Forced Equality

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Summary: The White Fang has come up with a new violent and forceful way to make faunas the superior race and involves a certain heiress.

Chapter 3

Who on Remnant could be calling, maybe Blake was right. Weiss thought as she rounded the corner to a small alley nearby the book store. Pressing the answer button and pulling her scroll up to her ear, she listened. "Hello, this is Weiss Schnee. Who is calling?" she was met with silence and the static of the other line. This was stupid. Taking a random call, ridiculous.

"…We are here for equality." a distorted voice responded ominously. Weiss' blood ran cold. She immediately began to dart out the alley way before two thugs stood in her way, a hand snaked and gripped her mouth shut. The thugs blocking and intimidation anyone who would even attempt to help. Weiss knew she was powerless at this moment.

No not powerless. Weiss managed to shake off the person holding her captive by conjuring a glyph beneath her feet and rocketing herself up. Turning she took her assailant by surprise and gave him a hearty left hook. "Ugh, that's a bruise." she mumbled to herself, though nothing her aura couldn't heal.

"You bitch." Her attacker grumbled as he leapt forwards with an odd glow to his fist. The moment the fist struck her she felt energy leave her body. Semblance? I don't think I should get hit any more with that. Quickly checking where the other two behind her were, blocked, she slipped past the man if front and went deeper into the alley. I can't use many glyphs without myrtenaster dammit. The only way forward was to keep moving, out of reach of whatever the hell that guys semblance was unless she wanted to potentially drop to her death trying to use glyphs to get up and out.

Moving forward she turned the corner but as she did so a faunas with large teeth protruding from his lips bumped into her. "Hello, princess. Can I get a check on equality?" He said smirking as he grabbed her arms, kicking and thrashing in her panic she lunged forward and head but the guy.

The men chasing her finally caught up, the glowing hand touching her again. She felt her energy drain deeply.

"What are you doing?" She said almost tiredly. Looking to her right she saw a glass pane just abandoned by a bin. Immediately flashing a glyph to make them back off she kicked the pane and attempted to defend herself with the shard. The toothed faunas attempted to approach.

"You'll definitely pay for your heinous crimes, Schnee." He went to stab her with an odd staff, parrying it to the side she pounded the shard of glass into the faunas' chest. In shock, he staggered back and looked at his companions for assistance. He wasn't going to receive any as far as Weiss could tell, these faunas didn't look like the gentle, healer type. Quite the opposite actually.

Her heart pounding in her chest and distraught at what she had done, adrenaline pumped through her body, ready for any advances- "Stop, damage that girl and Old Owl will not be happy. I didn't ask for a fight, just to catch her off guard." A calm, deep voice appeared from behind the dying faunas. A faunas with what looked to be a thin scaly tail behind him, swaying with his thundering walk. A bright blue hoodie, not fit for any sort of discretion.

Weiss was beyond confused. All she knew was that clearly some faunas were out to get her. What's new? "Why?" for some reason her voice croaked despite being full of fight she suddenly felt even more tired. Backing up the glowing hand that was currently sapping all her remaining energy she tripped over the dying faunas and snagged her leg on some glass, leaving a deep gash in her thigh. Yelping at the sudden pain through the haze it was like she was jolted awake.

"Get off me! I don't know who you people are but I have personally done nothing to you!" She attempted to reason. Ignoring her words the three thugs left standing followed the blue persons orders to grab her. Dragging her forward, back over the glass she couldn't help but muffle a scream at the pain. So helpless without a weapon, so helpless without a team, so helpless without… her father. Weiss knew that this time it was futile to struggle, that weird semblance already sapping whatever energy she regained from her sudden adrenaline boost and the fact she was simply out numbered.

All she heard before entering her sleep like state was the blue hoodie guy. "Lets try not to damage her any more, if she loses too much blood now the transfer will take longer."

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A crash sounded behind Ruby and Blake. Whipping their heads round they saw Yang had just kicked over a bin. "This is hopeless! After that trail of blood stopped on the end of the alley we should have known it was a lost cause! We've been here for hours and she's been carted away and… and I'm powerless." Yang finished with less vigour than she started. The team, or what's left of it was beginning to spiral down. Wilting at the sudden disappearance of their friend.

"We can't give up Yang, I don't know where she is now but-" Ruby started.

"I don't want to think about what's happening to her right now Ruby but it is getting dark." Blake reasoned, the only person left to reason with the distraught sisters.

"We'll get her, we all know we will. I just hope it's sooner rather than later." Ruby said and Yang picked up the bin and plunked in back in its place.

Ruby didn't know what else to suggest. "Lets grab our weapons before the store closes." The other two agreed immediately. Trekking through the darkness of the evening, the girls made sure to identify any possible leads or unnatural gathering of faunas however no such sights were spotted as they got to the weapon store not too far from where they thought their team mate was abducted.

"Welcome back, your weapons are ready for you." The man with that smile said casually.

"Thanks a lot. Here." Ruby handed over the Lien and retrieved her weapon as did the other two.

They all stared as the man placed Myrtenaster on the counter "This rapier was an interesting one, very different from that sniper scythe. I almost shot out my lights with the very active dust in it!" He chuckled to himself.

Yang flinched as she saw the rapier just sitting alone on the counter, she walked up and held it as if it were glass. Staring at it, her conviction to find her friend grew. She left the store in silence, the shop keep confused. Ruby chased "Yang wait! Where are you going now?" she asked. Blake chipped in, quickly behind the two after saying good bye to the shop keep "Yang, stop. We need to find that radio station. So lets go back and come back tomorrow."

"The trail will go cold by then! There must be more clues, no way they can be untrackable. The criminal always comes back to the scene of the crime." Yang stomped up the road. Ruby followed on, she wasn't a detective but she knew there was no harm in double checking the scene. A few paces behind Yang and Blake reluctantly following up behind her, Yang shouted.

"HEY! YOU!" Yang immediately gave chase and the other two follow on. The person looked to be small and slow. The girls easily caught him with renewed confidence with their weapons at there side. Something Weiss didn't have the luxury of having during her kidnapping or right now.

Yang hefted the small frame up by the front of their coat and slammed them against the wall, eyes glowing an ominous red. "What are you doing here." It was a question that Yang wanted answered.

"J-just looking for money!" was the timid, horrified reply at being caught.

"On a dead faunas?" Blake asked in disgust.

"M-my s-sister! She's ill! I gotta do somethin' or we'll both die! I g-got a tip that a guy was left here, I just had to clean up the 'mess' they said!" The person was obviously a young child, exploited to do the dirty work.

"Who said this?" Ruby chimed in from behind Yang, a more gentle voice for the scared child.

"U-um- I-"

"Yang put him down." Blake said. Yang dropped the boy, furious the sick people who would kidnap Weiss and the sick people who would get a young boy to clean up their mess, the teams evidence.

"Who?" Ruby asked again, with an evil gentler voice as Yang glared down. Good cop, bad cop vibes radiating from the two.

"A guy in blue, h-he-" the boy began.

"Where?" Yang urgently asked. "When?" she asked once again in quick succession. The boy recoiled but still responded.

"N-not far. A small music shop in the faunas district. I- I met him outside there."

The team had probably never felt more relief in their lives. A solid, or as solid as it could get, lead. Suddenly Blake felt a bit foolish for attempting to find a single radio station among the many. With this they had something, the boy quickly scurried team watched and let him go. "We can't go tonight, they'll be worried someone might make connections." Blake mentioned, trying to be tactful with what information she had.

Ruby had to agree "Yeah, it'd be stupid to rush anything. They might also suspect us to find them, maybe we can ask JNPR to help."

"No, Sun and Neptune would be a safer option. They approached those two so might be less suspicious if they showed up at their shop tomorrow after some… "consideration" of whatever the Movement had offered." Blake stated to Ruby.

"Sounds like a plan. We should head back and contact them then, lets go Yang."

Yang had begun to walk away with the two but heard a crunch beneath her feet. Lifting them up she noticed a small, silver tiara pin. Shining in the moonlight it was a wonder how the girls had missed it, or the boy trying to hide evidence of a kidnapping. Slowly picking it up, she stuffed it in a pocket.

Both Ruby and Blake looked at Yang. They knew both she and Weiss shared a banter like rivalry. Its how those two communicated. Ruby and Blake knew this affected Yang a lot more than it did for them, it was just Yang's personality and possibly experience. The team all knew they would get Weiss back, it was a matter of when and how would they cope during the time Weiss wasn't with them. Looking at Yang, it was clear reality had set in before it had in Blake and Ruby. It was probably the only reason the two weren't as frantic as Yang was right now.

"We'll get her Yang." Ruby soothed and placed a hand on her sisters shoulder.

"Yeah, lets just get back." Yang set off and the other two trailed behind her yet again.

/ /

"Hey Sun- No, we haven't- can you and Neptune meet at our dorm early in the morning? 7-" Blake was interrupted.

"6." said the voice above her bed.

"Sorry, 6. Can you be here by 6?- Okay thank you, see you then." Blake hung up the call and flopped back on her bed.

Blake stared at the bed above her, worry had set it but the reality hadn't hit her yet. Maybe after some rest. Just as she was about to close her eyes the dorms door opened.

Ruby entered the room with team JNPR followed closely behind. Silence and mourning settled in the room as the door clicked shut. Team JNPR stared at Weiss' bed as is they couldn't believe what Ruby had told them in the other room.

"We'll do everything to get her back." Jaune stated with force. Nora and Ren looked glumly at each other, pancake crumbs abandoned on Nora's face, she was upset. Pyrrha had a frown etched onto her face, thinking with a hand to her chin. The whole team had nodded to Jaune's words.

Ruby was very thankful and trusting of their help "Thanks. Well we have a lead right now but, it seems pretty big scale."

"I mean, its a faunas White Fang Movement. It sounds pretty big ya know?" Nora input. Pyrrha still had a frown as if still contemplating something.

"I just want to know, why now? And how? Its not like they could have known you were going into town. It was a spontaneous decision." Pyrrha finally spoke her mind. What she said made the others blood run cold.

"So, you think, there's someone here. On the inside who knows us?" Ruby expained everyone's thoughts.

A nod from Pyrrha. "Ok, anything we say cannot leave the room." Jaune warned with caution.

"Your right, everything said here, stays here. If whoever it is catches wind of our moves, they might be able to thwart us till they're… done." Ruby enhanced the warning.

The wording and constant silence in the room made it both worrisome and awkward. Being tactful and mindful of their moves and intelligence was key in this situation. "Play your cards close to your chest, as they say. Right?" Yang punctuated.

"Okay, lets just… sleep on it. We can begin everything when Sun and Neptune get here tomorrow morning. We cant keep searching for clues if we're exhausted." Ruby exclaimed as she shoved team JNPR out of the door with a small smile. "See you tomorrow guys." Ruby put on a happy act incase of being watched. Blake made sure the already shut curtains were especially shut.

RBY sighed and looked at each other, then at Weiss' rapier laid carefully on her bed. Ruby turned off the lights and jumped up to bed. Yang and Blake ready on their own beds.

"Good night guys." Two good nights were heard from Ruby's casual nightly routine. It enforced inside each of them that Weiss probably wasn't having a good night tonight.

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AN- So… fight scenes, lol. I will get another chapter out before or by the 13th of december also in last chapter I meant november not december lmaooo. Next week is going to be one big yikes but if I find time to write then the chapter will be out early, in fact i've already started writing it ^^ RIP punctuation, if theres any spelling mistakes that arent contained withing my Ans plz let me know and i'll hop right onto it. Ty for reading up to this far and I hope you'll enjoy the future chapters too! Reviews aren't necessary but welcomed.