This one is from Ruby's perspective. Please enjoy.


Ruby was attempting to balance a pencil on her nose when Ren walked in. With a squeak, the pencil tumbled off, and Ruby glared ferociously at him. He raised a hand before she could speak.

"I know, I have the worst timing and I'm a terrible person." While he didn't smile, his purple eyes danced with amusement.

"Oh, well then, thanks for stealing my lines. Jerk." Ruby grumbled, a grin stretching her lips. Seeing the paper in his hands, she gave him a questioning look. "Ren? What's up?"

He passed it over to her. It was a photograph, poor quality and printed on cheap copy paper. It showed a small, wooded clearing, with what looked like a metal hatch built into the forest floor.

"Alright, I give up. What is it." Ruby asked, after staring at for a minute.

"We don't know." Ren said. "Jaune and Pyrrha found it when they were out hunting. It has a logo on it of a pre-fall corporation, the Schnee Company."

"Weren't they some kind of big luxury and technology corporation? Did a lot of computers and jewelry and stuff?" Ruby muttered, tapping her retrieved pencil thoughtfully.

Ren gave an acknowledging blink.

Ruby nodded, decisively. "Alright, I'll go personally check it out." She indicated the back of her chair with a tilt of her head. "Want to push me?"

Ren smiled, a touch of sadness reaching his face, and stepping around behind her desk, grabbed the handles of Ruby's wheelchair.

"To the outdoors!" Ruby cried triumphantly. Ren wheeled her outside, and they took the elevator down.


"Yep. That's the Schnee logo alright." Ruby muttered, peering down from her jeep. They had used the jeep because wheelchairs were not all terrain, kickass pink vehicles with roses painted on the sides, while Ruby's jeep most definitely was. She had even rigged the gas, brakes, and clutch to all be triggered by buttons located near the steering wheel, allowing her to drive it on her own. "Alright, we should definitely open it up."

"Who do you want to do the honors?" Jaune asked.

"How about you, Jaune?" Pyrrha offered. "Since you seem to have volunteered."

"What? Me? There could be anything down there!" He turned to Ruby. "Please tell me I don't have to do it."

Ruby's grey eyes sparkled. "Oh no, I agree with Pyrrha. Open it!"

Jaune sighed, and gave the handle and good sharp tug.

"It's stuck." He announced when it failed to budge.

"Try turning." Pyrrha suggested gently.

Blushing furiously, Jaune turned the handle, and the door swung up easily. All Ruby could see of the inside was a ladder leading down.

"Anyone got a rock?" Ruby suggested. "Or can you guys tell how deep it is?"

"Nope." Jaune replied. "It's really dark." He rooted around on the ground for a moment, before coming up with a mid sized pebble. With great ceremony, he dropped it down. There was a second's pause, then a faint sound of stone on stone.

"Well, it can't be that deep." Pyrrha said, strapping her spear and shield to her back. "I'll climb down. Ruby, do you want to be down here?"

"Totally!" Ruby replied. "Can you get me down there?"

"Of course. Jaune, could you get her wheelchair next to the entrance?"

"Yep. Can do." Jaune said, coming over next to the jeep. He unhooked the bungie cords keeping it strapped to the back of the jeep, and carried it over next to the driver's side of the jeep.

"Can you get down or...?"

"I'm not totally helpless, Jaune." Ruby said, swinging herself down to the floor of the jeep, then forwards into the wheelchair. With a bit of wiggling, she managed to move her legs into the front and settle down against the comfortable backing.

"Right, sorry." Jaune muttered. He pushed the chair over next to the hatch. "We're ready, Pyrrha!"

Abruptly Ruby lifted off the ground, and she left out a whoop of joy as she rose three feet in the air. Slowly, the chair moved over the opening, and lowered in. Ruby sank ten feet down, and then the chair's wheels hit the hard concrete floor. She could faintly see Pyrrha with her hand outstretched, guiding her chair fully down to the floor. A moment later, Jaune joined them.

"Alright Jaune, you'd better have remembered the torches." Ruby said, giving him the evil eye. Even in the poor light, Ruby knew he was blushing as he climbed back up, causing both her and Pyrrha to break into giggles. Moments later, the room was lit by flickering torchlight. It was stuffy and cramped, with walls of thick concrete. There were two doors, one right, and one left.

"So, which way?" Jaune asked, fidgeting from foot to foot.

"Right is always right." Ruby said decisively, and wheeled herself for it. It opened smoothly, hinges still slick after what had probably been thirty years.

The room opened atop a flight of stairs leading into a huge storeroom, at least a hundred feet square, filled with row upon row of boxes. Ruby, Jaune, and Pyrrha all gasped in unison.

"Jackpot." Jaune breathed. Both looked to Ruby.

"Shoo! Go! Look!" Ruby said. "Tell me what's down there, I can't do stairs."

Both gave her weak little smiles and headed down slowly, looking back all the while. Ruby waited patiently while they examined the first few boxes, darting down the rows to get a good idea of what they'd found. She amused herself by trying to figure out the volume of the stuff; the room was about one third filled with it, and had a total volume of around 1,000,000 square feet, which meant... wow. More than three hundred thousand cubic feet of anything was in those boxes.

Jaune and Pyrrha came back up the stairs, excited grins on their faces.

"Ruby, it's amazing. There's food, weapons, mechanical parts, electronics... it's like someone's fall out shelter if they weren't worried at all about the money." Pyrrha said, almost breathless.

"We'll have to get everyone out here with the trucks... this is just incredible." Ruby murmured. "So, who's up for door number two?"

The three of them went back and crowded around it, imagining the riches they might find behind it. If the first room had been a giant warehouse, what was next? What could possibly top that?

Ruby's trembling hand grasped the handle, and turned. Slowly, the door swung open into a single, tiny room, lit by a faint blue glow coming off of a tank.

"Oh my god." Ruby whispered.

The tank was frosted over with ice, and the room was freezing cold. A small panel was mounted on the side, with a single white button in the center of it. There was only one clear spot that was free of ice, near the top.

All three could clearly see the face of a girl, eyes closed, but still seeming to look out at them.

Slowly, Ruby wheeled over to the panel. Tiny, blocky letters labeled the button. It read, simply, 'thaw.'

Jaune and Pyrrha squeezed in, each peering over one of Ruby's shoulders.

"What do we do?" Jaune asked.

"I think that's obvious." Ruby said quietly.

Without further ado, she pushed the button.

"We wait." She said.


I know this one is short, but it was a short scene. So... bets on who our frozen princess is?