Sorry if last week's reactions weren't the best. I was coming down with something when I wrote them, so I wasn't exactly at the top of my game.

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Chapter 63

Jaune entered his cabin as Glynda made an announcement over the intercom regarding the night's dinner. He thought nothing of it and decided to sleep off the bit of nausea that remained in his system. He tossed his rucksack onto the top bunk and leaned back in the bottom bunk. A set of goggles peaked down at him from the top bunk. With the shifting of dirt, a hand turned on a small lamp attached to the googles. In surprise, Jaune rammed his head into the bottom of the top bunk.

"You have disturbed the dirt." A voice growled above him.

"No fucking way." Sun said, a grin growing on his face.

"Uh, what?" Jaune replied.

"You have disturbed the dirt!" the voice said, jumping down from the bunk and throwing Jaune from his bunk. He was a short man with a messy mop of blue hair, a short beard and wearing a large over coat and boots. "Dirt from around the world, spanning the centuries! Look what you've done! Mistral must never merge with Atlas!"

"OH MY FUCKING GOD!" Sun cried as he felt out of his chair, laughing.

"Is that me?" Neptune asked in horror.

"Looks like it, Water Boy." Coco teased.

"I don't like that name. Or this movie, all of a sudden." he whined

"Gee, I wonder why." Sun said, in between bouts of laughter.

"What's it doing in my bed?" Jaune asked reasonably.

"You ask too many questions. Who are you?! Who sent you?! Speak up!"

"Ah, well, I'm-"

"Bah, I will know soon enough." He pulled out a pair of tweezers and grab Jaune's wrist. Jaune protested the rough treatment, but the man told him to suck it up. "Aha, there you are!" he said as he plucked a small granule of dirt from between Jaune's fingers. "Now, tell me your story my little friend." He zoomed his googles in to look at the dirt on a microscopic level. "Parchment fiber from the Nile, circa 500 BCE. Lead pencil, number 2. Paint flecks of a type used in government buildings. You have a dog, short-haired Chocolate Labrador, 5 years old, third in a litter of 7. These are all the microscopic fingerprints of the mapmaker." He tasted the dirt and his eyes narrowed. "And linguist."

"He was able to figure out all of that from a speck of dirt?" Yang asked.

By now, Sun had calmed down enough to crawl back into his seat. "Hey, don't knock my boy here. Despite his lack of dance skills and fear of water- "

"I am not afraid of water." Neptune protested.

"- he really is a smart guy. Practically the entire team relies on him as a tutor."

"Hey, how did you- "

"This is an outrage!" the man yelled, shoving Jaune's stuff into his arms and pushing him out the door. "You must leave at once! Out, out, out!" he was stopped by a wall of solid muscle. Jaune looked up and saw the tanned skin of a tall, platinum blonde man wearing nothing more than pants, shoes and a towel around his neck.

"Yes! I'm back too!" Sun cheered.

"Uh-oh. Sat in the dirt, didn't ya?" he said. He pushed past Jaune, showing Jaune the prehensile monkey tail sticking out the back of his pants. "Now, Neptune, what have I told you about playing nice with the other kids?" Neptune was about to respond when the Faunus cut him off. "Get back. I've got soap, and I'm not afraid to use it." He held up a literal bar of soap and Neptune hissed like an old movie vampire before turning to run away. The Faunus took the towel from his neck and whipped the man in the ass. "Back foul creature! Back to the pit from whence you came!" Neptune quickly scrambled up into his bunk and hid under the covers, turning on his lamp for good measure.

"The name's Sun. Sun Wukong. Medical officer." The man said, offering Jaune his hand.

"Uh, Jaune Arc."

"Jaune Arc?" Sun said as he pulled on a white lab coat, and only a white lab coat, leaving his abs on display, "You're my 3:00. Welp, no time like the present." He reached into his medical bag and pulled out a large saw.

"Oh boy." Jaune said, stuck somewhere between surprise and worry.

"Nice isn't it?" Sun asked, tapping on the blade, "The catalog says this baby can saw a femur in half in 28 seconds. I'm bettin' I can cut that time in half."

"How does it take thirty seconds to saw through a femur?" Ruby asked. "I'm no medical expert, but that seems off."

"Maybe he meant long ways?" Weiss guessed.

"They are really underestimating the density of bone." Summer commented to Tai.

He put the saw away and took out a tongue depressor. "Now, stick out your tongue and say 'ah'."

"Oh, no, no, I gotta- " Jaune was cut off when Sun stuck the wooden stick in Jaune's mouth and pressed down on his tongue.

"So, where you from?" Sun asked as he began inspecting Jaune's mouth, moving cartoonishly fast. Jaune answered, but it came out as grunting. Sun shoved a thermometer in his mouth and put on a stethoscope. "Really? I have family up that way. Beautiful country. You do any fishing?" More grunting. "Me? I hate fishing. I hate fish. Hate the taste, hate the smell, hate all them little bones." He finished his check-up and pulled out a pair of large beakers. "I'm gonna need you to fill these up."

Jaune spit out the thermometer. "With what?!" he practically yelled.

"Will Jaune Arc please report to the bridge?" Goodwitch's voice said over the intercom, saving Jaune.

"There is a god and he is good." Jaune muttered to himself. "Nice meeting you." he told Sun before running out of the cabin at top speed.

"Yup, nice meeting you too." Sun said with a smile.

"I like this version of me." Sun commented.

"Even if he does have the incorrect opinion regarding fish." Blake added.

"Though I do wonder if Nora shouldn't have had that role." Jaune joked.

On the bridge, Glynda was sitting at the radio station, talking into a headset. But, this was not the Goodwitch we know. This was Glynda in her 80s, at best. Her skin was sagging, her hair was pure grey and her entire face just screamed 'I'm too old for this shit.'

"So, I says to him, 'What's wrong with my meatloaf?' And Jimmy says to me-" a light began flashing on her radio. "Hang on a sec Willow, I got another call. Sir, we're approaching coordinates." She yelled to Adam before turning back to her conversation.

Jaune stepped onto the bridge, which took up the entirety of the glass ball at the front of the ship. The necessary equipment was kept on the ground level, with several layers of catwalks ringing the sphere, which was designed to remain level as the ship moved, whether it sank or rose.

"Alright, let's have a look around." Adam said as Jaune walked up.

"Aye, sir." Sienna replied, turning to give orders to the crew. "Set course to 2-4-0. 15 degrees down angle on the bow planes."

"They're treating this like it's a military operation." Weiss observed.

"If it's what they know, it's the best way to go about things." Winter said. "Most of these men and women look to have some kind of military background anyway."

"Can you translate what they're saying?"

"Only that 2-4-0 means roughly West-Southwest in military terms. I'm fluent with commanding infantry, not submersibles."

"Welcome to the bridge, Mr. Arc." Adam said as Jaune climbed onto the command deck. On the deck with him, were Sun and Neptune, along with the girl with the explosives he ran into earlier, and a younger, possibly teenage girl with red-tipped black hair in overalls and a baggy long-sleeve white shirt. "Ok, everybody, I want you to give Mr. Arc your undivided attention."

"Good afternoon. Can everybody hear me alright?" Jaune asked nervously. The teenage girl blew a bubble in her gum and let it pop to signify her boredom. "Take that a yes, I guess. Um, how about some slides, first? The first slide is a depiction of a creature so horrifying, sailors were said to be driven mad by the mere sight of it." he put the slide into the projector and was greeted by hoots and catcalls. He turned and saw a picture of him from his sister Artoria's bachelorette party, when they made him serve drinks in a 'sexy bunny' outfit. "Dammit, Tanya." He muttered to himself as he searched for the right slide.

"Oh, fuck me. Not those pictures, anything but that." Jaune groaned as he sank into his seat.

"Wait, that's real?!" Nora yelled.

"No!" Jaune said quickly.

"Hot." Coco said, Velvet giggling in agreement.

"Oh, and I thought Vomit Boy was something you would never live down." Yang laughed.

"Nooo…"

"Geez, I used to take lunch money from guys like this." Ruby scoffed, making Nora chuckle beside her.

"Ok, yeah, so this is an illustration of the Leviathan; the creature guarding the entrance to Atlantis." Jaune put a new slide into the projector, showing a depiction of a monstrous lobster-like creature attacking a ship.

"With something like that, I would have white wine, I think." Nora commented.

"It's a mythical sea serpent." Jaune explained. "He's described in the Book of Job. The bible says 'Out of his mouth go burning lights, sparks of fire shoot out.' But more likely, it's a carving or a sculpture to frighten the superstitious."

"So, we find this masterpiece. Then what?" Adam asked.

"When do we dig?!" Neptune interrupted excitedly.

"Actually, we don't have to dig." Jaune said, turning off the projector. "See, according to the Journal, the path to Atlantis will take us down a tunnel at the bottom of the ocean, and we'll come up a curve into an air pocket, where we'll find the remnants of an ancient highway that will take us straight to Atlantis. Kind of like the grease trap in your sink."

"Cartographer, linguist, plumber. Hard to believe he's still single." Sienna said as she played with a knife.

"You said there would be digging," Neptune said as he pull on a corner of Sienna's shirt.

"Go away, Mole."

"Wait, is that my nickname in this?" Neptune asked.

"Would you rather it be Aqua?" Sun teased, earning a punch from Neptune.

"Captain?" the helmsman said, "You'd better come look at this."

"Alright, class dismissed." Adam said. "Give me exterior lights."

The lights came on underneath the bridge and lit up the ocean floor to reveal what can only be described as a ship graveyard.

"Look at that." Sienna said, amazed.

"There are ships here from every era." Jaune said.

As the ship continued through, the ground shifted behind them. As they passed over a series of stone pillars, a massive shadow could just barely be seen passing between the pillars, all the while accompanied by an eerie clacking.

"Welp, there's that Leviathan thingy." Ruby said.

"It's huge." Yang said.

"And kinda looks familiar." Weiss observed. "I think we saw one of those at the start of the movie."

"And that sound is just creepy as all get out too." Sun added.

"Hmm. Another idea to add to my list of experiments." Salem commented as she drank her wine.

Glynda extinguished her cigarette before flipping another switch. She frowned at what she heard, and made a few adjustments.

"Commander, I think you should hear this." She said. However, Adam was busy consulting with Jaune, who was reading a passage from the Journal.

"Predeshtem, logtunug… nah geb." He said in what can only be assumed was Atlantean. "'Enter the lair of the Leviathan. There you will find the path to the gateway.'"

"What is it, Mrs. Goodwitch?" Adam asked, said lady having been trying to get his attention the entire time.

"I'm picking up something on the hydrophone I think you should hear." She reported.

"Put it on speakers."

Glynda flipped a switch and the entire bridge was filled with the sounds of groaning and wooshing as the massive being outside shadowed the ship.

"Well, they can't be too surprised when it attacks the ship." Blake commented.

"Blake! Spoilers!" Ruby yelled.

"Oh, come on, we all know it's coming."

"What is it?" Adam asked, him and Sienna coming down to her station, "A pod of whales?"

"Uh-uh. Bigger." Glynda said.

"Sounds metallic." Sienna commented before she started turning dials, "Could be an echo off one of the wrecks."

"You wanna do my job? Be my guest." Glynda snarked.

"Is it just me or is that getting louder?" Jaune asked, and abruptly, the sound ceased.

Sienna's eyes narrowed. "Well, whatever it was, it's gone now."

Adam nodded his agreement. "Helmsman, bring us about. Tighten our search pattern and slow us to-"

Suddenly everyone and everything on the ship was thrown with a crash as the ship began spinning in the water. Outside, a massive lobster-like beast circled them and grabbed them in one of it's massive claws. It was easily ten times the size of the sub, and looked like a smaller lobster had been jammed up to it's midsection into the body of a far larger lobster.

"How are they supposed to fight that?" Ruby said.

"You don't, Red." Torchwick said. "At least, not without a really fucking big stick."

"Preferably a Jaeger-sized one." Jaune agreed.

Ruby ran through the hallways, easily adjusting for the tilted nature of the ship, quickly making her way to the engine room. She stepped onto the catwalk and saw the room quickly filling with water.

On the bridge, Adam and Sienna had managed to collect themselves.

"Tell Oz to melt the butter and break out the bibs!" He told Sienna. "I want this lobster served up on a silver platter."

"Load the torpedo bays!" Sienna yelled out to the crew. "Subpod crews, battle stations!"

Dozens of pairs of men and women, including Nora and Neptune, all climbed into small, bullet shaped submersibles, Adam giving them instructions and steadying words over radio as they did.

The beast grabbed them once again, holding them in place. Jaune was thrown from the bridge by the impact and landed on the glass exterior. He picked himself up and looked out to see a massive orange eye staring back at him.

"Good, God! It's a machine!" he cried when the massive eye narrowed at him like it was actually mechanical.

Below, Ruby was doing her best to maximize damage control by sealing of any doors that water could potentially come from, even if it meant leaving men and women behind.

"Launch subpods!" Adam ordered. Along the length of the ship, the tiny bullets were thrown into the ocean.

"Oh, what are those tiny things gonna do to that?" Torchwick said sardonically.

They quickly circled around and formed into squadrons of five pods before launching a volley of torpedoes at the beast. Explosions erupted across the back of the Leviathan and it instinctively released the sub. "We're free. All ahead full." As the Leviathan turned to face the subpods, the sub quickly made it's escape.

"So, boss, how's your foot tasting about now?" Neo signed. Torchwick took a half-hearted swipe at her, which she ducked and stuck her tongue out at him.

However, the subpods were not faring well. They circled back around to the front of the sub, leading it into a trap for the sub's more powerful torpedoes, but not without sustaining their own casualties. Once they had the shot, the torpedoes were launched, all of them impacting on the smaller body of the Leviathan. The subpods used the smoke to escape, but the Leviathan pushed through and fired some kind of electrical laser beam at the sub, just barely impacting on its starboard side and cutting through the steel plates like a hot knife through butter.

"Now, that's just fucking cheating." Mercury commented, going for more popcorn.

As Ruby was finishing up with the doors, she felt the impact of the blast. Behind her, she heard the bolts on the boilers next to her shooting out of place. Cursing, she grabbed a shovel near her and used it as a shield for her face as she ran down the hallway and up a ladder.

"Get me the bridge." She ordered as her crew began sealing things up.

"Sir, it's engineering on 4." Glynda told Adam as she began leafing through a newspaper.

"This Glynda is so nonplussed by anything. I love it." Summer chuckled.

"Adam!" Ruby yelled into the mic, making Adam wince, "We took a big hit down here, and we're taking on water fast. I don't wanna be around when it hits the boilers."

"How long?" he asked her.

"Twenty minutes, if the bulkhead holds." She heard a loud clang behind her. "Scratch that, five."

"You heard the lady, let's move!" Adam ordered.

"Move? Move where?" Jaune asked as sailor grabbed his shoulder and led him out the bridge.

"Goodwitch, sound the alarm!" Sienna ordered.

"He packed his suitcase?" Glynda asked her friend on the radio, "Willow, honey, I don't think he's coming back."

"GOODWITCH!" Sienna shouted.

"Yeesh, calm your tits, me." Sienna joked.

"The ship is currently being destroyed by a previously-thought-mythical sea monster." Winter argued.

"Mortal danger is still not an excuse to be a bitch."

"I have to call you back. No, no, I'll call you." Glynda said, extinguishing her cigarette on the table.

"All hands, abandon ship." Glynda said over the intercom as Jaune followed Ruby down a hallway and onto a catwalk, soon joined by Sun. Sienna ushered them all into an escape ship before she jumped in herself. The inside of the craft was enormous, capable of carrying at least 25 individuals, and a host of vehicles, including the massive digging machine Jaune had seen earlier.

"Grab a seat and buckle in." she ordered, climbing into the seat next to Adam.

"Get us out of here, Lieutenant." He told her.

Outside, the ship began to slowly began sinking, catching the Leviathan's attention.

"Lieutenant!" Adam yelled.

"I am working on it!" Sienna yelled back as she put her full weight behind the release lever and pushed as hard as she could. The Leviathan shot another beam through the middle of the ship. Sienna finally wound up kicking the release lever, pushing it forward. "Hang on." She said as the craft sped forward. The sub's rear hatch burst open and a series of matching escape ships sped out and away, though one was not fast enough and was caught in the sub's explosion.

The escape craft quickly made for the ocean floor, subpods flanking them as an escort, while the Leviathan emerged from the wake of the sub's destruction and swam after them.

"Where to, Mr. Arc?" Adam asked. Jaune opened the Journal and began reading.

"We're looking for a crevice of some kind." He said, going off the illustrations rather than words from the stress.

"There!" Adam said, pointing to a break in the sea floor about half a mile ahead of them.

Sienna changed course and got on the radio. "All craft, make your mark 20 degrees down angle."

"Roger! 20 degrees down angle!" a stressed soldier confirmed.

"Right behind you." Neptune told them.

The Leviathan appeared behind them and slammed it's claw down, taking another subpod and escape craft as it did.

"Too close!" Neptune exclaimed, breaking sharply to avoid being taken as well.

"We're getting killed out here!"

The craft dived into the crevice, numbering only five in total. The Leviathan tried to follow, but was too large to fit. It settled on firing another blast and destroying another subpod. Another dodged the beam, but rammed into one of the escape ships and was dashed against the cave wall. The craft they hit lost control and crashed into the ceiling.

"It's only a grease trap. It's just like a sink." Jaune said to himself, willing himself to not lose it. "It's only a grease trap. It's just liKE A SINK!"

The remaining subpod and escape ship dodged each other and the beams from the Leviathan as they rounded a bend and came into a vertical climb. Sienna wrestled with the controls as the tunnel became increasingly narrower and things got more complicated. Soon enough, they breached the surface of the water into a dark cavern. Nora and Neptune opened up their hatch to take a look around, while Sienna turned on a flood light on top of her craft. The shore revealed just what Jaune had said: the ruins of an ancient stairway leading up to a strange fish-like head, into whose gaping maw the path led.

"Well, that was exciting." Ozcar said plainly.

Xx

Yeah, I know I kinda dropped the ball at the end there, but it didn't feel like there were many good places to add reactions once the chase sequence got started. That entire scene with the Leviathan is only about 3-5 minutes and it's pretty fast paced anyway.

Anywho, I'm gonna start trying a new way of writing these chapters so that I'm not scrambling to get these out week to week. Hopefully, it'll work out the way I want so that I can write these and write more for Wolves of Remnant.

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