Arriving at the scene of the crime I see Easy company already formed up, " Alright looks like you guys seem to be doing fine without me," I said walking onto the scene cooly.
"Yeah oh, by the way, my team and Ruby's are here too," Jaune said before walking off to the line of vehicles. Nodding I look around for the head of the blockade, seeing the commissioner I walk up to him and greet him.
"Evening commissioner, I'm Captain Brian Nash, pleased to meet you," I said smiling.
"Evening to you too, as you can see we're in a pickle," the man said pointing to the VNN Building.
"Yeah no kidding, any reason you needed us to come here and bail you out?" I asked the commissioner.
"Funny, but more seriously though, we aren't exactly equipped to deal with this, they have Atlas military equipment, and we don't exactly have the body armor to protect against that," he said exasperated.
"Right and you call us, I think huntsmen exist for a reason," I said sarcastically.
"We called Ozpin and put a high order request through, all he was able to send however was a man named, Qrow Branwen, one man isn't going be enough, and I've lost enough men trying to just negotiate with those acolytes, just do what you have to rescue the hostages," The commissioner said exasperated.
"Alright, alright, I'll get a team going," I said walking off to the main groups.
Walking around for a bit I run into Teams RWBY, JNPR, and Qrow. "Kiddos, how are ya holding up?" I asked walking to the two teams. Ruby seeing me immediately jumped up and tackle hugged me, "hey hey, I was always going to be alive, you good?" I asked her.
"Yep, just really happy to see you! Oh! Let me introduce you to my uncle," she said getting up and getting her uncle, getting up myself they return in time for me to be cleaner than before, "Mr?" I asked sticking my hand out.
"Branwen, Qrow Branwen, I'd assume the commissioner had told you," he said shaking my hand.
"Yeah he did, but I figured it would be rude to assume though," I said letting go from the handshake.
"Yeah? Well, either way, we can get to know each other better, right now we've got a larger problem than pleasantries, for example, hostages," he said looking at the building.
"Yeah, I know, I'm going to gather a breaching team up, gonna want you to head the charge though, whilst my men have their aura's unlocked, they aren't trained massivly yet in how to control it, for now, they can take a hit, but that's about it, I'm gonna want someone to be able to take a few hits to distract these acolytes," I explained.
"Really got this planned out haven't you?" he asked.
"Hey, it's why I'm a Captain, anyways after this is all over want to get a drink?" I asked him.
"I can't I have to head to the old man in the tower," he said joking about Ozpin,.
"How convenient I needed to chat with him after all this anyway, mostly to rub into his face that I was able to run an army and head to classes," I said smirking.
"Funny, so you're the famous Brian Nash right?" he asked me.
"Yep, gotta love mass media," I said sarcastically, "Anyway, you know anything about these acolytes? Or did the wicked witch of the Grimm managed to corrupt a group of people now?" I asked qrow quietly.
"How do you know about her?" he asked me suspiciously.
"I would say Ozpin let me know, but the truth will take a longer time to explain than we have right now, you're just gonna have to trust me for now," I said not taking my eyes off the building.
"Well as far as I can tell, it's a combination of both, seems to be a declaration of war in a way, what with the ATK-200's in there," he said to me...wait ATK's
"Did those ATK's have an eye marking on them?" I asked him, I never noted this at the time, but during the dock attack, the robots that were attacking us had a peculiar marking on the backs, a sort of all-seeing eye.
"Yeah, why?"
"Shit, those acolytes must have attacked us back at the dock, now I understand why they needed the dust reserved we ordered, they had their own army to run, fuck now it's an international incident, I just wanted to get a coffee with a lovely woman, and go back to beacon life for a bit, now it's a hostage situation," I said exasperated.
"They attacked once before?"
"Yeah, read up on some articles that we're published in two weeks back, that'll fill you in, or just ask adam, he'll also fill you in," I said before walking off to form my breaching team. Okay think me think, I have qrow at the front, I need a couple of thompsons, I could probably get Jaune to fill in for one of the positions, and I could fill in another, it would also leave leadership strained...or I could just ask for volunteer's, "Fuck it,"
"What?" Qrow asked me.
I said aloud rather loudly, "any volunteer's for a special mission, in that godforsaken building!" I pointed to the building currently being put under siege," no one but teams RWBY and JNPR raised their hands, "Oh for god's sake, have you no backbone?!" I shouted annoyed.
"All due respect sir, we literally just fought off a few hundred thousand Grimm, I was expecting to head home on leave and this happened," one of the privates said. I sigh loudly at the statement.
"Oh, for- whatever, you've all done more than any man has in remnant in the last couple of days, sure we'll send the kids in," I said exasperated, in reality, I'm also done with the day, and just wished there was a team of hunters to deal with this, but instead I have to do this instead.
"Okay RWBY, JNPR, you're up, link up with Qrow and we'll discuss a plan to deal with this," I said to the two teams.
- Local Cafe Building -
"Alright, you're all here because my men have been fighting for the last week nonstop, and so no one but you guys volunteered for this mission," I said pinching the bridge of my nose, "in any case, you are to listen to mine and Mr. Branwen's order's, understand?" I asked the two teams if their track record for listening to orders matches the show any, I'm gonna have a field day with this simple breaching.
Both teams nodded and made clear of their understanding, "good, now here's a lesson in force, in case Beacon or signal or whatever preparatory school never taught you this, your guns aren't just weapons against Grimm, they can and will kill other humans too, now I know that this is something you haven't experienced before since the only combatants you will see regularly will be other hunters in training with unlocked aura's, but these Acolytes have a high chance to not have their aura's unlocked, and even if they did, there has been no training done, and thus makes them a slightly more durable meat bag, any questions?" I said explaining the seriousness of the situation.
Ruby raised her hand, "erm if you don't mind me asking, why are you treating us like we don't know this stuff?" she asked cautiously.
I breathed in and out a couple of breaths to steel my nerves for a second, "I do this because you are hunters and huntresses in training, your experience with other human and faunus as combatants are other trained warriors, something that may affect just how much force you may use on these acolytes. Understand I trust you to know just how much force is necessary, but a reminder is a good idea, for example, and not to pick on you Nora, but Nora for example, she uses a grenade launcher, great for Grimm clearout, but against targets like these people, a great way to kill of ten of them at once, plus whatever hostages they have in that same room, look I just don't need an international incident okay," I said calmly.
"Right," ruby said nodding, processing what I told her.
"Anyways here's the plan," I said before telling them about the plan, which was to breach the building at night specifically team RWBY will be headed in via a side entrance at night working their way to the hostages, while Qrow, JNPR, and I will be breaching in via the front door, hopefully causing enough distraction to allow RWBY to sneak the hostages out of there, at which point we either are able to arrest all of the acolytes or we will have to blast out the building and kill of these psychos, "does the plan make sense?" I asked everyone, outside of some grumbling from Yang and Nora, everyone generally made their agreement.
"Good, because we'll have to improvise as we go, I need this done by tonight, and we have about an hour left before dark, get your equipment, I have a trip to make to beacon right now, and I can safely assume outside of Jaune, you all left your equipment at Beacon right?" I asked.
Both teams nodded, "alright you guys can hitch a ride with me and Qrow, c'mon let's get going we're burning time, move move!" I said gesturing for the teams to get up and get moving.
-end-
Okay for a bit of explanation (also soapbox moment), I needed proper enemy for my army to actually fight, the main issue of moving the focus from a group of huntress to an army is that with a group of huntresses a single enemy like say Cinder (though does she really count) works since the action is so small scale, but large scale the Grimm just isn't that scary, outside of the mega kaiju Grimm that seem to show up at the end of every volume, the Grimm is rather impotent as a mass scale enemy, the only reason they are able to do as much as they did is both A. plot convenience and B. Atlas sucks as a military force since they seem just so competent if volumes 3-7 is any indication of their track record, and because every other kingdom relies on huntsmen, no wonder the Grimm are so rampant, I mean let's be honest any infantrymen worth their salt should be able to pick up a good rifle and kill a Grimm, but instead it seems that atlas gave their soldiers fucking peashooters for rifles, and honestly I'm just dissapointed in Atlas.
Anyways rant over, hope everyone is holding up well enough during these tumultuous times.