WARNING: Torture Scene

As I slowly drifted back into consciousness I woke up to darkness. I tried getting up but found that I was strapped down to a chair. I didn't bother with an attempt to break free because I noticed that I didn't have my gloves on. I looked around but found that there wasn't a single thing in this room other than a large monitor on the wall front of me. I focused my semblance but nothing happened.

"I'm afraid that your semblance won't work in your current state," a voice said from behind me and a single light above me switched on.

"What do you mean current state?"

"We gave you a nonlethal amount of Deathstalker venom. Just enough to neutralize your aura and semblance. Don't worry though; we didn't numb your body."

"F #$!" I yelled as a searing pain shot through my left hand. I looked down to see that a katana was stabbed straight through the middle of the back of my hand.

"You see, if it were up to me. You'd be in a grave for being a filthy traitor." I looked up to see a bull Faunus with dark red hair and black clothing.

"And who might you be?"

"Adam Taurus, but that's not important. What is important is that you would go against your fellow Faunus and try to save the enemy. This is a killable offense but my superiors would much rather have you 'rehabilitated'"

"Why? Why not just kill me?"

"Well there are certain people that want you alive."

"Who?"

"You know, you ask a lot of questions. Why don't we fix that."

The next thing I knew, he had his hand in my mouth. I bit down and he screamed in pain. Holding his hand, he called for two other Faunus to hold my mouth open. He angrily put his hand in my mouth and placed a firm grip on my upper right canine tooth. At first I didn't feel anything but as the force of his pull increased, so did the pain. The pain was excruciating to an unbelievable point that I was sure I was still in a coma at the hospital, but sadly I wasn't. I can't be… My thoughts were broken as a final tug caused blood to pour into my mouth.

"You have any more questions? I would love to make a collection." He motioned to the tooth in his right hand.

I spat blood in his face and he responded by punching me which caused blood to shoot out to the floor. He pulled out two dust crystals out of his coat pocket. One appeared to be lightning and the other one was dust. He pulled out his sword out from my hand and quickly replaced it with the ice crystal. My body was slowly encased in ice as he sheathed his katana and loaded the other crystal into the hilt. Adam smirked at me and shot a blast from his sword that sent me flying back, breaking the chair and restraints in the process. The ice shattered as I hit the ground. I tried to cry out in pain but I found that any attempts at speaking were blocked by the electricity that was running through my body. Once my body was in my control I tried to get up, but the two Faunus kept me on my knees.

"You ready to cooperate?"

"Screw you," I responded weakly, earning me a kick in the face.

"Well… if physical torture isn't going to do it, maybe a little incentive." He then, motioned to the monitor and the Faunus to my right turned it on with a remote. "Say hello to the guests of honor." I looked up to see 2 Faunus and 3 humans chained to a wall.

"Cirena Cane….." She was a kangaroo Faunus based on her ears and the tail that was now separated on the floor next to her. She wore a red zip up hoodie, black short shorts, purple leggings that seemed to have a design on them, red high top shoes, and a white t-shirt. She had short brown hair and her eyes were indigo.

"….Natalie Rayner…." She was human. She wore a grey coat, a dark purple shirt, a black scarf, jeans, and grey boots. She had long and wavy purple hair. On her left wrist was a tattoo of a clock that appeared to be bleeding. Her eyes were a light shade of lavender.

"…..Nathanial Chromus…" He was human as well. He wore, a navy blue dress shirt opened, with a black shirt underneath, jeans and black skater shoes. He had short and black hair that was spiked up. His eyes were a dark maroon.

"…Rideat Dente….." You wouldn't be able to tell he was a Faunus other than when he grinned at the Faunus gaurds who were threatening him. He had large hyena canines. His clothing consisted of a long sleeved white shirt under a short sleeved black shirt. The black shirt had 'SMILE' written on the front. He had some baggy blue jeans, sandals and a black beanie that covered his eyes which had an old blue and white, White Fang symbol on the front.

"…and Yang Xiao Long" She had her head down and her hair was covering her face. She didn't seem to be trying to struggle at all.

"Thanks to you we have finally captured one of our more frustrating targets."

"Just let her go. You can torture and kill me. Just let them go."

"Orders are or-" he was cut off by the door opening and a White Fang member stood in the doorway.

"Sir, she's here to see you." Without another word, Adam got up and left. The two White Fang members remained with me. The metallic taste in my mouth had begun to diminish. As I realized that my mouth and hand had healed, I heard laughing coming from the monitor. The hyena Faunus, Rideat, was laughing hysterically.

"Guys, I can see." He said which caused the others that were chained up, except Yang, to look up at him.

"Nathaniel….." Cirena waited for his response.

"…..on it." Then a red objects appeared out of thin air in between all of their chains. They expanded and vanished after the chains had shattered. They knocked one of the guards into the camera which left nothing but static on the monitor. There were gunshots which were followed by 2 bodies crashing through the wall. Dust filled the room almost immediately, but since I was on my knees, and with the help of my semblance, the dust went over my head.

The two guards had let go of me to try and cover their faces. I took the opportunity and I swung my arms at the front of their legs, as hard as I could. As they fell, I grabbed both of their heads and pushed towards the ground, causing them to be knocked out cold. I walked out through the rubble. I found myself in the upper level of a warehouse. I looked down across the building and saw Yang with the others holding back a group of Faunus. I looked around to see where my and the other's stuff could be held. I found that to my left on the ground level was a guard messing behind a crate and messing with everyone's stuff. I jumped down over to him and smashed his face on the crate, knocking him out. I changed into my stuff and grabbed the rest of the weapons.

I strapped the staff on my back, the hatchet just below that, the baton on my left side, the escrima sticks on my right side, Yang's gauntlets on my wrists, and my gloves. I stepped outside to find an airship that had dropped off Faunus. I had to take that airship, but first I needed to find a way to threaten the pilot. After failing at activating the gauntlets I searched the other weapons. I grabbed the escrima sticks from my side and noticed how they resembled revolvers. They had triggers sticking out and the handles were curved slightly, barely being off line from the barrels. I rushed to the airship as it was taking off, and used my semblance to barely grasp the floor. I pulled myself up and pointed the barrels of the escrima sticks to the back of the pilot's head.

"Unless you want your brain to be spread across that windshield, you're going to do exactly as I say." The pilot just nodded

"Go to the other side of this warehouse. " When we made it, they were outside trying to escape with nowhere to go.

"Land" I commanded to the pilot, further pressing the barrel against his head. When we landed, the White Fang began to surround us from all sides. I motioned through the windshield for them to get on. Once they were on the ship, we headed back to Beacon. As everyone relaxed into their seats, Yang remained standing as she looked around the airship.

"Where's Ruby?" She panicked and continued searching the ship.

"Yang," I grabbed both of her shoulders," she's fine." She pulled me into a hug ended up hitting the staff on my back.

"That reminds me," I said, putting away the revolver and handing her the gauntlets, "you probably miss these."

"Thank you," she smiled and took over my position with the pilot.

I walked to the others on the ship, and I almost fell as the ship fought some turbulence. I managed to grab onto one of the strangers sitting down. I looked at the girl and all she could do was stare back. Her eyes were void of expression, but at the same instant it seemed as if she was experiencing multiple emotions at once.

I immediately stood up and pulled my hand off of her gray coat," sorry about that. I'm St-"

"Storm Croatone," she interrupted, " sorry it's part of my semblance. My name is Natalie Rayner and since you were planning on asking my weapons are the escrima revolvers." A little confused, I handed her the weapons.

"So, I see you've met our little human encyclopedia over there." I looked over to see the guy with maroon eyes and the male Faunus next to him chuckling.

"At least I'm not a pacifist," she shot back at Nathanial

"Just because my semblance is caused as a defense mechanism and not for fighting doesn't make me a pacifist!"

The Faunus boy laughed a lot harder as the two continued bickering. Ignoring them I handed the staff to the 'pacifist' and the baton to the Faunus. I walked over to the Faunus girl in the far back of the airship. She was staring off in the distance, so I didn't bother her and set her hatchet on the seat next to her.

Once we arrived back at Beacon the police were waiting there to arrest the White Fang activist. When we left the airship the other four students, Team CNCD, left to the medical wing while Team RWBY was waiting for us. Ruby ran up to us and hugged Yang while Blake stayed back smiling and Weiss scowled at me.

"Ruby! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Yang inspected Ruby making sure she wasn't harmed or injured in anyway.

"Yang!" Ruby pushed Yang away from her. "I'm fine. Storm helped me." Before I knew it, I felt a pair of soft, warm lips press against my cheek.

"Thanks for keeping her safe." Gladly, she didn't notice the change in color of my cheeks.

"No problem"

Ruby turned back at me, "By the way, Ozpin wants to see you"

Ozpin's Office

Ozpin was staring out his window, while Goodwitch stood beside his desk. The only sound in the room was Ozpin drinking his coffee.

"You wanted to see me sir?" I asked breaking the silence.

"Yes," he turned, "I understand that your reunion didn't go well."

"How did you kn-"

"Know that you were a part of a Faunus terrorist organization? Well I make sure I know who I let into my school. I let you stay in the hopes that you would not bring any of those matters with you. I should hand you over to the police after what happened with Ms. Rose. However, you did save 6 of my students 4 of whom were unaccounted for in the past week. This is why I have a proposition for you."

"What would that be?"

"You work as a training assistant with Glynda. This would allow the students to train against a new opponent and you would be able to work on your abilities as well. Afterwards, I would allow you to stay in team RWBY's dorm and use your aura to help battle the activist group."

"Fine. When do I start?"

"I will notify you. For now, get some rest." I left and went to the dorm to sleep, or at least try to.

AN: I'm back. Sorry about the wait. It's just that I've been so busy with *excuse* and then there was *second excuse* So again, I just want to say that *apology* Anyways, on with the shoutouts. First I would like to thank The Baz for his amazing OC: Rideat Dente. Secondly, I would like to thank Awesomechainsaw for the support. You should check out what their story: Spirits. As an FYI, CNCD stands for concord which means peace and harmony amongst groups of people. By the way, would you guys like to see more of Team CNCD? Thanks and don't forget to R&R.

-Johanne Smithe