Perseus blocked each of Yang's heavy blows, the force from the impact cracking the ground beneath her. Yang had so much brute strength behind it, that Perseus had to extend her shield in order to not be crushed. Taking the opportunity, she bashed the blonde directly in the face with it. Perseus unlatched her feet from the cracked ground and kicked Yang in the stomach, sending her stumbling back.
"Ruby's not gone." She grunted out, slapping one of Yang's shells away. "She's in our custody. Why do you think we're so sure about what happened?"
"If Ruby's been with you for so long, why didn't you arrest Weiss before now?" Yang shouted out, sending a series of shotgun-enhanced punches down on Perseus' shield.
"She's a Schnee." Perseus said in a bored tone, grunting under the heavy rain of blows. "We couldn't use Rose as the primary source of Schnee and Nikos' proof, she would have been killed to defend the Schnee name."
"Why don't I believe you?" Yang asked, sending a particularly strong punch to her opponent. She was knocked back slightly, and her shield left a small opening to take. Yang didn't hesitate; landing a devastating blow on her Perseus' face. Perseus flew back, her mask cracking from the force.
Perseus got to her feet, a hand on her cracked mask. "Because you don't want to admit that the person you defended killed your adoptive daughter." She said in an annoyed tone.
"You're lying." Yang said defiantly. "I just know it." The blonde strode over to the cybernetic soldier. "Come here you fucking Arkham Knight ripoff." She taunted. Briefly overwhelmed by curiousity, Perseus looked down at her armor, attempting to see what Yang was talking about. In response, she was slammed into a wall. Yang began to maliciously slam her fists into the cyber-soldier's face mask. They could both hear the sound of breaking metal.
Yang stopped when she saw blood running out of the mask, down Perseus' neck. She pulled her arm back to finish the fight with a final blow to the throat, but Perseus' shield intercepted the hit once more. Repeating the blog from before, she bashed the blonde in the face with the slightly cracked shield. Perseus fired her blaster at Yang's feet, launching the blonde across campus, unconscious before she even landed.
While Perseus had been fighting Yang, Jaune fought Pyrrha. They both swung their weapons at one another, blocking or parrying each hit, showing a remarkable increase in Jaune's strength. Neither side left an opening for their opponent to take. The exchange of blows would never have ended if Perseus hadn't intervened, stepping in and knocking Pyrrha off her feet, aiming an Aura-piercing pistol at her head. Perseus kneeled down to the fallen warrior, sliding her mask off, allowing Pyrrha to know the truth.
"Oh my God." Pyrrha said, her voice full of fear and horror. "You have to understand! It wasn't personal!" Pyrrha said quickly, pleading for her life, "He said he'd kill me if I didn't!"
"Who?" Ruby asked suspiciously, a smile stretched onto her face before she put her mask back on, preventing someone else from seeing her.
"I–I… He'll kill me…" Pyrrha said miserably.
"Either I kill you, or he does! CHOOSE!" Ruby pressed the pistol against Pyrrha's temple, sending a shudder down the redhead's spine. "These are aura-piercing rounds; they'll break your aura as soon as I pull the trigger, do you really want that?" Pyrrha shook her head, tears forming in her eyes.
"I can't!" She said pleadingly.
"You can." Ruby muttered ominously. Showing no mercy or sympathy, she pistol-whipped Pyrrha. A stream of fresh blood ran down her face. She brought the gun to Pyrrha's stomach, and pulled the trigger. The redhead screamed in pain, her armor, Aura, and resolve being shot through all at once. "How can you live with yourself?" Ruby asked, picking her up by the throat and slamming her against the wall, shoving the gun under her chin.
"Just earlier today, I had Weiss in the same position. She told me the names of everyone involved." Ruby realized that just pointing the gun at Pyrrha wasn't quite enough, she aimed the weapon at Jaune, regardless of having no intentions of shooting him. She let him know that he was not in danger telepathically through his earpiece. Jaune visibly relaxed, but Pyrrha wasn't in the right mind to solve the puzzle.
"Weiss' father!" Pyrrha shouted desperately. "He said that if we didn't kill you, he'd have us killed!"
"Do you know why?" Ruby asked. Pyrrha shook her head immediately, and Ruby pointed the gun back to her. "You were willing to kill someone so you didn't die, but you were also willing to die so someone else didn't," Ruby commented. "That's odd."
"You said you wouldn't kill me if I told you!" Pyrrha claimed in horror, scrabbling at arm that held her while looking down to the gun that was pinned against her throat.
"Nope!" Ruby said, pulling the trigger. A resounding BANG! filled the air. Perseus dropped Pyrrha's limp form, satisfied with the thud it made when it hit the ground.
"No!" Blake shouted from nearby, having arrived in time to see only the end of the altercation. Perseus ignored her, and shouted an order to the remainder of JNPR. Much to her surprise, Blake went after JNR rather than her.
"Take Schnee into custody. She can tell us where to find Mr. Schnee." She said, walking away, hoping that CRDL's stories matched Pyrrha's. They all did. CRDL was much easier to persuade than Pyrrha; they were all cowards. Each of them were burning in hell now, and this satisfied her.
When she returned to the courtyard, she found her friends unconscious, Glynda standing over them, a slightly miffed expression was on her face from seeing students betray their school.
Narrowing her eyes, Perseus got into a fighting stance. The moment Glynda took notice of her a massive piece of debris was flying at Perseus. Not seeing it until the last moment because it was from a decimated building behind her, the debris nailed her straight in the face, shattering the glass of her mask. She hit the ground with a thud, rolling onto her back from her momentum.
As the professor neared the still form of the soldier, she could hear the wheezing and gasps that was her form of breathing. She walked up and delivered a quick kick to the ribs, not caring for an Atlas soldier, hearing a loud crack as she did so.
Glynda could barely register the feeling of cold metal against her leg before a gunshot rang out, and she fell to her knees.
Recovering quickly, she jabbed her leg out, catching the soldier's ribs once more. A pained howl was let out, before a metal hand grabbed ahold of her outstretched leg. Gripped it harshly, Perseus barely took the time to aim before shooting, blowing five holes into her former teacher's leg. Hissing with pain, Glynda waved her riding crop, sending a tree from the side towards her assailant.
Perseus flipped over the offending plant, causing Glynda to lose sight of her attacker, and the to tree crash into the sidewalk a little ways away from Glynda. Gritting her teeth in pain and frustration, Glynda looked around her shockingly silent surroundings, attempting to find her target.
A cold, hard object touched her forehead. Her eyes widened in shock and surprise; she couldn't sense her at all! Silently cursing Ironwood, she closed her eyes in resignation. There was no way to escape, and no allies nearby. The shot tore through her skull, pushing chunks of her brain out the other side, splattering onto the pavement.
Once Glynda's body hit the ground, Ruby painfully stood, the debris she hadn't dodged had done a number on her already bruised face. Taking her helmet off, she ripped out her earpiece, and tossed her broken helmet to the ground without second thought. She pulled up her dark hood, covering her face. Replacing her earpiece, she activated her backup mask.
It came up from her neck armor plates, wrapping around her head, covering her mouth, nose, and ears. Out of the top of the mask emerged a pair of high-tech, wraparound glasses. These worked similarly to her original mask, showing statistics and diagnostics. They also masked her distinctive, silver eyes. Not only did her new mask cover her face, it also acted as a gas mask and breathing apparatus.
Ruby looked down at her right arm; the armor on it was severely damaged. Her blaster had been decimated by the debris that Glynda had hit her with. She tore off the now dead weight that was the armor on that arm, revealing the shiny, silver prosthetic.
The sound of a pebble being misplaced filled the deafening silence. Ruby spun around, seeing Blake standing a few feet away. She hadn't seen anything, obviously by the way she looked at Ruby. Ruby only saw rage in her eyes. "You took them out." Perseus calmly said, gesturing to JNR, her voice distorter didn't sound too different from the one it replaced. "I'm impressed."
"You killed Pyrrha." Blake said, scowling.
"I did." Perseus drew her swords, extending them, she began a slow walk towards Blake.
Edited by DemonFoxBK201