AN: I'm sorry for the long absence, I got distracted by collage, home repairs, and my younger step brother who came down for his spring break. P.S. The poll about Hector's brother is on my profile now, I had an issue about getting it to show up, please vote on this one.
I answered my scroll, "What happened?"
"Torchwick recognized Sun and I. He's in some kind of big robot chasing us." Blake said on the other end.
"Where are you guys?" Yang said chiming in.
"We're heading towards freeway seven westbound, exit 34." Blake said before Sun took the phone.
"HURRY!" Sun yelled in terror before hanging up.
"Alright girls were leaving. Looks like were finally in a see some action today." I say put in my helmet on while running towards the Behemoth. "Hold on tight girls, this is going to be one hell of a rough ride." I say causing their grips to tighten as I rev the engine before we take off.
We took off like a bat out of hell towards the nearest entrance to freeway seven, which was exit fifty. It is a one-way road so we have to weave in between oncoming traffic. This is difficult when going 150mph, but we manage. We passed them in about three minutes, prompting me to make an emergency U-turn, ramping off a broken semi and doing a midair 180. Roman was in an Atlesian Paladin unit, I wonder for a minute how he'd obtained something that was just made publicly known today. The only reason I know about it is from a news alert on my scroll. But these wonders are pushed out of my head by the shouting of Brina who was car-hopping along with Sun and Blake.
"Hector! Catch!" She yelled throwing a suitcase at me.
I almost lost my balance on the Behemoth when I caught it. I saw a red button, and had the strangest urge to press it. "…the red button!" I didn't catch the first word of that, so I just decided to press it and see what happened. It didn't explode, instead it began unfolding over my arm up to my shoulder. The finished product was the Weapon that she'd been working on for the past few days, which was a shoulder mounted cannon lance. I shot at Roman with the cannon function staggering him a bit without slowing him down enough to make a difference. It was clear that a different approach was necessary. I blew past the rampaging Paladin and skidded to a sideways stop. "Weiss I need you to freeze the ground as far as you can towards the paladin." She complied. "Ruby wait on the ground for us." She jumped over the ledge getting the jist of the plan. I shifted the Weapon into lance mode and started off at Torchwicks new toy. Sun was using what could only be his semblance, creating clones of light that seemed autonomous and solid. Neptune was standing on the Paladin as Torchwick tried to throw him off. Ultimately their efforts were in vain as Neptune was plucked from his spot and thrown at Sun, sending them both over the guardrail on the other side of the road. Luckily for me however it served as a great distraction and He didn't notice me in time to dodge the lance to the Paladins knee joint. The lance shattered at the impact and it flipped Torchwick strait onto the ice. His sliding came to a stop in front of Weiss who used a glyph to send him through the holographic guardrail.
"You two, get on." I said as Brina and Blake hopped on. Rufus and Yang shot past us before I followed close behind. We stopped at the location that the Paladin unit had fallen from. The six of us descended upon the scene as Torchwick was walking towards Ruby and Weiss.
"Freezer burn!" Ruby shouted causing Yang and Weiss to spring into action. Weiss stabbed the ground causing it to freeze in at about a 20 foot radius. Yang then punched it using Ember Celica's fire rounds causing the ice to rapidly evaporate into the fog that blanketed the area.
"Rufus, steam this place up!" As I said this Rufus began firing steam into the air from his blowgun as if it were a smokescreen.
We noticed lasers emitting from several points on the Paladin. Presumably the targeting assistance. So we prioritize them as targets. Using the fog as cover Weiss stabbed out the camera on the front of its cockpit while Rufus took out the one on its right knee. Torchwick ripped Weiss off and threw her as a slot popped out of each of its shoulders opened and revealed several rockets like the ones Hellreaver fires. As it went to fire I delivered an axe kick to one of the shoulders before flipping off of it to a safe distance causing the launcher to close and blow its right arm. Brina began to shoot the successfully launched rockets out of the air as they flew towards Blake who had a strange glow. Blake then began to unleash a volley of aura enhances slices from Gambol Shroud that cut the remaining projectiles in half. Nila took the chance to take out the camera on its other knee before getting kicked into a pillar. Ruby and Blake then sliced off its other arm while Torchwick had his back turned. Yang then jumped onto its back and began wailing on it firing round after round at its vital systems from Ember Celica. Torchwick responded by flinging himself backwards through six pillars knocking Yang off in the process. Torchwick turned around and was about to stomp on Yang when I charged him tackling the paladin knocking it to the side forcing it to stomp the ground instead of Yang's head. He took off as if he was attempting to flee. That's when Brina took advantage of his weakened knee joint from where I'd jammed the shoulder mounted cannon lance into it and blew his left leg off. Yang then ran at me full force with her hand outstretched. I took her hand and we began spinning to build momentum, when I sent her flying at Torchwick she delivered a punch that caused the area that she punched to buckle and sent the paladin flying. Upon landing the Giant mechanized death machine broke apart as if it were made of children's building blocks.
"Aw man. I just got this thing cleaned" Torchwick said as he arose from the rubble.
Yang and I took off at him like bats out of hell determined to capture him. Then out of nowhere a tri-colored girl with a pink umbrella landed in front of us catching us off guard and making us stop.
"Thank you Neo. Ladies, gentlemen, Ice Queen" "Hey!" Weiss interjected before Roman continued. "I'm afraid this is where I take my leave." Torchwick said taking a bow along with the mysterious girl now known as Neo.
We stood there for about two seconds before Yang and I ran at them still standing there landing a punch on some kind of invisible wall that shattered leaving behind a blank scene. We then seen a bullhead take off with Torchwick waving at us from the open window. If it weren't too far away to effectively shoot at I would ground it with a lightning rocket.
"Well, I guess she really made our plans… Fall apart?" Weiss said unsuccessfully trying to make a joke.
"Just no." Yang said turning around and heading towards her Bike.
"There is a time and place for jokes Weiss." Blake said in an unamused tone.
"Is no not it?" She asked in reply.
"No, it just wasn't funny." Yang said in an equally unamused tone.
"I personally would've said that she really shattered our hopes of catching Torchwick." Rufus piped up.
"Still not all that funny, but that would've been acceptable." I say nodding my head.
"Hey. Where are Sun and Neptune?" Ruby asked begging the question.
"Probably somewhere laying on the ground in a lot of pain, but they'll be fine." Brina said shrugging.
"Or eating Ramen at a stand down the block." Nila said pointing at a nearby Ramen stand that did indeed have our missing comrades at it.
After we scolded the two transfer students about ditching friends we returned to Beacon and went to bed for the night. Everyone except Blake and I who couldn't sleep. We spent most of the night reviewing the footage that Brina had recorded of the White fang meeting. It left questions like, who is this mysterious employer that he mentioned, or how the living FUCK did they get a hold of new military equipment supposedly before it was even announced to the general populace, we knew one thing though. We have to stop any and all plans he has for this equipment.
AN: Ah nothing like an eventful chapter after a long break. Anyway the next few chapters will drop subtle hints as to who Hector will end up dating, so keep your eyes peeled. As always leave a review, and have a nice day.