Last chapter we saw that arthur watts was killed by a tiger. Now lets see a big twist i've been saving for this volume when i got to writing this belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. I own the OC's, AU. hope you enjoy
Chapter 57:Phase three
In atlas academy right now ironwood was busy escorting the students to remain indoors. With penelope assiting him in this. Along with other soldiers and teacher avaible but he was walking to his office receiving some reports from the group. On their success
"General we've capture kuchisake and we'll plan to bring her in"clover said on the other end
"Good where is everyone else?"ironwood asked
"Their all here were regrouping for a moment before we move in for more civvis"clover replied as he nodded reaching the hallway leading to his office as he sighed in relief
"Your all doing good work….walker hows the heating grid?"ironwood asked with yumi coming through
"We got it back up and running for you. Where gonna head back to the academy to help with clearing watts out of our system"yumi said as the general thought about the tiger for a minute then called her
"Nadia….what happened to watt?"ironwood asked as it was silent on comms for a moment till she spoke up
"I'll bring him to you so you can see him yourself"nadia said as he sighed about to speak. But as he got inside his office he noticed something that made him go wide eyed. He looked down to see a bone white chess piece of a queen on his desk. Along with a bag neatly left for him as he might need to call them back to the academy
Back down in mantle everyone regroup with each but right now rosemary was in a transport screaming in complete rage. As her voice was muffled on the other end but she kept banging on the other side to get free from her imprisonment right now. With rogue laughing at her right now
"Ha ha your going to jail along with mad scientist junior along with his dad"rogue said
"Yeah because man anyone exhausted right now?"merle questioned panting right now as his aura shattered early from all the fighting. Bonnet laughed tapping him on the shoulder
"Well soldier you might be the talk of the kingdom soon with you and yoru family. You guys can handle the rest with our guys right?"bonnet asked as pana nodded
"We can. Although if you need anything just call me just incase i'd stay away from my bar because it may be drawing more attention now"pana said walking off as she had a gut feeling something was going to happen. As she walked away soon enough penny communicator beeped
Penny answered it"penny where are you right now?"ironwood asked on the other end
"Umm i'm still in mantle and i…"penny was stopped
"Get to right now. I don't think their done just yet and i think their after her"ironwood said but some of the other heard that
"Wait what…oh no…no…no….penny i'm coming with you i need a manta along with a squad of your soldiers"summer siad
"I'll do you one better i'm coming with you."Artemis said as her and summer quickly boarded a manta with four of her spartans as penny ignited her jet boots speeding off to atlas command with summer right behind them. Nancy hummed for a moment as she stared at them
"I think i'm going with the prison transport if command is under attack she might want to head their to you know"nancy commented as her partner nodded in agreement
"Then i'm heading back to check on james…be safe out their kid alright"henry said as she nodded racing off to the manta carrying rosemary along with robyn joining with because she despise that brat for taking some of her workers and people. Once that was done clover communicator rang as he answered it
"Yes sir….i understand"clover replied as he faced them
"The general wants us back at the academy we have a problem"clover added which worried them
"Then lets get onto the nearest mantas and head back"cardin said as they all rushed off to get on the nearest manta. With qrow staring at robyn for a moment deciding to join her as well for this little mission of hers as something felt off right now.
They all quickly sped back to the academy on separate mantas as they all began to land exiting their craft. Waiting for them was asani and yumi along with another manta it seems as standing outside of it was jenkins along with sarah talking to each other with shocked looks
Miller noticed them"what are you two doing out here? Thought the general sent you out to keep an eye on that tiger chick for when she brings watts back"he asked as the two stared at them for a moment as she did bring him back
"Well uh….sir….she brought him back and well….we got a good look at him"jenkins replied as velvet scoffed
"Let me guess she messed him up and broke all his bones"Velvet said but she was wrong as stepping outside of the manta carrying something was nadia. That something was arthur watts dead cold and limp bodie all of them flinch at the sight of that as blood slowly dripped off his hands with the tiger having bloody hands
The tiger stared at them with a cold look as she stepped off the manta as all of them were silent. But zane looked shocked seeing him not even moving as she dropped the man onto the ground as he layed their on his back. Arthur face turned toward them but they all saw the bullet holes in his head
"Oh…oh what the…"marrow stopped gagging slightly but held it back. As ruby backed up scared seeing that look in her eyes because she seemed happy she killed him.
'You….you killed him"ruby said as the tiger growled
"So what? Because that bastard deserved it after he kidnapped and toruted people for a while decade. Do you really think that i'll let some piece of scum like him live and breath."nadia replied before kicking him hard in the side as he didn't react except his body was nudged as she laughed
"Did the same thing i did to those dam slavers that burned all those bodies. Aint smiling now are yeah watts"she added with a grin
All of them where silence right now but for zane he stared at the cold lifeless body on the ground of the man that tortured him. Made him go through sick expeirments for a whole year straight forced him to fall under his command. Forced him to start the biggest tradgey with his bastard child now being locked up
He stood their silent for a moment before walking over drawing his revolver shooting him in the chest. This startled them as he stared at the body not even moving before he started to shake for a moment. Then he growled tearing away miller assault rifle beginning to dump an entire mag into his bodie which starteld them
"Holy shit!"bonnet said as he kept shooting into him making the man bodie bounce up and down from the gun fire. But mariana walked over tearing the assault rifle from his hands before smacking him upside the head as he had tears streaming down his face
Instead of scolding him she pulled him into an embrace placing a hand on the back of his head gently rubbing it.
"Calm down kiddio….he aint gonna hurt you….don't think about it….just be glad that deranged madman is dead"mariana shsuhed as he began to quietly cry that the man who made him suffer was dead. Slowly she handed him off to hairett who walked ahead of them
"Alright…that was messed up"vesa commented
"Kid if you where in his boots you'd do the same dam thing….though the general gonna tear you a new one"miller siad but the tiger spit on watts face again
"I don't care…although…"she paused before eyeing rogue who stared at her flinching as the tiger wanted to do something
"Burn his dam bodie…i aint having him come back as a grimm knight so he can continue torturing everyone"nadia ordered but actually she threatened her to do it
"I…i…i don't want to i…"Rogue was stopped as mariana sighed before grabbing a fire dust shard from he pouch. She placed it ontop of his bodie before pulling out a sidearm firing it into the shard shattering it. Which started a chain reaction on arthur bodie as it began to burn with nearby soldiers trying to put him out but she stopped them
"Let him burn to ash and bone….thats for my wife you deranged mad scientist"maraina said as they stayed silent processing this right now before pyrrha broke the silence
"I…i think we'll go find oscar in the academy and check on him. Along with that could some of you check on the general and whats going on."pyrrha asked as they nodded
"We will….good luck up their because oh boy hes going to be quite pissed"cardin said as walking with the ace ops was team RWBY, ZERO and nadia to explain to the general what happened. With the rest of them walking back into the academy to check and look for oscar right now
But watching from a distance was bonnie who stared at a spartan soldier before they pressed their earpiece on their ear
"Shes at the command center…go get the winter maiden i'll grab the fall maiden. For our queen"A male voice said as she smiled dashing off to the command center. But close by watching the academy grounds was javi alongside dorian with a squad of talon soldiers as they where going into phase 3 for their plan right now.
Once they got inside the academy they took the elevator to ironwoods office. But as they stepped inside the office he was in the middle of panicking right now. As paper were all over the place with their being a shattered mug on the ground as he held his head in worry as he sat at the table.
"General what the…what happened in here?"clover aksed concerned as he looked up at them sighing heavily rubbing his face
"Yeah its a mess…what happened did something happen to the council or miyuki?"eria asked concerned as he sighed before placing the chess piece into view right now
"I think we have a problem right now"ironwood said as they stared at it
"Okay its a chess piece so what?"marrow asked as walking in was hairett making zane sit down. As the general stared at nadia who shot a glare at him
"What?"she asked as he sighed
"Did you kill arthur"ironwood asked as they stayed silent for a moment before the tiger laughed
"I did…that psycho would have killed me because i had a choice either i kill him or he lives to torutre more people. What you gonna be mad at me"nadia smugly said as the general growled walking over pointing a finger in her face
"You might have ruined everything with your petty revenge….i found this in my office. The only people who have access to this are the teachers or the ace ops. Along with some of you so who did it…who put that in my office"ironwood asked as he pointed at the bag in the room which confused them for a moment right now
"Uhhh general lets sit down and take a deep breath alright. "Clover said placing a hand on him making him flinch. As the general looked like he was panicking right as he held his head with worry
"What if this was her plan..to get everyone in mantle on atlas…to…to make us all be in one place. What if…"he was stopped
"General! Panicking like this won't help anyone!"ruby shouted getting them all to be quiet as the young teen stepped forward with a determined look
"Look i get that your stressed i would be too right now. But right now we need calm down and think rational. Letting out emotions control us will just make her have an easier time manipualtating us. Your playing right into her hands right now…'ruby paused before placing a hand on his forearm dragging him over to his desk as she made him sit down at his desk as he stared at her
Ruby silver eyes gleaned in the light still in the room"We let her diminish our hope then were going to lose. Don't forget we can win this we found out how to kill her. We can still go through the plan we talked over…please this is apart of their plan"she said
The general stayed silent for a moment as he listen to a young girl voice right now. As they sat their in silence for a moment the general let out a long sigh before rubbing his face shaking his head
"Your…right i assume this stress is getting to me. Look we can try and send a small party to havan and menagerie like we discuss."ironwood said as they were relieved to see this side of him
"Good now lets go check on the others and mi–"marrow stopped mid sentence as the bag beside the desk started to move which got their attention. All of them drew their weapons out as they pointed it at the bag with a concerned look
"General…whats in the bag?"Weiss asked
"I don't know i didn't check it…i assume a bomb but…"he drew a revovler pointing at it before suddenly red tentacles spring forth from the bag. This stalrted them as suddenly the bag was torn open as inside the bag was none other than a seer as they all got ready to attack right now. As they did a voice came through on the other end
"General ironwood" a sinister but dark voice came through the seer but they knew who it was. Salem
As slowly the seer tentacle stnese up and curl up trembling in pain it seems. Before it emitted a high pitched screen as its head started to crack as they all winced from that. But zane backed up in fear hearing her voice again as he slowly took small rapid breaths as he was starting to remember what she looked like.
The seer then withdrew its tentacles against itself then turns over dropping to the ground. With the red smoke inside of if fades away as it bounced onto the ground cracking rolling infront of all of them. Then slowly black smoke swirled into the air and form as apparition of salem making them all tremble at the sheer sight of her
As she stared at them she spoke"the brave huntsman and huntresses that bested arthur watts…more like killed him. Congratulations"salem said in a mocking voice as blake eyes floop over with onxyia shivering at the sheer sight of her hiding behind rogue for protection as the blonde froze up at the sheer sight of her. But ruby showed no fear as zane was trying to keep a composed looks
"Are you here to try and scare us…because we beat rosemary….we can beat bonnie."ruby said staring at her as zane slowly exhaled before the parasite took control which salem noticed
"So…you have taken over your host. Yet you still refuse to follow my will why is that?"Salem asked directly to bane who stared at her laughing
"Ohhh honey….i aint one of your grimm i'm someone else. My host and i are against you for the rest of your little war"bane said with a grin as she scoffed pacin around the room right now examining her hands
"You think this was for victory no this is one of many phases we established for the main event"salem said startling them right now as they stared at her wondering what she meant by that
"What are you talking about?"ironwood asked before she turned to face him as he flinched seeing the sight of her. Then she smiled at him like a mother
"For me…time isn't on your side general. But its always been on mine"salem said approaching him as he backed up slightly as she continued
"The people of atlas and mantle have suffered enough. Surrender the staff and the lamp to me. Bring me omega and you don't need to suffer anymore"salem offered him a deal of the life time. As ironwood stared at her right now thinking about this so called deal
Then he stared at the other filled with fear but saw ruby eyes filled with determination. But as he stood their silent for a moment instead he slightly laughed at her. Which seemed to irritate the women immneously right now
"Whats so funny general?"Salem asked as he feinged smiled slowly disappeared before zane started to laugh right now realziing why he was laughing right now as he sighed holding his head
"Oh hes laughing because…oh oh your asking for me…because…becausse your scared of my family. Whats inside my body my blood"zane said making her stare at him before ever so slightly she flinched which ruby noticed as she smiled at her for a moment stepping forward
"The lamp showed us who you truly are salem…a girl who used to be in a tower. But turned bitter when her love died due to diease. It showed us who ozpin was along with that who the gods are"ruby started as she turned to face face the two as she drifted across the floor toward them with the hybrid smiling
"Your scared of my family…your scared because we have the one way to kill you…truly kill you. You always wanted that right just let me find the spring of the goddess tears then i can stab you right in the heart. You bitter old hag"zane said with a grin
As they stayed silent for a moment salem stayed silent herself staring at the kin of lucifer graves right now. While she did she slowly started to crack a small smile as she laughed slightly saying something
"Your ancestors have told me those same words over and over again dozens of time. Lucifer said the extract same words you just said"salem said startling him as he started to lose confident in himself
Before suddenly an image flashed in his mind of his time in the labs. It kept flashing as it showed him enduring torutre everyday by the other knights of grimm. But it also showed him meeting her for the first time as he began to slowly breath as he began to slowly shake right now swallowing
"I…i…s-shut up…just shut up…your not my mom…your not my mom you psycho"zane said seeming out of it right now to their confusion. As he kept having flashs happen in his mind of what happened to him back in the lab. Then a flash of his own parents happen with hel and azaril staring at them. But lighting struck them as suddenly the scene shifted
It showed the two dead on the ground along with several others on the ground bearing suits of armor. But front and center on a gravestone that had an angel on it was lucifer graves dead in his suit of armor. While he looked up at him with blood running down his helmet staining his pristine white armor
Soon enough he began to cry as he held his head in pain getting several memory flashes of her. He cover his face as he began to frantically wipe the tears away. But several scared hisses could be heard from his back as he whimpered before he dropped to his knees sobbing and whimpering with his hands on his head
With nadia rushing to his side as she held him close like a mother. But watching this right now was salem who smiled at that before staring at ruby making her flinch right now. As yang walked over shielding her as the witch just laughed slightly at her
"So you are her spawn….i'll do what i did to wu yo you….i'll make you kill all your friends…and family. Your mother was weak despite being fabled as the strongest in all of remnant. You are nothing"salem said as this scared ruby right now
As she began to shake before dropping to her knees in complet fear right now with tears slowly escaping her eyes. Weiss rushed to her leader aid holding her close as she could feel her shaking right now. Though soon enought he smokey apparition slowly faded away as she said one last thing
"You will all die"salem said her voice echoed in their minds right now. With zane starting to have a mini panic attack clutching his chest in slight pain as marrow sighed kneeling down infront of him freaked out but clamed down
"Kid…kid look at me and calm down take some deep breaths. Okay like we prarice"marrow said as he slowly breathed in then out gesturing for him to copy him. He did a few times calming down still leaning into his mother shaking still on who he just saw
Ironwood stood their completely stunned right now as he slwoly exhaled rubbing his face. But thought of something if she was coming they would have known by now
"If she is here…then our sensors would have picked her up. Ebi are they online?"irownood asked with clover pulling his scroll out going wide eyed seeing the board showing them on the red which meant they were off
"Someone…someone shut off the sensors….but wait a minute….some of them are missing"clover said confusing them
"What do you mean by missing?"blake qeustioned
"I think someone took them….sir the convoy that was attacked recently had a bomb strapped underneath it. We might have a spy the only ones who are stationed out their are soldiers along with the sparatans."hairett said as the general went wide eyed sighing
"Dammit…okay…okay we need to continue the evacuation of mantle and atlas. Amity arena is ready to be launch and we can place some people on the amity. We need to evacuate the rest of mantle and–"ironwood was stopped by something
As suddenly he was grabbed by someone as they all looked as someone appeared in the room. Slowly they fliked into existence which was lamia catching them offguard right now as they aimed her weapons at her as she placed a kunai near the general throat.
"Who the hell are you?nadia questioned pointing her revolver at her as painful feeling went off in zane head as a tube showing a women named lamia with the words psi on it. As he went wide eyed meeting the last of the original knights of grimm
"L-lamia…your the last one…your the only one i couldn't remember"he said standing up drawing his katana with shaky hands. As she hummed sighing
"So the traditor does remember me….no matter because you all will be useful as puppets"lamia siad
"The hell that suppose to mean we got you outnumbered freak"elm said but suddenly from behind she felt something prick her in the neck as she grunted in pain. Though onxyia ears flicked before looking over at something that being a shimmer as they were going for hairett right now
"Watch out!"she shotued as she tackled hariett out of the way as she landed on the ground. Before the shimmer stumbled as they revealed themselves to be a talon oeperative with cloaking tech to their shock their inside the school
As suddenly before marrow, vine and clover knew it they had something driven into their necks as well as they cried in pain. All of them fell to their knees with five talon operatives appearing in the room as they all backed up near the door right now
Hariett clenched her fist"What did you do to them!?"hairett cried as lamia laughed at her for a moment before revealing something that being a larva like parasite that screeched in her grsp
"My semblance…..shamefully i only can control up to six. I planned to kill one of you ace ops but a general will do for our plans"lamia said before suddenly the larva startled to crawl onto the general face. Then it started to force its way into his mouth as he tried to stop it by biting it
But his throat began to bulge as the larvae got inside of him as he stood their completely stunned. The same thing happened to the rest of the ace ops with elm squeezing her throat to stop it as vine almost had it but it was too late. With marrow pacing around clutching his throat in fear as clover despite his luck we was unlucky this time around
Zane went wide eyed shaking"no…no…no…what are you doing to them?!"he shotued with tears forming. Before suddenly the general started to laugh at them startling them as they began to back up right now.
"General i-ronwood?"eria asked scared now drawing her bat at the ready. As they all stared at him before he looked up but his face was different. Because around his eyes where strange purple veins with his eyes turning black scalea along with having deep purple eyes
"I've never been better…i'm going to serve our new queen now. Salem"ironwoo said as it sounded force with them caught offuard by that. With clover, elm, marrow and vine having the same eyes as him as they were under the grimm knight control.
This was her semblance, she can control those with parasites. Her grimm abilities have enhanced them to be able to take over more host than one as she smiled at them under her mask
"Now….if you'll excuse me i need to go take a relic."lamia said before placing a hand ironwood before suddenly she turned intangible. Along with him as the two of them went through the floor of the room as they all backed up trapped in the room with the remaining four ace ops with clover drawing his sword ready to attack them as hairett looked scared
"Clove…clove on man its me bree….don't do this….please don't do this"hairett begged as he stared at her
"Hes not here anymore….you will be brought to our queen on your hands and knees"Clover said in a distorted voice as he raised his lure to capture them but yang punched him in the stomach sending him back as he stumbled slightly with ruby quickly grabbing her scroll
"Everyone the ace ops and ironwood are under mind control! Their going for the relic and the maiden! Salem is coming hurry and stop them from taking the relic! Save m–"ruby was stopped as vine used his aura hands launching them foreward pinning her to the wall along with weiss as she dropped her scroll.
"No!"rogue shotued before riaisng her axe up slicing at his aura hand causing them to frizzle out. As close by hariett eyed the artifact needed for the vault before speeding over snatching it up backing up before they all exited his office quickly getting into the hallway with the group pursuing them right now slowly as the parasites inside them were slowly taking control
"Guys…guys whats the plan right now?"yang questioned
"I..i don't know i…what do we do?"onxyia asked as they thought for a moment before zane narrowed his gaze staring at his sword then at some of them before deciding something
"Ruby can you and your team secure the others along with transport."zane asked as she shared a look with him nodding
"We can….you know how to beat them?"she asked as he nodded then stared at hariett as the two argue alot in the past but silently they agreed on something
"We;ll grab the others along with heading off to grab miyuki. They can't open the vault without this little key"hariett said as elm growled at her lunging to try and grab her. But eria swung her bat into her launching her into a wall hard as she snarled at her
Eria stepped forward riaisng her bat up at the ready
"Were not going to let you take the artifact….you guys go ahead we can hold them off. We have someone that knows how to beat them"eria said with her sister joining her side as ember appeared out of the gem laughing
"Shes right….because their are alot of ways to get rid of parasite. Burn them out"ember said snapping her fingers as onxyia drew her glaive before sharing a look with blake nodding to her
"Go ahead we can handle this"onxyia said as blake nodded
"You all better come out of this alive right now"blake said as they rushed to the elevator to escape with nadia staying behind as she drew both her guanlents without their claws
"I aint letting you have to beat up the guys that showed my kids kindess. Lets knock some sense into them"nadia said panting slightly tired but didn't care as they all prepared themselves to fight off these mind controlled soldiers
Early in the cafeteria close to the dorms right now most of the group were down their waiting on the others. With jaune staring at his scroll over and over again seeing no text from oscar. As with him was velvet, razma, neon, flynt, kobalt, cardin, yumi, nora,lazuli, persia. Along with some of the spartans being bonnet, miller, baker, merle, sarah along with jules. As all of them were fisnihed organizing the students with some of the others looking for any sign of oscar.
"Okay this is weird….where the heck is everyone"flynt questioned
"Yeah i mean we would have found oscar sooner rather than running around this entire place"nora replied confused
Jaune stared at his scroll seeing no one has even texted him right now which he found strange
"Yeah i also sent everyone into groups even with some of your soldiers. What happened to them?"he asked as miller shrugged his shoulder
"Maybe a bad connection because this is weird…i mean…this shouldn't be happening right now i'm pretty sure"miller replied as they all stayed silent for a moment before suddenly some of their scrolls buzzed
Before immediately alot of them got the same frantic call from ruby from early but when they heard the word mind control they all went wide eyed in shock
"Wait what!?"yumi shouted in shock right now
"Wait….wait are we hearing things or did they just say the headmaster is under mind control"neon asked but bonnet looked scared on who else is under mind control right now
"Wait…they said ace ops….oh shit…shit were screwed if their under control their the best of the best. My…my girlfriend…oh no…no…no"bonnet siad clutching her head as jules placed a hand on her shoulder
"Hare calm down the sooner we figure out to help hare and the others we can get through this."jules said as it seemed to calm the monkey faunus with miller sighing rubbing his forehead
"Alright…alright i'm warning artemis along with the other council members i…"miller was stopped before gunfire and the sound of screaming could be heard from down the hallway where the dorms where which startled them hearing that as they all drew their weapons hearing that as they stared at the hallway right now in complete fear
"Guys….are we hearing things or are people screaming down their?"persia asked shaking right now
"I don't know…but…i need to call my cousin tell her to move everyone to somewhere safe. If we need to go against a military our forces should be enough to stop whoever controlling the general"merle said but suddenly the primmering of a hammer could be heard as someone spoke up
"That won't be happening you gravekeeper fltih"baker said as before merle could react a gunshot went off as it echoed in the room catching them offguard. As they all looked over with time slowing down as slowly merle fell to the ground as his body bounced up and down as he took his last breath going teary eyed seeing the person who shot him
His own comrade in arms that being baker as the man fell down dead to the ground as they all were caught offguard by that as sarah visible backed upt hat he did that
"B-baker..what the hell man!?"sarah shouted but he pointed his pistol at them staring them down as he began to back up approaching the door.
"Oh you pieces of filth have been so annoying since i joined this dam army"baker said sounding different making miller growl as he pointed his assault rifle at him with a narrow gaze right now
"Baker…what the hell are you doing right now man…you…"miller paused going wide eyed as lazuli stared at him drawing her sword knowing what this was now
"Hes a spy! Hes the psycho that attached bombs to the convoys…hes working with salem!"lazuli shouted as baker laughed at her before kobalt stepped forward to try and jump him. But immediately baker was quicker on the draw pointing his pistol at him quickly shooting him straight in the chest. Kobalt gasped as he stood their frozen right now
The student slowly reached toward his chest before staring at his two teammates who went wide eyed. As he grunted slowly before falling down to the ground dead as neon went wide eyed beofre shaking as her legs gave out underneath her beginning to cry as she crawled over shaking his bodie several times with tears forming
"no…no..no…please wake up….please your just sleeping…please"neon begged through the tears as flynt visible backed up in shock
Then the doors to the room opened as stepping in where talon soldiers in trench coats to protec themselves from the cold as baker smiled ripping off his sparatna patch. As one of the talon walked over calling him something
"Captain…what shall we do with these vermin?"the talon operative asked as baker was a captain of the talon forces that being the cover ops unit as him and yohi where in charge of the claw. As he laughed before a soldier gave him a sword as he smiled
"Excute all of them…says our queen salem"baker said as they all got prepared for a brawl right now against this traditor
Elsehwere in the kigndom right now more importantly where summer was. She was just landing with artemis along with her soilders right. As they got off artemis placed a figner on her ear pieces to talk to the command
"Command do you read….whats the situation?"artemis asked but on her comms she got nothing but static. As with her right now was rico along with paddy as the two of them looked at each other confused testing their comms
"Command do you…gah!"paddy said as his comms short cirutied as he yanked it out of his ear tossing it to the ground.
"What the hell….my comm just shocked me?"paddy asked as the others tried with another one of them being ramierez as he tore his out
"Comms are out cap…someone must have bugged them"ramierz suggested before artemis scroll buzzed. She pulled it out before going wide eyed seeing a wanted list being displayed that showed team RWBY, ZERO, JNPR, summer rose, qrow branwhen, robyn hill, nadia walker and the test of them. As she saw the words"Excute on sight for treason"she read that last part aloud
All of them looked at each other confused right now with summer staring at them getting ready to fight. But just in tiem her scroll came to life with the message her daughter sent going through
"Everyone the ace ops and ironwood are under mind control! Their going for the relic and the maiden! Salem is coming hurry and stop them from taking the relic! Save m–"ruby was stopped mid sentence making summer go wide eyed hearing that
"Oh no…no…no…no not my daughter i…i…"She was stopped before a hand was placed on her which was artemis who looked at her shocked before doing something as she stared at her soldiers
"I want all spartans to evacuate from their bunks and grab what they can. I want them on the ground in mantle now to regroup. Because it seems that our army may be tainted"artemis said as they all nodded not even questioning her orders
"Yes ma'am"all said in unison before staring at summer with a serious look in her eyes
"Summer we need to grab and regroup with pana down in mantle. It seems that our own military might be against us can i trust you to help me"artemis asked as the women stared at her for a moment before nodding to her
"Of course….i hope qrow is okay wherever he is right now"summer said as they all made their way inside the facility right now. But already inside their before them was bonnie with some talon forces already inside as she smiled knowing where her goal is right now.
This is the big twist mind controlling bugs! Okay it might sound wierd but you have to admit what makes more sense for ironwoods little villians. Oh i'm stressed and let me be dumb...no i wanted to have a believable answer for why he turned evil. If you like the big change that "actually makes sense" let me know. Thanks for reading i'm about to do maybe two or three more chapters. Then its volume 8