As she followed Ciel through the deserted compound, Yang felt as if she had been very close to something back in that room. As if she had been closer than ever to her goal. Still, in the months she'd been working even harder to find her sister, she hadn't found much. Now, the last person to have probably seen Ruby alive was giving her help to do something wild. From what Ciel had explained, there were rumors surrounding the man Jacques Schnee. Rumors of illegal experimentation, and of murder. Rumors that he had built himself a heir to take over his company, and that anyone to pry into it had disappeared, as had everyone involved, supposedly.
So Ciel, with the help from Weiss, had come up with a plan to confirm these rumors. Ciel also mentioned that Weiss wanted to speak with her. The plan was that Yang would wear this ridiculously tight suit, and sneak into the mansion at the same time as the general arrived. General Ironwood visited Jacques every month or so to discuss their combined stranglehold on the Atlas government as well as talk about their most recent stake, making the SDC into a PMC, or Private Military Company, separate from the standing government.
The plan was to have her hiding nearby, and once the gates opened to let the general in she would slip in behind them, invisible. The timing would be tight, but Yang was sure she'd be able to pull it off somehow.
That had been days ago, now she was crouched behind the hedge that lined the wall of the Schnee family mansion. This was the south entrance to the grounds, the same one that the general used. Right on time, his car pulled up to the gate. With its thickened tires, bulletproof windows and armored body there wasn't any question as to who was inside. The driver's window rolled down as an extended scanner scanned the driver, a robot, before the scanner beeped. The gate opened, it moving sideways like a sliding door, despite the gate having what Yang had thought to be obvious hinges.
Now was the time to go, the car slowly pulling forward, Yang pressed the button on her wrist, feeling the suit vibrate a bit, she stepped forward hoping that Weiss's info was correct and that the security system wouldn't shoot her with tranq-shot the second she stepped inside. Thankfully for her, the suit worked just as Ciel said it would. Unfortunately, the gate had closed quicker than anticipated and her hair was caught in it.
Closing her eyes, she concentrated on controlling her anger. It was a gate, not some person touching her hair, there was no need for her to smash it into pieces. Despite that she could tell her eyes were red, so quickly she moved as for forward as she could, before grabbing the caught stands near the tip, giving them a sharp tug, and the offending strands pulled loose from the gate. She was free, but she had wasted time; the dust reserves weren't large, and though she had refills she had to become visible to replenish.
As it were, she hurried along the path through the grounds, using the technique that Ciel had taught her to reduce the sound of her footsteps. After a minute of tensely passing round after round of guards, she saw the General, in his crisp white uniform, being led inside surrounded by his guards. She was too far to even possibly make it to the door, but the front door wasn't her goal. She had to get to the northwest corner of the mansion, to a servant's entrance. As such, she turned left, edging along the outside of the mansion, when she was about halfway she heard a soft beeping from the headband, a warning that the dust was about to run out. She didn't have nearly enough time to get to the servants entrance, so when she saw an open window, she didn't think twice before jumping into it, not a second too soon, as the suit vibrated again, meaning she was once more visible.
Looking around, she saw she was in a pure white room, filled with rather bland paintings of various washed out colors. To her left she saw there was- a person, right there! All she could see was their shadow, and part of their leg as they were in an alcove, but it was enough to send he heart into panic. How had they not noticed her? With some fumbling Yang managed to pull out the spare cartridge, injecting the dust into the port on the shoulder. With another press, she disappeared once more, and not a second too soon, as she heard whoever was in the small alcove start moving, turning to leave. With no time to spare she hopped out the window and continued onward.
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Weiss sat in her small room/workshop. In a few days, if everything went according to plan, shed be seeing someone who she hadn't seen in a very long time. Weiss just hoped that Yang wouldn't hate her. She had a lot she needed to rell her and she couldn't waste time fighting with her. Nervously, Weiss twisted a handful of her hair around, the slight pain helping her focus on the task at hand. All around were tools, seemingly thrown in anger. The workbench was covered with a tarp, the shape underneath unidentifiable. She stood up, carefully walking over to it, moving to pull it off, when her door beeped, before hissing open. With a small yelp, Weiss turned around, facing Ruby, who stood in the doorway looking at the mess.
"You should keep your quarters clean and organized. The family won't pay for any injury sustained by stepping on a tool not in the proper place." droned out Ruby, straightforward and blunt as always. "Father has requested that you attach this parachute to my back for an upcoming mission, and to wire it into my central mainframe using the access port in my arm."
Weiss took the parachute pack in her hands, before moving over to the workbench, gathering the tools she'd need. When she turned back around she saw Ruby already sitting on a stool by her workbench. As Weiss approached, Ruby reached up, unzipping her jumpsuit, letting it fall own to around her waist.
"The mission uniform will be altered to accommodate the pack. No need to worry about it being under clothes." she said, staring blankly hesitated, not having ever seen this much of Ruby before. She was beautiful, even with metallic limbs. As Weiss attached the parachute, she couldn't stop her eyes from running over Ruby's flawless body, nor could she resist the temptation to run her hands over Ruby's back under the pretense of "checking to make sure she hadn't messed anything up". Even with the metal plating, Weiss still thought Ruby's skin was so soft. Weiss had been so engrossed with actually touching Ruby that she nearly fell to the floor when she spoke.
"Are you done yet?"
"Y-yes! Everything is fine!" Ruby nodded, before putting her suit back on, leaving the room.
For the next twenty minutes, Weiss felt very, very warm.
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The general stood across from Jacques in the atters office, looking down at the small sample of silvery dust on the desk. Next to it was a small cube attached to an aura conduit.
"This is what you wanted me to see? A small pile of dust and a cube?"
"Just wait, James, and see what the dust can do" so saying, Jacques sprinkled the dust over the cube, then pushed the conduit over to the General. "Go ahead, funnel some aura into the cube" The general did so, and to his surprise, the small cube vanished.
"Do you see now? With dust like this in our armory, there's no enemy that could ever stop 001"
James took his hand off the conduit, before straightening his uniform needlessly. "There are many applications to this other than your little pet project. Imagine an entire army with this, no one would ever see it coming until it was too late. This will revolutionize the stealth field"
Jacques sighed, sitting down at the desk, pouring him and the general a glass of whiskey. "James, you think to broadly. The more things we use this for the more likely it will get captured and used against us, and we both know the last thing either of us needs is an invisible assassin slitting out throats in the night"
The General just waved away the words, "enough about use, what about the supply? Is it secured, and does anyone outside of this room know about it?"
"I had men seize the supply this morning, and the only ones who know about it are you, me, 001, and Ciel Soleil, and her scientists. The lesser scientists were dealt with, and I made sure Ciel wont be talking anytime soon. I have my men making more as we speak"
The General relaxed "that's good. Speaking of which, where is 001? Seeing as it helped with this, I had expected it would be here for this meeting." Jacques seemed to become angry at his words. "She is training at the moment. I'll remind you that she isn't one of your mindless robots. She's my daughter and heiress, so don't refer to her as 'it' again"
"Right…"
The two men continued to talk, moving on from that topic to more mundane things, or at least that's what it sounded like to Yang. Yang had made it to Weiss, and they had been listening to the conversation through the ears of a server robot that was inside, who had it broadcasting to another one stationed in Weiss room. Weiss turned to face Yang, who was standing stiffly, hands clenched. "The 001 they were talking about, thats your sister. she's...not the same...she got attacked that part was true, but she didn't die, although she came close."
"Make her come here"
"W-what?"
"MAKE HERE COME HERE NOW!" Yang closed her eyes, breathing hard, before speaking again "I'm going to take her home. She doesn't belong here."
"Y-You can't do that yet! Her entire body, its, it hooked up to this remote, father could easily kill her with just a press of a button. We either have to reconfigure the program to make it useless or remove all the transceivers in her body, but...well i only know where a few are, and not the important ones…" Yang looked like she was about to explode.
"Six years. For six years I've thought that i'd never see my little sister again. And then you tell me that I have to wait even longer to bring her back home? Do you know what our father is like now? After losing two wives and his daughter? He never even got to say goodbye the last two times." Yang walked over, picking Weiss up by he collar and slamming her against the wall. "We are going to figure this out now, because I am not leaving this building without my sister."
Weiss gulped, struggling to get free "O-ok" she squeaked out. "Let's begin."
It's been too long, but recently i've been dealing with writer's block and an increase in college work as the semester draws closer to its end. Trust me, i'd love to get more done but it's hard to find time to write this when I'm up until 2 am writing essays. Things should get better soon though.
