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The fairgrounds in chaos as civilians run away from the hordes of Grimm. Atlesian Knight-200s are seen firing at the dark creatures, and vendors hiding behind their booths as a group of Ursai run past. Several Nevermores fly across the sky, one holding Roy Stallion in it's talons. Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee are watching in horror of everything going on around them. Civilians continue to flee as Grimm continue to run amok.
Weiss looked around at the scene, "I don't believe this..."
Blake pulled out her scroll, "Yang, are you okay?"
Yang Xiao Long was running in the hallways of the dorms with Zwei on her heels as she made her way to the exit.
"I'm fine. Is Ruby with you? She's not answering her Scroll." Yang asked after responding to Blake.
"No, she isn't." Blake realized that her words might have affected Yang's mood, "Yang, I'm sure she's fine. She's our leader. She can take care of herself."
Yang closes her eyes and curls her fist into a ball, "Right." Yang continued forward with Zwei and turns the next corner of the hallways.
Weiss still couldn't wake up from this nightmare, "This can't be happening... Penny..."
"I'm headed to the docks near the courtyard. The White Fang are releasing Grimm into the school!" Yang said through Grimm growls.
"The White Fang is here!?" Blake thought aloud through her Scroll, as she hears the sounds of Grimm growling, "Yang!"
"Ugh! Gotta go! Be careful!" Yang ended the call.
"Blake, what are we going to do?" Weiss wondered as she snapped back to reality.
Blake thought for a moment, then finished the answer, "We're going to the docks, and we're doing our job."
Blake used her Scroll to call upon her rocket locker, which lands behind her and opens up to reveal Gambol Shroud. Weiss gives one last look at Blake before nodding in agreement.
Back at Amity Colosseum, the Nevermore screeches as it continues to weaken the force field that's keeping it from getting in.
Warning Announcer keeps alerting everyone of the impending monster attack, "Warning: Safety Barriers Failing."
As civilians run past her in a panic, Ruby Rose stayed kneeling on the ground with her head down, her expression in a mixture of shock and sadness. As the Nevermore circles around the colosseum, Pyrrha Nikos struggles to stand as she looks in shock at the torn apart Penny Polendina. Her forced hand had taken the life of someone very dear to her.
Jaune tried to call out from the stands with the remaining members of Team JNPR, "PYRRHA!! Pyrrha, that thing's going to break in! You've gotta move!"
Jaune, Ren, and Nora look up and see the force field flash once more as the Nevermore rises back up before diving back in. Wasting no time, the leader of Team JNPR jumps from the stands into the arena.
Nora tried to call him back but with no success, "Jaune!"
Jaune continued to run towards his teammate, "Pyrrha, please snap out of it!"
Suddenly, the Nevermore completely breaks through the holographic barrier, and the force of it landing on the arena floor knocks back Jaune, Pyrrha, and the pieces of Penny. The Nevermore screeches and lunges towards Pyrrha. Suddenly, the Nevermore is knocked back by a red, twirling blur of roses, with the cause of the blur gripping one of Penny's swords and stabbing into the Nevermore, before jumping back down in front of Pyrrha.
Pyrrha could only stare in awe, "Ruby?"
Ruby stood there with an angered, determined expression on her face, pointing Penny's sword toward the Nevermore, making one demand, "Leave her alone!"
The Nevermore ignored her order and started to fly towards Ruby and Pyrrha with malicious intent. As it got halfway it was soon struck hard and fast by the lockers of the students from the school and other schools. One by one the bombardment left the creature too weak as it collapsed from the lockers.
From the lockers were the weapons from all the students who attended the event and came prepared. Everyone was there, there to lend a hand and assist their friend with whatever they could. They came with guns and blades for the incoming fight, as the Nevermore they stood on began to move. Everyone prepared to move in and finish the bird, but there was no need as a large storage unit crushed it's head.
That storage unit belonged to Church as he walked past everyone to open it, "I'm only gonna say this once..." When the doors open everyone became slack jawed at the arsenal he had stashed, "Take whatever you want... If it cuts stabs, shoots, smashes, explodes, take it." Church said grabbing his gear and the MP7 from earlier. Caboose stopped and went over to Ruby to give her his warm and comforting bear hug, the hug that assures her that he could feel her pain. The two fought their tears and went over to the friend that needed it most, Ruby and Caboose looks over to the teary-eyed Pyrrha.
Pyrrha knelt on the ground stops and holds a piece of Penny's torn cloth in her hands as her eyes continue to well up, "Ruby I... I'm so sorry."
"Me too." Ruby agreed but then turned to fury as she knew who was to blame, "But it wasn't your fault."
"She's right." Jaune said as he walked over to Pyrrha with Miló and Akoúo̱ in his hands, "Whoever was on that microphone... they're the ones that did this. And we have to make sure they don't take anyone else."
Pyrrha stood back up and took her weapons back from Jaune, the two of them exchanging determined expressions. They then look over to Ruby, who smiled at the impressive ensemble of students. Their moment is cut short when they notice the large bird-lion hybrid Grimm land on top of the colosseum. They fly towards the group of students as Ren calls the Grimm species out by their formal name.
"Griffons." He stated.
"Anybody got a plan of attack?" Neptune asked.
Church raised his revolver, "I have a plan, attack." He said as he popped a few shots at the Grimm.
While Church kept the Griffons occupied, Ruby realized she new her weapon, "Sun! I need your Scroll!"
Sun used his tail to flick his Scroll to Ruby, who caught and used it to summon her locker, which opened up to reveal Crescent Rose inside. However, Ruby stopped when a Griffon landed on her locker, and roared at her before being scared away at the sound of a gunshot.
Port holding Blowhard in hand, with Oobleck holding Antiquity's Roast, Wiz with his mechanical robot arm and Boomstick with his shotgun leg, "Students! I think it would be best for you to leave."
"But we did a-" Ruby tried to argue.
Oobleck interrupted her to give her one final lesson, "Miss Rose! This day will surely go down in Remnant's history. I'd prefer it if my students could live to tell about it."
Ruby nodded at the Doctor's words before grabbing Crescent Rose and twirling it into it's scythe form. Ruby then stood out like a leader, "Let's go!"
"Church can I borrow your-" Caboose was about to beg for his gun but Church tossed to to him, already polished, cleaned and prepped.
As all the students leave, Ruby got distracted by the flash of Velvet Scarlatina's camera. She stops to look at the photograph she took of all of them
Coco called out, "Velvet!"
With the students clear of the arena, Port, Oobleck, Wiz and Boomstick. stood back-to-back with their weapons in hand as the Griffons circle around them.
Boomstick laughed enthusiastically, "One final match, Boys! Place your bets!"
[Elsewhere In The service tunnels]
Sarge, Emerald and Mercury were winning the fight but paused when they noticed the roars of Grimm. The screams of the people made them lose their focus which the other side needed.
Kiss tripped Emerald, Strongarm sucker punched Sarge back giving them the opportunity to runaway. Marcus saw a better opportunity when Mercury looked away with his foot still in the kicking position. So he took one of his wrist blades and sliced the boys Achilles tendon.
A scream exited Mercury's mouth as he fell on the floor in pain, which was not over yet. As Marcus tackled his own son and grabbed his other leg, to give his other leg the matching cut. Sarge and Emerald watched in terror as the old man cripple his own son, a terror which turned to rage. As they charge forward, Marcus tossed a stun grenade which obscured their vision in a cloud of smoke as he ran away. Emerald was about to give chase to make the bastard pay but was stopped when Sarge pulled her back.
"Emerald... Mercury's down. I need you to cover me until I can get him on a ride out of here." Sarge asked nicely.
Mercury started to argue, "Yeah but-"
"Emerald, please... this is an order." Sarge pleaded.
Emerald looked down but then raised her head to nod as she joined Sarge when the old man threw her teammate over his shoulder. The two started running towards the exit to get on a bullhead.
Civilians continued to run and flee in panic as they reach the docking bays of the colosseum. Atlas Soldiers are seen directing civilians to calmly step into the Air Buses to get them to a safe area. At the same time, White Fang Bullheads are seen dropping off more Grimm at the docking bay. Two Atlesian Knights escorting General James Ironwood effortlessly gun down an Ursa. As they proceed forward, the Knights are suddenly brutally ripped apart by a much larger, armored Beowolf variant. The Beowolf then notices Ironwood as the General starts to run towards it, gradually picking up speed as he nears the charging Beowolf. He screamed a loud battle cry as he pulled out a pistol from his coat. Ironwood ducked and slid under the Beowolf's swipe and shoots at it twice. Pivoting as he skids across the floor, he used his free hand as a break. The Beowolf lands and shakes its head then charges at Ironwood again, who fires his revolver three more times before having to duck under another swipe. The Beowolf attempts to swipe at him again with its left claw, but Ironwood effortlessly stops it with his own right hand. The General then fires at the Beowolf's feet, the explosion causing it to get airborne, and still gripping it's claw, Ironwood proceeds to swing it back down to the ground with his own brute strength. Ironwood then picks up the Beowolf, aims the revolver at its skull, and shoots it, causing black blood to splatter from it. Ironwood then watches the body of the Beowolf dissipate before leaving. The students finally exit the arena entrance and gather together in front of Ironwood.
Church went forth to question Ironwood, "What the hell's going on!? And how come you couldn't do all that shit sooner?!"
"Grimm are crawling all over the city. The White Fang's invaded Beacon, and to make matters worse, some... vagabond has seized one of my ships. Until we regain command, the skies are out of our control. So I'm..." Ironwood paused his vengeful speech as he noticed a Creep advancing on the group from behind, and shoots it before finishing. "...going to take it back."
As Ironwood turned for his ship, he is stopped when Jaune had one question, "What should we do?"
Ironwood turned and faced the students, "You have two choices. Defend your Kingdom and your school... or save yourselves. No one will fault you if you leave." Ironwood then proceeded to climb up on the dropship in front of him, as he addressed the crowd. "Let's move out!"
As Ironwood leaves, the students look at each other and murmur before a certain monkey Faunus speaks up, "I mean... come on!"
"We can take a ship to Beacon!" Tucker pointed with his blade as he stowed his borrowed sniper rifle on his back.
While the students head to the nearest airship, The faunus are working like an actual crew aboard Blue-2. Working to see what button does what, firing missiles down on the city. With the press of another button, the airship suddenly empties its cargo of Atlesian Knights, all on standby, as they fall to the ground with a massive thud.
They soon quit messing around when one of the grunts who is still wearing her Atlesian military disguise, hands their Lieutenant a Scroll with the Black Queen virus. He inserts it in the console and soon the room fills with all those screens of the same logo.
As a squadron of Knights shoot down Grimm, they suddenly stop as their visors and LEDs turn a dark crimson, and turn around, point their guns at Glynda Goodwitch and Qrow Branwen as they continue to fight the Grimm. The realization shocking them as they see the Knights now turned against two of their now former allies.
Goodwitch could only get one word out before she is forced to destroy these monsters, "What!?"
On the courtyards of Beacon, Weiss and Blake are nearly caught off-guard by the local Knights also succumbing to the technical virus and turned towards them, fortunately Blake reacted
"Look out!" Blake warned Weiss
The cat faunus manage to push Weiss aside in order to dodge incoming fire, but the Knights surround them, forcing the Schnee and the Belladonna to draw their weapons. Just as soon as they readied up The Knights we're shot down while another clustered bunch were smacked down from the mighty bat of Grif.
"Hey... so you guys good?" Grif asked as he caught his breathe.
Meanwhile, the oblivious general, still en route to the Airship, gets a nasty surprise when the Knights on his dropship suddenly activate and turn on him.
"No!" Was all the general could get out.
As Ironwood reaches out, the dropship suddenly loses altitude, plummeting from the ground as two flashes can be seen from the cockpit. The students watch in horror as they see dropship fall from the sky. Ruby then decided to run to the bay doors of their Air Bus.
"Ruby! What are you doing!?" Sun asked as he reached out for her but wasn't quick enough.
Caboose saw her leave and then realized him and Jaune may be the only leaders left, time to step up, "Alright we're gonna have problems in the city and the school. Coco, you choose a team and see if you can hold off at the school. Church you go with them, they'll need you. Meanwhile the rest of us head to the city, people are probably scared and panicking, we need to protect them with everything we got. Any questions?"
"Yeah, when did you man up?" Coco jokingly asked...
Caboose actually gave it an honest answer, "I think today, although I'm not sure to be honest."
Ruby then jumped off the Air Bus as it barely takes off, using her Semblance of speed to safely land on the runway after freefalling in the sky. As she ran to the stadium, she found it nearly empty and full of brown dirt, where she saw a locker. She punched in the code, latched on with Crescent Rose and immediately took to the skies.
Tucker and Church saw Ruby fly past them, "What's she doing? She can't be thinking of going alone."
"Oh gawd damnit." Tucker said as he began to strip off his shirt.
Church couldn't help but look bewildered, "What... are you doing?"
"I'm... being all I can be..." Tucker said as he finally got his shirt off and stretched his back out. On the sides of his stomach were what almost looked like tattoos, but they started moving and peeling off. They weren't tattoos but wings, incubus wings that resembled bat wings, "Haven't used these at that altitude before, but I think I can make it..."
"Tucker... uhhh good luck, brother." Church wished him as Tucker nodded and launched out the window.
As Ruby landed on the ship, every faunus onboard heard her land with a loud thud.
The lieutenant gestured outside and pointed as he gave his order, "Go, take care of whatever that was."
Back at Beacon, the hacked Knights continue to fire, but they are cut up by flurry of slashes. Weiss is seen taking down a sizeable group of knights using a combination of Myrtenaster's strikes as well as her using her Glyph Semblance, while Blake fights off a group of White Fang soldiers, before using her Semblance to dodge a dual sword-wielding soldier, more White Fang grunts charge at her, but they are all suddenly knocked back by Weiss. Afterwards, Weiss and Blake stand back-to-back, but notice a group of human Atlas Soldiers fighting off an Atlesian Paladin, which has also been affected by the virus and turned rogue. The Paladin easily bats aside several of the soldiers.
"We got this. Come on!" Simmons said as he took aim.
Before Weiss and Blake could assist the soldiers, they notice a Bullhead about to crash land. An armored Beowolf jumped out of it before it could crash with the aircraft. The view shifts to look down from above, more soldiers can be seen continuing to fight the Paladin. The Beowolf landed on the ground and started to chase after fleeing civilians. Weiss and Blake exchange one last look with each other before parting ways.
"Be safe." Weiss wished as she went through fight with Grif and Simmons.
Sharing a nod the group split up, Blake ran just outside the dining hall. However, she stopped when the Beowolf from earlier latches onto the side of the building above her. Her attention is then drawn away from the Beowolf when she hears a wounded scream inside the burning interior of the dining hall. She turns with her fist clenched then gave a look of horror when she sees a familiar figure throwing an Atlas soldier.
"No... Adam?" Blake froze at the sight of him.
Adam grinned creepily, "Hello, my darling."
All across Beacon Academy, various students battle the many Creatures of Grimm: Jaune charging at an Ursa, delivering a slash that knocks it back, while Neon rollerblades away from a Boarbatusk. Coco firing on a Griffon as it lands, while Arslan is fighting an Ursa Major before it runs off to attack Nora, who shot at it with her grenade launcher. Ren is firing his guns at a retreating Beowolf before it drops dead.
Somewhere up on a building, is CT, Darius Pill, his sharpshooter, now armed with a camera. s
Standing on the rooftop, the malicious groups is filming the chaos.
Darius pauses at his work, "Beautiful."
"It's almost sad." CT looked at the carnage with a sorrowful expression on her face.
Darius reminded CT on why this was needed to be done, "It is, but this is to ensure a better future, with his help. Eagle Eye, Focus on the Atlesian Knights."
The sharpshooter smiled as he looked through the lense, "Oh, I'm getting all of it."
"Good. Continue the broadcast until the end." Darius ordered.
Suddenly, a tremor rocks the three of them.
"And do not miss what happens next."
Darius and CT walk off as The sniper continues filming with an evil grin on his face. while CT's expression only grows more worrisome.
Inside his office, Ozpin and Salem watched the battle on three video feeds, one showing some buildings, the middle showing a group of Atlas soldiers struggling a against a Deathstalker on Beacon's main avenue, and the last showing civilians stuck on a rooftop waving for help, while an Ursa slowly crawls up the side of the building. Ozpin then starts to walk away from his desk, grabbing his cane in the process, before proceeding to the elevator. However, he is stopped in his tracks as his wife steadies him when a sudden tremor shakes the ground.
Back in the city, Glynda and Qrow continue fighting, before they too are shaken by another tremor. Qrow stabs his sword into the ground to keep himself standing.
Goodwitch knows what this must be as she stares at the mountains, "No..."
Another tremor shakes Jaune as he battles an Ursa Major, with Sage and Scarlet piggyback riding on it with frightened expressions on their faces.
Elsewhere, the mountains start to violently shake and crumble, as various body parts of a monstrous-looking Grimm are revealed, before the mountain completely breaks apart, releasing a titanic Wyvern. The Wyvern roars and flies over the abandoned Mountain Glenn, heading towards Beacon. As it flies, it exudes a black, tar-like substance which drops to the ground in the city of Vale and spawns various Grimm.
Ozpin approaches the window of his office, noticing the Wyvern getting closer. The massive Grimm excretes more of the black substance, which drops to the ground and spawns more Grimm near the base of the CCT. As the Grimm charge forward, the members of Team SSSN and Team JNPR lineup as they prepare to battle the incoming enemies, with Jaune and Pyrrha exchanging a smile with each other as she adopts a pose similar to his. Before they can go forward, Pyrrha notices Ozpin standing alone by the entrance of the tower, while Team SSSN runs off to continue fighting. Pyrrha then walks towards her headmaster without saying a word to her teammates, much to their confusion.
Nora questioned what their best fighter was doing, "Where's she going?"
Jaune turned to his teammates before running off with her, "I'll go find out. You two stay here and keep fighting."
As he goes to follow Pyrrha, on a building far from their position, stand a familiar figures on the rooftop with their weapons in hand. CT's eyes were glowing ominously as she stood next to Dr. Pill.
[End of Chapter]
Alrighty then, turns out I'm not getting notifications on here but no worries I still got some comments.
Guest just said, "The answer is "just to suffer"."
Don't know how to respond to that.
SPARTAN-626 said, "The fall has begun but will it turn out like in the show or different this time here? Only time will tell"
Yes only time will tell.
Wolf asked, "My my the battle of Beacon is almost upon us will our heroes stop Cinder and her allies or will it happen as our heroes will be enough to save Beacon from the chaos that is to come till next time on Why Are We Still Here? And also how many spotted the team four star reference in the last chapter."
Thank you for getting that reference in the last chapter during Caboose vs Carolina. Also, Cinder as I have stated before is Tex.
SPARTAN-626 again said, "And so the plot thickens and I believe Mercury's dad is here now"
Yes, yes he is.
Alrighty then, now that that's situated, join soon to read the next 2 chapters, and... the reveal on why I'm temporarily leaving Fanfiction.
