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RWBY: Destiny of Remnant
Chapter 47: War for the White Fang Part II
Ironwood watched as the battle raged on, dogfights occurred about the Resolute while below the Vacuo Rangers warred with the perimeter guard, who were losing the fight. He used a pair of binoculars to peer ahead towards the base and could see a White Fang ship sneaking away
"General, incoming message from Colonel Chamberlain." said a deck officer.
"Put it though." he ordered.
A hologram of his loyal comrade appeared before him and said "We're making progress General, Team Beacon has mostly reunited and with all our forces combined we're putting up quite a fight. I expect this will be over by sunrise."
"Excellent." Ironwood stated, "The technicians are almost done putting together the footage of Norvik, in a few minutes we'll transmit it to you and you can upload it into the base's main computer and broadcast it around the base while sending it to other White Fang bases."
"Ensuring that the Fang's ranks turn on Taurus. I need to get back to battle sir, but just a minute ago we received word from Velvet Scarlatina, it appears that Taurus is on a ship that just departed from their rear hangar but Belladonna, Xiao Long, and Wukong are aboard that vessel so we can't fire on it." Chamberlain reported.
"Then we might have to board it." Ironwood considered.
"I think those three have a chance of doing this on their own sir, but Miss Scarlatina assured me that she and her uncle we're already on it while the one known as Razor and a few others are on their way to take control of the command room." Chamberlain revealed.
"Wonderful news, that will make getting the truth out all the more easier." Ironwood voiced.
"Indeed. Sir... what do we do with the Elite Guard and the maskless Faunus who turned on Taurus? I mean we can't just let them go." The Colonel pointed out.
Ironwood shook his head and grimaced. "We'll think about that later, right now we can't be hasty. For now they're on our side and it's good enough for me. Talk of punishment can come later." He said.
Chamberlain nodded as the hologram dissipated. Ironwood sighed, knowing he'd have to do something about them, but he'd have to make his choice carefully and one that wouldn't lead to rebellion.
"How much longer on that video?" he asked a technician.
"A few minutes sir, not long." she said before getting back to work, making sure the disturbing footage and the proof of Taurus' cruelty was ready...
The first part of the video shows a dark hallway, the camera was that of a scroll as it moved down the dreary halls. "Where the hell am I?" says the voice of a Faunus named Vincent as he walked down the darkened tunnels of old mines. "I think I'm lost..." he mutters as he leans against the wall to take a break, hoping that the Grimm creature wouldn't happen to come at him from either side.
"Hey guys! Some of these doors ain't workin' properly! I think we should rethink this thing!" shouts King from somewhere in the tunnels.
Vincent sighs as he sits down, only to stop and look up. "Wha... OH SHIT! AH!"
The Grimm Hybrid known as The Chimera, once a man called Norvik the Hunter, drops down on him, his claws digging in.
"Help me! Ah! Get off! Get this fucking thing offa me! AHHH!" screamed Vincent before his body goes limp, his severed head tossed away from the body as blood covered the scroll's camera.
Norvik the Chimera went to work, mauling the dead body, resulting in bones popping and snapping until a voice muttered "Oh shit..."
The beast looked up and the camera could just barely see Seeley who then yelled "Come on! Try and catch me!" before the monster gave chase.
Another one of the survivors, Stine, walks about confused in the tunnels. "King! Seeley! Carpenter! Where the hell are you guys?" he half whispers/yells.
He sighed and breathes heavily, hinting he has been running around. He holds up his torch and rounds a corner only for the Chimera to appear right in front of him and roar.
Stine screams as it lunges for him.
The scroll is flung off his chest and lands nearby, recording the mauling as it happens, the hunter digging into its prey's chest.
The Scroll that belonged to Toro had faced the door for a long time as it user peers through the thick, but very dirty, window in the mine tunnel. He's breathing hard as he keeps a lookout, he had just barely made it as he had shut the door. Once they had closed the doors behind them they were supposed to move on but Toro was simply to scared to move.
Just then a shadow slowly drops down from above.
Toro whips around to see the beast.
He screams as it leaps at him, slamming into him before he can pull out his gun.
A second later blood cascades down upon the scroll, along with an eyeball.
Samara came around the bend to see Toro's dead body, his head ripped asunder.
She gasps, failing to hold back her tears at the horrific sight, as well as her lunch as she leans over to the corner to vomit.
She stumbles away and falls against the wall, still weeping for her dead friends. Just then she hears a growl. She looks up and without another second it grabs her and pulls her up, biting and clawing away, ripping flesh and tearing into her tail and bones as she screams.
Styles comes running and shoots at the creature. "Alright, let go of her!" she screams as she shoots the creature in the arm, forcing it to loosen its grip on Samara. Styles then lurches forward and grabs the younger girl to pull her down.
"Come on, stay with me Samara!" Styles pleads as she drags the grievously injured girl away. The beast jumps down and slowly stalks after them, licking its lips.
"Styles... please he-llllp... I... I don't wanna diee..." Samara rasps as the beast jumped forward and bites Samara on the foot before jerking her out of Styles hold.
"NO!" Styles screams before the Chimera runs away, dragging the screaming Samara behind, even as he scroll comes loose and is left behind to be collected by Styles.
Winston and Romero walk down the tunnels together, listening to the distant screams of their comrades. Both remain silent and vigilant as they keep their guns ready.
They come to an intersection, where from out of the darkness comes the Chimera. In lands in between them, using the scythe-like stinger on its tail to impale Romero who screams bloody murder as the tail digs further into his body.
Winston unloads a heavy round from a shotgun into the creature's side, making it roar in pain before aura begins to heal it.
"Aura?! That's impossi..." Winston begins to say before the creature uses a foreleg to swat him down, clawing his side. Winston fell to the ground, he tried to crawl away as the dying Romero was continuously slammed from side to side. The creature slashed Winston across the back before barreling down on the Bulldog Faunus' head and biting in, as seen by Romero's scroll.
Shiraishi runs for his life, desperate to get away from the Grimm hybrid chasing him. He had tripped and dropped his ammo, leaving him empty after a few shots.
"No, no, no, no, no, oh shit! Someone help me! Someone please!" The technician pleads as he runs as fast as he can. He tries to close a door but it stops halfway and the creature slides under it easily as Shiraishi keeps sprinting for all he's worth.
At the end of a tunnels stands Seeley. "Shiraishi!"
"Help me!"
"Don't look back! Just run! Run! Run as fast as you can!" Seeley yells as his comrade runs towards him. Thanks to Seeley's scroll the Norvik the Chimera could be seen scaling the wall, but still running as fast as ever.
All of a sudden, no one can tell what happens; Norvik attacks, bites hard with great strength and Shriashi's body seemingly explodes in half, the legs and groin landing right in front of Seeley as blood pools out while Norvik feats on the head, arms, and torso. Seeley, horrified, slams the doors shut.
Seeley runs for his life, trying to get the hell away from from Norvik, occasionally looking over his shoulder to make sure there's nothing to shoot at.
The sound of tearing metal signaled the door being ripped open by the beast's claws, which encouraged Seeley to run faster still.
He rounds a bend and slams right into Carpenter, causing both of them to fall to the floor.
"Yo... you... Oum above, you scared me shitless!" scolds Carpenter, laughing at the insanity of it all as he put the grenade he had to throw at Norvik down.
"You and me both mate!" Seeley laughs. "Come on, let's go..."
"Okay, okay... oh shit!" screams Carpenter as he notices Norvik racing towards them.
Norvik slammed into Carpenter, his claws ripping open his neck, causing blood to splatter on Seeley's shocked face. Carpenter falls into the wall, a look of pain and horror upon his face as he slid down. Norvik seized the body and began to feast, ripping open the rib-cage and digging in.
Seeley, shocked and afraid, scrambled back before getting up and running away, seeing Styles not too far away.
"Come on, to me. Come and get us you bastard!" she yells.
Styles and Seeley run down the corridor to where Poe, Medak, Amenabar, King, Craven, and Shelley are all waiting with guns drawn and ready to fire.
"It's coming!" Seeley cries as he gets his gun ready.
Sure enough Norvik's roars can be heard, getting closer and closer to them. Everyone readies their guns, aiming at the dark hallway where the beast is sure to come from.
All of a sudden something small rolls out of the darkness; King's grenade.
"Shit!" screams Seeley.
They all run for it but the grenade goes off, knocking most of them down.
Before they can recover Norvik appears, leaping through the fires, crashing into Amenabar and biting his head off while his tail impales Shelley's leg and drags her beneath his heavy body where the claws of his feet stab into her as he stomps her to death.
Styles, Seeley, Poe, Craven, King, and Medak, now the only ones left, all open fire on Norvik, blitzing him up. Norvik roared in pain as the blasts hit him. The beast jumps off of the walls and lands right in the middle of the group before attacking furiously; violently eviscerating Poe while his tail impales Craven though the head.
Seeley and Styles get in a few shots that manage to really hurt Norvik, which causes him to let out a disturbing scream like nothing they have ever heard before he slashed out, gashing Seeley violently against the chest before the face pincers dig into his stomach, exposing his intestines.
Seeley lets out a pain-filled scream as Styles pulls him away before shooting Norvik right in the face. Norvik recoils in pain as King jumps on his back, taking out a dagger to stab him repeatedly.
"Take him and go!" he yells.
"King..."
"Everyone else is dead doc! We've failed! Go!" King shouts as he keeps stabbing the beast.
Styles watches as King holds off the creature as she helps Seeley and reluctantly leaves as fast as she could.
Norvik runs back into the tunnels, King fighting him the whole way, even as his scroll falls off and is left behind.
Styles had patched up Seeley to the best of her abilities and had given him a gun to protect himself with as she went back to the tunnels to recover the scrolls and try to see if any of the others had survived.
None of them had.
She found King, his body a broken, torn apart husk in a bloodstained corridor.
But she managed to recover the scrolls.
She came back to find that Seeley was gone, his gun and scroll left behind. He was dead too.
Styles cried for her comrades, her friends. She quickly got to work, making sure they wouldn't be forgotten. She would make sure Adam wouldn't get away with this.
Mercury stood atop one of the buildings and kicked up his legs into the air rapidly, blasting off dozens of Dust orbs into the air before he jumped back onto his feet and controlled them to slam down upon the crowd like rain, but they moved like guided missiles into maskless Faunus, Rangers, or Atlas soldiers.
The grey haired teen smirked before an Atlas soldier on the roof yelled out as he charged him, followed by about five others, all armed with considerable weapons. Mercury, however, was never one to back down from a challenge.
"Bring it on!" Mercury beckoned as he rushed towards the foolhardy trooper, jumping up and unleashing a series of hard kicks to the chest and face, which sent him flying into one of his comrades. Mercury jumped over the bulk of them and slammed his feet into the last one, shooting him as he did so. Mercury stood atop the downed soldier who was trying to reach his weapon only for Mercury to lift up his foot and shoot the man right in the face.
Mercury grunted as he took some hits in the back, his aura allowing him to withstand the pain before he pivoted about face and rushed into the remaining guards before jumping high up into the air and sending down another torrent of energy orbs on them before he landed behind one of them, punched her half a dozen times along the back before grabbing her arms and pulling as he placed one leg in the small of the trooper's back and let off a powerful Dust blast, making the female soldier cry out in pain as he released her, only to spin kick her into a wall.
He whipped around and fired three more Dust orbs, hitting two of the three remaining troops, but one had avoided being hit and fired a shotgun at Mercury. The son of Marcus Black ducked the shotgun's blasts as he rushed forward, punching a female soldier in the gut to keep her down as he did so, and he grabbed the barrel of said gun and forced it forward, slamming the butt of the weapon into the user's face a couple times before kneeing him in the gut, punching him in the jaw, and ripping the weapon away to leap over to another soldier, bash him right in the nose with the blunt end of the gun before firing into his chest and sending him flying off of the roof.
Mercury got behind the shotgun wielder and slammed his fist into the back of his head, sending the trooper into the sole remaining Atlas soldier, who caught her friend before setting him down as she took out a large knife combined with her pistol.
Mercury gave off another smirk before launching forward, dodging her shots before jumping up to kick her in the chest and knock her into the wall, while she managed to slash open his boot with her blade. She tried to get back up but Mercury grabbed the shotgun and began using it as a melee weapon, slamming it into her back over and over again before she managed to shoot him in the shoulder with her pistol, forcing him to drop the gun as she recovered and began slashing at him with her blade, managing to scratch his shirt here and there, and try to blast him. Mercury snarled before he lurched forward and pounded his fists into her torso furiously, hitting her chest, collarbone, gut, and ribs before he grabbed her by the helmet and slammed her down into his metal foot, which he kicked up at the same time, resulting in a great amount of pain for the soldier.
She staggered as he released her, she tried to regain her senses but he finished her off with a mighty kick to the head, which sent her head slamming into the wall.
Mercury let out a whoop of victory while going over to the edge of the roof as he grabbed some of the weapons from the downed soldiers, and then he opened fire on the enemy soldiers below.
On the building next to his a small squad of four Vacuo Rangers got ready to attack from the side, ready to let loose everything they had into the assassin's son, but they never got the chance as Emerald carefully came up behind them. Over the months she had gotten much better with her Semblance, now she was able to trick influence three people at once with moderate effort, and with great effort she could deceive about five, but it would take up a lot of aura and she couldn't afford that at the moment, so one or two would do.
She focused on one, changing his vision to see nothing but Grimm Knights in the place of his comrades, which went into effect the moment the ranger blinked.
He looked around and cried out in shock, shooting down one of his teammates, resulting in his team breaking out in a panic before they opened fire on him, taking him out with a stun setting.
Now that they were too busy wondering what had happened to attack her partner, Emerald stuck. She came out of her hiding place and slashed a Ranger across the chest with both of her bladed guns, creating two rather nasty gashes in his uniform with two lines of blood marking his chest before she kicked him down, while shooting the one her target had already injured to make sure she wouldn't be a problem.
The remaining ranger blasted at the thief, who elegantly and effortlessly dodged the bullets before she used the sickles of her weapons to cut apart the ranger's gun before going at him with three sweeping-kicks, all three of which hit. He fell down on his butt before Emerald stepped on his gut and finished him off with a shot to the chest, which didn't kill him but was enough to remove him from the fight.
The dark skinned thief looked out to the battle, all in all it didn't look good, as the Faunus who had sided with them were now clearly outnumbered and outmatched, plus Adam and his lieutenant had run off into the base and were obviously on the ship that had just taken off, which was luckily being ignored due to the dogfights keeping the Elite Guard's ship and various other ships busy. She could see her enemies down there; Ruby and Weiss fought together with the Schnee heiress' summon to protect Claudandus and the injured Faunus, or those of the maskless who didn't want to fight.
Emerald didn't know either girl well at all but she did know that they weren't exactly a perfect fit a first. And yet there they were, working together flawlessly to protect Faunus, something most people would have never believed a Schnee would do. She then looked to see Jaune and Pyrrha, the ones who got away, the ones who survived, fighting back to back to protect each other and those around them, working together nearly flawlessly.
Emerald would have been lying is she were to say she didn't feel a little happy for them, but what was another little lie in a lifetime of them? After all, these people had been through hell and she had been a part in that. She had helped make the Fall of Beacon possible, she had helped torture Jaune, she knew of the terrible things Ruby had been through, she helped frame Yang... Emerald wanted to make the world a better place, and while she had no choice but to follow orders or risk Salem's punishments, she didn't feel pride in what she did most of the time.
She looked down to the fight and could see Neo, slashing down a White Fang thug and her face became hard. Torchwick's henchgirl had set her up and had nearly got her killed and while she couldn't really blame her for her betrayal, she could blame her for trying to frame her.
Emerald jumped down and landed with a roll before she cut down and shot an unlucky maskless Faunus, dodged streams of bullets before jumping over a downed Oblivion Vanguard as she spun around with her guns expanding into kusarigama mode to cut down a bunch of Atlas soldiers as she began to make her way to Neo. She looked up and signaled to Mercury, who nodded, jumped down, landed atop an injured Atlas soldier when he came down, and made his way to join his partner.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the battlefield, Winter parried a powerful strike from a dual-wielding swordsman. He was a powerful Faunus and was able to put a great deal of strength into his strikes but Winter was no push over, quickly parrying and withstanding every attack before she brought her head forward, headbutting his jaw before kicking him in the groin and bashing him on the head with the hilt of her blade before deflecting a shot meant for her and backhanding a sneak attacker.
"Good to see you in action again Specialist!" said the familiar voice of Colonel Chamberlain, who was currently engaged in a duel with a White Fang officer.
"It's a pleasure to see you here as well sir, hope the entrance wasn't too bad." she said to him as she slashed at another Faunus.
"It could have been better." Chamberlain remarked as Jinty and Babara fought on together near them.
"Yeah, sorry about that. We had proof of Adam's crap and we almost got it uploaded and we probably could have had all of this finished before you got here but that Grimm guy got the drop on me." Jinty said to him as he shot a Beowolf.
Chamberlain looked over to see Sharp Strike and Steppenwolffe dueling, the two powerful warriors were trading blows so rapidly one could barely keep up as they parried each other's strikes or punched and kicked at one another.
"Who is that?" Chamberlain asked, pointing to Sharp Strike.
"Don't ask me, apparently Miss Rose and those who escaped earlier made an ally." Winter said as cut an Oblivion Vanguard across the legs, making him fall to his knees so she she could kick him in the face.
Chamberlain nodded and managed to watch as Sharp Strike avoided multiple slashes from Steppenwolffe before blasting the Grimm hybrid down with a powerful looking pistol before taking out two of his three swords again to engage him in combat, striking relentlessly against the Grimm Commander.
Chamberlain had many questions, but they could wait until this mess was over. However, the Weasel Faunus who had just spoken to him had caught his interest. "What do you mean you had proof? You're on our side, correct?" he inquired as he ducked a swing.
"That's right, we're the Elite Guard, plus me and my girl here have been helping out Blake for a while." Jinty confessed as he dodged a bullet.
Chamberlain nodded just as his scroll rang. He took it out and could see that the data file of Norvik's slaughter, along with Adam's message to the ones he had condemned to death at the mines, had been sent to him.
"We have proof right here! I need to get inside so I can..." Chamberlain before he took a powerful Dust blast to the shoulder that knocked him down. He tried to get up only to be stabbed in the upper leg by a Faunus, forcing him to cry out in pain.
Before the attacking Faunus could do anymore Winter sent him flying via a glyph before she looked at the injured Chamberlain. "That's don it." she muttered. "Let me help you..."
"No, I'll be fine." he said defiantly as he handed her his scroll. "You got to get this into the White Fang's communications system or video system or whatever, and transmit it. The file I just received contains irrefutable proof of Adam Taurus' madness."
"We've got some too, Piper should still have a backup of the prisoners in her scroll. We would have gotten it out but they kept us on a tight leash after what we pulled." Babara informed as she knocked down a guard with her axe.
"I'll do it sir, just get yourself to safety." Winter said to him as she placed the scroll in her pocket. She looked to Jinty, "Can you take me there?"
"I'll help you out, I know the where and how to get it out there." Jinty said to her before pointing at a giant screen on the side of a building. "We can show everything on that screen, maybe it will stop the fighting. It's a long shot but I think it'll be worth it."
Winter nodded and looked to her injured superior to say "Go to where my sister's summon is. She and Miss Rose are working together to protect some injured, you'll be alright there."
Chamberlain nodded as he got up. "Will do, but I won't stay out of the fight, I can still help."
"That's the Atlesian way sir." Winter said with a small smile, before looking to Jinty who was kissing Babara.
"I'll be back, promise." he swore to her.
"Make sure of it." she said sternly as she went to help Chamberlain cross the battlefield.
Winter struck down a few White Fang thugs before pouring a lot of aura into her Semblance to create a series of glyphs that led directly to the main building's entrance. She grabbed Jinty and said "Hold on" before the glyphs rocketed them across the battle, knocking down hostiles or sending them flying as they went, before arriving right in front of the main entrance.
"Whoa!" cried Jinty in shock as he realized what had just happened, stumbling around before he regained his balance.
"Come on, show me the way to this communications room." Winter said as she took him inside, just narrowly avoiding a trio of laser blasts that nearly hit him.
Jinty nodded and quickly began to move into the building with Winter running alongside him as she used Chamberlain's scroll to contact Ironwood, who soon answered.
"Colon... Specialist Schnee? While it's good to see you're alright I'd like to know what happened to Chamberlain." Ironwood stated.
"He's been injured, nothing to serious but I'm in better shape to get this proof transmitted. Now tell me what's on this scroll." she said to him.
"Proof of Taurus' treachery against his own, evidence that he murdered Faunus within his own organization who dared to question him." Ironwood explained.
Winter nodded, "Understood sir, I'll get it transmitted as soon as I can."
"I know you will, Oum's speed." The General wished before he ended the call.
Meanwhile, back on the ship, Blake quietly led Yang and Sun up the platforms. So far they hadn't seen any guards and to their knowledge no one had spotted them. It was entirely possible that Adam and the few others on board were unaware of their presence. By their count only about six or seven Oblivion Vanguards had made it onto the ship with Adam, a few of whom had to have been injured by the firefights, and they needed to account for crew members as well, which meant they could be facing up to twenty enemies including Adam.
"So what exactly do we do to get off of here?" Sun asked quietly.
"Well we didn't have time to think of that before we got on. We need to stop doing that." Yang admitted.
"They might have some escape pods, if they don't we'll just have to take control of the ship and fly it back." Blake whispered.
"Well it won't be easy but it's worth a try." Sun said with a shrug.
They were heading to an entrance that was just up ahead when a crew member exited and turned around to see them.
They stared at him and he stared right back.
He tried to turn around and run but Sun jumped up and landed behind the Faunus and grabbed him by the head, covering his mouth so he couldn't yell. Sun would have used his tail to help keep the guy in place but that wasn't an option anymore thanks to Adam, but still he managed enough for Yang to rush forward and slam her gauntlets into his torso several times before hitting his face, knocking him out.
Sun let their first victim slump to the catwalk-like platform unconscious and grinned at Yang who returned it.
Blake went between them and entered the interior of the ship, the two blondes silently following her.
It wasn't long before they arrived at the main room of the ship; the weapons room. Lines up on each side were four tube-like structures loaded with large and powerful looking missiles. Below them was a chute that would open up and drop them on an unsuspecting city or village below. Blake, however, had seen enough and had read enough about various types of weapons in her time to know what kind of missiles these were; guided ones.
Homing missiles that had a decent built-in computer system that would lead them to an assigned destination to explode. And based on the size of them they looked like they could devastate a small village while doing considerable damage to an average one. What was worse, however, was the fact that there were about a few dozen unloaded missiles in large containment devices along the sides of the room, ready to be loaded up when a missile was fired so if Adam went unopposed he could do some serious damage.
There were about three Oblivion Vanguards in the weapons room, along with seven crew members who were making sure the bombs were ready for deployment.
The three kept to the shadows to talk.
"We can't shoot, we'd set off one of the missiles." Blake whispered.
"Chances are they're smart enough to know that too, we'll have to use physical attacks only." Yang observed.
Sun nodded and quietly said "I got an idea."
His female companions looked to him, "Let's hear it." Yang said with a smile.
Meanwhile, up on the ship's bridge Adam sighed in relief as an aura enhancer did its work. He was utterly exhausted after the night's events and had barely had time to rest when Razor betrayed him and the duel with Blake and the ensuing battle made it even worse, quite frankly it was unbelievable that he could still stand. But that's why he led the White Fang, he was strong and didn't give in, no matter how tired he was. Luckily one of the guards had an aura enhancer on him just in case, and it proved to be something Adam needed.
He looked outside of the bridge, which was surrounded by catwalk-like platforms, back at the base, still engulfed in the chaos of the battle. He sighed, hoping his followers would make it out alright. They were the strong ones, the ones who deserved to live.
Humanity called them animals, but in the wild, the world of animals it was survival of the fittest and when it came to that the strong, such as himself, would win while the weak would always lose and pay for it with their lives.
Adam knew he had done terrible things, things he would one day have to pay for and he probably wouldn't survive the punishment. He knew he was a hypocrite, he knew that Blake was right and he had become a monster, but he was a monster made by humanity and Faunus who wanted to forget the blood soaked past, to ignore the Faunus blood humans continued to spill.
If humans can commit atrocities and get away with it, then why shouldn't he?
Deep down, however, he knew this wasn't what his family would have wanted. They would be ashamed of him, but this was what he had to be, this was what he had to do to make it right.
Wasn't it?
Well he had no choice now, if he didn't do something Salem would destroy him for sure.
He sighed and said "Navigator, take us around the battle but keep enough distance so we're out of sight. If the first village we come across has a mostly human population then that will make for an adequate target."
The bridge crew consisted of about five Faunus crew of a total fifteen with two Oblivion Vanguards of the six that made it on board acting as his bodyguards. The navigator nodded before his leader added "Oh, and I just remembered the village Wukong lived in; Hondyama. Make sure we hit that one eventually."
"But sir..." said a crew member nervously, "Hondyama's population is half Faunus..."
Adam glared at the underling, the brand on his forehead served to make him look all the more intimidating. "And?" he asked as he gripped Wilt.
The crew member, shuddering slowly backed down and said "And nothing sir, just thought I point it out."
"Good for you." Adam spat quietly before looking out the main windshield. "But first, get us far enough away and then target the mountain, target the Atleisan's flagship and the village of Oro."
The crew were nervous and unsure, but they had no choice so one simply, but reluctantly, said "Yes sir, Commander Taurus. Setting targets now."
Adam looked out at the scenery and the horizon beyond. He knew he would suffer for this, be in by the hands of his enemies or at Salem's, but he was going to make sure he wouldn't go out without a fight.
Back in the weapons room, the attention of all the crew members and the guards within was caught by a cocky whistle as Yang strolled out into the open with Sun and Blake flanking her.
"Yo!" she said, putting her hands on her hips, "What's up?"
Two of the guards withdrew their blades while the third took out a bow and arrow, aiming it at Blake's head.
"No guns, smart." Yang admitted as the blade users carefully approached her.
"So you know you can't shoot, 'cause if you do you set off this whole place, killing all of you with us." said a Vanguard, keeping his distance so Yang couldn't attack him with her gauntlets. Yang nodded as Sun and Blake remained completely silent.
"Correct, we just decided to show ourselves and give you this one chance to surrender." Yang stated boldly, not backing down for an instant.
The three Vanguard members laughed, as did some of the crew. "You've got some nerve, human. Why aren't you two talking? Shouldn't you be trying to talk us into joining you, Belladonna?" A Vanguard asked Blake mockingly.
"Well they decided to let me do the talking, I'm that good with people." Yang defended.
"We'll you better hope you're good with Adam, because we're taking you to him." said the bow and arrow user.
"Oh I don't think so." Yang said with a confident smirk.
Just then, from the other side of the room, Blake and Sun dropped down from above and took out two crew members easily, with Blake bashing the blunt end of Gambol Shroud into the side of one's head while Sun attacked the other by using the staff form of Ruyi and Jingu Bang to hit his knees, elbows, shoulders, and finally his forehead to slam him into the wall.
The Semblance generated copies of Blake and Sun faded before the crew's eyes and before the two front Vanguards could attack or decided what to do Yang grabbed them both by the neck and slammed their heads together several times until they were out cold before throwing their bodies into one of the crew members who tried to raise the alarm.
The bow and arrow user fired two shots at Blake, both of which she cut down before Sun jumped up and sent her down of the ground with a powerful kick before he landed in a crouch and used his staff to spin around and take out the legs of the nearby crew while Yang rushed forward and aided him by punching them in the faces to render them unconscious.
Blake, for her part, finished off the bow and arrow user who got up and took out a blade, she tried to slash at Blake but her weapon was forced out of her hand by a powerful parry from Blake who kicked her opponent in the chest and finished her off by launching the blunt end of Gambol Shroud's clever right into the Vanguard's forehead hard enough to knock her out.
She turned around to see Yang and Sun, working in unison wonderfully, to knock out the remaining crew.
"Well that wasn't such a chore." Sun commented as he dusted his hands off while Yang finished off the crew member who had been pinned under the bodies of the Vanguards.
Blake nodded, "It isn't done yet, we haven't even gotten to the heard part."
"Adam's still weak from the duel, we can take him easy." Yang promised.
"Let's hope so." Blake worded before looking around the room and adding "Now we have to figure out how to unload these missiles before he has a chance to use them."
Just then the door at the front of the room opened up to reveal a crewman looking at a chart before he noticed the scene before him.
Time stood still for a brief moment before the Faunus tried to book it, but Blake rushed out of the room and used Gambol Shroud's kusarigama mode to ensnare him in the chains as she ran up and pushed him against the wall.
"Where's Adam?" she demanded calmly.
"Don't... don't hurt me." he pleaded.
"I won't. Just tell me where Adam is and how many of you we're dealing with." she said to him as Sun and Yang made their way out of the weapons room.
"T-t-taurus is on the bridge... there's about six Oblivion Vanguards and fifteen crew members, counting me." he said, shaking nervously.
"So we've already taken out half of the bodyguards and eight of the crew." Sun surmised.
"Nine with him." Yang corrected, making the Faunus squeal in fear.
Blake sighed and shook her head. "We don't have to. I'm giving you a chance to help us." she said kindly to the Faunus, "We'll let you get the other crew members into an escape pod and leave if you tell us how to get to the bridge."
Sun and Yang glanced at each other, a bit unsure, but the Faunus sighed and nodded. "I'm tired of living like this, I'm tired of helping these psychos hurt people." he voiced.
Blake smiled at him and said "Then you're on the right path." She looked back to Yang and Sun who smiled at her, as they understood that her compassion was a strength people like Adam could never understand.
"Alright, halfway down this hall is a staircase that leads to the bridge. The escape pods are between the engines and the weapons room." he revealed.
"Sounds easy enough..." Yang before before a shot rang out and hit the crewman right in the head, killing him.
"No!" screamed Blake in horror as she turned to see one of the remaining Oblivion Vanguards pointing a sniper rifle shotgun hybrid at them.
"Death to traitors!" he declared before Sun created a clone with his Semblance and sent it crashing into the murderer.
Blake, furious, ran forward and slammed her fist into the gunman's face, managing to briefly draw blood from the nose before his aura healed him up.
Yang looked at the steps that led to the bridge and could hear movement within. "So much for the element of surprise! Now or never guys!" she called before she ran up the stairs and slammed the door open and ran inside.
In the control room of the White Fang base, things weren't exactly chaotic as things were nowhere near as intense as they were outside, but things could be better all considered.
"Getting all available ships ready for emergency take off... should be good to go..."
"Setting all remaining turrets to auto..."
"Transfer the data and then purge it from the systems..."
Orders were shouted and jobs were called out as the officers and technicians went about their work for their escape as quickly as possible. Everything seemed to be going smoothly when all of a sudden all of the noise just stopped, as if someone had pressed the mute button.
Many of them looked to each other, trying to talk or shout but nothing came out. Even the sounds of the battle outside had seemingly vanished.
Then, without warning, came a horrible, ear piercing high-pitched screech that assaulted the ears of every Faunus in the room, even those who didn't have animal ears, making them cover their ears in a futile attempt to block out the horrible sound.
Razor, Kane, Selena, and Teresa ran into the room and began to take down all of the downed guards, officers, and technicians with punches, shots, slashes, whatever they could do to render them unconscious. Piper skipped into the room, happy as could be, keeping her friends deaf to her sonic attack while she focused on those who were trying to fight it and poured it on, making it worse for them and easier for Razor and the others to take them down.
Kane blasted a guard who tried to shoot Piper, before he nearly tripped on someone. He looked down to see the room's lead guard, who just happened to be the Porcupine Faunus who stabbed needled into his back when Adam wanted him punished. The Faunus looked up as Kane smirked before knocking him out via boot to the head.
Once nearly everyone was out cold Piper ceased her attack while Razor grabbed a high ranking officer and held him up with one hand.
"Where's Lieutenant Hui?" he demanded.
"I... I don't know, he came by and told us to start evac procedures and ran off." The officer said nervously.
"Typical. Anyhow, you're going to cancel those evacuation orders..." Razor began before the officer stopped him.
"Too late! We've already sent out the order to every high ranking officer or warrior in the battlefield and the ships are ready to go! You might win this battle but you won't..."
Razor silenced him by smashing him into the wall. He looked up to the catwalks and called "Is the room secured?"
"All good boss." Selena called from above, "I took out everyone up here."
Razor nodded in approval as Piper came up alongside him. Kane took a seat at the consoles and quickly pressed on the keyboards, knowing his way around the systems due to his time as a field commander. He brought up the security monitors, looking at the rear hangar. "Looks like Thayer doing his part." he stated before looking through the various other feeds. "I'll try to find Hui on here, he couldn't have gotten far. Cameras in the communications room are out, weird. Wait a minute... that's Jinty! And Schnee!"
Razor looked at the monitor and told Kane "Enlarge it."
Kane did so, making the feed expand to most of the screen to show Winter and Jinty running down a hallway. "What are they doing in here?" Kane wondered aloud.
"Let's ask 'em. What sector they in?" Teresa asked as she made it to the P.A. system.
"Uh, not too far. Sector B-7." Kane replied.
Teresa flipped the switch and said "Hey guys, where you heading?" she asked.
In the hallway Winter and Jinty were currently running down they stopped at hearing her voice.
"Teresa?" Jinty asked.
"Got in one, we've taken over the control room. I think Razor wants to chat." she said before letting Razor take over.
"It's good to see you both alright, but I'd like to know why you're in here instead of in the battle." he said to them.
"We've received data from Atlas, proof of Adam's crimes, one we didn't know about apparently. We're going to the communications room to upload it." Winter elaborated.
"The more the better. We can help with that, we'll make sure its transmitted to every base in the Fang, including this one. Would you like us to send the data we have? Piper kept it on her scroll." Razor stated.
Jinty took Chamberlain's scroll from Winter and connected it to Piper's, who transferred the a copy of the data on her scroll to theirs. "Perfect, hopefully this will be enough to turn most of those knuckle-heads out there against Adam for good." Jinty voiced.
"We can only hope. Thank you Razor, what of my sister's teammates? Are they alright?" Winter inquired.
"They managed to get on Adam's ship before it took off, but don't worry, we have a way to get them back. And thank you for your help, Specialist Schnee. You have my respect." Razor said to her solemnly.
"You're a very honorable person, Razor. More so than many humans I've known over the years." Winter said before giving a salute to the security cameras.
"And you're much better than I thought you'd be. I have learned from this experience, as I hope others will. Now get moving and upload that data." Razor ordered good-naturedly. "But be careful, Kane said the cameras are out in that room, so keep an eye out."
Winter nodded and quickly followed Jinty to the communications room, which they arrived to within a minute. The room was large and quite impressive considering the White Fang, the walls were all covered with bits of computers and tech with the main console being in the back of the room, mounted on the wall.
Jinty jogged towards the console. "Okay, now let's get this plugged in and everyth... AH!" he screamed as Hui jumped out from the shadows and impaled Jinty's leg with his sword.
"Weakling!" The Bear Faunus snarled as he ripped his large sword out before punching Jinty across the room.
"No!" cried Winter as the lieutenant took out his own scroll and pushed a button, causing the door to seal shut. Winter withdrew her sword as Hui held a gun to Jinty as the Weasel Faunus moaned in pain.
"AHH! Oh Oum!" Jinty screamed before seething in pain while he held his bleeding leg. His aura was beginning to heal him, but it still hurt like all hell.
"Weakling." Hui scolded as he aimed his gun at the scroll, only for Winter to slice it in half before he could fire. Hui tried to strike at her but she parried with ease. The two glared at each other before Hui voiced "I've always wanted to kill a Schnee, and I now I'll achieve that goal."
"Quite the fantasy." Winter said before she pushed Hui back. He yelled as he jumped at her, bringing his sword down, aiming to slam it on her head but she parried and surged forward to push him back, she struck him but he parried before she swung her sword at his chest, which he leaned back to avoid. The elder Schnee sister swung her sword about three or four times, forcing Hui to back up before she kicked him in the knee. He nearly fell but he struck back with a sweeping swing of his sword that Winter jumped to avoid.
She landed some meters away from him and landed gracefully on her feet as he charged. They traded strikes and parries three times before Hui spun around with his sword held out, aiming to decapitate her but Winter jumped over head and kicked him in the back, nearly making him fall but he recovered and turned around to face her.
Winter slowly began to step forward and Hui moved to strike, so Winter quickly held her sword to parry, only for Hui's hand to shoot out, grab her arm and flip her over head.
Winter landed roughly but quickly began to crawl backwards, holding up her sword to parry Hui's next three strikes before she used her Semblance to create a glyph beneath her which allowed her to jump over Hui's head via backflip. Hui whipped around again and struck swiftly, but she managed to parry all five close strikes he threw at her before she ducked a deadly swing, which allowed Hui to kick her back.
Winter flipped over again, landed on her hands, and then pushed herself up so she landed on her feet, gripping her sword firmly as she held it in a defensive position. Winter launched herself at Hui via a glyph and their blades met in a mighty clash. The two pressed against each other hard, neither one giving in.
Soon enough, however, both of them were forced to pull back before engaging in a quick, but deadly, series of attacks. The two blades clashing over a dozen times, the blades swinging around in deadly blurs before they were stuck in a sword lock. Hui glared at him human enemy before pulling back and then slamming his head down onto Winter's.
Winter grunted in pain as she stumbled back, only for Hui to grab her by the throat, with the strength of a bear he squeezed tightly as he kneed her in the gut, forcing her to drop her weapon, before he lifted her off the ground with his left hand while his right held his huge sword, ready to stab her in the neck and behead her. Winter brought up her legs and kicked him in the chest hard, making him drop her. Winter fell to the ground and quickly grabbed her weapon just in time to block Hui's next strike.
Winter allowed herself a smirk as she used another glyph to jump over Hui again and as he turned to face her she scored a nasty cut across his face, knocking his mask off in the process.
"Ah..." Hui seethed as his face, dark skinned with bright brown eyes and a few scars, looked at Winter.
Winter didn't back down under his hateful glare and the two began trading blows yet again.
As the two fought on, neither of them noticed the injured Jinty crawling towards the console.
At the same time the battle raged on outside, but things were not looking too good for the White Fang, as many were either surrendering to the invading forces or were hopping into vehicles that were making a run for for it. With Adam gone no one was there to lead those who had sided with him, so they were in disarray.
Central and the rest of Task Force Omega entered the battle with gusto, taking down as many hostiles as they could be they Grimm or Faunus, choosing targets carefully and being sure to inflict non-fatal wounds at all times.
Central looked over to see a group of maskless Faunus, a few injured with aura glowing in their wounds, as a large Spider Droid cornered them, its gun reloading to execute them.
"Oh I don't think so." he muttered before calling to his troops, "Open fire on that robot! Draw it away from those maskless!"
"Yes sir!" someone shouted before multiple laser blasts slammed into the back, legs, and arms of the Spider Droid, making it turn its attention to them as Central snuck around it. The Spider Droid began to shoot at the Atlesian task force, only for Central to jump up on its back and jam his assault rifle into the back of its head before letting loose, blasting the head right off in a shower of sparks and shrapnel.
The headless Spider Droid stumbled around mindlessly before other members of Task Force Omega began to fire on its legs and arms while Central shot it through its back. "Escort them to safety! Get them some medical attention!" Central commanded one of his underlings, pointing to the injured Faunus. The trooper saluted before rushing to help as the mech was finally felled.
Elsewhere, Ruby and Weiss fought alongside Taiyang, Colonel Chamberlain, Graham, and three of Leonardo's troops to protect the storage building where the injured or afraid maskless were taking refuge as various members of the Oblivion Vanguard and other masked White Fang troops tried to attack, but were quickly repelled by the combined power of the eight fighters and Weiss' Knight Summon, which was a towering presence not to be taken lightly.
Ruby slammed down a trooper before she noticed a group of others hesitating to move in to attack. "Yeah, you want some too?" She asked innocently as she aimed Crescent Rose at them, making them run off to find easier targets, only for Kong to collide into them and begin pounding away with his fists.
Weiss smiled at her partner, who smiled back before saying "Spider-bot incoming!"
Weiss nodded and had her Knight plunge his sword down into the ground, impaling the Spider Droid. Ruby dashed forward, using the deadly blade of Crescent Rose to slice the robot's head and gun-arms clean off. Weiss then had the Knight toss the ruined form of the Spider Droid into another that was terrorizing some maskless, who were then guided to safety by Misha.
"It seems we have this under control, this won't last much longer." Weiss voiced.
"You think Blake and Yang are okay?" Ruby asked, she had seen the ship leave earlier and was nervous, as she didn't know where her sister and friends currently were.
"I think they can take care of themselves. Your new friend seems to be holding up." Weiss said, pointing to where Sharp Strike fought Steppenwolffe and his Grimm.
Sure enough the Remnant Knight and Grimm Commander were charging at each other, their blades a deadly dance of parries, clashes and strikes even as both of them tried to counter the other with everything they had. While Sharp Strike's bike was on auto-pilot, keeping the Grimm busy, both fighters struck at each other with relentlessly, Sharp Strike's firm and precise cuts easily cutting through Steppenwolffe's defenses while avoiding his heavy-handed and forceful blows. Dodging and weaving just as quickly, the knight deflected and turned aside every single attack from the Faunus even as he tried to hit the armored warrior, only finding frustration and anger when he could not do so.
Sharp Strike nimbly avoided a blow which cleaved the ground where he had just been a second ago, delivering a punch with his sword-wielding gauntlet into Steppenwolffe's face which sent the Grimm Commander's abruptly face to one side, making him spit out dark blood. Snarling, the agent of Salem wrenched back out his sword and narrowly deflected another precision strike which would have removed his head from his shoulders had he not blocked it in time. The knight followed it up with a sharp jab and then an overhead slash which sent sparks flying out from the clash of their blades from such close range, before Steppenwolffe lunged forward, both clawed hands pushing the pointed edge of his sword sharply towards the Remnant Knight.
He was a little surprised when his opponent swerved agilely, moving under the dangerous end of his sword fluidly like water in a river, sliding under his guard and delivering a forceful kick with an armored boot to his abdomen which knocked Steppenwolffe back a few crucial steps. He looked up just in time to dodge a silver curve of a sword arcing horizontally towards him, but not before Sharp Strike sliced off a piece of his external armor, along with some hair from his head as he leaned back instinctively from the latest sword blow. Thankful that he wasn't wounded, Steppenwolffe adjusted his grip on his sword and met the knight's twin blades once more.
Steppenwolffe moving quickly to block Sharp Strike's rapid double attacks due to the dual blades. Whenever Steppenwolffe's openly attacked him the knight was able to parry quite easily. Steppenwolffe plunged his blade at Sharp Strike's head, missing by mere centimeters as the Knight moved to the right to avoid it. Sharp Strike swung around both his swords to force Steppenwolffe back before stopping and holding his blades akimbo, showing one had a red gem and the other a blue one.
"I've never fought a Huntsman the likes of you." Steppenwolffe admitted as he collected his breath. "Your swordplay skills are impressive, your head will be a worthy gift to my master."
"I'm no Huntsman." Sharp Strike snarled before attacking.
They exchanged several more blows with each other, before the knight stopped Steppenwolffe's vertical slash with a cross-parry that had them briefly jostling against each other for the superior position, the Grimm commander's terrifying visage reflecting the smooth face-plate and lenses of the Remnant Knight's helmet but he pushed back against the hybrid, straining against the Grimm Commander even as other battles raged viciously around them, "And as for taking my head, I would like to see you try." With an sudden azure blur, he vanished from Steppenwolffe's view and the Grimm warrior was cutting through empty air. His eyes widen as he saw the rapidly disappearing afterimage, the Grimm Commander felt a sharp blade slice into his thigh as he whirled around, trying to hit the knight but missing him again.
His enhanced senses strained to find any presence of the knight, but was unable to do so since the latter was too fast to be tracked by even his own sight and hearing. Steppenwolffe only caught brief glimpses of moving azure figures, and then what looked like a pair of silver blurs, one of fire and one of ice coming for him. He tried to block the incoming blows as best he could, but every time he managed to block one, the rest of the blows dealt by the knight smashed through his hurried defenses and delivered pain of both flaming hot and freezing cold when the blades cut into him relentlessly.
There was no way for him to counter such swift attacks, which hindered his movement and leaving him unable to effectively see where the next strike was coming from. The blades of flame and ice were merciless, leaving large gashes and deep cuts on robes and body and had he not moved quick enough his arm would have been severed at the shoulder. Another sharp blow knocked his sword out of his hands and sent it skidding across the raging battlefield, just out of his reach. Just as quickly as the semblance-enhanced attack had begun, it had ended and the Grimm Commander felt a quick slash which opened up a sizable wound on his cheek which bled black blood as well. His strength left him and with a punch from the knight Steppenwolffe fell to his knees.
Coughing out blood and raising a clawed hand to clutch at his chest, he was vaguely aware of the armored knight standing in front of him, both swords of flames and ice at his sides and the emotionless face-plate gazing down at him, as though ready to deliver the final blow that would end his life. Forcing himself to lift his head up and glare at the knight with all the defiance he could muster, Steppenwolffe snarled, "You think you have won? This is not even the main event. This is merely just a skirmish..."
The knight took up the flaming sword and brought it dangerously close to Steppenwolffe's neck, the raging orange-red flames coating the long thin silver blade lapping painfully against it, and felt his eyes look up into the impassive face-plate which reflected his visage back at him, the azure lenses boring into his blackened soul, "You will deliver a message to Salem for me. Tell her this: The Remnant Knight Order still lives, and we have returned to bring justice to her and all who serve her. Tell her that we will never give up the endless struggle to save Remnant from her wicked machinations, and her reign of evil will not last much longer now that we have joined in the fight."
Sharp Strike leaned down a little, the flame-coated sword in his grip never wavering from Steppenwolffe's neck, "Take that to Salem and tell her!"
"So you know of my queen? Interesting..." Steppenwolffe said before his eyes shone blood red.
Sharp Strike was suddenly attacked from all sides by a pack of Beowolves, biting, clawing, and slashing at him as Steppenwolffe plunged forward and punched Sharp Strike in the face before retreating into the shadows, beckoning all of his Grimm to attack Sharp Strike all at once.
Sharp Strike let out a yell of defiance as he began striking with his swords wildly, decapitating, severing limbs, cutting them in two, eviscerating, anything he could do he was. He slammed his fire blade through the head a rather old Beowolf, setting and head and the rest of the body ablaze before he whipped around and used his ice blade to freeze another Beowolf, with its claws and spikes ready to dig in. He then shattered the frozen beast, sending icy projectiles into many of the surrounding Grimm, killing about eleven of them.
Sharp Strike plunged both of his swords behind him to impale another large Grimm, making it implode from the combined powers of fire and ice. He spun his sword out, decapitating twelve Beowolves within thirty seconds before he began violently hacking and slashing the charging Grimm apart to the best of his abilities. Many Grimm fell to his blades, falling and disintegrating around him but they just kept coming, eager to please their commander. Sharp Strike growled, getting annoyed but he decided to take them out quickly, so he used his Semblance to run into the pack, obliterating a great many of them, afterimages of his poses left behind before fading as many Beowolves were killed by slashes in a variety of places.
Sharp Strike came to a stop and tried to collect his breath when a Beowolf attacked from behind, slashing his back. Sharp Strike grunted in pain as he turned around and sliced the beast's neck open, deep enough to make the head lean off of the body, but as he did that ten Beowolves attacked at once, overwhelming him and knocking his swords out of his hands.
He did his best to hold them off of his face as they bit into his armor, but to no avail. A large Beowolf stepped on his chest hard, its claws digging into the chest plate. It's red eyes looked down at Sharp Strike's face-plate and it roared as its claws and spikes prepared to dig into the knight... just before a shot rang out and its head exploded.
The Beowolves turned around to face the one who dared to interrupt them, but they were obliterated and wiped out with a quick and brutal series of perfect shots. Sharp Strike forced himself up to see Ruby smiling at him.
"Looked like you needed a hand." she said before she nonchalantly blasted another Grimm out of existence.
"Thank you." Sharp Strike said in a voice that made Ruby know he was smiling under that helmet. Sharp Strike pushed a button on his right gauntlet and summoned his bike, which blasted its way through a trio of Beowolves before stopping in front of them. Sharp Strike mounted his vehicle so fighting the Grimm would be easier, pnly for one of the nearby Beowolves to be hit with a powerful shot from Professor Port's blunderbuss, but something happened, or rather didn't happen, the dead Grimm didn't turn into black ash.
Ruby was amazed at the sight, as was Sharp Strike but his mask hid it. Ruby looked up to see Professor Port, his clothes a bit ruffled from the fighting, a few tears here and there but his face remained the same.
"Ah, Miss Rose! I neglected to greet you when we landed, let me say how wonderful it is to see you and the others made it like the true Hunters you are!" he declared before he whipped around and conked a White Fang trooper on the head with the butt of his weapon.
Ruby allowed herself a smile. "Nice to have you professor... so what's up with the Grimm you just shot?" she asked as she bashed another masked Faunus in the face with the blunt end of Crescent Rose. To her knowledge there was only one way to preserve a Grimm's body like that; the power of her silver eyes.
"Oh, that. Well my dear, it's a type of new weapon Oobleck and Crane whipped up..." he began before sighing and admitting "And it does have something to do with the power of your eyes."
Ruby frowned, but shook her head and assured her teacher "Don't worry, I'm not mad, just kinda confused. I would like an explanation."
"You can discuss it later, right now we have bigger problems to worry about!" Sharp Strike alerted, as three more Paladins rampaged their way into the battlefield.
From somewhere in the war zone Nora yelled "Oh come on!"
One Paladin fought its way to the middle of the battlefield while another charged towards the storage facility and the third went to guard the main building.
"We have to help them! Those things will kill people!" Ruby cried.
Sharp Strike nodded and said "Get on!" Ruby quickly took his advice and jumped onto the bike... and so did Professor Port.
"Tallyho!" he declared as Sharp Strike road the bike towards the Paladin. At the front of the bike, above the wheel and below the headlight, emerged a large, powerful looking harpoon. They moved forward, trying to get past the hordes of Grimm that were blocking them from getting to it.
Sharp Strike got out his swords again and said "This might take..."
He was cut off by Coco blasting away half a dozen Beowolves at once with her minigun while Yatsuhashi cut three in half with one swing of his sword, before cutting another one in half lengthwise. Fox helped out by using his blades expertly to sever arms, heads, and legs from the Grimm's bodies with help from Sage who impaled two Grimm on his sword at one, making a Beowolf-kabob and Scarlet wrapped a Beowolf's neck with his grappling hook before yanking it back to stab it through the neck.
"Get moving and that that thing down!" The former pirate cried.
"We got these things, this is what we're trained for!" Coco agreed as she fired away at more Beowolves.
Port laughed as he jumped off the bike to aid his students, blasting the head clean off a Beowolf with a normal round. "Best of luck!" he said to them.
"Thanks!" Ruby said as Sharp Strike drove towards the Paladin.
Meanwhile at the storage facility Weiss, Taiyang, Colonel Chamberlain, Graham, and the others had been fighting off what few White Fang forces that dared come near them but they were all shock when the Paladins arrived, and couldn't help but look on in horror as one of them charged towards them.
"Not this shit again..." muttered Taiyang, both annoyed and worried, but was more than willing to go another round.
Weiss glared at it, but an idea popped into her head. She quickly instructed her Knight to look down at the Paladin while she began to march out towards it. She looked back at the adults and said "Hold your fire. I know what to do."
"Miss Schnee?" Chamberlain asked, concerned.
"Trust me." she assured him before turning to face the battle-suit head on, Myrtenaster in hand. The large mech stopped right in front of her, keeping its guns trained on her.
"Well, well, well... a Schnee. My lucky day." Said the voice of the operator from within, not realizing she was creating a glyph beneath the mech.
"You couldn't be more wrong." Weiss said as she activated the glyph and used the Dust crystal in her rapier to encase the Paladin's legs in ice. She dashes out of the firing range, but was still knocked down by the impact of the blast.
The mech looked down and began struggling, trying to get out of the ice when the shadow of the Knight Summon loomed over it. The Paladin looked up to see the Knight.
"Shit." Was all the pilot could say before firing everything he had at the Knight. While it was doing a very good job at weakening the summon, Weiss put her creation to good use before it could really defeat it. She mentally instructed her summon to slash sideways two times, severing the arms from the Paladin's body and the body from the legs. The pilot cried out in surprise as it the limbless torso of the mech fell to the ground and tumbled in front of the storage building, where the Knight stepped on it and asserted enough force to make the pilot eject before it was crushed.
The pilot tried to get up, only to come face to face with Taiyang who knocked him out in a single punch.
Weiss dispelled her summon before breathing deeply to regain energy, her aura exhausted by the battle. Chamberlain helped her walk to the building, saying "Well done Miss Schnee! Your sister will be so proud!"
Weiss nodded before Taiyang called "Weiss!" She looked back to her partner's father and he said "My daughter's lucky to have a partner like you."
Weiss smiled and said "And I'm lucky to have her."
At the same time the third Paladin attacked the main bulk of the Elite Guard forces, sending them diving for cover behind the wreck of a Spider Droid. Russell, Morgan, Misha, Bbara, Cash, and Penn all took cover from the the Paladin which began marching towards them, ready to blow the wreckage away before a rocket exploded behind it. The Paladin turned around to see Leonardo, nervous but determined, as he held out several powerful blasters at it.
"Come and get me!" he dared before he ran out of the way of its lasers, blasting back at it the whole time, helped out by some of his troops who gave their captain some covering fire.
Behind the wreckage the members of the Elite Guard discussed the situation with the time Leonardo was giving them.
"We are so slagged." Moaned Penn.
"Shut up." Scolded both Misha and Babara before the former looked to the others and asked "Anyone have a good idea on how we take that down with minimum casualties?"
Russell and Morgan looked at each other, but remained silent.
"We come on! You two've worked for Razor for years! Shouldn't you have learned a trick or two from him?!" cried Cash as he fired at the Paladin from their cover, doing little damage.
The two older Faunus looked at each other once more and Morgan gave a grin. "Airstrike?"
"Possible, but we'd have to get everyone clear and keep it in one spot." Russell pointed out.
"We can do that, we just need to help Leonardo and then run for it." Misha voiced.
The Polar Bear Faunus and Hyena Faunus glanced at each other before the latter laughed. "Screw it, let's go for it!" He said before jumping over the dead Spider Droid, Cash, Misha, and Penn joining him while Russell made the call.
Morgan slammed his mace into the Paladin's heel before ripping it out and firing the spikes into the back of the torso before running away to avoid the lasers, Misha, Penn, and Cash all shooting it at once to make sure they had its attention. Sure enough they did as it turned around and began firing on them, Babara used her battle axe to deflect the shots away, but it didn't do much good, forcing them to keep running.
"Come on!" Cash called to Leonardo and his troops. The Lion Faunus nodded and ran with his troops to join up with Morgan and the others, shooting at it to keep it coming at them. They lured it to the right corner of the main building, running as fast as they could to avoid being hit by its weapons. Just then a laser burst through its left lake, making it trip and fall to the ground. Morgan and Misha looked back to see that Russell had wired up the gun arm of the dead Spider Droid to blast it.
"Get clear! They'rte about to strike!" he shouted.
Leonardo looked up to see the Elite Guard's ship was moving overhead, its largest turret moving to aim directly at the Paladin.
"Move! Go, go!" He shouted as he dashed off, leading the others out of the blast radius. As the Paladin forced itself up it aimed at the retreating Faunus, only to be destroyed in a mighty blast by the turrets of the Elite Guard's ship, the power pf the blast forced it to explode, reducing to a smoking pile of charred metal.
"Well that's one of those things down." muttered Misha.
"Yeah, let's hope we don't have to fight the others." Agreed Leonardo before he looked to see Sharp Strike and Ruby on the motorcycle, rushing towards the last, and largest of the Paladins.
Sharp Strike's bike opened fire on the mech, blasting away at it but the Paladin's armor easily withstood it as it fired rockets at them. "Hang on!" Sharp Strike cried as he forced the bike to swerve violently, just barely missing an explosion. The bike circled around and then zoomed forward, managing to avoid nearly everything the Paladin shot at them save for a few bullets that hit the bike's armor.
Sharp Strike pushed a button on the dashboard and the harpoon fired out of the ship and impaled the leg of the Paladin. Ruby carefully used Crescent Rose in a compressed form to begin blasting at the mech but as she did so she could see Team JNPR, Penny, Dr. Oobleck, and Professor Crane all charging to help. "Sharp Strike, I'm going to join them, good luck!" she said before launching off and landing with a roll on the ground in front of her friends.
"Having fun?" Ren asked dryly.
"You know it. We need to keep that thing's attention off of Sharp Strike." Ruby said before she began to snipe the Paladin's joints while Sharp Strike began to circle the Paladin, the cable on the harpoon
"Happy to help!" voiced Nora as she began firing grenades at the battle-suit, making it stumble back while Ren and Penny opened fire on its weaponry and Pyrrha and Professor Crane helped Ruby out by taking shots at the Paladin's armor and joins.
The Paladin shielded itself from one of Nora's grenades, which bounced back towards them. Jaune quickly grabbed it and threw it into the air where it exploded harmlessly. He and Dr. Oobleck were working to get others out of the way of the Paladin, even though some of them were maskless White Fang members who were trying to help take it down, who Penny kept covered via her swords doing their best to deflect attacks.
The Paladin began firing wildly, Jaune quickly used his Semblance to shield Ruby, Pyrrha, and Crane from its rockets, which was no easy feat. Ruby waved with a cheer as Pyrrha gave him a loving smile, while Crane grinned at him.
Sharp Strike zoomed by Jaune, winding the cable around the Paladin even more, restricting its movements. It moved to shoot the cables off when Oobleck shot a fireball at the guns a split-second before they went off, making the payload explode prematurely and the arm became crippled.
The Paladin did not give up however, using the other arm, the shoulder cannons, and the small laser under the cockpit worked to its advantage, forcing its attackers back. A rocket went off a few meters in front of Ruby, Pyrrha, and Crane, nearly blowing them down. The Paladin swerved and fired at one of the maskless Faunus, who was saved at the last second by Jaune jumping in front of her and using his shield to protect them, they were knocked back a few feet but still alive.
The cockpit was strafed over and over again by Ren's guns, which Penny helped out by plunging all of her swords into the front of the Paladin, she ripped it out just as Nora did some real damage by launching herself up with a grenade to the ground and she slammed down Magnhild on the Paladin's crippled arm, knocking it off. The limb fell with a loud 'thud' to the ground as Nora landed beside Ren, who smiled at her in admiration.
Just then more blasts hit the Paladin from behind as Commander Central led a group of Omega Troopers, all firing at it. "Task Force Omega, attack!" he ordered as he kept shooting away, weakening the mech more and more.
Sharp Strike brought his bike to a screeching halt and jumped up high into the air, withdrawing both of his swords as he landed on the top of the Paladin. The powers of both swords activated; one ablaze with fire, the other freezing with ice. Sharp Strike yelled in exhilaration as he stabbed both blades into the Paladin, one sword shooting fire into the mech and the other freezing its system.
The Paladin began to shake violently, sparks and small explosions erupted from the armor, the remaining arm flailed wildly.
"Whoa..." Nora murmured.
"Keep it up!" Ruby cried as she opened fire again, with Pyrrha and the others helping her, damaging the battle-suit even more.
Sharp Strike pulled his sword out of the Paladin and jumped off, right before more sparks flew from its systems as it gave in and fell to the ground with a tremendous crash.
Everyone kept their guard up, just in case it moved again, but all it did was shudder loudly before smoke burst from an exhaust port. The final Paladin was defeated.
Ruby let out a cheer as she jumped up into the air, Nora did the same as she grabbed Ren in a hug and spun around. Penny clapped while a recovering Jaune smiled at Pyrrha as she helped him up from the ground. They looked around at the battlefield, much less chaotic than it had been. Many masked White Fang troops and Oblivion Vanguards were retreating or surrendering.
Sue to their Grimm powers they could feel various emotions throughout the area: anger, fear, sorrow, regret... but there were other emotions, ones that signified happiness, relief, reassurance, and hope. It was positive emotions like these that helped them, as they canceled out the negative ones that fed the inner Grimm, but they had it under control.
Sharp Strike nodded to Ruby as he walked over to her. "You did excellent my friend." he told her as Coco led the other to regroup with them.
"Thanks, you did too." Ruby said to him before she looked around. "Everyone okay?"
"A little scratched up, but I can handle it." Jaune said.
"We're good." Nora assured her.
"Much worse scuffs than this." Port asserted.
"Just fine." voiced Yatsuhashi.
"Fully functional!" stated Penny cheerfully.
Ruby smiled and said "Good, I gotta check on my team." And with that she ran off, leaving behind some rose petals.
The girl in the red cape appeared before the storage facility, a sight that made her dad grin. "Nice work out there sweetie." he said.
"Thanks dad, is Weiss okay?" she asked, a little worried as she hadn't seen the Knight since she got on Sharp Strike's bike, but the sight of the ruined Paladin made her feel a little better.
"I'm just fine." said the heiress as she stepped out of the building, sweaty and tired, but still as graceful as ever. Ruby smiled and ran forward to hug Weiss. "Yes, yes, I'm happy to see you're alright too."
Ruby released her partner and asked "Have you heard anything about Yang or Blake? Or Sun and Velvet?"
Weiss shook her head, "Nothing yet, but I'm sure they're all alright. Wait... have you seen Neo?"
Elsewhere on the edge of the battlefield a White Fang thug turned to run from the giant monster before him, only to run right into a pole, knocking himself out. The beast vanished as Neo dispelled it. She smirked at the sight before taking a rest by leaning against the wall. So this mess wasn't the disaster it had shaped up to be, well it could have gone way better but still, they were alive.
As the sounds of battle had gotten quieter Neo decided she was safe to rest for a moment or two and considered her next action. Would she let them take her to Vale or would she go off on her own? Probably the latter, since she worked better alone... she had ever since Roman...
She sighed sadly, when all of a sudden she heard a voice.
"I'm happy I know what you sound like now, can't wait to hear you scream." said the familiar voice of Mercury.
Neo bolted up as she drew out her estoc, ready to fight Cinder's thug. He attacked first, opening with a high kick and three sweeping kicks that the multi-colored girl managed to dodge before he jumped up and kicked her in the head, knocking her down. He tried to stomp on her but she rolled out of the way, got up, and stabbed him right in the gut.
She looked Mercury in the face as she twisted her blade around. Before she could say anything she felt two blades touching her neck as Mercury faded away, nothing more than an illusion. She glanced back to see the jade haired thief, her weapons ready to stab if Neo moved.
"No..." Neo silently whispered as the real Mercury came in front of her, flanked by three Oblivion Vanguards.
"Oh yes." he said cockily, before slammed his fist into her face.
In between the buildings, concealed by shadows, Steppenwolffe took out a communications device and activated it and within seconds Salem's face appeared on the tiny screen. "My Mistress, I assume you know our situation."
"Indeed I do, you are to retreat. Tell Emerald, Mercury, and those White Fang still useful to us to be prepared for retreat, have some ships ready to take off and tell Emerald to contact me via her device and will will aid their escape." She instructed.
"Yes my Mistress, what of Taurus?" The hybrid inquired.
"He has failed. He will pay for that with his life." She answered.
"One last thing... I was battling a strange warrior, he told me to tell you that something called the Remnant Knight Order still lives and will stop at nothing to defeat you. He knew of your name." He told her, and did not miss the intrigued look on her face.
"Interesting. I will have to consider this, tell me about it in greater detail once you've returned." She said before cutting off her transmission.
Steppenwolffe used his communicator to call Emerald, who quickly answered, "What is it?"
"I have consulted with Mistress Salem, she had ordered a retreat. Get all the White Fang forces you can to the ships and get out of here, then call to our Mistress and she will transport the ships to safety."
"Right away. You riding off yourself?" The thief asked.
"Indeed, good luck." the Faunus said to her.
"Thanks, we'll need it." Emerald said before they ended the call.
Emerald looked to Mercury and the nine Oblivion Vanguards who had joined them, Neo was now bound with rope to prevent her from escaping and her mouth was stuffed with a torn piece of clothing. "Get everyone still on our side to the ships, order them to go to the landing zone behind the main hangar, that's where the ships will be." she said, remembering the evacuation plan Hui had told her, which reminded her... "And be sure to check inside the buildings, we know Adam's on the ship but Hui might be in there."
The Vanguards nodded and ran off to preform their appointed task.
Mercury smirked as he looked to Neo. "We're finally gettin' out of here, and you're coming with us." He said to the girl as she glared at him.
Yang slammed open the door and with the Ember Celicias blazing, she fired all over the room; cracking the windshields open and knocking down the two remaining Oblivion Vanguards while also forcing the crew to duck for cover.
Adam whipped around and snarled upon seeing her. "What do I have to do to get rid of you?!" he growled as he took out Blush and fired at the blonde brawler but she easily dodged it just as Blake and Sun came rushing into the room. Adam glared at Blake and she glared right back as she used a purple Dust crystal in combination with a swing of Gambol Shroud to send a purple energy arc at her former lover, who used his Semblance in combination with Wilt to absorb the attack.
While Yang and Sun made sure everyone else in the room was staying put, the two Faunus leaders approached each other, Adam attacked first by swinging at Blake but she parried it before pushing him forwards and then pulling back as Gambol Shroud went to pistol mode so she could fire at him, but he managed to deflect every blast, even at close range.
"Give it up Adam! Don't make it worse!" she snapped as she used the blade on the gun to slash his hip.
Adam grunted as he elbowed Blake in the cheek while kicking her back with a powerful foot to the gut. "I can't give up Blake, there's no turning back for me now!" he ranted furiously as he slashed at her while she parried.
He kept striking at her over and over, but she either parried or struck back, Adam subtly using his Semblance so his sword would absorb the energy from each strike. They fought swiftly and furiously, their blades little more than blurs in the air followed by the clangs of metal striking metal.
Sun, using his weapon to keep on guard pinned beneath the now opened window, looked to the crew and said "There are injured in the weapons room and outside of it, if any of you want to survive this then get everyone who's out cold to the escape pods and get outta here!"
The five crew members looked to each other, seeing that both of the remaining Oblivion Vanguards were pinned down and Blake had Adam busy they had a chance of escaping.
The first three ran for the door, and the other two, nervous and unsure, followed.
"No! Come back you cowards!" Adam screamed in fury, this was enough of a distraction for Blake to slash him across the chest and hit him with an uppercut to the jaw which knocked him against a control console. She placed her sword to his neck.
"Don't make me hurt you anymore than I have to. Please." she said, calm yet clearly willing to fight on if she had to.
Just then the Vanguard Sun had pinned down grabbed the Monkey Faunus' staff and flung him overhead and out the window.
"Sun!" Both Blake and Yang cried in horror, which gave Adam the opportunity to punch Blake in the face, sending her to the floor. The Vanguard Yang had been watching jumped onto her back from behind and began punching her in the face, unwittingly giving her more power due to her Semblance.
The Vanguard who had thrown Sun moved to help his leader but Sun popped back up and pulled him out the window onto the catwalk-like platforms with him.
Adam kicked Blake while she was down, he kicked her several times before grabbing her by the neck and setting her up right so he could punch her in the face hard enough to send her flying across the room.
"I'm finally going to put an end to this my love." Yang pointed her robotic hand at Adam, intending to blast him but the Oblivion Vanguard who rode her leaned backwards and they both tumbled out of the broken window. Adam smirked as he approached her. "These two fools can't help you. And I know what they mean to you and what you mean to them. They both love you and I know you love them both, don't you?" he asked as he lifted her up by the chin.
Blake was so tired, but with tears in her eyes she answered "Yes, I love them both so much."
Adam glared at her before slamming her to the ground. "Well they can't have you! If I can't have you no one can!" he ranted, completely mad. Just then he screamed in pain as Blake used the scythe-like blade on the end of Gambol Shroud's gun form to stab Adam's left foot.
"Adam... SHUT UP!" she shouted. And with that she jumped up and slammed a mighty fist into his face to force him back before unloading an entire clip onto him, most of which he was able deflect via wildly swinging Wilt, but a few did hit him.
Adam lurched at the buttons on the console, aiming to launch the missiles but Blake ran into him and pulled him down. "I know what you're trying to do, and I swear as long as I live you'll never do it!"
"Then we'll just have to fix that..." Adam hissed as he elbowed her in the gut, forcing Blake off of him. Adam began to get up but Blake used Gambol Shroud's Kusarigama to trip him up as she recovered.
"We're not going anywhere." she said as she reached the navigation system and quickly went about altering the course.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Adam demanded as he got up.
"Crashing this ship." Blake replied as she ducked a shot from Blush before she gripped the hilt of Gambol Shroud's katana form and plunged it into the computer console, following it up by using the last purple Dust crystal she had within the hilt to destroy it, causing it to spark and shut down before exploding once she got out of the way.
"No!" cried Adam as he grabbed Blake by the ear, kneed her in the face, and threw her to the ground. He inspected the wrecked operating system, seeing it was beyond repair. "You idiot! You've doomed us all!"
"You already doomed yourself Adam." Blake retorted as she got back up, Gambol Shroud in hand.
Adam screamed as he rushed her, the two entering yet another duel while the ship turned around.
While this had been happening both Sun and Yang had been fighting their own Oblivion Vanguards.
On the right side of the ship Sun constantly ducked the attacks of his Vanguard, because he was armed with an odd axe that had a very good length and a sharp blade that the leader of Team SSSN wouldn't want touching his body. He swung hard as Sun, who bounced away, which allowed the Vanguard to cut loose the handrail on the side. He swung and missed again, which helped Sun manage to get in close and score a few decent punches on the Faunus' arms and chest before ducking to avoid getting a blade in his head. This worked to his advantage as he was able to punch his enemy in the gut, but at the same time the Vanguard kneed Sun in the gut hard.
Sun doubled over before being floored with the hilt of his opponent's axe bashing into his back. Sun opened his eyes just in time to see the Oblivion Vanguard raise up his weapon, ready to murder Sun right then and there but the Monkey Faunus curled up and jumped up at the very last second, allowing his enemy to get his weapon stuck in the platform.
Sun grabbed Ruyi and Jingu Bang's combined form and slammed them into the Oblivion Vanguard's chest to knock him down. Sun blasted the Vanguard in the knee when he tried to get up, which gave Sun enough time to rip the axe out of the catwalk and toss it over the side and into the jungles below as the ship changed course.
The Vanguard managed to roll away from Sun before springing up and taking out a gun, which was quickly shot out of his hands by a shot from Ruyi Bang as Sun separated them back into their nunchaku forms.
The Faunus snarled before retreating down the catwalk, with Sun in hot pursuit, but as he ran forward Sun noticed that the segment of the platform that his opponent had slammed his axe into was now loose.
That probably wouldn't matter for now, right now he needed to do his part, so he raced after his guard to the rear of the ship where the platforms went above the engines.
On the left side of the ship Yang blasted away at her own Vanguard, who was of average size but due to his heavy armor he was protected from the shots, no matter how powerful they were. Yang threw wild punches which he quickly sidestepped as many of them as he could before he swung his sword to drive her back. He leapt forwards and slammed his blade downwards, intending to cut her front open but she quickly caught it, the metal palms of her gauntlets protecting her hands.
The two wrestled with the blade, even as Yang got a brief glimpse of a couple escape pods ejecting from the ship.
At least that evened the odds for them. Yang kicked the Faunus in the groin to drive him back, but he kept a grip on his sword and slid it against Yang's robotic arm, cutting her mechanical pinkie finger off.
"Ah! Dick!" Yang said the severed mechanical finger sparked.
He charged and took a few more swings at her, all of which she dodged before slamming a fist into his gut while also shooting it off, sending him on the floor of the catwalks, dropping his sword as he fell. He tried to reclaim him weapon but Yang stepped on his hand before picking him up and sucker-punching him hard enough to send him flying down the platforms.
She shook her head as she marched towards him, ready for another bout as he got back up and withdrew a gun to begin shooting at her, but she either dodged every bullet or shot it down with a blast from either of the Ember Celicas.
The Faunus snarled furiously as he realized he had wasted all of his bullets and before he could reload Yang grabbed the gun from him and used a considerable amount of strength on the Ember Celicas to crush its barrel, rendering it useless.
Yang smirked as she could tell, even behind the mask and with a dagger in his hands, that her enemy was panicking.
Glynda wiped the sweat from her brow as she stood atop a building, looking at the slightly battle-damaged village of Oro. Despite the challenge the battle was nearly over, only a few of the hostile White Fang troops remained, the others had surrendered, been captured, or sadly killed, but the village was nearly liberated and with only a few civilians being injured with no fatalities, which was definite plus for her.
Using her powers she pulled a large piece of debris out of a hole in the wall before placing it on the ground before she looked back at the site of the prison. She took out her radio and said "This is Professor Goodwitch, what's the situation at the prison?"
"Everything's under control Professor! Looks like they weren't ready for a direct assault after what happened earlier with those kids. The prisoners are alive but we'll get 'em out once we've made sure it's safe." said the voice of a ranger.
"Very good, proceed." Glynda said to him before switching off her radio. She looked back down at the town when she spotted one of the remaining White Fang running towards a building, carrying an explosive device in one hand and a bag in the other while Rangers chased after him.
Glynda jumped down from the building, landing gracefully before the criminal. "Stop right there." she commanded as he skidded to a halt.
The rangers aimed their guns at him, the Faunus glanced around nervously, seeing that he was completely blocked off.
"Surrender now, please do not do something everyone will regret." Glynda pleaded with him gently, hoping to talk him down.
"Too late! It's all over now!" shouted the Faunus as he set the bomb ready to blow.
"Get back!" Glynda shouted to everyone who could hear her as he threw it to the ground, but it never touched the earth.
Glynda acted quickly, using her Semblance to take hold of the bomb and contain the explosion, but it took a great deal of effort and put a lot of stress of Glynda's aura. With a yell she used her Semblance to launch the bomb into the air where it exploded harmlessly.
The Vacuo Rangers moved in and tackled the bomber to the ground, cuffing him. A captain helped Glynda up, asking "Are you okay Professor?"
She nodded, "I'll be fine, keep checking for hostiles, we don't want a repeat of that." She instructed.
The captain nodded and walked off as a tired Glynda looked about the damaged town, feeling somewhat proud that her actions had saved several buildings from being destroyed. Hopefully the people would recover from this soon. Only time would tell.
In the communications room Hui and Winter still fought on, their blades clashes again and again until became engaged in another blade lock.
Winter glanced over to see Jinty, about to make it to the main console. Hui, wondering what she was looking at, saw Jinty grab the edge of the console and hoist himself up.
"No!" the Faunus cried, he tried to get away from Winter to attack Jinty, only for Winter to slash him across the chest, making him cry out in pain.
Jinty leaned against the console, accidentally pushing a button that reopened the door as he took out the scroll. Hui blocked Winter's next attack, the two traded blows three more times before Winter slashed him across the hand, making him drop his sword. He yelled in fury and tried to punch her, only for Winter to grab his fist, haul him in close, and bash his face with her elbow to knock him back, and then jumped over to kick him onto a series glyph she had quickly created. She then sent him flying into the wall across from the open door, slamming his head into the wall hard enough to knock him out.
"Jinty?" she asked.
"Got it! The data's uploading!" he called before pushing a button. "We ran into a little trouble boss, but it's ready! Transmit it!"
"Gladly." said Razor, before gunfire erupted in the room. Winter jumped in front on Jinty, using a glyph to protect both of them from the bullets. She could see that there were two Oblivion Vanguards in the doorway while another helped Hui to his feet. They kept firing until it was Hui and the other one were moving, so they moved with them for protection.
Winter sighed as she dispersed her glyph, she was too tired to go after them for the moment. Besides, they had already lost.
Out in the courtyard a maskless Faunus was finned to the ground by one of the Oblivion Vanguards, who held his axe aloft, preparing to bring it down. "Death to traitors!" the Vanguard cried.
"No!" cried Babara, as she, Misha, and Russell rushed to stop him.
All of a sudden the big screen attached to the wall of the main building came to life, and the voice of Razor got everyone's attention. "Stop fighting now! All of you! NOW!" he screamed through the P.A.
The Vanguard glanced to look at the screen, long enough for Babara to knock him to the ground and place her axe over his chest, daring him to make a move. Everyone on the battlefield stopped and looked to the screen, their attention taken by the picture of amputated Faunus Piper had taken.
Razor's speech he had recorded began to play. "You know who I am; Razor, leader of the Elite Guard. I am not loyal to any one leader, I am loyal to the White Fang itself and what it stands for. I am loyal to the cause of Faunus equality and I was willing to do whatever I thought necessary, but I can no longer allow Adam Taurus to lead us. The pictures you are seeing, disturbing as they are, are proof of Commander Taurus' crimes against our race. Deny it thought he will, we know for a face that he and those loyal to him are responsible for the mutilation of Faunus who did not want to be a part of this life or follow his violent whims. Faunus who saw what I was blind to."
As he said this more images and some footage began to appear on the screen, from that data Ruby had sent to Ironwood and was uploaded via Chamberlain's scroll, showing more up-close and unnerving, and horrific images of the mutilation the pictured Faunus had suffered through, making most of the Faunus in the area feel sick to their stomachs, and many of those who had still sided with Adam over Blake were horrified.
"I know you may think we faked this, but someone I'd trust with my life verified that it was true, she saw it with her own eyes. The 'traitor' known as Blake Belladonna tried to warn me and my team, she and her friends tried to tell me the truth. I didn't listen to them, and I am dishonored because of it. But I am doing this now to make things right. Adam Taurus has betrayed the White Fang, he has allied himself with humans, Faunus, and other... things that threaten our very existence. He had murdered and butchered his own kind to silence anyone who dared to oppose him. Will you let him do the same to you? I ask you, my brother and sisters, to stand with us! Help us take back the White Fang so that we can redeem it and make things right! Help us stop Adam Taurus from damning us all!" Razor's voice pleaded. "The choice is yours, but we will not stop until the White Fang is set on the right path. The White Fang will no longer be what Adam has twisted it into, it will be what it was meant to be, a symbol of hope for Faunus and humans' chance to live together in peace and equality. Will you help us achieve that? Or will you side with Adam and try to stop that? Like I said, the choice is yours."
The speech ended and a new voice came on. "This is General James Ironwood, over a week ago Team Beacon interrogated a White Fang agent who had been ordered by Adam Taurus to go to a remote White Fang facility in the middle of Vacuo's great desert. Our forces went there and discovered a site of pure carnage and death, caused by a Grimm abomination that was working for the enemy of all life, who Adam Taurus had allied himself with. He sent a platoon of White Fang soldiers there, led by Captain Matthew Riley, to die because they had all, at one point or another, spoken out against him. We have proof of it thanks to the efforts of a medic named Ginger Styles, who managed to record proof of Taurus' crimes before she died in that terrible place. Watch and listen."
What followed was an edited montage of Norvik's rampage, showing the deaths of King, Vincent, Stine, Samara, Carpenter, and the rest at the teeth and claws of Norvik. All the while new audio began to play over it.
"...hear me? This is your leader."
"Commander Taurus!"
"Oh thank Oum..."
"We're saved!"
"Sir, you have to get us out of here... there's some kind of monster in this base and... we've lost Captain Riley and many..."
"I know Styles. While it's surprising to hear that Riley is dead so early, everything else seems to be going according to plan."
"Wh... what?"
"What the hell?!"
"Oh shit..."
"Riley was right. You did send us here to die, you murdering piece of shit!"
"Correct, he was a smart one. Too bad it didn't get him anywhere."
"You smug totalitarian fucker!"
"No need for insults, it's unbecoming of a medical officer."
"What...? Why? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US?!"
"Samara..."
"No, let me answer her. Because at one point or another you have all openly voiced doubt about our cause or opposed me. You doubt me, you doubt the Fang, and if you doubt the Fang... you jeopardize the future of our race."
"Bullshit!"
"You said it."
"When we get out of here..."
"Oh, but you won't. There's no escape for any of you. We've made sure of it. You are all going to die in that facility but you will be remembered as martyrs, victims of human brutality. Once you're all dead it will be set up to look like humans attacked your base, left no survivors, and destroyed it, with a few dead Vacuo Rangers as evidence of this, of course."
"... You're a monster Taurus."
"To people like you Styles... yes. I suppose I could be seen as a monster. Maybe I am. But I'm a necessary evil, a monster forged by humanity's cruelty to bring about their reckoning. Other refused to see this, so I need to push them in the right direction, and your deaths are the means to do that. I thank you for your services and I hope your deaths aren't too violent."
"You son of a bit-"
The audio cut off as the video ended, showing King sacrificing himself to distract Norvik.
The battlefield was silent, most of the White Fang present, especially those that had sided with Adam, were utterly shocked, disgusted, and furious at this revelation. Many of the masked Faunus began to throw down their weapons and their masks. They either surrendered or ran in shame. The same thing happened all around Remnant, as Razor and the others in the control room had sent the evidence to every base they could.
Those who, despite everything they had seen and heard, still sided with Adam were few, most of them were Oblivion Vanguards who had known the truth all along but there were a few average troopers and officers among them.
"Retreat! We must retreat! The White Fang will live to fight another day!" Shouted one of the Oblivion Vanguards. They began to run, even as they were being shot at by Task Force Omega and the other forces, which forced them to shoot back when some of their number were shot in the back as they ran.
"We did it! They're retreating!" called Penny as as she deflected a shot at Chamberlain.
"It's finally over." muttered Claudandus with a bittersweet voice.
Emerald and Mercury stood off to the side with Neo tied up and one of Emerald's guns to her head. "Well, looks like this keeps getting worse." Emerald voiced.
"You got that right, let's get on a ship and get the hell out." Mercury said.
"Not happening." said the voice of Ruby. The duo turned around to see Ruby, Weiss, Pyrrha, and Jaune all armed and ready for another fight. "Let Neo go."
"You gotta be kidding us, what makes you think you can stop us?" Mercury asked mockingly.
Emerald rolled her eyes, knowing the these four were a serious threat apart, but combined it meant they might not make it out of this.
"We got you outnumbered and outgunned, there's no getting away this time." Jaune hissed.
Pyrrha transformed Milo into rifle mode and blasted at the rope holding Neo, freeing her from Emerald's hold before she jumped forward, punched the thief away, and used Milo's xiphos form to cut her petite friend free. Mercury tried to kick at her but Jaune bashed him down with his shield, shaking his head.
"You just don't learn." The blonde remarked with a smirk.
Emerald grimaced as she assessed the situation, and knew they only had one way out, even if it took a lot of her aura. She looked to Mercury and made a small signal with her hand and he nodded. She looked back at them and said "You got us. We surrender." She took up her gun and fired at Mercury, riddling him with bullets and stunning the five before her.
"Y-you... killed him!" Ruby cried in horror.
Emerald didn't respond the way they had expected her to, she simply said "See you later." And with that her form and Mercury's body faded away.
"Her Semblance!" Ruby stated in shock, she looked over to the edge of the building, just barley getting a glimpse of someone retreating.
"She must have gotten good if it can affect five people at once, before she could only do one or two." Pyrrha said worriedly.
Ruby nodded before she said "Well come on, let's stop them before they get away." Everyone else nodded and dashed off with Ruby in the lead.
Soon enough they came to the area where a dozen White Fang ships were preparing to take off, many Oblivion Vanguards, masked Faunus troops, and officers were rushing to get aboard. Mercury was helping Emerald up the ramp of lead ship, as using her Semblance to project an illusion on five people had drained her. Hui, holding an ice pack to his head, stood atop the ramp, beckoning to them.
"Come on, our ship will lead the way. Your leader better keep her word on our escape." he said to them.
"Oh don't worry about that." Mercury muttered before Ruby and the others began shooting at the ships. Mercury looked back and snarled furiously, "Those idiots don't know when to quit!"
"Stop them!" Hui ordered, and a group of Oblivion Vanguards opened fire on the group with heavy caliber guns, making them run for cover. Ruby and Pyrrha acted as snipers and tried to shoot out the ships' engines and cockpit windshields, but they weren't doing any major damage.
The ramp to the lead ship drew up and the engines roared to life as it began to ascend.
"Get to the ships now!" Commanded Hui via a speaker on the ship. As the soldiers ran to get on the ships Hui looked to Mercury and said "Call her now."
Mercury nodded and took the communication device of Emerald's pocket and activated it. "Mistress, we're leaving now. I beg of you to open a portal for us to escape." He said in an incredibly uncharacteristically humble voice.
"Of course." Said Salem's smooth voice. Once the ships were all of the ground and taking off into the air, blasting away, Ruby and the others came out of hiding, Ruby still trying to shoot the ships.
Weiss sighed and placed a calming hand on Ruby's shoulder. "Ruby, it's alright." she said gently.
Ruby sighed and said "We could have stopped them Weiss."
The Schnee heiress sighed as well before looking up and saying "With a little luck they won't." She lifted Ruby's head up to see several Atlas Eagles, Vacuo Ranger gunships and the ship she and the others had stolen, giving chase after the ships.
Ruby couldn't help but crack a smile. "Go get 'em Uncle Qrow." she said quietly.
The White Fang ships had to swerve and pivot wildly to avoid the enemy fire being hurled at them, but it was odd to see one of their own seemed to be leading the charge after them.
"This is Qrow Branwen to all fleeing White Fang ships, you can't keep running forever." Qrow announced over the radio as the Atlas Eagles zipped ahead and turned about face to block them off while the Ranger's gunships began to circle around, guns trained on them. "We have you surrounded, land and surrender now."
On the lead White Fang ship Mercury smirked as he said "I don't think so old man."
As if on cue a huge, swirling vortex opened up in midair, like a tear in the sky, catching Qrow and the others off guard.
"Forward!" Hui ordered. The pilot obeyed and flew the ship into the portal, signaling the others to join them.
"No, no!" Qrow groaned as he opened fire on them, and despite the face that he and the other ships landed a few hits, it was too little too late. The ships all made it into the portal, which instantly closed as soon as the last ship made it through.
Qrow sighed and muttered "Damn it."
"There's always next time." Neptune offered sincerely.
Qrow glanced at him, but before he could respond something very loud and very bright got everyone's attention; the top of the mountain exploded.
Blake and Adam kept dueling, their blades clashing and striking together in a frantic battle to the end. She wondered why he hadn't used his Semblance yet, as he had absorbed enough energy for one mighty strike that could finish her off, which she tried to diminish by avoiding his swings.
She stood against a wall, waiting for him to attack. He charged forward as fast as he could, screaming as he prepared to plunge Wilt into her, but once he did she flickered away.
"Not again!" he muttered as he scolded himself for falling for another trick of her Semblance.
The real Blake came out of the shadows and hit his forehead with a palm strike, driving him away from his sword as she shot his thigh with Gambol Shroud's gun mode. Adam whipped out Blush and blasted it at her but she quickly ducked before aiming her own gun at his head but he knocked it away.
The two engaged in an up-close fight, with the two aiming their guns at one another only for both of them to knock each other's respective firearm away. They came up together, their arms striking each other at once with both guns pointed their heads only for both of them to duck as they fired. Blake moved her hand with Gambol Shroud in a circle motion around to aim at Adam's head but he knocked it away just in time to avoid getting shot.
The two enemies kept striking and shooting at each other, but they missed every time due to their respective speeds before Adam headbutted her back. He aimed Blush directly at her head, aiming to murder her, but she quickly transformed Gambol Shroud into both it katana form and cleaver mode and captured his gun in a cross lock before forcing it up so the blast wouldn't hit her. With that she used as much of her remaining strength as she could to use her two weapons to cut Blush in two.
Adam screamed it fury as Blake kicked him back, but as she recovered Adam slammed the now useless Blush into her head to knock her down before he ran back to the wall to rip Wilt free. He turned around to face Blake, who was bruised and tired but wasn't about to give up.
Adam twirled his sword around in his hands as he eyed her. Blake paced carefully, ready for the next strike.
Meanwhile on the back of the ship, just above the engines Sun battled his opponent, who was now beaten and exhausted. The Monkey Faunus stood in front of the staircase that led to the left side of the ship as he pointed his staff at his enemy.
"Come on man, you can't keep this up. Don't make this harder." Sun said to him gently.
The Oblivion Vanguard hissed at him as he crawled backward and took something from his belt; a grenade.
"No! Don't do it!" Sun cried.
The foolish Vanguard ignored Sun and tossed the explosive at him, but Sun quickly knocked it away with his staff, which caused it to go flying over the side where it exploded right in front of the one of the engines, causing it to explode as well.
The Vanguard screamed as the engine erupted right beneath him, killing him quickly. The blast knocked Sun down the staircase, he tumbled down and nearly fell over the edge but managed to hang on as the explosion rocked the ship.
Down the platform Sun was now currently on Yang wrestled with her own Vanguard, who was desperately trying to slit her throat with the dagger. However, the explosions were causing the ship to shake and buck violently, and forced both Yang and her opponent to fall against the handrails, but the one that caught the Vanguard wasn't properly secured so it gave into his weight, and he fell off of the ship and with a scream he plunged to his death below.
Yang's eyes were wide as she watched him disappear from sight, horrified that she didn't move quick enough to help him.
Yang looked over to Sun and called "You okay?"
He gave her a smirk and a thumbs up and said. "I'm solid. Been better, but I'm still alive."
Yang nodded but then realized that now they could help Blake defeat Adam. Just then she heard something that made her blood and aura run cold; Blake was screaming in pain.
"No..." she said as she forced herself up and ran back towards the bridge, Sun forcing himself up despite the pain as he moved to help the girl he loved. As Yang rushed forward she saw the now dead Vanguard's sword she had ripped from his hands and picked it up, just in case.
As the explosions continued to rock the ship Blake wasn't doing hot at all, Adam had landed a painful cut on her forearm when an explosion knocked her off balance which gave Adam the perfect opportunity. He lurched forward and grabbed hold of her, headbutted her, ripped Gambol Shroud out of her arms, and finally picked her up to throw her out of the shattered window. Adam looked over the consoles and quickly pressed a few buttons, launching all escape pods. He wanted to die, and make sure everyone else died with him. He strolled forward and jumped out of the broken window to see the injured Blake lying on her stomach as she tried to crawl away.
"No Blake, you won't win. It ends here, my love!" Adam shouted as he began to stomp on her, making her scream in pain. He brought his foot down on her back, over and over again before the segment's Blake's lower body was on gave way due to one of Adam's heavy stomps. Both of them cried out in surprise as the segment of the platform began to hang in the air, the lower half now hanging dangerously in the air. Blake leapt forward and gripped the bars of the next segment, while Adam jumped over to the same one.
"We took off too soon, the ship isn't ready..." he muttered to himself before he looked back to Blake who was trying to pull herself onto the more secure segment of platform. "No Blake." he said as he pressed his foot down between her shoulder blades. He held up his sword with his right hand and said "It ends here!"
Blake looked up at Adam, at the man she used to love. "Adam... please stop this! Don't do this!"
Adam looked down at her with eyes that were angry, regretful, and crazed. "I'm sorry... my love." He began to move his sword to decapitate Blake, when all of a sudden Yang came out of the shattered window behind him, armed with the sword, and screamed as she used all her might to slam down the blade on his right arm, severing it at the elbow.
Adam screamed in pain as he fell on his rear, leaning against the wall as he held his stump, with aura glowing to stop the bleeding that still got through, while his severed forearm landed beside him, Wilt still in hand as blood oozed out on the catwalk.
Yang hopped out to the catwalk and looked down to Adam. "It's like Uncle Qrow says: PAYBACK'S A BITCH!" she screamed before she kicked him in the face.
"Yang!" Blake said, very much relieved.
"Hang in there kitty." Yang joked.
Blake rolled her eyes but managed a smile... before the segment her lower body was on fell off completely, making her cry out in surprise as she hung on for dear life. Yang quickly moved to help, using her robotic hand to grab onto one of Blake's. "I gotcha!" she cried, before Adam brought up a leg and kicked the blonde brawler down as he pried Wilt out of his severed arm and got back up. He looked over to see that they were heading towards a mountain, where they would crash and explode. A fitting end for all of them.
"Why won't you just fucking die?!" Yang shouted angrily before he slammed down Wilt into Yang's robotic arm, making it short out.
Adam glared down at them as he ripped Wilt out of Yang's robotic hand and said with a weak voice "I'm going to die... but I'm taking all of you with me!"
"Not happening!" yelled the voice of Sun, who jumped down from the roof and slammed his weapons' combined form into Adam's forehead, sending him over the edge of the platform.
Adam screamed as he fell but reached out and grabbed Blake's foot as Wilt flew past him towards the ground below. The extra weight nearly caused Blake to fall but Yang held on to her for dear life while Sun took her other arm to make sure she wouldn't fall.
"Hang on! We won't let go!" Sun promised her.
"Never!" added Yang as she held onto Blake's left hand with both of hers.
Blake looked down at Adam, hanging onto her left leg desperately. He began to climb up but Blake shouted "No!" and kicked him in the face, hard enough to make him slide down. She kicked him again and he nearly lost his grip, holding onto her foot for dear life.
He looked up just as Blake was about to delivered one final kick. "Blake! Stop! Please! I loved you!" he begged pathetically.
Blake looked down at him, seeing fear and anger in his eyes. "I loved you too, but I loved the real you, not the monster that replaced you Adam! The Adam I loved is dead... and now so is the monster." she said before landing one final kick on his forehead, right on the brand, and with that Adam Taurus fell.
Adam let out a loud, high-pitched scream of fear as he fell to his death. Blake kept looking until Adam was out of sight and his scream became harder and harder to hear.
With some effort Sun and Yang, tired tough they were, pulled Blake to safety. Both blondes ensnared the Cat Faunus in a hug as they saw tears falling from her eyes.
"Don't worry Blake, everything will be okay." Yang promised her as she kissed her head.
"You did it! You finally beat him once and for all!" Sun cheered as he hugged her tighter.
"I... I killed him..." Blake whispered, horrified.
"Blake, it was you or him. You had no other choice." Yang said quietly before a metallic groaning could be heard beneath them.
"Oh crap!" gasped Sun before the trio quickly moved up and through the window, before the segment of platform they had been on gave way and fell off of the ship.
"This whole thing is falling apart, we gotta turn it around!" Yang said.
"We can't!" Blake cried as she picked up Gambol Shroud. "I reset the navigation system and then destroyed it so Adam couldn't attack any villages."
Yang and Sun glanced at each other, they knew Blake's choice to do that had been a hasty one, but it was made during an intense battle so they couldn't blame her.
"No prob, we just get to the escape pods and..." Yang began before Sun stopped her.
I saw all the escape pods launch. Taurus must have done it to kill us all." he said gravely.
Yang's eyes were wide with dread as she realized their situation. They couldn't stop the ship, they couldn't jump or get in an escape pod, they couldn't call for help, none would get there in time. They were doomed.
"Ruby... Weiss... dad... Uncle Qrow... I..." she said in horror as she knew what would happen.
"Mom, Haulan, my team..." Sun voiced sadly as he sat down. "I'll never see them again..."
Blake buried her face in her hands, ashamed. "I'm so, so, so sorry, this is all my fault." she sobbed. "I..."
Yang jumped up and grabbed Blake, "Stop blaming yourself! None of this is your fault! Everything you've done you did because you thought it was right. Sometimes that turns out to be wrong, but no one can fault you for doing what you thought was right! If you hadn't sabotaged the systems Adam would've been able to murder innocent people! So stop blaming yourself, damn it!" she scolded as she hugged Blake tightly, crying as well. "No matter how many wrong choices you've made, you've done your best to fix them, because that's the kind of person you are! That's why I love you!"
Blake's teary eyes widened in surprise before she hugged Yang back.
Sun, tears pouring from his eyes, joined the two girls in a hug as the ship got closer and closer to the mountain.
Yang sighed as she hugged both Faunus to her before plucking up the courage to do something she had been wanting to do, as it was now or never.
"Guys..." she began, making them both look at her. What surprised both Blake and Sun was Yang bringing their heads together in a surprise three-way kiss, something neither Faunus had expected... and yet they enjoyed it. Both of them leaned into, all of them kissing one another, just one last thing before they died.
They all pulled out of the surprise kiss and looked at each other, everyone sharing a look of surprised and sad, but love filled eyes.
"I love you both." Blake said.
"I do too." Sun admitted as he gazed into the eyes of both of the beautiful girls before him.
Yang allowed herself one last smile. "I guess we really went out with a..."
Just then, out of nowhere, a White Fang ship pulled up alongside them, the ramp open with Velvet standing on it. "You're all okay!" she cried, surprising the trio.
"Velvet?!" Blake cried in disbelief.
"Oh man I don't believe our luck!" Sun cheered.
"Talk later, now come on!" Velvet ordered.
Yang nodded and helped Blake up with some help from Sun. Blake got onto the ramp first, helped out by Velvet, and then Yang who jumped across as they got closer and closer to the mountainside. Sun jumped across, landing safely on the ramp as it began to rise.
"Are we good to go?!" Thayer called from the cockpit.
"Everyone's on Uncle Bigwig, punch it!" Velvet shouted.
The ship whipped around and sped away from Adam's ship as it got closer still to the mountains.
Thayer poured power on the engines, making the ship he and Velvet had taken go as fast as it could, wanting get out of the blast radius asap.
A very tired Blake sat on the floor, leaning against the wall next to Yang while she leaned against Sun. The Cat Faunus looked up to Velvet and said "Thank you for saving us."
"Anytime." Velvet said with a smile.
Just then there was an incredibly loud and powerful explosion as Adam's ship crashed into the mountain, setting off all of the explosives inside. The top of the mountain went up in a dazzling burst of red, orange, yellow, brown, and black as fire, Dust, steel, rocks, and smoke went everywhere due to the force of the mighty blast.
"Hang on!" Thayer called as he controlled the ship as best he could as the shockwave from the explosion caused it to shake violently, and swerving like crazy to dodge the bits of debris and rocks and fire from the fallout of the blast, but he soon got it under control and out of harm's way.
Everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief, knowing the worst of the night was finally behind them.
"We did it." said Blake quietly. "We won."
Special thanks to RelentlessCrusader for writing Sharp Strike and Steppenwolffe's fight scene.
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So... SunnyBees finally happened and Adam's finally dead, hope you're all happy!
Originally Adam was going to succeed in launching a missile at Oro, and Glynda was going to have to stop it, but this didn't make the cut, so it was changed to a desperate Fang soldier. Also Weiss was going to be the one to fight Hui, but I wanted to give Winter more to do. Also the opening stuff with Norvik was supposed to happen in both of the last two chapters, but I kept pushing it back so as not to make either of those too long. I also toyed with having Merc and Em succeed in capturing Neo, but RelentlessCrusader talked me out of it, so I wouldn't have a repeat of Foita in the first arc.
Well Volume 4 happened, and while I'm not watching it I will be using some the characters and Grimm, and Ren and Nora's backstory (although slightly altered), due to the fact that it's the one positive about V4's story that people keep telling me about, and I haven't heard much else about V4's story that sounds good to me personally, (notice the dig at Qrow's Semblance in the last chap?) but I do plan on using that.