Team RWBY walks through Vale as it and its inhabitants get ready for the Vytal Festival

Weiss: The Vytal Festival! Oh this is absolutely wonderful!

Ruby: I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss. It's kinda weirding me out..

Weiss: How could you 'not' smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances, parades, a tournament! Oh the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking!

Yang:*sigh* You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring.

Weiss: Quiet you.

They turn and stop at the boat docks as a foghorn sounds throughout the harbor

Yang: Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon at the stupid docks?

Ruby:*plugs her nose* Ugh, they smell like fish.

Weiss: I 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:*turns to Yang* She wants to spy on them so she'll have an upper hand in the tournament.

Weiss: Ah! You can't prove that!

Ruby: Whoa.

Ruby sees a dust store in the distance covered with police tape and broken glass littering the floor. The team of girls walks up to the line of police tape where an officer was scribbling down notes

Ruby: What happened here?

Detective 1: Robbery. Second dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle.

The officer turns around and walks up to his partner who was surveying the scene

Yang: Oh, that's terrible.

Detective 2: They left all the money again.

Ruby: Huh?

Detective 1: Yeah it just doesn't make a lick o' sense. Who needs that much dust?

Detective 2: I dunno, ya know what I mean?

Detective 1: You thinking the uh, White Fang?

Detective 2: Ya, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough.

Weiss: Hmph. The White Fang. What an awful bunch of degenerates.

Blake: What's your problem?

Weiss: My problem? I don't care for the criminally insane.

Blake: The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a bunch of misguided faunus.

Dante: Ah! Hey! Get your hands off me!

Officer: Beat it Guitar Hero!

The girls turn and see Dante being shoved out of the investigation area by an officer

Dante: Hey I have rights man!

Officer: Then you have the right to get lost!

The officer pushes Dante away from him and goes back to the crime scene

Dante:*dusting himself* Great..

Yang: Dante?

Dante: Hm?*turns* Yo! Ladies! What's up?

Ruby: We were about to ask you that.

Dante: Ah I was doing a little freelance work with Sapphire. Who was supposed to be watching my back!!

Sapphire comes out of hiding from an alleyway and walks over to Dante and team RWBY

Sapphire: Hey, I'm not getting in trouble with the law in my first year of Beacon dude.

Dante: You're my teammate and teammates are supposed to watch each other's backs!

Sapphire: Not when they're breaking the law cupcake.

Weiss: So what did you find? It was the White Fang wasn't it?

Dante: No it wasn't them. It'd be dumb for them to rob a dust shop in the middle of Vale.

Ruby: He's got a point.

Dante: Probably some criminals working on something big. Maybe it's even some demons in the works too.

Sapphire: Dante that's idiotic.

Dante: I smelled sulfur on the way in Sapphire. Demon residue.

Sapphire: It was a vial of dust that spilled on the floor and you licked it!

Yang: Ew!

Dante: It was to make sure!!

Sapphire:*sigh* I swear your brother is better company than you.

Yang: Those two 'still' have to clean Beacon? What happens if they finish?

Sapphire: It's a school. It's never clean.

Blake: Dante, what do you think of the White Fang?

Dante: Hm? Oh uh, I don't know. I don't really care about what they do.

Weiss: Like lie, cheat, and steal?

Yang: That's not necessarily true.

Sapphire: Weiss you can't be so close minded about people especially faunus.

Sailor 1: Hey! Stop that faunus!

Everyone turns and runs over to the railing where they watch as a faunus with a monkey tail run away from two sailors on a boat. Once he gets on the side of the boat he smirks and taunts the two sailors

Faunus: Thanks for the lift guys!

The faunus jumps off the boat and runs down the dock as fast as he could

Sailor 2: You no good stow away!

The faunus hands upside down from a light pole using his tail while he peeled a banana

Faunus: Hey! A "no-good" stow away would have gotten caught. I'm a great stow away!

He dodged a rock thrown by one of the detectives from earlier

Detective 1: Hey! Get down from there this instant!

The detective was met with a banana peel to the face. He then leaps away from the detectives and runs away from them but they chase him in hot pursuit

The faunus reaches the street where team RWBY and the two members of team ODDS were and he runs past them and Blake catches a quick glimpse of him where he gave her a wink before zooming off

Yang: Well Weiss, you wanted to see the competition and there it goes.

Weiss: Quick! We have to observe him!

Dante: So...do we catch him or do we tail him?

Sapphire: Catch I guess?

Dante:*sigh* Okay. Let me tighten the ol' boots.

Dante kneels down and tightens the laces on his boots and gets in a track runner position

Sapphire: Uh, I don't think you'll catch-

Dante speeds off from the rest of the group leaving a dust cloud imprint of himself before Sapphire could finish his sentence

Sapphire: him...WHAT ARE THEY!?

The group runs after the detectives who were chasing the faunus who turns a sharp left around a corner ans through a shopping district. Weiss sped in front of everyone but she didn't see the person she would run into and knock over along with herself. Once she looks up she sees that the faunus leap up a building and disappear from sight

Weiss: No! He got away!

Yang: Uuuuuh, Weiss?

Looking down, Weiss sees she was on top of a smiling orange haired girl with green eyes. Startled, she jumps up from the girl

???: Salutations!

Ruby: Um...hello.

Yang: Are you...okay?

???: I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking!

Dante: AHH!! EVERYONE GET OUT OF THE WAY I CAN'T STOP!!

Dante speeds by everyone and runs into oncoming traffic

Sapphire: Dante you went the wrong way you idiot!! Gaah!

Blake: Should we be concerned about that?

Yang: I don't think that's our concern right now. Uh..hey do you...want to get up?

???: Yes.

The girl pushes herself off the ground and she springs up to her feet making everyone take a giant step back from her

???: My name is Penny. It's a pleasure to meet you!

Ruby: Hi Penny. I'm Ruby.

Weiss: I'm Weiss.

Blake: Blake.

Yang: Are you sure you didn't hit your head?

Blake smacks Yang on the side

Yang: Oh, I'm Yang.

Sapphire:*pants* Guys! Guys! Dante...oh gods...! He just obliterated a bus! Oh it's a mess over there! He just....turned it into a bent tin can! Oh!

Sapphire runs back off screen making the girls shrug and shake their heads

Penny: It's a pleasure to meet you!

Weiss: You already said that.

Penny: So I did!

Weiss: Well, sorry for running into you.

Ruby:*waves* Take care, friend!

Team RWBY walks away leaving Penny by herself to watch as they walk away

Yang: She was....weird.

Weiss: Now, where did that faunus riffraff run off to?

They stop and Weiss turns her head and sees Penny standing in front of them tilting her head

Penny: What did you call me?

Yang: Oh, I'm really sorry! I definitely didn't think you heard me!

Weiss looks back behind her and at Penny in shock at how she snuck up IN FRONT of them

Penny: No...

Walking past everyone, Penny stands in front of Ruby and gets very close up to her face

Penny: You.

Ruby: ME!? I--uh--I don't know---I um..!

Penny: You called me your "friend"! Am I really your friend?

Ruby: Ummm..

Ruby looks to her team for guidance and they all made signs trying to get her to say "no"

Ruby: Ya, sure! Why not?

The rest of team RWBY fall to the ground in shock as Penny laughs in sheer joy and throws her arms in the air

Penny: Ahahaha! Sen--sational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!

Weiss stands up and starts to dust herself off and Ruby leans close to her

Ruby: Uh, 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:*salutes* I'm combat ready!

Weiss: Forgive me, but..you hardly look the part.

Blake: Says the girl wearing a dress.

Weiss: It's a "combat skirt".

Ruby sped to her side with her arms crossed

Ruby: Yeah!

The two "combat skirt" wearing teammates high five each other

Weiss: Wait a minute...

Weiss walks up to Penny and puts her hands on her shoulders

Weiss: If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey tailed... rapscallion??!

Weiss' words make Blake grit her teeth in anger

Penny: The who?

Weiss holds up a crudely drawn image of the faunus from the boat for Penny to see

Weiss: The filthy faunus from the boat!

Blake: Why do you keep saying that!

Weiss: Huh?

Blake: Stop calling him rapscallion. Stop calling him a degenerate. He's a person!

Weiss: Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like me to stop referring to the trashcan as a trashcan? 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 White Fang

Blake balls up her hands into a fist getting angrier

Blake: Argh! You ignorant brat!

Blake turns and walks away from her team fuming at Weiss' ignorance

Weiss: How dare you talk to me like that! I'm your teammate.

Weiss walks up to the angry Blake with her arms crossed

Blake: You are a judgmental little girl!

Weiss: What in the world makes you say that?

Yang scoots up beside her sister

Yang: Uhh, I think we should go.

Blake: The mere fact that you would sort that faunus boy with a terrorist group.

Penny:*pops up* Where are we going?

Blake: Solely based on his species makes you just as much of a scoundrel as believe him to be.

Weiss: So you admit it; the White Fang 'is' just a radical group of terrorists

Time passes and Weiss and Blake were still arguing about faunus and the White Fang in their dorm room

Blake: That's not what I meant and you know it.

Weiss: I don't understand why this is causing such a problem.

Blake: That 'is' the problem.

Weiss:*stands up* You realize you're defending an organization that hates humanity, don't you? The faunus of the White Fang are pure evil.

Blake:*stands* 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!

A silence fills the room until Weiss breaks it and weaves her reasons for her hatred for faunus

Weiss: You want to know 'why' I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the faunus?

Weiss moves over to the window of their room and looks outside at the night sky

Weiss: 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 on its back for as long as I could 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.

Weiss clenched her hands to a fist with her recollection of her life

Weiss: And every day, my father would come home furious, and that made for a very difficult childhood.

Ruby went up to Weiss and goes to put a hand on her shoulder

Ruby: Weiss, I-

Weiss:*slaps her hand* No!

Weiss goes up to Blake and starts lecturing her again

Weiss: 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!!

Weiss steps back from Blake. Her words suddenly coming to realization to them and Blake looks at her teammates in shock at what she admitted

Blake: I--

Blake sped out of the room leaving no time for explanation

Ruby: Blake! Wait! Come back!

Yang looks at Weiss who looked down and sat on her bed, taking in what just transpired

Blake ran out of Beacon towards the statue outside. She gazes at the hero's on top of the rock but then her eyes drop down to the Grimm beast below the hero's and her hands move up towards the bow on top her head and undoes it revealing her faunus cat ears

Wiping away the tears in her eyes, she looks down at the floor.

Faunus: I knew you'd look better without the bow.

Blake looks behind her to where the voice came from

Morning came with the sun shining over Vale a few days after Blake's shocking revelation

Ruby:*yawning*

Ruby sits up and looks down at Blake's bed seeing it undisturbed

Timeskip--

Team RWBY, minus Blake, walk through Vale in search for their missing teammate

Weiss: Blake's a big girl. She can take care of 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...

The scene shifts to Blake sipping on a cup of tea. She takes in a deep breath and sets down her cup and looks at the faunus from yesterday holding his cup with his tail

Blake: So....you want to know more about me?

Dante: Yes.

Blake: Oh! Dante. I forgot you were there.

Dante: Wow thanks Blake.

Blake: Well you were just sitting there and not talking and--let's just go back to what I was saying!

Faunus: Why are you with us again?

Dante: Well that bus I crashed into had people and I basically bent the bus in half and uh...yeah now I'm wanted by the police.

Faunus: Yeesh.

Blake: Can I please reveal my story to you two!

Faunus: Yeah go ahead.

Dante: Yeah.*sips his tea*

Blake:*sigh* Sun..are you familiar with the White Fang?

Sun: Of course! I don't think there's a faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. Stupid, holier-than thou creeps who use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks if you ask me!

Blake:*sips her drink* I was...once a member of the White Fang.

Sun:*chokes and coughs on his drink*

Dante: Oh so that's why you haven't been talking for a few days. You got found out.

Blake:*sigh* Yes Dante.

Sun: So wait a minute, 'you' were a member of the White Fang?

Blake: That's right. I was actually a member for most of my life. You could almost say I was born into it.

Sun and Dante lean forward in interest from Blake's backstory

Blake: Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between faunus and humans. Of course, despite being promised equality, the faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as a voice for our people. And I was there. I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference...but I was just a youthful optimist. Then, five years ago, out leader stepped down, and a new one took his place. A new leader, with a new way of thinking. Suddenly our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fires to places that wouldn't serve us. Hijacking cargo from companies that used faunus labor. And the worst part was? It was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect...out of fear.

Dante: Wow, deep.

Blake: So, I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence. And instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am. A criminal hiding in plain view. All with the help of a little black bow.

Blake wiggles her cat ears that were hidden in her bow

Dante: Wait, so is Belladonna your real last name?

Blake: Yes.

Dante: Oh so you're using your REAL full name while you were in hiding!

Blake: Well if you're so smart Dante, then what would your alias be?

Dante reaches into his coat and puts an ID on the table. Blake takes the ID and looks at the name

Blake: Tony Redgrave?

Sun: Wait, Redgrave? Isn't that that town down east?

Dante: Yeah. That's my home town.

Blake: You lecture me about using my real name and yet you used the name of a town as your last name.

Dante: Well it's a name that doesn't get you noticed very much Blake.

Blake: Why do you even have this?

Dante: If I told you, I'd have to kill you both.

Blake and Sun went wide eyed and backed up a little in their chairs

Dante: I'm kidding! Gosh you guys take everything to heart. Haha!

Sun: You said you were gonna kill us! And that giant sword over there isn't very calming!

Sun points over to Rebellion sitting up against the wall

Dante: It's not gonna attack ya!

Sun: It's looking right at me!

Dante: Just ignore it! That thing has been through literal hell and it deserves your respect by not looking at it!

Blake: Noted.

Sun:*sigh* So...have you told your team this yet?

Team RWBY were walking through the streets of the city shouting Blake's name in effort to find her

Ruby: Blake!!

Yang: Blaaake?!

Ruby: Blaaake! Where are yooooouuu!?

Yang: Blake!!

Ruby: Weiss, you're not helping!

Weiss: Oh! You know who might be able to help? The police.

Ruby: Ugh, Weiss..

Weiss: It was just an idea!

Ruby: Yeah, a bad one.

Yang: Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we should jump to any conclusions.

Weiss: I think when we hear it, you'll all realize I was right.

Penny: And I think Weiss' hair looks wonderful today!

Startled by her sudden presence, team RWBY turns around seeing Penny somehow snuck up behind them

Ruby: Ahhh!! Penny!! Where did you come from!?

Penny: Hey guys! What are you up to?

Ruby: Uuuhhhh..

Yang: We're looking for our friend Blake.

Penny: Ohh! You mean the faunus girl.

Team RWBY stands there dumbfounded that Penny had figured out Blake was a faunus before any of them could

Ruby: Wait, how did you know?

Penny: Uh, the cat ears?

Yang: What cat ears? She wears a....bow...

Silence falls on the girls again as a tumbleweed passes by them

Ruby:*whisker* She does like tuna alot...

Penny: So, where is she?

Ruby: We don't know. She's been missing since Friday.

Penny:*gasp* That's terrible!

Penny goes up to Ruby and grabs her arms tightly

Penny: Well don't you worry Ruby, my friend! I won't rest until we find your teammate!

Ruby: Uh, that's really nice of you Penny, uh, but we're--we're okay. Really. Right guys?

Ruby turns to her teammates but they ditched her with Penny. On the bright side, the tumbleweed didn't leave her as it passed by her and Penny

Penny: Sure is windy today.

Blake, Sun, and Dante walked through the streets

Sun: So, what's the plan now?

Blake: Ugh, I still don't believe that the White Fang is behind these robberies. They've never needed that much dust before.

Sun: What if they did? What if the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they were most likely to go to if they were to do it, and not find them there....right?

Blake: The only thing is, I have no idea where to find them.

Sun: Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a 'huge' shipment of dust coming in from Atlas.

Blake: How huge?

Sun: 'Huge'. Big Schnee company freighter.

Blake: You're sure?

Dante: Let me fact check.

Dante takes out his scroll and types in a phone number and holds his scroll to his ear

Dante: Hey, it's me. I need a favor.

Yang and Blake exit a store after asking the store clerk about Blake and if they've seen her but sadly they didn't

Yang: Thanks anyways!*shuts the door* Gosh, this is hopeless.

Yang sees Weiss looking around trying not to get into conversation

Yang: You really don't care if we find her, do you?

Weiss: Don't be stupid. Of course I do. I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we find her.

Weiss begins walking down the street but turns back to Yang

Weiss: The innocent never run Yang.

Yang looks down and thinks about what Weiss said for a moment before walking with her

Penny: So, Blake is your friend?

Ruby:*sigh* Yes Penny.

Penny: But, you're mad at her?

Ruby: Yes! W-well I'm not, Weiss is.

Penny: Is 'she' friends with Blake?

Ruby: Well that's kind of up in the air right now.

Penny: But, why??

Ruby:*sigh* Well you see, Blake might not who we thought she was.

Penny:*gasps and whisper* Is she a man..?

Ruby: No no, Penny, she's n-- I don't know what she is. She didn't exactly talk to us before she decided to run off.

Penny: I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things.

Sapphire: Tell me about it.

Ruby: Ahh! Sapphire! How did you--?

Sapphire: Flat feet. But yeah, I agree with her. Talking about things does help deepen relationships. Sadly my teammates don't open up very easily.

Ruby:*sigh* Not this again.

Penny: Are you in distress Ruby?

Ruby: No. I don't know...yes? All these secrets is driving me nuts.

Timeskip--

Blake looks down at the docks keeping watch with Dante sitting behind her humming softly as they wait for anything to happen

Sun hops onto the roof they were sitting on carrying a bundle of apples

Sun: So, anything happen yet?

Blake: Not really. They've off-loaded all the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there.

Dante:*yawn* God why can't bad guys ever do their villainy in the daytime? I mean don't they have to sleep?

Sun: Cool. I stole you some food.

Sun hands her an apple with a smile

Blake: Do you always break the law without a second thought?

Sun: Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?

Blake glares at Sun but Dante just laughs at the tension Sun brought into the conversation

Dante: Man your chances at being her friend just dropped faster than a nuke!

A airship flying above the trio cuts them off from escalating the tension any further. Spotlights scan the area below the airship before it lands on the clearing in the shipping area

The cargo door to the airship opens and a man in a white uniform steps out of the airship and the symbol on his back makes a chill go down Blake's spin

Blake: Oh no..

Sun: Is that them?

The man turns and the symbol on his back shown that of the White Fang

Dante: Yeah. Thank you Enzo you old swindler you.

More White Fang come out of the airship and one started to shout orders to the rest

WF Member: Alright. Grab the tow cables.

Sun: You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?

Blake: No. I think deep down I knew. I just didn't want to be right.

Dante: Yeah. It stings knowing something you used to believe in turn into something you hate.

???: Hey! What's the holdup?

A man dressed in a white dress coat with a black bowler hate and a cane with a cigar in his mouth steps out of the airship shouting at the White Fang who were loading up boxes of dust onto the ship

Blake: Who is-

Dante: Torchwick. Roman Torchwick. I've ran into this trash before.

Blake and Sun look over at Dante and see his usually carefree expression turn into one of anger as his teeth grinded against each other and his fist was shaking

Roman: We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, sooo why don't you animals just pick up the pace?

Blake: This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with a human. Especially not one like that.

Blake draws her weapon from her back and jumps down from the roof and runs towards a wall of crates

Sun: Hey! What are you doing!?

Blake: Following Dante's lead!

Sun: Dante?

Sun looks to the side and realizes Dante had left way before Blake had and the monkey faunus sighs and puts a hand on his head

Blake hugs the side of a crate and sticks her head out to see Roman shouting at a White Fang member

Roman: No you idiot! This isn't a leash!

Blake gets the drop of Roman and puts her weapon to his neck from behind

Roman: What the--? Oh for f-

A White Fang member points a rifle at Blake and another pulls out their sword

Roman: Whoa! Take it easy there little lady.

More White Fang members showed up and surrounded Blake and Roman, each pointing their weapons at them. Suddenly a sword came down on the rifle that one of the White Fang were holding and the rest of them had their weapons shot out of their hands

Dante: Nobody moves! And nobody dies!

Roman: Well if it isn't the infamous Tony Redgrave! How are you doing my boy?

Dante points his pistol at Roman and slowly walks over to him with an angry scowl on his face and pushes the barrel of his gun on Roman's forehead

Dante: Not another word. A peep out of you and you'll get a bullet through that pretty skull of yours.

Roman: Oooh~ You've gotten meaner Tony~ Say, how's old Grue doing? What about Jessica?

Dante smashes his gun across Romans face, knocking his hat off his head

Dante: You don't get to say their names!!

Dante's finger squeezes the trigger tightly ready to end the life of the gangster

Blake: Dante.

Looking over at Blake, she shakes her head at him and Dante puts his finger off the trigger of his gun

Roman: That's right. Listen to your little girlfriend red.

Blake reaches atop her head and undoes her bow letting the ribbon fly away in the wind, revealing her cat ears

Blake: Brothers of the White Fang. Why are you aiding this scum?

The White Fang that were surrounding them stopped themselves from grabbing their weapons and stood there letting Blake speak

Roman: Heh, oh kid. Didn't you get the memo?

Blake: What are you talking about?

Roman: The White Fang and I are going into a joint business venture together.

Dante: Bullshit, he's lying.

Blake: Tell us what it is, or I'll let Dante pull the trigger and end this little operation.

Two more airships arrive overhead

Roman: I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation.

With Dante and Blake distracted by the arriving airships, Roman smirks and presses the trigger on his cane, firing a bolt of dust that explodes with contact on the ground and sends Blake flying away

The explosion send a black cloud of smoke high into the air and the sound of it caught the attention of Ruby and Penny

Ruby: Oh no.

Blake groans and lifts herself up from the ground and shakes her head

Roman aims his cane at her and fires a flare at her and she turns and sees the projectile flying straight for her and luck would have it, Dante jumped in front of her and blocked the flare with his sword

Dante: Blake, go!!

Blake gets up and runs but Roman follows her and keeps shooting at her trying to hit her but Dante was fast enough to block every shot Roman tried to hit her with giving Blake time to dive behind a wall of crates

Roman: How noble! Protecting your little girlfriend so she can escape! Tell me Tony does she know how you let Grue die and how you killed his daughter?

A banana fell on Roman's head, causing him to look up and see Sun come in with a flying kick to his face and using his face as leverage to roll off of

Sun: Dante! You alright?

Dante: Yeah. Go find Blake! He's mine.

The side doors on one of the airships opens and multiple White Fang members jump out and land around Dante and Sun

Sun: That..might be a problem.

Roman: You know Tony, I really did used to cherish our little talks. But now I guess it's time to send you to your friends. In hell.

Dante: You ready monkey kid?

Sun: Ha! Did you have to ask?

Dante tosses Rebellion in the air and draws his duel pistols Ebony and Ivory and starts to unload on the White Fang that were charging at them though he did not kill them. Only injure with leg and shoulder shots while Sun fought off the rest using hand to hand mixed with acrobatics and eventually he pulls out his weapon, a nunchaku/bowstaff/musket combo weapon he used to knock out the rest of the White Fang there; throwing the last one towards Roman who dodges the body and aims his cane at Sun and fires a round at him that Dante shot out of the air

Blake lands in between Dante and Roman

Blake: He's mine!

Blake charges in towards Roman and fights him in conjunction with using her semblance to create a brief clone of herself but Roman was too quick and smacked her away only for Dante to come in and fight Roman with gun-fu

Roman: Come on Tony! Show me what you got!

Dante: It's Dante you old fart! And I'm! Keeping! It! Stylish!

Dante was joined by Sun who split his staff and fought Roman using his nunchucks along with the guns that were made with the guns. Roman knocked one of Sun's weapons out of his hand but Dante caught it and hit Roman with a volley of hits from Sun's nunchucks

Sun: A fellow chucker eh!

Dante: Hell yeah!

Dante and Sun slam their nunchucks on the sides of Romans head, disorienting him and letting Blake kick him to the ground

Roman grunts and sits up and sees a crate hanging by a crane. He shoots the supports holding the crate up causing it to fall. Thankfully, the trio dodge the falling supply crate but leave Sun by himself with Roman who had gotten up and was pointing his cane at him

Ruby: Hey!

Roman looks up and sees Ruby with her weapon drawn and looking down at him

Roman: Oh, hello Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?

Penny: Ruby. Are these people your friends?

Ruby: Penny get back!

With Ruby distracted by Penny, Roman aimed his cane at her and shot a flare at her. Sapphire dove in front of her using his weapon in the shape of a wide claymore sword to take most of the blast but it still sent him flying into her

Penny looks at Roman and narrows her eyes and saunters her way towards the edge of the roof

Ruby:*grunt* Penny, wait! Stop!

Penny: Don't worry Ruby. I'm combat ready!

Sapphire: W-what?!

A compartment on Penny's back opens and a sword floats out and extends into a larger sword which then spreads out into multiple swords in the semi shape of wings. Now ready for combat, Penny jumps off the roof towards the White Fang, using her swords to disarm them.

Ruby: Whoa!

Sapphire: Dom's gonna be jealous.

Penny takes out a large group of White Fang using her swords but not actually touching them. It was as if she had been moving them with her mind since her and her weapons were in perfect synch with one another

Sun: Whoa!

More airships fly in firing their gatling guns at Penny but she uses her swords as a rotating shield. The compartment on her back opens again and she shoots out two more swords into a building behind her and she smiles as she was flung back towards the swords. She the focuses her swords into a cylinder shape and energy begins to coalesce in the middle of the funnel and upon thrusting her fists forward, lasers come out of the bright light of energy, slicing the airships in two

Ruby watches in awe as the airships crash into the harbor. She turns around and watches Penny fling her swords into the side of an airship about to take off. Wires attached to the swords straighten out as Penny starts to pull back on them using her strength alone to keep the airship from escaping

Ruby: How is she doing that?

Penny smirks and pulls down hard and pulls the airship out of the sky having it crash down onto the pavement sending crates and dust everywhere.

Roman upong seeing this, decided it would be best to run away and he does and boards an airship saying a line he and Sapphire share

Roman: These kids just keep getting weirder.

Timeskip--

Police arrived and walled the crime scene off with yellow tape. The group who were at the docks sat on some crates as they watched White Fang members being arrested by the authorities. Yang and Weiss finally show up with Ruby getting up before Weiss or Blake could say something that could hurt the other

Ruby: Look Weiss it's not what you think she actually explained the whole thing you see she doesn't actually wear a bow she has kitty ears and their actually kinda cute-

Weiss pushes past the rambling Ruby and walks up to Blake and looks her in the eyes

Blake: Weiss, I want you to know I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with--

Weiss: Stop. Do you have any idea how long we've been searching for you?

Blake: ..

Weiss: Twelve hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours I've decided..

Everyone waits impatiently for what Weiss was going to say next

Weiss: I don't care!

Blake: You don't care?

Weiss: You said you're not one of them anymore, right?

Blake: No, I-I haven't been since I was younger--

Weiss: Upupupupupup! I don't want to hear it. All I want to know, is that the next time something this big comes up... you'll come to your teammates, and not some... someone else.

Blake looks at Sun and then to her teammates and she wipes a tear from her eye and smiles at Weiss

Blake: Of course.

Ruby breaks the short silence with a triumphant cheer

Ruby: Yes! Team RWBY is back together!!

Sapphire:*raises his arms* Yeah....!

Weiss turns to Sun, pointing a finger in his face

Weiss: I'm still not so sure about you!

Sun:*nervous laugh*

Ruby: Hey, wait a minute. Where's Penny?

Though they didn't know it, Penny was closer than they knew as she was sat in a car looking out of the window at her new friends

Driver: You should know better than to go running around in a strange city.

Penny: I know sir..

The driver starts the car and drives off

Driver: Penny. Your time will come.

Hours pass into the evening. Roman enters a warehouse in an unknown part of the city and sets down a case of dust on a table and let's out a heavy sigh

???: How very disappointing, Roman.

Roman: Whoa! Haha.. wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon

A woman looks at Roman, her face the only one illuminated with her two associates remaining in the shadows

???: We were expecting...more from you.

Roman:*nervous laugh* Hey, you were the ones who suggested working with those stupid mutts from the White Fang.

???:*snicker* And you will continue to do so.

The woman opens her hand and a flame sparks in her palm and she walks forward, her eyes glowing just like the fire in her palm as she gets closer to Roman

???: We have big plans for you Roman. All we ask is for a little cooperation.

A loud bang was hear from above and everyone in the room looked up to see a figure standing on one of the support beams for the roof

???: Hmph. You associate yourself with this filth?

Roman: Hey!

???: Hm? And who might you be?

The figure drops down and lands on the ground and walks over to Roman and the woman

???: Someone who can get you something more than a crate of dust.

The figure disappears and appears behind them holding up the small case of dust Roman had brought in

???: Hmph. Is that all?

The figure throws the dust at the wall, spilling the contents on the ground

Roman: Hey! Do you know how much that cost!?

???: Money. Is that all you care about? I can give you what you all truly desire.

The woman smirks and steps forward to the figure, putting a hand to her hip as she looks at him

???: And what might that be?

???:*smirk* Power...

Roman scoffs and rolls his eyes

Roman: Money is the ultimate power!

???: And that's why you will get nowhere if you let this buffoon lead your endeavors. He is close minded. Unguided by a worthy goal. He only cares for the next buck he could make from stealing. Work with me, and I shall give you all the power you could ever desire.

The woman smiles and lights up another flame and holds it up in between her and the figure and caresses his chin in her other hand

???: What's your name handsome?

???: Tell me yours first my darling..

The figure places his hand under the hand the woman was using to hold up the flame and she smiles at this, looking down at their hands touching and back at him

???: Cinder. Cinder Fall.

???: A beautiful name for a woman with your beauty.

Cinder: Flattery will only get you so far friend.

???: Right. When we are together, call me...Vergil.

Roman: Well "Vergil" how can we be sure to trust you?

Vergil: Because unlike you and your money, my power..

A small clink was heard and the entire warehouse was sliced to pieces and miraculously, everyone in it was unharmed by the debris

Vergil: ..is very very real. Do we have an agreement?

Cinder goes up to Vergil and wraps her arms around him with a smile on her face

Cinder: We do~

She goes in to kiss the man but he doesn't acknowledge her advances and she pulls away from him but goes up to his ear and whispers to him

Cinder: When we achieve our united goals..I'll give you something more valuable than power~

Cinder goes back to her group letting Vergil leave. He draws his sword and slices the air, creating a portal with his strikes. Sheathing his blade, he looks back at his new "friends" and goes through the portal and exits out into a dark and empty library

???: Have they agreed to the operation?

Vergil: Yes. With their resources, it is only a matter of time before what we desire is ours.

The owner of the voice steps out of the shadows revealing themselves as a bald man with a scarred face carrying a book

???: Excellent. We are near completion. It is only a matter of time...son of Sparda. Dominic.