September 12, 2020

"Aaaaaand the plot thickens," Weiss said to herself as she read the Volunteer Weekly while working at a front desk at the Valeanian HQ for the SDC. "They want to bring back the Fire Patrol."

Another worker said, "What's that?"

"The Vale City Fire Patrol was disbanded in 2015 because the paid firemen wanted to do salvage, and the cheapskates in the city government agreed. The Fire Patrol had 14 stations, 2 per district, all staffed with paid fire patrolmen, that would respond alongside us to all Box Alarms, water pumpouts, auto extrications, special hazards incidents like hazmat and technical rescue, and whenever else they were requested. Additionally, if the fire company that normally covered the area their station was in was out of service, they would start rolling as a regular fire company to things like EMS calls, accidents, and fires."

"Cool. I never really knew we had that. What did they do at emergencies?"

"Their main job was to protect property from the usual stuff: Smoke, fire, and water damage. They would often spread cover sheets over goods to protect them from the water from our hose lines, as well as smoke. They'd also operate elevators, cover up broken windows, and pump out water. Of course, being emergency personnel, they also saved many, many lives, including those of firefighters, sometimes at the cost of their own. This article in the Volunteer Weekly says that a petition to get the Vale City Board of Fire Underwriters to reform them has reached over 10,000 signatures."

"Sign me up then too. I don't want my electronics getting destroyed. They should have never done away with them."

"That's what I said," Weiss replied. She then turned to a visitor at the front desk. "Hello, ma'am, do you have any appointments?"

"Yes," she replied. "I have one on Floor 17 in Room 4."

"Okay then, I'll call them up and tell them you're ready." After calling the room, she said, "They're all ready for you, ma'am."

"Thank you." The woman then walked away.

Weiss then turned to the other worker and continued her earlier conversation, saying, "First a bunch of people want to form some new volunteer companies, and now the old patrolmen want to bring back the fire patrol. This will be an interesting year for the fire service, and it seems like the VCPFA are gonna be on the wrong side of history."

Later at 6:25, while the ambulance was out on a medical call, Weiss stopped by at the station with Jaune. There, they saw Nora and Ren as well. Jaune said, shaking Ren and Nora's hands, "It's nice to see you two lovebirds again."

"You too," Nora replied. "Anyways, I'm only about 2 months away from having a girl. We're in the final stretch, and I can't wait."

Ren said, "Home life for us has been surprisingly calm, despite the pregnancy. We've pretty much bought all the supplies necessary for having a child at this point."

"Good job, you two." Weiss then noticed Pyrrha's ghost staring at her again, but this time, there were 2 other ghosts next to her too. One was a young faunus girl, probably a victim of the NAAF fire, and the other was Cadel Cogan, a cop and a Vigilant firefighter who was shot and killed while patrolling the streets in 2013.

Pyrrha said, "You're probably wondering why I brought this girl and Cadel here."

Weiss nodded while Jaune, Nora, and Ren talked amongst themselves.

"Hello Weiss," Cadel said. "It's been a long time since 2013. How's Hermann?" Cadel and Weiss's dad never really got along when it came to firehouse politics, and as such Weiss never had a favourable opinion of him.

Weiss simply gave him a dirty look before turning to Team JNR and saying, "I gotta run upstairs for a sec to check on something." She then calmly walked to the second floor, walked into the kitchen, and closed the door behind her. Then, she looked behind her and jumped, yelling, "Holy shit!"

There was the little faunus girl's ghost, covered in burns and soot. She said, "Hello, miss firefighter. Thank you for saving my brother." She then disappeared.

"What the everloving fuck is going on with my head?" Weiss then grabbed a bottle of water, drank all of it, and walked back downstairs.

When she got there, her sister had also shown up. "Hey there, Weiss."

"Oh hi, Winter. What are you doing here?"

"I'm coming in to do a 6-hour duty shift from 7 to 1. How about you?"

"Not much. Just showing Jaune here around the firehouse."

"So, you got a boyfriend?"

Weiss suddenly blushed and said, "Yeah, so? You brought them over here too."

"Yeah, yeah, and I remember how you always poked fun at me for doing it." Winter laughed.

Ren said, "How's the husband and kids doing, Winter?"

"Going good. My hubby's off of work today, so he'll be watching the kids while I work here for 6 hours." She then got a text on her phone. "By the way, I just got the new Scroll-Phone 8S. It's amazing."

Jaune said, "You still use Scroll-OS devices? Why not Tome?"

Ren rolled his eyes and said, "Here we go again with the Scroll-OS versus TomeCorp-OS thing..."

Then, the speakers in the station said, "Standby Vigilant Fire 5 for a second call and Enterprise Steamer 10 for a Delta-response medical, Box 234." Then, the pager tones dropped. As the dispatcher read out the information, Ren took the newly-printed rip-and-go sheet detailing the call. He, Winter, Weiss, and another firefighter doing paperwork in an office in the building ran to Rescue 201.

Jaune said, "Do you want your gear?"

"Sure! Grab my gear, Ren's gear, Winter's gear, and Johnson's gear!"

Jaune then ran to Weiss and Winter's gear racks. He grabbed their boots, their coats, and Weiss's helmet. He then put Winter's helmet on his head and ran the gear over to the rescue, where Weiss grabbed it. Nora ran over Ren's coat and helmet. Jaune ran back to grab Ren's boots and the other firefighter's gear. "Why do you need all this for a medical?"

"In case we get a fire call so we don't have to return to the station to pick up our bunker gear," Ren replied. Once all the gear was on the truck, Rescue 201 pulled out and blared its lights and sirens.

At 6:41, Rescue 201 arrived to a restaurant, the scene of the medical, 3 minutes after the call came in. There, a victim was having difficulty breathing and chest pains. Ren, being the only non-EMT of the crew, stood back and grabbed gear as Winter, a paramedic, Weiss, an EMT-Basic, and the other firefighter, also an EMT-Basic, got to work. The patient sat in a waiting area.

Weiss said, "Alright, ma'am, have you felt this before?"

"I... I have a history... Of heart issues," the woman said while still out of breath.

Winter said after checking the patient's heartbeat, "She has sinus tachycardia. Her heart rate is 158."

The other firefighter said, "She has a respiratory rate of 44 and a blood pressure rate of 150/60. She's not looking too good."

Weiss grabbed an oxygen mask from the medical toolkit and put it around the patient. She then motioned for Ren to grab a second medical toolkit from the truck. "We need the toolkit that says "IV, Nebuliser, and Drugs" on it!"

Ren then ran back to the patient with the second toolkit. Winter opened it and grabbed a nebuliser. Weiss began administering oxygen as Winter got the nebuliser ready for action. She then began administering albuterol through the device. "This should do the trick."

As the drug was administered, the patient said, "I also... I also smoke one pack of tobacco... Cigarettes a day..."

Weiss then wrote down the patient's information on a notepad. As she did, Ambulance 204 arrived. She said to Ren, "Pass these notes on to the Steamer 10 guys!" Ren ran over and grabbed the notes from Weiss before running to the firefighters on Ambulance 204 and giving the notes to them.

They then entered the restaurant with a stretcher. Winter handed the nebuliser to an Enterprise firefighter as Weiss, the other firefighter, and Ren lifted the patient onto the stretcher. Winter said to Weiss, "I'll go on the ambulance with these guys. You, Lie, and Johnson take Rescue 201 to the hospital lights and sirens to Guardian Hospital."

At 7:11, Rescue 201 left the hospital. By then, Ambulance 201 was in quarters. Ren said as the truck drove along the busy city streets at 7:20, "I need to start my Intermediate Firefighter-EMT in January 2021."

"You should," Winter replied as she drove. "Then you can join in the fun with us."

The other firefighter, a man named Julius Johnson, said, "Emphasis on the word fun." The rest of the crew laughed.

Weiss said, "That reminds me. I gotta start preparing for the Advanced Firefighter-Paramedic course in January as well." She then got a call from Blake. "Hello?"

"Hello there," Blake said at her apartment. "I need to ask you a question. It's about Sun."

"Sure, lay it on me."

"Funny you should say 'lay.' I'm debating on whether or not to 'make a move' on him."

"You're asking me whether or not you should bang Sun, aren't you?" Weiss rolled her eyes.

"Yeah... Don't say anything about it, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, I won't. Anyways, I'm not gonna tell you to sleep with anyone. If you want to, do it. Just do it."

"I guess I want to. I don't know for sure. Sun's hot, but we've never really confessed any sort of romantic feelings for each other."

"Blake, seriously? You don't need to confess. All you need is a will to fuck and, obviously, consent from the other person or people you want to fuck."

Then, Winter said, "Hey Weiss, who are you talking to?"

"A friend of mine who can't decide whether or not to have sex." Weiss then turned back to her phone. "Do the thing. Fuck him until his legs are shaking."

Blake then sighed. "Fine, fine, fine, I'll do it. See ya later." She then hung up and walked over to Sun, who was in her room checking it out.

Sun said, "Hey there, Blake. Who were you talking to?"

Blake then took her black vest, her bow, and her scarf collar off. As she began taking her leggings off, she said, "Do you like what you see?"

Sun, now getting the message, said, "Sure... I like it..." He began sweating profusely and his tail began to twitch.

Blake then held his head and kissed him on the lips. After they split, Blake seductively said, "Want to see more?"

"Go ahead," Sun anxiously replied. "Do it."

Blake then stripped down to her underwear, revealing her bra and panties. "Do you want to go further, Sun?"

Sun nodded. Blake replied by laying him down on her bed and kissing him again. "Wait, we're having-?"

"Yes. Sun, we are going to have sex. Did it really take you that long?"

Sun laughed. "I knew that you were trying to do that, but I wanted confirmation. Now that I do, let's go." They then kissed again.

Blake then said, "Hold up. I gotta close the door and close the shades. I assume you have a condom with you." She then got up.

"Uhhhh... No..." Sun laughed nervously.

Blake rolled her eyes and said, "That's why I kept a few here. I stole them from Yang since she keeps a bunch in her and Ruby's apartment if they ever run into the same problem with any guys." After closing the door and the blinds, Blake rummaged through her drawer and pulled out a condom. "There we go. Now, let's get to it. We're wasting time."

At 7:45, Weiss returned to her apartment. As she turned the key to open her apartment door, she thought to herself, "I wonder if Blake took my advice. I have keys to her place... Nah, you're not that cruel, Weiss. Well... Maybe they finished or didn't do it. If I do it quietly enough, I could go in without being detected." Weiss then put a key into Blake's lock.

She then saw Ruby and her girlfriend Gwen walk down the hallway. Ruby said, "Hi there, Weiss."

"Ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit..." "Uhhh... Hi, Ruby... And Ruby's GF..."

Gwen said, "So you're the heiress to the SDC. Huh..."

"Yeah... I am..."

"So, what were you gonna do with Blake?"

"Uhhh... I was just... I was just... Okay, fine. I was going in to Blake's apartment to see if she and Sun were getting it on."

"Weiss, what the fuck..." Ruby was confused as hell. Gwen was equally confused as well.

"Blake called me while I was at the hospital asking me if she should bang Sun. I told her she should. I wanna see if she took my advice." Weiss was sweating out of anxiety over Ruby and Gwen's reaction.

Suddenly, Blake opened the door and said, "Hey guys, what's going on out here?" She was standing next to Sun wearing nothing but a towel.

Gwen said, "So that's the faunus friend you have, right? Blake is her name or something?"

"Yeah," Ruby replied. "I don't think I introduced my girlfriend to all of you. Weiss, Blake, Sun, this is Gwen, my girlfriend and a girl in blue, AKA a cop."

Blake said, "Nice to meet you. Pardon my relative lack of clothing." She then turned to Weiss and smiled. "I took your advice. It was great."

Weiss said, "I told you so."

Ruby, confused, said, "Wait... You and Sun... You and Sun did the do?"

Sun replied, "Yeah. It was some of the best sex I've had since my academy days in Mistral. In fact, I'd say it was better than that, actually." Everyone then laughed.

At 9, as Yang returned home from George's apartment, the tones dropped and the house siren blared. "Aw c'mon, I just got home!"

"Yeah, yeah," Ruby said. "Let's wait and hear what it is. Damn, that's a lotta tones."

"Vale City Fire Alarm on the air for a Second and Third Alarms at Box 2341 at Beacon Academy Building 19 for Vigilant Fire 5, Goodwill Engine 6, Excellence Fire 7, Enterprise Steamer 10, Valeanian Legion Ambulance 12, Kroeger Hose 11, Tuxedo Fire 9, Auburn Hose 8, April Summers Engine and Hose 4, Vale Port Complex Station 1, Vale Port Complex Station 2, the Assistant District 1 and District 1 chiefs, and the Deputy Chiefs for a structure fire. Repeating, Vale City Fire Alarm on the air for a Second and Third Alarms at Box 2341 at Beacon Academy Building 19 for a structure fire. Time is 2103 hours, Alarm Operator 88."

"Holy shit," Yang said. "That's the CCT. That can't be good."

Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Blake dashed to the stairs of the apartment building and ran down them as fast as they could. When they got outside, the ambulance had already left the station. As soon as they ran into the station, Weiss said, "Building 19 is the CCT, right?"

"Yep," Ren said as he ran to the team wearing his gear. He had been doing a duty shift when the call came in and had started up Truck 201. "This will be bad. That place is fucking huge."

Hermann then walked up to Weiss and said, "Honey, we'll do our best. Hopefully the CCT at Beacon doesn't get too badly damaged."

"Hopefully," Weiss replied. "Hopefully..."