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.
A groan echoed off the walls of a dark room with a single glaring light.
"Awake now?" A dark figure asked, shining the light closer to the now awoken heiress.
Weiss squinted, searching. "What? Where am I?" she asked groggily. She attempted to move, finding restraints had confined her to the chair she was apparently sat on. "Let me go." Weiss demanded.
"Very Schnee like. Demands left and right. The cold aura of authority meant to oppress." The figure spat. "We will not acquire equality until we are all forced to reach an era in which we are identical in mind and body." The man preached.
A door opened to her left, almost 20 paces away. A white hall with an obvious cleanliness to the walls, sterile. A hospital? It can't be. Where am I? Weiss' questions were unanswered but she could finally see the details of the man and people now before her. They were wearing white robes and arm bands with the White Fang symbol plastered on it. Perfect. She clenched her jaw. The greying man before her, clean shaven, checked the trolley.
The new additions to the room wheeled in a trolley that seemed to have headphones and microphones placed on top, the rest looked like a bunch of tangled wires and electronic devices. Now that she was finally able to see the room she immediately noted the home made radio set up and a microphone directly above her.
She frowned. "If your looking for a ransom I doubt you'd get one." This was a fact, a cruel fact. Even if she was begging for her life on tape she doubted her father would lift a finger, other than sending out some kind of force to try find her. She was most likely expendable. The only people who would mourn her was her team. My team! "I wasn't alone when you took me, my team is hot on your trail by now. Looking for me." She stated with confidence.
"Oh we don't doubt that Miss Schnee however, you were alone in that alley, with no trace. And we don't want a ransom. We have no need for money when all we need is right here." The man motioned to Weiss and then the room. "We have a nice little set up, ready for your début tonight." Was all the information he gave before returning to plugging in a laptop. "We will kindly let you go after our goal is accomplished."
Weiss shifted against her restraints, struggling discretely. She soon gave up and slumped against them. "Kindly? In a body bag you mean?" She scoffed. Weiss was almost certain she'd be murdered here after whatever freakish show they were about to force her into.
The man looked almost shocked as her looked towards her. "No, no Miss Schnee! We would never do such a thing to the mother of our experiments. You are truly a one chance kind of opportunity, we would never get our hands on a specimen as great as you." He smiled with an eerie grin.
Mad, this man was mad. Whatever was going to happen, the idea of being used for an experiment made her blood run cold. She was thrown into the deep end of the crazies for simply taking a strange scroll call. And for being a Schnee. Weiss swallowed the lump in her throat before she spoke. "What-"
"We're recording soon, please wait till then." he interrupted. He walked out and closed the door behind him gently. After he left a shocked Weiss to stare in complete darkness she struggled at the binds that held her.
Groaning in frustration she stopped and attempted to move her chair. It screeched across the floor making her cringe. For some reason she could feel something suppressing her aura so semblance was out, it could be the binds or the room maybe even drugs. Actually, she felt oddly calm despite the situation. Looking down at her leg she saw a bandage through the dark, maybe blood loss. During the initial attack she did gash open her leg.
The obvious White Fang that kidnapped her aren't stupid enough to leave sharp objects around. The best idea may be to wait for rescue. She wouldn't want to aggravate her captors which would be obvious suicide. Weiss could cry right now but she wouldn't, she didn't want her team to see that when they finally get her. So she waited until the man returned, being aware of the darkness around her.
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When the man returned, he returned with a crew. They checked the equipment and sorted out new gear while completely ignoring Weiss' existence. She held her ground, back straight and summoned her coldest glare when the man from earlier approached.
He sighed and dragged her chair to exactly the correct spot. "I hope your ready Miss Schnee, I have my script ready so please answer truthfully for the recording, for our audience. All to be transmitted as 'live' later." He smiled and assumed position in front of her. She didn't want to know what they'd edit her to say. A red light blipped on after he settled down in his chair, signalling the start of the recording. "Hello fellow members of the White Fang and faunas, I am your host again Jamil. We promised a special guest today and you got one! Our very own Schnee. Our oppressor right here before us so lets jump right in. Miss Schnee, how do you feel about the faunas that you force into submission?"
Weiss knew that would be his first and foremost question, a question she herself was prepared to answer if someone asked, maybe with a lighter phrasing but he sure didn't give anyone on the receiving end of this station time to adjust to the first revelation. "I- I don't feel badly about faunas. You are as much of a person as I. Although I do agree I used to feel differently."
"What changed?"
It felt like a trap but she answered truthfully anyway, maybe someone would believe her before she was killed. "I got away from my father and learned the truth."
He smirked, "Using your father as a scape goat. Your own blood and the man who raised you."
"No, I meant-"
"A man who raised you on our friends' labour and blood." He snarled. A 180 from previous behaviour, the listeners were probably having fits and nodding along to every word. She could see the rallies now. "Well, at least you admit we're people but your blood is proven liars and we don't really believe you. Are you aware of what your family means to us?"
"Completely. Cruel and power hungry. I have heard of what you experience from close friends and reliable sources… seen it. I can't claim to know how bad you feel but I understand its been hard." Weiss tried her best to save face but at this point she would probably take offence if someone claimed to know her pain.
"No, you will know. We will make you know it. Right here and tonight, you will wake up hating what you are for the rest of your life." Some men cheered from behind the door. A new kind of trolley was wheeled in- a bed. This radio station was a statement to his fellow faunas. He had successfully captured a target and showed off, he was going to ruin his targets life and let everyone know it and gained support as he did it. "We will make you equal to us Schnee. Force it upon you just as nature did to us."
The white coated men pushed in the rattling trolley with haste. "No wait. You can't mean- No please! This wont work! I refuse to die for an inhumane experiment!" She thrashed against her bonds and scooted her chair away from the oncoming men. They lifted her onto the bed from her chair and tied her to her death bed.
"As inhumane as the now legal removal of our faunas traits? As inhumane as forced labour? Murder?" He asked in quick succession and clearly fuming. Crazy or bipolar Weiss didn't know.
"Yes! I'm going to die with this experiment!" She screeched, it wasn't proven medically that you could add faunas traits to a human. The DNA and nature of a human would never allow it. Its like putting a rats leg on a grown dog, impossible to attach and impossible for the gaining party to use. Weiss continued to resist as she was completely strapped in to the bed, fundamentally weaker than her captors. It was futile to ask a recording for help.
The man, Jamil, oversaw it with a cold expression as he addressed his future listeners. "When an oppressor is finally sees the end to his legacy is when his true colours will shine my friends. We will unmask this Schnees true thoughts!" The men around the bed slipped a needle into Weiss' arm. The drug causing her to slow and become drowsy. "What do you think of this? Of us?" He asked one last time.
Weiss looked up, saw his eager grin and was overcome with fear. "Scared." She finally said after a pause. She saw him turn and heard his laugh as she slipped into unconsciousness.
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"You see?! They oppress us because they fear us! Our potential! We will create equal opportunities in an equal society for equal people! To do this we must rise, rise together and pull the humans down from their superior places to stand among us! That is our goal, to force significant change where we must be together to survive." The radio shut off like Team RBY, JNPR, Neptune and Sun had woken from a nightmare. They sat in silence.
"Damnit all!" Yang stood up and slammed a fist to the desk. "She's going to be killed and we're sat here listening to it!"
Blake looked away, a look of shame on her face. Sun put a hand to her shoulder. "Its not your fault, none of this ever was." Sun said quietly, he knew she became weighted when these thing happened. She nodded.
"We know the station, the time it starts and can gain more information. There's no way we can miss her this time, we can get will." Ruby assured but everyone looked like they'd given up, looks of mourning and sadness on their faces except Yang.
"Rubes I don't think you understand. That was live meaning Weiss is going through something horrible right now against her will and we heard it." Yang grit her teeth.
"I… I agree with Yang, its true we will get her however..." Ren started,
"She won't be the same any more." Nora finished, sadness lacing both their voices.
Pyrrha had been watching the door and noticed a shadow had been cast for a while and has only just started to shuffle away. She shot up and swung the door wide open, shocking those in the room and the young nurse in the hallway. "Your the spy. Who helped detail where we would be." Pyrrha stated. The other got up as Jaune tackled the woman to the floor.
His victim groaned. "You got me okay! Was this necessary?!" She shrieked.
Yang grabbed her from beneath Jaune. "Yes. Where on Remnant are your ridiculous terrorist friends?" She asked threateningly. The woman clearly seeing first hand what Yang could do, being a nurse and all was scared.
"I wish I could tell you but I'll be next-"
"Your literally safe here with the top notch security in this school. And I'm angry, if anything I'm a your current biggest concern." Yang threatened again, the others attempting to look tougher. Nora grinning and making hammer swinging motions, Ren motioned his hands to replicate a snapping twig beside her. The nurse paled.
"T-they don't say much about what they're doing only that I'm invited to an old Valian military bunker near the faunas district, that I'd be able to watch the fruits of my assistance and tell by the two homeless looking faunas near the entrance." She explained.
Ruby pushed Yang off the faunas nurse. "Thank you, now we'll be able to save her." She went to shake the woman's hand but the nurse slapped it away with a smirk.
"Don't forget, I sold that bitch out in the first place. Whatever horrors she's going through she should suffer ten fol-" Before the nurse could finish, she was punched in the jaw by Neptune.
The teams were shocked and tired. They had waited till 11pm and were exhausted from this emotional train wreck. "Uhm, sorry?" Neptune looked at Sun as he said it, Sun shook his head. "Right, not sorry. We should uh go find this place right? Get her back before Monday lessons tomorrow or she'll be pissed."
The teams all nodded and stepped over the unconscious nurse. Sun pulled out his scroll to get the location of some abandoned bunkers while the others readied their weapons on the go. After agreeing to split up into their respective teams or half teams, they left Beacons grounds.
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AN- Im not particularly happy with this and its subject to change however im putting it up because I said the 20th. The ending isn't great, I feel like I smashed it in. I'm also trying to speed it up a bit cuz ive dragged this out. Next chapter all will be revealed if you haven't guessed whats about to happen xD any errors or flaws ive missed will be addressed if you can point them out. Reviews are welcomed especially with advice. Also ngl this has become a help program at this point. Thank you to the reviewers! Your opinions and advice give me a reason to carry on!