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It was all or nothing, they knew the small team of hunters would be there, fortunately, the small ones, the Dregs aren't so threatening. They would get plowed through easily without any real trouble at all. The main door to the replication chamber was slightly better guarded, having a captain and a few Shanks guarding the door. Without a second thought, Yang punched him right off the platform to his death below, and the door opened. 

The lights on the ceiling were dead, or flickering. Some were even dangling from the ceiling. The long hallway was covered in SIVA, and a bridge that connects to the inner chamber had veins of that nano-tech on the ground. Along the way, Summer found a dead Ghost on the floor. Her Ghost scans its memory core. This was the Ghost of Lady Jolder, and she remembered how she was the only Ghost to survive, up until this point. That was the least of their worries right now.

They entered the chamber with two massive pillars holding it up, some Fallen crates to the side and the most disturbing of all... were three Iron Lords dangling from the ceiling, being connected by SIVA. One of them held an axe near the control panel, but it seemed like there was nothing they could do at this point. Ghost came out and scanned the Iron Lord with the axe. 

"I'm reading DNA. They're... human." He says, backing away.

"Human? That's not possible." Shiro replied.

"Lord Saladin, how many Iron Lords were with you?" Summer asked.

"Counting myself, there were nine of us." He said.

"There are three here..." She didn't like this one bit.

Ghost got to work activating the self-destruct of the entire complex.

"Hang on, something is fighting me inside the system. This might take some time." He explained. 

The more he messed with, the worse it got. The body of the Iron Lord started to flicker and a swarm of SIVA surrounded it, and they heard a very distorted female voice. The body got pulled up to the ceiling, dropping the axe. Saladin couldn't believe this...

"No... it can't be..." He either said that on purpose, or left his radio on.

Summer picked up the axe, and the blade caught fire as soon as she picked up. It was burning hot with the fire and power of the Iron Lords long past. Her amazement was cut short when the SIVA corrupted Iron Lord came crashing down, and he or she had a gun in hand, ready to kill. The alarm sounded and Splicer Fallen came to reinforce it. Sooner or later the SIVA veins keeping the other two Iron Lords attached to the ceiling disconnected.

"Spread out and keep moving, kill the Fallen as you go but we'll deal with these things together!" Summer ordered as the three remaining members of team RWBY were killing Fallen left and right. Yang set her sights on one of those monstrosities, she charged it and in return she was hit back with its long spike for an arm. Physical attacks only made her stronger, so she was able to knock it back, but the SIVA shielding was too strong, only the axe could break it. 

Yang snapped out of her blind anger and before she could react, it jabbed her in the stomach, knocking on her back. It came to finish her off, and the Iron Lord brought its arm down, going for Yang's stomach. She was able to move, but not enough for the spike arm to sever hers, and she screamed in agonizing pain. It wasn't a clean cut like a sword, this was a dismembered piece of flesh with pieces of bone and flesh splattered near her. Yang passed out from the shock and the Iron Lord was ready to finish her off, this was the end for her... or so it seemed.

Ruby couldn't believe what she saw, she couldn't hear anything, and her focus was only on her sister. She could feel a power rising within her, a white light came out of her eyes as she screamed Yang's name, her helmet shattered as the light was too strong for it to handle. The Iron Lord that went for her was sent flying back, Summer tackled Blake to the floor to try and shield her from that blast. Everything went white for that brief time.

Summer, opens her eyes slightly, with ringing in her ears, and her Ghost was trying to get her attention. Everything cleared up as he kept talking.

"Do you have to yell so loud...?" Blake complained to Ghost.

"I know, I'm sorry, but you need to see this..." He replied.

Summer got up and her mouth hung open. The entire room was purged of SIVA, everything looked shiny and brand new.

"Whatever happened here, came from her..." Ghost said, looking at an unconscious Ruby.

Summer looked over to Yang, she was still bleeding, and Summer rushed over to her step daughter, "No no no no no!" She put pressure on what was left of her arm to try and keep the blood in. Blake checked on her leader, she was okay, but just knocked out.

"Ghost, call Saladin, we need to get her out of here!" Summer ordered, as she covered up Yang's arm with a piece of cloth to absorb the blood. It seemed to work for a little bit.

"I've already tried, whatever that blast was, it fried all of your suit's radios, and my transmitter is not strong enough to reach them. We're too far underground. But I can still transmat us to the ship, so we need to get her out of here. I'll go initiate the self-destruct." He said, flying off. 

Summer heard noises and she had Thorn pointed at where it came from. A human lifted debris off of themselves. It was one of the Iron Lords! She was a woman with brown hair that went down to her neck, and her eyes were blue, and she just looked at them.

"You can lower your weapon, Miss, I'm not going to harm you." She said.

"Fat chance! My step daughter just lost her arm, and you're asking me to lower my gun?!" Summer had her finger on the trigger.

"I know... I wasn't in control of my actions, I can assure you that..." She tried to reason with her.

"Who are you?!" Summer demanded.

"I am Lady Jolder, one of the last Iron Lords." Jolder explained, and Summer lowered her weapon.

Two more Iron Lords stood up, both were human males.

"And I am Lord Gheleon. It is a pleasure to meet you." He introduced himself.

"I am am Lord Felwinter, I found the peak that we used to construct the Iron Temple." He said.

Summer and Blake look at each other, this didn't sound possible. Was SIVA keeping them alive all these years? They couldn't do anything until someone or something commanded SIVA.

"We'll help you get her out of here. But you had a primary objective coming here right?" Jolder asked.

"Y-yeah, we came to destroy this place, and my Ghost can initiate the self-destruct." She explained. 

"Do it, and let's get out here." Jolder said.

She nods and she picks Yang up, and Blake got Ruby. Ghost got it working and the room starts to explode and the main door starts to slowly shut.

"We gotta go!" Ghost said.

"Fallen up ahead!" Blake warned them.

"We'll cover you!" The three Iron Lords gets their weapons locked and loaded and the Fallen stood no chance, it was mostly Shanks, the most annoying drone to ever face in combat and a few Dregs left over from the initial defense. 

They made it out and the door shuts. It was over. The Fallen couldn't use anymore of this terrible weapon...

-=Author's note=-

Boy trying to graduate high school is not easy, but I had time during one of my finals to work on this because I already got it done. School is almost done so I'll update more, yay! Have a good one everyone, and just remember to stay happy.

~Chelchis