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Chapter 35: Planning the Investigation
Team RWBY, JNPR, and FERN were meeting in team RWBY's room after their last class for the day. Team RWBY had changed into different outfits. Reborn looked over the outfits and approved he found them highly fashionable and still effective to work in. "So will team CFVY be joining us," Weiss asked.
"No they got a mission so it will just be us. So does everyone remember the plan," Ruby asked.
"You and I will head to the CCT and look up the Schnee family records to determine the total amount of dust the fang may have, and if we are lucky evidence my father is assisting them," Weiss said with a dark smirk at the end that was Reborn approved.
"The white fang has regular faction meetings to give orders and recruit new members. If I can get in I can hopefully figure out what they are planning," Blake said.
"Me and Neo will be outside the meeting under an illusion incase Blake needs back up," Emerald said.
"I have an old friend on the shady side of town who typically knows everything that is going on," Yang said.
"This friend wouldn't be Junior would it," Fon asked.
"How did you know," Yang asked.
"So you're the blond he complained about and tried to hire Reborn to take care of after you blew up his club," Fon said.
This caused all of them to look at Reborn for a moment before Ruby asked two questions one of which she may regret asking. "Um Reborn you haven't taken any jobs since waking up in Remnant have you and what made you turn down the job from junior?"
"I have taken a few. The money we were given by that damn checker face was only going to last for a bit. Don't worry none of my targets were innocent. That was one of the reasons I denied the request for Yang. The other was in the photo he had of her I could see the Sun ring and figured it would start us on a bad note when I approached you if I had killed one of your guardians," Reborn answered in a casual tone.
The others tried to ignore the casual way he admitted to several counts of murder by not even looking in his direction. Fon decides to change the topic by continuing with the plan recital. "Me and Reborn are going to hit some of our own contacts and see what we can learn about the fang and our visitors from Haven," Fon said.
"Have Sun and Neptune had any luck with that," Jaune asked. Neo had shown an illusion of the three to Sun and he didn't immediately recognize them. He said would ask around to see if anyone else knew of them discreetly.
"He hasn't reported anything as of yet," Weiss answered.
"Okay, well me and my team are going to be on standby at the plaza watching ironwoods presentation waiting for a call if you guys need any back up," Jaune said.
"Great we will meet back here to discuss what we learned," Ruby said. "Let's go."
"Yeah," A voice said. They turned around and could see Sun hanging from his tail outside the window. Seeing this Reborn has Leon turn into the pistol and aims at Sun while the others jump back and reach for their weapons.
"Sun how did you get up there," Yang asked.
"Oh that's easy I do this all the time," Sun said.
Weiss was about to speak when Reborn ran to the window and grabbed Sun by the neck and threw him to the ground. "A gentleman does not spy on a girl's room. A gentleman does not sneak into a girl's room. He may have to sneak out of a lady's room to avoid trigger happy fathers but he does not sneak in. So are you a gentleman or am I going to remove a piece of trash right now."
"I meant climbing trees. I am a gentleman," Sun said trying to get out of Reborn's grip. Reborn looks at the others and see them nod their heads before he releases his grip. "Next time think about your word choice before you speak stupid Sun," Reborn said.
Sun rubs his throat for a moment before he says, "So are we finally going to get back at Torchwick?"
"Were mainly focusing on intelligence right now," Fon said. "Speaking of which what have you learned about those three 'students?" Fon made sure to emphasize the word students.
"I asked around and even called some of my friends that are still in Haven and some professors I know the scroll number of and none of them had heard of them. Now Haven is a big school like Beacon so it would make sense for me not to know them, but I asked over a dozen people all in different years and the professor that teaches grim studies a class that everyone has to take and makes sure to remember all of the top students."
"Well maybe they were average and made sure to stay out of the spotlight till know," Fon said playing devil's advocate.
"That might have been the case but Neptune found something weird about their records," Sun said. He then stuck his head out the window and said, "Hey buddy you going to come on in?"
Upon hearing this team RWBY stuck their head out the window and saw Neptune cling to the wall looking terrified that he was going to fall. "Hey guys can I come in now? We are really high up right now," Neptune said. Reborn just shook his head before Leon turned into an animal catch pole and pulled the snare around Neptune's neck before he pulled him in.
"So Neptune what did you find," Fon asked.
Neptune took a moment to rub his neck from where Reborn had snagged him. Once he recovered he said, "I used some of the back doors I had created in the system when my team needed 'study aides,' and looked up their record. To put it simply it is too perfect. They have missed zero days of class and were even present the day after Bianchi took over cooking in the cafeteria." No one except for Fon noticed Reborn let out a small smile at the name Bianchi.
"Well those records are fake," Sun said in a confident tone. "No way did they go to school the next day after that."
"How can you tell from that and who is Bianchi," Weiss asked.
"She is the field medicine teacher of Haven," Neptune said. "She is also infamous that everything she cooks turns to poison. That is why we can be certain the records are fake since everyone had to miss school the next day to get their stomachs pumped including the teachers causing classes to be canceled that day. So how can they have been in class when it got canceled?"
"I see your point," Weiss said. "I'm surprised they would go through all the trouble for fake records and miss that detail."
"Headmaster Lionheart was pretty embarrassed about the situation and had it all done internally and called in a few favors so the press never heard of it," Sun said. "Thanks to that they probably didn't know about the incident. So what are we going to do about them? The best bet would to bring the evidence to Ozpin so he can expose them."
"No not yet," Ruby said. The others turned to look at her with questioning glances. Even Reborn and Fon had turned to her. They had been teaching her and Jaune about different types of politics that go on in the kingdoms while receiving some help from Weiss. "They did all of this work to get into Beacon right now there must be a reason for this and if they do participate in the festival than things are even worse than we suspect."
"So you want to wait and figure out what they are after," Weiss asked. Seeing Ruby nod she then asked, "Why would it be worse if they participate in the festival?"
"Because all participating teams must be signed off by the headmasters of their schools. If they did participate in the festival than that can only mean one thing," Ruby said.
A second later Neptune's eyes go wide and he says, "Lionheart is working with them." when he says this the others eyes also widen as they attempt to get their heads around the information.
"Okay we need someone to keep an eye on these guys but who," Weiss said. "We have no idea if they are flame active and if so what type they are so we need someone who can keep an eye without being caught but if they are can escape with ease."
Reborn and Fon looked at each other before Reborn said, "I'll keep my eyes on them after tonight. I have multiple ways to keep myself hidden and gather Intel and out of all of us have the best chance to escape in the unlikely situation that I am caught."
The others nod at this and Ruby looks at Sun and Neptune before asking, "So do you two want to join us tonight?"
"Sure, sounds like fun," Sun said Neptune responded with a nod of his head.
"Okay then since Blake and Yang are the only two alone how about Sun goes with Blake and Neptune goes with Yang," Ruby says.
"Actually Ruby why don't you go with Yang. She is your sister after all," Weiss says.
"Well who would go with you then," Ruby asked
"Well Neptune could come with me," Weiss says.
"Hahaha, that is a good one Weiss," Ruby said. She then grabbed Weiss by the back of her outfit and dragged her out the door. In truth Ruby knew why Weiss wanted to go with Neptune, but she was not going to travel with Yang. If Ruby went with her than she would insist that they make the trip on her bike bumblebee. Yang was the exact opposite of a careful driver. One time she gave Reborn a ride into Vale and his response was he felt he was more likely to die riding with Yang on a simple trip than riding with Skull participating in one of his stunts.
Reborn let out a light chuckle at the scene as him and Fon follow them out. He was pretty sure Ruby turned down the offer to go with Yang had to do with the blonds driving skills. He made sure to take a look at Neptune and figured he could make a good match for Weiss and made note of it in the maybe category.
Soon after they left the others started to leave the room with Blake and Sun deciding to go to a restaurant since they had to wait for the meeting. No one noticed the look of jealousy in Yang's eyes as the two left the room. Well nobody but Neo who had a small smirk and thinking about the different ways she could use this on Yang.