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Adam was on the move, using both his grimm powers and speed semblance to move like a super powered jet. Despite his eagerness, he wasn't going to attack headstrong since he knew Sienna plan was an assassination. Making it to the outskirts of Mantle halted, "wow, I didn't think I could move that fast." he muttered, later walking into opening.
As Adam walked, he looked around to get familiar with the city of Mantle. It felt weirdly nostalgic despite him invading the city, along with invading Atlas when he and the White Fang had problems with the Schnee's and Atlas government.
Unlike his first adventure, he kept his bullhorns and hair exposed, actually wanting to be capture. Knowing that he was a wanted criminal and seeing how Mantle was a shithole of a place to even keep him locked down.
As he checked around, he found a lot of Happy Huntresses signs and posters while others were Jacques Schnee. "Hmph..." he muffled under his breath, still wanting to get his hands on that old man. As he walked, he accidentally bumped into a random human stranger, "watch it!" The stranger said, sounding a intoxicated
"My bad." Adam calmly replied.
"It is your bad! We're already stuffing a crisis in Mantle and yet you stupid Faunus are...*hic* still causing tr-"
Before he could finish, the man was sent flying back by an uppercut where he'll land on the front of a parked truck. Adam groaned and was about to walk away until a red-haired girl was right there, staring at him with a blank stare, "well that wasn't very nice." Penny says.
"You didn't hear what he said?"
"Of course I did. That doesn't give you the right to hit him though. While sure, words can be terribly subjective, but causing harm can be subjectively worst. Like my creator always say, two wrongs don't make a right." Penny continued, talking very formally and innocently.
Adam was about to walk right past her until Penny stepped in front of him, "I'm sorry but I have to arrest you for assault."
"Is everything okay, here?"
Both Adam and Penny look over to find the Happy Huntresses being lead over by Robyn. "Salutations, Robyn! I'm just here doing my job! Come on, random stranger! Time to lock you up."
"Wait a second, Penny," Robyn says. Adam noticed that the other happy huntresses were on guard as Robyn approached him. She moved in to his ear, whispering, "you're Adam Taurus, aren't you?"
Adam squinted, wondering why Robyn was secretive asking it even though his appearance was exposed now and to the media. "Yeah, I am?"
"I see. Hey Penny, can you let us deal with him? We have to ask him some questions for a...investigation," Robyn lied.
Penny squinted, "For an investigation? What crime he has been suspect for? Besides the one he just committed"
"A few weeks ago, we were attacked by this weird guy that happens to look similar to him. We've been on trail for awhile." Robyn replied.
Penny look over to Adam, furrowing her eyebrows, "uh-huh. You've been a very bad person! I hope some jail time makes you a better person."
Adam was confused on what was happening but decided to went along with it since it didn't matter. Atlas was going to be attack regardless.
Adam found himself in the Happy Huntresses hideout, sitting across from Robyn with May and Joanna still on guard, "this is stupid. If they find you being all buddy buddy with me, its gonna affect your campaign against that schnee asshole."
"Possibly? But my and my friends life is more important now,." Robyn replied, "you have heard the news, right? The black and red haired Faunus with a S.D.C symbol marked on his eye has stopped Atlesian Knights from attacking a village in Mistral."
"I guess I'm not surprised. So what's all the commotion about? Why am I here?" Adam asked.
"To negotiate, obviously." Robyn answered, holding her hand out to Adam. "Don't worry. My semblance is only but a lie detector. I'm not gonna ask any personal questions."
Adam slowly extended his hand out before grabbing onto hers, feeling his and her aura link up together. "I'm gonna assume that you're under the idea that these cyborgs are specifically after you, right?" Robyn asked.
"Actually, yeah, I was. I thought it was because I broken out of prison and then later, I was attacked by cyborgs and unnamed military units."
That sentence had both May and Joanna skeptical to have Adam currently here. They knew he was a criminal but he was strong enough to actually break out of a prison faculty? "Hear me out though, when I was there in the prison hospital. Some lady with brown hair who knew all about me tried to had me kill. Which was the reason why I broken out."
The aura between their hands glowed green, meaning he was truthful. That did soften the mood a little and that little description had Robyn curious, "A lady with brown hair, huh? Did she look a bit...middle age? Like late 20s, early to mid 30s?"
"I'll say she does look close to middle-aged, probably in her thirties. She's very athletic too." Adam admitted.
"I see. Anyway, are you up for a job?" Robyn stated which had Adam eyebrow rised.
"I'm already on a mission but I'm pretty sure you know what it is." Adam replied.
"Exactly. I want in on it. You aren't the only one who's being screwed by these cyborgs. Like I've said to Penny, we were attacked but it was them."
"So what exactly would you do? Nothing physically active, I suppose?"
"As pathetic as it sounds, I can't help you fight unless the perpetrator is completely exposed." Robyn replied.
"What do I get for helping you though?"
Robyn thought for a second, "well, I can't offer a golden ticket to happiness, but currently you are known as a hero in Eden. If you keep going on this path and denounced the White Fang, I could help you become a normal civilian. Sure, you'll have to go through rehabilitation for awhile but-"
"Forget it." Adam interrupted her, "I'll do it for free."
Robyn eyebrows quirked up, not expecting him to reject the offer yet still accepted the dangerous job. "Is...this necessary?" Adam asked sheepishly
"Of course it is." Fiona replied. Unfortunately, Fiona was in a wheelchair, suffering from a broken leg after being attacked by those cyborgs. The sheep Faunus was using make-up to make Adam look like he was beat up such as giving him a black eye, bruises and such. "You're from the White Fang, right? You should at least know a weaken animal has more of a chance to get napped by its predator."
Adam frowned, feeling like he got jabbed.
Fiona giggled at his reaction, "shame though. It really ruins your handsome face." She complimented it.
Adam cheeks hued red as Fiona wheeled away. Later, Adam and Robyn exchanged scroll numbers before being put in handcuffs and later taken into a hover truck.
Ruby POV
Voicemail, again. While it wasn't weird for Weiss to not to pick up, especially when she's angry, Ruby was quite worried about her "frozen hearted" friend since Weiss was trying to go at her own father who was a business man with a lot of money. "Hello there," a very formal voice greeted.
Ruby look over to see it was Weiss older sister, Winter, having a very authoritarian posture, "you're Weiss little friend right? Do you know where she is?"
"Well, she said she was going to check on Whitley?" Ruby replied, "is there something wrong?"
"Nothing serious. Its only a family matter." Winter says as she begin walking away.
Ruby curiously followed beside Winter, scratching her head awkwardly, "hey! I don't think its my business to say this since but I think there's troubles in the schnee mansion. I mean, your father is-" before Ruby could finished, she bumped right into someone with her saying, "sorry."
"No problem." they replied.
As the two went along, the two frozen with both looking back at each other, "Blake?"
"Ruby..."
Even though they last encounter was pretty hostile, Ruby couldn't help to jump and embrace her cat friend, "B-blake! I miss you so much!"
Blake was surprised that Ruby acted that way, remembering how the young leader was glaring at her after what happen between her and Yang. Blake hugged back but immediately broken the hug, "Ruby, I need your help."
Winter glanced over to Blake with a glare, "wait a second. Aren't you one the White Fang perpetrators that invaded past our defenses?"
Ruby eyes flung up. "Huh?"
"Their goes my clean record." Blake thought. She immediately risen her hands up as Winter grabbed on the hilt of her sword, "I'm here for something else, I really came with something important! Can I please speak to a councilmember?"
"And why should I?" Winter asked. While she didn't have any prejudice against Faunus, she did despise the White Fang for putting her and her family through so much.
"Hear her out! Whatever she's doing, might have a good reason." Ruby said defensively.
Winter kept a glare on Blake who look a bit defeated. She then tensed herself before walking away, "fine, it better be important."
Ruby and Winter took Blake to Ironwood office. "General Ironwood, we have someone who wants to speak to you."
Ironwood glanced at Blake, do getting some familiarity from her, "Isn't she your fourth teammate?"
"I... resigned from being a hunter trainee for personal issues..." Blake stated with sadness in her voice, she then took out of a scroll, showing the pictures to Ironwood, "here! I wanted to show you these! I've encountered many of these while I was traveling and they attacked me!"
Ironwood took the scroll, sighing in response. Ruby squinted, "those are the cyborgs aren't they?"
"Huh?" Blake spat, glancing over to Ruby, "you...know about them?"
"We've encountered those on our way here. We thought they were reinforcements for Cordovin but they attacked her too." Ruby stated.
"So...what are you gonna do about it?" Blake asked.
Ironwood handed Blake's scroll back. "Its quite complicated. With Salem's goons lurking in Mantle and this, its quite hard to keep on track."
"You do know this could reflect bad on us, right?" Winter said to Ironwood. "With your Atlas Androids help attacking Beacon and now these sudden attacks from these cyborgs in your design, the other Kingdoms are most definitely turning their eyes on us."
"I'm very aware of that. All we can do is keep denouncing these attacks and find out who's doing this." Ironwood stated.
"Wait! What about that guy Watts?" Ruby suggested, "couldn't all this be his doing?"
"While that is a good suggestion, Watts wouldn't be able to get his hands this many mechanical parts."
Blake sighed and was about to walk away until Ironwood called out, "wait. Blake Belladonna, isn't it?"
Blake looked back, "yes?"
"Listen...I know those images you shown me are...very sensitive towards you but...I really need you to keep this a secret. I already have majority of Mantle breathing down my neck which is bad enough since their uproar could attract grimm. More of it could bring them." Ironwood explained.
Blake sighed, "fine...I'll keep this between us."
Adam POV
Adam was being taken to a prison faculty on Atlas, when entering, the first person he noticed was Farah, eyeing him. Since it was Adam they captured, they had Atlas androids, militants, and hunters full on patrol. He saw Farah pull out her scroll to dial something. One of the militants that was guarding him from behind picked up his scroll and nodded.
As they gotten some distance away, Adam suddenly felt a blade stabbed in his back. Adam grunted, dropping face-first. "Poison...huh..." he thought as he then blacked out.
It was later, Adam soon found himself in a dark room, tied down where it was a lot of mechanical tools. "Son of a bitch...! So they were after me to turn me into one of those Faunus cyborgs...! .Well then, I'm gonna them a hard time." He ripped off the straps before jumping off the table. As he did, a two doctors came into the room, with them being startle. They were about to run until Adam grabbed one of them and pull them into the room, locking the door. "Where the hell am I?"
"I...you were suppose to be dead..." the doctor stammered.
"Yeah, you bastards tried to poison me," Adam shown him a small sludge of grimm that was filled with the poison, "here it is. Now tell me, who is behind all these Faunus cyborgs or I'll let you suffer a slow painful dea-"
It was no question, gunfire came into the room. Adam launch the doctor into the gunfire, where the doctor was being riddled with bullets.
Atlas androids came into the room but was blasted into scraps by a punch that was powered up by his grimm powers. Adam ran out and to see the dull lights barely brighten up the hallways.
Keeping the chapter short and quick! The next chapter will be longer though! Hope to see you next time