Safehouse
The mission started with an A.M.C emblem that spined around for a moment before a map was showed to the audience. An square was pointing straight at the location where Cinder detonated the nuke that practically decimated the marines.
A moment later an inscription appeared on the screen.
Sgt. Penny Polendina
1st Force Recon
Status: K.I.A
Some of the people in the audience that knew what K.I.A meant let out a sigh, still pretty shaken because of what happened in the previous mission.
But there were some people that didn't knew what it meant, Ruby was one of them, "What does that mean?"
Qrow sighed at his niece question and answered, knowing that she was not going to like it, "Killed in action."
Ruby looked down at the floor, letting out a sad "Oh."
Then, the camera started moving across the map before Beacon logo popped onto the screen.
"It's back to you." Blake stated, looking over at her three teammates who had a chance to appear in this trilogy, while she didn't, yet.
"They picked the best people to go after Cinder." Yang said, with Weiss and Ruby nodding their heads in agreement, both of them wanting justice for everything Cinder did in the story. Weiss especially wanted to avenge her sister and Klein, despise them being just put in the places of the characters of the story B was showing them.
"We're going to avenge Penny, Winter and the rest!" Ruby shouted.
"That's right, sis!" Yang agreed with her sister.
It was when a square with Sun's photo appeared on the screen, with the faunus on it speaking up, "The woman is a coward, Captain Xiao-Long. Cinder Fall would never sacrifice herself. There is a safehouse in Menagerie that Cinder Fall has used in the past. I am sending you the coordinates..."
"Excuse me?" Cinder said, clearly offended by how she was just called.
"It's not that far from the truth." Ironwood stated.
"What does that supposed to mean?" Cinder asked him, crossing her arms, glaring at him.
"You know that Jimmy is not wrong, right? You bombed all those marines and then ran off to hide somewhere in Menagerie." Qrow agreed with Ironwood, which was a rather rare thing to happen.
As Cinder just glared at these two, she could hear Mercury laughing quietly to himself, whispering, "Heh, he just called her a corward."
"Mercury, I heard that." Cinder said to Mercury who jumped in his seat upon hearing that, making Emerald grin, knowing that he certainly pissed their boss off.
The camera finally stopped on what seemed to be edge of Menagerie on the map, as Yang spoke up, "Understood Sun. Weiss, assemble the team. We're going to Menagerie ."
The camera lowered itself into the place which the audience assumed to be the place where Cinder went into hiding. A few buildings were visible in the area of Cinder's possible location. Some strange black and yellow stripes appeared on each one of the building, singalling that Cinder could have been hiding in one of them, until the square pointed at one location where Yang, Ruby, Weiss and the rest of their squad were placed.
Weiss' answer was, "Yes captain. I hear it's lovely this time of the year..."
The camera completely zoomed itself down on the location of the squad and the next thing the audience saw was Ruby checking her M4A1 as she was crounching down in the bushes in front of an old gas station along with Yang, Weiss, Yatsuhashi and two other Beacon members that were unknown for the audience. Not for long. When Ruby took a glance at each of them, they could see their names. The one on the left was named Barton while the one one the right was named Arem.
When Ruby looked forward herself she spotted someone flashing a signal to the team with his flashlight.
"Who's that?" Velvet asked.
The answer quickly came when Yang stated, "There's Scarlatina's man. Let's go."
Coco titled her head upon hearing this name, "Scarlatina?"
"Velvet is back?" Yatsuhashi asked.
Nora gestured towards B, "Well, our masked fella here did say that we were going to see her again."
One of Velvet's soldiers and Yang stepped out from their hiding places and met each other in the halfway of the distance between them. The loyalist quickly began his explanation, "Cinder Fall is in the village. The White Fang are protecting her."
"So, now she is now using her White Fang allies to protect herself?" Raven asked.
"I assume that it is going to led us to finally seeing Sienna again." Vernal stated.
"Perfect." Yang nodded her head and looked back at her squad and gestured for them to follow, "Move out."
Ruby, Weiss, Yatsuhashi, Barton and Arem all rised up from the bushes and followed Yang and the loyalist. The entire squad walked up the hill which was leading straight to the village, screams and gunshots could be heard from a village.
"What the bloody hell's going on up there?" Weiss wanted to know.
"It's the White Fang. They're killing the villagers." The loyalist answered.
Winter shook her head after hearing this answer, "Monsters."
"They just can't leave those poor villagers alone." Summer asked.
"Yeah well, not for long they're not." Weiss stated.
The squad made their way up the hill, spotting the buildings. One of them was a church on their left, and other was a house which was apparently filled with the White Fang members, because they started shooting at the squad the moment this building came into their view. Ruby aimed her weapon at the window of the house from which one of the White Fang members was firing and took him out with a simple shot in the head.
The squad moved further towards the building as they reached the entrance to this house, but didn't had a chance to enter it as there were at least five enemies inside and rushing straight through the entrance would most likely end with death. An idea what she should do popped in Ruby's mind as she threw a grenade righ into the house, the explosion killing at least two of her enemies, and lowering the guard of the other three for a second, allowing her and the rest to rush in.
Yang and Weiss took care of the other three White Fang soldiers as Barton and Yatsuhashi went to check the other floor to see if there was anyone hiding in there.
When she didn't heard a single shot for either of them, Weiss declared, "Building clear. No sign of Cinder Fall. Move on."
"So, they're going to be searching every house that they showed us on the map at the start?" Jaune asked.
"It seems like it." Ren answered.
"I can bet that Cinder is going to be hiding in the last one." Sun stated.
Scarlet nodded his head in agreement, "It's quite obvious."
The squad was about to move out of this building to check the other ones but at first they had to take care of the White Fang soldiers that stood on a small hill with a burning wooden building in the background, using a white fence as the cover. Ruby knelt down in front of the window, while the other members of her squad took their own covers from them as well, and cleared them out just a second later, allowing them to move towards another building.
The other building they were going to check was a building on the edge of the town. The upper part of the wall of the roof was gone and it gave one of the White Fang members a good position to fire them. He became a problem for the squad, but after a moment of firing at them, one of the bullets fired by Weiss silenced him for good.
The squad made their way over to the building. It was that actually that big so clearing him out of the White Fang soldiers didn't took them that long.
Just like in the previous one, there was no sight of Cinder Fall anywhere near that building, making Weiss call out, "Building is clear. Move on to the next one."
"Are you going to be saying this everytime when you clear out a building?" Nora asked Weiss, earning a shrug of the shoulders in response.
The squad moved further into the building, walking up the hill towards another building, which this time would surely take more time to clear it. It was huge. Fortunely there was other way of walking into it than the main entrance. There was an entrance to the basement which was giving them a chance clear it without having to risk by coming inside of it through the main entrance.
But there was one complication which wasn't allowing them to get closer to the building. That something was a BMP that was moving along the road, clearly heading towards their way, firing at them every moment as it did so.
"Ruby! Call in air support!" Yang told her sister.
"Wait, what, now?" Sky asked.
"They could call air support for this whole time?" Russel added.
"Why haven't they used it sooner?" Dove wanted to know.
"Because before they didn't had a reason to use it?" Fox stated as if it was the most obvious thing.
Ruby pulled out a walkie-talkie and a golden circle appeared right on the BMP which turned into a red one as someone spoke up to Ruby, "Mosin 2-5 here. We're on the way. Standby for air support."
A minute or two had to pass unil the air support in a form of a single gunship arrived, and got rid of the obstacle that was the BMP, but the BMP wasn't the only victim of the helicopter's sudden arrival, some of them White Fang soldiers that weren't hiding inside of the building were taken out as well.
The support lasted for a moment, before the pilot of the gunship called out to Ruby, "This is 2-5. We have to refuel and rearm. We will not be available for some time."
"Do you think they will use it again?" Sage whispered to his teammates.
"Considering that they have two more buildings to check, then, yes, it is possible." Scarlet replied.
After watching the gunship leave to refuel Ruby finally had a chance go into the basement just as she originally wanted. She made her over to the basement and from there went over to the stairs which led her straight to where enemies were waiting for her and the rest. She threw a flash-bang grenade, blinding both of the White Fang soldiers which were then taken out by her without any problem.
But there weren't the only ones. Most of them were hiding on the next floor. She carefully made her way up the stairs, and saw one White Fang soldiers that was taking cover behind a doors, leaning out for a moment to fire some bullets in random direction, hoping that it'll kill some of the people attacking him. She simply waited for him to empty his magazine and once it happened, fired half of her magazine straight at the doors, killing him and making his lifeless body fall through the doors.
She then went to check on the room from which he was firing just in case if there was anything there while the rest of her squad took care of the rest of the White Fang soldiers.
This building was empty, and there was no sight of Cinder Fall anywhere, which Weiss quickly confirmed, "This building's clear! Let's check the other buildings!"
"Yup, you will say it everytime when you clear out a building." Nora stated, answering the question she asked earlier.
It was time for the next building which happened to be house right next to the previous one they cleared. Just like the previous one, it was filled with enemies, which the squad didn't failed to notice. Yang threw a flash-bang inside, while Ruby prepared herself to take out as many White Fang members inside of it as she could. She switched her M4A1 to a M1014 shotgun and rushed into the building the moment the flash-bang grenade exploded. The entire squad took them out without any problems, but just like in another other buildings, Cinder Fall wasn't anywhere to be found.
Which Weiss of course confirmed, "No sign of Cinder Fall. Move on."
And with that, there was only one building left. It was just across the street. Ruby switched her shotgun back to M4A1 as the squad moved along the street to the last house.
Out of the corner of Ruby's eyes, the audience could spot a barn in the distance.
Jaune pointed at the screen, 'I'm calling it, Cinder is going to in that barn!"
"Why?" Yang asked him.
"Well." Jaune rubbed his head, "This place wasn't shown as the place of the possible location of Cinder, and so far, there wasn't a sight of her in this village, so I think it's going to be put as next the objective once you clear out the last house."
"This actually makes sense." Blake stated, her and many other people in the audience agreeing with Jaune's theory.
The squad finally made their way over to the last building, taking out some faunus in the window that tried to take them out in the process. Ruby and Yang sneaked their way into the building through the back entrance while Weiss, Yatsuhashi, Barton, Arem and the loyalist were keeping them occupied on the front side of the building.
Ruby quietly took one White Fang soldiers out by stabbing him with his knife while Yang went forward to take care of the enemies covering themselves by the windows. Her sister didn't followed her, instead she went to the left and stopped right next to the set of stairs that was placed not too far from the front entrance, taking out two enemies that were standing right next to the entrace.
She and Yang then went up the stairs as the rest of he squad walked into now mostly empty the building. Yang threw a flash-bang grenade to the room on the left just in case if there was someone waiting for them there as Ruby finished her magazine by getting rid of another White Fang member that was hiding behind a doors, occasionally leaning out to fire some bullets at them.
The last one of the building they had to check for Cinder Fall's location was empty, but just like the other ones, their task was nowhere to be found.
Once again, Weiss's voice spoke to confirm it, "Building clear. Let's check the next one."
But this time a new objective came, this objective was the barn they spotted earlier.
"It seems like you were right, vomit boy." Yang stated, earning a groan from Jaune because of how she called him.
The squad made their way up the street, passing by one of the building they previousl cleared and started making their way through the fields towards the barn, but of course things couldn't be that easy and they were the White Fang soldiers protecting their last position to defend themselves from them.
Ruby's reaction to it was quick. She pulled out her walkie-talkie and told the gunship where they should attack next. The gunship came a moment later and the White Fang soldiers didn't stood a chance against the aircraft. It was just a matter of time before all of them were laying on the ground dead.
After the gunship gave informaton that he had to refuell again, the entire squad made their way over to the barn, and started preparing themselves to ambush it.
"Remember, we want Cinder Fall alive. She's no good to us dead. Let's go." Yang said as she slighty opened the doors and threw a flash-bang grenade inside, blinding everyone inside of it. She pulled out his M1911 pistol and kills two White Fang soldiers and then heads straight for Cinder Fall, knocking her on the ground and punching he right in the face.
"It's time for a little payback!" Qrow grinned at the view of Cinder being beaten up by his niece.
"It seems like you're going to get exactly what you deserve." Tai stated, liking that Cinder was getting exactly what was coming to her since she was introduced in the story B was showing them, many people in the audience thought the same.
Nora raised her fist in the air, cheering as Yang was punching Cinder in the face, "Go Yang!"
"Oh, Cinder." Tyrian laughed in his typical creepy way at Cinder's misfortune, "You don't really look that powerful now."
Cinder just glared at him, knowing that he is trying annoy her, at the same time hating how her character was just being beaten up.
The view of Yang punching Cinder in the face was cut off by the screen going to black.
"It's over?" Cardin asked, thinking that the mission was over.
"The next mission is going to show them interrogating her?" Pyrrha asked.
They were proven to be wrong when Yang's voice sounded on the screen that was still black, "Why'd you do it?! Where did you get the bomb?"
"I didn't do it." Cinder replied.
"You're lying now?' Ironwood asked Cinder. This kid that called Cinder a coward at the start of the mission was right. Cinder was really was a coward.
"She knows they can end her life at any moment so she is most likely trying to save her life." Winter stated.
"Who then?" Yang demanded to know.
Cinder's answer was, "I wasn't behind this..."
"Who?! Give me a name! A name! I want his name!" Yang was getting impatient.
The audience was finally being able to see what's happening in the barn. Ruby watched how Yang delivered three punches at Cinder, two of them directed right at his face while the last was directed at her stomach. Then, she grabbed the back of the chair Cinder was sitting on and dragged her around the barn for a bit. She stopped and picked up a belt and wrapped it around Cinder's neck, choking her.
"She really is going all the way on her." Sun stated, saying what was on the minds of some people in the audience. This version of Yang was really someone you didn't want to piss off.
Weiss smiled to herself, trying to hide that she was enjoying it that her sister and butler were getting avenged.
Then, out of the sudden a phone started ringing. Weiss was the one who found it and offered it to Yang, "Captain, it's her cellphone."
Yang let go off Cinder's neck and dropped the belt on the ground. Weiss threw the cellphone to her and Yang answered the call. She pressed the phone to her ear and listened to the voice on the other side of the cellphone, until she realized who that was and turned back to Cinder. She dropped the phone, and pulled out her pistol. She executed Cinder by a simple shot in the head.
"Damn." Neptune said, voicing his thought after Yang just killed Cinder without seconds thoughts.
"She didn't even hesitated..." Velvet stated.
"Somehow it doesn't really bothers me." Weiss said. What was important is that her sister and all those other marines were avenged.
"She got what was coming to her." Coco agreed with Weiss, many other people in the audience agreed with Weiss as well.
"Well, that escalated quickly if you ask me." Roman stated, being quite suprised that Cinder was killed off so quickly, to which Neo nodded her head in agreement.
"That's it!?" Cinder was obviously angry that her character was just killed off on the screen, "After being shown to be the main villain of this story I'm getting killed just a mission after being shown how dangerous I am?!"
''I thought she was going to be the main bad guy of this trilogy." Adam stated, crossing his arms.
"Just wait until you'll see Makarov..." B thought himself, rubbing his chin, "Speaking of Makarov, I wonder who is going to play him..."
There was a few moments of awkward silence, which was broken by Weiss, "Who was that?"
Yang answered slowly, "Khan. Sienna Khan."
It was the last thing that happened before the screen went to black.
"I'm going to finally appear again." Sienna stated.
"And Yang seems to know you." Ilia said to the current leader of the White Fang, assuming that Yang and Sienna from the story B was showing them somehow knew each other. She just wondered how. Perharps it had to do with something with Sienna not having her arm.
"Wait a second..." Summer said, realization forming in her head, "Wasn't Cinder saying that she wasn't the one behind the nuke, before Sienna called her?"
A lot of people in the audience turned towards Summer, realizing that as well. It made Cinder even more angry. Not only her character was already killed off, but now it was revealed that someone else was responsible for the nuke explosion in the previous mission.
"At least we now know why they were saving her character." Fox stated.
B just stared at them, wondering how they are going to react when the real person behind the nuke will be revealed, "You guys have no idea how excited I am for the next mission."
"Why? Neo asked him.
"Little Neo, because it's my personal favourite." B said, as he pressed the button, starting his favourite mission in the entire trilogy.
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