Ruby: Blake! Carlos!
Yang: Blake! Carlos!
Ruby: Weiss you're not helping.
Weiss: Oh you know who might help, the police!
Ruby: Ugh Weiss.
Weiss: What it was just an idea.
Ruby: Yeah a bad one.
Yang: Weiss I think once we hear Blake's side of the story we'll understand.
Weiss: I think when we hear it you'll all realize I was right.
Penny: And I think Weiss' hair looks wonderful today.
Ruby: Ahhhh! Penny where did you come from?!
Penny: Hey guys, what are you up to?
Ruby: Uhhh.
Yang: We're looking for our friends Blake and Carlos.
Penny: Oh, you mean the faunus girl and boy.
Ruby: Wait how did you know that?
Penny: Uh the cat ears, and the boy had spinnerets on his wrists.
Yang: What cat ears? Blake wears... a...bow...
( cue the tumbleweed )
Ruby: She does like tuna a lot.
Penny: So where are they?
Ruby: We don't know, they've been missing since Friday.
Penny: ( gasp ) That's terrible, well don't you worry Ruby my friend, I won't rest until we find your friends.
( Meanwhile )
Carlos: Achoo! ( sniff )
Sun: You alright there buddy?
Carlos: Yeah I'm good, just had the feeling someone was talking about me. Sorry for interrupting, where were we?
Blake: I just finished explaining how the White Fang had gotten humans to see faunus as equals, but out of fear instead of respect.
Carlos: Right, and how after seeing how effective this was becoming you decided to leave them behind and dedicate your talents into becoming a huntress.
Blake: Correct. So here I am, a criminal hiding in plain sight all with the help of a little black bow.
Sun: I get your story, but how does your friend here fit into all this?
Carlos: To be honest I'm just a student at Beacon, however I'm not the type of person that likes it when people think they can do whatever they want because of some misplaced superiority.
Sun: That's cool and all, but this isn't really your fight, won't other humans hate you for siding against them?
Carlos: Who said I was human?
Before Sun could even question it I shot some webbing at his tail and it got stuck on the ground. He was pretty surprised to see what I just did and Blake even smiled a bit at how ridiculous he looked right now.
Sun: How did you do that?!
Carlos: Let's just say the spider on my jacket isn't just for decoration.
Sun: R-right so what now?
Blake: Now we keep moving.
As we got up I helped Sun get his tail free and we continued walking through the city. Meanwhile the rest of team RWBY went on with their search.
Yang: Thanks anyway sir. That's probably the fifth bookstore we've checked and still no sign of them.
Weiss however kept looking in the other direction as if not really caring about the situation at all.
Yang: You really don't care if we find them do you?
Weiss: Don't be stupid, if course I care. I'm just afraid of what we'll find when we do, the innocent never run Yang.
Yang: What about Carlos? I'm pretty sure he wasn't a part of the White Fang.
Weiss: We didn't think Blake was either and now look where we are. What makes you so certain that he isn't?
Yang: He just seems way too nice to be involved with a group like them.
Weiss: What about his brother, how do we even know he's helping us search. For all we know he could be purposely working against us.
Yang: If he is I wouldn't be surprised. You did drive away Blake after she and Carlos just got together. However I know as brothers both Jonathan and Carlos make a good team, if anything goes wrong we'll be notified, until then we just have to trust them and do what we can.
While the search continued, Blake and I continued through the city with Sun following us as we tried to think of our next move. So far the two of us basically stayed out of sight trying to avoid getting into any kind of trouble, but now we really needed a plan. I thought about leading them to the docks but I wasn't completely certain if I should just because I didn't want to risk my curse kicking in again, but since we were this far along already it might be worth a shot.
Sun: Hey Carlos you alright, you look like your miles away.
Carlos: Yeah I was just thinking.
Sun: Thinking about what?
Carlos: About the dust robberies, something about them feels off and I think it might be worth looking into.
Blake: You're not suggesting the White Fang are really behind them are you?
Carlos: Without any solid evidence we can't really say who is. For all we know it could be them, Roman Torchwick, or even a bunch of local thugs that happened to get lucky.
Blake: So you're suggesting we find a robbery and catch whoever is responsible?
Carlos: Exactly, we just need to figure out where they might go to next, the bigger the target the better our chances.
Sun: I think I might have something, when I stowed away on that ship I heard the crew members talking about a shipment of dust coming in today.
Blake: How big?
Sun: Huge. Like Schnee Dust Co. huge.
Carlos: If it's from the SDC that definitely makes it a priority target, let's get to the docks now.
On our way to the docks I couldn't shake this uneasy feeling that something was about to happen, something that didn't happen before, regardless we made our way over there and spent a couple of hours waiting for the right opportunity. While Sun left to get some food Blake rested her head on my shoulder as we kept watch.
Blake: After this what's our next move?
Carlos: Easy, we go back to Beacon.
Blake: Carlos you know it's not that simple, if the team hates me...
Carlos: They don't hate you...
Blake: But what if they do!
She was right, what if the team did hate her? The Maidens did say changes happened that caused the future of this world to be altered than what was originally intended. What would I do if the others really hated Blake?
Carlos: Blake look at me. I know that the rest of our friends don't hate you, if anything right now they're just confused. They have had some time to think about all that's happened the last few days, and I believe that they'll surprise you. However if the worst does happen, I'll go with whatever you decide.
Blake: Are you serious, what about becoming a huntsman?
Carlos: That won't matter to me if you're not beside me. All I want is for you to be happy, if that means we have to runaway together again, than I'm okay with that.
Blake hugged me and started crying a bit at seeing how far I would go for her. I already ran away with her into the city, what's stopping me from doing so across the kingdoms?
Blake: That's very sweet of you, but what about Jonathan, I don't think he'd be very happy having his older brother taken away.
Carlos: If anything I think he'd be thrilled to finally get rid of me. But I think that means he would be put in team RWBY and I don't know what the new team name would be.
Blake: Still I appreciate what you've done for me, if this what you want, I won't stop you.
As sweet as this moment was unfortunately it was cut short as Sun came back with an arm full of apples and let's just say both of us were visibly annoyed.
Sun: Hey did I miss anything?
Blake/Carlos: No!
Sun: What's wrong, did I interrupt something?
Before either of could say anything we heard the sounds of others in the area and saw a bullhead fly over us. This was it, the fight at the docks was set in motion, now I just hoped I could be of any actual help.
Sun: Is that them?
Carlos: Yeah it's the White Fang alright, and Roman Torchwick is here too.
Blake: This isn't right, why are the White Fang working with him?!
Carlos: We can ask them later, right now let's catch these guys.
I reached into one of the pockets of my jacket and pulled out a Spider-Man mask I was working on that actually had the lenses move and put it on to get ready.
Sun: What's with the mask?
Carlos: Just let me have my fun. Blake you go in and try to distract them while I stick to the shadows and take some of them out to lower their numbers.
Blake: Understood.
Sun: What about me?
Carlos: You stay here in case we need backup.
Sun: What?! But I can fight, you guys need me!
Carlos: That's why you're backup, in case things get crazy I'll need you to protect my girlfriend.
Sun: Wow really?
Carlos: Yes, I'm putting my trust in you, can you do this?
Sun: You got it!
Carlos: Okay, let's move!
As we split up I stayed on the rooftops while Blake made her way to Roman directly. I used everything I learned from back home to my advantage and managed to capture some White Fang troops with little difficulty. A few of them I managed to knock out without killing them by accident since that was my biggest concern, a couple I left stuck to the side of one of the warehouses or left hanging from some of the cranes in the area. So far everything seemed to be going in order until my spider sense went off and I saw a metal crate heading for Blake.
Carlos: Look out!
Wasting no time I swung as fast as I could and managed to catch it before it could harm Blake, I gotta admit this thing was really heavy even with my enhanced strength.
Roman: Impressive, I gotta admit that was an impressive catch, but I'm afraid you don't get to be where I am without having a plan B.
As I set the crate down my spider sense went off again and I was immediately tackled by a large faunus that literally ran through the crate like it was cardboard wearing heavy armor and sent flying several feet until I sit the side of a warehouse.
Blake: Carlos!!!
Carlos: I'm okay, nothings broken. Except my spine, my ribs, and maybe everything else.
As I got up to try and help Blake my way was blocked by the faunus who blindsided me. As I got a good look at him I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Carlos: N-No way! What are you doing here?!
Rhino: Looks like there is nowhere to run little man, now you face the Rhino!!!