On the first day of the two weeks no one entered or even walked near his room. Chase had suspected that they never thought they'd actually get this far and were planning how to make him obedient. After a while he began to wonder if this was how they'd do it. Wait until he was so bored he would join just to do something. He had been able to keep himself entertained by planning his escape, since they were in a city and this was just one outpost he thought it easy to hide if they noticed his escape.
After which they had tried to impress him with what they had around in hope that he would join them to become better and stronger. While he found his 'tour' boring it had allowed him to map the area around his cell to know the quickest and best exits. It had also shown him where they had stored their dust so he could restock.
Seeing as neither of the first two options had worked they spent the rest of the week torturing him in the hopes of making him fear him. They always made it so that it was just enough not to leave a mark and that it could be healed by his aura, but painful enough that he'd become obedient. His resolve stayed firm, staying here just wasn't an option.
He had been waiting for the next round of torture whenever a thought occured. -What if we give them what they want and join- All it took was a couple days, trust me if you join them it will be worse than this -But we still don't have enough aura to escape and at this rate they will be implanting that earbud into by the time we do have enough- If you join them any chance of going back to that life is gone, you become the enemy -Not if I can become a spy, I'd rather it was me in control out there rather than someone else, I can get them information- You'd need to get their trust for them to tell you anything -That's why I waited until now to suggest it, they'll think they've broken me- He was about to counter but heard footsteps coming from outside.
He expected one of the scientist or the higher ups of the White Fang had come for his daily beating but that's not who it was. As soon as he recognised who it was he set up an illusion to make him look broken."W-who is it?" he whimpered as the Cinder walked into the cell. "Well, that didn't take very long, and here's me thinking I'd get the joy of hearing you scream" Cinder walked around his chair, stopping when she was behind him. "So, are you willing to join us now" He nodded and hoped it was enough to convince her.
She melted the metal binding him to the chair while he used what little aura he had to make it fall to the ground without burning him. As she left the room he followed her lead. The walk to what he suspected was the main office was relatively quiet as neither of them spoke, the only noises came from outside.
As they walked in he saw a tall, bald man who he knew was the leader. The bald man smiled as he saw Chase enter his office. "So, he returns, and just in time. I was beginning to think you wanted the earplug". He dismissed Cinder and pressed a button on his desk muttering something into the microphone. He then turned his attention back to Chase and smiled, "After you've been briefed we'll stock you up on dust and give you back your suit". "Briefed" Chase replied, shocked that they had a mission for him already. Just as the man was about to explain Neo entered the room. "Ah, now the both of you are here I can give your mission. As of tomorrow all of the preparations will be done for our plan. Next week you two are to escort the train and in the distraction it causes meet up with Cinder and sneak into Vale. Neo, I want to know where the military will be and what they plan to do. As for you Chase, Ozpin is up to something and I want to know what, you are not to rejoin Beacon and if you attempt to go against us we will bring you back" He glared at Chase to emphasise his point. "In the mean time Neo I want you and Chase to stock up on supplies and to give Chase back his weapon."
Chase and Neo left the room and she led him towards where they stored the stolen dust where he collected enough crystals to last him the duration of the trip. If he needed anymore Neo told him to find Torchwick as he was to continue stealing dust from the Schnee Dust Company. After she was done they headed towards a part of the building which Chase wasn't shown during his 'tour' but he wasn't focusing on that. Neo hadn't said a word to him other than what to do if he ended up in a troublesome situation.
"Still trying to figure out why you couldn't see through my illusions" he guessed hoping that's why she wasn't talking to him. "It's not just that, you turned into someone completely different in the arena. What are you?" Chase sighed before replying "You were lucky enough to be able to evolve your semblance without dust, those of us that had to… it affected us. What you fought was the result of dust experimentation." She turned to him with a shocked and horrified expression. Chase simply shrugged. "Yours didn't change though, no matter what they tried your semblance wasn't affected." She said looking at each of the doors. Chase had noticed that they were named. -They still kept my room, that's… unsettling- "Not until the night I escaped, when I was put in a real situation and not just some simulation" They stopped as they reached a door with his name on it. "If you want to go to get some fighting practice there's a makeshift arena at the end of the hall, the armory is the last room to the right" Neo said before leaving
Chase walked into his room eager to see what his life here was like. It was a bare room with only the essentials. -Good to know they spend so much on keeping us happy- They don't need happy, they need efficient, also you were sloppy when fighting with those shitty excuses for knives, you need a better weapon. This time I'm making it. -It can wait until we get back from Vale, we only have a week which isn't long enough to get used to a weapon, for now the suite will do- He searched through a drawer to find anything he could to spark his memory of the night he escaped and found a book with a note on it.
If you are reading this then I was right about my escape plan. It seems paranoid but they know I'm going to attempt it, the amount of White Fang members around my room have decreased which makes me think that they want me to leave. The one thing I have been able to keep from them is the fact that I have evolved my semblance. It is the only reason I am planning my escape even with the knowledge that they will be waiting, I suspect they will make me forget about my semblance when they find out. If that happens I have written this book on the instructions of my knowledge of semblance both basic and advanced ones. My clue is this - When fighting against mirrors sight is the enemy. Good Luck
-Chase Gestson
He looked through the book but all of the pages were blank. -Either they found the book and replaced it or this is meant to mean something else- He placed it in one of his pockets and went to the arena to practice fighting.
As he entered the armory and checked the pockets of his suit making sure he had enough of each. He then picked up one of the practice swords -Best test how good I am with each of these weapons before we make a new weapon.- He then walked into the arena to see who he was going to have to fight, to his horror and joy the person standing in the arena was the person he decided to dub 'The Boulder'. "Come for another beating?" He shouted. Chase simply grinned in return and waited for him to make the first move.
After he saw him surround himself in rock armour he placed an illusion where he was standing and began to circle the boulder. He looked down at the sword and selected the fire setting on the dust chamber to fire. As the boulder charged at his illusion Chase ran to his side throwing three explosive tipped knives at his side causing him to stagger, whenever the boulder brought up his arm to block an attack Chase slashed at it with the sword parrying the arm and exposing his underarm which had a weaker armour to allow movement. Quickly Chase rubbed some of the ice dust on his suit and sent it into the weaker section of the arm to be frozen later. As he saw the man get up he infused some dust into his aura to block the oncoming attack. It still launched him but not as far allowing him to quickly recover.
He switched the dust chamber to energy and charged the boulder. As the boulder punched Chase he parried it with his sword and used more dust from his suit to freeze up the armour. The boulder, oblivious to what was happening, took his chance to disarm Chase and grab him by the throat, forcing him against the wall.
"Let me get one thing straight, you may have come back to us but you caused one of us to die, I will kill you if you try to again" He said spitting at Chase. Chase focused his aura into his right hand then slipped a force crystal into the hand. He turned to smile at the boulder "I'm afraid you don't have the power to stop me" Chase punched the arm activating the force crystal the moment before impact, shattering the armour around his arm. He then used the dust he had placed in his chest and underarm and froze the boulders armour making it brittle. He then walked towards him and looked at his face before creating ice spikes to shatter the rest of the armour.