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Volume 3 Chapter 7: The Inevitable
The next morning
17 hours remain
Ruby was awoken by the sunlight that entered the room through the window and was shining on her face. She opened her eyes and looked around the room, there she saw that both Blake and Yang were still asleep. The sound of water running was heard from the bathroom, so Ruby assumed that Weiss was taking a shower. Her eyes then looked upon the empty bed that Rock used to sleep on.
"Right, he's still gone." She thought to herself, while she looked somberly at the empty bed. It was then that she was snapped out of her thoughts when Weiss left the bathroom fully dressed in her school uniform. "Morning Weiss." Said Ruby.
Weiss, startled by Ruby being already awake and looking down on her from her bed, replied in a startled tone "Oh... Ruby. I didn't know you were already up, how are you?"
"I'm fine, I was able to sleep without any nightmares for once." Said Ruby.
Weiss gave a soft smile and replied "That's good to hear, can't have our leader falling asleep in class. Right?"
"Right, so how was dinner with Flynt?" Asked Ruby.
"It was fine." Replied Weiss quickly, with a nervous tone in her voice.
Ruby noticed and replied "That doesn't fine to me, did something happen Weiss?"
"Everything is fine, don't worry about it." Said Weiss.
"The way you say it doesn't sound like it's fine." Said Yang, startling the two. As they looked over and saw that both Yang and Blake were now wide awake and out of bed.
"How long have you two been up?" Asked Weiss.
"Only after you stepped out of the bathroom." Said Yang.
"I woke up when you turned on the shower, but I was comfortable so I didn't feel like getting out of bed." Said Blake, as she let out a yawn.
"I'm sorry if I woke you, I tried to be as quiet as possible." Replied Weiss, with a flustered look on her face.
"Don't worry about it, with my extra set of ears it's going to be flat out impossible for anyone to be completely silent." Said Blake, as she wiggled her cat ears to show her point.
"If you say so." Said Weiss, as she went over to her desk, sat down and opened her textbook to get in some extra studying before classes started.
It was then that Yang walked over to Weiss, stood behind her and said "You know Weiss, I'm pretty sure your avoiding the Goliath in the room. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard the way. So either tell us what happened, or you'll be in for a bad time."
Weiss turned around to face Yang and said "Oh yeah, what could you possibly do to get me to tell you what happened. Whose to say something happened?"
Ruby visibly cringed at the answer and mumbled "Bad move Weiss, bad move."
"Oh you know, have Ruby and Blake hold you down while I use the feather until you tell us what happened." Said Yang.
"You wouldn't, they would never agree to that." Said Weiss, as she felt worried over what Yang would do.
"Look Weiss, one thing about Yang is that it's never a good idea to keep secrets from her. Cause she will find out about them, it's how we always knew which Christmas presents we were going to get. Or who we had as our secret Santa back at Signal." Said Ruby.
"So, what's it going to be?" Asked Yang, as she used her eyes to signal to Ruby and Blake to get ready to hold down Weiss.
A few seconds passed, but then Weiss exclaimed "Ok fine! I'll tell you what happened!"
"See was that so hard, now tell us what happened. Then I'll decide if I'm going to have to beat someone up." Said Yang, as she cracked her knuckles.
"It's nothing like that!" Exclaimed Weiss. "He was a gentleman, everything was fine. We had a fun evening, just the two of us having dinner. But then we started talking, and we realized it wasn't going to work. He told me some more about his background, and all I could see was resentment in his eyes. Nothing but resentment, and after I had told him some more about myself we realized that we were both hurting in different ways."
"We realized it wouldn't work so we decided it would just be better if it stayed at the one dinner we had and the two of us just staying friends." Said Weiss.
"That's it?" Asked Yang.
"Yeah, I didn't want to bother you guys with it." Said Weiss.
"It's fine, look I have dated a few people over the years. And sometimes things just don't work out, so don't worry if it didn't work out the first time." Said Yang, as she gave Weiss a reassuring smile.
"Yeah, besides. It's like they always say, there are plenty of fish in the sea." Said Ruby.
"Thanks guys." Said Weiss, as she pulled her teammates into a hug.
"Don't worry about it, though next time something bothers you. Don't be afraid to tell us, after all I promised you that I would come talk to you guys if there was something bothering me. So please do the same thing with us." Said Blake.
"Yeah, your feelings matter Weiss." Said Ruby.
"I will do that next time, don't worry." Said Weiss, as she let go of her teammates.
There was a bit of silence in the room, but it was then broken when Blake spoke up "So, who is going to use the bathroom next? We have an hour and a half until class starts."
No one answered, but the eyes of Yang, Ruby and Blake all darted towards the bathroom door. But before anyone could say anything, Ruby used her semblance to grab her stuff and rush into the bathroom. Closing the door behind her.
Yang rushed over to the door and tried to open it. When that didn't work, she began to shake it while yelling "Dammit Ruby, open the door! You know I take longer than you do in the bathroom!"
"Sorry Yang, should have been faster." Taunted Ruby, after which the sound of water running was heard in the bathroom.
At the Vale Hospital
14 hours remain
In a hospital room somewhere in Vale was Agent Stern, wrapped in bandages, surrounded with tubes and an oxygen mask that are keeping him alive for the moment. All the while the agent had been put into an artificial coma ever since he had been brought into the hospital.
With him in the room was Agent Krantz, who was walking through the room with a worrisome expression on her face. Worried that her partner wouldn't make it out of this alive. In the short time that she had known him their relationship was beginning to grow from the two of them being partners to the two of them becoming friends who would always have each others backs.
When she first met Agent Stern, he seemed like nothing more than a stubborn egotistical jerk who would never change his mind about anything. But as she got to know him she started to learn more about him. Underneath the harsh exterior was a man with a hearth of gold who had seen his fair share of things over the course of his thirty years as an agent. And when she started to learn more about him, their relationship was able to improve.
And their relationship really did improve, cause after their second week as partners they made sure to always there for each other, ready to provide each other back up whenever they got into a shootout against thugs. Or if one of them needed a shoulder to lean on anytime a case would get tough for one of them. But even with the difficult moments that they had faced, things would always work out for them. Agent Stern and Agent Krantz would always make it out of a particular difficult spot together.
But seeing him in that bed wrapped up, and with tubes and needles keeping him alive made her worry for the first time in their three years as partners. Sure she's had many partners over the course of twenty years of her being an agent, some of which died while on duty, be it from Grimm attacks or due to a shootout. But this time she was actually worried that her partner would die, just because she wasn't there to help him.
Agent Krantz was in deep thought, keeping all of those factors in mind, when she was suddenly taken out of her thoughts when Agent Stern began to violently cough and gasp for air. She rushed over to him, saw that he had his eyes opened and was frantically looking around him.
"Where am I! Where am I!" He exclaimed frantically.
"Gilbert, calm down. Everything is fine, you're at the hospital. Everything is going to be, you're going to be ok!" Yelled Agent Stern.
The voice of his partner was able to slightly calm Agent Stern down to the point that he began to lie down in his bed, and began to get his breathing back under control.
"Gilbert, do you remember what happened?" Asked Roslyn, with concern in her voice and while holding back tears of joy.
"Not much, I was looking into the origin of that gun that was used on that robot and I had found a lead after a piece of paper was left on my desk. I had found something, but then I saw a bright light and after that I don't remember what happened." Said Gilbert, as he was using the air mask to keep his breathing in check.
"They drove into you Gilbert." Said Agent Krantz.
"Huh... Oh right, I remember now. I had found the origin of the weapon, but then they drove into me with a car." Said Gilbert, with a somber tone in his voice.
"You called me, if you hadn't done that you wouldn't be here right now. You're very lucky that the paramedics were able to get you to the hospital to get treated, and you were even luckier to have gotten treated by a doctor with a healing semblance." Said Roslyn, as tears were beginning to flow down her face "I was worried that I had lost you."
"Hey, dry those tears of yours. I'm still here. It's going to take a lot more than some zealous lunatics to get rid of little ol' me. Besides, those weapons might actually help us trace down the Emerald Spears." Said Agent Stern.
"Oh right, about that..." Said Roslyn, as she had an awkward look on her face.
Gilbert noticed, and exclaimed "What is it! Spit it out Roslyn!"
"When backup arrived at that warehouse it was completely empty, there were no weapons to be found there at all." Said Roslyn.
"What! How can those weapons be gone! I clearly saw them! Are you telling me that they're gone!" Yelled Stern, through his oxygen mask, only for him to start gasping for air.
After he had caught his breath again Roslyn replied "I don't know what could have happened, but there was nothing there."
"So you're saying I made it up?" Asked Gilbert.
"Not at all, you were wearing your body cam and the weapons that you saw were recorded. So we know that they exist, we just don't know where they are." Said Agent Krantz, who saw that her partner got a look of determination in his eye. So she added "Don't even think about leaving this bed to go and look for them Gilbert! I'm serious, you're staying in here until you get cleared by the doctors. Promise me, please."
There was a bit of silence in the room, but then Gilbert replied with "I promise, it just doesn't sit right with me that there are lost weapons in Vale and we don't know where they are."
The safe house
14 hours remain
Within a room at the back of the safe house of the Emerald Spears sat Xander Payne, working on a small device in front of him when his work was interrupted by a knock on the door. "Come in," he replied. After which the door opened and two figured entered the room.
The two figures stepped into the room, and made their way into the light. Revealing themselves to be a young, heavily build man with brown hair, brown side burns and a woman with orange hair, a pony tail and wearing a construction helmet. Both were wearing orange jumpsuits with the logo of the Emerald Spears on their backs.
Xander faced the two and said "Ah, Theo, Simone. I take it that my little side mission was... successful?"
"It sure was, brother. We took care of that cop, he won't be interfering with us for a long time." Replied Theo Payne.
"Excellent... Although did you make sure that he was actually dead?" Asked Xander.
"Uh... yeah, yeah we did." Replied Theo.
"Are you sure, cause I'd hate to have to clean up your messes." Replied Xander, as an annoyed look appeared on his face.
"Yes, I'm sure he's dead!" Yelled Theo.
"Are you really sure about that?" Asked Xander, putting more force behind his question.
Simone Miller then stepped in between the two brothers and said "Hey! Lay off him, he did what you told him to do! We put that note on his desk, had him find the weapons and then we hit him with our car without ever being spotted. Everything will be fine."
Xander stayed silent for a bit to think while sitting down in his chair, going over all the possible outcomes of failure and success. Thinking about how any of the outcomes would most likely have an impact on the operation. After a while of thinking he replied "Fine, that seems acceptable. Now what did you two do with all the weapons?"
"We removed them from the warehouse, and put them in the basement of the safe house. No one is going to think to look here." Said Simone
"I can deal with that, so good job to both of you." Said Xander, who then added "Look I'm going to need you both to stay here and be ready in case I'm going to need the both of you. It's for the sake of the Emerald Spears."
"Anything for the Emerald Spears." Said Simone.
"Anything for you brother." Said Theo.
"Good, you two are dismissed and will be called upon when needed." Said Xander, to which Simone and Theo nodded and left the room. Leaving Xander alone in the room, he then grabbed a piece of paper, crossed out something and said "Everything is going according to plan, soon that which had been set into motion can't be stopped anymore." After which he let out a maniacal laugh.
At Beacon
10 hours remain
It was the middle of the day at Beacon, and most of the first year students had just finished a class in stealth and security on using sign language while out in the field to ensure that they wouldn't get spotted by their enemies. Right now the students had made their way over to combat class with Professor Goodwitch. Once the students got there, she took out her tablet and said "Students, today I would like to see people fighting who haven't fought that often."
The professor pressed a button on her tablet, after which the screen in the room began to show the images of students taking part in the class beginning to spin around. After a while of spinning, with the entire class watching on in anticipation as they waited for it to stop spinning. After a while it stopped spinning and the images revealed that Ruby and Sun would be fighting against each other.
"Ms Rose and Mr Wukon, get to the changing rooms and change into your combat uniforms. You have five minutes to get back to class." Said Professor Goodwitch, to which Sun and Ruby nodded. The two immediately made their way over to the changing rooms and began to put on their combat uniforms.
After a couple of minutes of silence Sun decided to speak up "So, how are you feeling?"
"Pretty good, why do you ask?" Asked Ruby.
"Just wanted to know, you seemed pretty shaken up after what happened in Vale a while back." Said Sun, which caused Ruby to wince and think back to what she saw that night. Sun noticed and added "Sorry, that was insensitive of me. I just wanted to check on how you were doing."
"It's fine, I'm getting better. I've been having therapy sessions with Professor Peach and I'm actually able to sleep without getting any nightmares." Replied Ruby, with a somber look on her face.
"That's good to hear." Said Sun, after which there was a silence in the room. So he added "You know, I'm looking forward to fighting you."
"Really? Why is that?" Asked Ruby.
"I mean, I have fought alongside Blake back at the docks. I know how Rock fights. I have had a fight against both Yang and Weiss in previous combat classes, but never against you. So I just look forward to seeing what you have in store. Especially with that weapon of yours, a sniper rifle, mixed with a scythe and a blade on the bottom. Not something you see very often." Said Sun.
Ruby smiled at the compliment and replied "Thanks, though I will say your Bo Staff is also pretty cool. Especially when they can turn into those gun chucks of yours."
"Was that a pun?" Asked Sun.
"Sorry, that's what Yang likes to call them." Said Ruby.
"Don't worry about it, lets just do our best and fight to the best of our abilities." Said Sun, to which Ruby nodded. Their attention was then caught when the buzzer went off, after which the two left the changing rooms and returned to the combat arena. Once they entered it they went to the opposite ends of the combat arena.
"Are both combatants ready?" Asked Professor Goodwitch, to which both Ruby and Sun nodded. "You'll go until one of you gets their aura in the red, now begin!"
Ruby immediately used her semblance to dash towards Sun, but in doing so didn't notice that he went into a meditating position and summoned several light clones of himself which he sent after Ruby. Causing her to come to a screeching halt, and having her duck as one of the clones tried to punch her. She was able to dodge it by ducking, and then used Crescent Rose to swipe at the clones. She was able to hit them with the blade of her scythe, causing the light clones to fade away.
She was about to rush towards Sun, but got blindsided when he used his Bo Staff the smack her in the back of her head, causing her to become slightly dizzy. He then took the opportunity to turn his Bo Staff into it's nunchuck form, and then rushed at Ruby. Trying to use her dazed state as an opportunity to attack, but was unable to do so as Ruby got out of her dazed state and used her semblance to rush into the air.
From within the air she turned Crescent Rose into it's sniper rifle form and let out several shots at Sun, who used his nunchucks to deflect the shots. Causing the shots to get stuck into a wall, after which Ruby landed on the floor and rushed towards him while turning Crescent Rose back into it's scythe form. While she was rushing towards him, Sun used his nunchucks to fire several shots at Ruby. Who swung Crescent Rose around at rapid speeds to deflect the blasts.
Ruby managed to get close to Sun, who used his semblance to create more light clones of himself. Which Ruby fought off using her scythe, all the while Sun turned his nunchucks back into his Bo staff. Ruby, who had managed to take out the light clones, rushed over to Sun only for him to use his Bo Staff to knock Crescent Rose out her hands. He then spun through the air and delivered a rapid kick to the side of Ruby's torso. Knocking her to the ground for a bit.
She immediately stood back up and saw that her aura had been depleted, with her only having half of it left. She had to think of a plan fast, cause Sun was already rushing towards her. She knew that she had finish the fight quickly, cause she wasn't sure how much longer she would be able to fight against him. In her tired state she tried to rush out of the way of his attack, only for Sun to fake her out, dodging out of the way and using his Bo staff to hold her in a chokehold.
"Ready to give up?" Asked Sun.
"Not even close." Replied Ruby, who had managed to come up with an idea.
Ruby then used her free elbow to deliver a blow into Sun's stomach, which slightly freed his hold over her, and then kicked him into the stomach to completely free her from his hold. She then used her semblance to push herself off of Sun, and launched herself to the other side of the room to grab Crescent Rose. Once she did that, she fired a barrage of shot at Sun. Who tried to deflect the shots, but was unable to block all of them causing him to get hit a few times which destroyed his concentration.
Using the gap in concentration, Ruby then used her semblance to launch herself at Sun at high speeds and when she got there she punched him into the stomach. Sending him flying into a wall, Ruby was about to celebrate but then Sun tried one more time to hit her Bo Staff. But Ruby noticed and delivered an upper cut which knocked Sun to the floor. But Ruby got hit in the shoulder by his Bo staff.
It was then that the buzzer went off, causing Ruby to fall to the ground in exhaustion. Professor Goodwitch spoke up and said "Seeing as both combatants are in the red, this fight will be tie." Causing both Ruby and Sun to look up at the screen in shock, as they saw that their aura had indeed been put into the red zone. Professor Goodwitch then added "Mr Wukon make sure to keep your concentration next time, Ms Rose be sure to always be mindful of your surroundings."
Sun and Ruby both nodded, after which she added "Now get changed and return, as I'll announce the next fighters."
Ruby was then met with a helping hand from Sun, who helped her to her feet and the two began to make their way back to the changing room. On their way there Sun noted "Good fight Ruby, you managed to really keep me on my toes throughout it."
"Thanks, you weren't so bad yourself." Said Ruby, as the two continued back to the changing room to get back into their school uniforms. As they were making their way over to there they began to feel that their aura was beginning to slowly but surely replenish itself.
20 years earlier
After having been knocked out by Doctor Merlot Tai, Qrow and Professor Fall found themselves awakening in a jail cell. But upon waking up they were greeted by Thomas Light, who was also in the cell with them.
"Thomas, what are you doing here?" Asked Qrow.
"Being captured, just like you three." Said Doctor Light, with a sarcastic tone in his voice.
"But how, why are you even here?" Asked Tai, to his thirty year old friend.
"I was studying at the robot university in Atlas when I got a message from Doctor Merlot asking me to meet with him. I agreed to that, only for him to knock me out during our meeting. I later woke up in this cell." Replied Thomas.
"Weird, how is your study going by the way?" Asked Doctor Fall.
"Yeah, how is it going. We haven't seen you since our second year, after your internship with Doctor Merlot ended at Beacon." Said Tai.
"It's going pretty well, I'm learning more about robotics and I'm beginning to lean towards creating robots that can think for themselves. Unfortunately I had a falling out with a friend I made there. His name is Albert Wily, and I got his research into some sort of system rejected. He wasn't too happy about it." Said Thomas.
"I'm sure it will be fine." Said Qrow.
"Yeah, I'm sure he'll be able to understand my reasoning at some point." Said Thomas.
"Could be, though we're going to have to find a way out of this place." Said Professor Fall.
"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Said Doctor Merlot, as he walked into the hallway with Raven and Summer being a held frozen in the air by a ray of electricity coming from his glove. He then opened the cell door and threw them both into the cell with the others. "I caught these two trying to sneak into my lair."
Qrow and Tai rushed over to them and helped them up, Qrow asked Raven "Are you alright?"
"Yes I'm completely fine." Said Raven sarcastically, causing Qrow to give her a look after which she added "Off course I'm not, that hurt like hell you moron."
"Love you too sis." Replied Qrow in an annoyed tone.
"Did he hurt any of you?" Asked Tai.
"He zapped us a bit, but other than that we're fine." Said Summer.
"Must have been quite shocking." Replied Tai, causing Summer to smack him the head. Making Tai wince from the pain.
"You deserved that." Said Raven.
Doctor Merlot was then about to leave the six prisoners in the cell and had nearly left the area, only for his attention to be caught by Professor Fall calling out to him. So he went back and came face to face with his former colleague.
"Is something the matter, Phoenix?" Asked Doctor Merlot.
Firstly, it's Professor Fall to you. Secondly, Merlot why are you doing this. Why hold us captive, why experiment on the Grimm?" Asked Professor Fall.
Doctor Merlot let out a chuckle and replied "You want to know why? Is that it?"
"That's why I'm asking." Replied Professor Fall.
"I'll tell you why, I'm creating peace, I'm going to create a better world and to do it I'm experimenting on the Grimm." Replied Doctor Merlot.
"Why, what does any of that have to do with each other?" Asked Professor Fall.
"Oh don't you get it, the Grimm are stronger, they are faster, they are more adaptable, they are the perfect species and with them I plan on uniting humanity!" Doctor Merlot exclaimed.
"But why?" Asked Professor Fall.
"Why, are you asking why? Don't you get it! Haven't you seen it with your own eyes, the world is in shambles. Cities are being destroyed by the Grimm, humans and faunus are still in conflict even after the war, there is poverty, there is starvation. I will create a world that can finally be united, a world where children won't have to lose their parents to the Grimm." Said Doctor Merlot, who then began to ramble on.
"I will create a world where I control the Grimm, a world not ruled by freedom an choice but a world ruled by fear. A world kept in line by the Grimm, the true rulers of humanity. Ozpin should have seen it, he and the other headmasters should have seen that the current system wasn't working. That too many people were suffering, but he was too stupid to see the bigger picture!"
"That's why I had to do something, I had to think of something. And then it hit me, the Grimm can be experimented on and changed so they will listen to one person. That person would be me, unfortunately Ozpin did not agree. That's why I messed with one of the launching pads for initiation, to make sure that the fool would finally listen. Unfortunately it only made security for those devices better."
"So, I began this project. I worked on it for two years, but I realized that Ozpin was onto me. So I quit, and kept working on this project. Which brings us here, with the project nearly complete and you six as my prisoners. Honestly, I was hoping Ozpin would be here to see this. But alas, I guess he'll just get front row tickets to his school getting destroyed as my plan will be enacted."
From within the cell Raven, Tai and Qrow were seething with anger, and Qrow immediately lunged at Merlot while exclaiming "YOU BASTARD! We had to put Gretchen out of her misery because of you!"
"Hmm, was that her name. Quite frankly, I couldn't care less." Said Doctor Merlot, with a cold tone in his voice.
"Guys, please calm down." Said Summer.
"Calm down, calm down! Summer have you gone mad, he's a child murderer!" Yelled Raven.
"I'm not forgetting that, and his comeuppance will come. But right now there is nothing we can do about it." Replied Summer, as she kept an eye on Doctor Merlot who was beginning to walk away.
As he got to the exit of the room, he turned around and added "Now please try and stay in your cell, while I prepare to take over remnant. And if you do, I might even keep you alive in my new world order. Ciao." After which he left the room, leaving the six prisoners to glare at him in anger.
In the present
7 hours remain
After all of the classes were done for the day Team R_WBY returned to the dorms to wind down for the rest of the day. But right now it was only Yang and Ruby in the dorm, as Weiss had left to train her semblance and Blake had left to go and read in the library. So it was just Yang and Ruby, reading their comic books when a knock was heard at the door.
Ruby went to get the door and was greeted by Qrow, so she said "Hi Uncle Qrow, what's going on?"
"Tai wishes to speak with you." Said Qrow.
"Can't he come here himself?" Asked Ruby.
"No, cause he is keeping one of the training halls occupied." Said Qrow.
"Oh, should I bring my weapon with me?" Asked Ruby.
"No, just go there and meet him." Said Qrow.
"Alright, thanks Uncle Qrow. Bye Yang!" Exclaimed Ruby, as she used her semblance to dash off into the hallway.
Yang then turned around on her side with an annoyed look on her face, Qrow noticed and asked "Something the matter Firecracker?"
"I'm fine, just tired." Said Yang.
"Right." Said Qrow, with skepticism in his voice. "Look I have seen that look plenty of times when I was still at Beacon. So what's really going on?"
"I dunno, just annoyed that Rock gave himself up like that and left us behind without thinking about what impact it would have on us." Said Yang.
"Is this really about Rock, or something else. Cause I can already take a guess at what is really going on." Said Qrow.
"It's nothing." Said Yang.
"Doesn't sound like nothing, look I get it. I'm also angry at Raven for leaving, but that was her choice to make. Don't beat yourself up over something you had no control in." Said Qrow
It was then that Yang jumped off the bed and exclaimed "Then why did she leave! She could have at least given a reason, or something!"
Qrow sighed and replied "I don't know why she left either, she was a... complicated woman. Had her own demons, but don't blame yourself for her leaving. Besides, you had Summer as a mom don't forget that."
"I know, it's just hurts. I mean she comes in to save Rock for some reason, then saves me in the train and leaves without saying anything." Said Yang.
"Look Yang, I'm only saying this because I think your old enough to hear this. But she sometimes visits me, mostly to antagonize me. But there was one time where she told me that when your old enough to do so and you feel ready that you can come and find her. Then she'll explain everything." Said Qrow.
"You promise?" Asked Yang, as some tears were forming in her eyes.
"I promise." Said Qrow, as he gave Yang a comforting hug.
With Ruby
Ruby was running through the halls, when she accidentally bumped into someone. She looked up and saw that she had ran into Ren and said "Oh Ren, I'm so sorry. How are you?"
Ren got up from the ground and replied "I'm doing fine."
"Look, I'm sorry that we haven't come to visit you and Nora more often. But we have been busy with things." Said Ruby.
"It's fine, I don't blame any of you for that." Said Ren.
"Thanks, so how is she?" Asked Ruby.
"Getting better, there is some brain activity returning. So the nurses are staying positive." Said Ren.
"That's good." Said Ruby, who then looked at her scroll and exclaimed "Oh, I'm so sorry about this. I have to see my dad, I promise that we'll come see you and Nora as soon as possible."
"Thank you, that means a lot to me." Said Ren, to which Ruby nodded and then ran off.
After a bit of running she had made it outside of the dorm building, she looked at the Beacon map on her scroll and ran towards the right direction. After a bit she had made it to the right training hall. Once she entered it she was greeted by her father, who said "Glad to see that you could make it Ruby."
"Hi dad, any reason for this meeting?" Asked Ruby.
"I watched your fight from combat class." Said Tai.
"Was it bad?" Asked Ruby, with worry in her voice.
Tai pointed towards Ruby and said "Nah, I just want to point out some things." As a large grin formed on his face.
Ruby replied in annoyance "Dad! Is that why you wanted to see me. To make a bad pun?"
"Not all, there is something I would like to say. Now don't take this as a negative, but I think your fighting could be a lot better. Your hand to hand fighting that is." Said Tai. "Now, it's good that you were able to fight that tricky opponent to a draw and your handling of your weapon was good. But your punches and kicks could be a lot better."
"So you want to spar with me?" Asked Ruby.
"I see you beat me to the punch, but yeah. I would like to have a sparring session with you just to see what you could do better in that regard." Said Tai, as he got into a fighting stance. As Ruby did the same he added "Make sure that you always follow through after an attack."
Ruby nodded and the two began their sparring, as Tai while keeping his hands to his face rushed over to Ruby and delivered several jabs. Most of which she was able to dodge, giving her an opening to punch Tai in his gut. Only for Ruby to leave herself wide open for an attack, making Tai punch her in the stomach and then using his right leg to swipe Ruby off her feet and having her fall to the ground.
"Not bad for a first try." Said Tai, as he helped Ruby to her feet and asked "Now, can you tell me what you did wrong?"
"I left myself open?" Asked Ruby.
"Well that, and you didn't follow through. You had one punch, and then you did nothing. Out in the field you would have been dead, your opponent isn't going to wait for you to remember to deliver the next blow. No, you have to follow through with it." Said Tai "Let's try again."
What followed were several minutes of Ruby and Tai sparring with each other, only for Ruby to end up on the ground. However she was improving, as she was able to last longer against Tai. After several minutes Ruby began to get slightly better, and right now she and her dad were in a small fist fight. With Ruby remembering to dodge and follow through on the her attack. Right now she was able to nearly swipe Tai of his feet with a kick and then tried to follow through with a punch. Only for her to hit Tai's left shoulder, as he tried to dodge.
The hit caused Tai to scream out in pain, prompting Ruby to ask "Dad, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. You just hit something very sensitive." Replied Tai, as Ruby helped Tai to his feet. Who clutched his left shoulder, to try and ease the pain.
"Are you really ok?" Asked Ruby.
"It's fine, the pain will go away in a bit. You want to know why I have to wear that armor plating on my left shoulder?" Asked Tai.
"Sure." Replied Ruby, with a hint of uncertainty in her voice.
"Your mother accidentally shot me with an arrow on a mission." Replied Tai.
"Wait, what?" Asked Ruby.
"Yeah it was during a mission back at Beacon, we were fighting some Grimm and something went wrong with her weapon and she misfired an arrow. Got lodged straight into my left shoulder." Said Tai. "She wouldn't stop apologizing for an hour after that happened."
Ruby laughed for a small bit at the thought and replied "That's the first time you've spoken about mom without changing the subject."
Tai then got a somber look on his face and replied "I know, and I'm sorry. I was hurting with what had happened to her, and I thought that by blocking out the memories that it would get better. But it just made things worse for everyone, I hope you can forgive me."
"Dad, I was never mad at you. I just didn't understand what was going on. So I don't see anything that needs forgiving" Said Ruby, as she gave Tai a hug.
"Thank you, I appreciate it." Said Tai, after which Ruby released him from her hug. He then added "So, my shoulder is feeling better. Feel like going for another round with your old man?"
"Think you can keep up with my speed?" Asked Ruby as she got into a fighting position.
Tai smirked and replied "We'll see after we see who ends up on the ground first." He then also got into a fighting stance and after that the two continued with their sparring session.
Later at the safe house
2 hours remain
Harvey Greenleaf stood in his office with a conflicted look on his face, one which wasn't getting better as time went on. It was then that a knock was heard on the door to his office, when he didn't respond the door opened to reveal Xander Payne.
"Hey boss, you called for me." Said Xander.
"Yes I did Xander, please come in and close the door behind you." Said Harvey, with an angry look on his face.
Xander did so, and then sat down in the chair opposite to Harvey's desk, who then asked "So, you know why I called you here?"
"I have honestly no idea." Replied Xander, putting up a facade of ignorance.
Harvey sighed and replied "Don't play dumb with me Xander, you know what this is about!"
"I really don't know what your talking about." Lied Xander.
"Do I have to spell it out for you! I know what you have been doing behind my back Xander. Killing humans, sacrificing on of our own men, trying to kill that cop! What has gotten into you!" Yelled Harvey.
Dropping the facade, Xander stood up and replied "I'm just doing what we were supposed to do all along, changing humanity, getting rid of robots at any cost!"
"Except for killing humans, that was the one thing I didn't want to happen! We could harm robots as much as we want, but we wouldn't harm any civilians!" Yelled Harvey.
"Then I'd hate to say it boss, but you're a fool to think that getting rid of robots can be done peacefully." Replied Xander.
Harvey was seething with anger and exclaimed "Have you forgotten who you're speaking to, I'm your boss. What I say goes, and I say we don't harm humans!"
Xander chuckled darkly and replied "The same ones responsible for us getting injured by robots, the same ones that made us lose our jobs. No thanks, I'm going to keep going. And there is nothing that you can do to stop me."
"Like hell there isn't, you're done Xander. You're fired from this group, leave before the end of the night!" Yelled Harvey, as he turned around to face the window.
"I don't think so." Said Xander, as he pulled out a blaster and shot Harvey in the back with an electric shock. Causing the man to fall to the ground unconscious, after which the door the office opened revealing Theo and Simone standing in the door way.
"Did you do it?" Asked Simone.
"Look for yourself." Said Xander as he revealed the unconscious body of Harvey laying on the floor.
"Is he dead?" Asked Theo.
"He's been knocked out." Replied Xander.
"What do you want us to do?" Asked Theo.
"I want you to put him in a cell in the basement." Said Xander, to which his younger brother nodded and quickly took the body out of the room and quickly moved downstairs.
"Now what do we do?" Asked Simone.
"Now, we continue with our plan and seeing as Harvey isn't available at the moment... I'll take up the role of leader. And I don't care how many people are going to die, we will succeed." Said Harvey, with a grim look on his face. "Now, to inform the man who gave us our founds."
Later elsewhere
0 hours remain
Team R_WBY had just returned from having dinner and visiting Nora and Ren in the infirmary and had returned to their dorms. When they got there Yang asked "You think the teachers will be mad that we brought our weapons with us?" as all four of them had their weapons on them.
"Eh, as long as we put them back I'm sure we'll be fine." Said Ruby, it was then that her scroll began to ring. Ruby looked at it and saw that Rock was calling her. "Uh, girls, Rock is calling me."
"Well answer it." Said Weiss.
"Wait, careful. It could be a trap, be very careful when answering." Said Blake, as she had a bad feeling about this.
Ruby pressed the answer button and said "Rock, is that you?"
"Guys where are you?" Said "Rock" over the phone.
"Where at our dorms, where are you?" Asked Blake.
"I don't know, I'm lost. I don't know where I am at the moment. I'm scared." Replied "Rock".
"Stay on the phone and describe your location, we can come find you!" Yelled Yang.
"It's metallic, it's all metallic..." Said "Rock" before the connection disappeared completely.
"Rock! What happened! Rock are you still there!" Yelled Ruby.
It was at that moment that an armored creature teleported into the room, Causing several things such as desks and books to fall over. It looked vaguely humanoid, with three fingers on each hand, a long purple tail, two horns sticking out of it's head and armor that had the letter R written on it.
"Excuse me, what are you..." Said Weiss, only to be interrupted by the creature.
"Sleep!" Said the creature, being heard in the minds of all four girls. Causing them to fall to the ground, and causing Ruby to drop her scroll on the floor. The creature then used it's psychic powers to lift all four girls off the ground and then teleported with them out of the room and away from Beacon.
A/N: Hey there readers, sorry this took so long. I was hit with a several case of writers block, this chapter just did not want to get written. So sorry for that, anyways I hope that the next chapter will come out a lot sooner than this one did. I'm glad I was able to get it out before 2020 ended, on my end at least.
I just want to say that despite everything that happened this year that I'm happy with what I was able to put out and I hope that I'll be able to keep delivering chapters to all of you in 2021.
Anyways a quick thanks to the ones that are now supporting this story
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And now to respond to the reviews from last chapter:
Kirbychu2: Very perceptive of you, although I must say that I have no plans of introducing the smg4 characters into this series. So all the was, was just a reference.
Jacob9594: Glad that you were able to enjoy the chapter, and here is to hoping that the cliffhanger got nicely resolved in your opinion.
BlueSkies: Thank you for the review, glad you were able to enjoy the chapter.
Anyways, with that being said I will see you all next chapter where team R_WBY will reunite with Rock. So with that I will wish you all a happy new years, please stay safe and I'll see all of you in 2021 when the next chapter releases.
