Welcome back to Operation: Outcasts.

It's been going a little well ever since the last chapter, but I'll try to take it easy because I work too much nowadays.

There's nothing much to say, but enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Call Of Duty or RWBY in any way, I'm just a fan.

Chapter 11

It has been an entire two hours since the attack, everything was changed, not for the greater good, but for the worse. The events that had took place outside of Brooklyn, was perhaps the most painful one they have ever seen before, and those people were feeling a lot more sad about it and not expecting anything like this. Perhaps the people were kind of worried that something like this would happen, but to be honest, it wasn't supposed to be happening at all.

The winter afternoon had begun, no one was happy about it though, it was only making things worse. The only seven targets had managed to escape New York City, but the other two were trapped there, perhaps they would be the ones Atlas had to deal with for now because they needed to kill one of them and the chances of doing so were slipping very far.

The seven had decided to hang out at a cafe in Brooklyn, perhaps it was because the place was most likely where they would be okay with, or since the tone of the place calms their mind from the events, or it's because they only think cafes and restaurants were the safest place they could go.

The place was closed down but they managed to get in when one of them lock picked the door and they were able to settle in for now before thinking of another idea. So far, there was a few people walking by to notice them and they wouldn't panic once they would see them, because they might've been posed as a innocent civilian at the moment becuase they were not responsible for attacking anyone, but they were ready to call authorites if necessary. Some of them had their phones out and were taking pictures of them, it was their opportunity to see what they looked like, and they would be credited for it too.

Neptune was sitting in a table alone and watching one of the two wide windows that showed a view of the small block, the snow was falling lightly and touched the ground as more would soon cover it up as it does every year. Despite feeling a little bored about staying here, he was already thinking about the rough road they went through, they fought with Atlas, had to deal with the issue with allies, and even the sad part about Velvet feeling unloved.

The beret-wearing girl had shown up from the counter and she carried a tray of tea, there was black tea for her and herbal tea for the blue haired. She set the tray down first on the table, "Would you like to have some?" She asked, knowing full well that she never been asked if he wanted some, or if he even wanted it. He nodded to her and she moved a chair to sit with him in order to keep him company.

Neptune grabbed the handle of the tea cup and took a small sip of it, flinching when the hot liquid touched his lips, but remained silent afterwards. Coco took her cup but didn't drink it as she noticed the behavior that her ally was showing in his face, she knew what he was wondering about. "Have you ever thought about it?"

"Huh?" Neptune looked at her with a questioning look.

"Have you ever thought about how this whole thing will end? " Coco repeated herself, "How this whole entire fight could come to an end. How this whole thing could end because of us?"

"You mean, if our arrival is causing a whole lot of events that could lead to a different ending?"

"That's right. We're all responsible for this, and this only let the world to think about how this will all end. They wanted it to end so badly." Coco began to swirl her tea with her short spoon, combining all of the contents in it with one twirl, "They wanted us to be easily dealt with as the others before us."

Neptune said to her, "They wanted an ending to this fight, either we die or we get out of here, that's only one of the few that can be earned here."

"I've been thinking really hard about that, humanity used to trust Atlas before they decided to pull off a hasty move against us, now they hope that they will be the ones who will kill us."

"you don't think-"

"That's only one of the endings we can get in this fight, if we get killed, that's one of them, but surviving their onslaught is another." Coco took a sip of her tea, and set it down on the table, "And the chance of that is honestly lower than we can think."

"What about Chris, He's a part of the Sentinel team, perhaps he can help us get those guys to come with us."

"I don't seem to find that a probable idea, they could hate us, plus we've been feared by the whole world for about twenty years, and yet they're still hunting us due to some stupid event!" Coco explained, she was questioning the turn of events that had happened before they showed up.

Neptune felt bad for whatever kind of outcasts was responsible for such event that made them targets by everyone, even their saviors. He knew fully well that this could not be altered no matter what, and it was going to be like this for at least until they understand part of the truth. But then again, the truth was never revealed in the first place, because there wasn't one at all. "That's only because some student like us was critically responsible for this. But look on the bright side, we managed to make it this far, and we're all still alive."

"Well, what about Weiss and Ruby?" The question was indeed a good one, especially since they couldn't get in contact with the others for a long while, perhaps an EMP strike was responsible for that.

"They'll be okay, trust me." He smiled after saying this, only Coco was a little bit curious about that, he seen them in action before, so yeah, those two could still be alive. The leader of CFVY smiled and then thought about a subject she was waiting to ask about since last night. "So, what happened between you and Velvet last night? I noticed that you she was feeling a lot better, so it had something to do with you."

"Uh...Uh, nothing serious happen, it was just us talking and we managed to sort out our differences." The blue haired member of SSSN was feeling nervous of that unexpected question, trying to hide the real reason.

"You're blushing, I can tell you're lying." she took off her sunglasses while saying this.

"I'm not, everything turned about to be okay!"

"Oh really, because I talked to Velvet in the kitchen and she said the exact same thing."

"Everything went well, don't ask anymore questions, it's fine!" The sound of that made Coco chuckle with delight, knowing that he was definitely lying and that he was hiding something, but she really didn't mind if she found out what happened, it would be okay to her, although it was best to say she was a bit suspicious of the two.

"I bet it is Vasilias."

Atlas was also experiencing the aftermath of the events, they were indeed the ones who caused it, and they also lost a few men, even one of the global satellites that operated the Vulcan. Their trust with the White Fang was slowly diminishing, and the possibility of a brutal betrayal was just waiting to happen, now that Neo knew some of their secrets, and Reynard disobeyed their orders and caused said event, not to mention destroying a bridge and even their own prototype of the Paladin Mark 2 in the process.

"So far, there has been about seventy-six of our men dead, twenty-nine white fang members killed, several vehicles taken down , and even tons of damage increasing further." A security guard said to Irons, he was looking at the short list he made from an hour ago depicting the events that had passed by. "The only thing that leaves us was a small group of three, two are dead and only one has gone MIA."

"Has there been any certain casualties of the outcasts?" Jonathan said to the guard.

"Not precisely, only time will tell." He gave the list to him and then was dismissed.

"Thanks for the info Decker." The guard left and Irons was left alone in the room as always, he tapped something on the table and the only screen of the room showed up, Neo was in the security halls, wandering around the path to scout for something unusual. He felt as though she was really trying to find something that Atlas was hiding below, but he already told her about the five dead outcasts and the original plan to try and use their aura to help out, but failed miserably.

She was already going down the elevator which was leading her down to the underground base, not to look at the old items, but to find something good in there that could sum up more probable answers. She stepped out and tucked her umbrella to her side as always, noting herself that she was being watched by the security feeds, but she didn't bother to care if they come and arrest her on the spot.

She walked back to the outcasts room where the items of the dead outcasts were stored. She didn't look at the other items but she instead was notified by a door by the wall, locked by a passcode that only Atlas members knew about. The camera caught her as she immediately tampered with the system by typing the correct words and then the door allowed her in.

Irons watched as she casually walked in with the presence of being watched by the soldiers. He taped down something on the pad and replied, "Decker, please send down two security officers down at level one, someone's trying to find something secret."

Neo was now inside a storage room where everything was in piles of torn up and new sections, there was an old gun that was from the eighteenth century, a hooded outfit with a symbol on the back, and a black costume with a red symbol that signified that it used to belong to Templars, there was even a sword with a golden hilt and a damaged blade.

The doors closed behind the girl and the darkness had managed to cover everything up, so she took out a small flashlight and set it on to light up her view. The things she could see now was a pair of giant scissors, a broken...mask, and a flag of the Federation underneath a crate, she could describe this room as a treasure room filled with different world items from another time. She began to advance forward to find some other things, and she would be going in deeper through Atlas' secret things.

She stepped on a steel helmet which was in the form of the head armor of a Grimm Nevermore and some bullet casings, she started looking through an old crate where a sword was pointing out of it, and she pulled it out and threw it at the ground. Then she dug her arms down to retrieve anything good, but all she got was a broken vibranium shield, and some training cards.

She forcefully pushed the box and kept searching, by now there would be someone trying to stop her at this moment, but they were taking a while to show up, giving her enough to keep looking around. She looked over somewhere and saw an old armor plate on the ground with a symbol that had smoke on it, and some fire on the side of it, she recognized it immediately and picked it up.

It used to belong to someone she remembered a year ago, an old rival that had yet to join in Beacon, and she would never have that chance anymore, she dropped the plate and continued looking around the place, then she saw something very peculiar, an old Atlas picture that was also burned up, she took it and she could see it with only her flashlight.

The picture had Irons saluting as a soldier began carrying a coffin somewhere in a cemetery, Neo was concerned as to why a picture such as this would be laying around here, she ultimately knew that her time was up when the doors opened and the soldiers popped out.

"Neo, this is a restricted area, please get over here or else we'll shoot." She tucked the picture in her pocket and turned towards the two soldiers, then out her hands up, one had the umbrella. She began to walk toward towards the guards who waited until she was out of the storage room to close the door and bring her to her quarters.

The guards were wondering if she found some incriminating details inside there, but forcing her to say so would be most likely impossible. She smiled back at them once she was out, and they forced her back up the elevator to a different level.

Back at the outside of the base, a VTOL was descending to the launchpad, only a few soldiers were waiting for the return of Reynard since he "successfully" complete the mission and caused fear in the process. The doors opened up and the faunus stepped out of it, putting the Grimm mask back on after a long while, and stopping as he want down the steps to notice that everything was moving a bit differently than before.

"Irons, you knew that I would force your own men to fire the Vulcan, but what do you have to say for yourself about this?" He began to question Irons when he saw him inside of a room though the glass, not even hoping for a smile from him since he messed up the whole mission and caused a disadvantage to the Vulcan's power. "Don't you now understand that we can't hold back any longer? We needed to strike!"

"That's enough buddy, head over to your quarters, Irons will debrief you shortly." Davis passed by and informed the faunus. He just stormed off inside the base just to go to the room, he felt great of himself by saving the hopes of Atlas continuing their mission of victory, and defeating the Sentinels, but they still needed to find out what happened to Archangel.

He went in the small bunk and noticed that Neo was in there, brushing her outfit and pointing her umbrella at the wall, she turned to him and gave him a look.

"Hey Neo, Glad to see you're still alive." The character stood up and kicked his stomach hard, then turned to her bed. "H-hey, you bitch! Couldn't you give me some credit for teaching the outcasts a lesson?" The girl shook her head.

"I don't even understand why you would want to keep fighting for them when they're not doing anything useful enough to kill those guys, some of our men died because of them and avenging them will be the only answer to solve this problem, and you're just simply following their orders when you can just go rogue at anytime you want!"

Neo didn't say something to him that could counter this argument, "But you're always just gonna follow them into a battle with a blindfold on your face, aren't you Neo?" A shook of the head didn't help much, "Then you're gonna have to prove yourself to be a perfect White Fang member, otherwise, you'd never be good for anything-" Neo heard enough of this, so she took out her Estoc and pointed the blade at his neck without hesitation.

"Yikes, you're one dangerous girl alright." Neo hoisted the blade and lied down on the bed and wrapped the covers around her, she wasn't planning to sleep, she just wanted to be comfortable around it. "Just be glad you weren't sent out there in New York to fight."

Reynard put the sword on the floor and lied down as well, 'I wonder where Archangel is, he's never been gone offline for so long, he should've been done by now.'

Neo took out the Irons picture and placed it on a desk, thinking about the next step she could take in order to change things, If Atlas was going to do something else to fight the outcasts, or end the Sentinels, they weren't going to start it off now, but she thought that perhaps, the time will be coming sooner than expected.

She didn't smile, she stayed emotionless for the moment.

Apparently, the snow was done going through the air as calmly as it could, because now there was a blizzard falling around Brooklyn, the majority of this was to stay indoors and stay warm. It was indeed the time of the year to prepare for the holidays, it was almost December and it would arrive in about three days, but the terror that had happened before was still in their minds, they couldn't forget about it no matter what.

Back in the cafe, Velvet was in the kitchen trying to finish washing the dishes even though she didn't work here at all. She dropped the last plate down on the stack of others before wiping her hands with a cloth, then she sighed when she finished the task. The door opened up and she was alarmed to the presence of Jaune.

"Oh sorry, I didn't know you were in here," he apologized and backed up to the door.

"No, it's okay, you can stay." The bunny faunus calmed down quickly, "I thought it was someone else."

"Yeah, me too." He walked to the counter where the dishes were, "So what are you doing here?"

"I've been cleaning up the place a little, mostly to pass the time before we decide to move again."

"That sound like a hard job."

"Well of course it is," Scarlatina brushed off her hair as she spoke.

"So Velvet, are you feeling okay...after getting shot and all that." Jaune wasn't really sure of how to say that.

"A little, I never thought I would ever get shot before, it was a horrifying experience." She explained, "It was too hard to believe."

Jaune nodded, "I can tell Pyrrha might be feeling the same thing after she got shot too, I didn't think that it would actually happened, she was so strong, but Atlas managed to prove her wrong." He looked down at his feet thinking about that exact scene, it was painful to see that again, a champion getting shot by a single bullet.

Velvet rubbed her shoulder where she was shot, "Hey Jaune, can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"If you ever had a choice between dying for your friends, or fighting till there's nothing left to fight, what would you pick?" Jaune looked at the faunus, concerned about the question she brought up.

"Well...I would've said that I wanted to fight till the end, but," Jaune paused when talking, "I think I would die for my friends if I have too."

"It sounds a little too hard for me to ask that, but I guess I needed an opinion from you, I honestly don't have an answer," Scarlatina looked at Arc for a second and then looked at the dishes, "Some things are just too hard for me to say, I don't want anyone to get hurt, but I wanted to see how this could all end, we've been fighting for so long, two destinies are only going to make us fall even harder."

"We might win one for them, but the other will be a bigger challenge for us." Jaune replied to her to agree with her statement, "Or perhaps we might never get to that point at all."

"I think it's best to say that we should never get to that second destiny, it's only gonna make things worse, and we're only going to cause more trouble for everyone." Considering their appearence back in New York City, that was understandable, they were considered a hostile threat.

"Yeah." Jaune looked around the room for a little bit, "I'm gonna check on Chris and see how he's doing."

"Okay." Velvet was now alone again, and she moved out do the kitchen to see how much snow has fallen on the streets, she did enjoy much of the scenery without all of the gunshots and things like that, it was more peaceful here than back outside.

Meanwhile, Pyrrha was sitting in a chair wiping her shield with a cloth and setting it once she was done next to her. She immediately noticed that someone was about to enter the room because the door opened up and he slowly walked in. "Hey Cardin."

Winchester didn't say hi back to her, "Don't even bother trying to talk to me Nikos." He had his hands put together by handcuffs from the Sentinel and he couldn't do anything without his mace or the Exo on. The Exo had been put offline and there was no way to establish a connection with Reyanrd since the bridge attack happened.

"Cardin, I'm still not glad you were wanting to kill us just so you can prove yourself worthy." Nikos replied to the former traitor, "Did you forget we had to deal with something far worse than you?"

"I'd rather forget that, yes. But I wasn't going to give up with the fact that I could've finished you off, could've betrayed all of you before we got seperated in the first place!"

"We're all trying to get out of here and go back to Beacon, not point a sword to our throats."

"I didn't ask for this, I didn't want to be teamed up with any of you jackasses," Winchester turned to her, "I tried to defeat you multiple times Nikos, and I had already ruin your little friend Jaune, but if we can't go back home, I'll murder you guys right here and now!"

Pyrrha stood up and unholstered Milo and pointed it at Cardin, keeping a firm grip on it, "I don't want to kill you, I don't want you to kill any of us." She didn't slide her finger to the trigger function, she didn't feel like that it wasn't good to take him down when they're at this moment, they made it so far and they couldn't turn against one another if they were to go back to their home world. "But threating your allies and friends are only gonna make things worse."

"Who ever said we're allies?"

"Since the first day we came here."

"Then how about you be a good ally and lower your gun?" Cardin's trick was not gonna work, because Nikos was not doing what he instructed her, she could tell that he was trying to play this game, but it was a bit bad for him to even try.

"I probably would if you stopped trying to compete against us."

"Wha-, Man you're so annoying Nikos."

"I never meant to be annoying to you." Pyrrha hoistered the rifle and walked out of the room, taking her shield as she stepped out and left the former traitor alone in the room, feeling that she needed to have a little rest since the fight by taking a nap, Cardin just stayed in the room and sat down on the floor, banging his head on the wall and began to grumble a little more.

The blizzard was growing rapidly around the hour, Weiss thought she and Ruby could make it by the end of it, but they were wrong as more began to flow through the atmosphere. They've been walking all day and now the sun was going to set down on the horizon, the two couldn't find anywhere to go after the bridge collapsed and changed their view on their personnel mission.

They were close to the bridge, but they weren't heading for that specific direction, they were trying to find shelter for the rest of the day, the opposite was was the only olays they could go to. As the winter snow began to increase, they were still feeling cold, they could only take steps forward and sue their hands to cover their face from the snow.

Weiss clutched her coat tight, let herself try to get past this weather, Ruby wore her hood and she was mostly suffering through this kind of thing, she wasn't used to this, nor did she wanted to. The snow beneath their feet was being crushed, but only increased by the descending snowflakes that replaced it, and covered most of the tracks in half, there was no sign of escaping the snow from the outside.

Ever since their encounter with Archangel, they never saw another Atlas unit since, perhaps they were told that their mission was over, or they are needed elsewhere, because there wasn't a single vehicle lurking in the corner, or even another gun shot that broke the momentum of silence.

Ruby could only take so much of this, she fell on the ground, feeling the snow as the cold touch made her hand colder, and stayed there, feeling like she was unable to move.

"Ruby." Weiss turned to see her partner fall to her knees, she lower herself to face the girl's face. "Ruby, are you feeling okay?"

"Does it look like I feel-" Ruby sniffed a little from the temperature, "Okay?"

"Don't worry, we'll get to shelter fast, just hang on." The Schnee heiress brought up the girl to her feet and began to walk her to the unknown location. The poor girl couldn't take this, but they were getting closer to their unknown destination, right in front of them stood a building, so they decided to go in there rather than knock and see who else could be there.

The door was pushed open as the two were now inside the house, and from the looks of it, it looked exackly like any old entrance of regular houses, probably because they were in one. There was a staircase a few feet away from the door, and there was a hall that led to the living room, two other openings were located on the left and the right side.

Taking their chances here, the two started to go to the living room, it had consisted itself of a couch which was in front of a window, a table right in front of it, and a fireplace that was inside the chimney. Ruby was released from Weiss' arm, and when she saw the couch, she took off the pins that held her cape, and let it fall on the floor.

She brushed off any of the snow that was on her, and walked towards the couch, feeling like she needed to rest a little, Weiss didn't bother trying to stop her since she also needed it from the fight earlier. The Rose girl moved and started to lie on the cushions, clutching the pillow next to her head, she closed her eyes, but she wasn't really sleeping just yet.

"Weiss..." She said, her right arm was moving to the edge where Weiss's hand was reachable, "I'm sorry...for what happened today, we almost made it."

"There's no need to apologize Ruby, it's not your fault, or ours." The Schnee heiress gripped the hand softly and said, "We were so close to home, we almost had it." Ruby began to move her head a little but she stayed right where she was. "It's not over though, we'll find another way."

"Let's hope so, I'm not ready to give up hope yet."

"Don't, it'll only get stronger when you believe in it. Just take a nap now, I'll make you some tea."

"Thanks Weiss..." The young girl smiled when she began to sleep slowly by touching the pillow and feeling the comfort of it. Weiss was able to get a blanket out and cover up Ruby to keep her warm and comforting. The heiress smiled at the sight of this, her friend was feeling a lot more better, feeling a little confident that this whole thing could be won, that nothing was going to stop them from getting back home.

Watching her sleep wasn't going to do anything, (in fact, it was just making her feel like a creepy persons), so she headed over to the kitchen to start working on some tea. The kitchen was in mint condition, consisting of just a counter for her to cook, and a table that was stuck to the floor like glue, perhaps to put the food in before setting it to the dinner table.

She hung up her coat by the wall and started to look for the drawers for useful items, she stumbled on some contents for Peppermint Tea, she began to open it up and start. She started singing her song quietly, ignoring the sound of snow pondering the windows and kept working.

"Mirror..." The words calmed her mind, distracting her from all of the dangers they had faced. The tea was almost finished as she put two cups in the microwave and set it up to the correct time before it counted down to zero. While waiting, she stood right in front of the table and took out a small spoon to stir he tea when it was finish.

The microwave stopped when the timer was finished so she took the tea out by grabbing the handle and placed it on a tray, the spoon was put in one of them and spun around the contents of the drink for only a short while. She brought it up to her face, blew on it to cool it a little and took a small sip of it. It was indeed warm and it was just want it needed to be, Weiss was about to turn around, but she heard the sound of a revolver chamber changing to a different side.

She turned around and saw someone with white hair, some subtle hair, and he wore old body armor. He had a revolver in his hands and pointed it to the head of the heiress, she would put her hands up, but she wasn't going to unless instructed to do so.

"Put your hands where I can see them." The man's voice was grief, the girl moved her hands to her head, feeling calm, but a little surprised that someone was also in the city, especially since everyone was evacuated a few days ago.

"Sir, we're not here to rob you," Weiss reassured him, "We just need to find to stay here for only a little bit and warm ourselves up."

"Do you really think I would just let you do that?" The unknown man didn't take this as an answer as he kept the gun pointed at her, "Why would I just let you outcasts stay in my house for the time being?"

"We don't want to harm you, and I know you might not like us, but we just need to stay here for the night, we won't do anything wrong." The Schnee girl said.

"Why should I turst you, you created all of this madness in the first place."

"Sir, please just hear us out, We need to stay here for the night, that's just it." Weiss backed away and bumped the table behind her, "So can't you just help us?"

"Do you even remember, You're outcasts, you might've helped us out, but you ended up creating something worse."

"But we can tell you everything, it wasn't-?" Weiss suddently stopped at her own words. She suddenly had remembered something about this guy. "Wait...You were there when we fought the Cryptids?"

"Of course I was, I was held captive, and then you rescued me." He pulled out something from his pocket and it was revealed to be a black dog tag with an odd looking symbol on it. Weiss couldn't tell if the dog tag was similar to hers, so she took it out and glanced at the other, she finally knew that it almost matched hers.

"L-Logan?"

"It's been way too long Weiss Schnee." The man who was now known as Logan Walker holstered the gun and hugged the heiress who did the same thing. It had indeed been years to him, and only a mouth to her since they last met each other in the field, but they were now glad to be back in this place.

Weiss didn't cry, she Wouldn't want to show a childish version of her to betrying at this moment, like if she was reunited with her father after so long. She pulled herself out of the hug and smiled softly as the reunion, Logan turned over to the other room where Ruby was sleeping peacefully on the couch, he didn't want to disturb her, but she didn't want to be left out on this moment, so he nudge her shoulder a little.

"Yes Weiss..." She said a little quietly, opening her eyes and moving slightly from her covers, she fliched back when she saw the soldier right in front of her, but put his hand on her shoulder and revealed the dog tag.

"There's no need to worry Ruby, remember me?"

"Logan!" The Rose girl gave out no warning as she lunged at him and gave him a big hug, "Logan, it's been too long!" She said, tears were flowing through her eyes, but she didn't care for they were tears of joy for the return of a friend. Weiss smiled at the scene.

"It's good to have you back Logan."

Isn't this a nice reunion?

Anyways, we're almost through with this story, but there will be something bad coming soon.

Hope you enjoyed, please review, compliment on some things, and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.