Chapter 14: The Peggies.

After a run up the hill, the team needed to think of a plan to enter the base without having to cause much destruction and harming the captives.

"We can't can't go in and just fire anytime, their layout of their base seems simple and we can see the hostages." Eli said, the hostages were surrounding a bonfire. A black masked man had a red canister on his back, and a pipe with a small flame. "And that's a flamethrower, great."

"How can we go up against an army?" Reaper asks, Eli starts thinking. Kureha takes a look inside again and notice two things, the flamethrower was firing to terrify the hostages, and a group was looking the perimeter.

"Guys." Kureha calls on them but they were still discussing the plan.

"I say we can try to take the out with stealth, that way we don't have the alarm." Ren said.

"Guys, they're coming." Kureha keeps trying to get attention.

"I say we break them, how hard is it to not hit the hostages." Nora said, soon, the voice are getting closer, and they sound like they hear them.

"Guys, for the love of-" Kureha couldn't finish.

"Look! Trespassers!" one of the peggies shouts, they readied their guns.

"Sound the alarm!" a female shouts, there was fast footsteps scurrying around.

"This is why I only work with Alex in stealths mission!" Kureha shouts, opening fire before they did. She manages to take down the gunmen but the one who got away was already yelling.

"That city is counter attacking for their shit! Sound the alarm and round the followers, we're going hunting!" a few ragged team jumped on three trucks, each with a mounted machine guns and a painted sun on the doors. As they drove by, the tea took shots but were quickly pinned by the flames.

"Burn the non-believers!" the flamer shouts as he continues to spew fire. Reaper and Jose built a brick wall to protect them for a while as Ruby and Yang flanked around. Ren and Nora leap over and sneak around to free the hostages as Reaper made a ramp for the rest to attack. Ruby was the first to attack as she swipes at the flamer, it pierce his armor but not enough. He grabs the scythe and aimed at her, Yang knocks him back before he pulled the trigger. Reaper took a shot to his tank, it shot a small fire and when notice. The flamer unclips his strap, giving them an idea.

"His back!" Reaper shouts.

"On it!" Yang goes for a punch, somehow, the flamer dodges it and used his gun as a club. Smacking her head which cause her to stumble, given the opportunity he tackled Yang down. He was going to torch her but Reaper fired once more to gain attention, it works. He turns to him and leaves his back to Ruby, who is aiming at the tank.

"Now Ruby!" Yang shouts as the Flamer charges at Reaper, her sight was on the tank and then she fires. Once impacted, a giant explosion became the Flamer as his terrifying scream was the next thing they hear. He was trying to swipe the fire of him but it was already consuming his body, in a last attack, he runs towards Ruby as she is frozen in fear because it was her first kill for humans. As he inches towards her, Yang with enough speed, slams him to the ground. She broke his ribs and spine, he no longer moves or even utter a single sound as the fire burns his body. "Ruby." Yang calls her, she didn't reply. "Ruby, come on, we have to-"

"I killed a person." Ruby said.

"Ruby, I know, I… helped." Yang said, Gun fire was still being heard from within the outpost. Eli was trying to go face to face with a turret, he was shot multiple times but he manage to take them down. Kureha quickly runs to him.

"You need to heal, Eli."

"I'm fine, just keep those snipers off me." He said, lasers are beamed at them but Jose counters with a bolt action. He picks two but the third and final one hits his head, shards of blue shield shatter from him and quickly he build a wall and a floor. He places a healing pad which shows a hologram mid-kit, he steps on it and a burst of green spores heals him.

"Eli, to that pad." Kureha orders him but he disobey, she sees his health close to halfway. Terrified, She quickly shoves him down and took his place in firing.

"Kureha, the hell!?" He yells at her, his outburst startled her, leaving her defenseless as she turns around. A sniper takes aim and Eli sees the laser aimed at her head, a quick glance and the sniper pulls the trigger. Eli jumped up and wrap himself around Kureha as the bullet hits his back, they both fall. The sniper was soon hit by a surprise attack by Nora, who sent him flying out the outpost. Eli unravel himself off Kureha and laid there. Kureha didn't know what to say, Eli ignored her as he walks past her and continue to fire. His health shows a quarter of it left, meaning he is close to dying. Luckily for them, Ren manage to escort the hostages out and there they are free to strike hard. After a quick moment of trauma, Yang eliminate groups with explosion after explosion. Soon, the outpost was nothing more than an ash field and a body landfill. Their victory was short when they hear explosion from the town.

"Crap, the town, you think they can last?" Yang asks in panic.

"You don't know our squad leader with his ArFA-sys, those two are like a genderbent version of each other." Eli said.

"What about Weiss, Blake, Jaune?" Reaper asks.

"You don't know our friends." Yang said, she laughs but had to cut it as they soon see flying objects. Planes, and they're dropping something. Once making contact, a heat blast was felt as a mushroom cloud burst high. "That's our cue." Yang charges forward, everyone followed.