Disclaimer: Fate/Stay Night is property of Type-moon, RWBY is property of Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC. This work is purely fanfiction and as such earns me no income.
*May receive some edits in the future and maybe additional dialogue.
*Fresh post. May have more than few mistakes here and there. May update with corrections in several days or so.
**As an added warning, Rin will be a bit OOC in this chapter.
Illya was in a rush.
She had left the house as soon as she had given Saber a suitable disguise for Rin from one of the many costumes that she and Sakura had made from their new hobby. The little girl ran as fast as her short legs could move. She had been running so quickly that she had failed to stop herself in time from crashing into a customer coming out from the café.
"Ouch…" Illya moaned after falling on her butt.
"Hey there, you alright?"
The customer she had bumped into, held out her slender arms to help pick her up from the ground.
Illya took the offered helping hand. "Thank you very much… and I'm sorry for running into you like that," she said so before taking a good look at the girl in front of her. "Uwaaah…" breathed Illya in small wonder at the long animal ears. "A bunny girl! So cute!"
"Uhmm…" The bunny girl seemed a little taken aback by the compliment.
"Hey, hey!" said Illya, almost visibly bouncing with enthusiasm. "What's your name?"
"Oh, uh, my name's Velvet."
Illya began looking the bunny girl up and down from top to bottom, causing Velvet to back away slightly due to an instinctive fear of the predatory eyes of the small girl. The short hot breaths and slightly flushed face, possibly from the running earlier, only compounded that fear.
"Velvet huh?" mumbled Illya. "You'd be perfect for some of the dresses we made." She thought about all those different types of costumes that she and Sakura had made for the faunus staff. Quite a few of those would fit nicely on the bunny girl.
It started with them making the maid outfits for the café. But afterwards, they found out that they quite enjoyed putting the outfits together and thinking up different designs and such. Soon, it wasn't just different maid and butler costumes. They started making even more outfits with various themes. A lot of them included some of the uniforms and clothing of various characters from anime that Illya had watched with amazement when she came to Japan.
"I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about," said Velvet.
Illya looked into Velvet's eyes seriously and asked, "Would you be interested in modeling some clothes for me?"
Velvet was quite unsure on how to respond to that, especially with the expecting and bright sparkling eyes of the child looking intensely at her. "W-weren't you in a rush just now?" she quickly said in an effort to avoid answering the question.
Having suddenly remembered just why she had been running in the first place, Illya squeaked, "That's right! I have to go!" She tried to get into the store once more, but was, once again, stopped, when she crashed into someone coming out.
"Woah there, kid." The girl coming out of the store caught Illya before she fell on her butt again. "Better watch where you're going. People seem to tend to forget that when they're in a rush."
"Hey, Coco," greeted Velvet. "Did you need me for something?"
"Yeah. I just got a call from Beacon," said Coco as she gently let go of Illya. "We're getting called on a mission."
"So soon? But what about the foreign students?"
"They're coming along too."
Velvet looked surprised by that. "Sounds like something big happened, if they're including students from outside our kingdom."
Coco gave the now mute little girl by their side a small glance. "We're getting briefed on it as soon as we arrive at Beacon. They want us back there ASAP."
The café doors opened and a group of students came out.
"Settled the check already, Fox?" said Coco towards a dark skinned and redheaded boy.
"That and boxed the leftovers for later," answered the boy, holding out a takeout box.
"Perfect," smiled Coco. "Time to get moving, team. We don't want to keep Professor Port waiting." She turned her gaze at the students behind her teammates. "Sorry we had to cut lunch so short."
"It's no problem at all," answered the svelte girl of the group. "In fact, I am very interested to see just what Beacon Academy has in store for us."
Coco nodded and led the group back to Beacon Academy.
Illya watched as the students walked pass her, some giving her a curt smile and wave, but she couldn't help feel uneasy for some reason. The girl that Coco had spoken to. Something felt odd about her. It might have been because of the current situation, but somehow, she didn't think that was it. She had waited until all the students were out of sight before she entered the café.
Whatever it was that she felt, it could wait. Right now, she needed to coordinate with Sakura on the problem at hand.
"Hey…" said Rin as she stared at the clothes Rider had brought. "Just what is that supposed to be…?"
Rider, who had arrived before any of the other Servants, did not seem to understand the question. "It is the disguise you requested, is it not?" she said with a tilt of her head. "Saber had asked that I pass this on to you as soon as possible since I was the fastest among us."
"No, I know I said to bring me a disguise…" grumbled Rin. "But… this is…" She unfolded the dress that her sister and Illya had made. "Who would wear such an embarrassing outfit?!"
Again, Rider did not understand the question. "Would that not mean that people would fail to recognize your identity then? Is that not the point of a disguise?"
Rin couldn't refute that. "Well… yeah, I suppose it is…"
"Are you not going to wear it now? You had told Saber that you needed this with as much haste as possible," continued Rider. She watched and waited for Rin to begin dressing herself in the disguise. "Will your identity not be in danger if you continue to delay?"
"Geh?!" Rin had realized she had no other choice in the matter. "Uuuh…" she sulked as she glared at the dress and the accessories it came with. "Fine, fine! I'll wear the stupid thing! It's not like I can complain in this situation." At least it came in her favorite color.
After quickly undressing herself, Rin had, much to her amazement, fit comfortably into her new outfit. "Why does this fit me so well...?" she wondered. The size seemed a little too perfectly suited for her. "And really, what the hell is that fake little brat doing making useless Mystic Codes like this?!" she added as she adjusted the accessories.
"But it would add an additional layer of protection toward your true identity though," said Rider, whose voice seemed to have a layer of excitement and interest. "It seems to suit your overall look quite well, I might add."
Rin pouted pointedly as she examined herself. "As I thought…" she said. "This is way too embarrassing!" she shouted. "Never mind hiding my true identity, I would just die if anyone saw me like this!" She was now in a full blown tirade. "What was I thinking by even putting this on?! I can't go out wearing this!" It would seem her state of mind had taken quite a hit due to the outfit.
"Rin, please. Try to calm yourself," said Rider. "We are too close to—"
"Whose there?!"
Rider's attempt at silencing the Master was too late.
"Show yourself!"
Professor Oobleck had heard the voice in the woods not too far from him. He had already finished his initial inspection of the device that had taken his interest and had been scouting the surrounding area.
"My name is Bartholomew Oobleck, a Huntsman, Doctor, and Professor at Beacon Academy," he said proudly. "It is by my name and these titles that I ask that you reveal yourself to me."
The Professor with a PhD observed and waited. He could vaguely hear what he thought were whispering coming from just behind the trees that blocked his line of sight of what he believes to be the voices of women. He was about to look for himself just who it was, when Rider stepped out of the shadows, revealing herself to the man.
"Well now, I believe I you're the same person that had been giving our students a rough time," he was quick to notice and recognize the woman because of her blindfold. "Might I ask whatever it is you are doing here?"
The question was met with silence.
Professor Oobleck was not dissuaded by this.
"I must say, your presence here is indicative that the phenomena occurring around us right now, is most likely part of whatever plans you or your people are doing. What is it do you hope to achieve, I wonder, by doing this?" he asked, more to himself than at the silent woman. "An experiment regarding the Grimm? Quite possible, I suppose. May haps just a show of force? No, too far out of reach for anyone to actually notice, my presence here was merely a coincidence. Or is this just a test for something bigger planned in the future? It would explain the need to do this in someplace so remote. That could certainly be it. Still, the sheer accomplishment that had been done here, it truly boggles my mind. How is it that you were able to attract and repel this many Grimm, I have not the faintest clue. Maybe if you—"
"Enough! Enough of this already!" shouted Rin from her hiding spot. "Won't you ever stop talking?!" She got out of the tree she had hid behind with much anger. "It's going to be dark soon if I don't stop you!" She had also wanted to be back in her normal clothes before then.
"Oho?" Oobleck was intrigued by the peculiarly dressed masked girl. "A faunus? Am I to assume, perhaps, that you are the one responsible for the phenomena here?" he said so as he compared the way the faunus girl carried herself compared to the woman. He could clearly see that the woman seemed to take a more subservient posture towards the girl, who herself, wore authority as if it was perfectly normal for her. Not a very common relationship he would see between faunus and humans.
It was a little bit strange though, given his experience as a Huntsman, he could clearly tell that the blind woman was quite a bit more dangerous than the girl. The question in the back of his mind is why the woman was subservient to her.
Rin took an imposing and irritated attitude towards the Professor. "I have no reason to answer any of your questions," she declared. "But I do need you to leave this place right this instant."
Oobleck adjusted his glasses and answered, "I'm afraid I can't do that."
Rin glared for a few moments at the man before heaving a large sigh.
"You know, Rider here could fight you by herself. With me here, you're outnumbered by 2 to 1. I'd say you would do well to do as I ask."
Professor Oobleck smiled. "Based on the testimonies of my students, I could be inclined to agree. But you never know what could happen. And besides, I wasn't planning on fighting by myself in the first place."
Rin narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "And what exactly do you mean by that?"
"I may be quite the chatterbox sometimes, but even I don't usually talk this much in a serious situation such as this," his smile grew wider as he looked to the skies above them. "I do find that incessant dialogue is a good way to stall for time though."
The Beacon Academy airships that brought his reinforcements hovered just above them. Professor Goodwitch and the students jumped off and landed just behind him. They had their weapons drawn and prepared themselves for a fight.
"I'd say you're the ones who are outnumbered now, wouldn't you say?" asked Professor Oobleck.
"Tsk!" Rin clicked her tongue in annoyance. "I just can't seem to get a break today."
"I think it be best if you surrendered now," said Oobleck.
"Yeah!" shouted Ruby. "It's time for the bad guys to—" She paused as her eyes shifted from the familiar blind woman towards the masked new girl she had not seen before. "Uuuhh… who or… what exactly are you supposed to be?"
"What's with that weird outfit?"
Rin's brow and cat ears twitched at that comment from Weiss.
"A cat faunus...?" mumbled Blake as she saw the cat ears and tails move in agitation. Briefly… very briefly, she considered if there was anyone like that in the White Fang, but she immediately discarded that possibility.
As lowly as the White Fang has fallen in recent time, they still held at least some standards with their recruitments.
Every one of the new arrivals seemed to have lost a bit of their zeal as they saw how Rin was dressed up as. It just seemed a little out of place for them to see something like that in a serious fight. Kind of like seeing a clown at a funeral.
"What is she supposed to be, a magical cat girl?" questioned Neon, who looked to Flint to check if he was seeing the same thing she was.
A vein pulsed on Rin's temple.
"The outfit does look kind of cute though," commented Neptune as he leered the red magical girl costume.
"Dude," said Sun. "So not the time for that."
Rin was visibly shaking in anger now, but it might also be due to her increasing embarrassment over the comments at her.
"Oh, wow. Did we barge in on a TV show?" said Yang. "Where are the cameras? I want them to get my good side." She began looking around for any signs of the film crew. "I knew I should have taken a bit more time to brush my hair."
Unable to take the stabs at her image any longer, the red faced magical girl declared loudly, "That's right! I'm a magical girl, dammit! What of it?! You damn brats!" She stamped her foot down with frustration and glared menacingly at the students staring at her. There was only so much abuse her dignity could take. "The next person to say something about the way I look, I will personally strap to a table and dissect every inch of their body! You got that?!"
She watched and waited for anyone to try her, but her threat seemed to have put everyone in a temporary silence. Only Professor Glynda mumbled something to herself about magic. "Good," she answered, satisfied. She turned to look back at Professor Oobleck. "You can forget about us surrendering to you. That's not going to happen. But I am still asking that you leave us and this place alone, while I'm still feeling generous enough for that. I did, after all, go to a lot of trouble to make that device over there," she pointed at the stone pedestal powering the Bounded Field. "It would bother me if my research equipment were to be left behind."
"You made that?" said Glynda, eyeing the girl and Rider closely.
"Yeah, what of it?" huffed Rin indignantly.
Rin's simple answer had greatly disturbed Professor Oobleck and Professor Goodwitch. It probably did not occur to the magus that both adults were considering the heavy ramifications of having attracted so much Grimm to this place. Her objective was never that in the first place, so she was simply thinking of the main repelling effect of her Bounded Field for the Grimm.
"I'm merely conducting a simple test right now, but soon…" said Rin, imagining the completion of her project. She did not realize that her satisfied smile looked a little bit too malicious for others and caused much discomfort among her audience. "Soon, I'll be able to take it to the next step."
"W-what do you mean?" said Jaune, nervously. "What exactly are you planning?"
Rin had failed to realize the fear and unease that she had spread with her foreboding words. She looked at the pale face of the blonde boy and smiled with all her teeth showing, "Why, to set a bigger one just like this for the entire City of Vale, of course."
"You fiend!" shouted Pyrrha, aghast by the thought of the city being overrun by Grimm. "We won't let you!" Everyone else was in agreement, as they once more steeled themselves for battle.
Rin looked momentarily perplexed by that. She did not know what seemed so bad about keeping the Grimm away.
Miscommunication can be such a bother.
"You're an evil magical girl, aren'tcha?" quipped Neon.
Rin frowned, trying to piece together the puzzle she seemed to have misplaced in the conversation. "I'm not sure why you would think that way of me, but I can tell you right now that Vale will only be the beginning," she said dismissively. "Next, we will do the same to every single populated city of this world." She leveled her gaze at the gathering of Hunters and asked, "Can you imagine that?"
The natives of Remnant were astounded by such a nefarious proclamation coming from an evil magical cat girl. It was such a thing that only the villains of a kid's show would do, proudly declaring their evil plans against the world to the heroes, all the while looking oh so smug about it like demanding "Praise me, praise me!" for it.
Rin hadn't really expected to be thanked for what she had planned to do, since it was all supposed to have been a big secret anyway. Still, she was expecting a more positive reaction towards her noble goal of anti-Grimm wards for cities.
Instead, she was met with abject refusal and the total assurance of almost every single person there that she would be stopped by them at all costs before they let her go through with her plans. It didn't really bother her though, since she was only really doing it to ensure a safe place for her and the others to live.
"You can deny me all you want," she finally said over the protests. "But I'm not going to stop. Like it or not, this will only be small taste of my plan." She wasn't going to stop with warding the city against Grimm just because the people don't know what's good for them.
"You won't succeed if we stop you here and now," said Professor Oobleck, his demeanor quite serious. "Your plans will never bear fruit."
"Your wrong about that," smiled Rin wickedly.
The Professor frowned. "Why would you say that?" he asked. "Even if you're as strong as that woman beside you, we still outnumber you by quite the amount."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," Rin waved her finger at the good doctor. "Have you not heard of 'Quality over quantity?'"
"That may be so, but, given our numbers, I'm quite certain quantity will prevail here."
"The only thing I'll admit that you've been right so far, is that incessant dialogue is a good way to stall for time," as Rin said so, Saber and Archer landed to each of her side. "While we are still outnumbered, I do believe the quality of my people here are more than enough to make up for it," she smiled triumphantly at Oobleck. "Wouldn't you say so, Doctor?"
The arrival of two of the three Knight class Servants had certainly raised the immense tension of the place by leaps and bounds. Saber, clad in her armored dress and with her face hidden underneath her knight's helm, just about oozed strength from her very presence, and everyone there did not second guess that she would certainly be a strong opponent to face. Archer, his entire head besides his eyes were covered by the red holy shroud that once bound his arm, was just as intimidating with his stature and piercing steel grey eyes that studied the people in front of him.
Professors Oobleck and Goodwitch, the only fully trained Huntsman and Huntress, now felt the enormous disadvantage of their situation. They could tell that these were not ordinary Huntsmen and Huntresses.
"I never really did have any intention of letting any of you go," admitted Rin with a sigh. "Sure, maybe if it had only been you, I may have been okay with that," she said towards Oobleck. "But now? Now there's just a bit too many witnesses for me to just let this go." She had planned to just wipe the memories of the people involved here and relayed that to Saber. "I'm really sorry about this, but our little secret needs to stay a secret. For our safety and guaranteed success of our plans, of course." An added thought occurred to her. "While your bodies are here (unconscious), I finally might be able to conduct some of the tests I've wanted to do on Huntsmen and Huntresses." Specifically, she wanted to see any signs of magic circuits and the like, since the Semblances acted pretty much the same as magecraft.
Glynda gritted her teeth in anger. "You would do that to children?!" The comment earlier about dissection was still fresh in everyone's minds.
Rin had thought the idea would be obvious. "Of course," she stated. "It's a given that I might be able to get more data from them since their bodies are still growing."
Disgust and unease spread throughout the teachers and students at her statement. The blatant disregard for common decency was not something they were quite accustomed to, even for the ones who had a harsh childhood among them.
Even though Saber was late to get a read on the whole situation, she seemed to have sensed that Rin had caused a very serious misunderstanding, something she's done in more than one occasion with others. She still received fearful complaints from the faunus, from time to time, regarding some of the offhanded remarks that her Master had made towards them. "Master…" she called Rin's attention. "I think you may have misspoke."
Rin frowned at her Servant, but then finally realized her mistake. "Ah, that's right," she said, pounding her fist on her palm. "I really shouldn't disregard the adults since a fully grown specimen would yield more stable results." She had completely missed and misunderstood what her Servant said. "Although, I still think I might be able to find out much more from younger children," she said with dissatisfaction after looking at the ages of the people present. "Well, I guess I can save that for after the completion of the project at hand."
"No, that is not what I meant," said Saber. "I think you may have—"
Before she could correct her Master, a boulder flew right at them, which she sliced right in half with her sword.
"I've heard quite enough," angrily said Professor Goodwitch, whose riding crop glowed with power. "There is no reasoning with people like you. The only way to deal with you, is by force."
"I usually believe in resolving things logically, but as of right now," Professor Oobleck showered the Servants and Master in flames from his thermos transformed flamethrower. "I couldn't agree more."
Saber's Invisible Air cut through the flames and dispersed it easily.
"I take it that our discussions are now over?" asked Rin, perfectly safe behind the Servants. "Because we're really behind schedule as it is."
"We're going to stop you no matter what!" shouted Yang, sending a volley of Dust rounds that Saber merely intercepted.
Rin sighed. "I really don't see what's wrong—"
*Click*
The sound of a camera snapping a photo attracted everyone's gaze towards one of the students. They saw Nora with her scroll out and had obviously taken a picture of the evil magical cat girl.
"Ahaha…" she laughed out weakly as she probably realized based on the stares at her that perhaps now wasn't such a good time for a pictures. "Sorry… I just wanted to take a photo of a real magical girl."
"Nora…" Ren shook his head in exasperation.
"You…!" glared Rin angrily, causing Nora to squeal in fear. "You'll be the first one I work on (Memory wiping, photo and mind) before anyone else!" She wasn't about to let anyone, besides the Servants, remember seeing her in such a ridiculous outfit, let alone leave photographic evidence of it. "I'll make sure to go over you very thoroughly," she said with much conviction. "Discussions are over!" She addressed the Servants and ordered, "Finish them off quickly, we'll need to cover everything up soon if we want to get back home before dinner."
With that command, the Servants slowly strode forth and readied their arms. Before they got any closer, Professor Goodwitch sent two trees flying towards them. She saw Saber cut down the trees with seemingly nothing in her hands, much the same as the boulder before, however, the two other Servants were now gone from her view.
She knelt quickly on instinct to avoid a very sharp kick sent by Rider who had suddenly appeared before her. It was only thanks to her senses as an experienced Huntress that she had been able react to the surprising speed of the blind woman. She returned the favor with a kick of her own, but was blocked easily by Rider's hand. The Servant grabbed the leg and had a firm hold on it, but had immediately let go when Ruby's scythe almost came down on her.
"You have to watch out, Professor," said Ruby as she and her teammates gathered around their teacher. "She's really fast and pretty strong too."
"Yes, I can clearly see that now." Professor Goodwitch could feel her leg throbbing where she had been grabbed. "It appears you student's had not been exaggerating her speed and her strength." She briefly wondered what happened to the other one, but the clash of steel and blades nearby where unmistakable.
Archer had proceeded to assault the rest of the other students, dodging and countering each of their attacks with the black and white blades in his hands. While considerably weaker, statistically, compared to the other Servants, his combat abilities are very much first rate.
"Why. Can't. We. Hit. Him!" grunted Neptune with each swing of his weapon at the Servant. "I mean, he's chock full of openings, for crying out loud!"
The rest of Team SSSN was doing much the same but were met with the same results. Every time they try to take advantage of an opening displayed by their opponent, they would instead be met with a counter. In a moment, Sage was already flat unconscious on his face when he got too frustrated and overextended, receiving a strike to the back of his head from Kanshou's handle for his mistake.
"My, my, is this the best hunters can do?" Archer said with a shake of his head. "How disappointing." He had taken on EMIYA's personality as suggested by Illya to further hide his identity. "You should just give up now so we can end this quickly."
Daggers and Dust rounds came from behind him, which he dodged and blocked. Team NDGO had joined in to help out Team SSSN.
"Big talk coming from a guy who hides his face," said Nebula.
"I've bet you've got a pretty handsome face, no?" smiled Octavia. "Why don't we cut open that piece of cloth and have a good look and see?"
Archer was amused by this. "Let's see if you can find out, shall we?"
He didn't bother waiting to be struck first this time. He threw Kanshou at Nebula and rushed towards Octavia and swung down Bakuya, meeting his blade with her Kris. With a quick twist of his blade, Archer managed to disarm the girl and plant his knee to her stomach, causing the girl to collapse on the ground, out of breath.
Dew's trident stabbed where his head was at, just before he ducked and swept the girl off her feet with his leg and threw her towards the incoming boys from Team SSSN. Gwen threw her knives at him, but he used Bakuya and Octavia's kris to deflect them. He sent Bakuya as his response to those knives, causing Gwen to shriek as the white sword impaled the tree trunk right next to her face.
"Nice moves, but poor planning," said Nebula, who had just had a similar experience with Gwen. "Throwing away your swords like that, you've got nothing else but that Kris in your hand."
"Is that so?" Archer's voice was as haughty as ever. "It's a very good blade though," he said as he examined and flipped the kris forward and back in his hand, balancing the tip on his finger at the end. "Certainly not as good as Kanshou and Bakuya, but it still has its fine points." He saw Team SSSN and Dew getting back up to confront him. "I find one feature in particular could be quite useful in this situation."
Archer activated the ability of the kris and unleashed a fiery shockwave towards the recovering students. The shockwave kicked up dust and blinded their view. Archer made good use of that and assaulted them during that time. He would have knocked out half of students by the time they could clearly see.
He elbowed Scarlet and kicked away Neptune. Sun and Dew managed to find him and attack him with a string of coordinated attacks with their respective weapons. Sun's staff twirled and spun with quick intensity while firing buckshot Dust rounds with each spin, while Dew thrusted furiously at the Servant.
Archer had anticipated and dodged all of it.
He blocked a thrust from Dew with the kris in his hand. Dew was surprised when he let go of the dagger, causing her to lose her balance. Archer took advantage of this and swapped positions with her, which led to Sun almost hitting her with his staff. The Servant then kicked the girl in the back to send her crashing into the monkey faunus.
While Archer is busy dealing with Teams NDGO and SSSN, Saber's fight—well it was more of a slaughter really, it certainly was quite a bit one sided than Archer's. She wasn't really used to holding back as much as Archer when it came to combat.
The first thing that happened was that Jaune had been lifted off his feet when he tried to block an opening sword strike from her with his shield, sending the poor boy flying to the top of a tree. Ren and two of Team ABRN had already been out of the fight in less than a minute. It wasn't really supposed to have been Ren who was knocked out though. He unfortunately just got in the way when Rin had specifically told Saber, via their mental link, to first get the annoying Valkyrie he had defended.
Saber's remaining opponents were already worse for wear after trying to repel her during the rest of that time. It was only because Professor Oobleck was there to help the students fight, that they were able to break off temporarily from being completely defeated.
"You… you are certainly a very strong lady," huffed Professor Oobleck as he sweated profusely.
He and the students had a hard time fighting the King of Knights. They were baffled when Nadir had collapsed after they saw the Servant just swing down her fists at him. It was only after Bolin received the same attack, did they realized that her weapon was unseen to the naked eye.
"I am a knight," answered Saber stoically, not single sign of weariness or scratch on her and holding whatever weapon she had, up to her head and firm in her grip. "It is only natural for me to be strong." There was no hesitation or doubt in her voice as she said so. "You have impressed me though," she said, surprising Oobleck and the rest of the students. "There are not many who could last this long against me, at least, those short of other Servants."
Professor Oobleck furrowed his brows at that. "…You're not talking of the regular meaning of the word 'servants,' are you?"
"You've said enough, Saber." Rin chided from a distance behind the battle. "End this."
"As you wish, my Master," replied Saber and raised her invisible sword in her hand, ready to strike and put an end to the battle.
A sudden crash and a thump into the bushes right next to Rin paused the battle.
"Ow…" Jaune Arc stood up from the foliage with a hand holding his head. It would seem he had finally fallen from the tree where Saber had sent him to. "Whuz happen? Did I… did I get them?" he said woozily.
"Jaune!" shouted Prryha. "Get the magical girl!"
"Eh…?" Rin paled slightly as she realized how too close the boy was to her. She knew that the hunters, while weaker than Servants, were still physically stronger and faster than normal humans. It would be something akin to magi having a permanent reinforcement to boost their abilities. "Saber!" shouted Rin as she ran away to the dense trees to distance herself from the bumbling blonde boy who had started to chase after her.
Saber was about to come to her Master's aid, but was stopped as flames, Dust rounds, and the weapons of her downed opponents flew at her.
Professor Oobleck and the rest of the students seemed intent on keeping her busy whilst their comrade captures her Master.
"You certainly don't think much of us, if you can turn your back to us so easily," said Professor Oobleck, now ready for another round. "I'm guessing your Master isn't as strong as you are, if she needs your help to handle a single student."
Saber gripped her sword tightly and faced him. "She is more than strong enough, in her own ways," she answered. If her Master was in truly dire straits, she would most likely use her Command Spell to summon her. For now, Rin would have to handle herself until the Servant finishes her battle. "I would have liked to see more of what you have to show me in battle, but I'm afraid I will have to put an end to this quickly."
As the King of Britain faced her opponents, her Master, the supposedly dubbed, Evil Magical Cat Girl™, was busy running for all she's got from the leader of one of Beacon Academy's best performing first year team, mostly specifically due to the presence of a red-headed Amazonian warrior in it.
Jaune Arc certainly didn't consider himself top-notch. After all, he did just get knocked silly into a tree, then falling down from it. As he was running, he worried on how to confront and capture a girl who can command such strong people as if it was an everyday job. On top of that, he wasn't feeling a hundred percent fine right now after hitting his head on the ground. Even after all that, he continued on running after his target because he understood that his friends were all counting on him.
He was expecting the scary evil magical cat lady to be somewhat the same as the Servants, but it turned out that his fears may have been unjustified.
He had already caught up to the girl, who was apparently a lot slower than him, who wasn't even the fastest person on his team. That certainly boosted his confidence a bit that he might just be able to pull this off.
"Stop!" he said as he jumped and landed in front of the girl. "O-okay! I've got you now," he wielded his sword and his shield in what he thought was a threatening manner. "Give up now and I won't have to hurt you!"
The magical girl couldn't help herself and snorted a laugh at him. "Pfft! Ha! You call that a threat? I've seen a student class president more threatening than you, and he was training to be a monk."
Jaune frowned at her. "I-I'm warning you, I will— woah!" He cut himself off after quickly raising his shield to block the black projectiles shot at him by the girl with her hand.
"I'm not going to get captured by some fool!" the magical girl shouted at him from afar before sticking her tongue out at him for good measure. She was apparently capable of moving faster than he thought, if she was able to get that far by running.
Rin was using reinforcement on her legs to gain an increase on her speed. She was, however, unable to keep using it for a prolonged period of time since the spell puts too much strain on her muscles if used too long. She knew that the boy would catch up to her the moment her spell ends.
That was fine.
She just needed to buy enough time until Saber was done with her opponents anyway. It was also the reason why she was already running back towards her Servant.
Just as she broke through the tree line and saw the gallant figure of her Servant, she slipped on the shield Jaune had thrown under her feet from behind.
"Woah!" She fell on her posterior. "Ouch…" she said as she rubbed her sore tushy. "That stupid little— ooof!"
Before the magus could finish insulting him, Jaune had come down tackling her to the ground.
"Ha!" yelled Jaune triumphantly over the girl with his sword up pointed down on her with his one hand. "I got you!" He looked over to his friends and repeated, "I got her guys!"
It would seem that he had done so just in the nick of time, as he already saw that the entirety of Team ABRN was down, Pyrrha and Nora were both battered and bruised, and Professor Oobleck was kneeling on the ground in front of the knight who appeared to have been about to finish him off.
All of them paused to watch Jaune's current position.
"Uhm… Jaune?" Pyrrha did not appear to be happy at his victory though and had a somewhat sour look on her face.
He was confused by this for a moment before the voice from the girl beneath him spoke up.
"Just where do you think you're touching… you idiot!"
Jaune's other hand felt a surprisingly soft and supple sensation. He looked down and saw that he was pressing his hand down on the irate magical girl's modest chest.
"I'm so sorry!" he said and quickly pulled back his hand from her chest. "I didn't mean to!"
That turned out to be a huge mistake on his part.
Rin quickly sent a shot of Gandr right into his chest.
"Jaune!" screamed Pyrrha.
Time seemed to have frozen for a moment as everyone saw what had happened. They saw Jaune still on top of the magical girl with a surprised look plastered on his face. His friends feared for the worse. To their own surprise, the boy started to heave and stagger up to his feet away from the girl he had pinned down.
The next thing that happened was not a pretty sight.
"Eat that, barf boy!" shouted Rin, relishing in her victory while holding her nose down from the smell. Not really much of a victory to be proud of, given the way she looks right now.
Victory was all but assured now for the Master and her Servants.
Archer was down to his last two opponents, Saber had only the doctor and two of his students— not counting Jaune who was still busy pouring out his breakfast, and Rider's opponents, who were the only ones who had managed to hold out better than any of the others. It was probably because they had already known what they were fighting against and had more experience with the same Servant.
Ciel seems to have been the only casualty among their group. However, the rest were close to being dead tired from the fight.
"I don't suppose you'll consider letting us end this as a draw, will you?" joked Yang at the silent Servant. "No? Didn't think so."
Rin walked next to Saber and talked in a loud voice so that everyone could hear. "You've put on a valiant effort, I must say. But it's time for all of you to accept your defeat," she proclaimed towards the tired and battered hunters. "And it's time for you to go to sleep."
She failed to see the implications of her words.
"What you are doing…" scowled Professor Goodwitch. "The people of Remnant won't forget this!"
Rin smirked. "By the time I'm done with you, there will be no one to remember any of this."
Again, failure in communication.
As she was about to command the Servants to finish the battle, a chorus of Dust rounds being fired rang through the skies and hit the Servants. Above them, more airships from Beacon had arrived to aid their comrades.
"Reinforcements have arrived!" cheered Velvet loudly over the barrage of Coco's gunfire.
The Servants gathered around Rin to protect her from the hail of Dust rounds sent their way.
"More interruptions? I'm really having a bad day today!" Rin shielded her eyes from the gunfire that rained down upon them.
Once the gunfire ended, she could see the massive ship of General Ironwood's Atlesian Forces that had come out with the rest of the reinforcements. It was shooting down a few of the Grimm in skies as it made its way closer to them.
"Rin," whispered Archer. "I think it's best if we leave now."
"I agree, Master," added Saber. "This has become far too large to contain. It will only make matters worse if we stay here any longer."
"But the Bounded Field," complained Rin. "We have to at least destroy it so they can't examine it!"
"If we destroy it, then some of the people here will most likely die…" Archer said solemnly, his eyes conveying how he felt about the idea. "…Would you be fine with that?"
Rin scanned and saw that they had left plenty of unconscious students on the ground all over the battlefield. And those who remained conscious, they looked much too exhausted to put up much of a fight and rescue their downed comrades from a sudden horde of Grimm.
For a moment, Rin fumed quietly about the situation. But in the end, she decided she didn't have it in her to sacrifice innocents, as to stupid as they were against being saved. "Everyone we're retreating!" she shouted reluctantly to her comrades. "And for the rest of you," she addressed and turned to the hunters. "Don't think this is over. You'll pay for this, I swear it. One way or another, I will have you recompense me." She was thinking mostly about the price of those Dust crystals she had embedded onto her device as she said so. "My plans will continue on and there will be nothing you can do to stop me!"
With that last villainy line, she held out her hand with Dust crystals between each finger, and threw them at the ground in front of her and the Servants. They disappeared in a flash of light and smoke in front of the assembled audience of hunters and soldiers.
No one saw where they went. However, the dreaded promise the magical girl had left them had been quietly recorded by Nora Valkyrie on her scroll. The young huntress-in-training had not only taken that one picture earlier, but had also recorded some video of them earlier, along with some of the final bits of the flashy escape.
In the time to come, the videos and photo would soon put the world's spotlight on the magical girl, birthing all kinds of gossip and rumors all over Remnant. If Rin had known what would happen in that future, she may have chosen to end things differently, right there and then.
There was only one thing sure enough about her immediate future.
Illya will be very very pleased with the turnout of her work.
A/N:
I haven't been able to write as much as I want to lately. Real life reasons and stuff like that. I also wanted to work on the previous chapters a bit but that also hasn't worked out. Maybe someday.
The Servants haven't shown much in the fight besides their physical abilities because this was only meant to have been an introduction chapter for the group. Most of their special abilities and whatnot are penciled in for some of the plot chapters. I am basically saving those for when the story has advanced a little bit more.
I'd like to thank Sir Godot for offering his services in regards to any German magecraft that I would have to make up. If you need help with adding proper German to your fics, I believe he is offering free advice for that.
You can check my profile for updates. A poll is still up on it for potential crossover ideas.
I also don't understand why Beelzebub X Highschool DXD would be so popular when it only has like 3 fics of it on this site. As an FYI to that, the crossfic idea for that is more of a crackfic.
As always, please read and review. It will help me if you can point out some mistakes in spelling, grammar and inconsistencies as well. Please do try to make constructive criticism.
P.S.
Yes, I am aware I made the evil villain thing way over the top. That was on purpose since I had a bit too much fun with that. Its very noticeable that I used pretty much every single cliche line I could think of for a villain and incorporated it into the story. Just think of Rin as being possessed temporarily by her Carnival Phantasm persona. You don't have to worry about her staying that way though, since she will be reflecting on her behavior later on. It will probably creep up from time to time though. I very much enjoyed writing her that way.
As expected though, lots of people are decidedly unhappy with the way Rin was portrayed. While I do try to make this close to canon as possible, I won't be a perfectionist about it. I am doing this for fun mainly, after all. Still, I'm not about to disregard anyone's opinions about my writing and the story as long they aren't blatant trolling or unhelpful hate messages. I'll see about putting up a warning for chapters where some of the characters may be a bit OOC if I choose to do so for some reason.
Also, FYI to probably mostly Fate S/N fans, this story will also focus on RWBY. So there WILL... probably be chapters focused on the cast of RWBY. I mean, I did become a fan of both series by reading fanfics on this site, and NOT due to the source materials. Same thing for Bloodborne, and now I have the game and a very budget breaking puddle of blood statue of a handsome young hunter. Still not a fan of High School DXD though, even if I really like a lot of the crossover fics with it.