Chapter VI – Extraction
Back at Atlas; Ironwood and Winter are looking at all the remaining security feeds. "Dammit, why didn't we make the place more fortified then it is." Ironwood said, as hes frustrated. "Ironwood, I told you we needed to." Winter said as she was getting multiple soldiers already sent to the home. "Don't. Look; I can't let you go out there due to-" Ironwood said as hes interrupted by Winter, "Look; I'm not going. I'm sending soldiers down there to get them out of there." Winter pauses herself to then look out of the communications tower. "I just hope they're ok."
Meanwhile, at the base of operations for the White Fang, Cinder and Roman have one member of the white fang hacking into all security feeds. Roman gets onto a feed, "Lieutenant, hows the mission going?" he says as Cinders watching the feeds. The lieutenant says; "Seventy-five percent of Elysian soldiers have fallen. We should be able to find Nao and get him out of the area before the hours over. But we've encountered some problem.." The feed abruptly ends. "Wait, what do you mean by that lieutenant?" Roman says as Cinder looks at the feeds. Roman quickly notices the feeds as-well as Auro is setting a blaze of fire on the White Fang. Cinder says, "Lets put out that fire." Roman gets a-hold of a feed for the remaining members of the white fang. "Change of plans, take him out. All at once. Thats a order" Roman says as Cinder looks at the feeds.
Auro, looking at the fire he created, stretched as a grand circle around the house. He felt confident it worked as he went up on the top of the roof as Auro is quickly encountering Nanto. Auro is almost slashed in two areas, the neck and the right arm. Nanto looks at him and says, "Your impressive. Someone that could be a very good soldier." Auro ignites his flamethrower as Nanto vanishes. Auro keeps walking on the roof as then he gets shot by a white fang member in the leg. He has a shriek but keeps moving on. He then notices at the top of the roof a violet.
The voice of Nanto comes again, "I'd think you'd more not want to be mistreated and used as a actual soldier. Wouldn't you want that?" Auro resists but stays on the roof trying to put something on the area that was shot. "I'd possibly be able to help you out," Nanto says. "Together, we could work for bringing down corrupt people for the sake of being a soldier. Wouldn't you want that?" Auro stops. "It'd..It means nothing." Nanto comes out, as shortly after; Auro pulls out a pistol. "If you wanted to shoot me; you would of done that now." Nanto says to Auro, with a grin.
As they are above, Margro has a small group of Elysian Military blocking the doors down with anything they have. One of the soldiers come to her, "We should be fine Mrs. Hunt." the soldier said to her. Margro responded with, "Good, but to be safe..get a weapon you can use." The soldiers quickly find two power-based weapons, one being eerily similar to a Double Barrel shotgun meeting a bayonetta. Margro notices her weapon; A pair of rope dart's which seemed to have birth with an Revolver. She grabs them as she notices Nao standing, looking at her.
Nao says, "I don't think you should be doing this on your own." From the looks of Margro, she was tired, "What other choice do I even have Nao? Your barely able to fight and your own sister is still broken over the training session." Nao looks at Elena with sorrow but backs out of that. "I don't give a rats ass. If I can protect her, I will." Nao says with a stern voice. Margro looks at him, not sure what to say but as Nao kept looking at her, she opened the Security Door and threw his weapon at him. "Make every bullet in that count then." Margro says.
As Auro was on the roof; Nanto looked at him, as his face was questioning. "Whats the matter; you scared of the truth?" she says to Auro. "I told you..whoever you are. It means.." Auro was saying before he stopped talking. "What. Were you going to say the same type of crap that was said before?" Nanto says. "As its seen; your not tasked to do this, you should of known that since they possibly pulled you out of the gutter." Nanto boasts. When Nanto said that, Auro snapped and hurled right towards her, to trip and slide to the edge of the roof.
Auro suspended on the roof is now seeing the damage done to the surrounding area, of the damage done due to the flames he casted out. Nanto looks at him in disappointment. "Seeing all that unused power, and you caused this instead of using some logic." Nanto says as she looks at him. As she looks at him, she says; "I'm giving you an offer. Don't be in this joke of a army and work with me. I can train you to become a hunter as this..this isn't what you could be." She vanishes off as Auro lies on the roof. Auro then thinks to himself; "Why did I do this..why did..."
As Auro lays on the roof; Nao and Margro prep themselves with the remaining soldiers. One of the troops says; "We have to put all our faith in this...why did we have to?" Margro responded with, "Because that's the way it has to work." They all then keep their eyes at all the entrances and exits they could do. With Margro leading the defense, and Nao alongside her; they stand, waiting. "You have guts for not staying with your sister and being in the fight." Margro says. Nao rebuddles with; "Eh, its been something to work on."
As soon as they stopped talking, every member in the house hears a sound of soldiers all forming. As soon as that happened; there was silence. And like that; there was gunfire everywhere as it putted two of the soldiers KIAed as they entered the home. Margro took the west side as Nao took the east side, where they took half of the White Fangs forces. Margro was using her Faunus ability's to enhance the attack methods as Nao was using his sword skills to increase effect of stopping White Fang members.
As they finished off the remaining White Fang members; they had silence again. Margro and Nao looked at eachother feeling accomplished, as they go back down the basement. As Nao contacts the Elysian forces incoming, they arrive as the Elysian milita extract the remaining soldiers out. But as soon as the last one is out, and Auro is safe in the Bullhead; Nao and Margro go get Elena. As soon as they enter though; they realize somethings off. Margro looks at Nao; "What did you do?" Margro says as Nao looks tired. "Well; don't blame me as this isn't my doing." They then notice that the lights are coming down. And then; silence occurred when the last light went off.
Then there was darkness; with a person talking close to them, "You must of realized it by now that what comes next. I'll be the one coming for you."
The Lights re-ignite but this time, there was a woman in front of them; in the shadows. "So, it seems that you; Margro Hunt have decided to work with them..how pathetic." Nanto says. As soon as Nanto finished; Margro quickly pulled her weapon and pushed Nao behind her. "Well, so standing up to protect my asset. Very much a sight to see." Nanto says. Nao looks at her, "Margro. Don't, I can handle my-" Nao says before being interrupted; "No. Get Elena and get out. I'll meet you at the tower." Margro says as a ice wall is formed blocking off all the doors in the main hallway.
Nanto looks at the ice, as she tells Margro; "I'm impressed with your showmen ship. After all, you and I have had more experience together, haven't we?" Margro quickly throws three Ice crystals at her. "Don't talk to me like that, as I have no corals with you." Nanto then ignites her scythe. "Very well then, must have to do something to make you not become this."
As they ready for the fight, Nao enters the medical center of the house in the basement and gets Elena out. "Elena, sorry I have to do this but I have to wake you up." He grabs Elena as she quickly wakes up, "What the.." She quickly notices Nao. "Nao? Let go!" She says. Nao then responds with, "I can't. I have to get you to the carriers to get us out of the area." Elena then bites him as he lets her go. She stands. "Thanks. Well; thats the last time I deal with..whatever the hell that was that gave me this laceration." Elena says. "Nows not the time we relish, we have to go." Nao says.
They arrive to the bulldog carriers, as Nao gets Elena on. They notice Auro laying but without hesitation, Nao puts her in a seat with a harness. As Nao gets her in the seat, she straps herself in as Nao goes to one of the soldiers asking; "Wheres Margro?" The soldier responded, "I don't know. But there something going on in the house." Nao quickly got off the carrier as the soldier said, "Where are you going!" Nao responded with, "Helping someone out. Even with a broken rib." He quickly runs to the house as the carrier goes with Elena and Auro heading right to the city of Atlas.
As soon as Nao reaches the house; he notices the area has started to snow, with blue beams coming out. Nao quickly thought to himself, "Well; lets hope cold feet doesn't get to me." He enters the house as the damage done by Margro and Nanto has destroyed the main hallway and main foyer of the house. Nao thought to himself again, "Broken walls, check. Broken ceiling, check. Must be something out of a fight of legends." He then hears sounds coming from the back side of the house and becomes extremely quiet. He then sees that theres a fight going on in the gardens.
As he notices the fight from a-far, Nanto and Margro are fighting to their hearts content. Margro is blasting huge particles of ice and snow at Nanto as she deflects it and attacks her using shadow dust particles. Both Nanto and Margro were bruised but they kept fighting. "I gotta admit, for the crap they taught you back at the program, I didn't expect this much mastering in a short time-frame." Nanto says to Margro. Margro then says back; "Well, its funny as being a faunus with the powers like this!"
Minute by minute; they were shredding, pounding and trashing the garden as Nanto and Margro fought. The final blow came from where Nanto mis-stepped. Margro saw this as the final punch and took it with her attack move, "Blizzard" which is a giant snow attack blasting opponents a quarter a mile away. She took the attack and fired hitting Nanto completely. "Well, time to remind Nanta that its not a dawn to dress light."
Nao saw her flying to the roof of the house as he then noticed Margro coming out of the garden. Margro saw him and said, "You couldn't resist could you. Just had to help?" Nao responded with, "You must be reminded that I am your team leader, and i'm not the type that wants to be barked orders. So, that being said I saw the damage you and whoever she is did to the house and..well thats interesting."
As soon as he said that; Nanto fell to a large pile of snow next to Nao.
Nanto looks up seeing Nao and Margro staring at her. Nanto says, "Well; I guess we can't just form a truce in the battle?". She then notices a opening and stabs Nao with a injection of the serium used on the Grimm in his Leg. Nao screams and ejects the syringe but the serium went In too fast for him to get it out.
Margro then grabs Nanto and throws her across the field, to then notice Nao starting to trip as he walks. Nao then falls with his knees to the ground. And as Margro rushes to Nanto, she starts laughing. "You do realize what that is, little partner. That, is the blood of the Azuaths." Margro ignored her as she kept running to Nao.
She then grabbed him and started to move as Nanto kept ranting. "I understand, why you hate me. But you must realize its the job thats first. And I will get that boy." Nanto says, but as Margro starts to turn back, Nao says, "Don't. Just.." Nao then becomes unconsinous as Margro decides to keep moving.
Margro then finds the Phantom motorcycle and rigs it to start. She then puts Nao infront of her as she starts driving the motorcycle. As the Phantom goes off, Nanto gets a transmission from Roman. "What the hell are you doing, our objective is leaving yo-" Roman says before being cutted off by Nanto. "I already planned that out."
As Margro is riding with Nao infront, she notices members of the White Fang are coming up from behind her. And as Nanto is walking to the road, she informs Roman. "I know my prey, and I make it work. Even if you don't see me prep the work, I am there." Nanto starts running as Margro is driving the motorcycle in the forest.
Margro starts to grab the weapon hoistered behind her back but is too late to react to getting hit by one of the White Fangs convoys. As Margro was riding with Nao, they fell down a steep hill as Margro kept trying to keep the motorcycle to crash but was too slow to stop it from falling down into twenty feet of trees. Then for Margro, everything went to black.
A hour later, Nao wakes up; noticing Margro hanging from the Motorcycle on-top of a tree. Nao, bruised, on the ground tries to get up to not have the strength to get up. He then notices as he looks to the right, Nanto sitting on a boulder. "I thought you were never going to wake up. Mr. Sin.." Nao tried getting up again but failed to do so as Nanto jumped to the snow filled floor.
Nanto walks slowly to him as she says, "You should really be surprised how far you two went, considering the hit made by the rocket launcher. Too bad you both wrecked my beloved Phantom. Well, in any case; Margro is nothing for me, as I..well..I have come for my dear little objective."
Nanto grabs Nao and as Margro starts to regain conscinousness as she sees Nao being dragged off by Nanto in the midnight sky. Margro realizes her situation, and must get out of it but the one thing that comes to mind is, "Why did I fail to protect my leader?"
~Vol I To Be Concluded in; The Way Out~