Chapter 9: Black and White Part 2.
Vale, Balcony Cafe.
On the balcony café in the middle of Vale where Sun Wukong and Blake Belladonna were seen drinking tea.
"Finally, she speaks! Nearly two days and you gave me nothing but small talk and weird looks!" Sun stretched out his arms, Blake gives him a firm look. "Yeah, like that."
Blake rolls her eyes before closing them and looked at him sadly "Sun... Are you familiar with the White Fang?"
"Of course! I don't think there's a Faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. Stupid, holier-than-thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want." Sun says "Bunch of freaks, if you ask me."
She sips her drink while listening until she speaks up for the big reveal. "I was once a member of the White Fang."
Suddenly, Sun promptly goes cross-eyed and chokes on his drink, making him put it down and wipe his mouth as he holds up a hand to process this information. "Wait a minute, you were a member of the White Fang?!"
"That's right. I was a member for most of my life, actually." Blake began to exclaim her Background story. "You could almost say I was born into it..."
Flashback
"Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between Humans and the Faunus."
The audience is shown the dark outlines of two trios - animal-eared and tailed Faunus on one side, regular Humans on the other - shaking hands and making peace after their struggle. This does not last long, as seen by a white Faunus cowering in fear of the gray-and-black aggressors harassing the hybrid. Later, more Faunus are pushing the crowd away from their bullied brethren.
"Of course, despite being promised equality, the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as the voice of our people. And I was there."
Silhouettes of Faunus protestors are revealed, and emerging from the shadows is a young girl with dark hair, cat ears and holds a protest sign.
"I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. I actually thought we were making a difference. But I was just a youthful optimist."
Cutting from the child version of Blake, the blue flag of a white wolf with sad eyes and a circle behind its head is lowered, and raised in its stead is a red monster with three bloody scratches and teeth bared at the world.
"Then, five years ago, our leader stepped down, and a new one took his place. A new leader, with a new way of thinking."
Then the Faunus replacing their protest signs with axes and blades, windows being broken by thrown rocks and Infiltrators leaping on trains to steal their cargo.
"Suddenly, our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us, hijacking cargo from companies that used Faunus labor. And the worst part was, it was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect... out of fear."
The flashback shows one more image of three Faunus individuals standing in a dominating manner with malicious grin.
Flashback ends
Blake put down her tea and turned to Sun.
"So, I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence, and instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am: a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little black bow." Then she wiggles her cat ears beneath the fashionable disguise to demonstrate as Sun coming to terms with this.
"So... have you told your friends any of this?"
Blake merely looks down in shame and says nothing.
Meanwhile, On the other side of Vale
"Blaaaake!" Ruby shouted.
"Blaaaake!" Yang called out too.
The scene transitions to Ruby, Yang, and Weiss Schnee walking through town and calling in vain for their missing teammate.
"Blaaaaaaaake! Where aaaare yoooouuuu!?" Ruby continued to call out.
"Damn, Where is that girl went throught?" Gray rubbed his head.
"Blake!" Yang shouted.
"Weiiiiss, you're not helping!" Ruby turned to Weiss.
"Oh! You know what might be able to help? The police!" Weiss said, as she turned to Gray, which caught to her surprise as cheeks blushed in filled with anger, Embarrassment and some ... romantic crush went into her emotions. "Gray! You're stripping on public again!"
Meanwhile in Earthland...
"Hiek! Juvia felt another one who's going to capture Gray's heart!" Juvia frowned as her Gray senses are tingling.
"Ugh, Weiss..." Ruby crossed her arms as she looked irritated by her.
"It was just an idea!"
"Yeah, a bad one." Ruby sighted.
"Uuhh, Guys." Gray poked Ruby's shoulder, as they turned around, Revealing Penny, who smiles and waves on them.
"Oh hello." She said.
"Wha-?! Penny where did you come from!?" Ruby said it out loud in surprise.
Meanwhile on the southern side of Vale.
Nats, Lucy, Happy and Erza were looking for her.
"Blake! Where are you!" Natsu called out, in a few moments, Happy went down from the air. "Happy, Did you found her?"
"No Natsu." The cat replies. "This town is sure big."
Then Natsu turned to the nearby trashbin and opened it, he thought that she would be hiding in there, but not, then he closed it.
"Hmmm..." Natsu rubbed his chin, thinking.
"Natsu? What are you thinking something?" Erza asked.
"I know!" an imaginary lightbulb appear above Natsu's head as he snipped his fingers. "Lets got to a restaurant to eat!"
"Idiot!" Lucy smacked his head. "We are looking for Blake! Not to eat!"
"Ehehe." Natsu stood up while he rubbed his bruise on top. "Sorry."
"Come on, Let's keep going." Erza sighted.
Meanwhile, Somewhere in Vale
Blake and Sun where seen walking down the alleyway.
"So, what's the plan now?" Sun placed his hands behind his head.
"I still don't believe the White Fang is behind these robberies." Blake wondered. "They've never needed that much Dust before."
"What if they did?" Sun went wide eyes as he lowers his arms and pacing in front of Blake as he continues his theory. "I mean... the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they would most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there! Right?"
"The only thing is, I've no idea where that would be." Blake guessed about his theory.
"Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a huge shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas."
"How huge?" She asked.
"Huge. Big Schnee Company freighter." Sun answered
"You're sure?"
On the otherside of Vale...
Yang comes out from the shop with Weiss and Gray, waving to the shopkeeper inside.
"Thanks anyways!" Then Yang sighs "This is hopeless."
The she turned at Weiss and Gray when she looks around nonchalantly. "You really don't care if we find her, do you?""
"Don't be stupid; of course I do. I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we find her." Weiss walks forward, calling over her shoulder "The innocent never run, Yang and you too stripper!"
"Oi, who you calling stripper eh?" Gray shot a glare to the Heiress. "That was merely an insult to me, but you're pretty annoying to boss us around."
"Oh yeah?" Weiss talked back in arrogance as she smirked, the she shot a glare at him. "You should unlearn that stupid habit of yours or else no one would ever like you."
"Oh yeah, you were too arrogant, Very." Gray talked back. "You we're bossing us around and do something, but you were doing nothing, Snow Witch!"
"What did you just called me?!" She yelled in frustration as her cheeks flushed red in embarrassment. "H-How dare y-you barbarian!"
"Banshee!"
"Stripper!"
"Lazy damsel in distress!"
Yang felt a sweat-drop on her forehead as they continue to argue each other, Yang sighed and walk up to them and breaks their argumentation against each other.
"Stop it!" Yang pushed them aside. "We're not going quarrel each other, We have to find Blake and we don't have time, I'm sure that were gonna figure this out."
"...Damn right, I feel a bit hot over here.." Gray sighted, However, Yang gasped in shock and surprise, plus a red blush covered her entire face, Revealing Gray doesn't wear any clothes, but still wears his underwear, As Yang covered her face and turned away from him, also Weiss's cheeks's blushed red in embarrassment and gritted her teeth, clenched her fists before she will shout.
"Gray! Wear your damn clothes on!" Weiss shouted in anger with a tic mark on her head. "This is no time of a Public Stripping of Yours!"
Meanwhile with Penny and Ruby.
"So, Blake is your friend?" Penny asked
"Yes Penny." Ruby sighted as they make their way down the sidewalk.
"But you're mad at her?"
"Yes. Well, I'm not. Weiss is."
"Is she friends with Blake?" Penny contiuesly asked.
"Well, that's kind of up in the air right now..."
"But why?" Penny is trying to contemplate this.
"Well, you see," Ruby sighs again. "Blake might not be who we though she was..."
"Is she a man?" Penny gasped.
"No! No, Penny. She's..." Ruby stops and sighs, looking at Penny as she talks now. "I don't know what she is, She didn't exactly talk to us before she decided to run off."
"I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things."
Ruby turns her gaze downward sadly as they continued walking. "Me too..."
Vale, Trading Docks, Night.
Amidst the chirping of crickets and darkness of night, Blake lays flat on her stomach on the rooftop overlooking the shipment of Schnee Dust containers.
"Did I miss anything?"
Blake looked up as Sun drops down to her right. "Not really. They've offloaded the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there."
"Cool." Sun holds out one of the green apples in his arms. "I stole you some food!"
Blake gives Sun a questioning look. "Do you always break the law without giving a second thought?"
"Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?" He defensively countering, Blake delivers an angry glare at him. "Okay, too soon!"
Just as he says this, the winds blows all around them, and they look up to see a Bullhead's searchlights flashing around for a landing spot, descending in the middle of the cargo containers and extending a ramp for a black hooded individual with a metallic fanged mask to come out of.
"Oh no..."
"Is that them?"
Blake stared at the bloody wolf on the back of the man's outfit. "Yes... It's them."
The White Fang soldier ordered to the other White Fang members coming from the aircraft, motioning with his rifle. "All right, grab the tow cables!"
"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?"
"No. I think deep down I knew. I just didn't want to be right." Blake closes her eyes in despair, only to open them suddenly when she hears a new voice.
"Hey! What's the holdup!?" The soldiers look up at the red-haired man, it was Roman, gesturing widely and coming down the ramp. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace?"
"This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with a Human. Especially not one like that." Suddenly, she stands up and unsheathes the sword from her Gambol Shroud before running off the edge of the roof.
"Hey, what are you doing?!" Sun warned
Blake falls to the ground in a crouch, then continues on to hide behind one of the containers, peeking around the corner to see Roman berate a White Fang member holding a coil of rope.
"No, you idiot! This isn't a leash!" As Roman looking around, Blake suddenly appears behind him with her blade at his throat. "What the- Oh, for f-"
As he rolls his eyes when he's cut off by Blake mid-swear.
"Nobody move!" Blake warned
The White Fang soldiers ready their guns and equip their swords in response.
"Whoa! Take it easy there, little lady." Roman said musely.
As the White Fang closes in on her, Blake uses her free hand to go for her bow and remove it, causing the ribbon to fall away as her Faunus ears are shown to the world.
"Brothers of the White Fang!" Blake Demanded. "Why are you aiding this scum?"
The White Fang members lower their weapons a little at this development, unsure of what to do, when Roman laughs.
"Oh, kid, didn't you get the memo?" Roman asked
"What are you talking about?"
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together!"
"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation." Blake gritted her teeth as she readied her sword.
Suddenly, the air is filled with more turbines blowing the wind wildly around the holdup.
"I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation..." Roman said.
Two more Bullheads are hovering above the heist, and as Blake watched in surprise, Roman smiles and manages to fire his cane at Blake's feet, resulting in a large explosion.
Penny and Ruby turn around upon hearing the noise, seeing the smoke rise from the docking bay just a few buildings away.
"Oh, no..." Ruby sighed.
Meanwhile on the otherside of the town, The memebers of Team NELG saw smoke coming up from the Docks.
"Happy, I think she's over there, Come on!" Natsu pointed his finger towards the smoke.
"Aye Sir!" Happy grabbed him from behind and flew towards where the souce of the smoke was.
Back to the Docks.
Blake, dazed but relatively unhurt on the ground, quickly rolls and runs out of the way of Roman's continued attacks, flaming missiles destroying cargo behind her as she retreats behind more containers.
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty..." Roman walked slowly as his taunt was in a sudden, interrupted when a banana peel lands on his head, causing him to look up and growl at the assailant.
Sun leaps from the container above Roman and drops down on the criminal's face feet-first, rolling up and readying himself to fight.
"Leave her alone!" Sun glared on him.
The Bullheads open to let more White Fang members descend on the ground, standing by Roman as he gets up and the group surrounding Sun.
"You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you, kid?"
With that said, the White Fang charge at the monkey Faunus, but he manages to dodge slashes and get some of the soldiers with his fists and kicks until he rolls out of the way, pulling out a collapsible red staff. He quickly uses this to beat down on each opponent that nears him, falling each one in a single flaming blow when he twirls, even creating a scorching shockwave to beat the last of them.
Blake peers around the corner of the container to watch Sun jump around and beat more White Fang soldiers, causing one to fly over Roman's head. The crime boss growls in annoyance and aims his cane at Sun, firing a shot that he defends himself from just when Blake leaps into the action.
"He's mine!"
Blake goes in close and becomes a blur of afterimages as she slashes both blades at Roman, who backs away and deflects each would-be blow with his cane at unbelievable speeds. Blake continues to dash, hop over, and slide around Roman to try and find a weak spot, but her enemy, while barely deflecting the attacks, lands a few hits on Blake until one final beating with his cane causes her to go down.
Just as Roman deals with one opponent, Sun appears right behind her and disconnects his staff in two spinning circles of flame-firing shotgun nunchucks that only slow down once to show the audience what they are before becoming twin arcs of offense again. Sun swings each gun at Roman while firing everything he as at him, but even with the rapid series of shots and flying bullets, Roman manages to defend himself against every bullet and hit until a millisecond-long pause allows Blake to get a slash in and knock him back.
On his back, Roman notices a container hanging by a crane right above the two warriors, and gets up to fire his cane at its supports. Blake leaps behind it, but Sun barely misses when he jumps forward, ending up right below the nozzle of Roman's cane. Just as he's about to fire, his and Sun's attention are drawn to a familiar voice.
"Oi!" Then Natsu came down with Happy as he burst a beam of fire through the ground as Roman went off guard.
"Get him!" Shouted on of the White Fang soldier.
Suddenly, a large group of White Fang Soldiers charged against Natsu with their swords, However, Natsu prepares his attacks.
"FIRE DRAGON'S" Natsu's both hands erupted in flames. "WING ATTACK!"
The Dragonslayer charged towards the White Fang soldiers, as they clashed through, Natsu's hit them like bowling pins.
"WWAAAAHH!" They all screamed after being scorched by his fire-attacks.
"Hey!" Then A girl called out.
Ruby appears on the rooftop overlooking them, Crescent Rose extended and ready for action.
"Well, hello, Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?" Roman said to Ruby in amusement.
Suddenly, Penny appeared behind Ruby "Ruby, are these people your friends?"
Penny, get back!" Ruby turned to her while her attention is diverted, Roman snarls and fires his cane at her, launching the young Huntress-in-training back from the explosion's force and sending her scythe flying away. "AAAAAH!"
"RUBY!" Natsu shouted.
Roman gives off a professional-level evil laugh at his attack on the young girl. Penny turns her head toward the criminal and gives her first glare, walking forward while Ruby tries to get back up.
Penny, wait! Stop!" Ruby raises her hand in a futile attempt to stop her.
"Don't worry, Ruby. I'm combat ready!"
"Hey, Isn't that the Girl..." Natsu pointed his finger towards Penny, dumbfounded.
Her backpack mechanically opens up, and from its dark depths comes a single sword that extends and multiples intoseveral blades hovering over Penny's back. Leaping from the rooftop with the weapons acting as wings, she sends three of her swords to knock two White Fang soldiers down before even landing on the ground, where she proceeds to fling the swords at one enemy, impale another to a wall, create a barrier of spinning steel against a running attack, leaping over a goon with her swords in tow, and finally making a wheel that she throws to knock multiple Faunus off their feet! Sun was observing the spectacle in amazement
"Whoa!" Then he runs off to safety.
"Cool!" Natsu cheered with a big smile on his face as he watched the scene, However, Sun dragged him from behind to safety.
Three Bullheads come from the skies and open fire on the battle, but Penny merely forms a shield and launches two of her swords into the wall behind her, which in turn pull their wielder back with their strings. When her swords swirl around her again, she commands them to open their points and build up a large glowing ball of green light. With a punching action, several bright lasers crack the pavement when they fire at the transports and slice each one in half, causing several of the White Fang members from inside, fell and letting Ruby watch as Bullheads fall in pieces as it flew through above her.
Stunned, she turns back to Penny as she aims her swords at the remaining Bullheads holding the crate of Dust and pulls back on their wires, tugging the aircraft with them.
"Whoa... How is she doing that?" Ruby watched in Awe.
Seeing the Bullhead's flight fall under Penny's control, Roman grimaces and turns to run towards the last transport.
Penny, after her large green pupils dilate for a second, pulls with all her might on the strings, and the aircraft crashes into a stack of crates, causing an explosion as a result.
Roman watching them in frustration. "These kids just keep getting weirder..." And with his observation made, he uses his cane to close the doors, and the jet lifts off, flying away from Defeat.
Minutes later...
Later, a handful of police cars are at the docks, where Ruby, Blake, Sun, Natsu, Happy, Penny are sitting on boxes in silence. That is, until Weiss, Erza, Grey, Lucy and Yang appear on the scene.
Ruby turned to Weiss, speaking quickly to explain the situation. "Look Weiss, it's not what you think, she explained the whole thing. See, she doesn't actually have a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kind of cute..." However, The heiress ignores her and squares off with Blake.
Blake calmly looking her down. "Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with the-"
"Stop! Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you?" she pauses. "Twelve hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided..."
Yang, Sun, Ruby and the Members of Team NELG look on, worried.
"I don't care."
"You don't care?" Blake said in Surprise.
"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?"
"No, I-I haven't been since I was younger-"
"Ah-bah-bah-bah-bah! I don't want to hear it." Weiss silenced her. "All I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up... you'll come to your teammates. And not some..." Then she looked over at Sun behind her as she catches herself. "Someone else."
Blake looks at Ruby and Yang grinning at her, Grey gives her a thumbs up as Natsu grinned to her, Erza nodded with a smile as Lucy and Happy smiled each other, Blake wipes a tear from her eye, nodding.
"Of course."
Weiss smiles and nods. The moment is serious for a second more until Ruby screamed
"Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!" Ruby waved her arms wildely.
As the nine gather with each other, Weiss points accusingly at Sun. "I'm still not quite sure about how I feel about you!" Sun laughs nervously.
"Hey, wait a minute..." Ruby looked around. "Where's Penny?"
From the darkened back seat of a limo, Penny watches the group of friends reuniting with each other.
"You should know better than to go running around in a strange city." Penny's driver said.
"I know, sir." Penny saddened as she lowers her head.
"Penny, your time will come..." He said.
Meanwhile, Ozpin is seen holding a scroll showing a "LIVE FEED" of Ruby and Natsu with Happy at the docks. He closes the video and opens up a communication with Qrow, whose team name and other information is left blank and his only message is: "QUEEN HAS PAWNS".
"Hmmm..."
Abandoned Storage area.
Roman walks into a large warehouse with a shadowy interior. He goes over to a table and places a case of mysterious contents of possible Dust, seeing as it's the same case from his first heist, sighing in tiredness.
"How very disappointing, Roman." Cinder came.
Roman turns around suddenly when he hears the voice and their noisy entrance. "Whoa! Hehe... I wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon..."
Cinder came along with the three figures before Roman, only her head, containing yellow eyes and flowing dark hair, is seen. "We were expecting... more from you."
Roman laughed a little before getting serious. "Hey! You were the ones who suggested working with those stupid mutts from the White Fang."
Cinder chuckled darkly. "And you will continue to do so." Then she summons a fireball in her hand and steps out of the darkness with her two companions, a purple-haired man and mint-haired, tanned woman, eyes glowing gold.
"We havebig plans for you, Roman. All we ask is... a little cooperation."
Chapter End, Season 1: Complete.
A/N: Alright Everyone, Thank you to all my fans that I've finally come this far, for the first time I've completed this only story in one and a half month, I guess, However, Don't Worry, I will be back if Volume 2 arrives for the next Season.
Coming up next: Fairy Tail in Remnant: Volume 2
