Teams RWBY and JNPR approached the blue SDC warehouse with it's huge white insignia together, this time under no guise. Their armored or agile combat outfits made their role as huntsmen more than obvious. As they approached the door with its keycard lock Weiss produced her company ID and slid it in, unlocking the door with a beep and a click. Right as she placed her hand on the handle to open it Jaune stopped her by placing his hand on hers. The leader of JNPR looked back at the rest of the warriors, "Once we're in there we'll find a spot to hide for our counterattack. If all eight of us stick together they won't be able to take us on like they did on their home turf."

The others nodded at Jaune and the paladin nodded back, pressing down on the door handle to open it once more. As the teams went into a short corridor Blake glared a bit at the ice queen. Weiss noticed and looked askance at the black cat, "What?"

"Did you get the workers to abandon this place tonight?" the kunoichi asked.

"I tried but…" The heiress started. The cat glared harder and Weiss went defensive, "This is the center of our exports to Vale Belladonna! If we shut it down, even for one night, it will cost us too much. Even I don't have enough clout in the company to close this place because of some robbery we don't have much evidence to prove will happen…"

Blake growled a bit at the heiress, "So we're just going to leave the faunus in the way of the guns?!"

Ruby immediately grabbed Blake by the shoulder, "If Weiss couldn't get them out then none of us could Blake, we'll just have to fight extra hard to keep them safe."

Jaune looked back over his shoulder at the cat, "Ruby's right Blake, and besides, it's the night shift with less workers on duty and we know which way the thieves are going to have to come in from. We can easily stand between them."

"I am still unsure about the loading bay." Weiss said with her hand to her chin.

Yang with her hands behind her head as she walked in a relaxed manner chimed in, "Maybe they only plan to steal part of the shop instead of the whole thing, after all one truck's worth of dust is like an entire shop's worth and they can pull up ten of those things to this place."

"It would be the safest method for them to leave behind most and only take the fraction that they can acquire quickly." Ren agreed.

"Good thing we're here to slow em down!" Nora boasted.

The teams got to the end of the corridor and opened up the double doors which led to a maze of SDC shipping containers stacked atop each other. The eyes of most of the teens aside from the white clad girl widened a bit at the huge interior. Yang came up alongside the heiress, "Damn Weiss, it looked way smaller from the outside…"

The heiress rolled her eyes, "Let's all just take up those positions already."

"And let's try to be stealthy about it," Jaune cautioned, "we don't want the alarms to go off because of us instead of the gangsters."

"I do prefer stealth but I doubt the alarms will be going off at all tonight." Ren said.

"Still lets just try to lay low." Jaune said and the rest nodded. The teens made their way through the dark maze of boxes, peeking around each corner to ensure they didn't run into anyone who would become alarmed by their presence.

Eventually the loading bays came into view. Ruby and Jaune halted in front of the teams and Ruby addressed them quietly, "Ok guys, let's split into pairs and get hidden around here. The gangsters are probably gonna come at this place with everything they have, so we need to be ready. Weiss did you find out the exact time they were going to get here?"

"They had it scheduled for about an hour from now, but who knows? They may have changed the timetable after our assault on their hideout." The white heiress answered.

"No way of knowing now," Jaune said, "we just need to be ready for anything. Let's break into our pairs and take up some hidden positions."

Everyone on Jaune's team nodded but Ruby's team had a bit more confusion to it. Yang broke up the silent lack of planning, "So… Are we just going to do the same pairs from the club?"

Weiss' eyes narrowed, "Considering what happened there, I doubt that would be a good idea."

Ruby sighed, "Fine, Yang you go with Weiss and I'll go with Blake." Ruby then turned to Jaune, "My team will take the left while yours takes the right."

Jaune nodded and his team as well as Yang and Weiss started off but Jaune stayed a bit and put his hand on Ruby's shoulder, "Stay safe Ruby."

Ruby put her hand atop Jaune's, "You do the same."

Jaune grinned and pointed a thumb at himself, "Well if we end up setting the warehouse on fire like the forest and the club I can always run my way out."

Ruby rolled her eyes and turned away from Jaune, joining up with Blake as the other team went away. The black cat stared at Ruby a bit and Ruby caught notice of it, "What?"

"Nothing." Blake said, "I just thought for a second that maybe Yang was right about you two."

Ruby groaned, "Really? You too now?"

"Perhaps you're just setting off my instincts again." Blake said with a bit of a small smile.

Ruby rolled her eyes once more, "Let's just get somewhere hidden, ok?"

Ruby leapt up onto the shipping containers and Blake followed her.

Yang and Weiss stalked through the warehouse stealthily to get to their position. Yang looked askance at the heiress as they stepped around quietly, "How is it you can wear those heels and not make any noise in them?"

"Have you ever thought that perhaps I am simply that skilled?" Weiss answered sarcastically only to be met with crossed arms and a cocked brow, "Ugh. They are designed specially for combat. There, are you satisfied?"

A smirk played on Yang's face, "You have combat heels? What are there some blades that pop out of those things or something? Gonna cut somebody with a pirouette maybe?"

Weiss eyes narrowed, "Would you like to test that theory on your mane miss hair for brains?"

Yang defensively grabbed her golden locks, "Hey, no cutting my hair ok? I work really hard to keep it this long."

"Perhaps a braid or a ponytail would be a wiser way of keeping it safe then."

"Sorry Ice Queen, but you can't keep the lion in a cage, you gotta let it roam free!"

"Ugh." Weiss rolled her eyes, "You are one of the least civilized people I have ever met, even counting Rose. I don't know how you sisters ended up being so different from one another."

"What? You got your own sister or something?"

"I do, an older and far more mature and disciplined one than you."

"Does she look out for you like I look out for Ruby?" Yang asked sincerely.

"No. I don't require such supervision like Rose does and she is far too busy for that anyway." Weiss answered back flatly.

"Guess the Ice Queen grew up in a cold house, huh?"

"Schnee manor is perfectly climatized year round."

Yang smirked, "Not what I meant Weiss."

Weiss shot Yang another flat look, "I knew exactly what you meant."

Weiss turned her gaze away from the golden mane who went a bit surprised at the retort and the two made their way to the position which overlooked the loading bays.

Nora and Ren crouched hidden just below the rafters of the warehouse with their artillery pieces trained upon the doors to the loading bay. A few of the faunus workers seemed to mill about the loading area. Given that they were not actually loading or unloading anything but merely doing sight counts of the inventory the night shift seemed pretty skate. Nora pouted and whispered, "Dammit Ren when are these guys gonna show up? I'm tired of waiting here like this."

"We have no way of knowing Nora. Our only option is to stay on the lookout."

"Yeah, yeah, I know, but it's still boring."

Ren patted Nora a couple of times on the shoulder then held his ear, "Jaune, have you seen any signs of the enemy? Over."

The blonde boy answered the call, "None yet Ren. Over."

"Very well. Out."

Jaune turned towards Pyrrha, "You ready for this fight?"

"I'm always ready to fight Jaune, though admittedly those twins we went up against before were far more difficult to take on than I had expected."

"I already know what to do with them, their semblance works if they're right next to each other but if we can split them up then they should be way more vulnerable without being able to watch each other's backs."

"And how will we do that?" Pyrrha asked sincerely.

"That… I'm not so sure about." Jaune said sagging his shoulders. The boy then shrugged, "I think we'll probably have to wing it."

Pyrrha forced a smile and placed a hand on the farm boy's shoulder, "I'm... sure that you can come up with something now that you know what we are dealing with."

Suddenly the sound of thunder blasted forth and the entire building shook. Jaune and Pyrrha were knocked down from the quake along with all the employees and their ears rang from the sound. The two quickly stood and looked up to see the entire roof of the building moving. The roof gave way to the night sky and a group of hovering airships over top let down groups of cables just as the doors to the loading bays were forced open and many thugs ran in. Jaune's ears stopped ringing and he armed himself with his sword and shield, "Guess they have more than just trucks!" Jaune pressed his ear, "Ruby!"

The red hood stood atop the tower of shipping containers alongside the black cat and responded, "I see it Jaune, you guys handle the ones on the ground while we hit the ones in the air! Yang, Weiss! Join up with me and Blake up top!"

"Solid copy Ruby!" Jaune turned towards the war maiden, "Did you get that Pyrrha?" The warrior princess nodded quickly and Jaune carried on, "Good! Then let's deal with these guys so they hit the workers or load the boxes!"

The thugs saw the faunus workers who stood stock still in shock at the siege and raised their smgs in a clear aim. But just they unleashed a barrage two shields, one white and one bronze, appeared in the way of their fire. The frozen faunus thawed out at their rescue and ran away from the gun line. The gunmen themselves hesitated a bit at seeing the two warriors but began to try firing again but it was too late. Capitalizing on their surprise entrance the two heroes lanced forward into the ranks of their foes and began bashing, slashing, and stabbing through them in a harmful but nonlethal manner.

Roman Torchwick stood in the open doors of an airship looking down upon the maze of Schnee shipments with his assistant Neo next to him when a voice rang in his ear, "Boss! Those huntsmen are here! They're taking out some of our guys!"

Roman scowled and looked from his vantage point to see if he could locate his enemies, which he did. Jaune and Pyrrha were in a brawl with his ground forces while Nora and Ren were in a gunfight against some. Meanwhile atop some boxes were Ruby and Blake and down slightly below them were Yang and Weiss who were running over to join up with the other half of their team. Roman turned to his attache, "Neo, go down and deal with those for me would you?" The silent secretary noted the team RWBY Roman pointed at, nodded with a smile, and hopped out of the aircraft. Roman touched his ear again, "Junior, I need you and the twins to come in here and help the boys mop up these huntsmen asap. We're on a tight schedule here."

"Copy Boss." Roman heard from a deep voice that came through his headset.

Blake turned towards Ruby, "How are we supposed to get up to those ships?"

"I can do it with my semblance," the red hood replied, "I think Weiss can too. We'll hop up to them and force them to land." Just then a small figure fell from the sky and created a clanging noise on contact with the box Ruby and Blake stood on. Neo stood from the crouch that had absorbed the impact of the drop and bowed theatrically towards the girls. Ruby stared at the opponent and awkwardly adjusted her plans, "And I guess while Weiss and I handle the aircraft you and Yang can handle… whoever this is."

Neo began stalking forward with a sadistic grin on her face and Blake went a bit wide eyed as she drew her sword and went on the defense, "You've never had to face her before. She might be too sly even if we take her two on one."

Neo didn't bother lunging or anything as she continued her casual stroll up to the girls. Yang and Weiss hopped up to where the other two were. Yang saw the small girl and her eyes went red, "Neo!" The golden mane looked over to Ruby, "Rubes, stand back, that one's dangerous!"

Ruby looked back at Yang, "I'll be fine, you and Blake fought her before so it's up to you two to handle her now." Ruby then glanced over to Weiss, "Weiss, can your semblance get you up to those ships?"

Weiss looked up to judge the difference in positions and nodded, "I can reach them from here."

"Good," Ruby said, "Let's go bring them down then!"

Weiss nodded and a glyph appeared below her feet and propelled her up to the nearest craft. Ruby joined her with a jet of rose petals. Yang stood alongside Blake as Neo merely stood where she was. Yang went a bit more crimson eyed at the lack of movement, "Well Ice Cream Cone?! You gonna take us on or just stand around?!" The right hand of Roman stood casually where she was at with her smile still present and Yang growled, "Fine! If you won't then I will!"

"Yang wait!" Blake shouted at the other girl but it was too late, Yang swung at the motionless Neo's face and it shattered into a thousand pieces beneath her fist. An unsheathing noise sounded behind Yang and a blade nearly made its way down on her before she was able to spin and deflect it off one of her vambraces. Yang stumbled back a bit but Neo let her without capitalizing on it. The obvious toying tactic angered Yang further and the brawler rushed towards Neo without hesitating, throwing several punches that landed on nought but the air. Blake gritted her teeth, "Dammit!" The cat shook her head and joined the assault to assist Yang.

Blake's blade touched nothing. Even the secretary's umbrella parried nothing, she simply dodged everything as though the fight was a mere dance. The golden mane roared between her blows, "How! The hell! Does she! Keep dodging!"

"It must be her aura sense!" Blake cried out, "It's even better than Ren's! She'll only strike a perfect opening!"

Yang grinned like a wolf, "An opening huh?" The blonde disengaged the half brunette, "Follow me ninja girl!"

The golden lioness leapt off the top of the crates and down into their maze. A confused look played across the faces of both the kunoichi and right hand crook, but the black cat followed immediately as she was told and the small parasolist started after her as well.

Ren and Nora rained bullets and bombs down on the thugs from their vantage atop the container among the now removed rafters. With the arcs of Nora's launcher and their silhouette covered from below they were quite well positioned against the smg wielding bandits. A giant stepped boldly out from behind his line of minions, one of whom worried for him for his lack of cover, "Boss! Watch out, they've got the high ground on us!"

"Not for long they don't." Junior's kanabo converted into its rpg form.

"Boss no! That container they're on is full of dust!" The grunt said as he grabbed Junior.

Junior shook off the goon's hand, "We can afford to lose one blown up box out of the hundred we'll take home!"

With that the goliath fired his rocket. Ren saw the incoming impact and reacted fast thanks to his senses. He grabbed Nora by the waist and leapt off the tower of boxes with her to get behind it just as the one he was on exploded into a castle of solid ice. Junior pointed commandingly in the general direction of his foes, "Swarm back there and kill them!"

The thugs hesitated a bit but charged forward towards the maze regardless, though just as they did a burst of mist issued forth from it. The cacophony of random fire and grunts being knocked out began again just as Junior had seen before. This time though he had another ploy up his sleeve, "You think that'll work on me this time just because there's no sprinklers Ren?! Well guess again! I know about construct types, yours is disrupted by climate instead of contact like a normal one, but aura can disrupt any of them!"

With that Junior's club glowed with a field of red power. The bartender brought it into a horizontally trailing guard position and swung sideways with it, unleashing the broad force of that crimson field into the cloud of fog. Shenlong's Mist was blown away by the projection technique and Lie Ren, who was revealed to be directly in front of Junior standing among his downed troops, stumbled back from the impact of the push. Junior looked a bit confused at the de-camouflaged enemy, "Where the hell's your girlfriend Ren? Don't tell me she's the one playing the sneak now instead of you!"

"My friend Nora is in the container maze dealing with your men. I'm afraid you'll have to settle for me." The jade dragon responded calmly as he stood straight and proud before the man who was double his size.

A grin and growl passed over Junior's lips, "Ha! Fine bug! I'll crush your grasshopper ass first and then move on to that party girl of yours!"

Ren said nothing and merely extended his unarmed hand towards the brute with his palm raised up and brought his fingers back, beckoning the giant forward. Junior roared at the sight of his weak enemy's confidence and charged forward, bringing his club down in an overhead smash. Ren dodged to the side of the telegraphed strike and Junior used his obvious feint to give the two punch, or in this case a kick which swept from the side Ren had dodged towards. The jade dragon had expected this though and leapt above the leg, which missed him completely.

The missed blow's momentum brought Junior off balance a bit and Ren capitalized with palm strike to the giant's back. A pulse of green energy surged through the giant's back and pushed him into a wall of containers from which he immediately turned back towards the green clad man, "So… Not just a gunsword slinger but a wu xia too huh?"

"A master of neither actually, but, as you said, aura disrupts aura. I need to thank you for giving me the idea to use my palm strike against you until I've stripped you of your spirit armor."

Junior stood taller away from his back on the wall position, "Well sorry champ but I'm afraid that now that I know your style I'll just keep you at a safe distance. After all I outreach you anyway."

"With the palms and blades? Yes." Ren then quickly drew his liu ye dao from their shared sheath and flicked them into their pistol mode, "My reach is quite further with the bullets though." A hail of fire began falling on Junior who charged forward through it, disregarding the portion of the barrage from the inaccurate weapons that actually hit him and which rippled through his aura with lightning.

"Lightning dust rounds huh?! Nice new trick but it won't work on a tank!" Junior said as he quickly closed the gap and Ren's guns clicked dry.

"These were a gift from Weiss." Ren said as he dodged strikes while reloading.

"Well you just wasted your gift then! Half those rounds didn't even touch me!"

"I wasn't aiming just at you."

"What?" As Junior queried a silver maul collided with the side of his skull and sent him crashing into the side of yet another crate. Junior opened his eyes as his aura flickered out and he lounged in the huge dent his body had made in the crate to see two teens standing over him. The heart chested hammer wielder grinned as pink sparks flickered across her body and electrical power seemed to emanate from her.

The jade dragon spoke up, "I apologize for lying to you about using Nora as the ambusher this time. Thank you for falling for it though. Here." Ren grabbed a pair of handcuffs from his pocket and tossed them onto Junior, "I'd advise you put these on before we shoot you without your aura shield active." Junior growled a bit at the jade dragon and Ren merely cocked his eyebrow along with the hammer of pistol he had pointed at the bartender, at which point the giant's shoulders sagged and he donned the bracelets that had been provided to him. Ren pointed his gun to the sky instead of at Junior, "Thank you Junior. Nora?"

"Got it Ren!" The hammer wielder grinned and swung her silver maul at the giant, hitting him in the head with force that knocked him out.

The paladin and princess formed a makeshift shield wall to charge through the narrow corridors of the shipping labyrinth, bashing, slashing, or piercing through the thugs in their way. After working their way through many they stopped. At the end of the particularly long corridor they found themselves in a red figure stood. The crimson club girl posed with a hand to her hip with a bored face, "Oh great. It's you guys again. You know you're permabanned from the club now right?"

Jaune went a bit annoyed at the greeting, "What the!? We aren't even at the club right now and you guys are the ones robbing this place!"

"Whatever. Hey Mel!" The red diva called out towards the area behind the warriors.

"Yeah Miltia?" The warriors looked behind themselves to see a white garbed woman in her own exasperated pose answering the call.

"Let's deal with these weirdos so we can get out of this dump."

"Sure thing." The heels of both girls began clacking forward towards the middle of the narrow corridor.

Jaune and Pyrrha took position back to back with each other. Jaune kept his eyes focused on Miltia in front of him while whispering to Pyrrha, "Remember what we talked about Pyrrha, we just need to separate these two to beat them."

"Yes but we still haven't come up with some way to do that." Pyrrha whispered back.

Jaune smirked, "Well actually I was thinking back to our last fight with them and I think at least you might have a way to pull them apart."

"Jaune? Did you figure out my?..." In an interruption of the warrior princess the two bouncer maids surged forward towards the fortress of shields. Red claws struck from above at the paladin and white heels from below at the princess. Jaune's shield rose and Pyrrha's fell only for a leg to rise over Pyrrha's shoulder and strike the farm boy's head and red claws to go below Jaune's arm and slash the princess's thigh. Aura flickered on both warriors but Pyrrha grinned, "I'm ready now Jaune!"

"Good, get up on top!" The farm boy yelled back. Pyrrha nodded and leapt back and forth between the walls of the hall to the top of the boxes.

"Ugh. Really?" Melanie asked disgustedly at Jaune.

"Like, you know we can easily beat you if you're by yourself right?" Miltia finished as she swung a slash at the boy.

Jaune didn't even bother reacting to the cut that halted just short of his face with a bronze glow to it. Jaune smirked at the red clad girl, "Yeah I know, but I'm afraid you aren't gonna be sticking around to face me two on one."

Miltia went wide eyed at the halt for a moment before she was yanked by her arms up to the top of the walls. Melanie went surprised as well, "Miltia!"

A shield bashed into the back of the head of the white diva as she paid attention to her sister's abduction, sending her sprawling onto the deck.

The girl turned around in her prone position to receive a sword's tip at her throat. Jaune gazed down on the diva with steel eyes, "I think you oughta give up now."

The lady in white turned her hips and batted away the blade with a kick, using the momentum to rise into a stance and another, higher placed kick. She shouted, "If you think I'm gonna let you take Miltia!..."

Jaune merely batted away the kick with his shield and then struck the woman down with a pommel to her head, leaving her dazed on her knees. Jaune looked down at Melanie with an inquisitive gaze, "Wow. This is even easier than I expected. You really can't do anything at all on your own can you?"

Melanie shook from her daze and looked up at him frustrated, "Shut up you… you…"

Jaune tossed some cuffs in front of the kneeling girl, "Look just put those on wouldja? I really gotta get back to my pal up there and I can't waste much more time with you."

The wench pouted and donned the restraints of her obviously superior opponent.

Meanwhile up on top of the shipping containers Pyrrha magnetically reeled in a red fish that she bashed with her shield, causing it to roll across the top of her shipping container into a sitting position. Pyrrha held ready a spear and shield against her yanked in foe in red and tensed for a pitched battle. The crimson clad woman across from her merely stayed sat down, put her hands up, and sighed, "I give up."

Pyrrha went slightly wide eyed at the surrender and slightly relaxed her stance, "Uh… Are you certain?"

"Yeah, you got my claws magnetized and my sister somewhere else so there's no way for me to win. You got me."

Pyrrha completely relaxed her guard but stayed away, "This isn't some trick is it? You aren't going to try to attack me off guard are you?"

Another sigh came from Miltia, "No, now just tie me up or whatever you were going to do." Pyrrha strapped her shield to her back but left her spear out as she pulled out a pair of cuffs and began edging towards Miltia. Miltia stood and put her arms out in front of her parallel to each other and tapped her foot impatiently as the redhead made her way up slowly, "Any day now…"

Pyrrha snapped at the girl, "I'm coming!"

The redhead shortened her spear to a sword when she got close and kept it's tip towards Miltia as she put the cuffs on the girl. Miltia raised her cuffed arms into Pyrrha's view and wiggled her fingers, "See? You win now."

Pyrrha breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank god…" The warrior princess then without warning pommelled the red diva in the head, knocking her out. Pyrrha smiled, sheathed her sword, dusted her hands, and put them on her hips triumphantly, "Well that was remarkably easy!" She then entered her sing song voice, "Now back to Jaune!"

The warrior princess skipped a bit merrily off the edge of the shipping container.