Somewhere in the desert, Blake's past is coming for her, while Team WNPF have some small problems to deal with

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“What do you mean you mean you don’t know how to land a plane? I thought you said you knew how to fly!”

To say that Weiss was angry would be putting it lightly. Red from anger, she was in the cockpit with Neon, Penny and Flynt, trying to understand what they had to do. Well… Penny and Flynt were, Weiss was trying to strangle Neon in her fury. Before she was even asked to go to Vacuo, she was already planning an escape and she had asked for the help of team FNKI, which they happily agreed for various reasons, but this wasn’t the point. When Neon had told her that she knew how to fly a plane, Weiss was ecstatic, she had finally had found her escape route. But now, she regretted every choice she ever made in life, especially those involving Neon.

“Well, it’s true!” Neon said, trying to free herself from Weiss’ grip, managing to breath for a second before the heiress found her neck once more with her hands.

“No it’s not, you stupid cat, you just told me you can’t land the fucking plane!”

Penny chose that instant to clear her throat, looking at Weiss with a judging look. “Weiss, please don’t kill your friends.” she said, before looking back at the commands, alerts and other measures that the instruments on the dashboard were giving them. She sat down at Neon’s seat, before grabbing the headset and opened the radio to contact the Patch airfield.

“Patch airfield, this is private jet WRABB4E demanding authorization to do an emergency landing. Our pilot has passed out and nobody knows how to land the plane, we will need help to do so.”

Weiss just grabbed the headrest of both seats as she looked at the airstrip that was quickly getting bigger and bigger as they got closer, Penny and Flynt following the instructions that the control tower was giving them, while Neon was encased in an ice block, only her face free from the ice, simply looking defeated. Everybody (except Neon) jumped when the alarms began blaring their warnings. “Pull up. Reduce speed. Pull up. Reduce speed. Pull up”

“This” said Flynt, looking as calm as he could in this situation “is going to hurt. Really, really hurt.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes ma’am, she looked exactly like her.”

“Thanks. Alright, you can go back to see your parents.”

The rabbit Faunus sighed as the blond kid quickly ran back to his family, somewhere in the refugee camp that they had built while they repaired the damage done by the white fang attack in the village. As if bandits and Grimms wasn’t enough, they had now a white fang cell operating in the kingdom. But most importantly, she was apparently here. Velvet Scarlatina, member of team CFVY and the one that was made in charge of the security surrounding the camp by her leader Coco, sat down in her tent and rubbed her temples wondering about what they should be doing. Everyone that was part of the final battle at Beacon knew that Blake had fled as soon as she could. However, no one knew where she had disappeared. But now, as she was looking at the few things left behind in the white fang camp, especially by their leader, someone named Perry, she was learning important information. First, this was a small force and the main force was in Mistral, doing who knows what. They would have to try and warn Mistral as soon as possible. Secondly, she also learned that this wasn’t the first time that Blake had attacked White Fang troops, that she must have followed them around Remnant since the beginning, hunting them down slowly. At least, Velvet thought, it didn’t look like she killed anyone.

“So, Velvs, anything new?”

Velvet almost fell from her chair as Coco talked to her, not having heard her get to the tent. Damn sand, it prevents from hearing the sound of footsteps. She looked at her leader and girlfriend and blushed. Yes, it was hot, but…

“Do you really need to show so much skin?” said Velvet, just loudly enough for Coco to hear, which made Coco grinned, crossing her arms as she looked at the Faunus woman.

“What, don’t like the view?”

Wearing rather short brown shorts, a white crop top showing her midriff, shoulders, arms, and oh too much skin for Velvet’s brain, who was struggling to simply work, as it kept ogling at the woman’s body. Her beret and sunglasses were still in place and even after a week she still looked perfect, she still looked amazing, like a model, she was still so sexy, so…

“Velvet” Coco asked, snapping her fingers in the bunny’s face, a huge smile on her face. “Are you still there? You’re drooling.”

Blushing, Velvet hid her face in her hands, mumbling an apology as she tried to control the mental images that her brain was blasting her mind with, as she took deep breaths and slowly regained her calm. Clearing her throat, she looked up at Coco, who was still grinning at her.

“Well… they attacked the village, but the villagers held them back enough that help was able to come. A faunus woman with black hair, a white coat, thigh high boots, a chain-sickle-sword-pistol weapon and the ability to create doubles of herself. Reminds you of anyone?” She took a deep breath, trying to calm her heart as it was blasting in her chest, her mind filling with worry as she looked at Coco, the diva had lost her smile and was deep in her thoughts

“You think it’s Blake?”

“I asked the villagers and showed them various dark haired faunus woman pictures. All of them gave me the same answer, Blake is the one they saw. Coco… what should we do?”

The diva took out her scroll and sent a message to someone, her left foot tapping on the ground at the same time. She sat down next to Velvet, her arms crossed and her feet on the table. A few minutes later, Yatsuashi and Fox entered the tent, quickly heading to the seats in front of Velvet and Coco when they saw their leader’s gaze.

“First of all, Yatsu, Fox, you both owe me 50 lien, Blake’s a faunus. Secondly-“

“Wait” said velvet, surprise filled in her voice and face as she looked at Coco. ” Did you really bet on the fact that Blake could be a faunus?”

“Oh yeah. We made a bunch of bets at Beacon. Hell, Nora made a betting pool on when Pyrrha and Jaune, Yang and Blake, as well as Weiss and Ruby would finally get together. Fun fact? There was also on option for a team RWBY wide relationship. Didn’t get a lot of betting on it though, neither did all the other combinations, especially the Yang and Ruby one.”

Shaking her head in disbelief, Velvet sighed as she motioned to Coco to keep going. Beacon really was a weird school sometime. Coco smiled, grabbed the money that the two men were giving her and kept going as if nothing happened.

“It’s a tradition in Beacon, we even have some teachers and other staff members that bet. But let’s get back onto our main topic. Blake has been spotted in the area, so we have a new objective. Find her and try to talk to her. We need to understand why she fled. We may not be friend with her, but she’s a comrade and, to do what she did, she must have had a good reason.”

Everybody nodded, and headed out to their tents. They had to go as soon as possible if they wanted to have a chance at this. If Blake got too far away, they wouldn’t be able to find her. But she probably was still in the area, trying to find the remaining White Fang soldiers. Velvet entered her tent and zipped it back closed, as she began to undress to get in her fighting gear. But she quickly stopped when someone slowly unzipped the opening, revealing a grinning Coco, who entered, before zipping it back down once more.

“Hum… Coco, I want to change before we head out and…”

“Oh, I know Velvet, I know.”

“Coco, no.”

“Coco, yes” answered the diva, grinning as she pounced on the bunny girl, pushing her down on her sleeping bag.

“You really did an awful job you know?” said Neon, holding a pack of ice on her head with one hand, as she slowly rubbed her neck with her other hand.

After they had claimed that their pilot had passed out, they did the most logical thing that they could think and simply headbutted Neon’s head against the wall… a few times, enough to knock her out. Weiss had done it with pleasure, before bracing herself for impact, as they finally hit the ground. The front wheel had hit the ground first, ripping it off completely before the back wheels even touched the ground. They skid a long distance on the tarmac, engines blasting in reverse, as they desperately tried to stop their crash BEFORE they hit anything, especially the airport. Which they managed, with barely a dozen of meters between the plane and the building. When they finally got out, they were helped by emergency personnel, but Weiss quickly headed inside to talk with the director of the airport, demanding that no information about the crash leaked out of the deserted airport. She didn’t want her father to learn, somehow, where she was. When she guaranteed his silence, she went back to the plane, to be with Penny, Flynt and, begrudgingly, Neon. After that, they simply waited to see what would happen, waited for Neon to regain consciousness and for Weiss to tell them what would be their next objective.

And of course, first thing that Neon said when she woke up was that. Weiss really, really, really wanted to jump to her throat and strangle her, but Penny held her tight, sighing softly at the way they were both acting.

“I thought you knew how to fly!” yelled the heiress, her eyes fixed on Neon, trying to see if her death glare could, for once, kill someone.

“But it’s true! I know how to fly a plane! I just don’t know how to land!” answered the party girl, crossing her arms on her chest, sticking out her tongue to Weiss.

They all stayed silent for a moment before Weiss screamed in anger, using her glyphs to dash away from Penny and Flynt, pursuing the cat faunus that kept zipping away with her semblance, while the two other members of their group just sighed. Well, at least, nobody was seriously injured, that was the most important thing.

“Okay, Ice Princess, calm down, will you? You’re really hurting my ears right now.”

In an instant, everybody turned to the source of the voice, a man in his 40s, with black, white and grey clothes, black hair, red eyes and a red cape. Weiss stopped dead on her tracks and walked angrily to the man, starring at the man. When she got to him, she crossed her arm, eyes locked into his.

"What are you doing here?"

"I have family here, you're not the only one who can visit from time to time."

“Bring me to them!”

“Wow, you’re even more stuck up than your sister… Guessed she trained you well.”

“I won’t repeat myself!”

Qrow just laughed as he turned around, heading to the airport’s building, his hands in his pockets, Weiss right behind him. Looking at each other, Flynt, Neon and Penny just followed them, unsure of what had just happened. They walked slowly, Qrow leading them towards a counter in the back of the building, labelled “Delivery”. Groaning, the heiress stormed in front of him, daggers shooting from her eyes as she looked up at the man.

“You said you were going to lead me to Yang and Ruby!”

“I didn’t say anything. And anyway, I have something to take from a certain someone that had something made for her.”

“And what is it that you are getting?”

Smiling, Qrow just ignored her. He spent a few minutes at the desk, speaking with the clerk and filling some papers, before coming back, a long white box with the Atlas logo on it, under his arm

“You’ll see soon enough.” Answered Qrow, as he passed her, heading outside of the airport, towards the town, the group of teens behind him, looking at each other with confusion in their eyes.