RWBY Through Worlds (End)

BC28: Royal Problem--2

[Opener is "Oh No!" by Marina and the Diamonds]

"Crap." Royal saw Oscar fall. But then he looked up. "We'll be the same as him in another minute. Better just jump."

"But--" Cinder really had no reason to disagree, she was just shocked.

"I know, but there's no time to look for him from up here. If he survived that, we have to find him on the ground before the lancers do." Royal tried to sound calm--pretty successfully actually. "We'll be above water in a second. I think we can jump. No time to parachute; the lancers would only catch us for sure."

He stepped back before they could do so now.

But they drew back as it neared water, fortunately. They didn't usually fly over water.

The plane was near crashing and still on fire a little.

Royal tossed out a few of the crates while he had the chance. They should have been able to float, being waterproofed.

Cinder was watching the water.

It was close now.

"Just go," Royal called.

By now Cinder was more nervous about being here alone than being in company she didn't like.

"What about you?" she asked.

"I want to level it out so it lands," Royal said. "Maybe it won't break into pieces then."

He moved towards the cockpit.

One of the crates fell onto a dust vial that had not exploded before (apparently it was unseen by them).

Cinder saw it just in time to throw up a sort of shield.

The impact sent her sprawling out of the plane haphazardly into an impromptu dive.

She hit the water at a speed that hurt like hell but did not knock her out, thankfully.

The water was icy this close to Argus, but not literally, or she'd have been too numb to swim in seconds.

There was another crash. Royal had also been thrown off the plane.

He struggled to float.

"Well...that didn't work," he said, as the plane sailed over their heads and hit the water hundreds of feet away.

It didn't break into pieces, but one of the wings did crack.

And, of course, since the doors were open, it sunk promptly.

Royal took this better than you'd think.

"I'm sure they can fish that out..." he said philosophically.

* * *

Using the case as a flotation device, they got back to shore after about 40 minutes. The current didn't help them much.

By then Cinder was thoroughly pissed off, as she hated water.

But once she was on the shore, she rushed to find Oscar.

The lancers could have found him by now, but Grimm usually didn't attack Oscar anymore, though Cinder didn't know that.

And they seemed to have turned their attention to the pirates, because they had gone back the other way.

Also Oscar, being unconscious, didn't emit emotions for them to find, so it might have saved him to have been out cold when Cinder did finally find him.

Perhaps by some blessing from above, he'd hit a bush and not a rock, and nothing appeared to be broken, though he would be sore for days.

At least he wasn't dead. Cinder let out a sigh of relief.