Chp. 52: Highway to Hell

Remnant

Somewhere in Eastern Solitas

Teleporting Dust Warehouses

Above the snowy tundra of Solitas, a Manta flies straight towards several rows of warehouses with a wall around them. They landed on a landing dock within the area where several guards are waiting. The door opens and boarding off was Winter, Penny, the Ace Operatives and the Happy Huntresses. One of the guards approaches Winter as she turns her head to face him.

"Special Operative Schnee. We were told that you were coming," the guard greeted with a salute.

"Has there been any unusual activity?" Winter asked.

"Negative. It's all been quiet," the guard answered. "Is there something wrong?"

"Our American allies have informed us that the White Fang would attack this place for the new Dust sometime today," Clover explained.

"There hasn't been any attack here yet," the guard said.

"Well Ironwood had us come here to provide for extra protection," Robyn said.

"We're here to help," Penny said.

Suddenly, a gunshot was here and a bullet struck the guard in the head, killing him instantly.

"Get down! Take cover!" Winter shouted.

Everyone quickly scrambled to find cover. More gunshots were heard and a couple more guards were hit. Penny launched herself into the sky and began to look around the area. She zoomed in on a mountain and saw five White Fang soldiers with sniper rifles shooting down at the base. She brought out Floating Array and shot a laser at the Faunus shooters. The White Fang grunts noticed the attack and quickly jumped away from the laser.

Winter, Clover, and Robyn looked up at Penny from the wall until a rocket flew out of nowhere and struck her, sending her falling to the ground in front of them. They turned to see where the rocket came from and saw five White Fang trucks driving towards their location.

"Better get this over with," Robyn said, readying her crossbow.


Earth

Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Interstate 640

Meanwhile back on Earth, the White Fang, Neo-Nazis, Merlot Androids, Salem's associates, and the Creatures of Grimm continue to chase Teams RWBY, JNPR, GRMA, CFDT, and CFVY, and Keaton, Alex, Cassandra, Cade, Ozpin, Qrow, Amber, Ilia, Oscar, and their escort down the highway. The paladins began to shoot at the truck and Humvee, but their targets swerved from side to side narrowly missing them. The Humvee gunners on top began to shoot back at the paladins. The shots from their guns deflected off of the paladins' armor. The paladin that Watts is piloting shot a rocket at one of the Humvees and exploded upon impact, destroying it.

"We just lost one of our Humvees!" Steel said.

"And we've got more traffic up ahead!" Cassandra said.

"At this rate, they're gonna get us for sure!" Pyrrha said.

"Oh, no they're not!" Yang said.

Yang sees two White Fang soldiers on a motorcycle driving up towards the truck. She fires a shot from Ember Celica at the soldier riding in the back, knocking him off of the motorcycle. She jumps off of the truck and lands in the back of the motorcycle. Yang grabs the White Fang soldier by the back of the collar and throws him off of the motorcycle and quickly scoots herself up and takes control of the motorcycle. She drove up closer to the truck.

"I'll ride with Yang! I've got an idea!" Ricky said.

Ricky jumps off of the truck and lands on the motorcycle behind Yang as she then slows down toward their pursuers. Ruby jumps out of the truck and onto a nearby car. Qrow jumps out of the truck and transforms into a crow and flies up into the sky toward The Hound and the flying Grimm behind it. Coco and Velvet both climbed out to the side of the truck and then up on top of it. Coco transformed Gianduja into its minigun form as Velvet creates a hard-light copy of her leader's weapon. They both began to shoot at the paladins.

On one of the White Fang trucks, Victor watches what was happening up ahead of them. He turned his head to see a convertible car driving up. He jumps off of the truck and onto the car. He shoots and kills the driver and then grabs the body and throws it out of the car. Victor sits in the driver seat and takes the wheel. Mercury, Argento, and Umber jumped off of the White Fang truck and into the convertible. Victor then began to drive up toward the armored truck.

As everyone drives into moving traffic, Tyrian who rode on a second White Fang truck jumps out of it and onto a car. Tyrian begins to hop from car to car making his way towards the armored truck. Ruby, who was standing on top of a car, notices Tyrian hopping towards the truck and begins to shoot at the scorpion Faunus. Tyrian notices Ruby trying to shoot at him with Crescent Rose and begins jumping on to different cars avoiding the shots.

Yang slows her motorcycle down next to a running paladin with Ricky still riding behind her.

"So what's your idea exactly?" she asked.

"This!" Ricky replied as he pulled out a sticky note.

He focused his semblance on the sticky note and it then started flashing red. He then quickly slaps it onto the paladin's leg.

"Floor it!" Ricky shouted.

Yang quickly drove the motorcycle away from the paladin and a few seconds later, the sticky note exploded, blowing off the paladin's leg. The paladin topples over and falls to the pavement.

"Aw yeah! One down, two to go!" Yang said.

Their victory was short lived when gunfire was striking the pavement next to them. Ricky glanced behind and saw four motorcycles begin driven by White fang soldiers with another riding behind them shooting at him and Yang. Ricky spun himself around and began firing his shotgun at the White Fang.

Up above the highway, The Hound along with two Nevermores, three winged Beringels, two Sphinxes, six Manticores, five Griffons, three Ravagers, eight Lancers, and a Teryx are all flying above the battle down below. A crow flew towards The Hound and turned into Qrow and lunged at it with his scythe. The Hound flew to the side, avoiding Qrow's attack. Qrow lands on top of a Nevermore and begins to shoot at The Hound. The intelligent Grimm roared and all the Grimm around Qrow turned towards him. The Nevermore Qrow stood on spun upside down as he grabbed on to its feathers holding on to it. Two Lancers flew at Qrow as he swung himself away from the first Lancer and sliced the second in half.

Inside the armored truck, Keaton, Cassandra, Alex, and Steel were all shooting at the flying Grimm up above. The Hound roared and after a brief moment a larger Lancer with seven overlapping plates flew out of nowhere and down right above the moving traffic. This Grimm is known as a Queen Lancer.

"That's one ugly bug!" Cassandra shouted.

"Not as ugly as that Cenitaur we encountered back in Atlas!" Steel said.

The Queen Lancer began to fly straight towards the armored truck. Keaton, Alex, Cassandra, and Steel started shooting at the Grimm. Just before it could get any closer, a path of glyphs appeared from the truck to the Queen Lancer. Weiss dashes out of the armored truck, onto the glyphs, and straight towards the Queen Lancer. She slashed at the large Grimm with Myrtenaster. The Queen Lancer flies upwards into the air as Weiss grabs on to one of its legs.

On another White Fang truck, five red Merlot Androids and five white Merlot Androids were stationed into the back of the truck. The driver pulls out a remote and pushes a button on it. a red android and a white android then activate and and jump out of the truck and onto a couple of cars. They began to hope from car to car and towards the armored truck. Kendra, Robert, Nora, Fox, and Britney all rush out of the armored truck and start hopping down from car to car towards the two androids.

The white Merlot Android began to open fire at Nora, Britney and Fox as they jumped and dodged away from the shots. Britney and Fox started to shoot back at the android. Nora was about to fire her grenade launcher at the white android but Britney jumped to the car Nora stood on and lowered Magnhild.

"Wait! You might blow up a car!" Britnay said.

"Well what do you want me to do?" Nora asked.

Britney looked back at the pursuing motorcycles, the remaining two paladins, the gasoline truck, and White Fang trucks. She looks at the White Fang truck that has the other Merlot Androids on it.

"Blow up that truck, Nora!" Britney said pointing at the truck with androids

"No problem!" Nora said.

Nora aims her grenade launcher at the White Fang truck and fires a round at it. The truck explodes destroying the remaining androids on it. The white Merlot Android started shooting at Nora and Britney. Nora jumps away from the shots onto another car, while Britney deflects the shot. Fox jumps from car to car towards the white android. It swung its gun at Fox as he jumped over the attack. Nora and Britney hopped their way towards the android. Britney slices off the android's head. Nora transformed her grenade launcher into her hammer and slammed it at the rest of the android, sending it flying off the freeway.

Kendra and Robert approached the red Merlot Android and readied their weapons. The android swung its halberd at the two. Kendra leaned back away from the attack as Robert then blocked the attack that came towards him. The android swung at Kendra who blocked the attack. Kendra swung Mercy Bringer at the red android which in turn blocked her attack. Robert thrust his spear at the android, but it parried away the attack. Kendra swung her pole axe at the android, cutting off one of its hands. The android looked at its arm with its hand now missing. Robert quickly took advantage of this distraction and thrusted his spear into the red android's chest. Kendra swung her pole axe cutting the android's torso and legs off and Robert tossed the rest of the android away.

Victor is driving up to the convertible up to the armored truck with Mercury, Argento, and Umber riding with him. The gunner on top of one of the Humvees began to open fire at the convertible. Mercury jumped out of his seat and onto the hood of the car. He fired a shot from Talaria at the gunner, killing him. Mercury then jumps back into his seat as Victor drives the car up next to the armored truck.

"Take the wheel!" Victor ordered Mercury.

Victor jumps on to the hood of the car as Mercury moves himself to the driver's seat and quickly takes control of the car. Victor jumps off of the car and grabs on to the edge of the truck. Alex and Steel both see Mercury, Argento, and Umber in the convertible car and begin to open fire upon them. Mercury drove the car away to avoid the gunfire. Victor began to climb up on top the roof of the truck, while Coco and Velvet continue to shoot at the two pursuing paladins, unaware of the Nazi behind them. Victor pulled out his assault rifle and transformed it into his sword. The two girls turned around and before they could react, Victor kicked Velvet off of the armored truck.

"Velvet!" Coco cried out, reaching out to her in vain.

Ruby notices Velvet flying several feet towards the pavement. She uses her semblance to fly at Velvet. She quickly catches the rabbit Faunus and flies on top of the Humvee with the dead gunner. Everyone that is inside the armored truck watched the entire thing that had just happened.

"Wait here. I'll check it out," Jacob said to the others.

"Be careful," Keaton said.

Jacob stood from his seat and began to climb out from the back and on to the side. Coco swung her handbag at Victor as he dodged her attacks. He catches Coco's handbag mid-swing and punches her in the stomach. She stumbles back and falls off the edge of the back of the truck. Luckily, she managed to grab on to the edge of the truck. Alex and Steel pulled Coco into the truck. Just before Victor could follow her inside, Jacob swung God's Trust at him. The father steps aside from his son's attack at the last second.

"We have got to stop ending this with fights, boy," Victor said.

Victor swung down his sword at Jacob as he quickly blocked it. Jacob threw a punch to his father's face and swung God's Trust at his leg. Victor quickly parried away the attack and tried to slash at his son's chest, but Jacob quickly blocked the attack. Jacob swings a kick towards Victor's head as he leaned back away from the attack. Victor swung down his sword at Jacob as he quickly blocked the attack and tried to push his father back.

Up in the air, Qrow was riding on the back of a Manticore as it was trying to shake him off. A Sphinx flies towards Qrow and spits a fireball at him. Qrow yanks onto the Manticore's horns, forcing it to fly upwards. Just as it did the fireball struck the Grimm and Qrow jumped on to the Sphinx just as it was flying by. He slices off the Grimm's head then jumps onto the back of a Griffon. Two Ravagers swoop down from behind Qrow to snatch him. He quickly turns around and slashes at one then the other. A Teryx flies down at the veteran Huntsman, but Qrow jumps off of the Sphinx as the Teryx bit down on the Sphinx. Qrow lands onto The Hound's back as it then tries to shake him off.

"Get! Off!" The Hound roared.

Close by, Weiss was still holding on to the Queen Lancer's leg as it tries to shake her off. Weiss lets go and creates a glyph beneath her and lands on top of it. The large Grimm turns around and begins to fly towards her. Weiss creates a second larger glyph in front of her and summons an Arma Gigas. Just as the Queen Lancer was about to lung at Weiss, the Arma Gigas swung its sword down at the Grimm killing it instantly. The summon disappears as Weiss jumps off of her glyph.

Weiss lands onto the Humvee that Ruby and Velvet are on. Ruby and Velvet were both shooting at Tyrian who was jumping and dodging away from the shots. The scorpion Faunus hopes from car to car, heading towards the three girls. Just above them, Qrow was still holding on to The Hound while it still tried to shake him off. It finally shakes Qrow off of him as he falls towards the battle below. Just as Tyrian was one car away from Ruby, Weiss, and Velvet, Qrow lands right in front of Tyrian. Qrow transformed his scythe into his sword and swung at Tyrian. The mad scorpion Faunus backflips away from the attack and lands onto the next car behind him. Just before Tyrian could lunge at Qrow, Yang drives up next to him with Ricky still riding behind her. Ricky began shooting at Tyrian who jumped away from the shots.

"Get back to the truck!" Qrow shouted.

Ruby, Weiss, Velvet, and Qrow began to hop from car to car straight towards the armored truck. Yang drives up to follow as Ricky continues to shoot at Tyrian.

Up on top of the armored truck, Jacob tries slashing at Victor, but all his attacks are blocked and parried away. Victor kicks Jacob in the stomach making him stumble back a couple steps.

"You know, since you live in this city, and once we're finished here, I'll pay a visit to your home and get to know my daughter!" Victor said.

Jacob felt a large sense of pain in his chest that brought him down on one knee. Victor walks up to his son with his sword ready. Keaton climbs up to the top of the truck from the side. Just as he was about to swing his sword at him, Keaton ran up to his father and grabbed him from behind. As Victor was struggling to get Keaton to let go of him, Jacob recovers and gets back up. Victor breaks free from Keaton's grasp and turns around and slashes at his chest, knocking him to the ground. Jacob slashes at his father's back making him cry out in pain.

Victor turns to slash at his younger son, but blocks the attack. Keaton quickly stood up and threw a punch to his father's side. The two brothers began to tag team on their father as he struggled to block and parry away their attacks. As Jacob and Keaton duel against Victor, Qrow, Ruby, Weiss, and Velvet jump inside the armored truck. Yang and Ricky leap off of their motorcycle and into the truck. The motorcycle falls over as the other remaining motorcycle rode by the White Fang crashes into it, resulting in traffic and their pursuers behind the armored truck and the two Humvees being blocked off.

The truck suddenly turns off on an exit, making everyone stagger. Jacob and Keaton quickly recover and both throw a punch to their fathers face, knocking him off of the truck. They watched as Victor rolled on the road away until he was out of sight.

"Thanks," Jacob said, panting. "You okay?"

"Yeah. I'm good. This EOD bomb suit really saved my ass. Aside from suffering some bruises, I'll live," Keaton said.

Jacob and Keaton both began to climb off from the top of the truck and climb through the back of the truck.

"Is everyone okay?" Keaton asked.

"We're fine," Qrow answered.

"So what's the plan now? How do we get Amber out of here?" Oscar asked.

"We're going to have to find a good place for our Blackhawks to pick up Amber and fly her out of the city," Cassandra explained.

"Then we better hurry before Salem's jerk offs find us again," Kendra said.