One Shot, One Kill
The mission started with a view of an old ferris wheel before an old building popped onto the screen. The camera slowly started zooming into a certain point in the building and a few seconds later, the audience could see why.
It showed Yang and Qrow laying on the floor of the final floor of the building as of they were waiting for someone to show up. They were looking at the area in front of them through the binoculars, both of them still dressed their ghillie suits.
The screen turned white, and another second had to pass until the audience were able to see everything through Yang's eyes.
"Oh, no one talks in the intro for this mission?" Neptune asked.
"They didn't had to. They told us everything we had to now in the previous one." Sage stated.
Yang layed next to her uncle. There was a sniper-rifle placed on the floor between them.
Ruby had stars in her eyes when she spotted it, "Look at this sniper-rifle!"
Her mother was in awe as well, "I wonder what it can do! It sure looks like a powerful one!"
Qrow took his eyes off his binoculars and send his niece a quick glance, "Firecracker, the meeting is underway. Enemy transport sighted entering the target area."
Yang gave him a quick nod of her head in response as Qrow started looking at the target area through the binoculars again. She gripped the rifle, taking a quick look at the picture of Sienna placed in front of her, before looking through the scope.
"The wind's gettin' a bit choppy. You can compensate for it, or you can wait it out, but she might leave before it dies down. It's your call..." Qrow told her.
She slowly zoomed into area of the target where the White Fang has gathered, but it still wasn't all of them. More faunus started arriving.
Qrow continued, "...Remember what I've taught you. Keep in mind variable humidity and wind speed along the bullet's flight path. At this distance you'll also have to take the Coriolis Effect into account."
Yang looked around the faunus, most of them gathered around some white tables with guns placed on them, before her target appeared in her view. Sienna came forward, placing a briefcase on a crate.
"And here I am." Sienna stated, this time being probably the first one since Lionheart's execution where she appeared in person.
"I think I know where this is going." Ilia stated, already knowing what was going to happen in the next few moments.
"Ok... I think I see her. Wait for my mark." Qrow told his niece as Sienna opened the briefcase, revealing that it was filled with gold.
Coco whistled after seeing the gold in Sienna's briefcase, "Ooh la la."
"Look at this gold." Nora said, daydreaming about how many pancakes she would buy if she had this many gold.
Roman and Neo stared in awe at the gold in the briefcase, the two thieves thinking how many lien they'd get if they sold this gold, with the orange haired man asking Sienna, "Where did you get this gold?"
"How should I know that?" Sienna asked him.
Yang stared at Sienna as her uncle declared, "Target acquired. I have a positive I.D. on Sienna Khan. Steady. Keep an eye on that flag. Watch for any change in wind speed and direction."
She followed his advice and stared at the small flag on one of the vehickle as the wind was moving it to the left, only to change it's direction to the right, which was followed by another change to the left. She also made sure to observe everything Sienna was doing. The leader of the White Fang watched how a faunus threw a golden bar to some other faunus who held it in the air, checking something about this gold before tossing it back to his fellow faunus.
The faunus walked over to the briefcase, placing the gold inside before shutting it down. It was when a helicopter flied in front of Yang and Qrow.
Qrow groaned, "Ach, where did he come from? Patience, firecracker... Wait for a clear shot..."
The helicopter flied away. Yang continued to aim at Sienna who was talking with the other faunus. She raised his arms in frustration as if there was something wrong with the deal they were making. The flag was gradually becoming still as the wind settled.
When Sienna was in the perfect position for Yang to shot as if she was looking straight at her and Qrow, and the flag was standing still, her uncle called out to her, "It's now or never, take the shot!"
Yang did as she told to. She pulled the trigger of the sniper-rifle and fired a single bullet at unsuspecting Sienna. The bullet blown off Sienna's left arm who collapsed on the ground, filling it with her own blood. The White Fang were immediately alerted after seeing her getting her arm amputated but don't know where the shot came from and immediately started moving away in from the area of the deal.
Some of the audience flinched at the view of Sienna's arm being blown off her body and her blood splattering over the ground. Even Sienna rubbed her left arm.
"Ouch." Jaune stated, cringing at what he just saw on the screen.
"So I lost my arm because of you?" Sienna stated, as she stopped rubbing her arm. She crossed her arms and glared at Yang.
"Don't look at me that way!" Yang told her, as she crossed her arms as well, "I was doing what I was told to. Besides, it's most likely nothing compared to everything you and your men did."
B put his hand on his chin as he realized how ironic was that in this universe Yang was the one who made someone from the White Fang lost their arm. The only difference being that Sienna replaced Adam.
"You have a sloppy aim." Raven said to her daughter, earning glare from Tai and Qrow.
"What?" Yang turned to look at her mom.
"Even someone who never fired a sniper-rifle would kill her. She was standing in a perfect position for you to kill her, and yet, she is still alive." Raven pointed out.
"How did she survived that?" Goodwitch wanted to know, "There's no possibility that she would get away in time before bleeding out."
Winter agreed with her, "That's actually a really good question."
"They might reveal it later in the story. There was several other faunus and a few cars there. She could've just got into of them and drive away with some other faunus." Blake assumed, "At least this is the only theory that comes to my mind right now."
"This faunus would defintely become someone important in the White Fang." Adam stated. Saving the leader of the White Fang from certain death of bleeding out would definitely greatly rewarded.
"Maybe it was Ilia who saved her?" Ren stated, deciding to join the discussion, "After all we did saw her only once in the mission where Cinder executed Lionheart."
'That actually makes sense." Sun agreed with him.
"She might be the key to catching Sienna." Weiss added, agreeing wih Ren's theory too.
"Everything about the relation between Sienna and Ilia is going to be explained in the one of the next missions." B explained. The revelation of Sienna's and Ilia's relation in this universe is definitely going to suprise a lot of people in the audience, especially the two faunus.
"Nice shot. I think you blew her arm off. Shock and blood loss will take care of the rest." Qrow complemented his niece.
"Well, I was wrong." Qrow stated.
The helicopter that blocked Yang's and Qrow's view of Sienna appeared in front of the building again, having seen from where the shot came from.
"Shit... they're onto us! Take out that helicopter, it'll buy us some time!" Qrow declared.
Yang's reaction to that was quick. She fired another bullet which hit on the pilots of the helicopter straight in his head.
The aircraft went down in flames, which was followed by Qrow shouting, "Great shot Leftenant! Now let's go! They'll be searching for us!"
"Would killing a pilot ignite the engine in flames?" Sun asked, confused.
Penny shook her head, "No. I'm certain that it wouldn't."
"They probably made it because they thought it would look nice." Weiss stated.
Nora shrugged her shoulders, "Well, they weren't wrong."
"It's time to move!" Qrow shouted as she and Yang rose up from the ground. They ran to the other side of the room, grabbing two lines wrapped around the windows, "We'll have to take the shortcut! Follow my lead!"
They rappeled down the wall of a building and they were lucky, because just a second later, two more helicopters fired and blown up the final floor. When she made her way to the ground, Yang pulled out her M21 and started following her uncle along the sidewalk.
"Follow me!" He shouted to her, before calling out to someone else, "Delta Two-Four, this is Alpha Six! We have been compromised, I repeat we have been compromised, now heading to Extraction Point Four!"
He didn't had to wait long for reply, "Alpha Six, Big Bird is en route. ETA - 20 minutes. Don't be late. We're stretchin' our fuel as it is. Out."
Yang and Qrow ran into the street filled with abandoned cars, where they have been instantly met with a group of the White Fang soldiers firing at them. They took their firing positions behind the abandoned car and started firing back at them, killing each one of the faunus they spotted with a single shot in the head.
But more of them were coming. When Yang turned back she was two helicopter flying above them, with more faunus rappeling down the lines on the ground.
"These guys really want them dead." Emerald stated, seeing how more of the faunus were arriving to take out Qrow and Yang.
"This is what happens when you try to assassinate the White Fang leader." Adam told her.
B turned to look at Adam, remembering that the bull faunus was the one who killed Sienna himself in the show. He shook his head and turned back to the screen.
"The situation certainly gets worse with any minute for them." Ozpin stated.
"I doubt that they're going to sneak their way past their enemies now." Ironwood stated.
Qrow rolled his eyes at Ironwood's comment, "No shit, Jimmy."
"Forget these guys, we're going to get left behind! Let's get to the extraction point! We've got to reach the extraction point before we run out of time! Keep moving! Go!" Qrow told his niece as he broke himself into run straight at the enemies across the street, to avoid fighting with the one that were behind him.
"Suicide run again?" Raven turned to her brother, remembering that he did something similiar in the last mission.
"Well, last time, it worked out pretty well." Qrow stated.
"Only this time these guys know where you are." His sister pointed out.
Yang followed her uncle's example and pushed herself into run as well, but she made a quick stop in front of a corpse of a faunus. She switched her sniper-rifle to a pistol and then switched the pistol for an AK-47.
"Oh, this Yang now turns into a classic Yang." Miltia stated.
"Or maybe, she knows that she is going to need a machine gun more than a pistol in this situation." Winter told one of the twins.
She made use of her new weapon instantly after picking it up. She ran across the street, closely behind her uncle and fired her new machine gun at any faunus in their way until they made their way to a building. She took a quick glance at the enemies behind her and saw that a good portion of them was still alive.
"We'll lose 'em in that apartment! Come on!" Her uncle shouted to her when they ran through entrance to that building.
They turned to the left and walked over to the doors. Qrow slowly opened them and took a quick peek to see if they were any enemies there. There weren't any so he walked inside, with Yang walking closely behind him. They made their way to a window and jumped over it, only to met a barking dog that would definitely attack them if it wasn't for a fence.
A few people in the audience jumped a bit at the at the sudden appearence of this dog, Blake being one of them.
"You really need to do something about your fear of dogs." Yang whispered to her.
"I'm not afraid of dogs!" Blake whispered back to her, making sure that no one except for her team would hear it.
"Your reactions everytime when you see one, either here, or in real life say otherwise." Weiss whispered to Blake, joining the conversation.
Yang silenced the dog with a simple shot to the head, then she and her uncle hopped over a window into another building.
"First Ruby, now Yang." Tai stated, having seen both of his daughters kill a dog, "You should be really happy that Zwei is not here."
"C'mon, dad." Yang said in response, "He wouldn't take it seriously... right?"
They moved across the building and stopped for a second when Qrow raised his fist in the air, after seeing some faunus outside through the windows, "Standby...!" He lowered his fist, adding, "Quick, plant a claymore by the door up ahead!"
Yang's response to this order was instant. She crouched down and made her way over to the exit from this house, planting a claymore in front of it. She backed down a bit, watching how an enemy walked straight into her trap. The claymore exploded as the lifeless body of a faunus collapsed on the ground, allerting other faunus outside that they were in the building.
She and Qrow made their way outside readied herself for the confrontation with the faunus. The confrontation didn't last long, and only a moment had to pass before all of the faunus laid on the ground, dead.
"Incoming helicopter!" Qrow suddenly shouted as Yang looked up to see a helicopter flying between the building.
"This is bad, really bad." Ruby stated, unaware how things were going to get even worse in the few moments.
"Do they have any rockets to take it out?" Sun asked.
"I don't think so." Coco shook her head in response.
"Then how are they going to take him out?" Cardin wanted to know.
"They can always kill the pilot, like Yang did before they made their way out of the building." Ren assumed.
"But in that situation, the pilot was right in front of them. This one is far away." Velvet pointed out.
Yang switched her machine gun to her sniper rifle and looked through her scope straight at the helicopter, and started firing at it, hoping that one of the bullets will kill the pilot. Her uncle joined her and fired a single bullets at it's rotors, damaging them.
"Well, that was easier than I thought." Roman stated.
"You're gonna jinx them, you know that?" Neo asked her partner in crime.
Roman simply shrugged his shoulders to that.
Qrow turned away from the helicopter and slowly started to walk forward.
"Why is he walking so calmly?" Winter asked.
"He's not just asking for something to happen to him." Ironwood stated.
The rotors started spinning around, as the helicopter started going down. It crashed into a building, firing its missiles which made Qrow turn back to see it crashing into the ground.
"Run!" Qrow shouted as he pushed himself into run when the helicopter started crashing towards him and Yang. His niece made it to safe place without any problems, but he was a completely different story. He collapsed on the ground, and didn't stand up after that, instead he started crawling from the aircraft.
"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby shouted in worry for her uncle, forgetting for a second that their uncle will survive this.
"Don't worry." Qrow told his niece, "Remember that I'm stil alive five years later"
"Oh." Ruby seemed to be calm down after remembering it, "Right."
"We kept telling about how lucky you are that you don't have his semblance in this, but it seems like we jinxed it." Summer stated.
"We sure did, Sum." Tai agreed with his wife.
"He just is very unlucky even without his semblance." Goodwitch stated.
The helicopter crashed across the ground and stopped just inches away from Qrow. He catched the one rotor blade that didn't shear to pieces as much as the other blades did with his hand, stopping it inches from his body.
Yang walked over to him to see if he was okay, to hear him say, "My leg's all messed up! I can't move! Sorry, but it seems like you're gonna have to carry me!"
"Would you be even able to lift your uncle off the ground?" Weiss asked, turning to her teammate for a second.
Yang shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, but this me apparently can."
Yang reached her hand down to her uncle who grabbed it. She placed him on her back and began walking along the sidewalks between the buildings.
"If we run into trouble, you'll have to find a good spot to put me down so I can cover you." Qrow began, "The extraction point is to the southwest. We can still make it if we hurry."
"At least he won't be completely useless." Vernal stated.
Just second after Qrow said it, a few faunus could be seen running right into Yang's view. She placed her uncle on the ground, next to a abandoned car, before pulling out her sniper-rifle. She fired a single bullet at the faunus in front of the group, taking him out while Qrow at the same time took out one of the ones in the back, alerting the rest of them. The instantly looked around themselves, trying to spot Qrow and Yang but at the time when they located them, only two were of them alive. They tried to fire back at duo but only a moment later, they joined the lifeless corpses of their fellow faunus on the ground.
"It's time to move, give me a lift." Qrow said as Yang once again lifted him up and placed him on her back. They walked further, turning to the left and coming across an area with a few trees, benches and a small brick fence that was surrounded by a few building.
She stopped saw more enemies checking the area, looking for them. She set her uncle down on the ground in the bush. Qrow aimed his sniper-rifle forward as Yang switched to her machine gun, making sure to reload it at first. Then the sound of Qrow firing his sniper-rifle echoded in the area.
"Good thing they have those suits on." Port stated.
"They are were handy when they were sneaking their way into this town, but now they need far more now that they've been spotted." Oobleck added.
The faunus quickly looked around themselves, as Yang came out of the bushes, and cleared all of them out, emptying the magazine in her gun. She reloaded it as she made her way to Qrow, placing him on her back again.
"Looks like we're in the clear, we should get moving." Qrow stated as they made their way into an apartament building, hearing a helicopter fly above them. They walked through the only entrance that wasn't locked and made their way over to the next floor.
They walked across the second floor and stopped when they heard a dog growl. Just in case if there was someone else on the second floor, Yang placed Qrow on the floor who instantly readied himself if there was anyone there, willing to take their lives.
A dog ran out of the other room, growling at them as it stopped right in front of him, showing off it's teeth to them. It was about to make it way back to the group from which it came from, but Yang took it out with by firing a few bullets from her machine gun. She crouched down and carefully came over to the entrance leading to another room.
She slowly leaned out to the check the area on the left of the hallway separating the room from each other. There wasn't anyone there so she checked he right side to see a faunus standing next to a burning barrel. She quickly moved into the hallway and took him before he could react.
She knew she couldn't lower her guard now. There could have been someone waiting for her in the next room. She threw a flash-bang grenade just in cast if there was really someone there and found herself to be right when she heard someone stumbling as he was blinded by the explosion of a flash-bang grenade. She rushed into the room and took the faunus that was there, clearing out the second floor from the enemies.
She walked over to her uncle and placed him on her back again. They moved across the two rooms and walked through the entrance that led them to the part of the building that was completely destroyed. The floor of this room apparently collapsed at some point. They walked through what used to be a window and came outside.
When they started moving towards another building, Qrow declared, "We're almost there. The extraction point is on the other side of that building."
They entered the building and walked through a changing room for women and walked into the place that used to be a swimming pool. The audience could spot four dogs there, feeding on a corpse of a faunus.
Blake gulped at this view for the second time while watching this mission. There was a dog feasting o the corpse of the faunus in the previous mission, but this time, there were a few more of them.
"We better don't get spotted by them." Yang stated.
"We don't have to worry about them. I think that they're going to ignore them if they will just leave them alone, just like the one in the previous mission did." Ren stated.
"Actually there wasn't just one." B corrected him, raising his index in the air.
Blake turned to look at him, "What?"
"If you'd shot the dog that was eating the faunus in the last mission, you'd wake up his buddies that would attack you." B explained.
"Did you do it?" Ruby asked him, titling her head a bit.
"Yes." B nodded his head in confirmation, "I was curious and instantly regretted doing it. I ended up getting swarmed with at least a dozen of dogs."
They came over to the exit from the swimming pool which was a hole in the wall and saw that two faunus were outside. The faunus spotted them as well. They turned back and started moving away from them.
"They can't just attack them?" Adam asked, confused why these two White Fang soldiers didn't attack Yang and Qrow immediately after spotting them.
Yang placed Qrow on the ground and switched her machine gun to her sniper-rifle, making sure to get rid of the faunus. After dealing with two of them, she placed her uncle on her back again and stepped into what used to be an amusement park with a massive ferris wheel standing in the center of it.
"Oh!" Ruby stated, pointing at the screen, "There's the ferris wheel from the intro for this mission."
"Too bad it was only used once." B stated.
Some of the audience looked at him, curiously. Pyrrha was one of them, "What do you mean by that?"
"One of the documentaries about Chernobyl claimed that an amusement park would have been opened four days after the disaster, but the ferris wheel was started the day after the explosion to keep the locals busy and avoid panic before the evacuation." B explained.
"I guess that it became a known place in this city after that." Mercury stated.
B nodded his head in confirmation, "It's one of the well known places in this city."
"Alpha-Six, this is Big Bird. Standing by for your signal, over." Big Bird declared to Qrow and Yang when they stepped into the amusement park.
"Our helicopter is standing by at a safe distance." Qrow told Yang, "Put me down behind the Ferris wheel where I can provide sniper support. A bit farther to the north... This'll be fine."
Yang responded to that by approaching the ferris wheel and placing her uncle in the grass next to it.
Qrow adjusted his position, declaring, "Take the rest of my claymores, now is the time to use them."
His niece moved around the amusement park, placing claymores in various positions, but it wasn't the only thing she was going to use to defend herself and her uncle. She made her way over to the swimming pool and placed all of the C4's she had on the ground. With all of it done, she moved back to the ferris wheel, taking her position next to her uncle.
Qrow continued to stare at the area ahead of him when he said, "Alright lass, I've activated the beacon. Good luck."
"Alpha-Six. We have a fix on your position. Hang tight. Big Bird out." Big Bird declared.
Yang made sure to reload her weapon when the White Fang soldiers started coming out from the area next to the swimming pool, "Tangos in sight. Let them get closer. Standby to engage... Open fire."
They pulled the triggers of their sniper-rifles, taking two of the faunus ahead of them. Their companions quickly layed down on the ground, to hopefully avoid getting killed by the snipers ahead of them, but they quickly rose back on their feet when they heard growling abd barking behind them.
The four dogs that were feasting on a body of a faunus rushed out of the swimming pool, and rip into the throats of the faunus that happened to be nearby.
"At least they're not attacking us for once." Qrow stated. Yes, they have seen dogs that were feasting on the lifeless bodies of the faunus from the White Fang, but it was the first time when the dogs directly attacked someone that wasn't him, or one of his nieces.
The other White Fang noticed what the dogs were doing to their fellow faunus, and made sure to take them out before moving further, but unfortunely for them, Yang and Qrow used the fact that they had their attention focused on the dogs for their advantage and took them down.
Neither Yang and Qrow had a moment to catch a break because more of the faunus came from the area next to the swimming pool. There was far more of them than in the previous group and Yang knew it was time for her to use her C4 trap. She pulled out the detonator and pressed it. C4 exploded, taking out some of the faunus and suprising the survivors of this sudden explosion.
Yang and Qrow made sure that the survivors joined their fellow faunus on the ground, but it didn't do much because more of them came, but the ones in the front weren't excepting another trap. Claymores exploded, getting rid of a few of them, but a better portion of them was still alive. Yang reloaded her sniper-rifle, to make sure that the magazine was full. She moved the scope around the area, taking care of the faunus that were neither hiding behind something, or were making their way forward.
A few moments had to pass until a familiar sound sounded in the audience ears and Qrow confirmed what it was by calling out, "Enemy choppers inbound!"
Yang gazed to the sky and saw that a few helicopters arrived, which meant more faunus to deal with.
"I know that I said that already, but these guys really want them dead." Emerald said.
"Yeah." Mercury agreed with her.
"Not everyday you see a few helicopters filled with soldiers just to take out two people." Junior stated.
Yang focused her attention on the rope from one helicopter and took down every faunus that tried to rappel down to the ground. When the helicopter flied away she quickly to the faunus that came from the other ones, but they weren't the only ones she and her uncle had to deal with. They were joined by the ones who came from the area next to the swimming pool, passing by the lifeless bodies of their fellow faunus, and dogs that attacked them.
They were heavily outnumbered and Qrow was aware of that, "Big Bird we are heavily outnumbered, where are you?"
Big Bird's response was quick, "Copy that Alpha, we'll be there ASAP. Hold tight."
Yang turned to her right and spotted an enemy running next to the ferris wheel. She took him out before he could make his way towards her and her uncle. She turned towards her again and moved her sniper-rifle around, taking out anyone that was on position that was giving her a chance to kill him. At least she was using her sniper-rifle, until it ran out of the ammo.
She quickly switched her sniper-rifle to her machine gun and made way over to the yellow car that was nearby her and her uncle. She crouched down behind the car and fired a few bullets at the faunus that managed to get close to them. Her uncle stayed behind in the grass, firing at the White Fang soldiers in the distance, while she remained behind the car, taking out the White Fang soldiers that managed to get close to them.
It lasted a few moments until the familiar sound of a helicopter arriving rang through the ears of the audience, "Alpha Team, this is Big Bird. Get your ass on board, over."
"Finally!" Yang shouted.
"Took them long enough." Qrow stated.
Yang quickly hurried backwards and lifted up her uncle before placing him on her back. They made their way to the helicopter, passing by four marines who were crouching down by the hatch, firing at the faunus from the White Fang.
She walked up the hatch and placed her uncle on the seat, who offered her a quick nod, telling her that he was alright. She turned back to the exit from the helicopter and saw how the marines walked inside of the aircraft one by one.
Once everyone was inside, Big Bird took off into the air, and started flying out of Mountain Glenn. At one point, the burning last floor of the building from which Yang and Qrow tried to assassinate Sienna could be spotted in the distance.
It was when the screen turned black.
"That was intense." Sun stated.
"Well, the mission where the two characters are chased by dozens of soldiers would certainly be considered an intense one." Yatsuhashi agreed with him.
"At least we found out how I lost my arm." Sienna said, sending Yang a quick look.
"But we still don't know how did you survived losing your arm." Goodwitch told her.
"The helicopter cut our view of that place, so we don't know what happened after that. Blake's theory of someone saving her is most likely a correct one." Ghira stated.
"But who would be the one to save her?" Neptune wondered.
"I'm going to stick with my theory of this person being Ilia." Ren stated.
"That is rather likely, we've only seen her once so far." Pyrrha said, agreeing with Ren's theory.
"So, B." Yang said, turning to look at B, "The next mission is going to be the start of my, Ruby's and Weiss' chase after Sienna?"
"You're about to find out." B said, starting the next mission.
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