In the midst of Professor Peter Port's class, Teams RWBY and WOLF were seen, 'patiently' awaiting for the class to be over so that they may begin their secret mission.

S.S.A.W: "Ugh, BORING!!!"

Glancing over to his fellow teammates, all of Team RWBY seemed to be awake in some fashion, patiently or impatiently waiting for the end of the class. Ruby, Weiss and Yang were just staring aimlessly at the professor while Blake was tapping her foot against the floor with her chin resting in her palm. Setsuna was bored out of her mind and had fallen asleep on Yang's shoulder. Looking at Blake, Akito had a devious idea to lighten her dampened mood. But first, he made sure to block out what his sisters could see or hear temporarily. Though when he heard a collective sigh from all four of them, it sounded like they wanted that desperately to avoid Port's stories.

With him sitting on Blake's left, he stealthily extended his right hand to her, with his hand trailing a bit lower than expected. As Blake released a quiet impatient hiss, her bow twitching a bit in irritation from Professor Port's rambling, she suddenly felt a sensation on her left thigh, which caused her to gasp but quickly cover her mouth, thankfully silencing herself before anyone noticed. She looked down to her thigh and spotted Akito's hand squeezing and groping her thigh.

(A/N: "For anyone wondering, yes this is a slight reference to Classroom of the Elite. Only difference is, it's not her side he's squeezing.")

Blake: "H-Hey..! What the hell do you think you're-Ahh..~"

Her embarrassed voice was muffled and much to Blake's relief, neither her friends or the others in the classroom heard her. Her eyes darted to the black wolf with a glare, but her intense blush made it extremely difficult for him to even take her seriously.

Akito: *whispers* "Careful now. Wouldn't want the others to hear you now.."

Blake: *whispers* "I-Idiot..! Why now of all times..!? First you grope my ass, now this..!?"

In response, her squeezed her thigh a bit rougher which caused her to bite her lip underneath her hand and release a muffled moan while slightly rubbing her legs together.

Akito: *whispers* "In all fairness, that was an accident. You said it yourself."

Blake: *whispers* "D-Damnit.. What's with you..? You're never this bold..!"

Akito: *whispers* "People change, 'sweetheart'."

The feline Faunus' blush intensified just from him calling her 'sweetheart', something that he's never called her. But, she was the most surprised by his bold actions. She was trying to process what the heck was happening. Akito was never so bold. Whenever he'd accidentally do something that would put both him and Blake in an embarrassing situation, he'd always apologize and become a bit nervous. However, now it seemed as if that was completely thrown out of the window. If anyone was to see what was happened, they'd think that the two were a couple doing indecent things, when that wasn't the case... technically.

Now Akito knew where her boundaries were so he was just squeezing her thigh to tease her. However, if the two were actually dating, he'd probably take it a step forward, by either straight up silently groping her body or sliding his hand between her legs. But that would be a breach of boundaries from how their relationship was currently; very close friends but not a couple... yet.

As this was happening, Jaune slipped over to Weiss, who still had her eyes fixated on Port, though her expression just looked beyond bored.

Jaune: "So Weiss. You know uh, I was thinking that after this, maybe we could go grab a bite to eat."

Weiss: "..."

Jaune: "And uh, you know well, I-I've got two tickets to that new Spruce Willis Movie if you want to make a trip to Vale, I hear it's awesome."

Weiss: "..."

Jaune: "And... then maybe after that we could study together? I mean, you're smart and I'm a, you know..."

Finally, the bell rang and everyone began to leave the class, with Yang waking up Setsuna. Akito finally ended his teasing of Blake and her sensitive thighs and pulled his hand away. With a furious blush, she glared daggers at him but he only smirked a bit at her, causing her to lightly punch his chest. Back with Jaune however, Weiss was getting up without paying attention to him.

Jaune: "Weiss? Did you hear me?"

Weiss: "No, no, no, yes." She walked past him. As Jaune slouched in his seat and banged his head against the table, Teams RWBY and WOLF walked past him, with Yang patting his shoulder.

S.S.A.W: "Ooohhh!"

Yang: "Maybe next time."

Akito and Blake: "If there even is a next time."

>Chapter 11: Painting the Town Red<

After class, Akito was seen standing outside of Team RWBY and WOLF's dorm room, his arms crossed as he leaned against the walls. However, the outfit he wore was different, due to Ruby INSISTING that everyone wore 'awesome new outfits' for this special mission. Since he couldn't argue against her no matter how hard he tried, he agreed and had gone into Team JNPR's room to change; he used their bathroom to change due to Pyrrha and Nora being there at the time. Dubbed 'Invader', this outfit consisted of a white hoodie with black and red accents and a black undershirt along with black and red gloves. Finally he had on white pants with black straps on his right leg and black and red boots.

(Akito's 'Invader' Outfit// Change the blue to red)

After a few minutes of waiting, the door opened and Akito was immediately greeted by his partner in crime, Setsuna. She too wore a different outfit, with it being a bit more casual. A White sleeveless dress with white separate sleeves and black short shorts. Along her top she had three blue ribbons and on her right thigh was a black leg band. Ruby dubbed this outfit as, 'Pack Leader'

(Setsuna's 'Pack Leader' Outfit)

Setsuna: "Akito. You can come in now."

Akito: "Gotcha. Looking good by the way." He said with a smile and pointed to her. The white haired wolf Faunus gave a nervous laugh and scratched the back of her head.

Setsuna: "Thank you.."

With her reentering the room, Akito followed right after her. Immediately he was met by the sight of Team RWBY in different outfits, as Ruby suggested and she named all of their outfits.

(Ruby's 'Slayer', Weiss' 'Snow Pea', Blake's 'Intruder' and Yang's 'Hunter' Outfits)

He admitted they all looked amazing, but his eyes were immediately on Blake. Not only did this outfit fit her normal aesthetic completely, with the black and white color scheme and the straps on her arms, but something about it just made her stand out in an amazing way to him. He didn't realize how long he was staring until Blake cleared her throat. He blinked and looked at her, seeing her fix up the black straps on her arms while blushing and glancing away out of embarrassment.

Blake: "H-How do I look..?"

Akito: "Oh... You look really... really amazing, Blake.." he complimented with a faint blush. In response, the ravenette blush slightly.

Blake: "T-Thanks.."

Yang: "Alright love birds, kiss already will you?" She said in a playful tone with a smirk, though the two Faunus immediately looked at her.

Akito and Blake: "Shut it!" Ignoring what just happened, Ruby immediately let herself be known and spoke up.

Ruby: "Alright, guys. Today's the day. The investigation begins!" she jumped down from her top bunk, nearly landing on Weiss.

Weiss: "I'm glad to see that we're all taking this so seriously." She sarcastically said, rolling her eyes.

Yang: "Hey! We've got a plan. That's... moderately serious!"

Akito: "Pfft... Totally." He crossed her arms

Ruby: "Right, everyone remember their roles?"

Weiss: "You and me will head for the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem."

Blake: "The White Fang has regular factions meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If Akito and I can get in, we can hopefully figure out what their planning."

Akito: "My face is well known in the White Fang ranks, but thankfully, I rarely wore the mask so they wouldn't recognize be, unless I use Exia and Alpha."

Yang: "I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. I won't have trouble getting information out of him, especially with Setsuna." She placed her hand on the arctic wolf's head as she raised her fists with a confident grin.

Setsuna: "Right!"

Ruby: "Great, we'll meet up tonight near Yang and Setsuna to go over what we've found. Let's do this!"

???: "Yeah!" Immediately everyone turned to look towards the window, only to be taken aback to see Sun hanging upside down from it.

Blake: "Sun!?"

Yang: "How did you even get up there?"

Sun: "Ah, it's easy. I do it all the time."

Weiss: "You do what!?"

Sun: "I climb trees all the time!"

Spring: "Eep!! A Pervert!!"

However, the golden monkey boy would immediately find himself at the receiving end of a particular barrel pointed right at his face, from Akio who pointed Alpha in GN Rifle mode at him.

Sun: "W-Woah!!"

Akito: "I swear if you were peaking on Setsuna and Blake, you damned monkey..!"

Sun: "R-Relax! I didn't! I swear!" With him sweating bullets, Sun awaited for Akito to remove his weapon from his face which, much to the monkey's relief, he did. Afterwards, Sun leaped from the tree and stood in the room with them. "Anyways, we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"

Blake: "WE are going to investigate the situation, as a team."

Ruby: "Sorry Sun, we don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to."

Sun: "Nah, that's dumb. You should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune." Teams RWBY and WOLF slid over to the window and peeked out, seeing Neptune standing on the narrow ledge.

Neptune: "Sup?"

Setsuna: "Eh..?"

Ruby: "How did you even get up here?"

Neptune: "I have my ways... Seriously though, can I come in? We're like... really high up right now..."

After whatever that was, the teams assisted Neptune into the room, where Ruby began to go over the plan with some minor changes due to Sun and Neptune basically forcing themselves into the mission.

Ruby: "Alright, I'll go with Weiss; Sun, you can go with Blake and Akito."

Akito: "You've got to be kidding me..." He grumbled in annoyance.

Ruby: "And Neptune, you can go with Yang and Setsuna." She pushed the blue haired teen, who slipped Weiss a wink past her.

Ruby: "Everyone good?"

Weiss: "Actually Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she IS your sister."

After pushing Neptune over in between Yang and Setsuna, Ruby looked at Weiss. Neptune began to rock back and forth while Yang put her hand on his shoulder to stop him.

Ruby: "But, who would go with you then?"

Weiss: "Well... I guess Neptune could come with me." Ruby blinked and glanced at Neptune, who was only giving a playful smile to Weiss. The leader then looked back to her partner, and noticed the blush on her face before she snorted.

Ruby: "Pfft. Nah!" She went over to the heiress and grabbed her by the back of her collar and began to pull her along and out of the room.

Weiss: "But! But!"

Winter: "Is it bad that I feel bad for Weiss?" Her sisters just looked at her all with deadpans

Summer: "C'mon, sis. I can easily tell that this Neptune isn't even in love with her! Guaranteed he'd just go right to the next pretty girl he find." Spring and Autumn were nodding their heads in agreement.

Winter: "Right, right.. I know that.."

>>Time Skip brought to you by Chibi Setsuna pouncing onto Chibi Akito and Chibi Blake.<<

Yang's motorcycle called, 'Bumblebee' came to a screeching halt in front of a sketchy building. She took off her helmet as she and Neptune un-mounted Bumblebee. As for Setsuna, she's thankfully able to use her Semblance in short bursts and use it to boost up her speed and agility. So as she bounced from building to building, she landed next to her two friends, on all fours, with her growling in instinct before standing up straight.

Yang: "C'mon, my friend's right in here."

Neptune: "Cool. And where is exactly here?"

The three of them walked up to the entrance but as soon as they did, two guys in red and black suits that were standing there, immediately ran inside of the building, closing the doors behind them. With Setsuna and Neptune exchanging confused looks, Yang cracked her knuckles with a grin as walked up to the doors before using her Ember Celica to punch the, open, revealing the building to be a nightclub.

Yang: "Guess who's back!"

Immediately, the henchmen pointed their weapons at Yang specifically, before they both noticed the music playing, began to scratch. Yang sent a glare towards the DJ's direction. He popped his head out and shut the music off. Neptune leaned to the side of Yang.

Neptune: "Yeah, so could you define 'friend' for me...?" Suddenly, a man franticly comes out of the crowd, adjusting his tie; it was a male named Junior.

Junior "Stop, stop! Nobody shoot. *Clears throat* Blondie, you're here... Why?" He slightly looked round warily. "W-Where's that boyfriend of yours?" Instsntly, Yang recoiled in what looked like disgust.

Yang: "Ew! Ace is my brother, you dumbass!" She yelled, startling Junior.

Junior: "R-Right! Brother..."

Yang: "And... You still owe me a drink, Junior." She said as she grabbed him by the tie and pulled him towards the bar while Neptune stood there, the absolutely blown away. Setsuna was just confused and shrugged before following her.

Neptune: "Woah-ho-ho-ho...What a woman..." quickly, he noticed two twins named Melina and Miltia, next to him as he looked at them, with a sly grin. "Sup."

Melina and Miltia: "Hmph! Whatever." They said as they walked away.

>>Meanwhile<<

In a different part of Vale, with the broken moon within the sky, Blake, Akito and Sun made their way towards a shady looking warehouse, where they spotted a small line of Faunus wearing White Fang masks entering it, with a White Fang Member overseeing the procedure.

Blake: "This is it."

Sun: "You sure?"

Akito: "You tell us." He said in a sarcastic manner as Blake just glared at him.

Sun: "Y'know, I'm just going to take your words for it." The trio kept making their way towards the warehouse, with Blake removing her bow, freeing her pair of cat ears. "I don't get it. I you believe what you're doing is right, why hide who you are?"

Blake: "The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters."

Sun: "Grimm Masks... That's... kinda dark."

Akito: "So is the guy who started it..."

Sun: "Always sunshine and rainbows with you two."

Autumn: "I really don't like him..."

Akito telepathically: "You're not the only one..."

With them putting on their masks, they entered the building. Before them was easily more than Platoon of Faunus with masks standing in front of a stage that had a White Fang member standing there with a huge cloth behind him, covering something. The trio found a spot and stood among the audience.

WF Member: "Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are just joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours. I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for, for so long."

Their 'comrade' came from behind the cloth, being revealed to be Roman Torchwick with a very short girl with pink and brown hair standing on the side of the stage. As soon as the crowd saw him, their cheers quickly turned to backlash.

Summer: "Roman...??"

Spring: "Ugh not the stupid pumpkin head again!"

Akito: *whispers* "Tch... Should have expected it..."

Roman: "Thank you! Thank you! Please, hold you applause!"

Faunus Girl: "What's a human doing here!?"

Roman: "Please, calm down. Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans are the WORST. Case and point. So I understand why you would love to see us locked away, or better yet, killed! But I'd like to mention the fact that you and I ALL have a common enemy. The ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty rotten humans that run our Kingdoms! Governments, Military, even the schools they're all to blame for your lot in live!" As the crowd began to cheer, Blake, Sun and Akito briefly looked at each other, seemingly in worry. "And they're all pests than need to be dealt with! And fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around. No offence to any rodents in the room."

Roman snapped his fingers for the cloth behind him to rise up, revealing a repainted Atlesian Paladin with the White Fang logo on the side. The Atlesian Paladin was Atlas' latest addition to their military arsenal besides the newly refurbished Atlesian Knight Robotic Soldiers. This mech was massive compared to a normal sized Human/Faunus.

Sun: "Uh... That's a big robot..."

Blake: "How did he get that?"

Akito: "I guess Good ol' Ironwood's military is getting more and more idiotic over these years."

Blake: "I mean considering you and Adam stole Exia and the Eclipse."

Akito: "Good point.."

Roman: "As some of you may have heard, this robot here is Atlas' newest line of defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my 'employer', we've manage to snag a few before they hit the selves. Now, many of brothers and sisters have already moved down to the new operation in the south east. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine. But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?" The crowd had no questions as the immediately began cheering again.

Winter: "Ah.. I think we should get out of here."

Autumn: "Nonsense! Big bro can easily wipe the floor with all of them!"

Akito: "No, Winter's right. We need to get out of here."

Blake: "Agreed."

Autumn: "LAME!"

As the entire crowd began to move forward however, the trio behind were becoming more and more exposed.

Sun: "Welp..."

>>Meanwhile<<

Back in Junior's bar, Yang, Setsuna and Neptune were still trying to get information out of Junior, but their attempts were proving pointless. As the Blonde dragon was continuously getting more and more frustrated with Junior's lack of information, the man just was cleaning a cup casually.

Junior: "I don't know!"

Yang: "How could you not now?"

Junior: "I haven't talked to him. I haven't seen him since the night you and your brother first came in here. He paid up front, I lent him some of my men, and none of them ever. Came. Back."

Neptune: "So where did they go?"

Junior: "What kind of stupid question is that? They never came back! Who is this guy?"

Yang: "Don't worry about him. Worry about ME if I don't what I want!"

Junior: "I already told you everything! Torchwick hired my boys and I guess he wasn't happy with them! Which is something I CAN relate to!" He looked at his men as he shouted the last part, who looked back at him grumbling. As Yang continued to glare at him, Setsuna walked up to the owner and sniffed him, which caused him to flinch. "The hell are you doing..!?"

Ignoring him, she continued to sniff him before pulling away and looking at Yang.

Setsuna: "He isn't lying. I can tell." Hearing the confirmation from Setsuna caused Yang to sigh in defeat.

Yang: "Come on." The three of them began to exit the Night Club/Bar, leaving a sweating Junior who only sighed in relief.

Neptune: "We got everything we need?"

Yang: "Well, we got everything we could. Let's just hope the rest are having better luck."

>>Meanwhile<<

Back with team of Blake, Akito and Sun. The crowd continued to make their way to the stage, leaving the trio behind and leaving their presence more and more exposed to everyone inside.

Sun: "What do we do?"

Blake: "I'm thinking." Roman then looked further into the crowd to notice the trio standing still, his eyes narrowing.

Sun: "He sees us..." As Akito was looking around for a quick exit, he spotted a fuse box and narrowed his eyes at it while equipping Alpha on his arm in GN Rifle mode.

Akito: "Well, he can't see in the dark."

Pointing Alpha's barrel towards the fuse box, he shot a pink beam from it, its sound startling everyone in the room as the lights in the place suddenly were shut off.

Roman: "Don't let them get away!"

Blake: "Akito! Sun! The window!"

As the sound of something powering up was heard, the trio busted through the window and began running right as the Atlesian Paladin crashed through the wall and began to case after them. The trio decided to jump along the roofs as the paladin ran alongside them on the road.

Akito: "Okay! How the FUCK is a Mech that large and fat so fucking fast!?"

Blake: "You really wanna find out the reason!?"

Akito: "Fuck no, woman!"

Sun: "So, you two wouldn't happen to have... oh I don't know... some form of back up!?"

Blake: "On it!"

She immediately took out her scroll and began to call the others. With Akito providing covering fire with Alpha to hopefully slow it down. Exiting the CCT Tower in Vale, Weiss heard her scroll ringing and took it out only to hear Blake's voice on the receiving end.

Blake: "Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-"

Sun: "HELLPPP!!!" With an eye roll, Weiss began to make her way towards their location. Meanwhile near a dumpster in the middle of Vale, Ruby stood with her scroll in hand. "They got a robot, and it's big! Really big!"

Akito: "Yeah! No shit, Sherlock!"

Ruby: *grins excitingly* "Oh, I am NOT missing this!" With Yang, Setsuna and Neptune, they were listening on the Blonde's scroll.

Sun: "The Torchwick guy's in it! But not like... it didn't eat him! He's controlling it or something!"

Yang: "Where are you guys?" The three of them turned around to notice the Paladin chasing Blake, Akito and Sun.

Sun: "HURRY!!!!"

Neptune: "I... think that was them."

Yang: "Yeah, I got it."

Neptune: "Woah!"

Revving up Bumblebee, Yang pulled a complete 180 u-turn with the bike and sped off with Neptune on the back seat while Setsuna leaped onto some buildings and began chasing after them. Akito, Sun and Blake all hopped up onto the highway, which had Hard-Light Dust barriers running along the sides. Landing on top of a few cars, they looked back to see the massive Paladin hop onto the Highway and began rapidly chasing after them, flinging some cars around.

Akito: "And it can jump.. just fucking great!" The three began hopping from car to car to get away from it.

Blake: "Can you do ANYTHING but fucking complain!?"

Akito: "Oh what the hell!? You're swearing at me now, lady!?"

Sun: "Would you two just kiss already!?"

S.S.A.W: "Like actually!"

Blake and Akito: "Shut up!"

Meanwhile, Yang and Neptune on Bumblebee began to ride alongside the Paladin, with Setsuna running alongside the Hard-light Dust barriers.

Yang: "We need to slow it down!"

Neptune: "Got it!"

Setsuna nodded in response. As they sped up, Roman noticed the trio behind him and with a growl, began purposely knocking cars over to try and slow them down.

Yang: "Hang on!"

Neptune: "Woah!"

Yang sped up with Neptune, weaving her between the cars, only narrowly missing them while Setsuna equipped her Ice Wolf Claws and leaped up, slashing one of the cars into shreds before landing on the road. Thankfully for the humans driving the vehicle, Setsuna slashed it in a way that her claws completely missed the cockpit, allowing the humans inside to fall out harmlessly, albeit with terrified expressions. With Neptune equipping his weapon, named Tri-Hard he began firing off blue energy shot at the back of the Paladin, which stumbled forwards slightly from the impact. After which, Neptune stood on the back of Bumblebee, transforming his Tri-Hard into its "Spear" form before hopping into the air, the blade splitting into a trident like state and stabbing the back of the Paladin. With Akito, Blake and Sun landing on a box truck, they looked back to notice Neptune struggling to stay on the Paladin, which was thrashing around.

Sun: "Neptune, hold on!"

Clasping his hands together, Sun activated his Semblance Via Sun to create two golden clones of himself that jumped towards the Paladin and crashed into it but Roman just brushed them off. Then Sun equipped his Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang in staff mode and attempted to jump in but Roman flung Neptune off, sending him crashing into Sun and sending the two off them off the Highway.

Weiss: "Blake, Akito! I'm in position!"

A bit further ahead, Weiss dropped down from a bridge above the highway before landing in the middle of the road. The Paladin quickly approached her, with Roman smirking in the cockpit. Weiss then stabbed Myrtenaster into the ground, creating a large patch of ice, causing the Paladin to slip, break through the Hard-Light Dust Barrier and tumble off of the Highway before landing down below it, where Ruby waited with Crescent Rose. The rest of Teams RWBY and WOLF landed next to her in their own battle stance. Roman smirked at them as the Paladin began marching towards them.

However none of them expected for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter to materialize behind him, all holding up flags with the letters RWBY and WOLF on them as they began to dance and cheer.

S.S.A.W: "Go Team go! Go Team go!"

With Ruby and Setsuna giggling while Akito, Weiss, Blake and Yang all smirked, they began their attack, with confident smirks on their faces.

Ruby: "'Freezerburn'!"

Calling out the maneuver, everyone aside from Yang and Weiss leaped back. The blonde dragon leaped into the air as Weiss twirled and using her Ice Dust, stabbed the ground with Myrtenaster, creating a patch of ice. As she quickly stepped back, the midair Yang reared her fist back before dealing a fiery punch to the ice patch, creating a massive smoke screen.

Considering their presence was completely masked now, Ronan activated the Paladin's laser tracking devices. As its hands converted into blasters, it aimlessly walked around the low visibility area, with Blake and Setsuna running past it undetected. However, the laser sensors detected movement around the Paladin and the mech began to fire off shots, some barely missing the others. As a shot narrowly missed Blake and Yang, Ruby blasted forwards towards the Paladin and slashed against it with Crescent Rose.

Ruby: "'Checkmate'!"

Akito: "Setsuna!"

Weiss, Blake and Setsuna all rushed at Roman, slicing at the Paladin's legs before the heiress destroyed one of the motion trackers and the trio jumped away.

Roman began to fire missiles at them, to which they back flipped continuously out of the way. Roman fired his gun aimed at Weiss, however, Akito quickly stepped in with his GN Shield in hand and blocked the shot. With the Heiress giving him a quick thanks, Mytenaster's dust chamber swapped to lightning and she sent a streak of golden energy towards Blake and Setsuna which tuned into a Glyph shaped like a Roman numeral clock; this was her Time Dilation.

The clock hands underneath them spun around quickly, coating the two in a thin golden aura. In their eyes, the missiles slowed down allowing the two to swiftly slash the missiles, destroying them in an instant.

Ruby: "'Ladybug'! Akito with us!"

Akito: "Roger that!"

Ruby, rushed forwards and slashed at the Paladin's legs, with Akito and Blake joining after, with a GN Long Blade appearing in Akito's left hand for him to dual wield with Alpha in sword mode. They then began to swiftly slash at the Paladin's legs while alternating sides, confusing Roman before they all jumped up into the air and slashed down on the Paladin, severing its left arm and then jumping away.

Yang soon jumped onto the back of the Paladin, and began repeatedly punching the back of the cockpit until Roman launched the Paladin backwards through some pillars, knocking her off and then punching her through one of them, causing it to completely crumble.

Blake: "Yang!"

Ruby: "Don't worry. With each hit she gets stronger and she uses that energy to fight back! That's what makes her special."

Akito: "So that's her Semblance huh? Heh.. Nice."

Roman commanded the Paladin to throw a punch towards Yang but she caught it with relative ease, surprising him. She opened her now blazing red eyes as her hair lit up in brilliant golden flames before she punched the arm, completely shattering it. Roman then retaliated quickly and kicked her away from him.

Ruby: "'Bumblebee'!"

Blake threw her Gambol Shroud in its sickle mode at Yang who caught it. After feeling the resistance, the feline Faunus pulled on the ribbon and began swinging Yang closer and closer to the Paladin which kept moving back.

Ruby: "We need to slow it down!"

Weiss: "And how do you propose we do that?"

Ruby: " 'Ice Flower' and 'Wolf Pack'!" She looked towards Akito and Setsuna who both smirked.

Akito: "Still think 'White Rose' is a better name. Anyways, let loose Setsu!"

With a mighty and threatening roar, Setsuna unleashed her Semblance, Primal Instincts at full capacity. This Semblance, as demonstrated in the Emerald Forest is a massive Physical boost. Setsuna's speed, agility, hearing, sight, endurance and strength will all increase by a ten-full. However, the longer she has it activated, the more fatigue she'll become after deactivating.

With her eyes glowing a bright icy blue and both her Ice Wolf Claws on her hands, Setsuna blasted herself towards the Paladin, creating a sonic boom behind her that destroyed the ground underneath her. Roman panicked inside of the Paladin and tried to move it back, but now it was heavily outmatched in speed by Setsuna with her Semblance activated. The Paladin's pistons and leg joints groaned in immense pain as the arctic wolf girl clashed against it, before rapidly slashing across its metal surface with her claws. Each slash she pushed the Paladin back, with the metal plates shielding its inner frame being ripped into more and more.

While that happened, Weiss created multiple Ice Glyphs in front of Ruby and Akito, who aimed their respective weapons in gun form at them, which aimed directly at the disoriented Paladin.

Akito: "Setsu, now!" With sparks flying from the exposed wires of the Paladin, Setsuna backed flipped out of the way of the incoming Ice Dust infused bullets from Ruby and Akito, which collided against the Paladin and creating ice chunks that heavily slowed down it's maneuverability.

With Blake bringing Yang around for one final swing, with flames trailing behind her, Setsuna quickly got behind the Paladin and kicked it with enough force to send it flying forwards, where it connected with Yang's fist, causing it to shatter into pieces and for Roman to tumble out of it.

Roman: "Just got this thing cleaned!" He muttered as he stood up, brushing off his jacket.

Yang then attempted to fire off a shot from Ember Celica at Roman but the same a pink and brown ice cream themed girl landed before them, blocking the shot with her Umbrella that she held in her hand. She sent a wink towards them as Akito narrowed his eyes at her. Soon, the others stood next to him.

(Neopolitan)

Roman: "Ladies, gentleman. Ice Queen."

Weiss: "Hey!"

Roman: "Always a pleasure. Neo, if you would."

Making a playful bow, Neo managed to taunt Yang and Setsuna, causing them to blast towards them. With a claw swing and a punch, the evil duo immediately shattered like glass. The sound of an engine roar and they looked to their left, to see a Bullhead begin to take off and fly away with Roman and Neo standing it.

Akito: "Not this time!"

With him preparing to activate Gundam Exia, Akito aimed Alpha's barrel right at the Bullhead and pulled the trigger. The pink beam launched from the barrel and headed straight for the Bullhead which had no time to move, only for a familiar figure to swoop in and block the shot with a green beam shield. With their eyes widening, the two teams spotted the same one who interfered in the docks.

Akito: "The Eclipse Gundam!?"

Blake: "Again..!?"

With the Bullhead flying off into the distance, the wearer of the Eclipse Gundam stared down at them before blasting off into the distance in an instant. Before he could process what happened, he remembered Setsuna, who had now fallen onto her knees. He picked her up, giving her a piggyback ride.

Akito: "Easy now, girl.."

Setsuna: *pants heavily* "R-Right.."

Yang: "So I guess he got a new henchman."

Weiss: "Well... I guess she really made our plans... fall apart?" With Ruby snickering slightly Akito and Blake turned and began leaving, the former with the crippled Setsuna on his back and his for sisters returning to his mind. Yang however just looked at Weiss with a deadpan.

Yang: "No. Just no."

Weiss: "What? But you do it!"

Yang: "There's a time and place for jokes."

Weiss: "Was this not it?"

Yang: "No, it just wasn't very good." She began walking away as well and Weiss followed after, her hands on her hips.

Weiss: "Well at least I'm trying!"

Ruby: "Wait. Where are Sun and Neptune?" She wondered as the two have never been seen since getting knocked off the highway. But Akito only replied with.

Akito: "Don't know. Don't care."

END

Next Chapter: "Extracurricular"

Akito: "Bomb..."

Autumn: "W-What!?"

Akito: "I'm not sure... but it seemed like a paper of objectives for this specific Dust Robbery. 1. Storm the Dust Till Dawn Shop at night. 2. Steal enough Dust that could be used to create bombs. 3. Escape and get back to Roman in the South East."

Summer: "They want to.. create b-bombs..?"

Winter: "But why? What would they get out of this?? And why are they working with Roman?"

Akito: "I don't know... but we should get this back to Ozpin as soon as possible.."