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This chapter as you will most certainly tell is big compared to what I've made before. I really made it as a 'make up' for what I missed on thanksgiving. Hope you all enjoy two in one chapter!
"Ooohh, you look beautiful!" Yang cried out.
"*Groans* Can we have a serious talk about how Weiss fights in these?" Ruby says as she tries to maintain her balance as she walks to the podium, much to Yang's amusement.
Meanwhile Outside
Sun is walking around and wearing a new black jacket, except it's closed up with a white tie hung around his neck.
"Stupid... dumb... neck trap!" Sun proceeds to fight with before going inside.
"I knew you'd look better in a tie." Blake says.
Sun stops his struggling and stares at the dark purple dress worn by Blake, now looking like she traded her dark bags for violet eyeshadow, she steps forward and takes him by the arm.
"Sooo, does this mean we're going... together?" Sun asked hopefully.
"Technically, though my first dance is spoken for, but yes." Blake responded.
Inside the ballroom, streamers are hung through glass chandeliers, pink and blue balloons are everywhere, and students in dark suits and bright dresses are stepping with each other to the music between the white-clothed tables. Blake is spun around by Yang before they curtsey to one another, and Sun comes up and takes his date's hands as Yang gestures for him to do so. She goes to hang with Ruby and Weiss in the back of the room, watching Blake laugh and enjoy herself before smiling at her team.
"I told you she would come." Yang said.
"Mission accomplished." Weiss added.
"Soooo, what do we do now?" Ryby asked.
"Just have fun!" Yang said walking away, with Weiss going the opposite direction leaving Ruby behind.
"Does that mean I can change out of these stupid things and into my hood now?" Ruby ask and received no answer. She waddles around in her painful footwear. "Stupid lady stilts!"
Jaune was outside the doors to the ballroom, waiting for Sienna to arrive. He spotted her approaching and couldn't help but admire. She was wearing a red halter dress falling down to her knees and gold lines at the rims of the dress. Sienna walked up and saw him looking.
"Like what you see?~" Sienna said.
"Y-Yeah." Jaune said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Shall we?" Sienna presented her arm.
Jaune linked his with hers. "We shall." They entered the ballroom.
Blake was slow dancing with Sun when she spotted Jaune and Sienna.
"That's enough fun for tonight." Blake thought as she broke the dance.
"Blake, what's wrong? Its barely been a minute?" Sun asked confused.
"I… um, need to." She eyed Jaune and Sienna. "Bye." Blake left in a hurry.
Sun stood there looking on as Blake left him on the dance floor.
"Was it something I did?" Sun was left to wonder.
Blake went over and practically grabbed Jaune and Sienna dragging them to an off room.
"Belladonna what is the meaning of this?" Sienna asked as Blake shut the door.
"We need to talk about Roman and the white fang. This maybe the one time we can discuss alone." Blake said.
"Blake you could have just literally asked to come over to Sienna's place with your team!" Jaune said annoyed.
"Ugh! I mean without them there, we can discuss things more clearly. Sienna is there anymore operations or recruitments we could attack or infiltrate?" Blake asked.
"Belladonna, we are here to relax. I have looked around and unless you literally want to go to the southeast of Vale, there is no where to look! Now calm down workaholic." Sienna said condescendingly.
"I am not a workaholic I'm only-."
"Trying to uphold the good relationships humans and fauna have in this word and you should be taking this more seriously to." Jaune and Sienna deadpanned together.
"Do I… no, you two do have to take this more seriously." Blake said.
"Belladonna if you-." Sienna was interrupted when a raccoon tailed faunus opened then closed the door. Sienna immediately recognized him.
"Sly?"
Sun walked out of the dance floor bummed out that Blake ditched him.
A figure ran up to him. "Sun Wukong." Weiss said.
"Oh um, hey Weiss. Do you need something." Sun asked.
"Well, I was wondering… or I saw Blake leave you."
"Yeah, I guess Yang tired her out." Sun weakly justified.
"I don't have a date, the planning and well Blake left no room to ask around." Weiss said.
"I see." Sun said.
"*Clears throat* I was wondering, since neither of us have a date… we could dance together." Weiss raised her hand out voice full of hope.
"... Sure lets do it!" Sun eagerly accepted her hand and walked out to the dance floor.
It would be a wonderful time.
"Sly? Who's Sly?" Blake asked.
"He was one of the members of my rescue before Jaune was executed." Sienna explained.
"What are you doing here?" Jaune asked.
"To warn you. Perry asked me to come here since her certainly couldn't. The fang is coming here for Arc." Sly explained.
"What why!?" Blake said.
"Every huntsman from four schools all in one place with a hundred percent guarantee they won't have a single weapon on any of them. It's such a golden opportunity I wonder why we didn't do it in the cannon show, I mean a long time ago!" Sly said.
"No I mean why Jaune? Wouldn't Sienna be the priority." Blake asked.
"It's being spearheaded by your ex Belladonna." Sly explained.
"Adam!" Blake cried out.
"No, I mean your other ex Ilia. She's here and has infiltrators read to pacify the teachers then take Arc." Sly said.
"We need to stop them." Jaune made a move to leave, but Sly stopped him.
"Arc she is after you! You can't just gift wrap yourself to her." Sly explained.
"I am not going to stand idly by and let this happen!" Jaune said firmly.
"*Sigh* Ok just turn around for me, just for a second." Sly asked.
Jaune was confused but complied. "So what am I doing *Whack*." Sly hit the back of Jaune's head hard causing Jaune to lose consciousness and fall back. Sly caught him and lowered him down.
"Alright lets go." Sly said as he made for the door with Blake and Sienna in toe. They closed the door behind them. Imminently they noticed something wrong. Professor and doctor Port and Oobleck had to faunus behind them handguns pressed up against the back of their heads. Goodwitch, headmaster Ozpin and General Ironwood each had a faunus with a handgun pointed in there face and Ilia came in through the double doors of the ballroom and Ilia fired a shot.
Yang was leaning on a handrail and overlooking the festivities from a second tier as Ruby approaches and leans on the rail with her.
"You know? I think we really needed this." Yang said.
Ren and Nora appear to be Waltzing. Penny appears to be dancing alone, guarded by two Atlas soldiers.
"Yeah, and you did a great job planning it too!" Ruby cheered.
Yang reached over to Ruby crushing her in a one-arm hug as she flails frantically. "Aw, thanks sis! It wasn't all me, though. Weiss did a lot too." Yang said.
Ruby stops struggling and looks down at Weiss and Sun as they slow dance really intimately from the looks of it.
Yang chuffs. "You know I think Blake just missed out on something special." Yang says pointedly at Sun and Weiss dancing.
"You got her to come, but in the end it still didn't matter." Ruby said sadly.
"Well at least Weiss can enjoy herself." Yang said.
"Yeah." Ruby agreed.
"Tomorrow it's back to work though." Yang said
"I'm sure we can handle whatever gets thrown at us." Ruby said.
Bang!
Ilia was ready for revenge. She planned out everything, gathered the necessary forces, and acquired the transportation. She had told everyone that they were getting the human to use as bait to lure Sienna back, but she really just wanted to try the rat poison and hammer she bought on him.
"Begin." She said into her scroll.
If it was timed right the adults would have a gun in their faces, Arc would be in custody, hopefully cat waifu would be too and they would come in and out mostly uncontested. Ilia opened the double doors and raised her weapon taking a shot at the music box.
Bang!
The music sputtered out and stopped. Everyone looked up at her them the guards. They all looked afraid, good.
"Hello boys and girls, not to mention that wonderful rainbow color in between." Ilia walked forward the crowd backing away as they moved into it.
"We are tonight's entertainment for you all." Ilia grabbed someone drink and took a sip before dropping it on the floor.
"We're looking for a Jaune Arc! Jaune Arc has anyone seen him tonight?" Ilia pointed her weapon at some people.
"Has you seen, huh? Have you? What about you, no? How about this I'll settle for friends ok?" Ilia said.
One girl bravely spoke up. "I'm not going to be intimidated by thugs." Weiss said angry her wonderful evening was ruined.
Ilia walked over to her. "Well human." Ilia stuck her blade to her throat.
"You'll die a brave young fool." Ilia was about to pull the trigger when another feminine voice spoke up.
"Stop!" Pyrrha cried out.
Ilia turned her head to the left and saw her. She removed the blade from Weiss's throat and walked over to Pyrrha until she was a few feet away.
"I know you, you'll Arc's partner." Ilia said.
"Yes, I am." Pyrrha said.
"Well where is he then?" Ilia demanded.
"Why do you want to know?" Pyrrha differently said.
"Have a little talk with him, bash his legs with a hammer, trick him into eating rat poison, stuff like that." Ilia listed.
"Well you out of luck." Pyrrha crossed her arms. "Jaune isn't here right now."
"Well then I guess I'll just have to give him a reason to come back." Ilia pointed her weapon between Pyrrha's eyes and almost fried, but something was caught on the corner of her eye.
"Cat waifu!" Ilia thought. "Whos that next to her… Khan? What is she doing here? Why is she here? Who is that racoon next to them? Wait I can kill two nevermores with one missile here!" Ilia removed her weapon from Pyrrha's face and adopted a malicious grin at Sienna. Sienna noticed this and her eyes and ears narrowed and she adopted a vicious look. Ilia was going to take them both, but the doors behind the three of them slammed opened and a figure walked out. She was wearing a black sparkling dress and had a bit of her blake hair draped over her left eye. She stopped, the grin on her face disappeared and instead a look of confusion washed over her as she observed the scene. All eye went on her, including the ones suppose to watch the chaperones. They all of course took note and most importantly advantage of this and quickly took the weapons out of their hands. Ilia noticed this and did the only logical thing possible.
"OPEN FIRE!"
Cinder was happy, her plan was going on without a so much as a hitch. She infiltrated the CCT and the security that replaced the huntsman was laughable in comparison. She made her way to the ballroom opening the first set of doors and weaved herself a dress. She didn't noticed the unconscious boy lying on the ground or the lack of music. She pushed open both doors, she only needed to find Mercury and she would have an alibi for tonight. However when she opened the door she was greeted by what appeared to be a hold up, teachers had guns to their heads and their was of course over a dozen white fang operatives here! All eyes were on her and the teachers took advantage of the fact, they had all taken the weapons out of their captures hands and the leader, Cinder assumes, yelled out.
"OPEN FIRE!"
The whole room erupted into chaos, the fang unleashed automatic fire and the students all ran for cover, ducking under tables or flipping them over. The teachers took action and ran into combat, and Cinder stood there wondering just how badly tonight was going.
"I'm going to have a serious talk with Adam over this." Cinder thought as all out fighting began.
Yang looked on at the all out skirmish unfolding before her. It was chaos, plain and simple.
"Couldn't we just have tonight! Seriously!" Yang thought.
"Ruby stay here and don't move!" Yang said sternly.
"But-!"
"No buts! Stay here, you're useless without your scythe." Yang said before jumping into the fray. She charged up and punched someone's lights out, he fell to the ground and Yang went to pursue more white fang grunts.
Ilia looked around at her plan falling apart, the teachers, Khan, and Blake waifu. They were losing fast, but that wasn't really a surprise. Through she didn't like to a tactical withdraw was in order, or a kind way of saying running away.
"Retreat!" With that Ilia made like she stole something.
"Ilia's getting away!" Blake ran after her.
"Belladonna no! You're completely unarmed!" Sienna cried out following Blake.
"What- hay where are you two going!" Sly ran after them.
Ilia was running as fast as she could, but Blake was gaining on her. When Blake caught up she tackled Ilia to the ground.
"Your not going anywhere!" Blake tried to restrain her, but Ilia got loose.
"Get off me!" Ilia slabbed her weapon on the back of Blake's head making her vision blurry and have a lost of coordination. Ilia stood up and saw Sienna approaching and aimed her weapon at her.
"Look out!" Sly pulled Sienna behind him.
*Bang*
Sly fell back.
"No!" Sienna caught him and lowered him to the ground as Ilia made her escape.
"Sly? Sly are you alright?" Sienna ripped opened his suit and saw he was shot in the heart.
"Agh." Blake got up. "Sienna." Her eyes went wide when she saw Sly. "Oh my! Is he...?"
"Dead? Yes, now what were you thinking!?" Sienna's eyes ears narrowed at Blake.
"I was trying to stop Ilia!" Blake yelled back.
"With what? Do you have some claws I don't know about?" Sienna scorned.
"I would have worked out something!" Blake hissed.
"Belladonna, you need to start thinking things through!" Sienna cried out.
"I need to find and stop Ilia before she does something like this again!"
"What if this was one of your teammates!" Sienna yelled causing Blake to pause.
"They are already targets now, low priority sure, but targets non the less. You really need to start thinking things through.
Jaune woke up and got up. He opened the doors and saw the ballroom had white fang grunts either laying down or on their knees with their hands on their heads.
"Man, how long was I out for? Where is Sienna and Blake? Oh, my head still hurts" Jaune clenched his head, feeling a huge headache come on.
"Mr. Arc were you hit?" Ozpin came over concerned.
"No, I was knock out in there by someone." Jaune said.
"The white fang?" Ozpin asked.
"No, well I guess sort of… um I." Jaune didn't know how to respond.
"Jaune Arc is it?" Ironwood saw Jaune and came over.
"Yes?" Jaune said unsure.
"Do you know why the white fang came here looking for you? Do you happen to know or seen anything that could have set them off like this?" He asked.
"James this is not the time nor place to be conducting an interrogation. Mr. Arc find your teammates and return to your dorm room and rest. Tomorrow come to my office at seven o'clock no a moment later." Ozpin said.
"Yes sir." Jaune left and found Sienna, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora.
"Jaune! Are you ok?" Pyrrha asked.
"I'll be fine with some rest Pyr. Lets go to the dorm." Jaune said walking away, but stopped and turned to Sienna.
"I'm sorry we couldn't dance tonight." He said.
"I'll hold you to a dance Jaune now get going, I'll get a shuttle out of here." Sienna said.
"Well, this certainly killed the mood." Wiess said.
"Well what you did could have killed you!" Sun said.
"I stand by what I did."
"So, I liked our dance together. What about you?" Sun said hopefully.
"Despite it only being a few minutes long, I had a good time. It really brighten the mood for me." Weiss said smiling.
"*Clears throat* Well, do you want to go... get some food some time to make up for how short it was?" Sun asked.
"Sun wukong, are you asking me on a date?" Wiess asked.
"Yes?" Sun said unsure.
Wiess smiled at him. "Sure, but I'll pick the venue and you'll wear a tie there, got it?"
Sun smiled. "Got it!"
JNPR arrived at their dorm a few minutes later. Jaune removed his shoes, jacket, and tie. He couldn't be bothered with anything else.
"They won't sit around and let something like this slide, they will retaliate for this. Today your friends all become priority targets along with the two of us." What Sienna said on their attack on the hotel room came coursing through Jaune's head.
"We were at Beacon and they still found a way." Jaune thought.
"They will look into who they are and who there families are. Kidnap as bait, kill as a message, or threaten in general."
Jaune didn't get very much sleep that night.
Headmaster's Office Next Morning
"They were here. Ozpin, they were here!" Ironwood cried out angrily slams his fist against Ozpin's desk.
"We're very much aware of that! Thank you, James." Goodwitch said.
"Fantastic! You're aware! Now are we going to do something about it or should we just stay the course and continue to ignore what's right in front of us?!" Ironwood yelled.
An alert sound plays, signifying that someone has arrived on the elevator and Jaune steps out.
"Thank you for coming Mr. Arc. How are you feeling?" Ozpin asked.
"I'm a little tired, didn't manage to get much sleep last night." Jaune said.
"Now the white fang specifically sought out you during the dance, the incident at the docks wasn't the only time you and your friends went out." Ozpin said.
"What do you mean?" Jaune, although seeing what he was getting at, asked.
"You were involved in team RWBY, Wukong, Vasilias's investigating weren't you?"
"... Yes."
"What do you happen to know or seen that set them off like this?" Ironwood asked.
"I don't really know anything that could make them do this." Jaune said unconvincingly.
"I can't just tell them about Sienna, and everything she got from that folder was more or less worthless." Jane thought trying to think of an out.
"Are you certain? There isn't anything you maybe holding onto, a piece of information that could paint a target on your back?" Ozpin persisted.
"Um..." Jaune realize something.
"Well, I may have heard of a hide out or a base or something the white fang has to the southeast. Just right outside the kingdom."
"Hm, interesting." Ozpin smiled.
Ironwood stepped forward. "How did you come across this-."
"Thank you for your time here, you may rejoin your team now." Ozpin said.
"Yes sir." Jaune left.
Blake was waiting outside the CTT for Jaune, wanting to hear about his talk with the headmaster as soon as possible. She spotted Jaune exiting the CCT and ran up to him.
"Oh, hey Blake." Jaune greeted.
"Jaune what happened?" Blake asked.
"Ozpin figured out I was the seventh person on our investigation and he wanted to know what made the white fang target me."
"What did you tell him?"
"I said that the white fang has a base to the southeast."
"You what!?" Blake clamped a hand to her mouth and looked around to see who heard that.
"Why do you tell him that?" She hissed.
"Blake what was I supposed to tell him? I needed to say something and the truth wouldn't have cut it. Besides what were we planning to do with that information anyway? Pretend to go on a camping trip over break?"
"Ugh. You're right, but I still have a problem with it." Blake narrowed her eyes.
"Well I gotta go to my dorm, tell Ruby I said hi." Jaune said before walking away.
"We have dorms right across from one another Jaune!" Blake cried out.
"Oh, well I forgot for a moment!" Jaune cried back.
Ozpin's Office
"Well there we have it. We send as many troops as we can to the southeast, find out exactly what's going on, and eradicate any forces that stand in our way." Ironwood said.
Glynda growls in frustration. "Why must your answer to everything involve a triumphant display of military bravado!? You treat every situation like it's a contest of measuring dick-!"
"Glynda!" Ozpin interrupted.
"Well, he does."
"She's right. As much as I too would love to end this situation once and for all, we must remember that this may go beyond Vale. Beyond Beacon. And if this truly is part of some master plan for which we know not the final move, we mustn't be so bold. Nor can we risk the spread of panic." Ozpin said.
"I have served you faithfully for years... but if you mean to tell me that your plan is to really hold the defenses, and wait-!"
Ozpin abruptly stands from his chair. "It is not! You're a general, James. So tell me, when you prepare to go to war, which do you send in first? The flag bearers, or the scouts?"
"You have scouts?" Ironwood asked.
"Scouts, students. What the real difference." Ozpin said.
Glynda couldn't help but pinch her nose and sigh.
Blake opened the door to her dorm and her cat like instincts flared up for some reason.
"Oh! Blake meet Zwei!" Ruby said holding up a corgi.
"AGH!" Blake freaked out and jumped up on a desk crouching down and tensing up. "What is that doing here!" Blake hissed at demon in her room.
Everyone was taken back by this, but Ruby nevertheless responded.
"My dad sent him in a mail tube, he said it was for protection against something." Ruby said innocently.
"He sent a dog in the mail!" Asked Blake.
"Oh, he does stuff like this all the time Blakey!" Yang said.
Blake looks at the dog with dread. "Your father or your dog?"
"This adorable thing is going to wiv wif us foweva." Weiss said.
"Just please keep it away from my belongings." Blake.
"Would all first-year students please report to the amphitheater?" Goodwitch said over the intercom.
"Come on girls, Zwei will be here when we get back!" Yang said.
"Oh, I'll miss you so much, we're going to be best friends, I can't wait to see you." Weiss speech deteriorates into incomprehensible baby talk.
Meanwhile, Blake jumps down from the desk avoiding Zwei.
Ruby stares at Zwei for a moment, before smiling sneakily.
"Quiet! Quiet please. Professor Ozpin would like to share a few words before we begin." Goodwitch said.
Ozpin: Today we stand together, united. Mistral. Atlas. Vacuo. Vale.
No I'm not actually going to repeat what Ozpin said.
Ozpin steps away as the students all begin to file out of the amphitheater.
"This is perfect! All we have to do is shadow a Huntsman working in the southeast!" Ruby stated.
"Yeah! We'll follow them around by day and give them the slip by night!" Yang pumped her fist in the air.
"Let's check search and destroy!" Weiss suggested.
They all walk over to a hologram screen.
"Here we go! Quadrant 5 needs Grimm cleared out!" Ruby read.
"Well, it's in the southeast!" Blake said showing a rare sense of enthusiasm.
"Sounds perfect!" Yang agreed.
Ruby selects it and types in her team name. However, the screen says that first years are not allowed to take this mission.
Weiss threw her hands in the air. "Wonderful!"
"Any other ideas?" Blake asked.
"We mail ourselves there!" Ruby suggested.
"Well, that's one option." Ozpin said suddenly appearing.
"Unfortunately, we determined that the concentration of Grimm was too extreme for first-year students. It seems that particular region is rather popular. In fact, I have the sneaking suspicion that you four will make your way there no matter which job you choose." Ozpin quietly accused.
"Whatever makes you say that?" Ruby asked.
"I'm still curious how you all found yourself at the docks last semester. I'm interested to know how you really learned about a hideout in the southeast?" Ozpin asked.
"Um... well…" Ruby was unsure how to answer.
"I doubt I'll ever find the exact answers I'm looking for. So how about this: instead of waiting for you all to break the rules, why don't we just bend them?" Ozpin selects some things on his scroll, and the hologram screen makes a noise.
"We won't let you down. Thank you, professor." Ruby said grateful.
"Do not thank me for this. Teamwork and persistence have carried you far. But you must understand, the things that await you beyond the protection of the Kingdom will not care. Stay close to your Huntsman at all times, and do exactly as he says. He will be leading you on this mission, and he can have you sent back to Beacon, if he finds your skills to be unsatisfactory. Good luck." Ozpin said before walking away.
"I don't know fall." Adam said into his scroll.
"How do you not know what your people do these days?" Cinder asked.
"Whatever this was it wasn't sanction by me, they all went against my orders."
"Well whoever they are I want to know, so I can burn them to a crisp. They could have ruined everything."
"I'll discipline my people my way Fall. Goodbye now." Adam ended the call.
"This tip with Ironwood better be pursued. I need some good news for once." Adam thought rubbing his head.