Well... sorry for the boring chapters as of late... I promise to repay you guys with some BADASS battle scene soon...
I'm still accepting any ideas from people who leave comments... the story is still not even set in stone... but I've got the chisel here now so you better get in fast to have your idea/character written in this mediocre story...
Also a shout out to jordonlink7856... yes... yes I do use too many illipsisis... illipsie?... illipsisess?... HOW THE HELL DO YOU SAY THAT!... they are my way of making you pause for the correct amount of time for everything... and so I can piss off all you Grammar Nazi's out there...
No hate to Grammar Hitler...
Naughtbeast
Chapter 19:
Two days later…
"And no matter what path you choose… remember to be safe… remember your training… and remember to do your very best" Ozpin spoke, walking off after he finished the speech. After he did, Miss Goodwich walked on stage and addressed everyone.
"Now, you will be graded on the assignment you partake in and you will have exactly one week to complete the task.
Demon smiled wildly before immediately walking over to the Search and Destroy mission area. Unsurprisingly, team RWBY was also sitting there, trying to constantly select a mission that was locked to them.
"It keeps saying it's for second years only!" complained Ruby, obviously pissed that it was blocked.
"Are you sure you're doing it right?" asked Yang, oblivious to the actual reason behind the holdup.
"Do you want to try!" asked Ruby, stepping aside for Yang to try. Before she could, Demon stepped in and interrupted them, the rest of team DRSK behind him.
"Why do you want to specifically pick that one?" asked Demon.
"Ummm… no reason!" replied Ruby innocently.
"Well… you could always mail yourself there?" Demon joked, earning a laugh from Ruby and Yang, Weiss and Blake just groaning.
"That's one way to get there…" interrupted Ozpin, appearing out of nowhere.
"EEP!" screeched Rosaline, being directly next to the professor when he appeared.
"Sorry for the rude interruption, but I noticed that RWBY had a particular interest in Quadrant 5"
"Ummm…" Ruby stuttered, desperately trying to come up with an excuse.
"I wonder why you would want to head specifically to that area… it's almost as if you won't leave until you have your way…"
Ruby's face was growing more flush every moment, apparently sensing where this conversation was headed.
"Remember this motto girls… Rules aren't meant to be broken… but no one ever says anything about bending them…" Ozpin said, tapping on his oversized scroll as he did. When he finished, the Quadrant 5 Search and Destroy mission changed to selected. When Demon saw who had selected it, he was a bit vexed. It said that both RWBY and DRSK were selected for the mission.
"I'm sure team DRSK will be happy to accompany you along on the mission, having a second-year team will help with the mission…"
"I'd be happy to help out my sisters" Demon stated, hugging Ruby as he did.
"Sisters?" Ozpin raised an eyebrow before walking off, back to who knows where.
"Great, so we're on a mission with you guys…" Kira observed, a smile spreading across her face. They exchanged conversation and Demon left without anyone noticing, sneaking back to his pod. He knew that they would be leaving soon so he made sure to check on his armour and weapons. He knew that this would be the perfect opportunity to test his equipment out. The day before, he had been practising for the entire day, managing to get quite good at wielding the weapon. He also found out a special property of the blade… if he channelled his aura through it… it set on fire! He had tested it out and it managed to somehow increase the cutting potential of the weapon even more! Even though he had been interrupted during his training session in the morning by Ozpin, he still had time to figure it out. He had been taken to Ozpin's office where Mrs Goodwich and another man called General Ironwood were waiting. He was asked to uphold his part of the deal and inform them of the so-called superior technology of his universe… the bargain for coming to the academy. He had upheld that part of the deal… technically. He had completely wasted their time informing them on things they could never get… for example Gunpowder and Fossil fuels. Before they could get annoyed with him spurting out useless information, his time there was done and so he was allowed to leave. He still didn't quite trust everyone here and certainly wasn't giving plans for building Titan enhancements to a General of some random army he didn't even know.
He made it back to the pod after remembering the previous day and grabbed all his gear, pulling on the beautiful armour his mother had given him. He loaded everything and even packed his extremely overpowered nuclear rocket launcher.
Once he was finished, he made his way to the landing dock, waiting for team RWBY to arrive, and jumped in their designated bullhead. As he waited, he saw a particular bullhead land and about a hundred students all flock to the bullhead. He saw a team step out and everyone started flooding them with questions. One was a male, absolutely colossal and had a large, green, curved greatsword slung over his back. Another male followed him, his eyes fogged over indicating he was blind, yet he still walked as though he was able to see. He had two blades running along his forearms as well as large knuckledusters from which the blades sprouted. At the front of the group was a woman wearing something along the lines of a khaki military uniform. Strangely enough, she was wearing aviators and was carrying a purse that had massive bullets hanging off. These three just casually brushed aside the massive crowd and walked ahead, leaving behind their last member. She was a lot shorter than most of the people gathering around but she made up for her height with two massive bunny ears. She was wearing a skin-tight suit and had a small box just above her waist on her back, the only sign of any visible weapon.
She stayed back and answered every question that was thrown at her, never faltering once. After she was done she left the massive crowd and was interrupted by RWBY and his other team members. They talked for a bit before she left again and Demon refocused his attention to his team. They stopped again to talk to JNPR, but as they did, something caught his eye. He turned his attention back to the bunny girl and saw something that made his blood boil. The girl was being held by the ears as well as being taunted by a group of four students. He recognised them as team CRDL, the team that were completely racist to Faunus and made sure everyone knew. He couldn't stand it any longer as he saw the girl try to stop them, obviously not wanting to resort to violence. Jumping out of the bullhead, he hastily made his way to where CRDL and the girl were. RWBY, JNPR and the rest of DRSK all looked confused when they saw him walk past but ignored him and continued talking.
He was about 30 metres away when Cardin finally saw him coming.
"Hey! What are you doing punk?" Demon shouted, drawing the bully's attention.
"I'm just playing with the animal here… Dove, Sky, Russel… take care of this loser"
The three other members moved forward, cracking their knuckles threateningly. Demon just sighed and kick the ground in front of him as hard as he could, creating a crater in the ground. The three paled at this and ran off.
"Cowards! Why are you running?" yelled Cardin, dropping the bunny girl and pulling a mace off his back. "You're going to pay for this!" he shouted again, running towards Demon. When Cardin swung his mace in a strong overhead swing, Demon just grabbed it just below the head. With a quick flick of his wrist, he sent the weapon flying a couple of metres away, completely stunning the boy. Cardin went for a right hook but Demon blocked and engulfed the boy's hand in his colossal gauntlet. He twisted his arm and Cardin went down on one knee, trying to dull the pain.
"Cash, Credit and Blood area accepted… so how would you like to pay?" Demon asked.
Cardin responded by bringing his other fist up to punch Demon in the crotch… but was stopped by the armour in front of it.
"Blood it is…" Demon replied before dislocated his hand… and twisting it back into place again, causing Cardin to actually start crying.
"You will leave every Faunus alone from now on. If I find out that you have taunted, insulted or picked on any Faunus… I will make sure your face will become very well acquainted with my knuckles… are we clear!"
Cardin didn't answer for some time, which just made Demon twist a bit harder.
"Fine!" Cardin practically screamed, running off and grabbing his mace after Demon released him. After watching the bully run off after his lackeys, Demon turned back to the bunny girl.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes, thank you for that…"
"Why didn't you stop them? I'm pretty sure you're a second-year student so why didn't you just unload a can of whup ass on them?"
She giggled a bit before responding.
"That would just make them know they were getting to me… and because I didn't want to crush their egos too much, but I see you did that anyway… but why did you help me?"
"Why wouldn't I? I don't just sit around and watch people get bullied… I prefer to make sure they piss themselves the next time they even think of doing it again"
"Yea… but why help me?" she said, this time pointing to her bunny ears.
"Well… I would say that I don't mind you being Faunus… but I think they're cute…" said Demon before walking off, causing the girl to blush furiously and rush off after the rest of her team. Demon made it back to the bullhead where everyone else was waiting for him.
"You're five minutes late!" complained Weiss, obviously impatient at his tardiness.
"Yes… and you're a snobby heiress…" deadpanned Demon while he jumped up into the bullhead.
"HEY!"
"What? I thought we were just pointing out the blindingly obvious?"
Weiss grumbled and sat down in a seat on the side of the aircraft, the others just laughed and sat down in their own seats, everyone preparing for the mission ahead. They sat talking for the rest of the journey, Demon staying out of the conversation to clean his weapon. Halfway through, he nearly dropped half of the parts off the bullhead after Ruby had the 'brilliant' idea of opening the side door to 'get some fresh air'. The barrel fell off the side and Blake only just managed to flick Gambol Shroud and catch it before the part was lost forever. They made it to the place they were headed to… Mountain Glenn. Demon had, of course, hacked into the files contained within the school's archives and briefed the others on where they were heading.
We're heading into an abandoned city which was overrun by Grimm a couple of years ago…. We literally have eight people who are trying to do the job that couldn't be done with an entire cities worth of defenders… what could go wrong?
"Ok ladies! Gear up and drop out!" shouted Demon before pushing the entirety of team RWBY out of the dropship… while they were still flying about 100 metres overhead.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" screamed Rosaline, seeing Demon crazily push the others out…
"Having fun… you do have your parkour kit right?"
"Yes I do but…"
"Try to land on your feet ok?" he interrupted before shoving her and Kira out of the craft as well.
"I HATE YOU!" she screamed back at the ship, making Demon smile. Turning in the ship so he was facing the inside, he flung his arms out and dropped off the back, falling through the air at high speed. When he was about ten metres off the ground, he flipped around and slammed into the ground with his fist, creating another crater. To his surprise, his armour didn't break, this time, the gauntlet looking completely fine.
"You forgot someone!" Kira mentioned, pointing back to Sid in the ship.
"I thought he got the memo…" Demon stated before tapping a few buttons on his screen to call him down. The spectre jumped off and landed gracefully on his feet, not even receiving a dent.
"So what do we do now?" asked Ruby, eagerly pulling out Crescent Rose.
"Well… this is called a search and DESTROY mission… so why don't we just remove the searching part…"
Demon pulled out his pistol and fired its entire clip into the air. After a few seconds, he heard a large group of howls in the distance, about a kilometre away.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT!" screamed everyone, pulling out their weapons and loaded them, causing resounding clicks from everyone.
"Just being the bait… and now we wait for the catch…" Demon responded, changing his weapon into its chaingun form. Within the next two minutes, a massive pack of beowolves sprinted out of the surrounding buildings.
"LIGHT EM UP!" shouted Demon as he pulled the trigger on his HMG, ripping apart the approaching Grimm. He had decided against using his massively expensive explosive rounds… mainly because he would cut through them in a minute… and because to make them with Dust was EVEN more ridiculously expensive. Everyone opened fire and they were cut down in a couple of moments… mostly because of the line of fire coming from the chaingun.
"Well, that was boring… ok… we only have to use our hands now…" Demon challenged as he mag-locked his chaingun, now in sheath form, onto his back. As if as an answer to the challenge, Yang pulled Ember Celica off her arms and put them in Sid's pack.
"Person with most unarmed kills wins… deal?" she taunted.
"Oh… you're on…" he accepted, pointing towards the next wave of Grimm. Yang and Demon both charged forward and began taking down beowolf after beowolf with their powerful punches. The others just stopped and watched the two duke it out. After about 5 minutes of constant punching, the two stopped and hunched over, panting, after the last beowolf was killed.
"How many you got?" Yang asked, still hunched over.
"237" Demon said through muffled panting.
"Damn… same here…"
"Not for long"
"What is that…"
Her sentence was interrupted by a large Ursa slamming into her and sending the girl flying into a nearby building, slamming through two concrete walls. Demon just walked up and jumped onto the back of the Ursa. It continuously tried to jostle the obstruction off by swinging its arms wildly over its back. Demon was used to riding Titans… and this wasn't much different. He gripped onto some of the spikes on the Ursa's back and held on until the right moment. Just as the beasts left arm swung around, he reached up and grabbed hold of it. With all his might he began pulling, causing a guttural roar to erupt from the creature's mouth. The others just watched in awe as he activated his stim and completely ripped the creatures arm out of its socket and proceeded to beat it to death with the appendage. After he was done, he jumped off… just in time to dodge a punch from Yang. She went to hit him in the shoulder but he stepped out of the way causing her to stumble a bit.
"YOU LET IT HIT ME!" she accused, still fuming from his tirade.
"Well… I still got more kills than you… and I did it… UNARMED!" he joked, holding up the Ursa's arm. Everyone groaned at his attempt at humour while he just smiled behind his helmet.
"I can see how you're related…" deadpanned Blake, walking off deeper into the city.
"COME ON! No laughs… at all?" Demon complained, dropping the topic after everyone just followed Blake and left him behind. He shook his head and followed them. For the next couple of hours, they killed hordes of Grimm, exterminating everything with extreme prejudice. Yang and Demon both continued competing, both winning multiple times. Eventually, as it turned dark, they set up camp in a large building which they assumed to be safe. Blake had to shoot down a couple of young Nevermores but that was practically the only threat they found. After they set up camp, Ruby went on watch duty while everyone else tried to get some shut-eye. That lasted for a few minutes until Sid rudely interrupted Demon's sleep… as well as everyone else's.
"SIR! Warp anomaly detected… warp signature is that of the Goblin class dropship"
"WHAT!" Demon shouted, jumping out of his sleeping bag.
"The craft is currently warping within 5 kilometres of this location… estimated time of arrival in 3 minutes. Their flight log is currently showing that their craft has sustained critical structural damage… life monitors at only 4 crew active. That is all I could pull from the incoming jump signature…"
"CRAP! THAT'S BAD!"
"What's wrong with that? Don't you want more people to come here?" innocently asked Ruby, moving from her sentry spot.
"Goblin dropships are IMC exclusive… so unless another IMC was nice enough to lend it to a Militia squad… then they're going to be hostile"
"Oh…"
"Well… I'm going to go and find out what's happening… you all need to stay here"
"We're coming with you!" complained Ruby, hugging him as she did.
"Sure… if you want to see four people shot dead…"
Ruby paled at this and shied away.
"There will be no reasoning with them…" Demon added painfully… knowing what he would have to do. He stepped up and said goodbye to them all, earning 'come back safe's' from everyone. He called down his Titan, glad to finally be in the pilot's seat again… until he tried getting in. He didn't fit at first until he removed just about every single piece of armour he had. He pulled it all off and set it in a small satchel on the outside of the Titan. He powered up all three cores to full and set off in the direction that was marked on his HUD after he predicted the general area where the dropship would land. He activated his dash core and practically drifted over the ground with the help of the jets on the Titans back. He stopped at a large bluff and looked up into the sky, waiting for signs of the jump.
30 seconds later a small white speck suddenly appeared in the night sky and plummeted to the ground, a plume of black smoke contrasting the night sky. Demon waited for it to land before slowly heading off to the crash site. He crouched in his Titan, managing to hide in the tree line, and snuck up to the passengers of the craft. When he made it there, he stayed a fair way back so that he could only just see the occupants, and activated the night vision scope. The ship was thoroughly dug into the ground, nose first, and was smoking from both engines. The side door suddenly burst open, the explosive bolts sending it a few metres from the craft, and the occupants made their way out of the dropship.
Much to his surprise, all of them were wearing Militia Pilot uniforms. The first one he saw was wearing the standard Militia CQB uniform, face revealed to the elements, with only sunglasses to cover his features. Said Militia jumped onto the ground and began surveying the area with a shotgun in each hand, level action by the look of it. He had two massive Archer missile pods on his back, probably the Titanhammer variant. A large wasp painted onto his chesplate.
The next person he saw coming out of the crashed ship looked more like a scientist than a soldier. He walked on two prosthetic legs, both having running blades, and he looked to have a robotic eye. He carried a Smart Pistol in his off-hand and a large datapad in his right, in a hand that looked a bit robotic. He also wore the CQB variant of armour but this time had a riot helmet on, protecting his face with a sheet of plexiglass that looked to have WAY more than just battle stats.
Next to hop out of the dropship was what looked to be the sniper of the squad. He wore a full Ghillie suit and Demon was only able to see him because of the Thermal overlay of his night vision… and even with that, it was dim. He carried a Longbow DMR with a large silencer on the end and a 12x Zoom scope attached to the top. On his head was something that could be mistaken for a spider's eyes as twelve optical sights were put in two clumps on his helmet. Demon knew they must be high-end gear so he was lucky that the sniper didn't turn his way and instead aimed his rifle at the opposite side of the small crash area.
The last one that made their way out of the ship made his heart jump. Another guy jumped out, pointing a carbine as he did, and surveyed the area. On his left arm was a massive gauntlet with a wide fist and three large vials of a grey liquid located on the outside of the large armour piece. (Lazarus' gauntlet from Evolve) He wore the usual Militia rifleman armour with a few thicker armour pieces on his chest and legs. On the bicep of his right arm, he had a large white band with a red cross, indicating his status as a medic. It was the insignia he wore on his chestplate that caught Demon's attention. It was the silhouette of someone rising from the ground with angel wings radiating from the person's side. He knew that only one person had ever laid claim to that symbol… and they earnt it for doing something that could only be described as just short of impossible.
Demon strode forward in his Titan and the four from the dropship instantly saw him. The one with two shotguns and pulled out both rocket launchers, putting one on either shoulder. It took a few seconds for them to lock on and he pulled both triggers. Two rockets streaked forward but Demon just pulled up his vortex shield and caught them, firing the caught rockets into the ground in front of him.
"Is that what you do when you see a friendly Titan?" asked Demon, projecting his voice from the Titan's speakers.
"Friendly? What's your service tag then? You must be a pilot to have a Titan…" pronounced the medic of the squad.
"My service tag is one that you should know all too well Arch Angel…" said Demon before he activated the lights that were set up all over his titan, illuminating the giant mech. As the four squad member's eye's took time to adjust to the light, when they saw who it was their jaws all dropped…
"DEMON?" asked the medic…
Said pilot opened the hatch of the Atlas and stepped out onto the chaingun it still held aloft, walking to the end of it.
"The one and only… how you doing Josh..."
