Solace reaches the Industrial-District, taking him only half an hour via taxi and as soon as he exits the vehicle his guard was already up. The city, during the day, is relatively quiet with the exception of a few petty crimes here and there but something about the night time changes the whole outlook to being dangerous. Solace begins his search and wanders the district looking for Blake, but every time he sees a person he couldn't help but label them as a potential threat. This kind of profiling isn't good for him as it is distracting. Lucky for Solace though, life throws him a bone for this one moment and he catches a glimpse of her going around a corner and into an alleyway. He quickly runs after her to catch up but as he makes it to the corner, he slows down and takes a peek to see on what's on the other side. He sees Blake further down the alleyway and is in front of a tall man wearing, on what looked like a white mask, and is donned in black clothing, save for the white sleeveless tunic he wore over it; the tunic also contained a red beast emblem on the front and back of it, most likely the logo for whatever organization the man belonged to. The man was standing in front of an entrance of a warehouse and was having some kind of conversation with Blake, but unfortunately for Solace he couldn't hear it. Their conversation wasn't long though, and the man steps aside to let Blake in the building, then resumes his posts when she gets inside. For Solace, the situation quickly turned south as the logo that the man wore, belonged to the infamous Faunus terrorists organization called the White Fang. Solace stops peeking and backs off from the corner, he couldn't believe on what he just saw, why was Blake talking to a member of the White Fang? He thought. Solace didn't want to assume the worse, that she was an agent for them, and decides to go inside to find Blake, and hear her side of the story. He looks around the area and spots a fire-escape ladder well that was above him, but just a little bit out of his reach. He takes a couple steps back then sprints forward to the wall in front of him. The momentum gained from his run allowed him to scale up far enough for one of his hands to grab the base of the ladder, and when he knew his grip was solid, he pulled himself up and got his other hand to grab onto the next bar. Solace would continue climbing up until he reached the top of this two-story building, and from there he would quietly make his way across the roof to get closer to the warehouse. The building he was on was the office section for whatever company owned it, and was connected to the warehouse he needed to get into. To help keep the warehouse cool there were windows located high above it's walls, and were usually kept open to let the air flow in, and lucky for Solace, they were big enough to let him climb on through into one of it's rooms. By the looks of it, this room was meant to hold onto documents that were being stored in small cardboard boxes. But as soon as he makes it inside, a White Fang grunt spots him infiltrating and confronts Solace.

"Hey you, hold it right there! Hands on where I can see them!" Solace faces him and slowly raises his arms into the air, while at the same time the the soldier walks forward with his sub-machine gun pointed at his torso. Being a terrorists organization does come with its perks, one be it being supplied with firearms. The smg, that the soldier was packing was like any other in it's class; lightweight, compact, and low in recoil. Seeing that the environment was a warehouse, picking to wield this class of weaponry did make the most sense, as it was easy to control when maneuvering in tight spaces. So if Solace was going to do something then he'd have to do it fast, "you got a lot of nerve sneaking your way in to our home, hum-" right as the soldier get close enough, Solace makes his move. He shifts to his left and uses his right arm to push upward on the barrel of the weapon causing the man to lose control and aim high, while at the same time he uses his other hand to switch the weapon's safety on, afterwards he backs off. Solace did this quick enough that when the soldier tried to squeeze the trigger, his weapon refused to fire. The man looks down on his weapon to see on what was wrong with it, but by doing so he fails to see Solace going in again for another attack. He uses both of his hands to get a firm grip on the enemy's smg, then jabs him on the gut with the weapon to loosen the grip, and jabs again on the jaw to knock the soldier out. Once again Solace was able to execute this maneuver quickly, and as of result nobody now knows of his infiltration and he acquires a disguise that could help him go about undetected. A smile forms on his face, as he realizes on how this was all possible because of the training that the Vanguards gave him. Even though he had a falling out with the group near the end of his service, he couldn't help but still love them, for they were still his family.

After reminiscing in his memories, Solace undresses the soldier of his white tunic and Grimm mask, that all White Fang members wore, and donned it on to himself; the clothes he was already wearing were colored in black, so he didn't have to completely strip the knocked-out man of everything, and just to play it safe he took the man's weapon and spare ammunition as well. Once all ready to go he made his way out of the room and closed the door behind him. Things were surprisingly going well for him, not only was he able to infiltrate the building, but he was also able to knock-out a guard quietly, and leave him in the room to hide. When Solace left the room he found himself on top of a catwalk that ran across the entirety of the warehouse's walls. Down below him the floor was crowded with Faunus who sympathized with the White Fang, and all of them were wearing the symbolic Grimm mask. Everyone down below had their own personal reason of joining the radical organization, but to Solace it didn't matter, every single one of them was his enemy. Which means that he's outnumbered, and should find Blake as quick as possible. He acts as a White Fang soldier on patrol, and walks along the catwalk until he finds a set of stairs that brought him down to the main floor, from there he continues his facade and walks at the outskirts of the huge crowd, while at the same time looking towards the center to spot her. Solace ends up lapping around the crowd about nine times before finally finding Blake; she was shifting around the masses, trying to get to the front of it, and had she'd not been on the move, he would've found her. Not wasting anymore time he goes into the crowd and towards Blake's position. While moving in, he was able to hear better on what everyone was talking about, they varied from group to group but overall they were all the same; they were discussing their hatred for the entirety of humanity. Solace becomes a bit nervous from hearing the threats and the vile deeds they would commit. So much so that he had wished that he'd never heard any of them. He continues pressing forward however, and as he walked he had thought that he would've had to talked to the people to make way for him, but to his surprise they were doing it on their own. Maybe they thought he was one of them and so respected him enough to be polite, maybe it was the uniform, or maybe it was the sub-machine gun he was holding in his hands. Either way, it was working well for him. Solace was getting closer to Blake when the lights all of the sudden gets dim, and the crowd falls silent. He looks around to see on what was going on but as he does, the lights are turned back on and focused onto the stage in front of the crowd. A man walks towards the center of the stage, and his appearance surprises everyone inside, including Solace. The man takes a bow before speaking.

"Good evening, everyone, how are we all doing tonight?" The man addresses the crowd.

"What the hell is going on? Why is a human here?" A member of the crowd angrily yells in response of the man's question, and the rest were left pondering the same thing. Solace, himself was confused from this scene as well. The White Fang organization was created by Faunus, for Faunus, they never allowed humans in to there ranks before and they certainly still don't to this day. So for this man to stand in front of this gathering and not be killed, definitely raises many eyebrows.

"Settle down everyone, settle down. It is true. I am human, and I'm well aware that we hum ans aren't exactly the favorites of the White Fang. But please believe me when I say, they aren't my favorites either. So with this, we share a common enemy, and if you ask me I smell an opportunity."

"Sounds like you want to use us!" One of them suggests.

"Oh no, no, no. I do not want to use any of you. I, in the deepest depths of my heart, truly do care about all of you and sympathize with your cause. Now I understand that I do not share your, rich, struggle in history. But I do share the feeling of being victimized. Yes, believe it or not! I have been victimized by my own people, for many years, and I've had enough! Ever since I was a wee child, my family and I have been wrongly persecuted for committing heathenish crimes, just because of our lowly class level! Isn't that just wrong? I know this is something all of you should be able to relate, so how about we band together to fight against these corrupt individuals! Kings, senators, mayors, generals, huntsman, it doesn't matter on who it is. So long as we're together, we'll be able to give them a taste of their own medicines! So I ask you, not as a human but as an individual who is sick and tired of this corrupt system. Will you not help me topple down this forsaken power and rebuild it from the ground up!"

Solace has no idea on who this man was, but he was certainly impressed from the level of charisma that this person possessed; the crowd felt the same way as well. Every single one of it's members were more than motivated to take action upon hearing his, "plead for assistance," and by the looks of it he may have just convinced these people to accept him into their ranks.

"Wait, what is you name?" One of the people asks.

"My name shouldn't matter, since I am a no one. But if you must know, my name is Roman Torchwick!" The man responds.

Solace now has the name of the man, and decides to keep it in mind. He then goes back to his search for Blake, and lucky for him, she was standing a few feet ahead of him. When he finally gets close enough, he taps her shoulder to grab her attention.

"Yes, can I help you with something?" Blake turned around immediately when Solace touched her, and for a second he didn't recognize on who she was, since she was wearing a Grimm mask as well.

"The boss wants to talk to you. He sent me to get you." Solace says while making his voice sound raspy.

"Well tell your boss I don't want to, so leave me alone." She was about to face away from him when Solace grabs onto her arm, "hey what are you doing? Let go, of me!"

"Blake, it's me." Solace whispers to her with his normal voice.

"Wait, what are you- never mind, go ahead and lead on." Solace then leads her by these big storage crates, it was away from the crowd and none of the guards seemed to patrol the area. Once the two knew that no one was watching them, they both remove their masks to show their faces. "Solace, what are you doing here? How did you even find this place?"

"I should be asking you the same thing, Blake! Why did you disappear on us like that?"

"Didn't you guys read the note? I said I had to take care of something personal."

"Yes we did read it. But none of us would've ever thought of you coming down to see these... monsters!"

"Don't call them that, their not monsters! At least not all of them. They're just people who've been hurt..."

"Blake, why are you even down here? Why do you even care about them?"

She lets out a sigh, "if I tell you on why. Will you promise to keep it between us?"

"I do."

"When I said I had to handle something personal, I wasn't lying. You see. I was part of the White Fang for many years, before coming to Beacon. I was at every rally they hosted, and wherever there was injustice being done to a Faunus, I'd be one of the first ones to respond to their cry for help. I loved being part of the White Fang. But recently, their tactics changed, they've become more aggressive. Taking in more and more wet work and sabotage missions against humans. That's not the organization I signed myself up for, years ago. So when I found my opportunity, I left it, and hoped that it ended right there. But now they're here in Vale, and I want to know on why!"

As Blake was speaking, Solace hears heavy footsteps getting closer and closer to their position. Without a second thought he pulls Blake closer to him and wraps his arm around her, pretending to feel her up.

"Solace, what are you-!"

"Shh, be quiet and just play along." He whispers to her.

A single White Fang soldier spots the two, but more importantly Solace, "hey you, what do you think you're doing! You have a job to do, soldier. Now follow me, we're escorting Mr. Torchwick to his car, and from there on to the docks." The soldier begins to walk away.

Meanwhile Blake blushes from this rather embarrassing situation, "um, Solace can you let me go now, please?"

"Sorry, about all of that. What am I going to do?"

"Go with him, we need to find out more about this Roman guy."

"What about you?"

"Don't worry, I'll be close by. Now go!"

Solace's obedient nature kicks in, and he follows her order without a moments hesitation. The soldier that had spotted the two, wasn't too far from where he was originally standing and was waiting for Solace to catch up. Once the two were side by side, they walk forward to meet up with Roman. "So was that chick your girlfriend. or something?"

"Oh, uh, yeah! She's my girlfriend alright!"

"You didn't sound too confident about you answer" the soldier remarks.

"Sorry, we just started dating and thought that maybe, if I brought her to this rally, she would like me more."

The soldier laughs, "don't stress it out too much there buddy, just relax and let everything come naturally to you."

The two make their way out of the warehouse, and once outside they then head towards the front of the building where Roman's car was parked. When the two arrives at the location, the soldier walks to the driver seat to greet him, but when he got to the window he was surprised to see a small girl manning the wheel. Solace didn't mind the two and stood next to the rear passenger door, waiting for Roman's arrival. The expected man finally arrives, being escorted by two White Fang grunts.

" You'll have to send my regards to your boss for bringing me in such a captive audience, and the staff was impeccably helpful!" Roman says to the two soldiers as he approaches the car, and Solace opens the door. "Alas, I bid you all a good night," Roman gets inside the car, "well are you going to join me or not?" Solace hesitates a bit at first, but he quickly gets his composure back and gets inside as well. After the soldier accompanying Solace gets in the car also, the vehicle's engine starts and the woman drives the group towards the docks.

While the car was making it's way towards it's destination, Blake was tailing the vehicle from the roof tops. She couldn't always keep up with the car but lucky for her, the traffic lights on occasion would cause the vehicle to stop, and allow her to catch up, and the roads that the car was taking would force them to go around buildings, when Blake can easily cut right through.

"Gotta love the night time of the city, eh?" Roman jokingly says to Solace; which he responds with a shrug, "oh come on, don't be like that. Listen, I'm just trying to get a conversation going to pass the time. Oh wait, I know! How about we introduce ourselves. I'm Roman. Now you."

"Uh, people call me Fenris." Solace answers.

"Fenris huh, does that relate to your animal side or something? Speaking of which, do you mind telling me on what it is?"

"It's just my name. Also, my 'animal side' is that of a wolf."

"Hmmm."

The rest of the trip was silent as Roman didn't seem to have anymore questions and Solace didn't have anymore to say. When the group finally arrived at the docks, everyone inside gets out and to Solace's surprise the area was pretty quite and empty; not a single person was to be seen anywhere.

"So Fenris, how long have you been with the White Fang?" Roman asks as he gets out of the car, with a cane in his hand.

"For awhile now" Solace answers back.

"Uh huh," Roman aims up his cane towards Solace torso. "So I'm not going to lie to you, 'Fenris.' I know you're not a member of the White Fang and that you've been putting up a facade for some reason. Who ever you are, you're certainly not leaving here alive with that amount of information in your head."

Right as Roman finishes talking he puts his finger on the trigger of his cane and begins to put pressure on it, but right before his cane could fire it's projectile, a bullet was fired from the distance and hits it off of his hand. The group look towards the direction of who ever fired their weapon, and everyone sees Blake standing on the roof of one of the warehouses in the docks and wielding her Gambol Shroud; the weapon functions as both as a gun and a bladed weapon, for now it was in it's pistol mode so the bladed portion of it was folded downwards. Solace was genuinely impressed from her shot, as the distance she was from the group looked like she would've required a high level of accuracy to hit her target.

"Oh you got to be kidding me, there's more of you !?" Roman angrily says.

Blake takes aim and opens fire once again with her pistol, but this time aiming for Roman's chest. Unfortunately, he is saved by the woman that was driving the group to the docks. She unfolds the parasol that she's been carrying around, and it was enough to stop the bullets from reaching their target. Seeing that she's done her part, she grins in amusement then taunts Blake to come after her, to which she takes the bait and gets down from the roof to charge at the short woman. Meanwhile, Solace quickly attacks the White Fang soldier that came along with them by kicking him in the groin as hard as he could, before following it up with an uppercut to the faunus's jaw. The soldier is completely taken by surprise from Solace's attack as he was still distracted by Blake, but nonetheless he was unable to properly prepare himself for the attacks, and as of result is knocked out cold.

Roman quickly retrieves his cane back after the woman shielded him, and after seeing Solace knocked out his escort, he aims his cane and shoots explosive rounds towards Solace. But lucky for him, Solace sees the attack coming and backs away quickly to avoid being seriously injured, but the explosive property of the round shoots debris and shrapnel towards him but thanks to his aura the injuries he sustained were healed.

After Blake was able to close in the distance between her and the woman, she unfolds the blade to change it to it's sword form and initiates with a downward slash then follows it up with a thrust. The woman's reflexes were a lot better than on what she let on, and she swiftly dodges the slash then uses her parasol to block the thrust, afterwards she goes on the offensive and unleashes a powerful back kick onto Blake's stomach. Blake was caught off guard from the woman's speed and was unable to block her kick, she backs away from the woman then regroups with Solace.

"Looks like this is game over for you two, kiddies!" Roman says, as the woman regroups with him. He then aims up his cane again and is about to open fire on the two when Yang comes in to their rescue and punches Roman on the torso, and tries to punch the woman too. Yang's gauntlets, the Ember Celica , unleashes powerful concussive shots upon impact on their target; Roman is sent flying a couple feet away while the woman was able to quickly dodge her attack but is being kept on her toes as an unidentified shooter fires on her, giving her little time to consolidate. Even with the pressure being put on the woman, she was able to move her way back to Roman and shield her with her parasol. Once the two were together they made their way back to the car, put the knocked out soldier into their vehicle and while at the same time the woman shielded them with her parasol, and made their escape, but before they could leave Roman lets out his final words. "I'm afraid we'll have to put this encounter to an end kiddos!"

As Roman's crew makes their get away, Yang makes her way to Blake and expresses the amount of concern she had for her when she disappeared. Meanwhile the unknown shooter makes her way to the group and it's revealed that it was actually Ruby who's been suppressing the short woman.

"Blake what were you doing? Who were they?" Ruby asks.

"I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you all, but I had heard rumors that the White Fang were operating in Vale and so I wanted to know on why." Blake answers.

"So you just run off without asking us to help you out?" Yang asks.

"I didn't think any of you would've wanted to help out?"Blake says.

"Are you kidding me? We wouldn't be interested in investigating criminal organizations, and fighting them? That sounds absolutely like fun, so of course we'll be all for it!" Yang says excitedly.

"Yeah plus your part of the team too, Blake. So you're family, and just like a real family, if you ever need help just go ahead and ask." Ruby adds on.

"As much as I'd hate to say it, we may have our differing opinions but she's right. You're part of the family too." Weiss says.

"Wow, that's pretty nice -" Blake is interrupted.

"Also, it'd be bad for my reputation if you were killed or arrested." Weiss adds on to her previous comment.

Blake is a bit irritated by her comment, but she decides to just let it go and just be happy that her teammates are more than happy to give out a helping hand. The sense of camaraderie filling the air puts Solace in a good mood as well, they all remind him of the men he led and hopes that one day they could be reunited as well.

Nobody has anymore reasons to stay at the docks and they all made their way back to Beacon Academy.