[X] "Someone should probably help Cent. If nobody else is, I will, I suppose. Where's this hole you got stuck in?"
"Someone should get Cent out of the hole he's stuck in."
"I'm not stuck." Cent replied. "I'm preparing an ambush and just can't find a way out.
Everyone suddenly started clearing their throats loudly.
"Point taken." Cent conceded.
"Once I get him out, I'll find whoever needs the most help." Yang continued. "Cent, don't bother saying your plans, we all know you're going to compliment Two and probably make an innuendo in the process."
"Tch, gotten predictable." Cent moaned. "I need to make myself even more amazing to keep people wowed, then..."
"Is it too late to change my mind?" Yang asked. "Leaving Cent to die in a hole sounds nice."
"Don't be mean." Two pouted. "I need him."
"Aw, love you too, Two."
Two went quiet.
"My only regret is I can't see your cute face right now~"
"Get a room." Taiyang sighed. "Christ, is this what it's like from the outside? I owe Qrow an apology..."
Yang quickly swiped on her scroll a few times, locating Cent's current location, and tapped another few times to get directions.
"On my way." Yang said. "Be safe, everyone. Win your fights, save my sister and anyone else Five's gotten addicted, get everyone home."
Putting the scroll away, Yang started running.
Quickly leaping up a building and running along the rooftops, Yang made sure not to fire Ember Celica, instead clinging to windows as she started climbing higher. She didn't want to draw attention, from Grimm or whatever minions Five had.
As she started approaching Cent's location, towards the centre of the city, Yang noticed Five's airship drawing close to the ground. After a moment, a few distant figures leaped out of it. One at first, then three others a moment later. They hit the ground a moment later, as the airship drew towards the ground much slower as it landed towards the north.
"They're dropping." Taiyang noted over the scroll.
"Port?" Two asked. "Do any of the scanners show my sister?"
"Not yet, miss Two." Professor Port replied. "I'll let you know when I do."
"Thanks." Two finished.
Yang noted the conversation, and looked down as she jumped to another rooftop, and saw a group of Grimm wandering towards where Five's airship was. So anyone over that would be slowed down by a bit of a fight.
It took a while, but eventually, Yang found the hole Cent had fallen into.
"...Hey, Cent?" Yang asked, as she stepped over the hole and pulled out her scroll. "How far down is this thing? I can't see the bottom of this thing."
"I'm not entirely sure." Cent replied. "It's, uh, a big hole."
"I can see that." Yang noted. "So, did you just not see this hole? It's basically the entire street."
"...It might not have been here before I walked over a crack in the ground."
"I thought you went down it intentionally?" Yang asked, an amused tone in her voice.
"I may have exaggerated..." Cent admitted. "Hey, do me a favour, don't let Two know I didn't plan this?"
"I can hear you." Two interrupted.
"No you don't!" Cent panicked.
Two giggled. "Cent, you don't have to be absolutely perfect, you know."
"But I am." Cent insisted.
"Oh, that's nice." Yang noted. "So you can get yourself out of this hole, then?"
"...Can you look around for some rope?" Cent asked.
Yang looked around. "The buildings around here are a bit rubble-y. I don't think that'll work."
"Well, that's great." He sighed. "Well, there's a cavern down here, so there has to be a way to access it somehow, right?"
"Didn't you mention a train?" Yang asked. "That might be an easy way out. Professor, do you have any old map data that could point towards a train station?"
"Of Mountain Glenn? No." Professor Port noted. "But if I look around a bit, I might be able to find the old plans for the railway between here and Vale, and can estimate the location based on those plans. Which may take some time, but my prowess with computer record archives is unmatched."
"Uh huh." Yang nodded. "Just do it quickly, please?"
Port made an affirmative note, and started typing.
Hearing a shuffling sound from behind her, Yang saw an Ursa approaching slowly, with some more footsteps from behind the buildings.
"Got some Grimm." Yang said, pocketing her scroll. "Gonna deal with that quickly."
Preparing Ember Celica, she paused for a moment. Didn't want to attract any attention from Five's people wandering around. Best to keep this quiet. Her shotgun gauntlets were kinda loud, so maybe she should keep this to regular melee.
Besides, she needed to preserve ammo.
Running in close, Yang slugged the Ursa in the face. It reeled back, but quickly recovered and pounced. Yang flipped back, watched the Ursa overextend itself, and kept baiting it forward. It drew closer as Yang moved back, and eventually, when it leapt again, Yang ducked under it's arm, grabbed it around the neck, and spun around.
Grunting in pain, Yang threw it back, and it gave a short roar as it fell down the hole. Turning around without watching it fall for more than a second, Yang stepped away from the hole. After a moment of nothing happening, Yang walked to the end of a street, and found three Beowolf's lurking in the area.
With a growl, the Beowolf's started dashing at her. Yang smirked as they came close, then charged in herself and jumped over the first Beowolf. Landing on the Beowolf's head, Yang reeled back her fist as she slipped down, and came down on the next Grimm beast by punching it into the ground. Without moving her hand, Yang spun around on it, kicking the third Beowolf in the head while holding another one down, and as the first Beowolf turned around, Yang pushed off the beast she was holding down and bounced away a bit.
Keeping a smirk as they all circled around her, Yang jumped back some more, ran up the side of a nearby building, then pounced at the closest Beowolf. She passed over it, reached down and grabbed its head, before kicking it's back as she passed over and pulled the Beowolf's head off. It faded away, and the next Beowolf bared it's fangs at Yang. She smashed its teeth in with her gauntlets, then grabbed it's tongue and pulled, while striking at it again with her other hand.
The Grimm hissed in pain as it tried to gnaw on Yang's arm, but she tore its tongue out and kicked it back again to knock the Beowolf into it's companion.
"Found it." Port spoke up suddenly. "I've sent the area in which the train station most likely is to your scroll, have a look after you're not under attack."
Yang considered it for a moment, before rushing forward and punching one Grimm hard enough to tear straight through it's chest, and as it faded away, she leveraged it's weight by forcing it back while it still had weight, and as her arm moved back, Yang swept her leg at the final Grimm, kicking it just before the weight through back pulled her out of the way of a counterattack.
Flipping to avoid hurting herself in the fall, Yang slid to a stop, and waited until the Beowolf was charging forward again. At the last second, she stepped forward and uppercutted it, sending it into the air. Finally, she grabbed it's leg and threw it into a wall. As the wall collapsed, the Grimm faded away.
"Looks like I brought the house down." Yang smirked. "...No, that's not the best time for that pun, the building didn't actually collapse and that looks more like an office building than a place where people left. Well, good thing nobody heard me."
"Indeed." Cent replied, over the scroll.
Yang paused. "...You heard nothing."
Cent chuckled. "Oh, I can't wait to share this story with everyone..."
"If I save you will you tell nobody?"
"Sure, sure. By the way, did you know that nobody was originally a nickname given to people who wanted to remain anonymous? That's why people claim say things like 'Nobody's home' when they don't want people to come into their home."
Yang ignored him, as she looked at the map as to where the train station was.
...To the north. Towards Five's people. Great.
Sighing, Yang once again climbed a building, jumping from window to window, before setting off on a run.
Voices continued speaking over the scroll, for a moment.
"The Grimm are getting agitated." Taiyang noticed. "Or maybe that's just the mood. A few've passed by and sniffed me out. I've noticed that they're starting to gather in bigger groups."
"Me too." Miltia said, after a moment.
"Ah, miss Malachite." Port spoke up. "It may interest you to know, I think I saw your sister for a second there on these reports. She's heading towards the north-east of Mountain Glenn."
There was silence for a moment, as Yang jumped over another building and saw the train station ruins nearby.
"No sign of Five yet." Port continued. "She may be sticking close to the airship. Speaking of, take care miss Xiao Long, you've passed the northernmost point I can observe and may be drawing close."
"I'll be fine." Yang replied, as she leaped from a rooftop, rolled on the street, and came to a stop in from of the station.
There were gunshots nearby, and Yang spun around to look for the source, but couldn't see anyone.
"Okay they might be close." She whispered. "Gotta get to Cent quickly."
Stepping inside the ruined train station, Yang looked around and sighed.
"I can see the way down." She noted. "That's the good news. Bad news, it's caved in."
"Damn." Cent sighed. "Okay, I'm looking at my scroll, I'm near where your signal's coming from. I should be able to clear a way quickly."
"I can help blow up a bit of it." Yang noted. "But I might draw attention doing so, so be ready for a fight."
"Are you sure?" Taiyang asked. "If it's a threat you can't handle-"
"Relax." Cent dismissed. "I've seen Yang in action. She's tough. Besides, I'm not far, and I could probably end basically any fight in a few minutes."
"...Sure." Taiyang sighed. "Your call, Yang, but be careful."
Yang nodded, as she loaded Ember Celica.
"You on the other side of this?" Yang asked.
"I see some sort of structure up ahead." Cent replied. "So maybe? Start clearing and I'll tell you if I hear an explosion."
"Here goes nothing." Yang prepared herself, punching down. Ember Celica let loose a blast, and some rubble was tossed to the side.
"I heard that." Cent confirmed. "And the rubble's cleared a bit. Keep going."
Yang nodded, punching as fast as she could while letting loose repeated blasts to clear as much of the area as possible. After a second of that, she looked back to confirm there was nobody sneaking up behind her. When the area behind her was clear, Yang turned back to the rubble and kept blasting.
"Sounds like your close." Cent noted. "I can see the dust kicking up, so you should nearly be ther-"
A bullet struck Yang from the side, and she quickly ducked down as dozens more struck at her in a second. After hitting the ground, two seconds passed, countless bullets whizzed through the air above her.
"Everything alright up there?" Cent asked, as Yang heard him shifting rocks around.
"We got attackers." Yang coughed.
"I've got it from here." Cent said. "Could've cleared it up easily enough myself, but now I could get through in a second. Go see who's attacking."
The bullets stopped coming, and Yang stood, and looked through the hole in the wall left by the stream of bullets. They were scatted enough that the wall was still blocking most of her view, so Yang took a step back, then charged through it.
As the wall collapsed around her, Yang came face to face with her attacker. An attacker who, Yang noted, stared at her with familiar red eyes.
"So, you're with Five, then?" Yang asked.
"You know about Five." The girl with the gatling gun noted. She tilted her beret on her head, and she tilted down some sunglasses on her forehead to cover her eyes.
Yang almost considered making a statement about what kind of person wore sunglasses while the sun was still down, but chose against it.
"I'll give you one warning." Yang said. "Step down. Get out of my way. Let me save my sister."
"Or?" The older girl asked.
Yang's hands curled into a fist, adjusting one of the settings on Ember Celica on
"I've had a really bad time recently." Yang noted. "So if you don't step down, then I'm going to punch you until you stop moving. Then I'm probably going to punch you some more to work through some stress."
The girl with the gatling gun smiled. "And how are you going to get close enough to hit me, punchy?"
Yang cracked a knuckle, and smirked to hide her frustration. "Looks like we're doing this the fun way."
Why couldn't this girl just stand down and let her do something important?
As her opponent's gun spun up, Yang dashed to the side as the bullets started flying. She ran around in a quarter-circle around her foe, as bullets came flying, before aiming Ember Celica and firing.
It seemed like a lifetime ago, she had gone weapon shopping and found a selection of cheap experimental ammo which she'd never gotten around to testing out. Now was a good a time as any. The dust round grew to the side of a soccer ball after a second, was struck by a couple of dozen smaller bullets as it flew towards her opponent, striking the stationary shooter in the face, knocking off her sunglasses and forcing her to take a step back.
"Hm." Yang noted. "Definitely absorbed the bullets, but not noticeably stronger? At least it's a good counter against your gun."
The girl scoffed. "Congratulations. You hit me once. Most can't say the same."
"Are you sure?" Yang asked, as she continued running around. "You're rather slow for a Huntress. What, do you just hope that nothing gets close enough? Because-"
Yang fired twice, using regular shots, and the girl quickly shot her gatling gun again, using her bullets to disrupt and destroy Yang's explosive blasts.
"-You seem kinda easy to distract."
The girl's eyes went wide and she turned around as Cent stepped out of the stairway, and she started aiming her gun at him, giving Yang the chance to close in and strike.
As she stepped into arms distance, however, her fit was caught and held in place. Yang turned around and briefly saw bunny ears, before someone threw her into a wall.
Getting to her feet, Yang looked up to see some kind of Faunus with wires around her fist, resembling-
"Are those my gauntlets?" Yang asked.
The rabbit girl with red eyes looked at Yang and nodded.
"You didn't actually think I would be alone, did you?" The girl in the beret asked. "Velvet here took her time to observe your weapon so she could match whatever you could do."
Standing back to back with her apparent partner, the girl with the gatling gun smirked. "Now, let me offer you something. Would you prefer to give up now and let me drag you before Five to hear a little song? Or do you want me to fill you full of bullets first?"
Yang glared, as she prepared for a fight.
[X] Fight right here. Port probably heard everything over his scroll, he'd send help if he thought it was needed. Maybe even help himself after a moment.
[X] Go for a running battle towards another location. Fight while leading the two girls somewhere else for some reason or another.
-[X] Towards Five's airship. Yang would be heading there anyway, and Qrow should still be hanging around there, so he could help.
-[X] Towards Two. Cent would be heading there anyway, and if the fight goes bad, she's tough.
-[X] Towards Miltia. Not as tough as Two, but last time Yang checked the map, she was the closest.
[X] Surrender. Let these two drag Yang to Five. They'd probably keep her on Five's airship, which was exactly where Yang wanted to go.