Hey guys. Hope you liked the last chapter, and what I did with Neo. I dont like the idea that she's completely mute, so I got an idea to model her after Sawyer the Cleaner from Black Lagoon. Both mute on the job, both psychopathic, it seems like a nice fit for a crossover (hint hint, fellow writers). So...yeah I ran out of things to say before we get into this so I'm done. Enjoy!


"Here's what I can give you right now." Neo began as she brought up her scroll. A picture of a certain orange-eyed brunette in a red cocktail dress was brought up in front of everyone's eyes.

"Hey, I recognize her..." Ruby said, remembering the time she met her along with Mercury and Emerald outside their dorm room.

"Yeah, isn't she one of the visiting students from Haven?" Weiss asked.

"She's actually Cinder Fall." Taiyang corrected the heiress.

"You know her?" Neo asked, unaware that anyone would know her by her real name.

"She could've been one of the greatest students to ever graduate from Signal years ago, back before Summer was..." He trailed off for a moment, a glimmer of sadness passing over his eyes. "Anyway, her father was taken in for inhumane experimentation on minors."

"Wait, I know about this!" Weiss spoke up. "Dr. Fall was one of my father's top R and D researchers back at the Schnee Dust Company. He was discovered to be trying to infuse dust into human test subjects...his ow daughters."

"Very good memory, Miss Schnee." Taiyang noted. "Cinder and her sisters were split up by the foster child department. She ended up in a home in Vale where she ended up in Signal Academy. She could've been one of our top students, but she was always so rough with the other students, both in and out of combat training. The one time she crippled two students in Qrow's class was the last straw, and she was expelled then and there. The next day she burned down her foster home with her adopted parents inside and fled town, never heard from again."

"Well it seems she's become quite the crime mogul since then." Ozpin remarked. "Now, you said she had others in her inner circle, Neo?"

"Other than Torchwick and I, there were four others. Two of them are here at Beacon acting as spies: Emerald Sustrani and Mercury Black." Neo continued onward.

"They're working for Cinder?" Yang raised her voice in surprise. They seemed somewhat suspicious their first meeting and that one sparring class in which Mercury challenged Pyrrah, but she never pegged them as criminals.

"I'll have security watch out for them and apprehend them if necessary." Ozpin said, sending a quick message to Beacon's security guard captain. "Who else is in their company?"

"When Cinder struck a deal with the White Fang, they sent three of their top field members to oversee what we were doing. You captured one at the southern staging area." Nep explained, referring to the luitenent wielding a chainsaw sword. "Another is-"

"Adam Taurus." Blake interrupted, looking back at the note. "The greatesr field agent they have and my old partner."

"He was the one we faced at the southern caverns, right? With the mask and samurai sword?" Yang asked.

"The one that slit your throat?" Weiss questioned.

"He didn't mean to! We were like brother and sister growing up in the White Fang. He couldnt hurt me on purpose even if he tried!" Blake defended him.

"Weiss, we'll deal with that later." Yang said before the arguement escalated. "Neo, you still haven't given the reason you're here for. Who was it who raped my sister?" She narrowed her eyes, glowing red suddenly, as she said this.

"Yang, please..." Ruby spoke up, trying to calm her sister down befode another rampage started. "She was getting to it, right?"

Neo nodded and pulled up an image of a young Faunus male, around his mid twenties. He had brown shaggy hair with two dog ears on the top of his head, uncovered by his hood the moment this image was taken. His chin borr a thin beard, and the toothy grin on his face showed a sharp pair of teeth. His mask, bearing a wolf's skull marking on it was palmed in his hand.

"Timber Lupus. From what I heard, he was the son of the White Fang's former leader, and acted as a source of intel for the group. He also doubled as an interrogator." She explained.

Ruby shuddered in her seat as she stared at the picture with a thousand-yard stare. The eyes, the mask, both seemed all too familiar. There was no denying this was the man who did this to her. Once she broke herself out of the trance, she made her way for the door.

"Ruby?" Taiyang watched her leave, before looking back to the others. Ozpin motioned for him to go after her, which he did. As he left, the conversation picked back up.

"So, Neo, where can we find them all?" Ozpin asked.

"Yeah. I want to have a little fun with Timber before he skips town of you know what I mean." Yang growled as she cracked her knuckles.

"I'm afraid I can't allow you to accompany us in this investigation, girls." Ozpin leaned forward.

"Excuse me?" Yang yelled, her eyes glowing red once more.

"The night at the docks and your mission to Mountain Glenn was one thing. If these individuals are as dangerous as we believe they are, it's much to dangerous for students to apprehend them alone." Ozpin said as he reached for his Scroll, ignoring Yang's extremely explicit retort as it took the remaining three girls around her to hold her back. "Glynda," he spoke after dialing her number. "I need you to contact General Ironwood immediately with the following information..."

"Ozpin, I'm a little busy at the moment dealing with two Haven students attacking our security guards!" The other end of the line blared at him.

"What? Where are you?" Ozpin said, getting up from his desk and looking out the massive window behind him. Down below, he already found Mercury and Emerald two courtyards away in combat with Glynda and the security detail on loan from the Atlesian military. Before he could even speak, the sound of the door being slammed shut and three girls missing from the room, Neo looking between him and the door with a confused look on her face.

"You should follow them too." Ozpin sighed as Neo gave a nod and walked calmly but briskly towards the elevators outside the office.


Back in the foyer of Ozpin's tower, Ruby sat on a couch near the enterance, her legs tucked up into an upright fetal position as she stared at a certain point in the floor before her. The sound of footsteps brought her attention to the elevators on the opposite side of the room.

"I was wondering where you ran off to." Taiyang spoke as he walked up to her, sitting down next to his youngest daughter. "I assume Timber was the one." He didn't get an answer verbally, but a nod instead. There was a while of silence before she finally spoke.

"What am I going to do, Dad?" Ruby asked, receiving a raised eyebrow in response. "I can't just get rid of this baby, but I have no idea how I'm going to raise it." she made note, her eyes glimmering with tears of frustrated confusion.

Taiyang shook his head. "That's not a decision I can make for you, Ruby."

"Then what should I do?" Ruby sighed, nearly on the verge of tears.

The older blonde man put an arm around his daughter, drawing her into a hug. "I know these past few weeks have been difficult for you, but know the answers to your questions don't come all at once. I know the time will come when you decide what to do."

"But what if I make the wrong decision? Like if I put it up for adoption and it ends up in a terrible place to raise a child?" she asked.

"You never know until you try. I've never known you to make a wrong decision though, wether it was dying your hair red or taking after your uncle and building Crescent Rose." he replied.

Ruby pondered this for a moment, but before she could give her answer, the sound of gunshots and explosions started ringing from outside, and the familiar ding of an elevator bell sounded. From the same elevator Taiyang exited from a few minutes prior, Weiss, Blake, Yang and Neo came running towards the door.

"What's going on?" Taiyang asked, he and Ruby standing up from the couch.

"Mercury and Emerald are trying to escape!" Weiss informed them as the two as they continued outside, the sound of gun fire growing louder as the doors opened and the six individuals ran out.


"Gah!" Velvet yelped as she was knocked back by an elbow from Mercury, only to be replaced by Fox as he unleashed a flurry of blows towards the kickboxer, each strike narrowly dodged. He almost was unaware he was being backed into the towering figure of Yatsuhashi until the sound of the man grunting as he hefted his large sword to strike down on the spy. He spun out of the way as the blade was brought down, leaving a large crack in the walkway they stood upon in its wake. In order to put some distance between him and the upperclassmen, Mercury launched himself off the golden blade using his gun greaves to propel himself.

"Where did these guys even come from?" he thought to himself. His thoughts were interrupted as a certain platinum blonde teacher whipped a nearby bench at him, ducking out of the way as Emerald jumped in his place and cut it in half with her sickles.

RWBY, Taiyang and Neo ran up to the scene to find security guards covering the ground before them, some covered in their own blood.

"Ruby, Blake, start helping these men!" Taiyang ordered as the two started helping escort the lesser injured to a safer place before help for them arrived. "The rest of you, you're with me!" Reaching into his coat pockets, he produced a set of brass knuckles. Knocking his fists together, two dragon's heads formed from pure aura energy over his hands. One could take notice his eyes also began glowing red, similar to Yang's semblance, a trait the father and daughter shared. The rest also prepared for battle, Weiss drawing Myrtenaster, Yang activating Ember Cilica, and Neo readying her parasol for battle. The group then jumped in to assist CFVY and Professor Goodwich, hoping the now nine Huntsmen and Huntresses would help sure up the numbers.

"Great. More of them!" Mercury complained.

"Just quit complaining! Our backup's here!" Emerald snapped as two dropships flew overhead, dropping White Fang initiates armed with a full armory of weapons. Before one could escape, Coco and Weiss were able to bring it down, the upperclassman pummeling the aircraft with machine gun fire and Weiss using her ice glyphs to pierce one of its engines with a giant icicle.

Back on the ground, Neo and Yang had come across Mercury.

"You're gonna pay for ratting us out, bitch!" Mercury growled as he directed a kick towards the mute girl, who in a blink, used her illusionary abilities to turn him around, straight into a punch to the face from Yang.

"And you're gonna pay for spying on us!" Yang retorted as a battle between gauntlets and greaves took place.

Noticing she was holding her own for now, Neo turned her sights on Taiyang and Emerald, who was blocking each of the thief's pistol shots with the power of his aura fists. Realizing that wasn't working, she switched back to her weapon's sickle-form, and started trying to slice at the Signal Academy teacher, her attacks blocked every time by the brass guards on his knuckles.

"Face it. You're outmatched and outnumbered, Emerald. Give up and face the consequences." Taiyang said in a low tone, trying to reason with her.

"How about no?" Emerald counterpointed as she kicked his feet out from under him. Almost before he could react, Emerald fired off a round from her pistol that narrowly grazed the side of his cheek. Knowing her missed opportunity, she quickly backpedaled and made for the helipad, making her way through the White Fang crowd busy dealing with CFVY and Goodwich. "Mercury! We're leaving!"

Mercury quickly kicked back Yang with a blast from his greaves, most of the damage absorbed by her aura, but still stunning her and leaving a bruise on her stomach. He then quickly vaulted over Fox, who was dealing with a White Fang member with a sword, and landing behind Yatsuhashi and Velvet. Deciding to pull a dirty trick before leaving, he gave a low kick to the Faunus' ankle, sending a bullet tearing through it before running off to join Emerald.

Velvet let out a pained yell as she crumpled to one knee, grabbing her foot in pain, unaware of the White Fang member behind her or of Yatsuhashi too busy with a larger member with an axe to help her.

"You don't deserve these ears, traitor." he sneered as he grabbed her by her hair, holding her in place as he produced a knife. As he prepared to bring it down to slice her ears, he found his hand stopped by another, with pristine Atlesian-styled tips on her fingernails.

"If you think I'm going to let you poach my teammate, think again." Coco growled. She then delivered a strong kick from behind him to his groin, followed by a bash to the head with her tote as he let go of Velvet and dropped to his knees.

"Cheers, Coco." Velvet thanked her team leader as she winced from the radiating pain of her gunshot wound.

"Thank me later, Velvs. Yatsu! Help her out while I find the asshat who did this!" she ordered. The giant gasped as he saw the puddle of blood around Velvet's leg and ran over to help her as Coco simply strutted past him.

Back at the landing pad, Mercury, Emerald, and a couple White Fang members who hadn't had the living crap beaten out of them found themselves cornered as Taiyang, Goodwich, Neo, and the remaining Beacon students surrounded them.

"You're completely surrounded. Surrender immediately!" Glynda ordered, gesturing her crop towards the group of criminals.

"My ammo's completely spent. You?" Emerald whispered to her partner.

"Practically on empty. What's taking him?" Mercury answered back.

"Hey! Didn't you hear her?" Yang yelled. "Give-"

Before she could finish, she was pulled aside by a red flash as something dropped out of the sky and struck the ground the blinde brawler ince stood upon with such ferocity, it left a shallow crater. Looking up at whi helped her out of the way, she found her sister looking down at her with big silvery eyes.

"That was a close one, huh?" Ruby smirked as Yang stood back up and gave her a quick hug.

"You sure you're up for this?" Yang asked.

"JNPR came to help Blake, so she has that covered." Ruby replied, drawing Crescent Rose in its rifle form. "I can do this..."

Out from the crater rose a contradiction to Ruby's statement. A familiar masked individual burst out of the crater, wielding a pickaxe, like Taiyang's fists, with a blade made of pure Aura energy. Ruby went wide-eyed as she recognized him. Fear and anger took over her actions, as with a warcry, she unfolded Crescent Rose into its scythe form and charged Timber with intent to harm.

"Well look who it is!" Timber smiled behind his mask as he caught Ruby's strike higher up on the polr of her weapon, just below the blade. He then pushed her back with a fist to the chest, disarming her before tossing it aside. "I should've finished you back in that cave instead of finishing IN you."

Now it was Yang's turn to charge him. Delivering a devastating punch to the Faunus, at least two tines stronger than her finishing blow to Junior the night she wrecked his club. However, the Faunus didn't even budge. Instead, he grabbed the blonde by her fist still connected to his neck, and whipped her in the air with superhuman strength, then slamming her intk the ground next to her sister.

"Yang!" Ruby gasped as she took note that in one strike, her sister had been knocked out. Timber then split apart his pickaxe, the aura blades disappearing and the halves of handle shortening dramatically as they formed two miniature submachine guns. Ruby quickly dived onto her sister, hoping to shield her from the shots as she heard the guns begin to fire. She was suddenly surprised as no bullets struck the two of them. She looked up to find Neo using her parasol to deflect every shot directed at them. As Timber took notice, gunfire from Coco caught him off guard as he began to retreat back towards the cliff. The gunship that dropped him off had already picked up Mercury and the remaining White Fang members able to retreat. As it flew off, another arrived in its place to pick up him and Emerald.

"You're not getting away after what you've done!" Taiyang yelled as he ran forward, a punch ready to strike him, this one with more power behind it than Yang's attempt. It never made contact as a fireball struck his chest and knocked him to the ground. Everyone turned to see a familiar brunette with a flame held in her hands, hanging out the door of the dropship waiting for him.

"Emerald, Timber, are you two done? We must be going." Cinder ordered them both in, which they did as instructed. She then turned back to her former teacher, clutching the burn on his chest as he sat up. "I'll be seeing you around, Professor Xiao Long." she mused as she launched a wall of fire ar the landing pad. Weiss and Glynda's glyph shields did a good job of covering the group from the blaze, but by the time they dissipated, the ships were out of range for any of them to strike with ranged attacks.

"...Did they get away?" Fox asked.


"I still have no idea how they managed to get through our restricted airspace without warning!" Ironwood growled as he surveyed the damage. Bullet holes and blood splatters littered the courtyard in front of Beacon. Luckily, no casualties were suffered.

"James, what's passed is passed. There's nothing we can do now but pick up the pieces." Ozpin remarked, surveying the damage as well.

"Either way, this aggression towards my men will not go unpunished." James fumed. "Now if you'll excuse me, old friend, I have some prisoners to interrogate." With that said, he walked towards his personal dropship to take him back to his command vessel.

In the end, thirteen White Fang members were taken by the Atlesian military, while just about the entire detail sent as Beacon security was now out of commission. All across the courtyard, AK units were cleaning up the mess left from the battle along with Glynda, who used her semblance to repair large patches of missing ground or pathway. The students involved in the battle were still present, now talking with JNPR.

"I'm just glad you're all alright. If those guys could beat Atlas' finest, who knows if they got the upper hand facing you?" Jaune hypothesized.

"What about Velvet? She got shot in the foot by Mercury." Weiss asked.

"I talked to my cousin, Yatsuhashi." Ren answered. "The doctors say she should make a full recovery. The bullet didn't do any damage that requires surgery."

"Man, that rabbit has one lucky foot." Yang remarked, having regained consciousness shortly beore Ironwood arrived. The groans and shaking of heads indicated she unintentionally made a pun. "Oh, sorry! I didn't mean to make that one."

"What about you, Ruby?" Pyrrah asked. "I heard the one who...you know...attacked you all."

"Y-yeah..." Ruby said. The thought of seeing him again made the brunette shudder. Taking note, Pyrrah decided not to question it any further. "I'll be okay though."

"If you say so." the champion smiled, then turned to Neo, who was standing among them, silently listening in on the conversation. "You must be the defector. It's very kind of you to help our friends like this." she said. Neo simply smiled back and nodded before a certain Valkyrir picked her up in a bear hug.

"Welcome to the family, Ice Cream Lady!" Nora beamed, while Neo started turning blue from the lack of oxygen.

"Nora! Heel!" Ren ordered his friend like a dog, who dropped the mute on command. "I'm sorry, she's like that with everyone."

Before Neo could give a reply, Taiyang's voice suddenly sounded from behind the two sisters.

"Girls, can I have a word with you?" he asked, pulling them aside. "I'm glad you two are okay, but Ruby, you joining the fight was the most dangerous move you could pull." he scolded.

"What? Dad, I'm fine!" Ruby complained. "Now isn't a time to baby me!"

"What do you think the reason for it is?" Taiyang asked. "You're carrying precious cargo now. What if that cheap shot Velvet took was directed at your lower back? Or if Neo wasn't there to protect you from Timber? Ruby was ready to retort, but bit her lip as she mulled over his words. "Ozpin was trying to protect you both when he pulled you off of combat training and missions."

Ruby looked away, unsure of what to say to help her case. "Is this what it's going to b like these coming months?" she thought to herself. "Feeling useless like this?" Taiyang then turned to the elder sister. "Yang, I can't be around you two all the time, so promise me you'll watch out for her when you can."

"Of course, dad." Yang nodded. She then looked down at her sister sympathetically. She hadn't seen her this miserable since she got accepted to Beacon before Ruby and told her she'd be left behind.

Back in the group of JNPR, Neo and Weiss, the conversation had turned to a secretive one about what they could have been pulled away about.

"Do you two have any idea what it could be about?" Jaune asked the heiress and defector.

"No, I'm not one for gossip." Weiss lied while Neo shook her head. Both could guess the correct answer, but for now, even their closest friends shouldn't know until the time was right. However, they were unaware Pyrrah was a master of lip reading among her other sets of skills.

"Oh dear, no." she gasped.

"What are they saying?" Nora asked.

"I can only infer from what they're talking about, but..." she then whispered the rest among the others. While Weiss and Neo were disappointed how quickly they learned the truth, the others were shocked, Ren having to hold his hand over Nora's mouth to contain the oncoming outburst of her surprised realization.

"How come you didn't say anything, Weiss?" Jaune asked.

"We didn't know how anyone else would react! We just found out earlier after sparring class ourselves." Weiss admitted with a sigh.

"Weiss, Ruby's our friend too. We all understood her situation when she got out of the hospital. This doesn't change that at all." Pyrrah said, getting nods of confirmation from her teammates and a look of surprise followed by a smile from the duelist. She was glad they had such understanding friends.

"So, when do we track down the guy who did it and break his legs?" Nora asked.

"We can't do anything. Ozpin said it's too dangerous for students to-" Weiss began to complain until Neo tugged at her sleeve and gave the notion for everyone to quiet down before pointing toward a nearby Atlesian soldier talking on his radio.

"And you can confirm the sighting...Understood. I'll let General Ironwood know we should send forces to the northern part of the city." he spoke into his radio before heading off to inform his C.O.

"You guys heard that, right?" Ren asked.

"Every word." Jaune nodded. "Weiss, can you rally SSSN and STRM and get them to meet all of us in the cafeteria after it closes later?"

"Are we meeting to do what I think we're going to do?" Weiss asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yep. What say we teach the guy who raped Ruby a lesson?"


While I was typing this, we finally broke 4k views guys! Thank you all so much for taking time to give this fic a read or two! I hope you enjoyed the chapter and are already asking questions about what's in store for the next one. "How will Jaune's plan to get revenge go?" "Will Ruby continue to doubt her future thanks to her pregnancy?" "How long until Nora crushes the life out of someone else with a massive hug?" "Can the author get any more racist than making Ren and Yatsuhashi cousins just because of their obviously Asian names?" Find out next chapter!