Vale, Nighttime
We see a figure in the darkness' as he chuckles before we see his figure looks Human before we see a bright light and then a monsterous shadow as he laughs maniacally as he ran towards the window of a Dust Shop and bust in we see Dust then being stolen in a fast pace and then put into a truck and then into another Dust Shop and the next and the next... It seemed this creature is collecting all the dust and puts it in the truck.
Creature: No one can match with my speed! (Laughs Maniacally)
Morning
We have an overview of the streets of Vale being decorated in time for the Vytal Festival. Red, yellow, and green streamers and balloons are proudly on display, and Team SLVR and RWBY are strolling through it all with an awed Weiss Schnee in the front. A sign is being put up by the elderly Shopkeep that reads in bright red letters "WELCOME TO VALE!" for all the foreign newcomers from their respective kingdoms of Remnant.
Weiss: (stopping and raising her arms in amazement) The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful! Isn't it Sill?
Sill: Of course it is Misstress.
Rad: Weiss is sure happy today.
Ruby: Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much, Weiss. (frowns a little) It's kinda weirding me out...
Weiss: (turning to Ruby) How could you not smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances! Parades! A tournament!
Sill: And Planning... don't forget about planning.
Weiss: Oh, of course that as well. (Sighs) The amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking! (they continue walking)
Yang: (sighs, arms crossed) You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring.
Weiss: Quiet, you!
Yang: (as they stop near the docks and the sounds of foghorns are heard) Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks?
Lye: Yeah, I'm wondering that as well. This smells fishy.
Team RWBY and SLVR just eye roll at Lye most obvious pun except for Yang as she laughs a bit.
Ruby: (covering her nose) Ugh, they smell like fish!
Weiss: I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!
Blake: (as Weiss starts walking away again) She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament.
Weiss: (scoffs) You can't prove that!
Ruby: (turns her head to the right) Whoa. (the two team looks at a shattered window down the street and a door full of yellow caution tape of the Vale Police Force before walking over to the detective in front, who is writing on his pad) What happened here?
Detective 1: Robbery. All the Dust shop's of Vale has been hit at the same time this week. This place is turning into a jungle. (walks over to his partner)
Yang: (sighs sadly) That's terrible.
Detective 2: (off screen, to his partner) They left all the money again.
Rad and Ruby: (turning their heads when they hear this) Huh?
Detective 1: Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?
Detective 2: I don't know, an army?
Detective 1: You thinking the White Fang?
Detective 2: (removing his sunglasses) Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough.
Weiss: Hmph! The White Fang. (crossing her arms and pointing her nose in the air with her eyes closed) What an awful bunch of degenerates!
As Blake and Vi look at Weiss in anger as she said that.
Blake: What's your problem?
Weiss: (turning to her) My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane.
Blake: The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. (crossing her arms, getting serious) They're a collection of misguided Faunus.
Weiss: Misguided? They want to wipe Humanity off the face of the planet!
Vi: So then they're very misguided. Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale! Much less steal all of the Dust in Vale at the same time!
As Vi made a point to Weiss as the others seem to be in thought as Blake was smiling at Vi defending them.
Ruby: Hmm... Vi's got a point. Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy Rad and I ran into a few months ago... Maybe it was him.
Weiss: That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum. (to Vi and Blake's growing anger) Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal.
Yang: That's not necessarily true...
Sailor 1: (off-screen) Hey, stop that Faunus!
As both teams overhears the cry for help and rush over to investigate, a Faunus with a golden monkey tail named Sun Wukong is seen running down the length of the boat and leaping on to the edge as the two sailors are about to apprehend him.
Sun: (looking back at his pursuers) Thanks for the ride, guys! Haha! (he jumps off and hits the dock running)
Sailor 2: You no-good stowaway!
Sun: (using his tail to hang on a lamppost while he peels back a banana) Hey! A no-good stowaway would've been caught! I'm a great stowaway! (before he eats, one of the detectives down below throws a stone at him to get his attention)
Detective 1: Hey! Get down from there this instant!
Sun drops the banana peel on the detective's face, who growls in return. The monkey-like Faunus twirls up to crouch on the lamppost, laughs in amusement, and proceeds to leap off and run away from the detectives. As he runs past Team SLVR and RWBY, he winks at an astonished Blake in slow motion before time speeds up again and he continues to be chased by the officers.
Yang: (watching the Faunus get farther and farther away) Well, Weiss, you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes...
Weiss: (holding up a finger) Quick! We have to observe him!
Sill, Lye, Vi, Rad, Weiss, Yang, and Ruby give chase. Blake stands still, lost in thought, then comes back to reality and follows her friends. The teams rounds the next corner, but then Weiss bumps into someone and trips. She looks up only to see Sun jump on to a building and disappear from her view.
Weiss: No, he got away!
Yang: Uhh... Weiss? (she points strangely at the girl underneath her teammate)
Weiss finally sees that she fell on a smiling girl who goes by the name of Penny Polendina, which startles the heiress and she hastily gets up.
Penny: (still down on the ground, smiling widely) Sal-u-ta-tions!
Ruby: Um... hello.
Yang: Are you... okay?
Penny: I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking.
Yang: (the two teams looks at each other in bewilderment before Yang speaks up again) Do you... wanna get up?
Penny: (thinks about this for a moment) Yes! (she leaps back on her feet while the teams steps back a little) My name is Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you!
Ruby: Hi Penny. I'm Ruby.
Sill: I'm Sill, pleasure to meet you Miss.
Weiss: I'm Weiss.
Vi: Vi
Rad: Rad
Blake: Blake.
Yang: Are you sure you didn't hit your head? (Blake hits her side) Oh, I'm Yang.
Lye: Lye's the name. And (sniff) you smell of... machine oil.
Sill then elbows Lye as he looks at a glaring Sill in confusion.
Lye: What?
Penny: (Worried) I don't have Machine oil on me yep! I'm a Normal human person. (Hiccups and then calms down) It's a pleasure to meet you!
Weiss: You already said that.
Penny: (pauses again) So I did!
Weiss: Well, sorry for running into you! (they turn around and start walking away)
Ruby: (waving her arm) Take care, friend!
Leaving Penny to stare at the group in interest.
Yang: (when they get far enough away from a startled Penny) She was... weird...
Weiss: (looking to her right) Now, where did that Faunus riff-raff run off to?
Vi: He's a person not a–
Penny: (suddenly in front of a surprised Weiss) What did you call me?
Yang: (as Weiss looks back and forth in shock and Yang looks apologetic) Oh, I'm really sorry, I definitely didn't think you heard me!
Penny: No, not you. (walks through the group and leans her head down to Ruby) You!
Ruby: (startled) Me? I-I don't know. I, what I, um, uh...
Penny: You called me 'friend'! Am I really your friend?
Ruby: Uuuum... (she looks over Penny's shoulder while her teammates and motion to deny her and Team SLVR nods up and down to accept her) Y-Yeah, sure! Why not?
Penny: (Ruby's teammates comically faint, and Team SLVR look down at their friends in worry but Penny looks overjoyed and laughs) Sen-sational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!
Ruby: (groaning to Weiss as she brushes herself off) Oh, is this what it was like when you met me?
Weiss: No - she seems far more coordinated.
Yang: So... what are you doing in Vale?
Penny: I'm here to fight in the tournament.
Weiss: Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?
Penny: (saluting) I'm combat ready!
Weiss: Forgive me, but you hardly look the part.
Vi: Says the girl wearing a dress.
Weiss: (with her arms crossed) It's a combat skirt!
Ruby: (the skirt sister speeds over to Weiss' side) Yeah! (Weiss holds out her hand and Ruby low-fives it)
Weiss: (realization hitting) Wait a minute. (walks over to Penny and grabs her by the shoulders) If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tailed... rapscallion?
Penny: The who...?
Weiss: (holding up a poor drawing of the criminal-in-question) The filthy Faunus from the boat!
Blake: Why do you keep saying that?!
Blake just had enough of Weiss talking bad about all Faunus's and the white fang.
Weiss: (turning her attention from Penny to Blake) Huh?
Blake: (walking over to Weiss, angry) Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!
Weiss: Oh, I'm sorry. (releases Penny and motions to objects around her) Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamppost as a lamppost?
Blake: Stop it!
Weiss: Stop what? He clearly broke the law. Give him time; he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang!
Blake: (growls, clenching her fist) You ignorant little brat!
Weiss: (Weiss looks offended, but when Blake walks away, she follows) How dare you talk to me like that! I am your teammate!
Blake: You are a judgmental little girl.
Weiss: What in the world makes you say that?
Blake: The mere fact that you would sort that Faunus boy with a terrorist group solely based on his species makes you just as much of a scoundrel as you believe him to be!
Yang: (sliding up to Ruby, looking uncomfortable) Um, I think we should probably go...
Penny: (popping up behind Ruby, smiling) Where are we going?
Team SLVR then Slide off to the side and all four nod at each other and and did the only thing they could walk away before RWBY noticed their gone as this seem to be a Team RWBY problem.
Weiss: So you admit it! The White Fang is just a radical group of terrorists!
Blake: That's not what I meant, and you know it!
Beacon Dorms, Nighttime
As Yang and Ruby continue to observe, the scene shifts from afternoon near the docks to nighttime in their dormroom.
Weiss: I don't understand why this is causing such a problem!
Blake: That is the problem!
Weiss: (getting up from her bed) You realize you are defending an organization that hates Humanity, don't you? The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!
Blake: (gets on her feet as well) There's no such thing as pure evil! Why do you think they hate Humanity so much? It's because of people like Cardin, people like you, that force the White Fang to take such drastic measures!
Weiss: People like me?
Blake: You're discriminatory!
Weiss: I'm a victim! (as they stare each other down in silence, Weiss leans in close, leering as she speaks quietly) You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus? (leaning against the bookshelf by the window) It's because they've been at war with my family for years. War, as in actual bloodshed. My grandfather's company has had a target painted across its back for as long as I can remember. And ever since I was a child, I've watched family friends disappear; board members executed; an entire train car full of Dust, stolen. And every day, my father would come home, furious. And that made for a very difficult childhood. (bangs her fist on the bookshelf)
Ruby: (going over to comfort her) Weiss, I-
Weiss: No! (turns away and walks back over to Blake) You want to know why I despise the White Fang? It's because they're a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers!
Blake: Well maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!
Silence drops down on the scene again. A surprised Weiss backs away slowly, and Blake realizes her mistake as she looks around at her teammates.
Blake: I... I... (she dashes out the door)
Ruby: Blake, wait! Come back! (she runs over to the door and calls to her down the hallway as Yang sits herself down and Weiss looks down)
Outside
Blake runs outside and arrives at a statue of an armored man with a sword and a hooded woman wielding an axe on an outcropping, staring at the Beowolf under the stone heroes in particular.
She closes her eyes and slowly lifts her arms up to her bow and pulls the string to release the bow from her hair. She wipes away a tear away as we see her cat ears. On the verge of crying, she becomes startled when she hears a voice above her.
Sun: (off-screen) I knew you would look better without the bow.
She turns around and looks up.
Team RWBY Dorm
The scene shifts to morning at Beacon. Ruby wakes up from her beauty sleep, yawning in the process. She looks over at Blake's empty bunk, and groans sadly.
Cale
The scene then shifts again to Ruby, Weiss, and Yang walking through the empty streets of Vale.
Ruby: She's been gone all weekend...
Weiss: Blake's a big girl, I'm sure she can handle herself!
Yang: Weiss, come on. She's one of our teammates.
Weiss: Is she? We all heard what she said!
Ruby: Weiss.
Yang: Maybe she is, maybe she isn't. Either way, she's missing, and we need to find her!
Weiss: A member of the White Fang! Right underneath our noses!
Ruby: I just hope she's okay...
Meanwhile
Elsewhere, Blake is sipping a cup of tea and sighing. She looks up at Sun sitting across from her, who holds his drink with his tail as his hand props his head up. He takes a sip when Blake puts her cup down.
Blake: So, you want to know more about me...
She looks at him intently as the screen fades to black.
A/N: This is a Cameo for the monster I'm about to release.