The next time Weiss saw Yang, was late the next day. She was wearing bright yellow Onyx armor, and was flanking a young woman who Weiss could only assume was Ruby. It had been a few years since they had gone to C-Sec together, and the girl looked very different from the last time she saw her. She no longer looked like a child, but instead looked as how you'd imagine a commander of an Alliance ship. She was wearing medium class Onyx armor, but had standard issue alliance weapons mounted to her back. Her short, black and red hair was bouncing with each step, striding towards Weiss' desk. Her hair framed her stern face, silver eyes staring at her, devoid of emotion. Ruby was still pale as ever, a majority of her small nose blending in with the rest of her face.

Only once Ruby began speaking did Weiss notice Blake on Ruby's right. The faunas obviously wasn't happy with being there, but wasn't about to object to the orders she had been given. She was wearing light Onyx armor and was proudly displaying her faunus ears.

"You wanted to speak with me?" Ruby asked.

"Yes," Weiss stood and shook Ruby's hand. "Thank you for coming."

"My pleasure," Ruby said. "I understand you have a few concerns about joining up."

"Yes." Weiss sat back down and motioned for Ruby to sit in the seat in front of her desk. Ruby didn't sit, but rather decided to stand. "What's the name of the ship?" Weiss asked.

"The Beacon," Ruby answered, not skipping a beat. "She's one of a kind. She's a prototype deep-scout frigate. The Turians made her."

Weiss nodded. "What's the size of the crew?"

Ruby seemed to be caught off guard by that question, "It's big enough," she said.

"Apparently not," Weiss said. "If you're coming to me with a position."

Ruby sighed and leaned onto Weiss' desk, her face inches away from the ambassador's. "We need someone like you for this," she said. "Right now, everything's need-to-know. There's not much I can tell you about our mission. But we need an ambassador of our stature. Either you're in, or you're out. I'm not gonna stand here all day feeding you bullshit, and in all honesty, I'm not offering you a position, I just need an ambassador. So either you come with us, or I'll find someone who will."

Weiss leaned back in her seat. "Okay." She said. "I'll go with you."

"What?!" Blake asked, breaking her long-term silence. "You can't seriously be bringing her!"

Ruby pushed off Weiss' desk and turned to face Blake, who continued her rant, "She's a God damned racist! I'm sure she'll jeopardize the mission!"

"Quiet!" Ruby commanded.

Blake shut her mouth, crossed her arms, and looked away. Ruby turned back to Weiss, "I apologize for that," she said. "As you know, Blake is a very. . . Outspoken individual."

"I understand," Weiss said. "When do you suppose we will be leaving?"

"Soon. There a few things I need to deal with. Belladonna, Xiao-Long. Take Schnee back to The Beacon." They both nodded and Ruby turned around and began to walk out the door, leaving them behind. The other two soon followed, gesturing for her to come with them. Weiss hesitated before grabbing a few things from her desk and chasing after the two.

They led Weiss from the Embassies to C-Sec, which took them to the docking bay. The ship Weiss was looking at was a rather large, black and grey frigate with splashes of red on the sides with BEACON stamped on the side, just above more writing on the wing that read SR1.

Weiss exhaled in amazement as she looked at the ship. It had been quite some time since she had been on an Alliance ship, or any ship at all for that matter.

Meanwhile, Ruby stood before a few Alliance Generals and war heroes. She herself fit in with this group just fine. Earlier in her career, she found herself facing an overwhelming enemy force. She risked her own life to save fellow soldiers, Yang and Blake included. Ruby had a very deep bond with Yang ever since they were on Mindoir, a small border colony in the Attican Traverse, and their parents were slaughtered by slavers that raided the colony when Ruby was sixteen. Both were saved by a passing Alliance Patrol. Yang enlisted in the Academy, and Ruby was granted early admission considering the fact that she didn't have anywhere else to go.

That was where they met Weiss and Blake. The four became good friends very quickly, despite Weiss' cold nature. Once they graduated, they were separated. This was because there were strict laws against siblings serving on the same ship, and Ruby and Yang were separated. Blake managed to get on the same ship as Yang, but Weiss was cut off from the rest of them as she rose through the ranks in her own ship; The Atlas. She soon became the ship's XO, and traded in that position for that of an Ambassador.

Yang and Blake incrementally visited her whenever they were in dock, but Ruby was devoted to her career, and wasn't in contact with any of them until Blake and Yang were transferred to her ship soon after Weiss' outburst towards Blake. On this ship, Ruby was the first officer. Most of the crew was killed, including the XO. Ruby took his place, and came to The Citadel in search of a crew. She knew exactly who she wanted, and Weiss wasn't on the list. She knew Weiss was comfortable where she was, and had no plan to change that, but was soon assigned to select a willing Ambassador to accompany her crew to take back Mindoir after all these years. Weiss was only there in case the enemy surrendered, but Ruby doubted it would come to that.

"You selected an Ambassador, yes?" General Ironwood asked Ruby. She nodded.

"Yessir. Ambassador Schnee. She was easier to persuade than I thought." She said. Ironwood nodded.

"Drop the formalities, Commander. You're captain of your own ship now." General Ozpin told her.

"Force of habit, General." Ruby told him. "Would I be wrong in assuming that you want me to leave soon?" Ozpin shook his head.

"Not at all, Commander." He told her. "You should get going."