A/N: Welcome back to Anime High, and also A big thank you to Epic Zealot Productions 2.0, Hiroshi Katana, Left hand Suzuki method, Scythewilder8399, amvman52, elvisfan994, ACH Taco, and CrazyBombs777 for the support on the story.
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Chapter 2: Escalation Part 2.
What should've been the perfect start of the school year, had unfortunately gone back to its roots of madness.
Not only did Nora's arrival caused a disturbance, but now the ruthless group known as the Rebels had just entered the same room, and they were not here to follow the rules. Quite the opposite actually.
"Neptune Vasilias" Nora said, her smile vanished and was replaced with a frown as she noticed Neptune's gang. "Have you come here to finally accept yourself in the pancake stack of justice?"
"No, otherwise I would've already poured syrup in your group!"
"That joke sucks!" Yang shouted.
"Ahem." Glynda interrupted the three on the mic, "Excuse me Mr. Vasilias, but you are breaking rule number 007. No firearms of any kind are allowed on school ground-" Her voice got cut off as Coco fired out dozens of bullets from her minigun, destroying most of the spotlights on the ceiling.
"And there goes our savings account." Ozpin muttered to himself.
"What... are... you...doing here?" Ren asked, still exhausted from running over here.
"We're here to make a name for ourselves in Anime High, today's our first day of business." Sun spoke for Vasilias, but it was a rude intrusion for the blue haired motorcyclist.
"Sun, this is my moment," He turned to him with a slight frown, "Let me handle this." He returned his gaze at the rest of the room, "Our management will remodel this high school and we will reassemble it to reinstate its proper legacy."
"And you're gonna do that with what? Explosions, and MORE explosions?" Valkyrie questioned the possibilities in a mocking tone, "Get real Neptune, this school was meant for me to conquer and you know it."
"Then how about you start by making your disgusting flapjacks for the cafeteria?" Coco shouted out in a sarcastic manner, interrupting the leader's moment, and this pissed off Valkyrie who walked over to her while pulling up her sleeves.
"What did you say about my pancakes Coconut girl?" She snarled at the rebel girl, shaking her fist.
"You heard me, now move away, I wouldn't want to shoot your face off instead of the teacher's."
"Unfortunately, if you do that, then you gonna break rule number 3-D." Goodwitch tried to finish up the work, despite the fact that things were not going too well for everyone, "No killing any persons or students."
"So does that mean we can't kill the librarian who looks like Sabertooth?" A grey haired student asked.
"Yes."
"Hey Professor," Nora shouted out from the middle of the room, "Is there a rule that says we can punch people in the face if they insult us?"
Quickly scrolling on the screen, Goodwitch stopped at rule 999, "No, you're only allowed to punch people's faces in Boxing, or wrestling."
"Damn!"
"Glynda, I don't think this is going to work." Ozpin said to the female teacher as she looked at the other rules. "These students look like they're about to unleash chaos."
"As much as I would like to agree with you, I can't neglect my duties." She explained to him, "We have a job to do, and we will get these students to follow the rules." Just then, another line of bullets hit the spotlights, and this time, they fell down on the ground, right in front of the teachers, "On second thought, they are insane. Grab your riot shield."
"We're gonna show you what this school's really all about!" Neptune pulled out a gun from his back and pointed it at Nora.
"No, I'm gonna show you guys why the pancake queen deserves to dominate this school!" Nora got out her own firearm, Ren said nothing while revealing his dual pistols.
Before anyone could even draw their weapons, someone shouted through a megaphone, "All of you stop what you're doing and drop your weapons immediately!" Ironwood had returned from wherever he was, and was walking towards the troublemakers.
"Uh... hey mister Ironman, I was wondering where you were!" Nora said nervously.
"That's Mr. Ironwood to you." His cold tone was audible through his teeth, "And all of you are sentenced to the basement for the next twelve hours for property damage, bringing firearms, using foul language and for bringing an Ursa in an institution of learning!"
"James, I don't think that's going to stop these students." Glynda said. "You might want to find some cover."
"Glynda, these freshmen are misbehaving, someone has to set things right."
Coco decided to make sure the guy doesn't ruin their fun so she points her handgun at him, "Yeah, which is why I'm about to kill you in the most epic way possible!" Fortunately for the Headmaster, he came prepared as he took out his scroll and pressed a small button on the screen. This triggered the ceiling to take out a few turrets that popped out and aimed its laser sights at the rogue students.
"Or maybe it's the other way around?" Sun said, backing away from the lasers.
Glynda looked stunned to see that the school somehow had military grade weapons installed, but she kept her normal look as she looked back at the 007 rule, "James, why do you have turrets installed on the ceiling if we're not allowed to have firearms?"
"It's for security, that way we can eliminate any intruders that tries to corrupt the school system."
"By killing them?" Ozpin said in a questioning manner.
"Exactly, so you should surrender yourself if you don't want a bullet in your face." James said to the group. But the students were not going to give in just yet.
"Oh yeah, then have a look at this." Neptune said, and then the rest of the wall broke down as the sudden arrival of unmanned military tanks got the attention of everyone again. All cannons pointed at the teachers and the headmaster. "Ready to surrender now?"
Unlike the other students who had different thoughts, Cinder Fall was watching this from afar, thinking, 'All according to plan' as she smirked.
"Where did you even get those tanks?" James asked, noticing that they were breaking another rule.
"We managed to steal them from your military base, and we modified it to follow only our OWN command. Pretty sweet huh?"
"So you plan to use them to kill us? We're the ones who were supposed to kill you for disobeying the rules."
"James," Goodwitch shouted, "Must I remind you that we're not supposed to kill anyone, this is a school that needs to follow-" A tank fired and hit the stage, both Ozpin and Glynda dived out of the way as the debris flew all over the place, the students moved away from the chairs as some of destruction fell right in front of them.
Goodwitch got back on her feet and took out her crop to use her Semblance, easily taking care of the rubble.
"You were saying?" Coco said, smirking at the explosion the tank caused, the smoke just now clearing.
Nora responded in anger, "Hah, like some tank is going to stop me and Rennie."
"Fuck you, and yes." This cued the tanks to point their cannons at her and Ren. "If you want to live, then back off."
"Not a chance, coconut girl!" Valkyrie was willing to fight against Coco immediately as she put her gun up.
"Alright, prepare to die!" At this response, the tanks' cannons began to move away from the two pancake order members, and target around the walls of the school.
Neptune saw this, and asked, "Coco, why are you making the tanks aim at the walls?"
Coco replied, "Wait, what do you mean?" She then looked at the tanks and where they were pointing at. "Shit, something's wrong."
"What do you mean something's wrong?" To answer that question, Adel took out her remote for the tanks, pressing the buttons furiously. "They've not working"
"What?!" Right then, one of the tanks fired a shell into the right wall, causing bricks to fly across the room. Another cannon turned towards the rebels and the headmaster, and the pair quickly jumped away from the oncoming explosion.
The pancake duo remained in their current spot, but the 'king' was thinking about getting both of them to safety, "Nora, we need to get out of here."
"Right, retreat!"
The queen started running with Ren, then the tanks began their assault against the school.
"All students, remain calm." Glynda tried to regain the Freshmen's attention, but another shell zoomed to the stage, and the entire platform exploded. The professor lost her grip on the crop and she and Oz landed on the hard floor, knocking them unconscious.
The students ran forward and took cover behind the steel chairs, but the armored vehicles decided to take them down easy with their firepower, the freshmen then abandoned the chairs as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, the turrets fired out multiple bullets, which did not have any effect as the tanks ignored it's firepower and remained in their newfound territory.
"Neptune, this plan is officially the worst you've ever come up with!" Coco shouted to Neptune, running through the main hallway with the rest of the students.
Neptune yelled, "Hijacking tanks is the perfect strategy to tackle with these adversaries!"
"Well look at what that got us into!"
Yatsuhashi Daichi carried an motionless Oz and Goodwitch and ran with the other freshmen, rushing inside the gymnasium and closing the entrance. To make sure they were safe, they began to move objects to the door.
Nora noticed Russel Thrush not cooperating with the others and charging towards the exit, "Hey, where are you going?"
"I'm getting out of this school!" The mohawk kid already went through the doorway and all they could hear was footsteps and the sudden explosions that replaced Russel's panicked screams. He was thrown back in the gym, and was unconscious.
"That's it, we need to call the police." said Adam.
"No, don't do that!" Coco replied, "They'll be torn apart by those cannons."
"You just don't want them because you'll get arrested for hijacking my military tech." James said, still upset of seeing his stuff get taken.
"Shut up old man!"
"Guys, we don't want the police to get hurt, so we need to think of a plan." Weiss suggested, "If we have any Anti-tank weaponry of sorts, we can take them down." She was looking at Coco because she brought her minigun.
"I don't believe we carry such thing, the tanks are made from adamantium, we might need a more effective weapon."
"Great, We need another plan." Jaune said.
Ruby came up with a plausible solution, "What if we can get inside one of them, and override their circuits to disable them?"
While that seemed a little bit risky, it was worth taking to save their school, Schnee replied to this, "There has to be a better option, we can't risk ourselves getting hurt."
"Trust me Weiss, I can do this."
With that, Ruby began to run past the door with her semblance, and was already at the assembly room.
The three tanks turned to find the target, and Ruby jumped on the top of the center vehicle, she pulled the hatch and then went inside before the enemies could get a clear image. As she landed at the pilot seat and found the controls which was connected by a wire leading to the device.
"Uh...is that supposed to be a coffee machine?" Rose asked, and indeed there was a regular coffee machine controlling the thing. "Wow…I didn't know it would be easy to hack things." She quickly remembered the objective and grabbed the device.
Unfortunately it wasn't easy because when she moved it, so did the tank, and it was glued on tight. She pulled it to the right and the vehicle moved in that same direction, bumping the other tank. "Uh whoops."
The other students were taking a peek at the scene from the doorway, seeing the military tanks move around and questioning their 'friend's' actions. Yang asked, "Does Ruby even know what she's doing in there?"
"Probably not." Sun said. "Because we did put in some impressive hardware to control the tanks."
Ruby stopped moving the 'impressive hardware' and tried a different option, "What if i just do this?" She grabbed the handle and it caused the tank to fire at the ground. "My bad!" moving it again only made it worse as it crashed into it's buddies, then the other tank got angry, "Sorry, this is my first time piloting a tank!"
Ironwood face palmed, "This is the worst first day ever."
"Sorry, I'm not used to machines like this." Ruby kept controlling the tank and inadvertently crashed the back of the vehicle at the wall, raising the awareness of the other enemies, then she tugged the handle and it hit the other tank, which only made a dent and it turned to her with an angry look, then it fired back.
"AHHH!" She fell on the floor, but regained herself by gripping on the device, firing a shell at the other tank again, the moved forward to clash with her enemy. Then crashed at the third tank, and fired at another wall, "I have no idea what I'm doing!" Another shell was fired and it broke a piece of the ceiling.
Meanwhile, outside the school, there was a news crew right in front of the gateway, not noticing the carnage that was occurring inside. Lisa Lavender was holding the mic and was standing at the front entrance, "This is Vicki Vale-, I mean Lisa Lavender, reporting live at the front of the infamous high school known as Anime High, today is it's first day being reopened after the unfortunate incidents that occurred last year."
The crew moved in further to the door, Lisa held her hand on the handle, "In a few moments, we are about to go inside this legendary institute and see for ourselves what this place holds for the future of Earth." Without a moment to lose, she pushed the door and the camera peered at the main hallway...where a tank was rushing towards them!"
"Run!" The camera man dropped his device and everyone else ran away from the military vehicle as it almost hit the van
"Sorry guys!" Ruby was heard from the inside, and moved the tank forward to attack the two tanks, and missed, which ended up in her crashed through what was left of the stage, "I think i got one!"
"I don't think she's gonna fix this." Sage said.
"On the bright side, at least she's gonna earn a driver's license." Replied Yang, a little impressed at the skills that Ruby was performing, but she had a lot to learn. "She just needs to know what's going on in front of her.
Luckily for the class, Glynda was just starting to wake up, "Huh, what happened here?"
"Oh good, you're up." James came over to her side, "We have a situation, The tanks are out of control, and one of our students is trying to 'fix' this."
Glynda was not happy with that news, she frowned and stood up by herself, dusting off her shoulder, "There's no need for that, I can do this by myself!" remembering that her crop was among the ruins of the stage, she walked to the door.
Everyone moved aside as she saw the destruction of the room, the tanks were fighting each other with nothing but their ammo and speed, and she quickly found her weapon near the small stack of chairs. Moving forward, she picked it back up and pointed it at the entire place.
Ruby, meanwhile, was still trying to take down the enemies, "I'm going to take you down and save this-!" She was interrupted as the tank started levitating and she lost her balance, falling on the back of the command center.
The room's weakened state was being repaired, Glynda moved her crop and watched its effects unfold, placing the pieces back together and floating the two hostile tanks outside of the school so they wouldn't do anymore harm, and the remaining one upside down, aware of the driver inside it.
Ruby was lying on the ceiling, and quickly knew that something happen, so she tried to pry the hatch open, but she didn't need to, when the tank started flying again, and she fell right through it, crashing on the floor with a hard thud.
Noticing Glynda's feet, she stood up, "T-Thanks for the help Professor." She put out her arm to shook but the teacher gave her a cold look instead, then moved to the center of the room.
"Students, I can't believe how much trouble you cause today, I'm highly disappointed in all of you for this atrocious act, this is supposed to be the start of a new legacy, and you repeated history itself."
"Mission accomplished." Neptune made a small comment on it, thinking about the rebel's success.
Ozpin, who had just woken up, approach Glynda and said, "No need to get upset Glynda, it'll only make this worse."
"She's right Oz, we've failed." Ironwood walked past his staff, "We're back to the way it all started, chaos will reign once more, and we can't do anything about that."
"So…" Ruby was saying, "Does this mean we can destroy the place again."
"No Miss Ruby, I'm afraid we're gonna end up in this nightmare for a long time." This cued the sound and appearance of a news helicopter, it was now looking down at the repaired building and recording footage to play back at HQ.
"Hey guys," Jaune and the others were standing by the doorway, "Can we go home now?"
Given the fact that everything didn't go the way as expected, Ironwood replied, "Yes, you may leave, but come back tomorrow and don't bring anything dangerous."
"Yes sir." With that said, all the students walked out of the school and this ended the day, the school was unfortunately back to its roots of insanity and hijinks. Now that the news was able to catch a good amount of it, they would be infamous for this once again, only this time, the students would be a whole lot more crazier than the last.
And this is how it all started. This is how Anime High was reborn.