It's early morning and Byzan is leaning on the bathroom sink as he slowly brushes his teeth. He's in his regur outfit as he's slightly tired eyes stare down at the wet sink.

  He slowly moves his tooth brush side to side, when a loud shout is heard through the shut door and he winces.

  "You can't just hit him!" Rose muffled voice is heard.

  "He's a deadly criminal!" Ambré muffled voice is heard.

  "And to him your nothing but a murdering monster!"

  "Don't call me that!"

  Byzan's cat ears fold down as he tunes them out. He continues to calmly and slowly brush his teeth before a loud sm is heard through the muffled door.

  Byzan lets out a sigh and spits out the tooth paste in his mouth and washes the rest out with some water. He sets his purple tooth brush to the side and washes his face with some water.

  Then as he stands up his puts a hand through his hair and smirks at himself in the mirror. "Still pretty handsome..."

  Byzan fixes a few strands of hair and heads towards the bathroom down and puts his ear against it.

  Rose lets out a sigh. "...It's only 8 a.m."

  Maize is then heard. "Yes, it is early. But you started that argument."

  "...I know, but she just can't be that mean to Byzan. He's already been having a rough few weeks, so she doesn't need to make it any harder."

  "Well, you do have to see it from her point of view." A wooden creak is heard. "Byzan is a very infamous criminal in Ats and Mantle. Who's killed many high authoritative people, he's caused much chaos within Ats. So he's someone that made her military life harder."

  "I guess you're right." Rose mutters. "...I wonder when Byzan'll be done, he's been in there a while."

  Byzan grabs the handle and takes a deep breath, then lets it out and opens the door. He sees Rose sitting on her bed and Maize sitting at the study tables.

  "Hey girls!" Byzan waves with a cheeky smile. "Where's our team leader?"

  Rose stands up and rubs her right arm. "She went ahead to the meeting with team RWBY. She said to meet her there."

  "Ah, well, let's not keep her waiting." Byzan smirks as he walks towards the door with a sway in his hips.

  Maize and Rose gnce at each other, before following Byzan.

  Half an hour goes by and Team RWBY and Team AMBR sit at a table together. Ambré is sitting as far away from Byzan as she can.

  "So we have nothing so far?" Ruby slumps down onto the table with a sigh.

  "Well, not nothing." Byzan states as he puts his hands behind his head and smirks. "We know Roman is doing work for someone powerful. My guy said he wouldn't even fuck with him."

  "Swear..." Ruby whispers.

  "And he's getting powerful weaponry." Bke adds, but doesn't look at Byzan.

  Yang smirks towards team AMBR. "I heard you all caused a lot of trouble st night. Literally I'm pretty sure everyone heard that massive explosion, what happen?"

  Byzan goes to speak, but Ambré interrupts. "There was an incident with a few crates of Dust. It all dominoed from there."

  Byzan gnces at Ambré, who just gives him a neutral look.

  "Sounds so much more fun then what happened at my club." Yang sighs and leans back in her chair.

  "You got to fight a giant robot." Maize raises an eyebrow.

  "And you guys got in a car chase across Vale."

  "We caused so much trouble yesterday." Weiss sinks in her seat.

  "But it was so awesome!" Ruby sms her hands several times on the table, only to get shushed by an uppercssmen. "Sorry!" She whispers.

  "It wasn't awesome." Rose whispers as she shutters at the events that happened yesterday.

  Ruby quiets down. "Yeah... you're right, yesterday was kinda scary."

  Yang grunts in frustration. "Ugh! Why can't anything ever be easy!"

  "If anything was easy, it wouldn't be fun." Byzan points at Yang with his fsk before he sips from it.

  "Eh, I guess you got a point." Yang winks at Byzan. "Like how you py hard to get."

  Byzan smirks at Yang. "Only the best get to have me, Goldie."

  "Ugh, can you two stop flirting." Weiss compins.

  Maize and Rose stare at Byzan with upset looks. Bke frowns a frown, Ambré doesn't care, and Ruby just gnces between her sister and her friend.

  Everything goes silent for several moments, as Yang and Byzan wiggle their eyebrows at each other.

  "Welp, I... guess it's lunch time." Ruby speaks up after a

  It's still silent for a few moments.

  "Eh, I guess I could eat." Byzan shrugs.

  Hour pass by as team AMBR silently sit in their dorm room. Byzan sits in the open window as he pys on his scroll, Maize is ying down on her bed, reading a book, Rose is studying with a sad look while Ambré watches TV from her bed.

  Something outside catches Byzan's eyes. He gnces over and spots a Blue Morpho Butterfly flying past the window. Byzan tilts his head in confusion.

  'The hell, a Blue Morpho?' Byzan questions as his attention is fully on the butterfly that nds on a nearby tree branch. 'They are only native to a few isnds in Vacuo. How is it- Wait a minute,does this mean?'

  The Butterfly lightly fps its wings a few times, before it takes off, heading towards Vale. Byzan swings his feet off the side of the window and he goes to jump out.

  "Where are you heading?" Ambré speaks up.

  Byzan grits his teeth. 'Shit...' He gnces over to Ambré and gives a forced smile. "Just going to meet up with a friend."

  "A friend huh?" Ambré narrows her eyes at him, the other two girls in the room gnce over. "...Two hours."

  Byzan raises an eyebrow. "Huh?"

  "You have two hours to be back." Ambré turns back to her TV. "If you're not back by then, I will drag your ass back here."

  Rose grows a smile as she gnces between the two.

  Byzan smirks. "Of course sweet cheeks, I'll be back within the next two hours."

  Ambré doesn't respond as he jumps onto a tree branch and makes his way down to the courtyard, sticking to the shadows.

  Byzan follows the blue butterfly all the way into Vale and into a warehouse near the docks.

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  "Why does everything involve a warehouse?" Byzan questions as the Butterfly disappears inside. He goes to grab something off his back, only to realize his weapon isn't there. "Shit..."

  Byzan kneels down and grabs something from inside his right boat. He pulls out a knife with a silver bde and a Nightshade flower etched into the bde.

  Byzan takes a deep breath and lets it out as he enters the warehouse, finding nothing but complete darkness. Even with his night vision its rather hard to see with no help from the cloud covered moon.

  Byzan slowly walks towards the middle of the empty warehouse, making very little sound as he readies his knife. He stops as a blue Morpho Butterfly flies right in front of him and up into the catwalks above him.

  Byzan narrows his amber eyes and within the darkness he sees a figure, several blue Morpho Butterflies fly around her. His cat ears twitch.

  "I see you got my message." An authoritative female voice calls out.

  A flicker of light shines above him, as he sees the figure light up a cigar with what appears to be a grey bionic right arm. The female takes a deep puff from the cigar.

  "Wasn't much of a message." Byzan says as he stays on full alert.

  A singur dull green eye stares down at Byzan. "Yet... you still came." She begins walking around on the second floor, metal scrapping against metal.

  Byzan keeps his knife at the ready as he follows her every move in weary. "Because you're here, and clearly you wanted to tell me something, or else you wouldn't have contacted me."

  The figure's singur eye stops the knife in Byzan's hand. "You think something like that could touch me?"

  "I can't trust you, Wolf."

  The figure stops and takes a rge puff of her cigar, lighting up her face.

  Wolf has massive burn scar on the left side of her face that travels down her neck. She has a bck bandanna covering her left eye. There's a few other light scars around her face. She has bright red hair with several grey streaks in it, and a pair of red wolf ears on the top of her head.

  It goes dark again on the second floor as the Wolf keeps walking, blue butterflies keep flying around her. "It seems you did keep some of my advice in mind."

  "I'd be an idiot if I didn't listen to you. A seasoned veteran as yourself."

  "You make me sound old. But, I guess I am getting to that age. But if I wanted to kill you, Byzantine. I would have the moment you stepped into Vale tonight."

  Byzan doesn't respond as he keeps his knife at the ready.

  Wolf hums In approval. "Good... Now, let's get to business."

  Wolf jumps down from the catwalks and nds several meters away from the cat faunus. The clouds part outside letting moonlight shines into the empty warehouse, letting Byzan see easier.

  Wolf stands up at an impressive 6'1'' (186 cm). She has red hair tied into a ponytail that reaches halfway down her back. She as a pair of red wolf ears on her head, with her missing half her left ear and the right one half burned. She has a bck bandanna tied around her head that covers her left eye.

  She has a massive burn scar on the left side of her face that goes down her neck. Her right arm, from the shoulder down, is a grey bionic one, a skull with a lightning bolt over it is present on the front of the arm.

  She wears an old military coat over her shoulders, and she's wearing nothing but a simple bck bra. Scars cover her chest, stomach and sides, and she has a snake tattoo on her right side and a wolf tattoo on her left. She has a tattoo of a diamond on her left breast.

  She has bck bionic legs that end with three cws on each foot, and a rge knife on the back of the leg. A rge machine gun is on her back. Wolf opens her mouth, revealing a set of abnormally rge canine teeth, with her upper ones begin silver.

  Byzan gets into a battle ready stance as he stares at Wolf. 'Is Leslie, a legend among legends. If Calico is one of the best soldiers in the world, Wolf is above her, As she trained both her and Professor Ash. I can kinda take on Calico, but I could never even stand a chance at fighting Wolf. I feel as if I'm Prey trying to face down a Predator.'

  Wolf stares at Byzan, neither of them making a move.

  'But if she really wanted to kill me, she would have done so already. I can only hope she wants something easy. But with her, nothing is ever easy. My biggest problem is she works for the White Fang.'

  "You gonna put that thing away now?" Wolf calls out as she tosses her cigar to the side.

  Byzan doesn't respond and keeps his eyes narrowed at her. Wolf smirks and walks towards him.

  "I didn't come to ask a favor, Byzantine, I came with a warning." Wolf stops a couple meters away.

  "A warning? What's the catch?" Byzan asks in caution.

  "No catch this time. Consider it a favor repaid." Wolf holds up her bionic arm and clenches its fist.

  'Several years ago Calico was sent to kill Wolf, she having been working for the White Fang for some time, Ats could not let someone like her keep being active. But let's just say, Calico had to drop an entire burning building on her.'

  "Tell me, so I can go. I much rather not be around you longer than I have too." Byzan states.

  Wolf holds up her left arm and a Blue Morpho nds on it. "Careful Byzantine, you should respect your superiors." Byzan just grits his teeth as Wolf looks at him with a neutral look. "Because-"

  Wolf suddenly unches at Byzan, and before he could react her bionic hand stops right before his throat as electricity travels around her hand.

  "-I don't take kindly to those who don't respect authority." Wolf lowers her arm and takes several steps back as Byzan takes several beep breathes as he takes several steps back.

  'I once heard she took on an entire Grimm army with nothing but a knife. No one knows what her sembnce is, but I get a feeling she has more than one. She's honestly too dangerous for this world.'

  "Now, as I was saying, I'm her for business and nothing else." Wolf's ears twitch. "I will only say this once, Roman and his gang are pnning something big with Beacon and all of Vale. What it is, I don't know, I don't work for Adam I work for Leader Sienna. So I recommend you leave Beacon by the end of the year, and head to Vacuo. I have someone there that will help you get settled in."

  Byzan gives Wolf a huff. "I just can't leave Beacon, it's my one chance to actually get some authority in this world. Besides, I've made lots of friends and my sister's also there, I just can't leave."

  Wolf slightly frowns. "You never were good at listening all that much."

  Byzan rolls his eyes. "I listen to you as much as I can, but there are times where I don't want to. Like the time you told me to run, but instead I stayed and saved your ass from the colpse burning building."

  Wolf walks around Byzan. "Which I thank you for, but Byzantine, as much as you can be a pain in the ass, I don't want you dead. You're like the son I never had."

  "Still... I can't leave."

  Wolf stops and pinches the bridge of her nose as she sighs. "...Fine then, then I will give you this, Adam is coming to Vale, along with Lisa."

  "Lisa's working for Adam now?"

  Wolf looks away from Byzan. "She never really did like to listen to me neither."

  "What about Alex?" Byzan grows curious.

  "She's back in Menagerie, keeping an eye on things there." Wolf gnces back at Byzan.

  'Lisa and Alex are Wolf's two daughters. They look nearly identical to her, as if they were her clones. But they both act completely different from each other, Lisa is one who completely thinks about herself and doesn't like to listen to authority, while Alex is someone who's a little more quiet and will do what she's asked.'

  "So, what do you want me to do about her then?" Byzan asks.

  "Just... don't kill her whatever you have to do. I know she will come for you at one point." Wolf narrows her eyes at Byzan with an unhappy look. "And I know why."

  Byzan nervously gnces away with a chuckle. "Hehehe... yeah...." 'Why are there so many powerful women in my life? ...I think I have a problem.... and a kink....'

  Byzan turns back to Wolf. "What about you?"

  "I'm heading to Ats, to keep an eye on things there, then heading to Mistral, then back to Vacuo for a while." Wolf starts to walk away. "So you won't be able to contact me for a while."

  Byzan gives the older woman a 'Really' look. "I've never been able to contact you in the first pce."

  Wolf stops at the entrance, as Blue Butterflies surround her, and she looks back at Byzan. "Do be safe, Byzantine. I see a lot of potential in you, and I'd hate to see her take you away."

  "I think I can handle myself, Wolf, I know a lot about the secrets of the world."

  Wolf shakes her head. "No, you really don't." She starts to head out. "Power is held by those who seize it."

  And with that Wolf disappears out of the warehouse, leaving Byzan alone. The cat lets out a deep breath and puts his knife back in his right boot.

  "She's one of the few people who actually scares me." He mutters. "But why doesn't she help me just take down Roman and Adam?"

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  Outside Wolf is standing on top of a building as she's on her scroll.

  "Were you able to get in touch with him." An older male voice asks on the other side of the scroll.

  "Yes." Wolf answers.

  "And?"

  "He's decided to stay put, he's either confident or stupid."

  "Maybe both." The male says.

  "Yes, maybe both... But he honestly reminds me of us, back in the old days." Wolf states.

  "Reckless and in pursuit to change the world for the better?"

  "Yeah. But those days are over, Ozpin sought to that sending us after her."

  "We were naive, Wolf. You can't really bme him, we thought we could take her."

  Wolf grits her teeth. "Snake and Miller are dead, I was in a coma for nine years and you had to fend for yourself. Ozpin knew what kind of mission he was sending us on."

  "Wolf..." The male voice calls out.

  "Now, I won't be able to create a pce for soldiers without a nation to call home. A Outer Haven."

  "Wolf, all that's in the past, so lets move on and continue our mission."

  Wolf lets out a sigh and pulls out a sugar from a pouch on her right hip. She puts it in her mouth and flicks open her right pointer finger, as a fme lights up from it. She lights up her cigar and takes a puff.

  "Keep me posted." Wolf orders.

  "Yes, ma'am."

  "Good, talk to you ter, Ocelot." Wolf hangs up the call and looks up to the sky. "A world without borders." She puts a hand on her diamond tattoo. "I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless world. I will always be with you. Pnt your roots in me. I won't see your dreams end as ashes. You're diamonds."

  Wolf walks off as she smokes her cigar, Blue Butterflies take off into the night sky.

  In the darkness of team AMBR's dorm Byzan climbs in through the window as quietly as he can. He hops in and notices a singur light at the study desks.

  Ambré turns around and sees Byzan enter the room. She turns off her mp and stands up, she's in her pajamas. She walks over to her bed and as she passes Byzan, she whispers to him.

  "Have a good night." Ambré climbs into her sheets and rolls over, her back facing Byzan.

  Byzan smirks and makes his way to his bed and just ys down on top of it.

  'Eh, I'll change in the morning.'

  Byzan closes his eyes and slowly falls asleep.

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