Alright, new chapter. Man, I'm tired. Well get ready to read some extra content that goes till after you'd think it would usually end.
I have a headache, I'm going to go get some painkiller, brb.
"Ow, my head," Blaise said then rolled off of Roman's couch smashing his face on the carpet floor, "Ow, my everything." Doing a slow push up off of the floor he saw Neo sitting on the recliner watching TV wearing a large pink t-shirt, a white undershirt, and brown sweatpants. "Hello Neo," Blaise greeted her as he stood up. She looked over at him for a second with her tired eyes glaring as she did a slight wave and returned to looking back at the TV. "Not a morning person huh?"
"And you are?" Blaise heard a voice say from behind him. Turning around he saw roman wearing regular pajamas with his hair in a ruffled mess covering his right eye.
"No," Blaise said then rubbed his head trying to get rid of his headache. "So I assume this is a typical morning here."
"You would be correct," Roman stated as he sat down on another recliner and watched the TV with an expression just like Neo's.
"I think I am going to like being with you guys," Blaise said as he sat down on the couch and looked at the TV with them both.
After two hours of watching the news they continued to watch the TV as 3 hour long paid programs were played.
"Neo, I think we need a blender able to chop up a scroll," Roman said as he reached for his scroll but it was too far away from his chair. Both Neo and Blaise tried to reach for the scroll but they were too far away from it. "I guess we don't need it."
"Shame, it keeps all the nutrients from the fruit in an easy to drink liquid," Blaise said then stood up and checked the time. "We should probably do something today. It's already afternoon."
"I don't think there is much we can do," Roman said as he stood up and stretched. Neo glared at him then threw a paper airplane that hit him in the face. Opening the paper he facepalmed and groaned. "We have to meet with Cinder today to plan for the robbery tomorrow." Neo was about to stand up before Roman motioned for her to stop. "You don't have to go. I know how much you dislike Cinder." He pointed at Blaise. "You have to go. And make sure to dress up for the occasion, no looking like a Beacon student."
"So you're telling me to wear the disguise to fool your friends?" Blaise asked looking around the apartment to try and find his wig.
"Colleagues, not friends. And they don't really like Beacon in case you haven't noticed," Roman said then pulled a black masquerade mask that seemed to be made out of metal with no eye holes and sharp pointed edges and tossed it at Blaise who caught it. "Wear that instead of the sunglasses. You need to leave an impression with them for them to trust you."
"Alright, will I have to fight anyone?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On if they trust you or not."
"Gaah, this feels so weird," Blaise complained as he messed with his gauntlets. He unsheathed his wrist blades that seemed to go through a convenient hole on the bottom of the gauntlets.
"If you want to impress them the first thing they will do is question if you are good or not. They will send at least two regular white Fang members at you to check for weapons. As soon as they touch you, you have to kill each of them within a couple of seconds. After you kill them stand straight and adjust your jacket. Do not show any kinds of weakness or they will kill you," Roman told him as they neared the warehouse where they were supposed to meet with Cinder. "They prefer to only have a small circle of friends, so just do as I say and you'll worm your way into the circle."
"So you just want me to go in there and kill some people?"
"No, I want you to go in there, play the strong and silent card, then if they question if you're able to hold your ground, that is when you kill people. Don't get too carried away," Roman explained to Blaise as they reached the door. "Also I need a name."
"Wolfgang Costantino," Blaise said as he adjusted his wig making sure it wasn't crooked.
"Great, it fits," Roman said then opened the door and made a rather large entrance as Blaise followed behind. "Did I miss anything?"
"Who the hell is this?" a bull faunus from the back wielding a black and red katana, and wearing a grimm mask asked from the back of the room as soon as he spotted Blaise.
"A friend," Roman replied, "His name is Wolfgang Costantino."
"Surely he can speak for himself," a woman in a red dress said as she walked over to Blaise. "So, you're a friend of Roman's"
"Yes," Blaise said looking at the woman.
"He's never talked about you. Well, he never did tell me about his friends after he showed us Neopolitan. I am Cinder, one of Roman's… friends," she told him as she turned around and signaled for a three of the White Fang members to check him. "I'm really sorry about the check, but we need to know what you're packing. Just to make sure we can trust you."
"I would advise against that," Roman said as the White Fang came closer to Blaise.
"Now why would that be?" Cinder asked as a White Fang member reached out his hand.
"He's… touchy," Roman finished then Blaise sprung into action. Pulling out his two schiavonas and beheaded two of the White Fang, then he kicked the third in the crotch causing him to double over in pain giving Blaise the perfect level to behead the third with both sword. He sheathed the blades then adjusted his jacket. A couple more White Fang were about to approach Blaise until the railguns extended themselves out of his gauntlets.
A green haired girl and a grey haired boy were about to attack Blaise until Cinder motioned for them to stop.
"Impressive," Cinder said as she walked over to the dead White Fang and looked at them, "I have never seen a blade that is able to cut straight through a person's aura."
"How can we know we can trust him?" the bull faunus asked as he cautiously reached for his sword.
"If he wanted to kill us, we would be dead," Roman said, "I brought him along because he needs some extra lien and we need competent bodyguards."
"Well with skills like his he would be an asset," the grey haired boy said.
"He just killed them because they were about to touch him. He can't be trusted," the green haired girl told the boy.
"You'd probably do the same thing if they were going to search you for weapons," the grey boy retorted.
"True."
"Excuse me," Blaise said interrupting the two causing everyone to look at him, "I'm a freelance mercenary, effective, and discreet. I'm just passing though Vale on personal business. As long as you pay me what I deserve, I will do as you say and not breathe a word of this to anyone. This isn't my first, and obviously not my most dangerous job. If you decline my services I will walk out of this door and you won't see me again. Your choice."
"Let's talk price," Cinder smiled as she motioned for Blaise to come over to the table where they were planning out the heist for tomorrow.
"So what now?" Blaise asked Roman as their airship landed on to the docks.
"Well, as long as you patrol the borders, make sure nobody disrupts the heist, this will be the easiest 25,000 lien you'll ever make," Roman said then turned his attention to the White Fang, "Hey! What's the holdup?!" He then walked down the ramp. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous thieves at the moment. So why don't you animals pick up the pace. Wolfgang, time for your job to start," he said looking at Blaise who then ran off the ramp and jumped onto the top of a nearby stack of crates and took a look around as Roman went over to the White Fang.
"No you idiot, this isn't a leash," Roman said then was interrupted by Blake placing her sword to his neck. Blaise looked over and mentally cursed.
'Why, we just got here? And why does it have to be one of my friends?' Blaise asked himself as he walked over to the situation.
"Nobody move," Blake demanded as she pressed the blade closer on to Roman's neck.
"Take it easy there little lady," Roman said as the White Fang members came closer to Roman's aid.
Blake reached up and pulled off her ribbon revealing her cat ears. "Brothers of the White Fang. Why are you aiding this scum?"
"Oh kid," Roman chuckled, "Didn't you get the memo?"
"What are you talking about?"
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together."
"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation," Blake demanded. And as if on cue the rest of the airships filled with more White Fang flew above them.
"I wouldn't exactly call it a 'little operation,'" Roman said as Blake was distracted by the airships he aimed his cane at her feet and fired off an explosive round sending her flying back.
"Need some help?" Blaise asked as he reached the shipping crates next to Roman.
"No, I'll take care of her," Roman said then motioned for Blase to go back, "That explosion isn't likely to have attracted friendlies."
"Got it," Blaise said then ran towards the warehouses.
As Blaise reached the warehouse he was welcomed by another person he didn't want to see, Ruby.
"Hey!" Ruby shouted getting Roman's attention.
"Well hello Red," Roman mockingly greeted her, "Isn't it past your bedtime?"
"Ruby, are these people your friends?" the girl Weiss bumped into the day before asked Ruby approaching her.
"Penny get back," Ruby told her then Roman fired off a round hitting Ruby on the side. That only caused Penny to get angry.
'I should help out… but this could be interesting,' Blaise mentally told himself as he watched the girl walk toward the railing.
"Penny wait! Stop!" Ruby pleaded.
"Don't worry Ruby, I'm combat ready," Penny said then her backpack opened up and swords flew out of it, then she jumped off the roof and started to engage the White Fang.
'I'm calling it, she's a robot," Blaise told himself as he noticed Ruby pick up her scythe and head toward the fight. 'I might as well actually earn my money."
He then pulled out his swords and rushed over to the railing and cut Ruby off before she could join the fight.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that," Blaise said slightly changing his voice as he positioned the tip of the sword at Ruby's neck.
"Get out of my way," Ruby glared at him.
"Listen up little red," Blaise said then walked between Ruby and the fight forcing her to back up, "I have a lot of money riding on this heist. Not to mention I will be killed, so I can't let you though."
"I wasn't asking," Ruby said then knocked Blaise's sword to the side with her scythe then fired off a round at point blank range hitting Blaise square in the chest, making Blaise thankful for aura, throwing her back a couple feet.
"That was something," Blaise said then extended his railguns from his gauntlet, "but this is more." He fired off a round hitting Ruby in the leg making her shout in pain as the bullet connected, but only damaged her aura slightly. Just then Penny fired off a laser cutting two airships in half and Ruby and Blaise watched as they both fell. Penny then threw some of her swords into the side of another airship and she started to pull the ship towards her. "How is she doing that?" Ruby asked amazed at the sight.
"Don't look away from your enemy," Blaise said as he ran up to Ruby and cut the side of her arm cancelling her aura. With her in her weakened state Blaise jumped in the air and kicked Ruby on the side of the head throwing her back a couple of feet.
"Wolfgang!" Roman shouted from the open door of the airship, "We've gotta go!"
Blaise didn't even argue. If he could leave or fight Ruby, he'd choose to leave. Before Ruby could stand up and fight back Blaise ran off the roof and jumped to a nearby stck of shipping crates, then he jumped into the airship just as Roman closed the door and the pilot decided to fly.
"We are dead," Roman said in a defeated tone as he slumped down on the bench.
"Maybe not," Blaise said thinking up an idea.
"Alright Wolfgang," Roman said leaning over the table to talking loud enough so Blaise can hear, "What's the plan?'
"Well it's very simple-"
"How very disappointing you two," Cinder said walking into the room with Mercury and Emerald hiding in the shadows trying to be intimidating.
"Woah! I wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon," Roman said surprised to see them.
"We were expecting more from you," then she turned to Blaise, "and especially from you."
"Well then, make sure to pull up a front row seat because the show has just begun," Blaise said walking around the table to stand in front of Cinder. "We are going to get that dust by tuesday."
"And how are you going to do that?" Mercury asked from behind Cinder.
"By a very lucrative plan done by a small group of people," Blaise smiled as he glared at her from underneath the mask.
"So what exactly is the plan?" Roman asked Blaise as he, Neo, and Blaise walked towards the docks.
"It is a very simple plan," Blaise said as he looked around the corner, "The Schnee Dust Company has had so much dust stolen that after the incident last night the only place they can trust to hold the dust would be on their own freighter with Atlasian Knights guarding it. At the most there are three actual human bodies on board with a small army of robots. With any luck we can sneak on the boat, take out the humans, disable the gps, then bring the boat out of the harbor to near a White Fang friendly zone where we can have them unload the boat. We set the automated steering to some random area in the ocean and we win."
"And what happens if we don't have luck?"
"We have to fight a small army of robots and take the boat by force," Blaise replied as he walked towards the freighter with Neo following behind with a smirk on her face.
"Alright alright, bad plan, bad plan!" Blaise shouted as he dodged the Atlasian Knights' bullets for the tenth time within 30 seconds of the group approaching the boat.
"What now genius?" Roman asked Blaise as he pulled his at to the side to avoid it being hit by the bullet.
"We keep to the plan," Blaise said then unsheathed his swords, "Neo, you and Roman get onto the ship and take out the people, the gps and start up the boat. I will take on the robots." He jumped over their makeshift cover and headed straight towards the robots.
As he jumped into the group of robots he fired off a railgun round from each gauntlet breaking several of the robots. Spinning with his blades he managed to give himself some breathing room. He then ran at the robots and fired off two rounds giving himself some extra momentum as he spun in the air and cut down the robots.
"Terribly sorry about this," Roman said as he threw the last sailor overboard. Waking into the deck he saw Neo messing around with the controls disabling the gps. "So are we ready to go." After a quick electrick shock throwing Neo into the cabinet he got a quick thumbs up from the inside of the cabinet. "Alright," Roman said as he turned on the throttle, "Get Blaise." His only reply was a white flash of light.
"Oh shit, ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit,"Blaise siad to himself as he dodged a strike from another knight and retaliated with another slash cutting the knight in half. He felt a small tug on his collar and was about to slash at that but there was a quick flash of light and he was in the deck of the freighter. "Well that worked out well."
"Well it was easy when the army of robots came off of the boat to attack an idiot with two swords and gauntlets," Roman said steering the boat.
"Well it worked out just fine," Blaise said sheathing his swords.
"Whatever you say kid."
"So where are we going?" Blaise asked approaching the window.
"We are going to the port near Mountain Glenn, we're supposed to meet with Cinder there to collect our payments and the White Fang is going to collect the dust," Roman explained.
"And what's going on at Mountain Glenn?"
"Something that you'll find out in due time," Roman said then pointed at Neo, "Take her under the deck. She took quite an electric shock then she had to use her semblance three times within five minutes. She's going to be exhausted so let her rest, we should make it to the Glenn port within a couple of hours."
Picking up Neo Blaise said goodbye to Roman and brought Neo to the break room below deck. After placing her on the couch for her to rest she seemed to fall asleep instantly. Blaise was tired so he just walked over to the other couch and flopped down and slept.
"Wake up," Roman said poking Blaise in the head with his cane, "We're here."
Grabbing his jacket and weapons Blaise walked out of the break room onto the deck.
"Ahoy there!" Blaise shouted getting Cinder's attention, "I told you we'd have it by tuesday!" He then stood on the railing and jumped off the boat and landed in front of Cinder.
"Bringing the whole ship, interesting," Cinder said admiring Blaise's work, "I take it Roman and Neo are still on the ship?"
"Yeah," Blaise said then the ramp of the freighter descended and both Roman and Neo walked out and over to the group.
"Roman, good job," Cinder said then looked around for a second then looked at Neo, "Oh sorry Neo, I didn't see you there." Neo looked mad then headed for their airship back to Vale. "Anyway, your payment," Cinder said then Mercury handed Blaise a backpack full of lien, "25,000 lien, I hope we can work together again in the future." Blaise shrugged off that remark and headed to the airship.
Sitting down next to Neo Blaise checked the backpack checking it for any traps not finding any. Roman came by a couple minutes later and tossed Neo a backpack and slung another one over his shoulder.
"Let's go back home," Roman said then knocked on the pilot's door and the airship took off.
Painkiller taken and now I'm fine.
Alright, that was interesting. Next chapter I might have Blaise and Neo go to Blaise's home island. Maybe have a part where New Moon and Moon Moon (Sedric) talk for a while, maybe explain how New Moon knew Sedric was at Beacon.
Now I'm going to go to bed, maybe eat some food, goodnight.
-J. Van A