Author Note: Hello everyone and welcome back to another chapter! As I said in the last one, this will be the chapter that sums up volume 2 of RWBY. Also, I know I forgot Penny, but I will have her appear in a different way. Anyway lets jump right in!
Mountain Glenn
The airship flew down towards the ruined city, ready to deposit the nine passengers on board. The teams and Medic looked outside to see the destroyed buildings and streets of the once great city. It was hard to imagine it bustling with people at one point, since now it's only residents were tumble weed and Grimm.
The airship touched down and they all got off. The polite called out to them from the cockpit saying that he would meet them at the designated rendezvous point outside the city. Then the airship took off once more, leaving the nine of them alone in the ruined city.
Despite the desolate location, the students were happy to be off the airship. It was cramped in their and incredibly boring. Jaune especially was thankful that they were off finally and his face was returning to it's normal color. Medic looked around and adjusted his hat slightly. He then turned to the students with small grin on his face.
"Alright! We are finally here! Now it is time to carry out ze mission. By what I was told, we must clear out the area as best we can of Grimm. They are supposed to only Beowolfs here so zis should be an overnight mission, but it shouldn't be hard."
He then turned to Blake and his expression grew a little serious. "Now I know you want to go find Torchwick and ze White Fang but that is second to ze mission. If we run into zem or something along those lines, then by all means we shall take them. But do not slack of. Is zat understood fraülien?"
Blake nodded and Medic smiled once more. "Excellent! Now, who's ready to take a nice stroll through zis nice town?" And with that he began to casually walk down ruined street with the students following him. For a few minutes, nothing eventful happened at all and the students just followed Medic as he hummed a small tune.
Then, as they rounded a corner, he abruptly stopped and stood up against a building wall and the students joined him. He put his finger to his lips before leaning his head out to peek around the corner. After a second he turned back to the students and his face was sporting a wild grin that made the students scared of what he was about to say.
"There are a copy of Grimm around ze corner. I think they are ze Beowolfs by what I have read about. If we attack zem, it will attract a lot of ze Grimm in ze area and we could get a part of zis mission over with before night fall."
He looked at each student excitedly, but none of them looked as excited back at him. Even Nora was a little reluctant to dive into a group of Grimm and attract for of them on purpose. Jaune rose a tentative hand and whispered hopefully, "So we are going to sneak around them, or stealth kill them so we don't attract others, right?"
In response Medic's grin grew wider and he took out his Crusaders Crossbow and peaked around the corner once more. Before the students realized what he was doing, he aimed at one Beowolf who was sniffing at the ground and fired the crossbow. The bolt hit the Beowolf straight in the head and fell to the ground dead. The other Beowolfs around it jumped back in surprise and looked at their fallen brother before raising their heads to the sky and howling a dreadful call.
The students faces were masked with horror as Medic looked back at them and said simply, "Does zat answer you question Jaune?" And then before they could respond he said, "Well, no point hiding now, let us go out there and fight!" He leapt out from behind a corner and fired another bolt from his Crusaders Crossbow while Archimedes, cooed loudly from his shoulder.
The students stood frozen for a few more seconds as they watched the crazy mercenary laugh as he took out another Grimm, before taking out their own weapons and joining him. The Beowolfs had begun to charge at the group and barred their fangs menacingly. Their were about fifteen of them, and that is discounting the many that are on their way. The students readied their weapons and charged forward to meet their adversaries.
Ruby was first to clash with an opponent. She ran up to a Beowolf and sliced her scythe in an arc to slice off the Grimm's head. The lithe creature dodged and lunged towards Ruby, but she butted it away with the shaft of her scythe and knocked it to the ground. Before it could get up she leapt up and sliced her scythe down onto the evil creatures head and killing it instantly. She pulled her scythe out of the ground just as another Beowolf charged at her from behind but she just smiled and, aiming he scythe behind her, she shot it through the head with the rifle extension of her weapon.
Weiss was running forward with her teammates, when to Beowolfs tried to ambush her at the same time. She rolled out of the way of their lunges and got up to face her to foes, who had recovered from planting their faces into the ground and were now snarling at her. She moved into a fighting stance, pointing her saber at her enemies from around her ear, while conjuring a small glyph under her feet. The Beowolfs steadily moved forward, growling at her continuously. Suddenly, she sprung forward with incredible speed and skewered one right through the chest. It gave a small gurgling cry before she swiped her saber to the side and it slid of the blade. The other one leapt at the heiress, thinking that she was now vulnerable to attack, but she simply side stepped and stabbed this one in the side and it fell to the ground to join it's dead comrade.
Blake jumped up onto a ruined wall of one building to another and then finally came down and, unsheathing her machete like sword, she sliced the head off of one Beowolf in the back. As she stood up, another one lunged for her and for second it though it had caught her. However when it made contact, it simply went through her. The fake clone Blake disappeared as the Grimm went through it and the real one charged and shot the creature with a few rounds of her pistol, causing it to collapse onto the ground and let out one final yelp before she killed it with a sliced to the chest.
Yang went for five Beowolfs at once and grinned smugly as the creatures turned to face her and snarled and began to charge at her as well. She kept running toward them until she was a few feet away before she stopped in her tracks and pulled back her fist. The first Beowolf reached her and lunged to maul her face but instead was sent flying back into a ruined building by Yang and made the other Beowolfs pause for a bit and cautiously circle the girl. Yang, however, didn't wait. She went straight for another one and this time used the shotgun part of her gauntlets to maximize the damage of her punch and literally obliterate the unfortunate creature. The other three charged at her back but before they could reach her, one was sawed in half by Medic's Übersaw while the other two were caught by Yang as she backflipped towards them and, grabbing their snouts, she smashed them into the ground.
Unlike the others, Jaune had decided to hang back and be the support. He watched as his the others charged into the fray and took down Grimm easily. He was just thinking how great it would be if he didn't have to fight, when a stray Beowolf came charging out and leapt at Jaune who was just able to raise his shield up to block the creature before it clawed his face out. He stumbled back a little as the Beowolf glanced off his shield and landed on the ground and charged again. Jaune tried to raise his shield again, but it was a weak block and the Beowolf slashed it out of his hands. It advanced on him and Jaune raised his sword. He thought back to all the training with Demoman. "Keep an eye on the target lad and swing with power and momentum," Demo had said. Jaune concentrated and before the Beowolf could lunge for the third time, Jaune struck forward and sliced diagonally and cut a deep gash into the creatures snout. It howled in pain and Jaune took the chance to get right up to it and sick his sword right through the Beowolf's chest, killing it.
Nora charged her opponents and let out a loud battle cry that made the Beowolfs she was aiming for stutter to a halt and try to scatter around her. Two of the three were successful and got were able to scurry to either side. The last one wasn't so lucky. It began to turn back, but Nora leapt into the air and using her weapon in hammer form, she brought it down on the creatures head, squashing it completely. The other two Beowolfs charged at Nora's sides, but Nora just swung her weapon in an arc and smacked them both out of the air.
Pyrrha had engaged a rather larger Beowolf and blocking its fierce strikes with her shield while trying to jab it in the chest with her spear. For a few minutes it went on with no real advantage to either side. Then, Pyrrha getting a little tired of this charade, pushed the creature back with her shield and scored a nice hit if with her spear into the gut of the Grimm. It howled in pain and swiped at her but she just ducked and dug the spear deeper until the creature stopped moving and slumped the ground.
Ren had run past all the charging Grimm with his impressive speed, thanks to Scout, and encountered one of the back up Beowolf that was staying at the rear. It snarled and charged at Ren who, taking out his automatic handguns, rapidly fired at the creature. It took a few hits before retreating behind a small crumbling wall. Ren ran forward and rounded the corner and was instantly jumped on by the Beowolf and sent to the ground with it on top of him. However, de didm't panic and simply slashed at the stomach of the creature with the blades at the end of his guns. It let out one last snarl before falling limp on him. He threw it off him and ran back to the others who finished dealing with their own opponents as well.
"Well," said Jaune as they regrouped in the middle of the street, "That was easier than I expected." The others nodded, except for Medic who was looking out towards the far end of the street and said, "I think you spoke to soon Jaune."
The students looked to where he was looking and gaped in horror at what they saw. A horde of Beowolfs were running towards them. A cacophony of snarling and growling reached their ears, sending shivers down the students spines. Weiss glared at Jaune.
"You had to say something didn't you?" she said in annoyance as they all readied their weapons once more as the horde closed in on them. However Medic just laughed maniacally and he took out his Krtizkreig medi-gun and aimed it's beam on Nora. Since he had been killing Beowolfs with the Übersaw, his Übercharge meter had been maxed and he was able to pop and Übercharge with one of his medi-guns. He grinned at Nora and yelled over the noise of the incoming horde, "Use the grenade launcher portion of your weapons. I will Krtiz you!"
Nora complied and changed her weapons into grenade launcher form and Medic flipped the switch on his Krtizkreig and the triple powered energy poured into Nora. She flinched for a second as the flow of pure power went through her aura and into her weapon. She grinned and fired a couple of grenades into the horde. The crackling projectiles soared into the horde and on contact with an enemy, they exploded and took out any opponent near it. Within a few seconds the horde had been literally blown to bits. The charge ran out, but by then the massive horde that had been charging at them had been vanquished and around them any stray Grimm had boogied out, not wanting to join the piles of their dead allies.
Medic straightened up and smiled at the students happily. "Another successful procedure," he said triumphantly, "with zat, I think we won't be disturbed for ze rest of ze day. We might as well find a nice place to sleep."
They set off once more, though the students were still slightly irked at the fact that Medic had purposely attracted a horde for the sole purpose of having some fun. They walked around for half an hour searching for a nice place to rest, all the while keeping an eye out for any Grimm that got the courage to attack once more. However, none did and they soon found a nice small spot in a ruined store and set out their sleeping bags. Ruby went out to get some wood, which their was a lot of in the ruined city, and soon they had a nice fire crackling merrily. They all sat around it in their respective sleeping bags, except for Medic who hadn't brought one and was looking out on the horizon.
The students chatted a little and joked around, relaying the events of the day as well. Jaune had also snuck snacks from the buffet somehow and everyone immediately took something. He even brought cookies and pancakes for Ruby and Nora and Pyrrha had to fight them off so they wouldn't literally start hugging and kissing him. They had been very sad when they would be deprived of their favorite foods for a day and Jaune and just saved them. After they calmed down a little and Pyrrha let them at least hug Jaune, but her face did show a little jealousy as the two girls gripped Jaune tightly. As they let go off him and began to devour the tasty treats, Jaune looked over at Pyrrha and hooked his arm around her waist and pulled her towards him and let her lean on him. She did happily and any jealousy that had been there disappeared.
"It's strange to see you flustered," remarked Jaune as the two watched the others tuck into their food, "Your usually so calm, polite, and collective." Pyrrha giggled a little and leaned even deeper into his side and said quietly, "Because I don't want to lose you Jaune. Your the best thing thats happened to me. Not to mention," her eyes sparkled mischievously as she looked up at him, "I doubt you would want me to not give you any attention."
Jaune laughed a little, but he did hold her a little tighter making Pyrrha smile, knowing her teasing was working. But in reality, she would not do anything to jeopardize her relationship with Jaune.
Ruby had been devouring cookies, when she noticed Medic standing away from the group. "Hey Medic! Is everything okay?" she asked smiling a little with cookie dust on her chin. He turned around to look at the young Huntress to-be and smiled a little. "Ja, fraülien. Everything is fine. Do not worry about me," he turned to look at the horizon once more and sighed, "I am just wondering vat my comrades are doing right now. Especially Spy."
City of Vale: Secret White Fang Remains
At this time, as Medic wondered about his french master of espionage, Spy and Pyro were peeking over a wall at the ruined warehouse. They had their usual outfits on with no cosmetics. The only thing different was that Spy had a small earpiece that was connected to another one that Engineer had. They had agreed to have some sort of communication, in case their was an emergency of some sort.
Spy was staring at the wreckage, scanning for an threats as Pyro watched his back for anyone. However, it was clear and Spy nodded to Pyro and they began to sneak closer. It was soon apparent though that the place was deserted. Spy and Pyro entered the real rubble of the warehouse and began to search the rubble for any secrets or clues to what Torchwhick or the White Fang were doing.
Pyro got very excited at one point when it found a loose fire Dust crystal that had somehow survived the explosion. Pyro somehow knew that it had something to with fire and was happily skipping around with it, possibly it was something amazing in his own world known as Pyroland. A place that he saw as the real world, but it was covered in candy, babies, and unicorns. In this world, his flamethrower was a device that spewed out rainbows and happiness for everyone. His axe was a large lollipop, and his flare guns were bubble blowers in his mind. However, when he thought he was spreading happiness to people who need it such as enemies, he was actually burning them alive.
Spy took the crystal from him and wrapped it into a small cloth, and pocketed it before they kept searching. Besides finding a few more surviving Dust crystals that Spy pocketed, they didn't really find anything of use.
After a few hours of searching, the horizon was lightening a little as dawn approached, and a very tired Spy was about to give up and return to the academy, when Pyro grabbed a large piece of rubble and pushed it to the side and let out a surprised, "Mmmph!"
"Pyro, if that is another Dust crystal, we are leaving," said a very irritated Spy. He had been hoping to find something of substance here, but it seemed to him that the explosives had been made to destroy not just all the Dust, but all the evidence. Pyro let out muffled yells, prompting Spy to come over to where it was. Spy walked over to see what his fellow mercenary was so eager for him to see. He came to stand next to Pyro and looked down and his eyes widened a little. There, stuck under the rubble, was a large charred piece of paper with the map of the city of Vale and pencil marks everywhere to label out locations, making it look like schematics.
Spy stooped down and, carefully and slowly, extracted the piece of paper from under the rubble. When he finally got it out he and Pyro walked off a small way to a more flat piece of ground where he spread it out. As he had thought, it was a map of Vale, but it also had extra smaller locations on the edges with arrows pointing form many directions. He looked at it carefully, trying to figure out the plans that were being laid out, and soon started to find a pattern. Every Dust store in Vale was marked with a small 'X' and a specific time and date was written next to each one. However, the more important discovery was the extra addition of a map of a place called "Mountain Glenn."
"Mountain Glenn?" said Spy, he recognized that name from somewhere. He gave it some thought before it hit him. When Medic was leaving to go to the students at the airship docks to lead them on their mission, he had something about going to place in the north called Mountain Glenn. Spy stared back at the map and started to focus on anything that was related to the location. Arrows pointed from Mountain Glenn and then led through a part of the kingdom of Vale. Spy read a label next to the arrows saying, "Railroad." He followed the arrows and they led to... the center of the city of Vale.
He looked up at Pyro, his eyes revealing shock and confusion. What did it all mean? Before he could do anything else, his earpiece went off and Engineer's voice crackled loudly through.
"SPY! We have a problem! No time to explain, but Medic sent us a letter. We must go to the center plaza of Vale! Me and the others are going there now along with some of the professors. Meet us there quickly!"
His voice cut out, leaving Spy and Pyro standing there silently. Then Spy snapped out off his shock and he gathered the map up and, with a look to Pyro, they began to run over to the center of Vale.
Mountain Glenn
While Spy and Pyro were still searching the wreckage of the warehouse, the students at Mountain Glenn had fallen asleep. Medic had leaned on to a broken pillar and also fell asleep with Archimedes dozing on his shoulder as well. Everyone was fast asleep... that is except for Blake. She was waiting for all the others to be completely asleep before she would get up and search for clues of the White Fang.
She stared at Medic specifically, as he was the last one to go to sleep. She watched his breathing steady and go into the type of breathing that people have when they are sleeping. Then she silently got up and grabbed her weapon, thanking every god out there for making her a cat faunus so she could sneak easily. She left the small place they had set up camp and walked quietly along the streets of the ruined city. She knew that the others would not be happy if she did this, but she couldn't sit by and not look out for her own because, in her opinion, they would complete the mission and then leave without doing anything. And she wouldn't let this happen without trying to find something.
She kept walking around, trying to find something. However, since her senses were all concentrated on searching around for the White Fang, she didn't notice the white dove flying up above following her.
Blake walked slowly, careful not to miss anything. For an hour she wondered around the streets of the abandoned city. Just when she was about to conclude that the rumors of the White Fang being in the north were false and she was turning around to return to the camp site and maybe get a few more hours of sleep, when she heard voices and ducked behind a wall and perked her cat ears, that were still hidden under her bow, and listened carefully.
"What do you think scared off all those Grimm?"
"I got no idea. Maybe it was all our work underground."
"Nah, it can't of been. We have been working down their for a while and they haven't cleared up till now. I think their is someone else here that scared them off."
Blake peeked around the corner and saw to White Fang members walking slowly, holding blasters and apparently patrolling. Blake frowned, thinking hard. "So they are here. But where are the others?"
She waited for a few minutes for the two faunus's to walk away and then walked out and inspected the area that had been patrolling. It seemed like a normal plain street with crumbling buildings on either side. However, Blake had a feeling that there was something more here then meets the eye. She walked around slowly and quietly as not to attract the attention of the White Fang members that were just here. She inspected each building on either side, but couldn't find anything of substance or any secret base. Then she recalled something they had said. "Maybe it was all our work underground." She looked down at the street ground below her and remembered the tale she had told Medic on the airship. She had told him that the people of Mountain Glenn tried to build downward in an attempt to escape the Grimm.
She silently went down on her hands and knees and put her ear to the ground. Her suspicions were confirmed when she heard a whistling sound. Wind. Under her feet was a hollow cavern of sorts. She got back up and turned back to the camp site and was planning to tell the others her discovery. But, before she could take more than two steps, she heard a growling behind her and spun around just in time to see a Beowolf leap at her from the building next to her. She tried to unsheathe her weapon but the Grimm tackled her to the ground and the weapon clattered out of her hand. The creature snarled, and she tried to push it off, keeping it's mouth away from her.
Suddenly there was a rumbling underneath her. Blake and the Beowolf looked down to see spiderweb crack begin to appear on the ground underneath them. Before either of them could get up, the ground below them collapsed and sent them down into the cavern below.
Blake fell for almost thirty feet before she hit sold ground once more and yelled in pain as her aura took all the damage and was disabled for a while. If her aura hadn't protected her, she would have broken her spine. The Beowolf that had been on her also fell, but it fell farther down to a ten foot deeper part of the cavern and broke its neck, killing it on impact.
Blake lay their for a few minutes, unable to get up. It was until she remembered where she was when she finally got up, struggling to keep her balance. Though she was technically unharmed, getting all of your aura knocked out is a very unpleasant experience and though it would regenerate soon enough, she was vulnerable for the time being. She finally stood up and began to search for her weapon. She looked down a ledge that led down to the cavern floor where the Beowolf had fallen and saw her weapon laying their as well.
As she was thinking up of a way to get down their with out causing more damage to herself, she noticed her surroundings and gasped. The cavern was enormous. It was forty feet high and the width of it was around the same size as the ruined city above it. Large rectangular structures connected the cavern floor to the ceiling in a grid like pattern which made the spaces in between them look like streets. Thats when it struck Blake. They were streets. Those pillars weren't pillars. They were underground buildings. When the story's she had heard elders and told Medic, that the people built downward, they literally meant it. The structures were on either side of a large train which sat on a railroad that led into the cavern wall. However, the cavern wall seemed to be broken slightly where the train would be heading as if someone was deconstructing that part of the wall to let the train through. The train was long, with eight train cars and a front car that controlled the train. Next to the train, White Fang members were checking it to see if everything was in order. Or they were until the collapse of the wall above them and were now looking up.
Blake paled. She tried to back away from the edge of the ledge, but she was then suddenly grabbed from behind and turning around, she saw it was the two patrolling people from earlier. They must have went the safe way down after they heard the floor collapse under her. She tried struggling but they strong armed her, and began to take her. She then used her cloning semblance to get out of the grips of the faunus and succeed. She got up, but then realized she had no idea where to go. The other member then pushed her off the ledge and she fell down once more. When she hit the ground, she barely stayed conscious. She thankfully hadn't broken anything but she was now wheezing in pain. She tried to roll over and grab her weapon and found it next to her. She grabbed the hilt of her sword and lifted it... or tried to. There seemed to be a heavy wait pressed on to it. She looked at it and then noticed the well polished boot pressed down on the blade of her weapon. She looked up to see a man in a white suit and bowler hat while twirling a walking cane in his hand.
Roman Torchwick looked down and smiled evilly. "Well, look what the cat dragged in."
Back at the camp, Medic had woken up feeling the usual spot where Archimedes rested was empty. He stood up straight and looked at the sleeping students, counting each one. His eyes widened. Blake was missing. He was wondering on what to do, when he heard a small rumbling and looked over to a part of town and saw some dust rise into the air a few blocks away.
The students that were still with him all jolted up and looked around and reached for their weapons before realizing there was no real threat. They were about to go back to sleep, when they noticed Medic standing up with his gloved hands tightened into fists.
"Medic what's-" Yang began but she was interrupted by a white dove flying in from the city and soaring straight to Medic and perching on his shoulder. It cooed into his ear and he stood still listening. Then his face turned into a very scary grimace.
"It seems that fraülien Blake has found ze White Fang."
After that it was a spur of motion. He told all of them to pack up as quickly as they can and arm themselves with their weapons. Then, Archimedes flew off Medic's shoulder and began to lead the to where he saw Blake fall with the group running after him. They made it to the place where Blake was and saw the giant whole that lead down to the cavern. The students looked over the edge.
"Umm..." said an unsure Jaune, "How do we get down there?" Everyone was silent for a second, but their answer was given to them once more by the helpful Archimedes who flew to a building a block away and cooed to them to follow him. They did so and he lead them inside the crumbling and decrepit building and then flew down to a small tile on the floor and cooed loudly. The students looked at the white dove in confusion, but Medic leaned down and put his fingers under the tile and pulled upward. The tile rose and he grabbed the edges and threw it the side. Under the tile, there was a small ladder, which led down far to the cavern below. Medic looked behind him at the students and his expression was one of upmost seriousness.
"Are we ready fraüliens?"
Blake clutched her stomach on the ground as Torchwick laughed and kicked her in the side once more.
"You really are hard to avoid, aren't you?" he taunted as he watched Blake recoil in pain once more. He looked over at a few of the White Fang members. "It may be best to scout around the area. I have a feeling that she didn't come alone." The faunus nodded and marched off. He turned back to Blake who was trying to get up once more. Torchwick smiled and hit her with his cane this time and she slumped back to the ground grunting with pain. He was about to turn away and leave her with some White Fang members, when she spoke.
"Who are you? Why are the White Fang working with you?"
Torchwick turned back once more and he looked at members of the terrorist group and chuckled slightly. "Lets just say I have been hired by someone who had convinced the White Fang to help them in a common goal. But i'm done talking to you. I will leave you with my associates here. Please get along nicely." He laughed loudly as the White Fang members grabbed Blake from under her arms.
Suddenly, there was an explosion behind them and turning around Torchwick looked over to see a bunch of faunus being blasted out of the way and from the smoke appeared seven teenagers and a fully grown man in a lab coat. They stared each other down for a minute. Then one of the teenagers in a red hood saw Blake behind Torchwick in a terrible condition, her face contorted in rage.
"GET AWAY FROM MY TEAMMATE!" she yelled, and using her speed semblance she appeared behind Torchwick and used her scythe to knockout the White Fang members. She turned to help up Blake but Torchwick aimed the end of his cane at her and it opened up and fired a small flare like projectile at Ruby. It her in gut and she stumbled back in pain, her aura absorbing most of the damage. The other students also rushed Torchwick, but seeing he was outmatched he ran to the first train cart and locked the door behind him before any of them could get inside.
The students panted a little as they stared at the train, trying to figure out how to get in. Medic ran over to Blake and Ruby and took out his Quick-Fix and healed both them and refilled their aura reserves as well. The two got up and thanked Medic. Blake then realized she was missing her weapon. Panicking she searched around frantically. She felt a tap on her shoulder, and turning around Medic held out her weapon smiling genuinely. When the group had been blasting their way through the members of the White Fang, Medic had found one holding her weapon and taken it with him.
Blake took it gratefully. The other students met up with them. Yang ran over and pulled Blake into a bone crushing hug. "Thank god your safe!" she said happily. Blake tried to say she needed air and Yang released her but she made her look at her. Yang's face had become angry. "Why did you go off on your own!?"
Blake looked at the others. They were all happy to see her safe but, like Yang, they wanted to know why she had left on her own. Blake sighed and resigned to tell the truth. "I wanted to make sure if there was any White Fang activity and I didn't trust that after we had finished the mission that you guys would stay for a little and search." She looked up at her fellow students. They were a little surprised, but Ruby came up to her and to Blake's surprise hugged her tightly.
"We would do anything to make you feel better," said Ruby and hugged Blake a little tighter. Blake looked around at the others and they all nodded in agreement. She smiled a little and hugged Ruby back a little. This comforting moment was interrupted by a loud screeching noise and they all turned to see the train shake a little. Then the wheels started to move forward, towards the broken part of the cavern wall.
"Get on the train!" Blake yelled and she leapt on to the last cart. The other students and Medic nodded and also ran up to the slowly speeding up train and leapt on as well. Medic looked forward to see the train mere seconds away from hitting the cavern wall. "Brace for impact!"
The group held on to the back of the cart as the train crashed into the cavern wall and lurched forward. It kept moving and kept gathering speed until it was moving incredibly fast. The group climbed onto the top of the train to try to see what was going on. However, when they reached the top of the cart, they didn't notice anything different. They were just on a getaway train and they had to get to the front cart. They began to run forward, when suddenly the cart below them disconnected from the rest of the train. They all stared until Medic yelled, "JUMP!" The group leapt from the disconnected train cart and jumped onto the next one. They all looked behind them to see the single train cart loosing speed and falling behind. Before any of them could say anything, the train cart blew up, and opened a hole in the tunnel behind them. They could see trees and sky peeking out from the new hole in the tunnel, growing steadily farther away. But they saw black specs crawling onto the train tracks and begin to chase the train.
"Grimm," said Ren quietly as they watched the evil creatures chase the train. They turned and spotted a trapdoor that was on every train cart. Medic put up his hand and then opened the trapdoor and looked inside. He looked for a second before shutting it quickly and he began running to the next one yelling behind him, "There is a bomb in zat one as well!" The students ran forward and followed Medic onto the next train car, just as the one they were standing one disconnected like the other one and after a few seconds, it also blew up and created another hole in the tunnel, letting in more Grimm.
Medic checked the next trapdoor and shut it as well. "Another bomb," he said and they ran forward. They jumped onto the next cart again and the same thing happened with the cart that they had just been on. The next one also had a bomb and they did the same once more. As they got onto the next cart, Jaune looked at Medic, his face showing a huge amount of confusion. "Why are they disconnecting them first, instead of just blowing them up immediatally on us?" Medic turned back around and answered. "Because, if they did zat, they blow up ze rest of ze train as well. And also to," he paused and his eyes widened. He suddenly took out a piece of paper and wrote something quickly and then rolling up the paper he reached to Archimedes and gave the dove the paper to hold. Then he took out a small syringe and injected it straight in to the bird. The dove's eyes widened and became bloodshot. Medic whispered something quietly in it's ear and then let him go. The bird soared with surprising speed and exited out of one of the openings in the tunnel made by the bombs.
"What was that about?" asked Weiss. Medic looked at the students and his face was very serious. "They are going to lead ze Grimm to ze city of Vale!" Blake's eyes widened. "This is the railroad to Vale that the people of Mountain Glenn used to use for trading supplies with Vale," she exclaimed. Medic nodded and then turned to open the trapdoor of the cart they were on. However this time he yelled out, "Zis one doesn't have a bomb!"
They were about to drop down inside, when the trapdoor's of the three other carts in front of the one they were one and White Fang members climbed out and advanced on the group. Medic stood up and took out his Crusaders Crossbow and fired a few bolts, hitting a few of them and sending them off the train. "Team JNPR! Stay with me and help me take out these dummkopfs! Team RWBY! Go down and move forward through ze train carts! Understood?"
The students nodded and Team RWBY climped down the trapdoor and dropped down into the empty cart and were about to move forward when the door that lead to the next cart opened and a few White Fang members entered. They stopped and readied their weapons, but then Ruby remembered they were on a time crunch and she yelled to her team, "Go! I will hold them off. You guys need to get to the front!" The other three nodded and ran past the faunus and entered the next train cart while Ruby got ready to take on her opponents.
Weiss, Blake, and Yang forward in the next cart and were about to enter the next one, when it opened and revealed Neo smiling her usual grin and holding her laze parasol. Yang stopped and growled to her teammates, "Go on! I will take this one." The other two nodded and ran past the short Neapolitan looking girl. She let them pass and just walked up too Yang and looked up at the taller student, with the same cocky smile.
Weiss and Blake ran into the next the cart and this time were immediately met with a large hulking White Fang member, holding a large chainsaw and growling menacingly. He revved up his chainsaw and swiped at the two students who back up. Weiss then looked at Blake and nodded. "You go on ahead, I will take on this brute." Blake hesitated for a second, but she nodded back and ran forward. The large faunus tried to hit Blake as she ran past but Weiss blocked the strike with her saber and let Blake run into the next cart.
Blake entered the final train cart before the control cart and she looked across the room. Roman Torchwick was standing in front of the final door and smiling evilly. "Well, it seems its just you and I," he said and twirling his cane he aimed it at her.
Two carts behind, Yang and Neo were fighting. Yang was trying to punch Neo and had added power to her wings by adding the shotgun mechanic in her gauntlets. However, Neo used extremely acrobatic moves to dodge the swings and even the shots that came out of gauntlets and land small hits on Yang, slowly weakening her. Yang growled in irritation and lunged at Neo once more but Neo just flipped backwards and took a seat on a box at one end of the train cart and crossed her legs and held her parasol in her hand calmly and stared at Yang with that same seductive smile. Yang roared in outrage and ran straight toward Neo and pulled back her fist as far as she could and let out a deadly blow. Neo simply flipped over Yang and kicked Yang into the box that she had been sitting on and then swiped the butt of her parasol into Yangs head, breaking Yang's aura and almost knocking her out. She tried to get up, but she was way to weak, and watched helplessly as Neo approached her. Neo pressed a button on her parasol and an needle point extended at the end and she raised it over Yang. Yang closed her eyes, memories of times with Ruby, her father, Weiss, Blake, Team JNPR, the mercenaries, Scout. She shed a tear as she waited for the fatal blow.
Then a red light appeared next to them and a strange women, wearing a white Grimm mask and dark blood red suit walked out of what looked like a red portal. Neo stepped back and for once her usually cocky smile was gone and she stepped back a little, fear in her eyes. The mysterious woman advanced slightly and Neo put her parasol in front of her and shattered into glass, teleporting out of there. The woman looked down to see Yang on the floor but didn't say anything. Then it turned around and went inside the red portal it had come out off and disappeared with the portal, leaving Yang weak and disorientated from the whole experience. Her thoughts were interrupted when the door the cart opened and Ruby ran in and kneeled down next to her half-sister.
"Yang! Are you alright? What happened?" Ruby asked in a rush as she tried to help Yang up. Yang rose up to her knees and smiled slightly. "You talk to much, little sis." Ruby smiled and helped Yang and they walked towards the next cart, with Ruby supporting Yang.
In the next cart, Weiss was fighting the chainsaw from freaking The Evil Within... nah she wasn't but she was fighting a giant member of the White Fang armed with a chainsaw and with the full intent of shredding her to pieces. He roared and swung the chainsaw down towards the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, but she dodged and slashed with her saber. It cut into his skin, showing he had no aura, but it didn't do much just anger the large brute. He growled and swung once again with the chainsaw with surprising speed for such a large man with such a heavy weapon. Weiss dodged once again, but this barely doing so and she let herself become open to attack. The man reached and grabbed Weiss by the throat and threw her the ground. She grunted and her aura sparked in protest, not out completely but beginning to give way. Before she could get up, the large faunus kicked away her weapon and the held her down with one hand. He laughed menacingly.
"I finally get to kill a Schnee," he rumbled and then raised his chainsaw. Then from behind him a german voice yelled, "I WILL SAW THROUGH YOUR BONES!" The brute didn't have time to look behind him when a strange type of saw suddenly protruded through his chest from his back. He dropped the chainsaw and tried to struggle out but an evil maniacal face looked at him from over his shoulder and said in a taunting voice, "Can't you feel ze schadenfreude!" The large faunus tried to say something but only gurgled out blood. Medic grinned and took out his Übersaw from the brutes chest. The White Fang member fell to the ground, dying in a pool of his own blood.
Weiss's face was pale with terror at the site she had just witnessed. Though she had literally been showed each organ of the body by the same man that had just saved her, something about this just seemed incredibly more unsettling. Before she could figure out why, Medic took out his Quick-Fix and healed her up as Team JNPR jumped down to join them from the trapdoor above them. Just then, the door to the cart opened and Ruby and Yang entered. The newcomers looked at the bloody corpse with disgust and a few of them like Jaune and Ruby could barely contain themselves from vomiting.
Medic turned to Yang and noticed her being held up by Ruby, and trained the Quick-Fix's beam on her and healed her up. Yang thanked Medic and then walked towards the cart that Blake was in, but was stopped by Medic. She turned to him angrily, but he just looked at everyone else and asked, "Are we all ready?" The others nodded and he turned back to Yang let her go.
Blake and Torchwick were in the midst of a raging battle. Raging, because they were both fighting each other with excessive hate for each other. Blake was holding her sword in one hand and the sheath in the other and was attempting to slash her opponent while he blocked her strikes with his cane and occasionally fired a shot from it when he got the chance. All the while they exchanged angry conversation.
"You just couldn't keep your dirty freakish ass out of our business," growled Torchwick as he shot another shot at Blake who used her semblance to avoid it and leap at him again.
"Maybe, it's because a sorry excuse for a human is somehow in charge with part of the White Fang!" yelled Blake as she tried to shoot Torchwick in the gut with the pistol in her sword. Torchwick blocked a few of the bullets, but some got through and were absorbed by his aura. He growled and advanced and tried to hit Blake with his cane.
"And why do you care so much?" he asked angrily, "It's not like you are part of the White Fang!"
"I was!"
With this Blake kicked Torchwick's cane out of his hand and slashed in side and he fell to the ground, his aura running out and before he could recover, Blake stepped on his chest and held him down. Her eyes were full of rage. Torchwick coughed a little before smiling up at her.
"So this is how it's gonna be," he said, "Well then. What are you waiting for? Do it."
Blake's foot pressed down harder and he chocked slightly, but his evil smile remained. She tried to strike him with her weapon and deal the final blow, but she couldn't. She wasn't a killer. Thats why she left the White Fang after Adam took over. Then behind her the door opened and the rest filed in. Torchwick looked from the ground and laughed. "Ah look, it seems the back up is here." Blake looked at him again and she smacked his head with the butt of her sheathe and he was knocked out. She stood up and turned to her friends. "We need him for questioning."
Medic nodded and then walked past her and opened the door to the control cart. It was empty, but their was a window at the front and to his horror he saw the wall in the distance. He sprinted out of the control cart and yelled to Nora, "Blow a hole in the side of ze cart!" Nora nodded and launched a grenade into the wall of the train cart. The cart shook with the explosion but it allowed for a small hole that a person could fit through. Medic picked up the unconscious figure of Torchwick and yelled for the second time that day, "JUMP!"
The group of heroes jumped of the fast moving train and rolled painfully onto the ground, but their aura protected them from most harm. As for Medic, he was used to much worse and was able to shrug off tumble easily. They looked up from the ground just in time to see the train hit the wall. There was a massive crash as the train smashed into the wall and it collapsed onto the train stopping it in it's tracks and creating a large hole.
The two teams and the mercenary climbed to their feet and staggered over to the hole in the wall, still a little winded from jumping out of a high speed train. They walked out through the hole to find themselves in the center plaza of the city of Vale. Before they could say or do anything there was a loud roar behind them and Medic was grabbed by large claw and raised into the air, dropping Torchwick in the process. They turned around to see a Death Stalker holing in one of it's large claws. The large scorpion like Grimm roared at the students and waved the mercenary around. Medic screamed for help and the students all raised their weapons but then they heard a loud familiar voice behind them.
"GET AWAY FROM MY DOCTOR YOU BIG BABY!"
They turned to see Heavy revving up his Huo Long Heater, a mini-gun with a dragons head which could spew out fire while firing. He roared and let the gun rip on the Death Stalker. The Grimm tried to escape, but as Boromir would say "One does not simply take Heavy's doctor." The bullets ripped through the Death Stalker and it howled in pain, dropping Medic who scrambled to it's feet and took out his Blutsauger syringe gun and fired forty syringes into the creatures head, finally killing it. He panted and then turned to his Soviet comrade. "Danke," he thanked and did a thumbs up. Then from behind him the ground rumbled and a wave of Grimm poured out and charged at them. However, the Grimm were given the shock of their life when the rest of the mercenaries, Professor Goodwitch, Professor Oobleck, Professor Port, and a third year Beacon Academy team charged out from hiding and a full fledged slaughter fest followed.
Scout ran out, Force-O-Nature out and charged straight into a pack of Beowolfs, killing two with the Force-O-Nature clip before taking out his Winger and using the extra damage to pick off a few others. Then, grinning, he took out his Sandman and stunned one with a baseball and then quickly switched to his Flying Guillotine and completely screwed over the stunned Grimm by throwing the cleaver at it's head. He switched back to his Sandman and ran up to an absent minded Grimm and smiled at it before calling his shot like Babe Ruth and then swinging his Sandman with all his strength and sending the Grimm out of the atmosphere. "HOME RUN!"
Soldier equipped the Air Strike and the B.A.S.E Jumper and rocket jumped into the air and fired down five rockets in quick succession and bringing down an reign of pain from the sky. A huge group of Grimm looked up to see a bunch of rockets before being obliterated. Soldier landed and laughed, until a massive Ursa roared at his direction and charged him. Soldier smirked and took off his two grenades on his jacket. "Come here cupcake!" he yelled. The Ursa sped up and swiped at the patriotic man, but Soldier jumped onto it's large arm and climbed up to its face and, forcing it's mouth open, he shoved the two grenades into the creatures mouth and jumped. Right when Soldier landed back on the ground, the Grimm's face exploded, leaving a headless bear like body that fell to the ground. "IF GOD HAD WANTED YOU TO LIVE THEN HE WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED ME!"
Pyro pulled out his Degreaser and charged at a small pack of Beowolfs harassing a couple of civilians. It air blasted one up into the air and, using the quick switch speed that came with the Degreaser, switched to the Reserve Shooter and shot the Beowolfs airborne body, using the special shotgun that could mini-crit on airborn targets for maximum damage. The other Beowolfs growled at it and charged at Pyro, who just took out his Homewrecker sledgehammer and smashed ones face in and smacked another into a building. The last one leapt at it, thinking it had found a weakness, but Pyro simply changed to the Scorch Shot and standing up straight it aimed the Scorch Shot straight at the Grimm's face and fired the flare right into it's face and burned it's face off. It yelped for a few seconds as it tried to rub off the fire. Pyro walked to it and equipping the Axetinguisher, it stood over it. In it's mind, it saw an evil doggie that need to be shown happiness. The Beowolf looked up too see the masked demon standing over it, barbed wire axe in it's hand and yelped, trying to get away. Pyro raised the Axetinguisher and smashed it into the face of the poor creature. Then it took out its default Flamethrower and raised it over it's head and mmmphed, "MMPH MMMPH!"
Demoman equipped his default Grenade Launcher and ran into the fray and immediately fired four grenades into a pack of Grimm, blowing them up completely. He laughed happily as he reloaded his Grenade Launcher, until a large King Taijitu slithered out and faced the black scotsman. It was a large snake like Grimm with two half's, a black one and white one, that met at the center. It roared at Demo, showing off it's mouth full of fangs. Demoman, however, just laughed and equipped his default Sticky Bomb Launcher and began to fire stickies at the mouth of the black half and then switched to the Scotsman Skullcutter and Splendid Screen shield and charged at the white half and sliced it's head right off. The black half roared and swooped in from the back but Demoman, not turning around, took out his default Sticky Bomb Launcher out once more and detonated the stickies that he fired into it's mouth earlier. The black half exploded, sending Grimm flesh into the air and falling out of the sky. "HAHAHA, THEY WILL FIND YOU IN THE ALLEY, WITH CATS LICKING AT YA!"
Engineer had set up a level three Sentry before the Grimm had arrived and was calmly hitting his sentry with his chosen wrench, the Southern Hospitality and laughing as Grimm after Grimm fell to the bullets and rockets tearing through their skins. It became so easy, even Ursa, Death Stalkers, and King Taijitu's got gunned down before they could get close. Engineer sighed and set up a mechanical lounge chair and lay down, taking a sip of beer while doing so. "Ain't that a cute little gun!"
Sniper had stayed back as usual and took out his Machina, a rail gun in the design of a futuristic sniper rifle, and took pot shots from afar. He used the Machina because it had the ability to shoot through for than one target easily and in a crowd of enemies shooting through many enemies is much easier. He grinned, that was until a few Beowolfs came up behind him and leapt onto him. However, he heard them and was able to equip his Razorback shield that he usually wore on his back to block spy backstabs. Now he used it as a way to block the Grimm that had tried to maul his face off. However the momentum till pushed him and the grim sprawling onto the floor. He got up and took out his Tribalman's Shiv, a sharp and rustic looking machete and dug the blade into each of the Beowolfs that had attacked him, killing them. Then he took out his Hitman's Heatmaker and quick scoped a Beowolf that had gotten close to him, causing it's head to blow up. "EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR NECK IS GONNA BE A FINE RED MIST!"
Spy had cloaked with his Invis Watch and snuck behind the enemy team, and sticking to his Sharp Dresser as he didn't want to dirty any of his other blades with the blood of these disgusting creatures. He found a corner where he could backstab a couple of them and uncloaked just in time for a few Beowolfs to turn the same corner. He jumped out of the corner and thrust the hidden blade into the back of the first one, took out his default Revolver and shot another in the side and then circled the third one and trick stabbed it. He then approached the one that he had shot with his Revolver who had tried to get up and leaned down and looked at the evil creature. The Beowolf looked up and tried snap at the frenchmen but Spy just stood up once more and aimed his Revolver once again and finished it off. "You got blood on my suit."
Heavy and Medic came together as always, being one of the best duo's ever, and began to bulldoze their way through the waves of Grimm coming out of the whole. They were joined by the three Professors and the third year team. The third year team was led a by a fashionista in black glasses wearing a brown shirt and a dark brown clincher. She also wore black pants, held up by a belt adorned with bullets. Her weapon was a handbag that changed into a Mini-Gun similar to Heavy's but much smaller. Her name was Coco Adel. With her was also a dark skinned boy with red hair and a red zipped up shirt. He used a pair of blades attached to his arms and his name was Fox Alistair. With them was the faunus that Cardin had been bullying on the mercenaries first day at Beacon. She had tall rabbit years and wore a brown tight attire with golden highlights and black leggings. She had a box on her hip which contained a camera that she used to take pictures of other people's weapons and then use their holographs in battle for a short time. Her name was Velvet Scarlatina. Finally their was a tanned skinned boy with short black hair. He wore a green robe and a green five layered sode on his shoulder and brown pants. He carried a large bronze sword with him which he wielded with skill. His name was Yatsuhashi Daichi. These four made team CFVY.
The nine of these fighters thought against the main wave of Grimm. Heavy tore through them with his default Mini-Gun, Professor Goodwitch used her riding crop to manipulate her magic to throw Grimm out of the air, Professor Oobleck used his thermos to fire highly caffeinated fire balls and incinerating the Grimm, Professor Port use cannon axe to slash through the lines of Grimm, and Team CFVY took care of any stragglers. Medic was going to each fighter and healing each one with his default Medi-Gun and building up his Übercharge. They were starting to be pushed back, when Medic got an Übercharge and smiled towards Heavy. However, Heavy who had noticed Coco's choice of weapon turned his head to look at Medic and yelled, "Charge little fashion girl! She has as good weapon as me!" Coco looked surprised but when Medic came to her she nodded and said, "Alright doctor, charge me or something." Medic grinned and flipped the switch. Coca flinched for a second as the pure power of invulnerability poured into her. She laughed and fired her mini-gun to the crowds of advancing Grimm and the fighters began to push forward once more and regained control of the battle.
The battle went on for a few more minutes afterwards before the rest of the Grimm began to retreat back into the hole that they had crawled out off and Professor Goodwitch used her impressive magic to reconstruct the hole to the hill face it was before the train crashed into it. After that their was an eerie silence. Team RWBY and Team JNPR had been told to stand back and keep an eye on the unconscious Torchwick. They had done their share of fighting as well, but compared to the others it wasn't much. But they had been tired from going through all the trials earlier. They came out and held a struggling Torchwick who had just woken up. The authorities had come with a bunch of Atlas army troops, only to find that the battle was finished before they came. They took Torchwick in and the two teams met the mercenary's and Team CFVY outside the town plaza.
Yang ran to Scout and pulled him into a bone crushing hug and snuggled him close to her, causing his head to fit right between her cleavage. His head was incredibly red, but he didn't try to struggle and hugged her back. The others watched this scene with content sighs before turning to each other and chatting until the professors came over and said it was time to return to the academy. When the students heard this, they sighed happily. The one thing they wanted the most was sleep.
As they left to the academy with the mercenaries and professors, Cinder watched them from a nearby rooftop with Mercury and Emerald behind her. Her face was calculating and she hadn't said much since the plan had been put into action. Most of it had been a success, but the mercenaries once again had stopped the Grimm from doing to much damage. Torchwick had been jailed, though that wasn't as big of a problem for now.
Then Mercury spoke up, "This was all good and all, but so many White Fang members were killed. Do you really think they will follow us anymore?" Cinder's fists clenched. That was what she had been pondering. The mercenary that had been with those kids had not hesitated in killing every White Fang member, even though he was supposed to be a doctor! She was about to respond when a male voice sounded from behind them.
"No, but they will follow me."
They all turned to see a young man walk up to them. He had spiky red hair and small red horns sticking out off his forehead. He wore a Grimm masked over his eyes with a red flame symbol on it. He wore a black trench coat with a red shirt underneath and black pants. On his hip was a long sheathe where his long sword was held. He stopped and looked Cinder and she smiled. The plan was still on.
HOLY CRAP! THAT LITERALLY TOOK ME ALL DAY! I DID NOTHING BUT TYPE! AND IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT! Umm... Sorry about that but yes that did take me a while. I'm sorry but I did want to go on my word from last time and finish Volume 2 in RWBY. Now I will try to post more chapters over the holidays, but more importantly my birthday, which is two days after Christmas so I may be a little distracted. But I will see what I can do. Reviews are always welcome and I will see you in the next chapter... BYE BYE!