RWBY: Bonds Between Hearts
Chapter 43: Time to say Goodbye
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Cody sat on the chair as he rested a hand on Lily's forehead. With the plan starting in a few hours, the others had to make preparations so he was the only one here with the unconscious saint. "It… won't be easy when we get to Atlas sis. Without you… not sure how I can kill that bastard Evol." He murmured. "From everyone, you have been the only soul so smart, so tactical in creating the one thing that could counter him. I would have used it but…" He grimaced.
Unlike the Great Cross Bottle, the large Full Bottle was made through reverse engineering of Pandora's Box. No one had ever done that. Until Lily had. Saint Rogue Bottle was connected to her Hazard Level unlike him thus there was no way to use it.
His eyes looked up to the two large swords that rest in a cross manner against the wall. "Be it Lily… or whoever because of the memories you have of Vernage… you are still my sworn sister." He reached to his side and tied a black ribbon on her wrist in a bow. "Time to say goodbye… and just remember sis, we all believe in you." His scroll rang, making him reach into his pocket. "Yang?"
"We gotta go now. Meet us by the cliffside just outside of the Argus." His girlfriend informed.
"Got it." He hung up. The dragon rider pushed himself off the chair and walked to the exit of the room. He paused his steps and looked over his shoulder. His eyes looked at the sky from the window. With his last glance, he exited but did not notice the glimmer of light brushed across the two large swords.
XXX
Cody joined Ruby who was in the midst of packing for their upcoming trip to Atlas. The girl stared at her weapon before she (forcefully) placed it on the back of her waist. He briefly heard her hiss in frustration but dimmed her emotions. "Packed and ready, Ruby?"
"Yeah… yeah I am… Weiss already gone ahead so the rest of us can get to the destination I suggested." Ruby answered.
"Hey…" He placed his hand on her as he gave a friendly smile to cheer her up, "If there's anything I can do… Just say so. Because, I honestly am very proud with what you've become since we met at Beacon."
"Yeah because of what happened to Weiss." Cody flinched. "… but thanks… let's get going." She walked around the blonde.
With everyone gathered, Ruby looked at Blake. "Blake you know what to do right?"
"To make sure the relay tower is temporarily offline so that we won't be detected." Blake stated.
"Can't believe we are doing this," Qrow sighed. "Your dad would be pissed if he ever hears this."
"How is it any different from what you've done?" Yang pointed out.
Qrow opened his mouth but closed it. "Fair."
"We have our tasks, let's not mess this up. And that means not getting our minds in a mess. Let's do this guys."
"I'm ready to piss off some Atlas stuck ups." Cody smirked, with a crack of his knuckles.
Now set they made their way to the forest as Ruby remained fixated on her Scroll. She tapped the earpiece in her ear. "Weiss? Did you and Ms. Calavera obtain the Manta airship?"
"We just got in. How is it on your guy's end?"
"On our way to the destination. Yang is in the middle of dropping off Blake not too far off from the relay tower."
"Alright, we'll start heading out and turn after a bit. Let's hope this works and they don't see through it…" Weiss grimaced.
"Don't jinx it. Er, well aside from Mr. Qrow's Semblance here being a possible candidate." Cody jabbed his thumb at the man in question.
"Hey!"
"Just saying-oof!" The blonde tripped on a branch. "Okay that was karma for me."
"My Semblance, kid." Qrow smirked.
Raising his head up, the former experiment blew air to rid some of the blades of grass from his hair and face. Cody brushed the dirt off his clothes and resumed his following as Ruby checked her Scroll again.
"Heading to the relay tower on foot now, it won't be long," reported Blake as her voice reached through the earpiece Ruby wore.
"Just be careful and don't do anything unnecessary, Blake." Cody chimed in.
"Starting to sound like Yang."
"Meh. Not equal to it." The two were sure Yang shrugged.
"Har har."
Ruby's fixated gaze on the Scroll witnessed the bars of the signal for Weiss dwindle until it was no more. "Alright guys, this is it. Blake you're up." There was no response from the cat faunus anymore. "Blake?"
"Yang? What's going on?"
"I don't know, I'll go check it out."
"No you…" Ruby chewed her lip. She paused and noticed the airship heading towards them. Although it seemed to be going faster than normal. "Weiss… please tell me you and Ms. Calavera don't have any fighters going after you."
"No."
"WE HAVE A BLOODY MECH AFTER US!" Maria yelled.
"Wait, did Ms. Calavera say… a mech?" Cody inquired.
Soon the earth shook as it made everyone try to stay stable as from the hillside came what Maria just said, a giant mech as it began to approach the airship through the water.
"Oh. That's a big machine…" He was sure Evol would have had a few ideas if that bastard ever chose to make such a thing. He shuddered at the thought.
"Damn it. I hate it when this happens." Qrow grunted. They saw the airship evade the mech's arm cannonfire.
"We have to fight it." Ruby decided. "Yang I need you back here! We need all the help we can get to fight a colossal machine!"
"I'm not going to leave Blake out there alone!"
"Just do it, Yang!" yelled Ruby. "If you want us to lose our only shot to Atlas then it's on you!"
"Ruby, its okay. She can go after Blake, I can help out more than enough." Cody said, holding up the Magma Knuckle.
"It's getting closer!"
As Cody initiated his transformation, the airship Maria and Weiss were immediately turned around and popped open a missile that was launched. Alas the colossal machine unleashed a few towards it, outnumbering the artillery.
"Bloody hell!" Maria gripped the controls to move. Weiss's eyes widened in horror to see the incoming projectiles until two trees that looked to be ripped off their roots flew in between, exploding into splinters of wood.
"Cody?" Jaune looked at the blonde.
"Th-That wasn't me!" He saw another tree fly and hit the mecha, making Cordovin within it see it nearly impale the glass covering.
"Who did that?!"
Cody looked behind him and gasped. Cutting down another tree was Cerberus whereas Cyclops gripped it and threw it like a javelin. He beamed joyfully upon the two familiar silver machines.
"Cyclops! Cerberus! How did you guys get here?"
[Master's command. To assist in the mission.]
"Command? W-Wait… s-sis is… awake? Like, not in a coma for the past day?" Cody questioned with shock.
[Speak to her when she arrives after her other mission.]
"Other mission?"
[Divine Judgement.]
"Against what? Evol?" Ruby questioned.
[Negative. All answers will be after completing the current mission. We are under your temporary command.]
"Well Ruby? Give them orders, this is mostly your plan." Cody turned to the young huntress.
Ruby looked at the two then at the giant mech. "We need to disable that colossal." She informed, looming up at the Arma Gigas-sized machine. "If she first made you to be the best machine then show it. Help Weiss and Maria in the air but draw it to us."
Cyclops stared down at her. Ruby still doesn't see good contact with his master. Nevertheless it was an order by the girl. [Command confirmed.] Its back churned before its singular gravitational system appeared and allowed it to hover.
Cody smiled from seeing this but his attention did somewhat turn to where Blake was. His ears picked up the sound of an engine and caught sight of his girlfriend. "Yang! I thought you were going to help Blake!?"
"I was but she told me to drop her off wherever Blake was."
"… sis." He finally realized.
"Yup, and she even gave this back as an apology for her drones." Yang smirked, flexing her new robotic prosthetic before taking a shot at the mecha. She shook her arm, hissing to the searing heat "Okay I should have asked her to add a coolant in this for that function. Ouch."
"Heh, well then lets rock!"
XXX
Blake ran behind cover due to the gunshot she heard earlier. She lost her Scroll during the rush but when she looked next to her, she reeled back in horror to notice a motionless Atlas guard.
When the next gunshot rang out, the Faunus was forced to take cover again. Looking below her, her eyes widened to who she saw.
"It's nice to finally have time to ourselves. Don't you think?"
It was Adam. However, he no longer wore the Grimm mask but black cloth was over his eyes alongside the cybernetics he was given to upon his recovery after the fight against Cody.
"Leave me alone!" She demanded and fired back at the redhead. However the Bull Faunus blocked the attack and absorbed the bullets with his sword.
"But I've waited so long for you to be away from them." He sneered.
Blake grimaced and used the nearby cable to zipwire herself down. Alas, it gave Adam the opportunity to cut it with his Semblance, forcing the raven-haired Huntress to land on the platform he's on and stop his crimson sword.
"Why did you have to come to my life and ruin everything?!"
"You stalked me across Anima! I don't want anything to do with you!"
They broke the clash and Adam proceeded forward with his blade. Their weapons crashed against each other but Blake had to avoid a few of his strikes.
"Oh, but that's where you're wrong, Blake. This has everything to do with you and that scum of a human you're with." He hissed with venom in his voice.
The feminine Faunus rolled aside but Taurus grabbed her by the throat and pushed her against the railing. Blake winced but slammed her boot against his foot yet the momentum caused them both to fall over, through a few tree branches and onto the ground below.
Blake coughed to breath and said, "Let go of the past Adam! Do it yourself."
"Just forget it all?" He repeated angrily. "Is that what you did to me?! You just threw our memories away!"
"Adam!"
"I let you go once already, Blake. I'm never making that mistake again." He gripped the blindfold and removed it, revealing his azure eyes but she saw the familiar burn mark she had seen a few times in the past. The SDC letters seen on the mark. Alas parts of his face was still burnt as well, the same burns Cody gave him during the fall of Beacon. With his recovery, his skin was healed but mot entirely. "People hurt me long before we met... All sorts of people in all sorts of ways..." Blake looked away sadly upon hearing that. "but no one hurt me quite like you... You didn't leave scars, you just left me alone. So... tell me, Blake... how does it feel to be alone?" Adam raised his sword and elicited out a loud yell in fury as he thrust the weapon to her.
Her ears flickered and a sword that was as tall as Adam slammed into the earth between him and Blake. Adam saw the lion's face on the tip of the sword that cracked the earth it dug into.
Adam narrowed his eyes before his instincts felt a cold chill. Looking up, he saw a girl in a gray blazer jacket and skirt hover down and land on her feet, carrying a katana of the same size as the embedded black sword. Glowing emerald eyes glaring at Adam.
"L-Lily…" Blake gasped with relief.
"Another human you draw in, Blake? Is she going to have to lose a limb like that blondie who protected you last time?"
An arc of power ripped across the air, leaving a gash on his shoulder but also a brief opening of the ocean floor in the water behind him.
Lily had her Virtuous Steel pointed at him, showing how fast she swung it. "I'm not like him, Taurus."
"Che, as if it matters. He'll be next after I kill you two and that lover he's with."
"You only made a flaw."
"What flaw is that?" Adam questioned but his eyes widened to the glow around the girl. Blades appearing around them while a metal claw hovered to the Lionheart and held it, hovering by Lily. The woman raised a device and moved it close to her lips. "Remember this voice?" A distorted male voice echoed from the old modulator she used.
"Y-You… Rogue."
Lily crushed the modulator into pieces. "No more. I am the Saint of Eden. You, Adam Taurus, are hereby sentenced to death."
"Heh… not the first one to say that to me… I'll make it out as usual… With bodies underneath my boot." Adam stated sheathing his sword, ready to strike.
Lily took a step and vanished. Adam staggered and felt a knee to his stomach, his Aura fluctuating and crashed into the rocky wall. The girl landed on her feet, brushing her free hand against her moonlight white hair. "You were saying, Taurus?" She glanced at Blake, sending a small wink. "Allow me to deliver his punishment, my shadow."
"Lily…" Blake said before she stood up only to gently hold Lily's hand, "Together… we will. No longer separate."
"Hiding behind another human again, Blake? You've grown weak by relying on the help of another."
"Weak?" Lily droned. "You speak baseless words from your burnt lips. Cowardice is you, Taurus. When humanity stands united, hand-in-hand, they are strong. You? All you do is bloody your hands with an ill mind and an ill heart."
"I AM MAKING THEM PAY FOR WHAT THEY DID TO ME!" Adam hissed in utter spite and rage.
"You judge all when it should be one. Pitiful."
"And how was that any different from you blaming that boytoy you call a friend?"
"Excuse me?" The Saint narrowed her eyes.
"If it wasn't for him? You probably would be in a better condition. Though, that's not saying much due to how many you killed either out of your own spite or hate for others…" Adam grinned, using his mind games and sly words once more.
"…" The Saint stared.
"Face it…. You should've killed him. At least he wouldn't see how pathetic you are now."
Blake looked at Lily worriedly but the woman simply… laughed. The saint laughed until she calmed down. "Me? Pathetic? You want to know something Adam Taurus?" She tapped herself. "You are not the one who can defeat a powerful cosmic lifeform."
Adam growled.
"The odds right now? Your experience in actual war is lacking." She mocked.
"As if that matters to a corpse…" Adam said, as his body began to glow red… a familiar red glow, that is.
"Blake… stall him, now."
"Of course…" Blake nodded before she charged in to fight and stall Adam. The two clashing blades and blows as Adam was adamant on breaking through Blake's guard as his anger and hatred was front in center. His howls of spite and his vile attacks reminding Blake of all of the times she had to look away. But this time she won't do such a thing as she's fighting alongside someone she truly believes in and loves.
Lily raised her Saint Driver and placed it onto her waist. With the Bottle in hand, she quickly twisted the cap.
GREAT! IWAE~!
The former agent of Faust slowly raised the new Fullbottle before slamming it into the buckle.
SAINT!
A sudden meadow magically appeared around everyone, witnessing the glowing white moonflowers bloom with its radiance. Pearl white platform rose beneath Lily, elevating her as she cranked the knob.
HAE! HAERU~! HAE! HAERU~!
Metallic segments appeared around her, each one blooming a Moonflower.
ARE YOU READY?!
"Henshin!"
A silver symbol that is best described as three swords connected to half a chakram with five spikes appeared before slamming into the revived girl.
YAMI YORI YOMIGAERU~ SEIJOOOO!
Black armor manifested upon white petals forging across her body.
SAINT RO~GUE! SUGEI! IWAAEEE!
Saint Rogue swiped her arm, the white petals of the moonflowers flowing by the wind around her. Light surged around her before dimming, finally completing the transformation.
She rolled her neck and tapped into the power of the bottle. Everything slowed down. Her hidden blue lenses watched the crimson blade aiming for Blake's neck.
But not this time.
Adam found his metal arm halted, stopping the beheading before he felt 'air' slam into his cheek as if someone punched him. The Bull Faunus staggered, grasping his jaw and angrily looked at Saint Rogue who was standing like a rock.
"You think just because you have this fancy new armor that you can beat me?!" He shouted, sheathing his blade as he charged up his strongest attack and slashed at Saint Rogue, using all of his might to cut her down.
A white vortex manifested, 'ejecting' the energy before the crimson slash was now a white color that sliced off Adam's metal arm.
"GAAUUGGHH!" He cried out, kneeling down to hold his stump of an arm.
"I told you. You do not have the power to counter a being like Evol. Like Vernage." Saint Rogue stated. "Any energy that is absorbed can be ejected back to its source. A black hole takes energy, a white hole ejects it."
"SHUT IT, YOU FILTHY HUMAN!"
Saint Rogue sighed with a shake of her head. With all of his might and bravado shattered like this, he can only respond in insults. But no longer will he harm anyone.
"Blake, if you don't wish to see what I will do, then go."
"I'm staying… Remember… We're together in this." Blake smiled softly.
"Of course." Saint Rogue turned her arm and Adam felt his cybernetic limbs fluctuating.
"Wha-What is going on?!"
"I smelled the technology your body was augmented with."
"And what of it?!" He snapped at the saint.
"You should never wear it when I can manipulate it." Her tone sent a chill down his spine. She raised her hand and closed her fist, causing the shotgun mechanism of his weapon to be in pieces.
"Weapon. Limbs. Implants. So much technology that is fascinating… but to use it to create bloodshed? Unacceptable." She clenched her fist again as the metal cybernetic hand was disassembled. "Irresponsible." Now the forearm was disassembled by her Semblance. "And unforgivable." Now Adam lost his second cybernetic limb as she drew closer. Her katana dragged across the rocky floor with sparks leaving it.
"T-This… won't be… my end…" Adam panted from the pain of losing the limbs once more, glaring up at the saint and his ex-right hand.
"It is… for judgment has been called upon." She raised the blade. "Speak your last words before execution, Taurus."
"I promise I'll be back… and I'll kill you…." Adam glared with all of his hate set on Saint Rogue.
"… words of a man of hate. May humanity's embrace damn your soul to hell." And mercilessly swung the blade as the last thing Adam saw was that white blade moving at blinding speed and his vision seeing the sky moving so fast and into the water.
Blake watched as Adam's body dropped to the ground, fully dead as she couldn't even turn away when his head plunged into the ocean. But soon tears began to race down her face as she dropped to the ground on her knees, crying. Such much pain from Adam, alongside so many wrongs she wished she could've fixed before… all of that was now gone and the nightmare has ended for her.
A hand rested above her black hair. She tearfully looked up to see Saint Rogue's hand as she gazed at the body.
"It's done… let's go back to the others. They'll need all the help they can get." She raised her hand and casted a magic circle. Flames erupted, burning the corpse to ensure cremation. The head? Far as she knew it is in the ocean and some aquatic Grimm will probably feast on it.
XXX
Within the air, Cody was throwing fireballs and other elements at the mech to keep distracting it as others were chiming in to try and topple the mech, but its shields and arsenal was actually holding them back from doing any real damage. For once, Atlas had something useful to use.
"Damn Hardlight shields! Whoever made that type of dust, needs both a raise and a punch in the face!" Cody growled in frustration. "We can't keep this up much longer!"
The metal fist came down, making Ruby dodge with her Semblance. She fired a few shots but it didn't leave a mark.
"We-Cody look out!"
The dragon rider turned to see the barrel pointed at him as he couldn't dodge in time as the mech shot him down, causing him to fall out of the sky and out of his armor from a powerful blast at point blank range.
"No!" Yang cried out, rushing towards him as she leaped and caught him by the arm as he almost plummeted into the sea below. She pulled with all her might but saw the cannon aimed. At first the two thought they were done for but a dome shielded them.
Cyclops assisted Yang and pulled them. Cody looked at the dome, recognizing it to be identical to a saint. He lowered his head to see his sworn sister in armor, her hand raised.
"Am I late to this gathering?"
"Heh.. better late than never…" Cody smiled happily, "Good to see you back up, sis…"
"… Not sure how I feel of myself Cody but I will speak more of it later. This mech has become a problem yes?"
"What do you think?" Weiss comically snapped.
Saint Rogue rolled her eyes. "My Semblance had already understood the workings of the system. There is a compartment that powers its shields. Its arm is the best choice to remove the second it changes ammunition due to the Dust."
"I can handle- ngh!" Cody grunted in pain, holding his side.
"No way, mister. Not right now." Yang shook her head.
"I can handle the shields." Qrow spoke up as he walked forward.
"Weiss and I can then handle the cannon." Ruby added on, though looked softly to Lily and hoped she'd agree.
"… As long as you realize the volatile situation you are putting yourself in when you go for its limb."
"I do…" Ruby nodded, her eyes showing she was serious and understood.
"Then go. Cyclops protect Cody."
[Acknowledged, master.] it remained where it stood whereas Qrow shifted into his literal crow form. Lily stared at the bird. She made a mental note to scour the memories of mother's magic that allows a shapeshift familiar.
As for Ruby and Weiss, the pair were on one of Weiss's phantom summons as they were flying low on the sea to reach the mech and clog the barrel. Qrow flapped his wings into the clouds before he descended at rapid speed, shifting back into human form. The Huntsman brandished Harbinger and landed on the mech's back as his weapon served as a hook. He grunted to the brief yank in his joint but held on.
"Get off of me!" Cordovan growled.
"Sorry, but this needs to go down." Qrow said, soon ripping off the metal plating before he open fired upon the shield generator, causing it to go down. "You're up kid!"
"Got it!" replied Ruby. They were going to Atlas one way or another. They had to make this chance count. "Let's do this bestie!"
"How many times do I need to remind you that we're not 'besties'." Weiss groaned out despite a soft smile on her face that she hid from Ruby.
"I am not letting you brats get away with this!" The mech immediately aimed, charging up its cannon. It began to fire up, horrifying Weiss. Inside the mech, Cordovan pulled the trigger but all she got was no response. "What the?!" She pulled the control several times. "Why isn't it responding to the trigger?!"
Saint Rogue snorted. She wiggled her fingers as she fiddled with a piece of metal. To deconstruct the firing mechanism just as the cannon charged up and reconstruct it in her hand. "Technomancy truly is a wonder. And you're welcome."
"NOOO!"
"Fire Ruby!" Weiss shouted to her team leader.
Ruby transformed Crescent Rose into its sniper form, aiming. 'One chance.' A sharp inhale seeped into her lips before pulling the trigger. The round flew in a straight path into the cannon and right into the buildup of Dust. In response to the projectile, the arm cannon exploded in rock and ice, horrifying the elderly woman.
"No! NO!" Cordovan shrieked as the machine fell against the rocky cliffside upon the damage. "You are never getting to Atlas do you hear me?! All forces converge on my position!"
Saint Rogue frowned but stiffened. Her ears picked up static from communications and her magic sensed the darkness of a Grimm.
["Ma'am! We've been trying to contact you for awhile now! It's the Grimm! A Leviathan is closing in on the port!"]
The communications from it reached from the airship as well, now horrifying the two teams.
"This is your fault do you hear me?!" Cordovan yelled at the teens.
Saint Rogue lowered her head. The faint echoes of the bitter memories of the streets. Of Vernage's memories when she had to face the odds. They incapacitated the mech that matched the Grimm's size with weaponry. However, her technomancy can do so much. Weapons that humans can yield and pieces within a machine is one thing but to reconstruct an entire limb of a mech can deplete her energy.
"Maybe I can do something…" Ruby spoke up, earning everyone's attention. "Maria taught me about my eyes and what it can do… Hopefully I can petrify it like the Wyvern Grimm at Beacon?"
"You sure? That was because of…" Cody murmured.
"It's all we can do if we want to stop it…." Ruby stated, "Besides… I… want to do more as well."
Cody took a deep breath. "Okay. Maria, we need you to pick us up."
XXX
The flight towards the Leviathan was uneasy as Ruby was nervous. Apathy and the Wyvern was one thing but this was a Leviathan that was much larger than the dragon-like Grimm. It had already reached shallow waters and destroyed the hard-light barrier. A part of her wondered if this was that consequence biting at her mind as Lily warned.
"Weiss, I need you to summon a Lancer."
"Are you sure about this?" Weiss asked, worried for Ruby.
"I… I am."
Weiss knit her brows and complied, conjuring a glyph that released a Queen Lancer. Ruby hopped onto it, making the summon fly towards the massive Grimm. She removed her earpiece and closed her eyes. The scythe user concentrated, thinking back on the various memories. She thought of her dad and sister. When Zwei showed up in her dorm. All of the fun memories.
But she frowned, the bad memories rising up. When she saw her friends wounded in Beacon. When Yang lost her arm. Evol's constant victory nearly ended the world. Feeling so helpless when that snake easily overpowered them. Her lips quivered. The death of Pyrrha and Penny. She…
Opening her eyes fervently, she suddenly noticed the Leviathan in front of her. Why was it focused on her now-
Her silver eyes darted to her hip, seeing the Relic. She completely forgot about it. It draws in Grimm and since she had it… it will focus on her.
"No, no, no, no!" She saw the beast open its maw.
"Ruby!" Yang cried out in fear.
"Tch, she couldn't do it." Lily frowned as she was about to lunge into action.
Ruby though, simply needed more time! More… time… The scythe wielder's eyes widened as she realized what it was as she then called out to the one person who could give her such time.
"Jinn!" Ruby called out to the Relic.
Soon everything began to slow down until everything around Ruby was frozen in place. Soon smoke poured out of the Relic as the genie appeared in her form.
"S-Sorry… I don't have a question for you. I… just needed some time is all." Ruby apologized to the genie.
The entity had a frown but said, "I know… and while you don't seek knowledge, just this once, I shall give it freely. I will not allow you to use me without a question again."
Ruby nodded nervously and closed her eyes as time slowly began to return to normal. She concentrated at her best. She began to remember the good times again. Not the bad memories. Of being reunited, of coming together, the fun and joyous days together. And finally...she saw her mother, Summer Rose standing at the edge of the cliff in her white cloak.
Ruby's mother turned and smiled at her, their silver eyes meeting.
A burst of light erupted from Ruby into a dome, the Leviathan caught in the light. When the light dimmed, there stood the giant Grimm now turned to stone.
"Ruby…" Cody was amazed.
Ruby looked up to her friends and waved but stopped upon the sound of stone cracking. Her eyes looked at the frozen Leviathan but saw its head was starting to free itself. She thought it would work like it did with the Wyvern!
"I'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE!"
Looking at the other side of the pilot's seat, everyone saw the large mech but the arm that was entrapped was missing and now running towards the kaiju-sized Grimm.
"Isn't that…?" Weiss recognized.
"After all, I was sworn to protect the people!"
The Colossus' left hand then transforms into a giant drill. Cordovin used its intact left hand transform into a drill, aimed directly at the Leviathan. The drill dug into the Leviathan's hide, earning a roar of pain. However that pain was null as it finally died into ashes like all Grimm do. But the horde it brought with it still was a problem.
The mecha approached Ruby as the cockpit opened up to allow the former student to see the elderly woman. "Thank you… and I'm sorry." Ruby apologized.
Cordovin crossed her arms. "The Atlas military can handle the stragglers." The response puzzled the red-cloaked girl, "What, uh… are you saying?"
The Atlas operative rolled her eyes and smiled. "I'm saying I don't think anyone would notice if one more ship went missing in my lengthy report."
The clarification made Ruby smile in return as the mech turned around and ran off to join the airships to take down the remaining Grimm. With it resolved, Ruby made the Queen Lancer flutter back to the airship and inside it. She hopped in, allowing Yang to hug her.
"You made me so worried!" Yang sighed with relief before smiling, "But.. I'm also so proud of you."
"Th-Thanks." Her silver eyes saw the frown from Lily. She lowered her head. She knew she wasted time by using the Relic just to stall. Despite the success and use of her Ruby eyes, to Lily, it was unnecessary but it was a last resort that couldn't be used again.
"Next time, don't rely on other things just so you can prove something." Lily returned to her seat and sat down, resummoning Cyclops to repair him.
And those were the words Ruby waited for. Soon everyone headed off towards Atlas together. It'll still be a long flight, but at this moment everything seemed to be going up for everyone. They can only hope that such a moment remains for a bit longer.