Bastion Chapter 3: Pillar one fat bottomed girls, a rwby fanfic

Part three

Fat Bottomed Girls.

"Everyone ready?" The voice of the boss said as they all crouched silently in the outside of a pristine maintained hallway. The entire team of five were all hunched in a low crouch on the side of a plae white doorway. They had all been split evenly Kage and Juane one the left, while Mika and Ruby on the right. They had all been filleted in order as their weapons were fitted due to their effectiveness. Kage's pistols set up to snipe while Mika's flamer was put into a position to clear out the room.

As the all stared silently into the lightly lit hallway. It was hard to say what stood out more, the heavily armed heavily armored group of teen soldiers carrying enough weaponry to match a small army unit in terms of fire power or the immaculately clean hallway.

While the entire city was ruined beyond repair broken skyscrapers shattered homes and businesses. Broken and destitute homes covered every bit of the city, any building that wasn't straight up destroyed or on fire was in disrepair, all except for one. Apparently, throughout the entire city, only this one hall way on the thirteenth floor on the targets skyscraper was not only in immaculate condition but fully lit! Something that was decisive off in the ruined city.

"Remember!" The boss said as she checked her energy pistol 'behind those doors are white fang." "Human beings." "Not just Grimm you're going to be fighting these are real people, are you all ready for that?"

'Yes," Kage said calmly his voice full of strength and determination. "Absolutely!" Mika said barely containing her excitement at the prospect of a fight or more accurately for her the prospect of a slaughter.

"I'm ready..." Ruby squeaked timidly as she held Cresent Rose tightly to her chest. Her entire out fit was torn and dirty, the cape she had proudly worn was now filthy with mud and blood, her skirt was torn and dingy covered in blood and dust. "You ready kid?" The boss asked Jaune turned her purple eyes to stared into his blue ones. "I'm as ready as I'll ever be." Jaune replied as she looked him down to him her gaze could pierce steel as she nodded slowly "ok good."

She said as she reached back into her back and pulled out a black box.

One.. she flipped on the box as a bright red light flashed on it flashing the number 10.

Two.. she pivoted perfectly and turned to the door.

Three she kicked the door open and threw the box inside…

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! The ground shook viciously as the Ursa major brutally slammed the white fang operative into the ground. Each thudding impact of the beast slam shook the scatters desks and office supplies, and broke the concrete. its massive black jaw was wedged tightly into the man's collar as it repeatedly smashed him into the ground electing a terrified scream from the man. As the Man screamed in terror the Ursa slammed him down one last time before finally using its titanic jaw strength to begin crushing him.

At first, the man's body was protected as it's Aura briefly shielded him from the monsters gaping jaw before failing brilliantly as it gave an audible pop! Before it broke and the thing's jaws finally tore into his flesh, forcing another horrible scream from his mouth before breaking through his flesh right into his bones. As the Ursa lifted the man in the air as if showing its triumph in one fell swipe of it;s jaws it clamped down on him splitting him in two, showering the devastated floor with bits of blood, bones, an organs before giving a terrible roar of triumph that deafened Jaune.

Jaune spun away from the sight of the charge rolling three times before jumping up to see a vision of hell. All around him was the hellish landscape of the buildings thirteenth floor. Massive towers of flame spread everywhere. Filling the room with dark black clouds of smoke making breathing near impossible. As bullets whizzed to and for. Tracer shots flew out making bright white lines across the room. As the screams of dying faunus being eaten alive by Grimm or being killed by his allies filled the air. Followed by the awful horrible putrid stench of cooking meat as both Faunus and Grimm alike were cooked to death by the inhuman pillars around them. Jaune had no idea where this battle had gone wrong but knew that this was only the beginning...

It hadn't started like this, not at all. In fact, the breach had started pretty well as the boss, as she was now called kicked down the door before tossing a small black box inside, what happened after was imprinted in Jaune's memory forever. She had warned him to close his eyes before entering the room, but even still the blinding white flash of the explosion had been seared into his retinas nearly blinding them as he squeezed them shut.

As he spun inside it was pure chaos white Fang everywhere trying to get their bearings straight. A gargantuan crater had been made in the center of the room a pitch black hole full of charred flesh and destroyed uniforms as the Faunus around to close to the detonation numbly tried to piece what was still left the of the bodies back together.

As they were all dazed and confused as the shell shocked faunus looked warily to them still trying to plug the massive holes in the center ranks where the bomb had vaporized any offenders.

Instantly two Fang members were made into Scarlet canvases as their bodies simply imploded, as Kage shot into them with his pistols as the faunus were reduced to messy smears on the ground even through their aura Kage's pistols showed no mercy.

As the chests of the faunus caved in as the monstrous projectiles broke through them, Jaune realized that the detonators on his weapons must have force limit as instead of lodging themselves and turning the faunus into a brilliant showing of living fireworks would simply bypass straight through them, often detonating three ranks behind their original targets.

As he shot into the enemies scattered lines, the lithe form of Mika appeared followed closely by the faint smell of ozone and harsh chemicals before a Woosh! Was heard heralded by the antic scent of ozone as a wall of fire was erected consuming half the faunus line instantly in a glowing ball of white death.

Nothing in all of Jaune' admirably short life could have prepared him for the screams. He thought the Grimm had suffered but the faunus? Even if they were white fang they didn't deserve this. As the flames hit them they instantly dropped to the ground their hands rapidly trying to claw off their burning masks only to realize that in the intense heat the masks had literally melted into a paste fusing them with their own skin.

After that, they writhed and jerked with agony as the flames consumed them. Mercifully they could not cry out as their new faces prevented them from doing so.

But that was just the initial volley as the first line of infantry was immolated the next wave had a nasty surprise waiting for them. As the guns, weapons, and other ammunition stockpiles of the first wave hit their limits they all went off in loud pops! of metal and shrapnel acting like improvised grenades. Faunus men and women screamed aloud as burning shrapnel exploded into their ranks, ripping out eyeballs with random but precise shards of steel, spilling intestines painting the floor with bright macabre flours and removing limbs and giving them a brutal mauling, as the sporadic explosions ripped into them shredding half of the next wave before

Faunus men and women screamed aloud as burning shrapnel exploded into their ranks, ripping out eyeballs with random but precise shards of steel, spilling intestines painting the floor with bright macabre flours and removing limbs and giving them a brutal mauling, as the sporadic explosions ripped into them shredding half of the next wave before the second ball of flame hit them engulfing them in a configuration of white death.

And then the screaming started... The first wave had mainly been wearing masks so when they died the mask had been fused to their skin preventing them from yelling aloud, but this group of Fang? They were rushed so they came guns blazing no masks on at all so when the flames hit, them they howled.

Unlike the Grimm whose cries of agony through terrible were pure guttural howls. The cries of a great beast as they struggled impudently against their demise. These were the cries of sentient beings, beings that knew his langue! They spoke his tongue! And when they cried out in suffering he knew their language! He recognized their frantic pleas for help. As the men and woman were covered in chemical flames. They were almost all instantly disarmed as they dropped their weapons as they started rolling onto the ground.

Their half sane ramblings were drowned out as their faces popped and sagged, their windpipes bubbled and slotted as they were filled with sloughing flesh as they were consumed by roaring fire. The desperate, despondent pleading to their gods to do anything, and he meant anything to stop the flames. And he felt their pain as they writhed and screamed on the floor as they frantically tried to stop drop roll to get rid of the chemical fire but to no avail.

Jaune had seen it himself nothing got rid of that fire whatever it was was near inextinguishable. He had even seen one desperate faunus jump into a pit of brackish liquid in an attempt to get it off, Jaune had turned away due to the combat raging around him but when he eventually turned back he was horrified to see no pool of water but a steadily rising clouds of steam and a burning immolated body of a faunus in the center of it wearing a barely recognizable uniform, whatever that flame was made of it ignored almost every conventional mean of extinguisher and burned right through as if was air.

Their wails pierced Jaune's ears he fought throughout the battle taking on several Fang members to the far left he saw Ruby glaring pure hatred at Mika. Jaune could feel his heart dip as he remembered that talk from before….

Crash site.

Immediately following ambushes end...

"MURDERER!" Ruby screamed pointing at Mika with a look that could kill. A look that screamed of pure single minded hatred and contempt. A look that promised bloody resolution. A look that until this very moment Jaune thought impossible for the girl to even produce. I mean come on! This was Ruby Rose! the girl who couldn't even win a staring match with a dog! Yet there she was glaring pure hatred and rage at the girl next to her. As her silver eyes threatened to bulge out of her skull.

"YOU'RE A MURDERER!" Ruby yelled with all the hate and venom from before as she pointed at the girl. As the three others of the group paused and stared at her a mixture of shock, worry, and confusion on their faces. "

Me?" Mika asked and pointing to herself with one finger, shocked at her friend's sudden and vehement transformation.

"MURDERER!" Ruby yelled once again pointing a finger to her chest.

"I'm a murderer?"Mika asked clearly perplexed as to why Ruby would say such things. "How so?" Mika asked her friend honestly cocking her head in a perplexed fashion.

"How so!?" Ruby was infuriated by her casual dismissal of human life. "You killed the man!" "You executed him!" She yelled screaming at the top of her lungs. "Keep it down!" Hissed Kage as he readied his pistols to his side. "I don't want to have to kill any more of those things if I don't have

"Keep it down!" Hissed Kage as he readied his pistols to his side. "I don't want to have to kill any more of those things if I don't have too ok?"

"She's a murderer!" Ruby said once again yelling at Mika. Who once again Mika gave her a confused look and didn't respond. "You executed that man!" An-

"so?" Mika said in the most deadpanned voice humanly possible. Her casual wording wrong footed Ruby as Mika looked at her. "I killed an enemy combatant." What's so wrong about that?" "It's not like he was your friend was he?" Mika asked as an incredulous Ruby who was fuming vehemently.

"He was surrendering!" "And you killed him!" Ruby yelled causing Mika to blink her eyes but give no response to her triad. "

You think I'm a murderer?' Mika asked as her voice lost some of its usual pep and glamour.

"No, I know you are one!" Ruby yelled causing Mika to put her hand under her chin, "so killing a man makes me a murder huh?" "Yes!" "Yes, it does!" Ruby yelled apparently seeing an end to her speech

"then you are one too!" Mika said happy "were murder friends!" She said happily clapping her hands.

"What?" Ruby nearly shocked and loathed "I am not a murderer!" "Yes, you are," Mika said suddenly her voice instantly losing any form of cheer and being decisively neutral. "You killed a defenseless man as well." "By That logic, you are also a murderer," Mika said her voice steady and calm with a knife like an edge to it that mad Jaune's hair stands on end.

"That was different!"

"How so?" Mika asked her voice having lost all touch of its usual cheeriness and setting Jaune on edge.

"It just is!" "It just is is not a good argument" Mika deadpanned her causing the Reaper to swell.

"It's- 'QUIET!" The boss yelled as she eyed them both "that's enough out of both of you!" "But she!" Ruby began before the boss tipped her scroll ominously Ruby shut her mouth after this fuming silently as Jaune grabbed her shoulder not now Ruby... He whispered into her ear as her whole body shook in anger not now "Rose bud." Jaune said trying an experimental nick name on her. It seemed to have the desired effects as she calmed down. "We'll settle this when we get home…"

He said as he looked up from the quaking girl as he did he saw Kage doing a similar action with Mika…

Present time

Office Room

Bullets whipped all around him bright flashed past over his head like large angry hornets as wild tracer fire erupted sporadically around the area. As he tore his head around tears stung his eyes as bright white flames spewed through the office taking no qualms between faunus or Grimm as to what to immolate. As bullets flew across his field of sight and grim and faunus struck each other with wanton desperation. Taking no heed to their own peril before being eaten alive by chemical fire, as dark black looking shapes loomed through the flames this was Hell…

Initially, the fight was going well despite the horrific injuries the white Fang had suffered they had no problems in dealing with the faunus effectively and efficiently, easily dispatching them with a variety of lethal and non-lethal ways it was going well, too well.

Kage had taken the front blasting away at the Fang, while Mika had spewed her chemical fire turning the entire office into a charnel house. After a glaring that promised bloody murder at Mika Ruby began engaging the faunus at the perimeters sides. Dealing with them efficiently and subduing them with practiced ease. That was until Mika took note of the knocked out faunus and proceed to wash them in white flames.

Causing Ruby to shoot a positively lethal glare at her before she continued fighting. Hell, even Jaune was doing well. He had managed to dispatch three Fang combatants knocking them out in the course of two minutes. All in all, things were going well. If they kept up this pace then they would be done in no time.

And Just when Jaune thought they could do this without issue, even with the last remnants of the Fang forming a firing line at the end of the office building his hopes were smashed as the entire room was suddenly filled with an ear splitting roar and a sound of breaking glass a black tidal wave of death and hatred roared into the office. The Grimm had come.

He had no idea how they managed to climb thirteen stories but apparently, a bunch of burning faunus writhing in agony while the others fought desperately for their lives was like ringing a dinner bell to an all you could eat buffet and they swarmed like moths to the flame...

Jaune acted rather than thought as he began sprinting through the fire. Thankfully his aura had somewhat healed his legs and he was now able to somewhat fight competently. As he swung his sword he knew it was almost over. The heat alone was too much for his aura to take as his scroll showed it was nearing the red. As his flesh popped and sizzled as the first set of heat blisters began to appear on his pale skin he was going to die.

Almost as soon as it began it was over... It happened instantly one moment he was flailing fighting through a real version of hell on earth. Now he was stuck in a slightly cool room as bad music being to the room seemed to lift. He turned around to see the remains of the squad staring indifferently back at him.

Mika, Kage, Ruby, and the leader all blinked blindly at him for a moment before Ruby began spinning to life. "Jaune!" Ruby said her silver eyes tinged with tears as her face was beyond smudged and dirty, scars and cuts now marred her other wise perfect body. "I thought you didn't make it!"

She cried freely as her hug reached near Nora levels of pain as he gently patted her on the back. "Told them you didn't die," Kage said calmly as he looked at his pistols. "You seemed too stubborn."

"Yeah, I knew you didn't die!" Mika Said happily although from her although she looked happy to see him alive this time he got the distinct feeling that while she was happy with has survival she could also care less if he didn't. "Don't get cocky," the boss said as she readied her pistol as the elevator reached its final floor. "We are about to see our target, so look sharp people!"

Ding!" The elevator gave sharp ding as it reached its final destination. As the door opened revealing them to be in what appeared to be the penthouse suites of the top floor. Who are our targets anyway? Jaune asked the boss as they stepped into a deeply luxurious penthouse suite that was fully furnished upholstered and well kept. Lines of deep red rugs, filled with gold trimming line the floor. As brilliant paintings line the walls depicting art form a lot and bygone era. Followed a flowing cherubic fountain that stood lavishly in the middle of the room in front of the massive window that gave you an incredible scenic view of the destroyed cityscape.

That wasn't what caught his eye... No, it wasn't the fancy furniture or the immaculate banisters although they were perfect. No, it was the row after row of computer terminals and data banks that tied the room It looked like something a researcher would be doing as he eyed the pieces of technology. Or more importantly the mound of dead decimated bodies that were strewn over them. Jaune had to fight back a wave of nausea as the horrid smell of rotting flesh filled his nostrils. Th entire research lab was a charnel house of diced and bifurcated bodies. Some had been slashed with what looked like javelins of pure ice while hoisting bodies into mid air like some mad game of skeet firings, as bodied hung limply on javelins made of ice, around half of them were impeded on the steps of ice while others ah been nearly burnt into cinders.

"Take a look over yonder," the boss said as she pointed out the center of the room was a woman dressed in pure silver uniform with long flowing white hair who was in the process of removing a sword from a man's head as he slumped over a computer terminal…

Slipped around her were dead bodies all dressed in pristine white uniforms reminiscent of Atlas dress codes as all with bloody holes in their chest or heads. As the woman with pure silver hair removed the sword from a man's skull on word left his mouth. "Weiss?" Jaune asked the woman suddenly stopped her grisly work and turned her piercing blue eyes on him.

"I see your finish up nicely Winter." The boss said before the woman suddenly vanished in a blip of motion, Jaune froze as he swore the woman had been standing the middle of the room before vanishing like a cloud of smoke. Jaune gasped at her apparent disappearance before she suddenly reappeared and pointed her rapier to his throat.

"You know my sister's name." The woman's voice was as cold as her eyes as she pushed the word into his throat. "How do you know it?"

I- before he could even answer "know this," the woman said not once taking the point of the rapier from his throat" if your answer doesn't satisfy me completely your life is forfeit." She said calmly and without a single trace of emotion.

" He's one of mine!" The boss said as she eyed her warily. Winter apparently accepted the response as acceptable as she removed her weapon from his jugular "so be it. "She said as she began to walk away from him causing Juane to slump to the ground heart thumping out of his chest…

The woman picked up a pure silver briefcase before turning to the group, "are you people coming or what?" She asked as she began to walk away from them.

" It's nice to see you too Winter!" The boss said through a thinly veiled layer of sarcasm causing the woman to stop on a heel and turn to face her.

"It's good to see you as well Uzepi, she said as she turned curtly away and began walking to a flight of stairs labeled roof.

Are you related to Weiss? Ruby asked timidly as she helped Jaune to stand. "I'm her sister." Winter said calmly as she walked past the girl I'm her-"You were her leader." Winter said coolly without a trace of sympathy. "I know who you are now let's going the Grimm won't wait for us to talk."

Get to the bullhead! Kage yelled as he sprinted to the waiting transport ship. As the doors slid open a masked figure stepped out and waved them over. "Get in!" The gloved man yelled as they sprinted forward. A large howl filled the air as a number of Beowulf climbed over the building's ledge and made for them. As Jaune climbed int the bull head " Straps on!" The boss yelled as several metallic cables fell from the top of the craft.

"What the hell?" Jaune asked as before he could talk a flight crew man had successful;y strapped him into one of the cables hooking it beneath his chest plate instantly. " there you go!" The man said as he strapped himself in as well. Looking around Jaune saw that all members of his party and Winter were all strapped onto one of the falling cables securing them to the craft.

" I got this! Kage yelled as they all finally got inside the transport. He had instantly pulled the side canyon of the ship forward as he aimed the Gatling gun at the charging abominations the weapon spooled for a second before coming to life.

BRRTT! The gun roared and fired a steady stream of blistering ammunition into the Grimm horde. White hot rounds cut the first Beowulfs into as Kage continued to fire.

We are leaving! The boss yelled. As the ship finally lurched free and began to fly off. Just in time as the first waves of monsters overran the rooftop Jaune got his first look over the ledge and his heart stopped.

There were grim hundreds no thousands of them all combing over the broken skyscraper. It was a massive wave of hate and rage.

A seemingly endless ocean of violence and malevolence as the bullhead began its decent Jaune saw the danger too late. It was so obvious! Jaune yelled at himself as the craft lurched and dipped why hadn't he seen it!? There had been grim, grim! On the top of the skyscraper, the top! The tallest building in the ruined city over thirty stories tall with no building even coming close to its height suddenly had Grimm on top of it? You see that asked one don question with a simple answer. How did the Grimm get up there? The answer was as usual simple they climbed.

Grimm hundreds strong where on the side of the building a literal writhing carpet of doom as the bull head dipped they saw it was their cue and dozens leapt off.

Incoming! A crewman yelled as the ship lurched to its side, the sudden motion throwing Jaune of his feet as the craft slipped out from under him. VRT! The sound of straining plastic filled his ears as his cable caught him before he could hit the pilots desperately tried to give Kage a wider firing arc as he

"Damn it!" Kage yelled as he swung the gun upward a brilliant arc of bullets tracing up and down the Grimm horde as round bigger than Jaune's hand tore dozens of grim in two it wasn't nearly enough, as the pilots desperately tried to give Kage a wider firing arc as he turned the Gatling gun to its side many of the falling Beowulf's were ripped in two split in half or torn to shreds by fist sized projectiles.

Before Jaune could yell the lithe form of Mika appeared beside Kage with the most serious look on her face Juane had ever seen as her emerald eyes glisten with determination all traces of levity long gone. She unleashed a gout of flames into the falling horde instantly turning the cabin into a sauna as a wave of flame washed out incinerating, even more, Grimm as they fell.

Even if dozens much more dozens made it through and crashed into the ship sending the passengers stumbling as the ship lurched at the arrival of uninvited passengers.

Hold on! The pilot yelled as Kage continued to fire into the horde on the ground. Shoot them off! The boss yelled as the sounds of denting metal fill the cabin.

Jaunedrew his sword as he saw metal indenting as the grim climbed on the outside hull. This is going to be ruff! The pilot squawked from the side. As he did "here!" A crewman yelled she brought over a box of rifles take some!

He yelled as the flight crew dove for the weapons in the box crack! A port side window was torn open as black claw reach in and tore the man's jugular out.

HGUL! He cried as he desperately tried to hold the blood in his neck as he collapsed failing miserably to contain the flow red blood spurted everywhere coating the fellow passengers with red hot blood.

Jaune dug into the ground holding his shield up cursing his lack of a ranged weapon. As the remaining crew men opened fire eager to avenge their lost member. Ruby and the boss both opened up with their respective weapons. He watched as bright silver rounds and irradiated energy beams cascaded into the hull surrounded by automatic weapons fire.

As Jaune looked at the violent display of bullets and laser the entire craft shuddered as the back of the bull head was ripped off in a terrible sound of twisting metal. Gale force winds filled the cabin as Jaune felt his heart stop, CAW! The massive sound of a nevermore twice the size of the one in initiation ripped off the back of the bullhead and launched its beak into the craft.

"Damn it!' kage yelled as he yanked the Gatling gun onto the never more as bullets ripped into its beak tearing up great gouts of flesh and bone send it flying back into the night. The victory was short lived as a griffon landed in the open hull. It's massive wings beat for a second before it gripped a female crewman with its beak ripping her clear from her cable tossing her outside of the bull head in one swipe. The monster roared as two more of its kind landed as the passengers opened fire...

The best shook and shuddered as bullets from the crew's rifles bounce harmlessly of their armor as luck shout hit their flesh and ripped of knuckle size wads of feather and flesh. The smell of ozone filled the air was the only warning Jaune got as Mika filled the back of the bullhead with chemical fire immolating the unwanted passengers in a gout of white death.

The Griffons shook and twitched as one of the monsters broke free of the inferno and charge Jaune. It was terrifying a seven-foot abomination of dark twisted muscle and rage, also it was on fire as the monster jumped at him red eyes blaring hatred, BANG! The monster's head exploded in a puff of gore as Juane turned to see Kage while continuously firing on the Nevermore had unholstered one pistol and shot the beast in the head.

As the creature fell back and slumped into a heap of fire and bones Jaune never felt so useless. As the ship soared the Grimm kept attacking. As more Griffons kept landing on the ships broken hull Juane wanted desperately wanted to charge them but his more tactically minded part of his brain stopped him.

As the Griffons jerked and shuddered by automatic rifle fire Juane knew that if he charged he would be interfering with the crews already shaking gun line. Jaune had never be moaned his lack of ranged weaponry before as the crew fired desperately at the Grimm the only saving grace for them was that luckily only three griffons could fit through the breach at a time somewhat limiting their numbers.

The Griffons would charge at them blinded by their own hatred only to met by a wave of unfaltering gunfire until they broke the halfway point, only then would the antic smell of ozone would fill Jaune's nose Mika would let out another gout of flame at the charging monster burning them back into pitiably yelling configurations.

As the flight crew fired away, Ruby and the Boss kept shooting blindly into the crawling Beowulf on the roof of the ship. As bursts of silver and blinding purple fired through the ships hull adding to the already deafening cacophony.

The battle was only worsened as the ship lurched violently and randomly as the Nevermore despite Kage's firing slammed into it;s side sending it skewing left and right sending the crew scattering only held aloft by their cables. As the crew scatted the griffon rallied and charged gaining precious yards before the shaky gun line could return fire on them.

As the battle raged another crewman was bisected by an errant claw form a window sending bright red blood dying into Jaune;s face as the dying man tried and failed to hold on his intestines the pilot's voice squawked over the intercom. "Hold on!"

She yelled as the ship suddenly lurched into a violent barrel roll. Sending the entire passenger department into free fall before slamming head first into the ceiling of the cabin.

Jaune's vision rolled as he saw a man impaled by the claws of a Beowulf before being drug outside of the cabin. Not the time! Jaune yelled as he reached out a hand and grabbed the man's arms hold on!

Jaune yelled as he gripped it tightly "I won't let you go!" He cried as the ship lurched again this time followed by the terrible sound of breaking wood and the screeching sound of tearing metal mixed with the cries of wounded animals before the ship righted itself causing everybody even the man Jaune was holding to suddenly and violently crash into the floor as the ship righted itself and soared into the night…

Much Later...

Bull head

Unknown location, somewhere in the wilds….

"We're here!" The Boss said as the ship began to descend the large holes in the side and back of the ship gave a decent view of the outside and a gentle breeze drifted through the hull we made it! Ruby said as the ship began its descent to Beacon. We lived.. Jaune thought as he nearly teared up at the prospect of seeing his friends again! Nora, ren, Pyrrha. As the ship lurched for the last time he noted that something was off...

Forests... There was too much of wilderness to be Beacon proper. Also, there was no city! Jaune looked and looked but could see no signs of Vale or anything he could deem remotely familiar. There was just an endless stream of a forest as they approached what appeared to be a giant cliff. What the hell?! Jaune thought the ship lurched and began its final descent, "Jaune?" Ruby asked as her eyes quaked in confusion "where are we?"

He was about to answer but was interrupted by the rhythmic sound of beating. Drums?! He thought he was imagining it but now it was clear someone somewhere was beating drums and loudly…

There were four massive fires that lit under his vision as he saw for pits of flames illuminating the night sky as he looked up his breath caught in his throat as saw something that looked more akin to a jagged claw than a building, a massive stone structure that was carved into the mountainside it was made of material so black that it appeared to be made of onyx. And shaped to resemble nothing more than a massive claw "where are we!?" Jaune asked as the beating of drums only got louder Jaune saw the giant structure they were approaching.

" What's going on!?" Jaune demand as the transport touched down.

"We're at your new home," Kage said as they stepped off the ship. As the boss, Mika and Winter deftly disembarked the bull head. "What?!"

He yelled at the fury present in his voice "what do you mean by new home?! This isn't the Academy! This isn't Beacon"

Kage look confused by this his brown eyes seemingly wondering what his comrade's concern was about before a knowing look appeared and he gives Juane a small smile. "Oh, they said they'd take you back to the Academy didn't they."

"Yes!" Jaune raged at him before seeing the small smile grow into a grin. "They didn't say which academy though did they," Kage said before bowing to him in an overt gesture of greetings " I know this is a bit rushed for you two but I guess I should be the first to greet you to your new home!" Kage said as Jaunes face grew a look of true hopelessness s Kage bowed to him in extravagant gesture. "Welcome… to Bastion…"