Chapter 4

Glynda was running to the edge of Beacon cliffs to get a better view of the explosions but was shocked to see the Cleaner's and teams RWBY and JNPR. The three teams were firing mortars into the forest and had several drones laying about. Weiss, Pyrrha, Ruby, Ren and Blake were using the drones while the cleaners, Yang, Nora, and Jaune were firing the mortars.

"What is the meaning of this?" Glynda shouted instantly getting all the teens attention.

"When I was testing one of the drones I found in one of the crates earlier I noticed a small mist of black smoke around that area. I attached a camera to the drone and checked it out. It turns out it was a large concentration of grimm! So I looked it up on the dust net and some help from Ruby we made several mortars and began firing!" Max explained enthusiastically. As if to help prove Max's point Jack fired his mortar the moment Max finished his sentence. Max turned for a minute to see the mortar shot fly through the air and hit the ground making a small mushroom cloud that was strangely bright. Max turned as the mushroom was still bright. Glynda said nothing for a moment as the three teams bombarded the grimm. Glynda's eye twitched in annoyance as she was not sure what to do with them.

'They had the best intentions but I'm not sure if I can allow this. It's night and many students are probably trying to sleep. Hmm... What to do, what to do?' Glynda thought to herself.

Glynda was brought out of her musing by a loud beeping noise coming from a laptop that was showing some surveillance footage. Jack looked at the laptop for a minute before suddenly running back to the dorm buildings with the rest of his team running after him. Glynda looked at the laptop and saw that it was showing surveillance footage of the door to the cleaners room. The video showed the door smashed open with several white fang members going inside. "MAY!" Zoe shouted and began running back to the dorm buildings with everyone else following close behind. Upon arrival to the dorm building there was a crashed White Fang bullhead and multiple white fang grunt bodies littering the ground along with faunus students who were in aura nullifying cuffs. The remaining cleaners ran inside the building and Glynda picked up a faunus student and asked her what happened.

"I'm not sure, but I overheard some of them talking about kidnapping all the faunus students in beacon for some sort of mind control project. They were about to drag us to the bullhead but Hells angel showed up and shot it down with his machine gun. He got all of us out first and rushed into the dorm building. He killed them without mercy... without restraint. What did that guy go through to make him like that?" The faunus student said that last part to herself. Teams RWBY and JNPR looked at each other worryingly and ran inside. The two teams heard gunfire and screaming coming from the floors above them but what worried them was the heat. It was hotter than normal and that could mean one of two things: One, the AC was broken or Jack was using his flamethrower. Considering what was happening they all bet the latter. "If we just run around the building we won't be helping anyone. We need to split up. Weiss how many floors are there in a single dorm building?" Ruby asked.

Weiss seemed to think for a moment before answering, "There are about 30 floors in a single building. Why, Do you have a plan?" Ruby nodded her head pulled her M14 from her shoulder. "Ok, here's the plan: We search the floors by two. Me and Weiss well continue searching this floor for any survivors and Yang, you and Blake search the floor above us. Jaune, it's your team. Your call." Jaune merely put his mask on and made some gestures he and his team learned from Max. The two teams split up and began searching. The search went like this: On the first floor was Ruby and Weiss, second floor: Yang and Blake, third floor: Ren and Nora and on the fourth floor: Jaune and Pyrrha. Weiss and Ruby finished searching their floor and quickly run up the stairs to the sixth floor and begin to search. The teams only found injured human students and dead WF grunts and a few beat up and unconscious lieutenants every here and there.

"I never knew Jack and his team could be so violent..." Pyrrha thought out loud as she looked at the bullet holes and blood stains along the walls.

"Well, he did tell us about what happened in his world. I'm honestly amazed some of these poor guys are still alive. Considering Jack's temper when messing with people he cares about. Add that to the fact that the White Fang have possibly kidnapped May along with other faunus students. But I don't understand how the White Fang got past the schools defences! And how they disabled students from defending themselves!" Jaune exclaimed as he tied up several surviving grunts.

"Remember when Sean said that Huntsmen and Huntresses are overly reliant on weapons?" Pyrrha asked to which Jaune replied with a nod and said, Now that I think about it, he's right. I guess not a lot of students can defend themselves without their I heard the schools defences are scheduled for maintenance today so maybe that's how they got in."

[WITH JACK]

"WHERE'S MY DAUGHTER?" Jack screamed at a White Fang Lieutenant as he slammed the faunus into the wall by his throat. "Human scum." The lieutenant wheezed out as Jack tightened his grip around the his throat. "I will not allow you to corrupt her with your 'human superiority' propaganda!" A look of confusion grew on his face when the lieutenant finished his sentence. Even with his mask on the WF lieutenant could make out his confusion. "Human superiority propaganda? What're you talking about?" Jack asked in confusion. The lieutenant did not say anything at first until Jack slammed him against the wall again and even tightened his grip. "There's a faction of humans calling themselves the "Defenders of Man"! They have been attacking our hidden outposts outside the kingdoms. They are extremely aggressive towards faunus and claim that every human on Remnant will soon be a member of their order." The lieutenant wheezed out. Jack being satisfied dropped the lieutenant on the group. The lieutenant rubbed his neck and looked up at Jack afraid of what he was going to do. "I may be a human, but I do not support senseless killing..." Jack paused before continuing. "You my friend will be my new man on the inside. I am willing to let you go but you have to give me any information about the Defenders of Man." Jack's tone was serious and left no room for argument. The lieutenant bit his tongue and nodded slowly while he pulled a knife out of his boot. "Good, now scram. I have to find my daughter." Jack said and turned his back and began to walk away. The lieutenant looked tilted his head in confusion and shouted. "Wait! Why do you care so much for her when you know you could be targeted by racists?"

Jack stopped walking and looked over his shoulder back to the lieutenant. "That girl has suffered the loss of her family. Kinda like me, kinda like the rest of my team. Me and my fiancee took her in because we know the pain of losing family. we know how she felt. Hell my other two teammates know too. But me and my team had each other to help us stand up. That girl has no one to help her. Me and my team plan to help her. We know we can't replace her old family, but were damn well going to try and atleast help fill that void in her heart... We'll support her. Be the pillars she needs." Jack paused and looked down at the floor before continuing. "And the racists? The terrorists? Let them come. I always did enjoy cleaning up the filth. And right now that filth is the Defenders of Man. Remember this my friend: Not all humans are bad. And not all of us are a 'Defender of Man' and if you have any info for me, meet me in the Titty Twister bar in the western slums on saturday at noon." Jack said and walked away. When Jack turned a corridor he ran up the stairs up to the fifteenth floor where his teams dorm was. The moment he arrived he saw a wall of furniture made by students to try and hold back the White Fang. Jack could hear May screaming "MOM! DAD! HELP ME!" and gunshots going off. Hearing May scream caused his heart to clench and memory's of when he and Zoe first rescued her to surface. A tear leaked from the corner of his eyes as he remembered how afraid she was even when he protected her. Jack swore that day that he would make sure she never had to make that face or feel the emotions she felt that day again.

Jack turned a corner and saw several grunts trying to drag her away from Velvet who they had asked to baby sit May whilst they tested mortars. Jack saw atleast 20 grunts and one lieutenant. The WF grunts were beating Velvet to try and get her to release May. Jack put down his backpack and gas tanks and pulled out a pair of fire axes. Jack walked into the corridor where the White Fang were trying to break the barricade and beating Velvet. Jack slammed his axes together making a loud clanging noise startling majority of the White Fang grunts. May looked at Jack with joy evident in her eyes. "DADDY!" May shouted and ran at Jack, confusing the White Fang troops. Jack dropped his axes and hugged her tightly. "It's ok sweetheart. Daddy's here now. I'll protect you." Jack looked up at the White Fang and they visibly took a step back due to Jack's unfaltering gaze. Jack stood up and took a step forward whilst pushing May behind him since all the grunts were only on one side of the corridor. "Cover your ears baby, and don't look." Jack said with a serious tone. May did as Jack said and Jack removed his mask, vest and lowered his hood revealing his face. Jack also shrugged of the top portion of his fire proof suit and tied the sleeves around his waist to keep it from falling. Jack may not have had aura but he didn't need it to kill these hypocrites. Pointing one axe forward and tilting his head down slightly, Jack said "Are you all just going to stand there? Or are we going to fight?"

Two grunts wielding dual short swords obliged Jack and charged at him. Jack's red eyes seemed to glow and give off a small mist just like when he fought that ursa major in combat class. Both the grunts tried to go for a double overhead swing but Jack blocked it with his axes. The grunts tried to push down on their blades to overpower Jack but it was a fruitless endeavor as Jack held strong and did not move. Jack pushed the grunts swords towards the ground with his axes and kicked the grunt to his left in the gut. The grunt who got kicked got the air knocked out of him and doubled over in pain. Jack capitalized on that by swiftly bringing his axe down on the grunts neck decapitating him. The grunt to Jack's right was so stunned that he merely stood in shock. Jack plunged both the pikes on his fire axes into the grunts neck and pushed his boot on the grunts chest and began to pull. The grunt attempted to scream in agony but all that came out was the sound of him choking on his own blood. Jack pulled on both the axes until the second grunt was decapitated as well! As the body feel to the ground it spurted blood on Jack making him look all the more intimidating. Jack looked to the remaining White Fang on the floor with a killer glint in his glowing red eyes and a horrifying grin on his face.

Four of the grunts stepped forward and began firing at him with dust rifles. As Jack ran forward he kept the head of the axes in front of him in order to block some of the bullets while the rest just went past him or hit him, sadly for the Fang Jack just ignored the pain and kept running. Once the grunts were within swinging range Jack embedded one of his axes into the neck of one unfortunate grunts and stabbed the pike of his other axe into the chin of another grunt. Jack swiftly pulled both his axes out from the grunts bodies and quickly punched the remaining grunt to his right in the gut and caught the grunts shoulder in the beard of his axe and threw him towards the grunts who were still trying to break down the furniture wall. The second grunt behind Jack tried to reload his rifle only for him to drop the magazine due to his constant shaking. The grunt fell to his knees to try to and pick it only to be met with the sight of Jack's boots. The grunt slowly looked up to see Jack's creepily grinning face. "Hey there buddy~" Jack said in a creepy tone. "I'd like you to meet Mr. Boot!" Jack finished his sentence with a swift kick to the grunts face, knocking the poor faunus out.

"Is that all the White Fang have to offer? I thought you guys would be a bigger challenge." Jack said, the disappointment evident in his voice. The lieutenant stepped forward brandishing a strange looking rifle. The body of the rifle was thicker than normal and closely resembled the body of an M16 rifle but the barrel looked like a drill while the stock was also quite long. Suggesting it to also be some sort of handle. 'Damn, I'm gonna have to watch out for that drill thing.' Jack thought to himself as he examined the lieutenant. The lieutenants outfit was slightly different, he wore a black sleeve-less shirt with a hood on and a white vest, with black combat pants, metal boots, gauntlets, and shoulder pads. His mask fully covered his face making him seem more intimidating. The fact that he is also almost as tall as Jack is slightly worrying. The lieutenants flexed his arms and held his weapon by the oversized stock. Jack narrowed his eyes and tensed his muscles, preparing himself for the lieutenant to make a move. The two of them stood there for a moment. Just staring at one another, almost completely still. Like statues. The grunts that were still alive watched with baited breath to see who would move first, not noticing that a small part of the furniture barricade opening allowing students, both humans and faunus to come out and watch the two monsters of men stare at each other.

The first to move was the lieutenant, the lieutenant dashed forward intent on ending the fight quickly by impaling Jack. Jack stepped to the side narrowly avoiding impalement and clothes lined the lieutenant. While the lieutenant was still on the ground Jack grabbed the lieutenant by his jacket and slammed him into the wall several times before the lieutenant finally had enough and attempted to swing his rifle drill in an arc towards Jack. Jack blocked it with his axes but the lieutenant punched Jack square in the face catching him off guard. Jack clutched his nose for a moment to see if it was broken and relieved to see it wasn't. Jack's instincts screamed at him and he ducked down just in time to avoid being hit by the drill. Jack tackled the lieutenant into the wall and punched him several times in the face and attempted to slash him with his axe. The lieutenant moved his head out of the axes way and the axe is now stuck in the wall. The lieutenant growled before head butting Jack, causing him to stumble back. The lieutenant capitalized this and stabbed Jack in gut with his drill rifle. A sadistic smile behind his mask as Jack began coughing blood onto the lieutenants shoulder. Unknown to the lieutenant however was that Jack was reaching for his R8 revolver. And before he could pull his drill rifle out, Jack had emptied all eight bullets into the lieutenants chest. The lieutenants aura was already weak from fighting so it only took two bullets to break the aura. The other six were just to make sure he was dead. Both Jack and the lieutenant fell backwards, both of them landing with an equally loud 'THUD'.