Chapter 14.

(NOTE: Chapter 14 is here! This time it is written by Frogy117 & edited by Jared. We hope you enjoy and do not forget to cast your vote on the poll from last chapter about the rating. Hope you all enjoy this chapter- Frogy117) Note: (Apolgises for no new chapter in a week our time have been busy we are working as hard as we can)

-Jared 3rd person POV-

Jared wakes up and assumes its morning so he gets up and opens the door to the closest than stops dead in his tracks to find that Shadow is standing there with his arms crossed with a evil smirk across his face. Shadow finally speaks.

Shadow: "So this is what you mean by 'Yang out'" Shadow marks with air quotes.

Jared: "Go f..." he sighed "...just don't ask. Nothing 'intimate' happened, we just cuddled."

Shadow bursts out laughing while Jared still has a frown upon his face then Shadow collects himself and speaks again.

Shadow: "Anyways, I hope your ready to showcase your armor that you upgraded otherwise its not going to be a good day for you. Get the rest of the team and tell them the same and meet in my dorm within ten minutes."

Jared just sighs and agreed.

Shadow walks off and Jared goes back into the closest to gather his things and get ready for the day. After he was dressed and had his armor on, he went to fetch the other SBH.

-Shadow 3rd person POV-

Shadow: 'They did a very good job on the armor... with a couple things here and there, but otherwise its perfect!'

Shadow is currently inspecting there armor very thoroughly and then states.

Shadow: "Great work guys you got the job done the first time. Im proud of you."

Jared: "What can I say? We're a 'Shadow' of our mentor? Eh?"

Shadow: 'Oh god, he is spending way too much time with Yang...'

Shadow: "Anyways, the main reason I brought you here is because you're not going on the next mission.

The SBH look at each other and back to Shadow then finally Titus speaks up.

Titus: "Then... who would be going...?" Titus said this with much emphasis on 'would.'

Shadow: "The rest of team RWBY. Understood?

The SBH agree, but Jared speaks up, looking a bit thoughtful.

Jared: "I still worry for Ya-" He then relises he left Yang in her closet with the attire she was wearing. And makes a mad dash out of the room to go get her. Shadow starts laughing as he falls out of his desk chair. After he collects himself he tells the team they are dismissed and goes to team RWBYs dorm to brief them.

-Weiss 3rd Person POV-

Weiss is standing in the middle of team RWBYS's room making sure her weapon has all her dust 'slots' filled when she hears a knock out the door.

Weiss: "Come in" She says with as much monotone as humanly possible.

Weiss turned to see Shadow enter and was surprised.. Shadow would almost never come in the team RWBYS dorm unless it was important.

Shadow: "Could you all line up, please?"

The team starts lining up slowly but surely but then Shadow notices Yang is in the room and forgets that Jared went to get her in the closet.

Shadow: "Err...Where is Yang?"

Ruby: "I have been wondering where she is-" She was cut off by Jared entering the room with Yang who was wearing very quickly thrown on over-clothes. Blake grins mischeviously, while Weiss and Ruby are just staring at Jared. He gets the hint and waves his hand in front of him with the signal "I promise nothing weird happened!" Then he says his goodbyes and apologies to prelude his departure.

Yang slowly wakes up and says "Hey guys!" Then notices that she is lacking some of her usual outfit so she quickly throws on the missing pieces and joins the line with a nervous grin, trying not to seem off.
Shadow: "Would you all like to go to dinner tonight as just you four and I as a team? We havent done that in a while."

Weiss: 'Something is off about this..I bet its something else'

Weiss: "Why not? I was getting tired of Cafeteria food anyway."

Ruby: "Yeah! Team RWBYS is back together!" Ruby seemed quite energetic that day.

Blake just walks up and kisses Shadow which Yang smiles to.

Yang: "Aww... How cute!"

Blake shoots her a glare that even Shadow would have had trouble with facing and she shuts up and says she agrees to go out.

Shadow: "Meet me at the front of Beacons entrance at 5 'o clock PM, tonight. Wear something nice. Dismi- uhhh... that's all."

Shadow walks out the dorm room to prepare.

The Girls just look at each other then find the nicest clothes they can find. Blake decides to wear the same dress she did with Shadow on there first dinner together. Weiss decides her usual outfit suits every occasion. Ruby puts on a red gown and Yang wears her usual dating attire, pretty much whatever she feels like. Which just so happened to be a nice yellow T-shirt, a pair of denim pants and her usual shoes.

Weiss: "Its 4:55 you guys! We need to get to the entrance now!"

Team RWBY exits the dorm and overhears Shadow making reservations for Quoth the Raven's private party room there.

Ruby waves for the team to follow her as they go on to the restaraunt.

-Shadow 3rd Person POV-

Shadow: 'Where the heck are they...?' Thought Shadow as it was 5:10 and they were not there yet.

Shadow sighed and shrugged his shoulders. Turning around, he started to go inside the restaraunt. Shadow walks into Quoth the Raven and as he walks in, the Waitress tells him his seats are ready. He walks into the private room and in to his surprise that the rest of team RWBYS is there.

Blake: "Shadow, this seems a little expensive..."

Shadow: "Dont worry Blake, I can cover this. The manager owes me a favor anyway."

They decide not to waste any more time and get down to ordering their dinner. Blake gets a Salad and just when Shadow is about to cheer for her getting something other than fish she says fish salad and Shadow could've sworn he felt his eye twitch. Weiss gets a very fancy chicken and alfredo plate. Ruby gets a red salmon plate. Yang gets a burger with the same type of sauce she had at the pub the night before but to make it extra spicy. Finally, Shadow asks for the same thing as Yang.

Shadow: "Waitress could you close the door while we wait for our food?"

The waitress nods and closes the door.

Shadow: "Now the reason why I brought you guys here, is to relay that you're going on the next SBH mission. Just you four and I."

Blake smiles with curiousity, Ruby jumps in excitment, Weiss is just glaring at him and Yang is just smirking.

Shadow: Now the mission here is to take out the main designer for Shash's weapons but his name is unknown. The goal is to take him out. This is the plan. Yang you will go in and create a distraction that gets about as many of the guards out of the warehouse as possible. Ruby and Weiss will come support you. Blake and I will infiltrate through the ventilation system and take out the target. The guards being gone makes it much easier for our exfil. If we are succesful, then Shash will have a hard time making improvements to his weapons. Now, are you all ready for this?"

Team RWBY's responses varied, but all in essence agreed.

By that time the Waitress comes in with there food.

Shadow: "Our food will get cold if we dont eat so, dig in!"

Shadow than takes a huge bite of about half his burger and swallows it. His face doesnt even turn red or move.

Yang, clearly surprised with how Shadow can just down the bite without being fazed asked, "How...?"

Shadow: "I have eaten stuff spicer than this."

They finished their dinner and pay up. It came out to a staggering 1870 lien.

They then walk back to Beacon and head to their respective dorms. Shadow says he is going to plan for other things and to not disturb him unless it's important.

-Ruby 3rd person POV-

Ruby: "Team RWBY get prepared for tomorrow! We have a lot ahead of us!" she says with her quirky and energetic attitude.

Weiss: "Why would Shadow want to bring us instead of his trained team of soldiers? I just dont get it."

Yang: "Mabye he wants to see how awesome we are!"

Ruby: "Mabye he is going to recruit us into SBH!"

Blake: "Lets just see what Shadow has in store for us before we get our hopes up. Even I'm unsure of what's going to happen."

Everyone fell silent at that and finally went to sleep.

-Blake 3rd person POV-

Blake wakes up to a sudden rush of heat. She quickly notices that their air conditioner is running so she knew something was wrong. She gets up walks out of her dorm into Shadow's to find that black flames are everywhere. He was furiously holding his head and looks like he is trying to think.

Blake: "Shadow! Whats the matter?" She says in the nicest tone possible.

Shadows flames then die down a bit and he gets up to walk over to her and gives her a kiss. All traces of black flames instantly disappear after that.

Shadow: "Dont worry I was just doing some planning. Sorry if I woke you. Sometimes its very hard to control my anger when trying to plan important raids such as these. Risks and that nonsense."

Blake is trying to think of ways to help him, but Shadow interrupts her thought.

Shadow: "Thank you for sticking with me Blake. No matter how angry I've been or how much I've screwed up. You've pretty much been there at every scene."

Blake just gave him a close kiss and said: "You don't need to thank me, call it my good nature."

Shadow nods in agreement but yawns.

Blake: 'He needs rest.'

Blake: "Shadow, you should get some sleep." Blake doesnt wait for Shadow's answer as she pulls him to his bed and he gets in and she gets under the blankets with him and cuddles next to him. She then kisses him goodnight, and they asleep.

-Yang 3rd person POV-

Shadow (Via earpiece): "Start with a bang and end with a bang!"

Yang nods to herself knowing that is the code to start the distraction but before she does.

Yang: "Aww, but I like to start and end things with a Yang!" Everyone groans in the earpiece.

Yang then notices the guards are all PMCs with personal cars... she gets an idea.

She yells for the guards to look then jumps in the air and ground pounds the ground near the cars turning parts of cars into ash set some on fire and everything else just goes flying.
The guards get up and start for Yang but when the first guard is about to reach her he is hit by ice and is frozen solid. The second guard is taken out by a red blur and falls over knocked out. The large combat boot mark on his face suggests an appearance of red riding hood.
Yang grabs a guard and does a 3 inch punch combined with a high impact shot from her gauntlet and sends him flying into the warehouse. After a quick 15 minutes the guards are either dead, wounded or unconsious.

Yang says to the other two people with her, "That was fun! But anyways lets head back to Beacon."

The girls nod and start heading back.

-15 minutes earlier, Shadow & Blake's location-

-Shadow 3rd Person POV-

Yang (via earpiece) I like to start and end with a Yang! Shadow and Blake just groan from the god awful pun and start running across the rooftops of the warehouses. Shadow notices two guards and he interchanges his DC17M into its grenade launcher form and fires off a round. The impact knocks the two guards off balance and they fall off the roof. Shadow then runs to the target warehouse and sees the battle going on and wishes that team luck. He sees the ventalation enterence rips the metal off then he heads down into the shaft but before he moves forwrad he is stopped by his Faunus partner. She points to the ceiling of the shaft and notices a trip mine. Shadow then quickly disables it and quickly thanks Blake and moves to the targets office. He sees the target is in a mostly soundproof room and Shadow has a hint of irony as it is similar to the fake mission he talks about a few weeks ago at dinner.

Shadow: 'All I have to do is kill him and take his tablet'

Shadow activates his hidden cuff blades. He jumped down and as silently as possible killed the target, but cleanly.

Blake: "Nice kill Shadow."

Shadow nods and grabs the tablet and scrolls through it the intel on there is amazing. He finds that he was going to send some new design specs to Nova to make the gun degration as slow as Shadows and the same ammo shadow is going after. He was going to send it to Nova today.

Shadow: 'Thank god we got here so quickly otherwise Nova would have had weapons equal to ours.'

Shadow then takes the tablet to see if any other intel is on it and then turns to notice three guards at the door but to his surprise Blake actually killed one and uses her Gambol Shroud to knock the other two in the head, incapacitating them immediately. Blake looks over at the one she hit directly and starts trembling.

Shadow walks over and hugs her.

Shadow: "Its ok, the first one is always hard, its fine. Just watch your breathing."

Blake calms down but Shadow can tell she never killed anyone before.

Shadow: "Dont worry they would have killed us, you did the right thing."

Shadow helps Blake into the airshaft and they made their way to the rooftops. As they are running Shadow radios to Yang for a status but she said they took cares of the guards 10 minutes ago and were already back at Beacon.

Shadow: 'Good job to them...That was quick'

-Blake 3rd Person POV-

Blake is thinking what Shadow has instore with the holo table he installed in his room. After some calculations he turns to everyone and speaks.

Shadow: "Alright people, team RWBYS, excellent job on the mission today. Your overall team score out of 5 is a 4.23 which is outstanding. The overall rating the SBH would have gotten is..."

Blake watches on the screen as a 4.24 pops up under the SBH team. She realizes they did just as good as the SBH team and they have never done this kind of work before.

Shadow: "Good job to all of you. Your dismissed for now, I must go see Ozpin."

Blake stops Shadow for a second.

Blake: "What are you going to tell Ozpin?"

Shadow: "The intel we have found over the last few days."

Shadow then walks out of the room.

-3rd Person Shadow POV-

Shadow knocks on Ozpins door to see if he is busy and hears a faint, "Come in."

Shadow enters and sees Ozpin viewing a video on his Scroll which appears to be a video of something. He turns off the video and turns to Shadow.

Ozpin: "Hello Shadow, what brings you here?"

Shadow pulls out a small datapad and pulls up the intel for Ozpin to see.

Shadow: "We found out from machines tablet that all 9 Nova were transported here so that means instead of 1 left there is now 7. But, that doesnt mean we have to necessarily kill all of them."

Ozpin: "How so?"

Shadow: "Shash is the feet of the Nova squad, just like a human body, if you remove the feet, you're gonna need some wheels to keep it going."

Ozpin: "I see. Anything else?"

Shadow: "We figured out how to upgrade our armor and weapons so our armor can withstand dust ammo and our weapons can fire modified dust bullets so they do not degrade as fast as Shash's guns."

Ozpin: "Very well. Thank you for informing me on what has been happening. You're dismissed."

Shadow then walks out the office and down the hall.

As Shadow walked down the hall, he thought about the week. He had a nice dinner, kicked a bit of butt, and ended up with a lot of intel. 'Will it last? Or is this just a dream?'

Shadow couldn't decide. But he decided to ride it out and see how far the ship would sail.