[X] Go back to Junior. Answers were needed desperately, and after that, Junior better freaking have them.
Yang wasn't alone when she walked back into Junior's club. Her father was right behind her as she went in. After what had happened, he didn't want to leave her alone. One person in Junior's group had tried to stab her in the back, and who knew how far up the influence really went?
As they walked in, Junior's bodyguards took one look at Taiyang's posture and facial expressions, and immediately moved up to him.
"Don't even think about it." He stated. "I want to talk to your boss-"
"We're not here to stop you." The first bodyguard said. "We've already heard from the Fight Club. Junior has emptied out the VIP section above the club and will meet with you there."
Taiyang blinked. "...Huh."
It makes sense, Yang thought. Her father hadn't been too happy when he had left, and even if he had put up a facade of joking around while Melanie and the security team were around, they probably would have sent word to Junior about what happened. Junior knew her name, so it would've been easy for him to look her up while she was gone, find out about her relation to a trained Hunter who teaches other Hunters, and prepare for someone like her father stopping in to find answers.
"How do we get there?" Yang asked.
"Follow us." The second bodyguard said, turning and walking away a distance. The other guard waited, obviously intending to follow Yang and her father.
"Stay here." Taiyang said.
"Hell no." Yang replied. "I met Junior first, I'm getting answers out of him."
"If this is a trap-"
Yang interrupted him. "Then I'll run while you beat everyone up, if it makes you happy."
Taiyang raised an eyebrow as he looked at her.
Yeah, she should have known he wasn't going to fall for that.
"I get the feeling Junior will want to hear what happened from me." Yang continued. "I was there, you just were told the information. Let's just save time and go with it."
Taiyang sighed. "If it looks like there's something dangerous going on, I'm physically throwing you out of the building if you don't run first."
"Noted." Yang replied, nodding.
The two of them walked after the bodyguard leading the way, as he escorted them through the club to a door next to the bar.
"Up here." The bodyguard said, opening the door to reveal a staircase. "This will take you to where Junior and Miltia are."
"Is there anyone else up there?" Taiyang asked.
"In the room? No. There's more of us waiting a room over in case you start a fight, however."
"That's the best we're gonna get..." The old man grumbled, as he started walking up the stairs. Yang followed him, and for a moment, they just walked. Eventually, the stairs curved, and as they went around the corner, they stepped into a larger room overlooking the rest of the club.
Junior was standing in front of a table, back to the stairway Yang and her father had just climbed, standing in front of several large screens which had folded down from the roof with a variety of information on it. Videos here, documents there, pictures as well. As Yang stepped into the room, she saw him furiously swiping around one of the screens, muttering to himself in the process.
Behind him, Miltia heard the two entering the room, and turned to look at them.
"Junior." She said softly. "We have guests."
Junior turned to the two of them, stepping away from his screens in the process.
"Miltia, take over." He ordered, as he stepped towards the two Xiao Long in the room.
"Yang." He said. "Taiyang. I want you to know I'm very sorry for Melanie's behaviour. She won't get away with this."
Miltia flinched behind Junior, as she played two videos simultaneously. Camera footage from within the building. The first, Melanie and Yang entering the Fight Club, with Melanie calm, somewhat bitchy, but normal. The second, Melanie and Yang exiting, with Melanie bubbly and excited and high on power.
"We didn't get any good audio with what we were sent." Junior continued. "I don't suppose you know anything as to why Melanie suddenly went psycho here?"
The video played Melanie's attack on Yang, and Miltia's breath stilled as she started noticeably giggling.
"Melanie mentioned someone named Five." Yang began. She'd remembered Two mentioning having a sister called Five that she hadn't seen in a while. A potential lead to follow up on. "She came here and hired some of your men on the ninth, then sang a song that got Melanie high on power of something. I'm thinking it's the person we're looking after, judging by what Melanie said."
Junior turned to his screen, and tapped and swiped a few times, before loading up a video of the club. The camera, in the corner, was aimed at the bar, and recorded two familiar people walking into the club. The woman and kid from the video where Ruby had gone missing.
"That's her." Taiyang confirmed. "Yang, didn't Qrow send you a screenshot?"
"I saw it." Junior interrupted. "Looks like your lead is going somewhere."
"Melanie said she was giving Five place in the city, hiring it out." Yang said. "Do you know where that is?"
Junior nodded, and swiped his hand a few more times. A map opened up, with a bunch of dots on it.
"One of these." He said, looking at them. "Miltia, figure out which."
The girl in the red dress nodded, and started flipping through documents on another screen.
Looking back at Yang and Taiyang, Junior continued.
"Did Melanie say why she turned on you?" He asked. "I need answers here."
Yang stepped forward. "Five had a song, apparently. Made Melanie stronger, and she was acting differently once she got to demonstrate it. Some sort of addictive power boost, maybe? She did say she might get to hear it more if she helps Five out."
Junior gritted his teeth, and turned to Miltia.
"Find out who was on the job with your sister." He commanded. "I want to know everyone who was with her. I want to know who else might be compromised."
Miltia reached for another screen without making a sound.
"How long is it going to be until you can narrow down with Five is hiding?" Yang asked.
"Not long." Junior replied. "It's late, though. Running off to investigate now while Melanie's off giving warning means they'll be on edge and ready to take you dow-"
"Would you rather we gave them time to run?" Yang asked. "Or that I gave time for her to work her song on my sister so she ends up a fucking giggling lunatic as well?"
There was a sudden shattering sound, and everyone turned to the source. Standing by the screens, Miltia's hand was embedded in the shattered glass, and she looked at it in as much surprise as any one else.
"...Miltia." Junior said, his voice softer than before. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you to do anything now-"
"I'm fine." The girl in red said.
"Don't give me that." Junior cut in. "Take a break. Go lie down. I'll keep you informed when we find out more."
"I can-"
"Don't lie to me, Miltia." Junior interrupted. "Go home."
There was a moment of silence, before the girl in red wordlessly left.
"...Sorry about that." Junior said, rubbing his forehead with his hands. "I... Well, it's not been easy."
"I understand." Yang said. "But I still want an answer. What do you expect us to do, just leave Ruby with Five until she can bend her mind like she did Melanie's?"
"I somehow doubt that Five will be where we can find her regardless." Junior replied. "Melanie's definitely found her out again by now, so Five is probably running by now, and I doubt we'll be finding her by the time we locate her. We can find clues, but anything else probably doesn't matter."
"So we're not even going to look?" Yang asked.
Taiyang stepped forward. "Your not in a good shape right now, Yang." He insisted. "Let's rest the night. If there's a trap or an ambush there, you could get hurt bad."
"Bu-"
Junior interrupted. "I can't look into it tonight either. If I try without checking my group for who's compromised, I risk someone working with Five destroying evidence or misleading any investigation."
"So we're just leaving it here?" Yang asked. "Not going to look, not going to find Ruby, not going to do anything?"
"Do you have any better ideas?" Junior asked.
Yang turned to her father. "I don't need to follow you, you could look into it yourse-"
"I don't think I can." Taiyang replied. "Your falling apart at the idea of not helping, if I leave you unattended you're going to run off and do something stupid."
"You don't-"
"Calm down, Yang." Her father continued. "I know you're worried, but you need to keep your cool."
Yang gritted her teeth. "I can't believe you're just saying I should-"
There was a beep from the screens, and Junior turned to them, swearing.
"Son of a bitch." He muttered. "She must've convinced some people, I'm getting a data error whenever I try to find where Melanie went that night. This is going to be a pain."
"What do you mean?" Taiyang asked.
"I'm going to have to go through and see which of those aren't recorded as being in use, and then I need to send people to look into the one's not in use. And I can't do that until I confirm who is and isn't compromised..."
"So we can't do anything tonight anyway." Taiyang noted, looking at Yang.
The teen growled. "So this has been just one big waste of our time, hasn't it?"
Before anyone could reply, she turned and started storming out. She was halfway down the stairs when her father put a hand on her shoulder.
"Yang, please." He said. "I know you're frustrated-"
"Of course I am!" Yang shouted. "All of this, and we're no closer to finding Ruby then we were yesterday!"
"We know more about who took her-"
"And that's supposed to change the fact that we have no idea where she is and we're going home without doing any thing to find her?"
"Listen to yourself." Taiyang interrupted. "You're throwing a temper tantrum because you thought you were making progress but didn't do as much as you had hoped. I know, I understand, I'm frustrated too. But you can't just act without thinking, Yang."
"How am I helping Ruby by doing nothing!" Yang shouted.
"How are you helping her if you go in without knowing anything?" Taiyang shouted back. "If this Five person beats you, sings her song and controls you like Melanie? How are you going to help Ruby once you get broken in by the person holding her captive!"
There was silence for a moment, as the two looked at each other.
"...I'm sorry." Taiyang replied, softly. "I shouldn't have yelled, I'm not helping. But, Yang, please. I've already got Ruby to worry about. I don't want to lose you too."
Yang paused, as she breathed heavily. Then, her vision went blurry, as she started tearing up.
The instant he saw this, Taiyang pulled her into a hug. "It's alright, Yang. It's alright."
No it wasn't. It wasn't even remotely alright. It wasn't enough that she was useless to find Ruby, now she was being actively unhelpful by being unable to control herself. How was she supposed to be of any help to finding Ruby if she keeps doing this? Feeling useless, almost doing something dumb, making everyone else angry and upset and making everything worse?
Could she be any more useless?
"I understand, Yang." Her father went on. "It's hard, I know. You just want to do something so you stop feeling so useless, so you can feel like your helping somehow. I know how you feel."
And now she needed to be consoled by her father, who must be feeling much worse than she did. Her sister was missing, yes, but her father had most likely gone through something similar with her mother, who Yang had never even known properly. How must it feel for him? Did it feel like history was repeating itself, in the worst way?
And then there was Yang, being too angry and useless to give him time to do anything but try to please her, even if it meant letting him stew in how useless he must have felt to not only have lost one of his daughters, but also see another one breaking down like this.
Pulling away from her father, Yang rubbed the tears out of her eye.
"...m'sorry." She muttered, turning away from him.
"Yang?"
"Let's just go home." Yang said. "Let's just... I'm sorry."
If she couldn't help Ruby right now, then the least she could do was try to stop being a burden on everyone else. She'd just need to deal with her uselessness herself and stop making it harder on her dad. That should be possible, at least. If she wasn't a total waste of space.
Time passes, and over then next week, Yang will find more clues regarding her sisters whereabouts. What does Yang find over the next week?
[X] Junior manages to find the location Five was renting. Yang and her father investigate it and find some clues.
[X] Qrow spots Melanie hiding out with some members of an unrelated gang, and takes Yang with him to beat some answers out of them.
In addition to that, Yang... (Pick 2)
[X] Finds Two. Five was her sister, so Two might know something, or be able to help in some way.
[X] Repairs Ember Celica. She did have a backup she could use if she didn't, but if she did proper repairs, she might be able to do some upgrades too.
[X] Practices more weird spirit dream quest stuff with her Uncle.
[X] Gets ahead on her schoolwork. It'd let her take some time off if they don't find Ruby before break ended, and she might learn something useful.
[X] Finds Melanie's sister, Miltia. Her sister was the one who got hooked on addictive songs or whatever, she probably feels terrible too.