Next chapter, yay. I hope you all like this chapter, I did some character development that might seem a bit rushed. I hope it doesn't bother anyone.
Enjoy.
"Alright brat, we are here. The communication tower of the city." Sasori said as the artistic duo stood in front of the incredible high tower. The puppet master enjoyed the sight of incredible scientific advances while his partner however had doubts.
"My man, I don't want ruin the sight for you but I still don't understand why we are here." The blonde artist question which annoyed Sasori.
"Communication is the key of every organization so it's obvious that the white fang are using some form of communication. If they use scrolls then under a suppressed signal that the tower doesn't register, so we will hack into the server and scan for any white fang activity." Sasori explained as if this was simply child's play.
Deidara thought for a moment before he noticed something odd in this plan. "Aren't we observing everyone in Vale? All communication and all secrets completely open to us?"
"Are you planning on abusing this power?" Was the puppet masters answer.
"Of course not. I'm just wandering how we are getting Minerva into the building." The blonde artist said as he pointed with his thumb over his shoulder.
Sasori simply waved his hand dismissively. "Please, this will only take a moment and I'm sure she can handle that. Right Minerva? ...Minerva?"
That was the moment they realized that Minerva was no longer behind them. Both Akatsuki members slowly started to pale.
Deidara was the first one to speak, or better yelled. "How the hell did we lose her!? She is like two times our size and made out of metal!"
Sasori also started to panic. "Shit! Shit! Shit! She was my responsibility, what are we going to do now!?"
Deidara pulled out his scroll out of his pocket. "We should call the other, they will help us find them."
"Good Idea! Let's tell them we lost the person who had once magical powers, survived getting part of her soul ripped out and is the first person who managed to have the rest of her weekend soul be completely transferred to a Maschine body." Sasori sarcastically answered.
Deidara put the scroll back into the pocket. "They would never let that go."
"No they wouldn't."
"Well what are we supposed to do now?" Deidara asked desperately.
Sasori handed him a strange looking device. It almost looked like a scroll. "Use this and hack into the server. I will search for Minerva."
The puppet master was just about to leave before Deidara asked an important question. "How do. I do that?"
Sasori was already a bit far away but called back to him. "The tower uses scroll to make calls, use the device instead of the scroll and the hack is complete!"
With that Sasori disappeared and left Deidara alone. Worst of all was the fact that there conversation was quiet loud which caused many people to stare at Deidara now. Even the police men nearby were looking at Deidara by the mention of hacking into the tower. The blonde artist laughed weekly. "We are playing a prank on a friend, nothing criminal going on here."
That seemed to calm the people around the tower down as they all resumed there normal activities. Deidara looked down on the device in his hands. This couldn't be so hard right?
Meanwhile Minerva was wandering around with Penny. As they walked Minerva naturally drew the attention of the people around the street to herself. Her companions however didn't seem to care so much about that and continued to ask the puppet several questions.
At first trivial questions like or age to which Minerva could easily answer. As things went however they started to ask other more sensitive topics like what she actually is or how she functions. Do you have your own personality? Did Sasori program you to have likes and dislikes? Do you feel anything physically?
As the questions rose she had to bend the truth a little bit in order to keep her actually identity a secret. All those questions however started to make her question some things herself. Was she really Amber? Maybe she was just supposed to act like Amber. Did Sasori alternate her personality somehow? He had definitely chances to do so.
"Ruby, Penny, please stop with the questions." She finally said while looking at the ground.
"S-sorry. Did we struck a nerve?" Ruby asked worried that she might have actually hurt the puppet.
Penny however decided to press the matter. "Are you sure you are alright? We are friends so you can talk to us."
Minerva smiled weakly. "Don't worry, i guess I'm just having a little identity crisis."
"A what now?" Ruby asked slightly confused how a Robot can have that.
"Just wandering if I am truly myself and not something that can be massed produced." Minerva said with a week laughter.
Penny looked at the ground. "I hope not. It would be a terrible life to be a Maschine otherwise."
"What was that penny?" Ruby asked.
Penny smiled and shook her head. "Nothing Ruby. I'm just... oh no."
Minerva and Ruby looked in the direction that penny was starting and spotted two soldiers from Atlas running there way. Penny started to sprint the other direction and as Ruby noticed this she quickly followed. Minerva Wanted to follow but her heavy body prevented this from happening. The two soldiers ran past her and after the two girls.
Minerva was alone again, cursing her slowly moving body for not being able to run she slowly moved again in a general direction. It couldn't be too hard to find beacon academy right? "Hey you! Stop right there!"
Minerva turned around and saw two other Atlas soldiers standing behind her. "Yes? What do you want?"
Ignoring her they looked at each other and whispered. "Are there others projects about Machines with artificial intelligence?"
"Not sure, but do you believe that anyone els then a Atlas scientist could build such a thing?"
"You right. It looks like highly advanced technology."
The two soldiers turned to her again. "Alright, follow us."
Minerva just looked at them confused. "No."
The two soldiers exchanged glances again. "Alright, this is definitely a prototype gone rough."
Suddenly one of the soldiers pointed his gun at her while the other one went behind her and started pushing her without much success thanks to her weight.
"Ok, this is not going to work. Follow us without a fight, otherwise we will bring you back to command in pieces." The soldiers with the gun said as he amid at her head .
Minerva was terrified and completely froze in place. She couldn't fight back and she couldn't speak, it felt like a stone was stuck in her throat.
"STOP!"
Everyone turned to Sasori who suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "What do you think you are doing you useless pieces of trash to my Minerva!"
The soldiers slightly backed away. "We are retrieving Atlas property."
"No you are not! You are trying to kidnap not property my combat partner!" Sasori yelled at the soldiers.
"What the hell are you talking about? That thing is not alive." Was the answer. Suddenly Sasori punched both of them in there guts wich caused them kneel. In that moment the puppet masters hands grabbed both of there throats.
"If you dare to touch her again, if you just look at her the wrong way I will ad your sorry excuse of body's to my collection." Sasori said with obvious malice in his voice.
Even though they were trained soldiers, the moment Sasori released them they started go walk away. They could not engage in a conflict with a citizen of this city, they had no authority and could easily cause more problems then they could ever fix.
As they disappeared the puppet master turned to his puppet. "Are you alright? Did they hurt you?"
Minerva could only laughed at that, not because this situation was funny but because she worried so much for nothing. The moment she saw Sasori she knew that everything would turn out ok now. This boy saved her life even before she first saw him. This boy fought against two soldiers without a second thought just to protect her. He knew exactly how strong and resisted her body was and jet he asked if they hurt her.
But out of everything that stood out most was his choice of words. He said that she was his and for some reason that made her happy. If she could she would probably blush now. "No, I'm alright now. Thanks to you."
The other artist of the Akatsuki was meanwhile inside of the tower of communication. He was already passed the strange holographic protection of a office lady and was now sitting in front of a terminal.
He put the device Sasori gave him and on the screen was a simple question. Who would you like to call?
Deidara paused for a moment before deciding to call Nagato and Konan if they figured something out already.
It rang and after a couple of seconds Nagato answered. "Deidara? What is it.?"
The artist noticed that Sasori's device started to hum and a small bar on the display started to grow. "Oh, nothing really. Sasori gave me this device to finish our mission, so I basically need to talk until it's full."
"Hmmm, Alright. By the way were is Sasori? I thought that he would be responsible for this job." Nagato asked.
Normally that would be true, Sasori's was the fist one of the Akatsuki to really grasp the idea of the internet and how everything worked. "Well, he is occupied with a little complication. Nothing that could jeopardize the mission but something that needs to be taken care of."
"Good, we should take care of all problems if possible." Was Nagato's answer. He trusted everyone of the Akatsuki and had no reason to question what problems there are and how they took care of it.
Deidara laughed. "Don't worry, we got this. By the way, how is your mission going?"
Nagato sighed. "Not to great, we know about there next generation products but not how many they brought. We will probably infiltrate the docks as soon as it gets darker."
In that moment Sasori's device gave a little bell sound, indicating that the program was done. "Good luck with that, it seems our mission is done. See you back at beacon."
"Won't need it but thanks anyway." Was Nagato's responds before he hung up. Deidara got up and grabbed the device. He was just about to exist the tower until he suddenly bumped into the heiress of the Schnee dust company.
Immediately both took a step back from each other. A awkward silence followed were no one said anything until both of them tried to Sau something at the same time which made them stop mid way in the sentence.
"Sorry, what did you want to say?" Deidara asked trying to be as charming as possible.
"Nothing, I was just wandering what you were doing here." Weiss answered.
"Well I was just running a little ehrend and now I wanted to get myself a little coffee, a way of rewarding myself. Care to join me?" The blonde artist answered with a smile
Weiss thought for a moment before answering. "I don't know, you are known as a brutal killer. What would people think If the heiress drinking coffee with you."
Deidara chuckle. "If anyone asks we will tell them I threatened to blow you up otherwise."
"That seems like a good lie to tell whoever asks." The heiress answered while agreeing to have a coffee with the blonde artist.
The hours passed and the immortal duo tore through the darker and shadier parts of the city one after another. The moon hung over in the sky while they found themselves inside of a disco, run by a small gang.
Without much of a fight the guards were whipped out on the dance floor, some of them wiggling in pain while others were either unconscious or dead. Neither of the immortal duo bathed to check if there were any casualties.
"Now start talking." Kakuzu order as he stood above the leader of the gang, a bearded man that went with the alias 'junior'.
"I told you I don't know anything about the white fang." The gang leader coughed.
Kakuzu sighed as he put one foot on junior's head while putting his hands into his pockets. "I'm starting to get really tired of not getting any information the entire night."
"Come one man, we can have a deal. I can give you whatever you want." Junior pleaded.
Kakuzu applied pressure on junior's head with his foot. "Here is the deal. Tell me what I want to know and you live, simple right?"
"If you want him dead anyway, can I use him for a sacrifice? It's been way to long." Hidan called from behind the counter. He was currently looking at all the different liquor offers they had. Sadly it was quite disappointing, nothing really that makes ones throat burn.
"Can't you just use one of his goons?" Kakuzu called back.
"I'm afraid not, lord Jashin would be fucking pissed if I give him simple small fries after such a long time." Hidan answered.
Kakuzu turned back to junior. "Today is your lucky day, I won't squash your head. Rather you will be stabbed and impaled repeatedly in a bloody sacrifice to a bloodthirsty god if you don't give me some information I want."
Junior was fearing for his life when suddenly the door open and Yang together with a blue haired companion entered the room. They quickly realized what was happening, Yang looked at them with pure rage in her eyes while her companion nervously grabbed his gun. "What the hell are you doing."
Kakuzu raised his foot just to give one powerful kick to juniors head, knocking him out. "We are done here, let's go Hidan."
Hidan followed his partner towards the exit until Yang stopped them in there tracks. "I want an explanation."
"M-maybe we shouldn't anger the scary people alright Yang?" Her companion asked frightened.
"Sip it Neptune." Yang ordered.
Kakuzu looked down at Yang. "Maybe you should listen to your friend. He seems to know when it's the time to not annoy me."
Both of them continued to stare at one another until Hidan decided to unexpectedly play the voice of reason. "We have wasted enough time already Kakuzu, we won't find any information on the white fang fagotts here."
"What do you guys want with the white fang?" Yang asked with suspicion.
Hidan shrug with his shoulder. "Not offer them friendship bracelets that's sure as shit."
Yang continued to not break eye contact with Kakuzu. "So you want to murder them like that time at the docks."
Kakuzu chuckled. "Ripping the head of the beast of is better than caging a few parts of its body."
In that moment Yang's scroll vibrates wich she immediately took. It was Blake's that came from the scroll. "We need help! We are being attack by a robot! We are heading towards the highway!"
Yang closed the scroll and looked over to Neptune. "Let's go." Saying that they rushed towards the exit, leaving the Akatsuki members alone.
"What do you think Hidan?" Kakuzu asked his partner.
The immortal looked over his shoulder to junior and sighed. "As much as I want to sacrifice someone, having the chance to fight a actual opponent seems too good to be true."
"And a lot more productive. We should hurry." Kakuzu answered. The Akatsuki members left the club in hopes to fight this robot and in hopes that it might be a actual challenge.
A little bit earlier at a abandoned warehouse two other Akatsuki members were about to enter the white fang meeting that Roman located for them. Kisame decided to wrap his blade around his body, underneath his clothes to hide his weapon while Itachi reluctantly put on the white fluffy cat ears on.
They were about to walk towards the entrance when they suddenly they spotted two pare of eyes looking at them. It was Blake and her Fanus friend Sun. They both walked towards the Akatsuki members while the cat glared at Itachi. "What do you want? Are you here to kill more of our people?"
"If they don't try to kill us then we don't have to." Itachi calmly answered.
"And what is with those eras? You do realize that this is extremely offensive to pretend to be a Fanus with fake cat ears." Blake said with venom in her voice.
Kisame chuckled. "Now that I think about it it is quite offensive. I am even so offended that I might cry a bit."
Itachi glared at his partner with a little smug smile. "What kind of a shark has such a soft skin that he would cry? Now that I think about it, wasn't it your idea to dress up like this? Next time we infiltrate human we will color your entire skin."
Kisame only laughed at the idea of completely dipping into a container of color just to look human. Blake and Sun seemed to be completely astonished that these two could laugh in a situation like this. They were just about to enter a building full of white fang members and they act like they were treating it like a simple walk in the park.
Itachi noticed that some noise came from inside the building, the meeting should be starting soon. They were about to enter until Blake stopped them and gave them two grim masks. "You don't want to be noticed right away."
Kisame grind. "How very considerate of you. The white fang should thank you."
"You people are scary." Sun muttered as they entered the building.
Itachi, Kisame, Blake and Sun were able to quickly mingle with the mass of white fang members. Soldiers were lingering in every corner as a muscular white fang members entered the stage.
"Brother and sister of the white fang. We have gathered here today to show you all the power we have gathered thanks to each and every one of us Fanus who suffered under the boots of man. Let me introduce you one of our powerful allies, Roman Torchwick."
Roman entered the stage and was immediately greeted with disapproval of the audience simply because he was a human. "Please, listen before you judge me. I have the same hatred as you do, the hatred against the people at the top who look down at us from there high and mighty thrones. Since we are at the topic, I have swiped some pieces that protect said thrones."
With that Roman revealed the newest model of Atlas military arsenal, the Paladin. The Audience started up at the massive war Maschine in completely astonishment while the Akatsuki members simply shrugged. The muscular white fang member stepped forward again. "But this is only one of allies. Today we have another one here with a serious massage to us all. Please greet our Fanus brother Orochimaru."
A pale boy with long black hair and snake eyes entered the stage, he appeared to be not much older then the Akatsuki members themselves.
"Greetings my Fanus brother and sister. I won't take much time since we have a lot to discuss today, but I have to give you this warning. Remember the massacre by the docks not to long ago? The one responsible was Itachi uchiha of the group known as the Akatsuki. I knew this boy for a long time and I must warn you to stay out of his way and any of the Akatsuki. Itachi is known in my home for the brutal murder of our neighbors and his own parents and the other aren't any better. Spread my warning." Orochimaru warned the audience.
Naturally the people started to talk to one another, so did Blake and Sun who looked over to Itachi. Itachi muttered to himself, but loud enough for the cat and the monkey to here. "You had to bring this story up, didn't you?"
Blake looked up to the stage Again only to see Roman looking at here. Immediately she concluded that they were spotted. She pulled her weapon and shot out the lights, which caused a slight panic since everyone had night vision thanks to there Fanus heritage.
She and Sun jumped out of the window and were only moments later pursued by the Paladin who Charged through the wall. At the building the people started to run to the exits while Itachi and Kisame fought against the stream of people, trying to find Orochimaru.
Sadly after the people were gone so was the snake. Kisame looked over to the hole in the wall. "Maybe we should help them?"
Itachi looked over to the empty stage were only Roman remained, signaling them to follow him. "No, it seems like we aren't finished here yet. I will however ask Konan and Nagato."
Itachi pulled out his scroll and dialed Nagato, however he did not answer. Kisame did the same but called Konan, she didn't answer as well. The shark looked over to his partner. "Should we be worried?"
"I hope not." Answered Itachi.
At the docks were the Atlas military was stationed with there massive airships two Akatsuki members were going from container to container closer to one of the airships. The hole area was blocked of and paroles were wandering the area, searching for any intruders.
Nagato and Konan decided to sneak closer to one patrol in order to eavesdrop one there conversation. "Can you believe this boring job?"
"What do you mean? Going to this city ore patrolling?"
"Both of course. I mean, why are we here? It's like generally ironwood try's to have a dick measuring contest with the headmaster of beacon. And what are we guarding here anyway? Some models that aren't up on the shelves jet, who wants to steel that? They are all controlled by Atlas."
"It's not like nobody comes here, I caught two people yesterday."
"Wait what? How come I don't know about that?"
"I let them go."
"Ok, but why?"
"They were just some horny couple trying to make out in a dangerous environment."
"Is that what's now hip with the kids?"
"Hip? Who uses the word hip anymore?"
"Shut up."
With that the two guards continued there patrol. Nagato looked over to Konan sand whispered. "Did you hear that?"
"What? There conversation on the newest models ore what younger people do here?" Konan replied.
"The newer model thing, lets go further and see what kind of models they didn't put up for show today." Nagato answered.
They continued there stealth mission without any problems, going from one cover to the next. They easily managed to avoid every guard fluently and without much of a problem thanks to there days in the shinobi world. Sadly they couldn't knock out a few guards and make there lives easier because they communicate in a regular manner with there helmets to there operatives. They tell them there status and there location, if they were to knock them out the other guards would immediately investigate.
Thankfully the two Akatsuki members didn't need to do any of that. Unfortunately as they just went around the corner they spotted a big black cat. The feline looked at them and started hissing at them.
Nagato tried to calm the cat but it only screamed at them and ran away. To there dismay this alert the guards. "Who is there!"
The two Akatsuki members were sandwiched between two containers and on either side they heard foot steps quickly approaching. Nagato looked up to see if they could hide on top of the container but there were stacked to high to jump it. They could run up the container but hat wouldn't be fast enough and the guards would see them as a threat if they saw this unusual way of escape. "Any ideas Konan?"
The blue haired girl thought fast. They would be definitely caught, how do they make sure they don't see them as a threat. The conversation of the two guard popped into her mind. "We are just a horny couple."
"What!?" Nagato almost screamed. Konan lunged at him and pressed him against the container. In the same moment she pressed her lips onto his. After only a moment she realized what she did and looked into his surprised eyes while still locking lips.
The guards arrived and only saw there two completely froze in place and staring at each other. The guards exchanged glances and left those two alone.
After they left Konan slowly moved away from Nagato. Both were blushing heavily and continued to stare at each other, not saying a single word.
Konan wanted to take a step back but Nagato suddenly grabbed her and spun her around. As she was pressed against the container she looked surprised at Nagato who also looked quite surprised what he had done. However he did not stop and pressed his lips against hers. Even though she was surprised she quickly gave in to the kiss, not long after there tongs started to get involved.
Suddenly Nagato's scroll rang. He quickly pulled it out, saw that it was Itachi and put it back. As he put it back Konan pulled him eagerly back into the kiss. After a couple of seconds her scroll rang. She broke the kiss, pulled it out and saw that it was Kisame.
Both were blushing and breathing heavily. "It's Kisame, they are probably in a tough position."
Nagato nodded. "Yeah, looks like they won't be done with there Mission for a while."
Konan blushed even more and started to slightly stutter. "T-that means they won't be back for a while."
Nagato nodded. "Probably."
"W-we are done here. D-do you want to go back into room and g-g-go ...further?" Konan said as she looked away.
Nagato blushed more but slowly took her hands. Without a word they slowly started to walk. Away from the docks, in the direction of beacon were there room awaited and were they would be alone.
After a chase and the separation from Sun and Neptune, Yang Blake and Ruby were standing in front of the Paladin underneath the highway. Ruby looked at her teammates. "Were is Weiss?"
In that moment Deidara and Weiss landed before them while the artist carried the heiress. She looked up to Deidara while here teammates were confused. "What is he doing here and we're did you come from?"
Deidara put down the heiress and smiled. "Both I can answer. We were together at the moment when Blake called, so I offered a lift and my support."
The Paladin looked up and dogged just before a big clay Egal dive-bombed down on it and exploded. Deidara only smirked. "I'm going to have fun turning you into a masterpiece."
In that moment one of Kakuzu's heart monster flew down next to the group. Hidan immediately jumped down and walked over to Deidara. "Go away you blonde shit stain! This is my fight! I am way to frustrated from the lack of fighting that I will give this to you!"
"Screw you, you religious psychopath! I want this fight more than you!" Deidara screamed back.
Right in that moment Minerva fell down next to them and landed on all four. Sasori jumped down from her back and Minerva stood back up on her legs. "Here I was looking at the new to see a robot causing havoc on the highway and i thought to myself what a perfect little change to fight. Yet here I am and see that I have waisted my time completely here since you guys ruined it."
Minerva looked down at Sasori. "At least you have the chance to see a Paladin."
"Yeah, but I'm not impressed." Sasori said as he shook his head.
Yang was now furious. "Could you people take this serious for a moment! That is the best think Atlas can muster and you act like it a toy to play with!"
The Akatsuki members looked at each other and sighed. In a heartbeat Kakuzu took Hidan and threw him at the Paladin while still holding on to his leg with a stretched arm. With one strike the immortal created a hole in the Paladin's body. Immediately afterwards , Kakuzu pulled the immortal back.
Meanwhile the blonde artist created small butterfly's which flew onto Minerva's claws. Sasori made her stretch her arms and with one flick her claws shot out towards the Paladin while still being attached to Minerva through ropes. They hooked themselves on several spots on the Paladins body while one entered the hole Hidan created. With a quick hand sigh the butterflies on the claws exploded, destroying the Paladin. Sasori made Minerva retract her completely undamaged claws.
The immortal looked over to team RWBY. "Thanks for taking away the fun."
Team RWBY could say a word as they just looked at the destruction that the Akatsuki created without even trying. They knew exactly what there parents planned and perfectly synchronized there attacks for massive damage.
"Everyone! Get ready!" Kakuzu suddenly shouted. This got everyone's attention as everyone prepared for combat, even though they didn't know against what they prepared. There was a clapping sound coming out of the smoke were the Paladin once stood.
"Kukuku. Well done my friends. I just knew you are the same bloodthirsty people I knew." Orochimaru said as he exited the smoke.
Hidan laughed maniacally. "Oh! Lord Jashin! The wait is finally over. It's time for a long and painful ritual with the perfect sacrifice!"
Orochimaru just chuckled. "I'm sorry to disappoint your little God but I simply revealed myself so that I can show you and especially Sasori that I far outshine Sasori and his tunnel vision knowledge on puppets."
The snake pulled out a little device from his pocket and pressed it. In that moment he broke into several pieces like he was just a mirror and completely disappeared. Weiss looked at the Akatsuki members. "Who was that? You obviously knew him."
"The traitor of the Akatsuki." Deidara simply replied.
"And what is he to you?" Ruby asked concerned.
The four Akatsuki members answered at the same time. "A head to collect."