Now to quote Red XII from Final Fantasy: Machinabridged..."Where do I begin?"

First things firsts….let me just say that I got confused on how I want to this story to go...luckily I (Kinda) got it where I want it to go.

I ended up having to go back and make some changes in previous chapters and rewrote chapters 1-5(with 5 still being re-written) plus the recent things happening in RWBY has had me just losing my mind.

First I just went into shock at Yang VS Mercury and the Sephiroth moment I saw (if you pause it at the right moment) and Mercury attacking Yang and all of a sudden Yang being accused of breaking Mercury's leg unprovoked.

Second I went into more shock after watching "Beginning of the End"

Then I got scared for the Bumblebee ship after the Preview…and that brings me to my last point…Penny's fate….I'm at the point where I'm scared to watch the episode when it comes out tomorrow(I'm not a sponsor) so…Yeah…for now that's the end of this Author's Note and there is one at the bottom…anyway…hope you enjoy this chapter.

Team AVIL was sitting on a bullhead heading to Atlas. "I can't believe we're going on a mission from Ozpin himself." Iris said doing her best to contain her excitement but letting it slip a few times.

"But at the cost of helping RWBY and CMSN with the White Fang...However from what Ozpin said he made it sound like this mission was more important." Legolas said and Aidan hummed in agreement.

"Didn't he say that we were requested by a Huntsman team due to a relation between Aidan and me?" Violet asked, and Legolas simply nodded.

"Professor Goodwitch said that the mission was originally going to team CFVY however is named AHST (AN: Amethyst) however Ozpin recommended us go instead because we would be the best choice due to relations between Me and Violet, By the way Violet… I think you should tell them now." Aidan said.

"Tell us what?" Iris asked in curiosity and Legolas looked at Violet in confusion (or what can be assumed to be confusion due to the fact that he was wearing his helmet). Violet looked at Aidan with a expression of fear before she closed her eyes in order to hold back the tears that might begin falling from her eyes.

"I…used to be a mercenary." Violet said keeping her eyes closed in order to not look at Legolas or Iris.

"You what?" Legolas asked hoping he heard wrong.

"You…used to be a mercenary?" Iris asked in disbelief and Violet nodded and Aidan put a hand on her shoulder.

"Ozpin is aware of this and I was made aware of this as well bur when she wanted to tell you two was her decision not mine however because she thinks two members of AHST were the same ones that captured her and brought her in, she wanted to be the ones to tell you this instead of finding out from them." Aidan explained.

Iris and Legolas exchanged a glance and Iris spoke up. "I always knew you weren't like us, from how we've seen you do during our combat classes you always seemed leagues above us…guess this explains it but as you said you're a former mercenary and not one now so it doesn't matter to me, you're a member of Team AVIL now and we're your friends." Violet smiled at what she was just told.

"I'm resisting the urge to kiss the life out of you and you're only making it more difficult Iris." Violet said in a seductive tone and winked at Iris causing her face to turn the same shade as Ruby's cloak and Aidan began laughing hysterically.

"Oh my god!" Aidan said laughing even harder than before and fell of his seat onto the floor; Violet soon began giggling at Iris embarrassment. Iris looked over at Legolas who remained quiet on the entire subject.

"You know what…" Violet said all of a sudden and got up from her seat and grabbed Iris by her jacket and before Iris could protest pressed her lips to hers, Iris let out a gasp and Violet used this opportunity to add her tongue to the equation.

Legolas quickly ripped his helmet off in order to wipe away the blood coming from his nose but couldn't take his eyes of what was in front of him while Aidan went into another fit of laughter this time laughing even harder than before. Iris was waving her arms desperately trying to get free however she was unable to due to Violet's iron grip on her waist.

All of a sudden Iris let out an involuntary moan before Violet pulled away leaving a strand of saliva between their mouths that Violet then licked it away causing more blood too shoot from Legolas nose and some blood to shoot from Iris nose as Violet relinquished her grip on Iris and sat down while Iris fell back in her seat.

Aidan continued to laugh on the floor with tears leaving the corners of his eyes. "I…can't…breath!" Aidan said in between fits of laughter as he rolled around the floor.

"Hmm, taste like blue berry." Violet said before winking at Iris causing her face to turn crimson and take Legolas helmet and put it on in order to hide her embarrassment, the blood finally stopped leaking from Legolas nose and he looked at Aidan deadpanned.

"H-H-H-How are you not…unaffected by that?" Legolas asked.

Before Aidan was could say anything, Iris shoved Legolas helmet back on his head

"NO MORE! NO MORE TALK ABOUT THIS!" Iris yelled causing Aidan to start laughing again however not as serious as last time while Violet let out a giggle, when Aidan stopped laughing he looked at his teammates.

Legolas was wearing his original Atlesian combat armor however the difference was that unlike his old suit that had a bit more armoring this one however like the normal ones didn't have much armor however Aidan saw a few differences…for starts it didn't have all the other tricks his old armor did but it did offer the same amount of protection, on his right shoulder plate was his Symbol of a cross-hair with a leaf in the center and on his left shoulder plate was the Symbol of Atlas.

Violet was wearing A Purple Parka, A Scarf, A Beanie with two holes cut on the top for her cat ears, Black shorts with purple legging and black boots.

Iris was wearing the same exact thing as Violet however hers was Blue and Black instead of Purple and Black.

Aidan on the other hand was wearing anything but winter clothing…He was wearing a white long coat with red pauldrons, finger gloves, Black Pants, A flame red shirt, and black combat boots, on his back was a metal sheet which he told them was a magnet for his new weapon, on the side of his pants leg were straps with ammo pouches attached to them and two submachine guns and as usual his left arm was covered in bandages in order to hide the markings on his arm.

"We're going to be landing in a few seconds, Get ready to get off this bird." The pilot said and Aidan stood up and picked up a large sword from the seat next to him, he then spun it above him and put it on his back with it immediately attaching itself to the sheet due to the sheet being a magnet.

"Legolas you have the flares and flare gun?" Aidan asked the soldier who stood up taking out his DMR. "Yep, We're gonna need them." Legolas said before hitting the button on the side opening the side doors.

"Why would we need them?" Violet shouted over the roaring of the engine as the door opened. "We might need the flares in case we get lost or separated." Legolas said handing each of his teammate's two flares and they took them.

"Alright, you're clear!" The pilot yelled and Aidan jumped out of the bullhead onto the ground and his teammates followed, When aidan landed on the ground he immediately pulled out Beowulf (AN) And aimed ahead of him and checked his surroundings when he noticed it was clear he stood up.

Violet, Iris and Legolas soon landed and looked towards him and looked back but before he can tell them anything their scrolls went off and they answered it.

"This is as close as I can get you to the rendezvous point, Good luck and watch your back!" The pilot said before he ended the call and flew away.

"Alright you heard him, be ready for anything there have been reports of new types of Grimm so we stick together." Aidan said and looked up at the sky noticing it was already dark out and he checked the time on his scroll to see it was 8:09 PM. "Violet and Legolas you guys have night vision take point; iris and I will cover the rear." Aidan said and both of them nodded.

Legolas took out his DMR and the visor of his helmet turned green while Violet took out Cheshire Smile and took out a normal arrow and readied it and began walking forward with iris having Heaven's Flower in its sniper form and Aidan took out his other gun Blade Wolf (AN) and they followed their two teammates.

(Ruby, Weiss and Cinder)

Ruby, Weiss and Cinder were at the Central Communications tower. "I can't believe Aidan and the others got to go on a mission early." Weiss said clearly upset about the development. "Akane is feeling pretty upset about it as well, She really wanted to tell Aidan that it was her." Cinder pointed out.

"Yeah, I think she was really looking forward to the dance as well." Ruby said, honestly she did feel bad for akane because she was planning on telling aidan that she was alive and was hoping they could go to the dance but with AVIL sudden mission they were given, it killed that plan in like it was nevermore being beheaded.

"Well I just hope they get done with the mission and get back." Weiss said. "Why do you care Weiss? You usually hate it when Aidan's around." Cinder pointed out. "It's killing Akane that she has to constantly lie to the person that she cares about and I will not sit by and watch as she suffers." Weiss said and what Cinder said next caused her and Ruby's faces to turn beat red.

"You want to fuck her all the way to Atlas don't you?" Cinder asked with a sly grin on her face. "HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME OF THINKING SUCH LEWD THOUGHTS!" Weiss yelled and Cinder's grin grew wider. "The Ice Queen has a thing for the Cryomancer…never thought I see the day that Weiss Schnee would swing for the other team." Cinder said again with a laugh causing Weiss to reach for Myrtenaster but Ruby luckily stopped her and got her to calm down.

"Let's just get this call over with!" Weiss growled and stormed off inside the tower, with Cinder following after her but was stopped by Ruby.

"What is it Ruby?" Cinder asked and she noticed Ruby had her hands behind her back and she was starring at the ground. "I wanted to um...ask you something." Ruby looked up and Cinder noticed that she was blushing almost enough to match her namesake.

"What?" Cinder asked and she was quickly surprised on what presented her…it was a rose and Cinder could feel the heat rise to her face.

"The dance was coming up and I was wondering…if you wanted to go with me?" Ruby said although with some hesitance, Cinder took the rose and examined it and then looked at ruby who was staring at her.

'Such a puppy...' Cinder thought to herself. "Yes Ruby, I would love to go the dance with you." Cinder said and Ruby squealed in excitement and hugged Cinder. This caused Cinder to blush even more and when Ruby realized what she had done, she had turned a whole new type of red and she quickly pulled away scratching the back of her head.

"So should we?"

"Catch up with Weiss? I think so yeah." Cinder finished and they walked into the CCT and unknowing either of them both were internally squealing.

(AVIL)

The four of them heard the sound of snow crunch beneath them as they took a step, Legolas had his DMR raised and Violet had a Lightning Arrow ready to fire in case a Grimm tried to take a sneak attack.

"How close are we to the rendezvous point?" Violet asked, Aidan took out his scroll and accessed the map on it and saw that they were nearing the meet up point. "Just ahead." Aidan said and Violet simply hummed.

Violet felt her ears twitch and at the corner of her right eye saw something run past a tree and she quickly aimed at where it brushed past, When Iris and Aidan saw this they quickly aimed their guns where Violet was aiming and Legolas did the same.

"What was it?" Iris asked.

"Beowulf if I had to guess" Violet said and her ears twitched again and she quickly aimed her bow in the air and fired the lighting arrow and it connected with something as it exploded and electrocuted what was flying towards them, It crashed down and was immediately impaled by aidan with his sword and smashed to the ground.

"You weren't kidding when you said there were reports of new types of Grimm." Legolas said as he pointed his rifle at the dead Grimm still impaled by Aidan's sword as it disintegrated. Aidan pulled his sword out of the ground and readied it while Beowulf was in his free hand.

"Guys…" Aidan said turning around and they did the same and saw multiple red eyes peering through the trees and a pack of beowolves came out of the shadows and one of them let out a howl. Iris quickly turned Heaven's Flower into its Naginata form, Legolas aimed his rifle and Violet drew a fire arrow and pulled the string back ready to fire it.

Aidan pointed his sword at the beowolves in front of him. "Alright guys, let's take them for a walk."

(Unknown)

Unknown to Aidan or his team they were being watch from a nearby cliff by four people.

"Well he's has grown since we lost saw him." A male voice said. He was wearing a jacket that had an orange-brown color, Black pants with a pair of greaves.

"What did you expect Hessonite, He's attending beacon now." A Female voice said to the man named Hessonite. She was wearing a sheepskin bomber jacket with a star on the back, blue pants and what appeared to be a pair of greaves. On each side of her waists were two daggers and on her forearms were forearms guard with four small knives on them but what was more noticeable was her monkey tail.

"Well also if you add the training Azure put him through then I say it's a mix of both when you think about it Terra." Another woman said. The woman had Red hair with orange highlights and fox ears. She was wearing a red leather jacket; on her back was a metal sheet with two Escrima sticks inside it; she was wearing White pants and orange boots.

"What do you think Azure?" Hessonite asked. Azure was the most under-dressed out of all of them. Azure was wearing a Black v-neck with blue linings, Blue pants and blue jeans with black padding's on the sides and multiple ammo pouches along his waist, on his back was a metal sheet like the one on Sienna's back but instead of two Escrima sticks…on his back was a large sword with blue markings running down the blade and a blue crystal in the center of the guard.

When Azure didn't answer, Sienna spoke. "Azure?"

Azure stood up from his kneeling position and turned around to face his teammates. Azure had sky blue hair and with silver-ish blue eyes but his most noticeable (and most attractive if Sienna had to admit) were his wolf ears.

"Sorry…just surprised that Ozpin sent the little pup in." Azure said smiling. "He's not a pup anymore Azure." The fox Faunus said. "Yes he is Sienna, he or Terry doesn't become the alpha until they beat this one." Azure said pointing to himself with a cocky smile and Sienna shook her head at her husbands' childish personality

"Anyway let's get down there." Hessonite said.

(Hours later with Akane)

Akane put her back to the corner of a wall and peaked around the corner and saw two White Fang soldiers talking, She quickly pulled out two dust kunai and threw it at them, the kunai's hit the ground in front of them an exploded freezing them. Akane ran from behind her corner over to the frozen soldiers and noticed one of them was holding a scroll and she quickly pulled out a fire dust kunai and melted the ice around the hand holding the scroll and quickly took the scroll out the soldiers' hand.

She put the soldiers scroll in her pocket and quickly jumped in the air and dodged a wave of fire that was thrown at her and instead hit the two frozen Faunus and freed them from their predicament. Akane landed on the roof of the warehouse and jumped back again dodging another wave of fire, she took out Frozen Love and looked around.

Someone jumped onto the roof as well and much to Akanes joy it was the boss himself…Maverick. "Hmm, I shouldn't be surprised that you survived Ms. Hayashi however given that we have half of what we need it became evident that the power found someone else or you survived somehow." Maverick said and Akane saw a silver aura appeared and his eyes began glowing.

"Then you already know what I'm here for." She said pointing her gunblade at the man. Maverick let out a small laugh and raised his hand in the air a blue glow appeared in it before he lowered it back down. Maverick closed his eyes and the sleeve of his long coat began glowing blue and Maverick swung his arms and six icicles shots from his hand.

Akane eyes widened in shock at what she saw and she quickly stabbed Frozen Love into the ground creating a wall of ice, the icicles stabbed into the wall and caused it to shatter. Maverick quickly closed the distance between him and Akane and Swung his glaive, Akane blocked the attack but Maverick swung his glaive again and again and Akane blocked each one.

Akane used her semblance to create a second sword made out of ice and swung it aiming at Maverick's head but he raised his hand free hand and caught the blade and some blood from his hand began dripping from his hand and pouring down the blade. Akane used this opening the try and slash him with the ice sword however Maverick blocked with his glaive and the ice sword broke.

Akane let out a growl in frustration and delivered a kick to his chest knocking him back and freeing her sword, she pulled out some fire kunai and threw them at him, Maverick simply created an Ice wall like she did and the kunai's stabbed into it and exploded shattering the wall and much to her confusion, Maverick disappeared.

"Pathetic." His voice said and Akane looked up only to block a blade beam that knocked her through the roof of the warehouse.

When Blake and Sun saw Éclair crash through the roof they immediately looked on in shock as Maverick jumped down the hole in the roof with his glaive ready in an attempt to impale her however she rolled out of the way and narrowly dodged it.

Before Akane could try attacking him again, multiple bullet holes burst through one of the windows and the Faunus attending quickly ran out the way to avoid getting shoot. Maverick simply pointed his hand at the ground and blasted a blue light at it and moved it upwards creating an Ice Wall to block the shots leaving Blake and Sun confused on how he did that.

Blake quickly pulled out Gambol Shroud and Shot the fuse box on the wall and the lights went out, using her night vision she ran over to Éclair and helped her towards the window with Sun following and they jumped out the window onto a rooftop and jumped onto another them, she looked across the street to see that Emerald, Mercury and Neo were doing the same and she was really glad Ruby had convinced her have them shadow her, Sun and Éclair.

However much to Blake's dismay, Roman had got inside the Paladin and started pursuing them which prompt her to call for help.

(Weiss, Cinder and Ruby)

Cinder, Weiss and Ruby were leaving the Central Communication Tower when Blake and Mercury called.

"Hey guys we really need your help!" Mercury shouted.

"Roman is..." Blake was cut off by Sun."HELP! HE'S CHASING US IN A GIANT ROBOT." Sun said and Weiss rolled her eyes while Ruby smiled excitedly. "Oh! We can't miss this!" She said and grabbed both Weiss and Cinder's hand causing Cinder to blush and in a flash of Rose petals were gone.

(Yang and Neptune)

Yang and Neptune were getting on Bumblebee until Mercury and Blake called and when they answered heard running. "Roman is inside a Paladin-290!" Mercury said and Yang became confused a bit until Sun spoke up. "It didn't eat him but he's controlling it or something!" Sun said.

"Where are you guys?" Yang asked and she and Neptune looked behind them when they heard a loud stomp to see Blake, Éclair, Emerald, Mercury, Neo and Sun being chased by the Paladin-290

"HURRY!" Sun and Neo Yelled in Unison. Yang started up bumblebee and drove off after them; Neptune held on to bumblebee and tried to not fall off the motorcycle.

Blake jumped onto a car with Sun, Emerald and Mercury following after her. They all looked behind them only to see Roman still following them in the Paladin, Yang and Neptune came up behind him and Neptune slowly reached for his weapon.

Neptune quickly held onto bumblebee as Yang dodged multiple cars being knocked towards them once it finally stopped Neptune pulled his weapon off his back and it activated into its gun form and he aimed it at the back of the Paladin.

In a flash of light Neo and Éclair appeared in the air and Éclair threw multiple dust kunai and so did Neo at the Paladin and Neptune began firing his weapon, Upon hitting the Paladin the kunai exploded in a small explosion of Fire and Lightning and Neptune's blasts connect causing their own small explosion as well.

Neo and Éclair were about to teleport away again but before they could they saw a shadow loom over them and they turned around and much to their shock Maverick was the one behind them, He grabbed Éclair by her neck and in a flash of light the three of them disappeared.

"NEO! ÉCLAIR!" Yang yelled. Neptune stood up on the bike and his weapon transformed into Guandao and he leapt off the bike towards the Paladin and the blade separated into that of trident and stabbed into the top of the Paladin.

Emerald and Sun stopped leaping from car to car, to see Neptune struggling to hang onto the Paladin.

"Neptune hold on!" Sun yelled while Neptune continued to try and hold on, Mercury jumped onto a car delivered two kicks launching two blasts at the Paladin and the blasts hit it causing some damage, Sun activated his semblance and created two clones and they jumped towards the Paladin.

Upon coming in contact with the mech the clones exploded and Sun took out Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang in its staff form and leapt of the truck and tried to attack the mech however Roman flung Neptune off the Paladin and towards Sun causing them to crash into each other and fall of the highway.

When Mercury and Emerald saw this they continued to jump from car to car until they heard Weiss voice coming from their scrolls.

"Guys! I'm in position!" Weiss said and Mercury, Emerald and Blake passed by an overpass and Weiss jumped down from it onto the highway and stabbed Myrtenaster into the ground freezing it and when the Paladin reached her it slipped and fell on the ground below.

In a flash of Light, Neo, Maverick and Akane appeared on the Overpass Weiss was on and Maverick smashed Akane onto the ground and Readied his glaive to stab her but was stopped by pain surging through the arm choking her and he looked to see Neo's dagger stabbed in his shoulder, Neo pulled it out and in a Flash of light disappeared while Akane used this opening to fire a blast of ice at Maverick knocking him back and off her.

Neo appeared next to Akane in a flash of light and helped her up. "What do we do?" She asked the cryomancer and Akane looked from Neo to Maverick to see him gripping his shoulder in pain, Blood seeping from the stab wound down his arm and she noticed his red eyes were glowing.

"Take him down." Akane said and she took out more dust kunai's and threw them at Maverick and before any of them knew it, the knives were knocked out the air by a whip.

"Huh?!" Akane and Neo said in unison but before they could do anything else, someone jumped from behind Maverick and landed in-between him and them.

"Oni…glad you could finally make it." Maverick said still holding his shoulder. The person named "Oni" was wearing a Black shirt, a black choker, and black pants, on both her forearms were gauntlets with a whip inside both of them, fingerless gloves and black boots. She wore a pauldron on her left shoulder, on her pants legs were a bunch of throwing knives but the most distinctive factor was her Grimm mask.

Just from looking at Oni, Akane could tell she was female which worried her because she felt something familiar coming from her.

"You sense it don't you?" Oni asked Akane and she looked confused, Oni spread her arms and started laughing. "What you want? Is right in front of you." Oni said cryptically confusing Neo and then it dawned on Akane on what Oni was talking about.

"You have it don't you?" She asked and her aura began appearing around her and this caused Oni's own aura to appear as well. Neo and Maverick both looked at the two females and saw their aura.

Akane's aura was Light Blue while Oni's was a Dark Blue mixed and before either of them knew it, they charged at each other. Akane swung her sword at Oni but she blocked with her gauntlets and ejected her whips and broke the clash and swung them.

One whip wrapped around Akane's leg while the other wrapped around her neck and Akane grabbed the one wrapped around her neck in a tempt to free herself but Oni quickly threw her off the highway and onto the ground and she jumped down after her leaving Neo and Maverick behind.

Neo laughed nervously and looked too face Maverick and much to her relief, he was gone. Neo let out a sigh of relief glad that he was gone. "I'm no Cinder or Aidan and I'm definitely not going to try my luck at fighting that nut." Neo said to herself and in a flash of light disappeared.

The Paladin fell to the ground while Ruby and Cinder ran up to it with their weapons drawn and ready, the Paladin got back up and as it does the rest of Team RWBY(Minus Éclair) and CMSN fell from the highway and landed next their respective leaders.

The Paladin began approaching them. "Freezerburn!" Ruby yelled.

CMSN, Ruby and Blake jump back while Weiss takes out Myrtenaster and stabs the ground again freezing it, Yang leaps into the air while Weiss jumps out of the way and punches the epicenter of the Ice sheet while firing a blast from Ember Celica, creating mist surrounding the Paladin. The Paladin activated its Laser sensors and began searching the mist for them.

Mercury runs past it and the Paladin quickly turns in the direction Mercury was but found nothing, it turns around and quickly fires multiple blasts from it's as Blake and Emerald run past it through the mist but misses them.

In a flash of Sparks and Rose Petals, Cinder and Ruby both attack the mech causing it to stumble back. "Checkmate!" Ruby yelled through the mist. "Spumoni!" Cinder yelled in unison with Ruby and Blake, Neo, Weiss and Emerald ran toward the Paladin with their weapons drawn and began attacking it with Blake and Emerald attacking the upper half of the Paladin while Weiss and Neo attacking the Paladins legs.

Emerald activates her Semblance and creates multiple copies of her while Blake does the same using her semblance giving Weiss and Neo an opening and both proceed to stab the Paladins laser emitter and she jumps back and Neo grabs Emerald and teleports away.

The Paladin raised its foot in an attempt to squish Blake however it's forced back by multiple fireballs hitting it allowing Weiss to create a Glyph under Blake and launches her away from the Paladin and next to Cinder however this causes the Paladin to fire multiple Rockets from its shoulders at Weiss, Cinder and Blake.

Weiss creates a Glyph in order to dodge the Missiles while Blake and Cinder both perform multiple back-handflips in order to dodge the missiles, the Paladin fires a blast from its main arm cannon and the blast hits Weiss knocking her back.

"HellCat!" Cinder yelled and Weiss points Myrtenaster at Blake and Cinder and it glows yellow and creates a hasten glyph under them, Cinder and Blake both begin glowing yellow and Cinder's eyes light ablaze with fire as the Paladin fired another volley of missiles but both Cinder and Blake swung their respective weapons slashing one of the missiles in half before performing multiple slashes that launched purple and orange waves of Aura at the missiles cutting them in half before they both stopped and the Glyph disappeared, the missiles soon exploded from being sliced in half.

Cinder and Blake stop glowing yellow and the flame coming from Cinder's eyes disappears before Ruby runs past them and they follow after her.

Ruby fires Crescent Rose launching herself at the Paladin before hooking the Scythe on the mechs groin area and swinging behind it, Cinder and Blake run past it slashing and Ruby does the same as them and continues repeatedly slashing at the mechs legs.

The Paladin fires a blast at Ruby however she jumps into the air and the Paladin looks up only to see Ruby, Cinder and Blake coming back down from the sky and slashing at the mechs arm cutting it off in the process.

"Mercury!" Cinder yelled while they jumped out of the way and the Paladin looked up and Roman's eyes widened at what he saw, multiple white spheres were flying around in the air in circles and on the highway above Mercury had a smirk on his face before the spheres came down bombarding the Paladin.

The bombardment stopped leaving a small gust of smoke, Yang jumped onto the back of the Paladin and fired shot after shot into its back from Ember Celica, the Paladin launches backwards into two pillars before slamming Yang into a third and moves forward causing her to fall from the pillar, the paladin turns its last remaining arm into a fist and punches Yang threw the pillar sending her crashing through the ground.

"YANG!" Neo yelled in distress and tried to run towards her but was stopped by Ruby. "It's alright! Yang absorbs the damage of her opponent's attacks and uses it to fight back!" Ruby explained and Neo looked towards Yang and saw her slowly getting up, her hair glowing a bright yellow.

The Paladin throws a punch at Yang but she blocks it causing the ground beneath her to break from the force of the attack, Yang pulls her arm back and punches the mech fist causing the entire arm to shatter.

Mercury, Neo, and Emerald went wide eyed on what they saw, the Paladin kicked Yang sending her flying. Ruby yelled "Bumblebee!" and Blake turned Gambol Shroud into its pistol form and threw it towards Yang who quickly grabbed the gun and hung on as Blake swung her towards the Paladin however it moved back avoiding it.

"We have to slow it down!" Ruby said and Weiss ran up to her. "And how do you suppose we do that?" She asked.

"Ice Flower!" Ruby said and Weiss nodded.

Ruby stabbed Crescent Rose into the ground and Weiss created three glyphs in front of it and Ruby fired a round from Crescent Rose and it went through the glyphs and hit the Paladin causing a part of to become frozen.

Ruby continued firing Crescent Rose through the glyphs causing the part of the Paladin to freeze when the bullet made contact slowly the mech down more and more.

Blake used this opportunity to swing Yang around again and this time Yang fired a blast from Ember Celica to give her a boost before being launched towards the Paladin and pulled her fist back, the Paladin tried to move however the ice covering some of its joints made it impossible.

Yang punched the Paladin and the amount of power behind it sent the Paladin flying and it fell into pieces sending Roman rolling onto the ground and in the center of what remained of the mech.

"Shit!" He yelled, he quickly got up only to be knocked back onto the ground by a body; He quickly looked to see who it was only to see that it was Oni.

"Watch where you going!" Oni said teasingly before standing up and facing CMSN and RWBY. Akane ran up next to but everyone noticed her eyes were glowing blue. Yang fired a shot from Ember Celica and it was about to him Roman and Oni however in a blur Maverick appeared and spun his Glaive blocking the blast.

"Ladies the pleasure is mine, Ms. Hayashi and Ms. Fall…don't think this will be the last time we meet." Maverick said coldly earning a glare from Akane who was breathing heavily and a confused look from Cinder.

"Farran!" Maverick yelled and a shadow appeared under Oni, Roman and himself and they started sinking into it, Yang and Akane charged and jumped into the air when they came down their targets had already disappeared caused Akane to stab her sword into the ground and Yang to punch the ground breaking some of it in the process.

"They got away." Mercury said dryly and everyone let out a sigh.

"I guess the guy with the shadow was the Mercenary that Legolas and Iris ran into." Emerald pointed out.

"So how do find out info about him to know what we're dealing with?" Blake Asked. "Leave that to me." Mercury said cryptically and began walking away. "How are you gonna find out about this mercenary?" Neo asked curious on how Mercury was gonna find out about this mercenary named Farran.

"It's like my dad always said..." Mercury trailed off for a moment and everyone could have sworn that there was venom in his voice when he brought up his father. "…'if you need to know a city, ask the rats.'" He finished and walked away leaving CSN and RWBY Confused.

"Hey Akane, are you alright?" Yang asked concerned and everybody turned to see Akane walked towards them although she was stumbling a bit.

"Yeah…just…tired…" Akane said weakly and soon fell forward however Yang quickly caught her and everyone ran over to her too see if she was alright.

"Akane?" Yang asked again concern lacing her voice.

"Get…me…back…beacon…get…Ozpin." She said.

(Unknown)

Unknowing to them, a woman with pitch black hair with a strand of hair colored white on the right side and flame colored eyes. She was wearing a blue sleeveless jacket with pauldrons on each shoulder with a white shirt under the jacket, blue and white pants and combat boots was watching them.

The woman let out a sigh of annoyance. "We're down one that's just great…" The woman said.

However she would have to admit, Cinder has grown since the last time she saw her…how long has it been actually…come to think of…she wouldn't really know considering she should in a way technically be dead.

The woman frowned at the fact that officially she had been written as dead…but when truthfully she was just sent away by her own parents.

"You're not paid enough to do this tracking shit Azzurra…" The woman said to herself.

AN: Beowulf and Blade Wolf basically resemble Heckler & Koch MP7 with two retractable Bayonets on it.

Next chapter, Mercury does some digging on Farran and Aidan reveals how he knows team AHST.

Anyway…for the question involving Mercury legs…it's gonna be revealed Next Chapter.

Anyway, I also want to let you know I started a new story called RWBY: Shadow Cat and it's basically Bumblebee and White Rose with the twist being is that…well I'll let you find out for yourself if you end up reading it.

Anyway…see you next chapter.