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RWBY and the Third Street Saints
Chapter 01: The Saints vs. RWBY, A Battle Set In Steelport
I looked outside the window of the penthouse and frowned. It seemed to be raining heavier than usual here in Steelport… I hope that doesn't mean anything… But of course, if it did, it's not like I'd be able to change whatever chooses to happen. The most I'd be able to do is meet the problem head on and that's something I've always taken pride in.
"Hey, Boss, let's get going already. That mall isn't going to rob itself. That's what we're around for, right?"
I turned to look at my first lieutenant and my best friend, Johnny Gat. Even though our ages differ somewhat significantly, I can't help but feel my attitude makes up for it, me being like an adult and what not. Still, there are some experiences that just can't be expressed by the sheer fact of confidence. I wasn't really up to robbing malls right now, as I'd rather be recapturing my stolen territories, but I guess those new assholes to my city will have to wait until I can fund the hardware to get it back. As much as I'd love to raid the guard armory again, Shaundi wouldn't be having it.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm on my way. Don't rush me or I'll have you re-canonized," I half-heartedly joked, collecting my pistols off the table and putting them into their respective holsters on my hips.
"Alright, I hear ya. Oh yeah, Boss, one more thing?"
"Alright Gat, shoot."
"When you gonna start wearing something that a Saint would wear and ditch the shitty hoodie and ripped jeans?"
"The same time you change that shitty haircut…"
Gat laughed, somewhere between a broken record player and a cackle, and I laughed with him. We stopped moments later, Gat waving me along.
When we got to the garage, Gat started to make his way to the driver's seat until he felt my hand lay on his shoulder.
"Now now, Gat. You know the rules."
"Yeah, I do, and that was when you turn seventeen and a half, I'd stop driving you around. Stop acting like I've forgot."
"And guess what day it is…"
"No shit… you kidding me?"
"Get your ass in the passenger's seat already Gat."
Gat slid over to the passenger's seat and I sat in the driver's seat. I turned on the engine, whirring it a few times, before shifting the car into drive and speeding out of the garage and towards the mall. I took a moment to look at Gat, seeing him with his arms crossed and his eyes closed.
"Gat, I thought I said get some sleep last night."
"Oh, yeah, I did. But you gotta remember that it was a party last night. This lady killer here had a hard time sleeping surrounded by all those girls."
"Damn Gat, you're right. I had forgot that yesterday was the day you shut yourself up in your room and watched those homemade sextapes that you and Aisha made a while ago."
"You are one young, little piece of shit, you know that?"
"Yeah, I think I accidentally hit a nerve there…"
"You think?"
"In other news, where the hell is Shaundi and Pierce?"
"Well, Pierce is probably passed out under a sea of strippers and Shaundi? I think she is already around that area waiting on us. She should be fine if she had to wait a few extra minutes. Besides, we have to take a detour. Turn right, here."
I shot him a look from the corner of my eye and when I did he didn't budge and I simply complied. I expected no less from my murderin', sociopath, homicide lovin' friend.
On a helipad next to Beacon Academy…
"Professor Ozpin, why are we going to Steelport again? I mean, it's a city, on an island, far out in the sea. There are no Grimm whatsoever in that city!" Ruby exclaimed like the upset teenager she currently was. Her thought was why leave the place flooding with Grimm to go to the place without any? Of course, there was also the fact that she believed that fighting Grimm was a lot more fun than fighting people they'd been assigned to get rid of. A personal opinion of course. Still, why leave if everything you needed in the life of a huntress was on a silver platter in a city not even five miles away? She just couldn't wrap her head around the idea…
"Now Ruby," Professor Ozpin looked at another of his prospective students, Yang Xiao Long, who was currently attempting to explain things to her younger half-sister, "Just because there have been no reports of Grimm on the island, doesn't mean that there will never be Grimm there. Besides, even if there's not, think of the opportunity this could give us!"
Ruby slightly cringed under her excited sisters' scream that had slowly been escalating and then struggled to get out of her iron grip bear hug. Yang however, didn't look like she was going to budge any time soon, much to her sisters' chagrin.
"She's right," Blake said, the most levelheaded of their group in all honesty, continuing where Yang had left off, "I mean, even if we don't fight any Grimm out there, we can still go and figure some things out for ourselves. You know, like what it's like to be in a city that isn't constantly being robbed, or blown up, or full of crazy sociopaths hyped up on dust."
"Wow, Blake," Weiss finally spoke, "Is Vale really that bad, I mean, I know we've seen troubling times, but it can't possibly be that bad..."
An explosion erupted off in the distance, a chain effect of city service lights and sirens following seconds later.
"Perhaps I spoke too soon…" Weiss said, feeling slightly defeated.
"Don't worry about that," Professor Ozpin said to team RWBY, "Team JNPR should be on the scene momentarily. I need you girls to visit Steelport because there have been reports of extreme cases of violence by some people clothed in purple as of late. Even though they appear to have no connection to the White Fang, given their own uniquely donned colors, I still want you to confirm it and stop the threats accordingly. We don't need more people similar to the White Fang making the lives of people more difficult to live."
Team RWBY boarded the aircraft and prepared to leave for their destination. They waited, listening as the plane made a whirring sound, signaling that they were about to take off. As they lifted off, rising slowly into the air, Professor Ozpin yelled a few more things after them.
"I'll be sending team JNPR into Steelport to assist you in a few days. And don't worry even a little bit, Team CRDL will be on city protection until you return. Go have fun! And be sure to accomplish your mission no matter what."
The hovercraft slowly ascended into the air, launching off when a reasonable distance was set between them and the ground.
"I think we'd better hurry back before Vale is destroyed…"
"Well said Blake," Yang said, "Well said." They all just figured that team CRDL would not be able to keep Vale standing as much as they would have been able to.
"Team RWBY is off to save Steelport!" Ruby said enthusiastically. Though none of them knew what they were walking into…
Back in Steelport…
"Gat, I just have to ask…" I said as he parked my car in front of the mall.
"Yeah, Boss?"
"What stores did we just rob as a detour exactly?"
"Oh, yeah, I meant to tell you. One store was a Dust store. The other was a lab for experimental suits that would grant the user with not only super-human abilities, but also with a weapon, a built in Aura regulator, and advanced fighting abilities built into the suit. It also hold some unknown side effect, but that's not to be worried about at the moment."
As soon as Gat finished, I knew that Kinzie was the one that put him up to those robberies. And the fact that I was forced to wear one of the outfits wasn't exactly sitting with me well. There was also a slight sense of worry over the fact that there were unknown side effects, but I said nothing to voice my concern. If I learned anything about being around Gat, it was that you never bitched about anything, or he'd never let you live it down.
"Okay, since that sounded like total bullshit I'm going to ask a much simpler question. Why the fuck does this armor look like this?"
I looked at myself again. I felt like I looked like one of my favorite characters from a video game, Assassin's Creed, but at the same time I feel like a complete queer. I wasn't ready to come to terms with that, and I doubt I'd ever be.
"There's no way I'm wearing this shit."
"Suit yourself, Boss."
Gat got out the car and went to the trunk, grabbing our guns and grenades, and I contemplated actually stepping out of the car in this armor. As the rain hit the roof of the car harder I decided that I'd felt something bad was about to happen and that I'd better wear the suit just this once as a precaution.
We walked up to the door of the mall, meeting Shaundi in her own new suit. Gat and I both noticed how the sleek suit fit her frame, hugging her in all the right places, and oddly enough resembling a special ops suit.
"We all ready to go?" she asked, speaking business as usual.
"Is Pierce most likely still asleep under some strippers?" I asked, walking into the front door of the mall. Gat and Shaundi flanked me on the way in on my right and left. Today we planned to do shit. And the mall happened to be our most gracious host of this event. I shot two bullets in the air, grabbing everyone in the surrounding area's attention.
"Everyone down and you won't be hurt!" I yelled, sending a wave of panic from our position. The mall immediately began to shut down and everyone hugged the ground, cowering in fear. All but one.
"Hey, you must be the assassin from Assassin's Creed IX! I have to have your autograph!" A guy walked up to me, the "Freeloading son that lives with his mom" Aura shining right off him. I shot him right between the eyes and watched as he slowly dropped and hit the ground, a loud thud echoing throughout the mall. Funny, that felt almost satisfying.
"Fix that, ALMOST everyone won't be hurt."
I walked over to the snack stand, stealing an apple from the stand and some chicken Alfredo before taking a seat, watching as Shaundi and Gat mapped out the mall, looking for the control room to open the security walls and stealing anything of value on the way. Today just wasn't going fast enough for me. I wish there was a bigger challenge here...
In The Skies above Steelport…
"This doesn't feel right…"
Ruby looked out the window, looking down at the futuristic city below, complete with a few smoking buildings, signifying robberies and explosions that had taken place.
"Well Blake," Weiss said, "As you can see, this city has many more explosions going on, but it's also bigger, so does that mean it's the same as Vale?"
"Maybe? This city is the one that we're supposed to be eliminating a threat from, so I guess it's supposed to have turned out like this..."
Weiss scratched the back of her neck sheepishly, unable to come up with a logical, sensible comeback. All she knew was the fact that people, not Grimm, were capable of doing this. Monsters in their own right.
"Look, over there," Yang said, pointing to the mall that was currently in the process of locking itself down.
"Team RWBY is on the case!" yelled Ruby excitedly as she jumped from the ship, forcing the rest of her team to immediately jump and follow her off.
"Now you guys see what I was talking about? She pulled this same stunt in the Emerald Forest!" Weiss exclaimed.
"Well, at least someone wasn't afraid to jump this time around…"
"Hey, that was a safe plane and not a Flying Grimm! Cut me some slack here…"
"Somehow," Blake said as they braced for the crash into the building, "I don't think there's much difference in the two."
The Boss of the Saints…
"Odd, that feeling that something bad is about to happen seems to be growing, and rapidly at that," I thought as I got up from the table I was sitting at. Oddly enough, something crashed right where I got up from all of a moment later, sending up dust in all directions from the source. Inside the smoke was a girl is a black and red skirt, her hair black with red highlights and eyes silver. She looked up from the crater she had just formed and locked eyes with me.
"Sup."
I didn't falter from her unique greeting but I was speechless for a moment. Before I had the chance to speak, three more craters were formed in the lunch plaza.
A silver haired girl with very light-blue, if not white, eyes, a black haired girl with yellow eyes, and a super yellow haired girl with purple eyes. I had to be dreaming now. Anime girls in real life? What a day this was turning out to be? And talk about that dynamic entry…
"What the hell was that noise?!"
I turned to see Shaundi and Gat come up the stairs, guns armed and looking worried for my well-being. I thought I told them not to do that…
Suddenly, the girls all stepped in front of me, noticing the initial threat instead of the one behind them. I guess they just didn't know who I was quite yet. Oh well, now's as good a time as any to observe.
"Team RWBY, we're protecting this kid from these two assailants!"
"Right!" They all said together.
"Fine by me," Gat said shooting at the four. They each donned a different weapon, the red one with a scythe, the white one with a fencing rapier, the black one with a sword and attacked gun with a whip, and the blonde one with gun gauntlets.
I focused on the blonde one. Gun gauntlets are the shit nowadays! Everyone wants one, hell, I wanted a pair. And if I play my cards right, I'll have my own set soon. Or I could just let them stay on her and use her instead… I'll make up my mind eventually…
The girls used their weapons to block the bullets and red and yellow went after Gat while white and black went after Shaundi.
Gat punched red away before being assaulted by the yellow one. He was holding up well, matching punch for punch and kick for kick, until red came back and started to overwhelm him. He jumped back and into the air, sprouting digital wings?! Okay, I'll admit, that's pretty kickass. He grabbed a light machine gun off his back and made the girls dance to his amusement. I could tell though that he was beginning to get frustrated. He just couldn't kill them as easily as every other thing or person he set out to kill over the years.
On Shaundi's end the girls assaulted her quickly and relentlessly. Every time she knocked away the white one she used some sort of glyph to bounce back and every time she even so much as hit the black one she seemed to just attack again from an afterimage. I was impressed with these girls' abilities. Of course, there was no way they'd join the Saints but, a guy can dream, right?
Gat and Shaundi were knocked into a back to back assault and that's when I decided they needed my help. They held out pretty well against these obviously trained girls. Then again, we'd all been murdering for quite a while now. But that's straying from the situation at hand.
I wonder what my special ability is…
I concentrated, searching through the suit mentally until I found out what my power was.
"Teleportation? That's so fucking kick-ass! This is what's up, this is the life. But what's up with all these locked signs in here? Ah, whatever. I'll focus on the task at hand and worry about the details later."
I teleported behind the white one, efficiently knocking her out. That's when the girls noticed me and I repeated the process, knocking them all out and leaving them completely defenseless on the ground. I was amazed I got the power down so quickly, let alone the fact that I was able to do it all in under a few seconds. I'd have to find out about this suit later on, when I have more time. I also need to speak to an expert about some of this, which meant Kinzie would have some explaining to do later. Though I did feel a bit noxious after what I'd done. I summed it up to it being the first time my molecules broke down, separated, and reformed again and shook it off.
"Well then," I said, looking to my exhausted lieutenants, "That was fun…"
"Fun? These kids are like some heroes from an anime you may have watched by now! How is that 'Fun'?" Shaundi said, fuming.
"Two ways," I said, holding up a finger to indicate I was about to explain the first way this was fun, "One: Your last statement had the letters for fun in it and, Two: I think this is a grand opportunity for me."
"An opportunity?" Gat asked, "An opportunity for what exactly?"
"Think of it like this. I have been under the Saints name for a long time, and every girl my age, that wants to get with me, has been shooed off by you two over-protective 'siblings' and by the demeanor you carry with your guns in your hands or had some ulterior motive in which case I got rid of them myself. They didn't know me, though, and thought I was just some teen."
"You are 'just some teen,'" Shaundi said, crossing her arms to show she isn't for this idea.
"And so are they. Besides, what's the worst that could happen?"
Shaundi helped me carry the girls to my car and she and Gat placed their weapons in my trunk.
"Alright, I'll see you guys at HQ," I said as I slowly drove off.
"Okay, and remember Boss, there are some illegal things that even a Saints shouldn't do."
I cringed at Shaundi's lewdly implied remark and drove off. These girls had an untapped potential that I think I can find. Eventually… Maybe…