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-o-o- Fate of Beacon Academy -o-o-
Prison Break (Part 1)
Aura: The manifestation of one's aura. Everyone has one but not all have unlocked their semblance with it. Auras act as a personal force field, the more aura you contain, the more your aura protects you from injuries that would usually be fatal and severe for those who don't have semblances...In other words, some people could still survive after getting shot in the head or stab in the stomach.
Vale Prison
The prison was dull but manageable. The prison consisted of Five levels that stacked on top of each other. Each level was given a view of the level below.
The ground level was the cafeteria which consisted of tables that were nailed to the floor. The second, third and third floor consisted of prisons cells, at least 50 in each level and each cell contained around 2-4 people.
The fifth floor was where the vale guards and huntsman roamed where they could keep an eye on the prisoners. On that fifth floor, a familiar and quite handsome, huntsman stood there, looking over the prison. The huntsman had short black hair and brown eyes. He wore silver armour and held twin swords on his back. In his left hand he held a small brown bag which contained his lunch. Currently, the huntsman was daydreaming about the girl of his dreams.
"Someone seems to be enjoying themselves." A voice said with the intent to tease, "Is Nathan mourning for his true love again?"
Snapping out of his daydream, Nathan Davis turned to look at his friend, "Very funny David." He was used to David's teasing by now.
David Roy was a young man with spiky blue hair. He wore an unzipped, light blue jacket and long, black, sport pants. Under his jacket was a dark blue t-shirt with the word "Work" on it. On his back was a bow quiver that held at least 12 arrows. In his right hand, he held a white mechanical bow.
Deciding to return the favour, Nathan commented, "How about you huh? Find anyone yet?"
David chuckled as he saw Nathan's comment from a mile away, "Sorry dude, I'm-"
"not interested in romance...I know," Nathan finished David's sentence with a tired sigh, "I swear that sentence has pretty much become your catchphrase."
"You know me too well." David grinned with a thumbs up.
"I still don't know whether that's good thing or not."
"Mr Davis! Mr Roy!" A new voice called.
The two Remnant Huntsmen turned to face the new voice. The voice belonged to a tall muscular man who held bravery and pride in his figure, this man was the commander of the guards who watched over this prison. His job was pretty much to keep an eye on the criminals.
"Commander Steel!" David casually waved as if they were best friends, "What's up?"
Steel wore the usual Vale Police Department uniform. Like all the other guards, his armour and gun was clearly visible and ready for battle.
"I would like to apologies for the inconvenience," The commander said, "usually we wouldn't have professional Huntsmen guarding this prison. It's just ever since they arrived here, there's been a massive demand for more security."
"It's no problem, we understand." Nathan nodded as he knew exactly who the commander was talking about:
The Top Most Wanted Criminals In Remnant. Ranked by their strengths and infamous for their evil deeds. Each individual was known to be a force to be reckoned with and police from all over Remnant have spent most of their lives trying to hunt them down. However, over the past couple of days, the Top Ten Wanted Criminals were ALL defeated. Four were killed and six were arrested. Those six criminals...are bring contained in this very prison.
"We appreciate your cooperation. Everyone is glad you could be here." The commander saluted them before walking back to his post, "Oh by the way!" the commander stopped and faced the two huntsmen, "There's another professional huntress who will be joining you today."
"Huntress you say?" David asked with interest.
"When will she arrive?" Nathan asked.
"She already has," the commander replied as he pointed at Nathan's and David's feet, "she's right there."
David and Nathan blinked confusingly before looking down at their feet.
Right in front of their feet, a woman probally in her twenties... was sleeping on the floor.
She had light purple/lilac hair and wore bear-shaped fuzzy slipper. Her clothes looked very loose and comfortable and consisted of the colours blue and bright pink. From the look of it, her clothes were made out of the same material used to make pajamas.
"Her name is Ashley Heart," The commander introduced before walking away, the last words Nathan and David heard him say was, "Good luck...you're going to need it."
David and Nathan looked down at Ashley who was sleeping peacefully.
"I was wondering where that snoring was coming from." David commented.
"How long has she been sleeping there?" Nathan asked.
"Who knows," David bent down and took a closer look at Ashley's face. He whistled, "you have to admit though, she's quite the sleeping beauty."
Suddenly, Ashley opened her eyes jumpscaring David as he jumped back.
Ashley slowly sat up and yawned sleepily.
"Hello Ashley," Nathan greeted while David recovered from his shock. He offered his hand, "My name is Nathan. This is David. We look forward to working with you."
Ashley looked around the prison, her eyes half asleep. She looked at Nathan.
There was an awkward moment of silence. Nathan expected Ashley to accept his hand but instead, Ashley just sat there, staring at him.
After what seemed like an awkward eternity, Ashley perked up as if she had truly woken up, "Oh hi there!...What's your name?"
Second Floor: Cell 32
In this cell was an average sized man. Usually he wore a mask to hide his face but obviously the prison wasn't going to let that. He was forced to wear the usual orange prisoner uniform much to his dismay.
Out of frustration, he punched the wall, "AAAHHH! DAMN YOU!"
The three other cellmates, who were trying to get some peace and quiet, chastised him, "SHUT UP!"
The man obeyed and went quiet, James was a well known criminal but without his weapons, he was just an ordinary man.
James Mordred: Ranked 6th in the Top Most Wanted Criminals. Known to be able to use two dual mini chainsaws like dual swords. He was the leader of a wanted group of bandits but was defeated by Team SKYJ.
"Just you wait till I get out of here." James cursed before one of his cellmates told him to shut up again.
Third Floor: Cell 12
"This place ain't so bad." One of the cellmates admitted, "although they should've put more money into building this place."
Broad just looked at the cell mate strangely, "Only an idiot would donate money to improve the accomodation of a prisoner."
Broad Gargoyle: Ranked 8th in the Top Most Wanted Criminals. Known for stealing at least 100,000 Lien worth of items mostly including weapons belonging to many huntsmen and huntresses. He leads a group of thieves who were known for luring in huntsmen and huntresses before mugging them. Defeated by Team KSYS.
"True that."
"You guys are hopeless." Broad sighed.
Second Floor: Cell 49
"Man, I hate this place." William complained.
"Was your black market really that good?" One of the cellmates asked.
"You bet it was!" William yelled, offended by the comment.
William Henchmen: Ranked 9th in the Top Most Wanted Criminals. Known for owning an illegal market and has a semblance that allows him to teleport. However he cannot teleport through objects including walls. Besides the black market, he isn't known for doing anything else making him only ninth in the list despite the fact that he's skills surpasses Broad's and James's skill. He was defeated by Team STAB.
"Man, I hate this place."
"You already said that."
"Shut up!"
Third Floor: Cell 21
The man ran circles in his cells.
The other three cellmates, out of pure boredom, just watched as their eyes followed to whatever Dark run.
Dark Runner: Ranked 10th in the Top Most Wanted Criminals. Known to live by his name. He runs in the shadows of nights, pickpocketing, stealing and robbing people as he runs. He is known to be able to outrun vehicles by foot, theories say it must have something to do with his semblance but it has already been proven that his semblance is not super speed so it remains a mystery. He was caught by Team SSSN.
"I'm getting really dizzy." One of the cellmates commented.
"Maybe it's because we've been watching him run in circles for almost an hour." Another cellmate replied sarcastically.
Fourth Floor: Cell 50
This cell only contained two girls.
The first girl had fair skin, pink hair and eyes, wearing the prisoners uniform like all the other prisoners. Despite being in a prison, the girl still had a sweet pink lollipop in her mouth, "You're father is a thief. Your mother is a robber and your brother is a hacker. Whoa, you're life was pretty tough, Alissa."
Allissa Revolver had pretty blonde hair and quite young for prisoner standards. She was caught by Team CFVY, robbing a clothing store.
Allissa felt flattered yet half-certain, "Not really. My entire family are made out of delinquents but they're weren't savages. Besides, my life was nowhere near as bad as yours, geez Chelsea, how did you cope with all that?"
Chelsea chuckled as she looked up at the ceiling to contemplate her previous life actions, "You'll be surprise what some people will do for their friends and family."
Chelsea Gladstone: Ranked 1st in the Top Most Wanted Criminals. Heir to the non-existing Gladstone Dust Company. Her semblance allows her to copy and mimic anyone's skills, appearance and abilities of anyone that she has previously made physical contact with. She also have access to that person's memories meaning she'll know what a person's personality and nature just by touching them. She is half-responsible for the murder of Abraham who is guilty of murder and stealing the Gladstone name. Originally, the Gladstone company was small but very well known as the first company to treat faunus as equals. Chelsea was arrested by Team STAR and three other teams.
"So what are the faunus like?" Allissa asked.
"Ah, that's right, you've never met one." Chelsea realised as she explained, "Honestly, if you ignore the inhuman features, the faunus are just like us humans. Each one has their own personality and goals. I don't blame the faunus for wanting equality. Although I do admit that the White Fang do take it a bit too far "
Allissa nodded, satisfied with her answer.
"Anyways enough about me. You plan on stopping after you get set free, am I right?" Chelsea asked.
Allisa chuckled, "Yeah. I thought I would find the 'perfect adrenaline' that my family always talked about through robbery...never felt anything though, so what's the point? As for what I'll do with my future, I'm actually not sure."
"Well you got a couple years before they let you go so think about it okay," Chelsea advised with a friendly smile, "although if you want my personal opinion, I think you should-"
A large beep sound was heard throughout the entire building and the door to their cell was open.
A voice spoke through the speakers in a monotone, "Can all prisoners make their way to the cafeteria for lunch."
"I wonder what they'll be serving." Allisa asked.
Chelsea looked at the time before saying, "Probably leftover porridge."
Allisa laughed as she stood up, "Hahaha! You're funny.'
Chelsea just smiled as she exited the cell.
Allisa's laugh faded as she followed, "Wait you serious?"
The pair exited the cell.
All other prisoners exited their cells in silence. Each prisoner, including Chelsea and Allisa, had a collar that could shock them at any guard's command so no one bothered resisting.
Allisa gulped as she stayed near Chelsea.
There were multiple prison guards armed with guns that were ready to fire. They each kept a close eye on each prisoners who were exiting their cell. But it was mostly Chelsea they were watching.
They weren't the only ones. Every prisoner that Allisa and Chelsea walked past glared with alarmed eyes. However none of them dared confront them.
They were all aware of Chelsea's status.
"Man if only they knew." Allisa thought to herself as she followed Chelsea downstairs.
Allisa groaned as she stared at the food she was given, "They really did serve us leftover porridge."
Chelsea smiled, "What? You didn't believe me?"
"I did. I just didn't want to." Allisa joked as she began eating much to her dismay.
The porridge itself wasn't exactly nasty. It was just not heated up enough or maybe left out to cool for too long.
The pair sat a table for four people. However like usual, no one sat next to the pair.
Everyone was scattered around the cafeteria area in their own little groups.
The five most wanted criminals were each in their own group.
"Hey James?" One of prisoners suddenly asked, "I just realised something. With August and his friends dead, wouldn't that make you the 2nd most wanted criminal on Remnant."
James' eyebrow twitched as he couldn't stand being around these idiots, "You can't be a wanted criminal if you've already been caught."
"You can say that again, here, our status means nothing," Broad said before snickering at Chelsea, "That includes you pretty girl."
Allisa shivered as all eyes looked to their table.
Chelsea on the other hand looked cheerful as ever, "And you're telling me this because..."
Dark Runner ran past James.
"I'm just saying that you shouldn't get too cocky just because of your title," Broad threatened.
Dark Runner ran past Broad.
"I don't care who you are, here in this prison, were all the same as long as you got that collar around your neck," Broad added before pointing his finger at Chelsea, "so for the love of God, wipe that stupid smile off you pretty face-"
Dark Runner ran past Broad again.
"DARK!" Broad exclaimed, "Can you stop running! It's distracting! Don't you have food to eat."
Dark ignored him and kept running.
"Don't waste your breath," William scolded, "and would you please stop yelling and acting like your the boss here."
"Your one to talk," Broad taunted, "I don't want to hear anything from the man who literally came here screaming like a little girl."
William stood up and glared, "You better watch your mouth you helpless thief."
"You got a problem with thieves." Broad retaliated.
"Unlike you worthless souls, I actually earned the money I had." William replied.
"Says the one who owned a black market." Broad countered.
William clenched his fist, "Listen you little piece of-"
"Wilia!" Called a familiar female voice.
As soon as William heard that voice, he screamed like a little girl and hid beneath the table earning a couple of laughs from the prisoners who were watching.
Everyone looked up and saw Nathan, David and Ashley watching over them.
Ashley stopped waving and pouted, "Aww, is Wilia not happy to see me?"
"What did you do to him?" Nathan asked.
"Nathan, I think it's best if that question stays unanswered," David patted Nathan while looking at Ashley, "Anyways, Ashely, I was just thinking-"
David was going to give Ashley a charming wink only to find out that Ashely had magically gone back to sleep.
Broad looked up at Ashley before laughing in a mocking manner, "HAHAHA! That's the huntress who caught you? What did she do? Sleep on you on?"
William shook his head, "No, no, no you don't know her like I do. I'm telling you, she might look cute but she's got a monster hidden inside of her."
Everyone looked at him for a couple of second before they all burst out laughing.
As they laughed, Broad looked up at David and glared at him with hatred and maliciousness.
From the top floor, David noticed his stare and stuck his tongue at him as a response.
"You probably shouldn't taunt the prisoners like that." Nathan advised.
David just chuckled. "Relax, he can't do anything. Besides, he started the taunting."
Nathan sighed, "Never get too comfy when guarding a prison."
"Yeah, yeah, I know."
The sleeping beauty began sleep talking, "hehehehe, you guys are funny. Hehehehe."
While Nathan felt really uncomfortable, especially because of Ashley's eerie giggles, David on the other hand just stared in awe at Ashley beautiful sleeping form, fantasizing about-
"What are you doing?" Nathan asked noticing David's stare.
David looked away from Ashley and quickly changed the subject, he grinned at David in a teasing manner. "Oh nothing, I was just thinking about when you'll finally propose to your true love."
"I swear the only entertainment you get is by teasing me," Nathan sighed again, "you do realize, I've never met Natalia before."
"And whose fault it that?" David asked rhetorically, "If you didn't spend most of your time staring at her from a distance, maybe you would've actually been able to spark a conversation with her."
"..." David went silent for a few seconds before asking, "You think?"
"Of course!" David replied instantly, "I wouldn't be surprised if she asked you to marry her on the spot."
"Ha...Ha...very funny." Nathan said sarcastically.
"Hehehehehe." Ashley giggled in her sleep. Her giggles sounded like she was having a lot of fun in her dream. What she was dreaming about was a question that Nathan didn't want to be answered.
"You know, having all the most wanted criminals confined in this one prison, sure does make them look a lot less scarier than the rumors say they are," David commented looking down at all of them.
"They plan on moving all of them to different separate prisons later. Broad and William will be moved somewhere in Mistral, Runner and James will go to Mantle and Blitzs will be moved to Vacou," Nathan explained before saying in a sympathic tone, "but I heard Chelsea will stay here in Vale."
"Man I feel sorry for that gal," David replied, "I thoguht she was a ruthless villain like the rumors said but she's actually a nice person."
"Yeah, makes you wonder how someone like Chelsea recived life-imprisionment as a penalty," David agreed, "but I guess it's not up to us to decide who gets what punishment."
"Yay! Intorogating in fun!" Ashley cheered, still sleeping, "hehehehehe."
The more Ashley sleep talked, the more David understood why Commander Steel wished them good luck when he left them with her.
"I wonder whose she's interrogating in that dream?" David asked casually, expecting no answered.
"That is the last thing I want to know right now." Nathan replied bluntly.
A prison guard suddenly walked past, triggering Nathan's aura to put him on alert. He watched the prison guard who walked past him and to his surprise, the prison guard was a faunus.
Nathan narrowed his eyes and he scanned the surroundings. It wasn't long till David also noticed.
Now that she thought about it, something felt odly weird about the tensity in the atmosphere.
Not the vibe around the prisioners- no, that still felt the same...it was the vibe in the prision guards that felt strangly different.
The criminal turned her head and-
"Hey Chelsea."
Chelsea turned and looked back at Allisa who had already finished her food.
"I'm gonna go ask for seconds."
Chelsea stared at Allisa for a second before grinning, "And here I thought you hated porriage."
"I do, but hey, a woman gotta eat." Allisa replied.
"They're never going to let you have seocnds." Chelsea said with utter certainly.
"You never know, I might get lucky this time," Allisa said with a hopeful smile, "wait here okay. Don't go back to the cell without me."
"Don't worry..." Chelsea said as she eyed a faunus prision guard from above who was staring at her, "I won't be going anywhere."
"Thanks, everyone always glares at me when I'm not you, anyways I'll be right back." With that, Allisa got up and left.
Chelsea smiled and waved as she left. Once she was out of sight, Chelsea's expression tranformed into a more conerned look.
The criminal looked around the prison and noticed one odd detail: most of the prison guards were faunus.
Under normal ciumstances, Chelsea would've been happy to see Faunus gettings jobs like prision guards. But what caught her suspicions was... most of the guards were humans yesterday.
"Hello Chelsea." A new voice spoke.
In a calm manner, Chelsea turned her head and saw that one of the faunus prisioners was sitting right in front of her where Allisa once sat.
The faunus was male and had furry legs. He still wore the orange prision outfit that all prisioners had to wear but there was one disstinct feature: unlike the other pirsioners, the man's electric collar had clearly been disabled.
Chelsea looked up. Around 5-7 faunus prision guards were stalking her from above.
Chelsea looked back at the male faunus who sat right in front of her. The male faunus had very imtimidiating eyes but she sensed no hostility from him.
"So..." Chelsea finally began, ending the intense silence, "you must be Blitz Mudlark."
Blitz Mudlark: Ranked 7th on the Top Most Wanted Criminals. A faunus with high authory in the White Fang.
Chelsea offered her hand for a handshake, "Nice to meet you."
"Put the hand down human," Blitz ordered almost immediately after Chelsea offered her hand, "I know how your semblance works."
Chelsea retrieved her hand and crossed her arms.
"There's not much time so I'll get straight to the point," Blitz continued in a low deep tone, "as you have noticed, something big will happen today... and we prefer you stay out of our way."
"I feel honoured," Chelsea stayed calm despite the situation, she wasn't scared to ask, "But I thougth the white fang didn't care about humans."
"Consider yourself an exception, you have quite the reputation amoung the faunus," Blitz replied as if he already saw that question coming, "we can gaurantee you a save exit out of this prision but that...is as far as your relationship with the White Fang will go...all you need to do is come quietly."
Chelsea paused for a short moment as she contemplated all her options,"...and if I say no?"
"You can say whatever you want..." Blitz stood up from the table, looking down at Chelsea, "but I never said you had a choice to begin with."
With that, he turned around and walked away. Chelsea watched his retreating form in concern.
In a small room.
Two human guard was watching 50 security cameras in complete boredom as their shift still had another 2 hours to go.
Suddenly, the door to the room opened.
One of the guards turned his head to look, "Oi! What are you-"
He was knocked out cold before he could finish that sentence.
The second guard stood up and raised his gun but it too late.
The Faunus prison guard raised a laser gun first and shot him.
With both guards out, the faunus took a seat in front of all the security cameras.
The faunus grabbed a suspicious USB with the White Fang Logo on it from his pocket.
He then inserted it into the computer system and all the screens turned red.
Something big will happen today. Blitz's words echoed in Chelsea's mind.
Something fishy was happening and she needed to know what it was before things turned to the worst.
She could easily find out what was happening if she used her semblance. All she needed to do was just touch one of the-
"Excuse me, are you Chelsea Gladstone?"
Dark Runner stopped running as he watched.
Chelsea turned around to see one of the faunus prison guards right in front of her holding a small device in her hand. She didn't know where the faunus came from but she didn't question it.
Not bothering to give an answer, Chelsea silently patted the faunus on the shoulder.
Her eyes widened but before she could transform using her semblance, the white fang member disguised pressed a button on the small device she was holding and the prison collar around Chelsea's neck activated, electrifying her.
All other prisoners noticed this and they all stood up, backing away from the faunus.
Chelsea barely held onto her consciousness as she remained standing despite her collar activating.
Noticing Chelsea's resistance to the collar, the white fang member in disguise pulled out a small syringe and injected a sleeping drug into her neck.
As Chelsea fell, the faunus whispered into her ear, "Sorry, I don't actually have anything against you, none of us do...but we have orders to carry."
Those were the last words Chelsea heard as she fell unconsciousness.
"CHELSEA!"
The faunus looked and saw Allisa sprinting towards her. The faunus once again, using her remote, triggered Allisa's collar, electrifying her as well.
The shock proved too much for her as Allisa fell to the ground causing all the prisoners to back away even more. They all wondered what was happening.
Suddenly, there was a blackout and all lights switched off.
"Commencing Emergency Lock Down!" A robotic female voice spoke through the speakers.
On the fifth floor, chaos had already struck.
Every white fang member, dressed as prison guards, raised their weapons and attacked all the human guards by surprised.
By now, at least half of the human guards were knocked out.
All humans were at a major advantage: since there was no light, guards couldn't see where they were shooting. The faunus fighting must've all had some sort of animal night vision as the darkness did not hinder their fighting at the slightest.
The only lights you could see were guns being aimlessly fired and laser sword being swung.
Nathan swung both his swords but he missed the enemy by a meter. He was on the defence, mostly relying on his aura to sense incoming enemy.
He jumped back and a bullet grazed his cheek.
A faunus appeared from behind and stabbed Nathan's leg with dagger.
Nathan gritted his teeth, doing his best to ignore the pain. He swung his sword, successfully hitting the faunus.
"Nathan! Where are you!" David's voice yelled. The sound of arrows being fired were heard.
"David! WE NEED LIGHT! NOW!"
David grabbed one of his expensive arrows which was attached to a fire dust crystal. Acting like a flare, David fired it into the ceiling and it exploded, temporary illuminating the floor with a dim red light.
Now that the humans could see, they fought with more effort and efficiency.
David fire two arrows. Ducked. Rolled and then fired another arrow, hitting a white fang member in the leg.
"NATHAN! What is this?! A breakout?" David asked as he regrouped with Nathan.
"No," Nathan scanned the situation, "it's a break-in."
"What!? Who would want to break into a prison?" David asked as he fired another arrow.
Nathan transformed his duel swords into duel laser rifles and opened fired, "I'm not sure! We'll worry about that later."
David did the same and split his mechanical bow into duel hand guns.
As they fought, David suddenly remembered, "Shoot! We forgot about Ashley.
"ASHLEY! Where are you!?" Nathan called as he fired a couple more bullets.
"Hehehehe, yay! this is fun! hehehehe." They heard Ashley's voice said, which was then followed by to her usual snoring.
David and Nathan looked down.
Still sleeping right at their feet... was Ashley looking as if she was having the best dream.
"You gotta be kidding me."
A large explosion was heard, sending smoke everywhere.
Nathan and David turned their heads to look and felt relieved at the sight.
It was Steel.
"You! Get the emergency lights on!" Steel ordered one of his men.
"Yes sir!"
"The prisoners' electric collars are still online sir!"
"Good! You four, keep the prisoners under control!"
"Yes sir!"
"The rest of you!" Steel pulled up his sleeve, revealing a fully built mechanical arm. His mechanical arm transformed into a fully functional rocket launcher and fired a single missiles at a large group of faunus, causing them to scatter, "Drive back the intruders!"
"Yes sir!"
Commander Steel: A professional Atlas Huntsman. He lost his right arm while protecting a village from a grimm attack. Using Atlas tech, he replaced his arm with a transformable weapon capable of eliminating hordes of Grimm.
"Man his so reliable," David commented, "he remains calm even in situation like this."
Nathan summonsed floating shields to provide cover, "David! Get Ashley!"
"Right," David nodded as he picked up the sleeping Ashley bridal style.
The emergency lights went on and the humans pushed the faunus back with the support of Nathan and Steel.
It wasn't long until all the remaining white fang members were forced to retreat into another section of the prison, leaving only all the humans behind to regroup.
The prisoners were rounded up and surrounded by guards in the cafeteria. With a bigger lack in numbers, the prisoners outnumber the guards 1 to a hundred but thanks to the collars that could shock them at any time, they stayed silent.
Still in David's arms, Ashley woke up gently and stretched her arms while yawning with an cute sleepy expression that made David stare in awe.
It took a minute for Ashley to realise she was being carried. She looked at David straight in the eye. Their faces were extremely close.
For a moment, they just stared into each other eyes in complete silence.
David felt a weird emotion in each of his heart beats. An emotion that made his usual mood go crazy...
However his mood was instantly shattered when Ashley titled her head in confusion and asked, "...Who are you?"
An imaginary arrow pierced David's heart as he comically turned black and white.
Ashley then looked around and noticed the situation, "What happened?"
"We were under attack."
"Eh? Really? Aww why didn't you tell me?" Ashley pouted.
"You were sleeping." David replied. He then realised he was still carrying Ashley and politely let her down.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" Ashley asked in her usual slow tone. She lazily sat on the floor.
"Ashely, if the sound of gunfire and exploding missiles couldn't wake you up then what was I suppose to do?"
Ashley just shrugged, "I don't know...you could've tickled me."
For the first time in his life, David blushed as he imagined that scenario in his head.
Meanwhile, Nathan and Steel discussed the predicament that they were in.
"Exits have all been sealed by the forced lockdown; Blitz and Chelsea, two of the most wanted criminals, have disappeared and half of our men are severely injured, most of them were taken out by surprise," Steel said grimly as he clenched his fist, "to think I let the enemy slip right our noses."
"Blitz, I understand but why Chelsea? She already did tell me personally that she had reason to escape prison...so why is she gone?" Nathan thought to himself. Realising it was useless to think about it, he asked Steel another question, "Is there anyway help can come from the outside?"
Steel shook his head, "Not as long as this building remains in lockdown. The lockdown was designed to be indestructible to prevent prisoners from escaping...were completely trapped in this building with who knows how many enemies."
"SIR! We've established communication with Headquarters!" One of the guards suddenly announced, holding a up a scroll.
"Good! Ask them what our next course of action should be." Steel ordered.
The guard nodded as he asked the person over the phone before putting the call on speaker so everyone in the room could hear.
"Our intel say that the White Fang is most likely behind all this, they seem to already be inside the building but we cannot tell how many there are so proceed with caution. We already have the prison surrounded from the outside but cannot proceed since the building is on lockdown, some suggested we force our way in using explosive power but that will result in major casualties so that will be used as a last resort. For you now you are the only ones who can defend the prison. If they are breaking into a prison, the enemy's target is most likely to break out all the prisoners. You have the most wanted criminals is this building along with many others, your job is to ensure none of the prisoners escape. They've hacked into our security systems so you'll have to rely on pure manpower. Were doing our best to reverse the forced lock down but until then...all of you are on your own."
With a grim expression, Nathan replied, "Roger that."
Finally getting serious yet mostly hyped, David combined his dual guns into a bow.
The huntress didn't know what was happening but she could sense a battle was coming, Ashley pulled out her weapon and slashed her whip.
All the prison guards loaded their weapons.
"There are five floors!" Steel announced taking the lead, "They could be hiding anywhere in this building so we'll have to split up! All the prisoners are gathered in the bottom floor, if the enemy shows up there, shoot them from above. Mr Davis! Mr Roy! Take some men and scout the third and fourth floor. Ms Heart, you guard the second floor. I will stay here with the rest of my men and protect the injured. Make sure to stay out in the open where the jail cells are, entering any of the hallways on any floor might lead to an ambush, plus there's no light in those sections of the building. Stay vigilant no matter what and don't let a single prisoners escape this building! Am I clear!?"
"Yes sir!"
The remaining people who could fight split up and readied themselves for the battle ahead.
In a dark room, somewhere located in the prison, Blitz revealed himself along with a couple of the Faunus who dressed as prison guards.
"Our men are in position, they're waiting for you orders sir."
The man stood up with a group of armed Faunus behind him. He drew out his red sword and sighed, signifying that he really didn't want to be here, "Lets get this over and done with."
Leader of the White Fang's Vale Branch: Adam Taurus
A/N End. Hope you enjoyed and thank you for all who reviewed, favourited, followed or even just read this chapter. I really do appreciate the support and I'll get chapters out as soon as possible.
ALSO! I've decided I'm going to start making these chapter shorter because the long 10-20 thousand word chapters I usually write take way too long to complete. Usually my chapters have a beginning and end, most of them. So I decided that once a chapter exceeds 5-6 thousands or lower, I'll stop the chapter meaning the chapters will be split into Parts more often now. It just means chapter "might" come out faster since I'm not writing lengthy chapters. It also means a lot fo cliff-hangers though so look forward to that.
Anyways, I actually proofread this chapter so it might not have as much mistakes. Hopefully. I should probably start proofreading all my chapters huh.
Sorry for the long wait and sorry again since I actually still have't finished Shelter yet. It's taking much longer than expected but there's only one more chapter of Shelter I plan on posting before I'll really focus on SIR and maybe a bit of Akame ga Save. Hope this lived up to your expectations and remember, this is only the beginning of the LAST ARCH.
So yeah...bye!
This was finished on 22/07/2017.