Act 3-2: Gorod Molchaniya

"...You were saying about nothing going wrong?" Jawsome asked.

"I… I…" The normally cheerful leader of team RWBY was at a loss for words. But then, they all were.

"Hello there! Just finished preparations! We leave in ten minutes!" Oobleck said, zooming around the… what were they again? VTOL something-or-other? Yeah.

"Remind me again why we have Oobleck as our escort?" Sonic asked.

"Why I'm offended!" The hyperactive professor stopped, sipped his coffee, and continued. "I am a Hunter as well as a historian! The two overlap very much!"

"Uhhhh…"

"We will be going along, be in great danger, and maybe make a friend! No, not the last one. Unless they have giant robots. Then we will call it Freckles. Anyway! We do not require luggage for this reconnaissance mission! So leave them here!" Oobleck departed around the ship.

"Well, we're saving the world! With Oo...bleck…." Ruby tried to be cheerful. It failed.

"Save the world?"

"Nora." Sonic said. Sure enough, team JNPR walked up.

"You're going off and saving the world without us?! I'm hurt, sad, hungry, Ren…" The mentioned crossed his arms.

"So, where are you heading?" Jaune asked.

"Outside the kingdom, this Mountain Glenn place." Jawsome offered.

"We're heading to a local village, shadowing the sheriff there." Pyrrha said. Behind the team leader's backs, Yang and Knuckles exchanged a smirk and a growl, before Knuckles dug out a gold ring and handed it over.

"We're leaving tomorrow." Ren said.

"Then you can party with us tonight!" A voice called.

"Oh, hey Sun! Neptune!" Ruby called.

"Whoawhoawhoa. Who are they, and why is he" Sonic pointed at Neptune."ripping off my style?"

"Oh, uh, you weren't there?" Ruby asked.

"Uh, no." Knuckles grunted.

"Sun Wukong, dastardly thief outa Vacuo. Charmed." Sun, a monkey Faunus, they noticed, said.

"Neptune Vasilias." The blue-haired Neptune said.

"Listen… Just, get off my style, man." Sonic said, facepalming.

"Hey, it doesn't have your name on it!" The two began to argue in the background.

"We're shadowing a crime specialist. Inner-city detective stuff. We even get junior badges!" Sun said, showing his with a smile.

"So, I guess you don't got what it takes to be true detectives?" Jawsome quipped.

"Oooh, nice." Knuckles fist bumped him.

"We normally head into the city with you guys, but stuff always blows up, or burns down or whatever, so we're going in on our own." Sun said.

"I can say none of it was my fault." Jawsome said loudly.

"Okay, enough socializing, no more ice cream, let's go!" Oobleck appeared from the airship.

"Time to do stuff that is not boring!" Ruby said, doing that inspiring-point-at-the-horizon thing.

Whatever the hell it's called.

The second they touched down, their weapons were out. After a few seconds, they relaxed, but kept their devices of mass destruction out.

"So, what exactly are we looking for?" Jawsome said, twisting his swords in his grip.

"Now! You may be students, but today is your first mission as Hunters! From this point forward, you do as I say! If they came to hear me beg, they will not get their wish!" Oobleck said, sipping his Red Bull-coffee. "Ruby! I thought you were to leave your luggage behind!" She had a rather large backpack.

"But you hadn't told us to listen to you yet. So I didn't." Sonic fist bumped her.

"Hmmm… Right…" Oobleck accepted that. "But I will now ask you to leave it. We'll get it later."

"Uhhh…" It was clear she didn't want to.

"Ruby. What could be in that bag that you would deem necessary?" At that, a dog popped out.

"Get back in the bag." Ruby muttered to it. All it did was bark.

"So, we are on a dangerous mission, where one mistake means discovery, and you brought. A dog?" Oobleck looked like he was going to blow up, or burst a blood vessel. "...BRILLIANT!"

"Uhhhh…"

"Dogs are known to have heightened senses of smell therefore he can help us track down our objective!"

"Yeah, gotcha." Knuckles scratched his head.

After the day, all eight of them were tired of fighting Grimm. Six of them were also very confused.

"Why was Oobleck asking us why we wanted to be Hunters?" Blake asked around the fire.

"I wanna know too." Sonic pointed his spoon at her, dinner already over. "We just sorta started going here until we can leave."

"Hmmmm." Tails hummed, thinking.

"Anyway, we should set up watch. I'll go first." Knuckles said.

"Ah, back in your element now you have something to guard?" Sonic gave him some friendly crap.

"Hey, I'll stay up with him!" Yang volunteered. Watch was worked out, and those not on watch went to set up camp more than a ring of rocks and a small fire column.

Jawsome, however, stayed where he was. He stared into the fire, he was sure he was seeing things, and he didn't like them.

Ruby sat down across from him. "What are you thinking about?" She asked. Zwei, Ruby and Yang's corgi, wandered over to the hedgehog, and let him rub his head.

"Just….. Things. I'm team leader, I know where I should be, but it feels like I shouldn't." Jawsome said. "Feels like I both exist and don't exist at the same time."

"I think you're just fine here!" Ruby declared. "We're friends now, so we do things for each other! You figure out what's wrong, I'll shoot it in the face!"

Jawsome smirked. "My face prefers to be intact, thanks."

The sleeping bags were set up, and Knuckles and Yang came in to switch shifts.

The fire was mostly smoldering embers, glowing softly, illuminating by dying light. It was the leader's watch, Jawsome and Ruby looking out through a hole in the building they were camped in. A Grimm howled out elsewhere.

"Say, Ruby."

"Yeah?"

"Ever wonder why we're here?"

"I guess it is one of life's great mysteries."

"Yeah, and I really hate that reference. Semper Fi." Jawsome said. "You hear that?"

"What?"

"Sounds like two guys…. Talking…" The two looked at each other, then leaped off of the building.

Two White Fang members walked down the abandoned streets of Mountain Glenn.

"Man, I can't believe we got put on graveyard again." One of them, had a weird tail, complained.

"You know, we're working round clock. Torchwick said the thing's moved up." The other, odd nose, replied. "Besides, would you rather walk, or load?"

"Fair point." The first said. "Then why do we need to watch the streets?"

"Two teams from the Hunter school dropped in here this morning."

"Yeah, well..!" As they rounded the corner, Ruby and Jawsome checked over the debris they had been hiding behind for the clear coast, then followed quietly.

"What do you think they're saying?" Ruby whispered.

"Uh, 'this job sucks'?" Jawsome guessed. They kept up, until they disappeared completely.

"Great. Now what?" Jawsome said.

"Hey, they could be aAAHHH!" Ruby was interrupted by a sinkhole opening…. Right under their feet. Jawsome drew his swords and jammed the Pyrobuster into a chunk of ground, Ruby holding tight to the other. Crescent Rose was lying on the ground near the hole, knocked loose when they'd fell. Jawsome looked at Zwei, who had come along, who cocked his head. Then the chunk fell, taking them with it.

"Oh, great…" Jawsome groaned, slowly getting to his feet. Ruby was lying a little ways away from him, as well as his swords, and they were standing on the roof of a building, underground.

There was so much nonsense going on.

"What have we here?" Jawsome turned, slowly, to see a gang of White Fang.

"Well… Crap."

Act 3-2: Complete! Emblems: 15

A Note From Jawsome:

Been a while. Been actually doing stuff, up to and including starting two new projects, bricking my New Vegas save accidentally (DO NOT BRING THE PLATINUM CHIP TO HOUSE IMMEDIATELY), and doing actual work. For a paycheck. Oh, and schoolwork. Not much time to write, but fuck it, I did it. Wo'ot

The Pyro Of Jawsome