Hey guys! Welcome to the tenth chapter of Team RWCY. Amazing that I made it this far, I usually have trouble committing to things. So I'm glad that I got this far and hopefully much farther than I am at now.

As for the darkness of the last chapter, I hated it writing it more than most of you hated reading it, believe me. Cyan is suppose to be a reflection of myself and I know for sure that I wouldn't want to be tortured. So that will be the end of that stuff.

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Also, I wanted to see if you guys wanted a 'filler chapter' during the three month time skip. Let me know in your reviews!

Excerpt from the fifth audio log of Adam Taurus

S-step four: Once the time *pant* has passed for it in isolation the thing will enter a 'coma'. This is when it is vulnerable to *wheeze* destruction. You must delete it's core data via interface *cough, cough* with another A.I.. Make sure you don't get there before the five hour period, otherwise it will 'infect' your A.I..

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"We have a lot of movement down there. The White Fang are chasing something." Yang said suddenly, breaking the tense silence,Professor Oobleck nodded sagely, "Yes, it would appear so." Ruby's eyes lit up, "You think it might be Cyan?" The group sat together with Ruby next to Weiss, and Oobleck in Cyan's spot next to Yang. The heiress had been quite the entire way to the docks. "Only one way to find out, kids." The history professor's coffee mug folded out into a club. A small pilot light coming from the opening. He smacked the door button and the hatch opened.

"Let's go."

Weiss was the first to jump, followed by Yang, Ruby, and Oobleck. The first the group heard as they hit the ground was gunfire and yells of pain. "Split up. Don't engage unless you have to, and use your headset to inform the others when you find Mr. Novak." And with that the doctor sped off. "Alright Yang, you go there, Weiss you…" The crimsonette turned to see that the Schnee in question was no where to be seen. "Fine. Whatever." The unusual bitterness in the leader's tone caused her sister to frown before she shot off in the opposite direction.

Ruby was still grumbling as she used her semblance to sprinted along the only other way that hadn't been chosen. She speedily made her way behind the White Fang's line. Information was important, and right now there was only one way to get it. The young teenager stealthily followed a patrol of White Fang listening to their conversation. The two were an odd pair, One was fat and wearing orange armor while the other was skinny and taller in maroon armor. The maroon one turned to his companion.

"Hey."

"Yeah"

"You ever wonder why we're here?"

" It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it. Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of... some cosmic coincidence or, is there really a God... watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night."

The deepness of the statement caused Ruby to forget her irritation and sweatdrop. The fat faunus' companion looked bewildered , "What? I meant why are we out here in this alley when we know that kid is over in that building there." The soldier gestured to the abandoned building. Ruby internally cheered at her unbelievable luck as she made her way around the two silently. The maroon soldier head turned back to his companion giving Ruby free access to the building.

"What was all that stuff about God?"

"Uh… hm? Nothing."

"You wanna talk about it?"

"No… Why aren't we going in there again?"

"Are you crazy? We can't fight."

"Do you just want to pretend we never saw him?"

"Sounds good to me."

The leader made her way into the building and out of earshot of the strange duo's deep conversation. She strode quietly out into the broken down building building looking for any sign of the engineer's presence. The crimsonette's silver eyes traced the aged paint and broken furniture. "Cyan? Where are you? It's me Ruby!" Her voice was a loud whisper and next thing the crimsonette knew there was a blade at her throat. "Wha' do we 'ave 'ere? Yew ain't White Fang." Ruby stood perfectly still, not wanting to provoke the male voice behind her. It sounded almost… piratey? "Oi'm gunna turn yew around, don't dew anything and Oi promise not tae keehaul yew."

The leader turned around to reveal a battered looking fox faunus with an eyepatch and red long unkempt red hair. Two fox ears poked up from the top of his head and swiveled sporadically. Dried blood caked on his side, a wound that he held a towel over with his other hand. "Now, tell ole' Foxy why you're 'ere. 'Ow do yew know the laddy?" The young crimsonette kept composure, her silver eyes staring right into Foxy's single yellow one. "Cyan is part of my team, and as his leader I demand that you take me to him."

The duo had a staring contest for a tense moment, before the battered fox smiled sadly, "Alrig' lassie, Oi'll 'ake yew tae 'im." The pirate pulled down his cutlass and hobbled past the crimsonette painfully. "Are you alright, Mr. Foxy?" Ruby spoke with cautious tone and warily followed Foxy deeper into the building, the fox grunted, "Jus' a fles' wound, not'in to 'orry about." He stood in front of a closed door and turned back to the scythe weilder, "Yer lad, 'as been… roug'ed up." Foxy hesitated and his ears stopped jerking to lie flat, "Jus' prepare yerself."

The faunus opened the door and held it open for Ruby, she walked in without hesitation. Her eyes fell on the engineer and she had to bite back a scream.

"No signs of Cyan yet."

Weiss sighed as she ducked into a building to avoid another White Fang Patrol. The heiress' frustration that she hadn't found her partner yet, Verdant had decided to accompany her in her Scroll and was floating next her, a frown on her face. "We need to just beat down one of those dirty faunus and force them to tell us." Verdant raised a digital eyebrow and replied sarcastically, "Riiight, because the people that are searching for him, the same as we are, know where he is and haven't picked him up yet."

The white haired teen turned her icy glare on the A.I.. "Do you have a better idea? I'm dying to hear it." Weiss peered around her cover, revealing that the coast was clear. She stood up and casted a glyph to boost her to the top of the two-story building to get a better view. The A.I. retort was interrupted by the heiress' headset crackled to life.

"This is Ruby, I found him. Come to my location."

The white haired teen frowned at lack of chiper tone her leader was known for. Did something happen to him? Is he… Weiss shook her head before pulling out her Scroll and checking Ruby's location. She jumped off the top of the building and began sprinting after landing. You excited to see your boyfriend or something~?" Weiss nearly tripped, she glanced to Verdant's smirking face, her own taking a faint blush, "W-wha?"

"Oh nothing~!"

"How does Cyan deal with you on a constant basis?"

"Please, I'm the most personable A.I. you will ever meet."

Eventually, the pair made it to the building that Ruby entered earlier, only to be met with the said girl's pale face greeting her. Weiss approached cautiously, bile creeping up in the back of her throat. "Ruby…?"

"He's alive."

The sense of relief flooded through her system, and a small smile made it's way to her face. "Give me a heart attack why don't you." Ruby's expression didn't change, there was even a small hint of anger in her eyes. "Weiss… he doesn't have arms any more." Ruby shuddered, "They cut them off as part of their torture."

The hieress' face dropped, "What!?" Ruby stepped out of the doorway, prompting Weiss to rush through, Verdant hot on her heels. She passed by a sober a strange looking fox faunus that if Weiss would've had enough sense to think about it at the time she would've reacted violently, but she passed by him and walked into the only other room in the small house.

The white haired teen's hand shot to her mouth. Cyan lay, propped against the wall, two stumps replacing the arms that once worked on machines, and fight Grimm. Weiss rushed over to the engineer's side and began inspecting the wounds. They were cauterized, which meant less chance of infection, but it was done sloppily and uncaringly. "Cyan…"

"Hey…" The injured teen's eyes opened partially. "Hold still I'm making sure your… wounds are properly taken care of." If Cyan heard her the heiress he didn't acknowledge her, his gaze focused on the back wall, "Its been awhile since we last hung out." Weiss remained quiet and let him ramble, "C'mon Olive, I want to see if we can beat that boss now. You can play Lloyd, and I'll play Zelos. We can go fight Mithos." The heiress silently took care of his stumps, Verdant remained quite, floating with an unreadable expression. "If you don't mind, I'm going to go back in his head."

Outside of the room, Foxy stood up straight and turned to the shadows. "Oy, Blakey. We need tae talk." The cat faunus appeared out of the shadows, her face a mask of worry. "There converging here, Adam knows where we are and Bonnie…" Her voiced trailed off, Foxy's yellow eye closed. "Alrig' so thats 'ow its gunna be." He removed his hand from his towel, letting drop to the floor. The hand was revealed to be a sharp hook. Foxy strode past Yang and Oobleck, who had arrived minutes ago. "Foxy?" The pirate turned back to the ninja, a somber grin. "I'll buy yew guys time tae escape." He gazed sadly at the floor, "My crew's dead. It's jus' ole' Foxy left now." and without another word the pirate fox strode out of the house.

Yang looked back and forth between the door and Blake, "Why is he leaving now? The Bullhead is going to be here soon." Oobleck shook his head, "My dear, I believe that he doesn't care if he makes it back in time or not."

"Ms. Schnee?"

Weiss rose from her seat quickly, almost knocking over the coffee table in front of her, along with the rest of her team and JNPR and Aurelius. The group hadn't left since Cyan had been checked in, which was over two hours ago. The Bullhead came not long after Foxy drew the White Fang members away. Blake had accompanied them after encouragement from Oobleck, much to the heiress displeasure.

Now all of the teams were located in the schools infirmary waiting room. Weiss strode up to the nurse who had called her after a quick glance at Ruby and Yang. "Yes?" The nurse smiled warmly, "The patient is conscious and lucid, so you can go see him now." When the whole group stood up she put a hand up, "No more than two at a time. At least for today" The heiress turned to the sisters, "You two go first." She earned a curious glance from Ruby before the two followed the nurse.

Eventually, all of them went through to see their injured friend until only Weiss remained. She stood in front of her partner's door, and knocked. "Come in." The heiress opened the door, revealing the armless engineer.

"Hey."

She looked him right in the eyes, there was no haziness, they were focused happy but sad at the same time. "How do you feel?" Weiss blurted it out before she stop it, mentally face palming. To her surprise Cyan smiled slightly, "Decent considering." He gestured to a seat next to the bed, "Why don't you sit down?" The heiress took the offered seat and scooted it closer to the bedside. They sat in silence for a good minute before Cyan twitched nervously, "W-what about you? Are you okay?"

The heiress frowned, why was she acting like this? Sure, she had admitted that she cared for the engineer a great amount, but there was something else. Weiss quickly tired to change the subject, "So what are you going to do after you get out of here?" Cyan raised an eyebrow, "Go back to school..?"

"You can't fight Grimm without arms! I won't allow it!"

Her partner gave her an incredulous look, before understanding dawned on him and he began to chuckle. Weiss was almost seeing red now, "Why are you laughing!?" He stopped laughing "You do know they have metal prosthetics that work almost identically to an arm, right?" The engineer nodded his head towards his arm stumps, "Fish is apparently the leader of anatomic engineering. Aurelius told me that he is making them right now, actually, and they will be ready for use by tomorrow afternoon The heiress froze before facepalming, "Yes, I just didn't think of that. and so soon?" Cyan shrugged, "Better sooner than later. I would rather not be short two limbs longer than I have to."

Light blue eyes locked with brown ones, "How are you taking this so well after all you've been through in these last two days?" The smile faded and for a moment Weiss saw a flash of pain in his eyes then the mask was back in place.

"I'm not too sure myself."

"Lying isn't becoming of a hunter in training."

Cyan responded by sticking his tongue out at her childishly, causing the white haired teen to roll her eyes. The two continued chatting through dinner and into night. Blake watched the two sleeping, Weiss leaning forward in her chair, her face inches away from Cyan's own. Both were out for the night. The cat faunus was acutely aware of the headmaster silent footsteps thanks to her faunus hearing, and wasn't surprised when he came to halt next to her.

"I must thank you for rescuing my student."

"I'm not sure if it counts if I helped kidnap him."

"Still… You redeemed yourself today. Now I have a question to ask you…"

Blake turned to face the aged man curiously. There was a twinkle in his eyes and a smirk. He reach into his coat pocket and pulled out some papers. Ozpin handed them to Blake, they were an application for enrollment at Beacon.

"Let me get this straight, you want an Ex-White Fang operative at your school?"

"I don't see you as a risk, and tell me… If you don't take my offer, where will you go?"

"..."

"That's what I thought. Think about it at least."

And without another word the professor was gone. Blake stared at the man's retreating form and back to the paper.

"Take a picture this is adorable!"

"Nora! Be quiet, you'll wake them."

"That position can't be comfortable…"

"I know. How can she sleep like that?"

Cyan groggily opened his eyes, his sleep disturbed by the giggling voices. He focused his vision only to find a certain Schnee's sleeping face inches away from his own. The engineer took a moment to process the situation before his face turned a deep crimson. The quite giggling grew into chuckles. The engineer tried to sit up, only to realise that he had no arms again.

Well this is problematic.

Out of all the things you could've said to describe that you used 'problematic' instead of 'horrifying' or 'depressing'.

You know that I think that this horrifying and depressing. I just don't want the other's to see it.

You really need to value yourself.

So you keep on telling me.

Using his ab muscles, Cyan forced himself into a sitting position. Eyeing the three culprits to his loss of sleep. Aurelius, Ren, and Nora gave him a two fingered salute. "Morning CyCy!" The engineer grumbled at the two of them "What time is it?"

"Almost noon. Fish finished your arms about half an hour ago. He can put them on whenever you are ready."

Cyan nodded, he looked down to the sleeping heiress and called out quietly, "Weiss, time to get up." The white haired teen opened a sleepy eye and glared at him, "I was having a good dream and you ruined it." The engineer laughed nervously, "Well, uh, we have company behind you." The heiress' eyes widened, "What?" She stood up straight, fixing her hair with hands and smoothing out the wrinkles. Ugh, now I'm stiff. Not sleeping like that anymore. With one last passing farewell at Cyan she left without acknowledging the others.

Ren frowned, "That was rude." Cyan tried to rub the back of his head but stopped when he remembered his lack of said extremities. "I'm pretty sure she's just stressed." Aurelius stepped forward, "So, old pal of mine, you ready to become a cyborg?"

"Let's do it."

Adam's mouth was set in a snarl, "You idiots let him getaway?!" He grabbed an unfortunate white fang member by the arm and threw him into the ocean. "And we've lost five of the best operatives that we had in this lot." Blake deserting him hurt more than losing the bunny, fox, chicken, and bear ever could. She was like his little sister, and the fact that she betrayed him…

He grit his teeth, and swung around and punched through a wall of a nearby house, shattering the house into dust. The weird light had activated and he was glowing a deep crimson. In his hand he held a broken sniper rifle barrel, and a bloody eyepatch. The two of them had put up quite the fight and if they would've fought together they could have possibly beaten him.

Bonnie was tricky to fight, everytime he would get close enough to land a blow she would jump out of way with her semblance, teleporting. The sniper was insanely accurate aswell, the masked faunus rubbed his right shoulder, were a nasty purple bruise had formed. The only problem with teleportation in battle is eventually your opponent can predict what you will do. And that's how Bonnie Scarlatina died, impaled on the end of his blade.

Foxy was much harder opponent to fight, the fox faunus being a seasoned veteran of combat knew how to use his hook and cutlass along with his speed semblance to become quite the irritation. Even though he was wounded, the pirate had almost won. Adam grinned to himself, he never did play fair though, and his 'Synchronization', as O'malley called it, did boost his reflexes to insane proportions.

"Uh, sir?"

The leader of the White Fang was snapped out of his musing by the orange soldier from earlier. He was scarred if the shaky legs were anything to go by. "Yes?" The fat faunus flinched from his hostile tone but continued, "T-the Altesian Army is on the move after hearing about the two incidents in Vale."

Adam 'tched' before walking back towards the main group, "Tell the others to pack up, we are leaving Vale." The orange armored man scurried off hastily to tell the others. The masked man took one last look at Beacon before he too left.

Excerpt from the Journal of Ruby Rose

I was surprised when Weiss sent me and Yang through first. I'm guessing that it was because she wanted to be alone with him. Just like the selfish spoiled brat I know she is. Aurelius told me that she had actually fallen asleep in the room with Cyan. I don't understand how someone as nice as Cyan could like someone as mean as Weiss. It's just four years though, and after four I never have to see that dumb white haired jerk again.

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Hey guys sorry this chapter was a little late! I've been studying for finals in a few weeks. No fun :(. Anyways. marronmario gave me a good idea a few chapters ago about synchronise that I've decided I will use. Thanks man/woman!

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