As the sun slowly makes it's way over the horizon, team SAPR and RWBY walk through the streets of Vale with Velvet and Fox. "Why did you two drag us all out to Vale again?", Weiss groans in her usual snarky attitude and Ash looks around with a confused look in his eyes.
The boy sees all kinds of trash and confetti all over the road and sidewalks before asking, "What happened here? It looks like some sort of battle happened here."
Everyone else simply looks at him in confusion before Sapphire raises a finger and mentions, "Oh yeah, you said you hadn't been to any of the Kingdoms before, so this is probably pretty new to you, huh? These things happen all the time in the kingdoms."
As the boy raises an eyebrow at this, he only seems to be further confused before asking, "Do brawls in the streets happen on a daily basis in the Kingdoms?", to which Reginald shakes his head.
"Nah, this is just the aftermath of a parade. Vale, along with the other three kingdoms celebrate in whatever ways they can to help people stay happy and calm. It does look pretty messy though, so I'm not surprised you made that mistake.", Yang explains as she puts a hand on the wrapped boy's shoulder.
Reginald seems to look around at the decorations hanging from the streetlights before smiling to himself and saying, "It was the Black Parade. It helps us remember those we lost and all the good times we had together. It helps us remember that even though they might be gone, the bonds between us transcend even death itself."
"For a lack of better words, yes, that's the Black Parade, but that ended yesterday. And your jobs all start right now.", Fox says as he crosses his arms.
"Jobs? You don't mean-", Blake begins to say before Velvet nods and answers her, saying, "That's right, you all are going to have to clean up the messes left behind after this parade. There should be some trashcans around here somewhere that you can use."
As he lets out a heavy sigh, Persi rubs the back of his neck and says, "Well, there's no use complainin. Let's just get this over with."
"Well, let's do this team RWBY!", Ruby exclaims as she speeds forward with her semblance, picking up piece after piece of confetti and small pieces of garbage until her little arms are full. She then zips back to her team and tosses the trash all into the nearby trashcan before a wide grin comes across Ruby's face. As she looks to see her team-mates' amazement and aw, she's surprise to see they're all just glaring at her. "Uh, what did I do this time?", she asks sheepishly and with a heavy sigh, Yang puts her face in her palm and points to the street behind Ruby. And when Ruby looks, she sees what she had done, she had caused all the garbage she didn't pick up on her way through to go flying up into the air and shower the street in confetti along with knocking over other half-full trashcans in the process. She just raises a finger before saying, "Um, my bad guys...", and hanging her head in shame.
Reginald sighs and says, "Being demoted to a janitor, how annoying. I thought I signed up for fighting monsters, not confetti."
As Ruby sulks in her failure, Sapphire looks on at the chaos the hooded girl caused. With her one eye, Sapphire looks to her team's weapons then to team RWBY's weapons and snaps her fingers. "Alright, guys, I have a plan. Ash, Persi, Yang, Blake, you four will be holding cans.", the leader begins to explain and they nod in response. Pointing to Reginald and Weiss, Sapphire continues on, saying, "You two are going to use your weapons to build nets to help guide the garbage into their cans and keep them from blowing away with their cans."
"And we can blow all the garbage down the streets toward them!", Ruby exclaims as she figures out Sapphire's plan. "Alright, let's get to it!", Ruby exclaims as she grabs Sapphire's hand and pulls her along as she speeds down the street with her semblance.
As Yang, Blake, Persi, and Ash all get into position with their cans in hand, they feel something suddenly affecting their bodies, making them feel heavier than usual. Blake looks to the ground to see one of Weiss' glyphs, but this one is a dark black and she thinks, "Is she using Gravity Dust with her semblance?", before glancing over to Weiss, who's standing off in an alley as she checks her nails.
Reginald forms a large series of barriers that gradually shrink in size as they get closer to the four, eventually leaving a big enough opening for trash to freely move through right into their cans.
Ash and the others look to each other and Blake uses the ribbon on Gamble Shroud to wrap their cans' handles around their hands, keeping them from losing them. "Good idea, Blake.", Yang notes as she smiles to her partner.
Reginald then picks up his scroll and calls Sapphire to tell her, "We're good on our side. Just give us a heads-up when you're ready to go."
"Alright, good. Just give us a sec.", Sapphire says as she mutes her call with Reginald to talk to Ruby.
"So, what exactly do you mean we create a vortex?", Ruby asks with a slightly confused look on her face and Sapphire simply smiles. The blue warrior then points to her weapon and explains, saying, "My Azure Drakes each have some Wind Dust in them, so if I use a wind attack and blast it down the street as you run down it at top speed, all the garbage should follow you until you reach the cans. Once you do that, you just duck under the barriers and the trash should get caught in the barriers and be drug into the cans. Well, they should be, I don't know 100% that this plan will actually work..."
Ruby simply nods before saying, "It'll work. You're smart, Sapphire, so this plan can't possibly fail."
Sapphire simply chuckles at the girl's overwhelming optimism before saying, "Alright, let's just get ready to go. We won't know if it actually works until we try it out, right?", earning a nod from the little girl. Taking Reginald off mute, Sapphire tells Reginald, "Alright, Ruby's gonna be coming right for you all here in a few seconds, so be ready.", to which he sarcastically replies with, "Yes, Captain Cyclops!", causing her to growl at him before hanging up.
"Alright, Ruby, we'll start on 'Go,' got it?", Sapphire says, calming down a bit as she takes a deep breathe in, and Ruby replies with a quick nod. She lets it all out with one long sigh before drawing all five of her Azure Drakes then starting to count down from three. "Three", she starts as she presses a button on each of her swords, causing the cylinders to rotate until the reach the Wind Dust Crystals. As the blades begin to glow with a green light that creeps up from the cylinders, she continues her countdown, saying, "Two!" "One!", she says as her blades are engulfed in gales of wind that twirl around them like blade sized tornadoes. As she shouts, "GO!", she spins like a top before launching her five attacks all at once down the street!
Ruby speeds along with the raging tornadoes, which helps suck up all the trash and confetti.
With both hands clenched and his wires tensed as high as he can get them, Reginald sees a red blur zooming straight for them and begins to say, "Is that Ru-", but before he can finish, she flies by all of them.
The little red speedster skids across the ground as she slides under Reginald's barrier before the giant wave of trash chasing after her gets caught in the wires. But as the powerful gusts start to force the four back along with the impact of the trash hitting their cans, the glyph under their feet suddenly shatters. They start to get blown back, but Reginald quickly tightens his barrier to hold the four of them in place without hurting them, allowing them to catch the last of the wave of trash without missing a single piece of confetti.
As the wind finally dies down and Reginald releases his hold on them, the trash covered members of teams RWBY and SAPR all turn to Weiss, who's too busy looking down at her scroll to notice what's going on. "What the hell was that!?", Persi shouts at the heiress, but she simply ignores him.
Ruby walks over to her partner and gently asks, "Weiss, shouldn't you be helping?"
"With what? This degrading maid duty? No thank you. I value my time far too much to be doing this kind of dirty work.", the Ice Queen replies with a cold glare as turns her nose up at Ruby.
Yang stomps over to the heiress and growls, "We didn't even want you to pick up any of the garbage in the first place. We just need you to do one job. One!"
"Are you guys really surprised? She's a Schnee after all.", Reginald adds as he shrugs off her uptight behavior.
"What did you just say!?", Weiss bites back as she hears the silver boy's comment.
With a grin coming across his face, Reginald glances over at Weiss before saying, "You Schnees never want to get your hands dirty. All you ever do is have others do your work for you, it's sickening. I'm surprised any of you can even function."
"How dare you!? I'll have you know, the Schnee Dust Company is the-", Weiss begins to say, but Reginald cuts her off as he mocks what she's about to say, saying, "-is the biggest source of Dust throughout all of Remnant, blah blah blah. Look at me, I'm Weiss! My daddy taught me to throw money at people so they'll do all the hard work for me and let me take the credit!", as he does his best Weiss impression he can muster to mock the girl even further.
As the two go back and forth, exchanging verbal blow after verbal blow, Velvet looks to the fight with her ears starting to flop down onto her head and chooses to step in and says, "Alright, break it up you two." The rabbit Faunus looks to Weiss then to some workers down the street working on a nearby care center before pointing to it and saying, "Well Weiss, if you don't want to get dirty, maybe you can put your time in over there with those guys. It looks like all they're doing is moving things around the front part of the building, so it shouldn't be too much work."
Weiss glares over at Reginald, who seems more than proud of himself, before sticking her nose up in the air and leaving to go help over at the care center. As the heiress approaches the building, she meets two older men who are moving things around as a lawnmower sits off to the side. They notice her instantly and Weiss asks, "Do you two happen to need any assistance?", to which they happily nod.
"Of course, it'd be an honor to have a Schnee help us. And you'd definitely make better company than one of those critters over there.", one of the workers replies before glaring over at Persi, Fox and Velvet. Weiss smiles at this and starts helping them move their decorations around.
As she hears this, Velvet simply frowns while Fox pats her on her shoulder, trying to make her feel better.
Persi, however, grits his teeth and goes to say something, but Sapphire stops him as she places a hand across his chest, stopping whatever he was about to shout. The bear looks down to her and Sapphire says, "It isn't worth our time. Trust me. Besides, don't we have more important things to do.", and he reluctantly nods.
Surprisingly, Yang notices Blake, who's clenching her fist in frustration, as she sees this and the blonde asks her partner, "Hey, what's that all about?", which causes Blake to flinch.
Blake looks around before grabbing Yang by the arm and dragging her away from the others to somewhere more secluded. Blake pulls her partner into an alley where the rest of their team and Team SAPR can't hear them, and after looking around to make sure they're really alone, Blake admits, "I used to be an ally for the Faunus rights movement and things like that still get to me."
Yang lets out a slight chuckle before saying, "I guess it's a bit ironic that you got stuck on the same team as Weiss then. I'm sorry you have to deal with that."
Blake gives her partner a slight smile before saying, "Thanks, but we should get back to the others. It looks like they're getting ready for round two."
"Yeah, this place is a complete mess. It's gonna take forever to get this all cleaned up.", Yang says as the two head back over to the rest of the group to continue cleaning.
After almost an hour of cleaning, there are multiple bags of trash tied up and piled up next to Fox and Velvet and the streets are nearly perfectly clean. "And here's one more for the pile!", Persi sighs as he tosses another bag of trash on top of the pile.
As the grizzly boy dusts off his dirty hands, Velvet nods to the group and says, "Nice work, everyone. This place is already much better than it was when we first got here."
"Yeah, these streets are so clean, it's almost blinding. Don't you think, Fox?", Reginald says before looking to Fox with a cheeky smile.
As Fox hears this, the others are shocked by what they just heard and Sapphire elbows him and furiously says, "Reginald! You don't just say stupid stuff like that!"
Fox seems to glare over at Reginald before walking over to him with an irritated look on his face. Reginald only grins as Fox pulls his hand back, looking like he's about to hit him, but is surprised when Fox only puts his hand on his head and ruffles his hair. Fox just chuckles before saying, "Blind jokes? Do you think those jokes are funny or something? You're really shooting in the dark here, huh kid?"
All of SAPR along with what's left of RWBY look to Fox in complete disbelief at his response before Blake raises a finger and says, "That..wasn't the reaction we were expecting..."
"Well, though they're a bit cruel, Fox has probably heard every blind joke under the sun.", Velvet points out with a sigh before Fox adds, "Most of which are from my own partner, but that's alright. I'm used to her teasing, we all are."
Sapphire lets out a relieved sigh before looking to the rest of the two teams and saying, "Alright, this is probably the last round we have to do, so let's get this over with and go home.", to which everyone else nods.
Yang sighs as well, her aura seeming dimmer than usual as she replies with, "Yeah, if we don't get done soon I'll miss my training regiment."
"This should only take a moment. Let us know when you two are ready.", Ash says as he joins Blake and Yang as they grab the trashcans. Persi grabs his can and joins them as Sapphire and Ruby start walking back down the street and Reginald stands off to the sides as his wires extend to the others.
As Sapphire and Ruby walk together, Ruby is slouched over as she tries to catch her breath. "Come on Ruby, just one more time. Then you can go back to your dorm.", Sapphire says as she tries to keep Ruby moving, but Ruby only replies with a groan. Sapphire stops for a moment before happily saying, "Just think about all the cookies we'll make~", which causes Ruby's ears to perk up.
"Mmmmmm, home made chocolate chip cookies~", Ruby mutters to herself as a bit of drool dribbles from her mouth, which Sapphire chuckles at.
"See? If we don't finish this now, we'll be here all night.", Sapphire says as they finally reach the end of the street. The two turn around and look to each other before nodding.
Sapphire opens her scroll and calls Reginald one more time and when he answers, they hear him say, "Tony's Pizzas, home of the best Pizzas in Vale! How can I help ya?", in a clearly faked Western Anima accent.
Sapphire just groans before saying, "Alright, Reginald. We're in position. Stop screwing around and make sure everyone's ready for our last blast."
"One order of shut the fuck up and get to work, got it. We'll be ready for you, just send her down.", Reginald replies before she hangs up on him.
As Sapphire and Ruby prepare themselves for their final shot, Sapphire says, "Alright, Ruby, you ready?"
Ruby gives Sapphire a quick nod and says, "Yeah, let's do this!", before Sapphire starts counting down. She starts off saying, "Three.", as she draws her Azure Drakes and starts powering them with Dust. As soon as the blades start glowing with a light green glow, she says, "Two." "One.", she continues as the wind starts blowing around her blades, but before she can finish the countdown, she runs out of Wind Dust. The raging winds whirling around the blades suddenly disperse, leaving the cylinder once full of green Dust empty in each of her blades.
Ruby then shouts, "GO!", before rushing down the street with her semblance.
"Ruby!", Sapphire exclaims as the red blur dashes down the street, pulling almost everything with her along the way.
Blinded by her lust for chocolaty goodness, Ruby continues rushing down the road at full speed, thinking, "I can't wait for those cookies! I'm gonna bake one the size of my head!" As the crimson blur starts to taste the cookies in her mind, she's forced back into reality when she sees a figure step out from a nearby alley into the middle of the road, but she can barely make out what they look like other than they look like a person. She immediately stops using her Semblance and drags her heels along the ground, trying desperately to stop before screeching to a hault mere inches away from the person.
When Ruby looks up to see who it might be, she sees it's another girl, one with orange hair complemented by a cute pink bow and green eyes with a grey dress over a white shirt with black thigh high boots and a black and green collar reaching from the top of her throat to her shoulders. The girl seems to smile to Ruby before giving her a salute and saying, "Sa-lu-tations!"
Before she can continue, she's hit in the head by a stray can from over Ruby's shoulder and her green aura blocks the random attack.
Ruby, slightly embarrassed, rushes over to the girl and says, "I'm so, so very, very sorry! I didn't see you there! Are you alright?"
The mystery girl snaps out of her daze and simply smiles to the girl before saying, "A-firmative! My aura protected me entirely from the flying piece of debree."
"Oh, thank the Gods!", Ruby says with a sigh of relief as she holds her chest. As Ruby manages to calm herself down, she happens to glance up at the girl to see a slightly awkward smile across the random person's face. "Ah, well, I gotta get back to it. I'll see ya later, friend.", Ruby says awkwardly before starting to walk over to Yang and the others, hoping to dodge the odd girl, who's still standing in the middle of the road staring at Ruby.
As she approaches her friends, Ruby's greeted by confused looks and Persi asks, "What happened? Do you need to take a break or something, Ruby?"
"No, I almost ran over some weirdo! This girl just kind of walked out into the middle of the road.", she explains as everyone seems to stare at her.
Yang snickers at her younger sister and asks, "So, did this girl happen to have orange hair perhaps?"
Ruby quickly nods before saying, "Yeah! It was short, kinda like mine with a pink bow in it or something."
"And she had green eyes and wore a dress like thing, right?", Blake adds with a slightly raised eyebrow, to which Ruby nods rapidly.
"Yeah! How'd you two know that!?", Ruby exclaims in a panic before there's a sudden tap on her shoulder and she nearly jumps out of her skin in terror. As the little red girl turns to see who it is, she sees the same girl from earlier was standing right behind her this whole time.
"Greetings. My apologies for scaring you. I promise, that was not my intention.", the girl says to her with a wave after Ruby lands on her butt.
Ash squints at the girl and asks, "Who are you exactly? And why are you following Ruby?"
"Yeah, did you suddenly get a girlfriend while I wasn't looking, Ruby?", Yang mocks with a wink, causing Ruby to blush.
"It's not like that! I already told you, we only ran into each other!", Ruby exclaims in a panic before looking to the girl for her two cents.
Yang just chuckles at her sister's expense the the young girl's face turns an equal shade of red as her hood before admitting, "I was just teasing you, no need to get so defensive about it~"
As Ruby growls at her older sister, Reginald reels in his wires while approaching the strange girl. "So you're here too? I'm surprised you were able to go out on your own in a place like this...Penny.", Reginald says to her with a slight grin as the two look to each other.
The girl seems to look at him with a confused stare for a moment before smiling happily at him and saying, "Oh, it's you Alpha unit! I didn't notice you at first. It's a pleasure to see you again!"
"You don't have to call me by that code name outside of missions, you know. You can call me Reginald.", he says with a slight grin to the girl.
"You wanna tell us who this girl is then?", Persi asks his partner with a confused glance.
Reginald chuckles to himself before pointing to the ginger girl and saying, "This is Penny Polendina. Back when I was still in Atlas, we worked together in the STG." Turning to Penny, Reginald smiles at the girl and says, "It's been a while, how've you been?"
"I am well, thank you for asking. But I do have a question about what she said about me a moment ago.", Penny replies before pointing over to Ruby.
Ruby begins to panic before quickly saying, "I'm sorry for calling you a weirdo! I didn't mean it, I swear! Don't kidnap me and lock me away in your top secret Atlesian Prison!"
"Not that, you called me your friend. Am I really your friend?", Penny says as she walks over to Ruby and completely violates her personal space.
Ruby, not sure what to say, looks to her friends and sister for an answer and sees them all giving her confused looks. Not sure what else to say, Ruby blurts out, "Sure. Why not?"
Penny's cold, almost emotionless appearance quickly shifts into full excitement as she does a slight hop while shouting, "Sen-sational!" "This is absolutely wonderful! We can do our nails! And do each other's hair! And talk about boys! Oh, it'll be lovely! I haven't had a friend before!", Penny quickly squeals in her excitement, causing everyone except for Reginald to stare at her in confusion.
Velvet points to her awkwardly before asking, "Does she always do this?", as she looks to Reginald for answers, to which he sighs.
"Penny's a bit...odd to say the least. But even this is a bit overboard for you. What are you even doing here, Penny?", Reginald says as he tries to pull the girl back into reality.
When she hears this, the red head stands up straight and says, "I'm here to observe Vale. I haven't been enrolled in any of the four academies yet, and my father always told me about how nice Vale was all year round, so I decided to come and visit, with his permission of course."
"Oh, so you're a tourist then?", Blake asks with a slightly less confused look on her face, to which Penny nods.
Persi chuckles at this and says, "Well, then we'll just have to be good hosts and show you around, huh?"
As his fox ears twitch, Fox raises an eyebrow at something before randomly saying, "Look who's late to the party.", which is accompanied by someone's heavy breathing.
They all look for the source and find it to be Sapphire, who's exhausted from trying to chase down Ruby. "You're..faster than I thought...", Sapphire manages to say before desperately gasping for air.
Reginald simply chuckles at her helpless state before saying, "And this is our all mighty leader: Sapphire Cobolt, Fearless and Undefeatable!"
"Hey, you try using five swords while managing to control each of their Dust regulators at the same time!", Sapphire snaps back through her weezing.
Penny looks around before eventually asking, "So, what exactly are you doing here, Reginald? It doesn't seem like any reconnaissance mission we've ever been on before."
"Well, it's less reconnaissance and more collection duty.", Reginald reluctantly answers the girl, and Penny nods.
Giving the boy a simple nod, Penny asks, "I see. Do you all need any assistance in the matter?"
Sapphire gives the girl a heavy sigh before saying, "Well, I kinda ran out of Wind Dust. So I can't do any more of those blasts."
"And I'm all outta juice. If I use my Semblance anymore, I'll probably pass out.", Ruby adds in nearly exhausted state.
"Then, if that's the case, I'll assist you in your mission.", Penny happily replies with a nod, earning a worried look from Reginald.
Persi notices this and asks Reginald, "What's that look for?"
"Well, Penny's got this...thing. If she gets too into something, it can get out of hand pretty quickly.", he replies as the ginger's backpack opens up and six identical swords float out. Reginald then adds, muttering under his breath, "Not to mention her weapon is a blatant ripoff of mine with some swords."
Raising her hand slight, Penny's blades start to rapidly whirl around, spin similar to the blades of a helicopter, blowing the trash around. The red head blows the trash around for a while, slowly gathering the last of the pop cans, candy wrappers, and other trash that riddles the street, before blowing it all at the four Huntsmen holding the trashcans.
They barely react in time to ready their cans and all manage to catch the trash in her mighty blast of air.
Though everyone else is a bit irritated by the girl's sudden actions, Ruby is astonished by Penny's weapons. With her eyes filled with wonder, Ruby rushes up to Penny and frantically asks, "Penny, what are those things!? They're awesome!"
"Oh, these? They aren't that impressive, really, friend Ruby. You haven't even seen their other form yet.", Penny says as Ruby invades her personal space.
Ruby then gets right in her face, uncontrollable curiosity boiling over in her eyes as she asks, "They have another form!? Do they turn into guns!? Penny, you HAVE to show me, PLEASE!"
Penny looks over to Reginald then back to Ruby and saying, "Um, I'm not sure if I-", but before she can finish, she loses focus and her blades shift to her left somewhat. With her weapons still spinning wildly through the air, Penny accidentally sends powerful gusts all to her left.
"W-what the!? RUBY!", a familiar voice shouts in their usual annoying tone, causing everyone to look to its source. They see Weiss trying desperately to hold her skirt down as the wind blows straight at her, trying to shoot her skirt into the air.
Penny panics and exclaims, "I'm so sorry!", before her blades all stop glowing and fall dead to the ground, motionless, before flying back into her backpack.
Before the backpack can even close all the way, Weiss is already on the attack, getting right in Ruby's and Penny's faces as she shouts, "What was that!? Were you trying to embarrass me!? Do you know who I am!?"
Penny awkwardly nods before saying, "You're Weiss Schnee, second oldest of Mister Schnee's children. It's a pleasure to meet you..?"
Weiss only growl at the ginger before turning away from her and saying, "I'm sick of you all already. I'm going home.", then walking off alone with the sound of her heels clopping against the pavement echoing down the empty street.
"Weiss! Wait, she didn't mean to- Gods dang it.", Ruby exclaims as she reaches out to stop Weiss, but she leaves before she can finish.
Reginald happily claps before telling Penny, "Mission success! Good job, Penny. You even achieved one of my favorite side goals: Piss off a Schnee!"
"That..that does not feel like a good thing...", Penny sheepishly replies with a slight frown as she finishes closing her backpack.
Ruby quickly grabs Penny's hand and says, "I'm so SO sorry about Weiss. She's just a little upset. She's like that a lot, but she's a good person, really!"
"I understand, friend Ruby.", the ginger happily replies as she nods to her new friend, to which Ruby smiles.
Fox and Velvet look to each other before Velvet says, "Well, your community service is over for the day. Good work everyone, and thank you for the extra help, Penny. Now you can all go back to Beacon and get to work on your homework."
Everyone except for Penny, Ash, Fox and Velvet seem to groan in response and Fox lets out a chuckle.
"Well, we have to go Penny. I'll see ya around, okay? Maybe we can have lunch sometime?", Ruby begins to say as they all start walking off together, leaving Penny behind as she waves them off.
Sapphire stops her in her tracks however and Ruby looks to her with a confused tilt of her head.
The blue warrior simply points to Ruby's scroll and Ruby instantly understands before exclaiming, "Frick! I forgot to give you my scroll number! Okay, here it is!" The little red girl rushes back over to Penny and holds her scroll out to her before Penny taps her own scroll against it, and as they meet, a bing noise comes from both devices and they both seem to smile. "Alright, I'll talk to you later, Penny!", Ruby exclaims as she waves her off, walking with the rest of the group as she watches as Penny waves back at her until she's completely out of sight.
As the two teams walk together, Fox and Velvet leave to go meet their own team in town, and the two teams of first year Huntsmen in training come across a crime scene. It's blocked off by yellow tape, but they can see the building's windows and door are completely busted and there are bullet holes in the brick wall of the establishment.
"A gun shop? What the hell's goin on?", Persi asks as he walks off toward the scene of the crime.
An officer quickly prevents him from even touching the yellow tape and says, "Sorry kid, this is official police business. Move along, if we need a Huntsman, we'll call for one. Preferably one with more experience."
Persi starts to growl at them, but stops when he feels someone touching his shoulder. He quickly peers back to see it's Ash and the rest of his team with him.
"It's alright.", Ash says, which surprisingly works and Persi lays off, taking a step away from the yellow tape.
Instead of just leaving, Reginald rummages through his pocket before pulling out a badge and showing it to the officers as he says, "Atlesian STG, fill me in, now."
The officer looks at the badge as his partner walks out from inside the shop, and says, "Atlesian STG? Who would've thought one of you kids would be walking around here."
"The STG? Must be serious.", his partner says as he walks over and looks at the badge as well.
The first officer nods to the boy and explains, saying, "Well, it doesn't take a genius to tell that this store was shot up and robbed. We think it's-", but before he can finish, his partner finishes his sentence by saying, "The White Fang."
The two teams look to each other before Reginald says, "Tell us what else you've learned."
To this, the two officers simply shrug and the first officer says, "Well, that's about it. We have very little evidence other than a hunch. No video footage, no shell casings, and the shopkeeper doesn't even remember seeing anybody near his store and all his security footage is completely destroyed."
"So what makes you think the White Fang did this then?", Blake quickly asks with a glare aimed at the two officers.
The officers look to each other before looking to the girl and replying with, "Who else would need so many weapons and ammunition? They're the only people that would want to steal weapons in mass numbers."
This only infuriates Blake further, as she takes another step toward them and as she points right at one then the other, she furiously asks, "So you think just because they're Faunus that they're the only ones who could've stolen these weapons? That's racist! Not all Faunus are thieves!"
As she finishes saying that, they all hear someone shout from the nearby docks, "Someone stop that Faunus! Get back here you stupid stowaway!"
The Huntsmen all turn and run to the source to see a boy with short blonde hair hanging from his monkey tail as he peels a banana as he says, "I'm not a stupid stowaway! I'm a great stowaway! A stupid stowaway would've gotten caught!"
The two officers leave their crime scene and rush down to confront him, and as they do so the original officer saying, "Alright, kid. Stop monkeying around and get down from there. You're going down to the station."
The boy only smiles at the officer before throwing the banana peel at him, nailing him right in the face before jumping down and springboarding himself off of the partner's face to the higher level that the two teams are at. As the boy rushes by the two teams, he seems to look at Blake and wink before sprinting off down the street.
Reginald quickly sprints after him while shouting, "Don't worry, losers. We'll go clean up this mess. You just babysit that gun shop for us!"
The rest of team SAPR quickly follows after Reginald as the two officers finally reach team RWBY, who're not sure if they should follow or not. Before they can make up what they should do, the two officers rush by them and chase after SAPR and the monkey boy, shouting, "This is police business! Don't get in the way!"
Following the monkey Faunus, Reginald runs down an alley as the boy knocks over a support pillar with the staff that he pulls off his back, causing barrels to roll down from the rooftop. These aren't a problem, however, as Reginald uses his Silver Lining to quickly cut the barrels into small chunks before latching onto the corners of each building and launching himself closer to the culprit.
The monkey boy manages to pull another trick, however, as he jumps up into the air and claps his hands together, forming three identical clones made of aura that launch him up to the rooftops before they fade into nothing.
"Is that his Semblance? Doesn't matter, we have to catch him! I'm not letting him make a monkey out of me!", Reginald thinks to himself before shouting, "He's going to the rooftops! Try to keep up!"
The silver boy quickly pulls himself up to the top of the nearby building and continues his chase after the boy. "This guy's pretty stubborn. I've dealt with people like him before though.", Reginald thinks as he grins to himself.
The rest of SAPR are quickly closing in behind them and as Ash looks to Persi, he tells the bear boy, "Persi, throw me up there."
Persi doesn't hesitate for even a second and simply grabs Ash by his shirt and chucks him up to the top of a nearby building, and Sapphire shouts, "We'll follow you guys down on the street level, just don't lose him!"
As Ash lands, he tucks and rolls into a full on sprint with his legs glowing with his grey aura, allowing him to quickly catching up to Reginald before asking, "Where do you think he's going?"
"No idea, but he can't run forever.", Reginald replies quickly as he unleashes more of his wires, aiming to catch the boy in a trap, but the boy leaps over the trap and uses his hairy tail to swing across a nearby poll and leap across a giant gap between the two buildings.
Down on the ground level, Sapphire and Persi are following after Reginald's and Ash's dots on their scrolls and Sapphire just grits her teeth in frustration. "Looks like I have no choice. Come on Persi, follow me.", Sapphire growls as her eye begins to glow with her blue aura and she draws her Azure Drakes. Persi nods and follows her without question as Reginald and Ash continue to follow after the monkey boy, Reginald leaping across the giant gap and doing a rolling landing to keep his momentum and Ash simply running along the wall like a ninja and leaping down to the correct roof as they chase after him.
"What the hell are these guys!? They're keeping pace with me way too easily! They have to be Huntsmen too, right?", the monkey boy thinks in a panic before suddenly stopping at the ledge of a building. As he looks down, the monkey boy sees he has nowhere else to go as he's run out of rooftops to leap and there's now only a giant river in his path. "I'm trapped?", the boy asks himself before turning around to see Reginald and Ash standing there with their weapons ready to attack.
Reginald points at the boy before telling him, "Alright, you've had your fun, now stand down and let us take you in."
"If you put down your weapon, we can solve this peacefully. You're a Huntsmen like us, aren't you? We'll just take you to Headmaster Ozpin and we can resolve this without violence.", Ash suggests as holds a hand out to the Faunus, trying to solve the problem peacefully.
Reginald, however, cracks his knuckles as he growls, "Or you can make the first move and we can beat the crap out of you. Personally, I'd prefer the second option. It's much more fun that way, at least for me it is." The boy suddenly gets a smug look on his face as he takes a step back and feels the ledge right behind him and Reginald says, "Now, go on, choose!"
"I choose...neither.", the boy confidently replies before taking another step back and goes tumbling backwards off the building.
As the boy plugs his nose and prepares do dive, he closes his eyes, waiting for the splash of water to come across his face, but it never comes. Curious, he opens his eyes to see he's floating mid air with black Gravity Dust twirling around him. "Dust? But that means-", he begins to say before hearing Sapphire say, "We caught him."
The monkey boy looks down to see Sapphire using the Gravity Dust from all five of her Azure Drakes to keep Sun suspended in midair as Persi simply points his shotgun at the boy. Realizing he's been defeated, the monkey Faunus holds his hands up in defeat and proclaims, "Okay, okay, I give. I give, now put me down before I hurl!"
"Reginald, tie him up!", Sapphire shouts and the boy finds himself being wrapped in a thick amount of wires, preventing him from escaping as she slowly lowers him to the ground. As his staff falls to the ground, the tan blonde boy gently falls to the ground, unable to move due to his restraints.
Reginald and Ash both leap down from the rooftops, Reginald zipping down using his Silver Lining while Ash simply leaps from wall to wall down to the street level. "Now, who are you and why are those guys after you?", Sapphire asks as she holds her blade to the boy's neck.
The boy nervously chuckles before saying, "Hi, I'm Sun, Sun Wukong. I'm a second year from Haven Academy."
"So you actually are a Huntsmen after all. But why are you here?", Ash asks as he kneels down to Sun.
"I wanted to check out Vale. I thought that this place would be better to us than Mistral. I guess I was wrong, huh?", Sun replies in a slightly saddened tone as he looks at himself in a nearby puddle.
Sapphire and her team-mates look to each other, not sure what to do now, and Sapphire lets out a heavy sigh. The confident leader goes to say something before hearing the sound of someone running through the alleys behind them.
"Come on, we have to find that Faunus! He couldn't have gone far! Split up!", one of the officers shouts from down the alley.
The young Huntsmen look to each other before their gazes all meet Sun. "Persi, pick him up. I have a plan.", their leader orders as she looks over to a nearby green dumpster.
"Wai-", Sun begins to say before Persi covers his mouth and growls, "Don't make a sound.", before lifting him up.
Ash flips the lid to the dumpster open and Reginald's wires quickly unravel from around Sun's body before Persi tosses the boy and his staff into the trash and slams the lid shut.
Almost instantly, the two officers along with another person, who's dressed in a sailor's uniform, run right into where team SAPR is waiting. "Hey, it's those kids.", the sailor says with a confused look on his face before one of the officers says, "This stops here kids, where'd he go?"
"The Faunus boy? He's been dealt with.", Reginald coldly answers as he looks to the officers with an equally cold glance.
"Dealt with, where is he then?", the other officer asks and Reginald points to the water and says, "If you want the body, well, what's left of it that is, it's down there. Have fun picking up the pieces though. They're probably already being munched on by some fish."
Horrified by his reply, the officers and the sailor take a step back as Reginald takes a step toward them, causing them to flinch. One of the officers and the sailor take another step back while the first officer stands his ground and grits his teeth, thinking, "So this is kind of talent from the STG. This boy's a monster..."
"What? You wanted him dealt with, didn't you? Maybe you want to join him then, hm? Come on, say something!", Reginald says in a somewhat twisted tone as his wires go flying around the alley wildly, causing the full grown adults to run in terror.
As the adults run off with their tails between their legs, Reginald looks back to his team-mates with a cold glare. Sapphire goes to say something, but before she can do so, Reginald bursts into laughter, holding his stomach as it starts to cramp up. "Did you see those guys!? There were complete pussies! Alright, Sun, you can come out now.", Reginald says through his laughter before looking to the dumpster.
The silver boy goes to open the dumpster, but as he opens the lid partway, he's greeted by two shotgun barrels pointed directly at his face. "I just saved your ass, and you're thanking me with this shit? Do you really want to piss me off?", Reginald asks with a slightly irritated tone as Sun glares up at him.
With his fingers on the triggers, Sun says, "Sorry, but after that, I don't think I'm gonna trust you that easy."
"Fine, have it your way.", Reginald replies with a grin on his face before finishing, saying, "If you want a fight, I'll give you one!" With a flick of his wrist, Reginald's wires go flying toward the dumpster, but when he hears Persi shout, "That's enough!", his wires stop and fall to the ground.
"That's quite enough, Reginald. Back off, now.", Sapphire growls with her arms crossed and a glare focused on the boy, but Reginald just chuckles before complying to their wishes and reeling in his wires.
Regianld walks off on his own with his hands lazily placed behind his head as he says, "You guys aren't any fun. Screw you guys, I'm going home."
As Reginald takes his leave, Persi puts his shotgun on his back and holds a hand out to Sun, who takes it without hesitation. "I'm sorry about Reginald, he's a pain in the ass.", Persi apologizes to the boy as he pulls him out of the dumpster.
Sun gives him a confused look before saying, "He said that he killed me, dismembered my body, and threw my pieces in the river. He's a little more than just an ass, he's a sociopath."
"Reginald might be a bit hostile, but in the end, he means well. He did save you in the end after all. You should not take such things for granted.", Ash says as he starts walking away.
Persi then looks to Sapphire who takes a deep breath before saying, "We should get going. If we stay here too long, we might not be able to get back to Beacon."
"Yeah...just get somewhere safe, alright Sun?", Persi suggests to him with a slightly worried look to his Faunus brethren.
Sun simply nods and Persi and Sapphire walk off together as Sapphire says, "Well, we better head back now. Who knows what Reginald and Ash might get themselves into without us."
Later that night, in Team SAPR's room, everyone seems asleep in their beds, with the exception of Ash, who's sitting in his usual meditative state. Ash lazily opens his eyes and sighs as he says, "Insomnia. How...unpleasant." The boy gets out of bed and looks to the door and thinks, "Maybe a walk will help? Something to clear my head..."
As Ash walks out of the dorms and into the open campus, he looks up to see the the fully lit, shattered moon is high up in the sky. "The night is truly peaceful here in Vale.", the boy mutters to himself as he walks across the campus. As he's walking, Ash can hear the faint sound of gunshots off in the distance.
Curious, Ash goes tracks the source of the gunfire to the Amphitheater. When he gets closer, Ash hears someone groaning and shouting accompanied with the sounds of more gunfire. Peeking around the corner, Ash sees Yang training all alone.
As the blonde throws one more punch, some of her hair covers part of her face as she continues to breath heavily. Yang lazily pushes her hair back before flicking her wrists, causing her Ember Celica to open up and two red clips of shotgun shells come flying out.
"It seems I'm not the only one who can't sleep.", Ash notes, causing the blonde to jump before she can reload her weapons.
Yang quickly turns around to see him as she nervously says, "Ash!? I-I didn't hear you coming. You're pretty good at sneaking up on people."
Ash walks over to the blonde as she manages to pull out a couple shotgun clips for her weapons from her back pockets.
Yang throws the ammunition up in the air before they land perfectly in her weapons, and she cocks her guns with a pump from both of her fists. "Yeah, I didn't have time to get my daily training in, and I didn't want to skip on anything. I don't want to be left behind by Sapphire and the others, right?", Yang explains as she walks over to a punching bag she has setup in the center of the battlefield.
As the blonde throws a punch at the punching bag, Ash walks down toward the center of the Amphitheater as he says, "You know, practicing on a stationary target is inefficient."
Yang turns to the boy and smiles before asking, "Is that some sort of offer?"
"I believe we can learn something from each other. From what I've learned from the few times that I've encountered you, Yang, you've been reckless, lazy, and to a point, a complete goof.", Ash begins to say, which causes Yang to scowl before asking, "What's the point you're trying to make again? Because to me it sounds like you're making fun of me, Ash." "And I admit, I've been a bit ignorant to your way of doing things. I don't really know what to do in my free time and interactions between others are...awkward, to put it bluntly. But you seem to get along with everyone, so perhaps we can teach one another something?", Ash continues as he walks over to her, nervously holding his right arm with his free arm.
Yang lets out a slight laugh before saying, "Sure, I could always use a sparring partner."
Ash quickly draws his sword, pointing the sharp blade at the blonde as it shimmers in the artificial light, before saying, "Then let's get this started then.", and rushing toward her.
Yang quickly lunges at him with her fist pulled back, ready to throw a punch, and as their weapons collide, they look into each other's eyes with complete and utter focus.