"At least it's all over," William said.

Suddenly, a flare flew through the air, hit the container and sent William flying.

"William!" Rachael said coming to her friend's side, "Are you alright?"

"Wha-ha-ha!" a voice, which sounded exactly like Torchwick's, cried out.

The team looked up at where the flare came from and saw Torchwick, who was unscathed.

"Wait, what?" Rachael asked, "You were crushed!"

"It's amazing how many people think that illusions are the real thing," Torchwick said.

Without delay, after Torchwick finished, Coros came out from behind the crates and kicked Danielle over while Neo floated over Rachael and William, thanks to her umbrella.

"Guys!" Samuel said running over to aid his friends, but he was stopped by one of Torchwick's cane's projectiles.

"Not so fast, kiddo," Torchwick said, "I haven't even had a turn yet."

"Ragh!" Samuel said as he turned his assault rifle into a nightstick and charged at Torchwick.

The cane and nightstick clashed multiple times.

"You're just a bunch of kids," Torchwick said, "You can't stop a threat this big."

"Well we can try, can't we?" Samuel asked.

"You've got spirit," Torchwick said, "I hate that."

"Ungh!" Danielle grunted as she got kicked back by Coros.

"So, you're the leader, right?" Coros asked.

"No, that would be Samuel," Danielle said getting up.

"That sorry excuse for a human? Bwa-ha-ha!" Coros scoffed, "The only reason I don't call him a Faunas is because his DNA says otherwise."

"Why, you little…" Danielle said just before running at Coros, holding her sniper rifle like a club.

"At ease," Coros said as he shot Danielle's legs with an Ice Dust bullet, freezing her to the ground.

Coros loaded a Fire Dust canister into his magnum and aimed it at Danielle's head.

"And now to finish what we started so many years ago," Coros said.

Rachael was shaking William's head back and forth.

"William, get up!" Rachael said, "We need our muscle!"

Neo Politan landed on the ground and twirled her umbrella around.

"I guess waking up William will have to wait," Rachael said.

Rachael aimed her pistols at Neo and fired, but Neo's umbrella blocked them.

"Wow, that's a heck of an umbrella," Rachael said.

Rachael charged towards Neo, turned her pistols into knives and tried to cut through Neo's umbrella. But Neo pulled a blade out of the top her umbrella and used both of her weapons to block Rachael's knives.

"Grr," Rachael said.

Rachael used her Semblance quickly run behind Neo and tried to get a quick hit in, but when she did so, Neo shattered.

"What?!" Rachael asked.

Suddenly, Rachael was hit in the back by Neo's umbrella.

"Clever little…" Rachael said just before getting hit by Neo again.

"Do you really think that you can stop all of this?" Torchwick asked as his cane pushed against Samuel's nightstick.

"No," Samuel said, "Not alone."

"But you are alone," Torchwick said.

"No, look behind you," Samuel said.

"If you think I'm going to fall for that million year old trick, you've got another thing…" Torchwick said moments before a big, brown, gloved hand grabbed his shoulder.

"Hello," William said.

"Oh crud," Torchwick said.

William threw Torchwick into a pile of nearby crates.

"Nice job, buddy," Samuel said high-fiving his friend.

"You think you're all so clever," Torchwick said.

As soon as Torchwick finished, two of the mechsuits jumped over the crates that Torchwick was laying on.

"Well, that's just dandy," Samuel said.

Back with Coros, Danielle was about to get shot.

"How does it feel, knowing that you never stood a chance?" Coros asked.

"I don't know," Danielle said, "Because this fight isn't over yet."

Danielle hit Coros across the face with her flamethrower and then melted the ice with it.

"Why, you stinking, little annoyance," Coros said firing at Danielle, who effortlessly dodged the Fire Dust projectiles and then flew up to a high place, "Get back here, coward!"

Neo smiled as Rachael kept swinging at her and just not being able to land a hit.

"Stay still so I can smack that grin off of your face!" Rachael said.

"Rachael, want to switch dance partners?" Danielle said landing next to Rachael.

"Gladly," Rachael said, "My dance partner is boring me."

"Come here, you!" Coros said charging at Danielle, only to have Rachael shoot by his feet and make him stop.

"Just you and I now," Rachael said.

Neo swung her blade at Danielle, but she just dodged it.

"What are you anyway?" Danielle asked, "The ice cream company's mascot or something?"

Danielle shot her flamethrower at Neo; she blocked it with her umbrella. When the fire stopped, Neo saw that Danielle was gone.

"Up here," Danielle said.

Neo looked up, only to see Danielle use her Semblance to electrocute Neo, since umbrellas conduct electricity.

"Danielle, look out!" Samuel said.

A mechsuit charged at Danielle and knocked her down.

"Danielle!" Samuel said, "You'll pay for…"

One of the mechsuits hit Samuel so he landed near Danielle.

"Yagh!" William yelled as he jumped up and cut the left arm off of one of the mechsuits.

William got hit back by one of the mechsuits, but he got right back up and eyed the arm he cut off of one of the mechs.

"Need a hand?" William asked as he grabbed the severed arm and smashed the weapons on one of the mechs.

"Wow that joke was terrible," Torchwick said, "Wait a minute, I've got an idea."

"Why do I get to fight everybody but the leader?" Coros asked as he shot at Rachael with Ice Dust bullets.

"Because he's…" Rachael said just before looking at Samuel, "Unconscious."

Rachael saw that Torchwick was walking over to Samuel.

"Samuel!" Rachael cried.

Coros took advantage of the fact that Rachael wasn't looking, turned his magnum into a baton and used Lightning Dust to stun and knock Rachael unconscious.

Danielle used her Semblance again in an effort to defeat Neo, but Neo disappeared.

"What now?" Danielle asked.

Danielle turned around and saw Neo.

"Ragh!" Danielle said swinging her sniper rifle at Neo, but she vanished again to reveal Torchwick, who had his cane gun pointing right at Danielle.

"Goodnight," Torchwick said just before shooting and hitting Danielle with a flare, this knocked her unconscious, "Wow, this is getting too easy."

William seemed to be holding his own against the mechsuits, but they suddenly stopped fighting.

"What's going on?" William asked.

"Hey, bear boy," Torchwick said.

William turned towards Torchwick, Coros, and Neo and saw that they all had weapons aimed at his teammates.

"Now, you can either come quietly, or your friends' brains will be all over the place," Torchwick said.

William stood there, trying to figure out what to do.

"Fine, then you take both options," Torchwick said.

One of the mechsuits grabbed William in its huge hands.

"Say goodbye," Torchwick said aiming his cane at Samuel's head.

"No!" William cried.

"Hey!" a familiar voice cried out.

"What now?" Torchwick asked.

Torchwick, Coros, Neo and William looked at the base's entrance and saw team CFVY with Max Sentinel. Coco was holding her iconic purse/minigun.

"Who are these four?" Torchwick said, "And who's the midget?"

"You don't want to say that around him," William said.

"What, midget?" Torchwick said, "I'll call people what I want to, and there's nothing you can…"

Suddenly, Torchwick was kicked by Max Sentinel and flew into another stack of crates. Then Max promptly hit Coros away while Neo just ran back.

"Go, Max!" William cried just before the mechsuit tightened its grip.

"Hey, metal head!" Coco said.

The mechsuit turned towards team CFVY.

"Put our friend down, now," Coco said, "Or you'll regret it."

The mechsuit didn't put William; instead, it ran to team CFVY.

"Yatsuhashi," Coco said.

"On it," Yatsuhashi said.

Yatsuhashi leapt up and cut the mech's arms off, this freed William.

"Thanks, pal," William said, "You three, help the others, Yatsuhashi and I can take care of these mechs."

"Got it," Coco said, "Velvet, Fox, let's go."

The other three team CFVY members ran to team SWRD's aid while William and Yatsuhashi (well, at least William) had a lot of fun tearing the mechs apart.

"Samuel, are you okay?" Coco asked shaking Samuel's head back and forth, "Wake up!"

Coco slapped Samuel across the face.

"OW!" Samuel exclaimed, "That hurt."

"Good thing you're awake," Coco said as Danielle and Rachael got up, "Now let's take care of Coros."

The group looked at Max and the three bag guys, they could see that Max was kicking their butts.

"I think we can let Max take care of this," Samuel said.

Max hit Torchwick into a stone pillar.

"You know what, Neo?" Torchwick asked as his assistant came to his side, "I think that we're going to be recruiting the White Fang after all."

Torchwick and Neo ran out of the base while nobody was looking.

"Yagh!" Coros cried as he got hit by Max into a wall.

"Surrender, you're beaten," Samuel said as he, his teammates, Max and team CFVY surrounded Coros.

"This battle is far from over," Coros said, "I am merely a commander, I am nothing compared to my leader."

"So, who's this leader of yours?" Samuel asked.

"I am only going to tell you that his name is 'Vandal Black' because none of you will make it out of here alive with the information," Coros said moments before an alarm started blaring and all of the lights turned red.

Upon hearing the words 'Vandal Black' Max Sentinel bore a shocked expression.

"Base self-destruct, 30 seconds," a computer said.

"We have to get out of here!" Samuel said.

The two teams ran, but Max just stood there.

"What's wrong, old man?" Coros asked, "Too shocked at hearing who's behind it all?"

"Max, we need to go!" Samuel said coming to Max's side, "Now!"

Samuel and Coco dragged Max until they came to the exit door.

"Now what?!" Coco asked.

"Base self-destruct, 10 seconds," the computer said.

"Everybody, shoot the door down!" Samuel said.

Everybody pulled their weapons out (except Velvet), shot the door to pieces and ran outside just before the base blew to pieces on the inside (oddly, the mountain didn't fall apart).

"That was close," Velvet said.

"Yeah," Danielle said, "Too close."

"You know what?" Samuel asked, "I can't wait to get back to Beacon, I've had enough excitement for a long time."

"Yeah," Rachael said, "Let's pick up our jars, finish our project and make our way back to Beacon."

Max finally was moving again.

"Hey, Max, what went wrong, back in the base?" Samuel asked.

Max pulled out his sign, which now said "He's…he's a dangerous crime boss, I…I've heard of him before and the cruel things he's done."

"Yeah, so have we," Samuel said, "Come on, let's finish up here and head back to Beacon."

The two teams did what they originally came to do and made their way back to Beacon via transport ship. And when night came, the two teams went to their dorms and all of the members had a very well-deserved rest.