:OK! Bastion's back! And this time we see things from the girls perspective! What trouble did they get into during their odd separation from the guys? Did anything happen in the bunker? Well, let's find out!
"You missed all the fun!" Zach said to the line of approaching girls who all looked ready to murder as they glared at him.
Ruby was covered in dark mud as her prosthetic eye whirred on him. Mika was equally sullied, with her once fine furs bathed in mud and filth, Hino looked irritated at even breathing, and Krix looked like she was going to eviscerate him before he spoke up.
"What took so long?"
Earlier….
"Run!" Jaune yelled as he led his team over the trenches into the hell of bullets and shrapnel as team ARKM charged over the badlands trenches and into the fight.
"Gah!" Ruby cried as a mortar shell rocked her small frame as a dull Whump! Crack! Filled the air as the young girl sprinted forward. The air was filled with the sound of running screaming children followed by a sharp Bang! As weapons fire tore into their ranks. Light filled her eyes as her vision went white as she sprinted through the hard dead earth of the badlands. It was a vision of hell around her.
Students of all types were being ripped apart and chewed up like pieces of meat. As bombs detonated in their midst as shrapnel reeved their surroundings taking a bloody toll of all aura and nonaura users. As the harsh Crack! Of automatic weapons fire filled the air as students suddenly and awkwardly pitched forward and fell onto crumpled heaps of flesh never to stir again on the cold dead earth, as she watched them die as they were yanked backward off the ground as if some giant invisible hand had suddenly pulled them back and yanked them off the ground and slammed them into the cold blood filled mud.
Ruby panicked, as the screams and cries of the dead and dying filled her ears followed by the harsh Whump! Bang! Of artillery shells struck the ground as the sound of shrieking shrapnel-filled her ear, it was too much! The young girl had grown used to killing in the arena, she even enjoyed it. Where there was a purpose! Where there was a goal that was both clear and outlined! She killed or be killed, and that was it! But this? This trench warfare!? This was madness!
It was sheer anarchy around her as students of all ages were butchered into bright body pieces right in front of her face. As supersonic projectiles tore heads from bodies and ripped limbs from arms. Bullets shredded into initiate students tuning them into bloodied bullet filled sacks of flesh filled with broken bodies and flapping flesh, or they bounced off aura clad students in bright flashes of blue or white before eventually ripping to into their aura and blowing them apart.
It was madness, chaos, anarchy, every type of hell imaginable played out in front of her face as students were blown pack by bullets, ripped apart by shards of shrapnel or simply gone into bright plums of fire and smoke.
As artillery stuck into their lines deafening her ears and sending her sprawling as the concussive force of the shells threatened to smash the small girl head first into the ground. All of this was made worse by the literal plethora of information given to her by her eye. It was going absolutely haywire! Pointing out firing points from the enemy trench emplacements, as a world of crimson information filled her eyes as she saw the exact moment and time each student died in brilliant detail as her eye struggled to point out exactly what was killing her allies and where it had come from.
As she sprinted forward her eye screwed forward making Ruby cry aloud as tears fell from her good eye as her prosthetic focused on the enemy machine gun emplacements and demanded she fired upon the gunner as it spoke to her so she did.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Ruby fired Crescent Rose three times and each bullet hit a faunus gunner in the head blowing them back blasting out the back of their brains in brilliant showers of blood as the fire on her fellow student lessened slightly. As they ran the machine gun fire slacked but the artillery fire did not lessen or take any breaks.
As she ran, her eye was going insane plotting courses and paths for her to escape the deadly barrage of rapid firing metal as the familiar Whump! Crack! Of artillery filled the air as she sprinted forward.
: RUBY, ENEMY FIRE TO INTENSE! TAKE EVASIVE MANEUVERS! Her eye said to her as it laid out a plan for her to evade the artillery fire.
"What?! You can talk to me!?" Ruby yelled to her eye as sprinted forward.
TAKE EVASIVE ACTION! NOW!
"Why would I listen to you!?" Ruby shouted to her eye as she ran forward into a hail of metal, fire, and death.
: JUST DO IT! UNLESS YOU WANT TO DIE THAT IS!
Her eye yelled at her through the painful blood red screen as Ruby gritted her teeth as she eschewed her death korps training and activated her semblance. As the students charged Ruby ran, she ran and ran and ran. She had no idea where she was foin but anywhere was better than here! Ruby wanted to be home, she wanted to be in Beason back with team RWBY or team JNPR, hell she would even take Bastion's dorms! As another sharp artillery fire stuck by her sending her world into chaos and Ruby spiraling hard into the cold dead earth.
The world around her was a vision straight out of hell, blood fire death screaming the cacophony of death and violence overcame the girl's mind as eye kept giving her sights and routes as she forced all input from her sight and ran... She ran and ran and never stopped.
As she sprinted, she found a familiar from tackling her and forcing her into the mouth of an enemy trench as she smacked into the ground hard.
"GAH!" Ruby cried out in pain as her aura blocked her injury, she was going to scream at her abuser, but her voice was cut out of her as a WOSH! Of flame entered the trench robbing it of air as Ruby fought to breathe. "GAK!" The girl cried as raging white flame entered the trench as the familiar scent of ozone filled her nostrils as she saw the nightmarish visage of Mika grinning with glee as she hosed down half the channel in the baleful chemical fire of her flamer Chamberlin. The girl's face was forced into a manic grin as she wore a pair of emerald goggle over her eyes as the girl's flames flickered back on her face giving her a genuinely nightmarish visage as the screams of the dying filled the trench line as the faunus were cooked alive.
Ruby gaked as a large black hand slammed into her chest forcing out her lungs as the thick chemical smoke from the flamethrower choked out the air as it washed along the left side of the trench.
As the horrible cries of the famous being cooked alive filled the air and the terrible stench of cooking meat filled her nostrils, Ruby was grabbed by her arm as Mika leaped into the trench putting her flamethrower to the side and grabbing her arm.
"Come on friend Ruby! We have faunus to char!" Mika said as she pulled the reaper along the hard muddied floor of the trenches as they sprinted forward through the muddy, blood-soaked quagmire of the trench floor.
"AHH!" A faunus screamed as Ruby cut into his leg and arm off in one swift swipe from her scythe, Crescent Rose. The man yelled aloud as bright blood filled the air before Ruby decapitated him with a swipe of her scythe sending his head soaring through the air in a shower of blood. As the man died FWOOSH! The roar of chemical fire filled the air as Mika doused a trench opening in the fire as the two girls fought back to back along the trenches.
It had been like this for several minutes after the initial entry into the trench Mika had sealed off their one attack route with her chemical fire forcing her and Ruby to fight together along the side of the trenches eastern length.
FISSHHTT! Another scream another splatter of fresh blood filled the air as Ruby diced as a group of faunus with her scythe. The faunus screamed aloud as the blade cut them to bits. Ruby dashed back and forth along the trench using her semblance to gain speed only to fire backward along the line slicing and dicing any faunus if her way. As she dashed up and down the trench Ruby used her weapon like a surgeon used a scalpel.
Each blade tip cut into necks, knees or arms either cutting deep into flesh and rewarding her with the sights and smell of fresh blood and jagged white bone. Or she sliced the weapon into hard incandescent flashes of blue as it impacted aura as the faunus were spared temporarily as the scythe bounced off the protective barrier. Either way, it made no difference, even if the scythe was displaced it was only a minor set back, Ruby would return eventually. And when she did the faunus would die, after all, she was the Red Reaper of Bastion. And she needed her pound of flesh, and she would have it all the same.
While Ruby painted the trench walls red with blood and gore, Mika put her two lien in by sealing off their attack routes of the fang, as the trench were all connected with long spidery sinew like trenches Mika prevented them from getting surrounded and flanked by faunus as she coated the trenches in a harsh chemical fire that fille the air with the terrible screams of the faunus as the antic the scent of ozone, followed by the sharp smell of cooking flesh filled the air.
Death, death was all along the trench as ruby sprinted back and forth. The faunus looked at her in pure shock. Even with their white fang masks on Ruby could see the shock in their eyes, as she sprinted forward only to dash backward in a shower of roses only to dice the offending faunus into neatly sized portions of meat as the white fang were sliced apart.
While Ruby diced the faunus and Mika cooked them alive the two made good progress along the trench line together works as a well-oiled killing machine. As they fought Another faunus was sliced in half by her scythe Ruby noted that where she killed the faunus, she noticed she felt... nothing. She didn't feel the tingly sensation of sliced flesh; she didn't felt the same sharp tingling sensation as she sliced and cut! Into their flesh.
Their screams didn't fill her body will that electric current that made Bastion worthwhile and their deaths brought her no feeling of ecstasy. In fact, to her it was almost mundane, as the actions instead of filling her with heat and vitality were dull, to Ruby, it was almost like the folding of clothes, in fact, it was even boring for the reaper as the two butchered the faunus in masse in the trenches before reaching the end of it.
"Isn't this fun Ruby!?" Mika asked as flashed her ax down cutting the leg off a faunus giggling with glee as the man's bone was exposed to the air as he screamed in pain before there was a massive THUD! As she slammed her ax into the trench walls decapitating him before yanking out her ax and flinging herself to the right narrowly avoiding a clumsy rifle swing from another white fang member before kicking him back as hosed down a trench in the harsh white fire.
"Not really," Ruby admitted being surprisingly honest with the girl as she fought back to back with her.
"Huh? Why not?" Mika asked as she pushed another wall of chemical fire into a trench opening, Ruby grimace as she watched the offending white fang scream aloud as their flesh was sloughed off their skin as the faunus screamed and cried as they fell to the dull, muddy wooden floors of the trench.
"Mika where are we going?" Ruby asked her friend as she uses that word lightly as the two fight through the trench.
"To the refinery silly!" Mika said blazing down another trench and laughed with palpable glee as the pained screams filled her ears.
"I know that but where are we?" Ruby asked the girl as they finally felt the battle falter as the two ended their sprint and went into a light jog.
"I don't know if I am going, to be honest, I'd say we're somewhere along the eastern front," Mika admitted as she stabbed an injured faunus in the back killing him instantly before yanking her ax out int fountain on blood.
"Aren't we supposed to avoid the eastern front?" Ruby asked as the two girls found themselves at a crossroads of the trench work. There were four paths ahead of them, all leading into spiraling section of the labyrinth of trenches. Neither girl had a map or even a compass as they approached the nexus.
"I'm going this way!" Mika declares as she pointed her ax to the right and began walking forward.
"Mika wait! You don't know what's over there!"
"No, but I do know that whatever is over there is a helluva lot better than standing around here!" Mika declared making Ruby seethe.
"You can't; just walk away without me!"
"Then come with me! It'll be fun! Just me and you! It's about time we had some quality girl talk you know?" Mika asked as Ruby glared at her before reluctantly following the girl further into the trench line.
"Get down!" A voice yelled as Ruby sliced off the leg of a faunus making him cry out in pain before planting her scythe through his chest slamming him into the ground with a heavy thud! Before his back even hit the ground Ruby had already tossed herself down to the wooden trench floor narrowly avoiding getting her body annihilated as half of the trench line exploded into fire.
FIT! FIT! FIT! VATHUM! A shower of dirt covered the young girls body as she was thrown violently down onto the dank wooden floor of the trench as bullets the size of bowling balls blew boulder-sized holes in the trench work sending her spiraling to the ground in a shower of red as her prosthetic eye fought to keep her world in cheek, refusing to let her lose her grip on the battlefield.
Almost instantly her eye had narrowed down here the hostile fire was coming from, bathing the world in light crimson as her eye identified the fire coming from a dull grey fortified bunker complex standing three stories high with two automated cannon emplacements raining down death onto her from up high.
Before Ruby could think a shower of pink projectiles field the trench line followed by the awful sound of whirring drills filled the air as two girls jumped into the trench line.
One of the girls Ruby recognized as Hino dressed in dark dull fatigues as she wore a pair of jet black combat boots along with light grey flak armor who was following a girl with near sheet-white skin and pink hair who was firing an assault rifle of some type into faunus as they were ripped apart by pink ammunition.
"Are you alright?" Hino asked her as her calm brown eyes filled with compassion regarded her worriedly. Despite everything Ruby liked Hino. She seems to be a kind and generous person, and Ruby found it difficult to believe why she was in Bastion in the first place.
"Yeah, I'm fi-
FIT! VATHUM! Ruby was interrupted from her speech as twin cannon shells hit the trench line blowing nearly bullhead sized holes in the lines covering them in debris and threatening to bury them in a shower of dirt and wood. "GAH!" Ruby cried as she and Hino were forced face down into the now half-destroyed trench line as the cannon continues firing on them.
"We need to get to those pill boxes!" Mika cried as her, and the strange new girl with pink hair and an assault rifle halbred were huddled up next to one another taking cover from the flurry of projectiles as Ruby glared at the bunker. As her eye collected information on the threat.
"It's a half mile away! The gunners are approximate-
FIT! FIT!
Ruby was interrupted by another barrage of cannon fire which nearly broke her body into a thousand pieces as the cannon rounds impacted the trench walls, ripping them asunder as she hit the deck cursing at the top of her lungs.
"What did you say!?" Hino asked as the young reaper repeated the coordinates to the brown skinned girl.
"I said-
VATHUM! Ruby was once again interrupted as another cannon shell hit the line filling it with dirt and interrupting her sentence.
"I got it!"
Hino yelled before point one of her massive drill bearing hands toward the pillboxes as a mechanic FISHT! Was heard as the sound of firing cables filled the air as a long metallic cable shot out from her gauntlet as she was lifted off of the ground by some type of rappelling device as Ruby gawked at her.
What happened next would be burned into Ruby's mid for the rest of her life as the sound of a drill revving up followed by the single most terrible human scream entered her ears followed by the awful sound of tearing meat followed by as the gun emplacement went silent, and the trench was bathed in an eerie calm. As the guns went silent as the screaming was silenced as the entire trench was bathed in an eerie silence.
"Is it clear?!"
The girl in pink shouted into her ear waiting several long moments before a muffled voice replied "yes."
As a small door was opened on the outside of the pillboxes as the bloodied and tall form of Hino emerged absolutely covered in blood and viscera and waving them forward.
Wasting no time. Ruby Mika and the strange girl with pink hair ran out from the trenches. Ruby's eye instantly scanned the environment showing that only several scattered emplacements had them in their sights as several stray bullets from far off gun emplacements and a stray mortar round smashed around them coving them in the dirt and sending shards of shrapnel into their aura making the girls wince in pain as razor-sharp shrapnel impacted against their aura making them grimace as they sprinted for the open door.
"Get in!" Hino yelled as the girls ran past her and sprinted into the bunker complex.
"Where are we?" Ruby asked as she found herself in a plain opaque room with dim lighting form a dirty yellow light that hummed in a way that put her teeth on edge, as a dull Vrtthm! Filled the room as the four girls gathered into the pillbox entrance as the grisly form of Hino still covered in blood and gore firmly shut the door behind them.
"White fang bunker emplacement! I killed the gunners up top, but these bunkers go deep! There are literally miles of tunnels leading from bunker to bunker underground, and they are crawling with Fang member. I killed the ones up top and everyone on my way down but the place will be up to its neck in faunas soon so we need to clear out the remaining holdouts until we clear it out!"
Hino shouted as the four girls nodded their assent as they gathered their weapons and jogged to the small door connecting the small room the remainder of the complex as Hino kicked it down after spinning the massive turning lock before kicking the door down as the shouts and cries of white fang entered the room as Hino took on the vanguard as the girls charged...
It was madness, chaos, and agony of such degrees it put the hell of the trench charge to shame, The chaos was only worsened as her eye gave her in-depth rundown of the exact way the fang died, as Ruby sliced a man in two bisecting him past his aura as the girls fought their way through the small tunnel complex. As the man died in a burst of blood as his body was complete diced in two, the small girl took a look around her to take in the sheer brutality of their attack.
It was bedlam pure and simple as the four students plunged the tunnel into chaos, there was anarchy in the small tunnel as the four Bastion students fought against a score of white fang. Unlike the trench line where there was a wide open space for the anarchy to rain in the small confined space of the tunnel, in an area no more then ten feet long and twelve feet high the entirety of the hallway was plunged into a madness and fell into an orgy of violence and blood that would haunt the girl forever...
VRRRMM!
The sound of whirring drills filled the air as Hino pivoted paused and jabbed forward as she smashed one of her pneumonic drills into a Faunus's face causing a bright flash of blue only for it to explode in a shower of gore as his face just vanished into a mist of blood bone and brain as the drill macerated the meat.
As the first man fell, Hino never lost a step as she smashed her drill into another faunus knee cap sending the man howling in agony as the drill made short work of his aura, pants, and bone as it revved up to a deafening pitch and liquefied the limb. The man cried out before another drill jab pulped his head in a sickening FLSHP! As the drill obliterated his skull before kicking his body back and sliding forward and slamming into the charging fang like a wrecking ball.
She fought with the patience and skill of a glacier, slow and impeccable. Every time she moved it was with a purpose and each shot of her arms, each jab or hook forward was followed by a horrible popping sound followed by sick gargles of minced meat as the drills made short work of any challengers, Halfway into her charge a lucky fang strike slammed her head with a broadsword causing her to stagger backwards as her aura flashed yellow before grabbing the man's arm breaking it before slamming a drill into his head and melting him in a shower of blood and the whirring of motors.
As she led their vanguard of their offensive luck was not always on her side. They were fighting terrorist and even if most did not know the sharp end of a sword from the base there were enough who did know and even the ones who didn't there were simply too many of them to not hit the girl as she crashed her way through the faunus.
As bullets knifes swords and axes all made their way into her flesh. Bypassing her drill guard and strikes and striking true. Her aura glowed a violent shade of gold as she battered her way through Ruby noticed something off. When she was first hit by a sword and short rang Hino staggered and looked like she had been rocked by the impact as she should, but now?
As bullets, blades, and shrapnel impacted her, it was like she was barely affected by the blows. Her aura glowing a fierce gold as she pushed forward undaunted through the melee it was not until a massive chainsaw impacted her face wielded by an absolute monster of a man and barely caused her to lose a step as she mashed apart his kneecap in before she delivered a fierce uppercut that pulped his head into bright violent ribbons of flesh that Ruby realized something about Hino was very, very off.
As she bashed her way forward, it was like the more she was hit the less effect the enemies blows had on her, as her drills pulped their way through the faunus filling the room with screams and cries as bloody ribbons were painted onto the wall liquified the Fang members.
As Hino acted as the blunt tool of the charge the strange girl now known as Krix fought with the skill of a ballet performer. She unlatched her long halberd from her assault rifle; its sharp tip glowing pink as an electric current filled the air as it pulsed with pink energy, a sizzling sound filled the air as she sliced a mans limb off at the leg causing the man to how in pain as a wave of blood flowed from the severed limb, the man screamed in pain before a trio of pink assault rifle bullets ripped into his chest sending him flying back in a shower of blood as she blasted him forward.
As the man fell backward the girl moved with the grace of a dancer as she flowed like liquid through their ranks. She dipped and flourished through their ranks her glowing pink halbred sweeping through the fang that survived the blunt charge of Hino as she sliced apart and stragglers that tried to attack the vanguard girls backside.
As she slashed and cut, Ruby took odd notice of how that most of the girl's Bastion weapons, in fact, all of the weapons except for hers seemed to either shoot into aura with contemptuous ease or in the case of bladed weapons they seem to ignore aura altogether. A fact her eye confirmed for her as it noted that the fang who died some of them still had their full aura and they died with theirs at full bar. As Krix slashed and shot into the fray, Ruby was well aware of the fourth part of their group Mika who looked like she was having the time of her life.
"Hello, mister terrorist! Would you like to have a chat!?" Mika asked as her ax flourished outward slicing off limbs and freeing heads from the charging white fang as the girls sliced and diced their way forward. Unlike the first two girls who fought unyielding patience and the other who killed like a ballerina dancer, Mika acted like a fury. She jumped and dashed laughing all the way. As she plunged into the fang especially practically leaping on the injured faunus taking limbs off their downed forms and taking odd care to avoid damaging their animal parts.
Unlike the others, Mika fought with an edge of sadism, unlike the others who killed quickly and efficiently taking no extra time to put the terrorist to death Mika worked at her own pace. As she slashed upward taking a mans leg off in a fountain of blood making him scream aloud losing his balance before she slammed her axe into his chest with a sickening squelching sound, as she put her blade deep but not too deep, only enough to ensure his death but not enough to actually kill but instead letting him choke on his own blood.
She made sure that while she did kill all the faunus she fought she made sure none died too quickly as she jumped away from him and slashed forward into the fang holding one-sided conversations with the screaming fang as they fought their way through. Asking them about day to day tasks, like buying groceries, where they like to eat and whether they thought her pelts looked good, as she slaughtered her way through them. The hallways were painted red with blood and gore as the four students made mincemeat of the terrorist group…
"We are here!" Hino said pointing to a large map on the wall. It was well after an hour since the four girls fought their way past the underground bunker complex and into a supply room of the first pillbox.
" We are here! Over three miles from the front lines. We need to leave this tunnel system and go here!" She said pointing to a spot on her map where a series of spiraling tunnels seems on interconnect in a central area right underneath the Bastion students front line.
"If we go here we can regroup with our main forces and join up with the assault on the refinery," Hino explained to the group of gather students as a small fire made from piles of stray debris and broken furniture, courtesy of Hino's pneumonic drills that had made short work of the luckily wooden furniture around them. As the fire crackles slowly Ruby had a burning question that Hino cut off.
"Krix? Any news?" Hino asked the girl with pink hair and paper asking as Krix shook her head solemnly.
"I haven't heard any word about your friends Ruby," Krix said as she shook her head suddenly. She was the only one in the group with a vox link and the only connection they had with the main force. Ruby had practically begged Krix to check for Jaune and Kage's safety from the main force. At first the main force had been reluctant to accommodate them, but in the end, Krix convinced them using a team leader status pull to convince whoever was in charge to at least check for her friends.
So far there had been no sightings of Jaune or Kage. Even Zach was reported missing giving Hino one of the most conflicting looks that Ruby had ever seen on somebody's face. As the girl seemed beyond consolable as she ruminated on the fate of her partner.
Ruby personally did not like Zach, not at all. And Ruby liked everybody! Well, maybe not Winchester but that was different! When it came down to Zach he was rude boisterous and seemed to insult everyone he meets! Plus the fact that he knew about the true secret of her arena battle made it so that Ruby always felt a certain level of trepidation whenever his harsh black eyes locked onto her own silver ones, and she felt her self-shiver.
"Don't worry Ruby! I'm sure Jaune and Kage are A-ok! I know Kage is far too stubborn to die and he would never let something happen to Jaune! Not after all the work, he put into him!" Mika said an happily as she gave the reaper the single most disturbing embrace of her short life as Ruby fought the urge to hug back. Ruby had chosen to sit next to Mika on the campfire still not used to sleeping without Jaune at her side and not willing to sleep alone.
To be honest it was a hard decision to make. Mika was the only girl Ruby had an inkling of a past relationship, Hino while seemingly kind was still a stranger in all but name as her light born skin and dirt brownish blonde hair was still completely filthy covered in tattered remains of the faunus, as the girls clothes were filled with entrails, brains, and blood.
But then again, so was everybody else as the tunnel fight had left each and every girl covered in gore and viscera as the lack of bathing materials meant that the blood and viscera had coagulated on them leaving htem coverd in a grim macabre vison of horror theirier filth was slowly illuminated by the candlelight. The other girl Krix despite claiming to know Jaune was a complete stranger and Ruby did not like that. Social awkwardness combined with a growing sense of paranoia and dread taht inefect ehr since Bastion left only Mika...
"Thank you… Mika. That means a lot to me." What Ruby said to the strange girl whos hug was oddly warm and very inviting as Ruby blushed as the girl's paper white hands flowed down her back and drifted down her sides making her flush as her slim hands were gripping her with surprising strength as she held her close.
"No problem! What are murder friends for other than to take care of each other! Right?" Mika added flashing Ruby as a smile that disturbed the girl as her light green eyes held something indecipherable, something dark and vague, there was a flash of hunger in them as Ruby nodded to her as she turned around as Hino finished explaining the escape plan.
"Starting tomorrow, we are going to attack here. You see things have gotten complicated for us."
"Complicated?" Ruby asked ignoring the roaming hands of her friend as she listened to Hino talk.
"Yes complicated, since these tunnels run under our lines we have been ordered to check the leangth of them for any potential risk to our forces before we can extract ourselves."
"These tunnels all have a central maintenance shaft here! That when located we can tell if the Fang is massing any significant numbers for a counter attack, it also will serve as our escape route. If we can open their bulkhead, we can all come up right underneath our own lines! If we want to do this, we will need to shut down the fail-safes of the tunnels. Here, here and here! To do this, we need to turn three opening shafts at the same time for us to go on."
"How are we going to be open them at the same time? If only one of us has the vox link how can we all communicate with each other?" Ruby asked as she noticed a flaw in the plan that Hino seemed to have anticipated and smiled at Ruby making the girl fell an odd level of warmth in her chest.
"I'll handle that! Leave opening the doors to my friend Ruby!" Mika said happily as Hino nodded to her.
"Being in three places at once is your specialty. So I guess you are the best one to send."
Hino admitted reluctantly. As the girl nodded once falling over in her sack and giving Ruby a warm hug that still felt leaching and decided to get some sleep.
As the girls sat down in the odd makeshift sleeping bags that were little more than repurposed sack form the fang supply room Ruby had a question for Hino that she needed answered.
"Hino, back in the fight. I saw you take some hits that you seemed to just walk off, what was-
"My semblance," Hino said calmly as the firelight illuminated her light brown skin as she leaned forward and smiled at Ruby.
"Your semblance?"
"Yes, it is basically damaging mitigation. Basically, it means that whenever I take damage from any source any other type of damage I take will be reduced. So the more am hit the less effect the hits have on me. It's not foolproof though! And I've calculated the damage resistance to cap around eighty percent so I still get hurt I just get hurt a lot less."
"So the more you are hit the less damage you take?"
"Yup! That's the long short of it. Why do you ask?"
"Well, I was wondering how you took all that damage in the hallway and just walked on like it never happened."
"You have a semblance very similar to my sister."
"Oh? Can she reduce damage as well?"
"No, she can't reduce damage, but instead she gets increased damage every time she takes damage."
"Huh? So I guess you could say we are opposites then? It's like were mirrors of each other." Hino said yawning once before bidding Ruby good night and going to sleep.
As her prosthetic eye scanned the room and hallways. It had been oddly quiet for the last few hours, not speaking to her once since their talk on the trenches. Making sure there were no enemies within a mile radius of themselves gave Ruby the final all clear. As she nodded once as she left her eyes close. Jaune, please be all right. Ruby thought to herself as the girl finally closed her eyes and let sleep finally take her.
: AN DONE! A new Bastion chapter finished for your viewing pleasure! This is the start of me back to my writing schedule so expect updates! For those of you who follow me, Jaune Torchwick is next! So until then have a good day.