Bus Ride to Freedom from the School of Death!
Jaune and the group are slowly walking through the hallway as some lean close to the wall to peek over the corner to check if there are zombies around, when there are two or three Saeko and Ren both being quick takes them out before moving on.
"Just out of curiosity, Miss Goodwitch…?" Nora looked to the now former Vice-Principal.
"No, this school doesn't have a self-destruction button that will blow up the whole school." Glynda answered knowing what she's thinking, Nora sigh of disappointment.
"Though it would be cool to have something like that right about now." Sun said rubbing his chin.
"Yeah, that will 'schooled' them." Yang punned and everyone groans.
The group carefully walk down the stairs and they see the exit where the buses are and some zombies in the way.
"The buses are right out there; we need to distract them." Jaune whispered.
"Can't we just fight them and make a break for it to the bus?" Nora asked.
"No, we don't know if there are more zombies around." Ruby pointed out.
"She's right, if they overpower us with numbers then it's the end for us." Pyrrha agreed.
"Hmm, I think a simple noise or two would get them distracted long enough for us to make it to the door." Ren planned.
"Let's make sure it's loud enough to draw in most of them." Saeko said.
"How about one of us go over there and place this phone on one spot, then I'll that phone making it ring loud for the zombies to approach it." Velvet planned and showing the phone in her hand.
"Where did you get that?" Weiss asked.
"I found it in the hallway while me and Coco were heading for the workshop classroom before." Velvet answered.
"Really, I also found these nun-chucks and me and the girls were running." Sun showed his nun-chucks making sure not to make a sound with them.
"Okay, Ren, you go over there and place the phone. When you get back to us, Velvet will call it and get the zombies away." Jaune placed Ren the task of the phone.
"He can do it, he's from a family of ninja." Nora grinned.
"Well, she's not entirely wrong." Ren shrugged before going on his mission.
Ren quietly make his way to the spot where Velvet said walking past the zombies as they don't notice him because of their lost for sight, he made his way to the spot and was about to put the phone on the floor.
"AAAAAAHHHH?!" A person screamed.
Ren, Jaune, and the others all turn to see the person who scream was a guy swinging a long metal pole smacking a zombie away.
"Is that… Mercury?" Neptune shocked.
"And there's Emerald with some other students." Shizuka pointed at.
The one named Mercury is a young man with a pale, well-built young man with silver eyes and hair. Wearing Beacon Academy school uniform.
And girl next to him is Emerald. She's a young woman with medium-brown skin and dark-red eyes. Her hair is a light, mint-green with a straight fringe and bangs as well as two long locks on each side in the back. Breasts sizes: E-cup.
Ren accidentally drop the phone making a little noise that got some zombies' attention to the boy.
"Oh no, Ren!" Nora gasped.
"So much for sneaking around." Blake sighed.
"I was never one to do things quietly." Yang shrugged.
"No choice then, let's charge through!" Jaune charged ramming two zombies with the shield.
The others follow his lead as most battle the zombies while Shizuka stay close with Velvet and Coco to protect her, Nora smashes the zombies out of the way to get to Ren while he imaple two zombies in the head with the knives given to him by Velvet. They cleared the area of zombies taking a little break as they look to the other group.
"I see you're having trouble as well." Jaune panted a bit.
"Really? I thought they wanted to sit down and have a nice cup of tea." Mercury joked.
"Will you cool, Merc, we should be thankful we found more survivors." Emerald scolded him.
"I take it you guys were thinking of taking the bus too." Saeko guessed.
"Yeah, we didn't even bother getting the key because I can hotwire the thing." Emerald explained.
"Normally, I would scold you for having such skills like that, but I don't think it even matters at this point." Glynda said pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Uh, guys… there's a lot more zombies out there." Ruby alerted looking out through the glass door seeing dozens of zombies walking slowly around the yard and the buses.
"Fucking great, as if things weren't difficult getting through them inside." Coco grunted.
"What do we do now?" Velvet asked.
"We got no choice; we'll stand close together and charge through those undead freaks all the way to the bus!" Jaune pointed his sword at the zombies.
"But which bus, I mean one of them could have less gas." Mercury pointed out.
"I'm pretty sure all the buses have their tanks filled upon returning here." Neptune said, he looks to Weiss and she nods meaning he is right.
"We'll go for the closest bus, now let's go!" Jaune shouted as everyone follow his lead and charging through the zombies.
Jaune keeps the shield in front of him while slashing at some zombies, Mercury swing the metal pole smacking the zombies away from the group, Yang and Sun attack with their melee weapon which Yang's are metal gauntlets while Blake slashes and impale some zombies with a small katana. Velvet shoot some zombies with her nail gun and Coco smack a few zombies away with her spiked hammer-chuck while holding Shizuka's hand to keep her close, Glynda did her best to keep a couple of zombies away with her riding crop, Emerald slashes with her sickle that she "borrowed" from a store, Pyrrha pierces a zombie with her javelin and toss it to a few knocking them down. Nora swings her hammer hard sending some zombies flying and smack their heads literally off, Saeko attacks with her wooden sword, and Neptune pierces and slash with his trident keeping them away while Weiss rapid attack them with her rapier.
Soon, both groups made their way to the bus and opening the door for everyone to quickly getting inside.
"Okay, is that everyone?" Jaune asked, making sure there's no one left behind.
"Wait, don't leave just yet!" A man called out.
Jaune and Pyrrha look to where the calling is coming from, they see an older man with six students behind him running through the zombies and carefully not letting the zombies touch them while panicking for their lives.
"Hey, isn't that Doctor Watts?" Pyrrha wondered.
"Wait, Watts?!" Weiss gasped looking out to see the man with a death glare.
Watts is a tall middle-aged man with a slim build and slightly tanned skin. He has short black and gray hair as well as a thick mustache and eyebrows, and green eyes. He wears a gray overcoat with yellow linings, a yellow dress shirt and a black necktie. His pants are the same color as his overcoat. His yellow-buttoned undercoat and fingerless gloves match his cordovan shoes, under which he wears yellow socks.
"No… no, no, fuck no, anyone but that bastard!" Weiss angered.
"Weiss, now it's not the time for your grudge!" Neptune reminded his girlfriend that they have to get out of here.
"We can just leave now and let him die." Weiss hoped the zombies would get to him before getting too close to the bus.
"Weiss, we're not leaving anyone behind even the ones we don't' like." Jaune argued.
"Ugh, you are so stubborn!" Weiss snarled as she sits down with Neptune trying to calm her down.
"Jaune, you know why she's angry at Doctor Watts." Pyrrha said placing a hand on his should.
"I know." Jaune sighed and calls out to Watt's group telling them to hurry.
"Ah, thank you, young Arc. You have save my brain!" Watts thanked as he and his six students enter the bus.
"And he still talks about his brain like it's another person." Jaune rolled his eyes.
"Talk about that later, in the bus now!" Pyrrha shoved Jaune into the bus as Glynda turns on the engine and putting on the seatbelt between her I-cup breasts.
"A-Are you sure this bus can run them over." Shizuka asked worry.
"Don't feel pity for them, Shizuka, they're not humans anymore, not alive either." Glynda glared.
"(I won't let these monsters hurt any more students. I promise I'll do my best to protect them. Ozpin.)" Glynda thought determined and floor it making the bus go full speed running over most of the zombies and out through the front gate.
"I wonder if I'll flat my face on the window like in the cartoons?" Mercury asked. Then Glynda made a little sharp turn on the left which caused Mercury to smack his face on the window.
"Wish granted." Emerald laughed, then they scream holding each other when a zombie's head smack into a window.
Glynda manage to drive through some streets with no zombies around probably walking elsewhere to eat more people and she starts driving slowly as the bus enter a heavy traffic jam.
"Well, it looks like we're going to be okay for a while." Glynda sighed in relief.
"I must say, thank you for waiting for us. Heavens knows what would happen if more of us were to get eaten." Watts thanked in a bragging tone.
"You're welcome, now let just focus on seeing any other survivors along the way." Jaune said.
"Really, you want to go through all the trouble of helping complete strangers and risk getting our flesh eaten." Watts raised an eyebrow and a tick mark appears on Weiss's head.
"I say we just focus on our own survival and finding a safe haven, and maybe perhaps bring some sample of those zombies to study them"
"Will you shut up already?!" Weiss yelled anger as she points her rapier at Watts.
"Oh my, did I do something to upset, Miss Schnee?" Watts asked rhetorically.
"What about what you and my father did, almost destroying my family including sending my mother to prison! Not to mention losing my only brother!" Weiss remembered.
(Flashback)
Little Weiss is seen peeking through a slightly open door looking and listening to her parents, Jacques and Willow, arguing to each other.
Next Weiss is with her big sister, Winter and young brother, Whitely while her mom looks shock as her fathers shows the mom important documents of owing everything she has, and Watts is with him with an evil smirk.
Weiss's parents go against each other in court though it appears the her father is winning, but luckily, Willow's lawyer was able to pull a last effort to save her from being sent to jail and the father lose which comes to the divorce, but Jacques was able to take Weiss's younger brother with him.
Last image shows Jacques and Whitely leaving the house as they will never return, Whitely look back at Weiss one last time before entering the limbo with Jacques and it drives away from the Schnee home, never returning again as a single tear goes down from Weiss's eye.
(Flashback End)
"Now, are you really letting the past get to you. I was only doing a favor since your father and I were such good friends in our younger days." Watts bragged.
"More like sick bastards who only care about themselves." Weiss snarled before marching out of the bus.
"Weiss, get back in here this instant!" Glynda demanded.
"I'll go get her." Neptune volunteered as he walks out of the bus.
"We'll go too, I'm starting to hate the stick of your ego." Jaune mocked Watts. He exits the bus with Pyrrha going down some stairs seeing Weiss.
"Hey snowflake, you're doing okay?" Neptune asked.
"I hate that man; I hate him so much that I want to kill him right now." Weiss confessed as she clenches her fist.
"We understand, Weiss, but you're going to have to get use having him around for a little while, just until he decides to leave on his own." Jaune stated.
"And you can't let your anger cloud your mind, you have to show Watts that you are a better person who won't be pulled in by his words." Pyrrha encouraged.
"Plus, if he bothers you too much again then I'm give him a double knuckle sandwich." Neptune promised showing his fist.
"Thanks, guys." Weiss thanked as she smiles.
On the bus, the rest of Jaune's group look out seeing that Weiss have calm down and are about to walk back to the bus, but then Ruby spotted something from the other side and heard a loud engine roaring coming this way fast and her eyes widen.
"Guys, look out!" Ruby alerted.
Jaune, Pyrrha, Weiss, and Neptune turn around hearing the engine noise and gasp when a guy driving a motorcycle jump down and crash into the ground.
"Oh my god, are you alright, sir?" Jaune asked.
"Wait, Jaune, we don't if the biker is crazy in the head!" Neptune warned.
"I'm sure he's fine, mentally… I hope." Jaune gulped.
The biker raises from the ground slightly scaring the teens that he appears to be okay at first, but then the biker turns his head around and reveal the black glass cover on the helmet has broken showing the face of a zombie.
"AAAHH?! Biker Zombie!" Neptune panicked.
"Why does the universe hates us?!" Jaune shouted.
The biker dressed zombie slowly approaches the four wanting to eat their flesh, though Neptune kinda wonders how it's going to eat them with the helmet blocking most of its mouth, but right now they have to kill one zombie since it's one against four and make their back to the bus. But before they could make a single move, Ruby jumps at the zombie from behind and sliced it through the arm and torso with her scythe and then impale the blade right through the helmet getting to the brain.
"Thanks for the save, Ruby, though we could've taken it on our own." Jaune pointed out.
"I know, but I came to warn you guys about a bus full of zombies heading this way." Ruby mentioned.
"Wait, a bus full of WHAT?" Weiss shocked.
"LOOK OUT!" Ruby pointed behind the four.
Suddenly, just as Ruby said a bus came driving off the road and almost like time is going on slow motion for them to see zombies inside and they quickly move out of the way into a tunnel just as the bus crash blocking the way and the bus burst into flames.
"Oh no, Jaune!" Shizuka worried as she runs out of the bus with Coco behind.
"Jaune, are you okay?" Shizuka called out.
"Yeah, we're okay, but it looks like we're going to go our separate ways for a while." Jaune stated, seeing as there's no way to get through or over the bus.
"No, Jaune, I won't leave you!" Shizuka worried.
"Don't worry, I promise we'll be fine, and we'll meet you guys at the bridge." Jaune promised.
"He's right, Shizuka, we'll have to leave." Coco agreed as she see some of the zombies coming out, they're on fire and dropping down.
"Okay, we'll meet you at the bridge. Just try not to die or turn into a zombie or lose your underwear!" Shizuka warned, the last part made Jaune embarrass as the others giggle.
"We'll be going now!" Jaune shouted before his small group started moving.
There are a few things that's going on in Jaune's head right now, two of them being surviving until they can regroup with the other. And other getting fresh new underwear.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Jaune's group has escaped the dead school along with some other survivors including Doctor Watts who had some history with Weiss as you read through the flashbacks, now small part of the group have been separate and will have to go through a new waypoint to meet up with the bus at the bridge.
As you saw Mercury and Emerald making an appearance in the story, meaning Cinder is not too far to enter the story as well.
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