"Our next fight will be Emerald and Crvena from Haven versus Yatsuhashi Daichi and Coco Adel from Beacon." Professor Port's voice boomed over the loud speaker.
Emerald and Crimson walked out onto the arena floor.
"Hey, love the outfit kid!" Coco lowered her sun glasses to look at Emerald.
"I'll try not to get blood on it." Emerald began to stretch out to get ready for the fight.
"I can't promise you'll leave without a scratch." Yatsuhashi stood up and drew his massive copper colored sword.
"I won't be the one bleeding." Coco looked over at her partner and smiled.
"Oh, like her!" Crimson looked over at Coco and studied her hand bag. She had bullets on the strap.
"Three…. Two….. One….. Begin!" Port spoke again. Crimson and Emerald walked back into the tall grass behind them.
Coco smiled and activated her chain gun. She fired into the grass, cutting the grass below chest hight. She expected to find the two opponents.
There was nothing, they were gone. A roar rang out that Coco knew all to well. She ducked as Yatsuhashi flying.
"Crvena has a AGR-76, watch out." Yatsuhashi stood up. He looked over at the board.
His aura was at seventeen, one hit and he'd be out. Emerald jumped down and used the kusarigama form of her guns to take Yatsuhashi. That only left Coco.
Coco fired her chain gun at Emerald hitting nothing. She saw Crvena and opened fire on his position. She heard the roar again but it was from behind her. She felt the round of the rifle hit her back taking her aura down. She was thrown forward breaking her sun glasses.
"With that we have the second fastest round ever in the history of the tournament!" Dr. Oobleck's voice echoed through the arena as the crowd cheered.
"Good job Crvena. You took them out with only two shots." Emerald walked to the main arena with Crimson. He just grunted.
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"Good job Crimson. You did well against the Beacon students." Cinder was walking with Crimson along a roof top. They were overlooking the courtyard of beacon.
"So have you figured out who will be going to the one-on-one section of the tournament?" Cinder looked over at him and smiled.
"You will, though I need you to kill something." Crimson cocked an eyebrow that no one could see at what she was saying.
"Some thing?" He leaned on the ledge to listen to Cinder's plan.
"Yes, the student Penny Polendina is actually an Atlesian robot. It is going to the one-on-one finals. I wand you to rip her apart in front of the crowd." She smiled her wicked smile.
"Consider it done Cinder." Crimson stood up and pulled out Reaper.
"Good. Now go to the stadium and prepare for the mission." Crimson nodded and jumped down to the ground. He walked to the docks to head to the arena.
"CRVENA!" Crimson turned around to see team RWBY behind him.
"What do you want?" Crimson was annoyed by seeing his old friends. Ruby was chipper as usual. Weiss looked beaten up and burned a little. Blake looked almost as annoyed as he was being so close to him. Yang looked happy and ready to punch anything that cave her the option.
"We were heading to the area for Yang's one-on-one fight when we saw you. I also would like to congratulate you on your win today." Ruby was bouncing around hyped up on her sister's fight.
"Is that so? Hm, well if I see you in the fight don't think I won't go easy on you." Yang looked happier by that.
"Wouldn't have it any other way." Yang crossed her arms and smirked. Crimson turned around and headed for an airship loading people up. Team RWBY followed him, Crimson sat down in one of the many chairs in the airship. Ruby sat next to him and looked at him with wide eyes.
"I'm not letting you see Reaper." the mechanical voice sent a shiver down Ruby's spine.
"Just one look, please?" Crimson shook his head 'no' making Ruby pout. "Your no fun." Crimson role his eyes.
They reached the arena, Yang broke off and headed with Crimson. "So are you ready to lose?" Crimson grind under his helmet.
"Are you?" He turned around to face the blond. She was grinning as much as he was.
"Sure, but your sniper is a ranged weapon. That won't do you any good in the arena during a one-on-one fight." Crimson nodded at what she was saying then turned to his locker. Tucked in the corner was mejeærsker. He made sure that Yang couldn't see the sword, he picked it up an placed it under his trench coat. He rummaged through his locker gathering extra clips for Reaper. He closed the locker and headed out to the arena.
All of the contestants stood in a line waiting to see who would go first.
"Our first match will be between Penny Polendina of Atlas, and Crvena Qui Metit of Haven." The randomization columns showed his opponents face and Crimson's helmet. A bar showed up underneath reading out their aura level.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Crvena. I hope we have a wonderful fight." Crimson readied himself, he placed his hand on Reaper under his coat.
"Three… Two…. One…. Begin!" Professor ports voice boomed over the loud speakers. Penny unleashed her swords and began to swing them at Crimson. He dogged the swords and pulled out Reaper. He fired a quick shot that Penny deflected with her swords.
Crimson transformed it into it's assault riffle form and opened fire on the robot. She easily deflected the shots by spinning a group of her swords. The other group of swords formed 'cannons' and opened fire on him. Crimson jumped out of the way of the energy blasts.
He transformed Reaper into sniper form and fired the grappling hook. It wrapped around Penny's legs and Crimson pulled. She fell to the ground giving Crimson time to do what needed to be done. He took aim and fired a round at Penny's head. The round hit her taking her aura down.
"And it looks like Crvena is victorious!" Penny stood up and put away her swords. Everyone began to cheer. Crimson reloaded Reaper and took aim again. Penny looked shocked at Crimson.
"What are you doing?" Crimson smiled under his helmet and pulled the trigger. The roar of the AG-76's gun stopped everyone's cheering. The bullet traveled through the air and made contact with Penny's abdomen. The bullet tore through her metal body and ripped it apart.
She was cut in half by the sheer force of the bullet. Everyone screamed in shock, fear, and anger. Crimson smiled and waited, the screens went red and the Black Queen virus popped up.
"This is not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you hand over your trust, your safety, your children, to men who claim to be our guardians, but in reality nothing more than men. Our academy's head masters wield more power than most armies, and one was audacious enough to control both." As Cinder gave her speech Crimson began to walk off the arena floor. He stooped when team RWBY stood in front of the door out of the arena.
"Why Crvena? Why did you kill Penny?" Weiss questioned she drew her rapier and pointed it at him. Yang activated her gauntlets, Blake pulled out Gambol Shroud, and Ruby transformed Crescent Rose into it's scythe mode.
"Isn't it obvious?" He jumped back as Mercury, Emerald, and Neo jumped down in front of them. Using the distraction he made his escape to Beacon, where he would begin his side of the plan.
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Crimson sat atop one of the many roof tops and looked down upon the courtyard as the many students from across the world fought against the Grimm, White Fang, and Atlas robots.
Once the robots shut off and everyone felt safe was his time to strike. The Massacre of Beacon was beginning.