Between Volumes 2-3, a disturbance with the security network inside of the Emerald Forest calls for an investigation which causes for Team RWBY, joined by Team ODDS, to investigate the situation while led by Professor Port.
What they find out there...
The island of Patch, 2 weeks before the events of Volume 4–
Dante Sparda, member of Team ODDS, sits in the Rose/Xiao long homestead in the dining room after a very long day with a bottle of alcohol he swiped from Qrow's stash in front of him. His eyes looked over his half of the amulet his mother had given him and his brother, Dominic when they were young.
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Sighing, the Devil Hunter puts his family heirloom down and takes another drink from his glass, and rests his head on the table before drifting off to sleep. His mind went back to simpler times before everything went upside down and he was happier.
Vale, months ago, 2:00 am—
The moon hung high in the starlight sky, casting a silvery glow over the quiet city of Vale. Street lamps flickered intermittently, but the streets remained largely empty with the occasional passing car.
Cutting to the interior of a warehouse on the outskirts of Vale, a group of armed men load up and ship crates and containers of Dust and weapons along with containers full of growling beasts that could be Grimm but are never shown as they are under the tightest security conditions.
One of the men closed the crate in front of him but was scolded by another man armed with a rifle for being rough with the Dust.
Armed Thug: Be careful with that! You wanna blow us all sky-high or something?
Random Thug: Lay off me, will ya! I've been lifting this crud all night.
Armed Thug: Well keep lifting before you're lifting until your arms fall off!
Random Thug: Oh yeah!? Well, how about you go-!
The two were suddenly cut off when they heard the sound of footsteps running nearby and the thug with the rifle pointed his gun at the shadowy corner where the sound had come from.
Armed Thug: Who's there!?
Random Thug: Oh crap...!
Another set of footsteps, this time from behind, startles the two and the thug loading the Dust into the crates nearly knocks them over.
Armed Thug:(turns around and shouts) Hey! What the Hell did I just say!? You're gonna-!
The armed thug was suddenly knocked off his feet by a fast-moving figure and then dragged away while screaming and firing his weapon indiscriminately, alerting everyone in the warehouse.
Multiple armed thugs come rushing to where their comrade was just taken and the other was on his bottom with a look of fear on his face.
Armed Thug 2: What the heck happened!?
The thug on the ground couldn't speak and only pointed his index finger towards the shadows to where his colleague was just dragged into.
The thugs opened fire without a second thought, lighting up the small corner until the main one raised his fist in a signal for everyone to cease fire.
