Alright, all of you are waiting for this moment. No more filler shit. It's time to get to the action. 

We finally reached the docks. Hartmann finally gets to fight non-Grimm enemies after two months in the school. I tried my best to make it exciting but detailed as possible just like the fight in forever fall.

Mind you, this will be the penultimate chapter of this story, which means the next chapter would be the last one. Planning to release it before new year 2022, which i still have some time.

Like always, Enjoy the chapter.

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Blake was lying down on the ground after that explosion, dazed but relatively unhurt from it. While she was getting up, Roman fired another shot from his cane. Blake quickly rolled out of the way as the shot missed and hit the container.

Roman continued to fire his cannon shots on Blake, while the White Fang gunners assisted him. Blake evaded them using her semblance against Roman's flaming cannon shots and used her gambol shroud in blade form to parry the bullets.

Eventually she retreated behind more of the containers, panting.

Roman lower down his cane with a glare. "Half of you, on it with the dust!" He shouted to the white fang members as he turned back to where Blake was hiding. "It's hopeless, kitty kat. You're outnumbered and have nowhere to go!"

Roman called out to her with a smirk, slowly making his way to Blake's hiding spot along with two other White fang members with their guns raised.

Though he was stopped when something hit his bowler hat. "Huh?" He grabbed of what appears to be a banana peel. Letting out a growl, he tossed it aside and turn to whoever threw that peel, but his eyes soon wided when the assailant then dropped down on him, face-first.

The Assailant being Sun Wukong.

After Sun leaped from the container and dropped on Roman to the head, he rolled up and took out his weapon - a dark red bō staff. "Hopeless, huh? Don't be so sure just yet!" He smirked as he readied himself for a fight.

Still on the ground, Roman glared at the monkey boy as he slowly got up. Then several white fang members were surrounding him. "You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you, kid?"

With that, the white fang members charged at him. Sun hit one of them with his staff as he quickly dodge a sword swing from another member from behind, he then hit him to the face with his tail followed by a kick to the chest.

"Haha!" Sun let out a laugh before rolls out of the way of one's sword then uses his staff to swipe their feet up into the air and knocking them down. Two white fang gunners open fire, but Sun successfully blocked some of them out of his way with his staff.

When they were out of ammo, he charged in, sending a punch on one of the gunner, a kick to the stomach to the second gunner, then using his staff to knock them both down.

Blake peers around the corner of the container to watch Sun taking down the members with ease. She was then interrupted when she heard a cry by her right. A mace was going to smash her, but she quickly ducked and rolled out of the way.

She look back and see one of the black hooded faunus - this one being the one with the lizard tail. He wasn't alone as two white fang members armed with dual swords were by his side.

Blake readied her gambol shroud before dodging another attack from the lizard Faunus. She parried an attack from one of the dual swords before kicking him back and unsheathes her weapon to its katana form.

She then strikes the white fang member two times to the chest. She dodge another dual sword attack with the backflip and then transform her weapon to gun form. She shot at the second member three times. Two of the shots parried by the blades while the third one hit their forehead, knocking them down.

The hooded lizard Faunus went in for another attack and determined that he will take a hit on her. However, Blake uses her clone semblance and backflipped just as the lizard Faunus hit the clone.

Blake stood back up and switch her weapon to another mode. The Lizard Faunus recalled what just happened before his weapon came into contact with a black rope. Blake tried to disarm him by pulling the mace away from him. However, the Lizard Faunus was stronger as he kept a tight grip on his mace.

They went on a brief tug of war before the lizard Faunus thought of an idea. He kept one hand holding his mace, while his other hand grabbed the rope. Gathering his strength, the Faunus managed to pull and launch Blake at him and was going to lend a punch to her face.

Blake came in prepare and used her clone to block out the punch as she leaped into the air from the Mace, but the lizard Faunus grabbed a hold of one of her legs and threw her to one of the containers.

Blake let out a grunt while crouching on her feet. She looked up and saw that the Faunus raised his Mace at her. She braised for the impact, but instead of a hard thud hitting her, she heard three gunshots followed by a painful scream.

"AGH! MY LEG!"

She look back and saw that the Lizard faunus was on his knees, grasping at his now-bleeding left leg as his Mace was laying on the ground. This gave her an opportunity as she got up and send a kick to his lower jaw, knocking him to the ground. Still conscious, but wounded.

Blake wondered how did he ended up like that, until she remembered the three gunshots that she heard.

Just then she hears footsteps that was coming to her. She turned around and saw a familiar face.

Hartmann had just arrive in time when the fighting started. He was already equipped with his strange looking gun in hand, which she saw that the barrel was smoking, implying that he must've fired his gun at the Lizard Faunus and injured him.

"Blake! I cannot believe i found you." He said, gratefully.

"Hartmann?" Blake questioned. "What are you doing here?"

"I heard the explosion by the city and came to help. We thought it might have done something between you and the dust robbers."

"We?" Blake raised an eyebrow.

"Oh yes, Ruby heard it too. She will be here soon enough. But i am here and ready to help."

Blake didn't expect that she was the one to be found by her friend and teammates, which means that she's gonna deal with Weiss sooner or later. But that doesn't matter right now. The white fang and Roman has to be dealt with and they won't get away with it.

With that, she give him a nod. "Okay, i'll go and help Sun while you take care of the rest of the members carrying the dust." Hartmann look to the fight at the center and see the 'Sun' person that Blake talked about, which he remembered that it's the Monkey thief from yesterday.

"Right, i am on it."

"Just one thing. Does that gun of yours penetrate Aura that fast?" Blake asked while looking back at the wounded Faunus, which she knew that Hartmann did it giving the fact that his barrel was smoking.

He nodded. "Yeah. It has some powerful dust in it."

"Well whatever you do, try not to kill them, please. They may be criminals, but they don't deserve death." She said.

"Okay, i will try. Good luck."

Blake and Hartmann then split up. The former is going to deal with Roman and help Sun, while the latter will deal with the remaining stragglers carrying the dusts. Hopefully he has enough firepower to do it by himself.

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Back at the fight, Sun used his staff to disarm one of the swordsman, yanking the sword into the air before hitting him to the face and kicking him down. He turned around as another one of those hooded Faunus went in to attack.

This time it's the shorter female cat faunus, armed with double sickles.

The cat Faunus strikes at him, launching two blows to the monkey boy's chest. Sun was able to dodge one of them, but the other sliced his chest area, making his Aura sparkle. Sun let out a grunt before evading a third slash by ducking.

He then used the tip of the staff and hit her hard to the stomach. He counter-attacked by giving her heavy blows to the face before backflipping behind her. He used his staff to swipe her legs into the air and sending a powerful kick to her back.

The kick launched her towards Roman, the latter quickly evades as the Faunus hit the ground hard.

The crime boss growled in annoyance when 10 of the members were taken down easily by the monkey rascal. With that he took out his cane and fired a shot at him. Sun defend himself by blocking the shot with his staff, which then let out a brief amount of smoke when it hits.

When the smoke evaporates, Blake lands infront of sun and leaps into the action.

"He's mine!"

Blake goes in as she slashes with both of her blades at Roman, who backs away and deflects each of the blow with his cane at unbelievable speed. The two continued to exchange blows and slashes from their weapons as Blake kept using her clone semblance to evade any of Roman's attacks.

Blake tried to find another weak spot to jab him, but was struck by a few bullets to the legs. A white fang member was assisting Roman as the latter smirks, then jabs her to the side. He lands a few more hits on Blake until one final beating with his cane, causing her to go down.

Roman gave a quick thumbs up to the gunner before turning back to his other opponent. However the latter was quick enough to kick him to the chest, then his disconnected his staff, revealing two red nunchuks with barrels retract partially with the grip.

Sun fired a fire dust round at Roman, the latter deflecting it with his cane, which then sun tried to hit him with the other butt of the nun-chunk, but was also deflected. Sun continued to do the rapid series of shots and blunts to Roman as he was also aiming at the white fang members that are coming at him.

He manage to use one of the gun-chunks and fired a round at them. Enough to knock them down. When done, he used the blunt part at Roman.

When Roman begin to worn out from all the blocking, Blake got up just in time to move beside sun and knock Roman back to the ground. The duo took down the criminal for now, but the fight wasn't over yet.

The hooded cat Faunus got back up, accompanied with 8 white fang members that recovered - all of them with their weapons ready. Blake and Sun exchange brief looks before rushing at the white fang members for another can of whoop-ass.

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Elsewhere at the docks, a firefight was happening. Hartmann saw a few white fang members loading up the dust as fast as they could. Then one of them spot the german hiding by that container, and with that two of them bring out their guns and fire at him.

Hartmann tried to return fire, but he was outgunned 2 to 1. Everytime he went for a peek, bullets flew straight at them, one bullet even manage to hit his cheek.

He tried blind firing, but he wasn't sure if any of the bullets hit them, neither he wants to waste them. He then remembered that he brought a few grenades.

He took one of them and thought of throwing it to deal with the gunners, however he hesitated. Blake said to try and not kill the members, and he was afraid that if he uses the grenade, the damage might be too far that it would penetrate the Aura and kill them.

Though he didn't want to stick around here too much and let the white fang take all the dust. So he hoped for the best, that their Aura would be enough to protect them from the blast.

Hartmann waited until the gunners ran out of ammo. Moments later, he heard a click, which means one of them ran out. He quickly pull the pin, getting out of his cover and threw the grenade at their position.

When the white fang gunners were reloading, the grenade landed between them. Both stared at it in confusion.

"The hell is this?" One of them tried to pick it up.

The other gunner's eyes wided when they realized it's a grenade. "It's a nade, you fool! Run!"

Both of them tried to run away, but were too late as the grenade exploded, throwing them to the ground with a hard thud.

When Hartmann heard the explosion, he quickly went over to the downed Faunus gunners, hoping that they're still alive. As he got there, he checked for any injuries until he hears several groans of pain. They're still alive.

He sighed in relief. Top of that, there isn't that many major injuries on their bodies, just dirt and their aura flickering like crazy.

This is a good sign that he can use the grenades without needing to kill anyone.

Hartmann continued on and stop the remaining White Fang members that are by the back of the docks. Since most of them had melee weapons on, it was easy picking to him. All he had to was shoot their legs or arms.

He used the grenades on a group of them, the results having a few knocked out or escaped from the blast.

When he was checking for more hostiles, he was suddenly lunged from the side by an attacker. It was yet another one of the hooded Faunus.

Hartmann dropped his gun as he roughly landed to the ground. The attacker, now on top of him, bring out his fist to try and punch him after. Luckily Hartmann was fast enough to evade as the fist hit the ground.

The Faunus retracted his fist, rubbing the pain away. This gives Hartmann the chance to escape his grasp. So he headbutted the Faunus to the face, making the latter to step back.

Hartmann backed away, quickly getting up and franticly searching for his gun. When he found it and was going to get it, two bullets stopped him. The Faunus had recovered as he had his hood open - revealing his panther-like ears. He took out a pistol in which he fired the two rounds that stopped Hartmann from getting his gun.

The Panther Faunus fired more rounds at the German. The latter didn't manage to get his gun as he had to evade the bullets. He even pulled out his sword so he could block the incoming bullets.

But the thing is, he wasn't that experienced on doing it.

Everytime he tried to block the bullets, they always past him and manage to hit him. He got hit a few times to the chest, shoulders, one time at the head, even near his crotch. Every hit caused the Panther Faunus to smile in satisfaction.

However, Hartmann stood his ground and even manage to block some of the bullets. That or he is just lucky when swinging his sword everywhere.

The Panther Faunus kept smiling before it faded when his gun was out of ammo. Seeing that the Faunus stopped shooting, Hartmann make haste to his MP40. The former noticed that he was going for the gun, decides to get there first.

The Faunus manage to pick up the MP40 and aim it at Hartmann. The latter stop dead at his track, as he slowly step back.

"This ends now, human!" The Panther faunus smirked before pulling the trigger.

As he did it though, he wasn't prepared for the recoil.

Shooting the MP40 caused the Faunus to lose his balance as the gun aimed everywhere. Only able to fire about 10 to 13 bullets, the Faunus stumbled himself down to the ground, dropping the gun in the process.

Hartmann, managing to avoid all those shots, went over and pick up the gun.

Meanwhile the Panther Faunus recalled of what just happened. When he fired that gun, the recoil manage to knock him back in only a few bullets. This wasn't possible. He had trained using firearms ranging from pistols to assault rifles. Yet the SMG from that human send him to the ground, like if he was a newbie firing a gun.

He tried to get up, but his hand was then shot two times, draining his Aura fast. He grunted in pain and looked up, only to see the butt of the SMG as it hit him hard to the head, knocking him out.

Hartmann finally took down the panther Faunus. He let out small pants and went to check on his Aura level. It was bad.

Due to him getting so many times by the pistol rounds, his Aura is now on the yellow zone.

He needed to be more careful now or else it'll be game over for him when his Aura drains. Which means CQC won't be an option anymore.

While moving around the containers, he saw glimpse of the fight by the center. Blake and Sun were fighting against one of the hooded Faunus with double sickles, along with 5 melees and 3 gunners.

They seem they can handle themselves against the enemies. So Hartmann just had to focus on dealing with the rest of them.

He then arrived to another section and saw five more members. Two of them being the hooded Faunus, both sporting Grey. When they were taking out their weapons, Hartmann fired his MP40 and hit two of the members. Injuring one of them in the process.

The hooded ones took cover as the grunts engage Hartmann in a firefight

One of the hooded Faunus, which is a rabbit, peeked at their hiding spot while growling at the Human with the gun that penetrates aura that fast. "We have to deal with him...but how?" She said.

"I think i know." said the other hooded Faunus, a dog-eared faunus. He took out his bag and search for something in it, confusing the rabbit girl He took out a cylindrical object of what looks to be a smoke grenade, but the colors in the nade were a mix of blue and red.

"What's that?" The rabbit faunus asked.

"It's one of those 'Hallucination grenades' i found at the dust stores. Pretty rare. If i remember it will ignite of whatever type of dust in it that could cause hallucination, leaving them confused and possibly vulnerable." The dog faunus explained.

"You think that will work?"

"Hope so." He waited when the firefight was done. He was taken aback from an explosion that erupt by the grunts' position. That's where he noticed that the Human was reloading his weapon, giving him the chance.

The Faunus pulled the pin and threw the grenade at him.

Hartmann finally took care of the grunts. He lightly panted as he was reloading another mag in his gun. As soon as he loaded the mag, he heard a clink right next to his feet. Looking down, he saw a grenade, what appears to be a smoke one in his eyes.

He didn't had time to act as the grenade explodes. It engulfed him in a colorful smoke made up of various colors from the dust elements.

Usually Smoke grenades were used to block out the enemy's line of sight and was completely harmless. But that's not the case for this one. When Hartmann was engulfed in the colorful smoke, he was immediately suffering a painful headache.

Top of that, his eyes begin to sting like crazy. Somehow the dust smoke manage to penetrate his Aura and into his eyes. The stinging made his eyes to water, which furthers the pain even more.

He couldn't do anything. His thoughts hoping that this pain can stop as he kept crying in pain. He had to drop his gun by the side so he could use his other hand to cover his eyes and head.

The smoke was still engulfing him and he wanted out, but due to him covering his eyes from the stinging pain, he couldn't see a thing.

When seconds have passed, he couldn't feel the pain anymore. Either he walked out of the smoke or it has evaporated.

With that, he opened his eyes.

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The two Faunus stared at the Human as he was in the process of hallucinating, though the bunny Faunus felt impatient that it is going a bit slower than she expected. She really wants to kill that Human.

"How much longer?" She asked impatiently.

"Just give it a minute, Konin." The dog Faunus replied.

Konin let out a grumble and stayed by their spot, while having her dagger in the ready. The two then saw the human coming out of the smoke, both of his hands covering his eyes. Moments later he opened them and looked around.

Like what the duo expected, the Human looked around of his surroundings in panic and confusion, then starting to rub his eyes and shaking his head. He is hallucinating.

"I think it's working." Konin pointed out. She let out a smirk and starts to move out of the spot. "I'm going in, Dom." However she was stopped, when Dom put a hand on her shoulder.

"The fuck are you doing?"

"Killing the human. I'm gonna go over there and slit his throat. So get outta my way." Konin shoved Dom's hand away and ran to the Human with her dagger ready. Dom tried to protest but was unable to do so when Konin was already close to the Human.

He can hear her shouting, "You're dead meat!" as she starts attacking the Human with her dagger, in which he was evading.

Dom thought of helping her, but knowing Konin - she would be mad if he intervened. So he decide to stay out of it and let her handle it. With the Human hallucinating, Dom thinks Konin would take the Human out without a scratch.

Or so he thought.

While inspecting the bag of his, he heard five gunshots and it was followed by someone gasping for air. He quickly shifted to the fight and was met with a sight that appalled him.

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Hartmann couldn't believe what he is seeing now. When he opened his eyes, he expect to be back in the docks, seeing all the blue containers and the downed white fang members.

But all he saw were destroyed houses and debris everywhere. He was in a familiar environment just like he did in his dreams.

He was in Cologne, Germany.

But it does not make sense. How did he even get here? He wasn't even sleeping, he was in the middle of fighting! Did the gas caused him to collapse? It was answered when he pinched himself and didn't wake up.

He looked around in circles of his surroundings in utter disbelief. He truly was in Cologne. Why was he here all of the sudden? He tried to rub his eyes if he was seeing things, but he was still in Cologne.

This felt too real for him.

Hartmann suddenly heard fast footsteps that sounded like it was coming towards him. When he turned to the sound, his eyes wided when he saw an American soldier running straight at him with a knife in his hand.

"You're dead meat!" The soldier shouted raising his dagger to slash him.

Hartmann evade the slash as the soldier quickly turned around to him. He could see the smirk in his face, the intention of killing him. When Hartmann evaded another slash, he punched the soldier to the cheek. He then unsheathes his sword for a CQC fight.

Hartmann tried to slash back at him, but the soldier was very quick. Able to dodge many of his blows, while counter-attacking back with the dagger.

The German got strucked twice to the chest, letting out grunts. He was able to block more of the attacks though with the blade of his sword. But when he attacked, the soldier always dodges it.

The only solution he needed to defeat the soldier was with a gun, and then he eyed on his MP40 after. But first he had to incapacitate the Soldier first.

He had the opportunity when the soldier decide to charge at him. Hartmann evade the attack, whilst grabbing the arm with the dagger in a hard grip, stopping the soldier. Hartmann then elbowed the back of the neck and then threw him to the wall of a nearby house.

With the soldier incapacitated for a moment, Hartmann rushed to his MP40.

The soldier grunted as he was now really pissed at this German. He quickly got up and was about to charge at him again, but stopped when the German pointed his gun at him.

Hartmann had his aim on the soldier and he did not hesitate as he let out a burst of shots at him.

The bullets went through the soldier's chest. Blood was coming out of it after. The soldier was in shock, with blood then coming out of his mouth. He staggered and dropped down behind the wall. Gasping for air.

Hartmann walk to the soldier, now having his gun raised to his head. The soldier looked at him as he raised his arm, pleading for Mercy. But Hartmann won't allow it. The soldier would still die of blood loss from those shots, so he had to kill him.

He could've sworn he heard a faint shout, but it was echoed when he pulled the trigger.

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"NOOO!"

BANG

Dom was too late as Konin was shot to the head by the Human. He was appalled seeing Konin in that state, on the ground bleeding while pleading the Human. The latter did not accept it and shot her.

Konin's dead body slid behind the container, dropping to the ground. Blood was everywhere.

Dom stared at the body, still in shock of what happened. However it gradually changes from shock to anger to rage. His fist clenched as he turned to the Human. He pick up his weapon - a longsword, gripping it tightly.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He screamed on top of his lungs before charging straight to the Human, eyes focused on killing and maiming him for vengeance.

Unfortunately to him, the Human was alerted by his shout, quickly turning to him with his weapon raised. Dom did not get the chance to avenge his friend as he was shot to the head, the bullets penetrating his Aura and into his skull.

His body fell to the ground, as the last thing he saw before his eyes faded - was the body of his friend.

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Hartmann took care of the other American soldier that was charging straight at him. He inserted another mag on his gun, looking around if he could get out of this place. He doesn't want to be here. Not in this place.

He didn't think straight as he start running to wherever he is, with gunfire and explosions heard in the distance. It was never this intense before.

He can't tell if all of this is real or fake. But all he thinks is wanting to go back to Remnant.

He then stumbled upon an area where all of the gunfire and explosion was. There he saw several US soldiers firing at something that was out of his view. Not wanting to face them, he tried to walk away and hide. However, he slipped and fell to the ground on his back.

When Hartmann got back up, he saw that some of the Americans turned to him, known of his presence.

They raised their guns, prompting Hartmann to raise his own.

Then another firefight began.

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Blake and Sun were dealing with the hooded cat Faunus and the other white fang goons. The latter were already taken out with, and all that's left was the cat.

The Hooded cat tried to slash sun again with her sickles. Sun used his staff and parried one of the sickles and then whipping her to the face with it. The cat Faunus was then pulled by Blake's gambol shroud as the latter sends an elbow to the face.

She frees her weapon from her grasp as Sun finished it by heavy kick at the cat faunus' back, launching her away.

Meanwhile, Roman got up and looked at the fight. The white fang were losing against those two Faunus, making him to growl in frustration. Then he noticed a container hanging by a crane right above the two.

When they defeated the hooded cat Faunus, Roman aimed his cane at the container and fired to the supports.

Blake and Sun looked up just as the Container was coming down. Blakes leaps behind it, but Sun barely misses when he jumped forward, ending up right below the nazzle of Roman's cane.

Roman smirked, but as he was about to fire, a familiar shout was heard.

"Hey!"

Roman turned to the source to see a familiar crimson-haired girl, landing from a top of a roof. It was little red herself.

Ruby glared at Roman before extending her crescent Rose, ready to fight. "Roman..." She said.

"Well hello, Red." Roman waved, losing interest in the monkey boy. "We meet again. Isn't it past your bedtime?"

"Stop this right now, Roman!" Ruby demanded.

"A shame you've gone and ruined a nice, peaceful night." Roman spun his cane. "Well that's quite alright. We might as well...go out with a bang." He pointed his cane to the air after.

The two parked bullheads flew to the air with one more appearing in the horizon as they aimed their lights and guns at the two huntsmen and the monkey boy.

"Yikes..." Sun's jaw dropped from the reinforcements.

The third bullhead opened its doors as 8 more white fang members descend on to the ground. Weapons in the ready after they landed.

Blake, Sun and Ruby grouped to the center as they were surrounded by the white fang. Ruby turned to her teammate. "Oh, hey Blake. Finally found you."

"Well it's good to see you again, Ruby. But now it's not the time." The trio were outnumbered and outgunned by the white fang. They're not even sure if they could even get out of here.

"You girls think we stand a chance here?" Sun asked.

"Uh, no..."Ruby squeaked.

"'No' she says!?" Sun apalled. "But i don't wanna die here!"

Roman smirked seeing the kids surrounded by his men, with no way to go. As soon as the dust are handled, it'll be a victory for him. Much to his amusement, it had to be ruined when a shout was heard.

"Leave my friends alone!"

Everyone turned to where Penny was standing on top of a roof of the building, overlooking the scene. She gave Roman and the white fang a glare, something she hasn't done for a while. She was going to fight him and the white fang.

Roman raised his eyebrow, turning to the trio. "What's with that sassy lost child?" In which Sun being the only one to reply with a shrug.

However Ruby attempted to stop her. "Penny, what are you doing? Don't do this!"

"Don't worry, friend Ruby." Penny replied. "I'm combat ready!"

Just then her backpack opens up as she somehow pulls out a single sword without her hands. Said sword then extends and multiplies into several blades hovering over her back. Leaping from the rooftop, she sends three of her swords to knock out two white fang members while mid-air.

As she landed, she sliced a member to her right and then striking another one to the chest, launching them to a container.

Two swordsman charged at her, only for Penny to create a sword wheel, spinning then and hitting the two swordsman in the process.

"Take her out!"

Three gunners opened fire at her as Penny block all the shots by spinning her sword wheel. When they were out, Penny throw the wheel as it hit all three of the gunner simultaneously, the wheel then return to her like a boomerang.

"Woah!" Sun said, amazed. Where as Blake and Ruby were dumbfounded yet impressed on how she's able to combat all of them with ease.

Roman however gritted his teeth. "Somebody get rid of that girl!" He shouted to the bullhead pilots and the rest of the white fang members. The pilots obliged, turning their attention to Penny.

As Penny dealt with another member, she turned to the bullheads as they were readying the guns. Two of them opened fired. Penny merely forms the wheel while launching two more swords out of her backpack and into the wall behind her, which in turn pull the wielder back with their strings.

After that she starts to twirl her swords around. Pointing to a bullhead, the swords were building up a large glowing ball of green light. With a punching action, she fired a big laser into the bullhead's wing.

The laser destroyed it along with the whole bullhead itself. Debris fell to the docks as the nearby white fang members brace for cover.

Roman covers his eyes from the crash, seeing the bullhead destroyed, but the pilot was somehow ok, albeit majorly hurt. He frowned as it seems like the plan has foiled. All he has to do now is escape.

Ruby, Blake, and Sun noticed that all the white fang members were now focused on Penny, giving them the chance to fight back.

Blake and Sun went to deal with the rest of the members, while Ruby had her eyes focused on the fleeing Roman. She used her speed semblance and zoomed infront of him, cutting him off.

Roman stopped and glared at the girl. "You kids just keep getting weirder..."

Ruby pointed her scythe to him. "Give it up, Roman. This time i'm ready to fight you!"

"Sorry to burst your bubble, Red, but i'm feeling worn out right now." Roman then smirked. "Till we meet again."

Suddenly Ruby got shot to the shoulder from the back, followed by a smack to the jaw from Roman with his cane. The latter make haste to the bullhead where a white fang member with a pistol was waiting for him.

He was the one responsible for shooting Ruby in the shoulder.

"Thanks for the assist, Perry." Roman said before getting to the cockpit along with Perry.

The door closes as the Bullhead was ascending from the ground. Ruby got up, seeing the bullhead fleeing. "No!" She exclaimed, transforming her weapon to rifle form and starts shooting at the Bullhead. It did no effect.

The bullhead then flew away from the Port. Roman had escaped again.

Ruby was distracted from the fleeing Bullhead until she didn't notice that a few white fang members were charging at her. She changed her weapon to scythe form and sliced one of the charging members to the chest.

She then hit the other one with the tip of the handle, making him stagger. She twirl it around and sliced him. Quickly transforming it back to rifle form, Ruby took down the last two with ease.

Ruby walk over to Blake who was currently hiding behind a container after dealing with three white fang members that were already knocked out.

"Ruby, did you get Roman?" Blake asked.

"No. He escaped...again." Ruby said bitterly at the last part.

"Dammit." She cursed, before calming down. "We'll get him next time."

Ruby nodded in response. She then realized that Hartmann wasn't there with her. "By the way, have you seen Hartmann?"

"I did. He went to take care of the white fang loading up the dusts back there. We should check on him to see if he needs any help." Blake suggested.

"What about the rest of the white fang?" Ruby gestured over to the fight by the center.

"I'm pretty sure Penny can take care of it."

Ruby look back to the fight to see Penny forming a wheel from her swords and threw it to a bunch of white fang members, then turning her attention back to another bullhead. She destroyed one of it's wings with her laser as the bullhead came crashing down to a few containers, making them fall to the ground.

"Yeah..guess you're right." Ruby said.

Sun comes to them, panting. "Man those guys were tough. So what do we do now?"

"Well we're gonna find our friend and-" Blake stopped when she saw something behind the monkey boy. "Uh, Sun..."

"What?" Sun turned around. "Oh you gotta be kidding me..." He said incredulously.

The hooded cat Faunus with the double sickles stood behind Sun, glaring at the Monkey boy. She had been beaten by him twice in a row, but she is still standing. Now quite apoplectic at him.

"It's not over yet, Monkey!" She shouted, readying her sickles.

Sun prepared his staff, before turning to Blake and Ruby. "You guys find that friend of yours, i'll deal with this Pussycat." Blake and Ruby nodded, leaving Sun alone to face off the cat faunus yet again.

"Alright, Jennipurr. Time for round 3?" Sun taunted.

"MY NAME IS NOT JENNIPURR!" 'Jennipurr' shouted as she charged at Sun.

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Blake and Ruby make their way to the backside of the docks. They passed by several white fang members that were on the ground, injured. Hartmann must've been here minutes ago.

They even encountered one of the hooded faunus that was knocked unconscious with a huge mark on his face.

"Dang, he really took a toll on him'" Ruby said, looking at the downed Faunus

"He must be near. Come on." Blake gestured at her team leader to follow her.

"I'll take point this time." Both girls continue to press on with Ruby running as fast as she can, unknowingly that she was ahead of Blake for a few meters. Blake tried to catch up to her, but she was going too fast.

"Ruby...slow down." Eventually she did when Ruby turned to another corner. However Blake heard a gasp from her. When she finally catch up to her, she saw what caused Ruby to gasp as she reacted with her eyes wide.

They saw two of the hooded Faunus on the ground. But they weren't injured like the other Faunus.

In fact, they were dead. Completely lifeless, with their bodies on a pool of their own blood.

Blake saw used bullets on the ground right next to the dead Faunus'. This implies one thing. Hartmann had killed them.

"No..." She was appalled when thinking that Hartmann had killed these two Faunus, even when she told him not to.

Blake turn to Ruby as she had her hand covering her mouth, in shock. "Hartmann...did this?"

"I'm afraid so..." Blake admitted.

"But...why?" Blake can't seem to answer it. She don't know why Hartmann decides to kill them. They may be terrorists, but they don't deserve to die like that.

Just then several gunfire erupted not far from them. Judging by the sounds of the shots, it must be from Hartmann's weapon.

"That must be him! Come on, Ruby!" She nods back as they ran to where the gunfire is. Blake thinks this means Hartmann is engaging more of the white fang members and presumably killing them in the process.

She won't let that happen. They had to find him before he causes more deaths.

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Hartmann panted as he killed another American soldier with three shots to the neck. He had possibly killed over 10 of them, all in self-defense.

Though he didn't want to cause more bloodshed anymore. It just feels wrong, but he had to so he could live.

Hartmann couldn't take this anymore. He wants to get out of this hellhole.

He then heard more footsteps coming to him. He turned around and aimed his MP40 at two figures that were also American. He saw that the two were probably horrified of what he did to their comrades.

When the two soldiers turned to him, he immediately open fire. He was only able to fire 5 bullets when the gun clicked, implying he was out of ammo. When he saw the soldiers taking out their guns, he made a break for it and ran away.

"Wait stop!" Hartmann heard the shout from one of the soldiers, but he ignored it and kept running.

As he was running, he loaded another mag in the MP40. He stopped for a bit just to fire a few rounds at the pursuing Americans. The shot missed them but was enough to stop them for a bit.

The two soldiers kept calling at him to stop, but He didn't listen. The most surprising thing is that they somehow know him as they were calling out his name.

He felt confused on how were they able to know him, when they're not even German. It doesn't make any sense.

"Geh weg von mir! (Get away from me!)" Hartmann shouted in german, firing a few more rounds at them.

He had to keep running, fearing that the soldiers are gonna capture him and take him as a POW. When he turned to a corner, he throw one of the grenades in hopes that it would stall them.

Hartmann was then tackled to the ground as one of the soldiers manage to get to him with such speed. He retaliated by sending an elbow to the cheek, which freed him from their grasp as he then punch them back.

He scrambled over to pick up his mp40, getting up and pointing the gun at them. The other soldier arrived to assist their comrade, whilst pulling out a pistol - aiming it at Hartmann.

A standoff occurred between him and the two American soldiers. He still had his aim on the soldier with the pistol, the latter doing the same. Hartmann's fingers were itching on the trigger. However, neither parties were willing to shoot at eachother.

He caught a glimpse of the rifle soldier taking a step forward, in which he immediately turn his gun to them. "Bleib zurück! (Stay back!)" He shouted.

The two soldiers doesn't seem to understand what he was saying. Then the rifle soldier spoke. "Hartmann, please lower the gun." They said in a soft but higher voice, almost sounding feminine.

"H-How do you know my name?" He asked in their language. "What do you Americans want from me?" He demand.

The two soldiers shared confused looks at eachother. "What are you talking about? Don't you remember us?"

"What? I do not know what you are saying." Hartmann asked back, confused as ever as those two. However one of them was already fed up by this nonsense.

"This has gone far too long!" The soldier spoke out in a lower, but feminine voice than the rifle soldier. "Drop your weapon now, Hartmann. Or else i'll shoot!"

"Nein!" Hartmann shot a bullet near their foot, forcing them to step back as he kept his aim on them. "Just who are you two!?"

The rifle soldier replied. "It's me, Ruby! And that's Blake." She gestured to the other soldier. "We're your friends, Hartmann!"

"Blake..." Hartmann slowly lower down his gun when he heard those names. He remembered them as his two female friends back in remnant. "Ruby...?"

Suddenly, his head begin to hurt.

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Ruby and Blake stared at Hartmann, with Blake pointing her gambol shroud at him. He seems to be processing, remembering them when Ruby said their names.

Both were confused when he spoke in a language that was completely foreign to them. Not only that, but he also referred to them as these so called 'Americans'. They never heard of that word in their lives. Whatever it is, it probably is a nationality from a nation. But a nation called 'America' doesn't even exist in Remnant.

While they kept staring at Hartmann - he suddenly let out a cry of pain, staggering back with a hand on his head.

Seeing he is in the need of help, Ruby approached to him. "Hartmann?"

However, when Hartmann look to Ruby, he raised his mp40 with one arm. "Watch out!" Blake immediately pull Ruby away just when he pulled the trigger. She then goes in to disarm him.

Hartmann fired at Blake, the latter dodging the shots, until he was out of ammo. This gives Blake the chance as she then swiped the gun way before picking up by the neck area and pinned him to one of the containers.

Blake tried to subdue him, but he was resisting and fighting back as she expected. "Ruby, help me out!" Ruby quickly went to her side and helped on dealing with Hartmann.

With his arms pinned, there was no way for Hartmann to free himself, but alas he kept resisting. Even using one of his legs to kick them. "Lass mich gehen! (Let me go!)" He said, defiantly. Again with his language unfamiliar to both Ruby and Blake, but they kept their grip tight at him.

"Please, stop!" Ruby pleaded, but he kept resisting.

Blake gritted her teeth. "Snap out of it!" She then sends a powerful slap to his cheek, which echoed throughout the area. The slap had somehow stopped him as he wasn't resisting anymore.

Blake and Ruby exchange looks before deciding to give him space. Hartmann stood there for a few seconds, before he regained himself. He rubbed the bruise from the slap on his cheek and then covering his face for a moment, rubbing his eyes.

After that he turned to Ruby and Blake.

"What...happened?" Hartmann asked.

"Oh, thank goodness you're alright." Ruby gave him a quick hug, before pulling back after. "You were running away from us and even try to shoot us."

"Wait, what?" He was taken aback from it. "W-why would i do that?"

"You're forgetting the real question here." Blake intervened, glaring at Hartmann. "Why did you kill them?"

"Them?"

Blake forcefully grab Hartmann's arm as she was bringing him elsewhere, with Ruby catching up after picking up Hartmann's gun. Blake brought Hartmann to one of the sections where she then pointed at three dead white fang members that he had killed. Their bodies were laying in their own pool of blood.

Hartmann was stunned from seeing the dead bodies. Ruby took a glance at it with a disgusted look after.

"What happened to them..?" He asked, still stunned.

"You did!" Blake exclaimed. "You killed them yourself, even when i told you not too!"

Hartmann was in disbelief at the thought of him killing those white fang members in cold blood. But he swore he did not remember doing it. "I...i didn't know i killed them."

"How could you not know of something you have done!?" She retorted.

"I was only defending myself against the Americans." He responded, but that comment raised more questions at the girls. It was then he realized he said something that is completely foreign to them.

"Americans? Hartmann. What are you talking about?" Ruby said.

Before Hartmann was going to answer, they heard the sound of police sirens coming towards the docks. They look to the front gate as dozens of VPD police cars appeared. The officers came out of their vehicles as they rushed to the docks with their weapons ready.

They were looking amongst the destruction where the three bullheads were destroyed, containers falling from their spots, along with the knocked out white fang members.

Ruby, Blake, and Hartmann raised their arms when the cops were pointing their guns at them. However, the chief told them to lay down their weapons as he goes over to the three huntsmen, then bringing them in for some questioning.

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Ten minutes have passed. Ruby, Blake and Hartmann were sitting near some boxes in silence, letting the VPD to do the rest of the work. They have not exchange any conversations.

Sun came back after dealing with that hooded cat Faunus, in which he had beaten her for the third time. He taunted the cat - pissing her off as the VPD arrests her. Along with her hooded buddies, that being the injured lizard Faunus and the panther Faunus.

The surviving white fang members were also being arrested and taken away by the VPD.

The term Surviving refers to the ones that are alive, and that is because a few ambulances came in to the scene to pick up the dead white fang members as they were loaded up in the body bags. Sun asked Blake what happened, which she replied bitterly that Hartmann killed them. Sun felt a bit shocked after.

Ruby, Blake, and Sun stared at Hartmann, the latter stared at the floor, in silence. Blake got up from the crate and was about to talk to him, however she was then lunged to the side by someone. And that someone was her partner - Yang.

"Blake!" She said before lunging her to the ground. "I'm glad you're still in one piece!" She hugged her tightly, indicating of how much she missed her. Even thought it only been like 24 hours.

"Cool your jets, Yang." Blake replied. "I'm sorry."

"Darn you for making me worry like that!" She exclaimed, still hugging her by the ground. Ruby find it cute seeing her sister acting like that, but Blake felt uncomfortable from it.

"Yeesh, why you always be that dramatic, Yang?" They all heard Weiss' voice as Blake saw her standing infront of her and Yang. The Heiress stared at the Faunus with her hands on her hips.

Ruby, thinking this might escalate to an argument, tried and quickly explain to her. "Look, Weiss. It's not what you think. Please listen, okay. She explain the whole-"

"It's fine, Ruby. I can speak for myself." Blake cut her off, getting up to Weiss' eye level. Blake felt nervous for a moment, but regained her composure and letting out an exhale. "Weiss...I know you might not believe me, after all of this. But i want you to know that i'm no longer part of the white fang, anymore. I'm.."

"No. I do believe you. When we were searching for you for about twelve hours, i had the time to think. And in those twelve hours i decided that...I don't care." Weiss responded, causing Blake to raise her eyebrow.

"You don't care?"

"You just said you weren't part of them anymore, right?"

"Well, I haven't been since-"

"I don't want to hear it." Weiss silenced her, putting a hand infront. "All i want to say is that if something big like this comes up, you do it properly. Meaning no more disappearing acts and not talking to...someone else." She eyed at Sun, the latter waving at her, before turning back to Blake. "Instead, you come to us and talk things out since we're a team."

A brief silence occured before Weiss continued. "But...i also said some things i shouldn't have. For that...i'm sorry." She apologized.

Blake let out a smile as she nods. "Of course. Thank you." Weiss smiled aswell.

"I guess team RWBY is back together!" Ruby announced, raising one of her arms in the air.

"Right you are, sis. Now let's go back to Beacon." Yang suggested.

"No, not yet." Blake said, turning serious. "There still one more thing we should investigate. And it involves him." Blake turned to Hartmann after. Ruby knew what she meant, letting out a sad frown.

"Hartmann?" Weiss raised an eyebrow. "What about him? What did he do?"

"When we were fighting the White fang...he killed a few of them." Ruby explained.

"What!?" Yang and Weiss exclaimed in unison. "He wouldn't do that!" Weiss argued.

"Oh, but he did. Just take a look." Blake said, gesturing to the ambulance beside their spot. Weiss and Yang saw paramedics putting the dead white fang members in the bodybags, then placing them to the ambulance.

When the cops discovered those dead bodies, they were questioned from the chief if they killed them on purpose. To not cause anymore confrontation, Blake had to lie that those white fang members fought viciously and desperately that they continued on even when their aura is off, which forces the first years to kill them in self-defense.

The Heiress covers her mouth while the blonde was fazed seeing the dead bodies caused by their friend.

"Gods...i can't believe it." Weiss said.

"And that's not all." Blake continued. " When we were chasing after him, he was speaking in a language that we don't know. Top it all, he called us this foreign word. Americans."

"What the hell is American?" Yang asked.

"My guess is that is some sort of Nationality. But there was never an 'American' in Remnant's history."

"Maybe it's something related in Vacuo?" Ruby theorized. "He is from Vacuo after all."

"That's not true." Sun spoke out, standing up from the box he was sitting as the team of girls turned to him. "I was born in Vacuo before i was sent to Mistral, and i swear to you all that i have never heard of this 'American' word you're talking about in all my life in the kingdom. Not even once."

"If American is not something in Vacuo, then what is it supposed to be?" Weiss asked.

"Well we're gonna find out." said Blake before heading towards Hartmann.

When he was sitting down by the crates, he eavesdrop the conversation they had about when he spoke in his own language and when he called them 'Americans'. He realized how he had fucked up. He had blown his cover.

"Hartmann." He looked up to see Blake infront of him, with a glaring look.

"Yes?" He respond, tentatively.

"You owe all of us an explanation." Blake inches closer. "Where are you really from?"

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Cliffhanger!

Yeah, had to end it there since it fits. So anyways that was the fight scene at the docks. I took some inspiration from other ww2 themed books where the protag is exposed that they're not in Remnant and then used my creativity to make something new.

And like i said before, the next chapter is gonna be the finale of this book. A year of writing has come to this moment.

Anyways, tell me your thoughts of the fight and all the stuff in this chapter. 

See you all in the finale!