Ruby growled as she ran into the facility “Merlot, stop hiding from me!”

Diane put a hand on her shoulder “Ruby, calm down, I promise once we find him you’ll be able to do whatever you want to him. For now let’s focus on locating him.”

Salem soon joined them, she saw multiple metal pipes, camera and Computer screens resting on the metal walls of the complex. Sunset, Rainbow, Cardin, Weiss, Blake, Pyrrha and Jaune joined them only to hear the sounds of clunking metal. Bulky androids that reminded Diane of the older models of Atlas Knight-100s that were decommissioned in favour of the Atlas Knight-130s.

Some of them were carrying spears, others were carrying machine guns and grenade launchers. Merlot’s face turned up on a screen “You have done well to get this far but you won’t get past my…”

Ruby rushed forward and tore all of them in half with a swing from her scythe. She growled “I have little interest in your toys, Merlot! I want your head and I will stop at nothing until I get it!”

Merlot instantly shut off communications, Rainbow approached Ruby with a frown “Are you okay, Ruby. This isn’t like you.”

Ruby crossed her arms “I’ll be better once I’ve taken Merlot’s head. Now where could that bastard be hiding.”

Diane frowned as her scroll began to buzz, Ozpin’s face appeared on the scroll “Diane you have been out of contact for over a day. Is everyone alright?”

Salem walked over to her, venom coursed through her tone “Ozpin, it’s been centuries.”

Ozpin’s eyes widened “Salem, why are you here!”

Salem smirked “Well normally I would send one of my some of subordinates but all of them in the area had been injured by young Diane over here. As such I have had to take to doing grunt work, Diane here probably could find a way to mess with my immortality, I must admit I am enjoying this. an opponent who has me at a disadvantage. It’s quite refreshing actually.”

Ozpin turned to Diane “Why are you working with her? You know that we are enemies right?”

Diane frowned “Well she told me the whole story from her perspective and besides we are here for the same reason. Dr Merlot survived and is making Grimm for his own personal use, we both have reason to want that to end so we have called a truce.”

Sunset frowned “I’m surprised we are not being jammed by Merlot. I doubt he would want us getting backup.”

Weiss frowned “He likely has benefactors on the outside he needs to keep in contact with on the outside. It is important to keep contact with those funding an operation, especially if you are trying to keep it secret.”

Blake raised an eyebrow “How do you know such about this anyway?”

Weiss rolled her eyes “Blake, I am the heiress to a major company. It wouldn’t exactly be ideal if I didn’t know how to run a business.”

Ozpin nodded “You should focus on finding his Main Laboratory, that will be likely where he resides. If he is not there then I’m not sure where he is hiding.”

Ruby growled “That will take too long, let’s blow up everything until we find him!”

Diane frowned “Well we aren’t going anywhere by talking, I’ll contact you if something really bad happens.”

Ozpin nodded “I know you will. See you back at Beacon.”

Ruby growled “Enough lollygagging, I want to find this Merlot is! He can’t be too far from here!”

Salem smirked “I think your idea has some premise, no point playing wander through the labyrinth.” Salem held up a hand let out a powerful blast of destructive energy tearing through anything that got in it’s way. All that was left was a huge chasm of melted metal and piles of rubble save a few tall buildings in the distance.

One of the monitors turned on as Merlot shouted “What have you done to my facility!”

Salem turned to him with grim expression “Show you what it means to mess with a god. Now I suggest you surrender, it will be easier on everyone.”

Merlot growled “I won’t surrender to you, you can’t possibly get past my army of Grimm!”

Thousands of mutated Beowulves rushed towards them, Ruby’s silver eyes glowed fiercely as she roared “I am sick of the mutated shits getting in the way.” That aura surrounded her body, she rushed forward delivering punches at blinding speed the Grimm turning to dust before her fury.

Salem’s eyes widened “I’ve never seen Silver Eyes do that before, they just obliterate Grimm.”

Diane frowned “This is more that simple anger, this is a primal hatred. She has become focused on the goal of vengeance, there is a great amount of power in those eyes but because it is despite it’s bright nature, it is a form of dark magic brought out in the most desperate of situations. It takes incredible amounts of will in order to control it as it actively fights against you.”

Salem frowned “Well I’m glad I won’t have to fight that anytime soon.”

Ruby leapt towards a tower and smashed into it, she dodged the punch the of Merlot’s robotic arm. She grabbed his mechanical arm and ripped it off, she growled as she put her foot on his chest “This is for Yang you mad bastard!” Ruby smashed his skull into dust with a mighty strike, she then left the tower using Speed.

Ruby rushed over to them “He’s dead, I’ve made sure of that.”

Salem frowned “I’m going to activate the Island’s self-destruct, don’t want anyone else trying to do this again here. In the meantime you have funeral to attend.”

Ruby nodded “I do, I can now move on. Thank you Salem for getting us here, I needed to kill him with these hands.”

Salem smirked “Don’t get to friendly, if we meet again it will be to the death. Still I doubt you will be the one I’ll be fighting.”

Diane nodded “I’ll be ready for that Salem.” Diane teleported them into a room only to see Qrow, Taiyang and another woman yelling at Ozpin.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.