"So, how'd it go?" Yang asked as she saw Ruby and Blake reenter Beacon's old cafeteria. Yang was currently watching TV with her feet up while Weiss desperately tried to wash the soot out of one of her dresses nearby.
"It was great!" Ruby exclaimed. "I got to be a pimp!"
"I guess that's technically true" Blake said. "If you stretch the definition of 'pimp' as far as possible".
"Nice!" Yang said approvingly. "My little sister's growing up! Did you get to eat any 'fish tacos' while you were out there?"
"Actually, I didn't see any taco stands anywhere" Ruby admitted. "Maybe they were closed down for the night".
"Should I…?" Blake quietly asked Yang.
"Nah" Yang whispered back. "She'll figure it out on her own…I hope".
"Anyways, how did you guys' trip go?" Ruby asked Weiss and Yang.
"Well, aside from that bomb ruining my good dress, I think it went pretty well" Weiss said as she wrung out her soaking dress into a bucket of water. "We didn't get any money, but we caused a lot of damage. I think they're actually talking about it on the news right now".
"Oh, let me see!" Ruby said, running over to their dingy six-inch TV in the corner of the room and turning up the sound.
On screen, Ruby could see a male news reporter talking to a woman with bright green eyes and red hair with a ponytail so long that it nearly reached the round. She was wearing a black t-shirt with a grey vest, blue jeans with grey kneepads on them, and a black police chief's cap with the initials V.P.D. inscribed onto a golden police badge on the front the hat. They were both standing in front of a smoking and partially burned building.
"Chief Nikos, do you have any idea who was behind the attack on the First Bank of Vale last night?" the reporter asked, his microphone directly in the tall redheaded woman's face.
"We have reason to believe that the attack is related to the recent string of gang violence that has been occurring across the city, but we cannot confirm this as of yet" the woman explained level headedly. "But rest assured that the Vale Police Department is currently doing everything in its power to bring those responsible to justice as soon as we can".
"Do you have any comment on the reports of two former Huntresses, including wanted felon Yang Xiao Long…"
"Hey, they said your name sis!" Ruby said, pointing at the screen.
"…were at the scene of the attack last night?" asked the reporter.
"My officers are reviewing the surveillance footage to identify the suspects as we speak" the police woman replied. "But they will face justice, regardless of who they were".
"Really?" said the reporter. "So you aren't going easy on them just because you were once…"
"I believe that's enough questions for today" Chief Nikos said sternly. "Good day, sir".
"Nice job, girls" Ruby said as she turned off their TV. "That was some pretty good destruction you caused".
"Eh, I could have done better" Yang shrugged. "I only killed ten people last night".
"So, what's the plan now, Ruby?" Weiss asked.
"Now, we wait" Ruby explained. "It could take days, weeks, even months but…hang on, my phone is ringing. Hello?"
"It's happening" said the voice on the other end.
Ruby let out a delighted gasp in response. "You finally got the courage to ask that pretty girl out on a date?"
"What? No!" said the voice. "The White Fang are getting ready to move! They'll be at the docks in three hours, tops".
"Oh! Gotcha" Ruby said, hanging up. "Change of plans; grab your biggest, coolest guns and get down to the agricultural district docks ASAP!"
"Hell yeah!" Yang shouted. "Fuck waiting! I want to tear some shit up!"
"I hope you know what you're doing" Blake said as she grabbed her sub-machine guns and loaded them.
"Don't worry" Weiss interjected calmly. "As long as you and Yang actually do your jobs this time, I'm sure everything will be just fine".
Things were oddly quiet at the fishing docks that morning as The Saints carefully laid their trap. Gang members were hiding around every corner and behind every trash can. The sex-workers were taken off the streets and replaced by Saints in disguise. Ruby, after trying in vain to find a taco stand, took up position with an RPG on top of a warehouse overlooking the main road into the area. Weiss was lying down next to her, armed with a sniper rifle she bought just that morning using the money stolen from the dead White Fang pimps.
"Okay, be sure to aim for the car in the front" Weiss told Ruby. "There's a good chance that's where Neo will be".
"You can count on me!" Ruby said with a grin a mile wide plastered on her face. "Nothing's going stop me from shooting this thing!"
"Good to know" Weiss said, looking down the scope of her sniper rifle.
The first White Fang car came into view a few minutes later, flanked on both sides by Faunus men on motorcycles armed with shotguns. Even more White Fang gang members followed in behind them, but Weiss didn't notice. She was too busy paying attention to the man driving the leading car, who had a large white mask and White Fang tattoos on his left arm.
The same mask and tattoos Weiss saw all those years ago.
"Give me the gun, Ruby" Weiss said suddenly.
"What?" Ruby said back. "No way, I called it!"
"I said, give it here!" Weiss said, grabbing for Ruby's rocket launcher.
"Nuh uh! Use your own gun!" Ruby replied.
In their struggle, the young gang leader accidentally pulled the trigger on the RPG, sending its payload directly into a wall on the other side of the street. The White Fang saw the explosion and immediately stopped their vehicles, dashing into cover behind dumpsters and in alleyways. The exception was the White Fang Lieutenant, who stood out in the open, massive chainsaw in hand, and ignoring the massive firefight breaking out around him.
"Weiss, what did you do that for?" Ruby whined. "You made me miss my shot! That explosion would have been so cool!"
Weiss ignored Ruby and took aim at the colossal Faunus man with her sniper rifle and opened fire, hitting him square in the chest with every shot in her clip. The bullets just ricocheted off his torso, however, demonstrating that he had an incredibly strong aura. Refusing to give up, Weiss activated her semblance, summoned a white glyph in front of her, and launched herself directly towards the White Fang leader.
She tried hitting the man in the side of the head with the butt of her sniper rifle, but he managed to block it with his chainsaw and cut the gun in half. The former heiress adapted quickly when she hit the ground, however, and started to use the sawed of barrel of the gun like it was a saber. Each one of her lightning fast jabs weakened the enormous man's aura a little bit further.
But the Lieutenant, in spite of his size, was fast on his feet as well and dodged many of Weiss's blows. His chainsaw moved just as quickly, coming far too close for comfort as the white haired girl kept dodging out of the way.
"What is she doing?" Blake thought to herself as she fought off the White Fang nearby. "She's going to get herself killed!"
Yang, meanwhile, was too busy with her own meat realize what Weiss had gotten herself into.
"Nine! Ten! Eleven!" she shouted with every shell fired from her shotgun. "I'm on a roll!"
She quickly ran out of ammunition, however, and was forced to toss the gun to the side. Rather than waste time searching for a new one, she merely ran forward and started taking them out with her fists instead.
"Oh no!" Ruby said from her rooftop overlooking the action. "Everyone's playing without me!"
Quick to rectify the situation, Ruby grabbed a handgun and leapt down from the top of the building, opening fire on the first person in white that she saw. It wasn't long until Ruby and the other Saints had completely decimated the attacking White Fang forces, causing the few survivors to start retreating.
Weiss did not care about her gang's imminent victory, however, and focused entirely on killing the man standing in front of her. When she saw that his aura had almost completely dissipated, she thrust her makeshift sword forward, directly towards his heart.
"I know you" the Faunus man said as he dodged out of the way grabbed onto Weiss's wrist.
"Hey! Let go of me!" Weiss said desperately as she struggled, but the Lieutenant was far too strong.
"Maybe now I can complete the set" the man said menacingly, lifting the woman up by the arm and bringing them face to face.
"Weiss!" Blake cried, running up to the two. "Put her down. Now!"
"You got lucky this time, Schnee" the Lieutenant said before casually tossing the young woman into Blake, knocking Blake to the ground. He then got back in his car and drove off, heading back towards the White Fang held part of town.
"Blake, Weiss!" Ruby said as saw the two hit the ground. "Are you two all right?"
"Ah!" Weiss whimpered, grabbing her left arm. "That doesn't matter! Get him, before he gets away!"
"No way, not until we get you to a hospital" Ruby said, picking Weiss up bridal style. "How are you going to kill baddies with only one arm?"
"I don't care!" the wounded woman shouted with tears forming in the pits of her eyes, both from pain and frustration. "I know you're fast enough, Ruby! Kill him! Rip his fucking guts out!"
"It's okay, Weiss, it's okay" Ruby said softly. "Just get some rest, okay?"
Roman Torchwick nervously tapped his left hand against his desk as his cell phone continued ringing in his right. Normally he would be yelling at his subordinates after the mess that occurred at the docks earlier that day, but the redhead's office was uncharacteristically quiet that evening as he continued listening closely to the speaker of his phone. The man's spine suddenly straightened as he finally heard someone pickup on the other end.
"Cinder! Baby!" he said in a relaxed tone. "How are you doing?"
"What do you want, Roman?" came the bored response.
"Oh, don't be like that!" Roman said cheerfully. "Can't a guy just call up his favorite woman in the world and check up on her?"
"The only lady you love is Lady Lien" Cinder replied.
"Ah, right to my heart" Roman said overdramatically. "This is like the divorce, all over again".
"Just cut to the point, Torchwick" Cinder said, slightly annoyed.
"Oh, if you insist" Roman sighed. "I'm having trouble dealing with some…competition here in my part of town: The Saints".
"Really?" Cinder asked. "I haven't heard of them".
"Yes, of course you haven't" Roman said, smiling bitterly. "But, as much as I'd hate to admit it, they're proving to be a tiny bit too much for me to handle. So, if you wouldn't mind loaning me back Emerald and Mercury for a little while…"
"An admirable attempt at groveling, Torchwick," Cinder said smugly, "but you'll have to try harder than that".
"Name your price" Roman said, his voice suddenly turning serious.
"Ten million Lien. No less" Cinder replied.
"Hmm, you know what? I'll have to get back to you on that offer" Roman said insincerely. "Don't bother calling us, we'll call you".
Roman then hung up his cell phone, only for it to start ringing moments later. The call was not from Cinder, however; it was from one of his informants.
"Yes?" he said into the receiver. "Uhuh? Oh reeeally? That's interesting".
Roman ended his call and turned towards his Lieutenant, who had been standing patiently at attention the whole time.
"Good news, boy! Looks like you have a chance to finish what you started".
A/N: Feel free to write any criticisms or ideas you have for the story in a review!
