Gordeau awoke with a yawn. He'd only had two hours of sleep, but thanks to the space's healing factor, he didn't need any more. The rest of the group would find that out soon, but it would take a while for them to catch up.

What he hadn't expected, though in hindsight he really should've, was not being the first one awake.

"Salutations, Mr. Gordeau!" Penny greeted him as he entered the kitchen.

He sighed, "Just Gordeau please, Penny. I want you all to consider me your friend."

"Oh," Penny tilted her head, "Most adults I meet want to be called 'mister.'"

Gordeau shrugged, "Anyone else here yet, Penny?"

"No," Penny shook her head, "Just you so far."

He nodded before getting himself a cup of coffee and a bagel sandwich. He sat down across from the girl. She was watching the door intently, but she was also bouncing back and forth excitedly.

Gordeau ate for a while just watching before commenting, "Waiting on someone?"

Penny turned her attention away from the door, "Oh, yes. Ruby should be down soon and then we can spend the day together."

Gordeau raised an eyebrow. "So, how do you feel about Ruby?" Gordeau asked. He figured the girls father wasn't here and someone had to look after her.

"Oh, she's the best friend anyone could ask for," Penny smiled.

Gordeau nodded. Hopefully Ruby wouldn't look too much into it. "Well, we didn't get much of a chance to talk about it yesterday, but how are you handling this?"

Penny sat silently for a minute before responding, "Honestly, I do not know. This space does not make a lot of sense, but I feel like I could get used to it."

"That's good, Penny," Gordeau said softly, "I know this can be a tough thing to handle, so don't be afraid to ask questions." He couldn't place where it had come from, but he felt a sort of kin-ship with the girl. In fact, she reminded him of his younger sister Winter. Which actually made him worry. He knew that the people who were passed the power of his sisters, save for Cinder who stole it, had something in common with his sisters. Spring had always been stubborn in her beliefs, which made sense that Raven would end up with her power. Autumn had always been willing to help anyone who needed it, much like Amber and Pyrrha used to. Summer was kind of an enigma to him, as she had been the youngest when they died.

But Winter, Winter was the oldest. She had always been kind, but had issues deciding what to do. He was always the go to for Winter, even over their own mother and father. What worried him, was the connection itself. Something had changed. That connection didn't exist before this morning, even while he was watching the universe. He'd have to look into this.

"PANCAKES!" a shout shook him from his thoughts as Nora burst through the door, towing Ren behind her.

He chuckled slightly at the scene as he filled his coffee mug (of all the things to inherit from his father). He looked over at Penny, "Well, as people finish up here, will you send them to the theater, Penny?"

Penny smiled, "Of course, Gordeau! You can count on me."

Gordeau smirked and walked to the theater. He fully expected to have to wake Adam and send him to the kitchen as well, but the bull Faunus was nowhere to be seen.

He shrugged, assuming that Adam must have gone to his room after everyone else went to bed.

He pulled out his scroll to pick out the next universe, only for his mouth to drop in shock. Was it that day already? He'd have to put his plan on hold as he prepped up a short universe for all to see.

Suddenly, he got a proximity alert. That was fast. He hit the button, expecting the flash of light that usually accompanied it, but nothing happened. Huh, I wonder where they showed up?


In Team RWBY's Beacon dorm room, Blake's mind woke up. She silently groaned as she remembered what happened yesterday.

First, the whole world went black. Then she'd woken up in a strange room surrounded by both friends and enemies. Then Ozpin's kid started showing them alternate universes.

Then the big one. Somehow, Sun and Yang had convinced her to open herself up. She'd decided, against her better judgment, to give dating another try, and it was with her partner of all people.

She felt a pressure across her chest. She rolled her eyes under her eyelids. Yang had convinced her to share a bed last night. They didn't do anything, but figured since Ruby and Weiss both figured it out a long time ago, it'd be okay.

Blake opened her eyes to see Yang's face. She smiled. She'd never thought of it before, but Yang was really cute when she slept. The way her mouth hung open. The way her left arm hung off the bed. The way her right arm cradled her own stomach.

Blake's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. If Yang's arms were both there, what was the pressure on her chest? She slowly looked at her chest, only to be greeted by the thing she feared most. A mass of black and white fur sat there staring at her. It panted and tilted its head at her.

Blake couldn't help herself. She hissed loudly at the mutt and deftly leapt out of bed and on to Yang's.

"Huh?" Yang asked groggily as she woke up, "Blake? Go back to bed."

Zwei nudged Yang's side. She waved him off, "Not now, Zwei…"

She laid back down before shooting up, "ZWEI!"

Her outburst caused both Weiss and Ruby to shoot up suddenly as well.

"YANG!" Ruby shouted as she jumped out of bed, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong," Yang shrugged, "I just found this in bed with me." She held up the dog.

"ZWEI!" both Ruby and Weiss shouted cheerfully.

Blake peaked her head over the side of Yang's bed, "Keep that thing away from me."

"Blake!" Yang exclaimed as she hopped up to the bed, "You alright?"

Blake nodded, "Yeah, I just woke up with that thing on my chest." She glanced at Yang, "If we go any further with this…"

"I'll let Ruby have Zwei," Yang nodded, "She's more attached to him anyway." Yang leaned in and whispered softly, "Besides, I'd have a hard time getting him away from Weiss."

Blake glanced over to the duo. Weiss was rubbing her nose against Zwei's, "Whose a good boy? Yes, you are! Yes, you are. I'm gonna wuv you for ewver."

Blake smiled, "Thanks, Yang." She leaned against Yang's shoulder, only for her stomach to growl.

Yang chuckled, "Why don't we go get some food, before Blakey here eats me up."

Ruby gagged, "Yang, gross."

The four changed and walked out, with Weiss never letting go of Zwei.


"Adam?"

The viewers, who had assembled back in the theater after a quick breakfast, looked at the White Fang Leader as he stepped into the room with shock. The ones most thrown off being Blake and Ilia who stared at Adam Taurus like they had never seen him before.

Which, in a sense, was right given his new look.

Instead of wearing his military style outfit which he had worn since the fall of Beacon, he was wearing a long black coat with a silver zipper going down the front and two silver drawstrings decorated with silver beads at the hood which was currently not up. Not just his clothes had changed though as his red hair had turned from a shorter style into a long mane with two bangs resting on each side of his shoulders.

Seeing the others look at him Adam growled before sitting down in his seat from the last day.

"Don't ask me. I woke up like this after falling asleep while watching that heart-shaped moon in the garden."

Gordeau perked up at this and looked at Adam in interest.

"A heart-shaped moon you say?"

The viewers all looked at Gordeau with interest. They had already seen with the Meat Loaf and Ruby's new clothes about how this world seemed to interact with the Universes which would be shown. Ozpin hummed before he spoke up.

"So, can we assume that this moon about which Mister Taurus is speaking, along with his change in style has to do with the next Universe which we will be viewing?"

Gordeau nodded at his Father.

"Indeed. This particular Universe is a VERY special one though. All of you will learn much from it about the battles between Darkness and Light along with other forces that exist. Mister Taurus's current appearance is now very close to the one which his counterpart in this Universe sports. In regards to the moon, I would like to keep that one a surprise."

All the viewers looked at Gordeau with a small bit annoyance. Though several still kept glancing at Adam's new appearance. Especially Ruby, Weiss, Neo, Yang, Emerald and Blake had trouble avoiding blushing at his wilder appearance due to the new hair-style. Something that made Ilia want to growl at Adam. Having her current girlfriend and former crush both slowly turn red felt like Adam purposefully tried to ruin her chances at romance.

Gordeau hummed in interest before he shook his head slightly.

"Well, I will look over the particulars of the next Major Viewing but for now please enjoy this small look into another world. This one is only available to view in short "Episodes" each time so it will only take a short while. Have Fun!"

With those words the Viewers looked at the screen as it turned on.

A small house was shown.

"It's our house!" Ruby said excitedly.

From inside the Xiao-Long-Rose residence, Summer's voice was heard, "So you really don't know what day it is?"

Qrow snickered, "One of the two of you is in trouble."

Tai and Raven glared at him.

"I told you," Tai's voice answered, "It's Thursday."

Raven relaxed a little bit, "Figures it's Tai."

Tai groaned, "So what did I forget this time."

A much younger Ruby and Ren were in the backyard listening to the argument. They were leaned up against a large tree.

"Aww," Yang cooed, "Look at cute little Ruby!"

"Yang!" Ruby pouted.

"How old is Ruby here?" Summer asked.

"Most of the younger kids are nine," Gordeau explained, "But Yang, Coco, Mercury, and Emerald, along with Blake and Sun, even though they don't show up in this episode, are sixteen."

Mercury and Emerald glanced at each other. They were going to be involved in this one?

Ren raised an eyebrow at something else though, "Why am I at your house Ruby?"

Ruby looked confused and opened her mouth, but Gordeau interrupted her, "You were adopted. There are no Grimm in this universe, but your parents still died. Thankfully, a helpful Summer Rose adopted you and brought you into the family."

Ren smiled at the courtesy, but another thought ran through his head. If he was adopted, what happened to Nora?

He glanced at the girl to see that the same thought came across her head as well.

"We have a brother!" Yang cheered, "Now Dad isn't the only man of the house."

Tai rolled his eyes, "Don't think it's gonna help me here."

Summer stormed out of the house as Tai watched from the door, "It is more than just another Thursday, Tai."

"Then it must be…" Tai thought, but had nothing so he tried to save face, "The day I realized how cute you are when you're angry?"

Tai facepalmed so hard the room shook.

"That does sound like you, though," Summer giggled.

He ran toward Summer arms out, but she just glared at him.

"I'm going to get my hair done," Summer declared, "I'll be back at two. Maybe you can figure it out before I get home." She walked off towards the car, as Ruby and Ren approached their dad.

"Oof, he's in trouble," Neo winced.

Pyrrha chuckled a bit, "Actually, he kind of reminds me of Jaune."

Jaune groaned, but nodded his head. It did seem like something he'd do.

Tai rubbed his head, "Oh, I wonder what all the fuss is about?"

"Ahem," a voice called from behind.

Tai turned around to see a slightly younger Yang standing in the doorway.

"June Fifteenth," Yang declared, holding up a calendar.

Raven and Summer both glared at Tai. Tai turned deathly pale as he knew what that date meant. Qrow patted his oldest friend on the back. Ozpin hung his head and sighed.

Roman looked at Qrow with a raised eyebrow, "What's so special about that date?"

"It's your (our) wedding anniversary!" she (and Summer, Raven, Qrow and Ozpin) yelled.

"You forgot your anniversary?!" the rest of the women (minus Penny) in the audience yelled.

"Seriously," Emerald yelled as, strangely enough, she seemed to be the one most upset by this, "How do you forget something that important?"

"I didn't," Tai exclaimed proudly, "This other me did. But, come on, I've been living by myself for years. If I had forgotten, would it really be that big of a deal?"

Emerald huffed, but Summer and Raven had to admit he had a point. They hadn't really been around to remind him after all.

"I do not understand why you put so much importance on a date like that," Penny wondered, "It seems strange to me."

Winter started to explain, but Gordeau cut her off, "It's a matter of remembering. Do you remember the day you met Ruby?"

Penny smiled, "Oh! I understand now. Thank you!"

Both Winter and Ozpin raised an eyebrow at the man, who tried to shrug them off, but that feeling from earlier crept up on him again. I'm going to have to look in on that later.

"Dammit!" Tai yelled as he grabbed his head in frustration, "Wait, wait! I can fix this!" He ran back into the house.

Ruby and Ren approached Yang, and Ruby spoke up, "Gee, Yang, isn't this a lot of fuss to make over a date?"

Yang raised an eyebrow in disbelief at her younger sister, "Are you kidding? Anniversaries are very important."

"This ought to be good," Blake teased.

"Hey, I'm sure this me will take it seriously," Yang defended herself.

"Take June, for example," Yang explained, "On the third, Blake spoke to me for the first time back in the seventh grade." Yang's face softened as she remembered.

Both Blake and Yang's jaws hit the floor. Ruby saw an opportunity, "So do you remember the first time Blake spoke to you?"

Yang, too stunned from the universe to think, responded automatically, "Of course! It was our first night at Beacon. She was reading a book by candle light, and the way it bounced off her face…"

Yang's jaw snapped shut as she could feel the glares from her parents staring into the back of her head. Yang's description also made Blake, Sun, and Ilia blush.

"May sixth, she brushed up against me in the hall."

"That seems like a weak reason to have an anniversary," Neptune mused.

"Blake's just like that," Sun whispered.

"Oh, and April third, that's the day she laughed so hard, milk came out of her nose!"

Adam let out a guttural laugh. He just couldn't imagine Blake laughing that hard.

Blake, Yang, and Ilia had to wonder when the bull developed a sense of humor. Maybe it had something to do with his new look.

Ruby and Ren exchanged sideways looks before walking inside, leaving Yang alone outside.

Yang was laughing at her memories, "She looked so cute."

"Aww," Weiss teased as the couple blushed.

"So, Yang," Tai stated with folded arms, "You got something to tell us?"

Yang had no problem telling everyone about their relationship, but she knew Blake would be cautious about it, especially with Adam, Ilia, and Sun here.

Blake gave a subtle nod giving Yang the permission she was looking for, "Yeah, I guess we do. Blake and I are a couple now."

"And…" Summer pressed after a minute of silence.

"And nothing," Yang shrugged, "That's just it."

Gordeau chuckled, "Look's like the cat's out of the bag, huh?"

Blake glared at him, but Tai and Yang couldn't suppress a laugh.

"Told you I could be punny," Gordeau said with a smirk as the rest of the audience groaned.

"Then why were you getting angry with me earlier about them?" Yang questioned.

"Because you beat me to it!" Gordeau shrugged.

Tai was in the garage scrounging around. Ruby and Ren walked up and Ruby asked, "Hey, Dad, can we help?"

"Thanks, Rubes," Tai chuckled, "But I think other me has this."

Qrow shook his head, "No, you really don't Tai, you're terrible at this stuff."

"Well," Tai sighed as he leaned against his workbench, "I'm afraid not, unless you can perform miracles."

"Well… I'm mean… c'mon…" Ruby mumbled with random hand gestures.

Ruby smirked, "What's your budget?"

Everyone laughed at the on screen Ruby. Even Cinder chuckled lightly. Well, almost everyone.

Nora was pouting, That should be me! I should be the one next to Ren, not her!

"Tell me, you two," Tai went on, "What would you get a special woman on her anniversary?"

"Oh, please!" Yang's voice came from the door, "Asking those two for romantic advice? Now that's just pathetic."

"Hey," Ruby protested briefly, before all eyes in the theater dead-panned her, "Yeah, okay…" she slumped in defeat.

Ren didn't even try to argue. He knew he wasn't the most romantic person.

Yang saw the shocked look on her father's face and softened her approach as she walked into the garage, "Don't you and Mom have any cherished memories?"

"Sure, we do," Summer said excitedly.

"Yeah," Tai agreed, "But I don't think the girls want to hear about most of them."

"Oh, yes!" Tai exclaimed excitedly, "I've got just the thing in here." He pulled out a toolbox.

Yang's eyes narrowed as she (both of them) whispered to Ruby, "He keeps his treasured memories in a toolbox?"

"Always has," Raven rolled her eyes, "I kept telling him to keep them somewhere else, but he never listened."

"Hey, no one would ever think to look there," Tai shrugged.

"Your mother's favorite band." Tai pulled out a cassette tape, "Love Händel."

Mercury did a spit take, "A what? Who names their band that?"

Neo stared at Roman, "Better than 'The Trouble-Cleffs'"

Roman sighed, "You are never going to let me live that down, are you?"

"Nope!" Neo smirked, before glaring, "And what possessed you to make ME the singer?"

Ilia chuckled at the thought.

"It was a CON!" Roman protested.

He handed the tape to Ren, who looked at the front. The band's logo was shown. It was a burning heart with an arrow through it and the band's name over it.

Tai began to flash back. A rock ballad started playing, and a stadium with a large crowd was shown. A younger Tai and Summer were in the crowd, Tai standing and watching with Summer swaying to the music.

"Now that's a look I haven't seen in a long time," Qrow chuckled.

"Since Beacon," Raven agreed as she blushed at both of her lover's younger selves.

"I bought us tickets to their farewell concert," Tai explained over the flashback, "Oh, we were a handsome, stylish couple back in those days."

The band was shown. There was a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer.

"Wait, what!?" Qrow and Roman said as they shot up.

"I take it back," Neo said, "You named it again."

"We were in a band together?" Roman shot Qrow a glance, "Nice! But who's the other guy?"

"Bartholomew Oobleck," Qrow explained.

"Doctor Oobleck," Ozpin corrected.

"He didn't earn that degree for nothing," Weiss agreed.

The drummer was a much younger Dr. Oobleck, the bassist was a younger Roman Torchwick, and the guitarist was a much younger Qrow Branwen.

Oobleck had traded his normal white shirt for a black muscle shirt, and wasn't wearing his glasses.

"He actually looks pretty good that way," Emerald shrugged, "At least compared to his sloppy normal dress."

Roman looked pretty much the same, except his normal white coat was replaced with a yellow one, and his pants were white instead of black.

"That's a stylish look," Pyrrha noted.

"Thanks," Roman shrugged, "I am proud of my appearance."

Qrow had a large hoop earing in his left ear, and a black bandanna around his head.

"Not much of a change there," Winter said as she rolled her eyes, "I don't think I've ever seen you wear anything else."

Qrow shrugged, "Why change what works."

Qrow spoke into a microphone, "So which lucky couple out there will be caught in our flamin' hot spotlight of love?"

"As if we don't know," Blake sighed.

"Spoilers!" Neo cried out again.

"It is pretty romantic though," Summer sighed.

The spotlight searched the audience for a bit before landing on Tai and Summer.

They both looked back in shock. Tai's explanation was heard again, "I'd never so much as held your mother's hand, but that night, I made my move."

Tai bowed and offered his had to Summer, who blushed in embarrassment.

"Ugh," Yang facepalmed, "That's not what that means."

"Yeah," Ruby sighed, "Even I knew that!"

Suddenly, Qrow's voice called out, "Well, don't just stand there, man. Kiss her!"

The pair looked at Qrow is shock, before Summer made the move. She wrapped her arms around Tai and kissed him.

"Aww," quite a few people swooned around the room.

As they pulled away, Tai looked shocked, but Summer cuddled up into his chest.

Qrow began to sing, "You snuck your way right into my heart!"

"Well, brother?" Raven teased.

Qrow just glared at her. He really didn't have a singing voice, so why was he singing here?

The flashback ended and Tai sighed, "Truly that was an evening I will never, ever forget."

Yang folded her arms, "But you did forget, didn't you?"

Tai groaned, "And Love Händel broke up years ago."

"Well, we've got two thirds here," Jaune noted.

"Yeah, if you can find a drummer, you guys could perform!" Oscar agreed.

"I don't know how to play bass," Roman admitted.

"And I don't sing," Qrow grumbled.

He walked out of the garage in defeat, "Some things can never be recaptured."

"That's it!" Ruby exclaimed, "I know what we're gonna do today!"

"So, what's the plan, sis," Yang asked.

"I'm not sure yet," Ruby admitted, "But I'm sure it'll be great!"

"We're gonna make it their best anniversary ever," she declared before looking around, "Hey, where's Zwei?"

"Well, that explains the mutt showing up," Blake groaned.

Weiss held Zwei up and fake pouted at him, "You're not a mutt, are you? You're a good boy!"

Zwei barked happily at Weiss.

Elsewhere, Zwei entered a room that looked like a secret lair. He was walking on two legs and using his front paws, put a fedora on his head.

"Um, what?" Pyrrha asked.

"I… huh?" Ilia scratched her head.

"Aw," a voice called out, "There you are, Agent Z."

"James?" Ozpin asked incredulously.

"Agent Z?" Yang asked with the same amount of disbelief.

"Zwei's a secret agent!" Ruby said excitedly, "Do something spy like Zwei!"

The room was quit for minute before Zwei let out a happy bark.

"Well, you should've expected that," Tai chuckled, "He doesn't do much."

The lair was shown in more detail. A large screen hung in front of Zwei, with Ironwood's face on it.

"Let me get this straight," Neo placed a hand on her forehead, "Your dog is a secret agent who works for the Tin-man in this universe?"

"I don't think the General would come up with such a stupid idea," Winter groaned.

"We've learned some alarming information," Ironwood explained, "Several suspicious items have been purchased by the Watts Corporation."

"Watts," Winter thought out loud, "Why does that name sound familiar?"

"They include," he listed, "An industrial-grade air compressor, twenty cannisters of helium oxide and four hundred pounds of fireworks."

"That's not really suspicious, other than the fireworks," Jaune observed.

"Yeah," Yang agreed, "Sounds like whoever it is, is throwing a party not doing anything illegal."

"Get right on it," Ironwood ordered.

Zwei saluted and put on a jetpack. He flew up and burst out of the family's bird-bath.

"He has a jetpack?" Ruby asked, "That is awesome!"

Inside the house, Ruby, Ren, and Yang were watching a documentary about Love Händel.

The ballad from earlier played and a narrator explained, "For a moment, their ballad, 'Snuck Your Way Into My Heart,' snuck its way to number one."

"A number one?" Roman asked, "We must've been impressive." He nudged Qrow.

The band was shown on screen as the narrator continued, "And stayed there for eleven consecutive minutes."

"Or not," Qrow sighed.

"But," the narrator continued, "Whatever happened to Love Händel?"

"The band was riding high," the narrator explained, "But tastes were changing and Love Händel found itself playing smaller and smaller venues."

The screen showed the band playing an office party with five guests.

"Sounds like you guys sucked," Mercury joked.

"From what I've heard, they're great," Summer defended, as she glared holes into the silver haired boy's head.

"Pressures from a dwindling fan base caused infighting among the band members."

"Lines were drawn," the screen showed the three band members with black lines drawn between them, "Then lines were crossed," the paper ripped apart, "Eventually the lines were erased, and the piece of paper crumpled up and thrown away." The screen mirrored the explanation.

Roman winced, "I do tend to have that effect on people."

"I'm sure it wasn't entirely your fault," Raven shrugged, "Qrow has a very abrasive personality."

Qrow glared at his sister.

"And Love Händel was no more," the narrator finished.

"Years later, Love Händel's music continues to warm the hearts of an appreciative public," two homeless men were shown using an album as fuel for a fire.

"That's rude," Nora pouted, "They worked hard on that."

"But those men do need to stay warm," Ren countered, "You use what you can get, remember?"

Nora sighed and nodded.

"Bass player Roman Torchwick now runs a trendy hair salon," the narrator explained as Roman's salon was shown.

"That makes way too much sense," Neo giggled.

"I do take great pride in my style," Roman agreed.

"Drummer Barty works quietly at the public library," the library was shown.

"He always did like his books," Ozpin nodded as he sipped his coffee, who knows where he got it from.

"That's a much better fit for Bart than rock drummer," Tai agreed.

"And only lead singer Qrow is still a player in the music industry," a small store with the sign 'Qrow's Music Shop' was shown.

"I've seen that sign," Yang said excitedly, "It's down on Main Street."

"So, Uncle Qrow lives on Patch too?" Ruby asked, "Why don't we know him already?"

"Well, he's not your uncle in this universe, so there's that," Gordeau explained.

Ruby began to pout but Qrow shrugged it off, "I'm sure I'll like you, kiddo. Anytime I get to spend with you, whether we're related or not, is fine for me."

Ruby smiled at him.

"We'll get him to sing for Mom!" Ruby exclaimed, "Ready, team?"

"Team?" Yang questioned, "Oh, no, I am not getting involved in one of your crazy schemes."

"One of?" Yang raised her eyebrow, "Does Ruby often have crazy schemes?"

Gordeau chuckled, "I won't spoil any, but she has a new one every day."

"Come on, Yang," Ruby pleaded, "For true love?"

Yang growled. All three put their hands on top of each other's.

"Aw, yeah," Ruby cheered, "Sibling adventure!"

"I'm always in for one," Yang cracked her knuckles.

"I'm honored to be included in your shenanigans," Ren said with a bowed head.

Nora pouted again. Should be me.

"Yang," Ruby ordered, "You keep Mom away from the house. We'll go get Qrow."

Meanwhile, Tai was looking in the phone book, "Oh, 'Love on the Run. Romantic solutions for every occasion,'" he read.

"You're not actually considering…" Summer sat back in shock.

"He is," Raven groaned, "And you and I both know it wouldn't be the first time."

"Dad!" Yang and Ruby yelled at their father.

The three kids ran past him on their way out, "Hey, Dad," Ruby yelled, "We're gonna throw a rock concert in the backyard, OK?"

"No way," Tai countered, "There is no way you girls are throwing a concert in the backyard, even if it is for my anniversary."

"Aw, c'mon, Tai," Qrow countered, "Let the girls live a little."

"Yes. Well, be careful." Tai answered, not really paying attention.

The room laughed, "Sounds like someone's not paying attention," Roman cackled.

"I've got a lot on my mind," Tai defended himself.

"Come on, Ren!" Ruby and Ren got on their bicycles and rode off. Meanwhile, Yang's scroll beeped.

"Oh, hey, Coco," Yang answered, "I can't talk right now. My brother's and I are reforming Love Händel for a concert in our backyard."

"Coco?" Velvet's ears poked up as she listened for the alert on Gordeau's scroll.

After a few minutes, nothing happened, "Sorry, Velvet," Gordeau apologized, "Not this time."

Velvet sulked in defeat.

"Why am I calling Coco?" Yang asked, "It's not like we're close friends."

"You are here," Gordeau explained, "She's your best friend in fact."

Coco gasped, "Love Händel? That's my mother's favorite band!"

Coco conference called her mother, "Hey, Mom! Did you know Love Händel is reforming?"

Coco's mom gasped, "Love Händel?" She quickly called her friend, who called her friend, who called his friend, etc. etc.

"Well, if you three were hoping to keep it a secret, Yang just screwed that up," Weiss rolled her eyes.

"The bimbo never could keep her mouth shut," Emerald rolled her eyes.

Yang's eyes flipped colors, as she glared at the girl.

Elsewhere a building was shown and a small jingle played, "Arthur Watts Abandoned Self Storage!"

Winter snapped, "That's right! Arthur Watts, the disgraced scientist. He's been dead for years."

Raven raised an eyebrow, "Um, no, he's not. He's with them." She pointed to Cinder, who glared at her.

"What!" Winter snapped up, "He's alive?"

"And he works for Salem," Ozpin sighed, "Our job just got a lot harder."

"So, what if you learned about Watts?" Cinder declared with snark, "We have plenty of other agents."

As the rest of the room tried to wrap their heads around this, Emerald leaned over and whispered, "You know we don't actually have any other agents, right ma'am?"

"I know that!" Cinder seethed, "But we need them to think we have more."

Emerald righted herself and continued watching.

"Is no one else going to comment that he has his own jingle?" Neo asked incredulously.

"I want my own jingle!" Roman complained.

"That's only one variation on it," Gordeau explained, "The main jingle is 'Arthur Watts Evil Incorporated.'"

Adam rolled his eyes, "He actually owns a company called 'evil?' How obvious can you get!"

Zwei flew into the building and removed his jet pack.

He turned around ready to do battle with his nemesis, but instead found Watts setting up a party. He was hanging a yellow banner that said, 'Happy Birthday, Emerald!'"

"Huh," Emerald raised an eyebrow, "Why is he celebrating my birthday?"

"Wait," Mercury stopped her, "June fifteenth is actually your birthday?"

"Yeah, but up until now, you and I haven't shown up in either of the universes, I figured it wouldn't come up," Emerald explained.

"Oh," Mercury shrugged, "Well, Happy Birthday, in this universe. I'm sure the doctor will explain why he's celebrating your birthday."

Watts gasped, "Oh, Zwei the Wondercorgi! Quick, could you hand me that staple gun right over there?"

"Really?" Blake sighed, "The Wondercorgi?"

"It does seem like a stupid name," Velvet agreed.

"But he's such a good boy," Weiss teased Zwei, as he rested in her lap.

Zwei grabbed it and handed it to Watts who quickly stapled up the banner.

Watts sighed, "So what do you think?"

"It's for my daughter Emerald's birthday," he explained as he pulled out his wallet, "I try to throw her a party every year."

Emerald gagged, "His daughter?"

"You must be adopted," Mercury shrugged, "I can't see him being your dad."

He handed Zwei the wallet, inside were pictures of every birthday Emerald had. In each one, Watts was doing something a child would love, or just being an idiot and Emerald looked done with his shit in each one.

"Just when I thought he couldn't be any more of an idiot," Cinder groaned.

"He seems rather incompetent," Penny noted.

"That's only in this universe," Winter stated, "I assure you all, he is a very dangerous individual."

"I know," Watts went on, "We usually go about our daily battle of good versus evil, but instead could you maybe help me set up the party for my little girl? Please?"

Zwei looked at the audience before deciding to help. The two enemies decorated a cake, and put the number sixteen on top.

They hung pictures, made punch, hung a disco ball, and blew up balloons.

Emerald was actually touched by the effort this version of Watts was making. Nobody had ever celebrated her birthday at all before. Even if she wasn't a fan of the decorations, the thought was very touching.

Elsewhere, Ruby and Ren approached the music store, "Qrow's Music Shop," Ruby read the sign, "Ren, this looks like the place."

"Thank you Captain Obvious," Nora complained.

"Nora," Pyrrha sighed, "You do know that if you were Ren's sister here, you guys couldn't be a pair, right?"

Nora thought for a minute before sighing in agreement. See began to smile at just seeing Ren on screen.

The pair entered the shop and saw Oscar Pine playing a guitar lightly.

"Wow, my first appearance," Oscar noted.

"And your buying a guitar from me," Qrow chuckled, "I really don't believe it, kid."

Qrow stormed up to the boy. He looked the same as his flashback self, except he was in street clothes and had a goatee now. "No. No. No. No. No. This is a rock 'n' roll guitar for rock 'n' roll music!" he exclaimed as he took the guitar from Oscar.

"Qrow," Summer scolded.

"Well, he's not wrong," Roman defended, "Kid was playing classical guitar on a rock one. It just doesn't work."

Quite a few people deadpanned at Roman before he responded, "What? Just because I don't play doesn't mean I don't know anything about it."

"Whatever," Oscar shrugged as he stormed out of the store.

"Ok, run," Qrow yelled after him, "The power of rock too scary for you. I see."

"The power of rock?" Tai teased.

"Hey," Qrow shrugged, "It seems like it's important to this me."

"Uh," Ruby said worriedly, "You must be Qrow of Love Händel, right?"

Qrow bowed his head in recognition, "Always an honor to be recognized by my fans."

He quickly realized something though, "Hey, aren't you a little young to be fans of Love Händel?"

"Our parents are, not us," Ruby shrugged, "But I'd be a fan of Uncle Qrow anyway."

"Thanks, kiddo," Qrow smiled.

"Yes, yes we are," Ruby stated calmly, "But our parents aren't."

She pointed to the door, "Don't you think you were a little tough on that guy?"

Qrow glared at the door, "Oh, he'll be back," he shook his fist, "When the spirit calls him!"

"Wow," Jaune chuckled, "Just wow."

"Kid, don't say another word," Qrow warned.

"Wow," Ruby stated with wide-eyes, "You sure are passionate about rock 'n' roll."

"Well, it's only my life," Qrow stated, matter-of-factly, "Sit down. I'll tell you a little story."

Qrow played a riff and began singing.

"Not again," Qrow groaned.

"Hey," Roman nudged him, "Red said she didn't sing either, but she sounded good in the last one. I'm sure you'll sound fine too."

Q: When I was a boy, down in south Anima

Q: I heard a man playing blues, oh, what a wonderful noise

Ren and Ruby pulled out sunglasses, put them on, and started snapping to the beat.

"Where did we get those from?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know," Ren shrugged.

Q: He had an old guitar, but not a dollar to his name

Ren pulled out a harmonica and played along

"I feel like I should state that Ren can pretty much pull anything out of thin air in this universe," Gordeau chuckled, "Otherwise, you guys are going to be asking that question every two seconds.

Q: Making music so sad, but he was happy just the same.

Qrow raised and eyebrow and looked at Raven, "Didn't Uncle Vulture play the blues before he lost his hand?"

Raven sat back in shock, "You're right! That must be what happened in this universe!"

Q: He gave me a wink and said, Son, let me share the news

Q: If you want a happy life, you gotta learn to sing the blues!

The setting changed. Suddenly, Qrow and Ren were now on a stage. Ren was behind a drum kit and they both had greased back hair. The style of the song changed slightly.

Q: I asked my daddy for a guitar, oh, I begged and I plead

"Yeah, you don't sound bad," Neo shrugged, "I've definitely heard worse."

Qrow smiled at her as Raven chuckled, "You can tell we were raised differently here. Dad would never have given you a guitar."

Qrow nodded in agreement.

Q: I said I wanted to play the blues and he just nodded his head

Q: Daddy said when he was my age, Boogie-Woogie was the thing

Ruby was now shown playing a string bass. She also had her hair slicked back, which made her look a little strange.

"That's," Pyrrha hesitated, "An interesting look, Ruby."

Ruby sighed, "You don't have to be nice about it, Pyrrha. That looks horrible."

Pyrrha shrunk in on herself, "Sorry."

RU: Just take the blues, throw out your hip, and add a little swing!

Q: Ah, music has the power, that without it, he'd a-sworn

Q: That he'd a never a met my mom and I'd a-never been born

"Huh," Winter smirked, "I wouldn't have guessed."

"Cause it didn't happen, Ice-Queen," Qrow chuckled, "They met in the tribe."

Ren threw Qrow a purple guitar, and the setting changed again. The only thing around Qrow was a bunch of colors as his outfit changed to a sleeveless shirt and vest, a bandanna, and baggy jeans. His hair also grew out. He started playing a guitar solo in a different style.

Mercury shook his head before looking at Emerald, "Did you dose me, Em?"

"No," she sighed, "If I had any, I would've used it before I gave it to you."

"What the hell am I wearing?" Qrow stuttered out.

Ren and Ruby were shown. Ren was wearing a Tie-Die shirt and playing a sitar, while Ruby was playing a tambourine and wore a floor length dress with a brown vest over it. Both of their hair had grown out.

"What are we all wearing?" Ruby covered her eyes in embarrassment.

Ozpin and Gordeau, being the only people old enough to remember that era chuckled, "Hippie clothes," Ozpin explained, "It was a strange time."

RU: So what's this?

Q: This is Psychedelia. It's where the guitar solo came from

RU, RU: No, I mean, what's with all the colors

"They both had the same thought," Yang chuckled.

"Drugs," Roman sighed, "Lots and lots of drugs. Not a pleasant time in my life."

Neo winced as she remembered how bad Roman got during that time.

Qrow and the music stopped abruptly as he thought about it.

Q: I have no idea.

The style changed again. The trio were now on another stage. A sign behind them read 'The Funk Train." Ruby was behind an electric organ. She had a blue suit on and star sunglasses.

Ren played a trumpet. He had an afro and a black and silver jumpsuit.

Qrow is in a very large fur coat with a purple shirt on underneath it. His guitar turned to an orange color.

"Now, this style I remember," Tai sighed as the other three members of Team STRQ laughed.

"Do you still have that suit, Tai?" Summer asked.

"It's in the basement," Tai sighed. Ruby and Yang archived that information to help embarrass their father.

Q: Ha! I kept learning all the powers my guitar had

Q: I made it go walka-walka 'till it was so good it was bad

"I kind of like this music," Pyrrha said as she bopped to the beat.

"It is a little funky." Yang tried.

"That wasn't even a pun," Ruby complained, "That was just lazy."

"Hey, I can't be good all the time," Yang shrugged.

RU: Just make a face, and stomp that bass you can make that rhythm bump

RU: But this is just the blues, but in a way that makes you wanna shake your rump!

Qrow shook his rump.

"I did not need to see that," Ruby said.

"Agreed," Weiss gagged.

A few other people gagged or chuckled as well, but one of the few that didn't, strangely enough, was Winter. He does have a nice ass. Wait, why did I think that?

She shook the thought out of her head and blamed the space she was currently sitting in for messing with her head.

Q: I can make you clap your hands, I can make you get up and dance.

Q: If you wanna shake your booty, my friend

Q: You've got to give the funk a chance.

The style changed again, as Qrow drug his pick down a string. Qrow was now in a fish-net shirt with flame styled pants. Ren was back to the drums. He was wearing an all black outfit, with a black top hat, his hair puffed out and styled down. Ruby was playing a double necked guitar. She was also in an all black outfit that consisted of a coat, pants, and a hat.

"Now this is more like it," Mercury banged his head.

Adam had to agree. He didn't have a lot of time to listen to music, but he did like this genre.

"Too heavy for me," Weiss winced.

Qrow screamed some of his lines now.

Q: METAL!

Q: Pound your fist in the air!

Q: METAL!

Q: Bang your head full of hair!

"I wonder what kind of music the band actually played," Sun wondered, "Especially if he's a fan of all of these genres."

"Fashion Metal," Neptune noted, before he noticed everyone staring at him. "What? The clothes they were wearing at the beginning made it obvious."

"You really are a nerd," Nora teased.

"Intellectual!" Neptune corrected.

Q: It's crunchy, and it's nasty, full of bad attitude.

RU: Your parents will think you're crazy, your neighbors will think you're rude

Q: Believe it or not, it's all the blues again

"Huh," Weiss noted, "He's right, actually. It's the same style, just with different effects and lyrics."

Q: You just add a little fuzz and turn your amp up to ten!

Q: Music has the power to change your life forever.

The trio played an ending fanfare. Qrow powerslid as the ending played.

Q: Shuh!

"That was great, Bird-Brain," Roman complimented, "Maybe we could make a good band."

Qrow shook his head and rolled his eyes.

The scene changed and they were back in the music store.

Ruby and Ren clapped as Qrow got off his knees, "Thank you, thank you."

"You know," Ruby explained, "Our parents fell in love at one of your concerts."

"It really is a touching story," Pyrrha sighed, "It's pretty romantic."

"Yeah," Jaune agreed, "Actually close to ours if you think about it, considering the dance."

"Except their dad didn't where a dress," Nora teased.

"See?" Qrow said excitedly, "Music does change lives."

"Well," Ruby smirked, "How'd you like to sing for our parents' wedding anniversary?"

Qrow chuckled, "For you pipsqueak, sure."

Ruby smiled, "Thanks Uncle Qrow!"

"That'd be righteous, dudette," Qrow agreed, "But good luck getting the other guys."

"Who can resist the power of rock 'n' roll?" Ruby asked as she handed Qrow a card.

"I know I can't," Roman chuckled, "I'm already on board, Red. Though, I doubt other me will be as willing."

"He'll come around," Neo shrugged.

"Love Händel reunion," Qrow read before turning back to the kids, "Rock on, little dudes!"

Right as Ruby and Ren left, Oscar rushed back in, "The spirit of rock 'n' roll has called out to me!"

"I knew it," Qrow smirked as he held up the guitar.

Oscar couldn't help but laugh at himself, "I guess I couldn't resist."

Back to the Xiao-Long-Rose-Ren household where a white van pulled up. The side said 'Love on the Run.'

Tai opened the door to great the driver, "Oh, thank goodness you're here!"

The driver stepped out to reveal a woman with a light brown complexion, with shoulder-length, straight brown hair. She had a beauty mark below her left eye. She wore a long, green hooded cloak on top of an off-white blouse with a brown vest, corset and pants. She also had a gold bracer on her left arm, two gold bracelets on her right wrist and a pair of golden armored boots. She had a golden pauldron on her right shoulder as well as a shoulder strap with some pouches slung diagonally across her body.

"Amber?" Pyrrha asked as she teared up, "The former Fall Maiden," she explained.

"I'm really am very sorry about what happened to her," Ozpin said solemnly.

"Oh, shut it Oz," Raven scoffed, "You use people and have no qualms about it. The biggest proof of that is sitting right next to you."

Ozpin looked at his son and sighed as Gordeau shrugged.

Emerald felt a little bit sorry about what happened to the girl, but shrugged it off as Cinder had needed that power to be stronger. And she owed a lot to Cinder.

"Love on the Run, at your service, my friend," Amber stated, "What did you forget today?"

Tai inhaled dramatically, "Anniversary."

"Oh, the big one," Amber said, sympathetically.

She opened the door of the van and out hopped an old woman with blue eyes. She wore a large costume in the shape of a heart.

"Who is that?" Weiss asked.

"Fria," Winter gasped, no one, save herself, Ozpin, General Ironwood, and maybe Qrow, was supposed to know who she was.

Gordeau raised his eyebrow. He'd never heard of 'Fria' before, maybe…

His eye's widened in realization. He had a job to do later.

F: It's your anniversary…

She danced and continued singing in the background.

"That," Amber explained, "is your Love-O-Gram. I'll get the rest of your stuff out of the truck."

Winter couldn't stifle a laugh, "So, I know that woman, and seeing her up and dancing is actually really funny."

Qrow chuckled, "Yeah, you're not wrong."

Back at the party for Emerald, Watts and Zwei were relaxing after finishing decorating the warehouse.

The party looked great, if you were a six-year old girl. Watts slumped in his seat, "Oh, that was exhausting."

Emerald sighed, "Does he really think I'll like this shit? It's for a five-year old, not for me."

"Hey," Ruby countered, "He put a lot of effort in to that! Be a little grateful."

"It's not like I don't appreciate it," Emerald protested, "He's just really out of touch with what I like."

Emerald's response shocked quite a few people, none more than Cinder. Why was Emerald talking to these kids? They were the enemy.

"Ah," he got up and walked under the banner he had hung earlier, "I have one last surprise for our lovely guest."

"This," he explained, "will be the grand finale of Emerald's party."

He pulled a rope and a curtain fell, "Behold, the world largest fire-cracker."

"That's actually kinda cool," Mercury admitted, "Looks like he got one thing right."

"Eh, I guess," Emerald shrugged.

A very large firework was on stage as Watts continued, "All we need now is a victim to be tied to the rocket."

Zwei looked at him with narrowed eyes.

"No!" Weiss and Ruby cried out, "Not Zwei!"

"Good," Blake slumped, "The mutt will be gone!"

"Why do you hate him, Blake?" Weiss pouted, "I could never hate such an adorable ball of fur."

Blake growled, but didn't respond.

"So, they'll explode up in the sky in a grand display!" Watts finished.

"So," he rubbed his chin and looked off into space, "Here's the awkward part. Uh…"

"That's not the word I would use," Nora chuckled.

"But it would be awkward," Ren chuckled too.

The screen suddenly shifted and Zwei was now tied to the rocket.

"And when I say awkward, I mean for you, not so much for me," Watts said smugly.

Cutting away, the outside of Roman's hair salon was shown.

Inside, Summer was sitting down with Yang right behind her.

"Uh, oh," Yang sighed, "Mom's hairstylist is Roman? I smell trouble."

"Hey, maybe we went after Dr. Oobleck first," Ruby protested.

"Knowing you," Velvet chuckled, "I doubt you did."

"That wouldn't make for a good story either," Blake noted.

"So," Summer started, "I wonder what new look Roman has envisioned for me this time."

"You know," Summer explained, "He was in my favorite band, Love Händel."

Yang went wide-eyed and let out, "Love Händel?" before covering her mouth with her hand.

"But," Summer went on without hearing her, "he doesn't like anyone to talk about it, though, so don't bring it up."

"Why?" Roman wondered, "If I was in a band, I would talk about it non-stop."

"Attention hog," Neo teased.

"Yeah," Ruby agreed, "Let someone else have the spotlight."

Yang's scroll rang. She looked down to see that it was Ruby.

"Uh," Yang gestured to it and walked away from her mother, "I gotta take this,"

She opened the call and whispered, "How's it going?"

"We got Qrow," Ruby listed, "Now, we're gonna convince Roman Torchwick."

Ruby sighed, "How are we gonna get out of this one?"

"Easy," Yang said as she leaned back, "Improvise."

The duo was standing outside the hair salon. Ren was wearing an armored helmet and caring a mace and a net.

"And if we can't," Ruby explained, "Ren's got a backup plan."

Ren held up the mace and net.

Oscar laughed out, "Sounds more like one of Nora's plans than Ren's."

"Or one of Neo's," Roman laughed.

Both pink girls glared at the respective insulters.

"Wait," Yang tried to explain, "Roman Torchwick is Mom's hairdresser. Where are you right now?"

"Walking in the front door of Roman's salon. Oh…" Ruby went wide-eyed when she saw Yang.

"Sorry, Yang," Ruby apologized.

"I also apologize," Ren agreed, "We should have thought this through a little more."

"No sweat guys," Yang shrugged, "Ren will finally get to see some of the famous Xiao-Long improvisation."

"I don't think I want to," Ren winced.

"You don't, you really don't," Weiss sighed.

"You doofuses!" Yang whisper-yelled, "Mom's gonna see you and wonder what you're up to!"

"You gotta keep Mom distracted while we talk to Roman," Ruby said quickly.

Raven chuckled, "So, Yang, what are you going to do?"

Yang looked at her mother, "Well, the two of us know hair, so…"

"Ah…" Raven nodded, "That could work."

"Say, Mom," Yang said in her 'I'm up to something' voice, "maybe we should get you ready for Roman."

"Ok, even if I didn't know what you were doing," Summer sighed, "I would know you're up to something just by your voice, Yang."

"Is it really that bad?" Yang asked sheepishly.

"It really is, Yang," Blake admitted, "You might want to work on it, especially if you want to fool me with anything."

Yang made a mental note of that.

She pushed Summer down into the washing sink. "Yang, what are you doing?" she asked.

"Uh," Yang stuttered as she grabbed a bottle, "You look like you need some conditioner!"

She dumped the bottle on Summer's head before looking back to Ruby, "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!"

"It's really touching that you kids are doing this for us," Tai chuckled, "But you should know better than to mess with your mother."

"Aw, c'mon Muscles," Roman defended the kids, "Let them live a little, they won't be kids forever."

Ozpin raised an eyebrow at the thief. He once said the same exact thing.

Ruby and Ren walked up to the receptionist, who had a familiar head of pink and brown hair.

"About time I made an appearance," Neo taunted, "And the reference in the first one doesn't count."

"And you're still with Roman," Weiss noted, "It must be hard to separate you two."

"Well, until now, he was the only person I really knew," Neo admitted, "But now, I have a girlfriend and all of you too."

Everyone smiled at the girl.

"Do you," Neo looked at the pair skeptically, "Have an appointment?"

"Uh, no," Ruby explained, "We're here to see Roman. You know, the bass player for the band Love Händel?"

She pulled out a poster of the band and held it up. Right as she did, a comb flew through the air and pinned the poster to the wall.

"Nice throw," Yang complimented.

"Thanks, Blondie," Roman accepted, "That's actually the second universe I've had better aim than reality."

Standing at the back of the salon was Roman himself, but without his coat, and he was wearing sunglasses. He strutted down the aisle before looking down at the kids.

"Neo," he asked, "who are these little people?"

"Little people," Neo glared at Roman, "I hope you have better sense than that."

"Of course," Roman said nervously, "I know better than to mention your height."

"Good," Neo said triumphantly, "I'd hate to have to hurt you."

"I don't know, sir," Neo responded.

He examined Ruby before scoffing, "You're a mess. And you…" he pointed to Ren, "Feudal Mantle is so last month."

"I think it was a lot longer ago than that," Winter chuckled, "But I appreciate the joke."

"You know," Qrow sighed, "You don't have to poke holes in every joke, Ice Queen."

"We're trying to get Love Händel back together," Ruby explained.

"Oh, for fuck's sake," Roman scoffed, "Talk to the hand."

"Language!" The Roses protested.

He held his hand out. Suddenly, it morphed into a hand puppet with drawn on eyes, "Secretly, I'm very lonely."

Everyone shook their heads.

"What just happened?" Cinder asked.

"I don't know. It was so weird," Neptune answered.

Ruby and Ren ignored the hand and Ruby went on, "You see, the first time my dad kissed my mom was at a Love Händel concert, and it's their anniversary…"

"B to the O-R-I-N-G," Roman waved them off.

"You could be nicer about it," Ilia pouted.

"I would be," Roman countered, "I already said I'd agree instantly. This me must have some reason for it."

Ren raised the mace, but Ruby held her arm out, "Not yet, Ren."

"Again," Jaune chuckled, "Ren and Nora in a nutshell."

The two couldn't even argue. He was right.

"Anyway," Roman continued with a sigh, "You don't need me. I just play bass in the background. Nobody even remembers me."

"Ah," Neo teased, "It's your ego getting in the way again."

Roman rolled his eyes, "Why do I put up with you again?"

"Cause you love me," Neo smiled, "And I'm one of the few people who can put up with you."

Roman sighed, "Well, you're not wrong."

He looked at the ground in defeat.

"Are you kidding?" Ruby asked with a point.

"Yeah," Ruby agreed with her on-screen self, "Lots of us remember you, Roman! You were an important part of our story!"

Roman smiled, "Thanks, Red! It means a lot."

"Oh, please," Cinder rolled her eyes, "No one cares about you."

Roman glared at her, but didn't say anything else.

Music kicked up as Ruby started singing.

RU: I don't need to tell you what you already know

RU: You're the one with style, you're the whole darn show

"She's right," Summer agreed, "You are stylish."

"I try," Roman smiled at the compliment, "You wouldn't use my salon if you didn't think so."

RU: The other guys play their instruments fine

RU: But next to you, their looks are a crime

"Really?" Qrow looked hurt, "I don't think I look bad."

"She's probably just saying that to appeal to his ego," Neo theorized.

"Hey!" Roman protested.

"Yang!" Summer yelled as she forced herself up.

"Hot towel," Yang shoved the towel around Summer's head.

"And she can't hear the musical number?" Blake asked incredulously.

"Even if I could," Summer laughed, "I'd probably play along just so I could pretend to be surprised later."

Blake raised an eyebrow before leaning over to Yang, "Your family is really strange."

Yang laughed, "I know. But I love them for it."

RO: Well, they say true beauty, it comes from within

RO: But you have to be comfortable in your own skin

RO: So I exfoliate with this exotic cream, just look at me, I look like a dream!

"Your turn to sing, Candle-Brain," Qrow smirked.

"Don't care," Roman shrugged, "I think my voice is great!"

Sun raised an eyebrow, "Do you really use cream?"

"Of course," Roman scoffed, "I open's up your pores."

Neo pulled out a camera and took some shots of Roman as he posed.

"And now I'm feeding his ego," Neo sighed, "I usually try not to do that, as I never hear the end of it."

"And I believe it," Ilia agreed.

RU: You have to admit, he looks pretty darn good.

Summer ripped the towel off her face, "Yang, what is going on?"

"Dry cycle!" Yang yelled as she forced a dryer over Summer's head.

Ruby, Neo, and the other customers of the salon began singing.

A: You're the one, yes, you're the star

A: We need you back on bass guitar

A: You're fabulous

RO: I'm fabulous

"I'm literally choking on his ego," Emerald gagged.

"It is a little overbearing," Winter actually agreed, "But at least it's a harmless ego, and not like Father's."

A: You're fabulous

RO: I'm fabulous

The entire salon was dancing as the song continued.

A: You're the one we all can see. It's all about you

RO: It's all about me

"Okay," Roman smiled, "Can I request to get this song?"

Gordeau rolled his eyes, "On your scroll."

A: You're fabulous

RO: I'm fabulous

A: You're fabulous

RO: I'm fabulous

RO: You know, no two people are like each other

RO: So don't be a lookalike, copying another

RO: Unless, of course, your copying me

He pointed to his hair.

RO: Cause, that gives you individuality

"Copy you?" Mercury rolled his eyes, "And be the second tackiest man in the world?"

Roman glared at the boy, but didn't do anything.

RU: Nice 'do! But back to the matter at hand

RU: So what do you say, are you back in the band?

Roman pulled back a curtain, revealing that he had kept the whole band's old wardrobe, before singing sarcastically.

RO: Well, maybe if I can find my old leather.

"I actually like that coat," Roman noted, "Why couldn't it appear."

"You can have my hat," Ruby offered, "I'm not going to wear it."

"No thanks, Red. I have my own," Roman pated his hat.

"I'll take it, Red," Neo offered, "I think at least one of the Malachites might like it."

Ruby looked at Ren

RU: Dude, we're getting the band back together!

Roman quickly put on his coat, grabbed his bass, and walked down the aisle towards Ruby.

A: You're the one who sets the bar, the Hairdo King, the Fashion Czar

A: You're fabulous

RO: I'm fabulous

A: You're fabulous

RO: OH, I'm fabulous

A: You're the one we all can see, it's all about you

RO: It's all about me!

A: You're fabulous

RO: I'm fabulous

A: You're fabulous

RO: I'm fabulous

Roman posed with Neo a few times as the music ended. The duo stayed posed for a couple seconds before Ren finally spoke up, "May we take that as a yes?"

"What a first line, dude!" Sun laughed.

"I think I'm in, Stoic," Roman chuckled, "I don't see how I could refuse after a display like that."

The screen changed. Ruby and Ren were now in front of the library where Ruby made a call, "Hello? Penny?"

Penny smiled, "Always happy to help you, Ruby! Just let me know how!"

"Thanks Penny!" Ruby smiled back.

Penny was on the other end. She was dressed in an orange and brown uniform, but still had her bow, "Hey, Ruby. What's up?"

"Guess what band's getting back together," Ruby teased.

"Love Händel?" Penny guessed.

"Huh?" Nora asked, "How did she…"

"Coco," Velvet sighed, "She couldn't keep he mouth shut about it, remember?"

"Right," Nora laughed.

"Uh," Ruby muttered as her thunder had been stolen, "yeah, how'd you know?"

"It was the lead story on the five o'clock news," Penny explained, "Let me guess. You guys need a stage, right?"

"Yeah," Ruby agreed, "Can you help us out?"

"Um, sure," Penny tilted her head, "But I don't think I can do it in an afternoon."

"We're already on it," Penny stated. The screen showed that Penny had been outside Ruby and Ren's garage. Nearby, Velvet, Ilia, Nora, Pyrrha, and a girl with green hair were building a stage.

"Oh," Penny smiled, "It appears I have help!"

"I remember that one girl," Blake said, "I fought her in the tournament."

"Right," Ruby said in recognition, "Reece, I think. She fought with that cool hoverboard!"

Ruby hung up with a shrug and the two walked into the library. "Who would have thought that a drummer for a rock 'n' roll band would end up in a place so quiet?" Ruby pondered.

"Only Bart," Tai chuckled.

Sitting at the desk was Oobleck. He was stamping books in a steady beat.

"Say, could it be?" Ruby asked.

The duo walked up. "Pardon me," Ruby asked, "Would your name be Barty, ex-drummer for the band Love Händel?"

"That, my friend, was a past life," Oobleck explained, "The name's Bartholomew. Why you asking?"

"Oh," Ozpin winced, "It's a good thing he's not here right now. He'd be appalled at his own grammar."

"I wouldn't blame him," Weiss sighed.

"Because they're reforming for one night only," Ruby explained, "It's a celebration of our parents' anniversary."

Oobleck continued, never breaking his rhythm, "Well, that sounds charming, kids, but I haven't played drums since the accident."

"He's keeping a really good beat," Yang nodded her head in time, "You can tell he's a drummer."

"If he can keep that beat, why is he in a library?" Pyrrha asked.

"Fell asleep in a metronome factory," he explained, "When I awoke, I had completely lost my sense of rhythm. I've been hanging out here ever since."

"Is… Is he serious?" Emerald wondered, "He clearly has rhythm."

"Sounds like manufactured tension to me," Blake scoffed at the screen.

Ruby looked at him with a raised eyebrow, as she started singing to his beat. A simple bass line played in the background.

RU: So you're saying that you don't have rhythm

RU: But listen what you're doing right there

"I get it," Ruby nodded, "I just have to get him to realize it."

"You've always been pretty good at manipulating Dr. Oobleck, so it should be easy," Weiss nodded.

"What do you mean?" Ruby asked.

Weiss just held up Zwei in response.

"Ah, got it," Ruby nodded.

RU: With that stamp and a book you've got a real nice hook

RU: Sounds to me like you've got rhythm to spare.

Oobleck deadpanned at her, but sang along.

O: I have no idea what you're talking about

"Okay, it should be obvious to him now," Neo stated, "You can't sing without rhythm."

"He'll figure it out," Ozpin chuckled, "Bartholomew is always just a little slow to pick up on things because of how fast his mind moves."

O: I've got as much rhythm as that chair

O: What happened to me was a tragedy but I don't have to be a millionaire

Ren began playing a tambourine along with the beat

"Another great song," Sun smiled, "All three of the songs we've heard so far have been really good."

"Yeah," Neptune agreed, "Can't wait till we hear the ballad from the beginning."

Sun looked at him questioningly. "Oh, c'mon," Neptune rolled his eyes, "That's what this whole thing has been building up to."

"Enough with the spoilers!" Neo yelled, "I hate it when you do that!"

O: Look, I got a sweet deal going on here

O: I got all the books that I can read

"That would actually be the perfect job for you, Blake!" Yang said excitedly.

Blake deadpanned her, "How would I end inequality in a library, Yang?"

Yang looked sheepish, but Adam interrupted her embarrassment, "Are you doing that now anyway, Blake?"

Blake glared at him, "You chased me across Anima for yourself. You have no right to talk about that now."

Adam had to admit she was right. He'd lost the high ground in this argument. He'd ran too.

The camera panned over to show two old women one in a white military uniform, the other in a blue poncho. A guitar joined in the song.

"It's Maria!" Nora cheered.

Qrow saw the other adults raise eyebrows, and he chuckled, "We met her on the way to Argus. Turns out, she's the Grimm Reaper."

Raven went wide-eyed, "THE Grimm Reaper?"

"Yup," Qrow smirked, "And I not only got to meet her, but traveled with her."

"The other is Caroline Cordovin," Winter explained, "She runs the Argus military base."

Weiss winced, "Thinking back on it, we probably should have tried talking to her a few more times."

"Yeah," Jaune sighed, "Stealing from Atlas probably wasn't our best move."

Winter glared at Weiss first before turning her attention to Qrow, "That was your idea wasn't it?"

"Nope," he sighed, "It was the blondes actually, I suggested we not go at all."

Winter turned back to Weiss, "We will discuss this later."

O: All these sweet old ladies

O: And this carpet from the 80's

O: What more could a librarian need?

Cordovin shushed him.

"That seems about right," Nora growled, "She is not a nice lady."

"While I agree with Nora," Ren sighed, "We probably should've done something else to convince her we wanted to help."

O: Besides I ain't got rhythm

O: No, I ain't got rhythm

Ren continued to add percussion to song by snapping and shaking a cup of pencils.

O: Said I ain't got rhythm

Ruby looked around and noticed that the people in the library, save the sweet old ladies, were keeping the beat as well

O: I ain't got rhythm

Ruby deadpanned Oobleck this time.

RU, RU: You're kiddin' me, right?

"He truly believes he doesn't have rhythm," Adam shook his head, "Are all humans this dense?"

"You're one to talk," Ilia muttered.

RU: Y-You're kiddin' me

Oobleck stacked the books on a cart and began to file them, keeping the beat the whole time.

RU: Don't you see what you were doin' right then?

Ruby followed him.

RU: That's a wicked groove you were startin' to move

RU: Mister, you've got rhythm times ten.

O: I think perhaps that you're not listening

O: I find it tedious to repeat

Velvet groaned, "That much is true. I wouldn't have failed that class if he had been willing to repeat himself."

"You got through it," Pyrrha comforted.

O: It's no big crime, I just can't keep time

O: I'm telling you I lost the beat

The entire library, save the old ladies, was now in on it, keeping time throughout the building.

O: I don't need my face on T-shirts

O: Or hit a power chord guitar

"He told me something like that once," Ruby smiled, "He wanted to be a Huntsman because there was nothing else he wanted to be."

"That's really inspiring," Oscar smiled, "I'd like to meet him at some point."

Oobleck grabbed a ruler and his name plate from his desk and started banging on a lamp and a trash can like a drum.

O: They were screamin' my name I guess it's a shame

O: But I don't need to be a rock star

O: Besides, I ain't got rhythm

O: No, I ain't got rhythm

O: Said, I ain't got rhythm

O: I ain't got rhythm

O: I ain't got rhythm

RU: Sounds like rhythm to me

O: No, I ain't got rhythm

RU: Seems like they all agree

O: Said, I ain't got rhythm

RU: But you're laying down some funky syncopation!

O: I ain't got rhythm

Ren wheeled in Barty's old drum kit, which Roman had in his closet. Oobleck started playing them flawlessly

"Well, he has to believe it now," Yang laughed, "He's actually playing the drums again."

"Again, he needed some sort of conflict," Blake sighed, "This story is pretty cut and dry."

"Lighten up," Yang nudged her, "We're just watching it, not living it."

O: I ain't got rhythm

RU: But you got that beat

O: No, I ain't got rhythm

RU: Look at them, they're stomping their feet

O: Said, I ain't got rhythm

RU: It's time for you to rock

RU, O: A brand new generation

The library joined in.

L: Brand new generation

RU, O: Gonna rock a brand new generation

Oobleck broke it down and finished.

O: Because I ain't got rhythm

Cordovin sighed, "Would you just go join the band?"

"Thank you!" Weiss sighed, "About time someone said it."

"He was really stubborn about it wasn't he?" Roman chuckled, "It was a lot easier to get me to join back up."

Oobleck shrugged and started playing again. Ren and Ruby wheeled out the drum-kit as he played. He banged those drums until they were dead and then shouted out, "Hey, I've got rhythm!"

Out at the mall Yang was keeping Summer distracted, "Nope, that's not it."

"I don't know why you're making me do this, Yang," Summer complained, "I mean, when do I ever dress this fancy anyways?" She was wearing a beautiful black and white dress.

"Wow," Raven and Tai said, absentmindedly.

"Thanks you two," Summer blushed.

The store clerk poked her head in. She had lightly tanned skin, indigo hair brushed over to her left side and olive eyes. She wore a high-necked, tight-fitting gray shirt, along with a long, light blue coat. She also wore a leather bandolier with a shoulder-pad on the right. In addition, she wore gray pants and dark gray boots.

"Hey, we fought that girl!" Sun nudged Neptune.

"Yeah," Neptune thought, "What was her name again?"

"Nebula," Weiss rolled her eyes, "I figured you'd remember with how much flirting you did at the beginning of the fight."

"I had more pressing matters!" Neptune protested, talking about the water.

"So," Nebula asked, "How you ladies doing in here?"

"Great," Yang said as she looked at her watch, "But we need to keep looking."

"Ugh," Summer groaned.

"Well," Nebula stated proudly, "we certainly have plenty of dresses for you to try on."

"And we have plenty of time," Yang grinned.

"Yang!" Summer complained.

"You'd think I'd have caught on by now," Summer shook her head, "It's pretty obvious Yang is distracting me from something."

"You're probably still mad about Tai forgetting our anniversary," Raven theorized, "I know I'd be preoccupied if it was me."

Back at the house, Tai was setting up his 'Love on the Run' stuff, "Okay, now let's see."

He ran through his directions as he read them, "Lead the way for the lovely lady with an elegant wave of your hand. For you and only you, insert your name here…"

"Dad…" Yang shook her head, "Just no."

"I know," Tai sighed.

Suddenly the letter he was reading got brighter. "Oh, thanks for the light," he said to Fria.

He turned and went wide-eyed. She hadn't given him light. One of the candles had lit the roses on fire.

Tai groaned and threw his head back, "Can anything go right for me? With my luck, that big firework is gonna crash into the stage!"

"No, no wait!" Tai ran over, "No, no, help me put it out! Do something."

Fria grabbed the hose and tried to put out the fire. In the process, she knocked over the table they had set up, and ripped the faucet of the wall, soaking everything else.

"Sorry, man," Qrow rubbed his friend's back, "Can't say I understand exactly, but I get it."

"Is this how you feel with your luck?" Tai sighed, "Cause more power to you if it is."

Tai stood stunned, too upset to say anything.

Fria looked around in shock, "Well, that hardly ever happens."

"She always was a little scatter-brained," Ozpin chuckled.

It suddenly clicked in Cinder's head, "She's the Winter Maiden!"

Cinder began scheming how to get to her, while most of the rest of the theater suddenly got very worried.

It also clicked in Gordeau's head why he had the new connection with Penny. She was the next Winter Maiden. He had a lot of homework to do later.

The scene changed to the two sitting dejectedly in the garage. They had put everything but the burnt roses into trash bags. "Oh, well," Tai mumbled, "so much for that. I guess it's not a total loss. I mean," he held up the single rose that was left, "this is still presentable, right?"

"It's the thought that counts, Tai!" Summer tried to cheer her husband up.

"Thanks, Sum," Tai smiled weakly, "But let's hope the kids come up with that miracle."

"Eh…" Fria trailed off, but was saved as Ruby and Ren came in through the door.

"Hey, Dad, we're back," Ruby declared.

F: So, I hear it's your anniversary…

"Not her!" Tai groaned again.

Tai quickly covered his ears, "Oh, please, please, stop."

"No one ever lets me finish my number," Fria complained, "That's it."

"Aw," Ruby wined, "We hurt her feelings. The least we could do is let her finish her song."

She walked into the house, "Call me when my ride's here."

Ruby turned and called after her, "There's lasagna in the fridge."

"Or that," Ruby chuckled, "Dad's lasagna is the best!"

Summer went wide-eyed, "You learned how to cook?"

"Well, when you're a single dad…" Tai shrugged.

"Thank you!"

"Oh, boy," Tai sighed, "It's really hopeless."

"Fear not, Daddy-O," Ruby said, smugly, "We got you covered. Hit it, Ren."

Ren hit the garage door opener and the door opened to reveal Love Händel standing there. Roman and Qrow were back in their old outfits, but Oobleck was still in his street clothes.

"Love Händel?" Tai said with renewed hope.

"Well, you guys did it," Jaune congratulated, "You got the band back together."

"Yeah we did!" Ruby cheered, "And it was pretty easy too!"

Back at the warehouse, Emerald was just arriving. Instead of her normal outfit, she wore a black overcoat, black pants, and black boots. She entered the warehouse and went wide-eyed.

"Wow," Emerald blinked at herself, "Did I raid Mercury's closet?"

"Hey!" Mercury protested, but a thought came to him, "Actually, it looks good on you."

Emerald raised an eyebrow, but didn't question it.

"Surprise, baby girl!" Watts called out, "Happy sweet sixteenth birthday, my little Emerald."

Emerald clenched her fists and nearly screamed before face palming, "Oh! Not again!"

"Well, come on in, come on in. Check the place out," Watts said as Emerald glared at him.

"Wow," Yang chuckled, "Dad is more in tune with what we're interested in than this guy is."

Tai raised his eyebrow, "Not sure if that's a compliment or not."

"I decorated it all myself," he explained before correcting himself, "Well, mostly. Wait till you see this. Wait right there."

"Please stop," Emerald begged.

"Seconded," Emerald agreed with herself.

He ran to the stage, "And now, without further adieu, the grand finale!" he threw back the curtain to reveal the rocket at Zwei.

"What," Emerald said, unimpressed, "A big firecracker?"

"Oh, no," Watts corrected, "Zwei the Wondercorgi tied to a big firecracker."

Zwei pulled his arm out of the rope and tilted his hat to Emerald.

Nora snorted at the joke, "Zwei's just playing along! He's not even stuck to the thing!"

"Why's he doing that?" Ruby asked.

"Together," Watts continued, "We will launch our nemesis into the sky!"

Emerald rolled her eyes, "You mean your nemesis!"

"He's a terrible father," Roman scoffed, "He's not even taking his daughter's interests into account. At least if I called Red our nemesis, Neo would've agreed."

"Would've," Neo nodded, "Not anymore."

Watts ignored her, "I took the liberty of going through your address book and inviting all your little friends, including a nice fella named Mercury."

Emerald went wide-eyed in shock as Watts continued, "He had hearts by his name. I think I know what that means."

"What!" Emerald stood up, "Mercury? I..." she stopped as the words left her head.

Mercury had to admit, he'd thought about it for a while. Em was the only one who really tolerated his presence. Even if they teased each other, he had to admit, he did have feelings for her. Now if she would just get her mind off of Cinder, he could try something.

"You did what?" Emerald yelled, "I don't want them to see this!" she gestured to the party.

"I'm a teenager," she explained, "This… this is for a little girl. Don't you know me at all?"

Zwei looked on with pity for both his nemesis and his nemesis's daughter.

"I think Zwei has your back, Emerald," Ruby noted, "He looks like he gets it."

"How's that dog going to help me," Emerald scoffed.

Back at the house, the Fireside girls were busy building the stage. Off to the side, Weiss and Cardin could be seen helping string up lights, though they were in their normal clothes.

"Huh," Weiss noted, "Cardin and I are helping too?"

"You I get," Yang nodded, "But Cardin? I bet he's still a bully though."

In the garage, Qrow was reminiscing, "I have to admit, I never thought I'd wear this stuff again."

Roman pulled Barty's old spandex out of the box he brought with him, "Ooh, look."

Oobleck scoffed, "Hey, sorry folks. Not gonna happen." He had a piece of cake.

"Dude," Qrow pointed to the cake, "Is that the cake from the trash?"

"What?" Oobleck protested, "You can't let good cake go to waste."

"Looks like it all went to waist to me," Roman teased.

"Wow," Qrow chuckled, "We really do know each other well, don't we?"

"Yup," Roman agreed with a laugh, "You can't write banter like that. It's all natural."

"Watch it, Mr. Guy-Liner," Oobleck retorted.

Now Roman growled, "Okay, that went too far! It's part of my image!"

"At least he didn't insult your hat," Neo attempted to defuse the situation.

"This," Roman stated with a point, "Is exactly the kind of slovenly behavior that ruined Love Händel."

"No," Oobleck countered, "It was infighting due to pressure from a dwindling fan base."

Qrow raised an eyebrow at him, "What are you talking about?"

"That's what the documentary said at the beginning," Winter noted, "I don't think they normally lie in those."

"If we told the truth," Qrow noted, "Which with this group, we probably bent it out of shape a lot."

"It was on that special," Oobleck shrugged.

"You saw that too?" Roman asked, "Did it make me look fat? I thought I looked fat."

"You don't look fat," Neo preempted his question.

Roman smiled and sat up proud.

Qrow rolled his eyes and walked to the door, "That's it. This is ridiculous. I'm out of here."

"No, wait!" Ruby called out to stop him, "You can't go. Mom's not back yet. What about your fans?"

Qrow sighed, "Ruby, I admire your optimism, but besides your Dad, be honest. What fans?"

On cue, a loud cheering was heard outside.

Ren opened the garage to revel the stage outside had been finished and the whole island of Patch had shown up to see the band. The trio walked out in awe.

"The whole island?" Qrow sat with wide-eyes, "Are we that loved?"

"I hope so," Roman said in awe, "This is amazing!"

Back at the warehouse, Emerald was sulking at a table as Watts talked to Zwei. "She doesn't like the party. I can't believe I failed again."

He sighed, "Well, at least I can watch you explode."

"Alright, Ruby," Emerald sighed, "Let's see what your dog has."

"Um, ok?" Ruby answered worriedly.

Zwei stuck his arm out and cut his rope with a laser watch.

"Hey, that's not fair!" Watts complained.

"Well, then have a taste of my ray gun, Zwei the Wondercorgi!"

Zwei jumped around the room as Watts fired at him, causing damage to the decorations.

"Take that! And that!" Watts cried out, "Help me, Emerald."

She ignored him.

"Glad to see you still have that attitude," Mercury laughed.

"Shut up," Emerald snapped. With the current revelation, she didn't want to talk to him at all.

"Stay still you obnoxious," Watts called as Zwei leapt up and kicked him in the face. "Ah!"

Watts fell back into the rocket. His sleeve got caught on the metal, "Zwei the Wondercorgi, wait. My sleeve is stuck here. Hold on. Hold on. Wait, wait, don't go anywhere."

"Like that's gonna work," Nora rolled her eyes.

Back at the house, the crowd was getting restless.

"Sorry, Ruby, my friend," Qrow apologized, "But we gotta go on now, or we're gonna have a serious fashion metal riot on our hands."

"See?" Neptune smirked, "Fashion Metal."

"Dude," Sun shook his head, "Get a hobby."

"No, no, you can't start without Summer," Tai complained. Suddenly the lights flashed, "Oh, what?"

Tai and Ruby looked up to see Ren in the rafters. He turned the light to the street where, surrounded by people, was Summer's car.

"Look, it's Mom!" Ruby exclaimed.

Inside the car, Summer was complaining and Yang was grinning in anticipation. "What are all these people doing on our street?"

"Look's like it all worked out," Yang smiled, "I know it's not actually, but Happy Anniversary!"

"Thanks, Yang," the three parents said.

The spotlight shown down into Summer's eyes, "Hey!" She looked over and saw Yang's expression, "Yang, honey, what's going on here?"

"Come on, Dad." Ruby dragged Tai off stage.

"All right, boys," Qrow ordered, "Let's blow the roof off this place."

Back at the warehouse Watts was still tied to the rocket, "No! It's going to blow the roof off this place!"

Ilia chuckled a little bit, "That's a strange coincidence."

"But it makes for a good joke," Neo agreed.

Gordeau stood up and cracked his neck. Out of nowhere, a stage appeared at the front of the theater. He looked at both Roman and Qrow, "Well, you two coming?"

The duo looked at each other, "Uh, I don't sing, remember?" Qrow protested.

"Yeah?" Ruby spoke up, "And I don't tap dance, but the universe made me do it. Just get up there."

"C'mon Roman," Neo pleaded, "For me?"

The two groaned but headed up to the stage. Gordeau sat in for Oobleck, but Roman grabbed the bass and Qrow the guitar. Both suddenly found that they could play with no problem.

At the house, Barty (and Gordeau) counted down, "One, two, three, four!"

The ballad from earlier began to play again.

The band played live too. The ballad was a perfect slow dance song. Tai, Summer, and Raven (who had long ago figured out how to all dance together) headed to the floor. They were shortly joined by Jaune and Pyrrha, Yang and Blake, and Neo and Ilia. What no one expected, was when Ren stood up and offered his hand to Nora.

Nora blushed, but accepted as Ruby cheered her on.

The scene cut back and forth from the band to Watts being launched into the sky by the rocket.

Eventually, Qrow began singing.

Q: I should have known

Q: From how it felt when we were together

Q: And even more when we were apart

Tai smiled. He knew that this would be a moment the three wouldn't forget, for however long they had left together.

Blake and Yang blushed sheepishly at the song. Not only was it their first slow dance, the song seemed to be perfectly describing their relationship.

Summer got out of her car and stared at the stage, "Is that Love Händel?"

Q: You tiptoed in and you got under my skin

Q: You snuck your way right into my heart

Weiss sighed. She could see it. If only Ruby could see it too.

Neo leaned into her dance and closed her eyes, letting Ilia lead.

The spotlight focused on Summer. The crowd parted to reveal Tai standing in front of the stage with the burnt rose in hand.

Back at the warehouse, Emerald and Zwei crawled out from under a table Emerald gasped as she looked around. The entire party was in ruins, but it made it look super goth. Just how she liked it.

"He actually did it," Emerald shook her head in disbelief, "The stupid dog actually did it."

"Whoa," a voice from behind her called out. She turned around to see Mercury and all her other friends standing there looking at the party, "This is, like, the coolest-looking party ever."

"It does look pretty cool," Mercury admitted, "Kinda wish Watts had realized that from the get go though."

Emerald glanced at Mercury. If she thought about it, he'd actually been there for her more often than Cinder had. She quickly shook the thought from her head. There was no way that was happening.

"Hey, Emerald," he asked as he walked forward, "Did you do all this yourself?"

"Well," Emerald admitted, "My Dad put it together, with some help from Zwei the Wondercorgi."

Zwei put back on his jet-pack, saluted, and flew off. Emerald waved at him and shouted, "Thank you, Zwei the Wondercorgi!"

Back at the house, Summer approached Tai, "Did you do all this for me?"

"Well," Tai admitted, "I had a little help."

Ruby and Yang fist-bumped as Ruby pulled out a camera. She began filming her parents and live fed it to the jumbotron.

Q: I've put up barriers to shield my emotions

Q: A wall that you could never break apart

"We need a copy of this song," Blake sighed to Yang.

"Yeah, it's a pretty good description of us, isn't it?" Yang agreed.

Penny and the Fireside girls rappelled down in red ninja outfits and did acrobatics.

Q: But like a ninja of love

Blake stumbled when she heard the lyric, and Yang giggled, "Okay, that's just freaky."

Q: Rappelling down from above

Fria danced on stage and sang the next line with Qrow

Q, F: You snuck your way right into my heart

"Aw," Ruby cooed, "She got to sing!"

In the audience, Amber looked at the boy standing next to her, who had a familiar head of whitish grey hair in a pony-tail.

Ozpin went wide-eyed. He'd honestly not expected Vert to show up at all. To see him here and talking to Amber was strange.

"That's my Mom," she explained.

Q: Oh, yeah

"Ren," Nora said nervously, "I… I…"

"Yes, Nora?" Ren smiled at her.

Tai and Summer danced for a minute before the spotlight flashed a few times.

In the theater, a light flashed as well on all the couples. They looked up in its direction to see Oscar with a megaphone. He and the Ren on screen said the next line at the same time.

The pair looked up to Ren as he pulled out a megaphone, "Well, don't just stand there. Kiss her!"

All the groups in the theater blushed, but one by one, starting with the trio, they all kissed. Jaune and Pyrrha's was neat, but passionate as they had kissed like this before.

Neo and Ilia went next. Theirs was a little messier, due to the height difference, but was passionate in its own right.

Blake and Yang went next. Theirs was a little awkward, having just announced their relationship, but it slowly got better until they were both blushing at each other.

Ren got ready to initiate the kiss, but to his surprise, Nora grabbed his face and pulled him in. Their kiss was fueled by years and years of pent up emotion that left them both huffing for breath afterwards.

As they panted, Nora looked deep into Ren's eyes, "I love you, Ren." She gasped as she said it. The phrase she could never say! She'd said it! But what if he doesn't back? What if he rejects her? What if…

As her mind raced, Ren interrupted it by kissing her again. When Nora came back to reality, he smiled, "I love you, too."

Nora slowly smiled before finally leaping onto Ren and wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.

Ren chuckled as most of the theater clapped for them.

Tai smirked, "Happy anniversary, darling." He pulled her into a kiss and the crowd cheered.

Yang pulled Ruby into a hug as Qrow continued.

Q: Come on, everybody, let me hear ya!

The entire crowd started singing

A: Na na. Na na na na na na na na na na.

The theater, at least the ones who cared, sang along.

Back at the warehouse, Mercury looked up at the rocket, "Hey, Emerald, is that your Dad up on the rocket?"

Emerald shrugged, "He'll be okay. He blows up all the time."

"What is this, a cartoon?" Emerald scoffed.

"If he battles that dog daily, it's really no surprise," Velvet shrugged.

"Well," Mercury shrugged, "He sure did a cool job with this party."

Emerald looked over the warehouse and nodded, "Yeah, I guess he did," she looked up to the rocket, "Thanks, Dad. You finally got one right."

As Watts flew over the island he screamed, "Curse you Zwei the Wond…"

He trailed off as he passed over the cabin, "Wait is that Love Händel?"

The firework exploded right over the house and the band finished with Qrow yelling, "Goodnight, Patch!" and the screen cut to black.

"Woh," Qrow said with a whip of his head, "I didn't think I had that in me!"

Winter had to admit, he had sounded really good. Suddenly she found herself thinking about his ass again, before shaking it out of her head.

"Well, I had a blast," Gordeau chuckled, as the stage disappeared, but the instruments did not, "Keep them. Maybe you guys will play another set later."

Suddenly, his proximity alarm went off.

AN: I'm so sorry this took so long! I just got a second job and I didn't have a lot of time this past week!

On the upside, my schedule isn't to bad this next week, so I should be able to get at least one chapter out this week.

For the foreseeable future, there is no set schedule for this fic. Expect one chapter a week, but not on any specific day.

I did want to mention, Mercury and Emerald do not use drugs in this fic, that reaction was just for the sake of a joke. However, Roman does have a history with them, as he's the only one I could see it fitting. It may come up as a plot point later, or it may be left on the floor, I haven't decided yet.

Yes, Kingdom Hearts is next! I'm glad you guys are excited for it, as I've actually been waiting for it for a long time! See you later!