It left something of a hallow feeling, knowing that her White Fang codes no longer worked.

It made her defection from the White Fang more...real, more solid.

Still, she wouldn't let that stop her.

Blake tried another code, one she'd gotten from an old friend, into her scroll.

Currently Blake was trying to access the white fang secret website, it required a lot of hoops to jump through in order to reach it, but she knew all of the shortcuts.

Blake typed in Ilia's code and those always great words 'access granted' appeared on screen.

She'd have to act quickly, as a security measure the website always sends an email to the persons scroll when their code is activated outside the main camp.

Quickly browsing through the site, Blake found what she was looking for, White Fang meetings in vale.

Scanning the page, Blake found out that they were having weekly meetings on Saturdays at eight pm.

It was only six... if she rushed down she could make it...

As she contemplated the new information the door to the dorm room opened, letting Yang and Ruby into the room.

"-And then Nora bursts in and says-"

"Whats with the katana?" Ruby cut her sister off with a groan. "You've told me that story twice, find better stories."

Electing to ignore her teammates and move forward with the plan, Blake logged out and closed her scroll and got up to leave. But when she got to the door, Yang blocked her exit.

"Where do you think your going?" Her partner asked.

"Out." Blake said as monotone as she could manage.

"Yeah... no." Yang casually told her. "You are going to tell us what's wrong, and where your really going."

"Yeah Blake." Ruby stepped towards her, "We're teammates, you need to tell us whats wrong so we can help!"

Blake sighed. "I just, I don't understand how everyone can be so calm."

Ruby took another step towards her. "You're still thinking about Torchwick?

"Torchwick, the White Fang, all of it! Something big is happening and no one is doing anything about it!" Blake let out her frustrations with the situation.

"Ozpin told us not to worry." Yang chipped in. "Between the police and the Huntsmen, I'm sure they can handle it."

"Well I'm not! They don't know the White Fang like I do!" She retorted.

"Like you do?" Ruby questioned.

"Well my parents were the founders..." Blake deadpanned.

"Right." Ruby nodded and raised her hand. "Well I for one, am all for becoming one of the youngest Huntresses to single-handedly taking down a corrupt organisation conspiring against the Kingdom of Vale."

Yang pumped her fist enthusiastically and pointed at Blake. "Yes! I love it when you're feisty!"

"Thanks guys." Blake smiled as something occurred to her. "Should we bring Pyrrha into this?" She asked.

Ruby shook her head. "No. She's on her date with Jaune."

"Well here's hoping that their date is going smoothly." Blake's eyes narrowed. "Now, lets plan."

The date as it happened had been going smoothly, that was until Church had shown up.

Now the spirit was in the body of a blonde guy named Jaune, on a date with a strangely familiar looking red head named Pyrrha.

Why couldn't the universe give him a break for more than five consecutive minutes?

"Are you alright Jaune?" Pyrrha repeated to Church, although she didn't know it was him.

"I'm uh, fine totally fine." Church said convincingly.

Pyrrha seemed unconvinced. "Are you sure? What was that noise you made?" she asked concerned.

Thinking on his feat, Church though of a lie fast.

"It was a noise from the comics." Church explained, they had been talking about comics right?

She looked at him weirdly, "Right."

They both fell into an awkward silence.

Not wanting to ruin the poor kids date, Church said the first thing that came to his mind.

"So, you... having a good day?" Church asked, wincing inwardly at his wooden delivery. He could do better than this!

But to his surprise Pyrrha smiled warmly at him, "Jaune this date and day have been absolutely lovely."

"Cool, cool, is your coffee nice?" Church asked, to keep up the conversation using his experience with Tex.

"Jaune this is tea."

"Ah right, tea, I totally meant tea." Pyrrha giggled at 'Jaune.'

Once her laughter subsided, Pyrrha looked at some kid of holographic thing.

"It's getting late, we should go back to beacon." The red head told him.

"Yeah, yeah, totally." Where and what the hell was Beacon?

They both got up out of their seats, or more accurately, pyrrha got up out of her seat, while church tried to, but it had been a long time sense he had a human body, rather than his robot or ghost one. As a result he fell onto the floor trying to use his legs.

"Jaune!"

Son of a bitch!" Church let the curse slip out

"Are you alright?" Pyrrha asked as she rushed to help him up, but stopped when she saw his foot, which caused her to frown. "Why didn't you put your Aura up?"

Aura? What the hell was that?

"Well, you see uh..." Church trailed off, then the sound of explosions was heard.

Saved by the bell.

Pyrrha stood up and looked in the direction of the explosions.

"Jaune wait here, I need to check this out." The spartan girl said as she went to the nearby weapon rack to get a javelin and shield.

"Alright, stay safe!" He called out as she ran off in the direction of the explosion.

With her out of site, Church exited Jaune's body, causing the blonde dork to pass out.

Time to see what was going on.

A few minutes earlier...

"Is this it?"

"This is it." Blake confirmed for Ruby and unbeknown to her Wash.

The grey freelancer had elected to follow the pair once Sarge and Caboose had elected to follow Yang to the club for underworld information rather than sitting in a 'boring' rally.

So it was just Wash, besides if things did get violent then Wash was the only one of the trio that could help. That is assuming he and Ruby could still 'combine' like at the docks.

"Right you remember the plan?" Blake asked the young team leader.

"I stay quiet, if anyone wants to know what type of faunus I am, I say i'm a dog faunus and my trait is a tail, but it was cut off by humans." Ruby recited.

"Good." Blake bought out two Grimm masks. "Put this on."

"Why do we need masks?" Ruby asked, frowning at said mask.

"The masks are a symbol." Blake explained. "Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters."

"Sounds about right." Wash chuckled darkly.

Ruby frowned again, but put the mask on without further complaints.

The pair then entered the building, following the other recruits as they were led into a large area. Wash noted the positions of the guards as he went, taking note of positions, weapons and numbers. He also kept an eye out for possible escape routes in case things went sideways, as they inevitably seemed to do.

The group then stopped, there was a massive stage, most likely for whoever was speaking at the rally.

What Wash could only assume was a high ranking member of the White Fang stepped onto the stage, causing the recruits to all go quite.

"Thank you all for coming." He spoke. "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!"

Then from stage right, Roman Torchwick came onto the stage. but something else had gotten Wash's attention.

Above Roman, on top of the catwalk, was a man in very familiar, armour sporting a scout helmet coloured steel with an orange trim.

It was Felix.

And the mercenary was looking right at Wash, Ruby and Blake.

Son of a bitch.

Wash turned to Ruby and waved his hand in front of her face to get her attention.

"Ruby! We need to go now!" He told her frantically.

Ruby tilted her head in a confused fashion. "Why?" Ruby whispered.

"Felix. Felix is here." He told her pointing at the mercenary in question, who waved at the pair, causing her silver eyes to widen. Wash and the other had told her a great many stories about Felix.

"What do we do?"

Under his helmet, Wash's eyes narrowed they had a few options, but most of them would likely end in a fight.

"Ruby do you think we could...combine like at the docks?" Wash asked her. "It would improve our chances."

Ruby hesitated for a moment before nodding and holding out her hand.

Wash took it, and felt the same strange sensation at the docks, and suddenly he was in Ruby's head. Thankfully unlike last time the glowing armour didn't appear, meaning that no unwelcome attention was gathered.

"(You alright Ruby?)" Wash asked, it was a weird sensation, talking without a mouth. he wondered if this was how the Alpha felt when he was in his robot body.

"Fine." Ruby mumbled, looking down at the floor. A downside of being inside Ruby's head was that he could only see what she saw.

"(Ruby, is Felix still there?)" Wash asked.

Ruby looked up, but Felix was absent from the catwalk.

Things had just become a lot harder.

Then Torchwick snapped his fingers catching the pairs attention, as the curtain fell revealing a Atlesian Paladin-290 behind it, the mark of the White Fang painted on its shoulder.

"How did he get that?" Blake asked next to them, her tone clearly shocked.

"As some of you may have heard, this right here..." Torchwick tapped the mech. "...Is Atlas's newest defence 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?"

There was none as the room was filled with the applause of all the white fang members.

Then once the applause had died down, Felix appeared stage left, and walked over to Torchwick.

"I have a question." The merc told Torchwick, who smiled.

"Everyone, this is my partner Felix, someone you will be working with very closely in the new operation." Roman turned his body to face his partner. "Now, whats your question?"

"Do you think its possible for us to have a... demonstration of our new toy's abilities?" Felix asked in a faux curious tone.

"Do you have any targets in mind?"

"Yes." Felix dramatically pointed at Blake and Ruby/Wash. "The traitor, and the human would do nicely"

Blake and Ruby's eyes widened dramatically at Felix's declaration.

Thinking fast, Blake unsheathed Gambol Shroud, transformed it into a pistol, and shot at a fuse box, making the lights go out for the whole building.

Blake grabbed Ruby's hand and they jumped for the window as torchwick cried out "Don't let them get away!"

Crashing threw the window, everyone ran as fast as they could, as the Paladin crashed through the side of the building, and fired a rocket at them, causing a massive explosion that they narrowly avoided.

"(We need back up!)" Wash yelled at Ruby, who agreed and began to call her sisters scroll.

Notes:

And that's the end of that chapter.

There isn't much to say in overall notes for this particular chapter, except that now Wash, and soon the others now know that Felix is in Remnant. And that we can expect Church to have a happy(?) reunion with the others in the near future.

In other news, I have a question for everyone, with the Beacon dance mid volume, would you guy's be interested in a minor ladybug pairing? (That's Ruby/Blake for those that don't know.) It wouldn't be very major, but I do quite like the pairing, so if you dudes would be interested in seeing it, please let me know.

As always thanks to everyone who has read, commented and reviewed the story, as it all means a lot to me.

Next time, everyone can expect a robot rampage, but till then thanks for reading, and i'll catch ya'll on the flip flop.