RWBY: Lost and Forgotten
(Weiss hasn't seen Chrome's semblance, so she wouldn't bring it up seeing as how she doesn't know what it is...yet. As to why he's not as worried as Blake about the White Fang, I'm getting to that in a few chapters)
Chapter 14
The following day
Chrome
Sitting in Oobleck's class, I stared at the clock, waiting for the bell to ring. Watching it turn to 4:00 PM, the bell rang.
"Alright, class, that is all for today." Oobleck said as he took a sip of his coffee. "You're dismissed!"
Grabbing my things, I left the classroom and started heading for the dorms to change into my casual clothes. After changing, I decided to see what Blake and her team were up to. So, I started heading for their room.
Getting to their room, I knocked three times. A few seconds passed before Yang opened the door. "Oh! Hey, Chrome!"
"Hi, Yang." I greeted. "Whatchya guys up to?"
"We're about to get information on White Fang activity." she replied.
Glancing over her shoulder, I saw her whole team wide-eyed and staring at the back of her head in disbelief. "Mind if I tag along?" I asked.
"Not at all." Yang stepped to the side to let me walk in.
"So, I assume you guys have a plan?" I asked.
Ruby was about to say something but just let out a sigh. "Right! Everyone remember their roles?"
"You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem." Weiss said.
"The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members." Blake added. "Since Chrome is now here, if we can get in, we can hopefully find out what they're planning."
"I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard..." Yang crossed her arms and smirked.
"Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. Let's do this!" Ruby pumped her fist.
"Yeah!" we all looked to the window to see Sun hanging upside down.
"Sun!"
"How did you get up there?" Yang asked.
"Ah, it's easy; I do it all the time." Sun told her.
"You do what?!" Weiss shouted.
"I climb trees all the time!" Sun flipped into the room. "So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"
"We are going to investigate the situation... as a team." Blake told him.
"Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to." Ruby added.
"Psh! That's dumb! We should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune!" he pointed out the window.
Ruby and her team rushed to the window and looked out.
"'Sup?" I heard Neptune's voice.
"How did you even get up here?" Ruby asked.
"I have my ways. Seriously, though, can I come in? We're like, really high up right now." the girls stepped back as Neptune climbed into the room.
"Alright, I'll go with Weiss; Sun, you can go with Blake and Chrome. And Neptune, you can go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner. Everyone good?"
"Yep!"
"Alright!" Ruby walked towards the door with Weiss following behind her.
Neptune and Yang left next, leaving me, Blake and Sun. "So, when is this White Fang meeting?"
Hours later
The three of us stood next to a building as Blake peeked around the side of it. "This is it."
"You sure?" Sun asked, getting a glare from Blake in return. "Y'know, I'm just gonna take your word for it."
The three of us walk inside and see a White Fang member standing at the end of the hall. "New recruits, keep to the right!"
"I don't get it." Sun said as he held his mask. "If you believe what you're doing is right, why hide who you are?"
"The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters." I explained it to him.
"Grimm masks... That's kind of dark."
"So was the guy who started it." Blake said as she put her mask on. Placing my mask over my eyes, I followed my sister inside.
"Always sunshine and rainbows with you..." I heard Sun mumble.
As we blended in with the crowd, a White Fang member with tattoos came out onto the stage. Behind him, was a White Fang sheet that was used to cover something up.
"Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for for so long!" the Fang Member said before Roman Torchwick walked onto the stage.
"Thank you, thank you!" Roman waved. "Please, hold your applause!"
"What's a human doing here?!"
"I'm glad you asked, 'Deerie'! Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans... are the worst." he saluted as an example. "Case in point. So, I understand why you would like to see us all locked away, or, better yet, killed!"
"So, is he going somewhere with this?" Sun whispered.
"Shush!" I told him.
"But, before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms!" the crowd started to agree with him. "Government, military, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life! And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around... No offense to any rodents in the room."
With a snap of the fingers, the curtain falls, showing a massive Atlas robot, the mark of the White Fang painted on its shoulder.
"Whoa, that's a big robot..." Sun said.
"How did he get that?"
"As some of you may have heard, this right here..." he tapped the mech. "...is Atlas' newest defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my 'employer', we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, 'hit the shelves'. Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine... But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?" the crowd errupted into applause.
"We should go." I told Blake and Sun.
"Will all new recruits, please come forward!"
The line slowly started to move up. "Welp!"
"What are we going to do?!" Sun asked.
"I'm thinking..."
"He sees us..." Sun said as he nervously waved at Roman.
Looking around the room, I spotted a junction box on the wall. "He can't see in the dark." pulling my weapon off my back, I took aim and shot the box, engulfing the building in darkness.
"Don't let them get away!" Roman shouted.
"Quick! The window!" Blake shouted.
"Stop them!"
Rushing towards the window, the three of us broke through it and landed on the street. Glancing back, the mech broke through the wall and started giving chase.
Quick to act, we used a few cars to get ourselves onto the rooftops. "So you wouldn't happen to have... oh, I don't know... some form of backup?!" Sun shouted.
"On it!" Blake pulled out her scroll as we continued jumping from rooftop to rooftop. "Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-"
"HEEEELLLLP!" Sun yelled. "Big robot! And it's big! Really big! That Torchwick guy is in it! But not, like, it didn't eat him; he's, like, controlling it or something!"
"Where are you guys?" Yang asked through Blake's scroll.
"HURRYYYY!" Sun shouted.
Jumping onto another roof, we rushed across it and jumped, only to find ourselves on the highway. Landing on a car, we looked back to see Torchwick still giving chase. Continuing to jump from car to car, I glanced back to see Roman suddenly crash into a ton of cars, sending them flying behind him.
Yang was on her motorcycle chasing Roman and I could just make out Neptune on the back of the giant mech, having trouble hanging on. "Neptune, hang on!" Sun stopped and created two yellow copies of himself that he sent at Roman. Upon impact, the copies managed to slow the mech a bit.
Sun took out his weapon and jumped at Roman, only for Neptune to be flung off and slam into Sun, knocking both of them off the side of the highway.
Seeing the mech turn back to me and Blake, we passed under a bridge and Weiss suddenly jumped down behind us. Raising her weapon, she plunged the tip into the street, creating a sheet of ice that the mech slipped on, falling off the side of the highway.
Me and team RWBY quickly followed, landing in front of the mech. Drawing our weapons, I was about to attack when Blake stopped me by holding her arm out in front of me. "What?"
Blake didn't reply as I heard "Freezer Burn!" from Ruby.
Blake quickly grabbed me and pulled me away as Weiss created a sheet of ice and Yang used her gauntlets to smash the ice, creating a thick mist. Noticing the mist was messing with Roman's aim, I started running through the mist, trying to find the best time to strike. Suddenly, the mech started firing at Ruby and her team. I could barely see through the fog but I could see the massive mech.
Hearing the sound of metal against metal, I saw Ruby standing in front of Roman. "Checkmate!"
Weiss and Blake rushed in, slicing at the mech's legs before jumping back. Seeing Blake was about to get stepped on, I was about to use my semblance to move her when I saw a glyph pop out of nowhere to do it for me. Looking down at my hands, I wondered if I did that without even knowing.
Looking back to Weiss and Blake, I saw Weiss get knocked back but not before launching a beam of light under Blake. A gold glyph appeared under her with a clockwork design. Watching my sister absorb the glyph, Roman launched a series of missiles at her. Blake suddenly slashed through the missiles with ease, spinning and slashing with a massive amount of speed.
I couldn't believe it.
"Ladybug!" Ruby rushed passed Blake and the two started dashing back and forth between the mech's legs, slashing with each passing by.
Snapping out of my trance-like state, I saw Roman was focusing all of his attention on Ruby and Blake. Seeing my opportunity, I pulled the levers on both of my weapons and threw the blades at the mech. The fog messed with my aim, but I did manage to sever one of the mech's arms.
Calling the blades back to me, Yang jumped on the back of the mech, shooting it with fiery shotgun blasts. Roman tried to reach behind him to get at her but couldn't. Seeing Roman jump backwards through a column, he hit his back against another, finally getting Yang to let go.
Turning around, he then punched Yang through the column, shattering it. "Yang!" I took a step forward only for Ruby to stop me.
"Don't worry! With each hit she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back! That's what makes her special." Ruby told me.
Seeing Yang get to her feet, I noticed her hair was glowing.
Roman threw a punch, but Yang blocked it with ease, throwing a punch herself and completely destroying the mech's remaining arm. Out of options, Roman kicked Yang, knocking her passed us. "Bumblebee!"
Blake threw her weapon towards Yang. She caught the gun and Blake swung her back towards the mech using her ribbon attached to the weapon. As Yang went to attack, Roman leapt back, dodging her.
Annoyed, I pulled the levers on my weapons again, throwing the blades at the mech and watching as they impaled it. "We need to slow it down!" Ruby shouted.
"And how do you propose we do that?" Weiss asked.
"Ice flower!"
Recalling my blades, I looked over to see Weiss spin around as Ruby stuck the tip of her scythe into the ground. Taking aim, three glyphs appeared in front of Ruby's weapon.
I was taken back as I realized Weiss and I shared the same semblance.
Snapping out of my thoughts, Ruby shot through the glyphs, her bullets hitting the mech and creating ice upon impact, slowing it down. Yang came around for another swing, this time connecting and turning the rest of the mech to scrap as Roman rolled to his feet.
He brushed himself off and Yang quickly took a shot, only for it to be blocked by an...umbrella?
Taking a step back, a small girl with pink and brown hair, and matching eyes, rested the umbrella on her shoulder, giving us a smirk. "Ladies, gent, Ice Queen..." Roman said.
"Hey!"
"Always a pleasure! Neo, if you would..." the girl, Neo, bowed infuriating Yang. The blonde rushed forward and took a swing, only for Roman and Neo to shatter upon impact. Hearing a bullhead's engine, we looked up to see the two passing by.
"So I guess he got a new henchman..." Yang said.
"Yeah, I guess she really made our plans... fall apart!" Weiss joked.
"No. Just... no." Yang shook her head.
"What- But, you do it!" Weiss placed her hands on her hips.
"There's a time and a place for jokes." Yang told her.
"Was this not it?"
"No, it just wasn't very good." Yang replied.
"Well, at least I'm trying!" Weiss said. As she took a step away, I quickly rushed up and grabbed her shoulder. She glanced back at me. "Yes?"
"Your semblance." I said.
"What about it?"
"I want to know more about it." I told her.
End of chapter 14