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*May receive some edits in the future and maybe additional dialogue.
*Fresh post.
I advise people to read the author's notes on the bottom before they ask questions.
Cold and dark was the night, as the steady ocean breeze made the port of Vale seemingly devoid of any of its morning's usual hustle of activity. The workers and travelers have long since turned in for the night, relaxing at their homes or drinking at a bar far from that place. Only an eerie peace settled around the area. However, the sudden arrival of less than scrupulous intruders had changed that.
The mechanical blades of a plane resounded around the cargo area of the port, followed closely by several more. Once the plane landed, members of the infamous White Fang disembarked, quickly moving towards the precious cargo crates full of Schnee Dust from Atlas.
They proceeded to load up their planes with their stolen goods, never ceasing in their work, unaware of the danger that lurks in the dark shadows. One by one, faunus would disappear as they came to pick up more to load, their comrades failing to notice their dwindling number.
"Hey, where's the other two?" The pilot faunus packing the goods inside the plane finally asked the pair in front of him. He looked around at the other groups and noticed that they were also missing more than a few people of their own.
"Probably went to take a piss somewhere," said a rough looking wolf faunus.
"You shouldn't mind it," added the other, whilst adjusting the loose-fitting belt on his waist. "Here, let me come on up and help you with these." He came on up beside the faunus to proceed hoisting up one of the larger crates they brought.
"Dang, that thing was heavy," said the faunus handling the cargo. "Thanks for the he—" He fell with a thud, face first on the plane floor.
The raccoon-eared faunus stood behind him with a crowbar in his hand. "Plane secured!" he announced.
"I still think we should've just let them finish loading all the stuff up before we did this," said his wolf cohort. "This is the only plane that's filled up right now."
"We're not taking all of the ships, Rud."
Rud took the unconscious faunus who was handed down to him. "Why not? You saw how the boss almost drooled when she heard how much Dust crystals were here. I seriously doubt she'd say no to more."
"Aside from the fact that we don't have enough people who can fly these things, we were told to keep things quick and easy this time around because of what happened last time."
The last time being the interruption of their moral gray area activity by a bunch of trainee Huntresses. Since this would be their last operation, it was decided that prudence and speed be the utmost factor in their plan.
Rud sighed at his friend Thomas. "I guess we can't really complain. With that silent woman around, we don't have to worry too much about taking these guys down."
"That's true," Thomas said more to himself. "You'd think the White Fang would've done something to keep us from doing this. This job is going surprisingly easy."
"Get the plane started! We've got company!" the voice of Roman Torchwick bellowed over their ear coms.
"You just had to say it didn't you?" Rud stared accusingly at his guilty looking friend.
It seems like the White Fang wasn't going to take their recent setbacks lying down. They had at least five more planes with fully armed troops converging on the hijacked operation that Rider and her team were at. They must have anticipated this and laid out an ambush.
"Damn."
Roman held on to his hat as he looked up at the planes that were getting near them. He was accompanied by the rest of his faunus crew of three tying up some of the White Fang when they heard the approach of the other aircrafts.
"Will you be able to handle them?" he asked Rider who had appeared from the shadows beside them.
The silent woman gazed at the planes and gave a simple nod. "They won't be a problem," she said unperturbed.
"I'll get a plane loaded and ready just in case," said Roman. "There's a bit too much people here for my liking and it's bound to attract the unwanted attention Vale's finest." He said the last word with sarcasm.
Rider nodded once more in response before leaping towards a cleared area of the port where the planes would probably land in.
"A woman of few words, but much action," smiled Roman. "If she couldn't tear my head off with her bare arms, she'd be just my type." The rest of his crew stared at him disbelievingly as he said so. "What? Don't look so surprised! Just start moving the stuff on the plane with the two idiots!"
As they started to get back to their work, Rider had arrived in front of the fast approaching planes and had her daggers materialized already in each hand. She threw them at two of the planes, one for each, piercing its hull and embedding themselves there. With a hand on each chain attached to the daggers, she activated her Monstrous Strength ability that temporarily increases her already high strength by one more rank.
She pulled.
The two planes immediately started to descend forward towards the ground, causing the passengers to jump ship before it crashed. Explosions blew the ships apart once they fell, sending dust and debris all over the place. Fire lit the ground ablaze as the Servant walked through it all, stopping in front of the remaining planes to gaze at them through her blindfold, waiting for them to send down her unfortunate opponents.
To the bewildered spectators, Rider had just taken down two planes and their White Fang crew with barely any effort, while also substantially lowering the fighting force of the opposing enemy. It wasn't every day you see someone do something like that, Huntress or not.
"That's who you want us to fight?!" whispered a certain young blonde Huntsman trainee a little too loudly at the others with him.
He and a group of his comrades laid down watching the whole scene unfold on a rooftop, hiding from view.
"Well we're not going to fight her right now…"
"I'm sorry, were you watching what the rest of just watched?" asked the blonde. "Because I think you just missed the part where that lady just pulled down two planes! Two!" As if to emphasize it more clearly he held out two fingers and waved them up and down twice in front of him for everyone to see.
"Oh, don't be such a baby, Jaune," teased Yang. "We're more than a match for her with this many talented people on our side… and you, of course."
"Gee, thanks for that vote of confidence…"
"You worry too much," said Weiss as she continued to watch the scene through the binoculars she brought. "With that many White Fang, I'm sure she'll be in a considerably weakened state, If not beaten by then, when we try to apprehend her. Not to mention we brought a big gun of our own."
"That doesn't seem very fair," spoke Pyrrha, who was secretly pleased with laying down beside her team leader. The red-headed Amazonian warrior princess was not fond of the idea of attacking someone in that state.
It just seemed so… underhanded.
Weiss raised an eyebrow at her in question. "Would you rather us be in a three-way battle with the White Fang and that?" She pointed at the blindfolded woman who had just retracted her daggers and sent a huge chunk of metal that was stuck on it flying at one of the other planes with a kick, which was only narrowly avoided thanks to the pilot.
"I vote for Snow Angel's underhanded plan," Jaune raised his hand as his eyes followed the hunking piece of metal that continued to sail into the sky pass its target, reaching an astonishing height before landing off with a splash into the ocean.
"Same."
"Ditto."
Ren and Nora gave their full support as well, mimicking their leader.
"I told you not to call me that….! And what do you mean underhanded?!"
Pyrrha frowned but nonetheless, could see the point of their plan. Not the ganging up on a weakened enemy, someone who could still probably take on any one of them… Jaune definitely, but the whole fighting on two fronts.
"Don't forget, Pyrrha," said Blake. "We're here to stop and capture the people down there, not to fight. Everyone down there are… criminals." She said the last word grudgingly.
Weiss nodded satisfactorily. "That's right! And as law-abiding citizens and future generation of Huntsmen and Huntresses, it's up to us to put a stop to the wickedness of the White Fang and any others who dare jeopardize the people's safety." Blake's bow twitched slightly in annoyance at that.
"Everyone be quiet! It's about to start!" Ruby said as she watched the scene below them with such giddiness, you'd think she was watching one of her favored weapons channel on TV.
Groups of White Fang started dropping down from the planes, landing just in front of the lone woman. Their guns and blades were pointed at the enemy as they circled around her while the rest of their members continued to pour down from the other planes.
A surprising amount of their soldiers kept appearing. Most likely more of them were lying in wait somewhere farther from the port. They numbered a hundred or so in a rough estimate. It was difficult to tell since more kept arriving, but the area had already plunged into action when the Servant deemed she would wait no longer.
As guns fired, the woman vanished from the sights of the henchmen. She appeared above them, sending her chains flailing through the clustered enemy, instantly knocking out the ones hit directly.
Swords came up as the rest of the faunus charged Rider who had landed from her deadly strike from above. The first to reach her had his throat punched with her fist, the second had a knee to his stomach, and a third received a reverse downward kick to his temple. More continued to follow suit with their downed comrades, as Rider weaved through them like a hot knife through butter with only using her arms, legs, and daggers.
The blades would never even touch her skin, but the guns… she ignored them most of that time. Bullets would just appear to bounce off on contact near her. The mass-produced low powered Dust rounds did absolutely nothing against her, incomparable to the higher quality Dust rounds available to Huntsmen and Huntresses. Even then, her B rank magical resistance would negate most of the damage from those as well.
As the White Fang saw the mysterious woman avoid and shrug off all their attacks, their morale started to buckle. The enemy before them just silently continued to tear through their ranks. Their comrades fell as she passed through them, never once stopping to take a breath, never once stopping to see them drop, and never once stopping against their attacks.
It didn't take long before the rest of them started distancing themselves from the battle. Once a few finally saw how futile it was, they broke and ran. Others soon followed, as they left behind the ones that the Servant had her sights on. Soon, there would be no one else to try and run.
With a thud, the last standing White Fang fell to the ground. Rider stood alone, surrounded by the bodies of her unconscious foes. The burning embers of the wreckage behind her, illuminating her bewitching figure, as sweat slowly glistened and trailed down her skin.
Not even taking a moment to relax her posture, she turned to face the presence she detected a few paces behind her.
"Looks like you've gotten quite a workout," a voice sounded, impressed and a little bit happy. "Can I just say that you look so hot to me right now, and not just because of all the fighting you just did." Yang appeared, her golden hair seemed shining against the light of the flames, a mischievous smile on her face. "And here I thought I was a little firestarter. If only you weren't a criminal we had to catch," Her teeth biting unto her lower lip as she looked at the sultry beauty up and down slowly while saying so. "But then again, that just makes you all the more hotter… and probably gets me a little bit hot too."
"Ugh! Yang!" Weiss walked over with the rest of their team. "I did not need to hear that!"
Ruby and Blake came up close behind the two, their weapons already drawn and primed. It looks like there would be no time for rest for the Servant based on the present company she had.
"Just for the record, I think what you just did was so awesome!" Ruby said as she held tightly on to her Crescent rose.
"Ready for round two?" smiled Weiss in a wicked sort of way. "We brought a few more friends this time around, so there's no escape for you."
Rider noticed the presence of Team JNPR behind her. They had cut her off from her path of escape. She would have no other choice but to fight for the moment it would seem. Having received no damage at all from her brush with the White Fang, she would have no problems in participating in another battle. Seriously hurting the people currently around her though, is not something she wants, especially people she knows.
Injuring your regular customers is highly unprofessional for her job as a maid. What would Sakura say? Illya would be surely angry with her as well for causing her new friends harm.
"I do not wish to harm you," she said, warning them. "Please leave me be."
Her plea was met with abject refusal from Weiss. "You can't honestly expect us to let a criminal like you go? You've stolen Dust belonging to the Schnee Dust Company, my family's company! There is no way that—"
"We'll let you go."
Weiss gave Blake a surprised look. "Wait, what?"
Blake did not falter. "Since you took down the White Fang, we can let you go," she said whilst Rider observed her closely. "But only if you leave the Dust here behind."
Silence followed as Teams JNPR and RWBY awaited a response from the still woman. Tension hung in the air, as the flames around them soon dimmed. Soon, after almost a minute, she replied.
"…I cannot."
And with that answer, Rider's battle for the night began anew.
Yang and Weiss led the assault, both determined to strike first like before. Jaune and Pyrrha followed suit, flanking their enemy. The attacks were swift and unceasing between Yang and Weiss, supported by Jaune and Pyrrha's own weapons. Any counter by Rider was met with a quick block by the two members of team JNPR's shields, while the Yellow and White duo delivered their blows.
That isn't to say that Rider was helpless. On the contrary, every time her blows were blocked by the shields, the bearers would be sent back from the strength behind them. This is where the remaining students from Team's RWBY and JNPR would proceed to fire Dust rounds at her until their friends could get back to the melee. It was all an impressive utilization of their good coordination and teamwork that they are able to push forward with their momentum.
This battle was considerably harder on Rider than dealing with all those small fries from the White Fang. The damage she received from their Dust rounds was small, but she couldn't just ignore these like the earlier ones. It was also unfortunate that, even though she was a Servant, her endurance was only on par with that of Caster, and that's actually higher now when compared to the time when she was under Shinji's control.
She wouldn't be able to afford for things to stay at the current pace for too long.
But she didn't need to defeat the people here, so all she needed to do was break through their offense and escape. Roman and the rest would have escaped by now. There was no need to hold back on her reserve strength any longer, once more she activated her Monstrous Strength ability, increasing her strength to the same rank as Saber's temporarily.
She sensed the weakest among her attackers and sent a powerful kick his way, which he blocked but picked him up from his feet and sent him flying towards his two team mates behind him.
"Jaune!" shouted Pyrrha in worry.
The red-head's momentary lapse in concentration gave Rider an opening and she too was sent back. The Servant now only needed to stop the two others in front of her before she made her escape.
"Ladybug!"
But before she could get to them, the two switched with their team mates at their backs. Ruby was considerably faster than any of the others so she was able to keep up with Rider's attacks without having to worry about trying to block her inhuman strength. Blake's cloning ability also made it harder for her to land a solid hit on the closet faunus.
"Freezerburn!"
At the end of one of Rider's kicks at Ruby, Yang took the blow with her gauntlets, sending the yellow-haired fighter back, and her feet skidding through the ground.
A black glyph like the face of a clock appeared beneath her and eyes turned fiery red as she smiled. "Man that hurts! Let's see if you can take as much as you can dish out!"
To Rider's surprise, Yang moved faster than she'd ever seen her before. A blow like that of a Servant reached her stomach just before she could get her guard up. The impact sent a booming shockwave through her. She made an attack with her dagger and kicked at Yang to fend her away before she buckled and fell on one knee whilst holding her stomach.
"Normally I would say this is overkill but given what I'd just seen, I'm sure you could take it." A new voice Rider didn't recognize cut in.
A girl with dark brown hair wearing an outfit one could only say as "chic" came up besides Team RWBY and JNPR, who were now in front of Rider. The whirring of the gattling gun in her hands began as the mechanism for firing started.
Rider tried to move away but found out that something held her in place. She turned back and saw that her chains and leg were covered in ice. She looked up and saw a triumphant smirk on the face of Weiss Schnee. The title of "Ice Queen" had more merit than what Rider originally thought when she heard them calling the heiress that before.
"Don't die on me now," said Coco Adel as she unleashed a barrage of Dust rounds starting from the ground near her that started running towards her target, tearing through the concrete floor as it trailed.
Strong as Rider's magical resistance as it may be, but even she wouldn't be able to get off lightly against this. It was a good thing then that her reinforcement arrived just in the nick of time.
The Dust rounds clinked and clanged against the barrier between Coco's barrage and Rider. The motorized whir of the gattling gun died down as Coco and the rest of the students from Beacon just stared disbelievingly at the mysterious woman who had swooped down from above and stood firmly and unflinching against the onslaught with not even a shield but just her body, armored as it was.
The newcomer was not tall, but her presence exudes a pressure that none may ignore. She wore shining armor with an old styled dress, made from old-fashioned blue cloth, underneath. Her face was covered by a helmet that matched her shining armor. The appearance shown before everyone could only be called that of a knight, an overwhelming enemy for any and all she would face in battle.
Coco felt the strength emanating from the knight. "Everyone open fire!" she ordered the others quickly.
Together as one, the students from Beacon let loose upon the new enemy. Dust rounds rained down on the area, sending dust and clouds of smoke into the air that hampered visibility. They did not stop firing until every single round in their chambers were spent. Shots continued ringing all over the port until only the clicks of their empty magazines were heard.
"Did we get her?" gulped Ruby, watching the smoking location of their target.
"Stay on guard." Coco had sweat trailing down her cheek as she said so. "I don't who that is, but she's probably as tough as that first one." Her hand clenched tightly on her gun since she did not think for a second that it would be over that easy.
Air pressure sliced over the clouds of smoke, dispersing it quickly, and there stood the knight, with not even a hint of a scratch on her armor. She continued to stand still and unmoving, only her blue dress and the long thin plume of her helmet swayed over the breeze coming from the ocean.
"Are you well, Rider?" she asked her companion on her side, her voice making a slight echo through her helm.
"I thank you, Saber." Putting strength on her leg and arms, Rider broke free in a moment from the ice that had held her.
"Think nothing of it," responded Saber coolly, never once letting her guard down in front of her opponents. "My Master has ordered our retreat. Our objective has been met and there is no longer any need to stay here." Rider nodded at her acknowledgement of the command.
Both Servants turned their backs and simply started walking away.
"Oh, no you don't!" Weiss shouted.
But before the students could run and intercept their fleeing opponents, a line of red arrows blocked their path, which blew up a moment later, causing them to shield their eyes from the light, sound, and debris.
As their eyes were finally able to clear from that shock, they saw that both women were gone from their view. There was not a single trace of them left behind. Only trails of destruction were left in the wake of their earlier presence.
"I can't believe this!" exclaimed Weiss in utter frustration. "They got away again!"
Jaune fell flat on his back on the ground. "Really? Because it felt like we were the ones who got away," he said tiredly.
"But we had her! It would only have taken us a little bit more time until we dealt with that knight as well!"
"Don't kid yourself there, princess," said Coco, who had her gun back to a bag slung over her back. "That knight was anything but weak. Even I'm not confident we could have taken that one by herself."
"Well this turned out to be another mess," quipped Yang as she looked over the devastation all over the port.
"It was fun!" said Nora. "Let's do this again!"
"Please don't," Ren sighed while sitting down.
"Uh…guys?" Ruby tried to get everyone's attention. "We might have a few more problems right now," she said as she pointed at the police who had just arrived and had already gotten out of their cars to scan the destruction and also glared angrily at the students.
"Well at least the White Fang are caught," said Weiss hopefully.
"That may also be a problem…" Blake eyed through the area where the unconscious White Fang were previously. "They're all gone."
"They must have been sneaked off while we were fighting," stated Pyrrha obviously, much to Weiss' increasing frustration.
To finalize everyone's thought at that moment, Jaune said, "We are in so much trouble."
Up on another rooftop, not far from the carnage of the port, a girl's face hidden with her umbrella smiled as she browsed through the images and video on her scroll. She played a video of the knight as she stood against a hail of Dust rounds that should have torn anyone to shreds. After the video ended, she continued browsing through images she took until it stopped on the image of a certain criminal gentleman barking orders.
Her smile faded after seeing that last picture.
After putting her scroll away, she swung down her open umbrella covering her body from top to bottom and vanished from the spot.
It would seem more trouble will follow for everyone involved soon.
A/N:
This turned out shorter than I thought. Probably because I cut out the part where Coco was talking about being included in Team RWBY's plans at the cafe.
I blame life problems.
I may add some additional info to these notes to answer some general questions from the reviews on this chapter:
1.) When the Servants arrived in Remnant, they found out that they couldn't materialize in spirit form. Hence, you don't see them moving about invisible to the naked eye. Not that you would see them when they are invisible. I'm making this a bit vague but let's just say that something happened that caused them to have physical bodies and are no longer spirits. They still have their strength and contract with their Masters, but their upkeep is no longer required and they may exist even without a contract. While they can pull prana from their Masters if required, they have their own stores available to them. The Masters would have to actively pour their own prana to them though, and only when the Servants ask for it. There are plenty of other examples in the nasuverse of Servants incarnating through various means, and usually with different results. You can think of this as more of the same thing to explain some minor changes to them. There are a bunch of different ones now: Pseudo-Servants, Demi-Servants, and whatnot.
2.) Why did Rider lose? She didn't exactly lose now did she? Her goal wasn't to win or beat down anyone besides the White Fang after all. It's not like it would be the first time Rider had lost to someone else either. Heck, Shirou fought Rider pretty well in the original story. Even if Rider had lowered stats under Shinji, she was still a Servant that Shirou managed to handle okay with minimal fighting experience and sub-par magecraft. It's not that big of a deal to see some people who are stronger than normal Enforcers and had various abilities be able to at least get the jump on a Servant who isn't fighting them seriously. It's not like she's out to destroy them with her other skills.
3.) Team RWBY and JNPR aren't that weak either. I believe they represent much of their class in terms of combat power. Although trainees, they have fought the White Fang and Cinder's group admirably before. As for the full-fledged Huntsmen and Huntresses, I don't think we've seen a lot of them in action besides some small snippets of their abilities here and there. So I'm not entirely sure if Team RWBY and JNPR would fare much better against one. I'm fairly sure they don't have anti-army or anti-fortress destructive abilities though or Masters that act as a huge reserve of prana source.
4.) The Dust rounds and other such special abilities are measured based on their destructive capabilities. An A rank magical resistance I believe should be able to handle or negate anything below its own rank I think. You could gather B rank spells together to make enough damage that it might as well be A rank so you can consider that as well when I'm using Dust in my story. A rank being something like Caladbolg II type damage at full blast.
5.)The way I measure the strength of the characters in this story anyway is by comparing it to my ruler(The Berserker class Servant: Heracles from UBW) in a 1v1 and/or teamfight:
A: How well would the opponent(s) do in straight up fight?
B: What about environmental advantages and such?
C: Are they able to damage him?
D: Are they able to survive or escape?
E: Is it possible for him to be killed (how many times)?
F: Are his opponent(s) not pounded into paste yet?
I take all these and others into account when planning comparing the strength of characters fighting each other and doing different objectives. This will be the point of reference I will use when I try to gauge a Huntsman or Huntress, once we actually see a good idea of how they fight on the show.
Now let us take a look at the Servants:
Saber, Archer, and Rider? Yeah they'd straight up lose against Berserker in a 1v1 no matter how I think of it. Although they would be able to kill him in some situations, the problem is that it won't be enough times to permanently kill the guy.
Saber is damn strong in a straight-up fight, which is why you see most opponents don't go head-on like an idiot against her unless they could win. Rider, is in some ways, like an assassin really, and that's not just the way she dresses. She uses her dexterity and speed to her advantage, along with the terrain. Both she and Archer are weaker compared to other melee fighters, but they do have certain skills they could utilize instead. Archer is in fact lacking in terms of raw stats compared to Rider. He makes up for it with his unique ability, and one could say only ability that is highly malleable depending on the situation.
Also as a final note on this section, I understand that a lot of people will say Servants are stronger or Huntsmen are way stronger, but this is the way I tell the story so you're gonna have to deal with it. The reason I started this story was because I couldn't find anything else to read that matched my preferences with Servants and RWBY.
Besides, if I wanted a straight up slaughter then I would've just put Saitama, Goku, or Gilgamesh on here and do that. A one-sided fight is only interesting for a few times unless it's focused on that theme like One-punch man.
6.) Next chapter will be a debriefing so most of the questions from this chapter will be answered there. It will most likely be by the Team leaders... maybe not too much of Jaune though, more Pyrrha than him I think.
P.S.
I'm leaning on potential crossfics #1,4,7, and 8. If Apocryptha had been completed and fully translated I would be making #9 right now. Can you imagine that?
The Servants taken from the different routes of the 5th Holy Grail War against other Servants! The fights and the drama! Arturia and Mordred's complicated history. Medea's feelings of betrayal against EMIYA. Chu Chulain's, Heracle's and Sakaki Koujirou's wishes. EMIYA's still unknown identity among the Servants that complicates things along with his relationship with Arturia. Their interactions with Joan of Arc and the other Servants of the Great Holy Grail War!
Oooh, how I wish I was writing that.
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