A/N: Thank you to our reviewer!

Astra: Now it's really good t see you again now I would like to answer a lot of what you said, but I don't think I can answer everything but that would be just too long… but I read everything, and I'll tell you, you are absolutely right about the organized crime of Vale, couldn't think of a better description myself. XD. -CrowSkull

Told you he missed you. Everything will be explained once HAMR makes a return, I have an idea for Ash and Nora's friendship that I feel like everyone will love. Red eyes can mean a lot of things, and neither of what you said is the right one in this case. Ruby found the metal in a way that shall be disclosed at a later date. I have about three minutes so I gotta make this one short so forgive me, I did in fact read your entire review though so keep that in mind. With the Hector vs Pyrrha fight I was going for showing off his weapons and how he has grown as a fighter, while also trying to depower him a bit so he doesn't end up like he is in Unlikely Hero. Again, the Kaioken not using aura in this story has a very good explanation for it. Roberts been busy, has a mission and all that adult stuff. Hector needs some slack man, poor guy can't be trusted with anything besides feeding himself and being a leader. I did not forget about you, I would never forget my favorite Astra from all of my stories, thank you for the review once again! I'll see ya in the next one! -Genatools

RWBY: Team HAMR

Chapter 21- Deadeye

Under Construction Subway

2 pm.

Robert's POV.

It was a new day, saturday in fact, and as of now people were gathering up in this little entrance to the tunnels that we cleared up a few days before, it was finally time, I was going to go into the sewers and tunnels. Glynda was with me on this one, so was Seth and a literal battalion of police officers, there was also Oobleck and few huntsmen and huntresses, I didn't personally knew any of them, some of them looked older than others, Liam was with them that I could tell. Well I know someone, that's a plus point on the scale socializing on my book.

"Once we in there remember to stick close to the group and not separate too far, you have no idea how easy it is too get lost in those tunnels." Glynda said to me in a tone similar of a mother berating their kid.

"I know, you've told me several times already." I replied.

"And I still feel is not enough, with luck we'll be able to make significant progress, and if not, we'll have no choice but to keep looking later."

"They might have left map behind, that would be something."

"It might not be so simple cowboy, they appeared to have backtracked a big distance into the tunnels, they seem to have taken everything with them, we might have to explore for a while." Seth said as he was listening on the conversation.

"This is still one of the most direct paths so far isn't?" I asked.

"Yes, it's given a better result than others, we managed to go deeper without any major problems besides the Grimm, even then there is still a large section that we still need to be pushed into. The cult has been pushed back in all directions, but they've retreated behind a set of areas called "The Pits", we tried to follow them there but, they blocked all entrances to that area after them." Glynda explained

"So… this one of the only ways left, it's that bad?" I asked

"Well I told you many people were in it for the big bountis cowboy, so much that the cultists have gone into hiding." Seth said while checking his revolvers.

"Speaking of the cultists, had you guys gotten anything on Shane ever since get got this base?" I asked

"No, the kid disappeared." Seth said

"Really? Like nothing nothing, or did he just disappear somehow?" I asked with an arch of my eyebrow.

"We searched his place after he was gone, no family to speak of, and no trace of where he had gone." Seth explained.

"Hmm…" I murmured to myself

"Everyone! It is time! Everyone gather around and plan our incursion into this ancient tunnels full of danger, I recommend everyone get here on the double lest you want to walk in and get lost in this ancient corridors of history and paranoia!" Oobleck yelled out loud with a megaphone.

"... I guess that's our commanding officer." Seth said while holstering his gun.

"Do yourself a favor and call him Doctor when greeting him, it would save you the reaffirmation of his PHD." I warn him with a sigh, I've made that mistake one too many times.

"He's like a ferret with the way he moves around, a ferret with green hair and glasses… and a tie." Seth muttered while observing Oobleck's hyperactive movements. I couldn't help but chuckle at imagining the thought, I think even Glynda would crack a smile, in less than two minutes we were all in a circle with the rest of police and huntsmen, Oobleck was in the middle.

"Very well then, listen, there are some of you that already have gone through this drill but at the same time there are many here that haven't, so here it is. We are gonna enter the ancient tunnels underneath Vale, the ones used on ancient times as secret passages to avoid public eye, as a possible refugee during wars and as a way to go out of Vale for nobles, kings and for the other two reasons already stated. These tunnels overtime became full with Grimm, and of then evolved a very into a dangerous kind of monster, the tunnels are not only filled with Grimm but are also a never ending maze." He paused to take a quick sip of whatever it's called from his thermos before continuing.

"Nobles and authority figures kept building more and more passages for themselves and eventually on top of each other, the sewers of Vale are in fact built on top of them. This tunnels have some central hub of areas, one of them is the are the "Chorus of Dawn" has its central base alongside some very special cargo that must be destroyed, today once again we are trying to get there and map the areas of the tunnels, we will follow the tunnels and paths that go in the north east direction since that area is where the Chorus has retreated as of late. Any sign of finding any open rooms like central crossroads or any big chambers are progress since those are what we assume the cult calls "The pits", as that's what they have yelled in their latest retreats."

"Now we'll go in groups and stick close to each other, we will only separate if we need to check multiple passages and every few three hundred meters some designated individuals will place green and orange light bulbs on the walls that will act as guides, the green side of the light bulb will signify the exit route while the orange side will signify the path that goes deeper into the tunnels, oh and as a precaution once in the tunnels, do not step into the water."

"Uh, why is that the last part." Asked a young huntsman

"Thank you for asking!" Oobleck shouted as he sped up into the face of said huntsman, who recoiled with surprise. "Now that the tunnels are a house of multiple kinds of Grimm, ancient kinds, Beowolves become alphas, Ursas become Majors, there are emperor Taijitus, but there are also some less known Grimm that reside on the sewer like canals of certain tunnels, such as Trapjaws and Dischargers."

"What are those exactly?" Asked an officer in full swat armor.

"Trapjaws are giant alligator type Grimm that will wait for any prey to come close and will destroy them with a single bite. Dischargers are Grimm Electric Eels." said a huntress with brown hair and golden highlights, she seemed to have a pair sais that doubled as tiny crossbows.

"Oh, that just screams joy to my ears." Said sarcastically an officer.

"It does to me as well!" Oobleck bellowed. "We are about to enter areas that were possibly never explored before by modern historians, it's fascinating." Oobleck said not paying any attention at the weird looks that statement earned him. "Get ready, we are moving in immediately, Huntsmen and huntressess on the front, police officers at the back and sides, I'll select now the people in charge of carrying the lightbulbs too." Oobleck said as he started guiding the little army to the tunnels.

"This place is really disgusting." Someone commented as we moved through the tunnels, in truth it wasn't worse that cleaning the litter box, wasn't even the half as bad, not by a long shot, but it was constant and annoying, you could smell the salt and piss in the air… then again my nose for some reason never really worked that well, it had a tendency to block out some of the more particular smells for some reason, like bug spray, I cannot smell bug spray for some reason, not for very long. There were some people down here with more sensible noses however, three humans, two faunus in particular were holding their noses and squinting their eyes very hard. I couldn't blame them, the stench must have been even worse for them then it was for me.

"Ah but is also full of interesting details in its structure, you can differ some purposes from the streaks that adorn the sides." Oobleck said as he was enthusiastically putting another one of the lightbulbs on the wall, Oobleck hadn't exactly said much during the trip, but he hadn't stay quiet either, he was going from side looking at seemingly every single nook and cranny for anything that might hint at the story of this tunnels, alongside signs of tracks from the Chorus or anything else really, we were all doing that last bit, but Oobleck managed to take it an extra mile also taking notes at anything remotely particular, but once again he didn't bother anyone doing it and was fairly quick, so nobody cared.

"I might regret this but do you actually know the purpose of this specific tunnel we are in." I asked.

"Well compared to other tunnels the subtle stripes here seem blue and I've seen only two other tunnels with those stripes, I think I can gander that comparing them to the other tunnels, this seems like the ones for private noble transport." he explained to me.

"Hmm… blue stripes, blue noble blood, a valid assumption." I said.

"Makes sense they would try to transport their supplies through here, open spaces big enough for a group or even a small vehicle, well maintained walls and floor too." Glynda pondered.

"You know I get the feeling that we could have come on a small armored car trough these tunnels." Said one of the officers with a mustache.

"That would work if we knew where we were going, as it is I'll rather not get stuck in awkward turns, weird steep ramps or stairs with Grimm and posible cultists trying to kill me, thank you very much." Seth said placing another lightbulb on the wall as we kept moving at a general solid pace, he had been one of the selected few to carry a bag of lightbulbs. As soon as he finished several audible growls came from the far end of the current tunnel.

"Speaking of which..." The huntress with the double crossbow sai said unfolding them.

"You all know the drill, everyone watch your fellows and everyone make sure to kill as many as reasonably possible." Glynda commanded as the small skirmish of Grimm came close.

We all knew how we approached the situation, there were designated frontliners, there was a second line and a final far range line, most huntsmen and huntressess were between frontline and second line depending on weapons and abilities while the police where usually between the second and the far line, most of the people on the front line are told to do their own thing as effectively as possible while protecting whoever was next to them, middle grounders did the same only from more range, they also had to make sure Grimm didn't reach the firing line of of the far line, which was were the bulk of the people without Aura where alongside with other aura users that were there in case the Grimm reached that far back or because they prefered to attack from there, Liam was such an example. Seth himself was on the second line being a sharpshooter, I bet he could still whack Grimm to death with his revolvers if necessary, Glynda also prefered the second line as a better point for her to use her semblance for whatever she needed. Oobleck like to get close with his mace/rocket launcher… thermos… thing, yeah let's go with thermos. For some reason so he front line, as well as me.

When the pack of Grimm came close I dashed in with many others to meet them, I went with a lightning missile that scorched many and blasted them into their deaths before going in blades at my sides, I striked and slashed at them fluidly, cutting at their rib cages, piercing their stomachs and hearts before moving into the next, I pierced on in the middle of the stomach before twisting the blade and drag it out the Beowolf in a fluid motion to slash at the next one that came over before push kicking another and stabbing him with both blades, I kicked the Grimm away before moving to the next one, cutting the leg of an older Beowolf before slashing its throat open, cutting the head of three other normal beowolves in multiple slashes, lighting palming, jumping up and grabbing the head of an Ursa that came from my right, I stabbed in the eye and soon began to drop dead, I sliced and killed three other bewolves, stabbed another to my left, and with a spin back kicked that one into another before sending a thunderbolt at a Beowolf in the air that was pouncing… someone I guess, couldn't really tell who.

Four more came and I also killed them on a flurry of slices, one in particular I cut its arm before slashing it's face, an ursa came and tried to slam me to the ground but I dodged back and jumped up stab the back of it's head, with a spin I slice it's head in half, I had to act quick soon an alpha was coming for me, I use the ursa's fading corpse as a stepping stone to jump, and with both blades I sliced the alpha in half as it pounced me.

The skirmish had scattered now, far less Grimm came for me, I slashed at two and killed them but the others were soon gunned down by a mixture of different kind of projectiles, the Grimm were getting mowed down, I slashed at another and before I knew it any other that came near was already dead, it was just a massacre on the side of th Grimm… well I was just one person that had done a fair share… I think, and what I have done many others did in their own way, projectiles were flying, I could spot Seth firing while getting closer to the frontline, Glynda was using various combinations of her powers, currently she was crushing a king taijitu, many other were helping however was net to them, about time I do the same.

I threw a ball of lightning that sticked to a beowolves mouth, he was surrounded by many other Grimm, once the ball exploded there weren't many left, I threw many lightning bolts, downing and killing many Grimm, one thing to note about Grimm was that not only did they not have Aura, but it was also toxic for them, they were weak against any form of semblance application, and also to dust… since my lightning was my semblance it could do much more damage to them than to humans in normal circumstances, and the results could become… explosive, as testament to the Beowolf the exploded from the inside out as I threw a thunderbolt in it's direction. A creep came out of the pack willing to attack with it's gigantic mouth, those lizard/dinosaur things were weird… but no the fastest or more dangerous, I lightning dashed towards it and with both blades cut one of it's two legs, after that it was useless, like a turtle on its back and it was very soon focused and destroyed by the gunners, after killing some other Grimm I redirected myself to help a duo of policemen that were part of the front line, they both had swat armor with some mix of more military (or knightish if we look at the pauldrons) looking attire, they both had assault rifles that doubled as riot shields for the most part, they also pulled out what I could guess was the stock and barrel, that part doubled as a spear… cool.

They were watching each others back as one was shooting while the other was furiously killing and stabbing Grimm with the spear and bashing their heads in with the shield, once the one with the assault rifle had to reload they switch stances, and take the spot of the other, I dashed in to help a bit, I killed like about four beowolves with quick slashes and an extra one kicking it's knee and grabbing its head, making it explode with pure energy and lightning, the two policemen both switched to both their assault rifles and started firing at any other loose ends, an Ursa Major came near and tried to swat me away, but I ducked and delivered my own slash with both blades at it's stomach and threw a lightning bolt at its face, it was just enough to disorient it and make it stand on its hind legs, I lighting dash behind it, cutting one of said legs with both my blades, It fell on its face and before it could even attempt to stand up I drove one my blades through its head, all the way to the other side.

Soon enough all the Grimm were dead and any of the ones that tried to get away were quickly shot down. "Well done everyone, it seems we managed to to survive that pack without casualties, good." Oobleck said taking a sip from his… weapon, how does that work?

"Do stay alert, we still have much room to cover! I hope I don't have to remind anyone to check their weapons." Glynda shouted just so that anyone could hear… there just a couple reloading sounds here and there, but everyone seemed ready to continue.

"So… that wasn't too bad." A young huntsman said.

"Oh I certainly hope so, those skirmishes are just going to keep coming, and they are gonna get worse." Oobleck said, me and Seth started walking a little to the side.

"So… only getting worse from here." He said in a murmur to me.

"Yeah… and it wasn't too hard, when we have a full battalion of competent people." I responded also in a murmur.

"If we were less…"

"Or more inexperienced people were here…"

"Then things might not go as smoothly." I finished everyone's train of thought.

Who knew really, there are chances smaller amounts of people could do better, less chances of friendly fire and less people to worry about. But it was clear there was reason the tunnels were nasty, the Grimm here could overwhelm you very quickly, me and Seth decided to just keep ourselves to murmurs as to not sour the mood, it had been a victory after all.

We kept going forward without any noticeable resistance, the tunnels didn't offer much in variety, there were moments where he had to choose direction however, it wasn't difficult really, so far there've been only one set of pathways that were in the north east direction, north east was the general direction of "The Pits" apparently, it made navigation a little bit easier, signals were not existing down here, and compass apps didn't work, but for that we brought actual compasses, hmp… thank you simple technology. We ignored all other hallways and passages going for the same direction, we didn't encounter more Grimm, at least not on the same numbers, there was a couple of beowolves and ursai, and also a wandering taijitu, but nothing special, I still hadn't saw a trapjaw or a discharger, then again this hallways weren't part sewers like others, so maybe we were fortunate in that regard.

"Halt!" Oobleck shouted suddenly, we looked ahead and the path soon splitted into three different pathways, this time they all went the same direction.

"I guess this is the point we split up?" Another huntress asked.

"It will, everyone settle on a direction, we'll make each team has around the same quantity of people, the formations stay the same." Glynda said, soon we were all splitting of, I caught her looking at me for second before going to the tunnel on the left, she's worried it seems… but she seems to be okay with me being a different group, I chose the tunnel to the far right, Seth himself went for the middle.

"If someone meets a dead end then tell the rest trough radio, the moment we have solid idea where each path goes will decide which we'll all follow." Oobleck said finally before walking forward, he was also on my group on the far right hallway.

The march itself through the hallway was nothing really, important I would say, there was idle chatter here and there but it was mostly murmurs and quick comments, everyone was far to focused on keeping alert, we kept going a little up ahead and found a pack of Grimm, way smaller than the last one, really manageable for our group, the fight actually came in and… went right away, I fired a lightning missile and a few lightning bolts and slashed to beowolves to death, but by then most of the pack was dead, and ursa Major remained, however someone threw a spike to the ground that launched up, went through the ursa and stick it self to the roof while the ursa was dangling from some wire, then we just used the beast for a little game of piñata, only with bullets or in my case lightning bolts, it was pure awesome overkill. We kept walking a bit further until.

"Ah, dead end it seems." Oobleck said… yeah that, the tunnel continued a little further before ending on a segment where it seemed the roof just collapsed, we were doubling back now.

"This is the group of the far right hallway, we hit a dead end, we are turning back." One sergeant of the police radioed in, soon we were headed back, there wasn't much talk through the radio right after besides some acknowledgements.

"Hey." The huntress with the cool crossbows said to me, she must be sparking up a conversation to pass the time.

"Whats up?" I greeted back to her with a nod.

"So, you seem a bit young compared to many others here." She pointed out, gesturing to the other huntsman and huntresses who appear much older then I am.

"I'm guessing that's not the usual around here."

"Not really, there are some other young ones around but after a bit you recognize most of them, which is strange because I've never seen you actually." She said with a curious look.

"Well, no offense, but I also have never seen or heard of you before today so… I guess it's a pleasure then." I said extending my hand for a handshake. She seemed surprised for a second before chuckling and accepting it.

"It is a pleasure, name's Miara."

"Robert."

"So tell me Robert," She said as she released my hand. "How did you get tangled into this mess?"

"Personal decision, general request from my boss, a need to just do something about it… that's actually why I'm here, how I got tangled…? uh someone presented me the opportunity to help with this and… well, all of the above happened."

"Hmmm, I personally found it to be an interesting job, seemed appropriate, my team disbanded recently, not on bad terms, more on "time do continue our individual lives" and this seemed like a decent contract, it does guarantee some amount of back up."

"Did you expect an entire battalion?" I asked with a short laugh.

"Well no… but it's welcome, everyone here seems capable enough, you for example have very nifty lightning blades."

"Hmm… thanks, those crossbows seme pretty cool too."

"Oh they are, internal chamber for six continuous shot for each one, and bolts ready for any need… speaking of ammo, how do you do those lightning tricks, is that dust for the blades as well?"

"Not really, lightning dust is yellow, my lightning is blue." I pointed out.

"So then how…" She looked perplexed.

"Maybe when we get out I'll tell you, for now just know that it's part of my semblance."

"Ah okay, I see how it is."

"Heh, heh." That little talk did help calm the nerves, Miria was alright, I don't know what she actually think the stuff she said on her mind, really didn't knew what most people here thought of the odd young one, whatever the case, being friendly never hurt…. Or could?... eh… as all things it always depends.

As we continued the radio came in again, it was the team from the left side.

"This is the group that is on the left side over, the pathway splits, but turns into the far west pretty suddenly, also we got two injured, we are heading back over." said a woman

"Understood." said our man in charge of the radio, it didn't took us very long but we reached again the point where the pathways split, we waited for the group from the far left, soon enough they appeared with two injured limping, they were being helped by one person each one, Glynda commanded that they should return to the surface, and that they should have an escort, a few police officers were going with them alongside Miria and another huntsman, both of them volunteered to keep them safe, soon they parted, and then we received word from the group of the middle.

"We have encountered another… well division I guess, they all whoever seem to go towards the direction of "The pits"."

"We'll be on our way." Oobleck sid via the radio… without even asking the person in charge if he could use it but… eh who cares.

We reached the area the middle group had just stopped at, once again the pathways splitted, but this time it was different, there were more than three, way more, and towards the right and left the hallways continued giving more pathways… it looked like some sort of massive circle or semi circle. We reunited with the group and Seth seemed to want fst bump, of course I'll give him one.

"Good to see you made it, are the injured… ok?" Asked a random police lieutenant.

"They are on their way back to the surface, and they are being escorted." Glynda responded quickly.

"Ah good." The office said with a sigh of relief

"What's the situation here?" Glynda continued

"Well, all of the pathways seem to go in the same specific direction, at least, towards the north east, there are some other pathways… they seem to go in other directions but… we deduced that they look more like pathways that come here from another direction than separate tunnels that start here to go in another direction."

"So… that means this would like a central hub that all pathways cross." I offered.

"It seems to be the case." Oobleck approached at an incredible speed, he seems to have examined the other paths already "All the stripes from the corridors have noticeable end with a symbol, and the paths forward have a different kind of stripe all together."

"So this might be… the area they called the pits?" Someone asked, a huntsman apparently.

"It's possible." Oobleck said.

"Making progress!" I said with small cheer, progress down here did feel like really good news.

"The huntsman Liam Aidecmor is on guard at the entrance… he seems pretty sure he saw something earlier." The lieutenant said.

"That guy always had a good eye." A huntress said of the side. I personally approached Liam at the entrance of the pathway he was looking at, everyone else was either also close to this first pathway or the adjacent ones.

"So, you see anything Liam?" I asked him.

"The corridors here seem to be particularly long for some reason… but I think I can pot a light at the end."

"That's something… what did you say you saw earlier?"

"I'm not sure what I saw, I just thought I saw something moving."

"Might be a good idea to check with… you know binoculars or anything that gives you a zoom." A huntress said, there were other police officers close to us too, Seth was also here.

"So how long of a dark tunnel you estimate this is Aidecmor… that weird to say." Seth said.

"I'm pretty sure there are weirder surnames out there." Liam said. "Wait a second…" There was soon a short burst of static on the radio that quickly disappeared, Liam was squinting his eyes hard, trying to see… something.

"See anything?" I asked, he raised his fist to tell me to shut it and let him concentrate, he went forward a little and then… we heard and ominous ghastly *Fwaam* with some serious echo, a dark smoke energy shot went by me, I looked behind while everything still felt in slow motion, the shot had hit and gone through two police officers, making massive holes in their chests, they were in line with…. With Liam, Liam was full blown huntsman with aura and everything… I looked back at him…. and all saw was a stump and pieces of meat flying where his head was supposed to be. The blood flew everywhere.

"Three for one and we are just beginning, it's a good day!" A distorted slightly raspy voice said through the radio just so that anyone could hear.

"SNIPER!" Someone yelled and everyone soon dived for cover, I lightning dash taking the alive person right next with me behind a wall.

[[ Xcom 2 - Deadeye OST… on a loop. ]]

"Do not worry friends, I got spares for every, last, one." The voice said

"That's… That's Vaseer!" Glynda screamed.

"Who!?" I screamed back.

"An assassin more or less well known, dangerous sniper has also always evaded capture. What is he doing here…" Glynda explained.

"Waiting for us t seems!" Seth yelled as he poked his head out slightly before going back behind the wall.

"No one take chances, that guy took out Liam in one shot, assume it can kill you just as easily." Glynda Yelled across to everyone.

"We'll try to go this way!" A group of police and huntsmen said as they went for a far end corridor trying to advance there.

"Wait! No!" Oobleck yelled, but it was to late, we hear another shot, and another officer was dead, the shot split him half, another tow died before they reached out again behind cover.

"Shit…" I said to myself.

"All tunnels go towards a central area that much is clear, and he appears to have vision on all paths!" Oobleck yelled, there was quiet and uncertainty for a second, no one knew what to say…

"Anything we can do Doctor?!" Seth asked Oobleck.

"Hmm." In a second Oobleck dashed with his ridiculous speed into the open and then behind a wall further up the tunnel, a shot barely missed him. However he soon went further up, the walls between sections had some passageways between them, Oobleck went in and out those until another shot came, it also missed him.

"Very well, seems like whatever weapon he's using he needs time reload, not much, but enough to be significant here, this not ideal but, I suggest everyone here advances through multiple tunnels together, instead of one at a time." Oobleck said as a couple of paces ahead. Soon he was going between covers again, trying to distract Vaseer. It worked to an extent another shot was heard, and from what we could see Oobleck was still alive.

"Go now, take cover whenever you can, all advance together, do not give the bastard time to think." Glynda commanded, soon everyone rushed up ahead, hoping to whatever was above that we wouldn't get killed in the blink of an eye.

I dashed up ahead with lightning and hoped for the best, I heard the sound of a shot going by, it hit the rock walls however, there was no sound of flesh being torn apart or not even the sound of a scream or a curse that meant we had to move again, there was barely space for everyone, some people were farther ahead while other lagged behind due to lack of cover, the ones capable of supernatural speed went ahead while the other followed, Oobleck did an impressive job at baiting shots, he appeared to have a pattern to his movements but the moment someone could tell what he was doing he switch directions or speeds… has done this before? And how many times?

I moved up again, behind me I spotted Seth reaching fo cover, he also reached in time, but behind there was someone that took too long to reach for cover, he face was blasted in a squall gore.

"Shit…" There was nothing much more I could think of to say, even people dying or seeing people's brains explode… my thoughts were overwhelmed with a need and desire stay alive, make sure that most of would be able to survive this, ideas on how advance, how to trick the sniper, how to maybe protect the other if possible… all thoughts of horror, despair or grief were pushed to the side, just for the purpose of finishing the job at hand, in a way mind knew that we worried about those things now… our chances of survival would be lower.

More people went in, shrugging off the dead of comrades just so that we could keep going…

"Ah this little game is actually the best I felt on a while, I really should have gotten back to work sooner."

… And also so this sadistic piece of shit got what was coming to him, bastard couldn't even hear us through the radio, he was just broadcasting how pleased he felt with himself whenever he landed a good shot, he was playing with us. We move in farther ahead, we managed to move in maybe a fifth of the the hallways so far, casualties still weren't… massive, but they were mounting, I dashed in to next bit cover at the best speed I could muster with my semblance and went ahead and joined the other baiters at the front.

"Stand back!" I yelled, I created a screen of lightning in front of the passage as a shield just so we could advance, however soon a shot came, directed at me, I didn't risk it and got out of the way after putting the shield… the shot went right through it without much resistance, but it was a solid enough distraction so that people could move up.

"Sorry but that ain't gonna work" Was heard through the radio.

"Keep moving everyone, we are making steady advance."

"I'll prefer didn't include chances of my body part being blown off!" Seth said as he dived for cover.

"I think that everyone here would like the same." I said in a yell.

"Yeah… because it's true." He said crouching next to the wall, really not getting close to the edge, I consciously stepped a bit farther from the edge of the cover I was behind too. We continued the advancing, I lightning dash, stopped for a second after after hearing a shot on a separate tunnel, and dashed away immediately as another shot came my direction, it was mostly guessing… but I guessed right, that's what matters. The shot that came for me landed where I had been.

"Slippery bastards… well you have gotten far enough, time to start the true game of peek a boo." As soon as he said that, the walls shifted… the fuck!? The wall I was using as cover was replaced by nothing but air, other walls shifted too, and the way backwards had been blocked off by walls.

"I see you." Was heard from the radio, in a moment I saw a light, and put my gauntlets to form lightning shields in front of me as fast as I could, also putting all my aura into my defenses, the urgency of the situation made them particularly easy to create, the shot hit the shields, and I was sent flying against a wall, I left a massive crack on it and my aura flared as I hit, the shot had a massive punch, I felt it send energy through my entire body… but I was alive and able to keep going. I recovered… i had recover, on instinct I went dashe to another nearby wall, soon another shot came and hit where I had been.

"Hmm… good reflexes."

"Kid! Are you okay?!" Someone next to me asked me.

"I'm fine, I'm alive! I can keep going…" I said, soon Oobleck was next to me and looked me over, after a bit he nodded and guessed I was indeed okay.

"Attention everyone, Mr. Urra was able to block one of the shots with his aura and semblance, if you have confidence you could block a shot of that magnitude, well consider it, as of now keep moving, do not stay in one cover for too long." Oobleck said through the radio. Soon we were dodging bullets again, some people tried to block the shots, only three that tried survived, and some didn't fare as well as me, they tried to use weapons instead of a semblance, and as such the shield were destroyed, but they were alive and we were able to keep moving forward… until the walls shifted again, this time it had more deaths as a result… however before more could happen Glynda created a massive purple barrier, a shot came and barrier vibrated and shifted, but it stood, it wasn't a small effort on her part, but she was able to withstand the shots, we took the chance to really advance before she was forced to dissolve the barrier.

"Oh joy, Glynda, long time no see… well maybe this time we can end this, tell you what, if I kill you today, I'll name my new rifle after you… you'll have a place of honor forever in my heart."

"Not creepy at all." I muttered to myself and maybe whoever was next to me, granted at least this guy wanted to kill her, things could far worse and creappier if I really thought about it.

"We can't keep advancing like this! The moment the walls shift things he gets free shots, and we are barely on the middle of the hallways!" A huntsman yelled, I couldn't help but agree, he had us.

"He planned this, this was trap! No wonder no Chorus members appeared so far." I yelled back

"And now we are trapped here!" Seth yelled too. "We need an alternative."

"I think I found something like a solution." The voice of a female officer came through the radio, at the same time another shot came, this time we heard the crunch of meat… we lost someone else.

"Oobleck! Come here to the far left tunnel anyone else capable too." Glynda said also through the radio, Oobleck went there in a haste, I followed him and stayed close. When we reached the far left tunnel, the office and Glynda were in cover next to a hatch, it was a small tunnel, this tunnel hallway also doubled as a sewer of some sorts, and this hatch was connected, it didn't' reach the water however, maybe the water was far up enough to reach the hatch.

"This hatch seems to lead to wherever they are, there's a light at end of it similar to the one at the end of the tunnel." As she was explaining we heard another shot, thankfully this one wasn't followed by sound of gore and blood.

"Ah, so an alternative route, good." said Oobleck.

"We need to go through here, we can't stay here." A huntsman said.

"What we need to do is send people who can go and take out Vaseer, with the shifting of the walls it's clear he has a way to control that or someone that can. We need to deal with him right away." Oobleck said. We all looked between each other.

"Who should go?" The officer asked.

"Mr Urra And Miss Goodwitch seem like the most appropriate people." Oobleck said on a heartbeat.

"What?" Glynda asked him.

"Shouldn't you be going? You have dodged more shots than me." I said back to him.

"That has been with the help of cover and a lot of luck, you two are the only ones that I know that have abilities capable of protecting against those shots." Glynda and I looked at each other for a bit… semblance fighters… right.

"The rest of us will be here while you deal with him, do whatever you have to do." Oobleck said before he rushed back to his job of baiting bullets.

"Come on Urra, I'll go first, but stay close to me." Glynda said to me.

"Got it."

We slid down the hatch and soon landed on a platform that looked like a maintenance shaft, the slide was on the direction of the pits, so now we where…

*Fwaam*

… Right where Vaseer was, he had a gas mask and hood alongside a black leather duster. We kept low, he didn't need to know we were here yet, he was up on a tower, the whole room had a central tower, and the top of it that was in line with the hallways we were in before, there was a bridge that connected the hallways and the tower, the tower was also connected to other set hallways and tunnels, were more than a few meters below him thank to the slide, down below the tower extended into a pit that glowed a light blue, at the bottom you could see giant crystals of dust emerging from a pond.

"Whoa…" was my response to that view, it was a pretty far drop too… maybe this was what the Chorus called "The Pits", seemed like a solid description, I couldn't ponder for long however, we still had to take care of him quick, lives depended on it. We also saw someone else, a member of the Chorus with an intricate mask, he waved his hand and concentrated, seemed like he had been doing that for a while, later he released his hands on a final motion, we could feel the shifting of the earth and of the walls… so there was someone else helping him shift the walls, someone with and earth or rock semblance apparently.

"We need to go and get up where they are." Glynda said to me.

"I can climb the tower itself, who should prioritize?"

"Definitely Vaseer, we need to make sure he stops shooting the group, you can take him."

"Excuse me what?"

"He might be deadly and capable, but his far too much of a dedicated sniper, close range is not his strong point, I can take care of the other, we don't know what he can do, but I'm confident you can take Vaseer if we get the drop on him."

"Okay." I said, soon we I was climbing the tower as fast as I could and as stealthily as I could, grabbing holes and loose edges, as I climbed up I could see Glynda to the side, she was using her semblance and platforms along the edge of the chamber to get behind them, I kept climbing and and soon I was less than a meter close to Vaseer.

"Shift the walls again. I think I can maybe get a five in one with this one." He said to the Chorus member, the Chorus member did, and soon the earth shook, but as Vaseer aimed his shot, a purple barrier appeared in front of the gateway he was going to shoot through, blocking the shot.

"What the-" Vaseer said surprised until he looked behind him, Glynda was there on another platform. "Glynda… how did you, well doesn't matter I promised I will kill you so…" I took the chance to bring myself up with blades at the ready, but Vaseer must have felt me in some way, because soon I was swatted back down with the sniper rifle he was using… it looked more like some sort of railgun now that I saw hit me. I grabbed whatever ledge of the tower I could to keep myself from falling into the pit, and now the Chorus member was also against me, making pillars appear in front of me trying to hit me of the tower, I was just fast enough to avoid the pillars, meanwhile I heard Vaseer fire, most likely at Glynda… shit

One of the pillars forced me to jump down slightly, as I jumped down I heard the voice the Chorus member, he was screaming on a panicked tone, I then saw his form being thrown as a rag doll through the chamber, I for moment felt safe… safe, no you are not safe against this kind of people… my mind acted and paranoia set in, I used my hand to create a shield in front of me behind the pillar, the other hand was still holding on to the ledge, my assumptions were right, Vaseer shot at me through the pillar and I was barely able to hold myself on the ledge, the pillar of stone shattered too, I had to move, I was now evading shots from this bastard by jumping side to side on ledges, I readjusted myself and started running up the wall to get back to the top, he saw me and I was forced to lightning dash to the side to avoid a shot, I was behind a pillar again.

"Hmmm…"

Vaseer then stopped shooting, but now started aiming at Glynda, she defended herself with her barrier, but soon a combined from the Chorus member unbalanced her, and the second shot made her go against the wall much like it had done me before, the son of a bitch.

I ran upwards again, but he was waiting, shit, I dove out of the way of the next shot and behind another of the other pillars again, he was ready… he was using Glynda as a way to bait me, I needed to think I need to reach up there and take him, that gun was way too powerful, they could definitely double team her with that power… Well think, idiot think… I got it.

Vaseer decided to take a shot me again through the pillar, I was once again ready with a shield, I felt the energy of the shot going through me, the sheer impact… but I was able to remain there.

"What in the name of…" Vaseer muttered as soon as he saw my plan, while behind the pillar I created small ball of lightning that were floating on the air, many of them, and as he saw them I released them, all of them went in different directions leaving a trail of blue sparks, but all of them had a common final destination, him… like guided missiles they avoided any obstacle and went straight for him.

"Uuuagh." Vaseer grunted as the explosions of lightning hit him head on.

It was actually hard to concentrate so many applications of a semblance separately, but I've managed, and now I was up the tower with Vaser, as soon as I reached Glynda put a purple dome on the top of the tower, it was just me and Vaseer now, close range, one to one, I gave a nod to Glynda and unsheathed my blades.

"Well would you look at that… the little boy got up here with me, but did you seriously thought it was still going to be easy." He said as he drawed quickly the rail gun and shot at me, I managed to avoid it, and went for him with my blades, I slashed at him while he blocked the blades with the sniper, I kept pressuring him giving him some kicks, I hit his calf and managed to disorient him to to get a chance to punch him a couple times, before sidekicking him in the stomach, I then kick him in the chin and made him bounce of the top of the dome back down, with a spin I jumped up and hit him with both my blades and sent him towards the wall of the dome.

"Eeegh… you little shithead." He grunted, even though I managed to beat him hard, he never let go of the railgun, he fired again quickly, he did three consecutive shots, I dodge the first two, but I was forced to block the last one, the impact sent me against the wall of the dome as well, I lightning dashed again to cross the distance and went in with diagonal slash, he rolled out the way and I followed him, he avoided my kicks and blades, while blocking also some, however Glynda was right, he wasn't a close range specialist, I soon overwhelmed and outmaneuvered him and got in some slices and kicks, I spin hook kick him away from me, and intended to get close again, I jumped after him, but while in the air he shot again and I was force to block, I was sent to the wall again.

That fucking weapon was pissing me off, it did way too much damage, and he must have a semblance that helped in some way to augment that, even while blocking the shots I took serious damage, my aura must have been on the red by now, he didn't look much better, but any second now he could land a shot and kill me… the gun didn't look too good however, If could damage it severely again… maybe.

"Hnngh… Come on then, let's see if you can do better than that!" I yelled.

"Tch" was his answer, he shot again and this time I bared all my strength and semblance into my electric shields, it made go to the well, I concentrated however and landed on the wall with my feet, ignored the pain of the force against my body and gather all my strength and went against him like a torpedo,, shield at the ready. He shot again, but I was already on him, but my shields were covering the barrel of the railgun, the way I was angled only the shields were in the line of fire, I was slightly more up, thank goodness me because went the bullet came, there was an small explosion, I again bounced and went straight into the wall, the impact shattered my aura, I was now at zero.

I stepped up and looked at Vaseer, he looked worst than me, the gun looked even worse, "Huh… why can't you just die kid." he said as he stepped up quickly and tried to fire… for a second I thought that was it for me, I was barely standing when he did so… but the gun didn't fire.

"No no no no!" He said in a panic, soon he flipped something and the gun was charging again ready to fire, seems he knew how to fix the thing if anything happened, but I didn't gave him the chance, I went in with only the strength of my semblance and slashed at his right arm, I cut his arm off, making him drop the gun, he looked at me surprised, soon anger flashed in his eyes and tried to punch me with his other arm, I dropped and did a back trip kick that swept his feet, once he was on the air I didn't waste time and jumped and sliced downwards, I cleaved him horizontally in half…

Once he dropped I stood there, his torso was in one place and his legs where in another, the smell of burnt flesh was also present. He was till barely alive too.

"I… didn't see it… coming." And then he dropped… his eyes stopped moving, and he stopped breathing, Vaseer was dead now. In a minute the dome disappeared and Glynda appeared with an unconscious manhandled Chorus member.

"You… you did it." She said to me.

"Yeah… he nearly killed me too." She looked at the body for a second

"I always wanted to make sure he was brought down… not the first time I fought him, but it was the first he had a weapon like that, he always bragged that one day he'll make history too… with this rifle he could have…"

"How did he get that thing?"

"I don't know… but I can take I guess." she said looking away… thanks to Salem perhaps, we were after a seer, and the fact he appeared with an ambush and that railgun didn't seem like coincidence. Soon Glynda grabbed my shoulder.

"Are you okay Robert?" she asked me.

"... I don't know… but I think I will be." I said as I favored my injuries.

"Good, trust me, you did well today, better that I thought in fact."

"Heh… thanks… I'm guessing these are the pits then?"

"Maybe… even if not, it is still a major progress." Soon the group appeared from the hallways, and where moving into the chamber. I moved in and grabbed the railgun, despite being damaged… it was still intact… it definitely looked atlassian in design.

"We'll make sure to confiscate and analyze that thing, so bring it with you." Glynda said to me.

"Hmm… right."

Me, Glynda and Oobleck returned to Beacon fairly late, we all were on the elevator to the teachers lounge, from there each one of us will go their respective rooms, I also had already left the railgun in lock up too, the moment the elevator doors opened Penny was waiting for us… or me.

"Oh, hello professors." She said smiling and with a wave.

"Uh hi Penny." I said, soon enough Oobleck and Glynda walked past her just so she and me could talk.

"So… I heard that you went into a dangerous area, and then you came back!" she said excited.

"Yeah… well, I'm not gonna lie, it was bad… and ugly." I said as I rubbed the spot I got shot through unconsciously.

"Oh… but you all made progress right? And you also came back alive… now I don't know what happened but, I'm sure you all did the best you could, and kept each other safe." She wasn't wrong… it could have been way worse… more people could have died, and I couldn't have returned.

"Well… you are right, I might have to go back but, I think that if we keep working together, me and the professors can do this."

"I know you can." She said with a bright smile.

"Thank you Penny… for… believing in me." I said with a smile, she responded with bone crushing hug that my back will definitely regret later. But truth be told, this helped me more then it hurt, emotionally at least.

I felt a lot better already. I couldn't help but smile. Yeah… I can handle this… I think… well someone has too, and I'm not gonna quit now… I have to do this, for everyone.

A/N: Phew, that was intense, I feel really good about how this went… and I don't mean because I was the main protagonist of this, but because it gave me chance to experiment with some things, such the feeling of being against a sniper, I don't know if did it well, but I feel satisfied. -CrowSkull.

I am sure you all have noticed a distinct lack of Team HAMR, do not worry because they will come back next chapter, we just needed to get things moving along for Robert and his own little arc he's got going on. So now with that being said, thank you for reading! -Genatools.

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