Tex had a what one could say... complicated relationship with kids.

Really she'd only ever known three and two of them were debatable.

First off was Carolina, technically Tex was a copy of her mother, but she had no memories of her as a kid and only really knew her as a hyper competitive grown up. The second kid was Theta, but they never interacted much and from what she could overhear all she'd done was terrify the A.I, not ideal. And the final kid was Tucker's little hell spawn Junior.

...Who she'd tried to give to O'Malley so that he could enslave an alien race in order to end a war that was almost done anyway.

So yeah, Tex had a complicated relationship with kids.

That was precisely what made her current situation so novel.

She followed Qrow, the kids behind her as they stopped at the industrial section of Vale, some guards keeping the crowds of workers from entering.

"So, this is the industrial area?" Tex asked rhetorically. "Honestly, I expected it to be a lot more... I dunno rusty?"

The girl with the white hair... Weiss, yeah that was it, frowned. "Why would it be rusty?"

"That's always how it is in the movies." Jaune, (or maybe it was John?) cut in.

Weiss scoffed. "Films are hardly reputable sources of information."

"Yeah, but their still awesome!" Nora said enthusiastically.

It was at that point that they reached the guards the had the area on lockdown.

"Hello, we're the huntsmen that Jimmy- I mean general Ironwood hired to investigate." Qrow greeted the Atlas soldiers.

The solider nodded. "Yes, we were told to expect you."

They went in and once they were out of the immediate view of the general public, Qrow and Tex both turned to the kids.

"Right, now that we're here lets go over the details again." Tex said, she then looked to Qrow and he nodded.

"As you know, according to Jimmy there's been disappearances for the last month." Qrow went over the briefing details. "First it was small squad of Atlas troops, then a few skilled workers, and as of right now, almost one hundred people have gone."

Qrow paused for a minute to let everyone digest the news.

"Are there any links between the people who've vanished?" Ren asked.

"Yeah." Qrow nodded. "It's mostly soldiers that were sent to investigate, security personnel and skilled engineers."

"Okay, I just want to ask, why are we doing this instead of the Atlas military?" Jaune asked.

"Didn't you pay attention at the briefing?" Tex asked. "They locked this place down a week ago and sent in a shit tone of guys. But they couldn't find anyone, so they hope that a smaller team might have some luck."

Weiss nodded. "We won't let you down."

"Right, well then, lets get started." Qrow said. "Watch and learn kiddos, you're about to see veteran huntsman and huntress at work."

Well, technically she wasn't a huntress, but the kids didn't need to know that.

"We should start at the sight of the latest incident." Tex told him, causing Qrow to nod.

"That sounds reasonable."

With that the group set off in that direction, but as they did so Tex got an inexplicable feeling of dread in her gut.

She wasn't sure why but something was giving her a really bad feeling.

But still, bad feelings aside, Tex was feeling confident that she could handle whatever this place could throw at her.

It wasn't uncommon for Felix to have a smug grin on his face.

In fact if you asked the people that knew him well, such as Locus or even new 'friends' like Torchwick, and they'd tell you that it was in fact very common.

But right now, he felt very justified for the grin on his face.

Felix had spent the past week thinking about how exactly he would be able to enact he second part of his plan.

But their current location safely in Beacon meant that reaching them would be difficult, even for someone of his skill.

And then team RPBY and the sim troopers decided to walk right into the ruins of mount Glenn.

It was absolutely perfect timing.

Felix observed them as they made their way through the ruins, perched on the top of a ruined building with his sniper rifle.

He could attack them now... their precious aura wouldn't be able to defend from an attack this sudden.

But as tempting as the thought was, Felix wanted them to suffer.

So he stayed his hand and waited, observing, waiting for the right moment to strike.

Ohhhh, they'd suffer, he'd make sure of it.

But still first things first.

Felix activated his commlink.

"Hey, Roman, I need you to do me a solid..."

After explaining what he needed Felix waited for the reaction.

"That seems a bit specific, but I'll see what I can do." Torchwick sighed. "Is there any reason for these strangely specific requests?"

"Lets just say we can expect some... guests in the near future." Felix said cryptically.

"Great, just great." Torchwick then mumbled several creative curses under his breath. "Well, can we expect these guests of ours to arrive in the near future?"

"Don't worry, I'll make sure that they'll be fashionably late." Felix said. "I'll be down in a few to help you with setting up the party."

"See you then."

With that Felix shut off the commlink and decided to take one last look at everyone.

One last look at little red, knowing that the letter was just the start.

One last look at blondie, knowing how she'd fail when the time comes.

One last look at the cat, knowing that all her efforts would come to nothing.

One last look at the teacher, Knowing how he stood no chance against Felix.

One last look at Caboose, knowing that the idiot won't be able to do anything that could stop him.

One last look at Sarge, knowing how he'd rage at being unable to help.

One last look at Agent Washington, knowing that he'd suffer the most.

And one last look at Pyrrha Nikos, knowing how she would be the catalyst for it all.

This will be fun.

Notes:

And that's the end of that chapter.

I know that this is probably one of the shortest chapters I've put up, but that's just because it's the last of set up for everything else to come. And let me tell ya it is going to be groovy.

As always thanks everyone for reading with extra thanks to everyone that comments/reviews, your all groovy.

Next time the second part of Felix's plan is revealed. But till then I'll catch ya'll on the flip flop.

Review replies:

ReaderWarrior: Glad to see you enjoyed the chapter. And to be fair my characterisation of Qrow is probably influenced by me watching the later volume lately.

Annonamous Elephant: suspense eh? Well, hold up, hold up, you ain't seen nothing yet!