"You are now to be formed into RWBY Squadron, led by Squadron Leader Ruby Rose. Congratulations to you all." Commander Ozpin smiled towards the newly formed squadron. His assistant, Colonel Goodwitch stood beside, continuing to tap away on her scroll, likely finishing up some paperwork for whatever. The military always did loved it's bureaucracy.

"You four will be stationed at Vale Air Force Base, You will ship out at 1900 hours so pack your things."

The four new pilots quickly stood at attention until they were dismissed. Quickly walking out of the Commander's office. As soon as the door closed, Ruby's wingman, Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Defence Company nearly exploded. "How the hell did you get named Squad Leader?! It should have been me!" Of the other two members of the squad, Ruby's older sister Yang Xiao Long immediately spoke up. "The Commander made his decision, so you better learn to deal with it princess." Weiss glared daggers at Yang, hating the fact she knew Yang was right.

"Alright guys, lets go get packed, we leave in only a few hours." Ruby spoke up, trying to move the conversation on. Weiss just pushed past them all into their barracks, grumbling about how the commander was an incompetent fool. The rest of the squad, including Yang's wingman, Blake Belladonna, who was reading a book during the altercation, didn't say anything.

Finally as the four got their things packed, they made their way onto the tarmac towards the waiting transport craft that would take them to Vale. Another new squadron made their way out of the building not far behind.

"Hey, is that Jaune and the rest of the gang?" Ruby asked out loud.

"Oh joy, here comes tall, blonde and scraggly…" Weiss huffed, still angry about the decision over squad leader.

"Hey guys! Where are you been sent to?" Ruby asked in her usual bubbly self.

Pyrrha spoke up and responded, "We've deployed to Vale, what about you guys?"

"Same here! We get to be on the same base!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Yeah, this is gonna be a blast." Yang said as she slipped her aviators on with her signature grin..

"Oh joy…" Weiss mumbled dejectedly.

"Renny, can we get pancakes when we get to Vale? I'm staaaaarving!"

"Yes Nora." Ren replied to her passively.

Soon the transport pilot came out from the back calling out for all cargo to be loaded and take off in five. The new squads RWBY and JNPR loaded their gear and themselves into the back of the C-130 Hercules. The crew of the plane then closed up the hatch and began to taxi onto the runway. While both squads chatted amongst themselves, Ruby sat thinking to herself, curious as to what might be in store for them. There hadn't been a war since the 2nd Human-Faunus war, but the White Fang terror group has been making noise. And tensions between kingdoms had been rising slowly for years, with some even doing drills in the oceans between the Kingdoms in case of a breakout.

"I hope we never had to fly against other people…" Ruby said quietly as the Hercules lifted itself off the ground to it's destination of Vale.