Operation Breakout

( Blake's pov )

This was it, according to Jonathan today was our last chance to rescue Carlos before he was taken to Atlas. It's been a few days since the doubles round began, because of the attack the military started during the exhibition match the battlefield was somewhat damaged and the next set of fights had to be limited in order for the necessary repairs to be made without taking too much time away from the rest of the fights. Later tonight the singles fights would start and for the last few days I have been training rigorously using the same training program Carlos used, actually I wasn't the only one since the rest of my team decided to join. When I went to talk to Jonathan about joining him the other girls secretly followed me and they have been training along side me since.

Each one of us was set to fight a holographic enemy that was preprogrammed and right now I was busy going up against an enemy with four metallic arms coming from its back. It was rather difficult trying to get past it, its movements were surprisingly fast and whenever I got hit it felt like being knocked over with a ton of bricks. I couldn't rely on my semblance since the training program manages to constantly keep us on our toes. On the other side of the training hall I took notice of the others and how they were doing; Ruby was fighting against an enemy that resembled a giant lizard in a tattered lab coat, Yang was fighting what looked like sand in human form, and finally Weiss was having a difficult time fighting a floating enemy that could shoot electricity.

Ruby: Seriously how does Carlos handle this kind of simulation anyway!!!

Yang: You're guess is as good as mine, this isn't even on maximum difficulty and we're still not making that much progress!!!

Weiss:

Stop complaining!! We're the ones who wanted this so let's keep it up!!!

I had to admit, even when we may not know the full story of what's going on the fact that we still stick together to fight for a common goal is such a great comfort, and I promise to make all our hard work worth it no matter what.

Jonathan: Trust me, you may feel like this might be a bit much, but with what we're about to go up against we'll need every advantage we can get.

We kept going for another 30 minutes or so and in the end we managed to survive, after taking a quick break Jonathan came over to me and gave me a USB and Carlos' mask.

Jonathan: Before we continue I want to go over the plan one last time with the rest of you.

RWBY: Right!

He then formed his gauntlet and had it project a large hologram of a small Atlas bullhead. As I took a look at it I felt really anxious, mostly because we had until tonight to accomplish this. After that... well Jonathan could only tell us that we had to fight as if our life depended on it.

Jonathan: As we know, tonight is our last chance to get my brother back. Not only that but we have some other issues we need to deal with.

Yang: Hey there's something I think we need to know.

Jonathan: What is it?

Yang: Back when we found out about your curse Carlos said something about that transfer student Cinder. He said that she must fall. Tell us... is she a danger to us?

Jonathan: ( sigh ) All I can tell you for certain is that she isn't to be trusted, that said if one of you manages to confront her, don't try taking her on by yourself understand.

Weiss: A-Alright, so let's go over the plan again.

Jonathan: Right, as I said today is our last chance so Blake will be in charge of getting Carlos free. I'll let you use my stealth armor and I'll control it remotely to take you to the bullhead where he's being kept, not only that but you'll also have my brothers stealth tech for when you get inside. Once you do just connect the USB to any computer and Carlos can use the tech in his mask to upload the virus I made.

Ruby: Why did you need to create a virus for?

Jonathan: The virus is designed to specifically target all Atlas military tech except for their bullheads. It will forcefully shut them down temporarily, including Penny.

Ruby wasn't particularly happy about that, back when we started to prepare for today Jonathan revealed that Penny was an advanced android by the military, she was the first machine that was capable of generating an aura. While he did ensure that she wouldn't be harmed from the virus he insisted that it was for the best.

Jonathan: While Blake handles that I need Weiss and Yang to stay in the city, I'm going to need both of you to keep an eye on things and be ready for the worst.

Yang/Weiss: Right!

Jonathan: Ruby, I need you at the coliseum, if you find Pyhrra and Penny hasn't been shut down yet then tell her to let Penny win. Not only that but I'm gonna need you to find either Mercury or Emerald and distract them long enough until I finish preparing my part of the plan.

Ruby: Okay but what exactly is your part of the plan?

Jonathan: You just let me worry about that, now let's get going we begin in 15 minutes. After that we have around an hour until the one on one fights start, this is our best opportunity to strike while the military's distracted.

We then began getting our equipment ready, for me that included my weapon as well as Carlos' swords and after everyone else left to their assigned location Jonathan approached me with his stealth armor in its compact form.

Jonathan: Listen before you go, I just wanted to thank you.

Blake: What for?

Jonathan: For being you. Because of you I think my brother has become a stronger person than he used to be. So thank you.

He then gave me a hug that I quickly gave back, he was putting so much faith in me and I wasn't about to let him down.

Jonathan: Make sure to bring that idiot brother of mine back home for me.

Blake: I will.

Jonathan: Alright let's do this.

He handed me his armor and I put it on, in a few seconds I was completely suited up. I had to admit it was really amazing, the technology incorporated into the armor was extremely advanced that I highly doubt many people could understand how it works. As I took off my only thought was about bringing my boyfriend back home, after several minutes of flight I reached my destination, fortunately the stealth mode worked like a charm and I easily made it to the bullhead without any problems. I landed on the ships blind spot and removed the armor as I quickly switched to using Carlos' stealth tech as the armor flew back towards Beacon. Getting inside wasn't overly difficult since all I had to do was wait for the patrol units to open the doors so I could sneak in and since all the guards were robots I had no problems eliminating them, I even took priority in destroying their cameras just in case. After 20 minutes of searching I found him and I used my gun to shoot the lock.

( Normal pov )

You can't believe how insanely bored I am right now, I've been in here for days with nothing to do other than talk to myself in this stupid cell. The food here is terrible, or at least I think it is since they haven't fed me since I got here and I was super hungry and I could really go for a burger right now.

Carlos: You know back home this is considered strange and unusual punishment right! Geez would it kill you guys to get me a burger or something?!

All of a sudden I hear what sounds like machinery getting destroyed rather violently, gun shots and something hitting the door of my cell really hard.

Carlos: Yikes, I never thought it would actually kill them.

Soon I heard another round of gunshots and then the cell doors opened up, the guns that were trained on me then switched to the intruder and fired, only for them to be destroyed a second later by someone or something that wasn't there. What got me even more confused was that suddenly I felt someone grab my face and kiss me pretty passionately. At first I thought I finally lost my mind after being in solitude for the last couple of days and the hunger I was forced to endure, only for Blake to suddenly appear in front of me with my stealth tech in her hands.

Carlos: Blake?!

Blake: Carlos.

She began tearing up as she hugged me, honestly it felt really nice to have her close to me again. After that she took her gun and aimed it just above my restraints and destroyed them with some well placed shots. Once I was free she handed me back my swords and my mask.

Carlos: Thanks Blake, I owe you one.

Blake: You can thank me by telling me what I want to know.

I knew she would bring this up eventually, however I already made up my mind and decided to tell her everything I could.

Carlos: Blake I promise you that I'll tell you what you want to know once this is all over, I just don't know what I'm allowed to tell you with this mark on my back. But...

I gave her a warm hug and kiss, she seemed a little surprised but quickly sunk into it.

Carlos: One thing I can tell you is that I love you. Don't ever doubt that alright.

Blake: Heh, alright. Now let's get moving.

Soon after that we made our way to the main control room and made quick work of the military bots stationed there as well as getting my scroll and web shooters back. Blake then began uploading the virus Jonathan created and I used my mask to follow the preprogrammed instructions to ensure everything went smoothly.

Blake: How's it looking?

Carlos: So far so good, see if you can get one of these monitors to show the tournament.

Once she did we saw Pyhrra fighting against Penny, so far it played out exactly as it did before, but just as Penny was about to go in for a strike she suddenly fell to her knees. To everybody watching it looked like she wasn't feeling well but according to my mask the virus was successfully working it's way into her internal system and we got a transmission from another airship notifying us that several Atlas robots began shutting down across the city.

Carlos: I think we did it.

Blake: Great, now let's get out of here.

Carlos: Okay, just let me activate the autopilot on this thing and we can land and get out of here.

Unfortunately things don't always go the way we want them to, we heard screaming and when we looked at the monitor we saw Pyhrra use her semblance to brutality rip Penny apart. We both stood there horrified at what we witnessed, not only that but the alarms began blaring and footage of what was going on across Vale appeared. All over the city Atlas robots came back online and began attacking innocent civilians.

Blake: What's happening?!

Soon the screen changed and I knew Cinder began to take over.

Carlos: No we're too late!!!!

Blake: Carlos look outside!

I did and I saw a swarm of Grimm filling up the sky, if this was any indication than that means the streets weren't any better. Soon the ship began to rock really violently as one of the turbines became severely damaged and we started to lose altitude.

Blake: What happened?!

Carlos: One of the turbines got damaged, we're going down!!!

Blake: Please tell me you have a plan!!!

I did, a completely crazy and insane idea but it was all I had.

Carlos: I do, but I'm gonna have to go outside for it to work! Just stay here while I get the job done!

As I was about to leave she suddenly grabbed my hand and had a determined look on her face.

Blake: You're not doing anything crazy... at least not without me. I'm coming with you.

I didn't have any time to argue, so while I hated this I agreed to let her join me. We then made our way outside as we began picking up speed, I had Blake use her weapons ribbon to keep her tied to me so it would be easier for her to hold on to me. Luckily for us this bullhead wasn't all that big, it was smaller in comparison to the others so hopefully my plan would work, we began getting a better view of the city below as we were about to fall between two tall buildings, I shot several web lines to each building and attached them to the bullhead and held on as tight as I could.

Carlos: ( grunting ) I guess this is the plan!!!

As we began to swing we thankfully avoided crashing into a fiery death, of course things just had to get complicated... curse you bad luck!!!!

Blake: Carlos one of the turbines came off!!!

Carlos: What?!

I looked behind me and one of the functioning turbines was rolling down the street when we avoided crashing, I had to get it out of the way otherwise someone might get hurt.

Carlos: ( grunting ) Come on Carlos you got this!!! You got this!!!! You got this!!!! You got this!!!!

Blake: I think you mean we got this!!!!

With some help from Blake I managed to get my aim just right and I shot my webs at the turbine and pulled it out of way of civilians that were trying to escape from some Grimm by attaching it to one of the nearby buildings. As we reached the height of our swing the web lines snapped and the ship was about to drop once again.

Carlos: Hang on Blake!!

Blake: Okay!!

As the ship began falling I quickly jumped off with Blake holding me extra tight, during the fall I decided to use my web shooters on automatic fire simultaneously with my organic webbing to stop the crash.

Carlos: Please don't screw this up.

I fired a barrage of webbing that managed to successfully encase the bullhead in a large web strong enough to catch it safely as I landed while hanging on to Blake.

Carlos: Blake you okay?

Blake: Yeah.

After getting ourselves untied I dropped us down to the ground and everything began playing as it did before, the city being overrun by Grimm and Atlas robots attacking innocent people.

Blake: What's happening?

Carlos: Blake listen we need to head over to Beacon as fast as possible.

Blake: Wait why do we have to go back?

Carlos: I know you may not want to hear this but... Adam Taurus is on his way to Beacon and if we don't stop him than even more innocent people may get hurt.

I knew that Adam was the last person she wanted to see ever again, but she agreed and we began making our way back to Beacon while taking down as many Grimm as possible. It wasn't easy, we were pretty far away from Beacon and every time we came across another robot it began trying to kill me like I was a priority target. Luckily I had enough pent up anger I needed to get out and this was the perfect opportunity for me.

Carlos: Alright you overgrown tin cans here I come!!

I began slashing robots left and right, every time they tried shooting at me I deflected their shots and with some help from Blake we managed to make quick work of them and continued towards our destination. Soon enough we ran into Yang as she was finishing off some Grimm that managed to cut some of her hair... again.

Yang: ( pant ) Just how many... ( pant ) are there?

Carlos: You don't wanna know.

Yang: Carlos!!!

She quickly ran up to me and tackled me in a very strong hug, unfortunately for me I couldn't breathe and I thought I saw my life flashing before my eyes.

Carlos: Air... need... air...

Once she noticed I was dying of suffocation she let go, I also didn't notice at the time but she was blushing the whole time like Blake does when we cuddle.

Yang: Sorry about that, I was so worried about you that I got over excited.

Carlos:

It's cool, so where's everyone else?

Yang: Ruby's over at the coliseum, she was told to find either Mercury or Emerald and distract them while Weiss and I stayed here in the city.

Carlos: I guess the plan didn't go so well, if only we'd gotten to them sooner.

Blake: What do you mean?

Carlos: Emerald's semblance allows her to create illusions, back at the bullhead when Penny was destroyed I noticed Pyhrra looked shocked and confused. It's possible she believed she was in danger and responded by using her polarity on Penny by accident.

Yang: Okay that makes sense, so what do we do now?

Just then we heard the growling of a large horde of Grimm heading straight for us, as we prepared to fight back they were suddenly blasted away by several rockets that left nothing behind.

Jonathan: Now we keep fighting.

Looking behind us we saw Jonathan all armored up and ready to kick some Grimm butt.

Carlos: Glad you could join the party little bro.

Jonathan: Thanks, but I'm not the only one arriving. JARVIS is it ready?

JARVIS: Yes Sir, shall I active them now?

Jonathan: Yes. Engage Iron Legion protocol.

Suddenly we looked at the skies above us and were completely stunned as an army of various Iron Man armors began flying into the city and quickly fought back.

Blake: Incredible, how did you manage to create your own army so fast?

Jonathan: I've been working on this since our first week of Beacon. Never underestimate the genius of Jonathan Stark.

Carlos: This is so awesome!!! There's your Arctic Armor, your Space Armor and... your Rubber Ducky Armor?

Yang: Seriously, it's called Rubber Ducky? That's hilarious!!!

Jonathan: Like you could come up with a better name Blondie.

Carlos: Okay all joking aside we need to get back to Beacon, Adam is on his way there and we need to stop him now.

Jonathan: No problem, I can let you borrow one of my armors but it'll only drop you off. I can't afford to let one of my armors to be away for too long if we want to keep casualties low.

I agreed and he called over the War Machine Armor for me to pilot. This was so awesome but I didn't have time to enjoy it as I picked up Blake in my arms and began flying to Beacon. As we flew the vision I had a few days ago about me getting impaled kept playing in my mind, I haven't told anyone about my visions because I didn't want them to worry more than usual, right now we had to focus on the fight at hand and hope that we can change the outcome. The time has come for the cat and the spider to face off against the raging bull.