So, I'm back. Yay.

But damn, school has been taking up most of my time. I barely have time to do anything else. My schedule is like this; Go to school, be bored, come home, do homework, study, eat dinner, study, sleep. I have almost no free time. But hey, here's another chapter. Sorry about the wait.

So reviews:

ptl: Yes, he is going to be a badass, but probably not Violet's chief engineer. And Mato is the same age as Axel, which is 15. And by tank equivalent of a shotgun you mean what exactly?

Guest: In canon, Vale isn't any more advanced than Atlas, in fact, I'm not even sure that Vale has a military. But in my fanfic, Vale has power armor and Atlas doesn't because Atlas has been focusing more on robots and mech suits.

Edrap: Everything is about to happen.

Story time.

Lying down like that, Jade looked so peaceful, sleeping with a blissful expression on her face. Looking down at her, Violet could just feel a smile making its way onto her face. It was a weird feeling, how the fact that someone else seemed happy made Violet happy. But then again, Jade wasn't just anyone to Violet. Right now, Jade meant the world to Violet, and if she had to fight the entire world just to make sure Jade was safe, she would sure as hell do it with a smile on her face.

Walking towards the small child, Violet crouched down so she was eye level with Jade, before leaning forward and kissing Jade's forehead. She watched the wolf faunus for a few more seconds before getting back up and walking back to the others.

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Axel glanced at the symbol on his computer screen, then looked down at the image on his scroll, than back at the computer. The symbol was the exact same.

Behind him on the couch, Mato shifted slightly in her sleep, music blasting in her ears through her headphones.

"We are young, but we have heart!"

"Born in this world as it all falls apart!"

How she can sleep through that, the world may never know.

Axel leaned back, placing his hands behind his head, and sat there for a minute, processing everything he just saw, then said, very slowly, "Holy. Fucking. Shit," then immediately leaned forward and got back to work. His father was somehow connected to this mysterious group and he would be damned if he didn't find out how.

"We will fight! Or we will fall!"

"Till the angels save us all!"

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BOOTING UP...

DONE

RUNNING SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC…

ALL SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL

CHECKING POD STATUS...

1 OCCUPANT DETECTED
CHECKING OCCUPANT STATUS...

OCCUPANT FUNCTIONING NORMALLY

RESTORING CONSCIOUSNESS…

FJO-CRYST--VIRI ONLINE

The girl's eyes shot wide open and she sat straight up. Breathing heavily, she stayed still for a minute before finally looking around her, wondering where exactly she was. The walls were a sterile white with bullet holes riddling them. On the ground were multiple bodies, over 60 of them, most in lab coats, but there were a few who looked like security guards.

Something in the corner of her eye flickered, and she turned her attention to a screen that had just turned on. On the screen, there was a women. No, not just any woman. Fiona Atasi. Her mother.

She swung her legs over the side of the pod, stood up, and took exactly two steps before she heard a slight hissing noise behind her. Turning around she saw the pod she was laying in slowly sink into the floor, with the ground closing after it. She stared at it for a minute before looking back at her mother on the screen, and took a step forward, then another, and another until she was right in front of the screen. There was a slight delay before the screen unpaused. "Viri," her mother began. Viri, Viri, that's right, that's her name. Her name is Viri Sigebert. "If you're hearing this, the-" Suddenly, static could be heard and masked her mother's voice and the screen became very distorted. However, Viri was able to make out a few words. "Fac-" "pro-" "west" "On-" "VCI" "-m sorry," her mother said, and then the screen turned blank before DATA CORRUPTED appeared on screen. But just before the screen turned off, a gunshot pierced through the static, and Viri's heart skipped a beat.

She slowly turned around and stared at the multiple bodies laying on the ground before rushing to one body and checking its identity, then going to another and doing the same, and so on and so forth. She did it for every single body there, hoping that she wouldn't find her mother among them.

Finally, Viri turned over the last body and sighed in relief as it completely different face than her mother's lifelessly stared back at her. She let go of the body, it making a slight thud as it hit the floor, and then turned towards the door, only now realizing that there were several blood trails originating from the door, all leading to the different bodies on the ground. They weren't killed here, Viri realized, they were killed somewhere else and brought here.

This basically eliminated the possibility of, of a, a… She struggled to think of the name and then suddenly it appeared in her mind. A grimm attack. No grimm would think of piling bodies up. Besides, no grimm would be small enough to fit through the doors. That meant that there was some kind of human of faunus involvement here.

She needed to get out of here.

Viri made her way to the door, noticing that it's control panel was completely fucked. So instead she stopped just before the door, raised her right leg and kicked it open.

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"Sooo," Darius started, really wondering if it was his place to ask, "why's this chick so important that we need to breach into a facility and massacre a bunch of civilians just to get her?" The "chick" he was talking about was of course the tied up unconscious blond woman sitting in the back of the VTOL. They had just nabbed her from some type of research facility, where they obviously met some resistance. But, dear Oum, Darius probably would never be able to get the faces of the frightened researchers out of his head, their screams as they were mercilessly gunned down.

"Don't know. Besides, we gave them a chance to surrender peacefully," his friend, Jay, replied, who was currently checking

Darius frowned slightly at his friend's rather apathetic response. "That doesn't really make me feel better," he responded.

"It's not supposed to. But it is the truth. They had a chance to live, and they didn't take it," Jay retorted, then sighed. "Look, I get that you don't like this part of the job, I don't either. Hell, I even had thoughts about leaving Manticore. But, just, what we're doing will go towards ending the Grimm threat once and for all. Everything we're doing is going towards the greater good. At least, that's what I hope."

Darius said nothing in return and just leaned back into his seat. The greater good, huh?

Sounds like what every bad guy says to justify their actions.

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"Soo, what do we do now?" Violet said to Osiris, Ozpin, and Wynne, who had changed out of her shirt for another shirt that wasn't fucked.

"You remember that dropship that shot Wynne?" Osiris asked Violet, to which she nodded. "Well, radar picked it up engaging a Nevermore Overlord."

Violet widened her eyes are that. There was a tier system used to categorize grimm. First there are the minors, the most common and weakest of all the grimm. Then there are the majors, grimm who have managed to survive for some time and generally have more armor and are slightly smarter than minors. After that there are the alphas. These creatures usually lead small packs of other grimm and are actually rather intelligent. The next tier would be elders. These grimm have survived for a long time, have very tough armor, and are very dangerous. They usually take at least 2 fully trained huntsmen to take down, though there have been cases where a single huntsman was able to take one down. Then, there are the elite grimm. These grimm are a rarity, due to how long they have to survive to become one. They usually have some sort of mutation, from able to change the color of the fur and armor to being able to being able to release a sonic wave that can temporarily deafen and stun combatants.

Finally, there was the Overlord class. These were the toughest, strongest, smartest, most dangerous, and thankfully rarest class of grimm. It takes an extraordinary amount of personnel and firepower to take even one down. Not only that, they also have some sort of mind control over grimm of alpha class and lower. Fortunately, they don't seem to have any inherent hostility towards humans or faunus, in fact, there are records of a lucky few humans and faunus interacting with Overlords without any harm coming to them.

Of course no inherent hostility does not mean no hostility at all. They are known to be extremely territorial, and will generally attack any human or faunus it thinks is an invader on its land.

So yeah, in conclusion, engaging an Overlord usually ends in one's death.

"What happened to them?" Violet asked Osiris, who was now sipping on a cup of coffee.

"Well, the Nevermore beat them and they crashed, to put it simply," Osiris said in response. "Teams have already been sent out to recover anything the might of survived the crash."

Then he took another sip.

Didn't know how to end this one, so yeah. Here you go. Another chapter.

3 new OCs appeared in this chapter, 1 of 'em sent in by you guys. If you didn't like how I portrayed your OC, tell me and I'll see what I can do to change it.

If anyone can figure out the song that appears in this chapter, you'll win some brownie points.

Feel free to point out any mistakes and/or critiques you have.

Please review and shit.