Remnant Only Needs One Snake

by Project Ray

After living an existence of endless battles, Big Boss, A.K.A. Naked Snake, awakens in the strange world of Remnant, where he will have to face new enemies and have new allies while trying to understand Remnant. But for what reason Snake will continue to fight in a world without war? Will he ever find something to believe in this hostile world? The story of Snake in Remnant begins.

12. Chapter 12

(A/N)

And hello! One more time welcome to another Episode of RONOS.

I know, i know, this one took more time, but hey, it's the longest chapter ever in this story, I hope you enjoy it.

(Q&A)

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Great Saiyaman54: Maybe?

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(A/N)

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Chapter 12

Beacon Academy.

06:47 AM.

It was early morning, and that means that at that time, students, teachers and basically almost any citizen in the world of Remnant was sleeping comfortably in their beds. And that also applied for team RWBY+S. After a long day, everyone was asleep.

But despite that, soon a scroll began to vibrate, indicating that someone was making a call. And this scroll belonged to Big Boss. Slowly, Boss began to wake up when he heard the sound caused by the vibration on the wooden desk. He started to get out of bed, careful not to step on DD, and after getting up, he went to take the Scroll. Boss pressed the yellow diamond-shaped button in its center to deploy the screen. When the screen appeared, he saw the name of the person who was calling.

Ozpin.

"Who else would be..." Said Boss in his mind.

Boss looked at his teammates, to notice that no one was awake, and after making sure of that, he decided to leave the room in silence, leaving the door slightly open to avoid having to open it with the Scroll.

"Ozpin." Said Boss when decided to answer the call.

"Good morning John, I'm sorry to wake you up so early, but I need to ask you something, assign you a mission."

"A mission? It's General Ironwood asking for this?" Snake questioned.

"No, it's me who is hiring you for this mission. Recently, an acquaintance of mine has been carrying out several missions in the outskirts of Vale, fighting against Grimm to save villages, but lately the attacks have been more constant this month, at this moment it seems that a village is being attacked by Grimm, so I wanted to ask you to assist him. And of course, I'll pay you for this."

At least Ozpin made it clear that he would pay and didn't ask for it as 'a friend's favor'. Also, for any reason it was good to leave Beacon for a while, do some work and get paid.

"I'll handle it." Was Snake's answer.

"I'm glad you accepted, a Bullhead is waiting to take you to your destination, but you better hurry." And with that said, the call ended.

Snake did what Ozpin said and decided to hurry. He returned to the room and quietly began to put on his tiger stripe camo. However, this didn't stop a certain canine creature from realizing what Boss was doing. When Snake finished dressing in his usual uniform, he took his M4 rifle with AG36 GL, his Mk22 Hush Puppy and his M1911. And just as he was about to leave, when he opened the door Snake noticed that DD was awake, watching him while wagging his tail.

Snake thought for a moment, maybe taking him would not be a bad idea, but what would he do against the Grimm? The Grimms attacked humans and Faunus only, on rare occasions they attacked Remnant's other animals. Anyway, if he left him here, surely he would start barking and waking the girls, and Boss didn't wanted that.

"All right, c'mon..." Snake whispered and they both left, then he closed the door slowly. After doing so, Snake walked away but slowly began to hurry up to start running, followed by DD. First he went to his locker, where he took his new shotgun, he also took ammunition for it. While Snake carried his rifle on the left side of his waist, the shotgun was on his back.

Armed and prepared, Snake left the dorm rooms and went outside, it was still dark and cold, but that was not a problem for the mercenary, besides that in less than an hour it would begin to dawn. Boss hurried and headed to the docking bay, where he found the Bullhead waiting for him.

Snake and DD entered the VTOL, but not before giving a couple of soft soft with the palm of his hand to the Bullhead, near the cabin, indicating that they had already arrived. The pilots noticed this, and soon ignited the Bullhead, and the thrusters began to raise the vehicle in the air.

"It will take us about 15 minutes to arrive." Said one of the two pilots through the speaker inside the Bullhead.

"Where are we going exactly?" Snake asked, while he and DD used the seats of the Aircraft.

"To a village called Khalil, near the river." Said the pilot again.

It was going to be a short trip, but even so, Snake should be prepared. As far as he knew, this type of missions were assigned to second-year or higher teams in Beacon, or to more experienced Huntsmen, so he did not know why Ozpin wanted him to take care of this along with his 'acquaintance', but he was not going to complain.

Boss relaxed, and to pass the time he decided to use the Scroll to read some news from the VNN (Vale News Network), some of them were practically daily bread, attacks by White Fang, theft of Dust, preparations for the Vytal Festival. The usual.

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14 Minutes later...

Southeast side of the kingdom of Vale.

"We approach the village, prepare yourself." Said one of the pilots.

Snake stopped using the Scroll and put it again in one of his pockets. Then, he approached one of the doors of the aircraft to open it and have a view of the area he was approaching, and he decided to take a seat on the bank of the Bullhead, while his hair and bandana were waved by the wind.

It was still dark, but Snake could clearly see that the Bullhead was flying over the forest, and it was not until Boss could see wooden structures in the distance, indicating that they were approaching Khalil village, although he could also see some kind of red light, it was surely fire.

And the closer the Bullhead was, Snake could see the place better, most buildings were houses or probably stores, that's what he thought, but in the center there was a big tower with a bell, probably to alert about a Grimm attack, and near that tower, in the center of what seemed to be a square was a building similar to a church, but maybe it could be a shelter, as it was seen that unlike other wooden structures, it looked more like concrete or some more resistant material.

But Boss also noticed that there were several Beowolfs hanging around the village, looking for people, and what was worse, he could see corpses of people lying on the floor, and Boss did not have the false hope that any of them would stay alive.

"There are too many Grimms down there, we'll have to leave you in an area far from them, but it will be safer." Said the other pilot, which by her voice seemed to be a woman.

Unfortunately, the female pilot did not exaggerate with 'far' of the Grimm, because after moving away from the village, he went to the outskirts, in a clearing in the forest, descended enough so that Big Boss could go down.

"Once you have finished, call the Headmaster and we'll pick you up." Said the female pilot again.

Just as they were close to the ground, Snake indicated to DD with his hand for both of them to come down. So both left the Bullhead, while the vehicle began to rise.

"Be careful down there, kid." Said the male pilot.

The Bullhead began to retreat, Snake did not know where it was going, maybe to Beacon, but he did not care about that. Another thing, he noticed that there was no one fighting the Grimm, that mean Ozpin's acquaintance had not yet arrived, for now, he and DD would take care of everything.

[Play: Metal Gear Solid 4 OST - Vista Mansion.]

"Let's move DD, quietly." Said Boss to his buddy, and soon the two began to move.

So, Snake and D-Dog began to move, jogging with careful to where the village was once again, and in less than 2 minutes they were already arriving at the village, they were in what appeared to be the main entrance.

'Welcome to Khalil.' It said the sign made of wood on top of the main entrance.

Snake and DD continued walking, entering the village, and seeing the sad scene they both saw. It was not the first time that Big Boss saw dead people, several times in Africa and the Middle East he came to see similar things, but all were caused by humans, instead this was caused by Grimm. Snake could see the corpses of some of the disemboweled people of the village, without one or two limbs, or some with the stomach open, revealing the entrails of the dead people, making it clear how cruel and strong the Grimm could be, but Big Boss remained calm and cool.

Both human and canine continued advancing in the direction of the center of the village, Big Boss took his shotgun, and continued advancing, carefully and slowly, checking the corners and the roofs of the houses. It was not until Snake began to hear growls several meters away from his position, Snake continued advancing, a little faster but cautiously, to get to where a house was. He clung to the wall, and carefully peeked around the corner.

There, Big Boss saw at least three Beowolfs, prowling the area. Snake knew that it would be difficult to evade them, because his mission is to kill the Grimm in the village and save the villagers, it was not an infiltration mission to which he is used to do, so he would have to attract them in some way and then kill them, and fortunately for that, Big Boss had DD on his side.

[Music ends here.]

"Bark." Boss ordered him.

And as Boss said, D-Dog started doing it. The wolf began to bark repeatedly, while Big Boss watched from the corner of the house as the three Beowolfs began to approach. And just when they were close enough, Snake tossed a Flashbang, however, it was not a simple Flashbag, days ago, Snake decided to create new Flashbangs for his arsenal, which caused more detonations. The new ones that Snake had were 9-Bangs, a Flashbang grenade that caused 8 more detonations after the first one exploded. After Snake threw the 9-Bang Flashbang, the grenade began to detonate, releasing nine detonations, causing an effect on the Grimm, leaving the four dark creatures blinded and confused for a brief moment.

Snake took this opportunity and took his shotgun, the SPAS-12, with a red dot reflex sight and quickly moved to shoot the first Grimm that Boss had in front of him, Snake approached close enough and pointed at the head and pulled the trigger.

At that distance of less than 2 meters, plus the power of the shotgun and the ammunition, it was enough to penetrate the skull/mask of the Beowolf and kill it. Similarly, Snake approached the second Beowolf, shooting it at the head, and then the third, firing for the third time.

The Beowolfs fell to the ground, and their bodies soon began to disappear.

"Nice job DD." Said Boss. To which D-Dog barked.

Boss and DD continued to advance towards the square, this time faster without caring if they found any other Grimm, Boss would simply kill them.

Soon Big Boss and DD approached the square, where it was (what Snake supposed it was) a shelter used by the locals. But as they approached, both Snake and DD saw that it was there where more people died, Snake could count at least 9 people who died at the hands of the Grimm, not counting the ones he saw before approaching the square. Even so, some torches illuminate some dark areas that were in the square.

Big Boss could notice that some of the dead body's had swords and spears with them. Surely they were trying to defend the people who fled to the shelter. And although they tried to defend the people, they themselves died.

But it was strange, the Grimm were gone, maybe they went to look for more people around. At least, that's what he thought. DD started barking towards the roof of the shelter, and Snake quickly looked in the same direction. There he saw a Beowolf who had jumped from the roof to the ground. Snake jumped and rolled back, thus avoiding the attack.

Snake grabbed his rifle and knelt, positioning himself to shoot, while the Beowolf roared and ran to attack Big Boss. Boss squeezed the M4 trigger, and started firing the AP (Armor Piercing) bullets. Seven bullets were enough for the Beowolf to fall to the dead ground, and begin to disappear.

Snake couldn't help but show a small smile when he saw the result of the AP bullets, it was a big difference, unlike the normal bullets, which took between fifteen and twenty bullets to kill a simple Beowolf, this was definitely a big progress.

But back to work, Snake, after verifying that the area was clear, approached the door of that building in front of him, which as it had been said before, looked like a church, but fortified, even the doors, although made of wood, seemed to be thick and also had parts covered with iron. It was only a few seconds for one of the doors to open, after Snake knock it.

"Quick! Get in!" Said a male voice inside the shelter.

Soon Big Boss and DD entered, and the door closed once more. There, Boss noticed that there were several dozen people inside, but what surprised him a little was that they were all faunus. This was a faunus village. Now that he remembered, Weiss once said that outside the kingdoms there were several villages, which almost all belonged to Faunus.

"You must be the Hunter Vale have sent to help us." Said a man with gray hair, something, who seemed to be in his 50s, with simple clothes, glasses, and dog ears.

"Yeah but it's not just me, someone else should have come, but I haven't seen him." Boss answered. Where was this person that Ozpin had mentioned? Who knows, maybe he had already arrived and died, anyway, Snake and DD were alone.

"We haven't seen anyone else, you are the only one who has come." He explained. "I'm the leader of the Khalil village, Shay Redsan, and I thank you for coming." Said the man who introduced himself as Shay.

"Thank him for coming!?" Shouted a young faunus in his mid 20s, with brown hair and horns similar to those of a bull. "If this human had come faster, our people wouldn't have to die at the hands of those monsters!"

It was not entirely true, a Grimm attack it always going to leave victims, even if Big Boss or anyone else had arrived as quickly as possible, there would be dead, after all, the Grimm attacked the moment when everyone was sleeping. But Big Boss was not going to argue with the young faunus.

"The help arrived, and now we just have to wait for the Huntsman to handle it." Said Shay to the faunus, and then he turned to see Snake. "You will help us... right...?" The village chief asked, his voice was a little doubtful.

Snake noticed this, and turned to see the other people. Some faunus gave him odd looks, while others were busy comforting their relatives, including children. Others were busy crying, probably because of the loss of a loved one when the attack occurred. Maybe he could understand a little about the looks. He was a human, they were faunus... basically they thought that Boss would abandon them to their fate.

But he can't do such a thing.

"No problem... for now I'll take care of the Grimm in the village, you and your people stay here." Boss said he said in a calm but serious tone of voice.

"Wait!" Said Shay to go for a moment to pick up something, and then return, to hand it to Boss. "Here, surely you'll find it useful if you put it to good use."

What the village chief gave to Big Boss was three jars of Red sap. Definitely that would be very helpful to attract and get rid of the remaining Grimm. Snake nodded and took the jars.

"Gotcha." Said Boss to the faunus.

"Thank you very much." Said the village chief. Even some faunus let out a sigh of relief when they heard the words of the young man with a bandana and an eyepatch.

"Keep the door closed, I'll come back when I'm finished." Boss ordered Shay, while the faunus opened the door for the mercenary to leave.

"Good luck, young man." Shay said to Snake for the last time.

Snake, followed by DD, left the shelter, listening to the door being locked and secured behind them. They still had work to do, and there were still many Grimm that Boss must kill.

Snake looked at the sky, noticing that the dark sky was beginning to turn blue, this clearly indicated that it was already dawning, he supposed that after this mission he would return to Beacon Academy and continue the classes. Too boring for him.

Snake moved away from the shelter, staying on the opposite side of the square, as he had planned to use Red Sap to attract the remaining Grimm and kill them with grenades.

"Once I get to Beacon, i need to remember to start making C4..." Said Snake in his mind.

The mercenary took position, hiding behind a corner of one of the structures, along with DD. He prepared his arm, and began throwing the jars near the center of the square, but each jar ended up approximately 3 meters away from another one, so that it would not come together. After throwing all three, Boss waited for the Grimm to approach. He just hoped that the sap would not need to be covering a racist coward for it to take effect.

But for Boss' luck, the Grimm came, all were Beowolfs, of various sizes, and among them two Alphas. They all were smelling to where the jars filled with Red Sap fell. Snake counted at least 12 Beowulf's, they were too many, but he prepared to put an end to them.

Snake prepared a fragmentation grenade M-67, which was filled with fire Dust. Snake took out the pin and threw the first grenade, then the second, and then the third, each one where there was a group of Beowolfs. The grenades touched the ground and rolled for a brief second, which the Beowolfs noticed, but it was late for them when they could react.

BOOOOOM!

Three Three explosions in a row were heard, the grenades let loose a big and powerful explosion thanks to the fire Dust, in addition to the hot shards that crossed the bodies of the Beowolfs when it exploded, killing them at that moment.

Snake poked his head out of the corner of the structure to see what he had caused. The Beowolfs, or what was left of them, began to disappear, while three large holes that gave off smoke were left in the square. His work was finished.

That's what he thought.

Snake advanced to where the Beowolfs were, approaching the small craters that his grenades had caused. It had been simple, and Boss thought that the red sap really was very useful, maybe he should start using it as a throwing weapon.

Although Boss soon stopped thinking that kind of thing, and became alert, as Snake began to hear something approaching, it was a strange sound, but it was something he recognized, it was as if it was the sound of... a snake... and a big one...

Snake took his SPAS-12, and pointed with it to his surroundings, because he did not know where this Grimm could appear, so he was watching everywhere. But by the sound, Boss could deduce that it was getting closer and closer. Soon DD started barking behind them, to a wooden structure that was intact after Grimm's first attack.

But that was not for a long time, because suddenly, as if something had hit it with too much violence, the structure collapsed, and several of its materials fell to the ground, and some of the wood flew out. Boss used his arms and the shotgun to cover his face against the pieces of debris that flew out. The dust in the air covered what was once a house. But between the dust in the air, there was something there, and Boss could see it. He could see a pair of red eyes watching him, while a hiss was heard.

The dust gradually dissolved, and that shadow began to reveal itself, showing itself to be a Grimm, but not just any one.

It was a King Taijitu.

Boss saw the giant snake, It was the first time he saw a King Taijitu and really big snake, but it was not so surprising, since he already read about the King Taijitus before. But even so, this would be his first battle with one. The black snake looked at Boss as if he were an easy prey, a mouse in a cage with a snake in it. But Boss maintained his position, and was willing to fight against the Grimm.

After all, he was the Snake Eater.

[Play: Metal Gear Solid 5 OST - Metallic Archaea.]

"Get away DD!" Boss said to the wolf, while he began to use his SPAS-12, began to shoot the snake-like Grimm to the body, close to the head, but because of the distance and because of how big the Grimm was, and therefore of its thick skin, it did not seem to have any effect. The Grimm prepared to attack, using its head, and opening its mouth to try to attack Boss and bite him using its big, sharp fangs.

At the moment when the King Taijitu tried to attack him with its head, Boss rolled to the side and pointed at the black snake with his SPAS-12, shooting it in the face, this time taking advantage of being close to the Grimm. Even though Boss shot it in the face, this didn' caused enough damage to the Grimm, but it did make it angry.

How angry? Well basically Boss was fighting against one half of the Taijitu, but soon the other side began to show - the white side. Now both side of the snakes were ready to attack Big Boss. Naked Snake took his M4, and prepared to shoot with the grenade launcher to any of the heads that could tried to attack Boss but he had to be careful, or the King Taijitu could surround and trap him. The the 9-Bangs could only work with one head of the snake, but the other one could surely continue fighting without problems.

The white head of the Taijitu moved quickly forward, opening its jaw to bite and eat Boss. But he quickly used the grenade launcher, shooting the grenade in the direction of the mouth, causing it to hit and explode inside the mouth, letting out a large trail of smoke after the explosion. Snake listened the cry of pain of the white head, while the black head took this opportunity to attack Big Boss. Big Boss jumped and rolled to one side, causing the black part of King Taijitu to crash into another house, which was behind Big Boss. After crashing, the black snake shattered the structure, while the white snake still seemed stunned by the fire Dust's grenade.

Naked Snake took this opportunity and put another 40 mm grenade in the AG36 GL, while thinking a plan to kill the King Taijitu, and maybe he had an idea that would help him a lot. A pretty simple trick but quite useful.

However, the black head did not get any damage, so it recovered soon and one more time it looked at Big Boss, but this time, Big Boss opted to use a Flashbang, so he throw it against the face of the Taijitu. At the time of bouncing against the head of the black snake, the grenade exploded, letting out a blinding light and a sound that left the snake in a daze, after the first detonation, which was the most powerful, there were eight more detonations, one after the other. The white head began to recover, but the black fell to the ground, dazed and blinded. Boss took this opportunity and decided to do the same thing he did with the Death Stalker in his Initiation. Snake ran to the black head of the Taijitu, and taking his knife with one hand and a grenade with the other, Snake stabbed his knife in one of the red eyes of the snakes. Boss removed the pin from the grenade and inserted it into the wound in the eye, then Boss ran away to avoid being hit by the explosion. And at the same time as he was moving away from the black side of the Taijitu, Boss shot the grenade launcher once more against the white side.

BOOOOOOOOOM!

Both heads exploded, literally, almost at the same time. What remained of the body that united both snakes fell to the ground, while where the heads were only smoke, and the body of King Taijitu soon began to disappear slowly.

[Music ends here.]

The battle had come to an end, and Snake once again managed to eliminate the Grimm without using a Semblance, and if he thought about it in a certain way, he was not using Aura at that moment to defend himself. He had only used his mind and ability. After finishing, D-Dog returned to where Snake was.

"That's the biggest snake I've killed... And I won't be able to eat it..." Said Snake for himself in a slightly disappointed tone of voice. Boss really felt that it was a bit sad not being able to taste the Grimm's flavor. He was curious about how the dark creatures taste.

"Well well... that was a quite entertaining show, although I could have done it better and faster, though..."

A mysterious and masculine voice spoke a few meters behind Big Boss, so when he heard it he turned around to see who it was, and to his surprise, it was someone he already knew before, when he was in the city of Vale.

"Hey there kiddo, didn't expected to see you again, less alone here."

"Qrow... right?" Said Boss trying to remember his name. Who the hell was named as a crow? But thinking about it, he was now called Naked Snake.

"Damn right you are, I didn't expect you to be the student Oz would send." Said Qrow as he began to walk to approach Snake while holding his sword; Harbinger.

"Where have you been? I had to take care of the Grimm by myself." Although Snake said that, in fact he was not complaining or was angry about it.

"I had to deal with a pack of Beowolfs when I came here, then I started listening to some explosions." The black-haired man explained. "But even so, it doesn't seem that you were in trouble, you even managed to kill a King Taijitu, not many manage to do it alone, much less that fast."

"Not bad for a first time, I guess." Boss replied.

The Mercenary and the Huntsmen, while they were having that conversation, went to the shelter in the middle of the square, where Snake knocked on the door, to tell the people inside that it was over and that they could come out.

Upon leaving the shelter, the villagers saw the sad and horrible situation in which their village was, some structures - most were houses - were destroyed, and the bodies of several villagers who tried to fight the Grimm were on the floor, dead. Some could not contain themselves and began to cry. It was a pretty sad sight, but there was nothing Snake or Qrow could do.

In the end the village chief thanked Snake and Qrow for helping the village, even if Qrow had arrived late. There was nothing else to do, the villagers would have to take care of rebuilding their village, and burying their relatives, while they also waited for help from the Vale hospital to care for the injured. So in the end, Snake, D-Dog and Qrow left the village, as they headed to the main entrance to return to the forest and take a Bullhead. While both walked in silence, Snake looked at the time in his Scroll, while Qrow drank from his flask.

The time was 08:29 AM.

While traveling from Beacon to the village and fighting the Grimms, an hour and several minutes had passed, and that meant that classes were going to start in an hour, much to Big Boss' boredom.

"So, where's your team?" Qrow asked, while using his Scroll to send a message to the Bullhead pilots who use it to arrive. "You're not goin' to tell me that the dog is your team, is he?"

"He is my buddy, but the rest of the team surely are still asleep in Beacon, maybe they already woke up. I dunno." Snake replied. Since the first days he had to wake up the girls, although in the following weeks that did not happen anymore, at least with Blake and Weiss, while Ruby and Yang were still sleeping.

Qrow thought for a moment, if Snake had a team, why they didn't come with him? Why coming alone? And why Ozpin saw something special in him? Sure, he managed to kill several Beowolfs and kill a King Taijitu alone but even so, he had his doubts about this Huntsmen-in-training.

The two of them arrived at a clearing in the forest, and soon a Bullhead appeared and began to descend so both of them could get aboard.

"C'mon, the Bullhead will drop you off at Beacon before it get to Vale." The old crow said, while along with Snake and the wolf got on the aircraft and took a seat.

"That's good..." Boss said slightly sarcastic under his breath.

The Bullhead began to gain altitude, moving away from the ground to begin heading towards the Academy. And while all that was happening, Snake wondered what team RWBY was doing right now. He did not think much if they would worry if he was not in the dorm room that morning, surely it would not be important, besides, he would arrive in time for classes.

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Meanwhile, at Beacon Academy...

While Snake was working outside around the Kingdom, the girls were sleeping, but soon they started waking up, since they would have classes in an hour, and that meant putting on the uniform. And since the four did not plan to share the bathroom to get dressed, their only option was to throw Snake out of the room.

But then the silver-eyed girl noticed something strange.

"Wait a moment... where is Snake?" Ruby asked, seeing the empty bed without her teammate. And soon the other girls looked at Snake's bed.

"DD is not here either." Said Weiss, while she could hear Blake's sigh of relief.

"Maybe he went to get the breakfast." Yang suggested as she took her school uniform to put it on.

It was a probability, but it was quite strange, since Snake was always the first one of the team to wake up and then wake up the rest of the team. Then Ruby thought of something at that moment.

"Guys... And what if Snake is angry?" Asked the team leader, with a slightly sad tone of voice and worried expression.

"What you mean Rubes?" Asked Yang. She like Weiss and Blake were confused about what Ruby said.

"I mean... yesterday we made him show us his scars... what if he got angry at us for havin' forced him to show them? What if he ended up remembering bad things?"

"Maybe it wouldn't have been bad if certain people had not been drooling when they saw him half-naked." Weiss said while she looked at Yang and Blake with a scowl. Maybe Ruby and Snake did not notice them but Weiss saw that both girls looked like perverts when they were looking at Snake's torso the last night. Even so, Weiss did not say that to defend Snake, only to emphasize that Yang and Blake have a rather lustful mentality.

And both girls had a big blush on their faces when they heard Weiss' accusation, and they couldn't believe they had been so obvious.

"H-hold on! Snake said he got them while he was trainin'." Yang said with a blush, although she did not deny that she was drooling - not literally - when she saw Snake's torso.

"T-that's right! Also, Snake doesn't seem to be the kind of person who gets angry about things like that." Blake answered, and like Yang, she did not deny that she was feeling her body hotter when she saw her half-naked teammate.

Ruby, without paying much attention to what Weiss was talking about, spoke again. "But still... what if those bring him back bad memories? Or sad memories? Things that may remind him of his Mentor..."

At that time, Yang and Blake understood what Ruby wanted to say. While Ruby, yesterday felt bad for Snake to see his torso and Weiss only understood that Snake endured difficult situations, Blake and Yang were just enjoying seeing his body. But now that they thought about it, they began to feel bad and began to regret it in their minds. Both thought the best thing was to apologize.

"Look Rubes, maybe you're right, when we find Snake in classes, we'll tell him we sorry, okay?" Yang said as she put her hand on Ruby's shoulder, to try to cheer her up a bit. "Like Blake said, Snake doesn't seem to be someone who gets angry easily, so there'll be no problem." She was telling her younger sister while giving her a thumbs up.

That was enough for Ruby to recover her usual smile. "You're right, Yang, we'll apologize to him."

And after saying that, the RWBY girls started putting on their school uniforms, while everyone - except Weiss - was thinking about how to apologize to their one-eyed teammate. But what they did not know was that they wouldn't see Snake for the rest of the day, since he wasn't even in Beacon Academy.

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Back to Snake, Qrow and DD...

08:45 Am.

A brief time passed since they took the Bullhead to return to civilization, Snake thought it would be a calm and quiet trip until Qrow started talking, mainly asking about Snake's full name and where he came from, so without any other way out, he told him the 'true', beginning to explain that he had no family and did not come from any of the four kingdoms, with the last thing Snake said, Qrow felt identified with the young student, but then Snake said his new 'Remnantian' name, to which Qrow could not help but laugh.

"Hahaha! I can't fucking believe it!" Qrow said still laughing after Snake told him his full name; Naked Snake. Qrow didn't buy it so he ended up showing his ID in the Scroll, and when he saw that, he started to laugh.

Snake had already got used to that kind of reaction, so he just rolled his eye and ignored him, while slowly Qrow calmed down. After calming down, Qrow drank his flask with 'special water'. He offered the flask to Big Boss to drink it a little but he refused, a little alcohol did not hurt, but he preferred to do it in moments of rest, not when he worked or had just finished his mission.

"So tell me, how'd you end up in Beacon?" Asked Qrow.

"I arrived the night in which the new students had done the Initiation, I was in the Emerald Forest near Beacon, Ozpin saw me and send a newly formed first year team to find me, then Ozpin offered me the opportunity to stay in Beacon, and I accept it."

"And just like that? You did your Initiation after the others did it, but Ozpin basically had already made you a Beacon student." Qrow raised an eyebrow at that explanation, since Ozpin did not follow the rules he had created for his own school. And even so he had faith that Snake would complete his Initiation. Alone. Even Qrow saw Snake's fighting, which was quite different from what he had seen, since Snake did not use any weapon like a sword or an axe, only firearms.

"Yep, I guess Ozpin decided to help me, because I didn't have anywhere else to go, not even a home." Snake said, He did wasn't lying but neither did he tell Qrow that he was a human from another planet, dimension or alternate reality, whatever that was.

Qrow was not exactly an empathetic person to others, if that could be said. He never liked children and never wanted to have, and the closest thing to children were his nieces, even so, he felt a little bad for the young man. But he was not going to talk about his feelings and give him cheer, in fact Qrow noticed that Snake said it quite calmly, as if it was nothing important.

"And what about your pup? He looks like you." Qrow said, referring to the eyepatch that Snake and DD had in the same eye. Then, Qrow began to caress the wolf's head, and DD seemed to enjoy it. "Heh, you are not so different from Zwei."

Snake was about to answer something, but he stopped and began to think about that word Qrow said. Zwei? He could swear he heard that word or name somewhere else. But where? In Beacon? Vale? From Ozpin? Maybe the girls?

Snake's thoughts were interrupted when he heard Qrow's scroll ring, indicating that someone was calling him. Qrow took the device and decided to answer. While Snake looked the other way, because if it was some person or family from him, Boss didn't have to listen or pay attention, but of course, inside the Bullhead, it would be difficult not to listen.

"Yes?" Qrow answered, remaining silent for a brief moment, while the person on the other side was talking to him, although Snake could not hear what it was.

"Another village?" Qrow said to which Snake turned to see him. "I see... very well, I'll take care of it, send the coordinates to the pilots." And after saying that, Qrow finished the call.

"Let me guess, another Grimm attack?" Snake asked.

"Nope... Apparently the White Fang ended up occupying a faunus town, but someone managed to use a radio to call the police, and right now they contacted me to see if I could take care of this before the Police arrives, since we finished with our previous mission we are close." Qrow explained.

Snake had already read about this before. It was usually called 'Bounty Missions', where the Huntsmen and Huntresses - Or simply Hunters - could choose their own missions, and receive a payment for their services. In some way, the Hunters were not very different from mercenaries, only that the Huntsmen and Huntresses were seen as the best warriors of Remnant and even as some kind of celebrities. In addition, Snake knew the type of missions they could choose:

Search and Rescue, Search and Destroy, Village Security, Perimeter Defense, Bounty and Escort.

Some of them were urgent, which needs an immediate response, and in this moment the most indicated would be 'Village Security', just like how they did it in Khalil Village. But there were two problems. First, this was an urgent mission, like the previous one, so the police would take longer to respond and it would have terrible results. Second, it was not Grimm that attacked the town, it was the White Fang, attacking a faunus town... but why?

"Why would the White Fang occupy a faunus town? That makes no sense." Said Boss, while holding his thumb and index finger to his chin while he thought.

"I have an idea of why, but I won't know until I see it... what you say? You sign up for another mission?" Qrow asked.

On one hand, Snake's help would be more than fine, Qrow saw how he fights after all, but on the other hand, they would not fight against Grimm, they would fight against people, which could be quite dangerous. At least that's what Qrow thought, since, although the duty of a Huntsmen is to fight against the Grimm, the enemy does not always be the same. And sometimes that means killing. And he was worried about how his nieces would react if they were in a similar situation.

Even so, Snake thought it was a good opportunity, so he won't go to school soon. Seriously, sometimes he gets bored by just sitting, unless the professors talked about something interesting, such as some historical battle or tactics to fight.

"Fine by me, at least it'll be more entertaining than school, though." Said Snake, to which Qrow let out a small laugh, although soon his exppresion became serious.

"Tell me, if you see yourself surrounded and you have no way out, would you take any option to get out alive?"

Snake raised an eyebrow at that comment. Then he understood what Qrow wanted to say. "Yeah... I won't lie to you, I won't hesitate to kill if I don't have another option, I'll do it if is only necessary." Snake answered, in a calm but serious tone of voice. He was a soldier, he had already killed before, and although in Remnant he hasn't killed anyone yet, that does not mean he will not kill, but as he himself said, only if is necessary, he is not a hitman or a killer. He is a soldier.

Qrow was surprised to hear Snake's response, although his face did not say it, he expected some response like 'I'll find the way' or 'Killing is terrible'. Yes, killing is bad, and he knew it, but in difficult times, he had to win anyway, especially with his 'other job'. Now that he thought about it, Snake had the face and the eyes - eye - of someone who has fought too much, and with only seeing him, Qrow thought that perhaps, he had already killed before. Who and when? He did not wanted to ask something like that, besides, maybe he was wrong, it's not like Snake was like his sister; Raven.

"Just prepare for anything." Qrow said.

"Don't worry, in fact I have an idea to take down the White Fang without having to fight them directly." Said Big Boss as he took his Mk 22. After all, it would not be the first time the fight against the White Fang. Using stealth of course.

"Oh yeah? How?" Qrow asked, raising an eyebrow.

Then Snake just let out a small smile.

"Infiltration."

— l — l — l —

In Beacon Academy...

09:22 AM.

"Where the hell is he?" Yang asked the rest of team RWBY, but Ruby and Blake shrugged their shoulders.

The girls were sitting to the bottom of the class, away from Professor Port and his weird made up stories when he was young, they didn't pay much attention but they could swear Port said he killed an Alpha Beowolf with a fork, maybe he ate it, though.

But that did not matter, what worried them was that classes had already started, and Snake wasn't there, And that started to worry the girls, except the ice queen. And slowly they were beginning to believe that Ruby was right, and Snake got angry because of them.

"If you were a weird guy with the weirdest, stupid and ridiculous name ever... of all time, who wears an eyepatch, obsessed with weapons and combat, where would you be?" Weiss asked bluntly the rest of the team. She, unlike the others, was not worried about Snake.

The girls thought carefully what Weiss said to them. Of all the places that Snake could be, what was the most likely? Soon the three had the same idea and said it at the same time.

"In a cardboard box." Ruby, Yang and Blake said.

Weiss wanted to slam her face against the table, because the answer was so stupid, but at the same time it was possible.

"Maybe he's angry..." Ruby muttered as she looked down.

"Maybe... he just had something else to do. Like... I don't know..." That came from Blake's mouth. She wanted to think that Snake was not mad at her but couldn't convince herself.

"Maybe he went to see some girl." Said Weiss, while she looked ahead and paid attention to the teacher. Yep, she decided to give her attention to the ridiculous stories of the teacher instead of the girls that keep talking about the same topic.

Weiss didn't mean it, but when she said that, Blake and Yang could not help thinking about that girl with the beret and sunglasses named Coco, at least that's how Snake called her a few classes ago. Was Snake with that girl? Maybe not but... but what if he was? What if he decided to skip classes just to go and see her?

Snake was not someone who looked like a pervert fool to a woman. And that was proven by the girls when sometimes Yang after bathing came out in underwear or using a towel to cover her body, revealing her breasts and the rest of her wet body. In a way, Yang did it to provoke Snake, and even so, he saw Yang as if he were seeing a wall. He did not react, or even Snake did not look at Yang. And even if Snake didn't do that, the girls preferred not to do what Yang did.

Even so, in the end their, brains and their imagination made them think other things about Snake and the girl called Coco.

| Inside Yang and Blake's mind. |

"Neky... I'm waiting for you...~"

The girl named Coco said in a seductive tone, while she was laying down on a bed, wearing only black lace underwear, and of course, her beret and sunglasses.

And of course, Snake - or a version imagined by certain two girls - who was only wearing black underwear and his bandana - for some reason - began to approach Coco, approaching enough to her so that he could began to give her soft kisses and licks on her neck, to which she responded letting out soft moans of pleasure.

"D-don't stop... also... I want you to help me down there..." She pleaded between gasps and moans.

Snake nodded, and placed his hand on the girl's abdomen, and slowly it was sliding down, in the direction of her...

| Back to the real world. |

Both girls came back to reality before they could imagine the next scene.

Blake shook her head, while on her face appeared a big blush, and thought she had read a lot of erotic literature lately. She knew that Snake was not someone who would do something like that... probably, because, even though he lives with four girls, he never showed interest in seeing his female teammate's body, especially when they are wearing pajamas, he never observed their bodies, even Yang in a towel! So Blake calmed down a little.

However, Yang was another story.

She stood up and hit the table in front of her, hard enough to damage it a little, while her eyes went from lilac to red, and her hair began to 'fire' too much.

"NO WAAAY!" Yang shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Is there a problem with the story that I'm narrating, Miss Xiao Long?" Asked Professor Port.

When the blonde heard the professor's voice, her hair returned to her normal state and her eyes regained the lilac color. She turned to look around, noticing that the other students were looking at her. Ruby looked at her sister, confused, while Weiss looked at her with an expression that seemed to be confusion with a little of 'the hell are you doing?'.

"Uhh... n-nothin', I'm sorry." She said to sit back in her chair.

Some students looked at Yang in a strange way, others showed small laughs at seeing the weird moment that the blonde had. But soon they all turned to pay attention to the Professor, who began to continue his story, then most stopped paying attention to the story.

Yang softly palmed her face with her hand.

"What is wrong with you...?" Said Weiss with a scowl in her face.

Yang didn't respond to the ice queen, and remained silent. Blake and Ruby did not say anything, so they decided to forget it.

Still, of all the possibilities, Team RWBY would never know that Snake and DD are on the outskirts of Vale with a certain drunken old crow.

— l — l — l —

South side of the kingdom of Vale.

09:51 AM.

During their trip, Snake and Qrow planned a strategy to take down the White Fang members and free the people of the town, however, they had to get off the Bullhead away from the town, so they couldn't attract too much attention. So Snake, DD and Qrow started walking, carefully and silently among the trees and bushes.

They spent 15 minutes walking, and by that time it was already 10 in the morning, and Snake could only think that he had not eaten anything. Although he rarely eats breakfast, he usually wakes up, bathes and waits for lunch after classes.

After walking for several minutes, the trio stopped behind some bushes, Snake took the binoculars he had in his inventory, because in the distance, between the trees, they saw a humanoid figure, wearing a white mask, white sleeveless jacket, a sleeveless black hood and black pants. About the weapon the terrorist had, it look like some kind of carbine or short rifle, of dark gray color, with red paint near the barrel.

"I see a member of the White Fang, he only carries a rifle, and it seems that he is just watching the area." Snake stated.

"Let me see." Said Qrow and then he snatched the binoculars from Snake. "Mhh... He doesn't look well armed."

"Yeah, that's what I said." He said to then snatch his binoculars from Qrow's hands and then store it in his inventory.

"Well, you said you wanted to sneak in in silence, how'd you plan to take him?" Qrow questioned.

"With this." Snake said as he showed the Mk 22.

"A gun of that size won't work, even if you hurt him, his aura will heal him quickly." Qrow explained, believing that Snake wanted to hurt the faunus. Also, with a gun of that size, the Aura would act quickly as a defense and heal the wound.

"It's not to hurt him, wait here." Snake half said, half ordered. Qrow just stayed behind along with DD.

Qrow began to think about some things, about the plan that Snake said began to seem ridiculous. Meanwhile, Qrow watched Snake, who was on the floor and began to surround the bush, while moving. Slowly...

Snake continued to crawl through the dirt and grass, he was sure that his camo index would help him to not be easily seen by the White Fang, as long as he was in the right environment with the proper camouflage. After leaving the bushes, Snake, still on the floor, prepared to shoot the Hush Puppy Mk 22. Snake had in mind that shooting the goon in the face was a very bad idea, since the members of the White Fang wear masks, so that the dart would bounce. But there were also two other options: The chest, near the heart or neck.

Boss opted for the first option, and decided to shoot at the chest, in the area where the heart is. After pointing in the indicated area, Snake pulled the trigger, and the dart shot out, hitting the faunus, which let out a small cry of fright and pain, and quickly fell to the ground.

"It's done, let's move." Snake said to Qrow and DD.

After saying that, DD and Qrow came out of the bushes, and with Snake, approached the faunus terrorist, who was snoring, because he was asleep.

"He's sleeping?" Qrow asked. Slightly surprised to see that the terrorist fell quickly.

"Yep." Snake replied as he approached the faunus and removed the dart from his chest, to save it. "It's a tranquiliser gun, a shot in the right place and they will fall immediately."

"I'm surprised Aura has not reacted to that." Qrow said.

"Well, Aura is supposed to react naturally if the body receives damage and begins to heal the wound, unless someone uses it to defend himself. But in theory, the dart doesn't cause any injury, so Aura can't respond to the effects of the dart." Snake explained.

Qrow did not say anything, but he was surprised to hear that. The Huntsmen-in-training seemed to be someone very smart, for someone so young. It was true, Aura responded by receiving damage from bullets made of Dust, if it received an attack it would heal, but if someone threw a stone at another person that has Aura, with enough force, the Aura would not block it, unless someone use it by himself, but the wound would heal anyway.

"Even so, if what you wanted was to leave him unconscious, I could have moved quickly and hit 'im though."

"Yeah, but you don't have the proper camo index, he would have seen you from afar with those clothes." Boss explained, and then he started moving along with DD.

"Camo index? The hell is that?" Qrow asked, but he did not get an answer, the adult just rolled his eyes and followed the snake and the wolf.

The Huntsman, Huntsman-in-training and the wolf continued to advance, and it did not take long to find the town, which was not very different from Khalil village, only that it was a little bigger. At the moment, they had not found more White Fang goons, so they moved slowly among the trees. Being near the entrance to the town, Snake saw two members of the White Fang taking care of the area, so Snake once again took his Mk 22, and proceeded to put the two faunus to sleep.

The three continued advancing, in the direction of the center of the town, since until now, it seemed that the White Fang was taking care that nobody left the town. So they moved carefully, watching the corners and listening for any strange sounds. It was then that Snake, DD and Qrow approached the center of the town, where in the middle was a building, which looked like a town hall. But outside were several people gathered, civilians, on their knees, while several members of the White Fang took care that no one tried anything funny.

Snake and Qrow paid attention, because at that moment they could not do anything.

They watched while other White Fang goons arrived with the rest, along with other civilians and ordered them to join the rest, the civilians were around 50, while the members of the White Fang were about 15. But there was something even weirder.

There were no children, only adults.

"We found them in the radio tower, they surely asked for help." Said one White Fang goon, referring to the last two civilians they trapped.

"Then we have at least 30 minutes before the Police arrive, we'll have to be quick." The man's voice answered, which sounded young and seemed to be the leader, the mask of that faunus completely covered his face, his mask was white, but it had a vertical red line in the middle. He looked quite large and muscular, his size seemed almost to reach two meters, and his ears looked feline, perhaps being a faunus tiger or lion.

The Leader Faunus went to walk and stand in front of the faunus civilians, which some looked at him with fear.

"My faunus brothers and sisters, we, the White Fang, have fought for years for our race to finally get our right as a species in this world. For years we have fought against human oppression, against those monsters that see our race as simple animals. The path of our species has been long and hard, which is why our goal is to exterminate those who have always trampled our species. To win a human-free future, we have to fight against them, finish them. And yet, we have tried to help you, the people of the town of Anvil to reveal themselves of human oppression. But the Mayor refused to help the White Fang, calling us terrorists and criminals. He was just a human pawn... and that's why we killed him."

There were different expressions among civilians when the Leader said that, but most of them were horror and shock. They could not believe what he said, but that was not all.

"This town and its people are under human oppression, the people here are human pawns, that's why we'll take your childrens, so they are not deceived and fight for the faunus future."

When the people heard, many civilians, mostly parents, began to yell and protest for their children, some tried to get up, to try to prevent their children from being taken away, but they were beaten by White Fang's goons when they made a move.

"Shit... I can't believe what that bastard just said." Said Qrow. He always heard of the horrible things that White Fang could do, but that was going too far. He did not believe that something like this would happen.

Snake also could not believe it. Just like some terrorists on Earth, the White Fang thought of children for their own cause, train them and fill their minds with lies, to turn them into child soldiers. For him, only a deranged out of his mind could think of something like that.

"Qrow."

"I know kido, we can't let these bastards get away with this." Qrow replied, his tone of voice sounding determined. "You look for the children, I'll take care of those guys."

"No, you can move faster, you go and look for them, I'll take care of the civilians." Snake answered back.

"They are too many, you can't-"

"I'll take my chances, one way or another."

Qrow let out a sigh, for it would be useless to argue with the one-eyed young man "Fine, do what you can."

And after saying that, Qrow drew Harbinger, and went running looking for the children. Since they thought to take them away, the most normal thing would be to look for where there were several Bullheads stationed.

"All right DD, this is what we'll do..."

With the White Fang...

The Leader waited for his brothers to warn him that they had everything ready to go, and take the children, who would be prepared to be part of the White Fang, an unethical tactic maybe, but it was necessary, because they should learn that the humans were cruel, worse than the Grimm. Even so, this was not his plan, he just followed orders.

The one who had ordered it was the leader of the White Fang in Vale.

However, his thoughts were interrupted when he and his faunus brothers began to hear barks behind a building.

"You two! Go and check that!" The Leader ordered two goons, indicating the place with his finger.

The two faunus, one with a sword and the other with a rifle nodded. Both went where the barking was heard.

They continued walking, the one with the rifle going ahead. When they turned the corner, they found a dog, at least to them it was a dog, even though it was a wolf.

"Hey, what's up buddy?" One of the goons said to the wolf, while the canine turned around and pointed something behind him. A cardboard box in the middle of the street.

"Why is there a cardboard box here?" Said the other faunus.

Both approached, while looking at the cardboard box, which had the emblem and the name of the Schnee Dust Company, so maybe it was a box full of Dust, in the middle of nowhere for some reason, but they could use what was inside. The goon with the rifle approached to open the cardboard box.

But just before he could touch the box, Snake came out of the box and stood up, and as if everything had been put in slow motion, he shot a dart in the neck at the White Fang goon with the sword, which was three meters behind from the one with the rifle. After shooting and hit him, he fell asleep. Snake used his left arm to hit the rifle, thus removing it from the goon's hand, and quickly grabbed his left shoulder to turn him around, and surround his neck with his arm, while pointing to the head with the Mk22.

Snake, in a quick movement, save the Mk22 and with both arms, began to choke the faunus, to finally leave him unconscious, and let him fall to the floor. Two less, now there were thirteen.

"Nice job DD." Snake said as he took the cardboard box and stored it in his inventory.

Snake began to walk, followed by DD, he hid behind a corner and using his binoculars, he observed the rest of the White Fang, several carried swords while the others had rifles, he would have no problems with the ones with swords, but those with rifles would shoot him immediately, and he could not wait for Qrow. Snake thought that there was only one way to do this, it was a risky and stupid idea. He could try to kill them, but that was his last resort.

Snake got ready, while taking the Mk22 and a flashbang.

"Here goes nothing...!"

With the White Fang...

Those two faunus that the Leader had sent had not yet returned, they only had a fairly simple task, to see where those barking came from, if maybe there was someone else out there, but they have not returned. And the Leader had lost patience.

"Someone go and see what happened to those two." The leader ordered. He was beginning to have a bad feeling.

And he wasn't wrong.

Just when a White Fang goon was about to go check the place, something fell from the sky, and bounced in front of the Leader and a handful of White Fang goons. And just before someone could say something about the object, it simply exploded

BANG!

An explosion, followed by eight other detonations, let out a blinding light and a loud blast that temporarily left deaf the faunus terrorists, especially those who had a pair of extra ears. They were disoriented and confused. However, this also left some civilians disoriented.

"DD now!"

Snake and DD ran to where the terrorists were, Snake, using his Mk22 shot the first White Fang goon in the chest which carried a rifle, the first part of his plan was to take down those who had guns. After being five seconds stunned and blinded, the members of the White Fang began to react, only to realize that a human with an eyepatch was shooting at them.

It was not necessary for the Leader to order the goons to attack the human, as they themselves went to do so, while the civilians watched the combat. Snake was on the opposite side of where the civilians were, so they would not get shot by mistake.

Of the 13 terrorists, three fell unconscious with the detonation of the 9-Bang. Big Boss ended with two shooting at their necks. Another goon with his sword ran towards Boss to try to attack him, but Snake quickly used his knife to counteract the attack of the sword, Boss hit him in the stomach with the knee, and then with his hand hit him on the back of the neck, so he fell to the floor unconscious.

"Shoot him! What are you waiting for!?" The Leader ordered those who carried rifles.

Snake had knocked out another goon with a sword, and then he used him as a shield against another faunus that started firing at Boss. Snake countered the attack and shot the faunus, using the Mk22 and putting them to sleep.

DD helped Boss, running to where the terrorists with rifles were and biting them in one arm, thus giving Snake the opportunity to avoid being shot, even though he used a terrorist as a human shield, more like faunus shield.

Everything happened too fast, and in less than a minute, Snake and DD had finished with everyone. Except the Leader. The leader was shocked to see how a simple and dirty human had finished with his goons so fast. He just gritted his teeth and said a few words.

"You... You'll pay for this, you dirty human!"

The White Fang Leader shouted at Big Boss, then took two weapons from his back, which were two kamas but with the size of a katana. Boss placed himself in a fighting pose, and the faunus advanced quickly to where Snake was, but the mercenary rolled to one side avoiding the attack, so the faunus ended up hitting the ground. Snake fired a dart, but the feline faunus used one of his kamas to hit the dart.

Snake saved his Mk22, and what he did was take the Stun rod, equipping it along with his knife. Snake ran to where the Leader was, and the Leader tried to attack him with his kama directly, but Snake used the knife and the Stun Rod to cover himself from the attack. While the knife and the Stun Rod hit against the edge of the kama, Snake advanced and gave a kick in the abdomen to the faunus, but this one not even reacted before the damage, and what he did was to kick Snake in a horizontal way, falling a few meters to the floor.

The faunus Leader seemed to be quite strong, because it seemed that in addition to be tall, he had a lot of muscular strength. Snake stood up once more from the floor and took his M1911 without suppressor. With the gun in his hand, Snake pointed at the enemy.

"Stay still and die, dirty hum-!"

BANG!

The Leader faunus let out a big cry of pain when he was talking, he was shot in the shoulder, shot by Snake with his M1911.

The bullet went through the Aura.

The bullet penetrated his Aura without problems, and Big Boss could see that the faunus was bleeding. Dust reacts and responds to Aura, it was activated by Aura, but Snake's weapons had more penetration force and the ammunition was not Dust, so Aura did not respond to the gunpowder. After all, Snake's weapons were made to kill human enemies, not Grimm. And right now Big Boss had confirmed that his weapons and ammo could go through Aura without problem.

"So the bullet did go through his Aura..." Snake said in his mind.

"Wh... what...?" The feline faunus put his hand on the wound, to later see his hand stained with blood. His blood. This only made him more angry. "If you think... you can stop me... you're wrong!"

"That would be me!" A voice was heard in the sky, only to have a human figure fall between Big Boss and the White Fang Leader.

It was Qrow. He appeared and with his sword tried to hit the Leader directly. But the feline faunus used one of his kamas to block the attack. Qrow in a quick movement change of position, and change the shape of his sword, turning it into a scythe, and using all his strength Qrow hit the Leader, enough to send him flying against a wall, leaving a hole in the place, and leaving the Leader unconscious.

"Hey what's wrong kiddo? That guy seemed to give ya problems." Said Qrow with a cocky smile.

"I guess he was a tough guy... he was a feline faunus." Boss said as he placed his M1911 in its holder. If he wanted to, Snake could easily have defeated him.

"What? Like a puma?" Asked Qrow.

"Wait, and the children!? The White Fang is going to take them!" A new voice yelled at both of them. She was a faunus woman, a mother who seemed to be about to cry. She, like other people, was worried that the Huntsmen had not been able to complete their work.

Snake was about to ask, since Qrow should have taken care of that. But when he turned to see him, he saw Qrow smiling, then turned around and used his hand to whistle.

"C'mon!" Qrow shouted, while Snake looked in the same direction. There, both saw how several children looked see them around a corner, and then show themselves and run to their respective families, while adults similarly did the same and hug them.

Boss let out a sigh of relaxation, because for a moment he thought Qrow had failed, but it was not like that, and he could not help but smile when he saw that scene. At least this time they managed to save more people, without someone dead. A victory, but it would not always be like that.

And Big Boss knew it.

— l — l — l —

Beacon Academy.

Ocelot was walking down one of Beacon's long hallways, wearing his usual clothes. After being teaching Close Quarters Combat along with Glynda Goodwitch at school. Some students showed to be good at hand-to-hand fighting, others not so much, but over time they would learn it.

Right now it was time for lunch, so he was going to join the other teachers to eat, and maybe listen to some story of Professor Port, which Ocelot apparently did not mind listening to. But while he was walking, he ended up meeting four girls he already knew. But someone was missing.

"Team RWBY, good morning, where is Snake?"

"Good morning Professor Ocelot, we haven't seen Snake since morning." Yang explained.

Ocelot raised an eyebrow at that. Boss left and they did not notice?

"We think maybe Snake is angry and decided to leave during the day." Said Ruby. Ocelot could see that the young girl had an expression of worry and sadness.

"Angry? Heh that would be a first... I've known Snake for a long time, and I've never seen him angry. No, he always maintains a calm and relaxed attitude, even in combat. Snake is not someone who gets mad so easily." Ocelot explained to Team RWBY. However, if he was not in Beacon, Adam would think of a person who would knows where Big Boss is.

The girls listened attentively to Professor's words, and only expected him to be right. All except Weiss obviously.

"Well, for now go to the cafeteria to eat something. Have a good day." Ocelot said, then leave. The girls could not do anything but do what Adamska said.

— l — l — l —

City of Vale.

02:10. PM

After having finished their mission in the town of Anvil, Snake, DD and Qrow returned to the city of Vale, only for the adult to invite the now young one-eyed man to celebrate with alcohol, but it was just an excuse for Qrow to drink. While traveling to return to Vale, Qrow talked about his Semblance to Snake, which explained that it caused bad luck to anyone around him and that was something he could not control. But despite that, nothing bad had happened at the moment, maybe Snake's luck was still with him, even in Remnant.

So, back to the story, Qrow suggested going to the place where they first saw each other; the Crow Bar. When they arrived they both sat down and asked for the same, being Whiskey, while DD rested on the floor.

When they arrived they talked a little more about Qrow's Semblance, although later Qrow asked about Snake's Semblance, but Snake explained that he did not have one.

"So... you don't have a Semblance? That's weird." Said Qrow.

"I guess I still don't find out what it is." If he were to have one, Snake thought.

Qrow drank completely from his glass and asked the bartender to serve him again. "And what about your team? You have a team, right?"

"Yeah but... I suppose Ozpin wanted to see what I was capable of alone." He said trying to think of a lie. Even if Snake did not know, that was the truth.

"And who are they?" Qrow was not really interested, but in a way it reminded him of when he attended Beacon.

"Oh well... they are four girls, in fact they were already a team that was formed before, only that Ozpin decided to put me with them." Boss explained, to later drink from his glass.

"So you sleep with four girls? Huh speaking of luck, maybe that's why you didn't get affected by my Semblance, maybe luck is your Semblance." Qrow laughed a little.

"Huh... I guess." Snake didn't feel lucky about it though.

"So, how are they?" Qrow asked, without any weird or sinister intention obviously. He just wanted to talk to the young Huntsmen-in-training.

"Well, one is a cat faunus, quiet and calm, the other is a blonde who has a flirtatious attitude from time to time and likes to fight, another is the daughter of some owner of a Dust shop, with a haughty attitude and the last one has an obsession with weapons. But in the end they are good people." Boss decided not to say their names.

Hearing that, Qrow showed a small laugh. "I see, speaking among men, have you tried to approach any of them? Maybe get to third base?"

"What!? No! I would never try something like that." Snake replied, in a tone of slight disgust.

"What? Aren't they cute? Or will it be that you don't like women? It's okay, I don't judge." Qrow replied, noticing how Snake did not like the idea.

"Nah, seeing it well, they are quite beautiful... but I wouldn't try something with them, they are only my teammates and friends, just that." After all, he had the mind of an adult and back on Earth he was 79 years old. Snake was not someone who was interested in love and women back on Earth and not even now on Remnant. In addition, in theory they could be his granddaughters, so the idea of doing something with them was rare and bizarre for Big Boss. Maybe if they were in their mid 20s like when he met EVA...

"C'mon, maybe you should try something, you're still young, what about that blonde, you said she was a little flirtatious?" Qrow asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I guess, I mean, it's difficult to know what a woman thinks, one day they greet you kindly, the next they try to stab you in the back." Snake said, after all, a blonde tried to steal him Millions of dollars and another blonde stole a bipedal tank with nuclear capacity to use it against Boss. Although it is debatable since both were spies.

"Heh, I suppose it's true, has she tried somethin' with you?" Suddenly Qrow felt it was his duty to advise the young man about women.

"She? Nah, I don't think I like her." Said Snake believing that the idea that he will like Yang was silly.

"And the fact that you share a room with her and the others doesn't feel uncomfortable?" Qrow asked.

"At first it was weird, and then to her - the blonde - didn't bother her so much, she even gets to be in a towel when she finishes showering or be in underwear in front of me and the others, but usually when the other girls dress I go to the bathroom or leave the room."

"This boy is dense or that girl has no shame..." Qrow said in his mind.

Then, Qrow said. "Damn, and you say you don't like the blonde or the others?" If only Qrow knew who Snake is talking about...

"Like I said, it's complicated, but no, I'm definitely not attracted to them." Said Snake once again, because he did not wanted to continue talking about the topic, it was ridiculous, absurd and in some way sick for him.

"Relax, you don't have to get mad." Said Qrow calmly.

Snake finished his drink, left the money and decided it was best to leave. He and DD still needed to eat something. "Well, it was interesting to work with you, but I have to go back, although Ozpin asked me to do this, I very much doubt that I'll avoid problems because I didn't attend classes." When he said that, Snake thought of Goodwitch.

"Uh sure, you did a good job, kido, I'll tell Ozpin what you did, maybe we can work together again." Qrow replied.

"Sure, you know where to find me. See you later."

And with that said, Snake along with DD left.

Qrow stayed, still drinking from his glass. One minute after Snake left, he took his Scroll and decided to call a specific number.

"Hello Qrow, I suppose your mission was a success, right?"

"Yeah Oz, the boy and I did a job in the village of Khalil and the town of Anvil, but I guess you already know, you watched the video that I sent you?"

"I did, how he dealt with the Beowolfs, and his fight against the King Taijitu, Although I just wanted to know your opinion about him, it wasn't necessary to record everything since his arrival."

"I admit that he is quite skilled, his way of fighting is not similar to that of other Huntsmen or students of his age, but he is quite clever. He's at the level of an expert Huntsmen, and I'm not just talking about fighting against Grimm."

"The news of the White Fang trying to take children to recruit them was heard by everyone by now, it's hard to believe that they reached desperate measures..."

"I see, by the way, hasn't there been any news about her?"

"Still nothing, we can only assume that she is hidden or the enemy already finished her..."

"If the enemy has already found her, we'll be in serious trouble... I guess we can only wait."

"I will inform you if I find out something... By the way, I hear you drinking, are you in a bar?"

"Yep, Naked and I decided to come and drink a little to celebrate."

"Really? You're not angry? That's... good, I'm glad to know that you get along with him."

"Why'd you think I should be mad at him? The boy looks nice." After answering, Qrow began to drink again from his glass.

"Did he not tell you? I placed him in the same team as your nieces, Ruby and Yang."

And just when Ozpin said their names, Qrow spit out the whiskey he was drinking, and Ozpin listened to him coughing a lot.

"...Well, I still have work to do here, we'll talk later." And with that said, Ozpin hung up the call.

Meanwhile, Qrow kept on coughing a little, because basically a few moments ago Snake was talking to Qrow about how he saw Yang in her underwear and even in a towel - although he forgot that Snake did not pay attention to her - and what was worse basically he slept under the same roof as Ruby and Yang.

"Ugh... Taiyang is goin' to kill me if he finds out that I was supportin' a boy to have sex with Yang or Ruby..." If he had known before, he would have done what a good uncle does and threatened the boy to death if he touched his nieces. But still, Qrow then remembered what Snake said, he was not interested in those girls, but still, this was a problem, and Qrow knew how to solve his problems.

"Hey, fill the glass again... and sorry for spittin' everythin' out a moment ago." Now he could only drink and hope that it would not repeat the same thing that happened with Taiyang, Raven and Summer.

While drinking, Qrow thought that this was the first time his Semblance was used against him.

With Snake and DD...

After leaving the bar, Snake and DD went in the direction of where the Bullheads were, there he thought to take one and return to Beacon. With some luck, Snake and DD would return to eat something, and nothing else would happen.

But as always, Snake's luck was quite strange, so this was not the case.

Boss and DD were walking near a ice cream shop, and when a person wanted to leave the place, the door almost hit him in the face, but that was not the problem. The problem was the person who was leaving.

This person was a petite girl, her hair color was half pink and half brown, with white streaks on the pink side. Her clothes were a white jacket with a pink interior, brown pants, black gloves, and black and white boots with very high heels.

The problem? Snake remembered having seen that girl along with White Fang and Roman Torchwick the day he recovered the Atlesian Paladins.

When Snake saw her at that moment, her eye slightly widened. And at the same time, the girl's eyes widened as she turned to see Snake, whom she recognized. After all, she was the one who took Snake's picture and showed it to Roman, so that later he would show it to Cinder.

Neopolitan was the name of this small girl.

And she did not expected to meet the guy who worked with those Atlas idiots, but she began to worry that the one-eyed guy will call the police, since seeing the expression of one-eyed guy, Neo could deduce that he knew her. And unlike Roman, the police isn't looking for her. Such was her surprise that she got distracted with her own thoughts and the ice cream in her hand fell to the ground, and Neo to see that her expression changed to one of irritation and anger, although slightly adorable, as if it were a pout.

Snake could tell that the little girl was angry, was she going to have to fight in the middle of the street? For her ice cream in the floor or because for the little girl Boss was the enemy? She worked with or for a criminal after all.

"This is not going to end well..." Said Boss in his head.

— l — l — l —

In Beacon Academy...

"...Well, I still have work to do here, we'll talk later." And with that said, Ozpin ended the call with Qrow. He realized that maybe he revealed something that was better not to mention, but it was too late now.

Ozpin's thoughts were interrupted when he heard the elevator, and saw Ocelot leaving the elevator. While he was walking, the Headmaster could hear the sound of the spurs in his boots.

"Good day Adam, Is there anything I can help you with?" Ozpin asked.

"Snake... where is he?" Ocelot asked in a calm but slightly demanding tone.

"He is on the outskirts of Vale working with an acquaintance of mine." Ozpin explained.

"An acquaintance of yours?" Ocelot asked. In addition to the teachers, Ocelot did not know anyone else that was related to Ozpin.

"That's right... John used to tell me that he was bored at the Academy so I decided to assign him to a mission."

"So, that was the reason to send him to a mission requested by General James Ironwood?"

Ozpin did not know how to respond at that moment. He did not expected Adam to say that. Now that he thought about it, it was obvious that Snake would tell Ocelot what he had been doing since he appeared.

"I asked him if he was interested, and he accepted, in addition to that he was given his payment that he received."

In his mind, Ocelot could only think that was the attitude of Big Boss, always in combat or leading soldiers, but never doing nothing.

"Well, his team asked me if I had seen him somewhere so I guess Big Boss left early, correct?" Ocelot stated.

Ozpin nodded. "Indeed, John went with my acquaintance to a village called Khalil, and then to a town called Anvil, there is already news about the matter. But I guess it's normal for the girls of team RWBY to be worried about their teammate, they really appreciate him."

"Huh... I guess it's true." Ocelot answered. And then he remembered how they react to when he said Snake talked about them. And from there he deduced that at least Yang and Blake seemed to be interested in Boss. For him it was a little funny, because they did not know the reality about him.

Boss knew how to take care of himself, but even so Ocelot wondered where he was at the moment. Maybe fighting?

— l — l — l —

City of Vale.

What Snake did this morning was fight against soulless dark creatures and terrorists who wanted to kidnap children, and he thought the last thing he would do this day was fight against Neopolitan.

However that was not the case, what seemed like it was going to be a fight ended up in something simpler. Snake ended up buying Neo another ice cream, replacing the one she dropped. That must have been the end.

But Snake felt that he had a unfinished business with Neo, because he could see that she seemed to recognize him, and surely she noticed the same thing about him. And since apparently no one thought to fight at that moment, it would be best to talk. Snake thought about 'talking' but he didn't hear Neo talking at any time, she just kept on eating her ice cream, as if she were a little girl. Of age in fact, of stature she was already very small.

Without saying a word, both (and DD) ended up arriving at a park, which was empty for the moment. Neo ended up taking a seat on a bench, while Big Boss stayed on his feet. Just as Boss wanted to ask about her, he was sure she wanted to know about him, otherwise she would have left, but no, she was still with him.

"I guess it won't do any good to lie or run around, you know me, isn't it?" Snake asked bluntly.

Neo just nodded, her expression seemed quite relaxed and calm, as she ate the ice cream.

Snake raised an eyebrow when he noticed that she still did not speak. "From where'd you know me?" Snake asked, but he felt that maybe it was when he infiltrated the warehouse nine days ago.

Neopolitan once again said nothing, instead, the girl took her Scroll and showed Big Boss a picture. In the picture, Boss appeared, using his Sneaking Suit along with Winter Schnee. Neo remembered that when she saw Snake in that tight suit she thought maybe he was one of those people with certain sexual tastes.

Neo stopped eating her ice cream for a moment, and started writing something on her Scroll, and then showing it to Snake.

"And how'd y'know me?" Said in the Scroll.

Snake thought for a moment, it was ridiculous to reveal what he did to an enemy, but she really was an enemy? She has not tried anything, and even she showed Boss the picture she took.

"...I saw you that day at the warehouse with Roman Torchwick, I suppose you're associated with him, right?" Boss answered without giving many details.

Neo did not say - or wrote - something, she just kept quiet and looked at Snake with a slight scowl in her face.

"So I guess you've shown that picture of me to Roman, right?" His face was not completely visible in the photo, but even so, it was not as if Boss was worried because some criminals knew who he was.

Even so, Neo remained silent, and soon ended up finishing her ice cream. Then she started writing again. Boss was beginning to think she was mute. That or she was just making fun of him.

"Are you going to take me to the police?"

Snake kept both arms crossed and let out a sigh. "Well, in theory that would be the right thing to do, but I doubt very much that it will help, besides that I don't care. Also, someone like me takin' a girl like you to the police... The most likely thing is that they'll end up arresting me instead."

Then, hearing that, Neo let out a giggle, or so it seemed, because although her expression seemed to be the one of a giggle, there was no sound.

"I thought you would try to do the right thing, since you work for Atlas and you captured members of the White Fang, y'know, be a hero or something like that." Neo wrote and showed it to Snake.

"Huh... I'm no hero... never was... never will be." Boss answered dryly.

Neo tilted her head a little when she heard that. She was a little confused to hear that. "Then why'd you do that? I know Atlas hired you to retrieve their weapons."

"You said it, Atlas hired me, and I did what they apparently couldn't do... so that's it. What about you? Aren't you a little young to be a criminal? How ol' are you? fifteen?" Boss said, because her height seemed to be less than 1.50 meters, even with heels.

Neo's expression turned into an angry one, but also a pout and her cheeks puffed a little. Angrily she began to write.

"I'm 20 years old!" Said in the Scroll.

"Seriously? You look pretty young and small." Boss replied bluntly.

Neo pretended to sigh and again wrote. "Seriously, you don't know how to treat a lady, right?"

"What'd you mean?" Snake asked with a slight frown on his face.

Neo rolled her eyes and could only think that he was a little dense, but in fact she liked him, he seemed a very interesting person, and seeing his eyepatch she wondered how he got that wound.

"Nevermind." Neo wrote in her Scroll. "You were lucky we were in broad daylight, or I would have decided to attack you."

"Huh? And with what weapons?" Boss asked. Unlike her, Snake had the M4 and the SPAS-12, which were not hidden, and Neo could clearly see them.

"It's a secret for now." Neopolitan wrote while winking at Snake. She stood up and smiled, although later her smile became slightly sadistic. "But I'll make sure the next time we see each other you'll see it very closely."

Snake saw the clear threat she was giving him. But even so, he could not help but smile a little, after all, he was a warrior and he liked to fight, no matter how violent and horrible it sounded. Besides, it was not like he thought about killing her, after all, she's still young, and Big Boss hated to see such young lives die, either on the battlefield or in some other circumstance.

"Seems good to me, the next time we'll let our weapons talk four ourselves." Boss said. Clearly challenging the little girl to a fight. Now that he thought about it again, Neo wanted to fight because he was an enemy of White Fang or maybe it was because of him that her ice cream fell?

Neo frowned when she heard the word 'talk'. "You're not funny."

Snake realized what she was referring to and let out a dry laugh. "Heh sorry, I didn't mean it."

"What's your name?"

"Snake... you?"

"Neopolitan, or just Neo."

"Mhh... interesting name, I suppose."

"And him?" Neo said pointing with her finger to the wolf.

"DD." Snake said.

Neo did not pay much attention to the wolf while eating her ice cream and talking to the one-eyed man, but soon she placed her hand on the head of the wolf and began to caress his head and ears while smiling. When he saw her, Boss wondered if she really was a girl, or something more disguised in the body of a girl.

After that, she politely bowed and then showed Snake her Scroll again. "I have to go, thanks for the ice cream. And be careful out there, I think there is someone looking for you."

"The White Fang is already looking for me? I guess it would only be a matter of time." Snake said, letting out a sigh. But he was not worried.

But Neo shook her head. "No, I think the White Fang doesn't know you. It was someone else."

This completely caught Snake's attention. "Someone else? What'd you mean?"

"The night I took the photo I felt that someone else was nearby, I felt that it had noticed my presence, so I took the photo quickly and left. I don't know who it was or how he looked like but I'm sure he was watching you."

Snake thought for a moment. He did not notice anything back then, and Neo said he was not a faunus terrorist. So who was it? Or what did this individual want? Maybe Neo was lying, but she would not gain anything by saying that, would she?

"Well... thanks for the tip." Snake said.

"Goodbye, and don't worry, since I like you, I won't tell anyone about you."

"Me? Worried? Never." Snake responded with a dry laugh and a slight smile. Neo just showed a small smile.

Without more to say, Neo said goodbye with her hand, gave one last caress to DD and walked away. Yes, Neo is a criminal, who works with Torchwick, Boss knew that, but he really thought it wasn't his problem, he is a soldier-mercenary, not a vigilante or bounty hunter. So that was a police and Atlas military matter, not his, unless of course Atlas hired him again for another mission. Snake thought for a moment what Neo had said, wondering if anyone was really looking for him. Anyway, he could not give much importance to that at that time.

Neo on the other hand, expected Snake to act like an idiot thinking he was a hero, and that he decided to fight against her. Although she did not expect him to know her, otherwise she would have changed her appearance. But instead of having some kind of epic combat, they just talked, they even agreed to fight on another occasion. Neo could not help smiling in a slightly evil way at that idea, because she wanted to fight against Snake, and she felt that someday it would happen. For now, this would be her secret, she was not going to tell Roman, since he would tell Cinder, and Neo did not like Cinder at all, just a little Emerald and Mercury, but even so, she preferred when it was only her and Roman.

Back to Snake, he could only think that this day was a bit more complicated, usually he is only in Beacon acting as a student, and when he leaves ends up finding himself in this kind of situations. In any case, it was time for him to return to the Academy.

— l — l — l —

Beacon Academy.

03:05 PM.

After a quiet and long journey from the park to take a Bullhead, Snake and DD once again returned to the Academy, after completing their missions with Qrow Branwen. Although before they had their well-deserved rest, the first thing Snake did was head in the direction of Ozpin's office.

The adult in the young body and the wolf walked calmly without encountering any other person in the hallways of the Academy. And after arriving at the elevator and using it, they arrived at Ozpin's office.

Ozpin, when listening to the elevator, he directed his gaze to the front, where he observed the mercenary and the wolf, which returned after several hours outside.

"John, it's good to know you've returned. You too DD." The Headmaster commented with a small smile. The wolf just barked in response. "I guess everything went well while you were with my associate, Qrow Branwen."

"Yeah, more or less." The mercenary replied calmly.

"Well, as we agreed, here is your payment." Ozpin commented as he left several cards of Líen on the desk, which were a total of Ⱡ2000.

Boss went to the desk and took the money. Boss had never asked for a certain amount, but even so, he noticed that the Lien was not little, so he did not count it, he just took it.

"I could have done nothing and still you would be paying me." Boss said.

"You're right, but from what I've known, I see that you're a man of your word, besides that you seem to be the kind of person who doesn't let a fight go by."

Snake could only let out a dry laugh when he heard that, because indeed, it was the truth.

"In addition, there has already been news about the village of Khalil being attacked and subsequently saved by two Huntsmen. The same with the town of Anvil, although the latter called more attention." Express the Headmaster, then he drink his coffee.

"Mhh... The White Fang's attempt to kidnap children and turn them into subordinates."

"That's right, in all my years I've never heard of something like that, maybe sometimes both humans and faunus can be worse than the Grimms." Ozpin answered back.

"It is ironic that they say they want to help faunus but only make the situation worse... By the way, didn't General Ironwood tell you anything about what happened since the 'Incident'?"

"Nothing, he told me that the terrorists confessed that they were working with Roman Torchwick, but nothing else has happened."

"That's it? They did not say anything about going to the Southeast?" Boss asked.

"What you mean?"

"That night I heard Torchwick talk about an operation that was going to take place in the Southeast, but he never mentioned the specific place or what was going to happen, but because of the way he mentioned it, there was still time before start whatever it was that they were thinking. I told that to the Specialist the General sent." Big Boss explained.

Ozpin was silent for a moment. Ironwood never mentioned that to him. Maybe none of the terrorists knew about that? Or decided not to mention it? Maybe Snake was wrong? Ozpin thought it was best to ask Ironwood, after all, there was nothing to the Southeast of Vale, nothing but just a bitter reminder.

"Well, thanks for mentioning that John, it's better that you rest." Ozpin said, then he thought something. "After all, you have your team worried."

"Yeah, maybe something to eat won't be bad, we'll talk later Ozpin." He answered for the last time, then retired along with DD to the elevator.

Once again, after using the elevator, Snake and DD were in the halls of the Academy, this time they were going to their dorm room. After walking a few minutes, they both reached the door, and Snake using his Scroll was preparing to open the door.

Meanwhile, inside the room, the girls were quite calm. Blake was reading a book, Weiss was doing homework, Yang was using her scroll to play something and Ruby was just looking the Tv, There was nothing interesting so she leave it in the news. Although the four of them turned to see the door when they heard the knob moving, and later the door opened.

"We're back." Boss said as he opened the door and saw his team.

"Snake!" Ruby, Yang and Blake shouted when they saw the one-eyed man and the wolf, although Weiss remained silent, she was similarly observing Snake, while the others got up from the bed and approached him.

"Hey, where the hell were you all day?" Asked Yang, a little angry, but also worried, Blake also had the same expression on her face, they hoped that the idea they had at noon was just something absurd created by their minds.

"And why'd you arrive at this hour?" This time it was Blake who said that. While they interrogated Snake, Ruby received DD and caressed him on the head.

"We were just outside for a while. I had a some issues. That's it. I'm sorry for leaving." Boss answered calmly. Snake could understand why they were angry, if a member of a team did not show up in classes the whole team would have problems, he could only hope that Ozpin would take care of that to avoid problems with the teachers. And although that was partly true, they were not worried about it.

Snake approached his desk, and left there his SPAS-12 and his M4 in it. While Ruby approached a little worried to him.

"Uh... Snake?"

"What is it Ruby?" Boss turned around to see the team leader.

"Are you angry with us...?" Ruby asked. Behind them, Yang and Blake were worried about hearing his response.

"Huh? Why would I be angry with you?" Snake asked, as if what he had just heard was something silly.

The girls at that moment remained silent. And they noticed that Snake seemed to be serious. Serious in the question, because his expression was the same as always; calm and carefree.

"We thought you were mad at us because you showed us your scars, we thought that's why you left." Blake explained. Ruby and Yang just nodded.

"Ohh that?" Snake just let out a short and simple laugh. "Nah, I'm not angry about that. I mean, we live in the same room, I guess it was a matter of time for you to see them and ask questions, I guess it's not normal that someone had so many scars though."

The three girls mentally let out a long sigh of relaxation, as they were glad to know that they were not in bad terms with the only male member of the team.

"And what'd you did, Snake? Did you do something interesting today?" Ruby asked with the kind smile she always had.

"In other news, this morning staff from the Vale Police Department caught at least 20 terrorist members of the White Fang in the town of Anvil, who apparently had the intention of kidnapping faunus children to force them to fight for their cause." Said a woman on the Vale News Network channel, at the bottom appeared the name of 'Lisa Lavender'.

Snake was the first to turn to watch TV, and in a small moment of silence the rest heard the TV and turned to see to hear the news.

"The events happened this morning, but according to a police report, those who managed to stop the terrorist organization were two Huntsmen from Vale, however, the VPD don't have much information about them. In other news, Khalil, a village located on the outskirts of Vale was attacked by several Grimm this dawn..."

"Woah... kidnap children? That's crazy..." Yang commented after seeing the news, like the others, were surprised to hear the news, especially Blake, to see that the White Fang has come to such horrible acts. More horrible besides those that already did.

"Yeah... but hey! At least someone managed to save them! I wonder what they were like..." Ruby said with a smile, while in her mind she thought of those two Huntsmens, hoping some day to do heroic acts like them.

Weiss maintained her opinion for herself, due to the presence of Blake, because she could only think that the White Fang was made of the worst faunus in the world.

Blake remained silent, she could not believe that the White Fang, who were supposed to help the faunus, were willing to take faunus children for their cause. She felt responsible in a certain way, and she could only think that it was an act of him.

"Blake, you okay?" Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard Snake's voice, she turned quickly to see the one-eyed man.

"Yes... I'm fine." Blake responded calmly but dry at the same time. "At least someone saved them... Thank you very much..." Blake said in her mind. She was grateful that someone had prevented those children from committing the same thing she did.

"Well, what if we're going to eat something? We haven't eaten anything all day. Right DD?" Snake said to the wolf. The wolf with the eyepatch barked to give his answer. He was also hungry.

The girls agreed, so they nodded and decided to go as a team to the cafeteria. In the end, the girls did not know where Snake was, they just assumed that he went to Vale to attend to some issue, but they were calm to know that Snake was not angry. So it was just another day of work for Big Boss, but after that, they would just have to rest and be ready for the next day.

Although a certain blonde had some doubts about where Snake had gone, although they had been together almost two months since he arrived, the girls knew little about him. And like the others, Yang wanted to know more about him.

Several hours later, everyone went to sleep.

— l — l — l —

Location: ?

"Uhh... what... what is this...?" Said Yang Xiao Long, as she began to open her eyes. She was confused and still sleepy, but soon her eyes widened, when she noticed something quite strange and bizarre.

Yang remembers that she was sleeping, but right now she was not in her room, along with her team.

"I'm in the water!?" Yang screamed in her mind, she was not drowning, which was even stranger, but even so she reacted and started to swim to the surface, only to realize that she was not far away, in fact she easily stood up, while the water reached her slightly above the waist.

Yang looked to herself, noticing that she was wearing her usual clothes, instead of her pajamas. Then she looked around, and the first thing she noticed was that, besides that she was in a river, which was surrounded by trees. The sky was gray, quite dark, it was raining and thunders were heard in the sky. The water of the river and the rain felt cold, however, her body did not react to the cold, she felt it, but she did not tremble. Yang did not understand how she got there, she just kept looking everywhere, she was confused.

"This must be a dream..." The blonde said to herself to try to calm down, because even though she considered herself a brave girl, the current situation worried her a lot. Not to mention that she was quite scared.

"Sad..."

Yang's skin went pale as white when she heard that word, which she did not said. It was like a voice that echoed, and she heard it behind her, to which she began to turn slowly, frightened. She didn't wanted to do it, feeling that something bad would happen, but her curiosity won, and her body did not respond to her fear. Yang's lilac eyes widened when she saw where the voice came from.

"So sad..."

Yang observed a person floating above the river. He seemed to wear a black cloak, black boots and black pants, but it had a camouflage pattern, Yang thought it was similar to the camouflage Snake uses, although at this moment, she only thought more about that person, while fear took over her more.

"Who... who are you...?" The brawler asked with slight difficulty.

"I am The Sorrow..." Said that person, as he removed his hood, to show his face. An adult man with white hair, with glasses and pale skin.

"The... Sorrow...?" Yang repeated, as she watched that person floating on the river. His appearance, although it did not seem terrifying, only made Yang's legs tremble.

"That's right... you have sorrow inside you... you are full of sadness, Yang Xiao Long." Said that individual who presented himself as The Sorrow. "You are like this world... But this world is full of tragedy... death... discrimination... darkness..."

"W-What are you talking about?" Yang asked, not understanding what The Sorrow was saying. She? Full of sadness? The people have called her in various ways but never a sad person.

"You say that, but even so, you search... between the ravens and the darkness for the woman who left you the day of your birth. It didn't mattered how many times you looked, you never found her..."

Yang's lilac eyes turned slightly red quickly. Slightly, because even though she was angry, she was still afraid. "How'd you know that!? Who the hell are you!?"

"But still... even with all that in your head, you want to know more about him, isn't it...? If you are so interested, I'll show you..."

"What are you...?" Yang started to speak, but she did not finish saying that. She began to feel weak, her eyes returned to her lilac color, she was wondering what was going on and without being able to stand for longer, she fell into the water again, while she began to close her eyes.

"I'll show you his sorrow..."

Yang heard those last words, and her vision and mind went black.

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Location: ?

Date: ?

Yang once more began to open her eyes. She was lying on the floor, but slowly she changed her position to be seated on the floor, while looking at her surroundings. She was no longer in the river, now she was somewhere else, it was strange but at least it was not terrifying like that river. Yang stood up, while she continued to see her surroundings, it was day, during the morning, and it seemed that she was in some kind of bushy forest.

"Where the hell am I? This starts to be weird for a dream..."

Yang commented to herself as she stood up and began to walk forward, to the edge of what seemed to be a gigantic cliff, where she had a wide view of where she was. She could not deny that the view was incredible. It was similar to when she was on Beacon's cliff the day of the Initiation.

But there were still several questions that the blonde had. Where she was? What was that horrible place? Why she was in a river before? Who was that man who called himself 'The Sorrow' and why he knew that she was looking for her mother?

All those questions in Yang's mind were interrupted when she started to hear a sound between the branches, so she turned around and turned to see what it was about. Then, she began to think that she was dreaming even stranger things.

Because she saw a man in parachute fall from the sky. That man, who wore completely green clothes and some kind of helmet or mask, managed to get loose in time, avoiding falling off the cliff. That man fell to the ground, and placed his hands on the floor, while looking at the ground.

Yang began to take little steps to approach that person. But soon that man in the mask directed his gaze to where Yang was.

"Uh... hello there." Yang greeted the unknown person.

But that person did not say anything, he started to stand up, ignoring the young blonde completely.

"Y'know what place this is?" Yang said again, but there was no response either. The blonde lost her patience and started walking to where the man dressed in green was. "Hey! I'm talkin' to you!" She shouted, while she grabbed his shoulder roughly.

However, when Yang did that, the blonde girl went off for a few meters, almost falling from the cliff, but luckily she did not fly further. For some reason, the body of the man in green refused to be touched by the blonde's hand, and some kind of barrier got her away from him.

"Ugh... Dammit, that hurt..." The blonde complained as she stood up and rubbed her head. While she was doing that, the man in green seemed to begin to remove part of the things he was wearing when he used the parachute. And for some reason, he continued ignoring Yang, it was as if he was not seeing her.

Yang came back to the man in green, facing him again, because she did not understand why he did not see her, as if she did not exist. And she was curious about why someone with a parachute would fall there.

Yang this time try to touch his shoulder again, but this time she did it in a gentle way so that she did not fly out again, and she did, the blonde girl could touch the man's shoulder and feel his clothes with her fingers, but even so he did not react, so she moved away a little to see him again in front of him.

After removing everything, the man in green removed one last thing: His helmet, completely showing his face and hair. However, that man's face was quite familiar, similar to a certain person which Yang knew and had a crush. Her eyes widened when she saw the face of the man in green.

"Snake...?"

End of chapter 12.

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(A/N)

I bet no one saw The Sorrow coming at the end.

Finally! Chapter 12, the longest chapter, with a total of 19,324 words! Not counting the Author's notes. This episode was useful for Snake and Qrow to know, as well as to present Neo. Just to leave a Cliffhanger at the end.

Where is Yang? And why did she find someone who looks like Snake? Maybe some will know where Yang is, but the answers will be seen in the next episode.

■ No Omake this time. ■

So, maybe some wonder why there is no Omake this time. This is because I feel like leaving an Omake in a episode with a Cliffhanger like the one in this episode will make the ending a joke. So at the end of episodes like this there will be no Omakes.

■ About Neo ■

First of all, I do not know how Neopolitan's attitude is, since she seems to be a little sadist in battle but with a professional attitude, and in this episode I put her as a girl with childish reactions, too much OOC maybe, but as I say, I don't know how she acts usually, so I'll try to give her an attitud as I see fit. Also, I feel that since she is mute, maybe she will take a relationship with Snake something similar to how it was Quiet with Venom Snake.

■ Zwei will appear in the story? ■

Some have wondered if Zwei would appeared, and maybe end up becoming a friend of DD. To be honest, my idea was that DD would completely replace Zwei in the story and take his place, but hey, if people want to see him, I suppose I could include him.

So, that would be all for today, see you in the next episode.

Stay frosty!