Captain Weiss Schnee and her most trusted crew members, stood behind her father in the SDC council chamber. The council chamber was a large white room, with a tall ceiling and a large round table with a snowflake carved into it. Around the table sat the highest ranking officials of the SDC.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the council. I'm sure that you have all heard about the destruction of Zwei Station, well now I have my daughter and her crew here. We can discuss the incident and the new information that has come to light." Jacques Schnee said.
One of the council members said "That daughter of yours should be shot for destroying that station." In response, Jacques pulled a gun and shot the man. "I will not tolerate speech like that." he said cooly before putting the gun away. "Now, the decision to destroy the station was not taken lightly. But it had been compromised and was under enemy control." Jacques continued.
"What happened to Junior? he should have stopped any hostile takeovers." said another council member. Jacques sighed "Well, from what I've heard. Junior was the hostile. He tried to kill my daughter." he said. The council members were shocked by his response. "Why would he do that?" one of them asked. "Someone paid him to turn on us. I think it would be better if I let the one who was there, explain the rest." Jacques said as he turned to his youngest daughter.
Weiss stepped forward "Ladies and gentlemen of the council. I hope you understand, that destroying Zwei Station was not a decision I took lightly. But it had to be done. Now, Junior tried to kill me when I was in his office during a delivery. If it hadn't been for the actions, of my security detail he would have been successful. Fortunately, before making our escape and firing on the station. I managed to get Junior to tell me who paid him off. He said her name was Cinder Fall." Weiss explained.
"Do you know anything about this, Cinder Fall?" asked a council member. Weiss shook her head "I'm afraid all Junior was willing to give us was her name. But given what happened, I think we can safely assume that we can counter as one of our many enemies." she said.
"Junior must have been certain you were going to die, if he was willing to reveal that information to you. So, how did you get from Junior about to kill you, to blowing up the station he was on?" asked one of the council members. "Well, Commander Belladonna here, caught on to what was happening. Just before Junior turned, so she was able to trigger the panic button on her scroll and defend me. Master Engineer Amitola caused a distraction, which allowed us to get out of Junior's office, and Flight Master Rose evacuated us from the station. My ship had already moved to a safe distance from the station, and when I was back on board. We opened fire." Weiss responded.
One of the council members went to speak, but they were interrupted. The room shook violently and alarms started blaring. "We're under attack!" Jacques shouted. A moment later a member of security personnel came running in "A White Fang fleet just launched a surprise attack." he said. "Can we send out the fleet?" Admiral Schnee asked. "I'm afraid not ma'am, they are focusing on the blast door. If we open it, the ships would be destroyed before they could leave the station." he answered. "Then, we're sitting ducks until we can get assistance." the Admiral said.
A few minutes later, the council were standing around a tactical map of the battle. They were in a heavily fortified safe room, deep within the vast station. "Our defense fighters are getting annihilated, and our point defenses are overwhelmed. We won't hold out much longer at this rate." the Admiral said. Weiss inspected the scene, she noted that the fleet's flagship seemed to be doing most of the work. It was no ordinary flagship, it was Adam Taurus' personal ship. She knew that of they could take him and his ship down. Then the fleet would break and the attack would fail. "If we can take down that ship, then we can turn the table." Weiss said, as she pointed at Adam's ship.
Everyone turned to her "How do you expect to do that? The fleet is trapped inside and none of our small craft have even made it close to that ship." her older sister asked. "Do you have any spare troop transports?" Weiss asked. "Yes, but why? Going out there is suicide. Even if you made it over there, you would be destroyed if you tried to dock." Admiral Schnee responded.
A smile crept across Weiss face, she had a plan. "I wasn't planning on docking." she said as she pointed at one of the ship's hangars. The Admiral shook her head "You think you can fly a troop transport inside, and take the ship down from there." she said. "I may not be able to fly in, but I know someone who can." Weiss said as she turned to Ruby. "Are you really willing to sacrifice your crew members, in some idiotic attempt at heroism?" the Admiral asked worriedly. "It's not idiotic, if it'll work. Trust me, Ruby is the best pilot in the SDC." Weiss retorted. The Admiral sighed "Fine, but you can send in your own ground troops, I'm not letting you sacrifice anyone else." she said.
Weiss smiled "Tell me, does this troop transport have any gun turrets?" she asked the Admiral. "Yes, it does. Not like it'll help you much when you get blown to pieces." the Admiral replied. "That may be true for someone else. But Neopolitan doesn't miss and Ruby doesn't get hit." Weiss quipped. "You can't seriously be that overconfident, you're insane Weiss." the Admiral hit back. "I'm deadly serious. I had Ruby, Ilia and Neopolitan carry out a bombing mission not so long ago. They took down three Nevermores, a few hundred Lancers, a Queen Lancer, and then an entire Grimm hive. If anything, you should be overconfident too." Weiss said.
"Please tell me you aren't going over there with them, I'm not letting you kill yourself over this." the Admiral said. "Don't worry, I won't be going over there. Ruby will fly, Neopolitan will be the gunner, my Commanders can lead the attack, and I'll send over my best fighters. They will be able to infiltrate the ship, take control of it, and capture Adam Taurus." Weiss replied confidently.
Sighing the Admiral said "I think they're going to get slaughtered, but we don't seem to have much choice. We can't hold out forever under this bombardment, if this fails then there may not be an SDC Headquarters by the time help arrives." Weiss put her hand on the Admiral's shoulder and said "As you're most successful Captain and as your sister. I promise you that this will work."
Soon, Weiss was standing in a small hangar. She watched as her best people, prepared for what may be their last mission. They were all wearing full combat armor, and were more heavily armed than usual. Neopolitan was sitting in the ball turret on top of the transport, familiarizing herself with it. Ilia who had asked to go along, because of her knowledge of the ship. Was pacing across the hangar, waiting for everyone to climb aboard. Ruby, was sitting in the cockpit. Most pilots would be terrified of what they were about to go through, but Ruby sat there calmly. Making sure she was ready to fly the transport. The two Commanders were having a quiet conversation, but it sounded like Commander Branwen wanted to kill Adam and Commander Belladonna was trying to convince her that he needed to be captured. Yatsuhashi was meditating and Neptune looked nervous but was trying to hide it. The rest of the ground troops were just mentally preparing themselves for what was to come, they had raided many ships in their time. But this was no ordinary ship and no ordinary raid.
When the Commanders finished their conversation, Commander Branwen said "Alright, it's time to go. Everybody mount up." They all climbed aboard and as the doors started to close, Weiss shouted "Go get him!" she saw them all salute in return just before the doors sealed. The transport lifted off, and flew down the hangar to the station's secret exit. As it disappeared from view and she made her way back to the safe room. Weiss said to herself "I hope I was right."