Hello readers, I've finally finished this chapter up and I do apologize for it taking a little while longer than usual. But I got it done now, made sure I got most of my grammar errors corrected and I hope you all like this as much I liked writing this. Also if this seems rushed to you in anyways, it wasn't but I do apologize if it seems that way. :)
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RWBY Effect
Ch.29: Battle to Virmire: Pt.1
"Master Sovereign, why am I here. On this moon, instead of the planet I was told to be on a while back?" Kianna asked with a curious tone as she and Wallace stood in a makeshift tent. Currently both were on the secondary Moon of Virmire called Uvra. Their tent was dead center of a small outpost with a decent amount of Geth troopers walking around. Kianna and Wallace we're currently conversing with Sovereign, viva holo communicator
"Because this moon was always your set destination, I only told you a lie of your travels as to prevent anyone who may have somehow tapped into our communications line form overhearing. It was all for the protection of our plans. But you do know what to do correct?" Sovereign explained calmly, though Wallace wasn't buying it to be that simple. But he just bared and grinned it. Knowing he couldn't show any signs of doubt in front of Sovereign. Though he also knew that Kianna was doing her best not to show she had a change of heart when it came to Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang. They both knew Sovereign wouldn't approve of that and Kianna was already making plans of her own to get the girls to side with her. So that she wouldn't have to kill them. She'd only do that as a last resort and even then Kianna now hated the idea of having to kill them, if it came down to that
"Of course we do Master. We are to stay here to make sure Shepard, team RWBY and the rest of their friends are stopped if they make it here. But what of the other planet, with the other agent?" Wallace answered calmly
"They are given the same task; you will not have to worry about getting into one another's way though. That is all I can say on the subject. Comm me back when Shepard and her little crew have been dealt with. Hopefully not by your hands. Because if so I may have to start considering a few things…" Sovereign stated with a dark tone as the comms went off. Leaving a worried Kianna and Wallace, though worried for different reasons
"Well you heard the master…. we ah, we got to just stay here and make sure that Shepard and the girls don't destroy the generator we're guarding. Because I know they will make it here. They're all trained well enough to take care of the Geths on planets below." Kianna said with a nervous tone "Especially Summers girls….my technical god-daughters. Please let them just back down before they get here."
"Mistress if you feel so strongly opposed to killing those girls. Then why not…well…." Wallace tried to suggest, but didn't know how he could explain it to Kianna without the worry of her freaking out or worse
"Wallace what is it, you know you can tell me anything right?" Kianna asked kindly as Wallace sighed, then took a deep breath before continuing with what he was going to suggest
"I believe you Mistress, but and I'm just suggesting this as a hypothetical possibility. But you could…join their side. Now I'm not saying that Master is wrong, but maybe you could find another way of helping the Grimm and even Geth out. Without having to kill the galaxy. But this is just a hypothetical suggestion." Wallace explained, putting on a not to serious tone so he wouldn't tip Kianna off that he was actually being serious about his suggestion. Thankfully it seemed to work as she began laughing loudly
"You're so funny Wallace, I mean it sounds like a plausible suggestion and it would give me the possibility of not having to kill the girls. But… I still think master Sovereigns plans are the only true way for my goals to come true. But I'll keep the girls alive, I'll kill the rest but them will live. I just got to find a way show them what I'm doing is right…" Kianna said with a hopeful tone as she made her way out of the tent, muttering to herself. Leaving Wallace alone as he sighed
"I see Mistress…this might be harder than I and Ekail had anticipated. I'll have to comm him about the progress on the plan. Let's just hope he's having an easier time with his friend." Wallace muttered, activating his omni-tool to contact his new friend Ekail once more. Though as he was readying for a call, he began thinking over what had been discussed when they first spoke to each other
-Hours before-
"So just to make sure we've got this right, may we go over the plans once more Wallace?" Ekail asked as he and Wallace had been speaking for over three hour straight. One so they could get to know one another since they were going to be working together in secret. That went well as both mechanical beings had similar likes, mainly on keeping their mistresses lives safe. Then Two, they talked about what they could do to get their mistresses out of Sovereigns hold
"Indeed, that would be good to do. Better to make sure we know the plan than mess it up later on." Wallace responded back as he had been very surprised when Ekail told him about his mistress Ziara's mark on the back of her neck. He connected the dots quickly that their so called 'master' was behind this somehow, whatever way he was. He and Ekail along with his other friends would find out soon enough, he hoped that was that case at least
"Good, so the plan is for you to wait for me and friends to find more information about the marks. But as you wait, try and see if you can convince Kianna to switch sides….hm it sounds weird for me to say that. Not that I'm against it but, well it's just weird that we're going to be joining with our enemies or ex-enemies." Ekail said with a slightly amused tone, Wallace could only smirk a little at that
"I agree, but if we want our mistresses to live; then we'll have to join their side of the battle…. I just hope Sovereign doesn't catch onto us." Wallace replied back agreeing that the recent circumstance were strange, along with the fact he was worried about what Sovereign would do if he found out. Wallace could already tell it wouldn't be pretty
"I'm sure he won't, look I have to go off for now. See how Ziara is doing and all." Ekail stated, before bring up the last part of their plan. "You do remember the other thing you have to do beforehand. But only if those people make it past the Geth bases."
"Yes I do know and I'm sure they will. Kianna would probably say they would as well. But I will do it once it does happen." Wallace responded back as he already knew Shepard, those girls and the rest of their friends would succeed with taking out the generators on the planets guarded by the Geths
"Understood Wallace, stay safe my new friend." Ekail kindly said as the video feed went off, Wallace smiled at his new friends worry for his safety. But just then Kianna came, with a wide smile
"Wallace, my best friend. We're here, the computer said we are. So come one let's get a move on!" Kianna joyfully stated as she grabbed Wallace by the arm and lead him out of his current quarters. Wallace just smiled at Kianna's care free attitude at the moment, though he prayed silently that he'd have an easy time convincing her to switch sides in this battle. If not then that's what his part of plan was to come into play, when the girls little group would make their way to his and Ekail locations
-With Ekail a few minutes before Wallace calls-
"Do you have anything new Kalvren?" Ekail asked as he, Kalvren, Poppy and Tenrec all were in a small quickly built hub in the center back of the base protecting the generator on Virmire's second moon called Renva. They had just spoken to Ziara about possibly switching sides in a hypothetical manner if Shepard and her team made their way to the base. Though they also had to lie that the reason they suggested this, was to trick Shepard and her team so they could attack from within. Thankfully Ziara bought that, but she didn't agree on joining them as killing them would be much easier to do. She made her way off to check if the defense were up to standards. Leaving Ekail, Kalvren, Poppy and Tenrec alone, which gave them time to search for more clues on Ziara's mark. Along with clues to prove to Ziara and hopefully to help Wallace with convincing Kianna that Sovereign was just using them all in the end
"Not yet, Sovereign place some good defenses for the file servers. I'm trying my best to bypass them without tipping him off. Because we know we'd be dead if Sovereign found out." Kalvren replied back as he was working on his Omni-tool with quick and precise movements
"We know Kalvren, but we all are willing to take that risk if it means Ziara can be alive and gain a happy life." Poppy stated kindly as she had attached a monitor to Klaverns arm. The monitor was connected to her Omni tool. This in in turn was keeping Kalvrens Omni-tool and the circuits in his arm from shorting out from the extensive usage
"Yes we know that dear Poppy. Still I hope with our assistants Kalvren, you can get through the firewalls and security quicker." Tenrec add in as he had his Omni-too connect with Kalvrens as well. But he was using his Omni-tool to add in extra power to Kalvrens Omni-tool hacking module, so he could hopefully quicken the Kalvrens hacking
"It is helping, but the damn overgrown hunk of metal must be more paranoid that we originally believed. He's set up so many security measures it's like going through a maze of sleeping Varren. I must take this very slowly or else I'll tip off Sovereign. Anyways, you got anymore updates from your friend?" Kalvren said as Ekail sighed a little
"No not yet, worries me a little to be honest. Still if his Mistress is like ours at all, then it might be a task to convince her to change sides." Ekail answered as suddenly his Omni-tool began beeping "Oh never mind, I guess he's got an update." He said as he picked up the call from Wallace, hoping it was good news
-Current time-
"Wallace you have an update?" Ekail asked as his face appeared over the chat screen of Wallace Omni-tool
"Yes I do, seems like my mistress still believes was Sovereign is doing the right thing and is set on killing Shepard and her crew. But will leave the girls Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang alive. She's wanting to convert them to our current side. This could cause issues, there has to be some way to show her that Sovereign is just using her because I defiantly see now that he is…. I still feel so stupid for not catching on sooner." Wallace explained as he angrily sighed, hating himself for not catching onto Sovereigns true colors
"It's alright Wallace, I and the rest with me are in the same boat as you. I remember when I first was turned online. I didn't question Sovereign one bit and only followed Ziara because I was programed. But once I began living with her, I began to care for her. More to the point of loving her as my own kin, she helped me and my friends develop personalities. Along with learning how to become something beyond our programming. I can only think of the way to repay her, is to make sure she gets the happy future she deserves. Ziara needs to get away from Sovereign. It's the only way for her to get that sort of life." Ekail stated with a worried tone, but also happy that if they can get away from Sovereign. Ziara will be able to have a life beyond just being a tool for the old machine. Wallace could only nod in agreement, knowing exactly how his Geth friend felt
"I completely understand what your feeling Ekail, when I was made for Kianna; I was nothing more than a simple V.I. I had basic programming like most and didn't care if I one day just broke down. All I was meant to do was follow my programming and follow Kianna's orders. I had at one point looked up on how most people treat V. I's. Most treated them as tools, disposable tools that could be easily replaced and that was it. But Kianna…. she was different." Wallace responded with a small smile
"Different how if you don't mind me asking friend?" Ekail asked, though hoping he didn't sound like he was being pushy
"No it's okay, what I mean is that Kianna didn't see me that way. She saw me more as a baby and I even remember her installing, improving and programming tech in me. Back then I always asked her what she was doing and she'd just smile and tell me that she was helping me. Then one day after I woke up from a system rest, something happened. I for the first time felt…confused. I felt confused on why I was feeling confused in the first place. But then Kianna came in and smiled saying and I quote, 'Oh, well look at you. You're finally coming around, now you need a name little V…no. Little A.I I mean, you need a name and I think I got the perfect one. Your name will be Wallace and I am Kianna, your friend. I can already tell you and me are going to have a great many years ahead.' That's what she said to me, then she gave me a face that was of a jack-o-lantern, I remember her explain it was to make me a scary looking A.I. Reasons were so that people would be scared whenever they'd see me and not try to mess with me. But all in all, Kianna gave me a name, a face, an identity, a chance to experience emotions and most importantly a purpose in life other than being a simple V.I. Kianna is more than just a friend, in all honestly she is my mother. A mother that I will do my best to keep alive, safe and give a happier life too. She deserves that and much more." Wallace finished explaining, with a wider smile from the memories he has made with Kianna since the day she helped him become sentient
"Then we truly are from the same molds, in a metaphorical sense. Still do you think we'll be able to convince our mistresses to change sides and see the light of what they are to Sovereign. Evidence or not?" Ekail asked with a concerned tone
"Can't say Ekail, we'll just have to wait and see. But I truly do hope we can, because if not then I don't know what we'll do." Wallace responded back as he and Ekail sat in a nervous silence, both waiting for whatever was to come next
-Meanwhile with team RWBY and the rest-
"So we all understand the mission, right?" Ruby nervously asked as she and her team were all armored up, along with being the only ones left on the Normandy for the assault crew. Though Elizbeth and Tali were with them as well. It had taken a while, but Elizbeth was able to request three other Mako's to be covertly drop off on the Geth inhabited planets. Thankfully this worked and with that Joker was able to drop the first three teams near their Mako's. The first team consisted of Team JNPR and Wrex. Team two consisted of team CFVY, Kaidan and Garrus and team three was that of Penny surprisingly, Ozpin, Glynda, Liara and Ashely. Team RWBY was team four, with of course Elizbeth and Tali with them
"We do Ruby, but don't worry I'll make sure you and your sister are safe. Wouldn't want anything to happen to my babies." Elizbeth happily answered back as she quickly got Ruby and Yang in a loving hug and kissing both the tops of their heads with an embarrassing amount of motherly love. Ruby and Yang at this point were red in the face
"Mom!" Ruby and Yang yelled out in totally embarrassment, but we're also loving affection Elizbeth was giving them. They loved having a mom again, one that loved them deeply enough to display public affection without any worries
"I'm know girls but I can't help it, I love you both so much!" Elizbeth answered back joyfully as she let Ruby and Yang go, then smiled widely at her daughters
"We know mom, we do and…we love you just as much." Ruby answered back as she and Yang smiled back, meanwhile the others awed at the moment
"That's cute, really it is." Weiss said as she was pretty glad that Elizbeth was going to be her mother in law one day
"I know it is, Tali you going to join in with them?" Blake asked as she was glad as well for Elizbeth being their mother in law one day, just like Weiss. But she was also glad Tali was probably going to be part of the family also. Lastly, she was glad Ruby and Weiss would technically be her sisters in law one day. Blake was all around just happy for this peaceful moment before the mission ahead
"I would, but I'm finding this moment to cute to cut into. Besides we should be getting ready for the mission. Right Elizbeth?" Tali asked as Elizbeth, Ruby and Yang walked up next to them
"You got it and let's not forget our little furry back up." Elizbeth responded as Zwei dress in a dog made armored suit with a built-in helmet came running up from behind Blake, Weiss and Tali. Then jumped into Ruby's arms
"Yay, Zwei is coming with us!" Ruby happily said as she petted the pup, Weiss came in seconds later petting him as well
"Oh yes he is, who's an adorable puppy. You are!" Weiss said next happily as she and Ruby were having the time of their life's petting Zwei. Meanwhile the others watched with slight bewilderment, though in Blake's case it was more of nervousness
"Is Zwei really coming with us… he could turn out to be more trouble that help." Blake asked as Elizbeth smirked "Oh please don't tell me he is…."
"Blake Zwei is a part of family too and you can call this team, the family team. So you're going to have to deal with him, besides this could help you with your phobia of dogs." Elizbeth answered kindly as Blake sighed. But then she started to laugh a little, then everyone else began laughing. Though as they laughed Elizbeth noticed the girls all had four rings on their ring fingers. The colors were red for Ruby, white for Weiss, black for Blake and yellow for Yang. As amusing as the concept was, she had to ask about the rings "Girls where did you get those rings from?"
"Oh these ah…." Ruby began to say, didn't know how to word it
"It's…well its…." Weiss stated next, but didn't have much luck either. Blake and Yang just shrugged, making Elizbeth somewhat suspicious of those rings
"Could those be engagements rings?" Tali remarked smirking under her mask and making the girls all blush from the statement
"Wait what?" Elizbeth asked in a slightly panicked tone "Girls?"
"No that's not it's Elizbeth, their just rings we found. You know as a nice little piece of accessories. I bought Ruby's and she bought mine. Same goes for Yang and Blake. They bought theirs for each other too!" Weiss explained, lying about the fact Coco gave them the rings. She didn't explain where she got them, other than it was from a friend of hers they had yet to meet and that these were to help in the upcoming events of the future. She and the girls were confused by that, but Coco only could say that they'd have to trust her since she didn't know much herself
"Really, then why haven't I seen you with them until now?" Elizbeth asked in a sterner tone, but Tali gently intervened
"Elizbeth, I think they just bought the ring from our last visit to the Citadel. I'm sure they're putting them on now as a good luck charm. Right ladies?" Tali suggested kindly as team RWBY nodded very quickly in agreement, Elizbeth didn't seem to buy it. Until she smiled a few moments later
"I guess that makes sense, but just don't go to fast with your relationships yet. Not that I'm against you getting married whenever. But I just don't want to have my girls grow up too fast." Elizbeth stated kindly
"We understand Elizbeth, but don't be surprised when me and Blake do purpose to your daughters." Weiss remarked with a smirk as the group laughed, though like most times in the Normandy Joker cut in
"Hey Joker the messenger here, you ready for some Geth slaying?" Joker asked with an amused tone
"Joker for real you always seem to cut in at the heart warming moments. Your almost as bad as mom when it comes to her fortune telling." Yang joked as Elizbeth pinched her cheek a little "Ow that's hurts mom!"
"Yes it does and I keep saying that I don't mean to." Elizbeth replied as she let go of Yang's cheek
"Pff… right and I don't have a crippling bone disease." Joker joked as Elizbeth loaded up her pistol and pull back the slide making a clicking noise, which startled Joker
"Joker your about to have broken bone disease if you keep smart mouthing me." Elizbeth said with a slightly uneasy joyful tone
"Yes ma'am." Joker responded with a nervous tone, but then brought the conversation back to a serious tone "But for real you all ready?"
"Ladies and young pup?" Elizbeth asked as team RWBY and Tali nodded a yes, Zwei just barked happily waging his short tail "I think you got your answer Joker."
"Alright then, if you all would so kindly get into the Mako, we'll make our way down to the last planet." Joker stated amusingly as team RWBY, Elizbeth and Tali carrying Zwei now. Made their way into the Mako, though they didn't know what they were getting themselves into. The others meanwhile were getting closer to figuring out what was instore for them
-With team CFVY, Kaidan and Garrus-
"You know Coco I have to admit, I didn't think you'd be this safe of a driver." Garrus remarked with an amused grin as he, Velvet, Yatsuhashi and Fox sat in the back seats. Meanwhile Kaidan took the gunner seat this time, Coco herself was actually taking this drive pretty smoothly which was slightly out of her character. She'd at least do a jump or two off a small hill by now, but she was just driving straight to the base itself
"Yeah kind of weird that you're being the safe driver, you're never this safe… never." Fox stated with a slightly surprised tone, though he got a quick slap to the back to his head by Velvet
"Fox be nice, you know she's a good driver…well from the last time we drove in the Mako. Still Coco are you feeling alright, you're not usually this quiet." Velvet asked with a worried tone as Coco sighed a little
"Sorry hunny, just thinking is all." Coco answered with a somewhat quiet tone
"Thinking about what if you don't mind me asking?" Garrus asked as Coco snickered
"No problem, still I got to say if your so forward with girl your trying to hook up with. Then you'll probably get stood up, most girls don't like guys that are so forward with wanting to know what they're thinking. You got to earn it with the lady first. But since your one of my friends, you get the info more easily." Coco said with a smirk as she and Garrus chuckled
"Still, what is that you we're thinking of?" Yatsuhashi asked, bring the conversation back to the Garrus pervious question
"Right, well I was just thinking over how we're going to handle this base is all." Coco answered calmly – "That's a lie…I'm really thinking of what Amber told me, what the deal is with those rings I gave team RWBY and the most concerning. What going to happen in near future and how bad is it going to get…"-
"Well personally I just thought we we're going to barge in there and start shooting up them Geths. Then take out the shield generator. You know pull a Coco." Kaidan answered smirking as Coco laughed a little at that
"If that's what your all we're planning on doing, then hey I guess we can do a Coco or well me tactic. You know I mean." Coco said happily, then nothing but silence for a while more during the trip. Still even after a good few minutes had passed, she was still worried on what Amber had told during their meeting. So to at least get her mind off of the subject until after the mission, Coco decided to ask some more questions and she knew who to ask "Hey I just realized something."
"What would that be hun?" Velvet asked
"I just realized that me and the rest of our team know a decent amount about almost everyone on the ship. Expect for Kaidan here." Coco explained "So you mind telling us about yourself a little solider boy?"
"Huh, haven't heard that one in a while." Kaidan responded back with a smirk "Still what do you to know or to the matter of fact what do you all want to know about me?"
"Well…. you're a biotic, right?" Velvet asked as Kaidan nodded while he kept his attention through the scope of the Mako's turret "Okay so where did you learn to improve your skills?"
"Ah, that's a pretty good question…" Kaidan said as he sighed a little "You all sure you want to hear because it's a little long."
"We wouldn't be asking if we didn't want to know." Yatsuhashi kindly responded back and smiled just a little to reassure Kaidan
"Alright then, but where to start though…oh I got it. Let's start with a quick history lesson, so basically when element Zero was exposed to certain number of individuals. A certain amount strangely being pregnant woman, it caused mutations. Hence why humans can use biotics in the first place, which showed up first in new born babies. But when that start, later on came Biotic Acclamation and Temperance Training. Better known as B.O.T to some and for the kids sent there, well we called it Brain camp." Kaidan explained, much to the others interest already
"Brian camp, seems a little…morbid. Don't you think?" Coco asked as Kaidan gave her a weak smile
"It was, but then again after being hauled in there; that's what we called it. Oh sorry, hauled is a bit to mean of word. We were 'encouraged' to commit to an evaluation of our biotics. So, that our abilities could be studied for the betterment of humanity. Though it does beat the worst things to happen when exposed to element Zero in the womb, especially the brain tumors some of the kids grew up with…those kids were brave till the end." Kaidan explained once more as the rest we're surprised by what Kaidan was telling them. Except for Garrus who had heard all about this from sources here and there
"I heard about that, the companies on your planet would purposely expose people to element Zero." Garrus stated as team CFVY were even more shocked what they were hearing
"Wait for real, because if that's the case I hope the got what was coming to them." Velvet Sternly said as Kaidan frowned
"Sorry to say then Velvet, but they didn't. Not enough evidence was ever found to prove that they did. But there was a few rumors that evidence was found, then again the people who said that never were heard from again." Kaidan answered as Velvet huff in disgust
"Just when I though this place didn't have anything else worse in it, people here are cruel." Velvet stated as Yatsuhashi patted her on the shoulder "Thanks."
"No problem." Yatsuhashi replied kindly, then turned his gaze to Kaidan once more "But was this how you got your Biotic abilities?"
"Nope, my mother was down wind during a transport crash. It was before there were human biotics and little after the discovery of the ruins found on mars. It was only iffy around 63 when Kinetics began running out of subjects. Until then they had relied on accidentals. It's funny a little when I think back. I was this naive kid who amazed by his biotic abilities without a care in the world, then a bunch of guys in suits show up at your door one day after school. Then in a moment's notice your taken away from you home, your friend, your mom and end up on jump zero." Kaidan explained with a depressed tone, the others felt bad for asking him
"Sorry to ask, we didn't mean to bring up. Still did you know of any intentional exposures that this Kinetics group did?" Yatsuhashi asked
"No, back then it was hard to find accidentals and biotics were an unknown. So anything that Kinetics did was gold. Now I'm not saying they did or didn't purposely expose people to element zero, but when exposures did happen. Those guys we're on the spot to quickly if you know what I'm saying." Kaidan answered as this was drawing quiet a darker picture of humanity for team CFVY
"Well it's good to know kind people like you, Garrus and the others on the Normandy are still around. Can't believe how people can be in this place, seems counterproductive if you ask me." Coco said with a kind tone "Still thanks for telling us that about yourself, we'd like to hear more but I think we're getting close to the base."
"How do you know Coco?" Garrus asked as suddenly a few bullets shot off the sides of the Mako, then more gun fire
"That's why, hold on this is going to get bumpy and Kaidan you better start shooting right when a Geth or base turret are in sight. That understood!" Coco yelled out as she beagn swerving the Mako side to side, dodging all the bullets from the yet unseen attackers
"Yes ma'am!" Kaidan answer with a serious tone – "She could be a pretty good drill sergeant if she wanted to be." -
"Where are they?" Fox asked as he tried his best to keep himself stationed in his seat
"I don't know, but I see the top of the base…no wait that's the generator. Coco keep going and I'll shoot!" Kaidan stated as he and the others readied for a battle to come. Though unknow to them team two of team JNPR and Wrex, were having somewhat similar troubles
-With team JNPR and Wrex-
"YOUR ALL GETTING BULLETS!" Jaune yelled out in utter annoyance as he fired off a flurry of ten rounds into three Geths troopers trying to charge. He along with the rest of his team and Wrex were hiding behind two separate crates inside the Geth base they had to attack. The Generator was large along with being dead center in the base. Now team JNPR and Wrex would have had an easy time taking down the generator, if not for the large group of Geth troopers defending it. Hence their current situation of hiding behind cover and warding off the Geths
"Jaune you might want to calm down a little." Pyrrha kindly said as she fired off a round with her spears rifle mode, shooting three Geth snipers heads clean off as the body fell limp on the ground
"Oh let the boy have his fun, besides that's the kind of attitude that gets most Krogan pumped up for battle." Wrex calmly stated as he rested his body against the crates, pulled out a frag grenade, threw it over his shoulder as it landed in the center of ten Geths. Wrex then smiled and pressed a small detonator, once he did that the grenade blew up sending Geth pieces all around. One being a Geth head that fell right in front of Wrex who's smile widened "SCORE!"
"That was awesome!" Nora yelled out joyfully as she had her weapon in its grenade launcher mode, she fired off a few grenades up in the air. Strangely enough the grenades hit against a roof panel, bounced off and landed in the center of a few fuel canisters. Said canisters we're right next to a few Geths shooting at them and an inactive Geth Amateur. The grenades blew up, taking out the Geths and the Amateur in one fiery heap of scrap. "But what I just did was GOD LIKE!"
"Nora, you may not be Kragon by species. But you are by spirit." Wrex stated with a wide eyed expression from Nora's god like skills with explosives
"Sweet, come on Wrex lets break more things!" Nora replied back as she jumped over the crates and began firing off her grenade launcher in every direction with destructive results for the Geth forces
"Ren you got yourself a keeper." Wrex remarked with an amused tone as he jumped over the crates now "Come on kid's let's get to scraping these damn Geths!" he yelled out, blasting Geths here and there with his shotgun. Creating devastating damage to each Geth he came across
"Seriously, do either one of you remember us behaving so weird and random before we came to this era?" Pyrrha asked as this galaxy saving mission just kept bringing out more strangeness as it went on
"Can't say Pyrrha." Jaune answered giving his girlfriend a shrug, then he looked at Ren with a smirk "But for real dude, you know how to attract the crazy ones."
"I swear to god Jaune…." Ren responded with a slightly annoyed look
"Play nice boys, still Nora and Wrex have a good plan." Pyrrha stated as she pulled out her shield and readied her spear. Then she jumped over the cover and charged at the Geths, already impaling two with her spear "Come on boys, let's get up close and personal with these bulb heads!"
"You know Jaune I can see who wears that pants in your relationship." Ren remarked with a smug grin as Jaune narrowed his eyes at him
"Touché my friend…. Touché." Jaune said as he looked back at where Pyrrha, Wrex and Nora changed off into "We're probably going have to follow right?"
"Yep." Ren answered slightly wincing
"Oh good…. your lower area still hurt after your little private session with Nora?" Jaune asked wincing a little himself "Trust me I still feel pretty sore myself, Pyrrha as much as I love her can really get wild at times."
"I see and yeah I'm still sore, but we have to help. For our friend and girlfriend's sakes." Ren proudly stated as he and Jaune stood quickly up. But they winced in pain
"Ah that stings, ready Ren?" Jaune asked as Ren gave him a determined look as both got their weapons ready and loaded. "Good, then forward to battle!"
With that Ren and Jaune made their way into the battle along with other, doing their best to fight off the Geth. Then once they would do that, destroy the generator. Though as they did this, the third team consisting of Glynda, Ozpin, Ashley, Liara and Penny were making their way to their target Geth base
-With Glynda, Ozpin, Ashley, Liara and Penny-
"Friend GoodWitch, this ride is a very bumpy one. I like this vehicle, it's so cozy and warm in here." Penny happily said as she, Ozpin and Liara sat patiently in their seats. Meanwhile Glynda drove (Much to her reluctances to do so) and Ashley took the gunners seat. Currently they were driving to the Geth base, getting closer to it, well they believed they were. Glynda herself turned out to be a nervous driver, always freaking out a little every few seconds in fear of messing up
"It is Penny, but please don't use the word bumpy. It makes me feel, OH GOD NO!" Glynda nervously replied back as she stopped the Mako, which itself was over the ledge of a short heighted cliff. A cliff that wouldn't harm them in any way when they landed, but Glynda was not taking the chance. Even though it was pretty obvious they'd live
"Okay Glynda I am surprised that you're this nervous, where's that scary teacher vibe you were giving off a while back?" Ashely asked snickering at Glynda's nervousness, since she'd been acting so stern and tough since she came aboard the ship with the others. Though Ashely then got a quickly smack to her left hand by Glynda's cattle whip "Ah, that really hurts. My god you're a monster with that thing?"
"That's what you get for being a smart mouth, don't think just because we're on a mission that I won't discipline you if needed." Glynda stated as she looked back at Liara and Penny with a smile "Take a note from Liara and Penny, they're behaving well."
"Oh well I ah… thank you Glynda." Liara responded with a slight bashful tone from the praise
"Yes thank you friend GoodWitch!" Penny added in joyfully as she gave a wide smile of appreciation for the praise
"Teachers pets…." Ashley remarked, but got another smack on the hand from Glynda "Will you cut that out Glynda?!"
"Sorry just my teacher's instinct kicking in." Glynda answered with a smirk, then looked back at the others "How are the rest of you doing so far?"
"Me and Penny are fine. Ozpin, well…." Liara answered kindly as she looked at Penny
"Friend Ozpin is asleep like a baby friend GoodWitch!" Penny answered as Glynda and a curious Ashley looked at Ozpin, who had his eyes closed while quietly snoring
"HOW IN THE WORLD CAN THAT MAN BE ASLEEP AT A TIME LIKE THIS?!" Glynda asked with bewildered look as she couldn't believe he was sleeping during a mission this important
"Jeez, that guy act so calm and wise most of the time. But from how your reacting to him sleeping, I'm wondering how you both were as teens. "Ashley asked with an amused tone as the others laughed, even Glynda
"Well let's just say we had a lot of good times, with our friends, family and each other…" Glynda happily stated, then she began remembering a very special memory. It was when she had met Ozpin, Port and Oobleck. That was probably one of her most cherished memories
-Beacon Academy: Another time ago-
"Now Glynda this maybe the first time we're meeting. But aside from that, I will say I was happy when your father asked me personally to let you into the academy. He's written to me about many of your intellectual feats over the years. Though I must ask, are you okay with the life style you've been thrown into?" A tall rounded old man, wearing a faded blue suit with a white undershirt and a red tie asked. He was tanned, with brown eyes and grey short hair/beard. This was Head Master Lupe. The original founder of Beacon Academy, before handing it off to Ozpin years later and who made it the academy it was when he took over
"If I'm being honest not really. I may hate the Grimm just as much as my dad, but that doesn't mean I like fighting and kill them any better. I believe that with progressive thinking on more peaceful solutions to deal with the Grimm, we can eliminate the need for huntresses and hunters. Then we won't need schools like this disgrace of an educational facility. No offense of course headmaster." A younger Glynda GoodWitch answered, she wore a somewhat older version of the female's schools uniform. The only real difference was that the uniform looked a lot more worn out. But then again Beacon Academy was not as famous during this time, meaning not as much income for better school supplies. That includes newer school uniforms, they were hand-me downs to be exact
"None taken Glynda, trust me your mother was as blunt like you with her opinions. By the way, how is she?" Professor Lupesaid kindly, he remembered what good students Glynda's father and mother were when they first came to the academy. Though to his confusion, Glynda frowned
"Um… she died. A long while ago, it's really just been me and my dad." Glynda responded back with a depressed tone, Lupe just sighed and mentally smack himself for asking the question. Even if he hadn't known up until now
"I see, my condolences then. Your mother was an amazing student and later on an amazing huntress." Lupe stated kindly as Glynda smiled in appreciation for the words, then Lupe looked to see they were right up to the dorm they had to be at "Aside from what we just spoke of, Glynda I would like you to meet your team for the rest of the four years here."
"Team?" Glynda asked as Professor Lupe open the door in front of them, revealing three boys around her age if not a year older. All three wore the male's black school uniform, though like hers. Their uniforms were worn looking also. Glynda was surprised and decided to take a closer look at her teammates
Th first was a somewhat large boy, he had brown hair and was cleaned shaved, he also had dark brown eyes along with peach skin. His uniform was kept up nicely, despite it's worn look. He also seemed to be tinkering with a blunderbuss of sorts, that also had an axe mode built in.
The second was a thinner boy, he had wild green hair, bug eyed glasses with a slight crack in the right lens, while his uniform was covered in dirt and some food stains. He looked like a complete slob/mad genius. Though the last boy got her attention the most.
The last boy was thin, but also had some muscle. He had brown eyes, pale skin and short but spiky black hair. His uniform was like the first boys, well-kept but also somewhat messy as his shirt was untucked. But what caught her eyes the most was his tortoise shelled glasses that surprisingly stayed on his face despite the lack anything keeping them up.
"Um hi?" Glynda finally said as she got done inspecting her new teammates as it is was, though a few things did cross her mind as odd "Professor Lupe I'm not going to argue with you but…why am I stuck on a team with boys. I am girl and I know we have to share dorms with our teammates so yeah."
"Oh Glynda don't worry, I wouldn't have put you with these boys if I didn't trust them to behave like proper gentlemen. Now I'll leave you to get acquainted." Professor Lupe kindly explained as he made his way out, leaving Glynda and her new teammates alone
"Well since you're our new teammate, I believe we should properly introduce ourselves." The large sized boy kindly said as he walked up to Glynda and held his hand out "Peter Port, a pleasure to meet you miss."
"The pleasure is mine as well Peter." Glynda replied back shaking Ports hand, she already felt welcomed. Once she and port were done shaking hands, Port stepped back and the bugged eyed glasses boy came up next holding his hand out
"Bartholomew Oobleck at your service. You're the daughter of John Bubbles correct?" Oobleck asked with a quick curious tone as Glynda nodded slowly, then shook Oobleck hand which she took notice had some dirt on it. Oobleck seemed to have more to say though "Marvelous, to have the daughter of a famous Hunter will make a fine addition to our team!"
"Um…thank you." Glynda responded back as she gave Oobleck an awkward smile, he seemed nice enough as well and like Port did. Oobleck stepped back and the last boy walked to Glynda holding his hand up while smiling
"I'm Ozpin, nice to meet you miss." Ozpin said, but confused Glynda why he didn't say a last name. Either he was keeping secrets or he just didn't have a last name. But Glynda put behind her for the moment and shook Ozpins hand
"Nice to meet you as well Ozpin, but may I ask which one of you boys is my Partner. Because I believe we're assigned those beforehand." Glynda asked as she and Ozpin let go of one another's hands. Oobleck and Port pointed quickly at Ozpin who smile widen "Oh is that so well nice to meet you once more partner…yep…. yep…"
"No need to be nervous Glynda, we're all a team here." Ozpin joyfully stated, making Glynda feel even more comfortable
"Right, well I guess this will be a fun four years ahead of us." Glynda joked awkwardly as she, Ozpin, Port and Oobleck had a laugh at that. Then many daily life adventures came for the four, giving Glynda memories she would cherish for rest of her life
-Current time-
"Glynda!" Ashely yelled out for the tenth time as Liara, an awake Ozpin and Penny covered their ears from how loud Ashely had yelled. Though to their relief Glynda snapped out of it
"Huh what, who, where?" Glynda asked in a slight shock, until she saw Ashley and the rest looking at her "Um…what did I miss?"
"You kind of zoned out a little friend GoodWitch, though you we're smiling so it must have been a good zone out." Penny answered happily
"Yeah and that's why Ashley began yelling. I believe this was her tenth attempt to snap you out of it." Ozpin explained as Glynda looked over to Ashely with a sheepish smile
"Oh sorry about then, but yeah I was having some good memories of when me and Ozpin we young. We all had good times and in our fourth year we even…" Glynda began to say but stopped as Ozpin winced a little at what she was about to explain
"Glynda are you alright?" Liara asked with a worried tone as Glynda just nodded calmly
"Yes I am, no worries at all. Still anyone know if were close to the Geth base?" Glynda asked as Penny raised her hand "I was being rhetorical Penny."
"I know friend GoodWitch, but my scanners say that were right above it!" Penny joyfully answered, much to the others confusion
"Wait you have a scanner?" Ashely asked
"Wait we're right above the base?" Glynda asked next as she placed her helmet on and activated it's under suit function "Get your suits on too, I'm taking a look outside."
"Roger." Ashely and Liara replied back as they put their helmets on. Penny and Ozpin just nodded, place their helmets on. Then like Glynda activated the under suit functions. With that Glynda opened the hatch and made her way to the front end of the Mako. She looked down the cliff to see to her shock that the base was beneath them, just like Penny had said "For real?"
"Glynda what's wrong?" Ozpin asked as Glynda made her way back in the Mako
"Nothing other than I'm astounded that we were above the base the whole time….kind of weird that they haven't taken notice of us yet." Glynda explained with a still bewildered look as she sat back down in the driver's seat
"What I'm confused about is that this cliff edge is high enough for us not to be noticed, but also lower enough that the Mako won't be damaged if we fell over. Call me crazy, but this was way to convenient." Ashley stated with as she rubbed tried rubbing her forehead, but then remembered she still had her helmet on and she couldn't take it off since the top hatch of the Mako was still open "Damn, forgot about the helmet."
"Don't worry friend Ashley, I think friend Glynda has a plan." Penny happily responded back
"Is the little lady right?" Ashely asked Glynda who nodded in agreement with Penny's statement
"Penny is, never could figure out how she makes such accurate assumptions though." Glynda answered with a smirk as Penny giggled "But as for the plan and hear me out. But I think we should do an aerial drop into their base, get them where they won't expect us which is from above. Once we do that, we'll land right near the generator. But we'll take care of the Geth first then the generators. Sound like a plan?"
"It does, but I didn't expect you to think of it. No offence." Liara replied back as Glynda chuckled a little
"True, but it's the easiest way to start our attack. Besides with the top hatch of th Mako already open we can climb out quickly without having to open the side door." Glynda said as the others had to agree once more that it was a good idea
"Alright, so I guess we should get ready?" Ozpin asked as Glynda answered by speeding the Mako over the cliff and landing straight into the Geth base. As they began falling for their attack, they wondered how the rest were doing with their missions
-Elsewhere in Vale-
"Kalzar, what are we doing here. Shouldn't we you know, be looking for more food?" Karina asked as she, Annabelle, Rayna and Kalzar were slowly walking down to the school's armory/shooting range. They had found a directory in the box Kalzar had found. He and the girls had decided to travel to it so they could find weapons if possible. Enzar, Virack and Dingreg stayed back at the camp so they could make sure no more of those Grimm came back
"Because we need to find weapons sooner and not later. We don't know how tough these Grimm are or if our guns will do any significant damage to them. Sure maybe the ones that the New humans dealt with died easily, but I got a good look at the Grimm's in this place when we first made a run for it. They were a lot different in appearance and I even think they were a bit bigger too. Also we don't have any extra ammo magazine other than the ones in our guns." Kalzar explained, bringing up some worry in the others
"If what you said could be true, then I hope we do find some weapons or we might be short a few numbers if the Grimm come back." Karina stated as she knew the rest of the boys could die if what Kalzar said was true
"Enough yapping, we got to keep focused kids." Rayna sternly said as she was in the back of the group, but also acting as the guard for the group. She didn't mind any of these people at all really, in all honestly she liked them a lot more than most people she knew. Especially the three young ones she was guarding. Rayna had a sort of maternal protectiveness with them, but she wouldn't ever let anyone in the group know that
"Alright, geez Rayna why not pull our ears while you're at it." Annabelle replied back rolling her eyes as Rayna snickered for once
"Maybe I will later, right now though I'm acting the guard. So just follow what I'm saying, I've done this stuff before." Rayna answered back as the others just nodded
As they went further down the hallways of the old school, they passed many rooms filled with a few skeletons. But none looked like those of students. Seemed more like older men and women alike. No one could think of a reason why that would be, but the group knew they had to press onwards. So farther down they went seeing more and more skeletons alike. But strangely they also saw many broken down corpses of Atlesian Knights. They remembered the names from team RWBY short little film. As the group passed by the bots bodies, Kalzar made a mental note to come back and see if he could fix some of them to use as a defense against the Grimm. Once again the four walked through the hallway and then down a long flight of steps. They went down slowly and became unnerved from the fact that it was getting darker with each step. Soon they were in almost complete darkness which covered most of the steps with a few spots of light shining through cracks of the upper floors. But once the finally made it down, they saw the armory door was open. Though they were ecstatic about this, they also were nervous.
"So… who's going in first?" Annabelle asked trying not to sounds scared
"I am obviously, I'm the one leading the group here." Kalzar answered with slight amusement as he slowly made his way through the door followed by Annabelle, Karina and Rayan seconds later. But as they made their way in the room. They saw it was lite up by the natural early morning sunlight coming from a multitude of holes in the upper floors above this room
"I have to say this is pretty cool and I think we just found our weapons." Karina said with a happy tone as on the ground below them, were hundreds if not more of weapons. From the gun/melee weapons, regular guns and melee weapons. It was a gold mine for them
"This is what I call extra fire power, but what should we take?" Rayna asked as she wondered how they'd get a good amount of these weapons back to the camp sight quickly, along with if this would take a few days to do
"We'll figure it out Rayna. Right now let's try to find the best weapons for us. So I can see if they need fixing up before we use them." Kalzar answered back as he and the rest looked through the piles of weapons. They looked and looked to see most were still functional, but were all just common like weapons. They needed at the moment, unique weapons that could help keep them safe. So as the searched on, they split up in the room since it was quiet large. They looked and looked around, then Annabelle found what they need
"Hey guys get over here!" Annabelle said in a joyful tone as the others made their way over to her. What they saw made them awed at, just like Annabella was. They looked upon seven weapons in cases. All with a look that they had been untouched by time
The first weapon was a large club with a long, but thin two handed grip. The club itself was grey with a red and a grey connector. The grip was gray as well, with a red leather center. At the end of the club itself was a square like end piece. The whole weapon looked like it had a secondary feature, but what it was no one knew.
The second weapon was pair of forest green sickles, that had three connector pieces. One piece being the blade, the second being the connector and the third being an angular grip. From what they could tell, the blade seemed to have three unknow functions.
The third weapon was a red colored staff with yellow highlights. The staff itself seemed to be made from two rifles or shotguns that were connected at the barrels. Lastly the ends were the butts of the guns, while the triggers plainly showed.
The fourth weapon look like a triple changer Guandao, from what the group could tell by. It seems it could turn in a rifle of some kind and a trident, since it looked as it had three blades connected to one another in its Guandao form. The grips itself was long, which was obvious since the weapon would be more effect with a longer grip than most weapons.
The fifth weapon was a simple, but large grey and white colored revolver. The body was bulky looking which gave off a semi-auto pistol look and seemed to have two triggers, though oddly no hammer in sight. The only other noticeable feature of the gun was that on the barrel had a floral engraving.
The sixth weapon was a pair of two black curve blades similar to scimitars, with multiple cutting edges. The blades had not hilt connected to it, but two black hilts seemed to be able to connect at the ends. Forming their secondary mod, whatever that was.
The last weapon was a hiltless matted grey katana, that had it's dark red hilt covering the blade. Though it didn't seem to have a transformation function. It would be a deadly weapon anyways and maybe it did transform into something else. When it came to the new humans weapons, much of it was still a mystery.
"So I'm calling that we've found the jackpots of weapons and to our luck there's seven of them, for seven of us." Rayna happily said "Question is though, who gets what?"
"Yeah, who does gets what Kalzar?" Annabelle asked as she and the rest of the girls looked at Kalzar, making him a little nervous
"What, why are you asking me?" Kalzar asked as Karina laughed a little
"Because you're our leader and I know seems weird that we picked you. Me, the girls and the rest of the boys talked about it when you fell asleep. We decided since you've been the one giving the orders mostly, that you'd be the our leader and you haven't lead us astray yet. Also before you ask, yes Virack even agreed pretty quickly. Despite him being a Krogan. But then again he told us that he's done leadership thing before and didn't care for it anymore." Karina explained happily as the others nodded in agreement "But just to make sure, are you saying you don't want to be the leader?"
"What no, I mean I though the whole time that this was an equally footing sort of thing. You know… we all just give and order here and there. Beside I don't think I'd make a good leader." Kalzar answered back with a nervous tone, but Annabella just patted him on the shoulder
"Look Kalzar, I know you can be. You got the stuff to make and excellent leader. I know you do, so trust in us that we trust in you boss." Annabelle stated with a reassuring smile, followed by Rayna and Karina who did the same
"Thanks, I mean it." Kalzar responded back, smiling under his mask. Then he looked back at the weapons "Alright so here's the plan, we take these weapons back since there in the best shape. They might weight a bit but it's a good idea to have them just incase, so I can work on them as soon as possible. Oh and I'm wanted to ask you something Annabelle."
"What would that be Kalzar?" Annabelle asked with a curious tone, Karina and Rayna just smirked. As they already knew what he was going to ask
"Well since I'm the leader, I do need a second in command and since you've been the second most talkative. Along with giving the most orders next to me, would you….you know…." Kalzar asked nervously. But that just because he was always somewhat nervous around women, no matter the species
"I think I'd like that Kalzar, I'd like that very much." Annabelle answered with a wide grin as she looked back at the others "You two good with that?"
"No issues with me kid." Rayna responded
"Same here, besides I think me and the rest are more of the take orders types." Karina responded next "But if I may suggest this, how about us four pick our weapons now. Since we're already down here and it will make things easier in the long run. We'll just have the boys picked from what's left of these magnificent weapons."
"Sounds good to me, I'll go first I guess." Kalzar said as he looked through the seven weapons, wondering which one would work with him the most. Though after a few seconds of thinking it through, he picked the twin forest green sickles. He walked up to the case and opened it, to his luck two the blades had two leather holsters tied to a leather belt wrapped behind them. Kalzar placed the holsters around his waist, then accidently hit the formation switch. Transforming the blades into twin revolvers. Kalzar smiled as he placed his new weapons in the holsters "Wow, now this I'm going to love tinkering with."
"I'll go next then!" Karina happily shouted as she looked through the weapons and immediately saw the one she wanted. She walked up to the large revolver and took it out of the case, then again like Kalzar new weapon, it had a holster belt tied to the back of it. She quickly tied the belt around her waist, inspected the revolver with childlike awe and then placed it in the holster "This is awesome!"
"Jeez you really are just a little girl in a woman's body." Rayna joked as Karina snickered at the friendly jab. Then she inspected the weapons which took a minuet to do. But in the end she took the twin scimitar like blades. She slowly swung them with ease and smiled. Though she also found a bow sheath tied to one of the blades. The wheels turned quickly into Rayna's head as she placed the ends of the blades together. With that the blades transformed into a smooth compound bow. Rayna smirked as she placed the sheathed around her chest, then placed the bow in the sheath "Reminds me of back home with mom and dad. Annabelle, your last to go for picking between the four of us."
"Okay, then let's see what I'll pick?" Annabelle said as she looked around the remaining weapons, then she found her weapon. The one she wanted, she walked up to the case with the hiltless katana. Opened it and took it out slowly, she opened the sheath just a little to see a blood red blade inside. She smiled at that and with luck the blades sheath had a beltloop built in. Annabelle fixed the weapon to her belt, but as she finished doing so; she noticed an average sized box bellow the blade. Out of curiosity she knelt down next to the box and opened it, what she found was a white mask that would only cover the top part of her face. The mask itself had red tribal markings and four slits around the eyes. Annabelle looked at the mask in a trance as it felt like this mask was familiar to her, but as she stared deeper into the mask. Everything suddenly went dark for her
-Somewhere-
"Where…where am I?" Annabelle asked out loud as she got up slowly, opened her eyes and looked around to see she was in a white area of emptiness. She began to panic a little form this as she looked side to side some more "Where am I?"
"You're a talker aren't you, ironic really." A man said as Annabelle quickly turned around and saw the man who just spoke. Said man was tall, pale skinned, had sleek red hair and two black bull horns coming from just his forehead. He wore a black suit with red highlights around the cuffs and vest. Lastly he wore a pair of black gloves, but what got Annabelle's attention was the mask she had just seen that was place upon his face. The man gave of a terrifying look, but Annabella stood up and kept a stern face to show she wasn't afraid
"Are you the owner of that katana and mask?" Annabelle asked as the man just nodded. But she had another question "Are a Faunas?"
"Yes, yes I am... kind of weird looking at you though. Your human and that makes it strange to say the least." The man stated as he realized something "Oh right, my name is Adam Taurus, who are you young lady?"
"Annabelle, that's all you need to know. But why does me being human seem weird to you?" Annabelle asked with a wary gaze
"Connect the dots girl, why would I think that and why would you be here even. I know you saw the mask and had a connection to it. So connect the dots girl." Adam answered with a tone that could only be described as a scolding teacher
"Jeez fine, give me a mome... no way. That's not possible, you can't be my…my…." Annabelle asked in a slight shock as she concluded on Adam's connection with her. Adam just nodded slowly, much to Annabelle's surprise even more "Your being serious about this?"
"Yes, yes I am Annabelle. It's seem like your my reincarnation, again ironic from how I use to treat humans… I think it is at least. I can't seem to remember much other than I hate humans, but if that's so. Then why don't I hate you?" Adam explained, but seem as confused as Annabelle was with this whole situation
"I don't know, I'm still trying to take in the whole your my past life thing. I mean what now, you going to try taking over my body or what?" Annabelle replied back with an irritated tone
"Not really, for one what would be the point of taking over your body. I'm already in a sense alive since you're my reincarnation. Still I do wonder if my memories will come to you, along with possibly my knowledge of my skills. Then again I don't know what will happen now, I'm sure we could speak with each other later on if we figure out how to meet again. We are like I've said before, one in the same person basically." Adam explained as he and Annabelle sighed in synchronization. Then they looked at each other with slightly amused grins
"So I inherited a few things from you I guess, look is there a way I can go back to the real world. I'm sure my friends are freaking out." Annabelle asked as Adam though it over for a few moments
"I think so, just close your eyes once more and take a deep breath. Huh weird, I wonder how I came up with that." Adam said as he just shrugged "But I guess do that and you'll be back. So for now this is goodbye, it was interesting to meet my reincarnation."
"Yeah same here, look if we do meet again. Maybe I can help you with recovering your... I mean our lost memories. Sound like a deal?" Annabelle asked as Adam just nodded, then she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. With that her world went dark once more
-Back in reality-
"Hey you okay kid?" Rayna asked as she touched Annabelle's shoulder, snapping her out of the trance she was in
"What?" Annabelle asked somewhat calmly as she looked to see the others "Oh sorry, I was just entranced by the mask in this box. Hold long was I out for?"
"Only a few seconds, we didn't know you we're in a trance." Karina answered, then wondered something "But what mask are you talking about?"
"Oh right this mask." Annabelle responded back as she picked the mask up and showed it to the rest, who looked at it with slight awe
"What a remarkable find." Karina stated with a curious smirk as she did a quick inspection "It's tribal designs are either for just aesthetic only or a tribe ranking. Maybe it could even be to instill fear with the opponents."
"Yeah defiantly one of those, kind of reminds me of Turian face paint. Signifies a few things when it comes to our culture." Rayna added in
"Yep, you gonna be wearing that now I'm guessing?" Kalzar asked with a smirk under his mask, Annabelle just smirked back
"You got it buddy, give me a second." Annabelle responded as she closed her eyes, then placed the mask upon her face which stuck perfectly on to her surprise. She opened her eyes once more as she was looking at a digitalized screen which meant the four eyes slits were just for aesthetics. But what was inside the eyes slits must have been four cameras, which were connected to the digitizes screen inside the mask. Lastly the digitalized screen had a ammo counter which meant the Katana had a gun mode and a heart monitor with six additional heart monitors for her teammates. It already had synched to her friends suits here and up above in their camp site. It displayed their vitals and heart rate. Annabelle could only smile, she now knew this had been hers back in her previous life and she felt in a sense happy that she had it back along with her katana. "So what do you all think, like the look or not?"
"It looks good, really good. Fits you kind of too." Rayna answered first
"Totally, maybe you could scare some Grimm with your new mask. Say like boo or something." Karina joked as Annabelle snickered
"Well like the girls said it looks nice, you look pretty cute too. Wait… I mean not that you aren't cute already , I mean you are but I haven't noticed. Well I have but ah… ah… I'll stop talking now." Kalzar said as he rubbed his head in embarrassment
"I know what you mean and thank you. You're so sweet." Annabella responded back kindly, though she was blushing – "He is cute, really cute now that I think of it."-
"You okay kid?" Rayna asked as Karina giggled
"Oh I think she is, but maybe we should get back up to the others now?" Karina suggested as an embarrassed Kalzar and a still blushing Annabella nodded in agreement "Aw you two would make a cute couple!"
"Let's just get the rest of these weapons up to the others." Kalzar stated with an embarrassed tone as he and Rayna took the weapons, while the other followed. But as they made their way out of the armory/ shooting range. Kalzar suddenly wondered something, he stopped in his track and got the attentions of the others
"Hey what's wrong?" Annabelle asked with a worried tone
"Well now that I'm thinking of it, why were those weapons along with the mask down there in the first place?" Kalzar explained as that was a good question
"Maybe…you know what, we can figure it out later. But we really should be making our way up. Don't want to keep the rest waiting." Annabelle responded back with a warm smile as Kalzar nodded in agreement. With that they continued their way up the stairs, while beginning to wonder what other secrets this place had
-Back with team JNPR-
"Boom goes the little bots!" Nora happily yelled out as she fired a barrage of grenades with her grenade launcher at a small group of Geths who we're hiding behind a barricade. The results we're like usual, explosive to the tenth degree. As Nora smiled at her work, a Geth leaper was about to lung at her from behind. But thankfully Pyrrha saved her as she rammed into the leaper and the cut it's head off by thrusting the edge of her shield against it's neck. Cutting of the Geths head in one clean cut, while circuits and its white blood stained her shield
"Nora stay focus." Pyrrha sternly stated as she got back up and cracked her neck
"Sorry Pyrrha, won't happen again." Nora replied back with an apologetic tone as Pyrrha just sighed, while also stabbing a Geth that was about to attack her from the side through its chest
"It's okay Nora, I'm just protective is all." Pyrrha answered back as she pulled her spear back out and pulling out it's inner circuits also
"I know Pyrrha, you're a good friend." Nora said happily as she switched to her weapons hammer form and did a quick spin, taking out four Geths charging at her with pieces of broken metal in their hands. All four Geths were demolished by the hammer as Nora finished her spin then looked back at Pyrrha, with an even bigger smile "See I'm paying attention to my surroundings."
"Yes you are Nora. Oh and I believe we're about to be surrounded, so back to back?" Pyrrha responded as she and Nora did so. Then like Pyrrha predicated, she and Nora we're surrounded by a large group of Geths also wedeling pieces of broken metal "Hm, must have run out of ammo, so there resorting to melee. Then again I'm surprised that they ran of ammo in the first place, you know with them getting reinforcement from that second Geth ship."
"Totally!" Nora stated as she and Pyrrha began bashing and stabbing the Geths who were all charging at them at once "I mean I'm still shocked that I landed a grenade in the engine port, but the explosion was amazing!"
"It was pretty cool I have to admit." Pyrrha replied with a smirk as she latched her arms with Nora's. Nora then lifted her up and swung her around as Pyrrha used the gauntlets on her legs as a blunt weapon. Bashing them The Geths in her range against the heads and breaking each one. Once that was done Nora set Pyrrha down as they resumed bashing and stabbing the remining Geths attacking them
"Nice use of the spin tactic Pyrrha." Nora remarked as she batted a Geth away with her hammer and sent it into some of its allies. Though while they continued demolishing the Geths around them, she wondered something "Hey Pyrrha how do you think the boys doing?"
"I'm sure their fine Nora, they can fight pretty well themselves." Pyrrha answered as she quickly switched to her weapons gun mode, fire three rounds in the dead center of three Geths bulb eyes. As the bodies fell, Pyrrha used her semblance to lift the bodies up, broke them apart into many tiny pieces and flung the pieces at the Geths she was facing. This ripped apart the Geths as the pieces hit them at high speeds, leaving nothing more then incredibly tore apart Geths on the ground. Meanwhile the boys were doing their own thing
"That's four in a row." Ren stated as he got done dodging a few of the remain Geths with gun that had no more ammo anymore. Each Geth split in three pieces each. Ren smiled as he switch to his weapons twin guns mode and began shooting up a few more Geths near him. Making them hide behind a barrier for cover "Jaune how you doing?"
"Surprisingly good!" Jaune answered back as he has somehow gotten on top of a Geth Amateur, then thrusted his sword through its head. The Geth Amateur fell to the ground on its side, as it crushed a few Geths unlucky enough to be next to it at the moment. Though Jaune had jumped off a few moments before and landed next to Ren. As he got back up, he looked at Ren who had finished off the Geths he was shooting at with a grin "Yeah pretty well, just killed myself a literal dragon."
"A small robotic horse thing if I'm going be honest." Ren joked back as Jaune rolled his eyes, but both men didn't take notice of a Geth juggernaut charging at them. Though they we're saved by Wrex who rammed the Geth juggernaut and ripped its power core out with his bare or to be more accurate, armored gloves. He then bashed the Geth Juggernauts head in with power core and then picked up its body, ripping it in half as he let out a battle cry of victory
"I AM KROGAN!" Wrex yelled out as he dropped the body and breathed in heavily, meanwhile Jaune and Ren stared at him with wide eyes
"Damn, remind me not to get on this guy's nerves." Jaune stated as Ren just nodded, Wrex then look at them and smirked
"You boys having fun, because I sure am." Wrex asked as he cracked his neck, knees, back and arms in a quick succession
"Yeah we are?" Ren replied back as he had to give Wrex credit that he was a living testament to how Krogan were described as by others, extremely tough and unhindered by fear
"Good, good. Hey where's your little girlfriends at?" Wrex responded back as an explosion suddenly happened. The girls then landed dead center in between him, Jaune and Ren on top a burnt corpse of a Geth trooper without its arms or legs. But had its head and still was functioning. The girls got up and dusted themselves off as they saw the boys and smiled
"So how have you all been doing?" Pyrrha happily asked
"Um… good sweetie, very good. But where did you and Nora come from?" Jaune replied back as Pyrrha giggled
"Me and Nora were surrounded by some Geth, Nora fired a grenade on the ground beneath us and I in quick respond grab one of the Geths. Then I cut off its arms and legs. The explosive happened as me and Nora we flung into the air, I quickly grabbed the Geths body as we used it to soften our landing. Our landing which conveniently places us with you three. So here we are my silly little knight." Pyrrha explained as Jaune slumped his head
"Why must you call me that when we're in the company of others?" Jaune asked as Pyrrha just shrugged which made Jaune smirked a little at how cute his girlfriend was no matter the situation "Oh well forget it, hey is it me or are the Geth not you know attacking us anymore?"
"That's because we killed them all." Wrex answered happily as the others took a good look around to see that all the Geth in the base, along with the reinforcement we're now laying on ground in many various piles of scrap
"Sweet, now we just got to take care of that generator!" Nora joyfully yelled out as she looked at the generator, remembering how large it was "Um… how do we do that?"
"We have to find a way to take this thing down quickly. Problem is and I'm taking a guess here that none of you kiddos have anything that could do that. Am I right?" Wrex said as team JNPR nodded
"What about the Mako then, I'm sure that it has the fire power we need." Ren suggested as Wrex just nodded in disagreement
"No can do, that Mako may have a strong gun. But this generator seems like it's made of tougher stuff that would make the Mako's gun more a pea shooter." Wrex answered back as everyone began thinking, then Jaune came up with something
"Wait I got it!" Jaune yelled out as he looked at Wrex and Nora specificity "Wrex, Nora you both still got some explosives right?"
"Yeah I do, what about you Wrex?" Nora asked as Wrex pulled out a few grenades "That's a yes, but what's this got to do with the plan Jaune?"
"Because if we can tie two of your grenades and two of Wrex's grenades up. We can make an explosive that could break this generator with one blast." Jaune explained as Pyrrha then cut in
"Jaune as much as that plan makes sense, we still need to get it up to the generator itself." Pyrrha explained as she wondered what her boyfriend was going with this plan
"Ah Pyrrha my love, I'm not finished with the plan just yet." Jaune replied back with a smirk as he looked back at just Nora this time "Okay Nora remember back on Remnant when you tried to infuse your grenade with your lighting from your semblance. You remember what happened?"
"Well yeah I remember, I tried that because I wanted a new attack to do. But when I did it all that happen was a…A BIG EXPLOSION!" Nora said as she realized what Jaune was planning
"That's right, it was a pretty large explosion. There was even a crater left after. But if that's the case then why would we need Wrex explosives if Nora's does the damage needed?" Ren asked as this time Nora decided to answer
"Because Renny, it's for extra precaution to make sure we blow up generator." Nora happily explained as she pulled out a rope from her vest and looked at Wrex "Can I see your grenades please?"
"Sure thing Nora, here ya go." Wrex responded with a smirk as he could already tell this was going to be an amazing explosion to see. Nora then took a few of her grenades out of her weapons chamber and then tied them to Wrex grenades. She then changed her weapon to its hammer form, while throwing Pyrrha the make shift bomb much to her confusion
"Um Nora why did you give me this?" Pyrrha asked a Nora giggled
"Because you're the best when it comes to timing." Nora explained as she activated her semblance which transferred to her hammer that spark with electricity "Alright ready…set… THROW!"
"Okay then!" Pyrrha yelled out as she quickly threw the make shift explosive in the air, Nora then hit the explosive hard. Sending it straight at the generator as it became shrouded with electricity. Once it bashed against the generator itself an explosion of epic proportions ignited, blasting team JNPR and Wrex back into a large crate that was behind them a ways. The end results was a small mushroom dust cloud that quickly dissipated, leaving a dust covered team JNPR and Wrex in its wake. Along with the generator being blown up into millions of scrap pieces
"Wow that was awesome right!?" Nora asked with a wide grin
"You kidding kid, that was spectacular. Let's do that again!" Wrex replied back with an even wider grin
"Um how about no, I think one overly destructive explosion is enough in my opinion." Jaune stated as he was trying to dust himself off, with no luck "And I think we'll be need some showers, this dust is stuck on."
"Oh yes we will, but Jaune." Pyrrha said next as she gave him the puppy dog look "Can I take a shower with you, pretty please?"
"Pyrrha you know I love very much, but if your wanting to do what your wanting to do. Maybe not at that time, I'm still pretty sore from last time." Jaune responded back with a sheepish grin, but Pyrrha added a pouty lip that made Jaune heart skip a beat at how attractive that was to him "Then again I guess I can handle through the pain, I mean anything for you hun."
"Oh thank you so much Jaune, I love you!" Pyrrha said joyful as she hugged Jaune and didn't let go
"Alright enough with the mushy gushy stuff, we should get back to the ship now." Wrex stated as the other nodded in agreement. Wrex then made a call for the Normandy to pick them up in the Mako. But as team JNPR and Wrex were done with their part of the mission, the others we're still dealing with theirs
-Back with team CFVY, Kaidan and Garrus-
"So what's the plan?!" Kaidan asked as he moved from cover to cover, throwing a grenade at a few Geths hiding behind a downed base turret. Though it didn't harm then as the grenade exploded, it did keep them down as Kaidan made it to his new piece of cover
"The plan Kaidan, the plan is killing these bots and destroying that generator. Nothing much else dude." Coco answered as she fired another round or bullets at advancing Geths. But had to back down to avoid the last base turret which was still functioning perfectly. "Where the heck is Yatsuhashi and Fox with the Mako?"
"Coco don't you remember that the wheel was damage by that mine at the entrance of the base. They're still fixing it!" Velvet explained as she was shooting off one of the Geths pulse rifles she had taken to use. She took out two Geth troopers trying to advance to them. Velvet ducked back into cover and load another clip in, though she smiled at her newly acquired weapon "Have to say this would make a nice replacement weapon for the one I lost on Remnant."
"Yeah I just realized that, you haven't had weapon since now. Even when Tali fixed up our weapons to shoot the ammo in this place. You didn't have one yourself." Coco replied back with a bewilder look at that fact, while she was still shooting at any Geth in her sights
"Yeah I know sweetie, so I guess this will be my new weapon then." Velvet said back smirking as she shot up a few more Geths that we're just running to cover at the right time "Coco, Kaidan do you know where Garrus is?"
"Nope." Coco and Kaidan answered as a Geth sniper shot a bullet which bounced off their cover, making the two duck in cover with Velvet
"Sniper, great just great!" Coco yelled out in a unamused tone more Geth troopers advance towards Coco and the others since they had the clear to do so. But as they closed in, the Geth troopers along with the sniper fell to the ground dead in a split few seconds. With their heads shot off. Coco and the rest looked to see Garrus on top of one of the bases looks outs, reloading his sniper rifle
"Your welcome!" Garrus yelled out with a grin as he moved his way down the look out to the others, thankfully using some of the dead Geths bodies as a sort of landing pad. Though he did still feel some pain when he landed. Garrus got back up and walked slowly to Coco, Velvet and Kaidan
"Nice landing." Kaidan stated with a smirk as Garrus chuckled
"Wow you did a joke Kaidan, next you'll growing chin hair." Garrus remarked back with a grin as Kaidan chuckled back
"Geez do all boys bond with each other like this, because that might explain how our boys bonded back on Remnant." Coco said as Velvet just shrugged "Oh well that not important at the moment. What is important is what to use to take down this generator. So Kaidan, Garrus you got any ideas?"
"Not me, that generator looks like it needs ten missiles to do the job." Kaidan replied back first
"Same, but if I have to say maybe the Mako could do the job. I mean it might take half an hour or more, but I'm sure we could mow down the hunk of metal within that time frame. Speaking of which where is the Mako along with our other two teammates?" Garrus said next as Coco sighed and active her scroll to call Fox, though her scroll was taking a bit of time to get the call through
"We really need to ask Tali if she can convert these to Omni tools sooner or later." Coco stated as she waited for a few more moments, then Fox finally picked
"Hello, is that you Coco?" Fox asked with a nervous tone, worried he was going to get an earful for not being able to do much in the battle. Since he and Yatsuhashi had been trying their best to fix the Mako's wheel. Which up until this very moment they had a hard time doing so and had finally gotten the wheel fixed right when Coco called
"Very funny Fox." Coco replied back with an amused tone "Jokes aside I need you and Yatsuhashi to bring the Mako around to the other side where the rest of us are."
"Wait why?" Yatsuhashi asked from the background of Fox's scroll
"Because Yatsuhashi, the Mako has the only strong enough gun to destroy the generator." Velvet explained kindly
"How long will that take though?" Fox asked once more, not sounding too willing to wait
"Fox, Garrus told us it could take half an hour or so." Coco answered as she gave Fox her serious tone
"For real I mean that ain't long, but we're kind on a tight schedule with saving the galaxy just to say." Fox responded back as he then snapped his fingers "Coco is there any sort of ramp like structure next to you?"
"Well ah…yeah I actually see one. It's one of the downed turrets. Why do you ask?" Coco asked with a confused tone, until she suddenly realized what he and Yatsuhashi possible we're planning "Oh no don't you dare do what I think your about to do. I know I'm usually the one for fun, but if you both are going do what I know your planning on doing. Then don't."
"What was that, we can't hear you over the sounds of the engine Coco!" Fox said happily as the Mako suddenly appeared to the right of them, though they turned the Mako inwards and facing the makeshift ramp leading to the generator. The Mako went to a halt, then before anyone could ask what was going on; they got the answer. The Mako accelerated forward at the makeshift ramp then before it hit, Fox and Yatsuhashi opened the top hatch. They jumped out landing right in front of the group. Meanwhile the Mako crashed into generator and exploded, creating a mushroom dust cloud which blasted the whole team a few feet against the ground. Once the durst cleared up, the group got back up covered in dust and saw that the generator along with their Mako were destroyed
"Okay I don't usually ever so this, but that was awesome." Yatsuhashi said as he and Fox got up, then gave one another a high five while also wiping off a bit of the dust on their faces. Though the moment didn't last though as Coco walked up behind them and smacked the backs of their heads
"Morons, you know that Elizbeth will have your hides and my hid for destroying alliance military equipment!" Coco yelled out covered in dust as well, as Fox and Yatsuhashi rubbed the back of their heads. Though she could only sigh, having to admit it was pretty cool explosion
"Look Coco we'll deal with that when that bridge has to be crossed, I'll vouch for you all. Besides the generator is taken care of and with that I think we're done with our part in the mission." Kaidan said kindly while coughing out a bit of dust
"Yeah I think we are, I'll make the call back to the Normandy to pick up six passengers with no transportation. Just to say my prayers are with you three, Elizbeth will be happy that the mission was taken care of. But the Mako being destroyed she'll probably be a bit mad about. Velvet here is the only one safe, how that saying go about the rabbit ears?" Garrus stated as he wiped his visor clean of dust
"It's rabbits foot Garrus and it's not a saying. Pretty much just cut off a rabbit's foot and you should get good luck." Kaidan explained as he then noticed Velvet who was the least dusty of the group, don a worried look and hold her ears in a nervous manner "Oh right sorry Velvet, trust me you don't need to worry. That sort of superstation isn't really popular anymore."
"Right, still being part bunny or rabbit whichever you prefer. I have sort of kinship with them. But let's just get back on the Normandy. I'd like to rest up before the next part of the mission and maybe see if I can tinker a little with this new weapon of mine myself." Velvet answered back as the others nodded in agreement
"Way ahead of you, this might take a moment or so." Garrus said as he activated his Omni-tool to call up the Normandy and for the moment they we're taking in the time for a breather. Though Glynda, Ozpin, Ashely, Liara and Penny were still currently dealing with their mission
-With Glynda, Ozpin, Ashely, Liara and Penny-
"TAKE THIS YOU ANNOYING PESTS!" Glynda screamed out in aggravation as she was in the Mako that was parked near the generator. She was shooting off its turret, keeping the Geth troopers at bay. The others were behind the wreckage of a recently downed Geth Ship, which Glynda herself had shot down. But that was primarily because she hit the ship thrusters with deadly precision. Ashely, Liara, Ozpin and Penny we're looking at Glynda in the Mako with awe. More specifically Ashley and Liara
"I've never seen Glynda like this, I mean I haven't know her long but still." Liara said with a wide eyed look, but threw a few biotic pushes at Geths attempting to shoot back at Glynda
"Yeah she actually could make a good Marine." Ashley remarked with a small smirk as she threw a grenade over to the Geths barrier. This only damages a few of the Geth to the right side, as the shrapnel stabbed them in the arms, legs and necks
"Glynda has always been able to keep her cool in most situation, but she also can get very easily annoyed. The evidence of that claim is right in front of us. Though because Glynda is good at keeping calm most of the times, she does… have a short temper." Ozpin explained as he blind shot his pistol that Ashley had loaned him for the battle
"Yeah, but friend Glynda is amazing when she's like this. Friend Glynda is such a skilled fighter, just like big sister Coco!" Penny happily said as she got up from cover quickly and threw a decent sized rock she had picked up at the Geths. Surprisingly a Geth trooper got up at the same time as the rock Penny threw bashed into its eye. The Geth trooper freaked out shooting its gun and taking out three of its comrades in a hail of bullets
"Wow, nice throw Penny." Ashley said with an amused grin as Penny giggled in delight
"Indeed, still I think we have a problem or two." Liara stated with a nervous tone as she and the rest looked to see two Geth amateurs walked up behind the Geth troopers. Then began charging up their weapons at the Mako, in which Glynda was still firing the turret at the Geth troopers. Completely oblivious to the Geth amateurs
"Glynda!" Ozpin yelled out as she kept on shooting, while the Geth amateurs were almost done charging up their blasts. The Geth amateurs were also ignoring the hits they were receiving from Ashley and Liara guns. Ozpin just sighed and readied his voice, the he took a deep breath before yelling "GLYNDA!"
"WHAT!" Glynda yelled back from the Mako as she opened the side door and ceased her shooting. Glynda then hear the charging of cannons as she looked to see the Geth amateurs. Without a second thought she jumped from the Mako and onto Ozpin, pushing him down as the Geth amateurs fired their blasts. The results was that the Mako's turret blew up along with its engine
"Glynda are you alright?" Ozpin asked as he and Glynda got off one another and back up to their knees
"Yeah, yeah I am. But the Mako is all but done now, what do we do. The amateurs will make this a whole lot harder." Glynda responded as a few bullets flew past her side as she and Ozpin ducked back down behind their cover
"You got that right Glynda and these troopers aren't going to make it any easier!" Ashely yelled out as she and Liara were firing off at the Geths with the best of their abilities "Glynda can't you or Ozpin use your semblance or something?"
"We could but with all the gun fire aimed at us. We'd be painted targets and our semblances can only soak up so much physical damage before it taps out." Glynda explained as the Geth troopers and amateurs pressed on with their assault. But as the happened, Penny suddenly clapped her hands happily
"Alright, new features have been uploaded!" Penny yelled out with a wide grin, much to the others confusion
"Penny what are you talking?!" Liara asked as she took down a trooper with a head shot
"Oh right, well friend Liara. I realized that I would need to have a weapon to fight when the time arises. So it took me a while to figure out what kind of weapon to use, but in the end I found the perfect weapon." Penny explained as her right hand suddenly transformed into a very familiar and terrifying sight. Primarily for Ashley and Liara
"OH GOD NOT THAT THING!" Ashley screamed out as she along with a terrified Liara ducked behind cover to look upon the fused form of Penny's old temporary demon body or more specifically the gun called Fluffy
"AH GET IT AWAY PLEASE!" Liara pleaded as she and Ashley still had nightmares of the guns attack on them
"Don't worry, me and my old body are one in the same now." Penny explained as she smiled even wider now "Speaking of which why don't you all take a quick break. This battle along with the generator will be over and gone very soon."
"Yeah sure." Liara and Ashley replied back nervously. Glynda and Ozpin just nodded as Penny loaded up her rifle, then her eyes went red
"Targets acquired, executing combat protocols!" Penny yelled out as she jumped over the barrier and what the rest of the group saw next, was an all-out one sided battle. With the Geth being the victims of Penny
As the battle commenced Penny shot off five shots in the dead center of the first five Geths she encountered. All five Geths fell limp to the ground, then another five Geth troopers tried getting a shot Penny, but she activated Fluffy's knife launcher function. Then the dozen of small knifes flew out, stabbing the Geth attacking her along with the rest of the Geth troopers in the area. Once the knifes quickly retracted back into Fluffy, the Geth amateurs began charging up their cannons. Penny quickly dashed underneath the closer Geth amateur and climbed up its left front leg, then climbed on top of its head. The further Geth amateur turned its sight quickly on Penny and fired, but missed to instead destroyed the other Geth amateurs head. Penny though a second before jumped from the destroyed Geth amateur to the second Geth amateur, she then got her footing and fired a hail of bullets into its eye. The second Geth fell forward dead while Penny jumped off landing right in front of a bewildered Glynda, Ashley, Liara and even Ozpin.
"See told you this would done quickly friends!" Penny joyfully stated as her eyes turned back green. She then retracted Fluffy back into her hand and then clapped for the good work she did dealing with those Geths
"Yes…yes you were correct. But what about the generator?" Glynda responded back, getting her bearing back first as Penny giggled
"Oh right friend Glynda, give me a moment more." Penny said kindly as she activated Fluffy once again, then aimed it the generator while taking a knee. Suddenly Fluffy's barrel transformed in a wider version, after that a charged shot could be heard readying up. Penny took a deep breath as seconds later a blast the size of a medium sized boulder shot out, passed through the generator where it dissipated into particles and then the generator blew up as a mushroom dust cloud appeared in the aftermath. Thankfully Penny was able to keep her footing while the others hid behind their cover to avoid the shockwave along with the dust. Once they got back up, the group saw the generator was nothing more than scrap, meanwhile Penny who was covered in dust; retracted Fluffy once more back into her hand. She then turned around with a calm smile "There we go friend GoodWitch, are we done here?"
"We are Penny, Ashely would you mind calling in the Normandy for a pick up." Ozpin said as Ashley just nodded and active her Omni-tool. With that they waited until the Normandy would come to pick them up. Meanwhile as everyone else was done with their missions for this part, one last team consisting of Elizbeth, Tali, Zwei and team RWBY was still going
-With team RWBY, Elizbeth, Tali and Zwei-
"Mom are we almost there?" Ruby asked as she, Weiss, Blake, Yang and Zwei laying in Elizbeth's lap while his helmet was retracted back into his suit, we're sitting in the Mako's passenger seats. Tali meanwhile had taken the gunner seat as Elizbeth drove, though also liked having Zwei in her lap. He was like a furry co-pilot
"Ruby be patient, we'll get there soon." Elizbeth replied back calmly as she and Tali chuckled from how cute Ruby sounded when she asked her question
"Aw man, but I'm getting so bored and I can't enjoy the view since Mako doesn't have any windows besides the side slits. I don't think anyone of us would want to stand up for so long while looking out the side slits." Ruby responded with a pouty face as Weiss who was sitting next to her, gave a kiss to her cheek
"Maybe, but aren't you at least happy you get to look at me instead?" Weiss asked with flirty smirk as Ruby smirked back
"Yeah that's good trade off now that I think about it. Maybe I can't enjoy the view of the planet. But I can at least get to gaze upon my snow angel. That's better in my opinion." Ruby responded as Weiss giggled in delight from her girlfriend's words
"Oh your such a sweet talker, if we were alone. I'd show you my appreciation and love for you my little Rose, for a very long time just to say." Weiss stated with very flirty tone as Ruby kissed her on the lips. Both girls just giggled some more in delight
"Boy those two are really two peas in a pod, then again I guess you can call us that too kitten." Yang said as she was happy that her little sister and her friend Weiss had found love within each other, Blake who was sitting next to her just nodded in agreement and rested her head on Yang's left shoulder
"Yes we are, I mean who else do you think could handle you antics all and every day." Blake joked as Yang laughed a little
"Good one Blake, you and me should do stand-up comedy for a second profession beyond being the saviors of a galaxy." Yang replied back, then she took a slightly nervous breath which Blake took notice of
"Yang sweetie, what's wrong?" Blake asked with a worried tone as her cat ears drooped down a little
"Nothing bad Blakey, really. But I just was wondering on a question to ask you." Yang explained as she felt bad for making her girlfriend get worked up
"Oh that's good, but what that question you wanted to ask me?" Blake respond as her cat ears perked up in relief, Yang could only smile at how breath taking she looked when she was curious. Then again, she found everything about Blake breath taking
"I wanted to ask and this is just a curious question is all. But ah, if you and were to have you know….kids. What would want them be, like I mean boy or girl along with human or Faunas. But like I said this is just a curious question is all really so no need to freak out or something." Yang explained as she began laughing sheepishly to hid her embarrassment, Blake could tell this easily and smiled with pure joy at Yang's question
"Well I think it's an understandable question to ask. I can probably tell the people in this galaxy will or have already found a way for same sex couples to have biological children, just like a man and women would be able to. Though if you want to know what kind of kids I'd like with you, I'd say be it boy, girl, Faunas or human, even if we have more than one I'll love them either way." Blake answered as Yang felt happy that she was up for kids, whenever they crossed that bridge of course. Blake though wasn't done with her explanation "With that said I know you and me will good parents, but I'll be a bit nervous if we have more than one kid and one of them inherits more from your side. Twice the Yang and twice the puns then."
"I say that would good with me and having a kid that's like you would be nice as well. But if we did have a kid or two, maybe they'd inherit a little from us both. That would be perfect as well." Yang responded back resting her head on top of Blake's, both girls enjoying this moment together. Ruby and Weiss meanwhile were having their own conversation
"So while we're waiting to get the Geth base I was wondering something." Weiss asked shyly as Ruby chuckled
"Aw don't be so shy Weiss, you can ask me anything." Ruby replied back as Weiss felt better
"Thank you Ruby, what I wanted to ask though was about our relationship. I mean were girlfriends and already have had sex, thanks to you sister and Blake. But… would you ever…you know… like to go to the next level with me?" Weiss explained as Ruby was a little surprised by this
"You mean marriage, well yeah I would love to when the time is right. But why would ask me that if you should already know my answer." Ruby asked as Weiss sighed nervously
"It's not that a doubt you, I just kind of doubt myself. I doubt I'd make a good wife….or mother. I mean I asked Yang when we first went to citadel about it and she said we'd make a good couple along with parents. But I just still doubt myself on the parent thing mostly, I mean what kind of kid would want me as a mother." Weiss explained with a depressed tone, but Ruby quickly fixed that as she scooted in her seat and wrapped her in a hug. Weiss smiled a little as Ruby rested her head on top of Weiss head
"Don't be so hard on yourself Weiss, I know you'll make a good wife for me. Your my dream girl and that's final. Also trust me on this, we're going to make wonderful mothers. I love you Weiss and don't ever doubt that." Ruby said happily as Weiss nuzzled her head under Ruby's neck a little more
"And I love you as well Ruby, don't you ever doubt that yourself." Weiss replied back "To our happy future."
"Yes indeed, our happy future to be." Ruby stated, feeling so blessed to have a girl like Weiss as her true love. Then both her and Weiss, like Blake and Yang started to enjoy each other's company while waiting to reach their destination
"That's cute, don't you think so Elizbeth?" Tali asked as she adored her daughters interactions with their girlfriends. Elizbeth meanwhile nodded in agreement
"It is Tali, aren't you glad to be part of this strange little family of ours." Elizbeth responded with a wide smile as Tali laughed a little
"Yes I do and I love our family pet as well." Tali said as she was just able to pet Zwei in Elizbeth's laps, the pup himself nuzzled his head against her hand. Loving the affection he was receiving. After a few more moments, she retracted from petting Zwei while donning a worrisome look. "Still this is will be an interesting time, explaining all this to my father I mean."
"We'll deal with it when it happens. But I'm sure your father will like us, we're a very charming family." Elizbeth stated with a reassuring tone, though Tali only felt slightly less nervous, though before Elizbeth could say more Joker contacted them through the Mako's comms
"Um commander, sorry for the call but this is pretty important." Joker said as Elizbeth smirked, though also raised an eyebrow since it was rare for him to call her during mid mission
"No problems Joker." Elizbeth responded as she looked back at team RWBY all still relaxing with one another, she hated to have to cut it short but everyone needed to hear this "Ladies, Jokers got some news for us. So listen please."
"Yes ma'am!" Team RWBY immediately answered back with an enthusiastic and understanding tone
"That's my girls." Elizbeth proudly said as she looked back at the Mako's comms "Joker the floor is yours."
"Thanks commander no pressure, right?" Joker joked, getting a few laughs form the group. But once the laughter died down Joker went back to his serious tone "But for real commander, remember when the council told you that there was four generators on these Geth inhabited planets?"
"Yes we do, why?" Elizbeth replied back as she wondered what he was leading to
"Okay good, so basically since you all were the last ones to drop off. I took the liberty to keep a scan on that generator. So when it was destroyed I'd know to pick you up then and before you ask I got call from the others a while ago. They finished their missions and I had to tell them that once you ladies were done, then I'd be able to pick them up. Just thought it be easier to do it that way and they we're fine with it. Anyways like I said, I was keeping the scanners on the generator your team was after. Thing is… the singles gone." Joker explained as the whole group was surprised by that
"Whoa hold on there Joker, how is that possible. It's not like a whole Geth base and a generator can just disappear. When did this even happen?" Blake asked with a worried tone
"Calm down Blake I know, look just don't none of freak. Okay so this happened half an hour ago. The only reason I didn't tell you until now is because communications were being jammed. Now there back up and I'm telling you all. I don't know what did or even dare I say who did this. But just be careful, your only a minuet away from the place so no turning back I guess." Joker explained with an apologetic tone
"Hey Joker don't worry we're not mad and thanks for telling us either way. Stay off the comms for now and I'll call you once we check out the base. See if there's any clues." Elizbeth said kindly
"Understood commander." Joker responded back as the comms went off, then Elizbeth got into serious mod as they closed in on the base
"Alright girls, Tali." Elizbeth stated as Zwei barked, making her smirk "And yes, you too Zwei."
"Arff!" Zwei barked out as Elizbeth petted his head. Elizbeth stopped petting his head a moment later, then turned her attention to Tali and the girls
"Back to subject at hand, you all heard what Joker said. So with that in mind we're right about at the base. Get ready for anything and keep a watch with each other's back. Is that understood?" Elizbeth asked as Tali nodded along with the girls, who were placing their helmets on. Elizbeth then stopped the Mako as they were at the base, which was more worrisome since they didn't hit anything. She then pressed a button on Zwei's suit, activating his helmet. Finally she placed her helmet on, got up and readied her pistol as she was about to open the Mako's side door "You ready ladies and pup?"
"Ready!" Tali and team RWBY yelled out proudly as they were lined up behind Elizbeth, Zwei was next to her and barked as a way of saying yes
"Good, then lets move out!" Elizbeth shouted as she opened the Mako's side door. She, Tali, Zwei and team RWBY made their way out quickly with their weapons ready. Team RWBY themselves were currently using their weapons gun mods and as they all came out, they stopped a few steps later in shock from what they saw of the remains of the Geth base
The Geth base they were supposed to be attacking was nothing more now then fire, destroyed buildings and dead along with very mangled Geth bodies littered around the area. The group got their bearings back from the initial shock of the scene and continued through the camp. Possibly to find clues of what happened here. As they walked further down the area they could hear nothing but mostly silence and the occasional sounds of metal bending from the fire surrounding it. It was almost haunting in a sense to see this as it seemed like an all-out massacre for the Geth as whatever did this was quick, yet brutal in their attacks. The girls of team RWBY were the ones feeling the most uneasy about this place, it gave off a feeling of death and despair. Though once they got to the generator which looked like it was torn into hundreds of pieces, the feeling of death for team RWBY increased tenfold. They didn't know why they were feeling this, but it was good enough of a warning sign for them.
"E-Elizbeth, m-maybe we should get going now." Weiss suggested as she tried her best to conceal her sudden case of fear
"Yeah, p-p-please mom." Ruby said with an equal amount of fear in her tone, Blake and Yang seem to be able to only nod in agreement. Elizbeth and Tali looked back at them with worried faces, they'd never seen the girls behave this way. So for them to do so was new and if it was happening in a aftermath like this. Well it must be sign and if Elizbeth knew one thing, it's always trust your instincts
"Elizbeth I think girls have a point, we should just go. I mean the generator is already destroyed so there really no reason to stay, please…please can we leave." Tali asked as she was now behaving like the girls were, though she was able to keep her nervousness in better. But Elizbeth could tell she was just a nervous and agreed that they should go
"Alright then let's-" Elizbeth beagn to say, but she stopped as sudden feeling of fear plagued her now, she felt like two cold dead hands were around her throat slowly chocking the life out of her. She tried to look and see around for what could be causing this. But her body felt so numb, she also saw the others were in the same predicament she was experiencing. They all stood still in paralyzing fear. But thankfully Zwei seemed to be the only one not fazed
"Grrr!" Zwei growled bearing his teeth from behind Elizbeth, snapping her and the others out of the paralyzing fear at least, but they still felt the uneasy feeling this place was giving off
"Zwei, what's wrong boy?" Elizbeth asked as she turned around and looked to see nothing but small fires burning
"Yeah, what's wrong boy. Nothing is out there." Ruby asked as she, Wiess, Yang and Tali looked to see nothing either. But unlike the others, Blake sense something even if she couldn't see it
"There is something out there, trust me on this. Zwei maybe a dog and I may have a fear of them. But right now I'm on the same page with him, we both have animal instincts and those instincts are telling us that something is here." Blake stated still with a nervous tone, then a few loud thumps echoed through the air and sounding like it was getting closer
"Get your ready, whatever is coming isn't friendly." Elizbeth said with an edge to her tone as she and the rest aimed their weapons at where the thumps were coming from. It took only thirty seconds more until the thing that made the noise appeared before them
"Oh my…" Ruby mutter in disgust as the figure before them was a ghoulish sight to behold
The figure in question was that of a human female, she was tall and very thin. But that was all that distinguished her as human, the rest was not human you could say. Her hair were thick black wires formed into a dread hair style, her skin was skull white, her eyes were replaced by two red glowing bulbs, her mouth was fused with smaller black wires as her teeth were razor sharp. The fingers on her hands were claws, along with toes on her feet sharpened into a deadly point. He clothing was one large rag covering her chest, two smaller rags around her arms, a one piece cloth covering her waits and upper thighs only. This new figure was slowly walking up to them with an unblinking stare, while making team RWBY and the others very wary of this new creature
"What is that?!" Weiss asked in horror as she was ready to shot the abominations head off
"I don't know if any us could tell you Weiss, but look at it's claws." Yang replied back as she and the rest looked to see white Geth blood dripping from the woman's claws
"So this is what did all…this?" Ruby asked getting more tense from the new arrival who had stopped moving and was just staring at them
"I think it is, which mean we shou-" Blake was about to suggested, until the woman cut in
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!" The woman shrieked in an deathly scream, though she sounded like she was in pain. But that was probably because as she screamed her jaw unhinged, revealing her massive set of teeth. Though moments later she stopped as the group quickly recuperated
"What was that?" Yang asked as she and the rest glared at the woman, though from the looks of it. The woman was looking at them with a hungry look
"Don't know big sis, but I think we're about to get dragged into a fight!" Ruby answered back as the woman charged at them and within seconds was in close proximity towards them. She slammed her arms down at the group who dodged to the sides just in time to avoid the hit
"Damn, she's quick." Elizbeth stated as she began firing her pistol at the woman rapidly alongside Tali, team RWBY and Zwei on the other hand we're getting around to flank her from the back
Th battle started officially at this point as team RWBY and Zwei charged at the woman. Team RWBY shot off a few rounds which nicked the woman a couple of times, but didn't fazed her much. She swung at the girls, but they all dodged her attack. Yang and Blake jumped over her, while Ruby and Weiss ducked under her. Both pairs getting back up from behind her, Ruby then switched to her weapons melee mod, used her speed semblance and got right up to the woman. Ruby then did a quick few slashes across her chest, planted her scythes blade behind after finishing her quick combo and had the barrel underneath aimed at the woman's chest. She then flipped onto her blade and pulled the trigger, sending Ruby back while the woman flew the opposite direction with a hole in her chest. Ruby landed on her feet as she ready her scythe for more, though it already seemed the woman was beaten.
"Wow that was…that was easy." Ruby stated as the others walked up next to her about to congratulate her, but then they saw the woman get back up with an aggravated look on her face and while the bullet wound in her chest healed back up
"Oh come on for real?" Yang yelled out as the woman lunged at them once more with quick speed, but once again the group dodged to the sides and began shooting at the woman who was doing her best to block the attacks. This went on for about a minute and with each bullet being shot tore through the woman's flesh that would just heal up a few seconds later
"COME ON JUST STAY DOWN!" Weiss said in an aggravated tone as she decided to use her semblance to send some of the pieces of scraped metal at the woman, this ended up cutting her up while the wounds healed up once again but at a slower speed "Ha, so you can't heal that fast all the time."
"And that's a good thing to know!" Blake stated as she ran past her with her semblance clone, both lunging at the woman and stabbing her in the stomach with their blades. Then as Blake's clone disappeared, the real Blake pulled her blades out as the jumped over the woman, landed behind her to then stab her in the back of the head "Die monster!"
"AHAHAHAHAH!" The woman screamed back as she flung her head forward, flinging out Blake's blade from her head as she then kicked Blake in the stomach. Sending her into Elizbeth and Tali. But as that happened Zwei came in with a helmeted head butt to the woman's face and breaking her nose. But before the woman could heal it back up, Yang came in next with her semblance activated and delivered a fire punched into the same spot. Sending the woman into a pile of poles which impaled her through the chest
"Take that lady, no one hits my Blakey and gets away with it!" Yang stated in a threatening tone as she her deactivated her semblance. Weiss, Ruby, Zwei, Blake who had recovered from the attack, Tali and Elizbeth regrouped with her
"Nice one hunny, looks like that monster is-" Elizbeth began to say proudly, but was cut off as the woman screamed out once more into the air despite being impaled. The scream though was different this time, this time it sound more like a calling cry
"What did she just do?" Tali asked nervously as Zwei began barking at the ground ahead of them
"Zwei what are barking at now?" Ruby ask this time as Zwei kept barking at the ground which then had a skeletal metal hand sprout out. Zwei yipped in fear as her moved next to Tali. Then she along with the rest huddled up into a circle as they looked to see more hands sprouting out. The woman meanwhile continued screaming and had gotten herself freed from her impalement
"Oh that's just plain unfair now!" Elizabeth yelled as she and the rest of the team readied once more for a battle as they now could see their new foes
The new foes had the same appearance of the woman when it came to skin and hair style, but what made the different was that theirs eyes were cover with metal visors, while their mouths were stitched by seven flexible looking black wires. The only other thing that differentiated them from the woman were their skeletal metal hands. There was about fifteen of the monstrous men and they looked blood thirsty, just like the woman
"RRRAAAWWRRR!" The monstrous men screamed out as they walked slowly to them, all the while the group began shooting up the horde. But every shot that made its marks did little to nothing, the monstrous men just kept advancing to them while ignoring the damage being done to their bodies
"Keep shooting them, they can't last forever!" Elizbeth yelled as she threw a few biotic pushes at the monstrous men, who just flinched and kept walking towards them "OH COME ON REALLY?!"
"Man these are so OP." Yang muttered in annoyance as she and the girls activated their Omni-guards, than began bashing them against some of the Monstrous men who lunged at them. Bringing them arm's length with team RWBY
"Take this you ruffians!" Weiss yelled out as she fired an compressed ice shard which shot through three of the monstrous men's heads and then stabbed another one through its chest with her weapons Melee mod, but I wasn't dead at all and tried to claw at her. So Weiss grabbed the top of the monstrous man's head with her Omni-guard, used the freeze function and froze the things whole upper body. She then pulled her rapier out which in turn cracked the monstrous man's body into small ice shards, while the lower half fell limp on the ground
"Nice one Weissy!" Ruby proudly said as slice up a few of the monstrous men she was facing in diagonal half's. Quick switched to her weapons gun mod and shot off a flurry of five quick head shots on five more monstrous men a little further from her. Though a sixth one got past and got a hold of her as it tried to choke her. But Ruby was able to get her Omni-Guard underneath and used it's blade feature to stab the monstrous man in the stomach. But now she was in a struggle to push the thing back away from her. Thankfully Tali broke formation as she ran up behind the thing, pulled it from Ruby onto the ground, rammed her foot against it and aimed her shotgun at its head
"Don't trying clawing at my younger daughter you bosh'tet!" Tali sternly yelled out as she pumped a round into the chamber of her shotgun. Then blasted the things head into many tiny little pieces of metal and some decayed flesh
"That wa amazing mamma!" Ruby stated happily as she was saved yet again from getting attacked from the side from two monstrous men by Elizbeth, who shot one in the chest three times; then the eyes and lastly the head in dead center of its forehead. As the first body fell limp she threw a biotic enhanced punch through the gut of the second monstrous man, Elizbeth then removed her fist and punched it through its head this time. Once she pulled out her fist from the monstrous man's head, the body fell limp just like it's friend
"Nice one Elizbeth!" Blake stated as she cut off another monstrous man's head off. She then used her ribbon around her arm, tied it quickly to her weapon as began swinging it in a quick repeating circular motion
All the monstrous men in the range was taken out from either decapitation or getting their torso cut in half. Though two did make it past Blake's attack and lunged at her. Blake was a little quicker though as she used her Omni's guards claw function and slashed up two of the monstrous men's faces off. Which showed under their faces a skull of metal, wires and black liquid making Blake feel a little sick from the sight. As she was recovering one other monstrous man was about to swipe down at her from the left side, but was stopped by Zwei who head butted it into a metal pole sticking out. Impaling the thing through the skull as it's body went limp. Blake looked down at the pup and for the first time with a smiled and petted him, she was staring to warm up to the dog. Meanwhile the rest regrouped next to her all sighing to themselves
"So now that these things are done with, we just got our little crazy clawed acquaintance left to deal with." Elizbeth said as she and the rest of the team looked at the woman just staring at them with a smirk out of all things
"Why is she smirking?" Ruby asked, but she got her answer as the woman simply snapper her claws and with that forty more of the monstrous men rose from the ground, all staring at them ready for bloodshed
"No for real, no, just no. That is…that is just… UGH!" Ruby yelled out at her wits end with these monstrous men as they along with the woman walked towards them
"Seriously are we going to have to fight again, because I'm tried enough as it is already." Tali asked as suddenly the ground behind them began to shake uncontrollably "Oh what now?"
As on que when Tali asked that a dust cloud erupted, blinding everyone in the area temporarily. Once the dust cleared up a new and much large figure was in its wake. This new large figure was a robot of some sorts, to team RWBY it looked somewhat like an large old Atlesian Knight except it wasn't. This robot had separate grey metal plated armor around its think black matted human like exoskeleton, a rectangular head with one red eye piece in the center. Lastly it's hands were two mini-guns with tubes full of red plasma. The large bots mere presence had halted the woman and monstrous men in their tracks, all growling at it like an old time rival. The bot then looked down at the group or more particularly team RWBY.
"Mom, mama. Does this robot seem familiar at all?" Ruby asked with an extremely nervous tone
"No Ruby, no one in this galaxy even builds robots like this." Tali answered back trying to sound as calm as possible to her younger daughter, Elizbeth could only nodded in agreement with her "What I want to know more is why it's staring at you girls?"
"Mama we don't know, but I don't feel comfortable about it." Yang responded back, but to hers and the others surprise it quickly scanned team RWBY starting from their heads and slowly moving its scanner until it stopped right where the rings the girls had put on were. It's scanner blinked, then deactivate as it looked at the woman and her horde of monstrous men. Then to the groups surprises, the bot spoke
"Clearance authorized, scanning hostile lifeforms in the dozens. Engaging subroutine: Code 190-cleanseing." The bot stated with a monotone man's voice, he then began spinning up his mini-guns as Zwei barked and made his way over to the left of the area
"Ladies I think Zwei has the right idea." Elizbeth stated as she and the rest followed behind Zwei soon after. That's when the short battle started
As the group had made their way over off to the left for safety, the woman screamed violently as she and her horde charge the mech with a sudden burst of speed. But this would lead to their brutal downfall as the robot fired off its mini-guns. Seconds later the horde and woman were mowed down by a hail of red plasma infused bullets, that disintegrated them into ash piles. Once that was over the robot ceased it's attack as large caliber silver bullets cases riddle the ground. The bot then turned to Elizbeth, Tali, Zwei and team RWBY
"Area is cleared of hostiles. Warning systems failure, power conductor at low, Warning sys….sy…s…." The bot stated as it's glowing eye suddenly dimmed and it's failed to finished its sentence. The bot then fell over on its side to the right as silence took place over the battle field of dead Geth, abominations and a very large robot of unknown origins. The group themselves were just doing their best to come to terms with what just happen
"So….so just to make sure we're not coming down with some sort of madness in the mind. We came into this Geth base that was destroyed by a freaky woman who could summon men machine fusion things. Then after that a large robot of unknow build came in and saved us by using to mini-gun arms that shot out plasma infused bullets. We all just saw this right?" Elizbeth asked with a bewildered tone
"Yep." Tali and team RWBY responded back as Zwei just barked happily
"Okay, okay good then. Look I'm going to call Joker to pick us up. While I do this, the rest of you take a rest near the Mako. You all have earned it." Elizbeth kindly said as team RWBY and Tali who picked up Zwei made their way over to the Mako for a breather. Elizbeth meanwhile was making the call in for Joker to pick them up and after the rest were picked up as well, then the next part of the mission would commence. She just hoped there wouldn't be any more extreme surprise like this one, she truly hoped that was the case
-Elsewhere in space-
"Damn those brats, damn that old man. They were getting to close and now I have to leave everything behind to go into hiding. For my safety… and for my daughters and their family's safety. I hope they're safe, god knows what the higher ups in Cerberus would do if they found out what I was doing. But I had no damn choice…I had no choice but to in fear of getting my family killed, because of being caught by those brats and Cerberus killing them for my failure." Erin mutter to herself for reassurance of her current choice of leave Earth behind, but not before saying goodbye to her family without telling them anymore than she had to go away for awhile
Erin had decided to hide out where the N7 operative Annabella crashed at. She figured where Annabella crashed could make a good place to hide out and thankfully she had gotten the coordinates to the location or more to the fact. It was the coordinates from the ship Annabella had been on. Though it was hard to get the coordinates in the first place. But it was worth it, mainly because she believed whatever this place is; it could be uninhabitable along with Annabella probably being dead. So no one would think of looking for her there. But as Erin kept muttering to herself a human male wearing black armor and a black helmet came in
"Ma'am, you need any of us to take over. You know so we don't crash from you being exhausted from flying for eight hour straight." The man asked as this was one of the twenty human mercenaries Erin had hired for protection, mostly for her own peace of mind. He and the rest of his buddies were relaxing in the main hull, listening to music to pass the time
"Oh ah yes, send one of your men in around fifteen minutes young man." Erin responded as the merc just nodded and left the room, leaving Erin alone once more to her thoughts
Now Erin was taking the time to think over some things, think over what she would do when she arrived to wherever the N7 operative Anabella was at. She knew the girl was most likely dead and it was all those new humans fault. If they hadn't come here, then the higher up from Cerberus wouldn't have ordered her to send someone to spy on them or to find what possible clues that could exist that would discredit them as frauds to the public. She honestly didn't care if those new humans died or not, they weren't the human of their earth. Sure maybe they were the same species, but the new humans for all that matter to her were just dirty aliens in the end. But as she though more on this subject, suddenly a loud thump could be heard on the roof of the space craft. Now Erin believed that it was some sort of rock from an asteroid that may have hit the top of the roof for a second. Though she figured out that wasn't the case as to her sudden fear the music of the mercenaries were playing halted and the sounds of screams came after for only five seconds. Then silence was all that was left, so Erin slowly got up from her seat, pulled her pistol out and made her way out to the mail hull. Much to her utter disgust was the mercenaries all scattered around into pieces of mangled body parts. Blood covered the hull's walls, though these factors weren't as terrifying as what Erin was seeing before her. Because before her very eyes was a man in a dark tatter cloak and covered in blood while he started at her with his faceless gaze.
"Just the woman I wanted to see, you must be Erin. But where are my manners, you may call me Draco. Better than calling me the Grim reaper over and over again so your tongue won't tire." The man Draco or Grim Reaper to Erin's confusion stated as he slowly walked up to Erin who was backing up slowly as she aimed her gun at him
"Why are you here and why are you looking for me you freak!?" Erin asked as she bumped against the wall, still aiming her gun while her hands shook in absolute fear. Draco just chuckled a little
"Why you ask, because you're going somewhere you shouldn't be little lady." Draco answered with amused tone that had a hint of venom in it
"What do mean by that?" Erin responded back as her heart felt like it was going to burst out of her chest
"What I mean is that you're going somewhere that could screw up many things in the future. If I allow you to continue onto this course of action, you will make a mess of things and that would not be good one bit. Sure maybe I'm a sadistic monster at times. But even I know when to prevent something that shouldn't happen, well happen. So to make a short summary my dear lady, I'm here to kill you." Draco explained as Erin panicked
"NO STAY AWAY!" Erin screamed out in horror as she shot right at Draco's head, which in turn just stopped and fell to the ground. Then suddenly to her shock Draco had a dark yellow aura appear around him. She was shaking more I fear as she had believed that only the new humans had that little trick "How is that possible, you're not one of those new humans so how the hell do you have an aura?"
"Oh you foolish woman, you think they were the first to have this aura's?" Draco asked with a sadistic tone as Erin began unloading her clip of rounds at Draco. But each shot had the same result while Draco himself was laughing mockingly at Erin's futile attempt to ward him off. Once she was out of bullets Erin threw her pistol which bounced off of Draco's aura, she then slumped to her knees in fear as Draco finished laughing "Please keeping going, I haven't laughed that hard in a long while. Then again maybe don't, I still have to kill you."
"No wait please don't, I have a family that will be heartbroken if they knew I died!" Erin pleaded as tears went down her cheeks, Draco just laughed though
"Oh yes that, you see the only reason I got your scent was by visiting your families homestead…" Draco said calmly as he pulled out of his tatter robe, two severed heads of woman with pale skin, blue eyes and black hair. Both we're twins and Erin felt like she was going to throw up from the sight of her daughters decapitated heads, she then looked back a Draco who dropped the heads on the floor next to him "It was unfortunate too, they were such nice ladies. Their husbands and kids were nice too. But compared to your dead daughter, I was not as gentle with their families. They begged so much to be spared, but I just laughed as I killed them."
"Why, why would you do this. They we're innocent, my daughters, their husbands and my grandchildren where just innocents you fucking monster!" Erin screamed out in agony as Draco just chuckled at her question
"Because in all honestly I was bored. Simple as that." Draco happily answered as he laughed some more, while Erin just laid against the wall feeling dead inside now
"So now you'll kill me too, just do it and make it quick then monster…" Erin responded as she didn't want to live anymore, now that she knew her whole family was dead
"Oh and I will, but for you well…" Draco said as Erin looked too see two eyes and a smile of yellow light appear from the darkness in his hood. He then cracked his neck, hiding his face for a second. Then once he lifted his face up, his mouth was now a set of extremely sharp teeth much to Erin's growing horror again
"No…please god…please god no…" Erin muttered as she tried to move but her body was paralyzed with fear
"Yes, very much yes miss Erin. I haven't eaten in so many centuries and I've been wanting to see if I can still taste anything. Don't worry though, I'm making this a slow and painful as possible." Draco stated joyfully as he lunged at Erin who screamed a deafening cry for help, but none came as her screams echoed through the ship as hours past. Then once it was all over and silence was all that was left, Draco stood back up. He was satisfied with his feast and wiped his mouth of blood. He looked to see all that was left from Erin was a blood stain on the ground and as his face disappeared once more, he floated to the top of the ship to look upon the emptiness of space "Ah I see, so they have taken out the generators and those girls of team RWBY even encountered something far beyond their comprehension. What will happen now, oh the anticipation of death to come is filling me with joy. But I shall wait and see what is to come. Though I can already tell the future will be interesting indeed."
With that Draco disappeared from this plain of existence, waiting for the events to come next and he was right with his assumption. For the events to take place next would be very interesting indeed….
So how did you like this chapter, more question are being formed possibly? Either way I do hope you enjoyed this chapter and until the next chapter I wish you all a wonderful day! :D
