Chapter 2

Investigation!

Beacon Academy ~ RWBY Dorm

Team RWBY + Guest

Ruby was hanging upside down from her bed moaning, Blake and Weiss were calmly doing the work assigned by Peter Port with Weiss occasionally throwing erasers at Ruby every now and then in an attempt to shut her up, and Yang was staring at her scroll intently.

By now Ruby had decided to start an eraser collection using the heaping mound of erasers growing below her, Weiss was now frantically searching for more erasers to when all of a sudden Yang shouted, "Found it!" The sudden shout caused Ruby to lose her grip on her bed and fall head first into the mountain of erasers. Zwei happily bounded over to Ruby and began bouncing around the pile of erasers.

Blake looked over with fury in her eyes; she had been trying to finish the assignment but was losing her patience with all of the noise interrupting her. But the look of excitement in Yang's eyes quickly quelled her anger. Sighing heavily Blake said, "What were you even looking for?"

Yang smiled as she jumped up from her bed, "My proof! I thought that I'd heard that name before so I started looking through some old pictures. Here, look." She passed her scroll around, showing a picture of herself standing proudly while posing and twin girls lying on the floor knocked out. One was dressed in white like an angel while the other red like a devil, both were wearing way too much make-up.

Weiss looked at Yang in mock irritation, "I thought we were going to avoid picking fights with random people?"

Yang, oblivious to Weiss' mocking tone, simply said, "Oh this was a while ago. Besides, this is what's really important." She pointed to the red twins shoulder; on it was a tattoo of a white rose with a sword as its stem with the letters WAR written in bold letters.

Blake looked up at Yang, "Alright so you know a member of the White Axis Rose. So what?"

"Sooo… We can find out who the leader is and tell the authorities. Or better yet, we can beat the snot outta them ourselves!"

Both Ruby and Weiss looked tired all of a sudden but it was Ruby who spoke up, "But we just finished with Torchwick. I thought we all agreed on a break?"

Surprisingly Blake spoke up, "Why not, if we have an opportunity to be rid of another evil in the world, then why not take the chance?"

Yang grinned, "'Atta girl! Come on! Who's with us?"

"I'll go." The girls jumped as they realized that Sun Wukong was once again outside their window. "Mind if I come in? It's kinda windy." Without waiting for an answer he swung himself into the room.

Weiss, glaring at him in a fury, shouted, "Sun! How long have you been there?"

"Yo, Ice Queen!" He looked down at his watch, which had a picture of a monkey pointing to the time, then said, "I dunno, like twenty minutes or so I guess."

Ruby and Weiss just looked at him incredulously while Blake walked over to him and slapped him across the face.

"Alright, Alright. I still want to help though. It's always fun working with you guys." He said while rubbing his now red cheek. The 'Ice Queen' glared at him and he raised his arms in defense. "It's always fun working with you girls." Weiss nodded and he lowered his arms.

Yang clapped her hands, "Alright so it's decided then. Blake, Sun and I will begin our investigation! While you two stay and do everyone's homework!"

With that the three of them disappeared in a flash. Weiss face palmed in irritation and Ruby groaned as she collapsed back into her newly acquired eraser collection.

One of Vale's Many Warehouses

White Fang & Cinder's Faction

Cinder looked towards her remaining allies. Emerald and Mercury stood close to her; Emerald looked excited just to be near her while Mercury just looked… well full of himself, as he always did. Adam Taurus stood around a handful of higher ranked White Fang agents, one of which was a relatively lanky looking Faunus with dog ears who stood attentively nearby.

Inwardly Cinder sighed, she hadn't realized how valuable an ally Torchwick had been. As soon as she had said that they wouldn't be retrieving him for a while, Neo had disappeared. It seemed that she was solely loyal to him, and with him not around. She was quick to follow. Both were excellent at what they did. Sure Emerald could easily replace Torchwick in the thievery department, but he was the one with all the connections, the better black market dealers, the men who controlled the various gangs in the city, not to mention the best potential hideouts within the city. Neo was a brilliant fighter, fast and precise, leagues better than most of her subordinates.

All in all she hadn't considered that Torchwick might've been holding back on her, keeping the better cards closer to him, in order to secure his position. But she couldn't afford to risk anyone to go after him especially with the now tentative alliance with the White Fang, thus Neo's departure.

She needed something to cement the alliance. Suddenly Adam walked up to her followed closely by the dog eared soldier. She quietly gestured for him to speak his mind.

"We've received word that the Schnee's are moving a rather important cargo ship into the port later today. If you want the rest of the Fang to acknowledge your plans again, you'd better prepare. This ship is one of their most heavily guarded, and we've been after it for years."

Cinder 'discreetly' perked up at that. "By all means, share what you know and we'll see what can be done." She spoke with her usual cold air of confidence but inside she was relieved. This was exactly what she needed, a way to secure their loyalty while striking a crippling blow against her enemies. Besides her newest tool needed a test run anyway...

Personally I'm kinda disappointed. I had hoped for at least one review by the end of the week, but alas I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I thought someone would've at least posed a question regarding the newcomers.

Anyway here was the second rewritten chapter. The Golden Rose is now gone, deleted from completely, it does exist elsewhere but not in a complete fashion.

I liked how I made it so that Torchwick had more importance than was originally implied, and you can be sure that I'll have him appearing in a rather important part later on.

With all that said please leave your questions, comments, and or concerns in a review. Because I will say now I fully intend to bring up the ten remade chapters, but further chapters depends on the everyone's reactions towards these chapters.