AN: Here it is! Another new chapter for Game on! It's here boys and girls! The breach has finally arrived! And we will get to see the fight of the freshly and somewhat haphazardly formed team of Jaune, Ren, Blake, Ruby, and Velvet go into battle and all the glory! And all of the horror that they will witness... Anyways! Now I know this fic started with small goals but we just got three hundred subscribers! At this rate not only! Will the fic go on but the spin-offs are getting a second look at and some are close to being finished. Some sooner than others...
PS. I've been reading a LOT! Of other Jaune fanfiction and well... I've been digging around through my own personal reserves of ideas and well... let's say that I've got some ideas for future fics... SO stay tuned!
Pss. Got a new fic called Branwen out about Jaune being raised by Qrow. Go read it! It's good! I think it is so check it out! Now without further adieu? Enjoy...
It was a fresh and crisp morning when Jaune, Ren, Ruby, Blake, and Velvet stood at the bullhead docks, shivering like wind chimes with their teeth chattering rapidly as the early morning chill of Beacon crept into their bones as they all awaited the day of their first field mission. The time was rather early, far too early for anyone with good sense to want to be up as they watched the early morning sun begin to creep over several mountains in the distance. As the five Beacon students, one of which was was still recovering from her light wounds suffered during the ill-fated mission of yesterday.
That put the rest of the teen's partners with the sole exception of Velvet's into the infirmary, with severe injuries. None of them life-threatening thank Oum, But that left only Ruby standing and combat ready from her team.
As she stood with her friends as they all waited for their time in the sun as their bullhead touched down kicking up a wave of dirt and air as-
"Good morning students! Is everyone ready for a day of adventure!?"
Oobleck asked the hyper woman blurring back and forth between them appearing with a large khaki sack hung over her back. With a adventurers hat on as the teens, all nodded their heads as Jaune sighed.
"Yes, Ma'am."
Jaune and his friends replied like zombies as the teacher took no account of her charges half dead responses as she grinned openly and widely.
"Good show! Now all of you! Take your bags and get on to craft! We've already wasted plenty of precious daylight, and now it is time for adventure!" The woman said excitedly urging them towards the craft, as the five students, one first year and one chaperone began boarding along with their teacher, however-
"Is Ruby's bag barking?"
"What? No.' Jaune said to his reflection and-
"Her bag is moving. You see that right?"
It asked as Jaune's cerulean eyes saw it. Ruby had a long black tube type of bag attached to her back, and it was definitely moving. Like something was wriggling and writhing around inside of it.
"Did she take a small being?"
Jaune asked as he sat down on the bullhead as Ren sat next to him his usual cheery demeanor far gone as news of Nora's condition reached him.
His Jaune's and all of their partners but Velvet's had been tasked to do a raid on a known White Fang operation. The five of them including Ruby went on the attack but only Ruby was allowed to come back to duty so soon, their partners being directly too injured to leave right now although they would be mostly healed within the day.
And it was with great regret that Pyrrha was not able to send him off, as the nurse on duty threatened her with a sedative if she tried to get out of her infirmary bed. So to keep the peace, they went to bid their teammates goodbye before they left.
Their team members had a variety of lessons to impart to them even in their injured state. Weiss had practically, even on her current state of being covered in casts and confined to a bed ordered Ruby to look after Jaune and Ren.
She insisted that Ruby be reminded that she was A. The oldest of them and B. She was the woman in this situation, and she needed to stand up to the challenge. A task Ruby had promised to fulfill as Yang, Nora, and Pyrrha and given Blake a variety of different responses about the care of Jaune, Ren, and Ruby.
Nora practically begging Blake to take care of Ren in her absence.
Pyrhha stating that he needed to be looked after. And to please make sure Jaune was alright.
Yang asked a mixture, of warring emotions in her eyes making sure that Blake would promise to take care of her sister and the boy's as Blake nodded to them promising them their safety as they all hugged their partner's goodbye and with Velvet at their head left for their mission.
You think Pyrrha misses us?"
Jaune thought as he looked at his shiny gun barrel while he checked his satchel.
"Do we miss her?"
It asked as Jaune paused in his rummaging.
"Yeah. I really do.'
"Well, she is a good partner."
"She's the best."
"Let's not get carried away now. She's a great partner but let's not say the best now."
"She's all we got."
"That's my exact reason."
"Fine. You never liked people anyway."
Jaune thought as he continued to check his satchel. Jaune wasn't taking any chances with this mission. He had decided it was better to be safe than sorry, so he had brought his common assault rife, the non-Gauss variant to the mission.
His rifle now called Eshen. As he had renamed it earlier. It sat in his lap along with over five extra assault magazines, But that's not all, no he had also brought along several fragmentation grenades and two of his Ion detonators with him. Not that Jaune thought he would need to use those weapons on this mission but still...more is always better, and it's better to be safe than sorry. As he continued to go over his weapons making sure they were in optimal working order he noticed Blake give him the signal to give her the lasso.
Jaune quickly nodded twirling his fingers and tossing it around her head.
"Can you hear me?"
Jaune nodded as Blake sighed.
"Are you feeling ok? With Pyrhha?"
Blake thought as Jaune nodded.
"You sure? If you are not, you don't have to talk to me right now. But I'm here for you during this. If you need me just ask. I'm here for you Jaune."
Blake thought as Jaune smiled at her.
Nodding his head in a thanks gesture as-
"Students! I know you must all be troubled by the state of your friends but fear not! Our nurse is the best that I have ever known! And I have her personal guarantee that they will be up and at it by noon! And that they will be on their own missions by tomorrow! So chin up!"
Oobleck said as Jaune smiled at the woman yawning loudly as-
"Now! Onto our mission details! We will be going to the abandoned Vale expansion know as Mount Glenn!"
"What's Mount Glenn?"
Ren asked looking up to their teacher as the craft rocked from turbulence.
"It was a failed Vale expansion that went up over a decade ago and has since fallen to Grimm. We will be conducting a surveillance and extermination mission. We are to investigate rumors of a slight increase of Grimm activity in the area. And see how the Grimm are behaving and if they need to be exterminated."
The woman said before reaching into her side pockets and bringing out a small silver disc. No bigger than a dinner saucer and-
"This is a Sound shot. It will record sounds from the area around it and relay them to your scrolls. You will all be charged with putting these around our initial campsite. You need to place them around are resting area and secure a perimeter."
The woman said pressing the center of the disc as it popped open revealing a small silver satellite object coming out of the center of it. "This object will act as an early warning system for us. We will use them to listen to the area around us. If Grimm decided to attack us these things will give us an early warning to their approach. You will set them up to my specifications while I set up the campsite. Any questions?"
"No mam."
All five students said at once as Oobleck nodded.
"Good. Now that you have a rough idea of our mission. Miss Scarlatina."
"Yes, mam?"
Velvet asked her rabbit ears twitched as she swiveled to face the woman.
"You are the second year chaperone here. You are responsible for the well-being and actions of the others. I have given you a broad order, but it is up to you to make sure that the rest of them fall in line and go through with it. Do you understand me?"
"Yes, Mam. I understand perfectly." She replied as she took a deep breath.
Velvet said with a hard glare in her vibrant, creamy brown eyes that Jaune felt like he could get lost in as she gripped her brown shorts, The ones that hugged her already skin-tight black leggings that showed off the massive muscles on her legs that already looked to be near tree trunk size.
"Good. You are the chaperone, the actions and ultimate fate of the others are in your hands. I hope you are ready for that responsibility."
Oobleck said giving Velvet a hard look as she held it with a fierce glare. "I'm ready; I won't let them down."
"See that you don't. This is a test for you Velvet. I think you can pass. And Coco does as well."
Oobleck said turning away from the students as the craft rocked once more.
"Now settle down children. We have a long ride ahead! You should all take a nap."
The woman said as Jaune nodded as Ren bounced. On his chair the boy moving nervously as he played off his stress at not seeing Nora in front of him and even if she was going to be on her feet in less than a few hours to Ren it might as well have been years. As Jaune sighed as he put his head back, closed his eyes and took a nap, as the craft shook in the air as it rocked him to sleep.
"We are here!"
Oobleck said as the ship touched down, onto the dusty broken city streets. As the Bullhead lifted off. Leaving them in the blazing sun of Vale. As they all stood in the empty city streets of Mount Gleen. The city was much like Jaune had expected of a shattered city. Lot's of broken old shops. Filled with broken windows, along with massive ancient skyscrapers that touched the clouds some half-finished some fully built. But none having to see use in a decade more or so.
"Now! I will establish our base of operations, Miss Scarletina what should the rest of the students do?"
The woman asked fixing Velvet a curious glare as the faunus gulped.
"UM! Jaune Ruby, Ren, Blake. All of you take some of the discs and establish a perimeter. Make sure that we can have overlapping field of sounds. And try to create a perimeter expanding a rough quarter mile around the campsite. Professor-
"Doctor."
"Doctor, can I have the discs to distribute to them please?"
"Yes, you may."
The woman said reaching into one of her many bags, taking out a bag full of the small silver discs and-
"Bark!"
Time stopped. As all members of thier group froze as a loud barking? Sound came from Ruby's bag as-
"Bark! Bark!"
"Is... is that bag barking?"
Jaune asked as he pointed to Ruby's odd long nag that was definitely barking. As-
"Shhh! Zwei! You can't let them know you are here!" Ruby hissed in what was obviously a failed attempt at stealth and-
"Bark! Bark!"
"Zwei! I said-
"Miss Rose? Is there something wrong with your... bag?"
The professor doctor asked as Ruby flushed.
"No! Not at all! I was just-
Rubys' words died on her mouth as her bag fell to the ground with a clang! As its lid popped open and-
"A corgi?"
Ren asked as a black and grey corgi? With a golden collar with a large Z on it popped out and-
Blake hissed.
Like a literal cat jumping away from the dog as hiding behind Jaune. Lowering herself to put her face at Jaune's ear level and hiss! At the dog like it was a monster or-
'Zwei! I told you to stay hidden!"
"Bark!"
"Zwei!"
"Miss Rose? What is the meaning of this?"
The doctor asked as Ruby began to panic.
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry professor! My dad mailed him yesterday and-
"Brilliant! With a dog here not only will we have our sensor network the animals instincts will warn us of any Grimm approach! Brillant thinking Miss Rose! Truly brilliant!"
"I... yes?"
Ruby asked as the dog wagged it's tail happily on the ground.
"OK! Miss Scarletina gave you orders so get to it!"
The woman said as Velvet all handed them their discs and-
"Velvet? Do we split up or go as a group?"
Jaune asked the bunny faunus as she paused a frown appearing over her face as she scratched her chin.
"Split up. Try to move away from each other to cover more ground. Make sure to cover the perimeter as best as you can with as little clustering of discs as possible."
"But didn't you as for that? You want them to overlap right?"
Ren asked as Velvet froze.
"I... I want their sound to overlap! To make is to that we cannot be snuck up on! But I don't want ther to be a lack of coverage. Space them widely enough to cover ground but close enough so that they all cover the area into a bubble."
Velvet said as the rest of them nodded as they all took thier discs and spread out-
"I will be accompanying each of you individually! There are several questions I have for each of you that I would love to hear your answer."
The woman said as the teens nodded as they all went into five separate directions and began their tasks of securing the area.
Crimson eyes looked on with dull indifference, as a massive Beowulf wandered aimlessly into the plaza. The monstrous abomination walked with a measured lazy gait. Not caring that it was in the wide exposes place of the plaza. This was its home and nothing would challenge the alpha in its own house. As the monster let out a faint roar, a black dot appeared over its eyes. As a crosshair symbol floated over it as-
"Gotcha."
Crack!
The monsters head exploded in a puff of blood and bone. As a sharp crack! Entered the air.
"Got it!"
Ruby said happily putting the Alpha Grimm down in a shower of blood and-
"Excellent shot! Miss Rose, you are a talented markswoman you know?"
Oobleck asked jotting down several rapid notes in her pad and following Ruby down the empty, abandoned city streets as she watched her student sniped the Grimm from a long range.
"Thanks! I've been practicing."
Ruby said taking aim at another Beowulf taking her time to line up her shot and-
Crack!
Another burst of fire put the Grimm down in a moment of brutal violence as it died without a sound.
"Yes!" Ruby said pumping her fist as the doctor nodded.
"Excellent. Now Miss Rose you know I am also the school counselor along with being the professor of history correct?" The doctor asked following the young girl as she bobbed up and down.
"Yeah, I know. Jaune and Ren go to see you right?"
"They do, but that is not what I am here to discuss."
"Oh? What are you here to talk about?"
Ruby asked raising her rifle again.
Crack!
Another dead Grimm.
"I am here to discuss you, Miss Rose."
The doctor asked as Ruby paused blinking owlishly at Oobleck as she flashed her a curious look.
"Me? What about me?"
"Simple. I like to take stock of those that I will work with and teach, and you seem to be one of my best."
"Thank you."
"Do not mention it. Now if you don't mind me asking you, why did you decide to become a huntress?"
The doctor asked taking out a fresh page on her notepad as she walked behind the girl as she looked down at the girl.
"Me? That's easy, I wanted to be one because of my family. Mainly my mother."
Ruby said putting away her gun as she turned her attention to the doctor.
"Did she push you to be a huntress?"
"What? No way! She never wanted me to be a huntress! She thought the job was too dangerous for me. She wanted me to be a civilian worker, but! My dad was the one who convinced her to allow me to join Signal where he sometimes teaches."
"He's a teacher at Signal? Really? I didn't know they had any male teachers still."
"Yeah! He is one of them along with my uncle... When he was still alive."
"Qrow Branwen correct?"
"Yeah... that was him... He gave me the idea for the scythe you know?"
"I can see that. You definitely took after his fighting style. I'll tell you that much."
"Yeah... he taught me how to fight. He taught me almost everything I know really...
"Did you mother not teach you combat styles?"
"Not really. She didn't approve my huntress training. So she did not want to encourage me in any way. So it was really my uncle who taught me how to fight. He taught me how to hold my scyther, how to move with it, block with and he even helped me build it!"
Ruby said as a faint smile appeared over her lips before it vanished in an instant.
"When he died... I was...
"I take it you were deeply impacted by his loss."
"I was...
"You know you were not alone? Opal and Glynda also mourned his death."
"Really? Opal and Glynda mourned for him?"
"Of course they did! He was one of our best students and graduates. When he died, it was a loss for all of us. And there more then just your families head dropped in prayer."
"I... thanks... He was one to believe in me. More than my mom actually... She was always there to bake me cookies! And cook meals!"
"Your father was not the one to cook?"
"He did sometimes but my mom really, really! Likes cooking. She say's there is no greater joy than watching her children and family eat her food."
"So your mother was your inspiration, but your uncle was the driving factor."
"Yes."
Crack!
"After his death, what did you do? Who trained you?"
"Me. I trained myself. I remembered uncle Qrow's fighting style, more or less and practiced it day after day until I went to Signal."
"With no tutor how did you progress? before Signal who did you practice with?"
"Heh. When Yang's your sister, there is always an excuse to fight."
"Ah, Miss Xiao-long does have quite the temper. I assume you agreed with her quite frequently?"
"Almost every day. She and my dad helped with training me. So did Aunt Raven but our combat styles were a bit to different for her to give me much advice."
Ruby said smiling faintly aiming her gun and-
Crack!
"Got it," Ruby said as another Grimm fell.
"She was his sister, did she not know his fighting style?"
"Aunt Raven did not... approve of his fighting style, and she was not the most enthusiastic about its spread. She preferred the sword really. She was actually still pissed that she didn't' get to teach her own daughter the Branwen style."
"She did not tutor Yang?"
Crack!
Ruby fired as she begna to laugh.
"What? No way! She tried to once, but Yang was not the patient type. She had no desire or patience to learn the blade. She took after my dad and learned to box. That's why they have the same weapons."
"Interesting. Most interesting." The doctor said as she followed Ruby in the city before-
"Whoa! That's gonna make one helluva trophy!"
Ruby said as she peered over a far side of the city, that had fallen into a valley, as a massive. Elephant-like Grimm was looming in the distance as Ruby pulled up her rifle aiming at its head and-
"Easy Miss Rose. Doing that will only irritate it."
Oobleck said pushing the rifle of the young girl down as Ruby blinked up owlishly at the woman.
"Professor? What can't I kill the Grimm?"
"For one? Your weapon will do little more than irritate that thing. Those are Goliaths. Elder Grimm that despite thier size poses little to no threat to humanity."
The doctor said picking up the weapon. Taking it from the girl's hand, as she peered down the scope of the sniper.
"You see Ruby, those Grimm are old. Very, very old."
"Very old? What does that have to do with them not being a threat?"
"Easy, most Grimm are merely mindless beasts that attack on sight. But! If a Grimm manages to live long enough and see enough they gain experience. These Grimm know direct attacks on humanity lead to nothing but death. And they stay away from our borders."
The doctor said as the hear of Goliaths tumbled through the forest. The six-story-tall elephant abominations walking in a slow trot as their beady yellow yead seemed to be looking back at her through the scope of Ruby's gun.
"Oh ok then.'
Ruby said as the doctor moved back with her rifle before-
"What the?"
"Professor?"
"Doctor."
She said as she saw it. Oobleck froze as she saw it. Ther was a sea, of black. A verifiable ocean of Grimm in the forest. She counted hundreds, of Ursa, Creeps, Beowulfs and even deathstalkers!? All surrounding each other in a swirling black pool of claws and fur and-
"Standing still?"
The doctor asked out loud as she saw something unusual. A massive gather of Grimm was appearing not just in that one piece of the woods but in several places in the Mount Glen area. As there was a mass of Grimm just...
"They are just standing there?"
The doctor asked herself as she zoomed in on the still masses of Grimmas a frown appeared on her face.
"Doctor?"
"Miss Rose continue with the perimeter set up. I have just witnessed something disturbing." The woman said as she eyed the several swirling masses of Grimm that all appeared to just stand...
Not doing anything. Not hunting, attacking, or even growling, they were just walking in slow circles around a loose semi-circle as the pawed the ground, as the doctor noticed the half dozen masses of Grimm.
She would be blind to fail to notice how the Grimm hordes made a long line of pieces like a dotted line that seemed to be pointing directly and ominously at Vale...
"Mister Ren."
"Yes! That's me!"
The boy said slicing open the neck of a creep as it fell to the floor with a loud THUD! As the doctor nodded at the small green boy. As he jumped off the dead disintegrating Grimm with a fancy flourish of his glittering green weapons.
His lime green scythes dripping with blood as she took out her notes. "Mister Ren-
"Yes! That's me!"
Ren said happily wiping his bloody scythes on his khaki pants as the doctor sighed.
" I am conducting interviews on your team to see why you all became hunters. I am now on you."
The woman said as Ren nodded happily.
"Oh? You want to know why I became a hunter?'
The boy asked as he began walking through the bombed-out factory with a massive hole the size of a bullhead in it as the doctor nodded.
'Well I would be asking, you but you have made it quite clear that you did not want to be a hunter. And that Miss Valkyrie was rather... instrumental in your decision was she not?"
The woman asked the boy glaring at his small form as he put a sickle to his chin and hummed loudly patting his right foot, thumping it up and down.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
"Well! I didn't want to be a hunter!"
"Go on...
"The only reason I'm here is that Nora dragged me out of my home."
"She dragged you out? Physically?"
"Not physically no...
"Well?'
"I...
The small boy paused as his normally chipper look fell off his face replaced by a thin frown.
"I didn't have a choice."
Ren said bitterly as Oobleck paused.
"You didn't have a choice? Did she demand that you come with her?"
"Yes... No! I...
"Mister Ren? You do know that I am still your therapist right? You can talk to me safely."
"Even if this does not fall under our confidentiality."
The doctor thought as Ren sighed.
"I didn't want to be a hunter... But Nora was going, and I had to go with her."
"Had to? Why who was forcing you?"
"I was."
"You?"
"I... owe my life to Nora...
"I've heard. But does that means you have to risk it for her?"
"Yes. I'd do anything for Nora."
"Anything? That is a big commitment, Mister Ren. Are you that convinced of her value to you? Even if she is one of your girlfriends?"
The woman asked scribbling in her pad as Ren frowned.
"It's not about her being worth it...
"Mister Ren devoting your life is a precarious proposition at best. And you should not do it without making sure that they are worth it. I mean your time is important-
"Not really." The boy said whimsically as the woman frowned.
"Not really? Do you not value your own time Mister Ren?"
"Only if Nora needs me."
"I... do you believe that your time is only as valuable as its effects on Miss Valkyrie?"
"Yup! I'm only as valuable as Nora says so!" The boy said as the doctor froze.
"Mister Ren that is simply not true. You have value and worth completely! Outside of what Miss Valkyrie might say or do-
"No, I don't."
The boy said so quickly and with such a chill! Of emotions that the doctor froze.
"Mister Ren?"
"I'm not worth it, I... I don't have anything doctor. I have no family, no home, no friends. I only have Nora. She gave me everything, and she can take it away. I'm only as useful as she tells me I am. WIthout her? I have nothing."
"You have your team. Jaune is your friend? He is your best male friend correct?"
"Jaune's great! It's just that he has his own issues. And...
"And?"
"I... I don't like this...
"Like what?"
"This! This... I... I don't want to talk about it."
Ren said walking away from the doctor fists balled as Oobleck frowned.
"Mister Ren-
"I said I don't want to talk about it!"
"Ok. That is fine. Just know that I am here for you." She said as scribbled own into her notepad.
Subject appears to suffer from a critical lack of self-worth. Has no views of his own value outside of what Miss Valkyrie can give him. Most likely suffers from severe depression about past trauma and possibly bipolar disorder. Mood swings evident and rapid.
His change of emotion and temperance is worrying, combined with subject indifference to the taking of others lives has made him a target of worry. I'll after consulting Sandra for advice prescribe several types of medication for him in the future.
The doctor wrote as she followed the boy and went to her next target.
"Blake."
"That is my name."
Blake said as she kicked down a door with a loud crack! As she did a flurry of minor nevermores flew out as she sighed.
A series of rapid bangs! fille the air as Blake gunned them down as Oobleck wrote down in her pad "I am-
"Going aroudn asking why we became hunters. Ren has a big mouth."
"Fine. Right to the point, why do you want to be a huntress?"
"I had no choice."
Blake said plainly walking into the building looking for Grimm to clean out as Oobleck followed her into the adobe building.
"Really? You will forgive me if I find that hard to believe. A woman of your talents. Is hardly hurting for options."
"My talents?"
"The Fang do not just accept anybody you know? You must have some skills just to make it that far."
Oobleck said as Blake froze. Her body gong stiff as aboard as her hand slowly gripped her weapon as Oobleck sighed rolling her head up to the clay ceiling of the room they were in.
"Be at ease Miss Belladonna. I along with all of Beacons staff are aware of the past."
"I-
"Think nothing of it. Now tell me. But still, why a huntress? Why leave the Fang? Did you get disillusioned with thier cause? Where you kicked out for some type of treason?"
"Treason...More or less...
Blake said bluntly as the doctor nodded.
"More or less?"
"More... much, much more...
"Really? Do go on."
The doctor asked as Blake sighed rolling her arms as she walked to the outside after verifying probably using her senses as she left the building and walked into the sun.
"There was a shipment of dust coming into Atlas."
"And you wanted to steal it."
"Yes."
"I'm assuming you had a change of heart?"
"I... The dust belonged to the Schnee dust corporation."
Blake said as the woman eyes raised a fraction.
"Really? The Schnee corporations? Why would the Fang want to steal from what coudl be the most staunch ally and supporter of the faunus in the world?"
"That's what I said!"
Blake shouted before regaining her composure. "They said we needed the dust. And then she sent Adam and me to take out the train."
"Adam Taurus? You've met the butcher?"
"I dated him."
Oobleck nearly fainted
"You dated him!? He's a monster!"
"He was not always... when his semblance-
"Say no more. Male mental degradations is a terrible thing."
The woman said frowning as Blake nodded.
"I know... On the train, he had an episode...
"Episode?'
"He didn't believe we should be attacking the train and...
"And?"
"He lost it...
"Lost it how?"
"He lost his mind for three minutes... he butchered the train car-
"The grey line massacre. He killed two hundred people that day on a civilian train. I'm surprised you survived."
"It was not easy... when he snapped... I fought him."
"And you lived!?"
"It was not easy. I wounded his right leg badly. And that wound would inevitably lead to his capture by Atlas. After that, I was called a traitor, and I ran."
"They called you a traitor for that? I would think the Fang would have at least understood your cause."
"I was not very... popular in the Fang doctor. I got in because of Adam and my skills kept me in, but I earned my share of enemies in high positions. And some of them decided to use this incident to have me kicked out for good."
"Have you not talked to your parents? Is Menagerie not a valid option for you?"
"I... I can't face them, doctor. Not after what I did.. how I left... I think my dad cried.'
"Blake. If I can give you any! Advice on life is do not let a bridge burn. You have no idea how the worst! The offenses can often be solved with an apology and explanation."
"I...
"Just food for thought."
The woman said as she and Blake nodded and walked off.
"Velvet?"
"Yes!?"
The faunus girl nearly lept out of her skin as Oobleck sighed.
"Don't panic girl. I am just checking up on you."
The woman said as the leader of the group sighed as her long brown adorable rabbit ears went flat on her head with embarrassment.
"I'm sorry. I'm just not used to being a leader."
"Really? Coco say's you are the second in command of your team are you not?"
Oobleck asked as Velvet blushed brightly, her cheeks turning the color of Miss Rose's hair as she stuttered.
"I am! But come on! Anyone on my team is a better leader than me!"
"I doubt that very much. Coco speaks very highly of you, you know?"
"She's my best friend... of course she does...
"She see's greatness in you as do I. Now why do you want to be a huntress?"
The doctor asked as Velvet flushed.
"I have to. My family needs the money."
"Your family? Your mother is the highest paid attorney in Vale. I find it hard to see how she needs money."
Oobleck asked the woman raising an eyebrow at Velvet as she stuttered.
"I have fourteen younger siblings. Eleven sisters and three brothers. We need money."
Velvet deadpanned with a tired expression as the woman nodded.
"I can see... your parents must have liked to... distract themselves when your mother came home from work."
The doctor asked coughing awkardly as Velvet shuddered.
"She gets really! Frustrated at work due to her job's demands and according to her she needed Stres relief."
Velvet said shuddering like she was about to vomit.
"Parent do have needs to now."
"I know, but sounds travel and our house is far from large. Even if it is half buried."
Velvet said as Oobleck balked.
"I'm sorry did you say half buried?"
"Oh! Yes, I did. We live near a hillside just! Outside of Vale! Mom bout the plot of land right before I was born and built a house half underground. Like a den!"
Velvet said proudly as Oobleck grimaced.
"Are you really a rabbit?"
The woman thought as she scribbled down on her pad.
"You live underground?'
"Mostly! The house has a top-level living room, that serves as an entrance to the kitchen top floor bathroom along with a way into my room and the master bedroom, but the actual house extends almost four stores into the ground.'
"Four stories!?"
"It's a long house, it had enough beds, baths, and living room for all of us but it feels so cramped! But yeah, I need the money for my family... my dad is... sick."
"Sick? What type of illness does he have? Or is it a condition?"
"He has a rare illness, it's genetic... he can't really work, so he stays at home a lot to raise my siblings which is not! An easy job. And mom makes money. But she needs to pay for food, clothes, doctor visits school things and dad's own medical costs not to mention the utility bill when you add it the cost of water, heat, and light for over fourteen people combined it's tight. And I want to be a huntress to help."
"Have you ever asked why you parents had so many children? I mean I know that relief is necessary but how is having so many children really wise?"
"Well... after my fifth sister was born my mom got a bad case of Postpartum depression after her birth."
"I'm so sorry."
"Yeah... It was so bad she couldn't work, she almost lost her job really... In the end, she took medication for it but the medication triggered an unexpected reaction in her and gave her intense heat cycles. So she had more kids... that only served to worsen her mood, that caused her to take more medicine and... it was a rough time for the family. In the end, I convinced her to try therapy and other nontraditional approaches to help her out and she's gotten better, but the new treatments are not free...
"Have you asked-
"Coco offered I refused. I won't take her money."
"She would do it freely."
"I don't want her money. I... No one in my family would feel comfortable with that."
"I see. And you wish to be a huntress to support them?"
"More than anything."
"Good. It seems you have a rather easy to understand motivation."
"Thank you? I guess?"
"Thank yourself now go on. You need to go back to camp while I finalize my study."
"Mister Arc."
"Yes, mam?"
Jaune asked as he walked down an old collapsing hallway of the fourth story of a tall building that was creaking groaning ominously as the doctor followed her charge.
"Why did you become a hunter mister Arc?"
"To not starve to death."
Jaune replied simply as the doctor grimaced.
"I would normally put that as a joke, but with you, I think that is nothing but the truth."
"It is. If I did not become a hunter, I would have starved to death. I needed this."
Jaune said as the two moved up a broken failing staircase as the doctor wrote in her notes.
"Jaune I know we have to have much time for therapy but consider this a session."
"Ok."
"Why did you leave your home?"
"Besides the fact that I didn't like getting beat within an inch of my life every day?"
"I have a feeling that, you are not sarcastic with your answer."
The woman said frowning as Jaune shrugged.
"Bruises don't make themselves," Jaune said simply as the doctor sighed.
"You know if you would press charges against your mother you could put her in jail. Maybe help your siblings and stop them from suffering similar abuse?"
Oobleck asked hoping for an inn on his issues as Jaune sighed.
"Nah. My sisters are fine. Mom never laid a hand on them. Hell, sometimes they like to get thier hits in to. But that's just one reason."
"The others?"
"I want to save people. And my name is no longer Arc."
"Ah, I forgot, please forgive me."
"It's fine."
"Anyways, why do you want to save people Jaune? Not that I am complaining but what drives that goal?"
"My father...
"Nicholas?"
"Yes...
"He was a great man Jaune. He was a true hunter. I assume you want to be like him?"
"More than anything.'
"I... I knew your father... briefly... and I would be remiss if I did not tell you this about him."
"About him?"
"Your father was a good man, but he had his fair share of flaws. His life, his very existence! Revolved around saving lives."
"Is that wrong?"
"No, but in the end, it's what got him killed," Oobleck said with a low grimace as Jaune froze.
"You know how my dad died?!"
Jaune asked instantly looked Oobleck in the face as-
"No. Not exactly."
Oobleck grimaced as she saw the boy's face fall into a frown.
"I know where he went missing though."
She said as Jaune's blue eyes widened as his scars stretched on his face.
"You do?"
"Yes. He volunteered against! Your mother's, Glynda's and even your elder sisters advice to go on a rescue mission for a missing girl near the...
"Near what?"
"Your father went missing on a rescue mission in the Grimm lands Jaune. He left to rescue a girl of a close! Family friend of your's who's bullhead had gone down two weeks ago where the daughter managed to get a brief! Distress beacon. Your father heard it once and set off alone."
"Alone?! Why did he go alone?!"
Jaune asked his eyes now full of worry, anger, and fear as the doctor sighed.
"I do not know all the details but from I do know he thought that he was the only one who could. He was the only one close enough to respond to the danger. When he called to tell your mother, she was supposedly quite... animate about her objection to this course of action. And in the end, he went alone."
"Mom told me he went missing on a routine mission."
"That's what she would have told you. It's a bit easier than saying you dad went on a suicide mission with almost no chance of success, leaving behind his loving wife daughters and newborn son right?"
"I...
"Jaune. Do not think less of your father. He saved hundreds if not thousands of people in his life. It was a life any of us would be proud to live. He-
"He got killed! When he didn't' have to! He-
'I know. You are upset."
"I-
"Don't."
The doctor said as wrapped the boy in a hug.
"I know you are in shock-
"He didn't' have to die."
Jaune said bitterly as Oobleck sighed...
"No, he-
"When he died... that's when-
'Your mother started to hit you. I've read the accusations, and you are not the most subtle talker Jaune. Your mother was an ideal parent until your father died. Grief warps the minds of women and men, and it can turn something beautiful inot something ugly."
"I...
"I'm not defending her. I have never supported domestic abuse, and I will not start now. But don't hold too much against one whose sole fault was courage in the faces of adversity. Rember how he lived but do not repeat his mistakes. Your life can be dedicated to helping others with being needlessly sacrificed."
The woman said as the boy's tension left the body as the returned to their walk.
"Good work! All of you! The perimeter is set, and we are well on our way! Tomorrow we clean out the city so get some rest. It's a busy day."
The woman said as her charges wrapped up in their sleeping bags and began to sleep. Oobleck was proud at her day of work. In the process of the day, she learned of the varying and myriad of reasons why her charges were interested in becoming heroes.
Motivations ranging from financial, desperation, obligation and redemption filled their hearts and gave her a good insight into thier psyches. As they went to bed Oobleck was also proud of how well Velvet turned out to be thier chaperone. After double checking that their perimeter was secure, she went about putting the children to be like a trained professional. Maybe the result of having so many younger sibling led her to success.
She treated Jaune, Ruby, and Ren like they were her younger siblings. Pouring them thier soup, checking in on them individually and even going so far as to tuck them in! She even managed to tuck Blake into her bed despite her hissing. As Velvet had then proceeded to wash thier dishes. Cleaning thier stew bowls of old broth that she made sure her charges ate before her as she cleaned up the area.
The pot of stew that was once thier dinner was still wet from thier improvised dinner. The five students had devoured their food, as Oobleck set up the radar.
The small khaki laptop that was now connected to the complete radar dishes surrounding them. If anything snuck up on them was set up.
The only issue with this mission was the Grimm hordes... Grimm only concentrates on that number are normally attracted to huge amounts of negativity.
And that requires humanity, but out here? In the wilds? With no humanity and the nearest human settlement miles away? How or what were they attracted to? She wondered as Ruby yawned.
She had been elected to take first watch, even with the sensors set up they students needed to be drilled in sleeping in shifts.
As Ruby leaned against the blown out wall of the once lavish apartment building they were camping in. As her dog slept on her feet as the doctor sighed, before going into her khaki sleeping bag and went to sleep.
"What?!"
Ruby asked jolting awake as her dream of cookies and buttermilk faded into painful reality and-
"Bark! Bark!"
Her dog barked angirly as Ruby groaned.
"Zwei! Go to sleep!"
Bark! Bark!
"Zwei! You are going to wake the others!"
Ruby hissed before her dogs barking got the better of her as she sat up seeing no Zwei...
The only thing in her vision was the dying campfire, and her sleeping friends and teacher but no Zwei? The girl reasoned looking around their camp seeing nothing before she looked out of the blown-out wall down to the abandoned city as Ruby saw the dog halfway down the street!?
"Zwei! Get back here!"
Ruby hissed as Zwei walked down the city streets.
"Zwei! Zwei!? Come back!"
Ruby hissed before sighing as she got off her perch leaving her team to go find her dog...
"Zwei! Zwei! Where are you!?"
Ruby hissed as she looked for her pup. It had been ten whole minutes! And even with the radar set up the chance of an aerial Grimm attack made the lack of a guard a horrible! Misstep. As Ruby looked for Zwei hissing his name again and again and-
"There you are!"
Ruby hissed as she saw Zewi standing with that same dopey smile of his halfway across the street as she fumed.
"Come here!"
Ruby hissed blurring towards her dog before-
Crack!
Ruby paused as she felt the wight leave her legs as the ground cracks and broke. As a hole opened up on the ground as a short terrified scream left her mouth as she fell...
"Bark?"
Zwei barked as his mistress fell into a large hole in the ground her prized red stick following alone by her former position as Ruby vanished into the howl as Zwei whimpered.
"Oww...
Ruby moaned as she opened her eyes. Her head hurt. It felt like a sledgehammer had hit her right in the temple as she looked up- she noticed that her hands were tied behind her back as she felt handcuffs!? On her wrists, as she was in a dim fluorescent-lighted room with a bland table in front of her and-
"What's going on?! I-
"Well look who it is!"
A familiar voice said as a door opened and Ruby's voice choked as she saw she was strapped into an uncomfortable pale chair in a plain room with-
"Roman?!"
"Good to see you Red! Can't say I expected you to fall into my lap but hey! Beggers can't be choosers! Now that you are all settled in let's have a talk!"
"Bark! Bark!"
The sharp irritated barking of Zwei stirred Jaune as the boy graoned in his sleeping bag.
"Ruby! Get your dog to be quiet!"
"Bark! Bark!"
"Ruby!"
"Bark!"
"I'm going to kill it."
His reflection on his gun said as Jaune looked up, the dog Zwei? was barking down at him as Jaune tossed a lasso on its head to see whatever the hell it wanted and-
FEAR.
"HELP! HELP! MISTRESS IN DANGER! HELP!"
The dog thought!? As Jaune looked to the barking dog as he looked up to the area where Ruby had one held a vigil as Jaune saw she was gone as dark hand gripped Jaune's chest as he felt a wave of stress fall over him as he yelled.
"OH NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! WHY!? WHAT WAS I THINKING!"
The panicked agony infused thoughts of the rabbit faunus filled his mind. As Jaune Oobleck, Blake and Ren found where the dog Zwei lead them to as the saw a massive hole in the ground big enough for a truck to drive in along with Ruby's precious scythe Crescent Rose next to it.
"Ruby needs her scythe. She'd never just let it go."
Jaune said as Blake nodded as even Ren looked deathly serious.
"This is my fault! I'm sorry-
"Velvet. This is no time for blame. You did your best as a leader, consequences happen. As of right now this training mission in on hold. Jaune send a scroll message to your partner, Opal, and Glynda telling them of our situation."
"Doctor we are out of normal range-
"The CTT will get our message across. Maybe a bit delayed but late is better than never. Tell them we have a student missing and a possible fatality."
"Fatality?!"
Velvet almost fainted.
"Yes Velvet, Ruby might be dead. And the longer we stay up here worrying the more likely those chance are. Now, everyone, we are going to be rappeling down for this so get the cables out of my bag and get ready. We have a rescue to do."
Oobleck said firmly as the five teens practically tore open her bag. Attaching the cables to the hole securing their ropes and hooks into the ground and thier outfits before nodding, to one another as Jaune sent his message to Pyrrha, Opal, and Glynda as they all rappelled down the hole into a yawning mouth of darkness as they set out to find their friend...
"Well! Isn't this a surprise! Here I was thinking that you didn't want to see me!"
The tall for a man criminal know as Roman said as he strode into Ruby's cell. The tied up huntress in training glared death at him as her silver eyes attempted to bore inot his eyes. "What are you doing Roman!? What are you going to do to me?!"
Ruby asked her mind beginning to panic. She was alone, no gun, no friends!? What was she supposed to do!?
"What am I going to do to you? Well besides asking you what in the seven hells you are doing in my mountain? Hey! That's a good question!"
Roman said pulling up a metal chair in front of the bland table in front of Ruby making aloud scraping noise fill the air as Ruby winced in pain as he threw his legs over his chair and sat down back first in the chair.
Sitting in the opposite sitting position as she smiled warmly at her.
"So! Red, what are you doing in my base? And how's the lung? Last time I checked I shot you."
Roman said his voice taking on a dark edge as his light emerald eyes became sharp as daggers as Ruby gulped.
"I'm here to kill Grimm...
The small girl said quietly as Roman nodded to her.
"Really now? What Grimm would that be? Last time I checked most of the Grimm round here are dead. So that makes the odds for a sole huntress in training mind you to be here alone."
Roman asked his eyes glaring into Ruby as-
"He thinks I'm alone!? Good! I can't let him know-
"How many other's are you?"
Roman asked as he saw it.
The reaction in her face when he said alone was all he needed to know to see that she was not in fact alone. There were others here with her, and that made things complicated.
"How many others are there?"
Roman asked taking out a cigar lighting it and inhaling deeply as he relishes the smooth, tasty flavor of the cigar n his mouth as the girl began to panic.
"I'm alone! There's no one else here with me! I-
"Don't. I know you are not alone. They don't just send rookie huntresses out here alone. So either you ran away from Beacon which by your own admission is wrong. Or you are here more than likely on your annual first year training mission. Yeah, that's it."
Roman said taking another deep drag of his cigar as Ruby panicked.
"It's around that time, I did my quest around this time."
"You were in Beacon?"
Ruby asked silver eyes wide as dinner plates now as Roman nodded.
"Yup! Sure was, not only was in Beacon I was a team leader! If you can believe it."
Roman said with a small self-depreciating smile on his thin face taking another deep drag as he sighed. "Look, kid, you are here with a team-
"NO! I'm alone-
"Red. This can have one of two outcomes. And just to let you know that no matter what happens I come out A-ok. One. Tell me how many of you there are, and you can go free."
"You'll let me go?"
"Well, not just let you go. I'm a businessman kid. I'll drop you two miles from Vale. Handcuffed, blindfolded with a pocket knife and a map. But nothing else and no bullshit weapons."
"My weapon is not... that!"
"It is an abomination to the laws of physics is what it is."
"It is not! It's my baby and-
"And nothing. Red. You can tell me where your friends are and are given the chance! To go home in one piece. Or you can not. And I'm going to have to go outside with a pair of headphones, while several. Woman of a less than scrupulous nature come in here too... question you."
Roman said letting the threat hang in the air as Rubys' face went sheet white.
As the girl began to squirm trying to get the hell out of her chair and-
"Forget it. That semblance won't do shit, you are tied down tight. So what's it goign to be? Your answer or your kneecaps. Pick one and be quick about it. I don't have a lot of time. And I am not known for patience."
"This way."
Blake said falling to the ground as Velvet put down Jaune. As the boy bounced on his feet rifle raised as the four students hit the bottom of the cave in.
Blake found Ruby's scent more or less fairly easily, as she led them down. Her eyes giving them a limited amount of vision before the flashlights came on.
Only to be shut out as Oobleck told them to keep them off. They where fighting Fang and most of them faunus.
Thier senses were better than humans and light in the dark would attract far too much attention to themselves. As they hit, the ground tension was running high in the group. Jaune's message to his partner, headmistress, and dean was rough. He told them that Ruby had gone missing. She was nowhere to be found, and her gun was not with her.
She had fallen down a large sinkhole while out by herself was unknown what had happened other and ther was a high chance of injury or death. The message had been sent, and with the interference of the remote mountain, Jaune had no idea when or how it was going to get it. He hoped soon as they crept into the tunnel systems.
STRESS.
Jaune felt the stress from the group. It was like a wet slimy sludge was falling down on his head and sliding down his back. As something wet, sticky and filthy fall on him. As they crept through the dim cavern taking only routine stops to change directions the main source of stress came from Velvet as he felt-
Fear. Anger. Panic. Concern. Pain.
Velvet was panicking. She blamed herself for this situation. Velvet was the one in charge. Oobleck placed her in charge of the team gave responsibility as a leader for the others. While she sent them out Velvet had made sure that they all set their discs.
She also! Was the one to supervise ther dinner, making sure the cooking went over well. She made sure to out them all to bed like they were her younger siblings. She also made the decision to let Ruby take the first watch.
A decision she regretted with all her heart as Jaune picked up her thoughts with his lasso.
"Stupid! What were you thinking?! She is a child! A child! How could you let her take first watch!? Why didn't you do it?!"
Velvet thought balling her fist up tight as Jaune felt stress build up in the girl. That strange slick filthy feeling of sludge on his back as he whipped his head gripping his rifle tight as-
"Footprints! I got footprints over here."
Blake said stopping just ahead of them as Velvet darted over to her.
"Where?!"
"Here. Two sets of tracks. It also looks like a third person was here. If they where they were being dragged."
Blake said as heavy silence fill the team as-
"Ther is no time for dillydallying. We need to move now."
Oobleck said as the five began to sprint.
"Well. I go good news and bad news Red. What do you want to hear first?"
Roman asked walking back into the room with a frown on his face and giving a loud disinterested yawn to her.
"Good news?"
Ruby asked as she fidgeted in her chain, she cracked. Once Roman had made it abundantly clear that she was goign to get beaten until she talked Ruby broke. She told him everything she knew and while she was a messy tear-stained mess by the time Roman took down all her notes. She was looking for her dog apparently and had fallen down a sinkhole into the underground city. Her team did most likely not know about her disappearance and there was a chance no one had raised the warning.
Roman knew better than to think she was lying. Her teary face and frantic body movement vouched for her in that regard. Which lead to this problem...
Roman had taken her information to his boss... and she had been less than forgiving about this, matter to put it bluntly.
"Good news is you get to keep your kneecaps," Roman said as Ruby sighed her body letting out a wave of tension that she did not know she had been carrying. As she let out a strained breath.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
Ruby said almost crying as Roman sighed as he prepared to deliver the other part of his news.
"And the bad news?"
"You are going to lose your head."
Roman said calmly smoking a cigar as Ruby paled.
"What?!"
"Sorry kid. My boss says its too dangerous to let you go. So I'm ordered to put a bullet in your brain. Sorry about that.'
Roman said reaching behind him and drawing a pistol placing it down on the table and-
"Wait! Roman! You don't have to do this!"
"Yes, I do."
"No, you don't! You don't have to kill me!"
Ruby said now openly crying as Roman rubbed his head with an irritated expression.
"Look. Red. I know what you are thinking. You don't want to die. I get it! I really do! Noone wants to die. But listen to me, please. If I don't kill you someone else is going to come in here to kill you. And if that happens? You won't get a clean journey to the other side."
Roman said letting that implication hang as Ruby gulped.
"Wait! You can't do this!"
"Can't? Why not?"
"Because! You are me!"
Ruby said as Roman blinked thrice.
"I am you?"
"Yes! I and you are the same!"
"Well, unless I reverse my age, lost dyed my hair black and had a sex change operation that I didn't know of I don't see how I can be you."
Roman said sarcastically as Ruby gulped.
"No! We are both hunters!"
"Was. I was a hunter kid. Past tense."
"But you were one! You were a good guy!"
"Do you know what past tense even means?"
"I know you are a good guy! You had to have been! You were in Beacon!"
"Once again. Past. Tense. I was a hero. See that word? That means not anymore. Once. Not anymore, so how do you want to die? I'm thinking one to the front of the head. What about you?" Roman asked standing up pointing the barrel of the gun at the tied up teen.
"NO! Don't do this! You don't have to! You are a good guy-
"Red. Trust me. Doing this is the best thing I could do. Now calm down. This will only hurt for a second."
Roman said raising his pistol at the squirming girls head and-
A tremor broke the base as the ceiling shook and the lights flickered.
"What the hell?"
Roman asked as he looked up at the shaking ceiling lights and-
THUD!
The entire wall shook as the building that rumbled as an explosion rocked through the base.
"The fuck is-
Ding!
Roman's scroll rang as he picked it up.
"Perry, someone better be dead-
"Sir! We are under attack!"
The frightened voice of Perry yelled into his scroll as the sound of gunfire filled the air.
"Monty dammit. By who!?"
"Huntresses sir!"
"Goddammit! How many of your friends are there?!"
Roman asked the quacking reaper as-
"Sir! What should we do!? They are going to get to the train!"
"So keep them off! The train Perry."
"Sir they are heavily armed and are pushing hard! They have a full huntress with them!"
"Oh for fuck's sake! It's almost like I'm surrounded by a professional terrorist! Start the train! I'd rather do this early than never!"
"But sir! It's a week too early!"
"I know that Perry! But unless you want to be charbroiled start the fucking train and wait for me!"
"Sir! The boss also wants to know what happened to the prisoner. Did you execute her?"
The voice asked as-
BANG!
"Just fired."
"Got it! Thank you, sir, we are waiting!"
The voice ended as Roman sighed.
"What the hell is wrong with me?"
The man asked as a steaming hole was burrowed in the wall scant inches from Rubys' shaking head as he sighed.
"Why do I have to be a good guy?"
Romana asked taking out a vanity mirror as his reflection sighed.
"We were always the good guy. How did you forget?"
It asked as Roman rubbed his head.
"Th- thank you-
"Don't thank me, kid. I just bought you some extra minutes of life now catch!"
Roman said flicking a short knife to the girl's waist where she deftly caught it in one hand.
"I'm not telling you to go home but I would not! Stay here. Unless you like being lunch.'
He added ominously as he closed the door as the reaper bowed her head rapidly to him as he left the room as the sound of gunfire filled the air.
"Left!"
"I got them!"
"Right!"
"I see them!'
"Ren! The roofs!"
"On it boss lady!"
Ren said teleporting away as he left Jaune and Blake to clear the abandoned city streets. As Oobleck nodded. Despite having the threat of dead students hung over her head, she had to admit the Velvet was coming into her own quite well. Despite her earlies setbacks Velvet had taken to leading Jaune, Ren, and Blake with the fire and drive of a real leader. As she led them down the streets of the underground city.
"Jaune! left flank shooters!"
"Got it!"
Jaune said hosing down a row of fang soldiers with automatic weapon fire. Most of them dying or getting heavily wounded in the process. As-
"Blake!"
"I see her!"
Blake yelled teleporting out of reality to slice the throat of a woman with a tube launcher on the far side of the broken city street as-
CRACK!
A body crashed into the ground, it's throat slit as its head hit the dusty city streets with a sick plop!
As it burst in a shower of blood as a number of other bodies all began falling from the sky in a macabre rain before Ren popped!
Back in reality.
"All done Velvet! The top floors are all cleared out!" The boy said appearing out of mid-air slathered in blood as he wiped his scythes on his pants as-
"Jaune!"
"Ruby!?" The lost reaper appeared out of a smoking building, no gun in hand tears in her hand as she slammed into Jaune like a red meteor. Bowling the smaller boy over as she tackled him to the ground.
"Ruby!"
"Jaune I-
'Ruby!"
Velvet yelled yanking Ruby off Jaune. Holding her up like she was a piece of china as she inspected the girl.
"Are you hurt!? Can you fell your legs? Are you lightheaded? Can you hear me?!"
Velvet asked shaking the reaper like a rag doll making Ruby's eyes spin.
"Yes! I can hear you! I'm fine!"
Ruby said as Velvet looked at her with a discerning glare checking the smaller girl for any! Sign of injury and-
"Miss Rose! Are you ok!?"
Oobleck asked as Zwei barked! Happy that his mistress was ok and-
"I"m fine but the train!"
"The train? Yes, the train! Romans' going to get away-
Panic.
"Did you say, Roman?! Roman Torchiwck is here?!"
Oobleck asked her eyes shaking as he gripped RUbys thing shoulders.
"Yes! He's on the train! I don't know what he's doing but if we hurry we can catch him!"
Ruby said point to the far end of the cave where massive gray and beige train was beginning to slowly move away from them.
"Student. I know this is asking a lot, but we need to take that train."
Oobleck said a defiant glare on her face as the students nodded as one as the ran for the train.
"Down! All of you now!"
Oobleck yelled as she forced her students down into a row or grey cargo boxes as a glowing rocket flew over ther head as the telltale fwissh! Of a missile soared over their head as the enemy Paladins engaged them.
Less than a minute after they boarded the train, the six of them barely making in on board, as Oobleck gave Ruby her precious baby back. Had the six of them come under attack by four enemy paladins. As the massive white bipedal war machines pelted them with Gattling cannon round and the odd issue strike Oobleck hissed.
"This train has to be stopped. Velvet!"
"Yes?!"
The rabbit faunus yell keeping her head down covering her long rabbit ears as another missile barely missed her head exposing loudly against the back cave wall filling the air with a deaning crack! As a wall of fire filled, the ait as the six was pelted by shrapnel as their aura flared up as the robots fired on them.
"I will take down the paladins! You lead the rest of the team to the front of the train and stop this train!"
Oobleck yelled taking out her thermos extending it to a large cane-like an object before whistling at Zwei.
"Come on boy! let's show em what we got!"
She yelled as the dog barked!
As it jumped as it jumped? Up into the woman's thermos where she fired!?
The dog in a ball of flame causing one paladin to explode in a ball of fire as Jaune balked.
"What are you waiting for?! GO!"
Oobleck yelled as Velvet nodded shepherding her team into the train cars as Blake broke one down one as the five of them ran in as Oobleck grinned.
"Ok boy! That's one down! Let's see what the rest of them can do!"
"Bark!"
"That's the spirit!" Oobleck said as the robots began to fire.
CHA CHUNK! CA CHUNK! CACHUNK! CHA CHUNK!
The sound of train wheels moving filled the air as Jaune ran into the off-white color train cars. He was at the head of his team, as he and Ruby took the lead with Blake and Ren bringing up the rear of thier assault team.
Velvet stood in the middle of the assault team barking orders at them to check every corner and make sure that they covered one another as they sprinted through the train as more deafening CHA CHUNK! CHA CHUNKS! Filled his ears.
"She's taking to the whole leader business well enough."
His reflection said in his gun's polished barrel as Jaune nodded.
"She's doing well."
Jaune said as he and Ruby broke into a wide-open room as they rushed in as Velvet stormed behind them as they ran inside-
"Left!"
Blake yelled out her warning far too late as a blur of white moved them.
VRRRRR!
The sound of a motor roaring filled the air as Ren was yanked! Off his feet by a massive silver chainsaw. As a high pitched screaming sound filled the air as Ren howled, in agony as his small body was smashed by a massive woman wielding a chainsaw and-
"NO!"
Jaune yelled as his best friend was slammed screaming into the wall and-
"REN!"
Velvet yelled as-
BANG!
Velvet punched the women in the gut as a bright blue version of Yang's weapons appeared on her wrist as the woman gasped!
Falling half down to one knee before-
"AHH!"
She screamed as Blake appeared on her back. Stabbing her in the back of her neck, as she fell to her knees for Ruby to fire on her head point blank with her sniper rifle.
Crack!
As she fired into the woman's head making it jerk! Back in a decidedly unhealthy manner as her aura popped as the woman's massive weapon fell to her knees as she slumped down to the ground with a heavy THUD!
"Ren! You ok!?"
Jaune asked sliding to his downed friend his aura flaring up as-
Pain. Suffering. Fear.
"Fine! Just, fine!"
Ren said grimacing blinking owlishly as he flashed a pained grimaced as-
"Let me see him!"
Velvet said falling to her knees rubbing her hand all over Rens' chest and sides, making him wince in pain as Velvet frowned.
"You have several broken ribs. You will live but be careful! All of you!"
Velvet said as-
" I won't let any of you die. Not today, not on my watch."
Determination.
Jaune sensed the pure determination to save them flood from Velvet as she picked Ren up.
"Jaune, you take Ren. Don't let him walk alone. Ruby and Blake on me. Well, take the front. You two stay back! No one breaks formation! You understand?"
The normally timid girl barked as all four of them nodded as Velvet smiled.
"Good. Now follow me." She yelled as they quickly not to fast because of Ren's pained gaps! As they made ther way to the opposite side of the room where Velvet used Ember Celica? To blow down the door with a loud bang! As-
"Help! Please!"
A slew of panicked voices cried as Velvet gasped as the girls ran into the room.
"Help us!"
Another voice said as Jaune frowned as he sensed-
Panic. Hope. Fear.
Comming from the room as he helped a still the limping Ren as he saw it.
Cages. Ther where large metallic cages filled with women? In the next car. As Jaune saw a number of professionally dressed women in large metal cages the most prominent of the woman was well dressed with a tight form fitting blue business suit and skirt with long silver hair and the name Lavender on her chest.
"Who are you?"
Velvet asked the Lavender woman who looked to be the leader of the group as she smiled.
"My name is Lisa Lavender! I work for the Vale news network!"
The woman said panting heavily as Velvet looked down on with a worried look.
"Why are you in this cage?"
"We were reporting on the Fagn activity here! We got a tip about them, and I bought my news team with me to check it out!"
"You came here to a supposed fang base unarmed?"
Velvet asked her bunny ears rasing in confusion as the woman nodded.
"It was for the story!"
"It was stupid!"
Blake almost spat as the woman glared at ther.
"Can you get us out of here?!"
"Blake."
"On it."
The faunus said in a bored voice walking up and slashing! Open the cage breaking open the metal locks with Gambo Shroud as the women spilled out.
All in all, there were two women in each cage and one man. leading to a told of eight civilians in all Jaune counted as the woman was busted out-
"Larry!"
"Yes, Mam!"
"Get the drone up! I want this recorded and broadcasted!"
Lisa asked as the man nodded reaching for the back end of the train car as the women walked out of their cage.
"Broadcasted?"
Velvet asked as the man Larry? A skinny man in his mid-thirties pulled out a small box on the side of the car as he brought out a large black dinner plate that Jaune knew to be a news drone. As the drone began to whir.
"What's the situation here?"
Velvet askes trying to get some additional information as Lisa frowned.
"We don't know. We got captured almost as soon as we got here."
"How long ago did you get captured?"
Velvet asked pushing for details as the woman grimaced.
"Around two to three days ago. I don't know the exact time we've been in here. Sorry. I don't have much information for you."
"Figures."
Blake said dryly as Lisa glared at the faunus huntress before she flashed her aura and Lisa cowered.
"Blake."
Jaune said as Blake frowned before sighing as Jaune tossed a lasso on her.
"Sorry."
Jaune nodded as Velvet went on.
"I know you don't know much but is there anything you can tell us about the layout of this train?"
"Yes. There are two troopers in the next car but! The next car after it is a troop living area of some type. They will have over three dozen members in there. All of them armed and all prepared.'
Lisa said as Velvet hissed.
"Ok. Ruby check the next car with Blake and take down the Fang in there, then report back here. Jaune! Look for some medical supplies for Ren, he's not looking so well ok?"
Velvet asked as Jaune put Ren down as-
"Is he ok?"
The woman Lisa asked a worried look in her eyes as Velvet sighed.
"Some broken ribs, but he'll live. He's hurt and ther is some definite internal bleeding, but I think he'll be ok." Velvet said as Ren nodded happily to them as Ruby went to the door raising her rifle barrel to its hinges as-
"Breach!"
The reaper yelled as a loud Crack! Was herd as Ruby shot down the lock of the door and ran inside.
"Ruby wait!"
Blake yelled as Ruby kicked down the broken door and-
FWISHH!
"AHHH!"
Ruby screamed as a jet of yellow fire burned out of the door. Lashing out and covering the top of her head with a sticky yellow flame. As the reaper dropped her weapon with a loud clang!
As the flames enveloped her head she fell back into the train car. Screaming in agony as fire consumed her face as-
"Ruby!"
Jaune yelled flying over to Ruby's fame covered body slamming his hands on her face gritting in pain as he snuffed out the flams on her body by smothering them as-
BANG!
A wall of heat flowed into the room a something exploded in the back car. As a wave of fire and shrapnel filled the air as-
"Ruby!"
Velvet yelled sliding to the floor as she ripped out a medical box she yanked!
Off the wall, as she looked at Ruby's face and grimaced. Her left eye was nearly swollen shut. Her face was horribly burned and scarred, as Rubys' aura had failed almost entirely to protect her face from the heat as-
"Flamethrowers! Two troopers had flamers!"
Blake said gasping and panting for air as she came back into the room, covered in soot with Gambol Shroud out as Velvet wrapped a long white bandage over Rubys' charred face, applying gauze to her wound and grimacing as she applied her triage.
"Ruby, can you hear me?"
Velvet asked the badged whimpering younger woman as Ruby nodded weakly.
"Y-yes...
Ruby whined in a weak voice as Velvet grimaced.
"Can you walk?"
"I can walk!"
Ruby grunted standing up ignoring the pain in her face that Jaune felt.
As AGONY came from her mind as the five of them regrouped.
"OK! Listen up! From now on no one! Is to open a door alone! We breach in teams of two to three only! No one goes alone! Do I make myself clear?"
Velvet asked her team as she eyed them down.
"Yes!"
They all moaned as-
"We got it! We got a signal!"
Lisa said as the new drone began to drone on as Velvet cocked her head.
"A signal?"
"Yes! We can broadcast to the outside world! We can send for help!"
The woman said as relief flooded from their group as Jaune felt some of thier stress go away.
"Do it. Tell people what goign on try to warn Vale of an attack!"
Velvet yelled as Lisa wnt tot her drone.
"This is Lisa Lavend of the Vales news network! If you are not expecting this broadcast, then you should not be! But listen this is an extreme situation! I your very own Lisa Laven of Vale nightly along with many! Of my staff were captured and were subsequently liberated from the Whtie Fang base in our very own Mount Gleen! As you can see the two hunters and huntresses form Beacon have rescued us and have taken several severe wounds in the process."
Lisa said as the drone hovered to Jaune, who looked normal with his beige satchel hung over his neck his assault rifle in one hand a hurt Ren, supported on his shoulder as Ruby's bandaged face came into frame.
'Ok! We are breaching the next room as one! Do not! Get ahead of our group ok!?"
"Yes, Mam!"
The four yelled as the walked forward, to the front of the white door as the civilians followed close behind.
"We are currently following the hunters on their way to the end of the train that we believe to be headed to Vale itself! We will try to warn the authorities they're of an impending attack!"
Lisa said behind them as the drone hovered closely behind them as Velvet reached the door as Blake slid next to her, as Ruby slid behind Blake.
And Jaune and Ren drew ther weapons. Ren painfully as they stood behind her.
"On three. One. Two. Three. Breach!"
Velvet yelled as she punched down the door in as the screaming began.
"DOWN!"
Velvet yelled at the top of her lungs as Jaune and Ren slid into a thin white barrier as loud, harsh pings! And Bangs! Filled the air as the five hunters all scrambled into cover as a wall of bullets filled the air.
Filling the air with the harsh, sharp retort of automatic weapons fire as they all huddled close together as the news drone hovered in front of them.
It's slim black body floating right below the fire of the weapons as it's small silver camera zoomed in on thier panting dirty faces getting all their faces in a close-up.
"Velvet! What do we do!?"
Ruby asked thier leader shouting for her instructions struggling to be heard above the rain of automatic weapons fire pelting their position as she huddled next to Blake for cover as-
"Attack! We need to attack!"
Velvet screamed as she tried to be heard over the bullets. As stress bleed from her and fell onto her group like a thick slimy sludge as-
"How!?"
Jaune asked as he kept his head down avoiding taking any extra bullets to his head.
"We need to take them down! Or a distraction! Any ideas!?"
Velvet asked her charges as Jaune nodded.
"Yes! I got these!"
Jaune yelled taking out several frag grenades from his bag as Ruby gasped.
"Where did you get these?!"
Suspicion.
"Doesn't matter! Everyone take a grenade! On three we toss!"
Velvet yelled putting down the impending line of questions from Ruby who shot Jaune a questioning look.
As Velvet took the bombs from Jaune's hand as she distributed the grenades. Much like she did when distributing the soup they had eaten a few scant hours ago making sure all of them had one, and after a brief but unnecessary instruction taught them how to pull the pins. "On three! One! Two! Three!"
Velvet yelled as all five of them pulled the pins on their grenades as they shot up for cover as a lull in the storm of bullets appeared and tossed the grenades into the three dozen or so fang gunners as the grenades landed in low, lazy arcs as TING! BANG!
Screaming.
The screams of Fang along with the razor-sharp tings! Of shrapnel filled the air as-
"FIRE!"
Velvet yelled her blue gauntlets turning into a blue minigun!? As Jaune Ren, Ruby and Blake unloaded thier weapons onto the Fang filling the air with harsh weapons fire.
It was anarchy. As soon as Jaune saw the scene in front of him he had to fight the urge to gag. The Fang where butchered, almost a dozen bodies of women were torn apart ripped into bloody shredded pieces as the fragmentation grenades wreaked absolute havoc amongst their ranks. Most of the fang where badly injured with shrapnel in thier bodies as-
Bang!
Jaune's gun fired headless to the injured fang filling the air with its munitions as Velvets Minigun tore the fang in half. Her massive digital? Rounds blowing women part with contemptuous ease as-
Bang!
Ren cried out as a bullet hit him square in the chest making his aura pop!
As he was tossed back into the car and thrown in front of the civilians as bloody spots appeared on his robes over his chest. As the drone whirred over his face.
"Ren?! Are you ok!?"
Lisa asked her hands instinctively putting pressure on his wounds as the woman shouted for her crew to find a first aid box.
"Yeah! I'm-
Bang!
"AHH!"
Ren's chest exploded. As the bullet inside of him detonated making him gasp.
"Ren!?"
"Less ok...
Ren said his face turning pale as he coughed up blood as a bloody hole was torn in his chest.
"Ren's down!"
Jaune yelled as he fired onto the Fang ducking down to reload his assault rifle blazing.
"Dammit! Ruby go check on him-
Fit! FIT! BANG!
"AHHH!"
Velvet screamed as a slew of bullets hit her aura making it fail and pop! As Splat!
Her face exploded. The right side of Velvet's face popped into a bloody mess as Velvet was tossed back her right cheek gaping as-
FISHT!
"AHHHHHH!"
Velvet cried as the incendiary round in her cheek went off. Making her head burst into flames as the awful smell of cooking meat filled the air. As the woman stood upright her hands slapping against her face screaming her lungs out as bullets rang around her.
"Velvet!"
Jaune yelled tackling the screaming vulnerable faunus woman down as he did, Jaune cried as three bullets hit his back. The rounds breaking past his aura as three bloody spots appeared up his back close to his spine.
As the boy tackled the screaming, crying faunus to the ground.
PAIN!
"It burns! Oh, goddess! It burns! Mom! Coco! AHH!" Velvet screamed like a banshee her limbs thrashing as her hands battered her face ineffectively as the fire ate into her flesh bring her once flawless pale face, turning it into a charred mess as Jaune tried to put it out-
"It's napalm!"
His reflection yelled on his gun-
"I need a fire extinguisher!"
Jaune screamed as Blake appeared at his side in an instant.
"Move!"
She yelled as a loud FISSH!
Filled the air as she covered Velvet's face with the white foam as the fauns beauty moaned pathetically as she squirmed under it.
"Velvet!? Velvet?! Are you ok!?'
Jaune asked as the odd girl moaned as-
AGONY.
"She's hurt...
Jaune said rubbing a hand over her foam covered face as-
"I know we need to move her. Now!"
Blake said as the last sharp cracks!
Of Crescent, Rose filled the air. As Ruby finished off the last fang her gut lurching! At actually having killed another living being as Jaune a massive wave of stress coming from the girl as she flew to Velvet's side.
"Is she ok!?"
Ruby asked dropping to her knees as she cradled the injured woman's head in her lap as the drone whirred over her downed body.
"I don't know. Jaune! Look for medical supplies! Ruby drag Ren here! Move!"
Blake yelled as they all agreed. As they scampered to fix their friends, Jaune blurred to the side of the car as it rocked jumping around the pulped bodies of the Fang members as he tore open drawer, after drawer before-
"Goop!"
His reflection yelled as he saw it. The blue miracle healing substance was stacked high in a medical cabinet along with some type of apparatus for its dispersal as Jaune ripped it out and ran to Velvet's side.
"I found it!"
Jaune yelled rushing back to them as Blake raise her eyebrows at him.
"Found what?"
"This!"
Jaune yelled as he pointed the goop. At Velvets mess of a face. Her face was almost gone. Her skin popped! And chare into a brutal, bloody mess of broken charred flesh, she didn't even look human.
As he put the apparatus to her face.
FISHT!
The goop came out in a blue mist? Some type of foam-like substance, as it hit Velvet, she winced as it happened.
Her skin regrew, as it began to reknit itself forming around itself mending her horrific injuries as her face restored itself to its original status and-
"What is that?!"
Blake asked eying the container as Jaune put the goop in his satchel as he smiled.
"Insurance! Now let's go! Ren needs help."
Jaune said as he went to his friend...
"Ok! A new plan, the car spits up here so we will split. Jaune, you and Ren, take the right side with the civilians. Me Ruby and Blake will take the left. we meet at the front of the train clear?"
Velvet asked in a shaky but determined voice a large bandage over her recently heald face that was still dyed red as Jaune nodded.
"Yes, Mam."
"Good. No more risks today. I want us all alive."
She said as Jaune frowned. Jaune Ren and Velvet were all healed by the goop. Ruby refused to touch the substance saying she did not trust it. A good call really, as the goop while useful had essentially made it all the more easy for them to be further injured.
As Jaune and Ren lead the civilians and the news drone into a long open train car.
"Coast is clear! Let's go!"
Jaune yelled shouldering his rifle as-
The sound of shattering glass filled the air as a familiar petite woman dressed in full fang attire appeared in the center of the car before bowing in an exaggerated manner as she cocked her head at him.
"Neo!?"
Jaune sighed as she made a lasso motion in her hand.
"Neo, what are you doing here?!"
Jaune asked his girlfriend as she signed back to him.
"Guarding the train. What are you doing here?"
"Trying to stop it!"
"Oh. Ok, you know I can't let you pass right? You or Ren I mean we are on TV!"
"I... I need to get by...
"Hmm Fine! But only because you are my boyfriend! But it will cost you!"
"Cost me what?!"
Jaune signed incredulously as Ren looked on in interest. Not going to attack but bouncing on the balls of his feet as Neo licked her thin lips.
"Eat me out."
The woman thought as-
"You-
"Right here right now. Get on your knees and eat me out till I cum and I let you pass."
Neo thought as Jaune gaged and coughed.
"Neo! I just can't do that!"
"You have a point."
"Thanks-
"Tell Ren I'm sorry."
"For what-
WHAP!
In a moment Ren was gone.
Neo appeared in mid-air, kneeing him in the jugular making him gag before punching him in the temple knocking him out cold.
"NEO!?"
"Let's give them a show huh?"
She thought as the fight was on.
Well to call it a fight would be like to call a bodybuilding contest with Ruby and Yang a contest. It was less of a fight and more of a one-sided beatdown. Jaune was on his knees out of breath twin black eyes, his mouth coughing up spit and his gun kicked out as a sword at his jugular.
"Neo!? What are you doing!?"
Jaune signed one-handed as the drone caught there exchange as the civilians froze at the door.
"Make this look real. Now you eat me out, or I will kill those civilians."
Neo thought as Jaune coughed.
'What!?"
"Say it."
"Say what?!"
"Say not the civilians!"
Neo said as-
LUST.
Radiated from her body as Jaune sighed.
"You can't be serious!"
Jaune yelled dramatically as the civilians and the drone watched the defeated male with horror in thier eyes.
"You have two options."
Neo signed so the camera could see them as Jaune gulped, rough tears in his eyes as-
"You want me to-
"DO it."
Neo signed as she moved a hand to her leotard as Jaune gulped. As Neo pulled aside her leotard revealing her thin pink designer underwear that could put anything Coco had to shame as the civilians gasped as-
Incredulity. Panic. Anger. Guilt.
Filled his mind as Neo gestured to her pink underwear sword at his neck.
"You want me to eat you out!?'
Jaune asked shouting so the civilians could hear him as his girlfriend? Nodded hungrily to him.
"Yup! Eat me. Right here right now."
Neo purred as-
"Why!?"
"Cause I fell like it."
"We are in public! I'm supposed to be fighting you!"
"So what? We are already dating so it's not a big deal. And besides, I like a bit of role play now get to eating."
Neo thoguht as Jaune gulped as she was dead serious about this and-
"Well, this looks like a problem."
"You think!? She want's us to eat her out!"
"I can tell...
"What do I do?!"
"Really? Eat her out."
"What?! You can't be serious!"
"I am. I think she will kill those civilians."
His reflections sid as Jaune grimaced pulling her thin pink panties aside as-
"She's wet."
His reflection noted dully as Neo was in fact sacked, her thin puffy pink folds slick with her sex juices as Jaune sighed before putting his face forward as he sighed taking a deep breath before he dove his tongue inside of Neo's hot sex.
"YES!"
Neo thought as her mind was filled with electric jolts of pleasure as her body quaked as she felt Jaune's talented tongue grace her inner folds once again.
"You don't' know how long I've been waiting for this!"
Neo thought as her body shook as Jaune tongue began lapping around her wet folds.
"AH!"
Neo cried out her body squirming as her thin frame shook. Jaunes tongue dived into her soaking wet folds, rolling around and delving into her sex. Lappin gup her thing tight walls as she groaned in pleasure. Her hips beginning to buck forward as she bit her teeth.
Grinding her hips into his face, forcing his mouth into her cunt as low wet smacking! And slurping sounds filled the air as Jaune ate her on the train car as she held her weapon to his neck threateningly as he did so. Her steel poking his jugular, as his tongue slathered her inner folds.
Making Neo's sex quiver as his tongue worked her over.
Much to Neo's satisfaction Jaune had lost none of his oral talents in the few days since she had last put the boy between in her legs.
"Fuck! You got better at this!"
Neo thought as she grinned wickedly as Jaune ate her out. Her dribbling cunt covering his face with her sex juices. Smearing him with her sex s as-
"Fuck!"
Neo thought gripping the blondes short messy hair pulling him closer to her sex as she came.
Her body rocked as sher had to fight the silent scream back down her throat as her pent up stress combined with Jaunes impossibly talented tongue made her climax faster than she ever expected as-
"Good. Now she's done."
Jaune thoguht tasking Neo's limited tasty sex, her pussy walls covering his face with their unique nectar as he felt Neo's body spams as she climaxed on his face as-
"She squirts."
"Thanks. I saw. And tasted..."
Jaune thought to his reflection as-
"The hell?!"
Jaune thought as Neo pushed his face deeper into her sex moaning in pleasure as she ground her hips into his face as Jaune glared up at his lover, hs tongues instinctively diving into her still quivering pussy lips as she growled at him.
"You are nowhere near done! Keep going!"
Neo thought as Jaune sighed.
"Why is she so needy today?"
Jaune thoguht deciding to speed this process up. Delving into her cunt as Jaune switched it up, changing up his tongues attack patterns making Neo moan out loud as he would on occasionally pop!
His mouth of her cunt to bite her clits teasing her exposed pink nub. Rolling and delving his tongue over and into her vulnerable flesh before lightly biting down on it making Neo scream in his head as-
"Naughty boy! You are going to get fucked so hard when I take you back home!"
Neo thought letting her mouth fly back as her second orgasm rocked through her body as she moaned out loud as a smile crested both of thier faces as Neo rubbed Jaune's cheek lovingly as her lover at her out.
Neo cam came three more times, before having her fill. The petite woman pulling up her leotard, patting Jaune on his face delving a quick wet kiss to his cheeks.
"Thanks for that love. I know that was rough but I'll blow you when we get back to our home ok?"
Neo thought as Jaune signed to her.
"Fine. But can we not do this again? That was awkward as all hell."
Jaune signed wiping her sex juices off his face as-
"Not awkward enough for you to not get hard though right?" Neo thought taking her thin foot rubbing Jaune's crotch where a sizeable bugle was apparent as Jaune flushed as Neo giggled once before blowing a kiss his way before she teleported away disappearing in a shower of glass.
Leaving Jaune alone on his knees panting, his face completely covered in her sex juices, making Jaune tasted the oddly sweet love juices on his face as his tongue licked up her cunt juices from his lips greedily as the boy gained an annoyed look.
"Why is she so...
"So Neo?'
"Exactly. I mean she's amazing but I-
RAGE.
Jaune froze as he felt rage? Flowing around him as-
"Who the hell is angry?"
Jaune thought as-
"Oh boy... this is going to be bad."
His reflection said in his gun as he picked up the weapon and-
Pity. Hate. GUILT. RAGE.
"I... I'm so sorry...
The woman Lisa? Said tears in her face as-
GUILT.
Jaune felt guilt from behind as he looked back to the woman Lisa? Walking up to him with tears? In her eyes as-
"Sorry? Sorry for what?"
Jaune asked as the man Larry? Came up to him fuming as he picked up Ren's stirring body and-
"For what happened! I... I'm just... I'm sorry!"
Lisa said her voice cracking as Jaune felt the Rage? And Pity coming from her mouth as she bit back her own tars as most of the new women he rescued had the same reactions. Tears in their eyes face scowling as-
"Here. Wipe your face...
Another woman said almost shaking with anger as Jaune took her handkerchief as he tossed a lasso on Lisa's mind.
"Fuck! I am pathetic!"
The woman thought biting back a wave of guilt as-
"What was wrong with me!? I just let a boy get attacked?! What the hell was I thinking!?"
"She had aura! You couldn't have made a difference!"
"So what?! I can't just sit back when people are in danger!"
Twin voices yelled in her head as she reminded Jaune of Blake as-
"What's wrong with them?"
Jaune asked his shield as-
"Jaune. They don't know Neo. They don't know your relationship with her. They just saw a terrorist force a boy to eat her out. They think they just saw sexual assault."
His reflection said as Jaune gulped as the situation fell into place as-
"Come on! We need to keep moving."
Jaune said not wanting to let this disaster fester as he took the woman to the coupling to the train.
As Jaune left the train door, the air attacked his face. Making him squint as the horrible roaring of winds of the racing train filled his face. The train was rolling underground on a b line to Vale apparently as-
BANG!
A whole wall of the cave suddenly exploded. As Jaune hissed as his ears popped! As his eyes watered as the wind thankfully whisked! Away the remainder of Neo's juices... As Jaune saw sunlight fall into the cavern along with-
"Grimm. Twelve o'clock. "
His reflection said as Jaune saw hordes of Grimm, falling into the tunnel. As Beowulf's, Ursa, and Creeps. All types normal and Alphas began to assault the train. As the train began to detach its own cars creating more explosions. As fire and metal filled the air as more gaps appeared in the tunnel as more Grimm came as an even older monster like Deathstalkers begna following the train as a carpet of black followed them and-
TING! Jaune ducked as a small grey? Object tinged! Into his line of sight nearly taking off his head as it impacted onto the train car. Jaune blinked as he saw a small cylindrical object that was vibrating? Fall onto the train. As Jaune bent down, he saw it was a small object around a foot tall and a quarter wide. Made of a grey metal and absolutely covered in moss and dirt.
As he saw the words. Ave Imperator and the letter wrote on it in bright, bold letters. Followed by the word made? Barely legible with a stylized human skull, that was half mechanical? On its bottom with the words, Mechanicus made as-
"It hurts!"
A faunus newswoman said covering her bat ears and pointing at the device as Jaune saw it vibrating as-
"Get rid of it!"
The woman yelled tears in her eyes as Jaune panicked tossing the small device off the train as he saw the Grimm swarmed it? A sizeable part of the swarm surrounding it as-
"It's calling them?'
His reflection said as Jaune grimaced he didn't have the time to debate or understand how the device was called the Grimm as he turned around leading the woman into the next car of the train. Sparing a glance back as a sizeable portion of the Grimm swarmed the small object as Jaune readied to breach the room alone.
"Should we really be going in alone? I mean Ren's KO'd and the civies don't even have guns. Are we really going to be ok?"
"Breach!"
"Ok. Ignore me them. Fine."
It said as Jaune broked down the door and-
"DOWN!"
His reflection yelled as soon as Jaune walked into the room twelve Fang fired on him.
As the grunts fired, the civilians where lucky enough to be standing far enough behind him to not be killed in the first volley as Jaune fell flat to the floor.
Cursing his luck as bullets whizzed above his head forcing him back onto the floor. Crawling into a corner of the car hiding behind a silver locker grunting in exertion as he saw it.
Infront of him where grenades!
Or some type of grenades that were locked being a see-through plastic container with only a simple metallic lock guarding them as Jaune thanked his lucky stars as he dove face first into a weapons locker. As he hacked out the lock on the see-through glass with his hatchet as-
"Bastion proof?"
Jaune asked as he took out the first grenades that looked! Like a normal frag grenade but with the words Bastion proof. Written on it with bright, bold red letters alogn with the words Wire bombs. Written on the end of the grenade rack as Jaune shrugged his shoulders not caring what they were or what Bastion proof meant as he turned his head-
Vathhom!
Jaune fired before he could even think. As a Fang grunt popped! Over his cover as she met Shorty. The woman's upper torso vanished in a poof! Of blood as-
"Sandy!"
"You fucker!"
A woman yelled as Jaune pulled the pin on the wire bomb. As he tossed it over the edge of his cover as he reloaded his rifle popping out to shoot the woman that would no doubt be wounded by the blast as-
FWIP!
Jaune wanted to scream. As the wire bomb burst! In mid-air, as several long thick black cables shot out of it. Jaune watched as they burst! Through the fang women. The thick cables going clean through thier aura and armor. As the thin, strong wires effectively skewered the woman turning them into human shishkabobs.
The long black tentacles impaling and wrapping around them as Jaune felt-
AGONY.
Fill his mind as the women let out a scream that would haunt his dreams as-
VRRRTT!
The sound of a strong motor running filled the air as all at once the wires constricted, as the grenade pulled it's cables back in on itself. Wrapping them back in and tearing the woman apart in a brutal shower of blood and bone.
Jaune wanted to scream to cry out as the horror unfolded in front of his face. As the women were turned into desecrated bloody chunks as free limbs flew out torn from their homes. As body parts where pureed and blood and viscera flew out painting the car red as the offending Fang where torn into bloody chunks as the wire bombs. Ripped, and pulled them apart.
Forcing the remaining chunks of women into a single massive bloody pile in the center of the car as Jaune's weapon reduced them into bloody chunks as-
"What happened in here!?"
Lisa asked covering her mouth in horror. As she saw the carnage of the bloody, broken limbs that littered the floor, along with the single horrifying cluster of annihilated bodyparts in the middle of it as-
"I killed them. Let's go."
Jaune said forcing down his revulsion at the massacre and pushing the remaining wire bombs. Into his satchel as he walked forward. The next train car was luckily a joint one. As the split in the train finally made itself whole. As the rest of the train seemed to be one long file for him and his team to attack, well it would be if his team was there...
As Blake, Ruby and Velvet had yet to catch up with him and with no signs of them and Ren still knocked the hell out, his back up was thin to none.
Time was running out and if Roman was there? Blake and Ren would understand but Ruby? What would she or Velvet do if they saw him and Roman? What would happen if he had to make a choice? Roman or his friends... If he picked his friends Neo would most likely make whatever was left of his life short and painful. And if he picked Roman? He was throwing away his dreams of ever being a hunter and that was not going to happen.
Jaune needed to stop this train. And he needed to stop it alone. If Roman saw him maybe he could reason with him? Maybe he could talk to him and sort this out? Maybe...
"Ok. I'm going to go check the train car in front of us. Stay behind me."
Jaune told the civilians. Making sure his rifle was loaded and making sure he was ready to go as-
"Should you really be going alone?! I mean you just got rap-
"I'm fine! Just stay behind me."
Jaune said as-
"We should really! Wait for back up."
His reflection cautioned on the barrel of his assault rifle as-
"No time. This train's probably going to Vale. And with all those Grimm behind us? I need to get to the front hopefully talk to Roman and talk him down."
"Or he could kill us. He want's us alive, but he is not fond of us when we fuck over his plans."
"That's a risk I'll just have to take. After all how bad can it be?"
Jaune asked as he opened the silver door and-
Jaune immediately regretted that decision as he saw just how bad things could be as her burst down the door where a damn Atlas Paladin was waiting for him. The massive war machine stood sentinel in the train car. It's massive silver bulk taking up almost the entirety of the car, and it began spooling up its Gatling cannons as-
"Fire in the hole!'
Jaune yelled as he instinctively pulled out his ion detonator. Pushing down on the small silver softball-sized orb, as he pushed. Down on the top of it as it's top depressed suddenly as it began to beep!
Ominously as several sharp beeps! Filled the air Jaune pulled his arm back tossing the weapon over his head, arcing it slowly as it sailed towards the Paladin as the massive walker raised its cannon at Jaune.
Each barrel longer and wider than Jaune as his small bomb sailed toward it beeping ominously as-
FISHHH!
The Paladin did not so much as explode as it vanished. The ion detonator went off as a full three-quarters of the machine vanished into nothing. As a massive cloud of silver powder filled the air. The whole center of the machine turned into dust disappearing in an instant as the machine's legs began to slump as Jaune let a smile cross his mouth as-
Vathum! Vathum!
Fisht! FISHT!
Jaune screamed as the Gatling cannon fired off twin shots, its targets systems somehow still active despite the death of its core operating systems as twin cannon rounds slammed into his body. As twin cannon shells slammed into him. One striking the center of his leg, the other his lower gut.
Jaune's world exploded in pain as his leg was nearly torn off as a softball hole appeared in his gut as he was yanked off the ground and-
"Jaune!"
Thud!
Jaune smacked into the ground as his world spun as silver hair flowed over him as Lisa's tear-streaked face came over him, as she began panicking.
"Oh, Goddess! Help! Jaune! What do I do!?'
Lisa asked running her hands over Jaunes still body as blood poured out from his wounds as-
"The bag... get the spray...
Jaune said as Lisa listened as he felt his body freeze as his body began to shut down as the massive amount of blood loss and catastrophic internal organ damage filled his body.
As his body began to shut down and life ebbed and flowed. Great vista's of emptiness appeared in his vision and-
FISS!
Jaune gasped! As he felt the goop, in mist from work over his body. As he felt the unnerving feeling of his own internal organs and body began to reknit themselves. As his body began to heal from the damage as-
'AHH!"
Jaune gasped sitting up his body suddenly coming alive. As he nearly bounced up to his feet, looking down at his body marveling as his body was back...
The hole in his gut was gone, and his legs were basically reattached as besides his ruined custom Beacon uniform, as besides Coco's rage at the loss of her clothing Jaune was fine...
His lower gut was fully healed, his leg was no longer dangling off a thin thread of sinew and he was for all intents and purposes back to normal.
"Jaune?! What are you thinking!?"
Lisa yelled, her grey eyes cloudly with tears and worry as-
"We need to keep moving."
Jaune said waving the woman away as he checked his rifle.
"You need to rest!"
Lisa yelled gripping his arm spinning him back as the drone whirred in front of him. The bottom slung camera zooming in on him as he frowned.
"I need to stop this train!"
"You almost died!"
"But I'm alive right?"
Jaune asked as he began walking again. He ignored Lisa's cries of waiting for back up as he marveled at just how good his recently replaced muscles worked until they didn't
Jaune felt the shift in his weight almost at once. As his ripped healed left leg dipped. It was like he had stepped in quicksand as his leg failed. He felt an off feeling coming from his leg as his gut began to curdle his limbs felt almost stringy? Like it was not attached just right and it was barely functioning as Jaune gained a limp in his gait as he reached the ending door of the train.
As he went to it to his surprise it was unlocked? As he swung the door open and burst into the head of the train.
"Jaune! My good lad! Come in! Come in! Tell me how my favorite goody two shoes is doing!"
Roman said warmly standing at the center of a control center of the train. Surrounded by a series of computer terminals with an easy glare as a Fang masked Neo watched them both enigmatically as Jaune growled drawing his hatchet and combat knife. He drew both melee weapons knowing that a ranged exchange would lead to Roman out sniping him or Neo teleporting in and disarming him in a moment so he stuck to melee and the prospect! Of a negotiation.
As he walked up to Roman knife out as-
"Roman! Listen to me! I know this is going to sound crazy but please! I need you to stop the train-
"Ok."
Roman said easily without pause as Jaune paused as Roman agreed?
"You... you'll stop the train?" Jaune asked incredulously as-
"Sure. Why not?"
Roman asked shrugging his shoulders as Jaune balked.
"You'll stop this train?"
"Sure. Well, I won't stop the train. Vale's streets will."
Roman said as Jaune snarled.
"Roman the Grimm!"
"That's the point Jaune. I mean we are a bit early but-
"I won't let you!"
Jaune yelled about to charge him as-
"Jaune!?"
Ruby yelled blurring into the room on a shower of red roses and sprinting up to Jaune the girl looked like a hot mess. Covered in bruises scars and her hair was on fire?! As she blurred up to his side and glared death at him.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?"
"I-
"Don't! You should have waited for us! You look like you are about to die!"
"I-
Bang!"
Ruby flew back in a shower of red as Roman shot her in the chest as her aura flared up saving her life.
"Ruby!?"
"Nice to see you, Red! Glad you could drop by!"
Roman said calmly twirling his cane as-
Bang!
Jaune fired his pistol at Roman as the man rolled out of the way of his bullets as-
Crack!
"AH!"
Roman cried as Ruby's sniper rifle fired catching him in the chest making his aura flare up as he flew backward into a pile of terminals as he grunted in pain.
"Dammit! Do you want to help me, partner!?"
The man grunted as Neo shrugged her shoulders enigmatically at him.
"Why do I even bother?"
Roman grunted as he was struck by the rifle-
"You go left."
"I go right."
Jaune and Ruby said as the began to charge the thief. Roman was downed dizzy and dazed. As Jaune and Ruby chared him taking him form two sides at once as the never stood a chance.
Even if the outnumbered Roman, he had a nearly full aura. Was in good health. He was a fully trained Beacon student and even without the criminal experience he could by his own strength easily fight and beat Jaune or Ruby to a standstill and beat them within an inch! Of thier life with one hand behind his back, during a one on one, but now?
With Jaune and Ruby both at the end of their ropes, one with no aura and one with her's on the deep red Roman picked them apart.
His first strike came when Jaune and Ruby slashed at him as one.
Both teens attacking him as one, slashing at him from both sides as the tired to skewer him through as Roman glittered?
Roman's body was suddenly white the man vanished? Roman seemed to melt from reality as Jaune and Ruby's weapons hit nothing but air as-
"What am I doing here?"
Jaune asked as his hatchet flew through mid-air as...
What was Jaune doing here? He needed to stop the train that was clear as day but... why was he here? Why where he and Ruby slashing at mid-air? Where they fighting someone? If so who? What were they doing with-
WHAP!
"AH!"
Ruby cried as white blur appeared out of thin air as Melodic cudgel slammed down on her head. The weapon and it's wielder appearing out of nowhere as the blunt end of the cane shot out crashing into the back of her head like a sledgehammer. As the reaper smacked!
Into the train's metal floor as-
"Ruby!"
Jaune yelled as his best friend crashed into the ground before seeing stars as Roman sucker punched him. Landing a haymaker on him tossing him five feet back.
As Ruby blurred back into the fight turning her body into a red tornado slamming into-
Nothing
Ruby hit nothing as...
'What am I doing here?"
Ruby asked as she came out of her spine halting her attack her silver eyes blinking in confusion before-
Whack!
Roman appeared from behind her slamming his cane into the back on her kneecaps, sending her crying to the floor before shooting Ruby in her back. Taking her aura to nil. As he pulled the moaning reaper up to her feet, as a feral snarl filled his face.
"This!"
WHAP!
"Is why!"
WHAP!
"You don't!"
WHAP!
"Stay up!"
WHAP!
"Past!"
"Your bedtime!"
Roman yelled beating Ruby's face into a bloody pulp with his aura infused fists. The young reaper moaning numbly as her one revealed eye was now black almost swollen shut as blood flowed freely from her mouth as Roman sighed. Putting Ruby down and raising his cane to her face. Putting the barrel of it into her open near broken mouth as the news drone whirred on him as he went to pull the trigger and-
"What's the point?"
Roman asked aloud reasoning that the girl was dead in the nest two minutes no matter what why speed up the process? Roman reasoned to himself before tossing her to the side as-
"JAUNE!"
BRRTTT!
Jaune saw black? As amber eyes fell over him as Blake pulled him up. As-
"Oh, goddess! Your face! No! No! NO!"
Blake's thoughts filled his brain as Velvet pelted Roman with her cannon rounds as the thief dove for cover and-
"Please be ok! Please! Please be ok!"
Blake said almost crying cradling Jaune's dazed bruised form as-
"Stay down!"
Velvet yelled pelting Roman as-
"You first kid!"
Roman yelled as Neo appeared behind him teleporting him away from the train terminal as the train gained speed the lead car seemingly doubling its pace and-
White...
Jaune saw white as a terrible sound of tearing metal filled the air. As he looked around. PAIN.
His body exploded in pain as his eyes opened tears of agony fell from them as Jaune felt like had just gone twelve rounds with Yang in a boxing ring after he had shaved her head.
As he opened his eyes, it took a herculean effort to not let his lids close, as he forced open his eyes the wide smoke filled Vale skies filled his vision, as he turned his head crying out in pain as he did. He was in Vale... that was comforting to an extent, he was on his back in Vale surrounded by twisted metal and broken concrete as a massive hole was now in the ground as Jaune groaned as he saw that Vale was breached as he moaned in pain as he attempted to get up. Only to cry out in pain as he felt like daggers where being driven into his legs.
"Blake?! Blake?! Ruby!?"
Jaune yelled his voice croaking with pain as he cried in torment as a low warning siren wailed in the background.
"Ruby! Bla-
"Jaune!"
A tired pained voice said as-
Relief.
Blake appeared behind him hugging him tightly. As the injured faunus girl came from behind him.
"Are you ok?!''
Blake asked her thing arm roving around Jaune's injured body looking for any sight of injury, though finding fairly little cuts and bruises thankfully as he smiled weakly.
"I'm ok. I just-
"Miss Belladonna! Have you found mister Arc!?"
"Yes, doctor! I'm coming!" Blake yelled putting Jaune over her shoulder. Putting the boy's arm around her neck as she began to help him walk as-
"What is wrong with you!? Why didn't you wait for us!?"
Blake practically seethed to Jaune as she helped the limping boy across the ruined Bale city center as Blake pulled him to what looked like a gathering area?
Ren laid on his back moaning weekly his right leg set in a makeshift splint of wood and cloth. Oobleck looking down worriedly at him.
Velvet half her face still wrapped in cloth walked back and forth as Ruby sat on her ass. Looking over her rifle as-
"Jaune"!
Ruby said looking up as-
"Miss Rose! How much?!"
"I have five full magazines left! Plus half in my gun! Blake had two magazines, and I think Jaune has more? He scavenged format the fang on the train."
Ruby said looking over her weapon apparently doing an ammunition check as the civilians except for Lisa?
Laid behind her, all heavily injured sporting bruises and cuts as the damned news drone that had by some miracle survived the train crash and now hovered around them as Blake gently put Jaune down as-
"Miss Belladonna! the tunnel!
The doctor yelled as Blake nodded popping! Away to the mass tunnel in the ground, courtesy of Romans train as Blake teleported there before popping back in a cloud of purple.
"I got the disc set up! Grimm incoming! From what I can hear we have a full horde!"
She yelled as-
"Ok! Listen up students! I know you are all children but today you need to be adults! This might be the last time we speak so please pay attention! We are on our own here for now! I've contacted Opal, but currently, all of Beacon assistance and Atlas assistance are well outside of Vale. The good news is that we will be reinforced in under ten minutes!"
The doctor said as a wave of relief flooded the students as the chance of rescue loomed in the distance.
"The bad news is that there is a full horde of Grimm approaching us, and if they get behind us Vale is next. There is nothing else to say, we need to hold this line. There is no retreat here, all of you sighed up to be hunters huntresses, you all knew there might be a day when you might have to die one day and as much as it pains me to say that day looks to be now."
The doctor said pulling her stained grimy classes off her face as a low sigh left her mouth.
"Blake. Ruby. Take the civilians somewhere safe. Mister Arc I hope you are rested, for we have to fight now. And I am not so sure we will be singing about this fight." Oobleck said taking out and swinging her long thermos staff hybrid, as Velvet yelled at a crowd of people to get back!
As she Ruby grabbed the wounded civilians along with Lisa dragging them into a relative safety of a nearby building as-
"Well. It looks like we are about to die. It was a good life you know? Well not good as in a happy life, but we had our moments. Or I did in my opinion." "Let's not quit so easily. We're not dead yet."
Jaune said taking out his hatchet as he reloaded his assault rifle as-
Fisht!
"AH!"
Ren gasped as the boy sat up nearly screaming as the doctor removed her hands from his chest withdrawing something with a long hiss!
"Sorry about the pain mister Ren but desperate times call for desperate measures. We need all hands on deck injured our not."
Oobleck said as Ren groaned standing up on wobbly legs, barely gripping his scythes, as he stood Ruby and Lise finished dragging the civilians to safety as Lisa locked the doors behind what looked to be a tax office of some kinds.
As Blake appeared at his side.
"Stay by my side. I'll keep you safe."
Blake whispered drawing Gambol shroud as Jaune nodded once raising his rifle as a wave of beady red eyes appeared in the tunnels as a black talon reached out, a kife like claw reached to split the concrete, an off-kilter scream was heard as the first Grimm came past the whole and the breach was on.
To call what happened in the next few second madness was like saying that Oobleck had a minor caffeine addiction. It was insanity. A literal wall of black fur, shining talons, and glistening teeth roared out form the breach.
As a tidal wave of Grimm came from the massive hole. It was anarchy.
The first bits of the horde were cut apart, torn into bloody ribbons by a wave of automatic fire from the hunters. Jaune's Ren's, Ruby, and Velvets weapons tore apart the first wave of Grimm like they were paper.
Espically Velvet's mini gun that practically gutted them in half as scores of Grimm did in a matter of seconds. It didn't make a difference.
After less than ten seconds of firing everyone but Velvet needed to reload, and the lull in the initial wave of carnage was all the Grimm needed to reform and surge out.
Breaking out of the hole scattering the hunter fire line as the real fight was on.
FRSHT!
"AH!"
Jaune screamed as he jumped through a glass window shattering the plane as he fell back. As he was forced back an ugly snapping leering jaw was only a few scant inches from his face as a Beowulf charged him. The thing died before he hit the floor as his assault rifle barked, it's muzzle flashing as the bullets stitched across its lower chest. Two hitting it's rib cage the other its eye blowing out whatever counted for a brain as he fell onto the white tiled floor of the building he lept into with a hard Thud!
"Well at least that one won't kill us. Maybe one of the hundreds outside will be so kind?"
His reflection asked sarcastically as Jaune groaned.
As he reloaded, his rifle te took a brief second to pause seeing that he was surrounded by large washing machines? The boy had jumped into a laundromat of some kind with the words Politan's express drycleaning!
On the front of the building as Jaune took note of the buildings familiar and unique multi-colored schemed. As everything inside was either white, pink or brown as-
"Six!"
His reflection yelled as he swiveled as three Beowulf broked down the front glass window and snarled at him.
Jaune fired instantly, killing one Grimm where it stood as a burst of automatic weapon fire killed it where it stood.
The next two charged him one dying halfway to him falling under a hail of led, the other reaching him as his gun clicked!
Running out of ammo Jaune tossed it to the floor sidestepping the now wounded Grimm drawing out his hatchet and knife slicing off one of its outstretched legs. The monster howled, as its forward leg came off in a shower of gore. As Jaune's knife bit clean through its bone and all as it crashed!
Into a laundry machine and whimpered before Jaune took his blade and sunk it into its back.
As the monster died, Jaune sighed as he took a moment to reoperate-
BANG!
The moment died almost as soon as it began as the wall next to him exploded, and three Ursa charged in.
"Look out!"
"I see them!"
Jaune thought instantly jumping into the first bear monster as it roared.
The thing roared at him as he sunk his hatchet deep into is skull mask, cracking the mask of the Grimm as it gave a roar of anger and frustration before going still as he sunk his knife into the bottom of its skull making it pop out of its head.
Killing it instantly as-
"Left!"
The other Ursa ran on his left, Jaune ducked the haymaker arm swipe of it darting into stabbing the monster clean through its chest. His knife bitting deep into the monster's chest as he found his target. Stabbing its heart killing it instantly.
'NO!"
Jaune yelled as the things dead weight carried it forward as the monster fell.
Taking Jaune with it crushing him on the floor. Jaune felt like a massive wool coat was over him as the monster fell on him. The dead Grimm collapsed taking him down and suffocating him. Jaune panicked. His hands pushed up to no avail. As over four hundred pounds of fur and muscle crashed down onto him as what was left of his aura flared up. As he tried to get the thing off him, his eyes watered and his lungs burned as his breath began to catch he felt his vision go black and-
"HAH!"
Jaune gasped as the weight was suddenly lifted off of him letting him breathe before-
"AH!"
A massive clawed foot pressed into his back making him scream as long talons dug into her spine as the last Ursa pounced forcing him down with one paw pushing it's massive head to his neck, as its rancid breath washed over him and-
Fisht!
Thud!
The things head thudded to the floor, as the monster fell off of him. A shower of blood sprayed over his back as-
"Get up."
An irritated? Voice said as Jaune looked up to see his savior, and much to his shock it was a he.
The boy was older than Jaune wearing a Beacon uniform with rich brown skin, short spiky red hair and-
"He's a faunus?"
"He's also blind.'
His reflection said in the pool of blood as-
"Thanks-
"Don't thank me."
The boy said sharply wiping off the blood red combat knife he used to decapitate the Grimm on his pants as he held out a gloved hand to him.
"You are Coco's pet right?"
The boy asked helping Jaune up as Jaune flushed with indignation.
"I'm not her pet!"
He told the boy who sighed in frustration.
"You are wearing her designer uniform, that you ripped... you are definitely her pet."
The boy repeated slowly yawning as the sounds of chaos and battle sounded from outside as the damn new drone hovered behind him.
"My name is-
"Jaune. I know."
The boy interrupted him as Jaune frowned.
"And you-
"Alistar. Fox. Don't get too attached. I won't."
The boy said rudely before yawning loudly as he cracked his knuckles and pointed outside to the chaos.
"Ok. We got a bit of a Grimm problem as you can see so stick behind me kid. Coco will kill me if I let her boy toy die ok?"
"I am not! Her boy toy!"
"You are definitely her boy toy." The boy said as they both walked into the chaos of the town as Jaune picked up and loaded his gun as the drone followed them. It's camera never leaving the two as they walked into the battle.
Blake was not having what you might call a good day.
Fisht!
Blood covered her face as she decapitated a Beowulf kicking it back into the floor as it began to disintegrate as another four came to take its place as she grimaced. She lost Jaune early on. The blonde boy was somewhere in the mess of the Breach. Her and Velvet where current back into an alley corner fighting of Grimm by themselves as the tired to buy time. Two minutes had passed since Blake last saw Jaunes' face, and now it was looking like she might never see him again.
As she and Velvet made what was looking more and more like a final stand. The two of them forced into a small corner between two apartment buildings as the Grimm seemingly senses thier vulnerability and rushed them. As the twin huntresses fought back to back, Velvet keeping the hordes of Gram away from them as Blake executed any that struggled past her withering volley of firepower.
The battle between the girls and the Grimm was steady but fleeting. Velvet might be able to create ammunition but she needed dust, and she was running out. And Blake's gun was not meant for dealing with crowds as-
"There!"
Velvet yelled as Blake turned from killing an Ursa, leaping on it's back and stabbing through its spine. As the monster dropped dead, Blake saw it. It was an ape? Grimm. The thing was massive almost two stories tall, and it was pissed.
The Grimm bellowed beating its chest as it began to charge them. As it charged the other Grimm bolstered by its presence redoubled thier effort to get to the girls. As Blake and Velvet were forced into the corner of twin building as the monstrous ape like Grimm was bounding towards them, dragging its massive bulk with its knuckles. The ground shook with every massive step of the monster's approach as Blake's body tensed as she prepared to enter a desperate melee when-
A loud inhuman scream filled her ears the Grimm was cleaved in two?! The monster fell into two pieces as a man? Of all things stood before her, he was a massive man, over six feet with a massive claymore carried with one hand and a large multi-colored set of boxes? In his other hand looking like he had just come from a shopping trip and-
"Yatsu!"
Velvet said as her face light up as the massive man turned around and smiled.
"Hello, little rabbit. How is my partner doing this day? It looks like you have a Grimm problem."
Yatsu? Said pointing to the Grimm in one easy gesture as the death of their leader cause a temporary scatting of thier number as-
"The Grimm! We need to close that breach!"
Velvet yelled as the man nodded.
"I see. Let us kill these monsters and be done. I for one do not want to be here when Coco sees her teammate injured."
The man said shivering as Velvet gulped.
"You... You think she's going to be mad?"
"At you? No. But her excess anger might just make life for us... difficult.
The man said cleaving down four Beowulfs in one east motion. Cutting through them like they were paper. As he smiled in a gentle way as he sliced down Grimm six to seven at a time. "Why are you even here? Why didn't you go with Atlas?"
Velvet asked her teammate as he grimaced.
"Coco needed me and Fox to go shopping. And that took precede over a to quote dumb ass international bullshit thing that's a waste of everyone's time and money. To quote our leaders mouth."
"Sounds like her," Velvet said smiling as-
"We should talk later Velvet. We have more pressing matters to attend to. Like living."
The man said as the Grimm horde gained back thier wits and charged them.
Crack!
"Oh man! Oh man! Why me!?"
Crack!
Ruby pulled the release on her gun, ejecting out the spent magazine and slamming a fresh one home as-
Crack!
Ruby fired again, and another Beowulf died in a puff of gore. As it fell off the side of a building as Ruby panicked. Jaune's plan for the beginning of the breach was simple. Stall.
It became abundantly clear within two minutes of the breach that a firing line was not going to work. If they wanted any chance of saving civilians and holding out for ten minutes until rescue arrived they needed to split up.
As all of them split up taking different parts of the city as they tried to pull the horde in as many different directions as possible as Ruby took to downtown drawing the attention of a horde of Beowulf's in the process.
As the young woman had soon been in way over her head as the Beowulfs charged her. Attacking her from all sides, climbing over buildings, cutting out of alleys-
A red snarling face shot out from behind a car as Ruby eeped!
Summersaulting forward slicing out the things legs with her scythe. Taking out all four of its limbs as it snarled before-
Crack!
Ruby shot the thing dead in the face as she ran back into her run as the plan became clear. The Grimm cost her time, as the main pack behind her gained a precious few feet on her as-
Crack! Crack!
Ruby fired twice as twin Beowulfs jumped down from the roofs of other buildings surrounding her, only to be killed but twin bursts of Crescent Rose as-
Crack!
Another Beowulf snarled out an alley, only to be shot dead in the head by Ruby as-
She tripped. Ruby's cape was snagged by a stray claw of a disintegrating Girm, as the monsters dead claw yanked!
Her off her semblance speed feet as she smashed! Into the ground rolling three feet before a claw shot, you and Ruby screamed.
"AHH!"
Ruby cried as the Beowulf slashed her face. The monster's claws tearing open the only unscathed part of her face. Spilling her blood everywhere as she cried out in pain as she fell to the ground. Her hands clutching her face as the horde of Beowulf closed in on her-
FISHT!
Blood. Blood rained down on Ruby's face as she felt a wave of red come down as the smell of fresh blood and hard liquor? Entered her mind as-
"Nice scythe kid. You look a damn sight with it, you taught you how to fight like that?"
"Impossible."
Ruby spoke as she heard a gohst. Her wrist went white as a sheet as a tremor filled her body as a far, far, far, to familiar dry nasally voice along with the smell of hard liquor entered her nose and-
"You ok kid? That's a nasty scar you got there, you look like you could use a drink."
Qrow asked the shaking small girl you looked to be a bit! Younger than Weiss as she turned to face him.
"Silver? You don't see that every day."
Qrow thought to look at the girls face as-
"She's crying?!"
Qrow thoguht as the girl burst into tears!? As a look of what seemed to be guilt? Or relief crossed her blood-soaked clawed face.
"Kid? Are you crying? Com on! I'm not that ugly! Am I?"
Qrow asked suddenly very aware of the fact that he had not shaved for a few days and was sporting a decent amount of stubble.
"Winter's going to be pissed.'
Qrow thoguht grimacing as-
"Uncle Qrow!"
The girl said as she slammed into him like a tidal wave nearly knocking him off his feet as Qrow gasped.
"What? Girl are you felling-
"You came back! You came back to me!"
The girl said as Qrow paused as years of dealing with Weiss kicked in as he hugged the girl.
"Ummm kid? Are you feeling ok?"
Qrow asked now feeling very uncomfortable as-
"Uncle Qrow?! Is that really you!?"
"Well my name is Qrow, and I am an uncle!"
Qrow said smiling as the strange red girl hugged him tightly threating to cut him in half as he sighed.
"Well, I guess everyone needs a good ole Qrow hug every now and them. Just don't tell Winter. She get's jealous." Qrow said hugging the girl as she cried into his chest.
"Fox!"
"Velvet."
"You're alive!"
"Stop yelling. Of course, I'm alive." Fox said irritably as he walked to the group with a blonde boy in tow.
"Jaune! "
Blake said teleporting to Jaune as he smiled.
"Hey, Blake-
Whap!
The girl slapped him hard making his head spin as the news drone zoomed in on him.
"You idiot! What were you thinking!? Do you want to die?!"
She screamed in his face making him back up as-
"Hey there... Easy now kitty."
Fox said as Blake froze. A dagger on her neck as the other faunus Fox? Had somehow placed a dagger under her throat fully undetected resting it right on her jugular.
"That's Coco's pet you are slapping around. I can't just let you damage his pretty face like that now can I? And to be fair, if you keep hurting his face she's going to break yours."
Fox warned in a cold tone to Blake as-
"Students! Please do not kill one another! The Grimm will be doing that job for us soon enough!" Oobleck said blurring to the group leaving a wave of charred monsters in her wake as the doctor creating a minor fire break keeping the Grimm locked into their tunnel as she sighed.
"We have six minutes before our rescue arrives. We have a full fleet coming our way."
"About damn time."
Fox said spitting on the ground as Blake glared daggers at him.
"Doctor, how can we hold off?"
Jaune asked the woman as she sighed.
"We fight. All of us. We need to live for six minutes. In that time an air strike will come to destroy the tunnel. Can we all fight?"
The woman coughed clutching her side as-
"Whoa! Looks like we got a party here blondie! What's the problem?"
A familiar dunk voice said as Qrow walked behind him yawing loudly as-
"Qrow?!"
Oobleck gasped as-
Shock.
Filled her mind s as-
"That's my name! Who the hell are you?"
Qrow asked the doctor as both Ruby and Ren walked behind him. Ruby not leaving his side as Ren grimaced wincing in pain as-
"I! How?! You! You died!"
"People keep telling me that... Jaune! You been telling people I bit the dust?"
"What? Why the hell would I tell anyone that?"
Jaune asked as-
"Qrow Branwen?! Is that really you!?"
Oobleck asked eyes wide in shock as-
"It's technically Qrow Branwen Schnee. I got married a few years ago, but Qrow Branwen works fine for me. So long as I'm sober." The man said as he took a swig from his trademark flask as-
"Doctor!"
Blake yelled as she took a break from her death glare at Fox as the boy ignored her entirely only making Blake get more pissed off and-
"Dammit! I'll deal with this later. Until then students! Qrow-
"That's my name! Don't wear it out."
Qrow said easily drinking from his flask as the first Grimm began to leap out of the flames and charge them.
"Pick a partner! Don't get separated! We have four minutes!" Oobleck said planting her feet as Zwei growled at her feet as the Grimm broke through the fire as the fight began. The hunters did not last three minutes.
The first minutes of the renewed charge of the Grimm had the hunters split up into pairs based on the simple foolproof logic of whoever was closest to them at the time of the break.
Jaune with Yatsuhasi. Blake with Fox. Ren with Velvet. Oobleck Zwei and Qrow and Ruby break off into pairs as they charged the Grimm.
Jaune and Yatsu took the vanguard of their charge. The big man walking calmly into the horde as if they where a babbling brook and not a sward writhing mass of fur and teeth threating to rip them apart.
As Jaune held slightly back working behind them knife and hatchet out as the Grimm slammed into them, or they slammed into Yatsu's hatchet and got bisected.
Fisht!
Yatsu cleaved through the Grimm like they where butter, as his word easily took out seven-plus Grimm with every slice. Cleaving apart all comers be they Ursa, Beowulf or Creep in calm, easy strokes as the boy massacred the grim smiling sanguinely in the melee not once breaking stride or increasing his pace.
Jaune for his part coudl not hope to come close to the carnage Yatsu worked on the Grimm, so he decided to pick up the slack.
As Yatsu focused on the main horde Jaune picked up the stragglers.
The Beowulf with a bit! More intelligence that tried to get around them for a flank met a swift end by his hatchet or knife. As the odd Ura barreled into them only for Jaune to slam into its chest.
Stabbing it through the heart before spinning out session out at the limbs of any nearby Grimm. Acting like a living Grimm blender. Slicing and dicing any Grimm that broke a five-foot radius of Yatsu as the two cleaved through the horde.
For their part, Fox and Blake made an interesting... if not an effective team. Fox and she took the right flank of the horde. As soon as the fire line broke Fox tore into the Grimm. His body moving at near Ruby levels of speed. His knives slicing and splitting limbs as he pureed the Grimm.
The monsters were so taken aback by the sudden, brutal intruder in thier midst that they barely had a chance to raise a talon in defense.
And the ones that did! Get enough of thier wits back to try to take advantage of the faunus with his back turned rarely made it with five feet of him and met a sudden and swift end as Blake appeared on their backs, ending thier lives in quick, brutal motions as she kept Fox safe. Allowing him to clean up the center mass of the charge as she kept to the shadows ending any threats to his life and keeping the fight in their favor.
In the back, Ren and Velvet took up the ranged efforts of the defense. Velvet not willing to risk the injured Ren's health as she and he took up sniping positions on a nearby rooftop. The two using thier combined firepower to lay down blistering volleys of explosive ammunition to the center of the Grimm. Annihilating them in the dozens as they broke apart the horde. Keeping it from reaching a critical mass and bowling over Jaune and Yatsu as the drew the Grimm's attention giving the Grim a nice pair of humans to attack and giving Ren and Velvet a plump and juicy target as Velvet saw what Coco liked to call a target-rich environment.
On the left flank, Ruby and Qrow took up the fight. The two blade wielders despite not having been in the same room for well over a decade where fighting together like a well-oiled machine. Slicing and dicing the Grimm in fantastic! Displays of blood and gore as the twin reapers tore apart any Grimm that was unlucky enough to not bet blown apart in the withering flurry of Ren and Velvet, and were too smart to attack Jaune and Yatsu as the twin pair made easy work of the Grimm truing them into bloody chunks.
"Good moves kid! Who taught you how to fight?!"
Qrow asked smiling broadly as he sliced an Ursa in two, tearing it up as he crushed it.
"You! You taught me how to fight!"
Ruby yelled tears in her face as Qrow laughed.
"Really!? I must have been drunk when I did!"
"You where drunk!"
"Sounds like me!"
Qrow said smiling broadly as he turned to the Grimm as he and Ruby went side by said blades out as the reunited pair os scythe users annihilated the Grimm
And finally, Oobleck and Zwei took the big ones. The king Taijus, the Lupercal, the massive simian-like monsters were blown apart by the doctor and Zwei and the doctor as any Grimm that the students could not hope! To counter where taken apart in a bright firey burst of fire and fur as the Grimm where taken apart and forced back step by step. As the forces of light forced the monster back inch by blood inch as the clock ticked down and-
The Grimm charged. No one knew when exactly the Grimm surge began, but it was sudden and brutal. The Grimm were on the cusps of defeat, the hunter's containment strategy was tearing them apart like a machine, but then something changed. The Grimm became more animated, they became frenzied. They attack with a renewed vigor slamming into the hunter lines like a tidal wave.
Headless of the death rained down on them as they charged the hunters and the line began to crack. The first to fall was the tanks. Jaune and Yatsuhasi. The sudden surge of Grimm caught the tow off guard as the Grimm redoubled their charge. Jaune barley had time to react as what was once a stray pack of Beoufls became the consistent stray pack of Ursa's.
As Jaune was forced to hack and slash, spinning into and under lumbering limbs. Avoiding strikes that if they laned would tear off entire limbs as his knife and hatchet flew aroudn him. Tearing off limbs and stabbing organs. As the occasional Fwoosh! Of air as heard as Shorty evaporated an Ursa torso the tide broke. While Jaune and Yatsu where effective they were not perfect. Yatsu's claymore could not kill every Grimm in one hit. And Jaune could only intercept so many of them. As little by little, time after time the Grimm got hits in on the two.
Not big strikes but smaller crueler attacks. Claws strikes, slashes of teeth the occasional bite all came to the two as by themselves the attacks mattered little. With the exception of Jaune was almost out of aura. But as time went on even the smallest of cuts and pin pricks added up and the two began to bleed.
Jaune was the first to falter, his body full of dozens of minor cuts was leaking blood like a fountain, as a series of minor wounds added up. Each wound slowing him down by just! A hair as his reaction time seemed to decrease as loss of blood picked up. The same happened to Yatusu as Jaune bleed his guarding of his flanks dropped as more and more Grimm attacked him. Leading to more blood loss that lead to slower movements that lead to even more blood loss as a vicious cycle emerged.
Eventually, tearing down his impressive aura as his armor began to be ripped apart like a tin can exposing the soft flesh withing as two hunters bleed. As the attack surged and Jaune and Yatsu where overwhelmed.
Blake and Fox faltered. As suddenly the second year had twice the number of Grimm to deal with. Not that it mattered in the slightest as he was more than capable to decimate this level of low Grimm. Or he would be if he had covering fire...
Blake was forced out of her rooftop hiding places as aerial Grimm appeared in mass. Griffons hounded her like bloodhounds hounding her across the rooftops preventing her from giving Blake no chance to assist Fox as twin Nevermores appeared in the sky. Raining down feathery death on her as she was forced back into the shadows. Fox lost his back up, and soon the Grimm pounced!
Sensing vulnerability they swarmed him filling his zone with teeth, fangs and burning red eyes and even if he was one of the best second years he was still virtually alone and he was still human, and very killable. As the claws and talons fell even if they were met, but flashes of red metal and a cold hate-filled blank gaze soo aura popped! And Armor tore as tales tore into flesh as blood flowed and muscle was torn as Fox screamed...
"Dammit!"
Velvet cursed her half vision interrupting her aim, a disastrous event for the girl as the sky rained down death. Twin Nevermores appeared in the Vale airspace causing her to focus all of her firepowers on them as she desperately tried to keep them from simply raining death onto their friends. As her sustained gunfire did! Cause them to falter it also cost her time... as for every second she did not fire into the horde the Grim surged, Rens' guns were good but nowhere near as decimating as Velvets minigun as the less Grimm swarmed her friends as more feathers flew onto the roof Velvet finally cursed! As thier position was finally unsustainable as the roof became a death trap for the two as Velvet was forced to make an executive decision.
Scooping up Ren and abandoning the high gun as a wall of black death crashed down from above running to the side streets as the hunters lost thier ranged support.
Ruby and Qrow noticed it almost at once. The subtle change of the Grimm, was like a damn bombshell, and the sudden silence of Velvet's minigun? All bad signs, as the Grimm attacked the two attempted! To make a fighting retreat, into the end of Vale but that was simply not an option. Qrow was too busy killing Grimm and protecting Ruby? Was that the girls name as she kept trying to protect him? For some reason making her neglect her own safety which made his job harder as-
When Ruby screamed Qrow froze. The Beowulfs appeared out of the almost thin air. Comming to the girl from all sides acting like a wave of sharks as Ruby was pinned to the ground. Her weapon knocked from her hands as claws and fangs flashed down on her as her aura was popped! As her soul finally! Gave out and sharp teeth sank into her flesh...
Oobleck knew the end was near. As soon as the covering fire from Velvet ended she knew there was a high chance that one of her students was going to die and soon. It was almost comical... in a way... They survived so much... they fought through a train full of terrorist, military walkers, the train crash! That should have by all accounts killed every last one of them many times again and then! They got help! Thier rescue was less than five minutes away, but for them, five minutes might as well have been five hours. As she watched the wall of Grimm come in twice the speed and numbers as before a smile formed on her lips as she looked to Zwei.
"It has been a fun run boy. Let's go out with a bang."
She said as Zwei barked! Sadly as she reloaded the dog into her gun and leaped in.
Pain. Fear. Loss. Despondence. Jaune felt all of them as his stress rose. He was bleeding everywhere. His body was nearly torn apart into bloody ribbons, the freshly grown flesh was sliced apart like it was wet cardboard and not lean muscle as Jaune fought the killing the blood the pain it was too much. And soon it happened...
Reality stopped, time seemed to stand still, and came to a screeching halt as all breath left his body as Jaune gasped as his stress was checked...
"And now the true test...
A booming low voice said as Jaune saw it chaos, fear death destruction. He was going to die! They were all going to die! He! Was going to die! There was no point in fighting! He should just accept his fact and-
"NO!"
Jaune yelled as toll sounded as a wave of pure energy flooded his boy as he felt powerful as a sense of infallible purpose flooded him with renewed energy as-
"Stalwart!"
A booming voice said as Jaune' saw the true path as his eyes began to glow...
"Many will fall in the face of chaos, but not this one. Not today." The voice said as Jaune glowed yellow.
"So you decided to activate your semblance? Better now than never."
Yatsu thought as Jaune glowed the color of his air. His entire body light up like an Oumsmas tree. His weapons glowing the core of the sun as he began to butcher the Grimm.
He moved so fast that the Grimm appeared to be standing still as he tore apart the Grimm like a monster as Yatsu smiled. His normal attack style doubled in strength and power. As Jaune's default anti-Ursa strategy of striking one in its skull popping it with his hatchet before spinning into the beast's chest stabbing it clean through the heart doubled in strength. As low vathooms!
Filled the air as the boy began to dual wield his strange shotgun that killed any Grimm in one shot. The weapon blasting water cooler sized holes in Ursa and simply evaporating Beowulfs.
As he fought with his gun and knife as he tore apart the Grimm. Shouting encouraging remarks at Yatsu as the big man smiled.
"I can't let my underclassman do all the work!"
The big man said as he doubled his pace as he leaped back into the fight laughing all the time as he and Jaune slaughtered the Grimm.
"Ow! OW! OW! Mom! It hurts! MOM! Dad! Aunt Raven! Yang! Please! Help me!"
Ruby cried as teeth sank into her flesh, slicing into her exposed breast flesh, as more teet sunk into her thigh and arm. As Ruby screamed as her flesh was split apart and her bones snapped! Under the massive jaws of the Beowulf as-
BANG!
In a moment it was gone. The Grimm evaporated in a wall of flesh as Qorw rushed to her side.
"Kid!? Kid!? Are you ok?! Say something!"
Qrow yelled taking the girls pulse in the neck. She was weak. Fading fast she needed a doctor as-
Time stopped. Ruby's breath caught in her chest as reality ebbed and flowed as-
"And now the true test. Hold fast or expire."
A booming voice said as Ruby felt chaos pain death, suffering all aroudn her. It hurt! It hurt so much! Her body was on fire! She felt like she was going to explode tears fell from her eyes as she begged or mercy and-
"Hopeless!"
A booming voice yelled as Ruby broke as she felt black knives sink into her flesh as she screamed.
"No! NO! NO! I want to go home!"
Ruby yelled out loud her hands covering her head as she curled up into a ball.
"Kid?! Ruby! Get up! There are Grimm everywhere!"
"NO! I don't want to!"
Ruby yelled crying herself into a bloody fetal position as Qrow stood defiantly over her as the Grimm swarmed them sensing the blood and swarming like sharks.
"There can be no hope in this hell. No hope at all...
The booming voice said as Ruby broke as an affliction was gained.
Chaos fell on the battlefield as human fought Grimm in a battle as old as time. Most of the humans were driven back. Forced to retreat into isolated corners of the city as the monsters overwhelmed them as they were cut into pieces great stories of heroism and tragedy played out. As blood spilled, limbs flew mouths screamed and desperate last stands were made as the two sides utterly opposed to one another tore themselves apart. All captured to the last! Painful detail by the drone as-
A sound so loud it broke the very sky filled the air.
VATHHOOOMMM!
In a moment the battle was over. There was no more horde of Grimm only the horrible shrieking or rockest and the whine of engines as an Atlas strafing run took place. Three whole fighter-bomber squadrons rained death on the offending Grimm as the reinforcements arrived in the nick of time. As Atlas interceptors cleaned out the sky. Felling the massive Nevermores and annihilating the stray griffons the Breah was sealed by a massive missile strike right down the tunnel Annihilating the entry point and ending the threat as the day was won.
"We did it!"
Jaune yelled his body glowing literally the color of the sun. He glowed bright yellow and was positively bouncing with energy. As even if he was bleeding profusely, the blood loss did not seem to be affecting him in the slightest.
"If only I were as young."
Yatsu said sanguinely before coughing up a lungful of blood. The tall boy's light green armor was cracked and dented in several places, and large amounts of raw bleeding flesh were exposed. As the boy panted heavily his vision dimming as he felt the end come as corners of darkness crept into his vision.
"So you are alive. Good on you, you big bastard."
"Fox. So glad to see you in one piece. More or less."
Yatsu said emphasizing the less, as Fox limped over to join them supported by a worried Blake. Blake carried the bleeding second year as three nevermore feathers stuck out from his back. Penetrating him all the way to his front as-
"FOx!? YATSU!?"
"Oh lord. She's going to lose her shit."
Fox said as Yatsu sighed as his partner ran up to him.
"Are you ok?! What happened to you two?! Oh, my goodness you all need a doctor-
"She need's a doctor!"
Qrow yelled as he burst into the group prince carrying Ruby as she bleeds into his chest, sobbing into her exposed chest as-
"Ruby!?"
Jaune balked seeing his friend bleeding to death her right arm attached to her body by the slimmest amounts of meat and sinew as-
"I am a doctor! And yes I am that kind of doctor! Now move aside!"
Oobleck yelled as she pushed her way into the crowd going first to Ruby as she began to work on the girl with a field kit as Zwei whimpered affectionately to his mistresses side as-
"Mam... I'm picking up a sound...
Blake said scroll to her ear as Oobleck shot her a death glare.
"Miss Belladonna Miss Rose is critical! Condition! What is the problem!?"
"I'm getting a sound from a sensor in the cave! There is something moving down there, and it's coming this way!"
"A Grimm!? How many?"
"Just one mam...
"Just one?! That's fine, we can handle one Grimm! Now let me work! I need to save her life or-
"Mam... do Grim ride horses?"
Blake asked as the doctor, paused as well as all conscious members of the group, did too.
"What did you ask?"
"I said do Grimm ride horses?"
"That's preposterous!"
"I hear a horse! I hear the hoof beats of a horse in the tunnels. Does anyone know of a Grimm that rides horses?"
FEAR.
A wave of fear came from Ren as the boy began to panic his face went sheet white as-
"I do. But if that's what I think it is we are fucked." Qrow said eying the tunnel as-
Clop! Clop! Clop! Clop! Sure enough, the steady sound of hoofbeats filled the air.
Making the assembled students teacher and drunk mentor paused as the Atlas fighter-bombers flew away from the devastated landscape as relief teams flew down as-
"The hell is that?"
Fox asked his knife rising up as it came...
It looked like a person? No, it looked like the things they put in front of a used car dealership. The long the long think snaky arms that you would see flailing around, now covered pitch black, and attached to what looked like an emaciated man fused to a horse as a thing emerged. Some type of mounted Grimm, it's upper body humanoid, with a stitched mouth, it's lower body a massive horse as-
"Knuckellevve!"
Qrow screamed at the top of his mouth as the Grimm roared on its hind legs ripping open its mouth opened up as an earsplitting scream filled the air forcing the group to their knees as blood fell from thier ears and mouths as the knuckellevve screamed...
AN: Well! That's it! This chapter is at a close with one helluva boss! It's time for the knuckellevve to make its grand debut! And if you thought the good guys had it tough before? Well, they are about to be in a world of hurt this time! Besides that? The Breach is on! Jaune got a new! Virtue Ruby got an affliction and Qrow is back! He's just not sure why this girl keeps clinging to him like he's her family...
Well, this is it for this part of Game on! I got a potential beta! For this work and if I can figure out why Google docs won't let me share my file maybe I can actually use them! Anyways! This chapter is done the next one is the finale of the breach! When we see the consequences of the battle. Jaune mett's his sponsor and our blonde get's a new ally on the demonic side...
All this and more on the next Game on! Until then the finale! Of Jaune Torchwick is next and it's going to be explosive!
Ps. Looking into the spin-off ideas for Game on and boy! Am I planning...
Pss. Got a new fic out called Branwen! If you like the idea of Qrow raising Jaune and parenting to his best ability check it out!
Psss. I've been reading a LOT recently and while I will only have four main stories up at any time I get burst of inspiration to write. So I'm going to do that. I'm going to start some inspired stories. RWBY fiction that I like that will only be updated around once a month at best! Sooner or later...
PSsss. I really like other Jaune stories. And I like taking some established stories and fooling around with them. I get inspired by a lot! Of different authors and recently I was reading Forged Destiny and I was thinking I can do that! Make a medieval caste base RWBY Au with Jaune as the hero! But after some time playing around with it I just never got enough of a plot going that was not a blatant rip off of the original so I let it go... Until I played Darkest Dungeon and I saw something... There is a weapon for a Crusader it is called the non-euclidean hilt...
Non-Euclidean hilt...
Non-Euclidean hilt...
Non-Euclidean hilt...
I have an idea...
Until then Stats!
Stat change in characters!
Jaune Arc!
Virtues sealed!
Powerful is now sealed! You will forever deal plus 20% damage with all attacks!
Virtue gained! Stalwart! Plus 15% Damage reduction from all attacks!
Inventory change! New item added!
Item name Wire bomb.
Warning! You have acquired an interdimensional item! This weapon was not made or intended for use in this universe! Using it may have disastrous unknow repercussions!
Wire bomb X3 acquired.
Damage 348 Double damage to organic and lightly armored enemies.
Wire bombs shoot out rows of strong barbed tendrils impaling and skewering enemies before constricting said cables and ripping them apart! Meant for use on large numbers of Grimm and not people...
Contact status change!
Ruby Rose! Affliction gained!
Affliction name hopeless!
Minus 50 to Wit, Charisma, Intelligence, and perception!
Relation growth halted...
Omake. Darkest Remnant part seventeen.
Blood... Oscar had never seen so much blood in his entire life...
Fisht!
Oscar winced as Jaune's long sword bisected one of the grotesque tick men. The things that looked like a man with a large tick on thier faces-
"Ahh... the supplicants. A fairly nasty sight aren't they?"
Ozpin asked as Oscar nodded as Jaune finished killing the first monster. It's twin severed parts falling bodily into the thick morass of the swap. Splash!
"Get em, boy!"
Tai yelled as Zwei shot out tearing the throat out of an another Suplicant... The Corgi was deceptively agile... As it ripped out the throat of the monster. Killing it in one go barreling it down as-
"FEAR ME!"
Adam yelled slashing his back with his flail. Tearing open his skin as his blood hovered in mid-air before it shot! Off into the sky before falling down like a rain of sorrows onto the enemy. His blood projectiles tearing apart the strange ghastly monsters as their thick leathery skin was ripped apart and they fell slowly into the ground. Their bodies thudding! To the floor of the swape before slowly sinking further into the mud as they fell into the muck and mud. Thier twisted broken forms sinking ever further into the mud...
"Healing! All of you get over here!"
Velvet said as she gathered the heroes. The Vestal began her chant's casting her healing magic on her allies. healing all of them of thier bodily injuries. The heroes glowed green for a moment as their wounds reknit themselves as Oscar walked around grimacing as his feet sunk into the mud and muck of the swamp. As he busied himself with picking up the various gold and trinkets off the ground. As the NPC lord quickly sorted off with the riches.
"For all that is good!"
The Flagellant Adam yelled as the other repeat the cry fo for all that is good! Before the heroes reformed thier party going into the final area of thier quest. The four of them going into a dark metal gate that had not been used in years as they entered a rather empty? Shallow swamp and-
"Not empty... stand on your guard...
Ozpin warned Oscar as-
"There!"
"Down!"
Oscar's warning came just! In time as a massive green abomination lurched from the swamp. The massive green beasts jaws that could swallow the carriage of the hamlet reared up as Velvet narrowly by the skin of her teeth avoided being bit in two by the monster. As it leaped out Oscar saw it and it was hideous.
It was wider than the chariot but only half as tall. Only slightly taller than Oscars five three frame. But it was a monster. Its face was that of a crocodile but it was a hunched broken shape that reminded Oscar of an L. As the monster walked on eight spindly legs as-
"Ah... The crocodellian... I thought they all went extinct long ago... I guess not...
Ozpin said as-
"Kill it!"
Jaune yelled as the heroes attacked the monster roared in defiance as Jaune's long sword slashed! Down bitting deeply into the flesh of the monster. Making it howl before it lept back into the shallow waters and vanished beneath the waves.
"Eyes! Does anyone have eyes?!"
Tai asked as-
"I don't see it!"
"I can smell it!"
Adam snarled the hooded man turning as all heroes took a circle defensive stance. Becoming a tight wall of metal and grit as-
"There!"
Jaune yelled as the monster attacked. It's massive form leaping out of the water jaws that could swallow Oscar whole snapping. As Jaune slammed his sword into its mouth. Making it howl before-
Whack!
Adam smacked his back sending shard of sharp blood into it. The blood shards slicing into the monster's flesh. Making it howl in agony as Tai's dog bit deep into his hide as Velvet called down a lightning strike. Making its flesh sizzle before it jumped back into the water as it hid...
The next ten minutes were a messy game out cat and mouse. The Crocodellian as Ozpin called it was a crafty predator. Striking out at the heroes from the shallow. Its' massive teeth raking their bodies sundering thier armor as thier blades, teeth, blood and spells sent it hurtling back time and time again as-
The monsters next attack struck true. It was half dead losing a massive amount of blood as its teeth raked Velvet and Adam. Tearin open both of thier chests. Making hot blood and organs spill on the ground as-
"Do not fall!"
Adam yelled as held out his arm as both he and Velvet glowed green as their wounds reknit. As he cast some type of spell to heal them both. As both faunus where fully healed. Velvet thanked him as Adma nodded before taking up his circle spot next to Jaune. Looking a bit winded before the monster snapped up. It's face seeking to bite Adam's head off as Adam punched it.
Adam uppercut the monster and its' chest exploded. Massive armored scaled exploding in showers of blood before Jaune's sword cut off the head ending the monster's existence in one move.
After the battle, they burned the last thronging hive sending the damnable insects back to ther nest as the heroes and Noble left he cour Oscar had a sinking feeling that this was not the last time he would see it. And he would be coming back very soon...
