TIME: 8 years after Fall of Beacon: March 3rd, Cycle 2040. 9:45AM

LOCATION: Outskirts of Mountain Glenn, ten kilometers from Vale ~~~

"We need to find Rorick. He has my scroll!"

"Calm down Paisley, it is just a scroll." The reply came from behind her. She turned to face her teammate, Stone Noir.

"NO! I NEED MY SCR-"

Stone looked up. Standing in full view of the two was Rorick, the leader of Team RPRS(ReaPeRS). He was wearing a large grin that barely contained the exaggerated laugh he struggled to push down. In his left hand was a Scroll, and when Paisley saw it, Rorick's grin changed into an expression of fear and realization.

"Uh, hey guys," he said in an uncomfortable tone. He then looked at the imaginary watch on his wrist. "Oh look at the time. Gottagobye!"

Before he moved an inch, an oversized war hammer flew directly past his face and landed in the bushes behind him. After the mere shock and surprise of it went away, Rorick went back to his carefree self. "Ha, you misse-."

And that's when the war hammer flew back, hit Rorick's legs, and he landed flat on his back. Paisley smiled as the hammer flew into her hand. "You should really be more careful about who you piss off, you know that?"

"Haha." Rorick said jokingly as he struggled to get up. "I'd do it all over again if I could."

"Sure you would," Stone said as he moved past the two. " Except next time, she might decide to hit you somewhere a little higher than your legs."

Paisley snatched her Scroll and accessed it. On the device was a message from Professor Oscar, headmaster at Beacon Academy. Paisley read it aloud.

'To Team RPRS,

This message will get no farther than your eyes and ears only. Your mission is to head deep into the Emerald Forest. There has been a major increase in the number of Grimm there and you must find out why. A distress message went out from a location not far from the Grimm clusters. It is believed that a former Beacon team was taken hostage by a group of unidentified terrorists. Rescue the team and eliminate their attackers if possible.

- Professor Oscar'

The strange thing was, the professor wouldn't tell them who it was that they were rescuing; he just said that they would 'know them when they saw them'. Stone continued on, saying, "Hey, you two might wanna stop joking around and get on with the mission."

Rorick got up and looked around, somewhat confused. "Hey, does anyone know where Rosemary is?"

"No," replied Paisley, "I haven't seen her since we sent her scouting up ahead."

Rosemary Gold was the team's best strategist and a pristine attacker. Her primary weapon of choice was a rapier forged with only the best materials. The handle was made with dark oak and had gold inlays delicately entwined in the wood. The blade itself was made from crushed emerald that was compressed and dipped in several layers of liquid titanium. The sword, named Golden Orchid, had been with Rosemary before she learned to walk. It was a family heirloom crafted and wielded by Rosemary's great-grandmother who was one of Beacon's best swordsmen. She had earned the attention of Professor Ozpin and many of her teachers multiple times.

Beacon was one the four academies in Remnant and was previously located in Vale, one of the four Kingdoms. The infamous 'Fall of Beacon' happened only eight years ago and the Kingdom of Vale was still recovering. The main defenders of Beacon were teams CFVY, RWBY, JNPR, and SSSN. They all used to be students at Beacon, although no one had seen Teams RWBY or JNPR since they evacuated Vale.

Rorick was thinking on this, and if it had anything to do with their mission, but before he could think on it any farther an arrow whizzed by his head. He got up, sword in hand. The others saw this and whipped out their weapons. Rorick looked in the direction the arrow came from and wasn't surprised by what he saw.

"Hey guys!" said Rosemary from a nearby tree. "How's it going?"

She jumped down and landed in front of her teammates and they were all furious, especially Rorick who spoke up first. "You almost gave me a heart attack!" exclaimed Rorick, trying, and failing, to stay as calm as possible.

"Oh calm down,"Rose said playfully, kissing him on the cheek, "I knew I wouldn't hit you."

"Sure you did," interjected Stone, "but that's besides the point, what did you see up there?"

Rose turned to face Stone and said, "Ah, nothing much. Just a bunch of Grimm and empty streets. There is a cluster of buildings they could use as a hideout, at least till they thought it was safe to take the hostages elsewhere."

At that, Paisley got up from her seated position and spoke. "Well, what are we waiting for? An invitation?" She asked in the most serious tone she could muster. "If there is a chance that the people we came to rescue are in those buildings, then we should already be out there."

Rorick agreed, so they made their way to the inner city and prepared for combat.