Jaune and Weiss cleaned up Weiss's bedroom. As Jaune threw a used condom away, Weiss said, "You... We... That was actually pretty fun." Weiss smiled as she put her clothes on.

Jaune, still shirtless, replied, "Was that the first time you've had sex in a while?"

"Yeah. I haven't had it since the Beacon Academy days." Weiss then stretched. "How about you-... Oh..."

"No, it's fine. The last time I did it was the night before Pyrrha died. Listen, Weiss, I still miss her. Everyone does. But I've got to move on. Same goes for everyone. Pyrrha's dead, and nothing can change that. Besides, I don't think she would mind us."

Weiss thought to herself, "Oh Jaune, you have noooo fucking idea..." "You're right. Pyrrha wouldn't mind."

Pyrrha's ghost stood in the doorway. She said, "Yeah, I do mind, Weiss."

Jaune then stood up and said, "Well, I gotta go to the bathroom. I'll be back." Weiss then waved at him.

Pyrrha's ghost said, "You just couldn't help yourself, huh?"

"Okay," Weiss said back. "First off, Jaune started it."

"You enticed him by walking out of the shower with only a towel on."

"Nice lack of logic you got there, Pyrrha. Listen, he's right, you know. We all do need to move on. That includes you. Don't you want to respect Jaune's wishes, or are you that possessive of him?"

Pyrrha's ghost stood there, staring at Weiss. She then disappeared.

"Well, looks like we have ourselves a coward."

Jaune then walked in. "Got any other plans for today?"

"Not much. I did my shopping yesterday before that fatal fire, and I also worked at my dad's company the day before." She then got up and went to the kitchen to eat some fruit. "Want a banana or something?"

"Sure, why not?" Jaune then grabbed a banana and peeled it. "As for me, I filled in for a teacher a Signal yesterday. I'm gonna be filling in for her for the next month or so on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays because she's pregnant."

Weiss then picked up a newspaper, the Vale City Daily Sun, an infamous tabloid in the city, with a front page story that read "ATTACK OF THE PANS: WOMAN CALLS VOLLIES 'FAGGOTS' AND GETS K.O.'ED BY BLONDE "PANSEXUAL" FIREMAN AT FATAL APARTMENT FIRE." She said, "They're ripping us apart in the tabloids, especially Yang. And it isn't just the fight. They're asking why we took so "long" to get there. We got there in 6 minutes, and we may have shaved a minute off of that if traffic wasn't so bad."

"The Daily Sun has a history of doing that. They always sensationalise stories." Jaune then read the newspaper himself. "I wonder what other newspapers are saying."

"The less-sensational Vale Times reported it pretty neutrally. They've always had a favourable opinion of volunteer firefighters." Weiss then read another story. "Huh? What's this? "COP FOUND SHOT AND SLASHED IN APARTMENT?" This is interesting."

Jaune replied, "That doesn't sound good."

"Oh my God," Weiss said. "The killer left a note saying, "We're coming for you, pigs." Sounds like this guy's out to get cops."

At the dispatching office, things were pretty quiet. Blake was taking phone calls today, and so far, she had taken only 3 calls in 2 hours. Usually, she would have taken at least 7 or 8 by now.

As Blake watched a TV, the phones rang again. She quickly answered it and said, "Fire Department, Alarm Operator T875."

"My wife and kids are dead! Oh my God!" A man cried in the background. "No..."

"Sir, what's your address?" Blake looked visibly worried.

"556 34th Street, I'm in the Agricultural District. PD is en route now." Then, the man heard the door to the upstairs bedroom in his house open. He whispered, "Someone's in my house."

"Get out now. If you have a weapon, use it. I'll send the fire department for the ambulance right away." Blake then typed away at the CAD computer.

"I'm a cop. I'm Bernard Thrush."

"Wait, are you Russel Thrush's brother?"

"Yes, who is this?"

"I went to Beacon with him. Bernard, stay calm. Do you have your service weapon with you?"

"I have to have it with me at home, but it's upstairs." Then, he saw 2 men, armed with guns and machetes, charge at him. "OH GOD NO!" One of the men slashed him across the stomach and held him down, stabbing him in the legs. "AHHHH! OH GOD IT HURTS!"

One of the assailants said, "I bet you like that, pig! Now that you're down, get ready to squeal."

"No! NO! GOD NO! DON'T DO THIS TO ME!" Bernard then screamed at the top of his lungs as one of the assailants moaned.

Blake said, "Sir, what's wrong?!"

The moans got heavier, and the screams got louder. "HELP ME! NO, GOD, NO!" For the next 6 minutes, this went on and on and on and on.

Finally, the assailant stood up and said, "I bet you liked that, pig."

"Why?! Why did you do that?!"

Blake, by now, dropped the phone onto the desk and had lost it, crying her eyes out in front of everyone.

The second assailant then cocked his gun and shot Bernard in the shoulders.

Finally, to finish him off, the first assailant opened Bernard's mouth, placed him on the raised edge between the kitchen floor and the living room floor, and curb-stomped him, crushing his skull. He then picked Bernard up, slashed his throat, and shot him in the head, ending Bernard's life.

The second assailant picked up the phone and said, "We're coming for you next, Blake Belladonna. Even if you cut off one head, another one will sprout up. We will not stop until all traitors to our cause and all pig cops are dead." The phone line then disconnected.

Blake got up and went into a bathroom, continuing to cry. The supervising dispatcher said, "Someone get the recordings of that call and send it to the police now. I'll go comfort Blake."

Then, as the supervising dispatcher got up to attend to Blake, the radio scanner covering police channels picked up a panicked cop radioing, "Precinct 11 to Main Dispatch, urgent!" We have... Uhhh... We have open shooting!"

"Received," A Main Dispatch operator replied on the scanner. "What is the status of the shots fired?"

"We have officers down and 2 suspects with automatic rifles!"

"10-4, we'll get an ERT mobilised." Then, a tone beep was sent out. "Attention all Precincts, a Level One mobilisation has been ordered for Precinct 11's headquarters for an active shooting with 2 armed and dangerous assailants. ESU 4 is to be dispatched at this time."

A Fire Alarm Operator said, "Well this will be an interesting day..."

Later that day, at 6, when Ruby, Blake, and Yang all reported to the Fire Training Academy, they all talked about the cop killing spree that had occurred. Ruby said, "I can't believe they killed all of that guy's family. They did nothing wrong. It's so fucking sick."

Blake replied, "Try listening to that, though. Those assholes fucking raped him, his wife, and all 3 of his kids. Then those other 2 scumbags shot up Precinct 11 before they got shot themselves. They killed 8 cops and 4 dispatcher-secretaries at their Precinct Headquarters." Blake shook her head. "It's fucked up man." She did not mention the direct threat the first 2 assailants had made on her life on the phone to the rest of the team.

Yang said, "Who do you think did it?"

"It had to be the White Fang," Ruby replied. "They've been stepping up their anti-cop rhetoric lately."

Blake said, "No other way... It had to be them... I can't believe they're actually making a fucking comeback."

Meanwhile, back at the apartment, Weiss was watching TV when she heard a door be kicked in from Blake's apartment next door. Weiss got up and grabbed Myrtenaster. She thought, "These burglars picked the wrong fucking apartment!"

When she walked up to the door of Blake's empty apartment, she heard a man say, "Damn it, she's not here!"

Weiss then burst in and said, "Come at me then, assholes!"

"Oh look," an assailant said. "It's Weiss Schnee, an even better target!"

Weiss said, "Hmph. I don't think so." She then activated a glyph that teleported her behind one assailant. As she impaled that assailant with Myrtenaster, she said, "Kick rocks, dickhead."

The second assailant tried firing his gun at her, but it jammed. Weiss replied by firing a white dust cartridge, freezing the second assailant in his tracks. She then decapitated him, causing his head to fall to the ground and covering Weiss in blood. Several neighbours ran in and called 911. Weiss said, "I killed them. They tried to go after my best friend, but she wasn't home. When I confronted them, they were armed and dangerous." She then noticed a note left on the ground.

It read, "This is what traitors of the White Fang get."

"So this is who did this. Not surprised. Not surprised at all."

Weiss got home from a nearby police station at 9. She told officers that she would tell Blake herself after she was released from fire training at 10. When she got home, she talked to her dad about the incident. "Weiss, you did a very good thing defending your... Friend."

"Thank you," Weiss replied. She could tell her dad was finally accepting Blake fully. "I walked over when I heard them kick the door and they both said they wanted to kill me since I would be a bigger prize."

"You did the right thing." Hermann then sighed. "Damn, this city is getting crazier by the day. The guards I have at the family house a few blocks down are requesting permission to be armed now. I thought that once we imprisoned or hanged most of the White Fang's leadership, they'd cease to be an effective group. We were dead wrong. If anything, their new leaders are crazier."

"Say, I think Blake was working the phones today at Fire Alarm. I wonder if she got that off-duty cop's call."

"I hope not, for her sake. That must have been a really fucked-up call." Then, they both heard the fire siren roar up. "Well, we might as well go to the station."

"Indeed." Weiss and Hermann then got up and ran down the stairs to the outside as the ambulance responded. They then ran to the station, a relatively short distance.

When Hermann ran in, he looked at the teleprinter and said, "Bravo-response auto accident." He then ripped the paper out and took it with him as he and Weiss got their gear on. They were soon joined by Ren and another firefighter.

In 2 and a half minutes, Hermann jumped into the driver's seat and radioed, "Fire Alarm, Rescue 201's en route with a crew of 4."

"10-4, per the request of Car 5, respond non-emergency."

"10-4, non-emergency."

Weiss said, "Awww man..."

Hermann replied, "Sorry, Captain Kirkridge's orders."

September 1, 2020

It had been 2 weeks since the "Day of Rampage" the White Fang had ordered on police officers. The city held many tearfully heartbreaking funerals for the officers who here slain by the terrorists, and Delwyn IV himself made a statement saying, "They're all a bunch of jackasses. Regardless of whether or not the claims of police brutality against faunus are valid or not, which I believe in some cases is valid, there was no need for the wanton violence on that day, especially against officers and civilians, including children, who had nothing to do with any sort of wrongdoings certain officers may have committed. The VCPD has made many gains in reaching out to the community, punishing cops who commit wrongdoing, and hiring faunus in the past 30 years, and I will not let this terrorist attack deter that."

At 10, Ruby and Gwenllian, known as Gwen for short, returned from a date. They had been going out for a week and a half by now. "That was a fun movie, Ruby."

"I still am shocked by that twist ending though," Ruby replied. "I was ready to scream when it was revealed the guy's father was the killer. He was such a sympathetic character! I thought it was that guy's asshole of a grandma." Ruby and Gwen then walked into Ruby and Yang's apartment.

"Where's Yang?"

"Over at her boyfriend's house, probably screaming his name in bed." They both then laughed. "Anyways, me, her, and my friend Blake, as well as Yang's boyfriend, are gonna be taking a Basic Firefighter-CFR exam on the 5th. Once we pass that, we'll be fully certified interior firefighters."

"Cool. So, when do you wanna go out next?"

"Maybe the 4th. I got other stuff to do on the 2nd and 3rd."

"Okay. By the way, this may seem like a very personal question, but are you a..."

"A what? It's fine. Ask anything." Ruby was confused.

"Are you a virgin?"

"Ohhhh... Uhhhh... Yes... I've never done the do or anything to anyone's junk but my own ever. I'm kinda the opposite of Yang in regards to sex."

"I can tell. There's no shame in that. As for me, I'm not. I've had sex with 2 other girls in the past. Listen, if you want to do anything or ask any questions, Ruby, tell me."

Ruby smiled and replied, "Thanks, Gwen." They then fistbumped.

Gwen then gave Ruby a kiss on the cheek and said, "I gotta go. Goodbye."

Vale City Police Department Operations (Brief Overview)

All 7 districts in the city have 3 precincts, as well as an attached Emergency Service Unit, or ESU. The ESU responds to hostage crises, holdouts, technical rescues, auto extrications, and other special incidents. There are 3 vehicles in each ESU team, 1 per precinct.

Each precinct has a small, 4-man dispatching office that handles radio traffic for their precinct. There is also a channel where each precinct can contact the Main Dispatch Office, where 911 calls are first answered. If the fire department is needed for fire, rescue, or medical attention, the MDO will transfer the call to the Fire Alarm Office once the basic info of the call is noted. The MDO will then radio the precinct where the call took place in and tell them to dispatch a certain number of units units to the call.

The VCPD is unique because they use pager tones to notify each precinct of a call from the MDO, as well as to notify members of a district's ESU team. Each precinct has 2 channels: 1 for regular ops, and 1 as a backup in case the first channel gets tied up. Additionally, each district also has a special operations channel for ESU operations.

A Level One mobilisation will call all officers in the district of the incident as well as activate that district's ESU team. A Level Two mobilisation calls out 3 districts. A Level Three mobilisation calls out all on-duty officers. A Level Four mobilisation calls out all officers, on and off-duty.