Hello you beautiful Readers and Writers. I have Returned! And it hasn't been a full 24 hours! HAHAHA I am on a roll. Anyways I just got this awesome hoodie of Soldier 76's jacket as a disguise and I am inches away from the rights to RWBY and Overwatch. Heheheheh.

Soldier 76: YOUNG PUNK!

SON OF A… ugh you know the drill. I don't own the characters or settings of RWBY and Overwatch. They belong to the late Monty Oum, Rooster Teeth, and Blizzard. ENJOY!

Chapter four

A recovery, discovery, and a solution?

Roman was thrashing around for what seemed to be hours as he tried to break free of the man's grasp. But every time he got close of prying his grip, that annoying smoke came back to restrict him once more. He noticed the man was starting to become annoyed at this and was then thrown a few feet in front of him. The arms dealer noticed they were right outside the kingdom borders due to the deserted ruins that surrounded both of them. Roman then saw the man in front of him holding a shotgun in one hand and Melodic Cudgel in the other.

"Okay Mr. Dark and Brooding," Roman said as he got up off the ground and brushed the dust off his white coat. "Mind telling me why you massacred a bunch of animals and took me out to the sticks?" despite the smart-ass attitude he was speaking with, he was actually terrified of what this man could do to him.

He was answered with only a gunshot to one of his legs. The echo combined with Roman screaming in pain caused a nearby flock of nevermore to fly off. The man walked up to the dapper looking ginger who was now writhing in agony. He then dropped Roman's weapon in front of him and kneeled down to his level.

"As much as I'd love to stick around with you Roman," the raspy voice returned which caused Roman to shudder. "There are still some things I need to attend to in vale. So, while I'm doing that I need you to get your pretty little face to your base at Mountain Glenn. Give the ones that are working there a message." He then got up and turned around to head back into Vale "Tell them that if they don't want to end up like their friends in that warehouse, they work for me now. If they refuse, well it's your head." And with that he began to walk back into the city.

"You fucking monster!" Roman shouted. "How the hell am I supposed to get all the way back their when you fucking shot my leg?!" he was now clutching his torn ligament that was only connected by a few strands of meat. The man stopped in his tracks and turned to see Roman giving him a hateful glare. He chuckled at the man and removed his mask. He noticed the look of surprise and disgust being painted over the look of pain and smirked at this. He then put the mask back on and gave a shrug.

"Why do you think I gave you that cane? Better get going. I hear Beowolves are famished at this hour." He laughed a bit as he then turned back into his black mist. Disappearing and leaving Roman to question if his last remark was true.

With Ozpin:

The headmaster of Beacon had locked himself in his office due to the recent events that had transpired. Not even Goodwitch had seen him since they came back to Beacon. Within his office, files and documents were scattered everywhere with no care to organization. In the center of the room resided the headmaster as he went over another document uncovering secrets he or anyone else was unaware of.

He discovered the leading members of the Beacon's board of administration were all anti-faunus and accepting anyone that agreed with their beliefs on the matter, along with some bribes. He instantly called them out on it and each were arrested by Vale authorities. Despite where he got the information from, he was grateful that he was able to acquire these files. Not only did it say who the killer's potential targets were, but who to be suspicious of in case something worse happens.

He flipped through another document showing more potential targets until he noticed a file that stuck out from the rest. It was a pitch-black file that had the word 'Prime' written on the label. His eyebrow quirked a bit at this and he picked it up and began to read its contents. Unlike the other files that were organized and were presented in a professional manner, only three photos fell out of the file and landed on Ozpins desk. He pushed aside the other documents and closely looked at the three photos in front of him and saw that they were pictures of WBY. They were simple profile pictures to be used on their scroll's I.D. but what really confused the headmaster was that each photograph, there was a word written on each of them, covering their eyes and the bridge of their noses. 'Betrayer' was on the photo with Weiss, 'Coward' was written on Blake's, and 'Murderer' was written on Yang's.

Ozpin reached for his office land line and dialed a number on his scroll. Hoping that she would pick up.

"Headmaster? Are you alright? You haven't left your office since we got back." Glynda asked over the phone and Ozpin let out a small sigh of relief.

"Glynda can you send team RWBY up to my office? There are some things I need to discuss with them." There was a pause after he asked this favor and he cocked an eyebrow up at the silence. "Glynda? Where are they?" he then heard a sigh from her end.

"Team RWBY is in the infirmary at the moment. Apparently before the lockdown was in effect the two teams attempted to find any information on the same person we were looking into. Ms. Belladonna found more than a lead at a White Fang recruiting orientation. I assume you haven't seen the news yet. I'll send you a link but in the mean time you need to get down here." She said and a vibration came from his phone. He opened the link and instantly deflated a little.

'Tragedy among the Faunus. The Reaper Strikes Again.' Below the title, he saw the graphic images that were displayed over the breaking news and even he was having a hard time keeping his stomach stable. He got up from his desk, ignoring some papers toppling over and headed straight to the elevator. He just prayed that Blake wasn't severely injured. Not just because he was worried of one of his student's safety, but he needed to get to the bottom of some things.

With Teams RWBY and NPR:

The six students all looked at their friend who was now steadily breathing on a hospital bed. While Weiss and NPR were all shocked into silence of what happened, Ruby was now comforting her crying sister as she was holding one of her partner's hands. Ruby could make a pretty strong assumption that Blake wouldn't be the same after what happened. When she and Yang finally narrowed down where Blake's screaming was coming from, they opened the front door to have the aroma of death basically slam into them. they both stifled a few gasps as they saw the remains of dozen's maybe hundreds of bodies sprawled across the room. Yang didn't care at the moment though due to her panicked state and rushed into the building, screaming for Blake to come out and make sure she was safe. This went on for another few minutes until they both heard some stifled sobs and noticed some movement in the corner of the room. Ruby now joined her sister as they saw their trembling teammate in a fetal positon. She was covered in blood and was shaking uncontrollably. Yang's protective instincts kicked into full overdrive and instantly picked her partner up and rushed her to Bumblebee, but not before telling Ruby to call the authorities. Ruby agreed to this and dialed the Vale police. They questioned her about how she found this ungodly scene and she told them that they were walking around and smelled what was coming from inside and after a few more useless questions she was let go and she made it back to Beacon to find out that Blake suffered from shock, but other than that she wasn't hurt.

"Will she be okay?" Nora softly asked and Ren patted her head and gave a reassuring smile.

"In time, she will be Nora." He said and then looked up to Ruby and Weiss. "Do you mind if we step outside? We all need to talk about some things." He said and the two nodded at this, but not before looking back at their bedridden teammate.

"I was actually thinking the same thing Mr. Lie." They all turned to see Ozpin and Goodwitch at the entrance of the room and they all went a little rigid at his stern tone. He simply stepped forward towards his students. "Please explain one of my students and your teammate was at a White Fang meeting?" He saw sheepish looks appear on each of them until Pyrrha stepped forward.

"We were all looking for any leads on this 'Reaper'." Pyrrha started, feeling a strange taste in her mouth when she said that name. "Blake found out that the White Fang were having a meeting and since she is the only faunus in our group, she volunteered to see if she could find any info through them." Ozpin gripped his cane tight at this and refused to show any frustration to the students in front of him.

"While I must commend you all on your virtuous intentions on the matter at hand. I must remind you all that you are all students here. You are all my responsibility that I must keep under any circumstance. I understand we are training you to become huntsmen and huntresses, but I will not allow myself to stand aside while you all throw yourselves at unnecessary danger. And this man that you were trying to find is not a man to be trifled with. Isn't that right Ms. Belladonna?" they all turned to see that she was awake now. Quivering a bit, but awake.

"He was a monster. A merciless, unholy monster." She barely said and they all started to grow fearful at what she just said. "He was laughing when he killed them all. Fucking. Laughing." With that she grew quite once more.

Ozpin went to grab something out of his pocket. "A monster that made you and the majority of your team primary targets." He said as he showed each of them the three pictures of Blake, Weiss and Yang. They all had looks of surprise and fear now at just the malevolency that was used to write those words on the photos. "For some reason. The person who is responsible for this had a close eye on a lot of people in Vale, but for some reason you three are the only ones in an entire file cabinet that were labeled as such. Care to tell me why?" he then asked and the three students only looked on with confusion at the photos. Unknown to the others though, each of them had a sinking feeling of what the words might be referring to.

"So, if you three do not know, then there is nothing more that I wish to discuss about." The headmaster was about to turn away until Ruby called out.

"Actually Headmaster." He turned around to see the fifteen-year-old leader holding something in her hands. "When we were at the warehouse I found this." They all looked to see her holding a jar with black smoke swirling around in random rotations. Ozpin's eyes slightly widened when he saw this and looked at the Rose who was now shrinking under the stares she was receiving. "I saw it and thought it would be useful. The police weren't interested so I thought I would bring it to you seeing you know a lot more than we do." She rambled and the headmaster formed a small smile. He was grateful for this due to any scrap of evidence helping. He then gestured for her to hand it to him. She was just about to hand it to him until the smoke started to swirl with more aggression. As if it wanted to desperately get out of the small jar. They all became confused at this and Ruby retracted the jar to see that it became calm once more. Ruby then started moving the jar around the room in an odd game of Hot or Cold with the smoke. She kept moving until the smoke started to become frantic. She then looked up from the jar and now everyone was starring in confusion as they were all now looking at Pyrrha Nikos.

"Miss. Nikos." Ozpin started. They all looked at him and cold practically see the gears turning in his head. "Channel your aura in your hand. There's something I would like to see." Pyrrha was hesitant at first but she complied. A shade of red engulfed her hand and she reached forward. She could swear on her life that the smoke was squealing in pain at this and before anyone could realize what happened, the smoke simply dissipated, as if it was being erased from existence. Ozpin smirked at this and looked at the baffled champion. He then walked up to her and gave her a reassuring smile. "Miss Nikos. I have a favor to ask of you."

With Roman:

It had taken him all day but he finally made it back to Mount Glenn. He had hobbled for miles and even had the rest of his leg ripped off by a Beowolf that ambushed him. Despite that, he made his way back to the underground entrance and relentlessly banged on the door. Eventually he was greeted by some white fang grunts and he was escorted to a medical cot. He was breathing heavily from his journey from the outskirts of Vale and all he wanted to do at the moment was just lie down.

He then noticed his multi-colored partner in crime rush up to him with a concerned look. He simply let out an exasperated chuckle followed by a few grunts of pain as a white fang medic was treating his leg. "looks like we got a new employer." He said to her and her confused look grew even more. "The guy who took my leg and did this." He pulled out his scroll to show her the images that were taken of the massacre at the meeting and she let out something resembling a gag. She was a sociopath yes but even she had limits.

"Yea. he also told me that plans will be the same, just sped up. Honestly I don't care anymore." He said as he laid back down. He really didn't care what he had to do. He would do about anything if he was sure he would never have to see that kid's face again.

THE PLOT THICKENS! HAHAHAHA! Yes I know not as gory or murdery like the last. It is agonizing to not just dive into the juicy parts and let you all read it the awesomeness, but there is this thing called pacing that I just discovered and that it is imperative to have if you want to have readers enjoy the story.

NOW TO RESPOND TO SOME COMMENTS!

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And that concludes this chapter! Leave a comment and tell me what you think of! I honestly love dishing these chapters out for you all to read and thank you for the support. The deadline is still the eighteenth and as always, Be Fierce you beautiful people.

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