Torchwick actually helped Vara round up everyone on the train, which amounted to about 15 people.

"We have to find some way to slow down without killing everyone." Vara was losing her cool.

Neo raised her hand, and then she pointed outside and mimed two things linking together, then she made a motion like they were blowing up.

"Cut the ties off?" Torchwick said. "Oh, so the car will slow down away from the engine. That's not a bad idea. Anyone have fire dust?"

The people looked at him blankly.

Neo pointed ahead.

"Right, there would be some in the engine room," Roman said.

Neo sprang through the doors and over the cars nimbly to the engine room.

The she yanked it open, and tossed the guard back into the previous car.

Grabbing one of the cases of fire dust, she jumped, and rolled with it into the car.

Roman and Vara had followed her.

Roman picked it up.

"Wow...she's good," Vara said.

"Yes," Roman nodded. "Good work Neo, we just need a car now."

"I'm not much of a mechanic, but the caboose is going to be there alone," Vara said. "It's heavier."

"Everyone to the caboose--that sounded really stupid," Roman said.

Vara held up the guard, who was mad, and said "Just go to the back, we're trying to save your life."

"On whose authority?" he said.

Vara's eyes lit up with fire.

He yelped and ran.

Everyone ran for the back, even the conductor.

The train was starting to lose traction on the rails.

They all got in the back car.

Torchwick and Neo put the fire dust on the links and Torchwick lit it with his lighter.

They backed up and the caboose broke off of the cars and began to slow down.

[Yes, this is just like Anastasia. Sue me, it's a good movie]

Vara focused and summoned wind.

It wasn't that strong, but she got it to push back at them, slowing the car down more.

Ahead of them, the rest of the train swerved and went off the rails, careening into some of the railway sheds outside of Mistral--thankfully most of them didn't have people in them on a given day.

The engine exploded after that.

"That's going to be us in 15 seconds!" One of the train guards yelped.

"Shut up," Roman said. "Uh, Vara, any ideas?"

"Pray?" Vara said. 

She cranked up the juice and pushed hard...but the track was too slick, they started to wobble.

"Okay, we're going to go off, everyone grab something," Vara said. "Hopefully I slowed it enough for the impact not to kill us."

They grabbed the wall and the caboose flew off track into the dirt and bushes around Mistral.

At least they missed any buildings.

The caboose slid a few dozen yards before it finally stopped because it hit some trees that were big enough.

Vara slammed the wall as it jerked and it made her lose her grip.

The blow made her pass out.

After several minutes she was awoken to Neo splashing her with cold water.

"Hey!" she shoved at her.

"Somehow, we're alive," Roman sounded rattled. "Yay..."

But now that Vara's winds weren't keeping them at bay, the Midges were splattering the train car.

Some shut the door so that they couldn't get in, though a few had already, and flew at people...but now they stuck to their clothes.

"Eww," Roman slashed at one.

Neo held up her umbrella to deflect some.

Vara crawled to the window and forced herself up to look out of it. She couldn't see a thing.

"Now what?" she wondered.

"I hope no one has to go the bathroom..." One of the passengers said.

***

Qrow saw the caboose of the train veer off and he followed part way...he wasn't sure, but he thought they'd have survived that, but the train tumbled off into the outer land, no hope of finding them till this attack died down.

He flew back to Haven to take shelter.

Everyone at the house was freaking out because they were all over by now, but so far they'd kept the things from getting inside, they'd fried any that slipped in with fire and electric dust.

The buzzing was the worst part.

Raven got in touch with Qrow.

"Qrow," she said. "If this started before they got out of Mistral then there's a good chance it hit their ship."

Qrow knew that.

"Do you think they could have escaped it?" Raven asked.

"I dunno, they can do a lot, let's hope so," Qrow said.

"Yeah well, maybe they could, but what about your girlfriend?" Raven said.

"First, stop calling her that, and second, I talked to her, hopefully by now they're either off their train or they stop it. It won't be here for another hour or so at least," Qrow said.

"And if they didn't stop it? Or if they did in the middle of nowhere? The grimm would find them there also," Raven said.

"What do you want me to do? We can't fly anything out there to get them," Qrow said.

"Yes, likely the reason Salem is using this attack," Raven said.

"But these don't actually seem to be lethal," Qrow said.

"If they cause enough damage, it won't matter. But what I don't understand is why she'd risk killing the Summer Maiden also. Unless she didn't know she left Mistral."

That was possible.

"I think she's trying to stop us from leaving," Qrow said. "And whatever she sends after this is going to be more deadly."

"These things will pin us down and the next wave will tear us apart," Raven said.

"Do you have an idea? Or are you just trying to be annoying?" Qrow said.

"If we had a really good rain storm, it might thin the herd a little," Raven said. "I don't know if I can pull it off though...maybe if I had those cakes, but I only had the one."

"You could try," Qrow said. "Anything would help."

"Yes...but using the Maiden power is just what she wants, so she'll know where we are," Raven said.

"Too late for that," Qrow said. "It's that or nothing."

"Fine..."

Raven didn't notice it but this was progress. Because she wouldn't have even tried to use her power, after what Victoria did, but after the day before she'd gotten a little past that because of the help of the cake. Now it wasn't quite as frightening to do it. But she didn't know that that had been helping her.

Qrow did know, but supposed that pointing it out might only distract her.

A few moments later he saw clouds over head, and then both rain and hail began to fall out of it.

The Midges began to get slapped down and plastered the ground.

They made it like it was covered in tar, but the ice also covered them.

Qrow had to hand it to Raven, she was a lot stronger than you'd think, since she only ever used the Maiden powers to help herself fight. But her letting go, it was pretty terrifying.

It didn't hit every single Midge, but it did get about 60% of them.

The remaining 40% either evaded the storm, or were at the edges of the city and out of range.

Qrow flew that way and saw Weiss and Kip flying that direction also.

Kip dodged the Midges and any that hit he fried in an electric field he apparently had.

Weiss landed on the roof and then she summoned a swarm of the Dipteras, and set them to run into the Midges.

Then she used her glyph to shoot fire and ice at the biggest clusters and blew them up.

Also she and Kip both had on safety goggles...no telling where they got them.

[I'm betting Kip has them at all times because his mother is a scientist.]

* * *

It took Vara significantly longer to think of the same plan from inside the boxcar.

But finally Neo made some motions like rain and lightning from the sky at her.

"I can't just fry all of them--" Vara stopped. "Oh, a hailstorm might work."

Neo gave her the most non-plussed look imaginable.

Vara's eyes lit up and they all heard rain and hail start falling from outside.

* * *

By the time the other train approached Mistral, the two Maidens combined had cleared out at least 5/6 of the Midges.

However...

Emearld, Mercury, and Winter had been dogged by other grimm for the last hour.

 The train itself, with the turrets, was able to hold off a lot of them, but more kept following them, as if drawn to the excitement.

The other passengers weren't helping anything, they were losing it.

Winter had told the conductor to stop the train, and had been told roundly that he couldn't do it, there were no stops till Mistral. And if they stopped in the middle of nowhere, the Grimm would eat them all.

"So we're stuck on a train of death," Mercury said, cheerfully. "Our final stop? This is just like a movie. One where everyone dies in the end."

"Do you have anything helpful to say?" Emerald asked him.

"I told you so?" he said.

"No, you didn't!" she snapped.

"Listen, both of you," Winter said in a tone that made them shut up at once.

"We made it this far," Winter continued, fiercely. "If we can get to Mistral, we'll have back up. These grimm are nothing too dangerous as long as we keep the amount of them in check. If we simply had a good opening to put some space between us and them so that we had more time to counterattack, we might turn this fight around."

"The 'professional huntsmen' on this train are pushovers," Mercury said. "Honestly, that Rose girl would have done better in a fight."

"That's not really an insult, she's a prodigy," Emerald said.

"Yeah she's also 16, this is just sad," Mercury said.

"Why don't you just use magic?" Emerald asked Winter. "Your aura has to be almost gone after all those summonings."

"I'm not sure I can use magic so effectively yet,"  Winter said.

"You're still not back to normal?" Mercury sneered.

"I...felt better today, but pushing it might change that," Winter hesitated. "Also they are drawn to magic, aren't they?"

"But we don't have a choice," Emerald rubbed her arms. "They're gaining on us, and we're going to be out of dust soon. And my aura is just about gone, I can't hide us forever."

"Changing the weather conditions around this train might not help our chances," Winter argued. "There has to be a better way than that."

"Well, maybe we should just tell them to leave," Mercury said snippily. "Works for those other freaks."

Emerald and Winter exchanged a look.

"I don't think we have that," Emerald said. "I don't think I'm...in that yet."

"I doubt I could either," Winter said. "I mean, magic and that ability are opposed to each other, I couldn't possibl--"

One of the sphinx screamed at her suddenly and landed on the top of the train--where they were all standing at the time.

"There's a tunnel up ahead," Emerald looked back. "We need to get down."

[At least she saw it before it was right in front of them.]

Winter glanced at the grimm. More of them landed on the top of the train and started coming toward them.

She looked back at the tunnel.

"They'll fly away before we get there," Mercury said.

"Maybe not if they're distracted," Winter said.

"Oh, no...no..." Emerald groaned. "This is a terrible idea."

"It would take out most of them at once," Winter said.

She held up a hand and magic swirled around in it.

The grimm locked on it and drew toward her.

"Oh, good idea," Mercury shot at them a little to buy some time. "Live bait. That always goes well with Grimm."

"Shut up and fight," Emerald said, holding up her Thieve's Respite. She aimed at their eyes.

Winter looked up and clouds formed over head.

Ice began to pelt the grimm, and they got a little miffed.

The tunnel was almost there now.

At the last moment before they hit it, all of them jumped onto the platform outside the car and the grimm tried to go after them and slammed into the tunnel instead, bursting into smoke.

"Heh, that actually worked," Mercury said.

Before they could get too excited, they came out the other end of the tunnel and found that the remaining Midges were waiting for them in a huge swarm not that far ahead--oh and more of the regular grimm were there too.

Emerald, who was really tired by now, slumped.

"I can't do it," she said.

"Maybe you should go inside," Winter said.

This wasn't looking good.

"You know how you guys believe there's a god helping us out there?" Mercury had apparently been listening more than they thought to their conversations.

"Yes?" Winter said.

"Well, if He really is, now would be a great time for Him to prove it," Mercury said. "Because we're screwed. Even if we could fight half of those things, we'll never make it to Mistral."

"We're about 20 miles away," Winter said.

"Yeah...I'd be shocked if we lasted for 5 of those miles," Mercury said.

Winter noted that he was being a little more serious now, so apparently he could be competent if the situation called for it.

"Well, perhaps we still receive some help," she said. "I have before. But you'd probably have to ask."

"Oh no, I'm not into that," Mercury said. "But if it powers you up, you'd be crazy not to try something right now."

"Powers..." Winter suddenly remembered that Pyrrha had given them those supplies. "Of course."

She pulled it out. "I cannot believe this didn't occur to me before."

They climbed back on the roof of the train.

The grimm were landing on it like flies.

"Miss Sustrai, here," Winter said. "You seem to be the most tired."

"What? No, you're the hard hitter," Emerald said. 

"We can't have one of us weak," Winter said.

"Are you crazy? Just take it," Emerald said.

"Can you stop fighting over it and just do something?" Mercury said. He shot at them.

"Fine," Winter broke it in half. "Here." She tossed part to Emerald.

Emerald caught it.

The grimm zeroed in on her.

"Why are they...?" Mercury glanced at her strangely.

Emerald looked back. She should have probably just swallowed the thing and not done this, because the grimm suddenly lunged over Mercury's head before he could stop it and at her instead.

Emerald jumped back, trying to use her semblance to blind it--but the grimm didn't seem to be fooled by it, instead it snapped at her hand and knocked her into the roof of the boxcar, pinning her down with one paw, and then it began snapping at her hand again. Emerald flailed around frantically trying to keep it out of the grimm's reach.

"Get off of her!" Mercury shot at it, and the grimm turned to glare at him.

Winter tried to summon wind--this was still hard for her to do--but finally she got enough going to shove the grimm away.

Angered, the creature screamed at them, and then with its hind legs it grabbed Emerald by her feet and took her with it as it sailed off the train.

Winter and Mercury both know that these kind of grimm carry people off in order to eat them at their nests--or in midair, if they're in a big enough hurry.

To make matters worse, seeing that one of them was caught, the other sphinxes took off after that one.

There were still some remaining Manticores, on the train, they were landing on it now also.

The turret continued to pick them off, but it seemed it couldn't stop so many.

Winter, not wasting any time, lifted into the air and made a glyph that springboarded her after the grimm.

She landed on another glyph and summoned more flying glyphs, attacking the flock of sphinxes.

Emerald was kicking at the one holding her, but she couldn't get her weapons up enough to cut it.

"Miss Sustrai, just try to fall. I'll make a glyph," Winter called.

"It won't let go!" Emerald was panicking. Which only encouraged the grimm. 

"I can't get free!" she screamed. 

The sphinx was getting higher.

Winter flew after it and some of the other ones got in her path...and began to swarm around her...

Too late she realized that leaving the train was a bad idea because the cover from the turret was all that had kept them from surrounding her before now.

Unfortunately, she also realized at this moment that she'd dropped the cake when she'd sprung after Emerald because she'd pull her swords both out. It had slipped out of her hand.

Mercury, watching this, noticed it lying on the train car and scooped it up.

He wasn't sure what the stuff actually did, but with nothing else at hand, he swallowed it.

Winter wasn't going to get to Emerald in time at this rate.

The sphinx weren't eating Emerald yet though. They were circling around her and snapping at her arms.

Emerald dropped one of her knives in the effort to keep away from it, but the chain caught on her belt so it just dangled.

She pulled the other knife out with her free hand and managed to cut one of them, and it backed off, but there were too many others.

"Help!" she yelled. "Anybody!"

One of the sphinx clamped its jaws over her closed hand.

Emerald activated her aura in enough time to keep it from tearing her arm off...but it would as soon as she broke...and that wasn't going to take long--she was exhausted.

Winter was trying to fight her way through the others, but as soon as she killed one, more were flying to take its place, even leaving the train.

She couldn't get enough of the wind controlled to make a shield around herself.

Mercury wondered if this was his fault. These monsters clearly were attacking her for having something of the DJ's with her... Salem wouldn't have learned how to do that if not for his spying...she was changing the grimm's targeting ability, wasn't she?

The grimm yanked at Emerald's arm... Her aura was shimmering...

"Stop it!" Mercury yelled at them in frustration.

His head started to hurt.

But he was more focused on Emerald about to be torn apart than on himself, so it took a second to notice--and then everything went blindingly white.

Winter suddenly found the grimm she was fighting burst into smoke without her touching it.

Emerald, literally just about to snap, saw white light, and then the grimm on her arm dissipated instantly.

The one that was holding her in place also vanished and she plummeted.

Fortunately, this area was in the mountains so there was snow everywhere, and she wasn't much hurt, just cold.

Winter would have dove after her, but her magic shut off without any kind of warning and she felt almost suffocated.

Then she also hit the snow.

Mercury, not knowing what just happened, fell back onto the train car and passed out---but not a single grimm on the train tried to attack him, instead they flew toward Winter and Emerald.

Emerald pushed herself up, shivering, and yanked her weapon into her hands... How did she not drop the cake in all that?

She quickly ate it.

Feeling stronger, she stood up and the grimm passed over her and Winter's heads...not seeing her.

She ran up to Winter and pulled her up.

Winter seemed dizzy.

"Did I just see Silver Eyes?" she asked, confused.

"It sure looked like it," Emerald said. "But that...couldn't be, could it?  D--- it, we're losing the train."

The grimm were still overhead.

"Miss Sustrai," Winter said, "I believe it's worse than that. Look, those other grimm are now too close."

The Midge swarm was, in fact, now dead ahead of the train--and had also coated the tracks.

Before anyone could do anything the train hit the slippery track and careened off of it, tossing Mercury off into the snow and rolling partially over him and down the slope toward the trees.

"Mercury!" Emerald screamed.

"The passengers..." Winter echoed, in more of a gasp.

Some of the cars snapped off the links holding them together and started sliding their direction.

Emerald ducked behind a rock, bringing Winter with her, and the cars sailed over their heads and caught in the trees below them.

Any passengers inside were banged up, hopefully they weren't dead.

"We...I have to find Mercury," Emerald said.

"Go," Winter said. "I'll check them...the grimm aren't going to stay off them now."

Her magic seemed to be back. It wasn't as strong, but she rose up and flew toward the car.

Emerald ran up the hill to see what was left of the rest of the train and if Mercury was crushed by it or not.

[Well...that happened.]

* * *

No one on the ship realized that when it went down, they were over the huge bay still--probably about in the middle of it actually.

[They're going West if that helps. I realize that technically they went out of their way to go to Mistral, but they're doubling back, after all, Theo eventually would go back to Vacuo, so it kind of makes sense to just get the farthest away one finished first. Before Salem attacked them too much.]

That was good in one way--when they hit the water they didn't all die from the ship breaking  apart, it actually floated for a few seconds, but water began to seep in.

And boy, did that not help Neptune.

"WATER!" he started yelping. "No water! I can't swim!"

"Pyrrha," Wally called over his yelling. "Can you keep us afloat for a few minutes?"

Pyrrha, bracing herself on the wall, nodded. "Jaune!"

Jaune put a hand on her and boosted her aura.

With ease Pyrrha lifted the whole ship back up, thankfully it was a small one.

Cinder, who was latched to the ceiling by her one arm, glared at her.

"But we can't hold it forever," Jaune said. "Could we make it to shore?"

"Negative." The pilot was surprisingly still alive; he had an airbag. "We're at least halfway out, it would be miles before we'd reach shore. Unless you can hold it that long."

"I think I could hold it a few if we move fast, but not that long," Pyrrha shook her head.

"I think I've got this," Wally said. "And the good news is, no one has to swim."

"Really?" Neptune said, calming down a little.

"I could take us to shore," Shine said. "To Beacon."

"I'm trying to radio in, but the impact seems to have knocked my instruments lose," the pilot said. "Nothing's coming in. If you have a way to get us to land, that's all we can do."

"One problem--" Shine said. "I can't take Cinder. I'm not sure what that would do to both of us, but it wouldn't be good."

Cinder gave her a wary look.

"I could bring Cinder," Wally said.

"Okay then," Shine said. "And you know how to find Beacon from here?"

"It might take some trial and error, but I'll find it," Wally said.

That plan probably would have worked perfectly, if Salem hadn't had other ideas.

While they were still talking about this, the ship under them suddenly was jostled.

Everyone stopped talking.

"Tell me that wasn't a grimm," Neptune said.

"I don't know if I can tell me that..." Tai said. "Unless you want me to lie..."

"We can still get out of here before it attacks," Wally said

Shine held out her hand and a doorway opened.

"Everyone in," she said.

Penny, Tai, Watts, and the pilot made it through the door before a huge horn jabbed itself through the bottom of the ship, and split the hull like it was butter.

Neptune, who hadn't gotten to the door yet--because he was gripping the back wall frantically and didn't want to budge, yelped as water came pouring into the hole.

"What is that?" Wally said.

"That looks like a giant narwhal horn," Shine said. "But just a guess--also we need to go!"

But the horn hit her doorway and she suddenly screamed and the door snapped shut.

Shine flew back like that had actually hurt her somehow--

And then the ship split in half like a toy and both halves started to sink.

Pyrrha and Jaune were still there of course and Pyrrha held our both hands keeping the halves up.

"It's harder to hold two pieces," she strained. "But I'm okay. We just need to--"

The narwhal grimm, which was 10 times the size of a regular narwhal, shoved up again and the two halves were shoved apart and went different ways.

Pyrrha somehow kept them both up anyway, but they drifted several yards apart over the bay--and it was still dark at this point, so all they could see of them was Jaune's aura glowing.

"No!" Neptune was panicking.

"Stop it," Yang said, grabbed his arm. "You're drawing that thing closer."

Sure enough, the grimm was drawn to his fear and swam their way, the horn was sticking out of the water like a flag pole at an angle.

[Also called Unicorn fish. I've met people who think these things are a myth, but they're real. Weird but cool.]

Water was sloshing against the sides of the ship halves.

Wally, Shine, and Cinder were caught in the other one.

"Shine? New plan?" Wally said.

"I can still get them out," Shine said. "Same plan, just--"

Before she could modify it, the water behind them stirred and a grimm fish that looked like a flying fish had been crossed with a shark, came jumping out of it and at them.

They moved and it sailed past them, snapping and leaped back in the water.

"I don't remember this one in the book," Wally said.

"It's not," Shine said. "Unless she read Jonah."

The Narwhal certainly was big enough to swallow them whole, it was circling around the other half.

"I'll lift us higher," Pyrrha strained and their half rose to be at least 20 feet in the air.

"Wait, if you drop us from this high it's going to hurt more," Neptune said.

"You want to be closer to the water?" Yang asked.

"No!" he said.

"You need to try to calm down, buddy," Jaune said, trying to sound steady. "Don't draw the grimm more to us."

"That's the least helpful thing to say now!" Neptune said.

"Even with your help, I can't hold this for more than another 10 minutes, wouldn't you say?" Pyrrha asked Jaune.

"It's fine, Miss Likstar will make another portal for us," Jaune looked down.

He saw things attacking that half of the ship.

Shine had her sword and slashed at them, turning them to smoke.

"Pyrrha, can you lift them higher also?" he asked.

Pyrrha moved her hand and it rose more.

"Whoa..." Wally lost his footing since the hull was slippery now from the water and started sliding.

"Steadier!" Jaune said.

Pyrrha tried.

"I can't see what I'm doing," she said, starting to get stressed.

"A little to the left," Jaune motioned at her.

Wally grabbed the edge of the hull.

"Wally!" Shine stuck her sword into it and then reached out to grab him.

"Just get us out of here!" Cinder was not helping anything.

"Shut up," Shine said to her. "We're trying."

The Narwhal got tired of waiting and it rose out of the water again, its horn coming up to hit the hull.

It tore apart again.

Pyrrha wasn't ready for that impact and she lost her grip on it.

The half dropped into the water with Shine, Wally, and Cinder all still on it.

Cinder used magic to spring into the air just in time, though the flying shark grimm jumped at her heels. She flew up to land on the half that was still afloat.

"What about them?" Yang said.

"What about them?" Cinder said.

Yang punched her and she fell back to the water.

"Yang!" Pyrrha said.

"What? She'll just fly up again anyway," Yang said.

"I think you're forgetting that she's still not back to full power," Pyrrha said.

Cinder's Aura didn't compensate for Yang's hit as much as it normally would have, and she hit the water, which also hurt, and started flailing--drawing the shark things toward her.

"Are we gonna die?" Neptune said.

"What is wrong with you?" Yang said.

"Yang, that's not helping," Jaune said. "We have to lower and get them."

Actually, Shine and Wally had no problem saving themselves.

Wally started treading water at high speed until he got enough momentum to get up on top of it and then run in a circle till he sucked it up into a whirlpool overhead.

Then he began to draw it away from the Narwhal before it could swallow one of them, leaving it flapping on bare ground at the bottom of the bay.

Shine, not a very strong swimmer, was left clear of the whirlpool but noticed Cinder got caught in it.

"Wally!" she called, waving her sword.

Wally stopped, and the whirlpool dropped again, splashing the kids on the floating half, to Neptune's horror.

He yelped as the water hit him.

"It's just water!" Yang said. "We're not drowning."

"That's not it!" Neptune said. "I can't be near water!"

"What do you mean?" Pyrrha asked.

"Yeah, why is it so bad?" Jaune asked.

"Because I can't control it!" Neptune said. "And when I get scared, it goes haywire."

"What does?" Pyrrha asked.

"Water!" Neptune said.

The news that this was his Semblance shocked them all so much that they almost broke focus.

"Wait a minute," Yang said oddly, "but if you can't control it--"

The Narwhal, angered at being dried out like that, suddenly leaped at them.

"Ah!" Pyrrha tried to move them and it just knocked them crooked.

Neptune and Yang went sailing over the edge and towards the water, with ungodly screaming on Neptune's part.

Jaune and Pyrrha were dangling off one half, but were jerked around until Pyrrha steadied it again.

Cinder was thrashing in the water and trying to burn the fish that were circling around her.

"Get away from me!" she yelled at them angrily. "I didn't come this far to get eaten by you!"

"Cinder--" Shine swam over. "Stop it! You're only making them want more. They're looking for magic, you idiot."

Cinder stopped for a moment.

The Grimm snapped at her.

Shine grabbed her with one arm in something like a choke hold, but looser.

"Hey!" Cinder said.

"Just hold still." Shine pulled her sword up in front of both of them. 

"Back off!" she said.

The Grimm backed up, but kept circling, as if to say, "You're not getting away that easily."

"Gonna be hard to portal without taking them with me..." Shine worried. "I can't portal you anyway. Just fly."

"I can't!" Cinder's Aura crackled unsettling. "It won't work!" 

She began spewing the panic/rage that always followed her.

"Kanap ruined my magic powers! All of you, it's all of your fault."

"Cinder Fall," Shine said in a tone that even Cinder found scary, "if you don't stop that right now, I'll knock you out so you can't squirm and make them even antsier."

Cinder clamped her mouth shut.

"Good," Shine said.

Wally ran up to them and plucked them out of the water at high speed.

"Just need to find land," he said.

"Take her. I've got to get the kids," Shine said. "Meet you there."

"If you're sure." Wally let her go and rushed off with Cinder.

The sharks were swimming for Neptune and Yang. Neptune was freaking out still.

Yang was doing just fine, though her metal arm was weighing her down and so were her shoes.

She fired some dust at the Grimm and got a couple, but there were too many more.

"Neptune--" She swam over. "Stop it!"

"I can't do this!" Neptune was losing it.

Yang slapped him.

"Ow!" He glared at her. "What was that for?"

"Pyrrha!" Yang called.

"I'm trying." Pyrrha was holding out her hand. "It's hard at this range...to be so precise..." She was gritting her teeth.

The Narwhal hit the hull again, and Jaune and Pyrrha were both jerked off it and fell into the water.

To make matters worse, the hull fell toward them.

"Get under!" Yang yelled and grabbed Neptune before he could get out of her reach and yanked both of them under the surface.

[The Incredibles comes to mind...]