10. Blood Gulch Brawl (1/2)

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note: let me just clarify that for this story, i have made it so that due to the crossing of dimensions, the grimm are not affected by the bullets of the reds and blues.

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as she left with the reds and blues, and they made their way to the bullhead, there were already several grimm heading in their direction. the best strategy to deal with this was to run towards the bullhead as fast as they could while avoiding the grimm. this would go faster if the reds and blues would pick up their pace.

"hurry up will you!" weiss shouted. behind her, church, tucker, grif, and simmons were running, though not as fast as weiss would like.

"hey, we're moving as fast as we can!" tucker shouted.

"yeah, it's not exactly easy to run to a ship while avoiding monsters that want to kill us," grif said.

"you wouldn't run to anything unless it was straight to a buffet table," simmons said.

"less talking, more trying to stay alive!" church shouted.

weiss just shook her head. she was starting to regret volunteering to protect them. as several beowolves were about to reach them, weiss began slow down her pace, staying in the back of the group.

"what are you doing?" church asked.

"keeping us alive," weiss said. she then created several glyphs, blocking the beowolves with the barriers that were created. "that should buy us some time. now keep running!" however, weiss was prevented from running any further when she bumped into simmons' back. "what are you doing!? we need to keep heading to-"

"the ship?" church said, pointing forward. weiss immediately saw that they were finally in front of the crashed bullhead.

"well, at least we don't have to keep running anymore," tucker said.

"thank god," grif said panting. "i've never run this much in my life."

"you've never run at all," simmons said.

"let's just get in," weiss said, interrupting any more chatter from them.

the five of them proceeded inside the bullhead, which was stocked with several crates. once inside, weiss made her way to one of the crates and opened it. she then pulled out a magazine of dust ammunition.

"here," weiss said as she tossed several magazines, which was caught by church and the rest. "use these."

simmons removed the ammunition from the magazine and loaded several into his rifle.

"wow," simmons said. "they fit perfectly."

"huh. bullets from another universe are just somehow compatible with our weapons?" tucker said. "what a coincidence." he then got some ammunition as well and began loading it into his rifle.

"are you sure these are gonna work?" grif asked, loading his rifle as well.

"they're basic dust rounds," weiss explained. "they should be enough to kill a grimm. though that strategy might only be effective if you were facing a single grimm."

"so, you're saying that these things can't actually kill grimm," church clarified.

"not on its own, no," weiss replied.

"wait, wait, wait," church said. "what's the point of giving us these if they can't even kill a grimm?"

weiss sighed, irritated that she needed to explain. "you are going to provide suppression fire. my team and i will be fighting the grimm head on while the rest of you will give us support by shooting at them. understand?"

they were giving her looks and murmuring that made weiss believe that they understood very little, which didn't surprise her at all.

"you shoot at the grimm from far away and weaken it, while the four of us will take care of everything else," weiss reiterated.

"ohhh!" they all said, apparently understanding that explanation.

suddenly, there was a loud thud and the ship began to shake violently.

"what the hell was that!?" grif yelled.

the continued thuds made them quickly get out of bullhead and saw what was happening. ramming on the side of the bullhead were several boarbatusks.

"what do we do?" grif said, panicking.

"we start shooting them, what do you think!?" simmons said.

"open fire!" church said.

"wait," weiss said, knowing that their weapons won't be effective against these types of grimm. "these won't-"

the rest of her words were cut off as they began to fire at the grimm. the boarbatusks were not slowing down in their charge, the bullets bouncing of their heavily armored body.

"i thought you said these bullets could work on them now!?" tucker shouted.

"not when you're facing grimm with an armored plating," weiss said. she got between them and the boarbatusks, creating several protective glyphs, which caused the boarbatusks to slam into the solid barriers and fall onto their backs. in one swift movement, weiss repeatedly slashed each overturned grimm with her rapier, killing them.

"that," weiss said, as she turned back to church and the others. "is how you handle these types of grimm." suddenly, weiss felt a little faint. she was about to collapse before tucker quickly caught her.

"hey, you okay?" tucker asked.

"yeah, you look a little pale," simmons said. "i mean paler than your usual shade of pale."

"i'm fine," weiss said. "just a little woozy." weiss could feel that her aura had been drained considerably, much more than it should have from the limited uses of her semblance. maybe being in a different universe may affect their use of aura as well as taking it longer to recover it?

"come on," weiss said, standing back up. "we need to get back to the others." weiss knew that they needed to hurry back. if her aura was this drained, she was worried how the rest of her teammates were faring.

after they began their assault on the grimm, ruby and her team divided into three groups. blake, tex, yang, and sarge were taking care of a mix of beowolves and boarbatusks, while ruby handled a small number of beowolves on her own. while this wouldn't be a problem for ruby, blake, and yang, they could all feel their aura was severely drained after their first fight. if it were just the three of them, they wouldn't be able to defeat all these grimm themselves.

luckily, they had some backup.

as ruby sliced her way through the beowolves, she saw that tex and sarge were doing surprisingly well in their fights.

in the battle with blake and tex, blake used the gun form of gambol shroud and threw the blade across several beowolves, using the recoil to pull the blade back and slicing the grimm from behind. tex was using gambol shroud's sheath to combat against the boarbatusks. normally, the boarbatusk's plating over their body makes it difficult to injure them, but tex's strikes were so strong that every swing she delivered on the grimm's body actually caused the armor to begin to crack.

"blake, heads up!" tex yelled. swinging the sheath, she hit a boarbatusk that was rolling towards her. the blow knocked the grimm into the air towards blake. blake then used her sickle to wrap around the incoming boarbatusk. pulling the trigger of the gun, the recoil pushed the boarbatusk towards several beowolves, knocking them to the ground. blake continued to use the makeshift flail to knock down more grimm around her. once she finished, she released the boarbatusk above her while she turned her weapon back into a katana. raising her blade, blake stabbed the falling boarbatusk under it's stomach.

blake also saw that tex was finishing up as well, having ripped a boarbatusk's tusk off and used it as a makeshift blade to stab several beowolves, while using the sheath to bash away other boarbatusks.

once tex finished, she made her way to blake. "can i keep this?" she asked regarding blake's sheath.

"i think you could use less weapons," blake said, taking her sheath back.

"woohooh!" sarge yelled in joyous glee. "eat dust dirtbags!" sarge cocked his shotgun and fired several blasts, releasing long range shots and blasting back the beowolves. however, his continuous firing resulted in the quick consumption of the dust that yang gave him. "yang, i think i might need a few more ammunition."

"just a sec," yang said as she stopped a boarbatusk from ramming at her by grabbing it by it's tusks. she then lifted up the grimm and rolled it like a bowling ball towards other boarbatusks. she then jumped into the air and fired several long-range shots at the grimm approaching sarge. she then landed beside sarge. "'sup, you okay?"

"okay? i've never felt more alive at facing possible certain death," sarge said.

yang just grinned and gave sarge another round. "this is the last one i have on me. make your shots count."

"you got it," sarge said as he loaded a shell and cocked his gun.

yang faced the grimm and charged forward with a punch, with sarge firing from behind.

ruby cut down the last beowolf in front of her and exhaled. without using her semblance and using her aura to protect herself, she was getting really tired from fighting this long.

"ruby!"

ruby turned to see blake, tex, yang, and sarge heading towards her.

"you okay sis?" yang asked.

"i'll...be fine," ruby said, panting. "just a little exhausted."

"we're all exhausted," blake said.

"well, i don't know about you, but i feel great," sarge said. "i feel that these things can't scratch me."

"that's because you're wearing armor," tex pointed out. "they're not."

the sounds of growling turned their attention to the still many remaining grimm that were approaching them.

"shit," tex said. "how long do we have to keep stalling?"

several shots were suddenly fired from the side, hitting several grimm and driving them back. ruby and the others turned to the direction of the shots and saw church, tucker, grif, and simmons, who were firing at the grimm. behind them was weiss, who was carrying bag with her and heading towards the direction of ruby's group.

"weiss!" ruby shouted in joy at seeing her partner. she then rushed to give weiss a hug.

"no," weiss said, stopping ruby inches from her. "here." she pulled out a magazine of dust and tossed it to ruby. "i'm assuming you need the extra help."

"yes we do," yang said as she rifled through the bag and pulled out two rounds of dust, loading them. blake, tex, and sarge did the same.

"hey guys," simmons said as he and the rest of the group headed to them after driving the grimm away. "you okay?"

"simmons, what took you so long to get here!?" sarge shouted. "we almost died out here!"

"sorry sir," simmons said. "thank you for your clear observation of my failure. it won't happen again."

"you can kiss my ass later," sarge said. "we got some monsters to kill."

"um guys," tucker said. "the grimm aren't paying attention to us anymore."

they all noticed that the grimm were heading to another direction of the canyon.

"where are they going?" weiss wondered.

"grimm are attracted to negative emotions," blake said. "maybe they're being drawn by something else."

"what else is in this canyon that would have negative emotions to draw all those-" church stopped speaking mid-sentence. "oh no."

ruby realized as well who church was thinking of. the only person out in the canyon who would have negative emotions at this point. someone who was not with them and was still screaming and running around.

"caboose."

at that moment, they could hear caboose's faint screams from across the canyon.

"well, shit," grif said.

"i guess it was nice knowing the blue fella," sarge said. "he'll be in our memories as he gets torn apart and eaten."

"we are not letting him get eaten," blake said.

"i can get to him," ruby said. "i can use my semblance and grab him before the grimm do."

"ruby, your aura is practically drained," weiss said. "it's too risky."

"then what can we do?" ruby asked.

"hey!"

they all turned to see tex riding the motorcycle that the blues had gotten from the reds.

"i'll take care of caboose," tex said.

"i'm coming with you," blake said.

ruby nodded, agreeing with blake's volunteering. she then turned to the others. "we'll catch up with them. when they get caboose and head back, there'll probably be some grimm chasing them. our only option then would be to fight."

"this has got to be one of your worst ideas ever," weiss said.

"yet we're gonna follow it anyway," yang said.

"okay, let's move," church said.

blake headed to tex and the motorcycle.

"you know this thing isn't exactly a two-seater," tex pointed out.

"i can manage," blake said. she pulled out gambol shroud in its gun form and, using the ribbon of the weapon, wrapped it around the side of the vehicle as she jumped on top of it.

the two of them then headed in the direction of caboose's screams and the converging grimm.

"alright, let's follow," ruby said.

however, before they could follow the speeding vehicle, they began to hear several sparks in the other direction. they looked to see the teleporter continuing to spark.

"oh god not again," church said, seeing the erratic machine.

"we need to get that device under control," weiss said. "before we have to deal with more grimm."

"okay, change of plans," ruby said. "simmons, weiss, and grif will handle shutting down the teleporter. church, tucker, sarge, yang, and i will give backup to blake and tex."

"hey, why do i get stuck with nerdzilla and the ice queen?" grif protested.

"hey!" simmons and weiss said angrily.

"oh, are you volunteering to risk your life against a horde of monsters?" yang asked.

grif was silent for several seconds before he spoke. "okay, guys, let's go shut down that teleporter." he then headed towards the machine.

both simmons and weiss just shook their heads and followed him.

"works every time," yang said.

"okay, now let's go," ruby said. she and her group then headed to the grimm.

as tex and blake got closer to the grimm, they saw that the grimm were circling around caboose, who was just running around in a circle while continuing to scream.

"are you ready?" tex asked blake.

"ready," blake said, removing the wrapped gambol shroud from the motorcycle as she slowly began to stand up.

with a strong amount of force, tex hit the

akes on the motorcycle and stopped a

uptly, launching blake into the air. midair, blake threw gambol shroud towards caboose. she then pulled the ribbon and fired a shot from it, causing it to wrap around caboose, who soon stopped running as he was wrapped up. blake began to pull the trigger several times, the recoil causing caboose to be puled into the air as well. eventually, the two of them collided with each other, and began to fall.

"oh hello," caboose said calmly, as if not understanding the situation they were in.

"caboose," blake said as she saw that they getting close to the ground. "hold on."

blake used her semblance on them both, using it to dash forward as they landed on the ground in a mild thud.

"oh my god, that was amazing!" caboose said in excitement. "let's go again!"

"maybe... another time," blake said, her aura drained further from using her semblance.

"hey," tex said, having caught up to their position and stopping the motorcycle. "you alright?"

"oh we are just fine," caboose said as he and blake standing up. "oh look, the the friends who were making a circle around me are coming this way."

blake and tex saw the grimm heading their direction.

"we need to go now," blake said.

"this thing won't move as fast with three people on it," tex said, indicating the motorcycle.

blake knew that tex was right. "then we stand our ground."

tex groaned as she stepped off her vehicle. "caboose, here." she then gave him a rifle that was loaded with dust ammunition.

"oh no, that's fine," caboose said. "i already have a weapon."

"yes, but this one is special," tex said, trying to be patient with caboose's slow uptake.

"oh, people have called me special," caboose said. "is that made for me?"

"...sure," tex said, deciding to go with whatever helps caboose understand.

caboose excitedly took the weapon from tex. "so... now what?"

several gunshots were fired from behind them, hitting the approaching grimm. they all turned to see ruby and the others arrive, continuously firing at the grimm.

"blake!" yang yelled, seeing her partner looking very tired.

"i'll be fine," blake said, with clear fatigue.

"just step back little lady," sarge said, cocking his shotgun. "we got this." he continued firing at the grimm.

"he's right blake," ruby said. "you rest right now."

"yeah," yang said. "we'll handle these rejects." she then charged forward and began to deliver several punches to some beowolves, the explosive blasts sending them back and knocking other grimm down.

blake nodded at ruby, who went to join the battle.

weiss, simmons, and grif had arrived to the site of the teleporter, and things were not looking good. the teleporter was now sparking out of control, releasing small electrical bursts which prevented them from getting close.

"from what i can see, the machine is starting to overexert the energy from the dust core," simmons said. "if we don't shut it down now, it could cause an explosion that can wipe out everything in the canyon."

"how exactly are we going to stop this thing?" weiss asked.

"if we can get close enough to disable the wires connecting it the base and the dust core, it should switch itself off," simmons explained. "if we can get close."

suddenly, the teleporter shot out a surge of electricity, which was heading at their direction.

"duck!" simmons shouted. the three of them quickly dropped to the ground, avoiding the stream of electricity. they saw the electricity impact to a rock behind them, which had exploded into rubble.

"yeah, i vote a 'no' on getting close to that thing," grif said.

the teleporter was making even louder sparking noises. the three of them saw the teleporter beginning to glow white.

"oh no," weiss said. "it's going to

ing about more grimm. we need to shut it down now!"