AN: Ok it's official I fucking hate the dentist. A had to get a cavity filled today. Along with making half my face numb, it also managed to give me a migraine of epic proportions. That why I'm uploading this at 2245instead of a reasonable time like 1500 or 1700. Anyways welcome back to the shit show. Last chapter we got a BTR and a few Slavics, and then we killed them all, such fun. The chapter is probably a bit short, but I wrote most of it Tuesday night. So enjoy the frantic attempts at dammage control and some of Wilhelm's past. And please let me know what I screwed up on so I can fix it. It's literally the whole reason I'm writing this.
Looking through the crowd he saw JP. As he walked over to them the students parted around the blood stained soldier. "Jaune where did the rest of RWBY go?"
Jaune answered quickly"they followed Ruby down to the infirmary. What happened?" Adam mentally debated telling them what Ruby had done. "Follow me then, I need to check on my men." The partners followed him through Beacon's halls. Adam walked into the infirmary and was greeted with mass Chaos. Medical staff rushed back and forth between Krauss and supply cabinets. One nurse was standing on the edge of the group scribbling furiously on a clipboard.
"Miss." He asked "How are they?"
The nurse looked up. "And you are?"
Adam mentally rolled his eyes."2nd Lieutenant McCarthy, Their commanding Officer."
The nurse shrugged indefinitely "Wilhelm is going to be released tomorrow, fully healed."
Adam was surprised to say the least, a bullet wound would normally take weeks to fully heal."Only a day?"
She nodded"Yes it's amazing what a few aura infusions can do isn't it. Your other man is incredibly lucky, a few more minutes and he would have been beyond our care. He owes his life to that Ruby girl once more. The bullet caused a lot of internal bleeding, ripped a chunk from his stomach and missed his spine by margins no one wants to know. I think we could release him by the end of the week, but he'll be out of i until then." Adam nodded. So the Nazi bastard was going to be fine, and Krauss would be in a week long coma. lot better than he expected, he had fully expected to lose his marksman. This planet had some truly impressive technology.
In the corner team WBY, Ren and Goodwitch trying to comfort Ruby. Adam walked over with Jaune and Pyrrha in tow. Yang immediately rounded on Adam."What the fuck happened! Why is my little sister catatonic!"
Adam figured this was going to happen. "This is the basic version, When you guys left a BTR, an APC, from our world crashed through and spit out two guys and a girl. Krauss spoke some Russian, and then the shooting started." Adam sighed."One of them freaked when Goodwitch barged in, almost killed her. Then it got ugly fast we only had pistols, the had machine guns and something that I've never seen before. Jonathan neutralized one with a shot at the neck." He pointed behind him at the crowd of medics." then whatever that woman had put a shot straight through a pillar and through Krauss. She took a round to the face, then Wilhelm took a bullet to the thigh. Finally Ruby came out of nowhere and got the last one, I don't know what she thinking."
The kids stood there. Two members of Airborne were going to be out of it for a while, and Ruby had… Did he mean that RUBY had just killed someone?!
Yang shakily asked "When you say got him."
Adam nodded. "You don't walk off a missing leg and a scythe through the chest." He reached behind his back and unclipped Crescent Rose from his back. "I think I got all the blood off." Yang numbly accepted the weapon and held it close to her chest. No longer would Crescent Rose be a tool of the childish and hyperactive huntress, it would be the weapon of killer. As if suddenly revolted by the weapon, she practically threw it on the side of Ruby's bed.
"Mrs. Goodwitch, will she be alright?"
She gave him a glare that would be capable of stopping a ICBM mid flight. "Your Fireteam has caused problem after problem since your arrival." She stood up. "I have half the mind too."
"MADAM!" She stopped immediately. "You know full well what happened wasn't our fault. If we could pin the blame on anyone it would be you."
She was taken back at the man's tone. "How in the name of God would this be MY FAULT!" Adam was about to give a furious reply when Yang slugged him and Glyda lightly in the gut. Adam dropped to a knee trying to replace the air in his lungs. Glyda simply took a step back.
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Roared Yang. "You're acting like children. From what he said, you caused them to panic and got two of Airborne Hospitalized. My Sister is completely beside herself right now."
Adam took in a shaky breath and stood back up to his full height 7'3". "Ms. Long let me or one of Airborne talk to her about this. This is one of the few things we have to experience in."
Yang immediately said "No way in hell are you guys coming near my sister after what happened."
Suddenly Blake pulled Yang away and started a hushed conversation. Soon it was joined by frantic hand movements, that grew into full on swinging arms. Yang seemed to give in to the whatever the ninja was saying, and just blankly gestured to the group around Ruby's bed. The two walked back. "Weiss, Jaune, Ren, Pyrrha, let's go find Nora before something happens again." Said Yang with a look that gave no room for augment. She looked at the lone teacher."Professor could you help us too?"
Goodwitch figured out what Blake was doing, and was mildly surprised when she stayed behind. Anyone could be a killer she remembered when she looked to the bed where Ruby lay. "Yes it might be best if I were to help minimize the collateral damage." She got up and followed the students out.
Wilhelm spoke up from the other side. "Mind including me and the private in this sir?"
Adam blinked and turned to Blake." I'll let you talk first, this is probably a story you want to keep close." He walked over to Wilhelm and a bloodied Jonathan began talking in a hushed German. The Lieutenants subordinates nodded along to his orders.
"Ruby, I want you to listen to me" Blake kept her tone low and soft, yet direct. Amazingly she seemed to respond lifting her head slightly. "Your first kill will always be the hardest to get over. It doesn't get easier with time and it will weigh on your conscious for years to come."
She paused to let Ruby process the words. "I'm not going to pretend to know what you were thinking Ruby, but that man was a serious threat. Krauss would have died if you hadn't intervened. Mine was far less noble, it was two years, four months, twenty six days." She looked to the clock on the wall." And six hours ago. My former partner " She spit out the word like it was acid." And I needed to get a shipment of food to our people at the camp. If we didn't get the food In a few days we would starve to death.
The target was a atlas supply convoy, it was only a truck and a motorcycle with a machinegun. We blew up the motorcycle and knocked out the two crew, they would need medical attention but would live. The truck drivers were pulled out and knocked unconscious. I moved to open the back, and was jumped by a third guard we didn't see. He had a SMG and fired a few rounds at me. I dodged and did a parry with Gamble, And it went straight through him. I still don't know how i didn't see the bandages around his leg till i had run him clean through. He was completely out of aura, he wasn't even Atlas, he was just a traveler they had pick up and tried to help. I felt horrible for weeks after, but i got over it by talking about it. I know you can do this too."
It was at that moment that whatever had kept the little redhead from speaking for so long broke."But I didn't mean to kill him! He could have a family, kids, friends, people that need him." Ruby started to cry softly. "What did they even do to deserve this, they arrived no different than Krauss why did they have to die."
Blake leaned back slightly. "They didn't. What happened was an accident, a tragic one yes, but an accident none the less. As far as we know Ruby they were already considered dead."
The three able bodied members of Airborne limped over to Ruby's bed side and placed Wilhelm in a nearby chair, and sat flanking him. Blake had scooted imperceptibly away from Wilhelm. As a whole, Airborne gave off an air of uneasiness, but it was much stronger coming off Wilhelm. The five sat in an uncomfortable silence for a minute with only slight beeping coming from the heart rate monitor hooked up to Krauss. Adam gently nudged Wilhelm's uninjured leg.
"Miss Rose, I would like to say thank you on behalf of the sergeant, he had maybe five minutes in him when he got here." Ruby nodded numbly. "I am saddened that you had to go to such lengths to secure our safety, I should be the only one here with a kill at such an age." Ruby looked up questioningly at the Fallschirmjager. "I was only 14 when i made my first kill." everyone in the room looked on in shock.
"What the hell did you do?" asked a surprised Adam.
"I was getting chased by a bunch of H.J. pricks across a bridge. They had one lying in wait near the end. As I ran past, I punched him in the throat, and it broke his neck. I took his knife and stuck two more of them, i have no idea what happened to those two. I just ran for the hills, and into a Waffen-SS camp. As a kicker that's also how i got conscripted."
Blake was flabbergasted."You were conscripted at 14! Your were at least three years under age, how could they do that!?"
"How old do you think I am Ms. Belladonna?" Asked Wilhelm
Blake scrutinized the German. "20 years old or so. Why?"
A low chuckle escaped his lips" I'm 18, to them I looked to be the age of conscription. Plus they were probably just going to shoot me if I didn't join. I'm still scratching my head how I ended up in a SS Fallschamjäger unit though."
Blake wasn't really getting it though."What do you mean?"
Airborne looked weary at Ruby who seemed to have fallen asleep on the hospital bed. The three talked quickly in a hushed Italian and settled on an agreement. "This doesn't ever leave this room, understood. We already have a rock reputation here, we can't afford to jeopardize it further."
The three started to explain the horrible conditions of WWII for her. With each sentence Blake's face turned slowly to horror. She couldn't understand why anyone could do anything like this. When Wilhelm started on the camps, Blake had to ask him to stop. The Faunas were known to be mistreated, they had even tried to deported in mass, but no one ever suggested killing her entire race. The fact that this happened enough to make Earth create a whole new word to define it was astonishing, And over something as petty as skin color or religious practices was just absurd.
"You should get going to classes, we have to go clean up the dining hall." Wilhelm was gently lifted from his seat and replaced on his bed. The remaining three walked out of the infirmary to their self appointed roles. Adam and Jonathan had quite a bit of fixing to do in the dining hall, and Blake had to make sure Yang didn't go crazy.
