Author's Note: There is no way of Sugar Coating this, I'm sorry. Finals have come and gone, personal issues came and went. Life likes to make things harder than they have to be. But I am not dead, this story is not on Hiatus or anything. I'm just slow as hell to update. Just like Android. But, just like most Android Updates, it's here.
Without further ado, here it is...
Chapter 26
"And how are we supposed to get down there?" Weiss asked Doctor Professor Oobleck. That hole looked really deep…
"Why, a preposterous question! We jump in of course!" He sped around to her, pointing a finger at her before pointing a finger at the hole.
"What?"
"I SAID THAT WE JUMP!" He yelled into the heiress' ear.
"That's a deep fall though." Alex said as he looked down it. "I see some light though." He noticed a faint glow which meant that there had to be people.
"Well, you go first!" Yang said as she pushed the boy.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
"YANG!" The other girls screamed. He could die!
"He'll be fine! He'll kick a rock…if he's alive." Despite the gravity of the situation, seeing his partner's horror stricken face was pretty funny."
Alexis jumped, making sure that he didn't crack his head on a rock on the way down. The hole was quite deep and before she hit terminal velocity, the blonde hit the back of Duel Disk in order for it to act as a sort of anchor and slow her decent. The downside is that her arm was being pulled with it and my god was it painful.
Alexis landed on the roof of a Building, looking frantically for the Brunette CEO and sighing in relief as she found him. He was clutching his hand though.
"Are you alright?" She asked, wincing as she kneeled with her weight on her left arm and hissed in pain.
"Sort of. I just landed awkwardly." He lied, Alex knew the blonde would freak-out if he told her that he basically had to grind his watch, and therefore his wrist, against the rocks on the way down. The Air Kompressors could only help his final landing onto the roof. He felt something grind and pop inside his wrist as he twisted it around, clenching his teeth as he bent it upwards. He noticed the blonde rotating her arm. It seemed that she did the exact same thing, if the trail along the hole was anything to go by.
"Are you OK?" He asked, getting up and checking on her shoulder.
"I think so. I might have pulled something in my shoulder though. I had to grind against the back of that wall over there so I didn't go splat from how fast I was going." She explained.
He took her hand and straightened out her arm, hearing her hiss slightly. She might have pulled or tore a ligament in her shoulder. Hopefully her Aura would do something about it. He could feel something moving inside slightly.
"It might be a hyperextension. We won't know until we get back so be careful" He said as he let go.
"You too." She said, nodding towards his hand. "I doubt that your injury is any better." He gave a half nod, conceding that point to her.
They looked around where they were at. They were on the roof of a multi-story building. The pair carefully kneeled toward the edge, the blonde interlocking arms with the brunette as to not fall off the edge.
There were so many White Fang soldiers. They were coming in and out of buildings with boxes in their hands. One of them seemed to carry something huge and loaded onto the top hatch of one of the trains.
Alex saw the AP-290 2nd Generation Prototypes on the flatbed of the train, how the hell did they get those? Not even Schnee had seen these yet…
"We need to contact the others." Alexis said as she slowly backed away from the edge. Unfortunately, one of the White Fang soldiers, a female Faunus with a longer neck and antlers, had noticed the blonde.
"I've spotted humans! On top of that building!" She pointed at the building as the armed soldiers began to fire on it.
"Get Down!" He pushed Alexis back as the soldiers began firing on the building. There were so many of them, and the fact that they had close range weapons didn't help. They needed to get the others.
"Do you have some fire dust?" He asked, ready to cover them if they started throwing stuff.
"How much do you need?" She asked as she took out a small vile of the red dust.
Alex pressed and held the crown on his weapon, a second later the screen separated from the base to reveal a small tray where the dust would go.
"I just need a small bit." Alexis poured, with great concertation, the right amount of dust, filing the small tray. The Screen then returned into place and the bezel spun around completely once before vibrating.
Alex felt the device begin to heat up considerably on his wrist, not helping his injury. He got as close as he could to the opening from where they came from and aimed his arm upwards. The Crown opened and began to fire flares up the opening and hopefully to the others.
"What's taking them so long?" Yang asked exasperatedly.
"Gee Yang, maybe if you didn't push him to certain death, he'd tell us why he's taking so long down there." The heiress drawled.
As the two started to bicker, Blake noticed that the opening was glowing bright. Getting closer to the edge, she noticed that something resembling flares were being shot up.
"Guys! Look." She gestured towards the opening, seeing the flares flying and lighting up the hole. It was glowing a dull red with the surrounding walls of the opening.
"That's his signal! He needs help!" Yang said and without a second thought jumped into the opening. Blake followed without second thinking. Weiss rolled her eyes as she jumped. Next
Blake was jumping from rock to rock in order to control her descent speed while Yang was wasting ammo on using Ember Celica to slow her down. Weiss was using her glyphs to slow down her descent, making sure to not waste all her Aura on them.
As they reached bottom part they could see the roofs of the buildings in the underground settlement. Weiss saw the two and began pointing her landing glyphs in that General Direction. The other two followed once they were sure that was them.
Alex had no option but to use Ruby's Crescent Rose in order to buy themselves sometime before backup arrived. He knew the Basics, bolt action and aiming down sights…The rest he was just going to rely on his video game sniping skills…
"You missed…" Rechamber and Fire "You missed again…." Rechamber and Fire "You missed again!" Alexis noted as she acted as spotter.
"I know I missed! I'm good with Automatic weapons, not these precise ones!" He responded to her criticism. He took and held his breath as he shot and hit a deer Faunus in the leg, a critical hit as a few of the soldiers had begun to back up.
The blonde swordswoman took the Sniper from him and took a shot at another Faunus, a lizard Faunus and hit him straight at the chest. First attempt.
"Lucky Shot…"
She fired again, this time at a bear Faunus that was shooting a Heavy Machine Gun at them. She hit him in the shoulder and disabled him. She smirked as she heard a huff from her left.
"Are you guys alright?" They turned to see the others running towards them, and then promptly hitting the ground as a sniper shot buzzed right passed Yang's pretty blonde head. "Jesus!"
"Yeah we're fine. Just trying to not get shot at." Alexis said, peeking over.
Yang did the same, loading new shells and cocking her gauntlets. "Alright, let's find Ruby" She said with a grin. She fired at the soldiers below, the force behind the shots from Yang and the splash damage cleared a path for them to push forward.
Jumping off the building. They kept the White Fang soldiers back as the made progress forward. Blake and Yang easily dispatched any longer range enemies while Weiss, Alex and Alexis made due with anyone at closer ranges.
"Where's Oobleck?" The brunette noticed as he looked around. Surely he jumped as well?
He jumped when he heard the Doctor Professors voice behind him. "It's Doctor Oobleck , show some respect. I just followed that subtle hints that led me to this hide out without risking injury to myself." Zwei appeared behind him and simply sat down, panting.
"Do you think that this is where they could be hiding here?" Doctor Oobleck asked Zwei, who simply barked happily and wagged his tail. They were in front of a building that had a tall red sign "NO UNDERGROUND HIDEOUT HERE"
Everyone was surprised for a second, until they noticed even more White Fang Soldiers. Yang readied her weapons again but was already a bit low on the ammo.
"Alex, any spare shells?"
"Take the rest of these." He tossed all but one of his kinetic shells, His lever action shotgun did not survive the fall and it subsequently destroyed it. As the soldiers got closer he tossed Yang a Baby Blue Shell. Better now than never… "I need you to shoot this at your feet."
Yang was taken aback, why? "Um, why?"
"Just do it. I'm without a weapon here."
She huffed before chambering the Blue round and shooting it at the ground. She was expecting some sort of Ice wall around them but instead it sort of….trickled down. It took the form of a blue ball…it resembled something akin to a Grifball….
Yang put two and two together and figured out what he was going to do but by the time she was going to stop him, he was already a few paces ahead.
"What is he doing?" Alexis asked, Weiss also turned to the blonde for an explanation.
"I could explain, but it'd honestly be easier of you'd watch for yourself." The brawler nodded to the boy
Alex kept the ball a foot in front of him as he ran at the soldiers. They all looked taken aback by the kid who was running at them with nothing but a Ball. Kicking the ball, he curved it and managed to hit the biggest soldier square to the temple and knocked him out cold. He then quickly stripped the shotgun shell of its Kinetic Red Dust and with a jerk of the wrist, the watch band quickly spread around his hand and stopped at his fingers, forming a fingerless glove.
He poured the Dust into the palm of his hand and crushed it. He then threw it on the ground and there was another ball, this time Red. The White Fang was firing at them all, but the boy ran up and was able to launch the ball towards them. He remembered to pull his body back in order to add to the curve and to elevate it a little more.
Pulling his wrist down, he detonated the Ball near some explosive barrels and caused the nearby building to collapse which took down the other soldiers and opened up another path.
"Impressive." Alexis said with crossed arms, now that isn't something you see every day. The blonde was thoroughly impressed, that meant that weapon of his isn't just some sort of flashy, expensive, piece of technology. That looked, and acted, as if that were his actual weapon.
"And that is a gooooool!" He yelled running back to the group with arms extended as he slid on his knees, ending up in front of Alexis.
Weiss rolled her eyes. "Are you done?"
"Admit it, I did well."
"You damaged several building with the explosion, which was loud and probably attracted every single soldier in this God Forsaken Place."
Sure enough, several more soldiers had appeared. Of course this was not a problem as they made short work of the next wave.
As they were able to make it past the final wave of Soldiers, they ran towards the open and turned. Ruby was running at them, with Soldiers shooting at her from behind. Yang was about to shoot, but was stopped by Alex.
"Lex, could I borrow some Dust?" He asked and put out his palm.
"What kind?" She asked, taking out a few vials from her pouch.
"Red, throw in a little bit of yellow if you don't mind." Alexis poured some Red Dust into his palm, and a little bit of Yellow. He added what looked like a marble into his hand and crushed it. One strong Vibrate later, and he threw a small compacted ball in front of him that immediately expended to full size.
"Could you hurry this up?" Weiss asked, patience running thin as their leader was still being shot at.
He adjusted the position of the Compacted Dust Ball and took a few steps back. He took in a breath through his knows and exhaled through his mouth as he ran up and fired it low
"That was a terrible waste of Dust!-" Before she could complain, a raised finger stopped her. The ball was kicked low and wide to the left of the group of soldiers, but they all noticed the fact that it was curving back towards them.
Once he saw that it was close enough, he pulled his arm behind him and detonated the ball which let out a huge explosion.
Ruby jumped into Yang's arms once she was close enough to her team.
"Ruby!"
"Are you okay?" Weiss asked as she searched the girl for any signs of injuries or Abuse of any kind.
"I'm fine, I'm fine!" Ruby pushed Weiss' hands away "But listen! Torchwick's got all kinds of weapons and robots down there."
"What?!" Alex handed Ruby her weapon, gesturing for her to replace the mag.
Ruby replaced the magazine and chambered a round as she explained her findings "Androids, mechs, they're all loaded up on the train cars!"
"Ahhhh, that's ridiculous." Oobleck commented, adjusting his glasses "These tunnels are sealed, the tracks lead to a dead-end."
Roman's voice sounded through speakers around the city. "Get to your places, we are leaving now!"
"Wait, is that-" Alex was stopped by Ruby mid question.
"Yes! That's Torchwick!"
The train starts moving towards the tunnels.
"Well, it sounds like they're going somewhere." Yang saw Several White Fang Soldiers quickly board the train.
"So, what do we do?" Weiss asked as she saw the last of the Soldiers board the train.
"I believe we only have one option..."
"We're stopping that train!" Their fearless leader exclaimed, leading the charge.
They were all able to get onto the train before it had gained speed, Oobleck had knocked out one of the lookouts and had now climbed onto the top of the moving train.
"Hurry, children! We must get to the front and stop this train!'
"Err... Professor?" She stopped Oobleck from moving forward as she opened the hatch. She had seen the White Fang loading something in.
"Doctor..." Oobleck responded, pushing up his glasses.
Weiss points down the hatch and to the item inside. "What's that?"
Oobleck kneeled down to take a look at the item in question. "That my dear... appears to be a bomb."
They all cringed away from the hatch. Ruby looked up and saw several White Fang Fighter climbing up to the top of the train.
"We've got baddies!"
"Well, I didn't expect them to go—" The bomb activates underneath them and starts beeping."—easy on us. Time to go!"
As Team RWBY start running away, Oobleck stops Blake.
Blake was stopped by Doctor Oobleck as the others began to make their way to the next cart.
"Huh? It decoupled itself!" The brute and Blonde heard as they turned back to the commotion behind them.
"What?!"
"I guess he really doesn't want us on this train."
As the detached cart slows down and is farther behind, it explodes. Creating a hole where several Grimm begin to fall in through though none of them seemed to have noticed.
"That's not good..."
Ruby and Weiss are standing near the hatch on the car they are standing on, pointing into it. "Err, neither is this!"
"Another bomb?!"
"That's not the only one!" Alex waved their attention at the cart he and his partner were standing at. There was also another bomb their.
Oobleck runs past the two and to the next car. "No. No. No." he opened the hatch and looks in, confirming his suspicions before then yelling back "They ALL have bombs"
The bomb under Team RWBY charges up and starts beeping and the cart they're on detaches itself, forcing Team RWBY to run to the next cart.
"This doesn't make sense!"
"Get the Humans!" A female Moose Faunus orders as they start their way towards the teenagers.
Team RWBY jump forward to attack the incoming White Fang members. Oobleck then turns around and watches the detached train car explode, only this time, it creates a hole allowing multiple types of Grimm to emerge.
"Oh, dear..."
The horde of Grimm begin advancing quickly toward the runaway train.
"He's leading Grimm to the city!"
Weiss turns and notices the Grimm chasing them "What?"
"It's the cars! They detach and explode, creating openings for the Grimm!" Oobleck explained.
"That's insane!"
Another train car detaches itself.
"We have to hurry!" He looks to Weiss, Blake, and Yang "You three, go below and try to stop those bombs!" He then turns to Alex. "You, try to see if you can get into the Train Operators Car."
"What about us?" She gestured to the Blonde and herself.
"We're going to stop this train." He says, arms akimbo in a hero stance. His hero face turns into a frown as Ruby interrupts his epic pose.
"Yeah, I know. I said that earlier."
The four enter the train car below, one of the doors was suspiciously left unlocked.
"I guess this is what we trained for." The blonde said as she cracked her knuckles. The Boy nodded in agreement, cracking his own joints with a satisfying 'Pop'.
Weiss hands a customized magazine of Dust Rounds to Blake, who nods in thanks as she loads them into Gambol Shroud.
As they charge forward, a girl with Pink and Brown hair drops from the ceiling and stands in their way. She suspiciously looks like the same one that they fought underneath the Freeway some time ago…
"You guys go on ahead. This one's mine." Yang growled, her weapons extending to full size.
Blake and Weiss proceed forward, but Alex looks at her with concern.
"Go." She ordered again, this time he listens as he catches up with the others. Yang fires a round to distract her, allowing the other's to continue forward. They heard a snarl as Yang fought with the shorter girl.
They made their way to the next train car, again unlocked. Running, the three stop when they hear the sound of revving up ahead. A White Fang Lieutenant was blocking their path, and he had a larger than sold-in-stores Chainsaw.
"Go on ahead!" She told the two of them.
"Got it!"
"Understood." They both said in unison.
The Lieutenant chuckles menacingly as he holds up his chainsaw. The two Huntresses-in-training charge forward, with Blake deflecting an attack as Weiss flips backward. As he loses control of the chainsaw, Alex slide tackles the Lieutenant, throwing him into the air. Weiss then delivers multiple strikes at the Lieutenant, knocking him down. She then smiles at Blake as she and Alex Run to the next car. The Lieutenant gets back up, again chuckling menacingly.
"Finally, I get to kill a Schnee..." They heard as they ran to the Next Car.
They heard faint clanks as they got to the door to the Train Conductor Car. This one was locked.
"Damn it!" Blake growled as she tried to open the door. She punches the keypad, but no result. She did however reveal the circuitry. Pulling out several of the wires, they both heard a gear grind in the lock and Alex kicked the door hard enough to force it open.
Running to the Door to the Driver's area, Blake stops and grits her teeth when she's greeted by a familiar foe.
"Hello, kitty cat. You miss me? You know, we really gotta stop meeting like this. People are gonna talk..." Roman taunted, flipping his cane.
Blake bared her teeth and charges forward to attack, starting their brief battle. While she was doing that, Alex was trying to get into the Train Conductor's area.
"Of Course, Schnee Security." He mumbled as he tried several methods to NOT break the security lock. He turned and quickly dodged one of Blake's attacks with her Dust magazine. "Hey!" Blake didn't seem to notice. A few moments later he heard an audible "Click" and the door opened.
He ran into the room, but some of the instruments were shooting sparks as there was blood, short circuiting the exposed electronics.
"Damn." He tried what he could, accidentally pressing one of the buttons and detaching another train car.
Behind him, Blake knocks Roman down, and when he attempts to get back up, Blake steps on his chest and points her sword at his throat.
Roman chuckles despite the situation he is in "Why are we fighting? I saw you at the rally, we're on the same side and you know it..."
She simply growled at him.
"Oh, still feisty. Soooo, what are we gonna do now? You think a little bow on top is gonna make people forget who you were? What you've done...?"
As she grits her teeth at his words, resisting the urge to slice his throat, Blake and Alex hear the door to their train car open behind her. An unconscious Weiss is thrown to the floor with the Lieutenant emerging from the doorway holding his chainsaw.
"So what's it gonna be, Blake?"
She sheaths Gambol Shroud and kicks Roman in the face, knocking him unconscious. Blake then goes over to Weiss' aid, The Lieutenant about to attack and Blake ready to block but the blow never came. Looking up, she saw something bright hit The Lieutenant and sent him back several steps.
"Go. I'll cover." Was the order from the boy. Blake was about to open her mouth but the revving of the engine caught her attention. "I said GO!" He ordered again. This time Blake got up quickly and took Weiss with her, narrowly avoiding a slash from the Chainsaw.
Above them, Oobleck had ordered Alexis and Ruby to move up. Zwei looked saddened that he was going to leave his new friend. Ruby smiles as she pet the Corgi, urging him to go with the Professor
"Go."
Below them, The White Fang Lieutenant had taken the advantage. He grabbed the CEO's shirt and threw him back, his elbow hitting the keypad to the door. Alex shook his head and crawled into the room as the soldier approached him.
As he was about to slice him, the door slammed violently in front of them and blocked the Chainsaw. He sighed in relief at the near death experience, jumping as the Lieutenant Banged on the door window.
Once the banging stopped, he looked through the cracked window and saw the Strong Soldier Pick up Roman with one hand and leave the Car, leaving the boy by himself.
He tried several more things in order to slow down the train, but he noticed the distance the train was to the sealed door. At the speed they were going, they weren't going to even manage to break through. And slowing down wouldn't have been good since they were too close to the door for the brakes to even work. Which meant there was one option for it…
"I'm going to speed the train up" He pushed the throttle forward, the train gaining speed as he braced himself for imminent impact.
The remaining members of Team RWBY then reemerge from the train cars to rejoin their leader.
"Wait, where's Alex?" Ruby asked as she took a head count.
"He's down stairs fighting the White Fang Soldier with a Chainsaw." Blake Said as Weiss slowly regained consciousness.
"What?!" Alexis yelled.
Ruby the turns as a new problem arises. The train shifts slightly, causing them to jolt a bit as the train seems to be gaining speed.
The other's notice what Ruby is looking at.
"What do we do?"
Ruby and Weiss smile at each other, and the latter forms an ice shield to protect her teammates, bracing themselves for the impact. The last thing they see is a white flash as the Train Collides head on.
"Well, never thought this is how I would go out." Alex said. He pressing somethings into his weapon as the train approached the sealed walls.
He slammed is fist bottom to the floor, his weapon then glowed a bright blue as something circular engulfed him. He closed his eyes, waiting for the impact. He didn't notice that a green circle had surrounded him, inside the circle a hexagram with lettering was slowly spinning around him.
He heard a loud crash before his vision went white.
Ruby was the last person to regain consciousness, her vision blurry as she looks around. Turning to her right, she sees Blake slowly getting up. Yang as well, coughing as the Dust entered her respitory system. Through the ringing in her ears, she faintly hears the sound of an emergency alarm blaring as her vision comes back with buildings into her vies. She turns her head again and sees Weiss sitting up against a large piece of debris, who also gives a thumbs up at her team leader signaling she's okay. A bit more to her left and she see Alexis coughing as well as she is slowly getting up as her mouth is open, and presumably groaning.
Ruby sits up, hissing in pain as she slowly rests against a large piece of concrete. Her vision stabilizes as she looks around, they seemed to be in the middle of Downtown. The other's look around as the Civilians notice them sitting on the debris. Ruby hears the sound of low rumbles and growls from behind her. A giant King Taijitu emerges from the hole, and multiple Grimm start pouring into Vale. The civilians scream as they attempt to flee the chaos. The sounds of screams and roars fill the air, and all Team RWBY can do is watch in horror. Ruby's expression changes from worried and scared to angry and determined as she slowly gets back up, extending Crescent Rose.