Here's the final chapter of volume 2, and then look forward to volume 3 and beyond.
Chapter cover- Issia being carried away on a stretcher.
Ch.27- Bleedout
Once we ready ourselves we're surrounded by Grimm on all sides. We look around for a moment, weapons drawn.
Deandra motions to us, "Team Demi...Ground Zero," She orders.
Ersa grabs Deandra by the arm before flinging her high into the air, whereupon hitting the apex of her flight, Deandra brings out her shield and balances on top of it comes crashing down and unleashes a shockwave to kill most of the low-rank Grimm and stun the stronger ones around the breach.
"Alright girls, keep them off of me while I seal the hole." Deandra orders.
"Got it!" I reply before me and Medi perform our combo attack. Medi removes one of the pins from her hat and kicks it around gathering electricity into the shape of a ball where she kicks over to me where I kick back while pouring my magic into it.
"Shadow Havoc!" Medi kicks the ball over to a group of Beowolves where it bounces in between them before pulling them together where Ersa can cleave the group in one go. We repeat this three more times, all the while my cough gets worse with every kick. We end it with a triple kick down the breach.
Ruby spins around while slicing her scythe at two Beowolves and then looks up to see the King Taijitu bearing its teeth at her and roaring. Ruby steps back a moment before she hears a loud boom sound behind her. She and the King Taijitu look up to see Nora, flying in on her war hammer, before she smashes it on the head of the large snake-Grimm, crushing it into the ground. Nora lands on the ground, next to her team that has just shown up to join the fight.
"Let's move!" Pyrrha says and they all run forth, while Jaune groans that Pyrrha stole his thunder.
Nora smashes her hammer into one Grimm while Ren kicks two before using the blades on his pistols to slash three times at another Grimm.
"Okay, who's first?" Jaune says while running before he stops as something big and black lands behind him. He turns around and looks up to see a big Ursa behind him, roaring at his face. "Oh-hoh-oh okay. You're first, huh? Heh-heh okay, no that's, that's fine," Jaune nervously says while stepping back from the Grimm.
Meanwhile, Pyrrha using her weapon in javelin form stabs one Grimm before slashing another, then stabs a third before picking it up and throwing it over her. She then stabs another Creep in the mouth before looking over to see Jaune's situation. Jaune slowly walks back as the Ursa walks up to him.
"Totally fine. Done this before. Done this before…" Jaune reassures himself and then sighs.
Screaming madly, Jaune starts swinging his sword like a maniac repeatedly at the Ursa, dealing a flurry of hits onto the Grimm. Jaune stops a moment later and looks to see the Grimm fall onto the ground dead, to which Pyrrha smiles at her leader. Behind the dead Grimm, Sun and Neptune finally arrive on the scene.
"Nobody move! Junior detectives!" Sun says, showing a badge.
Neptune then pulls out his badge, "We have badges so you know it's official," he says and they fist bump each other.
Deandra looks to Ersa with a look of morons on her face, Ersa just shrugs.
However, they all look up to see one of Ironwood's ships fly over the city, along with several smaller ships flying below it. Sun and Neptune look up, aw-struck, with Sun dropping his badge. I look up to see the ships above me.
"Oh, NOW the cavalry shows up. Let's see if those ships and walking trashcans of his can be of some actual use," I mentally say before slashing one Grimm aside without looking at it.
Everyone else looks up to see the ships as well. One Ursa tries to attack Ruby from behind, but it gets shot by some turrets one of the ships, saving her, and Ruby waves her hands in thanks. The ships open up their rear doors, allowing many Atlesian Kight-200s to drop from the ships and into the city. Once they land, they start firing off their rifles at any Grimm they see, quickly turning the tide of the battle. As one Grimm gets shot, it lands on the ground in front of Cinder's group. Cinder nods her head to them, and they separate to kill the Grimm, looking to maintain their cover. Mercury runs up and jumps kick one Ursa away before running to fight more.
Meanwhile, Emerald walks down one street as the Grimm in front of her notice her presence. Emerald pulls out her weapons, a pair of green pistols, and starts firing them at the Grimm as they run at her. The shots take out most of the Grimm, but one Ursa Major withstands the shots and gets close enough to strike. He swings his claws at her twice, but she backflips away from the Grimm. She then extends a pair of curved blades under the pistol barrels. She runs around the Ursa Major, slashing at its tough hide, and then swings her blades, with chains appearing from them and extending their range, at the Grimm. She jumps over it while doing a few more spinning attacks and lands on the ground behind the now-dead Grimm. Back at the tunnel entrance, a damaged Atlesian Paladin climbs out and then Zwei is seen jumping off of it before hitting a Beowolf in the head, knocking it away. Zwei then looks up as a bullhead airship flies by, showing Professor Port along with the second-year team, Team CFVY, on board. She ship hovers over the city, and then Team CFVY jumps out of the airship. They land on the ground, with Velvet and Fox immediately running into the fray while Coco casually walks behind them, and Yatsuhashi stands behind her.
Yatsuhashi looks around as a number of Beowolves land around him and then draws his large sword. As the Grimm move to attack him, he spins around and smashes his sword into the ground, creating a shockwave that knocks all the Grimm away and destroys the ground around him. Meanwhile, Fox and Velvet fight off some Grimm, with Velvet kicking away two Beowolves while Fox punches one Beowolf and then impales a Creep with his arm blades. Even while blind, Fox can notice the several Grimm in front of him and charges at them. He punches and then backflips kicks one Ursa Major into the air. Before the Grimm hits the ground, Fox runs at it and throws a flurry of quick slash attacks with his arm blades at it before knocking it back into the air. As the Grimm falls closer to him, he reels back and double punches the Grimm, making its body bloat up for a moment before flying back and then exploding like a balloon, sending bones shards scattering everywhere and impaling the Grimm around it. Some of the shards fly at his teammates, but Yatsuhashi shields Velvet while Coco swings her handbag to knock them out of the way and continues walking casually ahead of them.
"Nice hustle Fox," she compliments him, playfully patting his butt as she walks ahead of him. "Good job," she says as he jumps back behind her. She walks up to a large Beowolf standing in front of her, roaring at her. Coco moves her aviators down to look at it. "YOU just destroyed my favorite clothing store," she says, readjusting her aviators and spitting on the ground. "Prepare to die," she says.
The large Beowolf swings its claw at her, but she deflects it away with her handbag and then kicks the Grimm in the groin area, sending it onto the ground. The Grimm looks up at her as she leans on one leg in front of the hit, before Coco smashes her handbag onto its skull, killing it. She looks up to see a few more Grimm running at her. She swings her handbag around, knocking out two Beowolves and hitting a third, before kicking the third one away. She then jumps but as a Death Stalker tries to impale her with its stinger. Velvet then comes to her side, holding a small case as she's about to open it, but Coco stops her.
"Hey, come on, you used one whole semester building that up," she says, making Velvet hold back. "Don't waste it here," Coco says as she walks ahead of her.
Suddenly, her handbag opens up and transforms into a large, yellow-colored Gatling gun. She then fires her Gatling gun, shredding the Death Stalker to pieces, then takes out several other Grimm and finally shoots it into the air at three large Nevermores, killing all three of them. The bodies of the dead Nevermore fall behind Team CFVY as they walk through the square, like a movie scene.
Meanwhile, Zwei walks up to Dr. Oobleck as Professor Port joins him. They look down one street to see a number of Grimm running at them. Using their weapons, they fire off several fireball-like shots at the Grimm, killing all of them. As they fall, Professor Goodwitch is seen walking ahead of them, using her telekinesis to take out two Grimm before she aims her riding crop at the tunnel entrance. Pieces of the street and the building behind the entrance starts to float back to the hole, but Deandra is already finished. And with that, the battle is over.
The student teams, teachers, and friends join together in the square and look to see Emerald and Mercury giving Roman Torchwick over to two Atlesian knights as they arrest him.
"Oh, I can't believe that you've caught me. You've really taught me the error of my ways," he mockingly says as they take him onto their ship. "Hey, hey! Watch the hat!" he says.
Ruby looks at Emerald and Mercury as they walk up to her, all of them smiling. The people around them congratulate each other on a job well done as peace has been restored to the city.
Ruby pats Issia on the back, where she vomits a fountain of blood and it doesn't seem to stop, Issia ends up coating her's and Ruby shoes before fainting into her arms.
Issia is brought up to the ship for emergency treatment.
Later, back at Beacon, after the doctors were able to stabilize Issia she was left in urgent care for severe blood loss after that she was left in her dorm to recover.
The sisters are left to up with the idea that they almost lost Issia.
"Is Issia going to alright?" Ruby asks.
"She'll be fine, but to think that Issia was suffering from mana poisoning so long that she went critical," Medi mutters.
"Mana poisoning?" Yang questions.
Deandra sighs, "I don't want to explain in full now, but basically her own mana was killing her, Ruby did you notice anything with Issia?"
"Um, when we fell she started coughing." Ruby points out the first time something was up with Issia.
"You know I think its time we had another talk, once Issia is better. For now, do not go into our dorm mom can take care of her." Deandra states.
"So that's why you're staying in our dorms?" Blake asks.
"Yes," Ersa replies while unrolling her sleeping bag.
Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald meet discreetly at a rooftop.
"All in all, I call today a success." Cinder goes back over what happened today.
"Those stupid kids really made a mess of things." Emerald chimes.
"Yeah. A lot of Faunus didn't make it out the tunnels. You still think the White Fang's gonna listen to us?" Mercury adds.
"No, but they'll listen to me." Adam states.
Writer: So with that Issia was almost down for the count, yet on one knew and Deandra wants another talk what will happen for Team RWBY and it seems Adam isn't going to be a blast from the past. Until next time.