The lunchroom is filled with students, walking about, chatting to one another, and eating their breakfast. The members of team RWBY and JNPR sit at a table together, eating and talking. Yang pokes at her food.

"So, there is a rumor going around that that supply store downtown got robbed last night." Jaune says after eating his breakfast.

Yang stops poking her food and looks at Jaune.

"Where did you hear that?" Ruby asks.

"I overheard some kids talking about it when I was walking in the hall this morning. They said that they went there early in the morning to get some stuff for one of their classes, and there where cops at the store."

"Do you know what they stole?" Blake asks.

"I think some dust." Jaune answers.

"Dust? They sell that there?" Ren asks.

"Apparently." Jaune tells him.

"Maybe it was Torchwick again. We haven't heard from him in about a week. I wonder why the hell he would steal from a supply store, if it was him." Blake says.

"Hey, Ruby, isn't the supply store downtown where Roy works?" Weiss asks her partner.

"Yeah, I think so. Why?" Ruby answers.

"Maybe he might know something about what happen. If we want to try to stop Torchwick, I think Roy is our best bet right now."

"Who is Roy?" Pyrrha asks.

"He used to bully Yang and I when we were kids. He said that he has changed, so we are giving him a second chance." Ruby answers.

"Ah. So, do you want to go talk to him?"

"I think it would be the best idea to do so."

"Yeah, investigation time! I'll get my magnifying glass!" Nora shouts with glee.

Ren smacks his right hand against his forehead. Yang sighs and starts to eat her food.

Fuck. It was the supply store. She says to herself.


After classes, the eight friends head downtown to the supply store. Outside the store stands a cop, smoking a cigarette. He watches the friends walk into the store, giving Yang chills down her spine as she walks past him. Roy stands behind the counter, writing something down on a clipboard in front of him. Nora walks up to the counter, a magnifying glass held to her right eye, and looks at Roy. Roy looks up from his writing, and jumps when he sees Nora staring at him.

"Hello! We are here to investigate the robbery." Nora informs Roy.

"What, wait?" Roy says, confused by the sudden appearance of Nora.

He looks over Nora's shoulder to the familiar faces of Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang.

"Don't worry, Roy, she is friendly." Ruby says and walks up to the counter with everyone else.

Ren grabs Nora by the collar of her shirt, and pulls her back so she is out of Roy's face. Ruby introduces team JNPR to Roy, and vise versa.

"Nice to meet you guys. So I guess you heard what happen here, huh?" Roy says, and starts to write again.

"Yeah, we did. Do you have any ideas what happen?" Ruby asks.

"Besides the fact this plays was robbed? No idea. Because of the storm we had last night, the power in the store went out. No alarms went off, and the cameras where down, so who ever robbed this place, I have no idea what they look like.

When I came in this morning, I went to unlock the door and found it was unlocked. I thought that I might have left it like that. To make sure that they place was not robbed, I open the register to see if the money was still in there, and it was. I also did a quick check of the shelves; saw nothing that would tell me that the store was robbed. Then I check the small collection of dust we sell, and sure enough, there was no dust."

"Well, we think we might know who it was." Blake says.

"You do?" Roy says.

"Yes, we think that a man by the name 'Torchwick' did this." Weiss answers.

Roy writes that down.

"You have any idea why he would be stealing dust?" Roy asks.

"No, we don't. We came here to see if we can find any clues." Jaune tells Roy.

"Well, thank you for that. You guys are being more help than some people." Roy points his pencil to the widow, the cop outside talking on his phone. "Hey, are you okay Yang? You are awfully quite today."

Yang, who has been staring off into the distance by looking out the window, turns her head to Roy, and blinks.

"Huh? Oh! I'm fine! I was just thinking that's all." Yang says, and starches the back of her head.

"Okay…" He says and looks back at the others "Well, if you guys want to look around and see if you can find anything, feel free to do so."

Nora runs off down one of the aisle in search for clues, Ren following close behind her. Roy gives a small chuckle, and goes back to writing on his clipboard. With the expectation of Yang, the rest of the group fans out in search for clues. Yang stays where she is. She looks takes a quick look around the store, then goes to the door.

She exits the store, and sees that the cop is not there anymore. He is down the street, talking and laughing on his phone. Yang goes over to the brick wall of the store, and leans on it. She looks up to the bright blue sky. There are a few clouds floating around.

Of all the places to help Torchwick rob, it had to be this place. The place where the person I am trying to make amends with works. What the hell am I doing? Yang thinks to herself.

The door to the store opens, and Blake steps out of it.

"What are you doing out here?" She asks Yang.

"I am just thinking." Yang answers. "Did anyone find anything yet?"

"Not yet. I thought that maybe there might be some clues out here. Want to help me look?"

Yang nods. The two friends look around the store, seeing if they can find anything. Nothing. They deiced to also look in the alleyway that is next to the store. It is small, and there are only two medium size dumpsters in the alley. Each takes a dumpster to look at. Blake looks into hers, and sees nothing that could be use as a clue. She shuts it, and looks back to Yang, who is opening hers.

"I got nothing in here. What about you?" Blake asks.

"I don't see anything. Just garbage." Yang answers.

A cloud covers the sun, sending the alleyway into a shadow.

"Is something the matter Yang? You have been off all day." Blake says.

"Huh?" Yang says, and closes the dumpster.

"I said you have not been yourself today. I notice at breakfast that you where not eating, and you looked like you had something on your mind. I thought maybe you just didn't sleep well and you where just tired, but you where acting the same when we went inside the store. Is everything okay?"

"Everything is fine. I just…have a lot on my mind, that's all."

"Yang, something is going on, and you are not telling us. It's not my place to get involved in your personal life, but you are not acting like your happy-go-lucky self. Are you sure that everything is okay?"

Yang bites her lower lip. What does she tell Blake? She wants to tell her partner about what is going on. She wants to tell Blake about Torchwick and team ALFA; how they are making her help them rob places, and that if she doesn't, everyone she cares for will get hurt. But what does Yang tell Blake? She trusts her not to tell anyone, but how does Yang know that they are alone in this alley. It seems like it, but she feels like they are not, that someone is watching them talk. Yang just sighs, and shakes her head no. Blake crosses her arms on her chest.

"What is it then?" Blake asks.

"Blake, you have to trust me on this when I say stay out of it. It is nothing that I cannot handle, and you do not need to get involved in it. You trust me on this?" Yang asks.

"I trust you Yang; I am just worried about you. Are you positive that you do not need any help? You know that we are here for you if you need it."

"Thanks, and I am positive that I don't need any help. I can handle it. Don't worry about me."

Blake is still not quite sure. She narrows her eyes at her partner, and Yang just smiles

"Okay Yang. But if you find that you can't handle it, you know you can come to us, right?" Blake says.

"Yeah, I do." Yang answers.

If only I could to you guys. But I don't want to risk it. Yang says to herself.

The cloud finally moves away from the sun, letting the light back into the alley.

"Come on; let's go see if the others have found anything useful." Blake tells Yang.

Yang nods, and follows her partner back to the front of the store. The others are just coming out as they reach the front of the store.

"So, there was nothing out here that was useful. Did you guys have any luck?" Blake asks the others.

"No, we didn't." Ruby answers.

"Well, I guess there is nothing else for us to do here. We should go back."


The eight friends walk down the hall towards their dorms. They had found nothing that could give them any clues that could help them find out if it was Torchwick who robbed the store and what he was doing. They are no closer to finding anything out them they where this morning. As the walk down the hall, Arnold appears.

"Hello guys, what are you up too?" Arnold asks.

"Nothing much. We went to go check out what happen at the supply store." Blake says.

"The one that got robbed today? Did you guys find anything?"

"Sadly, no." Ruby answers.

"Huh, well, I hope they find out who ever it was. I got to go do some stuff. See you guys later." Arnold says, and walks past them.

As he does so, he quickly places something in Yang's hand. No one notices the exchange. Yang wraps her figures around it, and feels that it is some time of paper. She and the rest of her friends go back to their dorms. As the rest of her team sleeps, Yang reads the piece of paper that Arnold gave her.

Hello Yang, I hope that you are feeling well. There is another job wanting for you, and this time, you are NOT going to be a lookout. Wear something dark again, and meet Fawkes and I by the front gates tomorrow night at ten-thirty. Oh, and by the way, good job on not telling your partner about what is going on. We don't want anything happening to her or anyone else, now do we? See you tomorrow night sweetheart.

-Arnold.


As I said, very dull and a lot of dialogue. That is just it cam out. I have to say this. This month is weird for me, I have a band trip at the end of the month, then like right after, a group of scots come over for a week. (I went to scotland for a week, they are coming here for a week). Because of this, there is going to be at least two dual updates in a week. The reason is because I wont be able to write when I go on the trip, and I will not update when the scots are here. I also want to be a troll with the last update before the scots. So, maybe there will be another one out this week, maybe not, but there will be dual updates this month.