Chapter 30-
Now the morning came, early in the morning at six in the morning they board their Bullheads. Ruby, dressed in her full Reaper outfit including the Red cloak and now with holes in the hood for her ears to show through proudly. Next to her was Neo, but instead of her normal outfit she had completely changed it all out.
She had tied her hair into twin tail hairstyle, with black hair and a lighter streak where the white was originally and held with white bows while her bangs remained the same. Her eyes were now pure green instead of the changing colours.
She wore a sleeveless black blouse with white frills on the chest and collar with a black ribbon bow hanging from the front of the collar. The blouse itself exposed her midriff and she had medium-length black armbands on both of her wrists. She had a knee length skirt held on by a white belt and black shoes with a triple tomoe emblem on the soles.
The others inside, Winter, Weiss and Mizu wore their normal outfits while Mizu had donned on Summer's cloak, with Ruby's blessing to do it.
Raven had ditched her White Fang mask but kept the rest the same, alongside Qrow who still had his standard outfit although he kept his flask on him though he hadn't drunk any of the alcohol inside. Yet.
With them all inside, and armed. Even Mizu who had her own Rapier attached to her side. Naomi was inside the cockpit flying at the lead of the force mixed with Hunters and Huntresses in training and police forces. The twenty strong fleet of aircraft was moving at high speeds and close to the ground of Vale.
The highly trained pilots easily avoiding any obstacle in their way as they moved together as one, constant streams of chatter between the pilots, with small adjustments or checks.
"Detonate." Ruby said calmly over the radio, telling Juniors men to blow the bombs as they were getting closer to the headquarters.
Quickly afterwards they were starting to get reports of the explosions and mass evacuations of the Colosseum as planned, with all of the Atlas military being deployed.
"Light is green. Three minutes." Ruby said, her voice distorted by her mask.
"We hit the ground running. Disable only unless they strike to kill first. Qrow, Raven. You two are to split off once we get inside and secure the building. Regroup at the board room." Ruby ordered.
"Mizu, you. Winter and Weiss are to move ahead. Remember that you're meant to be there. We'll try and get as far as possible without violence." Ruby said.
With everyone agreeing and understanding the objectives they were ahead of the main force by a solid five minutes. Allowing them the time get to the board room first.
Landing just inside the perimeter thank to those they carried, and although hesitant to let those with Mizu in they couldn't do much against the woman.
Although Ruby used her semblance to hide herself from view of most people, going through the building they left Raven and Qrow by the entrance to await their signal to move while they walked through the building towards the board room.
However, as they got to the doors they were stopped by two armed guards dressed in Schnee family colours and the snowflake over their hearts.
"We can't allow you to pass ma'am." One of them said, standing in the way of the door.
"You will let me through. I must speak with my husband." Mizu said in her strongest voice.
"I'm sorry Ma'am, orders that you are not to be allowed entry." The guard said firmly.
Ruby, realising quickly that they'd get nowhere with the two guards she appeared and quickly disabled them through knocking them out.
"Come on." Ruby said, kicking open the doors with her scythe raised in its sniper mood.
"You are all under arrest for crimes against humanity. Surrender peacefully and one will get hurt." Ruby stated calmly, her weapon supported by the other three women behind her while Aria got everyone else to start securing the building.
"What is the meaning of this?" Willow Schnee boomed from his point at the head of the table.
"The meaning dear husband, is that I should have done this years ago. This company was never yours, but my misguided father believed only a man could run this. Now you're going to finally be brought to justice for all your crimes against Faunus." Mizu stated to the man.
He only laughed in response before replying, "You have no evidence, so how are you going to arrest me?" Willow stated.
"We have enough evidence." Ruby said with a deadly calm.
"You. Those ears." The man said, staring directly towards Ruby and those wolf ears sticking up.
It seemed to take a minute before the man realised, which in this time Raven and Qrow joined them to start detaining some of the board members.
"You're the daughter of that wolf whore. You should be long dead by now." Willow replied.
This seemed to send Ruby over the edge as she vanished from sight only to reappear in front of Willow, scythe extended and against his neck. "What are you talking about?" Ruby asked in a deathly tone.
The man laughed, not caring about the deadly weapon pressed against his neck. "It's funny that my wife thought I didn't know about her fling with that Faunus whore. And her plans with it. So I sabotaged the thing she created." The man stated.
"I am not a thing." Ruby growled out menacingly, making her scythe draw blood.
He only laughed in response once more before stating, "All Faunus are things. Not even human. If you're doing this to find that cunt. You'll never find her." The man stated harshly in reply and instead of questioning him more Ruby hit him with the flat side of her weapon knocking him out.
Neo quickly stepped in as Ruby dropped her weapon and was ready to start beating the man even further. With Neo, Mizu and Winter all holding her back while Qrow kept Raven back as she had heard what he said they managed to get both women calm again.
Once Ruby was released from the hold of the three women she immediately went back over to the unconscious Schnee male and slapped a pair of plastic handcuffs onto his hands, "We're taking him with us. The police can have everyone else." Ruby said coldly.
"Where are we going to take him?" Winter asked, unsure what to make of the sudden change of plans.
"I have several places to take him." Ruby stated, "Naomi. Lock in on my position and get here now." Ruby ordered as she went over to a window, breaking it open.
"What's your plan now Ruby? Huh? Take him somewhere no one else knows and do what? I want to know as much as you but we can't simply take him away somewhere and do what?" Mizu asked forcefully, stepping into Ruby's way.
"Whatever it takes. He was responsible for my death and he knows something about mom. I'm not letting him go." Ruby said, drawing her scythe to hold behind her back with it fully extended.
"And I want to know as much as you, but we have to do this the right way." Mizu reinforced into Ruby, trying to get her to see reason.
"You don't understand! None of you do. Do you know what it feels like expecting to die from something you've been born with and can't stop? Than to only find out that someone's been trying to kill you since before you were even in your mother's womb? And that your entire life is a lie! Believing your mother was dead by the hands of Faunus to only now discover someone else was the mastermind behind it?" Ruby shouted at all of them in the room. Growing increasingly angry.
"You're right, we don't but that doesn't mean you can just take him away with you and do inhumane things to him, no matter who he is." Mizu replied calmly but spoke with an authority they hadn't seen before, "Now why don't you go and free the Faunus kept in the mines below." Mizu ordered.
Ruby didn't say a word but turned to the window, leaving Willow at the feet of Mizu. Neo seeing this immediately spoke up and moved towards her, "I'll come with you." Neo said.
"I want to be alone." Ruby replied quietly before vanishing out of the window.
"Winter, Weiss go with her and help the workers. Get them outside and I'll organise food and water to be distributed amongst them." Mizu replied, her two daughters following their half-sister.
As the police moved inside to secure all the prisoners only a couple board members remained but went with the police to give evidence about the dealings happening inside.
Mizu was typing away some quick fire messages to get things organised when Neo spoke up in a small voice, from her seat around the large board room table.
"She's changed. She's so different now. Before we would talk to each other all the time about everything wrong, now I barely get a couple words out of her about anything bothering her. She's rarely in the room now, we never even sleep in the same bed anymore. I'm trying to help but she keeps pushing me away." Neo said, her voice small and weak sounding.
Mizu turned and went over to Neo, grabbing a hold of her hand. "I think I'm to blame for that. Before, with Summer. Well at first I was really bad at talking about anything wrong, especially to someone I trusted. I would try and push Summer away from me in response, to protect her from my problems as I didn't want to burden her with them." Mizu explained.
"But she's never been like that with me. We're both open and honest with each other, we share our problems so there are no secrets between us and we can deal with them together." Neo replied, not wanting to believe Mizu.
"She died. Whether it was for a few minutes or a few hours, she died nonetheless. We've all noticed that you're not the same. You're a little more reserve but you keep pushing on. Like Ruby, I don't think you've really taken a break have you? The reality of what happened hasn't sunk in." Mizu said, holding up her finger as Neo was going to interrupt.
"I'm not done. Ruby's perceptive, whether or not she uses that side of her semblance or not. She can still tell people's emotions. She knows that her dying has affected you badly, it just hasn't sunk in yet. Ruby knows this so she's trying not to cause you any more harm by distancing herself from you, but that's not what you need is it?" Mizu asked kindly.
"How did you know that?" Neo asked in surprise.
"Ruby's other semblance? That was easy, my glyphs are dormant but I was gifted with something else. I can suggest things to people to make them do certain things, it's how I was able to stop my husband…ex-husbands more extreme methods. And I know this about you and Ruby because Summer explained to me how she felt when I pushed her away a great many times. In the end she got fed up and confronted me, rather explosively. We sorted it out and well, I won't forget that night for a long time." Mizu said teasingly, winking at Neo as she finished her sentence.
Neo only blushed in response, looking away from Mizu and out towards the window where she could hear fighting faintly in the distance.
A/N
So I'm updating for a slightly selfish reason, I'm trying to hunt down a story but I can't remember whether I saved it or not but I fancy reading it again.
It's a Once Upon a Time story but basically Regina's father is still alive and is a doctor, has his own clinic as well. Emma goes there for treatment on evenings or something to avoid it being reported or something, can't exactly remember. If anyone has any ideas it would be great because I can't search through loads of new stories, though I will.