Ultimatum
The emblems of Beacon and AMC were shown spinning around to the audience before a familiar ferris wheel appeared on the screen.
"Oh, that ferris wheel again." Emerald said.
"Are we going back to the Mountain Glenn?" Ilia asked, still pretty shaken by the fact that she saw herself commit suicide in the last mission.
The emblems moved aside before a familiar voice spoke up, with picture of Sienna appearing on the screen at the same time, "Our so-called leaders prostituted us to the north...Destroyed our culture...Our economies...Our honor. Our blood has been spilled on our soil."
Adam turned to Ghira, "This is what would happen if you remained stayed in the position of leader of the White Fang."
"Adam." Blake spoke up to him, "If you will stick with your current methods, then it will be something that will eventually bring you down."
Adam just rolled his eyes to that, conviced that what she just said was utter nonsense.
The image of ferris wheel changed itself into something else. This time, it was a picture which showed the audience Ilia's lifeless body, with blood spilling from her head.
Ilia bit her lips at this view and cringed a bit at the view of her lifeless body.
Sienna continued, "...My blood... On their hands."
"I may not condone what Miss. Khan is doing but I can understand her anger here." Ozpin said.
Tai sighed, having two children himself, having no idea what he'd do if something happened to them, "I do too. Ilia may have been her adopter daughter but she was still her daughter."
The image of Sienna, Cinder, Ilia and some other man was shown to the audience again, only this time, Ilia's face was crossed out by a red marker, meaning Sienna was the only one left alive in this picture.
"...They are the invaders." Sienna stated.
Just a second after she said those words, this single imagine was shifted into a few more images this time were showing Sienna and the White Fang soldiers in some kind of facility, with the leader commanding her soldiers to do various things.
"What are they doing?" Neptune asked.
"I don't know dude, but I don't like the look of it." Sun answered.
Sienna finished her speech by saying, "All Atlesian. and Valesian forces will leave Menagerie immediately... Or suffer the consequences..."
"What if she has more of those nuclear missiles in her stock?" Penny voiced her theory, "We already saw her use one on me and Winter, but it was never stated that it was the only one they had."
Many people, mostly students gulped and fearful after hearing that.
The leader of the White Fang was cut off by Yang, "It's quite simple. Either we retake the launch facility or we won't recognize the world tomorrow..."
"I wonder what does she mean by that?" Watts asked, already forming his own theory in his mind.
"It is most likely that her theory..." Salem said, gesturing towards Penny, looking interested to see what Sienna was planning to do, "...was correct."
A map appeared on the screen and it showed the audience location of the next mission, which happened to be in the mountains somewhere in Menagerie
"Green light to HALO. Charlie Team go." Yang said as a plane with a few people who the audience immediately recognized as Yang and her squad jumping out of it was shown to them, "Second drop approaching. Bravo Team stay tight. Go."
The plane was shifted into a view of five parachutes slowly falling down. Four of them were quite close to each other, but one of the was landing half a mile away from the rest of the squad. This parachute belonged to Ciel Soleil.
"So, this one is going to start with them trying to find each other." Roman pointed out.
"Finding each other would be too easy. I bet that she is going to get caught." Neo stated.
Roman thought about it for a second, before nodding his head, "You're probably right, little Neo."
Neo's eye twitched after hearing her partner in crime use the nickname B came up for her a few missions ago.
"What?" She heard Melanie ask. She must have seen her eye twitch, "You know that this nickname fits you."
"Regroup on me." Ruby heard her sister say when she readied her M4A1 for the mission. She crouched down and walked over to the rest of the squad, forming a small circle with Yang, Weiss and Barton. Her sister looked around, quickly noticing that someone was missing, "Where's Soleil?"
"Bravo Six, Soleil just activated her emergency transponder. She's half a klick to your southwest, over." Command explained.
Neo smirked, "Knew it."
"We're on our way. Bravo Six out." Yang responded with a nod of her head, before standing up from her crouching position, "Let's go."
Ruby, Weiss and Barton stood up and followed their captain along the road, towards the location where Ciel activated her emergency transponder.
Only a few seconds after they started walking, they spotted a single green car driving along the road, to which Weiss quickly responded, "Contact front. Enemy vehicle."
Ruby waited until the car will stop before engaging the faunus inside. There wasn't a lot of of them in the car. Only two. They stopped their vehicle and came out, not even having a chance to spot the in the bushes people who killed them just a few seconds later.
"Tango down." Barton said.
"Move." Yang said as they started walking again, but just like a moment ago, they had to stop because they spotted a group of hostiles with tac lights in the middle of their jackets in the distance. They were apparently in the middle some kind of patrol.
"Good thing they have those silencers on their weapons." Ren stated.
Jaune nodded his head in agreement, "Otherwise these guys would hear them take care of those two faunus from the car."
Ruby crouched down among the trees and aimed her gun at the first enemy that caught her attention before firing at him, taking him out with a single shot to his head. The sound of his lifeless corpse falling to the ground alerted other faunus who immediately jumped into action, trying to spot Ruby and her squad in the forest. Unfortunely for them, they still had their tac lights on their jackets and none of them had a chance to spot anyone in the trees as Yang, Weiss, Ruby and Barton quietly took each of them down, one by one.
"All clear." Weiss said.
"They didn't even had a chance to spot them." Dove said.
"Maybe they would if they didn't left their lights on." Cardin stated.
Ruby jumped back to her feet and moved along the road which took her up the small hill which lead her to a house with two floors.
"The must have Soleil in one of those houses." Yang said, approaching the house along with her squad. They stopped in front of the doors in the back of the house, "There's an entry point through that basement door. We'll go room to room from there. Keep it quiet. Move out."
Yang carefully opened the basement door, to make sure that no one was going to hear them enter this house. She was the first one to come in and was followed by Ruby, Weiss and Barton. The basement didn't had much to offer, only a few lockers and a single table in the middle of the room, with a few tools laying on top of it.
They walked up the stairs which lead them to the first floor of this house, with Yang walking in front of her squad. The first thing they spotted after entering the first floor was a single faunus standing a few meters in front of them. Luckily for them, he was looking through the window, and didn't saw them. Yang carefully approached him and pulled out her knife out before quietly getting rid of the enemy.
"I'll never get used to the sight of Yang doing things quietly instead of just rushing and doing everything as loudly as possible." Melanie said.
"You and me both, sis." Miltia agreed with her sister.
Yang just shrugged her shoulders to their comments.
While Yang gently put the corpse of the faunus on the floor, her squad checked every room, and the enemy that Yang just took down seemed to be the only faunus on this floor, but it didn't change the fact that someone could be on the other floor, unaware that someone was in their house.
"This floor's clear, move up to the second." Weiss said.
Ruby took the lead as the squad walked up the stairs leading to the second floor. She crouched down when she saw a single faunus in the room in front of her. He was sitting on the chair, with his feet placed on the box, while looking at the surroundings outside of the house. She got ready to take him down, but stopped herself from doing it in the last second, wanting to check the room that was next to him first. There could be someone else, and it wouldn't hurt her if she tried, right?"
She moved past the room and moved towards the entrance to the that was a bit to the left. She suspicion to be correct when she saw another enemy, standing a bit to left of the guy who was sitting on the chair. She aimed her weapon straight at his head and fired, his lifeless body collapsing on the floor and giving the other guy information that someone was here. The sound of his friend's body falling to the floor was so suprising that it made him fall off his chair.
His reaction got some chuckles from the audience.
"I can only imagine how suprising that was to him. " Qrow said, giving a small chuckle.
"I bet that he shit his pants." Junior said, chuckling as well.
He never got to do anything as someone fired a single bullet which hit him straight in his head from the hallway. Ruby walked out of the room and saw that it was Weiss who took care of him. She offered her a quick nod before walking down the stairs along Weiss, joining Yang and Barton on the first floor.
"Soleil isn't here." Weiss informed while walking down the stairs, with Ruby walking closely behind her.
Yang's response came quickly, "Roger that, regroup on me downstairs."
"Copy that." Weiss nodded her head, entering the first floor with Ruby.
They looked around to see Yang and Barton standing in front of the exit, with the former slowly opening it, while saying, "Moving to the next house, keep it quiet. Ruby, go take a look."
She exited the house through now opened doors, followed by Barton, Ruby and Weiss. The first thing they saw after exiting the house were two houses in front of them. The audience quickly noticed that the sun was coming up.
"The sun is coming up. I thought the entire mission was going to take place during the night." Winter said.
"They'll be easier to spot now if they'll come across another patrol after they'll leave this place." Ironwood stated.
"This is probably the last thing on their mind now, Jimmy." Qrow said. If what this Polendina girl said was correct, then his nieces now had to worry about making sure that Sienna won't end up launching more nuclear missiles.
"The sun's coming up. We're running out of time." Yang said.
Ruby stopped herself between the houses to take a good look around herself, just in case if there were any enemies outside. Only a few seconds had to pass before two enemies earned her attention. She waited until they'll turn away from each other, not wanting to alarm the other faunus. A few more seconds of waiting for good moment had to pass before they turned away from each other. She quickly took care of one of them, and the other guy, before having a chance to hear how the lifeless body of his pal fell on the ground, got a bullet to the head which was fired by Yang.
With both of the guards taken care of, and no one else left outside on the guard, the squad moved into one of the houses, hoping that it will be the one where they'll find Ciel. Yang quietly opened the door, to avoid any possible enemies inside of it hearing them walk inside. They moved through the first floor of the house, but Ciel was nowhere to be found.
"Floor clear. Proceed upstairs." Weiss said.
They walked their way over to the staircase leading to the second floor, and made their way to the second floor, hearing that someone was having a rather loud talk in one of the rooms.
"Where are the others?" A voice which belonged to an unknown White Fang soldier rang through the hallway.
He didn't had to wait long for the reply. The audience instantly recognized that voice, "Soleil, 678452056."
"Looks like we found her." Weiss said.
"At least these guys won't get more information out of here." Ruby said.
Yang shrugged her shoulders, "From what we just heard, I think it's easy to assume they didn't got much information from her anyway."
"Looks like this is the place." Yang said as she leaned against the wall, with Weiss leaning behind her, "Get ready to breach."
Weiss moved to the doors and placed a charge on the doorknob. She send a quick nod to Yang who nodded back before moving away from the doors. The doors exploded, the explosion blinding everyone who happened to be in the room.
"Go, go, go!" Yang said as her squad walked into the room, killing every interrogator.
After taking care of them, the entire squad looked around and saw Ciel in another smaller room. The Atlesian marine was sitting on a crate, with her hands tied up behind her back.
"Ruby, cut Soleil loose. Move." Yang ordered her sister who did as she was told to and walked over to Ciel. She stopped behind her and used her knife to free Ciel from the crate.
"Bout damn time... I was starting to think you guys were gonna leave me behind." Ciel said, standing up from the crate.
"Why would we even think about doing that? No one should be left behind." Ruby stated.
"Don't you remember what happened last time when they came in someone's aid, instead of leaving him behind?" Raven asked her.
"Oh..." Ruby said, hoping that Penny's theory about Sienna planning to launch more nukes was wrong, "But this time we're not exactly sure if Sienna is planning to launch another nukes."
"That was my first thought. Yang said as Ciel picked up her M249 SAW from the table beside her, "But your arse had all the C4. You all right?"
"Yeah I'm good to go." Ciel said with assuring nod of her head.
"Ok Team One, we got Soleil and we're coming out of building two." Yang said as they walked over to the doors and exited the house.
"They're not going to check the third house?" Velvet asked.
"I don't think so. They don't have need for that." Yatsuhashi shook his head.
"If there is someone in it, then they're going to be suprised what happened right under their noses." Coco stated.
"We need to knock out that tower so the advance teams can breach the electrified perimeter." Yang declared as the squad walked between the house and approached a tall fence which had an entrance right in the middle of it which was leading to the power tower.
They were about to enter the area with the power tower but then they heard familiar sound of helicopter approaching their location.
"Enemy helicopters." Weiss said as they lay down on the ground, wanting for the helicopter to fly past them. A few moments had to pass, but when the helicopters flied right above them, unaware that their enemies were right under them, they stood up and proceeded to walk towards the power tower.
"Why do I have a feeling that these helicopters are going to cause them some trouble, sooner or later?" Fox asked himself.
The squad made their way over to the power tower which happened to be standing meters away from a huge hollow between the hills. Ruby went over to power tower and planted the C4 on the legs of it before stepping away from it, to make sure she'll be in safe distance away from the explosion.
"Charges set. Everyone get clear!" Ciel said as the rest of the squad moved away from the power tower as well.
Yang turned to her sister, "Ruby, do it."
Ruby nodded her head and pulled out the detonator. She pressed it and the C4 exploded. The entire squad watched how the power tower slowly collapsed from the hill into the forest.
"Damn." Russel said.
"I can already imagine how angry someone who was using something that requires electricity is." Yang laughed.
"Like the one time when we were in the middle of the movie and suddenly the entire Patch lost electricity for the rest of the day?" Ruby asked her sister.
Yang and Tai chuckled at the memory, with the the former saying, "Exactly."
The squad moved to the small fence, and watched how now destroyed power tower was laying in the hollow, with Yang saying, "Charlie Six, the tower's down and the power's out. Twenty seconds."
Charlie Six's answer came quickly, "Roger. We're breaching the perimeter. Standby."
"Backup power in ten seconds..." Ciel said.
"Standby..." Charlie Six shorty after Ciel's words.
"Five seconds." Ciel said after a few seconds.
The squad didn't had to wait long for Charlie Six to reply, "...Ok, we're through. Bravo Six, we'll wait for you at the rally point. Out."
Yang, Ruby, Weiss, Ciel and Barton turned towards another taller fence and started walking towards with, with the captain saying, "Roger Team Two, we're on our way. Out. Get that fence open."
They stopped in front of the tall fence and Weiss crouched down. She pulled out a spray can and began moving it across the fence, making a circle around it. She stopped after a few seconds and put the can down, then started pulling the fence to herself, making a hole in it that was big enough for them to move through it.
"Move." Yang said as they moved through the hole in the fence and started moving towards the more built area.
"Enemy helicopters." Weiss said as they once again heard helicopters flying above them again, but this time, they proceeded to move forward instead of laying down on the ground to wait until they'll be gone.
"Gonna get real busy around here soon..." Ciel stated.
"That's what I'm saying." Fox said to himself again.
"They're now aware that someone is close to their base, of course it's going to be get busy." Cinder pointed out.
They walked over to a single hole in a huge stone wall as Yang told Weiss, "Ice Queen, take Ruby and the rest and scout through this base. Soleil and I will look for an alternate route."
Ruby, Weiss, and Barton hopped over the hole in the wall into the area where the first thing they saw was a crate with a few weapons, and grenades on it. They all ignored it and walked into one of the garages through the back doors. The front doors of it were already opened so they didn't had to worry about opening them, which would cost them more time.
The thing they had to worry about was the fact that they were immediately spotted by their enemies in the exact moment they walked into the garage. They all found places to hide in the garage to avoid getting hit by the bullets and started firing back at the faunus.
A new problem appeared in a few seconds, and Barton was the one to inform them about it, "Heads up! Choppers inbound!"
Weiss and Ruby gazed to the sky and saw two helicopters flying above the area. A single rope was threw out from the back of the aicraft beforer White Fang soldiers started rappelling down on the ropes to join the ones that were already one the ground.
"Oh, this is just great." Weiss said, crossing her arms.
"As if there wasn't enough of them there already." Yang agreed with her. It was still less than the faunus she had to deal with uncle Qrow a few missions back.
"Look on the bright sides, at least you don't have to worry about having to deal with tanks for now." Jaune pointed out.
Ruby had no idea for how she had to stay in the garage but she knew that it was going to be longer than usual. The saying that they were dealing with a lot of faunus at this moment was an understatement of the century. They were everywhere, on roofs, taking covers behind cars or a single abandoned BMP, or inside of the warehouses. Ruby knew with which ones she had to deal at first. She aimed at the rooftops and cleared them out of the enemies and she was quite relieved that she decided to take of them at first because each one of them had an RPG.
She could only imagine what they would do if she decided to take care other enemies at first. She then aimed at the enemies that were taking covers either behind the cars, destroyed BMP or crates. This time, it took her much longer than the enemies on the rooftops bacause at first she had to wait until they'll try their chance and lean out of their covers. It took her, Weiss and Barton a moment, but they eventually managed to take care of the majority of them.
It was when they knew that it was the right moment to move out of the garage, but they knew they had to be quick because there still were enemies in the warehouses. She ran through the entrance to one of the warehouses and quickly shot down the two faunus that were inside while Weiss and Barton decided to remain outside and take cover behind a crate and a red car. She was about to step out of the warehouse but came stopped when she saw three enemies on the rooftop of the two floor building in front of her.
She didn't stay in the warehouse for long. She aimed her M4A1 at the enemes on the rooftop and quickly took care of them. She walked out of the warehouse and threw a flash-bang grenade into another one which was followed by normal explosive grenade. The flash-bang one was the first one to explode, blinding all of the enemies inside, which was quickly followed by the explosive one exploading as well, killing the enemies before they could regain their normal vision.
She, Weiss and Barton walked over to the building and made sure that there was no one in there before walking into it. They walked through the building and moved outside, another destroyed BMP being the first they saw. Ruby looked around her surroundings and except for the BMP, she saw a tower in front of her and a place which looked like a garage of some sort with places for three cars.
She suddenly heard another helicopter and looked up to the sky, seeing that two ropes were thrown out of it. She aimed her gun at the ropes and killed each enemy that even thought about rappelling down, without any of them even making to the ground alive.
"That wasn't the smartest thing they ever did." Ren stated.
"Yup." Nora agreed with him.
Ruby quickly ducked down and hid behind the BMP when she saw enemies coming out of the garage-like building. She leaned out of her cover shorty after and started firing back at them. It didn't took her that long to shot all of them down. When it was safe again to move around, she, Weiss and Barton moved towards the garage.
They walked through the back entrance of the garages which lead them to another location. Ruby knew one thing after seeing it. That she had to be careful in this one. There were a few of explosive barrels placed around in various positions, two BMP's but no one was inside of them at this moment, so being a good cover for both of the sides was all they could do now, and two buildings.
Not long after stepping into this area, they were met with the White Fang firing back from various positions. A few of them were on the rooftops of the buildings, a few of the were firing back the windows of the same buildings, but most of the happened to be standing on the ground. It was quickly followed by a familiar barking. Ruby looked around herself and saw two dogs running her way. She quickly killed them, before they could cause more trouble to her and her squad.
With the dogs taken care of, taking care of the enemies on the rooftops and the ones that were shooting at them from the windows became her first priority. She reloaded her weapon after taking care of the enemies in the building in front of them, watching how the last one she took care of dropped his RPG on the ground. She turned her gaze to the building to her right and saw that one enemy on the rooftop was already dead. She quickly took care of the other one, before looking at the two enemies firing from the windows. These two were harder to kill than the ones on the rooftops but she eventually managed to get rid of them too.
She then looked around herself, searching for any enemies on the ground but all of them were already dead. Weiss and Barton must've take care of them while she was taking care of the ones in the buildings. Sha saw that Weiss and Barton weren't alone. Yang and Ciel must've joined them at some point, but she failed to notice when.
"Oh, there they are." Ruby said.
"Nice of them to finally join us." Weiss said.
It was when an unknown voice for the audience spoke up to Yang's squad, "Bravo Six, be advised, three trucks packed with shooters are headed your way."
"Who is that?" Summer asked.
"I don't know. This is the first time when we hear him." Tai answered.
"We'll most likely find out sooner or later." Goodwitch stated.
The squad walked past the buildings and moved to the right. They quickly found out that what Kilo Four Foxtrot said to them was true because they saw two trucks stopping a few meters ahead of them. Ruby knew what to do now. She switched to her grenade launcher attachment. She fired it once at the truck, badly damaging it. She quickly loaded another grenade and fired once again. This time, the truck exploded, killing some of the faunus that happened to be standing nearby but a good portion of them remained alive.
She quickly switched her attachment back to her normal weapon, without even reloading it. The entire squad quickly took care of the enemies which quickly came from the right after the explosion of the truck. They walked past the destroyed truck into the area with a few destroyed cars and surrounding it. Also, some of it's path was engulfed by the snow. They stopped for a moment when they saw a few of the remaining enemies hiding either behind the destroyed cars or tree stumps.
They didn't do much. Keeping Yang's squad busy for a moment was all they managed to do. Yang, Ruby, Weiss, Ciel and Barton made sure that their lifeless bodies joined their fellow White Fang soldiers on the ground.
They started moved along the path, hearing how sirens started ringing in the distance.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Pyrrha said, with many people in the audience nodding in agreement.
"It looks like she is finally making her move with her plan." Salem stated.
The squad stopped when the same unknown voice to the audience from before spoke up to them again, "Bravo Six, Sniper Team Two. We're coming out of the treeline to the south."
"Hold your fire, it's one of the Atlesian sniper teams." Yang told her squad as two snipers, wearing ghillie suits came out from the bushes.
They approached Yang's squad, with one of them telling her, "Good to see you guys made it. We'll give you sniper cover once you're inside the perime..."
He stopped himself in the middle of the sentence when he heard the sound of something being launched into the sky from the facility ahead of them.
"What the hell is going on?" Cardin asked, already knowing that it wasn't going to be anything good.
One of the snipers had similiar question as Cardin's, "...What the hell is that?"
"Uhh we got a problem here!" Ciel stated.
Everyone turned in the direction of the sound and sawa single missile launched into the sky.
Yang immediately knew what it was, "Delta One X-Ray, we have a missile launch, I repeat we have a missile..."
Ruby's eyes widened in fear, now knowing that Penny's theory was correct, "Oh no!"
"Not this again!" Jaune shouted.
"This is bad, this is bad." Sun said.
What they didn't know was that Yang was cut off in the middle of the sentence, because shorty after, another missile was launched.
"There's another one!" Ciel observed.
Qrow was the first one to voice his thoughts after seeing that not one, but two missilies were launched, "Oh, shit."
"Things just went from bad to worse for them." Goodwitch said, giving a quick shake of her head.
"They better hurry if they want to stop this." Port stated.
Yang was quick to tell about the current situation to the Command as everyone pushed themselves into run, "...Delta One X-Ray - we have two missiles in the air over!"
The Command answered quickly to her words, "Uh...roger Bravo Six, our satellites are tracking them now. Get your team inside the facility and retake the launch control center. We're working on getting the abort codes from the Menagerians at this time. Out."
"Roger that." Yang responded with a nod of her head.
"It's on now, Captain." Ciel stated as everyone stopped in front of the front gate to the facility.
Screen turned black shorty after.
Winter was the first one to voice her thoughts, "Things are bad to say the least."
"That's the understatement of the century, Ice Queen." Qrow said to her.
"She is really angry at them." Ironwood stated.
"I know that I already said that, but the last...three?..." Neptune paused for a second and looked at B to which he nodded his head in confirmation, "...missions are going to be intense."
"I know right?" Coco said, "They have to retake the control of the launch control center to make sure that these two missiles won't do any damage and then take care of Sienna."
"You better be prepared, because their going to be intense, especially the last mission." B said, having a certain moment in his mind.
It was when he pressed the button and another mission started.
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