"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! I STILL HAVEN'T EVEN TOOK A BATH IN THE WATERFALL!"

"Jaune, you're not dead." Pyrrha tried to calm him down.

"Then why is everything so dark!"

"Because you probably are shutting your eyes."

"Oh… Right… Is everyone alright?"

"Yes." Ren said blandly.

"Awww… the alien pancake maker didn't give me any pancakes… and I think it's broken." Nora lamented as she tossed the now coal colored thing aside.

"So, it was like… an alien flash grenade or something?" Jaune wondered.

"Why someone would make a grenade that big?" Ren asked.

"Because they're big too! Or they have big hands! Hey, if they have big hands, do you think they have big d..." Nora started to trail off.

"ANYWAY! Where's the Reds?" Jaune asked.

"I think they used the chance to escape." Pyrrha informed.

"Oh well… You know, we can still give this thing to the spec-ops and get rid of them. I can't wait to see them going away." Jaune said as he kicked the dead relic.

"Do you think they would like to explored that door first?" Nora spoke suddenly and they all turned to see a big metallic door open at the side of the cliff.


"What was that?" Ruby questioned after the bright light and now the big door appearing in the cliff.

"I'm not sure! Maybe Yang and Weiss finally did it and explode the blues… or they exploded themselves." Blake suggested.

"Don't say something like that! Dad would be really angry at me if I tell him Yang died!"

"I love you too sis." Yang stated as she and Weiss approached the base.

"Yang! You're alive!" Ruby jumped to hug his sister. "Now dad won't be angry at me!"

"What a touching scene." Weiss added with sarcasm. "So, what about that door?"

"I have an energy reading from it." Penny informed everyone.

"Whatever it is, we can't let the Blues have it!" Ruby proudly declared.

"What if it's a trap? Can't we have them have it?" Blake suggested.

"It'll be a trap… FOR THEM!" Ruby declared and Penny clapped in excitement while the rest just stared at them both.


"They aren't answering the radio, but they aren't dead or unconscious, just ignoring us." Russel informed Cardin.

"What? I won't be ignored! Tell them to report or I'll have them all in the brigs!" The leader of the spec-ops shouted.

"Do you think that light and door have something to do with it?" Sky suggested.

"I don't care. They had a mission and they should have finished it by now!"

"You know… if we actually helped them out we probably would have finished it by now." Dove chimed in.

"Dove, I'll tell you the secret for success: never do anything yourself if you can make some idiot do it for you. That way, you can steal the credit when it's a success and throw blame when it isn't."

"Cardin, they aren't answering even after I threatened them." Russel informed.

"That's it. I'm going to teach those losers a lesson in pain they won't forgot! Gear up! We're going to find them!"


"Are you sure we should ignore them?" Ren said as the call from Russel ended.

"Yeah, I'm tired of those assholes. They did nothing but boss us around and since they probably would demand us to come here investigate the door anyway, we might as well do it." Jaune affirmed as they ventured inside the alien complex.

"Oh, so many lights… and silver. And so clean! They must spend a lot of time cleaning this place." Nora said as she skipped around.

"Nora, don't touch anything! And I mean it or I'll have to cut your pancake share." Jaune shouted at her.

"No! Anything but that!" She pleaded as she joined them and they walked one of many suspended walkways made into the complex.

"Do you think it have a bottom?" Ren wondered as he stood close to the edge and stared at the abyss below.

"Let's find out! I have a contact grenade!" Nora said as she dropped the explosive before anyone else could stop her.

….

….

"I think we better not fall." Pyrrha said and they nodded in agreement.


"Hey look! ATVs! Why we don't have ATVs?" Ruby questioned her team.

"Because we have the Warthog! And why we didn't bring it with us?" Weiss asked.

"Silly Weissy. We're setting a trap! We can't come here making a ruckus!" Yang shouted out loud.

"Yeah, silly me."

"Anyway, let's go inside and find the Blues! I can't wait to see their faces when we jump on them!"

"Then we'll yell 'Happy Birthday?'" Penny asked and they turned to her.

"I'll explain it as we go, Penny." Ruby affirmed to her robot. "Come on Blake! Stop staring at the ground!"

"Coming. You know, I never noticed how big their feet are, even the girls." The black armored girl said.

"It might be the armor. They don't actually make the boots in so many different sizes." Ruby answered and Blake followed her.


"Hmm, another door. Ren, do you think you can open..."

BANG

"Damn it Nora!"

"Hey, you said I can't touch anything, not that I can't hammer it!" Nora defended herself.

"Ren, please do something about your girlfriend."

"After this we'll have a talk about my relationship with Nora." Ren said as he tried to calm down his friend.

"So, what do you think the aliens hid here?" Pyrrha asked.

"Probably an ancient evil that we should better leave alone." Jaune answered.

"Oh… So… Why are we here?"

"If we're lucky it will devour the spec-ops first." Jaune answered again and Pyrrha stood there in silence for a moment.

"You don't really mean it, right?"

"No, of course not. Those things tend to go awry for everyone involved and I'd hate to see anyone hurt. But if something does come out, let's say I won't cry over the spec-ops becoming alien poo." Pyrrha chuckled for a moment then they heard the sound of steps.

"Do you think it's Cardin?" Pyrrha whispered.

"Doesn't matter. Ren, Nora, let's find a place to hide!" Jaune ordered and his team followed him into a passage way to the left. Soon after Cardin and his men appeared.

"Where are they?! Arc! You better come here right now or I'll kick your ass so hard I'll need a medic to get you from around it!"

"We really need a medic around..." Dove said after Cardin's outburst.

"Look, we don't need them. Command said for us to retrieve alien tech. I bet that door have plenty of it, so we took it and let them play their game of Red VS Blue." Sky affirmed.

"It's Blue VS Red! No one says the other way around!" Dove corrected his teammate.

"Shut up! Sky, open the fucking door. The quicker we find something for command the quicker we can go somewhere else. I'm tired of dealing with the soldiers the UNSC want to hide." Cardin said as he walked towards the edge of the walkway.

"Yeah, I mean, that crazy girl was sent here because she couldn't keep her hands to herself, despite receiving a medal for saving those civilians. Then her boyfriend followed her to be under command of a guy that was supposed to be sent back home because we actually failed the tests to become a soldier, but someone missed his form." Sky said as he messed with the access panel.

"Yeah, I'd love to say to his sorry face he wasn't supposed to be even a real soldier, imagine a captain!" Cardin shouted and his men laughed.

"Hey, want to hear why the Red team is here?" Dove asked and they motioned for him to continue. "One is heiress to the SDC, and her daddy called some favors so she wouldn't be sent into real battles! Them we have Ruby Rose, their captain. Apparently she was so good despite her age that it made her superiors look bad and they sent her here with her sister, infamous for getting in fights with everyone. And the last one is from some secret program that failed miserably."

"Oh man, what a bunch of misfits. I wonder what the last one on Blue team is here for." Sky said and them they heard a click. "I opened it!"

"Great, let's get what we can and get out of this boxed canyon. And they never even wondered why anyone would send soldiers here." Cardin said as he stood at the door.

"Happy Birthday!" He fell on his butt as Penny appeared inside the room and popped a confetti cone on his face.

"The fuck! How you even got inside there?!" Cardin asked as he got up.

"We turned right in Albuquerque!" Ruby said from another walkway as she pointed her rifle with Weiss on her side. "Also, there was an open door on the back."

"And now we have you cornered!" Yang appeared on another walkway with Blake, pointing her shotgun at the spec ops.

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!" Ruby yelled.

"I think the ones surrendering will be you." Cardin said in a confident tone. "Arc! Get rid of them!"

They turned to see team Juniper came out from hiding.