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Luke Schwarze--Sacrificing self in vain

Wait. Jack was in? He'd missed the telltale flash of him going fast, or something? His joints were stuck in that door for no reason?

"Why me..?" he whimpered weakly to himself, yanking the door back open roughly to give Jack a clear path out and looking inside as he did so.

What the--

"A filing room behind a steel door?" he muttered, eyes narrowing in suspicious as his smashed digits repaired themselves under the gauntlet. Man, that door was heavy. "No way this is right. Jack," he said, flipping on the comm link. "Get the hell outta there, I've got the door open. This is fishy."

Way too fishy. A glorified file cabinet in a noticeably well lit room, locked behind a steel door? How the heck could they trust that? Granted, there was plenty of incriminating evidence behind said door, but...

Bait? Maybe. I don't know, but my nerves are getting more and more on edge by the minute the longer we hang around.

Go fast, Jack!
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Sapphire Rode - Shelter Lab

As the coyote girl slowly woke Sapphire studied her face. She was pretty if a bit odd looking. She had a word tattooed under her eye curved along her eye line. When she finally woke her hands immediately shot to her ears. As if feeling them confirmed something for her she said. "The...surgery failed...?" This all but confirmed for Sapphire what this place was made for but something was still nagging at the back of her mind. Something she wasn't seeing that should have been obvious. What part of the puzzle didn't she have?

After realizing who Sapphire was the scared coyote girl muttered that Sapphire had come because of her call. So this was the girl that had made the distress call, insinuating that something illegal was going on at this facility. If so then how was it that she was still a part of the program? She'd called Beacon for help, that suggested that she was not okay with what was going on here and yet she seemed disappointed with the knowledge that the surgery whatever it was meant to do had yet to commence.

As Sapphire was pondering this she heard a massive sound of shattering glass. The hunter in training spun round drawing her shotguns on the newest member to the party. He was a large hulking bear faunus in a suit. Mentally Sapphire slapped herself for not realizing that the ceiling was made of a crystalline substance that allowed viewing from one side. It was a rookie mistake. She'd wanted some time alone with the coyote girl to find out exactly what was going on. Now she would have to deal with this.

The bear faunus started by telling the coyote girl: Sienna, to run for it. The girl responded by almost instantly appearing at the other end of the room before she vanished into the hole in the ceiling. A yellow flash seemed to indicate that her semblance was not actual teleportation but some sort of extreme speed, not that it mattered for the moment. Sapphire had other problems to deal with.

The administrator started off with a list of Swansong's crimes. Sapphire had never actually considered the legal aspect of being a hunter before. She was fairly certain that teams were exempt from criminal charges such as vandalism and assault as long as they had probable cause for any damage they might cause. She should ask Goodwitch or Ozpin about that when they returned to Beacon.

The bear faunus introduced himself as Pop, obviously not his birth name but it was something to call him. Sapphire responded with her own. "Sapphire Rode, huntress in training." There was no reason to hide that fact. Who knew, if Pop had heard of her father it might intimidate him. Then again considering Janus' position on all faunus it was probably better if Pop hadn't heard of him.

For all that Pop had actually said it was maddening how little information he'd divulged. The only real things Sapphire had learned was that Pop was a boxer and the Shelter's guards were converging on the rest of her team. She should end this quickly and warn them but she couldn't resist searching for more information.

Pop and Sapphire started to circle each other like two animals preparing to rip each other’s throat out. Sapphire wasn't one to make the first move unless the advantage belonged to her so instead she spoke.

"Just cause I'm a huntress doesn't mean I can't be civil. Care to elaborate on what exactly it is you’re doing here? Of course I've got my own ideas and if I'm right then it's actually noble, wanting to help people find their place in the world but it has the potential to spin out of control and become something violent and unpredictable very quickly. Then again I don't have any solid proof of my theories so why don't you tell me a little bit more and we make sure I'm not beating you to a pulp over a misunderstanding. Besides, if this operation is truly a legal humanitarian effort then Beacon has no jurisdiction and my team will be on our way."

As Sapphire said this she was calculating in her head the shortest length of time it would take her to pull out her scroll and fire off a message to the others before Pop could act. Two seconds to get it out. Another two to address the message since she had her team set as default recipient. The message itself was the real problem. It would have to be short, before Pop could destroy the scroll or attack her. Something like 'guards coming hide' would get the idea across clearly even if it wasn't very elegant.

"What do you say Pop, why don't we make sure we're fighting for the right reasons here?"
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Ciel Kuze - A Panicked Rabbit
This was bad it was a trap according to Luke and she had to agree from what she had gathered over the radio it was just to good to be true. "Luke! get out of there" She called over the radio as she left her room to go to the main area. The hallways was empty and quiet which just put her on edge more so than than help calm her nerves. Things was getting out of hand quickly and dare she say it SNAFU this wasn't what she had planned heck she doubt this was what any of them had planned. Once again Murphey proved no plan survives contact with the enemy. Heading into the main hall she did her best to act and mingle with the few remaining people there. She would wait for Luke she would not leave a member behind. No matter what the situation was.
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Outside the Dragon's Den

As Mokuren tried to flee the scene, Antaeus tried his best to give chase. Unfortunately for the large bouncer, he was built like a tank. He could take hits and dish them out, but when it came to chasing after the the fox girl he had no chance of keeping up. The back up that he had called just moments ago would arrive too late to provide any help as well. If Mokuren chose to, she could easily escape into the night and leave her team behind.

Inside the Dragon's Den

As Luke and Jack stood inside the room filled with incriminating evidence, a countdown suddenly appeared on the number pad outside the door. 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... 0 Suddenly, the vault-like door tried to shut, whether Luke was able to keep the large steel door open depended on his strength, but there seemed to be no way out through the way they came. Anyone trapped inside would have to wait until the guards came to release them.

Meanwhile, out on the main floor, all entrances and exits were suddenly blocked by large metal shutters coming down from the ceiling. Every door, window, and air duct was completely blocked. Loud music began to play over the loudspeakers as a man walked out of the shadow covered balcony of the second floor of the Dragon's Den. The man looked like any normal White Fang, except for his mask which was covered in paint that made it resemble a clown. "Well it seems we have some intruders. Make this easier on yourselves, if you don't actually belong here, step forward so my men can shoot you and be done with this," he announced, the positioning of the balcony allowing his voice to be easily heard by those down below even with the music blasting. The man turned to two figures behind him. "Mordred, Morgan, you two search the crowd and find the ones responsible for interrupting my "Me" time. The shadowy figures nodded before descending down to main floor with several White Fang guards.
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Mokuren Sabella:Dragon's Den

Mokuren looked over at the building as the shutters locked down, and sighed softly. She couldn't do anything about the man who was as fast in his reflexes as she was, impossibly strong when it came to taking pain, and could heal from getting stabbed in the head. Maybe if it was only the last one, she could postulate something, but right now, she was suffering from a case of lacking information. She would say she hoped they didn't die, but Mokuren didn't even know any of them enough to have such opinions. So, she simply left, probably going to find and eat someone.
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Lucas Schwarze--I feel like I've seen this movie before

Door's starting close.

Door's starting to close powerfully!

Crap crap crap crap crap

Bracing himself against the frame and pushing as hard as he could with his entire body, Luke ignored Cian's warning and strained as hard as he could to check this mechanism's advance. Despite having a Hunter-in-training's level of strength available to him, he was only so strong, and he was a small guy (for you) to boot. The door wasn't staying open very long.

"Jack, I can't hold this thing forever! Get out here, man!"

Thank whoever above that was in charge that he'd pulled the thing all the way open first. Imagining this starting up while it was just his fingers in there...

He worked really hard to suppress the shiver that ran up his spine for that.
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Gren Orchid


After dealing with the fauna patients Gren knew he needed to go help the others. However he was also watching a few of the videos where he spotted a recording of guards moving in and out of an area, not too far away from his position. "That must be the barracks. Hmm... If this much noise going on I need to minimize the likelihood we'll get get swarmed." So instead of chasing after Shiro, Gren took a detour to find those guards. He'll have to eliminate them before they could amass their power and be a pain in the Team's butt. Switching the God Eater into it's Destroyer mode Gren activated his semblance and slide towards the direction of the barracks. Anyone in his way would have been knocked over or gunned down.

Escort Mission


The truck divers murmured with reluctance as they agreed to go off road. While some figured that Marcus could easily blow the quartz out of the way, the resulting explosion could attract more trouble than it was worth. The worse they'd do if they went off roading is disturb some wildlife by going through the tall grass. The truck divers drove around the quarts and through the tall grass, flattening it and sending a bunch of birds out from their cover. It was a large flock, but otherwise mundane.

Rice was sweaty and nervous of course. He tried not to show it and kept the AC on high. It was fairly obvious that Rice was used to riding in better luxury. When Oswald asked his question Rice stammered to a start. "W-w-well of course, if danger arrives, we must make sure the convoys make it safely... As you can see, these trucks, they aren't exactly meant for fighting. Even the drivers are only armed with pistols. We do hope that your team's tank will be more than enough to handle any threat along the way." All in all, Rice had no idea escape to make a run for it. The other drivers had similar sentiments. If they were attacked by say, White Fang, than at least one person would be driving while the other would take out their pistol and try to return fire. But as it stands, they weren't well equipped for anything more than self-defense against a humanoid opponent or a few grimm. Even a pack of beowolves could overcome them if they can't make good use of driving in the truck.

At Marcus's question about the holes in the quartz, one of the truck drivers spoke over the radio. It was a light and feminine voice. "Bug holes. Insects around the savanna likes to make colonies inside the quartz. Supposedly it can retain the heat and allow them to survive the winters or something. I can't imagine how one of those things falling over on their own though. When they get too big they just break apart, not collapse like that." There was a tense air when she spoke out, as if she was speaking the thoughts of everyone driving. Someone or something knocked that quartz over, and they don't know where it is or where it's at. Many of them rested their hands near their pistols as if it was suppose to help them.

Despite the initial mishap it seemed like the trip to the mines went by uneventfully. However something was wrong. "Hold up... I see smoke."

In the distance a many columns of smoke were rising from the location of the camp. While the truck drivers could not see it, others may notice the trucks from before tossed over and turned into crude fortifications. They hulls were riddled with slashes and bullet holes. There was no sight of anyone, human or faunas. Not even Grimm. And suddenly as the caravan got closer, their radios stopped working. Instead they would only hear an all too familiar buzz whenever they turned it on.

Patrol Mission


The anchor girl twitched at Ebon's and Skyra's attitudes. Ebon turned to walk away, but suddenly he'd find the crook of an anchor in front of his neck. Skyra would find the tip of an anchor in front of hers, and the thuggish girl glaring at Skyra. "You think you punks can just get away with bad mouthing, just cause you're from Beacon? News flash, bitch: You earn respect here on the streets, and I don't respect you." By now the merchants have cleared the streets. The only people here were Ebon, Skyra, and the gang of delinquent girls. However they seemed content to watch for now and let the Anchor Girl fight her own battles, not that the others didn't have their weapons in hand. One, the mouse faunas, had two hooked rods. The blond girl had a spear. The human girl dressed in all black had a trident. The blue haired girl had rings in her hand, but there was a strange pink mist floating around her. The woman with gradient hair just smiled with her hands in her pockets. Finally, the anchor girl spoke up. "Now, apologize for being a dumbass, and I won't have to show you some goddamn discipline."

Mean while at the Red Asphalt district, the trio of cat-haired boys were excited to manage to pick up Krystanthe and Sephia. The leader of the bunch pointed towards a shop not too far away. "Nice. I have a family who owns a shop just across the street. It'll me my treat ladies." Making sure that traffic would stain the road with their blood and gore, the cat-hair boys led the two huntress to a tea shop. It was reminiscent of an asian style cafe, but with one notable themes: A lot of cats and little berry sized piglets. They seemed to be able to live peacefully with one another, though a few of the cats seem to be chasing the piglets. An old man appeared from the kitchen washing a bowl, surprised to see the boys and the two huntresses. "Ah, son, I thought you and your friends were going to go play? You're not in trouble are you?" The old man chuckled as he returned to the kitchen, donned an apon, and returned to the others. "Well, welcome to the Cat Nap! It's my little tea shop and animal shelter. Feel free to find yourself a seat, I'm sure my son will take good care of you. If will go and make you some tea and be back shortly." As he walked away the old man chuckled to himself and whispered under his breath. "I can't believe my own boy could catch two lovely huntresses. Maybe he's not as hopeless as I thought he'd be..."

The leader of the gang simply dismissed his old man and showed Sephia and Krystanthe a table. Despite the amount of cats running about, the place was free of dandy and hair. The piglets where to thank for that; with little towels they scrubbed every surface of the cafe, picking up hair and dirt to be thrown away. Picking out a private both with a view of the streets the three boys sat together. The leader of the group started off the conversation. "So, what do young beauties like you do in a place like the Red Asphalt district? You don't look like racers."
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Sighing, The Kingdom clicked. "I don't have time for your dramatics. Just die." Slots opened on the Back of the Kingdom sending out ten pistol-sized space ships known as "Arrowheads". As they sortied Ebon ducked underneath the anchor and put The Kingdom between him and the girl who was trying to pick a fight with him. The Arrowheads then began to fly around the girl about five feet away from her, firing bullet sized bolts of lasers. While they may be small, they packed the same amount of force as your average .45 caliber bullet, only made of lasers. Two of the ten ships were glowing, signifying that they were charging for a more powerful shot.
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Shiro's best efforts at arousing the girls' trust touched something of a nerve with Abel. If these tattoos, or what they meant, rather, were so important to him, why hadn't he confided in his own team? The guardian guessed that the reason lay in the team itself: they had no choice but to trust each other, so their secrets could stay hidden to one another. That didn't exactly sit right with Abel, now that he thought about it. Real teams, the ones in the stories that lasted lifetimes longer than the living people they portrayed, didn't keep things from one another. Unfortunately, Abel wasn't quite sure where to begin with himself. As he listened to Shiro's explanation of his tattoos, Abel knew he didn't have anything quite that powerful. He had managed to put the ordeal with his brother Kane behind him, after all.

Abel's sudden thoughtfulness didn't quite extend to the faunus girls, however. Maybe it was the sickly-sweet smell of the suspicious substance on Abel's jacket, or the weapons sported by both hunters, or the overall situation they were in, but they didn't appear to be on their side just yet. The squirrel still jittered, obviously on the hunt for an opportunity to run, but a strange calm had come over Coral. She looked at Shiro with somber gray eyes. “I...I don't get that confidence. I don't see where your story says how it gets better. For some of us, the reason we're here isn't because of prejudice or tragedy or anything. Myrtle's here because she's got some problem with her quills. They hurt her night and day, and she figured that if she could get rid of them, she'd be able to fully live again. My Mauve used to be a soldier, but a flashbang permanently damaged his ears. Rather than making him deaf, it did the opposite. Now every little noise is agony for him. The doctors gave him pills to deaden his hearing until he could be treated. They told us how the surgery works, you know. A serum targets faunus-specific cells, like those in ears, or quill, or a tail, and makes their membranes impermeable. The faunus parts effectively die off, and tools are used to cleanly remove the dead tissue.”

She stuck her hands in her pockets and looked at the floor, signaling surrender. Seeing this, the squirrel girl went pale, and suddenly bolted toward Abel, thinking that he'd be too slow to stop her. The guardian guided the Ampere in front of her and she smacked into it, eliciting a short, sharp cry and the thwarting of her escape. Abel grabbed her shoulder and tried, mindful of how she must feel, to steer her back toward Coral without hurting her. Coral watched, but did not interfere. “I don't know if your the good guys and the doctors are the bad guys or vice versa, or if anyone's good or anyone's bad. We were all kinda suspicious of this miracle operation, but we decided to try it anyway. We don't have to strength to stop you, none of us but Pop and maybe the guards, so I guess we'll have to hope for the best. Amy, don't try to run. It'll all be okay.”

At that moment, a brown blur with a yellow trail shot from a doorway a hundred feet way or so and zipped past the group of four in the hallway. Just for a moment, as it passed Shiro, it slowed down, revealing a lean coyote girl with scruffy gray-brown hair, lovely but frightened features, eyes totally black but for yellow irises, and the word EMBODIMENT tattooed in a curve beneath an eye. Then Sienna was gone, racing faster than possible up some stairs, out of the shelter, and off the island, speedy enough to make the sea into a road.

Abel blinked, not sure what he'd seen. “Huh?” He grasped at the faint yellow trail, which vanished between his fingertips. A grimace appeared as he attempted to move his wounded arm. “What now? Should we find Sapphire? She went off to follow some doctors somewhere. He glanced at the faunus girls. It wasn't often that he was the only human around. “Um, stay here maybe? From what you said, I guess there are others. Oh! We should call the Vale PD. They can bring boats and get the people off this island.” As he continued, he attempted to keep his face free of doubt. “Bet once you guys tell them what's going on, they'll sort everything out okay.”

-=-=Sapphire and Pop=-=-


A raised eyebrow greeted Sapphire's inquiry. Nevertheless, Pop smiled and quit his stance. “Oh? A huntress who'll talk with words rather than weapons? Well, I'll take it with a grain of salt...I did see what you did to my doctors, after all. But I'll take it. Just don't try any funny business. In the spirit of civility, I'll tell you what my semblance does. It speeds up the rate at which I look at the world, making it look like slow motion to me. I can't move my body at all, but I can take as long as I need to examine everything that's going on and adjust my actions accordingly. And it has a cooldown time of half a second. In the world of boxing I was known as Perfect Jones.”

He took a step toward Sapphire and crossed his arms. “But we're not debating about me. A great scientist, though we're not debating about him either, once said that all theories should be given to children, and that if children couldn't understand them, the theories were worthless. My ideals are easy to explain. I want to provide the option for faunus to become human if they wish. This can be either for personal reasons, as in, they think it's the only way to escape persecution, though I know better, or for physical reasons, as in, a bat faunus has hearing so acute that everyday noises give him migranes. My original plan was to devise a reverse operation as well, to make humans into faunus, but that's much harder from a medical standpoint. Easier to take than make, as they say. The funding for this project came from the savings of my wife and I, for it is my dream. I expect that once I go public, I may receive a Regal Science Prize. Is that good enough for you, miss? If it is, and you'd be willing to talk down your friends, I'd be more than willing to call off my guards.”
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"For the record... I don't apologize to somebody who threatens me. Also... Nobody calls me a bitch.", Skyra snarled as she vanished from range of the anchor.
While Ebon deployed his shield and drones, Skyra theatrically pulled out her two swords and only then igniting their energy blades.
The blue light of the blades lit up herself and added an eerie blue glow to her face contorted with anger.

"Just move out of the way, you don't want me angry, I can promise you.", Skyra warned the four girls with a threatening growl in her voice as she started to whirl her blades in front of her.
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Amaranth snapped out of a stupor that felt like it had lasted for months.

God, how could a class ever be that boring... Course, everything always seemed to last longer when the weekend (and her date) was right around the corner. But before anything fun could happen, she had to get through her first mission with her vagabond, slapdash team that was somehow the people she was relying on to get her through this.

Somehow, she felt like she was in excellent hands.
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"Well that's just peachy...", he commented. Luke immediately jumped to hold the door back, with little hesitation he slipped through the gap and out into the hallway. He briefly shuffled through his pockets to check if he got the documents, and it appears that was the case. It all checks out, but it looks like the building was on high alert too...

"Alright, me and Luke are searching for an exit, see you guys soon", he spoke into the comms.

"By the way Luke, we should try and find an alternate route. We can't go out through the club floor anymore", he suggested.
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Krysthane was despartly thinking of a way to find out what she wanted to know as quickly as possible. The old guy had asked them about being in trouble again, so that supported her theory of them being vandals right? While the store's name was adorable it just mean the old man probally wasn't a part of him. Thinking of how best to play her simpering role best she finally said in her airhead voice, "Oh I'm no racer though I appreciate a nice looking vehicle when I see one. I more intrested about you though, just what kind of trouble could some nice boys like you possibly get into?" Gawds if they could just confess or something already she could kick their arses. Sepia seemed to be going along with it well enough so as long as nothing unexpected happened and these guys were as stupid as they acted this should be over and done with in less than five minutes.
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Luke Schwarze--Cutting it Close

As soon as Jack had slipped through, Luke's strength had all but given out. Timing seemed to have a penchant for the dramatic with this mission. Immediately bailing out from his position against the frame, he slid between the oncoming (and much faster) door and the wall, and out into freedom.

Well, mostly. Door caught his trailing foot for a moment before he'd twisted and yanked it free, and he thought something might have felt something crack, but he'd take what he could get. Shaking off the potential injury as it began to repair itself, he got himself moving, feeling as though the threads of fate had been forcefully realigned by the powers that be, after some great error had passed. Forcing it out of his system, he nodded in agreement with Jack.

"No way they aren't waiting for us at any of the exits, you're right."

Clenching his right fist, the steely gauntlet covering it morphed (in a noticeably higher-than-normal quality animation sequence) into a drill, both a viable weapon, and more importantly, a viable tunneling option.

"Know how close we are to the outside right now?" He asked his comrade, starting forward and scanning the walls for a starting point.

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Oswald Connolly- Escort Mission

Listening to Rice's nervous explanation of the plan if anything went wrong, Oswald was unsurprisingly skeptical. He decided to keep his mouth shut for the sake of whatever small amount of pride the man had left, however. He was glad that the drivers at least had a form of protection other than team MODA.

Carefully watching the road ahead, Oswald's eyes widened as he saw a group of trucks turned over and covered in all sorts of damages. That was no good. Turning to Rice, he opened his door and got ready to jump out after the radios went down. "Stop the truck. We need to get the Unsubtle up here for this."
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Shiro blinked, finding himself awkwardly caught in a moral dilemma. Looking at what he considered his 'brands' on his forearms, he examined his hands closer. Turning his bare hands over, attempting to read the lines that etched his palms in search of an answer to a question yet asked. It was rare for Shiro to lay eyes on his exposed hands and arms, as he always kept them bandaged or concealed under his long black gloves. Staring at the angry, red-and-black markings, he started to wonder. Uncomfortable thoughts and memories being dredged up from the depths of his consciousness.

"A serum that targets faunus-specific cells?.."

Hands starting to tremble the longer he looked at his naked flesh, Shiro swallowed dryly. Small beads of sweat forming and rolling down the side of his face. He never considered that other Faunus had species-specific issues that arose. He never realized that he was perhaps more fortunate than other Faunus. Sure, his eyes were light-sensitive, his ears weak against sounds of certain pitches and frequencies, and Gods help him if someone grabbed his tail. But, other than his visible 'animal' traits, he couldn't recall any unique problems arising from his Tiger Faunus lineage. He had been blind, more so than he ever realized. He had been 'blessed' so to speak.

At that moment, the Squirrel Faunus attempted to flee but was quickly stopped by Abel. Shiro frowned at how roughly Abel seemed to handle her, but his concern ended there when his keen perception detected a presence approaching. Sharp senses suddenly flaring, his body tensed up as for a fleeting moment frozen in time, another Faunus appeared merely a few feet away from him. "Huh? When did-" He only caught a passing glimpse of the Faunus, but was able to tell that she was female and of canine-origin. A word tattooed beneath one of her eyes. As quickly as she had abruptly appeared to Shiro, she vanished. Whirling on the spot, his nostrils automatically tried to pin her scent, sniffing at the air. A strange golden aura trail left in her wake, Shiro shook his head and was woken from his quiet self-reflection. He looked at his arms as if they were something foreign, an alien part of himself. Turning, he seemed stunned to see Abel there as if only just now realizing his wounded friend was still present. Face reddening, he scooped up his bandages and gloves off of the ground and turned his back to the Faunus girls and Abel.

"Abel, we've made a mistake."
Shiro said as he shook his head, hastily re-wrapping his forearms.
"We shouldn't be here at all. There's been some terrible misunderstanding. Contact the others and let them know, there isn't anything wrong going on here. We should withdraw as soon as we can and notify Beacon of our findings." Shiro finished tying off the ends of his now completely wrapped arms. "A-and, y-yeah. I'll stay here by myself, you go on ahead and find Sapphire. You probably have a better idea of where she might be than I do. Unless you want me to sniff you over for her scent and..." He glanced over his shoulder to look Abel over once, wrinkling his nose. "Y-...yeah, just maybe go look for her. I'll stay here with these two ladies and make sure they don't get mixed up into any other trouble we've caused here." Shiro tugged his black gloves on, flexing his fingers. Turning back around once his arms were covered again, Shiro tried to look Abel in the eye as he normally would but failed and had to constantly break eye contact by looking away. "Call whomever you need to to get us off this rock, but let's not get these innocents involved anymore than we already have. O-oh! And make sure Gren isn't on some rampaging wrecking-ball spree, y'know how trigger happy he can get sometimes when challenged.."

Shiro walked over to his sword and shield and yanked them out of the ground. Sheathing his sword into the shield, he slung his weapons onto his back and pulled the hood of his black cowl over his head. Ears comedically poking into his hood, Shiro kept his back turned to the girls and Abel. "I'd make some calls myself but, I kind of broke my Scroll..Heh-heh...boneheaded mistake on my part, sorry." He scratched at his ears under his hood.

Turning his head ever so slightly, he wanted to make sure Abel agreed and would leave. A sick and queasy feeling in his stomach, he fully intended on asking the girls some more questions once Abel was gone. Entertaining the ideas of some 'cure' for the Faunus, he couldn't help but be a little curious if maybe whatever medical staff here could possibly help him with his own 'ailments'...

"I'll keep talking with these ladies and see if I can't find out anything else. You go on ahead. I'll be fine by myself."
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It didn'T take long and the front of the convoy came into view. And Diamond realized they were slowing down. Standing on top of the Unsubtle's turret and squinting, she tried to get a glimpse of what was the holdup. What she saw didn't really do her well. Found the earlier convoys and scouts. the woman thought, her stomach not quite sitting well with the image of destruction in front of her.

Dropping down, Diamond summoned a big shadow wrench and gave the hatch a whack to get Marcus to notice. "Something's up with the camp! And radios are down? We should double back out of the jamming and call backup, it's obvious they're ready for us! I can try sneaking in and having a look if you want to!" she yelled over the roar of the engine. It was how she used to operate - get the lay of the land, get appropriate equipment and force, go in for a flawless job.
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Ciel was worried as she watched the white fang members search the crowd. She couldn't really move or she would draw suspicion to herself and to make matters worse it was white fang members searching with two others. She was scared her fear of faunus acting up as they drew closer and closer despite her bravado she was still deathly afraid of faunuses and she never got used to them yet. Her breaths grew harder and harder as she noticed two members grow closer to location. "Please don't come closer please dont I-I-I don't want you to see me" she whispered quietly to herself as she tried to sink into her hood more. Her left hand out of instinct gripped the insides of her purse tightly fingered the switch on Byakko to change it to one of its many forms.
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Sapphire Rode - Shelter Lab

This was it, her conclusive proof of what was happening on this island. This facility was developed for the sole purpose of removing what made a faunus a faunus. At first glance perhaps that might be a good thing and no doubt Pop saw it as such but this was a powder keg just waiting to blow the moment Pop lite the fuse by announcing his success to the world. This was going to come to blows. Sapphire knew that now. Clearly this was Pop's lifelong dream and he wouldn't give it up when merely confronted with words. No doubt he wouldn't give up even when confronted with force but it would stop him.

Legally speaking Sapphire didn't think there was anything inherently wrong with Pop's research. All participants were volunteers who understood exactly what the procedure entailed. There was no deliberate or unnecessary harm being done to the subjects. Perhaps Pop could be charged with malpractice if the surgery went wrong but beyond that the law seemed to have no jurisdiction here. There was however a moral qualm that went with this and that was exactly what Pop was failing to see.

Sapphire would try to explain it to him, she would try to make him see but if she was being honest with herself the only way this ended was torching Pop's research and forcing him to start from scratch. Hopefully the setback would cause him to give up entirely. There was something else nagging at her though. The animals upstairs. The ones kept sedated in cages, how did they factor into this. There was not reason to give out the story about this place researching animals with high aura levels. This was private property. Pop wouldn't be required to provide any information to the government about his work. This however remained an unsettling feeling in the back of Sapphire's head and so she did not act upon it... yet.

"I'm sorry Pop but that explanation it exactly what I was afraid of. You're an optimist and a scientist which is causing you to completely miss the bigger picture."

The information he provided regarding his semblance, assuming it was true, was helpful in plotting a strategy. "You're too busy pushing the boundaries of possibility and looking at that nice pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, your science prize that you can't see anything else. What you've created here, even I will admit that it's a wonder of modern medicine but I can't let it leave this facility intact."

As Sapphire was speaking she assembled her polearm so that she could hold it in one hand. With the other she discreetly removed her scroll from her back pocket and texted her teammates with the scroll behind her back. Assuming she pressed all the right buttons, not being able to see the screen and all the message looked something like this:

From: Sapphire Rode
To: Gren Orchid, Abel Fulgurate, Kuhaku Shiro,
Subject: qwasdc xcv

Body: "gards pn wsy, hid, too many too fught"


"Pop think about this for a second. I know you're only concern at the moment is the science but consider the impact this could have. What happens when faunus activist groups find out? Protests, riots. Now lets go one step up, what happens when the White Fang gets wind of this? They slaughter you and your family and they try to destroy your research. On the flip side, what happens when the Schnee Dust Company considers this treatment an effective way to combat the White Fang, how long after that till the military is thinking the same thing. After that when do we start considering all faunus suspicious of terrorist activity and round them up for this treatment as a precaution. This right here. What you've created could easily be the blueprint for the faunus final solution. The best possible outcome for everyone here is for you to burn your research right here, right now. I tell my teachers something to cover for what actually happened and you never bring it up again. But considering that this is your life's work and your dream I can't see you taking the peaceful route."

Sapphire drew her polearm diagonally over her body in a defensive stance preparing for combat to commence. "I can't let this procedure see the light of day. It could take years or even decades but research like this could lead to an all out bloody war. Do you really want to be responsible for the second faunus wars? Cause if it happens then we both lose, human and faunus. We all suffer, we all bleed, we all die. Do you want that blood on your hands?"
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Shiro's pronouncement didn't faze Abel all that much. Not truly sure of what to do, he was glad for someone a little more familiar with the situation at hand to provide a course to take. “Oh, okay.” Throughout his friend's instruction, he tried to establish eye contact, but proved unable to as his ally seemed either too nervous or too conflicted to meet his gaze for more than a couple seconds.

He wasn't the only one listening, though; the faunus girls paid heed to Shiro as well, and with renewed hope heard his words. Clearly, the squirrel girl still trusted Abel about as far as she could throw him, but his wound had signaled his fallibility in her mind, and his partnership with Shiro proved he wasn't out to get faunus, as she initially feared. Meanwhile, Coral's features were graced with a slight smile, for it looked like she had managed to convince someone poised to prevent her and her friends from being able to receive treatment to let them follow their own paths.

With Shiro finished speaking, Abel gave a curt nod. “Sure thing.” He turned his back to the three faunus and began to walk away, palming his scroll and composing a message as he did.

To: Gren Orchid, Sapphire Rode
From: Abel
Subject: Pull Out

Everything's clear on our end. I'm not totally sure of everything here, but I don't think we have any jurisdiction here. There not doing anything awful here, just a surgery, not just for faunus who think it's the only way, but also for those whose traits make life uncomfortable for them. I guess we'll leave it to other authorities to see if everything is legal and all that here.


Nearly done now with the composition, Abel found his text interrupted by an incoming one from Sapphire. His eyes narrowed at the nonsensical subject, and after saving his own message as a draft, he took a look at the team leader's. Despite the abhorrent typos, the message's alarming contents were pretty easily decipherable, and they sparked a whole new slew of doubts in Abel's mind. Guards? Sure, there had been security cameras, but hadn't Gren taken care of those according to his earlier message? Bringing up his draft, Abel added more to it before sending, though he erased and redid more than half of the message after thinking of a better way to phrase it.

Shiro + I are pretty sure this is a legit establishment. If it is, any more dmg we do will be bad news for us. If we don't fight the guards, we might be able to get off as misguided. We should prob get out of here as fast as possible. S, meet me by the stairs where we entered.

Abel headed in the direction of the stairs as indicated by the emergency escape route signs on the walls.

-=-=Sapphire, Pop=-=-


Pop rolled his eyes at both Sapphire's words and her renewed readiness for combat. “There will be no blood. You act as if Faunus are universally disliked, as if all people, all their corporations, all their governments, and all their armies, are simply waiting for an excuse to erase us from existence. True, I am an optimist, but hardly a blind one. Why do you think I have guards in my clinic? Or backup files of my research elsewhere? If it ever passes that my work may pose a threat to anyone's way of life, I will personally hit the kill switch. That you could assume that I'd blindly throw my work at the world and expect sunshine and roses astonishes me—but then, let's take a look at you. I doubt you're eighteen, and yet you speak like a disciple of tragedy and pessimism, and fight like one with no belief in honor or sportsmanship. It reeks of personal experience. But looking at you, and hearing your level of education, you are not of the streets. So how could a well-born girl become so bitter, without hope, and without sympathy for anything but your own moral code?” Here he sighed. He had been aware of Sapphire doing something shifty behind her back, but couldn't guess what it might be aside from calling for help from her friends. Anticipating a surprise attack any moment, Pop removed his reading glasses and slipped them into a jacket pocket.

“Something must have happened to your family...or perhaps your family happened to you. Beyond that it is hard to say. Bottom line is, you are trying to challenge something that your own experience makes you think that you understand, but you clearly do not. I am prepared for what will come my way; I do not need you to tell me I am not, and to make my judgment for me. You wish to fight? You will lose. As a final act of civility, I will allow you to land the first blow, if only so that when I call the police afterwards, I can say with a clear conscience that I acted in self-defense.”

Pop took another step forward, so that only three feet separated him and Sapphire, and he was close to blocking her into a corner. He raised his fists, but true to his word, did not strike. Instead, his aura flared briefly, a soft scarlet glow, to signify that he was ready. At that moment, Sapphire's scroll received Abel's delayed message.
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