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"Alone we can do little; together we can do so much."
-Hellen Keller
Fallen were running through the halls chasing a little boy. "Mom, help!" The boy yelled out, in hopes that his mother would come to his rescue. He rounded a corner only to get punched in the face. The boy clutched his bleeding nose, tears in his eyes. The Fallen laughed at the weak human in front of him and pulled out a knife. The boy saw this and backed away till he hit a wall, looking around he saw himself in a dead end and with no else to go he could only watch as the Fallen got closer and closer. "Mom, please make the monsters go away. I don't want to die." He whispered. The Fallen jumped at him and brought the knife down. "MOM!"
Marcus shot up from his bed sweating and breathing heavily. Looking around he saw that he was in his dorm along with his team who were still sleeping. "That wasn't a memory. That was a nightmare, haven't had one of those for a while." Ghost appeared in front of him. "That was a… scary dream. I tried waking you up but you would not respond." Marcus looked at his hands. "Ghost, that woman didn't rescue me this time. Is that how I died… by Fallen hands?"
"…It's rare for a Guardian to remember how they died, but I wouldn't be so sure that was the way you died since you looked way too young." Marcus nodded and laid back down, letting sleep claim him once again. Ghost kept looking at his Guardian, scanning him a bit. The reason he was doing this was because Void was seeping out of Marcus body and Ghost had to take control of his light to prevent the Void from spreading and cause damage. These memories and nightmares are going to be a danger to him and those around him if Ghost is isn't paying attention to his light. "Marcus, what happened to you before you became a Guardian?"
3 hours later…
It was a peaceful morning, birds we singing and a nice cool breeze blew inside MSKS dorm. That was until someone walked into the room and placed something heavy in the middle of the room. The person let an evil grin spread on her face.
HOOOOOOOOOOONK!
"Ahhhhh!" Sam fell off the bed while Marcus rolled out the bed and aimed Tlaloc, Shadow jumped on his bed and pulled out a knife. Looking around they saw Kate standing in front of the beds with a large and I mean large air horn. "Morning Team MSKS. Looks like you three had a good night sleep." Her grin widened a bit when she sensed the annoyed atmosphere around her team. "Where the hell did you get that thing!?" Sam yelled, getting up from the ground. "I asked Nora if she had something I could use to wake you three up." The Guardians sweat dropped. "Of course Nora gave that to her." They thought. Putting away Tlaloc Marcus grabbed his gear. "So, mind telling us why you woke us up in such a way?"
Kate placed her hands behind her. "It is come to my attention that we are the only team that hasn't had a team trip and that Team MSKS is unacceptable. Team CFVY, JNPR and… RWBY," The last was part she said in an annoyed tone much to the Guardians confusion. "They all have already done their team trips now it's our turn. Today we celebrate Team MSKS Day!" She fist pumped their air. "Uh, Kate we're over here." Kate was facing the wall. Her face reddened a bit. She coughed a bit before going back to her team. "Now, since its Team MSKS Day that means there won't be any bunny girl, no experiments and no spec ops missions, Shadow." Shadow stopped himself midway from jumping out the window. "Fine, so what do we do on this team trip?" He asked. Kate was about to answer but Sam beat her to it. "Teams go to Vale and have fun as a team, it's pretty simple really" Kate threw the air horn at him knocking back him on to the floor. "I'm leader, I explain." She reminded. She was about to start explain about MSKS Day but she was interrupted again, this time by Jaden. "They've plan to move out today."
"When?"
"They decided to move out right after the last class of today." Shadow looked at Marcus and nodded. "Kate, sorry but we'r-." Marcus stopped talking when he saw Kate pouting at him with a teary glare and her arms shaking by her sides. "Uh, Kate you alright?" Sam asked. "IT'S TEAM MSKS DAY! NO MISSIONS REMEMBER?!" She yelled out flailing her arms wildly. They were taken aback by their leader's outburst. Marcus deeply sighed. "Alright, let's go?"
"Huh?"
"We're going on the team trip right now but just up until team RWBY starts getting ready." With this Kate happily smiled and followed Marcus out the door. "What ever happened to her cold and mute attitude from the first 2 days of school?" Sam asked. Kate poked her head back in and glared at them. "You 2 out now, and don't make me repeat myself." Her tone held a promise of pain if they didn't listen making them shiver a bit. "And there it is." Shadow commented.
Team MSKS spent the day going from one store to another. Kate told them that they should buy some clothes since she could smell the sweat and blood in their gear. They were against it at first but one death glare from Kate made theme have a second thought about buying new clothes. They now entered a weapons store for Kate since she needed some more dust ammo. Marcus was buying some dust for his later experiments while Shadow was looking at some blueprints he could use for his project. "Alright, that's all I need. Class is about to end so we should start heading back." Kate said, gaining the attention from her team mates. Shadow hid a blueprint in his inventory, but it didn't go unnoticed though. "Shadow, put it back." Marcus said.
"I'm going to return it anyways just need to see if it could help me. Besides I always do this." Waved them off in a broadly way. Walking out they saw Sam standing in front of some guys with a girl a Faunas girl and guy behind them. "Looks like we're missing something huh?" Shadow commented. Kate was about to go and help him but Marcus placed a hand on her shoulder. "He's got this."
Sam glared at the group of guys in front of him, daring one of them to make a move. When he was inside the store he saw a Faunas girl and guy getting pushed around, the Faunas guy tried punching one of them in defense but missed and got kneed in the gut. He fell on to the floor and started getting kicked and punched by the goons. Sam couldn't just stand there and watch. The look in the girls face reminded him of Velvet when she was getting her ears pulled by Cardin. With that thought Sam made his way towards them and ripped the goons off the Faunas and punched a guy who was holding the girl. Now standing there, Sam waited for their move. "Hey, get out of here kid or you're gonna get the beating of a life time especially after the way you defended these rats." The goons grinned and laughed a bit. Sam didn't say a word but kept his focus on the humans in front of him. "Are deaf? Move now or we're going to make you." They closed in on him. "I highly doubt you'll be able to." Sam finally responded. "Oh, really? Alright kid let me ask you this before we beat the shit out of you? Why are you protecting these animals, huh?" The Faunas were also quite curious about this. Why would a human defend them? "Animals? I don't see any animals except the ones in front of me and ones behind me are people who just want to fit in and live in peace, but of course there has to be assholes like you who ruin it and think they're above others because they think they're better than others. When on the contrary they're just a sad piece of shit who'd failed in life and try to make the lives of others bad just so they can feel better about themselves." Sam smirked at the angered faces. "Judging by the looks on your faces I think I hit the nail on that one." The leader gritted his teeth. "Get him!"
Two of the goons ran up to him and tried to punch Sam. He duck under the first one's fist then caught the second before swinging him around and kicking the first goon in the head. One of them ran up and neck locked Sam, thinking they had him now the leader punched Sam multiple times in the face. In their point of view it looked like Sam was stunned but in the eyes of the other two Guardians they knew that man's punches didn't faze him one bit. Being shoulder charged, shot at, and exploded kind of causes some Guardians to forget the feeling of minion injures, for example being punch in the face.
Sam easily grabbed the guy who neck locked him and threw him forward, then punch the leader in the gut. The leader felt he couldn't breathe for a second before gaining control over his body again. As he was getting back up, Sam swiped the guy's legs knocking him of balance and grabbed him by the collar and head butted him once. The other goons got back up and tried helping their leader. Sam saw this and threw the leader towards them with get force that they crashed into a store. "Whoops, guess I threw him to hard." One of the goons snuck up behind him with a baseball bat, he hit Sam in the face with it, but to his shock the bat snapped in have. Sam slowly turned towards the attacker, a small trace of blood trickled down the side of his head. "You shouldn't have done that." Sam said making his way towards the goon. Unknown to him though the leader got up and ran to his car and started driving towards Sam. "Sam, look both ways before crossing the street." Shadow hinted. Looking to his side he saw a car going full speed towards him.
Sam's eyes widened and braced himself for impact. The car crashed into him but not the way the leader hopped for. Sam stood there grabbing the front sides of the car keeping it from proceeding forward. The leader pressed the accelerator increasing the speed of the car causing Sam to be pushed back. The Faunas couple was getting worried for Sam's safety, thinking that he was going to get hurt. Sam was calm though, true that he was losing his grip on the car for a bit but adjusting his grip on the car he picked the it up surprising the people around him, then slam it at its side. Sam ripped the roof off and grabbed the leader by the collar. "Sir, did you know how fast you were going?" The leader just stared at him scared to even to respond now. Sam smirked. "License and registration, please." The couple and other people around the area were amazed.
A few minutes later the cops came. Sam and the others who witnessed the events that happened explained to the cops that these guys were beating up two Faunas and Sam stepped in to help them. With everything cleared up the cops arrested the goons and took them to the station. Sam walked back to his team who were giving him thumbs up. Sam bowed at them. "Thank you, thank you." Marcus looked behind him. "Looks like you got company." Turning around they saw the Faunas couple walking towards them.
"We want to thank you for saving us back there." The girl faunas said. Sam smiled. "If you hadn't I don't know what they would've done to us."
"If you don't mind me asking… why did you help us? Most humans wouldn't have done what you did."
"You were in trouble right?" The couple nodded. "Well, there's your answer. I don't care if your Faunas, Human, Machine or whatever you are, it's my duty as a Gua- Hunter in training to help those in need." Kate smiled at Sam, proud that she has a team that will protect anyone no matter their race. "So, you don't think of us as a downgrade race?" The guy asked. "Why would I think that?" Sam paused for a second before answering. "I don't know why or how exactly how this… hate between races started but to be honest I don't see two races on this planet. I see only one. Just because you have animal traits doesn't make you any different from the rest. You breathe the same air, you bleed the same, you cry the same, and most of you want the same thing for the planet. Peace." The girl smiled, happy to know that not all humans were hateful racists. The guy was happy as well. "So, don't ever let someone make you think you're different. Cause in reality you are all so much alike. You all have a soul inside you and a reason to live."
"Wow, I'm impressed. I didn't think you were someone to say something like that?" Blue said. "Thank you, you don't know how muc-."
"Besides, the cute animal ears and tails are so adorable!" Sam interrupted. The couple were surprised by Sam's outburst while his team just face palmed. "I mean look at those doggy ears! So freaking cute! And the wagging doggy tail is too much." Sam hugged the Faunas couple and spun them around; their faces redden in embarrassment from the… compliments. "Oh, Faunas are the best thing I ever discovered." In a split second Sam was kick into a building, now standing where he was a second ago was Kate with an annoyed tick mark. "Sorry about my team mate's behavior. He gets… overly happy when he sees a Faunus."
The couple got back up. "It's quite alright; it's nice to see that there are some humans that see us more than a second race." The girl said with a smile. "Yea, even though his thoughts of Faunas being cute are quite…overwhelming."
"Thanks again for helping." The girl said.
"Anytime." Sam yelled out from inside the building. With that the couple walked off. Sam walked out the building dusting himself off. "So, where to next?"
"To Team RWBY's room class is about to end." Shadow informed. They gathered their things and headed back to Beacon.
Team RWBY was finishing up putting on their gear and weapons. "I thought that class would never end. " Blake said.
"Alright guys, let the investigation, begin!" Ruby cheered.
"I'm so glad we're taking this seriously." Weiss sarcastically said. "Hey we got a plan that's… moderately serious." Yang said.
"Your right, so everyone remember their roles?" Ruby asked.
"You and I will head to the CCT and search up the Schnee records for any dust robbery's or inconsistences." Weiss said.
"The White Fang have regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hope to find out what they're planning." Blake said her part. "I got an old friend in the shady side of town who pretty much knows everything that is going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard." Yang said her part.
"Great, we'll meet up by Yang and go over what we found, lest do this."
"Yea." A voice said. Looking towards the source of the voice they saw Sun hanging upside down from his tail. "Sun!" They all said backing away in surprise. "How did you get up there?" Yang asked.
"It's easy I do it all the time." Sun said. "You do what?!" Weiss angrily asked.
"I climb trees all the time." Weiss narrowed her eyes at him.
"I do hope you four aren't going to go and find trouble, right?" Another voice asked. They looked around the room but couldn't find who said it. Leaning by the door a figure started uncloaking revealing it to be Marcus in his Warlock gear when he first landed on the planet. "Cool." Ruby said pretty amazed by the cloaking. "Wait, how were you invisible and how long were you standing there?" Weiss asked.
"I was given this cloaking tech by one of my leaders back home when I had to infiltrate a… funeral. To your other question I was standing here for the past 7 minutes." Weiss glared at him her cheeks going red a bit. "Did you see us changing?!" The question made the other girl blush a bit as well. "No I didn't." He calmly said. "Now, are you four looking for trouble again?" He asked.
"We are going to investigate the situation, nothing else." Blake explained.
"If it involves the White Fang and Torchwick you're defiantly looking for trouble." Marcus countered. Ruby looked around. "If you here where's the rest of your team?"
"Shadow is outside." Marcus pointed out. Neptune who was outside at the edge of the wall tapped Sun getting his attention then pointing upwards. Looking up he saw Shadow standing horizontal from the wall. "…Hey there sparky… umm how are you doing that?" Sun asked.
"Don't call me that." Shadow said ignoring the second question. "Go inside, now." Shadow ordered. Sun jumped inside followed by Neptune. Shadow stood at the edge of the window. "Sam you can come out now." Marcus said. Sam walked out the bathroom with a bandage on the side of his head. "Hey guys, what's up?"
"What were you doing in our bathroom?!" Weiss shouted. Sam looked at her for a second then pointed to the bandage. "I had to put this on."
"He got hit in the side of the head with a bat."
"AHHHH!" Ruby jumped into Weiss's arms from the sudden voice behind her. Weiss wasn't prepared to catch her, making both of them fall. "What is with you four and creeping up on people?" Yang asked, now looking a Kate. "Not our fault that you all are bad at sensing the presences of others." Kate retorted.
"Okay, well seeing that you guys are here plus Sun and Neptune, we have no choice but let you guys join us. More the better" Ruby said. The group stood around the room. "Alright Sun you go with Blake, Neptune you go with Yang."
"Actually Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all she is your sister" Weiss suggested. "Why did you say that you would go with her then?" Marcus interjected. "Well I just thought maybe Neptune could come with me." Ruby gave a short laugh. "Nah." She grabbed Weiss and dragged her out. "Well looks like she forgot to give you guys your orders." Blake said to the Team MSKS. "It's better that she didn't and that she left." Marcus said the last part with more serious in his voice. He walked forward and dropped a disk on the floor which projected an image of a building. "Me, Sam and Shadow will be going to this building."
"What's so special of an old apartment building?" Sun asked. Shadow decided to walk in to the room and explain. "White Fang have been moving Schnee dust crates into that building, along with some other stuff from Atlas military," Shadow's gaze landed on Blake. "It also has blood trails coming in and out of the building from different exits of the building." Sun noticed that Shadow was saying that last part to Blake. "Wait why aren't I going as well?" Kate asked.
"Unlike the other…tasks Ruby gave to the others, ours is might be more deadly. We're in a building that we have no information about what's inside and the blood trails doesn't make it any better," Marcus explained. "Remember we can't die but you can." Marcus whispered the last part to her. Kate felt her anger rise. She hated when people tried to keep her 'safe' from danger. She wasn't some defenseless child!
"Okay so you are going in the murder house great, now can we go now?" Yang said. They all started walking out the room but Marcus grabbed Yang's arm. "I know who your 'old friend' is, so I want to make this clear. Do not cause any trouble for him. Just say blue bird 6230. He'll know what it means." He walked out leaving Yang confused and surprised. "Wait, how do you know him?"
"You not the only one who spends their time in the shady side of town, Yang" Marcus lean towards Kate's ear. "Can you go with her? I don't trust that she'll listen." Kate looked at him with a monotone expression. "Why?"
"Because Yang holds a sense of fear towards you, so she'll listen to you."
"And why can't I come with you?"
"Because if what Shadow said was true about the place then it's a bigger risk having someone who can't come back to life in there." Marcus explained. Kate sighed, and agreed. "Alright, then as leader of team MSKS I appoint…Sam to be co leader for the time being." What she said almost made Marcus trip on himself and Shadow to fall out the window. Kate smirked when she sensed the annoyed emotions coming from the two Guardians and the happy one from Sam.
Marcus rubbed his temples. He knew she was doing this to get back at him from making her babysit Yang. "Take my sparrow." Kate nodded and walked out the room with Yang and Neptune.
Marcus held his hand out summoning Ghost out. "I want you to stay with her. You have full control of my sparrow, got it?" Ghost gave a slight nod and followed Kate.
Several hours later…
The Guardians were sitting by a roof top waiting for night to full set. Sam was watching a presentation of the new Atlesian bots and Paladins the military made on his scroll. Marcus was meditating and Shadow was on the lookout for any unwanted activity near the building. "Hey Marcus do you have any information about the new Knight-200?"
"No."
"What about the Paladins?" Marcus sighed, knowing that he wasn't going to able to continue is meditation till he answered one of Sam's questions. "I haven't able to fully hack into Remnant's military system since their main headquarters is in Atlas and getting there is kind of difficult considering our school schedule and Ozpin always having an eye on us. So that means no, I don't have much information about any of the new models or tech this planet's military has made." There was a brief silence in the air with only the wind and cars from the distance making noise. Sam disturbed the silence with a question. "Do you think we would've had a better chance at winning the war with these Atlesian bots helping us?" Marcus and Shadow stopped what they were doing and faced Sam who was wearing a sad smile. They knew what war he meant and they didn't really have an answer to his question.
Marcus looked at the night sky for moment. "We can't change what happened in the past, but we can push forward for a better future." With that Marcus decided to get some shut eye. Shadow resumed his lookout and Sam just sat there. "I hope this world will never have the same faith that our world had." He whispered.
Yang, Neptune, and Kate finally arrived at Yang's friend's place. "Come on it's over here." Kate hopped off the sparrow and followed her snapping her fingers in front of Neptune to get him out of his daze from the bike ride. "Where exactly is this place?" He asked. They walked up the main entrance of the building. Kate heard two men say something about her being here and ran inside. "Why do your friends sound scared?" She asked.
"Beats me, maybe its cause I won that fighting contest they had here." Yang lied. Kate raised a brow. Fighting contest? She pulled onto Neptune's sleeve gaining his attention. "What kind of building is it?"
"Looks like a club." He answered. They reached the front entrance which was closed. Yang pulled back her fist and punched the door open. "Guess whose back?" She announced. In seconds several guns were pointed at her. "So defined friend for me?" Neptune asked hiding behind Yang. Yang narrowed her eyes at the group of men in front of her. Kate sensed the tension in the air and decided to intervene. "Yang, remember what Marcus told you."
Yang looked back at her and then back in front. She sighed and said the code Marcus told her to say. "Hey Junior," She called out. "blue bird 6230." Junior looked at her for second before calling off his men. Yang, Kate and Neptune walked up to him. "I didn't think Marcus would use up his favor for you to use." Junior said. Yang sat on one of the chairs followed by Neptune who sat next to her and Kate to had to do a little hop to sit on the tall stool. Kate heard giggles to her right. They sounded nearly identical to each other…twins probably? "So, what can I do for you?" Junior asked.
"We wanna if you've heard anything about Torchwick and the White Fang's operations." Yang asked.
"Nope, haven't heard anything about them for a while. They're more secretive about their missions now this time around than before. He answered.
"Have you seen Torchwick or heard anything about him?"
"No."
"Are you sure? Because a few months ago my friend said she encountered your men during a Dust shop robbery with Torchwick leading them and from the description she told us about the guys who were with him, I think Yang here could tell me if they match the description." Kate said her face looking straight forward.
"Yup, they do fit the description." Yang confirmed. Junior looked back and forth between the two girls. "I gotta stopping owing people." He mumbled. "Alight, look Torchwick came here one day offered some cash in exchange for my men's services. I haven't seen him since then."
"Are you sure you're not lying? Because I don't mind redecorating this place, I got time." Yang threatened. "So you better tell us the truth, now."
"I already told you the truth. He came here offered some cash for my men's services and left and never came back." Yang narrowed her eyes at him. She was about to say something but a pull from her arm stopped her. Looking to her left Kate was facing her. "He's not lying. Let's go, we've already wasted enough time here." She said walking towards the door. Yang looked back Junior then fallowed her out. As they walked out the building they stopped by the Yang's bike. "How do you know he wasn't lying?" Yang asked.
"When all you hear are voices when around people, you tend to learn the different tones of people's voices. Like when someone's using a happy tone, sad tone, or an angry one. No matter if it's a man, women or child all tones or moods of voices are similar. Just have to listen carefully. Another thing is because his heart rate wasn't speeding or his breathing and lack of scent of sweat from nervousness. It's one the advantages of being blind. I can tell when someone's trying to tell a lie or how they feel." Kate explained. Yang looked pretty impressed same for Neptune.
"So, I'm guessing we finished our part early. What do we do now?" Neptune asked. Kate sat on Yang's bike. "We wait till everyone arrives."
Shadow looked up at the night sky. He knew it was time to move out. "Hey, it's time." Shadow woke Marcus and Sam up from their little snooze. Stretching their limbs they grabbed their guns and headed to the building. "We might as well go through the front." Shadow suggested. Sam opened the door and walked inside. "Blue, light please." Blue appeared next to his head and flashed ahead. Marcus walked in as well with Shadow covering their rear. They made their way up the building checking every room for anything about the White Fang. Sam opened a room and looked inside. He looked around the room in disgust. "Uh, guys whatever was in here really like eating meat." Marcus and Shadow walked in. Blood and guts were splattered across the floor, wall and ceiling. "What do you think did this?" Sam asked. Shadow crouched down touched the blood inspecting it. "Whatever happened here it wasn't long ago, maybe a 3 days." Marcus gave one last look around before walking out and heading up the building.
As they walked up the stairs there was more signs of blood on the walls and floor. "This might be random, but I rather be here than in one of the Hives tunnels." Sam commented. The other two Guardians paid no attention to him. "Like seriously whatever did this, makes me want to see how they would fair against a few Thralls." They continued to ignore him and headed up the stairs checking down halls.
"Do you think the White Fang managed to train a Grimm?"
"Shut up Sam." Shadow whispered.
"Wouldn't that be cool though, having a pet Grimm?" Shadow finally had enough and grabbed Sam and aimed Ace at his head. "If you don't shut your mouth for one minute I swear when we get out of here you will feel the full force of my Golden Gun ripping through you." He threatened and let go of him. Sam raised his hands in defense and walked forward. "Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood from this creepy old hou- ." A snap was heard under Sam. Sam raised his foot to see what he stepped on. It was a human skull or what's left of it. "Well this doesn't look good."
Shadow looked back at Marcus who gave a nod and continued forward. They reached a part of the building where it was still under construction. Marcus saw some crates in the far corner and walked forward. Unknown to the Guardians something carefully crawled on the ceiling while another was slowly crouching around. Blue shined some light for Marcus. "That's the Schnee symbol and Atlas cargo too." Sam picked a crate and opened it only to see it was empty. Marcus did the same and found the same results.
Shadow walked away from the two to see if there were any other crates left. As he was walking around he stopped when he stepped on a blood puddle. Crouching down Shadow examined the blood. "It belongs to a Fauna." Jaden informed scanning the blood. So this thing also kills Faunas? Then why would the White Fang keep coming here to leave cargo here if there something killing them here. Unless whatever did this might be something they control or are allied to. "Shadow, this blood… it's very recent." Shadow immediately stood back up and aimed Nirwen around. "Ghost any movement on the radar." He whispered. "No nothing at all. It must be moving really slow to not be detected."
Sam walked towards Shadow. "Hey Shadow what are you doing all the way back her-." A creak was heard. "SAM!" Shadow tried to warn him but it was too late something tackled Sam through the wall and out the building making them crashing on the concrete floor.
"Sam!" Marcus and Shadow ran to help him. "Shadow behind you!" Rolling to the right he dodge some red tentacle thing. Marcus managed to roll out of the way but not as fast as the sharp tentacle grazed his side. Shadow got up and unloaded his gun at thing with Marcus doing the same. He saw someone jump out of the way and slide away. Shadow chased after him with Marcus following behind.
A tentacle ripped through a wall and tried stabbing Shadow but was blocked by his gun rendering it useless now. Marcus aimed and fired Tlaloc at the tentacle, bullets ripping through the tentacle before it reeled back.
Sam pushed himself up and looked at his attacker who was getting up as well. Thinking quickly he ran up to him and kicked it in the face before grabbing him and slamming him to wall. Sam proceeded punching the guy's face or helmet. After a few more hit the attacker caught Sam's fist, to Sam's surprise the attacker was moving his fist to the side. He tried applying more strength but the attacker barely budged.
With Sam's attention on overpowering the attacker took this opportunity to head butt him and kick him away. Running up to Sam he grabbed him by the helmet and slammed him to the floor, then grabbing his leg and spun him around making him hit pipes, metal bars and others stuff around them. "Ow. Why does. This have to. Happen to. Me!" Finally letting go Sam was launching into a dumb dumpster.
Marcus and Shadow kept dodging and firing their weapons at the tentacles that keep coming out of the walls and ceiling. Shadow got kicked in the chest sending him backwards. Marcus twisted his body to the side as a tentacle stabbed by him. Rolling out the way he fired his gun at the attacker making them duck and jump around from the ceiling to the wall. Shadow blinked behind Marcus and used Bolt Caster to block a tentacle that was sneaking behind Marcus.
Pulling out Ace he fire a few shot at the attacker who used his tentacles to block the bullets. Shadow rushed forward and delivered a few slashes which the attack blocked and dodged. Marcus came up to the side kick the guy in the face then grabbed his leg and swung him back to Shadow who brought his sword down and cut the guy's arm off. "MOTHER FUCKER! Do you know how much that hurts and how annoying it is to grow another one back!?" The attacker shouted. Suddenly two tentacles shot upwards from the floor forcing Marcus and Shadow to flip backwards. The attacker sent rapid attacks, Shadow blocking and slashing threw a few but some grazed him. Marcus had a more difficultly dodging the tentacles not being as fast as a Hunter some of them cutting through his armor. A tentacle shot straight at him. Marcus grabbed the tentacle by the front to stop it from stabbing but underestimated the strength behind it and stabbed him on his right shoulder. Gritting his teeth in pain he tried pushing it away.
Shadow saw Marcus struggle and blinked to him and used Bolt Caster to cut through the tentacle. Rolling forward he spun around aimed and fired Ace at the attacker then rushed at him.
Sam pushed himself out of the trash. "Great now I gotta get my gear washed now, happy?" He pulled out Party Crasher and fried. The Attacker kept walking forward ignoring the shotgun shells being hitting him. "The hell is this guy!?" Sam kept firing till his gun was empty. The attacker grabbed a trash can and threw it at him. Sam moved out of the way and looked back at the guy only to see a fist headed straight at him "He's fast!" With no time to dodge Sam got punched and was sent crashing into a wall. Quickly getting back up he moved his head to the side barely dodging another fist. Sam punched him in the gut with great force making the guy reel back. Sam rushed at him and delivered a few punches and spun around and summoned a sol hammer and hitting the guy in the face with it sending him back.
The attacker skidded on its back and laid there motionless. Sam walked up to him and aimed Crasher at its head. As he was about to pull the trigger something grabbed his head and flung him to the side. "The hell was that!?"
"That would be his tail." Blue informed. Sam finally noticed a robot reptilian tail as his attacker got back up. Now looking closely he saw some parts of the guy had some machine parts. "Cyborg? How the hell did I not notice?"
"Because you an *cough* idiot."
"Hey!"
Seeing that Sam was distracted the attacker aimed his left fist at him as some small missiles popped out and fired at him. Sam was blown back and crashed into another dumpster. "Crap that hurt." Getting up he saw that the guy grabbed another dumpster and with great force he threw it at Sam. "WAIT, WAIT WAI-!" The dumpster slammed into him.
Pushing the dumpster off Sam tried getting up back up but fell forward. "Ow." Sam groaned. The Attacker walked up to him and grabbed him by the leg and dragged him to the street. Looking around the guy saw a Dust shop. Turing back to Sam he grabbed his leg with both hands and began spinning him around. "Ahhh not again! I'm gonna hurl!" Spinning him around faster he let go of Sam's leg sending him crashing into the Dust shop.
The attacker aimed his fist and fired missiles and fired others from his shoulders into the Shop causing an expulsion of fire, ice and other dusts within the shop.
Marcus heard the explosion and looked back at the flaming shop. "Sam!" Marcus sensed danger and blinked out of the way as some tentacles stabbed at the spot he was last standing. He aimed and fired his gun at the attacker. Shadow blinked above the attacker and brought his sword down but was blocked by another tentacle. Landing on his feet Shadow rushed at him again delivering a series of slashes. Marcus joined in on the assault. The attacker was having trouble blocking and dodging bullets, fists, and slashes. Finally having enough the attacker spun around along with tentacles knocking Shadow and Marcus back.
The attacker was about to charge at them but an incoming call stopped him. Pressing a button on the ear piece he was wearing he answered the call. "Hello."
"Hey there Edgar, how's the party going? Playing nice I hope."
"Pretty busy right now Torch head, so mind telling me why you called."
"Oh just need some help catching some annoying kids."
Edgar knew what Torchwick meant about kids. "So, the same pests picking on you again?" Edgar laughed a bit much to Torchwick's annoyance. "Just get here!" Torchwick said before hanging up. Edgar grinned. "You hear that big guy? Torchwick needs our help…again. Meet you over there." He shouted then turned his attention back at the two Guardians who were aiming their guns at him. "Well it's been real fun playing with you two but," His grin widened. "Duty calls." Four tentacles were sent down and upwards breaking through all the supports of the top floor making it collapse on top of them.
Shadow pushed himself out of the debris. He saw the attacker jump out the window and ran away followed by the other attacker. Looking back Shadow saw Marcus stuck in a pile of wood and bricks. "Marcus you alright!?"
"Yea, just go after them I'll catch up." Shadow nodded and jumped out the building rolling forward when he landed and started running after the them. At the same time he was chasing them he started receiving a call from Blake on an open channel. "Everyone, if you can hear me we need back up!"
"Heeeelp!"
"Two big robots! Torchwick is in one of them and the other is someone else, I don't know!" Sun said.
"Jaden, where are they!?" Shadow saw the two attackers made a sharp turn to the left. He slid on the ground making a curve to left then pushed himself back up and continued running after them. "Well, it's most likely the same place these two we're chasing are going." Jaden said.
"Guys, two hostiles closing in on your position, they're Torchwick's back up!"
After a bit more of chasing, Shadow and the two attackers ended up on a highway. Looking up ahead he saw the two Paladins that were chasing after Blake and Sun. He saw Yang, Neptune and Kate trying to catch up. "Kate, Neptune, behind you now!" Neptune turned around on his seat and saw the two incoming attackers coming towards them. "Shoot them, now!" Shadow yelled. Neptune and Kate began fire their rounds at the two attackers. Edgar dodged the bullets and used the passing cars as cover, while the other cyborg Faunas brushed of the bullets and kept running forward.
Shadow chased after Edgar sliding over cars and blinking past them. Edgar saw Shadow closing in on him, so he decided to make this game of 'tag' more fun. Pulling out a pistol he began shooting the tires of cars making them swirl around and lose control. Shadow saw and moved out of the way of the cars, jumping over them, and blinking one place to another. Yang maneuvered her motorcycle out of the way of the spinning cars; Ghost did the same controlling the sparrow for Kate as she kept on firing at the other attacker behind them.
Edgar saw up ahead a truck that was carrying cargo of Dust. An idea popped in his head. "Hey, you like fireworks?" He yelled behind him, gaining Shadow's attention. Running next to the truck he fired his pistol rounds into the front tires. The truck began swirling around. Yang and Ghost were lucky enough to move their vehicles past the swirling truck. The second attacker ran up to the truck, pulling back his fist and punched through the truck causing a reaction with the Dust, resulting an explosion of different types of Dust. The explosion blew up some of the cars on the highway off the road and others to explode. The Edgar let out a manically laugh, he loved seeing destruction.
The attacker ran out of the explosion with small cuts and scratches. Shadow gritted his teeth in anger and blinked over the destroyed truck and proceeded to blink from one car to another, catching up with Edgar. "All those people." Neptune said, shocked at the explosion and the cars of people being blown off the road. "Hey no time to get all sad right now, we've got company!" Kate warned. She began firing her twin Deagles, Neptune did the same. "What is this guy!?" Neptune yelled out, after seeing the attacker kept on catching up with them despite the many dust rounds they fired at him.
Shadow finally saw Edgar standing on top of a truck. Blinking above him he dropped kicked him and rolled forward pulling out Bolt Caster and rushed at him. Slashing downwards and spinning around kicking him in the head. Edgar called out his kagune and stabbed at Shadow. Shadow blinked behind Edgar and shot him behind the knee with Ace then shade stepped backwards avoiding the incoming kagune tentacles. He aimed and fired Ace twice more but Edgar placed his remaining arm in front of his face stopping the bullets from hitting his face. They rushed at each other and continued trading slashes and stabs with Edgar receiving more damage due to Shadow speed of his attacks and blinking all around him.
Kate and Neptune weren't having much luck against the cyborg Faunas. He caught up to them and was running between them and brushed off the dust rounds hitting him. Yang saw the guy next to him. With one hand she fired her Gauntlet, to their surprise the Faunas tripped and slid forward then quickly got back up and continued running. Yang smirked. "So you aren't a tank after all." With Yang's help they fired their dust rounds at the Faunas.
Shadow managed to slip up close to Edgar and upper cutted him and spun around dodging a kagune tentacle and stabbed Edgar in the ribs. He kicked him off his feet and kneed him in the gut keeping him in place. Edgar coughed up blood and flashed a wicked smile at Shadow. "Who do you work for!? Because the White Fang aren't the kind of people to contract someone like you, especially after what you did to those humans and faunas." Edgar giggled. "Hey I was hungry. What did you want me to do, starve to death? But hey if it makes you feel better I was very gentle with them." Shadow was not amused one bit and sent arc through the knife. Edgar's eyes widened and his wicked smile widened.
"Alright, alright, I'll answer your question, but first you have to answer mines," Shadow glared at him behind his helmet. "When are you going to tell your new friends and your kitty cat that you're not completely human but something else, like when are you going to tell them about mister almighty in there." Edgar pointed at Shadow's chest.
Shadow's eyes widened the air around him felt heavy. He raised Bolt Caster and stabbed Edgar's shoulder. "HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT!?" Shadow shouted. Edgar just wickedly smiled at him and laughed. "Yes! Get angry, show me the real you!"
"Shadow don't let him get to you!" Jaden said but it came to deaf ears.
The Cyborg Faunas caught a glimpse of Edgar making a sign with his hand. Nodding he increased his speed. "Uh, guys he's getting faster." Neptune warned.
"Need a hand?" They saw some yellow clones of Sun jump at the Faunas. The first one was punched in the face destroying the clone and the second was grabbed by the neck and then by middle of its body and ripped in half. "Yea, some kind of help that was." Neptune said.
"Oh shut up." Sun said through the scroll. The Faunas continued running forward with amazing speed. Yang narrowed her eyes ready to move her motorcycle out of the way if he were to do anything to them. He saw the Faunas pass by the truck Shadow and the other guy was on. Immediately an idea came to her at what the Faunas was going to do. "Shadow watch out!" She shouted.
Shadow raised his knife ready to end the man under him, but then he heard Yang's warning. Looking back he saw the Cyborg Faunas stop in front of the truck making it crash into him. With the speed the truck was going and the sudden stop in the front of it launched Shadow forward into the air.
Looking around Shadow quickly thought of a landing strategy but with the flying cars caused by the Paladins flinging them back and the ones still on the road made it a bit harder for Shadow. He looked at the second Paladin and shot a grappling hook at it. Now connected to the Paladin Shadow wasn't prepared for force of the pull and crashed onto some cars then dragged onto the street.
He tried getting back up but couldn't. He saw a falling car coming towards him. Without thinking Shadow jumped up and brought out Bolt Caster and cut through the car. Shadow somehow landed on a car door, now using it as a surfboard he maneuvered the door frame out of the way of the way of the falling cars. With one hand occupied with holding the line attracted to Paladin Shadow used his other hand and pulled out Hex Caster and emptied the clip at the Paladin's back.
Edgar and the Cyborg Faunas were catching up to him with Yang, Neptune and Kate close behind. As Shadow was shooting the Paladin a ship flew above them for sec and out of the ship came Marcus who fired JLB at the Paladin's back making it lose it balance a bit. Marcus blinked onto its back quickly pulling out Invective and proceeded shooting the inside of the Paladin's back.
Marcus reloaded his gun and fried again aiming at the important parts of the Paladin. The Faunas inside used the controls and tried reaching behind and grab Marcus. Kate aimed her Deagels at the Paladins hand and fired; with the help of the explosive rounds given to her by Shadow she stopped the Paladin from reaching and further to Marcus's.
Shadow looked to his right and saw Edgar aiming a pistol at him. Ducking under the bullets Shadow put away Hex and pulled Bolt Caster out again. Using his sword Shadow blocked some of the bullets and tried slashing at him. He felt a sharp pain in his lower back, turning around he saw the Cyborg looking Faunas stabbed him with a blade coming out of his wrist. The Faunas tried stabbing him again but was blocked by his sword. Now Shadow moved his attention from left and right dodging and blocking the attacks of the two attackers.
"Ghost, speed up. I can hear Shadow in trouble," Kate said. Ghost complied and increased the speed of the sparrow. "Yang, Neptune get the other guy!" Yang sped forward to the Faunas until she was right next to it. Neptune changed his gun in to its spear mode when he saw the fauna's tail whipping at them. He blocked two swings and managed to get a few strikes to land. The Faunas aimed its arm to the ground between him and Yang and fired a missile. The sudden explosion nearly blew Neptune off the road. "Hey watch where you fire that thing!" Yang yelled at the mechanical Faunas.
Now behind Edgar Kate jumped onto the front of the sparrow and kicked his head. Calling out his kagune he defended himself from Kate's attacks. Kate blocked some of the kagunes and countered by firing her Deagel at him. Edgar was getting annoyed by these kids. He went for the killing blow but Kate curved her body out of the way and then grabbed one of the kagune with both hands and ripped it in half. "Fucking bitch!" He yelled out. The Faunas saw his companion in trouble; while dealing with the three human he used his tail to hit Kate at the right side of her head knocking her off the sparrow. Ghost activated the sparrow side boost and boosted to the right catching Kate before see landed on the road.
Edgar grinned and looked forward; he saw Marcus still on the Paladin's back shooting it. Aiming his pistol he fired at Marcus some of the bullets meeting its mark. Shadow couldn't help Marcus since the guy to his right was not only attacking Kate but him as well, forcing him on the defense. Marcus turned around and fired Invective at Edgar who moved out of the way.
Neptune still was still trying to land a good hit on the faunas but each time he would swing or stab it the faunas would block his attacks with its wrist or tail like it was nothing. "Come on! Just hit him already!" Yang yelled.
"It's not as easy as it looks, plus I'm trying not to fall off." Neptune yelled back.
Yang was going to yell back but stopped when she saw the Paladin's hand reaching towards Marcus. "Marcus behind you!" Yang tried warning but it was too late. The Paladin grabbed Marcus and brought him to the side and slammed his body into a bus. "MARCUS!" Yang yelled out. Shadow gritted his teeth and threw a sol covered knife at Edgar catching him on fire, Shadow then turned his attention to the Paladin and began firing at its arm in hopes that it would break through the Paladin's armor and rip through it.
Marcus was dragged through the bus, pieces of metal from the bus stabbing through Marcus making him cough up blood inside his helmet. The Faunas inside the Paladin wasn't done yet. Lifting Marcus up he slammed him down on top of some cars. Shadow and Kate focused their fire at the Paladin's arm that was holding Marcus. Yang sped up. "Neptune forget about this guy help Marcus!"
"And let him attack us!" He yelled while ducking under the tail that was swung at him. "I'll take care of it! Now fire!" She yelled. She drove her bike closer to the faunas and fired her gauntlets at him while trying not to crash her motorcycle. Neptune changed his spear back into its gun mode and fired at the Paladin.
Marcus felt his eyes go heavy from the amount of pain and blood loss he was feeling. The Paladin raised him up again and aimed to slam him onto the street. "Ah, this is going to hurt a lot." He managed to speak out.
"Heads up guys back up is here." A voice said through the comms. Marcus recognized the voice. "Sam?"
Incoming!" Marcus looked to his right up ahead and saw Sam coming full speed on his sparrow then jump off and ran at the Paladin at great speed. "Sam wait!" Marcus shouted.
"Sam hold up, stop-. "Shadow shouted as well. Sam ran up to the Paladin's side and tackled it crashing into some cars and then off the highway bringing Marcus and Shadow down with him since they were still attached to the Paladin. "God damn it Sam!" Shadow shouted. Kate jumped off the sparrow dived at them firing her Deagles at the falling Paladin while Sam delivered strong blows to the front of the Paladin.
Shadow cut the wire attached to the Paladin setting himself free then blinked away. Marcus managed to free himself and blinked away as well. The Paladin crashed, Sam jumped off skidding backwards. The Paladin got back up and fired some pulse blasts at him. Pulling out Truth he rolled to the right and fired the rocket blowing the bottom right of the arm off. Kate slid to the left and fried her Deagles the explosive rounds staggered the Paladin a bit.
Shadow jumped above it and fired Ace at it and also threw a trip mind grenade at it feet. The grenade detonated and messed up with the Paladin's visual controls. Seeing an opportunity Sam jumped up and tried stabbing the Paladin with Raze-Lighter, but the pilot instinctively swung the Paladin's arms around and knocked Sam back, he ended up colliding with Shadow. "Damn it Sam!"
"Sorry!"
"Real dumb move." Blue said.
"Oh shut up." Sam answered back.
Marcus threw a sticky grenade at the Paladin's back damaging it even further. The Paladin fired a couple at missiles at him. He rolled out of the way and blinked away. "Watch out!" Ghost warned. When he turned around he saw an incoming missile. "Heat seeking," He quickly pulled out Doctrine and emptied the whole clip at the missile to detonate it.
The missile exploded but right in front of him sending back in a highway pillar, he fell face forward and quickly pushed himself up, ignoring the pain of… pretty much everything.
Bullets were fired at him but Kate landed next to him and touched his shoulder. The next thing shocked him when the bullets went right through him. Not the ripping through him but like passing through him like he wasn't even there. Kate smirked when she sensed his shocked aura.
The Paladin was about to fire another pulse blast from the other arm but Sam shoulder charged it and began firing it with Party Crasher and Shadow blinked from side to another firing Hex from different angles.
"That thing is really built like tank." Marcus said. Kate was thinking, she pretty much knows how it looks like with the help of her echolocation. It still had an arm and two legs that much she knows, but there's something wrong with it, by the vibrations and sounds bouncing back she can determine that the Paladin is moving around quite a lot, like its…half blind. "I know I'm not able to see, but something is wrong with it," Marcus gave her a confused look. "Look at it, moving around to face where Sam and Shadow are trying to shoot its weapons when they're in it sight of view, so correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think its firing it's weapons with the Paladin's tracking system. Instead I think the pilot is using-,"
"His eyes," Marcus finished the sentence. He looked at Kate with a slight smirk. "Alright boss, what's our game plan?" He asked.
"Do you have something you can cut through its leg?" Marcus reached behind him and summoned Dark Drinker. "I'm guessing Shadow also has something like that as well." Marcus hummed in conformation.
"So I'm doing to fatal attack with him?" Shadow asked through the comms. "Yep," Kate answered. Shadow was punched away by the Paladin and Marcus blinked away out of view.
"Sam we need to hurt it as much as we can. Do have anything that could help." Sam grinned under his helmet. "We titans are called tanks for two reasons. One we can take a hit like a tank and the other," He lifted his arms to his side and summoned Thunderlord in his right and Abbadon to his left. "And we bring the hurt like a tank." With that said Sam emptied everything at the Paladin, Kate aimed her Deagels and fired the explosive rounds at it.
The Paladin was being pushed back and bits of its armor were being ripped to shreds. A minor static explosion ignited from the Paladin's side. It was now or never. "Marcus, Shadow now!" Kate yelled.
Shadow jumped above it and with one arm he cut through the left arm of the Paladin with Blot Caster and Marcus blinked below it and cut through its right leg with Dark Drinker, then blinked away.
The Paladin fell forwards, and then tried getting back up. Kate ran up to it, the Faunas inside the Paladin saw and fired its last remaining missiles from the Paladin's shoulder at her. But like the bullets the missiles just went through her, Kate jumped up and delivered a strong kick to the cockpit knocking it back a few yards. The severely damaged Paladin tried getting back up again, but this time Sam ran up and punched through the cockpit and ripped the front hatch revealing the White Fang member controlling it. Shadow landed on top of the destroyed Paladin, Kate walked up to him and Marcus blinked behind Sam.
"Oh buddy, you have no idea how much trouble your in." Sam said, grabbing him and head butting the Faunas knocking him out cold. Marcus sighed deeply. "Glad that's over."
He heard some something crash to his right. Holding his bleeding side he made his way to the noise. When he reached to the source of the sound it was Team RWBY. He saw the remains of the Paladin that Torchwick was piloting. He let a small smirk flash. "Looks like they did a better job than us." Marcus then noticed a new person in front of Torchwick. It was a girl short girl with pink and brown hair. Slightly pale pink skin. She wore a white jacket and what it seemed to have pink interior, brown pants, white and black boots; under the jacket she wore a brown corset and a multitude of neckless.
The girl looked at him for second then smiled and winked at him much to Marcus confusion. Before he could think any further the girl was punched by Yang and shattered into pieces of glass with the same thing happing to Torchwick. Looking up he saw them flying away in a Bullhead.
"Looks like he got away...yet again." Marcus said.
"Yea, thanks for stating the obvio-." Weiss stopped talking when she saw Marcus's conditions. Ruby ran up to him and looked at him worriedly. "Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh," Ruby shouted. "You're bleeding from…everywhere!"
Looking at himself leaking blood from several places, he saw a piece of metal sticking into him that he didn't even notice. Grabbing a hold of it he pulled the piece out of him. Weiss and Blake had a look of concern, Ruby was freaking out and Yang had a worried look. "I'm fine, really." He reassured. Shadow limped his way towards them holding his left arm which was dislocated. Sam and Kate made their way towards them as well.
"Shadow," Blake walked up to him and checked his wounds. "You're hurt."
Shadow called off his helmet revealing a cut above his left eye, a small stream of blood sliding down. Blake ripped a piece of her jacket and cleaned some of the blood from Shadow's face. "I'm fine, this is nothing." Blake narrowed her eyes, not believing him one bit. "After I saw you crashing into some cars and then dragged on the floor, I don't think you're far from alright. Same goes for you Marcus."
Marcus sighed and was about to retort but a sudden feeling of dizziness hit him hard, then lights out. He fell backwards and Yang caught him in time. "Marcus!" Ghost appeared by her. "It's alright, just blood loss. Nothing too serve…well except the broken bones and internal bleeding, other than that he's all good." Ghost said while scanning him. Ruby kneeled next to him and wrapped one of his arms around her neck; Yang did the same with the other arm. They lifted him up and made their way out.
Weiss noticed Sam carrying someone on his shoulder. "Who's that?" She asked. Sam looked at her and smiled. "Oh, he's the guy who was piloting the second Paladin." He answered.
"Is he awake?"
"Nope, he's having a date with the sleep mistress right now." He joked, then turning his attention to Kate. "Hey umm… I'm not sure if I was seeing things back there, but did those bullets and missiles go through you?" He asked.
"…Yes, it's my semblance. I can go through anything, living or non-living. I don't like using it though, so I try to avoid from using it."
"Why is that?" This time it was Blake who asked. "Cause it makes me feel like I'm running away from my problems or feel weak. That's why I've been training a lot, so I don't have to rely on it when I'm in a pitch and take on the situation head on." Blake understood that feeling. It was familiar to her semblance, leaving a clone behind so it can take the hit instead of her.
They made their way to a street with Sun and Neptune waiting for them. After a small gathering the group made their way back to Beacon. Team RWBY flopped down onto their beds. "What a day." Yang said. Weiss hummed in agreement. Ruby laid on her bed still worried for Marcus's health. "Yang, do you think Marcus will be ok?" Before she could answer Weiss beat her to it. "Ruby, they're undead warriors of a another dimension that fight off aliens pretty much every day. He'll be fine. Besides I doubt he's going to let his condition stop him from giving you extra classwork." The last part made her smile and laugh a bit.
"Yea, I doubt he will."
Oh my god finally DONE with this chapter. Again sorry if my fight scenes aren't as good as other writers but I try. Anyways, The Guardians finally meet the two mystery… henchmen. So I'm pretty sure some of you guys know from where Edgar is after reading this chapter, but can you guess the other guy… the Cyborg reptilian Faunas. Well see you guys next time and Merry Christmas.