Chapter 13: Searching For Answers
It felt good to be back in Vale.
Even though Penny wasn't able to say goodbye to her friend Ruby she was hoping to see her again.
Ohh, maybe then they could continue to do stuff real girls like to do, like talk about shopping and cute boys.
If she was allowed to talk to her anyways. General Ironwood was skeptical of friend Ruby and while he didn't expressly forbid her from talking to her he encouraged Penny not to continue their relationship.
It kind of hurt that she wasn't allowed to talk to her friend…but if that was what the General wanted then she would follow her orders.
Right now, she had no orders so she was allowed outside to get a better understanding of Vale.
Her current wandering around Vale was so that she could learn more about how to be a real girl.
After all, Penny wasn't like normal girls, even though she wanted to be like one…she was an android
To be more precise, she was the first successful android to be created by her brilliant father Pietro Polendina.
Atlas had decided to focus more on robotics to combat the Grimm, and Penny was the first android they were able to create that had an aura.
Because of her unique situation, many resources were put in to keep her true nature a secret.
General Ironwood had told Penny repeatedly that he believed that she would be the key to saving the world.
The Vytal Tournament was going to be her debut to the world. That's why she was finally allowed outside of the labs.
It truly was amazing finally being in the real world. Seeing all the people interact, it truly was different than just being given the data, and the information she downloaded on how to make a new friend seemed to have worked wonderfully.
Hopefully, General Ironwood wouldn't mind her making new friends again. She had downloaded more info on how to make friends and was eager to make new ones. As she continued her way down Vale she noticed a group of girls walking down.
"Perfect," Penny thought to herself, "I'm sure to make a new friend from those people."
"Salutations." Penny called out, "You seem to be enjoying something together, may I join?"
This was perfect, apparently, one of the best ways to make friends was to spend time with them doing activities.
The reaction Penny got was not what she expected as one of the girls in the group gave her a look of confusion and the group continued on their way.
…Why did that not work? This was incredibly confusing to Penny. Still, it was only one incident, statistical outliers could happen and she was sure the next group of people would surely want to be her friend after she used the information from her databanks.
An hour later and that statistical outlier seemed to be more of a consistent data point as all her lines and knowledge from her data banks seemed to have not worked in gaining a new friend.
"Hmm, why does my data on how to make a new friend not work?"
It seemed like Penny's quest to make a new friend had failed.
Maybe she needed to go try somewhere else?
As Penny moved to begin her survey for possible friends in a new location, she caught a glimpse of familiar wild brown hair. It was the subject of interest, Mori Jin, he was the boyfriend of friend Ruby, yes? The algorithm and databanks said that friends of friends were a good place to start making new friends. Maybe he could be her boyfriend too!
Now, too quickly pull up those files on how to get a boyfriend.
"Hmm, compliment him on his looks and speak with a flirty tone…sounds perfect!"
"Hello there," Penny called out to friend Ruby's friend Mori, "Your face looks very visually appealing."
"…What?"
Hmm, that did not seem to work as Penny got was a look of confusion…though he did respond back.
What other advice could she follow…ohh she once saw a Minstralian cartoon and these two boys seemed to become friends right after beating each other up. Maybe if they beat each other up he'd become a friend.
"Would you like to fight?" Penny asked tilting her head
"Wait… what?"
That look of confusion seemed to persist on Subject Mori Jin's face as he seemed to still not understand what Penny was asking.
Hmm, why was it so hard to make friends with this boy, she was following all the instructions and protocols.
Let's see she could just do the standard of introducing herself and asking to be his friend.
"Hello, my name is Penny, can I be your friend?"
"…Wait are you that girl Ruby met a couple of weeks back near the end of the semester?" Subject Mori asked as a light of understanding came across his face.
"Ohh, has friend Ruby talked about me to you before?
"She has a bit; she was worried when she couldn't find you after she left you on your own."
Something about those words made Penny very happy, friend Ruby cared enough to worry about her.
Penny was very lucky to have Ruby be her first friend.
"So, your name is Penny, right?" Subject Mori asked
"Yes, I am designa- named Penny."
Penny hiccupped and caught herself before she could let her secret slip.
"…Were you about to say designated?"
Oh dear, her slip of the tongue was about to get her caught, time to initiate lying protocols.
"I did not." Penny lied while smiling, "I have no clue what you are talking about." She then hiccupped again.
"…"
"…"
"Ok," Subject Mori shrugged after their moment of silence.
Looks like her protocols on lying had worked.
"So, Penny what brings you to Vale?" Mori asked as he moved on from their earlier conversation.
"I will be participating in the Vytal Festival,"
"Oh, what school do you got to?"
"Atlas Academy."
This conversation was going very well, it seemed like Subject Mori had taken an interest in her. Taking an interest in someone meant that they were friends!
"Huh, that's neat" Mori commented stroking his chin, "So are you not with your team right now?"
"No, right now I am on my own, observing and trying to make new friends," Penny responded.
"Do you not have many friends Penny?"
"No, I was sheltered at the la-, at home." Penny hiccupped. "My only my friend is friend Ruby."
"…Well, if you are Ruby's friend, I will be your friend as well."
Penny couldn't help but feel excited, subject Mori was now subject friend Mori.
"Ohh, I'm so excited," Penny cheered, "I now have a boyfriend!"
"Wait…what?" Subject Friend Mori asked in confusion. "Penny I don't think that means what you think it does,"
"Are you not a boy?" Penny asked tilting her head.
"I am but—"
"And you are my friend now, correct?" Penny asked again, "Or do you wish to revoke our friendship?"
"No I want to be your friend but—"
"Then that makes you my boyfriend," Penny finished.
Subject Friend Mori gave a sigh.
"Penny you are technically correct; however, in most context's that word has a more…intimate feeling."
"Intimate?" Penny asked tilting her head. "How so?"
Subject friend Mori seemed to be struggling with how to answer her question.
"You know what… sure, I am your boyfriend," He seemed to have given up on saying something else.
"Wonderful, I now share a boyfriend with friend Ruby."
At that, Subject friend Mori seemed to suddenly slap his face, while muttering something about tears of blood and brother Baijie.
Penny put that interesting tidbit in her memory banks.
"So, have you seen Ruby since you have come to Vale?" her new friend asked moving on from the conversation.
"I have not," Penny admitted, "General Iron—My Father does not seem to approve much of my friendship with her," She finished and once again had another hiccup.
"So?"
"So?" Penny repeated in confusion.
"Do you want to see her again?"
"…I very much do," Penny responded with conviction.
"Then go see her," Friend Mori said with a serious face, "Go do what you want, in fact, let me text her and ask where she is."
He then took out his scroll and sent a message.
"I do not believe it would be very wise of me to ignore my father's orders."
"Look it's your life Penny," friend Mori said with conviction, "You are not a puppet to anyone."
Something about friend Mori's words seemed to have resonated with Penny. She did want to see friend Ruby right now; she was going to do it.
"It seems like you have made up your mind Penny, I just got a message back from Ruby she says she's at the CCT," Friend Mori said as he looked at his scroll.
"Thank you friend Mori, I will be doing what I want right now." Penny responded as she started to make her way to the CCT, "You are a very good boyfriend!" she shouted back.
For some reason, the crowd around her seemed to snicker as friend Mori's face turned bright red.
Penny ignored it as she was now focused on meeting up with friend Ruby. They would do so much fun stuff together, like talk about shopping and how much of a great boyfriend Friend Mori was.
In fact, right now there was something deep in Penny's circuits that seemed to even want to tell friend Ruby who she actually was.
There was something about friend Mori's words that seemed to resonate with her.
He really was truly a great friend, Penny wished she could do something in return for him.
Maybe she could have mentioned to him that he was heading in the direction of a White Fang base that the Ace Operatives were planning on raiding.
"Good evening Miss Schnee,"
"Evening," Weiss nodded to the guard as she made her way into the CCT.
She did her best to maintain a polite and nice façade, but on the inside, she was very annoyed right now.
The source, her partner.
It was already bad enough that Ruby was a killjoy when Weiss tried to pair up with Neptune, but then she also insisted that they go to the CCT.
They could have easily gone to the library to get the information they needed but noooo, her partner wanted to take pictures of the CCT and tour the place.
Still, that wasn't why Weiss was unhappy, she didn't mind that her partner wanted to check out the peak of Atlesian Technology and she was eager to show Ruby all that her home country had accomplished
No, what had her displeased was when Ruby got a text from the buffoon and then suddenly left with no explanation except for it being important.
Weiss couldn't believe it.
The girl ditched Weiss for a date! It especially peeved the heiress off that Ruby was the one who stopped Weiss from having alone time with Neptune.
How dare she do that!
No, no, Weiss was not mad. Schnees don't get mad. They get even.
"Someone is about to have a colder than usual wake up, muahaha," Weiss thought as she diabolically planned her revenge.
Entering the impressive tower, Weiss immediately went into the elevator, directing the AI to take her to the communications room
As Weiss got into the elevator to get to the top, she took out her scroll to check the latest news. Surprisingly the headlines weren't the usual. It seemed like White Fang, Roman Torchwick, and the dust robberies were all that seemed to be what the news consisted of these days.
Today, however, was about Atlas. More specifically, the large fleet that they just brought in for the Vytal Festival.
It was the talk of the town; rumors were going around that Atlas was planning on invading Vale and taking it over. Weiss couldn't help but scoff at those who believed that. Even though most of the nations of the world seemed to at least be wary of her home country, General Ironwood was not someone who would recklessly declare War on a sovereign nation.
They were most likely showing the world the brilliance of Atlesian Technology, thee Vytal festival was the perfect spot to show the world how far Atlas had come.
Still, though, the number of ships in the sky had Weiss question if that many were needed. Lesser minds could easily mistake that amount of firepower for an invasion.
Just as she got off her scroll the door opened and Weiss entered the main room.
After directing the AI to connect her to the Schnee Dust Company she was greeted immediately by one of the Operators.
"Thank you for calling the Atlas- Oh! Miss Schnee! Good afternoon!" The operator said in a surprised tone as she realized who connected, "Would you like me to patch you through to your father? I think your sister Winter might be here as well."
Ohh, Winter was here she hadn't talked to her sister in a while…but so was her father…she could talk to her sister another time.
Weiss really did not want to have to deal with that man.
"No thank you!" Weiss said in a fake happy tone, "I was actually wondering if you could find some files for me. I've compiled a shortlist."
Weiss then sent a list of the information she was looking for.
"Uhh, ma'am," The operator asked in a nervous voice, "What is this needed for?"
"It's for a school project," Weiss responded, "Is there a problem?"
"It's just that you are asking for a lot of sensitive information."
"Well, then I'll make sure to treat it with care," Weiss assured.
"Uhhm ok," The operator nervously said, "The information will be sent over right now
"Thank you," Weiss replied in a sweet tone.
"Are you sure you would not like me to patch you to your father right now?"
"No," Weiss said as her façade broke.
Right as she was about to disconnect, something in the information just sent seemed to catch her eye.
"Uhhm, excuse me."
"Yes, Miss Schnee?"
"I've noticed from this shipping document there seems to be a lot of the Schnee Dust Company's resources directed to the North Sea and all of them are labeled under the name Operation: Giantslayer…May I ask what that is?"
"Ma- Ma'am that is even more incredibly sensitive information, I really don't think I should share that information with you." The operator said as her nervousness got more noticeable.
Weiss narrowed her eyes at this.
"As the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, I think I have a right to know what exactly is this project that the company is spending so many resources on. It's absolutely ridiculous, more than half of the assets of the company seemed to be directed towards this project."
"Miss Schnee, this is really sensitive information. Project Giantslayer is something that not only has the backing of the Atlas military, but also Vale, Vacuo and Mistral." The operator explained, hoping that this will deter Weiss from asking for more.
It did not, all it did was get Weiss more interested in this, what kind of project could possibly require attention from all four nations of Remnant?
"As I said, as the heiress, I believe I have a right to know what my future company is focusing on," Weiss said, "I would like to see the files please."
"Miss Schnee please, this is very sensitive information that is even concealed from the general public," The operator said as she continued to hold her ground.
Looks like more forceful measures were needed for this one.
"Hmm you know, your insistence that I talk with my father has caused me to change my heart, I think I would like to speak with him," Weiss said in a sweet tone.
"Wh-what?" This seemed to have confused the operator at Weiss's sudden change in desire.
"Yes, I would like to talk to him, see how he has been, talk about this project and possibly mention a very unhelpful employee whose job may be in danger of no longer being needed." Weiss continued.
The operator paled.
"Miss Schnee please, I'm just trying to do my job." She pleaded.
"I'm sure you are, however, if I had those documents right now, I would most likely be too busy to talk to my father about the state of his employees," Weiss replied with her thinly veiled threat.
Of course, this was a bluff. Weiss had no intention of talking to her father right now. In fact, if the operator stood her ground, Weiss would just give up and try to find another way to find out about this project.
"…I'll send the files on Project Giant Slayer right now," The operator sighed as she gave up.
"Perfect."
It seemed like her father's lessons on how to get people to do what you want had worked.
Weiss didn't like the feeling she got, but this project seemed way too strange to just leave it on its own.
"Thank you very much," Weiss said once the download was complete. "I'll be sure to mention how great of a help you were next time I speak with my father."
"Yes, Miss Schnee," The operator replied in a depressed tone all the happiness seemed to have been drained, "I hope you enjoy your day."
After getting the information she needed Weiss sent a message to her partner that she got the info and to meet her at the CCT.
Reaching the bottom of the tower, Weiss decided to check out the files on Operation Giantslayer.
Pulling the files on her scroll she started to read them to figure out what it was. The project seemed pretty normal at first. It was related to the huge tsunami that hit the coasts of both Atlas and Vale.
Weiss remembered that the incident was huge news for a while and evacuation efforts were needed in certain coastal settlements.
She continued to read the initial report. It seemed like the cause of the Tsunami was caused by abnormal events. There seemed to have been no major plates moving around the area and so it was theorized that there was a huge displacement that caused the massive waves, a search team was sent to investigate the source.
As Weiss opened up the next file to see what the search team found, she let out a gasp of shock.
She couldn't believe what she was seeing.
The object that caused the Tsunami didn't seem to be real…It was a giant pillar!
No, giant was too small, it was massive, taller than all the CCT's in the world combined.
Weiss had never seen anything like it before. If it wasn't so far out in the ocean she could probably see it from the tower.
She continued to read the report. Four Atlesian Battleships couldn't move it, they tried to blow it up but not even a budge was made. Even mass amounts of Gravity dust couldn't make the thing budge.
She continued to read; the material the pillar was made of seemed to be made of a completely unknown.
Just what exactly was that giant pillar…and why did those words seem so familiar? Wasn't it around the beginning of the school year? Weiss recalled a conversation they had at the beginning of the year.
Beginning of the Semester
"And then all of a sudden, after the boom he was completely unhurt." Ruby excitedly said as she finished her story.
"Hmm, that is very interesting," Blake said as she continued to read her book.
"I'm sorry what are you talking about again?" Weiss asked looking up from her textbook. She stopped paying attention to her partner's story a long time ago.
"Weiss, I was talking about how I met Mori," Ruby whined. "And how we got to Beacon."
"I stopped paying attention when you said the buffoon got hit by a rock," Weiss dismissed.
"Actually, Weiss it was a giant pillar," Ruby corrected, "And stop calling him a buffoon, he's not an idiot."
Weiss internally rolled her eyes.
"Yes Ruby, a giant pillar hit your boyfriend, makes total sense."
"He's not my boyfriend!" Ruby shrieked as she threw her pillow at Weiss.
Weiss ducked the projectile as she continued on her homework.
"She's not lying Ice Queen," Yang spoke up, "There really was a giant pillar."
"Stop calling me that," Weiss barked, "And where pray tell is this giant pillar, do you have pictures of it?"
"Well, we didn't take any pictures initially because we wanted to get Mori to a safe place," Yang replied, "But when me and my dad went to go check it out, it suddenly up and disappeared!"
Weiss again rolled her eyes.
"Sure, a giant pillar hits the buffoon and suddenly up and disappears, it makes perfect sense." She snarked.
"I know it sounds strange, but it was the freakiest thing I had ever seen." Yang said in a panicked voice, "It moved right in front of us."
"Sure, sure," Weiss said as she dismissed the two, "Next you'll tell me the idiot blew up a harbor with a punch."
"Hah, like that will ever happen," Blake chuckled from her bunk.
"It's the truth!" Ruby and Yang responded, "he really did get hit by a giant pillar."
Present
That's where she heard about the pillar before! The buffoon got hit by it!
Wait, that didn't make sense, the pillar she saw on the photos would have absolutely killed him if it landed on him, actually, it would have destroyed Vale.
…Was it a different and smaller pillar? …were there more pillars like it?
She would need to ask the sisters about the pillar they found and maybe show them the one in the North Sea.
Actually, looking at the dates Weiss noticed that the giant one fell around the same time the sisters found the buffoon.
That was an incredibly odd coincidence.
Now that she thought about it, the buffoon was just wrapped in mystery.
Found after getting hit by a massive pillar, someone of his level of skill being unknown, and then there was his freakish physical abilities that shouldn't even be possible.
Nothing about the buffoon made sense.
It was like he wasn't even human.
All these thoughts just got Weiss thinking.
Just who exactly was Jin Mori?
Mori didn't know exactly where he was right now.
It was supposed to be a simple task. Grab dust for Team JNPR and go home.
So, how did he end up like this?
Normally he'd go to any ole dust shop, but apparently, there was this special shop Nora insisted he buy the dust from.
When he asked what made it special, she said the lightning dust tasted better from there.
That resulted in him getting lost trying to find the damn place.
Then while trying to find the place, he had one of the weirdest interactions in his life.
And coming from him that meant something.
He had heard about Penny from Ruby before and Ruby said the girl was a little strange…but he wasn't expecting that.
He had seen Jaune's tragic efforts to woo Weiss and that didn't even come close to the interaction he just got.
Penny was a nice girl though, and he could see why Ruby was able to make friends with her quite easily.
There was something about her that reminded Mori of his clone Hui Mori.
It was probably the fact that she wasn't a normal person.
When he meant not a normal person it wasn't about her personality, even though it was a little weird.
What Mori meant by not being a normal person was that he was ninety-nine percent sure that Penny was a robot.
There were a couple of different signs that said that. For one, her strange speech patterns, and two her body composition was mostly metallic.
Still, even though she was a robot Mori still considered her pretty real.
When you make an impact on people's lives and people remember your actions how could you not have existed?
Just because she wasn't born like a standard person didn't mean jack. Jin Mori knew that more than anyone else.
After all, his clone Hui Mori was one of the realest people Jin Mori had ever known.
Hui Mori made a bigger impact than he ever did. While his friends were bleeding and dying it was Hui Mori who was the hero. Jin Mori could only watch in despair stuck in the God Realm.
His impact and the lives he touched proved that he existed.
Even though Mori hadn't known Penny that long, he could tell that she at least touched Ruby's life.
He was glad that he was able to convince Penny to go talk to Ruby, even though whoever was in charge of her didn't want her to.
It did not matter that she wasn't born normally. She still had a life and the ability to choose what she wanted to do with it belonged to her, not whoever Ironwood was.
Mori was glad that he made a new friend even though the start of it would be filed away under could've been better.
He hoped he'd be able to see Penny again.
Though, her father should really correct her on what a boyfriend was, also helping her out with conversation starters wouldn't hurt.
"Die, intruder!"
Mori's thoughts on Penny were soon interrupted as he dodged an attack from a White Fang grunt and knocked him out.
Why was he getting attacked again?
…Oh yeah, it was after Penny left him to go meet up with Ruby.
As he continued to find that damn dust shop, he noticed one of the buildings had an abnormal amount of Faunus.
Normally, he'd just ignore it and go on his way, but he noticed that one of them had the insignia of that group the White Fang.
Mori didn't really know much about the Fang outside of the fact that Blake used to a part of them and they were a group that fought for Faunus equality.
But they were causing his friend a lot of heartache and pain so he thought to himself, he could just quickly clear out the place for her.
Normally, vigilantism was against the law.
But he was pretty sure he was allowed to apprehend them since he was a student at Beacon…actually, he'd have to ask Dave from the police station to make sure of that.
"How is Dave doing anyways?" Mori thought as he dodged more White Fang bullets.
He quickly disarmed the gunmen and knocked them out.
"I think he's expecting a kid soon," Mori pondered as he continued his systematic dismantling of the base.
"Hopefully, the birth goes well."
He thought to himself as he finished clearing the floor he was on.
"…Wwh-whyy?" A grunt weakly called out from the ground.
Mori only shrugged as the grunt fainted.
He really had no grudge against the White Fang themselves. In fact, he sort of could sympathize with them a little bit.
He did after all lead his people in a war against the Heavens.
Though, the Fang's reason for raging war was far nobler than his reason.
He could still remember Pilmaon his successor's face, as he angrily accused him of starting an unnecessary war.
Man, his past life as Sun Wu-Kong really caused a lot of trouble for people.
The God's deserved it for how big assholes they were, but he certainly wasn't a good person as well.
"Someone stop this monster!" Another White Fang grunt cried out as Mori went to the next floor.
"Who is this demon!"
"Isn't this the guy who destroyed that section of the Fang at the Docks!?"
Bullets filled the hallway as they tried in vain to stop Mori. Mori continued to dodge them with ease as he ran across the wall.
Reaching the shooters in one smooth movement Mori knocked one grunt out with Renewal Fang, the next with Baekdu, and the last guy was hit with a Triple Kick.
Mori couldn't help but internally smile to himself. His movements were getting a lot cleaner and his control had vastly improved.
His level of skill was getting better.
Sounds of gunfire and screams of terror continued to fill the building as the former Monkey King continued to wipe out grunt after grunt.
It was only a couple of minutes later when he finally finished wiping out the base.
Taking a look at his handiwork he couldn't help but smile while also feeling a twinge of guilt.
He really had no issue with the Fang, the only reason he was even fighting them was that they were a threat to his friends.
He could understand and empathize with their desire for equality. He had seen how Faunus were treated and he didn't like it one bit. They were people as well and they deserved to be treated like it.
Actually, now that he thought about it…did Mori count as a Faunus?
He was technically a Monkey from the Sage Realm, but he didn't exactly have any monkey traits. He was obviously not human, and since his powers were stripped, he wasn't a god anymore either.
What exactly was he?
"M-m-monster," A Fang member cried weakly from the ground.
Hmm, he'd have to figure out what he was another time.
After all, he could sense that there were still five people left in the building.
Though…for some reason, only one of them was a Faunus.
"Well, this is unexpected." A voice from the darkness called out.
Mori's instincts went into high alert as he turned towards the source.
It was a brown-haired man in a white uniform.
"Wait, Captain, isn't that subject Beta?" another voice popped in as a young dog Faunus entered the room.
"Marrow are you blind, of course, it is," A female voice spoke up, this time it was a shorthaired girl.
"Harriet you don't have to be so mean, I'm just checking," The now named Marrow responded back to the girl named Harriet.
"It seems like Subject Beta is involved with the Fang in some way." A fourth voice calmly joined in. It was an incredibly pale man.
"So, Clover should we take him in?" A different female voice asked as the last of the five people left in the building entered Mori's field of vision.
"Hmm, General Ironwood did say that if we had the chance we should bring him in." The leader named Clover said as he continued to stare at Mori.
Mori's eyes narrowed as he listened in to their conversation
Bring him in?
It seems like this group knew who Mori was and he was a priority to them.
And there was that name General Ironwood again, who exactly was that man?
Mori's instincts went into battle mode as he knew it was a bad idea to have idle thoughts if he had to fight this group.
There was a different feel to them compared to the grunts he had just finished fighting
They were trained and trained well.
"So, Mori Jin, correct?" Clover asked.
Mori nodded in response as he continued to stare at the potential threats.
"What's a young huntsman in training like you doing in a White Fang base like this?"
"If I said I was clearing it for a friend would you believe me?"
"Sort of, however, we would be interested in knowing about this friend of yours as well."
"And may I ask who are you guys to be so interested in my friends?" Mori asked as he tried to figure out who this group was.
"Oh, we aren't a shady group, we work for Atlas." Clover replied as he tried to clear the tension in the room, "We just wanted to ask you some questions and then you could be on your way."
Mori relaxed a little. Looks like they weren't looking for a fight particularly and he could tell they were telling the truth. He had seen that insignia they were wearing on Weiss's stuff before.
He didn't need to pick a fight that was unnecessary. They probably just wanted to ask him about the incidents at the docks. After all, that freighter he blew up did belong to Atlas.
Just before he could agree to go with them, his scroll started to ring Mori took a look and realized it was Ruby calling. Mori immediately answered it.
"Mori, Blake is in trouble, downtown…we need your help!" Ruby cried out.
"I'll be on my way!" Mori replied quickly.
Dammit, Ruby what did you get yourself into?
"Did he just pick up his scroll in the middle of our conversation?" The dog Faunus asked.
"Captain! Are we just going to ignore the fact that he just pulled his scroll out and completely ignored us?" Harriet shrieked.
"That's a pretty ballsy move answering your scroll in the middle of an interrogation," The other woman remarked.
Mori just ignored them as he put away his scroll and looked back at the leader.
"I'm sorry right now isn't the best time I have a friend that needs help," Mori told the leader.
"…I see," Clover replied back softly, "Normally I'd let you go; however, you just completely destroyed a White Fang base without authorization and for what I feel like is pretty shifty motives…this feels suspicious and I'm sorry I can't exactly let that slide."
"Sir, I really need to go help my friends," Mori pleaded.
"I'm sure these 'friends' need all the help they could get."
Mori's senses went back on alert as he could hear the rest of the group ready their weapons.
Something told him he wasn't going to have the time to be able to get that dust for JNPR
TMT here again, no short this week either. Hope you liked the most recent chapter. By the way, one of my Beta readers Eliad91 just reworked his longfic Hunstmen of the Digital Hazard. If you are a Digimon and RWBY fan I recommend you check it out.
Lechain: It will be interesting to see how cinder reacts to meeting Mori.
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