, and then we were off.
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We ended up on the highway and knew we had exactly 1 minute before Blake and Sun arrived. We got set up, and then got on the p-comms. The p-comm system was a system of earpieces I had set up that allowed us to talk through earpieces as if we were right next to each other. They had a 5-mile radius.
Ruby: Is everyone here?
Weiss: I'm in position.
Rocket: I'm in position.
Yang: I'm in position!
Blake: And I'm sick of having him trailing me.
Ruby: Then let's get rid of him.
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POV: Omniscient
Yang had been following Blake and Sun a bit behind the robot since there was no way for her to get ahead, and her bright orange motorcycle would definitely make her stand if she followed right behind them. Then, the plan started.
Yang: We need to slow it down!
Neptune: On it!
He quickly pulled his gun from off his back and tried to get it set up. He was interrupted by the motorcycle suddenly swerving every direction possible. Instead of Roman pushing cars out of his way, leaving a nice path for Yang and Neptune, he began throwing them over his head, meaning Yang had to dodge. After a small wave of cars, Roman ran out of cars in front of him. Then, Neptune was able to fully get out his gun, and begin shooting at the mech. Roman felt the shake from the explosions, but the Paladin was too durable to actually be affected. Then, Neptune's gun transformed into a glowing blue pike. He stood up slowly on the bike and jumped onto the robot's back. Roman suddenly started shaking the robot's torso back and forth. Blake and Sun jumped on the two cars in front of them and took a small breather. Sun noticed Neptune being shaken every which way.
Sun: Hold on, Neptune!
Sun concentrated for a few seconds, and then two glowing yellow versions of him popped into existence and jumped at the Paladin. They hit the Paladin exploding and shaking it quite a bit again, but not dealing any lasting damage. Then, he followed the clones, jumping at the Paladin with his weapon out. Neptune's grip finally gave out, and he and his weapon were sent flying into Sun, and both fell over the side. Roman then hit another section with actual traffic, and more cars were sent at Yang. She was able to avoid most of them, but one was just about to hit her.
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POV: Rocket
It was my turn. I jumped down from a section of the highway that was higher up and cut the car in half. The driver was jettisoned and landed safely behind us. Yang skidded to a halt next to me. When Roman looked back in front of him, he realized that Blake had had a chance to escape. Then he stopped, around 100 feet in front of us. Yang got off her motorcycle, took off her helmet, and activated her gauntlets. The robot started running at us. I waited for 6 seconds. They felt like an eternity.
Rocket: NOW Weiss!
Weiss also jumped from the top highway and landed in front of us, covering a section of the road in ice. The Paladin didn't have time to stop and slid over the edge. Ruby and Blake were already on the ground under the highway, waiting for it. Weiss, Yang and I joined them.
Ruby: Now, let's finish him off.
Ruby is the one who takes command during the fight, since she is the best at reading the fight and telling us where we need to be.
Ruby: Frostburn!
When Ruby just shouts random words like that, it normally is a signal for a team attack. Frostburn referred to Weiss and Yang's team attack. Yang jumped into the air, and Weiss created a circle of ice, which Yang punched, created a huge cloud of fog. He began walking through the fog, with the guns aiming all around, scanning for some sort of target.
Ruby: Petalburst!
Petalburst was me and Ruby, and it was her idea. It was based on the scissoring move we did back in the Emerald Forest. When she shouted it, all the guns snapped in her direction. That left him perfectly open to me. I ran forward from behind him and hooked my scythe over his biggest gun. The turret immediately turned around, but I was spinning around it, using my scythe. While the gun was distracted, Ruby dash forward and hooked her scythe around it too. We both pulled, cutting the gun off. Then we disappeared back into the fog, with bullets flying after us.
Ruby: Ladybug!
Lady was the one for Ruby and Blake. Basically, Ruby dashed behind the bot, and they both attacked simultaneously. When he saw their pattern, they disappeared and went above him. Then they both launched themselves down, and slashed his arm off.
Ruby: Checkmate!
Checkmate was complete improvisation from Blake and Weiss. They started with a frontal assault. When Roman was about to punch Blake, Weiss used her glyphs to pull her out of the way. Then Roman got a lock on them with the missile launchers. They began to backflip out of the way. The explosions barely missed them, except for one missile, which fired late. That one nailed Weiss, who used her last moments of consciousness to fire off one last glyph. This one was gold in color and made a clock, which was running fast. The clock slowed down, and then absorbed into Blake, making her glow purple. She turned to face Roman. He fired a second salvo of missiles, and she individually cut every single one in half within seconds.
Ruby: Nightblast!
Nightblast was a well-practiced team attack with me and Blake. We both used our semblances to create mass chaos. She could use her clones to dodbe pretty much everything, while I could almost teleport. Roman never knew where we were for more than a second. The result was rapid-fire impacts all over the mech, and we were able to disappear back into the mist. Weiss was back up and had recovered.
Ruby: Frostbolt!
Frostmissile was where Weiss basically helped me decimate an opponent. She set up around 20 glyphs around the mech, and I ran up, launching myself around him using the glyphs. There is no real way for most people to see which one I will launch myself to next. Roman sure had no idea. That is, until I ran out glyphs to bounce off of. I simply jumped off the back of the mech, and got uppercut into the bottom of the highway above us. Since I was launched up, I was barely able to survive, but my aura was broken and I was falling. I sank into unconsciousness.
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POV: Omniscient
Rocket was falling. Right before he would have hit the pavement and probably died, Ruby used her semblance to fly over him. She somehow grabbed him and absorbed him into the petalburst. When she landed, she almost passed out from the effort. Thankfully, when she went out of the petalburst, he was on the ground. He was still fully unconscious though. When Ruby turned back to the fight, Yang was on the back of the mech, trying to break in through the top. It quickly rocketed itself backward into a concrete pole. It broke through the pole almost undamaged, but Yang was knocked off by the impact. While she was falling the mech turned around and punch her through two more concrete poles, both of which were destroyed by her body. Her aura was flickering.
Blake: Yang!
Ruby: Don't worry, she'll be fine.
Weiss: She was just launched through two concrete poles!
Ruby: It's her semblance. It allows her to take a bunch of hits, but fight back using that energy.
As she was saying this, Ro-mech was advancing on Yang, ready to finish her off. She slowly staggered up and opened her eyes. They were no longer the usual lilac they had been before, but now they were fire red. Her hair also seemed to be glowing. Ro-mech didn't take any of this into account though. He just aimed one more punch at her. Instead of the fist punching her and killing her, she caught it with one hand. With her other hand, she prepared a punch of her own. This one, though, went fully through and destroyed his other arm. So instead, he just kicked her.
Ruby: Bumblebee!
Bumblebee is the team attack for Yang and Blake. In it, Blake throws Yang the Gambol Shroud, and holds onto the ribbon. Yang catches the sword, and Blake swings it around like a sling. This put immeasurable force behind Yang's punch. Of course, even though it was aim perfectly at the robot, he just jumped backward.
Ruby: We need to slow it down.
Weiss: And how do you propose we do that?
Ruby: Ice Flower!
Finally, Ice Flower is the team attack that involves Weiss setting up a couple of ice glyphs in front of Ruby's barrel. When she fired, the bullet was imbued with the power of ice, creating giant clumps of ice all over the mech. This slowed it down just enough for it to be unable to jump out of the way. Yang's hair left a trail of fire, as she was swung around one last time. And this time, she didn't miss.
The mech suit was launched backward, and Roman was jettisoned as the mech fell apart. He rolled on the ground once before standing on his feet once more. He brushed the dust off his suit.
Roman: I just got this thing cleaned…
Yang fired one solitary shot at him, and it appeared to hit from the perspective of team RWBY, but when the dust cleared, they saw that a woman with a pink umbrella had blocked the bullet with her umbrella. She had a pink, white, and brown color scheme, thus earning her the nickname "Neo" from everyone.
Roman: Ladies. Ice queen (Weiss: Hey!). It appears it is time for me to go. I am a very busy man after all.
Yang ran forward, ahead of the group, and punched. When she punched them, the image of them turned into glass, which sent shards everywhere. Yang calmed down after a minute or two, and people felt it was safe to get generally near her.
Weiss: Well, I guess she made our plans, *fall apart*?
Everyone just started to walk away, groaning.
Blake: There's a time and place for everything.
Weiss: Was that not it?
Yang: No, it just wasn't very good.
Weiss: Well at least I was trying!
Ruby: Wait, Rocket!
They had completely forgotten about Rocket throughout the course of the fight.
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POV: Rocket
I woke up and immediately felt something was wrong. Everything was silent. Since I still hadn't opened my eyes, I did so. There was a pile of scrap on the ground. That was probably was left of the robot. But where is the rest of the team? I tried to stand up but fell back to my knees.
Ruby: Oh, you're ok!
Blake: You had us worried for a bit.
Rocket: I have the biggest headache ever, and everything is sore... What happened while I was out.
Ruby: Yang got mad.
Rocket: Ah. Well, that explains the absolute carnage in front of me, but was anyone injured during the fight?
Yang: No, but Roman escaped...
I noticed her hair seemed to be glowing, and her eyes were a deep red.
Rocket: Anyone who isn't pissed off at the world want to explain?
We went back to our rooms. While we walked back, they explained the fight to me. We checked off the last day of our break. Tomorrow, school started back up.
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POV: Omniscient
Sun and Neptune were sitting at a noodle stand. After they had been knocked off the road, they had given up on catching up and gone to the "Simple Wok" noodle stand.
Neptune: You think they're ok?
Sun: Eh, they're probably fine.