Heyo, I am starting this new RWBY fanfic that had been done before but I'm giving it a try. This story is rated FF-MA: SL.
Under The Vale
Prologue
The City of Vale, The Beacon of Hope. Oscar Pine knew that all of that was complete bullshit. All's he had to do was look out the window of his car to see. Houses boarded up, trash littering the ground, abandon lots and alleys. Block after block, nothing here looked like a beacon of hope to him. But that's the reasons he joined the Vale Police Department, The VPD. He wanted to help change the city, help it grow and become something better. Now he was given the chance, someone took notice that he worked himself tooth and nail and he was being transferred to a different division.
Pulling up into a parking lot of the VPD Precinct, Oscar didn't waste time heading to meet with his new captain.
Captain James Ironwood.
The man was a hero. Two Medal of Valor, One Medal of Honors, Two Police Purple Hearts. All before he became Captain of Vale's Drug and Crime Division, the man was amazing. He led one of the largest drug bust within the past 20 years, even took down the whole gang with it. And now he got to work under him, just some kid from the countryside.
Reaching the door to his new department, at last, Oscar couldn't help but stand in awe as he read the words on the white door. They were framed by the glass that they rested on, the gold lettering really popped to him.
Vale's Drug and Crime Division
Oscar couldn't really wait anymore, pulling the door open the first thing to meet his eyes was a woman. She just a little older than him from what he could tell, also she was completely out of uniform. She was in a gray knee-length skirt, a green tube top with a gray jacket on top. Her carrot hair stood out a lot to him it was nicely kept done up with curls at the bottom and a large bow rested on the back of her head. Her green eyes shot up meeting his.
"Salutations, Officer Pine!" The woman called out as she gave what he believed to be the cutest salute he has ever seen. "I am Penny Polendina, Captain Ironwood is not in at the moment but please come in and have a seat he should be back in no time."
"Oh, Uh, Okay." The young man walked himself into the room, closing the door behind him. Taking a quick look around the room to try and remember the layout. Like every other room within the precinct, the walls were painted gray with white trims, nothing that stood out. He took note of each desk as he walked passed it and the nameplate on each one. Coal, Katt, Polendina, Pine. Guess that would make him and Penny desk mates as his desk was next to hers. Continuing on, the last three read Soleil, Schnee and the desk at the of them all was Ironwoods. There was two desk left but they looked unused, maybe for more officers if they did get them.
Oscar decided to take a seat at his desk as he kept scanning the room, he quickly noticed the most important thing within the room. Trees, not just any tree but Crime Trees. Four of them, each with there own labels on the top of them. Each tree had multiple photos slowly going down the board. Before he could stand up and go take a closer look a voice called out to him.
"Officer Pine, It's good to finally meet you." A male voice called out much older than his. He turned to see the Captain in person. The man stood much taller than him, a lot taller. He had short black hair with just a touch of gray on both sides. "We can hold a formal greeting once the others arrive, but for now let us catch you up to speed. Follow me."
Oscar noticed a woman behind the Captain, following him as if she was his shadow. She had her white hair put up into a neat bun with a bang framing the right side of her face. The redheaded Penny followed behind the captain and he followed in suite. He took them into the room with the boards, he was glad because he really did want to get a closer look at them.
"Tell me, Oscar. What do you think of our beautiful city?" The Captain asked, turning to at a table he didn't notice before, it had a map laid out of the whole City of Vale.
"Uhh, it's a nice city, Sir." He didn't really know how to take the question or even if it was a test. "I believe with a bit of love the city could grow."
"A good answer, Son. A very good answer." He nodded his head slowly walking around the table until he was on the other side. "What would you say is the problem in our city?"
"It's crime rate."
"You have a nice head on your shoulders, and that's why I asked for your transfer to me." Ironwood's attention turned to the boards. "The crime rate in this city, it's outlandish and we have these four families to thanks for that."
Oscar looked at the board, getting a better look at the pictures now. The head pictures where the ones to stand out the most on each tree. The Captain walked over to the boards, looking them up and down before turning back to the three in the room.
"How much do you know about these gangs?" He asked.
"Just a little bit, Sir. I've only had to deal with low-level thugs, only a few arrest." Ironwood gave a small nod. "I've dealt with The White Fang."
"Than we will start there." He moved over to his seat at the table as he turned to the white-haired woman. "This is Winter Schnee. Winter if you may."
She didn't say a word as she stood up and moved over to the Crime Web.
"The White Fang, A Faunus only gang. Their leader is Adam Taurus." The photo showed a tall man from afar, it was hard to make anything out thanks to the quality of the photo. The mask over his face didn't help.
"A bull Faunus with a bit of a mean streak. Believed to be a former Hitman until he moved into town and started running his own gang which grew quickly when he started to show results. We also believe he works in the gun trade, illegal dust smuggling, and worst of all human trafficking. Just humans. The White Fang is known to protect anything and everything Faunus, as long as they pay that is but I hear he discounts his prices. Under him are the Albain Brothers, Corsac, and Fennec. Believed to run most of his underground workshops."
Winter was interrupted by Oscar holding up his hand. She gave him a slight nod for him to speak.
"Why do you keep saying believed, Ma'am?" He asked.
"Because if we had proof they would be behind bars." A simple answer to a simple question.
"Continuing, We have Ilia Amitola. An enforcer for The Fang. She might not look like much at first but that little girl can pack a punch and she's sneaky."
Another raised hand by Oscar.
"What's with the mask, Ma'am."
"The White Fang believe people see them as monsters, so the dawn the mask of what they believe a monster to look like and become them. Every member of the White Fang will wear a mask when at work, which is why you will never see them on the street corner like some of these other gangs. But that's enough about the Fang because next, we have." She took a short walk over to the next board.
"The Fall Syndicate, Lead by Cinder Fall." Looking closely at the photo it looked like a model picture of a beautiful black haired woman with amber eyes.
"Some people call her Fall Maiden, but there is nothing fair about her. Believed to be mainly in the drug trade but we don't know what else she could have her hands in. Mostly in part to her underboss, Roman Torchwick. That man is all over the place with what he does yet we have no clue what it is. Not to mention her underlings, Emerald and Mercury. Word is that those two will do anything she asks and I mean anything. But let's move on." Moving to the next board.
"To The Arc Familia, The man in charge of them is Jaune Arc." The photo showed a young looking blond haired boy with blue eyes, he was surrounded by small children on a playground and a red-haired woman.
"He doesn't look any older than Ms. Polendina." Oscar couldn't help but blurt out.
"That's because he isn't." She answered. "We don't know when he started but Arc and his Familia as he calls it are no pushovers even is he looks like one. Their main source of income is Drugs, Sex, and Gambling, allegedly. Also by being very good Samaritans, most people would call Arc a softy. He puts money into schools and playground around the area. Anything nice you see in his area all done by him, and with that most of the people turn a blind eye to the things he does. Now I know you might be asking how does he pay for all this and still keep the money for himself, it's because the boy is smart. Too smart, he's good with planning and numbers and being fair, putting a smile on everyone's face." She noticed Oscar deep in his own mind.
"Wondering how someone like him stayed in power so long?" She caused the new guy to jump slightly. "Don't worry I asked the question also." She turned to the picture right next to Arc's photo, a photo of the same redheaded woman in his photo.
"Pyrrha Nikos, she's the reason he stayed in power so long. Former Vale Specialist in the military, this girl is no laughing matter. Trained in armed and unarmed combat, she when on an undermined number of covet mission, and her kill count is unknown both in war and in the streets. How she and Arc met are also unknown but she follows the man like a shadow, if you see Arc, Nikos is not far behind. That's excluding his two others 'friends'. Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie, Ren helps run anything we believe. He checks to make sure everything is working find, also he runs their clean businesses. Valkyrie, that girl is a mad dog on a short leash, out of their whole upper part of his gang she is the only to be arrested. But only for aggravated assault multiple times and each time the charges were dropped at the end, you can guess way. At the end of the day Arc looks out for his people and the people around him, and that's the problem."
Winter released a strong sigh as she moved over to the last board, slowly looking up to at or more likely to a certain photo. She turned back to face the room.
"Last, We have the Rose Gang. Lead by Ruby Rose." The photo held a very young looking black haired girl with red dyed tips in it, two things stood out to him. Her silver eyes and the fact she was in a VPD uniform.
"Little Red Reaping Hood as she is called in the streets now. A former VPD Officer, Ruby Rose knows the ends and outs of the law and knows how to get around it. She only started her life of crime only six months ago but she quickly rose up to become a big player in their game. No pun intended." She added but moving down to the next photo, skipping over the one right under Rose's. The photo she pointed had a long blond haired woman with purple eyes.
"This woman here makes the puns, and god does she use it a psychological warfare. Yang Xiao Long, Rose's older sister, half sister that is before you ask. Former boxer turned enforcer for her sister, Xiao Long was known for going ten round what do you think she can do to a lot of this untrained thugs in the street."
"What is there trade?" Oscar asked the white-haired woman, who only sighed. Before she turned back to the Rose Gang crime tree.
"Dust and Weapons. No drugs, Rose hates them with a passion. Everything she has is helped run by one woman." Her hand moved back up to the photo of a pale skinned white haired girl, blue eyes staring right at them. "Weiss Schnee."
"Schnee?" Oscar looked over towards Winter.
"Yes, my younger sister. She does all the business for the Rose Gang, She was next in line to run our father's company until he turned on her. So she knows the ends and outs of the business world, how to turn a profit, laundry, everything to keep the Rose Gang running. She could be running the gang if it wasn't for her odd loyalty to that Rose girl. I don't know what she did to my sister but she is a criminal now and I will have to put a stop to her, even if we do have our little meetups every now and again… She is still my sister after all."
She turns her attention to the last photo on the web before they reached low-level members. Another black hair woman with amber was in the photo but this one wore a bow on top of her head.
"This last one is Blake Belladonna, some people call her the modern day ninja. In reality, she's just good on her feet and good at keeping her ears open thanks to having four of them. Don't let the bow fool you Blake is a Cat Faunus and a former member of The White Fang. Some say she got sick of their crime but she just couldn't quit the life, she found herself with the Rose Gang quickly. We are just lucky all the gangs are at a time of peace for some reason, but knowing them a war could break out at any time."
"With all that," Ironwood spoke gaining the rooms attention. "You now know a little bit about what we're dealing with. We will tell you more about our operations later once your partner arrives around 10, and no need to worry she's never late but take this time to go set up your desk, Officer Pine."
With a nod, Oscar stood up and was about to walk away before Ironwood spoke up. "Oh, and welcome to the VDCD, Oscar."
"Thank you, sir."
"...uby." A voice called out to the girl, she slowly rubbed her eyes before opening them. "Ruby, wake up."
The black haired girl slowly looked around the room, noticing it was her office at their 'legitimate' business until she found the blue eyes calling out to her. Ruby couldn't help but smile at the white-haired girl. "What's up, Weiss?"
"We have a meeting with Arc, within the hour and you need to get ready." The girls light voice reached Ruby's ears causing a slight smile before she understood the words turning her smile into a frown.
"Oh, that's today?" She rolled her silver eyes before sighing. "Can't we save that for tomorrow or something."
"No, Ruby. Jaune has been waiting for this for two days and his kindness only last for so long." The white-haired girl said as she came out from around the desk she sat at. This gave Ruby a good look at her outfit. A short pretty blue dress with a jean jacket on top of it, a fresh pair of tights covering her legs and a pair of blue heels. She liked what she saw. "I can't make any more excuses."
"Do I really have to go? Can't Sun or Sage do it?" Ruby tried to add an extra cute pout, sadly it didn't work on Weiss' cold gaze.
"You know Jaune won't do the deal unless you're there with me, also do you want me there with just Sun or Sage as protection?"
"You don't have to go either..." Ruby's shoulders lifted slightly as she gave a weak smile.
"Fine, I'll just have to send word to Jaune that the deal is off and he'll just have to get his business elsewhere." She reached into her purse looking for her phone.
"No, wait!" Ruby called out with her arm reaching out for Weiss. "We need that money!"
"Then it sounds like someone should get ready." The raven-haired girl rolled off her sofa landing flat on the floor, doing everything in her power not to get up. Groins and moans came from her mouth but the other woman didn't seem to care at all.
"Why does the boss have to do all the hard work?!" Ruby whined as she slowly rose to her feet.
"If going to a meeting to talk to someone you count as a kind of friend hard, I feel sorry for Sun and his crew." Weiss turned to look back at Ruby only to see the girl in a full stretch, lifting her tank top slighting showing off a nice bit of midriff. Her eyes slowly moving up her leader's body until she noticed something off about her. "Ruby! Are you not wearing a Bra?!"
The younger woman looked at her a bit of confusion on her face, "Yeah? It was hurting my chest so I took it off."
"Well put it back on! This is an important meeting."
"Nah, it's a nice day out, I'll be fine without one." Ruby blow off the white-haired girl with lightly tinted cheeks as she reached her red hoodie. "Besides it's only Jaune."
"Ruby!"
"I said it's fine." Ruby didn't even turn to see Weiss' face, she didn't like to see the white-haired girl scared but sometimes Ruby had to remind her who was the boss. She slipped into the red top leaving it unzipped to allow her chest to get some air. Ruby lifted her head to the ceiling before sighing, she knew what Weiss was doing behind her, she could feel it. She had both her hands clapped together before herself, her legs together and her head lowered. Ruby turned to see that she was correct but everything, she rolled her silver eyes as she walked over to her underboss. "Hey, how about after this meeting I take us out to dinner? What do you say?"
Ruby watched as the white hair in her view changed to a beautiful pale face with sapphire blue eyes that she always got lost in. Looking a little lower she saw a smile grow on that pretty face.
"There's that award-winning smile." Ruby slowly moved in until the pair of lips met, the kiss didn't last more than a moment but the blush on the Weiss' cheeks made it completely worth it. "Now, be a dear and tell Scarlet to get the car ready." With a nod Weiss left to go do what she was best at, giving orders.
Ruby turned to look at the desk in her office, walking over she picked up the one thing on the desk that meant anything to her. A picture frame. Turning it so she could look at who the frame held she couldn't help but smile. "I'm off to work, Mom. I'll see you when I get home."
Setting the frame back down the girl headed towards the door about to head out she stopped and gave the photo one last glance. "Sorry for being a disappointment." And with that, she left. A closer look at the photo showed a woman who looked like an older version of the gang leader dressed fully in a VPD uniform with a bright smile on her face.
"She's late." The fiery redhead spoke. She looked around the area, it was an area she knew well. The back of an abandoned factory, well slightly abandon as the man before her owned it. He didn't believe in trespassing when he didn't need too. But she was getting off track, she was upset at the moment. "Do you think she bailed on us?"
"No, she'll be here Pyrrha. She better be anyway." She heard the man speak. She loved it when he spoke with confidence in his voice. Normally Jaune would have a slightly meek voice but when it came to business he became something… Deadly.
A whistle stole their attention, She knew what it meant. The Rose Gang was here at last. Two of his men pulled the gate open allowing a van to pull in followed by a red car, Ruby's Costume Karin Kuruma. The two guards on her sides stood ready just as she trained them as the truck spun itself around so they could see the back. Ruby hopped out of her Kuruma looking around the area. She wasn't stupid enough to try anything but sometimes Pyrrha wish she was, she didn't like the little red reaper. Former cop turned gang leader, please. She wished Jaune didn't trust her but Jaune trusted anyone he had a good feeling about, and if he said it was cool she would listen. She watched as the two girls walked over to them with a few of their boys.
"Hey, Jaune. Sorry about being late, traffic is crazy during rush hour." Ruby said with the stupid grin on her face.
"Yeah, it can get a little crazy. Now, where's the goods?" Jaune looked over at the track.
"What no time to talk?"
"No, you lost that being late. Now show me the stuff before I ask for a discount." He crossed his arms, this brought a smile to Pyrrha's lips.
"Joy kill." She turned to the monkey Faunus. "Sun, get the man his new toys."
It didn't take long for the boys to move the crates from the back of the truck to in front of the two gang leaders. Pyrrha felt someone move closer to her, her gaze quickly turned to the White hair girl.
"I apologize for our tardiness, Miss Nikos. Traffic really did hold us up because I had to convince Ms. Rose to drive slow." She didn't really care about the reason or the apology, that was for Jaune to care about.
"If the boss says it's fine, it's fine." The sound of the crates being opened took her attention, Ruby and Jaune both peek into the crates. She watched her boss reach in and pull out box of candles. He gave a close look at them before turning to the black-haired leader.
"Are candles really in here?" He asked.
"Yeah, I was thinking of filling them with grenades but someone talked me out of it." She explained herself, her silver eyes staring into Jaune's blue eyes. "Why, hoping for something extra?"
"Nah, but I'm keeping this one for you being late." He tossed the box behind him without even looking. Pyrrha was quick to catch the box as Jaune kept talking. "It'll be a good gift for my mom. She likes candles."
Ruby gave a small nod as Jaune reached back into the box and pulled out a Sub PDW. A close to mid-ranged sub-machine gun in the shape of a rifle.
"Pyr." Her named escaped his lips and she came right over to him. He held his hand with the gun out for her to take which she was happy too. With his hand still out he clapped it a few times asking for something, it didn't her long to understand as she placed the box of candles into his hand.
Pyrrha got a feel for the gun in her hands, she didn't mind it too much. A lot lighter than she was used too. Aiming down the sights and looking around at everything seemed fine on the gun. Dropping the mag to take a quick look she saw that this one wasn't full unlike the first time few times they did a deal with her. All and all she liked the gun. She turned to see everyone looking at her, she gave Jaune a positive nod.
"Good, Dew." Jaune turned to the blond female who was holding a briefcase, he nodded his head towards the Ruby. She walked over to the shorter girl before cracking up the case showing Ruby the lien within, with a smile on Ruby's face Dew closed the case and handed it to her.
"Like normal it's good to do business with ya, Jaune!" Ruby said taking the case from the girl. Moving her head she called over Weiss as it was time to head out. "Remember the next time you're in need any firearms come to the Rose Emporium where we got all your firearm needs."
"Don't have a thirty minute or less deal." Jaune flashed a smile with his come back gaining a few chuckles from his peoples. "A lot of people will be getting free guns."
"Ha Ha, very funny." She spun her hand in a circle as she walked over to her car with Weiss. "Pack it up boys, we got places to be!"
With the Rose Gang packing up and pulling out and Arc's boys closed the gate behind them, Jaune unleashed a long held in sigh. Pyrrha watched as the blond rubbed the top of his head as he groaned. She reached over and patted him on his back.
"You did great." She gave him a small smile.
"You think?" Pyrrha gave him a nod, he looked around to the rest of the people around him. "You guys?"
"Yeah, boss!/You're great!/Number one boss!" A number of his crew shouted out before he felt another hand on his other shoulder, he turned to see Dew. "You're doing amazing work, Jaune."
"Right, Okay guys finish this up. I need to go check in on the club." He made his way over to his black Seminole, He knew the two girls were following him as he hopped into the back seat of his SUV. He saw the redhead sitting in front of him as Dew got into the driver seat. He leaned his head back closing his eyes as the car took off. "Oh, Dew."
"Yes, Jaune?" She looked into the rearview mirror to see her boss.
"I need to go visit my mom before we head to the club, gotta give her this candles."
"Alright." She gave a nod.
"You should get some rest while we drive there, Jaune," Pyrrha spoke up to him.
"Mhm, Already on it." His voice was light and covered in sleep. "Thanks, Pyr. Thanks, Dew."
"Anytime/You're welcome." The red and blond haired girl said respectively. Pyrrha knew it didn't take long for Jaune to fall asleep and once she heard a light snore, she herself unleashed a groin freeing her less nice self.
"God, I hate it." She said rubbing the top of her own head.
"Hate what?" Dew asked not taking her eyes off the road.
"That damn Rose Gang, fuck I hate all of the other gangs." Pyrrha looked out the window on her side of the car. "And how Jaune lets them walk over him sometimes."
"Yeah, but that's our Jaune. Too kind for his own good." Stopping at a red light she got to get a good look at grumpy Pyrrha.
"I'm sorry, but that unless ass lesbian gets on my damn nerves." That earned a chuckle from Dew. "She walks around as if she runs the place as if she's untouchable. Bitch was a former pig, I don't see why we don't kill her on the spot."
Dew couldn't help but find what Pyrrha was saying funny in count of the girl's own nickname. "Because boss s-"
"I know what the fuck he said, it's just umm…." She had to stop herself by covering her mouth with her fist. "I'm sorry. I'm not taking it out on you."
"I know," Dew said quickly as she took off on the green.
"It's just, god damn it. If it's not Rose, it's Fall. These black haired bitches think they run everything and don't get me started on the stupid ass bull."
"… Gwen knows her place." The blond spoke softly.
"I'll remember to take her off my list." The two shared a nice chuckle.
"It does suck that people think his kindness is a weakness."
"There own mistake when they end up in some vacant lot with two to the back of the head." Pyrrha looked around the area to see kids playing on a playground, pushing each other on the swings and climbing up the slides. Little backward kids, it put a fresh smile on her face. She noticed an ice cream truck near the playground. "Hey, Dew. Stop behind the track, we're in no real rush and well Jaune could use his rest."
The girl did what she was told, stopping right behind the track. She watched as Pyrrha stepped out of the car and walked up to the ice cream track cutting in line in front of all the kids waiting. She hopped out to walk to the other side.
"Hey, Kids, who wants free ice cream?" This got a cheer from all of them as more gathered around hearing the words Free and Ice Cream together. She reached into her shorts pockets and pulled a nice amount of lien and handed to the ice cream man. "Give the little ones whatever they ask for, you keep the rest. Now kids form a line and you can each get one of anything. Just one, Okay?"
She smiled when she heard a group of tiny yes and okays. Walking back over to Dew who was leaning on the SUV. She climbed back into the vehicle looking out the rolled down window.
"He's rubbing off on you?" Dew asked as she got back into the driver seat.
"Hmm… Nope, I just know he would've wanted it done." She watched as child after child got ice cream. "Plus what's two hundred lien?"
"So you ready to go?"
"No, we'll leave after that last kid leaves the line. The little chubby one."
Yeah, so. That is the slight start to Under The Vale. I know a few characters are OOC but that's something got to change for the life they live but I'm trying to keep their core personality with only a few changes.
Until next time, Bye Bye.
