Byzan walks down the halls of Beacon with a sway in his hips, and a rge smile on his face. Several students wave to him and he gives a wink in return, They squeal in delight and scurry off.

  Byzan rounds a corner and slowly loses his smile. Standing in front of Byzan is Ironwood, who gres down at Byzan.

  "Well, if it isn't General Ironwood." Byzan says in a ft tone.

  "And if it isn't Byzantine Beldonna." Ironwood fixes his colr. "If we were back in Ats, I would have shot you already."

  Byzan smirks and leans forward, staring up at Ironwood. "But we aren't in Ats~"

  "Sadly, we are not." Ironwood looks around at the few students around them then whispers. "You are very lucky, that Ozpin seems to be giving you a second chance. I have tried to get him to chance his mind, but he seems very adamant about keeping you here."

  "Probably to keep me from the likes of you, General. I know what pces I can go without being hunted by you, and here is one of them." Byzan stands up straight and puts a finger at the corner of his mouth. "And while I'm here, you or anyone from Ats can't touch me~"

  Ironwood slightly scowls at Byzan. "I would still watch your attitude, Mr. Beldonna."

  "Or what~" Byzan sways side to side as he sings that.

  "Ozpin's authority can only go so far."

  Byzan chuckles as a smirk forms on his face. "Well then. Why don't you run along, General." He walks past him with a slight skip in his step. "Besides, Don't you have to unveil your new Padin?"

  Ironwood grows a look of shock. "How do you know of that?"

  Byzan looks back with a rge toothy grin, and brings a finger up to his mouth. "Secret~"

  Byzan disappears around a corner as Ironwood takes out his scroll and taps at it a few times.

  Byzan keeps smiling as he walks towards his dorm, he lets out a content sigh. "Oh, that felt good." He takes out his fsk and takes a sip of it.

  "Byzan!" Sun suddenly appears, with his friend Neptune behind him.

  "Oh, hi Sun!" Byzan gives a small wave as the two approach.

  "Byzan, I want you to meet my friend Neptune." Sun motions to Neptune.

  Neptune steps forward. "Why, hello La-"

  Sun holds up a hand. "Dude, that's a dude."

  Neptune blinks a few times and looks Byzan up and down. He then grows confused and looks to the side. "Um...."

  Byzan smirks as he leans forward at Neptune. "Car got your tongue, handsome~"

  Sun puts a hand on Byzan's shoulder. "Don't tease him to much, please."

  Byzan's cheeks puff out. "Fine, ruin all my fun." He then clears his throat. "So why are you here?"

  "Dude, I heard that your sister and her team are going out on a mission to find that Torhcwick guy!"

  Byzan grows a look of confusion. "What, really? When did you hear this?"

  "Ruby walked past me muttering about it." Sun states. "But since your sisters apart of it, I thought I should inform you."

  "I feel like there's an 'And'."

  "And join them on it!" Sun fshes a big smile.

  "And you brought your friend with?" Byzan points at Neptune.

  "He said 'more the merrier.'" Neptune states.

  Byzan gnces at Sun, who fshes him a rge smile and a thumbs up. "Eh, I can rock it." He pulls out his scroll and taps away at it.

  Sun leans over Byzan to look at his scroll. "Whatcha doing now?"

  "Gonna tell my team to get ready, we're going to have fun tonight." Byzan says with a rge smile as his cat ears flicker.

  A couple hours ter Ruby and her team get their new outfits on as they get ready for their mission.

  Bke approaches her bunk as she tightens her wraps. "I thought that css would never end."

  Ruby sits on the edge of her hanging bed. "Alright, guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!"

  Ruby happily leaps off her mattress and onto the floor, arms raised excitedly. She almost nds on Weiss, who is on the bottom bunk.

  "I'm so gd to see we're taking this so seriously." Weiss says sarcastically.

  "Hey, we've got a pn!" Yang points out. "That's... moderately serious."

  "Right!" Ruby looks around at her teammates. "Everyone remember their roles?"

  Weiss stands up. "You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem."

  Bke then speaks up. "The White Fang has regur faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're pnning."

  Yang speaks up. "I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard..."

  "Great!" Ruby cheers. "We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found." She pumps her fist. "Let's do this!"

  "Yeah!" Sun cheers as he hangs in the window, everyone is taken aback as they look over.

  "Sun!" Bke shouts in surprise and arm.

  "How did you get up there?" Yang asks.

  "Ah, it's easy; I do it all the time." Sun states.

  "You do what?!" Weiss shouts.

  "I climb trees all the time!" Without reacting to Weiss' scowl, Sun flips into the dorm. "So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"

  Bke steps forward. "We are going to investigate the situation... as a team."

  "Sorry, Sun." Ruby apologies. "We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to."

  "Psh!" Sun waves them off. "That's dumb! We should always get friends involved!" he motions to Bke's bed. "That's why I got Byzan involved."

  "Huh?" The girl looks towards Bke's bed and see Byzan ying there, grooming his rge ears with a small brush.

  Byzan is wearing a new outfit for the mission.

  He's got a golden earring chain on his left ear, and a couple silver ring piercings on his right ear. He's got a bck arrow under each eye.

  "Sup." Byzan waves to everyone.

  "Byzz!" Ruby cheers.

  "How long have you been there?" Yang asks.

  "Since you started expining your objectives." Byzan informs.

  "How did you get in without us noticing?" Weiss asks.

  "Eh, I can easily sneak around." Byzan gnces at his sister, but she just looks away from him.

  "Why are you here?" Ruby asks.

  "Well, Bke is involved, so I had to get involved." Byzan stares at his sister, who now grows a guilty look as she rubs her right arm. "So, can we also get Neptune inside?"

  The girls lean out the window to spot Neptune standing on a very small ledge just beside the window.

  "Sup." Neptune greets.

  "How did you even get up here?" Ruby asks.

  "I have my ways." Neptune looks down at the ground far below him, and grows nervous. "Seriously, though, can I come in? We're like, really high up now."

  Ruby helps Neptune inside and she starts to go over the objectives one more time.

  "Alright, I'll go with Weiss; Sun, you can go with Bke." Ruby pushes Neptune past Weiss, he slips her a wink. Weiss looks mildly shocked but then comes to her senses quickly. "And Neptune, you can go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner." She looks at Byzan, and he answer her questions before she can even ask it.

  "I know a Gang Leader down town, he usually helps Roman out once and a while, so he may know something." Byzan informs. "I'll go see him with my team."

  Ruby nods. "Everyone good?"

  Weiss speaks up. "Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she is your sister."

  "But, Weiss, who would go with you, then?"

  "Well... I guess Neptune could come with me."

  Ruby cracks up. "Hahaha, nah!"

  Weiss is obviously less than amused, yet is powerless to stop Ruby from pulling her by the back out the door.

  Weiss sticks out her arm fruitlessly trying to get back to Neptune. "But! But!"

  Byzan gnces at his sister, who still refused to even spare a gnce at him.

  An hour ter team AMBR is walking down the street in Vale, wearing new outfits. They also have their weapons.

  Maize finishes tying her pink hair into a pony tail, then adjusts a couple gold rings on her right hand.

  Rose flexes her red gloves, then adjusts her ice-blue suit.

  "This is kinda tight around the chest." Rose mutters in annoyance.

  Ambré looks down at her light blue gloves, and looks down at her white outfit.

  "I do have to admit, I look pretty good." Ambré mutters with a smile. She looks towards Byzan. "Now, where are you taking us?"

  Byzan has taken the lead as he sways his thicc hips. "There's a pce just a few minutes away, where I know a friend of mine is currently staying. Just... keep your mouths shut, and let me do the talking."

  "Why?" Maize asks with a raised brow.

  "The company he keeps isn't very... savory." Byzan lets out a dry chuckle. "And they are not the kind to take lightly to those who look down onto them."

  Ambré deadpans. "Fun..."

  Rose shivers slightly. "Now, I'm worried."

  Byzan turns to the group and smiles. "Oh, well be fine." Rose smiles. "...Probably." Rose loses her smile.

  Byzan turns around as the group arrives at a rge building with loud music coming out of it. A couple dozen people, with weapons out or on their backs, stand outside the building. They are either smoking, drinking, doing drugs or spray painting the sides of the buildings.

  "I hate this already." Ambré scowls as she looks around.

  "I wanna go home." Rose's lip quivers.

  "This is very unhygienic." Maize looks around.

  "Girls, just... keep quiet." Byzan walks forward and the girls follow him.

  Byzan walks up to the front door, where two rge bear faunus stand, with rather rge club-like weapons. They slide in front of the double doors and block Byzan's path.

  Byzan leans forward and whispers to them. The two bouncers look at each other and nod, then open the doors. Byzan gnces back at his team and motions for them to follow.

  Team AMBR enter the building and find a rge hallway , and a pair of stairs leading up. Onto he stairs are several people, on smokes something and passes it to another person.

  There are several loud female moans coming from further up the stairs, making Rose and Ambré blush. Byzan grows a smile as he continues down the hallway, Maize looks around with a bnk look.

  They pass by a room where they see a guy sitting at a table and he sniffs a line of white powder. While a female comes out from under the desk and licks the corners of her mouth.

  Rose just covers her eyes and grabs onto Ambré's hand. Ambré looks at the scene in disgust.

  "Why did we come here?" Ambré whispers as she looks into another room where some moans are heard, making her blush.

  "Like I said, I know the leader here." Byzan states as looks into another room and smiles as he nods. "And I know he has some information about Roman."

  Maize looks into another room where she sees several guys, wearing hazmat suits pour stuff into a bathtub. There's a body bag at their feet. Suddenly another person appears at the doorway and sms the door shut.

  "This is very, very illegal." Maize mutters. "How has the police not found this pce."

  Byzan looks back at Maize. "Money is power, Pinky."

  They arrive at a set of double doors at the end of the hallway. Byzan takes out his fsk and takes a rather rge sip from it, before putting it away. He coughs into his hand a couple times before wiping it on his coat.

  Byzan then looks at his team. "Now, don't speak unless I say so, and don't drink, smoke, and eat anything they give you. And try not to say anything that could get us killed, okay. This man controls every gang in Vale, so that's several hundred people you could very well piss off."

  "Got it." Maize, Rose and Ambré nods.

  Rose is shiver and Byzan notices, he lets out a sigh and puts a hand on her shoulder.

  "Rosie, everything will be fine, okay." Byzan says in a soft tone. "This pce is scary, but if you listen to me, everything will be fine."

  "...O...Okay." Rose nods as she whispers.

  Byzan turns to the door and takes a deep breath, before letting it out. He opens up the door to see a man, a little on the chubby sigh, sits at a couch. Nearly a dozen other people are scattered about the room, doing various things. A nearby radio pys rock music.

  "Spinne!" Byzan smiles as he walks over to the man.

  "Byzan!" Spinne smiles, he has a Atlesian accent.

  Spinne is a tall and slightly chubby spider faunus. He has eight beedy red eyes. He wears a jean coat with a stained wife-beater underneath. He's got on ripped bck jeans with a hair of cowboy boots.

  In his right hand is a rge revolver while in the other is a rge bottle of liquor.

  "Sit down, sit down." Spinne motions to the couch in front of him. "What brings you here my friend?"

  Byzan, minus Ambré, sit at the cough across from Spinne. Ambré just stands behind the cough as she gnces around at the men in the room, a scowl forms on her face.

  "I've come to ask a favor." Byzan leans back on the couch.

  Spinne takes a swig from his bottle. "Oh, the great Nightshade needs a favor of me?"

  Ambré's eyes widen as she looks down at Byzan in shock. Rose grows a thoughtful look as she starts to rack her mind where she heard that name before.

  Byzan gives a forced smile. "Yes, yes, I know. I never ask things of you, but I need something this time."

  Spinne sets his bottle on the table in front of him and leans forward. His eight eyes staring into Byzan's cat-like. "Oh hoho, I must hear of this."

  Byzan slightly rubs his right knee. "Look, I need to know what Roman's been doing for the past few months. And I know you've been in contact with him."

  Spinne lets out a few loud ughs. "And I thought you'd ask for something easy." He grows slightly serious. "Look, Byzan, what he's doing is beyond me. It's something I don't want to get involved in, okay."

  Byzan grows a smirk. "Oh, is has Spinne lost his spine, you're never scar of a lowly thug like him."

  Spinne frowns. "Byzan, what he's doing is bigger than the both of us. He isn't doing it for himself, he's working for someone else. Someone I won't fuck with."

  "Shit..." Byzan whispers and runs a hand through his hair. "Well, this was a waste of time." He starts to stand up. "Well, I guess thanks for the talk Spinne."

  Team AMBR gets ready to leave, but Spinne speaks up.

  "You know, Byzan, there's been a lot of talk about you tely."

  Byzan turns to Spinne. "What are you talking about." He then notices all the thugs in the room stand up and turn to the group, getting their weapons ready.

  "Byzan..." Ambré mutters as she puts her hand on the handle of her smg that's on her lower back.

  Maize brings out her fan and hides most her face behind it. Her pink eyes peering over it, and staring at all the thugs. Rose grows slightly pale.

  Spinne smirks at Byzan. "Someone's put out a rather rge bounty on your head."

  Byzan frowns as he stares at Spinne. "What..."

  "100,000 Lein, just for your head. You know what someone could do with that kind of money?"

  Byzan grows a neutral look as he stares at Spinne, before suddenly shooting forward and putting his flintlock underneath his chin. Everyone brings out their weapons as Spinne holds up his hands.

  Rose yelps and brings out her supposed pistol and aims it at a couple people.

  "You fucking know not to mess with me, Spinne." Byzan gres at the spider.

  "L-Look Byzan, I-I really need that money, Ok." Spinne cims. "You know I got a couple of young kids and a wife at home, with that kind of money, I could leave this business for a while and settle down."

  "Spinne, I know you haven't unlocked your aura yet. So if something were to happen, it'd be lights out for you." Byzan pushes the barrel of his gun right into Spinne's jaw.

  "Come on, Byzan, it's not like you haven't done something like this to others before." Spinne states as the cat keeps gring at him. "Please, Byzz, I've got kids."

  Byzan gnces around the room as the radio changes songs.

  Baxterbro

  "Well, looks like the kids aren't gonna be seeing Daddy again."

  A loud bang echoes as blood, and brain matter sptters onto Byzan's face. He grows a smirk as he stares at the dead spider faunus in front of him.

  The thugs in the room stare at the scene in shock.

  "Fucking hell, Byzan!" Ambré screams.

  "Kill them!" A thug yells as he opens fire onto them, only for a clone of Byzan to kick him into a wall and stab his sword into the thugs.

  The thug tries to use his aura, but he clocks out before he can do anything. Rose cries as she fires onto a few thugs, sending them to the ground as their aura covers them.

  Ambré flips the cough into the air, and kicks it into several more thugs as a few loud cracks are heard from their bodies. Maize shoots forward and round house kicks a thug into the wall, before using her metal fan to deflect couple bullets coming towards her head.

  She sms her fan shut and sps a thug across the face with it, before opening it and fanning her face. Bzyan wraps his leg around another thugs neck as he has punches another across the face.

  He chokes out the thug with his leg and kicks him away. He turns to his team. "Come on, follow me!"

  Byzan kicks open door at the other end of the room as the entrance doors sm open. Byzan spots a few crates of dust in the corner near the door and he swiftly loads a red tipped round into his flintlock, before firing at the dust.

  The round sms into the dust crates, blowing them and half the room up. The force of the explosion throws the team out of the roof as it lights on fire.

  Ambré pushes her self up and helps Rose off the floor. "What the fuck was that, Byzan!"

  Byzan puts a hand on the wall as he stands up. "A minor set back."

  "You fucking call that minor!" Ambré motions to the room that's currently on fire. "You did exactly what you told us not to do, and fucking killed that guy. Now everyone here is trying to kill us."

  "Can we argue ter!" Maize shouts as stands up. "We got company!"

  A door opens up beside them, revealing several thugs. Rose, with her Gatling gun, suddenly appears.

  "AHAHAH!" Thorn, who's currently in control. unloads rounds into the new group of thugs, sending them flying into a wall as their aura covers them.

  "Well, that's dealt with, let's get out of here!" Byzan shouts as he starts to run down the hall.

  "How the hell are we getting out of here!" Thorn shouts as she fires onto a group of thugs coming out of rooms behind them.

  "There's a garage nearby that should hopefully have a vehicle suitable for us!" Byzan informs as he uses his sembnce to knock down a couple more thugs in front of them.

  "How do you know this?" Ambré shouts as she rears a fist back and punches a thug full force in the face, a few teeth got flying.

  A couple more explosions go off in the direction the team came from, shaking the building.

  "I studied the yout we left." Byzan ducks under a fist, and grabs the thugs arm bends it back. A loud crack is heard and the thug yelps in pain and falls to the ground.

  "How did you get the yout of the building?" Maize asks.

  "My ex-girlfriend was great with computers, showed me how to get the things I want. So I put those skills to use."

  A grenade rolls in front of the group and Byzan kicks it up into the air, and kicks it into a nearby room. A loud scream is heard before an explosion goes off.

  "Turn here!" Byzan yells and the group slides round a corner, coming face to face with a rge double doors, which Byzan kicks open.

  They come to a rge garage filled with many different kinds of vehicles.

  "Oh, sweet brother gods." Ambré looks around in amazement.

  "Drool ter!" Byzan hops into a sleek purple four door car. "Who just leave the keys in the car?" He starts up the car and the radio kicks on as everyone else hops in.

  Baxterbro

  "Um... Um..." Byzan looks around at everything in front of him.

  "Kill those assholes!" A thug shouts as he and his friends open fire on the car.

  "What are you waiting for! Drive!" Thorn shouts.

  "I've um, never drove before!" Byzan informs.

  "Oh for fuck sakes!" Ambré shouts. "Just sm your foot on the right petal!" She puts the car into drive for the cat faunus.

  "OKAY!"

  Bzyan sms his foot onto the gas petal and the car's engines rev up as it speeds through the garage doors. Bzyan yelps as Thorn ughs, Maize looks out the back window as Ambré sighs.

  Byzan spins the wheel to the side and the car makes a hard turn onto the street, nearly hitting several other civilian cars. Byzan zooms down the street as he wipes the blood and brain matter off his face.

  "What the fuck happened back there!" Ambré shouts as she gres at him.

  "I don't like it when people betray my trust." Byzan states as he tightly grips the steering wheel.

  "You nearly got us fucking killed!" Ambré sms a fist onto the dash board.

  "But your not dead."

  "That's not the fucking point! And he called you 'Nightshade'. You're that nefarious criminal!"

  "That's why it sounded so familiar." Rose is back in control.

  "Um, not to rain on our parade, but we got company." Maize informs as she looks out the back window to spot several sports cars swiftly catching up to them.

  "Shiiiiit!" Byzan mutters as she looks at them in the rearview mirror.

  Ambré huffs as she reloads her smg and rolls down her window.

  "What are you doing?" Byzan asks.

  "Trying to survive!" Ambré leans out the passenger window and begins firing onto the perusing cars.

  Byzan's scroll vibrates and he pulls it out to see a group call from Bke. "Sorry, Bke, but now's not the time!"

  Byzan puts his scroll away and looks down to see Bke and Sun run across, quickly followed by a Padin.

  The other three in the car look ahead in confusion as Bke, Sun and the Padin disappear.

  "...Maybe I should have taken the call." Byzan mutters.

  "Yeah, maybe." Rose agrees.

  Suddenly they all lunge forward as a car sms into their bumper. Ambré leans back in and reloads her SMG.

  "There's so many of them." Ambré compins as she leans back out.

  "Today is not my day!" Bzyan groans in frustration as he opens up the center console and digs through it. He then pulls out a grenade. "Who keeps this in their car?!"

  He activates his aura and uses his teeth to pull the pin. He rolls down his window and tosses it out, after a few seconds a loud explosion goes off behind him. He looks in the mirror to see a rge group of cars blow up, he grows a smirk.

  Rose lets out a loud cry in the back as several bullets sm into the back windshield, cracking it.

  Maize leans towards the front. "It would be ideal if we lost them."

  "What do you think I'm trying to do?!" Byzan asks.

  Maize blinks a few times before shrugging, then sitting back down.

  Byzan swerves around a corner and continues to speed off down the street as only a couple cars continue to chase them. Ambré leans back into the car.

  "I'm out." Ambré huffs. "Rose, gun!"

  "Yes!" Rose quickly gives Ambré her pistol.

  Ambré leans back out of the car and aims her pistol at the three cars behind her. She lets out a breath and fires several rounds, with one managing to strike the tires of the leading car, causing it to serve out of control and sms into the side of a building.

  She ducks as a thug returns fire by leaning out of his car. Ambré growls in anger and fires onto him, striking him in the head and making him fall out of his car, and into oncoming traffic.

  "Ohhhh...." Ambré cringes, before firing onto the second car.

  Ambré manages to pop its tire, causing it to lose control and smash into the st car,s ending them into barrel rolls and crashing into buildings.

  "I feel as if we did more damaged then they ever did." Ambré mutters as she leans back into the car and tosses the pistol into the back, Rose clumsily catches it. "We should be good now."

  Byzan lets out as sigh and rexes slightly.

  "Don't think your off the hook!" Ambré pulls on one of Byzan's cat ears.

  "OW! OW! OW!"

  "We are going to talk more about this back at Beacon!"

  "....Fuck...."

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