Inside of a barely lit warehouse, Roman Torchwich lights himself a cigar and after taking a puff from the cancer stick, he glances over his shoulder and asks, "Do I need to explain it any further to you animals, or do you actually understand the plan now?"

"So we can steal whatever we want from the docks as long as we make sure we get you this container, and on top of that we get paid for getting you back in one piece? This seems too good to be true.", one of the Faunus notes as he puts on a White Fang mask, all while his dog tail wags with excitement.

Roman just shakes his head at the boy and growls back, "It not gonna be easy, Fido. There are going to be guards, guards that we'll have to neutralize with the nerve gas I so graciously provided. One huff of this stuff and they'll be out in a second, won't even know what happened to 'em.", as he puts the cane up to the Faunus' chin. As he pulls the deadly instrument away from the Faunus' jowl, he hears a cackle slowly approach him from behind, turning around to see a tall Faunus dressed as a White Fang lieutenant, holding a Ursa mask in his right hand as he smiles menacingly down at Roman.

"So we can have as much fun as we want and plunder to our hearts' content, and you're even paying us to boot. Ai, this has to be the best job I've had in months.", the Faunus notes as he bears his fangs as his smile widens.

"Just remember who's in charge here, Foxy. I just want them knocked out, not dead. I might be a criminal, but I'm no killer.", Roman shoots back as he points his cane at the wolf Faunus.

The Faunus only grins at this before mocking Roman, saying, "Aren't you soft? Fine, since it's part of the contract, I'll try to keep my hook clean, but if they come at me, well, I'll just be defending myself~"

As the master thief pulls his cane away from the big bad wolf, he growls under his breath, "Damn dirty mutt, tryna' ruin my plans." He motions for them all to move as he shouts, "Come on ladies, we don't have all night! Wave one is coming with me! If we run into any trouble, Neo will go with wave two, then we'll have a backup squad of air support on standby. You guys better not have your noses up each other's asses when I give you the signal, got it?"

As the group moves out, Roman along with the wolf Faunus and twenty other White Fang disguised Faunus all get into their airships and take off through the open main door to the warehouse as Neo anxiously watches the redhead depart, standing there with her umbrella open over her shoulder as she dawns a frown on her face.

Back in Beacon, Weiss and Ruby are looking at each other awkwardly, waiting for the other to break the ice. Ruby nervously stumbles to do so, suggesting, "Well, I guess we should sit down. This might take a minute.", as she walks over to Weiss, making sure to shut the door behind her before she does so.

Weiss replies with a nods in agreement as she timidly notes, "Yes...that'd probably be for the best."

Ruby and Weiss both take a seat at the edge of the roof, letting their legs dangle freely over the ledge. There's a moment of silence as the two awkwardly sit next to one another, Weiss with one leg crossed over the other as Ruby kicks her feet like a child sitting in a doctor's office. Weiss instinctively shoots her a quick glare, to which Ruby stops her swinging legs and seems to make herself smaller out of fear. The slightly reels back from this, as the guilt and shame come across her face, forcing her to turn away from her comrade in fear of what Ruby might think of her expression. After recollecting her emotions, the snow queen lets out a heavy sigh before forcing herself to mutter the words, "I-I'm...I'm sorry..." She then places a gentle hand on Ruby's shoulder and looks over to the darker-haired girl and, as kindly as she can muster, tells her, "I'm sorry that I come off as mean, or intimidating, or...well...a less than valuable teammate to say the least. Even if I think that I'm so much better than you, I shouldn't have acted the way I did. You were chosen as the leader of this team for whatever reason, and it doesn't matter that I don't understand, you're still the leader and I have to respect that. I shouldn't be acting out like this over something that was uncontrollable from the start."

Ruby accepts her apology with a slight nod before timidly adding, "Well, I didn't have to be so childish all the time either. Sure, I'm still young compared to you guys, but I'm at Beacon now. I'm officially becoming a Huntress. I need to stop acting like a little kid and be more of a leader for all of our sake. If I don't start acting like an adult now, I'll just be making becoming a good leader that much harder."

"Well, having your teammates not listen to you doesn't exactly help either...", Weiss nervously adds, admitting some guilt to Ruby's failure as the leader of their team.

"You know, even after everything you've said and done, Weiss...I never considered switching partners.", Ruby confesses to her partner, causing the heiress to look at her with a hint of skepticism.

Weiss raises an eyebrow at this and asks, "Even after I basically made one of our teammates jump out the window?", to which Ruby nods.

This puts a slight smile on the heiress' face as Ruby adds, "Even through all that, I still believed in you, I still believed in us. We can make a great pairing Weiss. Just let me try." The little red girl stands up and extends a generous hand out to the white princess, and as Weiss takes a moment to think about it, Ruby gets a slightly nervous look on her face.

Weiss just smiles at this, however, before gently taking her hand with her left, letting Ruby help her to her feet. As the heiress rises up to her partner's side, they look each other in the eyes and nod to each other. As the two partners smile at one another, Ruby suggests, "Now, why don't we just sweep this all under the rug and start from scratch." Ruby extends her hand out to Weiss again and says, "Hello Weiss, I'm Ruby Rose, and we'll be partners for the next four years. Let's try our best to get along."

Weiss graciously accepts her gesture and shakes the girl's hand as she replies, "Greetings Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Dust Company and more importantly your partner. However, I won't just be your partner, I'll be the best partner you'll ever have throughout your life as a Huntress."

"You really think so?", Ruby jokingly questions the ice queen with a slight giggle, causing Weiss to give her a slight grin.

"Of course, it's not like you'll be getting another one any time soon.", Weiss replies in an equally joking tone, causing Ruby to let out a snort as she laughs at Weiss' joke. Weiss catches Ruby's laughter and starts to laugh herself, at first starting with a slight snicker before going into a full laugh.

As their laughter finally calms down, Ruby pats Weiss on the back and says, "Ah, that was a good one. I haven't laughed that hard since Yang made our dad super glue his hands to his face."

When Weiss hears this, she seems to tense up a bit, catching Ruby off guard as she asks, "Speaking of Yang, I have a question." Ruby nods, signaling the heiress to continue and Weiss nervously asks, "So, did they find her? Did they find Blake?", as she taps the tips of her index fingers together.

Ruby looks down at her scroll and explains, saying, "Well, Yang told us that Ash and her found Blake, but they didn't say where they were. I guess they went quiet so they could talk things out and get her to come back on her own."

Weiss surprisingly accepts this, giving a kind smile, seeming both relieved and slightly bothered at the same time by this. Ruby waves her worry off as she walks towards the door, confidently saying, "I wouldn't worry too much about them. I've known Yang my whole life, and I know for a fact that she'll never give up on a friend, no matter what. They'll be fine.", as she walks away. Weiss almost seems proud of the young girl and being her partner before a loud roar escapes from under her corset. Ruby nervously holds her stomach and mentions, "And I haven't had anything to eat ALL DAY! I need pancakes!" Ruby falls to the ground before starting to crawl towards the door, reaching for it as she moans, "Must...get...pancakes!"

Weiss rolls her eyes at her, but helps her partner up regardless of her antiques. As she throws Ruby's arm over her shoulder, she growls, "Come on, let's just hurry up and get you something to eat before you die on me."

Ruby smiles at this and happily thanks Weiss, saying, "Ah, you're already a lot better than before! The other Weiss would've left me there to die."

Weiss just rolls her eyes at the girl before grumbling, "Just shut up already, you'll actually starve if you keep this up."

As Sun valiantly fights against the grime and muck covering the dirtied dishes in the sink, Tukson and Blake take Yang and Ash to the small shelter under the Faunus' store.

Tukson flicks on the lights and Yang is left with her mouth gaping open in wonder as she sees the ten beds lining the walls. "Tukson helps people like me trying to escape the White Fang, so he's got plenty of room here for us to stay the night.", Blake happily explains to the blonde with a slight smile as she looks over at the man in question, causing him to scratch the back of his neck modestly.

"Well, when you put it like that it makes me sound like some sort of hero. I'm just doing what I can for Faunus everywhere.", Tukson humbly replies as he a slight grin comes across his face at her comment.

Without saying a word, Ash walks into the room and starts to inspect the new surroundings, seeming to examine the entire room with a few glances. "Stone walls, strong enough to protect from possible detection from the surface, a stainless steel door with insulation to further reduce noise along with the door being hidden behind a false mirror...how bizarre.", Ash curiously notes as he turns back to Tukson.

Yang raises an eyebrow at this and asks, "What? What is it, Ash?", to which the boy asks, "Why exactly are you so afraid of the White Fang? They're only an organization, so their reach shouldn't reach too far. Why not escape out of their range and evade them?"

Tukson lets out a reluctant chuckle at this before answering, "Out of their range? Yeah right, they have no definite range if that's how you wanna put it. The White Fang has their men in every part of the four kingdoms, watching. Waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Nowhere is safe from the White Fang."

"If the news is to be believed, they've been robbing Dust shops and weapons dealers left and right, and none of them got caught. If they're capable of something like that, then they probably have some way to get the layout of the building in every detail.", Yang notes as she crosses her arms and thinks about it for a moment.

Blake shakes her head no, refusing the idea, as she says, "I don't think it was them."

Everyone else seems to raise an eyebrow at this and Ash questions her loyalty, asking, "Why not?"

"Because the White Fang doesn't gain anything from these attacks. Dust, Lien, weapons, that's all they've taken so far. The White Fang gets plenty of those things through dealings on the black market and donations, so why would they come to Vale, the most accepting city towards our kind, and start causing chaos like this? It just doesn't add up.", Blake explains as she puts her hand to her chin, trying to find any other reason why they'd be doing these things.

Ash ponders this idea for a moment before asking, "Then if it isn't the White Fang, who do you think needs that much Dust and ammunition?"

"I don't know, but whoever it is, they're using the White Fang's name to cover up their crimes. I heard a few Faunus who came into the store earlier talking about some guys trying to recruit them into doing some dirty work that'd be blamed on the White Fang. I bet he knows something about it.", Blake replies as she drops her clenched fist into her open palm.

Yang gets a slight grin on her face as she adds, "Well, we can't just have them doing what they want here in Vale now, can we?"

"What are you kids planning? I don't like where this is going.", Tukson nervously asks as he looks to the girls and Ash for an answer.

The three all look to each other before giving a unified nod to one another with Blake following up by answering Tukson's question with, "We're stopping whoever these guys are, and we're going to absolve the White Fang of their crimes."

"You say that like we already know where they're at and what they're planning. For all we know, they could just be collecting resources for another job outside this kingdom.", Ash notes as he walks over to the girls.

Blake seems to be lost in thought for a second before Yang suggests, "How about we start by looking for this recruiting guy those Faunus you mentioned were talking about. If we find him, we could find out who these guys are and where to find them, right?"

Blake shakes her head no and replies with, "No, that wouldn't work. I never asked where they talked to that guy, so we have no frame of reference. We'd be in the same position as we are with these unknown thieves."

Everyone, except for Ash, jumps as they hear Sun suggest out of nowhere, "Why don't we just go and catch them with their flies down?"

Blake turns to him with a slight scowl before growling, "Sun, this is serious! We're trying to hunt these guys down."

"I'm being one hundred percent serious. We don't know if these guys are really the White Fang or not, and they've been robbing places with high amounts of valuables: Gun Shops, Weapons Smiths, Dust Shops. They're either planning something big or looking for big scores, so we have a bit of an idea what to look for. All we have to do is find the juiciest piece of meat and sit on it until they come biting.", Sun suggests as he walks over to them, explaining his plan flawlessly, much to everyone's surprise.

Blake raises a finger to this and with a baffled expression, says, "That's...actually a well thought out plan, Sun."

"See!? I can be smart too!", Sun pridefully exclaims as his ego is further fed by her slight complement.

Yang just snickers at this before throwing in a monkey wrench of her own, asking, "Okay, hotshot, then what are we gonna use for our bait? Or are you suggesting we use your big brain?"

Sun tries to think of another plan, but the robotic monkey in his brain seems to fail him as a defeated expression comes across his face.

Tukson picks up where the stumbling blonde left off, saying, "Well, the biggest thing going on this month is the Healing Hands convention. It's a big medical convention that Vale is hosting this year, and there's apparently going to be a big portion of the thing going over a new medical machine."

"Medical supplies could be worth a fair amount of Lien on the black market, not to mention what else they could get from the medicine alone. It's worth a look.", Blake notes with a nod as she considers the odds of the culprit being there.

"I think everything's being shipped in from Atlas by freighters, so you'd have to stakeout the docks. And I doubt they'd be dumb enough to try to rob the place in broad daylight, so it looks like you'll all be having a few long nights.", Tukson notes with a slight chuckle as he crosses his arms.

Yang gives him a quick nod before quickly saying, "Then that's what we're doing! Come on guys!" She grabs Ash by his arm, pulling him along as Blake follows after her with a quick sprint, leaving Sun behind in the confusion before he rushes after them, shouting, "Hey, wait for me!" As the group rushes out the door, Yang pulls out her scroll and sends a message to Ruby and Sapphire, reading, "Going to the docks. Might be some trouble, so come if you want to have some fun XD"

In Team JNPR's kitchen, Ren elegantly flips a pancake off of his pan up into the air and as it flips majestically through the air, Nora looks on in pure bliss. The pancake lands perfectly on top of a hot stack on Sapphire's plate, to which she thanks the boy, saying, "Wow, thanks Ren. I didn't think you could do something like that, I'm impressed."

"It's all in the wrist.", Ren stoically replies as he sits down next to Nora and Pyrrha on their side of the table.

As the crimson blur starts to stuff her face full of pancakes, Weiss asks, "So you have this entire kitchen to yourselves? You don't have to share with another team?", to which Jaune shakes his head no.

"Nope, apparently the team that was supposed to be placed in the dorm next to ours failed their initiation, so we have this whole kitchen to ourselves. Pretty cool, huh?", Jaune confidently replies, trying to impress Weiss, but failing miserably as she just rolls her eyes.

"It definitely sounds nice. If we had our own kitchen, we wouldn't have to live next door to such a pervert.", the heiress growls, causing Reginald to glare at her.

He quickly fires back at her, saying, "Yeah, and if we had our own kitchen we wouldn't have food constantly go missing."

"Hey, I had nothing to do with that!", Weiss frantically exclaims, trying to defend herself, to which Reginald shews her away.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, Snowflake. But these pancakes though, mmmm, they're perfect~", Reginald continues as he takes another bite from his pancakes.

Persi takes a massive bite out of one of his pancakes and with his mouth somewhat full, he asks Ren, "Is that cinnamon I taste? With a hint of...honey?", to which the stoic boy nods, taking a small nibble of his own pancake as he does so.

"Ren makes the BEST pancakes! No matter what he has to work with, he always makes them taste amazing while having just the right amount of texture and fluffiness! It's like another semblance!", Nora exclaims as she nearly inhales her whole plate of pancakes.

Pyrrha lets out a slight chuckle at the ginger's overly energetic eating before struggling to say, "N-Nora, we talked about this! Manors!"

"Oh yeah, sorry!", Nora quickly replies before lifting her pinky finger up and continuing to shovel food into her mouth.

This gives everyone a good laugh and as Sapphire goes to enjoy her pancakes, she's interrupted by the sound of her scroll buzzing in her pocket. As she pops open the scroll, Ruby also gets a message on her scroll and does the same. The leaders' eyes slightly widen in surprise as they read the message and as they look up to each other and their eyes meet, they give each other a stern nod.

The duo quickly stands up from their seats as Sapphire says, "Sorry guys, but we have to go. We have a team situation to deal with."

Persi barely raises an eyebrow at this as he gets up to follow her and Weiss does the same with Ruby. Reginald, however, just keeps eating his pancakes as he tries to say, "You guys got this, I'll be here if you need me.", as he chows down on his pancakes.

"You're coming too, Reginald.", Sapphire growls as she grabs him by the collar of his dress shirt and pulls him along with them.

As he reaches out for his pancakes, he calls out to them, exclaiming, "I'll be back for you, my beauties! I swear!"

When the two teams finally leave, all of team JNPR just kind of look at one another in confusion, with Nora being the only exception as she looks at the numerous free pancakes on the table.

"I wonder where they're going..?", Pyrrha mutters as a concerned look comes across her face.

Nora just shrugs off her worry and greedily replies with, "I don't know, but it looks like SOMEBODY has to deal with all these pancakes! And mama's HUNGRY!", before going to war with the pancakes, devouring every last one in her sights as Ren simply facepalms.