Team JSON

Chapter 14

Black and White

Blake is sitting with the faunus boy from the docks, they are at the front of a tea shop in Vale. the monkey tailed faunus is holding a tea cup with his tail. Blake took a sip from her cup then said, "So… you wanted to know more about me." She says.

"Finally she speaks." Sun the monkey faunus says, "Nearly two days and you've given me nothing but small talk and weird looks." Blake frowns at the comment, "Yeah like that." Sun says.

Blake rolls her eyes and gives a smile that faded just as quickly as it came, "Sun… are you familiar with the White Fang?" Blake asks already knowing the answer before it came, "Of course! I don't think there's a faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them." Sun replied.

"Stupid, holie-than-thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want, Bunch of freaks if you ask me. " Sun replied. "I was… once a member of the White Fang." Blake said, Sun almost chokes on his tea, "Wait, a minute you were a member of the White Fang?" he asked in surprise.

"That's right. I was a member for most of my life actually. You could almost say I was born into it." Blake says, "Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between humans and the faunus. Of course, despite being promised equality, the faunus was subjected to discrimination and hate. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as a voice of our people. And I was there. I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference… but I was just a youthful optimist… then five years ago, our leader stepped down, and a new one took his place. And a new leader with a new way of thinking. Suddenly our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fires to shops that refuse to serve us. Hijacking cargo from companies that use faunus labor. And the worst part was? It was working. We were being treated as equals. But not out of respect… out of fear. So I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence. And instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am. A criminal hiding in plain view. All with the help of a little, black bow."

She finishes her story as she wiggles her ears under her bow. Sun looks at her with a sad expression, then in a soft voice he asks, "So… have you told your friends any of this?" Blake looks at the ground and fights back her tears.

Vale street

"Blaaake!" Jason shouts. "Blaaake!" Sonya yelled, "Yo, Blake where the hell are you!?" Nathan shouted, "Damn it, where is she?"

"That's what we're trying to find out genius." Sonya said sarcastically. "Hey guys!" Fenris said appearing out of nowhere.

"Ah jeez don't do that!" Sonya screamed from surprise. She gave him a shove. "What you dudes doing?" He asked. "We're looking for Blake." Jason said. "You mean the faunus?" He asked. "Uh… yeah… wait how did you know?" Jason asked.

"Because he's a wolf faunus." Olivia said matter of factly. "Wait you mean he can smell her?" Nathan asked. "Yep." Fenris said. "Want me to help?" he asked the group. "How?" Nathan said. His teammates rolled their eyes, Fenris sniffed the air then he said, "She that way!" he ran off with Team JSON right behind him.

Back with Sun and Blake

"So what's the plan?" Sun asked Blake. They are walking on a sidewalk in the city of Vale. Blake sighs, "I still don't think the White Fang is behind these robberies. They've never needed that much Dust before." Blake says thinking.

"What if they did?" Sun said, "I mean the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they would most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there…right?" Sun said trying to explain his theory.

"The only thing is I have no idea where that would be." Blake said. "Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a 'huge' shipment of dust coming in from Atlas." Sun answered.

"How huge?" Blake asked. "'Huge'. Big Schnee Company freighter." Sun said.

"You sure?"

Team JSON

Team JSON and Fenris followed Blake's scent to the spot where they last were. Fenris sniffed the air again, "She's with another faunus, a monkey." He said. Team JSON looks at each other, "You think its that monkey faunus from the docks?" Olivia asked.

"Don't know but at least we have a lead. Fenris, where does her scent lead?" Jason asked. "That way to the docks." He says, "Come on!"

Sun and Blake

Blake is laying on the roof of a warehouse in the docks. In the yard was a munch of cargo each with the Schnee Dust Company logo on it. Sun comes up behind Blake carrying a armful of apples, "Did I miss anything?" he asked.

"Not really. They've offloaded all the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there." Blake said. "Cool, I stole you some food?" Sun said. "Do you always break the law without a second thought?" Blake asked.

"Hey weren't you in a cult or something?" Sun interjects. Blake glares at him. "Ok, too soon." Suddenly a huge gust of wind blows at then from above, the loud roar and whine of turbine engines are heard.

The two faunus look up to see a Bullhead fly down to the docks. It lands and a White Fang troop walks out. "Oh no." Blake says. "Is that them?" Sun asks. Blake sees the symbol, the read head of a beast with three scratch marks coming down diagonally.

"Yes. It's them." Blake says. More troops come down. One comes down, this one is holding a rifle, he starts to bark commands at the others, "Alright! Grab the tow cables!"

"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun said. "No I think deep down I knew. I just didn't want to be right." She says as she looks down, then a new voice fills the air that causes Blake to look up in surprise.

"Hey what's the hold up!?" the voice yelled. A man in a white coat, a bowler hat, and a cane walked out. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, sooo" Roman Torchwick said, "why don't you animals try to pick up the pace."

"This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with a human. Especially not one like that." Blake says as she stands up and draws her sword. "Hey! What are you doing?" Sun yelled trying to stop her but he was too late.

Blake jumps of the warehouse and quickly runs over to a cargo crate that is directly behind Roman. She hides behind it as she sees Roman talk to a White Fang troop. "No you idiot! This isn't a leash!"

Blake dashes behind Roman and places her sword to his throat, "What the… oh for f—"

"Nobody move!" Blake yelled. One soldier pulled out his sword as the other points his gun at her. "Woah! Take it easy there little lady." Roman said. More soldiers approach the two. As a soldier points a gun at her from a few feet away she pulls of her bow to reveal her cat ears.

"Brothers of the White Fang. Why are you aiding this scum?" She said. The White Fang members falter and lower their weapons. "Heh, oh kid. Didn't you get the memo?" Roman said. "What are you talking about?" Blake asked harshly.

"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together." He says. "Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation." She said pressing her katana harder to his throat. Just then the whine of jet turbines sounded and two Bullheads landed.

Blake stared at the two jets. Roman used this opportunity to escape. He fired shot from his cane into the ground knocking Blake back. He then spins around and fires a shot at Blake. Blake pushes herself off the ground she looks up to see the projectile coming.

Then Jason lands in front of her and block the shot with his shield. as the smoked cleared he looked over his shoulder and smiled at Blake, "Next time don't get distracted when your holding someone hostage." He says

The White Fang members raised their rifles ready to shoot. The staccato of gunfire is heard in the distance. Twelve shots in total, each shot downing a White Fang member. "Olivia now!" he yelled. Two daggers connected to chains come out of nowhere and impale two White Fang members. The blade goes straight through them and gets stuck on the ground. The chains straighten and tense up. Olivia flies from the air using the chains to pull her.

She slammed into Roman causing him to stumble back. Nathan lands in front of Torchwick with a glowing green armor surrounding him. He looks up with his glowing green eyes. He smiles," Surprise". Nathan's fists fills with burn Dust, he slams it into the ground which causes an explosion.

The blast launches Roman into the air. Sonya comes out of nowhere underneath Roman. She slashes her blades at Roman knocking back. Fenris appears behind Roman. He pulls out two batons and slams Roman into the ground.

As Roman gets up onto his feet he is met by Jason charging at him. Jason yells as he slashes at Roman. Roman blocks the strike, Jason bashed Roman then multi-slashed Roman. Roman jumps and lands away from Jason and fires a shot at him, Jason raises his shield to block.

Blake jumps in front of him and slices the projectile out of the air, "He's mine!" she shouts as she charges at him. She slashes at Roman dashing in around him while slashing at the same time leaving shadows of her to confuse Roman.

Roman blocks and strikes at Blake. He lands a blow to her stomach then uppercuts her and slams his cane down onto her head knocking her to the ground. Sun jumps in and twirls his collapsible staff around hitting Roman a few times. He then splits his staff and it becomes his two nun chucks, Ruyi Bang and Jingu bang.

He spins those around hitting Roman and firing shots at him continuously. Blake jumps in and kicks Roman back. As Roman gets off the ground he sees a cargo hanging by a crane over the three kids. He shoots it causing it to fall. As Blake and Sun dodge out of the way the cargo lands on Jason.

"Jason!" Olivia shouts. "Don't worry!" Nathan shouts back as he dispatches the White Fang members he's fighting.

The cargo box gets lifted upward. Jason is under it with a gray aura around him. He heaves the box up and hurls it at a group of White Fang members crushing then.

"Sun watch out!" Jason yells as he blocks a strike from a White Fang member. Roman points his cane at Sun ready to fire.

"Hey!" everyone looks up to see Ruby on top of a roof with Penny behind her. "Oh, hello Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?" Roman says. "Ruby, are these people your friends?" Penny asks.

"Penny get back!" she says. Roman uses this distraction and fires a shot at Ruby. Ruby turns around too late as it slams into her chest knocking her back.

"RUBY!" Jason yells he kicks the White Fang member he's fighting then charges at Roman, "You son of a bitch!" he bellowed. Roman turns and fires a screaming bullet at him knocking him back.

Penny narrows her eyes at Roman and walks to the edge of the roof. "Penny wait, stop!" she yells at Penny trying to stop her. "Don't worry Ruby. I'm combat ready!" she says, her backpack opens up and a sword pops out floating behind her.

The sword splits into ten and forms a Wing formation behind her. she jumps of the building, Several blades come down and strikes down some White Fang members. She lands in a crouch, she stands up and waves her hand to her right, the swords swing to the right slashing a White Fang charging toward her.

She waves her hands to her left and pins one to a cargo box. As two more come running toward her. She puts her sword in a flower shape in front of her and causes it to spin. Knocking the charging soldiers to the side. She does a flip as the blades hit another member. When she lands she swings her hand forward.

The swords forms the flower formation but this time horizontal like a buzz saw and she swings it at a group of charging at her knocking out all of them.

Three more Bullheads fly in. Firing their chain guns down at the young Hunters. Jason raises his shield to deflect most of the shots and backs away protecting Olivia as Nathan uses his semblance to protect Sonya.

Penny spins her blades in front of her to block the shots as she produces two more swords and fires them behind her. It lodges into the side of a building anchoring her in. The threads connecting her to the swords retract pulling her back and away from danger.

The sword forms a circle and all point forward. It starts to spin clockwise as a green ball of energy forms at the center of the swords. Then punching forward with both hands she fires a laser at the ships, slicing two in half.

Ruby stares at what's left of the Bullheads as it lands in the water and explodes. She then turns around to the noise of a third Bullhead trying to land.

Penny launches the rest of the blades at the Bullhead lodging them into the side of the plane. The wires connecting the swords to her tighten. She starts to move back pulling the Bullhead toward her.

"Whoa, how is she doing that?" Ruby says as she stares in awe. "Holy shit." Jason says as he and everyone else stares at Penny's feat. Penny keeps walking backward as she jet struggles to take off. Roman glares and runs to the waiting Bullhead.

With one final pull Penny pulls the jet into a stack of cargo boxes causing it to explode. "These kids just keep getting weirder." Roman says. He closes the hatch with his cane and the Bullhead takes off.

Jason transforms his sword into his rifle and starts to shoot at the jet only for the bullets to ping off the armor. He lowers his weapons and curses as the jet flies away.

A few minutes later

Weiss and Yang walk up to the group. Ruby gets up and tries to explain things to Weiss, "Look Weiss it's not what you think she explained the whole thing you see she doesn't actually where a bow she has kitty ears and their actually kinda cute," Ruby says in a frenzy. Jason places a hand on her shoulder to calm her down as they watch the scene unfold.

"Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with—" she gets cut off by Weiss.

"Stop, do you have any idea how long we've been searching for you?" Weiss asks. Blake just stares at her. "Twelve hours." Weiss answers. "Actually its forty eight." Nathan yells in the back ground, earning a smack to the head by Samantha.

"That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours I've decided…"

Everyone looks at Weiss in wait of her response. Ruby and Jason share a hopeful look.

"I don't care!" Weiss says. "You don't care?" Blake asks.

"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?" Weiss asks,

"No, I-I haven't been since I was younger—"

"Upupupupup! I don't wanna hear it. All I want to know, is that the next time something this big comes up… you'll come to your teammates, and not some…" she looks at Sun, "someone else."

Blake looks to her friends, all of them are smiling at her. she wipes away a tear of joy, "Of course." Blake answers. Weiss smiles.

"Yeah team RWBY is back together!" Ruby shouts earning a laugh from Jason. Not a laugh of amusement but a laugh of happiness. They step in to one huge circle of friends. Weiss turns to Sun, "I'm still not quite sure how I feel about you!"

Sun gives a nervous laugh. "Hey wait a minute, where was that girl who was with you?" Jason asked. "You mean Penny?" Ruby says she looks around, "Hey where is she.

From a distance, Penny sits in a car looking at the group of friends. "You should know better than running around in a strange city." The driver said.

"I know sir." Penny said looking down as the car drives of with her in it.

"Penny, your time will come."

Beacon

Ozpin is looking at the footage of the docks when he got a message. He opens it,

Qrow

Team _ _ _ _

MSG: Queen has pawns.

Another message comes in,

Evin Xing

MSG: Protect my pupils. And the girl.

"Hmmm."