Author's note: I didn't know which point to end the chapter, so I just made it longer than usual. I really hope you guys like it, cause I'm just never satisfied with whatever I write. I wrote like 4 other versions of this chapter, but they were all relatively the same, just a few different minor details. This chapter is essentially my version of the episodes "No Brakes" and "Breach". No team CFVY or Sun and Neptune showing up, because let's face it, that's last part was just a character showcase that could have been just as good, if not better, if they hadn't been showcased. Just so you guys know, I do read every review that gets posted on this story, and I do love reading them, so don't stop reviewing. :D
'She's trained for combat, very talented, smart and graceful, I wish I could hear her sing right now,' his words rang in her head all morning. She fought distracted, glancing at the knight as often as she could admiring how strong he'd gotten. Weiss missed her strike and the target countered, knocking her back. Two others had come in for the kill; she flinched and closed her eyes in fear of the strikes that didn't come.
"Weiss, what the hell are you doing?!" she opened her eyes to see Jaune glowing white, decapitating the two ursa who had come to finish her off. "If you're gonna keep fighting like that, you're gonna die," Weiss noticed the coldness in his voice. Blushing as she picked up Myrtenaster, she continued on her way, following her place in their teams' strategy.
As Pyrrha took a step forward to strike a beowolf that had gotten too close, the ground under her, Ruby and Nora caved in. Witnessing the event, Pluto had to act hastily, "Everyone, fall back."
"Ash!" Jaune called to his companion. Nodding in response, he focused on channeling his aura and let out a roar. The remaining grimm turned and whimpered away in fear. Jaune pulled out a piece of dried meat to throw to the snow leopard, "Good job, boy, you earned it."
The rest of the team gathered at the edge of the large hole that Pluto stood by. "The ground caved in around your friends," he explained, "I had my orders to just clear out this area, but I'm changing it. We're going down there to find them, there's no way I can go back to Vale to report I lost three students. Um, where is your other leader and your pets?" The answer to the huntsman's question came in the form of a bark from the hole, "God damnit, you kids are past weird." Just like jumping out of the airship, the group jumped into the hole one by one following their supervising adult.
Jaune hit the ground running, quite literally. After hitting the ground and creating another small crater in the same fashion as the day before, he deactivated his semblance and put the two animals down. "Alright, Zwei, can you find Pyrrha from here?" he bent down to let the dog sniff a piece of the Amazonian's sash that had ripped off earlier. He stood and watched the dog sniff the air and bark in the direction of the scent.
Pyrrha awoke to the darkness of her blindfold; she reached with her hand to remove it, only to find her limbs had been bound behind her. "Ruby, Nora? Are you two okay?" she silently called out to them.
"Yeah, we're okay, but I can't see," Nora called out, about a few feet to the left of where Pyrrha lay.
"I'm blindfolded too, Nora, and It seems our weapons were taken from us," Ruby speculated as she reached for Crescent Rose to no avail.
"Hello ladies- oof," Roman entered the room, only to be kicked in the face by Pyrrha, still blindfolded. Getting up, he knocked her over, "Aren't we feisty?"
"So what is the White fang doing down here?" Ruby stalled, rubbing her rope binds against a sharp rock she found.
"Well, I might as well tell you, since you're here until the grimm come and find you," he twirled his cane, "but monologue ain't my thing."
"You could gloat," Nora suggested, "I think that's what villains and criminals do."
"Yeah, but that's so cliché," the criminal argued, "it's kinda stupid if you ask me, I mean, why reveal your evil plan and expose the ways to foil your own plot?"
"But what's the point of it if you can't brag a little?" Nora coaxed a little more.
"Boss, there's some kid out here," a voice over his radio came on.
Picking it up, he angrily spoke into it, "Then take care of it, it's a damn kid isn't it?"
"Oh my God, he's got animals. Save me boss," a pained, girlish scream from the manly voice that previously spoke.
"If you need something done, you need to do it yourself," he grumbled as he kicked open the door and pointed his cane out, only to get a shield to the face. As he stumbled backwards, what looked like a small bear to him lunged at his foot to pick him up and swung him around. As soon as he had the chance, the blonde boy took the scabbard form of his shield and swung it firmly to the back of his victim's head, knocking him out cold.
"You girls didn't need any help, did you?" Jaune asked as he entered the room.
"Aw, Jaune, you ruined it," Ruby threw her hands up in frustration then removing the blindfold, "he was about to tell us his plans, and I was going to punch him after he told us." Ruby pouted as she retrieved Crescent Rose from the table nearby.
"But you're all okay, right?" he prodded some more, "No weird perverted touching, right?"
"Hmm, I wonder what Ren would do if I told him otherwise?" Nora pondered, wanting to tease her childhood friend.
"No time, we gotta stop the train from leaving this base," he ordered.
"How do you know all this?" Pyrrha asked.
"Because there's a train outside, and I've seen enough cheesy movies, that thing means something bad for Vale," Jaune raised his sword to cut his teammates free from the rope. Exiting the room they were held in, they rejoined the rest of the group onboard the already moving train.
"Pluto, where does this train go to?" Jaune urgently asked their supervising huntsman.
"Nowhere, it's a dead end. This railroad was originally used to escape back into Vale, but it was sealed off as soon as the last train made it back," he explained in confusion. The device in the middle of the room started counting down.
"Move!" Yang yelled, punching the door to the next car open. Everyone evacuated and watched as the car detached and exploded, punching a hole in the tunnel and allowing grimm to enter the tunnel.
"We better keep moving, guys, I have a feeling this train is on a one way trip," Ren spoke up as they all felt the train car detach. The group ran across the tops of the train cars as each detached until the last few remained. Climbing into the car below, they were met with a girl with pink and brown hair whose smile looked like it craved a fight.
"This one's mine, you guys go on ahead," Yang's eyes turned red as she stepped forward.
"Oh no you don't, everyone, ready your weapons," Jaune held the brawler back as he commanded everyone else. With weapons raised and guns pointed, the ice cream themed girl made a tactical retreat, teleporting away from an inevitable defeat. The group fought their way to the front car, destroying any and all equipment, mech, and anything that moved only to find a set of ruined controls. "There's no way to stop it," the young leader thought out loud in realization. The team worked frantically on the controls, trying to find some button or set of controls that worked, but to no avail.
Looking up he saw the quickly approaching wall that separated the failed expansion to the inner city. Looking behind the train, a group of black creatures followed the train. There's no way to stop the train, the only option they had was to defend the city. "Everyone, gather around me," acting quickly, he used his remaining aura to boost his semblance and encasing the entire group in a thin barrier before the train hit the wall.
Losing consciousness for a minute from the impact, he was woken by Ash licking his face. He quickly got up to assess the damage done. There was a hole in the middle of the street, big enough for several king taijitu to slither through at once. There were several flames from the bomb hidden in that front car and he expected the grimm to start pouring out any second. "Okay, here's the plan," he instructed to his waiting teammates, "When you start seeing bone covered heads, shoot it. If they get past fifty meters of the hole I want anyone, I don't care who, just take it down. I'll be within ten meters of the hole with Pluto, don't worry about accidentally shooting me, just watch out for Pluto. I don't want to see any grimm outside a one-hundred meter-radius of the hole. Any questions?"
"Yeah-,"
"No time for questions, Nora, cause I hear them coming. Just go nuts, do what you have to keep the citizens safe" he cut her off. Activating his semblance, causing him to glow a bright white as he charged the first grim with Ash at his side.
"You got some nerve ordering me around, kid," The huntsman gave a stern look at the young leader.
"I don't care what you think," Jaune said as he hacked and slashed at each oncoming enemy, "we have a duty to protect these people, and if you can't do it because of your pride, then you don't have the right to call yourself a huntsman."
At that, the black clad huntsman shut up and continued fighting off the hordes. Throwing one of his scimitars, embedding it into an ursa, he ran to retrieve it, slicing any enemy in the way. Finally grasping the hilt of his weapon again, he forced it out through the enemy's side, into the side of another. Watching his dual wielding scimitars was like watching a tornado of knives rip through the battlefield, beautiful, but deadly.
Yang stayed relatively close to the carnage, punching nearly everything that moved. She sent bullets and bodies flying in every direction. Any grimm that came too close to her hair was either smashed into the ground or flying. At some point she took enough hits to go into hyper mode, with hair flaming, the amount of exploding punches were too much to count.
Ren rarely used his bullets, but relied mostly on his training in martial arts. He sped through the battlefield with grace and finesse, taking down the creatures of darkness with carefully placed punches and kicks. Only when surrounded did he take his weapons out of his sleeves, turning grimm into disintegrating corpses faster than Jaune could ever hope to achieve.
Nora had just gone crazy. Starting out with firing grenade rounds into the hole, it had evolved into sending corpses flying in all different directions with her dust powered hammer. Laughing maniacally, she played an altered game of croquet with a balled up boarbatusk, knocking the speeding creature against other enemies before smashing it into the ground.
Pyrrha, Ruby, Blake and Weiss stood at four points of at the edge of the circle, shooting down bird formed grimm and slicing whatever black, bony creature that tried to get more than one hundred meters from the hole. A mountain of used rounds and magazines had formed around Ruby's feet, which she didn't mind; this is what she prepared for. Weiss emptied her cartridge of ice dust while circling the perimeter erecting a massive wall of ice to prevent grimm from escaping into the city, while the others picked off the ones that made it to the edge of ice.
Jaune was lit up like a Christmas tree near the center of it all, extending his semblance to the animals that accompanied him, Zwei and Ash. Channeling his aura through his sword, Jaune sent multiple waves of energy to push back grimm into the hole and decapitating the ones that climbed out, while Zwei and Ash tore apart the ones that escaped Jaune's wrath. Ash put his aura to good use, effectively extending the range of his still short claws. The severed limbs and various body parts of the bone covered creatures soon became playthings for Zwei.
The battle ended when the staff of Beacon Academy, with the exception of Ozpin, and the military joined the fight. Professor Port and Oobleck sent multiple fireballs, incinerating any creature in their line of fire. Mechanized soldiers rained from the sky, eliminating any grimm in sight. Glynda Goodwitch calmly showed up, waving her crop causing bodies of darkness to fly out of her way. Getting to the scene of the destruction, she used her power to pick up the pieces and put the street and blockade back together, ending the flow of grimm.
After the last creature of darkness had fallen, Jaune sighed in relief. He looked ahead towards Pyrrha, but began to see stars in his vision. His vision and consciousness began to fail him as he collapsed, watching his comrades rush towards him.
The orange haired criminal woke to see his base of operations destroyed, the White Fang agents unconscious and the train gone to do its job. He chuckled and mentally crossed off the event on his list. "Today was our victory," he saw the woman in red walk into the room, "those kids may have stopped the grimm, but Vale is breakable , maybe not through the same place, but its defenses can be broken."
They walked to the warehouse not far from his "office". Switching on the lights revealed thousands upon thousands of mech suits ready to be piloted. She laughed as the patterns of her dress lit up, the rest of the agents waking up from the effects of the assaults. "A storm is coming, Vale," she spoke, "Are you ready?"