The Knights of Grimm - Act 2 - Captured

Chapter 4 - The Architect

Yang

The mysterious metal man sprints across the sand dunes towards the town of which they were headed, the town is constructed of Sandstone, blending into the sandy environment. He runs extremely fast, inhumanly fast, the sound of gyros and gears scraping can be heard from his running animation. His metal legs are not faltered by the deep dunes of sand, able to move through with perfect ease. The sand trails from the poncho that it wears as it runs extremely quickly. Yang slides down one of the dunes, but when she runs, she hears the voice of Winter calling to her. "Yang!" She calls as she jumps off the dune, using a Glyph to soften her descent. Yang's lilac eyes looks straight at hers. She points behind them and they see the massive plume of sand barrelling towards them like an avalanche, the Sandstorm has grown in size and is getting closer and closer. Visibility will be at a complete zero unless they get inside before it hits. "That Sandstorm is catching up with us!" She shouts.

"Then we need to move fast! That thing could be the Architect!" Yang yells, running after it as it sprints towards the town, leaping across the Barricade. Some of the soldiers are utterly bewildered as the robot passes right by them, too fast for them to aim, and they aim at Yang and the others.

"Stop right there!" The soldier yells.

"We just saved you!" Yang argues as she continues to run. The soldier opens fire, he must not have known, Yang ducks down to avoid the dust bullet and she jumps at him, kicking him in the head to simply get him out of the way. She continues to run after rolling across the floor. The Poncho Man starts clambering their way up the side of one of the sandy buildings, scraping its metal feet and fingers into the structure to hook on and get further up there. Yang pursues him, her eyes on the rooftops, the robot jumps off one building, sailing across the sky and landing on the roof of another building across the way. Ren jumps up to the building and he chases after this character, Stormflower in hand.

"We just wanna talk!" Ren yells. Yang turns a corner and there is legitimate surprise on her face. There are actually civilians harboured here, wearing the same kind of civilian style clothing as people in Vacuo do. But some of them have the symbols of Mistral on them, this must be yet another Refugee Camp of some kind. And the White Fang are defending it. Both Human and Faunus, which makes it even more surprising. Ren follows the figure but he jumps down into the streets, vanishing into the crowd, straight from Ren's view. Ren scours the area with his pink eyes to figure out where he went to find him, but he has blended straight into the mix of clothing and civilians, completely vanishing without a trace. He grits his teeth in frustration. "I've lost him!" Ren yells. Yang stammers in confusion, stressing out because he could be the best chance they have to find Ruby. She looks across the street though when she hears distant shouting.

All of a sudden, there is an Acolyte of Lien Grunt with an Assault Rifle in his hand, he points the rifle in the air and waves the barrel around, holding the trigger back. The rifle spills bullets from the barrel with a constant set of bangs from the muzzle, launching bullets into the sky. The abrupt gunfire freaks the civilians out and their hands raise around their lowered heads as they flee for cover. The soldiers all where unique Desert Styled armour, ponchos around their tactical gear and wearing sand-proof goggles. Yang snarls in anger when she sees the soldiers aiming their rifles at them. "Lookie what we have here, boys!" One of the soldiers cheers, he is the same Captain that was present for the deaths of Neon Katt and Flynt Coal, but Yang does not realise this yet. "Got ourselves the pretty one!" He cheers, aiming his assault rifle at her. Yang dives for cover as he fires straight at her. Yang rolls her eyes as she pumps her Ember Celica back into action. The shells load into the chambers and she lifts them up as she peers back round the corner at the soldiers that are making their positions. Her eyes widen when she sees two Seekers darting across the courtyard, their S. aimed at their location.