Chapter 17: Ready...Aim...

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Crash Site Bravo
Red Base

Sarge stands on top of Red Base with Team RWBY and Red Team standing below.

Sarge: Alright, we don't have much time, so let's see what we've got.

Simmons: Ahem! Hello everyone. Private Simmons. Great to be back.

Grif: Wrap it up!

Simmons: Good to be back.

Grif: Nobody cares!

Simmons sighs.

Simmons: Alright, just shut up and listen. We had a full armory onboard the ship consisting of firearms as well as explosives. I moved as many as I could down here and also took the liberty of setting up a minefield near Red Base.

Everyone looks at several unburied mines.

Yang: But you didn't even bury them.

Simmons: From what I can tell, they're designed to rest above the ground.

Yang: With big red warning lights?

Simmons: Yeah, it doesn't really make sense.

Sarge: Excellent work, Simmons. Now go and organize those firearms.

Simmons: Yes, sir!

Simmons runs off.

Blake: Well at least Red Team's ready for when time comes.

Ruby: We don't have a lot of time, so let's make sure Blue Team's ready too.

Weiss: Agreed.

Team RWBY runs off. Sarge looks at Grif and Doc.

Sarge: Grif, Doc, how are the teleportation tests going?

Doc: Well we've learned the cubes can be set to different frequencies. For example, if I throw a cube set to frequency A, it will absorb an object.

Doc throws a cube at a traffic cone.

Doc: If I then throw a second cube on frequency A, that object will reappear.

Doc throws another cube and the cone returns.

Grif: Meanwhile if I have a cube set to B, I can throw it like so.

Grif throws a cube at a nearby crate.

Doc: Yeah-

Doc gets caught in the vicinity of the cube. 

Doc: Hey wait!

The crate and Doc disappear.

Grif: I can then throw a second cube set to B, without ever messing with the stuff sucked up by the cube set to A.

Grif throws another cube. The crate reappears but there's no sign of Doc.

Sarge: So all they do is teleport things? No explosions? No violence?

Grif: Nah.

Sarge: Well I suppose we could make them absorb grenades. Then we could throw the grenade filled cubes back at the enemy.

Grif: At that point wouldn't it make more sense to just throw grenades?

Sarge: We're not here to make sense, Private! We're here to win! Now take Donut and figure out how to make your stupid cubes do somethin' useful.

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