Hey there everyone, sorry for the delay in the posting of this chapter, It's honestly felt like a lot less time since I posted the last chapter of this.

Hey it feels like the days have been moving along rather fast for me really.

Anyway I say it's time for me to finish off this arc... and move into Vol 3.

See you guys at the end of the chapter.

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[Chapter 26: Mission-4]

[Aida's P.O.V.]

I stepped out of my cabin feeling much more refreshed, now wearing a dark grey shirt that was just a smidge too small for my chest, but not too annoying, I also had on a pair of blue jeans, some rather nice looking sneakers and socks, I also had put on the lab coat I had during my trip.

I noticed the ship had docked and was currently unloading crates full of Grimm, "Daddy, what's with all the Grimm?" I asked worried, I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see it was one of my daddy's droids ready to escort me to daddy.

"Alright, time to meet my daddy again." I said following the droid.

Both of us stopped when we heard the sound of tearing metal, I turned to see that one of the offloaded containers now had a curved 'X' cut into the opening, "Oh no, take me to daddy, fast!" I ordered, getting a nod of agreement from the droid and it sped of with me right behind it.

[Haseo's P.O.V.]

With Skeith's scythe's having cut through the metal I quickly kicked the opening down, causing it to open wide, "Clear." I said stepping out.

The rest of my team, along with Team RWBY, Saku, and Pi stepped out of the container with their weapons ready. Well, Pi also had her scroll out.

"We have an issue." Pi said, "Due to the lack of active communication towers in the area I'm not getting a signal, meaning I can find our location on a map."

Kuhn quickly climbed on top of the shipping container we had hidden in and scanned around, "I can see... three communication towers on this island." He called down.

"Good." Pi said closing her scroll, "They may all have to be activated in order to create a strong enough signal to be picked up by the nearest CCT."

"Let's get going then." Ruby said, "The sooner we get this done the sooner I can forget about seeing my brother and Weiss in a make out session."

"S-shut up." Weiss said.

"Oh can it already, let's just go." Saku said marching ahead.

We didn't get very far before a series of red droids holding double bladed staves were teleported in front of us.

"What are these guys?" Atoli asked.

"Dunno." Yang said, "But the probably came from the same guy who's been teleporting Grimm to us during our entire mission."

"I see." Atoli said she then flicked out her staff, filling it with Gravity Dust, the swinging it at the droids, causing them to freeze in midair.

"Atoli what are you doing?" Weiss asked stepping back.

"Cutting loose a bit, no one is watching, at least no one in Vale." Atoli said strapping her staff to her back, then throwing her arms out to the side, causing Innis's blades to form from her palms. Atoli then dashed forward, cutting the motionless droid in half as she passed them one by one until they were all bisected, the Gravity Dust running out just as she finished, letting all the droids fall to the ground.

"I'm actually pretty scared about fighting you guy's in the Vytal Festival Tournament right now." Yang said.

"Don't worry Yang, we won't use any epitaph abilities." I assured.

"Still scared." Ruby said as we moved on.

We were halted by a fence, just a simple chain link fence.

"We're gonna have to go around this thing." Ruby said.

"No we won't." Endrance said creating a summoning Glyph, which spawned a Mutated Creep.

"Show off." Weiss said, a little upset she still couldn't do that yet.

The Summon M. Creep ran into the fence and exploded, destroying the fence in the process.

Pi dashed ahead and activated the signal tower, "Alright, I'm getting a terrible signal, but a signal nonetheless." Pi called jumping down from the tower.

"Two more to go." Saku said.

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A few more destroyed Grimm and Droids later we found the next tower, and turned it on, "One more to go everyone!" Pi called leaping back down to us.

As expected, more Droids and Grimm attacked, however against ten Huntmen/huntresses (Most of which were in training) they did not last all that long and we managed to turn on the third tower.

"Done!" Pi called, just as our scrolls automatically accepted a call, switching to speakerphone.

"Ahhh, that's better. Sorry, but the reception is always so bad all the way out here. I hope you're enjoying your stay on the island. You're the first visitors I've had in, well, you're the first." A new voice said.

"I can't believe you guys followed me all the way here." A young girls voice said, "Why can't you just leave me alone!"

"I think you've got the wrong number." Kuhn said as he blew the head off a Grimm

"Oh, where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Merlot, and with me is my daughter Aida yet. You don't know me, but I most certainly know who you are. Nevertheless, I'm thrilled you're here. You might be exactly what I need for a very important... experiment." said the now named Dr. Merlot.

"The hell do you want from us?" I growled.

"For such terrific students as yourselves, this should be an easy test, right?" Merlot said as more Grimm started to enter the makeshift arena we were in.

"Teach you jerks to follow me across the sea." Aida gloated.

The Grimm were falling like flies, despite the fact they were getting reinforcements and within a few minutes another person joined the call, Professor Ozpin.

"So we meet again, Dr. Merlot." Ozpin said.

"Ozpin? Or should I call you Oz like old times, chum?" Merlot retorted

"I thought you perished in the Mountain Glenn disaster, a tragedy you played no small part in." Ozpin argued.

"It was a mistake on my part! One I had thought cost me my daughter, I'm glad it had not. But now you see the ramifications of my research." Merlot said.

"The world was a much safer place without you Merlot." Ozpin said.

"You're calling me the reckless one? Sending your students out on an excursion like this?" Merlot asked

"Just one member of Team HAKE is more than enough to take care of anything you can send out. What you're doing here is wrong Merlot." Ozpin said.

"Trying to make the world a better place is wrong? Say what you will about me. It won't change the fact you're powerless to stop me." Merlot said.

"You'll botch this somehow. You always do." Ozpin said

"Well, let's agree to disagree. I tell you Oz, it has truly been a pleasure catching up, but unfortunately it's time for me to catch up with my little girl. Farewell old chum." Merlot said leaving the call, yet Aida hadn't.

"Oh by the way, I've been watching and studying those things your friends turned into, they can't stand up to me, all I need is just a few minutes to shape my newest creation." Aida said leaving the call as well.

"That isn't a good thing to know." Pi said punching an Ursa head off.

"Agreed." Ozpin said still over the call, "In any case, we've been trying to locate Merlot's island, but we've yet to obtain its coordinates. I need you to continue exploring the island and contact me when you find any evidence of his whereabouts." Ozpin instructed.

"Got it professor." Pi said ending the call, "Alright everyone, we need to find a way inside, Merlot no doubt has the coordinates to this island filed in one of his servers to direct his ships to and from Sanus."

"Got it." Blake said finishing off the last of the Grimm.

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We continued to wonder the island until nightfall, when we found some kind of drilling operation.

"The hell is this stuff?" I asked picking up a stick and poking the substance, nothing happen, I then poured a bit of my aura into the stick and now the stick started to burn in the stuff.

"Professor Ozpin, we've located a drilling operation here on the island." Pi said on her scroll, "The substance appears to be Merlot's mutagen, and seems to be highly acidic to Aura."

"I see, that would explain what he's doing on that island." Ozpin noted, "Continue the mission, and see if you can stop the operation while you're at it."

"More Grimm!" I called out.

"We can follow the pipeline." Endrance said turning a valve and shutting down a steam leak ahead.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Merlot said hijacking our Scrolls again.

"Up yours, we're doing it anyway." I growled into my scroll.

We continued down the path, when Merlot called again, "Oh Oz, your puny proteges have proven to be quite annoying." Merlot said.

"That's kind of our specialty." Kuhn said snarkily.

"I can remember the other professors at Beacon saying the same about you, Merlot, though the word they chose was less kind." said Ozpin, and everyone heard the smirk in his voice while Merlot cut off the connection, yet Ozpin continued "Ever since you got it in your head that experimenting on Grimm was a good idea... your obsession has and will continue to be your downfall."

"The Grimm are a superior species, fascinating in their biology, their unbridled, raw aggression and lack of sentience make them the perfect vessel." Merlot said, "Beside, my research of them saved my daughter's life!"

"Yeah, if daddy hadn't decided to research Grimm the way he did I wouldn't be here today!" Aida shouted.

"Despite the truth of that last statement that line of thought illustrates exactly why you could never be trusted Merlot." Ozpin said.

"Screw you old man." Aida said cutting off the connection.

"Girls got quite the mouth." Saku said, "I like her."

Right as she finished we ran into a new set of droids, these ones were grey, and were holding Minigun/Grenade launchers.

They didn't last long because Atoli used filled her staff with the extremely volatile Earth Dust and shattered the ground beneath them, and smashing them in a cluster of stones.

"Do you believe things happen for a reason, Oz? I mean, your little prodigies practically washed ashore here on my island." Merlot taunted calling us up again.

"I'm not sure what you're getting at." Ozpin replied.

"Maybe they can be of some use to me after all? How serendipitous." Merlot taunted as a door opened across from us.

"Thanks for the entrance dumbass." I said charging ahead.

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Well guy's that's that Chapter, I'll try to see you guys sooner for he next chapter.

Which will end off with Aida Vs. Skeith.