Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter Black and White Roses. Enjoy the 1100-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum do.
(City of Vale, Beacon Academy Friday, 10:30 4 minutes to mission.)
Summer and Noir stood by the door to their dorm as both waited for Qrow and Raven to get dressed for the recon mission.
"Can you two take any longer?" Noir asked as he leaned against the door and pulled on his jacket as Summer made sure Winter Thorn was ready for battle.
"Hey, it takes time to look this good." Qrow said as he walked out of the bathroom, weapon ready as did Raven did the same as there was a knock at the door behind them.
"Ms. Rose, it is time for the mission, are you and your team ready?" Came the voice of Professor Goodwitch as Noir and Summer shared a look.
"Let's go." Summer ordered as Noir opened the door to see the veteran huntress looking at them.
"Good, let's go. I have a transport waiting for us on the landing pad." Professor Goodwitch stated as she looked over the group as they turned and followed her out of the room.
"I will point this out one more time to clear up any confusion: This is a recon mission and a recon mission only, we are not to take action against Junior or any of his associates until Professor Ozpin decides on a course of action."
Professor Goodwitch stated as the four students and her arrived outside where a Bullhead VTOL was on a landing pad as Noir and Qrow climbed on as Noir helped Summer onto the craft as she blushed and nodded a 'thank you' to her teammate as Raven and Professor Goodwitch climbed on.
"Hang on, we're lifting off." The pilot said as the Bullhead turned on its engines and flew off into the sky as Raven sat down at the door as Summer and Noir leaned against the wall of the VTOL as Qrow took a seat.
"We will be arriving in 2 minutes, ma'am. I'd suggest getting your team." The pilot said, Noir rolled his eyes as he noticed the words were aimed at their teacher and not Summer.
'I get that we haven't even had school for month or so…. But seriously? Summer isn't even referred to as team leader for the team in which her name is the first letter for the team?'
Noir thought as the Bullhead touched down upon a rooftop not too far from where Noir and his teammates had found the crime scene for one of Junior's raids.
"We will be back within ten minutes, wait here for us." Glynda order to their pilot.
"Why are we here?" Noir asked as he and his team mates followed the huntress into the closed off area.
"Professor Ozpin said we are to do recon on Junior's operations around town…. I was left to pick which site we conducted reconnaissance at." Professor Goodwitch said as Noir slowed his walk to stand next to Summer.
"She doesn't even trust us to do a recon mission without baby proofing it. We might be kids but we aren't babies and yet she's been hard on us ever since we stopped Junior."
Noir whispered under his breath as the team followed their teacher into the Crime Scene that they had already checked over.
"So, any reason besides 'I pick the mission' are we checking the police scene that's already been cleanly picked over by the cops and most likely would already have everything of value at the police station?" Qrow bluntly asked as he stopped as Glynda spun on her heel.
"Mr. Branwen, what are you implying?" She asked, voice as cold as nice as Qrow looked her in the eye.
"Well, you've taken us to the same crime scene that the cops must have spent, oh what? A few days at? You've basically shown that we tick you in some way." Qrow stated as the huntress turned to them.
"If you want to know the reason, I'll tell you. Based on what I know of Ms. Rose and Mr. Tama, and of your actions back in Forever Falls, as heroic as they are, shows me that putting you near ANY potential source of danger will cause you to jump the gun and get yourselves into more danger." Glynda responded as Noir stopped checking a pile of spent bullets to speak.
"So, in other words, instead of being able to check on Junior, sit around and look at something that already been handled…. You know we killed a Banshee, right?" Noir asked, crossing his arms as Glynda sighed.
"Children, I will be direct, I am not mad at you and Ms. Rose, do I think you are ready to face Junior? No, do I think that because of your impatience? No, I simply want you safe… Now please search what's left of the crime scene for anything that Junior could have left behind in his skirmish with the Vale Police Department. We have five minutes before we are expected back at Beacon." Their teacher asked as she walked off.
"We've already gathered up some stuff from the crime scene before, I say we jump see if any of the old stuff has new meaning now based on what we've found." Summer whispers as Qrow and Raven sighed before walking off to examine the scenes they had previously checked on.
"I just hope soon we can figure out what Junior is up to… And with the White Fang training soldiers, it looks like we're fighting a war on two fronts… A war we aren't ready to handle, Summer." Noir whispered as she nodded and continued to look through a pile of rubble before noticing a crushed cigar.
'Huh? What's a cigar doing here?' Summer wondered as she looked at it before Ms. Goodwitch cut her train of thought off.
"Alright, children, we are out of time. We must return to Beacon before curfew." The professor said as Summer grabbed the crushed cigar and put it into her pouch.
Author notes
Ok, parts of this arc will be put up tomorrow. I want to point out I'm not trying to rush this story; the original chapters are just harder to write without something to base them. I will take this story slow after the next two chapters. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
P.S: There might be one chapter tomorrow or 2 depending on if I feel like updating another story…. That, and I don't want to burn out my desire to update this story 24/7 and then never again.