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Ozpin

He's expected something like this to happen sooner or later with this batch of first years. He wouldn't of bet on Ms. Rose being the one to get into trouble, at least over her older sister, Ms. Belladonna or Mr. Odinson, who all seemed more likely either to cause trouble or have trouble find them, but still, he should have been surprised given how he'd meet her.

Ms. Xiao Long had come as soon as she'd been called, despite being told not to tell anyone, which showed a leveled headedness he hadn't expected out of her. He already been told Ms. Rose was MIA, but now things were far more serious.

He was handling things, but he knew that team RWBY would be out looking for their leader soon, and Mr. Odinson probably would be along as well, and there was a decent chance of JNPR tagging along. He would forbid them to do so, if he thought that would so any good, short of locking them up, he wasn't going to stop them.

That aside, he thought they were up to the task. They all were well above the level of skill he'd expect from first year Beacon students. He'd resigned himself to thinking of this as training operation, as cold as that sounded.

But he wondered what Torchwick was really planning. Kidnapping wasn't his usual MO, and what could he gain out of it? Ruby's family wasn't rich, so money and dust weren't likely. What he feared was this was revenge for the embarrassment of a fifteen year old girl mopping the floor with his gang.

If that was the case, the situation was far more dangerous than a simple extortion kidnapping. He just hoped he hadn't done anything to her.

Yang

She was sick with grief and anger. She'd already snapped and Blake and Wiess, and if she'd had the chance to see Thor she thought she might hit him.

It wasn't anyone's fault, but her sister was being held captive by one of the biggest criminals in the nation. He's told her not to tell anyone, a piece of advice she ignored to tell the headmaster. But she hadn't told him everything.

Torchwick wanted Wiess to get her "daddy" to send money and dust to location he'd reveal later. This didn't make much sense to Yang, even if Ruby wasn't Wiess's partner, it seemed unlikely that this sort of thing would work.

Blake had voiced and opinion on this, which she thought might explain it. Torchwick didn't expect this request to be granted. This wasn't about money, the sick bastard was toying with them, giving the an unrealistic, but not impossible goal to get Ruby back.

Wiess had agreed with this thought line. If he could get the money and dust, he'd take it, but he was more concerned with making them suffer. Ruby had humiliated him and he was out for revenge.

That was way worse if that was true. She couldn't take it anymore, she was going to look for her sister. Blake and Wiess…she knew they'd come, because as cold as they could act, they cared.

They'd head out tonight, go to the city, and wouldn't come back till they found her.

She considered asking Team JNPR to help, more people would be better, but she didn't want them to get in trouble with them. She knew this sort of vigilante crap didn't fly with The Council or the police and officially the academy's frowned on it. But she didn't care, it was her sister.

Thor…she knew he'd be out there, if he went with them or not. Aside from feeling guilty over being behind the inciting incident for Ruby running off, he was still her friend, a really close one.

Thor…that…she didn't know how she felt about him honestly at this moment. She wanted to talk to him, and wanted to fight him. She wanted to blame him, but how could she? Teenage heart break was something that happened every day. Then there was the fact this wasn't random, Torchwick would of done this, or tried to do this at some point no matter what.

Still, if Thor hadn't upset her, she wouldn't of run off like she had.

Thor

Thor strapped his bracers in tight. He was going to head out that night, on the last Bullhead. Lifting his maul and placing it on the holster on his back he walked out of the locker room, tying his hair back into a ponytail to keep it out of his face.

This was in part his fault. He wasn't wholly responsible, but he had a part in the whole ordeal, and he intended to fix it. What was more, and he felt terrible for feeling this way, his blood ran hot at a real fight, not a sparing match, but real battle.

Torchwick was a well-known criminal element, and while he wasn't a trained huntsman, he was on a level of one, not in pure skill and power, but he made up for it with cunning, ruthlessness and a number of underhanded tactics. He was also well known for black market weapons.

He didn't know were to start looking, but he knew that if he went to a bad neighborhood, he'd find someone eventually who knew something, or someone who knew someone. These sort of things work themselves through the grape vice.

As he walked to the landing pad, he spotted three very familiar faces.

Blake

Thor walked up to them, and for once wasn't wearing his smile. It was almost disturbing to see him this serious. He walked up next to them and nodded but gave no other greeting as he stopped next to them to wait for the Bullhead.

Blake didn't want to be the one to ask for clarification on what he was doing here, although she was sure they all knew. But she wasn't as close to Thor as Ruby or Yang was and didn't feel like it was best coming from her.

But looking at Yang, there was a mix of emotions on her partner's face. It was such a storm of emotions that she couldn't quite place what she was feeling, and it occurred to her that it may not be best for Yang to handle it.

"So…Thor." She said "Are you…going to look for Ruby to?"

"Yes." He said.

"So what's your plan?" Wiess cut in, surprising Blake. Wiess, of the everyone on her team, interacted with Thor the least. She was cool to him, but not overtly rude.

"Probably the same as yours, find some criminals and 'extract' the information."

"So…you aren't going to help us then?" Blake asked.

"I'll be helping by doing it on my own." He said, "More chances of discovery." The Bullhead landed as he finished, and he boarded. "I'll call with anything I find out."

The rest of team RWBY boarded behind Thor, but picked up the hint's and sat away from him.

"He's different." Blake said, knowing it was obvious but was hoping to start a dialogue.

"He's mad and feels like it's his fault…and it kind of is." Yang said looking at the floor.

"What?!" Wiess said, her voice louder than normal. "What did he do to Ruby?" She hissed.

Blake was shocked to see this level of concern from Wiess. She knew she cared, but this level of emoting was jarring.

"He…" Yang began "Well, when we got back, I don't know why, but he told Ruby they weren't a good fit for each other."

"So he…broke up with her…sort of?" Blake said. But something told Yang wasn't being entirely truthful about what she just said, but what she wasn't certain, and didn't care much right now. "So, what happened after that?"

"Ruby ran off, I guess it's normal, her first crush…crushed her."

"Why didn't you tell us this when it happened?" Wiess asked.

"I guess I wanted Ruby to be the one to tell you guys, it's really her business, not mine." Yang said.

Again, that didn't feel true. The whole reason Yang was with Thor for those two days was because she couldn't leave Ruby's social life alone. She'd leave it alone for now, but Yang's story didn't feel entirely truthful.

Right now, her concern was finding Ruby and getting her back safely. Torchwick was the worst kind of person, and they all knew this more of a revenge plot than some sort ransom scenario.

She knew enough about people like this that this was probably a trap of some kind, because even though the rest of Team RWBY hadn't been involved with Ruby's run in with him, they were her friends, and the spite people like this could feel would extend to those around them.

Still, the idea of sitting and waiting didn't sit well with any of them, especially Yang, for several reasons.

Jaune

As Jaune emptied his stomach into a trash can, Pyrrha rubbed his back.

"Jaune." Ren said "While appreciate the desire to find Ruby, I have to ask do you have a plan?"

"Sort of." He said wiping his hand across his mouth, then sucking on his tongue to spit and try and get the taste of vomit out of his mouth, he really hated flying. "Torchwick has her, so we find him we find her, and to find him, well he's been hitting dust shops all over the city, and there are only a few he hasn't hit yet so…"

"We follow the dust." Nora chirped in.

"Yeah, more or less." Jaune said.

"Still, we have no way of knowing which shop he'll hit, or if it will be tonight." Ren added.

"That is true Jaune." Pyrrha added, looking a little guilty over contradicting his plan.

"True, but I think I have a reasonable guess." Jaune added "There are only handful of shop's left he hasn't hit."

"So which one then?" Pyrrha asked.

"None." Jaune said "The few that are left, are to small to bother with, especially given how much more of police presence is in the neighborhoods that have them. To much effort for to little pay off." Jaune said.

"Then…where?" Nora asked.

"Well, the police scanner have made it clear the police are out now in force, especially sense…Ruby…well almost all the police are around the dust shops, the docks or other wise searching for possible hide outs, that leaves…the police station." He said, he voice faltering, thinking it was a stupid idea.

"Jaune…do you really think he'd go after the police station?" Ren asked "It'd be a huge risk."

"Yeah, but the pay off from the armory and evidence locker would be way more than he could get from a dust shop now, and with police patrolling the docks…I just thought…never mind it was stupid." He said

"No, it's not…it's actually, very clever." Pyrrha said. "If he would try it, tonight would be one of the best chances he'd have. It would also explain why he kidnapped Ruby, a missing Beacon student would add extra strain ad already over taxed force." She smiled at him "But still, the chance of it happening tonight? Or even soon? They aren't very good."

"It doesn't have to happen tonight, tomorrow or even next week. If he's going after it at all, he's going to be sending people to scoop it out and learn routines, those are the people we'll be looking for."

"Well." Nora cut in "It's not the worst plan, and we don't have any better idea's, so let's go!"

"Gee, thanks Nora." Jaune added, a little dismayed at the comment, but oddly cheered up by it.

Thor

"I'm only going to ask this once." Thor said as he held the petty criminal by the color "What have you heard about Torchwick?"

"Nothing man, I just fence some stuff for one of his officers sometimes." He said while struggling.

Lightning sparked in Thor's hand "See, you lied to me, that's not 'nothing'." He held his fist up, electricity arcing off it.

"Okay, okay!" He shouted, "The guy, the lieutenant, I tell you where to find him."

"Good." Thor said smiling and dropping him before helping him up to feet and brushing him off, "that wasn't so hard."

"He's always gambling at this bar, the 'Drill bit', you can't miss him, he's got a scar that goes over the bridge of his nose, like ear to ear. He's a big guy to, bigger than you I think." He huffed.

"Anything else?"

"Yeah, missing his left hand, real high-end prosthetic replacement, I think it's gilded or something" The guy said "Look this guy is mean, if you really go after him, please don't tell him I told you?"

"Oh, don't worry about that." Thor said patting him on the head, and giving him a mild shock, and crumpled to the ground, unconscious.

Thor checked his pulse, he was fine, just knocked out. The poor bum didn't deserve anything worse.

Pulling out his scroll, he typed in the name of the bar and found it's location.

Wiess

"Yang, I think this is counterproductive." Wiess said as Yang tore the bar apart. It was a seedy out of the way place, but Yang had been certain they could find information here.

The problem was, Yang's approach to information gathering was…more direct than what Wiess would have liked, and probably Blake as well. And while Yang was getting some information out of the bartender, this was going to draw attention to them.

Maybe that was Yang's idea, draw them out. But somehow, she didn't think Yang was capable of that level of tactical thinking in her current state. She wasn't dumb, but she was upset.

"All I know." The bartender practically pleaded "He's planning something tonight, people talk, but I can't be more specific than that." The poor fellow scream.

Yang punched him in the head knocking him out. "Let's go." She said.

"That seemed excessive." Wiess said.

"He'll be fine." Yang said, "I just don't want him running to tell anyone right away." With that she walked out of the bar.

"So now what?" Blake asked.

"Well, there is something happening tonight." Yang said.

"Which isn't all that helpful." Wiess said "The city is huge."

"Still… it's something." Blake said. "If we use a police scanner, we might be able to get somewhere."

"Oh, well then we're doing great, we might get 'somewhere'!" Wiess near shouted, venom dripping of her voice. She was upset, they didn't have much of a plan, and were stumbling around in the dark.

To make thing worse, Yang's particular approach was certain to make their presence know, taking any sort of advantage they had. Yang may prefer a direct fight, but the simple fact was they didn't have enough of advantage in other area's to make up for the lack of a surprise approach.

"Calm down Ice Queen." Yang said in a cool tone "This isn't my first rodeo, I've done this sort of thing before."

That…actually surprised Wiess. Yang hadn't mentioned it before, and made her feel…better.

Thor

The "Drill Bit" reeked of the criminal underworld. It looked far to nice for the neighborhood it was in, was far to extravagant. As he walked in he looked for the man described to him. He wasn't hard to spot, his scar and size made him easy to pick out.

The man was sitting in a corner with another man, who threw down a hand of cards and walked off, leaving a sizable pile of cash on the table. It looked like the end of a poker game, and the last plater had just busted out.

As the man counted his winnings Thor walked up to him and stared at him. The man was huge, Thor was tall, but this guy had to at least be a foot taller. He worse and expensive dress shirt and vest, except in lue of a tie he wore a scarf, and his dark black hair was slicked back fro his pale face. His fine clothing contrasting with his brutish appearance made his seem more threatening than he might of other wise.

"What do you want boy?" He said in a deep voice, looking up from his winnings to look Thor in the face, then his eye traveled to the maul on Thor's back. "A Huntsman, or…." He looked Thor over again " A huntsman in training." As he spoke pulled out a cigar, placed it in mouth and lite it with a match.

"My name is Thor Odinson." Thor said, sensing this was not a man he could easily intimidate. "I'm looking for someone."

The man laughed "Aren't we all…boy." He puffed his cigar "Do you know who I am?"

No, in truth Thor didn't, he didn't think to get a name, so he answered, "One of Torchwick's…lieutenants." He responded.

The man chuckled again "For now." He said "But I'm also the owner of this little establishment." He took the cigar out of his mouth and gestured around the bar "So if you came to arrest me, you might want to think about it."

Thor sat at the table "I'm not here to arrest anyone." He said "I want to know were your boss is tonight." And he was telling the truth, but he didn't say he wasn't here to fight, and he would if it came to it. Still, criminals were reliable group of people in an unreliable way. They could almost universally be counted on to undercut each other for their own interest.

"Oh, is that all?" The man said "And why are you looking for him?"

Thor answered at once "He has my friend."

"Ahh, so he was right." He said putting the cigar back in his mouth "He said her friends would come looking for her." He puffed again. "I'm supposed to send you to a trap if you come here, but I think it will be better for me if you and your friends catch the boss during his little heist tonight." Thor raised an eyebrow at this. He smiled at Thor "The boss is…getting involved in some risky business, and I think it might be time for him to…take a vacation."

Thor wasn't at all surprised but wasn't ready to believe this man on his word.

"Where will be tonight?"

"Evidence locker raid." The man said "He's stealing the cash and dust the police have confiscated, but he's also going to wipe the system, really screw with the police." He smiled at this "He's acting like he's going to fight a war, and war isn't good for business."

"You want use to…capture him?" Thor asked.

"Capture kill…discredit, it doesn't matter."

Thor stood up and looked at the man "I don't think I ever got your name?"

"And you won't." He said, "I don't give out my real name so easily."

"I don't trust you." Thor said.

"Of course, you don't." He smiled and tossed something to Thor, who caught it, looking at it, it was a back disk that looked like a speaker. "That will pick up the signals from Torchwick's private channel, for the next twenty-four hours, after that, it will be worthless."

Thor lifted the device to his ear and heard voice talking about fueling up the Bullheads. He kept listening and caught a small piece of a conversation mentioning Ruby being moved to 'Site B'. His heart raced a bit a this and the man smiled.

"Thank you." Thor said, pocketing the device.

"Just make sure 'The Boss' is treated right." He smiled one last time as Thor turned to leave.

He didn't trust the man, but he'd meet his type before. He wouldn't be content being subordinate for long, he'd reach for the top once he could, and if he could get his boss arrested…or killed, he could move up the rungs. Especially if he helped it along.

Jaune

The police station was unusually quiet, and Jaune knew why, most of the force was out in patrol. They'd posted up on building across the street and were all looking scanning the area for anyone suspicions.

"This isn't as exciting as I thought it would be." Nora sighed.

"We're not here for excitement." Ren said. "We're here for Ruby."

"Yeah, so are we." A familiar voice said from behind them, and Jaune nearly jumped ten feet in the air.

"Blake?" Pyrrha said as Jaune turned around to see Blake standing behind them. They had been completely caught unaware, and he felt a sudden and strong sense of guilt, they hadn't set a watch and as team leader that was up to him to make sure they did just that.

"Did Thor tell you guys to come here?" Blake asked.

"Thor? No." Pyrrha said "Jaune thought this might be a good place to start. Where is the rest of your team?"

"Coming, I came first to scoop things out." She said looking at them all "We heard you guys and didn't know who you were."

"So…" Jaune cut in "Thor is coming?" That made him feel better, along with the rest of Team RWBY, that made for a pretty formidable force when his team was counted in. Not him though, he was better than he was, but still not a tenth as good as any of them.

"So." Another familiar voice called, though this time Jaune didn't jump. This time it was Wiess "I see Thor didn't bother to tell us you were here as well." Jaune felt his heart flutter and sink at this comment. Was no one going to think they'd, or he, had taken the initiative and from the sounds of it, gotten a pretty good guess of the best place to go.

"Thor doesn't know we are here." Ren said, "This is a coincidence."

"Well…" Wiess began "We'll have to wait for him at any rate, he said something was going to happen here."

"Indeed." Thor's voice came from above as he landed on the roof. Jaune had seen him use this trick with his equipment before. It wasn't really flying, he couldn't keep it up for long without a system overload, but it let him soar short distances.

As he landed, Yang finally came to the roof and was the first address Thor. "So, your…informant said Torchwick is going to raid the police station."

Jaune couldn't help but feel proud of his guess, but part of him knew there was more than a bit of luck involved in him being right.

"So he show's up and be take him down!" Nora almost shouted.

"No." Thor said.

"What?" Yang cut in "We have to."

"If he show's up, and we attack him and capture him, Ruby will still be were ever he has her hidden." Thor said "We need to get back to his base, then we can find Ruby."

Jaune agreed with this, but was reluctant to voice it, hoping to hear some of the other's opinions. But no one did.

"Thor's right." He finally said. "If we want to find Ruby, we have to be smart about this."

Yang

Thor had, supposedly found out about a planned break-in of the police station. She wasn't sure how he'd gotten that information, but at least it matched with the time line she'd managed to beat out of the bartender.

Still, it seemed so unlikely he'd try to raid the police station. Even more so, she'd thought they might of done better to call the police, but Thor squashed that idea. If the police came running back, the raid wouldn't happen, and they couldn't follow the men back to the base. What was more, Thor was under the impression Torchwick had some men on the inside, and Thor didn't want them getting wind of therir mission.

Still, with no proper time frame, they could be waiting all night. Thor kept walking around on the roof putting, something to his ear.

"Thor, what are you doing?" She asked.

"Listening." Was all he said.

"Helpful." She responded.

Before she could ask him anything else, a series of explosions rang out from the direction of the police station. "No way." She muttered but felt a sense of joy that they seemed to be on the right path.

They all ran to the edge of the building and watched as Bullhead flew in at incredible speed to ground level while men ran out of the bombed out building with cases of what had to be dust and money.

"How did they do it so fast?"

"Had to of had people inside, bribed officers, people posing a civilian, maybe even a few men in the holding cells." Thor said as he scanned the site and suddenly pointed at a Bullhead that was almost full. "Go." He said and vaulted the side of building, before she could think, Yang was following him and could feel the other's just behind her.

She didn't know what Thor was planning, but she followed him, because he at least had a plan.

The Bullhead's cargo hold was almost full, but it was clear now what Thor had planned. Between the trips in an out of the station, there was small gap where no one could see the rear of ship. Thor ran up the ramp and vaulted on the cargo and climbed into one of the overheard cargo containers.

Yang copied him, and could hear a few of the other's doing so as well, and the rest ducking down behind the stacks of crates.

Watching through a crack on the compartment as Jaune just barely made it on and duck behind a stack of dust. Her heart almost stopped as she watched one of the henchmen stack what looked like a cache of weapons right next to him, but he was so busy he didn't notice Jaune and Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

She suddenly remembered Jaune's motion sickness. And her heart dropped, once this thing got to where ever it was going, they weren't going to be hiding anymore.

Well, they would cross that bridge when they came to it.

Ruby

Ruby couldn't see in the room she was in. She'd felt her way around the room over a dozen times now, and the only thing she knew for sure was there was a heavy steel door.

She didn't remember exactly how she'd ended up here, but she did remember walking down the street when the rain started, and she suddenly felt like she was being followed. She never saw who or what attacked her, but she woke up in this room. She'd been visited once by Torchwick.

He just made fun of her, told her how she never should have messed with him, and now, he was going to have his revenge.

This was all her fault. She'd made the mistake of running off, and had let her guard down over her…crush. Thor had let her down easily enough, but she still felt terrible over it, which was ridiculous given her situation, she had so many other things to worry about.

She wanted to cry, but kept her composure, why she didn't know. There was no one to see her cry, but she pushed it away. She felt, she supposed, in some vague way if she broke down then it was all over.

They would come for her, her team, her friends and her sister. But she didn't want them to. She didn't want to have them in danger because she could look after herself. She was determined to get out on her own, but Torchwick hadn't bothered to feed her and she felt weak. She felt like it had been days or weeks but wasn't at all sure that was right. She'd read somewhere that without a way to reliably tell time, like the sunrise or sunset, people could lose track of time easily.

She wanted out, to see everyone again. And she wanted to see the sky, the sun, the moon and stars. She wanted to be free.

Jaune

As the hatched opened and one of the thieves walked in, he knew he was caught. His pile of vomit would give him away.

But before anything happened, Thor dropped from his compartment, put the man in head lock, and the man's body jerked a bit, then dropped to the ground.

Jaune walked up "Is he…"

"He's stunned, hurry, we don't want to be caught in here when they find us."

Jaune didn't fail to notice Thor didn't say "If" but rather "when".

They all departed the Bullhead and followed Thor into, what Jaune could now see was some kind of warehouse. They ducked behind a large shipping container.

"Now what?" Jaune said in a whisper, frankly he couldn't believe they hadn't been spotted yet, there were eight of them and they didn't exactly all dress is subdued colors.

"We just have to…" Thor said and stopped speaking and his eye's went wide and suddenly shouted "Down!"

Before Jaune knew what was happening, Thor had shoved Jaune to he ground as something shot past him and into the shipping container. All he remembered after was a bright light and ear shattering blast.

Yang

Thanks' to Thor, Yang had managed to duck the blast of what she guessed was and RPG. As she rolled to her feet, she saw Thor and Pyrrha were on their feet, Nora getting up and Blake sitting up rubbing her head. Wiess, Ren and Jaune were still on the ground.

Looking up from where the shot came from, she saw Torchwick, smiling holding the launcher. He had four people with him she didn't recognize, but they seemed close in age to her and her friends. A silver hair boy, a dark skinned green hair girl, a young woman with black hair and vicious looking eyes, and one girl with pink and brown hair who had an expression of joy on her face.

"Look's like Red's little friends came to saver her." Torchwick said in such a smug voice that if she could have Yang would of hit him then. "But it's just to bad" Torchwick started but was cut off when a maul struck him dead center of the chest and carried him across the warehouse.

The once smug looking group companions looked shocked at the sudden and vicious attack and watched as there ring leader was carried away by the attack.

"ATTACK!" Thor shouted and jumped into the air, lighting trailing off his body and he landed among the four other member of Torchwicks ground and slammed his fist into the ground, lighting arcing off the point of impact with a thunderclap that nearly blew Yang's ear drum's out.

Yang didn't need to be told twice, and charged at the stunned group.

Torchwick

As the fog cleared in his head Torchwick couldn't honestly believe what had happened. He was used to people letting him get a few cutting words in, but more over, he was surprised any of them had enough of there wits about them after that blast to think to attack that quickly.

He looked down where the stupid kid had hit him, and there was a sizable scorch mark on his chest, and his chest ached.

Using his cane he got to his feet, and looked to see the kid in front of him. Stupid kid, it was a lucky shot, now, he was going to pay. He's planned on taking them all captive, and having some fun, but this one could die now.

"Nice try." He huffed, his breathing was more labored than it should have been, and he was starting to think the electricity of that attack might have done more damage than he thought. "But now, you're going to pay."

Rushing forward, he struck at the kid, only to have his attack batted away by the maul, and to receive a quick punch to the throat.

Gagging, he dropped he cane and clutched and his throat, trying to breath. The next thing he felt was hot pain across the bridge of his nose and bright flash, then he was looking at the ceiling of the warehouse.

"A weak man, surround by strong friends." The kid said.

Thor

Torchwick was on his back, totally stunned. He'd intentionally hit with disabling attacks to keep him awake, but unable to fight. If given the chance to compose himself, Torchwick was dirty and dangerous fighter, but Thor didn't intend to give him that choice.

He'd dealt with this sort of fight before…many times. End it quick before your opponent could use his tricks.

He rested his maul on Torchwick chest and allowed a small amount of electricity arc off it, sending a clear message.

"Where is Ruby?" He said in a much softer tone than even he expected to use.

"Red?" Torchwick said spitting out blood and what looked like a tooth but managing a smile. "Why should I tell you?"

"Because…if you don't, I'll stop your heart, here and now." Thor said in the same calm tone.

The smile on Torchwick's face faded, and Thor knew this man had seen the look Thor had in eye's before. Someone who was dead serious, and someone who had killed before.

"Look." He said "We can make a deal, right? Let me go, and I'll tell you where Red i…AHHH!" He screamed in pain before finishing. Thor had brought his maul down on one of his kneecaps, shattering it "You son of a bitch!" he shouted.

"Tell me." Thor said, still calm, but now electricity was arcing off his body.

"You little bastard!" Torchwick hissed, "You'll pay for…AHHH!" Again, he didn't finish as Thor crushed his other knee, now the screams mixed with whimpers of pain.

"Tell me."

"Okay! Please…just don't break anything else!" Torchwick screamed. "She's in a reinforced shipping container out back!"

"Thank you." Thor said, and with that, let a bolt of lighting into Torchwick's face rendering him unconscious.

That settled, Thor looked back to the others, and despite having an advantage in numbers, they were struggling.

Gripping his maul, he turned to help them.

Pyrrha

This girl was good, way to good. Pyrrha knew that her own skills were excellent, far above any other student except Thor's, but this girl was giving her a hard time. She was certain she could beat her given a enough time, but they didn't have time.

Thor had managed to hit all four in his initial attack, but that hadn't done much more than disorient them, and opening they all had failed to take advantage of.

These four were not street thugs or flunked out huntsman students, they were all far above the standard of even trained fighters of their age.

"Pyrrha Nikos." The girl said as she brushed her raven locks out of her face. "I've heard a lot about you, it will be wonderful to be the one to kill you."

Before Pyrrha could even think a response, the girl charged her. But before she could reach her, someone blindsided her, and knocked her to the ground before should be even reach her.

She didn't bother to look who'd come to help her, but dashed forward and struck. She didn't land a solid hit, it was a good strike none the less.

"You okay?" Jaune's voice panted from her left. It had been him who'd hit the girl from the side, and not to disparage her leader and friend, she'd thought he was down for the count. Had he been playing possum or had he just recovered?

"Oh how sweet!" The girl hissed "I'll just kill you both!"

Again to Pyrrha surprise, Jaune stepped forword, shield raised, and push all his force behind it to try and shove the girl again, but this time she vaulted over him to try and strike him from behind…and left herself open to Pyrrha.

This time she struck true, and felt her sword bit through her aura and into flesh.

Yang

Yang was trying, and failing, to land a hit on the smallest member of Torchwick's little group. She to nimble for her to hit and kept smirking and winking at her, and getting her temper to flare.

Blake was still on the ground, clutching her head, something was wrong with her, the explosion had affected her worse than anyone else other than Wiess who had been the closest to it, she and Wiess were the only ones still not up from it.

So she was on her own right now. Jaune and Pyrrha were handling on, and Ren and Nora were fighting one each.

The tiny girl however, was proving to much for Yang, if she could just get a good hit in and stun her, she could pummel her into oblivion.

Just and the girl came at her, Thor's maul flew right at her. She jumped it, but while she was in the air, Thor, seemingly to come out of nowhere, grabbed her ankle and started to slam her on the ground like a rag doll over and over again, with lighting arcing off her, it all ending when Thor threw her past Yang and into a shipping container.

Yang was a bit stunned by the sudden appearance of Thor, but broke out of it by Thor shouting "NOW!".

Looking at the girl, Yang saw she was still standing, disoriented, but still up. Rocketing forward, she slammed a fist into her stomach, knocking her back into the container so hard she bounced off it. Then she connected with her jaw, and smirked as she saw the stunned look on the face that had only mocked her.

Thor

The four companions of Torchwick eventually realized they were losing the fight, and scattered when two of them had been severely hurt.

Torchwick, what ever he was to them, had been left behind, and the swarms of lower level minions had long sense bugged out.

He expected that soon the police would be here soon, but he looked to his own group now. Wiess was still lying on the ground, and he noticed Jaune was at her side, waking her up.

But his eye's fell on Blake, who was on her knee's, head in hands, clutching them, almost shaking.

He walked over to her and gently place a hand on her shoulder "Blake." He whispered. She didn't respond. "Blake." He said again, and this time he noticed blood running through her fingers. "Are you hurt, let me see." He said trying to pull her hand away to examine her head, "You'll need to take the now off." He said as he did it, but suddenly she jerked away and look at him, wide eyed and scared.

He was confused, until he saw the bow twitching violently, and it different and random directions, and an idea formed in his head.

He spoke louder and slower, because now he was certain the sound of the blast and temporarily rendered Blake deaf. "We need to get you to a doctor."

She shook her head, fear in her eyes and Thor felt pity for her, and she looked ready to run. He pulled out a long s1rtip of bandage from the medial kit all Beacon students carried, and gestured with it, he mouth "We can hide it with this, and it will help the bleeding."

She looked for it to him and slowly came back, and allowed Thor to wrap her head in the white cloth, catching the blood, and also allowing Thor to remove the bow and cover her secret in the same time.

"Sit down." Thor said to her, helping her sit on the ground, with that take care of, he turned to everyone else. "Yang, Jaune, come with me."

"To where?" Jaune asked, who looked ready to collapse from the shock of the fight.

"To get Ruby." Thor said "I got the answers out of Torchwick."

"Then we should all come." Wiess muttered, still on the ground.

"No, we need the rest to stay with Blake and Wiess, besides." Thor said "We don't need a whole team for this, and someone will need to talk to the police when they arrive." He looked a Pyrrha as he said this last part "And I think your notability will help in that regard."

Ruby

Something had been happening outside, but she had no clue what, and she just sat in the room, waiting.

Then a sound of something tearing into metal tore her out of her own thoughts and despair.

The door, it was coming from the door, and soon light started to come through a break in the door. Then all at once it was gone, and mane of golden hair was rushing in.

"Ruby!"

"Yang!" She cried as she ran to embrace her sister. She could never remember being so happy to see her sister. She knew she'd come for her.

Looking over Yang's shoulder, she saw Jaune and Thor smiling at her. Suddenly, she didn't feel any hard feelings towards Thor. She felt like she missed him in an odd way, even though he was right here.

She felt an odd peace, despite everything, and that things would be okay.

Wiess

She looked at Torchwick as the paramedics carted him away. He looked mangled, Thor had done a number on him. He wasn't just beaten, he was pulverized. She knew Thor was strong, but to do that to someone as notorious as Torchwick was astounding.

As she sat in the back of ambulance, she thought to the fight. She'd been worthless, even Jaune had shown more aptitude than her in this scenario. Granted she'd been hit point blank the blast, but still, the fact that dunce could do as much as he did shock her.

But Blake had been incapacitated as badly as she had, and wasn't close to the blast, at least not as close as she was. That was concerning for a number of reasons.

Still, overall this whole ordeal had gone better than she would have ever expected it to. They were all alive, Ruby was back, and Torchwick was in police custody.

She'd have loved to say they were all just that talented, but she felt it was more dumb luck than anything else. For everyone involved…except Thor.

He just seemed to know how to react way to quickly, and his plans worked, and he'd demolished Torchwick in a one on one fight, granted he had hit him with a sneak attack, but still it was impressive.

It was unnatural, it almost scared her. No that wasn't right. It did scare her. She was trained for years by the best of the best and couldn't compare to that. Pyrrha had seemed close in there dual in class, but now she thought that match up wasn't as close at it had seemed.

How could someone be that strong? That good? He had instincts of a season Huntsman.

She didn't know what she was feeling about this, but it made her uncomfortable, very uncomfortable.

Blake

She'd run as soon as Thor was gone, she didn't need a paramedic looking at her closely. She knew what happened, her sensitive hearing had been blown out by the blast, and she'd been in shock. She was heading back to Beacon to sleep and think.

Thor knew her secret, and she wasn't sure how she felt about that. She liked him, and he seemed trust worthy. Especially when he realized what she was, he had only acted with concern and helped her with the issue.

She was tired and wanted to sleep. But her mind wouldn't let her, thinking about what Thor knew. She hadn't told him it was a secret, but she hoped he was smart enough to pick up on this issue.

This whole situation just didn't seem to want to end, at least for her. Ruby was safe, but now she needed to talk to Thor as soon as she could get him alone.

Ozpin

These kids were something else. They'd saved their friend and captured a notorious criminal. Still, they had come close to a much deeper and sinister plot. They'd run into some of "her" subordinates and didn't even know it.

He was extremely impressed with Ms. Nikos and Mr. Arc's ability to hurt Cinder and make her retreat, with half of a Maiden's power, that was no small feat. Mr. Odinson was getting much more recognition, both in the school and in the media for his defeat of Torchwick, but the victory over Cinder was in fact the far more impressive feat.

Not that anyone involved in the actual fight knew that, they didn't know the significance of the whole incident. Truth be told, once he'd found out who had been with Torchwick he was surprised they had managed to win at all. But he supposed Cinder's inexperience with only half of the power had played a part, along with underestimating her opponent.

But after the interviewing everyone, he was surprised to hear how Mr. Odinson had taken the lead, and how he treated his teammates with such an…adult manner.

This contradicted strongly with his typical aloof and carefree attitude. He had friends and was social in school, but he never struck Ozpin as someone who'd take a leader position and look go out of his way to look after other's.

Potential, that was all he could think of with that boy. He was strong in a fight, one of the best he'd seen in years, but he had strong leadership qualities as well.

Ms. Nikos was another one like that. Two students of such caliber was unheard of, getting even one was a once in a life time chance, but two made him hopeful. The only difference in them was confidence, Thor was more confident in interpersonal matters than Pyrrha, which surprised him. He'd of thought they both might have issues socializing with more…common students, but that hadn't been the case. Pyrrha had done alright, but Thor was highly social and interested in making friends.

The only issue with this, which hadn't happened yet, but Thor's history indicated the possibility, was Thor was more likely to get into conflicts with his class mates. He was friendly but had such a strong sense of right and wrong, he may starts conflicts that could be avoided. Ozpin already had a vague feeling that there were a few students Thor might come to blows with.

Pyrrha was lower key in comparison, less social, but far more even tempered.

Maybe he could work something out to make them interact more, and maybe they would temper each other's short comings, and maybe bring out each other's full potential.

Perhaps Mr. Odinson was due for a room change.

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