Enemy Revealed
Red returns to the apartment and Onyx walks out his room to greet him.
"Who's helping us on the job?" Onyx asks.
"Two friends. You remember Taupe and Ecru?" Red says.
Red walks Onyx to the room that will become an armory for the Rider. At this point in time it is a heist planning room. Red places the bank blueprints on a table with a map of Vale. The two then come up with a plan.
"We enter the bank two times." Onyx states.
"Why twice? That's stupid." Red says.
"The first time is while in the Shadow Zone. We go in to sneak in the bags and get an actual look at the bank security, possibly steal the guard schedule, and learn the patrols patterns." Onyx explains
"And the second time is the actual heist." Red states.
Onyx nods
"I knew you would be a great partner." Red states as walks over to a cage.
"What are you doing?" Onyx asks.
"Letting the monkey out." Red states with a smirk.
Present Day
"What do you mean he went riding!?" Ruby yells at her teammate.
Team RWBY is in their dorm discussing Onyx's absence.
"That's what he told me to tell you." Blake states.
"I told you we couldn't trust him." Weiss says.
"And you just let him leave!?" Ruby asks.
"What was she supposed to do? Fight him?" Yang asks, rhetorically.
"I don't know." Ruby says as she sits on Weiss' bed.
"Why do you care so much about him?" Weiss asks.
"He saved my life and I feel like..." Ruby begins.
"What? That you need to do the same?" Weiss asks, "He doesn't deserve to be saved."
"Wow. That one was harse." Yang says.
"He's trying to find the right path. I feel like deep down he is a good person." Ruby declares.
The Rider returns to Red's penthouse through the window. Once inside he finds Red.
"Onyx! Your alive!" Red exclaims.
"You sound surprised." The Rider states.
The Rider glares at Red.
"When the explosion happen I thought... What's wrong?" Red asks, noticing the Rider's glare.
"Where were you?" The Rider asks.
"What do you mean?" Red responds.
"After the explosion, why didn't you come to get me?" The Rider questions.
"I couldn't find you." Red lies.
"The Bullhead has a tracking device set to find my belt, which I was wearing." The Rider states.
"It must have been damaged." Red says.
"It's been days and you didn't hear news of my death or capture, so why didn't you look for me during that time?" The Rider asks.
"How? With a damaged tracker?" Red ask, rhetorically.
The Rider head back to the armory. He summons the locker. Onyx removes most of his armor, leaving only the jumpsuit and boots, and places them on the mannequin. Onyx heads to his room. He sits at his desk and rests his mechanical arm onto it. Onyx then opens a drawer, pulls out a screwdriver, and begins tinkering with the arm.
When Onyx finishes, he integrated a scroll into the forearm of the appendage. Onyx also connected the arm to the Tactical HUD in his mask, allowing him to use them seamlessly. Onyx activates the scroll on his wrist and checks Umbra's files. There were still hundreds of files that Onyx had not seen. He looks for the folder with the name of all registered members of Umbra. The list is in alphabetical order. Onyx looked through it once before to find Rubine, but found no one with that name. Onyx goes to "Re..." and stops when he finds "Red Mordant". Onyx then realizes why Red took him in, Umbra, even when disbanded, couldn't allow a weapon as powerful as the one's they created to roam free, so they had Red take care of Onyx and show him a false life that still honed his skills. Onyx had planted a tracker on Red the day he started working with him again, he can't anyone. Onyx checks the locations the tracker has been for more than thirty minutes. Onyx finds one location, a place that Red has been to for a total of ten hours since he was tagged. Another interesting location appears, the factory.
The Rider suits up and flies to the location Red had visited so often. It is an airship crashed in a forest. Onyx lands the Bullhead and activates it's Active Camouflage, the Tactical Cloak was already active. Onyx boards the airship and walks to the bridge. Sitting in the command chair is Rubine who was waiting for his arrival.
"So, you took the bait." Rubine states.
"No more games!" The Rider says.
The Rider starts to approach Rubine.
"But we already started playing." Rubine jokes.
"Do you think this is a joke?" The Rider asks.
The Rider then reaches out to grab Rubine, but his hand phases through Rubine. Rubine laughs.
"Holograms, but don't worry. I'm on this ship. And we're ready for takeoff." Rubine says.
The moment his sentence finishes, the airship activates. The airship then begins to fly out of the crater in the forest.
"What's your plan?" The Rider questions.
"Wouldn't you like to you? Come find me and I'll tell you, Rider." Rubine says as the hologram disappears.
The Rider activates a console and uses it to trace the location of Rubine's signal. It is located in the brig. He then begins running through the ship.
Once the Rider arrives he looks around for Rubine. Rubine whistles to get his attention. The Rider turns and fires his pistol at him. The shot barely misses.
"Your aim isn't what it used to be." Rubine taunts.
The Rider drew his second pistol and takes aim. He prepares to pull the trigger, but is stopped by Rubine's words.
"The tough go riding." Rubine says.
The Rider fingers stops mere millimeters away from pushing the triggers far enough to fire. The Rider then stands straight up, almost like a machine.
"Did you really think Umbra would make a weapon as powerful as you and not have ways to control you when you don't cooperate?" Rubine asks.
The Rider has lost all control of his body, he's Rubine's puppet.
"You wanted to know my plan. You will figure it out when I use you to execute it." Rubine states.
Rubine starts walking out of the brig, but stops and looks at the Rider.
"Come, we have a lot of work to do... Rider." Rubine says.