I'm back, sorry I took so long to get this chapter out.
Having returned with the info from Sun, Ruby gathered the Huntresses in the meeting room. They had a lot to look through, so they could see how everyone was connected and who they needed to take out. "Alright everyone, we've hit the jackpot with Sun. But now we need to make sense of all this, it's not going to be fun but we need to do this if we want to take our enemies down for good." she told them all.
"This shouldn't be too difficult, given that we already have links to many of them." Winter responded. Her, Weiss, Penny, Ciel and Coco already knew a lot about the Schnee Family. Blake and Ilia already knew a lot about the White Fang. And Yang knew a lot about the Branwen Tribe. It was only Cinder and Roman that they knew very little about.
"Good point. Now, let's get to it." Ruby said, prompting the others to start looking through the mass of files, documents and pictures. It wasn't the most exciting of tasks, but it would enable them to map out their rival organizations and the connections between them.
As they worked through the stacks of information, they mapped things out on a large board in the meeting room. They had pictures of the leaders of their leaders, along with pictures of their lieutenants, allies and other associates. Thanks to Sun, they probably knew more about each group than the police did.
The organizations were far too large to have information on every single member and associate, but there was plenty of info on the big hitters and underbosses. They had enough to start tearing the gangs apart from the bottom up.
Once everything had been looked through and they had a board full of faces, names and other relevant information, Ruby realized something. "If Sun had all this stuff on them, he probably has a lot on us too. We can't risk him giving that to anyone, but he's too valuable to take out. So I think we need to bring him in on this, and secure his loyalty to us." she said.
"Relax, I've already got it handled. He slipped me his number before we left and I already have him around my finger." Neon told everyone. She already had Sun right where she wanted him, which was fun for her and helpful to the gang.
"Damn you work quickly." Coco commented. It wasn't too surprising that Sun liked Neon given the way he was acting towards them and Neon has expressed her interest in him, but it was surprising how quickly she could get him.
Neon shrugged "What can I say. Men find me hard to resist, when I'm not trying to kill them." she responded. She may have been a psychotic killer, but she could also be a master seductress when she wanted to be. In this case that turned out to be advantageous than usual.
"Well good job Neon, can you get him to promise he won't help our enemies?" Ruby asked, hoping to make the most of the opportunity. She had planned on allying the gang with Sun, and Neon's connection with him would now make that much simpler.
"I'll see what I can do, I'm sure he won't say no to me." Neon responded, before pulling out her scroll and typing out a message to Sun. One way or another she would get Sun on board, and she would very much enjoy doing it.
"Thanks. Now, why don't we go over what we've got here." Ruby said, as she turned to face the large board. She wanted everyone to be more familiar with who they were going against, before they started attacking them.
The others agreed, so she started. "Alright, so first we've got Cinder. Unfortunately she's incredibly secretive, and we only really know a little about her and her organization." she said, as she pointed to the picture of the dark haired woman.
"I'm sure she'll have to come out into the open, since I already took out Emerald. We just need to deal with that smug looking fuck." Yang said, gesturing towards the two pictures below Cinder. One of them being a crossed out picture of Emerald.
"Exactly. This is Mercury Black, Cinder's remaining lieutenant. If we eliminate him she'll either be forced to do things herself, or she'll go into hiding." Ruby responded, pointing to the other picture under Cinder. They just had to hope she didn't have any secret lieutenants for them to run into at some point.
"Sounds too easy, why would she only have two lieutenants?" wondered a skeptical Ilia. It made little sense why someone so seemingly important, would have so few people serving her directly.
"There could be any number of reasons for it. But what we do know, is that Mercury is no ordinary henchman. He's the son of the assassin, Marcus Black." Ruby responded. She didn't personally know who Marcus Black was apart from what she had read, but she was sure some of the others would know who he was.
"In that case, he'll be no pushover. His father did a few jobs for us, he was utterly despicable yet brutally effective." Winter said, knowing exactly who Marcus Black was. It had been many years since she encountered the man and she knew he was dead, but she knew his son would be a hell of an opponent.
"Relax Winter, we're going to fuck him up anyway. No amount of training is going to protect him." Yang told her. She had heard of Marcus Black and had already killed more people than he ever did, so his son didn't concern her too much even if he had been fully trained.
"Oh I have no doubt about that, I just think we need to be careful not to underestimate him. It'll help us avoid any unnecessary injuries at his hands." Winter explained. She was certain that they could defeat him, she just wanted to ensure they didn't get hurt while doing it.
"Don't worry Winter, we know what we're doing. Now, Roman Torchwick." Ruby responded, pointing to the smiling face of the redhead in the bowler hat. Just saying the name filled her with hatred, knowing what the man did to her.
"Oh I can't wait to smash the shit out of that smug face." Yang commented, clenching her fists until her knuckles popped to emphasize her point. Even if he hadn't framed Ruby, she would have loved to cave his skull in.
"You're not the only one. Anyway, he's a thief and a conman but his organization operates many other rackets. He occasionally gets his hands dirty, but he prefers to rely on his minions to do his bidding." she said, recalling her encounter with him and the way he set his men on her.
"So we should try to get him alone, then he'll have no choice but to fight for himself. Plus it'll give us more time to make him suffer." Weiss said, wanting the man to suffer for what he did to her girlfriend.
"Exactly, but that's easier said than done. Mainly thanks to her, if she managed to get out of Beacon." Ruby explained, as she pointed to the picture of Neo. Having read up on her, she knew that Neo was not to be taken lightly. She was a complete psychopath, who was unwaveringly loyal to Roman for some unknown reason. In other words, she would be a major obstacle to their plans if she was out of prison.
"I hope to the Gods that she didn't make it out alive, she's pure evil." Pyrrha said. She was in a room with some of Vale's most notorious criminals but even the craziest of them had some morals. Neo on the other hand, was worse than Yang had been before their discussion.
"I hope so too, but we'll find a way to handle her if she got out. As long as we have a plan for taking her out, we should be fine." Ruby responded. She would make sure Neo was disposed of, no matter what they had to throw at her.
"We'll be doing the world a favor if we do." Pyrrha told her. Neo had no limits to who she would kill, even innocent children weren't safe from her. So her death would be beneficial for pretty much everyone, not just the gang.
Ruby nodded in agreement with Pyrrha, before moving on again. "Blake, Ilia. Do either of you want to take over to talk about the White Fang?" she asked, looking to the two former White Fang members.
"I'll do it." Blake agreed, making her way to the front of the room. Having been Adam's second in command, she was probably the best person to do it even though Ilia had also been a lieutenant.
Ruby took a seat, letting Blake take it from there. She could have done it herself, but a former high ranking member of the organization would be able to provide additional insight.
Blake started by pointing to the picture of Adam, a picture which simultaneously chilled her to the bone and made her blood boil. "This is Adam Taurus, current leader of the White Fang. He will laying low somewhere, surrounded by the Fang." she said, knowing how he liked to run things.
Seeing the everyone understood, she continued on. "He's not scared to get his hands dirty, but he's smart enough to stay out of sight and let the others do his bidding until he deems it necessary to involve himself directly. We'll have to lure him out into the open, it's the only way we'll get close to him without fighting through hundreds of Fang members." she explained, recalling how paranoid he was when she was still with the Fang.
"So he's just like Cinder, but with more lieutenants for us to deal with first?" Nebula asked, as she looked at the pictures under the one of Adam.
"I suppose so, unfortunately he has plenty of loyal supporters to throw at us. Even with Ilia and I turning on him and Yang killing Trifa, he's far from alone against us." Blake responded. Not only did Adam still have a few of his old lieutenants still by his side, he had new ones to replace those he lost and a large number of loyalist ready to die for him.
She then moved on to the lieutenants, starting with the ones from her time in the Fang. "This is Yuma. He's pretty unremarkable and we could easily take him if we caught him off guard, unfortunately he can fly which makes fighting him extremely difficult." she said
"Wings won't save him, one well placed shot and he'll drop like a rock. I've killed a few winged Faunus that way before." May told her, giving a rare insight her past. She had killed many people, but rarely spoke about it or anything for that matter.
"I'm hoping we can deal with him before he has a chance to fly off, but I'm glad we have a way to take him out if he tries to." Blake responded. In reality she didn't care how it was achieved, she just wanted Yuma out of the picture.
"Now, this is Perry. He's not the best of fighters but he's extremely loyal. It's a shame we have to take him out really, he's much nicer than most of Adam's inner circle." Blake said, pointing to the next picture. She didn't really want to kill him, but she was fairly certain it would be the only option.
She quickly moved on to the next picture "This is Deery, she's pretty much the same as Perry. Though I think she's more indoctrinated than he is, she's more in favour of wiping out humanity than trying for equality." she said. She hadn't spoken with Deery very much, but she was still aware of her more extreme beliefs.
Then she came from the last of the old lieutenants. "This is the biggest problem we'll face trying to get to Adam. He goes by the name Fang, though I'm fairly certain that isn't his real name. Anyway, he's always around Adam, ready to defend him with his oversized chainsaw. He's as dangerous as Yuma, Perry and Deery combined." she explained. Fang had effectively been Adam's third in command, and was now likely to be his second.
Finally she came to the two new lieutenants. They hadn't held the position during her time with the FANG, but she knew them well. "Corsac and Fennec Albain. They used to recruit new members, but now it seems Adam has promoted them. They weren't fighters when I last saw them, but I'm sure Adam has at least tried to change that." she said. They probably weren't much of a threat, but they still had to go.
"Couldn't we just hunt them down know and blow them all to hell?" asked Gwen. She could easily acquire enough explosives to level a building, so the idea wasn't too far fetched in her mind.
"I'd like to say yes, but finding them would be extremely difficult and they'd probably catch us planting the explosives if we did locate them." Blake reasoned. The Fang moved around a lot to avoid discovery, and they had Faunus senses that would make it almost impossible to pull off the bombing.
"Thank you for that Blake, your knowledge of the Fang is really going to help us out." Ruby said, before looking to her sister. "Yang do you want to cover Raven for us?" she asked. Blake was a font of knowledge about the White Fang, and Yang was the same in regards to her mother and the Branwen Tribe.
Yang made her way over to the picture of her mother. "Alright, this bitch is my mom. She won't be in hiding, but that won't make her any easier to kill. She's dangerous on her own and she'll constantly have tribe members close by." she said. Her mother rarely left Branwen territory, and that part of the city was a deathtrap for anyone who wasn't welcome.
"So we need to fight our way to her?" Arslan asked. She would do whatever she could to help Yang deal with her mother, even if that meant fighting through the whole of the Branwen Tribe.
"Pretty much. I doubt she'll risk coming after us alone, she'd only do that if she felt the need to prove herself to the tribe." Yang responded. Raven was a hell of a fighter, but she wouldn't risk fighting all of the Huntresses on her own unless she wanted to prove to the tribe that she wasn't weak.
"We'll handle the tribe, you can handle Raven." Ruby said, knowing that Yang wanted to be the one to kill Raven. She would do what she could to enable Yang to take her revenge, just like she would for Blake and Weiss. After all, they were all going to help her with Roman.
"Thanks Rubes. You won't have too much trouble with the tribe, me and Vernal were the best fighters Raven had." Yang responded. None of the tribe members came close to her or Vernal in terms of fighting ability. So the Huntresses could probably best them, if they could avoid being shot on their approach.
"So she doesn't have any lieutenants we have to worry about?" Coco asked, somewhat surprised that a crossed out picture of Vernal was the only one under the picture of Raven.
"Nope, me and Vernal were the only ones." Yang told her. Raven didn't trust anyone else enough to make them lieutenants, despite the fact she no longer had Yang or Vernal around.
"Good to know, the White Fang's given us enough to deal with." Coco said. She was quite relieved that Raven didn't have an inner circle like Adam, the last thing they needed was more lieutenants standing between them and their real targets.
Yang nodded in agreement, wanting to focus on the leaders not their pawns. "Anyway, that's all you need to know about her and the tribe for now." she said, before walking away from the board and taking a seat.
Ruby looked to the Schnee sisters, who already knew what she was going to ask. "I'll do it." Winter said, making her way over to the picture of Jacques. She was more up to date on the man and his activities than Weiss was.
"My father isn't deserving of our attention, so I'll make this brief. He's safely hold up in Atlas, surrounded by guards equipped with the latest Atlesian military technology. That's unlikely to change as he's a spineless coward, so taking the bastard out is going to be difficult." she started, wanting to get things over with quickly. Her opinion of the man was so low, that she didn't like talking about him unless it was to express her distaste.
"As long as he's alive, he'll use his wealth and influence to send people after us. So we either need to use his own tactics against him, or find away to cripple him financially and then move in for the kill when he can't pay his guards." she continued. If they couldn't get someone in Atlas to take care of him for them, they'd need to take away the one thing he cared about more than anything.
"How hard would it be to find someone willing and able to kill him for us?" Ruby asked. She was somewhat skeptical about anyone being willing to take the job, given what Winter had said about the security.
"Unfortunately it may be rather difficult, many of Atlas' hitmen are already on his payroll and the rest aren't skilled or brave enough to pull it off. That being said, they don't necessarily have to be Atlesian." Winter responded. In all honesty, she was quite surprised that none of those hitmen had been sent after her by her father.
"Why doesn't one of just go to Atlas?" Nebula asked, thinking they could send someone like May, Penny or Ilia to kill him themselves.
"I don't want to send anyone abroad just yet, for now we need everyone here to deal with the more immediate threats. But I'm not necessarily opposed to doing that in the future, if we can't find another way." Ruby said. Jacques was still a threat and he needed to die, but first they had to focus on their enemies in Vale.
"I know a few people in Vacuo who may be willing to to take the job, I'll see if I can get hold of them." Gwen said, pulling out her scroll. Thanks to her arms dealing, she knew several assassins. Some of them owed her favors and would potentially be up for taking Jacques out.
"Thanks Gwen, it'll be a big help if you can find us some." Ruby responded. She would be extremely grateful if Gwen could get one of her old customers to kill Jacques, especially since the man's death would please Weiss.
"If that fails, I can assist with financially crippling him. If I can gain access to his accounts I can empty them." Ciel said. If she could find a way in, Jacques would soon find himself with significantly less money.
"Thank you Ciel, I'm sure you can pull it off." Ruby replied. After what Ciel managed to do with the door at Beacon, she knew not to doubt the girl. Stealing from Jacques wasn't the same as getting a sealed door to open, but she was still confident.
"I'm pleased to be of assistance, I will start making preparations for of it becomes necessary." Ciel told her. She was glad to be able to use her skills to help the gang bring Jacques down.
With plans already being made, Winter didn't have much left to say. "Well, it seems we're already equipped to deal with him, and he leads the family on his own so there's nothing more for me to say." she concluded. She was glad she could stop talking about her father, and glad that the gang was serious about killing him.
"Alright, thanks for the help Winter. Now, I think we're done here. You're all free to go." Ruby said, bringing the meeting to an end. It had achieved everything she wanted it to, and now they were more prepared to strike out at their enemies.
Hope that didn't suck. See ya.