Continuing the Trip, and a Slight Battle

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After finishing her scroll call, Lorraine smiles as she leads her group down the path they believed the group had taken. They were eager to meet with these strangers who were able to nearly destroy an entire town.

"The Headmaster sends his regards, and asks us to please be nice to the group," Lorraine says as she turns to look at the other three. "Hopefully they are friendly,"

"I am more curious to see what they look like," Ulysses said. "They seem capable of much, judging by how they were able to defeat such a large group of enemies."

"You would be correct." Lorraine replied, "It seems that Ozpin's suggestion was right once again."

"That is true, but the question is why does this group stay hidden," Ulysses adds.

Alatriste looks around as the party rests, they have been moving nonstop since the daybreak, and as such he tells everyone to take a break.

"Guess the old man must be tired," Guerrero said looking at him.

"What do you mean, we have been moving since the sun rose, which was about 5 hours ago. No way you all ain't tired." Alatriste said as he sat down.

"I am a soldier raised from birth, as such I was trained not to get tired easily," Guerrero adds.

"I am a cyborg, as such as long as I have power left in my batteries I don't get tired," Isabella added.

"And I am the least likely to be tired since I am a giant warship" Texas added, this line caused the rest of the group to chuckle a bit.

"Right I forgot, I somehow became the leader of the party of the biggest misfit Remnant has ever seen." Alatriste added with a chuckle "Speaking of what do you eat Texas."

"Will I eat normal food, like Hamburgers and BBQ, also oil is one of my favorite drinks." Texas replied, "So yeah all the normal stuff."

"Miss Texas, I regret to inform you that drinking oil is not normal. I am pretty positive that not even the Adeptus Mechanious drinks oil." Guerrero replied.

"Well most of my friends drink it, so I thought it was," Texas replied, her face turning red from the embarrassment.

"Guessing they are also ships given human form like you," Isabella added.

"Either way, we shouldn't rest long, if I was a betting man I am positive that the news of the white fang attack made it out. As such they probably sent someone to investigate." Alatriste said, cutting the comedy act short.

"If you want I can send my Kingfisher out to investigate and see if anyone following us," Texas said, summoning her rigging. "The only drawback is that it has a limited range"

"Very well at least check to see if you see anyone following us," Alatriste said. As he said Texas shot a small aircraft off her rigging, and as it flew away it slowly got bigger until it achieved its real-life size.

Lorraine and her team stopped at a small hilltop, where it looked like the other group had set up camp when they were started by a strange sight.

"What is that," Shandell asked, as he pointed up to the sky. As the rest of the team looked up they were surprised to see a strange-looking aircraft.

"It looks like a weird airship. Maybe it is an Atlas prototype. You know them, always building some strange stuff." Crandell replied with a chuckle.

"If it's Atlas why is it down here in Vauco huh" Ulysses added.

"Maybe it was easier to test down here" Crandell responded, adding a shoulder shrug.

"Or maybe it the team were looking for, you all saw the town, they probably got some weird tech stuff," Lorraine added, chiding the other two.

They quickly got back to following the trail that led out of the makeshift camp, and just ignored the strange flying object.

Texas having noticed the strange group that seemed to be following them, quickly relayed this to Alatriste. Alatriste quickly stood up.

"Alright break time over let's get moving again, we got some people tracking us so we oughta pick up the pace." He said

"What you mean, not sure about the others but I have been slowing down for you old man" Isabella added giving Alatriste an elbow tap.

"Haha, well if that's the case y'all move at your best pace, I will do what I can to keep up, don't worry," Alatriste said as he continued walking.

As soon as he said this, he just as quickly wished he hadn't. The other three quickly set a pace that kept Alatriste almost running just to keep up. After attempting to keep up for a while, he decided to swallow his pride.

"Hey y'all, you mind ....." Alatriste was saying as he was cut off by a roar.

As the party looked toward what was roaring, they were greeted by the sight of a group of Beowoulfs looking at them. The 4 members quickly ready their weapons and attempted to try to get into a formation, but they accidentally kept bumping into one another.

"Aight, after this battle we should train on how we keep formations, instead of just our fighting," Guerrero said, as got clear of the other three and got to firing his lasguns at Beowulf. "By the way any of you all got a count of how many there are."

"My Mag is picking up about six of them, can anyone confirm this," Isabella shouted over the quickly rising volume sound of gunfire. She started adding to it, as she summoned her duel pistols and opened fire on the closest enemy.

Alatriste quickly got clear of the gaggle and drew his saber, "You might be right in both accounts. I counted six, but I ain't too sure, it was a rather quick count." As he said this he summoned a Icile and shot it at one of the beowulfs.

"My radar is picking up six contacts as well. If you all don't mind backing up I can hit 'em with my A.A. guns and that should take them out." Texas added as she got clear of the other three, she summoned her rigging. At her suggestion the other 3 quickly backed up behind her, meanwhile, they kept firing hoping to keep the beowulf from advancing.

As soon as Texas saw that they were behind her, she quickly opened fire with her A.A. guns, her Oerlikon and Bofors tearing through the Beowulf.

"Did anyone ever tell you that you are kinda overpowered for what you can do?" Alatriste, said, looking at the disintegrating grim corpses.

"No they haven't but despite that, I have a bit of a problem. That was the last of the ammunition for those smaller guns." Texas replied.

"Guessing that means we won't be seeing you do that for a while correct," Alatriste inquired.

"That's correct, I can replenish the ammo, but it can only be done one of two ways, either manually by loading it in my ship, or by me eating a lot of food," Texas responded.

"So either way, we need to get to a town," Guerrero added.

A/N

Hope yall enjoy, also this might be my last update for a couple of months. My work gonna have me busy for a while.

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