Team Rockslide was on its first mission and the tension could be cut with a knife. Jaune had just been briefed via a rather clandestine message system. He was simply sent a set of credentials that checked out when he ran them by the headmaster. Ozpin did, however, ask him why his team was being requested by General James Ironwood.

Jaune had no answer of course and could only shrug his shoulders. He read the briefing and planned out the assault. He would use Ruby for sniper cover and overwatch. He would have Weiss and Blake prep the ground in advance of their exfiltration.

Team PLNR with the exception of Luke and Pyrrha would sabotage the transport depot. When that was done Ruby would trigger the experimental Humidity multiplication dust that General Ironwood had sent them.

That would cover the approach of himself, Pyrrha, Yang, Ren, and Luke. They had what Nora called the fun part. In Jaune's opinion, Halo jumping with from a bullhead so high that it needed to be modified to fly at this altitude was a bad idea. However he needed to get over it, he could use Jorge's training to overcome his motion sickness.

He would need to. He and Luke were going to land on the HQ in the center of the compound while Pyrrha, Yang, and Ren had the hardest task. They had to land IN the northeast, southeast and southwest watchtowers and take out the guards.

They all had assured Jaune that they could make those shots, but he would still worry. Then he and Luke would enter the HQ where they would seize the third floor and Luke would guard the stairwell. Jaune would then be able to seize the comms room, security room, and then finally the server room.

Once Jaune had done that he could upload the Trojan worm that Ironwood gave them and download all the hard drive they had could hold. After they had completed their main objective they would move on to exfiltration.

Jaune would have Luke blast a hole in the south wall of the HQ since no other building directly watched it. They would synchronize the blast with Nora's explosives in the transport depot. That would hide the sound and give them enough confusion to escape through.

Nora and Ren who had been call-signed Havoc team by Nora would exfiltrate through Blake's egress route. Jaune, Pyrrha, Yang, and Luke call-signed Demon team would exfil through Weiss's route.

Ruby would exfil on her own to the Havoc team rendezvous point where they would all be picked up by atlas bullheads and brought to Beacon for a debrief.

So here he was standing in the back of bullhead so high up that he could barely see the compound as the clouds were in the way. He was clothed in a tight HALO or High. Altitude, Low, Opening. Jumpsuit complete with temporary Parachute. They would ditch the chutes once they were close enough to survive the fall and switch over to the wing-suits that would serve for final approach and be discarded after touchdown.

"Alright," Jaune said over the radio. " Ruby set off the fog charges " the command was rewarded with the sight of several large plumes of fog flashing up and flowing around the compound. " all units switch to thermal optics," he said as he pulled on his thermal goggles. He waited until the team was all set before saying " we jump as one. That way we minimize our exposure window" the others offered a series of nods that conveyed their agreement.

They watched the fog swarm the base obscuring the watchtowers from sight. He replaced his thermal goggles and began to speak. " Jump with me " he readied himself and then with one large thrust of his leg he jumped from the plane.

They fell for nearly three minutes before they opened their chutes. The Atlas provided gear instantly lowered their velocity and once they were a safe distance he spoke over the radios in demon team's helmet " drop chute go to wingsuits."

As he spoke he grabbed the cord to release the chute and expand the wing-suit. He waited for a moment after he pulled the cord for the chute break away. Free from the Parachute he began to accelerate again.

He didn't need to look to see the chute begin to fall apart and scatter to the winds in order to lessen the odds of it being found during the operation. Turning his focus back to the mission he saw the watchtower of the HQ in his sights.

Jaune hadn't planned this part, but he was gonna take out the guard in the tower out. Using the suit to slow his speed he landed softly on the roof of the tower. Making his way to the edge of the tower Jaune laid flat on his back with his head near the edge. He grasped the rail of the edge in his hands and did a sit-up movement pulling his feet over the edge and swinging down into the tower.

He saw a single sentry and planted his boots on the man's chest as he swung. Before the man could react, he had the air knocked from his lungs and was kicked from the platform. Jaune dropped to his feet and looked over the edge of the tower to see Luke standing over the now unconscious sentry while looking up at Jaune.

" I see why they put you in charge, " Luke said. With a look of impressed shock on his face. They made their way into the HQ and Luke took up a position watching the stairwell as Jaune cleared the rooms. They both had two occupants who were both dispatched two a quick stun round to the jaw. They may not be dead, but when they came to they will wish they were.

Jaune made his way to the server room where he plugged in both flash drives and waited. When the green lights on both turned on he removed them and regrouped with Luke at the south wall.

Keying the radio he asked " Havoc team, are you ready?"

"Ready and waiting, sir" Jaune grinned Nora had taken to calling him sir after the way they met.

Jaune looked to Luke, who gave him an affirmative shake of his head. " go on three, two, one" as he said one Luke lunged forward and slammed his fist into the wall. Thanks to his semblance a hole big enough for three men was blown in it.

Jaune couldn't hear it though, as at the exact same moment the entire HQ shook as the charges Nora had placed went off. Not daring to look at the chaos she had unleashed, they both took out their grappling hooks and threw them up onto the roof.

After testing to make sure they were secure both Jaune and Luke repelled down. As they landed they saw a two-man foot patrol that was about to start shooting at them and give them away. Before he could even finish raising his gun Jaune saw the men's' heads jerk forward and then watched them fall down.

As the bodies finished falling Yang stepped out from the shadows and blew the smoke from her gauntlets. The suppressors that Jaune forced her to wear and sub-sonic ammo he forced her to use had done their job and the loudest sound was the hammer of the gun clicking and the sound of the stun rounds impacting the skulls of the unfortunate guards she just shot.

A moment later Pyrrha rounded the corner and used her sword to cut a hole in the south fence. They left in a hurry wanting to be as far away as they could be before the downed sentries were found. Everyone knew that they only had about two minutes.

They had just made it to Weiss's position when they heard gunfire from the men pursuing them. "Weiss " Jaune said " I really hope that you did your job "

" the charges are set, " she said as she passed him the detonator. He looked back for a moment before quickly squeezing the trigger. But nothing happened. He tried again, nothing. He looked at Weiss his face one of pure rage at first, but it quickly softened as he looked to Luke. " Get them to the extraction point, I will fix the charges and try to catch up with you. Luke, " he said as he paused to ensure that he was listening " don't wait for me. If the bird is here and I am not then go. Understood.?"

Luke adopted a serious face as he said " understood" it was known only between the two of them that Jaune didn't think he would make it to the extract point in time and that he would probably not be coming back.

The two of them had this discussion in private before the operation began. Jaune had heard of Luke The Warrior and he had read his file. If Jaune had to pick a replacement it would have been Luke. With a reassuring glance to Pyrrha and Yang Jaune turned and headed off to where Weiss was supposed to place the charges.

He sprinted there and saw that the charges were set, but the detonators looked to be broken, they weren't receiving the signals. Thinking fast Jaune pulled out one of his incendiary grenades and tied it to the charge, then he wrapped his grappling hook around the pin, took the other end of the rope in his hand and ran like Hell. He had just felt the pin pull free from the grenade when the explosion pulsed through his body. Jaune ran and ran until he saw the extract bird lift off in the distance.

He was on his own, but he needed to get back. Cause he knew that someone had just tried to kill him.