Blake stood in the door way for a second; think she had heard him wrong. "A proposition?"
"Yes" Goku said, slightly reluctantly. He looked a lot older than Blake remembered, almost as if this conversation was very draining for him. "Please, pull up a chair and we'll explain."
Blake complied, and looked to Ruby for someone to share her apprehensive look with, but found only a face of suppressed excitement. Ruby looks like she already knew what was going to be discussed, and wanted to tell her but didn't want to ruin a surprise.
"Me and Vegeta have been talking about the situation at your town, and we feel that you could use a hand. My first idea was to break a peace deal with this 'Adam'", Blake shifted uncomfortably in her chair as she heard his name. "But Vegeta just told me that he caught him about to stab a poor civilian."
"That's right", disgust was mounting Vegeta's words as he recalled the grizzly scene. "The coward had them defenceless at his feet…didn't even give them a chance to die fighting…"
"WHAT DID THEY LOOK LIKE?!" Blake did not realise she had exclaimed the statement until she heard the sound of even more birds being rudely awoken, nor did she realise that Ruby had mirrored her statement and volume. The voices cut across Vegeta's like a sickle across wheat and the two pairs of eyes were boring into his, wide as dinner plates.
"Some black kid with a neck tie, and a rainbow monkey." Vegeta's tone was casual, but a dash of resentment slipped into the statement as he mentioned the latter.
Blake's entire body relaxed…Adam hadn't found Weiss and Yang. She could only hope that was the way it stayed. Ruby had allowed her head to rest on the table; Blake thought she saw a tear hit it.
"And so…where is this going?" Blake had turned to Goku. He looked extremely reluctant, this was clearly the part of the conversation he'd been dreading.
"Well…I guess this man isn't to be reasoned with…so only other option is to…you know…take him out."
The statement hung in the air like a miasma for about 10 seconds before Blake spoke again. She had finally come to a decision, if he was moving forward to full on murder; there was no question about where her allegiance lay anymore. Blake stood up and all eyes fixed on her. Tears were fighting to escape her eyes as she said it, but Blake would not live a lie anymore.
"Yes, he has to die…for what he's done."
A further 10 seconds passed before anyone spoke again. Ruby looked slightly shocked at Blake's sudden falling down on one side, but stood up quickly and walked over to grasp her hand.
"Count on it" she said and Blake found it 10 times harder to keep the tears out of her eyes. They sat down together and looked over at the old men again. Vegeta had responded to Blake's statement by folding his arms, smiling happily. But Goku looked no less uncomfortable. He clearly did not enjoy discussing murder in any capacity.
"Yeah...well, the thing is, we wanna help, but we don't…do killing." Vegeta scoffed as Goku but was silenced with a look. "If he's really that dangerous, you two will have to do the killing."
"Well that's the problem" Blake explained, gathering her wits and trying to sound a bit less emotionally charged. "I've tried, I can't touch him- he's too fast."
Goku and Vegeta smirked at this remark; it seemed to amuse them that Blake would consider that kind of speed 'fast.'
"Vegeta suggested that we train you both, just for a few days, and then you may stands a better chance against this guy. He seems to think that we could make you both strong enough to successfully perform a certain technique that will give your chances a big boost."
Blake leaned forward I her chair, now very interested in what Goku was offering, Ruby was now shaking with desire to tell Blake what he was talking about, but still managed to keep her mouth shut with her hands.
"What kind of technique?"
Now it was Vegeta who looked uncomfortable, he averted his eyes and scowled at the corner, but Goku instantly became more animated, pleased to get off the subject of murder.
"The fusion technique."
"I'm not doing it."
"Come on, hurry up."
"I refuse."
"I need your help, ice queen!"
Yang held out the clothes with her remaining arm, exasperated at her stubborn refusal to take them. Weiss had her arms folded and was looking in the opposite direction. She appeared to be pouting in the dim light.
"Look, you're already wanted and they think I'm dead!" Yang softly exclaimed as she crouched behind the dumpster next to the now naked faunus. "We can't just walk down the street! We need to disappear."
Weiss looked down at the white tunic and grimm mask with the upmost contempt. She turned away again, scowling.
"Those rags represent everything that made my childhood hell, and this dress cost more than you could ever imagine, I'm not wearing them."
Yang raised her eyebrows. "We are covered in blood, and we can't just burst into a dry cleaner. So, to hell with the stupid dress, is it worth more than your life?!"
Weiss scoffed at this statement and grabbed the white fang uniform.
"Alright fine! Get yours on too."
Yang blushed slightly as she held her own uniform, feeling its weight and looking at the unnecessary sleeve it held.
"What?" Weiss asked as she stepped to the other side of the dumpster to change in private.
"I…uh…I'm gonna need a hand."
Weiss stared at the blonde amputee as she stared at the clothes in her one hand.
"You can't be serious."
"I need you to help me out here."
"You reaaaally can't be serious."
"Yes Weiss, I'm serious."
There was an edge to Yang's voice and she looked extremely embarrassed and hurt at the prospect of being dressed. Weiss sighed. "Fine…but never. Tell. ANYONE!"
After some quick changing, the two huntresses emerged back onto the street, concealed in some stolen white fang attire. They began to walk along the city limits, towards the exit.
Weiss had let her hair down and had stuffed her Myrtenaster down the back of the tunic to conceal it.
Yang looked much the same instead of the mask, and her one remaining ember Celica had been stowed in her pocket, in its bracelet form.
"Did you really have to push them in so hard" Yang complained as she rubbed her chest. "This thing was tight enough without you crushin' em."
"Shut up, idiot! It was bad enough that you weren't wearing a bra!" Weiss sounded livid beneath her mask. The combined humiliation of having to dress as a terrorist and having to dress the most voluptuous member of team RWBY had put her in a towering temper.
"I told you, I'm sorry. You should be proud, you got your hands on them twice in one day and lived to tell about it. That's further than any guy's ever got. How do you feel?"
"Repugnant."
Weiss made a scathing noise and Yang brought her into a rough one armed hug, laughing at how mad she was. Weiss pushed her off. Her rage broke at the friendly gesture, but her bad temper shone through.
"Its fine…just don't touch me anymore."
They turned a corner and saw a white fang patrol approaching from the other end of the street. There were about seven in all. Weiss made to instinctively stop in panic, but Yang bumped into her, as a covert gesture to keep moving.
"But we don't have faunus traits, what if they think?-"
"-Some members have concealed traits, we'll be fine."
But it seemed the patrol had seen Weiss' hesitation and stopped the two of them. There was no accusation in the voice of the member that questioned them, but Weiss and Yang could both feel eyes on them, suspiciously scanning them for anything unusual.
"I didn't see you two at the meeting, and why aren't you armed?"
Weiss didn't know what to say, and gained a new found respect for Yang and her people skills, as she immediately cut in without missing a beat.
"We're new, just transferred from Minstrel; we were a little late to the party so we weren't given anything to fight with. Don't suppose you guys could hook us up?"
The white fang member glanced at Yang's stub, and then looked at his companions before continuing.
"I didn't know we were recruiting the disabled, do you have anyone who could vouch for you in the order?"
"Take it up with Adam if you have better ideas of who we should recruit. He told me 'I don't care how many limbs it has, as long as it hates humanity'." The soldiers all laughed cruelly.
"Heh…yeah that does sound like something he'd say." the member chuckled.
"And concerning my arm…it happened when I was young." Said yang, in mock reminiscence, "Such cruelty I have never since known."
The member looked at the burned at fleshy stump and narrowed his eyes beneath the mask. "That looks fresh to me."
Weiss thought that Yang had lost her nerve for a moment; she paused and seemed to fumble for a moment, but then expertly played it off as another painful recollection.
"It…was…that…that Schnee bitch…that filthy little skank! She saw me minding my own business and cast a fire spell that really fucking hurt."
"The heiress, where is she?"
"I don't know, it all happened so fast," and now Yang was really getting into her stride, taking advantage of the mask's covert factor by fake crying. "When I came to…she had vanished."
"Well…I guess that checks out" the member murmured, convulsively rubbing his forearm and turning to Weiss. "And what about you?"
Weiss panicked in her mind, what should she say? What wouldn't give the game away immediately? The thought came to her in a fresh wave of shame. But she had no other way to escape.
"I'm a faunus. My friend here has shown me the light, and was kind enough to give me some spare clothes to change into. I wish I had been with her in her hour of need, I'd have shown that rich girl a thing or two."
She held her breath and awaited a response, those damned masks made it difficult to discern their expressions. But then he let out another laugh and wrapped her on the shoulder.
"Always happy for some young blood, Happy hunting."
Having bid the patrol farewell, the huntresses walked quickly past them and turned a corner. The moment they were alone, Yang spoke very quickly, as Weiss' hand had raised her hand to slap her.
"I apologise for calling you a skank, I was trying to be convincing. Nothing more."
Weiss' hand hung in mid-air and retracted slowly retracted, her eyes never leaving Yang's guilty face. They walked on in silence until they got to Veils entrance gate. Since the Atlas robots had been used in the Beacon attack, they were no longer guarding the entrance to the city. Weiss and Yang managed to slip through it without any resistance; and fled into the foliage beyond, flinging the grimm masks onto the ground.
In the large section of field that had been cleared of radishes, the two girls stood parallel to their respective teachers. Goku and Vegeta stood with their arms folded. They stared down their students with vastly different looks in their eyes. Goku looked excited and almost proud, whereas Vegeta looked bored and slightly sick, this technique brought back bad memories for him.
Blake glanced at Ruby, who nodded. They both raised their arms and began to shuffle towards each other, moving their hands toward one another. One they had each taken three steps, they stopped and thrust their arms away from each other. It a quick sudden motion, the girls brought their arms over their heads and brought them closer… and they slipped, crashing into each other and falling to the ground.
The heap of black hair and red cape lay undisturbed for a few moments. Blake was starting to lose her temper, nothing was happening! She had no idea what Goku was waiting for! The huntresses both started shakily to get to their feet, the hundredth failure having hurt like a bitch. A helpful hand extended from the edge of Blake's vision, and Goku pulled her up.
"Remember, symmetry." He did not sound agitated; on the contrary, the more she and Ruby failed, the happier he seemed to become. Blake however was losing patience with the silly little dance. But when she opened her mouth to vocalise this, Goku cut across her.
"I know that look, you think this is ridiculous and that there is no way it'll work. But wait, just stay with it, and I promise it'll work." Blake sighed and looked at Ruby again, she was already on her feet again and looking back at her with a determined smile, Blake returned it.
"Again!" Goku shouted.