Chapter 20: This One Goes to Fifteen
Freelancer Off-site Storage Facility, 2554
POV: Red Team, Team JNPR, Yang, and Doc
Premise: Tex catches up with the Reds and Blues. Teams RWBY and JNPR are forced to protect them and fail.
"RUN!" Simmons screamed, as he, Red Team, Team JNPR, Yang, and Doc all ran into warehouse. On their tail was none other than Agent Texas.
"OH CRAP! WHERE IS SHE!?" Grif asked
"I DON"T WANNA DIE!"
As all of this was going on. Caboose, Ruby, and Blake were watching from the warehouses control room.
"Shelia." Caboose said FLISS, "We have to help them."
"Help who?"
"Help who!?" Ruby repeated, "My friends! Tex's is attacking them, we need to stop her!"
"Stop Agent Texas?" FLISS questioned, "I'm afraid not. We cannot interfere with an on-going simulation battle test."
"But she'll kill them!" Caboose countered
"Oh that would be wonderful!" FLISS replied, "What a successful test!"
Meanwhile, the group that was currently running from Tex found a place to stop.
"We need to keep moving men!" Sarge said to them, "Double time! Hell, I'll settle for single time!"
"Maybe we should just fight." Ren suggested
"Yeah." Simmons agreed, "I'm afraid she's gonna start picking us off one by-"
Suddenly, a black-armored glove broke through the metal that Ren and Simmons were standing next to, grabbing both of them.
"ONE!" Simmons finished, as both himself and Ren were then crushed by another wall.
"OW!" the two muttered
"Ren!" Nora shouted upon witnessing her friend get attacked. Tex then emerged from the shadows. Sarge then pointed his shotgun at her but she quickly dodged the shot, hit Sarge in the gut, and punched him into Grif's nuts. She then rammed the two of them into Pyrrha and Nora. Breaking through several metal panels, before having them all crash into several oil barrels. She then turned her sights on Doc.
"Uh...I'm a pacifist!" Doc muttered, "Get them!" he shouted as he ran off into the warehouse. Tex decided not to go after him and focus on the others.
Simmons and Ren then emerged from the wall they were crushed with.
"Awe man, forget this." Simmons said to himself, "I need a bigger weapon."
"Go." Ren said to him, "I'll help the others."
Simmons then ran off to the control room were Caboose, Ruby, and Blake were.
"Guys!" he said to them, "Help us!"
"How!?" Caboose asked, "The computer won't let us! She's mean! This place is filled with mean ladies!"
"Push some buttons, I don't know!?" Simmons suggested
"Buttons!?" Caboose shouted, "Aww man I love buttons!"
Caboose started to push random buttons on the console in the control room. Causing a crate filled with rocket launchers to fall near Simmons.
"Wow." Simmons muttered, "That actually worked perfectly. Thanks!" he said as he ran back into the warehouse to join the fight.
"Great!" Caboose said, "How the heck did I do that?"
Ruby giggled at Caboose's comment.
"Guys." Blake spoke up, "I'm gonna find Church, you stay here."
"Ok!" Caboose replied, and Blake ran down the hallway to find Church.
POV Change: Tucker and Weiss
Tucker and Weiss finally made to the facility, and somehow ran into Simmons, after the latter obtained his rocket launcher from Caboose.
"Hey Simmons, what the hell is going on in there?" Tucker asked
"Yeah we heard Grif screaming." Weiss added
"You guys gotta help us!" Simmons replied, "Tucker do you know how to use that thing?" he asked the aqua soldier about his energy sword.
"My sword?" Tucker questioned, "Fuck yeah I know how to use. What's the importance about swish swish stab? It's afucking sword dude, not a fighter jet."
"Tucker there's more to it than that." Weiss explained
"Just come and help me!" Simmons said to them as he ran back towards the fight.
Tex was now fighting Sarge, Grif, Pyrrha, and Jaune. While Nora and Ren were nowhere to be seen. She threw a barrel at the quad, missing them. Grif then tried to shoot her, but failed as Tex dodged the shot, and grabbed both him and Sarge. She forced them to headbutt each other, and kicked Sarge to the ground. Grif tried again to shoot her, but this time she disarmed him, hit him multiple times in the gut, before slamming him into the ground and punching him the nuts...again.
She then threw him into crate with a teleporter, which promptly fell on him, causing Grif to teleport right back in front of Tex. The freelancer then set her sights on Jaune and Pyrrha. The latter turned Milo into it rifle form, and fired multiple shots at Tex, which all missed. Tex then proceeded to kick her to the ground, but Pyrrha then used her semblance on her, forcing her into a wall. Tex then got up, as Jaune was about to strike. She then slammed him into the ground, and was about to perform the same stun she did on Grif. But upon hitting his groin, a white light engulfed her and she felt pain coming from her hand.
Jaune took note of this, and quickly kicked her legs, causing her to fall. He then rammed his shield into her back, but she quickly recovered. Tex got up, and performed the same stunt again, this time successful, she then threw Jaune into the same teleporter Grif entered. Jaune then landed on the orange soldier, who was trying to get up.
"Hey sweet cheeks!"
Tex managed to dodge a grenade that was about land near her. She turned around and noticed both Tucker and Weiss, both with weapons at the ready.
"Remember us!?" Tucker taunted her, "Step away from the idiots!"
Tex started walking towards them, she got into a fighting stance, and trio started circling each other. Unknown to Tex, Simmons was currently climbing up several crates with his rocket launcher, and was about to shoot her.
"Oh god, please don't let her see me." he squeaked, as he aimed the weapon.
Suddenly, a large container attached to a crane fell right in front of Tex, Tucker, and Weiss. Causing all of them to step back a bit.
The three then looked up at the control room, and noticed Caboose near FLISS's console.
"Yes!" Caboose shouted, "I saved Tucker and Weiss!" he then realized what he had done, "...Oh wait...I save Tucker and Weiss." he muttered unamused
"Caboose what are you doing!?" Weiss shouted to him, "You're messing up our plan with Simmons! We were supposed to distract her for him!"
"Weiss!" Tucker hissed
"Oh."
Tex then turned around to notice Simmons aiming the rocket launcher at her.
"YOU RATTED ME OUT! YOU ICEY BITCH!" Simmons cursed. He fired one rocket at the Freelancer, which missed. Tex then jumped at both Ren and Nora, who tried to ambush her. She grabbed them and threw them through a teleporter, and landed on top of Simmons.
"Ow!" Simmons cried, "Get off me!"
"It's us!" Nora replied
"I know!" The trio then got up, and noticed Tex had just threw a teleporter at them. Panicking, Simmons fired another rocket.
"Oh shit!" he muttered, the rocket entered the flying teleporter, and exited out another one, which happened to be right below the maroon soldier. The rocket then exploded right below the trio, causing himself to land into the teleporter Tex threw. While Ren and Nora were flung deeper into the facility
"OOOHHH SHHHHHIIITTT!" Simmons screamed, as he landed in front of Tex, who promptly grabbed him, and threw him right into Weiss and Tucker.
"Oh that was awesome-AH!" Tucker said, as both himself and Weiss were knocked over by a flying Simmons.
Back in the control room, Caboose, Ruby, and FLISS were still debating on what to do.
"Um, can we use turrets on her?" Caboose suggested, "Some explody fiery thing?"
"That would be outside the bounds of my standard safety protocols, I cannot do that." FLISS replied
"What is wrong with you!?" Ruby shouted
Back with the others, everyone managed to regroup.
"What do we do Sarge?" Grif asked, slightly exhausted
"I don't know." Sarge replied, "I've never hit a girl in my life."
"Yeah, we noticed." Jaune said to him, "Uh, try harder."
Everyone got their weapons ready, with Grif picking up a traffic cone out of nowhere. Tex then charged at them without hesitation. She straight at Sarge, who tried to shoot her with his shotgun and missed, she then grabbed him and threw him into Tucker. The two sim-troopers landed on the ground with a thud. Ren then intervened and slashed at Tex with his weapons, delivering some powerful blow in the process. Tex then picked up Sarge's shotgun, and used it as a riot baton. She hit him in the back, and then in the head before picking him up and throwing him into Pyrrha. Nora then turned Maghild into a grenade launcher and fired several rounds at the Freelancer. She then transformed the weapon into its hammer form and hit the freelancer in the side, sending her flying into a wall.
Tex then got up and heard the sound of shotguns going. At first, she assumed it was Sarge, but it turns out it was Yang. She charged at Tex and fired several rounds at her. The brawler got the upper hand at first, until Tex deliver a blow to the gut. Yang fell over but got up instantly.
"Sometimes I wish I never met-" Yang said until she noticed a single strand of hair…
Blonde hair...Her hair
Yang looked up at Tex, then the strand of hair, then back at Tex. Her eyes then turned red.
"...you...YOU MONSTER!" Yang's eyes ignited into flames, and she charged at Tex in full power. Delivering a powerful blow that sent her through multiple crates.
Yang's hair went back to normal along with her eyes, "Well, I guess that's the end of-"
Suddenly, Tex jumped at her out of nowhere and threw her into a wall hard enough to knock her out.
"Yang!" Ruby shouted from the control room, she then turned to Caboose, "Caboose, I need to help them!"
"Ok!" Caboose replied, "Be careful!"
Ruby blushed, as she slid Caboose's helmet up a bit and gave him a quick kiss like before. She then left quickly via her semblance.
"Church!" Caboose shouted to literally no one, "I feel weird again, and I don't know why!"
Grif, Simmons, and Jaune then all teamed up on Tex, and failed miserably. Simmons tried to hit her with the rocket launcher again. He ended up missing...again, and was sent flying straight into another teleporter. Which him right into both Grif and Jaune. Tex then kicked the two in the groin again, and held them down with her foot. Holding them at gunpoint with Sarge's shotgun.
"Oh no! Grif!" Simmons shouted nearby
"No!" Pyrrha cried
"Yip!" Grif squeaked
Tex tried to shoot the two, but discover that the weapon had no ammo left.
"Private Grif!" Sarge yelled at him, "You should be ashamed of yourself! You've run outta ammo again! That's your responsibility!"
"Huh?" Jaune chuckled, "I guess that's the first time his laziness has ever-whoop!" Tex pushed down on the two with her foot and swung the shotgun as if it were a golf club.
"Protect us cone!" Grif cried as he and Jaune were flung into Simmons slide down the floor.
"Hey watch it!" Simmons hissed at them
"You watch it!" Grif shot back
"You idiots!" Sarge grunted, as he got ready to fight a Tex, "Let me show you how it's done!"
He turned around only to get suckerpunched by Tex as landed right next to everyone.
"Nice demonstration Sarge!" Grif said jokingly
"Ah, shut up." Sarge grunted
"Hey guys." Ren spoke up, "Look up there."
Everyone noticed one of the loading cranes was holding a large, and rather heavy storage container. Which was positioned right underneath Tex. Tucker, who was laying underneath the crate along with Pyrrha and Weiss, got up and looked at the crate. He then got an idea.
"Hey Caboose!" he shouted, "Remember whenI said not to help me! Well, forget that! Help me now!"
Caboose heard this, "What holds up that crate!" he asked FLISS
"Mechanical controls are on the left side of the console." FLISS replied
Caboose pushed several buttons and crate started to fall. Tucker then grabbed bot Weiss and Pyrrha, both of whom had just woken up, and the trio dodged the falling object, presumably crushing Tex.
"I can't believe that worked!"" Tucker shouted, surprised
Just then , the crate moved upward. Apparently, Tex didn't get crushed, she caught it.
"Oh fuck that didn't work!" Tucker muttered, contradicting his previous statement.
"I knew that would not work." FLISS said to Caboose, "Agent Tex is a bit of a badass."
Tex then threw the crate in Tucker, which flew over him, and was about land on the Reds, the rest of Team JNPR, and Yang.
"We gotta get outta here!" Grif shouted as he flailed his arms in the air
"We'll be crushed!" Simmons added
"Don't worry guys I got this…" Tucker announced as he activated his energy sword. He swung at the crate, cutting it in half. Only to have it crush the guys in the back anyways. Med-kits, and fusion coils then fell out of the broken storage crate.
"OW!" everyone shouted
"Nice going Tucker." Weiss sarcastically sneered at the aqua soldier
"Aw, fuckberries." Tucker muttered, "Hey Tex, could you-AH!"
He was then punched in the face by Tex, "Ok you know what? That's it! Come here!" He then charged at the Freelancer with Weiss in tow.
Pyrrha on the other hand, went to go help the others. She founded Simmons who just emerging from the pile of med-kits.
"Simmons are you ok?" she asked him
"Yeah." Simmons replied, "Thought I a goner. Sarge!"
"Wha-?" Sarge muttered, as he emerged from the pile of med-kits, "What happened? I feel defeated! And inexplicably rejuvenated!"
"Same here!" Nora shouted, ash she got up. The two boys on the other hand weren't, they trembled out of the pile completely dizzy, with Jaune holding his groin and Ren just falling over face first.
"I got you Ren!" Nora announced, as she picked up Ren, and carried him as if he were a baby.
"Jaune! Are you ok?" Pyrrha asked the boy
"Yeah...I'm great…" Jaune muttered, his voice was high pitched and nasally. He then shook his pain aside and got up. "Ok, now I'm good."
Tucker and Weiss charged at Tex. With Tucker getting the brunt of it, while Weiss was actually doing well. She summoned a glyph that froze the ground, causing Tex to slide on the ground. The heiress then summoned another glyph that turned the ice into fire. Tex jumped outta the way, Tucker then jumped on her and started to slash her with his sword.
"Swish-FUCK!" he shouted, as Tex was still beating him, "Jeez-Ouch! Oh come on!"
Tex threw Tucker into Weiss, who fell to the ground. The freelancer then picked up the heiress and tossed her aside, where she landed next to the group. Tex then promptly disarmed Tucker, and kicked him across the room. Where he landed in a teleporter.
"Whoa." Nora muttered, "Did you guys see that?"
"How would I miss that?" Simmons asked back, since everyone saw what happened
Tucker ended up teleporting back to where Tex was, his armor was slightly covered in some weird black substance. But he didn't seem to notice. Tex grabbed him by the neck, and was about to stab him with his own sword. But the weapon deactivated quickly.
"What's the matter Tex!?" Tucker taunted her, "Having trouble keeping it up!?"
Meanwhile, Sarge took notice of Simmons' rocket launcher, "That rocket launcher is one of the older models?"
"Uh, yeah." Simmons replied
"That means its has heat-seeking!" Sarge explained, "Lock on and shoot her!"
"It can do that!?" Nora shouted, "Ren, can we-"
"No." Ren replied simply, still struggling to get up.
"BITCH!" Tucker shouted as he was thrown through the teleporter again. He landed next to the guys, his armor was now completely cover that balck substance.
"Dammit!" he complained, "I hate this black stuff, what the heck is it!?"
"There she is!" Grif said to everyone, think Tucker was actually Tex
"Huh!?" Tucker muttered
"GET HER!" Sarge shouted as he, Grif, Nora, and Yang all ran up and started to beat the crap outta Tucker. The latter was shouting in pain.
"Guys wait! I'm not Tex! I'm a Blue! But not the Blue you're fighting! Leave me the fuck alone!" he cried, as he was punched and kicked by the quad. Grif then got tired due to his laziness and stopped.
"Kicking is hard." he muttered. Tucker was then put into a headlock, with Sarge and Yang punching him in the head, and Nora on his back, trying to choke him.
"What are doing I'm not Tex!" Tucker cried, as he was beaten up
Simmons took notice of this, "Sarge wait!" he said to the red soldier
"Huh?" Sarge muttered, as he stopped.
"I think that's Tucker! Not Tex!" Simmons explained
"See?" Tucker grunted from under the headlock, "I told you!"
Sarge then punched him again, "Ow!" the red soldier then let him go.
"Eh, force of habit." Sarge explained
"Yeah right." Weiss groaned
"Man you guys suck-whoa!" Tucker tripped over a med-pack. Luckily for him though, both Jaune and Grif caught him, the trio were now holding each other up from being pulled into a teleporter that was on the ground.
"Guys I see her." Grif said, "She over there! Right by the-"
He then realized what Tex was about to do. The freelancer entered the teleporter, and punch both Grif and Jaune in the groin.
"What's your problem with our balls!?" Grif asked, while in pain. The trio fell through the teleporter, but Tex completely ignored both Grif and Jaune, and went straight for Tucker. She tried punching him in the face, but the aqua soldier blocked her with his hands.
"Oh right for the mouth! I like your style!" Tucker taunted her
Simmons was slowly aiming at Tex, but since Tucker's armor was still black he couldn't tell.
"Shoot her Simmons!" Weiss screamed
"They looked the same!" Simmons countered, "Which one do I shoot!?"
"Shoot the one who's winning dumbass!" Tucker cried from underneath Tex
Just then, Grif and Jaune got in Simmons line of fire, both holding their groins again.
"Grif! Jaune! Get outta the way!" Simmons shouted to them
Tex then grabbed Tucker, and threw him into the two, before kicking them off towards the others. She then grabbed Tucker and punched him so hard, the black stuff was completely off his armor. He then landed near the group.
"Wow, she knocked the black right off ya." Sarge muttered
"That's racist." Tucker groaned as he got up
"How is that-? Nevermind." Ren muttered
"You're all clear Simmons!" Sarge announced
"Fire in the hole!" Simmons fired his last shot. Tex ran away from the rocket, which had already had locked onto her. She flipped into a teleporter, and ran right towards the Reds and Blues. The rocket followed suite.
"Are you kidding me!?" Weiss shouted
"RUN!" Tucker screamed
Everyone tried to make a run for it. Only to run into each other. Tex then came up and slammed everyone into the ground, except for Grif, who was left alone. The rocket then flew past through the orange soldier legs.
"Whew, I thought I was-" Grif then turned to noticed that the rocket it the old storage crate full of med-kits, and explosives, setting off a change reaction of explosions.
"FFFFUUUUUCCCCKKKK!" Grif cried, as he and his friends were caught in the blast. Sending them all fly into the air. Tex then landed in a superhero pose as the explosion died down. With everyone falling to the ground with a thud. Tex then walked up to a nearby roadblock and pushed slightly. She then stepped back, putting her hands on her hips...and Grif and Jaune then fell on the roadblock...groin first.
"Why won't you just kill us." Grif groaned in pain as he and Jaune fell to the ground
Tex started to walk away, until she was forced to take cover from sudden gunfire. She noticed none other than Ruby Rose standing there, Crescent Rose in hand.
"Come on Ruby!" Caboose shouted from the control room
Ruby jumped into the air in a flurry of rose petals. She then dispersed and deliver several lethal slashes on Tex, causing the freelancer to fall to the ground, completely off guard. Tex was forced to kick her off. Ruby then transformed Crescent Rose into its sniper form, and fired several shots at Tex. Tex dodged them, and was successful in disarming Ruby. She pinned her to the ground, but Ruby escaped via her semblance. Tex then picked up Crescent Rose and shot at Ruby, hitting her and draining her aura.
"No!" Caboose shouted
Tex then somehow managed to turn the weapon into its scythe form. She was about to perform the fatal blow before the scythe was halted an armored glove
A blue-armored glove.
Tex then looked to her right and notice none other than Caboose holding onto the weapon with only one hand. He didn't look happy.
"My name is Micheal J. Caboose…" he said lowly, "I Hate. Taxes."
"Its Texas, you idiot." Grif groaned from behind
"That too." Caboose ended, he turned to Tex and delivered a powerful punch to the freelancer face. Tex then flew into numerous crates, and landed on the other side of the facility.
Caboose then ran over to Ruby, "Ruby! Are you ok?"
"I'm fine thanks Caboose." Ruby replied, as she was helped up. The two then returned to the control room
Meanwhile, Tex got up, now pissed more than ever. Suddenly, she heard a voice.
"Hey Tex!" she was then hit in the faceby some sort of ball. A monitor to be exact, she turned and noticed Church, now in a full suit of cobalt blue armor. At his side was Blake.
"How 'bout you pick on someone your own size." Church said to her