Ruby and Roman sat in the Bullhead, holding their respective wounds, both wanting to get some anesthetics as soon as possible. Soon enough, the same captain as had talked to Roman a week ago made his way into the back of the transport with them.
"Roman, you never said anything about a girl." The captain spoke with a hint of anger in his voice.
"I said I was bringing you a champion." Roman said with pride in the girl.
"Was this mess what you meant by that!? Do you know what kind of trouble I put myself through to pull this for you? Well!?" The captain said as he picked Roman up by his shirt.
Roman, in a calm and sarcastic tone answered the Faunes, "I'm so scared…" Only for the captain to notice Ruby holding Crescent Rose in rifle form at him.
"Put, him, down." She said with venom in her voice.
"Hmpf." The captain put Roman down and looked at her, "Fine, but we're gonna get our money's worth out of you."
As the captain walked out and into the cockpit Ruby hugged Roman, "Roman?"
"Yeah kid?" Roman looked down to her.
"Do you think I'll be able to see out of this eye ever again?" Ruby said while looking up to him with her one eye, obviously panicking in the way her pupils constricted and shook.
"..." Roman stood in complete silence, not knowing what to say to her he eventually settled with, "Don't get your hopes up." and walking away from her and sitting down in the opposite chair.
"Sorry…" She said before sitting down, staying quiet for the rest of the ride.
In the back alleys of Vale…
"This doesn't look positive Pyrrha." Nora said as she walked around the bodies of Junior and his Henchmen.
"Keep your eyes peeled for any evidence." Pyrrha said while crouching at one of the henchmen's bodies.
"Does this count?" Nora said as she picked up the shredded pieces of Ruby's cape.
Pyrrha's eyes went wide, "Oh no, that can't be Ruby's?"
"She's the only person I know with this symbol." Nora handed her a piece with her Rose emblem.
"Do you think she did, this?" Pyrrha gestured to the body of Junior.
"I really don't know a whole lot of people in Vale capable of it other than her." Nora said as she put her hands over her eyes like she was blocking out the sun and aimed her sight toward the apartment door. "But I think we should follow the blood trail to find out what happened here. Who knows, maybe they were fighting over some 'Scurvy-Dog's Booty'!" She giggled at her own joke as she tried to make light of the situation.
"I think I agree with you Nora, this place looks suspicious." They proceeded to walk into the building, following the trail of bodies and eventually exploring upstairs, "Nora! Come up here and take a look at this!" Pyrrha shouted down the steps followed by Nora showing up on the roof with her and taking in the surroundings, "I believe that these might actually be scorch marks from a bullhead, they left by air." Pyrrha explained as Nora looked around in the soot.
"Look, a footprint in the black stuff!" Nora pointed out while wearing a hat she found somewhere in the apartment.
Pyrrha looked at the print and immediately gasped at it in fear, "Nora, we need to tell Ozpin this right now! This isn't some murder mystery, this is a declaration of war, that symbol in the boot print is, it's White Fang."
"Oh, let's go then, it seems serious." Nora started her way downstairs again, followed by Pyrrha. After spending a couple more minutes of collecting samples of evidence, they both left for Beacon.
Weiss sat in the lunch room alone at her table, she was trying to think of a way she could gain back control over her situation, "I have to end this war before it starts." She said to herself in confidence.
Soon the loud speakers were heard throughout the academy, "All of Team RWBY and JNPR please refer to the training grounds."
Hours later, Weiss, Yang, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren and Juane stood in an arena surrounded by doors that smelling of dried blood and corroding oil. Each of them wearing uniforms much like Yang's first.
"How did the talk with Ozpin over our findings go?" Juane asked Pyrrha while going back to back with her.
"Terrible I'm afraid. He started to smash books around and shattered his mug on the wall, it's the first time I've seen him lose his temper." Pyrrha replied while placing herself in a defensive stance behind her shield.
Weiss stared at Yang, who was currently infuriated by everything at this point, "Yang, you have to calm down or you might get hurt during the Suit Tests." Weiss said with worry.
Yang armed her weapons and stood silent. Aura burning around her like that of a demons.
"Your test will now begin, commence battle." Was heard through the speakers. Followed by all the doors opening up to reveal an almost army of robots. As they flooded out of their doors, the fighters, all except for Yang, ran forward and fought them, each one eventually falling unconscious against the immense hoard. First Juane fell, taking a shot for Pyrrha. Then Nora fell, not noticing the ones behind her. Then Ren and Weiss as the both ran out of ammunition. and finally Pyrrha as her shield was knocked out of her hand and she fell to a knee, parrying the shots that came in on her with her sword until that too drained her stamina and she fell in exhaustion.
Finally, the mechanical humanoids aimed their weapons at Yang and fired, the bullets missing as Yang had at the last second jumped in the air, somersaulting and landing behind the hoard before screaming in uncontrollable rage, her fist simply puncturing and impaling the closest robot. As the rest of them gathered where she was, she moved forward with uncanny speed, dodging every shot and every swing as she opened up their insides with the efficiency of a can-opener. The last one was the flashiest though, as she drove her fingers through it's body in order to grab direct hold of it's spine, lifted it in the air, and as the Uniform activated she ripped the machine in two, leaving in her hand only a mechanical spine, covered in black hydraulic fluid and with a single optical camera tethered in only by it's ribbon cable which she subsequently grabbed and looked into, further mouthing the words in view of the camera, "I win." Before dropping to the floor and crying into the pool of Hydraulic fluid silently, still holding the spine in her hand.
"Test over." Said Ozpin as he began clapping from the other end of the room. "I'm impressed Yang, you may just be able to beat your sister after all." You'll be leading the charge against the White Fang."
Yang looked over, before getting back up, "I understand."
"Now grab your classmates, they require the infirmary."
Weiss, hearing this conversation as she came back to consciousness, began to crawl out of sight, and then snuck out.
"I must end this catastrophe, before another friend dies."
Ruby sat outside as Roman could be heard arguing with the White Fang leader, hours of fighting and screaming and the noise finally stopped, it seemed like they had reached a conclusion.
Roman walked out of the room and grabbed Ruby by the shoulder, "I got us in, but we have to put on a good show to get them to follow us, got it?"
Ruby went with him, "How are we gonna do that?"
"For starters, we get patched up. Then, we dress up. Then we just play the part and accomplish what we've both wanted all along."
Hours later, they both walk out, Roman walking out in what looks more slim fitting on him and with a much longer coat and the addition of a cape, the entirety of the rather extravagant outfit being hues of crimson and gold. Ruby's was much different, an eye-patch sporting a metallic silver rose covered up her bad eye, and an outfit with more of a furred theme took the place of the old one, all of it being black and white.
Ruby looked around her outfit, "This outfit reminds me of my mother."
"It suits you well Ruby." Roman said as he noted the strong symbol that her colors memorialized.
Roman and Ruby then walked past the changing rooms and through the curtains on to the White Fangs assembly stage, a legion of members waiting to hear what the near legendary thief had to say.
Roman stood to the side of Ruby and presented her with his cane, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you, our Champion against our oppressors! Ruby Rose!"
Ozpin stood at the microphone in front of the entire student body of beacon with a picture of Blake in memorial, "Students of Beacon, I present to you, our martyr against the parasites that haunt us! Blake Belladonna!"
Roman began pacing around the stage, "Day in and day out, we have been put down, destroyed, beaten within an inch of our lives in the middle of the streets, threatened with the death of our families and yelled at for simply wanting freedom. The crimes against us as people have stretched far beyond any decent standard, these are no longer bullies in our play ground, these are rifles aimed at the heads of our children!"
Ozpin put his hands up as if to symbolize the world, "We sit here, lying in wait for these thugs to bash down our doors and steal from our homes, to desecrate our private lives with their corrupt dealings and the world to burn only for the ashes to flow through our fingertips and into their wallets. These are no longer the bullies in our playground, these our rifles aimed at you children!"
Roman stepped up to the edge of the stage, "We must bring justice to those who have wronged us! And with me as your leader, it shall be served, and with us shall be the dark of night to wrap us in protection as we claim our prize! We shall stand for this no longer!"
Ozpin grabbed the mic and held it closer, "We must bring law to these savages that claim our lives and our possessions, exterminate the pests that have ruined our once great city, and with us shall be the burning hate of a thousand suns to etch our way back into the confines of the world we wish to live in. We shall stand for this no longer!"
"Tomorrow we cast war!"
"Tomorrow we cast war!"
A/N: I apologize for the long wait, I just got done moving into my new house and finally got my internet working, please forgive me and I hope you guys are enjoying the story so far. I try my best at making it, I re-wrote this one at least six times before even sending it to my beta.