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KittyBudderLove: Technically, Epsilon CAN die, but it is very difficult to do. As previously explained by Benjamin, the only things that can kill him are running out of power, destroying the chip and being struck by lightning. He never stated the chip could NOT be moved from his body to another or a computer terminal, so that would work. However, Epsilon will die with age. The chip he is in decays at a very slow rate, meaning Epsilon will die at some point. It could be ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years or a million years, nobody but Benjamin knows. Thanks for Reviewing!
Hey, it's chapter nineteen! So, the defences in Vale are down and the Grimm and White Fang are attacking the kingdom and Beacon. Now, it's up to Ultra, who is stuck at the Colosseum, Epsilon, who's location is unknown, and the mysterious Dragon to try and defeat Cinder and her group. Will they succeed? Find out now!
Chapter Nineteen - The Good, The Bad, The Unknown
The fairgrounds were flooded with Grimm, civilians attempting to hide for their lives, but emotions going wild. The AK-200's fired at the Grimm, slowing them down, but not effective enough to stop them. Blake and Weiss ran through the fairground, watching in horror at all the death and destruction around them.
"I don't believe this..." Weiss muttered to the faunus, who proceeded to take out her scroll.
"Yang, are you okay?" Blake asked.
Beacon Academy...
Yang and Zwei ran through the corridor, Yang holding her scroll against her ear.
"I'm fine. Are Ruby and Epsilon with you? They're not answering their Scrolls." Yang asked.
"I saw Epsilon flying towards the Amity Colosseum just before the Grimm attacked. Ruby isn't here." Blake informed her, making Yang stop. "Yang, I'm sure they're fine. Epsilon can hold his own, and I think Ruby's with Ultra."
"That doesn't fill me with confidence." Yang said honestly.
"Whether he helps her or not, she's our leader. She can take care of herself." Blake reasoned. Yang closed her eyes and clenched her fist into a ball.
"Right." She said hesitantly, and continued running with Zwei next to her.
Fairground...
"This can't be happening... Penny..." Weiss said sadly.
"I'm heading to the docks near the courtyard. The White Fang are releasing Grimm into the school!" Yang told her teammate.
"The White Fang is here!?" Blake exclaimed, but was only met with Grimm growling through the scroll, her expression growing worried. The Grimm stopped when a slash could be heard through the scroll. "Yang!"
"Ugh! Who was that!? Gotta go! Be careful!" Yang finished, ending the call.
"Blake, what are we going to do?" Weiss asked her. Blake lifted her scroll so she could see the screen.
"We're going to the docks, and we're doing our job." Blake told her pensively, tapping her scroll, and her weapon locker soon landed near her, revealing Gambol Shroud. As she approached, an Ursa leapt between them, growling.
"Watch out!" Weiss yelled. Out of nowhere, a cloud of yellow smoke appeared, Dragon landing in front of the Ursa. It roared at him, and swung it's claw at Dragon, who quickly took out his lightsabre, the light blue blade slicing the claw off swiftly. It roared in pain as Dragon leapt up and sliced the Ursa's head off, the Grimm falling to the ground and started to dissipate.
Blake and Weiss looked at him in slight shock and surprise, Dragon just looking at them with his unreadable expression, his mask covering his face. He grabbed Gambol Shroud, threw it to Blake, who caught it, and disappeared in another cloud of yellow smoke.
"Who was that?" Weiss asked.
"No idea... Come on, let's go." The two ran to get to Beacon.
Amity Colosseum...
The Nevermore screeched as it continued to claw and weaken the forcefield surrounding the Colosseum.
"Warning: Safety Barriers Failing." The warning announcer stated. This caused more panic, the civilians running out of the stands in fear, but Ruby remained, looking at the floor with an expression of shock and sadness. Ultra leant against the wall, his forehead on the wall and slamming his fist against the wall.
"Damn it!" He yelled, pushing himself off the wall and lifted Ruby up. "Listen to me, Penny's dead, we need to accept it. Even though they'll probably bring her back. Penny was one of the only AI's like me in the entire world, and she's gone. I get it, she was your friend, but moping while people are dying isn't going to bring her back. So get back on your feet and start acting like a fucking huntress!" Ultra yelled, Ruby now focusing on what is actually happening. Ultra let go of her and she nodded slightly, new found determination in her eyes.
"PYRRHA!" We both turned to Jaune, who was leaning over the stands to his teammate, who was looking at Penny's dismantled body, dazed and unfocused. "Pyrrha, that thing is going to break in! You've gotta move!" Ultra looked at the Nevermore started to fly up, ready to break through the shield, and Jaune leapt over the stands and into the arena.
"Oh shit! Ruby, we've got to move!" He told her, and they both ran down the stairs as the Nevermore crashed through the shield, landing on the ground and blowing Pyrrha, Jaune and Penny's parts across the arena. The nevermore screeched and lunged at Pyrrha, only to stop in it's tracks when Ruby used her semblance to fly directly into it, wielding one of Penny's swords and stabbing the Grimm in the chest. The Nevermore screeched in pain as Ruby landed in front of Pyrrha.
"Ruby?" Pyrrha asked, confused.
"Leave her alone!" Ruby yelled, pointing Penny's sword at the Grimm. Ultra ran across the arena, catching up to Ruby.
"Christ, Ruby, remember the 50-foot rule." He complained, but his attention was caught by the Nevermore. Angrily, Ultra took out both of his pistols and rapid-fired at the Grimm, piercing it's chest, wings and skeletal head. The Nevermore rose up and circled around the arena, flying back towards the three of them. As it fast approached, several weapon lockers landed on the Nevermore, slowing it down. Several more land on it, followed by several more until it's body was covered in weapons lockers, the Nevermore screeching in pain and falling unconscious.
The lockers opened up, and a couple of dozen students from various kingdoms grabbed their weapons. Ultra looked at them all as they stood atop the Nevermore, weapons ready. Team JNPR, Team SSSN, Team CFVY, Team ABRN, Half of Team FNKI, Team HAUS and the completed Team NXHS. Ultra examined the two other members of Team NXHS he didn't recognise.
The first one was a human with short, choppy cut dark purple hair with pale skin, stood at 5' 1" tall, and purple eyes that covered her pupils, iris and sclera. Her entire eyes were purple. She wore what appeared to be the Elysium Uniform: a grey skirt, black boots, grey tights, a white collared shirt with a grey cardigan and a black tie. She didn't appear to have a weapon, nor did she retrieve one from any locker. Her name was Noir Void.
The other girl was a human with long, dark brown hair in a long single braid with golden eyes and pale skin, bar the black tattoo lines coming from her eyes, almost like tears. She wore a near-full set of dark red plated armour, without the helmet, which seemed to slightly glow in the dark, standing at a large height of 7' 0". She retrieved a pair of gauntlets, each with three spring loaded claws with jagged edged which attached to her wrist. Her name was Xerxes the Bane.
"Why did you spend so long describing them?! The Nevermore is waking up!" Ultra yelled as it started to rise, shaking the students on it's body.
"Any chance ve can kill this Grimm, Noir?" Xerxes asked the petite girl. She closed her eyes briefly, touching the Nevermore, and opened them again.
"You will damage it's eye, I will pin it, Nora will hit it with her hammer, and Sage and Yatsuhashi will behead it, Ultra finishing it by stabbing his machetes in it's head." Noir told her teammate. "We will win."
Xerxes ran forwards along it's head and sun at it's eye, slashing her claws and damaging it's eye. As it continued to rise, Noir leapt off and looked at the Nevermore as what appeared to be purple coloured veins left her eyes. She raised her arms and used her semblance, telekinesis, to force the Nevermore back down, pinning it.
Nora ran over it's head and slammed Magnhild into it's head, forcing it to the ground. Arslan lifted Yatsuhashi up with her rope dart and Sage leapt into the air, and both came back down, slicing the Nevermore's head off. Making sure it was dead, Ultra unsheathed his machetes and stabbed them both into the Grimm's head as it turned to smoke. Ultra turned around to see Pyrrha looking at Ruby, teary-eyed.
"Ruby, I..." She stopped and looked at the piece of Penny's torn cloth in her hands, and turned back to Ruby. "I'm so sorry."
"Me too." Ruby responded forlornly. "But is wasn't your fault."
"She's right. I saw what happened to you, you thought there were thousands of swords. You didn't have a choice." Ultra told her, getting a silent thank you form her. "But what happened here wasn't anyone's fault, at least not anyone here."
"He's right." Jaune agreed, walking over to Pyrrha with Milo and Akouo. "Whoever that woman was on the microphone... they're the ones that did this. And we have to make sure they don't take anyone else." Jaune offered Pyrrha her weapons, which she took, and they shared a determined expression. At that moment, dozens of flying-horse like Grimm's landed on the top of the Colosseum, and flew towards them.
"Griffons." Ren stated.
"Like Griffon Ramsey or..."
"Anyone got a plan of attack?" Neptune asked.
"Epsilon! I need your Scroll!" Ruby called out, but quickly realised he wasn't there. "Uhh, I mean... Ultra! I need your Scroll!"
"I don't have one. Ozpin doesn't trust me with the ability to communicate with anyone besides who is next to me." Ultra told her, annoyed.
"Oh, umm, okay... uhh... Sun! I need your Scroll!" Ruby declared. Sun used his tail to grab his scroll and threw it at Ruby, who swiftly caught it and tapped the centre button, and her weapon locker dropped, revealing Crescent Rose. Ruby went to grab her weapon, but a Griffon landed on it, roaring at her. A yellow cloud of smoke appeared, Dragon's lightsabre ignited, glowing blue, and he sliced the Griffon in half from it's waist. He grabbed Crescent Rose and gave it to Ruby. "Uhh... thanks?"
"Students!" Port called out, holding his blunderbuss with Oobleck next to him with his Thermos. "I think it would be best for you to leave."
"But we did a-"
"Miss Rose!" Oobleck cut her off. "This day will surely go down in Remnant's history. I'd prefer it if my students could live to tell about it." He said with a small smile. Ruby nodded and unfolded her scythe, twirling it and stabbing it into the ground so it stood taller than herself.
"Let's go!" She ordered. All the students started to leave, Ruby's attention getting caught as Velvet took a picture of her and her weapon, looking at the photograph. She went to take a picture of Dragon, but she didn't need to see his face to know he was saying 'no'.
"Velvet!" Coco called out, and she followed her leader, Ruby following. Dragon looked at the two professors as they stood back to back, and disappeared in a cloud of yellow smoke as the Griffons surrounded them.
"One final match, Barty! Place your bets!"
Amity Colosseum Airspace...
I flew towards the Colosseum, checking my wrist watch for power. 80%, that'll have to do... As I got closer, three Nevermore's got in my way. Without much other choice, I flew directly at the first Nevermore, stabbing my right dagger into it's throat. I flew around it's neck, the string attaching my wrist to the dagger wrapping around the Grimm's neck. After seven wrap-around, I pulled at hard as I could, severing the Grimm's head from it's body.
I flew directly at the second one, and forced it's mouth open. With my left arm keeping it open, I shot my right pistol down it's throat, firing deadly shorts into the Grimm's body. "I. Hope. You're. Hungry!" I yelled, firing more shots. After only a few more, it tore straight through it's throat and detached the head from the body.
The final Nevermore screeched at me and flew directly at me. I narrowed me eyes and flew at it, taking out both of my pistols. I started shooting at it as it roared at me, I braced myself and flew directly into it's mouth. I didn't stop and kept flying through it's body, firing my pistols as fast as I could as I destroyed the Grimm from the inside. I shot out of it's stomach as it started falling to the ground, dead.
The threat neutralised, I flew down to the Colosseum and landed in the arena, the smoking bodies of Griffons lying on the ground, as well as dozens of weapon lockers. I looked around quickly, and froze at the sight of her. I slowly walked towards Penny's dismembered body, lying lifeless on the ground, and I fell to my knees as I reached her.
"Penny..." I muttered sadly, I gently held her upper body and stroked the hair. She was innocent, she didn't do anything wrong. She was an AI, the AI who make me what I am. She believed me when nobody else would. I hugged her body as I did the best I could to cry, but no tears came to my eyes.
Amity Colosseum...
Ultra and the rest of the students ran through the Colosseum, finding themselves at the airship dock to leave the Colosseum. Ultra turned and watched as Ironwood stopped the Grimm's arm with his right arm, lifted the Grimm Wolf over his head, held his revolver to it and fired a single shot into it's head, killing it instantly. He dropped it as it turned to smoke and walked to his dropship.
"OK, that was pretty bad ass. I really hope you don't die in the next minute or two."
"What's going on!?" Ruby exclaimed as she, Ultra and the rest of the students stood behind Ironwood as he stood just outside of his dropship.
"Grimm are crawling all over the city. The White Fang's invading Beacon, and to make matters worse, some... vagabond has seized one of my ships." Ironwood told them.
"Like, BM Vagabond or..."
"Until we regain command, the skies are out of our control. So I'm..." Ironwood stopped, took out his revolver, and killed a Creep that silently approached them. "...going to take it back."
"What should we do?" Jaune asked as Ironwood turned to his dropship.
"You have two choices: Defend your Kingdom and your school... or save yourselves." He told them, the students exchanging glances with each other. "No one will fault you if you leave." He finished, and climbed onto his dropship. "Let's move out! Ultra, you too."
"Take care of yourself, Ruby." Ultra said, and followed Ironwood onto the dropship.
"I mean... come on!" Sun exclaimed.
"We can take a ship to Beacon!" Jaune told them as they all started running to one of the Airbuses. Ruby looked at Ironwoods dropship for another moment and followed her fellow students.
Atlesian Airship Blue-2...
"Hmm... let's see, what does... this button do?" Roman asked himself, pressing a random button, a loud noise heard from inside the ship. "Oh, fun! How about... this one?" No noise. "Hmm. Alright, nothing." Neo approached him, clad in an Atlesian military uniform with pink and black hair, handed him a scroll.
"Oh-ho-ho! Now this one, this one's gonna be fun!" Roman exclaimed, putting the scroll into a terminal on the control panel, causing all the computer screens to turn red.
Downtown Vale...
Glynda and Qrow fought the Grimm along with a squad of Atlesian Knights, which fired at the Grimm ahead of them. They suddenly stopped as their normally black visors glowed red briefly before settling on a dark crimson. The Knights turned away from the Grimm and aimed their weapons at the hunters.
"What!?" Glynda exclaimed. Before the Knights could shoot, a cloud of yellow smoke appeared and Dragon activated his lightsabre, slicing off the heads and upper bodies of the AK-200's, sending them to the floor in pieces. Dragon glanced at the two hunters, deactivated his lightsabre and disappeared in a cloud of yellow smoke.
Beacon Academy...
Blake and Weiss ran along the courtyard, but are forced to stop as the infected AK-200's turned to them and drew their weapons, firing at the huntresses. "Look out!" Blake yelled, both of them falling to the ground to avoid the oncoming fire.
A cloud of yellow smoke appeared and Dragon activated his lightsabre, deflecting each of the knight's bullets and hitting them with them, quickly destroying the knights. The two got up and looked at Dragon as he ran off, disappearing into a cloud of yellow smoke.
The two briefly glanced at each other, and continued running towards Beacon.
Amity Colosseum Airspace...
Ironwood continued piloting his dropship towards his stolen airship, a squad of deactivated AK-200's behind him. Ultra grabbed Ironwood's scroll and called Willow.
"Ultra!? Where have you been, we haven't spoken in weeks!" Willow exclaimed.
"Long story. Are you and Peter alright?" Ultra asked.
"We're fighting Grimm, trying to prevent as many as we can from getting to Vale, but there are just too many of them. You're robots are helping too, but they're not lasting too long against the stronger Grimm." Willow explained.
"Damn it. Just hold out, I'll be back as soon as I can." Ultra told her.
"Good to hear, we'll see you soon- wait... what are they doing? Peter, look out!"
"Willow, what's going on?" Ultra asked, concern in his voice.
"You're robots! They're shooting at us, they're letting the Grimm pass and are shooting at US!-" Willow yelled. but was cut off as the call ended. Ultra looked at the screen and it had the black chess piece with a red background on it.
"Shit." The AK-200's behind him and Ironwood activated and aimed at them.
"No!"
The students watched from their Airbus as gunfire went off in Ironwood's dropship and it started descending to the ground on fire. As it flew past them, Ultra leapt out and crashed through the front of the Airbus. He looked at them, eyes glowing red. Without any hesitation, Ultra took out his pistol and emptied the clip into the side of his head, causing the students to cover their ears.
"Ultra, what was that! Are you trying to kill yourself?!" Ruby exclaimed at Ultra rubbed his head as it quickly healed and his eyes stopped glowing.
"I was infected by this computer virus, I just killed it. It's infected the Atlesian Knights, and I assume any other Atlas technology around here." Ultra told the hunters-in-training. Ruby looked behind her and back at Ultra.
"Come on." She said, and ran to the door, Ultra just behind her.
"Ruby! Ultra! What are you doing!?" Sun yelled as they both jumped from the Airbus. Ruby used her semblance to boost herself onto the runway, while Ultra took out his machete and stabbed it onto the edge of the runway, barely holding on. He pulled himself up, pulling out the machete and re-sheathing it. The two ran into the Colosseum and into the arena. Ruby narrowed her eyes at the person in the center of the arena.
"Epsilon?" She asked, taking a step forward. Before she could take another step, Ultra held out his arm stopping her. "What are you-"
"Wait." Ultra whispered, both of them looking at me. I stood up, dropping Penny's upper body and flew out of the arena and back towards Beacon. Ruby ran towards one of the weapons lockers and started typing on it. "Ruby, you are not going to do that, are you?" Ultra asked her, and she just smirked. She unfolded her scythe and held it on the top of the locker.
"Grab on." Ruby told him, and he sighed, removing his right machete. He stabbed it into the locker and held on as it took off into the air, flying towards the captured Atlesian Airship. As it approached the ship, Ultra and Ruby leapt off, landing on the airship with two thuds, one significantly louder than the other.
"Ugh... go see what that is." Roman ordered Neo, who nodded with a small smile and left the bridge.
Beacon Docks...
Weiss hacked at the infected AK-200's, using her glyphs to boost herself into the robots and destroying them at super speed. Blake attacked the White Fang members, who started to overwhelm her. Weiss arrived and took out the faunus, the two members of Team RWBY standing back-to-back. They both noticed a squad of Atlesian Soldier fight off an infected Paladin, which easily fought them.
"Come on!" Weiss yelled and the two of them ran at the Paladin. Their attention was caught by an incoming Bullhead. On top of a pillar, a yellow cloud of smoke appeared and Dragon summoned a dust assault rifle and shot at the Bullhead's left engine, causing the Bullhead to start crashing. Out of the bullhead, an armoured Beowolf leapt out and started attacking civilians, Dragon chasing after the Grimm.
"He might need help." Blake pointed out, knowing that Grimm was more dangerous than an average one.
"Be safe." Weiss agreed as the two parted. Blake ran around the corner and watched Dragon slash his lightsabre at the Beowolf, which roared at him and started climbing up the wall, Dragon wall-running after it. Blake was about to follow, but her attention was caught by a wounded scream of an Atlesian Soldier. She looked in the destroyed dining hall to see the solder die at the hands of a faunus.
"No..." Blake whispered to herself, visibly backing away, eyes widening in fear. "Adam?" He turned and grinned creepily at the huntress.
"Hello, my darling."
Cross Continental Transmit System Tower...
The hunter and huntress students outside of the tower fought the surrounding Grimm endlessly. Vanessa fired her revolver at the armoured Beowolves head, easily passing through it and killing it. Amber and Umber respectively punched and kicked an Ursa Major and Xander fired his automatic pistols at a Griffon, but doing minimal damage.
Noir ducked under the swipe of a Beowolf, and telekinetically pushed it back to Xerxes, who stopped stabbing the Creep in front of her and turned around, stabbing the Beowolf through it's armoured skull, and stabbed the Creep from under it's jaw. Hecate slammed an Ursa in the face with an aura bat, cracking the skull and forcing it to the ground, Sky slamming her 3-foot long sword along it's neck, beheading it.
From a nearby building, Cinder, Emerald and Mercury watched the destruction, Cinder with a satisfied smirk, Mercury filming the destruction on his scroll with a similar smirk while Emerald watched with a somewhat sorrowful expression.
"Beautiful." Cinder stated happily.
"It's almost sad." Emerald noted.
"It's horrendous. Focus on the Atlesian Knights. Keep focus away from the masked man." Cinder ordered Mercury.
"Oh, I'm getting all of it." Mercury assured.
"Good. Continue the broadcast until the end..." Cinder was cut off by a large tremor that rocks the three of them. "...and do not miss what happens next." Cinder said with an evil grin, walking off as Mercury continued filming and Emerald's expression became more worrisome.
Ozpin's Office...
"This is horrible." Benjamin noted, watching the monitors with Ozpin. He saw a squad of Atlesian solders fire at a Deathstalker at Beacon's avenue, until a cloud of yellow smoke appeared and Dragon sliced off the Grimm's pincer and sliced through the Grimm's head, killing it, and disappeared again in a cloud of yellow smoke.
Benjamin looked at the destroyed city and the civilians on the roof, begging for help as the Grimm climbed up the building to them. Dragon appeared in a cloud of yellow smoke on the opposite building and shot the Grimm scaling the wall with his dust summoned assault rifle until it was clear, and disappeared again in a cloud of yellow smoke. "Who is that?"
"I don't know, but he was the man on the microphone. He did say he'd help us." Ozpin confirmed. Ozpin got up from his desk, grabbing his cane and walked towards the elevator, holding his cane out. "Come with me, there is something you need to see." He stopped when a tremor shook the ground, shaking them both in the office. A cloud of yellow smoke appeared in Ozpin's office and Dragon walked up to the window, at Mountain Glenn.
"Oh... No..."
Downtown Vale...
Glynda and Qrow continued attacking Grimm, until the tremor caused them to shake on the ground. Qrow stabbed his sword into the ground to stabilise himself.
"No..." Glynda muttered under her breath.
Mountain Glenn...
Willow and Peter almost fell as the tremors continued, and they watched as the mountain in the distance cracked.
"What is that?" Peter asked his sibling. Willow remained silent, watching as the mountain shattered and fell apart.
"Reginald told us about this, but I didn't believe him. Oh, god no." Willow told her brother, terrified. At that moment, the mountain exploded and a large, Dragon Grimm emerged and immediately started flying over Mountain Glenn and towards Vale, roaring loudly. As it continued, a black, tar-like substance dropped from it's body and landed on the roads around Willow and Peter, surrounding them with Ursi, Beowolves and Creeps
"What do we do?" Peter asked as the two Inhumans were surrounded.
"We fight."
Ozpin's Office...
Ozpin walked up to Dragon as they both looked out of the window at the fast approaching Dragon Grimm, Benjamin looking terrified, Ozpin looking neutral-angry and Dragon expression blocked by his mask.
"Ozpin. It's time." Dragon told him, and disappeared in a cloud of yellow smoke as Ozpin and Benjamin walked into the elevator.
Cross Continental Transmit System Tower...
Team SSSN, Team JNPR, Team HAUS and Team NXHS all stood side-by-side at the base of the tower, ready to fight the Grimm again. Just as they were about to all run and fight, Ozpin stood stood on the outside of the tower, catching Pyrrha's attention. As Team SSSN, HAUS and NXHS ran to fight the Grimm, Pyrrha walked towards Ozpin without a word to her team.
"Where is she going?" Nora asked Jaune, confused and frustrated.
"I'll go find out. You two stay here and keep fighting." Jaune ordered them and followed his teammate. On a nearby rooftop, Cinder watched as Pyrrha followed Ozpin into the tower with her amber eyes, and blinked, her eyes glowing ominously. Little did she know, I was flying directly towards her.
End of Chapter Nineteen...
Wow, that was a really long chapter, so much happened. So, as I'm uploading this, the next episode of RWBY hasn't been released, so no prior knowledge. With that in mind, will Ruby and Ultra be able to stop Neo, what are Epsilon's intentions, and who is Dragon, and what does he know? All will be answered soon, but now it's the story recommendation:
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