A Second Chance

by KostekSocs

Salem has plans, Cinder has plans, even the Brothers have plans. Taking a chance, the future is shown to Pyrrha in a vision. Pyrrha can't allow what she experienced to actually happen, so much death and destruction. So Pyrrha will change her, Jaune's and everyone's future to something better. Thankfully she will have help from Jaune, her friends and even someone higher up.

11. Chapter 11

Welcome everyone to chapter eleven. We would like to say thank you to everyone who took the time to read some random account's story and especially to the ones who reviewed or favorited it.

Apologies for this chapter taking so long, we started writing it and by the time we were reviewing it we had 3 versions of it and during the review we changed it again… twice. So it took a bit of time to settle on what the chapter would be.

And so the White Fang fight was delayed by one chapter and this chapter is a bit of build up, a bit of setup, a bit of character interactions, a bit of development and some fluff and action. And a bit of darkness.

Also be prepared for a very long read.

Anyways, welcome to our story, we hope you like it.

Of course, we do not own RWBY and we won't make even a nickel from this story, it's all for fun, playing in RoosterTeeth's sandbox.

Onwards to A Second Chance.

-KostekSocs

Chapter Eleven – An Adventure in Vale

Yang and Jaune walked out of the elevator with Jaune holding one arm out saying "After you" which caused Yang to hold in a scoff, but she did shake her head. Though she kept playing along. As they walked out of the doors to the landing pads, Jaune holding the door open of course, Yang wondered how long Jaune would keep this whole 'refined gentleman' act up for.

Until he got bored?

Until she managed to out play him?

All night?

Yang shook her head again, in any case it was already shaping up to be an interesting night out. Plus Yang always did wonder why being treated like a princess was the goal for some girls. Guess she would find out tonight.

So far, not that bad, the flower was a nice touch and Jaune already had a habit of keeping doors open for anyone beside or behind him. So no big adjustment there. Jaune's 'smile' would take some getting used to though, and Yang was 100% sure that she did not like this plastered on 'charming' smile.

Yang held in the urge to punch that smile off Jaune's face. It was just… wrong. Jaune's normal happy smile or dorky smile were good enough and pretty 'charming' in their own way... At least Yang though so and Ruby and Pyrrha definitely agreed.

Jaune smiled at her as they walked up to the waiting Bullhead, he took a step toward the open side door where he turned around to face her and extended his hand to her.

Yang raised an eyebrow at Jaune.

Jaune's smile grew sickly sweet "Please let me help you enter the Bullhead" he said as his hand got closer to her.

This... this... Yang could leave behind, but she sent her own sickly sweet smile at Jaune "Thank you kind sir." Yang then placed her hand on Jaune's waiting one. What followed was a surprisingly smooth move. Jaune turned as she got closer to the door and once she stepped up to get into the Bullhead Jaune raised his hand. Giving her a place to rest her weight and a push up.

Yang, basically, gracefully hopped into the Bullhead. Which was an odd feeling. Yang, outside of the dance floor wasn't all that graceful. Though the help was nice only because it was Jaune helping her and she knew that he knew how badass she was. If it was any other guy it would have felt somewhat… wrong… and Yang would have had to punch them.

Jaune sat down opposite to Yang and closed the door. The look on Yang's face for a second there was what he wanted to see. That look showed him that his plan was starting to work. Yang was starting to get frustrated and/or annoyed.

Yang was in no way a 'girly-girl' or any kind of 'damsel waiting for rescue' or 'princess' so Jaune knew that if he kept being all 'milady' tonight Yang would probably hit a point where she wouldn't be able to take it anymore and then Jaune would be victorious.

Sure Yang may use him as a punching bag, but he would show her why you don't mess with bets and force them on people. Those people would mess with you. And while it was kind of true that the issue he had with the bet was tied to an Arc thing, it would still be a good lesson for Yang to learn. It may even be more fun than he expected.

Though, even with the week's notice Jaune ran into two issues when planning their little night out dancing. And while it was a forced night out, he was still going dancing with one of his closest friends and he didn't really want Yang to suffer through hours of time with him. That wouldn't be fun.

Either for Yang or for him later.

So Jaune decided during the week to just ask Yang, but then he thought of something better and decided to ask Yang on the flight to Vale. Which should annoy her. He did do some looking at clubs though so he had a rough idea.

Jaune dropped his sickly sweet smile and smiled somewhat normally at Yang "So, I'm not really familiar with the club scene in Vale, if you have any suggestions of where to go please share them."

Yang hummed, a good club, she honestly didn't really look into any clubs in Vale, she first planned to do it later and then just didn't have the time.

"Well, what place did you pick?" Yang asked, she did feel slightly miffed that Jaune didn't ask her during the week, but she also knew that this may be a part of Jaune's plan for tonight. Annoying her for some reason.

Jaune did do a quick search of clubs, bars and dance halls during the week and most customer review sites picked the same 5 clubs. Out of them Jaune chose one which looked the most Yang friendly. Or at least what he thought Yang might have liked…

"It's a place called The Club, not an original name, but the reviews are good and it's pretty close to the rest of the entertainment district." Jaune said looking at his scroll. Talking in a completely normal tone for the first time since he picked Yang up.

Yang blinked and had to bite her tongue to stop herself from laughing. Was this irony or a coincidence or something else. It felt like some sort of grand joke though. Yang wondered if Jaune knew her history with the place. Maybe Ruby told him…

Or maybe he did just pick it at random from a list of clubs online. That would be her luck. And Jaune's luck now that she thought about it.

In any case Yang was interested in seeing how she would be greeted if she showed up there with a 'date'. It should be fun. Yang's smile grew "The Club will be fine, actually went there before, though they closed down for a time" Yang held back some chuckles "if the place sucks we can just go somewhere else."

Jaune was actually pretty pleased with himself for actually picking a place that Yang approved of. What were the chances of that? And happily that just left one last thing to sort out. Jaune did hope that him also 'not planning' a place to eat would annoy Yang.

Jaune nodded "Alright, sounds good, though one other quick question, when you go dancing do you eat at the place you dance or go someplace else?" Jaune asked, wondering if he would have to make a last minute reservation. He did have a favor he could call in if it came down to it.

And Jaune even had a backup plan in place, just in case. It would be his secret weapon against Yang. He could feel his smile grow wider just thinking how Yang would react. "I have someplace in mind if you would be up for extending our night out dancing to a night out on the town?"

Yang heard someone awwing in her head, look at Jauney now, going all mister smooth date on her. Yang smiled and leaned in closer to Jaune "The showing me a good night out would be up to you Jauney." She ended with a wink.

Jaune held back both rolling his eyes and a blush that threatened to show up on his face. This right here was the one problem with his plan, in short, teenage male brain see hot girl. Ever since that breakfast all those weeks ago where he came to the realization of just how attractive all of team RWBY is, he became more… aware of Yang.

And sure he also became somewhat better at dealing with her teasing and general touchiness, personal space wasn't really a firm concept for anyone Yang considered a friend. But Yang was still so very far out of his league that when she showed her assets off it did catch him off guard. Teenage male brain and all that.

He really tried to not blame himself for taking the odd look even though he knew that he shouldn't. Though at least he didn't stare like some people. And he was getting better and better at not showing how Yang affected him and also not getting affected that much.

The second part was because of Pyrrha and he wondered if he was going through some weird sort of exposure therapy because of everything that Pyrrha did… Everything he did with Pyrrha… Which meant that Yang's closeness affected him less than Pyrrha's… Hmmm…

Jaune refocused on Yang and nodded "Well then, I'll make sure that you like the time I show you."

Yang chuckled "Wow Vomit-Boy, wow"

Jaune groaned, he knew the second that what he said left his mouth that it was terrible, like bad cheesy flirting terrible. So not like the gentleman he was playing as. "Just forget I said that…"

Yang laughed even harder "No way, Ruby and Pyrrha will need to hear about your material… Oh we also have to tell Weiss." Yang had to admit it wasn't the worst bit of flirting directed her way. Jaune's facial expressions when he messed up were at least always good for a laugh, but Gods was it baaad. And Jaune was surprisingly so smooth until now.

So with Yang chuckling and Jaune groaning into his hands their Bullhead slowly lifted off the landing pad and started to fly towards Vale.

Unnoticed by either Yang or Jaune for their entire journey down to the landing pads, just a few steps behind them followed the rest of their teams.

- Scene Break -

So, while Pyrrha understood why Jaune was going all out in this act for this bet, she did not like it. And sure Pyrrha also knew that Jaune wasn't actually going on a date with Yang, but a part of her mind was screaming at her to run up to them, throw Yang away from Jaune's side and take him somewhere far away.

Preferably some out of the way soundproofed hotel room or cabin in the woods, where they could be alone… And with those thought Pyrrha sighed and tried to focus on Nora and Ruby. Who were doing an okay job at leading them in their 'secret spying mission'.

They all, with some grumbling from Weiss and disinterest from Blake and Ren, agreed to follow Yang and Jaune out of curiosity, out of making sure that Yang wouldn't do anything too bad to Jaune and out of Ruby wanting to prove to Weiss that she could be sneaky. Also because Nora was using her happy excited expression which Ren always fell for.

So after a couple quick changes of clothes and Pyrrha grabbing one of Jaune's shirts for a disguise they set off. Catching up to Yang and Jaune in the dorm building was relatively quick and they stayed a hallway or corner behind them on the whole way down, which to Pyrrha's surprise worked.

Jaune and Yang were somewhat distracted, but still… Pyrrha wondered if she should have Blake or even herself teach the rest of their teams 'situational awareness'. Or it could be that Yang knew that they were following her and just didn't care. Or she wanted them to see… Knowing Yang that could be the case…

Their following while staying hidden 'worked', Pyrrha still wasn't 100% sure how really, until they reached the edge of the Bullhead landing pad area which unfortunately for them had no real places to hide. So they stayed behind some trees and a wall just outside the area.

At first Pyrrha really did think that getting to and onto a Bullhead and the trip down to Vale might have posed a bigger problem than Nora or Ruby expected.

But, surprising Pyrrha again, Ruby and Nora left their hiding places once they saw the Bullhead flight director come their way. The flight director was an old huntsman, retired now and supposedly was also a pilot back in the day.

Nora and Ruby smiled at each other as they cornered Flight Director Feln. "Hiiii there Mr. Feln" Nora said as she smiled and waved at him, a step behind Nora Ruby rounded around her to Feln's other side. Unconsciously or maybe even purposely trapping him between them. An actual pretty good example of teamwork in the field.

Pyrrha felt like sighing though, what she taught them, used to corner someone to spy on their friends…

"Hello" Feln replied in his regular strict and disinterested tone.

"Sooo, we were wondering, if by chance you knew where Jaune and Yang flew off to, and, if we could get a Bullhead to follow them?" Nora said smiling her wide smile at Feln. Beside her Ruby nodded along.

Feln sighed and just started to speak before he was cut off by Nora.

"I know that we could just ask them, Jauney is my team leader after all, but they have this bet going on and we need to see if they actually complete it, because you know they could lie, even though Jauney is terrible at lying and lying to his team wouldn't be a good thing. Also Yang is Ruby's here sister and Ruby is Yang's team leader, so she should really know where her dearest big sis went off to and if she actually finished the bet. But Yang is better at lying than Jaune, even to her own sister. Also if Yang asked him then Jauney being the great guy that he is, would lie for her and that would also be bad for everyone, like I just said, and it would be even badder because that would mean that Jaune lied to Ruby, his first dear friend at Beacon. So we need to stop Jauney from trying to…"

Nora was cut off in mid ramble by Feln sighing loudly and putting up his hand. "Okay, Okay, Gods, they're landing at the Midtown landing pads." Feln fiddled around on his scroll "And Dan can take you there. Spare me the drama. And you" Feln pointed to Ruby.

Ruby the whole time that Nora was talking did her best to nod along when she needed to help Nora emphasize a point. Ruby also, a bit unknowingly, turned on her best sad puppy eyes and pout. Which stabbed Feln deep in his heart. Ruby reminding him of his granddaughters.

"That face is a serious weapon, don't overuse it." Feln finished, he then huffed, nodded to Nora and Ruby and walked away.

Nora and Ruby smiled at each other and turned towards the rest of their friends. A moment later Nora ran up to Ren "Did you see me Renny? Just like I said, getting a Bullhead to follow Jaune and Yang wouldn't be a problem." Nora said as she snuggled up against Ren's side.

Ren nodded, not really surprised that Nora would be able to talk someone into going along with what she wanted. Nora was after all very personable and if that didn't work then she could just as easily overwhelm anyone not prepared. "I never doubted you Nora." Ren said and patted Nora's shoulder.

Ruby like Nora smiled at her friends, though unlike Nora she didn't rush over to Weiss or Blake. Since neither of them would really appreciate it. Ruby did walk over to them. "So, we just need to find that Dan guy and we are off." She said to Weiss's still disbelieving face.

Weiss wasn't sure what she was doing here, with everyone else, following Yang and Jaune. Somewhere in the middle of Ruby's argument of why she should join everyone, Weiss agreed and she was now not sure why. Nora's little show also didn't help Weiss's poor mindset.

But Feln was right, Ruby's expression, for a moment, even affected her. Weiss was really tempted, for that moment, to walk up to Feln and force him to tell her what Ruby wanted to know, just to stop that heartbreaking expression.

Now that Weiss was looking at a happy, almost smug looking Ruby, she wondered why she was affected so much by Ruby's sad face…

Blake nodded to Ruby and left her cover to stand beside her. So far the trailing of Yang and Jaune wasn't anything overly exciting, but Blake was feeling a sense of expectation and excitement in spying on them in Vale.

It was a while since she actually used any of the stealth she learned during her time with the White Fang.

Pyrrha nodded at Nora and smiled at Ruby when she turned to look at her "Well done" Pyrrha said and then turned to look at the people walking around the various Bullheads and pointed at one of them "I believe that the Dan that Mr. Feln mentioned would be that guy."

Nora smiled and pulled Ren along with her as she started walking "Great, lets talk with him and get down to Vale as fast as possible."

A short walk later they all crowded around a Bullhead with the guy that Pyrrha pointed out as Dan "Hi Dan" said Nora as the rest also either said hello or nodded their greeting. "Mr. Feln said that you can take us to the Midtown landing pads?" Nora asked quickly after her greeting.

Dan, a relatively young man looked over the group in front of him and recognized them, both from Feln's message and because Nikos, Schnee and Belladonna aren't people you forget about quickly. All three girls had pretty big profiles in Beacon's files.

Dan nodded "Yes, if you all are ready then let's go." Dan turned back around but not before looking at Nikos for a second, a bit confused at the fact that he saw her point him out to her friends. How did she know who he was…

Pyrrha smiled at the pilot as he looked at her. She kept that smile up for a moment before turning around to everyone and walking up to the Bullhead doors "Well?" She asked.

In very quick order, Nora and Ruby jumped into the Bullhead followed more slowly by Ren, Blake and Weiss. Pyrrha entered the Bullhead and sat down last. Closing the door and knocking on the wall to signal the pilot to take off.

As they took off Nora, Ruby and surprisingly Weiss started discussing where Yang and Jaune could have gone, so that they could actually follow them. Nora was pretty sure she knew the club that Jaune was talking about but she needed to confirm that the place that she was thinking off was the place "Hey Pyrrha?"

"Yes?" Pyrrha asked taking her attention off her scroll and looking at Nora.

"The place that Jaune talked about was The Club right?" Nora asked.

Pyrrha, as when she first heard Jaune talking about Junior's place, closed her eyes and schooled her expression as to not show her uneasiness about Jaune going anywhere near there. It had to be some sort of coincidence, but Pyrrha wasn't sure if she really believed that.

Jaune just so happened to pick the place owned by the information broker he was talking about. A place that Yang visited as well when she was searching for information about her mother. It felt like something more to Pyrrha. Something…

Pyrrha opened her eyes and refocused on Nora "Yes, the place was called The Club."

Nora smiled and nodded "Yes, that's the place, the one with the most boring name, so when we land we will need to catch up without somehow catching Jaune's or Yang's attention. Anyone have any plans on how?" Nora turned to look at Blake and Ren.

Blake sighed silently and looked over to Ren.

Ren nodded "Like we already did, we follow a corner or few people behind them. We may not catch up to them before they arrive at the club, so we would need to enter the club and stay out of their sight as we do so." He explained after seeing both Nora and Blake look at him.

Ruby nodded "Okay, sounds like a plan."

Weiss just sighed.

Pyrrha nodded along with Ren, but at the same time she had an idea forming in her head. Something that would maybe solve their information issue and stop this whole treat Yang like a princess thing. Pyrrha looked back down at her scroll typing up a few more things. And messaged Jaune.

The flight to Vale was pretty quick, though the landing was worse than expected. The same landing issue that hit their flight when they went to the movies hit them again. Dan explained it as an issue with the flight traffic control system for Vale, some ongoing error that messed up flight tracking and landing permissions.

So like before they hopped out of the Bullhead, much to the amusement of Dan and the excitement of a group of kids walking by with their parents.

Nora turned to everyone and smiled widely "Okay, The Club is that a way" Nora spun around to point where they would be going "so keep to the shadows and we will be successful." Nora ended her little speech with a bow and then took off in the direction she pointed, catching Ren by the arm and taking him along with her.

Ruby chuckled and finished with setting up directions on her scroll. Ruby knew that she wasn't the best at finding her way around a big city. And you couldn't blame her, she lived on the outskirts of a town, a small town, a small town on an island. So no real chance for getting used to walking around big cities.

But Ruby was pretty excited to see if she could pull off spying on Yang and Jaune. "Well, no sense in just standing around." Ruby said as she and a heavily sighing Weiss beside her walked off following Nora and Ruby's directions.

Pyrrha and Blake just looked at each other and Pyrrha smiled gently at Blake. "They are right. No sense in wasting time. Beside I have a feeling that the night will turn out differently than Ruby, Nora or Yang think it will." Pyrrha started to walked after saying that to Blake

Blake blinked and with a few quick steps caught up to Pyrrha "What do you mean?" She asked.

Pyrrha looked over at Blake and smiled "Oh nothing, this just may be a more important night and weekend for all our friends."

Blake narrowed her eyes. Pyrrha was being cryptic. Which was odd. She generally freely shared any details from her vision except when it was highly personal. Blake felt a shudder go down her back and straightened her stance. Getting ready for anything that may pop up.

Pyrrha shook her head, but didn't say anything to Blake. Her being prepared might actually be a good thing for all of them.

- Scene Break -

Jaune and Yang were still talking about their 'landing' as they walked towards The Club. Walked, because for all four times that Jaune suggested or asked about calling a cab or car, Yang disagreed with him. And Jaune didn't know why.

Their landing was slightly better than what happened when they went to see the movie, their Bullhead could at least get down to just a few feet above the landing pad. Even though it could not land and they technically weren't supposed to hover so low.

Thankfully their pilot agreed with them and swooped down to drop them off before flying back to Beacon.

Though honestly Jaune didn't really mind the walk, Yang was being her usual self and she pretty easily accepted his arm. Which did somewhat surprise Jaune, but he wasn't complaining. Not everyday did Yang loop her arm around his and not use her closeness to mess with him.

Several minutes of easy conversation later, Jaune talking about his little sisters and how they compared to Ruby, they turned a corner and Yang stopped. She turned her head around slightly and smiled. Seeing two familiar heads of hair.

Jaune was suddenly pulled by Yang and after she stopped, he found himself in some sort of alleyway between two shops. Jaune looked at Yang and opened his mouth to ask her what she was doing when she covered his mouth with her hand and stepped into him.

She was not yet touching his chest with her… chest, but they were close enough that if they breathed in at the same time then their… chests would touch. Jaune grumbled at Yang though her hand to which Yang smiled at him and pressed a finger up to her lips.

Quiet.

Jaune wondered why for a second before he heard a familiar bubbly voice.

"I just saw them turn this way, where could they have gone? Do you think Jauney's invisibility semblance suddenly appeared and kicked in and they are right in front of us, but we can't see them?" Nora asked confused.

"They probably just passed by a group of people and we lost them that way. We should go over to the other side of the street and see if we can spot them from there." Ren replied.

Jaune could now see them pass in front of the alleyway. And this thoughts of what Nora and Ren were doing were interrupted by Yang pressing herself against his chest and wrapping one of her arms around his back. She then pulled him sideways deeper into the alleyway, slowly.

Jaune looked at Yang trying to catch her eye, but she was looking out of the alleyway at Nora and Ren who were still standing there. Nora on her tippy toes and Ren using his height advantage to look around as well.

Yang smirk against Jaune's chest briefly wondering what Pyrrha would do if she saw them like this. Though most of her attention was on Nora and Ren. Yang knew that someone would try something, but she would have placed her money on Ruby and/or Pyrrha.

Yang did wonder why it was them, she would have considered Nora a bit too… outgoing to be able to spy on someone and Ren she assumed would be disinterested. Though who knows, all of their friends might have come to spy on them.

Yang felt a potentially fun thought enter her head.

"So, any idea why Nora and Ren are spying on us?" Yang asked very quietly. She turned her head slightly to talk and so she whispered her question into Jaune's neck.

Jaune felt Yang's warm breath brush against his neck and really struggled to fight down a blush. He did manage to shake his head "No."

Yang felt her smile grow "Okay then, we just need to lose them. I don't know about you but I don't take kindly to unwanted tagalongs on dates, even bet caused dancing night outs." She pulled Jaune even further down the alleyway. One that she vaguely recognized from her time wondering around Vale looking for Junior.

At the entrance to the alleyway Nora sighed loudly and Ren turned to look at her, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Come on, we won't find them standing here, we should just follow the street and see if they took another turn."

Nora smiled up at Ren "Okay Renny, lets go." Nora and Ren then turned and took off walking down the street.

Yang smiled, seeing Nora and Ren leave the entrance to the alleyway. They were still a problem though, if she or Jaune walked onto the street then they would be pretty quickly spotted by Nora and Ren. Jaune was their tall, blonde team leader and if Yang was honest with herself, no one would mistake her for someone else.

Yang looked down the alleyway and focused on the three way intersection a little ways down. It was the left to the alleyway that runs parallel to the street and then… another left to cross the street using a different alleyway. Then it was a… right until a side road… Right?

Yang hummed to herself and a bit unknowingly leaned her shoulder and side against Jaune's chest as she tried to remember if she ever took the right alleyways to lead them to Junior's club without stepping on the main streets and roads.

She did wonder around the alleyways, but she didn't track her path and at times she actually didn't know where she was until she walked onto the street.

When Jaune saw Nora and Ren walk off he placed his hand on Yang's hand and pulled it off his mouth. "Yang?" he asked quietly… No response from Yang. Jaune looked down when he felt movement from Yang and saw her looking down the alleyway, concentrating heavily.

Jaune place a hand on Yang's shoulder, squeezing it slightly "Yang? What's up?" he asked again, louder this time. All the while trying to ignore how warm Yang was and how her side felt pressed against him.

That actually caught Yang attention, she looked up at Jaune and smirked "Sorry about the Jauney boy, was trying to remind myself how these alleyways are laid out and which ones go the way we want to go."

"Alleyways?" Jaune asked, confused.

"Yup, can't take the streets and roads with Nora and Ren looking for us. So we take the alleyways there. Almost no chance that they see us." Yang nodded at Jaune when she explained it to him.

"Come on, I think I know the way. So all you have to do is protect me in these dark, dingy alleys." Yang said as she fluttered her eyelashes at Jaune.

Jaune sighed as Yang began to pull him deeper into the alleyway.

- Scene Break -

Unnoticed by Yang or Jaune, or Nora or Ren, up on the roof of the building that Jaune was pressed against crouched Blake. She was looking down at Yang and Jaune, not hearing what they said, but tracking them as Yang started to lead Jaune down the alleyway.

Blake shook her head and wondered if Jaune knew that Pyrrha could track him. She guessed that he did know since it was Jaune that talked about the tracking app that he got from the upper years. So no surprise that Pyrrha decided that she should be able to track Jaune.

Blake also wondered how Pyrrha knew that she would be able to get up on the roof of one building and run across them… But when Pyrrha asked her to take to the roofs and track them that way, she for some reason that she couldn't nail down, did as Pyrrha asked her.

And it worked…

Blake stayed still for a moment longer as Yang and Jaune made their way to an intersection.

As Blake stood up to jump across to the next building, to keep following them, she heard movement behind her. Blake turned her head around and was very surprised to see Pyrrha crouching down and making her way beside her.

Pyrrha also had a new hat, which was somehow odd for Blake, but she didn't know why…

Blake nodded at Pyrrha, somewhat confused as to why and how Pyrrha made it onto the roof. She arched an eyebrow at Pyrrha and asked "Pyrrha?"

Pyrrha now standing beside her looked down at the alleyway, Blake wasn't sure what Pyrrha would be able to see. Faunus vision was better in the dark than human vision after all.

After a quiet moment Pyrrha turned to her "Any reason that they are headed down an alleyway?"

"Yang spotted Nora and Ren and pulled Jaune into the alleyway. I guess Yang decided that they could make it to the club by just using alleyways or she knows another way to make it to the entertainment district and they can loop back from there." Blake said as she put her hands on her waist and looked at the rooftops of the buildings around them.

Pyrrha hummed and narrowed her eyes, after a second her expression lightened and she smiled at Blake "Thanks Blake, sorry for asking you to do this."

Blake shook her head "Don't worry about it, I may not know what's going on or what will happen, but for whatever is going on now, that you know about. If what I learned can help, then I will." Blake also turned to look at Pyrrha with a serious look in her eyes.

Pyrrha smiled lightly "I appreciate it. And I am sorry about not sharing more information now. Jaune knows roughly what will happen and we want at least a usable plan in place before we bring everyone in on it…" Pyrrha paused for second and looked forward, down the alleyway.

"Also, this went badly enough the first time, the first big hint of what was going on that we and everyone else at Beacon missed. If we manage to work this situation to our advantage then we can limit the potential future damage." Pyrrha said, not looking at Blake, in a tone that Blake never heard from her.

Blake felt a shiver run down her back at Pyrrha's mood and attitude. Ever since they landed, it seemed like Pyrrha made some sort of decision. A big future altering decision. And she needed this night to go a certain way.

Blake still wasn't all that happy at not being told what was going on. And less happy about needing to act on Pyrrha's suggestions without any information. But Blake guessed that out of all her friends she would be the one most used to acting without knowing the full picture.

Blake turned to look at Pyrrha "I and I think all of us, we will want an explanation… if we need to do something potentially dangerous. "

Pyrrha tilled her head towards Blake "Of course. If it goes well then you all will have an explanation tonight. If it doesn't then I will tell you…" Pyrrha turned her head to look at Blake "But there may be some… uncomfortable things that may need to be shared."

"Uncomfortable?" Blake asked.

"Don't worry, like I said before, everyone is closer to each other, more comfortable with each other, this time. So we will all get through it. And I thought that you already told your team about your dark past?" Pyrrha said as she took a few steps back, looking over the gap between the buildings that ran parallel to the alleyway.

Blake opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. What could she say, yes her team knew about her White Fang past. But what else could be uncomfortable. Blake gathered her thoughts "So, who?" she asked.

Pyrrha shook her head "Have Ruby or Weiss messaged you yet?"

"No, but…" Blake replied, but was very surprised when she was cut off by Pyrrha.

"Later. From now come on, we don't want to lose them." Pyrrha said and ran towards the edge of the building where she took a large jump. She landed almost gracefully on the other building's rooftop.

Blake sighed and let out a deep breath while muttering to herself "Fine." She then turned and ran at the edge to jump. She landed gracefully on the other roof to a calmly smiling Pyrrha. She then looked down at the alleyway to track Yang and Jaune by their blonde hair.

"They're going down that alley" Blake said directing Pyrrha to follow her with her hand.

Even if she was in the dark about what was going on and what had Pyrrha so focused, following Yang and Jaune around from the rooftops was kind of fun.

Pyrrha just followed after Blake hoping that this night would turn out how she wished for it to turn out.

- Scene Break -

A ways away, three streets down Ruby was looking at her scroll. They were following the directions to The Club, but so far Ruby hadn't seen anyone. No Yang or Jaune. No Nora or Ren from when Nora took off after they landed. And no Blake or Pyrrha who she lost sight of when they turned a corner to check something and she and Weiss continued following the directions she got.

Ruby sighed to herself. Well as fun as the night started out it was now kind of frustrating and boring…

Ruby turned and looked at Weiss who was walking beside her down the sidewalk. From time to time Weiss looked around the area they were in or complained about what they were doing here or glared at some passerby but for some reason she was still here.

Ruby really appreciated that. So Ruby smiled and turned to look at Weiss "Well, according to the directions we are almost at the place. I guess it was like Ren said, we may not find them along the way but we should be able to find them at the place." Ruby got a thought though.

"But I think we can spot them better before they actually enter the club, and Pyrrha sent a message saying that Jaune was still a few streets away. So why don't we hide out there and wait for them?" Ruby said pointing to a narrow gap between two buildings on the other side of the street from The Club.

Weiss looked over to where Ruby was pointing to and thought about it. It was a pretty good hiding spot. Dark and mostly out of the way. Weiss also wondered why she was still here. Her main curiosity of how Jaune would treat Yang as a princess looked to be going nowhere. So why…

Weiss looked over to Ruby, who was smiling weakly at her and sighed mentally. While her friends and teammates might not really believe her, Weiss did take Pyrrha's warnings about them falling out with each other seriously. So she was trying to go along with her friend's suggestions more often.

And she tried to treat Ruby even better than before. Though compared to how she treated Ruby in the first 2 weeks or so that they were partners…

Weiss refocused her thoughts and nodded "Looks like it could hide us. But that gap looks small, small even for us." And for the two smallest members of both teams, that was saying something.

Ruby felt her smile grow "Then let's check it out. If anything we can find another place. Or we can go in and find a place inside." As Ruby talked she started to quickly walk across the street and to the gap.

This time Weiss sighed out loud and started to follow Ruby across the street. Weiss hoped that the gap was an actually good place to hide and watch for Yang and Jaune because she was starting to really not like the alternatives.

Option one is that they keep walking around trying to spot Yang or Jaune, all the while every second person on the street gave them looks. And some of those looks made Weiss want to engage her semblance and launch that person into a wall.

So overall not a good option.

And option two was to enter a club, someplace that she wasn't sure if Ruby could even enter. And if she could then… in all her life Weiss never went to a dance club. And this was a dance club that Jaune chose to suit Yang. Yeah, Weiss would be lost on how to act. Never mind Ruby, Weiss also had a feeling that Yang would kill her if she exposed Ruby to any of the things that she read about that happened in clubs.

So a even worst option.

By the time that Weiss went through both options she was standing beside Ruby in front of the gap. Well, it was bigger up close. And it looked wide enough for them both to squeeze into it.

Ruby nodded to herself and walked into the gap sideways, making sure that she was able to see the entrance to the club and the line in front of it. She turned to look at Weiss "Well its not too roomy, but I think that it works. Come on Weiss, we don't want Yang or Jaune to spot you."

Weiss nodded and looked at the space that Ruby left for her. Not too roomy indeed. She turned sideways and squeezed herself in. Deciding to face Ruby as she could see if Yang or Jaune came from the other way.

By the time that Weiss finished squeezing herself into the little room that there was, she was pressed up against the wall, with the bricks of the wall digging into her back. Weiss thanked herself for changing into some of her cheaper 'throw away' clothes even if they still probably cost more than everyone else's combined.

Weiss's front was squished against Ruby's and it was… different. Weiss had been close to Ruby before. Ruby was the person she was physically closest the most, be it movie nights, training or the times that Ruby decided that Weiss needed a hug.

But being squished against her and not being able to get away quickly… that was new.

And Weiss was kind of annoyed that even though she kind of knew it, and felt it before, now that she was focusing on it Ruby was a bit bigger in the chest than she was and to add to Weiss's annoyance Ruby was just a bit taller. Though Ruby was in her boots and Weiss had heels on. So…

Ruby was as always warm though. So Weiss sighed and looked out at the street, looking for any long or shaggy blond hair.

Ruby smiled as she searched for Jaune or her sister. She was slightly surprised that Weiss would actually go along with her suggestion and follow her to squeeze into the gap. But Ruby was very happy that she did.

Ruby also wondered if Weiss's slightly cool body temperature was because of her semblance, the fact that she was from Atlas or something else… well that was something to ask another time.

So Ruby, kind of enjoying the slight coolness that Weiss caused, kept a look out. And really tried not to smiled too widely about the fact that she kind of just slightly needed to look down to look into Weiss's eyes. That would kill Weiss, knowing that she was the shortest. And that she still had two more years of growing compared to Weiss.

Ruby, with some effort, managed to not smile smugly at Weiss and kept looking at the entrance of the club.

- Scene Break -

After walking through a bunch more alleyways than he thought that they would need to. Some of those extra alleyways caused by having to loop around and go back the way they came. Jaune and Yang, who was now sporting a proud smirk on her face, walked out of the alleyway they were in and onto a street.

"There, see, I told you that I knew the way. That turn around was just to lose anyone following us." Yang said triumphantly, strutting out onto the sidewalk.

Jaune sighed to himself "Of course, how could I have thought differently."

"Hey what happened to 'yes milady' and please 'take my arm to steady yourself', huh?" Yang asked turning around to look at a slightly miffed Jaune.

"I think I lost my gentleman self three alleyways back, in the one with that massive rat and that neon green puddle." Jaune almost snarked back, but held himself back. And it was sadly true that their little adventure through the alleyways robbed him of most of his righteous 'make Yang pay for a forced bet' energy.

Yang laughed "Yeah that guy even scared me. For a second I though that a Grimm got inside Vale." That huge rat did cause her to almost kick it, out of instinct. She also kind of robbed Jaune of his gentleman role-play when she threw her arm across Jaune's chest, half to try and catch anything the Grimm rat could do and half to try and push Jaune behind her to protect him that way.

Well, he knew who she was and what she was about, so she didn't think that Jaune really cared too much about being protected by her. His snarkiness aside. And for her, their relationship changed over the last month and while Yang couldn't pin down what Jaune was to her exactly. He was a close friend and more simply, he was hers. So like Ruby and Blake and Weiss, protect him she did.

Jaune grumbled a bit, being reminded about that incident. But what could he do, Yang was one of the best huntresses in their year, probably in all of Beacon. So huntresses plus 'Grimm' plus instincts equals a protected Jaune.

In any case even if his gentleman act was done, they still had a night of dancing ahead of them and they could actually enjoy that. And he could even still annoy Yang with his food plan.

So with Yang still chuckling they made their way down the street towards the line in front of The Club. She was honestly a bit surprised it was open, from what she saw, the club was damaged quite a bit when she… slightly overreacted and fought Junior, those twins and all the henchmen.

But a good few months had past since that happened, so she guessed that it was enough time for them to fix the club.

Yang also wondered if the bouncer in the suit was one of the henchmen that she fought. And if he was, would he remembered her. She felt her smirk grow.

Yang continued to walk down the street, past the line, ignored Jaune trying to catch her attention and walk straight up to the bouncer "Hey there." She said, much to Jaune's surprise.

Yang saw the bouncer turn his head and sigh loudly "Look girlie, you can't just…." He suddenly stopped talking and Yang noticed that the bouncer's expression went from boredom to worried and maybe a bit of fear. He also took a step back.

So he remembered who she was. Great.

Yang gave the bouncer a few seconds more to say something before she would interrupt and start talking. The guy managed to stutter out "Wh… what d… do you w… want?"

Yang smiled "Oh nothing much, this guy here" She wrapped her arm around Jaune's shoulders and leaned against his side "he owes he a dance or two and I thought we could come here. Good music from what I remember and Junior still owes me. Right?"

The bouncer blinked back at her, but he clearly didn't want anything to do with her, much less getting punched again. So he nodded. "Right… let me just warn… call the boss. It should only take a minute."

Yang grinned "Great, we will just be over there. Oh, there may be a few more of our friends coming, so they should have no trouble finding us, right?"

The bouncer nodded rapidly and ducked back through the doors of the club. A second bouncer, a henchman as well from the looks of him, came out to keep working the line. But he also gave her a worried look.

As they stepped off to the side, a bunch of people in the line either glared at her or started to make eyes at her. Yang smirked at all of them and settled her weight even more against Jaune. Leaning her back and one side against his front as she turned slightly to look at the doors.

A few of those people now started glaring at Jaune. Yang held in her laughter.

Yang heard Jaune clear his throat "What was that? What does Junior owe you? And why was that guy so freaked out?" he asked in a loud whisper.

Yang sighed, she wondered how much she could really trust Jaune, he always seemed a bit too goody-two-shoes… "Well, you see, I needed some info about someone I was interested in looking for since my uncle and dad were no help. So I heard that Junior was a good info broker and came here to ask him for the info. He didn't have what I was looking for and his price for what he did have was… too high. So we had a disagreement."

Jaune let out a sigh "You fought Junior and his men." He stated.

"Well, they are less bouncers and more… wait you called them his men. What do you know about Junior?" Yang asked as she turned around to look at Jaune, her front and side now pressed against his chest. Jaune, goofy, dorky, shiny knight Jaune knew about Junior… What!? Did Pyrrha know?

"Ummm, I… I needed a document a little while back and got pointed towards Junior. He did have it so…" Jaune said, hoping desperately that he wouldn't have to talk about his forged transcript. And hoping that if Yang found out about it, that she would be mostly okay with it. It was Yang after all… Though…

Yang was oddly law abiding and 'do the right thing' kind of person about some things and situations.

Yang shook her head "Oh Jauney, and here I thought you were all squeaky clean and boring. But look at you, tangling with an info broker and gangster." She really did want to know what Jaune needed some document for, but like she didn't really want to share about her mother, she guessed that Jaune might have something similar that he didn't want to share about.

As they waited and Yang continued to needle Jaune about actually being a bad boy, on the other side of the street, Ruby and Weiss were still looking for Yang and Jaune through heavy foot traffic.

Weiss let out a deep breath as she leaned even more of her weight against Ruby, really trying to not touch the dirty brick wall behind her too much. Her greater and greater use of Ruby as a wall did make Ruby look at her questioningly a few times, but one glance from her at the wall behind her kind of answered Ruby's questions.

And Weiss was kind of enjoying Ruby's warmth and semi-soft body. It was kind of comfortable. Weiss wondered if that was actually why Pyrrha and Yang and Nora and even Ruby kept wanting to cuddle against someone or hug all the time.

As Weiss was pondering that, she saw something. For a good moment the crowd thinned a bit and she saw unmistakable hair, hair that could only belong to Yang. Blonde and long and voluminous and kind of shaggy, though she would only tell Yang that if she was annoyed with her.

Weiss blinked and through another gap in the crowd she now saw Jaune's unique shaggy mess of hair.

It was them.

How did they get there? Sure the crowd on the street was large and view limiting, but either Ruby or she would have seen them walking down the street from either direction. Unless they came out of somewhere else… or they were blocked from their view at the perfect time.

Weiss cleared her throat and pointed "I see them."

Ruby gasped and looked at Weiss "Where? I don't see them…"

Weiss sighed "Over there by that lamppost. They are to the right of it." She again pointed to where they were.

Ruby moved around a bit, really squishing herself against Weiss in order to turn her body enough so that she could turn her head to look where Weiss was pointing. After a few seconds of maneuvering she was able to see them.

"Good job Weiss, now we can follow them inside." Ruby smiled widely at Weiss.

Weiss grumbled with now a lot more of Ruby pressed against her. She even had to lean her head back a bit so that she didn't get any hair in her mouth. "Great, so can we get out of here? The bricks are really dirtying up the back of my shirt."

Ruby nodded against Weiss's face, she noted that Weiss had very soft cheeks, and started to squeeze herself out of the gap. Unfortunately it didn't go as well as she expected and she tripped on an odd piece of stone that fell down from the wall behind her. A stone that she didn't notice until too late.

As Ruby tripped she for a split second thought about engaging her semblance, but didn't because she wasn't 100% sure what her semblance would do to Weiss. She never tried to use her semblance with someone squished against her. So Ruby fell out of the gap bringing Weiss along with her.

Weiss gasped as Ruby pulled her down, she tried to catch herself with the wall, but that didn't work and by the time she could say "Ruby, what?" Weiss was laying on top of Ruby who was rubbing the back of her head. Weiss sighed and pushed herself up. It wasn't the worst landing that she ever had. At least Ruby cushioned her, even if it wasn't planned.

Ruby groaned from smacking the back of her head against the sidewalk. Her aura protected her but it still stung. Weiss also forced the air out of her lungs when she fell on top of her. Though that wasn't Weiss's fault, she pulled Weiss down with her. And it turned out that Weiss was heavier than she looked, though she was still pretty light.

Weiss offered her hand to Ruby and pulled her up. "Okay, somehow they didn't notice us falling onto the sidewalk, let's go over there and stay out of their sight." Weiss said slightly pulling Ruby over behind a group of people.

Walking out of the alleyway that Yang and Jaune did just a few minutes ago, Blake and Pyrrha looked through the crowd of people and saw the distinctive hair of Yang and Jaune. Blake also sighed when she saw Ruby and Weiss fall out of a small gap between buildings.

"Okay, so we just wait for them to go in and follow them? Oh and also Ruby and Weiss are there." Blake asked and pointed them out.

Pyrrha looked over to where Blake was pointing and could see Weiss pulling Ruby over to behind a group of people. Probably to hide. Pyrrha let out a breath and finally came to a decision. She knew that Jaune was kind of looking forward to dancing with Yang. Even if he didn't admit it she knew that Jaune enjoyed dancing. Yang was also a good dancer.

And that did cause her some indecision. Would she actually prevent Jaune from enjoying himself... But over their journey to the club via the rooftops Pyrrha thought about her possible next steps before the fight with Roman and the White Fang.

That by now Roman and the White Fang probably had everything in place and wouldn't be able to call off their robbery so easily. It was all set.

Pyrrha came to the realization that interfering with the robbery before it actually started, now that it was most likely all set up. It could disrupt it and even somewhat destabilize Roman and the White Fang. Plus anything that could hurt Cinder's plans…

Interfering now could actually make the robbery itself less organized or easier to stop if they had less people or a tighter timetable.

Pyrrha decided that she should, she needed to act and not wait around since the robbery wouldn't play out the same way anyway. There were already too many changes. The problem would be if they were prepared enough…

Pyrrha didn't actually know if the warehouse that Roman and the White Fang used when Blake and Sun went to their meeting was being used yet or if it was just used for that meeting and abandoned once the meeting was done… And if the robbery will actually happen how it did…

In any case act she should. Act they all should. If they managed to stop or destroy the dust then Cinder wouldn't have the dust to attack the subway and bomb the stadium.

Looking over at Blake, Pyrrha let out a breath, this is it, a big change, her first big change, a change which she felt would lift some of the heavy anxiety sitting on her shoulders. But in exchange she felt her stomach drop in worry.

"As much as I know that Jaune was looking forward to dancing, even though he would never admit it. If we can get a meeting with Junior then we unfortunately need to interrupt them." Pyrrha said in a low tone. Looking at Yang laughing at something Jaune said. Her eyes narrowed.

Blake raised an eyebrow, she heard rumors about Junior. The Vale White Fang had some sort of contact or contract with him. But she didn't know what he could offer. Junior was an information broker and bit gangster, not exactly someone they needed.

But Pyrrha knew something.

Blake sighed and nodded "Yang won't be too happy with you. She was also looking forward to going out to a club…"

Pyrrha sighed now "I'll make it up to both of them. Maybe pay for a night out… but for tonight, we unfortunately need to… work…"

Pyrrha started walking towards Yang and Jaune and sent her a look at Ruby and Weiss. Blake nodded and pulled out her scroll. She sent a quick message We see you, Pyrrha has some sort of plan, meet where Yang and Jaune are standing.

Blake then followed after Pyrrha. Who was also typing on her scroll as she walked.

Coming from another intersection Nora was looking at her scroll, the sign on the street and shaking her head. "So… we passed the club when we took that turn back there?"

Ren nodded "Yes, the map didn't get updated with the construction they are doing and that detour they set up for the closed road." He looked around the street and saw two familiar looking people standing by a lampposts.

Jaune and Yang.

At the same time that he saw them and was about to point them out to Nora, his scroll binged. A message from Pyrrha.

He looked over and saw that Nora was also reading something on her scroll "Message from Pyrrha to met up with them where Jaune and Yang are standing?" Ren asked.

Nora nodded "Yup, but lamppost, which lamppost?" she looked around the street they were walking down. Not seeing Jaune and Yang. The street was very busy so anyone could be blocking her view of them.

Ren placed a hand on Nora's shoulder "I saw them for a moment. They are by that lamppost." Ren pointed to a lamppost mostly hidden behind a larger group of people slowly making their way down the street.

Nora smiled and let Ren pull her to where they needed to go.

At the lamppost Yang sighed deeply and leaned even more of her weight against Jaune "Where is that guy? He said a minute right? So what's the hold up?" Yang glared at the doors to the club as she spoke. She was half sure that the henchman just went off somewhere and didn't actually tell Junior anything.

Jaune patted her shoulder "They are probably wondering what you actually want with them…"

"Huh? But I told him… I want to dance…" Yang said as she tilted her head toward Jaune.

"Well, you did fight with them and from the looks the two henchmen gave you, you beat them. So… they are worried…" Jaune said as he wondered.

Yang just sighed again "So if we don't get any… updates… out of them in the next 5 minutes we'll just walk in. I'm sure that the guy they have playing bouncer won't stop me."

"I wouldn't recommend that if you actually want to dance tonight. The second you break the door down, problems will start for you." Pyrrha said as she walked up to Jaune and Yang.

Yang blinked, somewhat confused, worried and concerned that she didn't notice Pyrrha until she was right next to them. Though when Yang turned to look at her Pyrrha was wearing clothes so different that it would have thrown anyone for a loop.

Pyrrha was in black worn jeans, a dark blue t-shirt and Jaune's dark grey buttoned up shirt. And a black beanie hat, which was weird... Behind Pyrrha Yang saw Blake also wearing dark colored clothes, tight black pants and a dark purple shirt.

Yang turned herself around, still leaning against Jaune "Pyrrha, Blakey, what brings you two here, all the way to Vale… all the way to the club we were going to have a bit of fun at…?" She asked with immense amounts of attitude.

In the meantime Jaune also looked over to Pyrrha when she spoke. He copied Yang in blinking, a bit confused at what Pyrrha was wearing. He did know why she was here as he read her messages to him through the night. Pyrrha wanted to meet Junior to see if she could get information from him.

Before Pyrrha could answer a "Hey guys, this street is crowed huh?" came from Ruby who was walking up to stand beside Blake with Weiss a step behind her. Weiss was glaring at someone behind her.

"Rubes? Weisscream? What are you two doing here?" Yang asked at the same time as Jaune asked "Ruby? Weiss?"

Both Ruby and Weiss were also dressed in darker colored clothing. Black pants and a deep dark red shirt for Ruby and a dark blue shirt and black pants for Weiss. Yang hummed when she looked at Weiss.

Weiss who finished glaring at the guy who made eyes at her looked over to Yang and Jaune and saw Yang looking at her quizzically. "What?" Weiss asked.

"Nothing, just most surprised to see you here…" Yang said

"Blame your sister…" Weiss huffed at Yang.

Ruby smiled and wrapped her arm around Weiss "Yang don't be mean, Weiss agreed to help me, help us." She pulled a grumbling Weiss even more against her. Much to Yang's and Blake's amusement.

Yang looked over to Blake "So, Blakey what brings you all here? Your dearest, closest and partnerest friend and partner wants to know…"

Before Blake could answer a loud "AHHH, We are Late! Everyone is already here!" came form Nora who bounced into view and came to a stop by Pyrrha "We got sidetracked by construction, so not fair!" she grumbled at Pyrrha.

A step behind her Ren nodded to everyone and stood by Nora.

And like all her other friends that decided to follow her and Jaune, both her dressed in darker clothes. Nora continued the trend of black pants though she had a dark pink shirt one, probably the brightest shirt out of all of them. Ren had black pants on as well and a dark green shirt.

Yang groaned, that's twice now that her answer was interrupted. "So now that we are all here. Anyone want to let Jauney and me know why you all followed us?"

Jaune looked at Pyrrha who nodded at him.

"Wait, what was that couple reading each other's minds thing that you two just did? Pyrrha? Jaune?" Yang asked noticing the look between them. She also made sure to emphasize Jaune's name as she pressed more of weight against him and looked up.

Pyrrha narrowed her eyes at Yang's actions and stepped forward. She was now in the middle of the little circle they formed beside the lamppost. "Well, unfortunately for your dancing, at the moment we need to speak with Junior."

Yang blinked, confused. Ruby and Weiss just looked at Pyrrha also confused about the plan that Blake mentioned. Nora and Ren nodded as the also got a few of the messages that Pyrrha was sending Jaune.

Yang made eye contact with Blake who sighed and nodded.

"Right, Jauney you knew about this?" Yang asked turning to look at Jaune, feeling kind of unhappy. Did Jaune just straight up lie to her from the moment he picked her up?

"Umm, we were planning about maybe going to talk with Junior, but not tonight…" Jaune said looking a Pyrrha, after a moment he nodded "Well, one interruption won't be the worst… we can go dancing afterwards."

Yang crossed her arms and just shook her head at how whipped Jaune was. Though Pyrrha was probably even more whipped. Ugh… those two…

"You know what, fine, but you owe me that dance Jaune. You too Pyrrha, you owe me… something…" Yang said in a lower tone,

Pyrrha nodded "Of course, just let me know what."

Blake shook her head and moved to stand by Yang. Ruby and Weiss just looked at each other still confused. And Nora and Ren nodded at Jaune and Pyrrha.

A moment later two suited up henchmen walked up to the group, again preventing Yang from asking why Ruby and Weiss followed her. The two henchmen's eyes widen as they now saw 8 people all standing together… Not their problem…

One of the henchmen clear his throat "Please come with us, the boss with see you now." He turned and began to walk to the club's doors.

They all nodded and fell in line walking behind the guy. After a couple steps Yang's eyes shot open and she turned around "Wait, Rubes you are not going in there."

Ruby blinked, a bit shocked at Yang would go big sister on her here. "Why? All of us are going in?"

"Why?" Yang said as she moved right in front of Ruby, she leaned down a bit and almost hissed out "Junior is an information broker and a bit gangster. I do not want you anywhere near him."

Ruby rolled her eyes "Come on Yang, I'm a huntress, I can look after myself. Plus, you will be there and everyone else. And Pyrrha will be there. I don't think anything bad will happen with all of us there." Ruby hissed back at Yang.

Weiss walking beside the two sisters hissing at each other rolled her eyes. But she was on Yang's side, that whatever that club was. It wasn't a place for Ruby. Doubly so if that club was a hangout for some criminal. That they were apparently going to meet… What was Pyrrha's plan again?

Yang groaned and she stared at Ruby who was glaring back up at her. Well Ruby glaring, which was about as scary as an angry puppy. "Fine." Yang nearly growled out knowing that unless she wanted to start a loud argument she wouldn't be able to stop Ruby.

"You stay by my side, Pyrrha's side or Jaune's side. We all know Junior so we know what can happen… Actually …" Yang looked at Weiss "Stay by Weiss's side at all times, you step a foot away from Weiss and I will drag you back to Beacon." Yang said in her most serious big sister tone.

Ruby nodded at her happily. She would get to go with everyone to an adult place. Plus she already met and fought Roman, this Junior guy couldn't be worse than him…

So the group entered the club, loud thumping music assaulted their ears. Blake grimaced from how loud the music was. Thank the Gods that her faunus ears were pinned down and covered by her headband.

They were led through the club were Ruby's and Weiss's eyes opened wide. This being the first time either of them were in any place like this. People dancing, people drinking, the grinding of some of the dancers, people taking some pills in plain sight. People making out and touching. Ruby felt a blush grow on her face as she moved closer to Weiss.

Weiss also felt shocked and began to look around to make sure that no one tried anything. She also unconsciously moved a bit closer to Ruby. Close enough that their sides were brushing against each other.

Pyrrha dismissed most of the activity in the club only caring about who was looking at them all, at her or at Jaune. She noticed a few looks at her and at Jaune so she pressed herself against Jaune's side and looped her arm around his.

Jaune looked at Pyrrha when he felt her move. Even he was able to notice some looks coming their way so he knew that Pyrrha must be worried. The less people that saw them and recognized them, Pyrrha especially, the better, so he moved even closer to Pyrrha.

Yang probably the most familiar with clubs like these found herself walking beside Blake, who was looking around disinterested. Yang did wonder when Pyrrha managed to grab Jaune without her noticing. But Blake was an even better 'walking through a club' companion. Two hot huntresses, Yang could only guess how may guys and girls were staring their way.

So she wrapped her arm around Blake's shoulders and pulled her into her side. Smiling widely at her when Blake looked over. Yang also nudged Blake with her hip and pulled her even closer when she noticed a group of henchmen looking her way. And a group of young men past them who turned their attention to her and Blake.

Blake was a bit iffy about the attention, she did not want details about her and her friends to make it back to the White Fang. But after a look around she didn't see too many faunus around them and the ones that were here seem to be just enjoying themselves so… Plus one good thing about having Yang beside you was that people tended to focus on her.

So Blake made herself more comfortable against Yang. Yang like always was so warm, though a bit too firm to actually be comfortable, unless you liked that and Blake always did prefer firmness over too much softness.

Nora was also following Pyrrha's and Yang's example and wrapped her arm around Ren's waist. Both to make sure that they didn't lose each other and because Nora noticed a few eyes being made at Ren and Renny was hers! The rest of the activity in the club kind of just faded a bit to the background.

Ren moved a bit closed to Nora to allow her to wrap her arm easier around his waist. This place was crowded, someplace that he would have normally steered clear off and Nora was attracting a lot of attention. Which was not the best thing that could happen…

After walking around the edges of the main room of the club they where led through a door and down a hallway with multiple doors. At the end of the hallway were stairs, so down the stairs they went to Yang quipping about a secret basement lair.

Another hallway met them and at the end of it two large expensive looking wooden doors. The two henchmen leading them nodded at the two standing on either side of the doors and the one on the right knocked on the door.

The doors opened and they were directed inside the room. The room was large with a sofa, table and chairs on one side of the room, a drinks bar on the other with stools and in front of them was a large desk with a large man sitting behind it. On both his sides were nearly identical young women.

Yang immediately smirked at the twins. The twins immediately glared at Yang. Blake sighed, immediately guessing what happened between the twins and Yang, she knew the look of someone who lost against Yang and was still angry about it.

Junior stood, looking a bit put off by 8 people walking into his office instead of 2. Pyrrha sent a look at Yang and stepped forward, Jaune a step behind her. Yang lazily sauntered up to stand beside Pyrrha, still smirking at the twins and Junior. Behind her Blake stood in front of Ruby and Weiss who were looking around the room. Nora and Ren stood just to the left of Jaune.

Pyrrha saw Junior take his attention off Yang and look at her. Well she did move up first. Pyrrha smiled lightly and decided to get started "Hello Junior. How are you?"

Pyrrha heard both twins and Junior gasp, probably recognizing her voice. Junior stared down at her "Pyrrha Nikos? What are you doing here and who are the rest of you? It's only right to introduce yourselves." Junior then sat down an sent a look at the twins.

Yang chuckled "What, no love for old Yang? Hmm. All you have to know is that its us two and our 6 friends from Beacon."

Junior glared up at her and looked around at everyone. "Well, let me guess if I'm right about who each of you are, maybe I know more about you all than you think." He pointed at Weiss "You're easy, Weiss Schnee, what would the heir of the SDC be doing here?" Weiss huffed and crossed her arms, staring back icily at Junior.

A moment of silence later Junior then pointed at Ruby "You're the one that ran into Roman and fought my men which I lent to him."

Ruby scratched the back of her head "Sorry, but they did attack me first!"

Yang sighed "Don't apologize to him, you beat down henchmen, they knew what they were getting into."

Junior glared at Yang "Well I know that Roman didn't catch your name Red, but unlike him information is my business. So Ruby Rose right? Half sister of Blondie here."

Ruby moved a bit closer to Weiss at Junior knowing who she was. Yang felt her semblance flare for a second which Junior saw. Red eyes glared at him, reminding him of everything she did last time she was angry.

"Easy Blondie, I'm just saying I know who your sister is. You shouldn't be all that surprised that I looked into your family after what you did to my club, my men and me." Junior said putting both his hands up to try to calm Yang.

Yang felt a sense of sudden panic that she was the one that exposed Ruby to Junior. What would have happened if Ruby wasn't a huntress… Yang glared at him harder and took a step towards him. Pyrrha then placed a hand on Yang's arm and stopped her. Yang looked over at Pyrrha and saw a hard look come from her.

Junior knowing that he was in dangerous territory with the younger sister looked over to the last girl on that side "So you must be Blake Belladonna." And hoping to drive some conflict into the group he continued "Your old friends in the White Fang are looking for you, Adam especially. Something about unfinished business… They would be surprised to know that you're friends with a Schnee I bet."

Blake glared at Junior and stepped forward until she felt a hands on her arms. Looking back she saw both Weiss and Ruby come up on both her sides and hold her hands. Blake felt touched by the support. She also felt worried. Blake looked over to team JNPR.

Junior continued "Oh, you two know, well what about the rest of you. Do you know what your friend here did as a member of the White Fang?"

Yang scoffed loudly "Of course we know, she told us what she did. We even know about her messed up relationship with Adam."

Blake glared at Yang, not proud of how her relationship with Adam turned out and ended. But she kept looking over at team JNPR.

Junior continued to try and stir up conflict. He knew that he and all his men and the twins had no chance against 8 Beacon students, much less the ones standing in front of him, he needed them off-balance. "Well, you 3 may know but what about the rest of you?"

Junior was mentally hitting himself for not installing any recording equipment in his office for potential blackmail.

Pyrrha smiled "I also know about Blake's past and she didn't do anything too bad."

Nora nodded "I knew that she is a faunus, showers don't hide much, but I didn't know about the White Fang part. Wow Blake, you really have a dark past like we guessed." Blake raised an eyebrow at what Nora said.

Ren sighed "Nora believed that you had a darker past based on your temperament at the beginning of Beacon. And Nora told me you were a faunus and that you and we were keeping it a secret, though there was some price you agreed to pay. Though it does make sense."

Jaune looked around "Wait, so everyone knew" he let out a breath "That makes it so much easier, I almost asked if your ears hurt so many times. And umm, I guessed, based on some stuff that you and Pyrrha talked about that you may have been in the White Fang." He smiled at a surprised looking Blake.

Yang leaned down and laughed into Junior's face "See, we are all cool with Blake's past, so don't think that you can use it."

Junior stared at Yang even more. "Well, that's good then." He bit out and looked over to the other three, two which he had the bare minimum on and Arc. Well if a White Fang past didn't do anything then cheating to get into Beacon may.

"So you two are Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie from that destroyed town in Mistral." Junior said to count them out since he had nothing on them.

Ren did hold Nora's hand at the memory of what happened. The death, destruction and them becoming orphans.

Junior turned his attention to Jaune "And last, Jaune Arc, of the great Arc family. I wonder what your father would think about you being here. Or you being with Summer Rose's kid. If I remember correctly your father and her mother did not like each other."

Jaune looked over at Ruby and smiled. Ruby smiled at him as well. Though that was news to him. But his dad didn't talk a lot about his huntsman life so…

Junior continue "Well did the transcript I got for you work out? Seeing as you're here I guess that it did." He looked at a few confused faces and smirked "Oh, your friend didn't tell you all, he needed that transcript to get into Beacon. I wonder if your friends and teachers and classmates know that you cheated to get in…"

Junior was going to continue to needle Jaune but Pyrrha interrupted him and something snapped somewhere as well. Not knowing the Pyrrha used her semblance while hiding her hands to break the doorknobs on both doors and hinges on both doors. The doors would have to be broken down to get in or out of the room.

Pyrrha stepped forward "Of course we know. His team knows and Headmaster Ozpin knows as well. So you can stop with your threats against my partner." Pyrrha's dark glare sent a shiver down Junior's spine. The two twins, quiet and mostly motionless this whole time took a step back.

All three of them watched the fight between Pyrrha and the four girls, all three saw what Pyrrha could do. And all three knew that they would not be able to do anything against her. They all lost against just Blondie. Pyrrha could easily handle Blondie so what could they do against her.

Yang's eyes opened wide "Wait, that's the document you needed to get. Wow I was right, goody two shoes Jaune is actually a bad boy. Cheating his way into Beacon." Yang started laughing "Oh, I have such great friends, a ex-White Fang for a partner and a.. Oh my Gods, a fraudster for a sparring buddy." Yang just laughed some more, loving that two of her closest friends were naughtier than her.

Oh Jaune did have some explaining to do, but she knew the effort that he put into his training.

She then hopped to the side and dragged both Jaune and Blake to her, wrapping her arms around their shoulders and forcing their heads against her shoulders.

Jaune groaned at Yang treatment, but was pretty happy that she was okay with him cheating his way into Beacon.

Ruby blinked and sent Jaune a sad look which he could see just over Yang's shoulder "Why didn't you tell me, were are supposed to be leader best friends. I should have known then I could have trained with you differently." Ruby pouted at Jaune who was starting to do some hand movements at her since he couldn't talk due to Yang smushing his mouth against her shoulder.

Ruby was honesty more upset that Jaune didn't tell her. Cheating to get into Beacon wasn't good, but Jaune passed the initiation and all the classes until now. And he was training hard. So Ruby would give him a pass, but he owed her so many apology cookies and lunches.

Blake was also mostly okay with what she heard. If she wasn't then that would have made her a massive hypocrite. Her White Fang past was far worse. And she also got into Beacon without a transcript, Ozpin invited her to join.

Blake was also feeling a deep sense of kinship with him at the moment, both of them stuck in Yang's excited grasp. She just smiled when she caught Jaune's eye. Jaune smiled gratefully back at her.

Weiss closed her eyes and sighed, so many questions were answered about Jaune with just that information. Why he was so bad, why he knew so little. He fortunately got far better over the last few months. Weiss did feel a bit conflicted that Ozpin knew and made him a team leader as well.

Which meant that Ozpin was expecting something from Jaune. Which meant that her read of him, both Jaune and Ozpin was pretty wrong, even in the parts that she was right about Jaune. He wasn't lazy, he just never learned it.

But he would have a lot to explain once they got back to their dorms. Weiss sighed loudly "Well, now it makes sense why you were so useless at the beginning of Beacon. Though I expect you to train and learn far harder from now." Weiss stared at a sheepish looking Jaune still caught in Yang's grasp.

Nora and Ren both also smiled at Jaune. Nora taking a step up to glare that Junior with what he tried to do.

Pyrrha nodded "See Junior, we won't just turn on each other. Now as to why we are here."

Junior let out a sigh, very unhappy that both secrets didn't cause any turmoil. "Fine. What do you want?"

Pyrrha crossed her arms "We want to know the warehouses that Roman and the White Fang are using and will use for their dust robberies."

Junior's eyes opened wide and he was thrown off his game just enough by Pyrrha just stating what Roman and the White Fang were doing "How do you do kn… I don't have that information." Junior caught himself.

Pyrrha just stared down, now with Yang glaring down as well. Both Jaune and Blake were still in her grasp. "Well that's typical, seems that for an information broker, you don't actually have a lot of information." Yang snarked.

Junior just looked up at Pyrrha wondering how she could have known.

Pyrrha started tapping her index finger against her arm. Her arms still crossed "Oh, we know far more. We know that Roman is now working for a woman and her two teenage minions. We know that the Vale White Fang is working for her as well." Pyrrha leaned forward a bit to stare into Junior's eyes "We know that she approached you just like she approached every other two bit gangster."

Pyrrha leaned back up and stood straight. "How many of them did she kill, half? I wonder when your turn will come."

Junior looked down and the twins behind him tightened their grips on the guns that they held. She was right about that, Roman even warned him to not get involved with the woman, this Cinder that was somehow taking over the whole underground.

Junior unconsciously growled out "Cinder."

Weiss's eyes went wide open at the confirmation that Junior just gave. Even though she was pretty sure that Pyrrha had some sort of information given to her. Her knowing so many private details. There was a part of her that Weiss could never truly let go that kept saying that Pyrrha was imagining it, making it up or was somehow delusional.

But now… Weiss just shook her head and was annoyed at what Pyrrha really being right actually meant.

Pyrrha gave Junior a moment to stew "We have a bone to pick with Cinder and we know some of her operations and plans. So we can help each other out. You give us the location of the warehouses and we will keep Cinder's attention off you and on us."

Pyrrha really didn't know were this bravado was coming from, but when she thought about Cinder and everything she did, how many of her friends were hurt because of Cinder's actions, how Jaune was hurt. Pyrrha felt her hate and anger and rage at Cinder well up into a fierce determination to hurt Cinder in any way she could and not let random criminals stand in her way.

Yang not wanting to waste an opportunity added "Plus, you still owe me information. Which I do plan to collect."

Pyrrha smiled at Yang "Yes, it is not wise to not honor a debt owed to Yang. She tends to get what she wants."

Yang let go of Jaune and Blake, crossed her arms and smiled savagely. Pretty pleased with her part in Pyrrha's plan. She honestly didn't think that she would be dealing with a criminal today, but it was turning out to be pretty fun.

Junior just stared at his desk, he was caught and he knew it. They were being nice for now, but Blondie could just as easily start attacking him again. And if Pyrrha attacked as well… rumors had it that Belladonna was good at information gathering. So if they got access to his files…

Junior nodded "Fine, I'll give you the warehouses that Roman and the White Fang use. It will take a minute."

Pyrrha nodded "Good, I'm glad that you agree."

Junior relaxed back in his chair, clenching his fists "Anything else?" he almost growled out.

Pyrrha smirked "That's everything for now, though if you have any information on Cinder, her two minions or any upcoming dust robberies I would recommend that you give it to us."

Junior gave a nod and tapped something onto his computer.

Yang stepped forward "Also anything you hear about my mother, Raven Branwen, pass it along to me. I have some business with her."

Ruby held back a gasp as Yang talked about her mother. Ruby knew about Raven from when Pyrrha told them about her. But she never liked to dwell on Yang's mom. It felt… wrong… to Ruby somehow… and it made her angry on Yang's behalf.

Junior's eyes widened "Where…"

He was interrupted by Yang "Where did I learn what you should have given me. Oh I have my ways. You're not the only information broker." Yang smirked and took a few steps back to stand beside her team.

Junior grumbled not liking being outplayed by two teenagers. The rest didn't even do anything either. Gods only knew what their pieces in this plan were… A Schnee, a Belladonna and a Arc… not families that you crossed lightly. Even if most Belladonnas were peaceful.

After a minute there was the sound of printing and Junior handed Pyrrha a piece of paper. "Here, now if you want to enjoy my club, go ahead, if not then get lost."

Pyrrha turned around and walked to the door, Jaune beside her and everyone else just behind her. "Good doing business with you Junior, oh, so that there are no hard feelings." Pyrrha took out some Lien and placed it on the table.

She then forced the door open with her semblance and everyone walked back upstairs to the club. Once inside, the music's hit them again and Pyrrha looked up, to one side 3 levels up looked to some sort of VIP rooms.

Pyrrha led her friends up to the henchman, past him while Yang grinned and waved at him and they went up to the VIP area.

Once they were all sitting on two comfortable semicircular sofas with a table in the middle Ruby broke the silence "Oh Gods, Pyrrha and Yang, you two were awesome!" Ruby was widely smiling at both Yang and Pyrrha.

Yang smiled back at her sister, relaxing back against the sofa's back and throwing both her arms up on the sofa's back.

"Yeah Pyrrha, where did that attitude come from?" Nora said, also smiling widely and looking excited.

Interrupting Nora, Ruby, Yang and Pyrrha, Weiss sighed, crossed her arms and sank deeper into the comfortable sofa "So, what now?"

Pyrrha looked over the list and placed it on the table as she leaned against Jaune and let out a massive breath. She could not believe that she just did that, acted like that, spoke like that. Did all of that to a criminal. A dangerous information broker... What was wrong with her...

Jaune wrapped an arm around Pyrrha's shoulders and patted the far one from him.

Pyrrha looked up and took a deep breath "We check out these addresses, if they check out we either call the police, Goodwitch or we go in ourselves."

Nora slammed her hands on the table, the cracking noises that it made were somewhat concerning. "We take the dust for ourselves, sell it and become rich, right? Right? Or, or we give it all to Beacon and get rewarded with no homework for the rest of the year."

Ruby chuckled, she was not quite believing what just happened and where she currently was. She was just in a criminal's office and watched a 'deal go down' between a criminal and Pyrrha and her sister! And now she was in a VIP section of a club owned by a criminal. Ruby wasn't sure how her life changed so much. She let out a breath and leaned a bit more against a nice and cool Weiss.

The club was pretty warm after all.

Jaune sighed "I don't think the police would be a good choice, 50/50 chance that they are somehow being paid off by Roman or are working under someone being paid off by Roman. Would explain why nothing is being done about the dust robberies."

"So, do we trust a possible huntsman or huntress that gets sent out?" Blake asked leaning her arms on the table.

Jaune shrugged "Better chance than the police, but still, no one has done anything about the dust robberies till now. That's the police and huntsmen/huntresses, though that might be because of Vale's council."

Ren nodded "Beacon, though if we could get Goodwitch or Ozpin involved somehow then the result should be better." Jaune nodded to his suggestion.

"So how about we keep a cut of the dust as a… finder's fee and get Beacon to deal with the rest?" Yang asked looked around.

"Yang! We can't just go around and steal dust!" Weiss said trying to stare down Yang, but not getting far.

"That's actually a great idea, we stumble onto the dust because we heard or saw something suspicious, we then split up to look for more suspicious things and we report what we found to Beacon. We take some of the dust to use ourselves since if the exact same amount of dust is returned then more questions will be raised. Questions we don't want to answer." Jaune said as he laid out his plan. And got a big smile from Yang.

Weiss sighed "Okay then, so were would we hide the dust we are going to steal from the robbers?" Weiss still made a point of emphasizing that they would be stealing dust. SDC dust most likely.

Nora shook her head "Not steal, liberate!"

Yang nodded along with Nora. "Yeah, do you want Roman or the White Fang to have it or us? I vote us. We can use it to help us beat Cinder and wouldn't it be you taking back dust stolen from your own company?" Yang smiled widely at a huffy looking Weiss.

Ruby patted Weiss's arm, still leaning against her.

Blake held back grumbling when Yang mentioned the White Fang. She knew that the Vale White Fang were working with Roman and that they were being used by Cinder. Both Pyrrha and Junior confirmed that. But still, if she could help the White Fang get back to who they were, the dust would be helpful. But for now Blake held her thoughts back.

"I think I might have a place, there should be an old storage unit that we can use. Used to store my sister's truck, but that's been gone for a long time. I think my mom was planning to buy a car to store for when the family comes to Vale. " Jaune said taking out his scroll and looking for what storage unit it was.

Blake crossed her arms "If anything I may be able to get us a warehouse to use. I know how the White Fang go about it, so we can get one the same way." She could also begin making some quiet inquiries about the Vale White Fang.

Yang smiled widely and threw and arm around Blake' shoulders "Yes, my sneaky little kitty, use your White Fang powers for good."

Blake felt a sudden spike of fear about what Yang just said, but then she remembered what just happened. Everyone knew that she is a faunus and was part of the White Fang. She didn't have to hide it around her… friends… still Yang could have worded that better.

That will take some getting used too, everyone knowning. Blake sighed.

Ruby chuckled "So, when do we check out those addresses?" She asked, getting kind of excited.

Pyrrha looked at Jaune for a moment and only stopped when Yang and this time Ruby and Nora joining her started groaning about lover's looks and couple's mind reading.

Pyrrha just smiled "I know that you're all jealous, but can we please…" Jaune blushed at what Pyrrha just said.

Yang interrupted Pyrrha "Jealous, pffff… please, I think you might be reading into our annoyance too much. The only reason that couples do that kind of stuff in public is to annoy people."

Ruby looked from Yang to Pyrrha "Well, I'm jealous, I want to be able to talk with my partner and friends with just a look… at the moment Weiss and I are a bit hit or miss. And we haven't tried it out much Jaune. We need to start doing that!" said an exciting Ruby.

Weiss just groaned at Ruby's maybe misunderstanding and Jaune agreed that he would try 'look conversations' more often with her.

Yang gasped at Ruby and held her free hand to her heard "What, our connection as sisters doesn't matter?"

The table chuckle.

Pyrrha shook her head still laughing a bit "We check out 3 or 5 tonight, I suggest 3. One with all of us and 2 as teams." Bringing the focus of the group back to her and the paper on the table.

Jaune and Ren and Blake all nodded at Pyrrha' suggestion.

"Agreed, but when and how do we get back to Beacon? The last Bullheads are at 1:30am." Weiss said crossing her arms and looking around the table.

Yang chuckled "So we hang out here for an hour or two then we go to the warehouses, we should be done by 1. Maybe earlier."

Ruby nodded along to her sister's suggestion "Yeah, if we are just going to check warehouses, it shouldn't take too much time."

"Though I would say that we don't take any dust from the warehouses we check tonight." Jaune said. Pyrrha and Ren nodded and agreed.

After a series of okays the plan was agreed to.

Yang stood up and got out from behind the table. "So now that we have some time to kill, Jaune you owe me a dance."

Jaune nodded and slipped out from behind the table as well. Though Pyrrha almost didn't let him go.

The two made their way down to the dance floor as a waitress made her way up to their table. They all order non-alcoholic drinks, with Weiss threatening loud and freezing retribution on anyone that ordered an alcoholic drink. Weiss saw enough alcohol and its affects at her house. She didn't need to see it here as well.

Down on the dance floor Jaune and Yang were having more fun than either was expecting. They both knew that the other was a good dancer but they never thought about how good. So now both of them were dancing to the beat. Yang adding some grinding when she thought it would work. Jaune surprising her by lifting and spinning her.

And oh man, what she feeling anytime she pressed her ass against Jaune's groin. Their dance continued with Yang throwing her hands around Jaune's neck and so she really could rub herself against Jaune when she wanted to. Though Jaune kept also moving her away to spin and lift her.

And then to her surprise Jaune wrapped one of his arms around her waist and started to drag his hand up and down her trim stomach with every move she made. Jaune's hand was surprisingly big and warm. And his fingers were leaving warm trails as his hand moved.

Yang let out a breath and laughed, she threw her head back and rested her head on Jaune's shoulder and chest. As they got into a good sync and just danced for two and a half more songs.

By that time Yang was letting out heated breaths of air, her body warmed so much. Like she just spent the last hour fighting and not dancing for the last 10 minutes. She could also feel Jaune's dick press so deep against her ass each time she moved against him that she was surprised that she wasn't being lifted up by it.

Though to Jaune's credit he kept trying to roll his hips away from her. Though Yang wasn't having any of that. It was the best dancing she every experienced and dick or no dick, she was going to enjoy it.

She could also feel Jaune's hot breath against her neck, his hot chest behind her. His very warm hand still moving about on her heated stomach.

As the song finished Yang decided that she was good. Well she was great. But she had her fun dancing. Time to rap their dancing up.

Jaune was a great dancer, someone that could keep up with her. But, if she got any closer to Jaune on the dancefloor then she may just start having sex with him. And yeah, she was not that close to Jaune, a bit of grinding while dancing was okay, but more…

So Yang groaned and unstuck herself from Jaune's chest. She turned around with her arms still around Jaune's neck and Jaune's hand now on her back. They did dance in this position for a little while, but her chest rubbing against Jaune's and Jaune's dick rubbing against her thin pants covered pussy. Yeah… not a recipe for good dancing.

"Well, well Vomit-Boy, you weren't lying, what a great dancer you are." Yang nearly purred out as she ground herself a final time against Jaune's front. She heard him nearly moan with his chest rumbling and she smiled widely.

Oh, she knew that Pyrrha may just kill her, from time to time she could feel a glare on her, but she wasn't sure from where. But she was honestly too ecstatic to care. She could feel months of stress and tension gone.

Jaune felt overly heated, he felt lightheaded and tense. He felt like one more touch and he would explode in his pants. Yang was just so… her dancing was so… and her body, dear Gods, feeling her grinding and rubbing against his chest and... Jaune could only groan and moan. She was so… too much.

Jaune could not believe that she would dance like this with him, that she felt comfortable enough with him to dance like that. That she was okay with his dick pressed up against her great… awesome… ass and his hands on her trim stomach, feeling her abs just below her soft skin.

Jaune wondered if he was developing some sort of muscle fetish because of Pyrrha and Yang.

But he forced himself to concentrate when Yang spoke to him, a bit hard with her rubbing her chest against him, but he thankfully got what she said.

"You are such a great dancer too Yang, seriously the best I ever danced with." Jaune said, his heated breath against Yang's neck, causing a shudder to run down her back.

He seriously felt great, heated state and tension aside. He felt freer than he did in a long time.

Yang was pleased with that, the best he danced with. She would accept that. Jaune definitely danced with many people, his sisters most likely, but other girls as well.

After a couple more smiles Yang tugged Jaune towards her and then Yang leaned her weight against Jaune, Jaune wrapping an arm around Yang. They made their way back to the VIP room and their table. A bit oblivious to all the people looking at them and giving them looks.

They came back to surprised looks, blushes and Pyrrha just staring at them.

Yang chuckled "What, I said I wanted to really dance…"

"That wasn't dancing, that was… grinding and touching and…" Weiss almost growled out, a blush on her face.

Ruby was just looking at both of them with a massive blush of her face. That was club dancing? No wonder Yang didn't want her to go along with her to a club. Ruby felt like she just may catch fire or just poof out of existence. And every time that she imagine dancing like that with Jaune… Ruby felt overly warm and had to close her eyes.

Nora whistled "Man, can you two dance or what? Do you know how may people glared at both of you because the person they were with could not look away from you two!" Nora smiled widely and imagined dancing like that with Ren.

Ren, a pretty good dancer himself just tried to understand how they danced like that without dancing together before and without any plans…

Blake felt something a bit odd watching Yang and Jaune dance like that. It was a warmness and a tension, two feelings that she felt shouldn't go together. She agreed with Nora, the two of them did steal the show. Both great dancers, Yang extremely attractive, Jaune catching people's attention with how he moved, how he moved Yang, showing his strength off.

It was something to see alright. Blake just didn't know why she was feeling… odd…

Pyrrha was trying some breathing exercises. She was very much two minds about what she just saw. Jaune having a good time and enjoying himself was always good. Always something that Pyrrha wanted for Jaune. And Yang being close to Jaune was also always a good thing. Yang and Jaune always made a good team so… that was good. Yang caring about Jaune more.

But what she just saw… how close Yang and Jaune were. What it looked like. Pyrrha really, really wanted to jump down there and tear Jaune away from Yang. She was far too close, pressed up so much against Jaune. And as good as they looked dancing together, Pyrrha for some reason did not like it.

It wasn't just jealousy, but… something else… something a bit deeper.

Pyrrha let out a breath and relax a bit, seeing Yang sending her multiple looks.

Yang decided that after what she and Jaune just did, a peace offering may be a good thing. Yang had no real desire to get between Pyrrha and her 'one true love' Jaune. So Yang walked over to Pyrrha who was sitting at the end of the sofa, she took Jaune along with her.

Yang then, surprising everyone, swiftly moved a step behind Jaune and wrapped an arm around Jaune's back, her other arm went down and Yang squatted a bit. On her way up, her other arm went behind Jaune's knees and she effortlessly lifted him up into a princess carry.

Jaune was a fair bit taller and bigger than her so her arms were a bit wider out than she would have liked, but still, Jaune wasn't that heavy, even with all his muscles. And right as Jaune started sputtering and just as he started to say something Yang took a step forward and looked at Pyrrha.

"I think this is yours, thanks for letting me borrow him. I may need to borrow him again when I want to really cut loose and dance, but don't worry I'll return him in just as good condition." Yang said with a wide smile, to the laughter of the table.

Ruby was giggling, seeing the look on Jaune face.

Nora was laughing "Hey, why didn't we know about the Jauney sharing agreement for dancing!"

Ren just smiled and shook his head. Relaxing into the comfy sofa. He did feel a bit sorry of Jaune, having to keep Yang entertained when she turned her attention to him, must be hard work.

Weiss was also shaking her head and trying to beat down the little voice telling her about how angry her father would be if she danced like that. How great would that be, pissing her father off so much.

Blake just sighed and took a drink of the chilled water with lemon that she ordered. She also made some room for Yang, who she knew would… plop… down beside her, or on top of her if there wasn't enough space.

Pyrrha felt a smile grow across her face as she stood up and took Jaune into her arms. She was taller than Yang so carrying Jaune was more comfortable for her. Her arms tightened a bit when she finally had Jaune in her arms and Yang took a step away.

"Well, we can talk about borrowing him again. Thanks for returning him to me in a good condition." Pyrrha said as she smiled at Yang, feeling something relax in her.

Jaune grumbled in her arms, but he had a smile on his face.

She sat back down, but kept Jaune in her arms, so he was now sitting in Pyrrha's lap, his head resting above Pyrrha shoulder, his legs going down past her arm under his knees. Thankfully for Pyrrha, like with Yang, Jaune's weight was nothing to concern her.

Jaune was just a bit miffed with Yang just picking him up and handing him back to Pyrrha like a… large dog she borrowed or something. Though being handed from Yang's arms to Pyrrha's was a bit interesting. Even though he didn't want it to be, he was already overly warm. But he very quickly went from being squished against Yang's boobs to being squished against Pyrrha boobs.

And Jaune wondered what his luck was for that to happen. But he did end up smiling when he was in Pyrrha's arms. It was sort of funny. Plus how much would any other guy give to be passed between two of the hottest girls ever.

So for the next hour or so Jaune and Yang relaxed and the rest of their friends filled them in on what they saw from when they were dancing. By the end of the hour Yang felt like she may never lose the arrogant smirk that she felt grow.

Yang wasn't an overly vain person, but everyone did like positive feedback and what's more positive than being hot enough to start arguments between couples.

Jaune felt surprised by the attention he got, he would have assumed that Yang would have gotten all the attention. Who would look at him if she was beside him. Though a bit unfortunately for Jaune Pyrrha didn't let him go for the whole hour and her grip tightened every time someone mentioned a girl looking his way.

Jaune would have to check if he had bruises from Pyrrha gripping him so tightly. Jaune was also starting to kind of think that he may… just may… maybe if he was lucky or the Gods smiled at him. He just may get a yes if he asked Pyrrha out. He knew that he really shouldn't be thinking that but…

All these weeks of sleeping with her just beside him or pressed up to him. Walking places together. Pyrrha's soft touches and strong holds. Their infrequent lunches and dinners alone. Jaune knew that they kind of fell into all of that by Pyrrha needed closeness after her vision and him wanting to help Pyrrha as much as he could.

But he maybe kind of wanted it all now… Maybe he liked just being in Pyrrha's arms and sitting in her lap. Like she just made him do and still hadn't let him go. And he knew how much he liked when Pyrrha sat in his lap…

And the thought of some other guy being as close to Pyrrha as he was…

But…

Unknown to Jaune Pyrrha was smirking at a couple of 'ladies' that made their way up to the VIP area and looked at Jaune. Then saw her holding him and glared at her. As much as she liked sitting in Jaune's lap, having him in hers… holding him and not having to let go…

Pyrrha could very easily get used to it. It felt so good as well. And seeing girls, 'ladies' and bitches glare at her because they wanted to try something with Jaune. Oh how great that felt.

- Scene Break -

By the end of the hour they all got up and left the club, being told that they didn't have to pay. Junior clearly just wanting them kept happy and gone was quickly as possible.

During the hour they picked the 3 warehouses they would go to, all pretty close to the entertainment district they were in and all pretty big based on the info that Junior printed out for them. The also picked who would call Beacon, Weiss and Ren for obvious reasons.

The walk to the first warehouse wasn't too bad, even with the later hour it was still pretty crowded on the streets around the entertainment district, so they made their way to the edge of it and then a few streets down not standing out too much.

Past 2 more intersections and the amount of people thinned out, Blake looked around, stopped and turned to everyone "Okay, I don't think we will have any crowds to hide us by the time we get to the first warehouse. So we need to split into smaller groups and approach the warehouse from a few different directions to not tip off anyone who may be on watch."

Everyone agreed with Blake, which caused her to smile a bit wider than usual, to which Yang and Nora awwwed. And Ruby hugged her. Which set off another round of awwws and Yang taking a picture.

A bit of laughter later and everyone separated with their partners. They then walked down the different streets of the intersection with routes to meet up around the warehouse. Pyrrha was feeling a bit apprehensive about all of this. But it needed to be done.

A few minutes later they all met up around the warehouse, using a few blind spots pointed out by Blake to hide themselves a bit.

Blake looked down the side of the warehouse from the entrance of the alleyway that ran beside the warehouse. There was a door on the far end and just wall until then. Which was probably their best choice of entry. The front had someone standing just past the garage doors and the other side had a double door with a camera. The back had loading bays.

Which may also work. But there were cameras there too, which wasn't good.

She went back to everyone else who were all standing just behind a loading bay wall that was sticking out and blocking them from view. "Well, we have a single side door with no cameras on one side, then the loading bays at the back with cameras and other side has a double door with a camera. So not many entry points."

Jaune hummed to himself thinking about how to get in quickly and quietly.

Pyrrha smiled "Thanks Blake, any chance that we can sneak by the cameras? Or do we even want to?"

Weiss nodded "We are here to check on something we heard about, so I would say that we want to use the cameras to our advantage. Go in through the loading bays and get spotted on the cameras."

Ruby and Nora agreed with Weiss while after a moment of thinking Yang and Ren also both agreed.

Pyrrha did not want pictures of their faces to make it back Cinder, but Weiss was right. "I also agree, we go in and let the cameras see us. But if we can somehow limit how much of our faces the cameras see, that would be best. Don't look directly at or into the cameras."

For Blake that felt kind of odd, all her missions with the White Fang were done in a way for them to not be seen until they had no other choice. For them to just walk in… But like Weiss and Pyrrha said, their story was that they heard rumors and walked in to check them out. Still it felt wrong…

Jaune finally nodded as well agreeing with Weiss and Pyrrha "We just need to make the right amount of noise and not call our weapons unless we absolutely need them. Keep your auras up as much as you can. We are suspicious of this place after all."

After everyone agreed to the plan they split into partners again and walked to the loading bays by different routes until the alleyway. There teams JNPR and RWBY reformed on either end of the alleyway and they made their way to the loading bay with Nora asking in her normal voice if this was the building.

Yang replied yes, also in her normal voice. And they heard movement from inside. Pyrrha opened 3 loading doors up with her semblance luckily not having to break the locks since the doors weren't locked. Which was kind of strange for a criminal's warehouse.

They ran in and saw that there were a bunch of people inside. Not White Fang, but possibly members of Roman's gang… if he had one. Though they were not dressed fancy.

20 or so people turned to look at the 8 teenagers that just ran into the warehouse. The men and women were all dressed in black and gold clothing. Their clothes were all different with only their colors being the same. So maybe a gang?

Pyrrha blinked and before she could say anything Jaune stepped forward "So are you guys a gang? We heard that the dust that was stolen from the dust shop on main was taken by a gang here. So are we in the right place?"

You could just about hear a pin drop before a young woman stepped forward and glared at Jaune "Ha, and what, you kids think you can steal that dust? You come here and don't even have any weapons. Don't make me laugh. This dust is needed by the Queen of the underworld so you will not take it."

The young woman than pulled out a large serrated knife and glared at them as the rest of the now confirmed gang took out weapons as well. Thankfully only 2 had guns with the rest having knives, swords, staffs and one person had a sledgehammer.

Pyrrha brought her fists up and lowered into a stance. So, luckily for them all, this gang seemed like just caretakers of the dust stored here, with no heavy weapons. But queen of the underworld? Pyrrha never heard anything about her. Though the queen could be Cinder…

The woman then yelled "Get them!"

And before anyone could even move Ruby engaged her semblance and zoomed to one of the two with the guns. He was tripped by Ruby and then kicked in the back. As he fell forward he let go of his gun as he threw his hands out to catch himself. Ruby picked the gun from mid-air and turned to rush the second person.

Ruby got to the second person, an older woman and did the same to her, trip, kick and snatch gun from the middle of the air.

By the time the rest of the gang saw what happened Yang and Nora rushed forward. Yang sent a lighter punch at the guy in front of her and he was sent flying 2 feet backwards and smashed into a wooden box. Groaning. Cool they had aura.

Nora copied Yang and sent the girl in front of her flying into a post. The impact she made sounded bad. Thankfully she seemed okay enough groaning on the floor.

The woman at the front with the knife blinked. The kids were far stronger than she thought. Not good. She turned her attention to the tall blonde in front of her but before she could attack him the tall girl that was beside him was on top of her.

Pyrrha glared at the woman who took out a nasty looking knife on Jaune. She ran up to her and dodged the woman's first slash. The woman was slow. She was somewhat trained. Her stance was one from Vacuo. But an entry level one if she remembered correctly.

Pyrrha dodged the woman's knife a few more times and when the woman moved her arm back to start another slash. Pyrrha moved. Before the woman could even react Pyrrha hit the woman in the middle of her chest with an open palm strike.

The woman choked on the air that was forced up and before the woman could move Pyrrha caught her wrist and twisted it causing the woman to drop her knife. A kick to the knee sent the woman down to the floor hissing in pain. Pyrrha then picked the knife up and kick the woman in the stomach, a bit harder than she anticipated.

Well the woman did pull a knife on Jaune.

Pyrrha turned around and saw that Yang took out 2 more guys, both groaning by a wall. Nora was just knocking her third out from the looks of it. Blake was dodging and weaving between 3 people, punching and kicking when she could, taking care of them one by one.

Over on the other side of the warehouse Jaune was just finishing overpowering a guy and ripping the staff away from him after which Jaune punched the guy in the stomach, dropping him.

Ren was fighting two people and from the looks of it just finished with 2 others. Ren effortlessly dodged a punch, slash and hit back finishing another girl off with a kick.

By the far wall near a staircase Weiss and Ruby were just finishing knocking out the two people they were fighting, Weiss using the flat side of the sword she picked up and Ruby using her semblance.

Pyrrha did another scan of the warehouse and that looked to be it. She didn't see anyone else moving around.

Jaune after finishing knocking his guy out walked over to a metal container and used the staff that he took to break the metal the lock was in. He then opened the container and saw an large amount of dust. "Well, looks like Junior wasn't lying or trying to get us into trouble. The dust is here."

Jaune pulled out a small case of dust with the name of a shipping company on it. "I think this is stolen."

Pyrrha nodded and began to break several locks around her. Her and Jaune walked around the boxes and containers checking them and yes, all stolen. Though for a few they had to check her scrolls for news that the company was robbed.

The rest made their way to Jaune and Pyrrha. Yang looked around at the groaning and knocked out people on the floor "They all had their aura's unlocked and at least the ones I fought were kind of trained. Like first year Signal dropout trained."

Weiss nodded while Ruby was taking apart one of the guns that she took. Nora was test swinging the sledgehammer she took.

Blake also nodded holding onto the two knives she took "Most serious gang enforcers have their aura unlocked and some training. They are valuable but not too rare. I think the White Fang even ran across some gang in Mistral which unlocked the aura of all their midlevel guys."

"Huh, guess I never thought about it…" Yang said humming to herself.

Pyrrha shook her head "Okay, we can call Beacon now and let them know that we found this warehouse and saw all the stolen dust and that we are checking out two more warehouses."

Jaune nodded and walked over to each of the downed and knocked out gang member and took any weapons that they didn't take already. He piled them into one of the open code locked boxes and closed the box, punching in a code.

Jaune then turned around and saw everyone looking at him. Pyrrha with a proud look on her face. "What, we don't want them to have their weapons so… I locked them up…"

"That was smart thinking" Ren said as the girls looked at Jaune and then each other.

Weiss and Yang were a bit embarrassed that they forgot to, you know, disarm the bad guys. Blake saw Jaune already doing it so stayed with the group, looking around the warehouse. Making sure that no one popped out from some dark corner of the warehouse. Thankfully there were no high stacks of boxes, so the whole warehouse are could be seen.

"Okay, Ren please call Goodwitch and Weiss please call Oobleck." Pyrrha said as she took the holder for the knife she took of that young woman's back and strapped it to her back.

The rest of her friends saw this and spread out also looking for holders and/or sheath. After everyone gathered again Pyrrha turned to team RWBY and nodded "You all ready? You don't have to do this now you know?"

They looked at each other for a moment and then Ruby smiled "Of course we want to do this, fight bad guys? What else should huntresses do?"

Yang chuckled at that while Blake and Weiss nodded. Blake then looked over her team and at Pyrrha "Don't worry, I know a thing or two about these types of in and out fights. It will be fine."

Pyrrha nodded and felt Jaune place a hand on her shoulder, she looked over at him and saw him smile at her. "Come on, we need to start running of we want to make it to the other two warehouses by the time that Goodwitch and Oobleck get here."

Pyrrha smiled back and turned to team RWBY "Be safe."

Jaune turned also and looked at team RWBY "Yeah, nothing too fancy, stay safe."

Ruby grinned back and nodded "Don't worry, like Blake said, she knows this. We will be fine."

The two teams said one final round of goodbyes and then both teams walked out the back doors and ran down either end of the alleyway.

- Scene Break -

The trip to their warehouse was pretty straightforward for team JNPR. They kept a constant jogging pace and made it to just by the warehouse in less than 10 minutes.

Ren was elected to check around the building as he was the stealthiest one. Ren looked down the alleyway at the back of the warehouse and saw that it was similar to the first warehouse. Several loading bays and cameras.

Their perfect entry point. The two sides had more doors than the first warehouse, but only single doors, so not helpful when they wanted to enter all at once.

Ren looped back to the others, standing in a alleyway just around the corner. He let them know the options and like before, the loading bays were chosen as their way in.

Also like before the walked to the loading bays talking about this being the place and like before Pyrrha opened two loading bay doors so that all four of the could run in at the same time.

The only difference was that inside this warehouse wasn't a gang waiting for them but two people. An older man and an older woman. Both probably in the 40s or 50s and dressed like a huntsman and huntress.

Pyrrha immediately had mercenaries pop up in her head. The rest of her team also shifted into cautious fighting stances.

Also unlike before this time the people in the warehouse started talking first. The man stood up and stepped forward "Well, well, what have we here? A group teenage gangster wannabes? Think you can just break into a 45 Street warehouse just like that? Oh you fools are so fucked."

The woman walked to stand beside the man and smirked "Well now, maybe they won't be so fucked, all four of you have some looks. I think that the NorEaters were just talking about needing more play things. You four fit that bill."

The man laughed as Jaune tightened his grip on the staff he had on his back. Pyrrha glared at the woman, her grip tightened on her knife. Ren and Nora stood closer together and shifted into a different stance. Ren's eyes hardening and Nora glaring at both of the older people.

"Yes, so that's what will happen. You four were just unlucky enough to run into us two. And once we beat you, we will ship you off to the NorEaters where you will be played with day and night. Drugged up so much that you won't even know how many people had you." The older man laughed again and drew his weapon, a short sword with a gun built into it. Like Ren's regular weapons but bigger.

The older woman pulled out a heavy looking spear with what looked to be a trigger in the middle of it. "I wouldn't mind trying out the blond one first, who knows maybe he will like it and I can keep him."

At that, before the old man could say anything else, Pyrrha snapped. Even the thought of this… old bitch… touching Jaune made her mad, the threat of her raping Jaune. Oh Pyrrha was beyond pissed.

She rushed forward taking the serrated knife that she took out and slashed at the old woman. Who just barely managed to block the slash with her spear. Pyrrha followed that slash with a series of quick stabs. Pyrrha wasn't fully trained in using a knife, but thankfully the knife was on the bigger side so it could treat it a bit like her sword.

The older woman managed to dodge the first stab, block the second one with pure luck, but the third, fourth and fifth stabs all hit. One to the chest and two to the stomach. Pyrrha's rage powered stabs burned a lot of the older woman's aura and left her staggered.

Pyrrha then kick out at the older woman's leg, causing her to have to move back. Pyrrha, her mouth in a thin line, her eyes just showing cold rage, then punched with her left hand while bringing her right hand back and adjusting her grip on the knife.

The older woman dodged the punch and was moving back to thrust her spear when Pyrrha rushed forward with another series of rapid stabs and quick diagonal slashes. The older woman tried to maneuver her spear to block or attack.

But Pyrrha was also a spear user and probably one of the best spear users in all of Vale and Mistral. So she knew everything that the older woman could do with her spear before she could do it. Pyrrha's cold rage also made her hard focus on overwhelming the older woman. Punishing her. Punishing her for even thinking about touching Jaune.

Pyrrha moved the older woman's threat of raping Jaune to the back of her mind as best so could as not to just tear the old bitch's throat out with the serrated edge of her knife.

As Pyrrha slowly but surely tore the last bits of the older woman's aura apart. The older man was also having a bad time. He was fighting three on one with all three being angry at him as well. And even worse for him, all three knew how to fight together.

Jaune, Ren and Nora quickly fell into their usual pattern when teaming up. Nora swung her hammer to either damage the older man or force him to dodge. Where Ren with the knives he took and Jaune with the staff moved in to attack.

And like Pyrrha all three were beyond angry.

As their fight with the older man progressed, Jaune found his role in the fight changed to position control. He didn't know how to really use a staff. But he could swing and thrust it and the staff had reach. So he started looking for opportunities to force the old man to dodge or move into a position that let Nora or Ren hit him.

But the old man was kind of slippery. He kept being able to block, which had Jaune now thinking that the blocking ability was the older man's semblance. But they were hitting him, draining the older man's aura.

A moment later Jaune saw a opening, the older man blocked a hit from Nora's sledgehammer and had to dodge Ren's knife so the older man was vulnerable. Jaune thrusted the staff at the older man forcing him to wildly block his thrust.

Which left the older man open and with almost perfect coordination Ren moved forward slashing with one knife and stabbing with the other and Nora dashed forward swinging her sledgehammer. Jaune just kept adding strength to his thrust, forcing the older man to keep blocking.

And then before the older man could do anything more Nora's swing connected with the older man's chest sending him flying and crashing through the wall of the warehouse. Loose bricks of the warehouse's wall fell down on top of the older man.

Jaune took a breath and turned to Nora and Ren "Keep and eye on him and call Goodwitch. If he moves break his spine." Jaune growled out.

Nora nodded and glared that the older man savagely as she ran over to keep an eye on him. Ren pulled out his scroll and began to type a number in to call.

Jaune turned to look at Pyrrha and what he saw shocked him a bit. The older woman was bleeding all over, a dozen tears in her shirt, multiple cuts on her face and arms. And Pyrrha kept stabbing and slashing at the older woman.

Jaune jogged over to where they were fighting and got three feet from them when Pyrrha sent a devastating stab down at the older woman's thigh. The knife went deep into the older woman's leg and when Pyrrha tore the knife out the older woman dropped to the floor gasping and hissing in pain.

Pyrrha then walked up to the older woman and kicked her hard in the stomach causing the older woman to fly backwards and smash into a metal box. The older woman groaned in pain and coughed up blood.

Pyrrha looked down at the older woman and opened her mouth "What were you saying about us being played with over and over again." Pyrrha slowly walked over to the older woman and kicked her again. Hard.

The older woman coughed up more blood and curled into the fetal position, shaking, but glaring up at Pyrrha, the older woman opened her mouth to say something. But before she could Pyrrha planted her boot onto the older woman's face. Most likely breaking her nose and cracking something else.

Jaune place a hand on Pyrrha's shoulder, understanding her anger, but seeing that the fight was over and unless Pyrrha wanted to kill the older woman then this would be a good place to stop.

Pyrrha looked into Jaune's warm, kind yet angry eyes for a moment and kicked the older woman one last time in the stomach. She then took the older woman's weapon and using her semblance twisted it into a circle.

Pyrrha then pulled Jaune into a deep hug, still holding on to the knife.

"You okay Pyrrha?" Jaune asked quietly into Pyrrha's ear as he watch the older woman shake and groan on the floor.

Pyrrha let out a breath, feeling the warmth of Jaune overpower the dark, cold rage that she was just feeling. The growing need to get rid of anything that could hurt Jaune,

Pyrrha shook her head "No… I… I… I actually want to kill her. Truly, I wanted to tear her apart piece by piece for what she threatened to do to us… to you. I want to tear her throat out." Pyrrha then hugged Jaune even tighter.

Jaune rubbed Pyrrha's back and sighed "I don't blame you, we wanted to hurt the guy as much as we could also." Jaune said softly into Pyrrha ear, holding her tighter. Though compared to Pyrrha's near death grip on him, he wasn't holding her tight at all.

Jaune let out a breath "I even told Nora to break his spine if he moved and both Nora and Ren said nothing against it."

Pyrrha shuddered in his hug.

"Hey, if we didn't need them to tell Goodwitch and Ozpin and the police where those gangster are that they send victims to, then… I don't know… I don't think I would… care if we killed them…" Jaune hugged Pyrrha a lot tighter now, a bit unnerved that he just said that. That he actually might have killed the guy…

Pyrrha hummed into Jaune's soft and warm cheek, nuzzling her cheek against his. "We were just not… ready… to be threatened with… that…" as Pyrrha said that she tightened her grip on Jaune even more. For as long as she lived, no one and nothing would be able to threaten Jaune with that and walk away.

Jaune nodded "I guess the more we go after Cinder's criminals, the more we can expect to hear stuff like this… maybe even see…" Jaune stopped and just let out a shuddering breath. He also made an Arc promise to himself, that weak as he was for now, he would never let anything like that happen to Pyrrha. To Nora or Ren. To Ruby or Yang or Weiss or Blake.

They could take care of themselves, but…

Pyrrha nodded "This is why I am so hesitant about bringing in everyone… We don't know what will happen… who we would have to fight… what we may see." Pyrrha kept her nuzzling of Jaune's cheek up, feeling better by the nuzzle.

Jaune nodded and managed to moved Pyrrha a few steps back from the still groaning and coughing older woman.

A few more minutes later they head a "Don't move!" come from the loading bay doors and Pyrrha very reluctantly stopped hugging Jaune, though she made a point of not letting go of him. Her arm wrapped around his waist and she squeezed herself against him.

A second later they saw Goodwitch along with a few huntsmen and huntresses and police come up to them.

Ren then explained everything, with Pyrrha, Jaune and Nora jumping in when needed.

Once Ren got to the info about what the NorEaters wanted people for and the two on the floor knowing that and possibly delivering people to the gang. The police and huntsmen and huntresses jumped into action. The were slightly shocked at what Pyrrha did to the older woman, but it was Pyrrha, so they all brushed off the injuries that the older woman had to Pyrrha going all out because her team was threatened.

A few minutes later once they gave their statements and contact details and Goodwitch threatened the police commander, they were on they way to a Bullhead that just landed on the street.

When they were in the air Jaune asked Goodwitch, who was flying back with them, about what happened at the warehouse team RWBY went to. Goodwitch glared at Jaune for a moment before letting out a sigh and letting them know that all team RWBY had to face was a few more of those black and gold wearing gangsters.

Jaune let out a breath and Pyrrha collapsed against him, muttering "Thank the Gods."

After a short dressing down by Goodwitch to not do something like that again they were ordered to their room and to not talk to team RWBY until tomorrow.

Back in their dorm room the atmosphere was heavy, tense and a bit somber. The four of them just brushed up against some of the darkness in humans. The darkness in Vale. And all four of them were… unsettled.

Jaune looked over his team and took a deep breath "I… I know that what happened, what we were just threatened with. It was…" Jaune let out a breath "It was fucked up." Nora gasped and Pyrrha looked at him with wider eyes. Yeah, he didn't swear much.

"But we beat them, we let everyone know what that gang was doing and we will kept getting stronger. If that ever happens again we will beat whoever it may be and if we can we will destroy their… sick… operation. And between the four of us… we won't let… that… happen... Never." Jaune said in a serious tone.

Ren nodded and Nora smiled for the first time since the warehouse. Pyrrha also nodded, her eyes shining with pride.

Jaune stood up from the side of his bed "Let's get some sleep now and… if we need to we can… talk about it tomorrow. After we have some time to process it."

"Okay" Nora said quietly, leaning against Ren.

Ren nodded again, rubbing Nora's side.

Pyrrha walked over to Jaune and place both her hands of Jaune's face and pulled his face closer to hers. "One more thing, if we stand against that darkness then we will need to be ready to fight differently. And that is something I unfortunately don't know."

Jaune nodded "So we get help, Ruby's and Yang's uncle was from a bandit tribe. Or we can see if Ozpin knows someone…"

Pyrrha sighed and squeeze Jaune's face a bit harder. She then let go of it and nuzzled her cheek against his. "Lets go to sleep."

A few moments later Pyrrha was comfortably squished against Jaune in Jaune's bed and Nora was squeezing herself even closer against Ren in Ren's bed. Both couples slowly falling asleep. Holding onto each other.

- Scene Break -

In the somewhere the red hair and green eyes was.. pleased. Their training was coming along nicely and Pyrrha took the opportunity presented to her and made a change. A change that like everything she did began to ripple out.

Possibilities collapsed and formed, an entire branch just collapsed in on itself. But the possibilities were looking better and better. Oh there were still possible pitfalls and troubles and potential death.

But the red hair and green eyes was happy. With just speaking to Junior, by everyone having more information, with everyone being more involved it was all leading to a better chance. Even just hitting the three warehouses was rippling out in far greater waves.

Enforcers hurt and arrested which cost resources for the fake maiden's underlings and boosted police and huntsmen time. Those two mercenaries taken out of the fight will also spiral out into more saved lives. And that gang may even be broken apart, victims of it turning around to fight it.

The red hair and green eyes smiled as another possibility formed, Pyrrha made the first step, the next step was just a moment away and this step may be even more damaging for the fake maiden and the white mask wearing ones and the lonely princess.

It was a funny thought, that when the godlings come to check to see how their little plan to speed up their return was going. They will see the lonely princess not readying herself for a global fight, for using the relics, but stuck in place, her plans going nowhere.

Wouldn't that be a great sight.

Chapter Eleven End

Hope everyone liked chapter 11.

Man, the amount of times that we rewrote this chapter, and yeah we hope you all like our first bits of seriousness. Also yes, Yang may have been quite OOC in this chapter at certain points, we are trying to keep her in our rough characterization of her, but we may fail from time to time.

And yes Pyrrha was kind of OOC this chapter as well, but we hope that we captured her attitude changes well during this chapter. And seriousness Pyrrha will be making a few more appearances.

And yes the fight was delayed again. This chapter really got away from us during the rewrites and man was it so different when we finally finished. But we think that this is a good introduction to the next arc of the story and to the meat of this part, the Roman and White Fang fight, the aftermath and the attacking of other warehouses. Also some White Fang action and the parent day.

The next chapter will finally be the now twice delayed Roman and White Fang fight.

Just a continued reminder, this is not the "Prime" timeline, we are changing when some events happen and how they happen. We are also changing some characters. Hopefully by not too much.

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First, we do like some tropes and some tropy stories so our story will have some of them in it, though we completely understand why people don't like certain tropes(Dave). We don't like certain tropes either.

Second, we are generally following the plot of RWBY volume by volume and like in the show stuff builds in volume 1 and starts to go down in volume 2 with the climax of the early plot in volume 3. So there will be more action over the next 10 chapters but our story will always have a bunch of slow slice of life stuff and fluff. Afterall our story is built on a foundation of fluff... and Pyrrha's bad mental state.

Third, core couple is still Pyrrha and Jaune, no changes there, though the girls will spend some more time with Jaune.

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