Chapter 5 Battle at the Vale Sea

Key

"A character speaking."

'A character thinking.'

"Oh by the way did you let Texas know about the caves yet." Tester asked her ally.

"What no, but I've been thinking about when Cinder decimated that mass production siren." Observer responded now with a question for Tester.

"Tester what level did you set the siren to, because a level twenty siren like I asked you to set it at would have attacked immediately instead of give it's opponents ample time to strike it while it's busy monologuing."

"Well the thing about that, is that I may or may not have set it to level five."

"And why pray tell did you do that for."

"Well I thought that at the level of twenty it would be overkill for any normal human."

"This is why you can't have nice things. Oh well the next cave they open should allow us to create a new time line to mess with to our hearts content."

"Wait Ruby did the person do anything to you?" Yang pleaded to her younger sister to tell her.

"What no Texas wouldn't do anything to me, I think I mean, I did fall unconscious the second she appeared and I didn't really talk to her that much, but I sure nothing bad happened to me." She told her extremely over protective sister.

"Hey Ruby could you put this "Texas" on the phone?" Yang asked her sister as politely as possible.

Texas didn't like where this conversation was going, yet somehow Ruby was completely oblivious to her sister's clear intent implied in the question.

"Huh sure Yang she's sitting right next to me."

"Here you go Texas my sister wanted to talk to you." Ruby relaid to Texas.

"Hello this is-." Texas tried to friendly to start but was quickly interrupted by Yang.

"Is Ruby listening." She asked seriously.

"No she's just searching around the small things room for anything to do."

"Okay good, now did you do anything to my sister?" Yang inquired with a threatening tone.

"Ugh do you count picking up her unconscious body in the most comfortable bed on the ship so she could rest as doing something?"

"Did you do anything while she was in bed?" Yang further inquired.

"What no besides taking her small red box thing on her hip and putting my hat on head I just left her alone so she could rest?" Texas answered her.

"Oh thank the gods because if yo~~~~~." Yang was about to say but the radio suddenly stopped responding.

"Hello, hello, man if I didn't know any better I'd think." Texas was talking to the radio when Ruby suddenly switch on her radar by accident.

The suddenness of it being turned on isn't what surprised the battlewagon. Instead it was the four gigantic signals she was picking up to her southwest that if she had to judge were about fifteen kilometers away from her current position.

"Oh sorry I just saw the red switch and I had to flip it." Ruby frantically apologized

"Ruby it's okay just don't turn it off it seems like there are some cargo ships in the distance, though why they would jam our radio is beyond me." Texas calmed her down while assessing the situation.

Then Texas realized she could just see it from her binoculars so she stood on the outside balcony of the conning tower and used her binoculars to attempt to spot whatever it was she was picking up with the radar. Sure enough there they were three cargo ships that reminded her of the one's she saw in Galveston, however from the reading there were four ships not three.

"Oh and to answer your question I don't think now is the best time...

Then she saw it.

"No it can't be, I refuse to believe it." Texas shouted in disbelief

"What, what is it Texas do you sea something that you don't like?" Ruby attempted to make a joke her sister would've enjoyed, but Texas just seemed fixated on whatever it was she spotted.

"There's now way unless, Ruby what's the largest battleship you know of tonnage wise." Texas frantically quizzed her.

"That's an easy question to answer, the largest battleship would be around about twenty-one thousand ton, oh how large is the ship your looking at?" Ruby asked the last part eustatically.

"To give you a good idea of how big it is you know the displacement of this ship." Texas started.

"No I don't why would I"

"Because I was telling you when we were walking to this very room." Texas shot at her.

Her irritation clearly visible on her face over being completely ignored.

"Anyway the displacement of this ship is thirty-three thousand tons at full load, the ship over there is currently displacing six thousand more than twice my displacement." Texas replied to her

"So that's sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy, Sssseventy-two thousand tons I think that's only two thousand tons lighter than Atlas's modern carriers." Ruby cried in disbelief

"Ya and that's not all the ship was designed to kill multiple treaty era and older warships by it's self." Texas added, with her voice shaking a little.

'I wonder what this treaty she's talking about is.' She thought to herself

"Well that doesn't sound so bad, why what would you be?" Ruby now earnestly asked her.

"I'm about ten to eight years older than the treaty depending on if you go by when construction stated or when I was commissioned."

Ruby didn't like the sound of that at all.

"After all it would be rude to interrupt someone in a fight."

"Why are you talking with giant pauses in between sentences."

"Because it's more dramatic that way."

"No it's not it's really stupid to listen to, anyway who's fighting?"

"Well that would be Texas and Yamato their about to have their first meeting."

"I wouldn't call that much of a meeting if anything it'd be more of a beating, ehh ehh."

"Your joke is terrible."

"Well at least I have clothes on, miss it hurts my complexion."

"You say that as if I care."

"Well I, you little. I really hate you sometimes."

"Anyway back to the fight before this goes on any longer okay?"

"Okay."

Texas POV

"Sssso what your saying is, that this ship was made to kill ships like you. At least they don't hate you right?" Ruby worriedly stated asking her, now visibly shaking.

"Ruby last time they were alive was over eighty years ago, and she's been reliving the days of her death for over the past eighty years possibly more so."

"Um Texas who were the people that sank her."

"Texas why aren't you answering me." Ruby frantically started shaking Texas hoping what she was implying wasn't true.

"That would be the United States navy, and we're currently standing on a United States Navy ship, Ruby the only good thing is the fact that she's yet to notice us so we could potentially escape assuming she doesn't catch us."

"But what about the people on those ships your just going to let them die." Ruby now starting to think about all of the innocent people on those ships.

"What do you want me to do commit suicide via eighteen point one inch guns?" Texas shouted at her.

"No, but at least we could try and hold out until help arrives right?" Ruby earnestly shouted back.

"We really don't need to though, I highly doubt Yamato would up and kill innocent civilians." She told her in a vain hope that Ruby would change her mind.

"Please just help them Texas your probably the only person who even knows what's going on right now that can help." Ruby pleaded to her savior.

There were quite a few thing Texas hated Galveston, being shot at, U boats, and most of all losing her standard sisters. However seeing Ruby like this just gave her a knot in her stomach that just wouldn't go away and her gut told her not to say no.

'Why is she making me feel so bad I barely know her and with her family desperately wondering where she is, I need to take her back. So it's not like I'm going to know her for very long, but still this feels that if I said no to her right now I would regret for the rest of my life.' Texas pondered upon the options laid out to her.

"Oh what I wouldn't give to be Iowa right now, alright we'll engage her so prepare for battle stations." She replied with worry clearly written on her face.

The ship started to lurch into action as it turned toward the mammoth sized vessel, along with having it's main guns begin traversing to a favorable position.

"Thank you Texas I just know we'll make it through this in one piece." Ruby attempted to reassure her.

'Well that certainly makes one of us.' She thought to herself not wanting to hurt Ruby's feelings.

Now she needed to think of a strategy to merely hold off the behemoth.

'I can't radio for help so I doubt the cargo ships did. With her close proximity to them I can't fire my main gun incase I miss and damage one of the cargo ships. Hmm maybe I could send out a float plane with a radio message and have it fly out of the range of the jammer, ya that's probably my best bet at getting help.' She contemplated the options laid out before her.

'Since the float plane is my the only surefire plan I have, I need to launch it now an message telling all nearby military forces the exact coordinates of the ships. Something just isn't adding up though, how was Yamato alive again? Did that mean there was a chance she could reunite with the other standards again for the first time in who nows how many years?' She continued to devise.

"Ruby I need you to record a message for me think you can handle it?" Texas honestly asked the small girl.

"I'm sure I can do it, especially if it's important." Ruby answered with a tone that implied se was more than willing to.

"Great now I need you to repeat these words. "This is the USS Texas, and I have spotted a raid on three cargo ships, there coordinates are 112W- 082S and I require any and all military assistance."

"After you record that put the recording in that device-" She pointed to a heavy piece of equipment that was hanging on the wall.

"-It should send out the recording on all open channels. Then run put it in the seat of the float plane on the middle turret once your done come back hear and I'll launch it in the hopes that someone picks up the signal, do you get it or do I need to repeat myself." She finished explaining to her.

"Oh no I got it trust me. I just know I can do this." Ruby earnestly responded.

"Great then go do it and make sure you fast otherwise this whole rescue mission will end very quickly." Texas muttered the last part under her breath in the vain hopes that Ruby wouldn't hear it.

She didn't want to put unnecessary pressure on the girl especially now that both of their lives were on the line. However Ruby was just close enough to hear it, but kept it to herself.

'Put in the float plane seat then rush back to Texas and hopefully save everyone onboard those cargo ships. That sounds like something a huntress would do right, save a bunch of innocent people from a giant steal bully. Ya that's exactly what a huntress would do.' She thought while rushing down the stairs of that lead to the conning tower.

"If you can do this Ruby your new friend won't get hurt and you'll save the lives of who knows how many people." She yet again announced to herself.

Now that Ruby started to think about it this has been a very strange seventeen hours. She had directly ignored her dads very clear orders to not explore the wilderness until she had mastered the new scythe she had made with her uncle. She had found a really weird cave that had some of the most dangerous Grimm on all of Patch inside of it. Then chased through said cave until she found a bright blue shinning cube that telepathically told her to pick it up. Then she summons a girl before falling unconscious and waking up fourteen hour later in the middle of the ocean. Now she and the person she summoned were going to hold off against a steel leviathan.

"Man this is just not my week, first I'm banned from riding around with Yang on her motorcycle, then I can't us my new scythe/gun, err gun/scythe. Okay screw it I'm just going to think of a name while I'm looking for the turret with a plane on it."

"Huh I still don't have a name for you, maybe the Grim Reaper, no that just sounded stupid, plus I don't wanna kill people. Or, or maybe Demeter because she'll harvest the heads of Grimm, no that sounded to exotic. How about The Cyclone, no that just sounds like a move I could pull of with her not so much call her." She pondered the various possible names for her new weapon.

Then it clicked.

"Oh of course why haven't I thought of this name sooner, to fit with my name, how about Crescent Rose. Ya it definitely has a certainly nice ring to it."

"Well that was easy, it seems that I've found the float plane turret." She marveled while admiring the massive gun inside of the gigantic turret.

She was a little surprised when she discovered how easy it was to climb up the turrets latter, and after getting on top of the turret she placed the rather heavy device into the plane.

"I guess I should head back to Texas now and let her know I turned the thing on and left it in the planes seat."

'After this whole thing is over I could introduce her to Yang, Dad, and Uncle Qrow. That way they know I wasn't hurt or anything while I was gone.' She optimistically assumed, while sprinting to get to the conning tower.

Yamato was Rrrreally bored.

She thought that chasing a convoy would be exciting, after all the stories she heard about Graf Spee. She was led to believe that chasing convoys would be exciting, not so mind-numbingly boring that she would rather sit at port and be useless then sit around in the conning tower. Roman told her don't let them spot you or that could ruin a plan Cinder made, blah blah blah blah. She didn't care she wanted to explore these modern cargo ships.

"How does one explore when their being told no-, what the? Is that smoke I see in the distance? Well then lets see what ship it is with my handy dandy binoculars." Yamato inquired.

"Well that looks like an am American Battleship!" Child like glee in anticipation of the o so deserved revenge she could get was plainly visible on her face, as she watched the vessel approach.

It looks to be a New York class battleship so it's an old, out dated, out gunned and hopelessly out matched vessel."

Yamato quickly realized that she was in quite the predicament though.

"Unless I want to make every one loading supplies deaf for the rest of their lives I can't really fire my main guns." Great yet another reason to be annoyed.

"However, she can't fire at me with her main guns either unless she want's to risk hitting one of those cargo ships. So that just leaves my secondary battery to deal with her."

'Maybe I could get a lucky hit against her with my secondary guns, but that's unlikely. If I wait for them to finish their mission then that just gives the person in charge of these cargo ships more time to refuel and rearm any aircraft they launch."

"Boy am I in quite the predicament, but I need to let Roman know about the oncoming ship."

Yamato started thinking of way's to let him know without blowing what little cover she possibly had. Then she thought of the most simple way she could let him know about the ship, it really was an easy way to get someone's attention. Why not just start shooting at the New York class vessel?

"Alright let's get a move on you lazy overpaid minions of mine before tho-." He jumped not expecting the Yamato's secondary battery to start firing.

'That either means something's approaching, or she's bored and is trying to distract me so she can sneak away. I'm going to hope it's the latter because otherwise that means we have to speed up this "little" operation.' Yet another delay great.

That's Exactly what he needed right now. While it was true the cops of vale could be easily bought out and even more so just straight up fooled. That didn't mean they couldn't occasionally make the right guess as to where his next target would be, and if there's anything Roman hated more than the sappy "I wanna be a hero crowd" it was being late that made him seethe. Not because he failed (and he rarely ever failed) it was because he took the phrase "time is money" literally. He paid the successful henchmen (excluding Neo who took her salary in ice cream and just living with him) rather well, emphasizing the word successful.

"Alright you heard the ship move faster, I swear after this deal it'll be the last time I barrow minions."

"General Ironwood sir we've just received a mysterious distress signal from a ship that is relaying about cargo ships being under attack." A solider relayed to his well respected general.

"What are the coordinates of the cargo ships?" Ironwood was a tall man who wore a white uniform.

"Sir they match up exactly with our three cargo ships that were carrying the experimental equipment." The soldier confirmed to him

"I want you to deploy our newest carrier to intercept the raiders, posthaste." Ironwood ordered with a hint of worry in his voice.

"Yes sir. I will contact the newest and fastest carrier in the fleet to intercept." The solider saluted then started sprinting towards the fleet deployment center.

'If someone gets their hands on the cargo from one of those carriers, it'll set back our paladin project back by several months. What's more, who could obtain a ship that could successfully catch up to those cargo ships and have enough firepower to repel our air patrols?'

The general didn't know what faction could possibly have the resources necessary to defeat his well defended cargo ships, which sent a chill up his spine at the possibility of her being involved.

Texas POV

"Oh great now they've spotted us and have started shelling us." She verbalized to none in particular, with only "mild" annoyance in her voice.

"Wait why aren't they using their big guns. I mean don't misunderstand me I don't want us to get shot by them but wouldn't it be more ammo efficient to just use them?" Her companion mused at the rather odd decision made by their enemy.

"If I had to guess it would probably have something to do with the many groups of hired goons onboard her." She reasoned.

"But that still makes no sense, why not fire the guns even if it spooks them a little?" Questioned her companion again.

"Hey Ruby what's the largest traditional gun ever built?" She asked Ruby.

"Those would be the ten inch guns used on the MGFS (Mistral grand fleet ship) Argo."

The face Texas made after being told that they only got to ten inch guns was a mixture of fear and disbelief.

"Well then I'll have to explain it to you, see I have ten fourteen inch guns in five double turrets, got that."

"Wow, how is it that you guy's have bigger guns and ships than we did?" Ruby legitimately asked her.

"I'll explain it to you after we get out of this whole ordeal alive, because I don't understand somethings myself, you okay with that?" Texas asked while holding up a thumbs up.

"Sure, now what about why she isn't using her big guns?"

"Right that, so when I fire my main guns most of my AA crews used to have to run inside so as to not rupture their ear drums from the boom. Yamato has nine eighteen point one inch guns, which supposedly when they were fired during the test firing sequence it would actually short circuit any and all non protected electronics. While this is a slightly unrelated story, supposedly when the HMS Rodney or was it Nelson, anyway so when they fired all nine of their sixteen inch guns it actually caused someone to get a concussion which made their vision all red while they were underneath the guns, I think." Ruby seemed completely shocked by what Texas had just told her.

"Um was the guy okay afterwards?" Ruby hesitantly asked not wanting to know the answer if it was the worse case scenario.

"Oh, uh ya he was okay, probably." Texas somewhat reassured her.

"Then there's the problem being that she's so close to that cargo ship that I can't hit her without guaranteeing the safety of the cargo ship. If only I was West Virginia then I could use my own secondary battery with significantly more success."

Texas's mind raced to all sorts of tactics she could attempt to do, but all of them left her at the mercy of the younger ship. She had no counters to Yamato because her age was letting her down. She didn't have the modern armor scheme, she didn't have the fifty caliber guns of the New Mexico class, let alone the guns of a Colorado class. She was old and if she attempted to close into point blank range she wasn't sure if her guns could penetrate the thick belt the Yamato infamously had.

Ruby POV

Ruby hated the feeling useless, that was one of the main reasons she wanted to be a hunter after all. Hunter could help people, save town, and other cool things. Right now though she couldn't do anything, she didn't have a gun with the necessary range or power to damage the monstrously greater warship, and she couldn't help the cargo ship people because she couldn't reach them. Then an idea popped into her head, while it wouldn't solve the former problem it definitely solved the later.

"Hey Texas do you have another one of those spotter planes?"

"Huh, why we only need to send out one message?" Ruby's confused friend asked.

"Well since there's not much you can do, I was thinking maybe, just maybe I could ride one over there and beat up the bad guys?" She asked while doing karate chops.

"What no, hell no. How could you possibly take on all of those goons by yourself?" Texas stared on in disbelief thinking that Ruby wanted to throw her life away.

"Oh come on, how am I supposed to be a huntress if I don't save people."

"What does shooting birds have to do with saving people?!" Texas shouted at her.

"Being a huntress has nothing to do with shooting birds. It's about saving people from the creatures of Grimm, and looking really cool, and getting to meet multiple different weapons."

"What do you mean meet multiple differ-?" Texas started asking, before being taken aback by the giant Scythe that Ruby seemingly pulled out of thin air.

"Texas meet my brand new Scythe Crescent Rose, she's also a fifty caliber high velocity sniper rifle." To demonstrate this Ruby cocked Crescent Rose's hammer that made a distinct clicking sound.

"I'll be damned this is a first for me, and to answer your question on whether you can take the plane to get those guys or not. I'm currently loading the second plane onto the turret, don't worry about piloting I'll handle that part." As soon as Texas finished telling Ruby that, she saw rose petals all over the conning tower and Ruby nowhere to be seen.

Ruby rush down from the conning tower excited that she could test out Crescent Rose against people for the first time, and she would get to ride a plane all by herself. Okay she wasn't piloting it but it was still cool. Ruby spotted the middle turret and climbed up the ladder with great haste. Once in the plane Ruby realized she could do something she always wanted to try, but she needed the plane in the air first.

Yamato was somewhat bored still.

"How is it that even though I'm currently in a gun fight with another battleship, I'm still bored out of my mind, okay bored wasn't the right word. Um claustrophobic maybe no, how about not engaged ya that's better. I'm not engaged with this gun fight."

She grabbed a pair of binoculars so she could better spot the Texas. Then she saw something that both terrified her and weirded her out. There appeared to be a devastator torpedo bomber headed straight for her and there was someone hanging onto the wing for dear life.

"A D-dd-dDdd-devastator, quick all anti aircraft guns open fire!" She trembled in fright of the spotter plane.

Yamato's mind raced with questions and her pupils shrank to the size of pees.

'Did they also summon a carrier? If they did how many more planes do they have? Was it the Enterprise they summoned?' Yamato didn't know the answer to any of these question, and that just frightened her even more.

"Why do video games make it look so easy?" Ruby cried while holding onto the wing of the spotter plane.

Suddenly the sky was filled with anti aircraft fire. Making it harder for Ruby to see anything with the walls of black clouds exploding everywhere. To add onto all of this her prized cape flew off of her.

"On second thought this was a really stupid idea." Ruby yelled at herself.

The plane had closed in to distance of the cargo ship, but the wing Ruby was holding onto was shot off by one of Yamato's five inch guns. Luckily for Ruby she was close enough to jump onto the cargo ship. Using the momentum from the plane to knock out one of the goons standing in disbelief at what he had just witnessed with a punch to the jaw. The while it successfully knocked him out it also hurt her aura too, though not by a considerable margin.

"Great now that I'm here I just have to make sure I'm really quiet, that way I can get the jump on them." She whispered.

Now that she had time to breath she decided to examine the guy she just punched, and to her surprise they wore the uniform of the White Fang.

"What are the White Fang doing with a giant battleship, and why are they robbing a cargo ship?"

Just then she heard a bunch of footsteps running towards her.

"Remember what the "Boss" said he wants this us to take care of whoever just boarded and then leave before Ironwood find out what we stole from them, got it?" A White Fang member yelled to his companions.

"There they are." another member of the group of ten shouted.

'Oh well, so much for stealth.' Ruby thought.

She transformed Crescent Rose into her scythe mode not knowing if they had their aura's unlocked, she didn't want to risk killing them by using the sniper rifle. She observed the weapons they had on their waist, which were an assortment of swords and axes.

"Oh, great another hunter, where's the guy we brought specifically to deal with hunters?" One member shouted.

"He's busy moving some heavy equipment." Yet another member shouted.

"Fine then we'll deal with this pipsqueak ourselves, after all it's ten on one."

He made a dash at Ruby with a green blade in hand, however Ruby easily knocked him out using the blunt side of Crescent Rose's scythe. The other nine decided to join their comrade, charging her with their swords and axes drawn too, hoping to overwhelm her. They were however still no match for Ruby. She easily dodged sword swipes fron numbers four and five, then swiped the legs out from number three. The guy in charge of the group was knocked into four and five who all slammed into a dense container.

"Screw it it's not worth taking out this kid lets book it to the boat." One of the remaining White Fang members shouted to the rest of them.

"Well that was easy." Ruby said slightly taken aback.

"And just where do you think your going?" Roman asked the fleeing henchmen.

"We just beat that hunter, you know the one you told us to beat up?" The White Fang attempted to lie to the master criminal.

"Really because if my eye don't deceive me the "Hunter" is standing right over there." Roman pointed to Ruby whom thought she was well hidden.

"I thought the White Fang were Supposed to be fearless, and that they were Supposed to be good at killing humans, I guess I confused you with the real White Fang." When Roman was done talking he saw that the White Fang members he was talking to had fled to the ship.

'Right if I remember correctly Adam said something about training the newer members." Today was just not his day.

"Well what have we here a young huntress onboard of an Atlas top secret cargo ship, and you've somehow managed to slip onto this ship despite the flak that firecracker just put out. I have to say that's very impressive Red, however I think you've overestimated your skill if you really think you can take on the person I've hired to "take care of" any unwanted interruptions."

"What person are you talking about I don't se-?" Ruby asked before being slammed into a mountain of containers by a prototype Paladin.

"While I would love to stay and gloat I think it's best if I leave." Roman yelled to the paladin driver.

Who merely gave Roman a thumbs up in response.

Ruby POV

'Man that thing hurt I think my aura's only at forty percent after that attack.' Ruby thought while trying to move her body.

However she couldn't with all of the cargo containers stacked on top of her. She couldn't even feel her chest as she was slowly being crushed by the weight of the containers, but the paladin's pilot wasn't done yet. He grabbed Ruby out of the pile of containers and started crushing her with it's arms. Ruby got a good look at her attacker it had a gray torso that looked to be very heavily built, with two arms and legs. It also looked like there were hardpoints to put weapons, however the weapons seemed to be lacking. She could hear her aura give out under the pressure of the paladins grip. Just when she thought she would die she felt the pressure of the paladins arms suddenly release and dropped her.

'What the heck now are they going to do, gloat?' Ruby thought with her eyes still closed expecting the worse, but it never came.

When she opened her eyes again the paladin was standing over her with it's arm's on the ground next to where it's legs were.

"Wait wasn't there a torso attached to it, not that I'm complaining but where is it?" Ruby looked to her left and to her relief she saw the Texas within clear view of the remains of the paladin.

"Huh now it's two for zero of her saving my life, oh well I guess I'll have to pay her back someday."

"Oh thank God, I thought I had hit Ruby for a second there." She sighed in relief.

The "battle" between her and Yamato had not been very eventful, sure now her superstructure was being torn apart by Yamato's secondary's that was only when they hit and for the most part the Yamato was disappointing her. She knew that her secondary's didn't have the radar guidance that hers did, but she still expected more damage would've been taken.

"Huh it seems I'm picking up aerial targets on my radar, it must be the reinforcements, that I contacted for."

Texas also spotted that Yamato was no longer sitting right next to the cargo ship and was in fact heading at full speed away from it in the opposite direction.

'Good now this battle seems to finally be over and I just have to explain to th-."

"There they are sir, the ships responsible for raiding the cargo ships." A nameless solider told Winter.

"Thank you for reporting that, now when can we engage the larger ship?" She asked clearly to the solider.

"Um the larger ship appears to be retreating out of range from our dust cannons in the front of the ship Commander."

"Commander we are within range to intercept the smaller ship should we open fire?"

"No, it appears as though it was in fact intercepting and holding off the larger vessel before we could arrive." Winter deduced after spotting the smaller vessel fire upon the much larger one.

"Sir the larger vessel has just fired from it's main guns."

"Move the ship to dodge them and have the gunships intercept the dust shells." Winter ordered to both the navigations officer and the air control officer.

"They have landed a direct hit on the smaller vessel sir, and an explosion was spotted from it's aft turrets."

Yamato was having a full on panic attack, not only were the jets that could fly vertically, there seemed to be cruiser, carriers, battleships, she didn't know wat to call them but they could fly too. Just then Roman barged into the conning tower.

"Well this is certainly a surprise I thought you said your radio jammer, would you know jam radios." He furiously shouted at her.

"I-ii-ittttss-s nnott mmy fault. That New York must have sssent a plane ttt-too transmit it's and our location." She stuttered to him.

"Well then, why don't you take care of that New York then you should have more than enough firepower." He questioned.

"Are all of the cccc-ccrew inside of the ship."

"Yes trust me they started dashing into the ship the second you shot down that plane."

"Ggggood then I can fire without worrying about rupturing their eardrums." She somewhat calmed down at the prospect of getting revenge for what the US had done to her sisters.

Her mighty turrets started turning slowly, thinking it through she guessed she would need to fire one broadside salvo to not only disrupt the stupidly tight formation of the flying ship, but to also cripple and destroy the New York class vessel. Sadly she rushed the shot because the flying ship was gaining far too fast for her liking. Out of her entire nine gun salvo the vessel was hit by only two shells, one in the aft most turret and another in the aft super firing turret. Which detonated the magazines for both turrets.

The last thing Texas could remember before passing was an explosion that made her aft turrets launch into the air, and that she was rapidly filling up with water.

So that's chapter 5 done with, and oh boy am I excited to finally start getting to the fun part of the story and you know actually focusing on the main characters, that being Texas and Ruby, though I guess for the next few chapters it'll just be Ruby. What with Texas suffering from a terrible case of explosions.

Anyway time to answer some of the reviews.

Guest 4: Hope the next ship Ruby gets is one of the starter destroyers.

Answer: I most likely wont have any starter ships show up mainly, because the only one I really like is Nimi (or Z23) though I might add two of them who knows, the list of ships being added isn't entirely finalized yet.

Helljumper206:The one big issue I have is the RWBY timeline that your ignoring. Cinder and Torchwick robing Dust stores and shipments for years before Ruby going into Beacon? Something doesn't smell right with this. Otherwise good story so far.

Answer: First off thanks for the complement, and second it's my fault for not properly setting the date for this story, which starts four months before the "Red" trailer.

(P.S. this is my first fan fiction so any and all criticism is welcomed)