Ruby had her hands by the fire, the six, well, more like Jebadiah used some sort of red beam from his hands to start the fire. Nora and Ruby were astounded by the showcase of power, Nora asking him to set more things ablaze, and qrow was more skeptical than ever, at least before he fell asleep from sheer exhaustion. The Nexian himself was there nearby Ruby, telling stories from where he had come from. Ruby had learned many things about Jebediah, for one, he was a Prestine scientist, and had worked on one of the biggest projects ruby had ever heard about!

"- and if you think that I was good at my job, my old friend Albert Hofnarr was even better! He was the only one out of the nexus team to have green level access!" Jebadiahs face fell as he slouched. "I often wonder what became of my old friend.." he said solemnly. Ruby put her small hand on his shoulder. "Hey, I'm sure you'll see him again someday." Jebadiah exhaled and ruffled her hair. Ruby squirmed a bit. "I hope you're right, young rose… I hope you're right.." Jebadiah then looked out to the stars. Ruby felt a pang of sympathy for the savior. Jaune then called out to them. "Ruby! Mister Christoff! We should get some sleep!" Ruby pouted. "Really!? Mannnn" she whined. Jebadiah simply smiled. "We will need rest if we are to make it to the next village, young rose. You all sleep, I will take first watch." Jaune nodded, grateful to be spared from a long night. "Stay safe." the boy said before slipping into his tent. Jebadiah nodded, then turned to ruby. "you too, young one." the girl pouted before going into her tent too. Jebadiah sighed, then stood, drawing the Binary sword from hammer space, he stood waiting, and watching. And in the meantime. He thought about hofnarr. 'Where are you, old friend?' he thought.

Yang groaned as she woke up. She had awoken to laughing and snorting. Turning to the window, she saw it was night time. She sighed as she slipped the covers off her. As she stood, she stretched her arm out and yawned, before walking over to the door, opening it, and walking into the hall and descending the stairs. The voices were much louder, and familiar, there was dad, Deimos, and Sanford, along with…

"A-and.. HRK here- here's the best part! Qrow comes in, with a skirt on!" the five men laughed. "i- i was only a T.a! i didn't know wnat to do, so i just walked away trying not to bust my gut open from all the laughing i had to hide!" they all laughed a bit harder. The other two men were her old professors, port and Oobleck. She walked down the last step and walked over to the kitchen, where they all were. Port and Oobleck were on the chairs, Dad was standing by them, Deimos was leaning on the wall, and Sanford was standing next to her dad, who noticed her. "Yang! Sorry if we woke you up." her professors turned to her. "Miss Xiao-long! It is good to see you again!" Oobleck said. Yang nodded. "Same to you, pr- Doctor." she corrected herself "anyway, what are you doing here?" Taiyang's laughter faded. "We were just retelling some old stories of your uncle." Oobleck's laughter died down. "Teachers, believe it or not! Do have a life outside of the classroom." Port then added his two cents. "Professor Goodwitch is hard at work restoring Beacon to its former glory! but, the mistral wasn't built in a day, you know, and we need rest." Deimos stared at them. "Mistral? Huh, back home the saying was Rome, like the empire or something, I never paid attention in history." Oobleck was about to say something, but Port beat him to it. "Anyway, we are here just to relax and tell stories of your uncle." Deimos sighed. "I'd love to meet that guy, seems to have good humor, unlike a curtain someone...'' Deimos looked over to Sanford who huffed. "Says the guy who likes quandale dingle memes." Deimos got out of his chair and pointed to him. "HEY! It's better than that 'yo momma joke you made!" sanford facepalmed. "Will you ever drop that?!" he exasperatedly asked. Deimos huffed. "Only if YOU drop that time with Hank!" Sanford smirked. "Yeah, you called him Gran-" Deimos rushed over and slammed his hand on his partner's mouth. "SHUT UP!" Yang chuckled at their antics as she walked over to the counter where her dad was, and she jumped up and sat on it. "You have GOT to tell me about that!" she laughed. Deimos glared into his partner's eyes. "Don't" he growled. Sanford rolled his eyes under his shades and pushed him away, Deimos slipped and fell. "owww.." Sanford rolled his neck. "Suck it up, chucklehead." he turned to yang. "Maybe another time, kiddo." Yang rolled her eyes at that. "I'm not a kid, I think I've been through enough to be considered an adult, " Taiyang rolled his eyes. "Adult or not, you still have a long way to go before you're ready to go back into the real world." Yang sighed. 'not this agian..' she then groaned and jumped down from the counter. "Oh my gosh, does every father have the same three condescending phrases?" Taiyang exhaled. "Yes! We do, but we only say it, when we MEAN it!"

The four remaining men were becoming uncomfortable. "Is that so?" Yang said through gritted teeth. Taiyang Sighed. "As a matter of fact, it is so!" The Father stood taller, hands on his hips. "If you honestly think you're ready to back out there again." he chuckled a bit. "Well, I think you may have lost a few brain cells with that arm!" Yang gasped and took a step back. Deimos inhaled through gritted teeth. "Dayu-" Sanford Slapped his hand on the techies mouth. "not the time." he gritted out

Little did they know, but Hank was stirring. The Killing machine opened his eyes, his goggles gaining their signature glow. He looked around to see an unfamiliar place, but he was in an all too familiar device. The Nexian growled before starting to move his limbs through the Vats green healing liquid. He tapped the glass, this wasn't docs, he had higher grade ones with better glass. Hank got an idea. He raised his fist before slamming it into the glass, leaving a crack. He smirked mentally, before repeating the action again, and again. He growled that it was taking too long. So, he reared his head, and slammed it forward into the glass-

CRACK

THUD

Hank landed in a crouch, the green liquid flooding the room he was stationed in. He heard people, and he heard two familiar voices. 'Sanford, Deimos?' he thought. His thoughts were confirmed when the duo rushed into the room. Deimos lit up. "Hank! You're up! HAHA!" He turned to the demolitionist. "Told ya he would be back." Sanford sighed, but smiled. "Never doubted you dei." Then, something unexpected happened. Hank walked forward and wrapped his arms around them. The two looked at the metal mouthed killer. "Hank..?" Deimos asked. "Yes?" he responded, his voice gravely and deep as ever, with a slight metallic edge to it. "You can let go now…" Hank nodded and released the two, the looked back at the other people in the room. He glared at them before reaching into his pocket. "Hank, stop. Their friendlies." Hank turned to Sanford, then to deimos. Who shrugged. "It's true, they're the reason we're alive right now, well more like in such great shape." Hank looked at them, then walked over to Taiyang. The Nexian towered over taiyang. the man felt small. "So, you're hank?" the nexian nodded. "Well, welcome to my house..?" Hank nodded. before looking up and walking into the kitchen, kneeling and opening the fridge. Taiyang was baffled. "Wha- hey!" he went over to yell at hank, but Deimos put a hand on his shoulder. "Leave it, Hanks Hungary, he smells meat too, just let him eat, and try not to watch him do so, 'Kay?" Taiyang growled under his breath. "Fine…" the man watched as the nexian ravaged his fridge, before he took out a chunk of steak he was saving. Taiyang groaned at the loss of the meat.

Hank looked at the steak, before standing and closing the fridge. He then walked over to the table. Put the hunk of meat on the table, not on a plate, but on the table, and pulled his mask down. Yang's eyes went wide, and her face green. she turned away, handheld her mouth. Taiyang flinched at what he was seeing. The two professors oobleck to each other. Sanford and0 Deimos just looked away with an annoyed face. "I told you.." Deimos said. Hank's lipless, jawless face had scared them all. Hank didn't seem to care, as he opened his block of metal for a jaw, and held up the piece of meat, he dropped it into his mouth, and it snapped shut. The humans just stared at the Mercenary with horror, then Yang fainted. Hank Just stared at them. "What?" Deimos sighed as he walked over to him. "They just aint used to seeing a man devour a steak like that, leadhead." Hank rolled his eyes. "Well, they better." Deimos looked at him. "You're stayin'?" Hank Shrugged. "Nothing better to do, we aren't in Nevada. There's no agency here." Sanford came over. "How did you know?" Hank shrugged again. "I can feel it." Sanford and Deimos looked at them. "You're fuckin weird, hank." Hank stood and waved him off. "Piss of Dei." he said as he went over to the couch and flipped on the TV. Taiyang sighed. "He's going to be a hassle, isn't he?" Deimos nodded. "Just roll with the punches. And he won't kill you.." Taiyang just sighed, before turning to the two professors "we can talk more some other time." Port and Oobleck nodded. "We'll see you around, Tai." port said before walking out the door with Oobleck in tow. Taiyang sighed again. "What have I gotten myself into…" he asked himself. The man turned young and picked her up. "Let's get you to bed sweetie." Taiyang then walked to and then up the stairs and into Yang's room, where he sat her on the bed, and pulled the covers and blankets over her. He sighed as he walked out and into his own room. He sighed as he fell onto the bed and fell asleep.

Ruby woke with a yawn. Stretching her arms over her head she crawled out of the tent And stood up. She closed her eyes as the sun blinded her. "Morning you guys.." She opened her eyes to see Jebadiah looking over Qrow. "Mister Christoff.. Is Uncle Qrow okay..?" The Nexian turned to her and moved Qrows arm from his bandaged wound, to reveal that the blood had soaked through and had turned purple. Ruby's eyes widened. "I'm afraid not.." he said. Ruby felt tears well up in her eyes. Joe came out of his tent. "Is everything.." he trailed off when he saw qrow. "Oh god…" he said. Things weren't going as well as they were supposed to..

2BDamned groaned as he was going to be late for the meeting with player. He had run into traffic. He slammed his hand on the horn again. "I don't have all day.. What the fucks going on up there?" he asked no one. He growled and pulled out his phone. He would definitely be late. He growled and pocketed his phone. Just another day on the job..