Welcome back to Operation: Outcasts...things aren't going the way they used to anymore at this point.

First off, I am truly sad by the fact that the creator of RWBY, Monty Oum, has passed away. He was the reason I started this, and i am so sorry about this. He will always be a part of our lives and We will keep the dream alive for Monty's friends, family and everyone. So thank you Monty for everything.

There is nothing else to say for the moment, so please enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or Call Of Duty in any specific way, I'm just a fan.

Chapter 9

There wasn't any good news to tell today, for both sides it meant that they needed to become better if they want to accomplise their main goal, but they are facing off against themselves, and they knew that only one of them can gain victory. The only question was who it will be.

Back at Atlas HQ, there was a discussion right in front of Irons and he was not happy about their recent failure with the mission. In front of him was a few screens with the generals of a squad, they were not involved in the fight much, but there apparently a few of them that suffered an encounter with them.

"I've trusted you with the tasks you've been required to accomplish, and yet you've failed to complete it!" He reprised to everyone, "You only had one job!"

"Sir, they were getting more powerful from our previous encounters, they're not going to die until we improvise!" One of the generals yelled at the leader, "You haven't tried to send out the Vulcan against them-"

"We're not letting those fucking outcasts run free and escape the city," one of them interrupted him but it only helped prove his point., "Unless we attack them with the Vulcan, they're going to leave this place alive!"

"We're not wasting the energy for our weapon, it's only for the Sentinels." Irons repeated, "Unless you want it to overcharge, we're not allowing that to be used against-" the screens immediately blacked out and left the leader questioning about that. Someone tapped his table and he saw that it was Neo, she was nowhere near a good mood as she was showing her signature frown.

"Ah Neo, what do you need?" He expected silence as an answer, but she stepped right behind the table and pulled out something, connecting whatever it was to the big screen. It revealed to be old security footage from Fifteen years ago, there was a list of names that were in the outcasts catalog. Some of them were classified but she pressed something and it revealed a few names.

There was a file that read, "Most wanted targets". It was connected to the world of Remnant and it had the names of a few people, Johnson, Idas, Grimstone, Icarus, Lycus, and Salois. All of them were from the world Ruby and the others lived in, Neo then turned to the leader and showed that the file was a part of something called, "Project Remnant."

"I see you found out one of our secrets." Jontathan was not surprised about this, he knew that she wouldn't be kept in the room from the guards, but he honestly didn't expect to see her find out about this. "I can tell you want to know more." He walked away to a door and the ice cream girl followed him.

They stepped on a glass elevator and then it descended down to the underground part of the base. There was a giant room with steel walls and it was full of old weaponry and some unfinished projects. To some soldiers, it was an abandoned place where they left their unsuccessful weapons and invaluable things, but Irons found this place useful for secret reasons.

They both stepped out of the elevator and they were walking through some old wreckage and unfinished construction, there was one ship that might've been used for space but only the front part was broken. There was a flag that was torn apart and only contained a part of the Federation logo, there was two guns next to it that was powered by Cryptids.

They were walking in a room that only had a bunch of items that would be from outcasts, there was a blue hood, a red coat with a eagle signal, and there was a few weapons on the table, including a flair. Neo touched the flair and saw a tag that had a name, Salois.

"This is what we were doing before Ruby and the others showed up." Irons explained, "After we acquired the Vulcan, we have begun to work on a few experiments on the last few outcasts, and they just so happened to know about our targets, they used to be called, Team Eagle."

Neo just tapped a machete and then lightning came on right over it, before it stopped. "They were students of an academy, after we captured them we began to conduct experiments on them, but whatever information they were hiding from us remained secret. This only left us to discover this aura ability they have.

"We didn't get accurate results about their abilities, and semblances. We also couldn't find out how they would be able to acquire such abilities, which left us with their weapons. We didn't know how they were able to forge such things as this," he took a sword that light itself up instantly, "But we kept them for needed purposes, we were hoping to figure out how to construct things for our advantage."

Neo took the sword and spun it around, not amazed at the sight of it and placed it back on the table. "We managed to make Anti-Aura bullets since we only knew how to dealt with the particles that made it. After that, we had the Anti-Outcasts Task Force initiated. Archangel was the best we have, he saved my life and the spirit of the team, he was willing to fight for us."

"But even he had something to hide from us, he just never showed the truth." Irons looked at Neo, "We all know you're outcasts but we're only in this together because you provided valuable sources to exploit, we're close to killing the outcasts and their future thanks to you." Neo felt a little betrayed by those words.

Come to think of it, she didn't felt like she was being used for help, it was probably just to get the mission done and get this whole thing over with. They might've experimented on the faunus, but they were clearly not going to get things done if they were being tested for something that was not beyond their experience. They were experts at fis fighting, but not so much on everything else, Neo disliked Atlas even more than she needed to, she can't show her true feeling for this company since she always stood in a silent trance.

She shook her head then stepped away from Irons as far as she could till she reached the doorway. She then stuck her tongue out and stepped out of the room, if the White Fang were to hear about this, she would think that this whole treaty would be broken if word was caught about this place, but at least she knew how to keep secrets.

She just stayed in the room of broken things that remained here to rust, not even useful for the technologies that could've been used for advancement purposes. She took one long look at a piece of a broken Exosuit, carved in bronze metal and slowly rusting after staying down in a place like this, then she noticed a different piece of hardware.

She picked it up and it looked like a shotgun thing that had three barrels. She threw it away and then looked over at a suit that looked like it was a prototype, she just kicked it and with reasons made unclear, took her Scroll out and took a picture of the entire place, just to remember it and hope there was anything useful around here.

"I'm gonna lock this entire floor down if you're willing to stay here Neo." Jonathan just passed by, not knowing that the silent girl had just took a photo of the place and headed for the elevator, before it went up, he replied to her, "And just so we're clear, we're going to fire the shots first after this end, just wait for it."

Neo didn't bother to look at him one last time, age just walked behind s piece of hardware and lied down next to it. She knew that they were all just being used for this mission, but she knew how long it would only take before the strings would snap and they would take charge again, then again it might not happen. The sentinels were never her biggest concern, it was what Atlas was doing with this thing, she wouldn't want this to end with a victory. She would want it to end with a purpose.

Nighttime had fallen down on the city, deserted roads were the only thing that remained with the sounds of flying newspapers and empty magazine clips that used to have bullets in them. Not one single car was filled with anyone of course, no one had decided to hide in them, it was not best for the outcasts, and it was cramped for them too.

The Atlas soldiers had patrolled somewhere else among the town after the fight, thinking they could find them and exterminated them, but they were clearly wrong. They were still somewhere near their old positions, and were trying to calm down after the recent fight, it was very tough for them to get by. They were recovering slowly and they almost had, but two of the eight were shot and wounded in action, so that was taking a while to recover.

Somewhere in the East Village, there was a building that was mildly damaged after a fight, but not completely destroyed, that was where Pyyrha and Jaune were hiding in for the night. After the fight, they had slowly recovered from the fight, but the only problem is that things were not looking bright for the two since they probably knew what to expect tomorrow if they were planning to escape.

As she was walking through the hall, Pyyrha was feeling a bit sad and worried. She still wore her Revolutionary robes, but it was ripped a little and not covered in much blood. She had her hand on her stomach where the bullet shot through her, although her aura level had been fully replenished after a long while, she was not doing so well. Perhaps it was because of that exact moment when she was bested by an enemy, or it was because she had finally shown herself to be as weak as everyone else.

Whatever forced her to come to Jaune's room was still a mystery to her, but she figured out the answer just as she stepped right in front of the door. She knocked twice, and waited for the owner to come and answer it for her, it only took a little while for him to open it up.

"Oh, hi Pyyrha." He said, Jaune was wearing his pajamas which were colored blue and white. He was already prepared to go to sleep, but seeing his friend made him stop from doing so. "What do you want?"

"I need to talk to you." She simply said to her leader, she entered in and the door was closed behind her. The room was only colored in red and there was a queen size bed waiting for the owners to sleep on it, Pyyrha sat on it and sighed, "It's about...everything." That concerned Arc so he sat right next to her and listened.

"Remember all those fights we had? Each fight, we would either win whatever we've accomplished or lose whatever we hold dear to our hearts. We may have shown all of the skills necessary to survive against the horde of Grimm or even our enemies, but we don't have any skills against something like this."

"But we did stop the Atlas team from killing us." Jaune remained the Sanctum champion.

"But at the cost of showing our true self." The hole where the bullet hit was shown to him, "I can understand that we all can't fight for something different, but the only thing that is true is that we're not invincible."

"You never saw me get punched, or even get shot at in blank range, but today, you finally saw the truth about all of us."

Jaune answered, "So, no one is invincible?"

"That's right Jaune, no one is, and no one ever will be. Ruby was almost killed, Weiss almost got herself injured, You were defeated by Cardin, and I...got shot." Those examples of this topic were specific reminders to all of them, "We were all showing the true selves we were hiding. Underneath our Aura, our semblance, our ancestry...we were mortal."

"We were just like humanity, we can't stay standing for something until it is all over, we could die before it all ends with a smile on our face and laughter while we celebrate the victory we've accomplished. We might not even get that ending, we might get the alternative route thanks to us."

"Pyyrha," Jaune put his shoulder around his partner, "I understand that, if you're wondering how far we're gonna go, it will be until we're needed for a more dangerous task. We're going to go a little more farther than this, we're almost about to head home."

"This might all just be a memory at the end, but they're only parts that will ultimately change us for the greater good, it revealed what kind of heroes we truly are, and what we're going to become. Of course we're all mortal, but we might not be remembered as that."

"They would just think of us as invincible, along with every other outcasts that might've escape this place before us." Nikos continued, "but the reality of our world is always true, we were born mortal, fought for mortality, and chose to defend it, but in the end, we can't be invincible and remain that way until all of our enemies are gone. Just like our Aura, it ends up being broken by whatever stands in our way."

"You used to be this way all the time, but not in a matter you wanted." Jaune said to her, "I understand your pain Pyyrha, you didn't want to be this way all the time because you knew the truth about us huntsmen."

"You could say that, it was just my thing, but I don't think I want to stay powerful now, I just want to know that we can be like everyone else on the planet, but of course we're different than them, we're just outcasts, people from a different time or world. We could never change that fact ever again."

"What if we did have the chance to do so?" The leader of JNPR said, "Think about it, we could finally change the entire legacy of our kind and protect the people, we may be mortal but we will be dying for the right thing, prove to everyone that we can change ourselves and help them."

"We've all been tasked with protecting the people, but if we could show them what we could do, what we can do, they might see that we can save them, their world, and ours."

Pyyrha smiled slowly and hugged Jaune a little tight, bringing him close to her, "Thanks Jaune, you do understand this whole thing. I just hope that we can change this whole thing and make a difference for the greater good." She moved away from Arc and stood up, brushing up her outfit. "Sorry, I'll...I'll be in my room if you need me." She headed out to the door and put her hand on the doorknob, but something else made her stop. She just couldn't help but walked over to Arc and softly kissed his cheek.

"Sorry..." She blushed once she opened the door, Jaune just gave her a confused look as to why she did this, but she was not in the mood to talk about that. "Goodnight." She left. Jaune just looked at himself and began to wonder why she did that. He lied on his bed and wrapped the blankets around him.

The battle of the outcasts and the two dangerous enemy threats were heard about in the news, but they weren't able to capture the footage live, they only recorded half of it and it was mostly just scenes of an explosion and some VTOLs dropping down. The security footage was still able to get some important details but just not enough.

"You got to be fucking kidding me with this." Gideon replied to himself, directly amused at the fight, turns out from the footage it was notified that the outcasts were actually fighting the enemy and not the opposite way. "This is only gonna say that something bad will happen to us."

"I think they finally showed to us that we should trust them and help." Mitchell was also here and looking at the screen.

"Whatever gave you the reason to think that?"

"They're fighting our enemy, they're trying to help protect this world."

"And, remind me again why they're most wanted by every unit?" This was just so he could prove that it might be wrong.

"good point, but they're not trying to get us killed just by fighting a longtime threat." Mitchell moved next to Gideon, "They're actually doing something good for us and the people, we just don't see it yet."

"of course we don't, no one else might see it as you do, but if they want to prove themselves that they can help save our world, they must fight for that trust. But they might not even do that, because their lives are more dangerous than Atlas itself."

"Just be glad that there is only one working for them." Mitchell was calm about this, he might have faith that the outcasts could help them out, if only there was a a perfect chance to recruit them.

"Gideon, this is Private Alder," Someone was heard through the other end of the communicator, "Do you read me?"

"Chris, where the hell have you been?"

"I've been tracking down one of the soldiers of the White Fang, I've started following in to-"

Gideon just interrupted him, "Don't even say New York because if you did go there, then-"

"Yeah, I'm there." This response made the soldier slam his head on the table, "oh fuck."

"Don't worry, I'm not encountering any Atlas activity for the moment. I'll respond if I have any updates."

"Alder, I will not have you-" the communication was cut off before Gideon could even continue his line, "Great, he's going to get himself killed for doing this. And if he does have a plan about this, then he better know what he's actually doing."

"Guess we just have to find out." Mitchell was still calm about this, there was probably something wrong with that.

It must've been a while ever since the four outcasts were last seen, the only thing that had stood in their way was the distance they had to cover before getting on one of the bridges and escaping the town. To make things worse, there was a slated rumor that the Atlas forces were still hunting for them, so they had to remain in the dark until tomorrow.

Contact with Ruby and Jaune was not an option now, they didn't want to disturb them from whatever they were doing. The only order they had was to stay low and not be alerted by any Atlas squad or a White Fang member. It was pretty easy, but not so much in the dark, now that it was cleared they decided to hide for the night and get some rest before the big day tomorrow.

Neptune, Cardin and the two members of Team CFVY were near The Bowery and were near a parking lot that had a basketball court, it had a fence area that blocked out the entrance and the exit of the lot. There wasn't anymore plans to make after that, just sleep for the rest of the night and that was it.

Velvet seemed to be doing okay, the bullet wound was now gone after her aura replenished and Neptune was keeping watch over the night, and Coco was busy walking around the place to make sure there was a good place to sleep in, because lying out on the dirt was not a good idea. Another reason was because the clouds were forming up in the air, predicting the chance of a thunderstorm.

She walked to one of the garages that was open and abandoned, but unfortunately Cardin was in it. He turned his head to the left and saw her. "What do you want?"

"Winchester, in case you didn't know, it's going to rain in a bit." The beret wearing girl implied. "Do you think we can come in?"

"Heh, how about I just let you stay out there and get soaked?" His intimidating smile was offensive to the girl. "How about that?"

"Cardin," Coco sighed and tried to calm herself, "I'm asking this nicely, just let us come in and we can sleep."

"What if I say no?"

"Then I would just punch you."

"You really don't want me in this group, you just want me dead." Winchester let the smoke disappear and walked to Coco, "You may wait all you want on that, but unless you want to survive this place, it's best if you don't kill me."

"You lost me when you said those last lines buddy." The CFVY leader pushed the mace-wielder's shoulder. "I don't care one bit about you, you called my friend a freak, and I don't want you to insult her."

"It's very true actually, she and all of those White Fang dudes are freaks, you're just not seeing it."

"They are just like us Winchester." Coco gritted her teeth and gripped her handbag harder, "how would you like it if I called your buddies freaks and beat the shit out of them."

"Then I would be forced to end you and your team if that's what you want-"

"No one's gonna let you do that! You're practically the worst person of Beacon and everyone would be better off if you're not involved with that place ever again!" Winchester decided to push the girl and this caused her to fall on the floor and leave her in an angry mood.

"I don't need you and your pathetic group of insane people." Cardin began to storm off and then bumped right into Neptune.

"Oh sorry Cardin," the blue-haired was not aware of the short argument between the two, "It's your turn for night watch-"

"No, I'm not doing that!" He pushed off Vasilias and stormed off to the basketball court.

Coco brought up Neptune, who was asking, "Geez, what's wrong with him?" The two saw that he was walking through a hole that the guys made while heading in this place. "Hey wait, where are you going?"

Velvet appeared from a corner and walked over to where Cardin was, he noticed that three of them were now behind him, he was just close to wandering off to the streets. He turned around and yelled out, "I'm not staying with all of you insane people, you're the ones who were pulling themselves away from the main goal. We could've just left the city by ourselves but you don't know that all of these guys are gonna kill us."

"Cardin, you're the only one that's gonna get yourself killed if you don't do as we're supposed to!" Coco stepped close to him, but he pushed her aside again.

"You're not my boss, or my leader, I'm not going to let myself be ordered what to do anymore, I'm gonna leave all of you and get out of here by myself!"

"Hey, you can't!" Neptune took his turn to stop the Berserker from running away from the team. "We need to stick together!"

"I wouldn't want to stick together with a crazy girl who kills things for sport and cares for all the wrong things." Cardin shouted out to them.

"I'm not crazy!" Coco yelled back.

"Nor do I want to hang out with a guy who is more of a nerd than a cool fighting dude!"

Neptune replied to that, "I'm an intellectual! There's a difference!"

"And most of all!" He turned to the bunny Faunus, "I will not spend another minute or even a second with a two eared freak like her, she won't understand that she's not like us, she's better off with those freaks of nature. If she ever wants to be like us, she should just die right now, I will not stay with her nor any of you assholes!"

"So you better understand velvet, you're a freak and you always will be!" Cardin started running out to the left and Coco ran only three steps and saw him getting far away from here.

She would yell out at him, treating him as well, but a softening sound interrupted her loud yellings. She turned around to see her faunus partner looking down at the floor and a tear began to fall off her face. There was more tears falling down which had her cover her face and began to weep to herself, "He's...right." Without even wasting another second, she dashed off, almost bumped near her friend and ran off to the right.

"Velvet wait!" Coco saw her running away from the team, Neptune saw this, which caused him to worry a lot about her. Without even deciding anything, he started running after her, which just left Coco to run off to the left and chase after Cardin.

Cardin was running through the street and could hear the sound of the beret wearing girl yelling out for him, he tried to ignore it and just listen to the new sounds that were surrounding the sky, thunder.

"Cardin, get back here now!" Coco was not believing what she was doing, she was going to seriously kill this guy when the whole thing is over, but splitting up was not he best option for them. "Cardin, if you don't slow down-!" She was now running past a parking lot next to her, before she could continue yelling, a car door flew through the air and collided with her, and send her on the ground.

She got on her feet and turned to the parking lot, There was a soldier standing next to a car that didn't had a door. She started running out at him, forgetting about Winchester for now, and saw that the enemy was about to aim at her with his gun. The rifle fired out a train of bullets so she forced herself to duck near a car and move her way around the vehicle, then once the gun stopped firing, she moved.

The soldier didn't expect Coco to come out next to him, but she did and while sliding on the hood of the car, she kicked him and he backed away from the attack, then prepared to fire his gun again, but she used her handbag to knock it off his hands then tried to deliver a punch, but he grabbed the fist.

He began to run forward and slam the outcast's back right on the side of the car. This only caused her to drop her weapon then headbutted him just as she punched him and then he kicked her right in the stomach. She was easily thrown off against a car then she had herself go up and without even trying to think of how to take this guy out, she rammed him and he hit a car as well.

She was able to take the pistol from the armor and get away from him quickly. Then she focused on her target and pointed the MP pistol at him, and he had his knife pulled out and aimed at her face. Coco got a clear look on the enemy, he wasn't an Atlas member, nor a White Fang operative.

"Who the hell are you?" She asked in a grim tone.

"I'm a Sentinel operative," He said, "I'm looking for a target, and that's it."

"If you're talking about me, then you better get away now." She was willing to let this guy talk, but she was unsure if he could be trusted.

"It's not you, or Ruby or even some of your friends." The Sentinel soldier kept his stance, "Besides I'm just here to find that person, and try to make Atlas and the White Fang pay."

"I get it, you're just here to fight our enemies." The beret wearing character lowered the pistol down slightly and said, "Your 'Sentinel' guys, are you basically trusting us to get us away from the city?"

"Does it look like o came here just to do my own thing, but maybe you could be a real big help for us." The Sentinel holstered his knife and stepped close to the girl, he was clearly thinking that this was a very very bad choice for hi to accept, but they were acting like heroes, and he could have them help out on their escape, and oil that outcast target. "My name is Chris Alder by the way."

"Nice to meet you." Coco got her handbag and looked out to see if she could reach for Cardin, but he was nowhere to be in sight. She decided do just forget the idea of following him and stick with the Sentinel.

Cardin was now wandering through the streets, fortunate that the beret wearing girl had somehow stopped running after him. He now had the problem of rain pouring down the entire city after the events of the day, a little too cliche if he were to call it that. He was actually going to be alone and escape the town by himself without having to worry about his "allies".

He was walking next to a building when someone approached him from behind, he was thinking it was one of them, but the line he said made him think twice. "What are you doing out here alone?" The mysterious man made Winchester turn around and take out his mace. In front of him was The White Fang member but he looked different than the other ones. "you could get yourself killed in the next few seconds."

"Shut up, i don't need another lecture." The mace wielder charged out at the faunus, but he pulled out a sword and blocked the attack, just before he used his free hand to grab the handle of Winchester's weapon, pull it towards him and used his elbow to hit his face. The mace was dropped and this left the soldier to push Cardin to a wall and point the sword at him.

"You're too aggressive." The faunus said to him, "And you rely on your strength a little too much. It's what makes you vulnerable against everyone."

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Cardin shook his fist when he heard this, "I'm not vulnerable, you must've been talking about the wrong people." He was referring to either Jaune or Pyrrha, but really both of them.

"If I was, i wouldn't be at this exact spot now." The faunus enemy smirked and loosen his grip on the sword, "When i saw you fighting that mech with your friends earlier, I saw you using brute force. That's truly impressive but maybe you don't know how to properly help yourself against us." This faunus had a clever plan, and if it manages to work, then Atlas would gain the upper hand in this Outcast hunt.

"Are you mocking me, and my skills?"

"Perhaps, but if you want to improve on that, you better start learning." The faunus let go of Cardin, and holstered his sword. If it was anyone else, he would've worried that this would be a risky move and Winchester could've run off at any direction, continue his plan to run away and escape on his own, but something about the faunus made him stop.

"Why don't you just kill me now?" That was the first thing he asked, that was also a good question since they were somehow not pulling off any punches for the moment, nor did this guy even try something funny.

"Because…you're better than they think you are." The faunus adjusted his mask. "I can see that you have a lot more potential than you shown before, you can prove to all of your allies, that you can be better than them, stronger than them, and more powerful than them."

This line of dialogue convinced Cardin, he did like the sound of that, and that actually sounded like a good idea. If he followed that path, then he could finally defeat Pyrrha or Jaune or even Team CFVY. "If you're right, then can you teach me?"

"Let me think about that." The faunus turned around and placed his hand under his chin. "Do you have a name?"

"It's Cardin."

"You can call me, Reynard." The faunus said, and then added another line, "Oh and by the way, There's someone behind you."

"Wait, wha-?" Winchester turned around and then punch hit his face as an announcement of an enemy. He was pushed two feet away and rolled on the wet ground before he got on his feet and saw the Atlas soldier with a lance. He got his mace and then he was prepared to charge at the enemy, but he was already notified about the explanation. He shouldn't even try to attack him head on, he needed to let him take this opportunity.

The Atlas soldier strike first and swung the lance down at the outcasts, but he was able to block it. The mace was then spun around the user and hit the side of the long weapon, and then the enemy took this moment to hit him with the end of the weapon. This was the vulnerable state that Reynard said, he had to take him down now.

The lance was pointed at Cardin and it was thrusted at his face, Winchester put his mace up and the lance's blade went through the openings of the mace, but stopped when it came near his face. He did nothing, and then after taking a deep breath, Cardin put the mace up and the lance was thrown off it, and then it bashed right on the Atlas soldier's side, defeating him with a blow like that.

Cardin holstered his mace and turned around to Reynard. "Did you plan this?" He angrily said at the faunus, "did you set this up?"

"I'm gonna be honest with you and say yes." Reynard turned to him and smiled, He pulled off his hood and mask to show his orange hair and his brown eyes, he also had Fox ears on top of his head, "That was actually just a test to see if you can prove your worth." He walked past the Mace wielder and started to take off the Exosuit. "And from what i can tell now, You do have potential, but not just yet."

Cardin had no response to say to him, he was then given the Suit from Reynard. he then looked at him, "Welcome to Atlas."

The rain kept pouring downwards and started to cover the city with it, Velvet was running through this and had Neptune trying to catch up to her. She was still in tears from hearing all of those words, and she believed almost all of them, she wanted to be alone and not deal with this. Unfortunately she kept falling down whenever possible.

She hit the side of the car and fell down on the wet road. Her clothing was drenched in the pond and it completely ruined the beauty of it, there wasn't any point for her to care anymore, she just wanted to run away.

"Velvet, wait!" Neptune shouted out to the bunny faunus who didn't try to look back to see how far he was. The two were getting a little close to one of the bridges, but she was not heading there.

"Just leave me alone! Please!" Velvet shouted back at him and tripped on the ground again, but she kept moving and headed to the right in a large alley. She kept moving as fast as she could and started to feel exhausted after running for so long. Unfortunately for her, there was a brick wall that separated her from escaping, the blue haired caught up to her.
"Velvet, you got to stop," Neptune replied to her, "Whatever Cardin just told you is not true."

"He's right, I'm not like any of you." She protested against that line, "I'm not human."

"You're much more than that, and i respect it as everyone else does."

"Half of our world hates our kind, because we don't share the same kind of traits, or even the same heritage. We're just an outcast to the humans."

Neptune had not much ideas to try and help her, "The rest of our world is still adjusting to it, we're gonna treat you the same way as humans do."

Velvet shook her head, "You can't, The White Fang still exists and my kind of people are in that group, we're only going to kill until we have what we want. But some of us faunus people can't forget the fact that they aren't being treated equally."

"Velvet, I know you can't shake this feeling off, but we can be together and everyone can give your kind a chance if it was possible. We're both the same kind of people."

"You don't understand!" Scarlatina slapped Neptune's face and turned to the wall where she pout her head and slam her fist. "Take one good look at me! i'm a freak, an outcast of the human race, an outsider of your species, and that's just it!"

"You can't see anything else in me, because that's who i really am. A faunus and because of that, we ended up creating a war, I don't deserve to be trusted with the humans!" Velvet began to lower herself and weep even more, clutching her fists and muttering sad things.

Neptune stepped close to her, and placed his hand on her shoulder. He said, "Velvet…you're not a freak, I would never want you to call yourself a freak or an outcast of the human race, You're just like us." Velvet slowly turned her head, "All those words against you and all of the good faunus creatures, they're not true, i believe that you can be just like the humans. Everything is going to be alright."

Velvet stood up and sniff a little. She brushed off one of her tears and looked at Neptune. "You're right. We might be different but we can be treated the same way. Thanks." She smiled and moved closer to the blue haired. "Thanks." She wrapped her arms around Neptune and kissed him softly, this unexpected moment caught Neptune off guard, but he didn't stop her, he just hugged her back.

The rain was still pouring down on them, but they didn't care. no matter how hard it fell down on them, their spirits remained high and dry. Neptune felt like he made the right choice, and Velvet thought that she was being loved for once in her life. The two stopped after what seemed like a full minute and looked at each other with their faces turning red.

"um..." Neptune was a little speechless, "Velvet, do you think it's okay if we kept this a secret?" The bunny faunus just nodded, they didn't need to explain this new event to Coco when they get back. Perhaps they were now in love, but they didn't want to reveal that to their friends, this will remain a secret to the two. "We should be heading back now, we ave to prepare for tomorrow." She got a head start and walked out of the ally with Neptune following her.

The sound of the rain hit the walls of the buildings, attempting to get in and soak everything. At Murray Hill, Ruby was lying on the bed and dressed in her pajamas, waiting for Weiss to come out of the bathroom. She did and she appeared to be dressed in a Nightgown with penguin and shark patterns on it, (she had no idea how that managed to get in this building), and sat down on the her bed which was next to Ruby's.

"Hey Ruby?" She said first.

"Yeah?"

"Tomorrow's the big day." The heiress reminded, "Tomorrow we have to escape New York City, and hope that we can find a way home." She was feeling a little nervous about that, things would get intense at that moment. "It's going to be hard for us."

Ruby responded, "Weiss, You don't need to worry about it, we made it this far today." Her hopes remained high, but she knew that it could get worse. "We fought the White Fang, and the Grimm before, so maybe this could be a piece of cake."

"You think on the positive side a little too much Ruby, Things aren't always going to go the way we expect it too, and you know it." Weiss said. "There could be a possible chance that we could get injured, die, or get captured."

"Don't say those things Weiss, It's going to be alright."

"Easy for you to say Ruby, but I'm just worried. You got yourself kidnapped before, and since Atlas is capable of taking us down, I'm just worried that you might get in trouble."

"I supposed that's true." The Grimm reaper said, "I'm still young, but I'm still trying. I can do this."

"Maybe you can, maybe you can't. I'm concerned for your safety like everyone else." The Schnee heiress walked close to Ruby and she sat up, "I don't want you to die, We need to get out of this alive, and get back home."

Ruby somehow began to blush, "Weiss...I...I'm just glad that you care for me. I always knew that, This is for our world, we will go back home and be reunited with our friends, together." She moved closer and closer to Weiss.

"So...I guess we should go to sleep now." Schnee was getting a little uncomfortable all of a sudden, and her face couldn't deny it.

"Yeah." Ruby had to do this, she leaned over to Weiss and then started to kiss her cheek. This caused the Heiress to be shocked at this and back away.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, What was that for!?" She asked and back up to her bed, she would've expected a hug from Ruby, but a kiss on the cheek? Definitely not what she thought would happen.

"It's for good luck tomorrow?" She smiled and tapped her index fingers together while feeling a little nervous for doing that. "Isn't that what most people do?"

"I guess, but did you really had to do that?" Weiss began to go under her covers, "It seems a little weird for you to do it."

"Sorry."

"good night."

"Good night." Ruby began to sink under her bed covers and sleep on her pillow, smiling and hoping to have a good night's sleep. This could be their last night in the city, now they would be ready for the big day tomorrow. They don't know if they would win, but they had to believe in themselves and escape the place. Something told them that things were going to change them forever.

Well, that took a while to get done as well as the others. I still feel sad though.

Thank you Evincio for your help on this chapter. And there's some VelvetXNeptune and Whiterose for you guys. It's not my best, but I guess it's good enough.

The next chapter will come out in February 21st 2015. Hope you enjoyed. Please Review, compliment on some things and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.