Chapter 45 - 44 - Painting The Town (2)

[With Blake and Sun]

The two walk inside the building to a hallway filled with cases, seeing another man announcing "Recruits, keep to the right!" at the young pair as they follow.

Sun: I don't get it.

Sun holds out the half-mask in his hand.

Sun: "If the White Fang believe what they're doing is right, why hide who you all 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 kind of dark."

Blake: "So was the guy who started it."

Blake puts her mask on and walks towards the gathering area.

Sun: Always sunshine and rainbows with you...

Sun follows her behind her thinking that both her and Shallot have a pessimistic view of things even though he thinks Shallot doesn't really care for much even though he always has that smile on his face.

The recruits to the White Fang are moving in a line to the side of the stage, a mere few dozen compared to the hundreds of white-vested, black-hooded soldiers to their left and up above in the balconies. Blake and Sun look around themselves when they stop, and a fully-masked man with tattoos standing starts speaking before the large sheet emblazoned with the bloody wolf and claw marks.

The dark pants and brown shoes step forward before the orange tip of the Melodic Cudgel taps on the stage. Everyone below the stage can see it is none other than Roman, smiling confidently even as the crowd starts protesting.

Roman starts waving mockingly

Roman: "Thank you, thank you!"

As he speaks, Neopolitan walks out from behind the sheet off to the side.

Neo: 'I sent the message so he should be here soon.

Roman: "Please, hold your applause!"

Slightly behind where she was at some rubble falls behind and she glances over behind the sheet she came from and sees Shallot drop down while holding a piece of the ceiling.

Shallot pulls the mask he's been carrying in his shirt and puts it on while putting his hair in a ponytail while changing his outfit slightly to appear bigger.

Shallot walks and stands by Neo while Roman is giving his speech and grabs Neo's ȧss.

Shallot: "Nice and firm we should head out after this and enjoy ourselves. After all, I made a promise, didn't I?

Neo blushes and just nods her head and pulls out her scrolls typing and sending a message to him.

[Neo]: You just want me to fight her. Do you want me to go easy or not?

Shallot just looked at her phone leaning close to her instead of pulling out his scroll and thinking about whether Blake would be reckless enough to fight everyone in here.

Shallot: "Actually, I don't think she would openly fight beside the one that should be really tested is someone else since they rely too much on their semblance and it could lead to her downfall. There is a female with yellow hair that will most like to come."

Shallot pulled out his scroll and showed him a picture of Yang.

Shallot: "I want you to push her as far as you can. Don't use any of your own strength and only turn her strength against herself so she can see that there are people that can best here even if she is strong."

Neo nodded her head and they both watched Roman doing his speech as they decided to take the scraps after it is destroyed to start working on their real plan but they need to make sure that Cinder is none the wiser so she doesn't tell who she is reporting to.

Shallot: "Have you found out who Cinder is working for?"

Neo just shook her head in denial. She types on her phone again and shows him.

[Neo]: Not yet but I think I'm getting closer. I did however find out that the surveillance system in the Emerald Forest is starting to falter and that there was an android there that was scavenging around for something.

Shallot: "An android? That's something I didn't know about."

Shallot: 'Has something changed since I've been messing with things? If so then I'm on the right track.'

[Neo]: While I was investigating I came across another one and it managed to detect me and I destroyed it but on the back of it had the logo of Merlot Industries which we thought went down with settlement at Mountain Glenn.

Shallot: "This sounds like something major. I'll need you to look into this more so that I can figure out what is going on so close to here."

While they were talking they heard a gunshot go off and the lights went out.

Shallot: "Well I think knowing Roman he'll deal with Sun but we also to test out these mechs so when we rebuild them in our own way we have experience."

Neo nodded her head.

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

Shallot: "He's really getting into his role."

Roman: "Stop them!"

Shallot: "Now to have the chase."

Shallot picked up Neo in a princess carry and started chasing them in the mech.

Shallot: 'That looks like so much fun! I'm definitely riding in one even if it is useless for me.'

Shallot carried Neo while flying through the sky until they were above the expressway chasing after Roman and keeping a close eye on him.

Shallot: 'I need this to happen so that I can draw out Raven so I can use my sensing and see if I can sense the magic in her so I can try to use these damn silver eyes that Blake said I had. I don't even know how that works but to hell with the explaining. I'll just leave it in R.O.B doing.'

While they were flying Shallot could see Sun hope onto another vehicle and send some clones after Roman with only one knocking him off of balance before continuing running at full speed while swatting the other one.

Some distance away a bullet was fired and hit the front of the mech suit and staggered it slightly and Neptune had arrived jumping from over the edge of the highway from another section and launched himself at it with his glave.

Roman grabbed him out of the air while having a smirk on his face while aiming toward Sun.

Roman: 'You're the one that gets special treatment from Sahllot so don't blame me.'

While Roman was distracted Weiss hoped down and used her semblance freezing the highway roads making him lose traction and fall forward with the mech sliding off of the highway.

Shallot: "Well he was doing pretty well for his first time using the thing."

The rest of his team hoped down to stand against Roman.

Shallot: "Now let's see how much they have progressed in training."

Shallot floated down on the highway above them placing Neo on her feet while pulling his scroll out.

[Shallot]: Use everything you got to fight them. I want to see how much more training they need.

Roman was sitting inside the mech when his scroll was buzzing and hurriedly checked it and seeing the message grunted and got ready knowing that he may have to fight hand to hand after getting out.

Roman: 'Why do I feel like some cannon fodder minion every time he sends a message. I just want to rob enough dust store to sell off and live the rest of my life in luxury.

[AN: I now have a ******* so if you want to see chapter as soon as they are completed check them out there since I don't have to worry about things being deleted there. You don't have to if you don't want to since chapters will be posted here

pat.reon.com/TGM_Productions.. (remove the (.) if you didn't know)]