The New Rose

Chapter 11 - Finding Answers

Ruby and the rest of her unit had spent pretty much all day trying to find information about who this red-headed White Fang member could be, but they found nothing. There were multiple White Fang members in the system in Atlas, but none who matched the description of their offender. It was basically impossible to find information on White Fang members outside of the system, given the fact that the organization was so secretive. Ruby sighed at the fact that she may have to get Blake involved in this, which was something that she really did not want to do.

It was true that Ruby was angry at Blake just like the others and didn't really consider her to be a friend anymore, but that didn't mean that she wanted to drag Blake into her past. Given the obsession with the White Fang that Blake showed throughout these few months, Ruby imagined that something bad happened between them that caused Blake to defect. It was clear that whatever it was Blake was still not over it, and Ruby really did not want to throw it in her face. That being said though, was there really another option? They needed to find out who this offender was, but how? Ruby's thought process was interrupted when Seth placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, are you ok?" Seth asked worried and Ruby just smiled.

"Yeah I am good, don't worry." Ruby said while winking at him and Seth smiled and nodded.

"OK, don't stress yourself out alright?" Seth asked and Ruby nodded, then Sindel got everyone's attention.

"Alright everyone, have we made any progress?" Sindel asked and Sin broke the bad news to her.

"Sorry Ma'am but we have been through every file in the system, there has been no White Fang member matching that description. And in the footage we have seen there has been no one in the White Fang with Red Hair. The only thing that we have to go on is that kid's testimony and even then maybe he saw something different. You would think that if this guy is a higher up in the organization, we would have seen him in that footage somewhere." Sin said and everyone agreed.

"So, let's go over what we know so far. The three perpetrators behind the rise in crime recently are Roman Torchwick, Dexter DeShawn, and some White Fang member with red hair and a different mask than usual. We know from Ruby that Roman Torchwick and the White Fang have gone on some joint business venture together, one that involves getting an absurd amount of dust. We know from Shauna that Dexter DeShawn is responsible for information gathering, likely gathering intel on the stores with the most dust. The question is, what is the end goal?" Sindel asked her unit and everyone was wondering the same thing.

"You all don't think that the White Fang are going to do another terrorist attack do you? Then again, you don't need all of that dust unless you are going to blow something up…" Mira said in worry with her finger on her chin and Jago nodded.

"To be honest, I forgot about that mine incident until we had to go get the dust out of the mine. The White Fang are carrying on their mission to be recognized and respected in the world, and they can't do that unless they have a big influence. That mine incident clearly didn't cut it, so now they are trying to do something that will really get their message across. What's frustrating is that there are so many monuments and important places among Remnant that they could target, so narrowing down targets will be difficult." Jago informed them and they all nodded.

"I say we let General Ironwood know and get his help, this is something that greatly concerns him and the people of Atlas. With his influence, I am sure that General Ironwood can gather information from the other kingdoms so we can find this third offender and see what they are all up to. The last thing that we need is for the White Fang to commit a large-scale attack, the public would be scared out of their mind and blame all huntsman if that were to happen." Litchi stated and Sindel nodded her head.