Ruby couldn't believe what she had just heard.

And she wouldn't stand for it.

She shot up out of her seat. "What!?" she yelled.

"Excuse me?" the commanders asked in unison.

Blake and Yang both were astonished.

"You heard me," Weiss stated. "I, Weiss Schnee, want in." she said again.

"I heard what you said, Weiss. I just don't think that this is a good idea!" Ruby shouted.

"We have to agree with her, Miss Schnee." Angel said. "That is not the smartest idea."

"I don't care if you don't think it's the smartest idea. I want to join H&H." Weiss said. "Besides, their jobs are on the line because of me."

"Weiss, don't follow the same path that we have just because you think it'll save our tails. Don't mess up your own life just to be a part of ours." Blake said.

"Yeah, and you don't have any combat training. You can't possibly be serious about joining something that requires more will then you will ever have." Yang said.

"Shut up Yang, you have no idea what I've gone through these past few days, and you have no right to judge me. Anyway, it appears from what I have seen outside, that you appear to have a sort of boot camp on site. Correct?" Weiss asked.

Dred cupped the side of his face with his hand and placed his elbow on the table. "Correct." he grumbled. It was obvious as to where this conversation was going.

"And all I would have to do is ask permission from you two and I would be able to go through that training camp and become one of your mercenaries. Correct?" Weiss asked again.

"Correct." the two commanders grumbled.

"Granted, it will be hard to go through the training, I'm sure." Weiss said. "But in the end, I think it would be worth it."

"Weiss," Ruby said sternly. "I can't let you do this. This field of work isn't for the faint of heart. You've witnessed what happens here. Remember the city? Where someone died in the line of duty for this company? I can't let you take the chance, Weiss."

"She may live longer here than out there." Angel said.

Ruby turned towards her commander as if he just fell from space. "Sir?"

"What I'm saying here, Ruby, is that with that high bounty on her head, not to mention the bounties on her relatives, maybe it would be for the better. We'd have to fake her death of course." Angel said.

"Sir, you can't possibly be considering this!?" Ruby shouted.

"Took the words right from my mouth, Sis." Yang said as she stood with Ruby.

"Agreed." said Blake standing up as well.

"Ruby." Weiss said. Ruby barely glanced at her. "I have something you need to hear, and you damn well better listen well, because I'll only be saying this once."

Ruby had heard that tone before. Weiss was about to get emotional. She turned to face her.

"I have no real way to express how I felt when I was taken away from you by my father. I cried for days over you. You were the first thing on my mind when I woke up and the last thing I remembered when I went to sleep at night. Then you went and "died". I would have been fine, gotten myself together, and life could have continued. I would have taken over the company with nothing left to keep me from taking my place in the world. But no. You just had to pop up out of nowhere as a bodyguard! You went for days right next to me without so much as brush on the hand to let me know!" Weiss paused to look around and choose her next onslaught.

"To be fair, I do have the same hair… And color scheme… So does the rest of the team… Not to mention my cape. I mean, the signs were the-"

"Can it, Rose, or Red, or whoever the hell you are now! There is no possible excuse you can use on me right now to even begin to make up for what you did."

Ruby opened her mouth to speak once more but no words came out. She tried again but she still could not think of anything to say. She learned back in college that when Weiss made up her mind, there was no getting her to change her decision.

"For your information, Ruby, I am considering this." Angel said. He turned towards his brother. "What about you?" he asked.

Dred nodded. "I'm in the same boat as, Angel. This is a safer option, at the moment, than sending her to a relative. Although, Miss Schnee, just know that if you are to join our company, you must know that you will be given no special treatment. Your bounty on your head will not be an excuse for you. Your previous spot in the Schnee dynasty will not be an excuse. Miss Rose and her comrades will not be allowed to interfere with your training in anyway. The only way they could help would be in spars in the training rooms. If you would accept these guidelines and future ones... Then you will be welcomed to H&H." he explained.

"What!?" The three girls shouted once more.

Weiss smirked. "I guess that means I'm on board." she said as she stuck out her hand towards the two commanders for a handshake.

Both commanders stood and shook Weiss' hand. Ruby, Blake and Yang watched with shocked expressions on their faces.

"Welcome to H&H, Miss Schnee." the commanders said.

"Thank you, Sirs." Weiss said.

"Now that your apart of H&H," Angel said. "I believe more formal introductions are needed. You already know Ruby, Blake and Yang there. But my name is Dan Scottson and this is my brother." he explained pointing to Dred.

"Tyler Scottson. But let's not get caught up in names here, it's time to plan your death." he said with a smile.

"Of course." Weiss said.

"You three," Dan said while looking at Ruby, Blake and Yang. "You'll be involved in this operation, so please, take a seat." he said.

The three were hesitant, not wanting Weiss to go through with this, but they reluctantly sat down at the table once again and help with the planning of the operation.

Throughout the discussion, they decided on a name for it: Operation Homecoming

(Weiss)

Three days later the media and authorities had been notified of Schnee Manor burning down and Herald Schnee being murdered by an unknown. Presumably by the White Fang. They couldn't make it look as if Weiss had burned in the fire because the authorities on the scene had written their report on the fire.

The White Fang did leave their mark on the grounds of Schnee Manor. Most of the help that had been working there overnight had been slaughtered without remorse or mercy by the White Fang.

Weiss was saddened when she learned this news. Most of help in Schnee Manor had been extremely kind to her. They all had nothing to do with the Schnee Gas Company. They were all killed because they were at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

During these three days, Weiss had been brought from H&H to one of the many police stations in Vale. They could have brought her to Helios, the capital of Atlas. But they needed her to be in Vale for their plan.

The police had learned of the bounties on Weiss and the rest of her relatives. For the few days that she was in Vale, she stayed in a hotel while under the protection of police and undercover H&H mercenaries.

The hotel was one of the low rent two story buildings with rooms on the bottom and top floors. Weiss was on the second floor with police guards watching her.

The mercenaries although, kept their distance from the hotel in the building across the street from it and kept an eye on the building there. On the third day, when the plan was going to happen, five other H&H mercenaries arrived, dressed as personal guards of the Schnee Gas Company.

Weiss was sitting in the hotel room, reading a book that was inside said hotel room while lying in the single bed that was in the room, with an officer standing by the door as her temporary personal guard. He was dozing off at the moment, his short black hair hanging over his eyes as his head was slumped forward.

A knock at the door to the hotel room startled the officer and woke him up. He stood and looked through the peep hole of the door. When he looked through, he saw the five people who all had pure white suits with blue ties. There was a patch on the left chest of the suits, bearing the Schnee crest.

He opened the door and looked at the people. "Can I help you?" he asked.

The five people pushed passed the officer into the room. They all had shades covering sir eyes, but no scarves on. Every one of them carried briefcases with unknown contents.

Weiss recognized some them. The first on in, Weiss recognized instantly as Ruby. One of the other ones she also recognized as Blake. The two of them gave Weiss a nod and smile when they saw each other, in which Weiss returned. Weiss didn't recognize the other three mercenaries though. One of them was a man who had messy blonde hair. The second was a girl with white hair like Weiss' that went down to the back of her knees. The third was a man who was bald and had a tribal tattoo surrounding his right eye.

"You are relieved of your current assignment of protecting Miss Schnee. You can go do whatever else you need to do." Ruby said.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you talking about? I didn't hear anything about this. Come to think of it, who the hell are you people?" the officer asked.

Ruby sighed. "I don't think that's important right now. Miss Schnee has a press conference later today and we must get her ready." she said.

"Um, I do think that's important. And I didn't hear nothing about any press conference." The officer said. His hand was reaching for the pistol at his side.

Ruby looked toward the officer. "My name is Sarah, these are my associates Maria," she said while waving her hand to Blake, "Collin," she said as she waved her hand to the man with blonde hair, "Sasha," she said as she gestured to the girl with long white hair, "And, Damian." she said as she pointed to the bald man.

"Alright, now that I got names, why don't you explain to me why I'm not hearing anything about a press conference." the officer said.

"We literally just arranged the plans for the press conference less than an hour ago. She must address the press about the partnership between Schnee Gas and Tanner Oil. Now please sir, exit the room so that we may prepare. Bits and pieces of this information is highly classified." Ruby, or Sarah, explained. "And if you don't we may have to force you out, officer or not."

The officer glanced throughout the room nervously. "Fine." he said plainly. He went to the door and walked out, closing the door behind him.

After a few seconds after he felt, the five began preparing. They opened up their briefcases to reveal small concealable weaponry from pistols, to disassembled rifles, to PDW's.

"You didn't need to bring weaponry suited for an army." Weiss said. "I thought the weapons were just going to be for show?"

"They are." Ruby said as she cocked her FN 57. "But you never know when a plan could get a little... Complicated."

"I guess." Weiss said blankly.

"Well, let me introduce you to those who you don't know." Ruby said. "This over here is, at the moment, Collin. Real name, Jaune Arc, or as we call him on duty, Knight." Ruby explained. Knight was pulling out a civilian suit out of his suitcase. There was a pistol holster with a Glock 17 off to the side.

"Nice to meet ya, Snowflake." Knight said with a grin.

Weiss glared at the blonde man. The term "if looks could kill" applied in this situation.

"Knock it off, Knight." Ruby ordered.

Knight nodded and went back to checking his other suit.

"Over here we have, for this time, Sasha. Her real name is Scourge BloodClan, or as we call her, LD, or Loud Death." she said gesturing to the girl with long white hair.

"Hello." Scourge said as she was checking her P99 pistol.

"Hi." Weiss said.

Ruby leaned over and whispered into Weiss' ear. "Don't let the name discourage you, when you get to know her she's kind of nice and jokes a lot." she said.

Weiss nodded slightly at this information.

"And finally we have, who you currently know as Damian, is Theron Cobalt." she said while gesturing towards the man with the tribal tattoo. "While on assignments, he's known as Arbiter."

Theron nodded his head to Weiss as he put together an M4 carbine.

"After we finish here, we can get to the press conference. We have a separate car outback for Jaune. When he gets into the other suit, he will go to the conference as a member of the press with a pistol concealed in his suit jacket. The pistol, I hope you checked Jaune, will have blanks inside of it." Ruby said as she pulled from her briefcase a white suit jacket, exactly like what Weiss was wearing. Weiss knew what was inside the jacket. On the inside of the jacket were blood squibs. They would be detonated and fake blood would explode from her suit, simulating gun shot wounds. "Here, put this on." Ruby said as she handed the jacket to Weiss.

Jaune then grabbed all his things and went into the bathroom that the room had to change into his separate suit

Weiss popped the collar up on her current suit jacket and removed her tie. She slipped off her suit jacket and tossed it onto the bed. She put on the last suit jacket she hoped she'd ever where. She buttoned the jacket and put her tie back on.

Minutes later, Jaune came out of the bathroom while wearing a gray pinstripe suit. The pistol was concealed under his left arm on the inside of the suit. He had a press badge in the pocket of his jacket with his fake name on it.

"I'm ready." he said.

"Alright." Ruby said as she finished checking her own M4. Blake and Scourge each had P90 SMG's. They needed to make it look like they had assigned weapons that all the guards used. If they used their own personal weapons, it could raise suspicion in some way.

All the mercenaries, aside from Jaune, had a rifle or SMG in their hands, and a pistol strapped to their thighs. LD and Blake would be sticking closer to Weiss since they had the close quarters weaponry, while Ruby and Arbiter would be on the outside with their more range weaponry.

"Okay," Ruby said. "Let's get this started. Knight, we're going to drive away in the SUV that is parked outside. Take a different route than us to lower suspicion. Once we get to the press conference, Yellow will be there waiting in an ambulance posing as a paramedic with Mulan. The press conference will take place at the front steps of Tanner Oil. We'll be there for not long. We'll kick it off soon after the conference begins. Now, Knight. There will be cops there but they'll be towards the back. Try to push closer to the front and then take off to the side alley. Continue running and we'll pick you up in either the SUV or the ambulance. Make sure you hide the car you arrive in as well. Just do anything. Now after Knight fires off the blanks, we'll drive to a garage in the city that is owned by friends of H&H, basically a chop shop, and they'll take the ambulance off our hands and give us another SUV to ride in. Then we drive to the outskirts of the city where to bullheads will pick up us and the vehicles." Ruby explained the whole mission as was planned. "Everyone got it?" she asked.

"Let's do it." Knight said.

"Set." said Black.

"Ready." LD said.

Arbiter gave a head nod once more to confirm.

"Let's get this over with." Weiss said with a sigh.

"Alright, let's go." Ruby said as she waved hand. Every mercenary packed their briefcases, making sure to take all the things they wouldn't, but couldn't leave behind.

Weiss had to admit, Ruby did make some leader. She did no beating around the bush or anything, she went straight to the point of the discussion and didn't try to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

After everyone grabbed their respective briefcases, they walked out the door of the hotel room and down the stairs that led outside. At the bottom of the steps, Knight turned right and the group turned left.

"See you guys there." Knight said.

"Stay safe, Knight." Ruby said as they approached the SUV.

They arrived at the SUV which was parked just outside the hotel. The SUV was a sleek black one that looked like the one they had used on the day when they brought Weiss to Tanner Oil the first time.

The trunk opened and all the briefcases were placed into the back, afterward the mercenaries piled into the SUV with Arbiter driving, LD in the front seat, and Ruby, Weiss and Blake in the back seat. All the mercenaries were still wearing their tinted shades, even though it was a slightly cloudy afternoon.

Arbiter started the SUV and they drove out of the parking lot of the hotel.

"Wait, what did you tell the officers that were protecting me?" Weiss asked.

"Same thing we told the guy that was in your room," Blake said. "Press conference."

"You think they believed it?" LD asked.

"Hopefully." Weiss said.

After twenty minutes of driving, they arrived outside Tanner Oil. There was news camera's,reporters, newspaper writers… Any media available was swarming the area.

Above in the buildings, some windows were in the middle of being replaced after the explosion down the street last week shattered them.

There was a line that parted way between two seas of reporters so that Weiss would be able to walk through.

"Okay," Ruby said. "Let's go."

Blake opened her door first and came around the car. When she did, Ruby opened the door that lead to the crowd of reporters. As she did, Weiss placed a capsule of fake blood in her mouth so that when she was "shot" it would seem like a more serious injury.

LD and Arbiter also got out of the SUV and began to keep back the reporters.

Weiss then stepped out of the SUV, as soon as she did, multiple cameras flashed as they took pictures. Dozens upon dozens questions were being asked at once. Weiss couldn't make out what anyone was asking.

Weiss glanced the the right side briefly and caught a glimpse of Knight's hair. Thankfully, he was close to the front as suggested. Weiss could also see the alleyway he would make his escape from.

Glancing to her left, she saw the ambulance on standby. She could see Yang in the side view mirror, watching for anything that could go wrong and waiting for her cue.

She began walking through the small parting between the media with Blake and LD at her side, and with Ruby and Arbiter not far behind.

There were tape recorders that belonged to reporters being stuck close to her face a d the reporters trying to get Weiss to answer some of their questions. Weiss answered none of them though, Weiss either didn't hear the question fully, or the question was too illogical to receive an answer.

When she walked upon the steps of Tanner Oil, she stood at the podium that was placed there. Mr. Tanner stood off to the side, slightly behind Weiss. He had a bright smile on his face, showing that he was happy for this great investment making partnership.

As Weiss faced the audience, she saw Knight, standing in the second row. Hopefully he would be able to make it to the alleyway without trouble.

She glanced to her right and saw out of the corner of her eye, Ruby pull out the small detonator for the squibs when Knight fired the shots.

'Here we go.' Weiss thought.

Weiss cleared her throat. "Ladies and Gentlemen. After our previous endeavors that accrued in the week, it would appear that the handling and survival of the Schnee Gas Company has been put into my hands. My father was a great man," a small lie "who had. A dream for the company to be the best of the best. And today, that dream will become closer to coming true. Today, I announce the partnership of Schnee Gas and Tan "

Her words were cut off as the three shots that were needed were fired from the crowd. The squibs inside her suit detonated and the fake blood began to seeping from the "wounds".

Knight stood there with his pistol raised, the barrel smoking slightly.

News reporters fled, some completely dropping their cameras.

Weiss added to the act as she fell to the ground. As she did, she bit down on the capsule of fake blood that was in her mouth. The fake blood tasted horrible.

As she fell, she saw Knight bolt into the alleyway, but with some reporters trying to be hero's following close behind.

A few seconds after she fell, Yang was standing above her, kneeling down with Mulan at her side. They both has masks over their mouths to try their best to conceal identities in case they were being recorded.

Mulan was faking checking her pulse while Yang put pressure on the "wounds". Ruby stood above as well, aiming her rifle all around, searching for anything that could happen.

"Get the stretcher." Yang said to Mulan.

Mulan quickly stood and went to the ambulance with Blake by his side. They both came with the stretcher. And began to get Weiss ready to put her on.

"Get the car started." Ruby said to Arbiter.

"Going." Arbiter said as he ran to the car.

They put the brace around Weiss' neck and did all the other preparations before lifting her onto the stretcher. After that. She was loaded onto the stretcher, which was then rushed over to the ambulance.

The stretcher was brought into the ambulance and Ruby climbed in with Yang in the back and Mulan in the front, ready to drive off. Ruby turned to Blake and LD who were standing outside the ambulance.

"You two," Ruby ordered. "Go with Arbiter and grab Knight. If he has a few guys still chasing him, pretend to take him into custody or something."

"Got it." The two girls said. They closed the door to the ambulance and went off to the SUV.

"Go." Yang said to Mulan.

Mulan flipped on the lights and sirens of the ambulance and they began weeping through the traffic infested streets of Vale.

"Are we good?" Weiss asked as she say up on the stretcher, and ripping off the neck brace that had been wrapped around her neck.

"Once we get word on Knight, then yeah, we'll be home free." Ruby said. "What's it looking like back there Mulan? We got any cops or anything following us?" she asked.

"No, we're clear at the moment. But I'll keep my eyes open for anything. We got about five minutes to the garage we drop the ambulance off at." he said.

"Got it." Ruby said.

Weiss removed the suit jacket that had been drenched in fake blood by the squibs. She tossed it into a small waste bin that was in the ambulance.

Yang handed Weiss a towel. "You got some blood on your face, Princess." Yang said, giving her one of her old nicknames. Weiss then proceeded to wipe to dried fake blood from her face, giving the white towel a deep red tint.

Ruby then flipped on her earpiece to get in contact with the group in the SUV. "Black, this is Red, you there? Do you have eyes on Knight? Over." Ruby questioned.

"I hear you, Red." Blake said. "We currently have a negative visual on... Wait, nevermind, just saw him running down an alleyway, he's still being chased. Moving to intercept. Over." Blake said. Weiss heard over the radio it over the small earpiece that she was given as well, in case things went bad.

"Copy that, keep me informed. Over." Ruby said.

Blake must have forgotten to switch off the earpiece at that time because they heard everything after that.

There was a loud screeching of tires as the car probably stopped. Car doors opened followed by the cocking of weapons. She heard Blake and LD begin shouting "Get down" and "On the ground".

"Who the hell are you?" she heard Knight ask.

"Shut up, that's who we are." LD said.

"Just think if us as cops, but worse." Blake said.

"Great." Knight complained.

She heard the sound of a zip tie being tied around Knight's wrists. 'They're really going to high levels of believability here.' Weiss thought.

"Are you going to take him to the cops?" Weiss heard a bystander ask, possibly one of the people who was chasing Knight.

"Yeah, we'll ask them though not to release his name... Whatever it is." Blake said.

"Why's that?" the bystander asked.

"No questions," LD said. "We have our reasons and you don't need to know them, return to your lives."

The sound of Knight being pushed into the car was heard, even a slight "Ouch" could be heard. The car doors slammed once more and the sound of tires squealing again echoed through the earpiece.

"We got, Knight." Blake said.

"We know." said Ruby.

"How do you... I forgot to turn off my earpiece, didn't I?" Blake asked.

"Yup." said Yang, popping the 'P'.

"My bad." said Blake.

"Happens sometimes." Ruby said. "Sounded like fun, though."

"Ya'know, it was kind of fun to push around Knight slightly. Even point a gun at him." Blake said cheerfully.

"You call it fun, I call it terrifying." Knight said, slightly annoyed.

There were slight chuckles over the radio, even Weiss cracked a smile. "Ok, in all seriousness, let's get to the chop shop and drop off the ambulance, then we can head to the outskirts of the city, get on the bullheads, and head home." Ruby said.

Everyone gave their "okay's" and "Yes Ma'am's" and went back to their current objective. Halfway there, they turned off the sirens and soon after, pulled up to the chop shop.

The chop shop was an old rundown service stations with a rusted it sign outside reading "Toad's Towing". There were cars lined out front that were either completely rusted or covered by a tarp of some sorts.

There was no one there, but the two garage doors were open. One of the spots being empty and the other being occupied by a black SUV much like the other one.

They drove the ambulance into the garage and as soon as it stopped, Ruby opened the back doors and shut the rusty old door to cover up the ambulance.

As Weiss stepped out, she heard the sounds of another car stopping out front. She looked out the other garage briefly and saw the other SUV waiting for them.

"Ok, everyone in." Ruby said. "The windows are tinted so we shouldn't need to worry about anyone recognizing you Weiss."

"Alright." Weiss said. She got in the back seat of the second SUV with Ruby while Yang and Mulan sat up front with Mulan driving again.

When they began to pull out of the garage, Weiss heard a deep voice coming through Ruby's earpiece.

"Red, this is Ursa, come in. Over." the deep voice said.

"I'm here, Ursa. What's going on? Over." Ruby said.

"We just got off the phones with all our inside workers in Vale. It's official. Weiss Schnee, is dead. Over." Ursa said.

"Great. Everything went off without a hitch on our part. So I guess we're in the clear." Ruby said.

"Your guess is correct. Come back to base. Miss Schnee's training will begin the day after she comes back. Ursa, out." the connection stopped there. Ruby turned off her earpiece and turned to Weiss.

"Congratulations, you're now dead." Ruby said smugly.

Weiss nodded. "Still don't think it's a good idea with me joining?" she asked.

"Oh no, I'm still much against this. But I guess I just have to go with it now, since there's no turning back." Ruby said.

"I'm not losing you again, Ruby. And don't worry I'll be fine. I may not look like it, but I'm strong." Weiss said in her best convincing tone.

Ruby just gave Weiss a long stare and said "Alright" with a shrug and finished it off with a smile.

"By the way, Weiss. We haven't properly introduced you to Mulan yet. Weiss, meet Lie Ren. He's a member of Jaune's team." Ruby said.

"Hi." he said.

"Hello, Lie." Weiss said.

"Call me Ren." Ren said. "Everyone calls me Ren."

"Okay. Nice to meet you, Ren." Weiss said.

"You too." Ren said.

After about another twenty minutes if driving, they reached the outskirts of Vale and saw in a random field, the two bullheads ready and waiting. They drove into the field and parked by the bullheads everyone began piling out of the cars and made sure that they were ready for takeoff.

In the end, everyone got into the bullheads with Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang in one and Jaune, Ren, Scourge and Theron got in the other.

After they were all aboard, the bullheads hovered over the vehicles. After a few moments, the Clink's of the cars being attached could be heard. Then, the bullheads took off in the air, heading for Weiss' new home. Where she would start her new life.

Her new life, as an H&H Mercenary.

AN: Chapter 6, complete! Hey guys, I apologize if this chapter took a little long, I had some writers block on most parts. I would like to thank all who read the chapter, and I hope you leave a good review. We're getting closer to the big 100 follows! Please share this story with others if they're looking for something to read. I'm still taking OC submissions if you would like one to be in the story. The two submitted OC's who were used in this chapter were Theron Cobalt who was submitted by NobleMETA, and Scourge BloodClan who was submitted by Scourge From BloodClan.

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