The mech was running through the freeway, smashing vehicles out of the way and knocking them in the way of its pursuers. Natalie was having the most trouble avoiding the wreckage it was leaving in its wake, the two bikes being far more maneuverable than a muscle car. It was causing her to wonder if they could keep up the chase in the vehicle, but Natalie had a plan. She flipped a switch on the dashboard, causing a plow like object to come out of the front of the car, shoving the wreckage out of the way instead of dodging it. She wondered where their backup was supposed to be, all she knew was happening was that Blake and Sun were in front trying to get away, Johnny, Neptune, Yang, and Sylvia were on bikes on the chase, and that she had an Atlesian footsoldier, Ruby, and Penny in the car with her. She had no idea where anyone else was, until a loud THUD was heard on the roof of the car, causing Natalie to nearly lose control of the steering.
"WHAT!?" Weiss shouted, Nathan had just told her he had no plan for landing or continuing to chase the mech. Weiss was surprised and a bit angry that he didn't think that far ahead, but it was too late for that now. A car was moving on the road, it had to be Natalie's, it was the only one trying to chase down a massive mech, a plan formed in Weiss' mind in a matter of seconds, placing moving glyphs to slide down onto Natalie's vehicle. Nathan noticed and angled himself to land on the glyphs and slide instead of breaking his legs. Weiss was still being held by him, she knew that it would be painful for him, but there was nothing she could do while he had her in his grip, he would just have to tank any damage with his stand or his body. He landed and slid down the glyphs, hitting the car but losing his grip on Weiss, she nearly fell but placed a glyph underneath herself to steady her body on the moving platform. Nathan stepped over to the side of the vehicle, leaning down and looking through the window, telling them, "it looks like backup has arrived!" this gained silent shock from the occupants of the vehicle, except for Natalie who remained focused on the road, and the vehicles she was currently shoving out of her way, telling Nathan, her voice dripping with sarcasm "well you came at a good fucking time! It seems like Blake just couldn't keep herself out of trouble, and now we have this to deal with! Wouldn't be the first time she's caused me problems!"
Nathan responded with rather innocent curiosity, "it sounds like you have a bit of a problem with Blake,"
"Yeah, I do. And it's more than just the cat thing. Best I save that for later though," Natalie turned dead serious when it came to talking about Blake nowadays, it made some sense, Natalie was a dog faunus, Blake was a cat faunus, cats and dogs don't really mix. Nathan lifted himself back up onto the roof of the car where Weiss was waiting, nothing they could really do until they got closer, which seemed like it would be a problem until an orange, blue, and green blur flashed by, leaving a trail of slightly melted ice behind.
Alice was flying through the city at an increasingly high speed, with Regalia glued to her back using her semblance to produce attraction glyphs on Alice's back and Regalia's hand, she refused to actually hold on to Alice for some reason. They flew through the city and out onto the freeway, continuing to move faster and faster, until they passed the mech, Alice melded the path of ice in front of her into a ramp, launching the two upwards into the air. Regalia pulled a rifle off of her back and fired, distracting the Paladin and causing it to try and focus on her as two loud shotgun blasts were heard, and ice formed at the feet of the robot, and one of them being destroyed with a spark of electricity flashing off of it and the other destroyed by a white chain as two bikes rode around it and stopped. The top was being shoved from the inside as someone was trying to get out, but Natalie drove her car around to the side, and used the plow on the front to shove the remaining wreckage off the freeway and down onto the ground below. The group got off and out of their vehicles walking up to the ledge.
The group was standing over the ledge when before one could speak Johnny transformed his shotgun back into a blade and dropped it, jumping off a few seconds later. The blade stuck into the ground with the hilt facing up, Johnny landed on the hilt and pushed his momentum forward towards the mech torso with only arms left, knocking the sword back into the pillar behind him. He formed his gauntlets and punched the mech right where the opening would be, breaking the mech into pieces and launching one Roman Torchwick across the ground. Roman slowly got up, picking up his cane in the process, spitting out blood from his mouth, aura couldn't protect from internal damage as well, he brought up the cane and fired, Johnny didn't activate his semblance, instead using the blast to launch himself towards his sword, landing with his feet against the wall holding himself up with his hand on the hilt of Excalibur. RWBY, the rest of his team, and Sylvia and Regalia jumped down in front of him. Roman looked at the people in front of him and called out, "hey Neo! I could use a little help here!" and a short girl with pink and brown hair jumped out of seemingly nowhere, Natalie's brow furrowed as she immediately shot Neo with an anti-tank round from her battle axe. The girl with pink and brown hair blocked it easily with a parasol she opened up, and when the parasol moved out of the way, there was nothing behind it, and the roar of an airship's engine could be heard as a plane came out of the woodworks with Roman and Neo on it.
"Too bad we didn't get to see her fight," Johnny lamented, everyone stared at him in silent shock.
Nathan was the first to speak out, "I would rather not die today, thank you,"
"What do you mean? We don't even know her capabilities, how would you know if she could kill you or not?"
"She disappeared and reappeared out of thin air! How do you think we'd win against that!?" Nathan was a bit pissed at Johnny, it was almost as if he had no idea what risk they were at. "We'd all gang up on her, I think 10 to one would probably end in a win for us," Johnny wasn't getting the point,
"I… I have no words. Wait, I do have some words, SHE CAN DISAPPEAR AND REAPPEAR OUT OF THIN AIR! That is not something 'more numbers' can combat, Johnny, just because you really want to fight something in the real world doesn't mean we should fight the first enemy that comes our way!" Nathan finally blew a fuse a bit at Johnny, he finally got a bit sick of Johnny's "take them out fast" attitude that doesn't account for the danger of his opponent, it made sense, as Johnny would never really seem to need to worry about a danger the enemy poses as long as he has his semblance active, but he couldn't have his semblance active all the time, watching him fight with it, grabbing things seems to be difficult for him when there's a chance that his hand will just pass through it. Now wasn't the time for an argument though, it was best they left it for when they didn't have a chance to be spotted by police, the group left the area and headed back to Beacon.
AN: I think that might be the closest Nathan has ever been to completely pissed off so far, I hope you guys are enjoying the story. It keeps taking me longer and longer to write these chapters, it might just be that I find it a bit difficult to write fight scenes. I have problems with displaying actions in words sometimes. I'm trying to improve on it but I'm just much better at writing dialogue and more emotional scenes. Alright, Raz3r out!