A Few things I need to address
Soijin: I was afraid about that, but know that's not hat I intended, I tried to explain it the best I can but know that's not what Is actually happening, Jaune knows he still an Arc and that Salem isn't his mother despite her blood replacing his, because in my opinion if your a clone of someone are you really their child? I don't think so but again I'm not really a scientist, but I pretty sure that's how it works, your just that person, but again, Jaune isn't going to turn on his friends and join Salem, no he's just rethinking how this could be in his benefit to help his friends.
TheBoxGhost117: I'm glad you enjoyed the story and thank you for pointing that out and I'll try to hold back on the slang, it's just sometimes I feel like I forget to make her sound Irish, but again I'll hold back on it
Anyway, let's get back to the story, shall we?
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Watts was in the Alleyway within Atlas, hiding. In front of him was Neo, Watts looked at her and recognized her as Roman's old Partner, however, he had no idea what she was doing here or why she was helping him, Unless...
"Did Cinder send you?" Watts asked
Neo turned to him and shook his head
"Then who sent you to break me out?" Watts asked
Neo looked at him before pulling out her scroll and then showing her a picture of who ha sent her. Watts looked at it and smiled with his eyes a bit wide
"I must say, I'm a little surprised it was him, but I guess he made the best choice after all," Watts told her "So now what? Surely you have a plan for getting us town to Mantle?" Watts asked
Neo smiled as she cloaked herself and Watts in her semblance and they now looked like two different people. Watts looked at himself and smiled, Neo also smiled as she gestured him to follow her. Watts followed her, and due to his now escaped, he can carry on with the plan.
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Team RWBY Ironwood, Penny, Winter, and Clover were in the dining room along with the council members, Robyn and Jacques, who was now under arrest thanks to the video shown by Weiss. However, Clover suddenly heard something from his earpiece and as he heard what was on the other end of it, his face showed shock, Clover ran to Ironwood,
"Sir we have some problems!" Clover cried
"what it is?" Ironwood asked
"The Heat in Mantle is off and worse... Arthur Watts has escaped" Clover said
Everyone in the room was surprised, but Ironwood was angry, "what!? How!?" Ironwood cried
"They're looking into it sir, but the cold down in Mantle has started Riots sir, the Grimm are on they're way" Clover responded
Everyone was shocked, Robyn looked to him, "general, we need to hurry down there and protect Mantle!" Robyn cried
Ironwood nodded, "But-!"
"James" Oscar interrupted "Our secrets are close to being revealed, it's time we tell them and Save Mantle while we can," Oscar told him
"and no matter what, we'll fight this together, and we stick together," Ruby told him
Ironwood look to them and nodded, "Right" Ironwood replied with a smile, "Councilmen, Ms. Hill, there's something I like to tell you" Ironwood told them
"Sir, what should we do?" Clover asked
"Clover, get the Ace-Ops ready, Your team, RWBY, ORNJ, and Qrow will go down there and help protect the people" Ironwood replied "
"Don't forget about me" Robyn butted in "My Huntresses will help as well," Robyn said
Ironwood nodded, "go now, While I inform Ms. Hill and the council about our enemy" Ironwood told them
"And me sir?" Winter asked
"Winter head back to the academy and find out how Watts escaped," Ironwood told her
Everyone nodded and headed out of the Schnee Manor, and for the cars to take them for the Bullheads, Oscar would be staying behind as the situation was too dangerous for him since he didn't have that much training. RNJ along with the Happy Huntresses got in one car as did the Ace Ops, but WBY was still waiting as they got to the first car, Ruby arrived later than her team but still made it in time before the cars took off for the Docks.
"What was taking you so long?" Blake asked
"Nothing, I just talked to Oscar about something" Ruby replied
"Talked to him about what?" Yang asked
Ruby didn't answer
"What did you talk to him about Ruby?" Yang asked again
"The Truth... he and I agreed that it was time to tell Ironwood the truth" Ruby replied
The other three in the car were stunned, but one was angry
"YOU WHAT!?" Yang cried
"Look, I thought now was the best time" Ruby replied
"Now!? NOW WAS THE BEST TIME!?" Yang cried "have you forgotten what's going on right now!? not to mention you didn't even ask the rest of us if we were ok with this!?"
"Look, I made the decision-"
"A stupid one!" Blake cried "what were you thinking!? If Ironwood takes this the wrong way then we're screwed!"
"But if he takes this the right way, then we're fine, it means he trusts us because we decided to do what Ozpin didn't and that was telling the truth" Ruby replied
Yang and Blake calmed down. and Yang looked back to her sister, "I'm sorry... I just... I just think you still should've asked us" Yang told her
"It's fine," ruby said
"Ruby... of this doesn't work out and you were wrong... I don't plan on following any more of your Ideas" Yang replied
Ruby looked a little hurt at the news but nodded, "alright" Ruby replied
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"Is that everyone from this part of the city!?" Ren cried out to his fellow teammates
Nora nodded, "Yeah, everyone's been evacuated to the safer side!" Nora responded
A Syber launched itself at Nora while she wasn't looking, but she quickly turned around and slammed it to the side and it hit the ground, it was slowly getting back up but Nora quickly put an end to it by bashing it over the head and into the concrete.
Jaune was killing some more Sybers from another street with great speed and swiftness, after killing one more he stopped and looked around to make sure the coast was clear, However, he failed to notice the Beowulf coming from the shadows until in charged right at him, June quickly turned around to kill it, but its head was already removed from its body and it fell dead at his feet. Jaune looked to his left and saw Fiona land and turn to him.
"Aren't you lucky you got an angel watching ya back?" Fiona asked with a smirk
Jaune smiled and nodded, "sure am" Jaune replied
Fiona chuckled, and they went up the street so they could regroup with Ren and Nora. Once they were together again, they had decided to go regroup with RWBY and the Ace-Ops, Fiona suddenly got a call from May.
"Who is it?" Nora asked
"My teammate, May" Fiona replied, she picked up the call and put it to her ear, "Hello?"
[Fi! thank the gods you're ok! Where are you!? where's Robyn!?] May asked on the other end
"Easy May, We're fine" Fiona replied "I'm down here trying to get the people to safety and Robyn's still up in Atlas with Ironwood"
[good, we've been helping some of the soldiers here get rid of the Grimm, and we've heard that most of them are gone, what about your end?] May asked
"We're closer to the broken part of the wall, we've cleared out most of the Grimm here, but we're still waiting to hear if Grimm are coming in" Fiona replied "Were going to Regroup with Jaune's friends and if things clear up I'll be heading back up with Robyn and then hopefully we'll come back home"
[Alright, see you then Fi] May said
"See you then lass" Fiona replied
Fiona ended the call and she looked to the other three huntsmen, "everything alright?" She asked
"Yeah, is everything alright with your friends?" Nora asked
"Yeah, they're fine, said the Grimm that managed to get that far was dealt with" Fiona replied "Any news from the others?"
"No, but we should still go regroup with them," Jaune said
Fiona nodded, "Then let's get going," Fiona told them
They all agreed and went to go regroup with team RWBY, however, as they were on their way, Jaune felt his scroll vibrate, he quickly took it out of his pocket and looked to see it was a text.
Neo: {I got him, we're heading down to Mantle now}
Neo: {what's next?}
Jaune looked to the two texts, and if everything was going to plan so far then Jaune could indeed win this little game without both sides knowing, but for now, he would give her the details once he made it back to Atlas. If he was right and he hoped he was, both sides were about to make their major moves, He just hoped that it was the right moves or else everything would be going down the drain...
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Big news! I just wanna say that This will be continued in a second story. So, we still have a few more chapters of this story before Book 2.