Naruto waited at the station for the others to arrive. He had arrived in Atlas about an hour ago and was waiting for the rest of his team.

His remaining team.

He clenched his fists nearly as he thought about the call. These bastards, whoever they were attacked and captured his partner. This would not stand. He would make sure they paid dearly for their actions.

"Naruto?"

Naruto turned around expecting to see Percy or Roxas calling him.

He got someone totally different.

"Jaune?!" Naruto asked in shock. "What are you doing here?!"

"I'm with my family," Jaune explained. "What are you doing here? I thought you were going to stay at Beacon,"

Naruto got ready to explain but hesitated. He didn't want to bring more people into this mess. Especially his friends.

"Naruto talk to me," Jaune said as he put a hand on his fellow captain's shoulder.

Naruto looked away from him.

"Naruto if you need help then tell me," Jaune urged. "What are friends for right,"

Naruto still looked hesitant but finally he relented. He told Jaune everything. About the call and Cabooses situation.

"Then we'll get him back," Jaune said simply. "And I understand why you were hesitant about telling others," Jaune continued. "So We'll keep this between the two of us,"

"The four of us,"

Jaune and Naruto turned to see that Percy and Roxas had arrived.

Naruto nodded at the two of them.

"Alright what's are first move?" Roxas asked looking at Naruto.

Naruto looked at his companions with conviction.

"First we find Grif,"

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"No sign of him sir," A soldier said to the leader.

The leader growled in frustration. They had been following the trail of the escapee for almost a day now. They had managed to get one and transport him while he and a small squad stayed behind to find the other one.

The leader was hoping he would lead them back to the others.

"We'll move to the next building," The leader ordered. "He couldn't have gotten far,"

"Sir!" The subordinate said as he slapped the back of his neck feeling a bug land on him. He then made his way to the exit of the warehouse and telling the rest of the squad the leaders orders.

The leader looked around the area one last time with narrowed eyes. Then he turned and followed the direction his subordinate and ran off in.

All, was silent in the warehouse.

"I think we're safe," Theta said in a low voice as he appeared.

Grif took a few breaths.

"You and I have a very different definition on that word," Grif growled. "Scan the warehouse,"

Theta flashed for a few seconds.

"No one else is here," Theta said.

"Good," Grif said. "Now I can take a nap in peace,"

"Grif!" Theta nearly shouted.

"What I'm tired," Grif defended.

"Your always tired," Theta countered.

"Unless I'm hungry," Grif defended.

"No, even then," Theta huffed out.

"Whatever," Grif muttered. "Did it land?"

"The tracking device is on the soldier and working,"

"Good," Grif said seriously. "Contact Carolina,"

Theta nodded and made the call.

"Grif I swear if your calling about wanting to give up-" A female voice on the other line began.

"I found him," Grif said cutting her off.

"Really? Where was he!?" Carolina asked.

"That doesn't matter right now," Grif said. Truth be told he didn't want to tell Carolina where Caboose and Church had been. Given the situation he doubted she would let them go back to Beacon. So for now he would stay quiet about it. "He was taken,"

"What?!" Carolina shouted.

"They found us," Grif said.

"...Shit," Carolina said in a calm voice.

"I put a tracker on one of the soldiers," Grif said. "Once I get the quadrants to the base, I'll send them to you.

"Ok, keep me posted, and Grif…" Carolina said. "Stay safe,"

"Sounds like too much work," Grif groaned out.

Carolina chuckled before ending the communication.

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As soon as the transmission ended Carolina's face hardened.

"So Carolina what did Grif say," Someone asked. She turned around to face her two companions.

"Caboose was taken," Carolina said.

"What?!" The same voice cried.

"OH NO!" Another voice said.

"Don't worry Grif is tracking them and he'll send me the location of their base,"

"Are you sure we can trust Grif," The first voice asked. "You know how he gets,"

"When it comes to this yes," Carolina said. "Send a message to the others, tell them to hunker down where they are and stay low, until I contact them,"

"Why," The first voice asked. "Why don't we just raid the bastards and get him back,"

"Because it's less risky that way," Carolina said. "A small rescue team is all we need so it'll just be us and Grif," Carolina explained before a dark look came across her face. "Plus most likely their location is Atlas,"

"Oh," The first voice said. "Shit,"

"Let's hope the general hasn't gotten word of this yet," The second voice said.

Line Break

"General, Ms. Schnee is here to see you,"

"Thank you Doyle," A burly man in a white suit said. A moment later a woman who looked a lot like Weiss but slightly older walked in. "Winter, what can I do for you?"

"Sir we have a situation," Winter said with urgency in her voice.

"What seems to be the problem," He asked seriously. It was rare for Winter to look to concerned. Whatever the issue was must have been serious.

Winter opened her scroll and sent something to his scroll.

"17 hours ago a street camera caught this," She said. On the screen was a video of two teenagers walking into an abandoned warehouse their faces were covered so the camera couldn't get a good look at their faces. Winter began to fast forward a bit. She played at regular speed when one of the windows busted out and someone on orang armor jumped out of it.

"Winter I don't-" The general began.

"Just wait sir,"

Orange figure looked to their shoulder and Winter paused the video. She began enhancing the video to the boy's shoulder. What the general saw made his eyes narrow.

"Theta," He said darkly. "So we finally have a lead on them,"

"Not exactly sir," Winter explained. "This was the only footage we managed to get of them. "We have no idea who they engaged in the warehouse,"

"One of our officers maybe," Doyle supplied helpfully.

"If so no one has spoken up,"

"Assuming they can," The general said. "Doyle get Kimball and the two of you look through the time stamps of all officers in a five-mile radius of that warehouse. Find out if any officer didn't report in or why they haven't yet,"

"Sir," Doyle said before exiting the room.

"And me sir," Winter asked.

"For now just be on standby," The general said.

"Sir," Winter saluted before getting reay to walk out. Only to get his by the door that Doyle opened.

"Before I forg-Winter what happened are you alright?" Doyle asked noticing her holding her face.

She sent Doyle a death glare with a tic mark before pushing past him.

'Still clumsy as ever I see," She thought aggregately.

The general chuckled before turning his attention back to Doyle. "What is it Doyle?"

"Ah right your 3:00 is here," He said.

"Ah send him in,"

A moment later a boy no older than 18 walked in. His hair was tied into a ponytail and his eyes were-

"Thank you for seeing me general," The young man said.

"It's not problem," The general said. "What can I help you with,"

"Well as much as I appreciate the hospitality you have shown me since I got here I fear it might be time to return home," The boy said.

"That's too bad," The general said. "But I suppose that can be expected but if you would be willing to wait a couple of days then I can get right on it,"

"If I may ask why would it take a couple of days," The boy asked.

"Well for one I'm dealing with a bit of an emergency and allowing any ship to leave could prove disastrous," The general explained. "And the other reason being my…understandable skepticism on where it is your wishing me to send you,"

"Understandable sir," The boy said. "Very well I can wait a couple of days," The boy agreed. "Have a nice day General Ironwood," The boy said before walking out of the office.

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"Damnit," Grif cursed as he ran.

"Why did you have to sneeze," Theta moaned in Grif ear.

"Shut up and look for escape routes," Grif said as he turned to see the squad following close behind him.

"And of course you just had to drop your weapon," Theta cried.

"Theta escape route!" Grif shouted.

"Ok go to warehouse 15," Theta said. "You should be able to lose them in there," He explained.

"Alright where is that?" Grif asked.

"Straight ahead,"

Looking up Grif saw the warehouse was open but the inside was dark due to the angle of the sun. Perfect.

Or at least he would have thought so had he not been flanked from either side cutting him off.

"Crap I didn't see them turn," Grif thought.

He stopped in his tracks as he looked around. There were five of them in total. And he was completely surrounded except for the door into the warehouse.

He was going to have to try and make a break for it.

The five soldiers aimed their guns at Grif.

"Don't move," One of them said. "So much as twitch and we take you out,"

"Are you sure about that," Grif said cockily. "I'm pretty sure you need all of us alive,"

"Don't exaggerate your importance," The leader snorted. "We know you are more expendable than the others,"

Grif narrowed his eyes but his smirk never left.

"You sure you can risk that,"

"We will if we have too," The leader countered and the soldiers cocked their guns to show they meant business.

"Let's not give you the chance," A voice said.

Suddenly one of the soldiers felt a hand on their shoulder. He turned around to come face to face with Naruto as he thrusted his fist forward. The soldier went flying. That's when the others made their move.

"Fire," The captain shouted and the soldiers began opening fire on Grif but Jaune managed to jump in front of him in time. He activated his shield and protected him and Grif from the hail of bullets. He didn't need to wait long.

Percy through a water dust crystal at one of the soldiers and it exploded knocking them back. Roxas snuck behind one and swept him from under his feet. He then kicked him in the head knocking him out.

Taking his chance Jaune charged forward and rammed his shield into one of the soldiers and pushed against a crate. Before the soldier could think Jaune hit him with the end of his sword knocking him out.

Grif immediately went for the captain and put him in a sleeper hold. He was out in seconds.

"Well that was disappointing," Naruto grunted out.

"We need to go," Grif said. "There are more around,"

As if on cue one of them showed up.

"Over here!" He shouted and the distinction of a lot of footsteps approaching could be heard.

"P!" Naruto ordered.

"On it!" Percy said and ripped one of the belts with the pouch off and through it in the air. A moment later the water Dust inside the pouches exploded creating a wave of water to rush in all directions.

The guards backed up to avoid it as it passed them. They looked back to see that they had vanished.

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"Where are we heading?!" Grif asked as they ran.

"Doesn't matter just run!" Naruto shouted.

"Why are you all here?!" Grif asked.

"We know about Caboose being taken!" Roxas answered.

"What?! How?!"

"Explain later!" Roxas said. A second later they found themselves out of the warehouse district and on a main street. Naruto could here the footsteps of some of the men as they were heading towards he main street.

"We need to find a place to hide,"

"In there," Jaune said pointing to a building before running towards it. Not asking questions the others followed him.

They entered the building and took in their surroundings.

"Is this a bar?" Roxas asked.

The lights were dim and the bar was on the right side of building. Across from the door they entered was a stage. The rest of the place was filled with tables full of gruff looking men and women of all ages.

"Really Jaune," Naruto said. "This is the place you choose,"

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize that someone running for their life was allowed to have standards about hiding places," Jaune drawled his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Um guys?" Percy said.

"is that complaining I here," NAruot asked. "You willingly signed off on this dangerous situation,"

"Guy," Percy tried again.

"Me! You're the one complaining about a hiding place,"

"GUYS!" Percy shouted.

"WHAT?!" Naruto and Jaune shouted. Percy pointed at the stage adnt eh others followed his line of sight. What they saw made their eyes widen.

"Weiss?" Roxas asked in shock.

Indeed Weiss was on the stage on a robe as she approached the microphone. She seemed to be taking a few breaths. Then she opened her mouth.

Everybody's got a thing

Weiss began to sing and slowly everybody turned to look at her.

But some don't know how to handle it

Naruto and the others eyes widened as they realized what was happening. Naruto pulled out his scroll quickly.

Always reaching out in vain

Weiss continued singing as she smiled with her eyes closed. She snuck a look at the pianist who winked at her as he began playing.

Just taking the things not worth having but

Percy looked over at Naruto.

"Are you recording?" Percy asked.

"Yes," Naruto answered. "Because no one will believe us otherwise,"

"I think this will make Jaune like her more," Roxas muttered.

"It has," Jaune said dreamily.

"That answers that," Grif commented as he looked at the stage

Don't you worry 'bout a thing

Weiss sang softly into the mic as the spotlight shined on her.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama

She opened her eyes and looked down at the crowd and shook her head.

'Cause I'll be standing on the side

The four boys stood in the back rooted where they stood.

When you check it out, oh

Weiss opened her arms out before bringing them back to her chest. The spotlight slowly faded incasing the stage in darkness.

Suddenly in brightened up and the whole stage could be seen. What the boys saw shocked them. Weiss had taken off the robe she had been wearing to reveal a dress…a very tasteful dress. It was modest and not revealing but you couldn't help but stare at her.

They say your style of life's a drag

Weiss sang as she slumped her shoulder and pretended to look sad.

And that you must go other places

She pointed her finger around as if to show her point to move on.

Just don't you feel too bad

She waved her hands lightly in reassurance as she sang.

When you get fooled by smiling faces

Weiss waved her hand across her face to show a different smile that was clearly fake.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing

Weiss spread her arms out a she sang into the mic.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, baby

She received woof whistles and cheers throughout the crowd.

'Cause I'll be standing on the side

Grif lazily grabbed Jaune as the knight looked ready to attack the men whistling.

When you check it out

Weiss began to shake to roll her shoulders one by one and sway in place as she sang.

When you get it off your trip

"Woohoo!" Naruto shouted as Weiss continued singing.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, yeah

Weiss pointed at the band as they began to really play.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, yeah

She did a spin making her skirt flirter up but not too high as she sang.

Come on!

She nodded her head as if telling the crowd to follow her.

Everybody needs a change

Weiss pointed to the entire crowd as she sang.

A chance to check out the new

She pointed towards the door as if to show that there was something new to look at.

But you're the only one to sees

She began pointing and waving her finger before pointing to her eye as she sang.

The changes you take yourself through

Weiss began bent slightly as she closed her eyes as she shook her head as she sang.

Oh, oh,

Weiss continued to sing as she removed the mic from the stand.

oh, oh, oh,

Weiss moved her free hand around and reached for her hair suddenly. Then without notice she ripped the band in her ponytail out letting her hair down. The boy's draw dropped at the display.

Oh oh,

Weiss shook her hair as she held her hands out and sang into the mic.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

All around the bar the glasses of all shapes and sizes broke. A crack appeared in Naruto's scroll as he recorded.

'How is that even possible!" He thought. 'This is a hologram!'

Suddenly the glass to the window broke and everyone stopped to look at it. All was silent.

"WHOO!" Percy shouted and the crowd began cheering. Weiss gave a sheepish smile and shrug before she began singing once again.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, (thing)

She began singing again but this time the crowd was singing along with her.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, (thing)

While Naruto was filming he shook his head from side to side.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, (thing)

Roxas and the others did the same as Naruto but they slid from side to side as they sang along

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, (thing)

The band began to really play on the last one to stand out.

Pa-pa-p, pa-pa-pa-pa

Jaune and Percy started clapping to the beat.

Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa

Slowly the entire room bar began clapping and singing along as well.

Pa-pa-p, pa-pa-pa-pa

Weiss began walking around the stage as she looked on at the crowd encouraging them to clap and sing along.

Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa

The crowd was more than eager to comply. Roxas grabbed Jaune as he fell over with hearts in his eyes.

pa-pa-pa

Weiss did one more spin as they clapped.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing

Weiss continued singing when suddenly everything flashed white.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama

When the flash ended it showed a younger Weiss as she is playing with two other kids that looked like her.

'Cause I'll be standing on the side

She turned around to see a woman looking on fondly.

When you check it out

Weiss runs up to the woman who picks her up and sits her in her lap.

When you get it off your trip

Weiss looks up at the woman and gives an innocent smile.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, yeah

The woman looks down and pokes her nose lightly causing Weiss to giggle.

She ignores the daze in the woman's eyes.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama

It changes to Weiss a little older as she stands next to the woman watching her older sister looking back at them before leaving the house.

'Cause I'll be standing on the side

Weiss looked up to the woman who had nothing but a smile on her face as her sister left.

When you check it out

Weiss takes the woman's hand as they watch her sister leave.

She ignores the red stain on the dress and the slight wobble does as she steadies herself.

Oh don't you worry

It showed Weiss as she was leaving her house and about the head to start her new life at Beacon.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama

She turned around to see the woman looking and smiling at her like she had when her older sister had left.

'Cause I'll be standing, I'll be standing by you

Without hesitation Weiss ran back and gave the woman a loving hug that the woman returns.

She ignores the smell of alcohol on her breath.

Suddenly the scene began to fade.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH

It faded back to show Weiss's face as she sang and a single tear left her eye.

Oh don't you worry 'bout a THIIIIIIIINNINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG

Weiss sang her heart out on the last line while the crowd cheered. Then she slumped and the the lights went out. The crowd went wild as she ended the song. Weiss took in a few deep breaths before taking a bow as the light came back on.

Ah this was bliss.

Of course she could never show her friends. She'd never hear the end of it. It was a good thing none of them were here. Weiss stood up from her bow.

And came face to face with Naruto, Percy, Roxas, Jaune, and Grif who had stampeded their way to the front.

"That was awesome!" Naruto shouted. "Encore Encore Encore!"

"Encore Encore Encore!" The others joined.

Weiss slowly turned to dust at the horror of the situation.

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"My snow angel can sing," Jaune said dreamily.

"I honestly don't care," Grif muttered.

"Then why are you crying," Roxas asked.

"Shut up!"

"Take that you fuckers!" Naruto shouted to the security guards. "We do know her personally,"

"Shut it Uzumaki!" Weiss commanded. "Why the hell are you all here!" SH ethen looked at the group in front of her. "And where is that buffoon Caboose,"

Instantly there was a tension in the air. Weiss noticed that the humor in their eyes left.

"What?" Weiss asked.

"Weiss," Percy spoke up. "You should listen to this,"

"Percy," Naruto warned.

"She may be able to help," Percy insisted. "Her family has a lot of pull in the Atlas military and around here,"

Naruto was reluctant but he knew Percy had a point. He merely nodded his head for Percy to continue.

"What am I listening too," Weiss asked. Percy opened his scroll and played the recording.

Weiss listened intently and felt her heart drop when she heard the blue one had been captured. When the transmission she looked up at Percy who had this simmering look on his face.

"What can you tell me about the men who attacked you," Weiss asked looking at Grif.

These people took one of her friends. They would pay.

"Merc's most likely," Grif said. "They didn't wear in patch for platoons,"

"So it's not the government we're up against," Roxas said.

"Yes but since they don't belong to a known platoon we don't know their capabilities or how many there are," Weiss explained. "We're going in blind,"

"Maybe we should contact the Atlas military," Jaune suggested.

"NO!" The members of team UMPR and Grif shouted as one throwing Weiss and Jaune off.

"Look it's hard to explain but we can't involve them," Percy tried to explain. "Just trust that we have a reason so it's just the 6 of us,"

"What if we contact the others,"

"No, it's better if we keep this small," Naruto explained. "The objective is to get Caboose and get out,"

The others nodded in agreement. That was the only objective.

"But," Naruto said catching their attention. "If we so happen to fuck the place up on our way in and out so be it,"

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"So will you tell us what we want to know,"

"Yeah how about fuck off," Church snarled.

"I wasn't talking to you Epsilon," The voice sighed.

"Who's Epsilon," Caboose asked.

"I don't know Caboose," Church said. "But is sounds like whoever their looking for is playing hide and seek,"

"Oh I'm really god at that game," Caboose said excitedly. "Though I lost this round,"

"Better luck next time buddy," Church said simply. "Besides they cheated,"

"Ah that's no fun!" Caboose complained.

"Is this a game to you?" The man asked.

"Oh no he's being dead serious," Church said with humor in his voice. "He hates losing at hide and seek,"

"As much as I enjoy these games I'm afraid I don't have time for them," The man continued calmly. "So I will give you 24 hours to think about how you want this to go,"

"And if we don't choose what you like,"

"Then my friends will get it out of you," The man said calmly and walked out of the room leaving Church and Caboose in the darkness.

AND DONE! Sorry for the long wait. This particular month has been hard on me. Death in the family among other things. But don't worry I haven't given up on my stories. Never will. But I should be honest. You will see a delay in this stories updates just because I want to give my other stories as much attention as this one. Though you won't have to wait as long like you did for this chapter.

Now as you can tell there was a lack of opening and ending like I said there would be. To put it simple a few people made good points about the number of songs in here. So for every character song I put in I will not do the opening and ending for that chapter and vice versa. As for the version I used the Tori Kelley one. The movie version for the first verse and chorus and then the soundtrack for the rest though it sounds the same so… Poor Jaune has just fallen harder for her. And most likely this will be the last song for a while.

And we get a little look at Weiss home life as well if you looked at the song. I'm sure that'll be important later hint hint

And now we have to more companions in the hunt for Caboose and What could the man in the shadows be looking for. Who's the boy the general was talking too. (If you figure it out don't put it in a review just PM instead. Don't want to spoil it for others.)

Now this chapter was a bit shorter than normal but that was honestly only because it would have been too long. I still have more to write for the next chapter but this was a good spot to stop the chapter.

Now on to questions

Maelstrom Petals-Naturist semblance? Please elaborate I'm confused by what you mean when you say naturist

Rebounder1904- I hope this chapter answered that question.

BalancedHex1232-Thank you I love that I managed to make someone like you actually try to speak. As some one who was once like that I feel ya and I promise for this arc I wont disappoint.

keno2013 thank you for your support and being annoyingly persistent to get me to finish this chapter. it probablywould have taken longerif you hadn'tso thanks for pushing me back on the wagon.

Well that's all for now. Please don't be mad about it being shorter than usual. I promise these are one of those rare cases and trust me the next few chapter are about to be epic.

And next chapter we get a new opening and ending hope your looking forward to it.

Well that's all for now until next time. If you know about my other stories than expect an update from one of them soon.

Well then…READ…REVIEW…and above all else…ENJOY!