Broken Apart Ch. 15: Last Call
The end is near. This is indeed, the chapter before the finale. I may do an epilogue, but I'm not really too sure about it. Thank you to everyone for getting me over 80 followers, it's time to resume.
Distrio lifted his head from the scope of the sniper, and rolled over over. He had been watching over the place for the past day since the hunters had arrived. It was a fairly boring affair, but it was necessary. He had noticed that there was a regular patrol, and a set time frame. He could tell you if the patrol was 10 seconds early or 10 seconds late. But now, it was time to make some final information known.
"Cinder and Torchwick," he said into his headset. "One more airship coming in. Cargo is most likely whom we think it is. If so, I will signal you for that."
"Good," Cinder's voice replied. "It's time to start thinking about the ending to this."
Schnee Manor
Ruby stood a standstill, her scythe in hand. She had ditched her normal attire for a plain white t-shirt and a pair of shorts. It was purely for exercising purposes. Normally, Ruby would be fine with just using her normal gear for this. But just to ensure that she staid in shape, Ruby was willing to trade out her normal clothing.
The first target was sent flying through the air, and Ruby spun around her scythe. She snapped around her wrist, and felt the clay disc shatter. Her ear caught the sound of another one, and the Ruby swung around the blade into that as well.
She jumped into the air, and spiraled down towards the third clay disc. She watched as Crescent Rose cut perfectly through it, and then she fired off a round to change her course. She swung around her blade into a fourth clay disc, and then swung around the point down into the fifth and final one. Just before it made contact, a white glow cut off her attack.
"Dammit Weiss," Ruby muttered.
"A tad bit too slow," Weiss said. "Far too flashy."
"I was just trying to move Crescent Rose a little bit," Ruby said. "Besides, like you should care." Weiss took a seat on a bench, and sighed to herself.
"I do care because you're going to be defending my... home," Weiss said. Ruby just shrugged, and tucked away Crescent Rose. "Another airship has arrived," Weiss finally said. "I wanted to let you know."
"Right," Ruby agreed. "Well, I guess it's Ozpin's strings that he pulled and I'll go ahead and greet them. Thanks Weiss."
"No problem," Weiss said. "Hey, may I speak with you after you welcome whomever this may be?"
"Of course princess," Ruby said jokingly. "Though, you may want to come and help introduce. This is your home after all." Weiss nodded absently, and stood up.
"I guess so," Weiss agreed. She calmly stood, and walked swiftly towards the inside of the house.
Both girls reached the front door shortly, and stood at the ready. It finally started to open, and Ruby lost all prospects of formality once she saw the first face.
"JAUNE!" Ruby yelled out. She ran over, and jumped into his arms. Jaune stood awkwardly for a moment before returning the hug.
"H-h-hey Ruby," Jaune said awkwardly. "Can you get off of me?" Ruby nodded, and dropped down from Jaune. She ran over, and made her rounds hugging the other three members of team JNPR. Ruby finally backed away, and looked expectingly at Weiss.
"Welcome to my home," Weiss finally said. "I understand that you're friends, but I must keep with formalities."
"Boring as ever," Nora contributed.
"Thank you, Nora," Weiss said dryly. "Now, we do have one room still open. It only has two beds, so I suggest that-."
"Dibs," Jaune and Nora said in unison.
"-you sort out the sleeping situation," Weiss finished. "Now, I will have a servant show you the quarters, but first I would like for all of you to go over our plans first."
"Of course," Ren said. "Strategy takes precedence over everything, even food yes I know Nora." Ren turned to see the whiny look in his partner's eyes, and he just sighed.
"Ren's right," Jaune said, recognizing that as leader ultimately it was his decision. Which basically translated into Nora would whine unless he said something. "We should discuss strategy first."
"Fine," Nora agreed. Pyrrha nodded, and looked at Ruby. Ruby calmly walked over to a small table that held a 3D replica of the Schnee Manor, and gestured for JNPR to follow. The four of them did, along with Weiss.
"Okay," Ruby began. She pointed to four areas, and went into a concentration mode. "These are the sniper hides that we've picked out. We're keeping watch on them, but it won't surprise me if Distrio comes from somewhere else. There are only two sides they can attack from," Ruby pointed out the east and west side, "and so we're prepared on both ends. A permanent watch of four people is on either side. If they attack, we'll have to wait on the chance to get accurate numbers in order to accurately determine an attack plan. But 54 well trained hunters seemed to be enough, and now we have you four."
"I thought that Yang, Blake, Sun, and two other Faunus were here as well?" Ren asked.
"Bingo," Ruby agreed. "So that tips the odds a little bit more in our favor. I've seen Tauran, he looks strong. As for Lyria, I've seen her in the training grounds. Those whip rifle swords are not a joke."
"Whip rifle swords?" Jaune asked worriedly. Ruby nodded. "Any concern for her hitting us?"
"Lyria has never had an incident where she has hit a team member," Weiss reassured them. Jaune nodded, but still looked unconvinced.
"That's all our plans for now," Ruby concluded. "We'll contact you if anything comes up, okay?"
"Deal," Pyrrha said. "Come on guys, we have to decide who gets-."
"Dibs!" Nora said instantly.
"-first shower," Pyrrha finished. "You're quick on the draw."
"I feel better knowing we have them here," Ruby said. Weiss nodded. Despite how odd they seemed, team JNPR was structured how you'd want any kind of a team to be structured. You had the brute force, Nora, the silent assassin who was also a scholar, Ren, the overall fighter, Pyrrha, and finally, the natural leader, Jaune. Weiss knew they were more then capable as far as fighting went.
"So what'd you wanna talk about?" Ruby asked.
"What do you believe will happen after all of this is over?" Weiss challenged.
"I'll go back to my home with Yang and Blake, and then-," Ruby started.
"Okay, stop right there," Weiss said. "First off, Blake? She joined?" Ruby nodded. "Second off, what about speaking with my father about property damages?"
"What property damages?" Ruby asked.
"Please, we're going to take down Cinder and Torchwick and experience no property damages?" Ruby pondered the idea for a moment, but agreed with Weiss ultimately.
"Then I will stay for that," Ruby said.
"Good," Weiss said. "Because I'm going to need you're help with something."
"Hm?" Ruby asked.
"Convincing my father and mother to let me rejoin RWBY," Weiss stated. Ruby stopped in stunned silence, but then tried to form words.
"Wa-bu-it-huh?" Ruby managed.
"I want to rejoin RWBY so that I can do something with my life again," Weiss said. "I miss all of you, you were my family. My biological family is cold and cruel and they couldn't give a damn about what comes of me. So I would rather be with my adopted family. But, my biological family wouldn't allow me."
"It's your decision though," Ruby said happily.
"No, you'd be amazed," Weiss said sadly. "It really won't be. So I need you to support me, if we make it through this whole mess. Would you please Ruby, help out an old partner?" Ruby just threw her arms around Weiss, and nuzzled her head on top of Weiss'.
"Of course," Ruby said happily. "Anything for a member of the family." Weiss smiled, and hugged Ruby back, but her heart was still filled with dread.
Convincing Ruby was the easy part. Now it was up to her, Blake, Yang, even any of the other hunters who survive to convince her parents. They were not going to give in easily.
Hidden Complex
Torchwick calmly lit another one of his cigars, and took a single puff of it. He tipped out the ash, and added to the small pile on the floor.
"You're going to kill yourself one of these days," Cinder remarked casually.
"Not before I'm done here," Torchwick said. "When I am, then I'll let myself die."
"How poetic," Cinder remarked dryly.
"I'd be more worried about the ash build up in your lungs," Torchwick shot back. "You're more likely to die of that."
"Fire doesn't bother me," Cinder said as a snake of flames curled up her arm. "Fire is nothing more then my pet."
"Because it'd be too normal for you to want a pony like every other girl," Torchwick said.
"Pony's are boring, I prefer a little bit of excitement."
"If you two are quite done with flittering," a sudden voice flared up from the speaker in the center of the room. "I have my final report."
"Remember your place, Columbi," Torchwick said. "Give the report."
"The other team that they were friendly with, JNPR," Distrio said. "All four of them, accounted for. I tapped into the lines at Beacon, they are all that's coming."
"Stay on the line," Cinder ordered. "JNPR. Only four."
"Four is more then enough concerning those shits," Torchwick said. "They're a very good team. Plus, they have George Wash on their side. Along with the other brats that were away when we took down the NFR. Four more is an issue."
"Agreed," Cinder said. "But it would be best to attack now. Sadly, we are running out of time today. Distrio!"
"Ms. Fall?" The sniper replied.
"Prepare your ammunition," she replied. The snake spread across her both of her arms, and crawled up her face. "We're going in tomorrow."
End: Setup, filler, whatever you may wanna call it call it that. If no one guesses what Distrio is named after by the next chapter, I will state it in the A/N. But hey, we're almost done. Questions, comments, follows, favorites, and feedback is appreciated.
