SHDE and AGIS traveled back to Vale together, Shayne and Lance were spending time just trying to get Shayne out of his rage filled depression, mostly by drinking but also by sparring as needed. Shayne was good, but in this state a baby could beat him if they tried.
Lina was trying her best to calm him down but he wouldn't let her get close to him, she sat up crying all night. Hanna and Silver tried their best to calm her down but when Lina did finally fall asleep they felt awkward so Hanna broke the silence.
"Silver, why is there so much tension between us?"
"Umm…err…"
"What, is it because I'm gay?"
"Sort of…"
"Well just tell me what's bothering you"
"It's hard to explain, so I'll just show you instead" silver took Hanna's head in her hands and kissed her softly on the lips.
"Uhm…err…uh…oh" Hanna stammered but no words escaped her mouth.
"I know you're with Yang but I just can't help it"
"I-I'm glad you d-did to be honest, m-me and Yang have been going through s-some rough patches recently and I think she's going to break up with me as it is" Hanna stuttered as Silver rested her hands on her thigh.
Silver smiled and got up, winking as she closed the door, Hanna felt herself blush in the darkness.
Dundra and Eddi had finally got over the fact that they had broken up and they were talking like adults now, Nelwyn didn't like it so she decided to liven it up.
"Dundra, I hope that this won't interfere with the team"
"Well, we'll just have to wait and see"
"You know what I think?" Nelwyn interjected
"No Nelwyn, what do you think"
"I think that you two should do it one last time, for old times' sake"
"No, Nelwyn that wouldn't be a good idea" Eddi said rubbing her temples
"Why not, I did it with all my exes and I haven't seen any of them in years"
"Didn't you use to date that guy from the warehouse?"
"What Kam, shit I guess you're right, well ignore me"
"Nelwyn are you bored?" Eddi asked annoyed
"God yes"
"Why don't you go see Kam, he's on the top deck"
"WHAT! Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I wanted to make sure you still liked him"
"Goddamn you Eddi"
Nelwyn stormed out, barely missing Jiang.
"What's up with Nelwyn?"
"Oh nothing, what can we do for you Jiang"
"Oh I was wondering if you guys had seen Lance and Shayne anywhere."
"Last time I saw them they were in the bar, if they aren't there try the sparring ring in the cargo decks"
"Okay thanks Ed, I hope you two work whatever it is you are worried about out, bye" she said before leaving.
"How the fuck…"
"I don't know, maybe she's like Shayne"
"Dundra she's clearly not a Faunus"
"No I mean she can read people"
"Oh, that makes sense"
Jiang checked the bar but the barman said he hadn't seen them, so she made her way down to the lower decks. She was walking among the crates trying to find the supposed sparring arena when she was jumped from behind.
"Hey there little missy, this ain't a place for girls like you" a rough voice said as his arms wrapped around her throat.
Jiang struggled but it was useless.
Shayne and Lance turned a corner and saw the large male grab her, Shayne stopped Lance and dragged him behind a crate.
"Lance, we have to do this properly or she'll die, I'll go in first you get up high, we just want to get her out of there" Lance nodded, he was angry but he still listened to reason.
Shayne walked around the corner and coughed. The large man turned his head.
"I suggest you let her go"
"And what are you going to do about it" two more men appeared behind Shayne grinning evilly
"Me, I'm going to deal with these two and you're going to let her go"
"Yeah, you and what army"
"Who said I needed an army"
Shayne ducked under of the men's arms and punched him straight in the gut. Lance used the confusion he was generating to teleport behind the one holding Jiang. He was about to strike when Jiang did a back kick to the guys groin and flipped out of his grasp. She stumbled into Lance as she landed. Shayne was taking a beating as the guy slowly got to his feet.
"Lance, Jiang, run!"
Lance hesitated and thought about arguing but grabbed her hand and ran off between two of the crates. The largest guy took off after them.
Shayne was getting sick of this; he ducked a punch and kneed the guy in the elbow, breaking the arm at the joint before stepping up on his knee and kicking him in the face. He toppled like a ton of bricks. Shayne turned his attention to the remaining guy, who panicked and drew a long, vicious looking knife. Shayne stepped aside as he thrust forward and ducked the side slash that came after it. He wasn't expecting the follow up punch after it though, it struck him square in the face and he staggered backwards, the knife pierced his gut and he inhaled sharply.
Shayne grabbed the guy's wrist and snapped it in his hands, the bone broke the skin. He screamed until Shayne kneed him in the head, knocking him unconscious. Shayne took off as fast as he could to try and catch up to Lance and Jiang.
They were running out of breath so they hid around a dark corner. They could hear him coming closer. They held their breaths as he drew up to the corner.
"Hey asshole!" the man turned to face Shayne, the knife still stuck in his gut.
"Where'd your friends go kid, and I see my man did his job, I'm surprised that you're still breathing though"
"I don't know where they went but, ughn, attempted rape isn't gonna go down well with the authorities"
"Well, you worked me out then, you're a smart kid so I'm gonna make you a deal, turn around and forget this ever happened and I won't kill you"
"I'm smart enough to know that you couldn't kill me, so give it your best shot" Shayne spat blood and beckoned him closer.
The man rose to the challenge and walked towards Shayne.
"Jiang, stay here, I'm going to help Shayne" Lance whispered, Jiang reluctantly let go.
The guy had drawn a similar knife to the one in Shayne's gut and was tossing it between his hands as he advanced. Lance used what Shayne had told him and waited, the guy raised his arm to strike Shayne down and Lance leapt up and hauled it backwards, wrapping his legs around the shoulder. As they fell Shayne jumped up and stomped the guy's head into the ground, knocking him out.
Lance helped Shayne to where Jiang was.
"Shayne, you're hurt"
"No shit…ughn" Shayne pulled the blade from his gut and placed his left hand over the wound
"Shayne let us help you"
"No, I need to do this alone"
The Grimm leapt from his arm to his stomach and sealed the wound before their eyes. Shayne exhaled in relief as the pain subsided.
"Goddamn Shayne, that was impressive"
"Nothing to it really" Shayne looked at Jiang and smiled knowingly
"Am I missing something?"
"No it's just something I remembered; c'mon we're almost back at Vale"
Shayne hopped to his feet and waked away shortly followed by Jiang.
"What the fuck just happened?" Lance said to himself before walking after them.
Ralen was sat in his teams Cabin on the ship.
He looked over the strange Crystal he had been given earlier that day. Ralen's mind flashed back to the conversation.
'Can you forge me something to carry this with, it's too big for my pockets'
'I don't think I can, it seems unstable'
'Don't worry about that, can you do it or not?'
'Yeah, I guess I could take a look, any particular place you want it mounting?'
A jacket was slung onto the table.
'Can you make it so I can remove it and put it onto each of my jackets?"
'Um, that's more of a tailor's job'
'But I can't take this to a tailor as they wouldn't know where to start'
*sigh*'Fine ill see what I can do, leave the jacket'
'I'll be back later Ralen'
'Yeah…see you Shayne'
Ralen tinkered with a small, metal contraption and did a rushed stitching job to see how it would sit on Shayne's jacket, he didn't want it to clash with the design, and Shayne had made that clear in a note inside the jacket.
He had just finished securing it when the door opened. Ralen turned his head and found Shayne standing right behind him.
"Jesus Christ Shayne, you damn near gave me a heart attack"
Shayne stepped back smiling.
"Sorry Ralen, so what've you got?"
"Hang on, what happened to you?" Ralen asked noticing the blood-stains on his shirt.
"Oh, just a small knife fight below decks, no biggie"
"Alright then" Ralen looked him in the eyes but Shayne just flashed red at him. "What I've got is this"
Ralen slung the jacket over Shayne's shoulders and turned him to a full length mirror. The small contraption held the Crystal in a vice like grip on Shayne right arm, just under the shoulder. Shayne leaned in closer for a better look, the Crystal pulsed with energy and the stitching gave way.
"Aw fuck"
"Don't worry, if you can just put it back on I can make sure it never comes off later, how many of these mounts have you got?"
"I have to make them by hand, so it's a one of a kind right now"
"Lucky I only have two jackets then huh" the pair shared a smile.
Shayne pocketed the crystal and handed the device to Ralen. A bell sounded signalling that they had arrived back at Vale.
The two teams reconvened on the top deck, Shayne had just decided to bin his shirt and just wear his jacket over his bare skin, it was spring anyway.
Kameron and Nelwyn were talking on the starboard side, and AGIS and SHDE stood on the port side trying to work out what they were talking about. Shayne and Lina were holding hands, but he had his eyes closed, he was ignoring the noise trying to hone in on them.
"Kam, what happened to you, you used to be so much fun?"
"I grew up Nelwyn, like your sister did"
"You both suck; you're both boring and serious now"
"I'm not boring though" he swished his tail.
"I've never worked out what Faunus you are" Kameron chuckled
"I'm a Komodo Faunus, long tail, sharp claws and teeth, and most obvious of all, my skin"
"I was never one for biology"
"Neither was I, Nel…?"
"Yeah?"
"Would you…"
The ships horn prevented Shayne form hearing what had been said, but he could see it quite clearly, Nelwyn and Kameron were locked in an embrace and they were kissing.
"Well, that's…interesting"
"Dundra shut up and grab some of Hanna's fucking bags" Dundra groaned at Eddi's words
"Shayne, we're here"
"I know Lina, come on, I need some sleep" he shouldered both their bags and followed Eddi and Dundra down the gangplank. AGIS and Hanna waited for Nelwyn and Kameron before following suit.
When they all reached the bottom they walked to the Bullhead depot to get to Beacon. Even though it was midday on a Monday there, there were almost no people on the streets, those that were there walked quickly as if in a hurry. Shayne was disturbed by this and slowed down to talk to Jiang.
"Does this seem as weird to you as it does to me"
"What, you mean the silence and the lack of people"
"Yeah, these streets are usually buzzing with people, whats going on"
"Well, there are a couple of people coming this way, lets ask them" Shayne gazed at where she was pointing, it was Vossler and Ashe. Shayne jogged up to them.
"Shayne, thank fuck your back, shit has been going down for the last 24 hours, first the White Fang kicked off at a protest in the park then some Grimm got in the town, nobody knows how and now there is some guy claiming to have put bombs in public places all over the city"
"Who says they've placed bombs"
"Roman, fucking, Torchwick"
Shayne's face hardened at his mention.
"Okay, you guys go back to Beacon, and get all the teams dealing with this to fall back, we've got this"
"But Shayne…"
"No Ashe, I know you're not part of my team but I know you'll do as I say, now go"
"Shayne what's going on?"
He turned to AGIS.
"Roman Torchwick is causing a stir with bomb threats, im gonna call him out on it and yo guys are gonna find the bombs and deal with them"
"Shayne, Roman is an asshole, but he's tricky, you'll need some support" Jiang said having heard rumors, Ralen and Lance both stepped forward.
"Lance you'll be better with me, anyway Ralen, if you find one I need you to get rid of it" he nodded
"Shayne, be careful, you know that the White Fang are gonna be crawling all over the place"
"Before we go Shayne, Frank Lance and Velvet are out here somewhere"
"Fuck! Well before you go back find them and take them with you" Vossler nodded and the teams broke apart, all staying in radio contact.
Shayne and Lance walked to the marketplace. Shayne set his Scroll to broadcast and typed a message.
'Well, I'm here Roman, where the fuck are you'
"Now what?" Lance asked
"Now, we wait"
They didn't have to wait long before a Bullhead glided to a hover above the market. White Fang dropped down on ropes before it landed, Shayne was hoping his bluff had worked and he had an ace up his sleeve.
The bullhead landed softly and Roman walked down the ramp.
"Well, Shayne, I believe you've already met my associate" Shayne felt breathing on his neck and dove forward evading an axe that would have cleaved him in half. Shayne turned and glared at the man.
"You...!"
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