Chapter 131 - 125 - Destroy Everything

They continued forward until they came across another platform with some railings around the side. They heard Ozpin come over the comms to tell them about the information that Coco sent him along with some things from Shallot.

Ozpin: [Comms] "Good news, team. The coordinates of Merlot's secret lab were contained within the data retrieved from the terminal. An airship has been deployed and will rendezvous with you shortly."

Nora: "I'm going to need the LONGEST shower after this!"

Ren: "I'm just thankful this is almost over."

They continued moving and arrived in a room that had some generators in it.

Ozpin: "You should be entering a power facility. Destroy everything you see that may be vital to Merlot's operation."

Shallot: "I'm destroying this room for him wasting our time here. Nora, I believe you are the expert of smashing."

Nora laughed while hitting her hammer across her hand and went straight towards smashing the power generators.

Nora: "Mama's going to smash this place so she can go and take a shower."

Shallot nodded his head thinking about the blutz wave ball from the device he made.

Shallot: 'I just need to go to a vacant place away from Beacon academy to make sure that I don't accidentally flatten anything.'

While Nora was smashing the generators Team CFVY also went along smashing some of the other ones further in the room. After the third generator was smashed they could hear Merlot over the speakers.

Merlot: "You're not authorized to be in here!"

Shallot: 'Going by his previous behavior he should have been more upset about getting the power source to his facility destroyed. This means that either he doesn't care about this area or he is planning something. Maybe it's also just a recording since the voice sounds flat compared to before.'

Coco: "I think you've had enough power going to your head, Merlot."

Coco went around smashing the tanks taking out her frustration feeling that the years that she spent training wasn't enough since she was still behind her juniors and not just a single one but a few of them. She could see that team JNPR was also catching up to their team.

Even with Shallot teaching Velvet, it won't make an immediate difference but she was glad that Velvet will have the strength so that she can deal with a large number of Grimm after seeing what the rest of Shallot's team could do.

Ruby: "Destroy everything!!"

Shallot: "She sounds so adorable."

Ruby almost stumbled hearing that while smashing things and her face went red. Yang looked at Ruby laughing.

Yang: "You've done more embarrassing things than getting a compliment so why are you blushing just from that?"

Ruby: "Yaaang!!!"

They got finished smashing the generators and went out of the room to continue forward when they saw basic extending spike traps coming from the floor popping in and out.

Ozpin: "That will deliver a shock to Merlot's system."

Yang: "Did Professor Ozpin just make a joke?"

Merlot: "Fine then. If that's how you want to play..."

Shallot was looking at the spikes coming out of the ground like an old crash bandicoot game.

Shallot: "Now this is just lazy."

Blake: "Maybe he ran out of things to throw at us?"

Coco: "I don't know? This would probably stop random people that can't use aura but nothing more than common bandits or thieves."

Shallot: "I'm the best thief around."

Velvet: "Your a thief?"

Shallot: "I stole your heart didn't I?"

Velvet's face turned red hearing that while Yang was thinking about that line.

Yang: 'That was a good one. I wish he used that one for us.'

Coco: "Can you stop flirting with everyone and we continue?"

Shallot shrugged his shoulder while continuing walking over the spikes and as soon as they raised they were broken from the increased weight that Shallot was walking with. He would purposefully step on the spiked pad and wait for it to raise so it could break under him. The spikes that rose around his feet he would kick and break them on purpose.

Jaune: 'Now that's just being a dɨċk.'

Shallot turned to Jaune having a feeling that someone was talking about him and not the flattering kind. Jaune saw Shallot turn toward him and gulped and gave a nervous laugh while looking away trying not to make eye contact.

Shallot continued walking forward and everyone followed behind until they saw that there was only a vent there with no other way forward. Shallot walked toward the vent kicking the grate of the large vent walking through.

Shallot: "I ain't got time to be walking back looking for another way."

Jaune had his mouth open thinking that maybe they came the wrong way. The others followed him through the vent seeing that it led to another room that looked like a lab with more of the blue liquid that was in the tanks.

Ozpin: "According to my map of the lab, this room contains more processing equipment for his serum. You need to take it out. All of it."

Jaune: "He can't make mutants without his serum, right?"

Shallot: "It seems that someone is learning? Yeah, this stuff is most likely a chemical compound that is being used to cause alterations to the Grimm which is why they didn't disappear after killing them originally but disappeared slowly only after some time. This means that the chemical must hold some type of compound that can make the Grimm retain their form even after defeat and dying for a bit of time."

Coco: "I never took you for the scientific type?"

Shallot: "I'm more brain than brawn, to be honest."

Everyone looked at Shallot's muscled body except Fox and Blake who was listening out for something and they were about how does someone with a body like that classified as the intellectual type

Shallot: "I'm mostly an inventor. If you don't believe me ask Blake."

They turned to Blake while she had already walked off destroyed the tanks by dragging her Gombal Shroud across the glass cutting lines then throwing something at it not wanting to get whatever was in the tanks on her.

Blake: "Shallot has the highest score out of all of us in class talking the top spot from Pyrrha."

Pyrrha nodded her head in agreement to that knowing that she hasn't been able to gain the first place position with Shallot in the same class as her. As Blake was on her way to break the second tank Dr. Merlot could be heard over the speaker.

Merlot: "Stop them!"

Some droids came out this time instead of Grimm but these droids didn't have any miniguns on them and had basic weapons like katanas and axes. The droids rushed towards them with one rushing towards Shallot swinging its sword at him. Shallot just continued walking forward as the sword shattered against his body.

Shallot: "I would imagine that the good doctor would learn after seeing that these machines can't do anything to use."

They dispatched the droids almost immediately with Team JNPR having the toughest time as these droids didn't seem to be made out of basic metal the Pyrrha could crush while they also seem to be using more heavy attacks.

After destroying the containers and the droids they continued forward in the room and smashing the last droids that weren't all that different but were only slightly taller.

Merlot: [Speaker] "My serum... [sigh] No matter... Thankfully, I may have already synthesized the perfect combination. It's still in a test phase, but so far the data is looking very impressive."

Shallot: 'Something is definitely wrong. The Dr. Merlot we were talking to earlier seemed more... livelier. This one seems far too calm.'

Ozpin: "Fantastic work. I must admit, you've really handled this well. The team back at Beacon is cheering for you."

Shallot: 'I guess Ozpin can't see that something is wrong here. Well, I plan on blowing this place to smithereens so if he is trying to escape he won't have anywhere to come back to if he manages to somehow avoid me. I wish I knew what his ki signature felt like then I could just track him down.'

Ruby: "They better have some cookies waiting for me. I deserve them."

They ran down a similar corridor that had a single bridge going down a circular hallway with what looked like electrical pipe circling around everything.

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