Weiss was creeping through a construction zone at midnight, with a makeshift bomb in her hand. She was going to have to plant the device close enough to the garrison to completely level the place. If any guards saw her, she was dead. All in all, she'd had worse days.

"How's it going Weiss?" Ruby came in over the comms, since she and the other two commandos were back in the forest, watching to make sure no one in the garrison came out and saw her.

"Fine." Weiss whispered back, feeling the need to be quiet, despite her knowledge that no one outside her helmet could hear her unless she wanted them to.

"You sound nervous." Blake pointed out, clearly having a good time with Weiss's nervousness.

"I'm just walking through a construction yard with a bomb filled with high explosives, and if I get seen, I'll be shot. So yeah, I'm pretty fucking nervous."" Weiss shot back, not in the mood to be messed with.

"Ah don't worry Weiss, if they shoot you just try and shield yourself with the bomb. You'll complete the objective, and you won't even feel it!" Yang entered the conversation a little too cheerfully, a hint of laughter in her voice.

"Yang I will come back there and shove this bomb so far up your-." Was as far as Weiss got before Ruby interjected, as Yang roared with laughter.

"Okay guys, let's calm down. You got this Weiss." Ruby said, before the comms went silent.

Weiss looked around as silence fell once again around her, suddenly becoming more nervous. Fuck, I kind of miss them now.

Weiss approached the edge of the construction site, where it was closest to the garrison. Gently setting the bomb down, she began to dig a hole to place the bomb in. She was worried at first that the dirt would suppress most of the blast, but Yang had assured them that she "had filled that with enough of the good stuff to put a large crater in this dirt planet." Weiss hoped that she didn't fill it with that much explosives, since the team would have to be relatively close by to detonate it.

Satisfied with the depth of the hole she had dug, she gingerly lowered the bomb into it, before covering it with a tarp.

Weiss began to sneak away from the bomb, ready to get back to her team.

The sun had risen, and Junior had begun to inspect his troops. A smile spread across Blake's face, as her crosshair settled on the back of his head, ready to take the shot. Despite Weiss placing the bomb, Team RWBY had elected to snipe Junior, and then blow the place to kingdom come. As it had worked out, Junior didn't sleep in the garrison, so they would have had to wait anyway.

"I have the shot." She reported matter-of-factly, waiting for the command she so desperately wanted to hear.

"Take." Was all Ruby said, as Blake's smile widened and her finger squeezed down on the trigger.

A red puff of vapor escaped from the back of his head as he lurched forward, his blood leaving a nice mark on the front of the garrison.

"And goodbye garrison." Ruby remarked happily as her thumb pressed down on the detonator.

Nothing happened.

"Oh fuck, nonono." Ruby said, pressing the trigger repeatedly.

"Wish we had brought the E-Web." Weiss said, referring to the standard issue heavy repeating blaster that most commando squads carried. RWBY had decided against bringing it, but were now unequipped to deal with the high amount of enemy troopers coming towards them.

"Yeah, definitely should have brought the E-Web." She remarked as blaster fire began to fly into the trees, RWBY taking cover.

"This is RWBY actual, we require immediate evac, I repeat, immediate evac!" Ruby began barking into her comlink as Blake began to fire more rounds into the approaching onslaught of enemies. She decided to take out one of Junior's lieutenants, the one dressed in white. Her head snapped back as a plasma bolt entered her skull cavity, exiting with a spray of blood. Blake quickly took the sniper attachment off her gun, realizing that she needed to be using her default rifle to deal with the swarm of enemies.

"What the fuck happened here Yang?!" Ruby yelled, shooting at the horde of droids and mercenaries before ducking behind a tree, dodging several blaster bolts.

"This was not my fault, that charge was packed perfectly!" Yang complained as she slapped on her anti-armor attachment, firing grenades into her enemies.

Ruby began rapidly pressing the detonator again, her frustration growing. "Stupid. Piece. Of. Fucking. SHIT!" At her last obscenity, Ruby slammed the detonator into the tree trunk.

KABOOM!

The girls were immediately knocked down, as what had once been a garrison was instantly disintegrated by Yang's bomb.

Miltia Malachite found herself face down in the dirt, her previous place of occupation having just been sent 50 meters in the sky. The droids were dead, as were all the mercs. The only reason she was alive was because she had sprinted towards the forest immediately, but at an angle, so she could flank whoever had assassinated her boss. Poor Junior. And Melanie too. She had seen her twin go down, probably sniped by the same asshole who had killed Junior. Tears began to well in her eyes, but she shoved the emotions aside. I can grieve later, now is the time for vengeance.

Gripping her custom rifle, she rose unsteadily to her feet. All she could hear was a piercing ringing, and if the sharp pain in her left ear was any indicator, she had blown an eardrum. Feeling a wet sensation on the right side of her face, she brushed it with her fingers, coming back with blood on her fingertips. Guess I blew them both.

She began to walk towards the treeline, limping. She looked at her left leg, and saw a piece of metal stuck into the outside of her thigh. Shrapnel from a droid. Perfect.

Grimacing from the pain, she began to approach the forest, feeling not pain, nor sadness, but only a hunger for vengeance. After it was all done, then she would feel pain.

Yang groaned as she lay on her back, silence falling on the battlefield in the aftermath of the deafening explosion. She sat up, shaking her head.

Weiss was the first one to stand, albeit shakily. She looked at Yang, and then Ruby, before just shaking her head disapprovingly.

"I don't know whose fault that was, and I don't really care, but just know that whoever it was, you suck." Weiss said, her remark met by laughter from her friends.

"Well I guess we're done here." Ruby said, beginning to rise from behind the tree where she had been knocked on her ass.

It was then that Yang heard the most disgusting sound she had ever had the misfortune of hearing. It was the sound of a Verpine Shatter Rifle slug penetrating armor, and entering flesh.

It was the sound that accompanied Weiss falling to the ground, completely silent.

"Enemy contact!" Ruby barked, as Yang rushed to Weiss. She had fallen on her back and Yang struggled to get her helmet off.

Yang was barely aware of plasma fire streaming from Blake's location, and it seemed like more than necessary, but that wasn't important. What was important was saving the life of her teammate.

"The medpack. Get the fucking medpack!" Yang yelled as she tried to stop the bleeding. The round had entered through Weiss's side, where the armor was much thinner, to allow for range of motion.

"Talk to me here Weiss. Where are you right now?" Yang said, trying to keep her teammate focused, trying to keep her mind off the blood because fuck that was a lot of blood.

"I'm on some shithole planet." Weiss wheezed, her breathing clearly impaired.

"Round entered her side, may have broken some ribs, possibly punctured a lung." Yang stated as Ruby joined her, medpack in hand. Blake was standing, keeping watch for any other surprises the team wasn't ready for.

Yang put pressure on the wound, feeling for any breaks, as Weiss yelped in pain.

"Yeah, definitely broken ribs. This punctured lungs gonna screw us if we aren't careful though." Yang said, holding her hand out, palm up. "Bio-foam."

Ruby handed her the bio-foam spray can, which was designed to fill holes in the body. Yang angled it into the wound, hoping to spray enough to stop the bleeding, but not enough that she filled the lung with the foam. If she did that, Weiss could suffocate.

"Sorry princess, but this one's gonna hurt." She said apologetically, spraying the foam, as Ruby got back on the comms.

"This is RWBY actual, I need that evac now! We have wounded, repeat, we have wounded." She went silent, before nodding.

"Evac's in the clearing with the farmhouse, we need to move." She relayed to her team, standing up.

"Come on Weiss, we need to move." Yang said, lifting Weiss up, and draping Weiss's left arm around her shoulders. They began to move towards the clearing, Blake walking behind them, rifle ready to take anyone on.

In the clearing was the greatest sight of Yang's life. A LAAT/i gunship, ready to extract them. They got over there as fast as they could, Weiss's armor stained with even more blood. There was a medic on board, and as soon as they were on he began to take a look at Weiss, while Yang recounted what happened. Blake and Ruby sat down as the gunship took off, happy to be off this planet.

"You're gonna be alright Weiss. You're gonna be just fine." Yang reassured her, as Weiss did something very strange.

She smiled.

"You know, this is what pirates do, right?" Pyrrha said, and Jaune began to laugh.

"No, we maintain a sense of style and personal hygiene that pirates could only help to match." Their pilot, Redwing, replied, causing Jaune to howl with laughter. Nora was laughing as well, and Ren was completely still, as if he was asleep.

Pyrrha was right though, they were partaking in pirate strategy. Team JNPR was sitting in a disguised commercial freighter, waiting for another disguised commercial freighter to jump into the system, so that they could open fire on them. The freighter had been associated with a large criminal organization that was plundering Republic trade routes, among other illegal activities. JNPR had been sent to take them out of the equation and obtain as much information on the organization as possible. Using pirate strategy on pirates.

And so they sat, waiting for their mark to enter the system, as they had been for the past two hours.

"Are we even sure that they'll come into this system?" Nora asked, having starting to grow impatient roughly one minute into the operation.

"Well intel said they would be, so take that as you will." Redwing stated, causing Nora to groan. They were only a week or so into the war, and Intel had already gained a reputation of being spotty at best.

JNPR had been drifting for a while now, cracking jokes while Nora continued to play heavy metal music. It was all very much against regulations, but Redwing seemed like a relaxed enough pilot, and Jaune didn't really care.

Jaune was seated next to Pyrrha, helmet off, also against regulations, with a smile plastered across his face. His armor was still covered with scorch marks from the battle on Geonosis, which was annoying Pyrrha for some reason. All through their training they had maintained clean armor, and since his was white, Jaune had always worked exceptionally hard to make sure it was spotless. But now it was as if he didn't care.

Nora was across from Jaune and Pyrrha, her fingers drumming to the beat of the music she had chosen. Ren sat next to her, his helmet off just like the rest of them, sitting completely still, eyes closed. If Pyrrha didn't know any better, she would assume he had fallen asleep. But that wasn't the case, since for as long as they had been a squad Pyrrha had known Ren to be like this. Always quiet before a mission, but when he needed to, he would switch on into the ruthless killing machine he was born to be.

"So Red, you do this type of thing often?" Jaune asked, trying to get to know the pilot more.

"Are you asking if I've flown a disguised freighter so I can attack other disguised freighters and send in a commando squad to board them?" Redwing said, pausing for a moment as if thinking about the missions he had flown in the past week. "No, can't say I have."

"Well no time like the present huh?" Jaune said, still smiling. This was a side of him that Pyrrha had never seen before. Back in training Jaune was quiet, and unsure of his abilities. But during Geonosis he had truly emerged as a leader, and shown confidence. It would seem this new Jaune was here to stay, and Pyrrha had no problem with that. He is rather cute when he's being confident. Pyrrha quickly snapped out of those thoughts, choosing to focus on the mission. There would be time after the mission for her to reflect on these feelings of hers.

"Contact about to jump into the system. Specs match the freighter we're looking for." Redwing stated, and the mood became serious.

"Sure would be embarrassing, hijacking a civilian freighter." Jaune said, his helmet in his hands.

"Yeah, but I would bet money that this is our ship. It's approaching in thirty seconds." Redwing said, cutting his comm feed as he got ready.

Immediately Nora stopped playing her music, Ren opened his eyes, and all four commandos put on their helmets, snapping them into place.

"Ten seconds. Going dark." Redwing said, cutting the lights inside and outside the ship.

Inside the holding area the only light was coming from the blue glow of the commando's visors, a sight Pyrrha felt was oddly reassuring, and deep inside her she felt a feeling she had identified during the battle of Geonosis. She was excited.

It was time to hunt.

A/N: Hey guys and gals, Heil96 here! I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, and I'm really looking forward to the next few as well! We broke one thousand total views of RC RWBY, which is absolutely amazing! Thanks to every single one of you, I hadn't expected this much interest in the story! I know I kinda left the whole Weiss situation at a cliffhanger, but I felt like that was a good time to switch it up to JNPR. I finished my moncon, which means I can put my full attention back to this and my new OC fic, AtS. I want to give a shoutout to some of my friends from the r/RWBY discord server, namely /u/RavenBranwen, Bran, ImmolateDynamo, and Dragon. They are writing an awesome fic called The Misadventures of Team TWLT, and while I recommend that you go read it, I feel the need to warn you. It's satirical smut, and is written so poorly (on purpose), and with so many overpowered OC's (also intentional), that it's beautiful. It really earns the M rating, so don't give me a review that says "Holy shit my eyes are bleeding Heil96 why would you do this." So yeah, go check it out if you want, and if not, new chapter of RC RWBY will be posted Friday at around noon CST. That's all I've got, thanks for reading!



Team RWBY

RC-1183 Ruby

RC-1104 Weiss

RC-1170 Blake

RC-1126 Yang

Team JNPR

RC-1390 Jaune

RC-1163 Nora

RC-8051 Pyrrha

RC-2223 Ren

Vode An

Heil96, out.