The next morning, Roman got up from his cold corner in the alley. He made his way across the street hardly being careful enough and holding one side of his head with three fingers massaging his temple.
"I've got to find Ruby, I have an idea and I need the little demon."
He spent hours asking around for her, looking in every hub, and occasionally police department. He was in fact starting to catch some unwanted attention, the worst of all being in the market district. Roman had been searching for a pretty long time, but no one was showing any signs of knowledge, till it struck him, someone from her school might know her. And as he thought that to himself, a boy of appropriate age walked to the vendor within his sight, holding up a poster with her face on it. Roman, not able to think past his hangover, figured he would simply ask the boy what he had found out.
"Hey kid, where did you get that picture?"
Ren looked back at whom he immediately noted to be Roman, "Why are you asking?"
"What do you mean? I lost the little brat last night and now I'm looking for her." Roman said, so clueless as to how that sounded to the boy he was talking to, he almost seemed innocent.
"Torchwick?" Ren said in confusion, wondering how what looked like a burnt up bum with a cane was the great villain.
"You recognize me? You must be a fan, here's my… Oh, I don't have a card." Roman said in honest jest.
"How are you a villain?" Ren said, now truly confused.
"Listen, I don't have time to debate philosophy with you, just tell me where you last saw the girl?"
"Nora said that Yang fought her last night sometime around the warehouse explosion." Ren said, regretting his actions as he spoke.
"Ok, thank you then." Roman began walking away until Ren grabbed his arm and asked, "Why do you need to know?"
"Little Red will die out there without me." Roman said before simply walking away.
Back at Beacon...
Yang got up from her bed, looking to her right and seeing the sleeping form of Weiss in one of the waiting chairs. "She's the only one I have left, and she stayed with me for the entire night." Yang thought to herself and then got up, getting dressed despite doctor's orders.
"Yang, where are you going?" Weiss said as she woke up to the sound of Yang getting dressed.
"I need to talk about Ozpin about getting back Ruby." Yang said, her head tipped down and facing away from her friend.
Weiss got up and rushed to her friend's side, "What if she doesn't want you to take her back?"
Yang looked up without looking at Weiss, cold eyes, angry eyes, staring at the door like it was her most hated enemy, "Then I'll take her in as a criminal."
Weiss was in shock at the reply, she grabbed yangs arm so she couldn't walk away, "Yang!? She's your sister."
Yang turned her head as to see Weiss with one eye, "And I'll do the job with a heavy heart, but I'll do the job."
Weiss was having a hard time staying calm, "But your still injured and she's more powerful than you as it is?"
"If I don't do it, who will?" Yang stated with the sting of a woman scorned.
"No one has too…" Weiss said, trying to be hopeful.
"And where's the justice in that!?" Yang answered in anger as she flung Weiss off her arm and faced her as she fell to the floor.
Weiss began to tear up at the sudden violence from one of her only two friends left in the world, "She's not that bad and you know that."
"She's a murderer Weiss! And I'm gonna put an end to it if I have to break every bone in my body to accomplish it!" Yang screamed at Weiss before kicking the door off it's hinges and walking to Ozpin's office, an aura of volatile anger emanating from her.
Weiss on the other hand simply sat there, and cried.
A few minutes later, Yang busts down the door to the Headmaster's office, "It's a pleasure to see you well, Ms. Xiaolong."
"That's enough of your bullshit, I'm finding Ruby, and you're gonna give me the means to do it." Yang said as she walked up to the desk and put her hands down on it.
"If you continue to act like this the people will go into a panic. Do you have any idea how much m-" Ozpin began before being rather brutally interrupted.
Yang bitch slapped Ozpin with enough force to snap a lesser persons neck, the echo dispersing through the room. She leaned down and said in a low whisper, into his ear, "You're going to take the most powerful version of that suit you have, and then you're gonna make it better, and then your gonna give it to me and I'm gonna fix this whole mess. Do you understand?"
Ozpin simply smiled back at her, "Fine, come with me." He then got up from his chair and walked to a closet, opening the door and revealing a suit in what looked like all gold and black, the chinese kanji for justice on the back in gold and otherwise looking fairly similar to the original she had. "This design has a direct feed to all the dust it needs, mind you, when you begin moving at those speeds with that much force, you put your body at risk. Are you willing to take such a weapon into your arsenal?"
Yang looked unphased, but inside she was cheering for victory, this was the tool she needed, and all she had to do was rough him up a bit. "I'll take it."
Ozpin smiled yet again and handed her the garment, "Good luck, and do be careful."
As Yang left the room Ozpin turned and said to himself, "Now that I have a tester for the suit, I can work out it's bugs properly."
Meanwhile, Ruby walked through the back alleys, "I need to find Roman, he's the only one left who would understand me, who would help me without condemning me; but how am I gonna find him in a city this big? Surely the last time this worked out so well only because of luck. Besides, it's sunny out, so I won't be able to escape the alleys without people noticing me here. What if the police find me? I've heard horror stories about what happens to girls like me in prison. But I could just beat up anyone who does that to me right? Then everyone would be scared of me, I'd be powerful, people would respect me, I would have control over everything going on and could make or break every man, woman or child in there with me. It would be so relaxing, so easy, so… vile. I would be… the bad guy… Oh no I'm doing it again, I'm thinking these dark thoughts, I'm not a murderer, I'm not."
This continued for hours, this self questioning, eventually she sat down further down the path, beginning to voice to a crowd of trash cans her thoughts, "I'm not a bad person am I? I didn't mean to do that, I only wanted to make things better, I only wanted to fix things and I… I killed her. No, I'm worse, I killed both of them and I hurt my own sister." She then pulled her knees to her face and began to sob.
"Hey, kid? What are you doing in a place like this?" Was heard before Ruby looked up to see that it was Junior.
"What do you want?" Ruby said before sniffling.
"Oh, you know what I want, me and my boys haven't had a woman to enjoy in a loooong time, and we figured that maybe a girl would do just fine." Junior said with a sinful smirk as his henchmen surrounded her.
Ruby reached for her Crescent Rose only to find it in Juniors hands, "No, you didn't."
"Yes I did," He held it up in it's default rifle form, "And unless you want this in you from point blank, you're gonna hold real still while we do what we want."
"No! You're not gonna do this, people will find out!" She said as she struggled against two of the guards grabbing her arms, and one of them grabbing her head and struggling to hold it downward.
Junior started unzipping his pants.
"Let go of her before I rip off those balls!" was heard from somewhere in the form of echoes before they all looked up and saw Roman.
"Roman!" Ruby yelled in hope.
Roman fired down into the crowd, using their close proximity to each other to catch them all in the blast. "I'm here for you Ruby!"
"Damn you!" Junior yelled as he aimed Ruby's rifle at Roman and began to fire. Roman ducked backward and saw the shots blow apart parts of the corner. "Don't let him get away!" Junior shouted to his men as Roman jumped through a chimney and slid to a stop on the bottom floor, meeting up with the henchmen getting read to climb the stairs to get to him. The first of them swinging at him only for Roman to grab his hand, flip him around and kick him so that his head slammed into the cinderblocks of the chimney top. The next three all aimed to fire and in the same split second, Roman grabbed the middle ones gun, pulled it into sight of the one on the left, letting the panicking henchman fire into his friend, put his foot into his gut and let his weight push the minion onto the ground with enough force to crush his vital organs and aimed to his right to fire his Melodic Cudgel into the head of the one on the right, splattering it onto the wall with the most violent explosion possible.
As the rest of the henchmen began to run and Junior opened the door to see what was going on Roman shot them each in the back, each one collapsing onto the ground and making a pool of blood and other liquids that ran to Junior's feet.
Junior quickly replied by firing the rifle at Roman, but Roman took the shot to his shoulder and proceeded to charge into Junior, knocking them both to the asphalt ground. Roman immediately straddled Juniors waist and raised his fist before they both grabbed eachothers throats, both choking, Roman began to punch Junior in the face repeatedly, slowly tearing apart every muscle left working in his other arm.
Junior began to lose his sight in all the blood and was having a hard time breathing so he started pulling Roman in with his hands as he choked him in an attempt to get him close enough to bite.
Roman, running out of air, and catching on to the mob bosses tactics, grabbed him by the ears and head-butted his nose.
The mob bosses hands lost their grip and his arms fell to either side, the blood was pooling as Roman then smashed his head into the ground until he heard a crack of bone.
Ruby on the other hand wasn't doing wonderfully either, as she jumped up and forced the one holding her head into the wall and then kicking him where it would hurt most, then running one into the other as she moved her arms in front of her with the two holding her arms, but as she lifted her head, a much angrier one grabbed her and threw her into the same wall. "Hold still you little bitch!" He said as he stabbed forward with his knife. Ruby quickly dodged to the side, the knife still managing to slice open her right eye and throw her into a blood frenzy. Ruby grabbed the man's hand to hold him there and used her other hand to grab the man by the teeth of his bottom jaw and pull him down until she could slam her boot into it's place, the man trying to bite through her boot and realizing quickly that it was steel toe, wasn't finished being torn apart by the girl though. Ruby took his knife out of his hand and used it to stab his hand and pin it to the wall.
Ruby began to smile as she supplied force to the screaming man's jaw as she heard his shoulder, then his elbow, then his jaw pop out of place, then his skin tear in all three places, then as she met the ground level, took her foot out of his mouth, punted his face easily hard enough to break his jaw to pieces. As she realized what she had done she started backing away.
Roman got up and walked to her, his face bloodied, left arm limp and said, "Grab our weapons, we need to get to the White Fang stronghold, they'll be able to fix us up."
Ruby simply nodded, suppressing a scream, both from her emotions and her eye. "Yeah, I'll do my best."
Roman looked up at a bullhead landing on the roof, "In fact, I think that's them now. Let's go, That thing's not exactly stealthy."