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Special Assignment

Fox walked out of the school, eye twitching irritably. His team was on a "special assignment" from Ozpin, meaning they'd be getting no credit and they couldn't tell anyone. He spotted Team RWBY walking away from the school as well and headed in that direction to wish them luck. The others followed him quietly, all of them just as displeased with their job as Fox.

"Hey, there you are," Ruby said. "What happened with Professor Ozpin? Did you find out whatever you needed?"

"And then some," Fox said. "A lot more than I actually wanted to know."

"Well...at least you got him to tell you the truth, right?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah," Fox said.

"Hey, Team CFVY is back!" someone shouted, pronouncing the team name like coffee.

Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Fox's own team went to check on them, both teams being friends with Velvet, a rabbit faunus in the team who was extremely kind and always bullied by Cardin, even though she could beat him like a drum if she wanted.

"So, what happened last night?" Blake asked as they walked toward the others.

"What do you mean?" Fox asked.

"You never asked me to dance," Blake said. "I was waiting for you to."

"Oh," Fox said. "That. Right. Sorry. I just...had some things to deal with."

"I mean after you fought the intruder," Blake said. "Ruby came back to the dance. Where were you?"

"I needed to take care of something after," Fox said. "Sorry."

"I don't want you to apologize!" Blake snapped, turning him toward her. "I want you to stop shutting everyone out! I want you to act like yourself again! What happened that's so bad that you're acting like me?"

"I just...need some time to think," Fox said, turning back toward the others. "I got some...news. It's a bit...hard to digest."

"Then talk to me," Blake said. "Let me help. Or Wulfe. Or Ava. Someone. Don't try to handle everything alone. You're better than that. You're better than me."

"I...I'm not so sure," Fox said. "I'm not sure I know who I am anymore."

Blake stared at him and he walked away, stopping next to the others. Ava looked to him worriedly but he simply stared blankly straight ahead.

"Ready?" he asked after a moment.

"Yeah," Wulfe nodded. "Let's get this over with."

"Where are you going?" Ruby asked.

"We're on a special assignment," Leon said. "Directly from Ozpin."

"That sounds important," Yang said.

"That sounds suspicious," Weiss said.

"And dangerous," Blake said. "Are you going to be okay?"

"We'll be fine," Fox said. "We need to go."

He walked away, the others saying goodbye before following. As they did, Wulfe stepped up beside Fox.

"What'd he say to you, man?" Wulfe asked. "You're acting like you just watched everyone you love die."

"Yeah," Fox said. "I just...want to get this done with so I'll have time to think."

Wulfe stared at him before sighing.

Fox pulled his mask on and stared at his reflection. He hadn't thought he'd wear the uniform again. He had never wanted to. He stared at his tail He hadn't wanted to see that again either. He wasn't much more proud of his faunus identity than Ava. He turned, walking out into the back alley, finding the others waiting. They walked through the back alleys and side streets until they reached the warehouse where they had always had their base of operations. He opened the door and several White Fang members turned toward them.

"We're back," Fox said. "Tons of juicy information for our trouble too."

"Hello Fox," one of them said, picking up a scimitar. "There's a price on your head, now."

"Drop the sword or we'll see how much your head's worth," Fox growled. "You know I'm better than you."

The member stared at him before setting the sword back down. Fox walked to a holographic communicator in the back and dialed. A few minutes later, a hologram of a man with a black coat with a red rose on the back between his shoulder blades and red on the left shoulder with a small white flame on the shoulder and the back, behind the rose, holding a much larger and more intricate white flower, black pants, black gloves with red marking on the backs, a white half mask, red hair spiked backward, a red shirt under his jacket, and a pair of black horns sticking up at the front of his hair.

"Well well," Adam said. "You've got some balls calling me. You know I now know exactly where you are, right?"

"I do," Fox nodded.

"And you've gone and put on the old uniform," Adam said. "I'm surprised you were able to fit with that high horse of yours. So, to what do I owe the displeasure?"

"We've got some information you may be interested in," Fox said. "After all, you do plan to destroy Beacon, don't you?"

"I do," Adam nodded. "What kind of information could you have? You were a warrior. Not a spy."

"I've been a lot of things in my life, it seems," Fox said. "Apparently, one of them is a traitor."

"You're just now figuring that out?" Adam snorted. "So, what've you got to tell me?"

"How about the exact names of everyone currently enrolled at Beacon?" Fox asked.

Fox sighed as he sat against the wall. Everything was wrong. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. He wasn't supposed to be reporting anything to the White Fang. And he certainly wasn't supposed to be giving them such important information. He didn't understand. Why was he doing this? Did Ozpin just need a scapegoat? That was what it felt like. Or maybe he had some plan that involved destroying Beacon.

"Are we sure this is what we want?" Ava asked. "Should we really be giving them all of this?"

"Yeah, maybe Ozpin's just testing us," Wulfe said.

"Or maybe Ozpin's not the man we thought," Fox said. "It doesn't matter. What's done is done. There's no going back."

"We could, though," Ava said. "We could easily just stop. We know that the plan involves the tournament. And that it involves Atlas's machines. We have enough. We could stop here. We don't need to tell him the rest."

Fox stared at the ground. She was right, as usual. They didn't need to continue. And yet, at the same time, Fox did. Some part of him needed to do this. Some part of him wanted to. And that was what scared him. Some part of him needed so desperately to believe that Ozpin hadn't lied that he was willing to do all of this to continue believing.

"Fox?" Ava asked.

"We don't have a choice," Fox said. "We've gone too far already to stop now."

"But they're our friends, Fox," Wulfe said.

"Why does this surprise you?" Leon asked. "Fox willingly betrayed the White Fang to join that school, then found out we were never really a part of it. You really think he'd hesitate any more that before to betray the school? At least we were actually a part of the White Fang."

"Fox isn't like that!" Ava snapped, glaring at Leon. "Fox isn't a traitor!"

"Oh really?" Leon asked. "So then giving the White Fang all of this secret information is...what? Anything other than treason?"

"It's an order," Fox said, standing and staring up at the school. "Come on. It's time to call again."

"Well well, the traitor's back," Adam smirked as his hologram appeared. "So, what juicy secrets have you got for me today?"

"I...I can tell you the semblance of the most dangerous students, and I can give you the password for the computer's main computer," Fox said.

"Oh really?" Adam asked. "Alright. Let's hear it."

Fox nodded, beginning to speak. Before he had gotten more than three words out, however, the ground shook violently and a siren began to wail. Fox looked around.

"There's a breach," Fox said. "We've got to go."

"What?" Adam asked. "But that's not for days. Torchwick. If you see that asshole, kill him."

"Of course," Fox nodded, shutting off the hologram. "Let's go."

He sprinted out of the warehouse with the others, running toward the massive pillar of smoke.

"Are we really going to give him all of that?" Ava asked. "That would be a death sentence for everyone the White Fang fights when they invade."

Fox remained silent as he ran. Finally, they reached a city square where Team RWBY was surrounded by dozens of grimm. Off to one side, a train had burst up through the ground and more grimm were coming through the hole. Fox drew his weapon, spinning it into a sword and sprinting forward. At the same time as he reached the grimm, Team RWBY began to fight. Fox slashed his way through a half dozen grimm before spinning and slashing a circle of them. As he did, a beowolf leapt at him from behind, only for Wulfe to crash down on its back. Wulfe took off from there, shredding his way through the grimm with his claws. Then, as he stopped to look around, a pair of Ursa Minors stood on either side and roared.

Instantly, Leon landed behind Wulfe, slashing the two grimm with his massive sword, splitting both in half. Then, he sprinted forward, tearing into the grimm as well. He passed Fox just as Fox flipped over an Ursa Major and spit it up the front. As Fox landed, a dozen beowolves leapt at him. He smirked, leaning on his sword as they neared him. Then, a pair of chakrams spun over his head, splitting and killing them all before returning to Ava. She placed them together, spinning them and making them combine before they transformed into a long, razor-sharp whip. She flicked it out, the whip slashing through a beowulf completely before several leapt at her. She spun, the whip following in a circle after her and splitting them all. Then, she spun it again, forming it into a staff with a blade on each end. She began to spin the staff, shredding the grimm around her rapidly, easily working her way through them. As she stopped, she drove the staff down into a beowolf's head, stopping beside Fox.

Suddenly, Nora crashed down on the one King Taijitsu's black head, flattening it into the ground. A moment later, Ren and Pyrrha were tearing into the grimm as well. As Jaune arrived, an Ursa moved to kill him, only for him to release a battle cry, squeeze his eyes closed, and hack at it until it keeled over backward. Fox laughed. He'd improved, but he still had a way to go. A pair of beowolves leapt at him and Ava from behind and he smirked, Blake flipping over a line of grimm off to the side and killing both, landing behind them.

"You took your time," Blake said.

"You had it covered," Fox said.

Just then, an airship rose into view, its main gun opening fire and mowing down grimm who were trying to leave the scene of the battle. At the same time, humanoid robots armed with machine guns dropped, beginning to fight the grimm back as well. Then, Team CFVY was there, all four tearing into the grimm, Velvet without even using her weapon, whatever it was. All Fox had ever seen her carrying was a lunchbox.

Fox kicked his sword blade off of the ground, using the momentum to lift it up in time to block an Ursa's claws, Ava's staff instantly splitting the Ursa before she swung the staff, the blade on that end shooting out on a chain and stabbing into another Ursa. She spun, swinging the staff and ripping the staff's blade back to her, the blade returning to its place before she spun the weapon into a scythe, streaking forward into the grimm with it.

"What the hell kind of weapon is that?" Blake asked as she and Fox fought back to back, slaughtering grimm.

"It's basically any melee weapon she can imagine," Fox said. "Not sure how it works exactly. I've seen it so small it couldn't possibly turn into anything bigger than a pistol, and so large she shouldn't be able to hold it. I'm not complaining though, she's a master of each weapon she's turned it into."

"Impressive," Blake said, flipping over Fox and allowing him to kill a beowolf that tried to follow while she crashed down on the head of one about to reach him then stabbing it. "There's a lot of grimm here."

"True," Fox nodded. "But I'd rather this than an army of that robot."

Blake laughed. "So would I."

Just then, bullets began to tear past them, Fox grabbing Blake and throwing them both to the ground as they bullets shredded the grim around them. As they pushed themselves up, Fox glared at one of the members of Team CFVY, a girl who had most of her hair hidden by her black beret and a massive black and gold minigun in her hands.

"What's the big idea!?" Fox demanded.

"Sorry!" she said. "I didn't see you there!"

"Be more careful!" Fox shouted. "That thing would have killed us!"

"Fox, watch out!" Ruby shouted.

Fox spun, slashing a Deathstalker's stinger to the side before darting forward and slashing downward across its face, killing it instantly. A moment later, Glynda walked past, swinging her whip and using her semblance to send a pair of grimm flying before she pointed it at the broken section of road, repairing the damage instantly. Fox turned back to the grimm and sprinted forward, Blake at his side. They, along with the rest of the hunters and huntresses in training, mopped up the rest of the grimm within a couple of minutes, now that the hole that they were coming from was closed.

Fox flipped over the last grimm, driving his sword down into its head and slamming it to the ground. As it began to fade, he looked up at the others, seeing they had all gathered in the center of the square, besides his team who was off to the right, and Glynda, Professor Oobleck, and Professor Port, who were off to the left. As Fox put his weapon away, Glynda walked over.

"Why did he give me that job?" Fox asked. "Why did he make me sell out my friends to the White Fang?"

"The information we gave you, the rosters and things that you gave the White Fang, it was all fake," Glynda said, holding out a PDA that was scrolling through a roster, the names of him and his team all highlighted. "The one you hacked into the school's database and found was fake. You were never hidden from the school's database. Ozpin explained it after you left for your mission. You were made to think that you were because he wanted the White Fang to think they had the upper hand and knew everything. In reality, none of what you told them is true."

"Really?" Fox asked. "Why not tell me that?"

"Because you needed to believe it was true," Glynda said.

"So, did he lie about my semblance?" Fox asked.

"No," Glynda said. "That was all true. You and I have met once before. You were an enemy last time. You tried to kill myself and Ozpin. And Ozpin was the one to kill you and make you regenerate."

"I see," Fox nodded. "That explains why he had my weapon."

Glynda nodded. "So what will you do? Push your friends away?"

"No," Fox said. "After this mission, no. I'd rather die."

"Good," Glynda nodded. "Now you and your friends should ditch those uniforms before Ironwood's soldiers arrive."

Fox nodded and turned to his friends, gesturing for them to follow. They did as instructed and about twenty minutes later, they had reached the empty water silo where they used to live, and where they had left their normal clothes. The guys changed quickly, then waited outside for Ava. Once she had changed, she stepped out and they all turned to Fox.

"So what now?" Leon asked. "Are we betraying the White Fang again and returning to the school we're not a part of?"

"We are a part of it," Fox said. "He just needed us to feed the White Fang false information. And Leon, this is the last time I'll say it. We are not a part of the White Fang anymore. Get that through your head. I don't care if you respect my decision to leave or not, but I'm getting tired of your shit. Either decide to stay with the team, or join back up with the White Fang. I am going to choose to stay with my friends in the school, and I want the three of you to come with me. We've been friends for as long as I've known you. But if you can't choose me over the White Fang, that's fine. But you need to make up your mind right now."

Leon glared at him before sighing and nodding. "Alright. Fine. Let's just head back to the school so we can sleep."

Fox nodded, smiling, and they turned, heading back to the square, then from there to the school.

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