Constellation (Male Reader x RWBY)

Part 14

A knock was heard from the otherside of the office's door. Ironwood looked up from his papers to the noise. He hadn't called anyone over, and Winter was out of the building. He pulled open one of the drawers of the desk, taking out his large hand cannon from it. He kept it on his lap as he gave permission for whoever was on the other side to enter. The door opened, and to his relief, it was a single high personnel staff—as apparent from his attire. However, he became slightly worried from the fact that he was from a department tasked in keeping an eye out for major threats.

"General, sir." The man politely greeted, to which Ironwood gave a nod. 

"Grimm? Something more... political?" Ironwood gave his guesses.

"No—well, yes. Sort of. The Schnee Dust Company is involved," the man stated. Ironwood grimaced, for he didn't have much of a good relationship with Jacques, the current head of the company. "We recovered a video file of an incident that happened during a mining operation in the south. Only the head of our team has seen the file, and he requested to have any other traces of the incident in the SDC to be removed immediately. Finally, he wished to have this sent to you." The man finished, bringing out a usb stick. He walked over to the desk and placed it down in front of the general. Ironwood thanked, and he gave a salute back in response before departing. Once he was alone, he picked up the stick and inspected it for a moment, as if there might've been some oddity to it. 

"An incident, huh?" He spoke to himself in thought as he looked at the usb stick. He finally stopped after a few moments, and opened up the hologram computer of his desk. The screen flickered to life before he entered a password on the digital keyboard. Once he was in, he opened a small compartment in the desk, and inserted the stick. The screen displayed a small loading bar that gradually filled up with white. A new tab appeared, one of the video. He looked at the screen for a moment, a small hesitation took his hand, before he pressed play.

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The video ended. Ozpin stared at the screen in silent thought as Ironwood spoke through the call, "It is one of those monsters." 

"Have you secured the site and contained the information?"

"Yes, my men have done it well already," Ironwood answered. "I can prepare my best men and weaponry to take this thing out before it causes trouble."

"No, you'll need Y/N for that."

"The kid?" Ironwood asked, puzzled. "My army has much more firepower than a singular child—"

"Maybe, but only he can deal the final blow to it." Ozpin stated calmly. For a moment, there was silence between the two before Ozpin spoke again. "However, assistance with the elimination would be appreciated by Y/N i'm sure. Just don't use any living ones."

"What about—"

"You can use the Ace Ops."

"Thank you. I will get my forces started immediately. We'll be sending over a transport bullhead to pick him up."

"Then let's get this done swiftly, and hopefully before the festival. Good luck on your end, James."

"And to you as well." Ironwood said before the call ended. Ozpin sighed, closing the screen of the hologram computer. Ozpin looked out the window, seeing the sun rising. 

"A weekend, which means he is most likely..."

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Ruby rubbed her eyes with a yawn as she sluggishly opened the door. "Who is it—" Her eyes widened and her body shot straight up as she saw it was none other than the headmaster. "Professor Ozpin!" Ruby exclaimed with surprise, waking up a few others in the room.