Continued from Chapter 16
"Already encountered the hack in my own Scroll." Niren said calmly, the hack was actually attempted on the entire team's Scrolls. Mordred only nodded, he knew Niren was good at stopping hackers before they got too far. "Whoever this person is, they are plotting something, and that plan is going into motion soon." Mordred's companion said. "Malacci is right, our satellites have found some disturbing things moving around outside the walls, and all the negative emotions going on right now are enough to attract a decent sized horde of Grimm." Mordred said while folding his hands on the table.
"What about the Knights, are they going to take advantage of the chaos and try to kill us? Or do they want the rest of the Maleficar to arrive first?" Vanir asked, his voice went down to whisper.
"They want the problems to come first so that they can show up and fix it." Mordred said, his voice also dropping to a whisper. "Are you going to attack us again?" Niren asked calmly. Mordred thought a moment then pulled out his scroll to read something.
"No, you guys will be very busy for a while i think." Mordred said cryptically while standing up and walking away, Malacci in tow. "The hell does that mean?" Talia asked when they had left. "Don't know, let's just wait and see for now." Niren said, also standing up to leave.
"Let's go back to Beacon and see if Ozpin has any work for us yet." Lirril said when she walked over to the group with Nexus, Torque, and Rennic. "That seems like a good idea." Vanir said. They all started to head back towards Beacon, none of them were prepared for the next few days.
The Next Day
Lirril Evergreen
Ozpin called Team Leviathan in to his office much sooner than any of them expected, Lirril was still rubbing the sleep out of her eyes while trying to enjoy a cup of coffee when her Scroll lit up with a message from Goodwitch. "Bring your team to Headmaster Ozpins office, now." It read. Vanir was already dressed and in his armor, so was Niren. "You two have been expecting this haven't you?" She asked them when they noticed her dark look at the Scroll.
"We may have been." Vanir said after getting up from the chair he was sitting in and stretching. "Mordred's warning gave us a pretty good idea that he knew what was about to happen." Niren said, he was standing now as well.
"What the hell is going on?" Talia asked while closing the door to her room, she was dressed in what she always wore, a white T-shirt and blue jeans, with a denim jacket on as well. "Ozpin wants to see us for something." Lirril said while standing up and going to her room to get changed into her own clothes, this was going to be a long day.
One Hour Later
When Lirril and the others stepped out of the elevator they were surprised by Team Minotaur being there. Ozpin was standing in front of them with Ironwood, Goodwitch, and a man that Lirril did not recognize. "That will be all for now, a Bullhead will be waiting for you all." Ozpin said. Minotaur's members all nodded and began to walk towards the elevator, each of them nodding at Leviathans members as they left, Mithril however smiled at Vanir, who much to Lirrils annoyance returned the gesture of affection. "Get a damn room." She thought to herself.
"Please come in, i am sorry for having you all meet me so early in the morning." Ozpin said to the team, he himself looked like he had been missing a fair deal of sleep. "Sir, its not a problem for us." Lirril responded with a bow.
Ozpin smiled at her polite gesture before speaking again. "There has been an unexpected surge of Grimm following last nights…. event." He said before the General took over.
"My forces are trying to hold them off until backup can arrive, but if any available Huntsmen and Huntresses could help, it would be greatly appreciated." Ironwood said. "We can handle a few thousand Grimm." Lirril said with confidence. In the team's first year they fought off a horde of Ghouls and Ogres, they even killed an Archon.
"Good, then please assist the military forces in this sector." Goodwitch said before giving them all coordinates on their Scrolls. "When do we leave?" Lirril asked after reading them.
"Now, if possible." Ozpin said after sitting down in his chair. "We may need to grab some things first, but we should be there within the next couple of hours." Lirril said before turning to follow the others who had begun to leave already.
Vanir Argent
As they rode the elevator back down to the ground floor of the tower, Vanir was thinking about the coming battle, he had gone up against similar odds before, but those were humans not Grimm. "How bad do you think it is?" He asked the rest of his team.
"Bad enough that Ironwood is asking instead of forcing us to help him." Niren replied. "Lirril, i'm going to need to get all my ammo." He said when they left the small space and began to head towards the building that held their weapons and the ammo they kept stocked.
"Niren how's the Mark 3 coming?" Vanir asked while clenching the fingers on his right arm into a fist and back a few times. Niren stopped going over his stockpile of bullets and looked over the Hades. "Give me a few moments to get it." He said after a while.
Vanir was sitting on a bench with a small toolkit out, he had removed his right arm. "I wanted to give you a better way of dispersing the energy buildup in a way that would let you keep your distance." Niren said as he set a large black case down and opened it, inside was the Hades Mark 3, it looked similar to the original two except for the fact that the fingers ended in sharpened points and it was less bulky, the armor plating was geometric and looked like small hexagons of metal had been cut in half.
"Rather than give you an annoying wave or single shot, i went with a beam, the mechanism will be triggered when you extend the fingers out to their maximum length, just mind the electricity." He said with a smile as he attached the arm to Vanir's shoulder.
Vanir flexed the fingers and moved the arm around in it's socket, the thing had a surprisingly human range of motions. "It move's much better than the Mark 2." Vanir said after nodding. "Good, let me know if any problems show up." Niren said while packing up the Mark 2 in the case.
"Are you ready to go yet?" Lirril asked the two of them from her locker, she had been making sure that Garuda would split into Suparna and Chirada and from there turn into SMG's. "I was just giving Vanir the Mark 3." Niren replied before walking over to his locker and deciding on a smaller amount of ammo, he wouldn't be fighting in a way that would require him to bring it all with, besides he could scavenge some from the battlefield.
Vanir walked over to his locker and retrieved Gram, Talia and him only had to worry about keeping their blades sharp, so they made sure to bring enough Whetstones. "Ready? Then let's get moving." Lirril said when everyone had gathered near the door, as they left Vanir took one last look at Beacon, he knew that they would be gone for a while this time around and they might not return.
Niren Argent
Niren looked at the Grimm swarming around their LZ, he decided to take some form of action and started picking off some of the larger ones. "Leave couple for me will ya?" Vanir asked after unsheathing Gram. Niren noticed the agitation in Vanir's voice. "Probably want's off this thing." He thought to himself as he reloaded.
"Vanir, Talia go." Lirril said to the team's two close quarters fighters The two of them jumped out of the Bullhead into the mass of Grimm and began to clear away large groups of them, Lirril remained in the Bullhead with Niren in case he needed any help.
"Multiple Nevermores, engaging!" Niren shouted over the noise of the battle raging below. He leveled his sights on the head of one of the Nevermores and pulled the trigger, sending a high velocity armor piercing round directly into its skull, he repeated this until the rest of them fell from the sky onto other Grimm below them.
"Let's go help the others" Lirril said calmly while pulling out Garuda and splitting it in two. niren only nodded and jumped out of the Bullhead with her, when he landed he saw that Vanir and Talia had done a decent job of getting the soldiers to rally. "This is going to be a very good day!" Vanir shouted after pulling Gram out of an Ursa's stomach and turning around to decapitate a Beowolf.
Niren buried Gungnir's blade in the leg of a larger Beowolf so Vanir could finish it off by stabbing it in the head. He looked over at Lirril and Talia and saw that the two of them were combining their Semblances to get rid of large groups of Grimm that were coming towards them. "Damn, they have been practicing that." Vanir said to his brother as they watched large cyclones filled with shards of ice sent Grimm flying and killed others by impalement.
Niren only nodded before he felt the ground shake. "Sounds like a Goliath." Niren said to Vanir who nodded and ran towards the only way in. "Great." Niren said when he saw the size of the Goliath, it was bigger than most and heading right for them. "How long would it take to kill it with the Hades?" Vanir asked him with a raised eyebrow.
"Let me weaken a portion of the bone plate, then fry it." Niren said while loading more armor piercing rounds. Vanir nodded then ran towards the creature, carving a bloody path with Gram.
"Give me a good fight would ya?" Vanir said to a Beowolf that had attempted to hit him from his right side with a swipe, only to be blocked by the mechanical arm.
Vanir quickly twisted the Grimm downwards and ran Gram through it's chest. As Vanir continued to fight his way towards the Goliath Niren took careful aim at the creature's head, he began to block out the sounds and images of the battle around him until all he could see in a tunnel of shadow was the glowing red marks of the Goliath.
When he pulled the trigger he decided to fire the rest of his clip as well, no telling how thick the Goliath's head was. "Now Vanir!" He shouted before moving quickly to avoid being jumped on by a Creep.
Vanir saw the bullets slam into the Goliath and quickly ran towards it, he jumped on a pile of rubble and off of a low flying Nevermore in order to land on its head with that fingers on the Hades spread out, the creature began to toss its head in an attempt to shake him off.
"Just die!" Vanir shouted as the red beam of energy shot out from his hand and into the cracked bone plate, the Goliath let out a roar of pain then slowly fell to the ground, a large hole with steam rising from it's head were Vanir had fired.
"Now i see what Mordred meant when he said we would be pretty busy." Vanir said to the others as he slid off the Goliaths corpse and looked around, most of the Grimm had fled, but a few still fought and were being cut down with ease by the Altesian forces.
"A good day, let's go get some rest." Lirril said between breaths, the fight had left all four of them tired.
Well, i thought i would post the first part of a story arc involving what LVTN would be doing during the next few episode of RWBY, and this whole season has just been a rollercoaster.