Author's Note: So, uh that was a thing... anyway, now we're technically in the middle of a story arc so, with Yang and everyone else going to fight the White Fang, who will they run into? What is the secret that has been unknowingly kept from Gage? What has Gage not told his friends? What is the real reason he went to Mountain Glenn? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z- wait, find out very soon on RWBY: Desertion!
Song: Monster by Paramore
"We are ten minutes out from your destination madame!"
Weiss put her hand up and thanked the pilot, "Thank you Sebastian, make sure to say no word of this to my father."
"Loud and clear madame!"
Yang was wearing her alternate Hunter outfit, and she was sitting down next to Zwei on one of the airship's seats, and she was moping about Gage,
"You leave him the morning after? You saw how sad he was, how could you just do that to him and leave? Rrrgh! You're the worst girlfriend ever!"
Sun walked next to her and sat down, "Yang what's up? Why are you acting all mopey?"
Yang angrily turned to him with her red eyes, "None of your business." She answered.
"Okay okay!" Sun said as he retreated.
Ruby (wearing her alternate Slayer outfit,) and Blake walked in front of everyone and started to speak about their operation,
"Okay everyone, here's the plan, Blake?"
Blake walked forward and opened up a map on her scroll, "The info Gage gave us of their location was sort of true. I remembered the White Fang having a small base Northwest of Vale at the very bottom of the Yoko mountain range. So, we're going in quietly, but it probably won't last long, so we'll have to get in and out quickly."
"Uh, how are we going to get back inside Vale?" Neptune asked.
Weiss walked to them and pointed at a river that was on the map, "This river goes into Vale's sewer, so we'll follow it back to the city if my pilot can't pick us up. Does that sound good to you?"
"Yes."
Ruby clapped her hands together and hopped, "Good! Then lets get this raid going!"
...
The pilot stopped above the base of the mountain range, and let the six students (And dog) jump out into the forest.
Yang landed first and scanned the area.
It was still daytime, and the sun light reflected off the yellow, brown and orange leaves of the trees that surrounded them.
"I'm looking at the outside world now... but I wish he was here with me..."
Blake and everyone else landed next to her.
"What was that?" The faunus asked.
"Nothing. So how far is it?"
"Five miles. So we should start walking..."
...
The seven started to walk, but soon Ruby could tell something was wrong with Yang because it seemed like she was spacing out.
"Yang. What's up?" She whispered.
Yang sighed and looked up at the sky.
"Ever since Gage's ship crashed, It got me thinking... I think it was our fault that he got shot at. Hear me out, they fang never really harmed other passing people. Just people they knew about. So after we started ruining their plans they've gotten reckless and started hurting other random people. Including him."
Blake entered their conversation, "It can't be just that. I mean, if it was just us that thwarted them then, they would have expected us."
And then Weiss, "Maybe... it isn't just us who's fighting them. And i don't mean the Atlesian Army. Maybe there's other people."
"Like who?" Ruby asked.
Weiss thought for a moment but narrowed it down to two people. "Well, there's that masked man we saw in Vale... and then... there was that mystery girl that Yang saw on the train..."
Yang gasped, "You're right! We never knew what side they were on... and now that I think about it... the way they dressed, they both kind of looked the same."
"Maybe they're working together..." Blake said while looking down at the grass.
Sun cutted in, "Who would fight the Fang with just two people?" And so did Neptune, "Yeah. With two people they'll just have a death wish."
Yang shrugged, "Maybe they do have one..."
Weiss glared at her, "OR... they could have more people. Who would just give them all that armor and equipment? Not the average shopkeep. No. I think they're a bigger group of..."
"Vigilantes?" Ruby answered.
"No! I was going to say anti-heroes, but maybe they're neutralists."
"Which is?" Such asked.
The heiress held the bridge of her nose and sighed, "*sigh* A neutralist is someone who supports OR despises both sides of a war or battle."
Yang threw her arms in the air, "Well good or bad, the next time we see one of them, we need to capture them and make them tell us the truth about everything. Agreed?"
Zwei barked in agreement, and everyone else nodded, "Agreed." They all answered.
Blake's bow suddenly twitched, "Everyone get into the trees! Now!" She whispered.
They all rushed into the trees and took cover, "Blake what is it?" Yang asked.
The Faunus peeked her head out onto the field, "There's a patrol coming this way!"
Sun climbed to the top of one of the trees and scouted out the field to see at least a dozen White Fang foot soldiers and two hijacked Atlesian Paladins.
"She's right you guys! Here they come!"
Everyone put their backs to the trees and tried to let the patrol pass.
But then Yang started to listen in on one of the soldier's conversation,
"I thought we weren't doing outer kingdom stuff again after that last attempt..."
One of the other soldiers stopped next to the first one while rest of the patrol left them behind.
"Well Torchwick wanted to try again after he got out of prison.
"They never said how he did that."
"Remember that ginger girl with the green lasers and swords that wrecked us at the docks? He tricked her into breaking her out."
Ruby jumped up, "Torchwick?! Penny?!" But Weiss quickly covered her mouth.
"Who's there?!"
The two soldiers started to creep towards the treeline.
"Come out with your hands up! NOW-"
Sun suddenly jumped down from his tree and landed on top of one of the soldier's heads.
"Surprise!"
Yang ran out from the tree and grabbed the to her one by his face, "THIS IS FOR HURTING MY CARE-BEAR!" She then turned and slammed his head a tree trunk
"Ha! You really call him that?!" Sun chuckled.
Yang just ignored him and walked towards the path of the base with fire in her eyes."
...
Yang was on the warpath, and completely forgot about what has happened and what she has heard.
Blake suddenly broke her from her rage with something that was more important, "Yang, I think Ruby's having a panic attack!"
"WHAT?!"
She ran past her friends and picked up her baby sister, who was hyperventilating.
"Ruby im here, just breathe, and look at me."
Ruby gulped and started to mumble between breaths, "Torchwick out of prison, *gasp* and Penny..."
"*Bark!* *Bark!*
Zwei slid in between them and licked Ruby's face in an attempt to calm her down.
Yang just gently hugged her Ruby and held her hand. "It's alright Ruby." Weiss Sr to pat her back, and it caused the rose to cough a little bit.
"Penny has all those things to protect herself with, she'll be fine Ruby."
Ruby finally inhaled and took a deep breath. "Im *pant* gonna kill Torchwick *pant* if he did anything to her." She got up and started to walk again, but Yang ran next to her and let her sister lean against her arm.
"We'll find him again. And we'll find Penny too Ruby..."
...
The seven eventually found a clearing with an old abandoned metal assembly factory.
"Is this it?" Yang asked Blake.
"It's hard to tell... wait a second..."
Blake looked around, and saw a few emptied trucks. Yang then suddenly gasped and pointed at the top of the building, "Up there!"
Weiss looked and saw multiple S.A.M. turrets on top of the roof. "Look! Those must be the AA guns that shot at Gage!"
A siren suddenly blared out and the group all went prone and hid inside some bushes.
"So now what?" Neptune asked.
Ruby, who was still tuckered out, tried to formulate a plan. "*pant* Neptune, Blake and Weiss, *pant* flank around and attack from behind, *pant* and Yang, Me, and Sun will create a distraction... understood?"
They all started to get up, "Understood."
"*beep! *beep!* *beep!*
"Huh?" Ruby felt her scroll vibrate frantically, so she pulled it out on looked at it's screen.
"What is it Rubes?" Yang asked.
Ruby had received a message... from a restricted number. It said,
"Don't engage."
"Let me help you."
Her phone started to ring as the caller tried to call her.
She then received another message,
"Ruby. Answer the call."
Ruby hesitantly answered it and put it on speaker mode.
"H-Hello? Who are you?"
A raspy and digitized voice came through and answered her,
"A friend."
She could tell that it was a man who was speak
"Look at the top of the roof. Do you see a flashing light?"
Ruby looked up and saw a white blinking IR strobe. "Yeah." She answered.
"That's me. I'll get you your information, if you stay back..."
Ruby was still wheezing from her panic attack, so she agreed didn't mind if someone else did her work for her.
"Okay..."
"Alright, stay back, stay out of sight, and sit tight. I'm coming to you."
The call didn't end, so Weiss took it off of speaker mode and whispered to Ruby, "What are you doing?!"
"He might be with those people we were talking about!"
"We don't know that!"
"Yeah! So we should let him come to us!"
"Fine. We'll wait."
...
...
"Is he done yet?" Yang yawned.
The man spoke through Ruby's scroll again, "Okay. I'm coming out, and i'm right in front of you guys."
"Oh... what?!"
They all jumped up and aimed their weapons in front of them.
"I'm coming out. And my weapons are unloaded, so don't shoot." He said.
"We'll see about that buddy!" Yang taunted him.
"Okay. Three... two... one. You should see me now."
Yang looked in front of her and saw a figure.
She slowly walked towards him while everyone else aimed at him, but his back was turned to them.
"Okay hands up!"
Yang tapped his side, and he turned around and put his hands in the air. But then, Yang made a shocking discovery.
"It's... it's you?"
It was the masked man that they saw in Vale, but he was dressed a little bit differently. He had a black hood instead of a silver one... and he had a different mask. It was white. With dark green accents.
"T-That Mask! It's!-"
She recognized the mask. It was the same mask that the mystery girl had on the train. It was a full-face mask that resembled... the face of a Creature of Grimm. It even had four eye slits, further enhancing the man's inhuman appearance.
She immediately grabbed him by his jacket collar and pointed Ember Celica at his temple.
"YOUR PARTNER! WHO IS SHE?! TELL ME DAMN IT!"
He grabbed her wrist and pushed her away.
"She's not important."
He put his hands back up... but he had something in his hand.
It was a weapon with a suppressor on it... but It was a revolver that Yang knew too well.
"J-Javix?! B-But that's Gage's!"
She grabbed him again, "HOW DID YOU GET THAT!" Yang yelled.
He stayed silent... until,
"How do you think I got it?"
Yang's hands started to shake. "D-DID YOU KILL HIM!"
Once again, he didn't speak and Yang felt her heart shatter.
"He can't be dead... he was asleep when I left... I... I shouldn't have left him... why did I... go? he loved me... so much and... that guy took him away from me..."
Fire erupted from her eyes, nostrils, and mouth as she aimed both of her gauntlets at the masked man.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?! WHAT DID YOU DO TO GAGE?!"
"He isn't important anymore either." He answered
Tears tried to come out from her eyes but they quickly evaporated due to the heat.
"I LOVED HIM! AND HE LOVED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING! I'LL... I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU DID ANYTHING TO HIM!"
The man had no choice. He had to show her who he really was.
He reached for the side of his mask and felt for a wire. He found it and ripped it off, causing the wire to let out a mechanical hiss.
He looked at Yang.
"Yang. I'm sorry that I waited this long to tell you."
Yang lowered her gauntlets, "G-Gage?"
He tilted his head to the side and slowly took the mask off revealing his turquoise eyes, and brown hair.
Yang's heart slowly pieced itself back together, but Ruby and everyone else ran and stared at him, "GAGE?!"
Gage dropped the mask and smashed it with his foot.
Weiss stood in front of him, shocked, "Y-You're the masked man? But you were drunk after we chased him in Vale!"
"You'd be surprised how fast it takes to get drunk when you chug down a whole bottle of vodka..."
He looked at Yang, and saw that the fire in her eyes had faded, and had been replaced with water.
"Care-Bear..."
Yang slowly walked to him and stared at him as her eyes turned red. "Why?" She then hugged him and put her head against his chest. "Why did you scare me like that?"
He put a hand behind her head and hugged her back with his other arm. "I didn't know how to tell you..."
He looked up from his girlfriend and at Weiss, "We need to go. Now."
An air raid alarm then echoed from the base and loud yells were heard as the Fang started to search for them.
Gage looked at Blake, "We need to separate. You, Weiss, Sun, and Neptune go in one group. Me, Yang, Ruby, and Zwei in the other one. There a river to the west of here, we'll find it, regroup, and follow it back to Vale."
"Okay."
"Then go!"
The four of them ran into the forest, so Ruby picked up Zewi and followed Gage as he took Yang by her hand and pulled her into the forest.
...
After thinking that they lost the search party, Yang let go of Gage's hand and separated herself from him.
"So how long have you been doing this..."
Gage reloaded Javix's six-shot barrel and spun it, "*sigh* A little bit before our first date, but this is my third operation."
Yang just stayed silent and walked ahead of him and Ruby. He looked back at Ruby, but she just mouthed, "Go." To him.
So he walked up to her and tried to talk to her, "Yang... I have a good reason behind this..."
She didn't respond.
"Yang!"
He got in front of her and grabbed her wrist, "Look at me!" She tried to pull her arm away, but Gage raised it above his head. "*growl* Gag-Mmph!" Gage shut her up by wrapping his other arm around her back, and brang her in for a deep kiss.
Yang growled again, closed her fist and shut her eyes in anger, but then she sighed and opened up her fist again.
Gage parted their lips, and looked her in the eyes.
"Yang. This doesn't change anything between us. I'm still the person I was last night. I'll still be the same person i am tomorrow. And i'll always be the same person that you love."
He let go of her wrist and hugged her again, "So say what you want! I can take it! Because i'd rather lose an argument to you, than lose you over an argument!"
He looked over Yang's shoulder and saw that Ruby was smiling at them, but then she started to talk,
"You know Yang, you didn't tell him that we were fighting them either."
"Yeah. Why didn't you tell me?" Gage asked.
Yang looked to the side and rubbed her arm, "Well... when we started to fight, Blake started to become paranoid... and I thought the same thing would happen to you too if I told you..."
Gage chuckled, "Well I guess I doesn't matter now. Since we both were fighting behind each other's backs..."
Yang laughed too, "Heh heh... yeah..."
But then Ruby squeezed them together, "Yay! You guys made it through your first fight!"
Yang and Gage just sighed and smiled at the rose. But then Yang remembered something.
"Hey Gage? You said that you had a reason why you fight the fang. What is it?"
"Oh, it's that my-"
He suddenly stopped as he heard a branch break behind Ruby.
"Gage?"
"Shh!"
He reached onto the back of his belt and pulled out two nails.
"Ruby look out!"
"Huh?!"
He threw them both past her skull and heard them stab into something fleshy.
"Gahh!"
Ruby and Yang looked behind them and saw a footsoldier lying on the ground with two nails in his chest.
They looked back at Gage. He was still in the same position that he threw the nails in, but then he closed his fist and bowed his head,
"I AM AWESOME." He whispered.
The sisters looked back at the man on the floor and gasped, "G-GAGE DID YOU JUST KILL HIM?!"
Gage shook his head, "Nope he's paralyzed. I hit one of his pressure points. Anyway, we should go before more of his friends show up."
"Okay!"
They continued to walk towards the forest, but Gage glanced back at the soldier, "Pfft. Pressure point my ass..." He thought.
...
Ruby and Yang tried their best not to seem lost, but lucky for them, Gage knew the way.
"Hey Gage. Are those the nails the ones that you threw into my cape?" Ruby asked.
Gage lifted the back of his jacket and showed Ruby the back of his belt, which had five leather nail holder holders with three nails in them
Gage pulled one out and tapped it's tip, "Yup. And they're called 'Throwing picks'."
"Cool..."
"So where's this river anyway?" Yang asked.
"It should be right over-" He went through a few bushes and found a cliff. "-there..."
He ran to it's edge and looked down to see the river they were looking for.
"I mean to say 'down there'..."
Yang looked down at it too, "Sure you did..."
Gage rubbed the back of his head a and turned around, "Well, let's find a way down-"
"Wait!"
Yang grabbed his shoulder and turned him back around, "All these things you have, the armor, clothes, weapons,and coordinates, how did you get them?! And how'd you know that we'd be here?!"
He put his hands behind his head and looked at her and Ruby,
"To be honest, I didn't think i would see you guys here, I got the weapons and armor from an... acquaintance in Vale, and i got the info for this place from a new friend."
"Wait, you're doing this solo?" Ruby asked.
"No... it isn't just me out there... it's-"
"RRRRAGHHH!"
"The fuck?!" All three of them turned around to see that some rhinoceros-looking grim had surrounded them.
Yang aimed Ember Celica at them, and so did Ruby with Crescent Rose, but Gage pulled them away,
"Bullets won't do anything to them!"
Ruby's foot hit the edge of the cliff, but she held onto Gage, "AAH! WHAT DO WE DO?"
Yang looked down, and saw that the river was right below them,
"We're going to have to jump!"
"What?!"
"She's right Ruby!"
They all started to run towards the cliff as the grim started to stampede them,
"I don't want to do this!" Ruby yelled.
"Me neither!" Gage added.
Yang grabbed Ruby's hand and Gage's too,
"TOO BAD!"
Yang jumped off of the cliff with all three of them, and screamed with them as they splashed down into the violent rapids below them.