[The image that flickers onto Ford's Omni is that of a large, nearly building -- but not one Ford is likely to have ever seen before. A nervous-looking man stands on a sort of dais as Qrow walks in alongside several teenagers.
The man--Leo--starts to act more and more squirrelly as the conversation continues, apparently uncomfortable with both the number of teens present and the fact that they are armed. Qrow, the one adult in the group, looks increasingly impatient with the pleasantries and cuts them off with a crabby demand to know whether or not they would be receiving support from "the council", but Leo doesn't get the opportunity to answer before one of the teens notices a little black bird perched on a railing, and calls it to it as her mom.
Qrow fires a shot to see if he provokes a reaction; indeed, the bird touches down on the ground and becomes a woman -- one that looks practically a mirror image of him.
"If you're going to shoot me, shoot me. That was insulting."
"What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same thing. You've been scheming, little brother," she responds, that particular cadence to "little" that might be recognizable to one familiar with having a twin, "Planning to attack your own sister."
He doesn't deny the accusation, yet all the same, he looks shocked, turning to face the man on the dais as though betrayed.
"Leo, what have you done?!"
The woman answers for him; he remains silent, as though ashamed. Qrow makes one last ditch attempt to get her to reconsider, to work together--we can beat Salem, he entreats--but she won't have it.
"All that time spent spying for Ozpin, and you still have no idea what you're dealing with. There is no beating Salem."
It's Ruby that interrupts, then, with her own impassioned speech about the impossible things they've all accomplished because they weren't alone.
"Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. ...Please."
All the woman has to offer in response is contempt. "You sound just like your mother."
And then she opens a portal behind her, a fireball launched at Ruby before four figures emerge from it. Three of Salem's minions and a fourth unknown. A fifth steps in from behind to close the door behind everyone, lock them in.
(This was all a trap. Leo is a traitor...and so is your sister.)
"Sorry, brother. Sometimes family disappoints you like that," drawls her voice, dripping ice and poison.
(There's the familiar burn of exertion in your muscles as your blades clang and clash in deadlock, refusing to lose ground but failing to gain any -- but the more painful burn is in your chest. You were a fool for hoping she might ever come around. Did you ever really know her at all?)
"We're not family anymore."
"Were we ever?"
Maybe not. Maybe it was stupid to have thought they could've built something better than what the bandits had to give them.
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The man--Leo--starts to act more and more squirrelly as the conversation continues, apparently uncomfortable with both the number of teens present and the fact that they are armed. Qrow, the one adult in the group, looks increasingly impatient with the pleasantries and cuts them off with a crabby demand to know whether or not they would be receiving support from "the council", but Leo doesn't get the opportunity to answer before one of the teens notices a little black bird perched on a railing, and calls it to it as her mom.
Qrow fires a shot to see if he provokes a reaction; indeed, the bird touches down on the ground and becomes a woman -- one that looks practically a mirror image of him.
"If you're going to shoot me, shoot me. That was insulting."
"What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same thing. You've been scheming, little brother," she responds, that particular cadence to "little" that might be recognizable to one familiar with having a twin, "Planning to attack your own sister."
He doesn't deny the accusation, yet all the same, he looks shocked, turning to face the man on the dais as though betrayed.
"Leo, what have you done?!"
The woman answers for him; he remains silent, as though ashamed. Qrow makes one last ditch attempt to get her to reconsider, to work together--we can beat Salem, he entreats--but she won't have it.
"All that time spent spying for Ozpin, and you still have no idea what you're dealing with. There is no beating Salem."
It's Ruby that interrupts, then, with her own impassioned speech about the impossible things they've all accomplished because they weren't alone.
"Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. ...Please."
All the woman has to offer in response is contempt. "You sound just like your mother."
And then she opens a portal behind her, a fireball launched at Ruby before four figures emerge from it. Three of Salem's minions and a fourth unknown. A fifth steps in from behind to close the door behind everyone, lock them in.
(This was all a trap. Leo is a traitor...and so is your sister.)
"Sorry, brother. Sometimes family disappoints you like that," drawls her voice, dripping ice and poison.
(There's the familiar burn of exertion in your muscles as your blades clang and clash in deadlock, refusing to lose ground but failing to gain any -- but the more painful burn is in your chest. You were a fool for hoping she might ever come around. Did you ever really know her at all?)
"We're not family anymore."
"Were we ever?"
Maybe not. Maybe it was stupid to have thought they could've built something better than what the bandits had to give them.
"I thought so, but I guess I was wrong."]