It's time for the mission that I've been talking about for so long. Here you all go.
Blake, Weiss, Sun and Neptune were sneaking past a bunch of shipping crates in the dark of the night. They stopped and Blake peeked around the corner and saw a White Fang soldier leading new recruits into a building.
"Do you have the masks?" Sun asked.
"Yes." Blake said, handing Sun a White Fang recruit mask from their last infiltration.
"Are you guys ready to do this?" Sun asked.
"I am." Weiss said, "Blake?"
Blake nodded and linked weapons with Weiss. A bright light came from them, leaving Checkmate in their place when it faded.
"Your turn." Checkmate said to the two guys.
"Here we go, Neptune." Sun said.
Neptune linked his weapon with Sun's a bright light engulfed the twosome.
At the entrance to the warehouse, the guard was waiting for any late recruits.
"I guess that's it." the guard said.
"Wait!" Checkmate said, running to the guard, "Sorry that we're late."
The guard looked at Checkmate and the young man next to her, he had spiky blonde hair which was aqua blue on the lower half, his skin was tanned and, even though he couldn't see it, his left eye was blue while his other one was slightly brighter. His outfit was a white button-up shirt with a dark red unzipped hoodie over it, he was wearing goggles with orange lenses just above his White Fang recruit mask, he was also wearing slightly torn jeans and black shoes. And, lastly, he had a white belt that hung over his blonde monkey tail with hints of blue in it.
"May I ask why you look so...strange?" the man asked.
"Oh, we-er-I accidentally knocked a paint can down on the way here." the fusion said.
"May I ask your names?" the man asked.
"People call me 'Checkmate'." Checkmate said.
"And people just call me 'Seamonkey'." the fusion now known as "Seamonkey" said.
"I see." the man said, looking like he was reaching for a weapon.
Checkmate and Seamonkey prepared for an attack, but the guard reached his hand up to open the door.
"You're an odd lot, you know that?" the man asked, motioning the fusions to enter.
"Yeah, we get that a lot." Seamonkey said.
Checkmate and Seamonkey entered the warehouse, it was less crowded than the one in Season 2 Episode 4 "Painting the Town", and looked around to see if anyone important was here. The only person worth noting was Savannah's accomplice.
"We should split up, we'll draw a bit less attention that way." Seamonkey said.
"Got it, be safe." Checkmate said before walking into the crowd.
"Was she talking to me or you?" Neptune asked.
"Shh, be quiet, he's starting." Sun said.
"Attention, may I have your attention?" the man asked the crowd.
The crowd looked at the man.
"Thanks to you all for attending this recruitment drive." the man said, "I'm glad you all made it here."
"Sure you are." Sun said.
"For our first order of business, I would like to discuss the importance of today's recruitment drive." the man said, "As you all know, we lost many White Fang soldiers in the Grimm invasion some time ago, and today, we are trying to restore our ranks. The second thing that I want to go over is a mysterious substance that I would like to show you all."
Seamonkey watched eagerly, waiting to see what was going to happen.
"Savannah, would you bring it forward?" the man asked.
Savannah came up onto the stage, carrying two vials of something very important.
"Fusion Dust?!" Sun, Neptune, Weiss and Blake asked, keeping their fusions quiet.
"This is the weapon that will turn the tides of our struggle in our favor." the man said, holding the vials high, "This is all that we have right now, but we will have access to more in the future."
Seamonkey made his way through the crowd to Checkmate.
"What are we going to do?" Seamonkey asked.
"We got what we wanted to know." Checkmate said, "It's time to give the signal."
Checkmate pulled Gambolnaster out and aimed at the Fusion Dust vials that the man had and fired, but Savannah used her sword to block the bullet. Panic immediately ensued.
"What is the meaning of this?!" the man asked, looking in Checkmate and Seamonkey's direction.
"We're taking that Dust with us!" Seamonkey said.
"Traitors!" the man said, "Get them!"
Savannah pulled her sniper rifle out and began to fire at Checkmate and Seamonkey, who nimbly dodged the attack. While in mid-dodge, Checkmate fired an Energy Dust bullet skywards.
Meanwhile, just outside the warehouse, Ruby, Yang and Team JNPR were waiting for the signal.
"How much longer?" Jaune asked.
"Just wait, they'll give the signal soon." Ren said.
The Energy Dust bullet shot through the warehouse's roof and into the sky.
"That's the signal!" Ruby said, "Let's go!"
The group went in to stop the White Fang and battle anyone who stood in their way.
Inside the warehouse, Checkmate and Seamonkey were having no problem dodging Savannah's bullets.
"Now!" Savannah cried.
Suddenly, Rebecca leapt out of the shadows and wrapped her arms around Checkmate, squeezing her with unnatural amounts of strength.
"AAGH!" Checkmate screamed at the level of pain she was feeling.
"Checkmate!" Seamonkey cried out, running to help their friends.
Volt dropped down in front of Seamonkey.
"You'll have to get through me." Volt said.
"Alright then." Seamonkey said as he pulled his weapon off of his back, it was a long bo staff with a blue blade on the top.
The blade of Ruyi Storm (They never revealed Neptune's weapon's name, so I'm just going to call it Ocean Storm) began to surge with electricity. Seamonkey swung the blade at Volt, the impact knocked him back but he didn't seem fazed by the energy.
"My turn." Volt said.
Volt pulled a curved sword out and electricity began to course through it and fill the arched space. Volt swung the weapon at Ruyi Storm and sparks of energy began to fly from the clashing electric weapons.
Over with Checkmate and Rebecca, the unnaturally strong girl wouldn't loosen her grip.
"Why are you so strong?" Checkmate asked.
"The perks of being an ant Faunas, a queen ant Faunas at that." Rebecca said, "Savannah, fire now!"
Savannah aimed her sniper rifle at Checkmate and prepared to fire. Checkmate thought fast and stomped the back of her right high-heel onto Rebecca's foot, causing her to let go. Checkmate blocked the sniper bullet with Gambolnaster's blade before it could hit.
Back with Seamonkey and Volt, the warriors had pushed each other back.
"You're definitely energetic." Seamonkey said.
"I'm just getting started." Volt said, transforming his weapon into a boomerang and throwing it.
As the boomerang began to spin, it started to look more and more like an electrified disk.
"Wah!" Seamonkey cried, dodging the boomerang, "Close call."
Volt smirked as the boomerang came back around and into his hand. Checkmate was running to help Seamonkey, but he saw that Savannah's accomplice was getting away.
"Take care of the Dust!" Seamonkey said, "I've got this!"
"But..." Checkmate said.
"Go!" Seamonkey said.
Checkmate knew that Seamonkey was right and ran after Savannah's accomplice.
"Now it's just you and us." Rebecca said as she, Volt and Savannah surrounded Seamonkey, "Three-on-one."
"Technically, three-on-two." Seamonkey said.
"Dude, not the time to be a nerd." Sun said.
"Intellectual." Neptune said, correcting his friend.
"Make it three-on-three." Seamonkey said.
Seamonkey put his hands together and three astral projections appeared around him, they were blue, unlike the usual gold color.
"Get him!" Savannah said.
The projections all ran at the group and began to fight, they were fighting better than they usually do when used simultaneously. After a bit, it looked like the projections were going to win.
"That does it!" Rebecca said.
Rebecca pulled out two metal gloves that were pretty large and punched the projection that she was fighting really hard, causing it to vanish.
"Ngh!" Seamonkey strained, feeling his Aura slightly deplete after that.
"Take this!" Rebecca said, swinging her fist towards Seamonkey.
Seamonkey stopped using his Semblance, causing the projections to disappear, and jumped away. While he was in the air, he saw the huge impact Rebecca made.
"Why hasn't he come down?" Rebecca asked.
The trio looked up and saw Seamonkey hanging from an I-beam by his tail.
"You know, prehensile tails are pretty awesome. You should get one." Seamonkey said.
Seamonkey let go of the beam to avoid Savannah's sniper rifle bullets. As he fell, he separated Ruyi Storm into two numbchucks that were a bit more sleek than Sun's, the other being called "Jingu Ocean". Seamonkey swung the weapons around, sending electricity everywhere, stunning Rebecca and Savannah, but not Volt.
"Gotcha!" Volt said, grabbing Seamonkey's tail.
Volt slammed Seamonkey into the ground and began to send electricity through him.
"This is quite a shocking development." Volt said.
"Can't...concentrate." Seamonkey groaned.
Volt chuckled, right before being hit away by a familiar hammer.
"It's going...going...it's good!" Nora cheered as Volt flew and landed in a pile of crates.
"You guys sure took your sweet time." Seamonkey said, getting up.
"We had a lot of soldiers to fight through, but most of them escaped." Ren said.
The word "escape" triggered something in Seamonkey's mind.
"Checkmate!" Seamonkey said, right before running to help their fused friends, "Don't let these guys out of your sight!"
As Seamonkey ran off, Savannah tried to get up.
"Stay down!" Nora said, stomping on her head.
Seamonkey ran out the back door of the warehouse and saw Checkmate in combat with Savannah's accomplice, and the man was somehow winning.
"Get away from her!" Seamonkey said.
Seamonkey ran at the man.
"No, stay back!" Checkmate said.
Seamonkey didn't stop. The mysterious man smirked, right before hitting Seamonkey with the wide side of a large double-sided axe and into a shipping crate. The combination of impacts drained the fusion's Aura and caused him to split back into Sun and Neptune.
"Sun! Neptune!" Checkmate said.
The man saw Ruby and Yang come out from the door.
"Another time, ladies." the man said, bowing in curtesy as a White Fang VTOL flew overhead and began to open fire on Checkmate, Yang and Ruby.
Checkmate and Yang got Sun and Neptune to safety as Ruby dodged the bullets. A few moments later, the VTOL flew off, carring the man and the Fusion Dust with it.
"He got away." Ruby said before running over to help her friends.
Ruby ran over to Checkmate as she unfused back into Weiss and Blake. Blake helped Sun up while Weiss did the same for Neptune.
"Are you guys alright?" Blake asked.
"A little bruised, but we'll live." Sun said, "Does this count as a successful mission?"
"We got the information, at least." Blake said, "But they got the Fusion Dust."
"What I want to know is how they got it." Sun said.
"I'm sure we'll find out soon." Ruby said, "Besides, we caught those three White Fang goons too. And they seem like a pretty big deal."
"Come on, let's go take care of them." Yang said.
Weiss helped Neptune back to the warehouse.
"You know, Weiss, I was wrong." Neptune said.
"About what?" Weiss asked.
"About you being the same you after all of this." Neptune said, "You're not the same."
Weiss seemed offended.
"You're better." Neptune said.
Weiss smiled as she helped her friend back to the warehouse.
So, yeah, that's my longest chapter so far. This one was an interesting one to write, seeing as how it involves the first non-Team RWBY fusion.
A quick note to all of you readers, confirmed shippings for this story are: Arkos, Flowerpower/Rennora, Eclipse and Iceberg, maybe there will be more in the future, we'll see.
Powerhouse out.