Here we are at Chapter 34. It's the Volume 2 finale, folks. Let's get to it. I do not own RWBY or Tales of Berseria. They belong to their respective owners. Here's chapter 34. Enjoy.
Chapter 34: Breach
Team RVWBY remains surrounded by Grimm as they stand in the middle of the town square. They all look around for a moment, with their weapons drawn. The King Taijitu roars, and the Grimm charge at them, with the five members preparing for battle. First, Ruby jumps up and stabs her scythe blade into the ground as Beowolves encircle her. Ruby then runs up and spins her scythe, still stabbed in the ground, while she kicks the Grimm away as she moves in a circle. Next Yang jumps up, landing on the head of one Creep before using it as a trampoline to shoot up into the air. She fires her gauntlets, the rounds tearing into several Grimm while she is in the air. However, as she cocks her weapons, she turns around to see three Nevermores crash into her, sending her falling to the ground. However, Velvet conjures up a claw shield to catch her. Yang waves at her in thanks before getting back into the brawl. Meanwhile, Blake ducks under one strike from a Beowolf before slashing its head upwards and then stabbing it in the head. She then kneels on the ground and fires eight shots from her pistols, killing eight Creeps that try to attack her. Next, Weiss slashes two Beowolves before stabbing a third, and then conjures up a glyph before making a giant ice sword in thin air, swinging it to take out several more Grimm. Meanwhile, Velvet flips around and spins on one hand while her foot blades are out, shredding through several Creeps that get too close. After that, Velvet activates her gauntlet blade and beheads one Beowolf before jumping over and landing on the back of a second, only to impale its skull with her blade before jumping off it.
Yang hits the hood of one car on the street, lifting it up before she punches it at a few more Grimm, knocking them aside and crushing another. Velvet stands next to her as another group of Grimm charge at them. They smirk at each other and Yang smashes her fists together in flames while Velvet activates her demon claw. She absorbs a fire Dust crystal and then the two charge at the monsters. Both fighters jump and roll around each other as they unleash attack after attack through the horde, taking out any Grimm in their path. After a final combo punch one the last Grimm, they look back at their handy-work, and then slap each other a high-five.
Meanwhile, Ruby spins around while slicing her scythe at two Beowolves and then looks up to see the King Taijitu bearing its teeth at her and roaring. Ruby steps back a moment before she hears a loud boom sound behind her. She and the King Taijitu look up to see Nora, flying in on her war hammer, before she smashes it on the head of the large snake-Grimm, crushing it into the ground. Nora lands on the ground, next to her team that have just shown up to join the fight.
"Let's move!" Pyrrha says and they all run forth, while Jaune groans that Pyrrha stole his thunder.
Nora smashes her hammer into one Grimm while Ren kicks two before using the blades on his pistols to slash three times at another Grimm.
"Okay, who's first?" Jaune says while running before he stops as something big and black lands behind him. He turns around and looks up to see a big Ursa behind him, roaring at his face. "Oh-hoh-oh okay. You're first, huh? Heh-heh okay, no that's, that's fine," Jaune nervously says while stepping back from the Grimm.
Meanwhile, Pyrrha using her weapon in javelin form, stabs one Grimm before slashing another, then stabs a third before picking it up and throwing it over her. She then stabs another Creep in the mouth before looking over to see Jaune's situation. Jaune slowly walks back as the Ursa walks up to him.
"Totally fine. Done this before. Done this before…" Jaune reassures himself and then sighs.
Screaming madly, Jaune starts swinging his sword like a maniac repeatedly at the Ursa, dealing a flurry of hits onto the Grimm. Jaune stops a moment later and looks to see the Grimm fall onto the ground dead, to which Pyrrha smiles at her leader. Behind the dead Grimm, Sun and Neptune finally arrive on the scene.
"Nobody move! Junior detectives!" Sun says, showing a badge.
Neptune then pulls out his badge, "We have badges so you know it's official," he says and they fist bump each other.
Suddenly, a dead Beowolf lands in front of them, spooking them a bit. They look to their right to see Velvet as the culprit.
"If you two idiots are done, we could actually use a hand here!" she yells before firing off a few shots at a creep coming at her right side.
Meanwhile, Weiss spins around before stabbing the ground with her sword, sending out numerous ice spikes in front of her, impaling a few Beowolves. However, she doesn't notice an Ursa coming up from behind. She turns around just in time to see it raise its claw to crush her. However, the Grimm is suddenly smashed in the face by a fiery fist, thanks to Yang, who knocks the Grimm right into a nearby building. Weiss just looks surprised at the spectacle.
"Sorry, but she's too good for your claws, boys. She deserves someone with a little more…class," she says and then winks at Weiss.
Weiss rolls her eyes, but smiles anyway, "I'm not sure 'class' is the word I would use for you," she says as she flips over an Ursa and stabs it through the back of its head.
"Then what would you use? Beauty, hotness, passion, charm?" Yang asks as she fires off some shots at a few Creeps.
"Haven't decided yet. However, I won't let them get their claws on you either. Only I get to have that privilege," Weiss notes as she stands back-to-back with Yang.
"Oooh, Careful Weiss, there are people watching. Unless you're into that kind of thing," Yang jokes.
Weiss quickly blushes at this, "Now is not the time, you brute!" she yells.
Velvet slashes through another Beowolf, but then hears some noise above her. She looks up to see one of Ironwood's ships over the city, along with a few smaller vessels flying in.
"About time that he'd show up," Velvet mutters.
Everyone else looks up to see the ships as well. One Ursa tries to attack Ruby from behind, but Velvet blasts it away with a fire arte from her demon claw. Ruby waves at her before they look back up to the ships. The ships open up their rear doors, allowing many Atlesian Knight-200s to drop from the ships and into the city. Once they land, they start firing off their rifles at any Grimm they see, quickly turning the tide of the battle. Velvet kicks one Ursa back, and then flips around to stab through the side of its skull with her right foot blade. After that, she notices Emerald and Mercury joining the battle. Mercury runs up and jump kicks one Ursa away. He looks at Velvet and clicks his tongue at her, much to her annoyance, before running off somewhere else to fight. Meanwhile, Emerald walks down one street as the Grimm in front of her notice her presence. Emerald pulls out her weapons, a pair of green pistols, and starts firing them at the Grimm. The shots take out most of the Grimm, but one Ursa Major withstands the shots and gets close enough to strike. He swings his claws at her twice, but she backflips away from the Grimm. She then extends a pair of curved blades under the pistol barrels. She runs around the Ursa Major, slashing at its tough hide, and then swings her blades, with chains appearing from them and extending their range, at the Grimm. She jumps over it while doing a few more spinning attacks and lands on the ground behind the now dead Grimm.
Back at the tunnel entrance, a damaged Atlesian Paladin climbs out and then Zwei is seen jumping off of it before hitting a Beowolf in the head, knocking it away. Zwei then looks up as a bullhead airship flies by, showing Professor Port along with the second year team, Team CFVY, on board. She ship hovers over the city, and then Team CFVY jumps out of the airship. They land on the ground, with Velvet and Fox immediately running into the fray while Coco casually walks behind them, and Yatsuhashi stands behind her.
Yatsuhashi looks around as a number of Beowolves land around him, and then draws his large sword. As the Grimm move to attack him, he spins around and smashes his sword into the ground, creating a shockwave that knocks all the Grimm away and destroys the ground around him. Meanwhile, Fox and Velvet fight off some Grimm, with Velvet kicking away two Beowolves while Fox punches one Beowolf and then impales a Creep with his arm blades. Even while blind, Fox can notice the several Grimm in front of him, and charges at them. He punches and then backflip kicks one Ursa Major into the air. Before the Grimm hits the ground, Fox runs at it and throws a flurry of quick slash attacks with his arm blades at it before knocking it back into the air. As the Grimm falls closer to him, he reels back and double punches the Grimm, making its body bloat up for a moment before flying back and then exploding like a balloon, sending bones shards scattering everywhere and impaling the Grimm around it. Some of the shards fly at his teammates, but Yatsuhashi shields Velvet while Coco swings her handbag to knock them out of the way and continues walking casually ahead of them.
"Nice hustle Fox," she compliments him, playfully patting his butt as she walks ahead of him. "Good job," she says as he jumps back behind her. She walks up to a large Beowolf standing in front of her, roaring at her. Coco moves her aviators down to look at it. "YOU just destroyed my favorite clothing store," she says, readjusting her aviators and spitting on the ground. "Prepare to die," she says.
The large Beowolf swings its claw at her, but she deflects it away with her handbag and then kicks the Grimm in the groin area, sending it onto the ground. The Grimm looks up at her as she leans on one leg in front of hit, before Coco smashes her handbag onto its skull, killing it. She looks up to see a few more Grimm running at her. She swings her handbag around, knocking out two Beowolves and hitting a third, before kicking the third one away. She then jumps but as a Death Stalker tries to impale her with its stinger. Velvet then comes to her side, holding a small case as she's about to open it, but Coco stops her.
"Hey, come on, you used one whole semester building that up," she says, making Velvet hold back. "Don't waist it here," Coco says as she walks ahead of her.
Suddenly, her handbag opens up and transforms into a large, yellow colored gatling gun. She then fires her gatling gun, shredding the Death Stalker to pieces, then takes out several other Grimm and finally shoots it into the air at three large Nevermores, killing all three of them. The bodies of the dead Nevermore fall behind Team CFVY as they walk through the square. Meanwhile, Zwei walks up to Dr. Oobleck as Professor Port joins him. They look down one street to see a number of Grimm running at them. Using their weapons, they fire off several fireball-like shots at the Grimm, killing all of them. As they fall, Professor Goodwitch is seen walking ahead of them, using her telekinesis to take out two Grimm before she aims her riding crop at the tunnel entrance. Pieces of the street and the building behind the entrance starts to float back to the hole, and in a few seconds, the hole is sealed up, looking like it was never there in the first place. And with that, the battle is over.
The student teams, teachers, and friends join together in the square, and look to see Emerald and Mercury giving Roman Torchwick over to two Atlesian knights as they arrest him.
"Oh I can't believe that you've caught me. You've really taught me the error of my ways," he mockingly says as they take him onto their ship. "Hey, hey! Watch the hat!" he says.
Ruby looks at Emerald and Mercury as they walk up to her, all of them smiling. The people around them congratulate each other on a job well done as peace has been restored to the city.
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Later that day, Team RVWBY sits at the edge of one of the landing platforms at Beacon overlooking the city as the Atlas ships fly over it.
"Well, we did it," Yang says.
"We did it," Blake adds.
"That ended being a lot more exciting than I originally thought," Velvet notes.
"If we don't get extra credit for that, I'm going to be seriously disappointed," Weiss says.
"Weiss, a two-headed snake literally crushed a bakery. I wouldn't count on it," Yang retorts.
"Then there was the Ursa you punched right into a bookstore," Velvet says, making Yang laugh nervously when Blake glares at her.
"Plus, I mean, we didn't solve everything. A lot of people were hurt, and we still don't even know why they did this, or who that mystery girl was," Ruby notes.
"Well, not every story has a neat and tidy ending," Weiss replies.
"We might not have all of the answers, but we do have a lot of dangerous people behind bars. And I think that is something we can be proud of," Blake says.
"Yeah, plus it looks like they were planning on using that train at a later date. We managed to mess with their plan, otherwise it might've ended a lot worse for Vale," Velvet says.
Ruby nods her head, "Yeah. And if anyone tries something like this again, we'll be there to stop them," Ruby says while Yang stretches her arms and falls back onto the ground.
"Yay, teamwork, commodore, good guys, go team, alright good job," Yang exhaustingly says as Zwei joins her before leaning on one elbow. "So, what now?" she asks.
"I'd suggest training for the tournament, but I think we have that covered at this point," Weiss replies.
"So then…" Blake begins.
"Time for bed?" Ruby suggests.
"Oh please, yes," Weiss agrees.
"Absolutely," Blake adds.
"I'm gonna sleep forever," Yang says as the girls get up to leave.
However, Ruby notices that Velvet hasn't moved from her spot, "Hey guys, you go on ahead. Velvet and I will catch up," she says.
"Okay…just don't do anything too mature now," Yang jokes, making Ruby blush.
"Ugh, come on, you perverted blonde haired brute," Weiss groans as she grabs Yang by the ear and starts pulling her away, with Blake in tow.
Ruby shakes off her blush and sits next to Velvet, "Hey, Velvet, is everything all right?" she asks.
Velvet sighs, "Honestly, I don't know. I'm just worried that what happened today, won't be the end of it, and that there may be something worse out there. I…I almost lost you, Ruby. I know you can handle yourself in a fight most of the time, but that still doesn't ease my worries when we go into an unknown, dangerous situation. Whatever's going on out there isn't over, and because I have no idea what's going on, I can't be as well prepared to stand against it and protect you. That thought…it scares me a little bit actually," Velvet admits as she looks at Ruby.
"Velvet…," Ruby mutters, but then takes Velvet's right hand in hers. "Velvet, we're training to become huntresses. Of course there's going to be dangerous situations out there for us, things that we may not be ready for. But…I know that as long as we face those challenges together, then we'll be fine. You've always had my back, and I'll always have yours. And we have our friends with us, too. As long as we never give up and look out for each other, we'll make it through anything," Ruby says.
"Ruby…" Velvet mutters in awe as she stares straight into Ruby's eyes.
Without thinking, Velvet raises her left hand to Ruby's check, brushing it slightly and surprising Ruby. Velvet then slowly leans closer, and Ruby finds herself performing the same action until finally, their eyes close and their lips meet in a warm, gentle kiss. They both can feel the passion and affection from one another as they remain like that for a few more seconds before they have to finally separate for air.
Ruby slowly opens her eyes, "Velvet, I…" Ruby trails off.
"I'll be there for you, no matter what. And even if I'm not physically there, I'll always be with you here," Velvet says, placing her hand on Ruby's heart.
Ruby slowly smiles, "I know you will," she says, and they decide to have one more kiss while they still can.
What the two don't notice is one lone red-eyed raven perched up on a lamppost a short distance away, watching them for a moment before it takes off into the skies.
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A little later, Ozpin is seen in his office after having an unpleasant conversation with the Vale counsel and Ironwood involving the breach and security for the upcoming Vytal Festival.
"It seems things are becoming a lot more complicated now. I'd just wish my students didn't have to get involved in the matter. I fear they may not be ready for the truth that lies beyond the kingdom's walls," Ozpin thinks before he hears the elevator ding behind him. "Come in," he says.
He turns around in his chair to see Velvet Crowe walking into his office.
"You wanted to see me, Professor Ozpin?" she asks as she walks up to his desk.
"Yes. Please, take a seat, Velvet. We have a few things we need to discuss," he says, gesturing to a chair in front of his desk.
Velvet sits down, "So, what's up?" she asks.
Ozpin sips his coffee, "After all the…excitement you've been through, I don't want to keep you for too long, so I'll keep this short…Who are you, Velvet Crowe? Or rather…WHERE are you really from?..."
And that's the Volume 2 Finale. Velvet and Ruby finally kissed! I've been waiting for so long to write that into the perfect scene, and I think I did pretty good with it. It seems now Ozpin seeks the truth from Velvet. Will Velvet tell him the truth? Will Team RVWBY be prepared for what awaits them beyond the breach? Find out in the beginning of Volume 3 in the story. Until then, please Read and Review.