Powerless In a Powerful World

Stroll Down The Street

Y/N POV

Sometime after the incident in the forest I walk with my teammates down the streets of Vale. Looking around I see everyone setting up decorations. For some reason this makes Weiss smile for an abnormally long time.

Weiss: "The Vytal Festival, what a wonderous occasion this'll be."

Ruby: "It's kinda weird you'd be smiling over something so simple like a festival."

Weiss: "It's not just a festival. It's an event meant to celebrate all the cultures of the world. There'll be everything ranging from games to parades to even a full scale tournament. Oh the amount of planning is enough to leave me weak in the knees."

Y/N: *quietly* "And people call me weird."

Weiss: "I heard that."

Yang: "Explain why we're here on a Friday."

Weiss: "I had heard that students from other academies were to be arriving today. So I believe it's my duty as a proud Vale representative to welcome them to this fine kingdom."

Blake: "That or you just wanna know their fighting style."

Weiss: "You can't prove that."

Ruby: "Woah. Look at that."

We turn seeing ambulances. We walk that way.

Ruby: "What happened here?"

Officer: "Fight. Though I'd hardly call it that. These people were beaten within an inch of their lives."

Yang: "Who'd do such a thing?"

Officer: "Who knows."

I look to the side to see a man being wheeled away. I reach into a pouch withdrawing a ball. Tossing it to the side it explodes alerting the paramedics. This allows me to get close to the man on the gurney.

Y/N: "Who did this to you?"

He moves his hand up and down. Recognizing the pattern I put my arm under his hand.

Man: *morse code* "Tall... woman. Clad in... black."

The paramedics return rushing the man away. I recall what he said.

Y/N: "Tall woman clad in black. Not much to go on but at least it's something."

I walk back to my teammates. 

Ruby: "What were you doing talking to that man?"

Y/N: "Wanted to see what he knew. Said his attacker was a tall woman clad in black."

Yang: "That really narrows it down."

Blake: "That'll be like trying to find a needle in a kingdom sized haystack."

Weiss: "There's gotta be some way we can narrow it down."

Y/N: "Why not just look into the history of the victims?"

They all look at me.

Ruby: "What do you mean?"

Y/N: "I mean look and see who they are, what it is that they do. Have none of you guys ever watched a crime show?"

Blake: "But the only way we'd be able to do that is to use the police database."

Weiss: "There's no way they'd let us do that."

Yang: "Unless we went around them."

I shake my head seeing what's about to happen.

Y/N: "May Oum forgive us."

I now find myself getting dolled up.

Y/N: "Explain why I've gotta be the one to cause a distraction."

Yang: "Because you drew the short straw."

Weiss: "And... done."

She leans back smiling.

Weiss: "Gotta say, not too bad."

Ruby: "Okay now remember. You just got shot. So act like it. Really sell it but don't overdo it."

I'm roughly shoved towards the police station. I sigh shaking my head.

Y/N: "Here goes nothing."

Quickly exhaling I make myself breathless. I then rush into the police station.