Chase had been collecting books on dust and aura to try and find out any effects the experimentation could've had on him that he hadn't noticed yet. Once he found all he could he sat down next to team JNPR as team RWBY was playing a board game. He had to plug earphones into his scroll and listen to music as he couldn't focus over the noise they were making.
From what was on the book nothing like this was ever even theorised so it seemed that the library wasn't a good place to find information. He plugged out the earphones and noticed everyone was silent. He looked around to see a blonde monkey faunus talking to team RWBY. "I never took you as the board game playing type" He said. "Blake put her cards down and left said "I think I'm done playing". The monkey faunus watched her leave then said "Something wrong with Blake" to which everyone shrugged. "I'll go see if she's ok" Chase suggested. "We'll join you after we finish this game" Ruby said.
Chase walked into team RWBY's dorm room and saw Blake laying on her bed looking thoughtfully. "What's the matter" He said as he took a seat on Weiss' seat. "It happened a while before you got here.." she started and retold the night that she found Torchwick working with the White Fang. "I was wondering how you got your bow to twitch" Chase said trying to lighten the mood. "We forgot to tell you I was a faunus?" She asked. The rest of team RWBY walked in as Chase asked Blake "So you're worried about what their next move is going to be?" Hearing this Weiss looked at Blake "Even if we knew their next move we aren't ready yet, we are just students". Blake responded "Well they aren't just going to wait until we're ready, if we don't do anything who will?" "She's got a point" Chase said earning a cold glare from Weiss. "So all in favour of becoming the youngest Huntresses and Hunter to take down a corrupt organisation conspiring against the Kingdom of Vale say I" Ruby said faster than should be possible. "Yes, I love it when you're feisty" Yang said pointing at Blake. "Well I suppose it could be fun" Weiss said. "Sure, maybe I can get some clues to my past" Chase said. He could see Ruby turn and murmur something but he couldn't make out what.
The next day in team RWBY's dorm they formed a plan Weiss and Ruby were to check the Schnee records for any break-ins, Yang was going to talk to her friend that knew everything that went on in Vale -Yeah, because that doesn't sound shady at all- and Blake was to go to a White Fang meeting. Which just left him, before they got to it a certain faunus was hanging outside the window. "Sorry Sun, we don't to get friends involved if we don't have to" Ruby explained. "Pfft that's dumb, you should always get friends involved that's why I brought Neptune" Sun retorted to which everyone looked out the window seeing Neptune who didn't look comfortable with how high up he was.
After Sun and Neptune got in the room it was decided Neptune would go with Yang and Sun with Blake, at which point they turned to Chase trying to figure out what he could do, "I could go with Blake and Sun, with my illusions I could enter through the back as one of the White Fang Members" He suggested and they all nodded.
Blake had shown Chase the Warehouse before her and Sun went to join the line of recruits. Seeing as most of the higher up members were going into the back he followed removing him from their sight, he decided that if he looked like them he could be found out if he didn't know what was going on. Chase leaned against the wall so he couldn't make any noise and break his illusion. He saw someone who, by Blake's description he identified as Torchwick, he was accompanied by a girl with brown and pink hair, she looked familiar.
*"With my illusions and your semblance we could escape from here, we're the two capable of changing what people see so they wouldn't even notice" Chase said. "You only want me to come because I can see through your illusions" Neo replied. Chase wanted to tell her how he felt but found the timing inappropriate and decided to say nothing. "Don't worry I won't tell them about your escape just go" Neo told him*
How had he forgot his old sparring partner, the only friend he had. He was overjoyed to see that she was still alive but it was quickly replaced with fear.-She knows that I'm here, I was never able to fool her- She stopped at the door to a stage and waited for everyone to leave the room. "So you were able to make it" She said without looking around to see him. "Yeah, but it didn't come for free" he said removing the illusion as it was pointless now. She looked around worried "What did they do to you?" She asked. "Nothing too bad, well apart from taking my memories and leaving me to be killed by some grimm" Chase replied. "They told me you had died, but it seems you didn't go down without a fight" Neo told him. "That's good to hear, what happened after I left?" Chase asked. Neo was silent for a moment before speaking "They killed Cyril, whatever you did to him when they confronted you put him in a vegetative state and since he couldn't be useful to them anymore..." Chase felt guilty for causing someone's death but couldn't remember who he was and put it aside. "They got more strict, from now on we can't disobey their orders, to make sure no one else escaped" She continued.
Suddenly he heard something coming from an earpiece she was wearing and she started attacking him. He pulled out Frozen Mirage hoping to catch her off guard with his weapons. She pulled the blade out of her umbrella and began attacking Chase. All he could do was block as she moved faster than he could counter. He could hear shouting from the next room.-Shit they know I'm here- But just as soon the lights went out and he heard Torchwick shout "Don't let them get away". Even without the lights Chase knew Neo's vision was like that of a faunus which put him at a disadvantage. He put a dust crystal into each dagger hoping to get some light, luckily the one he picked was fire and his blades lit up the room. He was still able to block but not as well. Neo was able to stab him in his side causing him to withdraw one dagger to stop the bleeding and use his aura to heal it. Suddenly his scroll lit up and he heard Blake and Sun's voices call for help. "A little busy here" He replied trying to avoid Neo.
Another noise came from her earpiece and she retreated but was replaced by White Fang members. Chase quickly made an illusion temporarily taking away their night vision as he retreated. He pulled out his scroll and warned them "YOu guys have reinforcements coming your way, I'll get there as quickly as I can" Quickly he opened an app on his scroll telling him where his team was. He stopped before he got there pulling out an ice crystal to close the stab wound from Neo.
As he got down he saw Yang swing around and punch the giant mech in the face causing it to crumble and launch the pilot out. Torchwick stood up looking around but Neo stood in front of him blocking the way. Chase could see Yang run up but told her "There's no point, they're not there anymore" team RWBY looked at him confused but as they turned around to look at Torchwick they vanished into pieces.
They turned to him and looked blankly. "Well why else would it take me so long to get here" he stated. They headed back to Beacon but Chase could already see that Blake wasn't going to stop so easily, he made a mental note to keep an eye out just in case. "What? Where's Sun and Neptune?" Ruby asked. "They disappeared when we knocked the mech down here" Blake said. "I'm sure they're fine, as far as we know they made sure no one else came after you" Chase said not knowing how wrong he was.
When they got back to the team's dorm they shared any information they had gained. Ruby shook her head showing that she didn't get anything on the White Fang. "Well, it seems that shipments of dust from the Schnee company have been occurring all over the four kingdoms, but recently more have been happening around here, whatever they're planning it's going down here" Weiss stated. "They have those Paladins from Ironwood, so either they are backed by the army or they have someone high up helping them" Blake said. Yang shrugged as she wasn't able to get anything from her 'friend'. "The White Fang have the support of the group who experimented on me, the person you saw tonight who helped Torchwick get away was… a friend of mine from when I was with them." He stopped remembering how she had attacked him so mercilessly and then continued "After my escape they made it so that no one could disobey orders"
After everyone else had went to sleep Chase stayed up on his scroll planning training sessions and trying to get any extra lessons on dust he could. If he was going up against the people who experimented on him he wanted to be prepared.