Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of The Dragon and her rook. Enjoy the 800- word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.
(Vale, Beacon, 1 day before Brawl in the Family.)
Skyler clicked Yang's arm into place before he turned to her.
"Just because this arm is as tough as you don't mean it's unbreakable, Firefly, I can't always fix it," Skyler said as Yang rolled her eyes.
"Hey, I didn't think it'd hurt to throw that punch. I thought it'd be fine." Yang said, Skyler, rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.
"When you can't fix your arm, don't come whining to me… I have to go and talk to General Ironwood, I can't stay." Skyler said, Yang, nodded and hugged him before Skyler turned and kissed her before he walked out of the room.
He walked outside and walked across the campus towards the tower where a squad of yellow security soldiers from Atlas guarded the door with an Atlesian Paladin-290 backing them up. He entered the elevator before he where he exited it at the top and then walked out.
"You know, you guys can just talk to me over scroll…. I do have other locations to look over." Skyler said, Ironwood looked up from his scroll and Ozpin raised an eyebrow.
"We don't trust scrolls yet, there's been a problem…" Skyler heard from Ironwood, Skyler stood stopped smirking, and sighed.
"Why? Was there a security breach?" Skyler asked, Ironwood nodded and looked at his scroll.
"There's been a lot of glitches and we had a technician check the network and found out someone tried to hack the system. I've had to take part of the system down until then, I haven't reset the system until now." Ironwood explained, Skyler crossed his arms and he paced back and forth.
"So now what? Our network is connected to the Atlesian mechs. We only have 200 or so human soldiers if you don't count the pilots here." Skyler said, Ironwood, he turned to look at Ozpin a minute later.
"Well, I've decided to share the information between the 3 of us, that way while I, Ozpin or you can pick what happens next in the tournament, they can do it unless they hack all three of our scrolls." Ironwood put in; Skyler looked out the window.
"We're moving to the double rounds and you're letting me, and Ozpin continues who fights who?" Skyler asked, Ironwood gave a small, wry smile.
"It isn't like you're going to be in charge of the entire military, Skyler. I'm just giving you command of the tournament while we get the virus out of our system…" Ironwood said, Skyler heard a soft beep from his scroll before he turned away and looked out the window while 2 Manta Gunships roared by, he crossed.
"Ok, is that everything you needed to tell me? We have people watching us that want to hurt Vale… It's why we're here, to begin with, we wouldn't be here if there were no bad guys to deal with." Skyler asked, Ironwood only said one thing.
"Winter is coming and she needed to tell you something," Ironwood said, Skyler, nodded and walked into the elevator which then descended.
Skyler crossed his arms and looked at the fleet of Atlesian Cruisers which flew over the sky, Manta and Atlesian Dropships escorting them.
When he reached the bottom, he looked at the sky one last time and then walked away, he checked his scroll to see who else would be fighting, he didn't see anyone noteworthy.
He would return to Blizzard, take a nap, make sure everything was in order, then he'd go talk to Yang again. He frowned when his scroll beeped, and he checked it and it had been a message from Winter.
"Winter? I thought Ironwood just said she'd talk to me when she got here?" Skyler said before he looked at the message, it made his eyes widen in shock.
"No, it can't be him, I thought we had him back in Vasco. He can't still be around, Winter has to have bad intel…" Skyler said as he continued reading the message, it had only one standout word.
"Double security!" Skyler ordered, the soldiers behind him nodded and went to confirm it with Ironwood.
"Merlot, I can't believe he's still alive," Skyler said, he closed his scroll.
They had an old enemy returning.
Author notes
Phew, another chapter is done! I know this chapter is short, I will explain it more next chapter! I want to point out that Salem isn't going to be the main villain of the story. She is the main villain of Azul's story, though. The next chapter will take place during Brawn in the Family and will also show Skyler meet Qrow until next Saturday, Lighting Wolf out!