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I forgot to say this, but for those of you who don't know who Columbia is, she is Uncle Sam's predecessor as the personification of the United States. In the 1800's to early 1900's, she was the face of America before Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty replaced her permanently after World War I, but the movie studio Columbia Pictures still use her as their symbol.
There was another TF2 X RWBY Crossover where the author never finished it, but in the only chapter, Nora and Demoman met by a campfire, and Nora called him by the name "Demmy."
Beacon Academy, Early Morning, I mean like REALLY early in the morning, it's like 2:00 AM or something.
It was early in the morning (if I didn't make that apparent enough), and Team RWBY was all fast asleep. Yang was snorin', Ruby was looking like a cute baby, Blake curled herself up like a cat, and Weiss seemed the most elegant of all the sleeping girls.
Ruby herself was having a pleasant dream. A dream about Team RWBY and their friends, including the mercenaries, saving the day like the heroes from the stories she heard all the time as a child. Then, for some reason, she dreamed about Medic talking to her, but instead of words he was making dove noises.
Her eyes popped open, and she saw the ceiling of her dorm room. She yawned and rubbed her head before going back to dreams, but that's when she noticed she had an unexpected visitor right on her chest.
"Huh!?" Ruby gasped when she saw a little white dove hanging out on top of her. The bird in question tipped its head sideways and cooed at her as if confused.
"Hmm... Ruby..." Yang can be heard grumbling from her side of the room. "Go back to sleep..."
"Uh, but- but Yang!" Yang threw a pillow at her sister.
"Ungghhhh... shut up..."
"But Yang, there's a bird in our room!" Ruby grabbed the little bird and showed it to everyone, who were waking up just about now.
"So?" Weiss grumped from her bottom bunk. "Throw it out the window!"
"There's a thing on it though!" Ruby said, not knowing what a tape recorder was, at least not the Earth version of one was.
"JUST THROW IT OUT ALREADY!" Weiss exploded. Ruby jumped in fear, and jumped down her bunk and went to the open window of their room.
"Go home little guy." Ruby rubbed the dove's back before gently throwing it out the window. She closed the window soon after she saw the bird fly away.
"See? That wasn't so hard." Weiss said. "Now get back to sleep. We all need to be rested for the next-" Weiss was interrupted when the dove crashed right through the window, breaking it. It made cooing noises to the shocked girls, and it landed right on top of Zwei, picking out glass from it's wings. The little doggy barked at its new friend.
"WHAT IS WITH THIS STUPID BIRD!?" Yang roared since her sleep was interrupted. Her eyes turned red, and her hair burned as she grabbed the bird in a crushing, one handed grip.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT!?" The bird responded by cooing, and pecking the play button of the tape recorder so that the recording could play.
"Hallo? Is zis thing on?" The Medic's voice came out of it.
"Medic? What do you want?" Blake asked. It quickly became apparent that this was a recording.
"It is on, doc. The freakin' red button is on, stupid. *slap* Ugh! That really friggin' hurt Deutschbag!" Scout can be heard in the back.
"Quiet Scout! Ahem... Hallo Team RWBY! It is me, ze Medic! I bet you are wondering why we chose to wake you up at such an early hour. Well, it is with great *snicker* hehhe- with great *chuckles* Oh-ho, I can't do it! Here, Pyro, you do it!"
"Haphmmmm!"
"Give me that, rubber suited wanker... G'day-er... G'mornin'? G'morning girls, it's Sniper here..." Medic can be heard laughing to himself in the background as well as footsteps and the other mercs ordering each other around. Sniper was telling them to keep it quiet.
"It's Sniper here, and we're giving you thirty minutes to get your rears over to our place. We got a little something special for you, and-oh! Almost forgot, bring Teams JNPR, CFVY, and SSSN over too. They don't want to miss this...hihehehehe-" The recording stopped there, and static played on. The dove then pecked the stop button.
"This must be that 'surprise' Heavy told us about earlier..." Weiss trailed.
"Should we go?" Ruby asked innocently.
"Why would I want to go to our professor's place when I could just get some sleep..." Yang plopped herself back on her top bunk.
"But-but what if it's something important?" Ruby asked.
"They're probably just going to scare us again, Ruby." Weiss got settled back in her bed.
"She's probably right, Ruby. Go back to sleep." Blake also got in her bed. Ruby looked at her team with a worried face, then the dove landed on her shoulder. It cooed once again, and it pulled out a note from under the tape recorder, and held it for Ruby to take.
"'If you don't come, we will give you all failing grades" Ruby read the note our loud.
"WHAT!?" Ruby yelled.
"W-what!? They can't do that!" Weiss panicked. The dove took the note from Ruby and flew over to Weiss, where it flipped the note around for her to read the message behind it.
"We totally can." Weiss read out loud. This was enough to convince her and the rest of Team RWBY, so they got dressed on the double.
Mercs' House
"We're here, you sadists!" Weiss called out for the mercenaries. Team RWBY had done as they asked, and they came with Teams CFVY, JNPR, and SSSN. They were standing outside the gate because they were afraid there was an ambush in the yard. They were also quite grumpy that they were awake so early in the morning. At least this time, they could make the mercs pay since they brought their weapons with them.
"So theses professors said they were going to make you guys fail their class if you didn't come?" Sun asked once more.
"Yup." Ruby responded. She had Archimedes on her shoulder still.
"That's insane." Sun whistled.
"You don't even know the half of it..." Weiss grumbled, thinking back to the insanity the mercs have put them through in the past. "What is taking them so long?" The mercs hadn't responded yet to them. Not even Sniper, who was usually up on top of his rooftop perch, responded. This is right about the time where Archimedes flew off of Ruby's shoulder and on top of Zwei's head, because they brought Zwei along too.
'They need to follow us.' Archimedes animal languaged at Zwei.
'Is it a trap?' Zwei animal languaged.
'No. Just follow me so that they'll follow you.'
'Okay!' Zwei barked. Archimedes flew off inside the house with Zwei following him. Zwei stopped midway, and barked over to the huntsmen while bouncing up and down, then continued on into the house.
"Zwei!" Ruby ran after her dog.
"Guess they want us to follow them..." Jaune said.
"Looks like it, let's go!" Yang said. All 16 teens followed the animals into the empty home and into the garage, where the teleporter to Earth was active. Archimedes flew right into the portal, and Zwei barked at them before going in it himself.
"Should we go in?" Jaune asked warily. "I-I mean, if what Team RWBY said about Earth was true, then should we just- you know, like stay here?"
"Stop being a coward vomit boy, and let's go!" Nora jumped right into the portal. Wanting to get whatever the mercs wanted them to do over with, they all went into the portal too, pushing in the weaker willed among them along too.
Mann Co. HQ
They landed on top of each other like a pile of flopping fish dropped from a fishing trawler. (warning: following is left unquoted on purpose)
"Ah! Watch the hair!"
"Sorry Yang!"
"AH! MY JEWELS!"
"That's what you get for touching my butt!"
"It was an accident!"
"Scarlet, why are your hands all over my abs!?"
"Uh- it was an accident!"
"Weiss, get off of me!"
"Ungh! You move first, dunce!"
The complaining teens stopped struggling when they heard laughing right in front of them. They looked up to see Demo laughing his ass off along with Zwei, Nora, and several other doves that Archimedes was with.
"Oh-hoho! Dat's why you shoulda came in four at a time!" Demo laughed. "You lot look like a bunch of beached fishes!"
"Quiet you!" Weiss yelled angrily. "I-"
"Please, let me handle this, Weiss." Pyyrha politely offered. "Good evening-...uh?" Pyyrha noticed that it was actually day time here on Earth. "Um... good day, Professor Demoman."
"Good day to you, lass!" Demo had Eyelander over his shoulder, and a drink in his free hand.
"Why did you have us come here?"
"Training!" Nora cheered. "Demmy here said that the professors are going to train us privately here on Earth!"
"Training?" Ren said warily. He saw how Demo trained Nora, and he feared for their souls... "You brought us all the way to Earth only to train?"
"Yep! Now let's go!"
They followed Demoman around Mann Co. HQ, and I got to say, for a corporate headquarters built in the middle of a desert, it was a pretty nice place, almost like a small city. What got to the teens though was the lack of workers for this place. There appeared to be no one else here but them and the mercs. Of course, they were all whispering amongst themselves about their current situation. Zwei stayed behind and hung out with Archimedes and his crew. Earth was different this time around, at least to Team RWBY it was since they were here before. The eternal night was gone, and the desert was, well... a desert again.
"So... this is where you guys worked?" Yang asked Demoman, a little creeped out that this place was a total ghost town. Still, she was glad there were no actual ghosts here.
"Aye. This is Mann Co. Headquarters."
"Don't you mean, EYE?" Eh? Get it?" Yang punned, nudging Demo's arm. No one laughed at her pun, they cringed at it, but the only one who laughed was the Eyelander.
"Hahaha! Good one, girlie!" The ghost sword laughed.
"Okay, why is no one freaking out about the ghost sword!?" Jaune stepped back from the talking blade.
"Shut yer traps! We're here!" Demo showed them Saxton Hale's personal hunting reserve, or rather the re-purposed hunting reserve. Saxton Hale ended up blowing all his money away on trying to invent inter-dimensional travel, so his reserve was not completed. The only thing that got finished were the cliffs, small canyons and hills, rivers, and some forested areas of this insanely large hunting reserve. The only thing that was missing were the animals. How he was able to change the desert into this was anyone's guess.
"We're going to train here?" Coco said with a little whine. "But it's so... dirty."
"Dirty is no reason for you to lose like baby." Heavy peeked his head out from behind a wooden stand. There were also several random wooden and concrete battlements/ structures across this place.
"Um... I'm sorry, but I believe at least half of us aren't even in your class." Coco said to the giant as he climbed up to meet them. "So if you don't mind, I'm going-"
"No. You stay here, and learn how to fight." Heavy stopped her.
"This sign says this place belongs to that Saxton Hale guy though." Ruby read off a sign that had a big smiling image of Saxton Hale strangling gorillas.
"Ack, don't worry about that lass. Mr. Hale gave us full permission to use this place.
"B-but we're still worn out! We didn't get enough sleep." Blake said, trying to save themselves from a horrible fate. They were used to training, but they had no idea what they were getting into with training from the mercenaries. Suddenly, Medic jumped off the roof of a nearby building like an angel complete with his doves flying out from behind him, and used his medigun on all of them, refreshing them all.
"I believe zat solves zat problem, haha!" Medic smiled.
And so, training began. This time, actual training. No bullshittery the mercs did in all the classes before just because they wanted to have a good laugh and some fun. No, this time, it was for real. On the other hand, none of the mercs really had the self-discipline to teach the students by themselves, so they settled on a battle simulation to test out the students' skills.
"Okay kids, here's the deal." Demo said. He stayed behind to tell the kids what's up as Heavy and Medic ran off into the hunting reserve.
"You want us to fight you guys again?" Weiss said with an annoyed look.
"Yes, bu-"
"Ah, come on! I thought you guys said you were going to train us this time!" She yelled.
"I know, but please listen! Good? Okay, you kids are going to fight us again, but this time there's an objective behind it."
"An objective?" Velvet asked.
"Yep. There are five control points, and you all have to take them in five minutes. If you capture a control point, you get another minute of time. If time runs out, then you lose. But if you capture all the control points, you win."
"But you realize there are 16 of us and only nine of you guys, right?" Coco lowered her sunglasses. "I'd say you guys are pretty screwed. No offense."
"Haha... that's what you think, lass..." Demo chuckled. "One last thing, you can go ahead and kill us." This shocked the teens.
"WHAT!?" They all yelled together.
"That's right. The Engineer had linked us back up with the Respawn Machine, meaning we can dies as many times as we want!" He smiled.
"Why are you saying that like it's a good thing!?" Velvet shouted.
"Ugh... Ruby will tell ye, but for now..." He shot some sticky bombs on the ground. "This is goodbye mates!" He then sticky jumped away with a loud cheer of joy as he flew out into an unseen part of the hunting reserve turned training ground. Team RWBY told the friends who didn't know about what the Respawn Machine was.
"Okay... well, how do we know when to begin?" Sun said. His question was answered when he heard a feminine voice call across an announcement system.
"Hello? Huh... I'm not used to doing the Administrator's job..."
"Shh! Just say it Ms. Pauling! I got to go, I'll catch up with ya later." Scout can be heard in the background.
"Okay... hello! Weird, super powered students from another world..." The woman identified as Ms. Pauling said in a voice that told you she didn't quite believe it.
"Well... whatever the guys told me about you, I will be the announcer for this training match. Here are the rules. You can kill them without worrying, and you will be eliminated once you've taken enough damage. The guys managed to steal these 'aura counters' or whatever for today. Now, get ready because the match begins in 10 seconds." The students readied their weapons, confident that they'll win this easy since they nearly outnumber the mercs 2 to 1.
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"Control point enabled! Get going!" The round was off, and they all rushed point A, the entrance to the reserve, to find no one was there. They thought it was quite strange that it was not protected, but they kept their guard up, alert for any ambushes. It happened again when they reached point B, a wet area with creeks, rivers, and a waterfall.
"Where are they..." Velvet asked shakily.
"Be brave Velvet." Coco had her minigun out, ready to cut down the trees if she had to.
"She's got a point." Fox said. His enhanced senses due to his blindness couldn't detect a single thing.
"Who cares! The sooner we get done with this the better!" Weiss barked at them. They quickly capped this point too, and they now made their way over to the next point. This time, for anyone who wasn't in the mercs' class, they took it easier. Point C was a small mining facility looking place, but it was easy to see that it a mock up of one complete with rails leading around the reserve.
"Guess they're too afraid to fight us after all." Sun whistled. "Wouldn't you say so Blake?"
"Quiet." Blake was tuning in on their surroundings with her cat ears, but still nothing.
"This is creepy..." Velvet was spooked. It was weird being out in another world with seemingly no other living beings other than themselves. Suddenly, Velvet's rabbit ears perked up, and she tackled Coco.
"Look out!" The bunny yelled as a rubber round narrowly missed Coco's head.
"Piece of piss!" They heard Sniper yell from somewhere, and the Australian madman kept firing on their location.
"At least we know we're not alone..." Ruby said in a joking manner. She was behind a mine cart and she had Crescent Rose in rifle form, scanning the area for Sniper.
"Where are- gah!" A round banged against the corner she was looking from, and she quickly got back behind the mine cart.
"Ugh! Come out here and fight, you coward!" Sun yelled from behind cover. He was awarded with the sound of Sniper laughing.
"Haha! You wish, mate! But I got some friends who want to meet you!" With that Sniper whistled, and explosion noises were heard all around them..
The entire control point area blew up, causing extreme confusion and chaos amongst the teens, and the rest of the mercenaries appeared. Soldier and Demo came flying above, blasting off grenades and rockets down on them. Engie had wrangled all of his hidden sentries and mini-sentries and started mowing the entire area with bullets.
The students panicked, and immediately split up into groups and out into the relative safety of the wooded and urban like areas of the map, with the mercenaries dispersing after them. Every single one of them gained significant damage from the trap set for them.
All of Team SSSN had managed to stay together, and they were now traveling across this cluster of buildings that were supposed to simulate an urban environment. All of the boys took quite a bit of damage from the trap earlier, on top of taking even more from Demo and Soldier's surprise aerial attack.
"Come on guys, we got to find the others!" Sun ordered his team. They appeared to be pretty safe here in this little village, but if they wanted to win, they had to regroup with the others and-oh shit!
"Gah!" Sage took a rubber round to the head and hastily held his huge sword up to protect most of his body from more rounds from Sniper. The Australian madman then pulled out his smg to spray down the area where the boys were at, but it was all for not since the boys simply blocked the bullets with their weapons.
"Ha! You're in for it now!" Sun yelled as they went to go chase after Sniper, who ran deeper inside the tallest building of this little area. The boys rushed into the entrance, and found the Sniper standing in the center with a smug look on his face. The inside of the building was completely dark, save for the window of light Sniper was standing in.
"Surrender now, and we probably won't break your face!" Neptune threatened. Sniper just laughed at him, and snapped his fingers.
"You can try mate..." With the snap of his fingers, the rest of the building was lit up to reveal dozens of robot mercs painted in red, their weapons all pointed at Team SSSN. Engineer was also there with his sentry guns trained on the boys.
"...we surrender!"
"Denied. Robots, Fire!"
Girlish screaming was heard in the distance as well as a lot of gunfire as Yang, Coco, and Nora took cover behind a huge boulder. Heavy, Soldier, and Demo bots were firing on them.
"Team SSSN eliminated!" Ms. Pauling announced.
"What!?" Yang yelled in disbelief. "This isn't fair! They didn't say anything about robots being here!"
"And why are they so tough to kill!?" Coco was returning fire with her minigun to little effect. Seemed like these robots were tougher than Grimm after all. I'm not surprised, Grimm tend to be fleshy targets anyway since usually their entire body isn't cover with bone armor, much less entirely made of steel like these robots
"Who cares?!" Nora cheered happily as Magnhild shifted to hammer form. "LET'S GET SMASHING! :D" Nora launched herself up into the sky demoman style, and crashed right on top of the main bunch of robots, where she gladly entered melee combat with them. Smiling, Yang and Coco got moving to go and help her, but Coco got distracted when a robot Sniper managed to shoot her sunglasses right off of her face.
"Go and help Nora! I'll take care of the Snipers..." With that, Yang started punching robots to scrap metal while Coco literally cut the top of trees off with her minigun since that was where the robot snipers were hiding. She then turned her gun on a horde of scout bots with bats coming at them.
"Hey, this is actually pretty fun!" Coco smiled at her work. Mann vs Machine is quite fun...
"You're telling me!" Nora cheered happily. She was riding a giant robot demoknight as if it were a bucking bull while swinging her hammer one handed at any bombs unlucky enough to be in her way. When she was finished riding the giant demoknight, she simply smashed its head in with her hammer.
"Sorry robo-demmy..." She rubbed the metal beanie of the giant robot. Laughing, she saw some robot heavies coming in with steel gauntlets and boxing gloves, and she smiled wildly with glee at the new friends to play with. Like a big girly girl, she daintily skipped past bullets, rockets, and grenades over to the heavies with Magnhild over her shoulder. When she got within ten feet of the robots, she lowered Magnhild into grenade launcher form, and got ready to blast them.
"Bye-bye~" She blasted a heart shaped grenade over at them, but the huge smile on her face went away when the heavies stood aside, and Pyro was there with its flamethrower at the ready. Medic was right behind it. It airblasted her own grenade back at her, making her fly back, much to Coco and Yang's surprise.
"RAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" The actual Heavy yelled as he ran out of the brush with Yatsuhashi in his charging grip. He smashed the strong young man against a tree like a charger from Left 4 Dead 2, making the tree fall down.
"Yatsuhashi eliminated!" Ms. Pauling announced while Heavy laughed.
"Hahahaha! Girls are next!" Heavy revved up his minigun, and started blasting Coco, and Yang. Thinking quickly, Yang shot herself over to where Heavy was, forcing him to stop shooting as he grabbed Yang by the leg and slammed her on the ground. Heavy dropped his minigun, and cracked his knuckles.
"Is time for round two, yeah?"
"You bet..." Yang grinned as she got up to her fighting stance.
Elsewhere, Jaune, Velvet, and Ren were hiding in a system of caves that were intended for cave creatures when this place was still meant to be a hunting reserve.
"It's dark in here..." Velvet's shaky voice echoed.
"Why are you complaining? I thought Faunus could see in the dark." Jaune said,
"Y-yeah... but that doesn't change how scary this place is..."
"It's okay Velvet." Ren said as he scanned the area with his dual auto pistols. "We'll-" Ren's voice was suddenly muffled, and no more of him was heard for the moment.
"Ren?" Jaune asked. No response. "REN!?" His voice echoed loudly in these caves. "Velvet, did you see what happen? Where did he go!?"
"I-I don't know! It was too fast!" Gunfire as well as the sounds of hand to hand combat were heard further down the cave, and Jaune and Velvet rushed over there. When they got there, it was too late.
"Ren eliminated!" Ms. Pauling announced. It was true, Ren was layed out on the cave floor with bruises.
"This can only mean one thing..." Jaune said to himself, remembering that Spy was the sneaky one who was also good at hand to hand combat. "Velvet! Stay close to..."
Annnnnnnd... Velvet was also gone!
"...me." Jaune finished. "Crap..." With the sudden disappearance of Velvet, Jaune went looking for her. It seemed like these caves also included mine rails of their own, as Jaune just came across a blown out section of the cave that had a rail that goes downhill into Point C. There was a single mine cart, and Point C seemed to be clear, but he can see there was fighting everywhere around the point though.
"What..." Jaune ducked behind the one mine cart, and saw that robotic versions of the mercenaries were out and about, looking for the students.
"Come on... that isn't fair at all!" Jaune groaned. His groan turned into a shriek when he felt a hand get placed on his shoulder.
"WHO'S THERE!?" Jaune had his sword up against poor Velvet's throat.
"Eeeek! Jaune!" Velvet peeped in terror.
"Velvet! I'm sorry! Uh-uh, what happened to you? Where did you go?"
"I got scared when I saw what happened to Ren, so I hid somewhere!" Tears welled up in the bunny girl's eyes. "I'm scared!"
"Oh Velvet..." Jaune said, getting uncomfortable at the sight of a teary eyed girl. He tried to calm her down, but words did nothing, so he gave her a hug.
"There, there, everything's going to be alright..." He comforted her, keeping her close. "It's not like the professors are going to seriously hurt us anyway..."
"Yeah?" She sniffled.
"Yeah! I also know for a fact that we'll win this!"
"Oh, but- but..."
"But what?"
"...who is that in the mine cart?" Velvet instantly stopped crying and her voice got menacing. Jaune slowly looked behind him, and saw what was in the mine cart, it was an unconscious Velvet. Jaune simply stood and stared while the Velvet he was hugging grinned.
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"Mr. Spy?" Jaune said.
"Oui?" Velvet said, still hugging him.
"No offense, but screw you guys..."
"None taken!" With those last words, Spy Velvet pushed him into the mine cart on top of real Velvet, and pushed them downhill where the robots were. Jaune screamed as he went down.
"Thanks for delaying Velvet's announcement, Pauling." Spy said to his earpiece.
"You're welcome, Spy." The woman responded.
"Velvet eliminated!" Ms. Pauling's voice announced over clashes of battle. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Pyyrha were finishing up a bunch of robots over at Point B, since the robots were aiming to recapture that area. Ruby decapitated a robot heavy when the announcement was made.
"Come on! We have to find who's left! It's our only shot at winning this!" Ruby yelled as she led the charge all the way up to Point C, where they last saw all of them.
It seemed like the robots were running out at this point, since the fighting seemed to have died down. When they got to Point C, they found Jaune breathing heavily with his sword and shield up amongst a few destroyed robots. Velvet was in a tipped over mine cart.
"Jaune!" Pyyrha yelled in glee that her husbando was still up. She was running of to him, when Jaune suddenly turned his sword on her.
"Stay back!" Jaune yelled.
"What's the matter with you. vomit boy?" Weiss was annoyed. She really didn't need to deal with her own classmates on top of robots and hidden mercenaries lurking about.
"It's Mr. Spy! I don't know if I could trust you or not!"
An explosion and loud screaming was heard, and all heads turned to see Demoman literally using Fox from Team CFVY as a surfboard as he flew through the air. He smashed Fox hard into the ground when he landed.
"Fox eliminated!" Ms. Pauling's voice came in.
"Ahahaha!" Demo laughed as his one eye focused on the girls... and boy. "I didn't think he saw that one coming!" He laughed at Fox.
"That's because he is blind." Ruby said as a matter of fact.
"Oh." Demo said, a little embarrassed that he just took out a blind kid. "Augh, whatever! Time to lose, kiddies!" He pulled out the Eyelander.
"That's right Tavish! Let's kick some ass!" Eyelander said as Demo immediately charged for Jaune.
"That's still freaky!" Jaune squeaked at the ghost sword. He actually cowered in fear at the sight of Demoman coming at him in a red blur alongside a glowing ghost sword, and his one good eye glowing as well. Don't worry Jaune, Pyyrha got your back. Pyyrha blocked the hit for Jaune, and they both started fighting the glorious Demoknight!
Ruby, Blake, and Weiss moved in to help, but they were quickly stopped when a baseball struck Ruby hard in the face, and a critical rocket blew Blake and Weiss up.
"Let's do this!" Scout started blasting Ruby with his scattergun while the girl attempted to defend herself from the pellets. Soldier rocket jumped upwards, and narrowly missed landing on Weiss had Blake not pushed her out of the way.
"Prepare yourselves for the ass-kicking of the century!" Soldier yelled when he went to engage the girls in combat.
Ruby was trying to get shots off on Scout with Crescent Rose, but her Sniper scythe was outclassed in close range by his scatterguns, that and he was too quick to hit anyway.
"I'm a freaking blur here!" Scout taunted. That's when Ruby suddenly disappeared in a flash of rose petals and reappeared right in front of him.
"So am I!" She winked at him, and slashed Crescent Rose at him. She would of slashed him in half had he not jumped up and over her. The Boston bruiser smacked Ruby's poor little head with his bat as he flipped over her.
"Gotta be faster, hon!" Scout taunted. Ruby had no problem with that. In an instant, she started zooming around in a tornado of red rose petals as she attacked Scout from all angles. Still, she ended up missing a lot of times, only really giving him some scratches and bruises.
"Speed don't matter if you can't even hit the bastard you're fightin'." Scout grinned. He carefully watched how Ruby circled around him in a red blur, and he carefully got his Sandman ready.
"Bonk!" He launched a baseball that managed to land itself right on Ruby's stomach, making her lose her footing in pain and forcing her to tumble out into the forest. Scout laughed at what he just did, and then he went off to go finish her.
Meanwhile, Demo was giving Jaune and Pyyrha a really hard time. He got Eyelander in a sword lock with Pyyrha. Jaune was recovering from a blow to the stomach Demo gave him earlier behind Demoman.
"Haha! What's the matter lass, Highland sword fighting to hard for ye?" Demo grinned at her. He raised Eyelander up to break the lock, and bashed his Charge n' Targe against Pyyrha's shield. She turned Akuo into its spear form, and attempted to stab upwards under her shield. Demo dodged and knocked the spear away just when it stabbed where he once was. He then struck Pyyrha with the guard of Eyelander. Pyyrha was stunned, but she quickly recovered. She was coming around with a swing, when she felt something hard against her belly.
"Goodbye!" Demo waved at her. He pulled the trigger, and the grenade launcher blew Pyyrha and himself away from each other.
"Pyyrha eliminated!" Ms. Pauling's voice came in.
Demo smiled at what he just did. You may have thought it was a dumb move to blow himself up, but this was actually to his advantage since it blew him over to Jaune. Jaune's eyes went wide, and he screamed before Demo knocked him out cold with a shield bash to the face, aided by the power of Charging and explosive force.
"Jaune eliminated!"
"Well, that was pretty easy." Demo said to himself. He looked over to Soldier and found that he was almost done with them.
"From America to Atlas!" Soldier yelled proudly as he was slamming Weiss' face repeatedly on the ground. His Spy senses tingled, and he quickly swung around his shovel to knock the cat out of Blake when she tried to backstab him with her sword.
"Humph. Spy wannabe!" Soldier spat on the ground near her, then simply dropped his shovel on top of poor Weiss, finishing her off just like that.
"Blake and Weiss eliminated!" Pauling announced.
"Aye, mate?"
"Yes, my excellent Scottish friend?"
"Want to 'ave a drink?"
"Sure!"
All the robots were destroyed. It was now only the mercs and the teens now.
Scout was currently dealing with Ruby, Heavy was fighting Yang, Pyro was fighting Nora, and Medic just got done injecting Coco with some tranquilizers when she made the foolish mistake of coming close to him and missing a swing miserably.
"Okay." I think that's enough everyone!" Spy shouted for all to hear. Just like that, everyone stopped what they were doing. Heavy had Yang in an arm lock and Pyro was dueling Nora with the lollichop. Scout was giving Ruby a noogie as if he were Ruby's older brother when it happened.
"Ms. Pauling, call it in." He spoke through his earpiece.
"The match is over. Sorry, I forgot to announce that time ran out like four minutes ago. I'm a terrible announcer..." Ms. Pauling's voice boomed across the facility before shutting off.
"Let us refresh ourselves and go over what just happened." Spy whispered to Sniper who nodded.
"Everyone! Back to Mann Co!"
Mann Co. Briefing Room
Medic healed the students up while they were sat down at tables. They were waiting for Spy to talk them, while the other mercs were close by doing regular stuff. Soon, Spy came in the room, but initially they didn't recognize him since he actually had his mask off this time around. He had a scar that ran across the right side of his head and he had dark grey hair. The Frenchman had a box full of wooden blocks with him.
"Well... what have we learned today?"
"That you guys are cheaters..." Weiss grumbled. They were all pretty grumpy at the bullshittery the mercs pulled on them. Spy was stacking the blocks into a tower.
"Technically... ve didn't say anyzing about robots not being allowed!" Medic said, but he was met with growls.
"Allow me to list everything you did wrong." He noticed that they were all staring at his face.
"Yes, yes, I know. I indeed do have a face. Now, let me continue. Your first mistake was dropping your guard, and staying too close together. You instantly fell into a trap where at least some of you could have avoided getting heavily damaged. Second, you panicked, that is never a good thing, but on top of that, you all split up. Though perfectly understandable, that is a terrible idea and it ended up in us easily taking you while you were separated."
"On top of those stupid robotic versions of yourselves?" Weiss grumped.
"Yes. That was also a surprise. You would've been stronger if you stayed together, but like I said, you all split up..." He reached for a bottom piece of the tower. "And you divided yourselves..." He pulled out another piece. "Therefore you made yourselves more vulnerable to attack..." Another piece was taken, and he rested his hand on one last piece.
"United we stand, divided..." He pulled the last piece, and the wooden tower collapsed on itself. "...we fall. Which is exactly what happened to you kids." No one said anything. He was right.
"You can all get some rest now. We have one more thing planned for you before we send you back home."
I am on a chapter making spree! Fuck my hands...
Three days in a row, boys! I'm afraid I'm making chapters too fast, but here it is. For once, I'm afraid this chapter might be rushed.
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