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Note: Let me just clarify that for this story, I have made it so that due to the crossing of dimensions, the Grimm are not affected by the bullets of The Reds and Blues.
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As she left with the Reds and Blues, and they made their way to the Bullhead, there were already several Grimm heading in their direction. The best strategy to deal with this was to run towards the Bullhead as fast as they could while avoiding the Grimm. This would go faster if the Reds and Blues would pick up their pace.
"Hurry up will you!" Weiss shouted. Behind her, Church, Tucker, Grif, and Simmons were running, though not as fast as Weiss would like.
"Hey, we're moving as fast as we can!" Tucker shouted.
"Yeah, it's not exactly easy to run to a ship while avoiding monsters that want to kill us," Grif said.
"You wouldn't run to anything unless it was straight to a buffet table," Simmons said.
"Less talking, more trying to stay alive!" Church shouted.
Weiss just shook her head. She was starting to regret volunteering to protect them. As several Beowolves were about to reach them, Weiss began slow down her pace, staying in the back of the group.
"What are you doing?" Church asked.
"Keeping us alive," Weiss said. She then created several glyphs, blocking the Beowolves with the barriers that were created. "That should buy us some time. Now keep running!" However, Weiss was prevented from running any further when she bumped into Simmons' back. "What are you doing!? We need to keep heading to-"
"The ship?" Church said, pointing forward. Weiss immediately saw that they were finally in front of the crashed Bullhead.
"Well, at least we don't have to keep running anymore," Tucker said.
"Thank God," Grif said panting. "I've never run this much in my life."
"You've never run at all," Simmons said.
"Let's just get in," Weiss said, interrupting any more chatter from them.
The five of them proceeded inside the Bullhead, which was stocked with several crates. Once inside, Weiss made her way to one of the crates and opened it. She then pulled out a magazine of Dust ammunition.
"Here," Weiss said as she tossed several magazines, which was caught by Church and the rest. "Use these."
Simmons removed the ammunition from the magazine and loaded several into his rifle.
"Wow," Simmons said. "They fit perfectly."
"Huh. Bullets from another universe are just somehow compatible with our weapons?" Tucker said. "What a coincidence." He then got some ammunition as well and began loading it into his rifle.
"Are you sure these are gonna work?" Grif asked, loading his rifle as well.
"They're basic Dust rounds," Weiss explained. "They should be enough to kill a Grimm. Though that strategy might only be effective if you were facing a single Grimm."
"So, you're saying that these things can't actually kill Grimm," Church clarified.
"Not on its own, no," Weiss replied.
"Wait, wait, wait," Church said. "What's the point of giving us these if they can't even kill a Grimm?"
Weiss sighed, irritated that she needed to explain. "You are going to provide suppression fire. My team and I will be fighting the Grimm head on while the rest of you will give us support by shooting at them. Understand?"
They were giving her looks and murmuring that made Weiss believe that they understood very little, which didn't surprise her at all.
"You shoot at the Grimm from far away and weaken it, while the four of us will take care of everything else," Weiss reiterated.
"Ohhh!" they all said, apparently understanding that explanation.
Suddenly, there was a loud thud and the ship began to shake violently.
"What the hell was that!?" Grif yelled.
The continued thuds made them quickly get out of Bullhead and saw what was happening. Ramming on the side of the Bullhead were several Boarbatusks.
"What do we do?" Grif said, panicking.
"We start shooting them, what do you think!?" Simmons said.
"Open fire!" Church said.
"Wait," Weiss said, knowing that their weapons won't be effective against these types of Grimm. "These won't-"
The rest of her words were cut off as they began to fire at the Grimm. The Boarbatusks were not slowing down in their charge, the bullets bouncing of their heavily armored body.
"I thought you said these bullets could work on them now!?" Tucker shouted.
"Not when you're facing Grimm with an armored plating," Weiss said. She got between them and the Boarbatusks, creating several protective glyphs, which caused the Boarbatusks to slam into the solid barriers and fall onto their backs. In one swift movement, Weiss repeatedly slashed each overturned Grimm with her rapier, killing them.
"That," Weiss said, as she turned back to Church and the others. "Is how you handle these types of Grimm." Suddenly, Weiss felt a little faint. She was about to collapse before Tucker quickly caught her.
"Hey, you okay?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah, you look a little pale," Simmons said. "I mean paler than your usual shade of pale."
"I'm fine," Weiss said. "Just a little woozy." Weiss could feel that her Aura had been drained considerably, much more than it should have from the limited uses of her semblance. Maybe being in a different universe may affect their use of Aura as well as taking it longer to recover it?
"Come on," Weiss said, standing back up. "We need to get back to the others." Weiss knew that they needed to hurry back. If her Aura was this drained, she was worried how the rest of her teammates were faring.
After they began their assault on the Grimm, Ruby and her team divided into three groups. Blake, Tex, Yang, and Sarge were taking care of a mix of Beowolves and Boarbatusks, while Ruby handled a small number of Beowolves on her own. While this wouldn't be a problem for Ruby, Blake, and Yang, they could all feel their Aura was severely drained after their first fight. If it were just the three of them, they wouldn't be able to defeat all these Grimm themselves.
Luckily, they had some backup.
As Ruby sliced her way through the Beowolves, she saw that Tex and Sarge were doing surprisingly well in their fights.
In the battle with Blake and Tex, Blake used the gun form of Gambol Shroud and threw the blade across several Beowolves, using the recoil to pull the blade back and slicing the Grimm from behind. Tex was using Gambol Shroud's sheath to combat against the Boarbatusks. Normally, the Boarbatusk's plating over their body makes it difficult to injure them, but Tex's strikes were so strong that every swing she delivered on the Grimm's body actually caused the armor to begin to crack.
"Blake, heads up!" Tex yelled. Swinging the sheath, she hit a Boarbatusk that was rolling towards her. The blow knocked the Grimm into the air towards Blake. Blake then used her sickle to wrap around the incoming Boarbatusk. Pulling the trigger of the gun, the recoil pushed the Boarbatusk towards several Beowolves, knocking them to the ground. Blake continued to use the makeshift flail to knock down more Grimm around her. Once she finished, she released the Boarbatusk above her while she turned her weapon back into a katana. Raising her blade, Blake stabbed the falling Boarbatusk under it's stomach.
Blake also saw that Tex was finishing up as well, having ripped a Boarbatusk's tusk off and used it as a makeshift blade to stab several Beowolves, while using the sheath to bash away other Boarbatusks.
Once Tex finished, she made her way to Blake. "Can I keep this?" She asked regarding Blake's sheath.
"I think you could use less weapons," Blake said, taking her sheath back.
"Woohooh!" Sarge yelled in joyous glee. "Eat Dust dirtbags!" Sarge cocked his shotgun and fired several blasts, releasing long range shots and blasting back the Beowolves. However, his continuous firing resulted in the quick consumption of the Dust that Yang gave him. "Yang, I think I might need a few more ammunition."
"Just a sec," Yang said as she stopped a Boarbatusk from ramming at her by grabbing it by it's tusks. She then lifted up the Grimm and rolled it like a bowling ball towards other Boarbatusks. She then jumped into the air and fired several long-range shots at the Grimm approaching Sarge. She then landed beside Sarge. "'Sup, you okay?"
"Okay? I've never felt more alive at facing possible certain death," Sarge said.
Yang just grinned and gave Sarge another round. "This is the last one I have on me. Make your shots count."
"You got it," Sarge said as he loaded a shell and cocked his gun.
Yang faced the Grimm and charged forward with a punch, with Sarge firing from behind.
Ruby cut down the last Beowolf in front of her and exhaled. Without using her Semblance and using her Aura to protect herself, she was getting really tired from fighting this long.
"Ruby!"
Ruby turned to see Blake, Tex, Yang, and Sarge heading towards her.
"You okay Sis?" Yang asked.
"I'll...be fine," Ruby said, panting. "Just a little exhausted."
"We're all exhausted," Blake said.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I feel great," Sarge said. "I feel that these things can't scratch me."
"That's because you're wearing armor," Tex pointed out. "They're not."
The sounds of growling turned their attention to the still many remaining Grimm that were approaching them.
"Shit," Tex said. "How long do we have to keep stalling?"
Several shots were suddenly fired from the side, hitting several Grimm and driving them back. Ruby and the others turned to the direction of the shots and saw Church, Tucker, Grif, and Simmons, who were firing at the Grimm. Behind them was Weiss, who was carrying bag with her and heading towards the direction of Ruby's group.
"Weiss!" Ruby shouted in joy at seeing her partner. She then rushed to give Weiss a hug.
"No," Weiss said, stopping Ruby inches from her. "Here." She pulled out a magazine of Dust and tossed it to Ruby. "I'm assuming you need the extra help."
"Yes we do," Yang said as she rifled through the bag and pulled out two rounds of Dust, loading them. Blake, Tex, and Sarge did the same.
"Hey guys," Simmons said as he and the rest of the group headed to them after driving the Grimm away. "You okay?"
"Simmons, what took you so long to get here!?" Sarge shouted. "We almost died out here!"
"Sorry Sir," Simmons said. "Thank you for your clear observation of my failure. It won't happen again."
"You can kiss my ass later," Sarge said. "We got some monsters to kill."
"Um guys," Tucker said. "The Grimm aren't paying attention to us anymore."
They all noticed that the Grimm were heading to another direction of the canyon.
"Where are they going?" Weiss wondered.
"Grimm are attracted to negative emotions," Blake said. "Maybe they're being drawn by something else."
"What else is in this canyon that would have negative emotions to draw all those-" Church stopped speaking mid-sentence. "Oh no."
Ruby realized as well who Church was thinking of. The only person out in the canyon who would have negative emotions at this point. Someone who was not with them and was still screaming and running around.
"Caboose."
At that moment, they could hear Caboose's faint screams from across the canyon.
"Well, shit," Grif said.
"I guess it was nice knowing the Blue fella," Sarge said. "He'll be in our memories as he gets torn apart and eaten."
"We are not letting him get eaten," Blake said.
"I can get to him," Ruby said. "I can use my Semblance and grab him before the Grimm do."
"Ruby, your Aura is practically drained," Weiss said. "It's too risky."
"Then what can we do?" Ruby asked.
"Hey!"
They all turned to see Tex riding the motorcycle that the Blues had gotten from the Reds.
"I'll take care of Caboose," Tex said.
"I'm coming with you," Blake said.
Ruby nodded, agreeing with Blake's volunteering. She then turned to the others. "We'll catch up with them. When they get Caboose and head back, there'll probably be some Grimm chasing them. Our only option then would be to fight."
"This has got to be one of your worst ideas ever," Weiss said.
"Yet we're gonna follow it anyway," Yang said.
"Okay, let's move," Church said.
Blake headed to Tex and the motorcycle.
"You know this thing isn't exactly a two-seater," Tex pointed out.
"I can manage," Blake said. She pulled out Gambol Shroud in its gun form and, using the ribbon of the weapon, wrapped it around the side of the vehicle as she jumped on top of it.
The two of them then headed in the direction of Caboose's screams and the converging Grimm.
"Alright, let's follow," Ruby said.
However, before they could follow the speeding vehicle, they began to hear several sparks in the other direction. They looked to see the teleporter continuing to spark.
"Oh God not again," Church said, seeing the erratic machine.
"We need to get that device under control," Weiss said. "Before we have to deal with more Grimm."
"Okay, change of plans," Ruby said. "Simmons, Weiss, and Grif will handle shutting down the teleporter. Church, Tucker, Sarge, Yang, and I will give backup to Blake and Tex."
"Hey, why do I get stuck with Nerdzilla and the Ice Queen?" Grif protested.
"Hey!" Simmons and Weiss said angrily.
"Oh, are you volunteering to risk your life against a horde of monsters?" Yang asked.
Grif was silent for several seconds before he spoke. "Okay, guys, let's go shut down that teleporter." He then headed towards the machine.
Both Simmons and Weiss just shook their heads and followed him.
"Works every time," Yang said.
"Okay, now let's go," Ruby said. She and her group then headed to the Grimm.
As Tex and Blake got closer to the Grimm, they saw that the Grimm were circling around Caboose, who was just running around in a circle while continuing to scream.
"Are you ready?" Tex asked Blake.
"Ready," Blake said, removing the wrapped Gambol Shroud from the motorcycle as she slowly began to stand up.
With a strong amount of force, Tex hit the brakes on the motorcycle and stopped abruptly, launching Blake into the air. Midair, Blake threw Gambol Shroud towards Caboose. She then pulled the ribbon and fired a shot from it, causing it to wrap around Caboose, who soon stopped running as he was wrapped up. Blake began to pull the trigger several times, the recoil causing Caboose to be puled into the air as well. Eventually, the two of them collided with each other, and began to fall.
"Oh hello," Caboose said calmly, as if not understanding the situation they were in.
"Caboose," Blake said as she saw that they getting close to the ground. "Hold on."
Blake used her Semblance on them both, using it to dash forward as they landed on the ground in a mild thud.
"Oh my God, that was amazing!" Caboose said in excitement. "Let's go again!"
"Maybe... another time," Blake said, her Aura drained further from using her Semblance.
"Hey," Tex said, having caught up to their position and stopping the motorcycle. "You alright?"
"Oh we are just fine," Caboose said as he and Blake standing up. "Oh look, the the friends who were making a circle around me are coming this way."
Blake and Tex saw the Grimm heading their direction.
"We need to go now," Blake said.
"This thing won't move as fast with three people on it," Tex said, indicating the motorcycle.
Blake knew that Tex was right. "Then we stand our ground."
Tex groaned as she stepped off her vehicle. "Caboose, here." She then gave him a rifle that was loaded with Dust ammunition.
"Oh no, that's fine," Caboose said. "I already have a weapon."
"Yes, but this one is special," Tex said, trying to be patient with Caboose's slow uptake.
"Oh, people have called me special," Caboose said. "Is that made for me?"
"...Sure," Tex said, deciding to go with whatever helps Caboose understand.
Caboose excitedly took the weapon from Tex. "So... now what?"
Several gunshots were fired from behind them, hitting the approaching Grimm. They all turned to see Ruby and the others arrive, continuously firing at the Grimm.
"Blake!" Yang yelled, seeing her partner looking very tired.
"I'll be fine," Blake said, with clear fatigue.
"Just step back little lady," Sarge said, cocking his shotgun. "We got this." He continued firing at the Grimm.
"He's right Blake," Ruby said. "You rest right now."
"Yeah," Yang said. "We'll handle these rejects." She then charged forward and began to deliver several punches to some Beowolves, the explosive blasts sending them back and knocking other Grimm down.
Blake nodded at Ruby, who went to join the battle.
Weiss, Simmons, and Grif had arrived to the site of the teleporter, and things were not looking good. The teleporter was now sparking out of control, releasing small electrical bursts which prevented them from getting close.
"From what I can see, the machine is starting to overexert the energy from the Dust core," Simmons said. "If we don't shut it down now, it could cause an explosion that can wipe out everything in the canyon."
"How exactly are we going to stop this thing?" Weiss asked.
"If we can get close enough to disable the wires connecting it the base and the Dust core, it should switch itself off," Simmons explained. "If we can get close."
Suddenly, the teleporter shot out a surge of electricity, which was heading at their direction.
"Duck!" Simmons shouted. The three of them quickly dropped to the ground, avoiding the stream of electricity. They saw the electricity impact to a rock behind them, which had exploded into rubble.
"Yeah, I vote a 'No' on getting close to that thing," Grif said.
The teleporter was making even louder sparking noises. The three of them saw the teleporter beginning to glow white.
"Oh no," Weiss said. "It's going to bring about more Grimm. We need to shut it down now!"
"How are we going to do that without getting fried!?" Grif asked.
"If we can't switch it off, we destroy it," Weiss said, pulling out Myrtenaster.
"Again, how are we going to do that without getting fried?" Grif repeated.
Weiss responded by creating a glyph in front of them. "Fire you weapons through here."
"But if we destroy it, it might blow up anyway!" Simmons pointed out.
"If we don't, we'll be dealing with too many Grimm and we'll still be dead anyway!" Weiss said. "Shoot now!"
"Fuck this!" Grif aimed his rifle at the teleporter and fired through the glyph.
"Grif!" Simmons shouted. However, it was too late now, so he followed Grif's lead and fired several shots through the glyph as well.
As the bullets passed through the glyph, they became red streaks of energy. The blasts made their way to the teleporter, but not before the machine glowed bright white once again, causing another bright flash of light. The blasts then hit the teleporter directly, which resulted in a large fiery explosion that blew the three of them back.
"Are we dead?" Simmons asked.
"I'd like to say yes just for this nightmare of my life to be over," Grif groaned. "But the pain I feel in every part of my body says otherwise."
Weiss pulled herself back up on her feet. "Get up you idiots. There was a flash of light before the teleporter was destroyed. There could be more Grimm around. This is not the time to lay on your backs!"
"Yes Sir," Simmons said, getting back on his feet. "I mean Ma'am."
"It's like Sarge isn't even gone," Grif muttered as he got back up.
The three of them looked around them and the only Grimm they saw were the ones that Ruby and the others were fighting at the moment.
"Maybe we got lucky and the teleporter didn't send anything here," Simmons suggested.
"Right, because we're that lucky," Grif said, highly doubtful.
As if on cue, the three of them heard a loud screech and looked up into the air.
"Well, that's not good," Simmons said.
"No shit," Grif said.
"We need to get back to Ruby," Weiss said, the lives of everyone here in even greater danger.
The bright flash of light covered the entire canyon, causing Ruby, Church, and the others to stop fighting and cover their eyes.
"Ruby, behind you!"
Ruby uncovered her eyes and looked behind her to see a Beowolf in the air, it's claws outstretched and ready to slash Ruby. The flash of light distracted Ruby and let her guard down. Ruby tried to turn Crescent Rose to attack, but without using her Semblance, she was too slow and she knew it.
However, before the Beowolf's claws could connect, it's claw was shot, knocking the Grimm down. Ruby turned to see Tucker, his rifle pointed at the knocked down Grimm.
"Back off ugly," Tucker said.
The Beowolf got back up and charged towards Tucker. Tucker tried to fire, but no shots came out, meaning he was out of ammo.
"Tucker, get out of the way!" Ruby shouted.
"Uh, uh" Tucker was panicking and not moving at all as the Beowolf pounced. In a split second, Tucker pulled out his energy sword and thrust it forward, stabbing the Beowolf through its chest, killing it.
Tucker quickly pulled the sword out of the dead Grimm. He then saw Ruby heading his way.
"Tucker, oh my God!" Ruby shouted in relief. She then turned her attention to energy sword. "What is that?"
"Oh you mean my sword," Tucker said, raising it up for Ruby to get a clearer look. "Pretty badass, am I right? I can't believe this thing works on them? I just pulled it out 'cause I was panicking."
"This sword is amazing!" Ruby said in awe. She had never seen any weapon like this back in Remnant.
"Well, I have been told by the ladies that I have a pretty amazing sword," Tucker said. "Bow chicka bow-woah!"
Tucker pulled Ruby out of the way as he slashed another Beowolf that tried to attack. He then stabbed it through the head and it dropped to the ground.
"You might wanna work on staying focused," Tucker said.
"Right," Ruby said, embarrassed.
Suddenly, they all heard a large screech that echoed throughout the canyon.
"What the hell was that?" Sarge said.
"Guys," Blake said as she looked up.
They all followed her and looked up as well and their eyes widened at what they saw. It was a giant black bird Grimm, a white mask covering it's face and it's massive wings spread wide. Ruby, Blake, and Yang recognized it as a Nevermore.
"It's official," Church said. "I hate your world."
"Oh, a birdie!" Caboose shouted in surprise and excitement.
"Guys!"
They all stopped looking up and turned to see Weiss, Simmons, and Grif heading their way.
"There's a giant Grimm in the sky!" Simmons said frantically.
"No shit!" Sarge shouted.
"Yeah dude, it's not exactly hard to miss," Tucker said.
"Hey we ran all this way to warn you, the least you could do is be a little grateful," Grif said.
"'Warn us'" Church said incredulously. "You got here ten seconds after we saw that thing. That's not a warning, that's yesterday's news."
"Guys, focus," Yang said.
"Yang's right," Tex said. "We need to think of a way to kill that thing soon before it decides to fly out of here."
"Killing it is one thing, but we can't even reach it," Weiss said "We need to lure it down here."
"Oh, oh, I have an idea," Caboose said. "We could bring the birdie down with food. Does anyone have bird seeds lying around?"
"Aaaand next plan," Church said quickly.
Before they could say anything else, the Nevermore screeched once again before it began to flap its wings, shooting spear-sized feathers at them.
"Scatter!" Ruby shouted.
Everyone did just that and began to run to avoid the feathers, which crashed to the ground, impaling some Grimm who weren't too quick.
"Eat this bird brain!" Sarge shouted as he raised his shotgun. He then fired a shot, which wasn't even close to reaching the flying Grimm.
The Nevermore shot out more feathers, aiming at Sarge's direction.
"Sarge, move!" Yang shouted as she tackled him, pushing them both out of the way of the attack.
"Darn it, I almost had it," Sarge grumbled on the ground.
"Sure you did," Yang said sarcastically.
"Keep moving!" Tex shouted.
Ruby looked at the scene and knew that running around and dodging wasn't going to do much good.
"We need to take that thing down," Ruby said.
"Unless you can fly, we can't exactly do that," Tucker said.
Ruby then came up with an idea that may be able to stop the Nevermore.
"Everyone listen up!" Ruby shouted, getting everyone's attention. "I have an idea."
"If it means I can stop running, then I'm in," Grif said.
"Weiss," Ruby turned to her partner. "Do you still have enough Aura to make glyphs?"
"Just barely, but I can manage," Weiss said. "Why?"
"We're doing the same thing we did during our initiation," Ruby said.
"What!?" Weiss, Blake, and Yang shouted, not liking the idea at all.
"Ruby, you know that's a crazy idea," Blake said. "We're too weakened in this universe and your Aura may already be out."
"It's the only way we can reach that Grimm," Ruby said. "If we don't, we're all dead."
Yang sighed. "Be careful."
Ruby nodded. She then turned to the Reds and Blues. "Alright, guys. I'm going to need you to draw that thing to Blue base."
"How are we suppose to do that?" Simmons asked.
"Well maybe if we have one of us act as bait," Tex suggested.
"Who would be dumb enough to-" Church stopped talking as he and everyone else looked at Caboose.
"What?" Caboose said. "Is there something on my helmet?"
"Come on Caboose," Church said as he got Caboose and the rest of the soldiers began to follow.
"Ruby, if we have to say goodbye here, then I'm glad to have gotten to know girl as great as you," Tucker said.
"Aw, thanks Tucker," Ruby said. "But we won't be saying goodbye now."
"What do you mean?" Tucker asked.
"You're going to help me in this part of the plan," Ruby said.
"Say what now?"
From Blue base, Team RWBY, the Reds, and the Blues observed Caboose's attempt at getting the Nevermore's attention. It was surprisingly easy, as they could see Caboose beginning to run away, with the Nevermore beginning to chase him.
"Okay, great work Caboose," Church said through his radio. "Now keep running around until we tell you to come to Blue base for the plan. You got that?"
"AAAAAHHHHH, 'Kay," Caboose said. He then continued screaming.
As he Caboose continued stalling, Team RWBY had begun to prepare the same slingshot setup from their initiation. Blake had tied her ribbon between two posts above Blue base.
"You know," Yang said as she and Tex pulled the ribbon back as far as they could and held it in place. "I'm starting to regret agreeing to this idea."
"I'll be fine," Ruby said.
"Ahem," Tucker said beside her.
"Right, we'll be fine," Ruby corrected. She turned to Weiss. "Are you sure you're good?"
"I've shot you at a Nevermore before," Weiss said. "If I can do that, I can do this. So, yes, I'm good."
"Um, yeah, why am I doing this?" Tucker asked.
"Because you're the only other person here who has a weapon that can hurt the Grimm," Blake said.
"You'll be fine," Yang said, patting Tucker in the back. "The only thing you have to worry about is missing and going splat."
"Again," Tucker said, sounding even more scared. "Why the fuck am I doing this!?"
"Don't listen to her," Ruby said as she pulled Tucker and they both stood in front of the ribbon.
"Shouldn't we test it out first?" Tucker asked.
"We could have Grif try it out," Sarge offered.
"No one asked you," Grif said.
"No time," Ruby said. "Church, do it."
"Alright," Church then got back on his radio. "Caboose, you can come this way now."
They then saw the Nevermore heading into the direction of Blue base with Caboose running their way
"Guys!" Caboose yelled to the others as he began to get close. "I think the birdie is mad!"
"Ruby, now would be a good time for your plan," Tex said.
"Okay," Ruby said, taking a deep breath. "Tucker, are you ready?"
"No," Tucker said as he gripped Ruby's shoulders. "This isn't how I pictured holding a lady."
"But this is exactly how I pictured what I would do to you," Weiss said with a smirk.
"Everyone, get ready," Ruby said. She could see the Nevermore getting closer and she positioned Crescent Rose behind her, the muzzle of the rifle pointed back. "Now!"
Yang and Tex released their grip on the ribbon, catapulting both Ruby and Tucker into the air.
As they soared in the air, Ruby began firing several shots of Gravity Dust that allowed them to stay int he air and keep their momentum. It took more shots to stay up due to Tucker, who was screaming since they were shot up, adding extra weight, but the two of them were getting close to the Nevermore.
"Tucker, your sword!" Ruby shouted.
Despite his screams, Tucker heard her and pulled out the energy blade.
As the two went above the Nevermore, Ruby embedded Crescent Rose to the Grimm's back, allowing them to stop and land on top of the Grimm.
"What now?" Tucker asked, finally having stopped screaming.
Ruby pulled out Crescent Rose from the Nevermore's back and held it up. "We start cutting." She then stabbed her scythe on the Grimm again and began to run towards a wing, slicing the Grimm as it did.
"This is the worse plan ever," Tucker said. He then stabbed his sword on the Nevermore as well and began to run to the other wing.
As they sliced their way around the Nevermore's back, the Grimm began to shriek and shake violently, flapping its wings and trying to get rid of Ruby and Tucker. However, the two wouldn't fall, their weapons keeping them firmly gripped to the Nevermore.
"Let's end this," Ruby said. She and Tucker then made their way to the Nevermore's head. They raised their weapons and stabbed at the Grimm's neck. They then ran across each other, effectively cutting through its neck, and decapitating it.
The Nevermore's head fell as its body soon followed.
"How do we, you know," Tucker said as they began to fall. "Not go splat?"
"If Weiss' Aura is still good, then we'll be fine," Ruby said. "I hope."
The two of them saw that they were getting closer to the ground.
"We're gonna go splat!" Tucker panicked.
"Come on Weiss," Ruby said.
Suddenly, several glyphs appeared in a spiral form below them. A wave of ice then shaped around the glyps, forming a spiral. Ruby and Tucker landed on the ice and they began to go down the ice spiral like a slide until they eventually ended in the ground, perfectly safe.
The two of them stood up and saw Weiss standing in front of them, with the others heading their way.
"I told you I was good," Weiss said. "Are you okay?"
"I'm okay," Ruby said. "I'm actually more worried about Tucker." She saw Tucker still dazed from the landing and probably traumatized over the entire experience.
"If you ask me, a near brush with death would help improved his manners," Weiss said, enjoying Tucker's suffering.
"If that means he talks less, then I agree," Church said.
"Please tell me that's all of the them," Grif said.
"I'm pretty sure the Nevermore was the last one," Blake said.
"So guys," Simmons said. "What do we do with this thing?" He was referring to the corpse of the Nevermore that was in the middle of the canyon.
"Oh don't worry about that," Yang said. "Grimm bodies disappear after a while."
"Really," Sarge said walking up to the corpse. "I was thinking of stuffing this thing and putting it in the base as a trophy."
"Where would you even put it, it's huge," Grif said.
"And besides, I helped kill it," Tucker said. "If anything, it should go to Blue base."
"Are we keeping the birdie?" Caboose asked. "If so, I have a trick I can teach it by whistling." He then attempted to whistle, but made spitting noises instead.
"No one is keeping this thing," Tex said.
"Well, I refuse to move from this spot and this prize without a proper discussion." Sarge said. He then emphasized his point by stomping his foot in the ground. However, the ground beneath Sarge suddenly gave way, making a hole, which Sarge began to fall in.
"Sarge!" Ruby quickly grabbed Sarge by his hand, but it was to no avail. Instead of pulling him out, Ruby fell into the hole with him.
"Ruby!" Yang shouted as she saw her sister disappear into the hole.