Kakashi opened the door to the dorm, he entered.
"Yo." He rose his hand.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
Kakashi chuckled while scratching the back of his head.
"Ah, well you're a Schnee, so it's obvious that the activities of the White Fang have directly and indirectly affected you. Anyway I have a more important thing to discuss."
Kakashi put his scroll on a dresser, with a slight glare from Weiss still coming at him. He opened the voice recording app and hit play. The rest of the team came and listened.
"This is some audio I recorded inside a White Fang meetup that I discovered."
"… Now, as you all know, we have partnered up with Roman Torchwick to further our cause."
The team looked shocked, but not to the same degree as Blake, who covered her mouth in surprise. Nonetheless the voice recording continued.
"Torchwick has already set up a plan for a dust raid at Vale port. A large Schnee freighter is going to deliver a large shipment of dust in two days. We only need a handful of people, so I will handpick members who will participate, you are all dismissed."
Kakashi took back his scroll.
"This is where I ended the recording, I have a plan to stop this and I need your help."
Blake still looked a bit off. "Why?"
Kakashi lifted an eyebrow. "Well, of course, we would have to stop a criminal operation but if you don't want to join then- "
Blake slammed her hand on the dresser "No, why would they team up with Roman Torchwick."
Kakashi shrugged his shoulders. "Apparently to 'Further their cause' Maybe Torchwick has money to fund the organization or maybe he has some plans that would be beneficial, either way, they are now working with Torchwick and have now labeled themselves are criminals by doing so."
Blake slumped on her bed, this was the last straw, it was something that she had been trying to avoid believing, that the White Fang were criminals, but now, with the voice recording, her worst fears had been realized. Kakashi put his scroll back into his pocket and pulled out a physical map of Vale from his tool pouch. He laid it out on the same dresser.
"Now, if you don't want to join, that's completely fine."
Yang walked up to the map. "I mean, I get the chance to beat up some bad guys, why would I say no?" Yang let out a smirk.
"Stopping something bad from happening is what heroes do, and I don't want to miss on that chance to be a hero." Ruby had decided to join in as well.
"Well it is a dust shipment coming from my family, so it's my obligation to defend it."
Now that the other three members joined, that only left Blake who still shocked.
"Blake, do you want to fight, I understand if you don't want to- "
"No. I will go; I need to see this for myself."
"Alright then, that's everybody, so what this plan? And you infiltrated a White Fang meeting?" Yang asked.
Kakashi pulled out a marker.
"Well, I heard about the recent robberies and decided to do something about it." He removed the marker cap. "I learned that a squad called the 12th Squad was going to be a part of the robbery, so I interrogated them, knocked them out and left them on a ship headed for Atlas.
This got some sort of reaction from Blake.
"Wait won't they be suspicious that an entire part of the plan won't be appearing in the robbery?" Ruby was confused
"That's exactly it, I will clone myself and use a transformation technique to transform into each member of the 12th Squad and go to the meeting place."
"Wait you can transform yourself now?" Yang asked with a surprised face.
He nodded. Kakashi used the marker to encircle Baker Street, he then drew an arrow leading to Vale Port, which he encircled. He then encircled Beacon and drew another arrow leading to the now encircled Vale Port.
"My clones and I will meet up with the other operatives at the Bullhead dock near 221B Baker Street. From there we will head to Vale Port to start the robbery. While the four of you will interrupt the Robbery, at the same time, my clones and I will reveal ourselves and fight along with you, hopefully capturing Torchwick in the process, if we don't, then at least we stopped the robbery."
The team seemed to be fine with the plan, yet Blake seemed… off.
"I'm planning on all of us doing some recon tomorrow afternoon, the robbery is on Saturday, so we can look for some good spots for you to perch at."
Weiss seemed pleased "Perfect, the students coming from Vacuo for the Vytal festival are arriving tomorrow."
"Why is that important?" Asked Blake
"As a student of the prestigious Beacon Academy, it is my duty to greet them and show them a proper- "
"Or you just want to stalk them and find out ways to beat them at the tournament." Yang said getting an angry look from Weiss and a few giggles from Ruby
"Alright then, we can look for some spots and at the same time Weiss can stalk the Vacuo students for weaknesses." Kakashi rolled the map up and placed it under his bed, Yang laughed at the statement.
"I am not a stalker!" Weis yelled.
"Alright then it's settled and I'm getting sleepy" Ruby yawned as she climbed on her bed. The rest of the team did the same except for Kakashi, who just sat on his desk and thought on how to go about his plan, because something may come up, like if Kakashi wasn't able to pick up the mannerisms of one of the members, then again, mannerisms aren't really needed in robbery, so he can sleep easy, which he did.
"Can you try wearing the uniform for once Kakashi?" Weiss said with a bit of annoyance
Kakashi as per usual was wearing his jonin uniform.
"The uniform is not very breathable, and nobody really minds so there realy is no point in changing now, after all Goodwitch is fine with."
Kakashi led his team to the Locker area. "Alright, time to change, get whatever you want to bring with you, we're going to the airship in twenty minutes."
His team grabbed things from their locker, including their usual outfits and went to the bathroom to change. Kakashi didn't really need to change into his anbu uniform, since the jonin one already doubled as both a school uniform and as a combat one. The team got out of the bathroom and they were on their way.
They went to the airship dock and entered an airship, a thirty-minute flight.
Ruby put down her phone after spending a good amount of time on it. They were all looking out the window except for Kakashi who had taken a seat.
"Did you here? Someone disappeared last night at Floyd Street. They say the police believe it was a kidnapping" Weiss said while looking at the window with the rest of the girls.
"Really? I heard that part of Vale had a very low crime rate" Ruby answered
"Apparently not" Ruby responded as she looked away from the window and took a seat next to Kakashi. Yang followed and sat next to Ruby, Weiss also decided to take a seat. Blake was the only one left looking out the window quietly.
He pulled out his scroll, well not his scroll, but the scroll of the 12th squad leader, the man he had killed.
T: "Don't forget, 7pm tomorrow, 221b Baker Street bullhead dock, don't be late."
It was a message that came from 'T' which Kakashi assumed to be Torchwick.
Kakashi came out of the bathroom and sat back down. Time passed as the team did nothing but read on play around on their scrolls. The intercom suddenly burst to life
"Attention, Airship will land in five minutes. Let me repeat, the Airship will land in five minutes."
Once the airship did land, they all walked out and began walking to Vale Port. Encountering a dust store that was robbed.
"So the White Fang did this." Weiss stated with Blake giving a horrified look.
"Why don't we tell the police?" Ruby asked
Kakashi shrugged his shoulders "Well the police can't exactly take an audio recording from a Schoolboy seriously, for all they know it could be fake footage. We need hard undisputable evidence from things like Public CCTV, which is why we are going to fight the White Fang as they're robbing not before, that way the police will have all the more reason to investigate the White Fang further."
Kakashi continued walking to the now very close by Vale Port.
Encountering a Vytal festival designs, Weiss suddenly wen all giddy and smiled.
"Well that's weird, I've never seen you this happy." Ruby said with a surprised tone
"how could I not be happy? It's a festival about the cultures of the world, there's so much work that goes into this, there'll be dances, sports and tournaments, which I hope we will be a part off." Weiss responded with an unusually happy tone.
"Well that depends on our leader." Yang nudged Kakashi
"Well we are a five-man team, so one of us will have to sit out, but I'm not really that eager to fight, so maybe I'll let you take the reins."
Both Ruby and Yang physically pumped their fists while Weiss mentally did so.
They arrived at the port.
"Well we're here, I need to check out 221b Baker Street, so the four of you can look for some spots and Weiss can do her stalking."
"I'm not going to stalk anyone!" Weiss yelled as Kakashi walked off.
But as he walked, he took one last glance at Blake who hadn't said a word other than "Pass the sugar" during Breakfast, all this was definitely affecting her. The problem needed to be solved, but right now he had more important matters to attend to, that being finding where the bullhead dock near 221b Baker Street was.
He continued to walk and walk finally reaching the area of 221b Baker Street.
'Hm, isn't this where that detective and his assistant lived. What was his name? Sherlock Holmes? Eh whatever'
He looked around eventually seeing a neon sign in big green and red letters 'Bullhead Rental', well not only were the owners stupid, lighting up a neon signs that wasn't that bright during the day, but the place looked… shady. It was rundown, with a black tinted windows.
This must've been it, Kakashi took a few steps back and sure enough, the building had a large roof where about five bullheads rested. Needing nothing more, he decided to run back to his team. It took a few minutes before he was able to see the silhouettes of his teamates, and another figure. He arrived. There was girl with short curly orange hair and wore an old fashioned blouse.
"Oh, Kakashi, this is Penny." Ruby told Kakashi, awkwardly smiling while pointing to the Orange haired girl
"My uhhhh, friend."
"Yo." Kakashi waved his hand
"Salutations!" She waved back enthusiastically at Kakashi. Immediately he noticed something off about her, her voice, her tone, was, weird, then again maybe she just had problems with socializing, but there really was something off about her.
"She's going to fight in the tournament" Commented Blake.
"Yes, I am Combat Ready." She swung her arm as a gesture.
The rest of the team seemed even more confused. "Didn't you already say that you were combat ready to us a while ago?" Yang asked with a confused tone.
"And so I did."
"Guys, we have to go home, and… study." Kakashi gestured for all of them to leave already.
"Okay, bye Penny!" Ruby yelled as they left.
"Goodbye" Penny waved goodbye.
Holy shit, a lot happened while I was gone, but since your probably not reading fanfiction to hear more about the outside world, I'm not going to mention them. But anyway, sorry for this chapter taking so long, got reunited with a friend online, who I hadn't met in a long time and as you can guess we had to bond a little, so I only started writing this like last week, don't worry though, the next chapter should be coming VERY soon, since I've already written it, but I need some cooldown after releasing this one. Yeah, love you, bye.
