Experiment V
Hey y'all, here's another chapter on me. I hope you enjoy it. I don't own RWBY.
Chapter 23
"We're approaching the location, Sir" a soldier announced to General Ironwood, causing the man to walk over to the soldier and look at the navigation console, confirming that they were in fact coming upon the location.
"Squadron A, with me" Ironwood said, spinning on his heel and proceeding down the hall to the dropship. "Qrow. Raven. Are you both in position?" The General asked, speaking into his ear piece.
"Yeah, we're in position James" Qrow replied to the man, overlooking the sea of forest, lit by the fractured moonlight. "Good, remember, we have only one shot at this" Ironwood said, his voice coming from Qrow's scroll.
Qrow hung up the device before placing it back in his pocket. A raven soon appearing from the canopy of the forest before flying towards the huntsman before changing position and gliding to the ground next to him. "There's a moderate sized, unmarked building due west of here" Raven said, once she transformed back into her human form, as she pointed in the direction she had just come from.
"Alright, remember the plan?" Qrow asked his older twin, causing the woman to roll her eyes in a way that wasn't too dissimilar to her daughter. "Yes, Qrow, now let's hurry before Ironwood gets there." The woman said before shifting into her bird form and flying towards the area she had pointed to earlier, Qrow not too far behind her in his own bird form.
In James' Cell
I could hear a door opening, light illuminating the dark room that I'm laying inside of. "Seems your teachers care about you enough to walk into an obvious trap." Saffron said in a voice I had once associated with my mom "If...if you're gonna speak to me..." I begin to say before letting out a dry cough "...then don't you dare use her voice to do it..." I finish, looking up at the wicked grin of the woman.
"Aww, party pooper." she says, her voice dropping down a couple of octaves, with a twinge of mirth in her tone. I growl at her, a sound that seemed to make her happier than before. "If they're here, then that means you're gonna be dead soon" I state as if it were common knowledge. She merely threw her head back in laughter, before bringing it back down to look at me, her eyes now being a different color than they were before.
"Is that so? Well I'd love to see them try" Saffron said, her now two pink eyes twinkling in delight.
"I didn't say it was gonna be them who killed you" I say, some of my bite returning from its long hibernation, causing the woman to laugh again even more wickedly than before. "Oh? And what're you gonna do? Drown me in your tears?" she asks mockingly before folding her hands together and saying "No! Ruby! It should've been me!" in an exaggerated version of my voice before laughter consumed her again.
I, however, say something that seems to throw her off her high horse "You know, keep laughing like that and I'll have you saying the same thing about your daughter." That statement caused her to immediately cease with laughter, her face then twisting into a hard glare.
"What the fuck did you just say?" she asked, her tone holding none of its joy from earlier. "You heard me, I'll have you in the same position as me after I kill Neo" I state simply, bringing myself to a knee. "Who the hell are you to be make threats about my daughter?" Saffron asks, venom now starting to seep into her tone, her hard glare now morphing into a scowl before she began to make her way towards me.
"How fucking dare you say anything about Neo to me!" she suddenly screamed once she was within arms reach of me. She reared her fist back with the intent to hit me, her anger finally starting to boil over, an opportunity I was waiting for. Her anger finally boiled over as she brought her fist towards me, I allowed it to hit me.
Once.
Twice.
Just as she began to throw her fist towards me again, I enacted my plan. Her fist came towards me at an alarming speed and I knew exactly where she was intending to hit me but the fist would never connect due to the fact that I had leaned to the side at the last second, avoiding the punch. Before she had time to react and pull her fist back, I wrapped her arm in the chain of my shackles and using what momentum she had just exerted trying to throw the punch, I manage to flip her over me and make her land hard on her back.
I quickly coiled myself around her arm as best I could, before proceeding to apply pressure to the limb and slowly but surely, she began to groan in pain and even retrieve her arm from the arm bar that I had put her in. I only gripped tighter, applying even more pressure, this caused her aura to begin flaring in an attempt to protect from the damage that her arm was starting to receive but unlike someone like Jaune who has vast amounts of it, Saffron doesn't and soon her one line of defense began to flicker before finally being completely snuffed out.
My one chance now being presented to me, I applied the last amount of pressure that I knew I needed before finally hearing and feeling the bones in her forearm break. After releasing her now broken limb from my grip, she quickly retracted it and crawled away from me on her other three limbs. Saffron proceeded to then lean against the wall, clutching her now lopsided forearm while she looked at me with a look of anger and tremendous pain. "You're so fucking dead! I don't give two shits about what Alexander wants with you now!" she screeched, pulling herself off the ground before rushing towards me, pulling one of her knives from her boots.
Once she got close enough, she swung the knife in a side swipe, aiming for my throat. I reacted quickly however, grabbing the crook of her elbow and wrist, redirecting the knife away from me and directly into her own throat. After it had happened, a look of shock overtook her features before blood bubbled from her lips and she started to choke on it.
She was dead before she hit the ground, luckily she was within reach of me. I began to search her body for a key to my shackles, knowing she, Jade, and Dad himself at least had keys on them and my hunch proved true as I pulled the key from her back pocket and unshackling myself.
Outside
"He's too powerful, Sir!" a soldier called out to the general, unloading his rifle's clip into what seemed to be an unstoppable behemoth that was One. He was tearing through the soldiers, their bullets bouncing off of him as he was making slashes towards Raven, the huntress nimbly dodging and parrying him with her own sword. "C'mon little birdie, you and me, I'll even spare your pathetic friends if you come with me" One said, his predatory grin ever present on his face as he continued to try to make advances on Raven as they fought.
"Tell your comrades to stand down and I'll consider not killing you" she said with annoyance as if she had heard these kind of lines before. "Not a chance, Love" One said as he charged her again but was stopped by Ironwood delivering a powerful jab to his jaw. One went soaring into a tree, breaking it with his weight "You okay?" Ironwood asked the huntress, Raven nodding her head before readying herself to parry One.
"You know, for an old man you're pretty limber" Qrow said, avoiding Walters' attack for the sixth time "Why thank you, I say the same goes for you, Mr. Branwen" Walter said evenly, extending his hand and making his wire lash out towards Qrow again.
"Though you have my face, you severely lack my skill" Winter said, her saber slicing through Six's shoulder, causing her to drop the whip she had been using to fight the Atlesian Specialist. "Damn you" she winced out, rolling forward to avoid further confrontation with Winter but the eldest of the Schnee children wouldn't allow her to have the luxury. Winter stabbed her blade into the ground, causing a summoning glyph to appear.
The battles everyone was facing were soon starting to sway one way or the other amongst each of them but suddenly the front of the building exploded, sending debris flying towards all of the combatants. Some dodged while others destroyed the debris, everyone then looked forward to see what had caused such a sudden reaction but once the dust cleared, they all were met with a shocking visage.
Standing in the destroyed doorway was James. His appearance showing that he had been in the building for a while but what made the sight of him a bit off was that he was standing there, holding the broken and battered bodies of Mercury Black and Emerald Sustrai, and his eyes had gone from red with a slitted pupil to completely red, sclera and all.
He surveyed the battlefield before locking his eyes on something and in a split-second, he had dropped Cinders two underlings, covered a vast amount of distance, and finally plunged his entire right arm through One's chest. The man choking on his blood as he looked at James, didn't see the weak boy he fought months ago but instead he saw a Grimm, wearing human skin.
"Don't worry..." James began, leaning into the dying man's ear "I'll make sure your entire family suffers a much worse fate" he finished before pulling his arm free from One's body, the man dropping to the ground lifelessly.
James then turned around slowly and all everyone saw was the jagged teeth in his mouth as he smiled wickedly as the fingers on his hands began to extend into Beowolf-like claws.
Alrighty, that seemed like a good place to stop. I hope you are all enjoying the story, I'll make sure to keep writing it but until then...stay tuned readers.