A/N: Welcome back to RWBY: Darkfall. Well I don't really have a lot to say in this as I have not done anything interesting. So please just review, follow, favorite. That is the easiest way for you to get in contact with me if you have questions about the story. Well that's enough of me, back to the story :)
"The Phantom"
The sun rose high in the sky over the Deathwind Desert. The desert was located halfway between Vale and Mistral; and was known for being extremely cold at nights.
Ruby had her head leant against the window of the prison bus, fast asleep. Next to her Neo was looking at her fingers and playing with her hair. In front of the bus was a military truck with a large dust cannon on top of it. Another one was driving behind them. A sudden bump rocked the bus and woke Ruby.
She sat up groggily and looked around. She did not recognize her surroundings at first, but then remembered the events of the previous day.
"Where are we?" Ruby asked, stretching her stiff neck.
"The Deathwind Desert." Neo replied.
"Oh great, now we can freeze to death before we get there." Ruby said, sarcastically.
"I wouldn't put it passed them." Neo said; pointing to the two guards conversing.
They were armed to the teeth; and had more ammo on them than any smart person would carry. The driver was armed as well with a pistol on his calf; and a rifle next to his chair.
"Yeah, they look like the sadistic type." Ruby commented.
"But we do still have to find a way out." she continued.
Above them, hovering around 100 meters high was a stealth bullhead. Inside was the Phantom and Commander Magnolia. They were watching the convoy; and waiting for the right time. Suddenly Magnolia's scroll vibrated; and she grabbed Phantom's shoulder.
"Are you ready?" She asked.
"I was born ready." he said; removing his cloak.
Underneath his cloak was his reflex armor. It was one single piece that went from his boots to his gloves. On his head he was wearing a helmet that had a see through blast shield on the front of it.
A skull shape was carved onto the blast shield. This served as his mask. On top of all that he was wearing a full body exoskeleton, very similar to the one Mannequin has on his leg.
A buzzer started counting down; and when it hit zero he jumped out of the Bullhead. It then blasted off and returned to base. It passed over the Mannequin and Tourniquet who were on the ground over looking the convoy.
"You ready to fly, Fragile?" Mannequin asked; holding up a drone.
"You bet." A female voice said, from the small robot.
Mannequin threw it into the air and it flew off. It gave the Fragile a complete view of the convoy from her monitor back at their base.
"Well it's time to go." he said.
Hearing this Tourniquet turned into a figure of water and sped toward the prison bus. Mannequin also turned into a bunch of black smoke and started moving towards the prison bus as well.
Meanwhile, Phantom, was halfway to the ground. He saw Tourniquet and Mannequin heading for the still moving convoy. He went into a full dive and burst into flame, furthering his speed boost.
When he hit the road a massive dust cloud was formed from the impact. The first truck hit its brakes hard; and skidded to a halt. The prison bus stopped and almost knocked everyone over.
"Bravo 1, what the hell was that?!" The driver shouted over the radio.
The front truck waited for the dust to clear before responding. The dust cleared revealing the 7 foot tall monster that was the Phantom. The sun was reflecting off of the gold accents on his reflex armor.
"Big motherfucker in the middle of the road!" one soldier in the truck shouted in the radio.
Ruby and Neo heard him over the radio. The two guards were now standing in the aisle; there guns held in their hands.
"What is going on?" Neo asked.
"I don't know, but if we're going to escape now would be a good time." Ruby said, starting to stand up.
However, before she could complete her action the muzzle break of one of the soldiers rifles was jammed into her face.
"And where do you think you're going, Miss Rose? " he asked.
Ruby slowly lowered herself back into her seat.
"Smooth move." Neo said.
The soldier kept his gun trained on the two. Not willing to almost let them breathe.
At the front of the convoy Phantom was still stalling for time. The soldiers had dismounted and were pointing their guns at him. "Come on where are you guys?" he thought.
He looked to his left and finally saw Mannequin and Tourniquet cresting the hill. "Finally, distraction time." He lifted his arm and withdrew a tri-barreled LMG off of his back.
"He's got a gun!" the soldiers shouted; and immediately started shooting. Everything from the Dust cannon to their small arms started firing at him. The rounds bounced off of his armor and fell to the ground. He started firing; and his rounds impacted their vehicle and tore it to shreds. One round ripped off the turret of the Dust cannon; and its operator as well. The soldiers fell to the ground all dead; and missing a few limbs.
"Cheers." Phantom said; stepping over the bodies.
In the bus the guards were panicked; and shouting at one another. Ruby looked out the window on her left; and saw a black cloud coming for the bus.
"No way." she said.
The cloud slammed into the bus; and almost tipped it on its side. Mannequin appeared next to the soldier closest to Ruby.
"Good afternoon." he said, to the soldier.
He then stabbed his sword through him before he could react.
"Son of a bitch." the driver said, picking up his rifle.
Seeing this Mannequin grabbed the dead soldier's pistol; and shot the driver in the head.
"You were a waste of skin anyway." he said; dropping the gun.
A slashing sound was heard from behind him. He turned to see Tourniquet cutting the other guard in half; and removing his head.
"Brutal as always." Mannequin said.; cleaning his sword off.
Mannequin turned to Ruby. "Nice to see you again, Ruby."
Ruby and Neo hesitantly got up and walked into the aisle. The other prisoners were to scared to get up.
"Um, why are you here?" Ruby asked.
"Common I think you know." he said.
"You're here to rescue me?"
"More or less." he replied.
Suddenly the truck at the back of the bus exploded. Mannequin grabbed Ruby and shielded her from any shrapnel. Tourniquet and Neo both dove into separate seats as the truck exploded. They heard the wane of jet engines overhead; and Mannequin instantly knew what it was. He stood up and turned to Tourniquet.
"They took the Rogue didn't they." he said.
A gurgling sound ,and a shrug came from Tourniquet.
"I'm going to kill them." Mannequin said.
He then outstretched his arm. "Come on Ruby. Let's go."
Ruby took his hand and exited the bus with him and Tourniquet. Neo slowly followed behind them.
Outside they were greeted by the soldiers that Mannequin had spoken to the previous night. They were dressed in combat armor and were draped in red cloaks.
"Okay, men all prisoners in there are to be evaluated; and processed." Mannequin said.
"Also detain her." he added. pointing at Neo.
A soldier moved behind Neo and started to restrain her.
"Wait, let her go." Ruby said.
"Why?" Mannequin asked.
"Because if you do she'll owe me." she replied.
Ruby walked towards Neo, and put her hand on her cheek.
"And I intend to collect." she said, looking right into Neo's eyes.
Neo nodded and looked at Mannequin.
"I can agree to that." he said.
The soldier undid Neo's restraints and moved away from her. She did a bow and then teleported away from them.
Ruby was now alone with Mannequin and Tourniquet. Her eyes moved awkwardly from one to the other.
"So why did you guys save me anyway?" she asked.
"Oh yeah, well we-' he was cut off by the Phantom walking up.
He was carrying what remained of the Dust Cannon. The gun was a mangled monstrosity of metal and Dust residue. He felt all eyes train on him; and he looked up.
"I thought we could use this." He said.
"Ooooookkkaaayyy, anyway we wanted to ask you to join us." Mannequin said.
Ruby looked at him quizzically.
"Why should I? You were the one who almost beat me to death." Ruby said; crossing her arms.
"You got me on that one; but it will be a lot easier to get you back on Vale, and Beacon's good side if you help us." he said.
Ruby started thinking about this thoroughly. Unfortunately Mannequin's patience was running thin.
"Ruby, the White Fang and the military are your enemies not us." he said.
Ruby thought about it for another minute, before finally giving in.
"Okay." she said.
Mannequin gave an over exaggerated sigh of relief.
"Oh, thank God now I can take this stupid thing off." he said.
He undid the locks on his mask; and almost threw it off. Ruby stood wide eyed, seeing the Mannequin's face for the first time. His face was drenched in sweat, but beside that he looked normal.
"My name's Jozy Glass by the way." he said,outstretching his hand.
Ruby shook his hand; and then turned to another hand that had lifted. It was the Phantom. She shook his hand as well. Her small hand was almost swallowed by his much larger one.
"My name's Tyler Slate." he said.
"Nice to meet you." she returned.
She then turned to Tourniquet.
"His name is Kale Rogue; and it's probably not wise to shake his hand." Jozy said.
"Umm okay, why?" she asked.
Jozy flicked Kale's forearm; and one of his wrist blades reacted to the pressure. It came out with a sharp metal sound.
"Oh." Ruby said, glad that she didn't touch his arm.
"Yeah, we need to get that fixed." Jozy added.
Just then a black Bullhead landed next to them.
"There's our ride." Jozy said.
All four of them boarded the airship; and lifted off. While they were still hovering another Bullhead arrived; and picked up the other prisoners as well as Jozy's men.
"Okay Ruby, I want to know exactly what happened to you while you were under the military's control." Jozy said; as they flew off.
"O-okay."