Welcome back to Operation: Outcasts.
First, I would like to say sorry for not submitting another chapter last time because I was busy, i was planning something big.
Secondly, I was spending this whole time trying to get this chapter done, and it ended up being the longest thing I've ever written. It's so long, it took me forever to do this. (It was almost worth it.)
I would also like to say thanks to Elfcollaborator for supporting this, thanks for your help.
Okay, now let's get started.
Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to RWBY or Call Of Duty, they belong to their respectful owners, I'm just a fan.
Chapter 10
The next morning had arrived, it was finally the day where they can escape the city and avoid the rest of the Atlas forces. Of course they knew that they were going to need all their strength to fight through them on the bridge, And hope to get out alive, this wasn't a walk in the park to them. The or friends would easily regroup with them so they can get out faster, although Ruby and Weiss were way far behind, they would be able to catch up to the docking area from yesterday and escape by boat.
Along with the Sentinel ally, and the impending odds of success, they would be sure to escape this place today. Somewhere back at the safe house from last night, Coco was keeping a close eye on Alder, she wore a sleek coat that was colored in chocolate brown with the hint of light brown on it, a scarf covered the top of the coat. Chris had taken off his helmet and she got a good look at him, the red contacts didn't bother her mostly, she was just feeling a little worried about their safety.
"You never told me how you guys got here in the first place." The Seninel replied to the Beret-wearing girl.
"We got here because of some magic thing that happened, and that was really it." She answered, not even taking her eyes of him, "We had along our other friends, but they got seperated from us and they're coming back to us."
"And also, I want to know why you were out there last night."
"There was something going on, and I ended up trying to catch our asshole 'friend', but on the bright side we may never have to see him again." Apparently she was wrong, again. Just at that moment, someone knocked on the door and Chris opened it up, there appeared Cardin. "Goddammit."
"Morning." He said to the two, both were not giving him a greeting, Coco started shaking her fist and cursed him for even coming back here, especially since he kept bickering on how these guys were not even worth his time. Chris could see her doing this, but didn't ask why.
The one thing that caught his eye was the fact that Cardin wore an Atlas Exosuit, he also had an Atlas suit that was colored in white and red. the CFVY leader noticed it too, and gave out a questioning look. "Um, where did you find that?"
"I stole it from some dead Atlas guy, it could really useful for our escape." He lied, knowing full well to keep the encounter with Reynard last night a secret. "What happened to the other two?"
"They're still here, don't even try to insult Velvet again."
"I was just hoping she'd learn her lesson, that was all."
Chris resumed examining Velvet's weapon and kept spinning it around to see how this thing could work. Apparently at the same time, The bunny eared faunus was already done dressing up, she had decided to wear a long leather coat that was light brown, with a napkin on the pocket. She wore her red and white bowtie from yesterday, since she found it very beautiful. She exited out of the room and walked down one hall, only to quickly back away and stay close to a corner when she saw Winchester.
She was still worried that she would be insulted again due to her kind, and she wouldn't want a repeat of last night. But Neptune's voice told her to simply ignore it and try to stay collective in case that does happen. She reappeared in front of everyone, "Morning." She said, before noticing the Sentinel, she flinched a little after seeing him. "Uh, sorry but who are you?"
"I'm Chris, don't worry, I'm helping you guys." The soldier answered for her, this calmed the faunus down and she walked over to the table to have her cereal. "Wasn't there another guy with you?"
"I'll wake him up." Cardin said first thing, then walked over to the door which had him inside, and then slammed his foot on it. "WAKE UP!"
"AAAHHHHH!" Neptune shriked out loud when Winchester burst into the room, the blue haired was wearing a tailored coat with a strap on it to hoister the weapon, and it was colored black. "What the hell, I was already dressed!"
"Sorry, I just needed to make sure you were up." Cardin walked out of the room, and Neptune sighed when he realized that he was back and hoped that Velvet would be comfortable with this, especially after last night.
He walked over here and started to eat his food, seeing Velvet's cautious look as she eyed on The mace wielder. Then when he saw Chris, he was going to stand up, but Scarlatina said, "Don't worry, he's with us." The soldier waved back at him, just watching the window outside.
"We have only a few miles to cover before we can get to the bridge." Coco announced to the group, "if things go well, we could reach it in an hour and wait for our allies to come there."
"What about Ruby and Weiss?" Asked Chris.
"They'll meet us at the other side, they'll be using a boat to sail outside the city and we'll meet them there."
"Let's hope that the Atlas forces won't be there when we get there." Cardin replied, smiling at his words. He already had been told the plan from Reynard that all of the Atlas forces should be avoiding all contact with the outcasts and fly over to the bridges to create an ambush, meaning that they won't be around the city by the time this is done.
"Since when did you care about us?" Coco raised an eyebrow and straighten out her new sunglasses.
"Since I learned my lesson." He said back to her, that still didn't convince her to trust him, but it was just enough.
After everyone had their breakfast, they all came over to the center of the room, and were almost out of the apartment so they can continue their journey to the bridge. "Alright, let's go team." Coco said to everyone.
"Hang on, we haven't decided who our leader should be yet." Neptune came in and he brought a pack of straws from before. Apparently, Coco, and Cardin looked at him with stern looks and then bashed the pack of items out of his hands. "Hey, what was that for?"
"This is our last day here, we're not voting anymore." Coco said, but she gave out a smile after that, then turned to the door. The four outcasts and Sentinel soldier were ready to head over to their main goal and finish this whole thing.
The Vulcan was still intact, and the problem was that Atlas could launch another attack with that weapon if they ever have a chance to do so, this is where the Sentinels have to come in. In order to prevent another deadly assault from the satellite, they needed to disconnect it from the servers, and make it go offline forever. That was the mission today.
Located in Iceland, there was a station that had been occupied by Atlas soldiers, and somewhere along the lines was a satellite dish that had basic control to guide along the Vulcan, and pinpoint it to the next target. That was the primary objective for the sentinels, disrupt the system and make sure it goes offline (and probably destroy it in the process).
The only way they could get through here was to strike first, so their Razorback VTOL vehicle was called in for action. "Everyone, remember the objective." Gideon said, Al of the Sentinels were dressing in Winter military gear to protect themselves from the cold, "Take down the network system and we can prevent the next Vulcan attack from happening. Good luck."
The aerial vehicle was flying right near the station, and the soldiers dropped out of it. Mitchell, and a few others hopped out of it to start off the mission, though they expected a barrage of soldiers around, they were not present. Some of them were scattered off into different directions to guard the satellite dish, so they headed off towards that direction to find them.
Meanwhile, Gideon and a few others made their way near the front of an entrance, and this one lead them close to one of the facility offices. They entered right in, and armed their guns out at the open area, expecting any kind of enemy to jump at them, but none of them showed up.
The atlas soldiers had heard about the arrival however, because they were shown to be near the satellite dish post. "I want all of you to eliminate these guys before they get here." A faunus general said to the soldiers, "We don't want to disappoint Irons for the last time."
"Yes sir." They all replied with an angry look on their faces, but mostly it was pointed at the faunus.
While this was happening, The Sentinels were making their way through the halls and approaching through some dark rooms that had nothing interesting. They had splitter up almost immediately after heading away from the room and got to other rooms of the building to find the enemies and the objective.
The Atlas and white fang operatives were hiding out in the technologist room, which had a bunch of Exosuits under construction. They couldn't use any of them since that they were not meant to be used and weren't adapt for combat situations at the moment. They all had their eyes set on defending their objective.
Right then there was the gunshots that alerted everyone, the operatives turned to the direction of the gunshots, so they rushed to the fight and assist their buddies. They arrived there, and one do them was able to shoot one of the Sentinels just before a Semtex was launched near them and exploded the few of them.
Somewhere else, Gideon was taking cover near the side of the entrance as Atlas operatives fired out against the wall, he fired out his AMR9 which managed to shoot down one of them, and took cover again just as the remaining soldier fired at him. The enemy was shot in the head by a sniper just before he could inspect a red dot on him.
Gideon and his allies began to advance further to the inside of the station where more of them were waiting. Gideon used his boosts to advance to the right and take cover while his allies stood behind a desk, and when the bullets started flying, they began to hit the surface of the floor and the tables.
The Sentinels fired out their round of bullets, and then one of them was shot by a faunus with an KF5, another Sentinel fired out a round of his AE4 which, after a few hits, killed him and then took cover behind the table just as they kept firing at them. One of the Sentinels fired out a Stun grenade which managed to blind the enemy and the friendly soldiers were able to fire at them without getting any hits from them.
Gideon used his grappling hook and accelerated up to the stairs and kept moving forward as another soldier followed him. A White Fang faunus had a Stinger and he was on the roof, he had his sights on the Razorback, but luckily he was shot down by the sniper with a Lynx. The Sentinel looked behind him to see an enemy with a knife coming at him, despite time to change his gun, he swung it at his face and then used the armed hand to direct the knife and hit the enemy's chest.
He resumed to his position and fired out a Tactical grenade to detect the enemies and if they were adavncing to his spot. There was one coming at him, from the side, so he pointed his rifle and fired out a bullet that pierced his side and after another gun shot, took him down. Mitchell and Torch were next to the hallways as someone began to fire out bullets from an XMG, there was two of them so they were hoping to get the advantage. Torch fired at them using his SN6, then as the enemies fired out a gun at them, but Mitchell used his shield to block the bullets and then he stayed behind his cover.
Torch fired a grenade, which managed to take down one of them, but the other XMG wielding soldier fired close to them. The soldier was close to them, although he had to reload both of his guns immediately, that was when he was killed as Mitchell fired off a forth of a round, then proceeded forward with his partner. "Hurry, we got to move." Torch said.
Meanwhile, Neo was on the roof, and watched the fight from below, she was smiling at all this carnage with her umbrella opened up. She wore her combat outfit, only it was modified with a fuzzy scarf, and some winter boots, that looked exackly similar to her other ones. She also had white gloves with a hint of pink.
Someone used his boosts to get on the roof, this alerted Neo who remained smiling and changed her eye color to brown and silver. She stood up and bowed down to the enemy, but he fired right before she finished bowing, the umbrella was pointed out to the enemy and it blocked the bullets that approached her. The gun had ran out of ammo, so Neo began to walk close to him, but he then pulled out a Smart grenade that flew up in the air, soared around the girl then slammed itself towards the umbrella that blocked it's exploding impact.
She started charging at him, then pinned him to the ground, she pulled out her Estoc from the end of the umbrella then stabbed him right on the chest. A shot zoomed past her, she figured that now was the time to just help out for now and join in on the fight. She stood up and waved at the sniper, just before he fired out a single bullet which managed to destroy the glass wall that used to be her, and shattered to tons of pieces. The soldier had no idea how this was able to happen, so he then began to ignore it and try to pick off another one of the Atlas soldiers.
The hallways were now being patrolled by Atlas as they started heading to the fight, but an explosion took them down from an attack from the Sentinels. One of the Atlas soldiers was snatched out of nowhere by a grappling hook and he was sent near the sentinel, and then got slammed on the floor.
Gideon was firing at the door where hostiles were charging at him, then a soldier came from behind him, but he grabbed his gun and then punched him out to a window. He resumed his position, but retreated back as a soldier with a Goliath suit came out and fired his rail gun at him, but only hit the window behind the Sentinel. The Sentinel fired out his EMP grenade which shocked the systems of the mech, then was left vulnerable as Gideon switched to his Tac-19 shotgun and hit him at close-quarters.
Torch had reloaded his sub machine gun just as more were getting close to their position. Mitchell fired out for him by staying by his cover and shooting down some of them as they were taking cover behind crates, Torch fired out against the Atlas and White Fang soldiers, one for them used two Atlas pistols and tired to fire out at them, but he was put in a vulnerable position which got him killed easily.
Mitchell took care of another soldier as he peeked over the crate and took him down, they were able to move closer to their objective, but they still had a lot more to dealt with as they kept moving.
Outside, an Atlas soldier was near the open area where he could take down the sniper from above, there was a lot of problems for him since there was lots of crazy things going on. The sniper was near the moment of taking him down, but he was taken down by another sniper who was aiming at him from the start. The Atlas sniper gave out the signal so that his ally could advance further to attack the Sentinels.
Neo was avoiding attacks from the Sentinels that were trying to attack her, but unfortunately she was ambushed by one of them that was cloaked and he punched her to send her near the edge of the roof. She almost fell down, but judging from the enemies she had to get out of here. She had her umbrella still so she let go and fell down to the ground where the fight was still going on. She had her eye color change to silver on both eyes.
An amount of nervousness came to her, but she calmed herself so she started to run away from the bullets that were heading towards her way. A gunshot nearly got her from the roof, then she headed right inside a small building, the Atlas soldiers defended her just as she tried to calm down a little.
Mitchell and Torch were fighting more of the faunus enemies who were trying to guard the systems of the satellite dish, they were not doing much work though since they being shot at from two angles and they had weak guns as always. The faunus enemies were killed off easily, then the two Sentinels were now at their main goal.
"Gideon, I'm at the satellite dish," Torch said to his communicator, "Hacking into it now."
"Good, Mitchell, defend him while he does his work." The soldier with the amputated arm understood, just then there was more bullets trying to attack them. Somewhere in the other hall was a faunus with a Pytaek, he was shooting out at the Sentinels from a distance, and he was wearing some heavy armor to protect himself from damage.
Mitchell took cover next to the side of the opening and started shooting at him, but the bullets were easily falling as it hit the armor, it appeared to be outcast armor from one of the five dead ones years ago, and it was colored with the White Fang symbol on it. The faunus was cracking a smile as he tried to advance slowly to the network server to fight the sentinels and claim victory.
Mitchell threw a stun grenade out at the open, this rolled right to the faunus' feet and then it caused a white light to blind him. Then the Sentinel charged out in the open and attack him with his fist, that did not finish him off though, he fought back by trying to ram the end of his gun at him, it was avoided quickly and then Mitchell allowed another punch to get taken.
Meanwhile, Neo was apparently using a thermal grenade, and there was now two more soldiers coming out at her. Her eye color changed back to pink and brown, so she got her Estoc and charged out at the enemy, then she used her teleport ability to disappear. She reappeared right behind the two and stabbed the left person, then when the right person saw her, she stabbed him immediately.
Another soldier fired out at her, and she blocked it with her umbrella, then she pulled out a smart grenade and threw it out at the enemy, which killed him instantly. She knew that someone was coming from behind and he swung his knife at her, but she flipped over him and pinned him down on the ground. She gave him a kick at the face then she turned around to kick someone who almost got the shot at her.
She noticed that there was more Atlas soldiers coming around to help out, she didn't need to stick around though, she just let them do their work. She decided to get out of here and reattached her weapon while running, the only thing she needed to do was just get out of here, luckily a VTOL was just about to leave so she jumped right in and turned to the fight that was still continuing.
"Almost there." Torch muttered to himself as he kept doing his work on the systems. Mitchell was busy shooting at any incoming enemies that were trying to get after them, but we're all taken down easily by a bullet to the head. Also, the enemy was getting ambushed each time as a few more Sentinels began to move around and catch them in their crosshairs.
"Okay, got it!" The working soldier said, the satellite dish was now offline and the mission was revealed to be a success. the main result came up as the soldiers of Atlas and the White Fang began to back away from the fight to cause a retreat. They were still trying to hold off as much as they can, but they were constantly getting shot at from the Sentinels as quickly as they could see them.
"The dish satellite is down, good work." Gideon's voice was heard through the comms to congratulate them, meanwhile the Atlas forced used their transport vehicles to get out of here, while some were left there to fight. Neo watched the entire station disappear out of view, not even caring for their allies being lost to the enemy, she still had concerns for everything, but now that Sentinel had taken over one part of the Vulcan prize, they still needed to find out how to get rid of it, because the enemy had something planned.
An half an hour later...
The Sentinels remained their ground in the station as they started to check around the entire place to investigate any secrets that had been hidden around here. There wasn't anything interesting to find in a place like this, seeing as though it had contained a bunch of old weaponry that they were in possession of, except there was a bunch of unknown armor that belonged to an outcast, but nothing new at all exackly.
Gideon was walking along a table, the station had somehow got ahold of the latest Vulcan plan that had been starting up it's schedule. He looked over a few of the list, but then he stopped once it opened up to show the targets. He took one good look at it, and he was worried, Mitchell showed up and saw this list.
"What is this?" He replied to his ally, the list answered for him, because now they knew what was going to be attacked, but not when just yet.
"This is not what I thought we'd find." Gideon looked at it again, and moved his hand a little to see how much damage the Vulcan managed to cause. It took down it's first test run two days ago, it also managed to end something going down in the desert battlefield, but now the next target was highlighted. "They're going to take down the outcasts."
"And one of our soldiers." Mitchell finished for him.
"Damn, these guys are not going to end this battle swiftly, we have to report back to base now."
Meanwhile, at the Midtown East section of New York, Ruby and Weiss were walking around the road to get to their destination, it would take them probably an hour to get to the boat area and try to pilot it outside of the city, the only good thing about that is the fact that there was no Atlas or White Fang forces in the air or on the ground to attack them.
Ruby was wearing her regular combat outfit but it had her Rose symbol on the front and metal lines around it. The Beacon symbol was around her arms, she wore a red hood and cape, the belt around her waist was grey and contained some bullets on it, and her magazine holder like the other outfit. She also had two metal bracers on with a smooth design on it.
Weiss was wearing a combat skirt, that came equipped with a coat with a white color all over it, and a belt was at her waist. She had a white glove on her left hand the Schnee Dust Company was on the back of the coat. The coat also had it's own set of forearms around it, and she had metal shoes along.
The two were just walking to their destination without even stopping for anything, and they were nearly halfway there so they could wait for the signal. It would probably be best if they were drive there, but then again they didn't have any skill to drive any sort of vehicle, so they just stick to this kind of movement.
"Oooo." Ruby said, as she examined her bracer, "Hey Weiss, check this out." The Schnee heiress turned around to see what Ruby wanted her to see. The Grimm reaper flicked back her wrist and a silver blade came out of it.
"Ruby, where did you find this!" Weiss grabbed the arm, and looked at the blade, "This is an extremely dangerous item."
"I can see why, it looks cool," Ruby said, "Oh, and there's also this." The girl backed up and she let the blade out again and this time it adjusted to the side, and she grabbed the handle of it, then she swung it around. "It's also a knife! Hiyah!"
"Ruby, that's an old weapon from centuries ago, you could seriously kill someone with it!"
"I know, I'll be careful. Kapow!" Ruby started stabbing the air with her new Pivot blade, "Take this, and that!"
"Okay that's enough." Weiss just let the arm lower itself and the knife became a blade hidden behind the grader again. "Let's just keep going." She proceeded off to the road and Ruby followed, "Where did you even find that thing?"
"It was in some box, some of the contents were taken out so that just left me with this thing." She explained, "I think it belong to an Assassin, but I was never really sure about it, it sure looks cool."
"Do you think that this item could be from a different world or universe?" Weiss asked.
"Possibly, I never thought of it like that." Ruby kept looking at her other bracer which also had the same Pivot blade in it. The idea of a different universe came to her head with questions, if this was indeed a different kind of object from another world, then perhaps it must've been in an entirely different version of earth. The thought of that sound exciting, and thought of all the possibilities of it.
"Ruby, I just realized something." Weiss said to her companion, "Where is everyone?"
Ruby stopped thinking and looked around the place. There was indeed no one and nothing ever crossed their sight other than the flight of a few birds over the city and heading close to their homes. The clouds were crowded and it might've decided to cause snow or even thunder, but it was holding it back.
Other than the sound of the environment, and the birds, there was nothing else to be seen or heard. "You're right, no one else is around." Ruby said, potentially a timble weed could be wandering around the place, but that didn't happen. "They could've gone off somewhere else in the city."
"If that happened, then we would've heard a gunshot out at the distance already." Weiss looked around as well, all they could see on the top of this highway bridge was the ocean that seperated itself from the island to the other island, and the rest of the buildings of the place. "But where are they?"
"They could've decided to take a break or something."
"I'm not so sure of that. Just keep your guard up in case we get in contact with anyone." the heiress and the Grimm reaper continued to walk, questioning the unknown disappearance of the White Fang and the Atlas forces, they could've gone out anywhere else but for sure, they could've planned something for them, and they were waiting for them to take the bait.
Weiss and Ruby were watching the scenery and kept getting odd suspicions about why Atlas was hanging back for now, As much as the place felt kind of eerie without anyone around but deadly enemies, but it still remained peaceful without any destruction happening.
"Ruby, I've been thinking," Weiss said, and turned to her, "Remember the war? The one with the Cryptids."
"Yeah, that crazy one." Ruby answered. "What about it?"
"We were sent there for a good reason, but I've been thinking that maybe we were only just lucky." The Schnee Heiress looked at her friend, "The war might've caused us to test our skills and question our abilities, maybe we were just being tested to train us for the future."
"We almost died there, but perhaps we were not seeing the true consequences of our actions. We saved the human race, but all it did was cause this entire thing to happen, we ended up being hunted by a deadly organization that wants revenge, and a military-like group with advanced technology."
"Well, they were tough on us, but we're getting through aren't we?" Said Ruby, "We actually made it this far as to escaping the city, even our fire de managed to get through all of them. If those guys are the only thing that would stand in our way, then we could take on them and win, just like before."
Weiss nodded, "Good point, but that still leaves us with their impending numbers, Atlas is the only thing that stands before us, if we get out of here, we might be doing something that could cause a change in the tide of battle."
"Change is always happening, let's hope it's for the greater good." The two members of RWBY began to walk again, feeling that this could all end once they leave the city, but then again that would be a problem if they were still hiding somewhere and waiting for the wrong move to show up, only they weren't sure what kind it could be. The two girls knew that something was up and it won't let them leave yet, but they would be ready for them when it happens. They would be ready to get out of here.
In another part of the city, Jaune and Pyrrha were practically wondering the exact same thing about this whole 'quiet' setting. If this was supposed to be their plan of attack, they were doing their job well, only the outcasts were left puzzled about this whole thing. They didn't encounter one single Atlas soldier since this morning, nor any of the White Fang soldiers that were processed by the power of killing, which was not what they would ever want to do in their entire career.
Jaune was not extremely sure that this could be a good sign since they still needed to catch their breathe, or a bad sign that every step they took could probably cause the enemy to start their ambush. But either way, they were not taking this very well. For today, he wore his combat outfit with the addition of metal shoulder pads, and one gauntlet around his right arm, and two black gloves.
Pyrrha wore her combat outfit but it instead had a grey color with grey boots, but one had a sleeve on the left, the guanlets on her arms fit in with the costume, and the red cape on her right hip stayed exackly where it was. She did feel a little bit uneasy about the unusual moment that was now happening, she kept gripping her rifle in case any hostile would show up to take them down, but for the next few minutes, there appeared to be no one halting their path no matter what direction they were going.
"This is a little too peaceful for me." Jaune said to his partner, "Nothing crazy is going on now, it's still feels wrong."
"I can agree with you on this whole thing Jaune, this doesn't feel right." Nikos kept her eyes locked on the scenery, feeling a little uneasy about this, and keeping her finger on the trigger. The two were trying to get to the designated waypoint that Coco had assigned for them so they can regroup, so far nothing had stopped them at this moment. It was located in the Little Italy district, near the road to the bridge.
The place they were supposed to go to was surrounded by trees that served as a force field, only the branches were left with no leaves due to the upcoming winter, and of course it had to be abandoned. There was two basketball courts that were empty, only to have about two of the right materials lying around, there was a third one, but it rolled off to the side and wasn't shown from the perspective of the two Beacon students.
"We're here." Nikos turned and looked around the place, no one else was around here, not even the other allies that set this waypoint up. They were just alone for the moment, nothing else gave out an appearence and only the sound of wind was around, sending out another message that winter is coming.
Jaune and Pyrrha clutched themselves to prevent themselves from getting too cold from the wind, they didn't had any coats to cover themselves from that though, but it would've been a little unwise to find one at this moment. The Sanctum champion girl kept her gun up, not even certain if this was supposed to be the right place, or even if this could be a trap.
Jaune gripped the handle of the sword and slowly pulled it out, but not all the way as he kept feeling nervous about the place, looking around to see what could await them around this place.
"Jaune, are you nervous?" Pyrrha asked her friend, she could tell by the look on his face, he didn't bother trying to hide it from her.
"Yeah, but only a little." He said to her, admitting the possible feeling, "None of this feels right."
"I can understand that, it doesn't feel safe from the looks of it." The two just stayed where they were, unsure of whatever could happen next, and not expecting anything bad to come out.
Right then, an item was thrown right between them in the shape of a grenade, "Grenade!" Jaune alerted his partner, then took out his shield and let her do the same, before the item blow up and it blew out smoke, blinding their vision immediately. The two were protected by it's flow of smoke, and it just ended up covering everything in their sights. The expected gunshots to happen next, but it never came out, because whatever they were seeing definitely wasn't with Atlas.
Suddenly a weapon came out from behind Jaune and it was pulled to his chin, the knight was pulled back by the unknown person, and Pyrrha was pushed down on the ground and a foot came right on top of her back and pinned her there, a rifle was pointed at her head.
"Drop your weapons and get down on the ground." The soldier with the helmet said to The Arkos duo, Jaune just did as he was told because he couldn't get much hits at this point with his weapons, but he just kept the shield in case The guy with the gun would shoot him.
"Drop the shield blonde boy." The soldier said to him. He refused by shaking his head, the guy pointed his IMR at him and kept his finger steady on the trigger.
Pyrrha replied, "Jaune, just do it." The order she made didn't register with him, he just kept the defensive weapon in his arm. "I don't want you to get hurt, just do what he says." She said again.
Jaune just nodded to her and the shield was turned into a Hoister and dropped next to his feet. The soldier kept the gun pointed at him and never even stopped his posture, "good, now say..." He sighed before he even replied the next line, "Now say...'Cardin better than Jaune and Pyrrha and Team CRDL is the best team ever'."
"Wait what?"
"Just say the line, or else." The soldier was really feeling stupid for saying this line, "We don't have all day."
Jaune sighed and said, "Cardin is better than me and Pyrrha and Team CRDL is the best team ever. Are you happy now?"
"No." The guy lowered his gun and strapped it behind his back, The guy behind Jaune let go of him and he turned around to get s glimpse of him, and it was Winchester himself, "Cardin?"
"Did you miss me?" He just replied to his enemy, the soldier let Pyrrha get on her feet and right then three more people showed up. Coco, Neptune, and Velvet.
"I swear, I'm gonna hate you for making me do that buddy." The soldier let the helmet release the visor and reveal his face. "And by the way, I'm with you guys."
"Well, it looks like that plan actually worked." Coco said, walking up to Jaune, "Managed to get you worried there, didn't it?"
"You planned that on us?"
"Yeah, for a good reason." Cardin strapped his mace behind his back, "And also because I wanted payback from earlier."
"Cardin, save that for when we go back to Beacon." The beret wearing girl straighten up her sunglasses and hugged one of the two outcasts, "Good to see you guys again."
"Glad to see you're still alive." Velvet hugged Pyrrha and she returned it by doing the same, Chris just smiled at this. "It's been so long since we got to see you." The group of outcasts stayed along here, just kept hugging each other and celebrating very little rejoice since they were still stuck here.
"So...are we ready to go?"
"Yeah, it's time to get out of here." Neptune nodded his head, and so did the Arkos duo and the other members of this small group. They all began to walk away from this place and started headed out to the road where the bridge was and hope that this journey will come to an end when they get there. But they knew that something bad was going to happen by the time they reached it.
Somewhere close to the bridge, there was indeed an Atlas unit around there. They were somewhere in Brooklyn, just waiting for the outcasts to come on the bridge and give them an ambush they will never forget, this was the plan that Reynard and Cardin made to finally win against the enemy and keep up their winning streak while the Sentinels were busy with them and their Vulcan.
There was a small operation happening right near the streets in an alley, there was some faunus and human soldiers trying out their guns and testing them out, because they were trying to make sure that they would be able to kill the outcasts and win, and some of them were still pissed off about Archangel being the only person to have the Anti-Aura bullets.
Reynard was brushing off his orange hair and glaring at the bridge in front of him, a part of him had a feeling that this plan was going to finally get them on the edge of glory, but there was a lot of questionable actions that they can do since Winchester didn't reveal any info on them or their names. He took out a scroll and the name was shown to be Irons.
"Yes General Irons?" He answered the call, only to hear anger on the other line.
"Do you or anyone of you outsider freaks have any idea what you're doing?" He said through the line, he was in his room alone with Neo who said nothing as always and just left him to talk.
"Technically yes, We're going to kill the outcasts just like we were told to." The fox faunus said.
"That's not my concern, you're using the Vulcan to attack them and cost us the very few amount of power we have on the weapon."
"It's the only weapon we know that could end up taking the advantage against the outsiders and kill Ruby and her friends!"
"The Vulcan is only used for the Sentinels and they are the only ones getting in the way, I will not allow that weapon to be used against the outcasts."
"Irons, you're too predictable." Reynard smirked, "If you're not letting one of the most powerful military weapons be used against the world's greatest enemy, then I will, just you wait until you see the end results of the mission."
Jonathan had no other words to say that could agree to this, "If you even try to attack using the Vulcan, than I guarantee you will never leave go back to your world when the war ends." If it were up to him, he would rather unemploy him but seeing as thought he could only keep this trust up for so long, it would rather be better to just let him stay alive until the time was right to kill them.
"Fine by me Irons, but you'll congratulate us when this is through." Without waiting for an answer, he hung up and that just left Irons with a dead tone in the call. He put the phone down and grieved at the words that were used against him.
"Neo, I don't understand how you deal with this kind of business but it seems to be working." The ice cream girl nodded at the words and brushed off the side of her pink, brown and silver hair.
Reynard was not done with his phone as he was now in contact with Fredrick. "look, I've been informed that there are six outcasts coming on the bridge today, this will be our chance to kill them once and for all."
"If you're planning to use the Vulcan, Irons will kill you." Johnson kindly reminded him about that.
"Yeah well, I talked to him and he's gonna be so happy for us once we finally kill them." The faunus stopped smiling and focused on the new task he was about to assign him, "But anyways, The two legends are not coming along, so I figured that they will be close to your exact position."
"What do you need me to do?"
"Isn't it obvious Archangel, you live up to your name, and kill Weiss and Ruby, simple."
"Kill...R-R-Ruby, y-you want me to kill her and her f-f-friend?" Fredrick was suddenly not as calm as he was before, the words about the mission stunned him for once in his entire military career.
"Of course, you have a problem with that?" Reynard, having heard of this uncalm voice, replied.
"N-not at all Reynard, I can handle...I can handle it."
"Good." The fox faunus hung up again and walked away to get prepared for the fight. Archangel was stunned, for once he suddenly had a new feeling, an unsettling feeling. This was the first time he ever had that feeling and he knew that this mission was the only thing causing that, he was being forced to kill Ruby and Weiss today.
The thought of that lingered to his mind, he had been trusted to kill outcasts for so long, even if it was the two legends and he was given the honor of Atlas and even Jonathan Irons himself, but he finally found the feeling that always kept growing in the shadows. He was feeling a little bit shaken by the thought, he just needed to kill Ruby and Weiss, but he then realized that it wouldn't make much of a god damn difference if it happened.
He clutched his fist and put his head down on the wall, the words Rose kept coming at him, The same girl's voice, and the same exact line kept repeating itself over and over.
'May you always remember me as your pretty rose.' It kept haunting him, and it didn't stop. All those years of pain lead up to this, Atlas was counting on him, Irons was counting on him, even the White Fang, but this...this was something unlike any other outcast he had ever faced before.
Killing Weiss and Ruby would continue the uprising of Atlas, and gain even more power, but it would affect Fredrick and he would be sent back to his days of being haunted by the same girl over and over. But if he didn't kill them, Atlas would dishonor him, and he would lose the title of Archangel, but keep them in a good spot until the sentinels take them out.
He knew that he would be the one that will change the path of Atlas, if he chose one, there will be many consequences, but perhaps, Ruby-
"Archangel." Someone replied and interrupted his thoughts, "You better get ready, they could be coming." He nodded and took out his MORS, then walked alongside the soldier to get into position. He kept the thought of the two legends on his mind, and he couldn't force it out, today was the day he would have to make a choice.
It was already the afternoon and the outcasts were finally at their desired locations, and this left the enemy to finish up their final touches on the ambush plan.
Everything was left in place, all of the White Fang and Atlas soldiers were left to wander above the blue bridge and take up the vantage point and strike hard, while some others were left hidden on the sides, and the rest were around somewhere else prepared to bring out some artillery when necessary. The outcasts were nowhere near their exact position they wanted them to be, but luckily Cardin was alongside them to assist them.
The outcasts and the Sentinel were already on the bridge and began to wander on it. There was apparently three lanes from the looks of it, two for the road and one for the civilians choosing was not an option as they decided to take the right lane of the road. The only downside to that was a pack of cars being spread out to the place as it was left alone by the owners.
Also there was the Atlas soldiers hanging above and taking aim with their Stingers and Lynx on the seven targets. The signal was needed to be heard out since Cardin was the one kickstarting the ambush from below, although he was an ally of theirs now, they would still shoot him anyways.
"Target is almost in position." Reynard was notified from the opposite side of the bridge and he took out his sword as a response.
"good, a few more feet and we'll start this off right." He said to himself, grinning for the fact that there was the outer outcasts and a Sentinel alongside them, the same one who wanted to kill him. He thought he wouldn't even take this opportunity seriously, but it only made him glad about this choice.
Somewhere else was the two legends still walking along the highway bridge next to the ocean and they were near their destination, but also near the trap that the enemy had made. The primary focus was to kill said outcasts and they could raise the tide on this whole war, it would be easy judging Archangel's Anti-aura bullets and the amount of military accessories they had, but also hard since they were both skilled in fighting.
There could only be one victor in this fight, so they would have to use whatever they got against them. Archangel was hidden on the side of the building where he aimed his MORS out on the highway bridge and waiting for the two outcasts to show up, there was a few Atlas soldiers right around the corner just waiting for the shot or an order to attack.
At Ruby and Weiss, they were still walking to their potential destination, where the boats were lined up nice and seperate, away from each other, "We're almost there." Weiss said to her partner, this caused a sense of relief for them that they don't need to walk another long distance and can finally get out of the city.
Archangel saw the outcasts and pointed the thermal sights of his MORS at them, but kept his finger away from the trigger, instead he said, "The targets are here. Bring in the Paladins now." He ordered this because he wasn't ready to take the shot just yet, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to.
"What now?" Ruby asked the Schnee heiress.
"Let's take one of the boats and get out of here." She began to move forward and look down on the road only two feet away from the ground.
"Shouldn't we call our friends in case they need to know what we're doing?" The question managed to stop weiss from trying to jump off.
"Oh, good point Ruby." She stepped away from the edge, and took out her scroll, "Hopefully They're just about to get on the bridge." She began to hear the ringing tone in the device, but right then before she could say anything, there was static. "Huh?"
"What's wrong?"
"The scroll's not working, must've been the network connection, or it could've been an EMP."
"An EMP, you don't mean-?" Ruby's incoming question was halted as Weiss nodded her head to answer said question, turns out they weren't alone.
Meanwhile, The Arkos duo, the CFVY duo, Neptune, Chris and Cardin began to walk through the line in order to get through the bridge, despite having weird thoughts that Atlas had somehow left them alone entirely for the last few hours. They were unaware that they were on top of it and were aiming their guns at them, but they weren't firing just yet.
Cardin was moving on ahead, causing the others to try and catch up to him, but he was really luring them into the position he needed them to be. This alerted the snipers and they looked out at the scene, He was almost there and they were already about to let the rockets fire down at them. Winchester finally got them wp right where they needed them to be and he pressed down something on the wrist pad and said, "Now."
"Fire." The soldier with the MAWWS said first, which caused the rest of the rocket launcher groups to fire out their ammo down below, the sound of that caused the outcasts and the Sentinel to look up and see them approaching downwards.
"Get back!" Chris shouted and Jaune and Pyrrha brought out their shields to block off the attack, and Velvet and Neptune went behind them. This only left Coco, she griped her handbag, and stood in the crossfire of the rockets, The Sentinel then launched his Grappling hook at her weapon, she noticed this and then she was pulled by a strong force towards the soldier and they both landed hard on the concrete platform as the rockets began to burst out a fiery explosion once they made contact with the shields and left the enemy still standing, the explosion also left the top railing being destroyed and it fell next to them .
Coco got up and realized that she was above Chris, she gave off a blush when she was on top of him and moved on her feet, then brought up her usual look, "Thanks for that, but I got that under control."
"Getting your face hit by rockets does not mean you have it under control Coco." The soldier said, "It meant that you would be dead."
"Heh, thanks for the lesson." She turned her attention forward to see Cardin turning around to look at them, "Winchester, what the hell did you just say?"
"I said the right word, and now, I brought out my friends." he said simply.
"Friends? You don't mean the Atlas guys?"
"Who else?" This response made Coco tick, "I had a talk with someone last night, and now I have power, and I just led all of you into my trap...well, except for the other two."
"What?" Velvet gasped in shock.
"Oh no," Jaune said silently to his friend.
"Cardin, you fucking traitor!" The beret-wearing girl shouted in anger, "Why would you want to pair up with the enemy, they're hunting us down and you're trusting your life with them!?"
"Well, to be fair, you are the most fearful enemy on earth, and Atlas is the most dangerous, so...why not?" He said, just pointing out the similarities, but it did not support the reason why he joined them. "Attention everyone, it's time." The response made soldiers from above try to decelerated downwards, more of the Atlas soldiers were coming at them.
"I'm gonna kill you!" The leader of CFVY shouted and started running at the leader of CRDL. He immediately used his boosts to accelerate forward and punched the girl at the side of her face. She fell and got back up and tried to land a punch right in his face, but only got her fists grabbed by the traitor. The two were locked into conflict, but he used his boosts to go to the left, which immediately cause then to get off the railing and fall right on the road, there was only a small railing since it was meant to be used by cars and provided no help for the two.
They began to seperate themselves and force their weapons to hit the other as they swung it near them. The Atlas soldiers began to fire at the others just when they were noticed. All of the range shooters fired at them, and Jaune pointed his shield to block the attacks, one of them was killed off before he managed to land on the bridge, and the other began to move around the place.
Meanwhile, Ruby and Weiss were now noticing that they were not alone this whole time. The sound of metal clanged on the ground and started to run striaight at them. Weiss took her weapon and so did Ruby, they could see two Atlesian Paladins, possibly modified to adapt to this mission. They were still left open for Archangel to take the shot, but he barely even made his move since calling out the order.
The two Paladins were getting close to them, but Weiss stabbed the ground and two large barriers of ice managed to surrounded the two just before the Paladins got in front of it, this only left them time to react to this situation. The Paladins wasted no time so they both simultaneously punched the wall of ice with a heavy move, but it only causes cracks to appear before it.
The walls weren't going to hold out forever, so they prepared themselves by standing in front of the opposite wall, "Are you ready?" Weiss said to her partner.
"Yeah, let's do this!" They both launched up when Ruby fired her Scythe at the ground and Weiss using her glyphs and now they were just above the enemy mechs. The Paladins barely had time to react so the two outcasts landed on them by stabbing the blade on the metal piece. The mechs backed up and tried to fire out against each other, but the blast hit the other Paladins and caused it to be stunned.
Ruby jumped off the mech and landed right behind it. The scythe turned into a gun and fired out at the back on one, it turned around and tried to fire at her, but she fired behind her and slid under it just to stop right in front of it, and charge up her gun which fired a blast and hit the side of it, Weiss was almost hit by it.
She didn't bother to say anything about that and she began to stab the right arm, just as the other mech began to fire out the pack of rockets at her. She jumped off and the rockets hit the wrong target, which caused it to detach itself from it's parts and fall down on the small bridge. The remaining paladin was not going to lose against the two even though it was clearly his fault.
Ruby jumped right next to weiss, and She already spun a chamber in her rapier and she swung it out at the paladin as it was hit by fire. The paladin steped back from the blast and pointed out it's right arm, it suddenly extended a little and there was two barrels on it, and a laser sight on the bottom. (How was that even possible).
"Oh you got to be kidding me." The heiress said in anger, realizing that they finally decided to upgrade the Paladins to adjust to the fight. The paladin fired out two rounds of energy blasts at the two heroines which they ducked behind the old parts of the other one, Ruby was only able to fire bullets from her gun as it barely pierced through the metal skin of the machine.
Right then, Archangel began to call in a missile strike, seeing as how the two would be able to avoid that, but also get the upper hand for Atlas. There was a lone missile heading out to the side of the highway bridge and target it just as it began to dive close to it.
Weiss saw this first, then Ruby and the both of them already started running off, The Schnee heiress jumped off the bridge and Ruby fired her gun to do the same as the rocket made contact with the small bridge. Within an instant, an explosion took it's place and all of the road that managed to get hit by it was drawn back by it and thrown off into the distance where any vehicle or other concrete ground could get smashed by it.
The two outcasts landed, but were immediately caught in the conflict of soldiers, there was also the Paladin jumping off of the highway bridge as the part where it was hit began to bring down the other half of it on the ground, then buckled itself up for more of this fight.
"This is gonna be good." Ruby said to herself, then fired her gun to attack and Weiss her icicles to fend off against the soldiers.
Back over at the others, the soldiers were still trying to get a clear shot at them, but only the top of the bridge made the bullets hit it without even getting a kill. Velvet and Neptune were already climbing on the top and once they were on there, they began to fire their weapons at the approaching baddies. Their weapons were able to get the better advantage against the Atlas soldiers who almost got them but failed.
Chris and Pyrrha were firing their weapons out against the soldiers who made their way to the passage and fires their bullets when they were close to them. Jaune made good use of himself by protecting Chris from the bullets and blocked them off as if they were nothing. Nikos fired another round of her gun, then turned to see if Coco was doing alright with her little fight with Cardin, but she was not really taking it well against him.
"Jaune, go help Coco!" She said immediately, the blonde boy nodded and started to get off of the passage before landing on the road right next to the ocean. Coco was swinging her handbag against him but he was blocking it with his mace without even hesitating. He knew the right time to strike was now so he spun around the mace hit her stomach, sending her right next to a car, before she got on her feet again and let her weapon transform into a minigun, however the mace-wielder was one step ahead of her.
He fired out a frag gernade and it landed down next to a vehicle, she saw this and immediately got away from it as fast as she could move, the car exploded once the gernade did and it ended up flipping over and landing upside down, bursting into flames. Before Cardin could do anything else to stop Coco, he was attacked by a shield thrusting right at him, he backed up from the impact to see Jaune.
"Well if it isn't the wonder boy." He said, intimidating him already. "You're still willing to fight me?"
"I've become a better fighter Cardin, just don't think I'll go easy on you." Jaune responded, he swing the blade of his sword and it clashed with the mace. Cardin brought thd mace down and it broke the osort if the floor, causing him to jump back and try to gain a strike upon him, which only got blocked again. The two remained on their feet as they backed up and clash again, getting almost the exact same result.
The mace wielder made his strike again, but Jaune blocked it with the shield and slashed his chest as he backed up, then used his boosts to accelerate forward to attack, it was narrowly avoided and then a strike was made against the staff that holdeld the mace together. Cardin could not deny that Jaune was taking sword fighting lessons, 'So he's been learning.' He thought in his head, 'But so have I.'
Winchester decided to change tactics and use defense for now to outsmart his opponent. He began to charge at the leader of JNPR, only to end up using his boosts to back up from another swing of his sword and then hit him hard with his. He ended up knocking him back right on the side of the car, and Jaune blocked the next attack that was delivered to him.
He began to charge at him, but he backed away and Cardin did the same thing, they were all thinking of faking each other's moves to gain an upper hand, but with that Exosuit of his, he was going to make this harder than it seems. The next move he made was charging again but instead jumped up with the boosts ability and slammed down on the road where Jaune avoided at the last minute. Coco finally came back into the right by swinging her handbag directly at the guy's face, then kicked his stomach when he fell on the ground, he rolled up to use the end of his mace to hit her, but she blocked it easily.
Back at the other two outcasts, Weiss was quickly swinging her rapier at any Atlas soldier that steps in her way, taking them out easily, but also avoid any persistent attacks they were sending out. She narrowly dodged a spike drone that was flown nearby and then headed off to fight others, but there was also the dangerous Paladin firing at her.
As she flipped over a blast coming from the guns, Ruby began to charged at it without even stopping for any soldiers. She jumped on top of a car, fired her gun and was launched right up to the Paladin's face, but it unintentionally swung the right arm and it hit the young girl, sending her soaring through the air and landing on the top of a pool that was covered up by a large sheet. She bumped over it, and rolled almost to the side of it, her body was causing the water to leak out for the edge of the sheet without actually letting it out. She stood up and armed the gun at the paladin.
it reacted quicker than she expected, and a small turret came out of the right side of the arm, complete with a laser sighting to track the target. She didn't compliment on that, the gun fired and she used her semblance to get out of it's way, the bullets soar through the air and hit the concrete with all of it's strength, She turned to the left and headed right next to the pack of boats that were left alone by the original owners. The Paladin fired out another pack of missles from it's back and it flew right over to the boats.
The impact caused the boats to blow up once the missiles hit them and the entire dock was bursting in flames, the same impact affected the area around it and pushed Ruby far from it and slid almost through the road. She was already on her feet and fired a few bullets at the Paladin, but it was not effected by it, since it's armor was able to withstand such attack, The Rose girl reloaded and saw that the mech was firing it's guns, so she moved away from the attack just before it hit her. She got on top of the remaining highway bridge and saw two soldiers trying to shoot her from a basketball court, but she shot at the ground and landed right between them, swinging her Crescent Rose around in it's Scyhe form as she took them down without hesitiation. She needed to take down the upgraded Paladin, but it was going to be very difficult to defeat such thing.
Back at Jaune and Coco, they were defending themselves against Cardin and his deadly moves, he began to swing his mace and hit Jaune on his face, then diverted it's course to attack the beret-wearing girl. She dodged it and spun around in a circle, hitting him on the side of his body with her handbag, which caused her to quickly transform her weapon into the mimigun setting then fire off a round of bullets. Winchester was prepared however, he activated one of his exo abilities which was the Exo Shield and it blocked off all of the bullets that headed towards him, She stopped firing and allowed him to come at her, ready to attack him with her transforming weapon, but right then Jaune stepped in and blocked the weapon with his sword.
The two leaders were now stuck in conflict, Cardin swung his mace against Jaune, but he used the shield to block it, the next attack from the mace-wielder was easily blocked again, Arc saw this oppertunity to ram Cardin with the shield and he backed up just after taking the impact. He drove the mace down, but it was blocked again, Jaune smiled when he swung his sword at Winchester and he got a hit that made him back up.
'Thank you Pyrrha.' He thought to himself as he ran right at the traitor, he was now on the defense and he blocked the sword that almost reached his chest, then the mace swung at Arc, but he brought up the shield that defended him from the attack. Cardin used his boosts to back up and then he tore off a car door that came from a muscle car and threw it at his targets. It ended up hitting Jaune who almost blocked it and Coco charged into the fight and rammed at him. She swung the handbag down, but he rolled out of the way and began to attack without breaking a sweat, She began to back up as he kept attacking. Cardin put his weapon up and kicked Coco, and since the effect of the Exosuit came on, she crashed on the side of a van, where she fell down and got up from the impact, cursing at him with rage.
"I'm not gonna lose to you traitor." She shouted at him.
"Coco, this is what i am now, I'm joining the right side, and i'm sticking to it!" He protested against her, shaking the mace which mocked her more than ever.
"Great, you're gonna pay for even treating us like assholes you stupid!" She charged in again.
Chris and Pyrrha were advancing through the bridge, but they stopped when a faunus fell down right in front of them, and he took out his sword from his hoister. He didn't had a mask, and he just revealed his appearence. "Remember me?" He had his eyes targeted at Alder, who gave him a enraged look.
"You!" He shouted, "I knew you would show up to try and kill us!"
Reynard replied to him, "This is something i was waiting to happen, you and your outcasts friends are going to die today and we can end this hunt one and for all." This response made Chris point his IMR at him, ready to kill this guy at this exact moment, "Don't even try to shoot me, it's not going to be effective."
"I don't care, i just want you dead once and for all."
"Then how about you come at me?" Reynard pointed at him then to himself, hoping for him to come out at him and he can kill him. He was thinking about doing the exact thing, but Pyrrha stopped him by moving her arm right in front of him.
"No, take care of the others." She said to him, "I'll deal with him."
"He killed my family, i should be the one who gets to end him-"
"You can help our allies, but i'm not letting yourself get killed. Go." Niko's voice didn't sound demanding, but the soldier understood and used his boosts to head on top of the bridge, this left Pyrrha to deal with Reynard.
"So, you're the four year Sanctum Champion, Pyrrha Nikos." The fox faunus began to reply, "I'm glad you can drop by and show yourself in action." He pointed his sword at her, and she remained her ground as she armed herself with her Xiphos, "Let's see if you can prove you're invincible!" He charged at her, and then she dodged the attack by jumping back and then swinging her own weapon at him, but he was able to block it just in time. The sword was spun around and Niko's shield came in to save her from the attack that almost hit her shoulder. She used the butt of her weapon to hit him back and he growled at her before attacking again.
The sword only struck against the Xiphos but the shield tried to gain an advantage, only for Reynard to avoid it's swift movement and then kick it to draw her back. Pyrrha immediately did a back flip as the faunus swung at her, then landed and let the weapon transform into a rifle and fired at her opponent, who deflected the shots quickly and stood in a pose to taunt his enemy. It was time for Nikos to try and attack him, so she charged at him and jumped over him, then swung the transforming weapon at him, but he blocked it easily, already planning out his next move just before attacking again. He rammed himself at the girl and she was moved near the edge of the pathway, but she already saw the next attack as Reynard lunged at her, and she dodged the blade as it sliced the railing and left a crack on it.
The fox faunus turned to her, and smiled very calmly, glaring at her face. Nikos didn't bring up a smile, but she flipped her weapon upside down and prepared for a new move, but he was willing to let her do the next move. The two expert fighters began to charged at each other again.
The paladin was still the most dangerous target of the two outcasts, It's arm was already firing at the entire street, creating tons of damage and tearing apart it's own comrades in the process, trying to hit the outcasts who were avoiding all of it's moves. It decided to instead turn around to see if one would show up on the highway bridge, and his prediction was proven correct when he saw Weiss there. She moved the chamber in her rapier and watched the enemy try to strike.
It began to use it's left arm to crush her, but once it began to descend down, she backfliped away from it and landed in front of it. This time, she began to jump on the fist and run at the mechanism, she jumped again and the effects of the dust rapier began to reveal itself in an white color. She stabbed the weapon at the machine and ice began to engulf it's view, leaving it vulnerable to attacks. "Ruby, now!"
"Here i go!" The Rose girl began to charged in from behind and fire off a single shot to the ground and was launched to the back of the paladin. She transformed her gun to a scythe and stabbed it on the armor to keep herself from falling, then pulled out a grenade, which was set in frag mode, pulled it's pin, then planted it on the right arm. She launched right off of it and landed next to Weiss, the grenade began to explode and the Paladin's arm was detached and fell on the street, possibly crushing the top of a car.
"Score one for Ice Flower!" Ruby shouted with pride in her voice, the paladin stood in it's same position and started to fire rockets from the back, It already began to charge at the two heroines, so they used whatever sort of ability they had to dash away from the attack and it left off an explosion which destroyed the section of the highway bridge and it fell right down on the ground to crush whatever was underneath it and leave it in ruins like the rest of the battle. The paladin was still standing, and it already tried to gain a strike on the Schnee heiress to destroy any advantage she could use.
The left arm broke off of the ice, and armed itself with a laser sight, and two barrels. The arm began to fire out two bursts of energy and launch at her, but she moved out of it's way by doing a summersault and moving swiftly to avoid it, The blasts only devastated part of the small bridge and left it falling down like the other parts. Weiss quickly turned the revolver chamber around and fired out icicles to the machine, it took the hits, but then tried to fire back at her only to miss again. It completely forgot about Ruby as she launched herself right on top of it, and slashed on the left arm, there was no effect taking place as the arm began to move rather quickly, and throw her off guard. She flipped in the air and landed back on the ground, then fired her gun at it multiple times to see if the armor would be pierced, but it was still hold together like some special kind of glue.
The paladin began to fire out a blast, and Ruby shot the ground in front of her before it landed and she slid on the concrete before stabbing it to halt her movement, but a mistake like that managed to get her in trouble. The blast hit her and she was launched off and landed down on the side of the road, rolling through the place and causing a bit of pain to affect her but not entirely. While rolling she let go of Crescent Rose since she was unable to move out of this and stopped near the edge of a small warehouse behind her.
"Ruby!" Weiss shouted out, but she didn't had anytime to come to her assistance as the paladin began firing and she narrowly avoided the next blast.
Ruby slowly turned her head around through the battlefield, she realized that she was close to the water, but the dock was nowhere to be seen, and her weapon was far from her. She rolled upside down and moved up to her feet to keep her steady, then turned to see the road that was left with rubble and debris, there was still a lot of fighting happening around there so she thought it'd be best to go out there, regardless of that sudden attack. She barely even moved a bit as she heard a battle cry coming from the left, she turned and saw a fist flying out to her, she didn't had the time to react as she was hit and fell on the floor before getting up again.
Her opponent was the faunus, the same one from the time she was kidnapped by Torchwick. "Never thought i would see you again little girl!" He said to her rather calmly, "I'm not letting you live any longer."
Ruby stood her ground and clutched her fists in a fighting stance, she knew very well that she wouldn't succeed in close quarters combat, but she had to try at least. She wasn't going to back down. She made her move first by hitting his chest, and while that didn't help her, she hit him at the same spot again. The faunus just hit her face before she could do anything else and she backed up from the impact. "I have to win this."
Meanwhile, Reynard was avoiding the strikes Pyrrha was making that caused him to not have any advantage, but everyone had a trick up their sleeves and he was one of those people, He found a clear shot to attack so he used the back of the sword and the shield blocked it yet again, only this time he wanted that to happen, so the sword began to charge up and it was flown off of the shield, forcing her back and steading herself. Turns out the faunus' weapon had a dust ability which was able to make the enemy take damage as he was able to use it, but it could wear out if it didn't get a hit so Reynard needed to act now.
It was his turn to strike so he swung at Nikos but she lowered herself and dodged the blade which instead hit the wall of the bridge, then he tried again, only this time sending the sword downwards and creating sparks on the ground. He swung again, and got the shield then moved down to hit the opponent's hip, only to have her use the Xiphos to block it. He wasn't going to let that stop him as he suddenly kicked her, and she moved back and fell, he found this chance becoming active and she swung down the dust-powered sword at her, but with one hand on the ground, she moved her weapon forward and blocked it.
Down at the road next to the ocean, Cardin was still attempting to hit Coco, who was still backing up from the attacks and then rammed right at his chest. He backed up and hit her handbag, she moved again and hit the side of his stomach, then slammed the weapon at his body. Cardin was doing his best to keep up because the next move that Coco made had involved with her trying to kick him, but he used the mace to block it and then slammed it right at her face, the sunglasses remained intact from the hit.
Before he can hit her again, Jaune stepped in and blocked the attack, then lunged the sword through the air to hit him, but the mace defended him pretty well. Both weapon-wielding students began to swing at each other, but each attack only deflected against theirs, Jaune's shield helped out in defending him as the mace began to fly right near him, The sword then slashed at his chest and the direct hit already made him back up with the exo boosts. Cardin used the mace's ability by slamming it on the ground and a huge amount of rubble came from under neath it and tried to knock him off his feet, but he rolled out of the way and charged again.
Cardin was ready for him, but suddenly he felt himself getting kicked from behind and he was vulnerable when Jaune used the shield to hit the traitor. Winchester turned around and blocked Coco's handbag attack, then turned again to block off the sword that almost pierced his shoulder, the two Beacon students were sending out attacks from behind, and he knew that he couldn't defend himself from all of them. He launched himself up in the air and then moved right behind Coco so that he could get a hit, but she avoided it at the last second, and hit him with her dangerous weapon. Without even thinking, he launched out another frag grenade and it flew all the way to Jaune, who blocked it but the explosion made him get flown back and crash on the side of a car.
Coco already started to let her weapon transform into a minigun again, but before she could fire, Cardin used the boosts to approach her very quickly and punch her right on the stomach, she let go of the gun and moved out of the way to avoid the strike that he was about to send. She got back up and moved to him without even planning on how to get this guy down, She dodged the swipe of the mace by jumping up and kicking his face which made him back up and let her get the weapon back. She tried to fire at him with the amount of bullets she had, but he pulled out a car door and used that to block off the attack that almost got him, Cardin didn't had time to see if the gun could overheat so he threw the door almost immediately and hit her body as she flew down on the ground.
Cardin didn't had anymore time for this, he began to flee by running back to the opposite side of the bridge where they needed to escape, so Jaune and Coco saw this by the time they got up. "He's getting away!" Coco began to run after him and so did Jaune, just trying to help her out.
Back at the three shooting allies, they were gaps right above the two standing towers of the suspension bridge, so they were climbing up there, (only Velvet and Neptune were since Chris was using his grappling hook) and the two began to move between the inside of the tower and launched themselves right between the other side. Down below was the rest of the bridge and they were almost out of there but they still needed to attack the other atlas enemies that were decreasing their number of soldiers. Neptune and Velvet realized that it would be hard to get down from here, So Velvet began to climb down to the top of the barrier protecting the bridge, Neptune began to follow her, but was already worried about this since it was so high from the ground. He began to hug the side of the bridge rails and slid down a part of it so he wouldn't fall, it felt easy enough for him to follow this routine. Velvet was getting close to the ground, so she hopped off and landed on one of the railings then began to navigate through it as she armed her staff and fired off any Atlas forces below her that were just noticing her appearence.
Neptune was finally sliding down the last railing and began to slowly walk on the railings, he also stayed right near Chris as he showed up and started firing at the enemies, the three were already gaining the upperhand, unaware of what else Atlas can pull off. Velvet already noticed that Cardin was running off to the side, trying to regroup with Atlas as she thought, so she fired out an ice dust to him, it ended up hitting his leg and froze him in his tracks.
"Damn!" Cardin took out the mace and tried to break it off, but this only left him in a vulnerable state because Coco finally caught up to him and ended up slamming the handbag right at his face, knocking him out for at least a little bit, but he was still conscious. The ice broke off once he was hit so be continued running away and the two others didn't give up the chase.
Pyrrha was firing off shots from her rifle and Reynard deflected all of them as he backed up, then he fired out a stun grenade at her, which hit the shield and blinded her with it's effects. She couldn't get a clear vision, and the fox faunus kicked her as she fell right on the floor, then he rolled on her feet to let her rifle transform again, Reynard lunge at her, but she avoided the swipe and then used the edge of the shield to hit his face, which actually succeeded. Nikos kicked him and he fell right on his feet as he got sent back. with determination in his face, he spun the dust sword around and stood back.
"That was impressive Nikos." He said, earning a smile, "But i unfortunately have to wrap this up," He hoistered the sword behind his back, and tapped the wrist pad on his arm. There appeared a VTOL right near the road, so he jumped off and headed right in, before the doors close, he said, "You better start running." the vehicle flew away and disappeared through the horizon, Nikos had no idea what he meant by that, but she had to do so. She put her weapons away and began running.
"Cardin, stop running!" Coco shouted, the traitor was not listening to her as he was still moving from the two, the bully was almost out of there, he needed to call in assistance to get out of here, but they were not letting that happen as all of a sudden, Velvet fire out another ice blast which trapped his leg. Before he could get out of this, Jaune lunged at him and pinned him down, Coco took the mace and the two dug him out of the ice.
"Alright Cardin, you're not going anywhe-" Coco began to say, before a sudden explosion came out from the middle of the bridge and everyone turned their attention towards it, "What the hell?" Neptune, Velvet and Chris saw a line of energy coming from space and destroying the suspension bridge, they all decided to keep running away from the laser, and they were fortunate enough that they were close to the other side, the one place they planned to escape too.
Pyrrha was running as fast as she could from the laser, already sprinting through the path, the laser was carving a huge hole through the whole bridge, and it started to tear apart all of it's resources that were holding it together, and the parts began to fall down into the ocean below. The laser was moving very slowly but caused great amount of damage as it moved to the area of the bridge, and this also began to take one of the cables off with a snap and sent it crashing on itself. Nikos was very quick to moving away from the laser, and the bridge started to tip over as the middle part was seperated from the rest, and it began to hit the surface of the ocean. Nikos was more fortunate to finally get out of the bridge's path and stay right where she was as the laser began to avoid the rest of the bridge and drift off somewhere else.
Weiss was on the paladin as it kept moving around, and tried to desperately see any disadvantage she would make so that it could it her, but she wasn't showing any. Weiss struck down Mytrenaster on the cockpit and hoped that it could open up, but it remained shut, only to leave a small hole there. The paladin moved to the right but she stayed on and decided it was best to try and destroy it's good equipment, luckily there was still a few more rockets down there that it could use.
She used her free hand to pull out a semtex grenade, strapped it on one of the rockets and used a glyph to get off and avoid the incoming effects. The paladin turned around and was ready to shoot at her with it's remaining arm, but before it even had a chance to do so, all of it's mounted rockets blew up in a firey explosion behind it and cause major damages to it, the arm was detached by it and it began to lower itself to knee level, it didn't had another chance to try and hit her, so it admitted defeat when the entire system shut down and it fell on it's face.
Weiss turned around and saw the last bunch of Atlas soldiers coming so she charged right in to fight them all.
Ruby was not doing so well as the Faunus kept hitting her with his punches. She only relied on her arms as it defended her face from suffering anymore punches, then she used her legs to hit the enemy's knees then finally hit his face twice before he punched her stomach and she stepped back from the attack, Ruby knew that this would not end well, so she let the hidden blade come out from her right forearm and it was now a knife.
She swung it at him, and it pierced through his aura, but left it in a medium level so he began to try and hit her again, She blocked the attack and then swung the knife again, but it missed the chance to gain a direct hit, it returned to the forearm and she began to use all of her strength to defeat him by sending off a blow to the chest, but it actually hurt him and he stood back from the pain, this time he took out a knife from the back of his belt and swung out at Ruby, she avoided it and stepped as far as she could away from the sharp blade. She saw her chance and hit him flat on the armor, and there was no pain coming out, so she ended up slamming herself right at him and was pushed back.
The faunus swung the knife at her, but she caught the wrist and tried to keep it steady and avoided it from making a scratch on her face, She tried to push the arm back, but it kept inching closer to her, before she decided to make a new move. She flicked the left wrist and a blade came out and pierced the arm, causing the faunus to yell out in pain and drop the knife, there was blood coming out since he was no longer protected with his aura, and he gave a growling face at Ruby, he punched her face immediately, and did not stop fighting her, he send out a kick to her stomach, a punch to her arm and then kicking her right at the wall of the warehouse until she slid down on the floor feeling exhausted and weak from the direct hits.
She could tell that her aura was depleted, and she couldn't carry on anymore from this guy, he was still too strong for her, and judging from the chances, he looked like he wanted to kill her now, but he wasn't allowing it to happen. She cluthed her stomach as it suffered the most damage so far, and stayed near the wall, desperate for anyone or anything to come and help her, she was too weak to do anything but beg for help. She could only see destroyed parts of the highway bridge, and the corpse of the last Paladin that tried to attack, she couldn't see Weiss anywhere, or anyone else but she did see two figures approaching her.
Both of them were Atlas soldiers, but one of them was with short black hair and he had a sniper rifle in his hands. He was perhaps the one guy who might've shot Velvet and Pyrrha, but she never even try to question it, she stayed right there and watch as the soldier hoister the rifle and instead take out a pistol and put in a round of bullets inside of it, making her more worried than she ever thought she would be. "you must be Ruby." The other atlas soldier said, "Glad to finally meet you one last time. Archangel, it's time for you to finish the job."
She could see that the guy was going to be the one to kill her, she stayed right where she was, knowing that she wouldn't be able to get out of this, she gripped her left arm and started to weep tears in her eyes as the gun was pointed at her, Archangel was real hesitant and not even forcing himself to even pull the trigger. He lowered the gun and started to feel different.
"Archangel, finish the job, the boss is waiting for you to end this." the faunus replied,he was growing impatient and the soldier was not even bothering to do it. He slowly pulled out a knife and started to say something.
"Come on, we're not going to spend all day here waiting for-" The soldier said, before Archangel suddenly struck the knife right at his chest and pinned him to the ground.
"What the fuck!" The faunus pulled out a gun, but he shot him right through his chest immediately, Ruby saw this and flinched when she saw this, the soldier came in close to him.
"I'm sorry, but I quit." He fired the gun and the bullet pierced the enemy's head and killed him off instantly, Ruby began to back further away, but she couldn't do anymore of it, and started to keep crying a little more. Archangel looked at her, and walked over to her exact spot. "are you alright?" He asked, The rose girl didn't say anything, she just stayed where she was and remained silent. Without even asking again, he brought her up her feet and she was now standing up again, looking at the soldier in front of her.
She started breathing a little heavy, then looked away from him, "W-w-w-why?" She began to say, but she was lost with words since she was standing right in front of a deadly enemy.
"Stay calm Ruby, you're gonna be alright." He said, gripping her shoulders lightly, "You won't be hurt any longer."
"W-why didn't you kill me?" Ruby had decided not to resist against him, she stayed where she was. "Why didn't you, you were trying to kill us this whole time."
"Ruby, I'm not going to kill you, I've been following alongside Atlas this whole time, but now i realized that can't do it anymore. You remind me too much of her." He said, he pulled out a watch-like object and opened it up, The picture was shown to be a girl with short black hair, and there was red highlights on the side of her face, her beautiful smile was enough to explain everything. The second picture was shown to be her with a long red dress and a bracelet that was in a silver coating, and right next to him was Archangel himself, dressed in a tuxedo.
"You...you think i look like her?" Ruby responded, the soldier nodded.
"You remind me too much like my girlfriend, Cynthia Rose." Archangel closed the object and placed it back in his pocket and sighed, "She always was beautiful, but she was killed, when you came to earth, I already felt like you were like her, the same kind of girl."
"Sorry about your loss Archangel." Ruby responded.
"Fredrick," The soldier said, "It's Fredrick."
"Right, sorry about your loss, I had no idea..." Ruby looked down at her feet, which were marked by bits of dirt, and she said, "I guess she is sort of like me, I didn't know you had this kind of feeling." She looked at him.
"Thanks, I never wanted to kill you anyways, but this is what i've chosen. I've been following this path for so long, I can't keep forgetting Cynthia, so i can't let it affect my whole life. sorry." He moved in closer to her, and then suddenly kissed her forehead very slowly, Ruby didn't feel bothered by it, so she just let him finish and he stood back.
"RUBY!" Weiss finally showed up, covered in dirt marks and being completely fine with her dress being ruined, She approached the soldier, thinking he was a hostile, and swung out at him, but he avoided it and she prepared her stance to fight, but Ruby grabbed the arm before she could do anything.
"Weiss stop! He's not here to kill us!" Ruby shook the arm and the Schnee heiress turned to her.
"He's with the enemy, I'm not letting him try to kill-"
"She's right, I'm not your enemy." Fredrick said to her, "I saved her from dying, I'm not here to kill any of you outcasts anymore." The Schnee heiress hoisted the rapier away and kept an eye on him to make sure he doesn't do anything tricky.
She said, "If you're not our enemy, why did you help us?"
"I've realized the truth, i can't fight you guys anymore." Archangel walked away from the two, "I'm not going to try, I'll be on my way." He started walking out to the road, and saw the post-carnage of the battle, "And I'm sorry that you had to deal with this, Especially you Ruby."
The soldier dissappered from the scene and the two outcasts were now skepetic about this, Weiss turned to Ruby.
"Ruby, are you feeling better?" She was easily noticing the blood in her face, Ruby did not knew that she had blood dripping down her forehead, and her nose, there was also some on her cheek.
"A-a little," She wiped off the blood from her cheek and nodded, "but not really, That was too crazy for me." Ruby could feel her heart beat a little fast, but she was slowly feeling a lot more calmer than she wanted to.
The two girls began to walk over to the edge of the highway bridge and climb up to the top of it since the destroyed part of the road let them see where the horizon was, but when they turned to see the ocean, they saw something unimaginable. There was a large cloud of smoke rising up to the sky, and covering up most of the place.
Everyone was now witnessing it, Coco, Cardin (who was now tied up), Chris, Neptune, Pyrrha, Velvet and Jaune were in shock to find the destruction of the bridge and everything else that the laser was causing before it disappeared into nothing, The bunny faunus and the blue haired felt guilty that all of this was because of their appearence, it was the one thing that caused them to worry, they both held each others hands and remained there, looking at the tipped over bridge.
The sentinel base was now filled with grief looks, the Vulcan had attacked again, and failed to do it's mission, but it left a scar into everyone, The soldiers, Mitchell, Ilona, Gideon, Torch and Merrick were left with worried looks that this sudden destructive weapon struck again, and send out something more than just a warning, it meant that they were not through with this at all. At Atlas, Irons stood right in front of the screen, not amused by the sight of it, and had an expressionless face when he saw the Vulcan being used. Neo had a look of nervousness, and her eyes were also silver, seeing this thing destroy something impacted her a little more, she clutch the umbrella and nodded, She knew that something needed to be done.
Ruby didn't need to see anymore, she began to cry a little more so Weiss hugged her close and the Rose girl continued to sob tears and clutch on Weiss' coat. She knew that they failed, and they were nowhere near escaping the city, maybe the others had gone there but the two were now stranded here. Weiss was also feeling terribly sad, understanding the whole thing. Ruby let go and sniffed a little.
"Ruby...i think we should go." Weiss walked away from the scene and Ruby began to follow her, thinking about how this whole thing could really end. They weren't escaping this place now, it was their last chance, but they might not have that chance again after today, because they only witnessed something far more darker than anything they've ever been through.
In the aftermath of everything, there was only smoke and the falling remnants of the broken bridge, only for the columns to make sure it stays up and not fall down like the rest. Nothing was alright anymore, today was the day of an attempt to end it all, it could've been the side of outcasts who would've escape, or Atlas who could've killed them all, but none of them were even important to this very moment. The attack struck fear, and fear alone, making everyone realize what the enemy was truly capable of, and left the place to see what had happen to their once peaceful place.
In a moment like this, there was one single drop of a snowflake descending from the sky and falling towards the ocean, right between a damaged bridge and being swiftly avoided as it finally landed on the water. It didn't last for long as the water began to take over the snowflake, tearing apart all of it and letting it dissolve, in an instant there was more snowflakes falling downwards onto the world. Winter had finally came around, and now it was snowing. If only there was something good happening.
Wow, that took forever to complete.
So, yeah this was a long chapter alright, and I don't think i want a lot of that to happen again, but it was worth it. Almost.
I also wanted Ruby to use an Assassin's Creed weapon for the moment (hidden blade) since i thought it would look cool on her.
The story is not over though, it's still continuing, and it'll be back. Hope you enjoyed, please review, compliment on some things and I'll hopefully see you guys next time. Bye.