(POV Lena)(Friday 9pm)

As I walked down the street, holding a bag which contained the burnt cloak, I kept thinking of that fight, the bastard who did this won't get away with it, I finally stopped in front of a place called Soft Hands, it's a store that makes and repairs clothing, when I opened the door, the sound of the bell rung in my ears, I closed the door and stood at the counter.

"Just a moment, please," The owner's voice called from the other room, the door opened as the man walked out.

"You'll have to come back to-" The owner said, stopping once he saw me, Michael is his name, a sweet eighty year old man, he's fixed up my cloak a few times from when it's damaged thanks to a mission, he's the only person apart from Mercury who I trust.

"Oh Lena, what seems to be the issue this time," Michael asked. I pulled the cloak out of the bag and laid it on the counter for him to inspect.

"Oh dear me, what happened?" He asked.

"I got into a fight, the guy threw fire at me." I replied, he knows some of what I do, just not who for.

"Oh you youngsters, always getting into trouble, this could take a few hours to fix and I was just about to close," He told me, I sighed and began to grab it.

"I'll come back tomorrow then," I said, but Michael grabbed my hand, stopping me.

"I didn't say I wouldn't do it," He told me, giving me the usual caring look.

"Are you sure?" I questioned, he nodded and grabbed the cloak out of my hands.

"Of course, though, could you be a dear and flip the sign and lock the door for me," He said, I nodded and walked over to do as he asked.

"Also, feel free to come and sit by the fire since it's raining," He yelled from outback, I looked out the window and noticed it had begun to rain hard. I walked behind the counter and out the back, sitting on a chair near the fireplace.

"Help yourself to any snacks or drinks," Michael offered, "Oum knows I don't like that stuff," He finished, he's been the closest I've had to a father figure in the short time I've known him.

I laid back and closed my eyes, still thinking about the fight.

(POV Mercury)(Location-Abandoned Warehouse, Vale Dock)

Emerald, Roman, Neo and I all sat at the table as we waited for Cinder, who had just messaged all of us to meet. I went back and continued to read my comics after a while of sitting, after a few more minutes Cinder walked through the door, slamming it behind her, 'this can't be good'.

"You better have a reason for calling me so late," She stormed in angrily, however me and the others gave each other a confused look.

"Umm, you called us here, right Cinder?" Emerald said, Cinder just looked even angrier being told that.

"I am in no mood for jokes, so help me in Oums name I will hurt you," Cinder said, we could see fire in her eyes.

"The kid is being serious, we all got a message from you to come ASAP," Roman replied, Cinder now turning her attention to him.

"Roman. I swear," She threatened, I put my comic down and pulled out my scroll getting the message on screen and slid it over to her, she grabbed it and looked, going from angry to confused.

"No. This can't be, I got a message from Roman saying to come here," Cinder said, looking puzzled. All of us stood and looked around.

"Who did this," Cinder asked.

"I did," A male voice spoke, all of us pulled out our weapons and pointed in the direction of the voice, out of the darkness came a 6'6 Male, he had (S/C) tone of skin, (H/C) short length hair and his eye colour being silver, like what Roman said about that Ruby girl. He was wearing light blue jeans, a black t-shirt and black boots, he had this look, a calm but serious look to him.

"Who do you think you are," Cinder barked.

"I'm the guy that wants to make a deal," He said, chillingly.

"And why would I make a deal with you," She asked, the man just smiled and took a step forward, as he did though, Cinder threw a fireball at him, but the man just smacked it away, directing it to a wall, like it was nothing.

"You wish to destroy Beacon, I wish to personally murder the headmaster, I say our goals align in that regard," He said, keeping his eyes on Cinder.

"You think I would help you because of that," She asked, the man kept his smile and shook his head.

"No, Cinder Fall, I think you'd join me, since you've got only the people at that table and that girl on your side," He said, making Cinder and the others chuckle, I noticed the man wasn't smiling anymore.

"You forget we are with the White Fang," Roman stated smugly.

"Oh? You mean these White Fang," The man said, gesturing above himself, causing the remaining lights to come on, and above us were thirty White Fang soldiers all standing on the walkway aiming their firearms down at us, now the others looked scared, except Cinder who just looked shocked.

"Impossible," She whispered.

"Actually, no, it's not, you see me and my people rescued faunus from Atlas, we then handed them over to the White Fang and after a quick discussion, they decided to join me," He said with a smirk. "And when my men told me that you were working with the White Fang, well I had to put a stop to that, you now have nothing," The man finished, Cinder now looking angry.

"You think this is going to stop us?!" She yelled.

"Well, that and the fact I know you plan on infiltrating Beacon, posing as students from another school," He said, shocking all of us.

"Wondering how I know, an old hacker friend told me," He said.

"Wrench," Me and the others all said, simultaneously.

"That's the one," He said.

"Cinder, maybe we should listen," I said.

"I agree with the kid, it's not like our goals are too far off," Roman offered.

"Listen to your people Cinder, I'm always looking for an extra pair of hands to take Oz down a peg," The man told, Cinder looked around as both Neo and Emerald nodded to her, she was quiet for a few more seconds before answering.

"Fine, we will join you," Cinder said, with a hint of regret in her voice.

"Wonderful, when you go to Beacon I will have my people inside meet you," The man said, he snapped his fingers making all the soldiers standby.

"Back to base. All of you." He commanded. The soldiers all obeying, leaving one by one with the man being the last to leave.

"What do we do," Emerald asked.

"For now we do what they need, but we might have to get Ms Khan out of the picture in order to continue," Cinder told us, with an evil grin on her face.

(POV Matt)(Saturday 3pm)(Location-Beacon Academy)

I sat here in my dorm, happily playing on my scroll, trying to beat James' highscore on Grimm-Run, I was getting closer and closer until the door busted open, causing me to jump and launch my scroll into the air, losing me the game, I looked at the door and saw James standing there.

"You ass, I was so close to beating your score," I told him, he chuckled in response.

"Too bad, Ozpin wants to see us, something important," He said, I looked a bit confused.

"How do you know he needs us," I asked.

"Professor Goodwitch told me, so hurry up and let's go," He said, walking away from the door, I jumped out of my bed, grabbed my scroll and hurried out the dorm to catch up with James, we walked through the halls till we made it to the elevator, once in I pressed the button to go up.

"You think he knows?" James whispers.

"Shut up, we don't know if this is bugged," I whispered back, we both then went up in silence, once the doors opened we walked out to see Ozpin standing at his desk, with two men looking at Ozpin, by the looks of them, they seemed familiar.

"Ahh boys, glad you could make it, please welcome your two new teammates," Ozpin said, signaling to the two, when they turned, I finally realized why they were familiar, because it was Sebastian and Eric, both standing there in casual clothing.

"Good to meet you two," Eric greeted.

"Pleasures ours, I'm Matt , this is James," I said to them, James just waved in response.

"I'm Eric Ackerson and this is Sebastian Black," Eric said.

"Evening gentlemen," Sebastian said with a bow.

"Mr Ackerson and Black here are from Haven, they were in the same predicament as you two, your team will go under B.L.A.C (Black), lead by Sebastian here," Ozpin said.

"Can't be mad, at least it isn't Matt," James said, I lightly punched him on the shoulder.

"Thank you sir," Sebastian said, both he and Eric grabbed their bags and the four of us headed to the elevator, we all got in and waved goodbye to Ozpin, I pressed the button and the elevator began to descend.

"I'll be happy to answer any questions once we reach our dorm," I say, signaling them to be quiet, both of them nodding, once the elevator stopped we all walked out and went to our dorm, once we reached it, I let the three of them in first before going in and shutting the door.

"We can talk in here, we checked for bugs and found nothing," I said to the two.

"That's good," Eric said as he began to unpack.

"First major question, what the fuck are you two doing here," I shouted, startling Eric.

"Well it's nice to see you too," Eric said sarcastically.

"Lord- I mean, Y/n decided it would be best to have more backup here at Beacon, in case anything went south," Sebastian answered, putting his clothes into a nearby dresser.

"And why weren't we told," I asked, looking over to him.

"Fuck, that's my bad, Y/n and I talked about it and I was supposed to tell you," James interjected, I sighed and put my hand to my face.

"James. I'm gonna hit you." I threatened, he put up his hands sleightly while shaking them before turning towards Eric.

"I've got a question for you Eric," James said.

"What's that?" He asked.

"Why did you use a fake last name, Oz never learnt our names all those years ago, he just knew of what we could do," James said, before Eric could say anything a knock came from our door, I signaled everyone to shut up and opened the door too see Ruby standing there, she was about to say something but stopped when she saw Sebastian and Eric in our room, she pushed me in and shut the door behind her.

"What are they doing here," She questioned silently.

"Relax, Y/n gave them the go ahead to come here, give us more backup if we need," I reassured. Ruby relaxed a bit before standing up right.

"That's a relief," She said.

"Yeah it is, anyway, did you need something?" I asked.

"Oh yeah, I was gonna ask what you two were going to do today," She asked

"I was going to beat James' highscore on Grimm-Run," I said, smirking. Causing James to laugh.

"Like your slow ass could beat my highscore," He taunted.

"Oh I'm gonna beat you in a second," I said.

"Boys enough." Sebastian said, walking over and slapping the both of us on the back of the heads.

"Oww, asshole," James whined, rubbing the back of his head.

"Well since you guys aren't doing anything important, how about we go to Vale and show Sebastian and Eric around," Ruby suggested.

"That sounds lovely," Sebastian said.

"Yeah sure, as long as I ain't stuck in that castle again," Eric said, all of us looking at him.

"Dude, you gotta control what you say, sooner or later you're gonna spill the wrong info," I said, Eric just smiled and rubbed the back of his head.

"So... is everyone on board," Ruby asked.

"Yeah why not," James replied.

"Yeah, I'm down," I said, the five of us then left the dorm, as we walked down the halls, we passed many students, a lot of the girls seemed to be fangirling over Sebastian and Eric, Eric was enjoying the attention, though Sebastian didn't care, since his only true love is Alice, once outside we all got on a Bullhead and took off to Vale, once we landed we all began to walk around, both Eric and Sebastian were amazed by the sight, we stopped at some clothing stores, bakeries and even went to the mall.

"Damn. This place is massive," Eric said.

"Yeah dude, when you aren't focused on fighting you take a lot more in," I told him.

"You got that right," He replied, as we all walked I heard someone call my name, I looked around till I spotted the person calling me, it was Blaze, he ran over and hugged my legs.

"Blaze, what are you doing here," I asked, from the distance came Alice, running over to us.

"Sorry, Blaze wanted to get out and we were given permission to, it seems fate brought you both together again," Alice huffed, wheezing through her sentence, I picked Blaze up and held him like the day I found him.

"How've you been Blaze?" I asked.

"I've been good, everyone's been really nice to me," He said.

"Really, that's good, have you been eating well,"

"Yeah, Mr Sebastian makes really good food and Ms Alice, takes real good care of me,"

"That's good, I'm glad we got you somewhere safe,"

"When will you come back to stay at the castle?"

"Well, to be honest I'm not sure, but I promise I'll try to visit as much as possible,"

"Do you mean it?" Blazed asked, looking at him with puppy eyes.

"One hundred percent," I answered without hesitation.

Blaze then smiled at me, a smile full of adorableness, one that could fill your heart with pure joy, I then heard a rumbling noise come from him.

"I'm hungry," He said, holding onto his belly.

"Well then, let's get you something to eat," I said. I looked to where the others were, only to see James standing there alone.

"Yeah. Everyone went to do their own thing. Want me to leave you two alone?"

"No! James has to come with us," Blaze pouted a bit.

"Welp, can't argue with the kid." He said, the three of us walked over to the food court and let Blaze pick out the place, James and I both got a cheeseburger and fries each and Blaze got chicken nuggets, he took one bite and you could see the excitement on his face, and the stars in his eyes.

"How is it?" I asked him.

"It's really delicious!" He nearly shouted, quickly covering his mouth, then smiling when he saw us smile at him. James tore a bit of his burger off and placed it in front of Blaze.

"See if you like that," James offered, Blaze then grabbed it, excitement clear in his movement, and put the whole piece in his mouth. After a few chews, the same happiness with the nuggets was on his face, he swallowed it and looked up at us.

"This is really good, can Mister Sebastian make this at the casl-?" He cut himself off, squirming in his seat slightly, "I mean, at home?"

James and I grinned at him, noticing his almost slip up but not commenting on it, "You'd have to ask him," I replied, we all ate our food peacefully after that, and I noticed a lot of people, mostly women, entranced by Blaze's cuteness, which I can't blame them really. After a few minutes of us just eating I felt a tap on my shoulder, when I looked I saw Wrench standing there.

My eyes felt like they almost bulged out of my head, "Dude! what are you doing here!?" I whisper-yelled, looking around slightly panicked. Nobody seemed to notice, or care.

"Don't worry, my body doesn't show up on any recording," He remarked, waving his hand dismissively.

"That isn't it. I mean-someone from my school might see," I whispered, eyes squinting suspiciously at passer-byers.

"Relax man, you worry too much." He dismissed, walking over and sitting next to Blaze.

"How are you doing, kid?" Wrench asked, setting his arms on the table.

"I'm good," Blaze responded, grabbing then eating another nugget.

"Nice," He says, turning towards James and I, "anyway, I've brought you two a gift, I already gave Ruby and the others theirs." Wrench said, reaching into his vest and pulling out two thick envelopes, he slid them over the table and moved his hand away, James and I grabbed them with James opening his first, inside was a black balaclava with that same hacker skull type marking on it from the broadcast, this time however with a white crown on the top, I opened mine and saw the same just without the crown.

"Why doesn't mine have a crown?" I questioned, looking up from the mask to meet Wrench's eyes.

"Well. He is 'The King', so it makes sense, right?" Wrench says, leaning back a bit in his chair.

I shrugged, "Yeah, I guess," putting the mask back in the envelope and pocketing it.

"So, why more masks?" James asked, putting the mask in his jacket.

"Well in case you guys are out and need to cover your faces in a pinch, you've got them," Wrench said, leaning back onto the table, eyeing my fries.

"Fair point," James said, taking a bite out of his burger.

"Alright. So I got a new target for us," Wrench said, reaching over and stealing a fry from my plate and eating it, I gave him a look of betrayal.

"Who ish it?" James asked, his mouth still full.

"A guy by the name of Earl Moring, he's a-" Wrench said, stopping himself and covering Blaze's ears, "-people fiddler," he continued, uncovering Blaze's ears. Blaze not caring, only focusing on his nuggets.

James swallowed his bite, "That name sounds familiar," He said thoughtfully.

"That's because he's on the city council." Wrench informed, James and I looked at each other then back at Wrench.

"When do we hit?" I asked seriously.

"Well, so far it's just a rumor, someone posted about it online and it was deleted almost right away, so I got in contact and they revealed a lot of interesting things," Wrench said, taking another fry.

I glared at him a bit, pulling my plate closer, "How do you know it's real," I asked.

"At the moment I'm not sure, but I'll look into it and let you all know," Wrench said, he checked his watch and stood up.

"Best be going, I'll see you three later," Wrench said, we waved bye and he quickly walked away, the three of us finished our food, threw it away, and walked around the store together. I decided to buy Blaze some toys and books to keep him occupied back at base, after an hour we met back up with Ruby and the others, I gave Blaze a big hug goodbye and he left with Alice.

"Welp, that was a fun day," Ruby said, stretching her back.

"Yeah it was, we best get back to Beacon," I suggested.

"Actually, you all go ahead, I need to do something." James said, walking away from us, we all looked at each other confused but just left, knowing James can take care of himself.

(POV James)

After leaving the others and walking through and out of the shopping center, I started a sprint down a couple of streets till I stopped at a bar. Sitting outside was Wrench, he saw me and gestured to the empty seat in front of him, I walked over and sat down.

"What did you need?" I asked.

"I need to talk with you about our new group," He said.

"Why me, why not our mutual,"

"I talked to him, and he suggested that you can lead this one,"

I was shocked really, Y/n wants me to lead this group.

"Wait. really?" I gaped.

"Yeah man, he said he trusts you with this,"

"That's...awesome,"

"Yep, and I'm your right hand man, King and Wrench," He said, his hands gesturing in front of him.

I nodded, "I like it, so what did you wanna talk about?"

"We need a new base of operations, and I found a place. Just a slight problem..."

"What is it?"

"It's overrun by some small gang, however I figured you and I could go over and," He did a slight hand motion, "'convince' them to leave,"

"What about the abandoned homes and stuff?"

"Well, some have been demolished and we need a base big enough to hold our people,"

"So we need this."

"Yep, this is ever since our mutual pulled the fangs away from Cinder and the others, they moved in,"

"Wait, he did that already?"

"Yeah, last night he confronted Cinder and said they'll be with us from now," Wrench shrugged.

"Shit, we'll talk more about that later." I shifted, "so a warehouse has been overrun by vermin and we've gotta take care of it?"

"Yeah," He said, kicking his feet up onto the table.

"Fine, let's do this." I said. With that I stood up and started to walk away.

"Ahh!" I heard Wrench yelp, hearing a loud thud and clunk behind me.

"Huh?" I looked back, staring at Wrench on the ground.

He groaned and picked himself up, dusting himself off he looked at me and his mask lights shifted to angry and annoyed.

"I had just put my legs up, you dick," He balked.

"Whatever." I rolled my eyes, continuing to walk down the street. Wrench falling into step next to me soon after.

After about twenty minutes of walking we made it, I took my new mask out of my pocket and put it on.

"So... how are we gonna play this?" Wrench asked, peering at me from the side.

"I'll go around the side and enter through there, you climb up and enter through that open window," I said, pointing up to a big window just barely open, "Once inside, I'll give them the option to leave, if they don't, we open fire, simple." I told him.

"That's... definitely a plan, let's do it." He said, he walked over to one of the pipes and began to climb up it, I walked around to a side door and it was locked, I pulled the concrete up and covered my hand, I crushed the handle causing the door to unlock, I walked in and saw about fifteen guys, all chatting around a table, one noticed me and stood up, picked up his pistol and aimed at me, his friends looked and all did the same.

"What are you doing here?" One of the men said, most likely the leader.

"This is Dedsec property, so I suggest you leave." I declared, they all just began to laugh, I looked around and saw drugs, guns and a lot of stolen electronics.

"You must be stupid to come in here alone," The leader said, in the corner of my vision I could see Wrench up top, he looked down and nodded at me, as he slowly walked over to the stairs, getting behind the men.

"I may be stupid, but I'm not dumb enough to have all men on one target," I said, Wrench then stood up, aimed his gun and fired a shot, right through the heads of two men, most turned to look at Wrench, I quickly dove behind a few boxes as some of the men who were in my direction began to open fire, I looked around and saw a few firearms, I grabbed a rifle, peeked a corner and began opening fire, hitting three of them in the head, their bodies dropping instantly, using my seismic sense, I felt two behind me, I quickly turned around and shot the first guy in the chest, his friend quickly took cover around the corner, I ran towards where he was and used the ground to launch myself a bit higher, I aimed at the corner and fired a few rounds into the man, killing him, I aimed back and shot his downed friend in the head, I turned forward and saw the rest of the men all on the ground, with Wrench standing next to a body, one foot resting on the body, I dropped my weapon and began walking over.

"We got a survivor," He said, using his foot to turn the body over, the living man had a bullet wound in his stomach, Wrench kept his gun aimed at the guy's face.

"Please...spare me," The man begged, coughing hard, some blood even spilling out of his mouth.

"What's your call King?" Wrench said, I looked at the man and knelt next to him.

"If I'd let you go, would you come back and try to take us out," I asked, the man began shaking his head frantically.

"No! I don't even like these guys, I was just trying to earn some money for my kids," He said in a begging tone, I just looked back at Wrench.

"What do you think?" I asked.

"I'd say let him live, send out a message that Dedsec isn't some group people can push over." Wrench said, I nodded slightly and looked at the man, tears began to flow out of his eyes.

"That sounds like a lovely idea. Would you do that for me?" I said, asking the man sarcastically, he nodded frantically.

"I will, I'll let everyone know that Dedsec will take anyone out! Wh-Whoever stands against them," He pleaded, coughing after every few words, I stood and looked back at Wrench.

"Get this guy to a hospital, I saw a few cars around the alley, then get some men and set up base," I told him, he nodded, put his pistol away and began to drag the guy towards the door, I grabbed a set of keys on a nearby table and walked out of the building with Wrench, I pressed an unlock button causing one of the vehicles lights to flash, I threw Wrench the keys and began my walk back to Beacon.

To be continued...

Before the big main story takes place, you will be seeing more of Dedsec and seeing just how much their actions, can make a change to Remnant.