Ruby walked into the gym to find the others sitting down waiting for her. "I hope you weren't waiting too long for me, I got a bit distracted," Ruby walked up to them. Yang started off the conversation, "that's fine, I actually needed to talk to you guys anyway,"

Johnny asked, "what is it?"

Yang turned red, before spouting out too quick for her own good, "canyouguyshelpmeaskoutBlake?"

Everyone in the room was confused, Natalie expressing as much, "what?"

Yang was still blushing insanely, but repeated a bit slower, "can you guys help me ask out Blake? I mean, I really like her but I just don't know how to do it,"

Natalie laughed, "really? Yang 'what does embarrassment mean?' Xiao Long, needs our help with a social situation? She's that special to you?"

Yang pulled a hurt expression, "of course she is, I just need some advice, or something. This is why I should have just asked Johnny, you people have too much curiosity,"

Johnny finally decided to chime in, "I'm still here you know, and I am probably the worst person to ask for dating advice, you really would be better off asking Ruby or Natalie on this one,"

Yang looked at him, shocked, "but aren't you and Alice-"

"Nope, nope, no, we are not, definitely not a thing," Johnny said quickly,

Ruby had her turn to be curious, "Why do you like her in the first place?"

Yang shrunk a bit, "I don't know, that's the weirdest thing. We're complete opposites, but I just…"

"Just fell in love out of nowhere? I know that feeling, had it a couple of weeks ago," Natalie stated plainly, "love tends to not make a lot of sense, just do what your heart tells you and it will surely work out,"

Ruby and Johnny had a different plan though, Johnny telling the group, "I think I've got an idea, it isn't complicated, but it'll work,"

Yang perked up, then looked down a bit, "your crazy social ideas never work Johnny, why do you think I had friends at signal and you didn't?"

Johnny faked a hurt expression, "ouch, it's almost like I leaned more than you there, and that's why my grades were and are higher. But this plan will work, I promise, if it doesn't then I'll ask out Alice, deal?"

Yang smirked, "deal, but you better have your best social skills out because I can almost guarantee that this won't work,"

Johnny held a smug grin in place, "it will, it is the perfect plan, I found no flaws whatsoever in my experience, making friends, helping people, whatever,"

Yang was confused, "wait, so you plan on using the same plan you have for meeting new people, and applying it to dating?"

"Sort of, the plan is: just talk to her openly and honestly about it, no special scenario, no advanced theatrics, just sit down and talk to her, easy. Now where did Ruby and Natalie go?"

"What?" Yang looked around, Ruby and Natalie were truly gone. Probably disappearing to go get something to eat, it was proving one hell of a weekend for everyone. Johnny left the gym, presumably to look for the two or get food himself, leaving Yang to contemplate his plan, it was alright, but the idea that the plan was literally how he gets through any social situation was a bit disconcerting, she would try though, hell, she didn't even think to just talk things out, everything always needed to be flashy in some way, like she was some kind of insecure dork like Johnny, or just really, really socially awkward like Ruby could be, it would warrant some consideration, but that would come later. Now was the time to find Blake and have a chat with her, alone.

Weiss had met Sylvia by the fountain at six in the morning, leaving a note for her team to make sure they didn't worry, the only problem might be Nathan, but he seemed to understand when she needed personal space most of the time, it was strange, the way he always seemed to know how she was feeling and could steal words right out of her mouth. He wasn't the focal point of this day though, even if her thoughts were of him a lot of the time anyway. Today was about her meeting with Sylvia and her boyfriend, whom she felt deserved an apology. At the moment though, Sylvia was dragging her through the streets of Vale and blabbing on about some nonsense of things like what Mistral looks like, how there's this thing called 'Anime' there, and how it's some old art form written in the ancient language to preserve old culture or something like that. They finally arrived at their destination when Sylvia let go of her wrist, it was sore, but in that familiar way like when your sister would drag you around a playground or your massive mansion that was far too big for its own good and always had these weird symbols that were much different from the usual family insignia, those were the not so good old days when that sister was dragging you away from your father after a harsh scolding and a threat of physical punishment for some mistake in etiquette you didn't even know you did. Now was not the time for those thoughts either, it never was the time for thoughts like that, she would much rather forget those memories, but they would never seem to leave her. They entered the cafe and another person's voice snapped her from her own thoughts, "yo, anyone home? Got a message, we would like a 'Miss Schnee' to come out and talk," the boy saying that looked familiar, he was the other stowaway on the boat yesterday, Weiss finally said something, "sorry, I was a bit distracted,"

"A bit, you've been sitting here for ten minutes looking all worried, was Syl a bit too harsh for you or something?" the boy looked almost curious as he picked up a mug and took a sip, complaining, "I wish she didn't always call these meeting so early in the morning, I would much prefer to sleep in a few more hours"

Sylvia's voice came from behind, "I called this at six because I would like to avoid any more casualties Sun, I think we've both seen enough of those,"

Sun frowned, "yeah, but this couldn't have waited for a few more hours? And we couldn't get their entire team in on this? It doesn't seem to be a good idea to leave people out of this, especially since those people may or may not ever see her again depending on the circumstances?"

Weiss' eyes widened, "what!? Are you going to kill me or something?"

Sylvia sat down with two other cups, and deadpanned, "people we knew are dead because we got them involved in our problems, Sun, we almost died because we got involved in someone else's problems, the fewer people that know about this, the better,"

Sun was still frowning, the conversation seemed to be troubling him, "people died, but that doesn't mean we should split teams apart, we wouldn't have survived if we didn't have each other, Sylvia, just consider some of the consequences that aren't numbers before acting on impulses,"

Weiss interrupted them, almost shouting in confusion, "can someone just tell me what's going on already!? Didn't you say you wanted to talk to me!? And what happened at Haven where you almost died!? I'm pretty sure students there for little over a couple of months don't go on excursions in the first place!"

The two looked at Weiss finally, Sylvia speaking after a couple seconds of staring, "I guess you are owed an explanation for all this, I'll start with what happened in Haven."

Two Months Ago, Mistral

"So Sun, what's the plan? Got anything special for our first date?" Sylvia was excited, she had been really nervous when she first asked Sun out, but got really excited when he said he was looking for her to ask the same thing and already had everything planned for once. Sun just smirked and said, "you'll see, I have a really nice place picked o-" the two were interrupted when a person staggered out of an alley, clutching his side in pain. The two ran up to him, Sun asking quickly, "hey, are you alright? What the hell happened?" Sylvia looked at his side, then looked at Sun, "he's bleeding, a lot, questioning probably isn't the best thing to do right now, we have to get him some medical treatment, fast,"

The boy croaked out a couple of words, "hide me, please," Sun took off his shirt and wrapped it around him, as the couple picked him up under his arms to help him move, Sylvia asked Sun, "do you know where the nearest hospital is?" the boy spoke again, "no hospital, just get me out of here," the two decided to comply with him for now, at least until it was conclusively proven he had no plan. The two took him to a hotel room and placed him in the bed, the boy immediately grabbed Sun's shirt off of him and stuffed it in his wound, the cloth quickly turning into flesh, closing his wound shut. The boy spoke again, more relaxed this time, "thank you, that was too close,"

Sun started questioning him, "what happened?"

"I was running from murderers,"

"Only murderers? I figured you were a huntsman with that nifty semblance of yours,"

"Well, they were really powerful murderers, and I think they're still after me, you two should leave, I can handle them,"

"Not happening, I don't think you could handle them on your own with the way we ran into you,"

"Alright fine, but I have a team, they can help me, I just need to get back to them,"

"Okay then, can you contact them?"

"Yes, I can. You two need to leave before the murderers come back,"

"Okay, okay fine, but be careful out there. I've heard huntsman and huntresses are dropping like flies recently," Sun and Sylvia turned and started to walk out of the room, when they suddenly ended up outside the door with it open, "what the hell? How did we…? Huh?" Sun looked back to the boy who was now up and walking out of the room, "you two, come with me, you'll need my help to get out of here alive," Sun stared at him for a few seconds before asking, "What's your name? We might need to know for later," "Giorno Giovanna, now let's move, quickly," the trio walked down the hallway and to the stairs, where the door opened and a man came out, he had pink hair with black dots in it, and wore little to no clothes on his torso, "shit, RUN!" Giorno yelled, as the three dashed down the hallway in the opposite direction, finding only a window on the other end, leaving the three with only one choice, jump. Sylvia opened the window stating, "I've got a plan, on my mark, we jump out," they readied themselves to go when they were suddenly out of the window, and Sylvia had to put her plan into action fast, pulling white chains out of the ground, grabbing the three of them and lowering them safely to the ground. Sun turned to Giorno and asked, "who was that guy? And what the hell was that power?" Giorno kept an eye on the door while replying, "he was Diavolo, the man out to kill me. His power is the ability to see a certain amount into the future, and cut those events from everyone's minds, he basically creates a certain fate for everyone for about ten seconds and makes it so no one remembers that time happening," Sylvia stared into the building as well and stated plainly, "well that sounds needlessly confusing, let's get out of here, or we might end up dead," "agreed, you two need to head back to Haven, you'll be safe there," Sun looked incredulously at Giorno, "what about you!? You know what? You're coming with us," Giorno raised some disagreement, but eventually relented to both of them dragging him to the airship.

Two Months Later, Vale

"And after that, we had both of our teams and his to help us fight him and his grunts, but unfortunately most of Giorno's team didn't make it. Diavolo was defeated but not killed, we don't even know where he is at this point, but that didn't even really matter anymore, until now, we were worried that he somehow ended up here, with the recent robberies, we've been afraid that he might be trying to make a name for himself again," Sylvia finished, Sun asked her, "does that make sense? It probably sounds confusing and to be honest, it really is,"

Weiss looked at the two, then asked, "how do you know that it's not the White Fang? What if it's not this Diavolo guy you're thinking of?"

Sylvia put some thought into it, then told her, "we still need to put a stop to it anyway, and we have a plan for it. Supposedly your company is bringing in a massive shipment of dust tonight, and that would be a prime target for theft, if you have the equipment to haul it out that is, and only Diavolo or the White Fang would have the equipment necessary, so we planned on watching it to see if anyone came along to steal i-"

"Snow! There you are! I was looking all over for you, I guess I was lucky you went to one of the cafe chains my family owned, or I probably never would have found you," Nathan had shown up at the cafe looking for her, Weiss was somewhat relieved and worried that Nathan had found them, on one hand, the more people she trusted that were around, the less chance things could go wrong, on the other, if things did go wrong then that would mean more casualties. Weiss weighed the options, and decided that it was more important that it went well in the first place, "hey Nathan, why did you come looking for me?"

"Ruby told me about your note, I waited until about 12:30, then went out looking for you."

Half An Hour Ago

"I think I'm going to head out and look for Weiss now, she said she'd be back by noon, and she's almost never late for anything as far as I know, see you later," Nathan told Johnny before leaving Beacon into Vale. In the city, Nathan had decided to shrink the area he needed to search to find Weiss in one simple conversation, he pulled out his scroll and called the Kingdom Manager for the 'Hope' cafe chain his family owned across remnant, the phone picked up quickly, "good afternoon Mister Darkford, I assume you needed something?"

"Yes, I would like to ask that you notify the locations in Vale that I am looking for a girl with white hair and wearing a light blue dress with a white band around the waist, can you do that?"

"Of course, I'll have them call you if they find her,"

"Thank you, have a nice day,"

"Have a nice day as well Mister Darkford," they both hung up and Nathan started searching in the areas outside the visible range from the cafes all over Vale until his scroll rang, he answered, hearing the manager's voice, "I found the girl, she's inside my establishment sitting with two other people, one faunus and one human, I imagine you'll be here soon?"

"Yes, thank you for being on the lookout,"

"Of course Mister Darkford," he hung up. Nathan started heading in the direction of the establishment.

Present

"And that's how I got here, so, what's been going on?" Nathan asked the three, Weiss answered, "we're going to look for the criminal stealing dust from stores recently,"

Nathan looked over the three, "that sounds fun, can I join?" Sun and Sylvia looked at each other and Sun answered Nathan, "sure, we're doing this tonight though, better be ready,"

"Understood," Nathan said, Sylvia explained the plan, the shipment arriving at the docks and the two possible suspects. "Got it, see you guys at the docks then," Nathan and Weiss left.

AN: This has been a fun story to write, but the next chapter, or the chapter after that will be the end of this story. I hope you all enjoyed this journey to the end, and I hope you guys will be reading the sequel, which I actually have a name for already, whenever I actually get to writing that, but before I start writing that, I need to finish The Red and White Guitar, so it might be a while. The title will be Our Time At Beacon, so be on the lookout. Raz3r out.