Hey guys! Hope you all had a good winter holiday of choice. Mine was a little different from past years in that we opened our presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day. My mother said it was "So European of us." Whatever the hell that means. I also started a new character in DnD Adventurer's League, and he already has +1 Plate armor after only one session. I kitted this guy out for DPS, but he might actually become more tanky than our primary Tank, if he doesn't know his shit.

All in all, it was a good break from the grind that allowed me to put out a new chapter of Wolves of Remnant, but I am ready to get back into this groove right here. Let's get back to it!

RWBY Watches Classic Movies

Chapter 56

"I'm fucking serious guys." Nora said, "If anything, and I mean anything happens to my daughter, there is not a Goodwitch in the multiverse that can save you from me."

"She will make a great mother someday." Summer said with a smile.

"I agree." Kali said.

"I believe the Glynda Goodwitch of Remnant-616 would fight you on that, Ms. Valkyrie."

"Bring it the fuck on, Wolf Guy!" Nora said threateningly.

"What makes that me an exception?" Glynda asked, genuinely curious.

"Nothing really, aside from her titles of Sorceress Supreme and Mistress of the Mystic Arts. And the fact that she is as powerful as one of your Maidens. Although, unlike Ms. Fall and Raven Branwen, who stole their powers, and Ms. *static*, who will inherit the powers of the Winter Maiden by virtue of being the only person allowed to interact with her, the Sorceress Supreme earned her power through hard work and patient study."

"Just bring it." Nora said.

With order restored to the hunter camp, Corsac called a small meeting with Salem and Sienna to show them something he had found, thinking it his ticket back into Sienna's good graces. They all congregated next to one of the cages, which Corsac was leaning against, looking at what he had found. As Sienna walked up, he handed her one of the padlocks to the cages. She frowned as she looked at it, but then noticed that it had been broken. And not just broken, cut. Cleanly, right above the actual lock.

Sienna looked to Corsac with wide eyes, asking a silent question, which he nodded at. Every lock he had found on the ground was broken in exactly the same fashion.

"What's going on?" Salem said, out of breath.

"Isn't it obvious?" Sienna said, fury building in her voice as she showed the lock to Salem. "We're not alone on this island."

"Did Salem really not anticipate that?" Winter wondered aloud, "Did she really think Ozpin would simply roll over and play along, knowing what she had planned?"

'One of the upsides of being immortal, I suppose.' Salem thought, as she dug into a plate of baby back ribs, 'Having the time to think over every angle and possible outcome, no matter how ridiculous, and come up with a possible counter.'

About the time the Trike was violently cutting off Salem's business pitch, Nora and Rin entered the back end of the trailer. Nora looked at the radio, not knowing what the hell she was doing.

"Okay, what now?" she said aloud. Rin pushed past her and opened one of the drawers below the radio, pulling out a large red envelope. She had been stuck in the trailer long enough to explore a bit and know where things were.

"Look here." Rin said, handing her mother the packet. Nora smiled at her daughter, her fury abated over the long hours since her discovery, replaced by a motherly desire to get her out of danger.

"That's my girl, the problem solver." Nora said proudly.

"And the trouble maker." Jaune added, "Just like her mother."

"That's my girl."

Out in the jungle, Leo had set up the high hide alongside one of the main paths that led to their camp and was testing the response time of the remote, activating it to go up, then stopping it, then activating it again to make it go down, rise and repeat until he got a fair approximation of what he was dealing with. As he was testing it, Penny and Sun's car roared past, the wailing of the baby Rex audible as they drove past.

"What the hell was that?" he said.

Back in the trailer, Nora had gotten the radio working with no small amount of help from Rin.

"Okay, it should be right here. Hello?" she said as she set the frequency.

"Hola?" a female voice said over the radio in a Vacuan dialect of Faunuspeak.

"Uh, hola." Nora replied.

"Buenos dias." Rin said, fluent in the lady's language.

"Enrique?" the lady said, before speaking more Faunuspeak.

"Uh, no, not Enrique. This is Nora Valkyrie, are you on the boat?"

"Enrique?" the woman said, sounding angry.

"No, is this the boat?"

More Faunuspeak.

"Uh, we're on Isla Sorna. We need to talk to the boat, Mar del Plata, ma'am."

"Ugh, I hate foreign languages. They make my brain hurt." Nora complained.

"It's not that bad." Jaune said.

"Maybe for you brainy types, but it's always a pain to learn them for me. I can never keep the translations straight and it's like every word has a million different ways to say them dependent on a dozen different factors. Just thinking about it is giving me a headache."

"Well, I guess it's a good thing that Remnant Common is a thing then, huh?" Pyrrha said, rubbing her sister's back.

Sun and Penny pulled up next to the trailer and stopped. Sun jumped out of the driver's seat and ran to the rear passenger door that Penny had open for him.

"I'll get him." he told Penny, who ran to the trailer and opened the rear door, seeing Nora and Rin standing there.

"Boy is she mad at you." Rin told her mom, underplaying the absolute bile the lady on the radio had been spewing at them for the past five minutes.

"I feel sorry for that guy Enrique." Nora replied, seeing the door open and Penny come in, soaked from head to toe.

"Nora, no lectures, please." Penny said as she moved in quickly. "Rin, please, honey, get behind me." Rin complied soon enough for Sun to haul the baby Rex inside. "Hold him steady, I'll get the table."

"Watch the head." Sun warned as the baby tried to get a bite on him, only to miss by several inches. Penny quickly wheeled a medical table to the back of the trailer and turned on the attached lamp. As Sun set the baby on the table and quickly clamped his hands over it's snout, Penny turned on a machine and began to scan the baby's injured leg.

"Enrique?" the radio said, alerting Nora to the situation she had just left. Personally, she didn't know which was worse; having an injured infant dinosaur not five from her, or a furiously mad Faunus woman who didn't understand her.

"Gods, Lady, shut up! Wrong frequency." She said as she turned the knob to another frequency. As her mother worked, Rin watched Sun and Penny handle the baby Rex.

Nora's grip on her armrests tightened as she continued to watch.

'The fuck did I just say?' she thought to herself.

"Watch it, Sun. Don't let him get those things around you." Penny warned, nodding to the teeth as she made some adjustments to the machine.

"Already on it." Sun said as he undid his belt and fashioned a make-shift muzzle from it.

"Alright, let's take a look here." Penny said breezily to try and calm the situation. She watched the screen as she worked. "Okay, so, we've got the metatarsels, the tibia, fibia, ah! There's the fracture, right above the epiphysis."

"How bad?" Sun asked as he struggled to keep the infant's head from moving around too much.

"Bad enough." Penny replied, opening a medical bag. "If we don't set this, this baby's gonna die. It won't heal straight, and he won't be able to pivot on his ankle. He won't be able to walk, let alone run. A predator will pick him off before he's even a few weeks old."

'Sounds right to me.' Summer hummed.

Between the insanity with the baby, and her mother yelling into the radio, Rin finally couldn't take it anymore and turned to her mother.

"Mom, I wanna get outta here, I wanna go." She pleaded.

"Alright, that tears it!" Nora said, rising from her seat.

"Nora, stop. Please." Ren said, grabbing her elbow.

"But, Ren~!" she whined.

"Nora, we can all see she is my daughter as well." Ren said, channeling his Semblance into her. "If you think I'm not angry beyond all belief about this, think again." Nora sat back down, a little surprised at her not-so-secret crush. "But let's see how this plays out before you unleash on the others."

"I'm working on it, I'm calling the boat." Nora said.

"No, I wanna go someplace else, please." She pleaded, looking back at the baby Rex. "I want to be somewhere safe."

"Isn't it safe here, honey?"

"No, no, I wanna be somewhere high."

A few minutes later, Nora and Rin met Leo at the high hide. She had given Leo a head's up they were coming.

"So, want to tell me what the hell's going on?" he asked Nora.

"You're much happier not knowing." Nora replied as Leo activated the winch and the hide began to rise, Rin muttering to herself about how stupid she was for coming up with an idea so colossally stupid. Nora couldn't help but smile inside, glad that she didn't have to scold her daughter for this one. 'I suppose experience really is the best teacher.'

"And now she is safely away from the immediate danger." Ren said, holding his childhood friend's hand. "Thanks to you."

"Fine, they get a stay of execution." Nora grumbled.

Back in the trailer, the situation was much the same.

"Can you set it?" Sun asked as he tried to keep the Rex's head steady.

"Yeah, I just need something temporary." Penny said as she filled a needle with anesthetic. "Something that will break apart and fall off as he grows."

"Well, whenever you're ready. He's fighting here, Dr. Quinn."

Back at the hide, the trio had reached the tree tops with a clang. As expected, it was difficult to make out anything beyond the canopy.

Nora turned to Leo, who was making checks on the integrity of the cage. "Leo, what's the frequency for the boat?"

"15888, pre-set number 3." He replied.

"Got it." she turned back to Rin and adopted a soothing tone. "Okay, he we are, and this is the safest place you can be. Remember what Penny said earlier? These trees make it so the animals won't even know you're here."

"You're just trying to make me feel better." Rin said angrily, "I remember all those stories you told."

"Okay, guilty as charged, but to be fair, we're in a completely different situation here." The roar of a Tyrannosaur echoed across the valley, drawing the attention of all three. Calmly, Nora turned off the lantern hanging from the roof of the cage. "Leo, is there any way to contact the trailers?"

"Um, Ruby, what's the average height of an adult T. Rex?" Nora asked.

"Most adults average between 12-20 ft. You guys look to be about 30 ft off the ground, so you should be safe." Ruby replied, feeling the same worry as Nora.

Without looking away from where the roar came from, Leo handed her a phone.

The phone rang in the trailer as Penny and Sun continued working.

"He's moving again, give him more morphine." Sun suggested.

"No," Penny argued, "We have no idea what his metabolism is. Too much will kill him." Sun heard the phone and moved to answer it. "Sun, I need your hand over here. Give me some pressure right here."

"No answer. What a surprise." Nora said, frustrated. "How do I get down from here?"

Without missing a beat, Leo handed her a climbing belt. "Put this on." He said as he grabbed a rope.

"Mom, where are you going?" Rin asked, alarmed.

"Take this rope and squeeze it. Hard." Leo said, trying to be heard over Rin's pleading. "The harder you squeeze, the slower you fall. You don't squeeze at all…"

"Splat. I get it." Nora said as she was hooked up.

"Mom, please."

Nora got on her knees and looked at her daughter. "Honey. The queen? The goddess?"

"Your inspiration?" Rin finished for her.

"Now you're talking. Alright," Nora climbed over the railing and leaned back from the cage. "I'm coming right back. I give you my word."

"But you never keep your word!" Rin said, slamming her fist against the railing.

Nora didn't have a come back for that, so she figured she would just have to prove her wrong. She jumped off the cage and rapidly fell toward the ground. She squeezed the rope as hard as she could, but the rain made it slick, and I think you can figure out the rest from there.

Leo and Rin watched as Nora sped toward the ground and landed with an audible thud.

"Well, personally, I would have squeezed just a little harder." Leo said in hindsight.

"Why didn't I just jump?" Nora said. "If Huntsmen are a thing in this universe, then it stands to reason that Aura is too. My Aura could have tanked the impact no problem."

"What if she doesn't have Aura?" Ren said.

"Fair point, but after the shit that happened in the first movie, I think I would have unlocked it about then."

"If you unlocked it then, then you wouldn't have had a broken leg the entire second half of that movie." Jaune pointed out.

"You're also assuming that this world works the same as ours." Ozcar added. "There could be any number of reasons why a non-Huntress doesn't have Aura."

"Okay, I'm almost done." Penny said as she was finishing up with the baby's leg. "I just need another adhesive. Something pliable that I can…" she looked up at Sun, who was chewing a piece of gum as he watched over her shoulder. "Spit." She held out her hand and Sun complied, spiting into her hand. "Your gum!" she said in disgust, wiping her hand on his vest while Sun took the gum from his mouth, which Penny then added to her make-shift cast.

"I like that there is more humor in this one." Blake said, "A little levity in a tense situation is usually a good thing, so long as it doesn't derail things."

In the hide, Leo and Rin watched the canopy. They saw the trees move and birds fly off when their perches were disturbed. Each shift of the trees was accompanied by a thundering footfall as what they assumed were the parents of the baby Rex passed beneath them.

As Penny and Sun finished their work and the infant began to stir, the phone began ringing again.

"Get the bottle of amoxicillin and fill a syringe." Penny told Sun, "Just a quick injection of antibiotics and we can get this guy back home." Suddenly, Nora burst through the door, soaked to the bone and with a few bits of plant life stuck to her.

"For once in your life, would it kill you to pick it up?" she said, moving to the baby and trying to pick it up. "Come on, we gotta get this thing outta here."

"No, no, we just set it's leg- "

Penny was interrupted by a screeching from outside. They looked out the window and saw one of the cars tumble over the cliff and explode upon impact with the ground.

Nora reached out and took Ren's hands.

"The death flags be a-waving folks." Neo signed.

Nora looked back to the pair. "Mommy's very angry." She said. They looked out the window, thinking they could see where the mighty beasts were, but saw nothing until they heard a growling noise behind them. Nora turned with a gasp to see the head of a fully-grown T. Rex looking in at them. The other Rex appeared behind her and alerted them to it's presence with a low growl. Penny screamed when the second Rex let out a full roar then pushed the side of the trailer, trying to make them fall into the jaws of it's mate.

The infant was now fully awake and groaned through it's muzzle. The parents heard him and gently growled to reassure it.

"This isn't hunting behavior, Nora." Penny said. "Not hunting. They're searching. They came for their infant."

"Well then, let's not disappoint them." Nora said.

"Yes, please get Sun's poor decision out of there!" Nora pleaded.

"Hey!" Sun said.

"Mr. Sun is not the only one at fault." Penny said guiltily.

"Hey!"

"Let me get his head." Penny said, moving around to the front of their little patient, "Nora, can you carry him?"

"Got it."

"Muzzle off." Sun said as he took his belt off of the baby's snout. Once removed, the baby resumed howling and hooting, which made the adults more vocal as well as the trio slowly moved the baby to the door. Nora opened it, giving Sun and Penny an up-close look at the head of a living, breathing, growling and, frankly, rather peeved adult T. Rex. She carefully set the infant down on it's feet and let it run to his parents, who quickly led it back into the tree line. As the door closed, the phone began ringing again.

"Yeah, Leo?" Nora said.

"Yeah, they're uh, they're going back into the jungle." He told her, keeping a reassuring arm around Rin, who was fiddling with a small necklace her mother had given her, bearing her mother's thunder hammer sigil and her father's lotus flower sigil.

"Okay, good. What about Rin? Is she alright?"

"Yeah, she's good, she's right here." Leo said handing Rin the phone.

"Hello?" Rin said subdued, keeping one hand on her necklace.

"Rin, how are you? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good." Nora could tell it was a lie, but she didn't really blame her for it. She was a wreck herself.

"Okay, listen to me. Stay where you are. I'll be right back. Understand?"

"Yeah, I got it." Rin handing Leo back the phone.

"Look, in my defense, I was just trying to help." Sun said. "Sienna was the one who hurt it to use it as bait."

"Yeah, I'll take responsibility for that one." Sienna said, sitting behind the parents and Winter.

Yeah, I just did that right now. I felt it appropriate to bring Sienna in as Adam's replacement. From the little we saw of her, she seems like a more level-headed leader than Adam ever was. Plus, with how little we know about her, she's kind of a perfect character to use how the author wants without her seeming OOC.

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