Chapter 9: Penny

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Unstoppable here with chapter 9 of X-624. I hope you are enjoying the story so far. I understand that most of the people clicked this story looked at my first chapter, and thought it was extremely cheesy. Which a agree with. I mean it was one of my very first chapters. But I thank all of you that decided to keep reading, and hopefully my writing has gotten a little better. Enjoy.

"There are no secrets, that time does not reveal," -Jean Racine

Previously

"Five as far as I know. The other two Coleman and Lydia are trying to hunt me down, sent by the old organization I used to work for."

"Commander Miller, did you hear me,"

"Come on Rodgers, you know I will, you also know that you can call me..." He paused.

"Ivan,"

Beacon Cafeteria

Present

Everyone is in the Cafeteria eating their food. Team MTG and Team JNPR and Team RWBY are sitting at one table.
Suddenly, there is a loud yelp. Everyone turns to a Faunus with Cardin pulling on her bunny ears.
"Cardin, are you going to be done anytime soon?" Maddox asked standing up crossing his arms.
Cardin let go of her ears, and she rushed to her seat away from Cardin.
"Life must be hard for the Faunus." Yang said as Maddox sat down.
"Yea," everyone but Weiss and Blake, who sat there in silence.
Maddox eyed Blake for a moment. Blake's eyes widened slightly.
"Hey uh, Maddox, can I talk to you for a moment?" She asked getting up. Maddox stood up smiling knowing the reason she called him out.
Once they were in the hallway, Maddox chuckled, "What does the cat lady want now?"
"Ok, how did you find out and how long have you known?" She turned to face him.
"I've known since I first saw you, and your, "bow" he said with air quotes, "twitches from time to time." He responded right as her bow twitched again.
"Oh, I see... Wait how'd you know I was a cat?"
"You REALLY enjoy fish,"

Training Room 53

During Maddox's training

It's a giant round room, two people are standing in opposite ends. Maddox is on one side while on the other side is the infamous trainer Ivan.
"Mark," Ivan said. The two opponents rushed towards each other. Ivan stopped midway pulling out a 45 magnum. Firing six quick shots into Maddox's arm. Maddox stumbles from the impact, but keeps closing the distance using his other arm to fire some energy balls at Ivan.
With ease Ivan maneuvers around the bolts with no problem. Ivan pulls out a double ended staff the handle was black while the sharp blades were able to pierce through just about anything. Maddox then activates his dual bladed monster.
Just as he was on top of Ivan. Ivan disappeared from sight. Maddox stopped and stood completely still. Closing his eyes and listening. Locating his target Maddox throws a red spike in the direction forcing Ivan to reveal himself and deflect the incoming projectile. Ivan closed the distance as and brought the staff to decapitate Maddox, only to be parried by a dual blade. Moving the other end of the staff in order to parry the incoming swing from. Maddox's left hand.
Maddox kicks him in the stomach, stunning him for a moment, as Maddox did his spin jump move in order to decapitate the 29 year old man. However his blade was parried by the staff and Maddox was kicked to the floor hard. Maddox opened his eyes and felt the cold barrel of Ivan's Magnum between his eyes.
"You're dead," Ivan said harshly.
"You know that would not kill me, I would just regenerate."
Ivan holstered the gun and grabbed Maddox's hand and pulled him up.
"You are lucky you can regenerate, most super humans can't. So I will train you like you can't."
"Ugh, fine, but you know I'm not human," Maddox retorted.
"Human or not, most of us don't regenerate. Out of the millions of super humans here, only 10%, including you, can regenerate." With that Ivan left the room.

City of Vale (I think)

Present

Team RWBY and Team MTG are walking around the city.
"...and as a representative of Beacon it is my sole duty to welcome them here for the tournament." Weiss said.
"What she's trying to say is, that she wants find out their fighting style so she can counter it," Yang translated.
"You can't prove that," Weiss retorted
"We don't need to,"
They continued walking and found a crime scene, officials and police officers are all around the building. The windows are broken and the door is completely knocked down.
"Cash is still in the register, all the dust is gone," one of the officers said.
"This doesn't make any sense, who needs this much dust, that's the 5th robbery this week." Another said.
The group left the scene.
"You think it was the white fang," Ruby said.
"No, the white fang doesn't attack like this." Blake said
"How would you know that?" Weiss argued.
"Because they are not like that,"
"You're wrong, the White Fang are a bunch of thieves and liars,"
"That's enough, both of you," Maddox said stepping in.
A loud hum is heard as a boat comes and stops at the docks.
"Ketch that no good stowaway," a man on the boat said pointing at a man with blonde shaggy hair with a monkey tail sticking out of his pants. The monkey faunus jumped and wrapped his tail on the top of a light pole.
"A no good stowaway would get caught, I'm a good stowaway," he replied as he ate a banana.
"Get down from there," a policeman said. However, he got a empty banana peel in his face. The blonde man swung himself so he was standing on the light pole and jumped down and ran past the two teams. Winking at Blake.
"Follow that man," Weiss yelled. They teams ran after him. Greer used his super speed to catch up but as soon as rounded a corner he hit something... Or rather someone. The faunas jumped up onto the building and escaped.
"Nooo, he got away," Weiss said disappointed.
"Uh guys," Yang said pointing at a girl with red hair and green eyes wearing a dress with a black skintight suit under it with green lines, she was the person Greer had ran into. Greer wondered how she survived the impact. A speed like that could kill someone, but she wasn't even injured.
Maddox however took one look at her and knew what she was instantly. Her green eyes that looked realistic from afar but if you got close enough they were like lens on a camera.
"Salutations," the girl said. "It is nice to meet you, my name is Penny," she said lying on the ground like she wasn't ran into.
"Uh, Hi my name is Ruby, this is Blake, Weiss and Yang,"
"My name is Maddox, this is Thallia and Greer."
"Cool it is very nice to meet you,"
"You said that already," Yang pointed out.
"So I did," she said still lying on the ground.
"Do you want to get up?" Weiss asked.
"I'd love to," she said and propped herself on her hands and kicked her feet for momentum to get on her feet. Everyone took a step back. Except for Maddox, he had met plenty of people like this.
"Are you here for the tournament?" Ruby asked.
"Yes, I am combat ready,"
"Why are you wearing a dress?" Weiss asked Penny.
"Look who's talking," Thallia said.
"This is a combat skirt," Weiss said.
"Yea," Ruby said and they high hived each other.
"Are you ok?" Greer asked still unsure of how she seemed to not be injured.
"Yes, why wouldn't I?" Penny returned.
"Well I don't know, it's just most people I run into end up in the hospital...or dead." Greer explained.
"Yes, but I like your other friends save for Maddox and Thallia I have an aura that protects me. You don't seem to have one because you're not from around here," Penny stated.
Maddox's, Thallia's and Greer's jaw dropped.
"Well it was nice to meet you friend." Ruby said turning around as everyone else did with her.
"Well she was...weird," Yang said.
"What did you just call me," Penny said as she appeared in front of them. Weiss went wide eyed at how she moved so quickly without them noticing.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't think you heard that," Yang tried to explain herself.
"No, not you," she said. "You," Penny said moving closer to Ruby. "You called me 'friend', am I really your friend?"
"Uh," Ruby said looking at her friends, who were shaking their heads rapidly, save for Maddox who just shrugged. "Sure," she said. All of Ruby's friends collapsed to the floor, save for Maddox.
"Pooh I've never had a real friend before, we could paint our nails, have tea parties together, talk about cute guys,"
"Was this what it was like for you when we first met," Ruby whispered to Weiss.
"No," she answered back.
"That's enough chit chat we need to go find that faunas scum." Weiss said.
"Stop calling him that," Blake snapped.
"Well what do you want me to call him, a thief,"
"No, he's still a person."
"If I call him a person, then I'm calling him something he's not,"
"Calling him a scum is calling him something he's not." The fight continued to team RWBY's room.
"Why are you defending him,"
"Because he didn't do anything wrong,"
"How would you know, he could be part of the White Fang."
"What is your problem with the White Fang?"
"They have been at war with my family for as long as I can remember." Weiss finally said turning towards the window. Blake said nothing in return. "Everyday someone from my family died, board leaders executed, cousins killed, uncles captured or gone missing. The White Fang are nothing but a bunch thieves and murderers."
"Well maybe we were just scared."
"We?" Ruby questioned. Blake's eyes widened an as did everyone else's. Blake ran out of the room.
"Blake wait." Ruby said trying to stop her. Ruby ran over to Team MTG's room and pounded on the door.
"Maddox, we need your help, Blake is running away,"
Maddox opened the door, "I'll go talk to her," at that he dematerialized I to dust and flew at blinding speed out of the window towards the entrance of Beacon. He saw Blake and sped in front of her, stopping her in her tracks.
"Stay out of my way Maddox, you can't stop me from running." Blake said moving around him.
"I'm not trying to stop you," Maddox said turning towards her. Ironically this stopped her for a moment. "I just want to understand why you're running, from your team."
"Because now they can't trust me now that they know that I was part of the White Fang,"
"Honestly, you're both in fault, Ruby actually doesn't want you to leave, Yang doesn't either. Weiss... Well she and you are both in fault."
"What do you mean,"
"What I mean is it is your fault you hadn't told them earlier, it's also Weiss's fault for not trusting you,"
"Go on,"
"I understand you guys haven't been a team that long, so the trust hasn't fully built up yet. But there should be enough trust you can tell them small details like that, because it is in the past,"
"Wait, does your team trust you, after all you said that there are something's that you haven't told them yet."
"As a matter of fact they do trust me and they know I have been keeping stuff from them, I trust them also,"
"How can they trust you so well, with all the stuff you keep from them?"
"Trust, takes time and hard work to earn, we have been a team for at least 3 years. Been in many different life and death situations, all of those missions we did, all of those different traps laid and life and death opportunities, have built a very hard foundation of trust between us. We know each other's strengths and weaknesses like that back of our hand."
"Will you ever tell them about the 'thing' that can come out?"
Maddox looked at the ground, "sadly no, I'm afraid it is too late to tell them now,"
"It's not too late to tell them, you can tell them right now," with that Blake took off again.
"If you only knew why it is too late to tell them," Maddox said under his breath, regret clear in his voice. Maddox turned around and slowly walked into Beacon. Blake turned and looked at the slowly moving 18 year old boy. Looking at the statue that dawned the entrance of Beacon. Which was just a hunter and huntress standing on top of a defeated Ursa. Reaching to her bow she undid it and let it fall to the ground, letting her cat ears get some long waited wind.
"I knew, you'd look better without that bow," Blake turned towards the voice to find it was that blonde haired monkey faunas from earlier.
Maddox crashed on his bunk, he had told Ruby that Blake just needed to think and that she would be back. Which was half truthful. He wasn't sure if Blake would come back. He closed his eyes took a deep breath and let it out, his mind ran with multiple colors filling his vision.

Maddox's Crystal

Present

He found himself in a dark void there was nothing,
"Mad'ika, vi ne'waadas brokar jorhaa'ir.
(Madd, we need to talk.)
"Tion vaabir gar want, Ox'ika,"
(What do you want, Ox.) Madd showed up out of nowhere addressing Maddox as Ox. Madd was a completely glowing red human shaped being. The only thing that was black were his eyes.
"Ni don't want gar brokar hiibir control cuyir ner baar tion'tuur something pierces cuun torso,"
(I don't want you to take control of my body when something pierces our torso,)
"Gar kar'taylir ni don't ganar a choice,"
(You know I don't have a choice)
"Gedet'ye, Ni don't want brokar turn o'r front cuyir anade olar,"
(Please, I don't want to turn in front of everyone here)
"Ni liser't not hiibir control jaon gar, bic shi happens, bic's primal instinct tion'tuur bic happens, gar kar'taylir megin,"
(I can't not take control over you, it just happens, it's primal instinct when it happens, you know that) Madd continues "Ox'ika, Ni liser however, gotal'ur bic bid Ni shi kadala bal pirunir sur'haaise gar enemies, instead cuyir te usual haran megin follows,"
(Ox, I can however, make it so I only hurt and kill your enemies, instead of the usual destruction that follows)
Ox chuckled, "Yea, meh gar did tion gar usually did, vi might as. as pirusti shi drop a nuke,"
(Yea, if you did what you usually did, we might as well just drop a nuke) signifying the end of the conversation the red being submerged itself into Ox's body created Maddox again. Colors refilled his mind as he was brought back to the real world opening his eyes to Ruby shaking him lightly.
"Maddox, Blake hasn't come back yet, can you help us look for her," Ruby pleaded.
"Yea, just give me a second," Maddox said getting up out of his bunk. Maddox followed her out of the room to the outside of Beacon where they would start looking for her.
"Gar kar'taylir, gar could shi wake Thal'ika laam bal ganar kaysh striilir Bla'ika,"
(You know, you could just wake Thallia up and have her track Blake) Madd's voice rang in Maddox's mind.
"Bla'ika, ran jorcu she needed brokar mirdir,"
(Blake, ran because she needed to think) Maddox said aloud.
"What'd you say Maddox?" Weiss asked noticing the strange language coming out of his mouth.
"Nothing," Maddox plainly answered annoyed that Madd was trying to talk to him.
Weiss eyed him suspiciously, "ok,"

Roof Cafe

Present

Blake and the faunas monkey whose name she learned was Sun, are sitting at a table in an outside restaurant. Blake puts her cup down.
"So you wanted to know about me?"
Sun leans forward in his chair and throws his hands out as a gesture.
"Finally, she speaks, the only thing you've done is give me small talk or weird looks," Blake tilted her head and frowned. "Like that," he finished.
"Have you heard of the White Fang?" Blake asked.
"Yea, I don't think there is a faunas on the planet who hasn't heard of them, bunch of weirdos if you ask me," Sun answered.
"I was part of the White Fang, and they're not weirdos, they're just misguided faunas."
"So you were misguided?"
"When I was part if the White Fang, we were a peaceful organization. I was in every protest, every parade, every rally. At first I thought we were making a difference." Blake paused.
"We finally got the meeting we wanted and got equal rights, but people still treated us like we were nothing." She sighed.
"But then our leader stepped down, and a knew one came into view, he changed the way we protested, instead of peaceful protests, we were doing organized attacks, and the thing is, it worked, we were finally being treated as equals, but not out of respect. Out of fear. So I left, and decided to become a huntress. That's my whole life story."
"Organized attack like dust robberies?" Sun asked.
"I don't think that's them, but I can't prove it."
"Yea, wouldn't the best way to prove it, is got to the next likely place and find that they are not there."
"But here's the problem, I don't know the next target,"
"I overheard one of the guards talking about a big shipment of dust coming in on the port," Sun pointed out.
"How big?"
"BIG,"
Blake stood up an as did Sun as they headed to the port.

Vale

Present

"Blake, Blake, Blaaaake," Ruby, Yang, and Maddox are calling.
"Weiss come on, at least pretend you care," Yang said.
"Salutations," Penny said appearing out of nowhere.
"Gaah," everyone jumped in surprise.
"It is good to see you again," Penny said in her usual happy voice. "What are you doing out here,"
"You see we're sorta looking for a friend, she ran last night, and we don't know where she went."
"You mean the cat lady,"
"Yea how'd you know she was a cat,"
"Her cat ears,"
"Blake doesn't have cat ears, she wears a...bow."
"That's why she loves tuna," Ruby whispered.
"Ooh I have a good idea, can I help look for her,"
"Yea, I'm sure my friends are fine with that," Ruby looked at her friends, who had disappeared except for Maddox.

Vale Shipyard

Present

Blake and Sun are lying on a nearby roof next to the ship yard. There are literally hundreds of crates filled with dust. She noticed a few airships coming into land. The bay door opened and out came... The White Fang.
"Oh no," Blake said realizing she was incorrect.
"That them?" Sun asked.
"Yea, I think I was hoping it wasn't them but deep down, I think I knew it was."
Torchwick walked out of the ship with two people she had never seen before behind him. What she did not know is that it was Coleman and Lydia.
"Something's not right, the White Fang would never listen to a human." She stood up and ran and jumped, catching Torchwick off guard and put her blade by his throat.
Undoing her bow she said, "Brothers and sisters of the White Fang, why are you following this human?" The White Fang had guns pointed at her while Coleman and Lydia stood there.
"Come one Miss Catty, I don't have time for your intervention." With that he moved his cane down to her foot and fired causing a big explosion sending her back. The explosion was big enough that Ruby, Maddox and Penny noticed it.
"Blake!" Ruby said. They ran towards the explosion. Maddox sped off.
Sun jumped into the fight and got out his long stick that could separate into nunchuck shotguns. Started to to his fighting style fighting off the White Fang. Blake was doing the same thing. Coleman and Lydia were going to jump in soon. On a nearby roof top. Maddox noticed Coleman and Lydia and jumped into battle landing on Lydia,
"Looking for me, well here I am," Maddox said into her face. Jumping off of her, he ran and they chased him. Once he got to an area far from the other battle.
"Alright you want it, come and get it," Maddox skidded to a halt and popped up his fists as they pulled out some blades that were harder than Grimm armor. Maddox deployed his own blades. As they charged together, sliding under Coleman's legs he stood up and sliced him in the back, it wasn't a deep cut, but he defiantly felt it. Lydia came up to Maddox and swung her sword and Maddox simply blocked and parried the blow. Coleman flanked him tried to slice him but Maddox managed to block and lock there bladed together. Not keeping an eye on Lydia as she cut his head off.
Maddox's body fell limp, and his head rolled on the floor. However, they all knew the job wasn't even close to finished. Maddox's body fell apart and like a tornado his particle swirled his red crystal and his body was formed as his head came and eyes glowing an angry red. But not the insane red. He was just angry. Ruby showed up on a nearby roof with Penny behind her.
"Ruby are these guys your friends?" Penny asked.
"Stay back Penny," Ruby responded stepping up pulling or her giant scythe.
Torchwick noticed her and aimed his cane and fired hitting Ruby knocking her back. Penny stepped up not liking that her friend was hurt.
"Penny, stay back,"
"No one hurts my friends, don't worry I'm battle ready." A compartment on her back opened and daggers came out. Floating around her. She sent the floating daggers down into the fight, each tripping and hitting the enemy, most of the aura absorbed her attacks. She jumped down onto the ground, as the daggers flew back towards her. Meanwhile at Maddox's fight. Maddox barley deflected an incoming blade at his torso. Quickly changing his arm into a Type-A Plasma Cannon. Firing the bolts at Lydia, as she charged him, jumping and dodging around them. Maddox performs a backflip as Coleman sneaks up next to him. Maddox fires bolts at the ground where he once stood. Coleman, took cover as his armor absorbed the incoming plasma. Lydia took a slice at Maddox, getting small cut in his cheek, that regenerated just as quickly. Coleman, pulls out a rocket launcher, and fires it, Lydia jumped out of the way, Maddox was too busy with Lydia to notice, however catching just barley as he caught it and pushed against his arms. His arms straining at the force of the exhaust coming from the end of the missile. Maddox redirected it so that it when up. As it tried to come back towards Maddox the turn was too wide and it travels to the other battlefield hitting the side of a drop ship that was trying to escape with a crate of dust. Penny brought all of her swords towards her, they circled around in front of her as a light green glow formed in the middle, the green ball got bigger and bigger. Penny thrust her hands forwards into the light, causing a giant green laser to erupt from it. The green laser cut through most of the airships, and vaporized most of the White Fang. Blake and Sun, dodged out of the way. Torchwick got onto the remaining airship. As it took off.
"These kids just keep getting weirder," as he closed the hatch, however noticed a burnt armored Coleman, and an exhausted Lydia, fighting a pulsing red eyed kid.
"Land us near them." The airship landed near them and Torchwick fired a flare onto the ground creating enough smoke to block Maddox's view of the two super humans.
"Get in we need to regroup," Torchwick yelled. Coleman and Lydia nodded as they climbed onto the airship. The airship flew off as Maddox sat and watched. Weiss and Yang run around the corner. Weiss immediately recognized the pulsing red glow in his eyes. "He needs to charge," Weiss said running towards him. She wouldn't admit it herself but she was starting to feel something for him.
"Maddox, where's Ruby?" Yang asked hoping her sister was ok.
"And Blake?" Weiss asked. Maddox eyed Weiss for a moment.
"Over there," he said shifting his head in their direction. Yang ran and Ruby got up noticing her and Yang hugged her tightly. Upon noticing Weiss and a limping Maddox coming towards them. Ruby broke the hug running up to Weiss.
"Weiss, we found Blake and it turns out she has cat ears that are kinda cute." Ruby explained. However, Weiss walked past her, completely ignoring her.
"Weiss, I-" Blake began standing up.
"Blake Belladonna, I understand I stepped a little out of line-" Weiss began.
"A little?" Maddox chuckled.
"Ok fine, a lot, but if you have something you go to your teammates, not that Faunas fre," She paused. As Sun rose his hands in defense. She sighed "man," she finished.
"Hey, where's Penny?" Noticed she was missing. Everyone looked around.
Meanwhile on a nearby roof, a light blue glow forms a human figure lying prone. His red hair flowing in the wind as his invisibility wears off.
"Found ya," Ivan said.

Thank you guys for reading, sorry I haven't posted in so long, School has been really busy for me, (I don't get home till 8:30) but yea thanks. Byyyye.