It was a few days after The Saints took the southwest agricultural district, and no one had seen hide or hair of Ruby and Yang, at least not publically. After making their bombastic entrance, the new gang of Vale seemed to of all but dropped off the face of Remnant. One woman was about to change all that.
The woman's white high heels clacked against the cracked pavement of Beacon Academy as she made her way towards the school. Her long, swan white hair was styled back into an efficient ponytail that matched her short white dress and diamond earrings perfectly. There were two obviously new additions to her wardrobe, however; a black belt that holstered her sub-machine guns, and a red jacket with a white rose emblazoned on the back.
Once inside the school, it didn't take the woman long to find Ruby and Yang; all she had to do was follow the pungent smoke.
"Hey Yang" Ruby said to her sister as they both slumped against a wall in their makeshift bedroom. "Shouldn't we, you know, be taking over the city?"
Yang took a long puff from her joint before responding with a weak "Tomorrow".
"Good afternoon, Miss Rose" the mysterious woman said when she got close enough to the two Saints.
"Afternoon?" Ruby said. "I thought it was Tuesday night".
"That was five days ago, Ruby" corrected Yang.
"Oh yeah" Ruby said, taking another puff. "Do I know you?"
"Uh…my name is Weiss Schnee" the woman said, trying to remain professional. "I heard about what you did to the White Fang a few days ago, and I decided that I would like to meet you in person".
"How…how did you find us?" Yang asked lazily.
"I just trailed one of your dealers here" Weiss explained. "You really should set up a discrete bank account, by the way. It helps stop things like that from happening".
"Whoop-de-fucking-do" Yang said sarcastically. "You found us. So what do you want?"
"I want to join The Saints" Weiss said sternly.
Ruby's eyes immediately lit up as soon as she heard what Weiss said. In an instant the young girl went from lazy and laidback to excited and hyperactive as she stood up and took the woman by the hand.
"Yes, yes, yes! Of course you can join!" Ruby said breathlessly. "Oh boy, my first homie! Oh, wait, that means I have to do this".
Ruby then punched Weiss square in the gut, and the punctuated it with a kick to the head, sending the elegantly dressed woman sprawling onto the floor with a bleeding lip.
"Sorry, Yang told me we have to beat in the new recruits" Ruby said as she helped Weiss back onto her feet. "But now you're in! Welcome to The Saints!"
Weiss was about to launch into a tirade about being treated like a street urchin, but Yang spoke before she could.
"Wait, you're a Schnee? Of the Schnee Dust Company?" Yang asked. "Aren't you guys loaded or something? Why would you want anything to do with us?"
"We were 'loaded'" Weiss said bitterly. "Until the White Fang took everything from us. They took our dust, then they took our money, and then they took my father. I know you're trying to take down the White Fang, and I want to help. I will not stop until I've taken everything from them the same way they took everything from me".
"Wow, that's cold" Yang said, impressed with the woman's dedication. "But we're not the only gang in the city, you know. Why didn't you go to CRDL, or The Embers?"
"CRDL are a bunch of sexist jackasses who barely know which end of the gun is which, and The Embers…" Weiss trailed off when she mentioned Vale's fourth gang. "Well, they just didn't work out. So do you want me, or not?"
"Sure; welcome to the team!" Yang said, standing up and slapping the gang's newest member on the back.
"So…where's everyone else?" Weiss asked tepidly.
"You're looking at'em" Yang said as she pulled another joint out of her pocket.
"What?" said Weiss.
"It's just the three of us!" said Ruby. "I mean, unless you count the drug dealers, but I don't since they refused to wear the red bandanas I gave them, which was really rude of them. I mean, come on guys, I spent a whole twenty Lien on these things and…"
"What?" Weiss repeated, this time with anger audibly rising in her voice.
"Uh…I said it's just the three of us right now, and.."
"What!?" Weiss shouted.
"Uh, do you have a hearing problem?" Ruby asked. "Oh, wait, I probably should have asked that louder. DO YOU HAVE A…"
"No, no, this will not do! This will not do at all!" Weiss said, storming out of the room. "I will be right back".
"What's her problem?" Ruby asked after Weiss left.
"Hell if I know" Yang said as she sat back down to smoke her Ursa Weed.
Weiss hopped back into her white sports car and drove as quickly as she could over to the closest section of the residential district of Vale. Most of the residential district was controlled by CRDL, but the eastern section was ruled over by the White Fang. They mostly ruled over the Faunus populated areas of the city, but this neighborhood was one of the few exceptions. Weiss could tell just by the angry looks on the humans' faces as they passed by the White Fang enforcers that this place was going to perfect for what she had planned.
Weiss finally found a good place to stop and parked her car. She then started to walk around the neighborhood, looking for her chance. All she needed was one opportunity, and the rest would take care of itself.
"Help! Someone help me!" Weiss heard a woman call from a nearby alleyway.
"Too easy" Weiss said to herself before dashing into the alley.
As she suspected, two White Fang members making an unauthorized withdrawal from some poor woman's purse. A few well-placed shots were all it took to take them both down.
"Oh, thank goodness you came when you did" the woman in a yellow dress said as she gathered her things that were scattered on the ground. "I just wish there were more people in this town who'd stand up to these animal freaks".
"You know what they say; wish into one hand, shoot with the other" Weiss said, tossing the woman her sub-machine gun. "See which kills them first".
"Wha?" the woman said, terrified. "But I can't just go out and kill them! I've never even held a gun before!"
"Don't worry, I was nervous the first time I killed a man too" Weiss confessed. "But don't think about what will happen when you pull the trigger. Think about what will happen if you don't".
The woman stood in silence for a few moments before nodding.
"Good" Weiss said, picking up one of the dead Faunas' guns. "Stick with me, and you're going to go far. Let's do this!"
Weiss took aim at the nearest White Fang member she saw when she exited the alleyway, pumping her chest full of lead and dropping the Faunas woman where she stood. The woman Weiss gave her gun to followed out soon afterwards, firing her gun nervously.
"Keep your breathing steady and your mood calm" Weiss explained to her new follower in between shots. "You might get wrinkles otherwise".
"I don't know if I can do this" the woman responded, on the verge of tears.
Suddenly, a large group of White Fang members in jeeps rounded a street corner, their sights dead set on Weiss and her unfortunate new friend.
"Shit" Weiss said, hopping into her car. "Get in".
Weiss hit the gas as soon as the woman was inside, speeding into traffic as the White Fang gave suit.
"Hey, I haven't even put my seatbelt on yet!" the woman complained, but was silenced by the sound of bullets peppering the back of the car.
"Uh, I think we might have bigger problems than that" Weiss said sarcastically. "Don't just sit there, you dolt! Shoot back!"
The woman haphazardly leaned out the passenger window and fired on one of the pursuing jeeps, hitting the driver in the head and sending the car spinning out into a tree and creating a small explosion. Her first kill.
"Wow…that was…so cool!" she shouted, laughing maniacally.
She began firing in full force now, not caring about who might be on the receiving end of her bullets. The White Fang still pursuing them tried their best to fire back, but Weiss's superb driving skill ensured that they could never get a clear shot.
Suddenly the woman's rampage came to an end when she heard an unsatisfying clicking noise come from her gun.
"Aw, I'm out of ammo" she told Weiss.
"Not a problem" Weiss responded, giving her one of the guns she kept hidden in her glove compartment. "Help yourself. In fact, guns for everyone!"
Weiss then hit a button on her dashboard that popped open the trunk of her car, revealing a treasure trove of guns of all shapes and sizes. They began spilling out onto the streets, confusing the White Fang members who were still chasing them. The Faunus ignored the weapons and drove on, but it did not take the residents of the neighborhood long to take notice of them.
"Fuck" Weiss said as she fought against the wheel of her car. "They must have shot out the tires! We'll have to make a stand!"
Weiss parked in front of a small apartment complex and jumped out of her car, taking cover behind it. Her accomplice soon followed, though she wasn't trying nearly as hard to remain hidden.
"Come get it, you motherfuckers!" she shouted, still riding her adrenaline high. "Come and fucking get it!"
The White Fang were smart enough not to charge right in, however, and instead lined up their cars in a semicircle around the two cornered women.
"Give it up!" one of the higher ranking members called out. "You're surrounded".
Weiss just looked up at him and smiled. "My, aren't you the pot calling the kettle black?"
The Faunas man turned around to see what she was talking about and saw that at least half of the neighborhood had surrounded them, Weiss's guns in hand.
"I'm only going to tell you this once" said a woman in a red shirt holding an assault rifle. "Get out".
The White Fang immediately dropped their guns and hopped back in their cars, retreating back towards the south side of Vale.
"We'll remember this!" one called right before they disappeared around a street corner.
"Of course you will" Weiss said dismissively. "I'm very hard to forget".
The crowd burst into cheers soon afterwards, jubilant that they were finally able to get rid of the White Fang after years of brutal occupation. Suddenly, a man burst from the crowd and approached Weiss's car.
"Helena, what in the world are you doing?" the man said to his wife. "You go out grocery shopping, and this happens?"
"Shut the fuck up!" she said, grabbing him and bringing him in for a kiss. "I'm so fucking horny right now! We are going to go break that new bed in, now!"
"Uh, yes ma'am" he said, following timidly behind her.
"Alright everyone, listen up!" Weiss shouted, addressing the crowd. "This neighborhood now belongs to The Saints! Anyone else who wants to help us kick some more White Fang tail, meet me at Beacon at sundown!"
A few hours later, and over two hundred men and women from the eastern residential district, as well as the rest of Vale, were gathered in Beacon's old cafeteria.
"Now you're a gang" Weiss told Ruby triumphantly, but the girl was barely listening. She was too busy squirming in excitement over all her new 'homies'.
"Weiss, thank you so much!" Ruby said, clapping her hands together. "Time to start beating them in! You there!" she said, running up to a random man and punching him in the jaw. "You're first!"
The rest of the people in the room took Ruby's lead and started laying it on the poor man for all that he was worth. Then, once Ruby decided that he was sufficiently beaten, she ran up to her next 'lucky' recruit and punched them as well.
"I've got to admit Weiss, you did a pretty good job out there today" Yang said, walking up beside the woman in white. "Much better than you'd think an heiress could do".
"You're not the only Huntress who lost her chance to go to this school" Weiss said.
The man in the white trench coat sat behind his desk counting his money again, an activity that used to bring him endless amounts of joy. But today, he couldn't help but look at the hundreds of thousands of Lien in front of him and scowl.
"What happened this time, Lieutenant?" he asked the large muscled man in front of him.
"The Saints took over one of the eastern neighborhoods yesterday, so no one paid their protection money" he calmly explained.
"Great" the crime boss said scornfully. "Just fucking great!"
He stared at his money for a minute or two before coming to a decision.
"Get Neo on the phone" he said. "Tell her I have a gardening job for her to do".
A/N: Please let me know what you think of the story in a review!