The small bell behind the front door of Tukson's Booktrade chimed as Ruby rushed into the Store. The reason for her haste wasn't that she would get her hands on the newest issues of her favourite comic books. No it came from the building pressure in her bladder, turns out that gorging yourself on hot chocolate before riding an airship without toilet to Vale was a bad idea.

"Hey Tukson, can I use your restroom real quick?", the redheaded half Grimm asked as she rushed towards the counter and the shop's owner, who seemed bored with the obvious lack of customers this morning.

"Customer's are not allowed in the back where the staff restroom is even the most loyal ones like you. But my niece's friend is welcome to visit me anytime. It's the last door on the right.", Tukson replied as he stepped aside, opening the door for the girl running past him, shouting him some thanks as she passed him.

Entering the small restroom, Ruby was guessing how little regular customers Tukson already had, if she was able to rise to one of his most loyal ones during the remainder of the last semester. As she stepped out of the restroom after finishing her business, her canine ears picked up the faint sound of the bell behind the door, heralding the arrival of new customers.

As she made her way back to the shop, she could hear them ask them about the availability of different books. As she stepped through the door behind Tukson, she could hear the shop owner speak: "We don't carry that one I am afraid."

Looking over the three customers standing before the counter, she noted that all three of them were Faunus and wearing similar light grey hoodies. Two of them had tails hanging behind them, one a brown fox tail, the other a white lizard tail. The third one had a pair of rams horns on each side of his head. Deciding to help Blake's uncle out, she spoke up as she stepped next to the counter.

"Don't worry I'm sure Tukson can get whatever book you are looking for if you give him some time." As she finished, she looked at the three unfamiliar Faunus more closely to gauge their reaction, which let her notice the white masks all three of them were holding in their hands right now. They all seemed surprised to see the wolf eared girl standing next to the Faunus shop owner.

"Sister why are you standing by that traitor?", the horned boy asked as he put on his mask.

"We were sent to deal with him today.", the lizard tailed girl explained.

"What do you mean 'deal with'", Ruby asked, typing a short message to Officer Viridian into her scroll under the counter, warning him about the White Fang at Tukson's.

"Well I guess you're just one of our young runners so let me explain. If someone betrays the White Fang we need to make them reconsider by roughing them up a bit or kill them if they still decide to go against us. Just wait outside girl, you don't need to see this.", the Ram horned boy said, stepping aside a bit to make room for Ruby to leave.

Her suspicions confirmed, Ruby pressed the send button on her scroll before dropping it and drawing a Combat knife out of her right sleeve.

"Well let me just correct you there", the half Grimm replied as she moved closer to the first Faunus, the up to now silent fox tailed boy, "I am not a runner for the White Fang.", Bringing a hand up, she tugged on the small chain around her neck to pull her badge out beneath her sweater.

"And as a junior detective with the VPD I order you to stand down."

Seeing all three of the White Fang Faunus draw a pistol and point it roughly in her direction, Ruby couldn't help but wonder if any criminal had ever complied with that order.

With the fight starting, Ruby moved around the counter, confident that she could take the three Faunus, who seemed inexperienced with how they handled their weapons, even without Crescent Rose. Parrying the few bullets that came close to herself with the knife in her left, or dodging them, Ruby quickly closed the distance between herself and the closest of the three attackers. With a quick kick to his shin, the furry tailed boys surprisingly weak Aura breaks under her Grimm like strength, before he fell over and was knocked out as his temple hit one of the nearby bookshelfs.

Noticing the other two Faunus reloading, the redhead sped towards them with her Semblance and, before they finished reloading, pulled the ram horned boy into a chokehold and between herself and the lizard tailed girl.

While she applied pressure on the boy's Aura, the girl before her was unsure what to do, until she was knocked out by a smack over the head with an encyclopedia from Tukson. Shortly after that, the ram Faunus' Aura finally broke as well, allowing Ruby to knock him out as well. With all the hostile Faunus on the ground, Ruby returned to the counter, sheathing her knife again before she picked up her scroll. Seeing that she had received a new message from officer Viridian, she opened it to to read 'Ok, sending a patrol over there.'

Putting it back into her pocket, the half Grimm turned towards Tukson.

"Ok the police should already be on their way here. But none of that was why I came here, do you have the new issues for me?"

Surprised by how the wolf tailed girl switched topics suddenly, the Faunus shop owner needed a moment to collect himself before he could answer.

"Sure, they are in a small bag behind the counter with your name on it. Just take it yourself, after all you're already standing there."

"OK", bending down behind the counter, Ruby quickly finds the correct bag and stands back up, "So 4 Lien each right?"

"Not this time", Tukson replied as he walked to one of the shelfs damaged by the attackers wild shots, "Those two are on the house for what you just did for me, those thugs could have been a real problem had I been on my own."

As Ruby was about to vocalize her gratitude, the door opened once more as a man clad in a black suit with a red tie stepped inside. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of red sunglasses, so Ruby couldn't tell his full reaction to the three unconscious bodies lying around, but by the twitch in his lips she thought he was quite surprised. After the man took a moment to process what he saw, he stepped towards the counter, behind which Ruby was still standing.

"Hello I am looking for some basic training manuals for my nephew, do you have any books like that?"

"Well, I don't actually work here, but I would recommend you 'How to get your sorry as ready for Combat School' from Qrow Branwen and Onyx Purpura. But to buy it you'll need to talk with Tukson over there.", Ruby replied before pointing towards the shop owner who was assessing the damages to his merchandise at the moment.

When the man turned towards Tukson, Ruby herself moved closer towards the door, where she waited for the police to arrive, keeping an eye on the currently unconscious Faunus.

She was tempted to start reading her new comics, but without something to tie the White Fang members up, the half Grimm didn't want to risk anything by taking her eyes of them.

A few minutes later, the suit clad customer was leaving, carrying a bag filled with his purchases. Shortly after that, a pair of policemen entered the shop. the first of the two saw Ruby standing at the door, and once he noticed the badge hanging from her neck, he decided to address her first.

"What's the situation here?"

"These three", she waved towards the unconscious bodies,"claimed to be members of the White Fang and that they were sent here to deal with the Shop owner, Tukson, who is back over there, assessing the damage to his shop. When they started threatening him and pulled out guns, I informed Officer Viridian of the situation before revealing my badge and asking them to stand down. But when they attacked, I knocked them out one by one, which was surprisingly easy with how weak their Auras were.", while the officer speaking with Ruby was taking notes of everything she told him, his partner was handcuffing the unconscious Faunus.

"Well that is a nice overview for now, however you'll need to come with us to the station for a full debriefing."

Nodding in understanding, Ruby helped the two officers to fit the slowly reawakening Faunus into their car, before she and Tukson, who would give a statement as Witness, were led to the nearest police station by one of the officers.

The young Mechhuntress of Tribe Branwen had never been happier about her Executioners Dust-Servo-Acceleration System than in this very moment. To avoid detection and stay behind cover, Rose needed to reach the base of the nearby hill as quick as possible. Normally a 95 ton war machine like her mech shouldn't be able to move quick enough to achieve this. Luckily the DSA System allowed the girl to push the machines speed above its normal limitations at the minor risk of internal dame to the machinery inside the legs.

Pressing the corresponding button on her left joystick and the pedals controlling the machines legs, Rose's Executioner began to accelerate to nearly 90 km/h.

Rattle, rattle, clatter

All seemed well for the first 30 meters or so, but then suddenly a series of alarms lit up on the various displays inside the cockpit, as the mech came to a sudden stop.

Rattle, rattle, clatter

Rose barely managed to stop her warmachine from falling over with its newly broken leg servos. Distracted by this, she did not notice the enemy mech that was approaching her position until it got ready to attack her.

Rattle, rattle, clatter

Instead of firing any of its weapons though, her enemy continued moving towards her, before it crashed into her mech's left arm, which contained the rail gun that was her primary weapon. The impact was hard enough to bend one of the weapons capacitors, causing the whole weapon to explode, destroying the mech's arm and activating the auto-eject function, which fired Rose out of the cockpit, the sudden acceleration knocking her unconscious.

Rattle, rattle, clatter

luckily for the young woman her parachute opened automatically as-"

"Finally I found you girls", a voice from behind her cut of Weiss' narration of what happened after Ruby screwed up the die roll for her Character. Turning around the Heiress saw a vaguely familiar Monkey Faunus, wearing an open shirt and a pair of blue jeans.

"And why were you searching for us, who are you even?", she asked, crossing her arms to make her annoyance at the interruption as obvious as possible.

"Aren't you that stowaway I caught on the docks during the Semester?", Ruby inquired unsurely, turning around to face the newcomer as well.

"Yup, that would be me", the boy replied, "See I wanted to apologize for lumping you in with those no good White Fang idiots but until I saw you leave the police station today I had no idea how to find you. But now that I am here, sorry for yelling at you for helping the police."

"If you are that stowaway, how were you allowed to enter Beacon's campus?", Weiss asked, still displeased by the boy's presence and the interruption to their game.

"Well it would be hard for me to partake in class as one of the students send over from Haven if I weren't allowed on Campus. besides I finished the last of my Community service this morning before I followed red here to Beacon."

"Well then would you mind letting us finish our game? you have said what you wanted.", Weiss said harshly.

"Ok, sheesh. Well see you around Campus I presume", the boy finished, winking at Blake just like he did at the docks. He then made his way around the girls table, and whispered into Something to Blake's bow before he left them alone for good.

"Now where was I?", the Heiress asked the rest of ehr team.

"I think we were about to know if we or the enemy are closer to Rose's landing spot."

"Well then, As the parachute slowed her descent, Rose was tracked by Shroud and Cecilia as they hope to save their friend before the enemy captured her ..."

So I hope the little section at the end wasn't to jarring, but even if it was, I hope you enjoyed the new chapter.

As always Critique and Comments are welcome.