Somaya and Ruby watched Yang in the recovery room eating some Cooked meat that was left over from yesterday's lunch.
"I'm glad Yangs doing ok." Ruby smiled with relief.
"Ahh dun ye worry bout yer wee little blonde friend lass." Somaya said patting her roughly on the back.
"Ow." She whimpered rubbing her back.
"Ah dun be such a baby I barely tapped ye."
"How's she doing Somaya?" Asked Ashley who just came in.
"The wee lass should be up and running by tomorrow mate." She smiled.
"Really that's great to hear." She sighed.
She turned and knelt down to Ruby.
"Hey Ruby I'm sorry bout Professor Mulberry," she said laying a hand on her shoulder. "I knew he was your favorite teacher."
"Thank you Professor Dunes it's just a lot to process at the moment you know." Ruby said looking down.
"Well if it helps we found the one responsible for killing him and you can rest assured that Anne Greene will be brought to justice.
Ruby then looked up in confusion.
"But it couldn't have been Professor Greene."
"We found her tail fur at the scene of the crime Ruby."
"But she was with me, Weiss, and Yang during the night the assassins broke into the academy."
"...what???" Ashley said dumbfounded.
"She was shopping at the dust shop with us all night." Said Ruby.
"If that's true...then there's no way it could've been Anne..."
Ashley turned around and begun to rethink everything that happened prior.
She then remembered a detail that she overlooked at the crime scene of Harolds murder.
There was a potted plant that had a vine slightly outstretched as well as a couple broken off leaves on the floor.
...
"Somaya keep an eye on Yang." Ashley said all of a sudden.
"Aye lass will do."
Peaches Classroom. 10:30pm.*
Professor Peach was taking care of the prehistoric plants as if they were her own children with a look of satisfaction on her face.
"They are Fascinating aren't they?" Said Ashley leaning against the window with her arms crossed.
Peach jumped in surprise upon hearing Ashley.
"Oh, Ms Dunes you scared me there." She sighed.
Charlie was perched on Ashley's shoulder growling at the Professor.
"I thought you huntsmen were hard to sneak up on." She shrugged.
"Well I Uh, I wasn't expecting anyone to actually try." She chuckled nervously.
"Or maybe because your a little on edge." Ashley retorted.
"I-I beg your Pardon?"
"You know I've been thinking lately about Harolds murder," Ashley said. "I'm starting to think Anne didn't do it."
"But I find that hard to believe all the evidence that has been found is stacked against its obvious she's guilty."
"True but I believe the evidence we found was planted." Ashley said before pulling out her revolver and pointing it at Peach.
"BY YOU."
"WHAT?! HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME OF SUCH A THING!"
"Stop with the act Peach I know Anne wasn't here the night the assassins broke in she was with ruby and her friends." Ashley said cocking back the hammer. "Which means she couldn't have murdered Harold."
"..."
Peach then smiled and begun to chuckle before putting her hands in the air.
"Very observant of you Ms Dunes looks like you caught me red handed." She smirked.
Ashley suddenly felt something prick the back of her neck and soon as she pulled the thorny needle from her neck she started to become woozy as she dropped the revolver and fell down trying desperately to stay conscious.
She turned to see what shot her with the needle to see a dark purple flower retracting back into its pot.
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOUR PLANT JUST SHOOT ME WITH?!" She snapped at Peach.
"You know I always found the duskshade flower quite fascinating."Peach smiled walking up to Ashley. "When fully grown it can shoot out special needles that can penetrate Aura and injects organisms with a highly narcotic toxin that causes the victim to enter an unconscious state that could last up to a week."
"You back stabbing...bi-
Ashley then passed out from the heavy dosage of narcotic toxin.
Peach then smirked as she used her semblance to wrap vines around Ashley and hide her in the overgrown foliage.
"I'm sure Eleanor will be quite pleased when I deliver you to her."
She turned around to see Charlie on the table who was hissing at her.
"Oh right YOU." She grimaced before grabbing a syringe.
"Don't worry now little one this little serum will just put you to sleep...PERMANENTLY."
Charlie didn't have to be a genius to understand what she was trying to do he immediately dodged the needle and ran into some nearby foliage.
"COME BACK HERE YOU SCALY LITTLE RAT!!!" Peach shouted searching around the room.
Luckily Charlie just managed to slip out of the room unnoticed.
Glynda's Classroom. 11:00 pm*
Glynda was grading the last couple of turned in papers from her students when Charlie ran and jumped on her desk startling her.
"Dear Oum! don't startle me like that." Glynda sighed.
Charlie began rapidly chirping trying to tell Glynda something.
"What? What is it?" Glynda looked at it confused.
Charlie then tore a leaf off of the plant Glynda had on her desk. And shook it around.
"Hey that was a gift from Peach!"
Charlie then bit down on her cape and pulled.
"Stop that that cape is expensive!" She said as she yanked it away from the Compy.
Charlie then growled in frustration and grabbed Glynda by the hair and started pulling once more.
"OW! Knock it off!" Glynda winced from her hair being pulled.
She then took the Disciplinarian and used her semblance to toss Charlie off the desk.
"I swear it's as if Ashley never taught you manners."
Charlie growled in frustration but then got an idea.
He snatched the Disciplinarian and ran out of the room.
"Hey! HEY!!!" Glynda got out of her chair and ran after Charlie.
Glynda couldn't really focus her semblance without the Disciplinarian she had to get it back.
Charlie knee this when he over heard her and Ashley chatting last night.
He ran just fast enough to keep a distance from Glynda but not to where she would lose him.
He finally reached peaches greenhouse so he dropped the crop in front of entrance and jumped around chirping. Glynda put her hands on her knees as she caught her breath.
"I never would have thought something so small would be able to cause so much trouble." She muttered to herself as she yanked her weapon away from the Compy.
Charlie chirped loudly to get her attention and started scratching on the greenhouse door.
Glynda looked in confusion before she realized what Charlie has been trying to do.
Glynda slowly opened the door.
"Yes Ms. Taylor I'll have her delivered by morning." Peach quietly spoke into her scroll.
Rockwell? Glynda never heard a name like that.
"Peach?"
Peach looked back in surprise and immediately turned off her scroll.
"G-Glynda wha, what are you doing here so late?" She asked nervously.
"Peach what are you doing?" She asked confused.
"Oh you know I-I'm just tending to the greenhouse." She stuttered.
"This late at night?"
"Well uh I never really get a chance to during the day."
"But you only teach 3 classes a day, how could you not have any time to tend to the greenhouse?" Glynda asked.
"Uh..well you see-
She got interupted at Charlie digging through the foliage behind her.
"HEY GET OUT OF THERE YOU DAMN RAT!!!" She yelled at the Compy.
Charlie chewed through the last vine and not even a second later Ashley's unconscious body dropped to the floor.
"MS. DUNES?!" Glynda said in shock. "What happened to her?!"
She picked her up and noticed a plant like needle in her neck.
"Peach, this is from a duskshade flower, why do you have such a dangerous plant in here?!"
Glynda then used her semblance to smash the plant on the floor. This somewhat triggered Peach as her left eye twitched in anger.
Glynda picked up Ashley and begun to make her way to the door.
"I need to get her to the infirma-
She was immediately cut off by thick vines instantly growing and wrapping around each other blocking the exit.
"IM AFRAID I CANT LET YOU DO THAT GOODWITCH."
Goodwitch was stunned with a sudden realization she quickly pulled out the disciplinarian but Peaches vines were faster, it wrapped around Glyndas wrists and neck restraining her and rendering her helpless.
"IT WAS YOU!" She shouted. "ALL THIS TIME IT WAS YOU!!!"
Peach simply walked over to the table and grabbed Ashley's sickle.
"HOW COULD YOU LET THE ASSASSINS IN AND SIMPLY STAND BY AS THEY MURDERED THE CHILDREN IN THEIR SLEEP?!" Glynda continued in a tearfilled rage. "HOW COULD YOU KILL HAROLD, HOW COULD YOU JUST OZPIN IN THE BACK?!.
"OZPIN IS NOTHING MORE THEN A SELFISH BASTARD," Peach snapped back. "HE CUT THE FUNDING TO MY BOTANICAL RESEARCH, HE MADE ME GET RID OF HALF THE PLANTS I WAS GROWING SAYING THEY WERE DANGEROUS TO THE CHILDREN,HE CANCELED HALF OF MY CLASSES SAYING THEY WERE IRRELEVANT, HE ALLOWED THESE BRATS TO MISTREAT THE DEFENSELESS PLANT LIFE AROUND BEACON, HE IS NO BETTER THEN THE SCHNEE DUST COMPANY!!!"
Peach took a deep breath and sighed regaining her composure.
"Have you ever stopped to think about everything that Mother Nature has done for us Glynda?" She asked suddenly. "and yet humans and faunus have repaid her kindness by building monstrous creations that kill the environment, lay waste to everything that's green among their destructive path, they destroy her children day after day as thanks for her kindness."
"I use to think the Grimm were abominations of nature, but after I spoke with Ms. Audrey Taylor, she opened my eyes." Peach said walking towards Glynda.
"The Grimm aren't abominations to nature...there Natures retaliation toward man." She glared darkly.
"I'm sorry I had to resort to this Glynda but Ms Taylor gave me an offer that I just could not refuse."
"She said that her employer would allow the plant life to flourish on Remnant like never before, in return that I help the Federation conquer Remnant."
Glynda looked in shock listening to how insane the woman she considered a friend was sounding.
"Peach the Federation are using you for your own gain, their interest is in destruction not preservation!"
"That May be true but regardless, the people of Remnant need to be punished for their sins against nature."
Peach raised the sickle ready to plunge it into Glyndas chest.
"I didn't want to end up killing you Glynda you were one of my closest friends...but it's too much a risk to keep you alive."
Before she could bring the sickle down Charlie pounced on her and bit down on her ear.
Peach immediately screamed in pain as she flailed around trying to grab Charlie.
Glynda took the chance to free herself from Peaches vines and get her weapon out.
Peach reacted quickly though, she managed to grab Charlie by the tail and throw him at Glynda.
Glynda instinctively reacted by catching the Compy with her Semblance.
This gave Peach the opportunity to tackle Glynda to the ground knocking the disciplinarian out of her hand, and soon after vines grabbed it and hid it in the overgrown foliage.
Peach again attempted to bring the curved blade down on Glynda but she dodged it and elbowed Peach in the cleavage causing her to fall to the side in pain. Her aura managed to absorb most of the hit but didn't change the fact that it hurt like hell.
Peach grabbed the nearby table and pulled herself up just as she caught her breath barely manage to dodge a slash from the sickle that Glynda picked up.
The blade instead slashed Ashley's Music player and caused it to start playing "Word Up by The BossHoss." as the 2 veteran Huntresses were brawling it out.
Peach managed to grab the sickle midswing and knee'd Glynda in her crotch area. Glynda threw a left hook to Peaches face in return.
Peach was knocked back from the blow into the table with Ashley's assault rifle thinking quickly she grabbed the barrel of it and immediately smacked Glynda with the other end of the gun. Giving her the chance to get a better hold of the rifle and open fire.
One of the rounds managed to hit Glynda in her arm she held her wound and rollled across the table behind her into cover as Peach emptied the rest of the clip.
She struggled trying to put a new clip in as she went to other side to see only a trail of Glynda's blood she walked alongside following it under a empty table.
Peach simply scoffed and immediately fired 12 rounds through the table. She then kicked over to reveal Glynda was not under there instead she appeared behind peach and planted the sickle into her upper back causing Peach to scream out in pain once more as she turned around to shoot her co-worker only for Glynda to grab the gun and wrestle Peach for it as the gun fired rounds all over the place.
Peach managed to knock down Glynda she immediately pointed the rifle at her and pulled the trigger only to hear the click of an empty click of the chamber.
Glynda then took advantage of the confusion and licked Peach in the ankle tripping her. She then pounced on Peach and grabbed her by the hair and begun giving her one left hook after another.
Peach managed to grab a nearby flask and smash it across Glyndas face getting the blonde huntress off of her and quickly got to her feet and grabbed her own weapon (Since Peach never made an official appearance in the show and was only mentioned in the show I'm letting you decide what her weapon is.) and swung it at Glynda who ducked and gave a right jab to Peaches side and another to her cheek. Peach then switched her weapon to gun form and blew Glynda back severely weakening her aura.
"STAND STILL SO I CAN MAKE THIS PAINLESS!" Peach shouted in frustration taking aim at Glynda.
Glynda put her arms up bracing herself, but Lady Luck was on her side as Charlie leapt of a nearby table and bit down on the same ear this time managing to rip the ear off, the immense pain caused Peach to miss her shot just grazing Glynda.
Peach managed to grab Charlie once more and slam him to the ground and pin his tail with her foot to ensure the Compy couldn't escape.
"DIE YOU FUCKING SCALY RAT!!!" Peach screamed in rage as she switched her weapon back to melee and brought it down.
Glynda immediately repaid the favor and saved Charlie at the last second by tackling Peach to the floor knocking her weapon out of her hand.
They both ended up in the foliage knocking the disciplinarian out of hiding.
Peach looked in horror knowing that if Glynda got her weapon back she already lost she elbowed Glynda off of her and got up to kick away the crop only to see Charlie holding it in his mouth as he hissed at her.
"NO!!!!!" She screamed sending vines after the Compy.
Charlie managed to dodge each of them doing to being small and fast.
unbeknownst to Peach in her panic, she accidentally gave Charlie a way to get above her jumping from vine to vine and he threw the crop over her.
Peach looked in horror to see the disciplinarian land in its original owners hand. And boy was she mad.
"Glynda,Wai-" was all Peach could get out before the cabinet containing all her favorite plants smashed in to her courtesy of Professor Glynda Goodwitch.
Her Aura now Broken Peach could barely get to her knees kneeling over in pain. Charlie hopped on Glynda's shoulder as she used her semblance to bring Ashley's Revolver to her free hand as she pointed it at her ex-best friend.
Glynda, please... you have to understand that they only wanted me to say this motive in case I was caught, the real reason I did this is because they threatened to kill my family," she said putting her hand up in a plea of mercy. "You know me Glynda, I would never do any of this unless I had no other choice."
Glynda only stared at her. Unknown to her and Charlie Peach was actually trying to distract them as she had a vine slowly grab the sickle and raise it up ready to end Glynda.
"Glynda please believe me...I'm your best friend." She said.
Glynda had a look of hesitation on her face. If Peach could smirk without alerting her you know she would.
BANG!!!*
Peach looked down to see a bloody bullet hole in her chest causing her to drop the sickle causing Glynda to look behind her to see a now conscious Ashley still laying down but now aiming a fabricated handgun at Peach. She pulled the trigger once more and the round went directly into Peaches forehead.
With one last gasp her eyes rolled up back into her head as she collapsed to the floor dead. In response to her death, all of the foilage and vines begun to wither away and die. The only plants that still remained a healthy green were Ashley's.
Ashley sighed. "Good thing I always keep a spare handgun strapped to my dung beetle."
Ashley then attempted to stand up only to end up collapsing to the ground again. Glynda rushed over to help her up.
"Sorry bout that still a little woozy from the flower." Ashley groaned weakly.
"How'd you recover from the dusk shade flowers effects so quickly?" Glynda asked surprised to see Ashley recovering so quickly.
"Glynda I used get bitten and stung with tranquilizing venoms so often that my body started to grow a strong resistance to it, it's just that fucking flower injected me in a new way plus it caught me off guard."
"I see." Said Glynda.
She looked over to Peach's corpse and stared in silence.
Ashley took notice of this.
"Im sorry Glynda," she said. " I had to put her down...she was gonna stab you in the back."
"No you did what you had to Ashley, I greatly respect you for that." Glynda said in response. "It's just hard to take in the fact that my close friend was responsible for the past couple of events."
Ashley simply nodded slightly.
"Well from what I know about friendship is that anyone can earn you trust, you just need to find out if they are willing to be loyal to the end."
Glynda silently nodded.
"Now Anne is going to be punished for the crimes that Peach committed." She said looking down slightly ashamed for blindly accusing her coworker. "and now that Peach is dead we can't prove her innocence."
"guess again." Ashley smiled pointing ahead.
Glynda looked to see Charlie dragging her scroll over to her it was recording the whole time!
"I can't believe it." She said astonished.
Charlie booped the red button to stop the recording and let out a chirp.
"Well...we should probably tell Oz about this shouldn't we?"
"Yes but let's get you to your room so you can sleep off the effects." Glynda said walking Ashley out of the room.
"You know when Anne gets out she's gonna be fucking pissed with us." Ashley said as Charlie hopped on Glynda's shoulder.
The crazy thing was that Glynda didn't even mind.