Ruby stood at the edge of the roof, looking out over Vale. The city was a mess, streets going every which way, buildings of all different sizes, and more shady corners than a criminal could ever want. Disgusting. She didn't see why this place even existed. Especially since there were criminals threatening the wellbeing of the SDC, her company. Well, her company in a few years.
Closing her right eye, she activated her bioscanner, scanning the building across from her. Besides for several people on the first three floors, civilians who legitimately lived there, there were three biosigns on the fourth and top floor. They must be the White Fang members, as the scanner marked them as non-human. However, if the reports she'd been given were to be believed there was supposed to be a fourth and fifth, human criminals Roman Torchwick and Neo.
The three biosigns were moving and looked like they were talking, but there was something off. Suddenly, one of them flinched at something that didn't appear on the scanner.
Suddenly realizing her mistake, she switched to thermal vision. The whole world was suddenly made of swirls of reds, blues, greens and oranges. Two of the Faunus appeared as slightly warmer than normal figures, one - most likely a cold-blooded reptile Faunus - was slightly darker against the background and off to the side were two more, showing up only as their hearts, and dim green blurs in their necks.
Biometric Dampeners; illegal in all four Kingdoms. They hid a person's biosigns, enabling them to slip past most security terminals, turrets, and cyborgs. Raising her left arm, a small hatch opened up on her wrist, shooting out a line over to the roof of the building, which was lower than hers. Ziplining across the roofs, she also marked all the people, so her radar would keep track of them, even if the lights were cut.
She landed and rolled with the momentum, making sure to make no noise. Crouching down above where the Faunus were, she flipped the tip of her right pointer finger open, spraying a liquid explosive in a circle, where it solidified. She stepped back, before pressing a button on her right arm, detonating the explosive with micro detonators mixed in with it.
A four foot circle of plaster that once was the ceiling of the room fell on top the Faunus, knocking them out cold. Before either Neo or Roman could react, she dropped in through the hole, both ams transforming into weapons; her left into a short but wicked blade, the right becoming a much more useful but more cumbersome miniature minigun.
"Halt! Roman Torchwick and Aurora "Neopolitian" Angler, you are under arrest for conspiracy against the SDC, illegal cybernetic augmentation, petty crime, multiple accounts of murder, and contact with terrorist groups. Do not resist, or I am authorized to use as much force as necessary." To prove her point, the began to rev up the barrels of her minigun.
Of course, they resisted. With the charges against them, they would receive the death penalty several times over, so avoiding that would be nice for them. Roman took aim with his cane-gun, while Neo rushed her, pulling the hidden blade out of her parasol.
Sighing, Ruby raised her arm to block the strike, hearing her arms starting to hum. The second the thin blade hit her arm, there was a clang as the two bits of metal hit each other and an explosion of sparks, and before anyone but Ruby knew what was going on, Neo flew back with the force, body twitching from the electricity coursing through her. Ruby then turned to face Roman but the faithless slimeball had fled.
Instead, Ruby pressed a couple of buttons on her arm; one to contact the VPD, the other opening up the hatch on her left leg. From there she pulled out binders and attached them to Neo's wrists, ankles and neck. Turning them on, the Gravity Dust weaved into the material made the small criminal float, for easy transport, like a psychopathic multicoloured balloon. Ruby began dragging her through the air by her feet, not caring if she hit her head on various things. Once outside, she left a message for the normal cops, sending them in to collect the Faunus.
Ten minutes later, she was in her airship heading back to Atlas with only half her prey. Father would have to forgive her, as she had assumed that Roman would try to help his companion, rather than abandon her. Neo would be of use though. She would lead them right to Roman. Father had many ways to make people talk. Many, many ways.
When Yang heard the news that another group of White Fang members had been caught under strange circumstances, she immediately contacted her friend in the VPD.
"Leo, what do you have for me? Is it her?" Leo Gold was a detective with the VPD and one of the few Faunus on the force. He gave her info on cases whenever she asked. After she saved him from an anti-Faunus group that had tried to kill him, she asked if she could cash in a favour. Sadly for him, she was cashing in on a lot of favours.
"Yang, we just got the call 30 minutes ago, we don't even have the names of the Faunus involved yet." Yang switched the call to video chat, and gave him a disbelieving look. He nervously tugged at hs collar, and Yang could hear his lion tail swishing, a sure sign he was not telling her everything.
"Come on Leo… you can always trust me." The guy sighed, letting go of his pride.
"We'd… been suspecting that there was White Fang activity in that place for some time now, so we had the place bugged whilst no one was there. Some of those hidden cameras on the scene revealed that the criminals Roman Torchwick and his associate Neo were there in the room as well as a couple of members. Roman fled the scene but… someone disabled Neo and took her. It might have been her, the resolution is very poor on the videos and they were being deliberately scrambled anyway. This was after they were there, so whatever or whoever this thing is, it obviously has its own scrambler."
"Thanks Leo. Be sure to send me those videos once you guys clear them up" said Yang.
"I'll try. I swear Yang, you're more into the Cyber case than anyone else on the force." said Leo, before hanging up. Yang put down her Scroll.
"I have to be, if i want to see my sister again" she muttered to the empty room. Silently she went to her own room, one wall covered with news articles, photos, and holographic videos, all about one subject, as clarified by the single piece of paper in the middle: Cyber Rose is Ruby Rose. "My sister is alive, I know it."
This is your resident Feugo speaking, I have nothing to say. Your turn STRQ
*awkwardly hands over the microphone, staying longer than needed and disappearing halfway through in a completely un-secret method*
Well if anyone is still confused, there was a timeskip. Ruby is 16 now, Yang and Weiss are, of course, 18. Also...don't hate me for giving Neo an "official name" because it just seemed like the thing to do. also, shorter chapter, but can't be helped.
