I'M BAAAAACK!

Thanks for being patient with me, guys. My Minish Cap story was pretty well received, but I gotta say, I kinda missed working on this story.

I know you want to read, so I'll skip the pleasantries. I don't own RWBY or Sonic. Enjoy!

Abandoned(?) Warehouse, 9:00 p.m.

"Well, isn't this a tearful reunion?" asked Adam mockingly. "I'm hurt, Blake, I really am. Not only did you prevent us from getting all the Dust on that train, but you go and partner yourself up with another Faunus!"

"You know why I left!" shouted Blake. "You were going to kill the crewmembers just because they were human! And you shouldn't talk, seeing as how you're WORKING with humans, too!"

Adam smiled sadistically. "What do you mean, 'were'?"

Blake gasped. "No… You DID kill them…"

"Yep. And it was a joy, hearing them scream."

"Wow, Blake. This guy's a real A-hole," said Sun. "Can I take him down. Please?" He twirled Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang around expertly.

"Shouldn't we worry about all the other guys he came with?" asked Amy, readying her hammer.

"You're going to die tonight, bat," snarled Emerald, taking out a pair of jungle green weapons, turning them into gun form.

Rouge winked. "All's fair in love and thieving, hun."

Knuckles activated Clan Blade, the wrist blades gleaming in the warehouse light. "This ought to be fun."

Tails turned Techie Bro into battle mode. "Remember, don't kill any of them."

"Well, that gives us a big advantage," drawled Mercury, preparing his gun boots. "We won't have any qualms about killing you."

As if to emphasize his point, a lone White Fang member ran at them, and chaos ensued as the rest joined him. Knuckles retracted his claws and punched the ground, creating a huge shockwave that knocked most of the foot soldiers over.

Blake jumped clear of the blast and took out Gambol Shroud, meeting Adam's sword in the middle. "Why did you leave?!" he shouted, thrusting his sword at Blake. The cat Faunus deflected the blows, astounded at her former mentor's ferocity.

"Maybe it's the fact that I don't like killing innocent bystanders!" she retorted, parrying at him a bit in return. Unfortunately, that left her exposed as Adam tried to slash her. However, he only hit an afterimage as the real Blake stood back a bit further away, and she shot off a few rounds from Gambol Shroud's pistol form.

Adam blocked them with ease using his sword and sheath combo, Wilt and Blush. "Innocent? No one's innocent when it comes to the degradation of our race! Every one of those dirty humans is guilty! The only way to get them to treat us right is by force!"

The bull Faunus then got knocked across the warehouse floor by Sun. "Your logic is all kinds of wrong, dude," he said, twirling Ruyi Ban and Jingu Bang around.

"And how would you know?!" asked Adam angrily as he got back up.

Sun pointed to his monkey tail. "Well, what makes you think what you're doing is any better? The rest of us Faunus REALLY appreciate your killing and stealing to prove you're better than humans. I mean, after the news of a bad raid goes out, I can't even find a place to eat. Oh, boy." Sun quickly twirled his staff as Adam fired at him a few times, blocking the shots.

"What's your point, you traitor?"

"Do I really have to spell it out to you? YOU MAKE THINGS WORSE FOR US," Sun responded, grinning. "Besides, how can I be a traitor if I never joined in the first place? Seriously, this group blows."

"You do know that Blake here was once a member, right?"

Sun separated his weapon into nunchuck form. "The fact that she left isn't a good argument, buddy."

Blake smiled at the support given by the monkey Faunus. Adam was furious at the interruption, and he came at him, swinging his sword.

Elsewhere, Rouge and Emerald were duking it out, and most of the White Fang wisely stood clear. "What makes you think you're better than me?!" the green-haired thief screamed as she fired at the bat.

Rouge laughed as she deflected the bullets using Lovacs, Emerald's bullets meeting with hers in midair. "I never said that. You came up with that conclusion all by yourself, though I probably am." She flapped her wings, gaining some height over her opponent. "Oh, goody, my wings are healed," she said teasingly.

Emerald shifted her weapons into twin sickles. "Then let me ground you again!" She jumped up, trying to slash Rouge. The blades were about to connect, but a bullet from one of the pistols from one of Rouge's heels quickly dissuaded her from attacking.

As she landed, the young thief looked towards Mercury, who was filming them with his scroll. "Mercury, what the hell are you doing?!"

The young man grinned. "What does it look like I'm doing? I'm gonna post this on the RemNet!"

"You're kidding."

"Nope! This is gonna make me famous!"

Any further comment was interrupted as Rouge kicked Emerald in the head. "Pay attention during a battle, sweetie. You might live longer!" The bat then saw what Mercury was doing, and she posed. "Be sure to get my good side, hon!"

"Rouge, could you cut that out?" requested Amy as she smacked a White Fang peon with her hammer. "We just rescued you!"

"Sorry, couldn't resist!" The bat returned her focus to Emerald and quickly sidestepped a thrown sickle.

Meanwhile, Tails and Knuckles were busy fending off an attack by several White Fang. "Hey, Tails, give me a boost, would ya?"

Tails nodded and twirled his namesakes, grabbing Knuckles' wrists while doing so. When they got to a good height, Knuckles gave him a nod, and the fox let go. The echidna slammed into the ground, creating a huge pressure wave that knocked everyone back a good distance. "Tails, you go ahead and get us a ride out of here. I don't think we should walk home!" He said, punching another White Fang in the gut and launching him into a large group of renegade Faunus, knocking them down.

Tails, unnoticed in the chaos, flew to where a bunch of Bullheads was kept. He saw one that had an open door and went to investigate. "Hey, this looks promising!" he said to himself.

He entered the aircraft and studied the controls in the cockpit. Boy genius that he was, it didn't take him long to figure them out. "Hey, get out of here, this one's taken," a voice said.

"Oh, sorry," Tails apologized. He was just leaving when he realized what just happened. "Wait a minute…"

A head poked out from above one of the wings of the Bullhead. "Oh, hi, Tails. How come you haven't left yet?"

Relief swept through the fox as he recognized Tali. "Well, we rescued Rouge, but we ran into some… complications." The sounds of gunshots, explosions, and expletives echoed through the warehouse. "So we need a quick escape."

Tali smiled and got into the Bullhead's cockpit. "Well, get on, then. I'm driving. Oh, and make sure to point that cannon of yours to my head to make it more convincing."

"Sure." Tali's request suddenly registered in the fox's mind. "Wait, what?"

Back at the battle, there was still a stalemate going on between Adam and Blake and Sun. However, the bout between Emerald and Rouge was heating up.

"WHY. DON'T. YOU. DIE!" the young thief shouted, slicing at Rouge with each syllable. The bat skillfully dodged or blocked each blow.

"My, you do have a temper! Where was that cool confidence earlier?" she teased. She shot at Emerald again, the young thief blocking the rounds with her sickles.

"Okay, that's it. I've had enough of this playing around," said Emerald, her red eyes even redder with fury. She swung at Rouge again, and the bat tried to block it. However, the sickle she blocked wasn't there. In fact, it was coming at her head at high speeds, connected to Emerald's hand by a chain. Rouge barely blocked it in time, and flew backwards.
Emerald jumped after her and swung with both hands, using her weapons' kusarigama mode. Rouge was not expecting an assault from such an exotic weapon, and strained to stay ahead of the small scythes. "Now THIS is a challenge!" she laughed.
"You're mine!" Emerald shouted as she jumped towards Rouge, swinging the kusarigamas. The bat calmly fired a pistol at one scythe, then the other, making them lose their momentum. Emerald was still going, however, and ended up with a heel to the face.

"Hmm, still no match for me, though," hummed Rouge.

Meanwhile, Knuckles and Amy were surrounded by White Fang troops. "Hey Amy, you got any ideas to get out of this?"

Amy's eyes darted left and right, trying to find an opening. There weren't a lot of options available to them. Someone from the White Fang had grown a brain and decided to use one of the Atlesian Paladins that were scattered around the warehouse.

Suddenly, the sound of a powerful machine gun filled the air, and the mech went down, causing mass confusion among the White Fang. Even more confused were the Mobians, until they saw the source of their break: a Bullhead airship. In it, they saw Tails pointing Techie Bro's cannon at the head of a White Fang member.
"Come on, guys, get in!" the fox's voice shouted from a hidden speaker. The Bullhead shot around White Fang that were surrounding Amy and Knuckles, then lowered itself, allowing them to get on board quickly.

Rouge saw the commotion, and made a decision. "Well, it's been fun, but I've got to scram. See ya later, squirt!" The bat flew away, leaving a furious Emerald. She quickly got on the Bullhead, leaving just Sun and Blake.

"Hey, Blake, I think our ride's here!" said Sun. His and Blake's battle against Adam was reaching a standstill, and all three were pretty exhausted. However, Adam wasn't going to make leaving easy.

"You're not going anywhere!" he shouted, slicing at Blake. He hit an afterimage, but lashed out with an elbow, hitting the cat faunus and knocking her to the ground. "Now I've got you," he growled, raising his sword. Blake shut her eyes, knowing her life was over. 'I'm sorry, everyone,' she thought sadly, thinking about her friends in Team RWBY, JNPR, and among the Mobians.

The blow never landed.

"Boosh!" shouted Sun, using his aura clones to attack Adam. The White Fang leader was knocked senseless into a pile of Dust ammunition. "Gotta pay attention to the battlefield, bro. There's two of us here, remember?" The monkey Faunus walked over to Blake and held out a hand. "You okay?"

Blake grabbed his hand, then pulled him into a hug. "Thank you," she whispered in his ear.

Sun, blushing a bit, hugged her back. "What kind of friend would I be if I let you die?"

The two Faunus released each other after a few seconds. "Well, I'm tired of this place. You wanna hang somewhere else?" Sun asked.

"Hey lovebirds!" interrupted Rouge, using the speaker in the Bullhead. "Get your butts in here, we don't have all evening!" Sun and Blake decided to follow her advice, and they jumped into the Bullhead with everyone else.

Adam, seeing their prey escape, shouted, "Get the heavy weapons out! Kill them all!"

"But one of us is in there!" a White Fang peon objected. Adam brought both hands to the unfortunate Faunus' collar. "I. Don't. Care," he said through clenched teeth. "They're getting away!"

"Looks like it's a little late for that," observed Mercury, sitting on a Dust container.

Indeed, the Bullhead that was acquired by the Mobians was flying away, out of range of any weapons they had.

Rouge finally noticed that Tails had a cannon to the White Fang member who was piloting. "Well, well! I didn't know that you had it in you to take a hostage, Fox Boy."

The White Fang member smiled and took off her mask and hood, revealing her black hair and red eyes. "Sup?" Tails put Techie Bro into standby mode, grateful that he didn't have to continue the charade.

"Tali? Is that you?" asked Blake, recognizing the older woman's face. Tali stood up a little and allowed her squirrel tail to come into view.

"Whoa, back up," requested a confused Sun. "Why are you guys friends with a White Fang Faunus?"

"I'm going to ignore that," Blake said under her breath, glaring at the monkey Faunus.

Tali put her feet up on the dashboard of the cockpit after setting it on autopilot. "Were you told about a group of mercenaries led by a guy named John Shepard?" Sun nodded. "Well, I'm his fiance."

"Guys, before we go on, I'd like to thank you for rescuing me," said Rouge sincerely.

"What, you think we were just going to let you rot in there?" asked Knuckles. "As much as some of us may hate to admit it from time to time, you're our friend. Of course we'd rescue you."

Rouge smiled. "That was a very nice thing to say, Knuckie," she said. She then kissed Knuckles on the cheek, causing the echidna to blush heavily.

The radio crackled to life before the mischievous bat could tease him about his face. "Incoming Bullhead, this is Beacon Tower. Identify yourself."

Tails took the radio. "This is Miles Prower, returning from our rescue mission."

Another voice interrupted. "So, I take it that your extraction was a success?" the voice of Professor Ozpin asked.

Rouge took the radio and put it to her lips. "You bet it was!"

"Ah, Miss Rouge. Welcome back. Do you or anyone else aboard require medical care?"

"Thanks, but we're fine." The white bat answered. She looked at the academy, relieved that her friends had rescued her before something terrible happened.

"I'm glad to be back."

Apologies for what some people may view as a lackluster battle scene, but I did the best I could.

From now on, I'll be alternating story updates, so the next chapter I upload will be for my Minish Cap story. Hope you guys don't mind me doing both stories at once. With that said, thanks for reading, and click that follow button if you want more! Ciao!