[Sporking] The Plus One of RWBY - Chapter 10 part 2
The White Fang meetings only happen at night so they waited till night
[Fufu]: As we gathered.
[Kirby]: This sentence is brought to you by the writers of M. Night Shammy-Melon’s The Last Airbender.
to approach the dark alley that most people would never want to enter. Blake ran her hand along a three-clawed mark on the wall. She looked around the corner and saw two people approaching a man, who talked with them for a moment before opening the door and letting them in.
"This is it." Blake said to AJ and Sun who were behind her.
"Alright. Here we go." AJ said. Blake took off her bow, and they approached the man who soon let them in as well.
"I don't get it, if you think what you're doing is right, why hide who you are behind the masks?" Sun asked since they had been handed masks when they went in.
"The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to dawn the faces of monsters." Blake explained.
"Grimm masks, that's kinda dark." Sun pointed out.
"So is the guy who started it, unfortunately." Blake said before turning and walking towards the next door.
They easily blended in with all the other newcomers
[Fufu]: Except that AJ really shouldn’t since he has more than one Faunus feature. Until we see a Faunus in the show with multiple features, he’s gonna stand out with his ears and tail, and his claws if he reveals them.
in Grimm masks as they all joined a massive group, all but the new recruits wore the White Fang uniform, including the man at the front of the stage. AJ was trying hard to not look afraid since he was surrounded by enemies, he felt Blake's fingers intertwine with his and he was able to relax.
[Fufu]: Love how it's AJ that’s afraid here as opposed to Blake, the one who left the White Fang and could possibly be seen as a traitor.
"Thank you all for coming." The speaker on stage started.
[Kirby]: This guy actually doesn’t have a name, but he does have an accent very similar to a certain Batman villain whose voice is oft made fun of; The Dark Knight Rises’ version of Bane.
"For those of you who are joining us for the first time today, 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!" He said as Roman Torchwich
[Fufu]: Hey, the deal’s back on! Must’ve been a popular one.
stepped up form back stage. ([Kirby]: “from backstage”)
"Thank you! Thank you! Please! Hold your applause!" Torchwich said.
"What's a human doing here!?" A girl in front of them said and pointed at Roman.
[Fufu]: This would look better being as; “[...] said a girl in front of them, pointing at Torchwick.”
[Kirby]: Ya, the only one who calls him Roman is Cinder.
[Fufu]: Not to mention that this is once again a thing related to what the audience would know the character better by. Both of us and even the actual narration has called him Torchwick/Torchwich this entire time for exactly that reason.
"I'm glad you asked, deary." ([Kirby]: Normally this would be correct, but this character’s name is actually “Deerie”, cause she’s a deer. For serious, it’s in the credits.) Torchwich responded. "I'll be the first to admit, Humans, are the worst. Case in point." He said pointing at himself.
"So is he going somewhere with this? Or…" Sun asked.
"So I can understand why you would want to see us all locked away, or better yet. Killed! But, before the claws come out, I'd like to mention, you and I ALL have a common enemy! The ones in control! The people pulling the strings! The rotten Humans that run our kingdom!" At this point the crowd was agreeing with him and shouting "Ya!" and largely ignored the fact that he is human.
"Government! Military! Even the schools! They're all to blame for your lot in life!" Torchwich said. "And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around… No offence to any rodents in the room!" He snapped his fingers and the cover behind him was removed to reveal a large machine with quite a few guns on it.
[Kirby]: Freckles!
[Fufu]: Wait, whut? What does that have to do with anything?
[Kirby]: I’ve been watching a lot of Red vs Blue lately. The robot in this scene looks a lot like Caboose’s pet killer robot named Freckles.
[Fufu]: ...Alrighty then. o3o.
Everyone began cheering at the sight of it.
"Well hello there..." AJ said looking up at the thing.
[Fufu]: So Torchwick reveals a massive war machine that he’s already hinting and is about to outright admit that he wishes to use to get rid of humans and AJ’s first reaction is to essentially say, “Well ain’t she a beaut’?”
[Kirby]: Ya, I immediately got the feeling that AJ was impressed. Boys and their toys I guess.
[Fufu]: Except that this is not the time or place to have him be impressed by this. Even Sun acknowledges that this is a bad thing.
"Oooh… That's a big robot." Sun said discouraged.
"How did he get that?" Blake asked.
[Kirby]: Well, because it’s the result of a collab between Atlus’ army and the SDC, it means that someone high up in either or both groups is working with Cinder-...sorry, this isn’t the time.
"As some of you may have heard, this right here, is Atlas's newest defense against all the scary things in the world! And thanks to my employer, we've managed to snag a few before they… hit the shelves!" Torchwich said. 'Those must be some big shelves.'
[Fufu]: ...I will confess that this made me smile a tiny bit.
[Kirby]: ...Dammit, me too.
"Now, many of your brothers have already moved to our operation in the Southeast. 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?" Torchwich asked and everyone started cheering.
"We should get out of here." Blake said.
"All new recruits, please come forward!" The White Fang speaker said and everyone started to move forward in their group.
"Well! Um…" Sun said seeing everyone move but them.
"Start walking! You'll stand out less!" AJ whispered as he started to walk forward before stopping when Blake spoke.
"Too late, I think Roman see's us." Blake pointed out.
[Fufu]: “see’s”? Um, why is there an apostrophe there?
"Then do something!" AJ quietly demanded.
[Fufu]: How about if you shut up and stop panicking? ‘Cause legit, you are the one giving orders here while in the show, shit just happened. I can’t remember exactly what happened, though my more knowledgeable friend here would probably quote the exact script for us, but I’m pretty sure that this was either Blake figuring out an escape route on her own or Sun asking, “What we gonna do?”, thus prompting the following line from Blake.
"He can't see in the dark." Blake said smirking before pulling out her weapon in pistol form and shooting out the power to the lights. "Quick! The window!" She said over the panicked sounds of the White Fang soldiers.
[Fufu]: ...And I’m only now realising that there was no mention of Neo. I know that there wasn’t any attention brought to her in the show during the meeting, but then again, that’s because it's a visual media. We could see her and acknowledge her on our own, being all like,
“Ooh, who’s she?” This would actually be a good point for AJ to be all observant and shit and be all like, “Who’s the chick on stage with Torchwich?”
[Kirby]: Neo first appeared in a trailer for volume 2 and people jumped on her being important immediately just from her design. Her colour scheme is based on neapolitan ice cream, she stands out.
[Fufu]: Apparently not to AJ.
"On it!" AJ and Sun both said and all three of them burst out the window. Not long after the robot
[Kirby]: It’s called “The Atlesian Paladin-290”.
broke through the wall and began chasing them. They jumped off a car onto the rooftops and began jumping across rooftops as the machine chased them along the streets.
"So, you guys wouldn't happen to have, oh I don't know… Some form of backup!?" Sun asked while jumping.
"Call the others!" AJ suggested.
[Fufu]: Seriously?! Okay, I know I said it before, but I’m repeating it again; AJ’s only inclusions to the series have been to agree with others or to tell people to do stuff that they managed to do on their own in canon. He is legit Lydia from the Sailor Rainbow fics.
"Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-" Blake started into her phone.
"HEEEEELLLLP!" Sun yelled.
"Torchwich is after us in a giant robot! Get here quick!" AJ yelled so they would hear him through the phone.
[Fufu]: Even though there’s only a small chance that they actually will considering that you are outside in the middle of traffic, so you already have the wind interfering by either being too loud or just plain carrying your voice away, plus all the inevitable car horns from evening rush hour road rage or in protest to a bunch of silly kids doing parkour on their rooftops (That means you guys). Plus you are running from Torchwick in the robot, so your breathlessness from running might make it so your voice doesn’t carry well at all, plus the robot’s loud running or mechanics could override anything you say. Its easier for Blake to talk since she has her Scroll phone thing right next to her face, so all of that is minimised, though not necessarily completely cancelled out.
They jumped from a particularly high roof onto the highway and started jumping from car to car as the robot Torchwich is in jumped up as well but he simply pushed the cars out of the way.
[Kirby]: U no they ded.
"Whoa!" Sun said.
"Yep! Definitely keep moving!" AJ yelled as they continued to jump between cars.
Yang and Neptune came by on Yang's motorcycle and Neptune shot the robot a few times before jumping on and stabbing it.
[Fufu]: With what? Cause the author is yet to mention that Neptune has a BFG as a weapon.
[Kirby]: It’s also a glave and a trident (cause Neptune, get it? XD).
The machine began spinning trying to get him off.
"Neptune! Hold on!" Sun said and used him semblance to create two copies of himself that went and hit the robot before jumping up to hit it himself. The robot finally threw Neptune off and he hit Sun midair and they fell off the overpass.
[Fufu]: They’re trying to escape this story. Unfortunately, they can’t do that quite yet. They’re not as lucky as Penny.
AJ and Blake turned around on the cars they were on and almost started firing when they heard Weiss yell "I'm in position!" And land in front of them. She created a thin layer of ice on the road that the robot slid off of and fell below the overpass where Ruby was waiting, the rest of RWBY went down and joined her, AJ was about to do the same when the car he on moved suddenly and he fell off it. He couldn't see straight for a second cause he landed head first on the hard road. When he finally looked up he saw an unmarked van pull up in front of him and that White Fang speaker came out of it, and he had a chainsaw…
[Fufu]: ???! Why? Why is there suddenly a chainsaw wielding psycho here? I know for a fact that after the Atlesian robot fell from the overpass, the entire battle continued down there. Unless… is this going to affect Weiss’ battle with this fucker later in the story???
[Kirby]: Well, he was the speaker at the meeting earlier, but the White Fang didn’t follow after Mecha-Torchwick in canon, and we weren’t given a reason why they would be doing so here.
[Fufu]: Exactly. So why is he here? And considering he appears later while fighting Weiss, I can’t help but wonder if this battle he’s having with AJ will come back to bite us.
[Kirby]: Oh, we’ll get to that. Fair warning, there will be CAPSLOCK!
"A chainsaw!? Really!? After all the crazy, mecha-shifting weapons I've seen, you have a chainsaw!? Oh this is gonna be too-"
[Fufu]: And AJ’s first reaction? To be cocky and say, “Bitch please, this’ll be easy.” Nevermind that this is still dangerous and that if you fuck up while fighting him, you will be fucked. Not to mention that you’re one to talk with your plain old shitty sword.
[Kirby]: Also, that chainsaw is probably also a gun. Just saying.
[Fufu]: Well yeah, considering what show this is. Everything is a fucking gun. Which just makes AJ stand out even more, now that I’m recalling this fact.
[Kirby]: “It’s also a gun.” -ancient Monty Oum proverb.
He was interrupted by the chainsaw guy dashing towards him and swinging his chainsaw it him, he jumped over it put was punched by the guy while he was in the air and actually was knocked a few meters away. "easy…" AJ said standing back up.
He shot a Energy blast at Chainsaw Guy and was surprised to see him move out of the way quickly before running towards him.
[Fufu]: Because he managed to dodge your attack. Oh, such a surprise that this guy might actually be a trained warrior and thus knows how to deal with situations like these.
[Kirby]: Not to mention the guy’s built like a friggin’ mountain.
He jumped up hitting him in the chin with his knee before spinning in midair for a kick in the side of the head that knocked him back but he quickly swung his weapon at AJ again and he had to dodge the attacks. "Oh please! You are so slow you aren't even a challenge!" AJ mocked.
[Fufu]: Seriously dude, do you take anything seriously?! If he happens to get a lucky swing in that you ain’t expecting and thus cannot stop or dodge, you could die! Not that I’d complain but seriously!
"Damn traitor!" Chainsaw Guy said before charging with reckless and predictable swings and punches.
[Kirby]: “Excuse me, I’m not a traitor. I was never on your side!”
AJ honestly let the guy swing at him for a while and occasionally getting in one easy punch or kick because the guy left himself open, eventually he dodged a swing by jumping over him and kicked him in the back of the head. While he was reeling AJ drained the Energy away from his arms and activated the lightning Dust and started striking the guy with small bolts of lightning before getting bored and punching the guy with a lighting filled punch almost knocking him out. The guy couldn't get up
[Fufu]: Yep. You just read that folks. Despite this being a genuinely tough enemy, wielding what is a dangerous weapon even to trained Huntresses and Huntsmen, AJ just makes quick and easy work of him. Because the author can’t have him get beaten now can he? Not unless he can rematch and win later.
and AJ was casually walking towards him when he saw a dagger land at his feet. He looked up from the dagger and saw two elite soldiers like the ones he fought last semester. One had bandages on his left hand.
"Oh! Hey! I remember you guys!" AJ said with a friendly smile. "I've gotten a LOTbetter since last time! Wanna try again?" AJ asked, now sporting an evil smile.
[Fufu]: Fucking- AUTHOR, YOU WANT ME TO CHEER HIM ON WHEN HE DOES SHIT LIKE THIS. *skims ahead slightly* AND IT AIN’T GONNA GET ANY BETTER!
He deactivated the lighting Dust seeing as it wasn't worth using on these guys.
One of the soldiers struck at him and AJ backed up from the swing and the guy picked up his dagger so now he had two. AJ dodged his dual daggers without a terrible amount of effort when suddenly he jumped away from him and AJ saw the other elite was taking Chainsaw Guy and running away, the soldier he was fighting went to run with him.
"Oh come on guys! We were just getting started!" AJ whined
[Fufu]: Good fucking god, you are a seriously twisted kind of Blood Knight, aren’t you?!
before using his bow to appear in front of the elite he was fighting and hit him once with his sword. The soldier tried to swing back but AJ just moved out of the way and kicked him into a car and while the soldier was trying to get up, he grabbed him by the wrist.
"So, the one who's hand I stabbed made it out fine, why are there only two of you?" AJ questioned.
"You broke the guy's hand asshole! There was no way he could fight!" The soldier said.
"Aww… the poor thing can't fight with a broken hand… that's too BAD!" *SNAP*
[Fufu]: YOU ARE AN UTTER PSYCHOPATH! YOU TAKE JOY OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MISERY AND PAIN YOU SICK FUCK!
"AAAAHHH!" The soldier cried out and held his now broken wrist. AJ punched him the face hard knocking him out.
[Fufu]: AND YOU’RE STILL FUCKING DOING IT YOU ABSOLUTE COCKWHORE BITCH!
"So now there's only one of the three guys left! Wonder if I'll ever see him again?"
[Kirby]: I hope not, poor bastards have had enough beatings from you.
[Fufu]: Legit serious here, with AJ in this story, I actually pity the White Fang. They don’t stand a chance, and it’s too much even for them. ...Actually, I’ve just realised something.
[Kirby]: Ya?
[Fufu]: We all know the deal with AJ. He isn’t actually a Faunus, he’s as human as everyone else. And yet here he is, beating on other Faunus. He’s just as despicable as all the other discriminatory humans from Remnant’s past, only he’s shoved some ears on himself and called himself a fellow Faunus, which takes it further into twisted territory.
[Kirby]: Not only that, but he previously kept justifying everything the White Fang did, so he’s beating up these guys despite constantly siding with them.
[Fufu]: So our man wasn’t too far off when he called him a “traitor”.
[Kirby]: He doesn’t even really have a reason to be fighting them, other than he just likes to watch them hurt. AJ’s a hypocrite and a psychopath.
[Fufu]: But really, what else is new?
AJ said out loud before realizing he needs to help team RWBY with Torchwich.
"Sorry. Had to fight some guy. Here now! What're we doing?" AJ asked as he landed next to Weiss and Ruby.
"We need to slow this thing down!" Weiss said. AJ saw the robot had no arms and Yang was flying around hanging onto Blake's Gambol Shroud building up momentum for a powerful punch.
"Freeze it! Use ice!" AJ suggested.
[Fufu]: They do not need you to suggest tactics for them, that is an insult to Ruby’s leadership skills! She handled this scenario find on her own in the show.
"Ice Flower!" Ruby called out and she took position with Crescent Rose to snipe the robot while Weiss put a glyph in front of it that froze each shot as it traveled and hit the robot creating large chunks of ice on it. AJ also switched to ice Dust and fired a few ice blasts as well.
Yang finally built enough speed and smashed the thing into pieces with Torchwich rolling out surprisingly unharmed. "I just got this thing cleaned!" he said to himself dusting off his suit.
[Fufu]: That… completely cuts down that entire fight, and it skips out Yang’s Semblance. Yes, the explanation of her Semblance was clunky when added in, but it was still there. But no, the minute fucking AJ gets involved, the fight is a lot shorter and not every tactic is used or is necessary now. AJ completely turns to tide of fucking battle, people!
"Now that you're back," Ruby said looking at AJ. "White Flash!" She said and AJ let Energy flow back into his arms for his next attack.
[Fufu]: That is a shit dual attack tactic name.
[Kirby]: It’s bad for many reasons actually. Like, by having “White” in the name it implies Weiss is involved, because white is her colour motif.
[Fufu]: Exactly; all the tactic names used are creative puns based off the girls’ colour schemes. Plus they doubled as shout outs to the fanbase since most of them were also the fandom shipping names for the pair ups (Ex: Blake and Yang’s was Bumblebee, Blake and Weiss was Checkmate). The only one they didn’t go for was White Rose, instead calling the Ruby and Weiss tactical pair up Ice Flower.
[Kirby]: I kinda think that was the name of the attack they were using, personally. Because the result looked like flowers made of ice. Maybe something else is called White Rose.
[Fufu]: Well, we do still have Volume 3 coming up, so if they have more fights, then we’ll see if they have more tactical pair ups and attack names.
AJ and Yang both stood next to each other "HEY-YO!"
[Fufu]: Why? That completely undermines the serious situation here!
They both yelled, and fired off an Energy blast and Ember Celica round respectively. When their attacks both hit the same target it ends up making a really big explosion. Only the shot was blocked by some girl that appeared out of nowhere and blocked it with her umbrella.
[Kirby]: An image that will never stop being funny to me.
[Fufu]: Tumblr does have a point when they compare her to Harime Nui from Kill La Kill. Her big debut also involved blocking an attack with her umbrella. Bonus points since it wasn’t a normal attack - especially not one you could’ve blocked with a damn umbrella - and the fact that she could do it showed that she was a formidable opponent that couldn’t be beaten easily and that they needed to wary of her.
"Oh that bitch did NOT just block the White Flash!" Yang and AJ both said simultaneously.
[Fufu]: Okay, I’ll confess that I would headcanon Yang as the type to swear like a trucker, but in the show, she doesn’t. No-one does. So why is she swearing here?
[Kirby]: Because the author doesn’t care about Monty’s rules. Author just does as author wants.
"Again!" Ruby said but Yang and AJ just charged Torchwich and the girl.
"Always a pleasure everyone! Neo, if you would." Torchwich said and the girl, Neo, made a simple motion and they both just stood there and when Yang and AJ hit them they turned to glass.
[Fufu]: ...Uh, its more a case of it turning out it was a decoy, which shattered like glass upon being hit by Yang’s attack. They didn’t just turn into glass.
[Kirby]: Author: “I describe thing good yes?”
"Damn it!" They both said and turned to see the criminals on an airship that was leaving.
"Freaking new henchman, bastard!" AJ said.
[Fufu]: That’s a quite a cheap lampshade there. I’d ask for your money back.
I guess she really made our plans… fall apart." Weiss said laughing a little, AJ and Ruby also laughed a little.
"No, just no." Yang said.
"But, you do it!" Weiss complained.
"There's a time and a place for jokes." Yang said.
"Was this not one of them?" Weiss asked.
"No, it just wasn't very good." Yang said before walking away.
"At least I'm trying!" Weiss said before following.
[Kirby]: I know you are dear, and I appreciate it.
[Fufu]: Good god, that’s just more straight up scene transcribing there. And you put more effort into what Weiss did than what Yang did. Yang was deadpanning that section, for she was not amused by Weiss’ puns. Meanwhile, Weiss got a touch pouty ‘cause she didn’t get Yang’s approval.
[Kirby]: ...Hey, what happened to Blake? She was in this scene too.
[Fufu]: … *skims fight scene again* She...isn’t here. Well then. For all the author says she’s one of his favourites - to the point where he’d want to get with her - he just didn’t include her. Though she’s about to show up to be a good lady to her hardworking man...
'Yang's just mad that we laughed at Weiss's joke and not hers.' AJ thought.
[Fufu]: Nope. Yang was not amused by Weiss’ pun. If she was mad at anything, it would be about her she was duped so easily by Neo. And even then, mad probably wouldn’t fit. Mildly annoyed or frustrated maybe...
"Aaaaaaannnnd, now we start walking…" AJ said with a sigh but Blake took his hand and they both smiled at each other.
[Kirby]: There’s Blake! She randomly rematerialized so that teh romanz can happen.
[Fufu]: Like I said; she’s a good lady to her man.
"Wait, where are Sun and Neptune?" Ruby asked Blake and AJ.
"Umm… they're probably fine… I hope." AJ said hesitantly.
[Kirby]: ...They are fine though. Why are you making a pointless suspenseful comment like that?
[Fufu]: AJ: “*thinking* I’ll probably need to go back and make sure the bodies are buried deep underground and won’t get found by anyone. Ever.”
[Fufu]: As we gathered.
[Kirby]: This sentence is brought to you by the writers of M. Night Shammy-Melon’s The Last Airbender.
to approach the dark alley that most people would never want to enter. Blake ran her hand along a three-clawed mark on the wall. She looked around the corner and saw two people approaching a man, who talked with them for a moment before opening the door and letting them in.
"This is it." Blake said to AJ and Sun who were behind her.
"Alright. Here we go." AJ said. Blake took off her bow, and they approached the man who soon let them in as well.
"I don't get it, if you think what you're doing is right, why hide who you are behind the masks?" Sun asked since they had been handed masks when they went in.
"The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to dawn the faces of monsters." Blake explained.
"Grimm masks, that's kinda dark." Sun pointed out.
"So is the guy who started it, unfortunately." Blake said before turning and walking towards the next door.
They easily blended in with all the other newcomers
[Fufu]: Except that AJ really shouldn’t since he has more than one Faunus feature. Until we see a Faunus in the show with multiple features, he’s gonna stand out with his ears and tail, and his claws if he reveals them.
in Grimm masks as they all joined a massive group, all but the new recruits wore the White Fang uniform, including the man at the front of the stage. AJ was trying hard to not look afraid since he was surrounded by enemies, he felt Blake's fingers intertwine with his and he was able to relax.
[Fufu]: Love how it's AJ that’s afraid here as opposed to Blake, the one who left the White Fang and could possibly be seen as a traitor.
"Thank you all for coming." The speaker on stage started.
[Kirby]: This guy actually doesn’t have a name, but he does have an accent very similar to a certain Batman villain whose voice is oft made fun of; The Dark Knight Rises’ version of Bane.
"For those of you who are joining us for the first time today, 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!" He said as Roman Torchwich
[Fufu]: Hey, the deal’s back on! Must’ve been a popular one.
stepped up form back stage. ([Kirby]: “from backstage”)
"Thank you! Thank you! Please! Hold your applause!" Torchwich said.
"What's a human doing here!?" A girl in front of them said and pointed at Roman.
[Fufu]: This would look better being as; “[...] said a girl in front of them, pointing at Torchwick.”
[Kirby]: Ya, the only one who calls him Roman is Cinder.
[Fufu]: Not to mention that this is once again a thing related to what the audience would know the character better by. Both of us and even the actual narration has called him Torchwick/Torchwich this entire time for exactly that reason.
"I'm glad you asked, deary." ([Kirby]: Normally this would be correct, but this character’s name is actually “Deerie”, cause she’s a deer. For serious, it’s in the credits.) Torchwich responded. "I'll be the first to admit, Humans, are the worst. Case in point." He said pointing at himself.
"So is he going somewhere with this? Or…" Sun asked.
"So I can understand why you would want to see us all locked away, or better yet. Killed! But, before the claws come out, I'd like to mention, you and I ALL have a common enemy! The ones in control! The people pulling the strings! The rotten Humans that run our kingdom!" At this point the crowd was agreeing with him and shouting "Ya!" and largely ignored the fact that he is human.
"Government! Military! Even the schools! They're all to blame for your lot in life!" Torchwich said. "And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around… No offence to any rodents in the room!" He snapped his fingers and the cover behind him was removed to reveal a large machine with quite a few guns on it.
[Kirby]: Freckles!
[Fufu]: Wait, whut? What does that have to do with anything?
[Kirby]: I’ve been watching a lot of Red vs Blue lately. The robot in this scene looks a lot like Caboose’s pet killer robot named Freckles.
[Fufu]: ...Alrighty then. o3o.
Everyone began cheering at the sight of it.
"Well hello there..." AJ said looking up at the thing.
[Fufu]: So Torchwick reveals a massive war machine that he’s already hinting and is about to outright admit that he wishes to use to get rid of humans and AJ’s first reaction is to essentially say, “Well ain’t she a beaut’?”
[Kirby]: Ya, I immediately got the feeling that AJ was impressed. Boys and their toys I guess.
[Fufu]: Except that this is not the time or place to have him be impressed by this. Even Sun acknowledges that this is a bad thing.
"Oooh… That's a big robot." Sun said discouraged.
"How did he get that?" Blake asked.
[Kirby]: Well, because it’s the result of a collab between Atlus’ army and the SDC, it means that someone high up in either or both groups is working with Cinder-...sorry, this isn’t the time.
"As some of you may have heard, this right here, is Atlas's newest defense against all the scary things in the world! And thanks to my employer, we've managed to snag a few before they… hit the shelves!" Torchwich said. 'Those must be some big shelves.'
[Fufu]: ...I will confess that this made me smile a tiny bit.
[Kirby]: ...Dammit, me too.
"Now, many of your brothers have already moved to our operation in the Southeast. 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?" Torchwich asked and everyone started cheering.
"We should get out of here." Blake said.
"All new recruits, please come forward!" The White Fang speaker said and everyone started to move forward in their group.
"Well! Um…" Sun said seeing everyone move but them.
"Start walking! You'll stand out less!" AJ whispered as he started to walk forward before stopping when Blake spoke.
"Too late, I think Roman see's us." Blake pointed out.
[Fufu]: “see’s”? Um, why is there an apostrophe there?
"Then do something!" AJ quietly demanded.
[Fufu]: How about if you shut up and stop panicking? ‘Cause legit, you are the one giving orders here while in the show, shit just happened. I can’t remember exactly what happened, though my more knowledgeable friend here would probably quote the exact script for us, but I’m pretty sure that this was either Blake figuring out an escape route on her own or Sun asking, “What we gonna do?”, thus prompting the following line from Blake.
"He can't see in the dark." Blake said smirking before pulling out her weapon in pistol form and shooting out the power to the lights. "Quick! The window!" She said over the panicked sounds of the White Fang soldiers.
[Fufu]: ...And I’m only now realising that there was no mention of Neo. I know that there wasn’t any attention brought to her in the show during the meeting, but then again, that’s because it's a visual media. We could see her and acknowledge her on our own, being all like,
“Ooh, who’s she?” This would actually be a good point for AJ to be all observant and shit and be all like, “Who’s the chick on stage with Torchwich?”
[Kirby]: Neo first appeared in a trailer for volume 2 and people jumped on her being important immediately just from her design. Her colour scheme is based on neapolitan ice cream, she stands out.
[Fufu]: Apparently not to AJ.
"On it!" AJ and Sun both said and all three of them burst out the window. Not long after the robot
[Kirby]: It’s called “The Atlesian Paladin-290”.
broke through the wall and began chasing them. They jumped off a car onto the rooftops and began jumping across rooftops as the machine chased them along the streets.
"So, you guys wouldn't happen to have, oh I don't know… Some form of backup!?" Sun asked while jumping.
"Call the others!" AJ suggested.
[Fufu]: Seriously?! Okay, I know I said it before, but I’m repeating it again; AJ’s only inclusions to the series have been to agree with others or to tell people to do stuff that they managed to do on their own in canon. He is legit Lydia from the Sailor Rainbow fics.
"Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-" Blake started into her phone.
"HEEEEELLLLP!" Sun yelled.
"Torchwich is after us in a giant robot! Get here quick!" AJ yelled so they would hear him through the phone.
[Fufu]: Even though there’s only a small chance that they actually will considering that you are outside in the middle of traffic, so you already have the wind interfering by either being too loud or just plain carrying your voice away, plus all the inevitable car horns from evening rush hour road rage or in protest to a bunch of silly kids doing parkour on their rooftops (That means you guys). Plus you are running from Torchwick in the robot, so your breathlessness from running might make it so your voice doesn’t carry well at all, plus the robot’s loud running or mechanics could override anything you say. Its easier for Blake to talk since she has her Scroll phone thing right next to her face, so all of that is minimised, though not necessarily completely cancelled out.
They jumped from a particularly high roof onto the highway and started jumping from car to car as the robot Torchwich is in jumped up as well but he simply pushed the cars out of the way.
[Kirby]: U no they ded.
"Whoa!" Sun said.
"Yep! Definitely keep moving!" AJ yelled as they continued to jump between cars.
Yang and Neptune came by on Yang's motorcycle and Neptune shot the robot a few times before jumping on and stabbing it.
[Fufu]: With what? Cause the author is yet to mention that Neptune has a BFG as a weapon.
[Kirby]: It’s also a glave and a trident (cause Neptune, get it? XD).
The machine began spinning trying to get him off.
"Neptune! Hold on!" Sun said and used him semblance to create two copies of himself that went and hit the robot before jumping up to hit it himself. The robot finally threw Neptune off and he hit Sun midair and they fell off the overpass.
[Fufu]: They’re trying to escape this story. Unfortunately, they can’t do that quite yet. They’re not as lucky as Penny.
AJ and Blake turned around on the cars they were on and almost started firing when they heard Weiss yell "I'm in position!" And land in front of them. She created a thin layer of ice on the road that the robot slid off of and fell below the overpass where Ruby was waiting, the rest of RWBY went down and joined her, AJ was about to do the same when the car he on moved suddenly and he fell off it. He couldn't see straight for a second cause he landed head first on the hard road. When he finally looked up he saw an unmarked van pull up in front of him and that White Fang speaker came out of it, and he had a chainsaw…
[Fufu]: ???! Why? Why is there suddenly a chainsaw wielding psycho here? I know for a fact that after the Atlesian robot fell from the overpass, the entire battle continued down there. Unless… is this going to affect Weiss’ battle with this fucker later in the story???
[Kirby]: Well, he was the speaker at the meeting earlier, but the White Fang didn’t follow after Mecha-Torchwick in canon, and we weren’t given a reason why they would be doing so here.
[Fufu]: Exactly. So why is he here? And considering he appears later while fighting Weiss, I can’t help but wonder if this battle he’s having with AJ will come back to bite us.
[Kirby]: Oh, we’ll get to that. Fair warning, there will be CAPSLOCK!
"A chainsaw!? Really!? After all the crazy, mecha-shifting weapons I've seen, you have a chainsaw!? Oh this is gonna be too-"
[Fufu]: And AJ’s first reaction? To be cocky and say, “Bitch please, this’ll be easy.” Nevermind that this is still dangerous and that if you fuck up while fighting him, you will be fucked. Not to mention that you’re one to talk with your plain old shitty sword.
[Kirby]: Also, that chainsaw is probably also a gun. Just saying.
[Fufu]: Well yeah, considering what show this is. Everything is a fucking gun. Which just makes AJ stand out even more, now that I’m recalling this fact.
[Kirby]: “It’s also a gun.” -ancient Monty Oum proverb.
He was interrupted by the chainsaw guy dashing towards him and swinging his chainsaw it him, he jumped over it put was punched by the guy while he was in the air and actually was knocked a few meters away. "easy…" AJ said standing back up.
He shot a Energy blast at Chainsaw Guy and was surprised to see him move out of the way quickly before running towards him.
[Fufu]: Because he managed to dodge your attack. Oh, such a surprise that this guy might actually be a trained warrior and thus knows how to deal with situations like these.
[Kirby]: Not to mention the guy’s built like a friggin’ mountain.
He jumped up hitting him in the chin with his knee before spinning in midair for a kick in the side of the head that knocked him back but he quickly swung his weapon at AJ again and he had to dodge the attacks. "Oh please! You are so slow you aren't even a challenge!" AJ mocked.
[Fufu]: Seriously dude, do you take anything seriously?! If he happens to get a lucky swing in that you ain’t expecting and thus cannot stop or dodge, you could die! Not that I’d complain but seriously!
"Damn traitor!" Chainsaw Guy said before charging with reckless and predictable swings and punches.
[Kirby]: “Excuse me, I’m not a traitor. I was never on your side!”
AJ honestly let the guy swing at him for a while and occasionally getting in one easy punch or kick because the guy left himself open, eventually he dodged a swing by jumping over him and kicked him in the back of the head. While he was reeling AJ drained the Energy away from his arms and activated the lightning Dust and started striking the guy with small bolts of lightning before getting bored and punching the guy with a lighting filled punch almost knocking him out. The guy couldn't get up
[Fufu]: Yep. You just read that folks. Despite this being a genuinely tough enemy, wielding what is a dangerous weapon even to trained Huntresses and Huntsmen, AJ just makes quick and easy work of him. Because the author can’t have him get beaten now can he? Not unless he can rematch and win later.
and AJ was casually walking towards him when he saw a dagger land at his feet. He looked up from the dagger and saw two elite soldiers like the ones he fought last semester. One had bandages on his left hand.
"Oh! Hey! I remember you guys!" AJ said with a friendly smile. "I've gotten a LOTbetter since last time! Wanna try again?" AJ asked, now sporting an evil smile.
[Fufu]: Fucking- AUTHOR, YOU WANT ME TO CHEER HIM ON WHEN HE DOES SHIT LIKE THIS. *skims ahead slightly* AND IT AIN’T GONNA GET ANY BETTER!
He deactivated the lighting Dust seeing as it wasn't worth using on these guys.
One of the soldiers struck at him and AJ backed up from the swing and the guy picked up his dagger so now he had two. AJ dodged his dual daggers without a terrible amount of effort when suddenly he jumped away from him and AJ saw the other elite was taking Chainsaw Guy and running away, the soldier he was fighting went to run with him.
"Oh come on guys! We were just getting started!" AJ whined
[Fufu]: Good fucking god, you are a seriously twisted kind of Blood Knight, aren’t you?!
before using his bow to appear in front of the elite he was fighting and hit him once with his sword. The soldier tried to swing back but AJ just moved out of the way and kicked him into a car and while the soldier was trying to get up, he grabbed him by the wrist.
"So, the one who's hand I stabbed made it out fine, why are there only two of you?" AJ questioned.
"You broke the guy's hand asshole! There was no way he could fight!" The soldier said.
"Aww… the poor thing can't fight with a broken hand… that's too BAD!" *SNAP*
[Fufu]: YOU ARE AN UTTER PSYCHOPATH! YOU TAKE JOY OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MISERY AND PAIN YOU SICK FUCK!
"AAAAHHH!" The soldier cried out and held his now broken wrist. AJ punched him the face hard knocking him out.
[Fufu]: AND YOU’RE STILL FUCKING DOING IT YOU ABSOLUTE COCKWHORE BITCH!
"So now there's only one of the three guys left! Wonder if I'll ever see him again?"
[Kirby]: I hope not, poor bastards have had enough beatings from you.
[Fufu]: Legit serious here, with AJ in this story, I actually pity the White Fang. They don’t stand a chance, and it’s too much even for them. ...Actually, I’ve just realised something.
[Kirby]: Ya?
[Fufu]: We all know the deal with AJ. He isn’t actually a Faunus, he’s as human as everyone else. And yet here he is, beating on other Faunus. He’s just as despicable as all the other discriminatory humans from Remnant’s past, only he’s shoved some ears on himself and called himself a fellow Faunus, which takes it further into twisted territory.
[Kirby]: Not only that, but he previously kept justifying everything the White Fang did, so he’s beating up these guys despite constantly siding with them.
[Fufu]: So our man wasn’t too far off when he called him a “traitor”.
[Kirby]: He doesn’t even really have a reason to be fighting them, other than he just likes to watch them hurt. AJ’s a hypocrite and a psychopath.
[Fufu]: But really, what else is new?
AJ said out loud before realizing he needs to help team RWBY with Torchwich.
"Sorry. Had to fight some guy. Here now! What're we doing?" AJ asked as he landed next to Weiss and Ruby.
"We need to slow this thing down!" Weiss said. AJ saw the robot had no arms and Yang was flying around hanging onto Blake's Gambol Shroud building up momentum for a powerful punch.
"Freeze it! Use ice!" AJ suggested.
[Fufu]: They do not need you to suggest tactics for them, that is an insult to Ruby’s leadership skills! She handled this scenario find on her own in the show.
"Ice Flower!" Ruby called out and she took position with Crescent Rose to snipe the robot while Weiss put a glyph in front of it that froze each shot as it traveled and hit the robot creating large chunks of ice on it. AJ also switched to ice Dust and fired a few ice blasts as well.
Yang finally built enough speed and smashed the thing into pieces with Torchwich rolling out surprisingly unharmed. "I just got this thing cleaned!" he said to himself dusting off his suit.
[Fufu]: That… completely cuts down that entire fight, and it skips out Yang’s Semblance. Yes, the explanation of her Semblance was clunky when added in, but it was still there. But no, the minute fucking AJ gets involved, the fight is a lot shorter and not every tactic is used or is necessary now. AJ completely turns to tide of fucking battle, people!
"Now that you're back," Ruby said looking at AJ. "White Flash!" She said and AJ let Energy flow back into his arms for his next attack.
[Fufu]: That is a shit dual attack tactic name.
[Kirby]: It’s bad for many reasons actually. Like, by having “White” in the name it implies Weiss is involved, because white is her colour motif.
[Fufu]: Exactly; all the tactic names used are creative puns based off the girls’ colour schemes. Plus they doubled as shout outs to the fanbase since most of them were also the fandom shipping names for the pair ups (Ex: Blake and Yang’s was Bumblebee, Blake and Weiss was Checkmate). The only one they didn’t go for was White Rose, instead calling the Ruby and Weiss tactical pair up Ice Flower.
[Kirby]: I kinda think that was the name of the attack they were using, personally. Because the result looked like flowers made of ice. Maybe something else is called White Rose.
[Fufu]: Well, we do still have Volume 3 coming up, so if they have more fights, then we’ll see if they have more tactical pair ups and attack names.
AJ and Yang both stood next to each other "HEY-YO!"
[Fufu]: Why? That completely undermines the serious situation here!
They both yelled, and fired off an Energy blast and Ember Celica round respectively. When their attacks both hit the same target it ends up making a really big explosion. Only the shot was blocked by some girl that appeared out of nowhere and blocked it with her umbrella.
[Kirby]: An image that will never stop being funny to me.
[Fufu]: Tumblr does have a point when they compare her to Harime Nui from Kill La Kill. Her big debut also involved blocking an attack with her umbrella. Bonus points since it wasn’t a normal attack - especially not one you could’ve blocked with a damn umbrella - and the fact that she could do it showed that she was a formidable opponent that couldn’t be beaten easily and that they needed to wary of her.
"Oh that bitch did NOT just block the White Flash!" Yang and AJ both said simultaneously.
[Fufu]: Okay, I’ll confess that I would headcanon Yang as the type to swear like a trucker, but in the show, she doesn’t. No-one does. So why is she swearing here?
[Kirby]: Because the author doesn’t care about Monty’s rules. Author just does as author wants.
"Again!" Ruby said but Yang and AJ just charged Torchwich and the girl.
"Always a pleasure everyone! Neo, if you would." Torchwich said and the girl, Neo, made a simple motion and they both just stood there and when Yang and AJ hit them they turned to glass.
[Fufu]: ...Uh, its more a case of it turning out it was a decoy, which shattered like glass upon being hit by Yang’s attack. They didn’t just turn into glass.
[Kirby]: Author: “I describe thing good yes?”
"Damn it!" They both said and turned to see the criminals on an airship that was leaving.
"Freaking new henchman, bastard!" AJ said.
[Fufu]: That’s a quite a cheap lampshade there. I’d ask for your money back.
I guess she really made our plans… fall apart." Weiss said laughing a little, AJ and Ruby also laughed a little.
"No, just no." Yang said.
"But, you do it!" Weiss complained.
"There's a time and a place for jokes." Yang said.
"Was this not one of them?" Weiss asked.
"No, it just wasn't very good." Yang said before walking away.
"At least I'm trying!" Weiss said before following.
[Kirby]: I know you are dear, and I appreciate it.
[Fufu]: Good god, that’s just more straight up scene transcribing there. And you put more effort into what Weiss did than what Yang did. Yang was deadpanning that section, for she was not amused by Weiss’ puns. Meanwhile, Weiss got a touch pouty ‘cause she didn’t get Yang’s approval.
[Kirby]: ...Hey, what happened to Blake? She was in this scene too.
[Fufu]: … *skims fight scene again* She...isn’t here. Well then. For all the author says she’s one of his favourites - to the point where he’d want to get with her - he just didn’t include her. Though she’s about to show up to be a good lady to her hardworking man...
'Yang's just mad that we laughed at Weiss's joke and not hers.' AJ thought.
[Fufu]: Nope. Yang was not amused by Weiss’ pun. If she was mad at anything, it would be about her she was duped so easily by Neo. And even then, mad probably wouldn’t fit. Mildly annoyed or frustrated maybe...
"Aaaaaaannnnd, now we start walking…" AJ said with a sigh but Blake took his hand and they both smiled at each other.
[Kirby]: There’s Blake! She randomly rematerialized so that teh romanz can happen.
[Fufu]: Like I said; she’s a good lady to her man.
"Wait, where are Sun and Neptune?" Ruby asked Blake and AJ.
"Umm… they're probably fine… I hope." AJ said hesitantly.
[Kirby]: ...They are fine though. Why are you making a pointless suspenseful comment like that?
[Fufu]: AJ: “*thinking* I’ll probably need to go back and make sure the bodies are buried deep underground and won’t get found by anyone. Ever.”