Let's help poor Ruby out, shall we?
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Roman laughed as he pushed Ruby over.
"Wow, you are much more manageable without that over-sized gardening tool of yours," he scoffed. Ruby's response was to try and go in for another punch, which Roman easily dodged, sending her falling to the ground again.
"Oh man," Roman stated, "Ya know, Perry, I really did need this!" He laughed, then continued, "But seriously..." he pointed his cane's firing end at Ruby's neck, "How'd ya find this place, Red?"
Ruby growled, then suddenly took off in a trail of rosepetals as she activated her Semblance. Roman seemed surprised at first, but when he saw her making a run for it, he smiled and turned the cane handle towards her. The handle fired from the cane attached to a cord and hooked the back of Ruby's hood, pulling her to the ground. The cord then retracted and pulled her to Roman's feet.
"I see you've got some tricks up your sleeve," Roman said, "Let me make this clear. We're no through here yet."
Just then, there was an explosion from up ahead. Roman seemed a bit frustrated.
"What the-? Argh! Perry, if you and the boys could take care of that? I'm kind of in the middle of something."
Perry nodded his head, and he and his boys started towards the explosion. But the, another one rang out, causing the caverns to shake.
"What is going on here?!" Roman demanded. The response was another explosion, followed by several White Fang Members running away from something. Shortly after, Oobleck, Yang, Blake, Weiss, Diego and Zwei came around the corner headed towards Roman. All but Diego were on foot. Diego had apparently decided to rig one of the forklifts in the area to go at speeds it reasonably shouldn't be capable of pulling off, and somehow had it self-piloted by a makeshift device that held down the accelerator while he occasionally leaned down to operate the steering wheel. Diego pulled out his scope, which transformed into a megaphone, and spoke into it.
"What up, boys?! Looks like we dropped by just in time!"
Roman was shocked at this, giving Ruby the opportunity she needed. Jumping on Roman's head, she pulled his hat over his eyes, then jumped off and made a beeline towards her teammates. Roman pulled his hat back up and hollered, "Somebody kill her!" even as he started firing at her himself with his cane. The rest of the White Fang members nearby did as they were told, but none found their mark. For Ruby skillfully kept running in zig-zags to avoid the shots. Suddenly, she came to a stop. Behind and in front of her, some White Fang had managed to trap her and were getting ready to fire at her. But a blast from Yang's gauntlets soon took care of that.
"Ruby!" Yang gave her sister a big hug as she leaped to safety.
"Are you okay?" Weiss asked.
"I'm fine! I'm fine! But listen... Torchwick's got all sorts of weapons and robots down there."
"What?" Blake exclaimed, as Diego handed Ruby Crescent Rose.
"Androids, mechs - they're all loaded up on the train cars."
"Ah, that's ridiculous!" Oobleck stated, "These tunnels are sealed! Those tracks lead to a dead end!"
Just then, an intercom blared and Roman's voice called out, "Get to your places! We're leaving now!"
As he did, the train started up and started moving down the tracks.
"We need backup!" Ruby shouted, "Let me call Juane!"
"Forget it," Diego said, "We can't get a signal down here. Not in time."
"So, what do we do?" Weiss asked.
"I believe we have only one option," Oobleck said grimly.
They all knew what he meant, even without Ruby saying it aloud: "We're stopping that train."
A White Fang guard looked around after hearing a noise from the top of a train car. He was about to call it in, but then someone tapped him on the shoulder. Turning around, he saw Diego's grinning face staring into his own.
"Hi, how are ya?" Diego asked cheekily before punching him in the face, knocking him out cold. He then joined the rest of the group on the top of the train cars.
"Hurry children!" Oobleck ordered, "We must get to the front and stop this train!"
"Uh...professor?" Weiss asked.
"Doctor," Oobleck corrected.
"What's that?" Weiss pointed to an object that Diego was only too familiar with.
"It'a bomb," he said, "Stand back. I don't want to risk it exploding."
"We've got baddies!" Ruby shouted, pointing to some White Fang in the distance, who had climbed on top of the cars to combat them.
"Well I didn't expect them to go..." Oobleck started, but then the bomb started to beep.
"..easy on us. Time to go!"
The girls started running off, but Diego stayed behind.
"You guys go! I'll deattach the caboose!" he shouted, then jumped down to where he needed to be. However, right when he was about to smash the coupling link, it deattached itself.
"It deattched on its own!" Diego calle dup.
"What?!" Oobleck shouted.
"I guess he really doesn't want us on this train," Yang replied. In the distance, the caboose exploded in the tunnel behind them.
'That can't be good..." Diego muttered to himself.
"Neither is this!" Ruby called, possibly talking to Oobleck as Diego had been too far to be heard at his volume. Diego jumped up to investigate. Oobleck rushed to the car ahead of the girls and opened the hatch. He then shouted, "They all have bombs!"
The bomb on their car beeped and the car decoupled itself. They all jumped to the next car and Yang yelled, "This doesn't make any sense!"
"No, it makes perfect sense!" Diego shouted. He didn't saw it yet, but one of his worst fears had been realized.
"What?!" the group all turned to him, but not for long as the White Fang started towards them. Thus began a deadly melee fight on the train cars. While they were fighting, Diego explained to them his thought process.
"The explosions create openings in the subway tunnels that allow the Grimm to get through! He's leading them to the city!"
"That's insane!" Blake shouted back as the last of the White Fang were taken out. As she finished, another explosion occurred behind him and Diego saw that what he had said was true.
"See for yourself," he said, gesturing towards the horde of Grimm that had lurked into the tunnels. The group took one quick look, then Oobleck shouted, "We have to hurry!"
"I couldn't agree more!" Diego shouted, following them. "You guys stop the train! I'll take care of the bombs!"
"No!" Yang protested, "You can't do this alone! We can't let you-!"
"You've got to!" Diego shouted, "There are lives depending on it! GO!"
Without waiting for another protest, Diego jumped into one of the cars and looked at the bomb before him.
"Easy Diego," he muttered to himself as he worked at defusing the bomb. "You can do this. It's just like that cooking show you did...but on the hardest difficulty. And you can't afford to mess up- Okay, I'll just stop."
His fingers moved quickly and delicately over the bomb, cutting wires, pressing buttons, whatever was necessary. When he was satisfied with the results, he moved to the next car. And not a moment too soon, for the car he was just in decoupled itself as he left. Unfortunately, that only made things more stressful for the vigilante.
"Oh great!" he said to himself. "Just perfect! I have to worry about that still! Well that's just-"
He stopped when he heard fighting ahead. Curious, he looked ahead and his heart almost stopped. Yang lay on the ground, presumably unconscious and Neo was standing over her with a sword drawn ready to deliver a killing blow! Diego was just about to draw his revolver, when a portal appeared and a figure rushed out of it and parried Neo's blow. The figure looked up and drew its own sword, which had a red blade. Diego was stunned, for he knew of only one person who possessed such a blade.
"Raven?" he asked. Raven looked to him, and while he couldn't see her expression Diego could tell that she was just as surprised to see him. Neo took this opportunity to escape in a flash of light. Raven then put her sword away and summoned a portal again. As she walked through it, Yang started coming to. Diego rushed to her as she stood to her feet. Seeing him coming, Yang embraced him as he came up to her.
"You okay?" he asked her as he looked into her eyes. His expression was one of worry.
"I'm fine," Yang said reassuringly. She then asked, "Who was that?"
Diego sighed. "Another old friend of mine, though she's thankfully not someone who I'd call an enemy...yet. I'd like to explain more, but we have a train to stop."
Yang nodded and they both ran to the front of the train where their teammates were waiting. Unfortunately, there was another problem. The tracks were indeed still a dead-end and the train was headed for it at insane speeds. Diego didn't waste a minute.
"Weiss! Ice Shield! Now!"
Weiss nodded and plunged her sword into the car. A solid ice shield formed around them, as the train crashed into the closed-off entry of the subway tunnels.
As soon as he heard the sirens, Diego knew that it meant bad news. But what really signaled the trouble was the screams heard from the crowd as the Grimm filed out through the breach made by the train.
"Perfect!" he grumbled as he stood to his feet. "I'll probably have Ironwood blame me for this, too!"
Diego sighed. Well, one way or another, help was required. He pulled out his scope and activated is gauntlets and greaves yet again as the Grimm surged towards him and his friends. With a loud, "Bring it on!" he charged into their ranks and started creating havoc among the Grimm. All around him, he was barely conscious of his teammates fighting for their lives too, as well as the hundreds of thousands of innocents caught in the crossfire. At one point, he noticed Team JNPR descend onto the battlefield, much to his relief. However, that relief soon vanished when an airship flew in along with the entire Vale army and more huntsmen and huntresses. To make matters worst, Diego noticed that Emerald and Mercury had joined in as well.
"Okay, I can handle the extra huntsmen and huntresses, and I can survive with those two, but why the army?"
Diego sighed and attempted to fight some more, but he didn't have to fight for much longer. Soon, the whole breach had been sealed and the Grimm taken down. Sadly, Diego couldn't rest just yet, as the new robotic warriors for Vale's army approached him and pointed their weapons at him. Ruby and her friends tried to protest and help, but Diego gave them an expression that warned them to sit this one out.
"Diego Kapila," one said in a prerecorded Ironwood voice, "You are under arrest."
"Oh sure! This is my thanks for helping out," Diego sighed.
"Do you surrender?" the robot asked again.
"Uh...no," Diego said with a smirk. He threw down a smoke bomb as the robots fired wildly at his position. However, it was all in vain. Diego was gone and he would live to fight another day.
If another day to live was even permitted at this rate...
Diego walked through the streets of the city with an angry expression. It was dark already, so not many would notice him about at this hour. But something else did, and it was what Diego was going for. Entering an alley, Diego found himself in front of the painfully familiar form of a Seer Grimm. The Grimm made no attempt to harm him, for it was simply here for the message. He stared at the globe that made up its form, despite there being no image in it.
"I know this breach was your doing, one way or another," he snarled, "And I know that maybe it wasn't scheduled as you planned. But I have decided not to hold back any longer! From now on, pray that I don't find those responsible for the actions...or at least any whom I can get to before the army does. Because if I find even ONE of your puppets around, I will not hesitate to end their lives! I say this once only: leave Vale alone."
The Grimm made no sound, but simply disappeared into a sickly portal. Diego sighed heavily and dropped to the ground. He was exhausted, but not from the fight. He was tired of everything going south for him every time. All thanks to the Grimm. Diego stared at the ground, then he put a hand to his chest. There, he made a vow to himself.
"Mark my words Salem," he snarled, "Whether by my hand or another, I WILL stop you."
He stood to his feet and disappeared into the shadows as he finished his last sentence.
"If it's the last thing I do..."
Oh dear! Things are not looking good...
Hope you enjoyed anyways, and I'll see you later! Peace out!