Last chapter of the Grimm Eclipse Arc! Next up, volume 3 is incoming! In my calculations, there is still a good month left before the Vytal Festival Tournament. The tournament is held during the Autumn season. Which means clearly near the end of the school year, which would make sense. Why have a tournament that might disrupt the Huntsmen and Huntresses schoolwork, right? Hope you enjoy it. Thanks to my beta readers as usual. The MischieviousPuppy actually wrote out the scene for DSCO only, considering it's his characters. They'll still play a small role in the future chapters, but that's about it. Lots of Easter eggs in them, he likes it. Enough talk though, let's get going!
It was early morning when they woke up, feeling a bit better. Quickly, they left the cave to explore the huge island. After fighting through some more Grimm, it was almost night time when they found finally found an old factory still working, and on the ground was some type of green ooze.
"What's this funky looking stuff?" asked Nora, prodding it with her hammer. She was about to touch it when Ren caught her hand.
"Nora, please don't touch anything you don't know. You don't even know where that's been," said Ren to which Nora giggled before apologizing.
"Perhaps this might be some use to Professor Ozpin," suggested Blake.
They took some photos and quickly sent it to Ozpin. He looked quite worried when he saw the ooze. It looked like Merlot had been here for some time now.
"Just focus on getting yourself out of there, team," began Ozpin, "We'll deal with Merlot ourselves when the time comes."
They continued down the path, fighting off Grimm, robots, and more mutant Grimm. Finally, they made it to a steel door that led to the entrance.
"Na ah ah," taunted Merlot, "You won't get in so easily. Deal with my toys, and maybe I'll consider letting you in."
Jaune was tired of being on this island, so he nodded towards Pyrrha. Pyrrha grinned, focusing her Aura before activating her Semblance. The doors glowed black and soon were creaking opening.
"What!?" shouted Merlot in surprise. They all quickly made it through, with Jaune carrying Pyrrha so she could focus on the door. After they made it in, she let it go, and the doors slammed shut.
"Well... I certainly wasn't expecting the 'Goddess of Victory' to have a Semblance that was polarity. I'll have to be careful when sending my robots, won't I?" said Merlot with a hint of displeasure yet slight interest.
They ignored his comments as they continued deeper into the lab, where they found tanks full of the ooze.
"Ah, I see you found my stage 2 processing tanks," said Merlot with pride. They saw Grimm Creepers just walking before going near the container. They took a sip of the ooze, and transformed into their mutant versions.
"Destroy the tanks, and kill off the Grimm!" shouted Jaune. Everyone nodded, and soon, there were only destroyed tanks with no Grimm.
"Now that wasn't very nice," said Merlot, "Guess I'll have my security force stop you."
The said security force was composed of the robots and two Grimm mutant Beowolves. Jaune channeled electricity into his sword before tapping Nora with it. Getting the boost, Nora grinned before charging in.
"Valkos!" shouted Jaune. Pyrrha nodded before using her semblance on the robots, gathering them all into a ball before sending it to Nora. Nora took a huge swing and sent the ball flying right into the mutant Beowolves. She then proceeded to unload her grenades into the pile of enemies, destroying them all.
Merlot sighed with irritation at the speed they had destroyed his forces. "I wish you wouldn't break all my things," Merlot said in a bored tone, "But I can build them in no time. This way please."
At this, a door opened up for them.
"This feels like an elaborate setup," commented Ren.
"There's no choice but to go forward," reminded Blake.
"We'll be able to handle it," cheered Ruby.
They continued forward, fighting off any enemies until they reached the engineering department. It seemed like Merlot had gotten too cocky, as Ruby suddenly rushed past the enemies into a terminal and inserted her Scroll in, allowing Beacon to have access to Merlot's computer. Merlot cursed at his lack of sight before ordering all his units to converge in. JNPRWBY were busy keeping any enemies off Ruby's back while she was typing in some commands to help Beacon out. Androids jumped down to fight them while tubes opened to have Grimm spill in to attack them.
Ozpin was having his team of technical support working as fast as they could. Behind him were Glynda and Ironwood. Ironwood had supplied a team of his best workers to help out Ozpin.
"So... Dr. Merlot huh," began Ironwood seeming to be quite disappointed about the news in all this, "A pity he went rogue. He would've been useful. Especially with that secret of ours,"
"Dr. Merlot made his choice when he decided to have Grimm attack innocent civilians," scoffed Glynda.
"Yea, but all that technology could help us. Not to mention, according to them, his robot army could be stronger than ours!" explained Ironwood.
"Of course you want his technology to build an even more powerful army," said Glynda as she rolled her eyes.
"If it's to protect the people, then yes!" replied Ironwood hotly.
"Enough. Our top priority should be rescuing our two teams," said Ozpin.
"I have my best pilots ready to go," Ironwood began as he went over to the window to look down upon the hull head docks. "My school's top second-year team is also ready to head out."
"Good. We're going to need them," sighed Ozpin.
"Which team are you sending?" asked Glynda curiously.
Ironwood remained silent until Glynda prodded him to answer. "It's…"
LET'S GET A GROOVE ON TEAM! We got ah team to save!" Shouted none other than Dandy, pointing his right gloved hand in the air while holding a rather long cane with a gigantic disco ball on top, the size of a 300-pound weight.
Behind him the rest of team DSCO seemed quite tired, well mainly the Soul and the Coral of the team, considering how early it was, but also how the fatigue they had from Glynda's punishment which was to write a 2,000-word essay on not making a big mess in the training hall. Which both Soul and Coral barely finished this afternoon.
Soul looked the most tired considering he had bags under his eyes. Strapped around his shoulder was a double neck electric "axe" guitar, judging how there was a handle grip on the outside on the upper necks. The tips of the heads seemed quite sharp as they pointed on the inner side of the necks instead of outward almost like they acted like a blade. At the bottom of the body were 4 dials, three were colored one red, one blue, and finally one yellow. The fourth however had a dial where it had three small pictures next to them, one was showing three bullets one consumed in fire, one ice and finally one covered in electricity. The next picture was that of an axe, and finally the last looked to be that of a strange looking sword with a hole and handle grip at the bottom. Only that the guitar he had did have the hole near the bottom, there was no handle grip. Only the axe sharpness that was around the outside of the body.
"Why are we doing this again?...," Soul asked as he really wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone's shit. Especially after bumping into Boyd Arc. The dude really gets on his nerves with his constant bragging.
Next to him was Coral, who was currently carrying a giant speaker of some kind with a mic cord wrapped around his shoulder with the mic in a holster. The holographic eyes seemed quite tired judging by the lowercase e's floating where his eyes would be.
"To do this rescue mission of shorts, something to do with that Jaune fella we met a while back. It's his team and another," Coral replied as he hefted the heavy speaker up a bit more to keep it from falling to the ground.
Onyx their last teammate didn't seem that tired like Dandy, unlike Soul and Coral, both he and Dandy finished that essay after that detention they received. They weren't slackers like the S and C of their team. Strapped on his back like a wearable turtle shell was a shield the size of one of the cafeteria tables inside the dining hall of the academy, its height was a bit taller than Dandy without his fro, and width was as big as Jaune's Shield length. In the middle of the shield was a large speaker of some kind built in the middle.
"That, and Dandy here wants to see if that item he showed us really does belong to that mate," Onyx stated to which Soul just groaned
"I hope we finish this fast, I just want to relax…" Soul grumbled before Dandy turned to look at his partner
"You can get some sleep on the bullhead Soul, and trust me, we will. Ah got plans to do later tonight." Dandy said as they all entered the bullhead waiting for it to take off. Taking out a small piece of cloth from the right opening on his vest, Dandy looked down as he opened the cloth revealing something white glowing.
"Ah hope I'm right about you…"
"You sent them?!" shouted Glynda.
"I assure you, despite their… eccentric behavior, they are one of the best teams at Atlas. They can get your two teams safely."
"Safely if you mean in pieces!" screeched Glynda, causing Ironwood to cringe, "Their last 'training' session involved escorting someone, and they decided it would be easier to trash everything in their way! I had to spend an hour fixing Arena 113 because of them!" Ironwood was about to retort that they did succeed in escorting the training bot for their session before one of the techs shouted.
"Sir! All data from Merlot industry has successfully been transferred over. Coordinates have been locked!"
"Excellent! Send it to my scroll," said Ozpin, quickly sitting down. He opened the file to study them before frowning.
"It's as I feared. He has been experimenting to create stronger Grimm. But why, is what I don't understand."
"You may never know. He was always a weird one," replied Glynda.
"Ironwood, I want the Bullhead headed towards those coordinates now!" shouted Ozpin. Ironwood nodded before calling his pilot to start flying. Coordinates would be sent to the pilot's scroll.
The team was running a bit ragged, sweating as they finished off the last of the robots. Ruby had joined them once she knew she had done all she could. Only Jaune seemed even remotely fine.
"Almost out of here guys," panted Jaune.
"So... tired...," cried Nora.
"Should we give coffee to Nora to keep her active?" asked Ruby.
"No," replied Ren with a serious face, "Not unless you want her to somehow travel through multiple parallel dimensions."
RWBY laughed at this but stopped when they saw JPR were quite serious, and gulped.
"I have some energy bars left, but that's all," said Jaune grabbing the last of his supplies, making a quick note to go shopping again.
It tasted nasty, but it did give them the energy to keep moving. They passed by a power station, and couldn't resist but to completely destroy it to halt Merlot's research. Merlot growled in anger but held it. Soon, his ultimate specimen would deal with these intruders. They kept running, destroying anything that seemed useful to him, including his latest batch of the serum. They were soon on some sort of testing grounds. Suddenly, a screen appeared before them, and they saw an image of the famous doctor himself. His left eye had been replaced with a cybernetic implant, and his right hand was completely robotic with red highlights. A fitting image of a mad scientist.
"So, it's come to this... Meet my ultimate creation!" shouted Merlot maniacally.
A Death Stalker the same size as the one they had fought back at initiation popped up from the ground. Yet, this Death Stalker was completely mutated. All of the original red markings and red eyes were completely green. It's orange stinger now glowed with sickly green light.
"That's a big Death Stalker," commented Ren, eyeing it with concern.
"Let's take care of it," grinned Ruby.
"Now, now, don't be shy students," said Merlot patronizingly in the speakers, "You could learn a lot from this enhanced specimen. They won't teach you a thing about this back at Beacon. Nature couldn't make a beast this deadly, so I DID!"
The team opened fire upon the mutated Grimm, just to find out its carapace was thicker, if not stronger than the original one. Not only that, it could shoot out spikes from a distance, leaving ranged combat to be less than ideal.
The side doors opened, and more robots and mutated Grimm spilled into the room. No regular Grimms came in, but Jaune shrugged at that, thankful that there was less. Looking at the situation, Jaune made his decision.
"Ruby! Take Pyrrha, Ren, and Weiss to take care of the small guys. I'm taking Yang, Nora, and Blake for the big guy. Back us up when you're done destroying them all."
"Ok!" Shouted back Ruby, leading her new team to fight the reinforcements.
Jaune took a deep breath, linking up with Lung Wang. He sprouted red scaled wings, and his sword glowed red, as if it was hot.
"Let's go!" shouted Jaune, charging forward. The Death Stalker tried to stab Jaune, but he dodged it before hacking at the stinger. He wasn't able to cut it off, but there were scorch marks on the stinger, and the Death Stalker didn't seem to like that. It swung its pincer at Jaune, to which he blocked it. He was sent flying back for a bit before he spread his wings to stop. Blake charged forward, dodging a pincer with her Semblance before jumping on it's head and stabbing its eyes. Yet, even with all her strength, she was barely able to even hurt it before the Death Stalker spun in a circle, forcing her off. Yang and Nora, who had been charging in, were also sent flying back. The Death Stalker then sent dozens of spikes towards them, with Merlot commentating how they would all die.
"Knightshade!" shouted Jaune. Blake nodded, quickly channeling her Aura into her sword while Jaune did the same. They both swung their blades at the spikes, creating an Aura blade beam to fly into the spikes. With a huge explosion, the spikes were rendered useless.
"They need help!" shouted Ruby, "Me and Pyrrha can finish these small ones off. Go help them. Use White Lotus!"
Ren and Weiss nodded and ran towards the Death Stalker. Weiss used her dust and glyphs to enchant Ren's weapons while he fired his dual automatic pistols, creating dozens of ice patches on the Death Stalker's feet. It jerked upwards, irritated at the distraction before turning its sights on them. Jaune flew up into the air, carrying Yang with her while the Blake and Nora joined them in distracting the Death Stalker. Seeing as it wasn't looking up, Jaune dived bombed with Yang as his payload. As he was getting nearer, he tossed Yang as hard as he could down towards it.
"Sunfire!" shouted Jaune as Yang punched the Deathstalker's head as hard as she could.
The Death Stalker sunk into the ground from the impact. Blake quickly threw her weapon wrapping it around Yang and pulling her off as fast as she could. It was a good call, as the Death Stalker retaliated by trying to plunge its stinger into Yang, getting it to stab its own head. The Death Stalker howled in pain before quickly burying itself into the ground.
"Now what?" asked Weiss in exasperation.
The Death Stalker then started to move, upheaving the ground as it traveled underground, right towards Nora. Jaune quickly flew in and grabbed her out of the way just as it broke the surface, intent on grabbing its victim.
"Damn. Going to have to fully link up with my dragons," cursed Jaune softly. "Buy me some time!"
He dropped Nora off before landing, closing his eyes. Taking a deep breath, he let the dragon's power wash over him.
"Thunder Cat!" yelled out Ruby. Blake and Nora nodded and charged in. Blake distracted it enough to let Nora slam her hammer on its head before firing upon impact. Blake threw her weapon, letting her ribbon wrap around Nora and pulled her back before the Death Stalker could try to stab Nora. The rest them continued attacking the Death Stalker, but it was much tougher than the original.
A few minutes later, Jaune's eyes sprang open, and instead of his usual eyes, they were now slitted pupils, like a dragon. The Death Stalker gave pause at this, completely confused at what it was facing before scuttling forward at Jaune. It raised it's stinger and stabbed towards him.
"Plunge that stinger, and don't let up!" shouted Merlot with glee as he saw this.
Jaune diverted its aim with his shield, parrying it towards the ground next to him. In the next second, his sword was wreathed in flames as he cut the stinger off from the Death Stalker.
The Death Stalker squealed in pain at this sudden move and scuttled back.
"No, no! My precious! Hang in there!" wailed Merlot as he tried to summon more robots. They were easily dismantled by Pyrrha, but she was getting tired from abusing her Semblance so much.
The Death Stalker, now very angry, shot out spikes everywhere. Everyone was dodging, parrying, and blocking as best as they could, but Yang, Nora, and Weiss got hit by some. The spikes had broken their Aura protection and were defenseless, so to speak. Ruby quickly asked them to stay back.
"No.. I can do one more attack!" shouted Weiss as she concentrated on her glyph she spawned in front of her. She was trying to summon. At first, she wanted to summon a Beowolf, a Boartusk, or even a Creeper, but none of it was working. Then, she remembered about Jaune's suggestion. Instead, she focused on the armored knight. The one that gave her the scar. The one that had truly pushed her limits. The one that allowed her to spread her wings and come to Beacon. She put as much Aura and feeling into this glyph. The glyph itself was different. Instead of the snowflakes, it portrayed four swords rotating in it.
As if to answer her call, a giant sword spawned forth in front of her. With a wave, the sword slashed at the Death Stalker, catching it in its eyes, blinding several of its eyes causing it to screech in pain.
"Now's our chance!" shouted Jaune, charging forward, "Bumblebee and Sugar Rush that stinger right into that Death Stalker. Ren set them up! Pyrrha, with me! Weiss, try to speed us up!"
It was very risky considering Weiss, Yang and Nora were out of Aura, but it was a risk they had to take! As he charged in with Pyrrha to distract it, the others quickly set up. Blake was rotating Yang as fast as she could. Yang's Semblance had activated after taking the hits from the spikes, leaving a trail of fire behind her. As soon as she was reaching maximum velocity, Blake shot her forward. Ruby grabbed Nora after she crushed a Lighting Dust crystal, infusing her with electricity, and shot forward as fast as she could with Nora before sending her flying forward.
Ren kicked the Stinger up, feeling a slight sting as he did. Luckily, he had infused his legs with Aura to protect him.
Both Nora and Yang slammed their weapons into the stinger, sending it flying towards the Death Stalker. Jaune quickly grabbed Pyrrha and flew up to dodge it, letting the stinger penetrate right through the Death Stalker's head.
"It's over!" shouted Jaune as he gathered the remainder of Aura into his mouth for one last attack. He grabbed a fire Dust crystal from his pocket before putting it in his mouth and chomping on it. It was a move he learned but didn't really like doing, as it was hell on his mouth and throat later, not to mention how much Aura it used. He was still practicing with it. But its power was undeniable. He roared towards the Death Stalker, and a stream of fire crashed into the Death Stalker that came from his mouth.
The Death Stalker gave a shriek of pain before falling over, dead and scorched.
"Noooo! My one of a kind specimen! This is inconceivable!" wailed Merlot as he slammed his hands into the table.
"We did it!" cheered Ruby as Jaune landed back down into the ground, though his breath was quite rugged, considering what he just used, as well as the fatigue he was experiencing from the attack.
"You ain't got nothing on us now!" said Yang.
"Ohh but there is something I can do," said Merlot with an evil chuckle. "I'll make sure you won't get away and end this with a bang!" With that he began typing on his computer before slamming one final button on the counsel before the screen that showed him turned off.
"You mean a Yang," teased Yang before the room started to flash red.
"Uhh, what did he just do?" asked Blake.
"I think he intends to blow up this place," remarked Ren.
"We gotta get out of here!" shouted Weiss.
"This way!" yelled Pyrrha, ripping a door open with her Semblance.
Only barely able to hold it open until her semblance gave out just as soon as they got through. She too was very low on Aura, hell everyone was at this point with Yang, Nora and Weiss completely out of Aura. Nora was currently being helped by Ren as a human crutch seeing how she was quite tired to walk by herself, that or she just wanted to snuggle up against Ren, who knows.
As soon as they ran out to seen an open-air dock, only to that there was no ship.
"Where's that ship!" shouted Jaune before clenching his throat and coughing. The effect of that roar was taking effect much sooner than expected.
Suddenly, Grimm started pouring out from the ceiling with the few remaining robots that were left completely surrounding them.
"Oh come on!" shouted Yang as everyone got ready to make one final stand. Yet every one of them was tired and extremely low on Aura.
The Grimm sensed a great opportunity on killing a dragon holder. The Grimm were able to sense this from the lingering dragon energy coming off of Jaune, probably from the last attack of his. An Alpha Beowolf stepping from the front, an Ursa Major stepping forward on their flank, a Boarbatusk on the left, and finally a mutated creeper which was pretty much a kamikaze and wanted to just kill, all charged towards the group.
Jaune and Pyrrha held up their shields, Jaune towards the Beowulf with Pyrrha towards the Creeper, Ruby and Blake were getting ready for the spinning Boarbatusk heading their way, and finally Ren shielding Nora from the charging Ursa. If this were their final moments together then so be it!
But just before the Grimm could get close enough, the unexpected happened.
CRASH!
CLANG
"YAAAAAAAH!"
"SQUEEEE!"
"Oum I hate pigs..both human and Grimm." standing up from a crouched position stood Soul as he held his weapon in his axe form with the necks of his guitar pressed together to form one neck. The Boarbatusk that was spinning its way towards them found a new target which was its own kind after getting a sideways slash from Soul's weapon not only making it crash right into the other Grimm but also severely damaging it.
"You can say that-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!...again!" Shouted Coral after having to blast the same creeper away only with a much more heavier scream with his Speaker, which this time had used the dust setting to blast not only the back, ut also set it on fire from the flaming sonic sound blast his speaker blasted out after he shouted into the mic. The blew right up into the crowd of enemies upon contact.
"I'll say, you mates alright back there?" Asked none other than Onyx looking behind towards a surprised Ren and Nora as he held his shield out blocking the furious Ursa who kept smacking at his Onyx's shield after being dazed for a bit from getting a shield smack to the face "OI! Ah'll get to yah in ah second Yogi!" Pressing a button on the handle grips of his Shield, the Ursa was suddenly blown back by what sounded like trumpets of some kind mixed with something else that was shot out from the middle of his shield, causing the Ursa to fall right on it back after being blown back by what seemed to be the ranged part of Onyx's weapon.
"Of course they are! They ain't GROOOOVY huntsmen and huntresses for nothin! Ain't that right Jaune!" Standing on top of the splattered skull of a once proud alpha Beowolf, stood Dandy within a small crater created by his weapon considering his feet were standing on the underside of the white disco ball like one would a pogo stick. Taking his feet off the ball part of his weapon, Dandy spun his weapon a couple of times before resting it on his.
With the two teams now fully registering the new arrival of the back up, they now took notice of the sound of a bull head floating up above.
"You guys and gal's done enough fighting for today, we'll keep em busy while you all get on the bull head! ALL RIGHT TEAM, LET'S GET GROOVY LIKE IN A113!" The Coral and Onyx gave out a proud battle cry while the Soul just gave a poor cheer do to how annoyed and tired he was.
Dandy leaped into the air and began spinning his weapon over his head numerous times before pressing two buttons on his cane. The first instantly changed the white disco ball into a glowing red ball of death, because as soon as Dandy swung his weapon downwards towards the group of enemies while still in the air, the second button must have been to activate the ranged part of his weapon seeing how the disco ball literally detached from his cane with a metal wire of sorts keeping it from being fully detached from Dandys weapon. It truly was a mini wrecking ball considering as soon as it made ground contact with the enemies a huge explosion happened while the cracks created by his weapon shot flames up from the ground!
Nora seeing this couldn't help but shout "DANDY SMASH!" Seeing how she was quite the fan of Dandy's weapon considering it was like hers only much more destructive.
Soul who had switched from axe form to its normal form began playing his guitar as fast as he could, each string he pulled fired from the inner part of the separated necks shot out energy blasts of yellow which as soon as they made contact with any of the Grimm or robots, both enemies began spazzing out from electricity shocking their entire body. Turning to face the teams they came to save, Soul's eyes actually changed from its lazy look to that showing great concern when he saw a Beowolf just under an alpha status heading straight towards Ruby who was running with everyone else towards the bull head. This actually pissed him off seeing how this Grimm thought it could get an easy picking, it thought wrong!
"Oh no you DON'T!" What could be described as a demon shouting out the last word. Souls face literally began to transform, going black until you couldn't see his face within his hood...that is until two glowing red eyes and what looked to be razor sharp teeth could be the only thing seen on his face. What ever was going on Soul had quite the disturbing look on his face before he quickly switched the dial on his guitar. Once he did, he twirled his arm around unwrapping the chain wrapped around his right arm in the process and threw the chain forward straight at the Beowolf.
The said Beowolf was about to pounce on Ruby before the chain Soul threw wrapped around it's waist "GET OVER HERE!" And with that the Beowolf was yanked back towards Soul. As it did, Souls weapon began to change form, and when it did, Soul tossed it in the air, in slow motion the two necks of his guitar switched sides with the inner side now the outer before both necks were slammed together. The half heads now making a full head with a very sharp tip. At the bottom the body spread apart a bit to reveal a handlebar right where the hole in his guitar was at. It kind of looked like a futuristic alien weapon sword of some kind
As soon as his weapon came back down, he gripped onto the handle and thrusted the blade into the back of the returning Beowolf before quickly turning around with the impaled Beowolf in hand and pressing a trigger near the handle bar. Suddenly the tip of the sword shot out a red energy blast igniting an incoming Beo who thought it could sneak up on him. After that was done, he tossed the Beowolf he impaled aside and began looking around. Whatever his semblance was, it definitely was giving off a ton of negative energy judging by how most of the Grimm went towards him.
"YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?! THEN COME GET SOME!" Soul, whose voice did represent that of a demon shouting, began his slasher spree by hacking and slashing any Grimm that got near, laughing maniacally, causing some concern for team RWBY and JNPR.
"I like him," laughed Lung Wang.
Meanwhile with Coral, he was literally blowing away any Grimm that got close to the teams who were currently helping one another get on the Bullhead by letting out a high pitch wail or scream of some kind into the mic by covering his hand around his mouth as he shouted into the mic. Each time he let out a different pitched scream, a different colored sonic blast was blasted out from the massive speaker that he had on the ground before picking it up by the cord connected to it, and swung his speaker into an incoming sword robot that was rushing in to slash at him. The robot was smashed to pieces upon the speaker coming down on it.
While that was done, Coral ran back towards his speaker, but not before pressing a button on his mic that made the mic look like a sickle after a blade shot out. Seems Coral had a chain and sickle going on, only the mic was the sickle and the speaker was the weight at the end only much larger. He proceeded to slash at any Grimm that tried getting close to him as he made his way back to the speaker to inflict more sonic blasts.
With the final member of DSCO, Onyx was currently holding back any Grimm that tried to get close to JNPR and RWBY. With the same Ursa now more pissed off, as it still kept trying to break through or tire Onyx out. Only to receive more shield bashes.
"Keep a Knockin but you won't get past mate!" Onyx shouted before pressing another button on the handles, before strangely enough music began blasting out of the middle of his shield which in turned also blew the Ursa away for the finally time seeing how the sound wave was much more stronger and continuities this time. What ever Grimm or robot stood behind the major also found their death when they were blasted off of the air docks edge. Onyx bounced his head to the music playing as he turned the shield around sending any Grimm or robot the shield was aimed either off the docks or away from the teams. Seems this song that was blasting the enemies way must have been made by his semblance Electric Swing a while back.
"Get in!" shouted the pilot, "Sorry I'm late!"
At that, team JNPR and RWBY quickly boarded the ship. Team DCO ran for the bullhead when they saw them board. Soul was still in a blood rage, hungry for more battles.
Dandy, Coral, and Onyx made it onto the bullhead and it began to take off, that is before Ruby shouted "What about Soul?!" There was no way they were going to leave behind their teammate, would they?
"Don't worry little red! He'll come, ain't that Onyx?" Dang said with glee before everyone turned towards Onyx only to see him lean out of the bull head, one hand gripping a handlebar, while the other sticking out of the bullhead, sure enough a metal chain wrapped around Onyx's arm to which he grabbed and with one hard tug from Onyx, Soul was brought right in. His clothes were ripped in some places, his breathing was quick and deep, and finally the Disturbed look he had going on, on his face was gone.
"They...are so damn lucky we had to leave, I-hah..hah..,could have taken them." Soul stated before making his way to an empty seat near Weiss and slumped down on it, his hood fell down only to show his messy spiked gray hair, and as soon as he sat down he knocked out and began snoring away, much to Weiss's disgust.
The bullhead then began to take off as fast as it could away from the island, and sure enough, the entire island began to detonate.
"That was close," said Ruby.
"Wonder how much explosives he had to use to blow up an island?" Wondered Nora as she watched the "fireworks" go off behind them
"Too much," sighed Ren.
"Um Ren…?"
"Yes Nora?"
"Why are there fireworks coming straight for us?"
Everyone's minus Soul's eyes widened upon hearing Nora say that "FIREWORKS?!" Nearly everyone looked back only to see, sure enough, missiles coming from the exploding island straight towards their bullhead. Judging how they were directly coming to them, the missiles were definitely heat-seeking air defense missiles. Evasive Maneuvers would not do them any good.
"Oh come on, can't we just go home already?!" Surprisingly it was Weiss who shouted this, Soul next to her just groaned and turned his back towards her really not needing her shouting.
"Flares going off!" shouted the pilot, activating the defense mechanism. Yet it wasn't enough to deter all the missiles as some made it through. The pilot began to try to dodge, but it wasn't working. The missiles were getting closer and closer.
Dandy seeing no other option turned towards Onyx and Coral "Coral ah know we haven't fully practiced and mastered this team move of ours but we gotta use it! BASE CANNON!" After hearing the team command, both Coral and Onyx nodded and began to set up for their team attack. Onyx flipped his shield to where the speaker was pointed to the ceiling, suddenly the handles on his shield shot downward now acting as a stand for the shield. Pressing a button under his shield, the speaker in the middle suddenly came out and revealed to be what looks to be the speaker of one of those old-time record players.
As Coral was placing his own speaker next to Onyx's weapon, Dandy quickly turned his attention towards the two teams.
"Are any of you a Faunus! Mainly those with good hearing! If you are ah need to know RIGHT NOW!" Dandy shouted as it showed that whatever this team attack was, he needed to know now.
Blake being the only other Faunas of the two teams, looked towards Jaune, a worried look in her eyes, Jaune seeing this, gave her a nod to show that it was alright.
Blake, taking a deep breath, reached up and undid her bow revealing her cat ears. Upon seeing this, Dandy's eyes widened as he quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out two small devices.
"Here, Put these in your Cat ears fast!" Dandy handing Blake the devices turned back around towards his team only to hand an arm placed on his shoulder turning him around to see a very concerned Jaune.
"Why does she need to if I may ask?" Jaune asked as he wanted to know of whatever Dandy was asking was safe. Sure his team saved them but he still cared very deeply for his mates.
Dandy seeing how they had no time for this simply said, "If you prefer your friend to have a possible hearing loss for the next week ah highly suggest she puts them on!"
Judging that what Dandy said was true or not, he let him go and nodded to Blake, to which she placed the devices in her ears.
Turning his attention towards Coral and Onyx, Dandy saw they were ready and looked towards the pilot "Pilot on my signal ah want you to turn the bullheads door toward them missiles! Ready.." Dandy waited for the right time, which was just when the missiles were just in the line of firing range "NOW! Show them why your last name is scream Coral, BASE CANON!"
As soon as the bullhead turned sideways it showed that Coral's and Onyx's were connected together by a single wire. Coral taking the deepest breath anyone ever could take was about to scream when Dandy happen to say "Cover your ears!" Right after taking off his glasses not risking his glasses breaking. Everybody else obeyed and covered their ears just in case, using their hands. Blake had both her cat ears and human ears covered.
"HaaaaaAAAAA YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
What could be described as the loudest scream ever heard was shouted that day. As soon as the first sound of his scream hit his mic, both speakers shot out the biggest, loudest and strongest sonic wave ever to be seen. A mixture of different colors showing all kinds of dust waves could be seen. It was like we're going through a rainbow portal of shorts. The sonic waves made contact with the missiles and they instantly blew up! The sonic blast went as far as to the where the missiles first must have come from. After all the missiles were destroyed. Coral instantly stopped his scream and began coughing so badly, that blood came out of his mouth.
"Coral!" Dandy, Soul after being woken up by the scream with his ears slightly bleeding, and Onyx shouted as they rushed to their teammate.
"Coral are you alright?!" Dandy asked as Coral slowly looked up and gave a small grin with blood stained on his right lip.
"N-never..better.." Coral barely managed to say as his voice sounded very rasped, almost like he severely damaged his vocal cords.
"Coral you did a good job mate, I suggest not speaking for a while, you done enough "screaming" for today" Onyx suggested as he decided a little pun could lighten the mood a bit
"Ouch," said Nora as she uncovered her ears, as did the rest of his team, "That's one hell of an attack."
"Is he alright?" asked Ruby in concern after seeing Coral spit out blood.
"He'll be fine...although doesn't look like we'll be going on missions for a while, Coral can't do much without his voice. I rather have my teammate healthy then in pain trying to use his voice" Dandy said after standing back up rubbing the back of his neck.
"Guess Merlot's forces won't be 'screamin' for an encoral," grinned Yang.
Everyone except Onyx had to groan at Yang's infamous puns once again.
"Oum not another one" Soul groaned as he wanted to just go back to bed.
"So tell me Jaune…" turning around Dandy reached into his right vest and pulled out the cloth from earlier. "Mind telling me what's this is about?" Unwrapping the cloth it was revealed to be a white feather. It wasn't any feather though, as Jaune could feel trace amounts of his Aura in it. It was from the Breach of Beacon, where two of his feathers had dropped from his wings.
"Ah got this from mah little cousin Nala," explained Dandy, "She got it when that angel saved her life as well as her mother, my auntie. Ah can smell a bit of your scent on it. Care to explain?"
"Well, there goes another one," grumbled Othim, "How do you wanna silence him?"
"We are not killing a team that helped us," scolded Andusk, "But this will be hard to explain. Team DSCO is not a team we can trust yet."
Jaune, however, merely pointed to his throat before croaking out, "Hard so speak. Used an attack that's playing hell on my throat."
"Ah see," nodded Dandy, "Then can we do yes or no question?"
Jaune shrugged, agreeing with it for now.
"Alright, easy enough. First question. Are you the angel that saved my cousins and aunts life?"
When Jaune didn't answer, he looked around and saw Ren glaring at him before motioning him to keep it quiet. Understanding what Ren was looking for, he continued, " If you are...ah can assure you, we will keep your secret if that is what you wish."
Seeing as there was no harm in that, Jaune slowly nodded. It was at this Dandy smiled before asking "Final question...can ah have ah hug brother?" Dandy asked, without his glasses, you could clearly see tears of what could be guessed as joy form on the corner of Dandy's eyes as he held his arms out towards him.
Jaune looked at him questioningly before agreeing to his term, giving him a slight hug. Dandy returned it with a bear hug, a very strong one at that as tears of joy fell from his eyes "Ah can't thank you enough Jaune! Ah don't know what I'd do if ah lost mah little sunflower! Ah am completely indebted to you! If you ever need anything from me or team just ask! As long as it's in our power, we'll do it!" Dandy shouted as he continued to hug Jaune.
"Uh Dandy, as much as this is a heartwarming thing goin on, ah think you're making it hard to breath for him." Onyx said as what he said was true.
Dandy eyes widening at this quickly let go of Jaune "Ah am so sorry about that! Ah keep forgetting about my prosthetic arm at times!" Reaching to his right and only gloved hand, he took it off to reveal a robotic hand, seems to be the latest Atleasian model judging by how it looked.
"Oooh, shiny," drooled Ruby as she admired the arm.
"I see you have an eye for the fine stuff," laughed Onyx, "This baby lets Dandy carry that wrecking ball of his. Because of it, he tends to like coming in like a wrecking ball."
"Oh, now I remember!" began Ruby suddenly in realization, "I remember where I saw your name. It was on Dusttube, and I remember hearing some of your songs. They're pretty catchy."
"Ah glad you like it," grinned Dandy "We're hoping to become an official band while also being Huntsmen! The power of music will compel us to fight even better!"
"Speaking of songs, Weiss Schnee, we've heard your singing before. Interested in singing with us sometime?" asked Onyx.
"I'll see about it," smiled Weiss. It had been a while since she last sang, and she did quite enjoy it.
While everyone began chatting amongst themselves, suddenly Ozpin's voice came through the bullheads speakers "Well done, students! Once you arrive at Beacon, I already have the relaxation area reserved for your teams. You've definitely earned it. Food will also be ready for you at the area."
Dr. Merlot sighed as he was on his luxurious cruise ship on the water. Most of his research was now gone, but he still had some of the data with him. He always made sure to keep a backup. It wouldn't do for a scientist to lose all his data. Suddenly, he found his ship besieged by aquatic Grimm.
"What now!" shouted Merlot as he had his robots ready to fight. However, it interested him that none of the Grimm was attacking.
"Why, if it isn't the famous Dr. Merlot! A pleasure to meet you."
Merlot turned around to see a rather well-dressed man with a mustache.
"And you are...?"
"My apologies. I am Arthur Watts. I was sent here to retrieve you, as my mistress so dearly wishes to meet you," introduced the man as he bowed. Merlot noticed how they Grimm seemed to be obeying him.
"What would your mistress want of me?" Merlot asked still finding this to be a bit sketchy
"She has heard of your... experiments with the Grimm. She was not pleased to see her precious children be mutated, but at the same time, is very interested in your work. She offers you a seat in her inner circle, and guarantees a place for you in her world," began Watts, "And she will give you some Grimm to further your research, provided you let her oversee your work."
Merlot glared at him for a bit before considering the proposal. He really didn't have anything to lose now at this point. Not only that, but he said her children. Which meant this mistress of his was in charge of the Grimm, and was willing to provide him with test subjects without all the hassle.
"Alright, then. Take me to your mistress," Merlot said as a small smirk began to form
Watts grinned, "Salem will indeed be interested in your work in robotics and your studies in Grimm biology. I will guarantee your safety until we reach there."
With a snap of his finger, the Grimm swam up to the boat, gently guiding it to where Merlot needed to go.
"A pleasure that I hope to reciprocate," cackled Merlot, "In return, allow me to give you a recording of the people who destroyed my lab."
Dun Dun DUNNN! Merlot gets recruited into Salem's faction! Power up for them!
Alright, chapters might be spitballing fast soon. Why? Because out of the whole story, I already had volume 3 created/written down in my head. After all, my oneshot did come from during volume 3. No promises, though.
And I forgot to mention, the team attack names mentioned in the past 3 chapters are all pairings names. Someone even put an Excel sheet for a variety of pairing names for each character, though some are blank. The only ones I didn't use was the Blake&Ren, as they didn't have a pairing name that screamed attack.
Hope you've enjoyed the chapter, read and review!