Let's continue from where we left off, shall we?
Chapter cover- Team RWBY and DEMI embracing each other.
Ch.26- Last stop
As the girls make their way through the next car, ahead of them they hear the sounds of engine revving standing in front of them is a White Fang Lieutenant wielding a chainsaw.
"Go ahead!" Medi and Weiss tell Deandra and Blake they can handle the man.
"Got it!" The man overhead swings his weapon, Weiss backflips away and Blake quickly deflects the attack before making a swift escape with Deandra, Weiss flips back in kicking the man in the jaw, the two of them fight it out until Weiss makes the man fall.
"Incoming!" Medi flips over Weiss with her leg raised and charged with electricity, ready to drop-kick the man but he rolls away letting her heel crash into the metal floor. Medi snaps her tongue as the man rolls his feet and summons her weapon.
After her fight with the priestess, Medi realized her gunlance was useless against people so she got herself a new weapon, a double-edged sword straight sword made of Damascus steel with a gray strengthening barrel covering up one of the edges. The handle is covered with polished boar tusks with a detached d-guard, the pommel is round and flat with a spike protruding from the center.
Medi pushes the spike away to reveal the ammo well and loads in a dust vial before snapping it shut. The lieutenant stands back up, laughing menacingly, declaring he can finally kill a Schee. Weiss raises her weapon in defiance, spinning the dust chambers, Medi decides to let Weiss handle him and intervene if needed.
Weiss readies her rapier as the Lieutenant runs at her. She swings her sword in a circular motion, making a blue circle appear before her. The Lieutenant spins his body and swings his chainsaw at her, but a barrier appears and blocks his attack. Weiss swings her blade upwards, knocking him back. The Lieutenant swings his chainsaw down on her again, but she slides it across her sword, making it hit the ground. Weiss then stabs her sword in his face, making him stumble back, before jumping and flipping around him while swinging his sword at his face again. Weiss lands behind him, and the Lieutenant swings his chainsaw at her, but she backflips under the swing and counters with two more strikes to his head. She makes another stab at him, but he blocks it, and then swings her sword upwards, knocking him back onto the ground. She flips over him, and he spins his body to swing his chainsaw as he gets up at her, but Weiss ducks under it before evading another strike and blocking a third attack at her, but gets pushed back. The lieutenant makes a front kick at her, but she jumps over him to evade it, and he ends up kicking a box in the car. Weiss pushes off from the ceiling above him, stabbing her sword at him, but he jumps back to dodge it. Weiss rolls onto her feet and attacks him again, but he blocks, and then she flips in front of him before jabbing her sword at him, hitting him back onto the floor. The Lieutenant rolls back onto his feet while Weiss conjures up a time dilation glyph under her feet, increasing her speed as the clock in it speeds up. Weiss runs at him while using her semblance to conjure up several glyphs around her opponent. Weiss then charges at him, using the increase in her speed to shoot around him, pushing off each glyph while striking him as she moves by him a few times. After several quick strikes, Weiss knocks him to the floor and pushes off the ceiling to strike him again. He avoids the attack, and then Weiss jumps into the air to attack him again. However…
The Lieutenant looks at her, "Come here, princess!" he says, reaching out and grabbing her face with his left hand.
"Time to intervene!" Medi thinks inside her mind before snapping her fingers to stop time. She pries Weiss free from the man's grasp then spartan kicking the man in the gut to stagger the man when time resumes but makes sure to move Weiss to safety, she lays Weiss on some boxes just as time resumes.
The man is knocked back from the kick, "What happened?" Weiss asks.
"I'll take over, you just rest," Medi tells her. She then pulls out a bottle and takes a swig from it until her cheeks are ballooning, drinking some of it and spitting out the rest on her weapon while jutting the handguard forwards, setting the sword ablaze.
The man shakes his head and cracks his neck, acting as if Weiss was nothing, this act annoys Medi as Weiss was outmatched by this dumb brute. Medi runs at the man who swings his weapon in a wide arc, she slides under it and slashes at the engine, cutting open the fuel tank causing it to start leaking. The man growl in anger, "Aw, I did break little baby's toy?" Medi taunts like she's talking to a child, "That's for Weiss!"
The man charges Medi, she jumps and brings down her weapon, the man tries to block in futile attempts as Medi splits the man down the middle including; his mask, weapon, and even his aura which flickers and fades away, the man falls over, still alive and conscious but unable to move.
Medi looks down at the helpless man, "I don't like killing, so that's why you're not dead, first off. Also, I feel your talents and wasted with the White Fang, had circumstances been different I would say you're my type, but you won't die this day, and let this encounter be your turning point." Medi thrusts her sword and turns it to open a portal throwing the man through, wiping her hands clean when it closes.
Back in the first car, Ersa and Yang are knocked out with Indigo and Neo prepared to execute them, only to stop when two portals, a lifeless gray one and a black and red one, open side by side to each other. The black one quickly opens to reveal a woman wearing black and red clothes while wielding a long red odachi blade while the gray is ripped open by two muscular arms and a woman wearing a cloak holding a gigantic sword.
Indigo and Neo can completely tell their outmatched, the women lunge forward and swipe at Indigo and Neo making them jump away. The two call them it and leave, the cloaked woman checks on Ersa while the other woman slowly backs into her portal with cloaked one doing the same after making sure Ersa and Yang are alright.
Ersa and Yang regain consciousness and manage to see the two women making their escape.
Back on top of the train, Oobleck and the girls are fighting there way through the army of mechs after taking down another, Oobleck tells them to go ahead.
"But-" Ruby tries to refute the command but is stopped by Oobleck. Issia also tries to say something but is stopped dead by her cough, which is becoming worse and more violent.
"Don't worry, girls. It's time... I teach them a lesson…" Oobleck tries to make himself seem cool with a cheesy one-liner before running towards the approaching mechs.
Before we leave, Ruby notices the saddened Zwei looking up at her. She smiles and motions for him to go join his new friend.
"Go." With that, Zwei's expression changes dramatically and barks happily before running off to fight alongside the Doctor. Ruby and Issia hurry to the front of the train, as they go Issia coughs again this time, however, she coughs up blood but wipes it away to not worry Ruby or the others as they reemerge from the train car, but the train is about to reach its final stop.
"What do we do?" Blake shouts.
Ruby and Weiss smile at each other, and the latter forms an ice shield to protect her teammates, bracing themselves for the impending crash, but not before Deandra tosses out several earth vials against the train forming another barrier around Weiss's with further reinforcement with Issia's shadow magic.
The train hits the dead end, hard, and everything is covered in smoke and debris. Ruby eventually comes to, looking around to see they're back in Vale city, in the town square, with city alarms going off around them. Ruby looks around to see the others shaking their heads, reeling a little bit from the collision and coughing from the smoke. She sees Deandra helping up Issia. She turns her head to see Medi shaking her head next to her before looking back at her. Ruby winces as she sits up, and they see the people in the city gathering around the square, with confused looks on her faces. A moment later, they feel rumbling under them, and suddenly a King Taijitu burst from the hole behind them, immediately throwing the civilians into a panic as it and other Creatures of Grimm emerge from the tunnel and start chasing the citizens. Legions of Beowolves, Ursai, and Death Stalkers start running through the plaza, creating chaos. The two teams get up and see the chaos around them. Ruby and Issia look on, shocked, before looking at each other a moment and then looking ahead of them, serious expressions of their faces.
Writer: I'm ending this with a cliffhanger sorry, but not sorry, hahaha. Keep an eye on that cough, it'll play a part in the next volume. With this, that's all I have for now until then later's!