Blake, Nicolas and Sun were all sitting at a cafe' again enjoying their tea talking. "Finally, she speaks! For the past 2 days you've given me nothing but small talk and weird looks." Sun said, earning him glares from the couple. "Yeah, like that." He said.
"She'll talk when she want to. You need to give her time." Nick said.
"Sun? Nicolas? Have you ever heard of the White Fang?" She asked them.
"Only the stuff Weiss was complaining about the other day." Nick said.
"Of course! I don't think there's a faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. Bunch of stupid, holier-than-thou creeps who use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks if you ask me." He said.
"I think that's part of the reason they do what they do, getting called freaks and things like that." Nick said.
Blake took a sip of her drink before continuing. "I was once a member of the White Fang." She said.
"Wait, wha-?" Nick said, caught off-guard.
Sun was as well, spitting and coughing up his tea or coffee. "Wait a minute, you were a member of the White Fang?!" He asked, shocked.
"That's right. I was a member for most of my life, actually. You could almost say I was born into it." She explained, having a flashback. "Back then, things were different. Back then, the White Fang was supposed to be a symbol of peace and unity between humans and faunus." She explained, an image of human and faunus leaders shaking hands and declaring peace. "Of course, even though being promised equality, the faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate." She continued, an image being shown of a faunus cowering as humans were basically forming a lynch mob for him/her, then an image of two faunus sticking up for the first one. "Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. So, the White Fang rose up as the voice of our people. And I was there. I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference. But I was just a youthful optimist" She explained, an image of a much younger version of her protesting with a picket sign.
Then the image then changed to the White Fang's flag, which changed from a blue flag with what looks like the image of a wolf to the symbol of a wolf with claw marks across it... You know, what? Watch the episode, I'm getting tired of explaining every image, it takes too long. "Then, 5 years ago, our leader stepped down and a new one took his place. A new leader with a new way of thinking. Soon our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us, highjacking cargo from companies that used faunus labor. And the worst part was, it was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect. Out of fear." She finished.
"Wow, that's some pretty dark shit." Nick said.
She took a final sip of her drink and set it down, looking down into the cup. "So, I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence and dedicated my life to becoming a huntress." She said.
"That's a very sensible idea." Nick said, nodding.
"So, here I am. A criminal hiding in plain view. All with the help of a little black bow." She said, wiggling her cat ears under the bow.
"Hey, that's not fair. You never meant any harm and you left after things went bad. You're not a criminal." Nick said, causing her to smile just a bit.
"So... Have you told your friends any of this?" Sun asked, Blake staying silent.
Elsewhere...
"Blake!" Ruby called as her team continued to search for her.
"Nicolas, where are you, you Necromancing bastard!" I shouted, flying through the skies searching for him while Draco and Damion search on foot at high speeds.
"Blake!" Yang called out.
"Blake, where are you?!" Ruby called, before turning to Weiss as Yang called once again. "Weiss, you're not helping." She said, looking at the albino heiress.
"Oh, you know who might be able to help? The police." Weiss said uncaringly.
"What a great idea, Weiss! Have the police try to find our friend who used to be in what is now a terrorist organization!" Serena said sarcastically.
"My god, you are too airheaded to think clearly, aren't you?" Selene asked.
Ruby also let out a small growl of annoyance at her teammate's suggestion, obviously trying to get out of searching for their other teammate. "Weiss..." She said.
"It was just an idea!" Weiss said defensively.
"Yeah, a bad one." Ruby said as they continued to walk.
With Damion...
"Nick! Get out here, man! This looking all over for you shit is getting REALLY old!" He snapped.
With Draco...
"Nick! Where are you man?! I've got hot dogs!" He said, pulling a plate of hot dogs out of nowhere.
With me...
I was still in the sky, hovering up high, one more idea in my head. "Nicolas! Get over here now or I'm gonna blow up this whole town and destroy all your favorite CD's!" I shouted.
Back with the others...
"Weiss, I think we should hear HER side of the story before we jump to any conclusions." Yang said.
"And I think when we do hear it, you'll all realize that I was right." Weiss said arrogantly.
"You're never right." Serena said.
"The only thing you're right about is being a bitch." Selene agreed.
"And I think Serena and Selene's hair looks wonderful today!" Penny said, walking behind the group.
They all freaked out at this and turned around, Ruby letting out a small shriek. "Aah! Penny, where did you come from?!" She asked, freaked out.
She ignored the question, raising her hand in greeting. "Hey guys! What are you up to?" She asked.
"We're looking for our friend Blake." Yang said.
"And our friend, Nicolas." I said as I dropped down from the sky and the rest of my team minus Nick reconvened, as we gave up on searching for now.
Penny leaned back slightly at this. "Ohhhh, you mean the faunus girl and the guy with the black nail polish." She said.
We were shocked for a moment, but then nodded. "Yeah, that's it. He says it helps his necromancy, but I don't believe it. I think he just has a weird sense of style." I said.
"How did you know that about Blake?"Ruby asked.
"Uh, the cat ears." Penny said, pointing to the top of her head.
"What cat ears?" Selene asked.
"She wears a- bow..." Yang said as we all realized the bow covered the cat ears.
"She does like tuna a lot." Ruby said.
"Yeah, that's where she and I are different. I'm a salmon and trout kind of a guy. MAYBE perch, but not especially my favorite. I like shark meat, too, but I like the actual animal better, so I stopped eating that." I said.
We stood in silence for a moment until a tumbleweed passed by. "Where the fuck did that come from? We aren't in the Old West or out in a desert! It could've been a newspaper if they were going for realism!" I criticized, Draco nodding.
"Tumbleweeds for deserts and the Old West, newspapers for cities and shit like that." He agreed.
"So, where are they?" Penny asked.
"We don't know. They've been missing since Friday." Ruby said.
Penny gasped and walked up to her, grabbing her tightly. "That's terrible! Well, don't you worry, Ruby, my friend! I won't rest until we find. Your. Teammates." She said.
We paused for a moment before I looked over at Damion. "Think it's too late to find a replacement for Nicolas?" I asked.
"No, not really. Who could we get to replace him?" He asked.
I paused for a few moments before my answer came. "Dammit." I said, looking down at the ground.
Ruby laughed nervously at Penny's request before speaking. "That's really nice of you, Penny... But we're okay. Right, guys?" She asked, looking at us, but was shocked to see we were no longer that, dotted lines indicating where we were and that we were no longer there, filling in those outlines.
The wind blew again and the tumbleweed went back across from where it had come from. "It sure is windy today." Penny said.
With Blake, Sun and Nicolas...
"So, what's the plan now?" Sun asked,
"We may want to find our teams before Sai makes good his threat to destroy the city, or worse, MY CD's!" Nick said fearfully.
Blake, however, had a different idea about it. "I still don't believe the White Fang is behind these robberies. They've never needed that much dust before." Blake said.
"Sai said it himself, he couldn't find any evidence of the White Fang's being there, but it isn't out of the question." Nick said.
"But what if they DID?" Sun asked, getting in front of them. "I mean, the only way to prove that they didn't do it is to go to the place where they would most likely go to if they WERE to do it and not find them there. Right?" He asked, doing that thing like the Fonze used to do after he 'ey'd where he points at the person he 'ey'd to.
"Wow, that's actually pretty smart. Even if the explanation didn't sound too smart." Nick agreed.
"The only thing is, I have no idea where that would be." Blake said.
"Oh, ain't this a pickle?" Nick said.
"Well, when I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about unloading a HUGE shipment of dust coming in from Atlas." Sun said.
"Well, that'd do it." Nick said, nodding in consideration.
"How huge?" Blake asked.
"HUGE. BIG Schnee company freighter." Sun explained.
"Perfect, let's hit it. To the Nick-mobile!" Nicolas said with the spinning background and the image of his warhammer zooming in on the frame before zooming out. They all then jumped into a vehicle like Batman's Dark Knight car, except more modeled after Nick's hammer once again and then they drived to the docks.
Back with us...
The guy's and I sat outside of a Starbuck's on a bench, just sitting there, chilling, consecutively taking sips of our coffee's until I finally snapped. "WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?!" I shouted as loud as I could. I let out a deep sigh before turning to the guys. "Screw it, I'm hungry, let's get something for lunch." I said.
With the others...
They just exited a shop, asking if the clerk had seen Blake at all, but getting no answer. "Thanks anyway." Yang said, closing the door. "This is hopeless." She said, before looking at Weiss, who stayed silent. "You really don't care if we find her, do you?" She asked.
"Don't be stupid! of course I do!" Weiss said, turning to her.
"Why do I doubt that?" Serena asked.
"You've been the least caring person in the search so far and you've barely made any effort to help search." Selene said.
"I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we find her. The innocent never run." Weiss said.
"They do when they're scared." Serena said.
"Or in the face of a judgmental BITCH like you." Selene said.
"I told you, I was a victim." She said, but more quietly and defensively.
With Ruby and Penny...
"So, Blake is your friend?" Penny asked.
"Yes, Penny." Ruby answered, somewhat annoyed.
"But you're mad at her?" She asked.
This tripped Ruby up a bit before she got the answer out clearly. "Well, no. Weiss is." She explained.
"Is SHE friends with Blake?" Penny asked.
"Well, that's kind of up in the air right now." Ruby said.
"How come?"
"Well, Blake might not be who we thought she was."
Penny gasped at this. "Is she a man?" She asked, leaning in.
With the guys...
We fell to the ground, rolling on the floor in laughter at this, trying to catch our breath and not die from laughter. "Oh, my gods! Oh, my gods! That was fucking hilarious!" I said.
"Hurts to breathe!" Draco laughed.
"Oh, damn, that was good!" Damion said, being the first to contain himself, but was still chuckling.
Back with them...
"No, no, no, Penny. I don't exactly know what she is. She didn't exactly talk to us before she decided to run off." Ruby said, looking down.
"I don't have a lot of friends. But if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things." Penny said.
Ruby sighed at this, looking down at the ground again. "Me, too." She said as they continued to walk.
With Blake and Nicolas...
They were both laying down, looking at the large amount of dust cargo containers, looking for anything suspicious. "So these are the type of reconnaissance missions Sai told me about once or twice... This is boring." Nicolas said.
"It's not all fun and games. Sometimes we have to be patient about these things." Blake said.
Sun suddenly landed beside them. "Did I miss anything?" He asked.
"Nope." Nicolas said.
"Not really. They've off-loaded all the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there." Blake said.
"Cool. I stole you both some food." He said, holding out a couple of apples.
"Stop breaking the law, asshole!" Nicolas shouted, but not loud enough for all the other people to hear (YouTube: RWBY randomness).
"Do you always break the law without a second thought?" Blake asked.
"Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?" He said, backing away at the mutual glares her got from the other faunus and the necromancer. "Okay, too soon." He said, but then they all flinched when the heavy wind from an airship hit them. An airship then landed and a bunch of White Fang members stepped off.
"Oh, no." Blake said.
"That's not good." Nick agreed.
"Is that them?" Sun asked.
"Yes. It's them." Blake said, getting a good look at the symbol on one's back.
One then stepped off, carrying a large gun. "Alright, grab the tow cables." He ordered.
Blake looked shocked and sad about this, Nick putting a hand on her back supportively and Sun looking at her with a sympathetic look. "You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" He asked.
"No. I think deep down I knew, I just didn't want to be right." She said, closing her eyes.
Suddenly, a new voice rang out. "Hey, what's the hold-up?!" Roman Torchwick asked as he stepped out of the airship. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace?" He demanded.
Blake was completely shocked at this point. "This isn't right. The White Fang would NEVER work with a human. Especially not one like that." She said, standing up, unsheathing her sword and jumping down.
"Wait, what are you doing?!" Sun asked as he tried to stop her, but failed.
"Well, now it's fighty time! Fighty time! Blood, blood, blood!" Nicolas said, jumping down after her.
They both ran in and took cover around the corner of one of the shipping containers as Roman yelled at one of the White Fang members holding the cable.
"No, you idiot! This isn't a leash!" He snapped.
"Wow, I'm amazed they'll work with him with all the animal jokes and names he's doing to them." Nick said.
Yang then appeared behind him with her sword to her throat and Nick appeared beside them, readying the ray gun of his hammer at them as they prepared to attack. "What the-?! Oh, for-" Roman started.
"Nobody move!" Blake ordered, interrupting him.
"Whoa, take it easy there, little lady." He said.
Blake looked around, seeing they were clearly outmatched and threw off her bow to reveal her cat ears. "Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?!" She asked, to which they lowered their weapons.
"Oh, kid, didn't you get the memo?" Roman chuckled.
"Watch how you talk to her, bastard." Nick snapped.
"What are you talking about?" Blake demanded.
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together." He said confidently.
"And that would be?" Nick said, holding the hammer and spike on it right in front of Roman's face.
"Tell me what it is or we'll put an end to your little operation." Blake demanded once again, but then the wind from more airships threw them off-guard a bit as Roman looked up.
"I wouldn't exactly call it a LITTLE operation." He said, 2 more airships starting to land. He then used this opportunity while Blake and Nick were distracted to shoot a rocket from his cane into the ground at his and Blake's feet, knocking her back and when Nick was distracted, about to go and tend to her, Torchwick bashed him in the face with a cane, put the bottom up to his chest and blasted him back as well.
With Ruby...
Her and Penny heard the noise and looked towards the docks, seeing smoke rising from them. "Oh, no." Ruby said as they went off.
With the guys...
We met up with our sisters and got lunch, but then we heard the explosions and saw the smoke rising from the docks as well. "That can't be good." I said as we took off at high speeds towards the docks.
Back with them...
Blake was dodging more blasts from Roman's cane, eventually taking cover behind more containers as he approached. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty." He said angrily.
"No, dummy, dummy, dummy, dummy!" Nicolas said as her rushed in, swinging his hammer at Roman relentlessly. Of course, with a giant warhammer being a much heavier weapon than a simple cane, Roman managed to outmaneuver him and knocked him down. He aimed the cane at his face and was about to finish him off when a banana landed on his hat. He grumbled and threw it off, looking to where the source was, surprised to see Sun sailing towards him and planting his feet into Roman's face, sending them both to the ground and rolling a safe distance away.
"Leave them alone." He said.
"Good lookin' out, man." Nick said, getting beside Sun and pulling out his lighter weapon: a golf club with a powerful assault rifle built in. Suddenly, the airships open and a number of White Fang members surrounded the two.
"You aren't the brightest bananas in the bunch, are you, kids?" He asked.
The all rushed in, but the two handled it like a couple of bosses, especially after Sun pulled out his staff and knocked the rest of them down and sent one flying at Torchwick. He ducked under his airborne minion and fired at the two, but Sun blocked the one coming at him by spinning the staff in front of him and Nick made huge skeletal hands come out of the ground in front of him to stop the attack. Blake then landed in front of them. "He's mine!" She said, rushing in and attacking with full force and great skill, but he still manged to defeat her and knock her back.
"You bastard!" Nick said as they rushed in. Surprisingly, he still managed to keep up with them, even after Sun separated his staff into two different nunchaku combined with pistols, which if you ask me was bullshit, but after he stopped the last of the bullets, he left himself wide open for Nick and Blake to do a powerful combo hit, sending him skidding back across the ground. He growled and fired at a suspended container above them, but they managed to roll out of the way. However, Sun had rolled forward and now was staring down the barrel of the cane-grenade launcher. But before he could fire...
"Can't let you do that, Torchwick." I said, using my chains to smack away his cane, then knock him to the ground once again at Serena and Selene's feet as they prepared to fight.
"Surprise, motherfuckers!" Draco said as he flew in and rained bullets down on the attacking White Fang members and Damion rushed in, knocking a good number of them down.
Roman then looked up to see he was at the feet of Serena and Selene. "Hello. My name is Serena Blade and I'll be your arrester/ass-kicker today." Serena said with a smirk.
"And don't try anything funny, because I'll be more than happy to rip you to shreds." Selene threatened.
However, Roman didn't even flinch at this. "Well, aren't you two adorable. But I think it's past your bedtime." He said. He then used the handle of his cane to catch Serena's foot and take her off balance, pushed her back into Selene and blasted them both back with a grenade from his cane. At this, Damion and I both froze up, pure rage boiling inside of us, even as the rest of the White Fang members rushed in at us.
"How dare you... Hurt my sister..." Damion growled, glaring at Roman not with the intent to kill, but with the intent to torture and mutilate.
"I will crush your bones into dust!" I said, triggering and blasting away the closest members of the White Fang.
Background music: "No Games" By Dashiexp
I grabbed one of them by his face as he rushed in at me and effortlessly pushed him back into and through one of the cargo containers which I then blasted and blew up as Damion grabbed another member by the face and tore it off. I then jumped onto another one with a crazy-as-hell look in my eye before smashing his head. Damion then pulled out a couple of uzis, spraying bullets everywhere, taking down several more enemies and hitting Torchwick several times, although none in life-threatening areas as I created a katana of demonic energy and began to slay a few more enemies. One hit me, causing the sword to dissipate, but I hardly felt it and unleashed a volley of Chun-Li kicks on them at insane speed. "They ain't even on our level yet." I said to Damion, tossing him a Mega-man arm cannon, still in my DT, hence the bold writing.
He fired on them with the arm cannon, even stuffing the barrel into one's mouth and blasting his head off. "Damion, Sai and we're stuntin'." He agreed, taking aim down the sights of his katana-gun and firing at 3 of them and I pulled out an RPG, blasting a dozen more of them. A bunch then ran at me and shot me or ran me through with their weapons, but I was completely unphased and slaughtered them all as Damion laughed evilly. "You can't stop him. He's like a machine." He said, turning to another and easily grabbed his arm as he tried to cut Damion with his sword, looking in fear at the evil smirk on the vampires eye's as he ripped off the arm he attacked with.
"Now finish him, fatality." I said, looking up to the sky at oncoming airships as he cut every vital vein or artery on his victim and letting him bleed out. I opened my mouth and and tilted my head back to aim at the airships as an orb of black and red energy appeared, hovering above my mouth until I unleashed the mighty beam of demon energy, easily destroying the ships as Damion slaughtered most of the rest of the White Fang members attacking us until Penny landed beside him, small blades floating behind her which she swung around, taking down the rest of them and shooting them into the last airborne airship which was going to take off with a container, pulling it back down and crashing it into the docks.
"Oh, my gods, she's like Lambda!" I said, shocked.
"Who?" Damion asked.
I rolled my eyes and tossed him a copy of Blazblue: Continuum Shift (true fact: Damion hasn't played Blazblue and hadn't heard of it until I told him about it the other day). Torchwick was shocked at this, growling and evacuating on his airship. "These kids just keep getting weirder." He said as it took off and escaped.
"Dammit!" I snapped, but then rushed over and checked on Serena as Damion did the same for Selene. "You okay, sis?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." She said.
"How about you, Selene?" Damion asked.
"I'll live." She said dismissively, getting back up.
"Well, we didn't catch him, but we did win. So there's just one more thing we gotta do." I said.
"What's that?" Damion asked. I looked at him for a moment, but then he got the idea and I tossed him a PS3 controller and pulled out one for me.
"~Do the gamer dance~ Do the gamer dance~ Do the gamer dance~ Do the gamer dance~!" We said, moving the controllers around in circles like a clock.
Later...
We all reconvened and tended to our wounds, even though there weren't that many to tend to, when Weiss and Yang walked up to us. Ruby was the first to jump on the defensive and walked up to them, talking quickly. "Look, Weiss, it's not what you think, you see she explained the whole thing, you see, she doesn't actually wear a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kinda cute." She said, although Weiss ignored her, walking right past her and right up to Blake.
There was a small silence between them before Blake spoke. "Weiss, I want you to know I'm no longer associated with the White Fang, back when I was-" She started, before the Schnee bitch interrupted her.
"Stop." She said. "Do you have any idea how long we've been searching for you?" She asked. "12 hours. That means I had 12 hours to think about this." She said.
"Something tells me you didn't get very far." I said with a smirk.
"Nice." Damion said, grabbing my shoulder and giving me a small shake.
"Good one." Serena and Selene said at once.
"And in that 12 hours, I've decided..." She started again, pausing and everyone looking at her expectantly.
"Well? We're waiting." I said like the dude from Caddyshack.
"I don't care. You said you're not one of them anymore, right?" She asked.
"No, I haven't been since I was younger-" Blake started again, before Weiss interrupted again.
"Ab-ab-ab-ab-ab! I don't want to hear it." She said.
"Look, we appreciate you're actually TRYING to be nice, but you're still being a bitch. AT LEAST let her explain herself!" Nick said.
"And why haven't you been returning our calls?" Draco demanded, getting in his face, a crazed look in his eyes.
"I didn't think Blake was ready to come back with us yet." He said.
"I... Guess that's fair." Damion said.
"All I want to know is that the next time something THIS big comes up, you'll come to your teammates. And not some..." She said, pausing to look at Sun.
"Careful there, Weiss." Everyone warned her at once.
"All in all, I actually think Sun is probably a better fighter than Weiss, what do you think?" I asked the guys.
"Weiss has the glyphs, but that's all she's got going for her." Damion said, thinking.
"And that weapon of his is pretty badass." Nicolas agreed.
"Yeah, I'm putting my money on him." Draco agreed.
"Someone else." She said, looking back at Blake.
We all smiled at this and Blake seemed to wipe a tear from her eye. "Of course." She said.
There was another short and smile silence before... "Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!" Ruby cheered.
We grouped together and smiled, when suddenly Weiss turned to Sun, pointing in his face. "I'm still not sure how I feel about you!" She said, to which he laughed nervously.
"Hey, guys, when I make a Christmas omake and Weiss opens her presents, make sure you stand back a little bit." I said, quickly raising and lowering my eyebrows a few times. "You excel at wasting time-" I started in her voice before I made an explosion noise, to which they laughed.
Ruby then noticed something, looking around. "Hey, wait a minute... Where's penny?" She asked.
We looked around as well, but also found no trace of her. "She's gone..." I said.
"Or was she never here to begin with?" We all said at once, going wide-eyed, the screen going gray and zooming in on us.
Meanwhile, Penny was actually in a car not too far away from us. "You should know better than to go running around in a strange city." The driver said.
"I know, sir." She said sadly, looking at the floor.
"Penny, your time will come." He said as they drove off.
"Still, there's something weird about that Penny chick." Selene said.
"I knew she was a robot the very first time I watched this episode and the blades came out of her back." I said.
"How could you know just like that?" Draco asked.
"A: Blades don't just come out of a hatch in a normal person's back, B: I've played Blazblue." I answered.
Great game!
[Fun, each button does something different, wide variety of play styles despite relatively few characters and epic finishers.]
Unbeknownst to us, however, Ozpin was watching everything play out on his scroll when he suddenly got a message from his old friend and Ruby and Yang's uncle, Qrow. The message being "Queen has pawns". "Hm..." He said.
Elsewhere...
Roman went into a warehouse, putting a case on the table and sighing. "How very disappointing, Roman." A female voice said behind him.
"Whoa!" He said, spinning around. "I didn't expect to see you guys so soon." He said.
There are two silhouettes to the left and right of the main girl, one obviously a guy and the other most likely a girl, but the one in the center, also a girl, was the one from episode one who had defended the airship from Glynda, but currently, we can only see her long black hair.
"We were expecting more from you." She said.
He chuckled a bit at this as he spoke. "Hey, you were the one who suggested working with those stupid mutts from the White Fang." He said, pointing his cane at them.
She smirked and fire appeared in her hand. "And you will continue to do so. We have big plans for you, Roman." She said as they walked closer, revealing the other two: a dude with gray hair and gray eyes and a girl with green hair and red eyes while her own were glowing orange, although this may be from the light of the fire in her hands.
Back with the guys, we just read the above. "That can't be good." Draco said.
"Oh, that fire bitch is MINE." I said in a bloodthirsty tone, cracking my knuckles.