It's been a while since they kicked a whole group's ass.
So Team R.E.D. absolutely kicking sweet shiny metallic ass is definitely a breather for them. Right now, the members of the RED just joined the fray in an attempt to defend the city of Vale, under siege by the forces of an unknown perpetrator.
"Blake, left!" The Texan shouted. The raven-haired girl sliced a Demo bot's head clean off, making the robot short circuit and plop down to the floor in front of Ruby. The team leader of Team RWBY sidestepped a rocket and emptied a dust round into an approaching Scout bot, and impaling another with the Crescent Rose. Yang fired a shot at her feet, propelling herself into the air at heights that only an experienced Soldier can pull off, and raining death upon the robot horde. Round after round of explosive dust descended onto a few giant robots, resulting in them blowing up in a ball of fire as the metallic armor gave out. Weiss used her ice crystals to harass giant robots at range, and using her weapon of choice, a rapier along with her glyphs to quickly deal with enemies that got too close.
Any injuries sustained by the 13-strong group were quickly dealt with by the Medic of Team R.E.D, firing Crusader's Crossbow bolts at the injured. At the other end of his Medigun's healing beam, the Heavy was mowing down dozens of metal men as his minigun fired thousands of bullets each costing a hefty amount of 200 dollars at the enemy. Soldier was soaring through the skies, rockets descending on the robots like rain. As he was about to land, he took out his Market Gardener and smacked a robot's head with so much force, that the wires connecting to the head just severed itself from the body. Pyro jumped in front of Ruby and redirected a salvo of rockets towards a group of 5 robots clustered closely together. The unlucky group disintegrated in the explosion, leaving nothing but a few charred metal remains. The Sniper chose to hang back, as always. He set up position in an apartment block, 3 stories up. He picked his targets, and prioritized them, delivering pieces of hot lead through a high powered rail gun into the thick heads of the robots. Scout, being the obnoxious guy he is, shot a robot full of lead before flipping it off and yelling a loud curse. He turned around just in time as a Demo Bot tried to slice his head off. His reaction training paid off as he effortlessly ducked below the swinging blade, decapitating a Heavy bot instead, before firing his scattergun at the robots torso, ripping it in half.
"Incoming bomb carrier!" A voice with a French accent rang out across the Team R.E.D.'s radio devices. The voice belonged to Spy, currently in charge of staying behind the enemy lines and relaying information regarding the enemy's forces.
"Uh-oh!" Engineer muttered. Bomb carriers, though slow, are capable of buffing their allies' overall combat ability and making the defenders' jobs much harder. True to their name, they also act as suicide bombers, planting bombs at key locations and setting it off, resulting in the surrounding area turned into a burning wreck. Spy, sitting on top of a roof, decloaked and jumped down, stabbing the back of the bomb carrier, conveniently where most of the computing systems are, instantly destroying the robot, dropping the blue-white colored bomb onto the ground.
Just as the bomb hit the ground, the robots surrounding the bomb were instantly destroyed by a hail of gunfire, stopping when nothing remained in the Russian's path. The rest of the team followed close behind, with Team RWBY watching the rear and flanks.
"We should set up a base of operations somewhere." The Engineer said while twirling his pump-action shotgun. The Medic nodded, Medigun still trained on the Heavy.
"There's a small tower up ahead. It's relatively safe and provides a good vantage point of the surrounding area." Spy responded and pointing towards the North. The Engineer nodded and motioned the 12 other combatants to follow him. While walking towards the tower, few words were said, in fear of a nearby robot patrol overhearing them.
"Get ready to breach this sonova bitch!" Engineer pumped his shotgun as they reached the entrance of the tower. The Pyro took out a sledgehammer, dubbed the 'Homewrecker' and knocked the door down, allowing access to the small tower. The rest of the team moved in slowly, with Team RWBY carefully watching their backs before joining them in the building.
Inside the building, the staircase up to the top of the tower is visible, and Team RWBY and Team R.E.D. scaled it, reaching the top in less than a minute. The top level's walls are all made of glass, giving a great vantage point. Once they reached the top, Spy saw a shape in the shadows. He pulled out his Ambassador and slowly moved towards it on high alert.
"Don't shoot! I'm not one of them!" A voice came from the shadows. It sounded masculine although weak. Ruby used her semblance and rushed over to the source of the voice, ignoring warnings from Yang and Blake. The Medic followed closely behind, Medigun ready to be activated. The Scout pulled out a flashlight from his pocket and pressed the switch, driving the shadows away. The light revealed an Atlesian military personnel, identified as a Sergeant by the look of his rank insignia. His body is covered in blood, grime and dust. His helmet can be seen lying on the ground nearby, cracked in half. His lower left leg is severed, bandaged with some clothes and stopping the bleeding. Ruby yelped and jumped back at the bloody sight, hands unconsciously flying up to her mouth.
The Medic instantly crouched down, and prepared to activate the Medigun. With a switch, the healing beam extended and reached into the Sergeant's body, who groaned in slight pain. Soon, his lag started to grow back, the bloody stump is now replaced by a brand new leg much to the army man's surprise. He wiggled his legs, and gasped when he could feel the blood rushing to his feet.
"I don't know how you did that, but thanks a lot." He replied meekly with a gloved thumbs up. The Medic chuckled and stood back up, helping the Sergeant as he did so. A few minutes later, the Sergeant was back on his feet, rifle in his hands.
"Alright. Me and Yang are going to be here, while you all secure the perimeter. I need to set up the dispensers, and I need to know I ain't gonna be sliced apart by some bots while I'm fixing this up." The others nodded and went down the stairwell.
The duo said nothing while the Engineer did his work. The only sound in the room was the silent whizzing of the Dispenser, slowly making ammunition, both Dust and gunpowder alike. The Texan looked up, and saw Yang was leaning against the wall, staring out the windows, observing the night.
"I hope dad is fine at Patch…" The man heard the blonde mutter. "Yang, could I ask you a question?" The girl looked over and gave a 'yea' as a reply. "If your daddy's at that place called Patch, then where's your mom?" The second he said those words, he could see Yang's hair sizzle a bit, before extinguishing themselves.
"She... my biological mother is missing, but my stepmother, Ruby's mom, is… dead…" She muttered somberly. The Engineer knew he hit a soft spot, and apologized immediately. "No need, you didn't know. She left on a mission, and we lost contact with her." The Engineer pinched his nose, before opening his mouth to say something.
"But that doesn't mean she-"
"A rescue team found her body, mutilated. She was still wearing that white cloak of hers. When Ruby heard the news, she just… kinda shut down." Now, Engineer had nothing else to say. He just nodded and continued setting up his equipment. The room once again descended into silence.
This continued for around 10 minutes, before the Engineer asked Yang to call everybody back up. They returned a minute later, with tired expressions. Apparently some of them had been fending off some patrol which the duos were completely oblivious to. The Engineer's scroll pinged, and he took it out of his pocket. Once he read the notification, his mouth twisted into a wicked smile, before laughing maniacally.
"Are you… okay?" Weiss asked the American. The Engineer just gave them a small smile, before pulling out a small device, and hitting the red button on it. At this point, the 5 original members of Team R.E.D. all gave a knowing smile, confusing the others. The Engineer suddenly ran down the staircase, and busted out the front door. From the top, the others saw that he ran forward a few meters, and once again pulled out another device from his pocket, but this time it was a rod with a flashing red light. He threw it down onto the floor before stepping back. Soon, the horizon started to glow a faint yellow, before 5 large figures appeared from the clouds. (Think Wrench in The Gears mechs)
"That's our dreadnoughts. He began building them in his free time a few weeks ago." Spy answered matter-of-factly. The other members turned towards him with wide eyes, mouths agape.
"He built that?! In his free time?!" Everyone shouted in unison. "He more like built the machines that built them, and programmed them to build them." Everyone was giving blank stares.
"Anyways, we shall move now. The Medic, Demoman, Pyro and me are going to do our jobs now. Scout, Heavy, Sniper and Soldier are staying here, to ensure the ladies won't run away." Spy said as he turned around, heading to the stairwell, the 3 other aforementioned men following. Ruby huffed, saying they don't need protecting. The Spy dismissed that with a wave of his hand, back turned towards her.
In front of the entrance, the 5 dreadnoughts stood there, waiting to be powered up. The Pyro's dreadnought had two hands, with flamethrowers on each side attached to some wires. The robot was painted a red color with some flame highlights, along with his emblem on the side of the large 'head'. The Spy's had two hands as well, along with knives and a sizable revolver at the robots hip and complete with full cloaking mechanism. The Medic's dreadnought's two hands held a large and oversized Medigun along with a small rotary type gun, with an ammo belt feeding in Crusader's Crossbow bolts into the gun. The Engineer explained that the Medigun can charge up other robots, effectively giving them a shield to protect against incoming danger more so. The Scottish's war machine had two hands with giant grenade launchers on it, along with two cannons on top of the 'head', acting as stickybomb launchers. Finally, the Texan's dreadnought had a small sized rotary cannon in one hand, with ammo belts feeding in shotgun shells, and a 4-barrel rocket launcher in the other.
"Hey, isn't your dreadnought more… OP than ours?" The Demoman asked. The Engineer chuckled and decided to ignore the question. "Alright ladies, let's get going!" The Engineer excitedly said, raising his fist in the air. The other 4 members on scene gave a good laugh and continued to board their respective dreadnoughts from the hatches located on the 'heads'. Once inside, the Engineer instructed them to push the giant green button on the dashboard through the radio devices. The pilots did as they were told, and the dreadnoughts let out a whizzing sound as they slowly powered up, before cackling with electricity and standing upright, weapons raised.
On top of the tower, Ruby was feeling that her legs were weak and is drooling all over the floor, her face practically glued to the glass window. Soon, Ruby disappeared in a pile of rose petals, and swiftly reappearing next to the Engineer's dreadnought. The brunette clambered to the rotary cannons, and started hugging it. The pilot inside wiggled the cannon, yet Ruby still remains, caressing giant weapon. Soon, Weiss and Yang came down to pick her back up. Ruby constantly declined and wanted to follow the 5 pilots, leaving the duo no choice but to carry her over their heads, with their team leader's hands flaying around wildly, demanding they let her go.
The 5 pilots inside the dreadnoughts all let out a collective sigh and started moving out. The Spy devised that the Medic stayed in the middle, with the Demoman and Engineer at the back, and Pyro at the front with flamethrowers ready. Spy was once again sent to scout ahead and relaying information back to the team.
The first 5 minutes or so were pretty uneventful, with nothing but boring chatter across the radio frequency with the Engineer and the Medic discussing something science-y that the rest of the team can't understand a word of. Once the 5 minute mark passed, Spy turned on his radio transmitter and warned the team.
"40-or so robots up ahead, all seem to be Soldier bots." The Spy's voice cackled through the radio. The team instantly went on full alert mode, eyes scanning the robot's screens for any movement.
"Incoming!" Demoman shouted, pointing his robot hand towards the group of Soldiers. The 5 dreadnoughts didn't need to be told twice, and all opened fire. The group was instantly obliterated by a hail of bullets, a few grenades, rockets and hundreds of CC bolts. Four measly seconds later, the 40-strong robot legion was nothing but a burning pile of metal wreckage. Smoke billowed from the pile as flames danced on the metallic corpses, adding the taste of propellant-dust, gunpowder and diesel into the surrounding air.
"Aww, thatwassocool!" A voice was heard, not over the radio, but from outside. The 5 pilots turned their dreadnoughts towards the voice, and saw Ruby jumping down onto the Pyro's machine, the impact making the robot step back. Behind the young girl, near the rooftops, the Bostonian, Scout is seen running after her, trying to catch his breath. "Don't… move… so… freakin'… fast!" He said between breaths.
"Why did you let her out?" The Demoman said as he opened his hatch, with a box of beer in his hands. "She just used her semblance to rush out, and I was tasked to chase after her since I'm the fastest." The Scout responded as he regained his oxygen. "Even with BONK! Atomic Punch, I still can't beat her." He added as he took a can of BONK! out and popped the cap.
"Hey, can I have one? Kinda thirsty here." The Engineer said as he too opened his hatch and raised his head up. The Scout said nothing as he took another can from his duffle bag and threw it towards the Engineer, catching it mid-flight.
As the Engineers hand reached to pop the can, his eyes gazed towards the ingredients section.
"Ingredients… water… sugar… radiation…" His voice trailed off at the end. Once he reread that section for at least ten times, he once again laughed maniacally, shocking the other members, even Ruby who was hugging the flamethrower was surprised. His laughing continued for around 30 seconds before stopping, catching a breath.
"Scout, how many cans of BONK! you have?"
"Around 50 boxes in my duffle bag. Each with 30 cans. Also don't ask how I fit them in there." The Scout responded as he threw his duffle bag into the air, and catching it again. The Engineer laughed again, before shutting his hatch. "Why'd you ask, Engi?" The Scout asked again, voice slightly muffled by the metal cockpit. The Engineer turned on his loudspeaker, and faced towards the boy.
"'Cause radiation what we need to destroy these son's a bitches!"
A/N: Finally! Another chapter! My school life just got hectic and that's the reason I didn't post chapters for a few days now. I've said this many times, but don't expect a new chapter everyday, especially during Mondays and Wednesdays MYT(UTC/GMT +8 hours).
Well, have a good time, and I'll see you lads next chapter. Good bye!