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The sound of a glass-like substance shattering above as the barrier broke and the Nevermore burst through the barrier over the Colosseum. Atlas soldiers turned their weapons towards the sky, along with soldiers, but the monster paid no heed to either.
It flew around the arena once and then converged on the center the only real landing spot it could find. Directly in front of Weiss.
Sun placed one foot on the railing. "Weiss!" He leaped down and hit a button on his scroll to call his locker.
"We can't afford to split up!" Neptune yelled out.
"My partner is down there," Ruby snapped at him. "She's already split up, and I'm not going to leave her on her own." She pushed off the railing and disappeared over the edge.
Yang following soon after.
Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha shared a quick look, but they each swung over a second later and disappeared toward the ground.
The rest of the audience continued to flee. The worst part was that several students were among them, also in full rout.
"Those idiots," Neptune slammed a hand down on the railing. "Am I the only one here who realizes we're completely unarmed?"
"Yes, for now!" Blake said, lifting her scroll. The light to show her locker was en route flashed.
"We could take that on our own, as eight or we could get down there and stick together as eleven."
"What do you three say?"
Blake didn't wait for an answer and she leaped down and the rest of team (S)SSN followed soon thereafter.
Sun tore his gun-chucks from the locker and kicked onto the Nevermore in one motion. He twisted and shot, sending a round into its eye. He jumped off and landed on the balls of his feet, already moving as the beast screamed in anger and tried to crush her beneath its talons.
Weiss didn't let it. "Rargh!" she screamed, stabbing her rapier into the going and sending a huge wave of ice in from the side and landing a devastating blow that sent the Grimm reeling back.
It was followed up by Blake, who slipped out from her shadow and cut a line beneath a huge wing, disabling its ability to fly. One of her clones took the vicious peck the Nevermore sent back, but its beak got caught in the frost, sticking it to the floor.
"Nora! Pin it down!" Ren shouted.
"Got it!." Nora blasted herself in the air and smashed its wing into place.
Pyrrha shifted her rifle into gun form and shot out its other eye.
"Time to die you overgrown bird," Yang said. "Rubes, you wanna do the honors?"
"Not much of an honor," Blake sighed.
Ruby agreed, but that didn't stop her from sweeping down her scythe down. The bird's neck muscle and bone gave only the briefest resistance, and its head toppled free a moment later.
"Yeah!" Nora cried out. "We did it!"
Their victory was quick but ultimately short-lived. As Yang's scroll rang. She looks to see it was Ruby's number.
"Jaune, what's up?" Yang asked.
"Beacon is under attack by The White Fang!" Jaune yelled out.
"What!" Blake yells and she grabs the scroll. "The White Fang is at Beacon!?"
"Yes! They attacked during that monologue! The dorms got hit the worse! Most students were too busy to notice! A lot got gunned down before they could even draw their weapons or call a locker! It's a fucking blood bath over here!"
"Did you and Zwei get hurt?!" Blake asked.
"No, we barely got out in time!" Jaune replied.
"Damn it!" Blake thought. "Okay where coming!"
"I'll do what I can from here, but we're way too outnumbered! Hurry!"
Sienna was forced to sit in one of the seats. With the ice cream girl gripping both her shoulders.
"So? Gonna kill me already!? Why drag it out!" Sienna demanded.
"Oh no tiger lady." Roman shook his head. "We have orders to take you alive and well to our boss."
Sienna paled. "Shit, Adam."
"Lucky you!" He placed a scroll into the computer and it lit up red.
The Chimera slowly turns towards its allies and Roman fires several bright red lasers at the engine of the one closest to it.
"We're hit! What's going-"
The flaming ship crashes into another in a series of explosions and sends both of them tumbling toward the city below.
"Woo-hoohahahaha! Oooh, that was badass! I wonder what else this can do?"
Everyone watches in horror as they see the battleships fall from the sky. Ruby turn and runs to the bay doors of their Air Bus.
"Ruby!" Yang calls after her. "What are you doing!?"
Ruby then jumps off the Air Bus as it barely takes off and uses her semblance of speed to safely land on the runway after freefalling in the sky.
As she runs to the stadium where she sees a locker. She punches in the code, latches on with Crescent Rose, and immediately takes to the skies, landing on top Roman's stolen airship with a thud.
Roman paused upon hearing the thud.
"The hell was that?" He wondered.
"Neo go see what that was."
Back at Beacon Jaune finished slashing and Ursa apart.
The Atlan Knights continue to fire, but they shot at the students and soldiers. Both were all being pinned down by either Atlas bots, The White Fang, or one of the various creatures of Grimm.
Jaune had taken down a few knights, all of which that seemed to ignore him for some reason. While the Grimm kept trying to drag him away.
Before Jaune could jump back into the chaos, he notices a Bullhead about to crash land. An armored Beowulf jumped out of it before it could crash with the aircraft. The Beowulf lands on the ground and starts to chase after fleeing civilians.
Jaune chases after it until he's just outside the dining hall. However, he stops when the Beowulf from earlier latches onto the side of the building above him. His attention is then drawn away he hears a voice cry out in hatred.
"ARC!"
Jaune turns.
"Adam."
When the shuttle came to the Beacon Airpads. No one knew what to expect, but what they came across was truly a massacre.
"By the gods." Pyrrha gasps.
There where bodies of students all over the air pads, most dead while trying to pull out their weapons or with scrolls in their hands. Likely attempted to call their lockers.
Atlan Knights, The White Fang, and Grimm where everywhere tearing apart students a soldiers alike.
"We need to take care of The White Fang!" Blake's s
cried.
"No!" Weis argues back. "We need to secure this landing pad! We need to get more people in and wounded out!"
"What about Jaune?" Nora asks. "We can't just leave him out there in all that! You all heard him!"
"Lets split up!" Sun suggested. "Me and my team will stick with Weiss and help take back the landing pad with the Atlas soldiers and the remain students."
Yang grabbed Blake. "Come one! I'll hit the Fang with you!" They rushed off.
"Well find Jaune and help whoever we can on the way there." Ren declared and he Nora and Pyrrha rushed off.
"Do what we can to help people," Pyrrha whispers. "N-Nora! Ren!" She cries out.
"Yeah?"
"What is it?"
"Find Jaune! I... need to see the Headmaster and talk to him."
"Huh? Why?" Nora asked.
"I... look go find Jaune. I really need to take care of something!" Pyrrha ran off toward the CCT.
"Pyrrha!" Nora tried to chase after but Ren stopped her.
"She'll be fine. Now let's go find Jaune." Nora hesitates but none the less followed Ren to the student dorms.
Meanwhile back the CAFETERIA.
"You know," Adam growled. "I did realize you'd be hiding here. It's the only place you could've gone and still stayed relatively close Vale."
He stood in the middle of the cafeteria with a blade the color of blood held before him. His hair was the same, and the mask on his face from the last time he saw him.
"What are you doing here, Adam?" Jaune asked, his weapon drawn. "Why are you attacking the school!?"
"I'm here, to forward my plans for The White Fang and the Faunus race. While taking you down for throwing my organization into chaos and corruption Khan."
"This isn't freedom or equality. It's a massacre!" Jaune argued. "Of us, and of yourselves," He added. "What made you think it would be a good idea to have your guys bring in Grimm and let them loose?"
"Sacrifices are necessary for the betterment of-"
"Sacrifices!?" Jaune hissed. "Listen to yourself, Adam! This is crazy. Your cause was to help Faunus, not throw their lives in another crazy suicide mission to let in Grimm. Like the Breach!"
"You do not get to talk about our cause like you know it!" Adam screamed. "You do not get to act as though you have any right to judge US. You, who took away one of the greatest leaders of the Faunus race! Who instilled doubt into Blake making her abandon her duty, and her birthright, ME!"
"Seems like you're more upset about the latter," Jaune deadpanned. "Oh, did I hurt your feelings?"
"You dare mock me, Arc!?"
Yeah, he dared but only because it was his only hope. She wasn't an idiot, no matter how reckless she often came across. Sienna described him as being strong; too strong for him.
The only way they stood a chance was if he got angry. Sienna always said an angry opponent was a sloppy opponent.
"No more distractions," Adam said. He flicked his sword to the side, cutting a table leg in two. "I believe it's time I showed you my pain. I'll start with you, and then I'll find and kill your whore. Really I was hoping to make her watch as I killed you. But I don't have the time to drag you up to that battleship.."
Jaune fell into a low stance.
He blurred forward, blade a flash of crimson light. Jaune shield rose to block it, a red wave shot up and in a mighty crash brought an end to the fight before it could begin.
Adam's head flicked up and to the side, and with a muffled curse, he leaped back, using tables to hop to safety as the roof caved in.
Jaune did the same as dust and rubble rained down between them, smashing tables and shattering plates and glasses.
Adam coughed and stepped back, waving away the smoke with one hand. What the hell was that? Whatever his shield was made of it managed to withstand a full blast from his semblance. Through the smoke and dust that was left behind, he caught a silhouette as it dashed forward.
He ducked at the last second, the silvery blade nearly taking off his head at the shoulders. His came up, blocking the follow-up strike, and he was able to disengage with a twirl, leaping back several feet.
Adam snarled and shook his head. "Striking while I was distracted. You don't fight like the others."
Jaune shrugged. "The others were taught to fight honorably," He smiled. "Sienna taught me to win."
