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Fox leaned against the wall, Sun and Sun's friend Neptune leaning beside him. In front of them, Team RWBY and Team JNPR, consisting of Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren, were having the biggest, most entertainingly violent food fight ever. They were using food in place of their weapons. Throwing cans of soda for bullets, Yang had her hands shoved up a pair of turkeys' asses, gross as it was, for a pair of gauntlets, Pyrrha and Jaune were using ridiculously long breadsticks for swords, and Ren was using celery in place of knives.
"Twenty bugs says Team RWBY wins," Fox said.
"Which one's which?" Sun asked.
"The team closer to us with the blonde, the Schnee, Blake, and the girl with the red cape is Team RWBY," Fox said. "Pyrrha is on Team JNPR."
"As much as I want RWBY to win, no one beats Pyrrha," Sun said.
"I have to agree," Neptune said.
Fox grinned and they all shook hands. A few minutes later, as Ruby found herself as the last member of RWBY standing, she shot forward using her speed semblance, making all of the food she past fly after her in her tailwind. Then, she leapt into the air, spinning and sending a tornado of food flying at Team JNPR, slamming them all into the wall before the various sodas, juices, and condiments painted the wall a massive rainbow of colors. Then, the four members of Team JNPR fell to the ground, Team RWBY cheering as Fox grinned, accepting his winnings.
Fox smiled, walking along with his hands behind his head, Blake at his side, silent as always, but seeming a little more moody.
"Relax," Fox smiled. "We'll sneak in, beat the ever-living shit out of a bunch of White Fang members, and be out again before you get bored."
"I don't think bored will be a problem," Blake said. "We have no idea what they're planning."
"That's why we're here," Fox smiled.
"Yeah!" Sun said, draping an arm around Blake, which she shrugged off instantly.
Fox glared at him. The one thing to make the mission anything but great. Fox liked Sun as a person. But he didn't like the fact that Sun was constantly flirting with Blake. Or the fact that she didn't outright reject him.
"Why are you here again Sun?" Fox asked.
"Because you two are too well known," Sun said. "i'm here to throw them off."
"Or you'll attract unwanted attention," Blake said.
"Oh, you know you need me," Sun said.
"Need, no," Fox said. "Want, not particularly. Stuck with, yes."
Sun grinned. "Cheer up. At least you get to beat on some White Fang creeps."
"Again, I'd remind you that you're walking with two former members," Fox said, accepting a mask from Blake as they reached a back alley.
He put it on as Blake put her own on and handed one to Sun.
"I don't get it, if you believe what you're doing is right, why hide who you are?" Sun asked.
"The masks are a symbol," Blake said. "Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters."
"Grimm masks," Sun said. "That's, kinda dark."
"So was the guy who started it," Blake said.
"Always sunshine and rainbows with you," Sun said as Blake and Fox walked away, both allowing their ears to show, Fox also having his tail out in the open this time.
They reached a door where initiates were being let in to a warehouse and walked in, looking around and taking in the security. Maybe ten White Fang members on guard duty, including the pair at the door. Fox rolled his eyes. Amateurs. The bigger problem were the fifty or so White Fang members, not including initiates, that were assembled to wait for the speech, if the stage at the front of the warehouse was anything to go by. Still not bad. Now, if the speaker was Adam, they'd have a problem.
"Thank you all for coming," a large, muscular lieutenant with a full-faced mask, rather than the half masks everyone else wore, and a tribal tattoo winding around his left arm said from the stage as the initiates finished filing in, Fox, Blake, and Sun all in the middle of them. "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."
Torchwick walked out on stage and Fox sighed. Of course he was alive. He sensed Blake starting to get agitated, or maybe nervous, and grabbed her hand. She glanced at him before nodding slightly, calming, and Fox let go.
"Thank you, thank you! Please hold your applause!" Torchwick stopped beside the lieutenant, completely ignoring the fact that there was no one cheering or clapping.
Fox looked past Torchwick and spotted a girl with pink hair on one side and brown on the other, her hair falling down her back with some over her right shoulder. She wore a white half jacket with long coattails, and that had a pink collar and cuffs on her sleeve, black gloves, a black sweater was exposed from under the half jacket, dark brown pants, and knee-high white boots with snaps up the outsides. In her hands was an umbrella that had a curved black handle and a black shaft, then a pinkish white rain guard. When she turned, looking directly at him, he saw that her eyes matched her hair color, but on opposite sides. Fox could tell she'd be trouble.
"What's a human doing here!?" a deer initiate demanded.
"I'm glad you asked that dearie," Torchwick said, Fox snorting.
"What?" Blake asked quietly.
"Dearie," Fox snorted. "Because she's a deer."
Blake rolled her eyes, sighing as Sun snorted on Fox's other side.
"...humans are the worst," Torchwick said, indicating himself. "Case and point. So I understand why you would love to see us all locked away or, better yet, killed. But-"
"Is he going somewhere with this, or...?" Sun whispered to Blake and Fox.
"...would like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy," Torchwick was saying. "The ones in control. The ones pulling the strings. The dirty rotten humans that run our kingdoms. Government. Military. Even the schools. They're all to blame for your lot in life."
"Has he ever been to a school?" Fox whispered.
"Probably not," Blake replied.
"And they're all pests that need to be dealt with," Torchwick said. "Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around. No offense to any rodents in the room."
He snapped his fingers and the curtain hanging in the middle of the stage was lifted. Behind it was a massive mechanical suit with a cockpit between the arms, the arms being a pair of what looked like heavy machine guns, and there were a pair of legs below the cockpit. Fox stared at it. That thing looked like it was hard to break. The audience cheered.
"Uh, that's a big robot," Sun said.
"How did he get that?" Blake asked.
"Stole it from Atlas, if I had to guess," Fox said.
"As some of you may have heard, this right here," Torchwick tapped its knee with a fist, "is Atlas's newest line of 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."
"Called it," Fox whispered.
"Shush," Blake said.
"Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our operation in the South East," Torchwick said. "If you would 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 that I can provide you. Any questions?"
The audience began to cheer. Fox looked around.
"We should get out of here," Blake said.
"All new recruits, please come forward," the lieutenant said.
"Whelp..." Sun said as the three of them stood there, trying to think of a way out of the situation, the rest of the initiates walking around them.
Fox looked to the stage as Torchwick turned, looking at them, since they were the only ones standing still. "My turn?"
"Not yet," Blake said.
"He sees us," Sun said.
"He can't see in the dark," Blake said.
She drew her sword, the blade folding backward before she pulled the trigger, a bullet hitting a fuse box, the lights going out instantly. As she and Sun turned to run, the White Fang members turned to catch them, only for Fox to begin beating them to bloody pulps, not bothering to draw his sword. After the first twenty hit the ground, and Blake and Sun had escaped out a window, Fox turned, seeing the robot charging at him, and leapt into the air, catching the top of its head and riding it out of the building. Outside, he sat up, the robot charging down the street after Blake and Sun. Fox waved to Sun when Sun glanced back in the air, currently jumping from building to building with Blake and Sun grinned, flashing him a thumbs up before landing at a sprint again. Fox drew his weapon, spinning it into a sword and driving it down into the robot, then jumped off, swinging around on the sword's handle and using his weight and momentum to make the robot turn before ripping his sword back out and landing at a sprint as the robot fell over. He leapt to the buildings, catching up with Sun and Blake just before they leapt onto a raised freeway, all three landing on cars, then leaping from one to the next. A moment later, the robot crashed down, taking off at a run and catching up quickly, throwing cars out of the way.
Fox jumped, switching to his bow and pulling it back as he turned, sending an arrow at the robot. However, the arrow shattered against the robot in a shower of white sparks. It did, however, make the robot spin mid-step and crash to the ground again. Blake and Sun cheered, only to stop as the robot stood again, sprinting after them again. Suddenly, several blasts of what looked like ice crashed into its back before Neptune leapt into the air with a long staff ending in an oddly shaped trident, driving it into the robot's back. Instantly, Sun turned, placing his hands together.
"Neptune, hang on!" Sun shouted, a pair of glowing gold replicas of himself appearing and leaping at the robot, exploding against it harmlessly before Sun leapt at it with his staff.
Before he could get there, the robot turned, Neptune being thrown off of its back with his spear and crashing into Sun, both flying off of the freeway. Just as they did, Weiss landed in front of the robot from a higher freeway and drove her sword into the ground, ice forming on the ground. The robot slipped on it, crashing through the wall of the freeway and falling. It landed on its feet, Ruby standing behind it, and Fox jumped with Blake, they, Weiss, and Yang all landing around it, the four girls on one side and Fox on the other.
"My turn?" Fox called out.
"Okay, yes Fox, it's your turn," Blake said.
Fox cheered, sprinting forward, Torchwick turning to him. The robot fired a pair of blue energy blasts at Fox out of its arms and Fox flipped over them, landing on its face and slashing the left arm, forcing it outward and breaking the gun's mount, which was like the robot's shoulder, before flipping to the ground just as a thick fog filled the area, Fox sprinting into it and away from the robot. A moment later, the robot began to turn, looking around until it spotted Yang and Blake, firing at them. It missed, and Ruby shot over the explosion, her scythe slamming into the robot without damaging it.
Ruby flipped to the ground and shouted, "Checkmate!"
Weiss and Blake shot forward, both attacking its legs rapidly, forcing it back until Weiss stabbed one of the three laser sensors that were allowing Torchwick to see what was going on through the fog. As she leapt away, the robot began to raise its foot to crush Blake, only for Fox to land beside her, sweeping her off of her feet and flipping over the robot's foot landing on its head and stabbing one of the other sensors, Blake stabbing the last one. Then, he leapt off again, landing behind Torchwick and setting Blake down again, both taking off at a sprint. Just as they did, missiles began to explode where they had been, then in a pair of trails following them. Finally, they both flipped out of the way of the last of the first volley of missiles, landing beside each other again as a second volley flew at them.
Fox rolled his eyes, setting his hand on Blake's shoulder, her body glowing and her sword and sheath both practically shining. "Swing."
Blake did so and an arc of white energy shot off of her sword, Blake instantly beginning to spin and slash with both weapons, Fox getting out of her way as she split all of the missiles in half, the pieces exploding in the air behind her. As the energy faded, Fox sprinted forward again, Ruby nodding to him. He nodded back, tapping his sword against her scythe, which glowed white. Then, she pulled the trigger on her scythe, the sniper rifle sending her flying forward at the same time as one of Weiss's glyphs did the same for Fox. Their blades crashed into the robot's legs, tipping it forward onto its face before Yang crashed down on its right shoulder, Blake on the left, both guns breaking off and spinning away. Instantly, thrusters in the feet went off, launching the robot forward, sending it blasting into Yang, who flew backward, smashing through three supports for the freeway above them, which thankfully didn't collapse instantly, and bouncing along the ground.
"Yang!" Blake shouted.
"Don't worry," Ruby said. "With each hit she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back. That's what makes her special."
As she had been speaking, Yang was standing up. Finally, she looked up at the robot, irises glowing red, and shot forward. The robot kicked out at her but she punched straight through it, shattering the leg.
"Woo!" Fox cheered as Yang skidded past him and Blake. "Go Yang! Fuck 'em up!"
Yang began to turn, her momentum making her skid and Blake hurled her gun, clinging to the string. Yang caught the gun and began to sung in a circle. As she neared Torchwick, she let go, flying at him and drilling a punch into the robot's side, making Torchwick fly out of the remains, crashing to the ground and bouncing, rolling to a stop and standing, dusting off his coat. Yang punched, sending a red dust blast at him, but before it could hit, the girl with pink and brown hair landed in front of them, her umbrella blocking the shot completely. She swung the open umbrella around, setting it on her shoulder and smiling at them, eyes staring at Fox.
"Her again," Fox grumbled.
"Ladies, Gentleman, Ice Queen," Torchwick said, standing.
"Hey!" Weiss said, Fo snorting in amusement.
"Always a pleasure," Torchwick said, gripping the brim of his hat and dipping his head. "Neo, if you would."
Neo bowed, one leg stepping back and her free arm reaching out to the side. Yang shot forward, punching at her as Neo moved her umbrella into Yang's path, only for the entire scene in front of Yang to shatter like glass, both being gone. Fox's mouth fell open as he stared. Then, a plane flew by, both Neo and Torchwick waving as the door closed and the plane rose up behind the safety of the freeways where Fox couldn't shoot them.
"Damn," Fox sighed. "She's good."
"I think she's annoying," Yang said.
"Agreed," Fox said. "Still, that was an impressive trick."
"Yeah, she really made our plans...fall apart," Weiss said.
"No, just no," Blake said, turning to walk away, the others all following.
"What?" Weiss said. "But you do it!"
"There's a time and a place for joke," Yang said.
"Was this not it?" Weiss asked.
"This was the perfect time," Fox said, walking backward. "The difference is that when we do it, it's actually funny."
"Speak for yourself," Blake said.
Fox rolled his eyes, grinning and turning back around. "You know that one was funny. You're just trying to protect your reputation."
"Keep telling yourself that," Blake said.
"Wait, where are Sun and Neptune?" Ruby called out suddenly.
"Who cares," Fox said. "I'm sure they're fine. Sun's too annoying to die that easy. And Neptune...well, he was with Sun, so I'm sure he's fine too."
The all shrugged, heading back toward the school.
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