(A/N)
We are back with another Chapter of RONOS!
Maybe I will stop writing this story for a bit to focus on my second Fanfic, which has only two episodes and I almost have abandoned xD
(Q&A)
UndeadLord22: Soon, don't worry.
ImperialWolves12: As far as I know in Zanzibar Land the kids could join the military once they had 18 years if they wanted to. Boss only saved them, like Sniper Wolf.
Shattering: Well, I mentioned previously I do not intend to make this Fanfic completely equal to the story of RWBY, and as I said before, I would not feel like creating a group of mercenaries is a good idea when the Huntsman are slmlst the same as mercenaries.
And yes, the name sounded like familiar, one time I tried to read a story by him but, I think it's an exaggeration that he uses Jaune as the main character for any Fanfic of him, besides, I do not think it helps me to rely on other Fanfics where the main characters are not the same, the stories are also different based on the same main story. But thanks for the Review.
PardonMySkillz: Yep.
RexGamer15000: Gracias, y aqui ya va otro capitulo.
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Nothing more to say, let's continue.
I don't own Metal Gear or RWBY.
Chapter 16
After establishing a small camp inside a building, in the abandoned Mountain Glenn, most of team RWBY+S, along with the Professor Oobleck, were resting by a campfire that kept them warmth. While everyone was resting, Ruby was the one standing guard with her dog, Zwei.
Snake was asleep, like the others, because he needed energy since he was the one who would stood watch later, along with DD. However, Big Boss started to wake up when he started to hear barking inside the place. And then the others began to hear that.
"Ugh... someone please turn off the alarm..." Yang complained, still a little asleep.
Besides the blonde brawler, Weiss, Blake and Oobleck began to wake up too.
"Zwei...? what is it?" Snake asked the dog. Zwei just kept barking and seemed that he wanted them to follow him.
"Wait... where is Ruby?" Weiss asked when she realised the dog was alone.
"Grab your weapons, she might be in trouble." Boss ordered WBY. They nodded, and they began to prepare, while Snake grabbed his M4 and Intervention, and along with DD followed Zwei.
Snake and DD followed Zwei to what it was a hole, but there was something that caught Snake's attention: Ruby's scythe, near that hole.
"Okay... you two stay here and wait for the others." Big Boss said to the two canines. They both barked. Big Boss took Ruby's scythe, and with a jump, he entered the hole.
He had a bad feeling about this, and he would not deny that he was worried about Ruby, but he was not worried that she was going to meet Grimm, Snake thought there might be White Fang down there. And without her weapon...
Snake thought he should hurry.
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Ruby's situation could not be worse. Not only did she lose her weapon, but now she was being a prisoner of White Fang, at that moment she was being held by her arms, with one goon in each one.
And in top of that? The criminal that she faced months ago, Roman Torchwick, seemed to be working with or for them, why a human will be working with the White Fang? That was one of many questions she had in that moment, but the kick she received in her face had left her a little disoriented.
"Well well, but is little Red." Said the criminal.
"You know her?" Asked someone under the name 'Perry'.
"Yes, this little brat was being a nuisance when I was busy with my business." Roman stated. "If she's here, who knows if someone else is up there... we'd better get going."
"And what about her?"
Roman then just smiled, it was a small smile but quite evil. "I would like to get rid of her personally, but I have things to do, get your men to take her elsewhere, and get rid of her."
The faunus named Perry ordered him to take Ruby, as Roman said, to another side inside the caves.
"Ohh I'm going to enjoy killing this human." Said one of the members of the White Fang.
Ruby started to recover, but her eyes widened as she heard that. She tried to use her Semblance to escape but it was useless.
"Hold her! I'm gonna end her quickly." Said the other as she kept holding Ruby with one hand, but he took a small knife with his free hand.
Ruby observed, with fear in her eyes, that knife. She had nowhere to escape, no matter how hard she tried. She just closed her eyes, while thinking of her father, Yang, her team, Zwei.
The White Fang goon, smiling under his mask prepared to used it to kill the young girl.
But then he stopped.
"What are you waiting for? Kill-"
The other faunus holding Ruby just saw how his comrade fell to the ground. Ruby watched how the faunus fell, and then she took that chance to punch the other goon in the stomach, it was not a pretty strong blow, but it worked for him to let her go.
"Hey you-!" The other shouted but like the first one he fell to the ground.
"Ruby!"
The team leader looked at the direction the voice was coming from, and she recognized the guy with the tight suit.
"Snake!" She ran where Snake was and hugged him, as one tear came out of her eye. "Thank you! They... they were about to-!"
"It's okay... I'm glad you're okay." Snake returned the hug, but quickly separated from Ruby, and handed her her scythe. "Here, you left your weapon."
"My baby!" Ruby said as she took Crescent Rose. "Snake, there is White Fang down here, and they are working with Roman Torchwick."
"Torchwick?" Snake already knew that Torchwick was working with the White Fang, but he did not expect him to be down there.
"We need to stop them!"
"Hold on, we don't know how much they are... but they seemed armed to the teeth." Snake said as they moved slowly to where the train was, while also hiding.
"What do we do?" Ruby asked.
"I'll take care of this... They haven't see me yet so I could finish them one by one without them noticing." Snake answered. It was not a perfect plan, but it was a plan.
"I can help! I was hurt but now I feel a little better." Ruby replied, while preparing her scythe for the right moment.
"You'll call too much attention, we need to do this-."
BOOOOOM!
Suddenly a big explosion appeared, which happened where several members of the White Fang were found, sending them flying away.
That's where the stealth plan ended.
"What the hell!? What is the White Fang doing here!?" Yelled a blonde girl that everyone knows. With her there was a certain faunus, heiress, a professor and two canines.
"Yang!"
"Ruby!"
Ruby ran where her sister was and jumped to her arms, while Yang catched and hugged her.
"Are you okay Snake?" Blake asked Boss.
"I'm fine." Snake answered calmly.
"Are you okay?" Weiss asked Ruby.
"I was hurt a little but I'm fine, don't worry! But listen! The White Fang and Roman Torchwick have all kinds of weapons and robots down there.
"What?! Torchwick and the White Fang!?" Blake could not believe what she was hearing.
"Yeah! Androids, mechs, they're all loaded up on the train cars!"
Then the Doctor stepped in to interrupt. "Ahhhh, that's ridiculous. These tunnels are sealed, the tracks lead to a dead-end."
"Listen, call Ozpin or the police, I'll stop that train." Said Snake to the others.
"What!?" Everyone, including Oobleck shouted.
"Snake! You can't go and take down an army by yourself! I'll go with you!" That came from Blake. After arriving in Beacon, she thought she could start over and leave her past behind. But right now she felt it was her responsibility to stop the White Fang and help the man who accepted her despite her mistakes.
"Hold on! Don't think I'm going to let go my teammates to have all the fun for her themselves!" Yang stated with a smile saying that she was ready to kick ass.
Then, Snake began to talk, a little irritated. "Yang, this is not game or a match like the ones in Beacon."
"That's right, I can't let you guys go and do whatever you want, I'll go too." Weiss stated, making it clear that she did not leave her teammates alone while she looked for help.
"Get to your places, we are leaving now!" Said Roman with a speaker system.
"We are a team Snake! We are going with you." Said Ruby, with a look of determination, as she took Crescent Rose on her hands.
Snake for a moment thought to shout at them and tell them that this was not a game for children, even Ruby was about to die. But it definitely would not be easy to convince them to leave.
"Okay, we need to move! Now!" Boss said to the girls.
"They're leaving! C'mon kids!" Said Oobleck to the students and the canines.
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Roman could say he was happy, because finally he got rid of the brat that was bothering him months ago when he was stealing a store, it's not like he planned a revenge during all that time against the little girl, but he had a chance, and he decided to take advantage of it.
On the other hand, an explosion happened, so he and the White Fang had to accelerate their plans, but it seemed that everything would be fine for the moment.
"Nothin' better than a trip in a train under the ground." Said Roman while smoking a cigar. "Don't you think Neo?"
The girl, Neopolitan, just used her hand to say 'kinda'. It's not like she was enjoying being underground.
"Boss! They made it on the train!" Said one White Fang goon.
"Ugh... I guess it's never easy..." Roman complained.
"We're not prepared for something like this! We don't have enough men!"
"We have some snakes in a train, so what? Use the Atlesian Knights and the Paladins that we have." Roman ordered the White Fang goon.
After hearing what the human said, the White Fang goon left.
"Neo, make sure those idiots don't ruin this." Said Roman to her partner.
Neo just nodded with a small evil smile and as she took her umbrella, she left.
"Man, animals, every one of them." Roman complained and then looked at one of the White Fang members that was next to him. "Oh! Not you though, you're, heh, you're great."
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"Uhh... guys?" Ruby said to the others.
"What is it Ruby?" Weiss asked.
She pointed with her finger to a hatch, where there was something inside.
"A bomb..." Snake said.
When Snake said that, all the girls then cringed away from the hatch.
"That's right mister Snake." Said the Doctor.
"Ugh! This can't be any worse?" Ruby complained.
And then the bomb began to make a 'beep'.
"You just had to say that..." Weiss almost palm herself.
"Blake! Detach the caboose! It will kill us all!" Ordered Oobleck to the faunus.
"On it!" Blake said as she jumped down onto the connectors. "Huh!? It decoupled itself!"
"I guess he really doesn't want us on this train." Yang stated.
Then, the cart suddenly exploded inside the tunnel.
"What just happened!?" Snake said as he looked the explosion.
"This one also has a bomb!" Said Ruby as she also looked the hatch.
When she said that, the cart also separated, so Boss and the others jumped to the next one. The other cart exploded, but this time it leave a big hole, in which several Grimm began to emerge.
"They are leading Grimm to the city!" Oobleck concluded with everything that was happening.
"What?" That came from Weiss.
"It's the cars! They detach and explode, creating openings for the Grimm!"
"That's not all, we have trash cans coming at us!" Yang shouted as she pointed to the robots climbing onto the top.
"Wait! I have an idea." Snake said and everyone then to look at him. "We don't have too much time, we need to do this fast, Yang and Blake, make sure the carts don't detach themselves!"
"Have you lose your mind!? They all have bombs!" Weiss yelled at Boss.
"And that's why we need to stop the bombs, if we can't destroy them, we can freeze them. Weiss and Ruby, you have ice Dust, right? Use them against the bombs."
It was at that moment that everyone began to understand the idea that Snake had.
"Freeze the bombs, and they won't explode... brilliant!" Said Oobleck.
It was a crazy plan but quite clever, in the end they all nodded, so Snake's plan would be follow.
"I'll go and try to stop this train, and take down anyone on the way." Snake said to team RWBY, as he grabbed his rifle and moved forward at the same time he started shooting the Atlesian Paladins.
The atlesian androids were not so resistant, and much less smart, they were robots after all, maybe they were prototypes like the Paladins? Either way, Snake had no problem with them. A bullet in the head worked to kill them. Although that did not mean Snake was doing all the work.
With the girls and Oobleck, things seemed to go smoothly, Oobleck and the canines covered team RWBY, while they were in charge of freezing the bombs. As for the androids or some White Fang goons? They were no match for them.
Meanwhile, every time Snake went through the train car, he started to run into White Fang goons instead of androids, but there were not many, surely they did not expect someone to ruin their plans. Either way, Snake used CQC, his tranquilizer gun and his Stun Road to take down the goons in a non-lethal way. Boss did not know how long the train was but he felt he was close to getting to the main car.
But that would not be all.
Snake was about to advance to the next car of the train, but a human figure fell from the ceiling, and faced him, blocking his path. Snake, in that moment had his M1911, and pointed to the person that fell from the ceiling.
He knew who this person was.
"Neo." Snake said when he saw the girl.
Neo, on the other hand, smiled, and showed a text that Snake could read clearly. "I knew we would see each other soon. :) "
Boss could not say he was happy to see her, he was inside a train that was being used for terrorist acts after all. So that meant that now she was her enemy.
"I need to stop this train." Snake told Neo, his tone of voice showed a bit of frustration. Not like he was asking her permission to do it.
But Neo stayed in the same position, without taking a step back, her smile, calm, slowly became a bit evil and even sadistic.
"Just try." Said Neopolitan's next text.
Snake pointed his M1911 while Neo prepared her weapon, which seemed to be an Umbrella.
Snake, however, noticed that Neo seemed to look at his M1911, as if it bothered her. And now that he noticed it, she was only carrying her umbrella, it was when Big Boss noticed what she seemed to be saying with her expression.
"...All right." Snake said as he change his M1911, now he only had his knife. "Huh, I knew what she meant by her expression...?" Boss said in his mind.
Boss was aware that in such a situation he should not waste time and fight as if it were a competition. But for what Boss thought in that moment he should win fast. But Snake just kept his calm expression, with a slight frown.
Neo smiled again, and when she saw what Snake was carrying on his hand, the petite girl took out from her Umbrella a blade.
It was then that they slowly approached each other without lowering their guard. And that's when Neo made the first attack. Or tried, Neo tried to make a direct hit using her blade, but Boss barely managed to evade it. Boss tried to counter and then he attacked her horizontally with his knife, Neo, smiling, without any problem managed to dodge that attack. Then Snake began to make several attacks with his knife, from top to middle of her body, horizontally and vertically. But Neo, while maintaining her same expression, managed to simply dodge every attack, because she was quite agile.
Big Boss' expression did not say it, but he was quite impressed with how agile Neo was, maybe it was because of her small body.
Neo on the other hand did not think the same, she observed how Snake attacked her several times with his knife while she dodged it, it was not really that simple, since she had never seen someone attack with a knife that way with that technique. Neopolitan could only think that Snake was a professional. But she felt it would be more fun to defeat him.
Neo used her blade in a quick movement and try to attack Snake in the chest. But Snake, using his left hand, managed to take Neo's wrist. But Neo, likewise took Snake's wrist, without removing that smile on her face. Neo crouched a little, with the intention of throwing Snake to the ground, but Snake similarly had the same idea, both crouched and rolled on the floor, with the intention of subduing the other. Neo took a jump and with his feet hit Snake in the chest, using it to jump and make a backflip, landing perfectly on a metal container, using it to sit for a moment, while keeping her legs crossed and maintaining the same smile, which seemed to show arrogance.
That attack had not hurt Big Boss enough, because Neo did it to free herself, but he was not going to deny that she was pretty good.
Neo, got up from the container and jumped to Snake, while using his leg to kick him, Snake just took a few steps back, and Neo touched the ground, but soon she performed a roundhouse kick, but Boss blocked her using his arm, Snake took that moment as an opportunity and decided to counterattack, taking advantage of the position, Snake took Neo's ankle and performed a sidekick in her stomach. Snake saw perfectly, as if in a slow motion, how that kick changed Neo's expression, erasing that smile from her face for a moment, to one of pain. With that stop, Neo fell to the ground but quickly she was in a landing crouch position.
Snake realized that Neo's smile had disappeared, instead of that, she seemed to be frowning. Snake did not smile, but the frown he had before had changed to a calmer expression.
Neo could only think that maybe she was playing too much with Snake, because that kick made her think that she was careless. She had not planned on killing Snake, but now she was not so sure, maybe she would just cut off his throat, or take out his other eye. After all, she needed to help Roman.
Neo was ready to continue fighting, this time serious. Snake got one more time in a combat stance. But before anyone could do anything, suddenly someone else came on the scene.
This person, who seemed to come out of nowhere, charged against Neo. Neo saw this person when she appeared, since the raven-haired woman appeared from a crimson-red portal that was on top of Snake, so Neo thought she was a friend from Snake. This woman, whose weapon was a sword, long in crimson-red, tried to attack Neo, but she moved away, just barely managing to dodge the strike, but when Neo stopped, the raven-haired woman spinned around and slashed Neopolitan across the abdomen before she could block the attack, knocking her on the floor, against a wall.
Neo, which eyes change from brown and pink to white and with a fearful expression, watched the raven-haired woman, as she came close to give her the killing blow. The woman draws her sword again, and the blade telescoped, becoming even longer than the blade she had just used on Neo.
Neo thought she was done.
BANG!
Snake shooted his M1911 to the woman that appeared out of nowhere and seemed to want to kill Neo. But the mysterious raven-haired swordswoman reacted quickly and listened to the sound of the bullet. She turned around and using her crimson-red sword, cut the bullet in two the moment she had it close. Both halves hit the wall, but one of them hit near Neo's head.
"Neo, get out of here!" Boss told to the petite girl, since he observed that that mysterious woman managed to corner Neo without using much effort. Snake in his mind wondered if he could beat her, but if he was going to fight the swordswoman he would not, he would not hesitate to kill her.
Snake looked up and down at that black-haired woman. She was wearing a shallow cut black and red dress with black shorts, black gloves, black heels, her forearms bear red armored gauntlets that protrude outwards, but perhaps the most remarkable thing was her white mask with four eye slits, similar to those used by the White Fang.
While that happened, Neopolitan heard what Snake said. She could not understand why Big Boss would be willing to help her and cover her to escape. A moment ago both, or rather she, was trying to kill Snake, and now this? But in any case, although Neo was grateful for the act, she did not intended to stay to help him. Soon after, she disappeared, as if she had teleported.
The woman with the white mask noticed how that girl with colorful hair disappeared, but she did not give too much importance, the only thing that mattered was that young man in front of her.
"Who are you?" Snake asked, more like demanding, without lowering his gun.
The woman with the white mask only raised her sword a little and with it pointed to Snake.
"I'm one of your... fans."
Her voice sounded young, not exactly like a little girl, but it would be difficult to know her exact age, but for her voice maybe she was in her 30s, or was about to begin that age. Despite what she said, Snake did not like that answer.
"I've been watching you for a while, since you appeared on those docks, in Vale." The woman with the white mask said, as she lowered her sword, but Snake did not lowered his M1911. "Working for Atlas as a mercenary, and being under Ozpin's eye, must be annoying, isn't it?"
Upon hearing that, Snake realized that she was the person Neo referred to, when they were both in the park.
"What are you saying?" Snake asked, not exactly liking this conversation.
"You said it yourself with those girls, didn't you? You have no purpose in life, no ultimate goal, right? Well, I can give you a purpose: Join me in my tribe and work with me, and you can get everything you want. In Beacon, you are only wasting your talents, with Ozpin and those children who are not at your level."
Snake was a little surprised, he just heard that the woman had been watching him for a while, and he was no aware she was close to him and the girls. Boss didn't know how she could spy on them so easily, but she definitely knew certain things about Snake. One more thing, Snake felt she knew Ozpin in a close way.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you but I need to stop this train, I'm not going anywhere with you." Snake stated, still keeping aim on the woman.
The woman with the white mask remained silent, Snake guessed that she was disappointed by that response. But after a less than 3 seconds she spoke again.
"You're making a big mistake, Snake. Your confidence in Ozpin is blind, he will use you, he has always used people to get what he wants and doesn't care for what it costs. He's not different from her. You just don't know what he really is."
Definitely she would now talk about Ozpin as if she knew him, but what is the Headmaster hiding from him? And who is 'her'?
"What are you talking about?"
"If you really want to know, you'll have to come with me."
"...not a chance."
"Then... you and your friends will die for the mistakes of others..." As she said that, the swordswoman she used her sword and swing it in the air, to create a crimson-red portal. "But I'll make sure you know the truth... then you'll know I was right." And with that, she left as she walked into the portal and then it dissappear.
At that moment Snake's mind was full of questions. Who was this woman? Why she wanted him to join her tribe, and what does she know about Ozpin? Maybe this the last thing had Snake thought about it, because since he arrived at Beacon he did not trust Ozpin completely, but what did that women knew?
"Snake!"
Boss turned and saw team RWBY passing the door. It was Ruby the one who said his name.
"Are you okay? What happened?" Said Yang to her teammate.
"I was fighting but... they escape, what about you? And the bombs?"
"Frozen and deactivated." Said Blake calmly, she was glad that Snake's idea worked.
"What about the Doctor and the others?"
"He took a Mech and decided to cover us. If you already ended your questions, can we now stop this train?" Weiss complained.
"Right, let's move." Snake said, as he, now with team RWBY advanced to the next cart, the last one.
"Leave the door to me!" Yang said as he moved forward and broke the door, throwing it from the other side of the cart, knocking out a White Fang member in the process, since he was hit by the door.
"Ohh shit... I knew this animals would ruin this." The Mastermind behind all of this, Roman Torchwick, said as he saw himself surrounded by 4 girls and a guy with a really weird suit.
"You! Stop! This! Train!" Blake said, with a small hiss in her tone of voice.
But Roman just smiled when he heard that. "Is already too late to stop this, I'm afraid." He said while looking at the girls but then he looked at Snake and realised something. "Wait... you! You are- AHHHHHH!"
Whatever he had to say about Snake it was cut off when Blake, using Snake's Stun Rod, electrocuted Roman, to the point that he was left unconscious on the floor, while a thin trail of smoke came off his clothes, due to the amount of electricity that was used.
"Thanks... I really needed to do that." Said Blake, a little more calm, Snake just took back his Stun Rod.
"Ohhh... So that's what the rod does... cool!" Ruby said surprised.
"Is my imagination or Torchwick seemed to know you?" Weiss said it a small scowl on her face.
"Uhh... guys...?" Yang said and then everyone looked at her. "I don't think this can be stopped, there's no breaks!"
At least they already stopped the bombs, but now what would happen? The most certain thing is that they would crash, they did not know against what but the idea was not good.
"Wait... I think I have an idea. Weiss, use your Semblance to create a barrier in front of the train, with enough force to stop it."
Weiss' eyes widened at the idea. She really had her doubts about what Big Boss said. "Are you out of your mind!? Maybe you were right about freezing the bombs but... but stop the train with a Glyph!? I can't... I'm... not strong enough!"
"Weiss!"
Weiss felt Snake's hands on her shoulders, and she looked directly at his left eye. Snake did the same and saw his eyes, as he tried to calm down the heiress.
"You can't say you can't do it if you don't try. You can do it, because you have NO other option, but I know you can do it because you are strong. No question in that."
Weiss's eyes widened, hearing what he had said and a really slight blush appear on her face. She did not expected such words from Snake at such a time. But if someone like Snake believed in her, she would do her best.
"Leave it to me. Everyone, hold on to something." Weiss said, with an expression that showed determination.
As she said, the rest of the team was subject to the first thing they found inside the cart. Weiss got in front of the cart, as much as she could, she closed her eyes and spread her hands out in front of her as she tried to concentrate. The rest only said in their minds that Weiss could do it. They had faith in her.
After a few seconds that seemed eternal, the heiress managed to invoke a glyph, a really big one just a few meters from the front of the train.
Soon after, the train collided against the Glyph.
And everything turned black.
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"...Ugh... I think I'm still alive... Ruby...?" Yang said, a bit sore from the crash, but almost all the damage was taken by her Aura.
"I'm fine... Blake...?" Said Ruby as she tried to get up.
"I'm here... damn, my head... Snake...?" Blake called for her only male teammate.
"I'm here... Weiss...?" Snake said as he began to get up, only to see Weiss on the floor and walked close to her.
"Weiss!" Ruby got up quickly and got close to her partner, same did Yang and Blake.
Snake placed two fingers on the heiress's neck, to confirm her vital signs. "She's still breathing... But she might be unconscious. Maybe her Aura has been reduced too much."
"We need to get her out of here!" Blake almost shouted.
"Blake, you and Yang tried to find Professor Oobleck, DD and Zwei. Ruby, stay with me to take her of her." Snake said to the rest of team RWBY, they agreed, and Blake and Yang got out of the cart, or what was left of it. "I need to make a call."
"Who are you going to call?" Ruby asked as she stayed close to Weiss.
"Ocelot." Boss answered as he took out his iDroid and used it.
The call was quick and short, Snake explained that they needed help since they were underground and Weiss was unconscious, somewhere near Vale. Looking at the coordinates, Ocelot saw that they were already in Vale again, and that he would pick them up with a Bullhead, since they seemed to be in an old train system used years ago, an abandoned entrance was a viable option.
"Well... we just need to see if there is a an exit close by." Snake said to Ruby. She nodded and then Snake began to tie the hands of the still unconscious Roman Torchwick, then, he grabbed Weiss, still unconscious, carrying her in his arms. And then both walked out of the cart.
When they left, they saw how the tunnel was. It was a disaster, the wagons were almost destroyed, there were remains of the wagons and also what seemed to be the Atlesian Knights.
"Woah..." Ruby said as she looked around. "Snake! Look! That seems to be a door."
Ruby pointed to what appeared to be a door, where there was a sign that said only authorized personnel could use it. But the door was made of iron and it looked quite thick.
"We're going to need something to take that door down." Snake said.
"Ugh... S... Snake...?"
Snake looked down, when he heard Weiss saying his name, she was still keeping her eyes closed.
"Weiss! Hold on! We'll get you out of here!" Said Ruby trying to comfort her.
"I'm... I'm sorry..." The heiress barely said. "I was... a terrible teammate... I... I thought that... since I am... a Schnee... I needed to be... better than anyone... and because of my pride... I ended up fighting... against you... and despite how I treated you... you believed in me..."
"It's okay Weiss... I don't hate you... you are my teammate, and a good friend..."
Hearing that, Weiss smiled a little, and slowly she placed her hand on Snake's cheek cot a brief moment. Snake felt the softness of the heiress's hand on his cheek.
"...thank you..."
Then, her hand fell.
"Weiss!"
"It's okay Ruby, she just completely passed out, but she'll be fine, she needs to rest."
Suddenly they began to hear heavy footsteps and a small tremor under them.
"Grimm!?" Ruby asked.
It was then when they saw how one of the wagons was pushed aside, and from the smoke appeared an Atlesian Paladin, which was piloted by Oobleck, and with him it was DD and Zwei, also Blake and Yang.
"They there are." Snake said as he, carrying Weiss, and Ruby got close to them.
"How is miss Schnee?" Asked the doctor.
"She is okay, she used most of her Aura to stop the train, she just needs to rest." Snake explained.
"Glad to hear that, the train debris covered the tunnel, the Grimm won't pass through here, now our priority is to find a way out."
"There's a door right there, you can use that robot to try and destroy it."
"Good thought miss Rose. Students, step aside."
Oobleck prepared to use the Mecha to destroy the door, while the rest moved away. Oobleck approached to try to destroy it. But then...
BOOM!
An explosion from the other side of the door was heard, and the iron door flew out. From the smoke was able to observe a human figure.
"Well, it seems that you were having fun." Said this person as the smoke cleared.
"Ocelot." Snake was the first one to call him.
Ocelot approached where the others were, but there was something that caught his attention.
"Huh, that must be the new Atlesian Paladin that was announced weeks ago." Said Ocelot as he looked at the Mecha. As he said that, Oobleck got off from the walking weapon.
"It's good that you arrived, the sooner we leave, the better." Said Snake to his friend.
"Don't worry, there's a Bullhead outside, just take the stairs."
"Yang, grab Torchwick, we'll take him with us." Snake said wmto the blonde brawler and she nodded.
"Torchwick? The criminal? I guess there was mutual cooperation with the Fang and Torchwick." Ocelot said, and he was already thinking a way to get him out information.
They all started leaving the tunnel by the door, Yang loading Roman and Snake to Weiss. However, Ocelot stayed behind for a moment.
Ocelot approached the Atlesian Paladin, and could not help but think of a certain bipedal weapon of mass destruction. It would be a coincidence, but just to be sure, Ocelot got close to the cabin, took his iDroid, and he linked it with the systems of the Paladin to take the information that was stored in the robot.
He would check it out later.
— l — l — l —
The trip in the Bullhead was pretty quiet, the students, teachers, canines, plus an unconscious criminal were on their way to Beacon, it was a long fight and a dangerous situation, they really deserved a rest. In the meantime, Ocelot told the others that the Vale Police Department would handle the situation, about looking the area and arrest any White Fang goon they find in the ruins.
Soon the Bullhead approached Beacon's landing zone, and soon Weiss was beginning to wake up.
Weiss began to open her blue eyes and saw her surroundings.
"Weiss! Are you okay!?" Ruby said with a smile.
"Ruby, I'm not deaf, please lower your voice, you dunce." Weiss complained.
"Yep, Ice Queen is back." Yang said with a grin.
The Bullhead opened its doors and the first ones in getting out of the vehicle were the two professors and the canines.
"I'll take Torchwick with Ozpin, maybe he'll know what to do with him." Said Ocelot to Snake, as he carried Torchwick like he was some kind of potatoes bag.
But also Ocelot gave a small nodde to Snake, which he returned. It meant that Ocelot was up to something, and it was not something good... for Torchwick.
"Can you walk?" Blake asked for the heiress, she felt a little better now that the criminal was not close to her.
"I feel a little better but... still a little weak... I might need help." Weiss declared.
"Here." Snake said as he crouched a little. "I'll give you a piggyback ride."
"E... ehh...?" That came from Weiss' mouth, after hearing what Boss said.
"C'mon, I'll help ya."
Weiss thought for a moment, the last time someone was carrying her like that was her older sister, years ago when she was a child, but from Snake she did not wanted a piggyback ride.
"I... want to be carr..."
"Uhh...? What?" Snake asked. No one but Blake heard what she said. Blake's eyes widened a little since she was able to hear the heiress.
"I... want... be carry... your..." Weiss mumbled again.
"Weiss, I'm sorry but I don't-"
"I WANT YOU TO CARRY ME IN YOUR ARMS, YOU DOLT!"
Weiss practically shouted, with a big blush on her face. Ruby and Yang were surprised to hear what she had asked for. And knowing Snake and his kindness, they already knew what his response would be.
Snake just got closed to the heiress, slowly and gently placed one oh his arms arms under her legs and the other one in her back.
"All right." He answered with a relaxed, neutral but gently expression.
Weiss had her face quite flushed, so much that her face could compete with Ruby's cloak. Weiss relaxed her body as she felt Snake's hands covered in gloves in her body. Weiss had already been carried that way before, in the tunnel, only now she wanted to be awake when Snake was carrying her in the well-known 'Bridal Carry'. The Heiress felt embarrassed about having asked for something like that... but at the same time she was happy that Snake accepted.
While that happened, Snake just walked and kept his eyes to the front, still wondering about everything that happened, with that mysterious swordswoman, and of course, what will happen in a few hours with Torchwick.
And of course, while Snake and Weiss were pretty close, Blake and Yang could only watch with a little sadness but a lot of jealousy that they were not in the position of the heiress.
And Ruby... she was still being Ruby.
The walk lasted a couple of minutes where soon Snake and team RWBY arrived at the infirmary. There, a nurse attended Weiss, and Snake suggested that the others also had a check-up, to be sure.
"I'll talk to Ozpin and Ocelot about what happened, you rest." Said Big Boss to the girls.
"You want someone to go with you?" Blake asked, not because she wanted to be with Snake, she wanted to know what would happen to Torchwick, since he was working with the White Fang.
"It's okay, I'll take care of the rest." Snake said, and Blake just nodded.
Soon after, Snake left.
Big Boss at that time felt more relaxed, but the truth was a bit angry, because he remembered that in addition to the situation of Weiss, Ruby was about to die.
For now he would need to go where Ocelot was.
— l — l — l —
Hours later...
"Oww... my head... where... where am I...?"
He said as he began to regain consciousness, the last thing he remembered was a great pain running through his body. Now he was in a dark room under a single light, the rest looked dark.
"What the...?"
When he tried to move, he realized that he was tied to a chair.
It was then when he began to listen to footsteps, but the sound of what appeared to be spurs.
"I see you are finally awake... good, the show is boring without anyone to see it."
When Roman Torchwick heard that voice, he looked at the direction it came from, then, he could see a man in his mid 30s with white long hair.
"Heh, if you think having me tied to a chair is a show then you're not so smart." Roman taunted. "Who the hell are you anyway?"
"You can call me Shalashaska."
"Heh, is that supposed to be scary?" Torchwick mocked.
Shalashaska, or Ocelot, just kept walking, only to stay in front of the criminal.
"That will depend on you." Ocelot said. "A few hours ago, you tried to use a train to take Grimm to Vale and cause total chaos. Who ordered you to do that?"
Roman just kept a smile. "What are you talking about? I was the one who had the idea, quite creative, something that only I could have thought."
"Really?" Ocelot just took out a scroll, that belong to Roman and then just drop it. "In your scroll there is another information. You were talking to someone else, a woman, she was the one who ordered you to work with the White Fang. Who is this women?"
"Like hell I'm going to tell you something, you ain't a cop." Not like he would tell something to the police anyway.
When Ocelot heard that, he just showed a small smile, and walked to one of the corners, in which there were a few things for his 'show'. Among them, there was a small bag, Ocelot tool it and went again with Torchwick, and he put the bag on his head.
"Hey! What the fuck are you doing!?"
Later, Ocelot threw the chair, making Torchwick stay on the floor, and slowly, while hearing Torchwick swear and complain, Ocelot took a bucket full of water.
Then, Ocelot poured the water on Torchwick's head, making a waterboarding on him.
At that moment, Torchwick began to feel like he was drowning, he began to move his body violently, trying to scream in pain, trying to free himself from that horrible torture. And in spite of that, Ocelot had only spilled a small portion of water, because he just wanted to give Torchwick a demonstration. After a few brief seconds, he finished and soon he removed the bag from Roman's head.
Torchwick was struggling hard to get his breath back, as if he barely knew air was valuable. "Bastard! Are you crazy!?"
"I'm guessing you're ready to talk?"
"Fuck you!"
Well, it seemed that Ocelot would have to take his time to get the information he wanted, and he was a very patient man.
And in the meantime, using a camera located on the basement that Ocelot wanted to use as a torture room, Ozpin and Big Boss were watching Ocelot's 'show', in the Headmaster's office. Ozpin showed a calm expression, but he would not deny that Ocelot's methods of extracting information were questionable, but Ozpin would not stop him. Big Boss was never a fan of tortures, he suffered too much of that so he knew how was the feel, but he knew they needed to know who was their true enemy.
— l — l — l —
After a few hours of leaving Weiss since she just needed to rest, Ruby, Blake, Yang and Zwei went to the infirmary again to see how was the heiress. Upon arriving they saw that Weiss was awake, along with her, on one side on the floor was DD, since the wolf stayed with her.
"Hey Weiss-cream, feeling better?" Said Yang when they arrived.
"Yes, I'm a little better now, thanks for coming to see me, I just needed to rest but I can leave the infirmary." The heiress sated calmly.
"That's good, you can say that you need to stay cool." Said Yang with a small grin, but everyone just groaned at the terrible pun.
"Anyway, can you tell me what happened to the White Fang and Torchwick?" Weiss asked, ignoring the terrible pun Yang said.
"Professor Ocelot said that the police would handle the White Fang, and for Torchwick, well... he's here in Beacon, professor Ocelot took him with Ozpin." Blake explained.
"I hope we receive extra credit for capturing a criminal and saving the city from some terrorists." Yang half complained half expected.
"Yeah but at least we save Vale! And we're also glad that you are not angry with Snake anymore." Said Ruby with a big and slightly goofy smile.
"W-what are you talking about?" Weiss asked when she heard that.
"What? You were asking Snake to carry you in his arms, that means that you are now softie with him." Yang teased with a big grin.
"I-I was not in a proper condition to walk by myself!" She said with a blush in her face.
"Really? And that's why you told Snake at the tunnel that you sorry for being a horrible teammate?" Blake asked, while raising an eyebrow.
"H-how you know-!? Ruby!" Weiss shouted her partner, now her blush was more notorious.
"Sorry! I just thought that it was okay to tell them that you and Snake were friends again." Ruby explained with a nervous smile, while rubbing the back of her head.
Weiss coughed a little in her fist as she tried to calm a little. "Well, it can't be denied that Snake had a good idea, about freezing the bombs, besides suggesting to use one of my Glyphs to stop the train."
"Well...~" Yang began to say with a small grin. "It's good that you and Snakey are in friendly terms but, don't you think that maybe you suddenly become too close~?"
"W-what are you saying, Xiao Long?" Weiss tried to keep cool about what the blonde was saying.
"C'mon~. I mean, who asks to be carried so badly?"
"I didn't feel too well! I needed to rest."
"In Snake's arms?" That came from Blake. "You seemed to enjoy it."
"W-what!? W-who would enjoy being carried in the arms of some weird guy, who eats wild animals, wears a weird tight suit and adores stupid cardboard boxes!?" Weiss felt her face getting a little more hot.
Yang and Blake exchanged glances, and that's when Blake took her scroll and started showing Weiss a couple of photos she took. In it the photos were of Weiss being carried in the arms of Snake, while she seemed to show a calm and relaxed expression, even too happy, accompanied by a blush.
Weiss's eyes widened and finally her face turned as red as possible, like a tomato.
"Awww~ you look adorable." Ruby cheered.
"What's wrong Weiss, Blake got your tongue?" Yang said with a big grin, Blake just rolled her eyes but kept the same smile and expression.
Weiss just laid on her stomach, and she took a pillow to cover her head. Again, the heiress felt bad, mentally speaking of course, since she could not believe that she herself could have made that expression, and all because of her male teammate Snake, she thought.
Meanwhile, Blake and Yang just smiled when they saw how the heiress felt embarrassed. After all, it was a small revenge of both against the heiress for taking advantage of the situation and being carried by Naked Snake.
But even so, Weiss Schnee could not deny herself that she was beginning to see Snake in a different way.
— l — l — l —
08:00 PM.
Ocelot really took his time to torture Roman Torchwick and extract all the information the criminal had. For the following hours, Big Boss and Ozpin watched Ocelot repeatedly torture Torchwick, using different objects, but perhaps the one that was most used was electrocution, using electric Dust. Torchwick had a lot of Aura but Ocelot took care of reducing them slowly, while Boss and Ozpin looked through the camera and even heard Torchwick beg for mercy.
In the end it seemed that Torchwick just surrendered, his clothes were damaged, except his hat, his skin a little burned, and under his chair there was a small puddle of urine. Before Torchwick passed out, it appeared that he mutter something. Ocelot just cleaned his hands, and left the basement.
A few minutes later, the door to Ozpin's office opened, and Ocelot arrived at the place.
"I guess he decided to cooperate?" Ozpin asked. He was aware that Torchwick was a criminal but never in his life(s) he had seen someone being treated in such a horrible way, he just felt a little sorry, but not too much.
"He did... he provide me a name, of her employer." Ocelot explained to them.
"Her?" Snake asked.
"That's right, he even provide me a name: Cinder Fall."
"Cinder Fall...?" Snake said, as he realized he meet a woman with the same name, a student. "I heard the name before but... it's from a girl from another Academy."
"Yeah, I heard the name before, but he even provide me her description."
"How does she look?" Ozpin asked, he was checking the records of Haven Academy students. In case she was that student, he hoped that Leonardo didn't know about this, otherwise...
"Amber colored eyes, black and long hair. But above all, a black prosthesis on hee right arm."
Yes. It was definitely her, the woman Snake had met days ago. Ozpin just looked at a picture of her on the computer.
"...what is she trying to do?" Ozpin asked in a more serious tone.
"Roman didn't say why, the only thing he mention is that this Cinder girl and her two followers, Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black could be working for someone else. Also, she seemed to be helping the White Fang in the same way." Ocelot explained.
When Ozpin heard that he just stayed silent.
"It doesn't make sense to help the White Fang without any apparent purpose, that attack with the trains... what is what she wanted...?" Snake asked loudly while thinking about it.
"We need to stop her. Now." Suddenly Ozpin said to them.
"Besides Torchwick's words, we have no proof that she is behind all of this. In addition, with what happened at Mountain Glenn, she will surely be more careful with whatever happens around her."
"Ocelot's right." Snake said. "We know our enemy, we know who she is, she believes that she has an advantage over us, this is an opportunity."
"What'd you suggest?" Ozpin asked the two.
"We wait, and keep an eye on her. We'll have to watch her, in case there's someone else like her in Beacon. My position as a teacher would make things easier for me for keeping an eye on her." Said Ocelot.
"Please Adam, I leave it in your hands." Ozpin said for last.
Snake just kept quiet, thinking that he and Ocelot were involuntarily getting into a much bigger problem. But it was too late to turn back.
Besides, Boss was thinking about what that woman said about Ozpin.
— l — l — l —
Soon after what they found, Snake and Ocelot left the office, then the two took a different path in the hallways. As he walked towards the gardens, Snake noticed that it was already night, and the broken moon adorned the sky.
Really, the problems were beginning to accumulate. First the White Fang, now Cinder Fall, who now they know she seems to be the mastermind behind all of this, or maybe she is someone else's puppet, but who is the one pulling the strings?
"Snake!"
"Why always people calls me from behind...?" Said Boss in his mind as he turned around. "Ruby, what are you doing here?"
"I was checking a few things in Crescent Rose, what about you? You dissappear the whole day." Said Ruby as she walked along with Snake.
"I was with Ozpin." Snake said in a simple way to avoid talking about the topic. "You look more happy than usual."
Ruby just giggled, as they walked, Ruby decided to leave the sidewalk and walk until she was under a tree. "How I couldn't be? We fought some baddies, we caught Roman Torchwick and saved several people."
Snake just followed Ruby, until he was under the same tree. Everyone did something good today but Snake did not feel like Ruby. "We were lucky we could stop that train, otherwise who knows what would have happened."
"Yes, but that should be the life of a Huntsman and Huntress. Fight to protect people." Ruby answered, still keeping that smile.
"It is a noble thought, but it won't always be easy."
"What are you saying, Snake?"
"Ruby... You were captured by the White Fang, you could have died." Snake stated, it was a clear comment.
Ruby's smile died when she heard that.
"I... I know... I tried to use my Semblance to escape b-but it won't happen again!"
"Ruby... Have you ever thought that maybe this lifestyle is not for you? I've seen you fight, you're one of the best, but not always the enemies will be Grimm. Can be faunus and humans. This is not a fantasy story where everything goes perfect." Although he said it calmly, maybe Snake could sound a little rude.
"I'm aware of this but, the duty of a Hunter is to protect the lives of others in one way and another! Even if this means give my life for the people or my teammates. I'm a team leader, and a team leader puts everyone else above him."
"That's where you're wrong."
Ruby's eyes widened when she heard what Snake just said.
"W-what...?" Ruby asked confused.
"You say it as if the lives of the Hunters can be replaced by others, like a place that someone else can take a weapon and replace a Hunter over and over again."
"No! That's not what I-."
"You also speak about yourself saying that you would give your life for others like your life worths nothing...That's a way of saying that you don't put your life on the same place as Weiss, Blake and Yang's lifes. Being a team leader means that you'll take the hard decisions, but it doesn't mean to always throw your life first."
Snake just let out all the things he had in his mind. He made it calmly because he definitely did not agree with Ruby in that thought, he would not tell but it was a bit absurd.
But Ruby... She understood what Snake was saying, but she was not sharing the same thought with Snake either. Snake was right, but she said it because she felt it was a heroic act. She wanted to be a hero after all. Although someone had to tell her the reality. Unfortunately, it was Snake the one who told her that.
Ruby's eyes began to turn slightly watery. And Snake clearly saw it.
"You... you wouldn't understand! Doing the right thing isn't as sad and terrible as you think!" Ruby shouted at Snake.
Snake's eye widened a little, he knew that she was very idealistic but he did not expect her to react that way. Snake took a few steps to where she was to try to approach. Big Boss was not saying that help people was wrong, but rather how Ruby was saying it.
"Ruby..."
But Ruby took a few steps back, showing that she did not want the one-eyed man to approach her.
"Just... leave me alone..."
Probably this is one of those few moments where Snake, despite not regretting for what he said, felt a little bad for the things he said, maybe in the end he was quite direct but even so, Boss felt he should tell her. Tell Ruby that reality is very different from fiction.
In real life, the heroes are the ones who are dead.
Boss tried to approach Ruby once more.
But Big Boss was stopped by someone.
From the top of the tree, someone landed on the ground and using a red sword hit the floor. The attack was not to hurt someone, but to separate them. Ruby and Snake were surprised by the sudden attack. Ruby had never seen that person, who seemed to be a woman. Ruby was hit in her chest, close to her neck by this person who used her elbow, so she took a few steps back but due to the sudden movement she fell to the ground, while observing that woman.
But Snake? He knew her.
That woman started to stand up a bit while Boss had taken his M1911.
The mysterious woman with the sword, in a quick movement, ran towards Snake, but being close to Snake, she slashed the air in front of him. Snake was not hurt, but in front of him a portal was created, which he assumed was the Semblance of the mysterious woman. The mysterious swordswoman jumped in the air and she had landed behind Snake.
Snake turned and looked at the mysterious woman, for him it was as if everything had happened in slow motion, because when he turned around and prepared to shoot, the mysterious woman gave him a side kick. Snake was kicked with enough force to throw him a couple of meters, that woman was pretty strong, but the problem is that the swordswoman kicked Snake in the direction of the portal that she created.
Meanwhile, Ruby was confused, everything that happened it happened so fast, not even 30 seconds passed. But her eyes widened as she watched as Snake let out a cry of pain as he was thrown towards that strange portal.
And suddenly, Snake was gone.
"Snake!" Ruby tried to get up, as she saw, with angry eyes, at the woman with red sword.
"You said you wanted him to leave you alone, right?" Said the woman with the white mask. "Don't worry... I'll make sure you don't see him again. I'll take good care of him."
Ruby's eyes widened in horror when she heard what the raven-haired woman said. Ruby, in a desperate attempt, used her Semblance to try to stop that woman and save her teammate.
But it was too late.
The woman with the white mask had already entered the portal, and disappeared completely. Ruby tried to reach the portal, but she fell to the floor, eventually getting her clothes a little dirty.
"No... no no no NO NO!" The team leader repeated several times. While clutching her hands to the grass, she thought about what the swordswoman said, a sense of guilt began to invade her immediately. "Snake...!" Ruby's eyes got teary, and without being able to help it, she shouted to the sky a single name.
The name of her friend.
"SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!"
End of Chapter 16
(A/N)
Well, there ends chapter 16 with a Cliffhanger.
And to make it worst I didn't write an Omake for this chapter. As I said before, for episodes that will have endings like this I don't like to add Omakes, I feel that the ending would be ruined if I add something funny at the end.
So...
The Breach never happened, Roman was tortured, Snake, Ocelot and Ozpin now know who Cinder really is and Weiss is now interested in Snake. I think I put a lot of things into a single episode but I think it was the best thing to not extend it that long.
Hooe you guys enjoyed the chapter.
See you guys later on the next episode
Goodbye amigos!