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Another day, another chapter. Let's see what happens.
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And without further ado, ON WITH THE SHOW!
Chapter 3: The Schnee Case
"Ah, good, Ruby, you're here!" Pyrrha said when Ruby finally entered the office. All the members of team Nikos where already there, and so was a client. Ruby had been in the bathroom cleaning the coffee off of her clothes, and ended up being 20 minutes late to work. Not a great start for the day. But, at least it could get better. Then Ruby noticed the woman in the room that probably was their new client.
She guessed her day could get way, way worse.
"You again!" Both woman simultaneously shouted at each other.
"You're the clumsy asshat who spilled coffee on me earlier!"
"I may be clumsy but I'm not an asshat" Ruby snapped back.
"Do you know how long it takes to get coffee out of clothing! Dry cleaners isn't cheep you know" The woman snapped at Ruby, "I have half a mind to make you pay for it"
"Would you please stop yelling at me!" Ruby snapped back. "It's coffee, it's not gonna kill you!"
"It was my favorite dress!" The woman yelled back.
The two women stared each other down. The rest of Team Nikos tensed up, preparing to break up the cat fight, when Yang stepped in and stopped it before it started.
"Alright, I can tell the two of you got off on the wrong foot" Yang started. "Why don't the two of you start over."
"Right" Ruby grumbled. She then composed herself, took a deep breath, and extended an arm. "I'm Ruby Rose. Let's be friends." Ruby then suggested, "We can go shopping together?"
"Oh yeah" The woman commented sarcastically, "then we can paint our nails, and do our hair, and talk about cute boys, like–" At this moment, Jaune the pizza guy came in, and the woman happened to spot him from over Ruby's head. "Tall, blond, and scraggly over there"
"Huh?" Jaune said confused.
"Really?!" Ruby asked, happy to have not made enemies with her first client.
"No" The woman said snippily.
"Ruby," Pyrrha said from her desk, interrupting the ensuing fight. "This is Weiss Schnee. She wants to hire us to solve a case."
Ruby internally groaned. "What does she want us to solve?"
"A little less than a week a go," Weiss explained, "Someone made an attempt of assassination on my father"
"And she want's us to figure out who did it" Pyrrha concluded. However, that conclusion was wrong.
"Oh, I know who did it." Weiss corrected confidently. "I just want you guys to catch them"
"And who do you think is behind the assassination attempt?" Pyrrha asked carefully. She had dealt with a few clients like this before; a snippy attitude, sure they knew everything, and they would constantly try to tell Pyrrha how to do her job, which wouldn't have been as annoying if the people actually had good advice about detective work. Most of the time, though, they didn't, and it mostly felt like backseat driving.
"The White Fang" Weiss said confidently, as if she couldn't be more sure.
"We'll take this into consideration," Pyrrha started, "but we solved White Fang cases before. An outright assassination attempt on an important authority figure or businessmen is not their style. We can't just jump to conclusions"
"Oh, I know it was the White Fang." Weiss said matter-of-factly. "They've targeted my family since their formation, first with protest, and then with attacks. Why wouldn't they be behind the assassination"
"Like I said, we can't leap to conclusions." Pyrrha said sternly. "I will check the White Fang, but we have to keep our minds open to other possibilities. Close-minded detectives seldom solve their cases"
"And open-minded detectives ignore the obvious answers right in front of them" Weiss countered.
"Miss Schnee," Pyrrha started, her voice firm, leaving no room for argument. "My team and I will be solving this case. Not you. Leave us to do things the way we choose to do things"
"I'm not sure I like the way you do things" Schnee grumbled under her breath. It just so happened that everybody heard her.
"Weiss, was it?" Yang suddenly butted in. "I don't think your aware, so I'm gonna spell this out for you; Team Nikos has been hired to solve 42 different cases, and we've solved every single one of them. How many cases have you solved?" Yang took Weiss's (unhappy) silence as a "0". "Yeah, thought so. I suggest you leave this to the professionals"
Weiss grumbled, glaring hard at Yang. "I know it was the White Fang who were behind the assassination attempt."
"The White Fang don't have the recourses to pull off such a feat." Pyrrha explained. "They are under suspicion, but it's very likely a different group is behind this. No offence, but the Schnee's have a lot of enemies. Now, you said this was an assassination attempt?"
"Yes" Weiss verified. "My father survived, and is currently in a coma"
Pyrrha nodded. "Whoever attempted the assassination might try to kill your father again. We should have him on guard"
"Got that covered," Weiss said cockily.
"Then I want the entire team to research leads. Tell me if you find anything good"
"Got it!" The entire team said.
Weiss took a seat at one of the desk. "So, now what?"
"Now you either wait here until we find something, or go some place else" Pyrrha told her.
"My father's assisters are probably still out there and you expect me to wait?" Weiss snapped impatiently.
"Yes," Pyrrha said, straightly and strictly. "These investigations don't complete themselves overnight."
Weiss huffed in annoyance, settling herself at the desk as everybody else went off to busy themselves, grabbing a slice of recently delivered pizza from Jaune. Meanwhile, Jaune decided to get a few things clarified with Weiss.
"So, I couldn't help but here of your affections for me," He started.
"Oh god" Weiss groaned.
"No need to be embarrassed." Jaune assured her. "But I'll have you know," He then said proudly, "I'm a married man!"
"Your a married man?" Weiss scoffed. "I don't believe it."
"Actually," Pyrrha said from her spot at the desk, not even looking up from her research, "He's my husband"
Weiss's mouth fell agape. "He's your husband?" She said in surprise. "The pizza guy?!"
"Why is that so surprising!?" Jaune snapped in exasperation. Every time he told someone that he was married to Pyrrha, everybody had about the same reaction. It was probably why the news papers and magazines hadn't publicly announced his profession yet, despite both him and Pyrrha giving them permission to do so. "Yes! The great Pyrrha Nikos married a pizza guy! And guess what else?! She snugly-pooped with the pizza guy, and she's gonna have a kid with the pizza guy. It's not that shocking!"
And with that statement, he marched out of the room. Weiss stood in shock. She thought that Pyrrha would have higher standards. And as if to prove her point, Jaune came running back in, and grabbing a brown leather wallet from Pyrrha's desk, stating "forgot my wallet", then he ran out.
"You settled for him" Weiss said to Pyrrha in disbelief.
"I married him, not his job" Pyrrha informed Weiss. "Besides, I make enough money for us not to go hungry. He can have whatever job he wants"
"His shirt has pizza stains on it"
"Really? He just washed it yesterday,"
"And your having a kid with him?"
"Oh, yes!" Pyrrha said in excitement. "We found out about it last week!"
"Congratulations on the pregnancy I guess" Weiss said, still sounding surprised that the delivery boy with pizza stains on his shirt was the guy who was having a kid with Pyrrha. "Even if I did expect it to be with someone different" She added under her breath.
"Hey Pyrrha!" Ruby shouted from her desk. "I think I found a lead"
Everyone gathered behind Ruby's computer. "Everyone else was looking into rival company's, so I decided to look into the White Fang"
"Well, I guess your not totally incompetent after all" Weiss commented. Ruby just grumbled and pretended to ignore the comment.
"I looked up any recent sightings of White Fang activity, and they're all centered within a forty mile radius of Vale's western delivery train rout." Ruby explained.
"And?" Pyrrha asked, prompting Ruby to elaborate.
"I looked up the schedule for delivery, and apparently a delivery of Schnee dust is supposed to come through the area the White Fang was spotted at around 1 p.m." Ruby explained.
"And we can set a trap for them when they come, arrest whichever member we can, and find out if they are really behind the assassination attempt on Ms. Schnee's father" Pyrrha finished. "Good work, Ruby. I'm glad to have you on this team"
At that moment, there was a knock on the door. "Mrs. Nikos?" Came the voice of Emerald Sustrai, Police Commissioner Cinder Fall's personal secretary.
"Come in" Pyrrha told her.
Emerald walked into the room. She was wearing the police uniform, and she walked in an uptight manner. This hinted to professionalism, even through her short, mint green hair hinted otherwise. Most people decided that it was probably a phase she went through when she was younger. Rumor had it that before Emerald became Cinder's secretary, she had been living on the streets, until Cinder took her in as an apprentice of sorts.
"Ms. Fall was wondering if you had the paperwork from last case ready" Emerald told them.
"Yes, it's right here" Pyrrha said, grabbing the work off her desk, and handing it to Emerald.
"Also, Ms. Fall has another question for you. Have you taken on a new case yet?" Emerald asked.
"Yes," Pyrrha told her. "Our client is Weiss Schnee"
Upon hearing her name, Weiss came over, and introduced herself. "I'm Weiss Schnee. It's a pleasure to meet you,"
"May I ask what the case is?" Emerald questioned.
"An assassination attempt. On my father" Weiss explained. "I'm hiring Team Nikos to find out who was behind it,"
"Do you have any leads?" Emerald asked curiously.
"We're currently looking into some leads on the White Fang" Pyrrha explained. "They're our Number 1 suspect, so far"
"Well then, if you need any extra recourses, don't be afraid to ask" Emerald told her. "Ms. Fall would be happy to give them to you" And with this statement, Emerald left.
"Of course Schnee would go for Team Nikos. With her money, I would've expected nothing less" Cinder explained when Emerald had told her what Team Nikos was doing.
"So I'm assuming you planned for this?" Emerald asked.
"Of course I have" Cinder said casually. "The only lead they could've possibly have gotten was the White Fang's plans to invade the train"
"And?" Emerald prompted.
"I'll warn Adam about the trap. Tell him to only send his best men for them to try not to get caught" Cinder elaborated. "I probably can't convince them to cancel the raid completely, but I have complete faith that Team Nikos will not be able to arrest a White Fang member"
"And if they do?" Emerald questioned.
"Than that changes things" Cinder said. "But we will figure out what to do. The plan will not fail, I can guarantee it"
And the end!
No not really, still got plenty of chapters to go, but the end of this chapter. Sorry it's so short, but I'm having writers block, and the only thing I had planned for this chapter is introducing the Schnee Case. So yeah. But the next chapter will be longer!
As a note, the deal arranged between Cinder and the White Fang is slightly different than the one made in the show (as it is an Au). In this, Cinder isn't actually powerful enough to kill them all, so instead, their deal is more of a thing where they have a common goal, and Cinder will give the White Fang recourses and other privileges that they couldn't have had otherwise. So that's more of what happened, but more details about that will be revealed later.
I hope you enjoyed the third chapter. Leave a review, tell me if everyone is in character, and tell me if you enjoyed!
~MotherUniverse signing out!