So, the raid at the docks; with Blake not running away, how will this change? Will they get caught by the police? Maybe... All I can say is a new chapter, more fun for RWBY, Please enjoy, Reviews are always accepted, and as always, thanksfor the favorites and follows.
Edit: I realised that I hadn't selected all of the chapter when pasting from google docs, so theres a little more than last time. Also sorry this took so long, was on a ski trip to Norway with my folks, stopping at Amsterdam on the way, which has HUGE airport, we calculated about 30km2 or about 11.6 square miles fot the area it takes up.
More notes at the bottom.
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A few hours Blake's confession, the monkey Faunus met up with team RWBY in the courtyard. Seems he was searching for Blake. After introducing himself as Sun, it turned out that he was willing to help them on their little White Fang escapade. He even let them know that they would probably strike the shipment of Dust that came on the boat he was on. So a few days later, they were at the docks, lying on top of some conTainers. Ruby had her armor on and an SRS99 Anti-Material sniper rifle in hand, using the scope to eye out the operations of the White fang.
"There's about a dozen White Fang members," she told the others, "4 are moving crates from the conTainers to the Bullhead, and another 8 on guard. Though they're being led by a human, I believe it's Roman Torchwick, the wanted criminal."
"Wait, a human?" Blake asked, "The White Fang would never work with a human."
"Well, a human with a ginger fringe, white three piece suit, black bowler hat, and a cane is down there, directing the operation." was the Spartans reply, as Weiss looked through the scope of her DMR.
"She's right." was all the heiress said.
Blake looked down at the small dots of the figures below. "This isn't right, they would never work with a human, much less one like him." And without a second thought, she drew one of her blades, and ran off towards the thieves.
"Blake, wait!" Ruby called out, but she didn't listen.
Ruby cursed under her breath, "C'mon, gotta back her up." She said as she got up, and switched her sniper rifle for an M6G Magnum.
Down with the White Fang, Blake hid behind a conTainer near Torchwick, before racing up behind him and holding her blade to his throat.
"What the-?" the criminal jumped in surprise, "Oh for F-" but he was cut off as Blake called out
"Nobody Move!" as the White Fang members readied their weapons.
"Woah, Woah, take it easy there little lady…" Torchwick soothed as the White Fang members closed in.
Blake took off her ribbon and showed off her ears for all to see, well except Torchwick since he couldn't turn round, unless he wanted a slit throat. "Brothers of the White fang!" She began, addressing all of the grunts, "Why are you aiding this scum?" they began to lower their weapons.
But Torchwick chuckled, "Okay, didn't you get the memo?"
"What are you talking about?" Blake demanded, pressing her blade against his throat tighter. Meanwhile, Ruby and the rest of the team were sneaking up to the crates behind the group.
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture." The dapper criminal smugly replied, as Ruby activated the active camo ability, and began to sneak up on Torchwick, just in case he has a trick up his sleeve.
"Tell me what it is, or I'll put an end to your little operation." Blake taunted, pulling the blade tighter.
"I wouldn't call it a little operation," he quipped, as 2 Bullheads appeared, jets blasting the ground around them, distracting Blake.
At that moment, an explosion erupted at the feet of both of them. Blake managed to dodge out of the way as Torchwick tried to escape. He lifted up his cane, only for it to be batted out of his grasp and he was pushed against a container by seemingly nothing.
Ruby deactivated her camo as she raised her battle rifle to Torchwick head, "Stay where you are!" She threatened.
He chuckled as the grunts surrounded her. "I don't care what armor you're wearing miss cyborg, but you're outnumbered." he mused.
And that was when the rest of the team appeared, each taking a grunt by surprise and disarming them. More grunts piled out of the Bullheads, surrounding them as the previous grunts took up their weapons. Seeing the situation unfold on her motion tracker, Ruby quickly yelled- "Everybody jump!" as she exchanged her battle rifle for the gravity hammer and struck the ground.
Everyone in the team of vigilantes knew what would happen, well, except Blake, but she could react in time, and knew her leader well enough to follow. This was because, as Blake charged on ahead, Ruby devised a quick plan to lure them into a false sense of security, and let everyone know that she would use the gravity hammer.
Those unfortunate enough to not hear this conversation were thrown into the air by the strike, only alive because of their aura which was most likely shattered now anyways.
As they got back up, they were met with advances of the group, and, having taken a force of up to roughly 15 metric tons, nobody wanted to risk a fight. It was then another two Bullheads came around to face them, mounted with machine guns. They began firing at the students only to be split in half by an green energy beam.
Both groups looked up at one of the nearby buildings and saw Penny, with 10 levitating swords around her, as she jumped down. The White Fang members that had survived the crash got up, only to be rendered unconscious as the blades flew past them, chipping at their aura through several strikes.
Ruby almost was too entranced by this to notice Torchwick getting away. "Oh, no you don't!" She called out, and in a burst of rose petals caught up to him and put him in a fireman's carry.
"Put me down you oversized brat!" he cursed, trying to wriggle free. Ruby threw him at a shipping conTainer, making him collapse to the floor.
As the remaining Bullheads started to take off in a vain attempt to escape, Ruby jumped up 10 feet into one of the cargo bays. She then pulled the pilot out of his seat and landed the craft while Penny stuck her swords in the other and simply walked back, dragging the airship on seemingly invisible thread. She made a tugging motion as the pilot jumped, forcing the Bullhead into the ground and causing its whirl into destruction. The pilot was somehow fine, as he was just collapsed into unconsciousness, evident by the groaning after the flames died down.
Ruby walked up to Torchwick, who had now recovered from her throw, and was starting to see reason as it were. "Now, now, how about we settle this like disciplined people? We can split the Dust, or do you want money? I can give you plenty of Lien!" he stammered as his face paled. The Spartan just stood over the cowering figure as he thrust his hands out. Over hear sirens could be heard of the emergency services checking on the explosions, so she just rammed the but of the hammer she was brandishing into his head, knocking him out before going to the others.
"We should probably go, don't want to get caught playing hero without a huntsman license." The others nodded before she turned to Penny specifically. The person in question looked up at the giant suit of armor before it dematerialised and Ruby was looking at her with a stern expression on her face.
"I appreciate the help Penny, but… what are you doing here?" she asked, as the small girl in front of her looked up with a small smile.
"I heard the explosion and came to see what was going on. When I saw you and your friends in trouble, I knew I had to help." She stated simply.
Ruby pinched her nose and sighed, trying to think of something to say, but couldn't, so she just gestured to the rest of her group.
"Come on, let's go." and they went and left Penny to find her way home.
Back at their dormitory, having said goodbye to Sun and watching him run off back to wherever he was staying, they had only just closed the door before Yang let out a triumphant woop, fist pumping the sky. "Aw man, taking down a crime lord like Torchwick? Amazing!" Blake sat on her bed smiling slightly while Weiss had let out a sigh of relief as she smiled as well, Ruby leaned against the wall, arms crossed and a smug grin on her face.
"Yup, good stuff isn't it?" She chuckled to her sister.
"Can I try that Gravity Hammer you had? It looks amazing!" the brawler enthusiastically asked the Spartan.
"If you want. It is pretty heavy though, even by my standards."
She materialised it in her grasp and held it out for Yang to take up. She put both hands around it and got ready to take the weight. As she nodded, Ruby took her hands away, and the head plummeted, dropping onto the floor like it was made of lead.
Caught of guard by the weight of the hammer, Yang adjusted her grip, before heaving, making a sTained grunting sound as she slowly lifted the head above her own. It was rather amusing to watch really, her face turning redder and redder, but she eventually made it, and let the pommel fall to the floor, as she gasped for breath.
"How can you swing this thing?" she managed between breaths, as Ruby took the Brute weapon back from her.
"It's a lot of effort I'll give you that." She said as it was sent back to the pocket dimension. "But the armor, along with the boosters on the head of the hammer help with the swing."
She then turned to their Faunus, who while she had smiled when they came in, seemed to be lost in thought.
"You okay, Blake?" she asked, as the rest turned to face her.
"Hmm? Yeah, I'm fine." She murmured having her attention brought back to the others, "It's just, why would the White Fang, an organisation who despises humans go on a business venture to steal dust with humans?" she had her bow back on, though now that they knew she was a Faunus, they could all tell that it had dropped at this.
"Hey, don't stress yourself about it." Weiss said, trying to cheer her up. "We stopped them, there's no point in stressing on something that won't happen right?"
Blake looked up to the Heiress who was giving a caring smile. She had come so far since the first day, when she despised anything that wasn't her or her
belongings.
"I guess so… It's just, who's to say it won't happen again?"
"Well, you said yourself, The White Fang despise Humans." Ruby reasoned, "Torchwick probably had something they desperately wanted, and since he's now behind bars, they've lost their advantage, so they will probably distrust deals with humans even more now." Blake nodded as she thought through it herself.
"Anyway…" Yang said, changing subject, "The Winter Break is right around the corner, I say this is a good time to reunite with Dad, don't you think sis?"
"Yeah!" Ruby perked up at the thought, "It will be nice to see him after all this time. I can just about remember him, seeing you jogged some more memories, where does he live?"
"Patch." Came the reply the Brawler gave her.
"Um…" Blake started, bushing slightly as she caught the other two's attention, "Do you mind if I come with you? It would be pretty lonely here otherwise, and Menagerie is a bit far for just the Winter break."
"Sure!" Yang cheered. "The more the merrier!" She then turned to face Weiss. "You want to come too?"
"Ah no, I'd love to, but Father has insisted that I go back to Atlas; when you're the Heiress to a multi-billion Lien company, you don't have very much free time, unfortunately." They all nodded in affirmation,
"Okay then." Yang nodded as they then went to bed, it had gotten quite late after all.
As the Winter break came around, Team RWBY bid their farewells, JNPR stayed at Beacon as Jaune needed to catch up on notes and resit tests, and the others didn't have much else to do, Weiss got on an airship bound for Atlas, and RBY got on another bound for Patch, the small island off the west coast of Vale.
Upon arrival, Yang instructed Ruby and Blake to wait by the exit of the station while she fetched her father.
When she came back, she was covering the eyes of a man in beige clothing, a waistcoat and shorts, with a steel shoulder plate and leather bracer on one arm, and a red bandana tied to his other. He had short, blond hair and a goatee with some stubble, along with a tattoo on his armored arm. He stumbled forward blindly, reaching out with his hands in case he bumped into someone.
"Okay, are we there yet?" he chuckled to his daughter.
"Almost." She replied, "Aand… Now!" She said as she took her hands away to let him see her teammates.
"Hi," he greeted sticking out his hand to each of them, "I'm Taiyang, Yang's father. She's told me a lot about you, well, as much as she can on the 5 minute walk here. And wow, she said that you were big, but I wasn't quite expecting you to be this tall, no offence."
"None taken." Ruby calmly replied as he took in the sight of her father.
"Now, while she did talk about you she didn't mention your names, may I ask what they are?" they both nodded as Blake went first.
"I'm Blake, Blake Belladonna, Yang's partner." She said as she shook his hand a second time.
"Belladonna?" he asked as a surprised expression came across his face,
"Is there something wrong?"
"No, no, it's just, I went to Signal with your mother, in fact she invited me to her wedding but I had an assignment at the time so I couldn't make it."
"Oh..." she replied, shock also spreading to her face.
"And you are?" Tai asked as he turned to face his second daughter.
"Ruby Rose." She said triumphantly, shaking his hand again like Blake.
A/N Since this is the start of the Winter break, I think here would be a good place to have a small Haitus while I write the Fall of Reach story, just to give y'all abetter idea about each of their reactions. I know, I know, Cliffhanger and ripping this from GreenTheRyno with a reach reaction and all that, but, my Ruby is different from theirs and so, different things happen, and I need to show that. It would just be wrong not to, and with school and whatnot, I can't guarentee upload dates, not to mentionwere planing on moving come September, so, we'll see how that goes.