Two more chapters before we wrap up volume 2 and 3 is going to be so good for me.
Chapter cover- Ersa helping Yang up to her feet.
Ch.25- Delivery
Good job Issia, you got yourself captured by the enemy, what started as a simple clear the area mission has changed as us fighting for our lives. Right now I have my hands ties and Ruby is being interrogated by Roman with the trickslinger nowhere to be seen, Ruby attempts to run but Roman flips his cane around and shoots the head out catching Ruby by her hood and reeled back in.
"I see you've got some tricks up your sleeve! Let me make this clear: We're not through here yet." Roman taps his lips in the background an explosion is heard in the distance with Roman distracted, I summon my daggers and cut my bindings.
"Oh, what the... Perry, if you and the boys could take care of that? Kinda in the middle of something." Perry, a white fang guard with glasses over his mask nods and brings the two others beside him to investigate the explosions just as another one sounds.
"WHAT is going on here?!" Roman exclaims.
In distance, several White Fang members are seen retreating and firing at the source of the explosions being our teams and Oobleck behind them.
Me and Ruby take this moment to run, Ruby jumps on Roman's shoulders and pulls his hat down over his eyes.
"Somebody kill them!" Roman orders and we're fired upon, and we dodge and weave through the shots. As we're running Ruby is caught out by another group and brace herself only to have a volcanic rock shoot from under them revealing Deandra saved her.
"Ruby!" Yang exclaims, happy to see her sister as she pulls her into a tight embrace, swinging her body around.
"Are you okay?" Weiss asks, concerned, as they surround her.
"I'm fine. I'm fine! But listen…" Ruby begins as Yang releases her. "Torchwick's got all sorts of weapons and robots down there!" Ruby says, pointing behind her.
"What?" Blake asks as she grabs Ruby's weapon and hands it to her.
"Androids, mechs, they're all loaded up on the train cars," Ruby explains.
"Ah, that's ridiculous. These tunnels are sealed. Th-these tracks lead to a dead-end," Oobleck says.
We then hear a loud screeching noise, followed by Roman's voice.
"Get to your places, we are leaving now," they hear him says. Suddenly, the train ahead of them comes to life and starts moving, its horn being heard as it begins to pick up speed.
"Well, it sounds like they're going SOMEWHERE!" Yang says.
"We need backup. Let me call Jaune," Ruby says as she pulls out her scroll and calls his number, but the attempt fails since they're underground.
"You know what that means then girls?" Deandra asks.
Ruby turns around and readies her weapon, "We're stopping that train," she proclaims as the others nod to her answer.
The train moves through the tunnels, showing different freight cars, with one car loaded with Atlesian Paladins on it as it speeds away. One White Fang soldier on lookout feels some shaking on the train.
"Huh?" he says as he looks back and sees rose petals from behind the train. He then pulls out a communicator. "I think they're on the-," he begins before he gets knocked out by Oobleck hitting him in the head with his thermos.
After getting on the train we climb on the train top and open a hatch where we find something really bad.
"Hurry children. We must get to the front and stop this train!" he says.
"Uh, Professor…" Weiss begins.
"Doctor," he corrects her.
"What's that?" she asks, pointing to a gray cylinder object with red and blue wires on the side in the car they're standing on.
"That, my dear…appears to be a bomb," he answers, making them all reel back from the object.
Ruby then looks ahead of them, "We've got baddies," she says, pointing ahead.
We see many White Fang soldiers coming up onto the freight cars ahead of us and start walking towards them.
"Well, I didn't expect them to go-," Oobleck begins until they hear some sounds below them and look to see the bomb in the car starting up. "…Easy on us" he says before standing up. "Time to go!" he proclaims and they begin to run to the next car, but Oobleck stops Blake. "Blake, detach the caboose! It will kill us all!" he tells her.
"On it!" she says and jumps down in between the last car and the one ahead of it. She pulls out her sword and prepares to detach the car, but it decouples itself before she can do the deed. "Huh?" she says as she watches it fall behind them and then looks up. "It decoupled itself!" she shouts, getting our attention.
"What?" he asks.
"I guess he REALLY doesn't want us on this train!" Yang adds.
Oobleck looks back to see the car explode a moment later, hitting the ceiling of the tunnel and creating a giant hole to the surface.
"That's not good," he says, slowly shaking his head.
"We got another problem," Ruby says ahead of them as she and Weiss open up another car.
"Another bomb?!" Blake exclaims.
"This is really starting to look bad now," I say.
Oobleck thinks for a moment before he starts running ahead of them, "No. No. No!" he says as he runs to the car ahead of Ruby and Weiss, and opens the top door to reveal another bomb inside it. "They all have bombs!" he screams.
The bomb in the car we're on then starts up. We then look up to see the car getting decoupled like the first one. We run and jump off it and land on the car Oobleck is on and look back to the decoupled car.
"This doesn't make sense!" Yang says, flailing her arms.
"Uh, we got bigger problems right now!" Ersa gets our attention, pointing to the White Fang soldiers ahead of us.
"Get the human!" One female soldier shouts, pointing at them.
Our teams run ahead of Oobleck and stop, taking combat stances and getting ready to fight. One soldier throws a kick at Yang, but she lifts her left leg to block it, punches his arms away, and then drops to a leg then sweeps him off his one leg, flipping him in the air. In slow motion, as Yang prepares to punch him, she smiles and winks at him, before time becomes normal again and she smashes him into the car below. Next, Ersa headbutts one solider before knocking him off the car and then grabs the arms of a second one before throwing him off the car. Blake then runs in between several soldiers, quickly swinging her sword at a few of them before she stops and swings her sword at one soldier on her right and then swings her sword at three more goons which knocks them off the train and then finally hits a fourth one in the face, sending him flying while screaming off the train. After that, Deandra smashes her ax against the car creating a shockwave at several soldiers running at her, taking out four of them. The remaining five get close and one swings a sword at her, but Deandra ducks and spins her body to avoid the attack before spin kicking him in the face, knocking him off the train. She then jumps over two more soldiers while making a cross slash that hits them and takes them out, before landing and doing a backflip over the third and performing two upward slashes with her blades that knocks him off the train. For the final soldier, Deandra just smacks the soldier with her weapon, knocking him off balance before kicking him in the air and off the train.
Meanwhile, Weiss then skates across the train cars, creating ice shards in her wake that take out many soldiers before she stops and takes a fighting stance. She then moves and spins her body and sword around in fast movements that knock out four more soldiers. Following her, I test out my new feature Medi added to my daggers, I tap my right dagger against my side and the blade head falls now with a chain hanging down. Next, I jump in between the soldiers and start twirling around, slashing each one of them and sending them flying before jumping forward, sending out two clones that hit four more soldiers and smash them off the train. Behind me, Ruby cocks her sniper scythe before firing it behind her, sending her shooting forward. While in the air, her scythe hits one car, making it reel back before she fires it again as she approaches a group of White Fang soldiers and swings her scythe in a wide arc, adding a spin on the attack as it takes out the whole group, flinging them into the air along with some rose petals, and knocking them out. Finally, Ersa plants her sword into the car, attacking any soldier stupid to fight her while also taking out the bomb and tossing it in a portal.
Oobleck looks back as another car decouples itself and then explodes. The explosion creates a hole in the ceiling, allowing hordes of Grimm to fall into the tunnel and then give chase.
"Oh...dear..." he says as the Grimm race after them. "He's leading Grimm to the city!" he yells to the others.
"WHAT?!" Weiss shrieks.
"It's the cars! They detach and explode, creating openings for the Grimm!" he replies.
"That's insane!" Blake shouts.
"You do realize who we're dealing with, don't you?! He sort of lives for this kind of stuff!" Ersa replies.
"Good thing, I removed that bomb," Ersa shouts.
Oobleck looks back as another car decouples itself from the main train.
"We have to hurry!" he yells and starts running to them.
"You six, go below and try and stop those bombs!" he says, gesturing to Yang, Blake, Weiss, Deandra, Ersa, and Medi.
"What about us?" Ruby asks.
"We're going to stop this train," he says, trying to look cool.
"Yeah, I know. I said that earlier," Ruby reminds him, making him lose his cool.
We all then run ahead while a few White Fang soldiers get in some Atlesian Paladins a few cars ahead of us, powering them up. They jump onto a car behind us and start running towards Ruby, Oobleck, Zwei, and me as they run forward.
"Up ahead!" Oobleck says, pointing to one mech running at them. The mech jumps up, smashing through a walkway above the train before landing in front of them. "We've got a problem!" he says. "
You think?" I sarcastically reply.
Oobleck takes a drink out of his thermos before extending it and lighting a fire at the end. Zwei barks in front of him, and then JUMPS up, turning his body into a ball, as Oobleck winds back his weapon and swings it like a bat, hitting Zwei. Zwei then flies through the air while encased in fire, spinning like a ball until he slams THROUGH the Atlesian Paladin in a fiery explosion, sending it off the train. Zwei lands, unscathed, and watches the falling mech crash and roll on the ground before exploding. Suddenly, a second Paladin stomps next to him and he looks up as it aims its guns at him. However, before it can fire, I create a shadow tendril on the mech and attach it to the roof where pulled off the train, I wave as the mech passes by overhead before coughing into my hand. More mechs come and I feel the air crackle.
"Lisce!" I call my brother and his signature sword falls right in front of me.
"Sup sis, can I borrow your shampoo?" He asks like we're not fighting for our lives right now, I summon and swap places with a clone so I can punch Lisce over the head.
"Deal with them first!" I yell pointing to the Mechs before having a coughing fit.
"Sure," Lisce grabs his sword and takes a stance before closing his eyes and taking a deep breath in the span of a second, most of the mechs are cut to pieces.
Inside the cars, the groups' progression is halted by Neo who drops the ceiling, spinning a revolver on her finger and blocking the path.
Yang and Ersa step up, "Go ahead, we got her." The others proceed forward. As Neo prepares for their attack, Yang fires a round to distract her, allowing them to continue. Yang steps forward toward her opponent, staring down as Neo gives a sinister smile.
Yang proceeds to walk up to Neo as she stands up, where the two stare at one another, Neo with a smile and Yang with a frown. Yang tightens her fist and throws a simple forward punch towards Neo's face, but before the punch can make contact, a yellow container falls in front of Neo, blinding Yang and she receive an attack from Neo.
Down from the roof drops Indigo, she walks up to Neo and kisses her cheek while taking the gun from her hand. Ersa dashes forward, dragging her sword behind and unleashing shockwave, "Wolf gnashing fangs!"
Neo and Indigo spin away from the attack, Ersa turns her attention to Neo and spins in an attempt to behead her, Neo deflects the giant sword with her little umbrella. Yang charges Indigo with a flurry of punches, resetting each time instead of redirecting her blows, as Indigo simply dodges each attack and fires a shot into Yang who shrugs it off after the sixth shot indigo puts the gun away and brings out her shotgun.
Ersa is starting to lose her cool with Neo's constant dodging and throws a crate at Neo, she flips over the crate and, "Got you!" Ersa placed a portal in the crate beforehand, so when it opened she could grab Neo, "You fight similarly to my sisters and I figured they're much more susceptible to the back."
Ersa puts Neo in a bearlock and makes sure to roll her knuckles into Neo's spine, she mouths like she's in pain but no sound is coming out, so Ersa tightens her hold. Neo fights to free herself but has to receive assistance from Indigo, who shoots Ersa in the side of the head.
Neo backflips away, kneels, and massages her back after the hold Ersa put her though after the pain subsides Neo stands up, Indigo isn't about to let that slide and pulls out a bundle of dynamite and lights it, spinning to hide her and Neo with her poncho before dashing towards Ersa.
Ersa punches what she thinks is Indigo, only to dispel the illusion and reveal that it was the dynamite all along, it blows up in Ersa's face, her aura protected her but it still knocked her out.
Neo spins on Yang's head and using her momentum to throw Yang across the car where she meets Indigo's shotgun and is also taken down.
Writer: With all the fighting going on I had to split this into two parts otherwise this chapter would have been monstrous in length. So expect the next chapter in a week from now.