I know this is a short chapter. It's just a filler and I promise a full sized one will be out soon. As always keep reviewing... its the only thing that makes me write faster. As always welcome to the new people who followed and favorited(that new chapter 1 seemed to work) Anyway Enjoy!
"Oh shit!" a man yelled as Adam mercilessly ran his sword through his forehead. Adam watched, emotionless, as the body hit the ground, and used one of his mechanized legs to smash the man's head. Adam calmly sheathed his sword and looked down the hallway he had just come from. The walls were coated in a tastefully abstract painting of blood, and tens of corpses laid along the edges of the hallway, still trickling blood. Adam turned back down the hallway, in pursuit of his next victim when his scroll rang.
"What?" He growled into the phone, unhappy that he was being interrupted.
"I can't call the person whom I want to trample underfoot just to say hi?" Darron's voice filtered through on the other end.
"You can focus on the mission, and clear out this damn compound." Adam yelled back.
"Yeah yeah, we'll get there. By the way what's your kill count at?" Darron asked. Before Adam could respond, three heavy gunshots sounded through the phone.
"You know what? Don't tell me. I'm winning." Darron finished and quickly hung up. Adam seethed angrily, and shoved his scroll into his pocket as he stalked down the hallway, more ready than ever to spill blood.
Down on the lower levels of the building, Darron chuckled to himself as he put away his scroll.
"That asshole is just too easy to piss off." Darron said to himself as he heard a large rumbling from upstairs. Darron casually leaped over a small barricade that some of the men in the building had set up, and continued his search for the communications office. As he walked down the hall he read each doors label.
"Mess, recreation, dorms, human experimentation. All the usual but no communications." Darron muttered, a little frustrated. His nuisance was only amplified by the woman who had mustered up the courage to run at Darron with a heavy piece of pipe, screaming like a bat out of hell. Darron instinctively pulled out his pilfered blade, and ran it through her skull. The woman fell back dead.
"You people suck." Darron spat on her corpse. His attention was soon grabbed as Adam's voice filled the entire building.
"Found it. Room 344 top floor." Darron sighed, kicked the wall, and headed up to meet his frenemy.
It wasn't long before Darron stepped into the communications center as Adam was siphoning through recent transmissions.
"Anything?" Darron asked, walking around the room.
"Yes. Something about a package to be delivered at a base about two days travel from here." Adam confirmed. Darron smiled broadly.
"Then what are we doing around here then?" Darron asked, eager to get back out on the trail.
"We're gathering information. Like that the package has already shipped out, but I don't know where." Adam responded. Darron sighed, picked up a nearby chair, and heaved it across the room.
"That's… unfortunate...for them" Darron griped.
"It is, but I know where the next base is. Let's go." Adam said, standing up. The two of them waded back through their river of blood, and walked out of the compound into the rising sun.
"This sucks." Darron muttered.
"Agreed." Adam added.
Once the sun was farther up in the sky. The students at Beacon academy were finally resuming classes. The school was still finishing the dorms, but enough were ready for the students who were eager, and willing, to return. Teams ENDD,RWBY,and JNPR, were happy for the sense of normalcy. Currently, the remaining members of team ENDD, were huddled around the student job listing, looking for a small job to get their mojo back.
"We could go murder some grimm?" Zade suggested, pointing to a search and destroy mission.
"Or we could protect a caravan." Max pointed out, showing them an escort mission.
"Job picking sucks." Allister groaned, continuing to swipe through all the options available to him. The three looked up from their perpetual search as Yang and Weiss walked up behind them.
"Nothing good?" Yang asked, crossing her arms.
"No… it sucks." Max murmured.
"Well I'm sure something will be posted." Weiss shrugged.
"Speaking of something… you only woke up yesterday… how are you walking around?" Zade asked.
"Same thing happened to Blake. Once we woke up, we started healing amazingly quickly. They discharged us without question." Weiss explained. Zade blinked for a moment, and turned to look up at Allister. Allister pretended to whistle innocently.
"Nice." Zade smirked. Allister smiled to himself. The five continued their conversation, when the door to the mission hub slammed open. They looked over in shock, as Sun sprinted across the room over towards them. He came to a halt just before them, and placed his hands on his knees.
"Yo! What's going on?" Allister asked, curious.
"We got… a message...from Scarlet… he's in danger and he needs us to go help him." Sun said, breathlessly.. Everyone looked at him with concern.
"Well then why are we standing here. Let's go!" Yang exclaimed, as Sun quickly led them from the room.
The five of them hurriedly followed Sun through the hall of Beacon until he opened the door to his temporary dorm. Inside were the rest of team RWBY, and SNNN,as well as team JNPR.
"What's up?" Zade asked, looking for more information about this little get together. Sun walked across the room and sat down, looking at the rest of his friends.
"Seriously, there must be something important if it warrants bringing in all of us." Jaune added, gesturing to the 14 people in the room.
"Well. Scarlet went back to his family to help them handle some business, but he seems to have run into some trouble. He wants us to go and help, and he advised to bring help." Neptune explained.
"That does sound serious." Blake agreed.
"Yeah. We want to leave tomorrow, and get on a boat which will take us out towards his parents craft. He sent us a way to track his location." Sun added.
"Wait… his parents live on a boat?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yeah… why do you think he dresses like a pirate?" Sage asked in response.
"Got it." Pyrrha said.
"That's perfect. I was born, and raised on a boat. I can more than efficiently navigate and get you guys out to those coordinates." Max offered.
"That's perfect!" Sun exclaimed.
"Then I guess we're going to need to leave tomorrow if we want to catch up with them anytime soon." Neptune added.
"Ok. So we meet at the airfield at 6:00 tomorrow morning." Sun decided, with unanimous agreement from the group.
"Finally, this sounds like something we can get into." Allister smiled, ready to kick some ass again. The gang hung around in SNNN's room for a while, before departing to each prepare for their upcoming mission.
In team RWBY's room, the girls were busy packing as Yang slowly walked over towards Blake.
"Are you sure you really want to be going on this mission?" Yang asked, casually.
"Hm?" Blake hummed in response.
"Well I just mean… Wouldn't you want to stay here and wait for Darron? There could be some news about him, and if you're out in the middle of the ocean there won't be anything you can do about it." Yang pointed out. Blake sighed.
"I'm grateful for your concern, but I can't stay here and wait for hope, when there's a friend right in front of me who I know I can help." Blake stated. Yang couldn't help but smile at Blake's answer.
"Your so pragmatic sometimes." Yang laughed.
"Thank yo… you know that word?" Blake looked at her partner, pleasantly surprised.
"I know words… the best words." Yang huffed defiantly, crossing her arms. Blake giggled at her partner, and the two girls continued packing.
"But seriously, I guess it's good that one of the two of you shows some sense of realism." Yang said.
"Darron does seem a bit… Idealistic sometimes." Blake conceded.
"Well given what we know about him, can we blame him?" Yang asked.
"No, I guess not." Blake agreed.
"What is with this negativity?" The two partners were pulled from their conversation, as Ruby interrupted them. The two turned, and saw their leader staring at them.
"C'mon guys, we're finally going on a mission, where we won't get almost murdered. I know these are tough time…. I mean they all are recently, but whatever. We can't let it weigh us down. We gotta show some positivity right Weiss." Ruby said, turning to point at Weiss, expectantly.
"Absolutely." Weiss agreed.
"There." Ruby declared. Blake rolled her eyes, and she and Yang laughed.
"I guess you're right. No use crying over what could've been. Just need to handle what I have now." Blake said, nodding.
"Now you're getting it!" Ruby cheered. "Everyone hands in." Ruby commanded, as she held out her hand face down. Her team quickly placed their hands above hers.
"1.2.3. Team RWBY!" They cheered together, determined not to let tragedy weigh on their minds.
Zade walked through the hall of Beacon. He was headed to the campus store, to procure some dust for the trip. He turned into yet another empty hallway, as he navigated through the school building.
"Man… I never realized how many people used to be here." Zade said to himself, noting how the lack of returning students actually changed the atmosphere. You could still feel the air of disaster lingering over the school. Zade shrugged to himself and continued on his walk. Suddenly, Zade was stopped in his tracks by a warm feeling in his chest. Zade placed a hand over his heart, curiously.
"What th- grk!" Zade felt like he was going to throw up, as his chest erupted in searing pain. A pain that could only be described as a heart attack, mixed with being cooked from the inside filled Zade's chest as he fell to his knees. Zade grabbed a hold of his chest roughly, his nails digging into his skin. Despite his resistance, the pain was unbearable and Zade fell to the floor, writhing in pain.
"Vessels must be prepared." The strange voice which had spoken to him earlier informed him.
"Fuck off." Was the only reply, Zade could muster through the pain.
"You broke out contract, and I intend to collect." The Voice insisted, as all the pain disappeared as easily as it had appeared. Zade was left lying on the floor,breathing heavily.
"What the hell." He muttered to himself, confused as to this whole matter. As he laid their, his ears managed to pick up on the sounds of footsteps traveling down the hall. He leaned his head back to see the last two people he wanted to see. Ozpin and Qrow rounded the corner and were soon staring at the supine Zade.
"As much as I appreciate the school's architecture, I never found myself lying on the floor to appreciate it." Ozpin joked, giving Zade a smile. Zade rushed to his feet, and gave the two a wave.
"Sorry about that." Zade apologized.
"Are you ok?" Qrow asked, something about the situation not sitting right with him.
"Yeah I'm perfectly fine." Zade answered, lying smoothly. Qrow raised his eyebrow suspiciously.
"Well If you're ok. Then we'll take our leave. We still have much to discuss." Ozpin said, gesturing for Qrow to follow him. Qrow gave Zade another concerned look, before following the headmaster. Once the two had rounded the corner, and their footsteps had faded from earshot, Zade let out a deep sigh of relief.
"This is a killer case of heartburn… hopefully I can manage." Zade chuckled as he continued down the hall, unwilling to let this affliction impede his work.
The next morning dawned, and everyone rose, finally ready to put the past behind them, and throw themselves into rescuing their friend, Scarlet.