It was early the next morning but everyone was already awake as nobody was able to sleep. Once they all decided to accept that at six in the morning, they finally decided to get dressed and start talking. "Do any of you know what exactly happened back there?" Riliane asked her team.

Olive and Amelia looked at each other. "I don't think I've ever seen anyone like them before," the latter said quietly.

Xanthic was sitting on his bed holding his knees, "Ti-Tigre said something ab-bout Humanity, right?"

"I think so, but why would he blame all of humanity for what happened, I mean we were trying to help and I think we're all human." Riliane posed that last part as more of a question.

"Don't forget Owen," Olive chirped and pointed at where her tail would be if she was him.

Ignoring her for the most part Xanthic spoke meekly again, "I-it's not that he was blaming hu-humans… Humanity is the common term f-for an organization known as The Guardians of Humanity's Crystal. They… they're basically the polar opposite of the White Fang, a group th-that believes in faunus subjugation and they're more than wi-willing to use force for what they want…"

"Oh," Riliane felt a bit bad about her ignorant statement. "Say, how do you know so much about them, Xan?"

"Um, we-well…" He looked away from all of them, "A-after the second time I wa-was accused of being a member I deci-cided to look into it…"

The room was silent for a good two minutes until Olive spoke up, "Maybe you shouldn't act so suspicious in front of the White Fang then."

"Wha-what do you mean?"

"That weird thing you did with your coat," She explained while taking off her own imaginary coat and folding it over her arm.

"Tha-that's!" Xanthic stopped himself, "I just didn't want any of them to recognise me…"

"See, suspicious."

"I guess…" He didn't want to argue the topic any more and just sighed. Hoping to change the subject he offered, "May-maybe we should go se-see how Dan's doing…"

"Yeah, he was in really bad shape yesterday…" Riliane got up and held the door open for all of her teammates. They headed down to the school's infirmary, which was surprisingly well equipped for physical injuries. Entering the room, that was about the same size as their dorms, team ROXA found all three of the Lion brothers sitting around the bed that held an unconscious Dan.

"H-how is he?" Amelia asked notifying the boys of their presence.

"She says he'll be alright," Moonracer pointed at the nurse who was busy doing something. "Apparently the bomb was able to instantly overpower his aura and because they had to do surgery he wasn't able to heal like normal."

Simba stood up, "We appreciate you guys coming, but…" His yellow eyes locked on Xanthic, "I have to ask you to leave."

"What? Why?" Riliane reminded herself to keep her voice down.

"It's nothing personal, I swear, but we all know that the only person Dan would want to see less when he wakes up is a Schnee."

"You do realise it was-" Xanthic patted his partner's shoulder and put on a smile he knew she couldn't see.

He nodded at Simba, "It's alright, I understand. If you'll excuse me," Xanthic kept his composure just long enough to leave the room.

Riliane finished her argument, though she mumbled it now, "He was the one who suggested we come down anyway…"

"That's a bit surprising since Dan has never even been remotely nice to him," Moonracer thought outloud.

Simba couldn't resist himself and chuckled, "Maybe he had a different reason for coming down then."

Moonracer shook his head with a giant grin on his face, "I doubt it, more likely he's either keeping up appearances or is just a nice person." The girls of ROXA weren't entirely sure how to react to that as they themselves weren't entirely sure which one was true. Changing the discussion back to Dan and the rally the six of them talked for quite a while as Tigre explained to them how he got so injured.

"Um s-sorry, but well…" Xanthic re-entered the infirmary and was closely followed by Ozpin.

"Pardon the intrusion, but the police have called and wish to speak with all of you," Their headmaster informed them.

"We're not leaving," Tigre decided.

"If it's because of your brother than I assure you that he will be just fine for an hour."

"I won't leave him alone."

"Would it be acceptable if I watched him in your place then?"

Ozpin's amber eyes didn't falter in the slightest at Tigre's burning gold. "Fine," He decided bitterly. Looking down at his brother one last time he sighed, "Better be quick."


ROXA and the healthy members of SDTM met up with team CODE on their way down to the station. Once there they separated them into groups being sent to different rooms to make the process go quicker. Riliane was called into one of the interrogation rooms first as she was one of the team leaders. The officer apparently in charge lead her down the hall from the station doors and into a fairly small room that was bare of any decoration, not that she would've noticed either way. Opposite of the bare stone wall was a one-way mirror. Above the metal table, which held a voice recorder, and pair of chairs was a single hanging light. The policeman guided Riliane across the room and pulled out the chair for her. "Well you're definitely a first…" He muttered under his breath. Sitting down across from her, the officer pulled out a scroll and looked back over to Riliane, "Name?"

"Riliane Avadona."

After typing in the name he scanned over the information, idly repeating it out loud as he did, "Only child of the Avadona family, owners of the Dispater mining company, no relation to faunus labor." Looking back up at her he continued "So what did you uh… ...see?"

"It's alright," Riliane responded with a laugh. "I can't exactly describe what they looked like for you, but there were several gunmen and two well trained attackers."

The officer nodded, "Yeah, that about fits the basic report we have… It seems you and your team reacted pretty quickly to the whole thing."

"We did what we could, I wish we could have done more though."

"You and your friends did fine kid, It could have been a whole lot worse without you." As he finished Riline heard the man stand up and open the door causing her to turn and try to face his direction, "Thank you for your time, but I think it'd be better to just go ahead and talk to your teammates about the event… no offense of course."

Standing up and moving to the door Riliane spoke with a hint of disappointment in her voice as she let him guide her back down the hall, "Yes that seems like a good idea, I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help."

...

Back in the lobby Celeste was sitting in a nearby chair, when an older man and a younger woman in uniform came up to her. "We're going to try and speed this up a bit, so if you could follow us miss," The lady said to her.

"Can I get your name miss?" The man asked once they were inside one of the dimly lit interrogation rooms.

"Celeste Shade." Celeste replied while taking a seat, she tilted it back and balanced herself with her feet up on the metal table. The officer typed her name into his scroll and she saw her picture appear and some of her information.

"Ms. Shade. Huntress in training, and…." he looked up from his scroll, "Member of the Kōmori family. Now what is a Kōmori doing fighting a group of thugs?"

"That is a question I would like answered as well. As far as my family is concerned, what I choose to do with my life is up to me."

"Interesting that you would've been there with your family being who they are though." The police woman mused.

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Celeste asked, quickly standing up.

"Just stating that having a faunus family on that social level, and with you being human, it could raise some questions."

"My family has nothing to do with what went on, so drop it!"

"Alright, calm down kid. We just have a few questions, if you don't mind?" The male officer asked.

"That's why I'm here. Isn't it?" Celeste asked sarcastically, sitting back down.

"Fair enough. Do you know who the group was?"

"Nope."

"Do you know why they attacked?"

"Nope."

"Do you know where they went?"

"Listen all I know is that they attacked innocent people and we

stopped them." Celeste said.

"Okay…" the officer looked to his partner who just shrugged. "I think we are done here. Just keep yourself out of trouble kid."

"Yeah well trouble found me, adult." Celeste said as the officers were

walking away. She sighed and returned back to the front of the building where she saw Riliane was back, but Owen and Eve were now gone.


Owen's eyes scanned the room, He tried to see if anything was out of the ordinary, a wire or camera perhaps. Other than the one way mirror, nothing was out of place, for now. The door opened to an officer who sat down and asked for his name, looking up in surprise when he received it "So you're Owen, your reputation precedes you. You helped save a lot of lives."

Owen was shocked, but tried to keep cool. "Thank you, sir." He said, his eye still pacing around the room. Realizing it, Owen calmed himself and focused on answering the officer's questions.

"So Owen… 16 years old, tragic history for someone so young. I assume it was you that brought your friends to the rally?"

"We just ended up there by accident," Owen responded unscathed by what the man was ensuing. "Not all faunus want to go out and protest." Staring at the man for a second, Owen started to read his mind. "No. I don't know who would do this. No, I don't think anyone on my team would know. And no I have nothing else to report."

Confused, the man stared at Owen and then back down to his scroll before a look of understanding and annoyance crossed his face. "And yes," Owen said, reading the officer's thoughts one more time, "I want to leave just as much as you want me to."

"Better watch your attitude kid, even if you were a hero acting like that will get you in trouble." With nothing left to say, the officer stood up and held the door open, gesturing for Owen to leave.

...

Elsewhere, Eve leaned back in the uncomfortable chair and waited patiently. She had already spoken to one officer who had taken her name and left the room shortly after staring at his scroll in confusion. Which was a shame as she had already thought out her responses, and had hoped it would go quick. Some time later the officer returned with another person who he introduced as working for the records department.

"Hello." The man greeted, holding out his hand. Eve shook it and then leaned back once more.

After this the two sat down across from her and the officer began to speak "We're going to start with a few simple questions, What did you see happen?" The man asked.

"Not much." Eve admitted. "I was so shocked that I passed out. And when I came to I saw my partner sitting next to me."

"Can you explain what little you saw of the event then?"

"There was a lot of smoke, gunshots." Eve said slowly. "Everyone was running and screaming, there were grunts pushing people around." The man nodded and continued.

"Do you know who the group is?"

"Not really." Eve said calmly, without hesitation. "I know that they've made threats before. But I don't know much about them."

It was then that the other officer spoke up "If you don't mind I have a question for you myself, although this doesn't have to do with the event per say." She said. Eve looked at her, silent. "When we searched for your records, we could barely find anything. It's like you were a ghost. Can you tell us why that is?"

"I was given up when I was born." Eve said calmly. "They put me in an orphanage and there was an error transferring the documents. I'm surprised they still haven't fixed it."

"That is strange though," The officer replied. "They usually solve those things in a short period of time." Eve nodded as she spoke. "Well anyways there are much more pressing matters and hand, but if you wouldn't mind…" The woman stopped and pulled out a card that she handed to Eve. "Whenever you have the time we really need to get those records fixed so everything is right and proper."

Nodding again Eve took the card and put it in her pocket "Is that all?" She asked. The policeman was silent, and then he stood up and pushed his chair in, the other doing the same.

"Yes, thank you for your time Miss Glamis." Eve stood up as well and shook the woman's hand again as they walked out. After being escorted out of the room, she softly released the breath she had been holding.


D'art sat in the room, the light swinging from the ceiling. "C'mon..." he muttered to himself. It had been quite a while since the officers had sent him back and told him to wait. Thankfully it was just then that an officer entered the room and sat down pulling out a scroll and asking for his name, which D'art quickly provided.

"Ok... Mr. Montaigne. Do you mind describing what you-" The man stopped as D'art was looking nervously back and forth from the door to the man's face. "Look kid, the better you answer my questions, the quicker you leave. Deal?" Eager, D'art nodded and gave his full attention to the officer. "Good, now Where were you in the chaos?"

D'art answered quickly "Helping my partner. She had some kind of episode, I got her to safety. I didn't see much."

"Ok. Did you recognize any of the attackers?" D'art shook his head in response along with a short "No", sad he couldn't help in identifying any of them. "I see… now Mr. Montaigne, I understand there are radical groups within the ridge, yes? Any recent attacks or incidents we should know about?"

D'arts face of worry turned to anger. "No. Sir." D'art gritted through his teeth.

"I mean nothing by it, kid. I understand that your people can be ones to hold a grudge is all and for the public's sake we need to check everything." Looking at his scroll and away from Dart's glare he continued with a cough "Ok then. Is there anything else you'd like to put on the record?" D'art shook his head again, still miffed about the man's rude comment. Without another word the man stood up and opened the door letting D'art rush out to return to his friends. As he made it to the lobby he could see Owen being led off to one of the many rooms.

...

After being called Amelia walked down the hall, exchanging a faint smile with one of the officers before she entered the room.

"Hello, take a seat." The officer said "Just a few quick questions and we'll be done" Amelia nodded. The officer asked for her name and typed it into his scroll before continuing.

"What did you see happen at the rally?"

"Everything was fine at first." Amelia replied. "And then all of a sudden there were gunshots, and a bunch of grunts in white appeared. Everyone was freaking out, so my teammates and I tried to help the injured." The man nodded. "After a while two particularly strong grunts came out and we did our best to fend them off. After they retreated, the few hostages we had were killed.." Amelia said softly.

"Yes, and that was a shame." The man said sadly. "Can you tell us more about the two stronger combatants you fought?"

"One was a man, he was burly looking; used a flamethrower. And there was a woman who used elemental magic."

"That should be all. Thank you for coming in." Officer said as he stood up. Amelia nodded, gratefully exiting the cold room with a shiver.


After being escorted back around 20 minutes prior Xanthic's leg was jumping in anticipation as he waited for his questioning to begin. The single door to the room was opened and closed by a young man who asked for Xanthic's name and then took a deep breath, "Sorry 'bout the wait, I had some unexpected issues with paperwork."

"Oh, it's alright sir. It wasn't that long, So what is it you need from me?"

"For starters I'd just like to hear your perspective on what exactly happened."

"Of course, um… It was probably around four o'clock when my friends and I came by the CCT. Some of our classmates there were participating in the rally invited us over to talk to them, then it must have been the first grenade that was thrown. Everyone was running… I don't exactly remember who was going where, but I had to stay with my partner so that she'd be able to fight despite the noise. When those other two came out and it had calmed down a bit then I tried to fight them head on, but I was taken down quickly and I really only remember hearing Tigre and Moonracer yelling about something after that." Xanthic was able to recite the events very steadily.

The officer raised his eyebrow, "You seem to be awfully calm after what happened…"

"No I just… I've been thinking about it a lot…"

"I see," He wrote something down. "Mr. Picto do you know who was behind the attack?"

"The Guardians of Humanity's Crystal." Seeing the judging look in the policeman's eyes Xanthic explained how he knew that. "I- Because of my family's history I've heard a good amount about an anti-faunus organization and after yesterday I did some research on them. I found that there were official threats made about what happened."

"Right, well are you aware of any connection your family may have to them?"

"Sir, my parents have spent the last decade trying to repair our relationship with the faunus. Neither of them would ever work with terrorists."

"Very well then, unless there's something else you'd like to add, I believe we're done here."

"There's nothing I can think of at the moment." They both stood up and the officer opened the door for Xanthic, "If you need anything else, I'd be happy to help."

"Thank you, but it'll be best if you kids leave this to the professionals." Xanthic ignored Nivens' crude remarks about the not-so-professionals. "Oh, if you wouldn't mind on your way out directing Ms. Braz this way, please."

"Of course, sir," He bowed his head slightly and left the room. The rest of his team was sitting on the bench near the front of the station, well Olive was more bouncing than sitting. "H-he want's to see you ne-next," Xanthic told her.

"Hm? Alrighty," Her usual cheer was still there, but something about it was off. She followed Xanthic's directions down to the interrogation room and entered while knocking on the open door. "Hey there."

"Please take a seat, Miss Braz."

"Just Olive, please," She pulled the metal chair out and sat on it cross-legged.

"Alright then, Olive, you know your family has quite a record with us."

"Of course, Jared."

"Y-you know my name?"

She nodded with a smile, "My uncle complains about you a lot."

"Oh, right, him…" he sighed audibly. "Mind if we get to the point and you tell me what happened?"

"Sure, but did Xan not tell you?"

"It's important that we hear from everyone so that we can get the whole picture."

"Oh, that makes sense." She hummed for a moment before gaining a serious expression, "There's not much to tell honestly; innocent people were being attacked, so we stepped in to try and stop them."

"So is it safe to assume you were the the first of the students to begin fighting?"

"I think so, though Cel called it."

"Cel?"

"Celeste Shade," She explained.

"Right, the uh… Kōmori girl..." He said taking note. "Then do you have a reason that the attackers were so severely injured before their deaths?"

"The weak ones didn't have an aura," Olive told him as if it was obvious. "My friends did their best to not hurt them too badly."

"And as for yourself?"

Olive shrugged, "They didn't care if they killed anyone."

"Does nobody in your family understand basic human decency?"

Despite being a rhetorical question Olive answered, "Of course we understand decency. Why does everyone seem to think that bad people deserve good things?"

The officer sighed heavily again, "And here I was hoping you wouldn't be just as stubborn as the rest of them…"

Olive chuckled, "Aren't you and your old man, the commissioner, just as stubborn too?"

"It's our job to be skeptical of people."

"And it's my family's to hunt down bad guys."

With a final sigh he stood up, "I'm done, but can you just promise me one thing?" Olive cocked her head. "Can you at least try not to be as difficult as your relatives?"

"Hmm… Nope~" She chuckled and teleported back to her friends, leaving the young man alone in the room feeling completely defeated and wanting to just go home.


The last one to be questioned was Tigre looked around the room he was in, despite being called in for a witness testimony it felt more like he was going to be interrogated. His attention was brought forward as a young man entered the room and sat across from him asking his name for the record before starting, "So Mr. Darude-Lion, you and your…" he looked over the file again and let out a short whistle, "wow, three brothers, that must be rough."

"No," He responded plainly.

"Ri-right, well the four of you were all at the rally?"

"Yes."

"Then you're all members of the White Fang?" Tigre nodded. "I'm going to need you to vocalize your answers please."

He almost growled, "Yes, we are. Have been for about 10 years."

"I see… Now do you think you could tell me what happened and why you and… Moonracer, was it, got so upset with our commissioner?"

"If you had been there, then Dan wouldn't have gotten hurt." Tigre glared at him.

The officer ignored the accusation, "Would you mind sharing what happened to him?"

"He realised what was happening and protected everyone from the second bomb." Tigre stood up with his hands on the table and leaned over the man who was still sitting, "I want to go back and see him now, are we done?"

"Just about," The officer was used to basic intimidation tactics. "Can you tell me anything about the two that you let get away?"

"I wasn't allowed to follow them," Tigre corrected him, "And I didn't see any officers running to catch them either."

"Our troops were preoccupied with other tasks during that time, such as making sure everyone was alright-"

"Simba, Moonracer, and Owen already did that."

"Back to the question I asked you, do you know anything about those two?"

"Obviously they were Humanity," Tigre said pointing at his arm where he remembered their tattoos being. "They fought properly like huntsmen though."

"You think they were graduates from one of the academies?"

"No, but they were trained by someone."

"Alright, that's all I have for today, you may go." Tigre nearly slammed the door behind him. He ran back to Beacon to meet up with his brothers who had already been questioned and were now watching over Dan, who after waking up assured his brothers he was fine immediately passed out again.


Later that night Team CODE was still discussing the event in their dorm "What do you think Eve?" D'art's question broke the raven haired girl out of her trance and she looked up.

"About what?"

"The attack." D'art clarified.

"Oh." Eve was silent. "I don't know." D'art nodded slowly and the group opened the door to their dorm and filed in.

"It's terrible really." Owen said softly. "I've never seen such an act against my race before." His wolf tail swayed back and forth slowly. Eve patted his shoulder softly. Continuing to talk, the group of teens sat on their beds.

"At least we got to miss school." D'art offered cheerfully.

"And the work to catch up will be loads of fun." Eve replied sarcastically.

"We were given extra credit for helping people at the rally though." Celeste added, throwing off her jacket and leaning back in her bed. "So I'm not gonna bother doing it."

"I'm exhausted." D'art said with a yawn. "I'm gonna sleep." Eve stared at him, irritated.

"Aren't you all worried? At least a little bit? What if they do this again?" She demanded. Celeste eyed her.

"There's nothing we can do about that. The police will handle it."

"But they can't!" Eve snapped. She took a quick breath and her tone calmed considerably. "If they could barely stop this, how can they prevent it from happening again? They have no leads."

"True, but it's not like we can do anything." D'art yawned. Eve was silent as she looked away.

Eve you okay? Eve jumped, still not used to the shock she received when Owen communicated with her.

I'm fine.

You seem tense.

And they aren't tense enough. Eve thought, irritated as she glanced at the other two teammates. Owen was silent as he observed her thoughts. There was fear, guilt, and memories that were coming to surface after years of being pushed down. There was anger, and a bit of something else he couldn't quite pinpoint.

Don't look into my head. Eve thought, her eyes moving to meet his.

Eve you can talk to me. Owen thought back.

I have nothing to talk to you about. Their conversation was interrupted as D'art muttered something in his sleep, falling off the bed with a grunt. They ignored him and continued.

That's a lie and you know it. Owen stared back. Eve didn't reply, she merely looked away. You're always so quiet. Owen continued. We all wish you would open up to us more.

There are things even you don't want to know. Eve thought bitterly.

Don't assume things. Eve shook her head and stood up abruptly. Without sparing him a glance, she stormed out of the room. Owen calmly got up and followed her out.

I've been sensing something for a while. Owen continued. You and your past. I didn't say anything to the others, and I kept quiet about it. But enough is enough and I deserve to know, we all do.

Keep out of my business. Eve thought back bitterly as she continued to walk down the hallway. Owen hurried after her.

You can't keep silent forever. Eve spun around and grabbed Owen by the collar, lifting him up.

"Stop poking your nose where it doesn't belong." She snarled. Owen blinked, surprised. Eve was silent and then she released him and took a step back. "Sorry." She muttered. Owen rubbed his throat.

"No, I am." He scratched his head. "I know I'm nosy. I just want to help. There's something…" He paused. "Relatable about you." Eve's eyes flicked to his tail and then she scoffed.

"I'll say." She replied. Owen gave her a confused glance and then he froze as he accidentally read her mind.

"You're-"

"Don't look through my head." Eve snapped.

"But you're-" He died off and stared at her as if she was a new person. "I had no idea. What happened?" Eve was silent as she leaned against the wall.

"Something I don't want to talk about."

"What else is new." Owen muttered sarcastically.

"You don't get to say anything." Eve slurred. "You just read my mind repeatedly when I told you not to."

Owen was silent. "True. Are you going to tell the others?" He asked finally.

"I think so." Eve admitted. "They deserve to know." Owen nodded and the two began to walk back to the dorms.

"There was one more thing actually." Owen added. Eve glanced at him. "There's always been something dark in your mind. I've never sensed anything like it from anyone else before. And after the attack happened, it just...kind of exploded. I can only see dark thoughts in your mind now." Owen turned to face her. Eve was silent.

"You're relationship with that...organization is really strange." He continued. "I see love and loyalty and also pure hatred and...loathing."

"Just how far did you look into my head?" Eve snapped.

"I spent an entire evening trying to get through it." Owen replied sheepishly.

"OWEN!" Eve yelled.

"I'm sorry!" He held his hands up. "I only ever wanted to get a general idea though! I never pried too far." Eve sighed.

"Listen, there's something I need to talk about with all of you." She said quietly. "But with everything going on, I don't want to do it right now." She continued to walk down the hallway and Owen trailed behind her. "But I promise that I will tell you all about it soon." She glanced at her friend who grinned.

"Thanks Eve."

"Yeah, yeah. But no more looking through my head."

"If you say so."