Chapter 18: Relocation

Ruby sighed as she looked out the transport window. Their bullhead was rapidly approaching Mountain Glenn, where phase two of their plan was going to happen.

Roman had explained to her what was going to happen. They would blow a hole in the sealed off tunnels under Mountain Glenn into Vale, releasing hundreds of Grimm into the city.

He didn't tell her why they were doing it — but the girl had a suspicion they had no clue either. All Cinder did was hold secrets from them.

"Look sharp all of you!" Roman ambled from the cockpit, Drei padding at his heel. Gold met silver and Ruby sighed under her breath before looking to Roman. As part of her punishment, Neo gave the idea of making Ruby ride in the belly of the bullhead with the White Fang members. Before they had taken off, Neo had told them that Ruby had no authority over them and would work alongside them. "Welcome to Mountain Glenn. This place has Grimm crawling around on the surface, drawn here from the failure of the settlement. Luckily we'll be underground, where there's less Grimm." Roman informed the group. "Get ready to unload and join your brothers and sisters." He said before turning and heading back inside.

Drei looked at Ruby one more time and whined with sad gold eyes. Ruby felt the same. She wanted him to be next to her, to pet him and feel him be close. But Neo convinced Drei it'd be better for her to not have him to distract her.

After a heartbeat, Drei turned around to follow Roman, and vanished into the cockpit.

Ruby felt the bullhead land, and she exhaled softly before standing up and following the White Fang members out into the landing area.

"Welcome, brothers and sister! Right this way to where you'll be assigned a task!" Ruby spotted a familiar head of blue hair, and walked with the other faunus.

"Red, it's great to see you again!" Sora exclaimed. "I hope you got Dark Glory." She said. Ruby noted her amber eyes were covered by a White Fang mask akin to her sister's.

"I didn't know you'd be here, Sora." Ruby said, glad to see a familiar face.

"Sable sent me here because she wants me to be looked after while she does business elsewhere in Vale." Sora informed her. Ruby nodded.

"So what task am I being given?" Ruby asked.

Sora consulted her scroll. "Hmmm. I think there's room for you to work with car 18. You'll be able to meet Akari, she's the friend I told you about who is deaf." She told Ruby.

Ruby nodded and headed on her way. Arriving at the designated car, she was met with an eager woman with white hair and wolf ears. 'You must be Red. Its a pleasure to meet you.' She signed to Ruby.

'You must be Akari. The pleasure is mine.' Ruby signed back with a smile before they shook hands. 'Sora speaks highly of you.' Ruby told Akari, who flushed.

'You know her?' Akari asked. Ruby nodded

'She helped Neo and I get my weapon back.' Ruby replied.

"Lets get a move on!" A tall man with black hair and a wolf tail strode towards them under his arm was a bundle of clothes. He tapped Akari's shoulder and she turned around.

'Malu, this is Red. She knows Sora.' The woman introduced. The man, Malu, nodded his head.

"Roman and Neo told me about your punishment. Take this." He gave Ruby the bundle. To her abject horror it was a White Fang outfit complete with a mask worn by recruits. "I know. I'm not happy about it either." He agreed, seeing her face.

"Neo put you up to this, didn't she?" Ruby could just see Neo's shit eating grin as she said Ruby should wear the outfit.

Malu sighed "Yes. There's a closed off area over here for you to change. I'll personally deliver your clothes to Roman when your done." He said.

Ruby nodded reluctantly and plodded away. Akari stopped her with a poke to her shoulder. 'What's that for?' She signed, pointing at the clothes.

Ruby's shoulders slumped 'This is part of my punishment for disobeying Roman. I have to work with you guys like a faunus. And Neo thought it'd be funny to dress me up like one as well.' She informed Akari.

'Oh.' Was all Akari signed before heading off back to the train car to continue working.

"A change of plans is in order, Cinder." Sable stepped out of the shadow she appeared from.

The woman in question jolted before turning around to meet Sable who was leaning against a wall. "And why would we need to change our plan to eliminate Red?" Cinder asked.

"An opportunity had arisen." Sable said. "Red has accompanied Roman and Neopolitan to Mountain Glenn. Perhaps there is a way for us to cause a fair bit of chaos and possibly dispose of the three of them." Sable said. "Yang Xiao long and her team have been shown to be pursuing the trail of Red in hopes of Yang reuniting with her lost sister. If we tip them off that Red is at Mountain Glenn, it will cause chaos with possibly the plan being put into action sooner."

"Sooner?" Cinder asked "What do you have in mind?"

"Team missions will be occurring soon. If we bring upon circumstances where the four of them are presented with information that Red will be there, they will be inclined to take up said mission. In the chaos an... accident can occur that allows Red to be killed." Sable said.

"And Roman and Neo won't know we had a hand in it?" Cinder questioned "They'll be wanting to avenge her."

"All in good time, Cinder. We have a bit of time before we must act. The dance is coming up, and after that are team missions." Sable said.

"Alright. We'll talk later — I need to head back to Beacon." Cinder said.

A/N

At this point I realize I fucked something up. I realize that Neo is a part of Cinder's "team" and instead she's with Roman and Ruby. With that said, I doubt I'll have to mention their fourth. If I do, I'll make it some random White Fang member or something.

Fun fact, Malu and Akari are from the same universe as Sable and Sora, but with different names. There's another member to their group, but she'll probably cameo a bit later on.

I don't really know if there's much left to touch on before BSIL goes to Mountain Glenn. I'm doing a chapter of Yang figuring out Ruby is at Mountain Glenn, and touching on more character relationships with the dance, but after that we're going full speed ahead and there'll be no brakes (ha-ha I'm not funny) until the end of V2!