Escape From Remnant: A Tarkov X RWBY Crossover

Chapter 65: Infiltration

"Compared to the front...the back looks way less guarded," Moron informs the rest of the group, standing around him, viewing the backside of the shopping mall through binoculars. The group had made their way to the roof of a short three-story apartment block that gave them a panoramic view of the backside of the mall, giving them the advantage of viewing the site from a vantage point.

"Still, there's quite a lot of them. Just what kinda fucking gang is this...?" Akula pointed out after mentally counting as many mech as he could. Obviously not a reliable method since he lost track soon after miscounting one too many times before he gave up but he got up to 11 scavs.

"We gotta get in somehow," Moron informs putting down his binoculars before continuing.

"Only question is how the fuck do we get in."

"If only we had Blake or our semblances still..." Ruby laments, this situation felt all too familiar to her. It was almost akin to a lifetime ago that she fought the White Fang with the entire team together back in remnant.

"Tell me about it, if I had all sorts of superpowers at my disposal then life would be way easier. You all got the biggest fuckin downgrades, no super speed for you, Weiss lost her glyphs, and Neo lost her illusions." Moron responded to Ruby and then to the other 2 girls next to him.

"In any case, we need to make a move soon. We aren't taking this head-on on so we need to draw-"

"Or kill" Moron interrupted Akula.

"Or kill...these scavs quietly allowing us to get in undetected and do our missions." Akula finished spinning himself around and resting his back against the half-wall ledge that ran around the edge of the roof to face everyone else.

"That looks like too many men to kill..."

"You'll be surprised how many of those white fangs we killed on that train battle but come to think about it these guys are way better armed so killing probably ain't the way..."

This was when Neo got Ruby's attention with something cold and smooth yet narrow or small in her hands by lightly tapping her with said object on the side of her arm. She turns her head and sees her with a Molotov cocktail in both hands. Eager to get home, she was willing to put behind her their shared history like it was water under the bridge to achieve a common goal. Ruby instantly understood her plan, to start a blaze to distract everyone. If this was truly their private domicile then burning it would send them all into a panic like ants scrambling to put out the fire. Assuming their firefighting skills would be worse than her combat skills which the odds were near absolute, they would take an even longer time to put out whatever blaze they created.

Ruby grabs the Molotov and steps forward confidently as if she were ready to lead the group to this impending battle. All eyes turn on her like hungry seagulls detecting the slightest whiff of food.

"We burn it down, find their trash heap and light it on fire so that they all scramble to put it out."

"Alright now that's a plan I can definitely get behind!" Moron cheered out loud giving Ruby a friendly slap on her back chuckling at how much she had grown into a more gritty version of her team RWBY leader self.

"Question is we still need to get near the place to make a huge fire." Akula brought up the concern having turned back to watch the guard movements. While they didn't have a set path moving randomly throughout the perimeter, a perimeter was still a perimeter. They would need to move undetected into the vicinity of the place where they dumped all their waste which looked to be where the dumpsters were behind the mall.

The dumpsters had long been overrun with bags of rubbish and loose trash alike strewn about around and near the full dumpsters. So all it takes would be to throw a Molotov onto it, yet that would create noise which would surely attract people.