A/N: Chapter 11 of REKT. Enjoy!

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Chapter 11: Black and White

Outside a cafe...

The black-haired Faunus was currently settling at a nearby cafe, hands in lap and the bow retied on top of her head to hide the ears. Sitting in front of her was the Faunus boy from earlier who introduced himself as Sun Wukong. He had one hand propped up so he could rest his chin in his palm, his tail was wrapped around the cup handle so it made transitions much easier.

"So." Blake was the first to break the silence, causing Sun to look at her with an arched eyebrow, his cup was inches from his lips. "You wanna know more about me."

"Finally, she speaks!" He said with excitement, putting his cup down and gave her his undivided attention. "Nearly two days and you've given me nothing but small talk and weird looks." Blake just frowned at him in response . "Yeah, just like that."

"Sun...are you familiar with the White Fang?" Blake asked as the boy took a sip of his drink.

"Of course!" He said almost happily. "I don't think there's a Faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. Stupid, holier-than-thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks if you ask me."

"I was...once a member of the White Fang." Blake admitted after taking a sip of her own drink. At that statement Sun started to choke and cough on his refreshment.

"Wait a minute, 'you' were a member of the White Fang?"

"That's right. I was a member for most of my life actually." Blake told him. "You could almost say I was born into it. Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between humans and the Faunus. Of course, despite being promised equality, the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as a voice of our people."

"Hmm..." Sun mused as he listened to the story carefully.

"And I was there. I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference...but I was just a youthful optimist..." Blake continued, taking another sip. "Then, five years ago, our leader stepped down, and a new one took his place. A new leader, with a new way of thinking. Suddenly our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us. Hijacking cargo from companies that used Faunus labor. And the worst part? It was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect...out of fear."

"So then what happened?" Sun asked as she put her drink down.

"I left." She said simply. "I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence. And instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am. A criminal hiding in plain view. All with the help of a little, black bow." She looked up at the said item and actually wiggled her two cat ears, making the bow wiggle as well.

"Have you told your friends any of this?" asked Sun and she just shook her head no. Suddenly his ears perked up at the sound of approaching footsteps and glanced past Blake's shoulder with a small smile on his face. "You don't mind an extra person do you? I was wondering when she'd join our conversation."

"How did you find me here?" Blake asked as Kairos appeared before them. "Are the others with you by any chance?"

"My nose led me here." The girl replied with a smile as she pulled herself a chair and sat down. "And no...I came alone. Figured this should be a close-knit conversation."

"She's just like us Blake." Sun told the dark-haired girl as Kairos waved a waiter over so that she could order something to drink.

"Really? You're a Faunus...just like us?" The black-haired girl asked when the waiter left to do his duty. Smiling, Kairos removed her earmuffs and placed them on the table. Hidden beneath her hair were two short ears that protrude slightly so it was hard for someone to see from a distance. "...a wolf?"

"Perhaps something else from the canine family?" Sun offered before his face lit up with excitement. "Or you could be a monkey just like me!"

"I'm actually a tanuki to be exact." Kairos told them as she wiggled her animal ears, it was really cute.

"A Japanese raccoon dog...interesting." Sun nodded as he took a sip of his drink.

"...does your team know yet?" Blake asked as she eyed the fluffy tail that popped out from the back, swishing back and forth on its own accord. "About you being a Faunus and all.."

"Not yet." Kairos replied, putting her muffs back on and the tail immediately disappeared. "The same could be said to you but after hearing what Weiss uttered yesterday I think it's only proper that I lay on the down low for awhile."

"So your tail only appears when you aren't wearing your earmuffs?" asked Blake.

"Pretty much."

"How come you don't want it to stay out like Sun's?"

"Eh, who knows." Kairos replied as the waiter came back with her order and she thanked him. "Oh perfect! Citrus Green Tea Latte with a sprinkle of sugar and cream is the perfect drink for such a weather."


In town...

"Blaaaake?!" Ruby called out as she continued walking through the streets. A couple of people that I stopped to question about the missing girl all shook their heads but bid us good luck in finding her.

"Blaaaaaake?!" Yang added her own voice, looking left and right for any hints of the black-haired girl.

"Blaaaake?! Where are yoooooouuu?!" Ruby yelled again.

"Blake! Come on!" Yang tried calling again. "We miss you greatly!"

"Weiss, you're not helping!" Ruby said as she turned to face the moody ice princess. Yang and I stopped to see their conversation and hoped that it wouldn't escalate into another problem. The last thing we need is a split team and lots of broken bonds.

"Oh! You know who might be able to help? The police." Weiss replied and in all honesty I couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic or not. Based on her posture and the sharpness of her voice I would assume that she wasn't kidding around.

"Ugh. Weiss..." Ruby scowled disapprovingly, upset that the girl still sees Blake as a criminal and not a badass teammate and friend.

"It was just an idea!" The ice princess argued.

"Yeah, a bad one." Ruby commented grumpily before walking off, her red cape flowing out behind her.

"Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to any conclusions." Yang offered as she noticed how aggravated Ruby was becoming.

"I think when we hear it, you'll all realize I was right."

"And I think Weiss' hair looks wonderful today!" Penny praised as she walked behind us out of the blue. It took us all to realize that there was an extra voice and then it clicked. It scared us...well perhaps it scared Ruby even more but for real not one of us noticed her presence until now.

"Agh! Penny! Where did you come from!?" The leader of Team RWBY exclaimed.

"Hey guys." The orange-haired girl greeted casually. "What are you up to?"

"We're looking for our friend Blake." Yang told her.

"Ooooh! You mean the Faunus girl!" Penny nodded her head excitedly, getting blank stares from the girls. I was especially speechless because I didn't even know that much.

"Wait, how did you know?" Ruby questioned.

"Uh, the cat ears?" Penny pointed to the top of her head with a finger. "Wasn't it obvious?"

"What cat ears?" Yang frowned as she thought about it. "She wears a...bow..."

"She does like tuna a lot." Ruby whispered to her sister as they shared a knowing look.

"That must be the reason why she loved the smell by the docks and you didn't really appreciate it." Yang whispered back.

"So, where is she?" Penny asked, looking over us in hopes of spotting Blake but noticed that the girl wasn't among us.

"We don't know." Ruby told her. ""She's been missing since Friday night and we haven't been able to get in contact with her."

"That's terrible!" Penny let out a gasp, gripping Ruby's shoulders as the rest of us watched from the sideline. "Well don't you worry Ruby, my friend! I won't rest until we find your teammate."

"Uh, that's really nice of you Penny, uh, but we're-we're okay. Really. Right guys?" Ruby looked at us for guidance but realized that Weiss and Yang had left, leaving me the only one standing beside them.

"It's really windy today." Penny commented as the tumbleweed tumbled across the street.

So, what's the plan now?" Sun asked as he and Blake walked down the street after the nice chat at the cafe. Kairos bid them farewell, paid for her drink and disappeared without another word, leaving the two of them alone. It was uncertain where she went but chances are she would either try to find me or go back to the room; both options were up for grabs.

"I still don't believe the White Fang is behind these robberies." Blake told him as she pondered the situation. "They've never needed that much Dust before."

"What if they did?" Sun suggested causing them to come to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk. "I mean...the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they would most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there...right?"

"The only thing is, I have no idea where that would be."

"Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a 'huge' shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas." Sun told her the information he gathered when he was traveling overseas.

"How huge?"

"'Huge'." Sun spread his arms out to the side as far as he could, spreading his fingers out as well. "Big Schnee Company freighter."

"You're sure?" Blake pressed, hoping that the information was valid and not just some false rumors. Meanwhile, Yang and Weiss came out of a nearby store to question the owner if he had seen their friend. When they didn't find anything useful they left and decided to continue looking.

"You really don't care if we find her, do you?" Yang asked, making sure to take the accusatory tone out of her voice.

"Don't be stupid." Weiss commented as she crossed her arms, walking off with a huff. "Of course I do. I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we find her. The innocent never run, Yang."

"So. Blake is your friend?" Penny asked for what felt like the tenth time she asked that question as she walked between Ruby and I. We at most made at least one lap around the block but nothing came up, I was starting to think that perhaps she wasn't even in the town and could have returned to the dorms but Ruby insisted that we make one more round before calling it quits.

"Yes Penny." Ruby said and accompanied that statement with a sigh.

"But you're mad at her?"

"Yes! W-well, I'm not, Weiss is." Ruby cleared up the misunderstanding before pinching the bridge of her nose. Hanging out with Penny definitely could produce mild headaches since the girl loves to ask a lot of questions.

"Is 'she' friends with Blake?" asked Penny.

"Well that's kind of up in the air right now."

"But, why?"

"Well you see, Blake might not be who we thought she was." Ruby explained.

"Is she a man?" Penny whispered after releasing a gasp.

"That's not the problematic issue here...but nice try." I said, fighting down a chuckle that threatened to burst through my chest. I wonder what Blake would think if she heard what Penny just said...

"No, no, Penny, she's n—I don't know what she is. She didn't exactly talk to us before she decided to run off." Ruby was at a loss and just stood in the middle of the sidewalk with a sad expression on her face.

" I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things." Penny told us but smiled nonetheless.

"Me too." Ruby agreed, feeling her spirits rise a bit and the three of us continued to walk off in search for Blake.


Nighttime...

"Did I miss anything?" Sun asked as he caught up with Blake on a rooftop at the port, the Faunus already laying on her stomach and scouting the area. According to their plan, they would keep an eye out on the shipment of Dust from the Schnee Dust Company from Atlas and see if there's any movement from the White Fang.

"Not really." Blake replied as he landed beside her and turned her attention back to the crates. "They've offloaded all the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there."

"Cool. I stole you some food." Sun held out a green apple for her, giving her a small smile.

"Do you always break the law without a second thought?"

"Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?" He answered playfully, earning himself one of her weird pouts of annoyance. "Okay, too soon." Suddenly the sound of a turbine engine reached their ears and they looked up to see an aircraft making a land among the crates.

The aircraft was known as a Bullhead, an aerial vehicle in Remnant that was considerably smaller than an airship. On the plus side, it has improved maneuverability at the cost of lower carrying capacity. What's also great about it is that it can hover, take off, and land vertically. Unlike its other aerial vehicle cohorts, it has four small legs that function as landing gear. Slowly the hatch located near the underbelly opened up and a couple of White Fang members walked out and lined up in rows.

"Oh no." Blake groaned with a sinking feeling settling uncomfortable in the pit of her stomach.

"Is that them?" Sun asked, noticing that Blake had a tense body posture and the color drained from her face.

"Yes. It's them." Blake answered as her eyes honed in on the well-known symbol on the back of the vests the White Fang members were wearing. More men walked out and the one in charge ordered the lackeys to grab the tow cables as well as a couple other equipment that could possibly make transportation easier.

"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun asked.

"No. I think deep down I knew." She replied sadly. "I just didn't want to be right."

"Hey! What's the hold up?" A voice shouted and Blake's eyes widened when she recognized who it belonged to. The men who were working looked up as Roman exited the Bullhead with his cane in hand. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, sooooo why don't you animals try to pick up the pace."

"This isn't right." Blake shook her head with a confused look. "The White Fang would never work with a human. Especially not one like that."

"Hey!" Sun shouted when she stood up, unsheathing her weapon. "What are you doing!?" She paid him no heed and jumped down, making a beeline to a couple of crates before her cover could be blown. Stalking forward but keeping close to the shadows, she used her ears to locate where Roman was and located him almost immediately since his voice tended to carry thanks to a little wind. It sounded like he was in the middle of scolding someone.

"No you idiot!" Roman was saying as he stood before one of the White Fang members who held a wire of some sort in his hands. "This isn't a leash!" That's when Blake made her move, appearing behind him with the sharp part of Gambol Shroud placed near his neck with one hand, the other one wielded a pistol and was pointed towards the members. "What the-? Oh for f-"

"Nobody move!" She ordered, watching her enemies carefully. The White Fang members raised their weapons and aimed it at her, their fingers touching the trigger and awaited orders from their leader.

"Woah ho!" Roman chuckled as he kept an eye on Blake as well as directing his gaze at the White Fang members, making sure that they didn't do anything rash without proper orders. "Take it easy there little lady." As more members gathered around Blake put away her pistol and reached up to remove her bow, letting her ears sprang free.

"Brothers of the White Fang. Why are you aiding this scum?" She asked. The members lowered their weapons and looked at each other in silence.

"Heh, oh kid." Roman laughed. "Didn't you get the memo?"

"What are you talking about?" Blake growled as she turned her attention to him.

"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together." He replied.

"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation." She threatened, tilting the man's head up and pressed Gambol Shroud closure to his skin but not hard enough to draw blood. However more Bullheads appear from overhead, distracting Blake when the wind from the turbine messes up with her hair.

"I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation." The man spoke, escaping the Faunus' grip by firing a shot from Melodic Cudgel near her feet. Melodic Cudgel is Roman's signature weapon and initially appears to be a normal cane; however, when used for combat, the base of the cane raises a reticle for aiming, while also uncovering the muzzle. It fires an unstable flare or discharge of what is possibly Dust, which creates a distinct whistling sound when airborne, and explodes on impact.

The cane was also known to be capable of firing at least two types of projectiles: one with a red flare, and one with a white flare. Its explosive capabilities are enough to detonate Dust crystals.

"Hmm?" I stopped walking and looked behind me in confusion. Apparently I wasn't the only one who heard the weird sound, Penny and Ruby both stopped in their tracks and turned around to locate the epicenter of the sound.

"Oh my god, there's an explosion and it appears to be by the pier!" Ruby exclaimed, watching a huge cloud of smoke billowing up towards the air. "Can this day get any worse?"

"Hopefully not but let's go check it out." I stated and she nodded in agreement. "I'm one hundred percent positive that we'll find Blake."


Back to the pier...

Knocked back from the sudden explosion, Blake groggily got up and shook her head from side to side to clear up her vision. Not giving her a chance to rest Roman proceeded to fire more shots at her from Melodic Cudgel and she gymnastically dodges every blast before retreating, disappearing between the crates as more shots nipped at her heels.

"Here, kitty kitty kitty." Roman taunted as he started to go after her. What he got in return was a banana peel that rained down from the sky, knocking his hat in front of his face and obscured his vision for a minute. He wiped the fruit off his head and angrily crushed the fruit in his hands. Tossing it aside, he looked up as Sun came out of his hiding place.

"Whoohoo!" The monkey Faunus chuckled as he knocked Roman over by planting both feet into the man's face and somersaulted away, landing on both feet like an acrobatic. "Leave her alone." He spoke as he watched Roman get back on his feet with an angry expression.

"You are not the brightest banana in the bunch, are ya kid?" The man growled as several White Fang warriors poured out of the armored vehicles, their weapons poised, locked and ready. Lunging forward, Sun demonstrated some flashy martial arts mixed with parkour stunts before taking out his weapons: Nunchuck form of Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang. The warriors didn't get a chance to scratch the Faunus before falling like flies at the might of his weapons.

"Ahhh, these animals are so useless..." Roman cursed before taking aim as another warrior was kicked away. Once Sun's back was turned he fired a white flare but his attack was blocked when Blake rejoined the fight, her piercing golden eyes locked in on him like a dangerous predator.

"He's mine!"