Chapter XI – Gravity Messes with Us
"Are you sure you have the controls down?'' I ask my cousin as he fought the Bullhead for control. "Yeah. I'm pretty sure I have it down." Bob answered, narrowly avoiding a tree. "Do a barrel roll!" I said as another tree appeared in front of us. Bob did just that.
"Any idea where we're going, anyway?" I ask from the copilot seat. "Not quite, even with the map we have." My cousin responded. We suddenly hear a beeping sound come from the radar. "Something's wrong over here. We should probably check it out." Bob said.
"Something just showed up on our radar. We'll be heading in to check it out." I said into the microphone of the headset I had found in the cockpit while nodding to Bob. "Alright. Just tell your cousin not to do another barrel roll. Some of us almost lost our lunch." Iris's voice said through the headphones. "I'm sure he will fly a little more carefully." I said.
As we neared the blip on the radar, I looked up to see a rather normal looking town. "What could be wrong there?" I said, pointing it out to Bob. "I have no idea. It could be anything." He answered, shrugging. As we neared it, everything started acting up and the Bullhead started shaking violently.
"What's going on up there?" Yang asked through my headset. "We're not sure. Something is causing the Bullhead to mess up. Everything in here is going haywire up in the cockpit." I answered, trying to get the radar up and running again. And then everything went silent as we just got over the town. And we weren't moving.
"I think the engine just died, guys." I said into the mike. "That's not good." Blake said. "This isn't either." Jack said before we were suddenly pulled down really hard by gravity. And I mean hard.
The sudden change in gravity caused all of us to struggle to our breath as our seatbelts held us in place. After what seemed like a long fall, we finally hit the ground. "Everybody alright?" I asked, shaking my head to recover from my dizziness. There was no response. I checked the headset and found it to be quite wrecked. I tossed them aside, sighing as Bob and I got out of the cockpit.
We found everybody else to be in pretty good health despite the impact. "What just happened?" Ruby asked, examining the wreckage. "Even we have no idea. And we were the ones flying the thing. Actually, Bob was. I was just sitting there and monitoring all the equipment." I said.
"So what are we going to do now?" Iris asked, looking around. "We might as well check out what's going on here since there's no way out of here right now." Weiss said walking to a nearby shop. "I just shrugged and we all followed her. After some investigating, we all went to the local diner to get something to eat since most of our food supply was lost in the wrecked Bullhead.
"I do seriously wonder what's going on here. Nobody really seems to notice anything wrong, but there's obviously something going on here." Yang said, eating her hamburger. "What do you think, Penny?" I ask her, all of our attention going to her now. "I don't really know. Something's messing with my sensors, but I am detecting some distortions in this town." Penny responded. "Interesting. You can help us out there, then. Our phones are too Jacked up for this." Bob said, checking his phone. "Hey!" Jack said, throwing some mashed potatoes at him.
Yang gave him a high five after he successfully dodged the projectile. "So any idea as to where we should start looking?" I asked. "We could follow Penny around. She does have better sensors than even our scrolls have." Blake said, putting hers away. "Lead the way, then, Robot Girl." I said as we all got up and left some money behind for the bill.
"We should probably get some food for the road while we're here." Ruby said. "Yeah. We'll have to do that after figuring out what's wrong here, though. Penny's our best lead." I said. "Yeah. I agree with him there." Iris said, walking up next to me. After some time, we encountered creatures of Grimm. "You have got to be kidding me." I said, throwing the Bowmerang in Boomerang Form. The bladed boomerang cut through many of them on its way back. We all charged as some citizens started getting attacked.
I threw my sword up into the air as the Bowmerang approached. I caught the weapon, changed it to its Bow Form, filled some Grimm with arrows, and then changed the Bowmerang to its Edge Form as I caught my sword. "Ice Flower!" I heard Ruby say as I charged at a pack of Beowolves. The alpha froze up as it got hit with Ruby sniper shots. I followed up on this by setting my weapons ablaze and cutting the thing and several other Beowolves to pieces.
"Bumblebee!" I heard Ruby shout out. I looked to see Yang coming around in an arc holding the Gambol Shroud. I jumped over the ribbon and as I was about to propel myself forward with fire, the world seemed to go upside down as gravity ceased to exist. I looked around as the citizens, Grimms, even my friends and I started floating up into the air.
"Now this is really throwing me off." Yang said, holding onto a lamp post as she stuck Gambol Shroud's blade into the ground, letting it act as an anchor for Blake. I was in the middle of the street with the Grimm, so as I started floating, I stabbed the bottom part of the Bowmerang's blade into the ground to hold myself in place. I also sheathed my sword to grab Iris's hand as she pretty much crawled across the ground with Bob and Jack holding onto her ankles.
I really don't' know what's going on here, but I really hope it ends soon." Iris said, looking around as she took hold of my hand, causing me to blush a little, as she made her swords disappear. I just nodded and, to avoid having her seeing me blush, looked around as well. I saw that the citizens had managed to cling to the nearby buildings, signs, lamp post, and whatever else was close by that was stuck to the ground. I saw Blake slowly pulling herself her ribbon's length to the ground. And then I saw Ruby and Weiss managing to stay on the ground.
Ruby was kneeling on the underside of a really thick tree branch. Weiss was keeping herself in place with what looking a glyph. "Yeah. I really don't get these things are even happening at all." I said as I tightly held Iris's hand.
