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"Are we ready?" Jaune asked as he looked out to all the teams that was ready for the mission.
It had been roughly two weeks since they had begun the second semester of their second year, and it was time for missions to begin. Except this one would be the biggest one yet; the retaking of Mt. Glenn.
Quite a few people thought that such an undertaking was rather ambitious and too risky, thinking that Vale should be focusing on shoring up its defenses. However, the fact that Grimm population around Vale was still rather low, the Council of Vale decided to push for it.
A mixture of teams from second years to fourth years was permitted to take part in the mission. First years were considered too under-experienced to be a part of something so dangerous, and thus were omitted, despite complaints from teams like Team MAYA.
Plans were already made to hire extra professors to lecture at Mt. Glenn, seeing as it would be a long term mission. Students couldn't afford to miss out on proper education that would be offered at Beacon just to protect the expansion of Vale. Doctor Oobleck had reached out to a colleague, who would be teaching the students at Mt. Glenn about history so they wouldn't miss out on his own lectures. Port was recording his lectures to inspire others to take up arms while explaining some Grimm anatomy. Glynda Goodwitch had reached out to her sister, Loreen Casta Goodwitch, to help teach at Mt. Glenn.
The Council of Vale didn't want to expand the budget on Beacon Academy to hire more professors, but Glynda was much more forceful than Ozpin had been on it. It made Ozpin smile, knowing that the future of Beacon was in good hands.
For second years, they would spend two weeks at Mt. Glenn before returning to Beacon to choose any other mission they wanted. For third years, it would be three weeks, and fourth years would spend a month. After choosing the Mt. Glenn mission, students would not be able to take it for at least three weeks before coming back again if they chose to.
Team DRAGON was a slightly different story, though. At first, the Council wanted Jaune spending all his time at Mt. Glenn, but the professors all shot that plan down, stating that despite being the Hero of Vale and a powerful fighter, he was still a second-year student, and shouldn't have that much responsibility pushed on his shoulders. A compromise was made that Jaune's team would spend three weeks at Mt. Glenn, and then two weeks for a break before coming back again. In short, their team had their mission assigned to them for the whole semester.
"Well, least we can use the time to go to that old museum," noted Neptune.
"Mt. Glenn... again," sighed all of Team RWBY.
"You don't have to come if you don't want to," said Jaune.
"Oh no, you're not getting rid of us that easily," stated Yang, "Otherwise, Pyrrha and Dew would get you for three weeks straight."
"That's right!" chirped up Ruby.
"I need someone to snuggle with while reading," Blake commented.
"And I need someone to help me control my group," humphed Weiss without any real heat, causing her teammates to pout but giggle.
"Guess we're all going then," said Nebula.
"I guess it's for the best. Team DRAGON, let's move out!" shouted Jaune as they all quickly got onto a large Bullhead to fly to Mt. Glenn.
They soon arrived and helped set up a perimeter around the town hall of Mt. Glenn. Though Jaune raised concerns about the underground city, the head planner of the Mt. Glenn reconstruction act pushed it aside. Apparently, the underground city would be scavenged for all available resources before the majority of it would be sealed off. The holes in the subway system leading to Vale had been sealed, reinforced, and would be used as a method of transporting raw materials to Mt. Glenn. Of course, that meant half of the upper city would be blocked off, as the roads were constructed over the underground city and were weak from lack of supports and maintenance, making them too dangerous to use. Instead, a few buildings were collapsed to form barriers to help protect the more usable part of the city until a better barricade could be created. There were several people with earth moving Semblances to help build the wall or collapse tunnels, leaving Jaune available to go on patrols.
After two weeks of no real trouble besides dealing with a Grimm pack every now and then, buildings could be seen being constructed. The whole city was shifted to be constructed to be closer to Vale, with a few natural barriers helping protect them.
A month passed, and it seemed to be a thriving settlement, with hopes of becoming a city. Emergency evacuation procedures were constantly reviewed just in case, though. It was then that Team SSSN decided it was time to see if they could retrieve the scroll.
"Need any extra manpower?" asked Jaune as they gathered around in a room to rest.
"Well, since you're asking," stated Sun, looking at Neptune to see if they did need it.
"I suggest Jaune for obvious reasons," nodded Neptune, "And Blake. Though the scroll is said to be at the museum, I doubt it's still there. From what I've scouted from it while we passed by it during our patrols, there are a lot of holes in there. I'm betting the scroll fell down inside those holes. It's going to be dark in there, and only Faunus and Jaune can see in the dark well. I managed to snag night vision goggles, but I don't have enough for everyone. Plus, we can't all just abandon our patrols."
"I can make fire, and so can Jaune," suggested Yang.
"Yeah, but that attracts unwanted attention," Neptune pointed out, "We don't want that when we're exploring somewhere dark and unknown. Grimm could attack us."
"I could come and use the power of my silver eyes," raised Ruby.
"Our opponents aren't necessarily just Grimm," continued Neptune, "There could be bandits or White Fang, who can see in the dark as well. If we want to scare off Grimm, we have Jaune for that. Finally, it'll be easier with a small group. Adding more might complicate things."
Seeing Neptune's solid argument, the others could only agree to his plan.
"Relax, we'll be back at most in three days," said Sun, "We won't be off that long."
"Fine," pouted Pyrrha, who had been slightly spoiled by having Jaune to cuddle with for so long. She walked out of the room with her mate and leaned into him, saying "Be careful."
"I'll be fine, Pyrrha. I promise, and I'll be back before you know it." Jaune told her before planting a loving kiss on her, as well as to the others.
The next day, Team SSSN, Jaune, and Blake were off towards Mount Glenn's Museum of Interesting Artifacts, or MIA for short. They had already told one of the district leaders named Morado of their mission, who was a low ranked member of the Council, but still an esteemed member. The distance wasn't too far off from the main reconstruction area, and they encountered no Grimm on the way, though they took an entire day to arrive safely before camping out near the museum. They arrived at the museum, where they quickly split into teams of two. Blake was teamed up with Sage, Jaune with Scarlet, and Sun with Neptune. Each team had at least one person who had night vision, which was better than relying on goggles, and each team was composed of one bruiser and one agile.
"Okay, according to this old map," pointed out Neptune, who had managed to find and make a copy of the museum layout, "There are only three likely places the scroll will be. Hall of Ancient Items, Room of Unknown, and Gallery of Mystery."
"What's with these names?" asked Sun, "They don't sound... well... professional. I haven't been to one, and I know these names sound stupid."
"Bring it up with the museum curator," snorted Neptune, "Apparently his kid was the one who thought of the names."
With a nod, they set off with weapons out.
"So what's with these scrolls?" asked Sun as they were at the Hall of Ancient Items.
"Not sure," replied Neptune, "To be more accurate, they seem like scriptures. From what I was reading and what you told me about your Uncle Zhu Bajie, the main monk who guided your ancestor, the original Sun Wukong, used these scrolls to help contain and purify his enemy. Of course, purifying the enemy could mean different things. Either complete destruction of evil, the body, or the spirit. Either way, it sounds useful."
"Then who would use it?" asked Sun, "It doesn't sound like it's my sort of weapon, and if it some sort of monk weapon, it'll involve chanting and that sort of thing."
"That's for certain," said Neptune, "We'll think about it more when we find it. It should have the monkey sign and a small crown. The others already know about what to look for."
Jaune and Scarlet were scanning the Gallery of Mystery with no real success either. There were a lot of items that nobody knew came from when, where, or what it was, but in the end, it was mostly just junk.
"Let's hope the others have better luck," sighed Scarlet when they heard a loud bang, followed by the ground shaking.
"That came from the Room of Unknown!" said Jaune sharply, "Where Blake and Sage are, let's move!"
Meanwhile, at the Room of Unknown, Sage and Blake had stopped right at the entrance of it to see several gaping holes at where the several key exhibits should be.
"Think this was due to just faulty maintenance?" asked Sage as he examined whatever he could find.
"No... this doesn't seem like it," examined Blake, her eyes narrowing, "Two of these holes are unnatural. They don't have the decay or rust like the others. In fact, one of them seems quite recent."
Sage nodded as he examined an ofuda before taking it down to check behind it for any marks and frowned when he saw none.
"No luck," grunted Sage as he tossed the ofuda to the ground. He swore he could hear Doctor Oobleck and Horton yelling at him for tossing ancient history into the ground like that.
"Should we check if it dropped underground?" asked Sage as he began to step towards Blake.
A second later, the ground crumpled right underneath the both of them. Being skilled Huntsman and Huntress, the two of them easily landed on their feet, though it was very dark inside the pit they were in. Even Sage's night goggles had initial trouble penetrating through the darkness before it adjusted to it.
"Huh, a lot of stuff here," noted Sage as he looked around the floor and started to slowly pick through them.
Blake nodded as she made a quick count of the items that laid scattered on the ground.
"Sweet! Found it!" grinned Sage as he lifted up a scroll with the monkey symbol and a crown and quickly tucked it into his coat pocket.
"Something's wrong," declared Blake as she looked around, "There were five holes, excluding the one we just made. And yet, there are only at most two items, including yours, here. Where are the others?"
"Maybe only two fell down?" suggested Sage.
"No, I looked at the map before we entered the room. The outline of it had at least an item at where each hole was. So who was here then?" replied Blake, quickly scanning around the pit they were in.
Her eyes roamed about when she did a double take at a specific area. Soon as she did, chaos broke out in front of them. A person swirled his black cloak he was using to hide and lifted up two pistols, one black and one white, and fired at Blake.
As Blake quickly dodged, she saw the person was wearing a white robe under the black cloak, and on the robe in the front was two human palms crossing over each other, the right one being black and the left one being white.
"Blake!" shouted Sage as he charged forward towards the attacker. Suddenly, the objects filled the air, and brown gas hissed out of them.
"What the?" growled Sage as he used his sword and swung harshly in the air, clearing the gas, "Weird, what was that?"
When he didn't hear Blake answer, he turned around to see her on the ground twitching in agony.
"Blake? Blake! What's wrong!?" shouted Sage as he quickly kneeled over to her, checking to see if there were any injuries.
"Gas... hurts," gasped Blake as she tried to regain control of her body without any progress.
"Looks like these babies still work on Faunus," chuckled a voice.
Sage quickly whirled around to the source of the voice to see more people wearing the same uniform coming out from the darkness. He quickly found himself surrounded and pointed his sword towards the main bulk and the person who seemed to be the leader. Said leader was wearing a rather flashy cape of black and white, with black and white palm prints on his cheeks.
"What do you mean?" threatened Sage, his grip tightening on his sword, "What did you do?"
"Relax, brother," said the leader, "This Faunus is just experiencing the holy judgment she deserves, just as all Faunus will. They are an infestation that must be purged, as they are an abomination not created by the Deity brothers. Remnant belongs to us humans, not the animals!"
"And we meet a human version of Adam Taurus," grumbled Sage, "What did you do to her!?"
One of the grunts chuckled as he tossed another can near them, spewing out gas once more. Blake once again screamed in pain as she got a tiny whiff of it. Sage quickly grabbed the can and crushed the opening with his bare hand, closing it off. He took a closer look at the can to see a hazard sign with a Faunus photo on top of it. Quickly rotating it, he saw what it truly was.
"Faunus Nerve Gas," growled Sage, "Temporarily paralyzes Faunus while causing damage. Heavily used in the Great War. And its production was banned in the Treaty of Vytal from all Four Kingdoms. Anyone even in possession of this is sentenced to life in prison, if not death. I'm pretty sure the recipe for this was wiped out of all data systems."
"Indeed it was," said the leader, "But they had one here as a memorial. It was only recently discovered, and when we tried to reverse-engineer it, we found we lacked a lot of the materials. The whole recipe for it in itself is still incomplete, and the materials we need are highly regulated and very difficult to come by, even if we do try to supply it ourselves. The Faunus bitch here would've already been on death's door if she had been exposed to the complete formula, but for now, ours can only paralyze and cause pain."
"The cure?" asked Sage.
"Just for time to pass," said the leader whimsically, "But not like she'll have any. She's far too valuable for us to kill now."
"You're not kidnapping her," growled Sage as he held his sword towards the leader in a threatening manner.
"Sage, please stand down," said another man, walking towards the light and taking off his hood.
"Uncle Dahlia," growled Sage, "Should've known you'd run with these punks. They sound right up your alley."
"Sage, my dear nephew," said Dahlia, "You of all people should know the Faunus are parasites. Look at the White Fang. Look at what they did to humanity. We give them pity and a land to call their own, and they give their thanks by trying to destroy a kingdom. You have a leader that I hear you complain about, ditching class and is a kleptomaniac. We can erase that stain and make it a truly free Remnant for humans. Just stand aside. We can make it so it's not even your fault."
Sage looked down at Dahlia before seemingly relaxing, his sword lowered down to the side. Dahlia grinned and walked two steps towards Blake when he was tackled down by another grunt. He was about to scold the grunt when he saw Sage's blade swing right where his head had been.
"So willing to kill a fellow human and a blood relative at that? How sad!" snarled the leader.
"My family is usually named after plants," growled Sage, "And each one has their own symbolism. Dahlia, however, has the name red attached to his for quite some time. He was, is, and always will be, a betrayer."
"I was merely taking what should've been rightfully mine," whined Dahlia.
"By killing your friend for something you wanted," snorted Sage, "If you want Blake, you'll have to come through me first. And if you don't finish fast enough... well let's say her boyfriend won't be very happy to see this. And though Sun may be troublesome, he's more family than you'll ever be. Much more reliable than you."
"So be it," sighed the leader as he raised his palm up and clenched his fist, "Kill him, but keep the cat bitch alive. She'll be a valuable bargaining tool if our spy is right. A Belladonna would be most useful."
The grunts charged as Sage swung his blade around. Some were protected by Aura. Others were not so fortunate and were decapitated on the spot. Still, Sage would not give in, and dissuaded anyone from getting close to Blake, even taking several hits to the back to protect Blake.
"Get off me!" yelled Sage as one of them managed to jump on his back. Before he could throw the grunt off, more and more piled onto him, grabbing whatever they could to bring him down. Even with three grunts clinging on his sword arm, Sage managed to cut through a few more grunts before the sheer numbers brought him to the ground. He tried biting whatever he could when he couldn't move his limbs anymore.
"Blake! Get out of here!" shouted Sage as he saw people starting to tie the struggling Blake and pulling her away. He could see some of them leering at Blake, intentionally groping her breast when they had the chance.
"You had your chance nephew," said Dahlia as he kneeled down, a dagger in his hand, "But since you refused to join our righteous crusade, you can go to hell for being a Faunus lover."
Just as he raised the dagger, Jaune crashed down into the ground, his eyes blazing with power. He lifted his hands, and from the shadows, spikes erupted and stabbed all the grunts piled on Sage, killing them all. Sage quickly ripped the dead grunts off him and grabbed Dahlia by the neck.
"You wouldn't!" screamed Dahlia.
Sage tightened the grip on the neck before hurling Dahlia into a nearby wall, knocking him unconscious.
"You're lucky I have more important things," spat Sage, spitting a loogie at Dahlia's face.
"Let. Her. Go," growled Jaune, his sword pointed towards the leader.
"Well, well, if it isn't the so-called 'Hero of Vale'," spat the leader, "A filthy Faunus who thinks he's better than all of us."
'Faunus?' pondered Jaune.
"Well, since you're sooo 'strong', then try breathing this in!" shouted the leader as two canisters that had been hidden in the ground exploded. Brown gas surrounded Jaune, causing the leader and his grunts to laugh maniacally.
"You see! Even the so called hero cannot stand against this gas! The version we used on you is ten times more potent than the one we used on the Belladonna girl, and can possibly kill! We may not be able to mass produce it, but we made enough it... could... kill..."
The leader trailed off as Jaune continued to walk forward without any ill effects. Sage and Scarlet were with him, looking just as pissed.
"Why didn't the Faunus nerve gas work?" screeched a grunt.
Jaune didn't bother to answer and aimed his shield, Dragonscales, towards them, switching it to hand cannon mode and fired, Scarlet quickly following his example.
"Protect me!" screeched the leader as grunts began to make a human shield around him as well as passing Blake to him and a woman.
Walls of Aura and Semblances of earth, crystals, and metallic shields sprouted forth between Blake and the others.
"NO!" roared Jaune as he raised his blade up, infusing with Othim's power. Nine simultaneous strikes struck through the barricade and shattered half of them. Jaune raised his shield towards the barricade, changing it into shotgun mode and infused the bullets with wind and light elements into them. He opened fire, creating a large hole within the barricade. Before it could be fixed, Jaune had tossed his sword up, grabbed a fire Dust crystal and wind Dust crystal in his right hand, and stuck his hand in the hole and to the other side. Before the enemy could react at all, Jaune crushed the crystals in his hands and amplified its power with Lung Wang and Aryz.
The result was a huge explosion that instantly wiped out most of the grunts and shattered the barrier. Sage had stabbed his sword into the ground and hid behind it to protect himself. Scarlet fired his hook up into the ceiling past the holes and dragged himself up to dodge any shrapnel.
As the dust cleared, Jaune saw that the man, woman, and Blake weren't close by. He closed his eyes and sensed Blake's Aura moving away from him very fast, faster than she could run. Quickly sprouting yellow feathery wings, he shot forward towards wherever Blake was.
"Go get Sun and Neptune!" ordered Jaune as he flew forward.
Sage nodded and dragged his uncle up back to the museum, where they met Sun and Neptune just as they got out.
"What happened!?" demanded Sun.
"We were ambushed," spat Sage, "Some new terrorist group that's the opposite of the White Fang. Some human extremist group."
"That's the Children of the Brothers," noted Neptune, glancing down at Dahlia's uniform, "It was recently formed in opposition of the White Fang, stating that Faunus are nothing but filthy animals that should be put down."
"Shit, and Blake was just kidnapped by them," cried Scarlet.
"Damn, that's bad. And who's this punk?" Sun inquired.
"My dear traitorous uncle," said Sage, kicking his uncle in the head, "I want to interrogate him on everything he knows about this damn organization. One of them mentioned a spy, so I want to know just exactly how they knew about this mission."
As Dahlia just woke up, he looked up to see four pissed off Huntsmen, all cracking their knuckles. Sun dropped his staff on Dahlia's legs, instantly crushing them so he couldn't escape at all.
"Filthy Faunus and Faunus lovers, you'll all die!" spat Dahlia.
"Well, this Faunus and friends are very interested in what you know," said Sun as he gave a dark chuckle.
"It'd be best if you gave it all up," smirked Neptune as he held up his weapon, volts of electricity flowing through it.
"Especially if you want to see another sunrise," continued Scarlet as he held his blade near his mouth, giving his sword a lick with his tongue.
"Trust me, uncle, we aren't going to hold back," finished Sage as he raised his fist high.
Screams of pain and begging for forgiveness could be heard.
Jaune grinded his teeth in frustration as he encountered another trap. He had to fold his wings back in as the enemy kept using piercing rounds or glueballs that stuck on him. The glue was composed of a special makeup that couldn't be dissolved even by heating it, nor electrocuting it. Instead, Jaune used brute force by freezing the glue on him and shattering it into pieces, though pieces of it still stuck on him.
"This isn't normal," noted Lung Wang with a growl.
"It's like they were expecting you," followed Ryo-Wo.
"All these traps... they couldn't have been built in just minutes," muttered Fafnir.
"But how and why?" Asked Alaerth, "There were only Jaune's friends and mates that knew of the mission."
"But he did," stated Othim, his tone no longer carrying any humor, "That supervisor."
"Well then, we'll interrogate him when we rescue Blake," stated Aryz.
"That's it, no more mercy," growled Jaune as he cut his hand with his blade.
Quickly assuming the summoning form, he spun his blade before slamming it down. Dark circles formed around him, and from behind, out of the depths of what seemed to be hell itself, came forth a black dragon with jet black scales protruding all over, and a huge horn. Its eyes gleamed golden as it seemed to want to consume all others.
"Oh, Nergigante," noted Othim, "This will be fun."
"Nergigante, destroy them!" shouted Jaune.
The dragon roared and charged forward, instantly slaying all those who stood in his path.
"Kill it! Kill that giant lizard!"
"Help! It's smashing through our traps!"
"Use the damn heavy machine gun! Just use up the biggest caliber with explosive rounds!"
Nergigante roared as his claw slammed into the ground, crushing three more. Suddenly, black wooden vines shot out, wrapping the machine gun and crushed it, along with the explosive ammo crate next to it, causing a reaction of explosions.
"Now!" shouted Jaune as he spread out yellow scaled wings and shot forward. He had fully linked up with Alaerth and Fafnir, shooting forward like a bullet.
Jaune sensed Blake was up ahead of him when she suddenly disappeared, only to reappear above him at ground level.
"A teleporting Semblance?" questioned/growled Jaune as he angled upwards immediately and plowed through the earth, using Fafnir's power to shift it. Though if the enemy could teleport, why wait until now?
He burst out of the ground just in time to see Blake being loaded into the latest stealth plane on a ramp. Seconds later, he had to summon an earth dome to protect himself as thousands of bullets slammed into it. All around him were turrets manned by people with the same insignia on their clothes.
"Getting real tired of this shit!" roared Jaune as he suddenly ascended to the sky.
Taking a deep breath before the enemy could correct their aim, he channeled Alaerth's powers towards his mouth and roared. A beam of yellow lighting struck a turret, and Jaune swiveled around. The beam traveled along Jaune's pathway, destroying all the turrets in a radius around him. He stopped to see the stealth plane already taking off, and was about to chase when he heard a loud explosion originating near Mt. Glenn. He quickly turned towards the explosion to see it was at the new base they had made. He could spot Grimm flooding towards the open entrance and narrowed his eyes. There had been no Grimm earlier. He could see cages being opened to release a multitude of Grimm. This had been planned!
"You have a choice 'Hero'!" shouted the masked leader with a mocking tone as the ramp opened up to reveal himself, holding Blake, "Chase after us and abandon all those people at Mt. Glenn, or abandon this your lovely Faunus girl to save them all!"
Jaune grit his teeth in anger as a roar came out from the mountains. From the distance, a giant Grimm with one malevolent red eye came forth. Its height was roughly as tall as the CCT tower, with bone spikes protruding all over its body. It had two arms, and instead of hands, it had long razor-sharp hooks. A tail followed the giant Grimm, easily capable of knocking down buildings.
"Jaune!" shouted Blake as she managed to free the gag from her mouth, "Save them! Don't worry about me I'll be fine! I'm too valua-"
"Shut up!" shouted the masked leader, hitting Blake's head, "You're right you're too valuable to die, but it doesn't make you valuable enough that we can't hit you."
From the ground, Nergigante suddenly burst forth and fired several black vines toward the ship, right where Blake was. For a second there, it looked like it would succeed, until another person from a shadowy part of the ship, wearing high heels, stepped forward and kicked the masked leader in front of Blake while grabbing Blake away.
"Get us out of here!" screamed a voice as the ramp began to close.
Nergigante tried to extend its vines towards Blake, but the ramp was closing. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to grab Blake, he dragged the masked leader out of the ship instead.
"No, wait!" shouted the leader, "Don't leave me!"
It was too late. The stealth plane left, and Jaune could sense it was also equipped with Aura inhibitors, making it truly a stealth plane as Jaune could no longer sense Blake's Aura.
"Dammit dammit dammit dammit!" roared Jaune in anger. He glared at the now captive masked leader, who was looking nervous as the vines began to slither over his body. Jaune dismissed Nergigante, grabbing the masked leader and slamming him into the ground head-first, knocking him unconscious.
"I'll deal with you later," snarled Jaune as he took to the air towards camp with the hostage on hand.
"Where did all these damn Grimm come from?" cursed Cardin as he slammed his mace into the head of a Beowolf, "Didn't we scout out and see none?"
"Less talking more killing!" yelled Coco as she mowed down waves of Grimm with her Gatling gun.
"Team RWBY will assist in moving the injured!" volunteered Ruby as they quickly moved those affected by the explosion. Team NPR and NDGO quickly followed to help. For some odd reason, the explosion went off at part of the camp with the most Faunus.
Still, it was easy pickings as the Grimm were charging through just one hole, though admittedly quite a large one. The students along with Huntsmen and Huntresses easily routed the Grimm and had anyone with any sort of construction Semblance patching the hole. Then they heard a large roar and froze. They slowly looked up to see the towering Grimm coming closer and closer.
"It's a Grimm Giagan!" shouted Port in shock, "An ancient Grimm, same as the Grimm Dragon that invaded Beacon! What's that doing here!?"
"We must evacuate!" ordered Loreen, "Students, escort any civilians and get them to the Bullheads! Huntsmen and Huntresses, delay the Grimm and destroy as many as you can!"
Some of the students wanted to stay and fight, but before any of them could take any action, the Giagan was slammed with a lightning bolt, causing it to reel in pain. Seconds later, Jaune appeared before them, dropping his hostage with the professors.
"Make sure he doesn't escape," growled Jaune, "He can teleport. He's one of the main causes of this explosion."
He quickly flew towards the Grimm Giagan to deal with it.
"You heard him, get the Aura inhibiting shackles," said Loreen as people quickly moved to action.
As Jaune flew towards the Giagan, it roared in challenge and slashed at Jaune with its hooks. Jaune easily dodged them before flying to its eyes and raised his shield. The shotgun muzzle came out, and Jaune infused it with lightning before firing all rounds.
The Grimm roared in pain as it stumbled back and whipped its tail at Jaune, who failed to dodge it in time. He grunted in pain as he stumbled in the air before regaining control of himself.
"Fire at its feet!" shouted Port, "Make it stumble!"
Everyone quickly obeyed and fired, destroying the ground it was standing on. The Giagan stumbled, falling backward onto the ground. Jaune quickly used his link with Othim that he had done before arriving and summoned hundreds of shadowy rope and tied each of its limbs, pinning it to the ground.
"Dew!" shouted Sun as he and his group arrived in a stolen vehicle.
They had stuffed Dahlia in the trunk, hidden from view. They knew there was a traitor in their midst, and decided to hide the fact they had Dahlia.
"Sun!" shouted Dew in surprise, "Where's Blake?"
"No time, summon a tornado and fling me up in the sky!" said Sun.
Dew quickly obeyed, summoning a tornado that Sun jumped into. The tornado spat Sun up into the sky, right above the Grimm Giagan.
"Expand Ruyi Jingu!" shouted Sun as he used up all his reserves on his Aura, pouring them into his staff.
The staff smashed onto the Grimm's head, pinning it down as it roared in pain.
"Now's our chance!" yelled Yang, "Weaken it until Ruby can freeze it!"
Ruby and the others had experimented with her Silver Eyes and found out that though she could easily freeze Grimm, it varied on how powerful the Grimm currently was. The stronger the Grimm, the more backlash Ruby would receive. So they theorized that if they weakened the Grimm, it would allow Ruby to use her powers with less backlash.
Yang jumped up towards its chest raising her right hand high above her. She clenched her fist as her hair began to glow, he eyes red. She had absorbed a few hits while trying to save others from Grimm, and was using it all at once. Right behind her, Dew was already forming a small ball of wind right above her fist.
"Blazing Typhoon!" roared both Dew and Yang as Yang punched with the typhoon ball on her right hand. Just as it was about to make contact, Yang added the flame element into the typhoon with her newly found power, creating a huge firestorm right on the Grimm's chest.
"Fire in the hole!" shouted Cardin as he held up his railgun pointing right where the Grimm's groin would be. He had no idea if this would be effective, but he didn't have enough time to run and aim for the head. So he aimed it at where it would anatomically hurt anybody and hoped it would pierce up to the brain. His team was right behind him, ready to help with the recoil.
Cardin fired the shot, causing the Grimm to squeal at a much higher pitch.
"I think it worked!" shouted Russel excitedly.
"My turn!" shouted Nora as she turned around to reveal that she had been gorging on sugary treats and lightning crystals.
"Nora, no," moaned Ren quietly.
"Nora yes!" grinned Nora, "Pyrrha, give me a boost!"
Pyrrha nodded, summoning her shield to allow Nora to jump on. As soon as she was on, Pyrrha shot her upwards to the heavens.
"Nora smash!" yelled Nora as she jumped off, igniting the boosters on Magnhild while pink lightning could be seen crackling all over her body. She began to spin and spin until she was a wheel of deadly lightning, letting gravity pull her down. At the very last moment, Nora smashed her hammer onto the Grimm's burnt chest, causing it to cry in pain. Bolts of electricity spewed out from her hammer
As everybody else wailed on it to do as much damage as possible, Ruby stood up, ready to unleash her secret power.
"Light!" shouted Ruby as her eyes shone brightly as if wings sprouted from her eyes.
The Grimm screeched before falling completely silent.
"Light, really?" asked Weiss.
"It was the only thing I could think of," blushed Ruby, "You know, like those shows where when they do some sort of special move, they shout it out! Well, I thought, you know, since I'm making light that freezes Grimm, I'd call it that! I haven't really thought of anything good," Ruby finished lamely.
"It's something," chuckled Weiss, "But I'll finish this off."
Focusing on her glyph, she made the attempt to summon the knight, the Arma Gigas. A flash of light appeared, and her knight stood at least 10 feet tall. However, her knight's appearance had completely changed. From the helmet, it was no longer slicked back but instead shaped like a dragon's head, similar to Ryo-Wo, with two horns protruding from the top of the helmet that curved back. Its whole armor scheme also changed. Instead of its usual slightly bulky armor, much of it had been slimmed down, and yet still protected all its vital parts. As Weiss wondered what had happened and theorized that the Mate Mark caused this change, a name went through her mind.
"Dragoon," whispered Weiss as she looked at her new summon in awe.
The Dragoon raised its hand, and in water streamed out from its gauntlet before it formed into a rather impressive weapon. Instead of the usual broadsword, it was now a long sword with elegant designs. Elegant blue handles, a light blue hilt, and an insignia of a dragon along the sword. The Dragoon swung the sword to show that it could transform into a lance.
"Finish it!" called Weiss.
The Dragoon jumped up into the air and reared its hand back as far as it could, aiming the lance right at the Grimm's neck. With a swift throw, the lance embedded itself into the Grimm's neck, completely going through it and hitting the ground. The Dragoon then landed right on the handle of the lance, causing it to go deeper as well as creating a crater. Finally, the summon grabbed the handle of the lance, forced it to transform back into a long sword within the Grimm's neck before severing the neck from the body with a spin attack.
"Brutal," commented Yang as the Grimm began to dissolve, "I guess he stuck his neck out where he shouldn't have? Eh eh?"
Most of the people who heard it groaned at the pun. With that, the remaining members of Team DRAGON went to ask Jaune what was up but saw anger flowing out of his body in copious amounts. Jaune didn't even acknowledge them but instead stomped straight where he had left the masked leader. His anger grew as he saw the person he wanted to interrogate closely was dead with a knife to the back of his head. Morado and several others were gathered around the body, examining it like a crime scene.
"What happened?" Pyrrha asked as others gathered around, "Who was this?"
"He was one of the scumbags behind this attack, a leader of a radical human extremist group calling themselves the Children of the Brothers. Someone killed him to shut him up so we couldn't force any more info out of him." Jaune told his scarlet-haired mate.
"It is rather unfortunate," said Morado with a silky voice, "Unfortunately, with all this chaos, we couldn't really afford to have someone watch over him. Wait, what's this?" He pointed to brown hair that decorated corpse. "Brown hair is on his body. Fur from the looks of it. Perhaps a Faunus with a grudge? A White Fang agent?"
Morado gave a glance towards Velvet, causing her teammates to stand in front of her.
"No way, Velvet's been with us the whole time!" Coco shot.
"She would never murder anyone like this, not even a loathsome racist such as this." Yatsuhashi agreed.
"Wait a minute, where's Blake?!" asked Ruby nervously, making them all look to him.
"Yeah where's my partner?" asked Yang, "I don't see her anywhere."
"She was captured," growled Jaune, "The Children of the Brothers ambushed us. I don't know how they incapacitated Blake, but they thought I was a Faunus too for some reason. They took my mate!"
While others were trying to grasp their minds on this, Morado replied, "Such a shame. But such is the life as a Huntress, flirting with danger. I know, I have a lovely niece about your age! How about I introduce you t-"
Before Jaune could strike, two hooks with wires suddenly wrapped around Morado's body.
"What is this outrage!?" raged Morado, "Do you know who I am? Let me go!"
"Yeah, not doing," replied Scarlet, holding the wires tightly with his weapon, "I think you know just how that guy died."
"It was obviously a Faunus!" shouted Morado, "That's right, I remember seeing Bunny ears! It was her! She's obviously a White Fang member!"
"Bullshit!" roared Fox as Yatsuhashi stood firmly in front of Velvet.
"You can't hide it," grunted Sage as he kicked open the trunk to reveal his uncle Dahlia, "We interrogated this asshole for everything. He dropped your name, the little coward."
"Not to mention when we were ambushed, it was as though they knew we were coming," growled Jaune, "Countless traps that could not have been done within mere minutes."
"You can't prove anything," spat Morado, "He could be a White Fang sympathizer, trying to shift blame onto somebody else! We humans have to stick together!"
"Humans, specifically?" interrogated Neptune, "And as Jaune said, the traps they laid out weren't done impromptu. They admitted to having knowledge of us coming. And we never told anyone about this trip except within our group... and you."
"Surely you're not insinuating that I told a terrorist group about your trip!" drawled Morado, "There is another Faunus that went with you. He's the one you should be suspicious of. I hear he has a tendency to steal things? Maybe he wanted the Belladonna girl for himself and put up an act."
Sage punched Morado in the stomach for even insinuating that.
"Enough," commanded Port, "Release him, Mr. David. None of you have the right to interrogate someone on the council, and will not do anything."
Each of them seethed in anger and was about to retort when Cardin put his hand on Jaune's shoulder.
"Just wait, you'll see what the Professor is going to do," whispered Cardin.
As the wires loosened, Morado huffed, "You can be assured, I will be lodging a complaint about this. I am an esteemed member of the council, and I will not be-"
He didn't get to finish as Port slammed his head into the ground.
"Now, is there any proof that Morado is who you suspect to be now that I've silenced him for a bit?" asked Port.
A bit startled but able to move, Neptune quickly moved towards Morado and ripped Morado's expensive suit off him to reveal his back.
"Hope I don't have to pay for that," muttered Neptune as he looked to Sage, who nodded and tossed him a spray bottle.
"To hide their affiliation from other people, they've been using special tattoos that aren't visible under the sun. To everyone, it seems like unblemished skin," said Neptune as he sprayed Morado's entire back, "It's like those UV tattoos, except this one won't show up under UV light normally. In order to expose it, they first have to spray this special chemical before putting it under UV. "
With that, Sun tossed a UV lamp from the stolen vehicle to Neptune.
"We've already tested this out on a few other bodies, so it should reveal to us," muttered Neptune as he slowly scanned from the bottom up.
And lo and behold, the tattoo of the Children of the Brothers revealed itself on Morado's shoulder, two palm prints crossing over in black and white.
"That proves nothing," snarled Morado as he managed to get his head back up, "I have immunity! I am a part of the council! You damn idiots are so blind to what the true threat is!"
"And that would be?" hissed Port.
"Those damn Faunus!" shouted Morado as he started to babble, "They're the reason why Vale almost fell! Don't you see! If we can get rid of all those filthy animals, then Vale will be a true utopia! Never having to be diseased by those curs ever again! They are not part of this world's natural order, made from the two brothers! They are a plague! Long live humanity! Long live the Children of the Brothers!"
"Well I think it's safe to say you know where they took Miss Belladonna," declared Port, "And so you will tell me where, or I will force you."
"What are you going to do, bore me to death with your stories?" laughed Morado, "You'll never get me to talk. And all I have to do is remain silent, and the Council will get me off."
"I'm afraid that won't be an option for you," said Port darkly, causing all the students to suddenly shiver at this dark tone from the jolly old man, "Mr. Ryu-Long, if you could use your semblance to perhaps create a stone room and seal me with my esteemed guest?"
Jaune nodded and created a small house made of stone as Port entered in it, carrying Morado as well as a small bag.
"Thank you. I expect my guest will be spilling everything within the next few hours. On that note, everyone, please get some rest and stay vigilant!"
As soon as the door shut, Morado was about to sneer when Port unrolled his bag to reveal many knives, tool, and a few bottles.
"Now then, shall we begin?" said Port as his face took a much darker tone.
Back on the stealth jet, Blake glared at the woman who had kicked the masked leader.
"Take off her gag," sneered the lady as two grunts obeyed.
"Should've known you'd be with them," growled Blake as soon as she could speak.
"Your actions caused my husband's company to go bankrupt!" howled the woman as she stepped forward to reveal just who she was.
She was the trophy wife whose husband used own the Delaney shipping company, Mrs. Delaney.
"Thanks to your devious side, we were tossed out onto the streets," she howled, "Luckily, we were smart enough to have enough funds just in case something outrageous like this happened. We found the Children of Humanity group and poured all of our funds into it, gaining more and more influence than we ever had! Influence that has spread among all the kingdoms, to drive you filthy animals back where you belong. Below us, the chosen race to lead Remnant into glory! We were too nice to let you damn animals have your own little island. Once we win this, I'll be sure to have that town razed to the ground and the island remade into a resort!
"I doubt your group will last long," snapped Blake, "Once Jaune and the others find you, you'll be dead."
"We're ready for that freak," spat Mrs. Delaney, "By the time he finds us, we'll have perfected that gas that will instantly kill any Faunus, regardless of whatever they are or how strong!"
'And she thinks Jaune is a Faunus,' thought Blake, 'That'll bite her in the ass.'
"And don't think you're off the hook," growled Mrs. Delaney as she pulled Blake by her hair, "Though I've told the boys to back off, once we get back to base and the camera's rolling, we'll soon show the world just how useful you are. As a whore! Once the whole world sees that, I doubt your family or loved ones will even want to touch you!"
As she laughed, a mobile phone rang within the ship. A second later, another grunt showed up on the screen.
"Mi'lady," bowed the grunt, "We have managed to ambush a White Fang camp and captured one of their highest ranking officers!"
"Show me!" smiled Mrs. Delaney.
"It is believed this person is one of the leaders of the new White Fang," announced the grunt.
'Adam!?' thought Blake in worry and fury.
The person that showed up, however, was not Adam Taurus. Instead, it was someone who she could have considered as a friend long ago. It was Ilia Amitola, Adam's current lover.
"Good, good!" cackled , "Take her to the main base! She'll be an excellent addition to who we have here! This will crush the White Fang and all the Faunus. We'll force them to attempt to attack us! And we'll drive the media hammer on them, and humanity will soon drive these filthy animals to extinction!"
'Jaune, please hurry!' thought Blake as the stealth plane flew over the ocean.
Heads up, Mrs. Delaney is that trophy wife back in volume 4 that was dissing Vale during the after party of Weiss's opera performance. So surprise muhahah! Raise your hands if you expected me to bring her back!
Might do a Discord chat to chat with people about the story, debating on that.
Oh no, Blake gets kidnapped! What will happen next! Find out... next year! Anyways hope you all enjoy your Christmas!