Chapter 10: Cold Hard Escape

Weiss was plotting to escape Atlas to go meet up with the others, but she needed a distraction of sorts. Then she remembered Klein said that she could ask him for help, which is something she was going to do. All that was left was to make sure Whitley doesn't tell.

Weiss opens the door as she looked around. She saw Klein standing not far, she needed a way to get his attention, but had an idea. "Psst! Klein, psst!"

Klein turned to see Weiss waving at him, he looked around as he walked over to her room. "Yes Ms. Schnee?"

"I want you to help me get out of here...I need to leave, I can't be stuck in this room forever. I need to know if my friends are safe or not." Weiss said.

Klein would lightly nod. "Of course, however. I may have a few ideas on how I can help you get out of here."

Weiss cocked an eyebrow up. "I'm listening."

"There's going to be a shipment supply of new dust leaving from here on a cargo ship, I can sneak you out with the cart, since I have to do my daily rounds. After I come by here with the empty cart. You get on and I roll you out of here without being caught." Klein said.

Weiss nodded. "Hopefully Winter could be of some help later down the road."

"Ah yes...she was always such a good girl growing up." Klein said. "I suppose she'd be the only family you have left after tonight."

Weiss looks at him. "But I also have you too Klein."

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It was about that time Klein had mentioned to Weiss, the cargo ship was getting the shipment of dust in. But each box had to be filled up with the right amount, Weiss watched from her window as she then heard a knock on the door. She went to go open it as she saw Whitley standing there.

"Hello sister, I thought I would come by to tell you that our dear dad would like a word with you when he gets done with his tea." Whitley said. "I best not keep him waiting." He walked off as he saw Klein at his room. "Oh yes, do hold on the cake Klein."

Weiss watched her brother walk off as she waited for Klein. "I'll show you Whitley...I'll show dad too that I'm not a fairy tail princess kept locked in her room." She had mumbled this to herself so it wouldn't be heard.

After Klein had finished what he had to do for Whitley, he went over to Weiss' room and saw her on the ready. He lifted up the cloth of the cart so she could get under it, Weiss climbed under the cart as the cloth.

Klein started to leave the hall after he closed the door to Weiss' room like nothing had happened. He was casual about not giving Weiss' position away as to where she was at, the cargo ship was still out getting loaded up which was giving the two plenty of time to make it.

Once the cart had stopped by the library Klein lifted up the cloth. "Okay..there's a secret passage that will help you get out side quicker, my duty as a butler isn't done yet." He helped Weiss out from under the cart.

"Alright Klein, will do." Weiss said as she was about to open the door to the library. "Thank you Klein, I won't forget this."

Klein nods his head. "Godspeed Ms. Schnee."

Weiss gave Klein a hug before going into the library and began looking for the secret passage that would help her get out quicker, she scanned the area and found a book sticking out from a bookshelf. "Bingo."

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Once the passage had opened, Weiss had went through it. Hoping no one would notice her exiting the building, eventually she had made it out undetected. She noticed the cargo ship was nearly done, she had to make a dash for it before it could take off. Luckily she used her glyph to get there.

Weiss made it to the cargo ship as the pilot noticed her, but didn't say anything to her thinking she was out for a stroll. Weiss looked at the pilot for a moment wondering where the shipment was going. "Where is this shipment going?"

"Mistral." The pilot replied.

"Good..can you take me there?" Weiss asked curiously.

The pilot wasn't too sure, but nodded in agreement. "Ships that go there go through a Grimm field never to be heard from again, so having you on board would be much help to get us there quicker."

"Great." Weiss said as she got onto the ship.

The last box of dust was loaded on as the pilot had gotten on and started up the ship to take off, The ship was leaving Atlas as Weiss looked out the window seeing it disappear from view. All that was left for her to do now is make sure the dust shipment and her and the pilot got to Mistral in one piece.

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Days gone by was they were still in the air on their way to Mistral. They were coming in up on Grimm territory, which had the pilot nervous for his life.

"This is it?" Weiss asked. "But what kind of Grimm are in this area?"

The pilot didn't answer as he was focused on flying, however the Lancer's started to come out from hiding as they started to swarm behind them. Weiss had an idea as she looked to the pilot. "Open the hatch, I'll fend them off!"

"Yeah sure, do that!" The pilot said as he opens the hatch.

Weiss used her glyph to stay on the ship. "This is going to be tough." She fired at the Lancer's with her Myrtenaster, some of the dust bullets had hit some of the Lancer's . "Drat, I missed."

More and more Lancer's came as Weiss had to pick up the speed on killing these Grimm, she got an idea as she used fire dust as most of the Lancer's were burned up. Now the swarm was pissed, they charged in from left and right as they were tearing at the cargo ship.

"No!" Weiss shouts as she used a glyph as a bounce pad, she fired more dust rounds as it bounces off the glyphs and hit's the Grimm that were on the side of the cargo ship. "Wait, this is a hive! Can you pull us out of here?"

"I can try, but with the tears in the ship, we'll crash before anything else." The pilot said.

Weiss resumed her assault on the Lancer's as the pilot tired to advert the ship from the hive. As this was happening, Weiss managed to take down the swarm of Grimm, but something deep within the hive was lurking and had awoken.

"Okay, I think we're in the cl-" The pilot was cut off as a stray Lancer stinger had stabbed him, killing him on impact.

"Oh for the love of." Weiss said as she looked to see what Lancer had done that, her eyes widen as she saw the Queen Lancer. "Oh...crapbaskets."

The Queen Lancer was as big as the cargo ship, it was going to take more than just dust to take this down, Weiss summoned her ice knight to help assist her in taking the Queen Lancer down. "Come on!"

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Weiss panted as she was out of breath, she killed the Queen Lancer. But there was still one problem, the pilot was dead. Weiss rushed to the controls only to find it had also been harmed from when the Queen had shot it's stinger.

"Brace for impact!" Weiss told herself as she noticed the ship was going to crash land. She didn't have much time to react on where it was going to crash at, as the ship crashed landed. Weiss was alive, just injured.

Three Shadows appeared over Weiss as she looked up at them. "Help...." One of the people that was looking down at Weiss was Raven, which was a blurred in Weiss' vision as she passed out.

"Bring her back to camp.." Raven said as she looked at the two bandits who picked Weiss up.

The bandits dragged Weiss back to the Branwen tribe camp as they locked Weiss up in a cage, Raven loomed over her for a moment before walking back into her tent. Weiss was unaware of who had taken her.