F3: Hey everyone I'm back with another interlude chapter. As per the normal I'll handle the disclaimers. RWBY is property of Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. I only own the OC characters of this fic. So with that said Lets Roll Out!


Interlude Green: Meetings.


Beacon Academy was bustling with students each one trying to figure out what to do for their two weeks of break. However Rina already knew what she was going to do for her two weeks.

As she was leaving she'd notice Star along with Ruby and Yang seemed to have already left for wherever they were going which didn't seem to bother her that much she had her own mode of transportation which was waiting for her in the private area of the courtyard.

"Psst... Neo you here sis." Rina whispered.

Almost immediately a black haired girl with lighter streaks of white with a black sleeveless blouse with white frills on the chest and collar along with a black bow hanging from the front of the collar. The blouse exposes her midriff, and she wears medium-length black armbands on both of her wrists. Along with the blouse, she wears a knee-length skirt fastened with a white belt. She wears black shoes with a triple toemoe emblem on the soles, with white legwarmers. She also has bright green eyes.

Rina only sighed "There you are. Decided to use that disguise."

The girl she noticed was one of Neo's disguises thanks to her semblance.

"Alright we better get moving." Rina replied as the two headed toward the air docks and onto another airship heading toward Vale.

Once the two arrived in Vale they immediately headed toward the one place they knew where to meet however they had to be discrete so that they weren't followed by anyone as they entered an old abandoned warehouse that was once used for storage purposes.

When they got in a friendly and familiar face got her eye seeing Roman hard at work again planning on their next heist with a cigar in his mouth unlit.

"Hey pops your going to grow old looking at that board." Rina called out.

Roman hearing one of his two adoptive daughter call out he turned around seeing them.

"There's my two girls." Roman replied with a happy smile as the two approached with Neo disabling her disguise as the two hugged their adoptive father.

"So I take it things are going well?" Roman asked.

"Easy. Though some of the classes can be a bit tough. Nothing I can't handle though." Rina said confidently.

Neo only seemed to roll her eyes at that statement "Oh I bet you couldn't last three days at Beacon sister. The rumors of Beacon being a tough school well they weren't kidding." Rina added.

"Sorry to interrupt this but I believe we have some business to handle here Mr. Torchwich." A voice said.

Rina looked toward where the source of the voice came from.

He was a tall man that towered over them currently wearing a black cloak to cover his identity.

Rina took a good look at the guy with mixed opinion.

"Okay and I thought Pyrrha was tall this guy is even taller than her." Rina thought.

"Ah right sorry if I forgot about you for a moment. Rina this is one of our clients." Roman introduced.

"It's... nice to meet you." Rina said a little intimidated by just his size.

"I take it your here for something." Roman added.

"Actually there is something I am concerned about. We did that job you asked us to do but when we got their the owner was already gone all but someone from the White Fang." The tall man added.

"Oh and you think I might have tipped him off saying that you were coming. Sorry but I believe that was your job to take care of." Roman replied.

However the guy in front of them wasn't that convinced.

"Why should I believe you?" He asked taking a step forward.

Rina and Neo didn't take to kindly to the approach as they unsheathed their weapons.

"Take one more step and I'll remove that head from your shoulders." Rina growled.

The guy took a step back raising his hands in a defensive manner.

"I don't wish to threaten I just want to make sure we still have an agreement." He replied.

"We still have an agreement you just make sure to keep yours." Roman replied.

The tall man decided that it was time for him to leave and made his exit.

"Man that guy is a jerk." Rina replied sheathing her weapon as Neo nodded in agreement folding her arms under her bust.

"Okay you two I know that you just started you break Rina but I've got a little errand to run." Roman added as he handed her transcripts.

"What are these for?" She asked.

"I want you to deliver these to some people that are here in Vale. I suggest you go at night so that you ain't spotted okay." Roman added.

"So where am I taking these?" She asked as she took a look at them and then noticed what they were.

"Wait a minute these are Beacon Academy applications." Rina replied.

"Yeah let's just say I'm helping some people get into Beacon but they need these to get in. I just want you to drop them off and be back here. The address is on them." Roman added.

"Alright I'll be back soon." Rina replied as she left the warehouse.

Neo gently nudged him as if to say something.

"What you think we should've told her that you are going their too?" He asked.

Neo then thought a moment before shaking her head.

"Right better make it a surprise than to tell her." Roman added.

=RWBY=

Meanwhile with Rina she was making her way through the rooftops to find the address on the transcripts.

Rina looked at the address again making sure she was going the right direction.

"Okay I think I'm going the right direction." Rina said to herself as she continued to look.

After about another ten minutes she finally arrived at a small house just outside of Vale City.

"Well this is the place... I think." Rina said as she headed toward the small house.

Once she approached the house she knocked on the front door three times then two hard knocks.

The door slightly opened as she saw a door chain keeping it from opening further.

"Can I help you?" A female voice asked.

"A special delivery from a one Roman Torchwich." Rina answered holding the three transcripts in hand.

The door then closed again only to hear the chain lock come off as the door swung open again revealing one of occupants inside.

Rina took notice of the girl in front her and then at the papers.

"You must be Emerald Sustrai." Rina replied.

"Yes and who are you?" Emerald asked.

"I work with Roman though I can't exactly give you my name. Just call me The Spider." Rina answered.

"Well... alright if you're working with Torchwich. That means your here to help us out." Emerald said.

She nodded her head in response.

"Yeah though can I come in." Rina asked as Emerald stepped aside revealing two others in the room.

"Emerald just who is this?" The male inside asked a little concern.

"Cool it Mercury. She works with Torchwich. She's the Spider." Emerald replied.

The other female in the room grew curious about Rina as she approached her.

"Not what I'd expect for someone like you working with Torchwich." She replied.

"Well he is my dad after all Miss. Cinder." Rina replied which made the girl step back a bit.

"And a smart one too at that." Cinder replied.

Rina then placed down the transcripts on the small coffee table.

"Alright these will help you get into Beacon Academy." Rina replied.

Emerald took the transcripts and look them over before confirming they were real.

"They're good." Emerald confirmed.

While Rina had completed her job she still had time before she had to head back to Roman.

"So out of curiosity just why are you three wanting to enter Beacon so badly that you needed these. You all look like your old enough to enter?" Rina asked.

Cinder decided to speak "Its much more complicated but if we we're to do it through legal means it would take quite a long time before being accepted. Doing it like this is a faster and easier route even if it means doing it by unconventional means." Cinder replied.

"I see." Rina replied "That's why you came to dad to have these made." She added.

Cinder nodded "I do thank you for bringing these to us. With these we can be safe." Cinder replied

"Safe? What is she talking about?" She thought. Thinking she'd over stayed her welcome she decided to leave but she noticed a small picture frame with a picture that has been burnt. In the picture it has a picture of the three of them in their youths with their arms around them.

However she'd could barely make out the other person as only she could see a pair of snow white fox ears.

"Well as much as I like to stay. I'm going to book before pops starts worrying." Rina replied.

"Alright. Catch you later miss Spider." Mercury replied as Rina headed out leaving the small house behind.

=RWBY=

As she was now back into the city she was about to head toward the warehouse. However when she was heading back to large armored truck came past her heading out of town. While it didn't seem to bother her she'd caught glimpse of something in the armored truck thanks to the barred window. The armored truck had the SDC logo on it.

She saw the head of a faunus girl but couldn't tell what kind. The girl had purple eyes and had a look of despair and lost hope.

The armored truck continued on it path heading outside of town.

"Was that a faunus in their?" She asked herself.

At first she wanted to ignore it but something in the back of her mind was saying to go after it.

She debated with her mind before making her mind up and went after the armored truck as she followed it.

Just as she was doing that her scroll buzzed as she pressed something on her ear.

"Go ahead." Rina answered.

"Rina might I ask why you're moving away from the warehouse?" Roman replied.

"Sorry pops just following an armored truck." Rina replied.

"I don't think we need anymore dust. I told you to go drop those off and nothing more." Roman added.

Rina huffed "Call this a hunch, but I don't think this truck isn't carrying dust as its cargo." Rina added.

"Oh and what kind of cargo do you think its carrying?" Roman asked.

After a brief moment of silence and a sharp intake of breath Rina decided to reply "... Faunus. The truck is SDC." Rina replied.

Roman didn't say anything for a minute as if speechless before he finally spoke.

"How certain are you that its carrying faunus in that truck?" He asked his voice serious. Roman Torchwick was many things, a criminal, master thief, silver tongued devil, but their was a number of things Roman didn't consider himself.

And at the very top of that list was murderer, and racist.

"Hundred percent certain. I'm following it right now." Rina added.

"Alright but if your going to go after them then you'll need your disguise. Your pack is still nearby. Grab it and change then figure out what's going on." Roman replied.

"Okay. Also see if you can find any news on any missing faunus in the past few weeks. Something tells me this has been going on for a while." Rina added as she turned a corner and grabbed her pack.

A few minutes later she was changed into her body suit and the rest of her disguise went after the truck again.

After about a half hour of following the truck it lead her outside of Vale City and onto a old road that was in the forest.

She jumped between the trees so that she could keep up and to stay out of sight from the side few mirrors.

"Half a hour and we're almost out in the middle of nowhere. Just where is this thing going?" She asked herself as she continued to follow it.

Just then the truck turned a corner which lead to a small encampment.

The encampment had a least seven tents with a at least four people in each so almost at least thirty people each. However the people in their weren't White Fang members.

"Who are these guys?" She whispered as she hung outside in a tree near the encampment.

The people in the encampment had leather armor and boots along with a variety of different weapons.

The driver and passenger came out of the truck holding some sort of hunting rifles.

"Their not White Fang... then who are they?" She thought as she saw the driver open the backdoor revealing at least seven faunus. As they were brought out she noticed at least three males and four female faunus each varying in traits.

Then she'd noticed something else near the tents were cages with other faunus in them. Most of them looking like they've been through a lot especially some of the females that look like they've been through the worse of it since most of them were missing some clothing.

"This is a faunus black-market. There are about thirty people in this camp. Thirty of them and only one me... I love a challenge." Rina thought as she grinned.

She first had to find a good point of entry without raising an alarm.

She'd managed to get inside without being noticed trying to figure out what is really going on.

"Well well look what we have here." A guy replied and Rina froze in place hoping she wasn't caught.

"Looks like more faunus. Only seven this time?" He asked.

"Yeah but we still got enough to give to Mr. Schnee." Another one replied.

"Yes but you know how he is. He is very picky about which faunus he takes to that home of his in Atlas." The first guy said.

"Yeah considering he can't seemed to find that one daughter of his and his other ran off." The second one said.

That managed to get her intrigued about what they are saying.

"Okay obviously their talking about Weiss as the one that ran off, but what does he mean about another daughter as in more than one? It couldn't be his eldest as it sounds like this one's around Weiss age." Rina thought but dismissed it as she continued on.

"Alright time to give these guys some trouble." She thought as she grabbed a small rock and threw at a barrel making a noise getting their attention.

"Huh? What was that?" The first guy replied.

"Go find out what that is." He ordered as the second guy headed out.

"He looks like the ringleader of this operation. So if I take him out the rest should fall." Rina thought as she made her move.

Just then she heard an airship came through the encampment as it landed near the entrance.

"Great things just got worse." She thought as the ship opened revealing none other than Jacque Schnee owner and founder of the SDC.

He was wearing his whitish gray business suit along with matching pants. Underneath his suit is more likely an undershirt with a blue tie tied around his neck.

However what came after him was a women that appeared to be in her mid forties with a pale skin complexion. She is currently wearing a dark blue maids dress that reaches down to her feet. She has dark blue eyes and snow white colored hair. However she had noticed that underneath the dress is a fox tail. Around her neck is a some sort of collar.

"That's a aura defusor collar. Can completely cancel out someones aura if they're wearing it. But that women who is she?" Rina thought looking from afar as Jacque approached the men.

"So I assume you have someone I could take off your hands." Jacque replied.

"Well sir we do have quite the variety this time. Though I know one that might peek your interest." The man said as he escorted Jacque and the women toward the large tent in the middle of the encampment.

"Alright I got to make this quick." Rina thought as she followed the three toward the large tent without being seen.

=RWBY=

Once inside she carefully observed them as they were heading toward a cage that was currently covered.

"This had better be good." Jacque replied.

"Oh don't worry it will." The man mentioned as he grabbed hold of the tarp that was covering the cage and in one swift pull the tarp came undone.

Underneath the tarp revealed a female snow leopard faunus. She looked about seventeen years old. The girl has soul gazing blue eyes with black hair that has some white streaks going down it with a near white skin complexion. She is currently wearing a navy blue sleeveless top that shows off well toned arms along with black cameo shorts that go toward the knees. She is currently without shoes allowing her bear feet to be shown.

Behind her is a white leopards tails that is currently wrapped around her like a belt. She too is also wearing a similar collar like the women.

"A snow leopard here in Vale. Quite a rare sight to see one." Jacque said looking at the girl with interest.

"Does it have a name?" He asked the man.

"I didn't ask." The man said.

Jacque simply huffed "Well name or not I would like to discuss a price for her." He replied.

"Well she is quite a rare sight so the price for her won't be cheap." The man replied.

"Alright then but shall take this elsewhere so we can negotiate a price." Jacuqe replied before turning toward the women behind him.

"I want you to remain here with the girl and no funny business." He ordered.

The women simply nodded in confirmation as the two left the tent.

"Great now what am I going to do?" Rina thought trying to make a move.

However the women seemed to have heard her movements.

"I know that you're their. You can come out now." The women replied.

Rina was caught off guard from this gesture as she was spotted by the fox faunus women.

Having no choice she leaped from her spot and came down to meet the women face to face.

"I take it you knew already huh." Rina replied.

The women nodded "Yes I already heard you enter the tent before we came in." She replied.

"Then why aren't you yelling for Jacque. Aren't you his servant or something?" Rina questioned.

"Normally I would but I want to try to save this young girl here." The women replied.

"Oh how rude of me to not introduce myself." She said as she slightly bowed.

"I am Meena Kurama. Pleasure to meet you Miss Spider." Meena replied.

"Um... yeah same to you." Rina replied.

"Now we don't have a lot of time before he gets back. I want you to help me release this girl before then." Meena said quickly.

"What does it look like I was doing?" Rina replied back as she used her sword to open the cage of the imprisoned faunus.

"Hey c'mon were getting out of here." Rina replied stretching out a hand toward the faunus girl.

The girl was hesitant at first but realized what was happening and took her hand as Rina helped her get to her feet.

"Okay now to free the others." Rina said.

"Are you sure that is wise? There are so many of them." Meena asked.

"Don't worry I thought ahead." She said pulling out a detonator.

"When I was scoping the camp I placed charges all around the area. This will release a gas that will fog the area giving me enough time to take out the guards and free the captives, but what they don't know that this is a fake." She replied.

"But will they know? What if they called your bluff?" Meena replied.

"Oh don't worry they won't know what hit them." She added before turning toward the other girl.

"Listen I want you to head through the southwest corner of the encampment and wait for me their okay? I don't want you to get caught in the crossfire." Rina warned as the girl nodded.

"I guess I'll be decoy while you handle this. I'll see about getting Mr. Schnee away from here." Meena added.

"Well good luck." Rina replied as the girl took over from behind the tent.

"Time to put things in motion." She replied as she could hear footsteps were coming as she exited through the top.

As if on cue Jacque and the man entered the room again.

"Its been a pleasure doing business with you sir." The man replied seemed to be pleased with what he'd got.

"Oh I assure you I'll be..." Jacque paused seeing the cage had been opened and his property attacked as she was on the ground.

"What is the meaning of this?!" He hollered seeing the cage empty of his prize.

"My deepest apologies sir. I was simply checking to make sure she wasn't dead. And when I opened the cage she attacked me and ran off." Meena added.

Giving a disappointing groan "Great and just when I..." Before he could finish a loud voice echoed throughout the area.

"Attention idiots!" The loud voice shouted as they ran outside to find the source only to find a figure standing on top of a pole.

"What I hold in my hand is a detonator for a dust bomb that'll render each and every human here helpless! Now here's the deal I'm going to ask for the complete release of every faunus here or I can press this and release them myself!" Rina shouted.

"That's the Spider that's being stealing from my trucks." Jacque muttered.

"Don't think I won't do it cause I will." She added as she placed her thumb on the trigger which made the leader nervous.

"Hah! Your bluffing their aren't any bombs here." Jacque replied.

"Sir might I suggest that we get out of here while we still can. You are important right now to the SDC." Meena suggested.

Jacque grumbled until having no choice but to leave empty handed as he made his way toward the airship.

"Wait! Please don't push that button!" The leader begged finally breaking under the pressure.

"Good. Now I want all the faunus you have here loaded up into one of those trucks and no one had better try anything." Rina replied smiling under her mask at what she'd accomplished.

=RWBY=

It took at least ten minutes to load all fifteen faunus that were there including the snow leopard that was waiting for her.

"Thank you for a compliance. Now we'll be taking our leave." Rina replied as she started up the truck and wheeled out of the encampment.

The snow leopard that was in the front seat with her look at her with awe.

"That was quite... impressive at what you did." She finally said.

"Safe it till we get back to Vale." Rina replied.

"But what about them. How are you sure they won't chase us?" She asked.

"Oh almost forgot to leave a gift for them." Rina said as she pressed the trigger on the detonator which in her rear view released a large green gas cloud on the encampment.

"Paralyzing gas. That should keep them their for about two hours. Enough time for the authorities to get their." Rina replied as she rode them all the way to Vale.

Once finally in Vale she found a good spot to release everyone that was captured from the city.

Everybody had finally left to find their homes that they were taken from all but one as the snow leopard faunus remained.

"Don't you have a home?" Rina asked.

The girl shook her head. "They burnt my home when they captured me. I have nowhere else to go now even if I do leave." She replied grimly.

Rina thought a moment before coming up with an idea.

"Pops is going to hate me for this but she needs a home." She thought before she replied.

"Why don't you stay with me?" Rina replied.

"Huh? But why? I don't even know you." The girl countered.

Rina removed her mask showing her face "Rina Trill. I'm also know as the Spider." Rina replied.

"Um... Audra Blanche." Audra replied.

"Nice to meet you. Now c'mon I know just where to go." Rina replied as they both exited the truck and headed toward a the abandon warehouse nearby.

Rina entered with Audra as she saw Torchwich looking over more plans.

"Pops I'm back. Sorry for the wait." Rina replied.

Torchwich turned then noticed the other faunus girl that entered as well.

"I see you made a friend." Roman added.

"Well it's kinda a long story." Rina said as she explained what had happened at the encampment.

"I see and this girl needs a home right?" Roman asked before pondering a moment before he smirked.

"I suppose... there is room for one more in the family." Roman replied which made Audra beamed in excitement.

"Thank you sir!" Audra squealed.

Rina was happy that another member was added to the small family she had but she also wondered about that fox faunus she'd saw as she pondered a thought.

"You know she almost looks like Star. I'll have to keep a note of that." Rina thought as the night continued on.


F3: And cut that is it for this interlude. Sure this is a long one but I like how it turned out. If you readers liked it too make to leave a comment. Also don't forget either favorite or follow as well. With that said this has been Fireuser3 and I'm out.