Chapter 16
Old wolf pack
Walking through the streets of vale with Neo, Loki let out a groan as he stretched his arms with two pops from his joints he sighed as they continued to look for Sun in Vale, with Neo skipping beside Loki she looked to him to see small traces of ash flowing after him he stopped and inhaled, stopping beside her "Boss". Neo watched as Loki scanned the rooftops for their currently absent friend Loki looked to his scroll as it rang, with him answering as calmly as he could.
"Sun, where the hell are you?" Loki questioned with Neo frowning as she looked to the street calmly, keeping an eye out for the White Fang she Looked back to Loki who hung up with a look of utter annoyance.
"Yep, I'm gonna hit him" Loki said with Neo smiling.
"Where is he?"
"Checking in at Beacon" Loki said as he turned around and began making his way back to Beacon's pick up, Neo following calmly.
"Any word from Tukson?"
"Yep, he's set up shop nicely for the first few months, but he feels like the White Fang know where he is" Neo said with Loki nodding in thought.
"Keep him updated on what their doing, if they know where he is than they'll most likely send someone to keep him silent" Loki said with Neo nodding as she set up reminders on her scroll, looking up she nearly bumped into none other than John Marston and Alex, with Loki turning to the three at hearing Neo yelp.
"Ne- oh, hey… John, Alex" Loki said with the two nodding to him.
"Hey kid" Alex said with John tipping his hat to him.
"So this is where you guys were… find anything interesting?" Loki questioned with Neo looking at him in surprise.
"You know these guys?" Neo questioned with Loki shrugging.
"They're supposedly my allies from the future"
"You'll understand it one day" Alex said with a shrug, smiling slightly to Loki the three stood in awkward silence.
"I can already see the history being made" Neo said with a smirk with the three turning to her with a small smile.
"This is actually how our first meeting went down" Alex said with Loki looking to him in surprise.
"Really?" Loki questioned with Alex nodding.
"Yeah, it got real awkward after I tried to tear out your spine" Alex said with Loki backing away slightly.
"What, you asked?" Alex stated with a shrug.
"Anyway, we'll leave you to your duties" John said with a small salute while walking away, with Alex looking after him before nodding to Loki.
"Later kid" Alex said with the two leaving, with Neo waving back to them while Loki gave a lazy salute.
"You befriend them, wow, one felt like he was a raging inferno the other felt inhuman" Neo said with the two walking onward.
"Anyway, I'll keep you posted on White Fang activity while you… lover boy, treat that new girlfriend of yours like a Queen" Neo said with Loki chuckling as her being shattered, leaving Loki in the street before he continued walking.
Hours later
Walking through the hallway to his teams Dorm, Loki looked to his scroll for any updates from Sun, he stopped at his dorms door ready to open it until he heard yelling two doors down the hall, blinking at hearing team RWBY yelling he recognised Blake's voice along with Weiss'.
Moving to walk to see what was happening he stopped at seeing the door fly open with Blake running by him with tears running down her cheeks, making Loki look after her in worry.
"Blake, wait! Come back!" turning to Ruby he spoke.
"I'll go get her" Loki said as he gave chase after the cat Faunus, with Gabrielle opening her door in confusion.
Jumping out the doors to the courtyard Loki sniffed the air for Blake's scent he looked to the right where the statue of the academy was to see Blake walking with her head down, a band of her bow in hand he frowned, making Loki channel lightning into his muscles he was beside her in a second, startling her enough she turned to see him skidding on his feet towards her.
Seeing his worried frown he brought her into an embrace, seeing he wasn't trying to keep her from running she gave in and began crying into his shoulder.
"Shh, it's okay Blake"
"I'm just so tired of them, the people looking down at us" Blake sobbed with a muffle with Loki running a hand down her head he looked to Vale before he caught the scent of banana's and monkey.
Turning to the right he saw Sun Wukong walking to them calmly.
"Knew you'd look better without the Bow" Sun said with Blake looking at him in surprise.
"Sun, where the hell have you been?" Loki questioned with Sun laughing nervously.
"Enjoying the sights" Sun said before he was knocked out by Loki who had grabbed his neck, hefting the Monkey onto his shoulder he turned to a confused Blake.
"You obviously need some space… so we'll go to one of my safehouses in Vale, come on" Loki said with Blake slowly nodding, following after the werewolf Faunus to the Bullhead bay.
Following Loki to a Bullhead dock, Blake looked around in confusion as they entered the area where said Bullheads get refuelled, but the Bullhead she was looking at was, not a regular Bullhead.
"No way… this is… this!" Blake began until Loki spoke.
"The ArrowHead Mrk 1, a little side project I sent to Atlas' general for thoughts, sadly the ever so gracious council shot my idea down so Old man Ozpin called in a favour from the general, and boom, meet my masterpiece" Loki said as they stared at the slimmer, more aerodynamic Bullhead, it's front shaped as an arrow with its jet engines replaced by high tech turbines.
"You built this?" Blake questioned with Loki wincing.
"I may have had Atlas engineers help me out, I did the heavy lifting though" Loki said as he approached the left side of his personal air vehicle, watching him push in a code with Sun snoozing on his shoulder he grunted as it gave out a error sound, dropping Sun who groaned from being dropped Loki pressed another code with the doors to the Bullhead opening.
"Ah, okay, get in and get comfy, I'll handle this luggage" Loki said as he followed in after her, seeing many bags of luggage Loki moved aside a good few he set up a seat/bed from Blake who looked at him thankfully as he dropped Sun on a pile of duffel bags, bringing one up he placed it on the seat Blake sat on she frowned as Loki smiled.
"Get some rest, I'll wake you when we get to my safe house" Loki said with Blake nodding, looking to the very clean makeshift pillow she laid down to sleep, moving to a more comfortable position she felt something placed over he being she opened her eyes to see it was an old blanket.
With a small wolf pup woven into the fabric, looking to where Loki walked to she saw him in the pilot seat, priming the engines she felt the thing shake before smoothing up.
Making her frown before she pulled the blanket closer to her form.
Flying through the night sky calmly, Loki exhaled softly as he guided the Arrowhead to the Safehouse he had in mind, keeping a passive face, he blinked as memories flooded forward, showing him a dock, a Schnee dust container and Sun using his weapons.
Looking down below to the city of Vale blinked as he saw nothing but fire below, making him blink he looked again to see it still calm.
"Talk about paranoia and calm before the storm" Loki said as he flew to his destination.
Walking into a warehouse with an irritated frown on her face, Cinder fall looked to the Faunus moving Crates of dust to various pick up points she frowned with a sense of déjà vu at seeing Roman helping.
"Roman, any news about these two unknowns?" turning to his boss, Roman sighed.
"Not one clue, these two are spooks that seemed to appear from nowhere, there has been no news or any info about these two at all, like they never existed until a couple of days ago" Roman said with Cinder narrowing her eyes in thought.
"They seem to have a comradery with Fenris if that helps" Roman added before the lights went off, making him and Cinder frown before they heard the soft crackle of burning fire.
"You are right on point there, eyeliner" John said as he walked on a railing above, making Cinder look up for her eyes to widen at seeing his fiery skull of blue flames illuminating the darkened warehouse.
"Who are you?" Cinder questioned with John looking down to her before he seemingly vanished, making her confused until she looked to her right at seeing blue light, making her eyes widen at being face to face with John's skull.
Freezing up as he grabbed her by the throat, she watched John let out an evil laugh as he lifted her up without effort, making Cinder glare as she grabbed his arm with her stolen maiden powers igniting, making John stop laughing and look to her hands as she smiled smugly, until John scoffed, pulling her closer he spoke.
"That's not fire…" lifting Cinder off her feet his fire grew larger with the heat increasing with Cinder staring at him in awe.
"THIS IS FIRE!" John said with chains snaking upward to impale her if not for John's head suddenly turning to the right, with Cinder looking to where he was looking, seeing no one he tossed her away and began leaving, ignoring the dust rounds impacting his back he turned to the woman who held her throat with a look of alarm before the undead cowboy vanished into embers.
Leaving a stunned Cinder Fall as she held her now sore neck.
Opening a heavily armored door with little effort, Loki carried a still unconscious Sun on his shoulders with a nervous Blake following him she blinked as the lights of the buildings were on with the sound of a tv playing.
"Neo, you have guests" Loki called out to the safehouses current host, Blake followed Loki further into the building she blinked at seeing a short-statured girl sitting on a couch.
"Neo?" Blake questioned as she stared at the girl who was eating, having a spoon in her mouth she could only wave in greeting as Loki dropped Sun onto another couch he moved to sit down beside Neo as she paid full attention to the how on the Tv, making Loki look at the Tv with a deadpan look.
"Really, you're a trained assassin and your watching the Vacuo times?"
"Shut up, I can watch whatever I want" Neo said with Blake standing awkwardly before she looked to her surroundings.
"I'll set up abed for you Blake" Loki said as he got up, moving to a room Blake followed silently with Neo turning back to the TV.
"It's not as cozy as Beacon's bed, but it gets the job done, if you need anything just call me, I'll be in the next room" Loki said as he led Blake into a room the size for a queen, with said queen sized bed.
Turning to the werewolf Faunus as he left Blake spoke.
"Loki…" turning to the cat Faunus with a small smile, Blake returned one herself.
"Thank you" nodding in return to her tired form, Loki closed the door behind him as he walked to the living room to see Neo slowly dozing off on the couch, making him pick up a blanket and draped it over Neo's shoulders, allowing him to walk to his own room to sleep the night, flopping onto his bed Loki went to close his eyes before he felt his hair stand up as he felt a pulse of his power… from within Vale.
"What?"
Walking into a rundown building beside the docks, John walked forward towards a crouching Alex before a vortex which was gushing out windless air.
"Will he be okay when he gets here?" John questioned Alex who stood up from his position.
"You, me and Hoshi both know he needs this closure" Alex said as he stood beside John with the vortex fluctuating before a figure stepped out, showing him to sport a short black beard that matched his long black hair that had a set of wolf ears sitting atop his head, old duster coat with black cargo pants, his chest was exposed with hair running down it, bright eyes of an old wolf looking forward, blinking rapidly for his vision to clear, the Faunus looked to his shaking hands before he clenched them tightly, looking up with a reignited fire too long kept as a fireless pit.
"Welcome back to past Remnant… Loki" Alex said with the adult Loki giving out a dry chuckle.
"That depends on how long the runes stay intact…" looking to the moon through a hole in the ceiling, he spoke on.
"Now let's get started"