Hello everyone. It's me, epicvictory2025. Haven't made a fic for quite a while and now I'm suddenly back out of the blue. I'm gonna be a little straightforward with this. I've been gone for at least 2-3 years of not writing a fanfic due to my life that I'm living in and also for losing my previous fics. Before you ask; I'm done with reaction fics since I'm trying to move on from that experience. To those who were disappointed in me and maybe still are that I've been in the dark and moved on from my previous fics that you all enjoyed… I don't care if you have anything to say about it or me because I have long since lost interest in react fics and I want to write an actual story. Though I do want to thank those for enjoying my previous works and I still hope you will enjoy my future stories that I got in store. You know… as Monty Oum himself said once… "Keep Moving Forward" and I'm taking that quote to help me continue fanfiction.
Since I'm at ease now, I'm basically starting over from scratch with something new and it's an AU of RWBY that may have some changes to the original.
RWBY belongs to Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth.
The OCs belong to me.
Team ANGR
Trailer; The Blue Bull.
The world that we live in forever changes. We must make our own changes for the better towards it. But that doesn't mean it lets us stray from the paths we choose to make.
Forever Fall...
Out in a wide, open, mountainous valley, covered by a sea of trees, with leaves as red as roses, and a partially shattered moon drifting in the red sky, with the shattered remains of it orbiting alongside it. The valley is nearly silent as the howling wind blows and the crimson leaves rustle.
The location is Forever Fall. And this is where a heist is about to happen soon.
The red leaves are slowly drifting to the ground, as two figures are sitting on two rock outcroppings, as they both stare, silently, at the spectacle of the red forest..
One is a young girl at the age of 17 with a pale complexion. Standing at 5'6", with a curvy figure, long black hair, reaching down past her shoulders and reaching her back, amber eyes, and wearing a black bow over her head which hides her cat ears. She's also wearing a white undershirt under a black buttoned vest, along with white shorts, black low-heeled boots, black and purple stockings, and black ribbons wrapped around her arms.
Her emblem is a little black flame and on her back is what appears to be a sword where the handle is a pistol that is sheathed but the sheath itself is also a cleaver.
The other is a young boy at the age of 18. Standing at 6'1", with a well toned and muscular body, light skin, sky blue hair with darker blue mixed in that's spiky towards the back and windswept. On his head are a pair of bull horns but the tips are blunt and round instead of sharp and pointy, indicating he's a bull faunus.
He's wearing a white suit jacket that's light blue on the inside of it with blue patterns swirling on the bottom sides on the outside, white pants, white shoes with blue soles, and a sky blue shirt under his jacket that's partially unbuttoned.
On the back of his jacket is his emblem that's a blue colored rose and stem. The edge of the blue petals that make up the rose are round and smooth, rather than pointy and edgy, making the rose look more elegant.
The most interesting accessory is his mask that covers the upper half of his face while his lower half and mouth are exposed. The white-tan colored mask has four slits for him to see through and also has blue swirls that decorate the mask with the center having blue, wing like emblems on them.
Lastly, his weapon is a katana that's sheathed which is grayish-white. His weapon is called Wilt and Blush.
As the two continued to watch the leaves blow in the wind, the girl was in deep thought of something. But she's unaware that the boy next to her was also in the same boat.
The silence ended when the boy spoke to the girl.
"Blake." The boy said in a calm tone to the girl, named Blake.
"Yes, Adam?" She answered, also speaking in a soft tone, as she looks at her partner named Adam, with her amber eyes. Even if she can't see his eyes behind that mask, she can already tell what he's feeling, considering she knew him quite for a long time and they've met many years ago.
"Isn't it beautiful?" He calmly spoke. "The red leaves of Forever Fall that gently fall to the ground like the snowflakes in winter?" He finishes as he as he watches three random red leaves drifting by them.
Blake smiles at Adam's question. "Yes. They are beautiful." Than she goes back to her normal stoic expression, still not over what she's thinking about.
Adam cracks a glancing smirk when he noticed Blake feeling a little down. Maybe he should cheer her up a little.
"Though… not as beautiful as you." He said teasingly.
Normally, he was just teasing her, most of the time, but Blake couldn't figure if he was just teasing or being a gentleman, especially at a time like this as they are about to perform a major heist. Still, she smiles a bit again and takes that as a compliment.
"Well, aren't you being all flattering." Blake teased back as she smiles again.
Adam chuckled and goes back to being silent and stares up at the moon, watching it orbit the planet as the remaining pieces orbit with it.
Between the two, what matters now as both are well aware of the mission that they will be doing soon.
Blake than asks Adam as she wants to know if he too feels the same way she does. This is her last chance as this mission will also secretly be her last.
"Adam." Blake said as she looked at her partner again. "Do you believe what we're doing now, even if we're trying to bring equality to our race, in exchange for being feared by the humans, is the right thing to both sides?" The last part of her sentence had a hint of doubt and uncertainty, as if she's afraid that she may be right.
Adam stares at Blake and than looked down to the ground with a frown. She's not wrong about the topic, since he knows what the organization they work with has become lately. After their last leader stepped down and a new one who replaced him took a more violent approaches of faunus protesting. It's not far from being true to Blake's statement, as of now.
"Do you ever wonder? If there is a choice, where you could make a difference, by taking a different path, for what you believe is right?" Blake finished and stays quiet and is hoping Adam gives her the answer she's hoping she would hear.
Before Adam could give an answer, they were interrupted by a third presence in the area.
"Brother Adam. Sister Blake." Said a voice in a Romanian accent.
Both teens turn their heads towards where the it came from.
Standing there is a young man, around Adam's age, and an inch shorter. His outfit looks like a cross between a ninja and a vampire that consists of a modern, skin tight bodysuit that hugs his body which shows off his slimmer build, spikes on the shoulders and the knee pads having skull designs on them, and has fingerless gloves on his hands. He wears a black scarf that wraps around his neck but the edges have bat wing-like designs, flame patterns swirling across it, and in the center of it his emblem which is a red bat skull with sharp fangs. Strapped to his hip is his weapon that looks like a tonfa but has a sharp, triangular blade attached to it along with a second tonfa blade attached on the other side of his hip.
He's also wearing a mask, with red accents, but it only covers his lower face and only his eyes and forehead are seen, in contrast to Adam's mask. The mask also has sharp fangs, decorated around the mouth piece and he has long, pointy, bat ears on the top of his head that's covered in messy black hair.
His name is Vlad Tradat. A vampire bat faunus who is a high ranked member of the White Fang and he's one of Adam's teammates that he fought alongside for quite a long time. When he was assigned to the mission, he took the role of the scout who went on ahead to make sure there aren't any Grimm or other obstacles that would slow them down. Once he checked it clear, he quickly came back as he it's already the right time to move out.
"It is time." Said Vlad, obviously giving the hint their mission is about to start so they need to move it.
Blake and Adam were silent for a second until they responded.
"Ok." Said Blake.
"Very well." Adam also says.
Both the bull faunus and bow wearing, cat faunus step off their rocks and begin to walk with Vlad towards their mission. They begin to pick up the pace and start sprinting through the Forever Fall until they were like the wind itself.
But each of them are unaware that they are thinking of something briefly.
"So this is it. After I finish this mission, this is where I have to part ways. Adam…. I hope you understand what I have to do and for the better." Blake said in her head as she glanced at Adam who was starring forward but unaware he's also glancing at her too behind his mask.
"Blake. When this mission is over, I have to tell you we should leave the White Fang. This is what you would want and I would be happy to do that for you." He thought.
As the three head off, floating nearby are the three red leaves Adam saw earlier. One is a normal and healthy leaf, the second is slightly wilted and has a hole in it, and the third and last is the most wilted of the three and has three holes.
Meanwhile, further through the Forever Fall, three blurs zoomed by who are Adam, Blake, and Vlad.. While Adam and Blake are sprinting on the ground, Vlad is leaping through the trees and easily keeping pace with them. But little did they know, Vlad is staring at them suspiciously with his eyes from above.
Thanks to being a bat faunus, Vlad heard their conversation from far away. In fact, he came a little earlier than what Blake and Adam anticipated but he doesn't quite understand what Blake meant to her words. Was she referring to herself or Adam? Was she just saying something out of curiosity or was she really being considerate about it? Something seems off with the two and he decides he will have a talk with them when the mission is over.
Sometime later, the three reached the edge of a cliff on top of a small mountain where it leads down to a gorge where a pair of train tracks are.
Nearby, a raven caws and flies off. Vlad stares at the raven for a second but ignores it and lands next to Adam as they look down at the tracks.
A train whistle was heard and they see a black cargo train thundering down it's line, pulling a long line of freight cars filled with loads of Dust and other goods. The train is so large and wide that it needed two train tracks to roll on. .
Time to initiate the first step.
The trio leap off the edge of the cliff and sliding down the steep cliffside towards the train and leap off the cliffs and onto the train..
Adam draws his sword, Wilt, which the blade is colored light blue, from Blush and stabs it through the metal roof to not fall off. Blake does the same with her Gambol Shroud. Vlad simply used his claw gauntlets to snare onto the roof as well. They stood up and headed to the nearest hatch on the roof and entered, after Adam slashed off the lock with Wilt.
Once inside the cart, it was dark but thanks to being faunus, the three teens can see well in it… and they realized they stepped in the hornets nest.
"Looks like we're gonna be doing this the hard way." Adam says, as he realized they're gonna have to fight now.
Inside the car that the trio have entered is full of an entire squad of AK-130 androids and AK-170 androids which are bulkier and more heavily armored than the 130 androids.
"Easier said than done." Vlad added in annoyance.
Unfortunately, for the faunus intruders, as if on cue, they accidentally triggered the red laser security which sent off the alarm and activated the androids as they turn their attention towards these intruders as their programming gives them the command.
"Don't be so dramatic, you two." Blake teased with a smirk, as she grabs Gambol Shroud by the hilt.
One of the 130 androids approaches and morphs it's metallic hands into gatling guns as it gives them a warning.
"Intruder, identify yourse-"
SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING!
Before the android could even finish it's warning, Vlad is suddenly behind the robot, as if he teleported from where he stood to where he is now, holding his tonfa blade in one hand. A second later, the android diced into several pieces as it crumbled to the floor.
In response to the warning being ignored, the rest of the 130 androids attack as they switch their hands into blades and the 170 androids turing their own arms into chainsaws.
Before they could charge, Adam makes his move too as he pulls the trigger of Blush, which is in fact part shotgun, causes Wilt to be launched at high speed and hits the android in the face by the handle. Adam dashes forward and grabs Wilt in midair and slices the android's head off and then slices it vertically in half. Adam does his pose and sheaths his sword, just as the larger and more advanced android falls to the floor in pieces.
The other androids that weren't focused on Adam and Vlad went after Blake but she's way beyond helpless as she creates a shadow clone and leaps out towards the nearest drones and slices two in half with her Gambol Shroud.
Now the trio are fighting the entire squad of androids as they stay close together and watch each other's backs, preventing any blind spots for the androids to sneak up on and attack from behind. Adam occasionally uses Blush's shotgun shots against any android that's out of his reach, Vlad continues to slice and dice the other androids at FTE speeds, and Blake also bisects the robots with grace and precision.
The 130 and 170 androids from further away open fire with their gatling guns, with the 170 androids having a larger caliber, but Adam easily blocks, deflects, and even cuts the bullets with Wilt and sheathes it back into Blush. One would notice the blade slightly glowed a bright blue light just as it finished parrying the bullets.
Blake and Vlad dash forward as they too block the bullets until they reached the shooting robots and started slashing and cutting them again. This time, as Blake slid towards another robot, she pulled Gambol Shroud's katana out of the sheath cleaver is now dual wielding her weapon as she's mowing through the group of androids even faster. Vlad was easily cutting them just as easily as Blake is doing but with one hand alone.
They cut a few more until Adam dropkicked a 170 through the door which blew off the hinges and sends that kicked android flying off the train.
The next cart has no cover so now the three can see the outside world as the train is moving down the line at high speed. Up ahead, they see even more androids coming their way.
"Let's do this." Vlad says as if he's ready to rip and tear the androids to scrap metal.
All three charge ahead again into the fray, as they unleash their fury on the androids again.
Adam uppercuts four into the air with Wilt, giving both Blake and Vlad the chance to slice them midair and Adam knocks back the remaining ones with a slash. Blake pushes a button which causes Gambol Shroud blade to fold inward and now the blade is in gun/kusarigama mode. She throws it but one android ducks but Blake has her weapon attached to a strong ribbon which she tugs back and now she's flailing it around with deadly accuracy and precision.
The onslaught continues as Adam rushes past another group with so many fast slashes that they all explode at once.
Vlad and Blake follow behind as they cut through as well. They evens start sending some androids into the air where Adam sends out blue colored air slashes at the androids, juggling them even further in mid air for more damage where Vlad and Blake finish them off by slicing through them midair. Adam then finishes the last one with a uppercut from the back and shoots it with Blush.
With the wave now defeated, the three intruders enter the next cart where it's full of many boxes with a snowflake like emblem on it. No doubt that symbol is the Schnee Dust Company as they walk further in but are unaware that they are not alone, as two presences are crawling on the ceiling. One is really big while the other is much smaller but just as deadly, as they silently crawl across the ceiling and get into their positions.
Vlad opens one of the crates and looks inside where the contents are stored. He confirms it's dust, of all different elements and varieties that are in this train that are being transported to the stores and shops.
"Excellent." Vlad confirms as he closes the lid and turns towards his two teammates. "Move onto the next cart, as I set the charges."
Adam and Blake frown as they did not like the sound of using explosives in the freight cars, even after hearing the instructions from their leader instructed them on this mission.
Vlad pulls out a small disk that fits in the palm of his hand that shows a little red button on it. These small charges only set off small explosions but will be enough to cause a chain reaction to all the dust in the carts, as the dust is a very sensitive and delicate material in grounded form, that may cause a massive explosion, powerful enough to destroy the entire freight car. And that's just the first cart Vlad will be setting the charges with.
"But what about the crew members?" Asked Blake in concern. She doesn't like this part of the plan and now fears the next step is about to happen with the crew members on the train at grave risk.
"I agree with Blake, Vlad." Adam adds. "Don't you think this is unnecessary to blow up a few carts full of dust when we can just steal them and use them to our benefit? Besides, these crew members on this train are only doing their jobs and have nothing to do with us."
Vlad stares at the two and furrows his brows towards Adam. Blake's ears beneath the bow start to tilt back in worry as it felt like they got on Vlad's nerves.
"What about the wretched humans on board?" Vlad answers. "You think I'd care about them? The ones that are working for the company that have forced many of us to work in the mines with little pay and scraps, while they get all the food and luxury in their cozy little mansions?" He added with slight venom in his voice. "Do I have to remind you two why we are in the White Fang and what we are fighting for, even if we have to make them fear us like the monsters they see us as?"
Now Vlad is starting to reconsider what he thought earlier about Blake and Adam. Are these two really planning to betray him? Still, there isn't enough evidence from Blake's statement if it's a fact or not but his gut is telling him something's not right. But his heart also tells him Blake and Adam wouldn't leave him as he knew them for many years.
As for Blake and Adam, they couldn't help but feel worried about Vlad. No doubt does he hate the humans for how they treated the faunus for so long but him showing his hatred on this level really put a lot of concern that there's no likelihood he may be coming with them.
Before they could give an answer, they heard a noise behind them. The trio turned towards the direction where they came from as something comes from the ceiling and lands on the floor. It's a large, metallic, spider droid, with four grab legs, two large cannons for the arms, and two more mounted on the shoulders, and a dark gray color scheme with red highlights.
The heavily armed robot aims it's cannons at them and prepares to terminate the intruders.
Before they could react, they heard another noise behind and turn towards it. On the other side of the cart, is another droid, but this one is a different model.
The droid has a similar body structure, including four legs, a similarly shaped head, and the same color pattern as he spider drone but the similarities end there. It's is at least three times smaller but still towers over a human, has a more sleeker body, two scorpion tails that arch over its head, and has four arms, with the bottom being scorpion claws and the upper arms having sharp, serrated, blades that glow a red hue.
The two droids are working together, as they took positions to both sides of the car to prevent any escape, as they box the intruders in together.
The three faunus realize they are surrounded and have no choice but to fight now, even if they decided to run, the drones would likely pursuit them.
"Guys." Blake says nervously but Vlad faces the Scorpion droid while the Adam faces the Spider droid. Vlad pulls a second tonfa sword off of his hip and activates it as he's dual wielding now.
The Spider droid acts first and opens fire with it's plasma dust cannons, while the Scorpion droid also makes its move by dashing forward towards Vlad with it's blades activated as they glow even brighter. Adam dodges the projectiles shots, which knock over many of the dust crates. Adam mentally curses that the mounds of dust are at risk of blowing up, despite being protected inside the crates which are designed for keep the dust stable. Blake dashes forward and leaps towards the metallic spider, ready to slice it.
"Blake, wait!" Adam shouted but the Spider droid heabutts Blake and sends her flying back as hits the ground in a loud thud. Her aura protected her from most of the damage but it still really hurts.
Meanwhile, Vlad and the Scorpion drone are clashing with their blades at a fast pace that their arms are practically blurs to the naked eye and sparks are flying everywhere. The scorpion tried to end the stalemate by thrusting one of it's claws downwards but Vlad easily saw it coming and leaped up in time, just as the claw heavily slammed and dented the floor. Up in the air, Vlad tried to counter but the scorpion responds with it's two tails lashing forward which forced the bat faunus to twist in midair, barely dodging them but one tail managed to graze him.
Vlad landed on his feet as his aura protected him but that still left some damage done. He was forced to leap back and gain some distance but the robot dashes forward at near blinding speed, denying any chance for him to widen the gap. However, Vlad presses a button on his right tonfa sword that made the blade glow even brighter.
Just as the metallic scorpion closes the gap, it barely reacted in time to use it's claws and blades to block a far more powerful slash from Vlad that forced it skidding back. The scorpion claws are scratched a little but otherwise undamaged and the blades are otherwise fine.
The spider droid tries to stomp on Blake but Adam slashes it in the face five times but the droid kicks him back and fires again, forcing the bull faunus to dodge once more. Just as the droid tries to stomp on Blake again, Adam grabs her in time before the metal leg clanks against the floor and leaves a similarly sized dent the scorpion droid made previously. Adam carries his teammate a safe distance away, about 10 feet, from where Vlad is standing who continues to stare down the scorpion droid.
"We need to get out of here!" Blake yelled.
"I agree on that." Adam said with tensity in his tone. "This will only risk the dust crates setting off to explode."
Vlad heard them but doesn't move and only narrows his eyes even more, as he continues to watch the scorpion droid's movement.
The spider droid suddenly combines it's four cannons together into one large cannon. The Scorpion droid already knows what it's unofficial teammate is about to do and suddenly leaps high into the air, clinging to the ceiling with its legs to avoid the upcoming attack.
For a split second, Vlad was confused at the droid's sudden maneuver but turned around when he heard a loud humming sound and the room suddenly got brighter.
The spider droid was charging it's laser for a few seconds and than fires a large, focused, beam of concentrated plasma dust. Neither Adam, Blake, or Vlad had time to react or counter as the beam slams into them which was strong enough to puncture the wall and door of the cart they were and flung the them onto the open cart.
The three got up again but Vlad was gritting his teeth under his mask… and Adam is also starting to get a little angry at this as well but he quickly takes a deep breath and calms down quickly. Adam can't get angry at a time like this, especially it would only make things worse. Even after calming down, he still feels a bit angry but can also think clearly.
The two droids are crawling through the open hole and onto the next car where the current trio are standing on. The scorpion drone makes an astounding leap and is now on the other side, once again, boxing the three between the droids again.
"This is bad." Adam thought as he realizes these droids are harder to damage than he first thought, along with the risks of Dust getting blown up. "If we don't beat them soon, they will eventually overpower us and the crew members will catch on to us… I have no choice but to use my trump card. I need some time."
"Buy me some time!" Adam called out to Blake.
"Are you sure?" Blake asked Adam in hopes he knows what he's doing.
"Do it!" Adam demanded.
"In that case. I will take care of the other one that I'll deal with personally." Vlad says as he turns around towards the scorpion droid and pushes another button on each of tonfa blades which causes the blades to glow purple. But he didn't stop there as he attaches both of the bottoms of the tonfa blades into a staff with both sides each tipped with a sharp blade.
Both the cat and bat faunus charge toward the two droids and leaves Adam behind as he takes his stance and prepares to use his semblance.
Blake dodges a few shots from the spider droid and uses Gambol Shroud in Kusarigama mode to swing above it as the moon shines behind her. She then comes down and then starts slashing the droid with her cleaver and Gambol Shroud in katana mode, the droid's large size and slow speed prevented it from getting a good aim as Blake even stabs it in the "chin" of it's head and fires it's neck with the gun attached to Gambol Shroud.
Meanwhile, Vlad was now dashing towards the scorpion droid as it responds by striking it's two tails downwards, hoping to impale Vlad but the ninja bat suddenly dodges the two stingers and slashes both off and than slashes the droid in the face, causing it to stumble back. With both gone, the scorpion droid activates another feature by causing its claws to open up and reveal gun turrets as it open fires but Vlad manages to weave around them and even deflect the ones he couldn't completely dodge. Once he got in range again, he now starts ducking and weaving past the blades and counters with his own bladed staff and blitzing it back and forth in nearly every direction and angle. The droid tried to hit him with its remaining tail but it got blocked and than swatted it aside, damaging the tip and making it now useless.
Vlad's starting to actually damage the droid thanks to using gravity dust that decreases the weight of the blades to swing faster and increasing the weight just upon impacting the robot, further damaging it. Compared to its larger, more heavily armed and armored counterpart, the scorpion droid is more designed for speed and close range offense and it's limited armor and defenses are slowly becoming it's downfall but it continues to fight Vlad without backing down.
Blake backflips next to Adam's right while Vlad also leaps back to Adam's left. The spider droid fuses it's four cannons together again and prepares to fire another powerful laser. The scorpion droid also takes a stance as it prepares to charge forward.
"MOVE!" Adam yelled as the beam fires towards him. Adam unsheathes Wilt and takes the beam head on as the katana absorbs the energy into the blade itself, causing Adam's hair, blue outlines of his outfit and even on his mask to glow even brighter. With his semblance now fully charged, he's ready to finish the spider droid.
At the same time, Vlad takes his stance and prepares to perform a move that will surely finish the scorpion droid for good as well, while behind Adam. He starts twirling his bladed staff which gains more momentum and power building up in it's blade.
Both droids simultaneously leap forward from both sides and dive towards Adam and Vlad respectively, with the spider droid trying to crush Adam under its clawed leg while the scorpion droid tried to slice Vlad to ribbons with it's blades and claws. However, they were too late as both Adam and Vlad unleashed their ultimate attacks at once.
Adam slashes in a horizontal fashion while Vlad swings his blade in a vertical uppercut. The background suddenly changes with two sides changing color; blue on Adam's side and red on Vlad's side, with the shattered moon right in the center.
The two robots didn't stand a chance, as the ultimate slashes they took tore them apart. The spider droid disintegrates rose while the scorpion gets dissected in half and also disintegrates shortly after.
With the enemies defeated, Adam sheathes Wilt back into Blush and Vlad takes apart his bladed staff back into their tonfa mode. But now… Blake is nowhere to be seen.
Adam and Vlad start to wonder where she went… unless.
Adam and Vlad started running over to the end of the cart.. And there stands Blake on another cart
"Blake…?" Vlad says in surprise… is this what Blake meant when she spoke to Adam. That she would be the one that's leaving?
Adam stared in silence, as he wasn't expecting Blake to already prepare her departure just now, even leaving without him. He was planning to tell her when this mission was over… and it seems Blake is already a step ahead of him. He must act now before it's too late!
Blake stares at her two tea- ex-teammates in silence as she is now about to sever the connection of the train and leave them behind. She feels a lot of regret during her decision but this is final and she needs to leave the White Fang that's too violent and twisted for her ideals.
"Goodbye" Blake sadly said, as she grabs Gambol Shroud and cuts the connection of the train, causing the released carts to slow down and the train continuing forward.
Blake feels remorseful that this is how it's gonna end, especially to Adam, the only person she ever has a close bond and connection with, since he understood her wanting to make a difference for equality…
it seems she's now on her-
"Blake! Wait!" Adam called out to Blake in desperation as he starts running forward."Let me come with you!" Before she could respond, Adam was dashing across the train cart at full speed until he reached the edge and, with all his might, leaps forward, as he soars across the gap.
"Wha-?!" Vlad exclaimed in confusion as he watched his teammate leaping forward.
"A-Adam?" Blake said, surprised, as she watched Adam barely reached out and grabbed the edge of the cart and hangs on as he tries to climb up.
Blake quickly runs over to Adam and reaches her hand out for his, grabs it, and pulls him onto the cart to safety.
After getting on board, Adam catches his breath from the intense experience of hanging from a running train and now turns to Blake who didn't know what to say until he broke the silence.
"Blake." Adam says. "I understand what you're doing and your reasons behind it."
Blake looked surprised hearing him know about her intentions to leave as his right hand slowly reaches up to his mask.
"The fact about the White Fang, and what it has become, shortly after Ghira Belladonna stepped down and Sienna Khan taking his leadership."
He takes off his mask and holds it in his hand, as Blake gets a full view of his face which she then gives a sympathetic expression and tries to look away but continues to look at him in the eyes. Whatever Blake sees, isn't seen due to Adam having his back turned and only the back of his head is seen from Vlad's direction.
"Even than, we still suffer and treated as animals from the humans. No matter what we do and act, on behalf of the White Fang, we only bring more senseless violence and destruction." Adam continues. "We've committed these acts to the point where we must draw the line and find another solution of stopping the hate and torment to both sides."
"You want to leave it all behind and carve your own path to bring justice for everyone." Adam said again as he smiles. "And I want to bring justice of my own with you too."
What Blake heard from Adam surprised her. She didn't expect Adam to actually feel the same way she feels. She thought it was just her that wanted to leave the White Fang behind and would be doing it alone… but no. She's not alone and she has someone she knows and cares for will be coming with her.
Blake smiles as she tries to hold back a tear. "Thank you, Adam."
Adam smiles back as he puts his mask back on his face, unknown what he has that the rest of the world wants to know. "You're welcome, Blake."
However, both didn't forget the one person that is being left behind. They turn around and look at Vlad who is now far away but they can still clearly see him.
Vlad's stood at the edge of his cart, at a loss for words, and barely trying to comprehend what just happened. All he sees in front of him… is Adam and Blake leaving him behind. Is this some kind of sick twisted joke? Or is this is all in fact a reality that's really happening? He just couldn't think of a proper answer and couldn't even say a word towards them.
Adam and Blake are well aware of Vlad's sudden surprise feel remorseful they had to leave him. Despite being a close friend and teammate they grew up with for years, they know Vlad would never accept joining them and trying to bring equality between humans and the faunus. They know Vlad has a rather harsh hatred to the humans so it was for the better, even if it hurts them leaving him behind. Almost like disowning a sibling.
As he continues to watch them go, Vlad suddenly starts tightening his fists and his pupils shrink, as his sadness and confusion is replaced by anger and malice.
Vlad has now added another personal band of traitors to his list… even if he has to chase them to the ends of Remnant.
"Forgive us… Vlad". Adam whispers as they can no longer see Vlad. "It's unfortunate it had to be this way…."
The entire scenery, including the trees, the carts, the crates of dust, and the sky, slowly fades to nothing but a dark red background taking place. The only visible things are the two silhouettes of Blake and Adam and the falling leaves which are also now black as the night. Shortly after, everything else fades to black.
The three leaves from earlier appear and continue to gently float together.
The sound of a gust of wind violently sent the leaves blowing around… and the leaf with three holes started to change course, while the two other leaves managed to remain together and continue on with their journey, swirling and twirling around each other.
The three holed leaf drifts alone in the breeze. No other leaf to drift with it.
Out of the darkness appears four silhouette that appear to be four young males in their late teens.
The first resembles Adam holding his katana that's sheathed and to have his hand holding the handle of his weapon.
The second is another young man that appears to have a thick tail, wearing what appears to be an outback barmah hat, is holding the tip of his hat with his right hand, holding what appears to be a boomerang in his left hand, and has what appears to a piece of thin grass in his mouth.
The third appears to be the tallest of the four, appearing to be well balanced between lean and muscular, and appears to be wearing hakama pants. He doesn't appear to be holding a weapon but he has something on his arms that look like gauntlets
The fourth and last appears to have tail feathers, a mohawk, wearing a cowboy scarf, and is crossing his arms. He appears to be have a pair of pistols in their holsters on his hip.
Behind the first to last silhouettes, respectively, are the colors of Light Blue, Dark Violet, Orange, and Dark Green, which match their hairs which are the only colors on the silhouettes.
The image suddenly ripples as if a droplet splashes into a reflected pool, as the silhouette of the first begins to fade and it reveals to be Adam, in his white and blue suit, his mask, and his blue hair, as he looks ahead with a determined frown.
The other three young men remain as silhouettes and everything fades back to black.
Adam Taurus.
That's the first of the four trailers.
To those that you are wondering about Adam. Yes. I'm basically having Adam Taurus, at least a different incarnation, as one of the main characters of his future team that he will bond with and fight alongside. Though, to say about some things… yeah, the way Canon Adam was, I admit it's a mixed bag to the fandom how he was handled and portrayed… an abusive, bloodthirsty, and mentally unstable ex-boyfriend that stalked Blake and wouldn't leave her alone. Originally, I used to respect Adam since the Black trailer and saw him as the kind of guy that was loyal to the White Fang and also a competent and intelligent, if intimidating and aggressive, badass that is willing to do what it takes for the equality of faunus… and likely making the humans pay for the treatment of the faunus…. But after some hints of volume 2, what he did in volume 3 and especially volume 4 and 5, he's nothing of the sort and is doing all that for himself, even killing Sienna Khan… then abandons his leadership after the humiliating defeat by Blake…. Than stalks her and he ends up dead after facing both Blake and Yang, as they protected each other. But… ever since I saw that brand of his in volume 6… I did regain some bits of pity to him and understood his hatred to humans (the racist ones, specifically)… but all his actions that he's done were inexcusable, and he died in the end.
This version of Adam will be different. I ramped down his age at being a year older than Blake, having a different role in the story, and will also add some other traits to make him more fleshed out. To those that hate Adam with a passion for what he was, I don't blame you. But at least try to be civil with this incarnation that I'm giving a chance of experiencing a different path than what canon Adam did.
Lastly, canon Adam's Wilt was a Chokuto. This version of Adam's Wilt is a Katana.
Anyways, tune in next time and and see who will be part of team ANGR.