Be careful, a nest of liars lies ahead.
Jaune looked around, as he heard a voice while showering. It was a gentle voice, feminine, almost like she worried about him. It wasn't the voice of Penny, or any voice he knew, except… It sounded like the songstress he always heard singing while warping. And since they were indeed warping, it made sense the voice belonged to the same person.
"You know, you have a lovely voice, we should talk more often." He commented and he heard giggling. "Would you mind tell me your name?"
Silence… then singing. This time a weary song. It was like the songstress was saying she wouldn't talk to him often. Jaune made a mental note to keep this a secret for a while, at least until he could have certainty of what he was experiencing. He finished his bath and put his uniform. It was time to work again.
…
Glynda Goodwitch always knew that this mission would be unusual. First, they gave command to an inexperienced officer and for more that she learned to like Jaune as a person; she still had trouble accepting how easily he would go for unorthodox methods to get them all out of trouble. Certainly they worked till now, but she couldn't help but dread the day it won't. She would support him, nonetheless, but she still wanted him to talk with her before doing something crazy.
Then, there was the chosen crew. Clearly there were pearls like Velvet, Ren, Pyrrha and Weiss, as long as the young Schnee was kept from her other teammates, the ones Glynda defined as the problematic ones. They ranged from inexperienced but talented to straight trouble makers. But she was getting used to it.
She was surprised to see that apparently today was 'try a new hairstyle' day as she entered the bridge.
Yang was wearing twin tails, and it fit her personality very well. Velvet was wearing a braid, and once again it fit the bunny girl well. Pyrrha was probably the one with the most radical change as she had her long red hair braided in several small braids along its length, and while fitting, it probably took the whole day to be done. Even Penny was wearing her hair in a short off center ponytail.
"Hello everyone." Jaune said as he entered the bridge and was saluted back, sitting on his chair as Glynda gave way for him. "So, how long before we warp off?"
"Five minutes, skipper." Yang answered as she checked her panel. Jaune nodded and started checking his panel. Glynda eyed him as he lacked any reaction over the crew new hairstyles.
"Captain, didn't you noticed anything different on the crew?" She whispered to him, and he looked around.
"Not really. Please tell me you don't suspect aliens swapped our crew with sentient cabbages that look like them!" Jaune shout whispered back, making Glynda sigh.
"Of course not! I am talking about their hair!"
"Oh, that. Penny said my sister Mia would try different hairstyles with her from time to time, and I said I could help her since I did the hair for my sisters a lot of times. Then Ruby got me and asked for me to do her hair, and one thing got to another." Glynda just shook her head in disbelief. Of course the captain of the most advanced ship of the colonial Spacy fleet would spend time doing his crew's hair.
"Going out of warp…" Yang spoke. "Now…"
They arrived in the Ibis system, a binary system with a red and a blue star, and twenty planets and hundreds of moons. It was a prime candidate and was a beautiful sight to boot. The Nagato started to travel towards the life zone while Velvet started scanning the system.
"Sir, we are being hailed." She said with a surprised tone, making Jaune stare at her for a moment. He hoped this time it would be a better first contact than the few last ones.
"Pass them through."
The alien that appeared was probably the most beautiful alien their met till that moment, and there was a moment of surprised silence on the bridge. It had bird-like features, the whole body covered in mostly white feathers except for a few around the head and arms that were colorful, with so many colors that they couldn't list them all at a single glance. It didn't have a beak, but a projected mouth covered in tiny feathers, and had a smile.
"Greetings visitors. I am Aleeka from the planet Kooars. Please identify yourselves and your purpose visiting our star system." She said in a very musical female voice.
"Greetings, Aleeka. I am Cpt. Jaune Arc of the FTLRSS-7 Nagato. Our purpose is to find planets fit for colonization." The blonde boy was surprised to see Aleeka smile getting bigger.
"That is most fortunate then. I will inform our leader of your arrival. Our moon, Klaska, might be suitable for your species. Please standby as we send a drone scan to check your ship before we can authorize your approach."
"Understood, we will wait for it." With that the communication ended. "Velvet, they can't hear us anymore, right?" The bunny girl wondered why he was asking that but nodded. "Very well… Penny, make sure this drone scan only do what is supposed to do, I don't want it probing our systems and files. We are keeping a yellow alert from now one. Tell Ruby I want a fireteam on alert."
"Wow, and that is your reaction to nice people?" Sun asked from his terminal.
"You can get more flies with honey than vinegar, Petty Officer. Besides, after our streak of bad luck, I prefer to be overly cautious." He stated, and Glynda gave a small nod of approval. It was clearly he was learning from past events.
…
"99.99%?"
"Yes, atmosphere, size, gravity, liquid water, climate, vegetation and life. It is 99.99% compatible with our needs." Velvet explained to the captain with a bright smile. Jaune looked at the numbers and nodded, but something kept pestering him, like a nagging sensation he was missing crucial information.
"And the Kooarsians are going to give us the moon… just like that?" he questioned, and Velvet showed their planet.
"Kooars have 80% of our standard gravity, and its atmosphere contains more oxygen and sulfuric components than ours, so I am guessing the Kooarsians can't live in the moon whitout terraforming it." She explained as she put the two celestial bodies side to side. "And Kooars have only one city, and a few hundreds of thousands inhabitants, so it is not like they need the space."
"Yeah, yeah. Well, they want to meet us, right?"
"Yes, their leader, Jarse, wants to meet with us to discuss a pre-arrangement if we want to move to their moon." Glynda stated, and Jaune nodded. Apparently, they could finish that mission in a success and be back home in just a few days. Yet he couldn't put himself in a good mood.
"Commander, you are going, choose whoever you think appropriate. They aren't allowing you to take your guns, so be careful." Glynda nodded, but Yang put an arm around Jaune's shoulder.
"Come on, skipper, we are visiting their planet, they have the right to be a little cautious of us."
"Exactly. They are meeting a new species and are already offering their moon to us and inviting us to dinner. I think they aren't being cautious enough." He finished as the crew dispersed to exact their mission.
…
Glynda was satisfied with her chosen crew. Weiss, wearing twin tails, would add some class to her meeting with the aliens. Pyrrha was also very polite; as was Coco (wearing a bandana instead of her bonnet), when the brunette wasn't too busy teasing Velvet. She regretted having to bring Neptune as a pilot, hoping he would behave. And Penny was always an uncertainty. Otherwise she expected to avoid any ruckus or worst, a diplomatic incident.
"That is one pretty city." Neptune commented from the cabin.
They looked from the windows to see a mostly white city constructed in the way of tall skyscrapers connected by many bridges, in what appeared to be a natural crater with a lake at the bottom. There was a great quantity of vegetation being grown in many plateaus constructed along the sides of the buildings, and many parks could be seen. Maybe due to the sulfur in the air, most plants had a distinct yellow tint. Neptune maneuvered the aircraft to a landing area, where several Kooarsians waited.
They landed and disembarked with their armors on, since they needed to filter the sulfur and excess oxygen from the air. The lighter gravity felt surprisingly nice too. The Kooarsians welcoming them were very bird like creatures, with bird like feet, and hands in the same pattern, but no wings, and long feathery tails, but none wore any clothing, maybe due to the feathers covering most of their bodies, but certainly they were adept to use jewelry. They were tall, twice as taller than the tallest of the team, probably due to the combination of low gravity and bigger oxygen rates.
"Welcome to Kooars. I am the leader of my people, Jarse. It is with utmost pleasure that we welcome you to our city." The tallest and most adorned Kooarsian said to them with a huge bow, that the crew gave back.
"I am Cmdr. Glynda Goodwitch of the Nagato. Thank you for receiving us, Lady Jarse."
"Good, good. Follow me; we have prepared a reception for you and your crew."
They followed the group through the many bridges and corridors that linked the city's buildings, and were surprised that apparently the Kooarsians didn't used any type of vehicle to go from place to place, not even elevators. But the combination of Hunter armor and low gravity made the walk less tiring than expected.
Soon they found themselves in a big, circular room. There were no chairs but several cushions around the round table in the middle. They sat and Glynda did most of the talk with Jarse, while the rest mostly just added information or a comment here and there. No food or beverages were served, and the crew just assumed they didn't had a suitable meal to offer, especially when the guests couldn't take their helmets
"Oh my, it is night time already." Jarse commented as they looked outside, and indeed the night was setting in. "Can I offer you all a room for the night?"
"That would be nice, yes." Glynda said, weighting that accepting the hospitality of the natives would outweigh the inconvenience of staying inside the armor for an extended period of time.
"We prepared an acclimatized room for you, so you will be able to sleep comfortable. But we just don't have any food or drink to offer that would suit your needs." She apologized, but to them it was already more than expected.
"It is already more than we could ask for, Lady Jarse. We are very thankful for your hospitality." Glynda completed, and the Kooarsians led them to a room on the base of the building. It was covered in cushions, and was rather spacious and comfortable.
"We will meet you all tomorrow. Sleep well." Jarse wished as the door closed, and the sound of machines could be heard.
"The air is now appropriate for humans." Penny stated, and they all removed their helmets.
"They are a rather pleasant people." Weiss said as she stretched and sat on the comfortable cushions. "I wish all aliens were like them."
"Yeah, it certainly beat what we found so far with the exception being the Hippolians. They were cool too." Coco agreed as she removed her armor.
"Let's just try to get some rest. I will inform Jaune that we are progressing well so far." Pyrrha said as she activated the radio.
…
Jaune probably never spent so much time in the bridge before. If possible he liked to spend time in the mess hall, or in his room. But the bridge had all the shiny holo-screens to him to play, and while the temptation to play a game was always great, now he was checking all the information about the planet and the moon they were visiting. Sun and Yang were sleeping at their stations, as was Nora. Ren was fiddling with Penny's AI program, probably just because he was interested in the way the AI worked with emotions. If Glynda was there, she would make sure to lecture everyone.
"Captain?" Jaune turned to see Velvet entering the bridge, wearing her night clothes, and with a cute cap covering her hair but showing her ears. "Shouldn't you be sleeping?"
"I could ask you the same, Vel." He answered with a smile before returning to the screens.
"Don't try to weasel out, Captain!" She said as angry as possible, despite her clothes making that cute than threatening. "You need to sleep too! And if you say sleep is for the weak…"
"IT IS WHAT I WOULD BE DOING IF YOU STOP YELLING!" Nora shouted before going back to sleep on her console, startling the duo. Apparently the rest was too deep in sleep to notice.
"Sorry, Vel, it is just this nagging feeling something here is so terrible wrong. My mom always says that when everything is too perfect, you should be wary." He explained as once again he looked at the moon that could turn out to be their new home. "I want to believe we accomplished our mission as much as everyone else, if not more. But Ironwood was right in one thing: hope is a dangerous thing. If we get it too high, the fall is even more disastrous."
"So, just keep your hopes in check. No need to give up at it." Velvet gentle put his hands on hers, and smiled shyly. Jaune smiled back, feeling a bit silly for worrying so much. That was when the two was put in a hug by Yang. "WHA?!"
"Come on, I want a bit of blonde, handsome and cute too! I can't help if he attracts me like a planet attract its moon!" She smirked, making Velvet squirm under her hug.
"THAT IS IT!" Jaune shouted surprising everyone and waking both Nora and Sun. "Attraction! Yang, you might be a genius!"
"I am a genius!" She said pointing to her chest with her thumb.
"Penny, show me the orbit the moon take over the planet." The image showed the moon rotating around its planet as a moon usually would. "Now, considering the planet has lower gravity than the moon, how a bigger moon is the one gravitating around it and not the reverse, considering they are as close as our moon is from our planet back home?"
"It is impossible. Bodies with higher gravity attract the ones with smaller gravity." Nora explained as she rubbed her face and then her eyes got wide open. "Oh, maybe we found a great discover in astrophysics and we will be famous and my name will be on books and…"
"Nora, let's focus in solving this mystery first." Ren said as he ran the scanners again. "Same readings as before. But the gravity mystery sure deserves a closer look."
"Try to contact the fireteam. I want them back on the ship till we solve this puzzle." Jaune ordered. Velvet sat at the comm. station and tried contact.
"Sir, no answer from the fireteam." She said worried.
"Penny?"
"Can't contact my mobile unit too. It is not interference; it is more like the signal isn't reaching her."
"Nora, prepare the fighters. Yang, you go get our friends, I will go check that moon." He answered, but Velvet stopped him.
"Jaune, if we are wrong here and this is just some weird coincidence, we might create a diplomatic incident. Maybe they just can't get the call at the moment." The bunny girl warned, and he petted her head gently.
"We are just checking things up, Vel. The fighters have stealth capabilities, so we will just do a few flyovers and if everything is as supposed to be, we will come back. Keep trying to reach the team. Yang, no blowing up stuff without my orders… Or if you see people shooting against our people."
"One day you will say to me 'fire at will' and there will be much rejoicing."
…
Jaune and Yang left the Nagato and each flew in different directions, the former to the moon and the later to the planet. They both activated the active stealth mode, and the ships couldn't be detected anymore, even by naked eye as the light distortion camouflage made the light circle around them.
The Ladybug approached the moon and Jaune noticed the first oddity as while the sensors indicated the gravity field of the planet he couldn't feel its effects on his fighter. The second oddity was the fact that as he prepared to enter the atmosphere nothing happened, no attrition heating, no turbulence. It was basically all evidence he needed, but when he tried to contact the Nagato, something was blocking the signal.
"Uh. Might as well go deeper then."
Jaune made the fighter dive in the direction of the ocean, while all of his sensors warned him of the imminent collision. He gritted his teeth and prayed for his guts to be right about what would be a really awful experience if he wasn't. He closed his eyes when the fighter hit the water and…
Nothing.
He opened his eyes again to see he was still alive, and flying. He looked at the sensors since the space he found himself in was completely dark. It indicated a small celestial body below, smaller than the moon back home. He decided to investigate it and flew closer, noticing a few heat points around the moon and what he thought was sky lights.
As he approached the moon, his sensors beeped, detecting several smaller structures orbiting it. He couldn't see them since whatever was creating the illusion that the moon was bigger than reality was blocking the stars' light. Jaune could use his own lights, but he would have to uncloak. He decided that it was worth the risk.
He cursed his decision immediately.
Hundreds of small insect like drones started to chase him, and he used his onboard machine guns to down as many as he could. Deciding that in space they had the advantage he dove into the moon bellow, his lights revealing a red clouded moon. Reentry proved fatal to the drones, despite the thin atmosphere, the attrition destroyed many of them. But many others were still pursuing him, and he maneuvered to avoid their attacks. He was glad the fighter was made to fly in the atmosphere as well as in space, while the drones weren't as prepared. He outmaneuvered and downed the rest with ease.
Taking a few seconds to recover his breath he flew towards the hottest point of the moon, and found a tower in the middle of it, emitting some type of laser show. He scanned it but found no traces of life signals, so he tried to analyze it, already missing Penny and Ren. It looked like some gigantic projection device combine with a series of radiation emitters…
"And I want it gone."
He armed a pair of missiles and fired them, to discover the structure had some type of force field around it. He groaned and was about to try again when anti-air artillery started exploding around him, forcing him to evade. One hit his fighter, sparks flew from where the hit connected, and the panel showed it disabled the weapons systems. That would mean he would have to go back to the Nagato and try to explode if from a distance.
"Or…"
He engaged the autopilot and made the Ladybug circle the tower from a distance of around 3 km, enough to keep the artillery fire from hitting it. He opened the canopy, glad for wearing armor and armed the neutron rifle. Remembering what happened when he tested the weapon the first time, he adjusted the angle of the fighter relative to the tower and generated the hardlight shield. The tower's defenses fired long range explosive rounds, which started to burst too close to him for his taste.
"Ren said I could hit something ten clicks away. Let's see how it goes with three clicks, gravity and atmosphere."
He fired, and the gold beam overheated the air around it, burning its components and creating an impressive fire column around it. It hit the middle of the tower, but due to the fighter's movement it moved to the left and down. When it finally finished firing, the tower felt to its side and the illusion started to dispel.
"Captain, what happened and why the moon is changing?" He heard Velvet's voice on the radio and returned to the cockpit, glad the rifle worked just as fine.
"Found a deceit and got rid of it. What about the crew in the planet?"
…
"Commander Goodwitch, please wake up. It is an emergency."
Glynda groaned and looked at the AI unit. The worried expression on the artificial girl's face made her promptly get up and put her glasses on. The blonde woman still had trouble accepting that a robot had such a variety of emotions, and those all seemed so sincere. She wondered how the rest of the crew could accept it so easily. She stopped wondering when Penny pushed her helmet on her hands.
"I am detecting a raise on the levels of carbon dioxide in the room, dangerously approaching critical level. I will wake the others, please wear your Hunter."
Glynda put the helmet immediately and confirmed the information and activated the helmet air purifying function. She was glad of the modular nature of the Hunter armors, and started to put her on. Penny successfully woke everyone else and helped them putting their armors. With that problem out of the way they reunited in the middle of the spacious room.
"What is happening?" Neptune asked first, yawning loudly.
"Maybe it is a malfunction on the environmental system?" Pyrrha hoped as she looked around to see if anything was aflame, a likely source for the carbon dioxide.
"Impossible to determinate." Penny said as she finally put her own helmet. Being synthetic had its perks, and Glynda finally felt glad she brought her with them.
"Let's call the Kooarsians, they probably will fix this." Weiss calmly stated and tried to use the terminal close to the door, but nothing happened. "OK, this is not right. Let me try the radio…" She tried to contact the outside using the onboard radio. "Something is blocking the signal."
"Very well… We are unarmed and unable to contact the outside. We are going back to the bullhead. Whatever is happening, I don't want to stay here to discover." Glynda approached and tried to open the door, to no avail. "Of course it is locked. Suggestions?"
"Let me try something…" Pyrrha touched the door and used her Semblance. A series of clicks and clacks were heard and the door opened. "Uh, Blake was right. I can use it to open locks."
"Less talking, more escaping." Coco said as they all started to run around the corridors and passages of the city.
The city was empty as it was the middle of the night, only the faint glow of round lamps and the light from the moon. Not that lack of light was a problem when they all were wearing expensive high-tech armors. They jumped down some bridges and arrived at the landing pad, gladly to see the bullhead was still there. They also saw the Kooarsians standing between them and their ship. Besides them there were two huge robots, apparently battle ready.
"My, why our guests are leaving in the middle of the night?" Jarse asked in her friendly tone.
"Our room was filled with carbon dioxide, and our attempts to reach you or our ship failed, Lady Jarse." Glynda explained, already not liking the situation. If it was all a misunderstanding, there was no need for the giant robots.
"That was probably a malfunction with the climatic system. The lack of radio signal happens sometimes due to solar tempests that our starts usually do. I see this is all a misunderstanding from your part. We will fix your room and hope this incident will not affect our negotiations." Jarse said very receptive, and for a second Glynda wondering if that was really a misunderstanding.
"You should fix your moon first." Coco commented, and they all looked at her first before looking at the moon.
Slowly the big, blue, white and green moon faded, revealing a smaller red globe covered in grayish clouds. For the first time since they met the Kooarsians expressions changed from welcoming smiles to enraged frowns as they turned back to the Hunters. The robots armed their weapons and aimed at them.
"How unfortunate that this is how we will do it. We were going to get you unconscious and take you all to the extraction chambers. Now, we will have to resort to less pleasant ways." The musical voice she usually used was gone for a terrifying shriek like speech.
"Extraction chambers?" Glynda questioned, more in an attempt to keep the alien busy as she planned a way to get out of that situation. She knew Pyrrha could use her semblance on the robots, while Weiss and she could use their glyphs to keep the aliens in check. But the lack of proper weapons still was problematic.
"Yes. You see, your blood carry all your race traits, and drinking living blood will give our race the best characteristics, as we absorb your DNA and your souls." Jarse explained, and they all looked back terrified.
"If it was our DNA you wanted…." Glynda started, but a loud shriek that maybe was supposed to be a laugh cut her.
"But how about your soul? Now, please go back, and you all will have a painless existence as we slowly drink your blood."
They all got in an unarmed battle stance, and the two big robots took a step forward.
And exploded.
They all cowered for a second to see Bumblebee decloaking and make a maneuver over their heads.
"Sorry I kept you waiting. I see our hosts aren't exactly all sunshine and rainbows. I think I owe the skipper some money." Yang said over the radio.
"Glad you are here, Lieutenant, we need extraction ASAP!" Glynda answered as the fighter was coming back, firing a missile that simply landed in front of them, opening up and revealing their weapons.
"I am detecting several bandits approaching. I will try to keep them off as you guys get to the bullhead."
The fighter flew away and soon they could see explosions on the night sky. The Kooarsians shrieked and started attacking the fireteam using long rifle-like weapons, and they fought back with their retrieved weapons. Four more robots appeared, and Pyrrha and Weiss used their Semblances to keep the robots away. Coco used her rather large minigun (a name she always said was the biggest misnomer ever) to give Neptune cover fire as they made way to the bullhead. Penny used her swords to teach any one that got too close why swords are nasty.
Jarse jumped at Glynda, her weapon in spear mode, just to be blocked by a glyph, before the Commander, spun and shot the alien in the shoulder, making her shriek louder and attack again. The blonde officer once again used a glyph to block and fired against Jarse's knee, basically blowing it off. With the alien downed she rushed towards the bullhead.
Pyrrha and Weiss perfectly combined their skills, the redhead using her teammate glyphs to get vantage points to pierce the robots heads and using her own Semblance to fry the electronics inside them. The heiress used her many Dust rounds to keep them busy, but one of the robots almost got her if Pyrrha didn't used her shield to take its arm off. The two shared a stare of satisfaction as they also reached the bullhead after dispatching the last robot.
Neptune was already starting the engines while Coco suppressed the enemies by raining bullets at them. The team was onboard soon, while several new enemies started approaching and Yang urged them to get out before more airborne enemies could arrive.
"Petty Officer!" Glynda shouted towards the pilot.
"I need to scan the ship first! I would hate to discover they planted a bomb and explode midair! Just keep them busy for a few seconds!" He answered back as he kept pressing buttons on the panel.
"I don't have that much bullets, Vasilias!" Coco answered as she looked that the bullet belt was close to its end.
"Neptune!" Weiss yelled from her sit.
"Ready to take off!" He shouted back and the bullhead jerk up. Coco almost fell off the vessel but Penny grabbed her and pulled the gunner inside.
The bullhead closed its doors and started its escape, soon joined by Bumblebee as the two vessels dodged incoming fire. It was a tense few minutes before they left the planet and boarded the Nagato. The ship didn't wait them all to be seated before making a run to the warp point and leaving the system.
…
"Alien vampires?" Blake asked as the crew finally finished delivering their reports. She was wearing her hair in a complex oriental style.
The Nagato was in warp, so they didn't expected trouble.
"Basically. They believed that drinking our blood would give them our best characteristics, and part of our souls." Weiss explained as she brushed her hair.
"That sound nuts." Blake commented, but she was already having an idea for her fanfiction, and a name, Space Ninja Vampires of Love.
"You would expect that advanced cultures would be less… savage." Weiss lamented.
"Are we an example of advanced culture? I mean, we were forced to leave our planet, live in space colonies, and we still found ways to wage wars between ourselves." Blake commented. The Faunus Great Strike wasn't the first time in the Colonies' story that something like that happened.
"Well, let's just hope our next encounter is with nice aliens. One that only thing they crave is Ruby's cookies." Yang said playfully, and Ruby hugged her cookie jar. Her hair was brushed back and held with a ribbon.
"Only evil aliens would try to steal the cookies of a little girl!" She protested, and everyone laughed a little bit.
…
"I am just glad you all returned safely. And next time, we really should negotiate any 'no weapons' rules." Jaune commented with Glynda as she finished delivering her report to him.
"I think the prospect of finishing our mission made all of us rush things. We should create a protocol for next encounters like this." She added and Jaune agreed.
"But not now. You need rest. Though I am curious about how it felt to be back in action."
"It was… sad. At first, I wasn't thinking about anything. Except protecting the team and leaving the planet, but… I never liked the killing. I know that makes me sound like a bad soldier…"
"I would rather have soldiers that dislike killing than ones that get pleasure on them. That is why you became an instructor?"
"Yes. A chance to help others to survive it was one I wouldn't let go."
"So, why did you accept coming here?" Jaune asked, now curious. Glynda smiled a rare smile that changed her, like the stern one and the smiling one were two different people.
"Because I believe. I believe this mission can save us as a people. And to keep an eye on you."
"Me?" He was confused as she stated that, and she pulled her scroll and showed footage of his fighter. The onboard cameras even caught him firing the neutron rifle.
"You still do some risky maneuvers if left unattended, Mr. Arc." She said with the instructor tone he always feared and respected, making Jaune stiff in his chair. "So, I will lecture you about getting in unnecessary danger as you fix my hair."
"Come on, Commander, I did that because… Wait… what?" She smiled slyly at him and spun in the chair, her back towards him as they sat in his office.
"Well, you have talent, and you played with the hair of every woman in this ship. So, as I lecture you, I want to see how you would comb my hair." She explained very professionally, and Jaune gulped but obeyed, an old reflex from combat school. He couldn't see the playful smile Glynda had, but she relaxed as he undid her hair bun. He could be her captain, but she decided to never stop being his teacher.