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'Thoughts'

"emphasis and scroll"

"Talking"

"Deep Emotion"

(Music)


General POV: 3 Days later

(Shinokuni OST)

On the sixth floor of the Darkness was a penthouse. It had black walls, floors and ceiling. In the center was a high end coffee table coffee table, similar to a Fiorrancio Italian dining table, that was surrounded by a long maroon couch in a "U" formation. To the left of the couch was the bedroom that had bookshelves it the place of walls, all filled with leather bound books protected behind bulletproof glass casings. There was an Olympic Queen sized bed with dark purple sheets. The sheets began to stir as our young cat Faunus awakened, her cat ears twitched as she opened her eyes slowly to adjust to the light, after which she began to stretch. When she finished, she swung her feet off the bed as they landed on the cold floor and walked down to the living area in her black kimono. When she arrived, she saw a plate of eggs and smoked mackerel waiting for her with a note on the side. She sat down and immediately dug in and enjoyed every bite of the meal before her. She sighed as she proceeded to pick up the note left for her and read.

'To Blake Belladonna,

I hope you slept well and enjoyed the little meal I put together, I worked hard on it. I've taken the liberty of sharpening your blade and sending someone to wash your clothes, they're on the chair in the corner. Anyway, as much you're welcome to stay in my room/house, I do believe it's about time you speak with your team. You can't put this off forever, the longer you put this off the harder it will get.

Sincerely, Pitch Black

PS. Your acquaintance, Sun, is waiting for you out front. You should talk to him.'

After she finished reading the note, she set it down before getting dressed and leaving the penthouse. As she walked by the bar she stopped and thanked the bartender before exiting The Darkness. When she came out, Blake came face to face with Sun and brought him to a tea house."

"So, you want to know more about me..." Blake says to Sun, who was holding his cup with his tail.

"Finally, she speaks!" Sun raises his arms in relief. "Nearly two days and you gave me nothing but small talk and weird looks!" Blake responds by giving Sun a firm look. "Yeah, like that."

Blake rolls her eyes before closing them and looking at him sadly. "Sun... Are you familiar with the Red Maw?"

"Of course!" Sun puts down his cup for a moment. "I don't think there's a Faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. I mean sure, the White Fang has calmed down but that doesn't change how they were acting, a bunch of holier-than-thou creeps. The Red Maw has been nothing but a pain in that ass, that Adam guy is a freaking psycho."

Blake sips her drink while listening until she speaks up for the big reveal. "I used to be a member of both of them."

Sun promptly goes cross-eyed and chokes on his drink, making him put it down and wipe his mouth as he holds up a hand to process this information. "Wait a minute, you were a member of the-?!" Suddenly, Sun was cut off by the person at the table next to them.

"You might want to stay silent, not everyone is as accepting as you. So it would probably be for the best if you were to hold your tongue, you aren't alone." They turn to see the person next to them and take in his appearance as sets a Ninjas of Love 3 book down to grab the tea that he had ordered. "Hello Blake, enjoying the tea?".

Sitting down with a leg crossed over the other and staring at them was tall of a young man in his early thirties. The man had a small smirk on his face that said, "I know something you don't". His black hair was long and wavy, reaching his shoulders even whilst the majority is tied up in a very large ponytail similar to Pyrrha. Additionally, his messy bangs all but obscure his dark, slanted eyes. For clothing, he donned a long, jet black jacket trimmed with a midnight-blue flame pattern; the lapels are a matching lighter color as well. The cuffs of his jacket are rolled up, revealing a light-colored inside, which contrasts the black outside of his jacket, and have a black line cutting through the edge of the fabric. The jacket itself is tattered and splits into four torn fabric segments at the tail with a symbol of a Blood Rose in full bloom surrounded by charcoal black thorns . Beneath the jacket, he wears a frilly black v-necked shirt, lined in a lighter color, that closes down the middle and is adorned with a buckle just below his clavicle; just below this is a piece of fabric that he keeps over this shirt but under his jacket, that circles the majority of the lower half of his torso. And lastly, a pair of black loafers and dark grey Khaki's.

Sun just blinks and says, "Uh, who the hell are you supposed to be?"

As Mardy finishes taking a sip of his tea he lets out a satisfied breath, "Ah~, quite nice." He sets his cup down as he directs his attention to the Faunus in front of him, "Apologies, where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Mardy Goodwitch -formerly Mardy Gras-, the school librarian." When he sees that the girl is still tense, gets up and walks towards Blake with the book in hand. He tells her, "Do not worry, I have no intention of dragging you back. Although, I was looking for you. Professor Black had been kind enough to tell me where you were staying."

Blake narrows her eyes and asks, "If you are here to take me back, why try to find me?"

To which he replies after he finished his tea and handed her the book he was reading and an envelope, "To see how you've been doing since your little spat with your teammates. That and to retrieve the copy of Ninjas of Love 3 that you have neglected to return, it was due a week ago. Though, after reading it myself, I think that it may be for the best if you kept it. The others were far superior to this trash and I'd rather not have this among the shelves, didn't even crack the top ten... thousand."

Blake blushed when she realized someone read her porn, she coughs in embarrassment and asks, "What about the envelope?"

Mardy gives her a flat look and says, "Regardless of whether that book was trash or not, that doesn't change the fact that you were late. What you're holding is the bill for the late fee"

He turns to leave, but Blake tried to stop when she asked him, "That doesn't explain how you found me here?"

He left a tip on his table for the waiter as he walked away and told her without turning, "By accident, I just came for the tea."

Sun just looks confused and says, "Well that happened."

Once she was sure he was gone she sighed before moving on, Blake answered Sun, "I was a member for most of my life, actually. You could almost say I was born into it. Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between Humans and the Faunus."

"Of course, despite being promised equality, the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate." Blake continues. "Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as a voice of our people. And I was there."

"I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference. But I was just a youthful optimist. Then, five years ago, our leader stepped down, and Sienna Khan took his place. She had a new way of thinking."

"Suddenly, our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us, hijacking cargo from companies that used Faunus labor. And the worst part was, it was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect... out of fear."

"At some point I joined the Red Maw, hoping that it would be different because someone close to me assured me, but in the end they were worse than the Fang ever was and I left after a week." Blake says. "I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence, and instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am: a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little black bow." She wiggles her cat ears beneath the fashionable disguise to demonstrate.

Sun slowly comes to terms with this. "So... have you told your friends any of this?"

Blake merely looks down in shame and shakes her head, "No, but I think Pitch knows more than he led on." 'Why else would he bring up my last name?'

(Shinokuni OST) end


With Team RWBY and Dusty

"Blake!" Ruby shouts

"Blake!" Yang also calls out.

Ruby continues to scream. "Blake! Where are you!?"

"Blake!" Yang yells.

"Weiss, Dusty." Ruby turns to her partner, annoyed. "Why aren't you guys helping!"

Dusty, knowing that Weiss would make a snide remark, beat her to it, "It's because calling her name will only tell her where not to go, as for Weiss she just a big tsundere and doesn't know how to to vent without coming off as a complete bitch."

Weiss turned red with anger and embarrassment as she yelled, "Well pardon me if I think we should call the police."

Ruby crosses her arms in irritation. "Ugh, Weiss..."

"It was just an idea!" Weiss responds.

Dusty smirks as he walks next to Yang and says, "Notice that she didn't even deny it."

Dusty gives him a flat look and says, "Oh yeah, because telling them that our teammate ran away from school after she accidentally revealed that she might be involved with either the White Fang or the Red Maw would go so smoothly." Weiss looks away after seeing the flaw in that plan.

Yang follows behind Ruby. "Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to any conclusions."

Weiss follows behind Yang. "I think that when we hear it, you'll all realize I was right!"

Penny sneaks up behind Weiss. "And I think Weiss' hair looks wonderful today!"

Ruby screams in surprise as she and her partner and siblings turn to see the orange haired girl. "Penny! Where did you come from!?"

"Hey guys! What are you up to?" Penny cheerfully ignores the question.

"Uhh..." Ruby takes some time to understand the situation.

"We're looking for our friend Blake." Yang explains in Ruby's stead.

"Ooooh, you mean the Faunus girl!" Penny responds.

Ruby, Weiss, and Yang all stare at Penny for a bit.

"Wait, how did you know that?" Ruby asks.

"Uhh, the cat ears?" Penny says as she points to her head.

"What cat ears? She wears a... booooww" Yang eventually trails off in realization.

The new awareness leaves them in silence as a tumbleweed blows through in the wind.

"She does like tuna a lot..." Ruby whispers to Yang.

Dusty smirks briefly as he feigns ignorance and says, "Wait you mean you didn't know?"

Team RW_Y spins to the elder rose as they yell at him, "Wait, you knew!?" "Why didn't you tell us sooner!?" "When did you figure it out!?"

Dusty assumes a thinking pose and says, "Hm~ let's see. So today's Thursday so~... Always." He struggles not to laugh at their dumbfounded expressions and says, "I thought that between her eyes narrowing into slits, her absurd love of fish, perpetual 'Screw you' face, bow twitching, and eye color would have made it obvious."

Weiss's eye twitches before she asks, "What does eye color have to do with any of this?"

What Dusty was about to say was cut off when Penny said, "Statistic show that it's more likely to find a person with silver eyes than a human with yellow eyes while yellow eyes are most common among few species of Faunus." Receiving Ohs from the girls before Penny moves on, "So, do you know where she is?" Penny asks.

"We don't know. She's been missing since Friday." Ruby replies.

Penny gasps "That's terrible!" she approaches an uncomfortable Ruby, holding her in place to show her seriousness. "Well, don't you worry Ruby, my friend! I won't rest until we find your teammate!"

Ruby does her best to continue smiling. "Uh, that's really nice of you, Penny, but we're okay! Really! Right, guys?"

She looks over Penny to direct her question at Yang and Weiss only to see nothing but air and her brother, who shrugged as they watch the tumbleweed blow past them once more in the background.

"It sure is windy today!" Penny comments.


Alleyway with Blake and Sun

(Anun-Dark Clouds OST)

"So, what's the plan now?" Sun asks, with his hands behind his head.

Blake contemplates this for a moment. "I still doubt that the White Fang is behind these robberies with their latest actions. It must be the Red Maw, but why would they need that much Dust now."

"Well if that's the case, why don't we just find out?" He lowers his arms and paces in front of Blake as he continues his theory. "I mean... the only way to prove that they're the one doing it, is to go to the place where they would most likely to go if they were to do it, and find them there! Right?"

"The only thing is, I've no idea where that would be." Blake replies.

"Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a huge shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas." Sun tells her.

"How huge?" Blake asks.

"Huge." Sun emphasizes by making arm motions. "Big Schnee Company freighter."

"You're sure?" Blake asks while receiving a nod from him before heading to the docks, never aware of the creature watching them before it disappeared into a shadow.


The Rose twins and Penny

"So, Blake is your friend?" Penny asks.

Ruby sighs as they make their way down the sidewalk. "Yes, Penny."

"But you're mad at her?" Penny questions.

"Yes." Ruby then quickly elaborates. "Well, I'm not. Weiss is."

Penny turns to Dusty, who shrugs and says, "I really just can't find it in myself to care and I'm just gonna go with it."

"Okay. So she's friends with Blake?" Penny asks

"Well, that's kind of up in the air right now..." Ruby answers.

"But why?" Penny tries to understand this.

Ruby sighs again. "Well, you see, Blake might not be who we thought she was..."

Penny gasps. "Is she a man?"

Dusty facepalms as he tells Penny, "No, no she is not."

"She's..." Ruby stops and sighs, looking at Penny as she talks now. "I don't know what she is. She didn't exactly talk to us before she decided to run off."

"I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things." Penny says.

Dusty sighs and thinks, 'Why am I here again? Tsk, I wish mom was here, at least then I wouldn't be the only one dealing with this. I should've just followed Yang.'


The Docks: Blake and Sun

(Red vs Blue: Meta theme)

Amidst the chirping of crickets and darkness of night, Blake lays flat on her stomach on the rooftop overlooking the shipment of Schnee Dust containers.

"Did I miss anything?" Sun asks, sitting down next to Blake.

"Not really." Blake replies "They've offloaded the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there."

"Cool." Sun holds out one of several green apples he's carrying "I stole you some food!"

Blake gives Sun a questioning look. "Do you always break the law without giving a second thought?"

"Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?" Sun defensively counters, making Blake deliver an angry glare at him. "Okay, too soon!" Sun apologizes.

Just as he says this, the winds blow all around them, and they look up to see a Bullhead's searchlights flashing around for a landing spot, descending in the middle of the cargo containers and extending a ramp for a black hooded individual with a metallic fanged mask to come out of.

Blake sighs in relief when she sees that it was the Red Maw, "At least now we know that the White Fang isn't getting violent... again."

"Is that them?" Sun asks for confirmation.

"They're wearing matching red uniforms with Grimm masks. Yes... It's them." Blake says sarcastically as they watch said soldiers coming out of the bullhead.

"All right, grab the tow cables!" One White Fang Soldier instructs the other members coming from the aircraft, motioning with his rifle.

"You really thought that they were up to their old trick, didn't you?" Sun says to Blake.

Blake stares at the scene in relief while she stays alert. "Yeah, they had me worried there for a moment. Now we just need to figure out what to do next.", she narrows her eyes in concentration as she monitors the group below, only for it to be taken away when she hears a new voice commanding the troops.

"Hey! What's the holdup!?" Torchwick's voice is heard as the man himself comes down the Bullhead ramp. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you thugs try to pick up the pace? Grab what you can, I hope that you don't all need to be reminded that we have twenty minutes until security is back up and twenty-five before the cops arrive. So hurry up, if you're not on the ship in nineteen minutes we're leaving you, now GO!"

"This isn't right. Neither the White Fang or the Red Maw would ever work with a Human, much less take orders from one." Blake stands up and unsheathes the katana of Gambol Shroud.

"Hey, hey wait, what are you doing?!" Sun yells, alarmed as Blake walks off the edge of the roof. Blake falls to the ground in a crouch, then continues on to hide behind one of the containers, peeking around the corner to see Torchwick berate a Red Maw grunt holding a coil of rope.

"No, you idiot! This isn't- I thought I told you to go on look out!" Torchwick says. As he's looking around, Blake suddenly appears behind him with her blade at his throat. "What the- Oh, for fuck's sake. Now you see this? THIS is what I was talking about!" He shouts as he berates the low level grunt who has his tail literally between his legs.

"Nobody move!" Blake yells to the gang of thieves and terrorists, but the Red Maw soldiers ready their guns and equip their swords in response, not even remotely concerned for their commander's position.

"Wow you're bad at this! I thought that you'd be at least a little better considering how you used to be a cheerleader for an energy drink mascot." Torchwick says, completely unbothered by the girl holding him.

(Red vs Blue: Ice Fight theme)

As the Red Maw closes in on her, Blake uses her free hand to loosen her bow and remove it, causing the ribbon to fall away as her Faunus ears are shown to the world. "Brothers and sisters of Faunus! Why are you aiding this scum?" Blake asks in a demanding tone.

The Red Maw members keep their weapons armed for them, completely undeterred from the development as a few of them chuckle while calling her an idiot and traitor.

Suddenly, she hears Torchwick laugh as he has a small bead of sweat rolling down the side of his head. "You're not that bright are ya? Have you figured out your mistake yet? They could care less that you have me at knife point. If it was the White Fang? Sure, they'd be in a bit of a tight spot, but them? Oho no, they don't care in the slightest. If anything you're more likely to get both of us killed; I may be working with them, but there's no way in hell that they work for me."

"What are you talking about?" Blake demands an answer.

"The Red Maw and I are going in on a joint business venture together!" Torchwick explains as he turns the dial on his cane with his thumb.

"Tell me what it is, or I'll put an end to your little operation." Blake turns her blade slightly, pressing it against Torchwick's throat. Suddenly, the air is filled with more turbines blowing the wind wildly around the holdup. A three Bullheads appear, hovering above the heist.

Torchwick smirks as he sees the girl is distracted and takes aim, "I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation..."

As Blake, still distracted by the reinforcements, doesn't notice Roman's smile as he manages to fire his cane at Blake's foot and a dart strikes her in the foot. As she feels the impact, she jumps back and heightens her guard before yelling, "What did you do!?"

The Red Maw crew lower their weapons as some growl in the frustration that they no longer have an excuse to kill the Shisno. Suddenly, begins Blake feel numb and drops he weapon while she falls to the ground. She tries to get up but her legs won't budge as she glare defiantly at her opponent. Roman snickers as he walks over to her and crouches a few feet from her and explains, "What I did was give you a little shot, you should wake up in half an hour." He looks over to the grunts and shout, "Okay boys, I want a few more of you on look out, as I doubt our little friend here came alone! The rest of you can finish up here, we've wasted enough time."

Torchwick approaches slowly. "Now, as for this stray. How about we-?", whatever he was about to say was interrupted by the sound of hooves clacking against the ground, when he hears this he turns his head to source and sees a Black horse with glowing red eyes with a mane made of blue flames. The Red Maw members take aim, but before they could fire Roman raises his arm gesturing for them to hold fire. Roman notices the horse looking at the now asleep cat Faunus while stomping its left front hoof.

Roman sighs as he lights a new cigar, but unfortunately for him it exploded, covering his body with pink brown and white glitter. The grunts try not to laugh at the man's misfortune, he let's out a groan as he says, "Really, Neo?" He drops whats left of his cigar and calls for the grunt that was supposed to be on watch. "Okay, since you couldn't keep watch, I want you to put THAT girl on THAT horse. Now, if we don't have anymore complications, we ca-."

Before he could finish, a banana peel falls on his head as he Sun leaped from the top of a container and drops down on the criminal's face feet-first, stunning Torchwick for a moment as Sun flips to the side, readying himself to fight. "Leave her alone!"

The Bullheads flying above them open to let more White Fang members descend on the scene, standing by Torchwick as he gets up and surrounding Sun.

"You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you, kid?" The notorious criminal says.

While Sun fights off the goons, the horse shakes its head from side to side in a disappointed fashion and turns to the girl. It snorts in frustration when it sees that the girl was already waking up. It turns to Roman, letting out a loud neigh that attracts the thief's attention as he curses in thought 'Dam, must've gotten it wrong somehow. At least now I know it'll keep someone down for five minutes.'. Blake, having mostly recovered, sped around the corner of the container to watch Sun jump around and beat more Red Maw members, causing one to fly over Torchwick's head. The crime boss growls in annoyance and aims his cane at Sun, firing a shot that he defends himself from just when Blake leaps into the action.

"He's mine!" Blake yells.

Blake goes in close and becomes a blur of afterimages as she slashes both blades at Torchwick, who backs away and deflects each would-be blow with his cane at unbelievable speeds. Blake continues to dash, hop over, and slide around Torchwick to try and find a weak spot, but her enemy, while barely deflecting the attacks, lands a few hits on Blake until one final beating with his cane causes her to go down.

Just as Torchwick deals with one opponent, Sun appears right behind her and disconnects his staff in two spinning circles of flame-firing shotgun nunchucks. Sun swings each gun at Torchwick while firing everything he as at him, but even with the rapid series of shots and flying bullets, Torchwick manages to defend himself against every bullet and strike. Blake rushes towards the thief to slash at him, but was stopped when that same horse from earlier mule kicked her and sent her into a container. Sun sees this and shouts, "Blake!". The monkey Faunus runs at him to deliver another blow as Roman shot at Sun several times but each shot was blocked, "You're gonna have to try a lot harder than that!" Sun taunts the man, but is taken off guard by the smirk on his face.

"Oh, I intend to." He remarked as he presses a switch on his cane.

Suddenly, Sun starts to hear a beeping noise and looks at his weapon, he sees little round spherical devices stuck to his nunchucks. Sun widens his eyes and curses, "Oh, son of a bitch." The devices explode and blow him back several feet as Blake rushes back to his side.

Roman notices a container hanging by a crane right above the two Hunters-in-training, and gets ready to fire his cane at its supports. Fortunately, Blake leaps behind it and just Sun barely misses when he jumps to the side, a half members of the Red Maw weren't as luck as they were crushed.

"Hey!" Ruby's voice is heard in the distance.

Ruby appears on the rooftop overlooking them, Crescent Rose extended and ready for action.

Roman leans back and laughs before looking at Rose twins with a wave. "Well, hello there, Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?" He turns his attention to the older brother, who has his hands in his pockets. "And I see you've brought your nanny here as well, nice to see you're in something that isn't black. I've got to ask, how'd you find us?"

Dusty shouts from the top of the warehouse with smirk of his own, "Babysitter for life. That aside, the sound of multiple Bullhead turbines aren't that stealthy, we could hear it from five blocks away."

Roman sighed to himself in depression and thought, 'Yeah well, these idiots thought that wind Dust would be a good enough substitute for gravity Dust. It might have worked, but it sure as hell make it hard to stay hidden.'

"Ruby, are these people your friends?" Penny asks as she walks into the scene from behind Ruby.

The elder Rose facepalms and thinks, 'Normally, I'd say something sarcastic, but knowing her, she'd most likely take it seriously.'

"Penny, get back!" Ruby instructs. But while her attention is diverted, Torchwick huffs and fires his cane at her, launching the young Huntress-in-training back from the explosion's force and sending her scythe flying away. "AAAAAH!"

Roman laughs at the two and shouts, "If you're gonna shoot, then shoot, don't talk."

Dusty rushes to his sister's side and says to the girls, "You two keep them busy while I try to take care of those bullheads from the inside." The two nod at him before he disappears.

Penny turns her head toward the criminal and gives her first glare, walking forward while Ruby tries to get back up.

"Penny, wait! Stop!" Ruby raises her hand in a futile attempt to stop her.

"Don't worry, Ruby." Penny says, as the perspective zooms into her eyes. "I'm combat ready!"

Her backpack mechanically opens up, and from its dark depths comes a single sword that extends and multiples into several blades hovering over Penny's back. Leaping from the rooftop with the weapons acting as wings, she sends three of her swords to knock two Red Maw soldiers down before even landing on the ground, where she proceeds to fling the swords at one enemy, impale another to a wall, create a barrier of spinning steel against a running attack, leaping over a goon with her swords in tow, and finally making a wheel that she throws to knocks a few dozen Red Maw members off their feet.


With Dusty

After he left his sister with Penny, Dusty reappears in the hull of one of the Bullhead and the sight of twenty Red Maw members pointing their guns at him. He raises his hands and laughs nervously.

Dusty know that it wouldn't be a good idea for him to take on all the men in such a cramped space, 'Okay, not my brightest moment, it's a little too crowded to use my semblance effectively. Can't knock them out and can't let them take me prisoner. This idea might be a bit morbid, but it's the best I've got.'

He takes a deep breath before yelling, "FAUNAS SUCK AND JACQUES SCHNEE RULES!" All the people on the bullhead were silent as they widened their eyes and the pressure grew.

'And in 3, 2, 1.' When Dusty finished that thought, as if it were a signal, every Red Maw member began firing their weapon while aimed at him. After five second second of continuous firing, they all stopped as Dusty stood there unscathed and feeling guilty about what he said as the bodies hit the floor and their blood painted the walls. All the soldiers had killed each other after firing at Dusty while he phased through every shot fired, hitting the other soldiers across from them. Dusty covers his mouth to avoid the smell as he walk toward the cockpit and enters.

The pilot calls out without turning around, "Hey, you guys okay back there, I thought I heard something!"

Dusty tries to shake off what happened a moment ago and says, "Affirmative, everything is uh optimal. Just a few of our men rough housing. Can you take us down down? I think that they might need reinforcements, might even take care of the hotheads back here."

The man nods as he lands the bullhead. The man finally turns around, but before the man could say a word to Dusty, he firmly knocked him out with the gas from his bracers. Dusty let out a deep breath and said, "One down, two to go." He then notices Penny holding on to one with her swords and says, "Okay, next time, I'm gonna start with the pilot." He swirl out of existence once more to rejoin the others right in time to avoid pieces of a destroyed bullhead.


With the others

"Whoa!" Sun observes the spectacle in amazement. He then runs off to safety.

Four Bullheads appear from the sky as three come in close as they open fire on the battle, but Penny merely forms a shield from her rotating blades and launches two of her swords into the wall behind her, which in turn pull their wielder back with their strings, that can now be more clearly seen. When her swords form a circle in front of her, she commands them to open their points and build up a large glowing ball of green light in the center. With a punching action, several bright lasers crack the pavement when they fire at the transports and slice each one in half, causing several of the Red Maw members inside to fall and letting Ruby watch as on of the Bullheads fall in pieces behind her and into the water while the rest crash onto the on that had landed.

Stunned, Ruby turns back to Penny, who latches her swords to the remaining Bullhead holding a crate of Dust and pulls back on their wires, tugging the aircraft with them.

"Whoa..." Ruby watches in awe. "How is she doing that?"

Seeing the Bullhead's flight fall under Penny's control, Torchwick grimaces and turns to run towards the last transport, that remains landed near him.

Penny, after her large green pupils dilate for a second, pulls with all her might on the strings, and the aircraft crashes into a stack of crates, causing an explosion as a result.

Torchwick watches all this from the safety of his escape. "These kids just keep getting weirder..." With his observation made, he uses his cane to close the doors, and the jet lifts off, flying away from the lost battle, leave Ruby and the rest to watch the man escape once again.


Twenty minutes later

(Red VS Blue: Final Transmission theme)

A handful of police cars are at the docks, where Ruby, Blake, Sun, and Penny are sitting on boxes in silence. That is, until Weiss and Yang joined in, Ruby panics and tries to explain the situation. "Look Weiss, it's not what you think, she explained the whole thing. See, she doesn't actually have a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kind of cute..." Weiss ignores her and squares off with Blake.

Blake calmly looking the heiress down. "Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang or the Red Maw. Back when I was with the-"

"Stop!" Weiss interrupts. "Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you? ...Twelve hours." Weiss continues. "That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided that I don't even care."

"You don't care?" Blake asks, surprised.

"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?" Weiss questions.

Blake tries to explain "No, I-I haven't been since I was younger-"

Weiss cuts her off, "I don't want to hear it. All I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up... you'll come to your teammates. And not some..." she looks at Sun as she catches herself. "-guy that you've only met a few days ago. Seriously, you could've at least gone to team DRPN."

Blake looks to see Ruby and Yang grinning at her, she wipes a tear from her eye, nodding. "Of course."

Weiss smiles and nods. The moment is serious for a second more until Ruby screams "Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!" waving her arms wildly.

As the five gather with each other, Weiss points accusingly at Sun. "I'm still not quite sure about how I feel about you!" Sun laughs nervously at this.

"Hey, wait a minute..." Ruby looks around. "Where's Penny? And what about that pony?"

The rest look around and don't see any sign of them as Blake says, "And for that matter, where's Dusty?"

Yang walked up to her partner and said, "Probably back in the dorms, but yeah, he does that a lot. You'll get used to it."


At Beacon Tower

Meanwhile, Ozpin was re-watching a recording of the fight that took place, but paying even closer attention to the horse that both appeared and disappeared into thin air. "What are you?", he says as he looks into the horse's eyes, but loses focus when he receives a message from Qrow.

When the message is shown, the team name and other info is left blank and his only message is: "QUEEN HAS PAWNS."

"Hmmm..." Ozpin ponders over this new info.

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In an Undisclosed Location

(Heroes: Sylar theme)

Roman walks into his warehouse/lair and goes over to a table and places down a case of unknown contents, sighing in tiredness and says aloud, "You know, if wanted to come and visit you could've called in advance or at least knocked."

"What can I say? I like to make an entrance." A female voice is heard from behind the criminal.

He chuckles to himself as turns around suddenly when he hears the voice and they close the door loudly. "Hehe... I figured, but I certainly wasn't expecting to see you back so soon. I see you've made some friend for once, I hope they know the ropes by now."

Yellow eyes and flowing dark hair, is all that can be seen from the front person, and the others are completely obscured. "We were expecting... more from you." The front person says, it's the same voice as before as she steps into the light, revealing Cinder Fall.

Torchwick laughs a little before getting a cigar out of his pocket and trying to light. "Oh ha ha, I've met my quota today. Cause the last I checked, the Red Maw wasn't exactly an easy group to get along with, much less command. By the way, the old man says, 'Hi'. Oh, and you might wanna work on that entrance, the old man is still able to surprise me."

*BANG*

For the second time that day, Roman's cigar exploded and covered him in glitter, "Dammit Neo." Roman groans as he throws what's left of it at the wall. The people beside her chuckle at the prank.

The woman chuckles lightly at what the ice cream themed girl did, "I see that little Neo is still getting on you about that nasty habit of yours, just as she should."

Roman groans, "Can we PLEASE not talk about my cousin? She been giving me hell about smoking and DO NOT call her short, you know how depressed she get when some talks about her height. So, what are you really here for?"

"Plans have changed, Roman, there's a new variable we need to speak of. But all of that aside,-" Cinder Fall laughs as she walks up to him and gives him a hug, to which he returns reluctantly. "-it's good to see you again."

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Chapter 15, DONE! What did you guys think about that plot twist? So, what did you think? Roman is clearly far more skilled in this timeline, Cinder showing affection for someone must be pretty hard to imagine and that thing Dusty did might have been a low blow but it did the job. Big thanks to Crimson Weresloth for making a reaction version of my story. I hope you all check out his profile, he's made a few other reaction versions and has already posted the first chapter.

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