A hard-rock mining town deep in Vale's mountains needs help handling an unfamiliar type of Grimm. Enter Team RWBY. They signed up for a short research mission- collect some info, kill a few Grimm. What could possibly go wrong? Follows our Grimm Rats timeline, so be advised: we EARN this T rating.

Twenty years of relative peace followed the defeat of Cinder and Salem, the scattered petals of Beacon rebuilt. As new threats follow in the old's foot steps, RWBY fights the old secret war while their children train in a rebuilt school. Still, they won't be children for long. A future AU following both RWBY and their children, the new team SVLR. (F/F heavy)