"...what happened here?" Ruby turns her head around, she wasn't expecting loud noise when she's listening to her favorite piece of music, her face is clearly disappointed, but she soon realizes she isn't alone, even though it's midnight in town.
"Damn, where did this little girl come from? I thought everything's under control?" Roman and his bowler hat, his men aren't looking too friendly either, the shopkeeper cries when Roman puts his cane closer to him.
"Get her."
The men quickly stop what they were doing, dropping bags of valuable dust, one of the men twice the size of Ruby comes closer, he seems confident enough as he shows off some of his muscles.
"I promise you it won't be hurt if you would be… cooperative."
"Hmm sure, but what happened here?" Ruby feeling curious as she walks past his grab, at first he thought it was just a mistake but soon realizes she's already at the door behind them. "Are you guys planning on moving?"
"What's that noise over there?" Roman came back with his bag of dust, he is surprised to see Ruby is still not being tied up. "What are you doing fools! Don't let her run away!"
"Woah, I'm not going anyway mister."
The men quickly gang up on her, but every time when they think they reach her, Ruby is always one step ahead, dodging and repositioning herself behind them, she seems pretty confused with these men trying to get her.
"Hey, what's the matter on catching me? I'm not a grimm."
Mostly frustrated, Roman quickly reacts by shooting Ruby with his cane, but Ruby dodged it, now looking upon the impact behind her, burned ground after the explosion.
"Woah, what's that, an explosive round?" Ruby walks near Roman and takes a closer look at his cane. "You have an awesome weapon, mister~"
"Back off red! I don't know who you are but don't meddle in our business!' Roman swings his cane up, Ruby back off again. The rest of the men surrounded her, only this time with guns. "Get her!"
"Yikes!" Ruby didn't expect they would have shot her in such close range, she quickly made her way out of the store, rounds of bullet rain across the street with Ruby hiding behind the wall not far away from the shop.
"Did I do something wrong?" Ruby looks at the men carrying the boxes out of the shop after she left.
"Hmmm! Hmmm! Hm! Hmm!" The shopkeeper makes his way to Ruby when the last of them left, Ruby quickly helps him out but wasn't sure why he's still here.
"Strange, I thought you were with them."
"They robbed the store, please help me catch those bastards!" Using his loudest voice, the old man coughs uncontrollably but staring at Ruby hopefully. "Please."
"Oh… Ummm… what should I say… I go get them?" Ruby isn't sure what to do, she takes off her headphones and tries to listen to their footsteps like she's hunting grimm in the wild, the city landscape is a bit different from what she would imagine would be, she senses only people but not grimm and it feels weird.
"I... be back." Ruby thinks of the song she really likes, looking rather reluctantly with the headphones.
Ruby disappeared as she made her way to the top of the building with one jump, the shopkeeper would only wonder why a little girl like her is lacking common sense, while having the capability of a huntress.
"Oh yes, the police!" Shopkeeper quickly made his way back to his shop.
Ruby oversees Roman and his men as they rob another store on their way, she isn't sure what they were doing, but since she was told to catch them, Ruby supposed they were the bag guys?
"People these days are weird, don't you think? Crescent." Ruby pulled out her scythe into sniper mode, she isn't used to aiming people with this big rifle and quickly found out her few shots would pin most of them down in no time, she was expecting to fire more rounds before any plans to reload. "Nicely done Crescent."
"What's this!" A huge net from the sky, one shot from the right caught five, the left caught six, Roman quickly realized there's one coming right on top of him, he quickly dodges it with a side roll and now trying to help his men out on the left.
"Sir! We can't move!"
"Shut up useless bastards! I'm trying!"
Ruby quickly jump down and inspecting the net to the right, her silver eyes imply them to behave, with her oversized weapon seems weightless on her hand, her huntress instinct is hard to ignore as her mouth is chewing on her sharp little knife, for almost a second, they could feel the strong wind as the scythe swings freely in midair and the sharpness of the weapon cutting the air above them,
"Sorry… I thought I already used my weaker rounds?" Ruby tested out the net by pulling some strings out, she isn't too sure at first. "Wait, this is fine I guess."
Normally Ruby would kill everything she caught in her net, if it wasn't they are humans, Ruby wouldn't even hesitate to land a few slashes on them, her hunting experience told her to be merciless and even so looking at them, her prey.
"Don't kill us!"
"Hmm." Ruby sniffed at them, it's just regular human, she then put her knife against their clothes, the men quickly felt Ruby's abnormal strength. Ruby did it as her old habits back when hunting grimm, not only necessary to know more about her victims condition, cause emotion on faces could be fake, but the heartbeats, the pulse, they can tell.
"...onto the next one I guess."
"Sir! Don't leave us!" Roman makes his run after he takes his bag, Ruby looks calm as she looks at his back, the men could see the soulless huntress smile, they don't think they understand Ruby as she jumped so far away within a blink, with completely silent as well.
"Crap, those men from Cinder are so bad, always causing more attention than needed." Roman climbs onto the roof, while carrying dust on his back, Roman is tired, but not giving up anytime soon, he tries to get to higher heights of the building, while constantly yelling at his small radio device just pinned on his sleeves. "Come now! I'm here!"
"Hey, where are you going?" From Roman's perspective, it feels like Ruby just appears from his back, Roman quickly reacts with his cane swinging, he aims and fires a few shots then runs away, this time there was smoke coming out, but Ruby isn't too concerned with the smoke Roman releases, she could still sense him, see him.
"Shit, I thought those are poisonous darts." Roman isn't wrong but Ruby seems to know the smell too well, in fact she already had resistance against it after having fought with poisonous grimm before.
Ready her scythe, Ruby jumps ahead with a quick dash and she finds herself hitting on something as hard as metal, bounce back, a shortfall to nearby high ground, Ruby looks surprised.
"Flying stuff…" It was Ruby's first time to witness the chopper, it flew above her head as Ruby was still wondering, she didn't expect something this big to suddenly appear in the middle of the city, but soon investigated it seriously.
"Crescent, I think we may hit jackpot." Ruby whispers as she thinks it's starting to get interesting.
The chopper quickly went invisible after Ruby chased it for a while, Roman sigh as he could see little red still looking at them not far away, as she knows they are still there.
"Can we get away from that monster faster! I can't deal with this shit anymore." Roman checking on his cane and his rounds, he soon realizes something is missing. "Wait, where's my hat!"
A quick sharp cut, Ruby swings her scythe from above as she has no fear of heights.
The cut looks as it's a fast-moving blade, from top to bottom, Roman could see Ruby for a slight movement as some of his hair is cut in half, there's little time to react and Roman could see his hat being throw at him when he falls into the ground, Ruby catch them all before it was too late, with the copper crushing nearby, feeling uneasy, Roman start running again, this time making sure his bowler hat with him.
"What happened?" The pilot remains shocked, never in his life he wouldn't sense danger coming on his way, the others are not sure what's going on when they saw themselves facing the ground, and soon a net caught them all.
Ruby continues to chase on Roman and she thinks she will get him for sure this time, her next round is ready but she feels fun chasing someone on the back.
"Ah hahahahaha! Can you stop running, mister?"
"Arghh, stop it stop it, leave me!" Roman with his cane, he couldn't do anything against the oncoming net, he managed to break some parts of it but not all of them, he's still trapped with Ruby standing on the top building looking downwards, the prey is struggling with Ruby looking rather grim.
"Maybe another shot."
"This is the police of Vale, we demand you to surrender yourself now."
"Eh?" Ruby looks shocked as she sees more lights begin to appear, an even bigger chopper appears as they warp in, she isn't sure what's going to happen so she just stands there and watches these amazing creations flying above her.
"Surrender yourself now! Put down your weapon!"
"But I have a promise from that old man you see… there's still peo-"
"I said put your weapons down!" The authority soon comes down with their highly armed forces and guns, Ruby feels a bit uncomfortable when many eyes are looking at her.
"He ran away…" Ruby tries to tell them, but they ignore her at will and bring her back to their platform, she was handicap with her weapon confiscated, she wonders why the cops are on her, now her sis is going to be mad and Ruby isn't too happy about it.
...
"We're so sorry!" The head of officers soon come and apologize personally to Ruby, after he gets his call, Ruby could hear it was the shopkeeper's voice, he sounds heartbroken with another person speaking in the back, Ruby didn't recognize it at first.
"Hey, do you have any numbers? I want to call my sis." Ruby asks as she looks outside of the window, sighs as she feels there's no other choice left.
"Numbers?"
"My sis told me if I was caught then I should give out the numbers."
"...so what's the number?"
"Oh."
The other guards soon come into the room and whisper to the high officer, his face went palm for a moment but soon calm back down. "...affirmative."
…
"Yang!" Ruby is happy to see her big sis again after a few minutes of lockdown, she learns it by staying in one place without breaking the seal too often, she does wonder why they still handicap her after knowing it didn't work on her, Ruby can just break it with brute force.
"Ruby… What happened?" Yang looked confused when she saw some guards carrying her sister's scythe to her, it's the Crescent, six of them with a bot on the back trying to make it, it is now slightly above the ground but not too much of progress, it didn't take long until Yang just picks it up from them, and handed back to her little sister. "Ruby, take."
"Yang?"
"You just went hunting in the city… again?"
Ruby nods, Yang couldn't believe it happened again, while learning the full picture from the guards and Ruby, she chuckles.
"Well sis, it's complicated, please don't laugh ." Ruby holding Yang's hand. "You know I have never been to a settlement or a city of this size before!"
"...just head back home when you're done." Yang patted Ruby's head. "Dad is still waiting for you, duh."
The sisters chat friendly as the guards look upon the men Ruby caught in her net, they seem to be having trouble getting them out and some of them looked too scared to be true, as they have been traumatized by whom, the guards wonder.
...
"Ozpin, how many times I have to tell you, don't leave Beacon without me!" Glynda walks past the guards along the way, a robbery just happened in town without any civilian casualties but all of the dust is gone, it's clearly not a simple crime, Ozpin takes out his glasses and takes a closer look on the ground, there's fire and some rubble is still fresh.
"Interesting, a red-caped girl with silver eyes." Ozpin learned from the shopkeeper about the incident.
"Hey, I'm talking to you."
"Apologize, but Glynda, we need to find her, now."