Chapter 9
The next day had arrived and Cerise was in her office when she got a massage from her drone that was sent to find anything that Ozpin was hiding looking over the video she saw the drone was in a lift and the door opening to a corridor of some sort watching as it made it way down the corridor her mind was going through all sort of things when she gasped when the drone came to a room which had two huge tanks one holding a young lady and all sort of machine plugged up to it showing the woman condition "so you were lying to me Ozpin why lie though" she said to herself getting up she quickly walked out of the office and went to the hanger with a determine look on her face.
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A few hours later she was in that same lift when the door opened up walked down the corridor she watched as one of her guards kept destroying cameras along the way "their lack of security is painful" she hears one of the guard saying making her nod in agreement on that.
When they came to the room her whole body shuck with fear when she saw the young woman in that tank "I was going to tell you about her" she and her guards spun around facing where the voice came from seeing it was Glynda walking out of the shadows.
"how did you knew I was coming here?" she wonder seeing her moving her glasses up a little.
"I spotted your drone hiding in a corner so I thought you would have shown up at some point" she watched her walking up to her.
"I don't get it why keep it a secret from me when I asked him!" she said with a hint of betrayal to her voice.
"that I don't know but I can tell you who they have picked to be the new maiden" that got her attention looking at her "it a students named Pyrrha she will be fighting in the single rounds today!" she bears a hint of sadness in there.
"ha using children now for his war" she said shacking her head "if using us wasn't enough!" she felt disgusted at that thought.
"I agree it isn't right but he is also using a girl named Ruby Rose she has silver eyes" that made her gasp at that she knew about the silver eyes her mother would always tell tales of how they would fight using their eyes as weapons "so now what?" she hears her asking.
Thinking on what the best route now when she couldn't think "I don't know there too many gaps, too many lies for me to think what the best plan now I am trying to avoid using protocols but I am finding myself getting nearing to using them which will end up me forcing that one protocol that I do not want to use" she looked back at the tank "I need to think I be around the arena today watching the fight" she then walked off with all of her guards following her.
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Cerise and her two children were sitting watching the fight between that boy and Yang both of them seems to be equal as they weren't giving in "hmmm he is good but she is good too" Crimson said watching them both.
"his spinning semblance will be a pain in the neck to deal with" Ebony said studying him very carefully when the fight came to the end he saw the boy rushing Yang only to be beaten by her but yet he saw Atlas soldiers surrounding Yang.
"wow Yang attacking him why" he hears his sister saying which got him confused.
"what are you talking about he made the first move" he said getting the attention of his sister and his mother just as he realised something "oh no that girl she must have used her illusion semblance to make the you all see it differently".
"now son are you sure" he hears his mother asking making him nodding then let go we need to tell them he is the one who made the move" he saw his mother getting up "guard arrest that boy" he watched as one of them rushed off with a few soldiers following the guard while she and her two children went off to someplace.
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They walked into the office hearing an argument going on "Ozpin what are you teach..." Cerise interrupted them.
"it was the boy who attacked first and I can proof that" she nods to her son who brought up his wrist and a holographic image of the end of that fight shows the boy rushing Yang only for Yang to defend herself.
"but how we saw her" she hears Ironwood would saying shocked by this.
"simple I was fighting a girl named Emerald I suspected she uses illusion as her semblance but it doesn't work on me well my sister too but you have to be near her" she watched them all with shock faces on them.
"you see my son isn't a real person he is a late copy of my real son who died during a patrol so I made him to be exactly the real boy my son was" she said proudly of her work.
"I see I will send some men to ge..." again she interrupts him.
"no point I did that which I am just been informed he is no longer on the schools ground" she said "now if you will excuse me I have work to do" she walks off leaving them all with stunned faces.
"your empress I have something you might want to hear" she hears one of her soldiers saying in a small hearing device in her ear while walking into the lift.
"go ahead" she said while waiting for the lift to stop.
"censor at that abandoned city have been triggered by the Grimms we sent a drone over and it shows huge amounts of Grims more than we originally thought converging there" this made her worry more now.
"I see keep an eye on it tell me anything that changes there no matter how big or small it is" she said walking out of the lift.
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Later that day the next round was now under way at was Pyrrha vs Penny Cerise watched as both of them fought well but yet she couldn't get this gut feeling away like something was happening looking at Pyrrha seeing her fighting more aggressively which made her think why though when all of a sudden one of her guards came up to her "your empress we have a situation the Grimms are heading towards us!" she hears him whispering to her.
"I see I will come" she got up leaning into her children's "listened something going on keep an extra eye on things here" she then walked off.
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Both Crimson and Ebony were worried about that looking around seeing nothing when they went back to watching the fight when they noticed Pyrrha using her semblance which made Penny sword to fly towards Penny and hitting her cutting off her arms and killing her Ebony eyes shot wide open when seeing that his heart stopped and he froze to the ground "no, no Penny" he thought to himself as he felt his whole world had been shattered.
Crimson tried to get her brother to snap out of his daze while listening into some woman who was talking over the comms when she suddenly saw a huge Nevermore bird over head "oh no brother come on we need to get going" she shaken him to get his attention.
Ebony finally looked up seeing students rushing around in panic getting up looking at his sister "I am sorry sister!" he said to her.
"apologise later come on we need to help with evacuation" she then rushed to the arena floor with him seeing the huge Nevermor being brought down by Ruby and a bunch of lockers.
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Cerise was on a plane hearing that Grimms were now pouring into the city and the school "get everything on the ground in the city and in the school while the ships cover the sky" she said to a soldier who went on to the radio "and don't bring the light Grimms yet" she looked out the window seeing all of her five ships appearing and started to open fire on the Grimms "children I hope you are okay" she thought to herself.
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Crimson and Ebony along with the others were running down the corridor when they all stopped seeing three huge Ursa standing in front of them "GET DOWN!" they all heard a strong male voice shouting put to them making them hit the ground as a bunch of bullets went flying all over the place.
Looking up they saw two huge heavily armoured people holding what looked like heavy mini guns and a few bunch of non armour soldiers "go get to the docks we have this covered" the soldier shouted out to them making them run pass them all.
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Cerise had arrived on her ship she saw lot of her crew running to and from places shouting out at each other "what the heck is happening !" she screamed out in demand voice causing the whole place to go silent.
"your empress our troops have reported that a group of Faunus calling themselves the White Fang is also attacking the school and have killed a few of our troops" on of the crew said as she felt angry by this news.
"I want them dead understand" seeing them nodding "now get..." she stopped as they saw one of those Atlas ships blowing up "what the hell!" she shouts watching as another one attack it "get me Ironwood now" she sat down looking out the window.
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Ironwood was at the docks when he heard about one of his ships being taken over when he saw the students all rushing to him as he explained about the situation he saw that wolf empire girl walking up to him "Ironwood my mother want to speak with you" he saw a radio being given to him.
"um hello" he said.
"Ironwood please explain to me why you ship is attacking each other" he hears and thought it was best not to lie.
"I am sorry it been taken over I am planning to regain it" he said to her.
"then I will give you two hours after that for the safety of the sky I will have no chose to put it down understand" he winced at that last part.
"yes I do I will get to it" he gave her the radio back went to a plane off.
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Ruby and the rest were about to rush to a plane when more of those Grimms appeared but just then those wolfs soldiers came rushing up and opened fire at them "quickly get on" she hears Crimson saying pushing them on to the plane and her brother but not her.
"wait what about you" she hears Crimson brother saying to her with worry.
"I am staying to protect this area keep my brother safe" she hugged into him.
"no I will stay as well!" he said and was about to get up only to held down by her.
"I am sorry brother but your not in any state to fight not after you saw your lover being killed" Ruby saw her pushing him in and closing the door
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Crimson watched as the plane flew away and A few soldiers came up to her looking around seeing they were completely surrounded on all side thinking nothing else but one option grabbing a radio "I need a danger close now!" she screamed into the radio.
"roger that this is the night of howl we are above you and are firing" she hears a reply and seeing their ship above them.
"SHIELD!" she screams to the others who all rushed to each other and formed a shield just as heavy gun fire came raining down.
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Ruby watched from the plane as they flew off while seeing them being completely surrounded when she heard Crimson voice on the radio "requesting danger close" looking at Ebony.
"what is that?" she hears Jaune asking him.
"it were if one of our units are about to be over run they ask for a bombardment on them" she hears looking out the window again seeing one of the huge ships moving over Crimson and started to fire onto the docks watching as the fire died down and seeing those soldiers still alive.
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Crimson open her eyes to see the Grimms were now dead and their transport planes had came to unload fresh troops and their light Grimms
"Sargent!" she shouted out to see a Faunus male in combat uniform with a wolf helmet on.
"yes" she hears him saying while she looked around.
"keep this area safe find anyone in the arena that couldn't get out once done then abandoned this place head to the city to help defend it" she said climbing on to a plane with a few troops closing the door.
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Cerise was listening to all the radio chats when one of the crew came up to her "your empress soldiers are requesting the light Grimms at the school and the city as well now, they say they can't keep the enemy at bay" she thought about it.
"okay released them" she gave in to that while watching the ship all having a battle with the Grimms in the sky when one of her ships caught her attention it was on fire on some decks and wasn't firing much "what the damage reported from the Spirit of Wolf?" she asked them.
"your Empress my ship is damaged on multiple decks we lost several guns and hanger 2 and 5 is out of commission" she listened to the report.
"okay get your ship out of danger" she said watching it moving away from the battle "some one contact home and tell them to mobilise 24 ships and our ship yard to get here and fully loaded" she then went back to watching the battle.
"empress our troops are reporting that Atlas robot are fighting them they say they have been hacked" she heard making her angry.
"tell our troop to engage the robot if they can" she then looked to a human female "get troop to Miss Goodwitch location she will be needing it" she saw her saluting then rushing off.
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While the battle raged on at the school Glynda was in the city trying to help defend it while she saw Ironwood and Qrow off to try and regain control of his robots when she suddenly noticed a whole lot of the wolf transport planes coming down some holding what looks like vehicle under them and other holding soldiers she saw one Human female rushing to her and saluting "Miss Goodwitch I am Sargent Night of the 23rd wolf's infantry I am told we're under your command" she couldn't believe what she just heard.
"no that can't be right" she said shocked by this.
"here" she saw her handing her a radio taking the radio she could hear Cerise talking to her.
"Miss Goodwitch now listened I have placed you as a commander and given you one of my best infantry units I thought it was best since you know the city better than us" she looked around seeing god knows how many soldiers and vehicles thinking about it now she knew Cerise was right about that part.
"thank you I try to keep them alive" she gave her the radio back "how many troops do you have?".
"I have 90 soldiers and 16 light battle tanks I also have a plane carrying our light Grimms they should be arriving soon" she heard those numbers thinking on how best to use them.
"okay help make this area safe first" she smiled seeing her nodding and running off to get everything in place.
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Once Ebony and the rest had arrived at the school he saw many of their soldiers laying on the ground dead some injured others fighting when he suddenly saw a bunch of dark Grimms he felt his anger rising up "I will kill you all!" he said angry and charged forward to them before the others could stop him.
Punching one right in the face causing it to fly and crashing into two it's buddies then spinning around to see one behind him bring his feet up kicking it in the face making him flying into a pillar as another just nearly managed to hit him as he dodged it's claw bring his pistol out and firing a few shot to it legs making it collapsed to the ground then using it body to boost himself up in the air to fly over a few of them shooting each one in the head landing on the ground he looked around and saw some of those Atlas robots firing at his own troops again he rushed off to fight them.
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Cerise was getting annoyed by that one ship that was still not under Atlas control she was told Ironwood plane had been down "fire on that ship I need the sky to be safe and it can't be safe while that ships is hitting us" she said to them seeing her ships guns now aiming for it.
But just before anything could happen the ship suddenly burst in an explosion causing it to fall towards the ground "what just happened to it!" she demanded as non could give her answer "fine at least the sky is safe now" she sat down watching the rest of the battle when she and the crew all went silent when they heard a sudden roar looking to where it came from their eyes all suddenly went wide with fear "no I thought my great grandmother killed that along time ago" she watched as that huge bird was moving towards the tower
"FIRE ON THAT THING NOW!" she screamed out causing the crew to quickly scramble to getting it done seeing the guns open fire on it "fire main gun".
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Crimson arrived at the school when she saw her mother ships was engaging that huge bird she then noticed the main gun which was the long tube had a ball of light in watching as it grew in size then being shot out towards the bird at an incredible speed hitting the huge bird but only for it to continue to fly she then saw Nore and the others all running up to her looking around she couldn't see her brother in the group "where is my brother!?" she asked them worried for him.
"he rushed off to fight a bunch of Grimms he seems angry like he isn't himself" she hears Nora saying while pointing the direction.
Looking at the location she gasped seeing her brother breathing in anger and a whole lot of Grimms dead along with Atlas robots and a few of the white Fang members dead "oh no I was worried about this!" she whispered to herself.
"we tried to get him to calm down but he isn't listening to us" she hears Nora saying worried about this Crimson pulls out a weird looking gun and placing a dart into it chamber.
Aiming for her brother "I am sorry brother!" she said and firing it she watched as the dart hits him in the neck making froze quickly and dropping to the ground.
"what the heck did you do!?" she hears Ren saying worried.
Nodding to two soldiers that was with her they rushed off to get her brother "I simple place him in a sleep mode you see if he get too angry he will forget who is friend and who is foe so this is the only to stop that from happening" she said seeing the others now nodding when they all spotted Yang being carried by Blake "medic!" she screams while helping Blake who she could hear was saying "I am sorry" she couldn't tell what for yet laying Yang down she saw the medical teams rushed over to help take care of her and Blake.
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Cerise wasn't having a better time now she watched as shots after shot were fired at the bird only for it to stagger a little then went back to flying towards the tower "your empress troops are saying they are losing ground on the school" she looked over the scene seeing her troops fighting but were losing.
Sigh in defeat "evacuate the school ground!" she said in sadness.
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Crimson heard her mother had ordered an evacuation when she was busy helping to keep the area safe when she saw more plane coming down to pick them all seeing the students climbing on one she climbed onto another when that drunken man grabbed a hold of hold of her seeing his face he looked worried "please help me my niece she gone to the tower" her eye wide open looking at the tower seeing the bird there.
"okay get on" she climbed on with him "pilot get us to the tower now" she demanded him seeing him nodding and they were on their way.
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Crimson plane just arrived to seeing three female one holding on to Pyrrha and smiling they watched as Pyrrha then vanished into thin air "what!" she said shocked by this she just managed to see Ruby before a huge white flash came out of nowhere.
A few seconds later the light dead down and she saw Ruby laying on the ground "get us down there now" she felt the plane landing watching Qrow rushing to her picking her up and walked back to her plane helping him to get her on she nodded for the pilot to go closing the door she watched out of the Window seeing more of the planes heading away from the school she saw their ships above firing onto the school ground before they too left the area.