"Nickole! Kobalt!" Tristan yelled as he watched his friends fall from the cliff edge, Justin stood there shocked that they had fallen. He couldn't believe that they weren't able to hold on another second. If they had Tristan would have grabbed them, or maybe he and Tristan were just too late. Either way Tristan had made it to the ledge just as they fell, he started backing away from the edge looking extremely pissed.

"I'm going after them!" he yelled as he started sprinting for the cliff edge. Before Justin could stop him a flash of green hair passed by his head and Justin saw Professor Viridian grab Tristan by his scarf and throw him away from the edge. By now all the teams on the field trip were here.

"Are you crazy?!" she yelled at him "Or are you just extra stupid?"

"My friends just fell off that cliff!" Tristan shouted back "I'm not just going to sit here and do nothing!"

"You jump down there you'll get yourself killed before you can help them." She told him

"How would you…"

"Tristan, you can't land safely." Justin said walking between him and Professor Viridian. "And that's a straight drop."

"Your teammates, your friends, just fell off that cliff!" his brother shouted at him "And you're…"

Justin shut him up by slamming the butt of his spear into Tristan's chest, launching him into a nearby tree. He knew better than to try and reason with his brother when he got like this, Tristan was even more unreasonable then their father was when he got angry.

"Were going after them, but in a way that doesn't end with us as paste on the ground." He turned to Professor Viridian "Professor, we should split up and look for a way down this cliff. I'll take Tristan and start searching to the east."

"Good idea, but two students might not be enough." She said "Teams of three each, Ellery, you're with the two brothers, the rest of JADE you're heading west. Indigo and Snow, you're with me were going to try scaling down, those two are alive I know it. The rest of PINK and UMBR head back to Beacon, alert Ozpin. And take these guys with you, I'm sure Oz would love to hear what happened from them."

"That's a big cliff professor," Brandon said "It'll take us a while to climb down it."

"We're doing it in case there isn't a way down somewhere else." She said "Now let's get moving."

Justin walked over to his brother, who was now reeling against the tree.

"Come on let's go." He said offering him a hand up.

"Damn bro, you have to hit that hard?" Tristan groaned, taking his hand.

"Yes, you get loud when you're angry." Justin told him

"I'm sure Kobalt and Nickole are okay." Carmen said walking up to them

"Then let's get going." Tristan said angrily as he forged ahead.

"Don't mind him," Justin told Carmen, "he gets like that when he's angry, and worried."

"It's kind of funny," Carmen laughed "Usually you're the one who seems like their mad most of the time."

"Most of the time huh?" Justin asked

"No," Carmen said starting on ahead of him "Sometimes you just seem bored. Come one, he's getting pretty far ahead of us."

"Yeah, you're right." He said running after Carmen.

They never caught up to Tristan, he was moving pretty far ahead but staying in range of their scrolls' com system. Maybe Justin shouldn't have hit him so hit hard, but he was acting like an idiot. Kobalt was tougher than Justin was and Nickole was the smartest of their team. He didn't have a doubt in his mind that they were okay. Either way Tristan was scouting in the trees ahead of them to make sure nothing surprised them. Carmen and he had settled into a light jog as they followed the cliff edge east. It had been almost an hour now and they still hadn't found a way down, and the sun had started setting. But the path they were on sloped down so maybe they would reach appoint safe to jump off the cliff soon. As they slowed down to rest Justin heard a low growl from the trees to his left. He stopped and put his arm in front of Carmen to stop her.

"Tristan," he whispered into his com "I thought you said we were clear."

"You are, no Grimm around here that I can see." Tristan responded.

As if on cue, a huge Grimm walked out from the shadows and sniffed the air. It looked towards Carmen and him and roared.

"It seems you missed one." Justin said drawing his spear.

"What is that?" Carmen asked behind him.

Easily the largest beowolf I've ever seen. Justin thought

"An alpha," he realized "No wonder it wasn't scared by the airship."

"An alpha?" Camren asked "What do we do?"

"Just stay behind me." he said

Before the beowolf could do anything Justin fired Ascalon and propelled himself towards it. He expected his spear to pierce it with no problem like it always did. Instead he got knocked away as he was about to make contact with the alpha, landing over to its left. Somehow the Grimm had managed to attack faster than him. He stood back up and walked cautiously towards it, after dodging a swipe at his head Justin tried to thrust his spear at the beowolf's chest. But the wolf moved out of the way before it could hit. He moved in and swept his spear from the right only to have the beowolf knock it out of his hands with its arm. It knocked him away and he landed in front of Carmen. Damn, this was just the thing Kobalt told him would happen, an opponent faster than him was more dangerous than he thought.

"Are you okay?" she asked as he stood back up.

"Yeah I'm fine," he said "Stay back I've got one more move."

In fact it was his last chance without his spear. He was already approaching discharge levels of electricity within him, if he charged up a bit more he could unleash a huge blast of lightning.

"No," Carmen said walking out in front of him. Slowly drawing and extending her own weapon. A long spear with curved spear head, almost like an elongated heart. The edge of the blade glowed a faint red.

"I'm done just sitting by watching people get hurt." She said walking up to the alpha. It looked at her like she was a small animal, not sure whether to eat her or let her go. Before it could decide, she leapt in the air and drove her spear into its back. It howled in pain and reached up to grab her, but as it did, a small dark red orb appeared beneath its head and it fell to the ground with a thud. Another orb appeared midair next to Carmen and she flew around it back towards the beowolf. She drove her spear into its arm and landed on its back. But a second later both orbs disappeared, and the alpha lifted its arms and threw Carmen from its back. She looked like she was about to hit a tree when another orb appeared and she flew around that one too. She was headed straight for the beowolf's head with her spear out in front of her.

But Justin knew it wouldn't work, he knew from experience that this beowolf was faster than it looked. It knocked her out of the way and started running towards where she landed. Justin had to move fast, he sprinted over to where his spear had landed and reloaded it as fast as he could. He started charging all his electricity in the tip of the spearhead, and he launched himself at the unsuspecting alpha. It shifted its gaze left, just off Carmen and onto him his as he finally managed to pierce it with his spear. Though the spear barely pierced it between two rib bones, and the beowolf growled lowly at Justin. But before it could do anything else, Justin unleashed all the electricity built up in the spearhead, causing the beowolf to explode in a shower of sparks, and sending Justin back a few feet. He ran over to Carmen, who was sitting up against a tree.

"You okay?" he asked kneeling down.

"Yeah, thanks." She groaned "That thing was fast."

"Not a problem." Justin said offering her a hand up

"That s two I owe you now." Carmen said as he pulled her up.

"You don't owe me anything." He said "Like you said, I won't stand by and watch people get hurt."

"Still, thank you." Carmen added

"So what was that back there?" Justin asked a few minutes later "That thing with the orbs?"

"Oh that? That's my semblance." She said

"I figured as much." Justin said "What exactly did you do?"

"I can make dense fields of gravity varying in strength." She said "It's a lot more complicated than it sounds, but that's basically what it is."

"Really?" he asked looking over the cliff edge "Think you could make some to slow a fall down this cliff?"

She peeked her head over to take a quick look, the cliff was definitely shorter than the one Kobalt and Nickole had gone over. Justin could survive a fall down it with his spear, but Tristan wouldn't make it.

"I couldn't slow a fall." Carmen said stepping back from the edge "But if I really pushed myself I could make it so we could walk down."

"Tristan get back here." Justin said into his com "I think we've got a shortcut."

"That so?" Tristan responded "It's about time we found a way down."

"You sure you can do this?" Justin asked Carmen

"Yeah, but I need your help." She told him

"Done." He said "What do you need me to do?"

Once Tristan was back they explained the plan to him and Justin leapt off the cliff edge. Like during initiation he used the recoil of his cannon to stop his fall. Once he landed he dug his spear into the ground and fired rounds at the cliff face making holes, all in a straight line down. One by one the first three holes were filled with a red orb and Carmen started walking down the cliff face, followed by a hesitant Tristan. A few minutes later they were down back down on the ground. And Tristan was already moving on ahead.

"Come on, we've still got a ways to go!" he shouted as he ran.

"Tristan hold up!" Justin yelled after his brother to no avail. Carmen darted out ahead of him too.

"The hard parts done were down the cliff." She said getting ahead of him "We need to make sure Kobalt and Nickole are okay."

"Yeah I know." Justin said running after them "I just wish he would slow down a little. He's not wearing full armor."

But Tristan did slow down after a little while, and Justin and Carmen were able to catch up to him. It wasn't much longer after that they reached the wreckage of the airship. By then the sun had been set for a while and they were left searching for their friends by the light of the fires all around them. The airship had been in bad shape when it was still flying, but the plummet off the cliff had made it impossible to tell it had ever been a ship. Flames of the wreckage burned all over the forest ground, but none looked to be starting any major fires.

"Kobalt! Nickole!" Tristan called out as they started searching, but no one responded. Justin started looking for any signs that they had moved through here, footprints, blood, anything to find them.

"Hey guys!" Carmen shouted somewhere off in the distance "Found something!"

Justin ran to where she was crouched down, she was standing at the lip of a small crater.

"What'd you find?" Tristan asked coming onto the scene, Carmen pointed to the crater. "That's it? There are craters all over the place."

"And how many of them are empty?" she asked him

"They must've landed here." Justin said picking up his search again. Looking closely he found a single footprint pressed into the dirt, like all of a person weight was on it. He lit his hand up in sparks to get better light, sure enough there was a faint trail of footprints leading out of the crater.

"They went this way, follow me." he said following the footprints. They moved through the rubble along the cliff face until they found a small cave. Inside looked to be a single fire that was about to go out. Tristan took point with his rifle out, slowly walking in the cave just in case there was something there.

"He called you Subject?" Justin heard a voice ask, it sounded faintly like Nickole's.

"Yeah, I don't know what to make of that, or the rest of it honestly." Definitely Kobalt talking there, Justin realized. They moved further into the cave and saw Kobalt and Nickole huddled together next to the fire. Justin was right, they were alive and well.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Tristan yelled entering their view "I was worried my two friends were hurt or worse. And here you are, making googly eyes at each other!"

"We were not!" Nickole shouted at him

"Well I don't know about you two, but I only sit like that with my girlfriend." Tristan accused

"Hey man it gets cold in this cave." Kobalt argued

"He's right." Carmen said shivering and moving towards the fire.

"Doesn't matter," Justin butted in "You two okay?"

"Mostly." Nickole said

"Well then why were you waiting in here for us?" Tristan yelled again "If you're okay then why didn't you try to get back?"

"Tristan, come over here I need to tell you something." Kobalt said motioning with his hand.

"You can tell me here."

"Just get over here." Kobalt said

"Fine," Tristan said walking over. Kobalt motion for him to get closer, whatever he was going to say it looked like he didn't want anyone else hearing.

"MY LEG IS BROKEN!" he yelled into Tristan's ear.

"Well you don't have to shout." Tristan said backing up and covering his ears.

"Let me take a look." Carmen said walking over. Kobalt stuck his left leg out for her to see.

"It's not broken." She said immediately "Its dislocated, can't tell the difference?"

"It hurts, that's about all I can tell." Kobalt said

"Well grab something, it's about to hurt even more." Carmen said, she shifted his leg and pushed it back in place. To Justin's surprise Kobalt didn't say a word when the bone was shoved back in place. Instead he just slammed his fist down on a nearby rock.

"Better?" Carmen asked him, Kobalt swung his leg out to check.

"Better, still hurts like hell though." He said

"You should try to stay off it for now." Carmen said

"And we should all get out of here." Nickole said, helping Kobalt stand up. "Anyone know a way back to Beacon?"

Justin and Carmen looked at each other, then back to Kobalt.

"Who feels like going rock climbing?" Carmen asked, already starting her way out of the cave.

"Pass." Kobalt laughed, "Someone just told me to stay off my leg."

"We'll explain on the way." Justin said as the exited the cave

"How far of a walk is it?" Kobalt asked, limping along with Nickole balancing him. "Not sure how long I can keep up."

As he said it a bright light flooded the area and a pair of engines roared in the distance. Seconds later a Bullhead dropship came into view and focused its lights on them.

"Well it looks like you won't have to walk far after all." Justin said as ship lowered to the ground nearby them.

"Dropship ex Machina." Nickole laughed as the side doors opened and Justin saw Robert Coal stick his head out.

"Hey! Looks like we found you!" he shouted over the roar of the engines "Look who we picked up on the way down!"

The door opened further and Professor Viridian, Brandon and Indigo were standing in the ship waiting. They must not have gotten far down the cliff before the dropship came in.

"What took you so long?" Tristan asked as they climbed on board.

"Well we had to go all the way back to Beacon for starters!" Robert laughed. He reached down and pulled Kobalt on board and helped him to a seat. Once Nickole was on they took off back for Beacon.

"You alright Kobalt?" Professor Viridian asked

"That was the third fall in the past few months, anymore and I might start being afraid of heights." Kobalt laughed "But at least I had company this time."

"And you Gareth?" Viridian asked Nickole

"I'm fine, Kobalt took the worst of the impact." She said "We should get him to the infirmary as soon as we get back."

"I'm fine, my legs back in place." Kobalt argued

"And I thought you were the smart one on your team." Viridian said "Don't try to act tough, it makes you look like an idiot."