The Previous Evening...

Jaune stood at the entrance of a large hole in the ground. He knew that down there was the ruins of a dead city. A failed attempt by Vale to Expand its borders beyond it's own walls.

Down there was Mountain Glenn.

Jaune stood alone. Weiss, Blake, Yang, and Professor Oobleck we're back a few hundred yards away at the camp they set up for the evening. He headed out under the guise of needing the use the restroom and was now waiting for a certain someone to come over to him.

Weiss didn't Force him to wait long. Wearing her gray zip up sweater and blue jeans she walked over to him with a smile and asked him "Waiting long?"

Jaune let a smile slip on his face "Nah. Didn't think they'd let you actually leave the camp without an escort though. What did you tell them?"

Weiss snickered a bit "Well I told them I was just going to go make sure you didn't fall in or something."

Jaune chuckled out loud. "Gods your terrible..."

Weiss smile faded as she walked over to him and look down the hole he was looking down. "So... down there we have the Fang huh?"

"Yeah... I mean it could be a mostly empty storehouse" Jaune chuckled and looked at Weiss "Could also be a super weapon they plan on using on Vale."

"Could be three overweight asthmatic guards." Weiss said as she nodded her head and rested her hands on her hips "Could be an entire army."

"Well guess I better go and take a peak" Jaune said as he slipped on a pair of climbing gloves.

"So..." Weiss asked. "We still going to tell the others you slipped in and follow you down the back path?"

"Yeah lets make it look like you all stumbled on the base, I'll raise hell while you do so." Jaune said with a smile. "In that very me kind of way."

Weiss closed the gap and kissed him firmly "Gods be careful please..."

"I will" Jaune smiled "Don't worry, I'll be careful" He lied...

Weiss watched as Jaune began the climb down the hole to his unknown fate...


Back in the present

Jaune was free once again to roam the underground base having just moments ago killed his two guards. His plan to let the Fang capture him mostly paid off as he managed to get a strong idea as to why they were down here. But now he needed to recover his equipment. He took in the area to get a feel for it. This part of the abandoned underground town was nestled deep inside of the mountain. Could could easily make out the surrounding area of dilapidated and mostly collapsed structures as he sulked through out White Fang base.

The White Fang base here as he had gathered was not particularly large. They had re-purposed an old train yard and a few surrounding buildings and restored them to functional use. They mostly left the Grimm filled surrounding areas alone. The best Jaunt could figure, the White Fang couldn't even be bothered to put any serious efforts to purge the Grimm from the area as he could hear the sounds of Beowolfs in the darkness outside this base.

"There leaving them alive on purpose..." Jaune thought to himself as he tried to get across the train yard quietly. Jaune pondered the implications of this thought as he arrived at the makeshift storehouse they set up to store spare weapons and munitions.

Jaune saw no guards outside of the storehouse as he kept low to the ground and slipped inside keeping a careful eye out for sentries and wandering White Fang patrols.

However Jaune didn't expect a pair of White Fang soldiers to be waiting inside loading weapons. There was a moment of shock shared between Trio as the two guards stared at Jaune with his bloodstained knife, Jaune hesitated as they had had assault rifles.

It took them a full thirty seconds before one of them shouted out "The prisoner escaped!" while firing several rounds in the air. Jaune silenced the guard by throwing the knife at the guard lodging the blade to the guards throat.

To little, to late. As the other guard leveled his rifle and began to spray hot death at the now unarmed Dust eater, Jaune ducked down behind a crate near where his armor was. As his cover slowly began to crumble, the surviving guard was quickly joined by several others. He reached over and dragged over a satchel that had the rest of his gear and quickly strapped on his weapons and armor.

"Use the gods damn RPG on him!" Jaune heard one member of the Fang shout out.

"Oh shit." Jaune said as peaked out and saw them aiming a single use rocket propelled grenade launcher at him. Jaune quickly ran for one of the more compromised looking walls and crashed through it. As he ran out he grabbed a Bandoleer of hand grenades.

As he managed to escape the building he pulled a grenade out and through it at his attackers. He landed ungracefully into a drainage ditch and forced all of the air out of his lungs.

The effects of an RPG round striking an ammo dump are impressive to say the least, the explosion tore a pillar of fire all the way up to the ceiling and lit the entire underground area in a golden light.


It was several minutes later when he started to come to his senses, his ears rang and his head pounded. Small rough hands groped at him and started to drag him. still partially blinded and deafened he struggled against the people dragging him until someone slugged him in the face.

"Yang?" Jaune shouted a bit louder than he planed.

A muffled voice said "Yeah idiot, hold still we're going to treat your ears and eyes!"

Jaune was not sure what he was given to drink with but within seconds his vision cleared and his hearing came back, even the pain in his body started to subside. "Holy crap, what was that stuff?"

"Oobleck's coffee" Weiss said out loud. "Are you okay? Can you walk?"

"I don't think I have a choice! We have dozens of White fang soldiers down here! Not to mention potentially tens of thousands of Grimm!" Jaune said

"I'm thinking closer to hundreds of thousands!" Blake shouted.

"We need to leave then Students!" Oobleck said as he turned and fired a long gout of flame at a pair of approaching white fang soldiers catching the pair on fire. The two soldiers dropped to the ground screaming as the fire clung to them like Napalm.

"Holy crap!" Jaune exclaimed out "You drink that stuff?" as he watched the two Soldiers burn in front of him.

"We got more on the way, How do we get the hell out of here?" Blake shouted to the professor as she fired off an entire magazine from her weapon at a group of approaching

"Wait!" Jaune barked "We're not leaving yet." as he took on his best commanding tone.

"Excuse me, what happened to the small army of White Fang and uncountable number of Grimm?" Yang shouted back.

"I had a chance to figure out what they are doing down here. You see that Train?" Jaune pointed at it.

"Yes Jaune I see the train. Get to the point!" Oobleck demanded.

"That train has been loaded up with Grimm and some kind nerve gas and they plan on ramming it directly into the heart of Vale via an underground railway!" Jaune shouted back "I do not need to explain why we can not let that happen!"

The other four huntsmen stood in shock at what Jaune said. If that was true, the could potentially kill thousands, and unleash and army of Grimm into the heart of the city.

"How do we keep it from leaving the station" Yang asked out loud.

A crackle over the intercom got their attention "Excuse me ladies and gents" The group could hear the voice of Roman Torchwick say. "It seems since you morons don't know how to kill huntsmen quietly the Grimm have been riled up and are starting to descend on our little hideout in base. What I'm trying to say is get acts together and get on the goddamn train before we leave you!"

The group all turned and faced each other. Jaune spoke out first. "Get on that train, we'll figure it out on the damn way!" Jaune said as he drew his sword and pointed at the Train. "Look! I know what i'm asking! The best case scenario is we manage to stop that train and the Nerve gas kills us all in the process."

Jaune lowered his sword, and looked at his group. "But... even if no one ever remembers our names... at least we'll die saving lives."

Yang got up and start to dash at the train. The others quickly got up and started to run at the train. As Jaune shifted to his full powered from much to the brief Surprise of Oobleck. "Wonders never cease Mr Arc? I never thought I would get the privilege of fighting with one of your kind." Oobleck said to Jaune

"I never thought I'd get to fight with one of Beacon's best instructors. so lets call it even" Jaune said as he ran along side of Oobleck.

Flying Bat like Grimm started to descend from the ceiling in the hundreds as the group fell into a formation with Jaune and Oobleck on the outside flanks. As Oobleck fired his weapon wildly into the sky incinerating scores of the bat like swarming Grimm, Jaune unleashed the thunder into the sky clearing his flank of the formation.

Blake took point and fired out ahead of her as Beowolfs and White fang battled each other and them to get to the train. Every single shot Blake fire out struck home either taking a Grimm out of the fight, or a Soldier of the White Fang.

Weiss was in the center and focused on deploying glyph to shield them from any stray fire or small Grimm that managed to get close to them. she would also occasionally fire off her gun-blade at anyone that came close. Weiss suspected that Jaune had a personal reason he wedged her in the center.

Or maybe because they both knew she was to be the next Fall Maiden.

Yang took up the rear firing rounds behind her from her own weapon as the Grimm were beginning to flood into the White Fang base in mass.

It was a Miracle that they even managed to get to the train at all let alone in once piece. But as they arrived the group was split when a a Pack of Beowolfs landed in the middle of them, Jaune and Oobleck without even needing to be asked stopped and started to fight the 12 Grimm pack as the others made it on the train.

Jaune swiftly decapitated one that rushed at him. before being forced to fight defensively away from the rest of his team. Oobleck once again came to his aid firing gouts of flame at the pack driving them back and bringing down two of them. When Oobleck had to reload, Jaune got in front of him accumulating a large amount of his own dust energy and firing a wave of electricity at the pack killing half of them and scattering the rest.

"Most impressive Mr Arc, I'd say your going to earn high marks from this assignment." Oobleck said as they started to run at the now moving train.

Jaune lunged and grabbed on to the second to last car with Oobleck grunting out "I aim to please sir!"

Jaune looked out as a wave of black flowed like a tidal wave over the White Fang base. "My gods... look at them all. There must be tens of thousands of them." He said with a look of horror on his face."

"More like hundreds of thousands young Mr Arc." Oobleck state. "All the more the reason we need to stop this train!"

With Oobleck's words giving Jaune focus he dragged himself to the entrance of the train car. Oobleck had already slipped inside of it with his flamethrower out in front of him. "This car is clear, I suspect that perhaps not nearly as many members of the Fang managed to make it on board."

"Or they had other plans, I doubt every person at that place planed on being used as suicide soldiers for this plan of theirs." Jaune said.

Oobleck stopped. "The worst part of this, is that this only shows how dedicated the White Fang are to their ideals"

"Sir can we please focus on the task at hand, we got maybe five to ten minutes before were under Vale!" Jaune said as he opted to check the car directly ahead of them first finding it empty.

"Think about it Arc. This tunnel was collapsed under thousands of tons of earth when Mountain Glenn failed." Oobleck said

"Get to the point and help me check out the rear car!" Jaune said as he walked back towards the other end of the train car.

"Think of the manpower needed just to clear the tunnel, it would take hundreds of men an equal number of hours just to clear this tunnel. It would take hundreds of men and an impressive amount materials to rebuild the tracks. Not to mention refurbishing this train." Oobleck said.

"Okay so they were patient" Jaune said as he went to the doors between the last two cars and stopped as he looked towards the rear car with a look of shock.

"Mr Arc, you would need an army and years to do what the White Fang has done... This was not some spur of the moment idea of theirs." Oobleck said slowly and deliberately. "This is the culmination of their plans."

Jaune was silent as he opened the door to the rear car and pointed inside of it. "And how long do you think it took to cook all of this up?" He said looking at Oobleck and pointing his thumb at the inside of the train car.

Oobleck looked into the rear car. and saw wall to wall hundred gallon tanks of chemicals. Oobleck counted at least 20 tanks in told. "My Gods... 2000 gallons of a nerve gas that would only take maybe a few drops to kill an entire city block..."

"What do we do! My best guess we have about a minute and and change before were under the city." Jaune said with a pale look on his face.

"That's more than enough time for me to figure out a way for me to neutralize the nerve gas, go back that way a car or two and keep me covered so I can work!" Oobleck demanded as Jaune nodded.

"You do understand that if we allow that to go off..." Jaune said with his voice cracking

"Then the problem would cease to be ours before we hit the floor I would imagine Mr Arc. Leave me I will make sure this gas is never released." Oobleck said with a smile and a cracking voice.

Jaune knew exactly what he was saying. Jaune looked at Oobleck with a second and swallowed hard. "I see, In that case sir it's been an honor" Jaune said with a wavering voice as he stepped back out of the car.

As Oobleck began to start making modifications to his Flamethrower. Oobleck reached over and took the grenade sling from Jaune. "Please send my regards to Ozpin and advise him that I gave all of you top marks for your performance today. Now run gods damn you!"

Jaune hesitated for a moment before turning and running. he got a full two cars away before the world turned white for him and reality simply went away for the second time that day.

In Ozpin's office. He was still watching the monitors tracking the condition of his lost team through their scrolls. the scrolls finally picked up their signals moments ago, but he couldn't locate the group. More than once in the the last 15 minutes the status of the Students slipped from the teal blue "Fine" condition to a yellow "Pain or distress" condition.

Oobleck's readout had turned red. Ozpin knew exactly what that meant. Ironwood covered his mouth and Glynda covered her face and turned away from the monitor letting out a sob.

Bartholomew Oobleck was dead. He would be the first that would die during the events that were transpiring before them.

He would not be the last...


So it begins, The First parts of the Breach forgive me if my Author notes are not as robust as they normally would be, but I don't want to detract from the chapters. I will say that I am having a blast writing this part of the story though, and well...

No one is off limits now...

As always thanks for reading, and I'll see you next time.