Winter gets called by General Ironwood.
Yang is bored of babysitting.
WY team gets some action.

Ps: While doing a scene, I realized that the song You Say Run from Boku no Hero Academia fits great! If you want to listen to it as well as you read there is a part in bold that will let you know when to start and stop!


After finishing her meeting with Blake and watching her leave with Yang, all Winter wanted to do was to take a long rest. The fact that her father would now be looking more intently at her movements, the constant fear she experienced of knowing Weiss lived in that awful house and panicking over her relationship with Yang becoming public; it was a miracle that Winter still hadn't experienced a nervous breakdown.

Nevertheless, she knew she couldn't afford herself the luxury of failing. Many people depended on her and although she knew Yang had her back and would keep an eye on Blake and the orphanage, the older Schnee was aware they had other things to prepare for before the White Fang's attack.

Right now what was bothering her was the latest news her sources within the SDC had shared with her. Apparently, a significant amount of dust had been recently stolen from one of her father's labs and no one had tried to move the dust out of the city. This, to Winter, meant that the thieves were planning to use the dust soon and hence had no need to hide it.

Which only added to her list of worries; her main concern being the White Fang's attack of the orphanage. They still had no idea of when it would be and it continued to seem like they would not warn Weiss, Ruby and Blake about it.

And she hated doing that.

Winter knew that Weiss was going to be devastated the moment she found that Yang and her had known about this attack. She was going to be angry and possibly wouldn't even forgive them for not telling her the truth while using the orphanage as bait for the White Fang to bite. But Ruby was there, as well as Yang and Blake; and she had made her girlfriend promise her that the moment she noticed something off would be the moment she alerted Ruby and Weiss about the attack.

To give them enough time to hide the children and teachers.

It wasn't what she wanted but it was enough to make her focus on what she had to do.

Fixing her hair in her traditional bun and putting her Atlas Specialist clothes on, Winter made sure that she looked impeccable before leaving their home to head for the Atlas Military headquarters. Using one of the special cars the military handed their specialists (untraceable thanks to a device Yang installed on the machine), the white-haired woman quickly drove away from her place.

Luckily, the ride was a short one and soon enough she found herself parking her car at her designated parking spot. As usual, she made sure that nothing was amiss and that no one had followed her from her home before exiting the car. Once that was done, she confirmed that her saber was in place and took her usual confident stance, putting her back straight while walking at a slow, yet determined pace. This persona, the strong military woman, had taken Winter a while to dominate. Though she had been determined and strong during her childhood, she had no idea how gruesome the military could be.

Not that she hadn't welcomed the distraction.

In fact, it had come at the right time and she knew that this was what had saved her from being depressed after Copper's death. Having to worry about her performance, surpassing the rest of her peers, becoming the best; all of this had made Winter not think about her closest friend. Nevertheless, that also meant that she distanced herself from her team. But Yang had followed her here, had stayed during all her training years by her side and had been supportive of her decision to do this.

That loyal and loving personality, the one that never scolded or questioned her motives for leaving the team, was what made her fall in love with Yang.

Winter had not been used to having people care for her before she joined team WYRC. She had been used to a cold father, an absent mother and a sister who was too innocent to burden with her problems. But when she arrived to Atlas Academy and met her team, that was the day she changed for the better. And although Ruby and Copper had indeed helped her, the person that had truly stayed by her side against all odds had been Yang.

That energetic, kind and warm woman that had at first made her wonder if becoming a huntress had been a good idea.

The one that had saved her life countless times and the one that had showed her what love was.

The one that had helped her save her relationship with Weiss.

That was Yang Xiao Long and Winter knew that she didn't deserve her.

But that didn't mean that she wasn't going to try to be worthy of her.

Arriving to her destination, Winter takes a deep breath before knocking the door and waiting for permission to enter.

"Come in." she hears a deep familiar voice addressing her and she does as said, immediately saluting the man sitting in front of her.

"At ease Specialist." James Ironwood tells her with a calm smile. "Please, take a seat."

Nodding, she sits in front of him and waits for him to address her.

Since he had been the one that had called for her.

"The reason I asked you to come here today is because of some news I believe you should be aware of." he goes straight to the point and that was one the things Winter liked about him. "News that have to do with the SDC and your sister."

This makes Winter stare curiously at him.

Could it be that he has found out about the White Fang 's attack?

"Recently, there was a robbery at one of the SDC labs." Ironwood says calmly. "And a significant amount of dust was stolen."

"Significant?" Winter asks because although Yang and her had found out that the dust was stolen, they didn't exactly know how much.

"2 tons." he says and this makes Winter open her eyes in shock.

"Two tons!" she exclaims worriedly.

The White Fang tended to steal 100, maximum 250 pounds of dust when they successfully pulled a robbery. That dust was usually used for ammunition and for bombs. And the robberies, though annoying, weren't dangerous because there wasn't much the White Fang could do with 100 pounds of dust apart from arming themselves.

But 4000 pounds was completely different.

"That much dust can power an entire Atlas battalion!" she says worriedly. "With paladins included."

Paladins were the latest invention of the Atlas military. Robots that were controlled by a soldier that could use dust as an element and could still operate within a battalion. But because of this, the amount of dust they needed to function was one that could only be accessible to the military or the SDC (which made them highly valuable and foolish to try to steal).

Ironwood was certainly proud of them.

"Indeed." the general agrees with her. "I still don't know what possessed Jacques Schnee to try to move that much dust or how the thieves found out about its location…" he looks at her. "But what I can tell you is that it's not good at all that this dust is in the hands of someone we don't know."

Winter nods in agreement.

"Did my father give a specific reason for him moving so much dust?"

"He said that after one of his warehouses was attacked by the White Fang, he wanted to move the dust to a heavily armed and monitored one he had just finished building. Apparently he had been collecting and keeping the dust in one warehouse for two days before it was stolen."

"Then someone from the SDC, or someone that worked in the construction of this secure facility, gave this information to the thieves." Winter murmurs worriedly.

This changed things completely when it came to the White Fang's attack at the orphanage. Although she wanted to suspect that the White Fang was responsible for this attack, the fact that Ironwood hadn't mentioned them yet meant that he didn't believe they had been the masterminds behind the robbery. But then again, why would someone else want to steal dust, specially so much of it?

"Winter?" she hears Ironwood addressing her, which in turn makes her focus on him yet again. "Is something the matter?"

"No sir." the white-haired woman responds surely. "I was just thinking about who could be responsible for this. Though my suspicions are on the White Fang, the fact that they managed to pull off such an operation is hard to believe."

"Indeed." the general agrees with her. "Our intelligence was suggesting that a group of professional mercenaries were responsible for the robbery."

"Mercenaries?" Winter asks curiously, realizing that his line of thinking made sense.

"It makes more sense for them to be capable to pull off an operation of this scale." Ironwood notes while taking out some files. "But I also had some help." he gives them to Winter. "Two days ago we were informed by the Vale Police Department that Roman Torchwick escaped his cell."

Shit, how was it that Yang and her hadn't heard about this?! Specially since Yang had been the one that captured Torchwick.

But General Ironwood didn't know this.

"Wasn't he the one that tried to steal the dust machine from the SDC center in Vale?" Winter fake-asks.

The general nods.

"And he almost got away with it. The only reason he was captured was because one of his underlings gave out the location of his base and the Vale police raided the place quickly."

"And you don't believe that it's a coincidence that the moment Torchwick escapes his cell we have this big robbery here at Atlas." the white-haired woman is realizing what her boss is trying to tell her.

"I believe that someone freed Torchwick just to get him to hire a crew to perform this robbery at the SDC."

"The White Fang?"

"The White Fang branch in Vale has become more active recently." Ironwood mutters. "It wouldn't surprise me to learn that they had something to do with all of this. Though the other branches are less-violent, it seems that the Atlas branch, which is led by Adam Taurus, is increasing its activity."

"Will the Atlas Military take any action?" Winter asks firmly.

"We will do our best to locate and recover the stolen dust." the general says. "I will place you, Specialist Schnee, in charge of this."

"I know that you will never do this but still I believe I should ask…" she takes a deep breath. "Are you putting me in charge because of my last name?"

"I am putting you in charge, Specialist Schnee, because you are capable and one of the best soldiers I have. I trust you and your judgment and I know you will not let your personal relationship with the SDC affect your performance."

"Of course, sir." the specialist accepts her mission. "What resources will I have?"

"Whichever you need." he promises her. "All I want, Winter, is to recover that dust before it can be used."

"Believe me sir… So do I." Winter agrees before feeling her encrypted scroll vibrate. "Is that all you needed from me?"

"It is." Ironwood tells her and watches her stand up. "I'll be expecting constant updates and results."

"Understood." she turns around and leaves the room, only taking her scroll out the moment she knows she's in a location where there are no cameras around.

Once she does, she sees that Yang had sent her a message with a GPS direction attached to it.

"DOCKS 30 MINS. WHITE POWDER SEEN. GRIMM MASKS."

Opening her eyes in shock and taking a look at the time the message had been sent, Winter realizes that she only has 15 minutes to arrive. And, because she knew Yang as well as she did, she wasn't naïve enough to believe that her girlfriend would wait for her reply before heading there herself.

"No, she will probably go and try to fight them all, which means that I will have to act as her back-up." the older Schnee mutters while getting inside her car and transferring the GPS location from her scroll to the navigator inside her car.

"Estimated arrival time will be in 20 minutes." the machine informs her and this makes Winter groan in annoyance.

"Great…" she starts the car and heads as quickly as possible to where her girlfriend will be.

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Getting out of her motorcycle and making sure that it was parked in a spot where it wouldn't be found, Yang silently takes a look of her surroundings to confirm that she was alone. Knowing that it wouldn't take long for the exchange to occur, she prepares her scroll to record it.

(Flashback)

"Being a babysitter is so boring." Yang groans while drinking some coffee in a cafeteria that was in front of the orphanage.

"Worst part is that I can't even go inside to see how things are going between Ruby and Blake." she chuckles knowingly. "Based on last night's events, I don't think my little sister is too happy with these developments."

Nevertheless, before the blonde huntress could continue talking to herself, she notices a weird looking man standing outside the orphanage, trying too hard to act oblivious to it.

"Mmm, interesting." she pays for her coffee and leaves the store, being careful enough to not make him notice her while getting closer to smell him.

Just like I thought, he's a faunus… Yang realizes and starts following him around the place, seeing that he was writing and taking pictures of the building on his scroll.

But, and just like Yang suspected, there was a point in which the man started to get nervous, his movements becoming more obvious and telling. Wanting for him to become paranoid, the blonde huntress watched the lion faunus put his scroll away and walk out of there, turning around to see if someone was following him.

The moment Yang noticed him relaxing his position after entering one of the back alleys, she attacked, activating her gauntlets to hit him on the back of his head, incapacitating him relatively easy.

"Really?" she huffs. "It was that easy?" she ties his hands, legs and gags his mouth before taking the scroll from his jacket. "The White Fang is getting pretty lazy with training their spies." she takes out a cable from her pockets and starts transferring the data from his scroll to hers. "Now, let us see what you're hiding." she chuckles and unlocks the information from her device.

"I knew you weren't the ones that stole the dust." she murmurs and continues reading the messages going back and forth between this faunus and another one. "But you will buy it." she then freezes when she reads the amount of dust that was stolen.

"2 tons." Yang whispers worriedly. "Shit." she continues reading. "And the exchange will happen today at the docks. How predictable." she uses a virus to delete all the information the man acquired before returning the scroll to the unconscious man, waking him up in the process.

"What?!" he screams and freezes when he feels he's tied. "You?!" he screams when he sees her. "Release me, dirty human!"

"Now, now." the blonde huntress chuckles menacingly and this makes the lion faunus' bravado dissipate. "Is that the way to talk to a lady?"

"You're a human." he spats.

"Am I really?" she looks at him knowingly and this makes the man focus more on the smell, realizing his mistake.

"You're one of us."

"I AM NOT ONE OF YOU!" Yang screams at him and the lion faunus flinches in fear. "I WILL NEVER BE ONE OF YOU, YOU MURDERERS!" she feels herself losing control of her semblance and takes a deep breath to calm herself. "I wanted to ask you a question."

The man remains silent.

"I noticed you taking pictures and notes on your scroll while you were in front of the orphanage." she smiles and knows the man in front of her is completely terrified. "I wanted to know why."

"I was ordered to!" he stutters. "I don't know why."

"Really?" she chuckles. "And you have no suspicion of why they asked you to do this?" she grabs his face and caresses it, which makes the man flinch.

"I heard some people talking about our plan finally going to happen! Our big revenge against the humans and the SDC." he cries. "That this dust we were going to get was our way of finally making our dreams come true."

"Do you know how?"

"I swear to you I don't know how!" he promises her. "I recently joined the Fang and that's why they only send me to take pictures and notes. I haven't done anything else!"

"Interesting." Yang says and starts moving away from him. "Now, I don't think I need to tell you what you should do next, right?" she asks him knowingly. "Since we both know what happens to White Fang members who are discovered to be traitors to the organization."

The man nods in confirmation.

"Good." the blonde huntress smiles and tosses him a knife. "Now, if you don't mind, I have a party to crash." she takes out her scroll and sends a message to Ruby.

Her reply comes immediately.

Ruby: We're gone already.

Yang: Keep a close eye on Weiss.

Ruby: What happened?

Yang: That's what I plan on finding out.

She finishes her talk and then texts Winter as well with the details, knowing that her girlfriend would be upset at her if she weren't to inform her of her plans.

Turning her motorcycle on, Yang puts her scroll away, trusting that the older Schnee was going to come whenever she reads her message.

Right now she had some evil dudes to bust.

(End of Flashback)

Finding a good location for her scouting/reconnaissance/spy mission, Yang hides herself and turns her scroll on, noticing that it doesn't take long for members of the White Fang to arrive to the scene. But, what certainly surprised her was that the mercenary that had stolen the dust was Roman Torchwick, who was supposed to be in a cell in Vale.

"Of course he got away." Yang thinks annoyed. "I swear the Vale Police is so incompetent with keeping their criminals behind barres." she stops her line of thought when she watches one of the members of the White Fang move forward, using her heightened senses to hear what they were saying.

"Now dear…" Roman says with a smile. "I delivered my part of the deal." he shows her all the containers surrounding them. "Now it's your turn."

"Freeing you from jail should be enough, Roman Torchwick." a female voice says firmly.

"That wasn't what Adam Taurus promised me!"

"He realized that your freedom should be enough for you."

"That… That asshole!" the man says bitterly and soon enough has every gun in the area pointed at him.

"You should be thankful and leave, Roman." she repeats her warning. "The White Fang will play no more games."

"I don't play games either." Roman promises them while taking a small control out of his pocket. "And, expecting something like this to happen, I decided to come prepared. All the containers have a small bomb planted inside them. And, were I for some reason to press this button." he points at said button. "Well, it will not be pleasant for any of us."

This makes the White Fang leader growl.

"Now, now…" he laughs. "Are you sure that's the way you should be addressing me?" he continues taunting her. "Cause believe me, I have survived many things. What I'm wondering is, what will happen to the White Fang's Atlas branch if this bomb goes off, Ilia Amitola?"

This makes the White Fang woman stare at the man, her body language showing that she was angry at the latest turn of events.

"Lower your guns." she tells her people and they do as told immediately. "You knew who I was right from the start?"

"It wasn't difficult to tell." Roman laughs. "After Belladonna, Adam trusts you the most." he smirks. "With Belladonna dead, it was obvious that you would be the one leading this operation."

So they think Blake's dead… Yang thinks relieved while continuing to record and watch what was happening.

"White Fang hierarchy is none of your business, Roman." Ilia threatens him. "You know that the only reason we helped you escape was because you had already stolen dust from the SDC successfully."

"And I don't care about any of those things. All I care about is the payment you PROMISED ME." he reminds them firmly. "And I know Adam wouldn't be foolish enough to try to deceive me."

This makes Ilia flinch.

Roman notices this.

"I knew it!" Roman laughs loudly. "Going behind your boss' back, now, now that is quite the initiative."

"SHUT UP!" Ilia says bitterly and then looks away from the ginger man. "Give him the money." she spits. "Parker…" she addresses one of the soldiers. "Your group and mine will take charge of four containers." she turns around to another person. "Greyson, Douglas and Papel will get the rest after we leave."

"Understood." they all tell her.

"And Roman, you will not leave until you give us all the dust you stole." she warns him. "The moment you do that we'll give you the rest of the money." she finishes explaining while handing him a bag.

"Pleasure doing business with you." the criminal smirks and Yang watches the first wave of White Fang members leave.

Knowing that she couldn't take them all by herself, and that she needed the White Fang to not realize who she was, she determined that she would let the first group go and capture the second one and Roman Torchwick.

Hopefully by then Winter will arrive and help her.

"Ok, everyone hurry!" the faunus called Greyson tells his men. "We need to get this out of the docks as soon as possible."

"Relax!" another White Fang member tells him. "No one is here and no one knows that we're the ones behind this."

"Oh this will be fun…" she murmurs and sends a quick text from her scroll before using Ember Celica to get down from her post, the noise making all the White Fang soldiers stare shockingly at her. "I think…" she says amused. "that you're quite mistaken about that." she runs towards the closest faunus and hits him on the face, the man instantly collapsing.

"It's a huntress!" the screams start coming and Yang avoids some hits coming her way, using her legs and arms to dodge and move around this circle that was forming around her.

"Xiao Long." Roman mutters and takes advantage of the distraction to grab from one faunus the other bag of money. "Not that it's not nice to see you." he chuckles. "But I have places to be."

"I know." Yang smirks. "Places like the Vale prison."

"I don't think so." he lifts his cane and fires, Yang moving away from the path of the bullets and using one of the White Fang soldiers as a shield.

"Too slow." she teases Roman who groans in annoyance and starts running away, making Yang propel herself forward to try to catch him.

Nevertheless, the White Fang group was insistent, preventing the blonde huntress from completely escaping them and instead surrounding her. Still, Yang was quick in disposing of the soldiers, using Ember Celica to knock them out and open spots for her to leave.

"Make her stop moving!" Douglas screams, using her weapon to grab Yang's arm.

"Wrong move." Yang smirks and pulls the faunus towards her, using her other hand to punch the criminal on the face, the woman immediately losing all her aura and fainting. "Ok, now where is that bastard?" she tries to find Torchwick between all the chaos around her and groans in annoyance when more White Fang members try to surround her.

Where was Winter?

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Driving as fast as possible, while making sure of not getting the attention of the Atlas Police, Winter was doing her best to shorten the time it would take her to get to the docks. Fifteen minutes had passed since she left Atlas Military headquarters and knowing how contraband transactions tended to go; they never lasted much.

And since Yang had not sent her a new message that meant two things.

Either they were still talking or Yang was already fighting with the White Fang.

Lucky for them, the docks were near the edge of the city, which meant that if a fight occurred bystanders wouldn't get injured in it. Still, the fact that it was isolated also meant that it took the police a while to realize when criminal activity was happening and even longer to stop it.

Finally getting to the address Yang sent her, Winter puts a beanie on her hair and turns off her car before hiding it away, taking her encrypted scroll out to track her girlfriend's. Once that's done, it only takes a couple of seconds for her to find a signal; one that says that Yang is less than three minutes away. Taking her rapier out and using her glyphs to go faster, Winter soon enough starts hearing the sounds of screams and guns, which confirmed her suspicions that Yang had started fighting the White Fang already.

Using a gravity glyph, Winter jumps up and analyzes the battlefield, quickly noticing that most of the White Fang members were trying to surround Yang, who looked annoyed. Chuckling, the older Schnee propels herself downwards and attacks, hitting White Fang soldiers with her saber and rapidly creating a path that would lead her towards Yang.

"Finally!" her girlfriend tells her and punches a faunus away from her. "Nice beanie!" she jokes.

"Funny." Winter mutters and kicks a woman that was getting too close to Yang. "And forgive me, but it's not like you gave me enough time to get here!" she creates some glyphs that Yang uses around them, firing bullets to the soldiers and creating a bigger path for them to go through.

"You almost missed all the fun." the huntress chuckles. "Our dear friend Roman Torchwick was the one behind the dust robbery."

"I know." the white-haired woman says and uses a time dilation glyph to move faster and kick the remaining White Fang soldiers around them. "Ironwood told me he suspected the White Fang was responsible for breaking him out."

"They were." Yang mutters and starts running forward, Winter following closely. "There were two groups, the first one being led by Taurus' new secondhand." she exclaims and stops when she feels vibrations coming from the ground. "That…" she looks up and notices a brand-new paladin heading their way. "Shit."

"Shit." Winter repeats and immediately starts wondering how it had been possible for the White Fang to steal one.

The moment the paladin noticed them it fired a round of bullets towards them, one that Winter immediately stopped by using her glyph.

"It shouldn't be too difficult to destroy it once it gets close enough." Winter tells her girlfriend simply, watching how Yang was reloading Ember Celica.

"I'm not worried about that paladin." Yang says annoyed. "What I am worried about is how they got it. Supposedly only the SDC or the Atlas Military are the ones capable of getting these things. Has Ironwood told you something about a military base getting attacked?"

"Nothing." the specialist says. "Though it wouldn't surprise me that this paladin belonged to the SDC and my father failed to mention to the military that he lost it."

"I swear that the only thing your father does is make our lives difficult."

"I know." Winter agrees and concentrating on her semblance, the older Schnee focuses her aura and calls for her Beowulf, which immediately appears in front of her and kneels.

"Nice!" Yang chuckles and the Beowulf stares at her, it jumping and licking her face because of its excitement. "Hi boy, how are you?!"

"Yang!" Winter groans embarrassed. "Not now." she points towards the paladin that was now even closer than ever.

"Ok, ok." she becomes serious and focuses.

(Start playing song here!)

"Those paladins are piloted by one person, right?" the blonde asks her and Winter nods in confirmation. "Good. Then send Beo to distract the paladin while you and I prepare."

"Beo?" the white-haired woman asks amused but does as said. "Go!" she orders her beast and it does as said, moving around the paladin and attacking its legs.

"Now, are you ready to do the SunBlizzard?" Yang asks her excitedly and Winter knows she cannot refuse her.

"As ready as I will be." she smirks and they both get closer to the paladin, watching Beo biting and getting rid of its weapons.

"YOU ANNOYING BEAST!" the man inside the paladin screams. "Stop moving!" he fires at the Beowulf and the two women watch it dissipate. "Finally." he turns around and notices them. "Now it's your turn."

"I don't think so." Yang smiles cheekily. "Now!" she screams and the two of them move in opposite ways, the blonde using Ember Celica to propel herself forward while Winter used her glyphs to accelerate.

"Those glyphs… That creature…" the faunus starts realizing who he's fighting against. "SCHNEE!" he screams.

"Guess he figured it out." Winter continues placing her glyphs around the paladin but takes her beanie off, getting the man angrier.

"You…" he says bitterly. "You will pay for what your family has done to us. Today, you die."

"Not the first time she has heard that!" Yang answers him back while looking at her girlfriend expectantly.

When Winter nods in confirmation, Yang immediately uses her semblance and her hair becomes brighter, knowingly canalizing her anger and making sure that all the power of it is in her gauntlets.

Winter, meanwhile, was using her saber and glyphs to keep the paladin focused on her, switching from side to side and getting rid of the weapons her Beowulf failed to destroy. Jumping away from a punch directed at her, the white-haired woman watches Yang running towards the starting point, signaling to her that she was ready.

Using her semblance to create a flock of birds to act as a distraction, Winter concentrates and activates the first glyph, waiting for Yang to get in position.

"Stop playing games!" the White Fang man destroys the last of her birds. "Schnee!" he turns towards her, taking a step in her direction that makes Winter activate the glyph.

"NOW! SunBlizzard!" the specialist screams and watches Yang moving from glyph to glyph her speed increasing with each one she went over.

The White Fang soldier, noticing this, tries immediately to move away, only now realizing that Winter had trapped him with one of her glyphs. Concentrating on that one, the Schnee woman creates a blizzard that freezes his legs, making the robot stop all movement.

Yang, meanwhile, was watching her girlfriend setting the trap. She knew that the moment Winter activated the glyph under the paladin it would be the moment the last time dilation glyph would be activated. And, preparing for that, Yang activated Ember Celica, not stopping her momentum and trusting that Winter had set the glyphs up just the way she needed them to. And, as she could expect of her perfect girlfriend, Yang was now heading straight towards the paladin, her arm bending back and then clashing with the robot's head, all the power of her semblance and Winter's glyphs combining.

(End of song)

"Oh yeah!" Yang screams excitedly while watching the robot going backwards, it crashing with the wall and shutting down, its head completely destroyed. "Winter, that was fucking awesome!"

Winter just chuckles and goes to where the White Fang member collapsed.

"Well, I will admit that the attack was quite something."

"Only that?" her girlfriend pouts. "Come on Winter, I saw how excited you were when we perfectly coordinated our movements."

Winter blushes.

"Perhaps." she places a device on the prisoner that will prevent him from using his aura. "Did you call the cleaning crew?" she asks.

"Did so the moment I decided to attack." Yang promises. "Though I'm pissed that Torchwick escaped. He recognized me."

"Of course he did since you were the one that captured him." the white-haired woman says calmly. "He will assume that the Vale Police hired you again. And I will make sure that there is some trail in their archives to make it seem more plausible."

"Good. The last thing I wanted was to make them be aware of our presence here." she murmurs. "That's why I didn't attack the first group. They took some dust before I deemed it prudent to intervene." she adds embarrassed.

"You did the right thing, Yang." Winter promises her. "The last thing we want is for you to put your wellbeing in danger."

"I know." the blonde agrees. "And although we can consider this mission a success, there are some things that we will need to discuss as a group."

"There are?" Winter asks but remembers that her girlfriend mentioned that Adam had a new second-in-command. "Does this mean then that our plans will be changing?"

Perhaps they could find a better way to stop the White Fang attack on the orphanage.

"Well, knowing that the White Fang is in the possession of at least a ton of dust will certainly change our plans." Yang mutters. "The risk of them planting a bomb at the orphanage is too high and with only Ruby and Blake there to secure things we would be gambling Weiss' safety."

"We don't know if the White Fang will use the stolen dust for that operation." the specialist reminds her.

"I caught a spy taking pictures and notes outside of the orphanage." she informs her girlfriend who immediately flinches. "I followed him and hacked into his device, getting all the messages, contacts and information that he had in it."

"So that was how you found out about the exchange happening today."

Yang nods in confirmation.

"I want to return to the base to read everything that scroll had." the huntress says simply. "In all honesty I don't expect to find much, but hopefully it will give me something to get my sources to give me more info."

"More information about what?" Winter asks curiously.

"About the state of faunus around Atlas." she closes her eyes. "I knew that what Weiss was doing with that orphanage was a big thing…" she whispers. "But if she's making the White Fang react this way then that must mean something else is going on."

"You mean that now you don't want the White Fang to destroy the orphanage because it seems like it means something to them?"

"Yes." Yang says honestly. "Before knowing about the dust robbery and their interest in the orphanage as a whole, I thought they were going to infiltrate the place for Weiss. To try to hurt her. But after today, it seems like the White Fang's intent is to destroy everything about the place."

"Because now Weiss is not the only person that has shown support for the faunus. The workers, the teachers, the other faunus kids there… They represent a reality that the White Fang does not want to accept." Winter realizes what her girlfriend is saying.

"And they're terrified of what this could mean to them. Which is why they seem to be so keen on destroying the orphanage. If that's the case, then that means we must do all we can to stop them from doing that." she smiles sadly at her girlfriend. "Besides, I prefer this plan better." she whispers the last part and Winter must agree.

Everything was better than hurting Weiss.