"Good morning team RANB!" an excitable voice exclaimed, rousing Jaune from his slumber. Jaune groaned and turned to look at the owner of the voice. Ruby was up and about with that big smile he had seen on her since the day he met her. Although even now he could tell that her smile wasn't reaching her eyes. It hadn't since the team naming ceremony last night. Jaune didn't know quite what upset her but it was obvious to him she was putting on a brave face, probably for their sake. Ruby was once again dressed with her hood up and covering her head. Which was a shame because her eas were pretty cute. 'Wait, does that sound wrong? Jaune thought to himself, I mean she said she's only fifteen… apparently Jaune wasn't the only one who noticed Ruby's hood.

"Ruby why aren't you wearing your uniform?" Pyrrha asked.

"My what now?" Ruby answered. This seemed to be a common thing so far, Ruby would know anything and everything about grimm, fighting, or weapons, but seemed to know absolutely nothing about going to school. After a few minutes of talking, some of which was spent explaining to Ruby how the whole school thing worked, the team had come up with a plan. Thankfully the use of the team bathroom was given to Jaune so that he could change in there while the team changed in the room. Soon enough everyone was dressed and ready for the day, though Ruby still opted to wear her hoodie vest with her uniform.

"Alright team, So according to this handy dandy planner book thingy they handed out to the team leaders…" Ruby said as she pulled out said book. "And according to it we have a bunch of classes together starting at nine."

"It's only seven thirty right now we have plenty of time" Blake said, "we should probably do some unpacking." Ruby looked around.

"Uh, ok, yeah, sure." Ruby said, "that shouldn't take to long. Right?" The team then split up to work on their respective unpacking. When Jaune finished with his unpacking he looked around to see who was still working. Ruby was standing by the door on her scroll, Pyrrha was still unpacking extra pairs of her armor, and Blake, Blake had a lot of books. They seemed to be making good progress on unpacking until they heard a shrill screech from the other room.

"DID YOU SAY NINE O'CLOCK?!" the scream could only have come from the white haired heiress of team YRVS. "IT'S EIGHT FIFTY-FIVE YOU DUNCE!" the scream was followed by the sound of a door slamming shut.

"Oh, crap." Ruby said from beside the door, "uh, guys we've got to get to class." the team needed no further encouragement. Soon the entire team was running to get to their first class.

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Jaune knew going into beacon, it wouldn't be easy. He expected to get his butt handed to him more than a few times, but he was certain he could overcome anything they had to throw at him. He was wrong. It wouldn't be crazy combat or grimm that did him in, it would Professor Port and his long aimless stories. They were barely five minutes in and already the guy had hit on half of team YRVS and rambled about himself and "protecting the world from the world," mainly himself though. Sighing in boredom, Jaune turned to look at the rest of his team sitting in the row with him. Pyrrha was busy actually taking notes, simply amazing. Blake was reading a book. Ruby appeared to be taking notes, not on the lecture but rather whatever was on her scroll. She had been practically glued to the thing since she got it, maybe she really did grow up outside civilization. The class proceed almost uneventfully, Weiss volunteered to fight a grimm in class, which she then took out pretty quickly. As the class was ending Jaune asked Ruby which class they had next. Without even looking up from her scroll and notebook she answered.

"Combat class"

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Ruby checked the clock as she sat down in the stands around an arena. They still had just under a full minute to spare. Ruby considered pulling out her notebook and scroll to do more research on Torchwicks activity, but she was fairly certain she had all the information she needed to begin "nightly activities". On top of that if she was going to work well with her team she should probably figure out where each of them, herself included, landed in terms of student skill levels. Team YRVS wound up going first as each member went up and sparred with their partner. When Yang went up Ruby ignored the pang in her chest at the thought of her long lost sister, and decided to study her sister's fighting style. The weapon Yang wielded was large and flashy, Ruby couldn't imagine trying to wield that sort of weapon in her investigations. Yang and Weiss's bought got, heated, to say the least. Yang's fighting style was just about as flashy as her weapon, both made use of copious amounts of fire dust. Furthermore Yang pulled no punches, as it were, had it not been for Weiss's glyphs Yang's style would have been overkill. As it were it became difficult to see the two amidst the fire that both opponents were using. Even worse Yang and Weiss both had huge amounts of anger directed towards each other. Enough that Ruby's other half was drinking in the atmosphere and enjoying it thoroughly. Eventually Yang showed superior endurance as Weiss all but collapsed when the buzzer rang.

The other two Ren and Nora, their fight was more like play fighting than anything else. It ended with Ren conceding the victory to Nora. Soon though the time came for Ruby's team to begin their rounds.

Ruby moved to the center of the arena along with Blake. As they squared off Ruby began to read her partner's emotions. There was confidence, there always seemed to be with Blake in combat, but she could also detect a hint of wariness. Not fear, but wariness.

'Good, she's one who's gonna learn quickly' Ruby's other half said. Ruby smiled and nodded, the motion just enough that it could be mistaken as a nod at Blake.

"Blake, give me a good fight, I want to know what you can do." Ruby said.

"Of course." Blake said simple while grasping the weapon on her back. Ruby in turn reached into her vest and grasped the small handle of her weapon. They stood opposite to each other for a good few seconds, neither drawing their weapons nor moving towards each other. It was little more than a flinch on Blake's part that set Ruby into action. Ruby activated her semblance briefly before sliding on her knees under Blake's horizontal swing. At the same time Ruby flipped her weapon over to its gun mode and fired under her arm towards Blake's back. Fortunately Blake had been in the process of turning around to come back at Ruby, and was able to see the flash of the muzzle. She jumped back leaving a shadow clone behind to take the bullet. Meanwhile Ruby had turned around and flipped her weapon back into its sword form. Ruby charge in and locked blades with the cat faunus, she barely had a millisecond to react as a second blade wound its way underneath her guard and darted towards her throat.

'Crap, of course she's got a second blade' Ruby thought as disengaged using her semblance.

'Not only that, she went for the kill.' the voice said.

'Yeah, she's got combat training' Ruby replied.

'Or been in a fight to the death before' the voice commented.

'Yeah well, she's not the only one.' Ruby thought as she charged back in again. This it time she went low again, under Blake's swing and striking at her ankles. Blake meanwhile switched her sword into pistol mode and emptied a magazine at Ruby. As Ruby charged back in with her sword Blake switched back to sword mode and the two began engaging in hit and run fighting against each other. The fight continued for a while until Ruby found that one of the issues of having a weakened Aura was that she couldn't last as long in such fights.

"Very good miss Rose, Miss Belladonna." Professor Goodwitch said as the buzzer sounded. "That was quite the impressive display, Miss Rose it might behoove you to work on strengthening your Aura as a small amount can and will put you in hazardous situations."

'If only you knew how much work I've already put into strengthening it' Ruby thought.

'Wouldn't be an issue if we could use bone armor' the other half said, though Ruby pointedly refused to dignify it with a response.

"Now it's time for your teammates, Miss Nilkos, Mister Arc, step up please." Goodwitch finished talking. Jaune and Pyrrha got up on the stage, and promptly had the quickest fight in the whole school. It took Pyrrha ten seconds of notstop pounding to deplete Jaunes Aura, but his shoddy defense and telegraphed attacks ensured that Pyrrha was more than able to complete those ten seconds without much pause. After which Professor Goodwitch gave Jaune pretty much the exact opposite lecture saying that, "having a large Aura pool does not negate the need for technique." and "you cannot rely on your Aura to always save you in battle."

Throughout the rest of class Ruby was able to determine that for the most part her team was above average, but would probably have good competition with team YRVS. though she was not looking forward to facing her sister in combat, even if she couldn't remember her. They continued throughout the different class orientations and then went back to the dorm room when they were released. There wasn't much in the way of homework on the first day so everyone just went to do their own thing. Jaune talked Ruby into trying out something called 'video games' which Ruby found difficult to learn at first but then found she enjoyed it once she was able to figure out how to beat Jaune. Soon enough though night rolled around and everyone went to bed. Almost everyone.

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Ruby listened as each of her teammates in quick succession fell into a calmed a rhythmic breathing pattern indicating that they had fallen asleep. Once they had all done that Ruby, very carefully, got out of bed and moved to get dressed. Ruby wasn't certain how heightened Blake's senses were compared to her own, but she decided to play it safe and kept as quiet as possible. Soon enough Ruby was out and on her way down the cliff to the city of Vale below. The streets were mostly deserted at this time of night of course, but Ruby had gotten a lead on a local information broker. She made her way through the streets towards the club ran by a man named Junior. When she arrived she saw that there was a sign on the door, Closed until further notice. Ruby looked around until she saw a man standing nearby the door. He looked an awful lot like one of the goons that was helping Torchwick the other night.

'That doesn't bode well for our investigation' Ruby's other half commented.

"Either this Junior is in league with Torchwick, or Torchwick is trying to silence Junior." Ruby mumbled aloud, "let's get in there."

A quick look around the building found that almost all the windows on the upper floors were blown out for some reason. Ruby went to an alley out of the view of the goon outside and kicked between the walls of the buildings on either side to get up to one of the broken windows. Swinging herself inside the club she found a large open room with a glass and tile floor that was cratered and broken in places, and a bar on one side. Fire damage was present throughout the place. Looking for a way to get across the room Ruby found near the windows were some metal support beams holding various lighting devices that stretched all across the room. Ruby quickly and quietly left the window sill, grabbed onto one of the beams, and swung herself on top of it. Ruby then made her way across the beam. As she did so she turned her ears towards the people on the floor

"What a mess." one goon holding a dustpan said.

"I know right, it's been four days and we're still cleaning this mess up." another goon holding a broom responded to him.

"I'm just saying maybe we should change the policy if it's going to result in half our group getting laid up in the hospital with severe burns." another couple of goons were conversing a fair distance away.

"Doesn't matter what we think, it's Juniors decision." the goon he was talking to said. Ruby took in all the conversations going on and started making her observations.

'Okay number 1, these people work for junior, so more likely in league with Torchwick, the question is to what level.' Ruby noted, '2 severe fire damage, mentions of a huntress, damage consitsent with a heavy weapon, but most likely a blade, large numbers of these guys in the hospital indicates an affect crowd weapon, blonde hairs lying around… Yang was here and caused trouble.'

'You sure it was Yang?' the voice asked.

'It's the most likely scenario.' Ruby answered, 'it could have been a different huntress but all the things match Yang and a full huntress wouldn't have come here to cause trouble.' Ruby's thoughts were interrupted when one of the goons called out for Junior. Ruby watched as a man wearing a vest and similar dress code to the other goons came out. His face was pretty bruised up, to the point he wasn't all that intimidating anymore. He went over to the goon that called him and began checking over the stock that remained behind the counter. Ruby decided that now was as good a time as any to make her entrance. She reached and pulled up the red handkerchief she had added to her outfit for this outing to cover her face. Then she simply stepped off the beam she was crouched on top of.

"Boss!" one of the goons called out as he saw Ruby drop in behind Junior. Junior whirled around and the goon nearest to him charged Ruby with a red machete. Ruby ducked underneath the goons swing and kicked out with her semblance to knock the blade out of the man's hand. She then delivered a flying roundhouse kick to his face. Before finally drawing her weapon and flipping out the sword function she put the blade to Juniors throat as the rest of the goons were drawing their weapons.

"HOLD IT!" Ruby called out, "I JUST WANT TO TALK!" Junior motioned for his men to back off, and Ruby withdrew her weapon and turned to Junior.

"You." Ruby said pointing, "do you work for Torchwick?" Junior seemed confused for a second before getting rather indignant.

"What? No!" Junior said, "the only interaction I've had with idiot was when he hired some of my men and never came back. If that's all you wanted Red, I suggest you leave the shops closed."

"That's not it." Ruby said, "I've heard you deal in information, how much?" Ruby asked.

"Depends on the information, but probably more than you can pay kid." Ruby looked around dramatically.

"I'd say you could use every Lien you can get your hands on." Ruby said. She could feel the irritation radiating off of him, fortunately it wasn't directed at her. "All I need is information on the recent dust robberies."

"There's not much." Junior said.

"Then it shouldn't be worth to much, right?" Ruby said.

"Five hundred." Junior said.

"Too much," Ruby replied, "one"

"Like you said I need Lien right now, five is already pretty cheap." Junior bartered back, "three fifty."

"There's not alot right? I don't know if this will be a waste of my time or not." Ruby was fully in the swing of bartering now, "one fifty."

"You won't find another person going this low." Junior replied, "two fifty"

"I already know some things about the robberies but I want a better picture," Ruby said, "two hundred, plus another twenty five if it's information I haven't heard before."

"Make it thirty five and you have a deal." Junior said.

"That's acceptable." Ruby said and drew her wallet, slowly, and pulled out the two hundred.

"Well Torchwick is supposed to be behind them," Junior said as he took the lien.

"That's all over the news, you can do better than that." Ruby said.

"Yeah well, the thing is one of my boys saw some White Fang at one of the robberies." Junior said.

"White Fang?" Ruby asked.

"Y'know Faunus terrorists, grimm masks, the whole nine yards." Junior answered, "Jeez girl where are you from?"

"Out of town, but I know who your talking about now." Ruby answered, "so what is Torchwick working with terrorists now?"

"Can't say for sure, that guys would do anything to make a Lien, but," Junior paused, "I can't imagine him being willing to work with them, he hates people like you, major racist."

"Great." Ruby said sarcastically. "So there's two groups of robbers?"

"Don't know but there's only one robbery a night, and there's one almost every night." Junior said.

"Thanks." Ruby said, handing over another thirty-five Lien, "hope you get your shop fixed up."

"I will, see you around Red." Junior said, as Ruby walked out the front door this time.

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A/N: I said I wasn't done with these and I meant it! This story is one of my favorites but is also one of the hardest to write, but I'm working on it. We get to see a little bit more of Ruby's vigilante skills in this chapter as well as a little more team interaction. Anyways I hope you guys enjoy the chapter.