“You okay?” Coco asked.

Velvet nodded. Her shield armored gloves disappeared and were replaced by Neptune Vasilias’s rail gun.

Coco raised her eyebrows.

“They’re no good to us if we’re dead,” Velvet said. She knew Coco thought she should be holding on to these pictures for emergencies, but if this didn’t qualify, then what did? She couldn’t afford to be sentimental about the irreplaceable photographs of their friends, either. Last she’d heard, Team SSSN was still out there, anyway, though no one knew where Sun Wukong had headed off to. He’d always been nice to Velvet, and she hoped he wasn’t getting into too much trouble, wherever he was.

The worm recovered and barreled toward them again. They both fired on it. Velvet concentrated the energy blasts from Neptune’s gun on the worm’s eye, which began to burn and scar and bubble under the assault.

But that didn’t stop it from advancing toward them. It rammed into the side of the turtle. The world tipped over, but the turtle frantically worked to right itself. And the blind worm disappeared.

The turtle withdrew, pulling its flippers and head into its shell. It had clearly had enough. Its sturdy shell might protect it from the Blind Worm’s attacks, but everyone on the shell was exposed—and they weren’t moving anymore.

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 16