No Russian

The mission began with an emblem of Task Force 141 spinning around with Jaune's name written underneath it. It remained as the main focus on the screen before it was moved aside and replaced a familiar map of Remnant appeared on the screen, the square pointing at the location where Ruby and Jaune infiltratated a base last mission.

"The rest of Task Force 141 brought in the ACS, Adel. Two people took down an entire base." Ironwood's voice sounded on the screen.

"And that was awesome." Sun stated.

"The snowmobile escape was such a good scene." Yang grinned, beginning to dream about doing the same stunts that her sister and Jaune pulled off with Bumblebee.

"I have to say, sneaking into a base while using the blizzard as a cover was very impressive." Ironwood added his part as well.

The map disappeared from the screen and another emblem which the audience was already familiar with at this point appeared on the screen. The emblem of Atlesian Specalists's with Coco's name written underneath it started spinning around.

"It appears that we're back to Miss. Adel." Oobleck observed.

"It seems that this mission will be about her starting her mission as a double agent in the White Fang." Port added his part to his friend's observaton.

"We might learn more about what happened to the White Fang after Sienna's death." Summer theorised, "The only thing we know about it right now is that it is currently controlling Menageries and that Taurus is most likely that took over the leadership after her death."

"I ask much more from you now." Ironwood continued to speak to the person to the person he was having a conversation with, presumably Coco, "Yesterday you were a soldier on the front lines. But today front lines are history. Uniforms are relics. The war rages everywhere. And there will be casualties."

The embled moved to the side to the screen before map once again popped into the screen. The camera started moving all around it, showing conflicts that have occurred in various locations in Remnant in the past and how many lives were lost during those conflicts.

Many people in the audience flinched at the view of how many lives were lost during the conflicts over the years, but decided to stay silence and continue to watch the intro to the next mission.

The camera started moving across the map and it stopped right above Kuo Kuana of Menagerie, starting to lower itself down on it towards one location to the exact. This location was Sienna's Khan International Airport.

Sienna titled her head to the side when she read what was on the screen. They named an airport after?

"Why they named an airport after her?" Nora voiced her thoughts.

"It makes sense, considering that she was labelled a hero by Menagerians." Weiss stated.

Winter shook her head, "Too bad she doesn't deserve to be seen as one."

"But what is Coco doing there?" Velvet asked, confused.

"This mission might began with Coco arriving in Menagerie from where she will be taken to Taurus." Ren theorised.

"This man Taurus is fighting his own war and he has no rules." Ironwood brought the topic of Adam Taurus into his conversation with Coco.

At the same time a snippet from the newspaper appeared on the screen. The main focus on this snipper was a darkened silhouette of a man that was walking through a hallway in building.

Nuclear Grade Weapons?

Taurus

Before anyone from the audience could make a comment about it, It was replaced with another snipper from the newspaper. This time it was showing a man wearing a black mask that covered most of his face.

Taurus: We will bomb again

Ruby shivered a bit after reading the title of the articles about Adam, "Bomb again?"

"I'm having a bad feeling about this." Pyrrha said, recalling B telling them that the next main villain was going to make Sienna and Cinder and all fo the stuff they did look like nothing.

Blake sunk in her seat after reading how the articles about Adam were titled.

Tyrian rubbed his hands together, excitedly, "This guy just got more interesting."

"No boundaries. He doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide. He's not loyal to a flag or country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for money." Ironwood continued his explanation about all of the stuff that Adam was responsible for.

At the same time third snippet from the newspaper was shown to the audience. This time it showed a gas mask wearing man who who was wielding a machine rifle.

Taurus fears grow across Remnant

Adam smirked, feeling how pride was overcoming his entire body, even though it was just an alternate version of him.

"The entire Remnant is starting to fear him?" Cinder read the title of an article in suprise that people of Remnant were fearing Taurus out all people in this universe.

"Yup." Vernal nodded her head to herself, "This part is definitely going to be about them trying to take this guy down."

"It might not even end with him getting capture or killed." Raven stated, "Remember that we still have one more part left in this trilogy."

Tyrian leaned towards this screen upon hearing those words, becoming even more interested to see what Taurus character was going to do in this story.

Salem placed her hand on her chin when she heard the description that Ironwood gave about Taurus. If she even head about a person like him in Remnant, then she would definitely find a way how to recruit them into their faction.

It was when Adam's photo appeared on the screen. His frowning face was staring at something ahead of it. Some information about him, like his date of birth, or nationality, or military history was written underneath it.

"He's your new best friend." Ironwood continued, "You don't want to know what it's cost already to put you next to him. It will cost you a piece of yourself. It will cost nothing compared to everything you'll save."

Velvet titled her head to the side, "A piece of herself?"

"I have a bad feeling about this." Fox shook his head, "I mean, what will she have to do to earn his trust?"

"I'm beginning to think that it won't be anything pleasant." Yatsuhashi stated, starting to worry about Coco's undercover mission.

"After all, it was already made pretty clear that this version of Taurus is not someone you want to screw around with." Neptune stated.

"I just hope it won't be anything too severe." Coco said, with a small shake of her head.

B had to hold back a nervous chuckle after hearing her say this which thankfully went unnoticed by the audience.

It was the last thing that the audience saw before the screen turned completely black. Everything was silent for a few seconds before the sound of someone reloading their weapon rang through everyone's ears which was followed by a few other people reloading their weapons well.

The screen remained black for a few more seconds before the audience could see what was going on with Coco. She was standing inside of the elevator as she wasn't alone. Adam was standing in front of her, with three out other faunus standing around them. All of them were wielding weapons.

What caught the audience attention was the fact that all of the traits that telling they were faunus were covered, as if they didn't want anyone to know that they were ones.

Ghira and Kali recognized two of these faunus, the former asking his wife, "Are those Corsac and Fennec?"

Kali's eyes widened as she recognized these two faunus as well. She nodded her head in confirmation, "Yes, that's them." 

Roman titled his head, recognizing the last faunus in Adam's group, the one that was wielding M4A1 to be exact. He looked down at Neo, saying to his partner in crime, "Holy shit, Neo. It's Perry."

Adam readied his M4A1 and turned to face his group, reminding them, "Remember hide your traits."

"Why would they want to hide their traits?" Ilia asked, confused.

"I'm asking myself the same thing." Scarlet agreed with her, "Weren't they shown to be in Menagerie?"

"They were." Emerald nodded, "It just doesn't make sense to me."

Neo shrugged, "It's probably going to be explained in a moment."

Corsac and Perry who were the ones closest to the exit from the elevator, stepped right through it and Adam, Fennec and Coco followed them. The group of five stepped out of the elevator and was greeted by the view of dozones of faunus civilians standing in front of them, just minding their own business.

Coco turned her gaze towards Adam who was standing beside her and saw him aim his M4A1 at the faunus in front of them, with Corsac, Fennec and Perry doing the same shorty after. She followed their example and aimed her M240 light machine gun at the group of civilians standing in front of them.

Summer gasped in shock, realizing what they were going to do, "No!"

Ghira's eyes snapped open in realization, "What are they?..."

"They're not going to..." Jaune's words died in his throat.

Coco placed her hand on top of her head when she realized what this person of her was about to do. Her team just stared at the screen, their eyes widening in shock.

The faunus civilians turned their gaze towards the armed group of five standing in front of them before Coco, Adam, Corsac, Fennec, and Perry all fired their weapons at them. The airport guards quickly reached for their guns, intending to protect the civilians from the terrorists, but unfortunely never had a chance to use them as they were one of the first ones to die. 

The civilians started dropping like flies, as the ones that were in the back of the massive group started fleeing from the terrorists, attempting to save their own lives.

The entire audience was stunned in shock by what they had just witnessed on the screen, feeling how chills were going down their spines. A lot of them just froze in their seats and stared at the screen in front in silence, but there were else many that looked away from the screen, not wanting to see what was happening there right now.

Even Salem was completely stunned by what just happened. She had to admit it herself. Out of all things that she thought were going to happen, she wasn't excepting to see anything like this.

Coco removed her sunglasses and placed them aside on the edge of her seat, not believing what she was just seeing. She really had to gun down all those faunus just to earn Taurus' trust? She sunk in her seat and placed her hand on the sides of her head, shaking it.

"...What the hell?!" Qrow was the first one to break the silence that formed in the room after Adam and his crew opened fire at the civilians.

"W-what is that?" Ruby stuttered out, as she paled at the view of all those defenless faunus dying.

Goodwitch shook her head, angrily, "This is atrocious."

Kali shook her head, placing her hand over mouth, feeling her eyes water, "All those faunus..."

"They're gunning them down like it was nothing." Junior shook his head, his eyes refusing to close in shock.

Sienna gripped the edge of her seat in anger, "You just crossed the line, Taurus."

Even Adam himself was displeased what this version of himself was doing and he wasn't afraid to voice his thoughts, "Why would I kill all those faunus?!" 

Tyrian clapped his hands, laughing excitedly like a child in a candy store, "I already like this guy!"

Coco ceased fire and so did the rest of Adam's group when all of the civilians they just opened fire at laid on the floor, either dead or wounded. She realoded her half emptied gun before the group of five pushed themselves into walk towards the security checkpoint.

"Those poor faunus..." Blake shook her head.

Velvet shook her head, hand over her mouth, "They are all dead..."

She turned her gaze towards her team leader. Coco was completely silent in shock as she rested her head on her hand.

Coco walked right behind Adam, seeing over his shoulder how the faunus civilians that were alarmed by their shooting started running up the stairs that were leading to the upper level of the airport, wanting to get away from the armed terrorists as far away as they could.

She turned her gaze to the right when she saw how Adam aimed his gun at something on that side. She spotted how three airport guards that were presumably watching the cameras fleed out of the room, running for their lives, but unfortunely they never made it to a safe place as Adam took all three of them out.

It was when the entire group of five turned to the few people who remained on this level. All of them had their hands raised in the air, hoping that they will leave them be, praying for it.

Adam's group didn't seem to care about that, though. Corsac and Fennec opened fire at them and it was just a matter of seconds before the surrending civilians died.

"What? They were surrending!" Tai shouted in anger.

Ozpin shook his head, "Unfortunely I don't think they care."

"Those bastards." Roman spat out in anger, not caring what the other people in the audience were going think about it. He has done many questionable things in his life, but this was making him look like a damn saint.

"What was Ironwood thinking by sending me to help them do this!" Coco shouted, angry tears beginning to spill down her cheeks. She knew that it was just an alternate version of her, but still, seeing herself commit such things was pretty hard.

Yatsuhashi placed a comforting hand on her shoulder, "He wanted you to earn his trust, but I don't think that even he knew what was going to happen."

"I agree." Winter nodded, "I don't think that General Ironwood would send her on this mission if he knew what was going to happen."

Ironwood sighed, "I would never let anyone participate in such a thing, even if it resulted in earning trust of a dangerous target."

"What if he did, though?" Raven thought to herself, recalling what Nora said about Ironwood in one of the previous missions. She made sure to keep her words in mind.

Coco turned her gaze away from the lifeless bodies and turned it towards the set of stairs ahead of her and the rest of the group.

"Up the stairs. Go." Adam ordered his group, beginning to make his way to the upper level of the airport.

"How is he staying calm?" Pyrrha asked.

His group followed him up the stairs and after a few seconds reached the area that was filled with stores and saw civilians running away from them. Perry was the first one from his group to open fire at them and the rest followed. The civilians started dying, one by one, before the group of five started to make their way through the area.

As they proceeded to walk forward, a female voice sounded from the megaphone, "Come out with your hands up! Put the gun down! Resistance is futile! In which case, we will open fire!"

"Do they really think it's going to work?" Hazel shook his head.

"They just killed dozens of civilians, surrending to the authorities is the last thing they're going to do." Watts stated, his arms folded.

Coco turned away from the bookstore she just passed by and glanced down at the wounded man who laying on the floor, slowly bleeding to death. It was when she heard someone firing their machine gun on her left. She turned to the source of it and saw Perry who had his M4A1 on the railing as he was firing at civilians from above.

She turned her gaze back towards Adam who was walking with Corsac and Fennec. At the same time one guard leaned out of his cover and attempted to kill at least one of the terrorists, but Corsac took care of him before he could even fire his pistol at them. His lifeless body collapsed on the ground, his pistol sliding across the floor, landing a few meters away from his body.

It was followed by three more guard popping out of their covers, all of them wielding Mp5, but they never had a chance to do anything and it was just a matter of seconds before they joined all of the dead civilians on the floor as Perry removed his gun from the railing and catched up to the rest of the group.

The group of five turned to the left when the elevator with three guards inside made it to their level. Adam pulled out a grenade and threw it into the elevator, making the guards inside panic. The two of them started searching for it as the third one must have realized that there was no time to throw it away. He was about to jump out of the elevator, but unfortunely for him the grenade exploded, killing him and everyone else inside. The elevator came crashing down into the first floor.

"Let's go." Adam said as his group started making their way down the stairs to the lower level, spotting Little Bird helicopter flying outside while doing so, which was followed by the sound of police sirens coming from the outside.

"Is that what I think it is?" Jaune asked, in a very hopeful tone.

"The authorities must have arrived." Pyrrha observed.

"I really hope that most of them will get what's coming for them." Weiss said, excluding Coco from the group because the leader of team CFVN was there only because she was on the undercover mission.

The group made it to the lower level and started making their way through it, passing bodies of the civilians that they just murdered. Coco looked up at the flight board and noticed that all of the flights were switched to delayed which meant only one thing, the airport was on lockdown.

"The airport is on lockdown." Neptune observed.

"It means that the entire placed must be surrounded by authorities." Sage pointed out.

Nora crossed her arms, "Good. It will be harder for them to get outta there alive."

The group moved out of terminal and stopped in front of the exit, watching how the armored people were coming out of vans and helicopters

"They're right on time." Adam remarked, "Check your weapons and ammo."

"What?" Melanie whispered to her sister, confused, "He's been waiting for the authorities to arrive?"

"But why, though?" Miltia whispered back. She wasn't complaining about it, because it would leave Adam's group in vulnerable position and she hoped that all of them were going to get what they deserved after everything they just did in this mission, but them waiting for the authorities to arrive just didn't make any sense to her.

"I've waited a long time for this." Perry spoke up, reloading his M4A1.

"Haven't we all?" Adam chuckled to which Corsac and Fennec nodded in agreement. 

A lot of people in the audience glared at Adam in disgust when they heard him chuckle before saying those words. They were disgusted that he was actually finding this to be funny.

Qrow growled, "He's actually enjoying this?"

"I think I just found my new favourite character!" Tyrian shouted, earning glares from most of the audience, but he ignored them.

The group of five walked through the exit and walked down the set of stairs which led them to another doors. Adam opened it with a kick and walked through the now opened entrance, "This way. Let's go!"

They entered a building that had pipes going all over it's walls and walked through it for several seconds before reaching a very wide exit from it, which was giving them a pretty good look at the area ahead of them, but their view was soon blinded because the area ahead of them was engulfed in smoke.

"For Khan." Adam said, exiting the building.

"He's doing all of this because he wants to avenge Sienna's death?" Ilia asked.

"How is murdering all those faunus avenging me!" Sienna pointed out.

Ilia shook her head, "I don't know." 

 "I'm asking myself the same thing." Adam told her, displeased by what this version of him was doing to all those faunus, "They had nothing to do with your death."

"The only reason why you care is because faunus are dying in this mission." Blake glared at him, "You wouldn't care if those were humans, would you?" 

The look that Adam gave her was the only answer she needed to get to confirm what she just said.

"There's actually one question that I can't get off my mind." Watts rubbed his chin, "Why would they attack an airport in a country that they are controlling. It just doesn't make any sense to me."

Salem placed her hand on her chin when she heard Watts' words. This was actually a really good question. It was when she recalled one thing. Everyone in Adam's group had their faunus traits covered, and he even reminded the rest of the group to hide their faunus traits right before their attack began. What if he didn't want people to think that this attack wasn't caused by the faunus?

It was when a line of armored police officers came out of the smoke behind them. All of them were crounching down and were holding riot shields in front of themselves, protecting themselves from anyone that was going to open fire at them.

"Take them out." Adam ordered, switching to his grenade launcher attachment.

He didn't had to repeat himself. Coco switched her weapon to M4A1 and then switched it to the grenade launcher that was attached to it. She fired at the police but luckilly for them, their shields protected from dying by explosion. The explosion blinded them a bit, but they were still alive.

Unfortunely their luck was short lived as Adam used the fact that they were blinded and fired from his own grenade launcher, killing most of them and his group made sure to take care of the rest while the smoke slowly died down.

Coco switched her grenade launcher back to her M4A1 as they all moved forward as more police officers, this time without riot shields, opened fire at them. The group of five quickly hid behind whichever cover they could find at this moment and returned fire. The gunfight didn't last long and it was just a matter of time before all of the police officers laid on the ground, dead.

She was about to move forward but stopped herself from doing so when she heard someone firing their weapon at them. She slightly leaned out of her cover and couldn't spot anyone firing at her from the groun level. She looked up at the building ahead of her and spotted a few officers firing at her from the second floor.

The rest of the group noticed their presence as well because all of them turned their attention towards them. All five them returned fire at the officers. Coco slowly leaned out of her cover and aimed her M4A1 at one officer that had his attention focused on Adam. She fired her weapon at him and hit him straight in the head, killing him instantly while Corsac, Perry and Fennec took care of the other officers.

The group moved forward again and a police truck arrived at the scene just a few seconds later. The armored officers started getting themselves out of the truck, but didn't even had a chance to do anything as the truck was blown off by Adam and Perry who fired their grenade laucher's at it. The two grenades hit the truck at the same time, causing the explosion that killed all of the officers.

They moved under the building, passing the burning truck and all of the bodies around it before another truck arrived. This time, Adam and Perry didn't have enough time to fire their grenade launchers at it and all of the officers got themselves out of the the vehicle in time.

They opened fire at Adam's group and Fennec was the first one from the group to respond to their attack. Everyone followed his example and returned fire as well. All of the officers who weren't wielding a riot shield to defend themselves were taken out without any problem, but the ones that were wielding were still holding their own against the terrorists.

It was when they ran out of their luck, though, because Corsac threw a flash-bang grenade their way. It landed behind the riot shield wielding officers and the explosion blinded their vision and Adam's group used it to their advantage, taking all of them out before they could regain their vision.

"This way, let's go." Adam declared as he started running towards one place with his group following him, passing bodies of the officers that they just murdered. His group followed him into a small area, passing by a delivery truck and stopping in front of a single doors. He slowly opened them and took a quick peek inside before walking through the now opened entrance, "Hallway clear."

This was enough for his group. They followed him into the building and started running through the hallway towards an ambulance which was waiting for them.

Ruby titled her head to the side, "Is that an ambulance?"

Weiss sighed, "They're going to use it to get away from the airport." 

"An ambulance leaving a place where it is certainly needed, It isn't going to look a little suspicious?" Emerald asked.

"The authorities are probably going to think that it's taking wounded faunus to the hospital." Mercury pointed out.

Adam held his hand in the air, telling his group to stop without saying anything. Coco, Corsac, Fennec and Perry stopped behind him as the back doors to the ambulance were opened by a bat faunus which was recognized by a few faunus in the audience as Yuma.

"Good you made it! Get in!" He told him, signalling them to enter the ambulance. 

Yuma held his hand out to Corsac who was the first one to enter the ambulance and the rest followed. Perry and Fennec got themselves into the ambulance shorty after as Adam threw his M4A1 to Yuma who caught it, before getting himself into the vehicle as well. He looked down at Coco and held his hand out to her.

"We sent a strong message with this attack, Taurus." Yuma told Adam as Coco grabbed Adam's hand.

"That was no message." Adam said as he pulled Coco towards him. He pulled out his pistol and fired it. The bullet hit Coco right in the head, killing her instantly.

A lot of people in the audience could feel how their eyes widened in shock when they saw how Adam executed Coco, but at the same time they couldn't help but feel confused.

"Coco!" Velvet shouted, placing her hand over her mouth while Fox and Yatsuhashi just watched in stunned shock.

"What the hell!?" Coco shouted, her tone being the mix of anger and shock. Not only she had to witness herself slaughter all of those poor faunus but also had to watch herself get a bullet to the head in the same mission?

"Why would he kill her?" Winter voiced everyone's thoughts, "Didn't she prove herself to be trustworthy to him after participating in this?"

Adam send Coco's now lifeless body one last look before shutting the back doors of the ambulance, "This is a message."

"Wait, what?" Yang asked, suprised.

"Coco was send here just to get herself killed?" Blake stated.

Salem crossed her arms as she figured out what was Adam's plan in the first place.

"The Atlesian human thought she could deceive us." Adam spoke as the ambulance started driving away from Coco's lifeless corpse, "When they find that body all Menagerie will cry for war."

A few armored officers ran into the place and instantly spotted Coco's corpse on the floor. One of them knelt down in front of Coco's body and checked her pulse, before confirming her death to his comrades.

"Group 4! Watch the second terminal! Terrorists can pass through an underground tunnel, do you copy?" One of the officers declared through his comms, screen fading to white.

It was the last thing that happened before the screen became black, ending the mission.

Everyone in the audience stared at the screen in silence. Faces of most of the audience displayed disgust towards Adam and his unhmane actions at the airport. Tyrian was one of the few exceptions. He had a huge smile on his face, as he was the one that enjoyed this mission the most.

"That was his plan." Salem spoke up, breaking the silence in the theater, "I have to say, I'm impressed."

Watts turned his gaze towards her, "What do you mean?"

"He already knew that this Adel girl was a double agent, but instead of killing her instantly, he found a way how to use her for his plans." Salem began, "He told his crew to cover everything that was saying that they were faunus, and once they finished their attack, he killed that girl and left her body behind, telling Menagerians that Atlas was responsible for this attack."

Her explanation caused another silence in the theater as everyone realized what was Adam's plan in the first place and with that, came realization of everything that it might have going to cause.

"Oh, no." Ruby said in realization of everything that might be caused because of what happened in this missions.

"The Menagerians are going to be really pissed." Sun shook his head.

Coco sighed as she rested her head on her hand, not liking what she had to see herself do on this mission. Not only she had to watch herself commit a terrorist attack on bunch of innocent civilians, but all of it ended with her receiving a bullet to the head and at the end of it she was framed to make everyone think she was the person behind it.

"Coco." Velvet's worried voice called out to her, "Are you alright?"

"I just don't want to talk about it, Velvet, okay? I just hope that the one I was supposed to get closer  will pay for what he's done." She responded to her teammates words.

Velvet nodded her head in understanding.

Neo turned her attention towards B, "You weren't lying when you said that the new villain is going to make everything that Cinder and Sienna did in the previous part look like nothing."

Roman crossed his arms, "That's the understamenent, Neo." 

"The next mission is probably going to start with Ironwood and Task Force starting their search for him." Ren theorised what was going to happen in the mission, "We might finally be introduced to more members of this team."

Yang shook her head, clenching her fists in anger, "Can't wait for the moment when I, Ruby, Jaune and the other members Task Force 141 will get our hands on him." Yang shook her head, clenching her fists in anger. She knew that she hasn't made an appearence in this game, yet, but she remembered B telling them she was still alive. She was probably going to appear soon as a member of Task Force 141 alongside her sister.

"Yeah." Jaune nodded his head in agreement, wanting to see this version of Taurus pay for what he's done, "We will make sure he pays for everything he's done."

Adam had to admit. The fact that this many people were already wanting to see this version of him die was making him a bit uncomfortable. Sienna gave him an sympatetic look, knowing it feels.

B nodded his head to their comments, before pressing the button on his seat which started another mission.

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