Mad Max: Road to Salvation
Episode 27: Snow blind PT.2
A/N: I would like to ease any possible frustrations, I will save the lemon for a later time. For the fans who were actually ok with the idea of max having 5 blood children I'm afraid that it wasn't meant to be. So I will forego the lemon with winter and save it for Max and Glynda's honeymoon. Also, the review section seems to be on the fritz so I cannot respond like usual until they fix it. If you said something but it didn't show up then PM what you said so I may respond. Please and thanks. -Ddog
[Gamerman22: It'll hurt alright and You could say that.]
[awsomrebel55: Yep, and thanks, it's good to know.]
[Dungeon Wyrm: I think you'll really like this part, I hope.]
[Review dude: Thanks for the idea and I tried my best to follow it.]
[EnriksD8: Pretty much spot on there, and he 'might'. I mentioned a while back that most of his kids are going to experience a little odyssey of their own, and at a very young age.]
[Ronmr: thanks]
[Guest 1: I get that.)
[Clearwingyuta: thanks]
[Charles: Heh, yep.]
[Guest 2: yeah too much tech is bad.]
Max and the mercenary were quick to draw their respective sidearms, with the mercenary leaping to the side and avoiding most of the buckshot. Max hated dealing with nimble opponents like this who managed to avoid his blasts. Max ran straight at the loud mouth mercenary to attempt a shoulder bash. The mercenary sidestepped Max's charge and was quick to fire his pistol at the lightly armored road warrior. Max rolled out of the way of Felix's shot and fired another blast just as the mercenary brought up a hard-light shield to block the blast as Max charged in again to levy a punch knock him down to floor. With a growl of anger the mercenary jumped back to his feet and brought out a burst fire assault rifle to fire on max.
Max pulled out his own rifle and the two of them got into an old-fashioned gunfight. Max dropped to one knee and let out a storm of high impact rounds in the mercenary's direction. The orange stripped assassin took a bullet and grunted in pain before retaliating with a frag grenade. Max saw the incoming explosive and batted it away the stock of his rifle. The resulting explosion knocked down Max for a brief moment before he stood back up to barely avoid before struck in the face by a throwing knife that had come at him from the mercenary's hand. Max used the rubble for cover as he blind fired his rifle over the various rocks.
The mercenary pulled out an odd little weapon and grinned before firing it at the pile of demolished sewer wall. The portion that struck the rocks blinked a few times below exploding and knocking max back against a wall. The mercenary saw his target stunned and closed in for the kill with a sadistic grin on his face under the visor he wore. Max was bruised and bloody but he had not come this far to die now, he rose again to one knee clutching a blade behind his back. The mercenary stood in front of him, not paying attention to the hidden blade as he moved his pistol towards max's head. The road warrior slapped the weapon aside and stabbed through mercenary's wrist causing him to curse and scream in pain.
Max used his new opportunity to grab his opponent by the neck and viciously slammed his face against the concrete. The mercenary gritted his teeth and stopped max short of the next face slam, flipping out another knife and stabbing max in the leg. The road warrior grunted in pain, pulling the knife out of his leg, and giving the mercenary a chance to get back on his feet. Both of them stood up and started slugging each other blow for blow. Max parried a punch the mercenary threw and dislocated the man's shoulder. The bloodthirsty mercenary was still standing and let Max charge into him, relocating his shoulder and getting the road warrior into a suplex.
Max rolled over and stood back up, ready to go another round. The mercenary did the same and the two fighters looked straight at each other, neither side eager to make a move. The mercenary threw a knife max caught it with the mercenary running at him once more to land a killing blow. Max sidestepped the charge and brought his fist low, punching just as the mercenary got close. Felix felt like his insides were being pulverized as he coughed up blood inside his helmet. He slammed his elbow against Max's spine and the two of them collapsed to the ground in pain. Max got on one knee wiped the blood from his face as his opponent started to limp away sickly. The road warrior could barely move from his current position and watched as his opponent used a smoke grenade to conceal his escape.
"This isn't over you fuck, as Arnold once said, I'll be back!" The mercenary shouted angrily as he disappeared under the cover of the smoke. Max didn't reply as he drank some water from his canteen and slowly made his way back in the direction of the academy. He eventually reached the doorstep of the academy with a long intermittent trail of blood behind him. Finally, out of exhaustion and blood loss the road warrior passed out to the sight of Winter running towards him. several hours passed as the doctors and medics went to work on Max, doing their best to keep him alive. After getting him through the night Max woke up the next morning to see Winter standing in front of him.
The grizzled wasteland veteran looked himself over to see bandages of all kinds covering him and his gear laying next to him waiting for him to pick it up. He looked winter in the eye and the two of them didn't say much to each other. Max started to move and winter went to stop him but he forced her to stop as he slowly got out of the bed. He'd suffered far worse wounds and refused to let these injuries stop him from doing what he came here to do. Plus, he still he still had a message to give Winter's father, personally. He knew better than to mention it to her though, since she'd offer to take care of it and this was something he wanted to do himself.
But then Winter spoke. "What were you think going off like that alone?" She glared at Max, waiting for an explanation.
"A chance to know my environment and what to expect from your father." Max replied stoically.
"Well you've certainly learned something, then, haven't you? Now who could actually this to you of all people?" Winter inquired as she crossed her legs while sat on a chair.
"A mercenary, he was wearing some kind of advanced armor with orange stripes, didn't tell me his name though. He was sent to kill or capture me, and that he worked for someone worse than your father." Max gave her the rundown on the mystery mercenary who'd attempt to kill Max, only to end up with a draw. "He also had some kind of energy shield that blocked my gunfire and he had no aura."
"That's… interesting. Our intelligence unit had known something was going on, but now this just confirms it." Winter admitted what she knew about the incident.
"It would have been better to know that some time ago." Max narrowed his eyes.
"Either way its moot at this point. You said he was orange?" Winter sighed and asked about the mercenary's appearance.
"Striped, black armor, orange stripes and black visor on his helmet." Max described the color scheme of the mercenary's armor to the best of his ability.
"For what it's worth, we're both responsible for what happened. You for wandering off alone, and my fault for not being more vigilant." Winter pointed out Max's fault and admitted responsibility for her own mistakes involving the attempted hit.
"It would seem that way." Max grunted in acknowledgement as he leaned over the side of the bed and set his feet tot eh floor.
"Don't get out of that bed Max." Winter warned the road warrior.
"I've had worse injuries in my time, this pain is nothing." Max waved her off and stood up with a slight limp.
"Be that as it may, I've been ordered by the general to keep a closer eye on you to avoid this happening again." Winter sassed the grown and irritable man.
"If you want to follow me fine, but I have an errand to run." Max went over to his gear to begin getting dressed.
"If you're referring to my father then-" Winter started to say but Max cut her off.
"Don't get in my way winter." Max would not allow her to stand in his way, only to be pleasantly surprised.
"On the contrary, he's gone too far this time. I have been wanting to pay my dear sister a visit after all." Winter said with a slight smile, intriguing the road warrior.
"Then we have a bargain?" Max asked her with an ambitious look in his eye.
"If you mean we have an accord, then yes we do." Winter agreed and shook Max's hand.
"Perfect." Max said as he left the bed and proceeded to dress himself, while Winter left the room. That didn't stop her from admiring his well-toned yet heavily scarred figure as she made her way out the door. After Max was done, he left the room and checked his equipment. After some time, he and winter ventured to the Schnee estate in all of its hollow grandeur. Max cared little for the mansion and simply frowned in anger and fury while he waited to pay a visit to the Schnee patriarch. They arrived at the house with Max proceeding directly inside while Winter found a concealed entrance. The former heiress was careful to avoid any prying eyes as she made her way to the room of her beloved sister. Max was busy brawling his way through the small legion of heavily armed guards with sounds of conflict raging throughout the building. He barreled through them with lightning dust rounds in his shotguns Winter had given him to stun the security personnel rather than outright kill them. The non-lethal tactics he had been practicing lately were quite useful. He reached the door of Jacque's private study and kicked it in to find the horrible businessman sitting at his desk frightened.
"You've been a serious thorn in my side Schnee." Max growled as he walked closer to the man while cracking his knuckles in anger. "If you want to try calling your guards, they're busy right now, and your panic button isn't going to help you. Face it, this has been coming for a long time, and you've royally pissed me off." Winter had found a way to distract the bulk of the mansion security force and disabled her father's panic button, leaving him defenseless, except for the guards Max had defeated. Atlas covert operations did have its moments as a decent professional force.
"Now hold on, I'm sure we can come to an agreement." Jacque said nervously.
"No, I have a much better idea in mind for you." Max said as he grabbed the man and pinned him to the floor. He then produced a camera winter had given him for the moment to be recorded. He setup the device and then scribbled on Jacque's expensive business suit 'Faunus lives matter' and 'don't screw with max'. "Now give me you left arm."
"No, NO!" Jacque protested as Max grabbed and positioned the begging man's arm.
"Now look when you're talking to your doctor, tell him you have a spiral fracture of the left radius." Max informed the man of the pain that was sure to come for his acts of aggression.
"NO, NO, NO, NO! I'll say I love faunus, there I said it! Now please don't do this! NOOOOO!" Jacque was begging and cajoling max in an attempt to stir his sympathy. But nothing was going to stop him from sending his message.
"Deep breath now." Max said calmly as instantly twisted and snapped the arm of the Schnee patriarch into a position that it was not ever meant go.
"*SNAP! * GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEE AH HAH AH HAA AAAHHHH!" Jacque screeched the girliest scream of pain in the history of the world of remnant. That was happening while winter and Weiss were having a loving reunion with each other.
"Winter did you hear something?" Weiss looks in the direction their father's study.
"Oh, I'm sure it was nothing of consequence my dear sister." Winter dismissed the notion.
"It must be one of the workers or servants I suppose." Weiss chalked it up to nothing of consequence and the two sisters continued their meaningful talk with one another, the younger sister completely unaware of the humiliating beatdown their father was receiving. After a few minutes Winter takes her leave and gives Weiss a heartfelt goodbye, before going to collect Max.
"You WILL regret this Rockatansky! You had better hope Ironwood erases that bounty, or I will make life VERY hard for you and both of your Faunus brats!" The beaten and bruised businessman barked as he writhed on the floor of his study in agony. Max had broken several of Jacque's bones and torn up the extremely expensive suit he had worn before the beating.
"Keep dreaming, that will never happen unless hell freezes over. And, if you continue to come after me or even attempt to harm my family, I will be back here to repeat this until you learn the lesson scrawled on your brand new tattered rags." Max said coldly as he shut the door, briefly putting the fear of god into the pathetic man on the ground. The two of conspirators reunited with each other, Max having a somewhat satisfied look on his face. The two of them agreed to upload the recording to the CCT network via dust tube, to humiliate the Schnee patriarch on a global scale. Winter knew the fallout from this would set her father back quite a bit with his progress and heavily embarrass the name of Schnees. Winter had no regrets about this and she would thank Max for the opportunity to strike back, while enjoying the company of her beloved sister and being able to deny any involvement in this. Max simply grunted in agreement and the two of them returned to Atlas academy promptly.
-Evening-the Next day at a bar in Atlas near the school-
The next day, disgruntled Faunus all over remnant were singing the praises of the road warrior and laughing at Jacque Schnee, Thanks to the wonder of diplomatic immunity on the part of Ozpin and Ironwood, kept him from being charged of any crimes. Even the general secretly despised Jacque enough to let it slide under his radar. It was all allowed under the pretense that his hands were tied when it came to disputes between a company and another nation's diplomat. Winter had decided that she owed Max some gratitude, and offered him a chance to go out for a drink. The road warrior agreed, so long as it was kept simple, formal was not his forte. On that note Max had gone to meet with her and the two of them shared a drink at a decent sized bar where they would be left in peace. Max noticed a report on one of the Bar's TVs and he asked the bartender to change it to VNN. The bartender did so and the very report Max was expecting appeared.
"In other news, the world is taken by storm with Faunus rights groups rejoicing at the posting of a video on dust tube depicting the assault on Jacque Schnee. So far, the Vale council has ruled in favor of the road warrior on the grounds that his actions were justified by being provoked by the SDC. Vale foreign policy states that given the road warrior's status as a diplomat, the bounty was unlawful and therefore actionable. The major corporation has since been heavily fined for the crime, and no charges will be pressed against the visiting beacon instructor."
"I'd say that was well earned. I wonder what Ozpin did though to sway the council in your favor?" Winter mused to herself on the political skills of Beacon's headmaster.
"It doesn't matter to me, I'm satisfied and soon enough I'll be on my way." Max said as he took a swig from a large bottle of scotch that had been purchased by Winter.
"Well then a toast, to a small victory." Winter said with a smile as the two of them clinked their glasses together. After sometime, and more liquor, the normally serious atlas specialist had loosened up quite a bit. "I really should thank you, after all you plowed the way inside the manor for me to be able to see my sister again, without my wretched father knowing I was ever there."
"We both got what we wanted." Max grunted.
"I'd say I still want something more though, or perhaps rather *hiccup* a reward for you if you want it." Winter said with a boozed-up blush on her face.
-END CHAPTER-