Heroes and Monsters.
The chaos at Beacon keeps getting worse and worse by the second. With the massive Wyvern focusing on the school, more and more grimm keeps showing up, and with the Atlas machines hacked, the protectors of Renmant was fighting a battle on two fronts, making the situation far more difficult than before. But even that was not the end of their problems, as even the White Fang was part of the attack, adding a third group of enemies to complicate the situation. Right outside of Beacon's dining hall, Blake backs away from the shattered window, staring in horror at her old partner.
"Running away again? Is that what you've become, my love? A coward?" Adam asked mockingly.
"Why are you doing this?" Blake demanded, this was insane, even for Adam.
"You and I were going to change the world, remember? We were destined to light the fires of revolution!" Adam stomps on a downed Atlas student's chest "Consider this... the spark".
A horrified Blake watches Adam draws Wilt, preparing to stab the student. Blake charges into the dining hall, drawing her sword in a flash. Her blade clashes with his as she pushes him away from the student, and they stand with their blades locked.
"I'm... not... running" Blake said as she struggles against Adam's strength.
"You... will" Adam said before kicks her away, knocking her onto the floor. A nearby Creep runs toward her, only to be shot by Adam "But not before you suffer for your betrayal, my love".
He smiles and begins walking toward her. Suddenly he senses someone behind him, and quickly blocks a leaping strike from Severa, who glares daggers at him.
"You will not lay a finger on her!" Severa declared as she broke their blade lock and tried to attack him again.
Adam blocked her strike before delivering one of his own. Severa was able to block it, but the force of his strike made her slide back. Adam stabs at her, Severa deflects the blow. They fight, but Adam is fast and fierce, and soon forces Severa to her knees. Adam looks at her before he glanced at Blake who had a very worried expression. It didn't take long for him to put the pieces together. He knew exactly who Severa was now.
"So, you are my replacement. The fact she would pick a human over me only adds to her betrayal" Adam said with a small snarl.
Adam holds his blade with one hand over Severa, while she's struggling against it with both her arms. Severa tries to break the stalemate but Ada, forces the sword out of her hands and slices at her but Severa managed to roll to the side, avoiding the attack and jumps back before picking her sword back up.
"I know who you are as well, Adam. She told me all about you, and it's not hard to see why she ditched you. And now, I can finally give you the beating you deserve" Severa declared.
Adam glares behind his mask "Come on and try".
More than eager to take Adam up on his challenge, Severa dashed towards him. Knowing how dangerous Adam was, Blake quickly joined in to help her girlfriend. Adam easily holds his own against the pair, clashing against their blades with quick and precise motions. He manages to knock Blake aside while clashing with Severa. He blocks her blade and kicks her in the chest, making her slide in to broken debrie.
"Is that the best you can do? Looks like Blake's standards has lowered even further than I thought" Adam mocked.
Severa took a breath, so Adam was tougher than she expected. But she didn't care. No way in hell she was going to let him harm Blake anymore than he's already had. She will beat him... She has to.
Back outside the Beacon grounds, Velvet groans as she struggles to get up, only to get knocked back down when Coco bumps into her after getting knocked away from a Paladin. Neon and Reese dodge and weave between groups of students fighting against Grimm plus the infected Atlesian Knights and Paladins. The rest of Team ABRN surrounds a Griffon attacking it with bullets and fireballs, as Bolin knocks a Knight aside. Reese spins her board and slices through another as she passes by it. Nearby Sun and Neptune try to hold back a Paladin, while Nora and Ren decimate another group of Knights. Yatsuhashi is fighting another Griffon while Fox dashes over from a pile of robot parts. Two Creeps rush at Flynt who uses his trumpet to send the first one flying. Neon and Reese use their weapons to freeze a second Paladin's legs in place. Weiss then arrives on the battlefield, and charges in but gets swatted aside by its arm.
Yatsuhashi tries to hold back a Paladin's fist with his sword, but he gets overpowered and knocked back. The Paladin then turns to and starts approaching a distracted Ren. However, everyone's attention is drawn to Lucina, who had been sent flying towards them before hitting the ground. Before anyone could check on her, a roar was heard.
They look and saw The Beast storming towards them, it even knocked a Paladin aside, before ripping through another. It seems The Beast didn't want anything getting in the way of it and it's prey. Coco and Neptune fire their weapons at the Beast, but it is unfazed. Nora turned her hammer in to it's grenade launcher form and fired in to the side of the Beast's face, but the best she managed to do was annoy it. The Beast raised on to it's hind legs before bringing them down, causing a shockwave, which sent everyone back.
Neptune groans "Uh, this is bad".
Coco looked at the beast, knowing it would kill them at this rate, she knew they had no other choice "Well, I guess now's a better time than any. Velvet!".
Velvet looked excited "Really?".
Coco smiled "Just make them count".
Velvet nods. As she walks up to the Beast, it growls at her, more than ready to consume her.
"What are you doing!? She's going to get hurt!" Weiss said in worry.
Coco smirked "Just watch".
Velvet holds her hand out as Anesidora glows, forming a scythe. Grabbing the copy of Crescent Rose Velvet leaps into the air, dodging swipe from the Beast as she imitates Ruby's overhead spin, she descends slashing at the Beast. She then replicates Myrtenaster to deflect the Beast's claw strike and land a few blows before pushing it back with an Ember Celica imitation, causing the beast to grow more and more frustrated. Once after she lands a few shots, she slides under the Beast's claws, similar to Blake as she uses a Gambol Shroud copy and uses its string to trip over the large grimm.
Before it can recover, it is immediately peppered with holographic bullets, thanks to a copy of Gianduja. As it gets up and moves forward, Velvet switches to using Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang to counter a blow, as she lands another few hits while landing a downward blow from above with a copy of Magnhild, causing the Beast's head to slam in to the ground.
As the Beast attempts to recover, Velvet immediately copies Floating Array, as she leaps and slices at its face before blasting it at full power, finally causing some damage. However, the Beast grew enraged and hits Velvet wit its tail, and she is sent skidding from the blow, landing on her back.
"Velvet!" Coco unloads her weapon on the Beast to no avail.
Neptune, Nadir, and Reese rush to her side and add their own firepower. In its injured state, the barrage is successful in pushing the Beast back. The Beast roars before unleashing a fire ball from it's mouth, causing everyone to be scattered by the resulting explosion.
Furious, Weiss immediately rushes in past the others, as she instinctively uses a summoning glyph, confusing her. When she gets in between the others and the Beast about to bring its claws down, she raises Myrtenaster defensively then closes her eyes and grits her teeth. A thud is heard as she looks up and discovers she summoned the arm and sword of the Arma Gigas she fought before, which blocks the Beast's claws and cuts the beast's front leg clean of, causing it to roar in agony.
Suddenly, Lucina showed up, having recovered from the blow sh received earlier, she was charging up her Semblance to it's full power. she let's out a loud battle cry as she dashed towards the beast... and slices its throat wide open. The Beast stumble back on its hind legs before falling in to one of the school building... and began dissolving...
The Beast was finally dead. Despite its relentlessness and terrifying power, it was ultimately overwhelmed by the combined fire power and team work of the brave students.
Lucina was catching her breath before she is surprised by a camera flash, taken by a smiling Velvet. But before they can take a breath, another advanced Paladin rushes in from the corner and begins to charge at them.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Sun said in disbelief.
Meanwhile, Lyre was sent flying in to a tree. She groans before quickly ducking under a punch from Lethe, and delivers her own punch to her twin's stomach, causing Lethe to slide back. Lethe rubbed her belly before glaring at Lyre.
"Why do you keep fighting for the humans!?" Lethe demanded.
"This isn't about the humans! I am trying to stop you and your new grimm friends from destroying my home!" Lyre shouted back.
"This isn't your home! Your home is with us! Your people!" Lethe argued as she attacked Lyre again.
Lyre blocked her blows the best she could "Look around you Lethe! How is this helping our people!?".
Lethe kicks her back "We taking something back! This school is a symbol of all the humans' lies! They welcome Faunus in so they can be tamed! So they can live up to human standards! To bring them down to their level! We are not animals that needs to be tamed! We are superior to humanity, so we should be the dominant species by right!".
Lyre quickly punches her in the face "Are you even listening to yourself?! All this was planned by humans! You are following a human's commands like a loyal pet! Beacon treats us all equally! You are just a slave!".
"SHUT UP!" Lethe screamed as she tackles Lyre down "Easy for you to talk like this! You left me! You left me all alone! I had to make a lot of difficult choices just to survive! All while you were living the good life in this damn school! You were all I had left, and you abandoned me!".
"Oh shut up!" Lyre shouted as she threw Lethe of her "I never wanted to leave you! But you didn't listen! You never listen! You are so stuck in the past that you are completely blind to the future! We could've had a better life, but you refuse to give it a chance!".
Lethe got up "Enough of your childish dreams! I am so sick of hearing you talk! JUST SHUT UP!".
Entering a feral rage, Lethe charged at Lyre, slamming in to her with enough force to break her aura... And in her berserker state she sunk her teeth in to Lyre's throat... Lethe leans back breathing hard, with blood covering her mouth... but as she calmed down a little, she noticed what she had done.
"Lyre...?" She spoke as Lyre was making gurgling sounds, blood coming out from her throat and mouth, making Lethe's eyes grow wide with horror "No! No no no no no NO! I didn't mean to! I didn't want to! NO!" She desperately tried to stop the bleeding "LYRE!".
In the Beacon courtyard, the students stand prepared to fight the Atlesian Paladin that is charging toward them. However, electricity arcs across it and it suddenly powers down, collapsing and sliding to a stop in front of them.
"Hm. That went better than expected" Sun said.
Lucina looked in to the distance, and noticed the command ship for all the robots had been destroyed, making her smile "You did it Ruby..."
Weiss doubles over, exhausted, leaning on Myrtenaster to keep herself standing.
"Weiss!" Yang and Bernadetta runs to Weiss "You're okay! Have you heard from Ruby?" Weiss shakes her head "What about Blake?".
"She went after an Alpha..." Weiss said as she points in the direction that Blake ran "And some members of the White Fang".
"You look for Ruby. I'll meet up with Blake. Bernie, stay with the others, it's safer here" Yang said.
"But Yang, I want to help you" Bernadetta argued
"You can help me by staying safe" Yang said before she hurries off in the direction that Weiss pointed.
Bernadetta watched her run away and had a conflicted look on her face.
Back in the Beacon dining hall, Severa was sent flying in to a pillar as Blake was on the ground, with Adam stalking towards her.
"This could've been our day! Can't you see that!?" Adam shouted.
"I never wanted this! I wanted equality! I wanted peace!" Blake raises her sword, its blade folding into sickle mode, and shoots at Adam, who blocks both bullets with his sword.
"What you want is impossible!" He sheathes his sword and backhands Blake across her face, knocking her over "But I understand because all I want is you, Blake" She begins to raise her sickle again, only for him to kick it out of her hand, knocking her over once again "And as I set out upon this world and deliver the justice mankind so greatly deserves, I will make it my mission to destroy everything you love".
Severa slowly gets up, holding her sword ready "Stay away from her you bastard!".
Adam looks at Severa before smiling at Blake "Starting with her".
Severa let out a battle cry before rushing at Adam. She swings her sword but he knocks it aside... then he swings his blade... and cuts Severa's right eye! She falls on the ground, screaming in pain, holding her now badly damaged eye, blood gushing from the wound.
"NO!" Blake screams as she charges who quickly turns around and stabs his sword into Blake's abdomen near her left hip, causing her to shriek in pain.
As Blake falls to the floor, Adam looks back at Severa who was reaching for her sword, despite her injury. He slams his foot in to her chest and raised his sword, ready to finish her.
But his attention is quickly drawn by a new voice "Get away from them!".
He looks and sees Yang. He then looks at Blake who was reaching out helplessly, whispering "No... please...".
Realizing Yang was another person Blake treasured, Adam steps of Severa and sheathes his sword, smiling. Yang screams, her eyes turning red and a burst of flame erupting from her. She leaps at Adam, drawing her fist back with tears in her eyes. Adam swiftly draws his sword, swinging it through the air at Yang, as his Semblance activates. As Yang flies through the air, the lower half of her right arm separates from her.
Yang flies through the air, beginning to lose consciousness, with glowing yellow Aura splattering out from her wound, with Severa's remaining eye growing wide with horror. Yang lands on the floor and lays there on her side, completely still. Adam slowly walks toward Yang's unconscious body and swings his sword out to the side, flicking her blood from its blade. Before he can reach her, Blake throws herself between them, giving him a determined glare.
Adam frowns "Why must you hurt me, Blake?".
Suddenly he deflects an arrow coming towards his head "STAY AWAY FROM THEM!".
"Bernie..." Severa whispered as she saw her small teammate leap in to the room.
Adam smirks "More friendly lambs to the slaughter".
"Get away from my friends!" Bernadetta demanded as she fired several arrows. Adam easily deflected them all as he slowly approached her.
"No..." Severa said as she desperately tried to get up and save her teammate.
Adam dashed forward, slicing clean through Bernadetta's bow... But to his surprise, she charged in to him, trying to tackle him down. He backed away from the push, but remained standing before delivering a back hand to Bernadetta's face, sending her across the floor.
But Bernadetta only glared at him and before he could do anything, Adam noticed that Bernadetta had stuck some fire dust crystals to him. He had no time to react before they exploded, engulfing him in fire.
"Bernie!" Blake called out as she picked up Yang.
Knowing what she meant, Bernadetta helped Severa up, who was holding her injured eye. Adam emerged from the fire, holding his side in pain and noticed the girls running away. He begins slowly walking after them, not even bothering to look at the Creep that attempts to ambush him as he cuts it down.
Meanwhile, everyone were getting ready to evacuate Beacon. However Lucina looked in to the sky and saw the Wyvern flying around. If left unchecked, it would be a threat to all of Vale. Lucina looked at Beacon's tower and looked at her blade... she got an insane idea, but it was the only one she had. And she had to try something.
With a determined look, she hurried towards the tower... ready to make what could be her final stand.
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Oh boy did I have a lot of stuff to write in this chapter... Please tell me what you think, and try being as detailed as you can, and let me know which moments really got you.
