The Anomaly (An Undertale x RWBY Crossover)

Chapter 12: Forgiveness and Truth

As Blake stopped, Cloud stood up, shaking his head as he looked at her.

"What was that all about?" Cloud asked as he tried to figure where he is, "I gotta get back to my team ya'know."

"How can you still trust them?! They called you a monster!" Blake yelled at him as he looked at her with a confused expression.

"Ozpin told me to, plus they aren't so bad." Cloud said as he dug out another ketchup bottle. 

"I don't understand..." Blake said in a somber tone.

"What are you going on about?" Cloud asked as he began to drink out of the bottle. 

As the two sat in silence, a yelp was heard as a certain monkey-faunus fell down.

"Hey there, I noticed that you were quite angry at this poor faunus here." The monkey-faunus said as he pointed finger guns at Cloud.

"Ayyyyy, name's Cloud, what's yours?" Cloud asked as he too pointed finger guns at the monkey-faunus. 

"The name's Sun Wukong! A pleasure to meet you goat boy and cat girl!" Sun said as he snickered at the nicknames. 

"Heh, you speak my language." Cloud said with a smile. 

"Let's get out of here." Blake said before rushing off.

"Damn, she seems to like small talk." Sun said before going to chase after Blake.

Seeing the two run off and jump on rooftops, Cloud sighed as he ran to catch up to them. As the days past, Sun and Blake had to stop and wait for Cloud to catch his breath before continuing. Finally, the trio stopped at a balcony cafe as Cloud was able to sit down. 

"So....what is this all about?" Cloud asked as he looked at Blake and the ribbon on top of her head. 

"Sun, Cloud, are you two familiar with the White Fang?" Blake asked

"Um....not really, amnesiac here." Cloud said, pointing his head. 

"Wow, here I thought that every faunus on the planet has heard of them. Stupid holier-than-thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks if you ask me." Sun said with a tone of annoyance. 

"Oh...." Cloud said as he began to remember the course of the day that Blake ran, "Sorry." 

"Oh, no it's fine, you didn't know that I was originally a member of the White Fang." Blake said waving her hand around. 

"Wait wait wait, you were a member of the White Fang?" Sun asked as he got dangerously close to Blake's face in fascination. 

"Yup, for most of my life actually, you could say I was born into it," Blake said as she pulled up a picture on her scroll showing various fallen weapons, "Back then, the White Fang was meant to be a peaceful organization, a symbol of peace and unity between humans and faunus." 

"And you can see how that turned out..." Sun said with a scowl on his face as Blake nodded. 

"Despite being promised equality, the faunus were subjugated to discrimination and hate. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as a voice of our people. And I was there." Blake said as she showed a picture of her being at a rally, "I was at the front of every rally, I took part in every boycott, I thought I was making a difference."

"I thought you did, after all, the White Fang was peaceful, right?" Cloud asked as he interjected into the conversation. 

"I thought so too, but five years later, the leader stepped down and a new one rose up with a different type of thinking," at this Blake showed various pictures of broken windows and coordinated attacks on cargo trains, "Our peaceful protests became coordinated attacks, and the worst part was that we were treated like equals, not out of respect....but fear."