The short guy sighed. “These kids are becoming a real problem. Let’s get out of here.”

“Not with that guy, you don’t,” Coco warned.

“She won’t be happy if we come back empty-handed again,” the short guy said to his partner.

“Shut up,” the tall guy shouted.

“Drop him, or else!” Sun demanded.

Something crashed into the ground and the two Huntsmen took off.

“Drop him?” groaned the merchant.

“Fox, if you can track those Huntsmen by their Auras, go after them,” Coco sent. “Find out where they came from.”

“On it,” Fox sent. He sped off after the two bright Auras, plugging his earbuds in and tapping the Scroll in his belt to turn on ADA, his Accessibility Dialog Assistant. She immediately started feeding him information on his surroundings so he didn’t run into a wall or fall into a hole while pursuing the would-be kidnappers.

They seemed to be heading out of town.

“Velvet, Yatsuhashi, I think these guys are heading your way. You’ll recognize them from the other night—you fought them with Sun.”

“You mean the ones we rescued Sun from?” Velvet asked.

“Come on!” Sun sent.

“We’ll be ready,” Yatsuhashi confirmed.

Fox let the Huntsmen get farther ahead of him so they wouldn’t realize they were being followed. He had a good lock on their Auras now, so he wouldn’t have had any trouble finding them again. Just before they hit the northern border of the city, they stopped. Fox crept to their coordinates and listened. It was quiet.

“ADA, what’s in front of me?” Fox whispered.

“One kilometer north there is a five-story building constructed of steel and concrete, rectangular in shape.”

“That’s pretty tall for Vacuo, and it’s made of concrete?” Fox said. “What building is it?”

“It is currently abandoned.”

“It isn’t abandoned now. Someone just went inside.”

“It has no designated purpose on public record at this time.”

“What used to be there?” Fox asked.

“The Mistral Trading Company owned and operated it as a Dust refinery.”

“That would have been before the war.”

“Correct.”

Fox relayed the info to Velvet and Yatsuhashi.

“They’re inside now,” Fox sent, concentrating his Semblance. “I can’t pick them out because there are a lot of people inside and a lot of their Auras seem the same.”

Velvet and Yatsuhashi soon joined Fox. “We happened to be nearby,” Velvet said, relieved. “Glad we could get here.”

“So … how do you want to play this?” Yatsuhashi asked.

“I want to know what’s in there. Who’s in there,” Fox said. He had a bad feeling about this.

- RWBY: Before the Dawn, Chapter 4