Fuck me, I almost forgot to post this. Shorter chapter is short.
RWBY Watches Classic Movies
Chapter 59
The hunter's shouted and scrambled as they fled the forest for a field of long grass.
"Not into the long grass!" Ajay yelled, tossing his pack aside. "Don't go into the long grass!"
"Oh, I got a bad feeling about this." Sienna said.
The hunters moved in a loose column through the field, guns at the ready and flashlights sweeping all around. The reason for Ajay's warning became apparent as a pair of raptor heads poked up from the grass. As they moved further in, an overhead shot showed the raptors quickly closing in on them.
"Oh, fuck!" Yang yelled.
"I'm starting to think one those guys has my Semblance." Qrow chuckled.
The first two to go were a pair of men at the rear of the column. One seemed to simply slip and fall on his back, and when his partner looked, he too fell, the only signs of their fate being some low hissing and flailing raptor tails.
Then they got bolder, taking out a man closer to the column. His death startled the other, and the immediate death of another in the middle of the column sent the rest into a panic as they ran to get out of the field. One of the hunters turned when he heard a raptor roar and screamed as the beast leapt from the grass and tackled him to the ground.
Nora, Sun, Penny and Rin followed the hunter's trail into the field until Sun stopped them.
"Hey, hey, hey!" he said, coming to a stop and picking something up off the ground.
"What is it?" Nora asked.
"I think it's Ajay's bag." He replied as he started to root through it. The sound of a raptor's roar and a man's scream in the distance made them all look up. Nora led them away from the path, listening intently to the distant screams and screeches. When she heard a much closer growling, her eyes widened considerably.
"GTFO! GTFO!" Nora yelled at her doppelganger.
"Run." She said, "As fast as you can. Go!" and she grabbed Rin by the hand and took off across the field. They ran into another part of the forest, but fell down a small cliff. The slid down the muddy ground and came to a sudden stop. Sun rolled as he hit the ground, but Nora cried out as she landed feet first. Quickly recovering, Sun stood and ran ahead a bit. Nora made to follow, but groaned when she put weight on one of her feet and took a seat on a nearby rock.
"I can see structures up ahead." Sun told them. Thank God for Faunus night vision. "Now, they said the communications center is in the operations building. I'll get in there and send the radio call. See you there." he rooted through Ajay's bag and pulled out the booklet with the radio frequencies and necessary jargon and ran off.
"Wait for us." Penny pleaded.
"Every second counts." Sun said, "Anyone who thinks they can keep up, you're welcome to try."
"We're right behind you." Nora said, trying to get up, but Nora and Rin forced her back down.
To say that the facility Sun ran into was fucked up was a bit of an understatement. Cars lay abandoned everywhere. The glass on the buildings was smashed in several places. Dirt and grime covered the walls, as did parts of the jungle itself. He jumped when he saw an open pair of jaws behind him inside the facility, but backing away showed a mural of what Jurassic Park could have been had it succeeded. (Or rather, if Ozpin had paid Mercury what he was due.)
Looking around, he saw a sign above a doorway that said 'Communications' and forced his way through. On the far wall, he found a grime-covered sign that said 'Caution: High Voltage'. Or at least, he thought it did, considering it was placed above what looked like an industrial light switch. Forcing it up, the lightbulb near his head blew out, while everything else hummed to life. Rooting through the vines draping down from the ceiling, he found the radio and set the frequency.
"CQ, CQ, this is InGen Operations Harvest Leader to Harvest Base." He said into the microphone, putting as much authority into his voice as he could, "Repeating, I'm calling for InGen Operations Harvest Leader, seeking InGen Harvest Base."
"Go ahead, Harvest Leader." A voice replied.
"Thank God!" Sun sighed as he stood up and looked at the details in the booklet he found the frequency in. "The operation has suffered severe casualties, and the survivors are now in mortal danger. I need you to send rescue immediately. Our coordinates here are, um, our coordinates are 9 degrees, 58 minutes north, 85 degrees…"
"Okay, have I redeemed myself now?" Sun asked.
"You saved my daughter. You have my vote." Nora said.
"All in favor of forgiving Sun?" Neptune said, raising his hand. The rest of the Beacon gang followed suit, along with Neo and Torchwick. "All opposed?" No one raised their hands. "Motion carries."
"If only democracy actually worked that way." Ozpin sighed in Oscar's head.
Back at the camp, Sienna sat on a rock, her whip slung over one shoulder, and watched as Salem walked up to her prize; the male T. Rex, fast asleep and heavily sedated, lying on it's side. However, Sienna seemed less than pleased for some reason.
A few minutes after Sun had sent the SOS, Nora, Penny and Rin walked into the facility, though Nora did so with a noticeable limp on her right foot.
"Sun!" Nora called out tiredly, leading the group further in. "Sun! Sun Wukong? Sun?"
"Okay, yeah, I deserved that." Nora admitted with a chuckle.
"How many Suns do you think are on this island." Sun laughed.
Suddenly, a raptor jumped onto the roof of a car and jumped onto Penny's back with enough force to push her several feet forward. Rin cried out as the beast tore at Penny's backpack and Nora pulled her in close. Thinking quickly, Penny undid the buckles on the straps. The straps tore free as the raptor pulled at it, allowing her to make a break for it before the beast could realize it had been had. Penny ran to Nora and Rin, who led her to the other side of an abandoned truck.
They had nearly made it past the raptor when it suddenly jerked it's head up towards them. Nora quickly grabbed a stick and began drawing it's attention.
"Here! Here! Here!" she yelled, beating the stick against the truck, "Get inside! Anywhere!" she told her girls.
"Are the raptors the final baddies again?" Yang asked.
"That's a little repetitive." Weiss commented.
Blake frowned, not sure that the film would do that, even if it was a sequel.
"Who cares? The raptors are cool as heck!" Ruby exclaimed.
Another pair of raptors jumped over another car and went after Rin and Penny, but they simply rammed their heads against a door the girls had just retreated through. Nora made a run in the opposite direction for some kind of gas station, bracing herself against the door. The raptor circumvented this by jumping through the cracked glass window. Nora ran out, and the raptor jumped out the way it came in. Nora went back inside, and the raptor followed, but it hesitated when Nora ripped the door from it's hinges and held it before her. Nonplussed, the raptor jumped at the door, knocking Nora through the glass window behind her.
Nora quickly recovered and ran for an abandoned car on the other side of the gas station. The raptor jumped after her, but slipped on the wet ground and fell. Nora had managed to get the car door open and crawled in when the raptor jumped after her, slamming it behind her and cracking the window. Looking through a small hole it had made, it saw Nora glare at it in fear, backed up against the opposite door. Then, it began to peck at the hole, widening it with its pointed snout. Once the hole was big enough, it simply started pushing it's snout through, slowly widening the hole through brute force.
"Well, that can't feel great." Coco grimaced.
"I doubt it even feels it, if their skin is as tough as I think." Summer said.
Looking around, Penny guessed the building she and Rin were holed up in was some kind of generator house. Her attention was quickly directed to the snorting and growling coming from the door in front of them. Backing up to the opposite wall, the two women began trying to make some kind of hole in the wood. Looking back to the door, she saw claws appear in the gap between the door and the ground. The raptors were trying to dig their way in. So, Penny grabbed a rock and she and Rin began to do the same at the opposite wall.
Taking one last look behind them, and seeing that raptors were still at work, Penny decided it was time to make their escape. She pulled a couple boards loose and checked that the coast was clear before pushing Rin forward.
"Go, I'll be right behind you." She assured the teen.
"Where do I go when I get- " Rin was cut off when the head of one of the raptors burst through the hole they had made with a shriek.
Seeing their escape route cut off, the ladies began to climb the equipment, hoping to at least get too high for the animal to jump.
Outside, Nora's raptor had completely broken through the window opposite from her. Seeing that the two raptors at the generator house were gone, she took her chance to get away. She opened the door behind her, clambered out of the car and ran into the building.
"Look out!" Penny and Rin yelled to her, but they really needn't have. The raptor half-stuck in a hole in the wall made her next move fairly clear: she climbed up to the next level just as the raptor made it through the hole and tried to take a bite out of her.
Rin began to walk along the catwalk, seeing a pair of pipes outside it that would make from a perfect set of uneven bars. Her specialty in gymnastics. A plan quickly took shape in her head, one true to the Valkyrie name. Ignoring Penny's warnings, she jumped onto the highest bar and began to properly position herself.
"The hell is she doing?" Nora said, holding her hands.
"Being a badass." Yang commented, quickly putting things together.
The raptor jumped onto the catwalk, directly in front of Nora and growled at the woman.
"Get away from my mom!" Rin cried, causing both raptor and mother to look to the side just in time to see Rin spin backwards, fully extending her arms at the height of her spin and then swing back at them, kicking the raptor full in the side and launching it out the wooden slat window next to it. As the raptor howled in pain from the pieces of wood stuck in it's side, a few of which poked out the other side, Rin carefully dismounted the uneven pipes to the ground.
"Woah!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Holy shit!" Weiss agreed.
"Fucking brutal!" said Yang.
"Fatality." Sun said.
"Yeah!" Nora cheered, shooting out of her seat. "That's my girl! Show 'em who's boss, Rinny!"
Nora jumped down and smiled wryly at her daughter. "So, the school cut you from the team?"
Rin chuckled at her mother. "That may have been an exaggeration."
Penny heard the growling of another raptor coming from outside. "Get out of here! Now!" she yelled.
Nora and Rin quickly left via the exit while Penny climbed higher until she reached the top of the building. She kicked out the wooden window, ran across the roof and jumped to the roof of the next building. Another raptor followed her the same way, but landed on it's feet a bit higher up on the roof than Penny did.
Penny screamed in surprise, and then terror as she felt herself slip down the roof. She managed to stop herself before she fell off completely, which was both fortunate and unfortunate for her as the third raptor appeared beneath her. She quickly used the only weapon available to her and began to throw the clay shingles of the roof down at the third raptor. Quickly realizing that this was making the raptor on the roof slide closer to her, a plan came to mind. She quickly began to pull off the shingles from the three rows the raptors stood on and made it slide off the roof with the rest of those three rows. The raptor fell with a thud, landing on it's comrade. Annoyed, it nipped at the neck of the one that fell on it.
As the one that fell retaliated, Penny tried to climb onto the roof, but she felt her strength leave her and she fell off the roof. As the raptors began to fight, she heard the sounds of a Bullhead nearby and took off. Rounding a corner, she ran into Nora and Rin, who quickly took her hands and began to lead her to the main building, where Sun stood in the doorway.
"Let's go!" he called out to them, waving a flashlight. "Come on! Let's go, let's go, let's go!"
"Sun Wukong to the rescue." Sun said smugly.
"More like private military forces to the rescue." Neptune said.
"Yeah, but I called 'em."
A pilot met them as they reached the roof and began to pile into the Bullhead.
"What about the others?" Nora yelled to be heard over the Bullhead, "There must be more survivors!"
"There's another Bullhead coming!" Sun yelled back.
The door closing behind them, the Bullhead quickly took off and headed back to… wherever it came from, I don't really know. Some kind of ship, maybe?
Rin sat in the reassuring arms of her mother, Penny stared out the window at the rushing canopy below, while Sun sat between them.
"Well," he said, reaching into his pocket, "That's one souvenir they won't be taking with them." He let the slugs he took from Sienna's gun fall to the floor.
Bullheads hovered overhead as ropes fell to the ground, allowing men to rappel down safely. Nearby, Salem spoke into a hand-held radio and Sienna sat against the full-body cage holding the T. Rex.
"That's what I thought." Blake sighed. "The raptors weren't the BBEG, the rex is."
"What's a BBEG?" Weiss asked.
"Big Bad Evil Guy." Yang explained, "And how is that gonna happen? That thing is locked down good."
"How did the dinosaurs circumvent every security protocol on the first island?"
"Someone's gonna fuck up." Coco said.
"Find the infant tyrannosaur." She said, "Sienna can show you where the nest is. I want it on my transport and taken directly to the infirmary in the Attika complex. Get it done quickly. We need to be out of here before the female realizes what we're up to." She handed off the radio to an aide and walked over to Sienna. "Congratulations are in order, Sienna. You've most likely saved InGen. We've lost everything we came after on this trip, but this animal and it's infant will single handedly bail us out."
"Good for you." She said grimly.
"You've got your trophy! Buck only. But it's alive, and everyone on the planet is going to line up to appreciate it and everything you've done." Sienna simply hummed and Salem frowned. "Which now begs the question; why aren't you happier?"
"Ajay didn't make it." She said simply as she stood up.
"I'm sorry. Truly, I am." She walked after Sienna as the latter made her way to a waiting Bullhead.
"I highly doubt that." Ozpin said in Oscar's head.
"You know, I remember the people who help me, Sienna. There's a job for you at the park in Attika if you want it."
"No, thank you." Sienna said, her voice just a little lighter. "I believe I've spent enough time in the company of death."
"Oh my God." Penny said, looking out the window. She quickly opened the door next to her and beckoned over Nora and Sun. Looking out the door, they saw the caged tyrannosaur. Nora knew what was going to happen next. There was no stopping Salem, she knew that. She was the same as Ozpin, and only colossal failure was going to change her mind. The only question was how to best mitigate the damage.
XX
Okay, I'm redoing the vote from last week because I realized too late I didn't inform you all as to the planned pairings. Additionally, the only votes that will count are those that have names attached to them. Anonymous guest votes will not be counted, sorry.
So, the updated options are:
Option 1: animated Disney adventure starring one of the Forgotten Princesses, featuring Arkos.
Option 2: realistic sci-fi space Western, featuring Baked Alaska.
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