After the brief encounter with the girl known as Neo, one of the accomplices, team JAHT decided to take a break inside a small cafe, though they knew they had no time as they had the thought that the mastermind could be doing anything as they were there.
At least, the cafe is empty as of the time that they're there. And one more problem had to do with their physiques.
"So, does anyone have any idea to fight? I'm pretty sure if we're going to be competing, we might as well train, although I know we're not going to make it in a week." The Caretaker stated to his group, who just agreed with what he had just said.
"You're right, we're not going to make it. Even worse, is that we wouldn't be able to do anything against the mastermind, not by fighting. What do you think they even planned to do around here?" Jack asked, wanting to know the intention of the possible threats.
The Doctor shrugged. "I don't know, even though the Carer and I have been watching the academy for a long time, we didn't find anything, yet. The only thing we have is the team involved. If I remember, were they called, team...CEMN?" The Doctor asked the Caretaker for correction, if there was any.
"Team what now?" Me asked the Doctor, who just shrugged. She then looked towards the Caretaker.
"They're pronounced as cement, despite lacking the letter T. I hate if there's always something missing, because we need all possible clues to tie them to any big crime organization." The Caretaker said to them.
They promptly agreed with him.
"So what do we do now? We can investigate the other aliens if that's okay with you guys." Jack said to the team, making the Doctor and the Caretaker perk their heads up.
"Oh yeah. We almost forgot about them." The Doctor said, remembering the other aliens that had also invaded Remnant.
"The Weeping Angels are the only ones we have found so far. There's still the Daleks, Cybermen, and the Sandmen. We need to find them before anymore harm can be done in this world." Jack then went closer.
"And don't forget the crack. It seems that the crack has returned after a few years of abandonment. What's the danger of these 'cracks in time and space', anyway?" Jack asked them about the cracks.
"Well, to put it simply, these cracks appear because the wall between time and space is possibly thinning as we speak. It's thinning is possibly because our time traveling have caused it to be thinner." The Caretaker explained while also seemingly trying to remember something else.
"So, any creatures could come through these cracks, then?" Me asked.
"You had just seen the Weeping Angels got eaten away by one of the cracks. What is there to say anymore? We might not even be able to seal it, because we're going to have other species come crawling in as well, threatening this world to shambles." The Caretaker said with some kind of lack of confidence.
The next few minutes were then spent relaxing around in the cafe, thinking and talking about stuffs that could be happening on Earth as they spoke.
"Let's play a game. Say all the possible things that could be happening on Earth, right now." Jack said as he wiped his nose on his coat.
"Uh, a giant worm monster attack in a city...hope that doesn't happen though." The Doctor stated.
"Invasion of the body snatchers?" Me asked, wondering about the possibility of it.
"Ooh, what about creatures that eat light? Jack decided to intervene the game.
"What about the crack opens again at somewhere we try not to care about. Unless it's Coal Hill." The Caretaker said to them.
"What's wrong with Coal Hill?" The Doctor asked his future self.
"Nothing much. I'm just scared of how it could be the place where all of time and space would try to tear the fabric to get out." The Caretaker explained.
Silence then continued for who knows how long until Me proposed to go somewhere.
"What about we go back to Beacon? Maybe we can find more clues about that team and then use them to prove their involvement in this." Me said to her group.
Jack shrugged. "I don't see why not. Might as well do that, since I'm pretty sure someone else have been keeping their eyes on us." He said with the later statements becoming whispers as he looked at the further table from them.
The group then slowly turned their heads towards the furthest table from them and found someone had definitely been watching them. They couldn't really make out the appearance, so they turned back towards their own table.
"Well, isn't that just great?" The Doctor asked sarcastically.
The four looked at each other before standing up to leave the cafe. They looked at the person again and found them standing up as well.
Needless to say, team JAHT then quickly walked out of the cafe, finally finding the need to go back to the TARDIS again.
And needless to say as well, they started running back as soon as the cafe was out of view, towards the alley where the Doctor and the Caretaker had parked the TARDIS at.
It took them approximately one minute to get back to the TARDIS.
They went inside and as the Doctor looked out once more he then found the person from earlier had found them and the TARDIS. He quickly closed the door and locked it.
"Who is it? Can you see them properly now?" The Caretaker asked his past counterpart.
"I don't know. 'They' seemed to be a man and..." The Doctor trailed off before smelling the air.
"...I think he's alcoholic? I don't know." The Doctor finished stating the only facts he could get about the pursuing man from earlier.
Not a few seconds later the door was knocked very loudly. It shocked the group and they stood a few feet back away from the door.
"Come on! Open up! I want to talk *hic* to you!" The man shouted from the outside, leaving the group to decide whether to open the door or not.
"Well, at least we can confirm he's actually alcoholic. He just hiccuped for a moment there." Jack stated as he listened to the man's voice.
"And I can say he's probably in his 30s or maybe younger...or maybe older? I don't know..." Me stated as she heard the man's gruff tone and voice.
"You know, for a second earlier when I took one last look at him, I think he's wearing a torn cape. I don't know why but...maybe it's just his style or something like that." The Doctor stated.
"So it's an alcoholic man in his 30s who wears a torn cape above all his clothes? Seems familiar..." The Caretaker trailed off, remembering someone else who had the rather familiar type of clothing.
"We're not talking about that little girl, right? What's her name again? Ruby?" Jack said, prompting the Caretaker to point a finger at him.
"Bingo."
He then turned towards the Doctor.
"Unlock the door. We're going to talk to him." The Caretaker said to the Doctor, who then walked towards the door and unlocked it. He then went to open it until the man forced open the door by forcefully pushing the door for entry.
"You know, talking about my alcoholic attitude is bad enough, but talking about my niece..." The man then promptly pulled out a big sword from the back of his waist, surprising the four. The man then pointed it at the Caretaker.
"...that's just rude." The man stated before putting the sword back onto his waist.
It then turned to awkward silence for about ten seconds before anyone could break it.
"Ruby's your niece?" The Caretaker said, quickly getting rid of the other conclusion he had in his mind.
The man shrugged. "I mean, yeah. Little redhead is my niece. I don't know what you were thinking earlier, but it's not true. That I can say." He stated before taking a flask from his waist and drank its content.
"Sorry about that. She literally has almost the same looks as you. Of course, I would interpret you as her father instead of being an uncle or something like that." The Caretaker then laughed a bit after saying that.
"Is it that funny?" The man said.
Everyone shrugged.
"Anyway, the name's Qrow Branwen. Ozpin called me to find the four of you, team JAHT." The man, Qrow, said before he snickered a bit.
"What's so funny? Is it our team's name?" The Doctor asked about what Qrow thought about it.
"No, no, it's something else. It's just that your team name is quite the opposite of my team name. Yours is based on the color, jet black, while my team is based on the color, stark white. I don't know if that's a coincidence or not." Qrow explained to them.
"You were a part of the team that had worked for Ozpin?" Me asked, curious about Qrow's team.
"Well, in the past, at least." Qrow answered to her.
Qrow then looked at the two Time Lords in the TARDIS.
"You two can drive this, yeah?" Qrow asked the two, getting nods from the Time Lords.
"Can you give me a ride back towards Beacon? I heard you wanted to go back as well. Might as well just drop me in Ozpin's office if you please." Qrow said before closing the door.
The Doctor and the Caretaker looked at each other before looking back at Qrow.
"Okay, yeah, sure. I don't know why we should trust you on this, but why not?"
The two Time Lords then went to the console with the Caretaker typing in the coordinates for Ozpin's office. The Doctor then pulled the lever, putting the TARDIS into use as they went towards Beacon.
"So, mind to tell me some things about yourselves?" Qrow asked them, wanting to know their backgrounds while waiting to arrive at Beacon.
"WHERE'S THE CHAPTER DANGIT!?"
Okay, step it down, okay? I'm finally back! And it's not the 1st of December yet!
So for those who are asking where have I been for the past November, it is very complicated. To say the least.
Let me just start off by saying that at early November, I had an exam that took around two weeks for all of them to be finished, and that's only for the first three weeks of this month.
The last week (the one we're in right now), I've been trying to animate stuff and had been doing useless stuff as well. Guess what? It didn't work.
'Why can't I have King Crimson right now? It just works.'
Anyway, I'm going to announce that I will rewrite every chapter of this fan fic here from the very first chapter, going through all of them as I had noticeably improved in story writing as of recently.
I mean, read "Remnant is Not Fall". It pretty much sees the improvement of my writing.
So, that's all, I think.
P.S: Disclaimer: I don't own anything and this is my first time writing this.
P.P.S: Volume 3 arc might see next chapter as the first one.