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Chapter fourteen: Complications

Jayden walked a few steps closer to the leaf pile, his saber casting a blue shadow on the walls of the dim tunnel. Everyone knew not to take that spot. It was his spot. It was the one place in all the world where Jayden could find some peace and quiet and not have to worry about others trying to kill him. No one, or at least not many, came to this part of the system since it was on the outskirts of the homeless community and it was blocked off past this point. Suddenly Jayden paused, something seemed familiar to him. "Wait a second, is that who I think it is?" He whispered to Blake and Weiss. He couldn't see her because of the blind fold, but he could sense her aura, it was definitely who he thought she was. "Weiss, you stay here and guard the rear in case she try's to escape. Blake, you're with me."

"Jayden do you know her?" Jayden clenched his saber handle and rubbed the left side of his chest. "Yeah, I do." They proceeded to approach her slowly, so as not to alert her. "How do you intend to get her to move?" Blake whispered as she slowly pulled out Gambol Shroud. "I'll cut her god damn head off, see if that works." Blake was shocked at Jayden's sudden violence but was unable to do anything as two shots rang out in the empty tunnel. Jayden and Blake jumped to opposite sides of the tunnel while Weiss drew her sword. "Oh Jayden, you of all people should know a fox has excellent hearing." She said as she sat up on the pile, a Gurkha gun in hand. Jayden threw his saber at her but she managed to jump over him and Blake. She fired a shot at Weiss's feet to distract her, and before any of them knew it, she was gone.

"where'd she go! Did she get away?" Blake said as she got up. Jayden pushed his hand out and suddenly the girl reappeared, right in plain view of all of them, and was being held against a wall by the Force. His saber flew back into his free hand and he got up. "Well well well. See you never tire of your old tricks Jayden. But honestly, is this any way to treat a lady?" She wore a brown aviators jacket, blue jeans and old red gym shoes. Her hair was a dark orange, almost red, which matched the fox ears that adorned her head and the tail that protruded from the base of her spine. "Last I checked a lady doesn't invite someone on a heist then stab them in the chest so she doesn't have to share the pay day."

Jayden let her go from the wall, the three of them had her surrounded so she couldn't escape. "Weiss, go guard the entrance, if she try's to escape, kill her." Weiss didn't like Faunus, but the thought of killing one still made her nervous. Despite her hesitation she went to the entrance and sealed it shut with ice. "Ok Autumn, you have ten seconds to explain why I shouldn't kill you, and remember, I'm bad at math. One."

"Because I can help you." Jayden raised his saber to autumns throat, but she remained calm. "Eight,"

"So you know he's using a Schnee cargo train? Which one? You'll need me to find it. I can smell the drugs faster then you or the cat girl can find them." Blake tensed up. She jerked her head over to Weiss. If she had heard that it would blow her whole cover. But Weiss was checking the wall she had made and had heard nothing. "My my my. Is that the Weiss Schnee? Tell me, how does she feel about teaming up with a Faunus?" Autumn gained an innocent smile, betraying her inner deceit. "I swear to god if you tell her!" Blake hissed. In one swift motion Autumn kicked Jayden in the stomach, he lurched over as she moved Blake's gun upwards and smashed her into the wall. She put several feet between them, out of either Jayden's or Blake's reach. "You'll do what? I can tell her before you or Jayden do anything to me. So here's the deal, take me with you, split the bounty with me, and she doesn't learn about your little kitty ears. K?"

"How'd you know?" Blake said. "A foxes nose never lies." Autumn said as she tapped her own. How'd she find out about their job? But that didn't matter, Jayden may have wanted to strike her dead, right then and there, but she was right, she could tell Weiss before then and blow Blake's cover. That wouldn't be fair to her to blow it for his silly revenge. "Fine, whatever, you can come. Now, can I get some fucking sleep already? I've been up for damn near two days and I'm ready to bite a certain foxes head off." He walked over to the leaf pile when Autumn walked over next to him. "You always where pissy with out your sleep." Autumn took her hand out of her pocket and slapped Jayden in the but. Suddenly, with out warning, Jayden's hand shot up and hit Autumn in the eye with the back of his fist. "Damn straight." He said as he fell on to the pile of leaves. Blake sat down next to him. "How'd you learn about the bounty?" Autumn got up and rubbed her eye. She picked the Gurkha gun up and put her weapon in the sheathe behind her back. "I over heard your conversation with the huntsman. Thought I could make some nice money."

When Jaune woke up that morning he hadn't imagined it'd be his last. What had made him think sneaking into the academy with fake transcripts would be a good idea? His whole life all he'd wanted was to become a huntsman, to carry on his fathers and his grandfathers legacy. But now, here he was on a ledge on the side of a cliff surrounded by dozens of Beowolves. There was only one path they could climb to get up the cliff and only one could make it up at a time so even he could kill them. But it seemed like every time he killed one ten more took its place. He could kill them yes, but how long could he last up there? He had no food or water, so that meant unless some one came to his rescue soon he had three days max. But he'd probably pass out from exhaustion before then. And after what he'd done to Pyrrha that night he couldn't expect her to come save him like she always did. Another one was almost up. It swiped Jaunes leg with its claw causing a deep gash. He cut its head off as he screamed in pain, attracting more Beowolves. He reached into his bag and took out some gauze to stop the bleeding. "I'm sorry Pyrrha." He said, lamenting the fact he'd never be able to actually tell her. "If I could do it over again..."

Weiss sat on the leaf pile next to Jayden and Blake. Autumn had agreed to sleep farther away from them and Weiss volunteered to take first guard, she was too disturbed by what she had seen earlier to sleep anyways. As a child she'd heard that they're where people who had nothing in this world, but she'd never taken it to be literal before, that there where people who didn't even so much as have clothes. She'd seen several people covering themselves with tarps for lack of proper clothing. They looked absolutely destitute, all traces of hope erased from their existence, leaving only pain and sorrow. "So, you taking guard duty?" She looked up to see the man from the noodle cart earlier walking towards them. "Figured Jayden would crash here. Always did. Likes his privacy that one, and no one ever comes this way cause it's a dead end. I just wanted to stop by to make sure y'all where ok." Weiss stood up and brushed her cloak off. "Yeah, some one has to. How was business today?" Pete took out a cigarette and lit it with an old match. "Good 'nuff that I can afford to smoke again. Though I doubt it was as good as your business was today, Ms. Schnee." Weiss took her hood off and adjusted her tiara. "How did you know?" He sat down against the wall and let out a puff of smoke. "I was old before you where born. You learn a thing or two in that time, though not as much as you think you do. So, you're working with Autumn over there now? God that always works well." Pete said as he rolled his eyes. Weiss sat next to Pete and leaned her saber against the wall. "I'd rather we weren't, but Blake and Jayden insisted she come. And what do you mean?"

Pete dropped some of the ash from his cigarette and took another smoke. "They never did get along those two. People get to know everyone here but Jayden was always a loner. She seemed to take some sort of delight in annoying him. Then there was that time she convinced him to go on a job with her, I don't know the details but it was up in Mistral apparently, something happened and she ended stabbing Jayden in the chest puncturing his lung, managed to survive, obviously."

Weiss looked at Autumn and gripped her sword, she couldn't stand her at all, she couldn't stand any of them. "Is there some sort of gene that naturally makes Faunus degenerate thieves and murderers?" Pete smothered the end of his cigarette on the floor and stood up. He stretched his arms and turned towards Weiss. "Well, that's an interesting theory there but, the way I see it, there no different then people in that regard." Weiss's jaw went slack and she lost her grip on her saber. The Faunus? No different from humans? The idea was both foreign and absurd to her. "Wh- how could you say that! Of course there different! They're thieves and liars! You said it your self! Autumn betrayed Jayden and nearly killed him!"

Pete took out another smoke and lit it. "Forty years ago, back when I was twenty, I wasn't homeless. I had a nice little house out in the country, I had a nice job, and I was married. My wife was a dog Faunus, and everyone who chose to get to know her said she was the kindest, most compassionate person ever. Being a Faunus, however, there where lots of people who hated her simply for that. I guess that's why I fell for her, cause even though they hated her, she loved them all. Shortly after we met, I asked her why, why love the people who hate her?" Weiss wanted to say something, anything. But she couldn't find any words. In the end, all she managed to say was "What did she say?" He took a puff of smoke, his eyes getting a distant, cloudy look like Jayden's when he talked about his life before Remnant. "Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or form of measure. And all of it, irreplaceable."

Weiss moved her lips, she wanted to say something, some retort or rebuttal, but she found nothing, she found her self chipping away inside, little by little the dam inside of her was eroding, and soon it would burst. "Despite that, the people she helped rarely trusted her. They always assumed that their was some secret agenda or something behind what she was doing, and one day, a few months after we married, they attacked her. They decided if she wanted to marry a human, then she should be a human. They beat her, ripped her ears off her head, and left her in an alley way. When I finally found her she had died of blood loss. She was three months pregnant when this happened." Weiss had all ready been speechless, but now she was absolutely dumbfounded. She couldn't find a modicum sense in this story, they attacked and killed her for no reason? And what's worse, they prevented a life from occurring, stealing away any chance of love or happiness from the soon to be child, taking away any of its contributions to the world. It was... Horrifying. "After that I went nuts and wound up down here. Well, better go hit the hay, need to get my sleep if I'm gonna work my stall tomorrow night. Take care, and keep Jayden out of trouble now." After he left the section of tunnel, Weiss finally collapsed to her knees.

Jayden looked around, he wasn't in the tunnel any more. He looked at the walls then up to the ceiling, it looked like he was in a star destroyer again. He was the only one in the corridor as far as he could see so he reached out with the force, he felt hundreds of people, but one in particular stood out. He sensed it as being near, only a few corridors away, so he went to check it out. He walked past several people in dark gray naval officer uniforms, people in white armor reminiscent of clone troopers, but none of them could see him. Finally he came to a door. The person was behind it, and suddenly so was he. It looked like a supply room, armor and weapons hung on racks lining the walls and creating halls. Behind one of these halls a man in armor, but with out a helmet, kneeled over a small device. "Come on, work damn it! I must alert general Kohta! He must know of the Empires plan!" Suddenly the device lit up and the man sighed in relief, only to be interrupted by the whoosh of a door opening followed by a dozen or so other men, all with their blaster riffles trained on him and his device. Suddenly the ones in the middle parted and stood at attention, making way for Darth Vader. "So, a spy has been in our midst? This is most troubling. Tell me where the plans are and I may let you live, long enough to see the rebellion destroyed at least."

"You'll never get them! I've already transmitted your invasion plans to our secret base, you failed Vader!"

"No. You've only postponed the inevitable." Vader raised his hand as if he was holding a glass. The man rose off the ground and reached for his neck, desperately trying to remove some sort of invisible hand from his neck. He flailed his legs and gasped for air, his eyes widening in fear. Suddenly there was a crack, and the mans body went limp. Vader threw him against the wall like a doll as two storm troopers carried his body off. "I want those plans located!"

"Jayden wake up damn it!" Weiss was leaning over Jayden when he opened his eyes. Her arms crossed her chest and she looked extremely annoyed. "Damn visions." He thought as he slowly sat up and rubbed the back of his neck. It'd been more then a month since he last slept in trash, it sucked about as much as he remembered. "What time is it Weiss?"

"Five forty. I've been trying to get you up for five minutes. Time to get going." Jayden reached next to him and shook Blake awake. She woke up easier then him, yawned, and stretched her arms. "Time to go?" She said. "Yeah, we need to figure out how we're going to get to the train yard on the other side of the kingdom by eight or we miss our only chance to find the right train." He looked over at Autumn who was fast asleep. He got up and picked up a small rock about the size his thumb. He threw it at her hitting her in the fore head. "Hey Autumn! Get up! We're moving." She rubbed her head. Her ears where twitching violently as she wagged her tail. "Jeez, couldn't you bring an alarm clock or something?"

"Then I wouldn't have a chance to throw shit at you." He said as he picked up his sword. He unsheathed it to make sure there where no chips before they went on. Autumn looked at the short blade, only about three hand a half feet long. It was completely straight until the tip, which converged with the swords spine at a sharp angle. It's handle wrapped in black leather with a wooden guard separating his hand from the blade. "Your sword is beautiful as always, keep an eye on it. Wouldn't want someone to steal it."

"Try it and I ram it up your you-know-what so far you taste leather." He said as he sheathed it, avoiding eye contact with her. She smiled coyly as if she had no idea what he was talking about. Jayden headed down the tunnel. "Come on guys, we need to be out of here ten minutes ago."

Jaune waited on the mountain side. His leg wouldn't stop bleeding and the bandage was almost completely saturated. His vision was getting hazy and he was seeing spots. The Beowolves had stopped, they sensed their prey would soon be unable to fight back so they merely needed to wait. Suddenly several of the Beowolves blew up as streams of pink smoke flew out of the forest. Jaune looked over the cliff and saw the rest of his team, Ruby, and Yang come out and begin an assault on the Grimm. "So they did come for me." He smiled, ashamed of everything. His weakness, his lies, how he betrayed his friends. Still, he couldn't help but notice a particular red head hack, slash, and blast her way through the horde.

Pyrrha wouldn't let anything stop her from getting to Jaune. A Beowolf tried to get her right flank, only to have its face met with the barrel of her gun. She blew it's head off and turned, blocking some claws going for her back with her shield. Ruby cut it in half followed closely by Yang, Ren mowed his way through the horde followed by Nora taking up his rear. "We need to get through these Grimm and get away before more come." Ruby said as she reloaded, they where hacking and blasting their way through the horde but it wasn't enough, they needed to evacuate soon. The Grimm weren't supposed to be this numerous, something was off. Pyrrha turned her gun into its spear form, she'd need the reach soon. "I have a plan! Nora and Yang, blast an opening through the center! Ruby and Ren, hold the rear!"

Yang put new ammo belts in while Nora turned her hammer back into gun form. They took position while Pyrrha waited to give the signal. She saw Jaune up on the cliff, he looked injured. They're where several Grimm at the base trying to get up. One began to climb it's way up, Pyrrha fired her spear using the recoil to penetrate it's head. The spear stuck in the side of the cliff as the Grimm disappeared "Now!" Yang and Nora launched a barrage of red flare and pink smoke streams as Beowolf after Beowolf blew up. Pyrrha ran as fast as she could, she reached the base and was confronted by three Grimm. She took off her shield and threw it, her body glowing red as the shield picked up speed and cut the Grimm in half. She caught it and jumped up on her spear, using it as a base to spring herself up on to the ledge.

"Jaune! Are you injured?" She realized what a stupid question it was as soon as she said it He was exhausted from blood loss, his leg wrapped in a crimson bandage that had once been white. She knelt down and grabbed his head, bringing it close to her chest. She'd failed to realize the danger she'd put him in, she hadn't even heard of the Beowulf pack before Ren told her, something she should have known about. "I'm so sorry Jaune. I'm so so sorry." As she said this Jaune couldn't help but think "no, don't. I should apologize."