Weiss' hands wouldn't stop shaking, no matter how hard she tried. What was going on? Was Ruby out of range? But that wasn't possible. Unless Mistral's CCT was taken down at the same time as the Battle of Haven, communications shouldn't be done. Weiss' heart stopped for a second. She pressed the call button again.

'Caller not in range.'

Her fingers started to shake as she scrolled through her contacts. She tapped on the one with a large yellow flame, this one named Doofus-who-needs-Comedy-classes. Taking a deep breath to control her emotions, Weiss pressed the call button. It rang for exactly one second when a message popped up on the scroll's screen.

'Caller not in range.'

Oh no. Hundreds of thoughts flew through Weiss' brain. Did her friends leave her behind as they continued on their quest? Was she really that injured during the battle? Did something happen to them?

Weiss found Blake's contact, pressing on the picture of Blake holding a nice tea set Weiss had given her after they got back from break. She held her breath as a shaky finger touched the call button, tears starting to form in the corner of her eyes.

'Caller not in range.'

Weiss felt her tears fall onto the hospital gown she wore. The calls to Jaune, Ren and Nora ended the same way.

'Caller not in range.'

Did they block her? Did her friends abandon her? Did they not love her as much as she loved them? She allowed a soft whimper to escape as she pulled her knees to her chest.

Weiss truly was alone.

Mirror, tell me something.

Heh, the single that shot Weiss' music career all the way to the top. Father only gave her a scowl once he heard the news. He didn't even bother listening to any of the songs, and if he did the lyrics surely didn't bother him. Father probably thought of it as a PR tactic, to use his 'heir' to boost his credentials among the SDC's younger consumers. How fitting it was.

Tell me who's the loneliest of all?

A lonely heiress, what a horrible lie everyone must've thought. Lonely? With all of that wealth at her fingertips? Those lyrics were probably written by someone else, why would a Schnee be lonely? Just buy some friends, she could certainly afford that. Weiss had heard the whispers, how people called her an attention seeker when the song first released.

I'm the loneliest one of all.

Weiss poured her feelings to each verse, the song slowly repeating itself in her head as she stared at the scroll in front of her. What would she do now? Weiss eyed the box that held Myrtenaster, her tears blinding her only a little bit.

She didn't escape Atlas, escape Father just because she was being a rebellious teenager. Her friends needed her, Ruby needed her, Yang needed her, Blake needed her, and Weiss, she needed them. You couldn't spell Team RWBY without the W after all. Something must jave happened to them. Weiss' friends would never abandon her, and she would never abandon them. Weiss grabbed Myrtenaster and opened its hilt, revealing the Dust tubes.

She still had a decent amount of Dust in the hilt itself, plus her purse had several vials that she always carried in case of an emergency. If things truly got desperate, the Dust earrings Weiss wore and the extra vials could be used to create more. Normally such a process was more expensive than mining pure Dust due to the need for an experienced person with aura, but an emergency was an emergency, and Weiss was a Schnee.

She studied Dust all of her life, Dust was the lifeblood of the Schnee family. Grabbing her purse and the rest of her belongings, Weiss took out the IV lines that were in her arms. The machine started making a weird noise, but a press of a button immediately silenced it. She saw one of the nurses messing with it earlier.

Tying the dress around her waist and slipping on her heels that were a little too big, Weiss jumped off of the bed and faced the window with a small stumble. The sun was almost done, she could easily escape into the darkness. Her eyes glanced towards the door, where Detective Tsukauchi and Mt. Lady must've been on the other side. Hopefully they were good people, they seemed like they were.

Weiss shook her head and took a deep breath. Closing her eyes, she formed a glyph beneath her feet. Running her right index finger along Myrtenaster's blade, another glyph formed behind her. She wasn't going to waste dust on trying to break that stupid window, her aura and Myrtenaster could handle that.

Opening her eyes, she released the breath, and the glyph shot her forward, Myrtenaster aimed straight at the glass. The Atlassian metal in Myrtenaster's blade easily broke the window, Weiss' aura protecting her from the broken shards of glass.

Flying through the air, Weiss formed another glyph which she jumped on, forming another ome that softened her landing on a nearby rooftop of another section of the hospital, she gracefully turned around, two figures staring at her in shock from her former hospital room. Weiss felt a little bad, considering how much they 'helped' her, and for the efforts the hospital workers put in that helped save her life.

"Thank you!" Weiss shouted, waving her right hand in the air.

It was the polite thing to do after all.

"She's not lying." Tsukauchi sighed as soon as Mt. Lady closed the door behind her. The hero gave him a confused look, raising one of her eyebrows.

"What?"

Tsukauchi rubbed his forehead. "Everything she said there is true. She designed that sword, she was in an ambush, and she wasn't playing dumb when we showed her the map. Weiss truly believes everything that she said."

Mt. Lady's mouth formed an O. "So what does that mean?"

"It means that either your theory about her being from a different dimension is correct, or she belongs in a mental asylum." Tsukauchi whispered. "And since we can't find her in any records, I'm leaning towards your idea." In a world with the internet, she should have been easy to find.

Mt. Lady nodded slowly. "Or she could have been locked up somewhere, designing support weapons for some nefarious organization."

"True, but there still should be some trace of her somewhere. Doctor Miura confirmed that white is her natural hair color, and while it's not extremely rare, it's also not that common." Tsukauchi remained silent when a random nurse walked past them.

"So what's going to happen to her?" Mt. Lady asked, her eyes filled with worry turned towards the door.

"I'm afraid that's out of my pay grade. I imagine that the government will want to question her themselves, or worse, experiment on her. Best case scenario, she either ends up in a mental hospital or foster care." Quirks were weird, what's to say that there's one out there that could make interdimensional portals? The world had far weirder quirks, All Might's for example, but that wasn't Tsukauchi's secret to tell.

"Experimentation? But she's just a little kid! They can't do that." Mt. Lady raised her voice, only lowering it when Tsukauchi shushed her. She looked around carefully before glaring at him.

"I know and I agree with you, but there's nothing I can do." Tsukauchi looked away. "It took a few favors to get her blood work done that fast, plus there's no place where she could stay."

"I'll take her in."

Tsukauchi's head never turned so fast. "What? Are you sure? Raising a kid is no easy matter, especially when you're a hero. Plus you have to pay for meals, clothes and extra bills."

Mt. Lady nodded with a small smile on her face. "I have plenty of room at my agency, it won't be much, but she'll have a roof over her head. Besides, you're talking to a future top ten hero here, money is not an issue." She pointed her thumb at herself.

That was surprisingly generous of her, a far cry from the rather vain hero from earlier.

"I'll do what I can with the paperwork. I'm the only one working on this case, so I'm sure no one will notice if this is blamed on a random Yakuza family." Tsukauchi pulled out his phone. It would take a lot of favors, but he could come up with some identification that should be real enough to pass even U.A's security system. He had done his fair share of coverups before, and the Chief didn't really care as long as he could come up with excuses to write warrants.

He extended his hands towards Mt. Lady. "So we're in agreement then?"

"Yup." As soon as Mt. Lady shook his hand, a loud crash sounded from the room. Quickly bursting through the door, Tsukauchi's eyes widened in shock. Weiss managed to break the window somehow and escaped.

Carefully running over the glass, Tsukauchi and Mt. Lady could only stare in shock as Weiss jumped through the air, a large snowflake forming beneath her legs each time she jumped. She landed on the roof of another section of the hospital with such grace that only a professional ice skater could have.

Slowly turning around, Weiss gave them a friendly wave. "Thank you!" Her voice was almost drowned out by the wind, but Tsukauchi's ears caught it. W-Was she taunting them?

"I thought you said that she was quirkless." Mt. Lady said, her voice cracking near the end. Tsukauchi nodded silently as Weiss started running without even a limp. She was going to open her wound!

"Well, I'm glad I placed this on her." Tsukauchi pulled out a small button from his pocket. It was made of a silver metal, the red light in the center blinking. He turned around, walking past the confused nurses that gathered near the door.

"You placed a tracker on her?" Mt. Lady scoffed as she speed walked alongside him.

"Better safe than sorry. I have it connected to my phone. Contact someone you trust, we need to find her before she hurts herself or stabs someone." Tsukauchi said. Hopefully Weiss didn't notice the tracked in her haste to escape. He had slipped it on one of the hospital gown's buttons.

Mt. Lady smirked when they entered the elevator.

"I know just who to call."

A/N

Next chapter shall be the last of the hospital arc, not even taking place in the hospital.

Yay! I originally planned for it to be in this chapter, but I decided that the moon scene would be better in its own chapter.

Now I wonder how Weiss would fare against the others at UA. She obviously has the most experience due to years of training before Beacon, then about a year at Beacon, then all of the events that came afterwards.

Though some of her potential classmates have a lot of firepower, like Todoroki and Bakugo. With or without Dust, Weiss glyphs should make her one of the strongest in class.