: It's that time boys. Bastion update! This is the las of the guys Arc! Let's see how many of them end up with all their body parts in the same place why don't we?

"I don't suppose you two would surrender? Despite how I appear I do not like killing unnecessarily so I would much prefer it if you did surrender." The white fang leader said as he lifted his massive chainsaw in the air as Jaune and Zach aimed their weapons at him.

"Not a chance Mittens! You're going down then this whole damned base is going down with you!" Zach shouted as the faunus sighed as he revved up his gargantuan chain sword.

"Mittens? Is that because I am a cat?"

"Ding! Ding! Ding! Looks like he's smarter than your average cat! What do you think about that Jaune? Is this animal smarter than the rest?"

"I don't think you should be insulting the man with a giant chainsaw!"

"Thank you, Jaune was it? I am not an unreasonable man although I do not like to be insulted. If you could convince your rather rude friend to surrender that would be much appreciated."

The faunus said as he took a step forward. His massive black combat boot struck the metal floor with a minor thunderclaps, as his impossibly muscled thighs clenched with movement. The man shifted his weight as Jaune and Zach instinctively split to surround him, the other member of their party Six was away in the base monitoring the channels to see if Bastion Death Korps was breaking through. He had orders to bring help if their guy got in and they were still fighting. Kage was holding off a mass of fang members alone and Jaune and Zach had the leader to kill.

As the mass man if that word applied stepped forward to them chainsaw in hand. Jaune gulped as he took in the sheer weight of the man in front of him. He initially but the man around eight feet tall, but every step he took he seemed to grow and grow until he was now easily above nine feet and gaining length with each movement.

As he walked his massive muscles pulse and tensed as his meaty arms swung the chainsaw upward. Seriously! It looked someone had just decided that you know what this massive monster of a man needs? More muscles! And had then proceeded to add slab after slab of musculature and forgot to say when.

As his tanned skin pulsed and stretched, his death mask gave no hint of what face he had and only a mass of straight black hair was an indicator of what he looked like underneath his mask. The only other indication the man gave them of a personality was the oddly calm and strangely polite tone he used to speak, he sounded like a calm reasonable man who just happened to be working with a terrorist organization based on genocide and racism. And not just another deluded fanatic.

As the man walked Jaune regretted the two on one fight, wishing with all his heart that he had made Kage stay as his massive pistol would easily be a huge asset in this literal David vs. Goliath moment. As the man stepped forward.

"Yeah, Yeah! You're a polite bastard, but that's not enough to keep you breathing you dig?" Zack Asked as he flexed his pistol swinging them in his hands like a knife wielder would show off a blade, using their bayonets as fulcrums to swing the sparkling green sidearms.

"Are you always this rude? Or is this because I am a member of the white fang?"

"Eh? Don't know don't care now die!" Zach shouted as he and Jaune both finally got into circling positions and attacked the man.

Jaune instantly sprung forwards Crocea Mors raised high as he was instantly struck at by the mas chainsaw. The monster of a weapon easily half the height of the man himself barely grazed his shield as the sounds of gnashing metal teeth filled his dears. It was like somebody as tearing air, with the loudest industrial saw even in existence as a weapon that was fit to be on a logger machine ripped through the air.

FIT! FIT! FIT!

The sound of gunfire filled the air as Jaune felt something hot and wet hit his back as he slid underneath the man's' legs take his sword and striking the man's shins getting a decent strike but one that was protected by his aura nonetheless as he got out of his side he saw the fang member blocking green bolts with his chainsaw as Zach forced him backward.

The man grunted in pain as bolt after bolt cracked into his chainsaw as Zach altered his fire. Green energy shot and ripped into the metal object giving a loud BRAN! Sound as another bolt hit and ate into his flesh. Completely bypassing his aura as the man grunted in pain.

"Aura piercing rounds? Those are illegal you know?" The man and said as Zach forced him back under a wave of wave of green energy. As he was forced back Jaune finally felt the wet liquid on his back as he reached a hand over to see what it was. Blood, blood covered his back and hands making his gloves and silver armor. It must be from him, Jaune thought as the man was forced back before sighed once and smashed a hand on a terminal.

Instantly there was a sound of charging energy before a wave blue of energy smashed into the room stopping the guns fire as Jaune braced himself for the pain. It never came. The magnetic field passed right through him as the sound of gunfire stopped and Zach swore.

"Hey, hey, hey! What's the big idea!? Do you have any idea how much these guns cost? I made them myself, and now some overgrown fur enthusiast just fries their circuits? Not cool man! Not cool!"

Zach said as the white fang member came out of his guard and sighed deeply.
"For one, you do realize that your choice of a weapon violated several laws and the Vacuo convention right? And two you were trying to kill me. Why does it matter that I defended myself?" The man asked as he began to jog forward to them, the bright red holes in his flesh slowly healing as boss spilled on the cold grey metal of the ground.

"I guess it doesn't matter in the end. Jaune you ready? Because it looks like we do this the old-fashioned way." Zach said as he flipped his gun over in a surprising display of dexterity as he pointe the sharp sickly green bayonets at the man.

"I guess we stab him to death?" Jaune said as Zac finally laughed at him.

"There we go! There's the killings spirit I'm talking about! I know the call you the White Knight, but I got your number! You're killed just like me, just like Kage! Not like Ruby or Mika, those psychos actually like what they do. Well less Ruby more Mika, but you get my point." Zach said as the man stepped forward chainsaw raised and charged them.

The next few minutes of Jaune's life flashed by in a blur of weapon flashes, flying sparks and tearing metal, it was almost as if he was in some kind of a trance as he sprinted forward ducking a massive weapon that could quickly kill him in one strike aura or not. He saw the gigantic grinding teeth of the weapon each one the size of a baseball, and each one gnashing and rain as he slid under the blade as it stuck a computer terminal. Sparks flashed out as the sound of metal on metal filled the air, and the man in a display of dexterity that should be impossible with conventional physics merely riposted his weapon swing it back effortlessly nearly bisecting Jaune in the process.

Zach for his part was no slouch, he might be a bigoted, angry, asshole but the boy could fight. He ducked and dived under the man's massive overhead arcs in a way that would have mad Ren green with envy, as he parried the massive weapon. The fact that he could even deflect the massive weapon with little more than his bayonets was a testament to his skill with the weapon as the man grunted in frustration as the bayonets showed their true potential.

AHH! The man cried as Zach stabbed both of his bayonets into the man's kneecap, the green blades piercing his aura as the dug into the soft flesh than the bone of the man's knee. The man screamed in pain and tried to deliver a punishing backhand, which Zach expertly dodged before slashing up and stabbing the man in his passing arm. The man cried out again as the green bayonet dug into his skin splitting it apart into thick veiny pieces as he ripped open the man's arm.

The floor was covered in bright blood as Zach rolled out of a powerful curbstomp that sent shock waves through the room as the man gripped his bleed arm as his aura started to repair the damage that had been done. '

"Is there any part of your armaments that do not break some law, or violate an international treaty?" The man asked as he flexed his massive muscled arm, wincing in pain as his flesh was restitched by his aura as long streams of blood painted the grounds.

'Who cares? You're going to be pushing up daisies in a minute so what's the point? Although I doubt you will be pushing up anything. Once we're done with we'll probably torch your corps, two this moody place has no life! Nothing lives here, and I doubt we are dragging your ass back to Bastion to act as fertilizer."

"As you say, I was trying to make this a peaceful arrangement, but you leave me no choice." The man said as he bent his knees breathing in one and jumped at the teens.

The following moments were the most frantic of Jaune' Arc life. As the man literally leaped at them showing amounts of agility and dexterity completely at odds with his muscled framework as he lept into them and proceeded to strike with the speed of a sugar-crazed Ruby or syrup rushed Nora.

The man's weapon roared time and time again as it flashed out forcing both boys t the defensive as they were forced to break their attack and go on the back foot. Dodging, ducking parrying and even rolling out of the way of that massive weapon. Jaune knew from experience that blocking such a weapon would be a pointless endeavor, sparing against Nora and Yang had given him quite the fortitude for taking punches but this form sheer blunt damage and this weapon was not that type of enemy.

As he dove out of the way of the massive silver weapon, the thing ripped a terminal in two in a shower of sparks as he struck to the side trying to make Jaune block his attack. Jaune was too smart to fall for it as instead of bracing himself and readying his shield he hit the deck and rolled underneath the thing roaring teeth as he stopped, dropped and rolled out of the attack coming up underneath the man's guard and getting a solid hit to his knee before ducking away as the man swore in pain, as his trap field to ensnare the young human as his aura took the hit.

The problem with fighting chainsaws or other ripping weapons as his colonel in the Death Korps had once expertly demonstrated was that unlike a mere blunt weapon a ripping weapon does not merely strike your body or armor and dent it. It strikes your armor or flesh and starts to eat.

What that basically boiled down to was that even if Jaune could block the weapon the things teeth would begin to work on the surface of his shield, as each tooth tore and grasped. Each one is trying desperately to find something for it to eat into as the weapon tried to rip his flesh from his bones. Even if his shield was strong enough to withstand the weapon if the teeth found any other purchase the man might be able to rip his arm off in a shower of blood and bone and the fight would end there. As the man cursed, Jaune was reminded of the similar chain weapon the Death Korps colonel used in the training demonstration on ripping weapons.

The weapon was a similar type of the chainsaw, but it was more like a chainsword than anything else. As the man went on to explain that unlike a normal sword or blunt weapon when a ripping weapon hits something it bites into it. Its teeth will try to tear and leave the armor of flesh of a target as each tooth attempt to chip away the armor, as the teeth grind down the protection of a target like water to a stone.

Although the chain weapon was terrifying, it did have weaknesses. If the teeth stuck an object, they should not break they might chip and break. Rendering the weapon dull, or the weapon might get stuck in something soft, or that does not give. This weapon was meant to strike hard surfaces and gouge them apart if the surfaces with too much give to hit something that could wrap around their blades their motors could clog rendering them nearly useless except as blunt instruments.

As Jaune dodged the horribly complex back strike of the man, as he literally stabbed his chainsaw behind him in a perfect backward and nearly flipping himself over in the process as Jaune dove around him.

Zach took the initiative and stabbed into the man's sides terin into the flesh before diving out a reverse swipe that nearly took his legs off at the heels. As they fought back and forth, the man became increasingly, distressed. Jaune couldn't place his finger on it but the man was becoming off. His strikes got slower, he moved sluggishly and he looked like he was going to collapse! As the man stopped fighting as he rested against a terminal breathing heavily.

"I sent for men some time ago. I wonder where they are?" He asked as he shot a hand forward in an attempt to catch one of them and drag them in close for his chainsaw to work, and nearly succeed. As Jaune was pushed back out the way by Zacha s the boy pair and tore out the man's wrist tendon making him howl as the man right wrist hung limply useless as he shifted his chainsaw to a one-handed carry.

"That would be because of our boy Kage, he's a moody son of a bitch, but he knows how to fight," Zach said as he wiped the blood from the man's wrist onto his light green armor as the man cursed.

"I need more men." He said as he spoke to a voice in his ear and took a guarded positions.

"I have forty men coming from the other side of the base. They will be here momentarily I suggest you surrender. Is so I will make sure you endure no undue suffering at your executions."

"Hah, you say you have forty men? You'll need more than that buddy cause we got you surrounded!" Zachs said as he took his bayonets, and put them down. Taking his weapon for an putting them at his side as he started to make intricate symbols with his fingers as he stared at the man.

"Zach what the hell are you doing!?" Jaune hissed at him as the boy continued to talk.

"You say forty? You're going to need over double that estimate buddy if you want to deal with the forty hunters we have in this room!" Zach said as Jaune nearly dropped his sword. His ally of convenience, as that was what he was not a real friend, not even a Kage level friend said as he apparently lost his mind and began to speak to the man.

"Yeah, we got you surrounded big guy. There are over forty armed hunters in this room with us, and you're going down!" Zach said as Jaune knew he was going to die. He had lost his mind; there was only them in this room an-

"Where did you all come from!? Guards! We have a major breach in the base! Call back the men from the front line to contain this! Yes, I Know your fight the frontal assault, but we need back up dammit!" He swore as he pointed his chainsaw to the room, holding it one-handed as he aimed it all around.

"Stay back! I know there are more of you them before, but I can still kill half of you!" He shouted as Jaune knew he had lost it. He looked all around him, to see nothing. He looked to his left; he looked to his right. There was only the dull silver floor, the mass of computer terminals and the large overarching control panel behind the man. There was no one else in the room beside them as the man panicked.

"Yeah man, there are over forty armed and ready hunters in this room all ready to take you down. All we need to do is say when!" Zach said as he kept eye contact with the man as he started to panic.

"They are going to attack you any second now, just you see."
"Stay back! All of you! I'm warning you! I'll kill all of you!" The man yelled before he began to swing the chainsaw blindly into thin air, not once hitting something but making large Whooshing sounds as swung his weapon clumsily with one hand.

"Whoops! Almost had one there! Too bad they are all over you. It looks like you're being swamped!"

"I'll kill all of you!" The man shouted to literally nobody as he swung his blade blindly.

Where did they all come from?! The white fang lieutenant shouted internally as the mob of hunters suddenly swarmed the room. At first there was just the two students, not even full hunters but for soldiers of a corrupt and insane industry that treated children like cattle. Then the hunters came.

They came from literally nowhere, one second it was just the three of them then they were everywhere! Men, women all armed to the teeth and all combat ready stormed into the room before encircling him. The man panicked as he saved them off. The line of men and women all dressed in a variety of bright colors and wielding all manners of ranged and melee weapon's who hesitated once then swarmed him.

"I'll kill you all!" He shouted as he swung his chainsaw clumsily, cursing the loss of his wrist to the illegal weapons of the youth. As he swung his weapon, the man and woman easily dodge out of his way as he fended them off.

"Too bad you can't hit anything. It looks the end for you."

The voice of the black haired youth said as his chainsaw missed again and again. As the men and women began to strike him.

"Looks like they are finally hurting you!" The youth said as the man saw his flesh rip apart.

He screamed in agony as bright red gouges were torn from his flesh. As blades, cudgels, maces, and bullets ripped into his flesh. Where is my aura?! He thought as he can in pain as he felt a strike take off his legs.

"There go your legs! It looks like you won't be walking anymore." The youth said as a scythe took his leg off at the knees.

He screamed in sheer agony as lighting flashed trough is vein as his right leg was cut in two as his left was blown apart at the knee. As the man fell to the ground, he knew the end was near and decided to not die in agony.

"Kill me! Please! Don't let me bleed like a pig." The man said as he fell to the ground collapsing into gagged breaths as he felt a shadow come to him.

"If you say so." The youth said as he put his bayonet on the throat and slit it ear to ear.

Jaune. Was. Stunned. One second he had been fighting for his life against a superior opponent the next moment said superior opponent was gone. Talking to himself sworn that he was surrounded by an army of hunters, as the man fell to his knees screaming in agony before being Zach to kill him.

"If you say so," Zach said as he walked up the man's prone form who sat on both knees legs tack back under him having suddenly gone limp before he slit his throat killing him in a wave of blood.

"That's that! Kid! Call command and tell them that the refinery is secure and they have us to thank for it!" Zach said as he calmly walked away from the white fang lieutenants corps as Jaune for. "You all right Jaune? You look like you've seen a ghost." Zach said as Jaune lost it.

"What the hell was that?!" Jaune asked the boy's black eye blinked once at him.
"What the hell was what?"
"That! The whole you're surrounded by hunters!? The hell were you talking about and why did he suddenly believe it!?" Jaune asked as Zach's face turned into a smug smile.

"That was my semblance."
" Your semblance?"
"You guessed it! My semblance won us that fight! It takes it a second to work but once it does oh boy!" "What does it do?"
"It makes you hallucinate," Zach said as he saw Jaune's mouth drop.

'It makes you hallucinate?"

"Sure does! Let me give you an example of it! Jaune you remember last night? When I showed you me power point presentation?" Zach asked as he saw Jaune's eyes twitch. Jaune had nearly forgotten about that horrible presentation as he grit his teeth.

"Yeah, what about it?"
"Tell me about it."
"What?"
"Tell me what I showed you. I'm not asking a lot, spitballing really, just tell me what my main points were. The three things I said to you to convince you that woman are not people." Zach said s Jaune paused.

"I… I.." He said as he fought to remember what Zach had sia actually. He remembered it so clearly! But it was eluding him; it was like seeing a line in your eyes. The things that float into your vision once can go away when you focus on them. As he struggled to remember Jaune drew a blank.

"I don't-
"You don't remember do you?" Zach asked as Jaune's jaw dropped.

"You tricked me?"

"More like you tricked yourself. You see my semblance lets me influence your brain. It takes me a moment to set it up because everybody's brain is different after all, but once set up? I. Am. In! I Can make you see or feel anything just by talking about it. You should see how it works for the ladies!" Zach's said as it all made sense.

"The commander… He started seeing hunters because you told him there were hunters!"
"Yup."

"And he only started taking damage because you said he was!"

"There we go! Winner winner! Chicken dinner!" Zach said as he laughed aloud before starting to walk out of the room.

"But wait! What about last night in the trench! How do you make me… partial to your powerpoint?"

"Simple! You see everybody including your has notions! And like everything else they can be broken. I know you believe women are people they are by the way. I was just testing you to see how you like your ideals poked. But I also know that your ideals just like everyone thing elses that beliefs are based on what others have taught you and are not necessarily invulnerable. I just had to tell you that it was a powerpoint that would convince you that they were not people and your brain would make you see a power point it would."

" Over the years I've found it to be much easier to be vague in my deceptions, I found it works much better when I let people's minds do the work for me," Zach said as he began to walk outside the room.

"But! What about the powerpoint! Do you actually have a power point presentation on you right now?"
"Uh no, fuck would I put it?" He asked as Jaune slapped himself in the face.

"It was all a mirage."
"More or less although before we leave let me give you some free advice from a concerned friend."
"We are not friends Zach."
"Of course we are! Any students in Bastion that can spend more than four hours around each other without killing, stealing, robbing or assaulting one another are automatically Bastion buddies!"
"That's a low bar for friendship."
" Of course it is, now listen up. What I said last night was true. Jaune woman aren't people." Zach said watching Jaune fume before interrupting him.

"I'm not finished! Woman aren't people, men aren't people, nobody in our school is a person! in Bastion, there are two types of beings. Yourself and meat."

Jaune I'll be honest here. I like you I really do. You seem like a good sort, and that's a rare thing in Bastion. You look the guy who actually wants to help people and while that's great! It will get you killed."

"They call you the White Knight of Bastion but that title has a weight to it. I see it in you, remember how I read people? Well, I do and let me tell you that everybody is a junkie! Especially you Jaune. We all have our fix, your's is your friends. You want to save people you have a compulsive need to want to help them, but let me say this once. In Bastion there is you and there is meat."

"Everyone and anyone that you see that is not you is meat. They. Are. Not. People. Do not see them as such. See them as objects, as tools to be used and discarded when they no longer suit your purposes, because to them that's all you ever are. And sooner or later each and every last one of them from the psychos you sleep with, back to the loving and trusting teammates in Beacon will betray you and leave you to hang like a pile of meat. Because to everyone else in the world that is what you are. Meat." Zach said before Jaune spoke.

"Ruby's not like that. I've known her for almost a year and I will tell you for a fact. That she is one of in not the single kindest mot loving trusting person I have ever know And she would never use abuse or mistreat me or anybody else period!"

" Kage is not like that. Sure he's moody sometimes but I can tell that he would never abandon me or Ruby. Hell, even Mika is not like that. Sure she might be batshit insane but I think she in her own unique way cares about the entirety of team ARKM. I"ll be honest, even if I don't know them very well or at all. Zach, they are my family. And as twisted, eccentric of flat-out insane they may be there is nothing you can ever do or say to make think for a moment to consider them as anything less then living beings."

"We are all living things, and I want to help as much as possible. Even you. I've never been one to abandon people when I think I can help them and I won't start today." Jaune said making Zach sigh n frustration as he rubbed his bloodied bayonets through his black hair.

"You wan to save people in Bastion? Trust me I've been in this hell for two years now and believe me when I say this! No one and I mean no one in Bastion needs saving because nobody wants it. You are wasting your time with this white knight nonsnese, Get with the program look at Kage be like Kage! Do not become Kage but act like him. Cold, smart professional! Do that and you might just might see those freinds of yours again." Zach said as he finished his speacha nd waved Jauen forward.

Zach said as he finished his speech and waved Jauen forward.

"Come on man! We go to go! Don't want command to wait for us you know?"

"But what about Kage?" "That moody bastard? He's probably down on the bottom of the base with Six right about now. That moody shit won't let some bastard kill him, not until he gets what he came here for." Zach said Jaune paused.

"That moody bastard? He's probably down on the bottom of the base with Six right about now. That moody shit won't let some bastard kill him, not until he gets what he came here for." Zach said Jaune paused.

"What did Kage come here for?" Jaune asked as he saw Zach grin. As the boy buy a green blood smeared bayonet to his throat in a thinking gesture.

"You'll have to ask him yourself won't you?" Zach said as the two walked out of the room...

"You should have brought more men," Kage said as he sighed once and began to trot.

"Get him!"
"He's right in front of us!"
"Give me a shot!"

Do they ever stop talking? Kage wondered as he leisurely strolled up to the white fang before drawing his pistols and firing. BANG! The first white fang member popped like a grape as his body was torn in two. A bright green flash filled the room as his aura went critical as it below into pieces as he was torn to shreds.

"He got Perry!"
"You asshole!"

"Do you ever stop talking?" Kage asked as he leveled both pistols and began to squeezed the triggers and fired.

The fang popped like grapes under a boot as he unloaded round after round of shells into them.

One shot three kills. Kage thought as he aimed his guns. BANG! The reactive mass shells fired ripped clean through the first man in its path. They never even had time to scream as the miniature rockets overload their aura with sheer concussive force s they popped like cans of soda.

As the rounds traveled he grimaced as the waste of ammunition. Bolt rounds were not meant to kill unarmoured targets. They're meant to pierce and crack the hardest armor known to man. As their specialized explosives did damage based on the mass of a target. They were meant to impact large enemies, penetrate their armor explode and have the concussive force damage the rest of their target.

Since these enemies were almost made of literal paper the rounds tore clean through the first man, and the second, and the third man in their paths. Before finally reaching the end of their flight arc where their mass reactive cores would instantly detonate filling the hallways with razor-sharp shrapnel and sending the surrounding faunus screaming and howling to the floor as long jagged metallic shrapnel shards imbedded themselves into their flesh.

Since these enemies were almost made of literal paper as they tore clean through the first man, and the second, and the third man in their paths. Before finally reaching the end of their flight arc where their mass reactive cores would instantly detonate filling the hallways with razor-sharp shrapnel and sending the surrounding faunus other less as bases of jagged metal embed themselves into their flesh.

As he fired his shells, Kage sighed at the tedium of the task at hand. These men were no challenge, and the thought of another slaughter saddened him. When was the last time I had a real fight? Kage wondered to himself as he jogged forward. BANG!BANG!

He fired again and again into the mass of faunus, each shot from the massive pistols sent his arms flying back before he casually reloaded them and counted to fire. BANG!

Each shot struck as and each shot killed. As his rounds pulped the charging faunus, limbs were shorn off, stomachs were liquified, ribcages collapse inwards, and spinal columns were turned into grisly versions of rain resembling a macabre version of a pinata exploding as he jogged forward.

The Faunus started coming at him like a wave. A wave of angry uncoordinated and belligerent opponents. A mass of ill-trained poorly lead and unprofessional soldiers that stood no chance against any real army unit let alone him. As he sprinted forward as the wave began to break.

As their comrade's bodies were bisected, liquefied, pulped, and blown into hundreds of pieces. Some faunus thought they stood a better chance at life if they ran the opposite way down the hallway away from the man currently butchering them, like they were cattle and he the slaughterer.

Kage sighed once again as the inevitable happened. When you do not have an organized retreat this happens. Men racing forward collided with men running back. Bodies slammed into each other as men collided and crashed in their frenzied attempts to escape the monster at the head of their pack. It made little difference to Kage whether the fled or fought. If they got in his way, they would die, if the didn't? They would die. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but all living things die. It was the natural order of life for all thing was born and, all. Things. Die.

"Except me." kAge said as the faint almost imperceptible edges of a smile formed on his face as the once rowdy and inorganic charged descended into a messy quagmire of blooded dying men screaming for their mothers or for merciful death, as their comrades ran backward some dragging pulped maimed crippled or half dead allies with them. Others eschewed their erstwhile comrade's others ran back in a every man of himself gesture of survivability.

Kage respected that in a man, the dier to live was in very living creatures and thos the shoe it always had some respect in his heart. As he lightly jogged some faunus even be fighting themselves. As they ran into men from behind who called them cowards as the one in front called them fools.

Blows were trend knifes shells and guns fired as Kage sighed again. Amateurs. He thought himself as his firearms finally ran out ammunition and he stepped into the quagmire of blood, intestines, guts, and viscera. The faunus never had time to scream as Kage was upon them.

The first man died quickly as Kage reloaded his pistols and blew his brain apart. The man dropped like a sack of bricks Kage's face was splattered with hot blood making his bronze skin match that of his armor. The bolt round tore through the man head burst his aura in half, before doing the same to two more unfortunate white fang members before finally reaching its destination of a crowd of faunus where it detonated turning five more members of the fang into bloody confetti.

Ah well, he sighed as the faunus finally reacted to his presence. There was a mixed reaction as they reacted predictably to the daemon the their midst. Some panicked and redoubled their efforts to fell, others begged and cried for quick deaths and others still huddle up into balls of the fetal position as red armor boot stomped through the bloodied hallways.

Kage paid those faunus no mind as he jogged the ones that caught his attention where the one to stand and fight. Either by some perverse fight or flight mechanics, sheer desperation, or wanting revenge at their butcher they attempt to swarm him in a mass of clawing fangs, rifle buts, and bayonets.

They. All. Died.

The first three men died as a series of pistol shot put bowling ball sized holes into their stomach throat and head. As their bodies dropped the remainder of the faunus that could charge and were not incapacitated or cowering attacked him.

BANG! BANG!
The antic stink of bolt ammunition filled his nose as another tow faunus were pulped bloodily by a bolt round. The remaining fang faltered for one critical second and sealed their fate. They never really had a chance, but they might have scared his armor if they managed to swarm him. As they paused, he was upon them.

CRACK!

One man's skull was crumpled as he swung his pistol but down in a brutal downward arc that pulped the man's head like a melon, as he crushed it in one brutal swing.

The man's head crumpled like a soda can as his body dropped to the floor showering the area with blood, bones, and brains. As the sitting car from his left. He instantly grabbed the faunus man arm breaking it and shooting him in the face. BANG!
The man's face turned into a grotesque bang of bone shrapnel as his face popped like a balloon. FHATUH! Kage said as he spat out a price of the man's brains from his lips. "I never liked the taste," Kage said absentmindedly as he pivoted the and took a three-shot burst at the faltering faunus killing them all before tossing the dead body to the ground as he continued to attack.

The few faunus that could fight were up and on him and still, they all died. But, seeing how ammunition for his weapons was not easy to make Kage opted for his least favorite style of combat, melee.

Kage was unusual amongst most Bastion students as he not only did not have a shifting weapon he only used ranged combat. When able and within reason of course. Kage had a personal disdain for melee combat. Hating the part where he had to run towards the people trying to kill him braving feet if not miles incoming ranged firepower only for some ghost of a chance to maybe make it into melee range to try to hack down as many enemies as possible before being blown apart in a shower of blood and las fire.

Now ranged combat was another story entirely. Mainly because unlike melee combat which was random, brutal and most of all pointlessly risky. Melee just didn't make sense.

Unlike ranged combat, that made sense. Sitting back picking off enemies from a nice comfortable distance why they tried pointlessly time and time again to get within an inch of your guns was the preferred and if he was honest the only real way to engage in warfare.

Now Kage was no fool, and he knew that melee combat did have it' uses. Such as now. When he was sin the thick of things with the fang and he no longer wished to uses his ammunition. He took a deep breath as he focused his mind and slipped into a battle trance. Time dipped and slowed as Kage remembered the hours of melee training Hino drilled into him, quite literally drilled that is as he began to act.

Limbs, arms, and legs all shot out to mar his journey. The few surviving fang were trying to mob him down with sheer weight of numbers. A tactic that might have worked if not for two things. One they were desperate, their attacks clumsy and unskilled. Two, that was Venke Kage. He had been killing his entire life, and he knew how to handle a brawl, that and his Bastion training, armor and semblance made him all but impervious to their strikes.

As he beat and bludgeoned and smashed his way through the fang arms snapped in half, limbs were broken in two and taken away in beaten bloodied stumps. He sang his pistols like improvised clubs, breaking skulls and shattering spines as he swung and bashed his way through. Men and woman cried and screamed as their, limbs, throats and head all vanished under metal pistol butts, as their throats were caved in by armored elbows as he bullied his way through the mob of desperate, terrified men, as she hit and smashed, broke and pulped eventually the mob of men became less and less present and eventually the men left to attack him all but vanished as his combat trance left him as he snapped awake.

He was alone in a hallway, was stained red with blood, intestines littered the floor and hung loosely around his armour like macabre types of sausages. The walls were littered with crushed and crumpled bodies as the terrible squelching sound of his boots cruchingbones and breaking bodies entered his head, The entire hallway was a damned charnel house, a vision straight out of hell, macabre enough even for the worst of Dante's visions, to have pride, he had just single handily butchered over forty men and all he could think about it was one word.

"Huh." He said simply sighed as he open a door, " The damned mechanicus better be thankful I got them this." Kage said she walked into the door leaving that vision straight out of hell and entering an all-new one...

"Kage you made it!" Six, said s the tall bloodstained form of Venke Kage sauntered out in the now Bastion occupied refinery. "Yup I made it." He said in his usual dull monotone level of speaking as he eyed his leader and despite his action his best friend.

"See! I told you the moody fuck wouldn't die so easily! You need to stop worrying so much! Zach said as Jaune stepped away from the other and strode up to was off about his leader. As his normally light blue eyes were cold and piercing as he reached him.

"What did you come here to get?" Jaune asked in a steel tone as Kage pulled out a metal orb from his back pouch.

"This," Kage said as he mollified his leader. Jaune had been expecting Kage to lie about having an ulterior motive, but boy simply showed him a bright silver ball that assed to fit easily into the palm of his hand.

"What is that?" Jaune aside as he eyed the object.

"Arco-tech. The techies at Bastion wanted it, so they asked me to give it to them. For a fee of course." kage said as protected the object before he heard Zach Swear.

"Colonel! Look sharp!" He hissed as the towering form of the Bastion death Korps colonel came marching to their group.

"Gentlemen! I see you have done a swell job taking this refinery! I also seem to have you to thank for the rout of the white fang forces during our battle at he front. I take it you had something to do with half the enemy forces suddenly turning and running away from our lines before we routed them?"

"Yes, sir! It walls part of the plan to take this base as quickly and as soon as possible sir!" Zach says the gas masked man eyed him.

"Strange, I don't remember telling you to sneak attack this base? In fact, I remember having a vox operator specifically tell you to join the front attack, what happened to that?"

"We were having Vox difficulties, sir! Our iniation student was having trouble reading the Vox we apologize for the inconvenience, sir!" Zach said as the man sighed and grabbed his plasma pistol from the side of his uniform.

"Normally I would have you all shot for insubordination. But since you did successfully retake the refinery I am will to overlook this… the technical difficulty this once. Do not have any more Vox problems in the future. Until then take some time to relax evacuation is on its way in thirty until then you are dismissed." the man stated as he stalked off leaving the boys to sign a collective sigh of relief before six yelled.

"Hey look girls!" He said as the four tun to use as sight from hell.

Left to right stood the bloodied, mud covered absolutely filthy forms of, Hino, Ruby, Krix, and Mika. All the girls were covered in blood and intestines as their face was marred by dirt and debris as they all had looks of anger and frustration in their eyes.

"What took you lot so long? You missed all the fun! Pfftt! Woman." Zach said as the girls looked ready to kill them….

: Well there we go! Another Bastion chapter down with a new semblance! Trust me all the characters in Bastion have their own semblance and they get pretty wild. The nest one is the beginning of the girl's arc where we see how the fairer sex did during this fiasco! Until then I'm off to work on Endangered species! lasts stand rarely if ever end well so here's to that! Untill next time!