AN: Jailbreak time kiddos! In this run, we see how the Bastion crew handles a jail break. Ruby learns a thing or two about Mika. Her eye get's a bit chatty. Jaune learns 's about a new part of Bastion and the fight is on! This chapter is a bit of a set up for the next one but hold on! This is going to be one helluva ride.
PS. No one seems's to get the clue to what Mika is. Even if it is literally hitting you in the fact. The thing is obvious but well hidden...
"Adam Taurus."
The man in the white garb still slick with water said as Jaune nodded.
"Jaune Arc. Nice to meet you?"
Jaune asked the taller prisoner as the man got out of his cell? If you would call a small white box a cell and not a human right's violation. Shaking off the water that was on him as-
"Uzepi Kogorwachi! Nice to meet you!"
The woman said holding out a firm hand as Adam? Gripped it with his own.
" Likewise."
He said without much emotion as Uzepit grinned a toothy grin showing her perfect white teeth.
"Hey! I'm your, new colleague!"
She said as Adam frowned.
"You are my new coworker are you not?"
"Sure am! Now let's get the hell out of this prison!"
Uzepi said as all three of the Bastion infiltrators nodded at once. As the four of them left the pristine yet odd jail cell of the Atlas prison and made their way back tot he elevator shaft and eventually freedom.
"Yah! I hate the mud!"
Ruby whined as she and Mink crept through the sewer duct as they went to take down the communications of the jail so the jailbreak coudl proceed. The journey was not what Ruby had been anticipating, but now that she thought about what had she been expecting? Roses? Medals? She was just glad that the sewer system seems to be in far disrepair. And there was no active use of it that would have made her gag.
"Somethings wrong."
Her eye said as Ruby ducked, avoiding a falling stalagmite? Stalagtite? Whatever the name of the things that pointed down in caves where. As her eye told her that they were several built-up mineral deposits in the sewer that formed such things. To Ruby, they looked like grey fangs jutting from the mouth of some giant serpent. As she walked in the drain, the word was lit in a crimson hue as her eye showed that the area she was in in a vibrant red tone.
As she walked behind her narrowly moving her head to avoid the falling fangs.
"What do you mean?"
Ruby thought as her eye whirred up as it narrowed on Mika.
"Somethings wrong with her."
It said as the older silver hair girl hummed lowly as she almost skipped! Through the narrow sewer tunnels as Ruby cocked her head.
"What's wrong with her?" She asked not know what her eye, or as she called it affectionately Eyey said as Ruby watched her best female friend.
"Look at her. She's walking."
"I can see that."
"No, look at her. She's walking normally."
The eye said as Ruby frowned.
"I don't see the problem."
Ruby said as-
"look at her. What is she doing?"
"She's walking?"
"And?"
"She's walking avoiding the-
"Yes. Look at her; she's avoiding running into the tunnel mineral runoff."
"How is that strange?"
"Ruby. How is she doing that?"
"She's looking at them and-
Ruby's train of thought died as she saw it.
Mika was walking freely in the sewer, her long, lanky body bobbed and ducked in and out of the falling fangs as-
"She can see them?" Ruby asked as she saw that Mika was not only not hitting the tusks as she was outright avoiding them. Like she could see them, but that could not be the case. They were in the sewer, and it was pitch black in there. With no source of light.
Ruby was half blown with her own false eye reading the area as she noticed Mika's unnerving accuracy of avoiding, the object. Bobbing out of the way at the last second.
"Ask her if she is part faunus."
"Hey, Mika?"
"Yes, friend Ruby! How can I be of assistance to you?"
Mika asked in her usual sing sone voice. As she skipped in the tunnel.
"Are you part faunus?" Ruby asked as Mika paused as she bobbed out of the way of other obstructions as she frowned.
"Nope! I'm all human! Just like you! Why do you ask?"
"Becuase you are avoiding these stalagmites pretty well! I mean it's pitch black in here, and you are avoiding them pretty well. It's almost like you can see!"
"Heartbeat increased detected."
He eye said as Mika froze like she had been stuck in ice.
"Oh! I... I Guess I'm just getting lucky! Haha!" Mika said in an off voice as a forced smile came on her face as Ruby's eye narrowed its glare on her as Mika laughed it off skipping further down the tunnel allowing more splashes of water to fill the air as-
Fwap!
"Ahh! That one really got me!"
Mika said running head-on into one of them as-
"She's faking it."
Her eye said as it kept its eye on Mika.
"Ow! You see that Ruby! I ran into one! Haha! Clumsy me!"
Mika said before maintaining her pace as they walked down the sewer. As the pair of Bastion student walked int the depths of the tunnel.
"So what's the plan?"
Jaune asked as he Uzepi, Kage and now Adam. Made thier way into the elevator shaft. The four of them made their way into the elevator as the silver doors closed, and the large almost freight level type of elevator raised up from the ground and began carrying them into the top of the jail.
"Now we get the hell out. We have to fight our way out of her more than likely so expect a fight once the doors opened."
Uzepi said sighing heavily as Kage rubbed his head.
"Great. Now we have to shoot our way out. Great."
"What did you expect from a jailbreak?"
Uzepi asked her student, as her long purple hair no longer contained by her silver Atlas soldier helmet flowed freely to the foot of her silver uniform as it rested on her now white combat boots.
"I expected a clean jailbreak. When we get in get out and make our way to toe bullhead before we have to kill half the base in the process."
"Kage this was going to go and from the beginning. You knew that right?"
Jaune asked his friend as Kage sighed and-
"Death is an inevitable consequence of our line of work. Do not feel bad about it Jaune? We will fight our way out and kill those who resist." Adam said cooly taking out his long red sword as he looked on with a tired look on his red eyes. As the man looked ahead with a grim glare as the elevator finally dinged! As it finally reached the top of its ride. As the elevator doors opened up revealing three Atlas soldiers who looked at them and gasped.
"Hey! What's going on-
Fweeeooh!
A sharp whistle? Filled the air as-
FISHT!
The soldiers popped! Literally. Jaune watched as the three men literally popped like they where water balloons. As thier bodies popped like ripe grapes, ther armor flying off in long whit shard as blood, bone, and sinew filled the air. As the men fell apart on the ground as Jaune gagged.
"What the-
"Hah! That's why we got this guy!"
Uzepi said loudly, smiling broadly as they popped! Men fell onto the floor as Adam sheathed his sword. Putting away the weapon as he sighed.
"Let us be off. I wish to be out of this hell hole as soon as I can."
Adam said as he led the way out of the elevator not caring about the dead men's eviscerated bodies as he stepped on the blood-slicked floor.
Creating loud wet slicking noises. As Jaune grimaced.
"How the hell did that just happen?"
Jaune thought as he wondered how the man had butchered the soldiers with such ease. Adam killed them without out Jaune even noticing. Not hearing anything but his whistle until they just popped!
"I need to pay attention."
The boy thoguht as the three of them flowered Adam out guns ready, the assault rifle in his hands was not, what he was accustom to using but it was good.
It was an Atlas made a weapon so it had to be good. The nation might not be known for fair labor practices but they did make damn reliable firearms at least. Jaune thought as-
"Heads up. We got incoming."
Kage said in his usual monotone voice raising his blocky white assault rifle, the weapon looked off in his hands. As Jaune had grown accustomed to his typical bolt pistols and nothing else, as the floor shook as the first sine of guard troops rushed them as-
"Then we will kill them. Stay behind me." Adam said drawing his sword as the three of them raised their white blocked assault rifles as a long octagonal door opened as a dozen armed men spilled out and the fighting began.
"Ouch! What's up with these things!? Am I right?"
Mika asked after banging her head into another piece of mineral as-
"She's faking it. Watch, her face hardened right before she impacted. She knows that the blow is coming. She can see." Her eye said as Ruby nodded. Mika had been doing this for some time now. As their scrolls showed them their inevitable destination. They were going farther into the tunnel long past most of the murky muddy water and into the are proper.
As Ruby noted how mink would avoid some of the minerals before running headfirst into them. At roughly one out of three ratios. dodging two hitting one with a loud whap!
Making her seem like she was accidentally bumping into them as Ruby frowned.
"How can she see? Does she have a faunus trait that I don't know about?"
"Negative. I can see her form."
"What?"
"Her DNA. I analyzed a sample of it before at the cafeteria."
"You what?! How?"
"When you were eating, and throughout my occasional observations of her and the surroundings. I have taken several samples of her DNA." "When did you have the time to do this? And why?"
"Simple. My first observation of her was after I was first installed and I took stock of your team as a whole. I noted body types, threat level height, weight, weaponry, and disposition. I also took now of what limited internal date I could scan."
"Ok go on."
"Then as time went on I got to take more and more out of Mika's DNA."
"Eyey that's kind of creepy."
"Maybe but listen to me, Ruby. We need to know this. After our injury at the deadlands. When the grenades went off in our face. You remember that correct?"
"How could I forget? That was one of my worst injuries ever."
"I know. I coudl fell your pain. Do you remember after that how we escaped into the main attack with Hino?"
"Yes."
"You remember when she dragged us out of the mud?"
"She saved us."
"Indeed. When she did I ran a scan of Krix's weaponry when we met her."
"And?"
"Well, I detected trace amounts of blood on her bayonet that after comparing to sample form I took and analyzed after eating I registered as belonging to Mika."
"And? She had Mika's blood on her halberd?"
"Yes. But that is not what's important. I have been researching humans in the Bastion scroll network. Interacting with the school's database while you slept."
"Is that legal?"
"No."
"Eyey!"
"Listen. After comparing several strands of data and working on a hypothesis I have found something rather disturbing about Mika's DNA."
"And that is?"
Ruby asked as an inkling of fear ran up her spine as her eye whirled.
"Mika is... well she is a human...
"Eyey! Don't scare me like that! We are all humans!"
"No, you don't understand. She is a pure human."
The eye said as Ruby frowned.
"What does that mean?"
"It means she is only human. Nothing else is inside of her DNA from what I can tell."
"I don't get it."
"Put it like this. You are a human. But you are not a pure human."
"I'm not?"
"No of course not. Inside of your body, there is a number of microorganisms and other things that are not native to humans originally and have been introduced to you form the outside world."
"Ok... So what does that mean for her?"
"When I scanned Mika's DNA I found none of that."
"You found none of it?"
"Correct. In her saliva, sweat and blood ther are no traces! Of other microbial organisms."
"What does that mean?"
"It's like her body is pure human. Almost artificial. Like someone has made her."
"Artifical?"
"Yes. I know that sounds hard to believe but I think it is true. She fit's none of the general rules for human anatomy. Or should I say she fits them perfectly."
"She fits them perfectly?"
"Yes. From what I can tell she is a literal ideal human. Optimize to a razor's edge. Everything about her is optimal for life. Her height, eyes sight internal organ structure. It is like someone or something was tiring to build a better human, and they only knew what humans were from looking at a textbook. It's as if someone looked up what the average human female should look like and created a cookie cutter image."
"Is that bad?"
"Not exactly but it is worrying."
"How so?"
"Ruby, you understand how genes work? How you tend to inherit half of your genes from one parent? I know that is a simplistic explanation but I do not have the time to explain it fully as of now so please bear with me."
"Yes, I know that. Why?"
"Well... when I scanned her DNA and compared it to others it appears to have ben.. altered...
"Altered?"
"Yes. Imagine if someone was trying to make human and wanted to make them perfect. She lacks the DNA to confirm that she was well... I don't think that Mika was born."
"She wasn't born?"
Ruby asked as-
"Who wasn't born?"
Mika replied as-
"Sorry! Just talking to myself!"
Ruby said as-
"Calm down Ruby. Listen. She is not a regular human. She is like someone or something tried to imitate human life perfectly and succeded but they didn't know some of the finer details. It's like she is what an ideal human should be. I don't know what she really is." Her eyes said as Ruby looked at her friend and frowned.
"Clear!"
Jaune yelled as he looked down the empty Atlas room as-
FEWWOOHH!
"AHH!"
Screams fille the air as he Kage and Uzepi followed Adam's bloodbath. The three of them walking close behind the man as he cleared out the men and woman in front of him. As Adam fought no fighting implied some sort of challenge, he butchered his way past the Atlas guards with contemptuous ease. Not caring or even really noticing them longer than it took him to kill them which was not long. The man moving in literal blurs of red to butcher, kill and flay. Any and every one who opposed him. As Adam killed Jaune and Kage worked in hand to clear out the doors and-
"Breach!"
Kage yelled before kicking down a large white door and-
BANG!
His rifle fired as he filled the air with an automatic gun burst as he shot at whoever was unfortunate enough to be inside the room.
"Breach!"
Jaune yelled kicking down a sliver door as two Atlas soldiers out of uniform half dressed and unarmed saw him.
"W-
BANG!
He fired without hesitation. His rifle kicked as he filled the room with hot lead. Rhe spoilers bodies kicked! And jerked! As the bullets tore them apart. Ripping them into blood confetti as the gun kicked in his hand.
"Clear!"
Jaune yelled moving on without pause leaving the corpses behind him reloading his weapons the process was repeated over and over.
Uzepi brought up the rear of the fire team. The leader and chaperone of the group was as good to her name as ever, not letting anyone get the jump on them. As she held her rifle up walking calmly backward securing their flanks as they fought forward in a steady wedge formation with Adam at the front.
As more sharp peals form Adam and more Clears! And subsequent Bangs!
Filled the air the four of them soon fought their way to the outside of the base and into the rich cool night air of the exterior of the prison where the evac was waiting for hem "Stop right there-
Bang!
The guard from earlier, the one who had originally greeted them was shot through the face as Uzpei sighed.
"Should have taken that break! I told him you know?"
"I heard," Jaune said tiredly as the four of them made their way back into the cool night air. As they did the roar of turbines greeted them nearly as soon as they stepped out as their own Bastion bullhead laned. Drop bay open to take them in as Uzepi smiled.
"Get in! All of you!"
The pilot yelled in their scrolls, as Kirara's sharp feminine voice filled the air. "Home free boys! When we get back home drinks on me!"
Uzepi said laughing raucously as Jaune sighed.
"Is there even a bar in Bastion?"
"Maybe! But I can still et us drinks!"
"We can get intoxicated late. For now, let us be off.'
Adam said as the four of them jumped into the open hatch and the craft took them into the warm night.
Ruby was not in a trusting mood as she watched her so-called friend walk in the tunnels. They had split to go plant the jammer, as Ruby went to plant the device Mika was left at the intersection. If you would call the four-way tunnel split that made an easy ambush point where Ruby left her friend alone to guard the entry as she left for her own to plant the jammer.
"And there, we go!"
Ruby said sighing in triumph as she planted the Bastion jammer. Making sure to activate the device per Uzepi's makeshift instructions as the jammer turned on. The small satchel grew and expanded as an odd box-like thing sprung up with a satellite dish sticking up that rotated slowly filling the air with a sharp ping! As the device turned on.
Ensuring that no Atlas interceptors would be chasing Jaune, Kage, and Uzepi on their eventual escape, as the reapers eye zoomed in on the device making sure that there was nothing wrong with it as-
"Left!"
Ruby never hesitated.
Crack!
Her rifle fired as the head of the Ursa exploded. The Grimm's head disintegrating into a cloud of black mist as she pulled her trigger. As her rifle fired filling the tight black as pitch corridor with yellow fire. As the Grim died almost instantly Ruby saw several more approaching her as she grimaced.
Crack!
Her rifle fired again and again as she fired on the Grimm. Each shot of light sounding like a cannon blast in the tunnel's narrow interior as the usually sharp cracks!
Of her gun went up tenfold as the walls of the sewer amplified her shots, as each weapon burst filled the air with fire along with illuminating the small tunnel as if there was a second sun. Showing off the old rusty metal, filled with rest and water damage alogn with the massive hulking black forms fulled of muscle, coarse dark fur like that of the night sky burning red eyes and row after row of glistening razor sharp teeth.
Jumping back as she planted quick shots into them.
The seven Grimm that had assaulted her, charged her position. Thier massive muscles bounding towards her, as their eyes that burned like hot coals, filled the night as she pulled her gun up.
Crack!
Her gun fired the sniper round hitting and pulping the Grimm's skulls into red mist. As the Grimm collapsed onto the sewer floor. The massive monsters falling like they were made of paper as her gun tore them apart.
"They are dead. We need to evacuate before more come."
Her eye said as Ruby nodded. Tucking her gun and sprint out of the area. Using her semblance to cover the ground, blurring out in a wave of red as-
"Halt!"
Her eye said as she skidded! To a stop almost falling flat on her face as she saw it.
In front of Ruby was Mika. The girl standing alone as a massive Beowulf came behind her. Sneaking up on the girl as Ruby raised her gun, aiming her rifle at its head as-
Mika turned. The girl simply turned to face the Grimm with a calm almost lazy twist of her torso as the monster did something that Ruby never knew she would ever see. The Grimm froze. Ruby balked as she saw the monster of the night freeze in place as Mika turned her gaze to it. The girl held the monster's gaze as the massive creature of the night glared down at her before cowering?
The monster whimpered like a frightened dog, it's long tail going between its legs as its whole body shook like someone had put a live wire in it as Mika glared evenly at as the monster took a step back. Walking away from the girl as-
FIT!
Ruby fought the urge to scream as the girl simply reached back her bare fist and punched! The monster in the chest. Her fist punching cleanly into the things chest, tearing past fur, skin, muscle bone and sinew link it was made of paper mache, spearing and yanking!
Out it's still beating heart. Holding the monsters pulsing red organ in her thing pale hands before squeezing it making it pop! In her palm as the Grimm collapsed dead on the spot as Mika grinned at it as Ruby shook.
"Get on!"
Uzepi yelled as the bullhead touched down by the sewer system that she dropped of Ruby and Mika at. The wide floodlights of the craft illuminating the area as the thrusters blew up mountains of air, bog water, and other small amphibians none too happy about their homes being disturbed or them being tossed into the air as the craft neared the surface of the pickup ramp down.
As the two girls leaped on the craft. As the girls jumped on the teacher instantly knew something was wrong.
Mika was her usual apathetic cherry serial killer self, but Ruby?
Ruby was shaken. Her eye jumped back and forth, bouncing to an for as her mechanical one glared at Mika as-
"Ruby!"
Jaune said hugging the girl making her blush brightly as she wrapped her arms around her crush. As he rubbed her head.
"I'm so glad that you are safe."
He said honestly as her cheeks became the color of her cloak. As the reaper returned the hug-
"Kage! I ~Missed~ you!" Mika said opening her arms ready to receive a wide hug as-
"Right."
Kage said walking right past his partner, ignored her wide hug as she fumed.
"That was MEAN!"
"Mean?"
"Yeah! Your partner was just gone alone and you act like I was just going to get better! I was in danger!"
Mika pouted as Kage raised a lone eyebrow at her.
"You were in danger?"
Jaune asked Ruby his eyes hard and-
"Not really-
"You? In danger? Right, I'd be more worried about the Grimm than you."
"That's mean!"
"No, it is not."
"Yes, it is! You can at least act! Like you are worried about me!"
"Why would I? You can handle yourself, you are one of the best fighters that I know and I have full faith that you will come home alive.' Kage said simply sitting down on his bull head seat as-
"Well... if you put it like that I guess! I can forgive you and-
"We can talk about this later. Until we get home can we all rest?" Adam asked as-
"Who are you?" Ruby asked the tall man as he sighed.
"My name human is Adam Taurus. You may call me Adam. I am your new teacher at Bastion." The man said as he eyed his potential student with a grimaced, wondering why such a young child was here in Bastion of all places. And why she had a mechanical eye alogn with what looked like, if Adam was to guess right extensive cybernetic augmentations.
"What do you teach?"
Rub asked as the man smiled? It was an odd almost forced action as-
" You will see soon enough. Until then? I suggest that we all get some rest. It has been a long day and I for one look forward to a rest." Adam said as he sat back down in his seat as the bullhead roared into the night.
"Adam! So glad that you could finally come!"
Ludo said his silver eyes wide in happiness glistening in the off firelight of his office as Adam nodded.
"Ludo. You said you had need of me and I came. What am I to do?"
Adam asked the headmaster of Bastion as he stood in his office. With all of the team ARKM behind him as the man smiled at the master terrorist.
"Simple! You will do the job that I have hired you for! You are to fulfill the contractual obligations that we have discussed before."
"Fine. I will take my post. Call me when I am needed." Adam said as-
"Uzepi."
"Yes, sir!"
"Take Adam to his class. Make sure he knows where he is, show him the teachers lounge and where he will be sleeping. In fact! Give him the full Basidton tour! Show him all the bells and whistles why don't you?"
"Sir yes, sir!"
Uzepi said as she began to lead Adam out of the headmaster's office and-
"Now! Onto you! Team ARMK I am impressed! All of you have done incredibly well! Not only are you are most potential first years you also! have given Bastion one of it's most prodigious teachers yet!"
"It was our pleasure sir."
Jaune said now back in full Death Korps regalia. His silver outfit tossed off in favor of his now traditional bronze armor plate, that sat above his skin-tight black carapace armor as the man nodded.
"Good! Now I know that you are all tired and I know! That you all want to go to bed but! Since I am quite pleased with all of you I think it is time for a reward!"
"Reward sir?'
"Yes! Since you have done so much for the school I will not give you an appropriate reward! How does thirty thousand lien sound?"
"Thirty thousand sir!? What would we ever use that for!?'
"Simple Jaune! You would spend that money in the Bastion store! Where else will you spend it? Kage will show you the way, after all, you are quite well know in that part of the school right Venke?"
"Sir... yes?"
"Good lad! Now all of you dismissed! Go get some lunch you earned it."
Well as hungry as Jaune as he was the only member of his team at the lunch table. Ruby, Kage, and Mika had turned in all taking a nap. Not that Jaune could blame them.
Ludo had said that they would be on yet another mission tomorrow. Not giving them a minute! Of real rest as apparently a small town that was Bastion sympathetic had gone dark over the past two weeks.
Ludo wanted them to go check it out. If there was something wrong they where to fix it. If not then they could come back. Even now Jaune felt the hairs on his back stand on end as he shuddered as a cold hand ran down his spine.
Exactly what was wrong with the town was unknown. All Ludo had said was that the town went dark one night and-
"Can I sit here?'
A feminine voice said as Jaune nodded.
"Sure why not?"
Jaune asked as-
"Krix?'
Jaune asked as his fellow team leader and semi-friend? Sat down next to him. The girl's long pink hair flowing down past the bench's seat. As her bright pink eyes locked onto him.
"It's been a long time Jaune. How are you?"
The fellow leader and Death Korps member said putting her strange assault rifle halberd on the table as Jaune nodded.
"Good. You?'
"Good. Tired, but that is all the same. Leadership is not easy you know?"
"Trust me I know."
Jaune said as his fellow leader smiled at him.
"Good to hear. I heard that you came back from a mission recently. How did that go?"
"Good! Good! We all made it out and-
"Maybe her?"
Jaune thought as the piece of paper burn a hole in his pocket. As the words, Mercer, Blacklight, and Childs filled his head as he thought maybe Krix could shed some light on the Mika situation.
"Krix you know Mika right?"
"How could I not?'
"Well, what do you think of her?"
"She's a pox."
"A Pox?"
"Yes, a pox. She is a virus, a blight on our world and the sooner that she is taken care of the better."
Krix said bitterly as-
"Krix. What do you know about Mika?" Jaune askes seriously as she scoffed.
"Hah! You mean that? Well besides the fact that she is a psychopath?"
"She's not that bad-
"Jaune. She wears her fellow students as clothes. How is she simply not that bad?"
"Ok, so she's just a bit unique!"
"Really? Unique? Is that how you want to say, a serial killer? She is just one step away from it puts the lotion on its skin you know?"
"She's not that bad."
"She. Wears. People! As. Clothes. How is she anything less that terrible?"
"She is my teammate and friend. As long as she does not compromise team stability she is fine with me."
"I'm not saying that she is not fine. I'm just saying that she is a powder keg waiting to go off. Listen to me on this Jaune. Eventually, you will regret knowing Mika. She will drink, you dry."
Krix said honestly as Jaune paled. Not knowing what the hell she meant by that and-
"What does that mean?"
"I hope you never find out."
Krix said as she began to eat her pieces of ham in front ther her. Taking the occasional time to let Venke know that she was alive as she ate the downright murderous grom Jaune as the two ate her meal in relative peace.
Sleep did not find Jaune that night. Not that it ever found him easily. Once again his dreams were plagued with pain. Fire. Blood and worst of all failure, and not even holding tight to Ruby seemed to help him with this level of anxiety. As he woke up the next morning, tire groggy and ready to die.
It was a regular morning as far as he coudl tell. Mika was flirting with Kage.
Trying to get the boy to some more emotions that a doorknob as he steadily ignored her. Either by design or sheer, not taking heed of any of her flirting as he readied himself for their day. Ruby painfully. Tore herself away from him. Removing her pert thin ass from his crotch as she got up to start her morning routine as Jaune swore!
He saw her eye glaring at Mika. As Ruby went to shower, Miks used their forge. To work on her Ax. Grinning it as Kage went about cleaning his guns.
Soon thier next mission would begin and-
THUD! THUD! THUD!
A loud knocking came to thier door, as Jaune went to open it.
Surprises that someone knocked at thier door., instead of blowing it down.
Although Sonya had been good as her word to stop the raids, as they were so whoever was knocking was either nonhostile or Sonya was goign against her word and that seemed a dubious proposition at best. As he unlocked to show a pair of ted yes, along with twin bull horns staring down at him.
"Arc.'
"Adam?"
"That is me." The man said as Jaune balked.
"What are you doing here?"
"Simple. As a new teacher here I can ask for a team to join my class on the first day of my teaching and I pick yous."
"Join? What class do you even teach?'
"I teach Gym."
Adam said with a feral smile as Jaune gulped.
An: There it is! Another day another chapter of Bastion! Adam's free! The crew is alive and somehow miraculously unharmed. How long that will last I don't know! Maybe a chapter? Maybe two? Maybe the crew will never suffer another life threating injury again!?
Ok, that's not gonna happen... But! We all made it! The next chapter is set up! We saw Krix again after forever. I bet most of you forgot she even existed. I know I did... Well! That' a bout it! Jaune saved a tacher. Ruby's eye is taking the rights to privacy a bit fast and loose. And Jaune get's to go to the store! But not! Befre they investiage the town and see just what cause a complete communications black out...
Any way! This chapters done on to Game on! And the Breach! So untill next time? Thansk for reading.
PS. I have a new story called Branwen if you haven't read it check it out.
PSS. What Mika is, is actully pretty obvious and we will see a major hint in the next part.
PSS. I did it! I finished Bastion! Well not yet but! I got the major plot outlined! I know how all the pillars will end and it's going to be fun!
PSSS. For any of you who are wondering yes Game on and Bastion are linked. But! It is important ot knwo that while the univers happen simutaneously Bastion's world is two years ahead of Game on time wise. The Bastion universe is slightly older then Game on's. As in Game on in its universe is happening two years after the Bastion is finished. By the time Game on started Bastion is long finished its tale...Just food for thought...
Omake. Hero of Remnant part eighteen. Reunion.
Jaune was moving without being told.
"Run!"
Jaune yelled at the top of his lungs as the disastrous! Action by Sieena had just alerted whole damn nest of Gene stealer Grimm to their position. As the commissar sprinted like the ceiling was about to collapse and he almost prayed that it did. Giving him time to get the hell out of there. As the faunus woman ran after him.
"Commissar wait!"
"Fat chance!"
Jaune thought pumping his arms and legs at nearly double their normal rate. Moving with all the speed he coudl mustered as he ran through the tunnels, the faunus woman caught up with him soon enough. Her natural strength and agility coming itno the foray of the situation as she and Jaune ran forward.
As the two ran Jaune could hear them! The tell-tale click! Click! Of talons on stell filled the air as the gene stealers gained on their positions. This was bad, very, very bad. Jaune knew he had to fight, that he had to kill them or t least slow them down.
The gene stealers would overtake them soon enough. Making it damn near impossible to outrun them. As Jaune chanced a look behind him and regretted it immediately.
There where dozens of them, the enter back passage was filled with beady yellow eyes as he saw a myriad of glaring yellow eyes, Clicking! Jaws filled with line after line of razor shape teeth and tongues almost the length of his forearm.
As the two ran the enemy getting closer and loser with every click!
Of ther multi-pronged talons Jaune saw their chance and he knew what he had to do.
"Sieena! This way!"
Jaune yelled baking right as Sieena followed him, like a cat almost. Her ability far outmatching his despite his training as they ran down a narrow drainage pipe.
Jaune heard the Grimm slammed into the pipe from behind as they ran.
"Don't stop!"
Jaune yelled as he reached into his greatcoat searching for a moment before finding the object of his sears.
"Fire in the hole!"
He yelled as he loosed a frag grenade at the enemy already regretting the action as the dull muffled wump crack! BANG!
Of the weapon going off along with a chorus of inhuman screams and screeches filled the air. As the grenade tore into the unarmored chitin of their enemy as-
BANG!
Jaune and sinew hit a sewer wall to distracted by the grenade going off as the hit the wall of the tunnel full on and it cracked!
The wall gave in allowing them to fall into another wide open room as-
"Fire"!
Sieena yells as the surviving Girm were on them.
The next few second of Jaunes life where a whirlwind of battle, blood, death, and adrenaline.
As the Grimm descended on them he didn't, he wouldn't hesitate.
Crocea Mors roared to life as he flashed it out striking into the side of one Grimm. Sawing it in half making the monster scream.
As he loosed a lucky laspistol shot at another one of them.
Blowing it's open jaw wide off as-
"Commissar!?"
A familiar voie yelled at his left as Jaune ignored it for the fight at hand.
The Grimm now lessened by the grenade hit them like a tidal wave of claw, fang, and rage.
Thier multi-armed limbs flaring out only to be severed by his chain swore, or burned by a las shot.
Or to be almost obliterated by Sieena's strange pulse rifle. As the two of them butchered the Grimm in a whirlwind of blood and death. As soon as it began it was over as they stood victorious-
"Commissar!"
"Ren?"
Jaune asked as he and Sieena turned to see the shocked faces of thier allies as they were reunited with their groups.