A/N: Another Rwby Fanfic to fill the void between volumes. Be wary, as there is a far amount of time skipping throughout this story.

"Summer!" Raven's voice rang out just in time for me to notice that our fearless leader had thrown herself into an ever-widening ditch beneath us. "Qrow!"

Raven didn't need to tell me twice. I dove after her. She was easy to spot: A white cape against a brown and gray backdrop. It was much harder to avoid the falling rocks that could've easily killed us both. What could be so important to her?

Then, I saw it. One of her crescent moon knives, was spinning just out of her grasp in front of her. A boulder was also about to fall on her but that didn't seem to matter at the moment. I pulled out my long sword, slicing it in half, one of them still fell on her, but at least it was less damage. She flung herself away from the bottom. My scroll beeped to signal her aura levels dropping. Stupid girl.

"Got it!" She turned around to smile at me. She held Bloom in her hands, the rest of her knives were sheathed around her small frame. I don't know how many she carried, but I've only ever seen 6 at once. She crashed into the wall, slowing her momentum and allowing me to grab her over my shoulder. "And I've got you." We were quickly approaching the floor, a cavern deep within the depths of Mt. Glenn.

The city had originally been planned as an expansion of Vale, but the project had ended in disaster when hordes of Grim escaped Merlot Industries' experimental facilities at the heart of the city. Every senior at Beacon Academy was dispatched on a mission to defeat any Grim they found and scavenge for survivors. We were in the middle of a systemic search when a small group of Beowulf attacked, causing the ground to break away.

"And now, here we are." I swung my scythe into the ground before landing on top. Birds had very good balance.

Summer giggled. "My hero." I unceremoniously dropped her from my shoulder, she was barely taller than my scythe. It would've been funny if I hadn't been so angry at her.

"What the hell were you thinking?! Now we're stuck down here until we can find our way back up to the city."

She shrugged at my anger. "I wasn't. I had to grab my weapon back. If you dropped Huginn, you probably would've done the same thing."

She was right, but I didn't want to say anything that would make her any more proud of herself. "So what do we do now? All of our supplies are with Tai, and we have no way of getting back up to the city. This place could be overrun with Grim."

Her eyes sparkled with mischief. "We'll be fine. See the train tracks? They lead to various parts of the city and eventually back to Vale. We'll just follow them out while we search for survivors. Now come on. I don't want to be stuck here with you for too long."

She skipped off. I grabbed my scythe and trailed after her. She thought she was so clever. But I couldn't deny that she was. I could only hope she'd always be this clever. She took too many risks not to be. A danger to herself and everyone around her.

We walked in silence through several long tunnels. Each one looked more or less the same. We could be lost down here for days before anyone found us, or us them. I was thumbing through the chances of finding an exit before her scroll beeped. She jumped in surprise before pulling it out. "A timer. I've set one for every hour so we know how long we've walked. There's a tracker too so we know how far we've walked and in what direction." She was showing me a poor map on her scroll. There was no indication of anything around us, just a squiggly line showing the route we had used and a tally for the supposed hour we'd been inside the tunnels.

"Not bad." She generally was clever with her little plans but I rarely complimented her. She got too cocky too easily.

"I know." She grinned, "but I wish you'd say something. I don't want to just walk through the tunnels in silence. Do you want to play a game or something?"

I smirked slightly in spite of myself. She was so childish. "What game can we possibly play in this dark and boring tunnel?"

"Hmm…" She already had something in mind, I could tell by the way she was smiling. Her lost in thought face was just another one of her silly games. "We'll ask each other questions, and when you can't answer, the other person gets a point. Whoever has less points when we make it out, has to buy ramen."

"That sounds stupid, but okay. Just for you I guess." I shrugged. Sounded simple enough, and even if I lost, it would just be a bowl of ramen.

"I'll go first. Ahem. What's the name of your first girlfriend?"

I took a step back in surprise. "What…You can do that? I thought it'd be trivia."

"We never set any rules, I can ask anything I want. If you don't want to answer, I'll consider that a point in my favor." She was grinning at me mischievously, like a tiny devil in a white hood. I weighed the alternatives in my head. To give in this early would give her a lot of leeway into getting points. I'd be losing by miles before the next hour waseven up.

"Wren Branwen." She laughed, and her giggles echoed throughout the cavern.

"She was a Branwen?! Were you guys related or something?"

"That's two questions and that's cheating. You get nothing. It's my turn to ask something." I thought for a moment, before coming up with nothing. It's not that she wasn't interesting, but it was hard to want to know more about someone I had already lived with for three years. "What about you? What was the name of your first boyfriend?"

"Pass."

"That's it? You're giving me a point just like that?" I could never tell what she wanted. Magical girl this one.

"Yup. Take the point, my free gift to you on this wondrous day. My turn. What's the name of your most recent girlfriend?"

I had to think about that one. "Define girlfriend."

"A girl you've either kissed, had unsaintly relations with, or asked on more than 3 dates." Yikes.

"Thistle Lambdini"

"The girl next door?! Oh my god! It's going to be so awkward now! I won't be able to look at her the same way when we shower. What did you do Qrow?"

"Stop with the double questions you cheater. Why does it matter what I did? It's not like you stare at each other while showering."

"Because it's weird! What if you knew Raven and Tai were doing stuff when we weren't looking. Would you be able to look at him the same way or would you picture him naked doing creepy stuff to your sister?"

I had to pause for a moment and shake the mental image away. That would need some mind bleach. "Okay. Fine. I guess. It is kinda weird. I'll try not to mess around with the girls on our floor anymore."

She laughed. "You don't mean that. It's okay, Qrow. I understand, but it's my turn again!"

"Wait! It's my turn. You already asked your question."

"No I didn't. I asked you about your last girlfriend. You asked me why it'd be weird looking at Thistle. I answered you so it'd be my turn."

I had to stop walking for a minute to calculate that. It felt like she was cheating, but two could play at that game. "True, but then you asked me if I could look at Tai the same way if I knew he was sleeping with my sister and I said I couldn't. There, my turn."

"...That's petty, Qrow." She was frowning, but her eyes were mischievous and playful.

"You started it." I laughed. "So, what's the name of your most recent boyfriend?"

"Pass."

"What the hell Summer? Do you just plan to pass all of them and give me a free bowl of ramen?!" Her scroll beeped. It had been another hour. Time was moving faster. I hadn't even noticed how far we'd walked or how many stones she had uncovered. She was still doing her job: Checking corners and under larger stones for survivors. There had been none. The attack on Mt. Glenn had been disastrous.

"No. But the questions you're asking are hard."

"They're YOUR questions. I'm just throwing them back at you."

"I know. But I have standards. I don't just air my dirty laundry to anyone who asks."

"I'm not just anyone." This was getting offensive. We were friends, teammates, sometimes more than that and she was just leaving me hanging.

"Nope. But you're not someone I'd tell these things to."

"Then who would you tell them to?"

"I don't know. A boyfriend if he asked. I think he'd deserve to know these things."

"Okay. Fine. If you're going to play it like that, then I guess there's nothing else to say." My anger had already melted away. If she was going to pull out the boyfriend card then there was no way to argue.

"Well, if you're done with the hissy fit, I guess it's my turn." I'd completely forgotten about the game, but she clearly hadn't, however, I wasn't going to let her get away just yet.

"No it isn't. It's mine."

"Nope. You already took your turn. You asked who I would tell those things to, and I answered you: my boyfriend."

"Fine. Whatever. Go."

"Why did you choose us as partners?"

This was a different one. I guess she was out of questions about my love life. "What do you mean?"

"At Initiation. Tai saw me falling out of the sky and disappearing so we were paired up even before I made it to the temple. I was waiting there to see who else had paired up, trying to pick the best team, doing retcon. I saw you and Raven sitting there the entire time. You were scouting the teams too. Why did the two of you pick Tai?"

That was a tough question. I remember that day too. We had just come to the school. She'd watched the other students the night before. We'd slept three hours each and watched them for the rest. None of them had met her standards so she'd decided to wait at the temple instead. The pairs came one after another but it wasn't until Tai walked up alone that my sister decided to match his choice: The Black Knight.

"I think it was because he was alone. Raven thought he was interesting to make it through the forest without seeing anyone else. We didn't know you were there."

"So it was because she thought he was strong enough to make it through the forest alone."

"Alone and unarmed. Yeah. Probably."

"You didn't help pick?"

"No."

"That's unexpected."

"I didn't really care either way. I didn't come here to make friends."

"But you made two anyway." She was smiling. The tension between us had completely disappeared.

It was my turn now, and I'd come up with the perfect question. "When did you know you liked me?"

She laughed, that same ringing giggle that echoed through the caves. "You're really cocky you know that?"

I started laughing too. "Yeah, I know."

"Do you remember that night I cornered you outside the dorm right after Initiation?"

"Yes."

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