Sup everyone! What's good y'all?! It's your boi OGCarter back on the chapter attack! I have to apologize on how the pace of the chapters are slow as hell but I will tell that life can be a major distraction! Been job searching left and right to find little to no progress… and I got my PS4 and I have been playing Need For Speed: Payback and beaten it! And lastly, I chose to participate in a renovation project that will start probably on the 24th of this month but don't worry, once that's done or when I have sufficient time to type another chapter, chapters will be come out. And also, every Friday, I upload Beyblade videos on my YouTube channel, subscribe if you want. My YT is Nate The Blader. I will try to publish more chapters weekly. With that out of the way, let's get into this chapter. Enjoy!

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(-Music: Leisure Day [ Sen no Kiseki ]-)

We get an overview of the streets of Vale being decorated in time for the Vytal Festival. Red, yellow, and green streamers and balloons are proudly on display, and Team RWBY along with Team SSKT is strolling through it all with an awed Weiss Schnee in the front. A sign is being put up by the elderly Shopkeep that reads in bright red letters "WELCOME TO VALE!" for all the foreign newcomers from their respective kingdoms of Remnant.

Weiss raises her arms in amazement. "The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!"

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much, Weiss." Ruby says as she frowns a little. "It's kinda weirding me out..."

"How could you not smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances! Parades! A tournament! Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking!" The Schnee Heiress replies being more jubilant, despite her partner's discomfort.

Yang sighs and crosses her arms. "You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring."

"But she's happy; that's a major improvement!" Sonic jeered while snickering.

"Quiet, you!"

"Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the docks?" Knuckles inquired while his gaze was at the water. "The four of us planned to go to the tech shop that Tails found but we're sidetracked by you four."

"I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!" Weiss says with pride in her tone thus ignoring Knuckles statement.

"She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Blake states getting brief look of shock from Weiss.

"You can't prove that!"

"It's confirmed!" Sonic laughs.

"What the hell?" Shadow says not expecting this.

"What's the- oh my…" Tails couldn't say anything after looking to his right.

(-Music Ends-)

(-Music: No Past To Remember [ Sonic Heroes ]-)

The two teams looks at a shattered window down the street and a door full of yellow caution tape of the Vale Police Force before walking over to the detective in front, who is writing on his pad.

"Detective. What happened here?" Shadow asked keeping his gaze upon the ruined shop.

"Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle." The Detective explains as he walks over to his partner.

The flamboyant blonde sighed sadly hearing the news. "That's terrible."

"They left all the money again." Said another detective.

"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?"

The Second Detective shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know, an army?"

"You thinking the White Fang?"

The Second Detective removes his sunglasses. "Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough."

"Hmph! The White Fang." The Ice Queen says with disdain as she crosses her arms and pointing her nose in the air with her eyes closed. "What an awful bunch of degenerates!"

Blake arched a brow. "What's your problem?"

Weiss turns to her teammate. "My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane."

"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths." The black cat Faunus retorts crossing her arms with a serious look on her face. "They're a collection of misguided Faunus."

"There she goes again…" Knuckles shook his head at the two girls bickering. Then his attention went to Tails who picked up a small shard of glass. "What's up Tails?"

"Something is off on how this robbery was executed…" The kitsune Faunus muttered analyzing the broken piece of glass.

"I've noticed. Look at the road and then to the concrete." Shadow points to the triangular shaped footprints that was on the road.

"Hey ladies! Get a look at this!" Sonic's voice gotten Team RWBY's attention.

"What's up True Blue?" Her question was answered by Sonic's pointer finger pointed at the ground which made her violet eyes gaze upon the foot implants on the ground. "What the?!"

"Yang- a-are those footprints?" Yang's younger sister inquired seeing the footprints.

"For what they look like, they're surely not human or Faunus for that matter." The Ultimate Life Form says.

"What's going on?" Weiss asks trying to get over the fact that Blake was defending the Faunus but then her thoughts came to a screeching halt by seeing the inhuman/non-Faunus footprints. "Footprints?"

"They're inorganic… meaning, mechanical." Tails states and he held up a shard of glass that had a large sized hole in the middle. "And this shard of tempered glass is proof that the White Fang's involvement in this event is invalid."

"How can you prove that? Anyone with a gun could make that hole." The Schnee Heiress says looking at the kitsune Faunus with skepticism.

"Figured you would say that Weiss which I am going to explain my reasoning. You see this hole, I did some measurements based off of Ruby's bullets that she uses for Crescent Rose which is measured as 0.5 inches/12.7mm and it's weight is 50 grams and it has a FMJ or 'Full Metal Jacket' in Layman's terms. By my calculations, the bullet that caused this is a H&K MP5SD3 with 9mm parabellum bullets which is 29.69mm/1.169inches." The kitsune Faunus explains as a holographic display of a lead unjacketed bullet came from his tracker.

"I assume that this is the bullet used to damage the tempered glass Tails." Shadow spoke getting a nod from him.

"How did you find out about my Dust round's size?!" The silver-eyed huntress inquired in surprise.

"I'm quite observant Ruby but the point is that the person who has access to such machinery are the cause for this act." Tails says gesturing to the ruined Dust store.

(-Music Ends-)

(-Music: Go Go Naruto! [ Naruto ]-)

"Hey, stop that Faunus!" A voice cried getting their attention.

As the team overhears the cry for help and rush over to investigate, a tan-skinned boy with short spiky light-blonde hair and blue eyes He wears two red wrist bracers over black fingerless gloves and an open loose-collared white jacket with no shirt underneath, displaying his muscular physique. He also wears blue cargo pants tied up with a white belt. He wears white bandages on his legs and has a chain hanging from the belt loop on the right side of his pants. He sports black and yellow sneakers and wears a black cord around his neck with a round pendant bearing his monkey emblem. And he has a long prehensile monkey tail the same color as his hair. He is "Sun Wukong". He is seen running down the length of the boat and leaping onto the edge as the two sailors are about to apprehend him.

Sun looks back at his pursuers. "Thanks for the ride, guys! Haha!" He jumps off and hits the dock running.

"You no-good stowaway!" Shouted the second sailor.

Sun uses his tail to hang on a lamppost while he peels back a banana. "Hey! A no-good stowaway would've been caught! I'm a great stowaway!" Before he eats, one of the detectives down below throws a stone at him to get his attention.

"Hey! Get down from there this instant!" The Detective barked at the monkey Faunus.

Sun drops the banana peel on the detective's face, who growls in return. The monkey-like Faunus twirls up to crouch on the lamppost, laughs in amusement, and proceeds to leap off and run away from the detectives. As he runs past Team RWBY and Team SSKT, he winks at an astonished Blake in slow motion before time speeds up again and he continues to be chased by the officers.

"There goes the competition Weiss. Get moving." Shadow says looking at her with half lidded eyes.

"Quick! We have to observe him!" She says with her pointer finger upwards.

Weiss, Yang, and Ruby give chase. Blake stands still, lost in thought, then comes back to reality and follows her friends but then she turns to the four Faunus young men that were leaving in the opposite direction.

"Wait, where are you four going?" She inquired as she stops running.

"We're heading to the tech shop. Wish you four the best of luck on catching Monkey Boy and don't let Weiss get to you Blake. See ya." Sonic says to her as he winks at Blake and dashes off to join the others.

The black cat Faunus looks at Sonic's back for a moment before nodding and running to catch up to her friends.

(-Music Ends-)

It didn't take too long to find the shop that Tails wanted to go, it was called "Tech Heaven" as Team SSKT entered the store with a doorbell chime. A man who is in his 40s with pale skin, grey eyes, his hair was like a pompadour with a mid fade, wearing a red shirt with black sleeves, black pants, and black dress shoes. He was on his Scroll till the four Faunus entered getting his attention, clearly not expecting them.

(-Music: Soleanna Castle Town [ Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 ]-)

"O-Oh hello there! H-How can I help you?" The man asks hastily placing his Scroll in his pocket.

"Hardly have any business eh?" The blue hedgehog Faunus inquired placing his hands in his pockets.

"Well… I have a lot of people coming by almost everyday but due to the Vytel Festival, it's been slow. So far, besides one guy, you four are like the second set of customers I ever had today." He answers looking at Sonic. "My name is Dovahkiin. What's yours sir?"

"The name is Sonic, we're students from Beacon. Myself, Shadow, and Knuckles are here for Tails." He points to Tails with his thumb who was looking around muttering "USB Adapter". "He's looking for a USB Adapter or something like that."

"Really? Well you're in luck, I have some-"

"Found it!" Tails' voice interrupted Dovahkiin as he looks at the excited the young Faunus holding a black and yellow USB Adapter.

Dovahkiin chuckles. "You have found a rare one. That's a Zigbee CC2531 USB Dongle Protocol Analyzer PacketSniffer Adapter. That's the last of its kind before it was discontinued."

"Oh really? Awesome! How much you want for it?" Tails inquired getting his wallet.

"Usually 80 Lien but since you four kept me some company, I'll let you have for 10 Lien." The green haired man said with a smile on his face. He scanned the USB Adapter and handed it back to him.

Tails hands out a two Lien. One pink. One purple. He gives them to Dovahkiin and places the USB in his pocket. "There you go Dovahkiin. Hope you have a good day!"

"You too! Come again!" He says waving at the four Faunus as they left the store.

(-Music Ends-)

(-Music: The Base [ Sonic Adventure 2 ]-)

They went to vHOP for lunch, after being greeted by Laura and they sat at a booth looking over the menu to decide on what they're getting after ordering their drinks. Tails places his menu on the table.

"So, let's talk about what we learned from the scene back at the Dust shop…" Tails says as he looks at his friends.

"Yeah. So what we learned that the White Fang is not involved in the Dust robberies but machines. So… could it be HIM?" Knuckles inquired with narrowed eyes.

"Put a halt on the convo, waitress incoming." Sonic said noticing their waitress coming to their table with the drinks were ordered.

"Here you go boys. One mint shake, one Sprite, one Coke, and a bottle of water." Said the young woman who had brown skin, yellow eyes, black hair that is in an asymmetrical short bob with layers, wearing a dark blue shirt with black pants, and wear brown shoes. With her name tag on her shirt that said "Nahla".

"Thanks Nahla." Sonic thanked her with a grateful smile on his face.

"You're welcome. What will you four have?" She inquired getting her notepad and pen out.

"I'll have the appetizer sampler, but can you switch the onion rings for fries please?" Tails inquired with a smile on his face.

Knuckles sips his coke. "I'll have the sirloin tips and eggs."

"I'll have the Vacuo Cheese Steak Stacker." Shadow says drinking some of his water.

"I'll have what Tails is having, the sampler with fries will you please." Sonic says handing Nahla the menu.

"Will do, we'll have your food done soon." She says grabbing the four menus and heading to the kitchen.

"So the possibility of it can be Eggman? Plausible?" The echidna Faunus inquired to his three teammates.

"Hang on Knuckles; we need to weed out the possible candidates before we started pinning the culprit." Tails states looking at the window. He sips some of his shake. "We obviously can't pin Roman because he's more of the typical street thug or mobster…"

"Which leads to our second suspect. The doctor." The Ultimate Life Form added with his crimson eyes gazing at Tails.

"Okay okay, the culprit is Eggman but two things that interferes with that idea. How did he regain his robots? All of his technology is back on Mobius. And the last time we saw him, he was a drooling mess." The kitsune Faunus states. "Well… I can answer that second counter due to the amount of time that we were in this world, Eggman can regain his sanity but he'll have a hard time gathering resources to start up his robotic horde."

A pregnant silence filled their table for a few moments until Knuckles who was in deep thought opened his eyes. An unsettling feeling began to fill the air.

"Eggman wouldn't have that MUCH of a hard time gathering his resources." The echidna Faunus says solemnly. He frowned at the realization that he had.

"What's up Knux? What do you mean by that man?" Sonic inquired looking at his friend.

"Due to the residue of Chaos Energy that Snively shot at us, instead of losing all of the Chaos Energy in our bodies, we retained it. And it's possible to regain some of the items that we desire the most; remember, the Chaos Emeralds can turn thoughts into power, the energy itself has the same effect. The reason why we have our gloves, shoes, and weapons is from the Chaos Energy from within us that gave us this. So Eggman has already figured it out and using the Chaos Energy in him due to his exposure to the emeralds previous times to restore his robotic army." He explains getting surprised looks from Sonic and Tails, from Shadow who is contemplating this. "I can back this up because I sensed a spike of Chaos Energy from the North of this continent…"

"I agree with Knuckles… I did sense a surge of Chaos Energy from that direction… so it seems that the doctor is making his move. We'll have to be on guard… because we'll have to be more diligent." Shadow said seriously looking at the two who looked down at their refreshments.

"So it's official… Eggman is back." Sonic muttered. "What should we do about this then?"

"Keep this to ourselves. The last thing we need is to start a panic. We can't tell Team RWBY, JNPR, and Ozpin. They cannot know about his existence." Knuckles says before drinking his soda.

"I agree." Shadow added.

"I don't know… we should tell Yang and Ruby, we owe them that much." The blue hedgehog Faunus said while rubbing his chin. "But I do agree on not telling the others."

Tails nods in agreement. "Yeah. We should tell Yang and Ruby. They held our secret for awhile now, so we can trust them with the knowledge of Eggman."

"You forgot about Blake and Weiss. We just knew them for a few weeks now, of course if we tell them; Blake and Weiss will notice that they're hiding something… so avoid that, we have to exclude them." The echidna Faunus states crossing his arms, then he noticed Nahla coming with their food. "We'll discuss this later, right now, it's lunch time!"

Nahla sat two baskets of 3 chicken tenders, 3 mozzarella sticks, and fries to Sonic and Tails. "Appetizer sampler with fries. Of course coming along with marinara sauce and honey mustard." She placed a set of two small black cups containing the sauces next to the baskets.

"Thank you/Thanks!" The two said in unison.

Then Nahla handed a plate with large sirloin tips with grilled onions and mushrooms, two yolked eggs, two fluffy buttermilk pancakes, and golden hashbrowns to Knuckles with a cutting knife and fork along with steak sauce. "Sirloin tips for you sir."

"Thanks Nahla."

And lastly, she handed Shadow's Vacuo Cheese Steak Stacker which is a sandwich with grilled Philly steak and onions, then topped with melted white cheese on a perfectly grilled roll with some fries on the side to the table. "And your Vacuo Cheese Steak Stacker sir."

"Thanks."

She smiled brightly with her eyes closed. "You're welcome. Anything else?"

"Well can Knux and I get refills on our drinks?" Sonic grabs his and Knuckles' empty cups and hands them to her.

The ebony young woman takes the cups. "Sure thing! Enjoy your meal!"

After Nahla left, the four began eating their food. Sonic took a bite out of his cheese sticks to feel vibrating from his left pocket, he grabbed his Scroll to see that Ruby sent him a text. This made the blue hedgehog Faunus arch a brow.

[Rubes]: Where r u guys?

Sonic began texting his response and hit the 'Reply' button to send his response.

[True Blue]: vHOP having lunch. What's up?

He places his Scroll in his pocket and began eating his food. Then a minute later, the Blue Blur felt his Scroll vibrate again as he grabbed it back out to see her response which made him chuckle.

"What's so funny?" Knuckles inquired.

"Rubes is jealous is that we're eating vHOP without her. Ha!" Sonic said while typing his response.

"We gotta take Team RWBY to this place together sometime. They'll love it." Tails added with a smile dipping his third chicken tender in the honey mustard.

Sonic's smile turned into a frown as he looks at Ruby's latest response.

[Rubes]: Blake and Weiss are each others necks about the White Fang… Yang had to separate them b4 it got worse…

[True Blue]: Oh… let them cool off. Hopefully they'll get over this. Cya gals l8ter.

"It seems that Blake and Weiss were about to fight over Weiss's name calling…" Sonic says while shaking his head.

Nahla came back to their table handing Sonic his Sprite and Knuckles' Coke. "There you go. Enjoy your meals!"

"Thanks!" Sonic and Knuckles said in unison as she leaves.

"Weiss needs to learn to hold her tongue on anything that is Faunus related. There's not only humans in Beacon Faunus are in there too…" Tails said after swallowing his fry and drink some of his mint shake.

"She's an heiress to a powerful company that has little regard to what's going on and focusing on the wealth. Of course, her upbringing reflects on who is REALLY is as a person." Shadow says before wiping his mouth with a napkin and then drank the last of his water.

"But I think she can change. We're not enslaved to the DNA of our parents, so I think Weiss will understand on what she does and say will affect the people around her. Just give her some time guys." The kitsune Faunus smiles as the sun shines through the clouds.

"I wish I had that optimistic outlook that you both have." The Ultimate Life Form thought looking at the sky.

(-Music Ends-)

After finishing their food and drinks, the four of them paid for their own meals and left a tip for Nahla and decided to burn off the food they ate at the gym. Then after working out for 3 hours, it was night time, then the four Faunus made their way back to Beacon to get some rest and get ready for the next day. When they got to the dorms and turns on their hallway to go to their room, they saw Team RWBY's door quickly open to see Blake running past them.

(-Music: Sadness [ Sonic Adventure ]-)

"Blake, wait! Come back!" Ruby cried as she runs over to the door and calls to her down the hallway as Yang sits herself down and Weiss looks down.

"What happened?!" Tails inquired with a look of worry on his face.

Ruby looks at Weiss who was facing the window with a sad look on her face. "They tried talking it out but it grew into a heated debate until… she snapped and then she… left…"

"What should we do?" Sonic asks with a half lidded look on his face.

"Nothing, it's late. Let Blake gather her thoughts and she'll return. If not, we'll look for her." Shadow says walking down to his team's dorm room.

Tails looks down the hall at the direction where Blake went. "Blake… what's wrong?" He thought sadly as his ears drooped.

Yang places her hand on the kitsune Faunus' shoulder. "Don't worry about her lil man. She's a big girl. She can take care of herself."

"But I will look for her with you guys. She's like the sister besides you Yang that I never had… she has to learn that she has others who care for her despite whatever she is." He said with a look of firmness expressed on his face. "But that's for another day…"

Sonic nods as he yawns. "In the morning, we'll start looking for her in the morning. Goodnight y'all."

After saying their goodnights; they entered their dorm rooms and got some rest to prepare for their search for Blake. Later in the night, the kitsune Faunus who is in his sleepwear who looks at the ceiling and then he turns to the cloudy night sky that flashes of lightning in them which Tails narrow his eyes.

(-Music Ends-)

"A storm is brewing… I don't know what it is… but it's coming…" Tails thought as he closes his eyes to get some sleep.

(-Music: Roer [ Sen no Kiseki ]-)

The scene shifts to morning at Beacon as Sonic, Shadow, and Knuckles were getting dressed to start their search for Blake. As Knuckles came out of the bathroom, he noticed that their fourth member was absent.

"Um, where's Tails?" He inquired getting the attention of the two hedgehog Faunus who gazes at the neatly made bed.

Shadow takes out his Scroll to look at the time which said 10:23 am. "It seems he went early to start his search for Blake. Can you call him?"

"Nah, T2 can take care of himself." Sonic says with confidence placing his Scroll in his pocket. "Let's start our search."

Tails was riding his Extreme Gear which had a hull-shaped, but still sleek and thin, board-like design. The edges of his Extreme Gear are colored orange, with red accents on the front and rear, while the top surface of it is grey, with two circles and orange and red markings decorating it. He comes to a stop at the cafe as he yawns. He presses a button underneath which turns it into a small ball.

"I need a coffee…" He said as he yawns again walking through the doors. "Hm?" Tails looks up at the ceiling as his ears perked up.

On the upper level of the cafe, Blake is sipping a cup of tea and sighing. She looks up at Sun sitting across from her, who holds his drink with his tail as his hand props his head up. He takes a sip when Blake puts her cup down.

Blake sighs. "So, you want to know more about me..."

She looks at him intently as the screen fades to black.

(-Music Ends-)

[To be Continued]