The Nagato returned to the outskirts of the Known Sector to get more information on the Grimm and the Devourer's Line as Jaune decided to not take chances. With the reality that the monsters could appear at any moment, they decided that they needed to know everything possible about them, and know they have dozens of alien species experiences with those creatures to rely on, so once again Yang was in The Club to get information.
"I did not expect you so soon, goldie." Jun'ee'or stated as the girl sat on the other side of his table, and she just shrugged.
"I missed this place, despite the severe lack of Strawberry Sunrise." She answered and the man just smirked, despite having no idea what she was talking about, just to be pleasant. "So, business! I need all information you have about the Devourers."
"Them? You probably can get all information you need about them in a library."
"We both know that is not true, and besides, why waste time with public relations and making a library card when I can just give you some Dust and get all I need?" Jun'ee'or laughed and punched some buttons on his terminal, then gave her a data stick. She graciously took it.
"How much?"
"Same price as before. I can give you a discount if you give me all information about your people and that ship of yours. Lots of people are talking about you guys nowadays." Yang found that comment odd. It was not like they had that many encounters with aliens and most of them were far from being peaceful.
"We are just an exploration excursion, getting to know the neighborhood." She stated calmly. Jun'ee'or then gave her another data stick. "What is this?"
"Consider it a bonus for a faithful client. Using what we analyzed from your physiology, I marked a planet just outside the Mapped Zone that a probe found. It is unclaimed, so I thought you might be interested." Yang grabbed the stick and stared at it for a moment. It sounded too good to be true, yet she took it.
"We will take a look if we have time. It was a pleasure to negotiate with you. Bye bye!" She finished as she stood up and left. Jun'ee'or watched her back and sighed. He took a liking for that alien girl, he would admit. But business is business, and he sent a message from his terminal.
…
Once again the Nagato floated in the middle of nowhere. Jaune ordered to have the data translated first, a job Penny was on. Or at least her mobile unit was. The rest of the crew was doing maintenance on everything, and most of them avoided discussing anything except the trivial as to not remember them of all the troubles they had till that moment. The captain himself though was doing the hard job of remembering all those events as he wrote his reports with the help of Glynda.
"Just because we don't have to submit the reports everyday doesn't mean you could slack on doing them, captain." She chastised him a month worth of reports was left undone.
"I still don't know why I can't submit Penny's reports anyway. They are very detailed." Jaune groaned as he kept typing.
"Because her reports are overly detailed, and they lack the most important element: the opinion of the commanding officer, that I should remind it is you."
"Sorry I can't be of help, captain." The AI said over the intercom.
"It is OK, Penny. I need to do my own job from time to time, although my performance have being severely disappointing." He said as he kept typing, not noticing the disapproving stare Glynda gave him as she fixed her glasses.
"Captain, you have performing admirably considering the circumstances. You have being dealing with unknown enemies and situations that even the most seasoned captain would have trouble dealing with. Not only that, you have kept everyone alive AND avoided at least a few mental breakdowns. My report about you will tell the Spacy command that you are fit to be captain of any ship." Glynda stated so matter of fact that Jaune looked at her in silence for a few seconds.
"Thanks, Glyn. You are the best first officer I could ever ask." He said and she smiled at him.
"Now, go back to work, Jaune." He sighed and started again.
"Captain, the translation of the data about the creatures of Grimm we acquired from Jun'ee'or is finished. Do you want to read them right now?" Jaune trades stares with Glynda and both decided it was better get that first.
"Yes, Penny. We will read it right away. How about the planet they offered us?"
"The data shows no signs of alterations and the coordinates are a match with our own maps, captain."
…
The crew was reunited later that day on the mess hall. Jaune cooked them a nice meal out of nowhere, but none of them complained. The mood have being so tense that even Yang's puns haven't be able to lighten it up. So a nice meal with everyone really hit the spot for them. When everyone were sitting down and eating, Jaune began speaking.
"OK, everyone. If I can have a minute of attention…"
"I will give you the first minute for free, and then you will have to pay if you want to keep talking." Yang said, and Jaune rolled his eyes.
"If it is bad news, I vote for us to NOT talk about it at all." Sun added, and Jaune face palmed. Yes, his crew sense of humor was still messed up.
"Not every news I bring are bad news. Those are actually good news!"
"OH! We will finally get that compact car?" Nora chirped, and Jaune was about to kill someone.
"Better you talk already, Jaune." Pyrrha said in a comforting tone and Jaune nodded.
"We accomplished our secondary mission." He said with a smile, but everyone else but Glynda and Penny (the android was actually clapping) stared at him. "OK, that is not the reaction I expected."
"Sorry, but… It is just that we don't know exactly what we accomplished." Blake explained and Jaune stared at them. It appeared he would need to tell them in more details.
"Our secondary mission was to prove the origin of the Grimm and bring home as much data we can. Not only we proved that Dr. Oobleck's theory is true, which probably will make lots of people apologize to him, we have hundreds of thousands of pages detailing all this part of the Galaxy knows about them. Not only that, we acquired sensors able to detect them."
"What that even means?" Ruby asked and Blake explained.
"It means that the Grimm back home won't have the advantage of surprise attacks anymore. It is a huge tactical advantage." Ruby nodded over the explanation, but no one was actually excited over the news.
"Not only that. We now know how they came to our planet, and we do have sensors to detect them before they land. It means that when we find a new planet to live, we also will be better prepared to defend it." Jaune complemented.
"But… we used some of our most powerful weapons and couldn't stop them…" Ruby said as memories of their last stop were brought back to her mind.
"We weren't prepared that time. When we start colonizing a new home, we will have better weapons thanks to all data we collected, including from that battle. And we will have the full power of the Spacy and the Marine Corps by them." Jaune said in a comforting tone, and Ruby smiled a little. "Which brings me to the second news, those ones can be good or bad until we actually verify it. Penny?" The artificial girl used her built-in holo-screen to show the planet they were aiming at.
"The fourth planet of the Otter system, data collected from an alien probe. 98% similar to our home planet, no signs of indigenous intelligent races on the planets surrounding it or the planet itself, no alien race claiming possession." Penny explained, and finally the expressions of everyone lightened.
"Are you saying…" Weiss said with hope in her voice.
"If this data is true, we might accomplish our primary objective with this one stop. Of course, we had being deceived before, so I would keep expectations in check. Either way, I want all of you to know that this mission was not a complete failure until know. Your efforts were not wasted." He finished, and he felt relieved as smiles started popping up on the crew's face. "OK, we will revise this data tomorrow. I want everyone to rest tonight."
…
The fighters returned of their patrol after a whole day flying around the planet. Jaune and Yang landed on the Nagato and were greeted by literally everyone on the ship. Even Dr. Shen was there in one of the rare occasions she left the med bay. The captain had decided to be extra careful with that planet, so they have being doing close scans of it and even firing against the planet itself to be extra sure. As soon as they removed their helmets Ruby was all over them.
"So? So? So?"
"Calm down, Rubes. We still need to see the data we got. At least the planet exploded as supposed to." Yang said as she petted her sister.
"I still can't believe you fired a missile against a mountain!" Weiss complained, but Yang grinned happily.
"And guess? It is a real mountain!"
"OK, everyone, Yang and I need to rest, after that we will see the data we acquired and decide our next step." Jaune said calming everyone down. Except Yang.
"Oh, you finally invited me to your bed." He gagged while Ruby and Weiss yelled at her.
But at least the moral of the crew was clearly improving.
…
Pyrrha watched the world around her.
It was hard to believe only a few months passed since they started that trip, yet she saw and lived things no one else ever did. In just that short period of time she was yanked from a predictably life she didn't want to finally accomplish things on her own, to finally form friendships that actually meant something. She saw Weiss and Ruby helping Velvet get samples of the trees around them while Blake scouted the area on top of one and just wanted to hug every one of them.
But what she loved the most at that moment was the beach they were in.
The white sand and blue water was incredible pretty, a sight she never expected to see. She decided that one day, if possible, she would bring her children with her there, so they could feel the same breeze she was feeling at that moment. And as the fighters flew above them, she decided that if they finished their mission that day, she would tell the man she chose to be the father of her future children how she felt.
"Pyrrha!" The redhead turned her stare towards Blake as the catgirl descended from the tree she was nested. "Jaune said they detected some magnetic anomaly a little far from here. According to Penny is just a natural occurrence, but the captain want us to go back just to be safe."
"And who am I to disagree? OK, everyone, pack your things, we are going back." Pyrrha said and a disheartened Ruby and Velvet started retrieving their equipment.
"I hope it is nothing, I surely want a day at the beach. A real beach that is not filled with things to kill us…" Ruby lamented, and Pyrrha gently wrapped an arm around the small girl.
"I am with you, captain. I am already planning a nice beach house for me when we start colonizing this place." Neptune said as he prepared the bullhead for takeoff. "The ladies will love it."
"Better we let the house planning for another day. Besides, everyone knows a house by the mountains is the best option." Weiss proudly stated, and they shared a laugh.
They boarded the bullhead and the flying machine flew over the waves.
It was then that several metallic tentacles grabbed it and pushed it under water.
…
"Thank heavens is just a thunderstorm." Jaune said over the static filled radio to his partner in flight, Yang.
"Yep, and it is not going to ruin the beach day for my little sister. Shall we go back to the Nagato and plan a party?"
"I think we deserve it after we finish with the data, so yeah, sure. Let's get out of this storm and call the ship." The two fighters soon left the thundercloud and returned to the blue skies near where they left the fireteam. Jaune tried to contact the Nagato, but something interfered with the communications and soon an image formed.
Roman.
"Ah, hello there. You must be part of that insufferable ship that has being annoying me for a while. See, we got your friends… again…" The image showed Ruby and the others without their helmets, unconscious, strapped to a wall. Blake had blood in her mouth and Neptune a black eye. "…So, no point with small talk. This is actually a pre-recorded message; we already warped out of this system. So, here's the deal. We are sending coordinates of a nearby star system; you will go there and surrender your pretty ugly yet quite powerful ship to us. Do that, and I will let your friends and you live. You have two deca-cycles to comply. See you all soon."
Jaune started cursing over the radio.
…
"A deca-cycle is roughly twenty hours, according to the data we got. The system they indicated is a red dwarf system, unlikely to have planets around it." Ren said trying to keep a cool head. "We don't know how many they are, how many ships they have and they still have our friends."
"I am open to any and all suggestions." Jaune said as the Nagato flew towards the warp point.
"We go there, bloody murder everything that is not our friends, rescue them, and then we bloody murder everything on the way out." Yang said as her eyes glowed head.
"We will call this Plan M. Now, we need a plan A that doesn't involve getting ourselves and everyone else murdered." Jaune stated but put his hand on Yang's, and she took a deep breath to calm down, knowing he was right.
"Captain, I know what I will say sounds heartless, but we accomplish our primary mission. We found a planet we can live in, and we should inform Remnant." Glynda stated, and Yang was about to say something but Jaune stopped her, knowing the commander would add something. "Of course, this is what protocol state. But rescuing our friends is a priority right now. I suggest we use the fighter's stealth abilities to try something."
"They probably know about them dues to the fact they waited us there to lay that trap. Jun'ee'or gave us that information for free just so they could do it. He probably passed all information they could to the pirates." Jaune said as he put his brain to work. "I can see a way out, but… it is extremely risky, low chance of success and might get us all killed, yet it will grant that Remnant knows about the planet. So the question is: do you people trust me?"
"Well, your crazy plans always worked. Besides, I want my bunny back." Coco said as she fixed her sunglasses.
"Yeah, I want her bunny back too! And Neptune, he is a swell guy." Sun added, lighting the mood a little.
"As long as I can murder anyone that dared to touch my little sister…" Yang agreed, and soon everyone agreed in follow Jaune's plan, whatever it was.
…
"Why are you doing this?" Pyrrha asked Roman as they were moved to cells with hardlight doors.
"Revenge, mostly. It took me a while to kill every member of my little band of entrepreneurs that thought because you guys fooled me twice I was not fit to be admiral. But now, there is no way your little ship can defeat me, not when I have my twelve ships strong fleet here, plus two thousand pirates, and of course…" He showed a holographic image.
The only object orbiting the red star was a space station made of the remains of several ships, where the pirate ships were docked. Pyrrha understood that they were in complete disadvantage there. Even if the Nagato arrived firing all the weapons, they had little chance to defeat them. She almost hoped that Jaune would turn around and save themselves.
"…so I would not expect a rescue. But don't worry, as a business man, I don't intend to kill any of you. I know of a species that love to mess around new test subjects and will pay a good price for you lot."
"Sir, the alien ship arrived and is expecting instructions." One of the pirates said, and Roman smirked.
"Ah, the love between brothers and sisters in arms. So inspiring! And completely foolish. Now, will you excuse me while I go get my new ship?" Roman laughed and moved away while Pyrrha bit her lips. She couldn't believe Jaune just came for them like that. She was about to despair when Ruby grabbed spoke from her cell.
"Don't worry, Jaune is smart, he probably have a plan!"
"Ruby is right, let's just wait and see what he is planning to."
…
"Are you sure they are all the crew members?" Roman asked as he passed the eight people that were kneeled down and with their hands behind their heads, their weapons and armors behind them in a pile.
"We scanned the entire ship, Captain Roman. The only life signs were from those eight." Roman slapped the crewmember's face.
"Admiral Roman. But it makes sense now. Unknown species, big, heavily armed ship with little crew, stopping in determinate planets… You are an exploratory vessel. Probably trying to find a colony for yourselves. I bet your home is having a little Devourer's infestation." The pirate looked at them and laughed. "I love the Devourers, you know? So many ships going around, asking to be pillaged and sold in the black market. So many slaves to be sold in certain planets. I am sure I can find a buyer for you all. Now, who's the captain?"
"It is me, Jaune Arc of Remnant Spacy." The blonde boy said, and Roman used his cane to raise Jaune's face.
"Ugly, but your whole race is ugly. Now, I will put you all in a cell for now, just in case I need your help to access your ship's systems. Don't worry; your little friends are alive. You are worth way more alive anyway. Neo, take them to the cells."
The alien girl nodded and made a motion with her weapon, leading the way as the group walked around the rather terrifying space station, more due to its clear improvised appearance than anything else. As the group disappeared through a door, Roman admired the Nagato from the window, the ship docked in one of the airlocks of the station.
So he started laughed over his victory.
…
"YOU DOLT! WHY ARE YOU HERE?!" Weiss yelled as Jaune was put in a cell just across her. "You should have escaped back to Remnant if your plan was being captured!"
"Glad to see you too, snow angel. Is anyone hurt?" Jaune asked the rest of the crew.
"They punched my face a little when I tried to get them off Blake." Neptune said from his cell. "It is a war crime punching someone as handsome as me."
"They punched me when I bit someone's finger off. God their blood tastes awful. Aside that I am fine." Blake shouted.
"Badass kitten! Rubes, are you fine?" Yang shouted.
"Yeah! Now please tell me you have a plan!" The redhead girl yelled.
"Well, there are two members of the crew they didn't capture." Jaune stated with a smirk.
"Wait… Who? OH no! NONONONO!" Weiss started losing her cool.
…
From a service port on the Nagato, emerged a small, dog-like creature with a tiny jetpack on his back. He barked soundless in the emptiness of space as another figure emerged, in a green, black and grey Hunter armor. The two robotic companions floated a little before moving towards the space station. The two soon were walking over the superstructure until they found an airlock.
Penny released her swords and fixed two of them on the control panel in the outside, and used magnetic pulses to hack and open the door without triggering the alarms. Soon she and Zwei were inside the pirate cove. She found a panel and started to hack on the systems while the robo-dog sat by her feet.
"I found our friends, Officer Zwei. Now, all we need is to rescue them. Ah, I also found their weapons, good. Close to the cells, a bad design if you ask me. Downloading the schematics to our hard drives… Hiding our signatures from their sensors… And done. Good thing they are trying to decode the Nagato's system and my second core is learning their own systems at the same time." She stated to the dog that put his tactile sensor (it looked like a tongue) of his mouth. Penny put two small packages on his back. "Now, Officer Zwei, those are powerful plastic explosives. I am giving you the coordinates where you should put them. This is a stealthy mission, so do not get caught."
The small dog nodded and bellied up, quickly worming off to plant the explosives. Penny nodded and started walking around to find her friends and free them. She just hoped her core on the Nagato could hold the pirates off long enough for her to do so.
…
"I really think this thing is playing with us. It is almost like it is intelligent!" One of the pirates complained as another cat video appeared on the screen as they tried to hack into the ship's system from the bridge. "Those images are oddly… entertaining."
"Something fascinating about those little creatures playing around…" Another pirate agreed.
"Stop wasting time you two! We all know AIs are not clever enough to do anything outside protocol! Just hack harder!" A third pirate complained. Penny's AI giggled internally as she made the terminal play some maddening sticky song.
…
"I want the rifle-plasma blade thing!" One of the pirates said as he examined the weapons they got from the Nagato's crew.
"I want the grenade launcher. And one of those armors! Though we would have to modify them to fit, those guys' knees are weird." Other commented with Jaune's helmet in his hands.
"Excuse me, can I have those back? They are property of the Remnant Colonial Armed Forces and I would love if you gentleman return it to us." The two pirates turned around and saw penny standing there, smiling with her helmet off. They stared at her, at each other, and dropped what they were carrying to grab their guns, but Penny tasered them unconscious. "I am sorry I had to rely to violence."
She grabbed some steel ropes and tied the two pirates, and used some rags to gag them. With a proud smile over a work well done, she started to put her friend's weaponry on a big cart, and moved to find them, wondering if Zwei was having the same luck.
…
Zwei planted the explosive between the spaces of two metal plates and walked away, as pirates passed around oblivious to the rather minute drone.
…
"AND WHEN WE GOT BACK I WILL HAVE YOU KICKED OUT OF SPACY! I WILL HAVE YOU KICKED OUT FROM THE COLONIES! THEN I WILL KICK YOU OUT OF LIFE!" Weiss ranted towards a rather calm Jaune.
"At least she is an optimist." Sun commented with Neptune.
"Well, if that does not work I hope we got sold to sexy alien chicks." Neptune answered half in jest.
"Really? That is all you can think? Becoming a sex slave?" Coco wandered towards them.
"I can think of worse fates." Neptune answered, receiving a scoff from her.
"I know I will just escape, steal a ship and then I will find Jaune and kick his ass for this plan." Blake answered from her cell. "Really? Penny and Zwei?
"First, Penny is combat ready. Second, I am pretty sure Ren programmed Zwei to be way smarter than expected. Or safe." Jaune defended his plan. He was almost sure it would work, considering there was no alarms sounding nor utter destruction around them.
"I will tell you what, if this plan works, I will a dress for a day." Neptune stated.
"If this works, I will massage the captain's feet!" Weiss yelled. Then the hardlight cell doors disappeared to her surprise.
"Salutations, friends, Weiss! I brought your weapons. Now we can move towards the second phase of the captain's plan and as he said, 'haul ass'." Penny said with her usually energetic disposition, carrying a cart filled with their armors and weapons and half a dozen unconscious pirates.
"Ye of little faith." Jaune said with a wild grin as they started putting their armors. "Petty Officer, I will make sure we have a dress ready for you. Lt. Schnee, I will be waiting for the massage."
Weiss growled at him while they finished helping each other inside their armors. Once finished they put the unconscious pirates on the cells and Penny reactivated the hardlight doors. They returned to the storage room from where the android retrieved the weapons and started planning their next step.
"OK, Penny, Ren and Nora, try to find a terminal to access all you can on this place. I want every defense system disabled ASAP. Neptune, Sun, Doc, Glynda, Coco and Velvet, I want you six to retake the Nagato and keep the way out safe. Ruby, Weiss and Blake, try to keep the pirates busy close to the airlock the Nagato is in. Yang, Pyrrha and me will try to find Roman and get rid of him." Jaune stated as Penny projected a map of the station and he pointed where everyone was supposed to go.
"Wait, why go after the bad guy?" Ruby asked in a low voice. "Shouldn't we just escape this place?"
"First, we need all the distractions possible. Between getting into our ship AND going to a warp point we have a long way to go, and they have more ships than us. So keeping them busy inside will give us time. Second we don't know what defenses this place has, so they can just erase us from the stars for all we know. Third, I am really tired of them." Jaune finally said with a loud sigh. "They are pursuing us now and I doubt they will stop. Therefore I officially declare Roman's pirates a threat to Remnant and its people, and give you all permission to kill on sight. Do not hesitate to kill anything on our path or we will die."
There was a long moment of silence. None of them except Jaune had killed something besides Grimm, and now they were confronted with a deadly enemy that was hell bent in getting them, so in the end they all nodded in agreement. Jaune gulped with guilty that he just ordered them to kill people. It was a different sensation of shooting ships from the bridge with canons and actually seeing the enemies in front of them. He breathed hard one last time before getting up.
"Now go!"
…
"Hey boys!"
Coco yelled at the pirates and they looked surprised at her standing there, machine gun pointed at them. The brunette expected them to surrender, but they draw their weapons and she shot, killing the dozen or so pirates guarding the airlock that gave access to the Nagato. She sighed as she walked past them, a trail of blood running from their dead bodies.
"Neptune, Sun, Doc, clean the ship's inside. Velvet, Coco and I will keep them out." Glynda ordered and the alarms started playing. "NOW!"
The three girls pointed their weapons towards the corridor as the sound of footsteps could be heard. As Sun and the others entered the ship they could hear the gun shots.
…
"Renny, make the screaming cats stop!" Nora said as her friend and Penny tried to hack in one of the terminals inside a room that Ren guessed to be an engineering control center. Around there was some pirates they were able to knock down without killing them. While Ren and Penny tried to access the terminal, Nora protected the door.
"I am trying! It is a complex hexadecimal system wrote in a language I don't know off! Penny, how long before we can get access to it?"
"My best estimative is an hour." Penny said as she had her swords struck on one of the terminals.
"Too long! Just punch it!" Nora shouted as she fired two round of her grenade launcher.
"Nora, I can't just punch it without…" Nora moved and punched her fist through the terminal. There was a series of bleeps, static and a little fire before Penny spoke.
"Access granted! Disabling all defense systems. Disabling the docking arms locking the Nagato. Disabling internal communications."
"How you even…" Ren was about to ask but Nora grabbed him from his chair.
"Basic hardware engineering skill. Now let's go back to the ship!"
…
"Ruby?"
"Yes Weiss?"
"Remember me to kill the captain."
Weiss, Ruby and Blake were in what they guessed to be a repair room for smaller ships. Blake was jumping from the chains and platforms on the ceiling and attacking the dozens of pirates with well placed shots and an occasional grenade. Ruby was nested on the top of a transport ship sniping them hidden by her cloak. Weiss was on the ground, using her Dust gun to keep the enemies away.
"Come on! It is working!"
"Do you call this working?!" Weiss growled as she kept firing. "How many pirates are here anyway!?"
"Two thousand according to Roman! But I am concerned about that big one!" Blake yelled as she approached her friends.
From the back of the room came a pirate piloting service power armor, five times their size, one of the arms with a plasma cutter and the other equipped with a mean looking big claw. The pirate used the claw to grab an engine and toss at the girls, forcing them to scatter. Weiss and Blake started shooting it, but the thick armor was too much for their weapons. Even Ruby's scythe wasn't working.
"What we do?" Weiss shouted.
"I have a plan! Blake, distract it! Weiss, use all ice Dust you can on that thing!" Ruby ordered and they scattered again to do what she told them.
Blake used a smoke grenade to distract it while shooting against its cameras, making the bullets spark against the hardened Dust glass. Weiss used the distraction and fired ice against the enemy's legs, making it slow down until it stopped. The enemy started trashing around, its plasma cutter cutting anything it touched. That got Blake by surprise and she lost her balance, falling on the ground. The enemy tried to cut her in half with the plasma cutter but Weiss used her Semblance to activate a glyph and slide her friend to safety.
Ruby jumped and activated her plasma scythe, and spun as she attacked the power armor, cutting it in half, the two parts falling down. She closed her eyes and walked away to not see what happened to the pirate inside, joining her friends.
"It is Sun, they retook the Nagato!" Blake said after receiving the call. "The captain is saying everyone should board while the pirates are confused!"
…
The last pirate at the bridge fell dead as Dr. Verd shot it in the head with her service pistol. She left an annoyed sigh and nudged the body with her feet. Neptune and Sun looked at the dead pirates in shock for a moment.
"Boys, get on your sits. Penny, did we got them all?" The doctor asked to the AI.
"Yes, and thanks for your timely arrival. They were almost accessing my main system."
"Sun, call everyone, I will dispose of the dead and then help the others outside." Shen stated as she grabbed two bodies by their legs and walked away. The boys walked at her and gulped.
"Man, I don't want to ever anger her." Neptune commented as he started the systems.
"You better not, I heard that she graduated from the mandatory service with the highest body count in all Remnant story." Sun added before trying to reach the others.
…
"OK, let's go!" Jaune ordered, tapping Pyrrha's shoulder as they started moving from the station's mess hall and back to the Nagato's air lock. "Yang! Let's go!"
"We still haven't found that bastard Roman!" She shouted as she punched more pirates into oblivion.
"We will have to blast him from the ship! Hurry, we need to go!" he ordered and Yang punched one pirate, making him fly against some others before running with Jaune and Pyrrha.
As they crossed an empty docking bay, the doors on the back and forth closed, trapping them inside. From the other side came Roman and Neo, staring them down. The girl just smirked as she walked towards them, while Roman tossed his cigar and pointed his cane towards them.
"You know, I was going to let you live, but it is clear you all aren't worth the trouble. So I will just kill you."
He fired his cane against them and a bright red round exploded on their feet.
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A.N. At first this was to be one single chapter, but now I will divide it in two to avoid making it too long and the next one too short. So sorry for the cliffhanger. ^^