Chp. 57: Spy's Reveal
Unknown Location, U.S.A.
May 30, 2021
Hillary Clinton makes her way down a hallway and soon walks into a room. She closes the door behind her and locks it. She walks up to a large wooden cabinet and opens it, revealing a Seer inside.
"Salem, Are you there?" she spoke.
The red smoke-like substance contained in the head of the Seer Grimm shifts to form an image of Salem sitting on her throne inside her conference room in Evernight Castle.
"Hello, Hillary. Do you have something to report?" Salem asked.
"Of course," Hillary answered. "Otherwise, why would I be calling my good friend from overseas?"
"Then speak," Salem ordered.
"Our spy that we placed in Beacon has gathered enough intel in the hopes of breaking into the UHL's prison and getting to the Spring Maiden, Raven Branwen and extracting her powers. Our spy is making plans to break into the Maiden's prison and will enact it after coming back from a mission in Afghanistan," Hillary explained.
"Is that so? Then your spy better not be a disappointment," Salem said.
"I'm making sure that our spy won't go at it alone," Hillary said.
"Make no mistake. I want no failures," Salem said.
"And I'm hoping you keep your end of the bargain for all that we are doing for you?" Hilary asked.
"Yes. Watts will see to that you and your associates are rewarded for your services," Salem answered.
"Great! That is just fantastic!" Hilary said.
The image of Salem disappears from the Seer Grimm to show the connection has ended.
"This will change our country for the greater good. It will change the world for the very greater good," she said to herself.
Mountain Glenn
U.H.L. Headquarters
Director's Office
Meanwhile at UHL Headquarters, Keaton was sitting behind a desk resting his head onto his fist, while tapping his finger on his desk. After a short while, he pulls out his phone and taps into it. The screen showed 'WINTER SCHNEE' on it and soon a live feed displayed the Atlas Specialist herself.
"Winter," he greeted.
"Keaton? Couldn't have waited any longer? We should be arriving in a few minutes," Winter said.
"Winer, listen to me. We've got a huge problem. You've got a spy amongst the students coming home," Keaton informed.
Winter widens her eyes in shock. She looks behind her for a moment before turning her head back at Keaton.
"Who's the spy?" Winter asked.
"I'll tell you when you guys land. And don't tell the students either. I don't want the spy to know that we're on to 'em. General Ironwood and Professor Ozpin are already aware of this," Keaton answered. "Also we got more problems coming up along the way."
"What?" Winter asked.
"We have some very important people coming up. But thankfully they should be able to get her first before you and the students. We'll get them to safety before we can apprehend the spy. But proceed with extreme caution once the spy is revealed," Keaton explained.
"And these people are?" Winter asked.
"Elon Musk, Atlas Councilwoman Robyn Hill and her Happy Huntresses, Dr. Polendina, President Biden, and Queen Elizabeth II," Keaton answered. "And to top it off, my mom and baby sister are coming, along with Ruby and Yang's dad."
"And why are they coming?" Winter asked.
"My mom wanted to see me and Jacob, and Taiyang wanted to see her daughters. Elon Musk wanted to check up on Cade, same thing for Dr. Polendina for Penny, the Queen and Councilwoman Hill wanted to meet the students, and President Biden wanted to present a project to the UHL that the US government was working on," Keaton answered. "Speaking of which, my men found out that the riot at the Capitol was a set up. The Democrats led Jacob and my sperm donor into the capitol to make him, his team and CFDT look bad, and riled up the Trump supporters to make Trump look like he incited the riot. The FBI and the Justice Department were involved in this as well. There's camera footage to prove it."
"So what do you plan to do now?" Winter asked.
"Present the evidence to the world and expose the corruption within the government, and file an arrest warrant on Hillary Clinton for her partnership with Salem," Keaton answered.
"Just remember, it is likely that the American media will either not show the evidence, or will try to twist it up to make it that you're taking it all out of context," Winter said.
"I know, but we can't just sit here and do nothing! We need to stop this!" Keaton said.
"Even if it means going against your government?" Winter asked.
Keaton paused for a moment before he gave his answer.
"If I have to go that route in order to put things back in order, then I will."
"I just hope you know what you are doing," Winter said.
Daniel Air Force Base
Airfield
Meanwhile at Daniel Air Force Base, a few aircrafts had already landed on the airfield. One of them included Air Force One. Keaton, General Ironwood, Professor Ozpin, and Maria Calavera were all standing out in the open waiting for the guests to approach. They soon Rachel walked up to Keaton as she was pushing a stroller with Ashley inside it.
"Keaton," Rachel greeted, before hugging and kissing her son's forehead.
"Hey, mom," Keaton replied.
"Has Jacob arrived yet?" Rachel asked.
"No. Not yet. But he and the other students will soon," Keaton answered.
"Well, let us hope so," Maria said.
"Hey, Oz!" a new voice called out to the headmaster.
They all turned to see Taiyang and Zwei walking up to them.
"Have my girls arrived yet?" he asked.
"They will soon," Ironwood answered.
"Just have patience, Taiyang," Ozpin said.
"What's up, everybody?!" a new voice called out.
Ozpin, Ironwood, Keaton, and Rachel turned their heads to see Councilwoman Robyn Hill, Dr. Pietro Polendina, and the other Happy Huntresses, Fiona Thyme, Joanna Greenleaf, and May Marigold, all approaching the group.
"Glad to see you here, Councilwoman," Keaton said, extending his hand out to shake her hand.
"Come on, soldier boy. We're friends here. You can still call me Robyn," she said as she hugged the director in response.
"We wanted to see the students and thank them for their help in Afghanistan," Joanna said.
"Even though they shouldn't be in a war zone to begin with until they graduate," May added.
"But they still made it out and had gotten thousands of people out of there," Fiona said.
"Thus, proving that they are ready," Ozpin said.
"And I just wanted to see my little girl and make sure she's okay," Pietro said.
"You will, Doctor. You will," Ironwood said.
Fiona looks down at Ashley inside the stroller.
"Aww. Look at this little girl," Fiona cooed as Robyn, May, Joanna, and Taiyang all gathered to look at Ashley.
"Sheep! Sheep!" Ashley exclaimed, pointing at the sheep Faunus.
"Looks like someone has taken a liking to you Fi," Robyn said.
"Ashley's like that with just about everyone," Rachel said.
"Reminds me of Ruby and Yang when they were their age," Tai said.
Zwei went up to the stroller and got up on his hind legs and leans himself up the stroller to see Ashley. Zwei gave out a happy bark as the infant
"Puppy!" Ashley exclaimed, making everyone coo at her and Zwei's interaction.
"Now that's adorable," Maria said.
"Hey fellas!" a new voice cuts in.
Everyone turned their heads to see Elon Musk walking up to them.
"I see you're all waiting for your students to arrive, huh?" he asked.
"Indeed we are," Ozpin said.
Elon turned his head to face Pietro.
"And you must be Doctor Pietro Polendina. I am quite a fan of your work with Penny," Elon said as he shook the doctor's hand.
"Why thank you. And I am greatly interested in your work as well," Pietro replied.
"I figured those two would like each other," Keaton said.
Everyone heard the sound of footsteps coming towards them. They all turned to see two rows of Royal guards marching up towards them. They soon stopped and turned to face each other. Then approaching through the two rows of guards was an elderly woman with blue eyes and white curly hair. She wore a dress with white rose patterns all over and a pink buttoned coat, and a large matching hat and pumps. She also wore three pearl necklaces and pearl earrings.
She approached the group before her as one of the guards up front introduced her.
"Presenting her royal majesty, Queen Elizabeth II."
Keaton stepped forward as Queen Elizabeth II approached and shook his hand.
"Your majesty. It's a pleasure for you to be here," Keaton greeted.
"Indeed it is, director," the queen spoke before glancing behind Keaton to see Ozpin, Ironwood, Elon, and the Happy Huntresses. "And I see there are other guests here as well."
"Yes. And President Biden will be here any minute now too," Keaton said.
"Speaking of which, here he comes now," Robyn said.
Everyone turned their heads to see President Joe Biden walking up to the group with two secret service agents following behind him. Suddenly he stumbles to the ground, making everyone wince. The two agents quickly pulled the president up from the ground and brushed him off before continuing on to approach the group before him.
"Yep. That's the President of the United States everybody," Keaton said, shaking his head.
"Is... he alright?" Ironwood asked.
"Physically; probably? Mentally; in question," Keaton answered.
Biden finally approached and turned his attention to Keaton.
"I see you've got more guests here," Biden said.
"Yes, I do. And now that you all are here, I'd like all of you to move to a safer location," Keaton said.
"Is there a reason why?" the Queen asked.
"We had recently gotten info that a spy had infiltrated the UHL, and that Hillary Clinton was the one who hired the spy.
"Now hold on, man! This all sounds like a bunch of malarkey!" Biden said.
"Believe what you want to believe, Mr. President. The evidence is overwhelming. When this is over, we're placing an arrest warrant on her, and the UHL will be launching investigations on you, your administration, the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Democratic Party. No excuses," Keaton said.
Everyone turned around to face the airfield and saw that four airplanes had already just landed and the students were all boarding off.
"You all should probably get moving," Ironwood said.
"We'll escort you to a safer location," Ozpin said.
As Professor Ozpin and General Ironwood were escorting Rachel, Ashley, Taiyang, Zwei, Maria, Elon, Biden, the Happy Huntresses, and the Queen out of the airfield, the students eventually were all gather up closeby. Winter and Qrow both walked up to Keaton.
"Schnee here told me we had a spy on board one of our flights," Qrow said.
"My men are going through the students looking for the spy right now," the UHL director said.
"So who's the spy?" Winter asked.
Multiple soldiers gathered around the students, and some of them started to push themselves through the crowd of students. Teams RWBY, JNPR, GRMA, CFDT, OBSA, and JAAR were all looking at the surrounding soldiers wondering what was going on.
"What's going on?" Yang asked.
"What's with all these soldiers?" Jacket asked as a soldier then pushed his way past him. "Hey, watch it, asshole!"
"Is something happening that we don't know about?" Kendra asked.
"Guys!"
Rin and Ronin ran up to the six teams as they turned their attention towards the twins.
"What is it?" Ilia asked.
"Have any of you guys seen Liberty?" Rin asked.
"No," Pyrrha answered. "Why?"
"She was just behind us a minute ago, but now she's gone," Ronin replied.
"Excuse me," a new voice cuts in.
Everyone turned their heads to see Cassandra, Alex, and Steel.
"Have any of you seen Liberty Beckett?" Steel asked.
"We were just talking about that," Azumi said.
"She was with us a couple minutes ago, but now she's gone," Rin answered.
"Why? Can somebody tell us what's going on here?!" Weiss asked.
"It's about the Fall Maiden, Ms. Schnee," Alex answered.
Somewhere in Mountain Glenn
Meanwhile within the streets of Mountain Glenn, four black SUVs and a truck drove up and stopped in front of a ruined building. Stepping out of the SUVs were several armed men, along with Hera and Basil.
"It was real nice of Biden to give us a chance at becoming a Huntress and Huntsman," Hera said.
"They're gonna make me an official Huntsman and you an official Huntress once we finish this job," Basil said.
"This will teach those idiots to mess with us," Hera said.
They then heard the sound of footsteps coming from the alleyway, catching everyone's attention. Stepping out of an alleyway was the Fall Maiden, Liberty Beckett. She turned her attention to Hera as she looked on at her in shock.
"You're here too?" Liberty asked.
"Wait a minute! You're the spy, Liberty?!" Hera asked.
"Yeah," Liberty answered. "What of it?"
"I didn't think you of all people would be a spy," Hera answered with a shrug.
"So what's the plan?" Basil asked.
"Our main goal is to break into the prison, break the Spring Maiden out of there, and bring her back to U.S. soils," Liberty answered.
"What about the others back at the base?" Hera asked.
"We'll set up a distraction," Liberty answered.
"So what about all of this?" a gunman asked, gesturing some large crates that were being unloaded by a few other gunmen.
"It's all part of the plan," Liberty answered.
"If I run into either Jacob or Britney, or both, I know exactly what to do with them," Hera said.
"And if I do run into Ruby, I'll make sure she'll take her medicine like the cute little slut she is," Basil said.
"Enough! Both of you focus on the tasks at hand!" Liberty said.
"You will be very happy when you get what you want, sister. And we will truly be together. I just hope the others could forgive me," she thought.
Meanwhile inside an abandoned building, Victor and several Neo-Nazies were all cleaning their weapons and stocking up on their ammunition. One of the Nazies runs up to their leader as he turns his head to face him.
"Is everyone ready?" Victor asked.
"Yes sir We're awaiting your orders," the Neo-Nazi answered.
"Good. Then let's get it started," Victor said with a smirk.