Roman sat upon the ship, wondering how he was going to explain himself to Cinder.
"You, with the tail." He called for one of his guards. "Prepare the girl for transfer."
The guard gave a salute and replied, "Yes Sir."
Roman got up from his seat as said guard stooped to pick up Blake's unconscious body.
The Bullhead slowed down and landed, its door dropping to reveal a very expecting Cinder.
Roman walked down the ramp with a professional look on his face, "Come on buddy, you've done this before."
"Hey, Cinder, how are you doing this fine evening?" He said, narrowly avoiding a crack in his voice.
"Is Ms. Rose dead yet Roman?" Cinder said, her eyes staring through him.
"About that, we do have the cat that interrupted our plans earlier, if that's any consolation?" Roman replied quickly.
Cinder eyed him up and down as if judging his stance and then took a couple steps to look behind him at Blake, "I'll be taking the girl then." she stated as she waved a hand for Mercury come grab the girl then looked to Roman again, "Roman, I am truly disappointed."
Roman looked her in the eyes, "Oh really? When did you get the right to push me around anyway? I don't remember you doing any heists, or hiring any henchmen, or even designing any plans for that matter. You owe me Cinder, and I'll take my damn time catching them if I want to."
"Why did I do that…?" He thought to himself.
Cinder's eyes began to glow a fierce and fiery orange-red. She inched closer to the orange haired thief. "What was that you said, pet? I didn't quite hear you over the crackling of my flame." She then took a quick step forward and placed a hand to his stomach.
"Yes ma'am, I'll get going then, don't you worry." Roman said his hands up and his eyes focused on the hand currently scorching his jacket.
"No you won't, you'll be sleeping on the streets until you can make it up to me." She said as her flame started to creep up Romans jacket.
Roman was beginning to feel the heat pour through his clothes and was ready to panic when suddenly the rain started.
"Have fun, Roman." Cinder said before giggling and walking away from the man, letting his entire jacket light on fire.
"Ahh! Shit, shit, shit!" He shouted as he struggled to remove his tight fitting jacket and tossing it to the ground, knocking off his hat at the same time.
Cinder and her allies disappeared into the darkness of their warehouse.
"I don't need you any way; come on mutts." Roman said to the White Fang members still sitting there with the Bullhead.
"Sorry Sir, but that was the last mission on our contract, you want more help then you're gonna have to finish our deal." The captain said.
"What! At least give me a ride back then!" Roman pleaded with little progress.
The captain then backed into the Bullhead and pressed the button to close the ramp, watching Roman as the ship took off. Roman was left in the pouring rain with most of his dignity stripped away. The rage welling up inside him quickly turned to apathy and nostalgia.
"When it rains it pours I suppose" He thought to himself, then leaned down to grab his hat and place it on his head, lighting a cigar and walking off, back to the alleys he used to call home.
"Come on Melodic, it's a long walk to the bar from here." His mascara running from the rain.
Meanwhile, in Beacon, "Ruby, I'm sure that she's alright, what's the worst that could happen?" Pyrrha began.
"They could kill her." Ruby replied, hysteric cracks in her voice. "We need to save her."
Jaune leaned over his bed and looked at Ruby, "I don't want to be negative about this, but why would they keep her alive? It's been hours and they haven't suggested a ransom."
Ren replied quickly, "Jaune that was very negative.
"I'm gonna save her." Ruby said before grabbing Crescent Rose and standing up.
"What about Ozpin?" Nora said hanging upside down off her bed.
"I don't care what Ozpin has to say." Ruby answered, walking towards the door.
"It'll be dangerous." Ren said with worry.
"I fight monsters." Ruby answered, frustration building in her voice.
"It's raining outside." Pyrrha pleaded from the floor.
"I have a hood." Ruby answered as she opened the door.
"Your our friend, we-" Started Jaune before being interrupted.
"And she was mine." Ruby said before slamming the door shut behind her and leaving Beacon. She took the first airship down and then walked into the city, hood up and cloak surrounding her.
"You might hurt yourself Ruby, it's raining Ruby, yada, yada, yada... They treat me like a kid." Ruby began talking to herself as she walked down the lonely streets.
"I'm sure she's fine, I just have to find her, right?" Ruby said, shifting subjects with herself as she walked. "Just gotta do what the super heroes do right? Just patrol the back alleys for bad guys until one of them knows a guy." She then looked to her left at the start of an alley.
"Right?" She slowly walked into it, beginning to feel nervous, until she heard the sounds of battle and began running to the location.
Much deeper into the inner city, was Roman, "What are you three looking at?" He stated to the three thugs staring him down, baseball bats in their hands.
"We're gonna clobber you, fag." The leader said, puffing out their chests as if to symbolize their dominance.
"Is that so? And I suppose one of you knows how to fight as well?" The thief said while preparing to counter attack, simply a subtle change in footing.
"What's that supposed to mean?" The taller one said.
"Should I buy you a dictionary?" Roman stated, a hint of fun in his voice.
"Oh, that's it, we're taking you down punk!" The last one shouted before running towards him and attempting an overhead swing of his bat. His reflexes were no match for Roman on the other hand, as he pulled the bat out of his hand with the handle of his cane and then kicked the man in the gut, bringing him to the ground.
The taller one came next, also trying overhead, but not fast enough as Roman caught the bat, used it to pull the thug past him and then tripped him with the cane.
The last and leader of the thugs then attempted to side swipe him, which Roman deflected and stepped on the thugs foot and then stepped forward to put Melodic to his chin, rifle end first.
"Drop your weapon." Roman said with anger.
"No way man." Replied the thug, frozen in fear.
"Have it your way." Roman then punched the guy in the stomach forcing him to hunch over, then beat him over the head with his cane, knocking him out as well.
"So much for those ones then." Roman said.
"Not so fast!" Was shouted from behind him, but before he could react, there was a rather large blade to his neck.
"Who's this poor sap?" Roman thought to himself before seeing a single red petal land on the blade. "Little Red?"
Ruby tightened the grip, drawing some blood from Roman's neck.
"Where is she Torchwick?" Ruby growled at him.
Roman smiled the most dastardly of smiles, "Let go of me and I'll tell you everything your pretty little ears want to hear."
Ruby reluctantly pulled Crescent Rose from his throat and backed up, "Speak."
Roman turned around and bowed his head before rising and answering her,
"I'll tell you everything and more…"
AN: I would like to thank NeverCameUpFromTheRabbitHole for being another fan of Roman who gave me confidence that this would be an acceptable story as well as my Beta for formatting this. There will be many more chapters to come from this, chapter three is already in it's infancy.