Stele (A RWBY story)

The beginning

My container came to a stop. I had been confined in this rubber room, bound by rope for at least a month now. A damn collar on my neck periodically tranquilizing me. I had been awake for a bit as I tried to undo the rope again, but just like the other times, I couldn't undo them. I went limp and just let the ropes keep me suspended, as I started thinking to myself. My main thought being on who did this to me. My arm being my the answer on who did this to me. I can see it clearly even in the pitch black container. Natural night vision, just a small benefit of being a Faunus. Though it has brought me more bad then good in my life.

Then I perked my ears to my surroundings. Something was happening outside this container. I could hear muffled talking. I couldn't hear them through my container, but I could make out the muffled sound of loud voices. Arguing? It was definitely a fight from the explosions that came afterwards. I needed just one little opening in my container. The fight seemed to be getting more intense, more frequent explosions and louder ones at that. Then two things happen right after another. My collar had turned off, then a sword came flying into the wall of the container and quickly got pulled back. I could feel all the metal around me now. I had been deprived of this feeling for so long. Not anymore now. I started calling it towards me. No longer would I be caged like an animal, but if they want to cage me like one, I'll show them I can be an animal. With the metal I got, I was able to form metal claws on my hands. I then proceeded to tear my way out of the container, my prison. As I stepped out, I could feel the cold air around me, the smell of the ocean, the sound it made as it made small waves against the wall of the docks. I stood there taking it all in when I was struck in the back. I quickly pulled the metal from the containers and formed a wall between me and the others. I check the floor to find a bullet on the floor, luckily my aura protected me from it. I picked it up and just looked at it. It's been so long since the last time I had metal to play with. I started to reshape it into many different forms. Then I smelled something. I formed a ring on my finger and looked towards my wall.

Stele: "Atlas! Schnee!"

The source of my problems. I could smell them here! Anger was building up within me. The urge to fight, the need to destroy what has enslaved me. I jumped into my wall and wrapped it around myself. I landed on all fours as I looked at my surroundings. There were several people looking at me.

(Okay, this is kind of how I envision his "Wolf form" Minus all the smaller knives on him and a thicker tail.   This is  Blade Wolf from Metal Gear: RIsing)

???: "Don't just stand there! Shoot that thing!"

I got pelted by several more bullets. I looked to my side to see several hooded figures with white masks covering their face. Next to them was an Atlas airship with a well dressed man with a cane and hat going up it's ramp. I started making my way on all fours towards the airship. As I made my way across the docks, the ones in the masks continued to shoot at me. I ignored them as their small arms did little damage to my make shift armor but gave me more to work with. The air ship was getting further off the ground but I was able to propel myself closer by sacrificing the armor on my legs. As I looked inside, I was met with the man pointing his cane at me with two others in mask pointing their weapons at me.

??: "Sorry, no strays allowed."

As they began to fire I was already pulling the ramp inwards towards them and falling backwards as I launched the bullets I picked up at them. I heard two yells in pain but missed the one with the cane, damn. I hit the floor and went into a roll recalling my leg armor. There were still people left. They were all watching me again. The last ones with the masks were knocked out already. There were four others left. A yellow monkey, a black cat, a girl in a red hood and a green... Metal girl? The green one smelled of Atlas and was just about pure metal. Another Atlas robot, seemed different, it will end up like all Atlas in front of me. She will be smashed and destroyed. I could
smell Schnee again.

I turned my head to the black cat, she smelled like Schnee. I then turned to the red hood, for she also smelled like Schnee. The black cat was closer though. She would be my first target. I started slowly moving towards her as she watched me with her weapon ready. I started to pick up the pace when I was smacked in the face by something. I was pushed back as a flurry of quick hits continued. I shifted my left arms armor to my right as I raised it up into a shield. As I blocked the hits, I could see it was the yellow monkey attacking, as the black cat came running towards us. I shifted my leg armor to form a tail as I spun and smacked the monkey away from me and into the side of a container. Before he could get up I ran to him and pulled the metal around him to stop him from continuing.

Stele: "Pest."

He struggled against the metal wrapped around him, but couldn't get out. I turned to see the black cat shoot part of her weapon at me. It was moving too fast and too heavy for me to effectively manipulate it, but I was able to Parry it with my shield as I turned to whip her with my tail. As the tail made contact she disappeared, but I could still sense the metal on her. I shifted my tail to my arm and sent it towards her in the shape of a claw. She tried to flip over it, but I changed its direction and sliced through her cat ear to grab her.

I brought her closer and undid the front of my helmet. I could see and smell her better without any interference. She couldn't be a Schnee. She was a Faunus, but she still smelled like one. She was turning away from me, when a loud bang occurred. The metal that formed the claw was broken in half. I reformed my helmet and looked to see the green robot sending swords to me and the red hood with her scythe in the floor loading another bullet.  I wrapped the broken tail around the cat and  embedded it into the container beside the yellow monkey and made my way alongside the containers collecting more metal. I moved all my armor to face the red hood girl and continued her way. The other Schnee girl was next.

Her bullets hit me hard. Just like the black cat, they were way too fast and heavy to outright stop. I was able to move them just enough to take them off their intended course though. I moved like a serpent, trying to make myself as hard to hit as I could. She was able to fire rapidly, and accurately making my amor look like Swiss cheese. The whole time of her shooting me, I was also dodging the swords from the green robot. The swords she sent my way were connected to her by a metal wire which were easy to snap.

As she finished the clip, instead of reloading she started to rush me. Her scythe wasn't made to thrust or stab, so I shifted my armor into a criss cross design and put the rest into a sickle on my left hand and claws on my right. As she came swinging down on me, I blocked with my claws. As I tried to pulled it down with the sickle, she kicked off of me. I took a few steps back but quickly moved towards her again. I swiped down with my left, she pushed me back with the pole of the scythe. As she kept guarding against me, I eventually kicked her backwards towards a container. As I walked towards her, she turned into a blur of rose petals and appeared atop of the container reloading. I got to the container as she finished reloading and shifted it under her into a pillar to knock her off. As she came falling down, I took part of the container and made two tails. One of them grabbed her by the leg and the other knocked her scythe to the ground. With the scythe on the ground I stuck my sickle and tail into the ground to encase it.

I undid my helmet once again to look at her. I brought a single claw to her face and ran it down her cheek. She smelled like a Schnee a lot more, but she wasn't one.

Stele: "Still not Schnee! Where is Schnee!"

As I looked at the girls terrified face, I heard it. The last thing I wanted to hear right now. The activation and injection from the collar. I turned to see the green robot with her arm raised at me. She must have been the one to turn it off and turn it back on.

Stele: "Damn robot!"

I tossed the red hood girl to the side. I took a few wobbled steps towards the robot. She must have have reattached her weapons as they started to spin with a green energy. I could sense danger from it so I took all my armor and more from the container and formed a large shield. The connection to the metal was wavering, and so was my consciousness. A large green laser was shot towards me. I was pushing the shield with my right and trying to feel her metal with my left, but I was seeing double of her now. The shield was getting heavier in my hand, but I couldn't stop now. I could feel the connection a little. I was grabbing a hold of the connection, but the shield was burning hot and nearly gone. With a final push I grabbed hold of the connection.

Stele: "Got you!"

I closed my grip and crushed the connection. Apparently I wasn't the only one who got something. I also missed my target and didn't fully crush her. I had gotten her arm which caused her to move the laser which finished melting the shield, and with it severing my right arm. As I fell to the ground. I pulled the melted shield onto my right arm to stop the bleeding. Before passing out, I could see my severed arm laying in front of me, branded into it were the letters SDC and the Atlas logo.

(Well I hope any readers enjoyed this so far. I will maybe, probably post the next part soon. Then get start the weekly Monday or Tuesday release.)