Cordovin controls the giant Atlesian mech, which trudges through the ocean, and goes after the airship Kyla, Maria, and Weiss took before.

Weiss: You're joking, right? You want to fight this thing?!

Ruby: We've fought giant monsters before. This is just a tiny old lady... with one very big robot.

Crim: Yeah, a little old lady with a giant robot. A robot that could evaporate us in a second.

Rex: There has to be some weak points in that thing. We need to find them and deal with Cordovin, otherwise we'll never get to Atlas. (Draws out Excalibur) Besides, I have a bone to pick with her after yesterday.

Cordovin: You little spider-roaches thought you could creep your way to Atlas?! Well, let's see how your resolve holds out against the might of the Atlesian Military!

Cordovin prepares to take down the airship with a missile that pops out from a slot on the arm cannon.

The missile fires and tracks the airship, but suddenly, it explodes harmlessly just right behind it. Cordovin turns to see Ruby and Mia with their Crescent Rose and Aegis. Ruby and Mia lower their weapons and glares at Cordovin while the others get ready to fight.

Mia: Bring it on, bitch.

Cordovin: (growls) SO BE IT!!

Cordovin prepares to shoot the missile at Ruby and the others. Weiss, Kyla, and Maria sees Cordovin doing so in shock.

Weiss: Dive!

Kyla and Weiss unbuckle their seatbelts and gets off from her seat while Maria dives for the landing. As Maria heads to the others, they approaches the airship door with Myrtenaster in her hand.

They both jumps off and Weiss raises her weapon creating a rock wall and protecting the group from Cordovin's ice Dust attack.

Oscar: That was close.

Rin: Too close.

Rex: We're stuck.

Elena: We need to take her mech down, without it destroying our ride.

Ruby: We need to figure out how to stop Cordovin and protect the airhsip until we do.

Jaune: Let's give her more targets to focus on.

Nora: You mean us, don't you?

Jaune: Look at that thing. It's not designed for small enemies. It's probably meant for giant Grimm that come in from deeper waters. We can turn our size into an advantage. We just have to be smart.

Elena: Smart thinking.

Briana: E and I are up for that.

Mason: Grandma, can you keep the ship out of harm's way?

Maria: They can take my driver's license, but I won't let them take this ship!

Ren: (deadpan) Very reassuring...

Zach: Oh yeah...

Oscar: I'll be more useful if I go with her. From up high, I can try to spot a weakness.

Qrow: Well, he's not the only one who can grab a bird's eye view. (smiles)

Rin: Us three can do some damage, but we need to get close.

Crim: The rest of you should focus on long-range fire from here, keep her busy on you guys for too long.

Weiss: (to Ruby) You said you needed me on the ground?

Ruby: Not exactly. (nervously smiles)

As the team strategizes, Cordovin keeps an eye on their location keenly. Suddenly, her eyes widen as the group splits into three: Team JNR, Athena, Crim, and Mia run down the left path along the cliff, Maria flies the airship to the right, and Mason, Rex, Ruby, and Qrow fly straight up into the air using his Wind Elemental, his anchor shot, her Semblance, and his corvid form, respectively.

Ruby reforms from her Semblance and fires Crescent Rose, cracking the mech's windshield and causing Cordovin to growl.

Rin: Call that a warning shot!

She fires a volley of missiles to Ruby's location.

Ruby lands on a tree branch and uses her Semblance to dodge the missiles. She eventually reforms and runs and jumps along the missiles with Mason using his Semblance reforming a cloud shooting lightning with Panther's Claw at the mech. They continue to dodge and counter before freefalling down to the ocean. An incoming wave is frozen by Weiss as Ruby slides along it.

Ruby: Let's go!

Mason: I'll cover you two!

Weiss also slides off the frozen wave before using Myrtenaster to freeze small patches of ice for her and Ruby to leap on toward the mech. As Cordovin keeps her attention on them, her mech is suddenly struck by a volley of pink grenades.

Jaune: Hey! Over here!

Cordovin: What?!

Cordovin looks over to Jaune's group as they keep running.

Nora: (to Ren) And you said it wasn't beach season!

Crim: Focus on the mech please!

The six then take cover behind a boulder for each of them. Nora fires off more grenades from Magnhild,

but suddenly, a hexagonal shield pattern appears protecting Cordovin's mech, doing no damage to her.

Zach: Damn, hard light dust.

Cordovin: (laughs) Surely you knew Atlas was the father of hard-light Dust, or do lesser kingdoms simply lack proper education?

Cordovin charges up her mech's arm cannon again, this time firing rock Dust, forcing Jaune's team to abandon their cover.

Jaune: Cordo just activated shields!

Oscar: I saw that. We need to find whatever's generating it.

Ruby: You know, in video games, the weak spot's usually on the back of the giant boss!

Weiss: Ruby, this isn't a game!

Rex: Yeah, this is real life!

Ruby: I'm just trying to-- LOOK OUT!!

Cordovin's mech is seen stomping at a part of the ocean. Unbeknownst to her, Qrow flies around in his avian form.

Cordovin: You are ants! You are lower than ants!

Briana: Hey! No one calls me an ant, you hag!

As Qrow flies through the clouds, he transforms back into his human form,

he and Zach draw their weapons before crashing on top of the giant mech.

Cordovin: Ah! What was that?!

Zach: It doesn't matter if she has a shield. It can't protect her from up close and personal attacks.

Qrow: Until the shield's down, we're gonna have to get up close and personal with this thing.

Qrow starts to fire at the scratch he just made. Suddenly, he notices the mech's giant hand start to reach for him. Qrow dodges out of the way, transforming back into his avian form.

Ren: That's easier said than done!

Ruby: Weiss, Rex, and I are on it!

Rex, Ruby, and Weiss land on a patch of ice on the ocean together.

Weiss: Hold on!

Weiss stabs Myrtenaster into the ground, creating an ice attack that knocks Cordovin's mech off balance for a bit. Cordovin let's out a frustrated yell. As the airship flies by, Oscar realizes something.

Oscar: Wait, that's it. When she...

Suddenly, Cordovin aims her cannon at Ruby and Weiss.

Oscar: (gasps) GUYS, MOVE!!

Rex: Oh shit!

Cordovin fires a volley of missiles at Ruby, Weiss, and Rex, creating a large plume of water. From it, Weiss, Rex, and Ruby emerge unharmed as they ride Weiss' Queen Lancer summon. Ruby leaps off and uses Cresecent Rose to propel herself onto Cordovin's mech, embedding the scythe's blade into it. Maria cheers Ruby on. The force of Ruby's strike knocks the mech back into the cliffside, the tremors being felt by the citizens in Argus. Cordovin let's out an enraged scream.

Jaune: Go!!

Elena and Briana synchronize with each other to give enough power to their Semblances Psychokenisis and Gravity throwing rocks at the mech, one of them actually hits the glass, which Cordovin screams in pure rage.

Jaune, Ren, Athena, Zach, and Nora proceed forward. Crim and Ren leaps onto the mech's arm and runs along it, while also using Ascalon sword mode the blades of StormFlower to hang on. Jaune uses the twohandler form of Crocea Mors to slash at the mech's hip joint, while Nora uses the hammer form of Magnhild to smash at the arm cannon as Athena uses her Pneuma to inflict damage on the mech's shoulder...

Cordovin manages to stand the mech back up, causing Rex and Ruby to be lowered down into her view on the windshield. Ruby and Rex hang on to Crescent Rose and Excalibur as Ruby nervously smiles and waves at Cordovin.

Rex: Hi.

Cordovin: Get off of me!

Cordovin tries to grab Ruby and Rex with the mech's left hand, forcing them to let go as Ruby uses her Semblance to fly downward. Luckily, Weiss flies by on her Queen Lancer summon and catches Ruby as Yugo flies down and grabs Rex.

Yugo: Gotcha!

Rex: Whew!

Ruby: Heh.

Weiss: What if I hadn't caught you?

Ruby: I knew you would. (grins widely)

Weiss just groans. As they fly around the mech, Ren lowers himself down along the mech's back. He and Crim notices a panel with a humming machine sound coming from it.

Crim: I can hear something from the back!

Ren uses one of his blades to pry the panel off, but almost falls as the mech keeps moving around. Fortunately, Qrow appears and catches his wrist.

Qrow: Gotcha. What'd ya find?

Zach: The gold mine.

Qrow tosses Ren back up as the both of them look at the panel he just opened. They see a whirring machine with the label "AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY, SHIELD GENERATOR" written on top of it.

Qrow: Well, alright then.

Crim: Guess Ruby's hunch was right.

The four of them draw their weapons and shoot at the machinery, disabling the mech's shields. Cordovin watches her screen as the shields are reduced to zero.

Cordovin: No, no, no, no!!

Cordovin then feels a tremor as Nora fires a volley of grenades at her.

Nora: You get back here with my man!

As Nora continues firing at Cordovin, Weiss and Ruby fly by to Zach, Crim, Ren, and Qrow.

Weiss: Jump on!

The four men do so. Nora continues to fire until she runs out of ammo. Suddenly, Jaune and Rin notices Cordovin lifting up the mech's arm. They both run over to Nora.

Rin: Nora, look out!

Cordovin: I've had enough of you ingrates!

Cordovin slams the mech's arm into Rin, Jaune, and Nora, knocking them back and breaking their Auras. The three struggle to get back up.

Rex: Sis!

Mia: Rin!

Ren: No!

Suddenly, Weiss gasps as Cordovin fires the mech cannon at her group at point blank range, destroying the Queen Lancer summon and knocking herself, Ren, Qrow and Ruby back over to the cliff. Ruby uses her Semblance to fly back over to the cliff, but falls short.

Rex: Ruby!

Rex runs towards the edge of the cliff and sees Ruby embeds the blade of Crescent Rose into the cliffside and holds on for dear life. She and Rex notice Cordovin approaching them.

Cordovin: This is what happens when you think you know better than those rightfully in charge!

From the airship, Oscar notices Ruby in trouble and runs over to Maria.

Oscar: We gotta do something!

Maria flicks some switches on the controls and flies back over to the mech. Just as Cordovin is about to fire her arm cannon at Ruby, Maria flies by and fires a missile. Suddenly, the mech grabs the missile with its hand, causing Cordovin to turn the mech around to Maria's direction.

Cordovin: Calavera...

Everyone watches helplessly as Cordovin fires the missile toward the airship's direction. The missile explodes in front of the airship, causing it to rattle...

Back in the forest, Blake, Shane, and Adam continue to fight each other intensely. Their blades clang loudly as they clash back and forth. As their blades lock, Blake hears a distant explosion from behind her. Blake's distraction causes her to dodge quickly from Adam's attack. Blake uses the kusarigama form of Gambol Shroud to grapple and swing from tree to tree. Adam gives chase.

Adam: Can you do anything besides run?!

???: On your six.

Before Adam could turn around, Flora is seen flying kicking across Adam's head, causing the bull faunus to fly into one of the trees.

Flora: Gotcha bitch!

Shane: Flora!

Flora: Sorry I'm late!

Blake and Shane quickly regroups with Flora and uses this advantage to attack Adam, but he quickly dodged her attack and kicks her back a distance.

Adam: That's it!

Adam then jumps onto a tree trunk and leaps off of it as he continues to pursue Blake, who continues leaping from branch to branch. Adam then fires Wilt and it crashes into Blake's kusarigama just as she was about to grapple onto another tree.

Due to her loss of momentum, Adam manages to catch up and slash at her,

but he merely just slashes Blake's trench coat off. Blake then kicks off Adam, knocking him back.

As Blake lands back on the ground, she fires at Adam, who blocks some of her shots but some manage to still hit him. The two then leap out of the forest and find themselves on a natural stone bridge in front of a waterfall.

All of that, Shane and Flora runs up to Blake and helps her stand up.

Shane: You alright?

Blake: I-I'm okay.

Adam: (off-screen) DAMN YOU!!!

He rushes towards Shane but Flora gets in his way as he breaks her aura with her Semblance, causing Flora to fly away from Blake and Shane.

The three then clash again, with Blake evading Adam's attacks with her own Semblance. Shane manages to catch Adam's sword with his own Dragon Fury, leaving Adam to defend himself with Blush. Eventually, Adam catches Blake's wrist and blocks her katana with Blush.

Adam: I wouldn't have to be doing this if you just behaved!

Suddenly, Adam grabs his sword and flings away Blake's cleaver, before knocking her in the side of her head with the hilt of Wilt. Blake gets knocked back several feet.

Adam: But you're SELFISH!!

Adam knocks Blake back again.

Adam: You're a COWARD!

Adam again knocks Blake back a few feet.

Blake: You're delusional...!

Shane: You're a psycho!

Adam then points his sword at Blake's abdominal scar that he gave her before.

Adam then uses his Semblance, which causes Blake's katana blade to break in half. The broken weapon clatters a few feet away from Blake.

Adam then stops to remove the blindfold from his eyes.

Adam: People hurt me long before we met... All sorts of people in all sorts of ways... (Blake looks away sadly upon hearing this) ... but no one hurt me quite like you...

Blake and Shane look back up to Adam as they saw his own eyes: his right eye a healthy blue eye, his left eye scarred permanently with a brand labeled "SDC".

Shane: Just like Elena...

Adam: You didn't leave scars, you just left me alone.

As Adam continues talking, Shane and Blake hears a certain motorcycle drawing close.

Adam: So... tell me, Blake... how does it feel to be alone?

Blake doesn't pay attention to what Adam says as she hears the noise get closer. Suddenly, Adam raises his sword and lets out a loud yell in fury as he stabs Blake in the abdomen.

Suddenly, her form disappears, another Semblance clone. Adam then looks behind him as Blake picks up her cleaver.

Blake: I'm not alone.

Suddenly, from above the waterfall, Yang and Luke drive off the cliff and hurls her motorcycle, which crashes into Adam, knocking him down, before falling off into the river below.

Yang and Luke lands a few feet away from Shane and Blake as she stares down Adam.

Luke: Hey, asshole. Missed me?

Adam: You...

Yang fires a shot Adam, which he blocks. Yang then activates the shotgun in her prosthetic arm.

Shane: About time...

Blake: Yang! Luke!

Suddenly, Blake falls to her knee as she holds her stomach in pain.

Yang: It's okay. Catch your breath for a second. I can hold him off.

Luke: Save your breath, Sis. I'm gonna get some payback for what he did to my girl.

Adam: They're right, Blake. It's okay, we have... unfinished business.

The three combatants stare each other down. Adam makes the first move, delivering a series of quick slashes and Semblance arcs that knock Yang back a short distance.

Eventually, Luke starts to strike back, managing to land some hits on Adam that he wasn't able to block.

Yang knocks Adam back a good distance before firing at him. He blocks and absorbs the shots with his sword. Adam then quickly runs in circles around Yang before letting out another Semblance attack that causes Yang to slide back a short distance.

Blake: His Semblance is like yours! He absorbs energy through his sword, stores it up and then sends it back when he's ready.

Yang: He gets to dish out damage without having to feel it? (sighs) That's just cheap...

Shane: More like a cheap copy...

The three proceed to trade blows again. Yang lands a series of punches and kicks on Adam, but he manages to send her back when Luke uses his semblance and punches his sword. Yang gets knocked back next to Shane and Blake and the three share a glance with each other. Adam notices this and lets out an angered growl.

He readies his Semblance once again.

Blake: YANG!!

Shane: WATCH OUT!!!

With a loud yell, Adam lets out a devastating attack with his Semblance. When the smoke clears, Flora was seen blocking Wilt with her Glorious.

Flora: I'm not done with you yet, bastard.

Her foot barely hangs off the edge of the bridge. She lowers her arm and Yang glares at Adam.

Yang: Leave. Us. Alone. This is your last chance.

Adam stares back at the two as he grips the hilt of his sword again. Yang's left arm trembles slightly.

Adam: Heh, do you really believe that? Or are you just trying to scare me away so you won't have to die trying to protect her?

Yang, angered, prepares to fight him again despite her hand still trembling. Suddenly, Blake takes Yang's hand with her own.

Blake: She's not protecting me, Adam. And I'm not protecting her.

Adam glares back at the two of them angrily.

Blake: We're protecting each other.

Shane: There's nothing you can do about the bond between humans and faunus.

Luke, Yang, Blake, Shane, and Flora stand hand in hand in solidarity as they glare at Adam together...

Luke: (punch his fists together activating his Semblance) Let's dance, motherfucker.

END OF PART 76