Surprise I aint dead just really fucking lazy
Anyway heres a long chapter with some action to hopefully make up for it
Hope yall enjoy.
Deep in the Amazon, there are a few roads that connect the outlying towns to the major cities with most if not all the roads being narrow dirt roads weaving through the jungle. These roads are rarely patrolled by the local police making them a prime route for drug smuggling. The only major problem is if one wishes to cross the mighty Amazon as few bridges span the gap of the mighty river and even fewer fairies exist that can support the weight of vehicles. That's why RWBY had set up their ambush at the entrance to one of the few bridges across the river. It was a choke point and a failsafe plan. They didn't want to blow the bridge as it was used by civilians still but it would be necessary if their ambush failed. The narrow road also played toward their advantage forcing any vehicle into a bottleneck
Across the river very carefully hidden among the jungle brush, a single barrel sticks out. One would be hard-pressed to spot the amount of brush. Ruby In her meticulously crafted ghillie suit that covers the entirety of her back, lays prone in the brush looking through her scope with controlled breaths. Through her night vision scope, she can just barely make out the forms of her team hidden along the side of the road. her second rifle a m110 lay beside her
"Got anything Rubes I'm sweating my ass off here," Yang called out over the radio. The environment of the jungle did not bode well for the team being dressed in plate carriers and long-sleeved camo
"Nothin yet," Ruby said, scanning the horizon for any dust clouds. "On the bright side at least it's not as hot as it could be" Ruby said trying to lighten the mood
"Still a sweaty hell hole how in the hell are you survivin in that ghillie suit" Yang said returning her eyes to the road before asking "What types of weapons should we expect to face?"
"Expect cold war era gear older Kalashnikovs, surplus Mosin Nagant and anything with wood furniture still on it, though they're probably be modern shit in there somewhere." Ruby said barely moving
"Can you focus? You need to stop the lead truck lest we blow the bridge" Weiss called out over the radio in an irritable tone.
"Geez Ice Queen guess the heats finally melt ya like the wicked witch of the west." Yang said jokingly, turning to Weiss who sat next to her in the roadside ditch. "Just trying to lighten the mood plus my sisters a damn good shot and if all else fail we got this bad boy," Yang said lifting a long wide dark green tube with a sight picture and a shoulder rest sticking out of it
"I'm not doubting your sister's accuracy nor your eagerness to blow something up." Weiss said as she turned her head to Yang. "I just prefer to limit all factors that could cause these operations to fail. And I believe your bantering is one of those. And I believe Blake would agree with me" Weiss said with a matter of fact of voice.
"If you're going to put words in my mouth at least make sure they can't hear you" Blake said through the radio. In Blake's opinion bantering was a good way to get one's mind off the sweltering humid hell they currently reside in.
"Ahh there you are kitty was starting to think you were dead," Yang said over the radio only to be met with static. Yang couldn't see Blake on the other side of the road even with her NVG's but could tell Blake was glaring at her for the use of that nickname.
"Hey, Blake anyone tells you you got a mighty fine ass?" Ruby said jokingly over the radio.
"Only every drunk guy and gal in the bar" Blake said, returning to her joking status.
"I bet JNPR doesn't have to deal with this " Weiss said to herself
"Oh trust me, Darlin, you'd would be pulling your hair out," Ruby said over the radio, "Also you forgot to turn off your radio"
"Nora fixin some trouble for her team," Yang asked
"Ya bet ya ass she is," Ruby said with a smile
Meanwhile near the Border between Peru and Brazil
"Nora, we don't need that many explosives,"Ren said
"But what if they're super tanky?" Nora responded only to receive shaking heads from her teammates. Deflated she returned from the road to their hiding spot along the road. The team was split along both sides of the road with explosives planted on the road to stop the vehicles. They didn't really have the luxury of a sniper with an anti-material rifle to stop the vehicles.
"Nora the explosives already planted should be enough, but if all else fails you can blow the trucks to kingdom come." Pyrrha said over the radio trying to be supportive. She was surprisingly kind for a SEAL and not what one expects when someone thinks of a SEAL.
Nora continued to try and convince Ren to let her plant more explosives while Pyrrha looked back to Jaune who was prone on an outcropping rock facing toward the road keeping a lookout for the vehicles. His large backpack full of medical supplies lay near the base of the rock.
"Anything yet," Pyrrha asked as she approached the rock.
"Nothing yet, I'm getting the feeling though that a large zerg rush is about to meet us," Jaune responded with a light chuckle.
"If it's not rude how did you get into SF?" Pryyha said with some hesitations, as Jaujne turned his head to face Pyrrha "Don't get me wrong, you're doing great, and you earned your place. I'm just confused." Pyrrha said in her attempt to not offend Jaune.
"Nah it's alright, I know I'm not really what someone thinks a soldier looks like let alone one in SF." Jaune said with a humorless chuckle "Well I just stuck my head down and kept going till I got through. Ruby helped me a lot during Ranger training but it was an uphill battle to get where I am, with being thrown out and all." He said
"I guess your family was proud you achieved something great?" Pyrrha said
"Well, the news was met with some fear but also some proudness. Being the youngest and only boy in a family of seven sisters, let's just say they were scared for their 'Baby brother'." Jaune said with a sarcastic tone. "How did your family take the news? " Jaune asked
"They were mainly proud, going through hell and coming out of it was something to be proud of and they were." Pyrrha said.
Both teams had been together for a little over two months now and had grown to become almost family-like to each other to the point that they would take a bullet for each other. The thing is, when you're in a situation where you don't know whether or not you're going to go home you tend to cherish the few around you that you've gotten to know. Even with ones that are difficult to deal with, after all, their lives are in their teammate's hands.
Deep in the Amazon Jungle
"All right ya lazy animals get your asses movin we got a schedule to keep" Roman yelled out to the crowd of drug smugglers and White Fang operatives as they loaded several 55 gallon barrels of Ash. Neo was preparing their truck that was in the center of the convoy. They were nothing special, in all actuality they were worse than that, old beaten cargo trucks that looked like they were from the eighties. Cab over engine design with a third fuel tank installed underneath the cab directly below the driver. There were no escort vehicles as Cinder thought that they would not run into any resistance on the roads. Her arrogance would prove to be her downfall in due time.
As they were finishing up the loading process, an SUV rolled up to the makeshift drug lab. Out stepped Cinder and her "Children" each dressed in t-shirts, cargo pants, and Cold War-era harnesses and armed with Kalashnikovs and surprisingly revolvers.
…
Well except for Mercury who instead decided to maintain his discount Russian gangster vibe with the addition of a PP-19 Bizon and a satchel with more of the ridiculous-looking handgrip magazines. Roman actually began to think this kid was actually an ex-Russian mobster. Come to think of it he never had heard the kid speak
Roman approached Cinder while she looked over her convoy preparations.
"You really think going without an escort is a good idea because believe me honey I am no drug smuggling mastermind but… I do have enough common sense to realize that's absolutely fucking stupid" Roman said sarcasm dripping off of his voice
"Leave the logistics to me Roman you just do as I say and everything will be fine?" cinder said looking at the criminal out of the corner of her eye
"It just seems brash to do so without any"
"We'll be fine Roman if we meet and police we have more than enough power to deal with them should they not take our offering.
"Fine, Fine, but we must get moving, I guess I'll see you in the middle of bum fuck Norway, I will be expecting my payment," Roman said throwing his cane in the air "Come one neo lets get a move on" Roman sai only to be stopped by Mercury
"You not ride that truck" he said gesturing toward the truck near Neo in a thick Russian accent "your ride with that one сутенер cyka" he said gesturing to the one near Cinder Fall
"Is this true honey or is sonny her being a little grabby" ROman said again with sarcasm dripping off his voice while thinking well ill be damned the kid was actually Russian. He only barely finished the sentence and his thought when he was slammed against a nearby drug lab wall with a 44. Magnum under his chin. It appears Emerald hadn't taken to kindly to his joking
"Emerald let him go," Cinder said, finally facing Roman.
"Desgracado" Emerald mumbled as she let Roman down. Before walking off with Mercury and Neo to the truck. Ahh, a local should be useful Roman thought as they left.
"And to answer your question, think of it as insurance that you don't do something stupid." Cinder said as she sauntered over to the truck. A tracker and an engine diagnostic sensor had been installed to ensure that the product made it there.
Neo gave Roman a questioning look. A look that was answered with the jerking of Romans' head towards the truck with a trust me look. Roman lit his cigar before hopping in the truck and they headed out.
Through the brush of jungle, a certain drunk Qrow watches from the branch of a tree as he Reached for his radio "Pinocchio this is Corvus, the flame has begun to move"
The trucks drive for hours stopping only occasionally to get fuel. The cabs in both convoys were silent as the rickety old trucks made their way through the Jungle.
The lead truck of Roman's convoy began to reach the bridge that crossed the Amazon. If the driver were more attentive and not a half-asleep zombie, he would notice the barely visible glint of a scope in the brush. But he never did as the truck exploded into flames within the blink of an eye.
A single AP incendiary 50. caliber bullet cut through the air as if they were not there. The silver-paint tipped projectile raced through the air and cut through the engine block, nicked the gas tank, and hit a barrel full of the Ash. Ash was used by melting and then boiling the red crystals with a flame as small as a lighter before inhaling the vapors for a high. One of the unintended consequences of this was that the product melted rather easily, with another unintended consequence of the vapors being very flammable. So not only did the AP incendiary round punch through the engine block, but it also punched through the added fuel tank and a barrel of the product light everything ablaze.
What followed was utter chaos, both sides of the were road lit up with the muzzle flashes of team RWBY's rifles and the few that attempted to hide where were met with precise rifle fire as Ruby made her way to rejoin her team, The grunts firing back were totally blind they didn't know where they were and were just spraying randomly into the thick brush.
Roman and Neo were smart as they slowly crawled their way to the rear of the convoy under the trucks. Roaman cursed cinder's arrogance, it has caused her an entire shipment and half of her supply.
They reached the end of the convo in mere minutes. They could see the feet of the ambushers and both rolled to the different sides of the road. Roman began his escape into the forest while Neo sat and waited for the perfect time to strike. As Blake Scanned the area behind the Convoy.
"Clear!" Blake yelled and heard the various yells of "CLEAR!" as Weiss, Ruby, and Yang made their way over in response. As they were Ruby stopped and then broke into a sprint. This did two things put: everyone on edge and spiked everyone's curiosity
"There's another that made it he's in the brush, I got 'em" Ruby yelled out as she ran into the forest.
"You dunce you can't go on your own…" Weiss yelled before realizing her pleas fell on deaf ears. Before she and Blake ran after Ruby
As Yang began to run she was slammed to the ground by Neo, causing her shotgun and rifle to be flung under the nearby truck. She had been suplexed by the petite girl. As Yang landed on her upper back she rolled onto her stomach before getting to one knee training immediately kicked in as Yang made for her knife really cursing not bringing a sidearm. She made an attack on Neo as she was prepping her pistol causing her to drop it as well. Yang managed to get a few good slashes on Neo before she was disarmed by the assailant. After she had been disarmed. The small girl threw punches to Yang's side getting a couple in before Yang grabbed her arm and judo flipped the girl onto her back taking advantage of the situation Yang almost put her into an arm lock but was stopped when the girl slammed a nearby rock into Yang's knee. As both Yang and Neo recovered from the most recent attacks, each with bruising showing and blood coming from their noses, their eyes met and both took the challenge as they both started trading and landing har punches. It was brutal. Punches kicked knees to the face and the stomach by the end of it were heavily bruised and bleeding from not only their noses but their mouth as well as Yang spit out the blood and a few teeth from her mouth. If it weren't for several cracks of a rifle they would have continued but using the rifle shots as a distraction Yang made for Neo's pistol that was on the ground.
As she dove for the pistol Yang groaned as he landed just now realizing she may have a few broken ribs. She flipped the safety take aim and shot the shot landed high and wide only hitting her shoulder. Neo using the momentum of the shot rolled into the ditch and then crawled into the brush before could make her way over to the ditch with the pistol out and another arm over her stomach. After seeing nothing she slumped by one of the trucks taking stock of her injuries. Few cracked ribs she guessed, some missing teeth and a lot of bruises.
'I'll be fine. I've come home from fights in worse' Yang thought trying to convince her body to move. And eventually did and began the task of setting up the C4. As she was wiring the last one Ruby Yang and Blake came back through the trees Ruby's face was bloodied, and all of them had visual damage to their plate carriers.
Yang dropped what she was doing and strained herself to get over to them and made it there with some help from Blake. "The hell happened to you," Yang asked scanning over trying to find any more injuries,
"Torchwick that's what happened," Ruby said as She and Weiss began first aid.
Ruby ran through the brush with her rifle up, following the glimpses of the person's back only to be knocked on her back by the person she was chasing. The assailant immediately made a grab for her rifle. In the chaos Roman had made another rookie mistake, leaving his weapon in the car. His attempt to grab the rifle was stopped by Ruby's sling and reacting in response, Ruby introduced Roman to her weapons buttstock.
But as Roman was being punched back, He managed to remove the magazine from her rifle. Knowing she had only one shot he charged her and managed to move the rifle upward just before she fired her last round. Taking the opportunity he attempted to grab the pistol strapped to her left thigh. He was successful for a moment before it was hit away and he found a fist jammed into his side. Taking advantage of Roman's momentary pain Ruby made for a headlock but was unable to get in time before Roman began elbowing her in her side. Hand to hand fighting was not one of her specialties. They both managed to separate a short distance before re-engaging each other in close hand to hand combat. Roman seemed to just barely have the upper hand, with Ruby looking worse for wear, but he also looked like he got his shit kicked in. Ruby did manage to take him down and land several good hits only for Roman to again worm his way out, but this time was met with a tackle from Bake.
"Woah there darlin', no need to be so eager. At least let me buy you dinner first" Roman said snarkily. Blake responded by reintroducing him to her Mp5's buttstock as well as the forest floor.
While Roman wallowed in the pain of his broken nose, Weiss checked up on Ruby "You dolt, you look like you just had your face slammed into a brick wall the hell were you thinking" Weiss said as she attempted to check on ruby's wounds while Ruby gathered her scattered weapons
"I was doin my job" Ruby said only to hit the deck after the noticeable crack of a bullet whizzed right past her. Weiss and Blake did the same as two more shots were heard. Roman meanwhile took this opportunity to escape into the brush.
As the Fire stopped all three of them began to crawl their way to cover "Dammit he got away" Blake said as Weiss helped Ruby up
"We finish the mission he doesn't matter for right now," Weiss said as they began their way back to the road
"I wonder if JNPR's having better luck than us?' Ruby pondered
"THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT!" Jaune yelled as he attempted to fire back under the hail storm of bullets. They manage to stop several of the trucks with Nora's explosives, but they apparently got all the heavy weaponry.
Right now Jaune's Current plan is to try and direct fire at him and Pyrrha so Nora could do what she does best. Smash. It was a simple plan in theory, in execution, was brutally difficult as there were several LMGs "talking to each other" aka alternating fire with other LMGs. So here they were split on two sides of the roads being suppressed by heavy fire. Not a good position to be in. Jaune had a few frag grenades and was slightly closer to the convoy so maybe, just maybe he can toss the frag out and cause enough of a distraction to allow Ren to return fire and Nora to blow shit up. He looked over to Pyrrha who was scanning the landscape for better cover
" I got a plan, might be a stupidly dangerous one but its a plan nonetheless," Jaune said as he got on the radio getting a head nod in response from Pyrrha and a verbal response from Ren and Nora "When I say we need to to draw some of their fire so me and Nora can throw some frags and maybe buy us a window to turn this battle around."
"Alright just do it quickly, I prefer not to be sent home as swiss cheese. " Prryha said as she laid down smoke and hauled ass to another rock formation and began shooting.
Her distraction gave Jaune enough time to throw three grenades near the clusters of LMG users along with the iconic thump of Nora's grenade launcher. They all duck behind their covers and the grenades explode, once the grenades explode they pop up and begin to gain fire superiority.
Mercury dives under one of the tucks as the grenades explode. Cinder and Emerald did the same. Mercury reloaded his bison while looking from under the truck preparing a smoke grenade. Cinder could see the writing was on the walls, the whole operation was fucked, the only thing they could do now was to abandon ship and regroup, so for right now she would follow Mercury's lead.
"Granata!" Mercury yelled as he threw the smoke towards Jaunje and Pyyrha's position. It fell short but was still enough to cause them to duck behind cover. Using the smoke as cover They bolted away from the road while leaving the grunt out to dry. Cinder took a DMR from the truck before bolting out. JNPR made their way down to the convoy meticulously eliminating all enemies who were stupid enough to try and fight instead of fleeing.
The clear was called as cinder took her position on a rock outcropping higher up overlooking the road. She could see three of them scanning for enemies while another was seen setting up explosives, they were moving quickly and efficiently. Now Cinder had some revenge she wanted to take out before leaving so she lined up the shot with Pyrrah while she was moving between cover and fired. The scope was sighted for a longer range and she never accounted for that so the shot went low and hit Pyrrah in the leg taking her down to the ground. As she fell she shot around Cinder's position and had little time to account for the scope so she lined up the iron sights and fired as many times as possible. She got lucky with three shots landing. Two luckily hit her plate carrier but one went high and hit just above the plate carrier and hit her putting her on the ground. With that, she bolted before they could tag her. But as she got up Karma kicked her in the ass and Jaune managed to get a shot on her in her shoulder.
After some return fire, Jaune grabbed Pyrrha but the straps of her plate carrier and dragged her behind one of the trucks before first aid. By this point, she was in shock and bordering on unconsciousness.
"NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo, Pyrrha stay with me, you gonna be just fine your gonna be just fine, Nora radio for immediate medevac Jaune yelled out as he did his best to stop Pyyrha from bleeding out with Pyrrah slowly falling into unconsciousness.