Location: The Garden

Silco was pacing around the large table in the center of the large barn. Zemo and Vecna sitting silently at the table, the baron reading a book and Vecna impatiently tapping his clawed hand on the table in frustration.

"Will you stop pacing around already! It's getting obnoxious" Vecna yelled out in annoyance. Silco stopped in his tracks and stared up at Vecna "problems Henry? Well too bad the Lord Titan has put me in charge and as such it is imperative we found out who managed to get to the Upside Down because you, little boy that you are, somehow didn't notice someone sneaking past you."

"How dare you!" Vecna yelled standing up.

"Enough boys!" a voice suddenly yelled as a bright red light enveloped the room. The three man at the table looked to see a red portal opening and Raven Branwen stepping through it, carrying a large feline in her arms. As soon as she was through the portal, she placed the creature on the ground and said "Zemo, he needs help."

The nobleman nodded, grabbed his cane and stood up from his chair, slowly walking towards the feline as he inspected it.

"That's Scar….what happened?" Zemo asked curiously. Raven just brushed past him and walked around the table "long story short I asked him for helping tracking someone down and it ended badly. Just make sure he's okay."

"And who where you tracking Raven?" Raven suddenly stood still as Silco stood before her as if he had appeared like a ghost, his disfigured seemingly staring right through her.

"If you need to know that Silco. I was chasing some leads with the help of good old Scar over there. Considering he still owed me a favor."

"You mean us?" Silco clarified with clear restrained animosity.

Raven's scowl became clear but she quickly tried to conceal it. "As I was saying me and Scar where chasing some leads. Which led us to a frozen tundra where I encountered a girl alongside a familiar face, in this case Ruby Rose."

Silco raised his eyebrow "you mean your husband's bastard daughter. Why am I not surprised that he moved on after you abandoned him and your own daughter."

Raven clutched her fist upon those words reaching her ears, desperately holding back the urge to hit what was essentially the de-facto leader of the Collective. "As I was saying again…I found her alongside a mysterious girl, they escaped me but I managed to acquire this."

Raven opened one of the bags on the side of her belt and produced strands of platinum blonde hair "these are hers. If we can find a DNA match we may know who entered the Upside Down and how she did it."

She placed the strands in Silco's hands, who looked at them with curiosity before settling his eyes back on the wild haired former bandit leader.

"And what made you decide to suddenly go after her?" Silco inquired.

"So we can find out who we are dealing with. Whoever she is, she managed to sneak past Henry's senses and enter the Upside Down. We don't know what she was doing there or why she was standing near Weiss but my guess is that the girl was after her and we need to protect the Lord Titan's daughter at all costs."

Silco smirked "and suddenly you are concerned for the Lord Titan's daughter while previously you cannot stand her. What is this sudden concern of yours Raven."

Raven turned her back towards Silco and stepped away "just because Weiss and I don't see eye to eye doesn't mean I want to see her die. Besides call it a mutual understanding between mothers, she has a child to look after."

Silco crossed his arms in response to that "and this coming from the woman who abandoned her own child. Don't think I don't see through you Raven, I know what this is all about, you are hoping to curry favor with the Lord Titan."

The former bandit leader turned to her teammate and scoffed "hmph, if that is what you think why don't you call him up and tell him about all of this."

"That won't be necessary" a voice boomed throughout the entire barn.

A blue portal opened near the door as everyone in the room turned towards it. Not seconds later, their leader, the Mad Titan Thanos stepped through it. His mere presence towering over everyone in the room. And in an instant everyone present bowed down to one knee.

Raven looked at the ground and could feel the hairs on the back of her neck beginning to stand upright as she heard her leaders footsteps throughout the room.

"Rise my friends" Thanos said briefly. Everyone stood up and saw Thanos standing at the edge of the table. His eyes glancing first over the unconscious Scar on the ground. "Haven't seen you in a while Scar" he noted before his eyes went over to the other members around the table aside from Zemo, who was still inspecting Scar and tending to his wounds.

"My Lord Titan it is good to see you again. Forgive me for asking but where have you been for this long?" Silco asked.

"In Feudal Japan visiting an old friend" Thanos responded placing his hands on the table. Raven kept her eyes on him, her hand was shaking with abject fear of what she thought he might have heard.

Silco raised an eyebrow "my Lord Titan with all due respect I do hope you are not referring to who I think you are referring. He cannot be trusted, especially since we don't have the Mind Stone to keep him in line."

Thanos just smirked to that.

"Thank you for your concern my friend but do not worry, I will make sure our friend behaves. But speaking off, did you find the Mind Stone yet?"

"Not yet my lord. We imagine it is still on Remnant so we have send Silver there to locate it. If anyone can find it, he can surely do it" Silco responded.

"I see," Thanos spoke before he walked to the right side of the table to where Vecna was standing "Henry, why are you not in the Upside Down looking after my daughter."

Vecna's face turned pale, or more pale then it could go. Raven's eyes glanced over to him and saw him immediately grovel and get down on his knees.

"Forgive me my Lord Titan I will go and see to her this instant" he groveled. Raven looked at him and tried not grin. Vecna had immense power, only a few could rival him. And yet here this being of immense power was bowing down begging for forgiveness.

"Then what are you waiting for?" Thanos simply spoke before walking off. Vecna stood up and left the building in an instant, walking past Zemo and a still unconscious Scar towards the exit.

Thanos walked over to Silco and immediately asked "I have received your urgent message. What has happened?"

"It seems that someone has managed to sneak past Henry's presence and enter into the Upside Down. We do know it's a girl and that she has something that seemingly allows her to travel immediately across different planes of existence. We do however not know who she is nor what she wants. According to Henry she was looking at your daughter but did not attempt to harm her in anyway."

Thanos sighed, wiping the sweat from his forehead, clearly relieved.

"And what about this girl? Have we attempted to locate her?"

Before she could think, she spoke up "I have my Lord Titan."

Thanos and Silco both turned to Raven, who took a few steps forward and looked at them directly "that is why Scar is here, I asked for his assistance in hunting down this girl. He managed to pick up her scent to a land of ice where I found her fighting alongside another companion. I didn't manage to capture nor interrogate her but I did manage to get some strands of hair from her. If we perform a DNA test we might find the answer."

"Hmmm is that so," Thanos inquired curiously as he looked at Raven and examined her facial expressions "Silco go start a DNA test this instant."

Silco bowed his head and accepted the request before walking off. Thanos pointed to Raven and said in a stern tone.

"You come with me. We have lots to discuss."

A/N: Hello everyone. I'm still dealing with a lot so once again updated are random. And I know there's not much Weiss/Jaune going on right now but honestly I like writing the Collective and there chapters a lot more then I do WhiteKnight, what can I say I love villains and bringing such a variety of characters together is just interesting, hence a full chapter dedicated to them. But now for a fun question? Who is this friend that Thanos is referring too in this chapter? I'm curious if you guys guess it right. Anyway see you all in the next chapter.