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Excerpt from an audio Log of Adam Taurus.
My head… It hurts. I can't think straight… That weird computer in my head… It's angry. It just wants to destroy. Argh! I can't think! It… is taking over. I need to record how to stop this before it's too late… Someone help me… Arrrgggghhh!
The rest of the log is indecipherable
The engineer shut the door to his room as quietly as possible, then rubbed the sleep from his eye and stretched. After a sudden thought he removed his precious jacket, and set it down on his bed. He glanced tiredly at the clock he had made earlier this year. The digital green numbers shone back at him. 1:30.
Cyan's eyes widened, his gaze quickly turned to Weiss' bed. And there, dressed in a nightgown, the heiress had irritation written on her face. "One would think that it would be common courtesy to keep quiet when it's one thirty in morning!"
The engineer flinched, grasping the doorknob behind in him preparation to flee, only for Weiss to freeze the door shut. "What could've you four possibly been playing that was so important that you couldn't stop until this late?" The fact she wasn't yelling was terrifying in itself.
The male looked down kicking his feet, "Well, uh, we actually stopped playing around nine. Aurelius and I, uh, decided to go down to the centrifuge." Weiss' glare intensified, stepping uncomfortably close to her partner. Their noses were only a few inches apart. Cyan flushed a deep red.
Wow… She's really pretty…
Right now? Seriously?
Aren't our roles reversed right now?
"If you're going to talk to Verdant, at least have the decency to bring her out instead of just zoning out."
Oh no. You dug this hole, you're getting out of it yourself.
"What were you doing down there, huh?"
"I-i was making something…"
"Oh? And, what pray tell, were you making?"
Aww, are you going to tell her?
Well, that is part of the reason I'm here.
"W-well you see, w-when they're are dances were I come from, the g-guys come up with creative and romantic ways to ask the person." The engineer trailed off, his face synonymous with a tomato.
Weiss' heart stopped, her anger forgotten. Is he… Is he doing what I think hes doing? Cyan shuffled his feet, not looking the heiress in the eyes. "Uh, would you like to take a walk with me for a second?" Weiss contained her excitement, putting on a mask of indifference. "I suppose I can manage. Allow me to get dressed."
She retracted from the engineer and unfroze the doorknob. The engineer nodded gratefully, and quickly left the room. Weiss allowed a grin to form on her face. This was going far better than expected.
On the opposite side of the door Cyan slumped down against the wall heart pumping. He sent a message to Aurelius to get everything ready.
So far so good.
I'm surprised you had the guts, I'm so proud.
Wait is that sniffing? Are you crying…?
I just thought your cowardice would last till the end of time.
Cyan stood up roughly as the door swung open, revealing Weiss in more casual clothes. A simple white blouse and skinny jeans. The heiress' lips twitched into a smile. "Well, where are we headed?"
The two partners stood on the exact same balcony that he, Ruby, and Yang had slept on so long ago. Cyan still chuckled at the picture he had Verdant take at the time. The duo walked up the the railing and looked out over Vale. "It's beautiful…" Weiss leaned against the the balcony, taking in the sights.
The engineer couldn't help but appreciate how her skinny jeans hugged her-. Cyan shook his head forcing himself to tear his gaze away to his Omni-Tool. Aurelius had sent back the confirmation.
"Hey. Look over there." Cyan murmured softly pointing in the skies. Weiss' eyes scanned the sky, her brows starting to furrow. "What am I-" She cut herself short when a lone fire work shot into the sky. The heiress followed it's path till it exploded, that explosion spelling out the words.
Weiss Schnee, I would
explode in happiness
if you went the dance
with me.
The heiress' breath caught in the back of her throat. She turned to her partner wide eyed. He was looking to the side, rubbing his left arm. "It's okay if you don't want to…" He gestured at himself, and began babbling nervously, "I know I'm not all that handsome, or attractive. So I would understand completely if you decided that I wasn't good enough an-" Weiss wrapped her arms around the engineer, effectively silencing his words.
"Of course! Nothing would make me happier!"
Cyan hugged his partner back, squeezing slightly, "Thank you." More fireworks shot up into the sky, lighting up the night in brilliant white and blues. The heiress glanced up at the engineer's face. There, for the first time since she had met him, was a wide grin on his face.
Not to far away, Bullheads floated just out of range of the Beacon scanners. A peculiarly colored black one's side hatch opened revealing Adam, Blake, and spindly rabbit faunus clutching a sniper rifle two times bigger then herself. She had purple hair and matching aviators. The bunny looked more like a punk rocker then white fang member.
The leader of the White Fang snickered, watching the scene play out between Cyan and Weiss, "Might as well strike now and ruin this disgustingly happy moment." He gestured to the purple rabbit with a sniper rifle. The misguided faunus took aim and fired. Only a Thwoop sound gave away the shot.
Blake frowned opened her mouth to speak, but closed it after hesitating. Her hand instinctively went to her throat.
"I think we should go back to the room and get some sleep. It's really late." Weiss reluctantly let go of Cyan. Both teens still were flushed. "Yeah, I agr-" A thawp echoed throughout the balcony. A dart blossomed out of Cyan's shoulder knocking the engineer off balance.
"Wha-What the h-?"
The male's surprised tone was cut off by his body hitting the floor unconscious. Before the heiress could react a black haired girl launched herself in between the two blade drawn. The assailant's slitted yellow eyes held no emotion, "Don't move, Ms Schnee. I wouldn't want to be forced to end your partner's life."
Weiss glared and her hand flashed to Myrtenaster only to hit empty air. Mentally cursing her carelessness, her eyes flashed to the unconscious engineer. "If you hurt him, I promise that you won't live to regret it."
"HA! Did you hear that Blake? Big words from a snotty brat."
Adam stepped into sight from the shadows, a crazed smile plastered on his face. His mask glowing the erie red, causing the heiress to narrow her eyes. She needed to get help and fast, her hand inched toward the scroll in her pocket. If she could just call Pyrrha or anyone…
"Get the kid back to the ship."
A ape faunus strode over, and roughly swung Cyan over his shoulder. With the unconscious engineer in possession, the grunt strode slowly back to Adam's side. The leader of the White Fang grabbed the teen's hair lifting his head, a blood red Omni-Tool forming. "We don't need little sneaks in here, do we?" Adam grunted at the strain but eventually forced Verdant out.
The A.I.'s figure went flying back in Weiss' direction. The red haired faunus admired the engineering tool on his wrist, his mouth retaining his sadistic smile. "Huh, O'Malley was right… These are fun to use."
Verdant righted herself, being an A.I. construct did have it's perks. "No human or faunus could force an A.I out of someone like that… W-who are you?" Adam laughed again, then stopped suddenly. The man's lips set in a thin line. "I'm this world's worst nightmare."
Aurelius fired the last firework into the sky, appreciating the colors. The hawk faunus stood up straight and stretched. After hearing the satisfying pop in his back he stopped.
Well today had been a nice day.
I agree. We should do this more often.
Fireworks are a lot of fun! We should find a way to implement them in battle?
That's way too chaotic! We could potentially hurt an ally.
Aww, don't hate on my idea, Saint!
I'm sorry, Wolf, but it's a bad idea.
Aurelius shook his head, trying to ignore the constant bickering that his two A.I. did almost religiously. The golden haired male walked back into the school slowly, enjoying the night air. Inspite of his random personality, he enjoyed moments like this immensely. He looked up to the balcony that Cyan and Weiss would be on, expecting to see them making out.
He honestly would have preferred that, instead of the White Fang members kidnapping his friend. Aurelius' golden Omni-Tool flared to life, and he dialed Ruby's number. After a few rings the sleepy crimsonette picked up.
"It's past one in the morning… What do you want?"
"Swing by Cyan and Weiss' room and pick up her sword. We have a situation out here."
A Bullhead flew down, coming to a stop just above the railing. Weiss scanned everything to see if there was anything she could use. Verdant hover close to her, the anger from the A.I. making her human image unclear. The two tried desperately to think up a plan. The heiress' eyes lit up, muttering under her breath so only Verdant could hear it, "I have a plan."
Blake began retreating slowly, keeping Gambol Shroud pointed at Weiss' chest. Adam smirked, the red light fading from his form, "Cowards. You knew you couldn't take the two of us in a straight fight." The ape faunus, who was climbing into the Bullhead with Cyan on his shoulder spun around.
"What did you just say?"
Weiss allowed a teeny smirk at the corner of her mouth, Checkmate. "You heard me." Verdant glanced at the white haired teen nervously, "I'm not so sure if it's the greatest idea to antagonise him without a weapon in hand."
Weiss kept her eyes locked on the angry faunus. Blake and Adam were trying to talk him down. She murmured to the A.I, "If we stall them long enough someone is bound to notice." Adam suddenly twitched, turning back to the heiress with a deep set frown. "Faunus hearing, remember?" The leader of the White Fang shoved on his huge subordinate with surprising strength, the red light reappearing.
"Get your moronic butt back into that aircraft!"
The surprise thrust shoved the grunt through the railing on the balcony, and into the Bullhead. The door shut suddenly and the aircraft began to leave. Weiss moved to intercept but was cut off by Blake's blade at her throat. "CYAN!" The Bullhead continued rising, ignoring the heiress pleas.
The smile came back to Adam's face. "I want to hear you scream, girly." He put his hands up in mockingly " 'Cyan! Cyan! Don't go!'." The redhead laughed sinisterly, wiping a tear from his eyes. "Oh, thats rich. C'mon do it again." Blake's sword trembled.
"Ah, ah, whew." Adam stood up straight. "Hey grunts? Kill all of the wannabe warriors in this school." Adam grinned cruelly, twenty more Bullheads appeared, teaming with angry faunus. He stepped on watching Weiss run desperately away from the teeming hordes of grunts.
"Get us out of here, Simmons."
The doors shut, the pilot, a strange man in full body maroon armor. "Sir, yes, sir. Uh, sir." The ninja hesitated, glancing at the unconscious Cyan. The huge faunus had unceremoniously dumped the unconscious male on the ground. She picked up his body and placed it gently onto a chair, nest to the rabbit faunus that has taken the shot. Adam handed her handcuffs.
¨Cuff him, and take off those boots. We don't need any surprises.¨
Blake reluctantly did as she was told, pulling his arms out in front of him and cuffing them together. The sniper looked at her with curiosity , "Why ya bein' so gentle with 'im, mate?" Her accent would be called Australian if they were back on Earth, Blake look at her with sorrowful eyes, and shook her head. "I don't know, Bonnie. He is... the enemy right?"
"Weiss, catch!"
The heiress' hand shot out, pulling in her rapier, just in time to parry a clumsy swing from a White Fang member's swords. "Thanks, Yang." The brawler winked and threw herself in to the fray. Punching out multiple enemies with Ember Celicia, bobbing and weaving like a boxer through their attacks.
Ruby shot through the crowd using her semblance, slicing through grunts. The young crimsonette, boosting the power her swings with her sniper shots. The three girls fought until they were back to back.
"T-there are a lot of these guys."
Yang sidestepped a desperate swing from a bull faunus' club, and punished the whiffed attack with a strong uppercut. Weiss ducked under a sloppy overhand chop from an axe and replied with a more accurate slash of her own.
"We need to keep on fighting."
A more skilled lizard faunus blocked a jab from Yang with a well placed shield. The White Fang member's eyes shined in excitement, he brought his sword down in a powerful swing and the brawler's exposed side. Only to find his sword stopped by a glyph and Crescent Rose Speeding at his face.
Yang nodded her thanks at the two, and the trio kept on fighting. The RWY of RCWY were steadily getting pushed back down the hallway. Ruby sliced through a well-trained monkey faunus' mace and knocked him out by smashing the hilt of the scythe into his head. "Remind me to schedule us for more team training later on."
Out of the ranks of the White Fang a tall, and muscled bull faunus strode, his long horns jutting out of his forehead. The huge bull's brown tail swished behind him angrily, and his eyes glared at Weiss hatefully.
"YOU! SCHNEE GIRL! YOUR FAMILY HAS TREATED THE FAUNUS LIKE NOTHING! AFTER I MOUNT YOUR HEAD ON MY SPEAR YOUR FATHER WILL THINK TWICE ABOUT MISTREATING ANY FAUNUS!"
The smaller grunts cheered, on in particular screamed out over the roar "Get her, Wyatt!" Wyatt roared and charged for the group of girls, brandishing a seven foot long spear. The teens quickly jumped apart, letting the juggernaut charge by. He slip to a stop, turning to face them again and advanced slowly.
Yang took the initiative and stepped out in front of the other girls. " We need a plan, and fast." Ruby began taking pot shots at behemoth, which he blocked with impressive movement for his spear. "Well that didn't work."
Wyatt shot forward like an arrow from a bow, surprising the three girls. He swung his spear at inhuman speeds, but was bounced roughly off of one of Weiss' Glyphs. As Wyatt was knocked of balance, Yang took the opportunity to smash a few rounds from Ember Celica into his knee. The faunus roared and swiped furiously with a backhand, just missing the brawler after her duck but cutting of a shred of her hair. Her lilac eyes widened at the golden strands slowly falling to the ground. "Oh, you're dead."
Yang's eye flashed red and her aura exploded outwards. Ruby's head snapped up, "Oh! Idea!" She turned quickly to Weiss, "Can you freeze his feet in place?" The heiress gave her a blank look and did as asked. Wyatt legs up to his knees were flash frozen, immobilising the juggernaut. This allowed Yang to go to town on his unprotected front.
Using her semblance and sniper rifle, Ruby shot forward and sliced at Wyatt back leg, successfully draining his aura down good amount. "Weiss!" The heiress hopped on some glyphs and jumped, taking several slashes at the faunus head. Weiss flipped through the air gracefully and landed next to her blonde team mate. Wyatt roars turned into squeals of pain, the brawler not letting up her assault.
After one last mighty punch, the behemoth's aura shattered and knocked him out. Wyatt swayed drunkenly for only a moment before he fell to the ground with a crash. The ice melted away and the bull sprawled out.
The rest of the grunts, who had decided to watch what they thought would be a slaughter, froze. Out of nowhere came a battle cry.
"LEEEEEEERRRROOOOYY JEEEEEEEENKIIIINNNS!"
Everyone, including Weiss, Ruby, Yang, and all of the White Fang, stopped and stared as none other than Aurelius, followed closely by most of the school. The hawk faunus ran into the fray, with twin golden blades slashing, and stabbing. The battle resumed, the tide turned massively in the students favor.
Yang shook her head, watching Aurelius quote one-liners, ¨Between him and Nora I have no idea who's crazier.¨
¨I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum!¨
Cyan shot up to a sitting position, his head pounding. He screwed his eyes shut, trying to will the skull shattering headache away. The engineer curled into the fetal position. What happened?
…
The lack of reply from his ever present companion was the first thing that worried Cyan, the second came when he opened his eyes to an empty room. The only source of light in the dingy looking room was a window high up on the wall, from a underneath the only door. The room itself had seen better days, the wallpaper was peeling, and Cyan swore the place smelt distinctively of cabbage.
The engineer tried to stand up shakily, his handcuffed hands causing some difficulty. Halfway to a standing position he, lost his balance and fell to his hands and knees, vision swimming. He cursed under his breath and crawled over to the wall, using it force himself upright. The last thing I remember is asking Weiss to the dance, and now… Cyan's gaze locked on to the door, there were voices. If my experience in watching movies tells me anything, it's that those people ar probably not friendly.
Eyes focused on the door, he inched toward the window. The engineer's strained to pick up the distinct voice of a male and female arguing. Cyan worked his way to the window, he was starting to feel more like a person again. The headache was forgotten and adrenaline kicked in.
When the teen finally made it under the window, he tried to activate his boots. What the-? The only things on his feet were a pair of black socks. Before Cyan even had time to curse his fate, the door swung open revealing Blake.
The cat faunus shut the door quickly behind her, before turning her yellow orbs on the engineer. A silence set in, neither of the two said anything. This is Blake, right? If shes anything like the one from the show, then she is against this kind of violence.
…
Still not there? Damn.
"You need to tell Adam everything you know or he will make you wish you've never been born."
Cyan just gave her an incredulous look. "Nah." He looked up at the window, before turning back to the ninja, "You want to give me a boost?" Blake gave him the exact same look, "W-what? I'm one of the people that captured you, remember?"
"No you're not."
"Are you stupid or something? I am part of the White Fang!"
Cyan turned away from the window and walked close up to her, "You may be a member of the White Fang, but you aren't one of them." The engineer gestured out the door, "Any of the other people out there would've started by beating me to within an inch of my life." Cyan poked her in the shoulder playfully, "but you, on the other hand, try to talk me out of it first."
Blake started to speak, but cut herself off, the ninja's mouth was hung open in shock. Cyan narrowed his eyes and looked at her right in the her own, "Now ask yourself, is this kidnapping a engineer and attacking a well-known academy really going to bring peace?"
Blake's eyes widened further, "I-I'm going to go now. A-a-adam will come visit you here soon. I would take his offer if you don't want to get tortured." The engineer stepped away from her and sat down against the wall. "Right, right." The black haired teen turned away, her thoughts full of what the engineer had said. "Blake." She turned around to see Cyan with a small smirk, "Just remember no matter what happens. Ozpin would let you into Beacon with open arms."
Blake looked down at her feet then shut the door behind her without a word. The kidnapped teen stood up and made his way back over to the window. "Lets see no boots... How am I gonna get out of this one?" Outside of the room, Blake stood next to an even more curious Bonnie, who was modifing her sniper rifle when her fellow faunus came in. "Is 'verything hunky-dory? You look like you saw a spook." Blake looked at her right in her red irises, "Bon, are we sure we are doing the right thing here?"
Bonnie laughed heartily, "Ovcource we are! Faunus need to be treated equally."
"But would you want to kill every human? Even the innocent ones?"
The purple haired faunus stopped laughing and sobered up. "N-no." Blake pulled up a chair, "What did you think when Adam let loose our kin on the unsuspecting students back at the academy. An academy that doesn't discriminate against faunus?" Bonnie didn't say anything. The ninja let out a soft grunt, "That's what I thought."
Second audio log of Adam Taurus
Step one: This… thing… is like a parasite, if I die then it will just find a new host. When you finally k-kill me, don't have any engineer or any person that has a neural uplink with their tech be present. It will just start this process all over again.
End of log.
Thanks for reading! I'm going to keep it short this time.
SmallTownGamer