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"You wanted to see me, Commissioner?" Pyrrha asked as she stepped into the office.
Jade motioned for her to take a seat.
"Nikos," She began as Pyrrha sat down. "I need you to lay off and take a break, catch some Zs."
"Why? I should be here where I can help, you've said the station is understaffed and no one is-"
A folder was picked up and slapped down onto the talk silencing Pyrrha.
"One of my detectives, Barnaby, got in contact with the electronics company that sold the cameras. I got in touch with the owner who has been extremely cooperative in the investigation, I have been told directly that the man is compiling everything he's got on what he sold to them. Which was apparently more than just the cameras." Jade smiled. "We're gonna have names pretty soon which means people to grab and interrogate and accounts full of funds to freeze."
Pyrrha's eyes shined, it was the best thing to grace her ears all week. They wouldn't be running around looking for rumors like they were before and soon the White Fang could finally be dealing with without there needing to be a massive war in the city.
"But that still doesn't explain why you want me to leave." Pyrrha said
"Look, you've been an extra pair of hands we need, but you getting some sleep in is important. When we find the perps they aren't gonna come quietly. We're undermanned as it is, the army is too busy training for our Atlas situation, and I fear you'll have to do most of the real fighting." Jade explained. "I want you in tip-top shape and no in anyway slugging around."
"That's... actually yes that makes sense." Pyrrha thought.
"I'll rest here at the station."
"Pyrrha-"
"I will only leave if there is an emergency no one else available, I promise."
Jade paused for a moment but sighed, it was probably the best she was gonna get. "Okay, just rest up we need you."
There was barely enough time to react.
Shots rang out, Edward shouting instructions as Sienna heard rapid footfalls on her left and right. The Claws retaliated but everyone has a moment of shock when several doorways broke opened and the White Fang poured in.
Many were hit before they could even draw weapons, the faster one threw down and made what cover they could and ducked behind anything around. Edward himself had grabbed Sienna by the arm and pulled her behind an upturned table.
Nora pulled out her hammer and Sienna's heart skipped a beat when it transformed into its grenade launcher form. Fortunately, Ren grabbed and pulled it and her down before she could fire high powered dust grenades in a warehouse full of dust.
The Fang grunts, however, lacked any one of discipline. Their attackers fired wildly and many of their shots almost hit the crates of what was clearly labeled as containing volatile substances.
"Of all the goddamn days." Edward groaned and returned fire with his pistol.
Boy was Sienna started wishing she had another rang option. Her dust daggers were great and varied for the occasion but they lacked distance and few in quantity when.
Ruby was using her superior speed to zip around and knock man after man on his ass or into the air.
Ren fired behind cover while keeping Nora from just charging into the mass of bullets. Ruby could dodge all of it fine but there was only so much the rest of them could.
"I thought this place was secure?" Sienna cried.
"We've been here for months and never had problems before!" Edward retorted.
Ruby just finished plowing through a squad when a massive whirlwind blew her back. She skitted into the floor and barely had enough time to jump to her feet and speed her way to cover before a fireball scorched the ground.
Sienna's eyes and ears narrowed at the sources. The Albain brothers lowered their weapons and served the battle, she didn't need to be a genius to tell they were in charge.
"Focus fire on the Albains!" Sienna ordered hoping the exposed two could be taken care of.
Unfortunately very few were actually able to carry out said order. The grunts around the two had the sense to surround and protect their leaders. Firing on anyone attempting to hit them.
"Carefully! Hit one of those crates of dust and you'll blow us sky high!" Corsac warned and the fools finally seemed to notice the deadly crates full of dust they were coming so close to hitting.
Fennec and Sienna's eyes met for the briefest moment. He turned to Corsac to say something but was interrupted by something. Sienna's and just about everyone with an extra pair of ears, attention was drawn by the massive amount police sirens heading their way.
When Edward finally heard the sound he cursed while he drew a makeshift grenade out from one of the crates and pulled the pin off and tossed the device, he grabbed Sienna by the arm as the blast blew Corsac and Fennec away.
"Scatter to your rally points!" He ordered. "We'll regroup later!"
Nora, seeing that restraint was now off, used her grenades to blast open a hole in the wall. Edward directed himself and Sienna out of it along with Ren. Ruby trailed quickly behind the four. All of them rushed out and leaped onto the roof with dozens of Khan's Claws scattering in small groups either on the roofs or running through alleyways. Just in time, as the police began surrounding the warehouse. They were interrupted by the White Fang running out and soon engaging them.
Sienna looked away and began running after Edward, jumping from rooftops until they'd gotten a fair distance away and boar Faunus climbed down a fire escape and opened a window. Everyone climbed in and the window slammed shut.
Sienna let out a sigh of relief as all but Ruby, of course, caught their breath.
"What just happen?" Nora asked between pants.
"The White Fang just took away all the fucking time we spent building that stockpile," Edward said angrily. "God damn them!" His fist collided with the wall caving the plaster in.
"That's one way to say it." Sienna thought.
They had an army, weapons, supplies, targets to hit, a doctor and just like that everything was lost. Hopefully, the blast or the police would take care of the Albain brothers.
"Edward get me a headcount," Sienna ordered. "I need to know how many we lost."
"Yes, lady Khan." He pulled out his scroll and began typing.
"We need someone to take the survivors, this place isn't big enough and is still fairly close to the crime scene," Ren said. "We have to go somewhere far."
"I think I know," Ruby said. "Somewhere they'd never think to look for them."
"I am not drunk enough for this." Qrow groaned as Ruby, Sienna and a tusk Faunus named Edward stood before him and Ozpin. "Okay, so you guys want to bring a hundred Faunus-"
"About sixty Branwen," said Edward. "That's far from a hundred."
"Okay first off just Qrow, second off that's still above the maximum occupancy for this house and still makes it a fire hazard." Qrow sighed. "Do you guys have anywhere to move them? We can't just keep a bunch of terrorists the cops are after in this house."
"We don't have any Lien and most of our dust and equipment was lost when we evacuation the warehouse," Edward explained. "We can look but no promises are made."
"Perhaps we can have the school fund you?" Bloody Ozpin spoke up. "If we're on the same side then I can see a sort of hidden support being used to keep your heads above the water."
"I'm sorry who are you?" Edwards asked suspiciously.
Qrow groaned internally, he had been around Ozpin to know the wizard was not one to give up an opportunity. "Them getting more involved with Salem is not what's going to happen." He thought sternly.
"Leave it and ignore him," Sienna, thank the brothers, said to her subordinate. "The offer is nice but I'm sure we can handle this on our own." She directed to Oz.
"No, you clearly can't," Qrow said as he turned his back and took off a brown pouch off his side and poured the contents onto the coffee table. Coins slid out and bounced around and to a stop and Qrow picked out a hand full from the pile and turned to present it to Sienna. "This should cover everything."
She picked off a coin and inspected it with a careful eye. "Is... Is this gold? Why do you have gold coins?"
"From my vacation to fantasy land, just take it." Qrow literally dumping it into her hands. "If you need anything Sienna I still got plenty of silver in case you need it."
"This is great, uh... thank you Qrow all of this could easily cover our campaign if sold to the right people."
"Just don't spend it all in one place and remember to find somewhere to put all those guys," Qrow said. "I don't want a bounty on my head for harboring terrorists."
Ozpin watched as Qrow collected the coins back into his pouch. What struck him the most wasn't the fact that Qrow just had coins instead of the standard world currency. It was the look of them. He knew the symbols from a particular one from a brief glance he managed to pay it before Qrow tucked them all away.
Ozpin needed to take a better look, with Qrow dodging his questions it would preferably be done in a discreet manner.
"All of our paint!" Fennec cried. "I got a good deal and artist for that and now all that Lien is down the drain!"
Corsac placed a hand on his brother's shoulder. "Calm brother, calm. We can find replacements and we will get what is needed. The delay will slow our main plan in Argus but relations haven't gotten any better between Atlas and Mistral. Time is on our side."
"That may very well be the case, but I'd rather if Sienna and her miscreants would just die already!"
"They have nowhere to go and cannot possibly reorganization fast enough, the loss of equipment will hinder the remaining fighter's ability to stand against us and we didn't even need to spend too much blood for this victory." Fennec reasoned.
"True but morale is still low and a crushing blow by us would've carried it," Corsac argued. "We lost a prime opportunity and many of our fighters thanks to police intervention. Speaking of the authorities, the APD is still looking into our operations and has found where the cameras came from."
"Soon they won't be a problem, our remaining armor is being put to good use and the commissioner will be out of our hair along with a larger wedge between the two kingdoms," Corsac assured. "We should be looking back into the replacements."
Fennec sighed angrily but allowed himself to finally relax. "Yes, we should."