Chapter 2

The short briefing that Ozpin had given the two teams before taking off was a little odd to say the least. It wasn't because Jaune was named 'over all' leader either, it was the information given about where they were going. Not that anything seemed out of the ordinary, an old Grimm research facility located on the Vale-Vacuo boarder that was going to be decommissioned in about a years time, and that it was the only one of its kind still operational. It wasn't the information itself that was odd, it was just the lack there of. If even the council thought this was a big deal then you'd think they would have been given copious amounts of it. Not the less than sub par info they got.

'Well, if that doesn't get Pyrrha any more on edge than I don't know what will', Jaune had thought to himself as the two teams were coming up on their destination. The ride had not been merciful to his stomach and he was having problems holding it down. His endeavor not to puke was only made worse by the more rambunctious occupants in the airship.

Nora and Ruby were currently having the most pointless argument of the century on wether or not pancakes were better than strawberries. The other six merely spectating. Jaune himself preferred the former but thinking of food at a time like this wasn't his best course of action.

"Pancakes are the one true queen of deserts and that's final!"

"You take that back, strawberries are the one an only desert that can have that honor!"

"Girls." Jaune finally managed to croak out, gaining their attention. "Let's just agree to disagree at this point, I don't like to see you two fighting, plus my stomach can't take much more of this." He had to wonder why Pyrrha hadn't intervened before now, then he remembered the aforementioned lack of information and turned to see her drowned in her own thoughts.

"Well, I guess pancakes aren't allll that bad."

"And strawberries aren't half bad either." Nora turned to Ruby with a smile. "Truce?"

"Truce, for Jaune's sake." Ruby finished with a glance over at said boy.

"Thank you" he managed to mumble.

After that debacle was settled it wasn't 30 seconds later that the pilot came over the intercom.

"ETA 5 minutes, I repeat ETA 5 minutes, I recommend you all get ready back there."

After the short announcement the two teams did as recommended and stood up and checked their weapons, ammo, and dust. Jaune was the only one who merely needed to glance over at his hip to make sure his weapon was there, which it was. The others not so much. 'Sometimes it pays to keep it simple'.

"Oh no, here it comes." Jaune had been dreading the part where he had to stand, which it having the expected effect on his stomach. At the sudden deceleration Yang made a B-line to the farthest point away from Jaune.

"Nuh-uh vomit boy, I just had these shined."

Luckily before anything came up, Ren was by his side with a doggy bag.

"Thanks" was all that he said before he emptied his stomach into what was now a bag of puke.

"No problem" Ren said simply.

The same pilot from before came over the intercom once more.

"We're here, popping the hatch."

As the side door opened Jaune quickly noticed something was off. It sure as hell didn't look like they were at their destination at all. In fact, from the looks of it, they were hovering. He could of sworn he saw a cloud too. Over what, Jaune had to assume to be their destination. 'Well if we're here then why the hell are we...'

"Oh no."

"You are clear to jump, I repeat you are clear to jump."

"Oh, come on!"

Team RWBY and the rest of his team did as said, although before Pyrrha jumped she simply shrugged at him before following suit, all of them probably landing in some sort of epic fashion, where as he probably would of ate dirt.

"Hey kid, you gonna jump?" the pilot had asked.

"Hell no I'm not gonna jump, I barely survived initiation as is!" he shouted.

"C'mon, your supposed to be a huntsman, aren't you guys supposed to be able to do like...everything."

At this point Jaune had an irritated look on his face. "Last time I checked having to jump out of a bullhead hovering a couple thousand feet in the air wasn't in my job description, so if you would to be so kind as to take me down there that would be much appreciated!"

He could practically here the eye roll in the pilots voice, "Sure, whatever."

"Thank you."

Jaune had to brace himself as his head almost hit the ceiling with the bullhead practically just falling through the air at terminal velocity.

Terrified, he thought to himself 'Maybe I should have jumped.'

At this point Jaune was floating with his stomach towards the ground and his hands holding on to a side railing. He was too busy trying to not be flung out the side to notice any nausea he had, so that was a plus.

It took about 15 seconds for the bullhead to come to a complete stop. In doing so making the lone passenger doa face plant onto the cold hard metal floor. Luckily for him his aura was one for the ages. Jaune, currently dazed, slowly got up, brushed himself off, and made his way out of the airship with the others waiting on him.

"Hope you had a nice flight." The pilot said in the most sarcastic voice possible, before revving the engine up and flying away. In response Jaune decided to turn around to gave him a one finger thank you.

Turning around to the others it was quite clear the majority of them were a little annoyed. "What?"

Weiss turned around and started off into the forest. "Let's just find this place and get this over with." Not wanting to make himself look even worse, he was close behind her and kept his eyes forward to avoid any judging eyes.

What had once been a fast paced jog turned into a slow attentive walk for the eight students. Something certainly wasn't right with the forest, or at least with this area. If you thought walking in the forest was creepy, knowing Grimm could be behind any tree or bush within sight, than you would think the complete opposite would be much better right? Not really. If anything it just amplified the creepiness factor ten fold. They were used to knowing the Grimm were occupying all parts of the forests in remnant. How did they know there wasn't any?

Simple.

The Grimm were attracted to negative energy and if they sensed it they would come running immediately. They themselves also have the same affect on humans and Faunus. They emit just as much negative energy as they can sense. Which is a lot. And with the usual overwhelming number of Grimm that are in the forest, it was quite clear that there was nothing within a mile or two of their area.

"You all feel that right?" Blake had asked from the back of the pack. "It's more like what we can't feel." Jaune yelled back.

"Well, it's good to see Coco's information was useful."

"P-money, if you don't mind me asking, why are you so flustered with Ozpin's Intel?" Yang didn't want to set her off but, it was quite clear that she wanted to vent by the constant verbal thoughts that probably weren't meant to be said out loud while they had been walking.

"Aren't any off you?" She asked back. "How could you all be so calm when this is clearly out of our depth, at first it didn't seem all bad but with how cryptic headmaster Ozpin was being with the briefing, I wouldn't be this on edge, it's as if he's hiding something he doesn't want us to know about."

Weiss came up and put a hand on her shoulder. "Maybe, your just reading too much into it, you know how he can be."

"She's right you know." Ren threw in.

With a sigh Pyrrha conceded. "Ok, but if we do encounter something not known to us, promise me you'll back us out." She said to Jaune. "I promise, and you know the saying!"

"An Arc never goes back on his word." The group echoed

"You bet your ass!"

"Think this is it?" "What else could it be Nora?" Ruby asked here fellow energetic.

"I don't know a pancake factory, oh how I wish it was!"

The pack just looked at her and sighed. "You really need to go on a diet." Ren said.

"Oh whatever, let's go!"

The facility wasn't at all what Jaune was expecting. If he was being honest with himself he really didn't know what he was expecting. An actual building out in the middle of the forest was the closest thing he could think of. Not what looked to be just a large metal wall on the side of a small mountain like formation in a clearing. If anything just another thing to add to the creepy list.

"Ok Jaune, what's the plan?" Weiss asked first surprisingly. Even though he hadn't thought of any actual plan as of yet he was pretty good when thinking on the fly. He thought back to what Coco had Fox do and thought that would be a good place to start.

"Well for starters, Blake you remember what Coco had Fox do?" She nodded in response. "Well, take Ren and do the same thing, if you see any Grimm make sure to take them out, and as for anything out of the ordinary report it back to me before you do anything." The ninjas both nodded to one another before taking back off into the forest.

Now a party of four seemed like the most reasonable amount of people to go in but, the question was what would the other two do? Then Jaune realized. 'Security.' He would have them simply guarding the door in case anything Blake or Ren missed in the forest managed to find the entrance, or anyone. Jaune looked at the girls around him and realized he had the two perfect candidates.

"Nora, Yang you guys will be on security duty up here, make sure nothing gets past you, and if you think whatever it is is going to be too much for you guys to handle, tell us and we'll come running." Nora put her hand up in a mock salute. "Aye aye, fearless leader!" She proceeded to take up position on the left side of the door. Yang just scoffed and moved to the right. "Too much for us to handle my ass."

Jaune looked over the rest of the girls. "The rest of us are going in."

"Sweet, let's just hope there isn't that much too explore." Ruby said readying crescent rose.

Weiss just scoffed, "Ruby its a research facility, there are likely tons of sub levels to this place."

Jaune lined up on the left side of the door along with Ruby behind him and Pyrrha and Weiss opposite to them.

"Still, let's just hope we aren't in there long.

Pyrrha just sighed, "I wouldn't count on it."

"Ok gentlemen, I understand, have a good evening."

Talking to the council had always been strenuous on Ozpin. Not only with the council pressuring him to do something about the recent disappearance of several Atlas execs who had been in Vale at the time and had never been heard of or seen by anyone since. It was clear to Ozpin what had happened and he had a feeling the council knew as well but wanted to make sure just so they could either blame him for his negligence or Ironwood for sending them in. Him sending teams RWBY and JNPR in were meant to appease them for awhile. After all it was their idea.

He also had to deal with them trying to take away his position as headmaster at beacon. They had been trying for the past few years but due to some outside interference surprisingly unknown to him he had yet to be stripped of his position. To be frank, everyone on the council was either an asshole or too inept to try and argue for themselves so they just followed everyone else's lead.

Ozpin sighed and brought his mug to his lips only to find it was dry He could of sworn it was full less than a few seconds ago, having just been brought in by Glynda. I guess that's what stress can do to you.

"Glynda?" he had asked raising the mug.

His companion who had been standing next to him typing on her tablet looked over and rolled her eyes. "Alright."

She took it out of his hands and made her way to the elevator. Before she could even touch the button Ozpin had called out to her.

"Oh and Glynda, do try and not 'accidentally' give me decaf, the last time that happened I almost didn't finish my paperwork." After he finished the ghost of a knowing smirk could be seen on his face which was extremely noticeable by Glynda.

"I'll make sure it doesn't happen again." she said simply. She wasn't really in the mood for another 'calm arguement' as she had dubbed them. The lateness of the hour was getting to her and she really wanted to get some sleep. So she conceded and proceeded to get in the elevator and head down to the teachers lounge.

His office was quite once again and that only left Ozpin to his thoughts. 'I should really get a coffee maker up here, that way I always...'

The silence was once again broken when no less than 10 feet away the glass to his tower shattered spraying glass in every direction. The culprit, Qrow Branwen, was currently knelt over in a breathing fit, likely due to the altitude he had to fly to accomplish what he just had.

The instant he saw him Ozpin knew what it was about. He would play it off has he normally did, not that he had any other way of dealing with situations like these. He was many things, Qrow was. A huntsman, a member of Ozpin's group, and even on some if not all occasions an alcoholic, but Ozpin knew he valued being an uncle the most out of all these things. His only hope was that he wasn't drunk at the moment.

"Qrow?"

The huntsman stood up to his full height without saying a word and turned towards Ozpin and made his way over to his desk. All the while Ozpin looked on in what seemed like mild amusement.

The man stopped and narrowed his eyes. Ozpin merely stared back. "You know, this is a bit impromptu don't you think?"

"Is it true?"

"Well Qrow, I'm afraid you are going to have to be a little more specific."

Despite the entrance, Qrow had already promised himself that he wasn't going to do anything too over the top, but Ozpin as usual, was making it quite the endeavor not to.

"Is it true that you sent both of my nieces to Bedlam?" Ozpin quirked an eyebrow before asking, "And from where or whom did you hear this from?"

"Who do you think?"

"Oh, I didn't think you and Ironwood talked much." Qrow slammed both of his fists on Ozpin's desk. "And I didn't think you were a backstabbing son of a bitch!"

Now Ozpin was truly confused at this point. What made him such? Just for sending two of the best huntresses in the academy off with six (five really) just as capable hunters to prove their mettle to him? He thought he was doing them a service.

"Please, enlighten me as to why I am a...backstabbing son a bitch."

Qrow was is disbelief. Was Ozpin really that dumb, that ignorant? "Oh I don't, for sending what little family I have left off to possibly die, and for what, to rescue another team of misguided kids that are already dead? I already lost my sister to those thieves and murders that she considers family, I rarely ever get to see Tai anymore, and Summer, well I think we both know what happened to her."

This time it was Ozpin's turn to glare at Qrow. He had given Summer her options, she weighed them, and she did what she thought was right. There was nothing Ozpin could have done. It was her choice and she chose, there was nothing more to say on the matter.

"I thought you were better than that, taking advice from the council of all places. It's not like they really know what's going on in this world like we do. Their just like every other rich Atlas fuck, not giving a damn about what goes on out in the world around them, so long as their suits not ripped. But this is the thanks I get from you, after all I've done, is it?"

Both men were silent until Ozpin took his time to speak. "I was unaware that you had such little faith in your nieces abilities. I would of thought you would have been more confidant with them."

Qrow's face shifted into something one could only describe as both confused and...constipated?

"Are you trying to piss me off?"

Ozpin stood and made his way over to the man, who currently was trying not to have an ulcer.

"On the contrary, I just would of thought you would have better faith in both of them, and plus they are with friends and their own team. I assure you Qrow that I have all the things in place to get all of them out safely in case things do indeed take a turn for the worst. You have nothing to worry about."

Qrow took a step away from him with his hands in the air towards the new hole. "You know, I'm actually going to take your word for it, really, before I do something I might regret."

Ozpin gave him a small smile. "Well I'm glad to hear it."

Before Ozpin could turn around though Qrow put a finger in his face. "But, if one of them so much as has a scratch on them when they come back, your not going to have a tower to sit on anymore."

After he was done he silently turned around and jumped off the tower only later to be seen as a crow fly off into the distance.

Ozpin looked on but was interrupted by the sound of the elevator hitting his floor. Glynda stepped out wordlessly and made her way over to Ozpin with the hole in the glass in plain sight. When Glynda got to him she gave him his coffee in which she received a thank you.

"Let me guess, Qrow?"

"Qrow." Ozpin confirmed.

"Alright, remember what we practiced?" Pyrrha looked up to Jaune and nodded. "Just try not to over extend."

"Uh, what are you two talking about?" Ruby looked between the two. "Just stay back a bit, something we have been practicing." Ruby just hummed and looked to Weiss to make sure she was giving Pyrrha space as well.

Jaune and Pyrrha readied their respected weapons as Jaune counted down. "3...2...1, breaching, breaching!" With as much leg power as he could muster, Jaune stepped in between the double doors and kicked them open. He followed through with his left leg until he was kneeling with his shield in front of him on the ground. Pyrrha then stepped behind him with mîlo in its rifle form in an attempt to take down any target in the room, which luckily there were none.

"Clear?" Jaune asked with a look back. Pyrrha gave him another nod. "All clear."

He then stood up, and motioned for the rest of his group to follow him in. After the first few steps the lights in the room lit up, too the surprise of the four students. It was clear that the 'main lobby' of sorts was just a large security checkpoint with multiple rows of gates and conveyor belts for scanning purses and boxes and the such. You could say it was like one you would see at an airport but much bigger. It was quite clear that these guys were extremely thorough.

"Hm, ok now that that is out of the way I have three questions." Weiss having been in the back of the group came to the front and faced the other three.

"Um, ok...shoot." Jaune said

"Ok, first off, was it really necessary to shout breaching breaching?"

Jaune in response scratched the back of his head and shrugged. "I don't know, I thought it would have sounded...cool I guess?" he finished with a chuckle.

Weiss just rolled her eyes. "Well you sounded like a complete dunce."

Pyrrha put a hand on his shoulder as he slumped where he stood, while Ruby tried to stifle her giggles.

"Second, why was the door closed, if this place was under attack you'd think that the thing would have been blown off its hinges or something?"

The three others just looked at each other. "Your right, that doesn't make sense." Ruby confirmed. "Yeah, I hadn't really been paying that much attention until now."

"That is quite strange." Pyrrha couldn't do anything but agree at this point. Her nerves couldn't take much more at all.

"And three, does it look like there was a fight in here, I mean there are no bodies, no blood, no bullet holes, you can not tell me it looks like there wasn't?!" She finished with both her arms out, motioning all around the room.

Indeed there was nothing at all in the room, aside from some things left on the conveyer belts and some stray paper on the ground. Other than that, there was nothing.

"Ok ok." Jaune had come up to her and had his hands up. "I know it looks weird but, we have a job to do, and we're not gonna get anything done by just standing around and pointing out any and all irregularities we see." Weiss had been giving him a pointed look the entire time. "Let's just get in, find any at all survivors and get out, ok?"

Weiss sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "If I die I'm suing your family."

"O-k, anyway let's go."

He motioned for the girls to follow as he passed through one of the many gates that were lined up perfectly next to each other. The alarm went of as he passed and that same noise could be heard three more times behind him as he walked.

Jaune would be lying to himself if he said he wasn't on edge too. At first, as Pyrrha had already stated everything seemed normal, but as they progressed he could tell there was something going on. Ever since he had gotten to beacon he had noticed his danger senses had gotten more keen at detecting danger, if you could call having a stomach ache 'danger senses'. Which was why he had been nauseas the entire walk over here.

The only reason he didn't say anything was because he was the leader. He thought he had to try and keep everyone calm and continue on mission despite the very notable discrepancies they had noticed. Whatever was going on he just hoped it didn't affect them directly.

After they passed through the security checkpoint they proceeded down a fairly large corridor with varying doors on either side, likely just offices or small rooms for experimenting. No one really felt like looking though, more out of uncertainty than anything else. At the very end though they noticed that there was what looked like a dip at the end. It wasn't until they got there that they realized it was just a staircase, and there was a vaguely familiar smell coming from below.

"Ugh, any idea what's down there?" Pyrrha asked bringing a hand to her nose. "Well, there's only one way to find out."

Jaune had taken the first step, but stopped to look back up with a smirk. "Stairway to hell, anyone?" The humor in what was supposed to be a joke clearly didn't make its way across to the others. Rather than humored smiles, there were instead looks of complete and utter horror. "Ugh, heh sorry."

Luckily the staircase wasn't as long as they thought it was, having probably only gone down about six or seven flights of stairs. What awaited them though was enough to make the breach look like day at the beach. The room itself had terminals, computers, cages, and even incubators to monitor younger Grimm, but it was the fact that they were all broken and or damaged with either blunt force or bullet holes. Blood had been splattered all over the walls and ground. There was just one problem.

"Uh, if there is this much blood e-every where, t-then...where are the bodies?" Ruby had found her voice after the initial shock. "That..." Jaune started, "is a good question."

None of them had been this exposed to anything like this before, especially Ruby. Sure, they had seen it in cheap action movies, but still nothing in those had ever been quite this extreme. Jaune didn't know what to do at this point. Every fiber of his being was screaming to just turn around and leave. Yet the more he looked on, the more he was compelled to stay and try and find survivors, or any Intel into what happened.

"Jaune?" He turned to Pyrrha who had been staring at him for the better part of a minute. The look on her face said all he needed to know. "Not yet." Her eyes widened as if she had just seen a puppy been kicked.

"What did you promise me?" she asked almost in a pleading manor.

"Look I know, alright I know, but I can't help just but think we could be leaving someone down here without even looking, I don't want to leave, not yet." he finished with a pleading look of his own.

Silence fell between them all. Ruby and Weiss were a little uncomfortable considering they just had to sit and endure a small argument and weren't really compelled to speak up, but Ruby knew if she didn't say anything she didn't think anything would get solved.

"I-I agree." she stuttered. The three peered over at her and held their gazes. "I mean, what if there is someone down here that needs our help, it's our job to do these types of things when others can't, so, I think we should stay."

The three looked on in mild shock. Sure Ruby was a leader but, they knew in these types of situations she would not have been as vocal as she just was. Social ineptitude, having usually been holding her back.

With a sigh Weiss concurred. "I know what I said up there, but we really should take a look around, even if it's just for a moment." After she spoke she gave Pyrrha a incredulous look that was meant to say 'your out numbered'. Pyrrha seemed to have gotten the notion and for what felt like the second time that day she conceded.

"Fine." Was all she could muster.

"Thank you, anyway..." Jaune moved to the front of the three. "I think we should start out by spreading out in this room and just try to find anything, something that lead to whatever happened here, considering there aren't really any good hiding spots from what I can tell." The three nodded in response.

"Ok, Ruby, Weiss take the front two corners, me and Pyrrha will take the back, yell if you find anything."

As the four spread out Jaune took his time to look over his area. His corner of the fairly large research area had a ton of the aforementioned broken terminals and computers. In the very corner though it had a extremely large cage that seemed to be for something the size of a growing deathstalker. He couldn't remember the exact size the one him and his team killed during initiation, mainly due to the fact he tried to force the memory of almost dying from his head.

On all sides there were obvious tools for poking and prodding the creature for experimentation. The thing that irked him though was that the cage was wide open. The bars had been scratched up pretty badly due to its apparent last occupant, and from what he could tell the whole thing was electrified too. He didn't really know what that would do considering grimm are always in none stop kill mode.

Moving away from the cage he started down a row of computers that had an obscenely amount of blood everywhere. Not that was any different from the rest of the room, it just freaked him out.

As far as he could see each one had been beaten up pretty badly. Glass and shrapnel littered the area around each one. He assumed they were for data collecting and the such, seeing as they were facing towards the cage for observational purposes.

Jaune thought that even though he hadn't been searching that long he felt the need to sit down. All that walking had been getting to him.

When his butt hit the seat he let out the loudest relaxed moan he himself had ever heard and leaned back. "That hit the spot." Despite it being wood, standing and walking for almost 4 hours can make anything feel comfortable.

He looked around the room to see if any of the girls had heard him but there was too much crap in the way. If any of them had heard it they had yet to question what he just did, likely all of them having done the same thing.

When Jaune finally leaned forward and out of his musings something had caught his eye. On the desk in front of him was a access pass or something of the sort. It formerly being all white around the edges having been bloodied up since. The picture on the card was of what looked to be of a man in his late twenties with glasses. He had light red hair and a tanned complexion to top it off. The owner was of a one Flare Songbird. Under him it said head executive.

Jaune was about to call out when the emblem behind the man stopped him from opening his mouth further.

It was the SDC logo.

"What the...?"

Now that was extremely strange, or at least to Jaune it was.

Back when Jaune was in his last year at primary school before coming to beacon he had been taught about kingdom relations and affairs. He was taught that no company that was run by another kingdom had the right to work within another's boarders unless given specific access, and from what he also learned the last time this ever happened was about 30 years ago, having it been a rare thing to begin with.

He began to weigh his options. For some reason he felt extremely compelled to keep it to himself and ask Weiss about it when they were alone. Although the chances of that happening were quite slim. He had to find a way to split everyone up again. He wasn't sure how but...

He was interrupted by his scroll ringing. Why would someone be calling him now? He reached into his pant pocket and opened it to see Blake's face next to the answer button. I was a bit weird considering they had mics. Whatever it was it couldn't be good.

He pressed the answer button to find her on a tree branch by the looks of it. "Jaune."

"What is it Blake?"

"Are you alone?"

She didn't sound panicked in any way which was not exactly telling of anything considering her usual state of being. He was just glad she didn't sound it. He was a little worried about her question though.

"Yeah."

"Ok, I'm sending you some photos I took of some grimm footprints I found out here. I'll explain why, just hold on."

It wasn't ten seconds later that his scroll made a noise and he pulled up the pictures she had taken.

"What about these now?"

"Right, well for one there are from an ursai, one that had likely gotten separated from its pack."

He nodded in understanding as he flipped through them, trying to pick out anything out of the ordinary.

"One thing to take note of is the unusually large gate it was taking. The usual would have been about three inches shorter that of the one shown. The only time that you could see something like that with another animal is if it were running away from something. Now if it were running too something then the gate would have been only an inch and a half bigger." Blake finished, Jaune taking in everything she said with a little uneasiness.

"Ok, two things, where did you learn this and what are you trying too say?"

"I was in the white fang remember, I have some skills that I most certainly wouldn't have acquired at a junior huntsman academy." Blake answered.

"And to answer your other question, as weird as it sounds, I would say that this thing was indeed running away from something else. Judging by the evidence I have here."

Jaune was a little confused. "I thought Grimm didn't, y'know, like, run a way from stuff?"

Blake rolled her eyes. "Your right, that's why I'm letting you know."

"Oh, right well, I'm not exactly sure what to make of this." It definitely had him scratching his head.

"Well whatever it was, it has the grimm afraid, and that can't be good."

"Yeah...I'm guessing this is why you called me instead of using your mic."

Blake sighed. "I know there could be someone down there. Making this public would only make Pyrrha want to leave even more, and possibly get under the skin of the others."

Jaune chuckled. "Yeah, tell me about it."

There were a few seconds of awkward silence after that. They were never really ones for small talk when alone with each other, which was very seldom. Being from completely different ends of the spectrum could do that when not given enough time to get to know one another.

"Ok well, thanks for letting me know. Go get Ren and go back to the entrance. Tell him its your idea." Nobody needed to know about the conversation anyway.

"Alright, and Jaune, stay safe." He nodded. "You too."

With that the line went dead and he closed his scroll and put it back in his pocket. As he stood up he did the same with the pass card he just found. He was about to yell out but was interrupted for a second time by Ruby from the other side of the room.

"Guys, you need to see this!"

After she was done he took off down the row of computers into the more open part of the room which was in the middle. Ruby had already gotten there with Weiss and Pyrrha standing beside her. As he ran up to the trio he noticed what Ruby held in her hands looked vaguely familiar when he thought about it. He didn't really know what from though.

He came to as stop in front Ruby and asked. "What is it?"

"It's..."

"Velvet's weapon." Weiss finished for her.

'Oh, that explains it he thought. "Hey, I thought she wasn't finished with it yet."

"What gave you that idea?" Weiss asked.

"Well for starters I haven't seen her use it in class, only her freakish hand to hand skills."

"I think that was Coco's fault." Pyrrha added. "I remember her saying something about saving the reveal for something big."

"Oh right, she did say that." Ruby confirmed.

Jaune looked between the three questioningly. "Since when do all of you talk to team CFVY?"

"Well, it's usually when we're in advanced combat class." Ruby said.

Jaune went to say something with his finger pointed but decided against it due to the sudden feeling of slight annoyance, having realized he was the only one of the eight who wasn't in said class.

"Hey, what do think your doing!?" Weiss yelled at Ruby who was looking quite bashful. "Uh, nothing, heh."

"You should have more respect for people's privacy."

"Well I'm sorry if she insists on keeping it a secret, the suspense is killing me!"

Weiss, knowing better, took the box away from her and turn the girl around. She then proceeded to unlatch crescent rose from her back and put the box in its place. Weiss recalled that Ruby and Velvet both had the same mechanisms to strap their weapons to their backs. She then turned her back around and placed crescent rose in the hands of its owner. "Knowing you you'll probably sneak off somewhere and try and take a peek."

Ruby visibly deflated at the lack of trust from her partner, and hung her head.

"Right..." Jaune started. "anyway, Weiss, Pyrrha what about you guys?"

"Nothing." Weiss answered.

Pyrrha then stepped forward. "Well, I didn't find anything of material value, but I did happen to come across a pair of doors." Jaune nodded. "Show me."

Pyrrha proceeded to guide the other three to the doors that stood roughly three feet apart. A lone sign in the middle that had 'mess hall' and 'living quarters' with arrows indicating which one was which.

"Uh, I didn't think people would wanna actually sleep here, considering your just a room away from blood thirsty monster." Ruby spoke up. "It must be one of those things where you do it long enough you don't even think about it even more." The others just nodded in agreement.

"So, what now?" Weiss asked

Jaune once again thought about his next move. And he knew exactly what it was too. He just didn't think Pyrrha would handle it well...or Weiss for that matter. With out much further thought he spoke.

"Pyrrha, take Ruby and check out the living quarters, Weiss and I will scope out the cafe." There were a few seconds of silence and to his overall surprise, Pyrrha went with it. She simply looked up at him, nodded, and motioned for Ruby to move through the door which was wide open. He let out a sigh of relief as he saw the two red clad girls move through the portal. 'Whew, that was easy, now all that's left is...' he turned to Weiss only to see her glaring at him 'Weiss'.

"Whatever it is you planning, don't even think about trying it." That was all she said before she strode off into the cafeteria.

'Whelp, this should be interesting'.

(A/n)

Chapter 2 in the books! Puns aside I think this chapter turned out much better than the first. Especially in length. That's why I kind of left it off weird there at the end to not over do it. Although that might just be me trying to make sure everything is perfect but, oh well.

Anyway, sorry for the wait, and I hope you enjoyed!

-theroostersteeth