Battle of Beacon.
In the fairgrounds, chaos spreads as civilians run away from the hordes of Grimm. Atlesian Knight-200s are seen firing at the dark creatures, and a vendor hides behind his booth when a group of Ursai run past. Several Nevermores fly across the sky, one holding Roy Stallion in it's talons. Lyre, Blake and Weiss are watching in horror of everything going on around them. Civilians continue to flee as Grimm continue to run amok, and a dead Creep on the ground starts to dissipate.
"I don't believe this..." Weiss said in shock.
Blake pulls out her Scroll "Yang, are you okay?".
Yang is running in the hallways of the dorms with Bernadetta and Zwei.
She responds to Blake through her Scroll "I'm fine. Is Ruby with you? She's not answering her Scroll".
"No, she isn't" Blake answered and at those words, Yang stops in her tracks with a worried expression on her face and Bernadetta stops too "Yang, I'm sure she's fine. She's our leader. She can take care of herself".
Yang closes her eyes and curls her fist into a ball "Right".
"Is Bernie with you?" Lyre asked in concern.
"Yes, I'm here" Bernadetta answered.
"Thank goodness. Ok, stick with Yang, Bernie. We'll be back as soon as we can" Lyre said.
"Understood" Bernadetta answered as she and Yang continues forward with Zwei and turns the next corner of the hallways.
Back to Blake, Lyre and Weiss at the fairgrounds, Weiss looks down "This can't be happening. Penny...".
"We're headed to the docks near the courtyard. The White Fang are releasing Grimm into the school!" Yang said.
Lyre got wide eyes "WHAT!?".
Blake was alarmed "The White Fang is here!?" Through her Scroll, Blake hears the sounds of Grimm growling, and her expression grows ever more worried "Yang! Bernie!".
"Ugh! Gotta go! Be careful!" Yang said before the call ends.
"Blake, Lyre, what are we going to do?" Weiss asked.
"We're going to the docks, and we're doing our job" Blake declared as she uses her Scroll to call upon her rocket locker, which lands behind her and opens up to reveal Gambol Shroud.
Weiss gives one last look at Blake before nodding in agreement. Lyre clenched her fists. The White fang had gone way to far. Now they were attacking her home! She will not let them get away with this.
Back at Amity Colosseum, the Nevermore screeches as it continues to weaken the force field that's keeping it from getting in.
As civilians run past her in a panic, Ruby stays kneeling on the ground with her head down, her expression in a mixture of shock and sadness. As the Nevermore circles around the Colosseum, Pyrrha struggles to stand as she looks in shock at the torn apart Penny.
"Ruby! Snap out of it! Grimm are attacking! Ruby!" Severa spoke loudly.
Despite understanding why Ruby was in shock, since she just lost a friend, this was not a good time to become non-responsive. She looked up and saw, the Nevermore was dangerously close to breaking in. She looked back at Ruby and did something that hurt her more than Ruby... She slapped Ruby, finally snapping her out of her frozen state.
"Severa..." Ruby said as she rubbed her cheek.
Severa held the hand she used to slap Ruby with, clear guilt in her eyes "Ruby... You have every right to be sad. But grieving will have to wait. People need our help, right now".
Ruby wipes her tears and nods "Right".
Jaune was in the stands with the remaining members of Team JNPR "PYRRHA! Pyrrha, that thing's going to break in! You've gotta move!".
Jaune, Ren, and Nora look up and see the force field flash as the Nevermore rises back up before diving back in. Wasting no time, the leader of Team JNPR jumps from the stands into the arena.
"Jaune!" Nora shouts after him.
Jaune runs towards Pyrrha "Pyrrha, please snap out of it!".
Suddenly, the Nevermore completely breaks through the holographic barrier, and the force of it landing on the arena floor knocks back Jaune, Pyrrha, and the pieces of Penny. The Nevermore screeches and lunges towards Pyrrha. Suddenly, the Nevermore is knocked back by a red, twirling blur of roses, with the cause of the blur gripping one of Penny's swords and stabbing into the Nevermore, before jumping back down in front of Pyrrha.
Pyrrha looks surprised "Ruby?".
Ruby with an angered, determined expression on her face, points Penny's sword toward the Nevermore "Leave her alone!".
"You heard her! Piss off!" Severa said as she stood next to Pyrrha, glaring at the large grimm.
The Nevermore rises up and circles around the arena before lunging back down. Ruby holds Penny's sword defensively. Suddenly, the Nevermore gets pinned down by a barrage of rocket lockers, and screeches out in pain before going unconscious. The lockers then open up, revealing the weapons of various students. The respective owner of the sword pulls it out from his locker, and is shown alongside Scarlet gripping his cutlass and flintlock pistol, Sage with his sword, and Neptune with his gun in hand. Sun with Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang in its staff form, Ren and Nora carrying their respective weapons, and the remaining members of Team CFVY, the members of Team ABRN, as well as Flynt and Neon of Team FNKI, and even Ike and Nephenee were there, all gripping their respective weapons. The students are then suddenly shaken when the Nevermore starts to get back up. Ren then leaps up into the air and uses the blades of his weapons to slash at the Nevermore's eye. Arslan uses her rope dart to swing down and grab the towering Yatsuhashi from the ground carrying him upward. Sage also leaps up into the air, and Nora runs up to the Nevermore's head and hit it with Magnhild in its hammer form. When Arslan reaches peak height, she lets go of Yatsuhashi, who is then joined by Sage, as the two broadsword wielders slash down and decapitate the Nevermore. Causing it's head to land near Ruby before dissipating into black particles, while the students form a perimeter, as Arslan lands back on the ground next to her teammates.
Ruby looks over to the teary-eyed Pyrrha kneeling on the ground "Ruby, I..." She stops and holds a piece of Penny's torn cloth in her hands as her eyes continue to well up "I'm so sorry".
"Me too" Ruby said calmly before she is suddenly angered "But it wasn't your fault".
"She's right" Jaune walks over to Pyrrha with Miló and Akoúo̱ in his hands "Whoever was on that microphone... they're the ones that did this. And we have to make sure they don't take anyone else".
"Yes, and make them pay for what they did. Now get up Pyrrha!" Severa said in a sharp but not harsh tone
Pyrrha stands back up and takes her weapons back from Jaune, the two of them exchanging determined expressions. They then look over to Ruby, who smiles at the impressive ensemble of students.
"I know who is behind this" Everyone looked to see Lucina walking towards them.
"Lucina! Are you alright?" Ruby asked.
"I'll live. It was Cinder. She is the one who was speaking. She and her team must be the ones behind this" Lucina said.
"That's right! That asshole Mercury was the reason why me and Ruby were to late to stop the fight" Severa said with an angry growl "Damn it! I knew they were bad news from the start!".
Lucina puts her hand on Severa's shoulder "You were right, and we should've acted sooner. But we can't do anything about the past. But what we can do right now, is fight for our home".
Everyone nodded in agreement. Their moment is cut short when they notice hippogriff-like Grimm land on top of the Colosseum. They fly towards the group of students as Ren calls the Grimm species out by their formal name "Griffons".
"Anybody got a plan of attack?" Neptune asked.
"I have a plan. Attack!" Severa declared as she hed her weapon.
Lucina held her sword tightly "Agreed".
"Sun! I need your Scroll!" Ruby said.
Sun uses his tail to flick his Scroll to Ruby, who catches and uses it to summon her locker, which opens up revealing Crescent Rose inside. However, Ruby is stopped when a Griffon lands on her locker, and roars at her before being scared away at the sound of a gunshot.
Port had arrived, holding Blowhard in hand, with Oobleck holding Antiquity's Roast in its club form "Students! I think it would be best for you to leave".
Ruby tried to argue "But we did a-".
"Miss Rose! This day will surely go down in Remnant's history. I'd prefer it if my students could live to tell about it" Ooblec said.
Ruby nods at the Doctor's words before grabbing Crescent Rose and twirling it into it's scythe form "Let's go!".
As all the students leave, Ruby gets distracted by the flash of Velvet's camera. She stops to look at the photograph she took but is interrupted when her leader calls out to her "Velvet!".
With the students clear of the arena, Port and Oobleck stand back-to-back with their weapons in hand as the Griffons circle around them
Port laughs enthusiastically "One final match, Barty! Place your bets!".
Meanwhile, civilians continue to run and flee in panic as they reach the docking bays of the colosseum. Atlas Soldiers are seen directing civilians to calmly step into the Air Buses. A female student is seen breaking down in tears as another person tries to comfort her. Suddenly, White Fang Bullheads are seen dropping off more Grimm at the docking bay. Two Atlesian Knights escorting Ironwood effortlessly gun down an Ursa. As they proceed forward, the Knights are suddenly brutally ripped apart by a much larger, armored Beowolf variant. The Beowolf then notices Ironwood as the General starts to run towards it, gradually picking up speed as he nears the charging Beowolf. He screams a loud battle cry as he pulls out a pistol from his coat.
Ironwood ducks and slides under the Beowolf's swipe and shoots at it twice. Pivoting as he skids across the floor, and using his free hand as a break. The Beowolf lands and shakes its head then charges at Ironwood again, who fires his revolver three more times before having to duck under another swipe. The Beowolf attempts to swipe at him again with its left claw, but Ironwood effortlessly stops it with his own right hand. The General then fires at the Beowolf's feet, the explosion causing it to get airborne, and still gripping it's claw, Ironwood proceeds to swing it back down to the ground with his own brute strength. Ironwood then picks up the Beowolf, aims the revolver at its skull, and shoots it, causing black blood to splatter from it. Ironwood then watches the body of the Beowolf dissipate before leaving. The students are then shown exiting the arena entrance and gather together in front of Ironwood.
"What's going on!?" Ruby asked.
"Grimm are crawling all over the city. The White Fang's invaded Beacon, and to make matters worse, some... vagabond has seized one of my ships. Until we regain command, the skies are out of our control. So I'm..." Ironwood pauses noticing a Creep advancing on the group from behind, and shoots it before finishing "Going to take it back".
As Ironwood turns for his ship, he is stopped when Jaune asked a question "What should we do?".
Ironwood turns and faces the students "You have two choices. Defend your Kingdom and your school... or save yourselves. No one will fault you if you leave. Let's move out!".
As Ironwood leaves, the students look at each other and murmur before a certain monkey Faunus speaks up "I mean... come on!".
"Yeah, it's obvious what we should do" Severa agreed.
"We can take a ship to Beacon!" Jaune said.
All the students board a ship and began heading back for Beacon. Little did they know, things were about to get even worse.
As a squadron of Knights shoot down Grimm, they suddenly stop as their visors and LEDs turn a dark crimson, and turn around, pointing their guns at Glynda and Qrow as they continue to fight the Grimm, the realization shocking them as they see the Knights now turned against two of their now former alliess.
Elsewhere in Vale, Byleth strikes down several Grimm. Then suddenly her own robot allies suddenly turned on her. She gasped as she used her sword's whip form to deflect several shots before quickly cutting them down. Pulling the whip back in to it's sword form, Byleth glares as she now had to worry about both grimm and hacked robots.
On the courtyards of Beacon, Lyre, Weiss and Blake are nearly caught off-guard by the local Knights also succumbing to the virus and turning towards them, fortunately Blake reacts quickly .
"Look out!" Blake manage to push Weiss aside in order to dodge incoming fire, but the Knights surround them, forcing the Schnee and the two Faunus to ready their weapons.
Meanwhile, the oblivious general, still en route to the Airship, gets a nasty surprise when the Knights on his dropship suddenly activate and turn on him.
"No!" Ironwood yelled as he reaches out, and the dropship suddenly loses altitude, plummeting from the ground as two flashes can be seen from the cockpit. The students watch in horror as they see dropship fall from the sky. Ruby decides to run to the bay doors of their Air Bus.
"Ruby! What are you doing!?" Sun shouts.
Ruby then jumps off the Air Bus as it barely takes off, using her Semblance of speed to safely land on the runway after freefalling in the sky. As she runs to the stadium, she finds it nearly empty and full of brown dirt, where she sees a locker. She punches in the code, latches on with Crescent Rose, and immediately takes to the skies, landing on top Roman's stolen airship with a thud.
Lucina was looking out the window of the airship and saw what Ruby did "Be careful, Ruby...".
Back at Beacon, the hacked Knights continue to fire, but they are cut up by flurry of slashes. Weiss takes down a sizeable group of knights using a combination of Myrtenaster's strikes as well as her using her Glyph Semblance, while Blake fights off a group of White Fang soldiers, before using her Semblance to dodge a dual sword-wielding soldier, more White Fang grunts charge at her, but they are all suddenly knocked back by Lyre as she charged in to them with her semblance. Afterwards, Lyre, Weiss and Blake stand back-to-back, but notice a group of human Atlas Soldiers fighting off an Atlesian Paladin, which has also been affected by the virus and turned rogue. The Paladin easily bats aside several of the soldiers.
Weiss glares "Come on!".
Before Lyre, Weiss and Blake could assist the soldiers, they notice a Bullhead about to crash land. An armored Beowolf is seen jumping out of it before it could crash with the aircraft. More soldiers are continuing to fight the Paladin. The Beowolf lands on the ground and starts to chase after fleeing civilians. Lyre, Weiss and Blake exchange one last look with each other before parting ways.
Weiss grabs Lyre's hand "Be safe".
Lyre smiles "You too... But just in case".
Weiss gasped as Lyre suddenly pulls her in to a deep kiss, she blushed as the kiss lasted only a couple of seconds "Really?! You picked now to do that!?".
"And now I have more to fight for. You can yell at me once this mess is over" Lyre said.
"Oh you bet I will! So don't you dare die before I'm done with you!" Weiss demanded.
Lyre nods with a smile before hurrying of to fight the remaining White Fang.
Meanwhile, Blake running just outside the dining hall. However, she stops when the Beowolf from earlier latches onto the side of the building above her. Her attention is then drawn away from the Beowolf when she hears a wounded scream inside the burning interior of the dining hall. She turns fist clenched then gives a look of horror when she sees a familiar figure throwing an Atlas soldier.
"No... Adam?" She said in fear.
Adam grinns creepily "Hello, my darling".
Back with Lyre, she punched a White Fang in the face before she leaps in to the air, wraps her legs around another soldier's neck and used them toss him in to one of his allies. She sensed another one was approaching but as she went to punch the White Fang Soldier, her fist was caught and she was kicked back.
Lyre looked up and realized she wasn't dealing with an average White Fang soldier "Lethe...".
Her older twin glares at her "So you have chosen to stand against your own people. Fine, I am done protecting you!".
All across Beacon Academy, various students battle the many Creatures of Grimm: Jaune is charging at an Ursa then delivers a slash that knocks it back, while Neon rollerblades away from a Boarbatusk. Coco opens fire on a Griffon as it lands, while Arslan is fighting an Ursa Major before it runs off to attack Nora, who fires at it with her grenade launcher. Ren is firing his guns at a retreating Beowolf before it drops dead. Lucina slices through several creeps, while Severa bashed away a boarbatusk.
Severa looks around frantically "Blake! Blake where are you!?".
Lucina killed a Beowolf "Severa! You need to focus!".
"I need to find her! If the White Fang are here then..." Severa trailed of before she killed a creep.
Lucina sighed "Go! Find her! We'll be fine!".
"Thank you Lucina" Severa said before hurrying towards the are with the most White Fangs.
Suddenly the ground shook... something big was happening.
Inside his office, Ozpin watches the battle on three video feeds, one showing some buildings, the middle showing a group of Atlas soldiers struggling a against a Deathstalker on Beacon's main avenue, and the last showing civilians stuck on a rooftop waving for help, while an Ursa slowly crawls up the side of the building. Ozpin then starts to walk away from his desk, grabbing his cane in the process, before proceeding to the elevator. However, he is stopped in his tracks when a sudden tremor shakes the ground.
Back in the city, Byleth, Glynda and Qrow continue fighting, before they too are shaken by another tremor. Qrow stabs his sword into the ground to keep himself standing.
"No..." Glynda said in worry.
"It has awakened" Byleth said.
Another tremor shakes Jaune as he battles an Ursa Major, with Sage and Scarlet piggyback riding on it with worried expressions on their faces.
Elsewhere, a mountain starts to violently shake and crumble, as various body parts of a monstrous-looking Grimm are revealed, before the mountain completely breaks apart, releasing a titanic Wyvern. The Wyvern roars and flies over the abandoned Mountain Glenn, heading towards Beacon. As it flies, it exudes a black, tar-like substance which drops to the ground in the city of Vale and spawns various Grimm.
Lucina had horrified eyes when she saw the massive grimm "My god...".
However, her attention was quickly drawn to a very familiar grimm which was stalking towards the students... The Beast... It was back. Lucina tightens her grip on her sword, as she had to face that same grimm for the third time... How did it even get here!?
The Battle for Beacon... was only just beginning.
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