AN: Well it's still "after" noon. sorry i'm lazy and started playing Dark Souls again. I did manage to kill my first Lord of Cinder though so i guess that's good. So here's a fight! Along with a drawn out conversation with Atlas military. On a tactical level, Atlas kinda sucks. No tactics besides group up and shoot regardless of effectiveness, no Squad level heavy weapons. e.g. SAWs, Marksman rifles, launchers of any sort. Robots are kinda neat besides the fact they have serious targeting problems, as in can't engage a prone target 5 feet from them. Mechs are impressive but could get Mission killed by punching so a 120mm gun on a MBT would kill it. Airships don't seem to have any point defense or counter measures so a MANPAD could bring one down. Oh the biggest problem? They are ridiculously incompetent. Seriously. Let's see, why didnt they have any patrols looking for large Grimm concentrations that would be preemptively destroyed? Why was there no CAP or CAS support? And chiefly WHY THE FUCK did you not utterly destroy Mt. Glenn or at the very least check to make sure the subways are completely secured? As one interesting Reddit use pointed out, Why don't they just record videos of CAS runs on Grimm or of Grimm being blown to pieces by machine guns etc, show the Grimm as dumb animals instead of killing machines. Ok thats enough ranting, enjoy the chaper and tell me what i screwed up, or if you have any ideas.
Krauss and Wilhelm climbed inside the BTR and ran through the checks that Krauss knew. They had ¾ of a tank, what looked like a hundred rounds for the new gun, and apparently half a pack of cigarettes. Wilhelm sat down in the turret and popped the hatch. Both he and Krauss took off their bulky infantry helmets and placed the soviet tank ones on in there stead.
"Comms check. Alpha bravo charlie 1 2 3."
"Message received Oberjäger. We'll take the lead. Keep Krauss on the roads. Over and out." Adam's line cut out.
Wilhelm switched over to the internal comms."Krauss you ready?"
The sergeant's response was to ignite the engine. The APC became a lot louder as the cylinders began to pump up and down in their cells.
Wilhelm ordered the tank into gear." Driver, Forward." Below Krauss depressed the accelerator and the tank lurched into motion behind the Humvee. Krauss had elected to raise the shield so he could get a good view. The pair turned out of the driveway and onto the street with a course set for Beacon. They once again prayed they wouldn't get stopped by any passing patrols, but it just wasn't their day.
Near the on ramps for the highway, Atlas had set up a damned checkpoint. As they were pulling up they could see the men manning it scrambling about for weapons.
Wilhelm radioed to humvee. "Sir permission to just bypass this."
A small pop was heard as the Lieutenant gave his reply. "Negative wait it out."
The Humvee pulled up to the checkpoint. Adam leaned to the side of the turret."Guten Nacht Hier."
The poor guards didn't really know what to think."Sir what are you doing?" Asked the one who seemed to be in charge judging from the pistol at his hip.(NCO Have a bayonet as it's too expensive to issue sidearms.) Adam simply reached into his vest.
"Yeah i've got orders to get these" He rapped his fist on the roof." back to Beacon before 23:30, so if you could open this gate here id be thankful."
The sergeant at the gate simply shook his head. "Sir i'm going to have to call this in, you can't just." he was cut off as a sizeable mech chased down two recognizable figures down the middle of the highway. Behind it were Weiss and Ruby. Adam looked down at the troops manning the checkpoint. There was six of them. "Alright we have a hostile robot running down Main Street. You boys better mount up we're going to have a little fight."
Wilhelm opened the hatch on the BTR. "Quickly now, we need to help them." The Atlas troops shrugged. There was a rogue Paladin, a device that was beyond top secret, chasing a pair of trainees down the highway, and a group of soldiers who intended to kill it. They scrambled aboard the strangely spacious vehicle. This thing was well designed, it had three firing ports along the side that had separate viewports to keep exposed to a minimum. The sergeant began radioing the situation to the air wing in his sector.
Roman Torchwick was not in a happy mood. First the general displeasure of working with the White Fang, then those damn kids just had to show up, and now he was being chased by a small armored convoy of a completely unknown design. A burst of heavy machine gun fire rattled the cockpit. That gun packed a mean punch.(Fun fact the M2 was originally designed as an AT gun during WWI.) That tank behind it was even more troublesome. The three shots it had gotten off had pierced straight through the reinforced pylons holding up the highways above. His guns had problems denting that metal. He really hoped Neo was at the extraction point. He forced the mech down as a angry blonde women flew past him on a rope like a yoyo. Bring the mech back up, the tank snapped off a shot. It hit the right shoulder and blew the joint to pieces completely wrecking it. Getting a little pissed he tore the damaged arm off and began to use it as a club. He got a solid blow on the black haired faunus who started this cluster fuck. It sent her flying into the ground. And only served to piss off blondie further. He swung again and connected sending her into a pylon, that should take care of the brat. Unless it didn't.
Oh wonderful she was on fire now, and the other two were shooting blocks of ice everywhere. Triggering the missile pod on his left shoulder he fired off a half dozen rockets to clear the area and to dispatch the girl. He then turned his attention to the tank.
Wait what was that guy on the roof holding?
Torchwitch got his answer in the form of a high speed missile detonating right on the top of his mech. The shaped charge blew through armor and peeled the mech apart like a tin can. Leaving him in the open and exposed. Then six Atlas regulars jumped out of the tank along with two massive men holding rifles. That made 18 people were ready to capture him. While he was quite competent and probably capable of taking any of the three groups individually, combined they would grind his ass into a paste.
Torchwick shakily raised himself to his feet. He could feel his aura was definitely damaged from that missile. Leaning over his cane in a mockery of its correct usage, he took a deep breath to calm his raging heart. "Well shitlords it's been an education." Taking that as her cue, Neo jumped down from her perch and took a bow. "But I've got places to be."
Right before she was able to cast the illusion, a trio of shots rang out. They were louder And sharper they any bullet he had heard before. One knocked his accomplice on her ass from sheer force. The second smacked into her gut, Aura Half Blocked the bullet, managing to shatter the bullet before failing completely, leaving the shards to tear her defenseless skin. leaving the final bullet to slide in just below her left lung. He spun around and spotted the shooter, it was one of the giants from the tank. His massive rifle was smoking gently smoking from the muzzle. Before he could do anything he fired again. Two rounds screamed down range. Before he could even register the rounds had left the barrel they smacked into his thigh and stomach. His Aura stopped the first round but failed to hold against the second.
He fell to the ground clutching his leg wound. He desperately crawled next to his henchgirl. Reaching her he shook her shoulder
"Neo are you alright. Answer me!" Neo feebly turned her head to Torchwick's cry. Her eyes were wide in fear.
Within seconds he was surrounded. Someone kicked him onto his back. He found himself staring down the barrel of a rifle."Stay the fuck down." It was the one who had taken the shots. His voice was, too low, it sounded like the plutonic grumble of a dying star. He turned his head to Neo. Another one of those giants was tending to her along with one of the Atlas soldiers.. "Please save her…" For the first time in a while Roman Torchwick was scared. These men had put him down with ruthless efficiency. Those had been kill shots at Neo, he hadn't been given the same courtesy for some reason.
Serval Atlas gunships arrived on scene. Mechs, troops and even Ironwood himself spilled out. Upon viewing the scene. Airborne was still sweeping the area weapons out and hunting, the tallest was pinning a wounded Torchwick with a rifle pointed at his head. Besides one, who he presumed had medical training, his troops milled about like a bunch of thugs. And the icing on the cake, RWBY a freshman team from. Beacon who somehow again manged to get involved.
"What the FUCK are you doing here!" Shouted the General.
Adam and Wilhelm stepped away from the two criminals along with the Atlas troops.
"Well we were returning a convoy to Beacon before your checkpoint stopped us." Said Adam
"Helping a team of Huntresses capture a known pair of criminals, Sir." Chimed Wilhelm.
The general noticed that Torchwick and his accomplice had been wounded possibly fatally in the latter's case. "What the hell did you do?"
Adam filled him in. "They were going to escape and obviously weren't listening to the commands to halt. Sergeant Krauss took the shot and incapacitated them. Though the way the girl is going, we might need a bag."
Ironwood was not happy. What would have been a clean capture was now a cluster fuck for the medics. "You shot them?"
"Yep they were probably going to escape. The sergeant might have gone a bit overkill with the Javelin."
"You used a missile launcher on a single person."
"He was in that fragile robot thing."
"You are absurdly lucky you're under Ozpin's jurisdiction Lieutenant or I would have you shot."
Adam muttered "Wow, good to know the soviets found their way here too." Clearing his throat, Adam said."I will be in trusting the transport duties to you then General."
Adam spun around and began to walk away. Wilhelm fell in step behind him.
"Sergeant please remove your boot." Krauss took his boot off Torchwick's chest. "Get back in the BTR with Wilhelm, wait for us."
Krauss gave a Salut. "Aye sir." And ran off to prep the APC with Wilhelm tailing behind.
"Jonathan, will she make it?"
"I don't know. Krauss got her with some fragments and a clean shot below her lung. She's stable but you needs a real doctor, not a half trained medic and a small handful of aura. I'd give her 2 hours max."
Adam nodded solemnly. "Alright make sure Atlas understands. I'm really surprised Krauss didn't take the kill considering what he told us. Anyways were leaving pack it up and prep the Humvee."
"Alright sir." He moved to get one of the Atlas troops.
"Uh Mr. McCarthy?"
Adam spun around to find Ruby standing behind him with the rest of her team approaching with two other students. "Could we get a ride? Yang is the only one with a bike."
Adam sighed. "Alright get in the BTR, we'll drive you back. The sergeant will tell you where to sit." As the teens walked past, Adam grabbed a hold of Sun and Neptune. "You boys get to ride with me." Sun and Neptune gave each other the "telepathic conversation of immense importance" look. "Ok Mr. …"
"Lieutenant McCarthy. Come along now." Adam walked off with the two in tow.
"Actual to all signals, green light." Within the BTR the girls felt the APC's Engine turn over and start with a throaty roar. "Follow me Krauss, you are not ramming civilians understood."
Krauss leaned forward "Yeah yeah, just remember I'm as blind as bat here."
"Understood 3 ETA is 00:00. Now shut up I want to have my smoke in peace. Actual out.
