(A/N)
We're back! Another episode of the Snakey boy adventures, to be honest I've been busy with my job, and the fact that I have my another Fanfic, but don't worry, I'm still here and I'm still working with this RONOS and Operation Darkest Night, or ODN for short.
(Q&A)
kerrowe: Yep, I writte it pretty quick and without chrcking the typos xd
RexGamer15000: En parte es referencia, ya sabes que cuando Snake muere gritan su nombre
gangbang-midnight: thanks dude
PardonMySkillz: I'm sure in the multiverse there is a faunus named Johnny
Austinhhh: Thanks but no, I don't plan to kill Snake in the story
Dr. Killinger: Same here, but still she is waifu material
Oliver Otter1: Omakes are canon, it happens at least days before the episode
...
...
Whitout more to say let's continue.
▪︎ I don't own Metal Gear or RWBY. ▪︎
Chapter 17
Thursday
"And that's what happend, according to Ruby."
"A woman with a red sword and a grimm mask..."
"Sounds familiar?"
"Not sure..."
Ozpin answered. Half true, half lie. The description of the woman Ocelot was giving thanks to Ruby was familiar. But if that was the case, why would she want to take Snake? With what purpose? They still had several problems to deal with, with that woman Cinder Fall and Roman Torchwick, who was being held as a prisoner in the basement.
"The girls are going to want answers... and a solution to this. " Ocelot stated, feeling that Ozpin was hiding something about this woman.
"We don't know where John is right now. The only thing we can tell team RWBY at the moment is not to disclose that information. It could worry the other students."
"I understand... well, I'll take care of giving you the news, and I'll try to use the scroll or iDroid to contact Big Boss." Ocelot stated for last, didn't like the idea of Big Boss being taken by some crazy woman. But at the moment there's nothing else to do.
Without more to say, Ocelot began to walk in the direction of the elevator, but he was soon stopped by the Headmaster.
"Adam."
"Yes?"
"Aren't you worried about him?"
"... I am."
Ocelot answered without saying another word and without looking at the Headmaster, he entered the elevator and used it to get out of the office. Ozpin got up from his chair and turned around to look at the broken moon by his window. While he let out some words for himself.
"What are you up to, Raven...?"
— l — l — l —
"This is my fault! If I hadn't told him to leave...!"
Ruby had explained with tears what had happened to Snake to Weiss, Blake and Yang, and in the same way they were shocked and sad that their male teammate was taken against his will by a mysterious swordswoman. But they knew that Ruby was not to blame for that. But they all felt the same about what happened.
Ruby felt it was her fault that Snake was taken by that woman. She cried in the arms of her older sister as she explained the situattion to her teammates, as a team leader Ruby felt that she failed completely, by her childish attitude her friend was missing.
Weiss also felt sad. She was petting DD's head softly, remembering how she had treated Snake the worst way possible. Weiss managed to apologize but until now she could only think about the whole time she spent with Snake, and how she was always rude to him. And now that she had feelings for him she regret it.
Blake, who always shows a calm expression, at that moment showed a sad expression. Snake was the first one to whom she revealed her secret and even so he accepted her like any other person, even when she was part of the White Fang. Blake could not deny that she had feelings for Snake, but she never told him. And now she feared that she could never tell him about it.
Yang felt the same way. Yang also had feelings for Naked Snake, the only guy who was always willing to fight her, didn't matter how strong she was and also was willing to hear her problems without asking anything in return, without seeing her body inappropriately. Snake just saw her as Yang Xiao Long.
"It's okay Ruby, it's not your fault..." That came from Yang's mouth. She tried to comfort her younger sister but her tone of voice sounded just as sad, like hers.
Soon the girls heard someone knocking on the door. For a few seconds they hoped it was Snake but if he was here would have used his scroll to enter the dorm room. It was Blake who got up from the bed and went to open the door, revealing one of their teachers.
"Professor! Please tell me you will go look for Snake! If so, I want to go with you!" Ruby was the one to say that, with hope in her eyes, just like the rest of her team.
Ocelot took a few seconds to answer, while watching the girls, they were really depressed, but also determined to look for Big Boss and bring him back. "I'm sorry... But I won't go for Snake. We don't know where he is, and Ozpin didn't authorize a rescue for him."
The girls were shocked to hear that no attempt would be made to search and bring Snake back.
"B-but how..!?" Ruby could't say anything else.
"How is possible you don't think about doing something!?" Shouted Blake, enraged, putting herself in front of Ocelot, demanding an answer.
"How the hell do you and Ozpin just let this go like nothing!?" This came from Yang. Eyes red and hair burning.
"This is irresponsible! I thought the Headmaster would take care of this personally!" This last one came from Weiss, completely outraged.
"Enough!" Ocelot said to the girls, almost yelling at them. "I understand how you feel. I'm also frustrated that Snake was taken by this woman and I'm not able to do something for him. But at the moment there's nothing we can do."
The girls were silent. Unfortunately it was the truth. They did not know where Snake was in this moment or who that mysterious woman was. But they didn't like the idea of staying in their dorm room without doing anything for their teammate.
"Let me ask you something..." Ocelot said, more calmly while taking a seat in one of the chairs in the desks im front of the girls. "I understand that Snake has been a friend of yours for a long time, but tell me... what do you know about him?"
That question was quite strange. But it made the girls repeat themselves that question in their heads, because the answer was that they did not know much about Snake. Just basic stuff like his weird name, also he eats nasty things and likes cardboard boxes. But there was also a few more things.
"We know he had a mentor, but... she's dead." Blake was the first to answer, her tond of voice was calm but sad.
"He doesn't have a family..." The next one to answer was Yang, with a sad tone of voice.
"But besides that we don't know much." Weiss continued the answer calmly.
"Well... he really loves cardboard boxes hehe..." Ruby concluded with a short fake laugh.
Ocelot let out a short but genuine laugh at having heard what Ruby said. And yes, that was true.
"Professor... what can you tell us about Snake? Who is he? Where does he come from?" That came from Yang's mouth.
Upon hearing that, Ruby, Weiss and Blake turned to see the professor, hoping that they could know a little more about their teammate, because they respected Snake's privacy but also they were very curious.
"Mhh... I'm sorry, but I'm not the right person to talk about Snake's life." Ocelot answered. He got up from the chair and walked to the door to get out.
The girls looked down, frustrated at not getting what they wanted to know. But their attention went back to their professor when he said something else.
"...But I understand that for you he is very important... tell him that I said... that he should tell you the truth."
That left the girls confused. They didn't understand what Professor Ocelot was referring to 'the truth'. Was Snake hiding something important?
"Wait! You said we should ask him but how will we know he'll return!?" Ruby almost shouted at Ocelot.
"Because he'll come back." Ocelot stated, pretty confident in his words. Ocelot turned back to look at team RWBY. "Snake always gets into this kind of situation, believe me. I've known him for years, I know his victories and defeats. He's always keeping people waiting, but I know him well enough to know he'll be back, like if nothing happend."
Team RWBY understood what their teacher was telling them, there was no one else in the world who knew Snake better, the only one was Ocelot. But even so, that was not enough for them. They felt that it was an empty promise. But in spite of that, they would have to accept it.
"You had a long day with everything that happened, you need to rest. Have a good night." Ocelot did not like the idea of seeing those sad girls, but he could not do anything else for them. After saying that, Ocelot left the dorm room.
There were a few seconds of silence in the dorm room. Nobody said anything after Ocelot left the place and closed the door. The girls acted as if someone had died.
"The truth..." Blake said softly. "Professor Ocelot told us to ask Snake the truth... what did he mean by that...?"
It was confusing for the girls, for Ruby, Weiss and Blake it sounded like Snake was hiding something very important. But Yang was in deep thought about that.
"No... no, it can't be..." Yang muttered while several thoughts invaded her head.
"Yang...? What's wrong?" Said her younger sister.
"I... I mean... I don't know..."
"Yang, what's wrong? What is it?" That came from Weiss, and soon Blake looked at the blonde to see what's happening with her.
"I... days ago... I had a dream... it was so strange..." Yang began to answer, feeling weird about thinking about that 'dream' again.
"Dream?" Ruby asked confused.
"Yeah but... It was too horrible and sad... first I was dreaming that I was in a river, it was dark and raining, then someone called 'The Sorrow' appeared. I was scared, and everything looked so real." Yang explained, just by saying the name 'The Sorrow' she was beginning to feel scared like a little girl.
"Yang, this is not the time to tell us that you had a nightmare!" The heiress shouted to the blonde brawler.
"No! Listen! I- I dunno what happend but... this guy... I dunno if it was my imagination, but I had a weird dream about Snake."
"What you mean by 'weird'?" Asked Blake, hoping that Yang was not going to say something idiotic about an erotic dream, but for what she was saying sounded like something else.
"It was weird but... this Sorrow guy said to me that he was going to show me Snake's sorrow... It was quite strange for a dream but it felt quite real... it's as if I was just seein' something that was happening, but nobody paid attention to me, as I didn't exist."
At that moment the girls paid a little more attention to Yang, for them it was weird that Yang would give importance to something like a dream. And she seemed a little freaked out for how she was telling them about the dream.
"It was a dream in which Snake... or someone like Snake called John, or Jack, was some kind of soldier or spy, who belonged to a kingdom called the United States of America, and they had an enemy called Russia, or also called the Soviet Union."
"The United States of America?" Asked Ruby.
"The Soviet Union? Russia?" That came from Blake.
Both girls turned to see Weiss, the smart girl of the team.
"...I've never heard of something like that, I don't know what America or Russia is." Answered Weiss, the names were strange to her, like for Ruby and Blake.
"So... this Snake... or John, Jack, whatever his name Is, why you say he was different?" Asked the faunus.
"He looked older... like 27 or 28 and at the beginning he had two eyes."
"What you mean 'at the beginning'?" Asked Ruby without understanding.
"That dream was long... I felt that I had spent hours, almost a whole day following this Snake, he was in a mission."
"What mission?" Weiss asked, playing around, still thinking maybe Yang was having a wrong idea about that dream.
"He... well, he needed... to find his Mentor." Yang said. She didn't want to mention how Snake had to kill her. The thought of that idea made her want to cry again.
Upon hearing that, the girls showed more interest. Snake sometimes mentioned her Mentor but he didn't say many things about her. Not even a name or where she was born.
"In this dream she was a blond woman, adult, I also had the chance to see how she fought... Snake and other people called her 'The Boss'."
"The Boss...?" Asked Ruby. She, like Weiss and Blake thought it was a weird name. Cool, but weird.
"Yeah... I mean, I know it's crazy! But I'm damn sure what I saw was real!" Yang almost yelled at her teammates, only to then relax a little. "but... I don't know what that dream means or why I saw that..."
The rest of team RWBY had quite different thoughts, but almost the same. On one hand they thought that maybe it was something silly or stupid from the blonde brawler, but for the other hand Yang would not dare to say stupid things in a moment like this.
"So this man called The Sorrow... who was he?" Asked the heiress.
"He never talked to me that much... but he said he wanted me to show Snake's sorrow..."
"Sorrow...? So, something happend to Snake in that dream...?" Asked Ruby. She was worried, because of how Yang looked. Ruby thought it was something serious for her.
Yang did not want to say anything at the moment, several memories of what she saw on that dream invaded her mind. If in the end it had only been that, a dream, Yang did not want to say unnecessary things about Snake and his dead Mentor.
"And you don't know nothing about this person?" Asked the cat faunus.
"Just a few things... in the dream I had... it was told that this guy worked with Snake's mentor, but he died years ago... but that's not all, I heard that he had a Semblance, which allowed him to speak with the dead."
Upon hearing that, Ruby, Weiss and Blake had their eyes wide open, it sounded almost like some kind of ghost story.
"Hold on! So you're saying that... a ghost talked to you!?" Weiss shouted, she could not believe something like that, but just mentioning the word 'ghost' she was freaked out.
"I never heard of a Semblance like that..." Muttered Blake lowly, but her teammates could hear her.
"But if The Sorrow... is dead... and he talked to you... what does your dream mean? You said there were things you didn't know, like Snake being older." Ruby stated, she didn't knew if a Semblance like that was something cool or terrifying.
At that moment there was a long silence in the room, Yang did not answer that question, because she still did not understand what that 'dream' was. But more and more she thought that The Sorrow was real. But what did that 'dream' mean?
"It doesn't matter... maybe... maybe it was just a dream... we better go to sleep..." Stated Yang, as she went to her bed, her voice was soft and at the same time it was sad.
Nobody said anything about the dream the blonde talked about, but at the end Yang was right. The only thing they could do, as Ocelot said, was wait for Snake to come back. It was hard to stay calm at a time like that, but unfortunately they did not have another option, although they would like to look for their teammate, they don't know where he will be.
"You miss him, right...?" Said Weiss as she she gently caressed DD on his head. "It's okay... I'm sure he'll be back..."
The girls only said good night and went to bed in their respective beds. DD had slept on the floor, and like the girls, he was sad because his human friend was gone. Zwei, also being a dog he noticed how DD felt, he lay down beside the wolf, with the intention of making him company.
While everyone tried to sleep, Ruby, who still felt guilty about what happened, hugged her pillow while silently began to cry, covering a part of the pillow with her tears. She felt that she had failed as a team leader, teammate and especially as a friend. While crying in silence she let out quietly a few words.
"Where are you...?"
— l — l — l —
In somewhere else...
Thursday.
10:36 PM
Big Boss soon came from the outher side of the portal and his back hitted the ground, to which he let out a slight growl of pain. Boss got up and noticed that the portal was at least 4 meters above him so he could not reach it. Looking around Boss noticed that he was in a forest, but the sensation of the place made Snake think he was in a different place, he thought that he was not near Vale anymore.
A few seconds later that swordswoman appeared again from the crimson portal she created before, where without problems she fell to her feet, letting her heels touch the ground, but at that time she did not carry her sword, she had it on her scabbard.
Snake prepared his rifle in the case the swordswoman tries something again. Snake had the rifle in his hands but he had the gun down, but if necessary he would use it to fight. In addition to his rifle, he had the M1911, the combat knife, the Stun Road and a pair of grenades and a few mags. Basically Big Boss was prepared to fight.
"You..." Snake said when he saw that woman in a white mask.
The raven-haired woman was on the opposite side to where Snake was in that glade in the forest, at least about 10 meters away from each other. Unlike Snake, that his posture showed that he was ready to fight, the swordswoman posture was calmer and with no intention of fighting. But Snake didn't know if that could change in a second. He was still ready.
"I had told you before, right? I would make you see the reality." Said the swordswoman, she actually sounded calm unlike the first time they talked.
"So that's why you kicked me into that portal? Where are we? As far as I can guess we are far from the city of Vale, the place feels... different, if I had to guess we are in the north of the equator."
The swordswoman raised an eyebrow under her mask. She was surprised that the young man could feel and notice the differences between places like north and south. She could assume that he had traveled a lot and therefore knew the difference.
"You are right... and the truth is that we are no longer in Sanus. We are currently in the continent of Anima."
Hearing that Snake slightly widened his eye, he was surprised to hear that her Semblance allowed her to travel very far distances. Basically Snake at this moment was far from Beacon... From home.
"So why did you bring me here? Maybe you have the wrong person." Said Snake to the swordswoman, waiting to hear her answer. She still wanted him to join her tribe?
"I know who you are, student of Beacon, member of a team with 4 girls and a mercenary hired by Atlas to take back some mechs from the White Fang... I'm right, Snake?"
"Mhh... sounds like you have the right guy." Said Snake dryly, not surprised for what he heard, that means that this woman is the one Neo talked about days ago. "Who are you?"
"My name is Raven." The woman, named Raven, answeres dryly and calm. "I'm the leader of my tribe... and a Beacon graduated Huntress."
Snake raised an eyebrow when he heard that.
"I told you before, Ozpin is going to use you, I'm giving you the opportunity to open your eyes and a real reason to fight. But before that... I'm in the mood for a fight. We didn't have the opportunity to introduce ourselves properly."
As Raven said that, she began to draw her sword. Raven had already seen what Snake was capable of but she wanted to personally test Snake's strength and abilities.
"This is Raven's territory, Snake's don't belong here... so you better not dissapoint me." Raven said to Big Boss.
"So now you wanna fight." Said Snake, he kept his rifle lowered. But at least now he knew what was going to happen.
However, before anything happened, Raven slowly began to remove the white mask in her face. She let Snake see her face, Raven had red eyes, and to tell the truth she was beautiful. But Snake's eye widened a little when he saw that face.
(Play: DMC 5 Devil Trigger)
(Thought it fits for Snake and Raven's battle)
"Yang...?" Snake murmured, but Raven clearly heard what he said, but she simply smiled a little. The eyes and hair were different, but besides that it was as if he was looking at a slightly older version of Yang. Snake could think that Raven looked like Yang... or rather, Yang looked like Raven. That only meant one thing.
"Show me what you've got, Snake!"
Raven said that, and took this opportunity, and moved fast forward. Very fast. In the next moment Raven was in front of Snake and she tried to slash Snake, but Snake quickly used his rifle as a shield to cover himself from the attack. Although Snake managed to protect himself from that attack, Raven took the chance and quickly gave Snake a side kick, throwing him a meter away to the ground.
"You should crawl on the ground like the Snake you are!" Raven shouted as she showed a small sadistic smile.
Snake fell on the ground but quickly recovered his stance, he aimed his rifle and pulled the trigger, Snake started shooting while Raven began to do backflips, while using her sword. With one hand she touched the ground every time she made a backflip, with the other she used her sword to deflect the bullets as she continued to stay away from Snake. After using one magazine, Snake pulled the trigger of the grenade launcher. The 40mm grenade went in Raven's direction. But Raven, already in her combat stance, only raised her sword, placing it vertically in front of her. Once the grenade hit the edge of the sword, it broke in two, one took the left and the other the right.
"That's the best you can do, Snake!?" Raven shouted, still keeping that smile in her face, as the two halfs of the grenade exploded, several meters behind her there was a big explosion in the trees, but Raven did not pay attention to it.
"Damn..." Snake growled as he saw the explosion behind the Swordswoman. Boss had seen that Raven was quite fast and seemed to be an expert with the sword, after all, she was a Huntress. Snake thought it would be better to fight at close range, although that seemed to be Raven's specialty, but the mercenary would have no chance if he fights by shooting her from afar.
Boss started firing his M4 again at Raven, after putting a new magazine. He knew that the bullets could penetrate Aura and kill her without problems, but that didn't concern him, because Big Boss knew Raven could handle it. And that's what happend. Raven ran towards Snake as she used her sword to slash the bullets to avoid being hit by them, for her that was easy. Every time the bullets hit Raven's sword, sparks appeared.
When she was close, Raven slashed horizontally at the chest-height, but Snake ducked and rolled avoiding the attack, Raven ended up cutting the tree behind Snake. Quickly the mercenary took again his combat stance, and Snake soon hit Raven's face with the rifle stock. Raven let out a small grumble of pain, it was nothing she couldn't handle. After that attack, Snake tried to roundhouse kick Raven in the head, but the swordswoman quickly used her sword with her two hands to cover herself from the attack. Snake ended up hitting the flat side of Raven's sword with his foot. Raven took this opportunity and hit Snake's stomach with her knee, to which Snake let out a cry of pain, then, Raven side kicked Snake one more time in the stomach, throwing him to the ground once more.
Snake was on the ground, his M4 was on his hip, so at the moment there was no weapon in the hand. Snake, still on the floor, saw how Raven jumped with her sword in her hand trying to stab it in Snake's head, but he managed to react quickly by moving to the side, while the crimson sword was only stuck on the ground by a few inches from the cheek of Big Boss. Boss, on the floor kicked Raven, to which she backed off a little. Snake got uo and took his M1911 on his right hand and his combat knife on the left hand.
Raven stood again in her combat stance, as she saw Snake, she moved towards him quickly, to which Big Boss did the same. Snake also moved quickly to where Raven was and fired a bullet, to which Raven hit the bullet with her sword to protect herself and cut the bullet in two. Once they were close to each other, Raven slashed horizontally, to which Snake ducked and avoided the attack, while Raven was preparing for another attack in the same way. And Snake was about to shot Raven.
But both suddenly stopped at that moment.
Both were close, VERY close. Raven's sword was only a few inches from cutting Snake's neck and kill him, at the same time Snake had his M1911 pointing at Raven's face, just pull the trigger and she would be dead, but who knows if Raven could attack more quickly and avoid a shot.
"No one had lasted so long fighting against me... I must admit that you aren't that bad for a young man." Said Raven, her expression was calm but she was showing a small smile. Her tone of voice sounded professional.
"Yeah... I have to say you're pretty good." Snake said calmly, he was enjoying the fight the same way as Raven. He had fought against students in Beacon and terrorists but never a professional Huntress.
Despite talking for a brief moment, they were still in the same position, with a sword in Snake's neck, and a handgun in Raven's face.
"How about if we resolve this in a fair way?" Said Raven, as she slowly retired her sowrd just an inch from Boss's neck.
"Yeah... all right." Snake accepted, and slowly put down his gun, as he took a few steps away from Raven.
Raven slowly placed her sword on the scabbard, and soon she took what was a knife, similar to a karambit. The blade was long, and the color was black, just like the handle. Because of the details of the knife it could be assumed that Raven was the one who created the knife.
Snake placed the M1911 on the holster, and only kept the knife ln his right hand. And stayed in a combat stance, while Raven did the same.
Big Boss and Raven were walking slowly in circles, preparing to make a movement to fight, either to attack or defend themselves. But that ended soon when Snake was the first to attack, he moved forward and tried to make a direct attack on Raven's chest, but she used her knife to hit Snake's knife and avoid the attack. Snake and Raven were attacking and defending themselves several times as their knifes clashed, creating sparks from the clash of the knifes.
Despite Snake and Raven were using knives, soon both began to exchange blows with their hands and legs. Raven took Snake by the arm, and gave Snake two consecutive kicks, the first in the chest and the second in the stomach. Raven was pretty fast, and even with CQC, for Snake it was complicated. But not impossible. Snake, took Raven by the leg, when she was going to make a third kick, then Snake hitted her in the face with his fist. But Raven, when she received the punch in her face, she used her flexibility and managed to kick Snake in the face. After receiving the attacks both took a few steps back.
After that punch Raven growled a little, she soon made a frontal attack with her knife, but Snake, from below hit with his knife Raven's knife, then hit her with his elbow in the stomach and took her by the arm to throw her at the ground. But Raven once again reacted quickly, without problems she flipped while holding Snake's arm, her feet touched the floor without problems, and after taking Snake's wrist, Raven slashed Snake's chest with her knife. At the same time Snake tried to attack Raven in the face with his knife.
"Argh!" Snake took a few steps after he received the attack, but he was surprised to notice that he was bleeding, the chest of his sneaking suit was cut. Snake did not know what material Raven's knife could be made of to be able to cut him, but the Aura began to do his thing, although that wound would leave a scar, it began tl be healed.
While Raven watched Snake being hurt, she soon felt something slide down her cheek, she brought a finger to her cheek to know what it was. And seeing it she noticed it was blood. She had a very small cut on the cheek, but still it let out a small drop of blood. Raven was confused, and at the same time surprised.
"Not bad... it's the first time I bleed in a long time... I have to admit that you impress me, Snake." Instead of being angry, Raven was slightly smiling. The idea of fighting against someone who was almost at her level made her feel a slight joy because of the battle.
Snake was staying again in his combat stance, by that time the Aura healed his wound, but he still had blood on his chest and part of the suit. But Snake could still fight.
"There is nothing wrong in accepting defeat, Snake, after all, what we have to do in this world is survive." Raven stated.
"I can do this all day." Snake said calmly, with a small smile in his face, his gaze and stance implied that he was still ready to continue the fight.
"There is no shame in fighting to survive and live another day, I respect that." Raven, after saying that just smiled in a sadistic way. "But don't expect me to be merciful!" And as she said that, Raven moved fast to where Snake was.
As if time had stopped, Big Boss quickly thought about how he could defeat Raven, she was quick, but he was already learning to predict her attacks, and the only way he could defeat her would be using CQC, but he had to respond to her attacks quickly. So the only option was to counter-attack and be on the offensive.
Raven was facing Snake again, and from below she used her knife to attack Snake on the head, but quickly Snake managed to take Raven by the wrist, and using his free hand he took Raven from the back of his neck, so he could hit her with the knee in the face. Raven took a few steps back, and when Snake was about to attack her with the knife, she flipped back when the blade almost cutted her lips, but Snake continued moving toward her to not let her escape.
Snake tried to give Raven a hook kick in the neck, which she avoided by ducking, and then she jumped to the sky, she did it fast and for Snake the swordswoman dissapeared, but she appeared once more behind Snake, she had landed silently and soon with her knife in her hand she moved towards Snake. Being close enough with her knife she tried to attack Snake in the neck.
But Snake at the very last moment ducked, then turned around and hited Raven with his knee. The swordswoman let out a slight shout of pain. It was then that Snake decided to use CQC, quickly and consecutively began using his fists to hit Raven in the face and chest, and subsequently kicking in the waist and legs, all the attacks were to vital points, where to even though she had Aura she could feel the pain of the attacks and how her body became weaker. Raven tried to block the attacks but it was useless. It all ended when Snake gave Raven a roundhouse kick in the head and then an ax kick on her chin, and ending with Snake with his two arms taking Raven's arm and throwing her against the nearest tree.
Raven let out a cry of pain when her back had hitted the tree, the Aura took most of the impact but still hurted. Raven was in the floor against the tree, her eyes closed. She did not understand what had happened, she had the advantage and suddenly Snake began to make those strange movements, Raven recalled that Snake had used something similar, in Vale's dock. Raven began to open her eyes, and at that moment her Aura healed the pain, most of it. She began to stood on her feet, and in front of her was that young man.
"...Not bad... You've really impressed me, you've exceeded my expectations... Congrats, you've passed my test."
"Your test? What are you talking about?" Snake asked confused but still with his combat stance.
"I wanted to prove for myself if you really were someone strong, otherwise maybe I would have killed you, but not only did you prove that I was wrong... now you have my full attention." Said Raven with a small smile, seemed that she was proud for some reason.
"I guess that now you wanna talk."
"But not here... My camp's up to north, if you want to talk, I'll be waitin' for you there."
"You were the one who brought me here because you wanted to talk to me." Snake stated.
"And now it's you who wants answers, isn't it? I told you, Ozpin is not the man you think he is. And you are fool for trusting him. I would know, I trusted him once, too..." Raven said, with slight disgust in her tone of voice.
Snake was aware of that, and probably Ozpin knew about that, but it doesn't mean that Snake trusts Raven because of that.
"And besides... you want to know why I look like your friend Yang, right?" At saying that Raven gave a small smirk, as she took her sword and slashed it in the air to open a portal. "Don't keep me waiting."
Snake tried to reach Raven, but by that moment she stepped in the portal and dissapeared. Snake was completely alone under the broken moon, several thoughts were in Snake's head, several questions. And to have an answer you would have to go north.
But those thoughts were interrupted when he heard his scroll ring, he took it and answered after he saw the name. "Ocelot."
"Snake? Where are you? Are you okay?" Asked Ocelot, he was worried but his tone of voice sounded calm.
"You already know that." Snake answered dryly with a small smile.
"I know, just wanted to confirm, where are you?"
"Not in Vale anymore, I'm in the Sanus continent."
"Sanus? Why did that woman take you to a place outside of Vale?"
"You know what happend?"
"Yeah, Ruby looked for me and Ozpin to explain what happend."
Snake remembered what had happened, he tried to explain to Ruby what real life was, how heroes are usually only the ones who end up in the worst way. He didn't regret telling Ruby, but he thought maybe it was rude. In the end he just let out a sigh.
"I'll send a Bullhead for you, it might take hours, in the meantime you-"
"I can't go back in this moment, I still have something to do."
"You mean that woman? She's still alive?"
"Hey, I'm not a killer, you know? And I have to resolve a problem with her."
"Heh just saying... call me if you need something, once you're done I'll call a pilot to pick you up. Oh and Snake..."
"Yeah?"
"Team RWBY is worried for you... don't keep them waiting."
"Don't worry... I'll be back before you know it." Said Snake calmly, sure about his words.
"Take care, Snake."
And just like that the call ended. Snake still had to go to where Raven was, and get the answers he wanted, after all, he is away from home, and he wouldn't have another chance for something like this, and if he can learn something about Ozpin he wouod find out. One way or another.
For now, it seemed the night would be long.
End of Chapter 17
● Omake ●
Tactical Box Operations
After Weiss came back after having several PTSD because of the cardboard boxes she saw in TV, Big Boss decided to continue to instruct team RWBY in the use of cardboard boxes for tactics in the future.
"Another important thing is while a cardboard box can be used to hide from enemies, it can also be used as a weapon to surprise the enemy when they least expect it." Snake explained.
"That sounds more like a ninja trick." Blake mentioned, while her arms were crossed.
"Well... I heard some ninjas use smoke to escape from the enemy, right? Then I guess this is the right cardboard box for you." Said Snake as he gave Blake one of the cardboard boxes.
Blake was a little confused when she received the Cardboard box, but it seems that Snake had an idea.
"I guess is the perfect box for your cat-titude, Blakey." Said Yang with a small smirk.
And everyone groaned, but Snake smiled a little.
— l — l — l —
Several bad puns later...
Snake, Ruby, Weiss and Yang were hiding in the cardboard boxes, one for each person, they watched from afar while Blake was in a cardboard box on the sidewalk of the Academy. They were waiting for someone naive and clumsy enough to wonder what a cardboard box was in the middle of the sidewalk.
"Ugh... we really have to wait for someone to be that stupid to check on the inside of the cardboard box?" Said the heiress, she, like the others, was on a cardboard box.
"Chill out ice queen, this might be funny." Said Yang with a small smirk in her face.
"I just hope Blake is careful." Said a worried Ruby.
And it seemed they already had their first victim, and that was Jaune, the leader of team JNPR.
"Oh-oh..." That came from Ruby.
"On second thought... I think this is going to be fun." Said Weiss as she had a small evil smirk in her face.
"I wonder why is that..." Yang rolled her eyes as she heard the ice queen.
Meanwhile, Jaune was walking in the sidewalk, thinking whatever he thinks in his free time, maybe in how get date with the SDC heiress, but whatever he was thinking had to be put aside when in front of him there was a cardboard box.
"What is a cardboard box doing here...?" Said the blonde leader to himself. He was curious about why a cardboard box was there, so he approached until he used his hand and put it in the bottom of the box, until he began to lift it, unfortunately, the cardboard box quickly exploded, letting out a large amount of smoke in the air.
"What the heck!? Is this a prank!?" Jaune was coughing, while backing out of the smoke radius. Believing it was a stupid joke from Cardin, the blond decided to leave the place.
Once the smoke dispersed in the air, the only thing left was the cardboard box, which remained intact. However, Blake was no longer there. The cat faunus descended from a tree close to the rest of her team, to which the rest came out of the cardboard boxes.
"That was awesome!" Ruby was the first to talk.
"You could've hit him in the face for me, you know?" Weiss complained but with a small smile in her face.
"That was good Blake, I wasn't able to see you move after the smoke came out." Said Snake, with a small smile.
"Thanks, it was a pretty interesting technique to try." Blake admitted. Who would say that what for her was a simple childhood toy could become an infiltration and escape tool?
— l — l — l —
"That seems... interesting."
Ozpin was watching from the window of his office how Snake and team RWBY were training with cardboard boxes, he wasn't able to hear what they were saying but he supposed Snake gave them the idea of using cardboard boxes as tools to hide and surprise the enemy.
And speaking of cardboard boxes, Ozpin turned to see where a cardboard box was in his office, close to the elevator, while looking at it curiously, but slightly shook his head while smiling a little. "Now, now... I'm too old to be playing with cardboard boxes..."
After saying those words, Ozpin heard that the elevator was going up to his office, and after arriving, Glynda Goodwitch came out of the elevator.
"Ozpin! We have to talk! Once again you are spending ridiculous amounts of lien in coffee from Mistral! You have any idea-!" Glynda was was reading some papers that appeared to be a list of food and supplies that came to Beacon, but when she realized, Ozpin was nowhere to be found. "Ugh...! Where is he!?"
After that, Glynda left the office, while making heavy footsteps on the floor with her heels. The sound of the elevator going down was the last thing it was heard, or rather, the last thing Ozpin heard. After waiting a few seconds, Ozpin left the cardboard box he had seen before, while letting out a sigh.
"You'll never understand how good is the Mistralean coffee, Glynda..." Ozpin muttered, although he knew that sooner or later he would have to face the music.
But for now... he just kept drinking coffee.
The end...?
(A/N)
And there goes Chapter 17, I was planning to make it longer but I think that at the moment that would be enough. And so, Snake now knows or thinks Raven is Yang's mother and now he is going to look for her. To be honest it was fun to write the battle scenes and hope you liked 'em.
Also, team RWBY is really depressed because of Snake, maybe a little exageratted, but I think is okay like that.
■ Raven... out of character? ■
Honestly one of the problems in writing about Raven is that, as we know, she is manipulative and selfish, in addition to being considered a coward and run whenever she wants. In addition to how we know (at the moment) she has no intention of approaching Yang, and being honest is something that for this story I want to change a little, I do not want to change it dramatically and I don't wanna change her to a kind and gentle mother who makes cookies, but I also don't want to describe her like the worst bitch-ass mother in Remnant.
Also, the way Raven acts as you know is because for her the others, like Qrow or Raven are just people in her way who causes nothing more than problems, but as you can guess she doesn't think the same for Snake.
I guess that in the next episode you'll understand what I'm trying to say.
■ Are the Omakes canon? ■
Quick answer: Yes, but I prefer to write them as a side story instead of the main story, because of the funny and/or absurd of the situation, there are some mentions of the Omakes in the main story (like the decoys and Velvet) but I don't try to fully reflect what happens in the omakes in the main story.
...
...
So... to be honest that is all for now, hope you enjoyed the chapter, remenber to put follow the Story and add it to favorites in the case you haven't.
Take care folks and see you later amigos!