Hello again! Another chapter of RONOS (Remnant Only Needs One Snake)
Q&A:
GunBlade2018:
Thanks, and Big Boss is supposed to have nanomachines in 1999 to 2014, but these were only to keep him in a coma until The Patriots AI System ended up destroyed. For now I'll say he doesn't have.
SilentXD7:
Haha yeah, I wanna do that thing, and don't worry the boxes will come soon.
Gamerman22:
Not a bad idea, and obviously Snake's weapons have supressors.
Guestinator:
You misunderstood everything I wrote so let me explain it to you:
1 - I wrote that they thought the M16 was weird because of the type of material, almost everything is plastic, unlike Remnant's weapons that have more different and 'original' designs made of Iron or something like that.
2 - Not confused for what he used, but for HOW he did it, because I wrote that Ozpin notice that Snake didn't have Aura, and he didn't kill the Beowolf with a knife or a sword, since in the Canon it's more easy to kill the Grimms with that than bullets.
3 - Snake explained to Ozpin that he created Outer Heaven to fight against Zero and his power, and create a place for soldiers, so that they were not used as tools by governments, obviously he is not going to say he was a terrorist because he wasn't. But he said that on Earth there was war constantly, so Ozpin tought Earth was a horrible place.
4 - Why is that a bid odd? I never said that he was going to teach at school, he was simply referring to teaching CQC to team RWBY, meaybe in free times. There you got it completely wrong.
And the last thing about 'grabbing any Huntress as Big Boss while mildly superhuman was never outright BS'. But there are not Plotholes, you simply understood EVERYTHING wrong, maybe you should read slower. But thanks anyway.
Guest 1:
Don't worry about the boxes.
Guest 2:
Glad that someone noticed that reference to 'Let's destroy the Shagohod.'
Guest 3:
Nope, sorry.
Guest 4:
No, she won't be on Remnant.
Gu1 est 5:
Venom it's not a clone, it's a doppelganger, and no.
Pherix2003:
Luckily all the dialogues of the episodes are in the Wiki, that makes everything easier. And thanks.
Now, let's continue.
I don't own Metal Gear or RWBY.
Chapter 7.
The days have passed quite calm for Naked Snake, bit by bit Boss was getting used to living in Remnant as a young man and student, as well as living and work with Team RWBY. In addition to that, Snake in his first days attracted a lot of attention, for having passed the Initiation alone, having beaten team CRDL just to defend a faunus girl in the cafeteria and the fact that he slept in the same room with 4 beautiful girls, but soon all that was forgotten, at least most of it, but there were some students who watch him sometimes in the cafeteria, but everything went on calmly in the next days.
The classes have been nice too, more or less, Professor Port speaks as if he likes to listen to his own voice, in addition to continue telling stories when he was a young huntsmen. History class with Professor Oobleck was interesting but absurd at the same time, the man talks too rapidly and seems to have an addiction to coffee. And for Snake the most interesting class in the school is fighting class with Professor Goodwich, unfortunately, so far Boss hasn't been able to participate, he thought it was due to his lack of Aura, so Snake would have to see if he can unlock it, that or convince Goodwitch that he doesn't need Aura to fight against someone, he never needed something like that to fight giant bipedal killer tanks.
On the other side, on one of those days, Professor Goodwitch went to Forever Fall Forest, with teams JNPR, CRDL and RWBY+S. But before continuing, why is it called team 'RWBY+S'? That's because team RWBY was registered under that name in the Beacon Students System, and for competition only the girls would participate, so when Snake joined and was registered as a member of the team, Ozpin opted to leave the name that way, despite being five members, but even so, there was no problem, they were still a team after all.
Moving on, basically that was going to be a pretty quiet day, maybe even boring. Just to collect some red sap. Although a certain team of idiots was going to do something. Since what happened in the Cafeteria, team CRDL still had a grudge against Snake, so Cardin and his lackeys prepared a revenge plan, in which they thought to use the red sap they could find in the Forest, their plan was to throw a jar full of sap to Snake, covering him with the sap, and the Grimm in the area would go after him, the perfect revenge. But there were two errors in their plan.
First, they are a bunch of idiots. Second, Blake managed to hear them, thanks to her better developed ears and the fact that they don't know how to keep silence. So when Cardin was preparing to throw the jar to Big Boss, he already knew about that, thanks to Blake, so he quickly took his M1911 with suppressor, and shot straight to the jar, and as Cardin was about to throw the jar, all the sap fell on his head. Their jaws fell to the ground (not literally) to see how Snake could not only discover their plan, but also could react quickly before they could do something, their plan failed.
And the funniest part? A Ursa soon appeared and began to chase Cardin, while his teammates ran, leaving him behind. Fortunately Professor Goodwitch was close, so she easily took control of the situation and killed the Ursa, only to later scold Cardin for his irresponsibility and immaturity to end up covered in sap. Angry, Cardin blame Snake for that, but in the end he only accepted the Professor's scolding, since he couldn't prove that Snake was responsible for that, because no one heard the shot, except Blake since she saw it, besides that he could not say that he thought to throw the jar to Snake. In the end, team CRDL's plan failed.
After the trip to Forever Fall, the students returned to Beacon, Snake told RWBY and JNPR about that incident, to which Blake was a witness. she also said about what happened, and everyone laughed about it. In the end it had been a good day.
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Friday.
Today, team RWBY was in the city, somehow Weiss convinced the rest of the team to go to the docks, since she wanted to meet the students who were going to arrive for the Vytal Festival, Snake and the rest quickly guessed that what she wanted to do was spy on the students of other academies, not to judge her, but it was strange that she thought to welcome unknown students, especially with her attitude, so spy on them was the most probably thing. A dirty trick, but efficient, it is necessary to have information about your enemy to fight them, right?
But, that was not the case for Snake, since he was called to Ozpin's office, at first the girls thought about waiting for him, but Snake said it could be delayed, so he would stay in Beacon, and so, Weiss quickly dismissed him and the girls ended up leaving, since the heiress didn't wanted to wait that long. So, while RWBY was going to spy on the docks and have fun in the city, Big Boss had a meeting with the Headmaster.
After using the elevator to reach the top of the tower, Ozpin welcomed Snake, and as always, calling him by his real name.
"John, thanks for coming."
"Ozpin, something happens?" Asked Boss, it had been a few days since he had come to the office with him, so surely something was happening.
"Take a sit." Said the Headmaster, so the soldier did it. "Tell me, how have you been? Have you been getting used to living here?" He asked with a neutral expression.
"A little, but everything is fine." Boss answered. It's been two weeks since he arrived, and so far he hasn't had problems, but the idea of being young and living with other people of his new age was still strange, but he'd have to forget that sooner or later.
"Good to know." The Headmaster said. "Honestly I was worried that you couldn't feel comfortable in a school."
"Really? Why's that?"
"You told me, isn't it? You are a soldier, and you have only lived to fight."
"Yeah, I told you that." Snake said, but he felt that wasn't all Ozpin wanted to say.
"And how are you doing with team RWBY? Haven't they caused you any problems?" Asked the Headmaster.
"Everything is going well, they are young but they had a lot of potential to become splendid Huntress."
"And what about you?"
"Me?"
"Yes."
"I'm still trying to get used to this place." Said Boss. "But... I'm pretty sure that's not the only reason why you called me, right?"
"...I see you prefer that I get to the point." Ozpin took a sip from his coffee. "What'd you know about the Atlesian military?"
"Not much, only that apparently it is Remnant's most strongest army, right?" Maybe the Remnant version of the US or Russia, he thought.
"Correct, but despite that, it doesn't make them invincible." When he heard that, Boss raised an eyebrow. "A few days ago, a convoy carrying prototypes of a new weapon was attacked by the White Fang, and the prototypes were stolen."
"I don't remember reading something like that on the news." Said Boss dryly.
"And you won't, the Atlesian army wouldn't allow such news to spread through the four kingdoms."
"Ok... so? Why you tell me all this?"
Ozpin remained silent for a few seconds, until he started talking again. "I showed the video of your Initiation to a General of the Atlesian army and Headmaster of Atlas Academy, his name is James Ironwood, he is also an acquaintance of mine."
The truth is that Snake wasn't liking what he was listening to, so he remained silent, letting Ozpin keep talking.
"Back to the Prototypes, those were stolen, and General Ironwood thinks those are in Vale hidden."
"I see... so? Why you tell me all of this?"
Ozpin sighed mentally. "All right, I'll go straight to the point."
'You said that before...' Snake said in his mind.
"I recommended to Ironwood that you could help him recover the Prototypes."
"What?" Snake almost shouted. "What makes you think that was a good idea? In theory, I'm supposed to be a student... You didn't tell him the truth about me, did ya...?"
"Don't worry, he doesn't know." He told Boss. "And I told him because I thought there might be chaos if he let his soldiers wander around the city looking for dangerous weapons that the White Fang could use."
Snake could understand that. "And you thought it would be a good idea send me to find those weapons?"
"Not exactly, his agents are still trying to find the Prototypes with help of the VPD (Vale Police Department), and once they know where they are, it would be when you showed up." Ozpin explained.
"So... you want me to sneak in wherever the weapons are stored, then Atlas would recover them, right?"
"That's right."
Snake was thinking about it in detail. On one hand it was an opportunity to do something else than being in school, which bored him, even if he was supposed to be training to fight Grimms, he hasn't fought against any since the Initiation. He was a soldier, the only thing he knows to do is fight, but he definitely would not fight for someone else's cause without any good reason. Snake also considered going back to being a mercenary, so this could be the best time to start.
"All right... But you should know that I don't intend to do this for free, right?" Boss said.
"I know, I will inform the General that he needs to pay in exchange for your help." Ozpin said. Knowing James, Ozpin knew he would be willing to pay what was necessary to avoid an incident like this coming to the public eye, he couldn't tolerate the idea of a failure like this. "As soon as the General gives me the location of the Prototypes, I will inform you."
"What you can tell me about this weapons?" Asked Boss, at least he had to know what types of weapon he was going to recover for this mission.
"Let me show you." Ozpin started using his computer, and soon he showed the pictures of the Paladins. And when Snake saw it, his eye widened.
"Metal Gear...?" Big Boss murmured when he saw the first photo, which was of a huge robot, but seeing it more in detail, it didn't look like any Metal Gear he saw before, and when he saw the following ones, where people appeared, possibly scientists who worked on those Prototypes, Snake noticed that it didn't look so big, they seemed bigger than a Gekko but smaller than Metal Gear ZEKE. Maybe it was just a coincidence.
Ozpin heard those words, he wondered what Snake was referring to. When Snake told his story to Ozpin and Glynda, he never mentioned the words 'Metal Gear'.
"What you know about this weapons?" Snake asked.
"Just the information General Ironwood give to me."Ozpin answered, then he began to explain. "It is called Atlesian Paladin-290 or just Paladin, but as I said before, those are only prototypes, Ironwood believes that it is best to implant an AI."
"You mean a unmanned weapon?" Boss asked, Ozpin nodded. "And what about the armor and firepower?"
"The Paladin boasts a tough armor that makes it very strong and resistant to single attacks. And for weapons, it has explosive rockets that home in on its target and for close combat it can deploy mechanical fists from underneath its arms, also, the mech is armed with multiple laser sights, they are accurate enough to quickly detect movement."
"I guess that's a lot of information."
"I just summarized what Ironwood sent me, are you afraid of getting in a fight with a Mech, John?"
'It won't be the first though...' Snake said in his mind, since he didn't tell Ozpin about the Metal Gears or nuclear weapons. "I'm pretty sure I won't have to fight with those Paladins, but I guess that would be all the Information you can give me right?"
"That's right."
"I see... well, tell him that I accept." Snake indicated.
"Fine then, I will inform you when they have the exact location."
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4:50 PM. RWBY+S Dorm room.
A couple of hours after his meeting with Ozpin, Snake was in team RWBY+S' dorm room, thinking about what the Headmaster had proposed. Ozpin had proposed that Ironwood could pay him for his services for this Mission, although he was now a Hunter in training, Snake didn't reject the idea of being a Mercenary, but he should remember something important: Not being anyone's tool, he would accept to work for money as long as it didn't require him to do anything absurd or weird. Big Boss thought that one day he would have to leave Beacon, either as a Huntsmen or as a Mercenary, and as far as he knows, the Huntsmen and Huntress are not exactly soldiers, so technically they can do whatever they want, even go rogue. And when the moment comes to leave the Academy, he would have to do the only thing he knew how to do with his old life, and what he will do with his new one: Fight.
For now, he was listening music with his Walkman, while he was lying on his bed, with his rifle on one side, lying against the wall. Snake discovered that there is no rule that prohibits students from taking their weapons with them around the academy, perhaps because they thought no student would carry their weapons all the time, but Boss preferred to be armed all the time, so for now he was carrying the M1911, the Mk 22 and the M4, while the Intervention sniper rifle, the rest of the ammo and his sneaking suit was in the lockers.
However, the calm left when team RWBY arrived at the dorm room after spending a few hours in the city. Snake took off his earphones, with the intention of greeting his teammates, although when he remove the music and the Walkman, the first thing Boss heard were the words of Schnee and Belladonna discussing.
"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem!" Weiss shouted to Blake, while sitting on her bed.
"That IS the problem." Blake answered still a little angry.
"You realize that you are defending an organization that HATES humanity, don't you?" The heiress shouted back. "The faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!"
Right, the White Fang, the terrorist organization that initially began as a peaceful faunus group protesting for their rights. Boss had read about them in the Library and while using his Scroll to read some news about Vale and Remnant, he ended up reading some articles about his cruel acts against humanity. And soon probably he would have to fight against them.
"There's no such thing as 'pure evil'! Why do you think they hate humanity so much? It's because of people like Cardin, people like YOU that force the White Fang to take such drastic measures!" Blake shouted to the heiress.
Ruby and Yang were standing like if they were statues, while Snake was sitting on his bed. Hearing everything the two girls were saying. Snake in a way understood what Blake said, she is a faunus, but Weiss on the other hand was not wrong in what she said, the White Fang despises humanity, why Blake was going to defend them? Unless...
Back to the girls, Weiss was offended to hear that. "People like me?!"
"You're discriminatory!" The raven-haired girl shouted one more time to the heiress.
"I'M A VICTIM!" Weiss shouted, and Blake, like the rest, fell silent. "You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I particularly don't trust the faunus? It's because they've been at war with my family for years."
Now that call Snake's attention, why the White Fang were going to be at war, as Weiss said, with her family? Since everyone was silent for a brief moment, he thought that to calm things down a little he could ask something.
"What would your family have done to win the hatred of the White Fang?" Everyone heard the voice of Snake, it's like if all the RWBY girls had forgotten during the discussion that he existed. But when he asked that, the girls' eyes widened, while Weiss' jaw dropped to the floor.
"You have never heard about the Schnee Dust Company?!" Weiss demanded, it seemed that instead of calming things, Boss poured gasoline on the fire.
"Nope... Why? It's a Dust shop or somethin'?" Snake asked, in a calm tone.
They all knew that Snake had lived his life traveling all over Remnant but it really surprised them that he didn't know something like that, Blake was about to say that they had the reputation of treating their faunus workers badly while Weiss was quite pissed off because of her teammates's ignorance.
"They are the most IMPORTANT Dust company in all Remnant!" She shouted to Snake, she hadn't planned to discuss about her family's company at such moment, so she only summarized what the SDC was. But she calmed down a bit, and looked straight at Snake in his blue eye.
"My grandfather's company has had a target painted across its back for as long as I can remember." The heiress explained to the soldier, then, she turned to see Blake, Weiss hasn't finished with her yet, and Blake neither. "And ever since I was a child, I've watched family friends disappear. Board members executed. An entire train car full of dust, stolen. And every day my father would come home furious. And that made for a VERY difficult childhood."
Ruby began to walk to were her teammate was. "Weiss... I-"
"NO!" Weiss shouted to Ruby, then she turned to see Blake again. "Do you want to know why I despise the White Fang!? It's because they are a bunch of liars! Thieves! And MURDERERS!" The white-haired girl shouted.
"Well maybe WE are just tired of being pushed around!" Blake shouted to the heiress, and as soon as she finished saying that, her expression turned into a panic look. Ruby and Yang were shocked when they heard that, Weiss had the same expression, and took a few steps back without looking away from Blake.
Everyone stood in silence for a moment. Blake looked at her teammates, noting that they all had the same expression. All... except Snake. Snake simply stood with his arms crossed, but soon he began to walk slowly to where Blake was. Blake watched Snake in his eye, as if he were a hunter and she was a prey. She had told the him that she was a faunus, but not that she was a member of the White Fang before coming to Beacon. She was really scared, Snake was the first person to whom she revealed her true heritage, although it was because he discovered her secret, but even so he accepted her as another person.
But now, everyone had heard what Blake said. She wanted to run, she wanted to escape from the looks of her team, and she wanted to escape from Snake, who was approaching. She felt that she was about to be hated, rejected and disowned by everyone, so she just closed her eyes and expected the worst.
But instead, she felt something on her shoulder, she opened her eyes, and she saw that it was Snake's hand. "Blake, it's all right..." Said Boss to his faunus teammate. "If you have something to say, now is the best moment."
Blake turned to see Snake, he was maintaining a rather calm expression. And Blake's eyes widened when she heard his words. Snake didn't do anything against her, he didn't incriminate her. He wanted to hear what she had to say. Then Blake remembered the talk she had with Snake days ago.
'I think it's best to say it soon, and don't worry, if you need someone to talk or something, just tell me.'
And there he was, with her. Blake took a deep breath and nodded. Snake took a few steps back to give Blake some room.
The others were a little confused by what Snake did. But that didn't stop them from seeing Blake. She relaxed, and soon she took her hands to her head and began to remove the bow she had. Everyone but Snake watched with wide eyes what that bow was hiding: A pair of cat ears. Then they understood that Blake was a faunus.
Blake cleared her throat and then she began to talk. "This is my true self, the real Blake Belladonna." She began to speak to hear teammates. "I used to be a member of the White Fang since I was a child, in fact I could say that I was a member since I was born, when they were still a peaceful group."
Her team just watched her in silence while she continued talking. But Blake looked at the floor as she continued. Snake told Blake that if she had to say something, she better say it now, and that's what she was going to do.
"The former leader of the White Fang was my father... and he believed that there could be peace between humans and faunus. Despite what my father tried for years, he ended up giving the group leadership to someone else, someone he considered trustworthy, but soon after, that person decided to use violent tactics against humanity, that's when the group changed. And when my father knew that, it was already too late."
Blake turned to see her teammates and continued. "That's why I hide my faunus heritage, I wanted the people to see me for who I am and not for what I am, not as a faunus... but as Blake Belladonna." She ended, there was a brief silence in the room.
"Blake..." Yang began to talk. "You didn't have to hide who you really are because of that, you are our teammate, we are on this together." She said with a warm smile.
"That's right! We are a team Blake! We would never put you aside!" Said Ruby cheerfully.
Then, Ruby and Yang turned to see Weiss, waiting for her to say something.
"I know I sounded rude before..." She began to talk. "And I won't lie to you, my opinion about the White Fang has not changed, but I don't hate the faunus , and the fact that you were a member doesn't change the fact that you are our teammate, Blake, you said you left." Like Snake told her in the first day of classes, if she can't be the team leader, at least she can be a good teammate. "I know about my father's reputation, and what he does... but I'm not like him."
Blake showed a small smile on her face when she heard her teammates' answers. "Thanks... I know you are a good person Weiss, that's why I wanted to convince you about what I said before... and I'm sorry for not telling you guys about this before... even when Snake told me to say it soon."
"Wait, what!?" RWY turned to see their male teammate.
Oh-oh.
"You knew Blake was a faunus?" Asked Ruby surprised.
"You hide that from your teammates?" Weiss said in a demanding tone.
"And how you knew that?" Asked Yang with a small grin in her face.
"Calm down, I knew it before I joined the team, and c'mon, it was obvious, her bow was twitching." Snake answered. Then everyone turned to see Blake, she didn't have her bow but her cat ears were twitching when she heard what Snake said, and she blushed a little.
Everyone let out a small chuckle. Then Yang had a brilliant idea. "Now that our team is in good terms, how 'bout we order pizza? And let Snakey pay for it." She said to her team with a cheeky small grin.
"Yay! Pizza! Let's order two!" Said the young team leader.
"Wait, why me?" Asked Snake.
"Because you hide that from us, now you should pay for keeping secrets from you team." Said Yang, keeping her grin on her face.
"Then Blake should be the one who pay for the pizzas, right?" Snake said. "Besides, I don't think they make deliveries outside of the city, do they?" They were far from city, by the time the pizza arrived it would be cold, right? Besides, he didn't even know if the delivery guy could live, because of the Grimm.
"I guess something like a pizza couldn't hurt... even more when Snake is going to pay for them." Weiss said with a small evil smile on her face.
There goes three, only one left. "...Blake?" Snake called for his faunus teammate.
She was tying her bow again. "Well... I would like to see if they can put tuna in the pizza." Blake said with a smile.
And there goes four. Snake sighed in defeat. "All right, just this time, but you order it."
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Later that night...
The rest of the day had been pretty good, although the same could,'t be said about Snake's wallet. Half of each of the pizzas had been ordered to the taste of the girls, and ironically the one that Snake liked the most was the pizza that it had tuna as an ingredient. Weird but it tasted good.
But in the end it was pretty good. Maybe for this kind of things Ozpin assigned Big Boss to team RWBY? Ozpin had told him that the students could have problems, they were still young, the best thing was for Snake to give them a hand, because now they were his teammates.
And now it was night, and everyone was sleeping or well, that was the idea...
"Snake..." Said a female voice calling for him. But he didn't react, he was asleep.
"Snake...!" This time the voice spoke in a slightly louder tone. But she stayed low to avoid to wake up the others. She was shaking Snake's shoulder a little to wake him up.
"Uhh...?" This time Big Boss began to react, and slowly began to open his eye. The room was still dark, but Boss could see the person who was talking to him. "Blake...?"
"I want to talk to you... outside..." Blake whispered to Snake. Snake, confused, nodded and soon began to put on his boots. They both left in silence, and began to walk down the hallway. While walking, Snake looked at the time in his Scroll, it was barely 1:00 AM.
Soon Boss and Blake ended up in one of the balconies of the Academy, where the shattered moon could be seen perfectly. Also Snake could see Blake perfectly in her pajamas, a shirt similar to a yukata and a skirt. Not that it was the first time he saw her like that, though.
Snake yawned before speaking. "What did you wanted to talk about, Blake?" The man asked to the faunus.
"I wanted to know... why did you help me in that moment?" Blake asked, waiting to know what was the reason for her male teammate to support her.
"Well, It's obvious, isn't it? You ended up saying you were a faunus when you were angry, and by your expression, it seemed that you wanted to run away."
Blake looked at the floor when she heard his answer, not exactly what she wanted to hear, but he was right, she wanted to run. "Yes... not only did I say I was a faunus, I said I was a member of the White Fang..." She remembered everyone's expression when she said that.
"It doesn't matter, you yourself explain that you were no longer a member of the White Fang." Boss said, but Blake kept silence. "How was the White Fang before being what it is now?" Boss asked.
Blake placed her hands on the edge of the balcony, while looking at the moon, Boss stood there, watching her. "Before it was simpler, for years we looked for the same rights as humans through protests, but unfortunately it didn't help much. I stood with them at every protest, boycott, and rally since I was a child, thinking that we were making a difference in the world."
"And then your father left the leadership, right?"
She nodded. "That's right... In the blink of an eye, the objectives of the White Fang changed from protest and boycotts to brutal attacks on humans and the Schnee Dust Company, but that wasn't the way I wanted my people to be accepted by the humans, not like that..." She then remembered the incident on the train with Adam. "...In the end, I ran away, and when I got to Beacon, all I wanted to do was hide who I really was, even when I yelled to Weiss that we were tired of being pushed around I wanted to run away again..." A small tear came from her eye, and began to slide down her cheek. "I guess that only makes me a coward..."
"You are wrong Blake."
When Blake heard those words, she turned to Snake, he maintained the same calm expression, while the wind waved his bandana.
"You told everything to us, you hold on to what you thought was the right thing, even when you realized that what the White Fang did wasn't the right thing, even when they say that they want the best for the faunus, even after what Weiss told you, you kept holding to your own ideals, the ideals of faunus and humans living in peace, you have your own way of see things and you want to fight for those ideals, that doesn't make you a coward Blake." Snake understood what Blake was saying, he felt the same thing time ago, leave everything behind, only to continue forward, believing in only one thing, or sometimes believing in nothing.
When Snake told her, he showed a small smile on his face. Blake's eyes slightly widened when she heard those words, she felt something in her chest, something warm in her heart, something she didn't felt a long time ago. Blake had never been someone who could trust people so easily, thanks to her childhood as a faunus and above all with humans. Blake thought it would be the same in Beacon, but today Blake realized that she wouldn't have to be like that forever, she could trust her team, but above all she saw that Snake, even if he was a human, he was a person that she really can trust.
"Thank you Snake." She said with a smile on her face. A honest and warm smile, if the others saw her, they would probably say that she would look strange smiling like that, since they never saw her smiling.
"Well..." Boss yawned one more time. "We better go back to sleep."
"Sure." She said, keeping her smile, and both began to walk back to their dorm room. After what Snake told her today, Blake felt that she could sleep well that night, and she was glad that she could count on someone like Snake.
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Sunday. 11:20 PM. Vale city.
Today was the day that Snake began his first mission as a mercenary in Remnant. Saturday had gone well and smoothly, while preparing ammo and his sneaking suit, and now, Sunday, was the day that Ozpin informed Snake that Ironwood's agents had discovered where the Atlesian Paladins were, apparently Vale's police have people infiltrated inside the White Fang when they have meetings, so there were times when they could avoid White Fang's attacks against innocent people, that's how they got the intel, according to Ozpin.
Our hero was walking through the streets of Vale, in the direction of the docks, apparently according to the information that Ozpin gave him, there would be a meeting of the White Fang in one of the warehouses of the docks. Snake was wearing a dark gray cloak that covered the upper part of his body to the knees, underneath he was wearing his sneaking suit, and a hood that covered his hair and part of his face. As for weapons, he was carrying the M4 with the AG36 in his waist, the M1911 customized and the Mk 22, these last two with suppressors.
While walking, Snake received the glances of some people who was walking the streets at that time of night, believing that he was probably a faunus hiding his animal traits, so nobody would bother him about the cloak or why he was hiding, because he had to use it to hide his weapons and his suit until he reached the docks. And while Big Boss was in Vale, team RWBY was in Beacon, and since Snake had left without saying anything to his teammates, since he thought it wouldn't matter, he wasn't worried if they were waiting for him.
After being walking for some minutes, Big Boss finally arrived at the docks, the place looked simple, and there were several huge warehouses. Surely in some of them would be the Atlesian Paladins. Boss would have to see which of them was where the White Fang reunion was going to take place, he only have too look for the warehouse Ozpin told him. But fortunately his search ended quickly. On the other side, in one of the most remote entrances from his position, there was a man with white and black clothes, with a white mask in his face.
For a moment Snake thought it was ridiculous for someone to dress like that, since he would be seen quickly, but it would make sense in a certain way, since the White Fang couldn't expect someone to pass by the docks at that time.
Snake took off his cloak, and slowly came closer, hiding behind some boxes that were near the warehouse. But he realized something. The box he had in front was a cardboard box. The box had a logo that looked like a snowflake in black, and below the logo said 'Schnee Dust Company', but he didn't pay attention to what it said, Snake looked at the box and it was... perfect, it was the same size as a 'Love Box'. After inspecting it, Snake decided that the cardboard box would be quite useful, so without more to say, he kept it in his inventory.
Now back to the mission, Snake knew he would only need to use his simple tricks to infiltrate. With a small stone he found in the floor, he threw it away until it made contact with the ground and caused a noise, now he only expected that guard to fall for it.
"What was that noise?" Snake heard those words from the guard, and slowly began to walk to where he heard that noise, a few meters away from his original position, and while the guard turned his back and walked away from the entrance, Snake ran, and decided to enter the warehouse, leaving the guard alone so that no one suspected anything if he was found on the floor.
Snake slowly entered the warehouse, watching carefully if there was anyone, but to his surprise, there was no one, but there were curtains covering something, something big, Big Boss quickly assumed that it was the Paladins.
'There wasn't supposed to be a meeting-?' His thoughts were quickly interrupted when he heard sounds outside the warehouse, quickly, Big Boss took the cardboard box and hid near the wall, where he could see the Paladins using the box's hole, on what seemed to be a stage. Big Boss kept hidden for the next few minutes, while to the warehouse began to arrive people, people with the same clothes and mask like that guard he tricked.
Finally it seemed that they were all, and the worst thing is that they were too many, a few dozen. Snake couldn't believe that the White Fang could attract too many faunus, but he couldn't blame them for their hatred against humanity. Soon a fully-masked man with tattoos standing on the stage began to speak to the new White Fang recruits.
"Thank you all for coming. 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!"
Snake was watching through the hole of the cardboard box. Soon a man with orange hair, dark pants, a white coat, a black hat and a cane walked to the stage, and when he walked to the stage, the White Fang recruits began to protest for some reason.
"Thank you, thank you! Please, hold your applause!" Said the man with the hat. While he was talking, another person came to view. She was a girl, but her hair was strange, it looked like pink, white and brown color.
"What's a human doing here?!" Shouted one faunus.
'Human...?' Snake asked in his mind. That man wasn't a faunus? Why the White Fang would work with a human? The White Fang is supposed to hate humanity, it would not make sense that they are working with a human, so maybe it means that man is some big shot.
"I'm glad you asked, 'Deerie'! Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans... are the worst. Case in point. So, I understand why you would like to see us all locked away, or, better yet, killed! But, before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms!"
The faunus crowd changes and began to agree about what that man was saying. "Government, military, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life! And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around... No offense to any rodents in the room."
The man with the cane snapped his fingers and those curtains fell, showing what was hidden: three Atlesian Paladins, with the mark of the White Fang painted on its shoulder, and whole mass of Faunus recruits applaud at the sight of the robots.
"As some of you may have heard, this right here is Atlas' newest 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'. 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?"
The White Fang members give a roaring applause as their answer. Soon the full-masked man with tattoos got in front of the stage. "Will all new recruits, please come forward!"
'This is going to be a long night...' Boss said in his mind, he kept watching as he began what seemed to be some kind of Initiation for the recruits. Big Boss would have to wait for them to end in order to act.
— l — l — l —
"He hasn't returned..." The blonde girl said, already in her pajamas. For a moment she thought Snake maybe was with that girl with the sunglasses and the beret, and she was worried.
"Surely he's in the Armory doing something with his weapons." Said the heiress while leaving the bathroom. That was what she thought, because as far as she knew, Snake seemed to be a weapons nut almost like Ruby.
Blake was reading a book, like always, but she was wondering where her teammate was, although in a way maybe he was in the Armory, as Weiss said. But she also shared the same thought of Yang.
Ruby was in her bed, but she was looking at the ceiling, as if she was thinking or her mind was distracted. Yang notice this so she came close to her baby sister.
"Rubes." Yang called for her, but she didn't react. "Ruby." This time Yang pecked Ruby's stomach with her finger. When she felt that, Ruby let out a small yelp of surprise when she notice her sister's finger, since she was completely distracted.
"Y-Yang, what is it?"
"I was talking to you, what are you doing? Hearing music?" The blonde asked.
"Yeah, look." Ruby removed what she had from her ears, and showed it to Yang. Yang seeing what Ruby had was somewhat confused, it looked like a music player but it didn't look like one that she had seen before.
"What is it? A music player?" Yang asked while she took it with her hands. "I never saw something like this, but it looks old." It was strange that someone had that kind of thing, since anyone heard music in their scroll this days. Soon Blake turned to see about what they were talking about.
"It is, I thought it were some earphones and I wanted to connect it to my Scroll but it doesn't have a cable to plug it in." The young leader said.
Soon Weiss, who was listening to what the sisters were talking about, approached Yang and without saying a word, she approached her hand to the blonde for the music player, Yang gave it to her and Weiss began to see it.
"Huh I've never seen anything like this..." Weiss inspected it, the cable was black and the device was a silver-gray color, in an headphone it had what looked like an orange figure in the form of a W, and in the other there was a word that she had never heard or read before: Sony. At the bottom were the buttons, and also said what appeared to be the name of the music player. Walkman NWD-W202. "Walkman...? Where did you buy this?"
"Well..." She released a small nervous laugh. "It's not mine, it's Snake's."
"I wonder where he got something like this..." Said Weiss.
"And where did you get that, Ruby?" Blake asked, narrowing her eyes.
Ruby immediately thought that Blake sounded like a policeman interrogating a criminal. "I found it in his desk and I took it." She said a little nervous.
"Well, I'm more interested in knowing what kind of music Snake likes." Said Yang, as she snatched the music player from Weiss' hands.
"Well, I've never heard before the music that Snake has there, but I listen to some and they're great." Said Ruby with a small smile she wanted some of those songs on her scroll.
"Let's see..." Yang started pressing one of the buttons and soon she put on the headphones. The first song she began to hear was 'Take on me' by a-Ha.
The song began to sound, the tune during the first seconds was repeated, but catchy, soon the tune changed to what could be described as more lively. And soon she began to listen to the lyrics of the song.
Yang smiled a little when she began to hear the lyrics of the song. It sounded like a quiet song, and she was enjoying it, but strangely she thought it sounded... old for some reason.
"I want to hear it." Said Weiss and soon she took both headphones from Yang and she put them in her ears, gaining a "HEY!" from the blonde. Weiss began to hear the song one minute after it started.
And while Yang and Weiss were hearing (and snatching from each other) the Walkman, soon someone knocked on the door, so Ruby came down from her bed and went to open it, in doing so the person in front of her was Ozpin.
"Oh, Professor Ozpin." When Ruby, everyone turned to see him standing out of the dorm room. "What brings you here?"
"Good night girls, I just wanted to tell you something, is about Snake." When Ozpin said that, the girls came to the door to hear what the Headmaster was going to say.
"You know where is Snake?" Asked Yang, while RWB was thinking the same thing.
"I do." Ozpin said. "I send him to the city to buy a couple of things that I asked him to get me, but it seems that he was late and he didn't catch the last Bullhead to Beacon, so he sent me a message indicating that he would spend the night in the city." He explained to the girls, but it was a lie.
"He didn't tell you he was going to stay in the city?" The Headmaster asked.
"We... don't have his scroll number." Ruby admitted.
"I see... well, I wanted to tell his team about his situation, now I should let you rest, tomorrow you'll have classes." Ozpin said.
"Wait!" One of the girls said. "Professor Ozpin, what do you know about Snake?"
It was Weiss the one who asked that. She, like the others, knows almost nothing about Snake, only that apparently he is an orphan, he lived traveling all Remnant outside the four kingdoms, and he was quite capable to fight the Grimm. The only reason why Weiss didn't refuse to accept Snake in team RWBY was because he proved to be quite skilled and intelligent in combat, she believed that he was almost on the same level as her (That's what Weiss thought), but he showed to be a little ignorant about the world, like when she said she was a Schnee, which Snake didn't understand, although at first Weiss was angry that he didn't know the importance of the name Schnee, but after she was slightly happy, since she felt that just by saying her name several men approached her for her money and name.
Blake, Yang and Ruby turned to see the Headmaster, waiting for him to tell them something about their teammate.
"I'm pretty sure that what he told me is the same thing that he has said to you, I don't doubt that he has something he wants to keep secret, but I'm sure he will tell you sooner or later."
That response wasn't what the girls expected, but it was understandable. If they wanted to know something about Snake, he would have to say it. Soon Ozpin ended by saying goodbye and leaving, leaving the girls alone in their dorm room.
"Why you asked that to the Headmaster?" Ruby asked to Weiss.
"What? Is normal for me to want to know something about my teammate, besides, you can't deny that we only know very little about Snake, it's as if he had lived out of civilization for his whole life, and I still can't believe that his first name is 'Naked '."
"Yes, but we know enough, it's not like he's hidin' something from us, is he?" Yang answered.
"Actually..." Everyone turned to see Blake, she was hesitating if she should tell her teammates, but it was better if they knew it. "Maybe he could be hiding something."
"What'd you mean Blake?" Ruby asked.
"If it's about when you and Snake left during the night the other day, don't worry, we already knew." Yang said with a grin in her face.
"No, it's not that." Blake said slightly blushed. "The other day in the morning I heard Snake taking a shower, and when he came out I could see his body and-" When she said that, Ruby blushed, Weiss blushed slightly while raising an eyebrow and Yang's grin became bigger.
"Woah Blakey, I didn't take you as one of those girls who like to spy on guys." The blonde said.
"N-no!" Blake shouted as the blush in her face became more notorious. "I just heard him coming out and I saw his body by coincidence."
"Uh-huh..." Weiss exclaimed with both arms crossed.
"What I'm trying to say is that when he came out I could see his torso covered in scars!" Everyone widened at what she said.
"S-scars?" Said the young leader.
"Yes, he had scars everywhere, on his back, chest, arms, shoulders." Blake explained.
Ruby and Weiss were a bit disturbed to know that, but Yang could not help but smile. "Damn... Now I really want to see him without his clothes."
"You can't take this serious, right?" Weiss sighed.
"What? The fact that he has scars for having fought Grimm makes him more badass."
"But that's the problem, his scars don't seem to have been caused by Grimm, a Grimm would have left a huge scar, Snake's were smaller, it look caused by something else." Blake explained.
"As if they were made by someone? Someone who wanted to hurt him? Or even... kill him...?" Said Ruby slightly shocked about what Blake said.
"Yeah..." Blake answered dryly.
"Well... he said he lost his eye but he didn't say how..." Yang stated.
There was a moment of silence, and no one knew what to say. In the end they decided to go to sleep, waiting to see their teammate to come back tomorrow morning. They now had more questions about him.
— l — l — l —
Vale City. Docks zone. 12:40 AM.
Little more than an hour had lasted that Initiation, Snake hoped that this could give more information about what was planning the White Fang but all that was left aside. Now the White Fang had a few dozens of new members, ready to do anything against humanity and innocent people.
After finishing, the Initiation ended, and the members of the White Fang left the warehouse. Leaving only a few to take care of the warehouse and the Paladins, and since they had left, there were only three people left on stage: The man with the white coat and black hat, the girl with the multicolored hair and the White Fang Lieutenant.
The orange-haired man lit a cigar before speaking. "When are you planning to move the Paladins? If they continue here for longer, the police or Atlas will soon find them, and my employer is not patient about mistakes." He said to the Lieutenant.
"Atlas military has an eye on everything and everyone who enters and leaves the city, we can't move them so easily."
"Just make sure you take them without attracting the attention of the military." The orange-haired man ordered, to what reluctantly, the Lieutenant nodded, really hating the idea of following orders from a human.
Shortly after, that man with orange hair left with that girl with strange hair, it seemed that they had finished with their meeting. The Lieutenant was left alone on the stage, watching the Paladins, while thinking that this would give them a great advantage for their plans against the humans. The only thing that remains would be to relocate them, which would be difficult but not impossible. But that would be the least of his problems.
Several minutes after being left alone, the last thing he expected was the presence of someone else, because while he was watching the Paladins, someone came in from behind. Without him noticing, that person approached stealthily until he quickly put his arm around his neck, while with his other hand he pointed at him with an object the size of a knife, but it was not a knife, it had no edge and it seemed that It was made of metal.
"Ugh!" The Lieutenant tried to get away from that guy, but he had it on disadvantage, and the worst thing was that he didn't have his chainsaw with him at that moment, he left it on the other side of the stage.
"Don't try anything." He ordered to the lieutenant, by the tone of his voice it seemed that this man was someone young. "That man with the hat, who was it? How did he got Atlesian weapons?"
"You dirty human!" The Lieutenant yelled, although he was not really sure if he was a human. "Do you think I'm going to talk that simple?! You and that bastard Roman Torchwick are the same shit! You are a coward!"
This was going to be a waste of time, so without hesitation, that man pulled the Lieutenant away, pushing him forward. The lieutenant turned around, ready to fight back with his own fists, since he didn't have his weapon nearby, and it would be useless to run for it. After turning around, he saw that guy. A young male human with a bandana, an eyepatch and a strange suit.
The Lieutenant was about to counterattack, but he was quickly hit by that rod that the human with the eyepatch had. When he was touched by that object, he didn't feel anything, but soon that human active the rod, which made that device to an electric shock of a million and a half volts. When he felt that, the Lieutenant let out a scream of pain, and after using it for a couple of seconds and being electrocuted, he fell to the floor, leaving him unconscious.
Big Boss looked at the unconscious Faunus, it was the first time he used the Stun Rod against someone, and he was satisfied with the results, even more knowing that apparently the Aura could not counteract an electric shock, maybe because he apply it directly against the Liuetenant's body. The bad thing was that he couldn't get the intel from that Lieutenant, but surely the Atlas military could get it from him. The only thing that Boss could get from him was that the human was named Roman Torchwick, and he is working with the White Fang, and apparently he was the one who managed to steal the Atlesian Paladins, but Ozpin said it was the White Fang who stole them, unless it was him the one who lead them to stole the Paladins... This only caused more questions.
Now, Boss would have to look for the remaining guards. He left the Lieutenant on the floor, unconscious (while on top of his head five yellow stars were circling.), Boss left the warehouse, since there was nothing else inside, and what he did in the next 10 minutes was to use stealth and the Mk. 22 to take down the White Fang guards outside the warehouse, a total of 8 guards, 9 counting the Lieutenant.
Once he finished, and made sure there was no one left, Boss took his scroll and started to write a message to Ozpin.
[It's done, the Atlesian Paladins are in the Warehouse you mentioned, but there are only three.] Boss wrote to Ozpin, and he was quick to send his answer.
[I have already informed General Ironwood, atlesian soldiers should reach your position in few minutes.]
While Boss waited for those soldiers, he took a cigar and light it while he was near the water. Boss preferred the idea of leaving before the military arrived, but it was better if he avoided problems
— l — l — l —
Hours before the Operation...
Back in Atlas, in an office there was General James Ironwood. After a hard work, his agents could find the Atlesian Paladins stolen by the White Fang, they were in the docks of Vale, since there was no incident in Vale these days, the police found the exact position of the stolen weapons, and the intel was shared with the Atlas military. Now the only thing left was to Ozpin's student, Naked Snake. He would have to sneak in and take down the members of the White Fang and secured the Paladins. But there were several things that he didn't like about Snake, he didn't trust the young man, even if Ozpin saw something special in him.
While he was thinking, someone knocked on the door, but he already knew who it was. "Come in."
After saying that, a woman with white hair and blue eyes who was by her early 20s walked in. "I came as fast as I could, General." Said that woman, in a tone that could be considered as strict and professional but also emotionless.
"Specialist Schnee." Ironwood began to talk. "I have a mission for you. The Atlesian Paladins that were stolen have already been found, they are on the docks of Vale. They are being guarded by the White Fang."
"I understand sir, me and a small team of soldiers can attack them and recover the prototypes without problems." The woman named Winter Schnee exclaimed.
"That will not be necessary, I've already got someone who can sneak in and take down the members of the White Fang, this could prevent us from drawing attention of the local news, but apparently it will be a meeting for the new recruits of the White Fang." Ironwood explained, but from his tone, Winter noticed that the General apparently didn't like that idea. "
"With all due respect sir, who is this individual who could do this?" Winter asked to the General. She was confused, could someone infiltrate inside a Warehouse full of White Fang guards and new recruits? It was possible, but it was an act difficult to achieve according to her.
Ironwood relaxed a little. "Well Winter..." He began by saying her name, sometimes he could act in a friendly way with her, setting aside the rank. The General knew that she was a trusted subordinate, besides that she was going to participate in this Operation, so he was going to tell her what was going to happen.
"This person is a student from Beacon Academy , recommended by Headmaster Ozpin."
'Beacon?' She said in her mind, and the first person she thought was her little sister Weiss. "Why the Headmaster would recommend a student for this Operation?"
"I couldn't explain it well, but this could help." Ironwood showed from the screen of his computer a video of a young man in green clothing in the Emerald Forest. That young man, who seemed almost the same age as her younger sister, he was wearing a bandana and a patch on his right eye. Despite that, the video shows how he uses a sniper rifle without problems against two Beowolfs. Winter continued watching the video, even watching his fight against the Ursa Major, three Beowolfs and even a Death Stalker, he did everything alone. After several minutes, the video ended.
"Ozpin saw something special on the kid, although I won't deny that he left me surprised, he has a rather peculiar way of fighting." Ironwood explained to the Specialist. "What'd you think?"
Although Winter's face didn't show it, she was amazed by the young man's ability, if she had to guess, she would say that he was trained to survive in places outside of the kingdoms. "He seems to be an expert in combat and infiltration for someone young, what is his name?"
Ironwood he remained silent for a few seconds until he gave his answer. "Naked Snake."
"...I'm sorry General?" Winter asked, did she mishear the name?"
"You heard me well Winter, his name is Naked Snake." Ironwood said, a little more louder. He didn't believe it the first time he heard it from Ozpin's mouth.
Winter didn't say a thing, but her mind was saying something else, she was saying... 'Who in Remnant would be called 'Naked'...?' "Even so, I don't see how the Headmaster of an Academy would send a student to a dangerous place." She couldn't believe that Beacon's Headmaster could do something so absurd, even stupid.
"As I said, it seems that Ozpin saw something special in the boy and he has faith in him, however..." Winter realized that the General's attitude changed to one that could be described as disgust and anger. "Apparently the boy expects to get paid for his work..."
Then, Winter realized why the General's reaction changed. "Like a mercenary...?" Winter knew that Ironwood hated mercenaries, the General always considered them as people who have no morals or loyalty, that the only thing they believe in is money, like an assassin.
Ozpin told Ironwood that Snake needed money to buy Dust and build weapons, but that didn't change his mind.
"What else do we know about him?" Winter asked, keeping her expressionless face.
"Nothing else, there are no records about him, where he was born, or where he has gone, it is like if he had appeared out of nowhere." Ironwood explained, another thing why he didn't trust Ozpin's student was that there was practically no information about him.
"Even so, what he's going to do is infiltrate in the warehouse and get rid of the guards, after that, you and your team will recover the Paladins. This Operation will take place at night, so get ready in a few hours."
"Yes sir!"
— l — l — l —
Present time...
Three Bullheads were on their way to the docks of Vale, coming from the sea, to avoid attracting attention, even if it was night and there was no one on the streets, it was better to be discreet. Winter Schnee and three teams of Atlesian soldiers had already been informed about their mission, make contact with the 'Agent' who was on the docks, take the remaining members of the White Fang and retrieve the Paladins. As soon as Ozpin informed Ironwood about the Agent, who only Winter knew was Snake, had taken care of the Guards, the soldiers of Atlas immediately took flight to Vale.
Meanwhile, at the docks, Snake was smoking his cigar, it had been several minutes since he sent that message to Ozpin, and the only thing left was to wait. For his luck, at a distance he could see some figures in the sky, which came for their position, it didn't take long to realize that they were the Bullheads of the Atlas military.
"Finally..." Boss tossed his cigar to the water, while watching the Bullheads, which, being near the docks, began to descend. The doors of the Bullhead opened, and as soon as the Bullheads were close to the ground, several soldiers wearing a white and blue body armor with their helmets covering their faces entirely, and carrying a rifle came out.
"The Paladins are inside! Secure them and look for any White Fang members!" A white-haired woman ordered, which was the last one to leave the Bullhead.
"Yes ma'am!" The soldiers answered, and they began to secure the area, while others entered the warehouse. The white-haired woman began to walk where Big Boss was, while Boss watched her, and noticed that his weapon was a saber.
"You must be the agent that General Ironwood mentioned." Said the woman after being in front of Snake. She knew it was him, but unlike the video, he was wearing a gray-blue suit, which looked a bit tight.
"That's right, and you?" Boss asked, he noticed that his voice showed little emotion, as if it were a robotic voice in some sense.
"Specialist Winter Schnee." She answered. "And what's your name young man?"
When he heard the name, immediately thought about Weiss, the Specialist could be related to her? And since he noticed it, she and Weiss seemed a lot... or maybe it was just a BIG coincidence. "Snake." Boss answered.
When Winter heard his name she remembered the word 'Naked', she still couldn't believe that is his name. "General Ironwood said you could take care of the White Fang in this warehouse and secure the Paladins."
"That's right, there are three Paladins inside, and nine White Fang guards taken down."
"Just three? Those are not all... you heard the White Fang meeting? Something that could give us some indication of what they planned to do with the Paladins?"
"Apparently they had the intention of relocating them, taking them out of the city, one more thing, it seems that they are working with a man, a human named Roman Torchwick."
Winter's eyes slightly widened. "Roman Torchwick? That criminal?"
"You know who he is?"
"How do you not know who he is? He is one of the most wanted criminals, his main crimes are robbery and murder." Winter explained, but she was a little surprised that an 'Agent' like him didn't know anything about a well-known criminal. "And are you sure the White Fang is working with him? With a human?"
"He was here, he said he was the one who stole the Paladins, and I'm sure he is working with the White Fang, I don't know why, but they had the intention of moving the Paladins to the southeast, I don't know why but one of the White Fang members inside could give you that intel, he seems to be some kind of leader."
'To the southeast...? Why they would move the Paladins there? The only place there is-'
"Specialist Schnee!" One of the Atlesian soldiers called for Winter, interrupting her thoughts. Boss and Winter turned to see them, several soldiers were taking the unconscious members of the White Fang, but there was one in particular that caught Winter's attention, one fully-masked faunus with tattoos. Other atlesian soldier was carrying his weapon; a chainsaw.
"The Lieutenant... You managed to beat him?" Winter asked to Big Boss.
"I just sneak in from behind and tried to get information from him, he didn't seem like he wanted to cooperate so... I put him to sleep, why?" Boss explained, in a relaxed and normal tone.
"We have fought with him a couple of times in previous Operations against the White Fang and he has proved to be a very... skilled opponent... General Ironwood will be more than pleased to know that we have him captured." Winter was amazed that this student could knock out one of her most difficult opponents to capture.
"We already put everyone on the Bullheads, ma'am." Said one Atlesian soldier, while the Atlesian Paladins were taken outside by the main big door of the warehouse by soldiers who were piloting them.
"Nice job, now everyone get back to the Bullheads." Winter ordered, then she turned to see Snake. "You did a good job Snake, although it was brief, it was a pleasure to work with you. I'll make sure the General finds out what you accomplished today."
"Likewise Specialist Schnee." Snake nodded and answered, and Winter walked to one of the Bullheads.
The Paladins were carried by the Bullheads using hooks. And after having secured them, the Bullheads withdrew. Big Boss put on his cloak and retired from the warehouse. Now he would have to wait for his pay, fortunately Ozpin made him a bank account. He would also have to look for a hotel to rest the rest of the night before returning to Beacon, while he would let the Atlas military take care of what he discovered today.
— l — l — l —
Monday. Beacon Academy. 7:40 AM.
Snake returned to Beacon in the morning, after staying in the city for the night and take a shower in the hotel he slept before coming back. When he arrived the first thing he did was go to the Armory, take off his Sneaking suit, put on the Tiger Striped Camouflage and walk back to the dorm room.
Snake knew that the girls were probably going to be asking about where he was and what he did (since Yang seemed to want to kill him when he go out Coco), Snake bought something for everyone, since he remembered that Yang was talking about it the other day.
When Boss arrived at the door, he used his Scroll to open the door and slowly he pushed it. Boss saw the girls still sleeping in their beds, but someone heard him because of her cat ears.
Blake slowly began to woke up and when she turned to see at the door she saw her lost teammate. "Good morning Snake... wait, Snake!?"
"Morning Blake." Soon the rest began to wake up and notice that their lost teammate finally appeared. "Good morning team."
"Snakey..." Yang let out a big yawn. "Where've you been?"
"Ohh you know, doing what I always do. Anyway, I wanted to tell you something." Everyone turned to see him, still a little sleepy. "I remembered that the other day you said you'd like to have a TV, and probably should be Weiss the one who should buy it." This caused small giggles from Yang and Ruby, but for Weiss that wasn't funny. Then, Snake left the room a moment and began to pull a long box, while he got it inside, the eyes of the girls widened when they saw what it was. A TV, and a big one.
"Oh my gosh!" Ruby jumped out of her bed and began to open the box.
"You really buy that? For us?" Yang asked, seeing the brand and the size of the TV, it seemed expensive.
"Yup, see it as a small gift for having accepted me on your team." That and because he wanted to persuade them from asking questions about what he did in the night. "Anyway, there's one hour before classes to begin, what if we put it later? Better if you dress."
Ruby whined, but Snake was right, she thought that the only thing they needed now was some Videogames since now the team had a TV.
But for now, everyone would have to continue their daily lives as students. Although for Snake, although he doesn't know it, this could be just the beginning of a chain of events, of which he will be a key player. But for Big Boss, this was only his first day as a Mercenary in Remnant.
End of Chapter 7.
And here goes another chapter. 12,879 words! The longest chapter until now. Now come the explanations in case someone got confused or I didn't explain well, or maybe out of simple curiosity.
1 - Sorry if someone wanted to see Snake fighting a Paladin but this chapter was to show Snake's infiltration abilities, and also to introduce Winter since I wanted to see what her reaction would be when she heard Big Boss's code name. Also, now Snake has a box, and in the next chapter RWBY will see Snake's obsesion about boxes.
2 - In this episode Blake didn't run away from Beacon and as such she never met Sun, partly because I wanted to get rid of him, but maybe he appears again in another episode with Neptune, and because I thought 'Blake runs from Beacon and her team looks for her' is quite used in some Crossovers, so I wanted to change it, and because of that, a few things in the story will change.
3 - The real Walkman it is called NWZ-W202 but in Peace Walker its called NWD-202, I don't know why the name changes if is the same Walkman, but I prefer to use the name used in PW.
4 - I know, I changed the cover image once more, it's the third time, but I guess I'll leave this one unless I find one better.
And about the PAIRING/SHIPP...
In previous episodes I mentioned that I wanted Snake paired with someone, but that this would not be so fast, and although some showed support for this idea, others rejected it, and thinking about it, Snake will not be paired with someone, but I have an idea reserved for the end of this Fanfic. So what I'm going to do?
I decided to change it to 'The girls fall in love with the MC but he is not interested' cliche. So yeah, it's going to be Harem, but Snake will not show love for any of the girls, (for now Blake and Yang are the only ones who are interested in Big Boss) i know some of you will dislike this idea, but i wanna use it, plus I'm sure this will help make the story more fun, this is to, in a way, remove the idea of Snake falling in love with a certain character, because seeing it well, could not happen and its stupid.
Another thing is that I also considered the idea of adding sex scenes but I decided that this was a TERRIBLE idea, since Snake, if he were not lovingly interested in a girl, sex would not interest him either (As he said to Solid Snake in Metal Gear 2 in the end, those things do not matter), so, unless Yang or Blake raped him or forced him to do something like that for some weird reason, it would never happen. Never.
But anyway, I wanted to tell you about these changes in history, and for now it would be all
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