"I want Blake to be happy." Kali said as they reached their room in the alternate dimension they were in.

Ghira looked at his girlfriend and furrowed his brow. "I want that too, but what do you mean by that?"

Kali sighed and sat down on the bed; Ghira joined her and wrapped an arm around her. "I want her happy and safe. But I also want her experience her own life without our direct intervention."

The Cat Faunus looked up at the man she loved, "I think when we get back we should focus on the White Fang and creating better relations between Humans and Faunus, starting with publicly introducing Team STRQ as our first Human allies. I love Blake, Ghira. I love our daughter, but I think letting her grow up in a world where she knows Humans that are good people. Team STRQ is the first, then we can go on from there. We will do this together, a joint effort, I'm sure that they would agree to this as well."

"You really want to change it all, don't you?" Ghira asked, taking her hand in his larger one.

"I do, this is the right thing to do, for all of us. All of the discrimination and the hate… it's just going to continue if we don't take measures to fix it. Measures that won't be easily broken when or if you step down as High Leader, Ghira."

"Okay." Ghira agreed with his girlfriend. "Alright, this will be our first step, one of many that will change the future for our daughter and for every Faunus out there. The White Fang will not be what it is in the future!" Ghira said sternly. Kali smiled at him and kissed him.

"Let's go tell them about our decision." Kali says softly. Together, the two Faunus head back to the small living room and wait for Team STRQ to arrive for the next video.

…

Raven was still crying and repeating the words: 'I won't leave,' over and over again to Tai. It was beginning to get borderline frantic, so Qrow pulled Raven away from Summer and Tai, taking his sobbing sister to the gym that they had in this place.

"Rae, talk to me. What's going on in your head?" Qrow asks softly, trying to get his twin to calm down.

"I… Can't- I left them, Qrow! I left her with nothing but her name! Do you know how fucked up that is when the Tribe raised us to care for our family!" Raven screamed.

"No! They made us care for them. They made us care for murderers, thieves, and rapists. They made us and twisted us into killers. You know why were sent to Beacon. You know what the chieftain told us the night before we left." Qrow spat, his red eyes narrow and dark in anger at remembering that night.

Raven closed her eyes and flinched as she also remembered that night. "Either survive and come back stronger, or die in shame."

"You know what they will do to me if I come back without you." Qrow mumbled and looked down at the floor.

"We won't let the future that we are watching come to pass. We will fix it, we will save our family. Our true family." Raven whispered, both siblings crying.

Team STRQ, Kali, and Ghira.

…

"Should we check on them?" Summer asked the blonde.

"No, I know you're worried about them, but whatever this is… they won't like our help, even if we offer it. You remember how it was in our first year. Those two never strayed too far from each other and barely spoke to us or the teachers. If they come to us, then we will try and help him." Tai told the silver eyed woman in his arms.

"What are you going to do?" Summer asked suddenly, Tai gave her a confused look. "About Yang and Ruby. How… How will that work?"

The man sighed and leaned his head back, staring at the ceiling. "I don't know. But I do know that I want both of my daughters. I want all of us to stay together; no matter if that means that I need to marry both you and Raven. Or whatever else that pertains. I want us to be together, Sum. You, me, Raven, Qrow, Yang, and Ruby. I want our family to be complete; I also want it to include Kali and Ghira, somehow." He admitted to his team leader.

"We also need to help Weiss. Children shouldn't be condemned for their parents' mistakes." Summer said. "When we get back, I want to go to Atlas after we graduate from Beacon and see if we can connect with Weiss' mother. Jacques is a dick, so there's no chance of him ever changing, but I think we might be able to get through to the actual heir to the SDC."

"Maybe, we can run it by Raven and Qrow. I'm sure that Weiss or at least Winter would appreciate a playmate, even if Yang is just a baby." Tai said with a small smile on his lips. He was really looking forward to being a father to his girls. And if he could help people along the way, it made it all the better.

"Come on; let's wait for the others in the living room. I want to see the dance. I hope Jaune and Pyrrha get together by the end of the video." Summer said, pulling herself up to stand and giving a hand to Tai. The two left the room they shared with the twins and made it to the living room where the two Faunus were waiting patiently. A little while later, the twins came out and sat down, Raven next to Tai and Summer and Qrow surprisingly next to Kali and Ghira.

"Shall we begin?" Ghira asked, his thumb on the PLAY button. The others nod and he presses the button.

Dance Dance Infiltration

The first scene is of random students schmoozing at the dance. Bartholomew Oobleck is shown to be listening intently as Peter Port laughs over some unheard anecdote. Ozpin is standing off to the side with Glynda Goodwitch until General James Ironwood offers his hand for her to dance with him. Jaune Arc approaches Ruby Rose, who is standing pensively near the refreshments tables.

"She doesn't know how to dance, does she?" Kali asked Summer and Tai.

"No idea, but maybe?" Summer shrugged but she's happy seeing Ruby with her friends enjoying themselves.

"I see you're hiding at the punch bowl too." Jaune said conversationally.

"Yep."

"To the socially awkward." The blonde said with a slight smile. Ruby giggles and they clink glasses.

They all snorted and chuckled at how true that statement is. Especially made by Jaune.

"I feel like Jaune actually does know how to dance." Kali hummed with a secret smile.

"What are you…?" Raven tried at ask the other woman but the Cat Faunus just giggled.

"Oh, just wait. I'm sure we'll get a treat for this video."

"Sorry things didn't work out with Weiss." Ruby apologized to her friend.

Jaune shrugged, "Meh, it's fine. Neptune's pretty 'cool'. I get why she went with him."

"What do you mean?" Ruby questioned, looking at the blonde.

"Well, come on, not many people can pull off blue hair." Jaune begins to drink his punch.

"No, I mean, Weiss came to the dance alone." Ruby told the other team leader.

Jaune chokes in surprise. He turns to Ruby, "Uh, what?"

Weiss Schnee is shown trying desperately to coax life out of a wilting white rose. When she fails, she looks visibly upset.

"What the hell? Doesn't she know that this is a dance, which means she's supposed to be enjoying herself, not doing what she's doing." Tai asks rhetorically.

Ruby shrugged. "Yeah, she said that she had too much to focus on to worry about boys."

Laughter draws Weiss' attention to Sun Wukong, Blake Belladonna, and Neptune Vasilias as the latter entertains the others with some impressions and other silly faces. Jaune, shown to be observing as well, becomes visibly perturbed.

"At least she's having fun." Kali whispers to her boyfriend, squeezing his arm in excitement.

"Hold my punch." Jaune growled.

Jaune hands Ruby his glass and no sooner than he vanishes from sight, she accidently drinks from his cup. As Jaune makes his way across the room, shoving other students aside - some of which were not even in his path - he stops short and watches as Pyrrha Nikos passes by. He watches her walk glumly up the stairs and seems to have a change of heart.

Summer and Tai glanced at each other and smiled. "They are really good friends." Tai smirked.

"Shut up! I still want Jaune to end up with Pyrrha." Summer hisses at the blonde, hitting his arm.

The scene shifts to Pyrrha on a balcony as Jaune approaches behind her. "Hey, Pyrrha."

Pyrrha turns around to face him. "Hello, Jaune."

"You okay? I haven't seen you tonight." He asks.

Pyrrha turned back to the balcony, "Arrived late, I'm afraid."

"Well, you look really nice."

"At least he knows how to complement her." Tai says with a small smile.

Pyrrha raised her hand near her mouth, "Thank you." Her hand falls away.

Jaune was nervously tipping on his toes. "Your, uh, date isn't going to beat me up for saying that, is he?"

"I think you're safe for tonight." She told her crush.

Jaune rubbed his hands, "So, where is the guy?"

Pyrrha turns back toward Jaune. Her head sinks in melancholy. "There is no guy."

Jaune chuffs nervously. "What?"

Pyrrha shook her head glumly, "Nobody asked me."

"She's a tournament champion, so of course she's going to be put on a pedestal to her fans. People don't believe that they have any chance with her, even though she's a normal girl just like everyone else." Kali frowned, sad for the redhead.

"But that's..." the blonde couldn't get the right words out, gesturing towards her. You're Pyrrha Nikos! H-How could nobody ask you?"

Pyrrha turned towards the balcony again. "I've been blessed with incredible talents and opportunities. I'm constantly surrounded by love and praise, but when you're placed on a pedestal like that for so long, you become separated from the people that put you there in the first place. Everyone assumes I'm too good for them. That I'm on a level they simply can't attain. It's become impossible to form any sort of meaningful relationship with people. That's what I like about you. When we met, you didn't even know my name. You treated me just like anyone else. And thanks to you, I've made friendships that will last a lifetime. I guess, you're the kind of guy I wish I was here with. Someone who just saw me for me." His partner explained.

Kali sighed and closed her eyes. Ghira winced and clutched at Kali as she shuddered. Summer and Tai glanced at the Cat Faunus, concerned about the two Faunus' reaction.

"Kali? Are you okay?" Taiyang asked.

Ghira tried to smile but it turned to a wince. "It's okay. I'm okay now. Thank you." She whispered.

"No you're not. What the hell just happened?" Raven asked, crossing her arms over her chest, glaring at the older woman.

"You know that Ghira is the High Leader of the White Fang. However, I am something more." Kali took a deep breath and turned to Team STRQ. "I'm supposed to be the new ruler of Menagerie and the Faunus people."

That wasn't what anyone was expecting Kali to say. "Well shit." Qrow grunted.

"That… wasn't what I was expecting." Taiyang said, "But know that you have friends that will help you should you need it." Summer and the twins nod, and Tai smiles brightly.

The two Faunus share shocked looks and Kali breaks into a relieved smile. "Thank you." Her hands clasped together.

Pyrrha looks at Jaune and then walks away while Jaune simply stares in astonishment.

"W-Wai-!" Jaune watches as Pyrrha turns a corner. Neptune has appeared on the balcony, gesturing toward Jaune.

"Wonder what he wants." Raven asks, smirking at the two male members of her team.

"Rae, don't. Please." Qrow groaned.

"What? Can't I ask?" Raven teases.

"You can, but we all know what you want to do." Summer deadpanned to the other woman.

"You're no fun." Raven grumbled.

"Well excuse me! I don't want to have our dorm destroyed by you and your brother's crazy sibling rivalry!" Summer shrieked, remembering the last time the twins had the dorm all to themselves and knowing nothing good would come after this video.

"Hey, uh, Jaune, right?" Neptune asks the team leader.

Jaune sighs, "Yeah."

"This party's pretty lame, huh? I mean, ballroom dancing. Pfft." Neptune says to the blonde.

"Yeah." Jaune looks back out over the balcony.

Neptune gestured back to the dance. "Cute girls, though, huh?"

Team STRQ sans Raven sighed as the red eyed woman just smirked. "Playboy." Raven sang, looking directly at Tai.

"Please don't." Tai groaned, his face in his hands.

"So you're denying the fact that that you tried to hit on me when you first saw me?" Raven raised an eyebrow. Tai turned pink and groaned again. "And that you made a complete ass of yourself curtesy of my brother's Semblance?" She continued as Qrow snickered.

Jaune growls as he turns back to Neptune, gesturing, "Is that all you think about?"

Neptune raised his palms to waist level. "Huh?"

"Do you even care about the girls you're hitting on? How they feel about you?" Jaune asked angrily.

"Whoa!" He backed up, throwing his palms up. "Where's this coming from?"

Jaune stepped towards the other student-Hunter. "How could you just turn her down like that?"

"Wait, h-who?"

"Weiss!" Jaune yelled at him.

"I, uh... it, uh... it just didn't work out, you know?" Neptune stammered.

"What? You think that you're too cool, too many other options? Weiss Schnee asked you to the dance. What in the world could possibly keep you from go-"

Neptune looked shamefully at the ground, cutting the Beacon team leader off. "I can't dance!"

Team STRQ burst out laughing, all of them had tears running down their faces as they clutched their stomachs.

"Oh Gods! I- I knew it! Pay up, Tai!" Raven yelled, still laughing. Tai grumbled and took out a Lien note out of his pocket at reluctantly handed it to her.

"Beg your pardon?"

"I can't dance, man!" The Team SSSN member responded again.

"But... you're so cool!" Jaune said, gesturing to the other teenager.

"Thank you. I try really, really hard." Neptune sighed.

"Idiot. They're both idiots!" Tai said, throwing up his hands and shaking his head.

"Yes they are. But you can't fault them for that. They are teenagers and are still learning about the world." Ghira replied to the other male.

"You would rather break a girl's heart and go to a dance alone than just admit to everyone that you can't move in rhythm to music?" The blonde asked.

"That about sums it up, yeah." The other boy nods.

Jaune turned back to the balcony, "Well, I certainly feel a lot better about myself." He muttered.

"Please don't tell anybody. Look, if you want Weiss, she's all yours. I don't wanna get in your way." Neptune pleaded with the other teen.

"I don't know about you, but… it may not be the best blackmail material, but it's at least something." Raven said, smirking again.

"True, but who would really care? I can only think of the female Haven students that like him." Qrow said.

Jaune turns back towards Neptune. He placed his palms on the stone banister. "Do you like her?"

"Yeah, I mean I don't know her too well yet, but she seems pretty cool." The electric bleu haired boy shrugged.

"Then just go talk to her. No pickup lines, no suave moves, just be yourself. I've heard that's the way to go." Jaune advised him.

"Yeah, but then-"

"Hey! You don't have to look cool all the time. In all honesty, if you could be a little less cool, I'd really appreciate it." The blonde replied.

Neptune considers Jaune's advice. "Yeah, okay."

"Go talk to her. I guarantee it'll make her night." Jaune said, smiling a bit.

Neptune nods, "Thanks. You're a really cool guy, Jaune."

Neptune approaches Jaune, holding his fist out for a bump. "Alright, don't lie to my face." Jaune said.

The two of them bump fists and Neptune walks away. Jaune looks up at the sky and sighs. "All right, only one thing left to do."

"So… anyone think that Janue made a new friend?" Summer asked, smiling gently at seeing her daughter's first friend branching out. Now Ruby needs to do that as well.

"Perhaps. That may be a good thing." Kali said, smiling as well. The two women share a glance that make the males in the room nervous.

Raven is the only one that voices her concerns. "You two are planning something, aren't you?"

Summer continues to smile innocently at her teammate. "Maybe." She sings.

Raven sighs but doesn't say anything else.

The scene shifts to show Yang Xiao Long leaning on a handrail and overlooking the festivities from a second tier as Ruby approaches and leans on the rail. "You know? I think we really needed this." Yang starts.

Blake and Sun are slow dancing while Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie appear to be Waltzing. Penny Polendina is shown to be dancing alone, guarded by two Atlas Soldiers. "Yeah, and you did a great job planning it too!" Ruby says to her older sister.

"I'm glad that they're all having fun." Summer said.

"They do deserve this, they need a break from chasing criminals all of the time." Kali said.

Yang reached over to Ruby. "Aw, thanks!" She crushed Ruby in a one-arm hug as the younger girl flails frantically. "It wasn't all me, though. Weiss did a lot too."

Ruby stops struggling and looks down at Weiss. Neptune approaches and rubs his neck nervously. Weiss invites him to sit with her. "Tomorrow it's back to work." Yang told her sister.

"I'm sure we can handle whatever gets thrown at us." Ruby started to say but trialed off as sudden fits of laughter and giggles drew their attention below. "Ex-cept for that."

Qrow and Raven share a wicked smile as Tai begins to laughs hysterically and quickly takes out his Scroll.

The camera pushes past some students to Pyrrha who turns around to see...

"Jaune?"

Jaune is shown to now be wearing a white dress with a blue ribbon. "Eh, a promise is a promise." The boy says to his partner, shrugging.

Everyone bust out laughing, crying again in the utter hilarity that Jaune actually showed up in a dress for Pyrrha.

"Now fucking kiss!" Summer, Kali, and Tai scream together, wanting to see the two students to finally be a couple already.

Pyrrha smiled... then giggled... then laughed aloud. "Jaune! You didn't have to!"

"Hey, an Arc never goes back on his word." He extended his hand out to Pyrrha. "Now do you wanna stand there and laugh at me, or do you wanna dance?"

"And he can dance! Go get your girl!" Tai smirked as he laughed, taking picture after picture of the boy wearing a dress.

"You have to send me that, Tai!" Qrow gasped out, as he continued to laugh.

"Don't worry, I will." He told his teammate.

"I would love to dance." Pyrrha smiles as Jaune pulls her to him and sweeps her away.

Nora flails excitedly, "Ren. This... is... happening!"

"Yes it is! Let's go!" Summer shouted, bouncing up and down in her seat excitedly.

"Wait, what 'is happening'?" Ren asks, confused.

Nora grabs Ren and drags him out onto the dance floor with Pyrrha and Jaune.

Team JNPR starts to dance in perfect synchronization. Cheering from the other students is heard as they all watch the scene play out in awe and amazement.The dance ends with Jaune spinning Pyrrha.

Team STRQ and the two Faunus are all slack-jawed in awe as they watch the dance. "Hold up!" Tai said and grabbed the remote, rewinding the video back to the start of Team JNPR's dance.

They watched the dance again and were still shocked at what they saw. "So… how long do you think they had been planning that out?" Summer asks.

"I want to know who even came up with the idea." Qrow said, grinning wildly as he flicked through the video and pictures of Team JNPR's dace and Jaune in a dress.

"Probably Jaune." Ghira pointed out.

"Why do you say that?" Raven asks the Feline Faunus. The High Leader of the White Fang didn't say anything else; he just waited until Taiyang resumed the video.

"I had no idea you were a dancer." The redhead says as she and Jaune continue to dance.

"Yeah, well, these things tend to happen when you grow up with seven sisters." Jaune dips Pyrrha and then spins her away.

Ghira smirked at the red-eyed woman. Raven huffed and rolled her eyes.

Neptune and Weiss are shown to be watching the dancers. "So, what made you change your mind?" The Heiress asks her crush.

"Huh?"

"You said you were embarrassed at first. What made you come talk to me?" Weiss asks, a bit shy.

"You're looking at him." He nods towards the dance floor as they watch Jaune dancing with Pyrrha. "You got some good friends looking out for ya."

Summer, Tai, Ghira, and Kali all smile at each other. "She's changing for the better." Kali whispered as Ghira nods.

"It seems I was wrong." Ghira said, privately hopeful to see Human-Faunus relations grow stronger and better when they would get back. Their first step was getting Team STRQ on board.

Jaune and Pyrrha continue to dance. Ren and Nora do a kind of disco dance, Sun and Blake join the mix and Penny and an Atlas guard is shown doing the 'robot'.

Mercury Black and Emerald Sustrai are shown to be observing the students from the next tier.

"Them." Ghira growls and narrows his eyes. Neither he or Kali forgot what Mercury and Emerald did to Tukson.

"It appears all the dancers have partners." Emerald said.

"How long do I have?" Cinder asks, via an ear-bud.

"You should probably be home by midnight, to be safe." Mercury warned.

Cinder Fall is shown to be somewhere outside, holding her fingers to her ear. "I'll keep my eye on the clock." The woman replies.

Ruby, having made her way to the exit, walks out of the dance and into the night air. She watches a figure running along the rooftops and then moves to pursue.

"What are they planning?" Tai asks, worried about his daughter.

Outside the Cross Continental Transmit System Tower, Cinder (dressed as a cat burglar), stealthily approaches an armed guard. She knife-hands the back of his head, rendering him unconscious with a stunned grin on his face. She drags him behind some bushes. Inside the building, Cinder approaches more guards.

"At least she's not killing them." Kali says, worried and thinking back to what happened to Tukson.

"She doesn't need to kill them." Qrow grunted.

"Excuse me, no one's allowed in this area." The first Atlas Soldier says, but Cinder continues to approach. "Stop!"

The soldier opens fire when Cinder does not heed him. She manages to overpower him, using his gun to take out another approaching soldier. She then throws him against a handrail. Two more soldiers rush her wielding batons. Cinder flash-forges a pair of black blades from fire Dust and trounces them both.

"She chooses to kill them." Qrow continued, making Kali pale.

Two guards are shown to be on an elevator. "Hey, man, do you know the Wi-Fi password?" The second Atlas Soldier asks his companion.

"It's Beacon, but replace the E with a 3 and add a pound symbol to the end." The third soldier said.

"Are you kidding me?" Tai and Qrow ask in shock.

"They are literally on duty and they- What the hell is Ironwood doing recruiting these idiots?" Qrow asks, waving his hands around.

"Why are you asking us? None of us are Atlesian, we have no idea how the military is run." Tai responds.

The elevator door opens to show Cinder waiting. One of the guards notices the fallen men outside. Both guards grow apprehensive as Cinder casually walks onto the elevator, the doors closing as she turns around. Thrashing sounds can be heard from outside the elevator.

Outside the building, Ruby approaches and sees the unconscious guard. She gasps and pulls out her Scroll, dialing for her weapon locker which crashes into the courtyard and opens to reveal Crescent Rose.

"Ruby… Please be careful. You have no idea what you're really up against." Summer whispered, she had Tai's hand in a vice-grip as she watched her daughter. Raven and Qrow both sat up and watched what would happen to Summer's child.

Inside the building, the elevator doors open to show Cinder examining a Scroll. The two guards are knocked out.

"Oh! That's handy." She said, slipping the Scroll into her pocket and walks out of the elevator and toward the control consoles nearby.

"A party guest is leaving." Emerald's voice suddenly came in through the ear-bud.

Cinder sighs, "Which one?"

Emerald is shown to be dancing with Mercury. "Ironwood." Emerald tells her.

Ironwood is shown to be walking out the door as Ozpin gives his send-off. "I guess the general's had enough fun for one night." Mercury mutters.

Random code appearing on a computer screen is shown to change into a Queen Chess piece.

"The Queen Chess piece is going to be important sometime in the future." Ghira suddenly speaks up.

"For what, though?" Qrow asks the White Fang High Leader.

"That what worries me." Ghira says, rubbing his chin.

"Should we intervene?" Mercury asks Cinder.

The other monitors in the room light up. "No... we're done here." Cinder replies.

As she starts to walk away, she notices the elevator doors opening. Ruby steps out of the elevator slowly, brandishing her weapon. "Hello?" Ruby stumbles due to her high-heeled shoes. "Is anyone there? Hello?"

'Ruby… please…' Summer thought of her daughter. She hoped that the girl would be fine, but she really didn't know, and that terrified her. She didn't want to lose her daughter.

Cinder rises from her hiding place and steps out toward Ruby. "Excuse me? You know, it's not a masquerade party, so why don't you take off that-!" Ruby starts saying but is cut off when the masked woman attacks her.

Cinder produces a container of dust from her belt expelling a cloud that glows. Condensing into glass shards that go flying at Ruby. A battle ensues as she defends herself then opens fire. Cinder blocks each shot with her hand as parts of the outfit glow. She once again summons a pair of blades, Ruby launches herself forward but Cinder dodges. Her eyes and outfit glowing again as she combines the blades into a bow and fires three arrows. Ruby stumbles back from the resulting explosion and they stare each other down. But their fight is interrupted by the appearance of Ironwood on the nearby elevator. Ruby is visibly glad to see him until she notices that Cinder has disappeared.

In a hallway, Cinder discards two bracelets and her mask to change from her stealth suit into a black dress and enters the dance. Two guards following her crush the bracelets underfoot and are visibly confused at the sight of the crowded dance hall. The screen pans over various people including Neptune dancing and having a good time as they walk back out.

"What is that? Can she control Dust with her Semblance or is it… Magic?" Kali asks, looking towards the Hunter team.

"Maybe? I mean, a lot of civilians think that Hunter's Semblances are magic, but that's just superstition made by them to explain to their kids." Summer explained to the two Faunus.

"Whatever truth there is to this… it might be magic but it might just be a Semblance. We still don't know." Raven continued after her team leader.

Cinder taps Emerald's shoulder. "Oh, may I cut in?" Cinder asks politely.

Emerald steps aside. "Of course." The green haired thief says.

Emerald leaves as Cinder begins to dance with Mercury. "And how's your night been?"

"Mmm... a little more exciting than expected." Cinder smiles lightly.

"Should we be worried?" The silver haired boy asks, raising an eyebrow at his boss.

Cinder scoffs. "Hardly... They'll be scratching their heads long after we finished what we came here for."

"So then what now?"

"Enjoy the rest of the night. After all, it is a party." The black haired woman says as she dances with the assassin.

The camera pans away from the two showing the rest of the party. Jaune and Pyrrha are sitting at a table, Sun and Blake are dancing, there is a squad of red and yellow soldiers outside and Ironwood is shown approaching Ruby before one last shot of the Queen chess piece appears on the computer screen and the clock chimes midnight.

"I really don't want to be right about this." Ghira mumbles as the video ends.

"Want to watch another one?" Qrow asks.

The answer was obvious.