Author Opening Notes: I decided to post a chapter biweekly just to relieve pressure since life keeps interrupting my progress. I'll still try to post each chapter as soon as I can, just at my own pace. Enjoy the chapter.


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Ultima-owner: Yeah, I can't wait to cover Meet the Pyro/Medic. The audience is in for a surprise.

A54321: I appreciate that you liked my work. Glad to know that my efforts didn't go unnoticed.

StrongGuy159: You'd guessed correctly on who plays Engineer. But I've already decided who plays the rest of the Mercs before starting this fic.


Inspiration: Meet the Team: Engineer, Scout, and Spy

Disclaimer: The following is a Non-Profit story for entertainment only. "RWBY" is the property of director and animator Monty Oum (RIP) and production company Rooster Teeth, and Team Fortress 2 is the property of Gabe Newell, and development company Valve.


Dr. Emerald-Stirling stands in the Inner Circle side of the room with a notebook in hand, taking each member's orders before the next short starts.

"So what will you be having?" he asked the Grimm Queen.

"The Souls of the Innocent!" She responds with the most eldritch voice she could muster.

"Alright, a bagel."

"What! NO!"

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding… Two Bagels!"

"NOOOOOOO!"

Some of the students laugh at the hijinks going on the other side of the glass.

Nora stopped laughing to take a breather. "Usually Gold-Sith delivers our favorite food before we even ask. But watching him take orders just makes it worth it."

Weiss just sits there unamused. "Just a reminder, he's only a doctor who is covering for our previous host. Running a cinema isn't in his job description."

Ruby looks over to the Emerald Doctor who was just wrapping up. "Dr. Stirling. You said that I'm in the next short, right?"

"That is correct," he said, as he put away his notebook.

"So what's my role in the team? Do I run around real quick picking off enemies one by one? Or maybe I get up close and personal with a big weapon! Or maybe-"

"Slow down, slow down…" The Doctor chuckled, "Instead of telling you. I'll just show you."

In a puff of smoke, he teleports into the projector room and starts rolling the film.


Fanfare starts playing as the title card appears on the screen reads "Meet The Engineer", with a wrench leaning against a toolbox.

"Wait, So I'm an engineer." Ruby said as she read the title.

"It makes sense." Her sister chimes in. "You always have a fascination with tinkering, whether it's with your baby, or some pieces of scraps you played around with and turned it into something."

"One time Ruby and I were spending hours drawing blueprints to figure out if it is possible to build an android child based on my design so we can raise it like its our daughter." Penny said nonchalantly, causing everyone to look at her. [1]

Ruby's face turned as red as her cloak when her android friend just spilled their secret. "Penny! Don't tell them about our secret!"

The android soon realizes her mistake and quickly covers her mouth.

"Let's just move on before this gets really awkward." Dr. Stirling said as he hit continue.

The scene opens to Ruby sitting on a toolbox in front of a blue truck, strumming on an acoustic guitar. Wearing some overalls, a helmet, and some safety goggles.

The audience on Beacon's side start cooing over how adorable Ruby looks in her engineer getup.

"Oh My Oum, Ruby! You look so cute!" Yang squeezes her sister with a big hug much to her discomfort.

"Y-Yang, y-our choking me!"

Blake couldn't help but notice Ruby the Engineer's guitar skills as she strums away. "Got to say Ruby, you're pretty talented when it comes to playing the guitar."

Her leader managed to breathe again as she escaped her sister's deadly hugs. "T-thanks…" she took a breath, "My dad has a guitar just like that one. He started to teach me how to play when I was only six. Course I couldn't reach the neck due to my stubby arms at the time, but I kept practicing on it till uncle Qrow gave me an electric guitar on my twelfth birthday."

"Hey Look, buddy. I'm an engineer, that means I solve Problems."

A shot rings out and a bullet hole appears to the left of her head.

"Not Problems like "What is Beauty", 'cause that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy."

Two more appear on the other side of her head.

"Alright, who had the nerve to be shooting at sis!" Yang expressed angrily at the fact someone is trying to kill her sister, while she's strumming.

"I'm more surprised at why she's still playing at all." Weiss commented, "I would have ducked in cover after the first shot."

"I Solve practical problems!" she said as she stopped strumming.

Ruby then picks up a bottle of milk from behind a crate and drinks it, as sounds of something mechanical retaliates by firing a couple of shots offscreen. The Engineer then places the bottle next to what is essentially a kill counter as a man screams in the distance. When the scream died out, the counter went up to two hundred and ten, and she continued playing.

Weiss was surprised by this. "Oookay, nevermind. I got my answer."

"What was that? It sounded automated." Penny asks as she looks around the screen.

Ruby got all starry-eyed. "Whatever it is, it's most likely something I made!" she said excitedly about what she suspects is an automated weapon.

"For instance, how am i gonna stop some mean mother-hubbard from tearin' me a structurally superfluous new behind?" As she was talking, a silhouetted figure is stalking the hard-hatted girl in the background over a hill.

Before they could take the shot, they were spotted by a small turret known as a level one sentry. It immediately turned and shot the stalker to protect its maker as they groin in pain.

"The answer?"

a level two sentry guns down another attacker, adding to the kill counter.

"use a gun. And if that don't work."

A level three fires its rocket salvo in the background.

"Use more gun."

Ruby stops playing to look where the rockets are heading as the rockets go off offscreen and a man screams "MY ARM!" in the distance. She smiles and continues strumming.

Mercury was taken aback as he recognized that voice. "Was that me screaming?" he said to himself.

Ruby was excited seeing all the sentries her counterpart built.

A blown-off hand landed at the Engineer's feet as she played.

"Like this heavy-caliber tripod-mounted little-old-number designed by me."

She kicks the limb in the air as the level one shoots it out the air like it's a clay pigeon.

"Build, by me"

The sentry shoots two more rounds at someone offscreen.

"And you best hope…" her expression darkens as she stares at the screen. making some of the inner circle feel uneasy. "Not pointed at you."

Ruby the Engineer plays once more as it zooms out showing the massacre around her as waves of troops are attempting to get to her, only to be mowed down by her sentry nest.


The End Credit sequence plays as the Screen shows a close up at Ruby as it zooms out with her being second to the far left of the group photo.

"So my role is to build turrets?" Ruby Asked the Doctor, "That's neat."

"Not just turrets, or what your counterpart calls Sentries." Dr. Stirling corrected, "But also Dispensers and Teleporters as well. You provide support to your team with your contraptions on the battlefield." He pulls up a slideshow on the screen showing Ruby and her team using her buildings. "Using Teleporters to take your team to the frontline quickly, provided they take turns using it. Dispensers to provide health and ammo. And Sentries to protect the objective, your buildings, and your friends."

The Weapon-Aficionado bounces around in her chair all giddy seeing her counterpart babies.

"Can we move on before Ruby literally explodes with joy." Weiss requests.

"Alright." said the Doctor as he starts the next short.


The film begins with the sounds of bongos and flutes playing in the background as the warehouse door slowly rises to Well, as natural light illuminates a lean boy with blonde hair crouches down in front of Pyrrha as they survey the area.

It's none other than the fearless leader Jaune. Wearing a red t-shirt, cap and some dog tags, with an earpiece on his head. In his hands, he wields a strange looking shotgun.

"It's our fearless leader!" Nora exclaimed once his face was revealed.

"Got to say vomit-boy. Your counterpart looks a lot more confident than you are." Yang said to Jaune as she checked out his counterpart.

Jaune just looks at the Blonde Brawler, unsure if that was a compliment or an insult. "Uh, Thanks?"

Ruby notices the gun Jaune's counterpart is holding. "I haven't seen a weapon like that before."

"Oh, that there is a scattergun. It's a double-barrel, lever-action, shotgun with a revolving chamber." The Temp Host answered her question.

"Coooool!" The Red Reaper eyes started showing stars again.

Jaune sees some men standing on the balcony, and a couple on ground level. With a flick of the lever, he ejected a spent shell and charged forth with his team following behind. He dodges multiple bullets as he heads toward the center of the railyard, shooting his pistol, and jumping over some train cars. He soon entered the building in the middle of the yard with some men pursuing him, only to get run over by an incoming train. Jaune ran across the line just before the train hit him as the cars following behind the locomotive transitioned the scene into the title screen that reads "Meet the Scout" with an image of a bat on it.

"So I'm a scout huh." Jaune said out loud. "And judging from the fight earlier, my role is to run around and be annoying to hit."

"Tell me about it." The energetic ginger replied to her leader. "You were all like, Zip, Zoom, I'm over here. Like a little bunny."

When she said that, some of the female students couldn't help but imagine Jaune as a bunny Faunus. They began to blush for how cute he could be, especially Pyrrha.

Instead transitioning back to the battlefield like usual. Jaune just walks up in front of his own title screen from off frame putting his hand together close to his mouth.

"Um… I don't know where to start with you. I mean, do you know who you're talkin' to?"

Some of the audience were surprised by the sudden fourth-wall break.

"We're talking to you fearlessless leader!" Nora replied to Jaune's counterpart.

"That's not even a word." Weiss attempted to correct the ginger's grammar.

"It is now!"

"That's not how…" the Heiress just sighs, not wanting to talk to a brick wall.

Nora then just thought of something. "Who exactly is the leader of the groups anyway?" She asks.

"Maybe we'll find out once the rest of the group reveal themselves." Nora's crush replies. "Till then, let's keep watching."

It then cuts to a bearded man about to take a bite out of his sandvich. Only to be interrupted by Jaune poking his head with a bat.

The Inner circle recognizes it to be Hazel who is wearing Yang's counterpart outfit except it's in blue.

"Check it out hazel! You're on the big screen!" Mercury said nugging Hazel with his elbow, much to his annoyance.

"Hey!" Yang exclaimed, "He's wearing my counterpart's getup! What gives!"

"Maybe he's another team's heavy?" Ruby guessed.

Hazel looks up to see Jaune squatted down from atop some crates going. "Yo, what's up?"

Cuts back to Jaune in front of his title screen

"D-Do you have any idea, any idea who I am?" he asks, looking at the screen.

Back at Hazel and Jaune, who are in a fistfight as Hazel is trying to grab the Red Scout.

"Well that escalated quickly," Sun said, peeling another banana, which Dr. Stirling doesn't know where he got it from since he's not done with everyone's orders yet.

"Are you seriously having a hard time catching a pipsqueak?" Cinder asked Hazel only for him to give off a silent grunt.

Back to Jaune at the title screen,

"Basically- Kind of a big deal!"

Back to the fight where Jaune is strangling Hazel with a bat.

Cuts back to Jaune where he flexes his puny muscle. "Oh man, that's beautiful. Heh!"

"Oh brothers! He's more full of himself than our Jaune." Weiss complained,

Pyrrha however, blushed a bit from Jaune's gun show.

Back to the fight where Hazel got Jaune in a headlock, before cutting back to Jaune.

"Ya listenin'? Ok." he chuckled before listing this off with his fingers. "Grass grows, birds fly, sun shine, and brotha'-" he pokes the screen, "I hurt people."

Cuts back to Jaune batting Hazel in the groin.

"Boink!" The Red Scout said making sound effects.

Most of the male audience winced with some grabbing their nether region.

"That's a bit uncalled for." Hazel said, looking at Jaune.

Jaune took a page out of Pyrrha's book by lowering his head going, "Sorry."

Back to Jaune going "I'm a force a' nature!"

Back to the fight where Jaune swings upward with his bat, hitting Hazel in the jaw.

"Bonk!"

"If you were from where I was from, you'll be f*king dead." Title screen Jaune stated as it cuts to Jaune finishing the fight by climbing up some shipping containers before jumping down and lands the finish blow with his bat as Hazel tried to crawl away.


"WOO!" Title screen Jaune cheered as it cuts to The End Credits where Jaune in front of Yang, Ren, and Pyrrha as it zooms out as the Fanfare plays.

The film ends showing the conclusion of the fight, with Jaune sitting atop Hazel unconscious body as the Red Scout eats his sandvich and seagull cawing in the distance.

"Oh my Oum! You got owned!" Mercury laughed at Hazel's loss, to which he swiftly responded with a punch in the face.

Cinder watched as her most annoying assassin went flying and slammed into the wall like a ragdoll. Emerald tried to hold it, only to burst out laughing.

"You asked for it." the False Fall Maiden said to herself.

Dr. Watts just sighs and asks the Interdimensional Doctor. "Dumb hijinks aside, I assume my… "coworkers" are part of a rival team? Mostlikly having the same roles as the wannabe hunters."

"You'll be correct on your assessment." The Doctor answered while setting up the next short. "In fact, this next short will primarily focus on Roman and the Inner Circle."

"About bloody time."Torchwich said, grinning from ear to ear as he waited for this moment. "What are you waiting for… get the film rolling."

The Temp Host did just that.


The film begins with an alarm bell ringing as a voice announces over the intercoms.

"Intruder alert! RED Spy in the Base!"

A large sign board lights up reading out "Intruder Alert" "RED Spy" "In Base".

"A RED Spy is in the Base!" A Raven-haired woman read outloud.

Some of the more perceptive students started snickering, causing the Schnee's and some members of the Inner Circle, gave them a weird look.

"What's so funny?" The Heiress asks, looking over at Ruby.

"Look at the sign board!" The Red-haired team leader pointed at the screen.

Surely enough, the large sign board has some of the most bizarre signs Weiss has ever read. Each being more obscured then the last, with some simply strange as, "IS A MAN" "IS A WOMAN" "IS A ROBOT" "NEED A RIDE" "IS DRUNK" "HUNGRY" "NEED ROOMMATE" "SMELLS", to straight up insane as, "JARATE" "ABOUT TO EXPLODE" "EXPLODING" "EXPLODED" "DEFENESTRATED" "VAPORIZED" "ON TOILET" "HAS EVIL TWIN" "LOST DRACULA" and "FOUND DRACULA".

"What the hell are all these signs!" Weiss complained, completely flabbergasted by the insanity. "And what the hell is a Jarate!"

"It's Jar based Karate," The Doctor answered. "Ren uses it when dealing in close combat by throwing jars full of a liquid substance at his opponent then lands a finishing blow with his kukri. It's unusual, but it's effective."

"Ooo! I wonder what he puts in it, I hope it's delicious." Nora said, imagining Ren filling a jar of Jarate with Lemonade or honey.

Dr. Stirling just kept quiet. Not having the heart to tell her what it actually is. [2]

"I'm more concerned about the lost & found Dracula sign." Jaune pointed out, "As a kid, I lay awake every night worrying he might be real and crawl through my bedroom window. Now he's such a problem in this universe that they have a sign to notify them that Dracula has been spotted."

Now both Ozpin and Salem didn't have the will to tell Jaune that Dracula is real and was such a problem centuries ago that they had to work together to stop him from taking over all of Remnant.

The woman was Cinder, wearing Pyrrha's uniform but in blue. She grabs a shotgun off the gun rack and makes her way down stairs.

"Protect the Briefcase!" that announcer ordered over the intercoms.

"We need to protect the briefcase!" Cinder repeated as she nearly tripped over herself jumping off the stairs.

"That voice." Glynda said curiously, as she listened closely to the intercom, "It sounds almost like my voice."

"Yo, a little help here!" A voice calls out as the blue Soldier rounds the corner.

It was Mercury the Scout, who was having trouble opening the door to the Briefcase Room.

"It seems both of us have made an appearance Cindy." Mercury said as he picked himself up from Hazel's more passive punches.

"Of course I'll be in it!" Cinder boasts. "I'm Salem's greatest asset, and no doubt am the leader of Team…" She pauses before looking over to the Temp Host in the projector room. "What's our Team name? If these brats are Team Fortress, what does that make us?"

"Team Castle." The Doctor answered. "Your group works for Darktarch, while Team Fortress works for Lightmond." [3]

"Alright, alright, I got it. Stand back son." she said as she pushed him aside to access the keypad. "One, one, one, uhh, one!"

"What kind of lock combination is that?" Dr. Watt said to himself. "That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on their luggage!"

"One, one, one, one?" Salem said out loud. "That's amazing, I got the same combination on my luggage."

Dr. Watt immediately shut himself up, not wanting to admit that he indirectly called the Queen of Grimm an idiot.

As the door unlocks, Mercury gets all excited going "Let's go, let's go, let's go!" as Hazel comes charging at them and the door from behind shouting "INCOMING!". Before they could move out of the way, Hazel uses his Minigun and their bodies to break the door off its hinges. Cinder and Mercury tumbled onto the floor screaming as the chaos soon died down when they realized the Briefcase had been left untouched.

"Hey, it's still here." Mercury said as he picked himself up using the table the Briefcase was on.

"Alright then." Hazel responds as he powers down his Minigun.

"Ahem,"

The sound of someone clearing their throat grabs everyone's attention as they turn to see Roman Torchwick standing where the door used to be, wearing a blue three-piece suit and his iconic bowler hat, holding a green-haired girl over his shoulder.

"Gentlemen."

"Here I am in the flesh!" Roman stated proudly, "And I do say that I look pretty snazzy."

Some of the Inner Circle members just roll their eyes as Emerald notices the girl hanging over Torchwick's shoulder.

"Hold on, is that me?" The Green-haired thief asks in confusion. "Am I dead!?"

The Title screen plays with a cigarette/disguise kit and a top secret document in front of the title that reads, "Meet the Spy".

"Ooo! We're getting some spy action!" Nora stated excitedly.

"No doubt their role is to provide infiltration and espionage." Ren assumes, "Maybe even some sabotage while they're at it."

Ruby and Jaune got exceeded as well as they were big fans of Spy movies growing up.

"We know now that Bowler hat jerk is their team's Spy." Sun states as he finishes his banana and starts peeling another one out of nowhere. "But who is the one infiltrating their base?"

"I believe I know who." said Blake.

Cuts back to Roman entering the room as sounds of broken glass crack under his feet, still carrying Emerald's lifeless body.

"I see the Briefcase is safe." Torchwick assesses the situation.

The Blue Scout and Soldier answered as they picked themself up.

"Safe and sound!"

"Yeah, it is!"

"Tell me, did anyone happen to kill a Black Cat on the way here?" Roman asks looking around, only for the group to look at eachother and just give some shrugs. "No? Then we still have a problem."

Team Castle Spy tosses Emerald corpse onto the table showing a butterfly knife in her back, as a sharp musical cue plays.

"I can't believe it!" Emerald shouted. "The one time I make an appearance and I'm already killed offscreen!"

"Black cat… really." Blake said, ignoring Emerald's rant as she looked over at Roman.

"What?" Torchwick smirks as he gives off a shrug. "How do you know I was referring to you and not an actual cat?"

"It doesn't take much to deduce that I'm the Spy of Team Fortress." Blake states. "Out of the nine mercenaries so far, five are members from mine and JNPR's team. Which leaves the last four to be Weiss, Nora, Penny, and I."

"Why me?" the friendly android asks.

"Your close friends with Ruby, therefore your friends with all of us which adds up to nine." She explains, "Anyway, out of the final four. I'm the most qualified for the role."

Ruby chimed in. "Yeah! And Blake is the most stealthiest out of all of us, like a sneaky ninja cat."

"And you'll be correct." Said the Doctor, "Blake is indeed the Spy of Team Fortress, and the team itself comprises Team RWBY, Team JNPR, and Penny. While Team Castle has members of the Inner Circle."

"And a knife!" Cinder stated the obvious.

"Ohh, big problem." Mercury said sarcastically, as he pulled the knife out of Emerald's back and played around with it. "I killed plenty of spies. They're dime-a-dozen back-stabbing scumbags. Like you!" as he stated his opinion, he accidentally cuts himself, dropping the knife. "Ow. No offense." The Blue Scout then kissed his wound.

Penny felt off about that scene, wondering as to why Mercury's counterpart is kissing his "wound". She decided to not say anything but keep an eye on him.

Torchwick then picks up the knife and finesses it more skillfully than Mercury. "If you manage to kill them, I assure you, they were not like me." he said as he fancily closed the knife and handed it to Mercury, "And nothing, nothing, like the Cat who is loose inside this building."

"What are you? President of her fan club?" Mercury jokes, causing Cinder to chuckle a little as Torchwick walks over by a window next to the desk.

"No…" The blue Spy turns to Mercury and brings out a manila folder. "That would be your mother." he slams the folder onto the table, spilling its contents revealing to be multiple photos of Blake being intimate on a gray-haired woman who is none other than Mercury's mom as the label on the folder reads "TOP SECRET, MERCURY'S MOM". [4]

Winter and Yang immediately covered their sister's eyes as all the men's noses began to bleed.

For the first time in Mercury's life, is at a loss for words. "MOM!" Well… except one.

"To be honest. I didn't not see that one coming." Torchwick speaks for everyone who is still watching. "But then again… that is something I would do."

"Which one?" Emerald asks, "Showing them their mother's porn just to be petty, or hitting on their mom?"

"Yes."

Neo took out her scroll and took as many pictures as she could as most of the women just sat there dumbfounded. And for Taurus, he pulls out a list of things he believes would bring Blake back to him. The items listed as such, catnip, tuna, cat toys, and lewd books. He wrote down "Become Trans?" on the list thinking the reason Blake left him is because she's actually a lesbian after what he'd seen. He's a bit iffy with that one, and would reconsider later on.

"Holy hell Blake!" Neptune exclaimed, "I never expected you to be that kind of femme fatale!"

"I didn't either!" Said Blake, surprised

Mercury, Cinder, and Hazel all looked at the photos with different reactions. Mercury is confused and angry, Cinder is interested, and Hazel is mostly uncaring, but a little shocked.

"Indeed, and now she here to F*K us! So listen up boy," Roman demands the Scout, as he pulls out a cigarette out of his personal case from within his suit. "Or pornography starring your mother would be the second worst thing to happen to you today."

Mercury looks ready to throw hands but chooses to instead pick up the photos strewn all over the table as Cinder and Hazel are trading images of his mother with each other.

"G-gimme that!" The Gray-Haired Scout demanded as he took the photos out of their hands, as Roman took a drag from his cig looking out the window.

"Stop looking at them guys! Come on! That's my mother!" Mercury complains.

"What can I say?" said Emerald as she decides to pick on her partner. "Your mother is quite a looker."

It backfired as all the members of the Inner Circle just looked at her, believing she has a thing for Milfs.

"That Cat has already breached our defenses…" The Bowler-hatted Ginger states as the scene transitions to Blake running down the halls as ominous music starts to play.


The Cat Faunus hid herself against the wall in the darkness. Her eyes illuminated as she saw a mustache man performing maintenance on his Sentry. The man is Dr. Watt who is guarding the entrance to the facility with his Sentry nest.

"Got to say Blake. You look pull off that three piece suit better than that crook." Coco complements Blake's counterpart's fit, much to Roman's dismay.

The Cat Faunus admits that she looks good in a suit. Maybe she'll consider wearing one instead of a dress in the next formal event.

"Looks like I'm the Team Castle engineer." assumes, "Makes sense since I'm pretty much the brains of this group. No doubt my counterpart is smarter than that milk drinker on Team Fortress."

She charges forth tossing a sapper to Arthur's Sentry, destroying it once the sapper slides underneath it.

"Sentry down!" Watt called out as he attempted to use his pistol, only for Blake to be quick on the draw.

With a loud bang, the door opens to Dr. Watt with a bullet hole in his forehead and he falls over dead. Blake walks over his body and aims her revolver at two individuals who were sitting at the other side of the door. The two being Neo who is wearing a blue flame-retardant suit, and Adam who wears a demolition vest as they play poker with each other on a dust-drum. [5]

Torchwick laughed out loud as Arthur sat there unamused. "Not so smart now that your gray matter is full of lead." He looks over to his partner in crime. "Look at that Neo! You're in this as well! And that bull guy as well I suppose."

Neo smiles as the crime lord gives her headpats as if she was a cat.

Adam just kept quiet as he pulled out another list. This time it's a list of things he would offer as sacrifice to appease Dr. Stirling once he summoned him. The list consists of simple things to offer such as money and medical equipment, as well as some insane offerings such as names of human virgins he plans to sacrifice. He added Roman's full name in bold letters to the list and circled it so as to not forget it.

Blake pulls the trigger killing Neo instantly as Adam draws out a Half-Zatoichi and charges at the Cat Faunus. Before the Bull Faunus could take her head, Blake cloaked herself causing Adam to swing at the open air. He kept swinging sporadically trying to hit her only to run out of breath. That's when Blake decloaks herself behind Adam with her revolver pointed at his head.

Both Neo and Roman were saddened to see her counterpart killed off so early. As Adam just nodded at the screen going, "Well played." knowing his former partner's skill all too well.

"That is so Cool!" Ruby said, all starry-eyed by all the gadgets Blake the Spy used while infiltrating. "A device that scrambles machinery, and a watch that makes you go invisible! You're like a Spy movie protagonist Blake!"


With another pull of the trigger, it cuts back to Torchwick looking over Emerald Body.

"You've seen what she's done to our colleagues."


The scenes pan toward the deceased Emerald as it fades to a few moments prior.

Emerald the Team Castle Sniper was scoping out a boarded up window as she noticed Blake sneaking up behind her. She tried to comfort the Spy-Cat Faunus only for her to kick Emerald into the window, dropping her sniper rifle as the boards fell off the frame. She reached for her kukri and the two got into a knife fight. Blake dodged and slash her knife across Emerald's face, causing her to touch her cheek and see blood on her fingers. Emerald goes in for the attack, but Blake gets the best of her as she slashed her belly then stabbed her back. The defeated Sniper fell over the railing and screamed to her death as Blake looked down, wiping the blood off her suit.

Emerald is a bit peeved that her counterpart was killed off so easily, but just kept to herself. Figuring complaining won't change anything and hope Cinder would be able to stop her.


Cut back to Roman where he relays some crucial information. "And worst of all, she could be any one of us."

Back to Blake who is now deeper into the facility. She is in close combat with a Lion Faunus wearing a doctor coat, as he attempts to defend himself with a bonesaw.

His efforts were proven futile as Blake caught him in an armlock, disarming him and disgusting herself as Lionheart. Leo was shocked seeing his own face before Blake karate-chop his throat knocking him unconscious.

Neo scowled at the screen as if to say "She has my semblance!" if she was able to talk.

"Holy hell Blake!" Yang said surprised by seeing her friend just turned into someone else. "You can even disguise yourself as anyone!?"

Qrow spoke up, "I'm more surprised to see Leo working for them." he looks over to the Lion Faunus at the other side of the glass. "And you still haven't answered why you're with them."

Lionheart began to sweat thinking of an excuse until.


Back to the Briefcase room, the music begins to intensify as Torchwick continues narrating, "She could be in this very room! She could be you. She could be me! She could even be-"

Before he could even finish Cinder took action by blasting his brains out with her shotgun leaving nothing but a neck stump.

"Holy Hell!"

"Oh my Oum!"

"Brothers Almighty!"

Everyone was taken aback watching Roman's graymatter go everywhere, causing Qrow to forget his question, most of the audience to jump back, while others just sat dumbfounded. and Roman to be in complete utter shock.

"Woah, woah, woah!" Mercury panics as he tosses the folder of his mother porn photos into the air and gets into a defensive stance.

"What? It was obvious!" Cinder states as she cocks her shotgun, ejecting the spent shell. "He's that damn Cat! Watch he'll turn red any second now."

After a moment of complete silence. The bowler hat ginger was the first to break it.

"Cinder!" Roman shouted at the raven-haired woman.

"What?"

"What the hell!"

"Nothing personal. I just have to shut you up."

Most of the Inner Circle burst out laughing from Cinder's comeback.

Once the laughter died down, Cinder felt an ominous presence peering down at her. She turns to see Neo staring right at her for what she has done to her partner. Her constant staring makes Cinder more and more uneasy as if Neo is staring into her soul.

Cinder and Hazel both approach Torchwick's bloody corpse as a pool of blood flows out where his head should be.

"Aaaany second now…" the Raven-Haired woman said as she crouched down and pokes Roman foot with the barrel of her gun.

"See! Red!" She declared before correcting herself. "No wait, that's blood."

"So… we still got problem." Hazel commented.

"Big problem…" Cinder said, unaware of how quiet Mercury has been recently. As he pulls out the butterfly knife Roman gave him and skillfully unfolds it insinuating that he's not Mercury.

The audience gasped when they realized Mercury is actually Blake this whole time.

"I knew something was off when Mercury hurt himself playing with the knife!" Penny exclaimed, pointing at the screen.

"How so?" Ruby asked her android friend.

"Dr. Stirling, would you kindly rewind the film a bit please." Penny requested.

"Sure thing."

The Temp Host rewinds the film back to the scene where The Team Castle Scout picks up the knife out of Emerald's back.

"When Mercury played around with the knife, he nicked his fingers with the blade." Penny paused right as the blade made contact on Mercury's fingers. "Only, he was holding it by the safe handle, making it impossible to hurt himself if he wanted to. Meaning he was faking it to make it look like he was a novice with the blade."

"Which means that Mercury is secretly that damn cat the whole time." Torchwick chimed in, "And my counterpart figured it out, choosing to play dumb and only to reveal when the time is right. But SOMEONE!" Roman shouted looking at Cinder. "Was being impatient and decided to blow my brains out before I could call them out!"

"Well it's your fault for being dramatic and not getting to the damn point." Cinder retorts, causing some of the students to snicker.

"Why you!"

Before Roman could attack the False Fall Maiden, Dr. Emerald-Stirling decided to butt in. "As much as I would like you two to kill each other. We have a film to watch, so bottle up all that anger and fight another time. Preferably outside the theater, Gold-Sith will have my ass if he comes back and sees his cinema in ruins… again."

"Yeah, Torchwick!" Yang said with a grin on her face. "You don't want to… Lose Your Head."

Most of the audience groaned as the Doctor fast-forwarded back where they left off.

Soon "Mercury", who is actually Blake, approached both Cinder and Hazel unveiling herself with a knife in hand .

"Alright, who's ready to go find this Spy?" The blue Soldier asks, unaware of the approaching danger.

"Right behind you." Blake said, surprising them both.


It immediately cuts to the End Credits with Blake standing in between Yang and Ruby in the group photo, as sounds of Cinder and Hazel being stabbed to death in the background in rhythm with the music.


Back in the Briefcase room where the Spy-Cat Faunus has finished off the remaining team. Accordion and mandolin plays in the background as Blake picks up a picture of her and Mercury's mother holding hands.

She smiles at the photo going, "Ah… Ma petit chou-fleur." before pocketing it and walks away with the Briefcase.

As much as Mercury didn't want to admit this. He would prefer Blake as his father than his actual father any day.


Author's Points

[1]- I'm a big fan of Nuts and Dolts, and would imagine they build themselves a daughter if they ever want kids.

[2]- The less they know what Jarate really is, the better.

[3]- Since the Red Team is officially known as Team Fortress in the comics. I decided to have the Blu team be called Team Castle to fit the theme.

[4]- Before anyone asks. No. Blake is not secretly Mercury's dad in this version of TF2.

[5]- I expanded on this scene just to reveal who plays Blu Pyro/Demoman, since this short is the best way to introduce Team Castle.


Cast

Ruby Rose as Red Engineer

Jaune Arc as Red Scout

Hazel Rainart as Blu Heavy

Cinder Fall as Blu Soldier

Mercury Black as Blu Scout

Roman Torchwick as Blu Spy

Blake Belladonna as Red Spy

Arthur Watts as Blu Engineer

Neo as Blu Pyro

Adam Taurus as Blu Demoman

Emerald Sustrai as Blu Sniper

Leonardo Lionheart as Blu Medic