"Okay, now that's over with, let's get to re-stating the current plans." Ironwood said, after Qrow sat down he had walked back out of the tent. "Currently, the Grimm forces are stampeding in this direction, most of the landscape is forests with fairly flat land, until they reach this cliff."

"I think we should send a squad to intercept them mid-way." Winter says. "I don't know who yet, but we should definitely not wait here so they can walk that whole way un-contested. The squad should be a small squad, and those of us that can move quickly, no matter how much total damage they can inflict. Those of us not in the Assault Team will set up a defensive line on the cliff."

"This seems like a good idea, by tomorrow we should send out the Assault Team." Ironwood said. "For starters, Taiyang, Elec, Ray, and Mica will be in the Assault Team."

"I agree, however we don't know where to put you yet, Nevermore." Winter says, turning to look at me.

"Well, I've never really defended a point, but I can move fast and hit faster." I say, Flash Stepping to the right a little to prove my point, no effect other than losing a couple MP points, not that anyone here could see that. "Essentially, we would want everyone with a high DPS and a high speed, to wreak havoc within the enemy lines before they even know what's going on."

"DPS?" Ironwood says.

"Damage Per Second, that's what DPS means General, it's a gaming term." Shae says. "Typically the average damage a person can do within a second, be it by adding lots of small strikes or by dividing the damage of a single large strike."

"Okay, I agree with that statement, but how do we know the Grimm will be surprised, won't they just go to their instincts, and fight the first Aura signature they see with no further thought?" Ironwood says.

"Well, they are clearly mounting an assault, an effort that requires some level of intelligence, which means these Grimm, atleast the larger ones, as they may have Adds-"

"Smaller monsters typically in a large number assisting a larger monster." Shae says, helpfully.

"Thank you, they may have Adds which may just be blindly marching towards us, but the larger Grimm must have some large amount of intelligence, unless there is a Grimm Commander or something." I finish.

"An interesting train of thought. Although I think I should share a new piece on Intel." Winter says, and a weirdly star shaped drone thing flies out from one of the tents, before showing a picture of the forest from an aerial view in the air from the front of where the two star shapes collide. "As you can see, there are the normal Grimm, hordes of larger than normal Beowulves, droves of Ursai, some Death-stalkers, and notably some 'Giant' verities of them, but look at this." And the picture changed to a 2D picture, areas covered in colors. "The colors start at white, meaning things like Beowulfs and Creep and generally weak Grimm. But the darker the color, the more powerful Grimm, Alpha Ursai, Deathstalkers, and the like, but here in red, are the Titans, the 'giant' Goliaths." And she gestures to the screen again, and those colors form a formation, the red around a very small dot of purple, the colors going black and then lightening up the further you got from it.

"They're in a diamond formation, and we can't get a clear look at the middle to see what they're protecting, right?" I say.

Through recognizing a formation, you have gained the skill Large Scale Planning.

"Yes, they seem to be moving as if protecting some form of VIP or something, but we have no idea what it is." Winter confirms, and the drone flies back into the tent.

"Well, this is getting interesting, I could go ahead with a camera or something, I could run in quickly." I said.

"It would be a strange way to do things, but it could work." Ironwood said. "We definitely need to see what the Grimm would consider an object to protect."

"Here is the camera." Winter said, and the drone flew back out of the tent and into my hand. "The front of the Ghost is the camera, make sure not to cover it when looking at the object of interest."

"Well, here I go." I make Katar into a sort of headband on my head, the 'straps' going between my four eyes and in the middle there is a place for the 'Ghost' drone to sit, slightly surprising everyone at the table. I take a bow folding one arm to my stomach before Flash Stepping into a jump towards the point that had just appeared on my map.

Quest Accepted.

[Repel The Assault]

Repel The Grimm Assault [0/? steps completed]

Step 1.

Knowledge is half the battle.

Record footage of the Object Of Interest the Grimm are protecting [0/1]

And the point just happened to be off the cliff, so I just leaped off the cliff and began to glide.

After a bit of gliding, I began to see the horde of black moving through the forest. A lot of Beowulfs, some larger than others, Lots of Ursai... many Deathstalkers, and some Nevermores, Neveremores? Nevermore? Is it like Deer? Who knows? Probably Ozpin, he probably knows. And some Goliaths, stampeding trees out of the way, and then four Titans, standing in a diamond formation, marching onward. Going invisible again, seriously wondering how I can do this, it hasn't translated to a skill... it doesn't use any Mana or anything. Weird.

Diving to the middle of the Titans, I slow to a stop, to land behind a long legged figure, legs literally twice as tall as their torso, clad in black armor with red accents, made of overlapping plates, large shoulder pads, the helmet featuring breathing slits and a small slit to see through, as well as a black metal horn protruding from it's forehead, it's boots have claws on their heels, and wielding a set of black metal claws attached to the armor's gauntlets.

It was The Hero's Shade.

He was the object of interest.

He was Grimm.

But he didn't notice me yet.

I take the 'Ghost' drone out of the holster, and I got a few angles, they didn't stop me when I flew away, or tell me what to do, so I assume they were just filming the whole time.

"Hello Newling." He says. "You've been rising up from the bottom quite fast, since I doubt you've kept up with the news."

I flick the 'Ghost' up into the sky, and it quickly flies back towards the cliff.

"I have no intention of 'Rising Up' so I don't really care, Do you have a real name?"

"It's a little earlier than expected, but I'm Hannes Hellstrand, The Black Knight."

And then my life fell apart.

Wizard Of here. Woo! Main plotline! The Grimm have a pecking order! Killing the Raven got our friend here a little street-cred! We find out what happened to Joakim's brother! Well, that happens next chapter, but I think you can piece things together anyways! Winter has a Ghost! (That was just so I could cheap out a bit on the Drone design to be honest.)

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