The gang's all here, all here to confront Lionheart's cowardly ass while he twiddled his thumbs and looked down at his shoes. Raven had her sword out, eyes narrowed at something else; Qrow thought that she'd be pissed at him but no… Raven looked… afraid? "Leo," Qrow turned his head towards the traitor, "What's the meaning of this?"
"I'm-" "You shut your mouth," Raven interjected, Qrow noticed that her grip on the sword was shaky, "Something's… not right here," Qrow grimaced, watching Raven frantically turning her head as she scanned the room, "Something… no, no, god damn it!"
Qrow felt someone grab his sleeves, "What's going on?" Ruby asked, her grip on her scythe tightening, Qrow looked across the group to see all of the kids holding onto their weapons. Qrow just shook his head. Raven pointed her sword at Qrow, her eyes narrowed into slits as she stared him down. Raven quickly jerked her hand back, causing Qrow and everyone else to flinch as she hissed in pain. A deep cut was on her arm, made by Sharon's double-headed scythe.
"You gotta be quicker than that!" Sharon chided, blowing away the rose petals as she swooped her scythe down, "Looks like your instincts are faster than your Aura, how interesting." Raven held her arm as blood dripped down the side of it, "Wait for it… here comes the fourth party!" Sharon snapped her fingers as the windows melted, fire blowing out the glass as Cinder and her two lackeys jumped in.
The doors then bursted open as Courrier, the female one, dragged along some kind of… tied-up bodybuilder with muscles for days, pretty hot actually, though his face was too damaged for Qrow to accurately guess who they were, "What the hell?" Cinder pointed a finger at Courrier, "Who the fuck is you? Where's Courrier?" the female Courrier stuck her tongue out mockingly before dropping the man on the ground and used her hands to imitate a crying motion, "I have some very bad news," Courrier mocked, "It was such a tragedy, Tinder, old boy's dead as the sand under Vacuo, I'm filling in."
Cinder snarled, Sharon looked bored, Qrow and the kids were more stressed out than ever before, and Bluebell… only Leo knows where that guy is, "Looks like you did it, Tinder, you got your revenge after all, if only you were the one to do it," Courrier did a flourish before firing a shot from the male Courrier's revolver, launching Sharon into a nearby wall before she nailed Leo in the head with another shot, causing the man to flip over twice in the air before skidding to a halt on the ground, Cinder jumped out of the way as did her lackeys before she can get launched though.
"My name is Cinder!" Cinder fired a jet stream of flames at Courrier, to which she quickly rolled and weaved out of the way, Cinder quickly retreated as another shot from Courrier's revolver headed her way, Qrow motioned for the kids to back away, maybe they don't have to fight after all, seeing as how Sharon was already gone in a puff of petals and Raven probably jumped into her portal or perched as a bird somewhere around here.
"I think it's best that we leave," Qrow smiled as he ushered the kids outside, "Let these two fight to the death and then we'll deal with things later," he waved off some protest from the kids.
"What if Cinder wins and she gets the maiden power?"
"Who was that woman?"
"Why can't we watch the fight?"
"That's my mom!"
"Alright that's enough from all of you, we're going to stay outside until the screaming, punching, and shooting stops in there," Qrow glared at the kids, "Unless you want to die an early death, you will listen to me, understood?"
"Why did Oscar stay back at the hotel?" Weiss raised an eyebrow, "I thought he was the pivotal piece in all of this."
"Ozpin had second thoughts and decided to stay back, to be honest, it's the first time that I see him this concentrated on something," Qrow shook his head, "But hey, at least he's not in the line of fire right?"
"But-" "Nope, not a chance, nada, we're staying out here until the massacre stops."
"Damn it…" Yang gritted her teeth, "I just saw her again after gods knows how many damn years and now you're just gonna… NOT let me confront her?"
"Do you want your head lobbed off?" Qrow stared blankly at Yang, as bright as the girl was, she was quite daft sometimes.
"No…"
"Then we're staying outside," Yang grumbled but decided to stay with the group, Qrow breathed out a sigh of relief, "We'll confront her later, alright? If she's still uh…" he paused when Yang glared at him, "Nevermind."
Qrow glanced back at the closed door, wincing whenever he heard a slam or a shatter echo through the halls, he shook his head, Bluebell was nowhere to be seen, Sharon ran like a bitch again, and now Courrier's sister is now fighting the terrorist that blew up Vale, wonderful. He could care less about Leo though, if Ozpin needed him alive then sure, he'll do that. But right now? That coward traitor can disintegrate for all he cared, watching him flop around like a fish after being shot by female Courrier? Heh, priceless.
"Bottle of whiskey, go!" the Courier chucked a bottle of alcohol towards Cinder, to which she expertly deflected with her hands before shooting more fire at her, "Another bottle of whiskey, go!" This time, Cinder accidentally shattered the bottle, causing the contents of it to spill out and coat her in a flammable, and quite delicious, liquid. The Courier ran up to Cinder, Old Glory and revolver primed as she jabbed and swung at the flaming woman.
Cinder clicked her tongue and weaved through some of the Courier's attacks, kicking away the Old Glory as she punched back, not using her flames since that'll just cause her to light up like a firework. The Courier ducked underneath a few jabs before shooting Cinder in the stomach, launching her into a wall. Cinder snarled, "What are you two standing around for?!" she barked at her two lackeys, Black narrowing his eyes at the Courier while Emerald yelped, "Fucking- kill him already!"
The Courier felt an itch in the back of her head, a moment after, a cavalcade of Emerald clones surrounded him, and Black was gone. She felt a sharp pain in her back as she folded backwards, Black reappearing as the small little bastard kicked her right in the spine. Quickly snapping her gun barrel under her arm, she shot Black, sending his head snapping backwards like someone just called his name. Emerald's eyes widened at this, why's she being so shocked for?
She quickly jumped at the Courier with her dual sickles, all of her clones following suit. The Courier mentally rolled the dice, picking a random clone to shoot as she lined up a shot, "I… choose… you!" She pulled the trigger, the bullet ripping through the air as it slammed into an Emerald clone with the force of a speeding Deathclaw, causing all the other clones to dissipate as the original flew back, flipping in the air like a sack of rocks before face planting on the ground.
Black quickly recovered, using his shotgun legs to fire shells at her, fortunately for the Courier, the firing mechanism for Black's mechanical legs was knocked out of place by the Courier's revolver, causing the shots to be incredibly inaccurate. Annoyed by this, the Courier shot Black again, launching him into a wall while he groaned and flopped onto the ground. Cinder dove at the Courier, leg primed for a kick as her heel dug into the Courier's shoulder, knocking her back as Cinder shook some whiskey off of her.
"Bottle of whiskey, go!" the Courier threw another bottle at her, Cinder quickly spun around and kicked the bottle back, causing it to shatter as it impacted the Courier right in the chest, "Ah crap," the Courier mumbled, "Eugh… whiskey."
"Damn it, you two worthless, useless scraps of meat!" Cinder berated her two lackeys, quickly glancing at Hazel's knocked out and tied up body on the ground, she knelt beside the two and whispered, "You're of no use to me here, go grab hazel and get out of my sight, make yourself useful!"
The Courier would've been mad over the abduction of her rightful prisoner but to be very honest, Hazel meant basically nothing to her, the man was more eye-candy and an information dump than an actual human being in the Courier's eyes, like a note you'd find on the corpse of a dead Caravaneer on the road with Deathclaw bites on them, not particularly interesting to find but it does have information that would be useful.
Hazel's like a piece of paper to the Courier, whether or not that makes sense, the Courier could care less.
It was kinda funny seeing two children try to haul away a man almost double their size though, very funny. The Courier was then reminded of the situation she's in after Cinder socked her in the cheek with a quite brutal right hook. The fight continued with no flames, no guns, just straight hands and skill. Cinder jabbed at the Courier's face, to which she easily ducked under, leveraging this to slam her fist into Cinder's ribs. Blocked by Aura of course, nothing's ever easy in life.
Cinder, not really feeling the pain but sure as hell felt the hit, elbowed the back of the Courier's head, causing the woman to grunt before kicking her knee up. The Courier quickly backed away from the knee before lunging at Cinder, catching her in a clinch as the two began wrestling with one another. The Courier quickly flipped Cinder over, her arms wrapped around the other woman's neck in a chokehold while Cinder clawed at the Courier futilely.
"Go to sleep… everything will be fine in the morning…" the Courier whispered in her ear, riling Cinder up even more, "Oh shit!" Back from being side-lined and irrelevant was Sharon Rose! Hiding all the way from up atop the ceiling with her stupid little pickaxe, taking the opportunity to quite literally kill two terrorists with one swing, she dived down, weapon primed to kill the two… The Courier pulled out her revolver and shot at Sharon, all while holding Cinder down.
Two things happened in the tenth of a second of the Courier pulling the trigger. One, the draw was so quick that even Sharon couldn't react to it, blowing a large hole in her right eye socket, turning her head into a crescent moon lookalike. Two, the spark that came from the hammer slamming down onto the primer ignited the whiskey covered women, how? Who the fuck knows, it's probably some fire dust magical bullshit, since no real science can be used to explain it.
Sharon's head was blown open, and the two terrorists wrestling with on another spontaneously combusted.
Burgun Rose sighed, "For fuck's sake…" before exploding into a mass of black tentacles, completely covering the apartment room.
Curiously, blood did not spill from Sharon's new head shape, but rather a strange, viscous black liquid that writhed and twisted as it rapidly expanded, latching onto the walls, floors, and ceiling as it pulsated. Cinder writhed around on the floor in pain, covered in fire, so did the Courier. The Courier had a failsafe installed for when this happened of course, just in case that toaster in the Sink ever tried something. She was currently dressed in her Stealth Suit and Duster combo, both modified to be fire retardant.
With primitive heat sensor installed, the Stealth Suit quickly injected the Courier with enough Med-X to numb the pain, just enough for the Courier to pull out a bottle of Bitter Drink to douse herself with. Body thoroughly charred, the Courier sighed, sitting up to see Cinder still stop, drop, and rolling on the ground. The Courier felt merciful today, deciding to extinguish Cinder too, knowing that whatever bullshit just happened with Sharon was not going to be easy to deal with.
Cinder seems to understand this too, seeing as how she didn't try to kill the Courier the moment she sat up.
Now… what just happened?
Yes, I'm still alive.
Sorry to keep you all waiting.
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Yeah I got no excuse for updating this late, sorry.
Thanks for reading though!