Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of The Dragon and her rook. Enjoy the 1100- word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Vale, Blizzard PVP.)

Skyler stood and looked out the bridge window, the rest of the crew was busy watching on their scrolls and Bran was sleeping, Skyler turned and saw Yang walk into the room by 2 AK-200s who turned and walked out right after.

"So, this is where you usually are on this big old ship?" Yang asked as Skyler rolled his eyes, leaned on the railing, and turned to face her.

"I'll have you know this ship is young like me and cool… Secondly, what happened to 'staying in your room'?" Skyler teased, amused, Yang leaned on the railing as she walked over.

"Well, I can't stay in the room the entire time, it gets boring…. Least without someone to talk to." Yang said with a purr, she swore she saw Skyler blush for a second before he rolled his eyes.

"Right… Well, if you're going to come out, we should talk… I'm not going to watch the next match, it's Pyrrha Nikos vs Penny's partner…. I heard Mercury and his team were thrown out for their behavior…. That and because the investigation on them since of what happened before in Vale…" Skyler stated, he pulled up his scroll and tapped on it.

"So, you're not going to watch the fight?" Yang asked, Skyler, shook his head.

"No, I know how Pyrrha fights, and the fight isn't important to me…. What is important is the string of events that have led up to here…" Skyler said before he started typing away while Yang leaned on him.

"Why? What's all the fighting up till now have to do with the tournament? I don't see the connection…" Yang asked, Skyler, put his scroll down and began scrolling through it.

"Because of a few things… None of this is random… At least, not some of this…" Skyler said before scrolling through the events.

"First Roman steals dust, then he attacks a freighter full of dust from Atlas… Then he has the White Fang plan a rally which leads to the fight where you break the Paladin…" Skyler muttered as he scrolled through the events which also showed up on the monitors.

"Which then was followed by them stockpiling and shipping all the Paladins and Dust to Vale to try and invade it with the White Fang and Grimm…. Then the attack on the CCT tower and now this…" Skyler muttered, Yang leaned on the table with a frown on her face.

"Sky, what does the tournament have to do with all the stuff Roman tried? This is just a bunch of fights." Yang said, Skyler, turned to look at his girlfriend.

"Because all of them is to cause mayhem and damage or just chaos… All these attacks with Romans were just attacks, they were to get us thinking Roman was the only threat in Vale…" Skyler said Yang was about to speak before Skyler sighed.

"Yang, all these raids stopped right after Roman was thrown in jail… I highly doubt he did all this just to fail… Plus considering the attempt to frame you happened shortly after a virus in the communication system for the entire planet… And put in that the fact that this was during the tournament which is watched by the ENTIRE world and is attended by all Kingdoms? Someone has to be stirring up trouble for Vale…. They want all these attacks to look random… Like Roman was the only bad guy around and he's gone." Skyler said, Yang, looked at Skyler's scroll at this.

"So, nobody sees the sucker punch coming… But who's behind this, Sky?" Yang asked, Skyler, pulled up the symbol from before.

"The same group who put the virus into the tower…. I'm going to tell my uncle the news… It's a hunch though…. But it's what I'm choosing to go with…. That all of this is just a setup for a big attack…. The only problem is now I have to prove it…." Skyler said before he put his scroll away, Yang grabbed his arm with her cybernetic one.

"I'm going to tell him with you…." Yang said, Skyler was silent a minute and then sighed.

"Ok, I don't want you being on the ship without me around and I know you're not going to take no for an answer, and you'd find some way to Vale without me… But you're staying with me until we tell him and then we come back to the ship…. Now c'mon, we have to go and tell my uncle…" Skyler said as he led Yang out of the bridge and into the hanger before clearing his throat.

"I need one of you for the drop ship, I'm going to meet General Ironwood," Skyler ordered, one of the soldiers nodded and rushed to an Atlesian Dropship as Skyler and Yang stepped aboard it.

The dropship flew out of the hanger and dropped towards the city of Vale; Skyler brought a hand to his face.

"I never thought Vale would be this crazy… Atlesian shipments getting raided, massive secret invasions, blackmail…." Skyler muttered as the Dropship landed and the doors opened.

"Ok, let's go," Skyler said as he rushed across the courtyard, Yang rushed after him as both rushed to the tower, the soldiers at the doors nodded and they rushed into the elevator.

"So, you think Roman isn't behind all of this?" Yang asked as the doors closed and the elevator started rising.

"Considering he gave up without trying to escape and all of these drops in crime? Yes, I do, there's no way Roman could have dealt with all of this alone…" Skyler muttered as the doors opened, Ironwood along with Ozpin and Glynda was present as always.

"Skyler? I thought you were watching Yang and keeping an eye on the games…" Ironwood said, Skyler walked forward and took his scroll out of his pocket.

"Winter is, I think I figured out what's been going on recently with Roman and all the others…" Skyler said, Ironwood looked at Skyler.

"You need to hear this," Skyler said.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter is done! Yes, I know I didn't show the fight with Pyrrha and Penny, I refuse to have Penny killed and I didn't know how Pyrrha's fight against anyone else would go. The next chapter will take place one day before the Battle of Beacon and will show the beginning of Cinder's invasion and Skyler and Ironwood's plan to counter it. Until next Saturday, Lighting Wolf out!