I know new chapter so soon! I have been pretty busy but I was struck by inspiration and I decided to write as long as it lasted. After all who knows how long it will last.

Chapter 10: Rumble at the Dockyards part 2

'Where could he be!?' I mentally exclaimed as I looked around Vale. It had been a while since Dom and Lupo disappeared and there was no trace of Dom. I just hope Nea is luckier than me. I had looked inside restaurants and stores and still no clue. I mean the guy is a walking tower and his green hair was hard to miss. But no matter who I asked no one had seen him.

'Where have I not looked?' I thought as I continue my stroll around Vale. As I walked I started to think, if we really should get involved in this mess. Right or not, we are kicking a hornets nest and maybe we aren't really ready for this. I was interrupted by a call, I pulled out my scroll and saw it was Nea.

"Please tell me you have better news than me" I said.

"I found Lupo" she said. "And judging by how you answered I guess you haven't found Dominic."

"The guy is a walking tower!" I said exasperated. "I've asked everywhere and no one has seen him! What is he!? A damn ninja!?"

"Calm down" I heard another voice say, it was Lupo. "Right now we need to meet up. I have some important news."

"Okay where do you want to meet up?" I asked.

"Do you know where Sinna's Pizzeria is?" Nea asked.

"Yeah I've heard of the place" I said. "I'll be there in 10 mins tops" I said ending the call. 'Well there will be some good news for a change.' I thought to myself as I walked towards the pizzeria.

At the pizzeria

I walked inside the pizzeria only to find it was empty, with the exception of a few tables. I looked around and saw Nea and Lupo were sitting in a corner. Secluded from curious ears. I walked towards them and sat down.

"First of all how did you find him Nea?" I asked.

"Actually he found me" she said.

"Yes I had just talked with my contact and I saw her walking around town shouting my name" Lupo said nonchalantly.

"And here I was thinking you had some trick" I said letting out a chuckle.

"Lupo just tell him what you found out" she said a little annoyed.

"My sources tell me that the White Fang will strike tonight at the dockyards. A huge cargo of dust will arrive at Vale" he said.

"So I guess that only leaves us time to get our weapons and wait for them?" I asked.

"That is correct" he said.

"Still I am worried about Dom, he seems to have just vanished" I said stretching.

"Don't worry, I am expecting he might appear at the dockyards" he said confusing me a lot.

"Why's that?" Nea asked probably as confused as me.

"Because even if I gave him a hard time he's still our friend. And from what I've learned this past month or so is that he'll be there to help us. It might take a little more than we expect but he'll be here" Lupo explained. That does seem like a reasonable deduction, I just hope he's right. Tonight many things would change thanks to our intervention. First thing is we become targets. Second is we might get in trouble with the authorities. The best analogy I could come up with for what we were about to do was "seeing a huge hornets nest and kicking the damn thing."

At the dockyard

"Well are we all sure of this?" I asked as I inspected my weapons one last time.

"I was the one of the idea, so yes" Lupo said nonchalantly.

"I got you both" Nea said sounding pretty ready. We waited on a nearby rooftop for about an hour with not much happening. There was not much talk either, tensions were high, uncomfortably high. No one dared to disturb the silence. That was until we heard a rather familiar voice. We looked over the ledge to see Blake surrounded by White Fang members as she help someone I had the unfortunate luck of knowing, Roman Torchwick.

"Should we jump in?" Nea asked whispering.

"We should wait a bit more" Lupo answered. "It would be unwise to jump at this moment."

"Nobody move!" Blake screamed.

"Whoa! Take it easy there little lady" Roman said calmly like if nothing happened.

"Brothers of the White Fang, why are you aiding this scum?" she asked to her fellow White Fang "brothers".

"Oh kid, didn't you get the memo?" he said laughing.

"What are you talking about?" she said not understanding anything.

"The White Fang and I are going on a joined business venture together." he said. 'This is not good.' I thought.

"Tell me what it is, or I'll put an end to your little operation." Blake said putting her blade to his throat.

"I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation." he said as he pointed his cane to the ground and shot. Sending Blake flying backwards. Without a warning Lupo jumped off the roof and engaged several White Fang members. Almost on queue Nea and I both jumped off too.

"Nea! Take the high ground, we will need ranged support!" Lupo ordered. Nea Nodded and jumped on top of a few containers and started shooting arrows. I was surrounded by at least 5 members of the White Fang. They all jumped on me at the same time. Sadly for them I used my semblance and instead of hitting me the all crashed with each other. My semblance was rather unique as my father said. I had the ability of turning untouchable for a brief amount of time. I am in that time enveloped in a black mist. I am totally able to hurt my opponents, yet they are unable to hit me. When the effect was done they were all unconscious on the ground. I saw more were coming my way but an arrow whistled right by me hitting the ground in front of them exploding and sending them flying.

"Thanks Nea!" I yelled as I waved.

"You got it!" She said waving back. I turned towards Lupo and saw he was despatching them pretty fast. He was fighting pretty meticulously, always letting them attack first and countering with his Scythes.

I ran towards another small group of White Fang members and attacked. They tried to stop me. They slashed at me I just jumped over them. I grabbed one and slammed his face against a crate. One of them took out a pistol and aimed at me. I rolled out-of-the-way and took cover. I used my grapple hook to get on top of the crates. They didn't know I was there so I jumped on top of the guy with the gun and used my speed to make him fall down. Once on the ground I kicked him in the face knocking him out cold. I felt something swing at me from behind. I blocked it just in time.

I saw the guy trying to overpower me. I gave him a small kick in his leg and using his that to my favor I took my knee to his face knocking him down. Guy after guy they started falling. I wondered how many were around here. I mean they can't be infinite, there must be an end to this waves.

I looked upwards to one of the roof and saw Ruby standing on the roof with her teammates and I girl I had never seen.

"Oh, hello Red! Isn't it passed your bed time?" the guy asked Ruby as he pointed his cane towards her and shot. I lost sight of her in the black smoke.

"You will pay for that!" I screamed angrily. I charged at him but before I could get close something kicked me hard in the stomach.

"Sorry kid can't let you do that" a man said. His armor black with red lights were his eyes should be and a red monster drawn over his chest.

"Move out the way!" I yelled as I swinged my swords forward. He took out his Katana which oddly was covered in some kind of blue hue.

"Look kid you are messing with something that's out of your reach" he said as he pushed upwards getting me off-balance. He grabbed me by my arm and threw me against a wooden box breaking it completely. "I'm in a good mood so I won't kill you" he said as he kicked me in the stomach. "That said... I need to teach you some manners!" Out of nowhere an arrow struck him on his faceplate. I saw Nea on top of a container shooting multiple arrows at the man who took out a pistol and started shooting in her direction. Without wasting a second I tackled him to the ground and kicked him in the gut. He just pulled me by my jacket and slammed me against the ground.

"You damn brats!" he said as he slammed me against the ground this time my head hit the concrete first as it gave a loud crack sound. He was pushed off-balance again but this time Lupo took the charge kicking him back.

"I believe you are Roman's Lackey" Lupo said menacingly with his scythes in hand.

"His lackey?" The man asked laughing. "I don't work for him, my employer on the other hand wants him alive. So I'll do whatever I need to get my paycheck!" Lupo dashed forward scythes clashing with his katana. The man went for a low kick but Lupo say it coming and jumped over it and kicked him square on the jaw. Lupo took again the offensive, this time jumping over the man and striking his back. He turned fast, and barely dodged a strike that was directed at his skull. Using that opening he punched Lupo on the jaw and gut. Lupo jumped backwards to get some distance between him and the man. They stared at each other, measly meters away from each other. I tried standing up but he giving me a good beating.

The man did something that surprised me. He holstered his weapon and let out a laugh. "Come here little doggie!" The taunt must have worked as Lupo launched himself forward, with clear intent of crippling. But in an amazing feat of reaction, I saw the man's katana being launched forward and he cut through Lupo's scythes in one clean move. Leaving him barely enough time to catch him and lift him in the air and slamming him against a container ripping it open. He then grabbed him by the neck and slammed him two more times against it.

"Look I wanted to teach you some manners as previously stated. But I believe that is all the time I had to play around" he said as he walked towards a dropship that had just arrived. "Roman let's go! Cops will be here any minute now." I saw Roman nod as they both boarded the ship.

"Well until next time red!" Roman said mockingly as the ship disappeared into the night. I put all my strength into standing up and I did but I was barely holding together.

"Oh my god Lupo!" I heard Nea screamed. I slowly walked towards where she was. There I saw it, Lupo was barely conscious. Scrapes all around his body, he was also filled with bruises and a large cut on his arm.

"I'm okay Nea" he said letting out a small smile. "I've had worse."

"Are you kidding me!?" She yelled as a tear appeared on her face.

"Nea, he's right, it might look bad but he'll pull through no problem" I said putting my hand on her shoulder.

"Right now we need to pull him out of here, but the metal around him is too mangled. And we need something strong to rip open whats left of it.

"I think I can help" I heard a familiar voice said. There he was, Dominic, our lost teammate.

"Good time you showed up" Nea said with venom in her words.

"I... I was wrong." He said as he walked towards the container and pulled Lupo out carefully.

"Better late than never" Lupo said. I looked at Nea, and I saw anger in her eyes. She seemed like she was about to blow. And after all we had been though I rather have them fight later when we all have rested. I saw team RWBY and two people who I had never seen before run towards us.

"Are you guys okay!?" Yang asked.

"As good as we can be considering the circumstances" Lupo said as Dominic layed him down on the floor. I was about to talk but I felt a sharp pain on my head. So intense I let out a small grunt of discomfort.

"Jack you okay?" Lupo asked. I touched the top of my head only to feel it wet, awfully wet. I looked at my hand and saw it was covered in blood. I felt a sharper pain and felt as the world spinned around and I fell backwards I was enveloped by the darkness.

Yay chapter finish. And with this we conclude volume 1, finally. Now with volume 4 growing ever so close I'll try to pick up the pace. UltimateMetroMan out!