Sorry for not posting for a good chunk of time, been a pretty busy guy. Anyway, I'll give you guys a chapter today.
Chapter 8: Attack on Crimson
Angel sat on her couch and read a book as Patrick and Justin played on her game system. Nickoli sat on the other end of the couch and read from an engineering book. "So Mom told me that you are working with her now. Is that true Nickoli?" Justin questioned. "Yeah, but it's more like an apprenticeship. I want to learn more about cybernetics like my arms so I'm not so useless." Nickoli answered. "Not useless." Patrick stated.
"Yeah, you've saved all of our butts. You're an important member of our team." Angel added without looking up from her book. "Yeah, some team we are." Nickoli chuckled. Everyone continued with what they were doing until a sound echoed through the city: sirens. "What's that mean?" Nickoli questioned as the other three had panicked looks on their faces. Angel shot up and ran into her parent's room.
"What's going on?" Nickoli questioned as he stood up. "We're under attack." Justin updated as he ran to his back pack. "This only happened once when the Bloodshots attempted to raid the city." There was a loud explosion outside and Nickoli ran to the window. It looked like they were being hit with moonshot blitzes, but these were smaller. It was almost like they were raining down, like something was purposely firing these things down.
Angel emerged from her parent's room with weapons in hand. She handed Patrick a shotgun and Justin an assault rifle. She offered Nickoli an SMG, but he changed his hand into the cannon and popped the barrels out of the other arm. "I think I'm good." Nickoli commented as Angel put the SMG on her back. Angel drew her sword and carried a revolver as she proclaimed "We need to get to the shelter."
Everyone nodded and they headed out of the building, letting Angel lead the way to the shelter. The city was a mess with shattered windows and pieces of buildings in the streets. They were about twenty feet from the building when one of the falling objects crashed in front of them, sending the party flying back. Nickoli was the first up and pointed his arms at the smoking pit in front of them. He moved closer to see a large white ball about the size of a washing machine.
The ball made a hissing sound and started to transform. The pieces moved like they had nothing holding them together and formed into a humanoid robot. The head was normally shaped but had a red U on the face. The chest was large and had the same red U as the head did. The arms had several barrels on them, which raised and pointed at Nickoli.
Nickoli fired a shot from his cannon and blasted the bot in the chest, sending it flying back. Nickoli turned to start helping his friends up, but had to get behind cover as rounds started firing over his head. Nickoli turned to see the same bot he shot standing up and firing at them. Angel got up and started to shoot the bot, rounds seeming to bounce off its armor. Nickoli started to use his rapid fire arm and hitting the bot, but it still wasn't going down.
"What is this thing made of?" Angel shouted as she reloaded her revolver. Nickoli looked around and saw Patrick and Justin both shooting at the bot, but it was still doing nothing. Justin sat with his back on his cover and started rummaging through his bag until he pulled out a small metal box. Justin hit something on the side of it and tossed it in between them and the bot. There was a flash and a small metal borak with a turret on its back digistructed where the box was.
Nickoli exclaimed "That is awesome! Did you build that?" Justin confirmed "I sure did! One of my first inventions, just needed a little improvement." The borak jumped at the bot and started to claw at it as Patrick jumped over the cover and charged the bot. The borak held the bot down as Patrick grabbed one of the bot's arms and began to pull, then started shooting at the joint. The bot's arm broke with sparks and oils spraying, Angel jumping into the fray and started pulling on the bot's other arm.
Nickoli decided to join the fight and started blasting the bot's head until it was done moving. All four of them were panting from fighting the bot. "What was this bot made of?" Angel questioned as she looked at the arm in her hand. "I don't know, but I want some!" Justin proclaimed as he started to search the bot. "Later." Patrick proclaimed as he pulled Justin up.
"Patrick's right." Angel agreed. "We need to get to the shelter." All of them nodded and continued to move through the city under attack. They rounded a corner to see three more bots, one was the same as the both they fought before, the next was blue and the last was green. All of the bots turned to them and raised their guns at them. "You've got to be kidding me." Nickoli grumbled as he raised his gun.
He blasted the red bot in the chest with his cannon as the borak tackled the blue bot and Angel and Patrick ganged up on the green bot. Nickoli moved on the red bot, which was laying on the ground from the initial blast and continued to shoot the bot until his cannon made a hole straight through the bot. Justin and his borak put a massive amount of rounds into the bot, knocking it to the ground and allowing the borak to tear the bot apart. Angel and Patrick worked together with Patrick throwing the bot around as Angel sliced it to pieces with her blade. The group dismantled the bots within a minute, but two more came around the corner.
"How many of these bots are there?" Nickoli questioned as he shot one of them with a cannon blast. He looked up to see more bots raining down from the sky and grumbled "Right. That many." Nickoli delivered another cannon blast to the bot's head and destroyed it. Angel shot forward and sliced the other bot's head off, the body clunking to the ground. "Where are these things coming from?" Justin questioned as his borak digistructed back into its box form.
Patrick shrugged and pointed up to the sky. Angel rolled her eyes and exclaimed "We need to keep going." Nickoli was about to say something when a large fireball hit the ground between all of them. Nickoli was thrown through a glass of a billboard while Angel slammed into a wall. Patrick fell into a pool while Justin slammed into an info kiosk.
Nickoli was a little fuzzy, but he could definitely hear Inferno proclaim "Aren't these bots great? We get to see everything they see! As in, we see these kids we've been looking for." Nickoli looked up to see the four men from the fridge walking over to the group laying on the ground. Slag grabbed Patrick from the pool while Electro dragged Justin to the Elemental group. Chem grabbed Angel while Inferno stood over Nickoli with a smug smile. "So what are we going to do with you?" Inferno sighed as he crossed his arms.
"How about die?" Nickoli snarled as he shot a cannon blast aimed at Inferno. Inferno was able to dodge the blast by just an inch and created a fireball in his hand. Nickoli rolled to avoid the fireball that turned the metal he was lying on into molten slag. Nickoli started shooting at Inferno with his rapid fire cannon, but the Fire Elemental dodged every shot. Angel saw her opportunity and delivered an elbow to Chem's gut, causing him to double over so Angel could deliver an elbow to his face.
Patrick joined and grabbed Slag by his neck, throwing him over his shoulder and slamming his back on the ground. Patrick then delivered a hard kick to Slag's head, hopefully knocking him out cold. Justin was being held by the back of his shirt by Electro, but he was suddenly dropped as Electro was thrown forward by Zver, the badass stalker. Justin checked his battle borak to see he still had some time for cool down as Zver violently shook Electro back and forth. Nickoli was able to keep Inferno a good distance away, until the Fire Elemental was able to call his next move and nailed him with a fireball.
Nickoli flew back and slammed into the wall, prompting Zver to leave Electro and attack Inferno. The stalker took Inferno to the ground and attempted to tear his face off. Electro took advantage of his freedom and jumped onto Zver's back. Electro generated a large electrical bolt and destroyed Zver's shield, giving Inferno a chance to send a fireball straight through Zver's chest. "Zver!" Nickoli cried as he watched his friend collapse into a lifeless husk.
Inferno tossed the stalker's off to the side and grumbled "Now that that thing is out of the way, let's deal with the rest of these punks." Chem got back to his feet and caught a punch that Angel threw, then delivered a strike to her stomach. Angel doubled over and Chem grabbed a fistful of her hair, twisting it so he had full control over her. Slag regained his bearing and grabbed Patrick's ankles and dropped him to the ground, slamming the back of his head against the ground. Electro grabbed Justin by the front of his shirt as Inferno put a boot to Nickoli's throat.
"So, do we really need this one?" Inferno questioned. "I mean, all we were told was to bring these three back to the Doc." The Elemental men looked around and shrugged, Slag proclaiming "Doc could always use a few more test subjects. Why don't we bring him too?" Inferno shrugged and sighed "Looks like it isn't your lucky day." Inferno picked up his boot and brought it down on Nickoli's head, knocking him unconscious. Angel struggled against Chem's grip on her hair and barked "You leave him alone!"
"Looks like that's this one's boyfriend." Chem laughed. "Why don't you ruff him up a bit more?" Inferno smiled an evil smile and replied "You're right Chem. Also gotta teach this punk to keep his pets on a leash." Inferno grabbed Nickoli by the front of his shirt and held him in the air. "Make sure you watch this, cause it's going to get good." Inferno growled with a twisted sense of joy. Inferno delivered a punch straight to Nickoli's gut, then again and again and again. Angel felt tears of pure rage fall down her cheeks as she watched Inferno wail on Nickoli.
Inferno laughed the entire time, until he sighed "Alright, I've had my fun for today. Let's get these punks to the Doc." Inferno dragged Nickoli away by the front of his shirt while Chem practically dragged Angel by her hair. Patrick was being dragged by Slag while Electro threw Justin over his shoulder. Angel wasn't sure where they would be heading when they walked across the bridge towards the Highlands, but she was just hoping that she would be coming back in one piece.
Sorry about the time it took to get this chapter out (several months) but I lost interest in this story for a bit. After rereading what I wrote, I decided it was time to bring this story back into action so it will be added to my story writing rotation. Current stories in rotation are,
Vault of Vytal, RWBY/ Borderlands crossover
Join our favorite Vault Hunters when they are transported to a strange world of magomechanical weapons, elemental dust, giant monsters and teenage hunters. Pairings are Ninjas of Love (Blake Belladonna and Zer0 the Assassin) and MechRosemancer (Ruby Rose and Gaige the Mechromancer)
RWBY: Team Vanguard, RWBY story
Collaboration piece between me, SOVIETxEAGLE, and roosterteethfanatic. Story is under SOVIETxEAGLE's name, but I do 90% of the work. Follow a berserker, a drunk Russian, a British warmonger, and a half demon fighter as they go through Beacon, and attempt to kill each other.
Titans of Remnant, Titanfall/ RWBY crossover
A new weapon has been put into the never ending battle against the forces of Grimm, Titans. Follow Scott Matthews as he and his Titan, Colossus, begin the rise of Titans by building them for the aspiring hunters of Beacon.
Four Assassins
The revised sequel to Two Assassins starring…
Deadpool: ME! And a bunch of other kick ass assassins, including Angel from this story!
Angel: Why am I in this story if we haven't even finished mine yet?
Narrator: Because… reasons. Story is more of a random collection piece featuring the madness of Deadpool the Mercenary, Deathstroke the Terminator, Gabriel the Paladin, and Angel as Zer0 the Assassin.
PM or review any thoughts or concerns and check out any of the above stories.
-Chief