So yeah, I am not regretting making that anniversary chapter at all and all of you flamers will not make me change my mind.
Especially that last chapter would be an occasional mark for everyone to check what openings will be used in the reaction.
So yeah, it's not a waste and you can suck it.
You know the drill.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Pokedex"
Pokemon Moves
'Telepathy'
Flashback
"Narrator/Singing"
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or Pokemon
Chapter:48 Toppling the Enemies
At the Argus base, the Atlesian guards watch the screen as Cordovin's Colossus is seen trying to swipe at the airship Maria, Mel, Nomad, and Oscar are in.
"You just couldn't keep this rivalry between us, could you, Calavera?! You had to rope in children to fail with you!" Cordovin boasted as the guards cheer on their boss as she fires another shot from the mech's arm cannon. Unbeknownst to them, a red dot appears on one of the radar's screens approaching Argus.
Back at the cliffside, Ruby is still holding onto Crescent Rose for dear life. Oscar notices this from the airship.
"Ruby!" He called out to her.
Ruby eventually makes her back up to the top of the cliff by using Crescent Rose's blade to climb back up. She regroups with Weiss, Ren, Charles, Bacchus, Monarch, and Qrow.
"Ruby, can you hear me? Are you guys okay?" Oscar asked through the comms.
"Are we okay?" Ruby said in a mora worried tone.
"I know, we were supposed to lay low, but listen! I think I finally found a weakness!" Oscar said.
"Well, we're all ears."
Ruby and her friends notice Nora Valkyrie and Drago helping Jaune and John over respectively.
"It would take more to take us down," Drago said.
"Guys!" Ren called out as he and Pyrrha ran over to the two and were quite relieved to see that Nora and Jaune were okay. Randy and his team slowly regroup with the others to check on Drago and John are okay as well.
"The cylinder on Cordo's cannon rotates and locks in a giant Dust cartridge every time she changes attack styles," Oscar said.
"We noticed," Weiss said.
"Right, but her missile launcher doesn't lock in, it pops out! Without her shields, one well-placed shot could detonate the missiles while they're still in the launcher!" Oscar pointed out.
"We could destroy the entire cannon... Oscar, that's brilliant!" Jaune praised the farmhand.
"Can you... make that kind of shot?" Nora asked while Monarch and Bacchus hover just behind her.
"We'll only get one chance before she catches on. I'd have to be practically staring down the barrel of her cannon," Ruby said.
"Well, I've got a way to guarantee that," Maria said as she flies the airship back over to Ruby's group. She stops with the hatch doors open with Mel, Randy, and their Pokémons waiting. Ruby runs forward.
"Ruby, what are you doing?!" Qrow said in shock as Mel and Randy grabbed Ruby's hands as they pulled her in and the airship and heads off to do her part. The others watch the airship heading towards Cordo's mech. Ruby smiles at Maria, Mel, Nomad, and Oscar.
In the mech, one of the screens has a popup message saying "ARGUS BASE INCOMING CALL". Cordovin notices this, but her attention is then drawn away.
"Hey, Cordo! I've got one missile left and I know exactly where I'm gonna stick it!" Maria said as Cordovin chuckles.
"One missile you say? That's a shame, Maria, because I have plenty!" Cordovin then has the missile launcher pop out from the mech's arm cannon while Maria continues flying toward her.
"Are you two crazy!" Oscar shouted in fear with U. Pichu agreeing.
"Sometimes the best approach is simply the most direct!" Maria said.
"And it mostly works every time!" Mel agreed.
"Make it sometimes," Nomad pointed out but didn't help Oscar at all.
As the airship moves closer, Ruby and the four Pokémons gets into position and aims at Cordovin's mech cannon. Cordovin gasps as she pulls up a screen, noticing Ruby and the four Pokémons and catching on to her plan.
"You!"
Ruby pulls the trigger, but suddenly, the missile launcher retracts back into the arm cannon and the bullet is deflected. Everyone gasps in shock.
"You thought you could fool me?!" Cordovin then readies the arm cannon again, this time about to fire a lightning Dust attack.
"Pull up!!" Oscar shouted as Maria pulls up the airship, but it still gets partially caught in the blast. The rest of the group on the cliff move out of the way. The airship is affected by the electricity, and Maria screams in pain as her prosthetic eyes close shut.
"I can't see! My eyes!"
"No, no, no!!"
"Take control!!"
"Move!" Mel quickly grabbed the joysticks as he tried to pull up but nothing is working.
"We're gonna crash! We're gonna CRASH!!" Oscar screamed while U. Pichu held on for dear life.
"Hold on!!" Nomad shouted as everyone held on for dear life.
The rest of the group emerge from the smoke on the cliffside, coughing.
"Look!" Jaune said as the group watches the airship crash lands into the forest. As Weiss gasps, Qrow runs and transforms into his avian form and flies over to the crash site.
At the crash site, the engines can be heard shutting down.
"We're... we're still in one piece!" Oscar said in relief.
"I need a sandwich after this," Nomad said with a groan.
Suddenly, Oscar and Nomad hears the stomping of Cordovin's mech. Ruby and Mel stumbles out of the airship before collapsing to their knees.
Cordovin laughs and said, "Very clever, but even the smartest apes can't compete with the intellect of man."
"I really wished that I could still fly for a long time so I could punch her face," Drago mumbled.
"You're not the only one," John said.
Ruby then uses Crescent Rose to stand herself back up while Mel stumbles on his feet. She looks over to the airship to see Maria repairing her prosthetic eyes as Oscar and Mel watches in concern.
"Come on, come on!" Maria said as kept fixing her eyes.
Ruby then looks toward Cordovin with a determined expression and walks forward. Suddenly, Qrow appears and takes his niece's hand.
"Ruby, stop!" Qrow ordered as Ruby looks back to her uncle, still bearing her determined expression. Qrow gasps.
"I need you to trust me," Ruby said as Qrow closes his eyes and ultimately relents as Ruby pulls her hand away. She walks to the edge of the cliff and stands face to face with Cordovin's mech.
"Surrender for your crimes, and accept your punishment," Cordovin ordered them.
"No!" Ruby yelled in defiance as Cordovin gasps in shock as Ruby's friends look to her. "We're going to Atlas. Bigger people than you have tried to stop us and failed, but we're supposed to be on the same side! We're supposed to use our power to protect people, but you just use yours to look down on everyone!"
Cordovin ponders Ruby's words while the three Trainers and their Pokémons smiled to her bravery.
"We didn't want to steal from you. We did it because you gave us no other choice!Now I'm giving you one last chance to stand down and hear us out."
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"I've heard enough..." Cordovin then aims her arm cannon at Ruby. Ruby's friends run over to her in panic.
"Ruby!!" Oscar called out as he reached out for her.
Qrow gains a look of horror on his face as Cordovin fires up the arm cannon. Suddenly Ruby uses her Semblance and flies into the arm cannon.
"WHAT?!!" Cordovin said in shock.
"She's NUTS!!" Nora shouted.
"No, she's CRAZY!! Hahaha!" Mel laugh at her boldness.
"You're kinda scaring me right now," Nomad said as he step away from the younger Champion.
Ruby continues flying into the arm cannon.
"The missile launcher springs out... but the raw dust gets locked in!" Jaune said in realization while Randy smiles.
"Well let's see how she does it," Randy said as he turn off his Specter Form.
Inside the arm cannon, Ruby plants Crescent Rose into the ground and takes aim at the buildup of Dust. She fires and uses her Semblance to quickly get out of the arm cannon. Suddenly, the arm cannon explodes, covering it in ice and stone.
"What?! No! NO!!" Cordovin shouted in horror as Ruby flies backward, her Aura runs out and falls unconscious. Her fall is slowed down by black Glyphs from Weiss, and Qrow catches his niece in his arms. Weiss collapses in exhaustion as Team JNPR and the others run over to her.
"Ruby? Ruby!" Qrow said in worry till Ruby opens her eyes and smiles at her uncle.
"Told ya."
The Atlesian airship's engines can be heard coming back on as it hovers lightly above the ground. Maria managed to fix her eyes.
"Oh, don't tell me I missed it!" Maria said in annoyance.
"You did and it was awesome," Mel said as the elderly woman grumbles.
Meanwhile, David look over his hiding spot, the rock he was slammed to, and watch the upcoming fight.
"I really hate it when my leg is in the worst condition," Randy mumbled as he saw Adam began to speak.
"You knew you couldn't win two-on-one at Haven. What makes you so sure you can win now?"
"I don't have a choice. I have people who actually care about me, and I promised I'd never leave them again. So I'm not dying now," Blake said as Yang smiles at her partner's words before glaring back at Adam.
"You know, she made a promise to me once. That she'd always be at my side. Heh, and look how well she's kept it," Adam said in a snarky manner.
"Did she make that promise to you? Or to the person you were pretending to be?" Yang questioned.
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"So I wasn't just good enough for you?"
"You know it's so much more than that," Blake said.
"I know you've made your choice... and I've made mine."
"Oh boy," David said as he took cover.
The three combatants then take defensive stances as they resume their battle. Blake and Yang rush forward together. The two of them work together to strike at Adam with a series of back and forth blows and slashes. Blake grabs the bottom portion of her broken Gambol Shroud katana and throws it at Adam with Dark energy, but he deflects it back at her. Yang notices this and grabs the pistol and uses the ribbon to swing Blake around. Blake uses her cleaver to clash with Adam's sword, but he sends her flying back. Blake's back hits the cliff-side of the waterfall, depleting her Aura. She nearly falls off the ledge and hangs on for dear life.
"Blake!" Yang shouted in near fright as she then turns around and angrily glares at Adam.
"Moment of truth, Yang. Do you think you're faster than you were at Beacon?" Adam questioned as this causes Yang to gasp and tremble slightly. Adam notices this as he chuckles and smiles. "Me neither."
Adam rushes forward unsheathing his sword. Yang manages to dodge the swing, then rolls away from a second. Adam lands two kicks before Yang dodges a slash, followed up by another. Then Adam brings the sword down diagonally while Yang backs away. But then Adam rams her and she is knocked to the ground. Transitioning into a roll, Yang gets distance before stopping on hands and feet, huffing slightly.
"Your Aura's bound to be running low."
Yang pants for breath as Adam angrily grunts at her. Meanwhile, Blake struggles to climb up, briefly glancing over to spot Adam advancing on Yang who has gotten back up till she saw David hopping to her.
"Hit me already!"
Yang dodges Adams next two swings.
"What does she even see in you?!!"
Adam rushes forward, tossing Wilt as it spins like a buzz-saw.Yang tries to block only to be overpowered and damaged, Adam grabs the sword and activates his Semblance before bringing it down. With her guard broken Yang gets knocked back and tumbles across the ground. David then reached Blake as he offered his hand and the Liepard Faunus grabbed it as the Cinderace Faunus began to pull her up.
"You're just a coward like her!!"
Adam unleashes an attack with his Semblance toward Yang. However, at the last second, Yang's eyes turn red. The attack hits Yang, creating a cloud of dust. Adam rushes forward and swings his sword down.
When the dust clears, Adam looks in shock as Yang has caught his sword with her prosthetic hand. Her hair burns bright, activating her Semblance.
"Gotcha..." Yang muttered as she then cocks her left arm's Ember Celica. She pulls Adam toward her and punches him hard enough to disarm him and send him flying back. The force of the attack depletes Adam's Aura. Adam stands back up and tries to fight again, only to realize his sword is missing. Yang still has it in her hand.
"I may not be faster..." Yang's Aura began to deplete. "... but I'm smarter."
Yang then throws Wilt over the bridge.
"No!!" Adam shouted in horror as he fails to reach his sword in time as he watches it fall. Suddenly, Blake reappears and uppercuts Adam as she jumps back on to the bridge while David shoots a fireball to him. Adam stumbles backward. Suddenly, he notices one half of Gambol Shroud's katana on the ground. He and Blake rush forward to pick it up, but Blake grabs it before he can. Yang then runs forward and grabs the broken blade of Gambol Shroud. Both girls then impale Adam from the front and back, each with a piece of Blake's weapon simultaneously. Adam looks down at his bleeding chest as he twitches.
"Oh..."
Blake and Yang both pull their blades out and watch Adam stumble towards the edge of the bridge. He falls to his knees and his eyes start to roll back. He slumps forward and falls off the bridge. On his fall down, his body hits the cliffside with a sickening crunch, before disappearing into the water below.
Adam Taurus is finally dead.
Suddenly, Blake starts to sob and falls to her knees as she breaks down crying. Yang runs over to hug her. Blake hugs back.
"I... I am not going to break my promise, I swear," Blake swore tearfully.
"I know you won't," Tang said as the two girls continue to embrace as Blake continues to sob.
David meanwhile sits on a rock as he watch the scene in front of him with a smile.
"Their bond will forever prosper but I still prefer Sun over her, those two fits more" He said as he let out a sigh of relief.
(AN: I'm not really into those ships where everyone is paired with the same gender so I always avoid those stories. I'm not saying that I have something against that, I just really feel creeped out by it.)
Back at the cliffside, Cordovin is struggling to pick up the mech's arm cannon.
"No! No, no, no, NO!!! You! You're never getting to Atlas! Do you hear me?! NEVER!!!" Cordovin yelled in rage as she pressed a button on the controls. "All forces converge on my position and eliminate these pests at once!"
"Crap!" Oscar said in worry.
"Everyone on board! We're making a run for it!" Maria ordered.
"What about Yang, Blake, and David?" Jaune said.
"We'll turn around for them," Mel said.
Back in the mech, one of the screens read "ARGUS BASE CHANNEL OPEN".
"Ma'am, we've been trying to reach you! Argus is in danger!" An Atlas Soldier said as Cordovin's expression widens in horror.
"What?"
At the Argus base, various Atlas personnel all rush to their battle stations. A pair of guards are seen looking out at the ocean. In the distance, a towering Grimm can be seen stomping in the water towards Argus. It lets out a terrifying roar.
The Atlas guards then turn around and notice a massive legion of Manticores and Sphinxs in the air above the city of Argus.
"It's a Leviathan! It began its approach during your battle! We need you!"
Ruby looks back to her friends in horror, who all share equally concerned expressions. They look to Cordovin's mech, still struggling to lift up its arm cannon...
And done!
I have really come this far with this story and I'm happy for it.
My other stories really reached either below or above ten with Arc Music Album and Watching the Elements being the two exception for this, but Victory through Remnant really reached this far and I'm happy for it.
I would either probably do a reboot for this, but I'm not so sure about it. I would have some time brainstorming with some people I know for it, but if I can then I'll do it.
I really learn many things during making my failed stories and just do what I feel is more comfortable for me to work on.
While I can't do other stories outside of RWBY and RWBY Crossovers, I might expand my horizon if I ever find a way to make them easier.
So for now, I hope you enjoyed the story and I'll see you guys in the next chapter.
Vic out Peace.