Hey there, readers. WaterDragonMaverick here with the next chapter of "Sideline: Another Story". Last time, the Battle of Beacon started and everyone is trying to defend Vale from Grimm, the White Fang, and hacked Atlesian Knights. Fragment Hunter has split up in order to do as much as they can and things are starting to get intense. Vinyl's older brother came by to help out, but there are still two new threats to the characters. The newly awakened Wyvern Grimm that is making its way toward Beacon Academy and a White Fang officer that Silver knows, Sable Eisenbrand. How will our heroes deal with these new enemies that are joining the fray? I guess we'll find out soon.
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The Huntsmen who were defending Vale from the Grimm watched as the gargantuan dragon-like Grimm flew overhead and approached Beacon Academy. They were shocked by the sudden arrival of a Grimm that size and most of them were at a loss for words. "Oh my wife," Terracotta Gaia finally said as he found his voice.
"Don't you mean 'god', Terracotta," Nocturne Celeste asked as she noted what the Bull Faunus said.
"You worship your thing, I worship mine," Terracotta remarked before watching a black and viscous tar-like substance fall from the sky after the flying Grimm passed over them. When the sludge landed, it began to form into new Creatures of Grimm. As Creeps, Beowolves, and Ursai emerged, the Huntsmen and Huntresses fought against them. "Is that Wyvern making more Grimm," Terracotta questioned as he easily slashed an Ursa into pieces.
"Looks like it," Ventus remarked as he dodged another glob of the tar-like ooze and watched more Beowolves form. When the monsters roared, Ventus kicked at them and fired shots from his greaves to kill them. Speeding by with his Semblance, Ventus cut down several Creeps with his knife before kicking an Ursa into the air. As the Grimm came falling down, Nocturne impaled the creature through its back with her partisan and electrocuted it. Focusing her own Semblance, her black hair began to shimmer like stars as nearby shadows began to take the form of horses and trampled the weakened Grimm as they galloped by.
As the shadow horses ran by, they avoided Aurora as she slashed and stabbed several Beowolves. Working together with her sister, Aurora kicked the Creeps that approached her from underground into the stampede. The new Grimm died as they were crushed under the hooves of the shadowy constructs, then Aurora jumped onto one of the horses to continue battling the monsters. As some Beowolves attacked, the horses vanished and Aurora gracefully jumped over the Grimm before landing next to Terracotta. "Just like old times," Aurora said to her old teammate as she held up her rapier, Daybreak.
"Only this time, it's not just a training mission," Terracotta stated as he tightened his grip on his claymore, Sarangay.
Silver only glared at the other Wolf Faunus as Team SLVR, Rebecca Haze, and Celadon Flynn stood near a ruined lecture hall. "Sable Eisenbrand," Silver growled as he looked at the White Fang officer that was responsible for killing his parents.
"So, the runaway wolf cub of those traitors was here all along," Sable remarked with a slight growl of his own. "I really didn't like it when you managed to escape me."
"Why? Because you couldn't slaughter an innocent kid after murdering his parents," Rua rhetorically asked as she glared at the masked Wolf Faunus.
"It's Faunus like you that give our friends bad names," Celadon stated as she spoke to Sable.
Sable looked at the others that were with Silver and turned back to him. "Not only were you hiding here, but you also associate with these humans as well? Have you no pride as a Faunus," Sable asked as he shook his head at the six teenagers.
"Better than being a psycho who torches villages and kills innocent townspeople," Silver shouted. "Why do you even do this?!"
"Why? Because Brother Adam has been leading us into a new age for all Faunus," Sable exclaimed as he marched around the lecture hall. "We're stronger than humans. We have better senses than them. We are superior! Humans shouldn't be the ones that push us around when we're better than them in so many ways," Sable arrogantly listed.
"You're essentially starting a war by attacking Beacon like this," Lapis stated. "News of something this big will spread like wildfire to everywhere. Atlas, Mistral, Vacuo, even Menagerie."
"Destroying Beacon and attacking people from around the world will just make people hate Faunus and the White Fang even more. But this time, their hate will be justified," Vixen voiced.
"Do you really want to fight in a war you can't win," Rebecca questioned.
Seeing the six teenagers talk back to him, Sable only glared as he raised his serrated sword and pointed it at Silver. "You whelps don't have room to speak to an officer of the White Fang like that," Sable said. "The White Fang's strength can match even the greatest of Huntsmen."
"Really? Because I think the bodies outside say another story," Rua retorted as she pointed a thumb toward the unconscious White Fang soldiers that were scattered all around Beacon's campus.
Sable only showed his teeth in a psychotic smile as he looked at Rua. "Oh, my power is on another level compared to the average soldier, child," Sable stated as he charged toward Rua with blinding speed. Rua managed to block his attack with her shield just in time, but the strength behind the attack still pushed her back slightly. "Every single one of you will fall by my blade," Sable told Rua as sparks came off of both weapons.
At another area of Beacon Academy's campus, the rest of Fragment Hunter started to regroup with their allies. As they did, they heard mechanical sounds approaching them as a pair of Atlesian Paladin battlesuits arrived and looked affected by the same virus as the Atlesian Knight robots, which confused Smoke Shadow's team. "Hold on, I thought these things needed a pilot to work," Kun Agate questioned as he turned to Oliver for an answer.
"My initial hypothesis is that these newer models can function autonomously when their pilots are incapacitated," Oliver stated before noticing that Tremor was only looking at him cluelessly. "I think they have an autopilot," he repeated in layman's terms, remembering Tremor didn't understand the technical jargon.
Understanding, Tremor nodded while Garnet Pepper gave his own thoughts on the idea. "I'd say that some of the infected AK-200s are piloting them. Either that or members of the White Fang got in them while this was happening. They have stolen a shipment of them in an ambush before."
"Yeah, Team RWBY said they fought a number of them when they figured out their plan to bring Grimm into the city," Cereza remarked as she adjusted her glasses.
"Well, these ones are different from those prototypes," Raduga White said. "We'll be in for a challenge."
"Sounds good to me," Percival Ivory voiced as he cracked his knuckles. Making the first move, he jumped and tried to attack the Paladin with a shout, only to get knocked aside from a punch. "And that, kids, is why you wear a helmet," Percival said in a daze before his teammates helped him regain consciousness. "Alright, let's turn these things to scrap metal," Percival exclaimed when he focused.
The Paladins responded to Percival's declaration by separating and attacking the group. Team PRDT, Cereza, and Slate fired their guns at the one that approached them, but its armor was too tough to be bothered by the attacks and only fired its own weapons at the six. As the group avoided the guns from the mechsuit, Twilight Roseus used her Semblance on one of the damaged Atlesian Knights in order to break it apart and send the shards toward the Paladin. Blasting at the metal shards, the Paladin ran toward the teenagers and punched them away. Before they could get hurt by the mech even more, Raduga sped up to the robot with his skates before stomping his foot. When he did, large crystals of ice began to form and he made his way to the top of the structure before slamming it down onto the Paladin. Raduga's attack managed to work as icicles pierced the armor, several parts of the mecha were frozen solid, and it was moving slower. "Maxie, now," Raduga called out when he started helping Team PRDT up.
Oren Maxwell threw his mechanical arm forward and it shot off of him like a rocket, nailing the Paladin's frozen left arm. As the robotic limb came flying back, Maxwell was about to grab it when the battlesuit kicked him into Garnet Pepper and Lucy Diamond. The cyborg glared at the military weapon before Slate gave him back his arm. "At least I took out its arm," Maxwell said.
With the other Paladin, Sunset was working with Azalea and Team SMKE to try defeating it. "Where are Layla and Vinyl? We could use their help," Sunset asked as she fired a few sniper rounds at the Paladin, hoping to hit the cockpit.
"I think we can manage until they can get here," Smoke remarked as he used his cane to try and tie up the Paladin's legs. When he did, he activated the Dust in his cane to shock the suit in hopes of shorting out its systems. At the same time, he was pulling out his Phantom Magnum to deal more damage when the Paladin fired a shot when he wasn't expecting it. Taking the hit and not being able to use his Phantasm Semblance in time, Smoke was knocked aside and Azalea had to catch him. "Thanks for catching me, my flower," Smoke said while trying to stay suave.
"I have a boyfriend," Azalea bluntly stated to the Raccoon Faunus and dropped him before looking back at Veronica Moonstone attacking the Paladin. "How are we supposed to take that thing on? We don't have Yang's Semblance to take the damage and deal it back twice as hard," the Cow Faunus asked. "That's how Team RWBY said they dealt with it the first time."
"Maybe I can hack into the suit's systems and shut it down," Oliver suggested.
"Go for it, Oliver," Smoke said to his friend. As Oliver used his new body armor to fly over to the Paladin, Tremor grabbed the mecha's arm to keep it from punching anyone. Landing on top of the battlesuit, a cable emerged from the wrist of Oliver's armor and plugged into the back of the Paladin. The mech tried to shake off the armored hacker, but was unable to get him off as he moved to its back. The Paladin managed to escape Tremor's grasp and started to flail around to get Oliver off, but it also started to glitch up as it got hacked. "It's working," Smoke called out.
"Yeah, but this virus isn't like anything I know," Oliver said before the custom program he was using started to fail him. "Oh no!" When the mechanized battlesuit wasn't being hacked into anymore, it jumped back toward the closest building and tried to smash Oliver off of it. Oliver screamed in pain after colliding with the walls of Beacon Academy and lost his grip on the Paladin. When the mechsuit turned around, it punched Oliver in the back to send him flying. As his friends called out his name, Oliver landed in front of Tremor before removing his visor. Everyone who checked on him saw that his glasses were broken and that he had blood on his face. "I can't feel my legs," Oliver moaned as he looked at his friends.
Seeing Oliver injured like he was, Tremor's eyes were filled with pure rage as he turned to the Paladin and whatever was inside it. As he growled in anger, his emotions were so intense that it attracted more Grimm to his location. Before a Griffon could get him, Tremor caught the Grimm's beak and activated his Semblance just as he slammed the monster's head into the ground. The force of the attack and his Semblance was so great that everyone started to lose their balance from the small earthquake. "THAT DOES IT! I'LL FLOSS MY TEETH WITH YOUR SPINE," Tremor shouted at the Paladin and created vibrating fields of energy around his fists. With his Drill Bit Knuckle Dusters spinning, Tremor bellowed loudly as he charged at the mecha. Decking the Paladin with a single punch and an enraged shout, Tremor hit the Paladin with enough force that the machine broke into pieces in an instant, shatter a hole in Beacon Academy's wall, and created another earthquake around the area.
Everyone but Smoke Shadow just gawked with dropped jaws as they witnessed Tremor demolish one of the Paladins that they were having trouble with. The Raccoon Faunus just turned to Sunset and Azalea as they stared at Tremor fighting several Grimm that approached him. "Yeah, I've known him since childhood, so this is something I've seen before. You should see him when the last cookie gets stolen out from under his nose," the thief joked with a smile on his face before turning back to Oliver. "Oliver, come on. It's going to be okay."
While the others were still dumbstruck by the first Paladin's defeat and the damage Tremor did, the dismembered Paladin stood up and began to attack everyone. As Team PRDT and Team GLOW were knocked around, a glyph appeared above the Paladin and caught everyone's attention. As the Paladin's attention was drawn to the glyph, numerous kunai began to fall from it and strike at the battlesuit. Everyone watched as nearly 100 Fire Dust-embedded throwing knives fell onto the damaged Paladin and exploded on impact. As the suit fell to pieces, the glyph vanished and everyone's attention was now on three new arrivals. "Hey, Vinyl said you needed some help," a blond male in samurai armor remarked as he stood next to Vinyl and Layla.
Fragment Hunter and their allies only looked at the newcomer in confusion before Azalea noticed something familiar about him as the trio walked up to the group. "Do I know you from somewhere," Azalea questioned before Vinyl pulled out her Scroll to show the same picture that she first introduced herself to Azalea with. Gasping as she recognized the samurai from the photo, Azalea pointed at him as she spoke up. "You're Vinyl's brother!"
Vinyl nodded as introductions were made to Fragment Hunter and their associates. "I'm Gin Aurum. Former student of Beacon Academy and professional Huntsman. Nice to meet you all," the samurai said.
As everyone said 'hello', Sunset was wondering what the glyph that appeared was. "You wanna explain what the exploding rainstorm of knives was from," the de facto leader of the group asked.
"I call my Semblance, 'Connection'. It allows me to create portals to my own little pocket dimension to store objects like my weapons, extra supplies, and even food. They can stay untouched by time for as long as they stay in there," Gin explained as he activated his Semblance and grabbed an orange from one of his glyphs. "I can also make a few portals that can confuse enemies when they end up bumping into each other or even redirect attacks. Pretty cool, right?" Everyone silently agreed with Gin as he used his Semblance to collect his knives and store them away for later use.
Before the conversation could continue, everyone heard mechanical stomping approach them and watched as a new mechanized battlesuit appeared. "Oh, come on! Not another one," Slate bemoaned.
"This is one of the advanced models," Lucy Diamond stated as she saw the machine. "It's tougher than the other ones we just fought against."
"Well, we'll beat this one or die trying," Ebony Rain said as she and the rest of Team PRDT prepared to fight the newest enemy. Before any of them could open fire on the mecha, Ebony heard something coming at them from above. "What's that," she questioned just in time to see Terracotta and Ventus attack the machine with an elbow drop and axe kick respectively. "Holy crap!"
"Well, that's one way to make an entrance," Smoke Shadow said as he managed to get caught off guard by the arrival of the more experienced Huntsmen.
Ventus flew away from the mechsuit so that Terracotta could have room to fight it for himself. Cracking his knuckles and popping his neck, the Bull Faunus stared down his enemy before rushing for the machine. The Paladin tried to open fire on Terracotta, but the Huntsman avoided every shot that came at him and soon sliced the guns to pieces with his sword. When he got close, Terracotta grabbed the Atlesian Paladin by its legs and lifted it above his head before slamming it back onto the ground. While the mecha was flat on its face, Terra put the robotic suit into an armbar until it stood back up and threw him off. As Terracotta went flying, he planted his sword into the ground and used his Semblance to transfer his weight into the weapon and spun back around to hit the Paladin with a flying dropkick. Changing his weight just before impact, the Paladin was knocked around by Terracotta's attack and failed to stop the Huntsman from using a bear hug to shatter one of its arms.
The others were just watching as Terracotta fought against the battlesuit in hand-to-hand combat. "Is your dad wrestling that Paladin," Raduga White asked as he looked at Azalea, who only nodded as she watched her father attempt to place the machine into a camel clutch.
"Oh yeah, wrestling a giant robot has been a dream of his since we were kids back home in Menagerie," Ventus stated as he stood next to Team FCSA and Team GLOW.
Terracotta was laughing in excitement as he released the Paladin and began to rip off its remaining arm. When the machine's limb was removed, it tried to kick at Terracotta in an attempt to stop him. Unfortunately, the Bull Faunus used his Semblance to shift the weight of the Paladin around and throw it off balance when it attacked. As the enormous machine fell to the floor, Terracotta grabbed his sword and finished the battle by slashing the machine into pieces. When the remains of the battlesuit powered down, Terracotta casually dusted himself off before turning to the others. "Anybody hurt," he asked as he looked around.
"Oliver got injured by one of the Paladins earlier," Tremor replied as he held his friend in his arms.
"The rest of us can manage just fine," Percival remarked as he held his side in pain.
Terracotta saw many members of the group were hurt or low on supplies thanks to the constant fighting, so he turned to look at everyone and spoke in a commanding tone. "We need to regroup. Ivy can heal everyone who needs it, so let's move now," he said and everyone followed him without question.
Rua tried to force Sable's blade back, causing more sparks to fly off her shield and the sword. As she started to grit her teeth, Sable only laughed arrogantly at her struggling and didn't notice Silver rushing at him until the last second. Silver shouted as he swung his chainsaw at Sable, only for the masked Wolf Faunus to swiftly dodge and jump onto the top of a desk in the lecture hall. "Is that all that you can accomplish," he questioned and didn't bother waiting for an answer as he swung his blade and unleashed a wave of fire at the group. The members of Fragment Hunter dodged as they watched the flames come at them, but saw Sable suddenly appear behind them. "You children will never be able to handle somebody like me," Sable said as he kicked at each of the teenagers and pushed them back.
Silver growled as he looked at the White Fang officer, then turned to see how the others were doing. When each of them prepared their weapons, Silver adjusted his grip on his chainsaw and revved the engine in order to signal he was still ready to fight. Charging at Sable again, Silver went for a slash while Lapis created a gust of wind with the Dust in her trident to speed him up. As Silver moved faster, Sable had to block the attack with his sword. As the weapons clashed, the wind died down and Vixen tried to hit Sable with her fans. The White Fang officer moved out of the way and unleashed another wave of fire to hit the other Faunus. Celadon was quick to act as she used her Semblance to create a large gemstone shield and blocked the flames before firing the barrier at Sable like a projectile. The masked Faunus tried to dodge, but Rua teleported next to the gemstone and knocked it into Sable as he was dodging the initial path of the counterattack. "Ha! Got you," Rua exclaimed as she was confident enough that the attack was successful.
But as the projectile flew toward Sable, his body became mist and gemstone flew through him. "What," Celadon questioned as the stone hit the floor and shattered. Suddenly, Sable appeared and punched Celadon in the stomach. While she was recoiling in pain, the masked Faunus kicked her aside and she crashed into a wall. Seeing her teammate get knocked away, Rebecca threw a handful of shuriken at Sable, only for the White Fang member to deflect each of them with his sword. After the attack was stopped, Sable ran toward Rebecca in order to retaliate against her. Avoiding the swings of his sword, Rebecca maneuvered her way behind Sable and threw a few more shuriken at him. When she did, the Lightning Dust in the throwing stars began to spark and reacted with the Dust in the deflected projectiles. The weapons began to create a web of electricity that trapped Sable where he stood, otherwise he would get shocked in an escape attempt.
The White Fang officer looked at the situation he was in and only turned to the kunoichi. "Clever trick for a human. But this 'prison' of yours can't hold me," he stated and his body turned into mist in order to escape the cage of electricity. As everyone saw what happened, Rebecca was grabbed by her hair and thrown into her own trap. After getting shocked, the shuriken got scattered all around the room and Rebecca groaned in pain. "You won't be able to stop my Semblance," Sable declared.
Team SLVR then sprang into action as Vixen used her fans to send her own fire waves at Sable. At the same time, Lapis used her trident's Wind Dust to increase the size of the flames. Sable saw this and dodged out of the way, prompting Rua and Silver to team up. "Punk Rock," Silver called out, which let Rua know to use her shield as a platform and throw him toward Sable. As Sable got away from the flames, he was caught off guard by Silver and was punched in the face. "How do you like that, you bastard," Silver said as he managed to land a hit on Sable, but backed away to regroup with the others rather than keep talking.
As Sable recovered from the punch, pieces of his mask began to chip off and part of his face was revealed. As he glared at Silver and the others with his scarlet eye exposed, the White Fang officer began to growl. "You'll pay for that," Sable angrily muttered as he ejected the Fire Dust crystal in his weapon and stomped on it. As the used crystal was crushed into an inert powder and ground beneath Sable's heel, he placed a new crystal into his weapon and the blade started to glow a dull orange. When it did, Sable ran toward Silver and tried to slash at him. Rua managed to intercept the attack and block it, but a trail of fire followed the slash and started to heat up her shield. While Sable kept adding heat and pressure to Rua's defenses, Lapis tried to stab Sable from behind with her trident. The masked Faunus countered by transforming into mist again to dodge, but Lapis used the Water Dust in her trident to splash Rua so that her shield would be cooled off and sent water around the burning lecture hall. "Was that pathetic attempt to harm me all you can do," Sable questioned as he reformed his body.
"Nope," Lapis simply said as she spun her trident and activated the Lightning Dust it had. With electricity sparking from the prongs, the other members of Fragment Hunter jumped into the seats. Sable looked in confusion until he noticed that he was standing in a large puddle and Lapis placed the prongs of her trident in the water. With the attack harming him, Sable roared in pain until he could use his Semblance to escape. "But that did," Lapis retorted as she regrouped with the others.
Sable began to breathe heavily and saw more of his mask chipping away. With half of his face exposed, the black-haired Wolf Faunus was becoming increasingly annoyed with the members of Fragment Hunter. Unleashing a wave of flames at the water on the floor, he created a cloud of steam and used his Semblance to blend in with the new cover. The members of Fragment Hunter stayed on their toes as they had no idea where Sable would appear next with the steam surrounding them. Suddenly, Sable materialized behind them and slashed at the teenagers with his fiery sword. Lapis was quick to use her trident's prongs to catch the serrated weapon and defend herself.
When Sable's weapon was caught, Rua changed her shield into twin arm blades and went for a punch to Sable's stomach, but the White Fang member was still quick to use his Semblance and escape into the steam cloud. "This is going to be a pain in the ass. Try getting rid of the steam," Rua said to Lapis. Using the Wind Dust in her trident, Lapis created a gust of wind that forced the steam out of the lecture hall and revealed Sable. "There you are," Rua exclaimed as she jumped toward him for a punch. As Sable slashed at her with his sword, the Huntress-in-training teleported out of the way and surprised the masked Faunus. As she appeared next to him, Rua punched Sable hard enough to send him flying into the teacher's desk and shattering the rest of his mask off.
Seeing the shards of his mask all over the floor, Sable's scarlet eyes glared at all six teenagers. "You brats have finally crossed the line," Sable said as he growled like a feral wolf. Charging at Rua, the black-haired Wolf Faunus started to strike at her with his sword. As Rua changed her blades back into a shield and blocked the attacks, Sable hit the bottom of her shield with his knee and knocked it out of her grip. When it did, Rua attempted to counter by throwing a punch, but Sable was too fast and grabbed her hand. Keeping his grip on her left arm, the White Fang officer swiftly moved behind her and twisted the limb before pulling. Rua shouted in pain as Sable dislocated her arm and kicked her aside into the closest wall.
"Rua," the other teenagers cried out as they saw their friend get injured, then focused on trying to fight Sable. Silver charged forward with his chainsaw to slash at Sable, Rebecca created a smokescreen around the White Fang member, Vixen unleashed several fireballs as she waved her fans around, Lapis created several icicles with her trident, and Celadon used her Semblance to unleash a barrage of gemstone projectiles. When the attacks approached Sable, he only used his own Semblance to become mist and avoid the attacks before reforming behind Vixen. Punching her in the face, Sable knocked the Fox Faunus aside and kicked at Celadon. The blonde managed to use her Semblance to create jewel-like armor before she was hit, weakening the damage she took as she was sent flying. Sable then used his weapon to create a wave of flames that was sent toward Rebecca, but the ninja countered by creating a cloud of smoke that caught and snuffed out the fire. As she did this, Sable ran through the cloud and grabbed at Rebecca to keep her from moving. As she tried to escape, Lapis used her trident to send a gust of wind to blow away the smoke and attacked Sable's arm before he could hurt Rebecca.
Sable dropped the kunoichi and turned to see Lapis with her weapon in front of her. "Annoying blue-haired brat," Sable said as he swung his sword at the girl, who blocked the blade before it came close to her. However, she wasn't expecting another fire attack coming from the sword at close range and had to shield herself from the heat. When she did, Sable grabbed Lapis' arm and used his Semblance to get in front of her. As he reformed, his reflection could be seen in Lapis' eyes before he swung his sword and she was so shocked by what happened that she couldn't use her Aura to defend herself in time. Screaming as her eyes were slashed out, blood dripped down Lapis' face and the others watched what happened in horror. "Now you won't get in my way," Sable stated as Lapis continued to scream and cry in agony.
Absolutely livid at what Sable did, Silver growled as his body glowed. Transforming into his wolf form with his Semblance, Silver only howled before rushing at Sable to attack him with claws and fangs. Sable dodged and was about to attack Silver as he did, but the Huntsman-in-training transformed again and managed to strike Sable with a kick in his werewolf form. The White Fang officer grunted in pain as he was caught off guard by the attack, then watched as Silver transformed back to normal so he could attack him with his chainsaw. Sable acted quickly and briefly turned into mist to avoid the damage, then countered by clashing weapons with Silver.
As sparks started to fly from their weapons and the two Wolf Faunus growled at each other, Rebecca paid attention to Sable's position and everything on the battlefield. At the same time, Rua forced her arm back into place before throwing her shield at Sable. As it flew through the air and transformed into a giant shuriken, Sable noticed and repositioned himself to avoid the weapon. Arrogantly laughing to himself as the weapon missed, Sable didn't see that Rua teleported behind him and used her Semblance to remotely equip her shield by teleporting it into her hands. Charging into him, Rua pushed Sable back enough so that Silver was able to hit the White Fang officer in the chin with a palm strike.
Sable stumbled backward and was about to keep attacking the injured Rua when he felt several stabs in his back and grunted in pain. As he turned around to see what hit him, the members of Fragment Hunter saw all of the shuriken Rebecca used before sticking into his back and watched the ninja retrieve the weapons with her magnetic armguards. As the throwing stars were pulled out of his back, Sable turned to see Rebecca was responsible for his newest injury. Charging toward her, he was once again caught off guard when Lapis used her Semblance to unleash a sonic scream. As he recoiled in pain from his enhanced hearing being affected by Lapis' scream, Celadon used her spear's whip form to catch Sable so that he was left open to a bombardment of gemstones and fireballs that created a cloud of smoke. As the smoke cleared up, Sable's Aura began to flicker to show he was taking a lot of damage from Fragment Hunter. "You brats," Sable exclaimed as he stumbled around in pain. "You really think that you can finish me off?!"
"We don't need to finish you," Silver said as he caught Sable's attention. As the White Fang officer turned around, he saw the rookie Huntsman charge at him in wolf form. Jumping into the air and transforming back, Silver slashed at Sable's face with his chainsaw hard enough to knock him aside and break his Aura enough to leave a bad wound on him. As Sable clutched his bleeding face, Silver and the others regrouped around Lapis. "We only need to make sure you won't follow us. Let's get out of here now, Rua," Silver instructed.
The members of Fragment Hunter teleported away while Sable managed to stand up and glare at where the teenagers were. The black-haired Wolf Faunus did nothing but keep holding onto his face while some soldiers from the White Fang found him. "Sir, we need to leave now. It's an order from Adam himself," a Faunus with lizard scales on his arms said. Sable said nothing and walked away with the other Faunus, but he silently swore that Silver Wuruhi would not see the last of him.
At the docks outside of Beacon's campus, Professor Port and Doctor Oobleck were overseeing the evacuation of remaining students and civilians to a safe zone in Vale. On another side of the docks, Ivy Dahlia Holstein was using her Semblance to help heal any injured bystanders. After taking care of a woman's injuries, she saw a Beowolf approaching. With a look of determination, Ivy pulled out the knife that Terracotta gave her and waited for the Grimm to get close. As the monster went for a leaping slash, Ivy dodged the swipe of its claws and slashed out the Grimm's throat. A pair of Creeps soon rushed for Ivy, but she avoided them and stabbed them in the eyes in retaliation. Panting heavily as she finished off the Grimm, Ivy soon saw Fragment Hunter and their allies approaching her. "What happened," Ivy asked as she looked at everyone.
"My friend's hurt," Tremor said as he placed Oliver on the ground. "He says he can't move his legs."
"Take off his pants. I need to make skin contact for my Semblance to work," Ivy instructed. As Team SMKE removed the armor off of Oliver, Ivy used her Semblance to make sure the boy could walk again. As energy flowed through him, Oliver woke up to see that he could feel his legs. As the thieves were glad their friend could move, Silver's group teleported in and Rua's pained groans had Ivy start healing her. "What happened to you," the Cow Faunus asked as she placed her hands on Rua's shoulder.
Rua groaned as she explained what happened. "Let's just say that we met the guy who killed Silver's parents and that he's an asshole. Dislocated my arm and slashed out Lapis' eyes," she said before feeling her arm was perfectly okay.
"Now you won't have to worry about it popping out easily," Ivy told Rua. "Now for you, dear," she said as she placed a hand over Lapis' eyes. As Ivy continued to use her Semblance to accelerate everyone's healing, Terracotta noticed that Ivy was exhausting herself and that the glow from her hand was flickering. After a while, Ivy moved her hand and her Aura was shown to be depleted from overusing her Semblance.
"Lapis! Lapis, are you okay," the members of Team SLVR asked as they looked at their friend.
Lapis opened her eyes, but something was wrong. Her vision was blurry and she could barely see anything. "Guys, where are you? I can't see," Lapis questioned as she tried finding her friends.
"Oh, I was afraid of this," Ivy said. "I've never really been good with healing vision with my Semblance and I've exhausted myself with everything. I don't think Lapis will be able to see clearly until we get her to a real doctor."
"D-does this mean I can't be a Huntress," Lapis asked with fear evident in her voice.
"Lapis, you know that isn't true," Silver said. "We just need to get you some help."
"Besides, Fox from Team CFVY was born blind and he's a badass," Rua remarked.
As the members of Fragment Hunter tried to comfort Lapis, Sunset felt a number of emotions around the area and began to investigate with Azalea. Reaching the other students that fought to defend Beacon Academy, the girls saw that Blake Belladonna had bandages around her waist while Yang had lost her right arm. Azalea was shocked to see her old friend crippled like that and Sunset knew that something bad happened if Blake kept apologizing to Yang while the latter was unconscious. Soon, they saw Weiss Schnee and approached her. "Looks like you've all suffered damage, too," Sunset said.
"Some more than others," Weiss sadly commented as she looked down.
"Ruby's still not here," Azalea added. "I don't think she's going to take it well."
"None of us have been," Weiss agreed.
Sensing some other emotions from Weiss, Sunset used her Semblance to enter the heiress' mind and see her recent memories. As she did, most of the ones she found important were involving a woman who looked like she was in her early 20's and resembled Weiss quite a bit. As Sunset paid attention to what she saw, the woman's voice echoed around her. "Every Schnee has the ability to summon. We have for generations. Your Semblance is like a muscle. The more you practice with it, the stronger it will become," the woman said while the image showed her using a glyph in her hand to summon a Beowolf. Unlike the ones Sunset has been fighting, this one was mostly white and blue, making it look like it was made entirely out of ice and gave off an entirely different feeling when stood by the woman's side.
"She must be Weiss' sister," Sunset remarked to herself before watching Weiss' memories continue. The two Schnee women watched as Weiss attempted to create a new spinning glyph. "How exactly can they summon those Grimm for themselves," Sunset asked before she heard the voice of Weiss' sister, Winter Schnee.
"Now think to your fallen foes! The ones who forced you to push past where you were, and become who you are now. Think of them, and watch as they come to your side," Winter said as Weiss attempted to focus on the glyph. "Emotions can grant you strength. But you must never let them overpower you," Winter advised. Sunset thought that she should keep that in mind before the scene changed to earlier in the night.
After watching Velvet Scarlatina of Team CFVY battling two Paladins on her own, Sunset saw Weiss rushing toward the Rabbit Faunus in order to protect her. Sunset could sense all of Weiss' emotions during the moment and saw a larger glyph form near Weiss as she ran. Preparing to block the Paladin's attack, Weiss was protected by the arm of an enemy she previously defeated and Sunset watched as the sword it wielded cut the machine in half. "Whoa... That's badass," Sunset said to herself as the glyph and arm faded away. Exiting Weiss' mind, Sunset spoke to the snow-haired girl about what she saw. "You were surprised that you were able to summon something like that," Sunset stated.
Weiss was surprised by what Sunset said, but remembered her Semblance's abilities. "Yeah. My sister's advice was true," Weiss replied.
The other members of Fragment Hunter called Sunset and Azalea over as they finished speaking to Weiss. When the girls made their way over, they noticed the Wyvern start circling the school. "We need to get going. It's too dangerous to stay here," Terracotta stated as the girls met with the others. Azalea was about to argue with her father, but remembered the enormous Grimm flying over the school and said nothing. "Soldiers have already started establishing a safe zone in the city, so a few of us should go help secure it while the rest of us split up duties here."
"Lapis is still hurt, so we'll stick around to help others onto the ships," Vixen stated as she and Silver turned to the Bull Faunus.
"We should try and get our belongings out of here," Cereza added. "We're not going to let everything we have get destroyed if Grimm are going to take over the school." With her comment, the members of Fragment Hunter and their allies started to figure out each of their next tasks.
In the city of Vale, civilians were gathered together with the Atlesian military providing protection and aid to everyone. As some soldiers wrapped blankets around people or helping children find their families, Sunset and Azalea teleported in to help out. "We're here to help you guys out," Sunset said as the two girls spoke to one of the soldiers.
"Thanks. We could use it," the soldier told the girls. "We think there are still some people just outside the perimeter we established, but we couldn't confirm because some Ursai attacked us. You can start by going to check for yourselves and bring anybody you find back here," the soldier stated.
"Yes, sir," Azalea replied as she and Sunset went off.
As the two passed by one of the other soldiers, he noticed the ribbon on Azalea's arm and the weapons she was carrying. "Miss, where did you get those," the soldier asked.
Azalea looked at the items she took from Penny's remains and sighed sadly before answering. "From my friend. If she was here, she'd keep fighting and help people. So that's exactly what I'm going to do," Azalea stated as she and Sunset marched off. The soldier only saluted the girl's determination as the two left.
As they made their way through the city, Sunset and Azalea started to get into a conversation about what they saw with the dragon-like Grimm. "That thing flying over Vale and Beacon was spawning Grimm. Did you notice that," Sunset asked.
"Yeah. That tar stuff dripping off of it is freaky," Azalea said as the girls passed by a police station that was damaged in the chaos.
"And the Grimm just form right out of it? Creepy," Sunset remarked. "It's almost as if that Wyvern was some sort of living... uh um... a uh..."
"...Pool of Grimm," Azalea suggested as Sunset was struggling to find the right description to give the Wyvern's Grimm spawning abilities.
Sunset snapped her fingers as she pointed at her friend. "That's it! It's like that sludge is what Grimm are made of. It would explain why they evaporate when they die. They just change from liquid, to solid, to gas in their lifespan."
"It's still disgusting and creepy," Azalea commented.
Before their conversation could continue, Sunset felt something nearby and held out an arm to stop Azalea. Looking around, Sunset focused her Semblance in order to sense what she noticed. Soon, she felt that two people were nearby, but they weren't feeling what she expected from somebody during this sort of situation. "I know you're out there! Come out here where we can see you," Sunset called out. "Especially since you two don't really seem scared of everything happening!"
Azalea was wondering what Sunset meant, but soon heard a pair of footsteps approaching them. To Sunset and Azalea's shock, the two people that the flame-haired girl sensed were not who they were expecting. "What?! I thought you went to Mistral. Why are you two still here," Azalea questioned as she saw the two people.
"That's because they didn't leave," Sunset remarked as she looked forward. Standing in front of the girls were two faces that they believed were not in the Kingdom of Vale because of the earlier incident. Azalea Calla Holstein and Sunset Blaze were face-to-face with Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black.
What a chapter this has been! LOTS of fights here and a few moments that I've been planning for a while. That means I have a LOT to talk about in here as I end the chapter.
First, Sable Eisenbrand's character. I picture his voice being that of Vegeta from TeamFourStar's Dragon Ball Z Abridged. Mostly because Nick Landis (aka Lanipator) has played minor roles in RWBY before, including Yuma from Volume 5. I just feel like Vegeta's voice works well for Sable's arrogant and powerful character. Also, I based his Mist Body Semblance off of the Captain from Hellsing Ultimate, which TeamFourStar ALSO made an Abridged Series of.
Second is the battles with the Atlesian Paladins. With so many fighters against them, I wanted to show off plenty of techniques. Raduga's move with the ice crystals is based on a finishing attack used in Kingdom Hearts 3, Tremor's line when Oliver was hurt was from Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves as I based the three male members of Team SMKE off of the Cooper Gang from the Sly Cooper series, Gin's attack with the exploding rainstorm of kunai is also from his inspiration of Kamen Rider Gaim, and then we have Terracotta's wrestling match with the advanced Paladin. During that scene, try listening to "Short Hair" from Megas XLR for the awesomeness that is a Huntsman with Weight Manipulation wrestling a robotic battlesuit with his bare hands.
Third up is Sable's battle with Team SLVR, Rebecca, and Celadon. I've been wanting to have the damage dealt to Lapis shown for a few reasons. But the most important one at the moment is to show that Sable's a threat and that Fragment Hunter has to keep training even after leaving Beacon. For the battle music for that scene, I have three different options that I think would work well. "I'm My Own Master Now" from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, "Werewolf Baby" by Rob Zombie, or "Shout In The Moonlight" from Kamen Rider Kiva.
Lastly, we now have the final battle of Volume 3 set up for my OCs. To celebrate a milestone of 50 chapters, Azalea and Sunset will battle Mercury and Emerald! Since we didn't really see them during Cinder's personal mission of obtaining the full powers of the Fall Maiden, I wanted to show my take on what those two were up to during the moments that killed our innocence. I'm going to have a blast writing that battle up, so look forward to it in the future. After Chapter 50, we're entering the period during the time skip before Volume 4. Plenty of original content for me to focus on there, so be prepared for lots to happen there.
How will Fragment Hunter handle the injuries dealt to them? Will they be able to get out of Beacon Academy with their friends? How will the battle with Emerald and Mercury go?
Until next time, WaterDragonMaverick signing out.