Chapter 6
Author's Note: I'm sorry that this chapter was a bit later than my usual upload time, but I had a few issues with my computer. The good news: everything was fixed for only about $150! The bad news: it just got fixed this evening so I wanted to quickly get out a chapter. I'm sorry this was shorter than what I usually upload, but I will be back on schedule this week. I figured this was a good time to begin incorperating a bit of canon (specifically the fight scene) into my story in order to portray Team RWBY's increasing teamwork abilities. I liked this fight in RWBY because it shows how well the girls can work together when they are united in a common goal. Leave me any reviews you deem necessary and please let me know if you approve or disapprove of canon cameos like this. I'm glad to see that I'm consistently getting new readers; it makes me happy to know that this story is interesting enough for people to spend their valuable time reading. Thank you all so much for your time and, as always, enjoy the show.
The basement of the gym was rather large, about 20 meters tall, and about 50 meters in length and width. Easily, it went underneath the buildings around the gym as well as under the gym itself. The simulation room itself, was an empty room with wires and hologram projectors running through the walls, floor, and ceiling. Team RWBY wanted a random simulation, in hopes of getting a real challenge. When the activation sequence began, the entire room changed; pillars began to appear out of the ground, large portions of the room began to move into the shape of the field it was processing, and finally the holograms activated changing the room to truly look as though they were somewhere else.
It looked as though they were on a highway bridge with cars zooming past them. Of course, the cars would just phase right through them, but, as a penalty, any time the simulator was able to successfully 'injure' one of the girls (by any means), their available aura would be artifically 'damaged' by the machine...in order to emulate a real battle. Even though it looked as though they were outside, the walls and cieling of the simulation room were colored a slight red color by the simulator, in order to prevent them from running into anything solid. The second the buzzer sounded, the girls quickly put in their ear pieces, connected to their scrolls, and jumped their into fighting positions.
"Mmmkay...where's the fight at?" Yang said after about ten seconds of waiting and dodging the occasional car.
Ruby looked around and noticed the were standing on a bridge quite high up. "Is it under the-"
Ruby was slienced by the sound of metal crashing against the concrete of the bridge. The girls all looked forward and saw the source: a large mech running towards them, knocking cars out of the way as it ran.
"Oh. There is is. Remember, the simulation uses gravity dust to protect your body, but also uses it to mimic the force of attacks!" Yang said as all four of them readied themselves for the attack that was coming. Sure enough, when the mech reached them, it slammed its right arm into the ground. All of Team RWBY jumped out of the way, going their seperate ways as the mech began searching for them.
Blake was the first to send out an attack from the highway exit sign she had landed on. She jumped from the sign, threw Gambol toward the mech embedding it into its' torso and pulled her self toward it. Just as the mech threw a punch toward the flying Blake, she used her shadow clone and jumped up dodging the attack and giving her an opening to attack the machine's head. Shroud came down with a thunderous boom, but the machine managed to move out of the way slightly causing Blake's attack to hit a few of the wires and mechanical joints connecting the left arm to the torso. The mech used its' right arm to punch Blake, causing the gravity dust to knock her away from it a few meters. "Blake, I'm in position!" Weiss said over the earpiece causing Blake to jump away from the mech, taking Gambol Shroud with her, and landing behind it under another sign.
The mech noticed her soon after, and ran toward her, getting ready for an attack. As the machine approached her, Weiss jumped from the sign and landed in between the two. Without even a second to spare, Weiss impaled Mytenaster into the ground, making a cascade of ice cover the concrete. The mech took one step onto the ice and immediately slipped, tumbling off the bridge and landing on the ground below where Ruby and Yang were waiting. Blake and Weiss landed next to their teammates soon after.
As the mech began walking toward the girls, Ruby took her position as leader and yelled, "Freezer burn!" Ruby and Blake jumped out of the way to give room to the Hot-Head and Ice Queen duo. Again, Weiss impaled Mytenaster into the ground, makeing ice appear, only this time Yang had jumped into the air, aimed her fist downward, and launched her self right in front of Weiss. As her fist made contanct with the ground, an icy fog covered the imediate vicinity.
The fog not only alowed for a great cover, it also made the laser motion detectors on the mech visible. As the mech began looking around and firing on anything that moved, Ruby quickly put herself into position. The mech saw Blake and Yang running toward each other and fired a plasma round toward them, causing both girls to be knocked back by the simulation's gravity dust that was used for most simulated explosions. Ruby took advantage of the confusion and launched herself toward the mech, slicing at its armor, and cutting the front steel plate clean off.
"Checkmate" Ruby yelled followed by Blake and Weiss jetting forward and simultaneously giving the mech a flurry of slashes and stabs knoacking off pieces of its armor and cutting wires. At this point, there was a slightly noticable lag in the mech's movements, but it was no less difficult to keep away from. Weiss, seeing the armor moving away from one of the front motion senors, attacks it and manages to stab right through it. Weiss jumps away from the machine, which momentarily goes into a slight frenzy, swinging its' arms and stomping its' legs. Blake, with Gambol embedded into the mech's torso, notices the mech raise its' foot above her head. Knowing Blake cannot react in time, Weiss uses a gravity glyph to propel Blake backward.
As the mech regained its' controls, it fired a barage of missiles toward Blake and Weiss, whom barely had time to dodge. As the girls are busy backflipping and jumping away from the missiles, the mech calculates where the girls will land and fires two plasma rounds toward their landing spot. Blake manages to dodge, but Weiss, still being in the air, gets hit and is sent flying back by the simulation. Before she hits the ground, Weiss sends a time glyph toward Blake, causing her to percieve and take actions at a faster rate while witin the glyph. As more of the missiles begin to approach Blake, she makes short work of them by generating her aura through her weapons and causing a slash-like effect of energy to blast forward from them, slicing the missiles in half.
"Ladybug!" Ruby yells as she flies forward toward the mech, passing Blake. She sliced at the legs of the mech, causing some of the armor to fall from them. She fires her rifle behind her, launching herself back toward the mech at the same time Blake jumps into the fight. Both girls begin attacking the mech's legs slicing through armor and joints. The mech aims both arms at the girls and fires a plasma round at each of them. Ruby and Blake both jump into the air, dodging the attack, and lanch themselves toward the mech. Seeing that the left arm is still very damaged from Blake's earliest attack, the girls aim there. The come down like a guillotine 's blade, completely severing the mech's left arm.
As the mech followed its' severed arm rolling on the gorund, Yang took the time to jump into the air and grab onto the mechs head while hanging off of it's back. She lifted the mech's head up slightly, with her left arm, revealing the inner circuitry of the machine. She quickly began firing Ember Celica's with her right arm into the mech's inner workings. The mech jumped backward, slamming its' back through a few holographic pillars and smacking into a final one. The gravity dust protected Yang from any damage, but the simulation was brutal on her aura level. She was momentarily in shock from the amount of aura that was damaged. The mech turned around and readied it's remaining arm for another attack. With a swift move, the mech punched Yang through the final holographic pillar. Yang slowly slid to a stop on the ground as her other three teammates looked on in horror.
"Yang!" Blake yelled.
"Don't worry. Remember, with each hit she gets stronger and she uses that energy to fight back. That's what makes her special." Ruby said.
The mech immediately attempted to send another punch towards Yang, but it was caught with ease by the blonde brawler. With a loud warcry, Yang punched the mech's other arm causing it to fly into a thousand pieces. The mech, quickly regaining its' composure, sends a kick into Yang's torso sending her flying back.
As she flew past Blake and Ruby, the young leader yelled, "Bumblebee!"
Without even thinking, Blake threw Gambol back towards Yang, who quickly caught it and began running back towars the fight, but staying far enough away to still keep the ribbon attached to Gambol tense. Yang begins to fire Ember Celica behind her to pick up speed as she heads straight for the mech, who narrowly dodges the attack by jumping backward.
"We have to slow it down..." Ruby said.
"And how do you propose we do that?" Weiss asked.
"Ice Flower!" Ruby States as she embeds the blade of her sythe into the ground while aiming toward the mech. Weiss then proceeds to cast a series of glyphs in front of the barrel of Ruby's weapon. The reaper begins to fire her weapon and, as the bullets travel throough the glyphs, they become imbued with ice. As the bullets make contact with the mech, the air around the shockwave immediately freezes causing the mech to remain almost still.
With one final swing of Gambol and a few blasts from Ember Celica, Yang is traveling at full speed toward the mech. With one final puch to the upper torso, the entire suit of metal is destroyed and sent flying into all directions. Just as quickly as everything lit up, the entire room was quickly deconverted back into it's original form.
"I so fucking told you that it would be cool!" Yang said as the girls walked into one of the newer restaurants in Vale, 'Köstlich.' It was sort of a 'Jack or all Trades' restaurant in terms of cooking.
"Yes. I heard you the first time." Blake said with a bland tone.
"She's never going to let it go. After all, you actually humored her insane idea." Weiss said as motioned for the host to get them a booth, which the host immediately did after noticing who he was dealing with.
After finishing their training, the girls went to the locker room and managed to get a shower in before heading out. It wasn't until they left that they noticed it was almost 5:00pm. They had made the decision to grab something to eat before heading back to Beacon.
"Here are your seats, ladies." The host said as the girls sat down and waited for their menus, which the host quickly provided them with. "May I go ahead a gather your drink orders?" He asked.
"I'll have a glass of water, thank you." Weiss said.
"Yes ma'am." The waiter said as he turned his head to each of the girls one by one.
"Sweet tea!" Ruby said playfully.
"I'll have a Dr. Pepper, bro." Yang said as she looked through her menu.
"I will also have a glass of water." Blake said.
"Thank you very much. I'll notify your waiter right away." The host said as he left.
"Oh! And get me some mozzarella sticks!" Yang shouted as the host turned his head and nodded.
"So. What's our plans for tomorrow?" Yang asked as all the girls looked through their menus.
"I think it would serve us well to let our bodies fully rest. I think we should examine the competition." Weiss stated as she placed her meu down.
"Why? We don't have to fight them." Ruby wondered.
"Yet." Yang said with a grin on her face.
"Indeed. They will, at one point, be our enemies." Blake said as she also closed her menu. "And besides, if we learn what the other teams are planning, we can plan something even better." Blake stated right as the waiter brought the girls their drinks and Yang's Mozzarella sticks.
"Would you ladies like more time on deciding what you would like to eat?" The waiter asked.
"Yeah." Ruby said.
"Alright. I will be back momentarily." The host said as he walked away.
"I didn't think you were so willing to spy on others, Blake." Weiss said as she sipped her water.
"I've had a lot of practice." Blake said as she purposely made a strange face towards Ruby, causing the other two girls to look at the young leader pouring more sugar into her already sweet tea.
"Sweet enoug, Rubes?" Yang asked.
"Not until she's sure she will get diabetes, evidently." Weiss said sarcastically.
"I like sweet things! Why do people always complain?" Ruby asked in the most innocent way.
"Because we don't want you so ruin your health!" Weiss said quickly.
"Already bickering like an old married couple, eh?" Yang asked as she inhaled more of the fried cheese sticks.
"Alright ladies, have you made your decisions?" The waiter asked, before Weiss could make an argument against Yang's comment.
"Ugh. Yes. I will have the chicken alfedo pasta with a side of garlic toased bread." Weiss said.
The waiter quickly wrote down the order and turned his head to the young leader who had just put down her menu. "And you ma'am?" He asked.
"I'll get the chicken strips and fries. Oh, and can I get some potato soup with it?" Ruby said.
"Yes ma'am." the waiter said meekly.
"Ribeye cooked well-done. Some mixed vegi's. And a loaded baked potato." Yang said.
"And I'll have the grilled swordfish, baked scallops and a plate of onion rings." Blake stated, adding the onion rings at the very end.
"Is that all i can get you ladies right now?" the waiter asked.
"Yeah, I think were good." Yang said as she gathered all of the menus and handed them to the waiter.
"I'll have your food done as soon as possible." The waiter said as he scurried away.
"So, we'll spy on the competition tomorrow?" Yang asked.
"We'll split up to scout everyone out. Then we'll get back together tomorrow evening to share our information." Blake said.
"That sounds good to me." Weiss said while crossing her arms.
"Alright. Now about the training today. What can we do to...well, do better?" Yang asked. The girls spent the next few hours eating and going over battle strategy for the upcoming day. The Hunt was quickly crawling upon them and the stress was starting to reach the girls' minds. They were determined, however, to make sure they were prepared.