Quick Warning: (SPOILER) There will be a death in this chapter. I will not spoil who, but be ready.
The First casualty.
Team JNPR were on their way to attack the base alongside a large Mandalorian warrior, who was the commander of the mission.
He stood up and said "Ok listen up! Our job is to infiltrate the base and place bombs that will bring it down! If we succeed, it will put a big dent in the Empires plans! But though it may sound simpel enough, the base is bound to be heavily guarded. So we will be sneaking in and try to avoid combat as much as you can and only resort to it, if it's really necessary".
"Yes sir!" The team said in unison.
They landed as close to the base as they could and began to head torwards it.
But unknown to them, their landing did not go unnoticed. An Imperial drone spotted them and a certain Savage knew they were coming.
As they approached the base, they noticed several troopers were on guard. Though some of them were wearing black glowing armor. The leader did motions with his hand, the team nooded and spread out.
Pyrrha was sneaking through the halls as silently as she could. She saw two guards outside the room she was told to destroy. Silently she snuck behind them before slamming their heads together, knocking them out. She hid the bodies and went inside the room.
Pyrrha looked at the generator and couldn't help but to feel impressed by the design. She walked up to it and took out her bombs. But just just as she was about to plant them she heard a sound.
She turned her head just in time to avoid a crimson blade from taking her head of. Rolling to the side Pyrrha looked at her attacker and saw a large creature with yellow skin and eyes, black tattoos and horns on his head. He was glaring at her as he heled his dubel lightsaber in a tight grip.
Pyrrha took out her own upgraded weapons and got ready for a fight.
However the base was suddenly in high alert and the rest of the team were busy dealing with soldiers. Nora was fighting some of the Black armored troopers that seemed to have a stealth gear that made them invisible to the naked eye.
Nora looked around only for the troops to reaper and shot her with some kind of electricity. Any normal person would have been fried by that barrage of shots. But Nora was not your everyday girl. She smircked as she felt her power increase. She lifted her large hammer and slamed it in to the floor, creating a large shockwave that sent the troopers in to the walls.
"That was fun!" Nora said cheerfully until she was contacted by Jaune.
"Nora, I think Pyrrha is in trouble, she won't answer me! I'm on my way to the reactor room. Make your way there as soon as you can!" Jaune said.
"Got it, I'm on my way!" Nora said as she ran towards the generator room.
Meanwhile, Pyrrha was locked in combat with Savage.
Savage uses his saber staff to attack, but Pyrrha blocks the attacks although Savage kicks her away. Savage then attacks Pyrrha's head, but she blocks it and swings at Savage's head. Savage counters and headbutts Pyrrha, throwing her sword away. Savage then tries to hit Pyrrha, but she dodges it and uses her shield to hit him multiple times . Savage growls as he took another swing. But Pyrrha dodges and kicks him down. She then knocks his saber staff away with an air kick and used her semblance send it out a window.
As she retrives her her sword, Pyrrha attacks, only for Savage to grab both her sword and shield before kicking her in the gut, making her drop her weapons as she is sent out the same window.
Pyrrha managed to slow her fall before she lads on the lover floor. She stands up only for Savage to land a few feet away from her and punched his fist in to his palm.
Pyrrha glared at him. Hand to hand combat was outside her comfort zone, but having lost both her sword and shield she had little choice at the moment. She got in to a fighting stance.
Pyrrha blocks Savage's punch and began punching him multiple times in the chest and face. But he blocked her last punch and punched her into the face and then into the gut. They both once again punch each other but Savage lands a strong punch and kicks Pyrrha away. He then walks towards the fallen red head as he growls, she tries to get up but Savage grabs her neck and smashes her down in to the ground. But Pyrrha kicks his face, she gets up and lands several good hits but he tanks the hits and gives her a powerful blow to the gugut, knocking her in to a wall.
Pyrrha coughs up blood as Savage runs up to her. He punches her multiple times then grabs her by the throat, slams her in to the wall, and pulls back his and is about to finish the fight.
"Pyrrha!" Said girl and Savage looks and sees Jaune who was holding Pyrrha sword and shield.
Savage growls as he throws Pyrrha in to him. With both of them stunned Savage jumps and is about to crush them.
"Nora smash!" Came an familiar voice before said girl slamed her hammer in to Savage's side, sending him in to a wall.
"Nora!" Jaune and Pyrrha said at the same time. Ren entered the room and quickly ran to them.
"Are you two alright?" Ren asked.
"Well, we're not dead!" Jaune answered.
"Don't worry guys! I got this!" Nora said as she ran towards Savage.
Savage grunted, the blow had done more damage than he thought. He saw Nora jump towards him with her hammer high and ready to strike. He panicked until he saw his saber staff and used his limited force power to pull it towards him.
"TAKE THIS!" Nora yelled as she brought the hammer down.
But in that moment it was like time it self froze.
The sound of a lightsaber igniting was heard... Just before the sound of said lightsaber going through flesh.
Pyrrha, Jaune and especially Ren starred in horror at what they saw...
Nora had been stabbed through the chest by Savage's lightsaber. Said monster ripped the saber out of Nora and threw her to the side.
In that moment something inside Pyrrha snapped "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!".
In a fit of rage, Pyrrha grabbed her sword and shield and charged at the monster. She threw her shield in to Savage's arm, knocking his lightsaber away before Pyrrha quickly turned her weapon in to it's spear form and threw it into the brutes stomach.
Before Savage could even fully register that he had a spear in his gut, his lightsaber war ripped from his hand has Pyrrha used it to cut the bastard's head of. Killing him.
Pyrrha was breathing hard as she glared at the dead body of her fallen enemy. But she soon calmed down as she turned and saw Ren and Jaune next to Nora and hurried over to them.
"Nora..." Ren whispered in a worried tone.
"Did... did I get him?" Nora asked before coughing a little
"You did..." Pyrrha answered.
"You got him good!" Ren added tears threatening to spill.
Nora smiled before slowly raising her hand, she placed her finger on Ren's nose and said one last word "Boop!" After that her arm fell.
Jaune placed his ear on her chest. He quickly sat back back up and began to cry.
Pyrrha fell to her knees and hugged Jaune from behind, before crying in to his back.
Ren had tears streaming down his face.
Nora...
His childhood friend...
Was dead!.
The commander ran in and was about to inform them that he had placed the bombs only to notice the situation.
In that moment, Team JNPR learned the biggest and cruelest lesson about war.
There are always casualties.
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Yeah that was not fun to write. Killing of Nora was a hard thing to do since she is one of my top 5 favorite RWBY characters, but as was said in the chapter: There are always casualties in war.
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