Jaune immediately dragged Ruby to the side when he heard someone coming down the stairs, making sure to grab the man that he had killed as well. Then he tried to wake Ruby up.
"Come on!" He whispered. "Wake up! Com'on, Ruby." As he said this, he lightly pushed her head back and forth.
Next, he checked her breathing. Which was non-existent. He began to panic. She wasn't breathing. His breath grew as he tried to remember what to do. Was it to put her in the recovery position? What was the recovery position again? Right. Lay her in her side and prop her head up with her arm. That couldn't be right. That sounded ridiculous. Oh, right. CPR.
He pushed down on her chest three times, then, worrying about this next step, he put his mouth to her's and exhaled. Repeating the process, he began to lose confidence that she would be fine. In the movies he'd seen this never worked out well, and that was with people who were CPR certified, like action stars, paramedics, and doctors.
Then he thought a bit more. Didn't a lack of air cause brain damage? He didn't know for sure, but he didn't want his friend to be brain damaged.
Suddenly, his prayers were answered and Ruby took a deep breath. Her eyes slowly fluttered open. "W-What happened?" She asked, propping herself up with her elbows.
"You passed out and stopped breathing." He told her, leaning back against the wall.
Ruby looked at the wall beside Jaune, and her eyes widened. Jaune turned to his right, and saw the barrel of a gun in his face. He raised his hands, and the gun was pulled away, only to come right back and hit him in the face, knocking him out.
His assailant turned towards Ruby, only to see that she was aiming her weapon at him.
"Listen." Ruby said. "I could shoot the flea off a dog's back with this gun." She cocked it. "And it's aimed straight at your head."
~Line Break~
WBY and NPR jumped when they heard the loud gunshot, followed by the sound of something hitting the wall, something gooey. Then a loud thud. Of course that was just the closest gunshot, others being faint as they were somewhere else in the building.
Yang peeked through the steel grate, peering through a long hallway, and another grate, she saw Ruby run by, disappearing out of sight as quick as she had appeared.
~Line Break~
Ruby looted the body of the man she had just killed, finding ammo, and medical supplies. She dragged his body, throwing it on top of Jaune to keep him safe. Then she ran up the main staircase, running into a raider.
"Hey." She said.
"Hey."
Then she decked him with her gun, he fell to the ground, but wasn't knocked out. Ruby then put a quick bullet into his head.
"Smash the gate!" She yelled down to her teammates, who heard her. Pyrrha used her semblance to make the two gates collapse in on themselves.
Blake picked up a shot gun that was lying at the bottom of the stairs, and Ruby tossed Pyrrha another twelve gauge.
Looting the corpse of the man at the top of the stairs, Ruby found a knife and some duct tape. Using what she had, she securely taped the knife onto the gun, making a bayonet. After all, it was what she was used to. Kinda.
The seven went through the building, killing anyone who attacked them, and looting their corpses to survive. By the end, they all had twelve gauges, Ruby out one on her back to give to Jaune when he woke up. Ruby also had makeshift leather armor atop of her vault suit.
Once they had cleared out the whole building, someone called to them. "Over here!"
Not recognizing the voice, Ruby pointed her gun in their direction, seeing that it was a black man in an old timey military outfit.
Ruby motioned for the others to stay back while she approached him. "Friendly?" She asked. He nodded, and she put her gun down.
"We need your help." He said. "If you don't mind."
"I don't mind. What is it?"
"We need you to clear out this city of these fucking raiders."
Ruby chuckled. "There's only eight of us."
"Yes. I know. One of you can do it. Just get a fusion battery from the basement, go up to the roof. There's power armor up there. Use the power armor to rip the gatling gun off of that crashed fighter jet, and mow them down."
Ruby's eyes widened in excitement, and she used her semblance for the first time in a while, dashing downstairs, grabbing the battery and bolting up the the roof.
She slammed the battery into the power armor's back, and turned the wheel. The entire backside opened up, allowing Ruby to step in.
