Almost finished with Volume 3 people.
End of the Beginning
The underground vault was… FAR from intact.
Ozpin and Cinder clashed deep within it, seemingly matched blow for blow.
When Ozpin thrust his cane into her abdomen to push her away, Cinder raked her hand on the floor, melting it down, before lifting up pieces of molten metal and reforming them into projectiles to skewer Ozpin with, though he moved in a blur and parried all of them.
Using that enhanced speed Ozpin landed several strikes on her before throwing her back, but Cinder stopped herself in midair, flames manifesting from her body and snaking out into the air around them.
Crouching and planting his cane into the ground, Ozpin generated a shield around himself, until Cinder sent a torrent of flames towards him, while Ozpin rushed into it with his shield protecting him, the two forces clashing till they produced a blinding light.
"That's it, everybody on board!" Port said as an airship landed.
"A safe area has been established in Vale, though we have so far been able to fight off the Grimm, the city as a whole is in no shape to endure another attack should it come," Oobleck said.
"So please listen to Atlas personnel and board the airships!" Leomon finished, while nearby several of the Digimon who'd come from Junk Town were also helping with the evacuations, including Guardromon who was ushering several students to the airship and repeating. That was when a shadow was visible, and the form of Cyberdramon descended, Ruby and Penny in his arms, landing among the gathered people.
"We're back!" Penny said brightly as they got off of Cyberdramon...who reverted to his baby form of Hopmon.
"Well this is inconvenient," Hopmon said in annoyance.
"Get used to it, took a while for the others to stop doing that." Ruby said in amusement.
"Looks like we're all here," came Yang's voice, to which Ruby let out a small sigh of relief, turning to see her sister and friends all in one piece.
"Not quite everyone," Weiss corrected with a frown.
"Jaune and Pyrrha aren't back yet," Ren frowned.
"Yeah, they'll be fine… but let's go meet up with them, just to be safe." Gyro suggested, going up and patting Ruby's shoulder "Plus, we still need to give Cinder her huge burns." he added with a grin, Ruby returning it as she hugged him just a bit.
"Right, let's do this. This is the last step to keep Beacon safe guys." Ruby said, patting her cheeks to psych herself up.
"Okay...I know we planned for that, and she's still not as bad as any of the Dark Masters, but that was honestly a little scary," Jaune sighed as the four of them got out of the building. With that he pulled out his scroll...and dialed Gyro. "Gyro? Yeah, we got out of the vault. Ozpin said to call Glynda and the others of his faction but…" he didn't get to finish as an explosion happened, and they saw a streak of red go up. "Yeah...its kinda too late to call for help, and now we're gonna need to find Oscar," Jaune sighed.
"Shit. Part of me was hoping we could leave him out of this, but no choice I guess." Gyro said "Alright, you two head on up, we're on our way, we'll signal some of the others down to give us a lift to the top." he said, before ending the call.
Jaune put away his scroll and looked at Pyrrha who was looking at the top of the tower apprehensively. Even if the situation was almost completely different now, the knowledge of what would have happened in one timeline was still terrifying. "We're not gonna fight her alone," Jaune said, putting a hand on her shoulder.
Pyrrha nodded, smiling a little. "You're right. Let's go and give her a much needed wake up call," she said, earning nods from all of them as they got into the tower, and into the broken elevator.
"We should probably hold on to something," Gabumon chuckled weakly, to which they all did just that, Jaune holding Pyrrha's hand as he used his semblance to boost hers, and they were soon shooting up the shaft.
"I feel the blood going to my flippers!" Gomamon shouted.
"We don't have blood!" Gabumon shouted, clinging to a railing.
"How did I do this the last time?!" Pyrrha shouted as the g-force was quite strong.
"I think I know what to give Cinder when we see her!" Jaune groaned, looking a little green.
The elevator kept going a bit, and up at the top of the tower, Cinder turned with a curious look as she heard a LOUD screeching sound coming up, till it eventually shifted to something tearing through a sheet of metal… and then an elevator crashed down through the roof.
She stared at it for a good while, wondering where it came from "What in the…?"
And then the doors opened… and something splashed onto her.
She looked down slowly… and saw she was covered in puke.
"Huh… guess projectile vomit is something you can do." Gomamon noted.
"I don't ever want to do it again though." Jaune groaned weakly.
"So… what's wrong with her?" Gabumon asked after a moment as he looked at Cinder, who was still staring at her puke covered dress and legs.. .and feet, and her glass slippers, really everything below the waist was covered in puke.
"I think she's trying to process and find a good response… obviously failing though." Pyrrha summed up with a shrug.
"To be fair, I don't think anyone can properly process projectile vomit!" Gomamon laughed.
"Yeah, and speaking of which, we should get out of the way soon," Gabumon said dryly.
"Why?" Gomamon asked, still snickering.
"Projectile fireballs," Gabumon said flatly. "Move!" he and Pyrrha grabbed their respective companions and pulled them out of the way as Cinder finally got her wits back and blew up the elevator they'd been in.
"I'm going to pull your guts out and feed them to the Wyvern personally!" Cinder raged at them.
"I'd like to see how you manage when you got superb G-force in your face with an already weak stomach!" Jaune shot back, before ducking beneath an arrow.
"Yeah, it's not his fault his family is cursed with motion sickness!" Gomamon added, before rolling away from a fireball.
"I think that's enough making her madder," Pyrrha couldn't help the small chuckle as she used her Semblance to propel her forward, blocking a fireblast with her shield, and using the opening to throw Milo, which Cinder easily deflected, to which Gabumon got at her side and fired his Petit Fire at Cinder...who easily blocked it.
"Hey fire lady, try this! Marching Fishes!" Gomamon grinned.
"Wait, but where the heck-?!" Jaune started, before a small torrent of fish came out of the elevator shaft, and hit Cinder who had a WTF look on her face as she was swept away a bit, before the fish soon escaped out one of the glass windows, breaking it off course.
Outside…
"Hey Neptune?" Sun blinked.
"Yeah?" Neptune asked.
"Is it just me, or is there a waterfall of rainbow colored fish falling out of the CCT?"
"...it's not you though I wish it was…" Neptune said flatly.
"...now I know why adults drink. It helps stomach the insanity…"
Back inside…
"Okay...effective, but not QUITE in the way we were hoping," Gabumon blinked, honestly having no idea where all those fish came from...or how they even got up the elevator shaft.
"I'm going to enjoy killing you all slowly," Cinder snarled as she got up, as on top of the puke, she now had a fishy scent thanks to being literally flooded by fish she still had no idea where the actual fuck they came from.
"Not if I have something to say about it!" Pyrrha said as she managed to get behind Cinder and grab her in a neck lock, while Cinder tried to stop Milo from getting to her neck. At the same time, Jaune ran forward to take advantage of the opening...and soon found himself dodging projectiles Cinder had created and sent his way.
Despite that, the fact remained she was still in a tight spot...so she smirked when she saw the Wyvern coming their way, having called to it for a bit of help. The Wyvern picked up speed, aimed to ram into the tower….and was stopped short when a figure in yellowish gold armor darted in and stabbed it through the neck, ripping its head off.
"Sorry we're late!" Gyro shouted as he and the rest of teams RWGBY and JNPPR entered the tower through the hole in the roof. "Traffic was crazy," he laughed.
"Better late than never," Jaune chuckled.
"And we protected the tower too!" Ruby grinned...right before the head of the Wyvern came down, and smashed the roof off the tower, while providing Cinder with the distraction to get out of Pyrrha's neck lock. "Oh come on!"
"Meh, we're fine, signal's still running." Pierce said as he checked his scroll before closing it.
"At least the butterflies didn't screw that up." Nora said with a sigh...right before the signal in her scroll went down.
Everyone gained flat looks at that, before as one, they looked up to the sky. "Screw you, murphy!" they shouted.
Down on the ground, Azure growled in annoyance as he saw the signal go down, looking up at the tower "I fucking HATE Wyverns." he said, before sitting down and opening his scroll in tablet mode to get to work, Wizardmon keeping guard from Grimm.
Back on the tower, Cinder was...getting annoyed. Honestly, her plans had been going all over the place, and to add more insult already, these CHILDREN were acting like she wasn't even a threat or concern, apparently more interested in the CCT. Well...she fully intended to teach them to fear her. With that, her body started to glow, as she gathered bits of materials and formed a javelin with it, and a pair of fireballs. However, Gabumon noticed her, and so did Pyrrha, just as she hurled the weapons at the group.
"Not this time!" Gabumon and Pyrrha growled, as she grabbed her D-Crest, the Crest of Friendship glowing brightly.
(Play 'Brave Heart')
"Gabumon, Warp Evolution! MetalGarurumon!"
The attacks hit, and bounced off harmlessly against MetalGarurumon's armor. "That's not going to work on me," he growled.
"Okay, this is getting a little...cramped…" Blake frowned, to which the rest of their partners came and they quickly hitched a ride to give the ensuing fight some space.
"Normally I'd want to join in, but I think that's overkill," Gomamon laughed.
"Worse than what we did to Piedmon?" Jaune couldn't help but chuckle as he and Gomamon were picked up by GrandisKuwagamon.
"Nah, I don't think we can beat that!" Gomamon laughed.
Cinder growled in rage "Why are you all so damn happy and nonchalant about everything?!"
"Honestly? Because you aren't even a blip on our radar after Spiral Mountain." Yang said with a shrug as she sat on Phoenixmon's head.
"We tore through the Dark Masters one by one, rather literally in some cases." Weiss added.
"Felt good to see Machinedramon lose his coating." HerculesKabuterimon chuckled in remembrance.
"It was rather entertaining." Ren noted in amusement.
"So, yeah, you straight up don't scare us Cinder. Oh, and here's an achievement of ours you probably know about." Gyro started with a grin "Remember Myotismon? How he attacked Vale? Turned into a huge monster before dying? That was because of US."
Cinder blinked, before her eyes widened in actual horror as what he'd said dawned on her. "No...it can't be! I haven't come this far to lose to a bunch of kids and their pet monsters!" she growled, body aglow. "I'll show you! The power of the maidens will surpass even you!" she roared, firing a blast of energy with everything she had.
"Time to give her a reality check," Pyrrha frowned, right as Ruby jumped down and landed next to her on MetalGarurumon's back.
"Mind if I join in on this one?" she chuckled.
"The more the merrier!" MetalGarurumon grinned as he reared back. "Cocytus Breath!"
Ruby closed her eyes and when she opened them, they glowed a bright silver, the two blasts flying and mixing together...before completely overpowering Cinder's energy blast.
"What?!" Cinder gasped as she was overtaken, her body burning and freezing at the same time as the Silver Eyes tore away at the Grimm parts she'd taken as part of her body, while the Cocytus Breath covered her body in ice. The last conscious thought she had was of her defeat...and her plummeting off of the tower.
(Song End)
"Huh… I wonder if she'll shatter?" Nora mused.
"Somehow I doubt even THAT would stop her." Mastemon said, Nora nodding after a moment.
"So… what now?" Phoenixmon asked.
"Now? Now we get the hell out of here. That or…" Gyro trailed off, as he noticed a crow staring at them from one of the remains of the tower "Or Qrow finds us, dammit."
"Wait, what?" Blake asked as he looked towards the crow, which hopped onto the tower, and in a flash of feathers, turned into Qrow Branwen.
Everybody was silent for a long moment, until Ruby raised her hand "Would you believe us if we said we got these forms just now?"
"Sorry, but try the other leg kiddo." Qrow said with a smirk.
"Drat!" Ruby cursed with a snap of her fingers as she got off MetalGarurumon.
"Can we at least hold off on explaining until we get rest? And can you promise not to tell Ironwood?" Pierce asked hopefully.
"Permission given on the first, and no worries on the second." Qrow said with a chuckle "Come on, we'll head to Patch, you kids just earned a vacation."
A week soon passed after that, and for the time being, the entire group was holed up in Patch.
"Damn, Azure works FAST," Yang whistled, as the group were looking through news reports, the CCT having been restored already. Thanks to the lack of the Wyvern, the Grimm problem was a lot more subdued, allowing for repair teams to get in and fix things a bit faster, Azure working to help restore the CCT. As it was, while it was true Vale was currently restricted to Beacon itself due to the Grimm still running around the city, work was being done to slowly recapture the city, an effort greatly helped by the Digimon who lived in Junk Town...and were now in need of a new home after the Wyvern smashed its way out of Mount Glenn. So...win-win so far.
"Furthermore, Torchwick and Neo are finally behind bars where they belong," Weiss nodded, remembering the two criminals being shipped off to Atlas where a pair of nice Maximum Security cells were waiting for them. But thinking what had happened, she couldn't helped but frown too. "Still, it could have gone better," Weiss sighed. One major flaw in the plan was that they literally couldn't help the Atlesian fleet, as doing so would be like shouting to the world, they knew something was going on. As such, the lives lost in the Atlesian fleet were unavoidable, forcing Atlas to need to consolidate its forces for the time being. Speaking of Atlas though…
Pierce snorted "I just remembered Jacques's face, still gets me laughing every time."
"Oh god tell me about it." Ruby chuckled as she looked at the news, which showed how Jacques Schnee was now no longer running the SDC, and his wife Willow was the new CEO, well… Ex-Wife.
"Yeah! The ladies in the Schnee family rock!" Nora cheered.
"I REALLY enjoyed pointing Myrtenaster at him, not gonna lie." Weiss admitted.
"I still say my horns sent him running." Tentomon said jokingly as he just lounged on a sofa next to her.
Blake suddenly hung up her scroll, Ilia leaning on her in an easy chair "I just got off the phone with Takato, their just about done unpacking after moving to Vacuo. Tukson and his wife already bought a new building for their stores, this time their going to put them on the same side though."
"Huh… buying bread and books at the same time… sounds nice." Ilia mused.
"But, all the good news aside, we're not out of the woods yet," Gyro sighed. After the fight, they'd taken a moment to check the bottom of the tower...and they didn't find anything. "Cinder no doubt is licking her wounds and plotting revenge on us. Not saying she's a threat head on, but she's not dumb either, she'll probably try indirect if she gets the chance."
"They haven't found a trace of Adam yet either, surprisingly. You'd think a guy who's bleeding out like that would be easy to spot." Jaune said, just a little worried.
"Amber's body disappeared from within the pod, no blood trails though, so she wasn't moved, meaning something happened… not sure what though." Pyrrha frowned, wondering what had happened to the girl's body.
"And Ozpin's corpse was found." Ren added with a sigh.
"Got no choice but to look for Oscar now." Wormmon added.
"We still have a few things to handle before that though." Agumon said.
"You mean the armadillo in the room?" Veemon asked.
"Isn't that usually elephant?" Biyomon wondered.
"Not in this case." Veemon said in deadpan, hiking a thumb over his shoulder at an armadillo shaped Digimon walking out of the corridor and into the kitchen.
"Huh… were we really that out of it?" Palmon mused.
"You were yes." Taiyang said as he brought a tray of cookies to the table in the middle of the living room. "You didn't even notice when Azure and Lisa arrived this morning." he said, both adults waving from the kitchen, while Summer was already making another batch of cookies.
"Alright then, spill the beans dad, why is there an…" Ruby trailed off, glancing at Weiss, who already had her scroll in hand.
"Armadimon." she supplied without looking up.
"An Armadimon in the house?" Ruby finished while eating a cookie.
"That was a funny story," Armadimon chuckled. "Taiyang was fighting these guys, till one of them had a hostage, then I helped cause I rolled down the shelf and conked him in the head."
"Yeah, reminded me of that gag where they hit someone with a coconut. Didn't even need to fight the last guy anymore after that," Taiyang chuckled. "Then I kinda fed him since turns out he hadn't eaten in a few days and well…"
"Let me guess. 'It followed me home, can I keep it?'" Jaune couldn't help but chuckle.
"Yes, only without the permission part," Taiyang laughed.
"Hey, I'm not a dog," Armadimon joked good naturedly.
"And then the Digivice showed up, didn't it?" Yang asked knowingly, her father confirming by fishing a D-Core from his pocket.
"Jeez, the only person in this family without a Digimon now is Qrow." Gyro chuckled.
"I doubt that'll change anytime soon." Qrow said as he walked out into the living room and sat on an empty chair, Zwei hopping into his lap, making him shrug as he pet the dog absentmindedly.
"So, anything you wanted to ask us?" Pierce wondered.
"Just the name of the kid you said Ozpin reincarnates into… still hard to believe you kids know the future… and that Leo sold us out." Qrow asked, before frowning harshly.
"Oscar Pines, we were going to go pick him up ourselves honestly." Pyrrha informed him.
Qrow waved it off "It's fine, I'll handle the kid, I'll get him close to you kids and you'll probably find us then, we'll be able to head onto Haven after that."
"I still don't know how I feel about this." Taiyang frowned.
"Honey, they'll be fine, the kids are literally part of the strongest people on Remnant right now." Summer reassured him as she came and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry, we're not going anywhere yet," Yang reassured.
"After all we've done, I think we can take another week off," Pyrrha sighed.
"Just hope we actually get some peace and quiet," Agumon sighed.
"Preach it buddy," Gyro chuckled, as he looked over some news again, but when he put the scroll down on an article regarding the CCT, the screen glitched for a second, and for a brief moment, an egg was visible before the screen returned to normal.
And there we go!
Volume 3 is wrapped up, and we gave you all a quick recap of the events that happened afterwards.
And, yeah, we had a bit of fun with deciding on what happened exactly.
And we LOVED messing wiht Cinder and just ruining everything for her.
Though, yeah, we still killed Ozpin, though this time his body was found.
And, if you know your Digimon Adventure lore... you all know what's next, because...
The Adventure Evolves.