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Yang smiled. Life came back around. We come once again to where we started. With Jaune... throwing up in a trash can due to his immense motion sickness. She remembered being confused and mesmerized by the sick boy the first time she laid eyes on him. Oobleck patted Jaune on the back, trying to comfort him.
"Don't worry my boy, we're almost there.."
"And where is there?.." Pyrrha asked, inquisitively.
"The south-east quadrant right outside vale, my battle ready beauty. A hot bed of the worst of the dark creatures of... darkness. Also, the location of one of the most tragic tragedies in history. A failure of humankind." Oobleck stated.
"The Mountain Glenn" Ruby finished.
"The failed expansion project of Vale." Yang said. She remembered reading about it in history class.
"And now it stands abandoned... as a dark reminder."
"And a great place for a secret hideout." Ruby added.
The group sat in silence the rest of the ride.
Once over the drop zone, the bottom of the jet opened up and the crew was plopped down smack middle of the abandoned city. As far as the eye can see was broken and worn buildings, destroyed landmarks, and rusted cars. It was truly a bleak sight. However, there was no time to morn the past, and Oobleck signaled just that by taking a long drink of his coffee.
"Well. Now is as good as a time as any to get started."
"What are your orders, doctor?.." Pyrrha asked.
"I'm glad you asked." Oobleck took a deep breath, "As you've been informed the south-east area has been marked as a recent hotspot for criminal activity. Now, there are several possible explanations for this behavior. One of which being.. Grimm."
Everyone stared at him, confused.
"Uh... What?.." Ruby tilted her head.
Oobleck pointed. "Grimm. A creature of Grimm approximately one-hundred yards from us at this very moment."
"WHAT?!"
They all turned around to see a Beowulf turning a corner close to them. It hadn't noticed them yet, and it looked like it was just patrolling. Wandering aimlessly. The team all readied and cocked their weapons in preparation for a fight.
"STOP!" Oobleck whispered loudly. They all lowered their weapons, still confused.
Oobleck continued, "There are a number of reasons why the Grimm will congregrate in this particular area. The most likely of which being their attraction to negativity. Sadness, Envy, Loneliness, Hatred... All qualities likely held by a hidden group bearing ill intent"
Ruby was utterly confused, "So... what do we do now?.."
Oobleck took a quick sip of coffee. "We wait. We track. If the specimen leads us to his pack, the pack may lead us to our prey."
"How long is that going to take?..." Jaune asked.
Oobleck replied, "Days, weeks, their have even been times where a creature leaves the pack for a months-aaand there's the whole pack..." Just then, a small heard of Beowulfs started appearing from behind the corner. "And now they've seen us..."
The beowulfs turned and charged.
"What do we do?" Ruby yelled.
Oobleck pushed up his glasses. "Show me what you're capable of."
The pack rushed team Player and they rushe right back. Ruby shot her scythe behind her, launching herself forward. She slashed through four beowulfs quickly then spun and hooked one with the end of her scythe and threw it towards Pyrrha. Pyrrha knocked the beast up and it came down on her upward extended spear. She slid it off and threw her shield into one of the creatures that was trying to pounce her from behind. It was stunned, so she slid under it and extended her arm, cutting the monster in half a fast slash. She jumped to her feet and dived forward and spun, slashing through three more simultaneously. She crouched and put her shield above her shoulder. Jaune jumped off her shield and used the downward momentum to behead another Beowulf. He turned and blocked a claw slash, deflecting it and knocking the creature off-guard. He lurched forward and shoved his sword through its core. The beast fell and another jumped over it diving head first into Jaune, knocking him on his ass. It growled and tried to bite him, but it was interrupted by a hard gauntlet slamming into the side of its face. As it hit the ground, Yang pushed her fist into its gut and set off her shot gun, obliterating it. She jumped over to the next closest one and pounded it into the ground. Yang shot her guns behind her, and launched towards the next one and crushed it, too, with a flurry of devastating blows. She bounced from creature to creature, easily destroying each of them.
Soon enough, all the beowulfs were dead, and the crew was exhausted.
"Very Good! Shall we continue?" Oobleck asked, excitedly.
For almost the rest of the day, the group explored the abandoned rural area. Every corner they took, at least it seemed, there would be another pack of Beo's just waiting to pounce them on the spot. Team Player hacked slashed and shot all day. As the hunters in training were getting more and more exhausted, they were all also starting to get irritated at a certain hunter among them. Oobleck. Everyone was thinking it; he hadn't done a thing yet and he was supposed to be a professional Grimm killer. Yang most of all was getting irritated by this. Not because she cared, but because Oobleck kept pulling Jaune aside every other fight to tell him what he was doing wrong. Yang, about six fights later, eventually broke and had to say something about this.
"Hey Doc, y'know I was actually looking forward to seeing a pro huntsman in action." You could hear the irritation in her voice. Of course, she didnt actually care about seeing him in action or learning anything from him but that was basically the best way to say, 'do something you old crack attack fuck.' "Like fighting, or, at least, helping us fight?..."
"But I am in action. I am scouring this once great city for any signs of irregularity. Not every mission is harrowing and dangerous. Remember: this is a job, and you all signed up for it."
"Well... yeah..." Yang mumbled angrily. Yang grinded her teeth together. As irritating and stupid as he seemed, he did have a point. They all agreed to this so they technically had no right to complain.
They continued making their way through the rubble, battling it out with hordes upon hordes of the monsters to the point of which it seemed they would never end. Yang noticed after their last fight, Oobleck pulled Pyrrha aside and had a talk with her. Then, after the next fight, he did the same with Ruby. As she was smashing the faces in of the last few Beowulfs in sight, Oobleck then asked Yang to step aside and have a word with him.
"Yang. Why did you choose this line of work?.." She was confused by this question. Mostly because she never really thought of it before. She just kinda ended up doing it, and happened to be good at it.
"To kill monsters and save peop-"
"No." Oobleck cut her off, "That is WHAT you do, I asked WHY you do it."
Yang thought about it for a moment. Deep down inside, she knew the answer. Why she started this crazy journey in the first place. Why she forces herself to be surrounded by people and friends, despite her mind screaming that she just wants to be alone.
"To Feel Something."
After all the wolf Grimm were cleared Oobleck led the group to a cliff just outside the city. Everyone sat to take a breather. Oobleck pointed out huge elephant Grimm in a heard in the distance. He explained that they are powerful and superior, yet not hostile. That they've evolved and learned that taking down one human will only bring more. The group sat and watched the hoard go by for some time.
Soon enough, though, they had to continue on and be on their way. Ruby ran up to Doctor Ooblecks side. Turns out She had a question for Him.
"Why did you decide to become a huntsman, Doctor?.." This question intrigued the whole group. It would be interesting to see what someone like him, of all people, would say about this.
"Look around you, kids. What do you see?.."
"Rubble." Ruby said.
"Old buildings and cars." Jaune replied.
"Destruction and Chaos." Pyrrha said, sullenly.
"History, I guess.." Yang responded.
"All correct, yet so very wrong." Oobleck replied. The group all shared a confused look.
He continued, "I see lives that could have been saved, children. And while many try day to day to fight this by taking up weapons and armaments; I use my mind. As a teacher, I'm able to use the information and experience of my many years and pass it into the hands of every student that ends up in my classroom. I look at this scenery and see lives that could have been saved. But, I also see opportunity. An opportunity to learn from our mistakes. I am a huntsman, kids, because there is nothing in this world I'd rather be."
Eventually, the group found a small building they could set up camp in. They built a fire and sat around it, each thinking about why they were all doing this in the first place. Oobleck and Ruby came in and Oobleck congratulated them on the campfire. Ruby volunteered for first watch and the crew decided to get some much needed shut eye.
Yang woke up in the middle of the night to her sister getting up and leaving. Yang groaned and followed her out. Ruby stood in front of a pillar of an old building. She looked up at the massive destroyed structure and sighed.
"Having trouble sleeping sis?" Yang asked, putting her hand on her sisters shoulder.
"Yeah." Ruby responded bluntly. She kicked a can sitting on the ground in front of her and it bounced off a broken metal support beam and made a loud metal 'KANG' noise.
"What was that?" An unfamiliar voice said echoing from somewhere close by. Yang grabbed Ruby by the collar, and the two hid behind an old electrical box. They saw in the distance, two white fang grunts holding guns.
"What was what?.." The other one asked angrily.
"I-I dunno I heard a Grimm or something."
"Whatever, idiot. Let's just finish our patrol and head back to base." The two kept walking and Yang and Ruby looked at each other, wide-eyed.
Ruby and Yang tailed the two for quite some time. They ended up at a large warehouse where the two went in and slammed and locked the door behind them.
"We gotta tell the others." Ruby stated, bringing up Pyrrha and Jaune on her scroll. She tried to start a group call, but the signal in the are was almost nothing and it wouldn't work.
"C'mon, we just have to go get em'. The secret base isn't going anywhere." Yang patted Rubys shoulder and the two started sprinting back.
Suddenly, there was a low rumble beneath them and the two stopped and looked down. The ground started shaking and cracking below them.
"Uh-Oh..." Ruby said. The ground collapsed and a huge hole opened up. Yang jumped out of the way just in time, but Ruby, surprisingly, wasn't fast enough. She fell into the dark abyss. Yang ran to get the rest of the crew and told them what happened. Everyone gathered around the hole in the ground, and Oobleck went off on a tangent of how he'd been stupid not to think of this. He elaborated, saying that the people of the destroyed city, as one last line of defense and security, built a city underground where they cleared out large caves for subway systems. He then explained that an expansion tnt explosion opened up a cavern with sub-terrainian Grimm and they were overrun.
"The worlds largest tomb..." Oobleck said. For once, he sounded serious. and he showed it. "If Ruby is down there..." He extended his thermus into a metal bat. "We MUST find her."
After finding and blasting through groups of grunts, the crew came to an opening. There, Torchwick had Ruby captive and his followers were loadin a train with weapons and mechs and etc etc. Yang started running towards Ruby. Ruby elbowed Torchwick in the nose and ran towards Yang. Suddenly, Torchwick and his followers to either side of him started firing their weapons at Ruby. Ruby used her semblance to dodge the fire, but, a group of grunts jumped in out of nowhere, blocking Rubys path to her team. Yang loaded her gauntlet and cocked it. She fired at the ground and punched it directly behind the group of lackeys, causing an explosion that blew them away, clearing Rubys path. Ruby sprinted up and hugged Yang. Yang handed her sister her scythe that she dropped when she fell in the hole.
"Fuck It! We're leaving, NOW! Tell the conductor to start the train." Torchwick yelled, ordering his men.
"Proposterous! These tunnels are collapsed! They're nothing but dead ends!" Oobleck claimed.
"Well they're going somewhere!" Ruby exclaimed. "I'm calling Blake. We need backup!" Ruby dialed up Blake, the leader of Team Brown, but just as before, she had no signal.
"What do we do?!" Jaune yelled.
"We've got a train to catch!" Pyrrha retorted.
The group caught up to the train, as it wasn't even full speed yet, and hoppen on top. They opened up the top hatch to the train car.
"W-What's that?!" Jaune yelled. Everyone looked down to see some weird device with a bunch of colored wires and what appeared to be a timer.
Oobleck winced. "That, my dear boy. Appears to be a bomb." Everyone jumped back in shock. "Quick, Pyrrha! Decouple this train car!"
"Right!" Pyrra replied. She hopped down to where the two train cars met. But it came undone and dissattached before she even touched it.
"It un-did itself?!" Suddenly, the bomb activated and started making a beeping sound. The group jumped off that car onto the next one. The car they were just on slowed and fell behind, exploding in the distance.
"That's not good..." Oobleck stated.
"They REALLY don't want us on their train..." Jaune said.
They heard the same beeping coming from inside the car they were standing on now. They opened the hatch to see another bomb that looked exactly the same. Just like the last car, this one unhooked itself too. The group jumped to the next car, and the one behind them, too, exploded in the distance. Oobleck ran two train cars ahead and opened that ones hatch.
"THEY ALL HAVE BOMBS!" He yelled.
The group kept running ahead, as each train car they passed dissatached itself and exploded in the distance. Suddenly Torchwicks grunts started crawling to the top of the train. Now, the group had a fight on their hands. Jaune shield bashed his way through a group of them. Ruby slashed her way through a group. Pryya slashed her way through a group, and Yang bashed her way through a group. They thinned the numbers quickly. Oobleck stopped and looked behind them. Another car let itself off and exploded, leaving an opening to the morning sky. Grimm of all shapes and sizes started flooding in. One of which being a huge and monstrous anaconda Grimm. The creatures started following the train, and Oobleck realized what was going on.
"Oh dear..." Oobleck mumbled.
Jaune yelled, "Doctor, what's going on?!"
"He's leading Grimm into the kingdom! We have no time! We're going to STOP. THIS. TRAIN!" Pyrrha sighed, as she pretty much already said that.
Ruby and Oobleck kept running forward on top of the train, while Pyrrha, Jaune, and Yang kept on inside. Two grunts in mechs, much like the one the group fought on the freeway, hopped on top of the train. Oobleck extended his thermos. He pulled a metal ball out of his bag, and tossed it up. He smashed the ball so hard it caught fire and shot into the middle of the mech with tremendous force. The Ball smashed the mech to pieces and it fell of the train, scattering behind them. Oobleck shot six rockets from his weapon and leaped towards the second mech. The rockets destroyed the mechs arms and, defenseless, Oobleck came down on top of it, obliterating it completely and landing in a super-hero pose. Ruby watched him in shock. He destroyed two mechs they had trouble with like it was nothing.
Inside the trios path was blocked by the strange girl they met on the freeway, Neo. She winked and blew a kiss at Jaune, and it made him shudder.
"You two go on ahead. This one's mine." Yang stated. Jaune and Pyyrha ran past her and Yang immediately charged. She unleashed a quick flurry of blows, but not one landed.
It was like the girl was not only light as a feather, but she could predict everyone of Yangs movements. Yang tried to sweep her legs out from under her and she just jumped over it and side stepped. Yang quickly spun and tried to backhand punch her. The girl caught her fist with the hilt of her umbrella and pushed Yang back. Yang lurched forward and threw three scissor kicks towards the girls head she ducked and weaved between each of them, grabbed Yangs leg, and flipped her. Yang flipped all the way and landed on her feet and came at her again but this time used her gauntlets. The girl opened her umbrella and blocked each of the three shot and spun, landing a hard kick to the side of Yangs head. Yang stumbled and hit the ground, landing on her side. Neo flipped, and Yang dodged just in time to avoid a heavy axe-kick, where her head had just been. Yang came up with a large uppercut, but Neo jumped back and flipped forward, locking her legs around Yangs arm, she spun around Yang twice and flipped back, flinging yang very very hard into the ceiling of the train car. Yang Hit the floor of the car, and she lost consciousness.
When Yang awoke some time later, her head hurt but she knew she had no time to sit around. She quickly ran ahead, in the next car, Jaune had defeated a large man with a chainsaw sword. Yang, as much as she wanted to, knew they didn't even have a moment for her to be proud of her hubby. They continued to the conductors car, where Pyrrha stood. It was empty. Torchwick got away. They all got on top of the conductors car where Ruby met up with them and Oobleck wasn't in sight. The team looked ahead and what stood in the trains path is what seemed like a sturdy barricade. It was time to brace for impact. They just didn't know how.
Pyrrha got an idea. She used her semblance to pull metal plates off part of the train behind them and wrapped her team in a tight knit metal caccoon. She placed the last metal sheet and sealed the group together just as the front of the train smacked into the stone barricade and exploded on impact.
Everyone awoke in rubble and shrapnel. No one was really hurt, but the initial impact still threw everyone and knocked them all out. Sirens sounded from within Beacon as countless variations of hordes of Grimm started flooding from the hole. Team player was surrounded. Ruby tried to call Blake, and this time she got through, but only for six seconds, before her scroll died. Now team Player was outnumbered and there wasn't much they could do.
So they did what they could. They Fought. They fought for their lives and the city. However, the hordes kept coming, and their wasn't any near end in sight. That was, until, a screaming certain Valkyrie came flying in out of nowhere and smashed a nevermore out of the air. She hit the ground and rolled. Blake, Ren, and Weiss landed beside her. Now they had backup. The two teams fought of the heards of beasts. Soon enough, a bullhead ship above dropped off team Coffee. From the hole bursted a giant mech, that had almost fallen apart. From the cockpit, a worn out looking Oobleck popped out.
Proffessor port showed up, then Sun and Mercury, then Glynda Goodwitch. Glynda used her magic semblance to re-arange the rubble to cover the hole. Now no more Grimm would come out, and their numbers were limited. The teams fought wildy in unison, and it was truly a sight to behold. Yang stood and watched in amazement, distracted by the factor of all the teamwork and camaraderie to see their was a giant alpha male Ursai sneaking up behind her. Yang quickly turned and blocked its claws, but the force knocked her off her feet and sent her flying upwards. Yang crashed utop a building. She quickly hopped back on her feet. She grabbed a piece of shrapnel lying next to her and went to hop back down as she saw something in the corner of her eye.
Cardin winchester was standing on top of a building adjacent to her. He was looking down on the battle beneath them. Just.. standing there. Yang followed his eyes and realized he was watching Jaune. He was just staring at him from above, an expression of pure anger riding his face. Yang was confused what he was doing up there and why his team wasn't helping. Suddenly, Cardin lifted a large piece of broken cement over his head. Yangs eyes widened. He was going to kill Jaune.
Yang dived off the building and shot her gauntlets behind her, launching herself forward. She tackled Cardin into a roll and ended up on top of him. The Concrete chunk ledt his hand and fell beside him.
"What were you just about to do?!" Yang yelled in his face. Cardin took a swing at her, but she smacked him in return and pinned his arms down with her knees.
"I WAS THE KING! I COULD DO WHATEVER I WANTED WHENEVER I WANTED UNTIL HE CAME ALONG! HE NEEDS TO DISSAPEAR!" Cardin eyes were starting to well up with tears. Yang stared down at him in disbelief. She couldn't believe how much this person needed to be in control. How much he craved Power.
"A great person once told me, 'Struggles, challenges and hard times offer you much more value than any other time in your life. You can not grow without struggle. You can not get STRONGER without resistance.' If you can't do that, Cardin, then maybe it's YOU that needs to dissapear." Yang said. Cardin spat at her face, but she quickly moved her head to the side and avoided it.
"I will not stop... until he is DEAD. I want to watch him suffer as he takes his last breath. Just when he thinks he's safe, when he thinks his life is peaceful, just when he least expects it, I will hunt him down and watch him bleed. No matter how many times any of you protect him, no matter how many times any of you get in my way, I WILL KILL HIM." Cardin was seething.
"That's what I thought you'd say." Yang replied bluntly.
Yang took the long piece of shrapnel she hadn't realized was still in her hand until now, and she shoved the sharp end through Cardins chest. She punched the blunt end with all her remaining strength, and the sharp metal broke through his chest plate and went all the way through his torso. Cardins eyes went wide and tears rushed from them. Yang got off him and took a step back. She watched as Cardins body twitched and he gasped for air, he coughed up a significant amount of blood. Cardin gurgled and gasped on his blood as it gushed and poured from his chest in gallons. Cardin looked up at Yang who just stood and watched as his life was leaving his body, disdain in her eyes.
"Think about a time in your life that may have been hard, but forced you to become better. Get grateful for the struggles and WORK on yourself to ensure your future has much more PLEASURE than PAIN." Yang whispered.
His head fell to the side, and he watched multiple bullheads coming in from the distance. Each full of Vale soldiers coming to the students aid. Each armed with their own little arsenals.
Cardin chuckled as his last breath left his lips.
AHHH! It was fun writing this chapter.
Quick question: Are storys where the writer follows the
cannon RWBY story better? Cus I'm trying. Despite the stuff I HAVE to change.
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