Hunted
An emblem of AMC appeared on the screen, and spined for a moment, before it was replaced with a Beacon one, informing the audience that they were back with Ruby, Yang and Weiss and probably Sun.
"It seems like it's back to us." Weiss stated.
The camera now focused itself on the helicopter in which Yang and her squad departed in a previous mission, as Weiss' voice sounded on the screen, "We've got Sun! We're taking him to the safehouse in the Vale! E.T.A, oh seven-hundred-hours out!" Weiss' voice sounded on the screen.
"So, we're right after saving Sun in this mission?" Ruby asked.
"It seems like it." Blake answered.
"Then I'm sure that something is going to happen. Like helicopter is going to shot down, or the safehouse is going to get attacked, otherwise why would they make a mission about us just being in the helicopter." Sun stated.
The detail of the helicopter was suddenly replaced with a grid that showed the people inside as red figures. There were passengers who the audience assumed to be Yang, Ruby, Weiss and Sun, and two pilots. The camera then zoomed to Ruby, and a moment later they could see everything through her eyes now.
Everyone in the helicopter seemed to be minding their own things. Weiss and Sun just sat in silence, Ruby was watching over the surroundings and Yang was smoking another cigar.
"This version of Yang has a serious smoking problem." Jaune stated.
"Yup." Nora agreed with her leader.
All four of them just minded their own things for another few seconds, until an alarm started ringing from the cockpit. Yang dropped her cigar and said, "What in the bloody hell is that?" before looking outside to see what was going on and saw that a missile was heading their way, "Incoming missile! Hang on!"
A moment later, the helicopter got hit and began to fall. The only thing Ruby could do in that situation was to hold as tightly she could to her seat brace herself for the impact.
"Mayday, mayday! This is Hammer 6-4, we're going down! I repeat we are going down two miles of waypoint 5!" One of the pilots said.
It was the last thing that the audience heard before everything went to black.
"You were right, dude. Something did happened." Neptune said, patting Sun on his shoulder.
"Coco, and you said that the last mission started off strongly." Yang said to Coco.
"Yeah." Coco agreed with her.
A moment later the audience could see what was going on again, and the first thing they saw was that Ruby was slowly opening her eyes, as Yang ran over to her, "C'mon sis. Get up. You're still in one piece."
As Yang started to help Ruby rise from the ground, they both shared a quick look at the burning helicopter as it exploded, "C'mon, we need to get moving before the search parties get here."
Ruby and Yang made their way back to the rest as she heard her sister speak up again, "Casualty report."
"Both pilots are dead, sir." Weiss reported as Sun was shaking one of the pilots in order to make sure that he didn't make it out alive from the crash.
"What a suprise, only main characters made it out alive." Goodwitch stated.
"Professor Goodwitch! Are you telling us that you'd like to see your students die in that crash?" B asked as dramatically as he could, even though he knew that we sooner or later Goodwitch was going to see some of her students die.
Goodwitch just rolled her eyes at the unfunny attempt to annoy her from B, "No. I'm just pointing out that only main characters made it alive from the crash, while the other didn't."
"Bugger." Yang said as Ruby switched her pistol to MP5 and M4A1, "All right, the extraction point's not far from here. Let's move out."
The squad began to ran along the path into the the farmlands, as Qrow's voice spoke up on the screen, "Bravo Six, this is Baseplate. AC-130 gunship support in on the way but it will take some time before they will be in a position to assist, over."
"Uncle Qrow to the rescue." Qrow said, earning some laugh from Yang and Ruby, while Tai and Raven rolled her eyes.
"Copy, Bravo Six out." Yang said back.
"An AC-130 eh? Haven't worked with one of those in a while." Weiss stated, as a familiar face appeared in the view of the squad and the audience.
"Yatsu?" Velvet asked.
"Where did I came from?" Yatsuhashi seemed to be confused by his sudden appearance, as them, along with the people who had similiar thoughts turned to B, waiting for him to explain it.
"I don't know. Soldier who was in his place here appeared out of nowhere as well." B answered with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Captain, vehicles coming from the north." Yatsuhashi informed them.
"Get under that bridge, move it." Yang said, as they began to run through the overgrown path which eventually led them to a bridge. They quickly hid under it as the two trucks drove above them.
"It's only two trucks, it could have been worse." Jaune stated.
If the situation wasn't bad enough for Yang and her squad, they all heard a helicopter fly above them. It probably was a part of a search party for them.
"You just jinxed it." Weiss said, as Jaune rubbed the back of his head nervously
"Thanks vomit boy." Yang said.
When it seemed like it was good moment for them to move out, they all left the area under the bridge and moved to a small farm which was rather poor. At least it seemed to be poor.
"Hold up, we've got company." Yang said as she and Ruby carefully walked into rather empty shack. She and her sister took a cover behind an entrance to this shack, and saw that a few soldiers from the White Fang came out from the truck and walked over to eldery man who just came out of his house.
"Ain't that the old guy that works everywhere in the Vale?" Neo asked, remembering that she and Roman robbed him several times, a few times in a different place.
"It is him, Neo." Roman said.
"Are we going to help him or what?" Yang asked.
For a few moments, one of the soldiers was practically harassing the eldery man, and when it seemed like he was going to pull out the pistol and show the eldery man down, Ruby aimed her M4A1 at him, and show him in the head, saving the eldery man who ran back into his house as fast as he could. The other White Fang soldiers seemed to be suprised by the sudden death of their comrade and drew their guns out but they didn't had a chance to do anything as Yang, Ruby, Weiss, Sun and Yatsuhashi shot all of them down, without having any problem with them.
"All clear." Weiss stated.
"All right, let's keep moving." Yang said as she came out of the shack, followed by the rest.
"At least we saved that guy." Ruby said.
The squad jumped over the fence, and moved from one farmland to the next. They ran through the field for a while before they heard that the enemy helicopter they heard a moment earlier when they were hiding under the bridge was flying above the farm they went pass a moment ago, turning it's spotlight on after seeing the bodies.
"Spotlight, hit the deck!" Yang shouted, as everyone threw themselves on the ground on their bellies. They all held their breath as the helicopter began to fly above them, hoping that it was not going to see them. It was a sense minute for all of them, especially when the light got near one of them, but eventually the helicopter moved to another place, "The heli's moving away, let's go."
The squad quickly got themselves back on their feet, and ran over to the farmhouse as fast as they could, but if they didn't had enough troubles, Weiss' voice called over, "Contact, six o'clock!"
"And they appeared when this versions of us probably thought that things can't get worse for them." Yang said.
"Rule number 1 of thinking that things can't get worse. Don't have thoughts like that." Blake said.
Ruby almost instantly returned the fire at her enemies, followed by the rest of the squad, as Yang called out, "Ice Queen, we'll hold them off! Get that basement door open, now!"
Weiss nodded her head as she ran over to the basement door, and tried to open it, while her squad was doing it's best to cover her from the enemy fire. They didn't had much problems with the enemies on the ground, but things got much worse when the helicopter from earlier appeared in the sky. One of the enemies opened the door to the helicopter, and pulled out a machine gun.
"Oh, great. This is just great." Sun stated.
After a moment of being practically pinned down to one spot by the machine gun guy from the helicopter, Ruby leaned out from her cover, and fired half of her magazine, eventually shooting the guy down, causing his lifeless body to fall on the ground. It was one problem less for her and other people from the squad, who once again began to fire at their enemies.
The shooting lasted a minute or two, before they heard Weiss shout the words they've been waiting for, "The door's open, captain!"
"Finally!" Ruby shouted.
"You took your time, Ice Queen." Mercury stated.
After hearing those words, the squad rushed into the basement, and Yang who was the last from the squad to get to safety, shut the doors, and said to her sister, "Sis, take point and scout ahead for an exit."
Ruby nodded her head as she moved up the set of stairs which took her out of basement. She could feel that a bullet almost hit her as it flew through the opened window in front of her. She crouched down before the window and took care of the enemies that remained outside. She knew she didn't had to take care of them, but she wanted to make sure that they weren't to cause more trouble for her, and her squad.
She then stoop up from her crouching position and looked back to see Yatsu and Weiss walking up to her from the basement. All three of them moved to another room, where they came across two enemies.
"Flash-bang!" Weiss shouted as one of them threw a flash-bang grenade to them, blinding her and Ruby. When they finally could see again, they saw that both of them were dead, and that Yatsuhashi was standing next to them with his gun raised.
"Thanks Yatsuhashi!" Ruby called over to the member of team CFVY.
It took a moment for Yatsu to reply, "...No problem."
As the two enemies were dealt with, Yang and Sun joined the rest, before they along the rest of the squad moved out of the house, as Yatsuhashi spoke up, "It's too quiet. Where the hell did they go?"
"They're probably regrouping. Trying to cut us off somewhere ahead." Weiss stated, as they began moving through the area filled buildings which were pretty much shot tight. The think that got the attention of the audience was that this place seemed pretty much lifeless. There wasn't any sign of anyone living there.
"This place is so empty and lifeless that it would be a nice location to a slasher movie with a psychopath that breaks legs." Nora said.
"What do you have with breaking legs, Nora?" Yang asked what was on her mind for a while, as Nora just shrugged her shoulders with a smile.
"Stay sharp." Yang said, as they suddenly heard the sound of a dog barking. Some of the people in the audience assumed that he must've been abandoned by his former owner in this place.
"Don't panic, don't panic..." Blake thought to herself while trying to keep her expression straight.
"Are you okay, Blake?" Kali asked her daughter, noticing that there was something off about her.
"Yes, mom. I'm okay." Blake said with a fake smile on her face.
"Is it because you heard some dog barking? I haven't seen you this panicked since I read your "Ninja of Love" book." Ruby said.
"You let her read what?" Yang asked, she, Tai, Qrow and Summer turned towards Blake.
"Nothing!" Blake shook her head so fast that it was suprising she didn't broke her neck.
The squad stopped next to a boarded building after they heard that the barking was getting louder and louder. They came into their view a second later, as they were running towards them and they could easily say that their intentions were not good. Ruby quickly aimed her M4A1 at one of them and shot him down before he could reach her or someone from her squad, while Sun took care of the other one.
"Did I just witnessed Ruby kill a dog?" Summer asked. This was something she thought she'll never see.
"Well, it tried most likely was going to attack her, so she didn't have much choice." Tai stated.
"Good thing your little doggie Zwei is not here." Raven stated.
As the lifeless bodies of two dogs layed on the ground, Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Sun and Yatsuhashi started taking fire from The White Fang soldiers. The squad quickly took their covers and started to fire back at them. Ruby was aiming carefully her gun, trying to spot any enemies in her sight, when one of them came into her view, she fired a few bullets at him, and when his body fell on the ground, she shot him once more to make sure that he was dead.
It was when she gotten an idea of how to deal with those soldiers. She and Sun moved to the alley on the left and a saw a set of stairs. They walked up them, it lead them to the balcony which gave them pretty good view on where their enemies were hidding. They began to clear the area from their enemies, as Yang, Weiss and Yatsuhashi moved further into this place and helped them in taking care of their enemies from the ground.
When it seemed that all of their enemies were dead, they heard that the helicopter was nearby again, as Weiss said, 'Hold on, helicopter's back."
They all quickly ran over to the small alle, to hid themselves in case if the helicopter was going to check this area. A few seconds later they saw the helicopter and it's searchlight scanning the area for them. Fortunely, it didn't seemed like he was going to check this area, yet, so they just waited for it to disappear from their view.
And when it finally did, Yang opened the small gate slowly and said, "It looks like they don't know where we are. Let's keep it that way. Let's press on. Move."
"It's going to spot them in a moment, right?" Miltia asked. It just felt to her like this version of Yang just jinxed.
"Yeah." Melanie agreed with her.
The entire squad followed their captain, and went through the opened gate. They ran down the small hill and crossed the river. When a small bridge came into their view, they saw that the enemy vehicles were driving through it.
They probably weren't going to see them, but Yang didn't want to risk, "Hold up. Sentries on the bridge ahead."
Everyone moved to the wall of a small wall, and practically started hugging it when the helicopter flied above the bridge, and moved scanning the area of the river. After a moment which felt like eternity for all of them, the light of the helicopter was away from them, and they were able to move further.
"Let's move but stay low." Yang told her squad as they got away from the river, and headed into another field. It was filled with bundles of hay that was clustered together in a large cylinder shape all across the field.
The squad began moving forward, taking cover behind every bundle of hay. When they were sure that they weren't to be spotted by any of the enemies patrolling the field, they moved to another one, and another one, and once they were pretty close to the village ahead of them, they were spotted by one of the enemies.
"We're compromised! Open fire!" Weiss stated the obvious.
"That was close." Jaune stated. They were indeed to close to moving to the village without getting spotted.
"At least they're very close the village.." Ren pointed out.
Ruby quickly took out the enemy that was shooting at their cover from the entrance to the village, while her squad took care of other soldiers that were patrolling the field.
As if situation wasn't bad enough for them, Yang then shouted, "Watch out for the helicopter!"
The helicopter flied right above their heads, but much to the confusion of theirs, and the audience, it didn't started shooting at them, instead it flied into the area of the village. The squad decided to there no time to think what this helicopter was going to do, and moved into the village. The first building in this village they walked into was an old glass house which was in a very bad state. The only plant there was grass, and a good portion of small windows were destroyed.
As they were about to exit from the glass house, the enemies started shooting at them. Ruby crouched down to avoid getting shot, and got rid of the enemy that was hiding in a nearby shack. She then stood up from her position and quickly ran into now empty shack as the rest of her squad remained in the glass house.
She then looked around herself to see where the enemies were stationed, and saw that at least four of them took cover in another glass house. She knew what she had to do. She threw a flash-bang grenade at them, blinding them, and when they couldn't see what was going on around them. She and her squad shot down their comrades who weren't in the glass house.
When they finally regained their vision, it didn't took them a while to join their friends. The ran into second glass house and moved further into the village. As they went pass a destroyed house, they saw that more enemies were waiting for them, some of them were waiting by the two trucks, or some of them were waiting by the barn.
"Are those the two trucks we saw earlier?" Russel asked.
"I don't think so." Cardin answered, shaking his head.
"It rather unlikely, considering that they were going in different direction, and one of them stopped at that farm where we saved that old man." Weiss stated what was rather obvious for her.
Ruby noticed another destroyed building, which was a good spot to fire their enemies from, she walked into it. She took her cover behind it and reloaded her M4A1, before leaning out from the window. She saw that two soldiers were standing in the entrance to the barn, and it didn't took her that long to take them down. She looked around to see that there weren't any enemies in her sight. She knew that it was time to move out from her cover, so she left it, but before that, she made sure that she wouldn't get shot down by any of her enemies, which weren't that much left, because her sister and the rest took care of them, while she was taking care of those two in the entrance to the barn.
When there weren't any enemies left alive outside, the squad moved to the barn, and got themselves ready in case if there was anyone waiting for them in there, which was rather possible. Yang threw a flash-bang grenade there, blinding at least one enemy there before shooting him down, Ruby took care of the two enemies upstairs and Yatsuhashi killed the man hiding behind a tractor.
"Captain Xiao-Long, we've got stinger missiles in the barn." Weiss was the first one to notice stinger missiles on a green crate.
"Sis, grab a stinger and take out that chopper." Yang said to her sister, who did as she told to.
"Let me guess, this is sort of a rocket missile which locks it's target before firing at it?" Winter asked.
"It seems like it." Ironwood said.
"Oh, how annoying this weapon is when you get a chopper gunner or AC-130 in MW2 multiplayer..." B thought to himself at the thought of how many good killstreaks this weapon ruined him in MW2.
Ruby went out of the barn, with a stinger missile in her hand and aimed at the helicopter. The audience heard a rather annoying buzz for a moment before Ruby fired the missile at the helicopter, unofortunely missing it.
"Bloody hell! He's popping flares! Ruby, grab another stinger and fire again. Let's put him to a test." Weiss said to Ruby who went back into the barn, and came outside a moment later, holding another stinger missile. She aimed it once again, and waited until she could hear another buzz. She fired the missile a second after, and this time fortunely for her, but unfortunely for the people in the helicopter it hit the helicopter, causing it to spin around, until hitting the ground, exploding, killing everyone inside.
"Good shooting there, Ruby." Weiss said.
"Weiss! Did you just complemented me?" Ruby asked, turning to Weiss.
"It's another version of me. It doesn't count." Weiss pointed out.
"Good work, sis. Everyone on me. Let's move out." Yang said, as Ruby moved back to the barn, grabbing her M4A1 back from the crate. She followed her entire squad to the ramp. Yang opened the backdoor, they moved through it, into another path.
It was when they heard Qrow again, "Bravo Six, be advised, that AC-130 is entering your airspace at this time. Out."
As the squad made their way to the small hill, they saw a road and a few buildings. The thing that got the audience attention was the fact that the road was filled with jeeps, trucks, and enemies. There was even one tank there.
Yang signaled for them to stop, before saying, "Warhammer, fire mission, danger close! Enemy armor and infantry, one hundred metres to southwest of out location over."
"Copy. Comin' down." One of the AC-130 crew members said back.
It was when the air support started. The first shot destroyed the tank, and it was followed by another shots, which destroyed trucks and jeeps. The enemies began to flee from their location, but they didn't had much chance to get out of it alive.
"Holy shit." Qrow said in awe of the air attack.
"Wow." Ruby was in awe as well.
"That was something." Coco stated.
"They didn't even had a chance to escape." Port stated.
"They were completely crushed by it." Nora stated.
"Now, I want to see a mission through the eye of one of operators of this AC-130." Jaune said, Nora eagerly nodding her head in agreement.
"That's bloody outrageous!" Weiss said what was on the minds of the audience.
As the myst created by the explosion began to die down, Ruby saw that one men survived the attack was was slowly walking forward himself. She quickly took him down as the AC-130 crew member said, "Bravo Six, we'll cover you all the way to the extraction zone. You'd better get moving."
"Roger that, Warhammer. We're moving now. Out. Come on, let's go!" Yang said as the squad started moving the destroyed convoy.
It was the last the audience saw before the screen went to black.
"That destruction of that convoy was great." Nora stated.
"I'm glad you liked, because the next mission is going to be purely about AC-130." B said.
"Really?" Jaune asked.
"Yes, Jaune. What you said about wanting to see how AC-130 works through the eyes of it's operators is going to be the next mission." B said, pressing the button.
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