Thank you for reading the previous chapters.

also, got admit something.

I was spelling Gambol wrong. I originally spelt it Gambrol! So if you do come around and see Blake weapon called Gambrol, that's my bad!

Slash!~

Slink!~

It was another week.

Blake and Sienna spared with each other, trying to be formidable with each other combat style. Blake found Sienna Ceberus Chain style very similar to hers when she uses her ribbon clever.

Sienna was the superior fighter though which wasn't a surprise. She was the leader after all. "I'll admit, you are a lot better now than you was when you were in the White Fang but still, you need to work on your reaction speed."

Blake tilted her head, "True, I-"

Sienna stuck out her hand to silence Blake. Blake was confused until she used those cat ears of hers to hear footsteps. The two both snuck away behind a tree. It was two people, actually two cybernetic people like A-11, covered in blood.

They halted as their eyes flashed a bright light. Checking for heat signatures, they spotted both Blake and Sienna, despite them hiding. Sienna noticed and immediately yelled, "Blake, move!"

Blake rolled away from her hiding spot as the tree was stabbed by a aura saber.

The cyborg that attempted to stab Blake was called B-12 while the other is called C-13.

C-13 hand changed into a fully automatic machine gun and started to unloaded onto Blake while B-12 was left flanking toward Blake. Blake leapt back while deflecting the bullets with her Gambol katana.

C-13 handgun was then pulled away by Sienna's Ceberus chain. She tugged harder to pull C-13 towards her before knocking it down with a leaping spin-kick.

B-12 and Blake blades rapidly colided with Blake later leaping over B-12 after replacing herself with a fire clone of herself. It exploded, blowing B-12 right toward Blake. Blake bounced B-12 upward with a backflip kick before shooting her kusarigama ribbon around B-12. "Heiyaa!" She pulled him toward herself before slamming her heavy sheath onto his face, plowing it right into the dirt.

Sienna and C-13 traded blows with C-13 being quite more formidable than its counterpart, B-12. Sienna backed up as C-13 opened it mechanical body opened and shot a couple of missiles at the tiger Faunus, she effortlessly cut through the missiles with the sliced missiles flying and exploding right behind her. C-13 tried to close the distance again, attempting punch her but Sienna caught it while sliding back. "strange. You're Android but I can sense aura from you-" She says while C-13 transformed its hand back into a machine gun but Sienna reacted by grabbing another spear and stabbing it right into the gun, causing it to malfunction. Like regular people, its aura went down, causing Sienna strength to spike up. Later, she sent C-13 barreling across the ground with an backhand elbow to the jaw.

B-12 was thrown across the ground as a Beast boosted Blake walk upon it and eventually finished it off with a stab to the back. "Woo..." She blew a quiet sigh, turning her Beast Amplifier. She then pulled out her katana to realize that the robot had blood? By blood, she meant within. "What the...? Blood?"

"Hm." Sienna hummed. "Just as I thought, these foot soldiers aren't your typical androids. They are cyborgs."

"Oh...I..." She sounded a bit startled and saddened at how she stabbed the person with no hesitation.

"Stop moping. These guys tried to kill us." Sienna barked. She then kneeled down and took her spear to completely tear open into the stab wound. Yup, this was a person. She then turnt the cyborg onto its back, analyzing its design. "Atlas tech..."

"That's very...strange..." Blake muttered. Remembering they did approach with blood.

Sienna stood up. "We need to g-"

"Sienna, watch out!" Blake says, grabbing Sienna and using her Shadow semblance to disappear out of the way of a missile. The two appeared on top of a tree with the two glaring down at them both.

C-13 looked at them both, moving in a static manner. "Thanks, Blake..." Sienna said, readying her weapon again but she didn't attack, noticing that C-13 was glowing. "It's about to self destruct. Let's head out."

"Yeah..." She nodded.

The two started to head out, trying to avoid the exploded. Surprisingly, the explosion was large and torn through the large forest and left craters into mountains and the landscape. "Holy crap..." Blake says.

The two kept going, returning back to their journey back to the White Fang main base as if it was nothing. It was odd since Blake did wanted to talk about that. "So, we aren't gonna talk about that?" Blake randomly spoken up.

"I think we'll find our answer later."

Blake didn't understand that. As they kept moving, Blake suddenly got a extreme smell of blood. It was incredibly strong that Blake needed halted for a second, becoming dizzy. "God, that's terrible..."

Sienna smelt it too. "That's too much blood."

"It's unbearable..." Blake says, trying her best not to vomit.

Once they reached there, both Blake and Sienna was approached by a strong sense of blood. It was coming from the hideout. "That smells terrible..." Blake pointed out.

"The entrance guards," Senna pointed out.

Blake look over to see they were already dead. The two jumped down and approached the entrance with caution. Once they entered, the entire main hall was painted with blood and multiple dead White Fang soldiers. "Oh god..." Blake muttered.

It was horrible, these soldiers were killed in gruesome ways that she couldn't imagine. Some was decapitated, some was bludgeon beyond recognition, others were either stabbed deeply or just beaten until their bodies didn't work.

It wasn't just soldiers though. There were others. Their bodies were cybernetic but they weren't completely inorganic. Blood spewed out from their wounds, showing they weren't just a robot. She gulped, recognizing what that tech came from. "Look over here." Sienna says.

Blake ran over to Sienna to find dead Humans with combat armor and weapons, "Sienna...those people..."

"I know. More Atlas tech." Sienna pointed out while yanking off the helmet of one of cyborgs. Blood gushed from the visible holes that was in the person's head. It was bald Faunus that had dog ears.

Blake eyes widened a bit, she wasn't surprised but it was quite haunting to see that. "But...I don't understand. I thought slavery ended for Faunus in Altas." The girl said.

She was quite surprised, really she was. Remembering Ironwood, which who was very nice and well-spoken person which who was also from Atlas.

Sienna tossed aside the helmet before going over to other cyborgs to see if they were Faunus. And right she was, they were all hairless Faunus.

"H-help..."

They looked over to see a female White Fang. She wasn't stabbed but her leg was broken and she was beaten badly. The two Faunus girls walked upon her with the female White Fang slightly widened at the sight of both Blake and Sienna. "H-high leader...?"

"Hello, Angela" Sienna said, looking rather emotionless when she saw her own member, broken and beaten on the floor.

"I'm- I'm s-sorry f-for rebelling against you high leader...I, I t-thought..." Angela tried to explain herself but Sienna cut her off.

"None of that matters right now. What happen to you and everyone here?" Sienna asked.

Angela winced in pain, "Those people...they attacked us outta nowhere...they were coming for Keith, Corsac and Fennec."

"And they are?"

"They left us here to fend for ourselves...but they're being chased down currently..." Angela stated.

Blake didn't look surprise. Keith only pray on the weak and would run when it gets too rough.

This made Sienna giggle. Even though the situation looks extreme, the sight of the people who betrayed her now beaten and and brutalize was just amusing. "Well, you get what you deserve. After what me and my family done for this organization, you choose a mid-class mutt over me?"

"H-high leader, please...I'm sorry! I'm so, so sorry! It will never happen again!" She begged

"I accept your apology. Only if..."

"H-huh?"

Blake was startled when Sienna ruthlessly kicked the defenceless woman the jaw. That knocked Angela unconscious but the next few kicks and stomp was there to intentionally kill her. "you fuckin die!"

"Sienna...!" Blake called out, pulling Sienna off the now dead White Fang member.

"What?!" Sienna scowled at Blake, "you'll be angry too when all the people you thought you could trust betrayed you so effortlessly."

"I know how you feel but we can't get sidetracked..." Blake explained.

Sienna groaned, looking back at her dead soldiers in disgust. She then sighed and started to walk toward the back exit, "let's get a hovercraft. We're too exposed here."

Blake tilted her head and followed. They went to the garage and found a small hovercraft. Sienna checked the gas tank filter to see it was half filled. "Where are we going?" Blake asked as Sienna took the gas pump and started to fill it up.

"Going to Higanbana. That's the closest White Fang stronghold." Sienna responded.

Blake felt a little nervous. She hadn't been with the White Fang since. "What are we gonna do there?"

"Hopefully bring honor back to my name. And go over to Atlas to see what these Faunus cyborgs are about." Sienna said.

Blake wasn't gonna combat Sienna on that. She understood why. "What about Keith?"

After finishing, she climbed onto the driver seat. "When we get to the stronghold, we can let them know about Keith antics. Right now, we need to be more concern about keeping ourselves safe."

That was a good point, Blake thought. As much as she wanted to kill Keith, she needed to look after herself with these Faunus Cyborgs being out on the lose. She climbed in the passenger and later the two took off.

Adam POV

This was still shortly after Adam fought A-11.

He was back at Crystal house, still unconscious from the fight.

Deery and Perry had recovered though and was outside, a bit away from the house so they could train. "Argh..." Deery groaned.

"You still recovering?" Perry asked.

"My body is okay. I'm just still startled about that fight we had with that Faunus cyborg." Deery says. "It's real coincidence that it was from Atlas and..." her words trailed off.

Perry remembered too, that fight was colossal, at least to him.

After the fight, Perry brought the body away to analyzed it. A-11, helmet had a built-in solar panel where it absorb sun rays and convert it into aura, giving it an infinite supply of aura (unless it was night or the cords were cut.) The cords were there to transfer the aura into its body, just so its brain wouldn't completely collapse and fried by the intense heat.

A-11, formerly known as Alex Starkly. A shark Faunus who was a Schnee Dust slave, back at Atlas.

"Perry, I don't wanna like abandon Adam but do you think we're biting off more we could chew?" Deery asked. "I mean, Adam did won against the A.F.O but it was only because he had help from the Menagerie Faunus's and those grimm powers. And now, we barely won this fight against that Faunus cyborg."

"Well, we did lay our bed when we broke into Mistral Prison faculty. Now we're probably more wanted as well." Perry said.

Deery sighed, "true. But you know, with this fighting in the White Fang and I'm pretty sure the Atlas government. It just feel mentally exhausting. I just wanna lay down for a b-"

Deery went silent when she saw Adam approaching. He didn't say anything, he just kept walking by. Crystal came up as well, "oh Deery and Perry. Can you tell your friend to come back? I was trying to give him some clothes."

"Hey Adam! You okay?" Perry asked.

Adam stopped as he let out a small sigh, "I'm fine. I'm just gonna be training for awhile, alone. I'll be back." He said.

The two look a bit confused and was curious what Adam was going to do.

Perry and Derry returned back to Crystal grandparents house with her. "is your friend always this distant towards people?" Crystal asked.

"A little, yeah. He's been through a lot, so that's why he's always so stoic and cold sometimes." Derry replied.

As Adam kept walking away, he encountered random and various of Grimm, which he used to heal himself.

As he did, his hair was turning back into a ravenish black and his eyes became a horrid red.

He finally stopped in front of a river that contain the negative substance that create grimm.

It's been nearly a month later. Deery and Perry wondered if Adam abandoned them or not.

The two were gonna see if they can find him. Until they saw a dozen military soldiers with rifles and couple of those cyborgs. Outta all of them, only one stood out.

It was a man who was in his to mid to late 30s with light-skin, short green-haired, and was wearing a brown trench coat pants and white gloves. He was talking to a civilian which who both look calm in conversation.

"A hero, eh?" The green-haired man said.

"Yeah, he took out those Silver Dragon Bandits and had the leader running. In my opinion, he seems more of a hero than a criminal. That robot destroyed innocent homes with no remorse. But thankfully that bull horn guy manage to stop him too." the civilian stated, handing back the pictures back over to the mysterious man.

The pictures were Adam. One when he was just a child, some others back when he was in the White Fang. Another one with his black hair and eye patch gimmick back when he was Yalishin.

"I see." The man muttered. "I'm be dammed. I guess a criminal has a good conscious once in awhile. I'll be on my way now. See y'all around."

"No prob, sir." The civilian replied.

But as the green-haired man walked away, he whispered something in one of the military soldier ear. He tilted his head as the mysterious guy got into a hovercraft with a couple of other soldiers.

The cyborgs and the rest stayed as the hovercraft flew off. Then just suddenly outta nowhere, the military soldier just riddled the questioned man with bullets.

Everyone was alerted and caught off guard by that action. The cyborgs, like A-11 blasted aura spheres from the palm of their hands at random people, houses and buildings.

"Holy shit." Perry cursed.

"We need to get outta here." Deery says, running away to go get her weapons. Crystal heard the destruction and was about to ask what was going on, but soon as she was about say something, she was blown back by an explosion that erupted from an aura sphere making contact with her house. As she hit the wall, she grunted, not unconscious but was in pain from the impact. Deery quickly helped Crystal up and lead her toward the back door. "C'mon Crystal."

In a bit of a panic, her grandparents came downstairs. "What's going on?!" Crystal grandfather asked, noticing the massive hole in front of the house.

"Get the hell down!" Perry exclaimed, grabbing the grandmother and was about to grab ahold of the grandfather, until he saw another aura sphere, flinging right past him. "Fuck!" He cursed, jumping outside through the open hole in the house to avoid the explosion.

Deery manage to get Crystal outside. "T-thanks Dee-" Crystal went silence when she saw her grandfather, head laying on the window seal, lifeless. "G-grandpa...?

The house started to crumble down onto the old man, with still, only his head being shown, confirming that he was dead. Crystal started to hyperventilate, "G-grandpa!?"

"Oh god..." Deery in disgust. "Crystal you need to run away."

"B-but my..." Crystal started to tear up

Deery wasn't having it, she grabbed Crystal hand and started to pull her away. Crystal wiped away the tears as she decided to follow them. "We have no choice."

Meanwhile with Perry, he and Crystal's grandmother was completely exposed to the cyborgs and the military units with the military soldiers started to unload on Perry. Perry deflected the bullets as he grabbed Crystal's grandmother and haul away.

The cyborgs started to charged at Perry while a few others went after Deery. "Shit! Run!" He flung Crystal grandmother away while blocking an punch from a cyborg with his ball hammer but another one flanked him from the right, punching Perry onto the ground.

Crystal grandmother tried to run but was already spotted. She noticed too and dropped down as soon as thet started to fire, "no, wai-"

Pow! Pow!

She was cut off as her life was cut short as she was now laid dead on the floor. "Dammit! Adam, where are you?!" Perry asked, trying to get back up.

Kaboom!

A small explosion erupted somewhere near in the village. A cyborg head was grabbed completely by a grimm hand and was almost instantaneously crush, putting it out of commission. It was Adam launch the cyborg aside as he suddenly blazed with red lightning as he dashed toward over to the main military soldiers.

They couldn't spot Adam so they didn't know his approach. They fell down like flies but Adam didn't spare them, decapitating their heads off with a chop. Only knocking out a few of them, they were gonna be used later.

The cyborgs noticed Adam and turnt their attentions over to him.

Soon as they tried to attack, a large Manticores grimm leapt over Adam and crushed down onto the cyborgs. It was still more though, one cyborg attempting to stab Adam from behind.

But with strength alone, he snapped the blade by slamming his elbow against it. He then knocked the cyborg unit down with an backhand fist. The cyborg tried to recover but almost instantaneously, the cyborg was impaled in the head by his grimm claws. "Tch, these guys aren't a challenge. At least compared to that first one."

"Adam, there are others going after Deery and Crystal." Perry says, running toward their direction.

Adam could sense the fear within Crystal and Deery which allowed him to find them rather quickly.

"Oof! Argh!" Deery grunted as she was floored across the ground. They then tried to jump down onto Deery but she used her intangibly to have their attacks phased through her. She quickly rolled away, trying to gain some distance.

Out of nowhere, Adam slammed his fist against one of the cyborgs jaw, knocking its head right off its shoulder. The superior one, named D-14 turnt over to Adam which who was already coming at him with blinding speed. D-14 immediately activated a force-field. Adam fist bounced off from the force-field which where D-14 erupted it, releasing a shockwave blast that blew Adam back.

Adam flipped and landed onto his feet as he was quickly met with countless aura sphere. After the onslaught, the dust cleared with Adam standing there with a grimm arm, pulsing with red aura. "I had enough of you soulless assholes already." He said, looking at Deery while nodding his head toward the left, basically telling her to get out the way. She did as D-14 changed his hand into a cannon as he charged his aura to the maximum.

From his grimm hand, he unleashed a large red aura wave toward D-14 with D-14 countering with the same. The two beams clashed with each other with the two being in a struggle of power domination. Eventually, Adam would put more aura into his, causing his red aura to overwhelm D-14's, engulfing him and completely obliterating it to flesh and scraped metal parts. "Tch."

"Damn Adam..." Perry walked over to him, "you can shoot aura now?"

"My semblance...weirdly enough relies on me putting or absorbing kinetic aura into something. These grimm hands is a good substitute for my Wilt sword, at least for now." Adam says, glancing over to Deery which who was bringing back a very sadden and exhausted Crystal, "w-where's my grandma...?" Crystal asked.

Perry looked visibly guilty and a bit sadden, "um...I..."

"She was killed by one of those military soldiers." Adam bluntly stated.

That shocked Crystal deeply, losing both her grandparents, "they're...both dead?! I-I..." she was at a lost for words, breaking down onto her knees.

Perry sighed as he hung his head low "I'm sorry...it was too many of them."

Deery comforted her with Adam actually looking a bit sorrowful. He walked away back over to one of the military soldiers that he didn't killed but just knocked out for a little bit. The police were already arriving but they seen Adam and just halted.

One of them was regaining conscious but Adam simply kicked him in the stomach, causing the man to roll on his back, "Deja vu. Weren't you the same people that tried to kill me in the Mistrial prison hospital?"

The guy was still trying to regain conscious. But later, he did and when he did, he was laying against a tree, surrounded by Deery, Perry, and Adam.

Crystal was there, hugging her knees while sobbing silently. "I...I...wait, this is a misunders-"

"Shut up. You and your Atlesian cyborgs tried to destroy this town. What's your fucking deal?" Deery questioned.

(like always, gotta give him a name. I'm gonna go with, Sean)

"Atlesian..." Adam muttered, remembering A-11 cybernetic design. "This is Atlas doing?"

"Yeah. That first one you fought had Atlas technology and not only that but the host was a Faunus as well." Perry stated.

Adam looked at Sean with a dark stare. Getting out his Blush rifle, he pointed it right at the temple of Sean's head. "Tell me everything you know. What is your plan here?"

Sean sighed, "we...we..."

Sean didn't know what to say, he didn't want to rat out the people he was working for but...he didn't want to die either.

Adam started counting,

"5,"

"4,"

"3,"

"2,"

"Okay!" Sean interrupted him. "I don't know much but we were given an order to destroy this village."

"That's...stupid. Even though I hate Atlas, I don't get why they would send people to harm an entire village." Perry added in.

"We...we were trying to kill you." Sean said, looking at Adam.

Adam wasn't surprised but was puzzled. If it was a cop vs criminal situation, why would those cyborgs and soldiers outta nowhere kill those innocent people as well? It couldn't been a racial thing either since most of their victims were Human as well, he thought. "That makes sense but at the same time, it doesn't. You involved innocent people into this, even your own kind. Not only that, but Atlas technology design? Wouldn't that give them a bad name if it was founded out that they sent soulless killing machines to kill the innocent? There's something you aren't telling me?"

"What about that guy with the trench-coat who road off away in the hovercraft?" Perry asked.

That had Sean a bit nervous, "h-him? I-I uh."

"Go ahead, tell us."

"U-um...okay, I can only say this...since its the only thing I know. The guy who ordered us to kill those people is a ruthless mercenary."

"Uh-huh," And pow! Sean was shot dead, which caught Deery and Perry off guard by how sudden it was.

"Don't you think we could've got more info outta him?" Deery questioned.

"It wouldn't matter. I'm already getting an idea of who's behind this." Adam says.

Whoever behind these attacks.

Has power.

Has people.

Using Atlas technology?

But why? Wouldn't that have everybody's eyes toward Atlas?

Okay! Explanation time. All the cyborgs that I do give a name to aren't always are gonna be super strong compared to others.

I only give them a name to show they aren't complete canon fodder, lol. anyways, until next time! see ya!