Ch 28: When Are You Ever Ready?

I woke up to banging on Blake door. "Come on out you two, Ozpin in going to explain the plan to everyone." The voice yelled through the door. I turned to Blake and simply nodded to her as we both got out of bed and threw on our clothes. Guess this will be it, time to hear what Ozpin has in store for us.

I open the door to find Ren waiting on the other side. "So it was you that decided to bang on the door?" I give him a hard time as he simply motions for us to follow him into a larger room where everyone from team JNPR, RWBY, Devin and Commander White where located. I look around, attempting to find Ozpin. Where the hell is he?

The back door to the room opens and in marches Ozpin followed by a seemingly pissed of Glynda Goodwitch. Ozpin acknowledges the fact we are all here by simply making eye contact with all of us. "So I can imagine you all want to know how this is exactly going to go down?" Mutters Ozpin as he takes a swig of coffee. "I'm going to make this short and simple so I better not get any questions" He glances at Jaune when he finishes the statement. Poor Jaune, even after he has proved himself time and time again, he is still made fun of, hell even by Ozpin.

"Each one of you will be paired with another and will be put in charge of a squad of 12 GICD soldiers which you will guide from the outer walls of Beacon inside, so we can capture it. You all will be inserted via dropship while the rest of our forces attack Beacon head on." Ozpin finishes the saying this and takes another sip of his coffee.

"What are the pairings sir?" Jaune asks, attempting to prove that he was paying attention.

"Thank you for asking Jaune, the pairs will be Pyrrha/Nora, Ruby/Yang, Mako/Ren, Weiss/Devin, and Jaune/Blake, also commander white will be riding with you two." Ozpin states as he points at Blake and Jaune.

"That's right, I want to be up close and personal in the fight." Commander White adds as he puts on a black matte colored helmet that matched his attire. "Just don't get in my way Arc."

"Where will you be professor?" Pyrrha asks while raising her hand.

"I will be leading the other force of GICD soldiers supported by the surviving students from our evacuation and miss Goodwitch. Once you and your teams land you all need to move as quickly as possible, if we rush them Torchwick and the WF won't even know what hit them." Ozpin sits down in a chair and finishes his coffee off. "Any more questions?"

"What should we do if our ship doesn't make it? I don't exactly have the best of luck when it comes to insertions." I mutter with a slight chuckle.

"If you survive, simply attempt to regroup and reform yourselves and push on towards Beacon. Once again if we take Beacon back, we will cut off the WF from its leadership." Ozpin stands up and walks out the door. Guess no more questions.

We all then make our way to the hangar where the 5 dropships and their respective squads are waiting for us. I wave goodbye to Blake as she boards her ship with Jaune and White. I hope she makes it there in one piece, these ships are fucking cursed I swear.

Ren motions for me to enter the dropship with him and we sit down in our seats and begin checking our gear. As usual Ren begins to lock and load his two green SMGs. And I begin to clean more sword in preparation for the brutality I know it will deal to some poor souls. "You think it will work?" Ren blurts out which gets the squad's attention as he looks at me.

"Ren, I honestly don't know, it's too early to make any assumptions. I want it to, but I just feel like somethings off you know" I try to reason with Ren about my opinion.

"When does anything feel right though Mako?" He quickly responds to my query. "Seems like the whole world of Remnant is a cluster of bad shit."

"I guess you are right, I guess it's because in the end, are we ever ready for what can happen?" I remain silent and merely sit on the words that have come out of my mouth. I already have learned from past experiences it can always get worse.

We cease our talking until the ship takes off. "Well I guess we better get ready to kick some ass, am I right Ren?" I say trying to lighten the mood. Ren merely gives me a look of disapproval for the fact that I am trying to beat around the fact that we have no idea what is in store for us or if any of us would make it. I sigh and begin to stare out the window, anxious, waiting for the fight to begin.

Because on the battlefield I felt unstoppable, untouchable, oh how wrong I was in the end….

Shout out to UnanimousMusician for using Mako in his story, Epsilon, The lost son who lost a brother, which is a fantastic read if you aren't already following it. I was really happy that he decided to use him after my submission, and sure enough in ch34 he is introduced which really shows that cool collaborations can work in this community.

That aside, sorry for the filler chapter, I have to somehow explain the strategy before the actual attack so expect a big fight next chapter. Also PM me OCs for my next Fanfic that will have a new group of character and will be canon will RWBY Volume 2 since this one won't be canon come next week with V2's Public Premier.