Chapter 7

I do not Own RWBY, or Nora would get to break legs.

Smirking, Roman Torchwick walked the mech into the parking garage. Recently his schemes had gone awry, all because of one girl. Now he had the chance to destroy the source of his trouble, as she could never touch him, or his hat, in this machine. The mech had 4 machine guns mounted on its shoulders. A powerful energy shield was able to deflect anything. There were also two arms mounted with blades for close fights and plasma blasters.

Team RWBY + S took cover behind a few badly mangled cars, avoiding a barrage of machine fire. It's forcefield was stronger than Aura, deflecting any manner of punches, blades, or bullets. It didn't seem to be running out of juice anytime soon. "Any Ideas?", asked Blake.

Ruby peeked over the cover using the gleaming surface of her blade. "It don't think it can reach someone who was clinging on its back, and the end of it's guns would have to be exposed."

"He's charging us, run!" commanded Sun, used to calling the shots as leader of SSSN.

While everyone rushed to another column, Ruby destroyed the end of one of the enemy's guns with a quick shot. Three to go. The mech stopped rushing, causing it to skid past them. Roman spun the torso, spraying globs of plasma. Weiss felt the intense heat of the plasma as it passed 3 feet in front of her, an untrained person would have had painful burns. Holes were melted into the concrete floor and the nearby pillars. "Umm… Yang? Your hair." She said, pointing at the yellow locks, a stray bullet had clipped a few.

"You…I don't care if you have the perfect defense," Golden flames rose from her skin. "I will kill you with the inside of your own armour." Yang launched herself through the air and flew feet-first into the mech. Using internal gyroscopes and metal arms, the mech righted itself while taking punches.

"While he is distracted, I know how to get past the energy shield.", whispered Weiss.

"Yeah?"

"It's like shooting at water, it puts up more resistance the harder something hits it. Things that hit hard enough to damage the body are easily stopped, while things that are going slow enough to get through the shields can't damage the body."

"Like in Dune?"

Blake's reference was lost on them.

"So, if we had Nora we could have her toss it into the sea?", said Sun.

"Yes… Or" Ruby was looking at the bullet riddled stack of cars "we use battery acid."

"No. I have glyphs hot enough to melt steel. Just hold him down while I slowly push one through that armour."

"Let's go!" yelled Ruby, voice already deepened by the doppler effect. She sped between mechanical legs, causing them to almost lose balance. Roman remained calm, using all weapons at his disposal while exchanging punches with 'blondie'. Piloting - the skill that got him so far in the underworld.

Blake went straight for the guns, using clones to take the few bullets that would have hit her. She rapidly closed the distance, then vaulted onto a mechanical arm and used Shroud to hack away the unprotected ends of the guns. Since they were still firing, the barrels burst, pelting Blake with shrapnel. She hit the ground running, having to evade the slower plasma bullets.

With the guns out of commission, Ruby and Sun used their weapons with intent to trip the mechanical legs. The flexible Ruyi Jingu in three-piece mode and the hook of crescent rose were sutible for the task. Finally, Weiss saw an opening and made a thin layer of ice. The mech slipped onto its back.

Roman realized he was trapped. Both blondes had him pinned, black and red had guns trained on him, but the worst was snow white. The heiress was lowering a glyph that glowed white hot. They planned melt a hole in the windshield- and where will the molten glass land? The glyph was inches away from the glass when he punched a button and put his hands up. The cockpit hinged opened and Roman threw his hands up.

"I surrender!" Neo, I leave it to you.

Blake shrugged and began tying the criminal up with extra ribbons. "You should read more books that aren't A Clockwork Orange.", she whispered.

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After a few minutes of being walked at gunpoint, he felt the familiar touch of the one he trusts most. Shrouded, the ribbons silently, invisibly, hit the floor, leaving only an image. Now it's time for his lines-

"You know, I would love to see the looks on those 'activists'' faces when they hear about this interracial polyamorous tripling."

Yang gave a rough shove and growled, "Move."

"Although, the pairing I'm interested in is between you two…" Torchwick nodded to Ruby and Weiss. Of course, he is already strolling away, fusing his ventriloquism with Neo's illusion to cover the escape.

Weiss and ruby look at each other and nod. Crescent rose rises, blade a silhouette against the broken moon. It halted.

The heiress had raised her hand. "Wait, he may have told others. Are the blades at the bunker sharpened?"

"Feather edged, as always! Do we have enough salt?"

The criminal's blood chilled, despite his real body being 50 meters away. The real thing, or a good act? Is this why Cinder is interested in this group?

"We're going to use dust this time, the pain is reputed to be exquisite."

Sun, Yang, and Roman looked horrified, Blake didn't react at all. Then Yang whispered, "Wha… What are you two doing on your dates?"

"What do you three do to settle gambling debts?", Weiss launched back.

Roman grew increasingly nervous over the conversation, and the illusion suddenly shattered, then dispersed. "Huh. He literally broke from a little fear…", said Ruby.

"No, he's over there. We can talk about you being psychopaths later." Sun pointed out.

The group pursued, but Torchwick stood there, next to a short woman with brown and pink hair, a parasol, heterochromatic eyes that seemed to shift colors, and a smirk unrivaled in its confidence. Yang gave a full powered punch, only too pass through the would-be concussion victim.

After a the barrage of punches, cuts, ceased, the Illusion said, "I would like to invite you to join us, seeing as at least two of you are killers who enjoy torturing people. Really why are you even on the 'lawful good' side of things. Let's go Neo."

Neo then pulled a sign out of nowhere, We leave you to consider, adieu, before shattering the illusion.

"Split up!" shouted Ruby, before seeming to teleport into the sky, still abusing the sound barrier. She sighed. Roman Torchwick, is deserving of respect, simply for his ability to get away. Whose semblance is creating these illusions? Likely 'Neo'. She should have brought Zwei, he would have been able sniff them out, even if they are invisible. She noticed Blake perched on some metal railing, then had an idea.

"Hey, Blake, what do your senses tell you?"

The faunus stared back with a deadpan expression. "You flatter me, my senses are only 2-4 times better than yours, I'm not a cat."

After searching everything within a kilometer, they regrouped.

"So, care to explain? Torture?"

Ruby started chuckling to herself. "Even you bought it… Our act."

Weiss explained "We were actually going to use the technology in the local Schnee panic bunker to brainwash Torchwick to tell us everything, then wipe his memory of the nature of our relationship, using more brainwashing."

Blake burst out laughing. "Were you also going to reprogram his personality to make him a functional member of society?"

"The technology is there, but neither of us knows how to use it to that extent… Blake?"

"This is too good. heheheh"

A/N:

Who gets the literary references?

Fun fact: In the trailers, Ruby has been calculated to reach Mach 8, using the fall of bullet casings to determine in-world time to use in calculations instead of screen-time. It just so happens that when adding melee weapons to a fight, speed becomes the most important attribute.

Schnee Semblance: The reason It's modified in this story is because in the very first episode of RWBY, Glynda uses glyphs, even though her semblance is telekinesis. My idea is that Glynda uses telekinesis to manipulate the dust into the shape of a glyph.