Ch 3: Settling In

"Mako, wake up, its time you met everybody." A voice said.

I opened my eyes to see Blake there.

"How did you get into my room?" I asked.

"Ozpin gave myself and Ruby a key if we ever need to enter your room when he needs us to get you" she explained.

"Okay, just making sure you didn't break into my room. By the way Torchwick called you "kitty" when he saw you. Are you a Faunus Blake?" I questioned with curiosity. She began removing her bow, which once taken off revealed a pair of cat ears. She looks even cuter without the bow.

"To answer your question, yes, I am a Faunas. Now that that's out of the way let's go meet team JNPR" she exclaimed.

I threw on a shirt and got out of bed and walked with her into the hallway to meet team JNPR. The team as Blake introduced me consisted of Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lie Ren. After having brief conversations with each of them and getting to know them I decided it was time for me to go on a walk to try to think about various things. I said goodbye to them and walked off. Geez, there are so many new people to get to know, I just need a break from all of this. I walked into the courtyard and sat near a fountain trying to soak all this that was happening in. My reflection of what all was happening was suddenly interrupted by a calm voice.

"Mr. Scatterfall, its time I inform you of something." I got up from the fountain and saw Ozpin standing in front of me.

"Oh hello professor, didn't know you had interaction with students on Saturdays." I stated.

"You are correct in the fact that I normally stay out of my students business on the weekends but I felt you may want to know what I have discovered regarding the attack on Atlas. You see hardly anyone made it out alive and the people of Vale are afraid, they fear for their own safety. I know this is all kind of fast, but I need you to scout a Fort held by the White Fang that may house Torchwick. The sooner we find him the better." He replied.

"Is this my first "assignment" professor?" I asked with curiosity.

"You could call it that. The plan is for you to stay near the walls of the fort. The fort itself was used during the Great War. So it isn't in the best condition. You are to simply listen for or find Intel that tells us that Torchwick is there. Once he is located team RWBY will be dropped off right outside the fort. It is imperative that we capture Torchwick because if he actually can command the Grimm, we need to stop him before he attacks any other areas with high population densities." He stated.

Time to get some payback for what happened to my City, my home. "I'm all in professor. Let me get my weapons and I will be ready." I exclaimed with enthusiasm.

"Good, meet at the hangar in an hour, a dropship will take you. Good luck." Ozpin said this then walked off.

-1 Hour Later-

I readied myself as I got in the dropship. Got my weapons, my radio and I am all set now I just have to wait. "I would sit back if I were you" a voice said over the PA. "I'm your pilot, you can just call me Ace. It will be about 40 minutes before we arrive outside the fort."

"Nice to meet you Ace, hope our flight goes smoothly" I said.

"As do I kid. This is Thunder-one, I have strike-one and are taking off" He added. Man I really hope I don't screw up on my first "assignment". Now all I can do is wait.

-39 Minutes Later-

"Hey kid, get ready, I think they picked us up on the radar" Ace screamed. "They are already shooting at us, I'm going to open the door. Get ready to get out." He was right bullets were ripping through the hull of ship. Pinging and bouncing around inside. I have to get out of here. We are sitting ducks up here. "Hold on we are nearly…" His voice was cut short by a ping. I looked up front to see Ace, well what was left of him. The only thing that remained intact of his face was his mouth, a round had went through the canopy into his head. Oh my god he is dead, what do I do now. Don't panic Mako just get out of the ship.

Just as I was about to jump out of the ship it made landfall. The tumbling and intense force of the ship crashing flung me to the front of the ship up next to Ace's body. It felt like my whole body was broken. I reached for the communication radio and tried to call Beacon. "Hello, anybody, this is Mako Scatterfall from Beacon. If anybody reads me, my pilot is dead and my ship is shot down. Send help fast" I screamed. No reply. I looked down at pants and the padding on them only to notice that all the padding was gone and my pants were shredded. When I looked closer I realized that shrapnel from either rounds or part of the ship had gotten lodged into my left leg. It was now protruding out and was causing a lot of blood loss.

Guess I went into shock, that's the only thing that can explain why I can't feel any sharp pains in my leg, only a dull broken feeling. I looked out the cockpit's window to see three White Fang (WF) soldiers walking towards my crash site with guns aimed. They are too far away and I am in no condition to use my sword. Guess I will have to use my revolver. The soldiers were too surprised by the fact that they the WF had just shot down a dropship from Beacon to realize what was about to happen. In a matter of moments I unholsted my revolver and trained it at the closest WF soldier who was about 15m away. Then I took the first shot which made contact right through the side of his helmet crumpling his body. The other two didn't react fast enough to even aim their weapons at me as I followed the first shot up with 3 more towards the next closest soldier and 2 more for good measure on the last guy sending their bodies falling into a bloody mess.

Wow, way to go Mako you managed to waste a full clip on 3 guys. That has to be the worst shooting ever. I reloaded my weapon and looked around still to hurt to get up I noticed that the dropship had crashed through the outer most wall of the fort. Fuck, I'm in the hornets nest. I'm right on the outside of the fort. I could do nothing but wait. The guns and sound of explosions had fallen silent and I began to think it was too quiet. Someone has to have heard my distress call. They wouldn't leave me out here would they, hell this is only like my third day attending Beacon and I'm already in a cluster fuck of a botched mission. They can't leave me, they just can't. Just as I though it couldn't get any worse 4 more WF soldiers appeared and were being tailed by none other than Torchwick. They walked up to cockpit with their guns aimed and loaded on myself.

"Long time no see" Torchwick muttered. "I never did get your name the first time we met or I simply forgot it. What's your name again?"

I looked him in the eyes and screamed "FUCK YOU. You razed my entire city my fucking home."

"Well I know for a fact your name isn't "fuck you". Also would you shut up about the bloody city. What's done is done, now tell me what is your fucking name so I will at least know who I am about to have killed." He asked

"Mako Scatterfall" I said followed by myself coughing up a little bit of blood. I tried reaching for my revolver again but I simply didn't have the strength. So this is how it ends, my corpse burning inside a wrecked dropship, what a shitty way to go. Just as the soldiers were about to fire their weapons a soldier screamed in agony.

If only I knew what was about to happen next….