RWBY: The Novelization: "Black" Trailer

In the forest of Forever Fall, a wood of constant autumn within the borders of the Kingdom of Vale, there was a ragtag group of terrorists called the White Fang founded by the animal-like race of Faunus. Stolen weapons, resources, and Dust littered their campsite. Their leader, a man named Adam Taurus, exited a tent. He was tall with red spiked hair and wore a black suit with a red shirt and black trench coat. He wore a white mask over his face and carried a sheathed katana in his hand.

Adam ran his hand through his hair and over his ox antlers as he walked out to a deserted area of the forest near the camp. There he found who he was looking for: a girl of seventeen with long black hair and wearing a black bow. She wore a black vest with coattails over a white cropped shirt, black, ankle high boots, white shorts and full length stockings that had a color gradient from black to violet at her ankles. She was sitting on a boulder and looking up at the sky.

“Blake,” called Adam. “It’s time.”

Blake turned to him and looked unusually sad. “Okay.”

Blake and Adam took off dashing through the forest barely leaving a trail. They came to a cliff with a steep hillside overlooking a set of train tracks. In the distance, a whistle blew and a freight train loaded with shipping containers displaying the crest of the Schnee Dust Company was coming.

As it passed, Blake and Adam jumped onto the steep incline and slid down it throwing up fallen leaves. They jumped as they neared the bottom and landed on one of the boxcars. They ran and jumped to the next car. Adam casually flicked his wrist and slashed open a hatch which they dropped into.

Adam looked back at Blake. “Looks like we’re going to be doing this the hard way.”

Blake looked up and a platoon of Atlesian Knight-130’s jumped to life.

“Don’t be so dramatic,” said Blake.

The AK-130s’ sensors turned red. They held up their hands and their fingers became machine gun barrels. One turned to Adam and said, “Intruder; identify yourself.”

Adam responded by pulling a trigger on his sheath and shot his sword into the head of the AK. Adam dashed, caught his sword, and with blindingly quick slashes, he destroyed the AK and replaced his sword to its sheath.

The other AK’s sprouted blades where their hands were and charged. Blake jumped backward into two oncoming Knights and hacked them apart with her black machete which had a long black ribbon attached to its haft. She dashed forward and she and Adam went to work hacking and slashing the AK’s as they closed in.

One AK started shooting machine gun fire from its fingers and Adam shielded them by slicing the projectiles out of the air. Blake surged forward and slashed two more AK’s in her way before unsheathing her true sword, a katana within the machete sheath, and cut the AK down at the knees before slashing its head open.

Blake continued moving forward using both her katana and sheath to cut down AK’s as they got in her way. They were no match for her dual blades as they danced and circled through the air. One Knight was launched into the air and Adam kicked it through a door leading out onto a neighboring flatcar.

Several more AK-130’s sprang to life and charged them.

“Let’s do this!” said Adam.

He drew his katana and killed the first two. Blake leapt forward and transformed her katana into a kusarigama by collapsing the katana and a gun barrel slid out. As Blake threw it forward, she shot the gun giving it more force. She grabbed the ribbon attached to the handle and pulled it taut. There was another shot and it returned to her slashing AK’s as it went. She flipped into the air and pulled the ribbon every which way shooting the attached gun every time and destroying the surrounding AK’s as it went.

Once a path was cleared, Adam charged forward and slew another seven AK’s with some deft blade work. Blake brought up the rear with her katana back in shape and cleaned up the rest of the Atlesian Knights.

With the androids taken care of, Blake and Adam proceeded into the next boxcar where they found a steel chest.

Adam opened it. “Perfect!” he said. “Move up to the next car. I’ll set the charges.”

“What about the crew members?” asked Blake a little worried.

“What about them?” said Adam in a harsh tone.

Suddenly, a Spider Droid dropped down from the boxcar’s ceiling on four legs. It had two large cannons on either hand and the same configuration on shoulder mounted cannons.

The Spider Droid charged its eight cannons and fired multiple shots. Adam managed to dodge every shot while Blake dodged and dashed straight at it. She leapt at the war machine, but it countered her by headbutting her and knocked her down.

Blake landed on the ground heavily, and as the Spider Droid stepped over her, Adam leapt in and made several slashes against it, but didn’t do any serious damage.

The Droid kicked Adam back and then shot several rounds at him. He dodged every one.

The Droid considered Blake and threatened to crush her under one of its pointed legs. Adam materialized out of thin air, grabbed Blake and headed for the other end of the train car where he put her down.

“We need to get out of here,” said Blake.

The Spider Droid combined its eight cannons together into one giant charged particle cannon. It charged a beam and fired. Adam placed himself between Blake and the beam, but the force of it alone was strong to enough to knock him and Blake through the steel wall behind them onto the next flatcar.

Blake and Adam struggled to their feet and the Spider Droid followed them onto the car.

“Buy me some time!” said Adam.

“Are you sure?”

“Do it!” he ordered.

Blake dashed at the Droid while Adam stood there and found his center.

Blake dodged several more shots and then leapt into the air slashing at the Droid’s undercarriage, but turned her katana into the kusarigama and jumped into the air. Once at the end of the ribbon, she pulled it and shot the gun further slashing the Droid. She spun as she fell and slashed the Droid several more times.

On the ground, she pulled her weapon back, turned it back into a katana and proceeded to dash all around the Droid hacking and slashing as she went. The Droid tried to shoot her once, but the blast hit one of her Shadow Clones, her Semblance, and she advanced without taking any damage.

Blake appeared in the Droid’s face and held down the trigger on her gun firing it fully automatic until the magazine was empty. She retreated back to Adam’s side when the Spider Droid prepared to fire its charged particle cannon again.

Adam ordered her to move, and as the Droid fired its cannon, Adam unsheathed his sword part way and absorbed the entire beam into his blade. He quickly sheathed his sword and laughed. The Droid leapt at him, but Adam shot his sword into his hand and slashed upward cutting the Spider Droid in two.

After the Droid fell, Adam sheathed his sword and looked for Blake. He turned and saw her on the next car.

“What’re you doing?” he asked.

Blake looked like she was close to crying. “Your hopes have become my burden. Goodbye,” she said, slashing the car’s coupling. The following train cars automatically braked, and Blake disappeared into the darkness of the night with the advancing engine.

 

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