AN: This will be as long as I make it. I'm thinking the next chapter will be the end of volume 2. I think I'm dragging my feet because I dislike writing tournament arcs and that's basically what Volume 3 is. Good question Alloy I have a few ideas but that's all going to happen at least post Volume 3. But remember who makes the MSs.
Chapter 24
Ruby sat in the cockpit of the simulation GM. Her arms and legs were sore but she had been messing up too much lately. She had asked Ren for advice and he was happy to help he pointed out how he had not treated the suit as a weapon but as himself. After the last sortie, there were extra classes to round out the issues the Court members saw. She activated the GM once again and ran another scenario. She crouched behind the shield and prepared for the hoard of simulated Grimm.
Ren and Jaune were working on field repairs as well as hanger repairs. William Uaine the head mechanic chewed the two boys out for the high damage they caused to the suits in their fight. He had them reading the manuals of the suits and learning how to strip the armor off of a damaged piece under extreme conditions, which mainly consisted of them getting sprayed with a firehose, having buckets of crushed ice dropped on them during random intraverbals, and being shat at with paint pellets.
"This is your fault JauNE!" Ren exclaimed as Ice was dumped on him. "If you didn't break the shoulder WEEE wouldn't be getting tortured like this!" above the Nora snickered as she filled another bucket. The two boys sighed.
"Hey it's not my fault we didn't calCUlaTE the fact we MIght have the skiLLS of ChAr and Amuro," Jaune whispered to his friend as Ice fell on him.
"Alright, Valkyrie back to your station. Let the others have their turns." William said from a workbench.
"Aww, it was getting fun. Oh well, see you two later!" Nora sang as she left. She picked up a hammer and started whistling as she left.
"She said the was an entrance nearby. Can you see anything P-Dog?" Yang asked as they scanned the surrounding area.
"Not yet Yang. We'll find her don't worry." Pyrrha assured her teammate while looking around.
"Isn't this whole stumbling across a crime more of a Ruby thing?" Weiss asked.
"That only happened once, but yeah I could see this happening to her." Yang tried defending her sister before agreeing. Oobleck gave the signal to change areas and to move forward in their search. The next section of land they searched proved to have signs of recent human/Faunus activity. The girls spread out and started looking around. Yang was walking and stubbed her foot on something.
"That's… OVER HERE!" Yang called for her team.
"I think it was when my father left. Ever since that day my mother was struggling. I… don't really blame her for what she did, I… Just wish she gave me a second chance you know?" Roman sighed as he leaned on a barrel. "You don't realize how important family is until you lose them. I don't know what happened between you and your parents girly, maybe you had different views, maybe it was a jerk of a boy, or maybe you wanted to live your own life. All I can do is suggest you at least talk to them when you get the chance, but why should you listen to me I'm a criminal, I've killed people sure I prefer not to but sometimes it's inevitable. You should get back to work I don't want that edgelord thinking I'm trying to scout his people." He walked off to check the supplies leaving a disguised Blake pondering what he had said. Blakes Scroll buzzed and her eyes widened.
Yang3: We found your weapon. We're about to breach if you haven't been captured make yourself scarce.
Blake: Thanks
Sparks started to appear in the middle and Roman scowled. He rushed over to the speakers and told the workers to start the trains. White Fang members rushed to the train and got as many of the Grimm aboard as they could. The chaos knocked Blake around and she was forced to grab the wall to keep upright. The sound of the train starting caught her attention and she saw Roman jumping on the train. He held his hand out for her and saw her hesitate.
"Girly get out of this life it's clear these…murderers aren't the White Fang you hoped for. You haven't killed yet. Those are likely hunters maybe if you surrounder they'll help you out. To find your family and stay safe, ciao." He opened the door to the back and ran in.
Jaune finished changing into casual clothes after washing off all the paint and oil that caked him from class. He sat on his bed and just stretched. Ren had asked him to come help with some of Ruby's afternoon training so he couldn't sleep yet. Ruby had gotten better but still left far too many openings, Ren wanted Jaune to help to show how to more skilled pilots fought. Once his muscles stopped aching he pulled himself from his bed and put on his boots.
'Don't try anything fancy this is a visual training season stick to the basics.' Char told him.
'Got it.' Jaune replied. Ren and he knew Ruby would do fine against Grimm, but they knew it wouldn't be long till people used these suits on other people. The Whaite Fang already got their hand on Paladins so it wasn't a stretch to say they'd eventually find a way to get the MS's, and that's why the two wanted to train their friends more. Nora had declined the offer because she wanted to experiment with her grenades. William had told them he was going to oversee the match because as he said 'If you all get so much as a spring out of place you'll be cleaning the suits with your tongues till you can taste nothin no more.' Jaune found Ren and Ruby waiting for him.
"Aw, I liked the grease," Ruby smirked and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "It made you look like someone who wasn't afraid of getting in the tight places." She whispered in his ear. He thanked the brothers he wasn't drinking anything and kissed her back.
"You've been spending far too much time with Coco, Rubes," Jaune said.
"Aw, am I being too naughty?" Jaune actually choked at that.
"Alright, you two I'm sure the Courts don't want to see two teenagers acting like rabbits," Ren speaks up. "Jaune are you ready?"
"Am I ready? Ha, let's show them what happens when the Red Comet and the White Devil fight." Jaune smirked. Ruby's scroll buzzed and she went to take the call.
"Blake!" Yang throws her arms around Blake as she exits a restroom after changing back.
"Are you okay?" Weiss looks over her friend looking for any injury.
"I'm fine, I'm fine! I disguised myself as a White fang. But listen! Torchwick's got all kinds of weapons and robots down there." Blake points to the trains.
"What?!" Pyrrha hands Blake her weapon and draws her own.
"Androids, mechs, they're all loaded up on the train cars! There's even some Grimm in cages," Blake explains what she saw.
"Ahhhh, that's ridiculous. These tunnels were sealed when the Grimm overran Mt. Glenn it's a dead end. No one is foolish enough to actually use the trains as transport." Oobleck explained.
The speaker system sounds and they hear Roman."Get to your places, we are leaving now!" The train starts moving towards the tunnels.
"Well, it sounds like they're going somewhere." Yang switches her weapons on.
"We need backup. Let me call my team." Blake's Scroll flashes 'Low Signal'. "I can't get through!"
"So, what do we do?" Weiss looks at them for an answer.
"I believe we only have one option…" Oobleck begins.
"We're stopping that train!" Pyrrha finishes. They get on the train and knock out the guard but the lights start flashing red. They start running on the train and Weiss trips.
"Hurry, children! We must get to the front and stop this train!" Oobleck orders them as they help Weiss up, and the hatch she tripped on falls open.
"Err... Professor?" Weiss starts.
"Doctor…"
"What's that?" Weiss asks pointing down a hatch into the train. Oobleck kneels down to take a better look.
"That my dear... appears to be a bomb." They all move away from the hatch.
"White Fang twelve o'clock!" Pyrrha pulls their attention away from the bomb.
"Well, I didn't expect them to go…" The bomb underneath them charges up and starts beeping. "...easy on us. Time to go!" Oobleck orders. "Blake you have to sever the coupling to the caboose" She nods and jumps down and swings but misses. The train had already decoupled.
"They already know! The train decoupled. It must be on a Timer!" Blake informs Oobleck using her knowledge of train heists.
"That bastard! When I get my hands on him I'm giving Torchwick a piece of my mind!" Yang growls as she punches a grunt off the train.
"Calm down Miss. Xiao Long. We have to keep a level head. Let's just…" Oobleck opens the next hatch to find another bomb. "Oh, that's not good!" He sees Grimm start pouring out of other tunnels and a few crawl from the caboose before it explodes. "MY GOD!" Oobleck slams his thermos into a grunt's jaw who tried getting the drop on him knocking them out. Then jumps to the next car and confirms his theory. "They're crazy, they must be planning on leading the Grimm to Vale and blowing a hole open for them to come through. The death toll will be massive."
"What do we do then?" Weiss ducks a mace and kicks the grunt in the stomach before freezing them.
"Yang, Blake, and you have to stop the bombs while me and Miss. Nikos will stop the train." The four students nod and Oobleck and Pyrrha start running over the top of the train while the others jump down the hatch.
The lights of the car turn on and sitting there is the dual-color-haired girl that helped Roman escape after the Paladin fight. She smirks and after crossing her legs she jumps from her seat and holds her umbrella like a sword.
"You two go on I have this," Yang says reloading her gauntlets. Weiss and blake start to leave before Blake looks back. She pushes Weiss forward and draws her sword.
"You're not doing this alone!" Yang was about to argue but the girl shot forward and unleashed a flurry of stabs. Yang cartwheels back and tried to shoot her, but the Girl shatters and the blast hits blake who skids back.
Weiss falls through the door and rolls into a crouch. A large Faunus with a chainsaw arm glares at her.
"Looks like I get to kill a Schnee!" He charges forward and grabs her foot when she tries to jump over him and swings her slamming her into the ground. He picked her up and threw her into the far wall.
Neo, Roman's right hand fought the two amateurs with ease she dodged punches and bullets while using the blonde bimbo's anger against the Faunus. She ducked and weaved as she stabbed kicked and punched. The first to go down was the Faunus and the Bimbo screamed. With a quick twirl, she avoided the incoming strike and drove the hilt of Hush into her stomach with as much force as she could. Blondie crumple to the ground like a sack ofc overpriced potatoes. She decide to end this once and for all, these two kept getting in their way and that fiery bitch was going to hurt Roman if he failed again. Drawing Hush's blade she prepared for the kill before she felt a presence far more dangerous. She slide into a defensive position but it was too late the last thing she saw before unconsciousness was a red blade.
Weiss staggered to her feet and made multiple layers of Ice in front of the brute and retreated out of the car. She met up with a woozy Blake and an angry Yang. They were about to speak before they heard the first two layers of ice shatter. They crawled out of the hatch and saw Pyrrha and Oobleck finish off a paladin. The four girls smiled as they came together but the smile didn't last as bells and lights went off and they saw a wall of rocks quickly approaching.
AN: BWAHAHAHA! The chapter is done the breach is next what will happen? How will the girls get out of this mess in one piece?
