Recap
"Alright, it's now time to begin the randomization process for our next fight!"
Hearing this, Rex set letter down on the desk and waited in anticipation for the fight. But just as he was getting excited, the decision was made.
"It looks like our first contender is... Penny Polendina, from Atlas! And her opponent will be... Pyrrha Nikos, from Beacon!" said Port and immediately Rex's heart dropped to the floor. His eyes widen in surprise as he said "Oh no."
Suddenly he realized what Paradox meant by"I have some to give you that can save a life" and why he gave him the schematics of Penny, being a robot, he now knew.
Penny was in trouble!
Amber took notice of Rex's change in emotion and asked "Rex, are you ok? You look worried" but as she said that, Rex yelled "PENNY" and turned around and began to run for the window.
Amber's eyes widen a bit and said "Wait, Rex? What are you doing?!" but Rex just kept running and soon leaped forward and broke through the window, making Amber only see him falling down outside the window.
"REX" she yelled but then she heard a buzzing sound and tried to sit up higher to see what that was, but then she looked out towards the window next to it and saw Rex flying away towards the Colosseum with his Boogie Pack. Amber was so confused at what was going on so she turned to the screen and pondered at what made him run away.
Rex
"I've got to hurry. Penny's in trouble" he thought as he flew faster and faster than his wings could make him. This caused one of his wings to break off and made Rex stumble around a bt in the air and began to fall but he quickly grew it back saying "Come on Rex. Get a grip" and flew faster toward the colosseum.
Amity Arena
Down in the arena of Amity Colosseum, Pyrrha was stilling feeling conflicted at what she's been through the past few days or so, but still had a look of determination while Penny politely saluted her opponent.
"Sal-u-tations, Pyrrha Nikos! It's an honor to finally meet you!" as she did a salute to her.
Pyrrha didn't respond, as looked at her hands as she clenched them in attempted determination.
"This is going to be so much fun!" said Penny, cheerfully.
Ruby
In the same structure behind closed doors, Ruby was still facing down an up-and-standing Mercury, who was smugly smiling at the younger girl's confusion.
"Mercury, what are you doing? You were hurt! Why..." she stopped as she then narrowed her eyes in suspicion and said "What's going on?"
Mercury didn't answer, as he was still grinning with malice at her.
"Fine. If you're not going to tell me... " she said while she attempted to move around him, but he blocked her path, then did it again when she sidestepped.
"Fighters, are you ready?" said Oobleck.
Mercury just smirked at the announcement.
Penny beamed widely in anticipation, but Pyrrha still had her look of determination on her face as she readied her weapons.
Everyone was getting ready to fight as Oobleck said "3, 2, 1... BEGIN!"
As soon as the words were said, Penny pulled out her floating swords and began launching them at Pyrrha, who began running towards them and leapt though or deflected each aimed blade. The swords flew into the air until they turned around and come back to the fight.
Also hearing the words, Mercury looked back at Ruby and said "Showtime."
He ran forward, blocking Ruby's path with his arms outstretched, restraining her movements no matter where she moved. Panicked, she grimaced and spun forward, making her become a blur of red and petals and rocketing towards Mercury, only for him to kick her twice mid-dash with his legs and knocked her to the ground. He advanced on her just as she pulled out her Scroll, and was about to call for help until her scroll was shot by a bullet.
"Let's just keep this between us friends" he said as he charged at her again.
Ruby attempted to block a kick from Mercury with her arms, but got a face-full of boot. Next, Mercury fired a shot but she managed to duck then barely missed being hit by his downward kick and leapt over his leg, spiraling past him, this time getting much father down the corridor. She kicked off of the wall and fell to the ground, pumping her arms as she ran for the exit.
Rex
Rex had just made it to the platform of Amity colloesum and deactivated his wings and began to form his rider and took off down the walk way. But as he did, he was greeted by several Atlas soldiers saying "Halt, Halt. No weapons in..." but Rex just revved his engine up and drove right through them. He then began driving down a hallway and followed the sounds of cheering.
"Hang on Penny, I'm on my way" he thought as he continued to drive through the hallway and past people.
Pyrrha
Pyrrha and Penny were continuing their fighting as Pyrrha was twirling her javelin to block each sword swipe of Penny's, to which she dropped her weapon when she needed to somersault away after being hit by a slash, only to magnetically return it to her hand as Penny readied another wave of blades.
Port sat in amazement and said "My word! What a tremendous display by Miss Polendina!"
Fully glowering, Pyrrha rushed forward and jumped on an incoming sword, swinging down on Penny, only to have the assault halted by the collection of blades, though she leaped away from the retaliatory slice as Penny backed away as well. She tried to defend against the multitude of swords with the length of her weapon, but she was forced back, prompting Pyrrha to roll the shield from her back onto her arm with her polarity.
Pyrrha's team continued to cheer her on as Nora yelled "Whoo, yeah! Goooo Pyrrha!"
Despite the cheers, Pyrrha wasn't doing well, as she looked down to see her Semblance's black energy bend the weapons in her hands unnaturally for a split second. But from the seats, Emerald began to narrow her gaze further, continuing to concentrate on Pyrrha.
Pyrrha spun wildly as she deflected and dodged each sword, until she got close enough to Penny to deliver a few slashes with the spear, sending her flying back as Pyrrha batted aside the blades. Penny slid to a stop and made a new series of motions, the weapons folded up until she was circled by several laser rifles, a few of which open fire on the approaching champion.
Pyrrha avoided the blasts and fought off the remaining swords with her blade until she slid into position to charge at Penny and knock her back. Pyrrha straightened with a victorious grin that disappeared into dizziness, just as she saw Penny rocketing forward, weapons firing behind her like a jetpack so she leapt into the air, then came down as an energized meteor on Pyrrha.
Rolling back to her feet, Pyrrha turned to face Penny but then her shield and spear got knocked back. She tried to get the latter back with her magnetism, but had to use the power to send a flying sword back at Penny's side. It disappeared behind Penny, only for her to grin and raise her arms as several appear above her, aimed to strike. This didn't seem to be going well for her.
Rex
He kept driving as fast as he could until he finally saw an end at the tunnel and popped it into hyperdrive and drove like hell. He drove faster and faster and soon as he came to the end, he kept driving and soon, he came flying out of the tunnel and down the seats. People near the tunnel he was in immediately turned their heads to the sudden flying object and saw a motorbike flying out of the tunnel.
Rex was flying right out of the tunnel and immediately deactivated his rider and formed his wings again and headed toward the arena.
Pyrrha
Pyrrha gazed over at Penny and saw her weapons were being held high but then she saw something she wasn't expecting. Penny's eight swords were now doubling, then tripling, multiplying into an unreal thicket of blades. At the sight of this, Pyrrha was freaked out and stepped back and before she knew it, an even bigger thicket of blades was above her. This was becoming even more deadly for her.
Rex
He flew closer to the arena but he then saw Pyrrha spread her arms out and could see a faint black glow in her arms.
"NO" he said as flew faster to the arena.
Pyrrha
Pyrrha knew that she didn't have a choice now. She needed to use her semblance. But as she moved her arms out and activated it, she heard a giant "NO" to which she turned and saw Rex was flying towards the arena.
"Rex. Whats he doing here?" she thought but while she was distracted, Penny to this window of opportunity and sent her blades towards Pyrrha. Upon seeing the thicket of blades coming towards her, Pyrrha panicked on instinct and sent out a magnetized shockwave. The shockwave then caused the blades and Penny to stop unintentionally. And then the blades began to head back towards... Penny.
Penny couldn't move. Her body wouldn't let her. She was only able to look as she saw the blades coming right back for her. The blades began to get closer... and closer...and closer.
In only a brief moment, Pyrrha's image of a million blades behind Penny disappeared and saw the original 8 but then saw her error and saw that she sent the blades towards her.
For the two of them, the world became slower as the blades came closer to Penny...
..."PENNY. NO"cried a voice in that split second as Penny saw something big heading towards her and the shoved her to the side. Pyrrha saw this too. She saw out of her preifereal vision and saw Rex who had his right Smack Hand up and had instantly shoved Penny out of the way of the blades. Pyrrha saw this and felt relieved but she still saw the blades trajectory hadn't changed at all.
SQUELCH
That was the only sound that could be heard in that few seconds.
Penny fell to the ground as she could now feel her body working again and heard her blades hit the ground. But as she began to focus on what just happened, she turned to her side, only to be utterly horrified.
To everyone now watching the broadcast, there was Rex flying back in the arena...
...with two swords lodged into his stomach.
There was a moment of darkness, as everyone just sat or stood in shock and horror as well as Pyrrha as she just stared in abject horror, with her eyes wide, same as Penny, at the travesty that had just happened.
Port stood up from his chair in horror as he yelled "No!"
Ironwood sat in shock as he saw Rex had been stabbed but as he saw him he thought "Oh no. If he's here then who's watching Amber?!"
With everyone gasping in shock, Rex just grunted in pain as he coughed up blood and fell to his knees and fell onto his back.
Everyone in Remnant, watching the show, was all in complete shock.
Outside the Stadium
But while all of this was going on, miles away in Mountain Glenn, Grimm of all kinds began turning toward the Colosseum, and begin to charge towards it.
Finally, Ruby turned a corner and emerged from the service tunnel and ran to the arena but when she got there, what she saw was even worse. There, was her own teammate, skewered by two of Penny's blades and was bleeding out.
Ruby fell to her knees and cried "Rex. NO" as her tears fell as she sobbed miserably.
The arena began to lower back into place under the spotlights, as Mercury appeared behind the weeping Ruby, and then saw what had happened.
"Huh? Not exactly what we planned but at least he's not a problem anymore. But man, Cinder probably isn't happy about this" he said as he began stepping back into the Colosseum's maintenance area. Ruby tensed slightly as she heard his footsteps, but slumped forward once again as the door noisily swung shut.
Oobleck was panicking that all of this was still on the air as he yelled "Broadcast, what are you doing? Kill the feed!"
"Something's wrong! We don't have control of the cameras! We can't even stop the broadcast!" said the Broadcast operator.
Oobleck's eyes widened in surprise as he said "What!? How is that possible!?"
As soon as Oobleck said that, the background behind the two teachers changed the video feed of the sight before them, to a tinted, ominous bright red with a black queen chess piece hovering over the scene. They turned back to the arena as a voice could be heard throughout the Colosseum and the rest of the world watching the events.
"This is not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you hand over your trust, your safety, your children, to men who claim to be our guardians..." as several audience members looked uneasy at the hearing, while Jaune was just staring at the arena in shock "...but are, in reality, nothing more than men. Our Academies' Headmasters wield more power than most armies, and one was audacious enough to control both."
Ironwood realized who she was talking about, and grimaced and rose from his seat and marched up the steps.
"They try to set an example for all of Remnant when it comes to their students or their power, and yet, what do we have here? A boy with powers no ones ever even heard of, was hidden in Beacon Academy for some time, and now has been mercilessly stabbed by another star pupil and a friend of his no less. Such a tragic thing. But Ozpin knew about this. He knew about that boys powers but kept it all from the world and look where its led him. I have seen these three be friends and yet one of them killed this boy without a thought. I don't think the Grimm can tell the difference between who's the good guy and the bad guy here" said the voice over the loud speaker.
Pyrrha continued to stare at Rex lying on the ground in dread and guilt. Her lips were parted as she raised a hand to cover her mouth. Then her eyes started watering, as a single tear fell. Penny just sat in horror as she saw one of her own blades had stabbed a person that considered her his friend.
Weiss and Blake
Back in the fairgrounds, Weiss and Blake watched the hacked screen in horror. They just witnessed their own teammate and friend get stabbed by a sword and was laying dead, on the ground.
"And what, I ask you, is Ozpin teaching his students? First he lies about this boy and his powers, now this? Not to mention, that boy picked fights with the White Fang. And that alone is a terrible thing. They won't take that lying down. Huntsmen and Huntresses should carry themselves with honor and mercy, yet I have witnessed neither. Perhaps Ozpin felt as though defeating Atlas in the Tournament would help people forget his colossal failure to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded its streets. Or perhaps this was his message to the tyrannical dictator that has occupied an unsuspecting kingdom with armed forces. Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue as to who is right and who is wrong. But I know the existence of peace is fragile, and the leaders of our kingdoms conduct their business with iron gloves" continued Cinder as she kept speaking into her scroll.
"As someone who hails from Mistral, I can assure you the situation there is... equally undesirable. Our Kingdoms are on the brink of war, yet we, the citizens, are left in the dark."
Outside the academy
Two Atlas Soldiers were watching the message on their Scroll, not noticing the wave of Grimm coming out of the mist shrouded treeline until they heard growling. Both of them turned and open fired the best they can, shooting down a few. But many more rushed past them with Cinder's voice still stirring up trouble from her position with a malevolent smile.
"So I ask you: When the first shots are fired... who do you think you can trust?"
In the Colosseum, the screen then cut from red and black to complete static.
"The feeds are all jammed! We can't get a message out!" said Oobleck to Port.
Port just scratched his head as he said "Will somebody tell me what in the world is happening!?"
Then in that same instant, a loud siren could be heard as a voice said "Alert. Incoming Grimm attack. Threat level: Nine. Please seek shelter in a calm and orderly manner."
Hearing this, the crowd began to flee, franticly running wild and screaming through the exit tunnels while Ironwood entered the announcers' box and grabbed the microphone from between Port and Oobleck and said "Ladies and gentlemen, please. There is no need for panic."
With that said, a Giant Nevermore appeared atop the arena's domed force field, giving a series of deafening screeches as it clawed and pecked at the defense with its beak.
"A Nevermore!?" said Sun.
"How did it get past the Kingdom's defenses!?" said Coco.
"It wasn't alone" said Ren.
Up in the booth, Ironwood watched the Nevermore attack the shields until he answered his Scroll, stammering as he said "Ozpin, I know this doesn't look good but.."
"You brought your army to my Kingdom, James. Use it" said Ozpin in a grave tone.
Ironwood's worry turned to determination as he pulled out his scroll and said "All stations. We are in a level 9 threat. Is everyone at their stations."
But over his scroll, he heard noises of Grimm attacking the ships as he heard someone say " This is Blue Four! Blues Two and Three, fall into defensive position!"
"Roger! Blue Three, in position!"
"Blue Two, what's your status?" No response "Blue Two, come in! Someone answer me, dammit!"
The man tried to get to the other ship but then he saw the furthest craft suddenly turn towards its allies and fired several bright red lasers at the engine of the one closest to it.
"We're hit! What's going-" before he could finish speaking the flaming ship crashed into another, in a series of explosions and sent them both tumbling toward the waters below.
On Blue Two's ship
On Blue Two's ship, all of the soldier and operators were down for the count as they had been knocked out as someone cried "Woo-hoohahahaha! Oohh, it is good to be back!" which turned out to be the old criminal Roman Torchwick.
"This is going to be fun" he said as he skipped across the room.
Amity arena
At Beacon's cliffside landing platforms, three Bullheads arrived, but then the middle one opened its hatch to reveal four members of the White Fang, and their leader.
Adam.
"Bring them to their knees!" said Adam in anger as another Bullhead opened its door, this time with several creatures of Grimm inside as they jumped from the ship and landed on Academy grounds, ready to attack the arena and the people.
Now
Fairgrounds (September 18)
The fairgrounds were in chaos as civilians were running away from the hordes of Grimm chasing them. Atlesian Knight-200s kept firing at the dark creatures as several other grimes were running rampant around. Blake and Weiss just watched in horror at everything going on around them. Civilians continued to flee as Grimm continued to run amok.
"I don't believe this...I-I mean this -and-an- Rex he-he" said Weiss as she began to whimper in sadness as tears slowly fell down her face.
Blake pulled out her scroll and said "Yang, are you okay?"
Yang was running down the hall and said "I'm fine. Is Ruby with you? She's not answering her Scroll. And what was that about someone getting stabbed. I didn't catch everything that was said or what was going on."
Blake and Weiss looked at each other in horror as they didn't know how to respond but they knew she had a right to know. "It was Rex. He got stabbed by Penny's blades" said Blake through her scroll.
Yang came to a complete stop at hearing Blakes words. She couldn't believe it as she brought a hand to her mouth and mumbled "No" as she felt a single tear roll from her eye.
Yang wiped the tear away and said "Please tell me you're joking. Please Blake. Tell me you're joking" as she tried her hardest not to cry.
Blake and Weiss looked at each other in worry as Blake said "If I did, I'd be lying" as they both of them looked down in sadness.
Hearing that, Yang began to cry at hearing that Rex had been stabbed. She admitted she liked him but she could see that he wasn't ready for a relationship. But now hearing that he was in pain, hurt a lot worse than she had imagined. She didn't want him to die. He promised her that he would help her find Raven when this whole thing was over. But now, was that possible?
Oum, she was just a clutter of emotions at this point but she then remembered her sister was still out there so she asked again.
"Is Ruby with you?" she asked again.
Blake shook off her sadness and said "No, she isn't. Yang, I'm sure she's fine. She's our leader. She can take care of herself."
Yang closed her eyes and curled her fist into a ball while still trying to stop her crying.
"Right. Do you know if anyone is helping Rex?" asked Yang as she was still worried about him.
"I don't know but I'm sure that he might be ok. He will be back. He wouldn't die like that. After all we've been through, after all he's been through, I'm sure he'll be fine" said Blake, trying to calm Yang down.
Yang sniffed as she said "Yea, theres no way that would stop him. But still, I'm on my way" as she continued forward with Zwei following her.
"This can't be happening" said Weiss as she was just distraught at what was happening "Rex..."
"I'm headed to the docks near the courtyard. The White Fang are releasing Grimm into the school!" said Yang as she kept on running.
Blake was widened as she grabbed Weiss's scroll and said "The White Fang is here!?" but then the scroll turned off as Blake yelled "Yang!".
No Answer
Blake grunted in anger as she pulled out her scroll as Weiss asked "Blake, what are we going to do?"
Blake just stared at her scroll and said "We're going to the docks, and we're doing our job."
Blake used her Scroll to call upon her rocket locker, which landed behind her and opened up to reveal her weapon. Weiss gave one last look at Blake before nodding in agreement as she called in her weapon too.
Amity Colosseum
People were still running and screaming away from the colosseum seats and heading to the exits while the Nevermore screeched and continued to weaken the force field as it pecked at it.
Warning: Safety Barriers Failing
As the civilians ran, Ruby just stayed kneeling on the ground with her head down, her expression in a mixture of shock and sadness. Here, she expected to see Penny possibly destroyed but this hurt worse. She still stared at the lying down form of Rex as blood kept leaking from his wounds. She knew she couldn't stay there forever. She knew she had to help him, even if he might be on death's bed, she had do something so she stood up and began running past the scared people as she headed to the arena.
As the Nevermore circled around the colosseum, Pyrrha was still in shock at what she had done. In a quick moment of trying to survive what looked like a thousand swords aimed at her, she ended up stabbing someone she trusted. She felt awful. Even if she wasn't at fault, she still did it
"PYRRHA! Pyrrha, that thing's going to break in! You've gotta move!" said a voice, which turned out to be Jaune and that snapped her out of her trance as she then got up and began running towards Rex. She came closer and saw that he was bleeding out and not moving. She then saw the blades were still in him.
But before she had time to think, Penny soon regained her thoughts as she said "Don't worry, I'll get my swords out of him", to which Pyrrha heard her but before she could tell her "No", Penny already retracted her swords from Rex's body but when she pulled them out, that made Rex cry in pain.
"AHHHHGGG" he screamed as he placed his hands over his wounds.
"Oh my god. Rex, Hang in there" said Pyrrha as she began placing her hands on his and began using her aura to try and heal the wounds. She was putting all her effort into saving him. His body began to glow orange as she felt her aura going into his. She felt awful for doing this to him so she wanted to make it right.
As Penny retracted her swords, she stood up and ran over to Rex and sat down while placing his head in her lap.
"Do no worry, dear friend Rex. We will get you fixed" said Penny as she was worried for his safety. Pyrrha kept using her aura to try and fix his wounds. She wouldn't let him die. He had a duty to protect Amber and she wasn't going to let him die know. He was her friend and the one that they need right now. She kept trying her hardest to fix him until...
"S-s-sto-stop, Pyrrha" said a groggy voice as that same voice held onto her hand. She turned to see Rex with his eyes opened, barley, and staring at her.
"R-Rex. YOU'RE ALIVE" she chanted as she hugged him but then he grunted in pain, to which she retracted from him and said "Oh my god. I am so sorry."
He then heard Penny "Sensational. You are ok, dear Rex" as she felt happy he was alive.
Pyrrha then gasped as she forgot what she was suppose to be doing and almost put her hands on him again until Rex said groggily "Stop, don't use your aura. You need your strength to fight those beasts out there."
"But you'll die if I don't treat you" she said trying to reason with him, to which just gave a slight chuckle as he said "You forget, I am my own healing factory" as he laid back down in Penny's lap and the areas were he was stabbed began to glow blue.
Penny and Pyrrha took notice of this as Pyrrha lifted his shirt and saw that his wounds were healing up and soon the openings the blades made were gone. She then let go of his shirt and saw that he began to get up from his spot but then he fell down, to which Pyrrha caught him.
Rex gave a slight chuckle as he said "I'm my own healer but not the blood bank as well" as he turned to the blood staining the arena.
"It is ok, Rex. We will help you up" said Penny as she grabbed the other side of Rex and the both of them lifted him up.
"REEEXXXXX" yelled a voice as they saw Ruby running towards them at fast speeds but Rex held out his foot, implementing her to stop since he couldn't use his arms right now and said "Stop Red."
Ruby came to a screeching halt as she was now right next to the group of three.
"Rex. Oh thank god you're ok. I thought we lost you" as she hugged him. Rex tried his best to hold in the pain he was still having because he knew that Ruby needed this right now. She pulled away from he hug and turned her attention to Penny.
She then hugged her very tightly and said "Oh Penny. I thought we had lost you. When I heard you were fighting Pyrrha, I feared the worst because I knew her semblance would kill you" as she was still scared about almost losing her friends.
"Oh never fear, dear Ruby. I have Rex here to thank for that. Had he not pushed me out of the way, I would be in pieces right now" said Penny in her cheerful way.
Hearing this made Pyrrha raise her eyebrow in question as she said "What do you mean by that?"
Ruby gave a nervous chuckle as she didn't mean for those words to slip out of her mouth as she said "Uh-Well, you see..."
"Penny's a robot" said Rex, to which made Penny and Ruby be shocked in surprise.
"Rex, how did you know?" said Ruby in question.
"Lets just say, these things tend to get passed around a little" said Rex, in half-truth.
While they kept talking, the Nevermore completely broke through the holographic barrier, and the force of it landing on the arena floor knocked back the others. The girls sat up as they saw the beast as it screeched and lunged towards Pyrrha.
Suddenly, the Nevermore was then stabbed by a giant sword, to which the gang turned their heads to see Rex, standing in slumped way as he said "Leave her alone!" as he retracted his sword and the grimm turned into dust.
Pyrrha turned to Ruby and Rex and was scared to face them after what had happened "I... I'm so sorry" as she tried to fight back her tears.
But then she felt someone hug her around her waist as she heard someone say "But it wasn't your fault. You couldn't have known about Penny. That's why I did that. But that's not the only problem here" as she turned to see Rex was the one hugging her.
"She's right" said a voice which turned out to be Jaune as he was carrying her weapons towards her.
"Whoever was on that microphone... they're the ones that did this. They are the ones that sent the grimm here and now we have job to get rid of them" said Jaune as he handed Pyrrha her weapons.
Pyrrha stood back up and took her weapons back from Jaune, the two of them exchanging determined expressions. They then heard rocket engines coming their way as the looked up and saw a bunch of rocket lockers heading towards the arena.
"Look out" said Ruby as everyone dashed away from the arena.
Then multiply thunks of the lockers could be heard. They then saw other students running towards them and collecting their weapons. Rex and Ruby looked ahead of themselves and now saw the impressive ensemble of students. But the moment was cut short when they noticed a hippogriff-like Grimm land on top of the colosseum. They flew towards the group of students as Ren said "Griffons."
Neptune looked in worry as he said "Anybody got a plan of attack?"
Ruby then turned to Sun and said "Sun! I need your Scroll!"
Sun used his tail to flick his Scroll to Ruby, who caught it and used it to summon her locker, which opened up revealing Crescent Rose inside. However, Ruby is stopped when a Griffon landed on her locker, and roared at her before being scared away at the sound of a gunshot.
She turned to see Professor Port holding his weapon as well as Oobleck as he said "Students! I think it would be best for you to leave."
Ruby was about to protest as she said "But we did a-"
"Miss Rose! This day will surely go down in Remnant's history. I'd prefer it if my students could live to tell about it" interrupted Oobleck as he readied his weapon.
Ruby nodded at the Doctor's words before grabbing Crescent Rose and twirling it into it's scythe form as she yelled "Let's go!"
With the students clear of the arena, Port and Oobleck stood back-to-back with their weapons in their hands as the Griffons circled around them
"One final match, Barty! Place your bets!" laughed Port as they charged at them.
On the docking platforms
Civilians continued to run and flee in panic as they reached the docking bays of the colosseum. Atlas Soldiers were directing civilians to calmly step into the Air Buses. But as they did that, White Fang Bullheads showed up and began dropping off more Grimm at the docking bay. Two Atlesian Knights escorting General James Ironwood effortlessly gunned down an Ursa.
As they proceeded forward, the Knights were suddenly brutally ripped apart by a much larger, armored Beowolf variant. The Beowolf then noticed Ironwood as the General started to run towards it, gradually picking up speed as he neared the charging Beowolf.
He screamed a loud battle cry as he pulled out a pistol from his coat. Ironwood ducked and slid under the Beowolf's swipe and shot at it twice. Pivoting as he skid across the floor, and used his free hand as a break. The Beowolf landed and shook its head then charged at Ironwood again, who fired his revolver three more times before having to duck under another swipe.
The Beowolf attempted to swipe at him again with its left claw, but Ironwood effortlessly stopped it with his own right hand. The General then fired at the Beowolf's feet, the explosion causing it to get airborne, and still gripping it's claw, Ironwood proceeded to swing it back down to the ground with his own brute strength. Ironwood then picked up the Beowolf, aimed the revolver at its skull, and pulled the trigger, causing black blood to splatter from it. Ironwood then watched the body of the Beowolf dissipate before leaving. The students then came from around the corner just as the grimm died.
"What's going on!?" asked Ruby.
The general turned his head to the group but then he saw that Rex was alive and well. When Rex saw him too, the general walked over to him and said "What were you thinking, Rex. You're suppose to be guarding Amber. How could you just leave her behind like that? It's your job to keep her safe."
Rex just grunted as he said "Well, If I didn't leave in time, Penny would be dead. Show some gratitude, will you."
"I will show some when you get back to Beacon and keep her safe" said Ironwood as he pointed out towards the academy.
Rex just nodded in annoyance as he formed his wings and began to fly back to Beacon.
"Sir where is Rex going?" asked Jaune.
"He is going to do what we all should be doing. Grimm are crawling all over the city. The White Fang's invaded Beacon, and to make matters worse, some... vagabond has seized one of my ships. Until we regain command, the skies are out of our control. So I'm...going to take it back" said Ironwood as he turned towards his ship.
But then Jaune asked "But what should we do?"
Ironwood turned and faced the students as he said "You have two choices. Defend your Kingdom and your school... or save yourselves. No one will fault you if you leave. Let's move out!" as he turned around again but then he was stopped as he heard a girl say
"What do you want me to do?" to which he turned and saw Penny standing there.
Ironwood began to think what would be the best course of action for her so he said "Help them" as he got on his ship and flew away.
As Ironwood left, the students looked at each other and murmured before Sun said "I mean... come on!" but then Jaune said "We can take a ship to Beacon!" as the students then turned to another ship nearby and began to head in Rex's direction as well.
With Roman Torchwick
With everyone in "Blue-2", out like a light, Roman was having a fun time messing with stuff, and acting giddy, like a child in a candy store.
Roman walked over to a control panel as he said "Hmm... let's see, what does... this button do?" to which an explosion could be heard.
"Oh, fun! How about ... this one?" to which the airship suddenly emptied its cargo of Atlesian Knights, all on standby, as they fell to the ground with a massive thud "Hm. Alright, nothing."
Neo then walked forward and handed Roman a Scroll with the Black Queen insignia, as he inserted it in the console.
"Oh-ho-ho! Now this one, this one's gonna be fun!" as he began waiting for something to happen.
With Glynda and Qrow
As a squadron of Knights were shooting down Grimm, they suddenly stopped as their visors and LEDs turned a dark crimson, and turned around, pointing their guns at Glynda and Qrow as they continued to fight the Grimm. The realization shocked them as they saw the Knights were now turned against two of their now former allies.
"What!?" yelled Glynda as the two now had more to deal with than a few minutes ago.
Courtyards of Beacon
Weiss and Blake were running towards Beacon when suddenly, they were nearly caught off-guard by the local Knights who also had the crimson light in their masks now, succumbing to the virus and turned towards them, fortunately Blake reacted quickly and said "Look out!"
Blake managed to push Weiss aside in order to dodge incoming fire, but the Knights surrounded them, forcing them to draw their weapons.
Ironwood
Meanwhile, the oblivious general was still en route to the stolen Airship when suddenly the robots in his ship began to glow red now too as the Knights on his dropship suddenly turned on him.
Ironwood reacted too late while saying "No!"as two flashes could be seen from the cockpit as the ship now began to fall and plummet down to the ground. The students watched in horror as they saw dropship fall from the sky.
Penny looked out the window and gasped in shock as she saw her own general going down in a blaze of fire. She then balled her fists up and decided to run to the bay doors of their air Bus.
"Penny! What are you doing!?" yelled Ruby as she followed her.
Penny then jumped off the Air Bus as it barely took and landed on the platform. Ruby followed suit but used her Semblance of speed to safely land on the runway after freefalling in the sky. She looked to see Penny running towards the ledge and yelled "Penny wait."
Penny turned around to see Ruby running towards her as she then replied "What is it, Ruby?"
Ruby caught up and said "Take me with you."
Penny knew that it was dangerous but she knew she needed all the help she could get. She then carried Ruby, bridal style, and activated her swords and made a powerful blast which sent them flying. They saw the ship that was supposedly taken and drew near as they then landed on top Roman's stolen airship with a thud.
Roman could feel and hear the thud so he gestured to Neo saying "Ugh... go see what that is."
Neo simply nodded at Roman's command, and left the control room.
Weiss and Blake
Back at Beacon, the hacked Knights continued to fire, but they were getting cut up by a flurry of slashes, courtesy of Weiss as she took down a sizeable group of knights using a combination of Myrtenaster's strikes as well as her using her Glyph Semblance, while Blake fought off a group of White Fang soldiers, before using her Semblance to dodge a dual sword-wielding soldier, more White Fang grunted as they charged at her, but they were all suddenly knocked back by Weiss.
Afterwards, Weiss and Blake stood back-to-back, but noticed a group of human Atlas Soldiers fighting off an Atlesian Paladin, which had also been affected by the virus and turned rogue. The Paladin easily batted aside several of the soldiers.
"Come on!" said Weiss to Blake.
Before Weiss and Blake could assist the soldiers, they noticed a Bullhead beginning to crash land. An armored Beowolf then jumped out of it before it could crash with the aircraft. The Beowolf landed on the ground and started to chase after fleeing civilians. Weiss and Blake exchanged one last look with each other before parting ways.
"Be safe" said Weiss as the two began to split up.
Sharing a nod the two split up, Blake began running just outside the dining hall. However, she stopped when the Beowolf from earlier latched onto the side of the building above her. Her attention was then drawn away from the Beowolf when she heard a wounded scream inside the burning interior of the dining hall. She turned then gave a look of horror when she saw a familiar figure throwing an Atlas soldier across the floor.
"No... Adam?" said Blake in a complete state of shock.
Adam grinned creepily as he said "Hello, Blake. Do you like what I've done to the place. Quite a make over, isn't it."
With Rex
Rex was still flying towards the tower but then he heard screams happening down below and saw a bunch of grimm chasing people in the fairgrounds, so he knew he had stop and save them.
He charged towards a herd of grimm heading towards some people and landed on the ground. Seeing them come closer, made him form his Bad Axes and charged towards them.
He quickly slashed through the horde and gestured the people to get to safety.
When the people began to escape, he turned his attention back to the rest of the grim but saw so many people running in different directions. He began to panic as he needed to be in several places at once but he was still a little light headed.
"What do I do. what do i. What-do-I" he mumbled as...
...something great came at just the right moment.
He then looked up with determination and said "Yea."
He then began to put the blueprints together and saw that they went on his legs so he activated his nanties and began to build.
Soon the build came out and Rex was able to get a look at what they were. The build came out form his knees and formed downwards. There was a pair of blue mechanical looking boots, with 2 black strap-like additions to the build, as the bottom of the builds glowed blue, while both boots hovered over their own blue sphere, in the design of the Yin and Yang logo in the colors of medium blue and light blue.
Rex grew a smirk as he donned his goggles as the black straps soon closed in on his legs and made a clicking sound, signifying that they held his legs in place. Rex then moved his right leg back and pushed off it and before he knew it, he was running as quick as a flash. As he looked around, he saw that people were moving slow as was everything else.
He then saw some people running away from a Beowulf, so when he came up to the Beowulf, he formed his sword and slashed the beast in slow motion. Well, it was slowto him but to everyone else, they didn't see it coming.
Rex stopped as he looked down at his new build "Yea. This'll do nicely. Welcome to the team...uh" he said as he tried to think of a name but he soon fell over onto his knees as he felt tired.
"Dang it. Guess I'm still recuperating from Penny's blades. And the fact that I'm moving faster than before doesn't help me get better. Can't think about that, now I'll think of something later to call these guys. Right now, I've still got a job to do" said Rex as he stood up and began running off, killing the grimm and saving the people.
With the other students
The students had finally made it back to beacon, and battled the many Creatures of Grimm. Everyone had their work cut out for them but this was the job they signed up for. But farther away from them, Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury were standing on the rooftop, with Mercury filming the chaos with his Scroll.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" said Cinder.
"It's almost sad" said Emerald
"It's horrendous. Focus on the Atlesian Knights." said Cinder.
"Oh, I'm getting all of it" said Mercury as he kept filming the whole thing.
"Good. Continue the broadcast until the end. Did you find anything in the camera footage?" Said Cinder as she asked Emerald, who then pulled up her own scroll.
"Yes, she's in the tower. And lucky enough, there's soldiers at the near the elevator" said Emerald while showing Cinder.
"Good. Program them to go up to Ozpin's office and keep her in that room. It'll make our introduction more dramatic" said Cinder as she and Emerald began walking away.
"And do not miss what happens next" she said as a tremor could be heard from far away.
With Glynda and Qrow
Back in the city, Glynda and Qrow continued fighting, before they too are shaken by another tremor. Qrow stabbed his sword into the ground to keep himself standing.
"No..." said Glynda.
Elsewhere
A mountain near the school started to violently shake and crumble, as various body parts of a monstrous-looking Grimm began to be revealed, before the mountain completely broke apart, a released a titanic Wyvern.
The Wyvern roared as it flew over the abandoned Mountain Glenn, heading towards Beacon. As it flew, it exudes a black, tar-like substance which dropped to the ground in the city of Vale and spawned various Grimm.
"I hate my job" said Qrow as he readied his sword and charged at the grimm.
With the other students
The students were now in a pickle. Not only did they have to deal with the grimm now but also Atlas soldier robots and Paladins too. Everyone was having their own struggles as Weiss then arrived on the battlefield, and charged in but got swatted aside by one of the Paladins arm.
"Weiss!" yelled Neptune.
Yatsuhashi tried to hold back a Paladin's fist with his sword, but he got overpowered and knocked back. The Paladin then turned to and started approaching a distracted Lie Ren.
"Look out!" yelled Nora as she pushed him and ended up taking the hit instead.
"Nora! No!" he yelled as he ended getting hit too.
"Uh, this is bad" said Neptune.
Coco turned towards Velvet as she said "Well, I guess now's a better time than any. Velvet!"
Velvet turned to her leader and excitedly said "Really?"
"Just make them count." said Coco as she smirked.
Velvet nodded as she walked up to the Paladins.
"What are you doing!? She's going to get hurt!" said Weiss, feeling concerned for Velvet.
Coco just smirked and said "Just watch."
Velvet stopped right in front of paladin and then held out her arms and then in an instant, her camera she had been carrying around began to glow and before anyone saw it coming, a pair of blue lines in the form of Rex's Smack Hands appeared on her arms.
Weiss's eyes widened in surprise at what just happened. Velvet had just created her very own giant fists that Rex had used in battle. Now that was cool.
Clenching her new fists, Velvet quickly brought the fists down to the ground and launched herself into the air as she dodged the cannon fire as she then brought her fists together and slammed them down hard onto the giant robot, causing the robot's top to get crushed and made it fall down. Velvet then landed on the ground with her new fists on the ground too.
The robot stumbled around a bit but began to get back up and when it began to charge at them again, her camera glowed again and on her right arm was Rex's BFS but with blue lines on it as well.
She charged towards the robot then jumped high in the air and in one fail-swoop, she brought the sword down, and slashed the robot in half.
Velvet then turned back to the others and just smiled while holding a thumb up, having her sword lay on her shoulders thinking "Bet Rex would've loved to have seen me in action" as she continued to smile.
But before they could take a breath, another advanced Paladin rushed in from the corner and began to charge at them.
"You have got to be kidding me!" said Sun, but Velvet just created Rex's Bad Axes with blue lines on them and charged towards it.
With Penny and Ruby(Before Velvet's fight)
Just as they got on the ship, they were attacked by grimm and began to defend themselves. But just as Ruby sliced up a griffon, she turned to see Neopolitan had just now appeared, now changing into her standard attire with a wave of light washing over her from bottom to top, as she winked after taking a picture of Ruby, sending it to a certain crime lord with the following text: "Guess Who?"
"Oh, you can not be serious! Well, at least its not the boy" he said as he realized his old foe is interfering yet again, the wanted criminal quickly picked up the scroll and his cane and walked up to the top of the airship.
Penny looked at the girl in confusion and the turned her attention to Ruby saying "Is this a friend of yours?" she asked.
"No" said Ruby as she aimed Crescent Rose at Neo and said "She is definitely not a friend. She's the enemy."
Penny nodded in understanding that she wasn't on their side. She then pulled out her swords and got ready to attack.
Ruby was the first to attack as she did a low swing, to which Neo somersaulted over it but as she did that, she was blasted by several energy blasts from Penny's swords. She slided back a bit but then ducked the next swing, before performing another backflip to dodge the third. Ruby then twirled Crescent Rose before attempting another low sweep, only for Neo to back-flip away from her consecutive twirls.
Once Ruby finished spinning her weapon, Penny ran towards her and began spinning her blades back and forth and then gave her a good slash to the arm, only for Neo to shatter, and there her place was Roman as he fired a shot back with his cane, making Penny jump back to Ruby. Ruby looked around Penny and then saw her old enemy.
"Little Red, little Red, you are just determined to be the hero of Vale, aren'tcha? You and that cursed boy. Oh wait, I just saw that he was... well you get my "point" said Roman as he emphasized "point" and trying to provoke almost worked as she was about to charge at him in anger, but she felt a hand on her shoulder as she turned to Penny and saw that she was shaking her head no.
Ruby's anger dissipated as she turned back to Roman and said "What are you doing!? Without these ships, the Grimm will destroy everything!"
"That's the plan!" said Roman without a care in the world as he then aimed his cane at her but Ruby swatted it away, causing him to move a few feet off-balance, before Neo returned and leapt over her and was about to kick her to the side, but she was stopped by Penny's blades. She then backed away as Penny began chasing after her.
Ruby turned her attention back to Roman as she asked again "But why!? What do you get out of it!?"
"You're asking the wrong questions, Red! It's not what I have to gain, it's that I can't afford to lose!" he said as Ruby charged at him but Roman dodged her next attack and then slammed barrel of his cane to the ground and fired, causing the cane to ricochet and hit Ruby, before catching it and fired the weapon once more over his shoulder. The blast is enough to send Ruby holding on for dear life, with the embedded blade of Crescent Rose the only thing preventing her from falling.
"I may be a gambling man, but even I know that there are some bets you just don't take. Like it or not, the people that hired me are going to change the world! You can't stop 'em, I can't stop 'em!" he said as he aimed his cane at Ruby but then he heard firing blasts and turned to see Penny fighting Neo but then Penny opened Neo's umbrella, which sent Neo flying off the airship, leaving her with a frightened gasp as she was silently left at the mercy of the Grimm roaming the skies and the raging winds.
"NEO!" yelled Roman as he then scowled at Penny and then fired multiple shots at Penny, which took her by surprise and ended up getting sent of the edge of the airship.
"PENNY. NO" yelled Ruby as she reached her arm out.
She grunted as she then began pulling herself up. Ruby grabbed Crescent Rose and aimed it at Roman as she said "I don't care what you say! We will stop them and I will stop you! BET ON THAT!"
Ruby then charged at top speed with the use of her Semblance at Roman as he gripped his cane and then ducked her next attack and then hooked his acne around her leg and pulled on it, making Ruby fall to the ground, making Crescent Rose slide away from her. She immediately turned around to see Roman with an angry expression on his face with his cane aimed at her and then said "You got spirit, Red. But this is the real world!
Roman then whacked Ruby with the butt of his cane, sending her back a few feet.
"The real world is cold!
Roman landed another coshing but this time on Ruby's legs.
"The real world doesn't care about spirit!"
Ruby then kicked him in the knee, causing him to lose balance as he prepared a downward strike.
"You wanna be a hero!? Then play the part and die like every other Huntsman in history!"
He then proceeded to smack Ruby with the butt end of the cane again.
"As for me, I'll do what I do best: lie, steal, cheat, and SURVIVE..."
CHOMP
Just as Roman was about to prepare a final, overhead swing, a Griffon suddenly appeared from the sky and swallowed him whole, attracted by the negativity of his rant. The roar sent Ruby back a few feet, before the two charge at each other.
Ruby prevailed when she kicked the beast in the head, sending it through the hull and causing it to crash. She knew know she had to get off the ship but then she heard grunting nosies and turned to see Penny trying to climb back onto the ship.
"Penny" said Ruby as she ran over and began pulling her up. The two hugged each other in comfort as they heard an explosion coming from the cockpit and then nodded to each other that they needed to get off of the ship. Penny picked her off and began heading down to the ground as they landed safely on the rooftops of Vale.
With Glynda and Qrow
Back in the city, Glynda and Qrow were still busy fighting the grimm that the bigger bird grimm had left behind while Qrow was busy slicing up a few infected Knights with his sword.
Nearby, Cardin giddily knocked back an Ursa with his mace, but then got held at gunpoint by a few infected Knights. Suddenly, their heads are shot off, surprising Cardin.
As the smoke cleared, General Ironwood had stepped out, and had miraculously survived his crash but now his uniform was damaged and it was now exposing the right half of his body to be cybernetic. Without hesitation, he shot down all of the infected Knights with his gun. Flipping it into his right hand to club the last one as it leapt at him.
"This area's secure! We need to-" said Ironwood but soon saw Qrow ahead of him along with Glynda.
Suddenly, Qrow's expression changed into what appears to be anger as he transformed his sword into a scythe and charged towards Ironwood.
"Qrow! This isn't my doing!" said Ironwood in defense but Qrow continued charging, despite Ironwood's words.
The general flipped his gun in his hand and got into a battle stance, preparing for the perceived attack, but also showing that he didn't want to fight him.
However, Qrow leapt past Ironwood, who turned around just in time to see a large Griffon lunging at him. With one swing of Qrow's scythe, the Griffon was sliced in two. Upon landing, Qrow turned around to address Ironwood.
Qrow just scoffed as he said "You idiot. I know you didn't do this."
Ironwood sighed in relief as he lowered his head and put his hand to his forehead, while Glynda placed her hand on his shoulder.
"So what now, General?" asked Qrow.
"Someone's done the impossible and gained control of my machines. And that enormous Grimm seems to be fixated on the school. Glynda, form up the local Huntsmen and establish a safe zone here in Vale. We need to evacuate Beacon. Qrow, I'm leaving that to you and my men. I still need to get to my ship" commanded Ironwood as the three then heard a loud noise and turned to see its source, which was Ironwood's ship slowly nosediving into the ground.
Qrow just chuckled as he said "Well, it won't be much of a walk."
"Very funny" said Ironwood as he began heading towards his fallen ship, he looked up and saw two kids running through the rooftops.
"Wait, was that Penny" he thought.
But then out of nowhere a flash of blue came zooming by them. So quick they couldn't keep up and then the blue light began running back towards Beacon.
"What the hell was was that?" asked Qrow but no one knew the answer to that either.
But soon the blue flash came charging back as everyone had blocked their eyes as the light. They soon looked again and saw Rex, standing before them, with what seemed to be glowing boots hovering over two spheres.
They soon saw Rex's expression turned to a worried one as he saw Ironwood's mechanical body as he said "Ironwood, what happened to you?"
Ironwood followed Rex's eyes as he looked down at his mechanical parts and said "They've been the cost of my job as a general, but never mind that. Why are you not protecting Amber? She's left defenseless" in a frustrated manner.
"Its because I've been trying to clean up your robot army. I saw that they were attacking people and not the grim. So I've been trying to deal with them by shutting them down, since I don't know where the controller for them is" said Rex as he pointed to the downed robots before them.
Ironwood was about to tell Rex the same thing he told Qrow but Rex beat him to the punch and said "I know this wasn't you, Ironwood. Because I know that you wouldn't jeopardize the partnership we've sort of created and you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" as he said in a neutral way.
Ironwood sighed as he said "Good to see you understand. But you still need to get back to Beacon and protect Amber. NOW" as he pointed towards the school, to which Rex quickly nodded and zoomed off.
With the other students (Now)
The students were getting ready to fight the incoming Paladin. However, electricity came out across it and it suddenly powered down, collapsing and sliding to a stop in front of them.
"Hm. That went better than expected" said Sun.
Weiss doubled over in exhaustion as she then heard someone yell.
"Weiss! You're okay! Have you heard from Ruby?" which turned out to be Yang.
Weiss just shook her head no.
"What about Blake?" she asked.
"She went after an Alpha..and some members of the White Fang" as she pointed in the direction of the cafeteria.
"You look for Ruby. I'll meet up with Blake" said Yang as she hurried off in the direction that Weiss pointed, while the heiress gave a thumbs up.
With Blake and Adam
"This could've been our day! Can't you see that!?" said Adam as he yelled at her.
"I never wanted this! I wanted equality! I wanted peace!" she said as she raised her sword, with the blade folding into sickle mode, and shot at Adam, who blocked both bullets with his sword.
"What you want is impossible!" he said as he sheathed his sword and backhands Blake across her face, knocking her over.
"But I understand because all I want is you dead, Blake. I thought I had an apprentice. One that I could trust. You promised that you would take my teachings and share them with others but you just took that all and spat it back in my face" said Adam as his hand never left his blade.
She began to raise her sickle again, only for him to kick it out of her hand, knocking her over once again.
"So, as I set out upon this world and deliver the justice mankind so greatly deserves, I will make it my mission to destroy everything you love" said Adam as he kicked her to the ground.
"Blake!" yelled a female voice, which Blake knew was Yangs.
Yang's voice drew their attention to one of the broken windows. She soon came into view as she shot a White Fang member, before looking around for her teammate.
"Blake! Where are you!?" said Yang as she continued to search for her teammate.
Adam looked at Blake to see her terrified expression, then returned his gaze to Yang.
Adam then smirked as he said "Starting with her."
Adam drew his sword and stabbed it into Blake's abdomen near her left hip, causing her to shriek in pain. The cry caught Yang's attention
"Huh?" she said as she turned and gasped in horror. Her friend was being stabbed by an unknown Faunus to her.
Adam stood upright as he pulled his sword from Blake's flesh and turned to face Yang.
"Get away from her!" yelled Yang as her eyes turned red and a burst of flame erupted from her. She leapt at Adam, drawing her fist back with tears in her eyes. Adam smirked as he saw her inching closer and closer towards him. He began to draw his sword as she came closer to him. He swung his sword towards her and came closer and closer...
...YOU LEAVE HER ALONE" said a voice as they zoomed in, to which Adam turned to, only to get hit by something hard and heavy and was sent flying through the walls of the cafeteria and disappeared from sight. Yang immediately stopped as she turned to the person and saw that it was Rex.
He had his smack hands out, still in the position of him punching. He then retracted his hands and turned to see Yang, still with tears in her eyes.
"Rex. Y-you're- YOU' ALIVE" she yelled as she ran up to him and hugged him very tightly.
Rex embraced the hug as he figured that she too needed this. But she noticed he was a little bit taller, so she looked down and saw that he had a new build they hadn't seen before.
"Is that a new build?" she asked.
"Yes it is, but we don't have time for that. I need to heal Blake" as he turned around and grabbed Blake and zoomed out of the room. Yang saw the blue trail he left behind and was about to follow him, but then he came back, carried her bridal style and sped away.
Courtyard
Yang and Rex came to a stop as she saw that they were back in the courtyard but then turned to see Rex was kneeling down on the ground. She then saw him placing his hands over her wound and they began glow blue lines. He kept them there for a while then removed them to see her wound was gone.
Rex then stood and looked around. There didn't seem to be any grimm around them so he knew he had one last job. But then he was interrupted by Pyrrha saying "Rex. What about Amber?"
Rex was about to turn to Pyrrha to answer but just as he did, he saw flashing lights coming from Beacon tower.
Immediately, his eyes widen as he yelled "AMBER" which made everyone turn to his yelling as he began to run and then formed his wings and began flying towards the tower. Pyrrha saw what he was yelling at and immediately began running towards the tower.
"Wait, where are they going?" asked Nora.
Jaune looked Rex flying away and then turned to Pyrrha and then said "I'll follow her and see what's up. You two stay here and help these guys out" as he began to follow the running Pyrrha. Nora and Ren nodded to each others and tended to the others.
Beacon Tower(during Penny and Ruby's fight with Roman)
Amber was just watching the screen in horror. Beacon and Vale had became infested with grimm and it seemed the Atlas ships were being hijacked. All of this was a complete and utter disaster.
Amber felt so useless.
She was given the powers of the fall maiden yet half of it is gone and she was still bed ridden. But what really made her sad was seeing her savior stabbed on screen. She absolutely bawled when she saw him fall like that and only feared the worst.
She was then brought out of her thoughts when she heard the elevator bell ring and she turned to see 6 Atlas robot soldiers walking out of the elevator but she saw that their visors were now red but she didn't focus on that. She was more concerned why they weren't helping the other down there.
"What are you doing here?! Go out there and help them!" yelled Amber while pointing out the window. But while she "pointing" out the window, she then saw the soldiers "pointing" their guns at her.
This made Amber gasp at their actions as she said "What are you doing. Ironwood..."
"Ironwood isn't in control of them any more dear. They're ours now" said a voice that came out of one of the robots. The voice made her eyes widen even more. She knew that voice.
That was the voice of the women that put her in a coma. She then heard the second elevator ring and out stepped, her assailant and one of her assistants.
She walked slowly up as she gave her a smug look and said "My, my. What a sight. The person given the power of the Fall Maiden is reduced to a bed ridden fool. How pitiful" she playfully said.
"I'm only here because of you!" yelled Amber in anger as she pointed at Cinder.
Cinder just giggled at her reaction but then began to ponder in thought. She finished her thoughts and then said "Now that I think about it, you're suppose to be in a coma. After the state we left you in, you shouldn't be talking to us. How did you come out of your paralyzed state?"
Amber just grumbled and said "Like I would tell you anything" as she just looked away from her.
Cinder just laughed and said "I guess you don't really to say. It was Rex, wasn't it?" and upon hearing this, Amber slightly flinched at her words and that was all the confirmation she needed.
"I believe that says it all. I mean, he was taken out of the festival's final rounds so that did further my suspicions whether he was being used to protect you or not. So he can heal people, even in a coma state. He truly is an interesting individual. Too bad Rex got the "point" of this whole ordeal, wouldn't you agree" she smugly said to Amber.
Amber just clenched her fists as she glared at Cinder in anger as she said "Don't you dare speak of him like that. You are not worthy to say his name, you bitch."
Hearing this didn't sit well with Cinder as she just turned a sour expression and said "I think this is enough chatting for a while. Now, will you give me what I want or will I have to kill you for it?" as sparks flew from her hand.
"How about you leave and never come back" said a voice over the loud speaker in the office room. Everyone was surprised by the voice that wasn't any of theirs. Suddenly the third elevator rang, and out jumped Ozpin with his cane in his hand. He ran and knocked one of the robots heads off and jumped over right next to Amber.
"You've hurt this girl for the last time, Cinder Fall. You will go no further" said Ozpin in a angry voice as he pointed his cane at her.
Cinder just chuckled as she said "Oh, dear Ozpin. It seems age is getting to you. If you can't see, your completely outmatched" she said as she gestured her arm out ward to show the Atlas soldiers aiming their guns at them. But just as she said that, the robots red glow disappeared as they then fell to the ground.
Cinder and Emerald just stood there, wide eyed at the fallen soldiers as Ozpin just smirked as he said "You were saying."
Cinder just grunted and then formed her bow and fired an arrow at Amber but Ozpin deflected it with his cane. Emerald then ran towards Amber and began rapid firing with her weapon but Ozpin redirected the shots and made them hit the wall or his windows. He then hit Emerald with his staff, which made her fly backwards.
Cinder and Emerald regrouped at a distance from and focused on their only target.
"Even if we've lost more than half, its still 2 on 1 and those odds aren't in your favor, Ozpin" smirked Cinder as she readied another arrow, while Emerald readied her weapons as well.
Ozpin just smiled as he said "Oh I think you'll see that I have an entire calvary at my side" said Ozpin as he walked back toward Amber and spread his arms out to protect Amber from any incoming fire.
Emerald just laughed at Ozpin's words and said "Oh yea. What calvary?" but as she was about to fire her guns, they began to hear a buzzing sound.
Cinder didn't take her aim off of Ozpin but her eyes began to look around. "What is that sound?" she said as she continued to look around.
Ozpin then grabbed Amber's bed and rolled it away from the window. He pushed it off to the side and then turned his head towards the enemies and then gestured his right hand to the side, as the buzzing was getting louder and then said "The Calvary"
CRASHH
As the windows and the parts holding the window were broken through as it was Rex still having his wings out and crashed through the window. Dust and debris flew everywhere while bits of Rex's wings broke off as well, as Rex fell to the ground with a thud. He groaned at the pain but shook it off and hopped up and looked around him to see what was going on.
"Ah, right on time. Mr. Salazar. Though I must say I am disappointed. I told you to watch Amber and you go running off" said Ozpin in a stern way.
Rex looked towards the voice and saw that Ozpin was right next to Amber, who was still in bed, and then turned to see Cinder and Emerald covering their eyes from the dust.
Rex then turned back to Ozpin and said "Well if I hadn't gone, Penny would be over there, over there and up there. So I think I did something good there" said Rex as he pointed in different directions.
Ozpin just sighed as he turned to see Cinder and Emerald reacting quickly and began firing towards Amber but their firings were met by a blue, see through bubble. They all turned to see that Rex had formed his Block party and was keeping them safe.
"Well done, Mr Salazar. Now I believe we do have one last thing to do" said Ozpin as he held his cane to his side.
Rex was about to reply to him as he said "Right, time to..."
"Time for you take Amber and get out of here" stated Ozpin as he pointed his cane at the broken window.
Rex was shocked by this "But Oz, I can take care..."
"You will take care of Amber and get her out of here. That is an order" said Ozpin as he then raised his cane to Cinder and Emerald.
"But sir..."
"I will not let Amber die today and I know that you don't want you to either. I failed her once, and I will not fail her again" said Ozpin. Rex didn't want to leave Oz behind but he knew he had to keep Amber safe.
He then felt a hand on his shoulders and saw Ozpin giving him a somber look as he said "I'll be fine, my boy" to which Rex looked down in despair but hone nodded his head in reply. Ozpin then switched his cane over to his right and pointed out the window he broke through and said "Now Go."
Rex nodded and deactivated his block party, allowing Cinder and Emerald fire to attack them but Ozpin defected them with his cane. Rex reached his arms into the bed and picked Amber up, bridal style, and began to run to the window.
"Don't think you can escape me again" said Cinder as she sent a fire ball towards Rex, but Ozpin was too slow and it made contact with Rex and sent him and Amber flying out the window.
Amber began to scream as she and Rex were falling down Beacon Tower but Rex shook off the pain as best he could and formed his Ryder and began to fly upwards and head towards the docks at the end of the academy, where he saw everyone was at.
He flew as fast he could but his emotions were all over the place and the burn mark on his back seemed to trouble him and before they knew, as he got closer the ground, his Ryder broke apart and they fell to the ground with a thud.
Rex and Amber groaned in pain until they heard a voice saying, "REX" which came from Yang as she had seen the glow from his Ryder and ran up to him. She then saw someone else was with him.
She lifted him up as he grunted but then he said "Don't worry about me, focus on her" he said as he stood up away from Yang.
Yang was about to protest but then Rex said "Please Yang. Help me get her over to the others." Yang knew she didn't have time to argue so she obliged and carried the new girl over to the others, while air buses were picking up the last few civilians and students while Peter and Oobleck were overseeing the evacuation.
"That's it! Everybody on board! This is a mandatory evacuation!" said Port.
"A safe zone has been established in Vale! Please, remain calm and listen to Atlas personnel!" said Oobleck.
Weiss was watching over Blake and was waiting for the rest to arrive to which she heard someone say "Help" as she turned and saw Rex and Yang carrying a girl.
"I'm coming" she said as she ran over to them and took Rex's spot and carried the girl over to the others. They set her down as Rex grimaced at the burn mark on his back. His burn area then glowed blue as his began healing himself.
Once he was done, he ran over to the group and bent down to Amber and said "You feeling alright?"
"Yea, just sore from that fall" as she rubbed her right ankle.
Rex sighed in relief as he began stand up and was about to tell the gang something but then he noticed two members of JNPR were missing.
"Hey, where's Jaune and Pyrrha?" he asked.
"They ran after to you. To the tower, I guess" said Ren as he was being looked over by Nora.
This made Rex's eyes widen in fear as he yelled "NO. Pyrrha, Jaune" and then formed his new speed build and zoomed away from the group but then he doubled back and looked at the them with a serious look and pointed and Amber and said "Guard her like your life depends on it" in rush, as he then turned around and zoomed back to the tower.
The gang were shocked at how fast he suddenly could move but then they heard a voice that said "Guys!"
They turned to see Ruby and Penny running towards them from away from the campus.
"Ruby! Penny" said Weiss.
"Oh, I found you!" said Ruby as she came to a complete stop.
"Ruby, where have you-" said Weiss but Ruby stopped her by saying.
"Don't worry, I'm fine! What's going on?" asked Ruby.
"Is there any one that needs medical attention?" asked Penny.
Unsure of what to say, Weiss lowered her gaze sadly.
"Weiss? What is it?" asked Ruby
Weiss stepped aside, giving Ruby a clear view of Blake lying on the ground, while Nora was patching up Ren, who was too battered and bruised to fight.
Ruby was shocked to see her friends in such states, but didn't know what to say
Sun walked over to Ruby and said "Hey. They're gonna be okay. The soldiers have a ship ready to take you guys to Vale."
"But Jaune and Pyrrha are still missing. And Rex just ran after them. To the tower, I believe" said Ren.
Nora attempted to stand, but she quickly sat back down, groaning and holding her side.
"What!?" exclaimed Ruby, hearing some of her friends still weren't back but as she yelled in worry, the giant flying grimm shrieked loudly, causing all of them to turn towards it.
"Look, guys, that giant Grimm is circling the school! Even the White Fang are pulling out! We all have to go, now!" said Sun.
"We're not... leaving!" said Ren as he tried to stand up, but then fell to his knees.
"No, we certainly are not" said Penny as she saluted.
Ruby turned her gaze back to Beacon and thought "Oh Rex. Where are you?"
Just as Rex ran off
Rex zoomed away from the group and ran back to the tower as fast as he could. In his slow motion view, he knew he couldn't get there through the elevator and get back up there, so he turned around and began running up the side of the tower as fast as he could. He could see the opening to which he flew through and tired to slow down, but he ran much too fast and flew straight up the tower and flew higher into the air.
"Crap" he thought as he then began to stop and then activated his wings and flew down to the opening. He came closer and flew right in and quickly deactivated his wings. He faced forward to help Ozpin but his eyes widen in horror at what he saw.
There was Ozpin on the wall but in a crucified form with arrows holding his hands up, while other arrows held his feet in place and one in his heart. Rex lifted his hands over his mouth and shock and began to cry as he mumbled "NO" He stopped as he walked over to Oz and said "NO"
He then fell to the floor and began to cry.
Crying that he had failed.
He was suppose to save everyone. But he failed to save Ozpin.
"I-I-I'm sorry Ozpin" he said as he looked at the dead body of Ozpin. But then something happened he didn't see coming.
"You should be, boy" spoke the supposed dead Ozpin. This took Rex by surprise as he then felt something stab him in the back. He cried in pain as the crucified Ozpin disappeared and now Emerald stood in place. He crawled away from her but she gave a quick kick to the face and made him tumble back. He was then stopped by something sharp and painful now hitting him in the back, two times.
He turned to see Cinder standing above him with her bow in hands and just smirked down upon him.
"A boy with the power to create giant mechanical weapons from his own body and he's stopped by a kick and a few arrows. How sad" she simply said.
Rex grunted at the arrow in his back as he pulled it out and said "What did you do with Ozpin?"
"Oh him. Well, lets just say he's... one with the wind now" she said as sparks flew from her hand.
"What you saw from Emerald was a more friendly way to die compared to what we did to him" she said as she put her bow aside.
"And now you'll join him very soon" as she held out her right hand and immediately, Rex saw a bug pop out of her arm and then some black goo flew out of her hand and landed on his face.
The goop began make Rex cry out in pain as Emerald and Cinder just smirked. The goop began to glow as Cinder closed her eyes and waited to feel a new sense her body. His powers will soon be hers, but then the elevator dinged and out shot a spear and almost hit Cinder but Emerald stopped it.
The Spear then glowed black and flew back to the elevator. Then Pyrrha and Jaune stepped out and saw that Rex was in trouble.
"Rex" she said as she looked at Cinder and said "Leave him alone" as she was about to attack, a sudden blue light was shining down below them.
Cinder turned and saw blue lines appearing on Rex's face and then in an instant, a giant electrical shock hit Cinder and caused her to fly back towards Emerald. Pyrrha and Jaune saw this happen and while the enemies were distracted, she rushed over to Rex as Jaune soon followed her.
"Rex, are you ok?" asked Pyrrha. Rex grunted in pain as he then said,
"Don't worry Pyrrha. I'm fine. Just a pain in the back is all" as they all turned to see Rex beginning to sit up. Emerald helped Cinder up and when she was standing, she saw Rex was too. They both were surprised by this as Cinder looked back at her arm and saw that she didn't feel anything. She was suppose to have felt his power but nothing happened. She then looked at Rex as he was starting to get up.
"Did you really think it was a semblance I had or some magical element" said Rex as Cinder just thought "How?!"
"Nah, it ain't anything like that. It's all natural baby" he said as he tried to stand back up.
"Why didn't it work? It should pulled something out of you and you were screaming" said Cinder as she was stilll clinging her hand in fear that her plan didn't work.
"Its called acting. Well some of that was acting. That thing actually hurt" said Rex as began to stand up as he continued by saying "Besides, it wouldn't have worked anyway."
"What are you babbling on about?!" said Cinder as she know had a scowl on her face.
"My powers only listen to me. If they went to you, well... you'd end up looking no different than the grimm out there" said Rex as he pointed out the window with his thumb, but in that split second, he swung his hand forward and formed his Fun-chuck and slammed Cinder as hard as he could. She then flew back from the hit and clashed into Emerald as they were sent into the wall of the office.
"And that was for Ozpin, you bitch" he said as he deactivated his build and put his hands on his knees in exhaustion.
"Wait. What do you mean "for Ozpin"?" said Pyrrha as she looked at him in worry.
Rex just turned his head to her and shook his head. Immediately, Pyrrha knew what he meant and began to cry. Jaune saw this and ran over to Pyrrha and held her shoulders as he asked "What do you mean? Whats going on?" asked Jaune.
Rex just stood up as he said "Ozpin is gone and those two are to blame" he said as he pointed at the wall.
Rex then drooped his head in sadness.
He felt guilt weighing him down.
He was suppose to be a hero and yet he couldn't save the head master of the place he had called home ever since landing here. Someone he had began to trust with his life info was now dead and he couldn't save him.
Jaune just gasped at his words and said "But why? Why would they do that?"
Rex could see that Jaune was confused and was about to answer his question but then the room got suddenly dark, like a giant shadow covered the whole. Rex reacted quickly at the shadow and saw the giant grimm Wyvern was both charging and descending towards the tower.
"LOOK OUT" said Rex as he grabbed the two of them and headed for the opening, just as the the giant grimm crashed into the tower top.
BOOM
Just at it landed, Rex pulled Jaune and Pyrrha out of the window and began to fall down the tower. Rex then quickly formed his wings as he was falling and said "Grab on" to which Pyrrha and Jaune clung onto his wings for dear life as Rex then began to fly forwards and away from the tower's falling debris.
With the others
That giant grimm was stilling leaving grimm everywhere it flew so some of the others left to go and keep them away from the remaining civilians that were getting evacuated, which just left RWBY, Nora and Ren to watch over each other.
Then they heard a giant explosion and saw that the giant grimm had attacked the top of the tower. They looked in surprise as they saw the debris falling towards the ground. But then they saw something else but they were too far away to see it. Yang pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked towards the tower and gasped.
She saw Rex, Pyrrha, and Jaune falling from Beacon tower as she yelled "NOOOO", which made everyone around her look towards her in fear.
"What's wrong?!" asked Ruby to her sister.
"Rex, Pyrrha, and Jaune. They're falling from the tower" she said which made everyone gasp, but then she saw Rex had formed his wings and the other two were clinging onto it for dear life. She then saw that Rex was flying in their direction. He came closer and closer and then landed near the others.
Jaune and Pyrrha hopped off as Nora ran up to them and said "Oh my god. Are you guys ok? That was a nasty fall" as she hugged the two.
"We're fine. How are you guys?" asked Jaune.
"Pretty banged up but we'll live" said Ren as he still sat on the ground.
"It is so sensational that we all here and alive" said Penny, but that just seemed to make Rex, Jaune, and Pyrrha more sad.
They all then heard a screeching sound and turned to still see the giant grimm still on the tower and flinging black goop everywhere.
"That giant flying grimm up there keeps making more grimm. We need to take it down" said Weiss as she pointed at the grimm.
They all then saw a heard of grimm coming towards them, but then Coco's team came in and Rex looked and saw something he really didn't see coming. Velvet, running around with what looked like his funchuck build, but just in blue lines.
"Is that Velvet with my builds but in blue?" asked Rex as he pointed over to Coco's group.
"Yes it is. I don't know how but that's her weapon" said Weiss as she saw her fight too.
Rex just looked at her as he had so many questions as to how but now, he only had one thing on his mind. How to take the even-bigger bird brain down.
As he thought about that, Sun and Neptune appeared from behind the gang and said "Guys. The grimm are just coming and coming. And we're almost out of ammo. Any ideas on how to take big guy up there, down?"
The gang began to talk about what to do but Rex was still in thought about stopping that grimm breeder up there.
He had only one option.
One chance to take that thing down. But he didn't like it.
He then stared at his hand as he began to feel contempt. He then felt a hand shake his shoulders as he turned to see Ruby as she asked "Do you have any ideas,Rex?"
Even after hearing her words, Rex just stared at her but then lifted his head to see everyone else was looking at him in question if he indeed have a plan. But all Rex did was look to the side to see JNPR then to the right to see his teammates, Sun, Neptune, and Penny standing there, waiting for an answer.
Seeing all his friends here, Rex couldn't help but grow a smile on his face, which just confused everyone.
"You know its amazing about all that's happened since I've been here" said Rex calmly while still smiling. Everyone was confused as to why he was talking like this.
"What are you talking about?" asked Ruby.
Rex still smiled as he said "We've been friends for a few months and yet it feels like forever, in a sense."
This seemed to be worrying his teammates as they had looks of worry and concern. "Rex, you're scaring us. What are you saying?" asked Weiss.
"I'm saying it feels like we've been friends forever. And its amazing about all the fun times I've had here. So many fun times that I began to grow accustom to being here. The times we've spent together has made me realize that I've been an idiot. You've all done a lot for me. You kept my powers a secret when I first showed up, you gave me some fun times to spend with here at Beacon, and you've shown me that you guys are people that I guess I can trust. So I'm trusting you with this" said Rex as he opened his coat and pulled out a black book. He then handed the book over to Yang who accepted it but was still confused.
"Rex, what are you saying? You're talking as if you're saying goodbye" said Yang.
Rex turned his head to her and said "Well that's not what I'm meaning, but... it could happen" he said as his voice changed dramatically.
Ruby's eyes began to feel like she was about to cry as she said "What are you saying?" but then she saw Rex put his hands on her shoulders and said "Even if I'm gone, continue to be the good leader I know you can be."
This just made Ruby draw tears as she wanted to say something but Rex took his hands off of her shoulders and began stepping back as he said...
..."Goodbye, friends. This may be our last time together."
He then began to turn around, but before anyone could stop him, Rex formed his speed boots and ran as fast as he could towards Beacon. Everyone just stood or sat in awe as they were in a complete state of confusion.
What did Rex mean by that?
What did he mean it could happen?
Rex kept running to the academy but as he ran, he began to gather all of his negative thoughts. The grimm, Roman, Cinder and her gang, and the thoughts on the one that is the reason he was here in the first place...
Salem.
He began to feel negative emotions in his mind and that seemed to do the trick, as the big bird on the tower looked down towards Rex who was stopped right at the columns in the courtyard. The grimm then began to fly down and land right at the front of Beacon's halls.
The two had a staring contest that could rival any other. The grimm then shrieked and move its head around as it began to charge towards Rex.
Rex knew that he had no other choice. It was time...To go Omega.
He closed his eyes and focused his mind. Then his body began to glow blue as his hair began to turn a blue flame as a circle began to glow from his torso. Soon, he became enveloped in a giant flash of blue light.
Everyone covered their eyes at the giant flash of light as they didn't know what was going on.
Just as the grim came closer to the light, it was met with a giant knee crashing into its beak and sending it flying back and falling to the ground. The light began to dim down as everyone then turned back to where Rex was and just stare in wide eyes at what they were looking at. There in Rex's place was a giant blue robot, with a glowing reactor circle on its chest with 4 blue lines forming outwards and around its stomach and shoulders, with blue flames coming out of its head.
The giant robot, or Rex's Omega form, looked at the grimm who turned its head back to the giant in front of it, and immediately began to take to the skies. As it flew up, it was met with a giant flying fist and began to stagger while in the sky and tried to stabilize its flying.
The fist retracted back to Rex's giant form and then he began running towards the grim. He grabbed it tail and brought it down the the ground with a strong pull and caused the ground to quake and crack underneath the grimm. Dust blew up as it traveled to the group who were still shocked at what was happening.
There, standing tall, was their friend Rex, who had his own giant form and was fighting that giant grimm that they would've admitted that they would've had trouble taking it down on their own.
"I can't believe he's had that in his arsenal this whole time" said Weiss as she stared in amazement.
"Dude, that is so rad" said Sun, to which Neptune agreed with by nodding.
"I bet he could lift Beacon with one hand" cheered Nora as she raised one hand in the air.
"Possibly" said Jaune.
"THIS IS SO COOL" squealed Ruby internally but on the outside, she was all "YEA REX. Kick that sorry grimms butt" as she raised her hand in the air.
Blake began to wake up as she sat up and said "Whats going on?" she asked, to which Yang just said, without looking at Blake, while pointing forward "Thats what's going on" as Blake looked forward and gasped at the giant before them fighting the grimm.
"What the hell is that?!" said Blake in a freaked out way.
"Thats Rex, man" said Sun.
Blake immediately turned her head back to the giant, who she now knew was Rex.
"How?" she asked.
"I don't know but when he's done, I have so many questions to ask" said Yang as she continued to watch the fight. But then they heard footsteps running from behind them and they turned to see Port and Oobleck and their eyes were wide with shock at the giant in front of them fighting the grimm monster.
"Great fires of Haven! What is that thing?!" said Port in absolute shock.
"Thats Rex" said Ruby as she turned to face the professors.
"My word. There is always something new with this boy. I don't even think a dictionary could fit all the things this boy could do" said Oobleck. But then a shadow flew over them as the gang saw the grimm was flying away from Beacon, followed by a flying fist.
But then it began to turn around and began heading back to Beacon, the long way around. Rex's fist came back to him as he followed the grimm and saw that it made its way to the back of Beacon and began charging at Rex.
Even though they couldn't see it, Rex glared at the beast to anger. In his mind, he knew that he had to finish this quick. He began to step back towards the group and stopped at the end of the columns and waited for the grimm to get closer.
The grimm continued charging towards Rex as it got closer and closer, Rex began running towards the bird with his right fist cocked two came closer and closer to each other as Rex said in his mind.
"Goodbye..." as he planted his right foot forward and didn't move as fist began to move forward as he continued saying "...Bird Brain" as he then brought his fist forward and slammed it against the grim's face to which it began to follow Rex's punch.
"HHHHHHRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHH" thought Rex as he used all his might and power to smash the grimm to the ground with his fist. In doing so, he created a giant crater as dust and debris began to fly around like crazy and made the gang lose their balance at the shockwave he just created.
"Move" yelled Port as the kids began to run and hide behind some boulders to hide from the dust and debris. The ground shook like crazy as the wind from the attack blew up dust and debris something fierce. Everyone shielded their faces from all the debris and dust that was flying everywhere. Even though they couldn't see now, they knew one thing.
Victory was Rex's.
A while had passed by as the gang lifted their heads and began to see the dust was beginning to disappear. They immediately ran out to see what had happened with Rex and the grimm. They continued as they came close to the end of the columns, or what was left of them at this point.
They then stopped as they saw through the dust Rex's giant form standing tall from a good distance from them. They then saw through the dust the glow of Rex's eyes and body as his right arm came up and formed a thumbs up indicating that he had won.
The grimm was no more.
Ruby cheered in happy ness as everyone began to do their own cheers for Rex.
It was finally over.
The Grimm was defeated.
Rex had won.
Everyone began hugging each other or high fived in victory and happiness.
"Sensational" cheered Penny.
Amber just stood there in happiness as she held her hand close to her heart and cried "You truly are amazing Rex."
Yang finished her hug with Ruby and turned back to Rex. She couldn't help but smile at how great Rex was just right now. He saved everyone and took down that giant grimm with one punch. She couldn't have felt more proud of Rex than now. But then a light came in and light up the courtyard but before anyone could say or do anything...
BOOOM
A giant laser came flying by and hit Rex... In his head.
This took everyone by surprise.
Who would attack the person that just saved Beacon?
But then another one came and hit him on the head, making Rex stumble back.
Then one more came but it was more powerful than the other two. This made Rex stumble even more as he began to feel funny. In his mind, he wasn't feeling good and soon he saw the images of his time with his new friends here began to flicker and disappear.
"No, not again" he thought as he was losing himself.
Yang didn't expect someone to be attacking him and looked in the direction of the firearms. An Atlas ship seemed to be pointing at him but then she saw the ship starting to come down and crash far from the group.
On the ship
Their enemy was literally standing tall. He had just ruined all their work to take Beacon down so the person decided to take their anger out on him. They then fired Atlas's laser gun at the enemy.
Bullseye
Then another.
Bullseye
Then they put all the power of the ship into the last blast then fired the laser.
Direct hit.
But it was at the cost of the ship staying a float. The person then ran onto the deck and jumped off while opening their umbrella and floating away from the crashed ship. But not before flipping off the giant metal man. And that person...was Neo Politan.
Back with everyone
Everyone was startled by the loud explosions they didn't see that coming. They then turned to see Rex was stumbling around until he was met by a giant fire ball blast, which also landed on his head.
"DAMN YOU REX SALAZAR. YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING" yelled an angry Cinder Fall as she stood atop the remains of Beacon tower as flames exited her mouth in anger.
That blast seemed be it. Rex began to feel his thoughts fade into darkness as he felt himself fall into it too.
The gang all saw what had happened and were sacred as Rex's omega form began to stumble back and then that fire ball seemed to have been the last straw as Rex began to fall backwards...
...And onto the remains of Beacon Academy.
CRRASSSSHHH
Went Rex as his arms and body finally stopped their fall as more dust and debris blew up from it, creating more destruction. The tremor that Rex had made sent the rest of Beacon tower to fall down, into the backside of Beacon and made even more dust and debris fly everywhere.
The gang all gasped in shock as they saw their friend had not only fallen but also onto the school too, making it an even bigger mess. But they couldn't believe what just happened.
Beacon was destroyed...
...Not by the grimm...
...But by Rex himself.
They then saw Rex's omega form begin to glow blue as he began to shrink down.
Ruby's eyes filled with tears as she then yelled "NO. REX" and then used her semblance to run as fast as she could to find her fallen friend.
"RUBY, WAIT" yelled Yang as she ran after her sister.
Ruby began search through the debris as she kept calling "Rex! Rex! Rex, where are you?!"but she couldn't find him.
She began to climb up one of the big chunks of concrete to get over. She made it to the top and began looking around frantically for Rex. She gazed down and she then looked forward and saw through the debris, was Rex, but he was laying flat on some rubble and didn't seem to be moving.
"No, Rex. Please don't be dead" said Ruby as she jumped over the debris and tried to get to her friend.
Ruby tried to move as fast and she finally got close to Rex but then she was met with an arrow to the arm.
"AAAAUGHH" cried Ruby as she was then kicked back from Rex. Ruby cried at the arrow but tried to see what happened. She looked up and she saw Cinder was walking towards Rex, with a sword in her hand.
Ruby groaned as she saw Cinder coming up to Rex while raising her blade, but Emerald stepped in front of her as she aimed her weapons at her, but she still could hear Cinder say "Burn in hell, you freak of nature" as she swung her blade towards his neck as Ruby then heard a squelch while droplets of blood could be heard. Ruby then saw through the crack between Emerald's legs and saw blood leaking on the ground.
Ruby's eyes widen in despair as she feared the worst and began to fill with tears as she felt she was going to go through the same thing with Penny again. Ruby curled her arms to her body, and then suddenly flung her arms out to the side, and began to levitate slightly off the ground as she then yelled
"RRRRREEEEEEEEEXX" as white light flowed from her eyes as she screamed out the name of her dear friend.
The white light enveloped her along with Rex and Cinder. Cinder gasped in complete shock as she turned and said "WHAT?!" as Rex was still laying on the stones.
And everything went white.
"It's alright. I got ya, kiddo. I got ya."
"Wait for us."
"Let us come with you."
"Fine, just help us carry the two of them."
Static from radio
"Nothing."
"Just turn it off. Without the CCT, there's no point."
"Communication down across the entire Kingdom, no way to contact the outside world... and Ozpin's still missing."
"Yeah."
"This is bad, Qrow."
"Yeah, this is bad."
"It's chaos out there."
Probably the worst I've seen in years."
"By the way, how's he looking."
"*Sigh* He still hasn't woken up."
