Weiss hated the henchmen missions.
If one were to ask almost any huntsman or huntress in the world, they would not even be able to identify the difference between a henchman mission and any other civilian-crime mission. Because for most people, there was no need to be this annoyed.
Ruby, unlike anyone sane, always decided that infiltration was the easiest way to accomplish the goals of the mission. No to an electric dust round to the back of the target, momentarily disabling him for a quick extraction. No to frontal assault. No to covert stealth. Weiss had even offered to blow out the back of the building this time.
No to it all.
Ruby had been interested in only one course of action.
Just one.
"Stay here, I think a patrol should come by soon."
"Who will recognize you're not one of them immediately."
"I am a master of disguise, Weiss."
Weiss typed out a quick message on her scroll to Blake.
To her dismay, Blake's reply was always the same:
No, I do not want to ditch the sisters and make our own team. I quite like mine.
"I don't know why I go along with these idiot ideas." Weiss muttered to herself.
"Because they're wicked awesome!"
"They neither disposed to mischief nor do they render one unto awe."
"Has anyone ever told you you're a buzzkill?"
"Has anyone told you you're an idiot?"
"Yes!" Ruby proclaimed with a grin.
"Which makes you happy… Why?"
"Because those who see your ideas as idiotic are simply incapable of comprehending their genius."
"Did you subscribe to an uplifting quote site again?"
"They are motivational and make me happy inside."
Weiss rolled her eyes. Stupid, stupid Ruby.
"So, Weiss?"
"Yes?"
"I messed up…"
"Is this where I gasp in surprise?"
"No… Now I have to pretend I captured you."
"Wait, wha-" Weiss was cut off as Ruby tossed her around the corner. Weiss rolled into a crouch, hand on the ground and already summoning a glyph as wide as she was tall. The temperature fell a dozen degrees, and the two white fang members walking down the street wheeled backwards in surprise.
"I have comprehended an invad-err… Oh. Um, help brothers!"
"We're both girls." One of them, a kitty cat with cute kitty cat ears, said with a cocked hip.
"Please just shoot her." Ruby begged pointing at Weiss.
I am going to kill her. Weiss decided, raising her hands and letting Myrtenaester drop.
"I love your hair." Ruby said to another girl with short bangs as they led Weiss through the compound. The 'compound' was really just three warehouses, but Weiss supposed it made them feel all big and scary to call their midnight AA club the 'compound.'
General Tso, a faunus with bright feathers running down the middle of his hair, looked at the three guards who had captured Weiss Schnee.
"The three of you apprehended her?"
"Yes sir!" Ruby beamed proudly with a quick-stepped salute.
"Don't do that. This isn't a military."
"Yes sir!" Ruby repeated the motion. The general was still for a moment, sighed, and then turned to Weiss.
"Captured by a splinter group of the White Fang, Ms. Schnee. How very unlike you."
"Couldn't resist your charm." Weiss said dryly and bored.
"Oh really?" He turned to the trio of guards. "And which of you low ranking recruits of the White Fang managed to lower Ms. Schnee's aura so much?"
"That was me sir?" Ruby snapped into a salute. He glared at her until she lowered her arm.
Tso grunted and turned away, pulling out his revolver.
"Would you like to know what I believe miss Schnee?" He asked checking his cartridge and walking ominously away from her.
"Hey, is that the new standard issue rifle?" Ruby whispered to the girl next to her. "Can I see it?"
"Uh, sure… But its the same rifle as always…" The girl trailed off as Ruby shuffled around her, grabbing the gun as she went.
"Oh, it's so cool… Look at these Spader bolts…"
"I believe that perhaps you hired help. Perhaps you wanted to get captured, and you needed a way in." Tso whirled around and fired his revolver, laying low the girl whose gun Ruby had taken. She bled everywhere. "But without your hired help to distract my guards, what will you do now?" Tso raised his hand, and the guard that was actually white fang raised his gun to her head. Ruby followed a second later.
"Sure, your aura could hold out for, what, five, six bullets from each gun? But you'd die all the same. So now I have truly caught you, Schnee." He paused and looked at Ruby. "I'm sorry but, what type of faunus are you?"
"Excuse me?"
"What type of fauns are you?"
"Isn't it a little impolite to ask?"
"Please, I must know. I can see no features that could distinguish you from a human."
"Um… Spider?"
"Spider?"
"Yeah, spider. I have, um, two extra eyes."
"Oh. Where?"
"Y'know, under the mask. Where you can't see them."
"Really? That must be agonizing."
"Really it is sir, the worst part is getting it on and off though."
"Oh, so I shouldn't ask you to show me?"
"I would appreciate it."
"Do you have any other traits?"
"Uh.. Yeah. I bleed purple."
"You're saying if I shot you, right now, you'd bleed purple?"
"Whoa! Hostile workplace. Why would you shoot me?"
"I wouldn't, but if I did."
"But why would you? That's where I'm stuck."
"I don't know. Say you were a human. Pretending to be one of us. To help miss Schnee."
"Which I'm not."
"Yes, but if you were, I could shoot you, and if it was purple, it would prove me wrong."
"That seems like an extreme way to test."
"So why not take off your mask."
"… I told you it really hurts."
"So then I should shoot you."
"Wait, I think we should-"
"Ruby?" Weiss interrupted.
"Yes?"
"I think your cover's blown."
General Tso, the chicken faunus, cocked his revolver.
"I think you might be right."
It was relatively clean process after that. Ruby took the general, Weiss wiped up the henchwoman, and they got their quarry down to the local policia.
"Every time," Weiss sighed as they walked back towards their apartment.
"What?" Ruby whined, lapping at her double chocolate chip mint ice cream.
"You do something stupid every time."
Ruby grinned.
"I hate you." Weiss seethed.
"You love me." Ruby skipped alongside her.
"Yeah…" Weiss sighed and strode in step with Ruby.