All Ghillied Up

The camera slowly moved itself across the map, away from the place where the previous one took place. It stopped on a certain place on the map. The one that some of the audience knew very well.

Oobleck was the first one to say what this place was, "Mountain Glenn."

"Oh, so we already are moving to another location." Port stated.

"They already took care of Cinder. There was nothing keeping them in that village." Goodwitch pointed out.

"Or we can get some new characters." Summer guessed.

The map suddenly started to change into a more eldery style. It started to look like a very old map that someone would find in it's grandpa attic or basement.

It was when a name showed up on the left side of the screen.

Lt. Xiao-Long

22nd Beacon

Mountain Glenn

5 years ago

"So, it's a flashback mission?" Jaune asked B who gave him a quick thumbs up, confirming it.

"And we're playing as me, now?" Yang asked.

"Is it going to show why Yang knows Sienna?" Ilia assumed.

Yang's spoke up, "I was just a "Leftenant" back then...doing some wetwork."

"Is this a spelling mistake? I believe it should spelled Lieutenant." Ironwood pointed out.

"Nope. It's not a mistake. That's simply how Brits pronounce Lieutenant." B explained.

"Brits?" Winter asked.

"A country in my world." B answered.

The camera moved to the side and it showed the audience four different photos of different things, just a second after a large building covered the entire screen, "Mountain Glenn. Christmas for the bad guys." The photo was changed, this time it showed everyone a computer-like machine, "Even a decade later, lot of them still used it to get their hands on nuclear material..."

At the mention of nuclear material some of the audience flinched, knowing what it was capable of after what happened to Penny, Winter and other marines, which B didn't failed to notice.

Ruby asked him, a bit nervous, "Nuclear material? Was a nuke dropped there as well?"

"No." B shook his head.

"Then what happened there?" Blake raised her brow.

"I'll explain it to you in a moment." B told her.

The photo was changed once again, this time it showed them a a warning sign with some strange sign, as Yang continued, while the photo was changed again, and it showed the audience no other than Sienna Khan, "A lot of 'em...including one, Sienna Khan."

"And here I am." Sienna stated, noticing that she still didn't had her arm on this story.

"It appears that I was right about this mission showing how you and Yang met each other." Ilia said.

"I can already tell that It is not going to be a pleasant story." Ghira stated.

Another photos started popping onto the map as Yang continued, "Of course we couldn't just let that happen. Cash for spent fuel rods? That's one hell of a recipe for destruction. It was the first time our government had authorized an assassination order since the Second World War... I was under the command of Captain Branwen..."

The screen slowly faded to black.

"Captain Branwen?" Tai titled his head.

Qrow looked at his sister, "So, it is you or me."

"It's going to be me, obviously." Raven shrugged her shoulders,

"Why do you think it's going to be you?"

Raven gestured towards towards the flask in her brothers hand, "They were send to do an assassination, and I doubt he'd be more to do it while being drunk."

"That makes sense." Winter stated, while Qrow groaned at the mention of his drinking habit again, "And he already made an appearance."

"It is a flashback mission." Ren pointed out.

Blake nodded her head in agreement, "It can show how he ended up as the one leading the next missions."

"Please be uncle Qrow, please be uncle Qrow..." Yang kept repeating this sentence in her mind.

An inscription saying "5 years ago appeared on the screen" after a moment.

And the next thing the audience saw was that Yang was crouching in the grass. She pulled out a suppressed M21 sniper-rifle as a familiar male voice spoke up on the screen, "Too much radiation. We'll have to go around."

"Yes!" Yang cheered that it was her uncle, not her mom, "Uncle Qrow!"

Qrow turned to Winter and Raven, "What were you saying, both of you?"

Winter and Raven simply rolled their eyes.

"Radiaton? What is it?" Pyrrha asked, voicing the question that appeared in the minds of some of the people in the audience.

"Radiaton is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium." B explained to her.

"I recall you mentioning this radiaton when you were explaining to us about one situation when nuke was used in your world." Ozpin said, recalling B mentioning it earlier.

"Was a nuke dropped on Mountain Glenn?" Port asked.

"No. It wasn't." B shook his head.

"What happened there?" Goodwitch asked.

"A nuclear reactor accident. In it occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the number 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat." B started explaining.

"Chernobyl? Pripyat?" Ren raised his brow.

"Pripyat is the name of the place that this mission shows you as Mountain Glenn." B answered.

"What is a nuclear reactor?" Weiss was the next one to ask him a question.

"It is formerly known as an atomic pile. This is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants, like the one at Chernobyl, for electricity generation and in nuclear marine propulsion." B replied.

"How bad this accident was?" Winter asked. She already knew that it wasn't going to be anything pleasant, especially after the mission with a nuclear explosion,

"It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history. Over 300.000 people had to be displaced from their homes. They were told it was was going to be temporary and it is still forbidden to return." B explained, making Winter's and many other people in the audience eyes go wide at the number of the people that had to abandon their home because of this accident.

"Was it really that bad?" Watts asked, looking rather intrigued by it.

B sighed, ''Believe me, It was that bad that the suits of those poor firemen that went to extinguish the fire of the power plant, unaware what they were getting themselves into, because everyone thought that it was impossible for a reactor like this to explode are still in the basement of the hospital they were taken to, and they're still dangerously radioactive to this day, even though it happened over thirty years ago."

"Over thirty years ago?" Sun shouted with wide eyes, suprised that the suits could be still dangerous after so many years.

"What happened to the firemen you mentioned?" Kali asked.

B sighed, "They died. In an unimaginable pain. Their bodies had to be burried in special coffins, that were flooded with concrete."

Kali covered her mouth with her hand and looked up at her husband who actually looked disturbed by this.

B continued as everyone continued to listen to him, "Many books were written about this accident, and they also recently made a TV show about it. They did a really good job on showing how tragic this catastrophe was. It made me feel so uneasy during certain moments, like when they were showing those firemen in the hospital and how their state was getting worse with each day they spent there." B explained as some rather disturbing images of what could have happen to those firemen appeared in the head of the audience, "This show made me keep by HBO subscription after the kick in the balls that was the last season of Game of Thrones."

"The kick in the balls? Was it really that bad?" Neo asked him.

"Believe me little Neo, you don't want to start talking about how much majority of fans, myself included hated that season." B told her as he turned back to the screen, "Let's go back to watching."

Qrow slowly raised from the ground and made a gesture to Yang to follow him, "Follow me, and keep low." He began making his way through the field and followed him, "Careful...there's pockets of radiation all over this area. If you absorb too much, you're dead."

Yang proceeed to follow her uncle for a moment as they made their through the small shack. Qrow stopped right in the entrance to that shack, and pointed towards two faunus soldiers ahead of them, "Contact. Enemy patrol dead ahead. Stay low and move slowly, we'll be impossible to spot in our ghillie suits."

Yang and Qrow slowly layed themselves on the ground and began crawling towards the faunus soldiers.

"Is this mission about Yang being stealth?" Weiss asked. Yang being stealth? This was something she wasn't excepting to see.

"It will be interesting to see." Blake stated, making Yang roll her eyes about their comments.

"Take one out when the other's not looking." Qrow told his niece.

Yang aimed his sniper-rifle at one of the faunus, listening to the conversation these two had, unaware that they were being watched. She waited for the perfect moment until the other will turn around. When he finally did, she pulled the trigger and ended the faunus life, while her uncle took care of the other one.

"Good night. Move." Qrow said as the rose back to their feets. They made their way over to another shack and Qrow leaned his back against it, before looking back at Yang, "Hold up. There's more cover if we go around." They moved around the shack and started making their way around the house that was nearby. Qrow stopped in front of the window and took a quick glance to see who was in the house, "Four tangos inside. Don't even think about it."

Yang took a quick glance as well. She saw four White Fang soldiers playing some sort of card game inside the house, and a dog sleeping on a couch.

Yang shrugged her shoulders, "If I had my semblance in this, I'd beat them without a problem."

Qrow moved along the path until he reached the edge of the wall of this house. He took a quick glance around the surroudings and saw one faunus standing next to a destroyed car, "Wait there. Tango by the car. Take him out quietly, or just let him pass. Your call."

His niece's response to it was quick. She aimed her rifle at this faunus and took him out with a single shot in the head.

Nora laughed, "What else would I be excepting from Yang?"

"You wouldn't want to wait for him to pass as well, Nora." Ren pointed out.

Nora smiled at him and shrugged her shoulders.

"Move up." Qrow said as he moved out of his cover. They started making their way through this rather small village, if anyone could call it one. The only buildings the audience could spot there was a house which Qrow and Yang just passed, a few shacks and a church. They hopped over a fence and took their cover behind a tree as Qrow spoke up again, "Don't move. We've got a lookout in the church tower..."

Yang took a better look at the church tower and that there indeed was a single faunus on a lookout as her uncle added, "...And a patrol coming from the north. Let's move up for a better view." They left their cover and layed down on the ground, "Do you have a shot at the lookout?"

She aimed her rifle at the faunus in the tower and held breath before executing him with a shot in to the head. She then turned her attention to the other faunus who was currently standing in front of a blue car. She took him out as well to make sure he'd spot the bodies of the faunus she and her uncle took out.

"Go." Qrow said as they got back on their feet and moved towards the church.

"The faunus in the house going to aren't going to find the bodies?" Velvet asked.

Coco shrugged her shoulders, "Yang and Qrow are probably going to be long gone when that happens."

Yang and Qrow made their way into the church, the latter making sure to open the door quietly. They walked through the church, or rather what was left of it. The walls were flithy and were filled with holes, there were only a few benches there, and the doors to the other entrance were missing. Qrow leaped against the wall, next to the doors and made sure that there was no one inside.

"The coast is clear." Qrow said as they walked out of the church into what appeared to be a small cementary. They reached the fence when they heard a familiar sound in the sky, "You hear that?"

Ruby titled her head to the right, "Is that a helicopter?"

"Helicopters like to search for Yang, do they?" Sun laughed, recalling one of the earlier missions where they were chased by the helicopter during the night.

Qrow pointed upwards as he declared, "Enemy helicopter, get down!" The hid themselves in the bushes by the fence, as the sound of the helicopter approaching them was getting louder, until the aircraft finally appeared iny the audience view, "Stay in the shadows."

"Their suits do a very good job at hiding them." Ironwood said.

"I doubt that they would be able to avoid getting spotted by it if they didn't had them." Winter stated.

The helicopter flied away just a second later, allowing Qrow and Yang to leave their cover, "Let's go."

They moved out into a large field with tall grass and tress surrounding it. There was also a destroyed BMP away in the distance, but they didn't really paid much attention to it.

It was when they spotted a large convoy of the White Fang soldiers heading their way, which made Qrow immediately call out, "Get down." Yang did as she told to. They instantly got down and began crawling forward as the faunus and BMP in the convoy began approaching them, "Easy... There's too many of them, let them go. Keep a low profile and hold your fire. Try to anticipate their paths. If you have to maneuver, do it slow and steady, no quick movements."

They stopped crawling when they the White Fang faunus and BMP accompaying them were too close to them. They just layed on the ground, unmoving even an inch as the convoy began making it's way right next to them. There were a few situation when someone walked right next to Yang, and one of them actually was steps away from stomping on her if he didn't moved one step to the left.

"This is so tense." Ruby said.

"And stressful" Jaune added, not imaging how stressed he'd if he would find himself in a situation like this.

"Just imagine being in a situation like this." Sun stated, "One move and you'll caught."

"I would definitely be sweating a lot from the stress." Neptune agreed with him.

"I can only imagine what would happen if Qrow had his semblance in this." Summer stated.

Qrow shivered a bit at the thought of what could have happen to him and Yang, "I'd rather not to think about it."

"Oh, please, Qrow if this way you, then you wouldn't even be there in the first place." Raven stated.

"What do you mean by that?" Qrow glared at his sister.

"She means that you would too drunk to do that." Winter said.

Qrow rolled his eyes as he took a sip from his flask.

"Actually, they're right, Qrow." Tai said to Qrow, hating that he had to agree with Raven about something, "What would happen if you had kids? Would you still drink?"

"Actually." B spoke up as a certain quote from a certain TV show about a trailer park popped into his mind, "A wise man from my world once said that you can get drunk when you have kids, but you just need to get up in the morning. That's being responsible."

He glanced over at the audience and most of them were asking themselves why would a person who said something like this considered wise.

Qrow was one of the exceptions, "What is this guy's name?"

"Ricky." B answered.

"Ricky who?" Qrow raised his brow.

"Just Ricky." B replied, grinning behind his mask at the thought of the show Ricky was from. This TV show was stupid, vulgar, had low budget, showed pathological behaviour, and despise all of that, it showed a true friendship between the three main characters for which he loved this show so freaking much.

They convoy proceeded to move forward, unknowingly walking past Yang and Qrow who waited until it'll be in safe distance from them so they could keep moving.

When it finally seemed like it was safe for them to move forward, Qrow called out to her, "Ok, let's move. Nice and slow."

They didn't want to risk and didn't stand up immediately. They crawled for a moment, until it seemed like it was finally safe for them to walk again, without getting spotted by the convoy.

They made their way over to the pair of destroyed BMP where Qrow took a look around, "Looks like they've already eliminated the men they couldn't buy out."

Yang took a glance to see what he meant by that, and saw two the White Fang soldiers. The pair was taking lifeless bodies out of the back of the truck and throwing them to the ground.

"What else would we be excepting from them?" Coco asked, shaking her head.

"After they murdered the villagers in the last mission? Nothing honorable." Fox stated.

They carefully made their way over to the abandoned bulldozer where Qrow glanced around again, spotting another group of faunus sitting around a table inside a container.

"Taking 'em out without alerting the rest isn't going to be easy... but then again, neither is sneaking past them. Your call." He told Yang.

"What is Yang going to choose?" Miltia asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Melanie replied.

Suprisingly for everyone, Yang didn't took out the White Fang soldiers immediately after Qrow gave her a choice. Instead, they got themselves on the ground and began crawling their way out of this place, without getting spotted by any of the faunus in the area.

"That was... suprising." Blake stated, not excepting Yang to choose this, instead of already taking them out.

They crawled past an abandoned helicopter as they made their ways into the area that was filled with containers, with Qrow saying, "Move up."

They rose back to their feet and moved forward. They were stopped by the sight of a single faunus ahead of them. There wasn't any way they could walk past him without getting spotted and Qrow knew this.

"Stay low, he's mine." He told his niece as he moved towards the faunus, calling out to him, "Oi, Suzy!"

The guard turned back to look at Qrow after hearing him. Qrow ran up and meleed him unconscious with the back of his M21 before he could react.

Qrow turned back to her, saying, "That's how it's done, let's go."

"Uncle Qrow, you're so badass in this!" Ruby cheered for her uncle.

In response to that, Qrow smiled and chuckled, "Well, after all, Yang was the one who beat Cinder to the pulp in the last mission. She could have learn that from him."

Cinder sighed in frustation at the mention of this, still hating the fact that she was killed off so early.

Yang joined her uncle, walking past the unconscious body of the faunus. They moved past another container, before something made Qrow stop again, "Hold up. Wait here. We should wait a bit, let's see if the guard makes another pass... Patrol coming this way, stay back."

He moved behind the shadows between the containers across Yang and hid behind the container next to Yang who remained in her place, hidden in the grass. The guard walked into a container in front of behind which Yang was hiding, leaving him in a vulnerable position for Qrow who used the advantage of his position. He pulled out his silenced pistol and shot the faunus right in the head.

"Forward area clear." He stated. They left their covers and moved forward, but only managed to take a few steps as he spotted another White Fang soldier. Yang looked in the direction he was looking at and saw a single faunus sitting on a chair, with his back facing them. Her uncle turned away from him and gestured towards an opened container in front ofo them, "This way go."

They heard a helicopter flying above them when they made their way from another container to another. The exit from the other container was shut by a pair of doors, which were slowly opened by Qrow, so he and Yang could have take a look outside.

The duo saw something they wished they could have avoided. The area outside was filled with the White Fang soldiers, trucks, cars and there was also a helicopter there preparing itself to take off into the sky.

"How are they going to sneak past them?" Vernal asked.

"They can always wat for them to go which will surely take a lot of time, or they could have to try make a run for it." Roman shrugged his shoulders.

"A run for it? Even my brother knows it's too risky." Raven stated.

"It's a bloody convention out there. Get ready to move on my signal. Stay right behind me." Qrow said.

"Scratch what I just said." Raven stated. Her brother and daughter were really going to try it.

"Hold..." Qrow raised his right fist in the air for a second, "Ok, go."

They practically jumped on their feet from their crouching position and left their hiding place in the container. They ran for as fast they their legs could carry them, until they stopped between two cars in the middle of the convoy, just metres away from the helicopter.

Tai looked over at Qrow, "You really are crazy, you know that?"

Qrow smiled, "C'mon, Tai. I thought you know me."

"Once again, you're lucky enough that you don't have your semblance." Goodwitch stated.

"Let's go." Qrow told her as layed themselves on the ground and began crawling under the trucks, moving from one vehicle to another, "Let's go. There's a truck coming, we'll use it as cover. Keep moving."

The truck parked behind the truck they were crawling under at this moment. They crawled further in and Qrow sees another convoy arriving, watching how the enemy infantry exited their vehicles.

"Just wait here a moment. When they leave, crawl out and stay low.." He told his niece as they stopped crawling, "Patience...Don't do anything stupid."

They watched from underneath of the truck how the faunus slowly walked right past them, unaware of them being right under their nose.

"Standby. Standby... Go!" Qrow declared as they crawled out from underneath of the truck, and took a cover behind a car that happened to be standing nearby for a second, "Ready? Go!"

They left their new cover and sprinted forward away from the convoy into the area with many buildings in the background. They immediately knew that they made their way into the town. They quickly found a new cover behind a red container.

'That was risky." Ironwood stated.

"And crazy." Winter said.

"And super awesome!" Ruby shouted.

Qrow took a quick look behind him, stating, "No one saw us, let's keep moving. This way..."

The duo apporached a wall and stopped right behind it, so Qrow could once again take a look around his surroundings to make sure no one was going to spot, especially that they made their way this so far without getting spotted by anyone.

"Don't move." Qrow said, as he slightly leaned out from his cover, "Sniper. Fire escape, fourth floor, dead ahead. Take him out, or he'll give away our position."

Yang's response to it was quick. She came out of their cover and aimed his sniper-rifle at the sniper on the fourth floor of the building. He didn't had a chance to spot her. He was taken out with a single shot in his head, and his lifeless body fell from the balcony and went flying a few floors down.

"Beautiful. Move out. Go." Qrow said as they moved out from their cover behind the wall.

They walked over to the stairs, walking past the lifeless body of a sniper Yang just took down. made their way up the stairs to the first floor. They jumped through the shattered window into the apartament building. It was in a tragic state to say the least. Furnitures were scattered around, walls had holes and were flithy, there was some water on the floor, and the windows were missing.

They jumped through another shattered window and landed on the ground, barking and growling of a dog could be heard in the background.

"Don't let your guard down. We're not there yet." Qrow told his niece.

They moved through the area, walking past two abandoned cars, and a place which was most likely used to be a playground for children. They walked through the entrance of a building with overgrown plants reaching the second floor.

It was when they saw a single dog in the distance. There wasn't anything special about it at first, they heard it's barking and growling just a moment before, but some of them could feel their eyes widening in shock when they saw what this dog was doing.

"Wait a second. Is this dog?" Jaune asked, trying to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

"It's feeding on a dead body." Pyrrha stated, her eyes widening at the scenery on the screen.

Blake could feel herself getting more nervous. Not only there was a dog on the screen, but it was also feeding. On a dead body of a faunus. She could feel sweat going down her forehead.

"Blake?" Her mother called over to her, "Are you alright."

"Yes, mom." Blake assured her with a sheepish smile, "I'm okay."

"Stop. Leave it alone. It's a wild dog. Pooch doesn't look too friendly." Qrow stated.

"If any of are wondering what are wild dogs doing there, the owners had to abandon their animals during the evacuation of Pripyat." B explained.

Ruby gasped, "What? That's horrible!"

"I know." B said, hiding from her a fact that the animals were being killed to prevent the spread of radioactive materials.

"Keep your distance. No need to attract unnecessary attention." Qrow said.

They moved around the dog which barked and growled at them for a moment before going back to it's meal. They continued to move around until they reached a set of stairs which led them to a building. They walked forward through the hallway of the building they just walked into until they reached an entrance which led them to another set of stairs. They walked up the stairs which led them to a place which gave them a pretty good look at the abandoned areas of Mountain Glenn.

"Look at this place..." Qrow began, looking around, "Fifty thousand people used to live in this city. Now it's a ghost town... I've never seen anything like it."

"It just like Mountain Glenn on Remnant." Oobleck stated

Port sighed, "But with a more tragic history what led it to being abandoned."

Qrow and Yang walked down another set of stairs, just a second before the helicopter flied right in front of the building they were currently in. They walked over to another set of stairs and walked down them, which took them straight to the exit from the building.

They exited the building and spotted a hotel in the distance. They began heading towards it, with Qrow, saying, "There's the hotel. We should be able to observe the exchange from the top floor up there. Let's move."

It was the last thing the audience heard as the screen went to black.

"Wait? It's over already?" Coco asked.

"Let me guess, the next mission is going to show the second part of this flashback?" Weiss asked.

B nodded his head in confirmation as he asked them, "So, what do you think?"

"I can see why this mission is your favourite one in the entire story. I enjoyed it as well." Ironwood said.

"I agree. It was mostly focused about sneaking your way into the town, but it had a few moments that could make you hold your breath." Summer agreed with Ironwood.

"Like the part where Yang and Qrow were laying in grass while the White Fang are walking past them. It was really tense." Jaune stated.

"You think that part was tense? What about the part where they literally ran into the area filled with their enemies and had to crawl under vehicles?" Sun asked him.

"It also did a good job on showing the abandonment of Mountain Glenn." Blake added her part as well.

B nodded his head to their words, as he pressed his button, starting the second part of this flashback

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