Chapter 4 – Roman Torchwick
In another cell in the prison block, guarded by a male and female soldier, a man who overheard the previous conversation is plotting his next move. He then moves to the window of his cell and knocks on it. The male guard look into the window to see the person wanting to ask a question.
"Hey, could you get me a cigar?" He said with a smile.
The male guard shacks his head and then looks at the other guard and says, "Can you believe this guy, asking for a cigar." The other guard looks at him and then pulls out her gun. She then hits the guard with the blunt side of the handle, knocking out the guard. The two other guards see this and go to apprehend the female traitor. She then grabs one of the guard's hands and tosses him to the ground. She sweeps the leg of the other guard and, as he was falling to the ground, she strikes him across the side of the head with her gun. The female guard smirks at the the three other unconscious guards. She pulls a leaver on the cell to open the door. The former prisoner then gets out and stretches out his back. The man looks in the glass of his window cell to smooth out his short orange hair, bangs covered one of his eyes.
"Man it is cramped in there," the man says to the female guard, "I know it is way early for me to get out, but I wanted to talk to this new girl. I think she could be a useful ally if I get her on our side. From what I have overheard, I like her way with dealing with people."
The man walks over to the cell as female guard follows, "While I convince her to join our side, you go get my hat and cane. Thanks darling." The guard nods and walked towards the door, the man interrupts her strive when he calls out to her, "And don't forget my cigar."
He walks over to the cell with Seryu and knocks on the window. She then looks up to see an unfamiliar face, "Who are you?"She says as Koro begins to growl.
"Greetings, my name is Roman Torchwick. I am the guy that is not going to keep you in a cell for doing nothing wrong. That idiotic general is just filling you with false hope, he wants to just keep you in here like me because he is afraid of us." He says as he gestures with his hands over the window.
"We do not fit in his idea world of control. Now look at me, I am going to help you right now try to find your friends at let you out of here. I think I am the better person and all I ask for you in return is to help out my boss with her goals. What do you say lady?" His bombastic monologue had gotten the attention of Seryu. She offer a retort, "What does she want to do?" A smile formed on Roman's face as he answered Seryu's second question. "She just wants power to create Hell."
Seryu then looks at Koro on her lap and gives him a small smile. "I would like to leave this cell now." Roman hears this answer and puts on his own sinister smile as he grabs the leaver to release his new ally. As the cell door opens, he extended his hand into the cell saying, "I think you and I can get along very well, and I am a person who likes dogs also."
Upon finishing this statement, Koro jumps towards Roman, growing in size and opening its horrifying mouth. The dog devours Roman's extended down to his shoulder, ripping it off and moving to behind the now one armed criminal. The look of fear on his face overwhelmed him as he sees the monstrous animal behind him. He hears the crunching of his bones and blood dripping from its mouth. The orange haired criminal screams out in pain as she couches his wound to try and stop the blood loss. He hears laugher emerge from the cell in front of him.
"Hahahaha. Do you take me for an idiot? I may not be from this land, but know a worthless criminal when I see one," she says while walking out of her cell towards the tremblingly Roman, "You do nothing but lie to get what you want and only enjoy making the government suffer. I enjoy killing people like you and making the world a better place because of it." Her last line is said in front of the criminal's face, starring into his eyes. "I do not want order or hell, I just want to administer justice." Roman clenched his only fist and tries to punch Seryu across the face.
"YOU CRAZY BIT-" Upon the criminal yelling this, Seryu ducks his weak attack and strikes Roman in his stomach, citing him off prematurely. He falls to his knees over the additional pain. Roman then looks up to see the psycho starring him straight eyes. Seryu then punches him in the face, sending the orange haired criminal in front of Koro. Roman tries to open his eyes after taking the hit, but to the terror of seeing his the monster dog try to finish his meal. He tries to hold back the dog, but to no avail as his upper body is eaten. The muffled screams from inside the mouth of the dog. Suddenly, the noises stop as the dog bite down. Roman's lower torso fall back on the ground for a second as Koro swallows. Then he picked up the legs and began crew on them.
"Good Koro." Seryu says to her companion. She then hears the sound of an object hit the floor near her. She looks to see where the sound came from to see the female guard from before. Seryu remembered her walking by Roman, not stopping him from escaping. On the ground near the female guard was a cane and cigar on the ground. In her hand was a black bowler hat she was gripping as hard as she could.
Seryu then dawned her sinister smile and looks into the eyes of the female guard. "You are next to feel the wrath of our justice. Koro! Number 7!" Koro then quickly reacts to the master's call and bites Seryu's were her arm would have been. As the dog opened his jaws and moves further from Seryu, her missing arm had been replaced with an anti-tank rifle. She then takes aim at the female guard and fires. Before the shell could make contact with her body, the female guard jumps back and disappears in a flash of light. The shell then hits the wall behind her and severely damages the wall of the prison block.
As the smoke cleared with no body parts found, Seryu looks to her dog and tells him, "Koro, our enemy is trying to get away. Use number 9 to show were they are." Koro nods and spits out a mechanical arm with a radar on the forearm, he sees numerous dots on the radical. He shows this to Seryu in confusion. Seryu then looks at radar and could not tell witch one was her enemy. As she is looking at the radar, the door to the prison block opens as over a dozen guards, weapons pointed at her, and General Ironwood enter. They all look in shock of the woman with a large gun for an arm and the giant dog with blood on his mouth.
The general then speaks out to Seryu. "What happened here!?"
Seryu looks over to the general and his men. She points her weaponized arm at Koro, who then bits down on it to change it to an arm to a regular prosthetic, similar to her other arm. Koro then eats the radar arm before returning to the smaller dog form. She then gives a salute to the general. "I am sorry General Ironwood, the man in the cell near be had broken out and tried to convince me to leave with him and his jail breaker. So I took it upon myself and Koro to administer justice onto him. The man is dead, but I believe that the other had run away like to heartless criminal she was."
General Ironwood is still in shock of who this person was but walks over to Seryu starring intensely into her eyes to hide his worry. Knowing any words what would make her mad could result in the loss of his men or even his own life. "Understood, you seem to have hidden more from us that you lead on. Why do not we take a walk to research and development to learn more about you and your dog?" Seryu then lowers her hand and then dawns a enlighten smile.
"Really, you mean I do not have to go back into that cell?" She says as Koro hops in delight.
"It seems you have the capability to leave at you own leisure, so why do not we move right into a more trusting partnership to understand one another. He walks her through the crowd of soldiers out of the prison block. He does pull over one of his soldiers and whispers to him, "Send the security footage to Ozpin and Glynda as soon possible. He would want to know something about who this person is and what this creature is also." The soldier nods and goes to in a different direction that the others. Another solider walks over to gGneral Ironwood with a look of astonishment.
"How can you say we can trust, look what she did?" He whispers as General Ironwood looks back at him, before making sure Seryu could not hear what he was going to say. "I do not, but it is best not to make her think we are her enemy, unless you want her to destroy this airship in a rage." The general whispers as guard look back at the happy expression on Seryu's face.
"Do you really think she could do that?" The soldier whisper.
"I do not want to test that, now go and file a report for the death of Roman Torchwick." General Ironwood whispers before walking over to Seryu. The soldier leave with sweat on his forehead over remembering the image of that smile on Seryu's face after killing that man.