This is by far the most I've ever written.

Discalmer: I only own the teams presented in this

WARNING: Body Horror (mentioned) / Gore/ Blood

The sun shined it's first rays, turning the dark sky a hue of dark orange against blue. Not one soul stirred from their slumber except the engines of the bullheads and the six teams as they stirred from their slumber, instantly on their feet without a startup timer. The air held a cold nip, cold enough for fog to escape their noses when they exhaled.

They all gathered in the landing where the three bullheads await them. Each with a sling bag full of bedding, bandages, repair kits and ammunition if they use ranged weapons. On their waist were pouches filled with dust cartiges and other essentials. Their lower back held two sheathed daggers.

Though certain teams or individuals carried slightly different accessories with them.

Meanwhile Kelly, Penelope and Leona are faunus' giving them a natural advantage in some cases.

Kelly being a komodo dragon faunus. Lumbering and heavy with a forked tongue, poisonous bite allows her to detect her targets and is a poison outlet for her team or others.

Penelope is a gazelle faunus. Quick on her feet with a pair of sharp horns on her head to match her equally painful headbutts, not to mention a really high jumper. She can easily reach higher points where Leona can't.

Leona is a clouded leopard faunus. As small as she may be she is fast with her long fangs and retractable claws she like any other cat faunus have amazing night vision. She can forgo specialized binoculars and getting to a higher point by climbing to gain a stealthy kill.

VRDN jumped down first with MLCT, fanning out to go to their respective areas deep inside the surrounding forest setting up a signal barrier for SLTE and HLTP to track later on. SLTE and HLTP landed not long after. Erica and Saruman begins setting up their combat and shield drones for their patrols. Penelope already on top of the tallest building, setting up a forward base with satellite dishes and other devices lent by the Atlesian military.

Finally CTDK and EBNY landed near the hole in the ground. Emily made a hand gesture to Tryygr. With a caw, the small white nevermore dove into the crater. Nicole and Jay jumped down first, making a rope system for the others to follow. Although Kelly just jumped straight down instead of using the rope like the others.

The tunnels were dark as hell, it reeked of decay and no one can see three feet in front of them. Aside from rubble from the fight weeks ago, some of the wooden pillars are close to collapsing from the chunks of missing ceiling or remains of Paladins being embedded in the wall.

"Ugh it reeks of death in here," Brenda nearly gagged into her scarf at the putrid stench. A groan of agreement came from Diane. Then came the gagging noises from Nicole.

"You don't say." Nicole wiped her mouth and placed her mask over her nose.

"It's not that bad." Kelly shrugged, her mask hanging around her neck. She seemed the most utterly relaxed- next to Tryygr who is busy feasting on the decaying corpses. "He likes it too."

Her forked tongue flickering now and then into the air as they walked into the dark tunnels.

"I highly doubt anyone can be so passionate about this as you, Kelly. But probably since you " Jay elbowed her partner. The faunus gave a slight hiss as she leaned down and flicked the tongue in her face.

It's true, she did enjoy the scent of the rotting bodies, but that's probably the animalistic part of her. She huffed again and tasted the air once again as they walked deeper into the darkness. She can see Brenda kicking some derbies around before kneeling down and gathering scrap pieces or whatever into little bags. Tryygr is once again perched on Emily's forearm, only taking off whenever Emily made a gesture with her hand. He chirped slightly, tapping against Emily's cheek with his beak, making her halt. The rest of her team stopped with her, she drew Deadly Wisp, a hook sword and a scoped crossbow.

"Brenda, Ying go forth and check the junction." She ordered to her two teammates. "Something's there and it's making Tryygr jumpy."

"On it." Brenda unsheathed her ninjato, Reveler, the long blade shifted into a rather long barrelled rifle. Ying removed the ash colored bow Xiao Feng from her back, notching a red colored arrow.

The two ran ahead with Tryygr trailing behind them.

"Diane," Cindy looked at her partner. Without saying more, her partner understood.

Diane nodded, instantly sprinting after them, Bleak Dusk shifting from its gladius form.

Diane watched as Brenda scaled the crumbling stones with ease, finding a perch that's hidden from view behind broken boards. She can see the goggle wearing girl lay down on her stomach, resting her rifle on the boards. Heck, even she can't climb rocks without falling from stepping on the weak ones. Certainly her accuracy can't even match Brenda's or anyone in EBNY and she's the one with the scope in her team.

"Aren't you going to take cover?" Diane heard a soft voice above her.

The hooded Ying is kneeling behind a pile of rocks, her bow notched and ready to fire. How can a lilithe girl like her even score shots between a Ursa's eyes? A shit ton of patience and a semblance that is similar to a cameleon.

She can hear echoing sounds, but she can't tell what it is. For a quick disguise, she joined Ying in her hiding spot. Bleak Dusk is resting on the rocks as she listened intently for the sounds again.

It was garbled and the echoing throughout the junction made it almost indecipherable.

"Sound's like someone's pissed." She whispered, focusing her ears again to the noise, sounding a bit more coherent as the noise if getting slightly clearer, meaning whoever it is is coming their direction. "Something… Fang… Boss ain't happy… something with plan and breaking in."

She turned to the invisible next to her.

"Can you get closer and tap what you hear?" She asked, the air around her rippled at what she presumed as a nod. She turned to the white Nevermore on the rock. "Go too?"

He pecked her rifle once, meaning yes and flew after the dust being kicked up slightly by Ying.

Kelly tasted the air, the rest of them resting as they wait for a response from the other team members. The air did not change much except an extra scent which made her taste the air again.

"Something up?" Jay asked her. "You're flicking your tongue twice in a row."

"Someone else is here." Third time. "No, a group or so…"

She huffed beginning to walk forward, guided by her tongue. Jay is behind her, keeping close as the other three stayed behind.

"Anything else than a group?" She asked. "Grimm-?"

"Both." Kelly is crouching, her head moving up and down trying to discern more. "Human and metal? Coming towards us."

"Shall we join them?" Cindy asked Emily, the crossbow girl gave a long pause and nodded.

"I think we should.'

It felt like hours of crouching and taking aim behind a stupid hunk of rock. Her legs fell asleep already from keeping the kneeling position for so long. While she looked content in her position- she's screaming inside of boredom. She heard Barbra scoff at the face she's probably making out of discomfort and pretty any emotion along boredom and annoyance. She can see the white bird on the support beams ahead preening his white feathers.

Tap. Pause. Tap. Tap.

Both Brenda and Diane perked at the noise.

Tap. Long pause. Several taps. Repeat.

"About ten men...Something about a takeover plan...The patrol won't expect it." Diane translated to Brenda who scoffed softly.

"And we're here already." She said as the air shimmered slightly to show the outline of Ying.

"Coming close." She decipher the next set of taps and pauses.

That was their cue to be ready. Brenda loaded a round into her long rifle, pressing her eyes to the iron sight, a grin across her face.

Diane flipped the cover off her scope, turning the safety off and into the signature burst mode.

Tryggr took the cue and flew into the ground, hopping about and walked towards the moving lights.

White Fangs and there is a few Atlesian Paladin and Knights walking behind them.

They all held their breath as the bird distracted them.

"Hey look at this birdie." One of the men picked the bird on his hand, stroking the crest on his head. He gave the hand a light nudge before cawing loudly, enough to echo into the hall.

Thump.

A body fell to the ground with a arrow between his eyes.

Crack!

Diane's rifle lit up the tunnel, her bullets tearing through two of the men in front, leaving the rest startled and blindly firing into the dark. The confused shouting and the whirring of machine parts echoed around the junction. There was a significantly taller female with a rather large chain blade shouting orders.

Brenda's gun pretty much decapitated a member of the White Fang with one shot of the giant bullet.

She can see the flicker of multiple arrows materialising when three of the White Fang members were charging to her position. With deadly accuracy and timing each of the arrows struck deep into their opponents, dropping like flies before her.

"Don't stand around, get them!" The female roared in the back and the Atlesian Knights open fired. "I swear you hunks of metal are useless."

A man was about to shout the order to the rest of them when a crossbow bolt struck him in the throat, his words died in his throat.

Tryygr flew back to Emily's shoulder as she reloaded a fresh bolt into her crossbow, not wasting the moment to stab a sword wielding henchman that managed to sneak up behind her with her long hooked blade.

Diane rolled into the open when the rock she was behind shattered into bits from a Paladin's massive gun. FInding herself surrounded and back against a wall, she took a brief glance to see that the others were just as occupied as she is.

"Ten men my ass, Ying." She grumbled. A sly grin crossed her face.

"Come at me," Placing a new extended clip into Bleak Dawn, she shifted the gears into full auto and pulled the trigger.

The first few shots exploded when it struck flesh, gaining a few mortified looks that made some of her attackers pause. Bleak Dawn shifted into its hybrid form which is similar but two handed version of Jay's gun blade.

The first man was bifurcated at the waist by her claymore. The second managed to get a shot at her, bullet grazing her arm as she deflected it. Bleak Dusk firing a round into his chest when she swung it to slash at the henchmen who jumped onto her back trying to distract her from the fight.

Cindy embeded her ax into a Knight's head, causing the circuits to explode into sparks before being assaulted by a hail of bullets. Luckily for her aura is strong, her semblance flared to life in a pair of ethereal bone arms. The faint outstretched hands blocked the incoming bullets from Cindy as she quickly grabbed the discarded rifle the Knight was using before having it's head split open.

With her semblance manifesting partially with her will it was enough to make do without expending too much energy at a small group.

Sheathing her shotgun ax on her back, she hefted the gun to her face and is instantly met by a heavy recoil. Not surprised since these are older models of both gun and machine. She missed the first few shots trying to adjust to a foreign weapon, but soon enough began tearing the mindless machines a new one as the bullets shredded metal as easily as flesh.

She began walking steadily forward under the cover of her semblance, weapon and eye darting back and forth.

Jay feigned terror at the squad she is against. Six heavily armored men compared to the regular henchmen. Her fingers ghosted the trigger on Falling Sky, the gun blade thrumming under her hand.

"Give up princess," the automated voice came from one of them.

She placed a hand on her hip and made a thinking face, tapping her foot and gave a click of her tongue.

"Hmm," Her fingers flipped the switch on her beloved gun sword. "Nope!"

She bursted forward into his face, already in motion for a uppercut. Falling sky's sword edge shifted, the serrated end began roaring like a chainsaw.

Needless to say, he, his aura nor his armor did stand against the now chainsword version of Falling Sky as it sawed through bone and metal. She pulled the trigger, roughly pushing the chain blade out of the bone and metal prison it was sheathed in and setting it into the man behind her. The bullet also took out the man that was on Diane's back.

Like her, Falling Sky thirsted for blood and carnage.

Let's just say she butchered everyone that went against her into pieces.

Grinning like a madman as she rested her weapon on her shoulder, bathed in her enemy's blood.

Kelly landed on top a knight, crushing it under her weight. She was facing a rather morbid looking Paladin, spikes and blade sticking up everywhere. Heck even its hands were clawed.

She had heard of this monstrosity on one of her solo deployment. Described as a 'murdering twelve foot tall terror' that managed to kill everyone at a forward base for the special operations in the area.

The metal creaked as it cocked its fist back ready to strike her down.

"Finally found you," Kelly cooly said, Ripple Corruption's plates shifting as a bayonet locked under her arm gun.

The blades fist came down faster than most Paladins she fought. She jumped back, the ground exploding in rock and electricity under her. The second fist slammed into her masked face, sending her crashing into a pile of rocks.

"Okay that hurt slightly." The Faunus shook her head, glaring back at the faceless abomination.

She felt the locks on her mask open and gave her jaws a test rotation. A sharp hiss came from her as the metal giant slammed its fist into the ground to taunt her.

Green marks began glowing all over her body, a wrought scale pattern peaking from under her armor plating as her throat let off a soft green hue.

As the machine charged again, she opened her metal clad jaws, great green flames crashed against the metal. The metal began to blacken under the heat of her green fire as the smoke shimmered in the writhing shape of of a three headed dragon, seemingly wrapping around the burning Paladin.

-Several Minutes And A Butt Whooping Later-

"Okay new plan," She heard Cindy speak next to her, keeping the Paladin at bay by directing her manifested bone arms to fight. "We need to destroy this thing."

Joined by the rest of her team and EBNY under the protection of the aid of a shield drone SLTE probably lent her. The eight huddled under the onslaught of missiles, cannons and other ranged weapons of the surviving henchmen and the large woman in the back still shouting orders.

"We can try apprehended the possible leader for questioning," Ying insisted, checking her quiver quickly and re-slung it across her back.

"And you guys can try to take in the robot in," Nicole suggested, loading fresh clips into her dual bayoneted pistols.

"Get out from the shield so I can crush your bones and paint my armor red with your blood!" The machine cried, striking several more times with it's behemoth claws.

A sharp crack echoed as the clawed hands broke through the shield, slowly tearing the rift apart.

"On second thought... we should go." Emily stood up with Cindy, Tryygr screeched while perched on her shoulder.

Nicole fired a bullet that exploded in a cloud of gray. The machine began wildly swinging around as the gas clouded it's laser sensors.

"Now!" Cindy shouted.

Everyone took off towards their respective targets under the cover of the smokescreen.

"Kelly and Jay take left." Cindy shouted over to the two who instantly diverted from the original formation and deep into the cloud around the thrashing Paladin.

Cindy swung Mourning Dawn in a wide arc, the cold titanium alloy of her ax meeting the twice forged titanium claws with sparks. She felt the weight and power of this Paladin and understands why Kelly was so eager to fight this thing.

This thing is a true war machine that nothing can slate it's bloodlust as the White Fang symbol is painted in dripping red paint.

She can see the other arm raised to crush her, but with all her might against this arm already, she tried to call her semblance to her aid again.

Crack! Crack!

Seeing her distressed partner, Diane fired at the raised arm that threatens to harm her partner and friend. The metal cracked at the explosions from her bullets as it snapped the arm back, the first layer of the armor were shredded off completely.

"Thanks!" Cindy shouted over the din of explosions.

Firing Mourning Dawn caused their weapons to disengage. Cindy jumped into the forearm stabbing her ax into the thicken playing of the Paladin. Her extra bone arms from her semblance held the arms down to keep it from killing them. Diane joined her on the opposite arm, already slashing at the thick plate with her two handed sword. She takes the chance to run up into the arm of the foul machine, ready to sever the connection of the joint when the back carapace bursted open, two more arm revealed itself. Like the first pair they had hand, but each of the fingers held saw-like blades, instead of the manufacture grips for every built model.

"Are you fu-" Cindy's vision shattered as the buzz sawed hand caught her across her chest, sending her into the ground with the heavy thud.

She can hear the muffled shouting when her vision tilted and moved. But by gods did it hurt to move. What happened? She can see Mourning Dawn still stuck in it's forearm like a trophy. The ax part of the shotgun embedded in the thick metal.

She was about to speak when she noticed that one of the sawed hands that hit her had blood spattered across it.

Oh.

Well, shit.

"Cindy!" Pretty much all three of them shouted at once.

Probably Diane was louder since she saw what happened up close. But a question lingers in her mind.

How did it manage to cut through her aura entirely?

"Look out!" She was tackled off the shoulder by Jay and into the ground. "Geez keep yer head on and not off damnit."

Diane's mouth opened to say something before Jay shut her up.

"Get Cindy outta here, me n' Kelly got this-" Jay turned to see Kelly literally punched it hard enough to send it a few yards back. "And make sure she doesn't overkill…"

Jay shoved her aside towards their downed leader. She turned to the brawling powerhouses and leaned her roaring chainsword gun on her shoulder. Kelly was knocked back with a fist to the face a second later, next to Jay.

Jay extended her hand towards her partner, who accepted it. With Kelly staggering to her feet, Ripple Corruption flaring to life again Jay turned her attention to the bloodied dreadnought.

"Throw me." She whispered to her partner who nodded.

Kelly cocked her fist back, the gears of her armored arm churning as it settled into a piston position with the cannon rotated to her face behind her. Her stance widened a little, the braces on her right knee whirled a little before locking into a slightly bent stance.

Jay jumped back, both feet planted on the flat of Kelly's fist with her hands grabbing onto the pauldron behind her to stabilize herself. She held Falling Sky to the ground, the chain solidified into the solid blade before the release.

"Ready?" She asked Kelly who only nodded and twisted her torso into a pithing position.

The Paladin begin charging at them now, their four arms blazing in what seemed like red dust ignited. It almost looked animalistic by the way it was running, Sometimes using its two arms to gain speed and balance while looking like a spiked ball of death.

"Now…" Jay tapped Kelly's leg with her crackling blade and lowered herself slightly.

Kelly threw her with the aid of the mechanical aid or her arm armor. Her cannon fire shook the junction as it nearly threw herself forward trying to throw Jay at their target. She can feel Jay pushing off her fist with her own legs, sending her faster than she anticipated. Though the sheer combined recoil sent her stumbling to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

Clank!

Jay reappeared behind the Paladin, sword cutting into the ground. A cheshire grin plastered on her face when she turned around to marvel what will become of the Paladin.

The metal gave a long, heavy creak. The left arms fell to the ground, severed at the shoulder joints. The right arms fell to it's side, the connection muscles cut clean through, rendering the limbs useless.

The torso rotated a little, making Kelly ready herself -when the torso toppled over and crashed to the ground leaving it's legs freestanding.

"And that," Jay jumped onto the top of the torso, arms wide like a magician performing their trick and amazing their audience. "Is sweet revenge on a steel pedestal."

Kelly grunted and threw the heavy arm off her before cracking her back and neck and walked over to where Jay stand and giving her gauntlet a experimental rotation, she plunged her hand into the thick steel. The metal hatch to the cockpit cracked and broke off with a jerk of her metal hand.

"With a shitty aim," She chided the younger girl as she brushed off metal derbies from her and turned to face her mutant in the machine.

"Actually," Kelly raised an eyebrow at her as Jay wafted the smell from her. "I think you did an overkill, not me."

Jay gives her a sheepish smile and rubs the back of her head while Kelly dragged the now mutilated and fused corpse from the cockpit and onto the ground.

"At least he won't bother anyone anymore." Kelly keeled down and grabbed the scroll from his waist and placed its collapsed form into a slot on her forearm before standing up. "Let's get out of here."

With everyone account including the prisoner and the key piece of evidence, they slowly made their way back to the surface. Diane already applied some basic first aid to their leader while the fight was still going on. Cindy is currently being carried by Kelly with no one else being physically capable of. Jay is being supported by Diane, apparently she injured herself from pulling the human curveball stunt with Kelly.

EBNY was already ahead, alerting SLTE and HLTP to get some proper medical supplies out.

"So you got the scroll," Diane asked Kelly as they sat on the pulley deployed by SLTE.

"Yeah," Kelly pulled it out of the compartment in the side of her gauntlet and gave it to her. "We may have lost a person of interest, but this was inside his corpse."

"Someone didn't want us to find out." Diane gave her back the scroll and placed a finger on her chin. "But why?"

Kelly gave a shrug.