please note this is probably the most difficult chapter I've ever written, I think I did a good job, but let me know otherwise.

chapter 9

At the base the reds, blue and Doyle besides Wash were having a small meeting.

''ok I called him'' said Carolina.

''ok we talked about this, I'll talk to him, Carolina back me up and we all be supportive'' said Tucker.

at that moment Wash walked in ''guys before we get to what you wanted to talk about let me just say, I've done it'' said Wash triumphantly.

''done what?'' asked Tucker.

''(Lopez its nice to meet you I am Agent Washington)'' said Wash in Spanish.

''(you speak Spanish now?)'' asked Lopez.

''(yes I decided to learn oh, I decided it was better than having Donut translate and having me guess what you say and I'm sorry I shot you)'' said Wash.

''(oh its fine and thank you, don't worry though I can understand English I just can't speak it because of my speech card)'' said Lopez.

''you speak Spanish now?'' asked Grif.

''yeah, decided to learn'' said Wash ''anyhow what did you call me for? any emergency? a Caboose uh-oh?''

''no we need to tell you something about, well you know that school you went to?'' asked Tucker.

Wash's mood became sour ''what about it?''

''well we intercepted a communication from the White Fang, an ally of theres is going to infiltrate Beacon and download or hack or do something to the systems'' stated Carolina.

''Wash we were talking about how to break the news to you'' stated Simmons.

''Wash if you want to sit out I'll lead the team on this one'' said Carolina.

''no I- I'll come too'' said Wash ''Ozpin, Goodwitch all the teachers there were so nice to me and treated me so well, so I- I have to do this to thank them for some kindness''

''ok Wash, but if you don't want to or if you want to talk, were fine with it, I mean remember all we really do is stand around and talk'' stated Tucker.

''yeah and man to man, soldier to solder, I can get you'' said Sarge ''I know its not the same but when I was jettisoned from the ODST, I felt so embarrassed and ashamed of myself and I just wanted to never see it again, so I can feel you in a way Wash and if you want to talk I'm hear for you ok, we can even box or go shoot stuff or something, that's what I do when memory's of it start to come up.

''thanks Sarge'' said Wash, he then snapped into full leader mode ''ok when's it happening?''

''on the night of the Ball what is that?'' asked Tucker.

''its basically prom, this is basically high school'' said Wash.

''oh you never went to prom either wash or-'' started Simmons.

''no I never went to prom, I technically dropped out of high school too'' said Wash.

''oh, oh I know I never went to prom so lets have prom'' said Caboose.

''ok after this'' said Wash ''anyhow we'll use that to our advantage when does the Prom start?'' after getting the time Wash said ''ok we'll head out before that, therefore we can secure the place and make sure this ally whats there name again?''

''Cinder Fall'' said Simmons.

''wow she sounds like some slut'' said Donut.

''Donut we haven't even met her yet'' said Simmons.

''I know I can just tell from the name'' said Donut ''I mean it sounds like she wants her underwear to fall off''

''oh I'm fully for that'' said Tucker grinning pervertedly.

''anyways'' said Wash getting the conversation back on track ''we'll do something to make sure, she can't do anything to the systems''

''get your hacking hands ready Simmons'' said Sarge.

''ok I'll bring my carpel tunnel braces'' said Simmons.

''what about me?'' asked Doyle.

''Doyle you stay hear'' said Wash ''and I guess clean up and do an inventory or anything''

''seems like I can do that'' said Doyle.

''ok come on lets go, get ready and lets roll out, we bring everything this time alien guns included'' said Wash.

-LINE BREAK-

Soon they left heading out on a small ship Lopez had made, it was big enough to hold them all and was kind of a mix of a Pelican and a Falcon, it was made up of leftover parts so it looked like a mix of both viechles.

Everyone was geared up Wash had his trademark rifle, he had a carbine strapped to his back and his pistol, Tucker was holding his sniper rifle, he had his sword and a carbine, Caboose was carrying his trademark rifle and a storm rifle on his back, Doc was just carrying a missile launcher, Carolina was fully geared up with a battle rifle, two plasma rifles and a storm rifle, Sarge was carrying his shotgun along with a beam rifle, Simmons had two SMG's and a beam rifle, Grif had the 'Grifshot' along with a needle gun, Donut was geared up with a belt to hold all of the grenades for him to use, he was also carrying a needler and Lopez had his upgrades as well as a carbine.

As they hovered above they could see the whole school, Wash steered out and grimaced under his helmet, he was going to make sure under all costs that his helmet stayed on during this visit, he wanted nobody to see him, as far as he was concerned Jaune Arc was dead and he was replaced by Agent Washington, the man Jaune was then... Wash could never be him.

''you ok Wash?'' asked Carolina as she saw him steer out.

''yeah just memories'' said Wash ''I'm fine''

''just remember what you said to me Wash'' said Carolina taking his hand ''you don't need to forget or destroy the past to have a future''

''ok is it another improv plan?'' asked Tucker.

''pretty much I have a plan as to get in and get Simmons and Lopez in, after that we improv'' said Wash as they landed a good distance from the school, it was far enough not to be seen by the school but far enough that if they needed to make a quick run they could.

''ok come on'' said Wash.

''(shouldn't we cloak the veichle first or something?)'' asked Lopez.

''no it'll make it more difficult to find'' stated Wash.

''ok whats the plan?'' asked Tucker.

''I'll fill you all in step by step, step one theres a back entrance nobody knows about, I'm not sure if it'll be heavily guarded, I would say its guarded but not heavily'' stated Wash ''I'm expecting two people standing guard, four at the most''

''so draw them off?'' asked Tucker, Wash nodded, the group made there way into the school and went to around to the back of the school where the communication tower was, the Ball was starting so they had there time frame, seeing there were only four guards they knew they could take this easy.

''Caboose'' said Tucker as Caboose fired a few shots from his rifle.

''ahh I didn't do it'' said Caboose.

''hay go check that out'' said one of the guards, two of the guards nodded and went to check it out.

The guards didn't come back for a few minutes in that few minutes Simmons ran past them ''hay'' said one of the guards, they then started to follow Simmons until they ran into Wash, Carolina, Caboose, Tucker and Doc who had there weapons raised, the rest of the group then appeared from behind with there guns raised and Simmons disappeared.

''yeah sorry just a hologram great for attracting attention don't you think?'' asked Simmons.

''drop your guns'' said Grif, the soldiers did as he said, then saw the other two guards handcuffed to a post not moving.

''chrysanthemum'' said Donut as he handcuffed them to a poll with the other two guards.

''w-what did you do to them!?'' exclaimed one of the guards angrily.

''oh don't worry it was just some knock out, there fine'' said Doc ''yes I suggested putting them to death, but nooo its unethical and we don't need to kill people, you don't need to kill people you just can kill people MWHA HA HA HA!'' ''O'mally that's not very nice'' ''Shut up you fool it's textbook 101 nice''

''sorry about him split personality'' said Wash then smacking one of them unconscious with the butt of his rifle, Sarge did the same to the other one with his shotgun.

Simmons then proceeded to hack into the door to get them in, they then quickly went to the elevator going to the appropriate floor, they were amazed to see the hallway was unguarded and so was the door, but Simmons still had to hack into the door to get them in.

''ok good looks like nobodies hear, Simmons, Lopez do your thing'' said Wash.

The two of them went to the main terminal and started to work, ''hasn't broke in yet, we'll start downloading a protection program that pretty much covers everything'' said Simmons.

''ok with that in mind, Tucker quick, use your invisibility, see whats happening downstairs'' stated Wash.

Tucker nodded and quickly left and cloaked to check everything out, leaving everyone else in sort of awkward silence, Wash whistled to try and lighten the mood, luckily Tucker returned quickly.

''everything good downstairs guards are doing there jobs'' said Tucker.

''well I guess we just stand around and talk until she gets hear or stand around and talk until the programs uploaded and we can leave'' said Wash.

''really?'' asked Tucker.

''yeah, it seems be what you guys do to pass the time'' said Wash.

''...so I don't think I've ever done this before do you guys start or do I?'' asked Carolina.

''well we mostly just start talking about one and then we just continue until we start talking about another thing'' said Simmons.

''oh yeah like how we talk about all that stupid stuff that isn't really necessary to talk about'' said Grif.

''yeah conversation switches rather quickly though'' said Donut ''you switch faster than anything else''

"wow, were standing around talking, about standing around and talking" stated Wash.

''yeah its what we do'' said Grif.

The group spent the next few minutes standing around talking and Lopez just steered at the monitors of Penny in her prom dress, until Tucker said ''wait I think she's hear, I can hear whats going on downstairs''

''how can you tell?'' asked Wash.

''oh Tucker has very good eyes and ears'' said Caboose.

''Simmons, Lopez how long?'' asked Sarge.

''about another hour or so unfortunately'' said Simmons ''damn this thing is slow!?''

''what?! then make it go faster!'' ordered Sarge.

''(we can't speed up the process idiot the computers taking it as fast as it can)'' stated Lopez.

''guys get ready'' ordered Wash, as he made sure his gun was loaded, then something came to him ''Tucker, have you seen Captain America Winter Soldier?''

''yeah wh- oh got it'' said Tucker.

-LINE BREAK-

As Cinder entered the elevator, smirking nothing was going to stop her now, but then from out of nowhere someone grabbed her from behind and slammed her into the wall, she stomped on the persons foot with her heeled boot causing the attacked to call out ''OUCH SON OF A-'' it was male, Cinder turned around and punched him in the chest, Tucker then drew out his sword, it surprised Cinder, but didn't make her hesitate as she dodged the sword.

The elevator doors then opened and Cinder walked out, Tucker quickly following, Cinder kept backing up as Tucker pushed the offensive, she connected the two blades into a bow and fired, Tucker dodged the arrow and charged forwards slashing forwards, Cinder backed up, Tucker had learned from Wash to rapidly swap weapons and so quickly pulled out his sniper rifle and fired two shots, the group agreed to use alien guns as a last resort as they had no idea what effect they would have on aura, Cinder dodged the two shots and Tucker quickly swapped weapons again and went back at it with sword to swords, but Cinder pushed him back and began a mad dash down the hall.

''guys heads up she's coming for you'' said Tucker, grabbing his Sniper rifle and firing shots after Cinder, one actually succeeded in hitting her in the thigh, but her aura succeeded in protecting her, she quickly ran through to the communication centre, Tucker was right behind her shooting at her, as she entered, she saw the other Reds and Blues, all of them raising there guns and pointing them at her, many would have been intimidated in this situation but all Cinder did was smirk, thinking this was a great opportunity.

''well, well, well, this is a surprise'' stated Cinder looking at them all ''am I to assume your the reds and blues?''

''we are'' said Wash.

''hmm let me guess'' said Cinder before pointing to each of them ''Red, Blue, Cyan or is it Aqua, the names mixed, Teal, Maroon, Orange, Pink, Purple, Brown and Black''

''Steel'' said Wash.

''what?'' asked Cinder.

''it's steel'' stated Wash.

''but your armours black'' said Cinder.

''no it's steel grey'' stated Wash.

''very well, steel and am I to assume they aren't your real names?'' asked Cinder.

''no there code names little missy'' said Sarge.

''who would have names like that?'' asked Grif.

''oh and so Ozpin or Ironwood hired you, I heard your bounty hunters and mercenary's'' stated Cinder.

''we are but we intercepted communications from the White Fang'' stated Simmons ''we heard what your going to do and we won't allow it''

''alright, but what if I offered you something, I heard from the White Fang your a group of incredible fighters who can succeed even when all odds are against you, I'd like to hire you name your price'' stated Cinder.

''what if we don't want money?'' asked Carolina.

''then what can I get you?'' asked Cinder.

''sure what we want is for you to get out and get lost'' said Wash.

''oh and if its possible-''

''Tucker don't pervert this'' said Wash.

''Stupid Tucker'' said Caboose.

''oh I guess

''what do you think bitch'' said Tucker.

''yeah we haven't been breaking apart hater groups and white fang bases just to join'' said Simmons.

''(besides I won't let you do anything that could hurt Penny I ruined my chances with Sheila I won't ruin it with her)'' said Lopez.

''yeah we take down the enemy no matter how strong, how many resources, no matter what we beat the enemy and unfortunately little lady you are the enemy'' stated Sarge.

''oh'' said Cinder ''how unfortunate''

Cinder then dropped a smoke bomb, when it exploded, everyone coughed and waved there hands through the smoke, when it cleared up she had disappeared.

''Tucker quick back to back'' said Wash.

''is that like a new sex position?'' asked Tucker.

''TUCKER!'' yelled Wash.

''ok, ok'' said Tucker, putting his back to Wash's.

''Simmons remember if she goes for the computer use Grif as a meat shield'' ordered Sarge.

''yes sir'' said Simmons.

''don't I get a say?'' asked Grif.

''no dirtbag'' said Sarge.

Cinder then jumped down from the ceiling, Lopez saw her first and used his machine gun hands to shoot at her, she got hit and was thrown into a wall, she quickly took out her bow though and prepared to fire an arrow.

Carolina then rushed up and engaged Cinder in close quarters combat, forcing Cinder to drop her bow, Cinder was forced to go all out in hand to hand, Carolina kept switching styles though, before jumping back so Wash, Tucker, Donut and Caboose could shoot at her, Cinder quickly dodged out of the way of the shots, Lopez then fired his mini missiles at her, but she then took out her bow and fired several arrows, she gave a few pants as it took a lot, to do that, but she quickly got back up, this was harder than anticipated, but she wouldn't fail to them, she charged, but then Doc seemingly appearing from nowhere smashed his rocket launcher into her face, knocking her down, Doc then loomed over her

''oh please, you maybe a bad girl, I'm the original bad boy'' chuckled O'mally menacingly.

Cinder gave a little ''ah'' and raised her hand to try and defend her as O'mally shot her with a missile throwing her into a wall.

Cinder quickly got up though and then charged towards Grif, she dodged the shots Grif fired from the 'Grifshot', Grif then slashed with the 'Grifshot' and slashed the two glass swords in half, Cinder dropped the handles of the swords and started to give Grif a Tex beat down, finishing up by punching him in the nuts ''OOOOH HOOO WHY!''

''Aw come on you had to see that coming!'' cried Tucker.

Simmons then drew one of his SMG's out and began to fire, Cinder summoned a glass shield up and rushed Simmons, Simmons quickly pulled the other SMG out and continued firing, Cinder then attempted to knee him in the gut, but with his new training from Wash and Carolina he easily blocked it, dropping his SMG's and threw a punch which she caught only to get kicked in the side, but then Cinder brought him in close and punched him in the stomach, twice before kicking him in the side and punching him in the head.

Cinder smirked thinking she had this, but then she felt something on the back of her head ''Yeah 30 points ya dirty whore!'' cried Donut fist pumping, too late did she realise it was a grenade which then blew up and threw her onto the ground, as she got up Sarge tackled her out the window, Sarge used the situation to do his drop and roll while crashing Cinder into the ground hundreds of feet bellow.

''Come on we gotta get down there'' said Wash.

''give me a minute, I'll just make sure everything's secure hear'' said Simmons, everyone nodded as they left.

Meanwhile down steers Sarge was holding his own against Cinder pretty well dodging an arrow and firing a blast from his shotgun, rushing in close range Sarge threw a punch which Cinder blocked and used to push Sarge back, Sarge held his shotgun up one handed and fired, Cinder dodged the shot, Sarge them put his Shotgun on his back and rushed in throwing a punch at Cinder which she dodged and locked him in close quarters combat, but with his armours strength enhancement, Sarge took hit after hit, slamming his first into Cinder's stomach she was winded.

''hear's a question young missy what were you think'n going with arrows, when guns are far superior'' said Sarge cocking his shotgun and aiming for Cinder.

But Cinder used an aura pulse knocking Sarge back, she then summoned her bow and an arrow ready to shoot at Sarge, but then a barrage of gunfire came out of nowhere, she summoned a shield of strong glass to protect against, Donut then drew out his grenades and threw them, cracking the shield, the last thing that broke the shield was Grif's attack from the 'Grifshot'

Cinder then made a full sprint towards Wash, she then slashed him in a rapid pace slash marks appeared over his armour and he felt the hits, she then punched him in the stomach and kicked him in the side, she changed one of the swords into a knife so she could stab him, but then Caboose grabbed her forearm.

''MY NAME IS MICHEL J CABOOSE! AND I!'' Caboose smashed his fist into Cinder's face shattering her nose ''HATE!'' Caboose slammed his knee into Cinder's gut causing her to cough out and spit out some her stomach content out ''TINDER!'' Caboose grabbed her held her over head and threw her smashing her into a wall of the communication tower.

''it's Cinder you idiot'' said Grif.

''THAT TOO!'' roared Caboose, but then he quickly snapped out of his rage when he saw Wash getting up and went over to help him ''are you ok Wash?''.

''Yeah thanks Caboose you saved my Bacon'' said Wash.

''can I share some bacon with you?'' asked Caboose.

''heh sure'' said Wash as he quickly got up.

Wash then realised his battle rifle was running out of ammo, dropping it he drew out his carbine, the rest of the crew drew out there alien weapons too and started to shoot with them, Cinder dove and ducked through all the shots summoning out her swords, she cross slashed at Tucker, but Tucker slashed back knocking on of her swords away, Cinder slashed again, but Tucker blocked.

Wash then held his Carbine up to her elbow and fired, the shot blasted through Cinder's arm, she collapsed to the ground, her arm severed screaming in pain, Wash jumped back as it happened, blood splattering across his armour.

''HOLY SHIT!'' cried Wash in mix of disgust, horror, amazement and shock.

''WHAT DID YOU DO!?'' exclaimed Tucker.

''NOTHING BUT HOLD THE GUN UP AND PULL THE TRIGGER AND- AND- AND WHAT THE FUCK!'' screamed Wash.

''WELL HOW WHAT ABOUT THAT AURA SHIT YOU TOLD US ABOUT, I MEAN MINES PROTECTED ME FOR THE MOST PART!'' screamed Tucker.

''OK LETS JUST CALM DOWN!'' yelled Carolina.

''guy's she's back up'' said Donut.

Cinder was getting up arm missing on not she still had plenty of fight left, her aura was going into her arm trying to fix it, she picked up one of her swords and got ready to charge, the others got ready to fight, it wouldn't take much to take her down.

She slashed madly, but the other's dodged and Grif fell back on his ass, as Cinder turned around seemingly fixed on Wash for taking her arm, Grif picked up the closest thing to him, which was a cone and clubbed Cinder in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground.

''got her'' said Grif.

Wash quickly gave her a small kick to the side of the head to check ''she's down restrain her, aura cuffs and everything'' ordered Wash.

Donut walked out and took out the cuffs and cuffed her one hand to him, the cuffs surprised aura and stopped it from working as long as one wore it, Doc also began to treat her bleeding injury, using his healing unit.

Sarge then stepped up and said ''well I must say good job-'' Sarge cringed ''Captain Grif''

''thank you... sir? am I saying that right?'' asked Grif.

''ok what now, take her back to base?'' asked Donut, dragging Cinder behind him ''I mean we can't just leave her can we? I mean she'd probably use a innocent thing and blame us, mostly you Wash''

''ok good point Donut, that seemed a bit too normal for you'' said Wash.

''and then they'd be wanting to shoot you with red hot fire bullets'' said Donut.

''ok quick, Grif get the ship, Donut Doc go with him take Cinder with you, the rest of us lets just see what we need to clean up before anyone comes, anyone with half a brain sees this they knew something happened'' stated Wash.

''got it'' said Sarge as the other reds left, he was carrying a flamethrower, he then started to burn everything, to make sure nobody found out only there was a problem.

''ok now how do we cover up the burn marks'' said Wash, when Sarge finished.

Sarge then straightened up ''oh... I did not think of that... my bad''

''hay guys I've uploaded some protection that'll protect the communications and give us a back door to hack in'' said Simmons.

''ok come lets go they'll find us soon enough'' said Wash.

''wait what about the burn marks?'' asked Carolina.

''hows this let it be one of the top ten wonders of the world, everyone knows it, but nobody knew how it happened'' said Wash.

''we will'' said a voice behind them, everyone froze up and turned to see three young women standing there, all of them blond and all of them with weapons, Wash recognised them instantly they were three of his sisters, his eldest sisters to be exact, to sum up the situation, only one word came to mind.

''goddamit''