Here we are at Chapter 52. It's time for another breather chapter after a hard-fought battle for our heroes. I do not own RWBY or Gundam IBO. They belong to their respective owners. Here's chapter 52. Enjoy.


Chapter 52: Hostile Takeover

After the battle for Atlas, and finally getting Weiss back from the clutches of the Andras, everyone returned to the kingdom to rest and heal their wounds, and to mourn the dead. Many Atlas soldiers died in this battle. Their machines can be repaired, but not their human soldiers. One of the Atlas battleships took heavy damage from the Grimm, and would be out of commission for some time. However, thanks to the efforts of Teams RWBY and JNPR, and the efforts of Mikazuki and Agnika, the loss of life could have been much worse. The timely reveal of Agnika's semblance certainly turned the tide of the battle in their favor. All that matters is that they won, and got Weiss back. To the main heroes on the battlefield, that is a victory.

In Atlas, Weiss remains asleep in a hospital bed at the Atlas medical center. She has been given a private room to keep other patients, employees, and possible journalists from trying to get pictures of the former Schnee heiress. To ensure this doesn't happen, General Ironwood has provided security for her room, with a pair of guards outside her door and at any exits on her floor. Currently, her room is also occupied by all her friends and allies, and even her sister Winter.

"It looks like she'll be okay. It seems that after she was freed from the brainwashing, it left her incredibly exhausted. There appear to be no other injuries, so for the time being, what she needs most is to get some rest. Her immune system needs time to recuperate as well, but we've given medicine to help ease the process. For now, I suggest you don't try to wake her up and let her sleep," Ironwood explains, taken care of the paperwork for Weiss' medical treatment himself to keep things quiet.

"Thank you, General," Winter thanks him, though her focus remains on her little sister.

"Of course. We'll keep her situation under wraps until she's well enough to leave. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have other work to attend to. There's still much to be done," Ironwood says and takes his leave.

The others look back to Weiss, "I'm just glad we have Weiss back. It's good to have Team RWBY back together again," Ruby notes.

"Yeah, still, it was freaky how the Andras was able to brainwash her. How did he do that anyway?" Yang wonders.

"We may never know. But perhaps Weiss can tell us, after she's regained her strength," Blake adds.

Agnika steps up, "Agreed. For now we should let her rest. There will be plenty of time to talk later," he suggests. The others nod and begin to take their leave, but Ruby and Winter rest their hands on Weiss for a brief moment before leaving with the others. Agnika watches them leave and then strokes Weiss hair a bit softly. "The nightmare is over…for now, at least," he mutters before leaving as well.

Agnika reaches the roof of the medical center and looks up to the sky as the morning sun rise higher into the sky. His thoughts drift to that moment back on the battlefield when he unleashed his semblance for the first time. He flexes his wings a bit and stares at them for what felt like hours.

"I'm certain that was my semblance that I used back there. From what I learned here, it is speculated that one's semblance is tied to their personality, a part of who they are. My wings expanded and their light seemed to hurt the Grimm, just like Ruby's Silver Eyes. It purified Weiss of her brainwashing and freed her from the Andras' control. I don't know how it ties in to who I am, but if it can help against the Grimm, then I must master this semblance as soon as possible," Agnika thinks.

"Agnika Kaieru," he hears behind him and looks to see Winter approach him. She walks up to stand next to him and looks out to the horizon like him. "It's a pretty sight. Almost makes you forget the past few hours like they were only a dream," she says.

"Indeed. It is important to cherish moments of relief like this during war time. You never know when the next battle will commence. Enjoy it, and enjoy it with your sister," Agnika replies.

"Yes…Agnika. I want to properly thank you for saving Weiss and for bringing her back to me. When I left to join the military, it was to escape my father. I knew that I would be leaving Weiss to deal with him by herself, but I always believed that she would be strong enough to survive him until it was time for her to leave, and I would help her whenever I could. And yet…" Winter stops a moment, her expression becoming sadder. "I wasn't able to help at all in her darkest hour of need. When I learned that she had become the Andras' pawn, all I could think about was trying to get her back…And yet I failed to do so. I didn't save Weiss today, you did. You brought her back. You have my gratitude for that, and if there's anything you need, just ask," she says.

"I only did what I had to do to get Weiss back. I care about her as well. There is no need to thank me," Agnika says.

"Hmm…I've been thinking. I've been working for the Atlas military for so long without really taking a break from the life. After this war is over, I'll be taking a leave of absence from the military. I almost lost my sister, the only real family I have left. I want to spend as much time with her as possible. This experience has shed some light on a few things," Winter says.

"I see…That sounds like a good plan," Agnika replies.

Just then, Ruby bursts through the door to the roof, "Hey guys you got to come down, now! Weiss is waking up!" she yells, getting their attention.

Teams RWBY, JNPR, Mikazuki, Winter, and Agnika are all in Weiss' room, as the ice queen slowly opens her eyes. They all remain quiet as she clears her vision and slowly looks around the room, still not fully recovered from her ordeal.

"Welcome back, Weiss," Ruby softly says, a tear threatening to escape her eyes.

"…Ruby…Blake…Yang…" Weiss mutters.

"Hey, princess, glad to have you back. It's been a while," Yang adds.

"It's good to have you back," Blake joins in.

Winter sits next to Weiss, "Weiss, you don't know how worried I was when you were gone. I'm just so happy to have you back," she says.

"Winter, I…" Weiss begins before her eyes turn to Agnika. "Agnika…you saved me," she says.

"Yeah, the big guy here finally unlocked his semblance at just the right time and freed you from the Andras. It was pretty cool to watch," Yang explains.

"I'm just glad you're okay now, Weiss. We were all worried about you," Agnika adds.

"You're here in Atlas now, safe. General Ironwood is helping with your medical treatment. He said it was the least he could do," Pyrrha explains.

"Atlas…I…" Weiss begins.

"You probably don't remember what happened after the battle for Beacon. It's…a long story," Jaune says.

It is then that Weiss' eyes widen a bit before tears start to fall from her eyes.

"Weiss, what's wrong?" Ruby asks, concerned.

"I…I remember. I remember everything that has happened," Weiss says in between her crying, surprising the others a bit. "I remember the Andras capturing me, brainwashing me. It was like I was a prisoner inside me own body, and even worse, my mind. It was like watching a movie in my head. I saw myself attacking you guys, my friends, Agnika. I saw myself attacking Vacuo and…all those innocent people. I saw myself attacking Shade Academy. I saw…everything…And yet I was powerless to stop it. I…I killed all those people with my own hands. How can I call myself a huntress after that? How can I atone for something like?" Weiss cries.

The others are a little shocked that Weiss remembers all of that. Most likely it was the Andras' doing, another sick way to harm Weiss while she was his slave. As Weiss tries to hold back her tears, Ruby gently wraps her arms around her head and brings her close.

"That wasn't you Weiss. That was the Andras, not you. You had no control in that situation, just as you said. The Weiss I know is a kind girl that wants to help people and walk down her own path. You are not a monster, you are not a murderer. You ARE a huntress, you are a member of Team RWBY, and you are a part of this family. And we will always love you for who you are. That will never change," Ruby says lovingly.

Weiss stares at the others while in Ruby's embrace, and they all nod in agreement with smiles on their faces. With that, the dam broke and Weiss lets out all her pain and sorrow as she cries her eyes out in Ruby's arms while Ruby softly strokes her head. The others just watch and let her cry as they stay for emotional support. It will take some time for Weiss to move forward from her trauma, but they will be with her every step of the way.

After Weiss' emotional episode, she quickly fell back asleep and the others decided to let her have some peace and quiet. Team JNPR decided to head back to Atlas Academy where they're staying for what time they have left in the kingdom before they have to head back to Vale. The members of Team RWBY stayed behind, along with Agnika and Mikazuki, while Winter had to leave to take care of some stuff with the military. Those that are still here are off doing whatever they can to pass the time (whatever you can do to pass the time in a hospital). The Atlas security remains as well, two at Weiss' door and two at each exit on the floor, making a total of six.

"So, how much longer before the guys coming to relieve us show up?" one of the soldiers at Weiss' door asks.

"Only a while longer, and then we can go. Just keep your mouth shut and your eyes peeled. Specialist Schnee's sister is supposed to be in here. If we screw up here, the General will have us court-martialed, but her sister will give us the death sentence. It'll be a capital sentence: death by summoned Grimm. You want that to happen to you?" his partner asks.

"Point taken. Back to work," The first quickly says as he stiffens up a bit at the possibility of incurring Winter's wrath.

A few minutes later, they hear some commotion and look to their left to see what appears to be a patient having some kind of panic attack and causing a disturbance. The two guards at the east exit go to help restrain the crazy patient with the doctors, but he puts up a bit of a fight. The guards are about to go help when a second patient on the west side grabs an incision knife from a doctor and starts swinging it around everywhere. The two guards at the west exit to apprehend him, but have been given strict orders not to use lethal force except as a last resort. Seeing as they need to resolve the problem quickly before anyone gets hurt, the two guards separate to help the others out. After they leave the door to Weiss' room, an individual wearing a doctor's uniform calmly walks into her room to find the former heiress sleeping. The doctor pulls out a syringe and goes to inject it into her I.V. However, before he does, he notices Weiss groaning a bit and start to wake up. The doctor goes to inject whatever is in the syringe into her I.V., but then a metal hand grabs his arm and pulls him away. The doctor then finds himself pushed up against the wall with a second metal hand wrapped around his throat and looks to see Agnika standing before him.

"Well, what do we have here? What were you trying to inject into Miss Schnee's I.V. if I may ask?" Agnika asks threateningly.

"I'm just applying some morphine to help with her pain. I'm just doing my job," the 'doctor' says hastily.

"Weiss had already received some morphine a while ago, and she's resting not from pain, but from exhaustion. I wouldn't lie again if I were you," Agnika says as he takes the syringe from the man and scans it. "This ISN'T morphine…" he says as he glares at the man.

Just then, Team RWBY, Mikazuki, and Winter show up and Weiss begins to wake up.

"Agnika, what's going on?!" Ruby asks.

"Agnika…" Weiss says as she slowly wakes up.

"Are you alright, Weiss?" Agnika asks.

"I'm…fine. What's going on?" Weiss asks.

Agnika throws the man to the ground, "This man tried to inject this into Weiss' I.V., saying it was morphine. However, I scanned it to reveal that it was a drug that causes heart failure. It seems he came in after the guards were distracted by those patients going crazy," he explains.

"They weren't patients. They weren't even supposed to be here. Looks like they were simply a distraction so he could come in and poison Weiss," Winter says as she glares at the man.

The others stand defensively around Weiss, "Okay bub, time to start talking," Yang threatens the man while cracking her knuckles.

"I'm not talking. I have rights," the man retorts.

"Mikazuki…" Agnika asks, and the former Tekkadan member grabs the man by his shirt and pulls him right up to his face, close enough to see his own reflection in his green eyes. "You have no rights here, and even if you did, my friend here doesn't really care about that. Either deal with us, or deal with him. Your choice," Agnika offers.

The man fearfully stares into Mikazuki's eyes, realizing that the Gundam will no doubt kill him if he doesn't comply.

"…O-o-okay, I'll talk! I'll talk!" the man cries.

A while later, at the Schnee Manor, Jacques Schnee is in his study, taking care of some paperwork on his private computer. However, every minute or so, he keeps checking his watch for some apparent reason, and with each passing minute, a clear look of irritation begins to seep onto his face.

"What is taking them? They should have been done ten minutes ago and sent me the message that the job was done," Jacques thinks. A minute later, an email icon pops up on his screen. "Finally, some good news," he mutters and opens up the email, only to find one message: 'Don't mess with my family' written on it. "What the Hell?" he says. Suddenly, the doors to his study burst open and he sees Agnika at the entrance. Agnika charges at him, grabbing him by his suit collar and pinning him against the wall. "Arrgh! Y-you?! What in the Hell do you think you are doing, you mindless machine?!" Jacques yells.

"Taking in the man who tried to have his own daughter killed, into custody," Agnika says, his red eyes glowing.

"What are you talking about? Where is security?!" Jacques yells.

"They won't be coming, Father," Jacques hears and looks passed Agnika to see Winter, along with Ironwood, Mikazuki, and Team RWBY (except for Weiss) with her. "You're alone here. But then again, you've only ever cared about yourself, so you should be used to that," Winter says.

"Winter, what is the meaning of this?! James, order your robot to release me!" Jacques yells.

"He is not one of my machines, and as for what this is…Jacques Schnee, you are hereby under arrest for conspiracy to commit murder," James announces.

"What?! How dare you?! How can you arrest me for a crime I didn't commit?! I don't even know what you're talking about!" Jacques retorts.

Agnika then throws Jacques onto the floor, "We have the man you hired to poison Weiss in her hospital room. Luckily, I had Ironwood install secret security cameras in her room and I was plugged in to the feed so I could watch over her. He told us everything," Agnika says.

"What are you talking about?" Jacques asks.

Winter pulls out a black scroll, "This belongs to the man you hired, and it's connected to your email account. The message you got five minutes ago" don't mess with my family…That was from me. After looking over it, we found that you've exchanged a few messages with this man," she says.

"That doesn't prove anything," Jacques tries to retort.

"You paid him to kill. You didn't pay him to keep his mouth shut. The same can be said for the two associates that were working with him by making a distraction for my soldiers. I always knew you were a man of questionable integrity, Jacques, but I never imagined you would stoop so low as to want to have your own daughter killed," Ironwood says.

Jacques stands up, growling a bit, "Winter, I am your father, and I order you to get these people out of my home," he tries to tell her.

"You're not my father. You never were. You don't even have the right to call yourself a father. Not after everything you've put this family through," Winter retorts.

"What he's put this family through?" they hear and look back to see Whitley with a stunned expression on his face. "Winter, how could you do this to Father? All he's done, it's all been for the family! You and Weiss always left to do what you want rather than do as Father asks of you," Whitley tries to defend Jacques.

"You always were Father's loyal little pet, Whitley. Father has stained the Schnee name and its honor. And Weiss and I will be the ones to restore the family name, not you or Father," Winter says.

"How dare you-," Whitley begins until Mikazuki smashes his mace in front of him, making the boy fall onto his backside, quaking in fear.

"Can I kill him now?" Mikazuki asks, flexing his claws.

"No, Mikazuki. He's not worth it," Yang says, and Mikazuki backs off a bit.

James turns back to Jacques, "It's over Jacques. You are no longer CEO of the SDC," he says.

"What?! You can't do that to me!" Jacques retorts.

"I already have. We are in wartime, and the council has given me some political power to help with the war efforts until such time that the war is over. Including this. Let's not forget, that those in the higher-ups of the SDC have already been…persuaded…to leave you on your own in order to keep their jobs. We have enough evidence to charge you and put you away for quite some time. The public will soon know about this, though we're keeping things quiet for now. You have been relieved of your position. Men, arrest him," James explains before two Atlas soldiers walk in and arrest Jacques.

"You will regret this, James, You hear me?!" Jacques yells as he struggles in his hand-cuffs.

"Not as much as you, Jacques," Jame replies.

"Well, too bad Weiss won't be able to see this," Jacques says, smirking a bit.

"…Hello, Father," he hears behind him and looks to see Agnika move his computer screen to show him Weiss, alive and sitting in her hospital bed with Team JNPR by her side. "Surprised to see me alive, are you?" she asks rhetorically.

"What?! But-," Jacques begins.

"We never said Weiss was dead," Blake says.

"Your hired thug didn't get the job done, thanks to Agnika," Ruby adds.

"I'd like to say that I was surprised by this from you, but honestly, I expected as much. You've never liked it when people stood up to you, especially myself or Winter. Don't worry Father, the Schnee name will be in good hands. MY hands," Weiss says.

"How dare you!? After everything I've done for you, this is how you repay me?! How you repay your father?! I am Jacques Schnee, damn it!" Jacques yells.

"No, this is how I repay a man who has always looked down on everyone else, thinking himself better than everyone, and has shown no love or respect to his own family. And you are just Jacques now, Father. You've been…disowned from the Schnee family," Weiss says.

"Weiss, how can you do this to our Father?!" Whitley yells.

"Don't worry, little brother. You'll be joining him," Winter says, scaring Whitley. "Oh, not in prison. We don't have any evidence to charge you with. However, you're far too young to run the family business, and Mother is in no position to do so. That leaves just me and Weiss. With the General's help, we'll keep it running, and we'll clean up the mess you two have made. As for you, I know just the place to send you…Military school," Winter says, smirking a bit, and scaring Whitley.

"N-no, you can't!" Whitley pleads.

"It's already done," Winter retorts and has another pair of soldiers apprehend Whitley.

"It's over Jacques Schnee. You've lost," Agnika declares.

"Take them away," Ironwood commands his soldiers.

Jacques is forced out of his own home, screaming empty threats at the group, while Whitley follows behind him, saying that this is nothing more than a bad dream, but it is very real. After they are gone, everyone smile and Weiss breathes a huge sigh of relief before looking back at Agnika through the computer screen, who nods to her. While she wouldn't be able to get started on it just yet, Weiss had achieved one thing today. She had taken the family business from her selfish father, and could now restore the family name. And she has Agnika Kaieru to thank for that.


And that's the chapter. Agnika saves Weiss from her father's plan, and now Weiss has regained her status as the heiress of the SDC. Jacques and Whitley are out of the way, so another problem has been dealt with in the story. Hope Whitley likes actually working for a living (hahahahaha). Anyway, things in Atlas are finally over, but what happens now? Until then, please Read and Review.