ATaiKetch'em: Heya guys, so we're back at SHAD now. I have to say that I do and still like RWBY and think that Volume 6 did at least some things right, but even so, it's actually got problems it's been having the beginning that we never noticed before.
It's like how people watched Sword Art Online for the first time and enjoyed it but in later years, found out that it had a lot of problems.

MarioKid: Don't even get me started with the Alfiem Arc or Volume 5 man. Those sections of the show were utter trash. But, I do have to agree that there is a lot wrong with the shows we should've probably noticed sooner.

MacKid: Well, nether SAO or RWBY have enough flaws to make us hate it or for them to be terrible shows, they just have their ups and downs at times. In my opinion though, I think the Shonen Manga of RWBY and the Light Novels for SAO did way better.
If the show isn't really as good as we believed it to be, then we really need to start fixing this show for not just Volume 5, but for all volumes.

TaiKetch'em: Right, and that's just what we should be doing. Before we start the chapter… Bendy! Ask them the question.

Bendy Plushie: Question of the day, which tsundere girl is your favorite?

Weiss

Natsuki

Asuna

Koneko

Mine

Noire

Uni

TaiKetch'em: Tell us in a review which of these characters is your favorite tsundere, and maybe I'll give you a shoutout next chapter. But now, let's get this one started!

(Team RWBY's dorm)

"… Wait, wait, wait, so what happened?" Derek asked a bit confused and dense.

"We just told you: Blake ran off somewhere after her argument with Weiss yesterday and she never came back after that." Yang tells him.

"No, no, I get that part. I was asking why she did so." The grey-haired boy told her.

"Well…" The blonde said before she looked at Ruby who looked down in the dumps.

"Is something wrong?" Ash asked concerned.

"C'mon, just say it already." Heather then says to them.

"I-it's not easy to explain. It all started out with Weiss and Blake arguing and then…" Ruby then begins to explain.

(Flashback)

"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem." Weiss was arguing with Blake about the White Fang.

"That 'is' the problem! You don't know anything about the White Fang and the moment a Faunus causes 'one' crime you instantly assume he's gonna be one of them!" Blake yelled back at her.

"You realized you're defending an organization that hates humanity! The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil, it's written all over their faces." The white-haired girl kept going.

"There is no such thing as 'pure evil'! Why do you think they hate humanity so much?! They're filled with Faunus who have probably had harsh lives. Because of people like Cardin, people like Roman Torchwick, people like 'you' that force the White Fang to act this way!" The black-haired girl didn't give up ether.

"Excuse me; what do you mean people like me?!" Weiss then says offended.

"What do you think I mean?! A Faunus breaks one law and you think he's gonna be a total criminal, which is discriminatory."

"Well, if you couldn't tell; I'm a victim!" The white-haired girl then yells back before walking to the window. "I despise the White Fang and have trouble trusting Faunus for a reason, okay? It's because they've been at war with my family for years. As in actual and literal bloodshed. My grandfather's company has had a target painted across its back for the longest I could remember." She then says before turning her head to the group.

"Ever since I was a child, I watched family and friends disappear before my eyes. Board members got executed, an entire train car full of Dust got stolen from us, and I had to sit through and watch as it all happened. Every day, my father would come home furious, and that is definition of being robbed of a childhood!" She then says after banging her fist on the table.

After she finished, the other members of the team had a mix of emotions as she sighed. "Weiss I…" Ruby was about to go talk with his but all she did was put her hand up.

"I think it's pretty clear why I despise the White Fang." She then walks back over to Blake. "Because, I've seen what they've done close and personal to know what they are. And they are liars, thieves, and human-genocidal murderers!"

"WELL MAYBE WE WERE JUST TIRED OF BEING PUSHED AROUND!" Blake then suddenly shouted at her face.

After she shouted that, the whole team looked at her in shock at what she said. They couldn't believe the very words that just came out of their teammates mouth. Not knowing what to do, Blake just rushed out of the room at high speed.

"BLAKE WAIT!" Ruby called, but failed to stop her.

She then looked at Weiss who looked shocked as well, but then started to look angry at what she just heard. "Tch, when you think you know someone…" She then says before sitting on her bunk.

(Flashback end)

"Woah… that uh… that's pretty deep." Derek says after hearing the whole thing.

"Yeah, and after hearing about what Blake said, I'm not really sure if she's alright with us searching for her." Yang tells them.

Heather looked a little surprised as well and looked at Weiss as she looked away. 'Wow, she really has gone through a tough past.' She thinks with -while not showing it- a bit of sympathy.

"Sheesh, not even my childhood sounded that bad." The grey-haired boy says feeling a little bad for the Ice-Queen.

"Well, I can't exactly say that I uh… really blame you for hating my kind now." Shard then says as Weiss still looked annoyed. "Besides, I don't really know if any of us had gone through something that bad." He then says before looking to see Ash staring at Weiss with shock on his face. "Ash?" He says waving his hand in front of his face.

"Hello? Earth to Ketchum." Heather says snapping her fingers in front of her face.

"Huh-wha?" The boy snapped out of his trance.

"Were you even listening?" She then asked him annoyed.

"Y-yes, it's just that…" He then says before looking back at the white-haired girl with a concern expression again.

"Well, you know why we asked you to come here now. We need your help finding Blake. We don't know what could have happened to her and it just makes me so worried." Ruby then tells them.

"You know what we should do, call the police and tell them to search for a criminal in the city!" Weiss then says as her leader growls at what she said. "It was just a suggestion." She then states.

"*Scoff* yeah, a really bad one."

"Well, she is a 'criminal'. She's been a member of the White Fang under our noses the entire time and I bet that bow she wears is hiding what she really is." The white-haired tells them.

"I dunno, don't you think she would've-" Derek makes a slitting noise as he runs his finger past his throat. "-us by now, or something?" He asks them.

"Obviously, she's still trying to not blow her cover to anyone else. She probably doesn't want anyone to get suspicious when they see that two teams were murdered and one of the members just disappeared." Heather states what she thought.

"Yeah, but… we've known Blake for a while now. If she didn't tell us then… well I mean, how would you tell your friends you're a part of a criminal organization or something." Shard states.

"She's been putting up an act this entire time. That should be obvious by now." Weiss then pipes in.

"Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to any conclusions. Maybe it's not as bad as we think." Yang says trying to stay positive.

"I think once you hear her side, you will find that I am right." She then says still looking annoyed.

Shard then looks a bit ticked himself. "Anyway, I think it's obvious what we should do. We should split up and search the city for Blake. Even if she's not gonna show herself, we might as well try. And we should also keep an eye out for anything that help us on our search." He then explains to them.

"Sir, yes sir!" Derek then salutes like he does to general.

"… Seriously?" Heather asked annoyed.

"What?" He asks.

"Okay, then. Everyone ready to head out?" Ruby asked them all.

"Actually, I just wanna have a little talk with Weiss real quick." Ash then states as they all seemed confused at first, but then remembered that they did know each other.

"Alright, we can wait." Shard then says before they all started exiting the room leaving the two alone.

Afterwards the two looked at each other and Weiss looked away. "W-Weiss-" Ash was about to ask.

"Don't… if you don't believe me, I don't want to hear it." She tells him.

"No, I just wanted to ask… is that really what happened to you back then?" He asked her feeling, a little bad.

"Would I really lie about that? A story that was very tragic and nearly enough to traumatize someone was all just suddenly made up? Real made up." She tells him in a sarcastic tone.

"Is that why you never told me about this? I mean… I-I completely understand if you didn't want to tell me, it's just that-" Ash was asking until she interrupted.

"Yes, it's the reason why I didn't wanna tell you, okay. If there's anything that I hate more than anything in this world, it's reliving those memories and on top of that, the White Fang for creating those memories in the first place!" Weiss tells him while looking slightly more angered.

"I know it's hard to tell someone about something like this, I don't blame you at all. I just think that, maybe the White Fang isn't as it seems." He tells her.

"What are you trying to say?" She asked him confused.

"I'm just saying that there might be more to them than just being criminals. From what we heard about Blake saying why the they are like they are now it sounds like they weren't the ones who started this. I mean, think about it. Cardin is pretty much a racist towards Faunus, and whoever this Roman guy is, he's probably the same. She said that people like them are the reasons why the White Fang are who they are." The boy goes onto explain.

"I've had some talks about the White Fang with my team earlier days and we agree that they are doing the wrong thing. But I think the biggest reasons are probably because of people who are basically racist towards Faunus." He then explains some more.

Weiss thought about it for a second, but she grunted while thinking as if she was almost in pain before releasing a sigh. "I-I need time to think about this." She then says before going to exit the room.

Ash looked concerned for her and had his eyes saddened a bit before going to exit the room too. He couldn't exactly say that he knew what she's been through, but during his time of travel he's met some people and Pokémon who had tragic stories of even their own, so he had some idea of what it was like having a past similar to hers.

(Downtown Vale)

"Blaaaake!" Three members of team SHAD were calling out as they walked through the city.

The two teams had decided to split up and search the city for the lost member of Team RWBY. Team RWBY took the west side of Vale to search while Team SHAD searched the north and they even talked Team JNPR into it as they searched the east side. So far, none of the teams were successful and they couldn't find the 'traitor' as Weiss would put it.

"Uh, Heather? Not helping here." Derek tells her as she looked at him. "You're supposed to be calling her with us?" He then states.

"I'm not doing it cause I know it's not gonna get her to just suddenly show up. Think about it, if she ran away without telling us so she can hide, do you really think she's gonna come out if you call her name?" Heather states.

"Well, she does got us there." The grey-haired boy then states.

"*Groan* Man, this isn't getting us anywhere. There's gotta be at least some clue of where she is." Shard then states.

'If I had Staraptor, TalonFlame or any of my flying Pokémon we could've had an easier time finding her.' Ash thinks to himself.

"Maybe I could do something like, turn invisible and then look for her. I'll be silent but deadly, like TheHuntsman." Derek tells them while doing a pose.

"You know those movies is terrible, Derek." Heather states.

"C'mon, it wasn't all that bad. Sure, they may get more bad reviews than they do get good reviews, and the rivaling company makes better movies, but there was some good in them and they make better TV shows. Ain't that right, captain?" The grey-haired boy then asks while elbowing his leader lightly.

"Well, I prefer reading the comics, so I don't really watch the movies." Shard tells him as he looked displeased.

"Well, not gonna judge. What about you Ash? What do you think of the Huntsman?" The former-Pokémon trainer was caught off guard from the question.

"Huh? What?" Ash asked not hearing what his teammate said.

"Uh, The Huntsman?" Derek asks as the by looked lost. "One of the greatest superheroes of all of Remnant!" He asks as his friend started to look nervous. "… heeeee explains his tragic backstory in every movie?"

The cap-wearer still looked nervous because he didn't know what he was talking about. "… Uhhhhhhhhhh…"

"… C'mon man, you seriously don't know who The Huntsman is? Where do you live, under a rock? Even Heather knows who he is and she doesn't even like that stuff." The grey-haired boy tells him while being in disbelief.

"I-uh… I'm sorry, I just… I don't really have those kind of things where I come from. So, I don't know who The Huntsman is because we don't really have anything to do comics, or movies, or really much on TV at all." Ash tries faking the best he can.

"Oh, so you're a country boy." Derek suddenly says.

"Excuse me?"

"Yeah, you just described a place with little to no technology. That means you're from the country, right?" The grey-haired boy assumes.

"Uh, I mean… y-yeah?" The cap-wearer really didn't know what to say.

"Dude, you're from the country? I got an uncle and cousin that come from the country." Shard then says happy to hear what Ash said. "Why didn't ya tell us?" He then asked him.

"Well, I uh… didn't think…" The boy was trying to think.

"Oh, you were afraid of you not getting accepted because of it. I understand." The fox boy states.

"Yeah, man. There's no need to worry. You did get into the school, right?" Derek asks him a rhetorical question. "I'm sure that it's no big deal." He then says with a smile.

"Uh… s-shouldn't we be searching for Blake?" Ash then says changing the subject.

"O-oh, right. Dang it we totally forgot. C'mon team, back to searching." Shard then says as they continued.

"I'll tell you about The Huntsman once we finish this search. Trust me man, you don't know what you've been missing out on." Derek then says putting an arm around Ash's shoulder as they were walking.

However, while Shard was happy to hear about Ash being from the country and Derek thought nothing of it, Heather seemed to be suspicious. She didn't know for sure, but she had a very strong feeling that her teammate wasn't really telling the truth. From the way he talked to the way he dressed, him being from the country didn't sound like it made sense. As such, she didn't entirely believed him and knew for sure he was hiding something.

(Later on)

SHAD had decided to split up as well when they went to search south of Vale. Shard and Ash were put on a team of two together while Derek and Heather went off on their own to search. The sky was orange and it was getting dark out, yet they still had yet to find results and success in finding the lost member of Team RWBY.

"Man… still got nothing on where she could be." Shard says with concern. "You don't think she could have hopped on a boat or ship going out of Vale, do you?" He then asked his teammate.

"It could be a possibility. But if that is the case, then…" Ash was saying as they realized.

"Well, I really hope not. There's gotta be something we're missing here." The fox boy then says with his hand to his chin.

"Maybe she was a White Fang member at some point, but went off on her own? That could be a possibly too." The cap-wearer states.

"I guess we're just gonna have to find out when we talk to her then." His leader tells him before they continue walking. As they were, Shard tried to think of something to talk about. "Hey, Ash. You're from the country, right?"

"Yeah, I told you that." Ash tells him.

"Well, what's it like there? You do anything interesting there?" He asked out of curiosity.

"Uh… well… it's honestly pretty boring there." The cap-wearer tells his friend.

"Oh, so that kind of country?"

"Yep."

"Huh, what do ya know… one to ten, how boring is it anyways?" Shard then asks.

"I don't know, somewhere around seven or six? I'll tell you one thing, I learned some of my sword skills from there. Pretty impressive teachers they had there." Ash tells him the best lie he could think.

"Okay, sounds cool. What kind of skills?" The fox boy asked him.

"Just your basic sword skills, like…" The Pokémon-Trainer says as they stop and he pulled out his still sheathed sword to do some poses. "Thrust, parry, thrust, block… I think you get the idea. I learned more advanced techniques when Weiss came around though, like…" He then says before pulling a few moves.

"Huh, neat." His leader says impressed.

"But, they weren't all easy to learn." The cap-wearer then states. "I still sometimes when I would mess up a bit." He then says while looking down.

(Flashback)

Ash has a flash back as he screams before getting his back slammed into a tree. One where he was knocked to ground, one where he lost grip of his sword and it went flying into a tree before he struggled to get it out, where he blasted himself into the air with fire dust, and plenty where Weiss overpowered him.

(Flashback over)

Remembering those memories made the boy cringe when he thought of them. "Well, judging by it being Weiss, I'm not all surprised." Shard then states.

"It wasn't Weiss that made it hard, she just… has some tough ways of teaching. And she was kind of the reason I got my Light Darkness. It was just a normal sword but now, it's dust compatible, has more heft to it, and I got a paint job for it." Ash tells him. 'Actually, I got this sword from Giritina, but I can't tell him that.'

"Wow, now that is pretty cool." The fox boy says impressed. "Oh, speaking of Weiss, how did you meet her? What brought you guys to cross paths?" He then asked as the cap-wearer looked nervous.

"Well… I had… uh… left my home on… m-my way to Vale actually." He then says while thinking of something. "A-and, Weiss was too, and… we just so happened to cross paths." He told him.

"Really? I didn't think she'd be traveling on foot." Shard asked while curious.

"Actually, she wasn't heading to Vale. I just was close by to Atlas as I was traveling, and Weiss was actually away from home to train on her own to prove she could handle herself. When we were training though, at some point she had to wanted to apply to Beacon, and I actually went with her so she insisted that I should go to Beacon as well." Ash tells him as he puts his weapon back.

"You two sound pretty close to each other." The fox boy states impressed.

"You could say that. We're not too close though, since she hasn't told me much about her past or family for the matter. In a way, we were mostly student and teacher back then. Ever since, we're pretty close friends." The cap-boy tells him.

"Well, nice story you got to tell." His leader says still impressed.

As they were walking something caught Ash's attention as he seemed to be eyeing a wanted poster. He walked over to the poster which caused Shard to stop and look as well. The poster showed an orange haired man wearing a fedora with a cigarette in his mouth looking as most people would say, nefarious.

The Pokémon-Trainer looked at the name on the poster as it read… "Roman… Torchwick?" And under that, it said that the reward for catching him was over 350,000 lien.

"Never heard of him? He's known as the most dangerous criminal in Vale. Got a high reputation on as a thief around here, and anyone brave enough is pretty much after him because of it." Shard explains to him. "Word has it, a Dust Shop in this city was robbed a while back. He was the one who led a group of criminals and stole a lot of dust from that shop. No one knows why he would steal much dust but, he's pretty famous so, it's too surprising." He tells his teammate.

The Pokémon Trainer looked back at the poster as he looked at Roman's face. He did have the face of a criminal, and got some flashbacks reminding him of Team Rocket and others like them back where he came from. This made his lips curl into a disgusted frown that he was being reminded of criminals like that from his world.

"Yeah, and people are still trying to find and capture him. Who knows what he could be up to now?" The Fox boy states.

"Yeah, sounds like it." The cap-wearer states.

When they were done talking, Ash noticed a store door open and saw Yang and Weiss walk out. "Hey, guys!" He then runs over with his leader.

"Oh, hey Ash, Shard. How's the search going on your end?" Yang asked them.

"No good, still haven't found Blake yet." Shard tells them.

"Man, this is hopeless. We've searched almost everywhere and still haven't found her." The blonde states after groaning.

"Yeah, I'm actually starting to believe she did skip the kingdom. Cause now that she knows we know her secret, maybe she thinks we're telling everyone." The fox boy states as the white-haired heiress stood with her eyes closed.

"Weiss?" Ash says as she turned her attention to him. "How're you feeling?… about this I mean." He asked her.

"… I just… I'm afraid of what she'll say when we find her. I've been thinking and I'm getting a headache trying to figure this out and decide here." Weiss tells him. "Ash, I know that you think she might still be good, but the innocent doesn't run." She tells him.

"Ugh… is she still off about finding Blake?" Shard asked Yang.

"Eh." She tells him with a motion of her hand.

"Okay, I understand that you and the White Fang had… some history together, but even if you won't change how you feel about them, Blake is different. Like Yang said, maybe we should hear her side of the story before just jumping to conclusions." The cap-wearer tells her as she looked down. "I'm not forcing you to trust her, but all I'm saying is give her a chance. Maybe it's not as bad as we think." He tells her.

Hearing this, the white-haired girl started thinking and then began grunting a bit as she rubbed her templates before inhaling and exhaling. "If you still need time to think about it, don't pressure yourself." Ash says while putting a hand on her shoulder.

Weiss looked at him before looking down thinking again. "I… think I'll take up your… suggestion." She then says which caused the boy to smile a bit.

"Finally!" Yang then says a bit relieved before Shard's scroll went off.

"It's Jaune." He tells them before answering. "Hey, how're you guys doing with the search?" He asked.

"No good, we still couldn't get lead on where Blake could be. And we might be a little held up with a situation at the moment." Jaune says on the other side.

"Wait, you guys aren't chasing robbers, are you?" Yang asked as the other two walked over.

"No, something much worse. We've walked past a pancake shop." The blonde boy tells them as they look at each other confused.

"And that's a problem because?…" Weiss asked with her arms up.

(With JNPR)

"Yeah, Nora's sweet-tooth has activated." Jaune says as Ren was trying to keep Nora from going into a pancake shop while Pyrrha was trying to help as Derek was laughing a bit in the background while Heather looked annoyed at what's happening. "And… You know how her sweet-tooth is." He then says as the orange haired girl was trying to get in while people were staring.

(With WY and SA)

The four of them were hearing the commotion go on, and Shard facepalmed while Weiss looked annoyed and Yang just slowly pinched the rim of her nose while Ash was scratching the back of his head. "But, we did meet up with Derek and Heather."

"*Sigh* Where are you guys now?" The fox boy asked kinda annoyed.

(Timeskip After the teams meet up)

It was now night time and after the group rendezvous with each other, they still had no idea what to do. "Well, this was a complete waste of time." Heather says annoyed that they didn't get results.

"I feel pretty bad for her. I mean, I guess I could understand if we found out about her secret that she would be afraid about how we might feel, but… we've been together for quite a while now. I'm sure she can trust us." Pyrrha states feeling bad.

"Well, what are we gonna do? We've searched pretty much everywhere in this city. You think she left the kingdom completely?" Yang asked the group.

"That's what came to my mind too. I hate to say it, but she might've stowed a boat out of here." Shard then suggests.

"Wait, so this was all for nothing then?" Derek asked shocked.

"Wait, wait, wait. There's still a chance that she could still be here. Remember? We shouldn't just jump to conclusions." Ash says still trying to keep confident.

"Dude, what other evidence is there that she's still in the city? We've pretty much looked everywhere." The grey-haired boy asks him.

"Yeah, really don't think the whole 'Let's not jump to conclusions' thing works at this point. Especially since, there really any thing else to prove otherwise." Jaune points out.

"Well, what now? Blake's possibly out in another Kingdom at this point, she probably thinks she can't trust us, and now we gotta break this to Ruby…" Shard states looking at his friends.

"You can't just tell someone like her that one of her friends just skipped the kingdom. You people in those shows and movies don't react well to that kind of stuff..." Derek says before his scroll goes off and everyone looks at him. "… Just give me a minute." He says before backing away and taking out his scroll before talking.

"Derek does have a point, though. Even if it wasn't Ruby, breaking the bad news to someone isn't really easy." Ren states.

"Especially if it includes their friend running away. I've learned that from… my time back at home." Ash then states as well.

"Well, it also means the three of her team can't compete in the Vytal Festival." Heather then let's out.

"C'mon, can't you like use your time-wraping ability to search around for some hope of finding them?" Nora asked her

"First, I can't keep time frozen forever. I only got around twenty seconds before it stops and I'm not able to go any longer." The light brown-haired girl tells him as they began hearing Derek yelling in the background.

"W-well… I still think it's pretty impressive. What's second?" Jaune tells her.

"That you saying what I do is impressive is not gonna mean anything to me." She then tells him as he looked down a bit disappointed.

"Okay, I'm finished." Derek says coming back.

"Who was that?" Weiss asked.

"Uh, wrong number." The grey-haired boy states.

"Then what was the screaming about?" The heiress still questioned him.

"… Um… SO! Ren, Nora, how long of you two been dating?" The boy asked completely dodging the question.

"Wait, what?!" Ren asked while blushing.

"WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! We're not… *Nervous laugh* We're not… like that…" Nora says trying to get out of it.

"Derek, we're trying to figure out how to tell Ruby about the situation. We can't be talking abo-" Yang was telling him before they heard an explosion go off.

They looked around and saw a large cloud caused by an explosion coming from somewhere. "Oh, that ain't good." Jaune says looking at the smoke.

"That came from the Vale docks… You guys don't think…?" Yang was asking.

"Only one way to find out. Let's get moving, Team." Shard says as they all took off towards the explosion.

(Timeskip)

After the gang arrived at the sight, they were exhausted after having to run all the way there. They were ether panting, or in Nora's case, collapse unconscious. Once they got there, there was hordes of police cars around the dock. What got them by surprise was seeing the massive destroyed airship at the dust cargo bay.

"What the hell happened over here?" Derek says shocked to see the destruction.

Yang looked around and found her sister Ruby sitting with Blake and the monkey Faunus along with Penny. "Hey, Ruby found Blake!" She says catching their attention.

"Huh? What do ya know?" Shard says a little relieved seeing that they would finally be done.

Ash put his hand on Weiss' shoulder, and she looked at him before he motioned over to Blake. She looked at her and got the idea before taking in a breath and walking off to the black-haired girl as the rest followed. Ruby noticed them coming and went over to Weiss trying to convince her not to be mad.

"Look Weiss, it's not what you think. Listen, she's not really-" She was saying until Heather put her hand in front of her and slowly shook her head 'no'.

The heiress and the presumably Faunus girl stood in front of each other for a moment in silence, both of which trying to figure out what to say to the other. "Weiss… I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Maybe I was, but that was back then when we were-"

"Stop." Weiss interrupts Blake as she looked at her. "Do you have any idea how long we've been searching for you? How much time we put in just to find you? How much of a pain it's been while doing so?" She asked her as Blake looked down in almost shame. "And I've had a long time to think about this so I would like to say… I'm sorry."

Hearing those words made the black-haired girl confused. "W-what?" She asked.

"You said it yourself, you're not one of them anymore. I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for… the things I assumed about… well you know." She tells her as the bow wearer slowly looks less confused. "But listen, even if I'm apologizing, I also want to let you know that once something this big comes up again, you'll come to your teammates and not… some random person."

Hearing those words caused Blake to shed a small tear from her eye that she wiped away. "O-of course." She says.

After hearing that the teams had different reactions. That of which for Ruby, it was happiness that they were able to find their teammate. Yang, Shard and Heather were glad to have this over with and that they managed to complete their goal for the day. Pyrrha, Jaune and Ren were happy they were able to find the lost person they've been looking for. Nora… still passed out while Derek seemed happy that they were done.

For Ash, he was happy that Weiss had finally decided to give Blake a chance and trust her once more. Seeing her finally trust her friend again was a sight for sore-eyes for sure, as he enjoyed seeing his friends get along so well… then he got a flashback of the friends he made from his world which caught him off guard at first.

Then as he saw the others gather around, he got reminded of his old friends from back then when he was younger. How him and them used to hang out with one another and no matter how much they fought and got angry with each other, they remained friends to the bitter end.

After getting reminded of those memories, Ash's head dropped in sadness as the tip of his hat covered his saddened face. "Hey, Ash?" He heard before looking up. "What's up?" Shard asked him.

The boy realized what was happening and quickly wiped away the water forming in his eyes. "I-I'm good…" He tells him before heading over while the group looked at him slightly confused but for Weiss, it was a bit of concern.

'He's getting reminded of his past life again.' She thinks to herself.

Then Ruby realized something. "Wait, where's Penny?"

As she said that, part of the group got confused as Blake and Sun looked around seeing no sign of the ginger haired girl anywhere which was confusing for them. As they looked around, they didn't notice a vehicle pass by them. Now that the team was back together. Tomorrow would be a new day for them as will be the rest of the year.

(Meanwhile…)

In a distant forest in remnant, the moon shined bright through the trees as the forest was lit from it's light. Just by a few trees in the forest, there was carcasses of Grimm all around. Whether those being of Griffin, Beowulfs, Ursas, even a Nevermore's corpse was currently on the ground turning to smoke leaving behind skeletons of themselves.

The most noticeable part about it, was that there were burn marks around on the Grimm and even some parts of the ground. As they were fading away, a creature presumed to be their killer was walking away with heavy footsteps… a creature that had a flame burning on its tail…

To Be Continued…

Finally done with this. Now if you guys are reading this, I'm sorry for the time these are taking me, but you can't rush art. Also, I wanted some screen time and more interactions between the members of SHAD. Ash will have to tell them eventually, but now.

If you want a certain Pokémon to evolve in this story, tell me which one and why? If you have an idea on what Ash's Semblance should be, tell me down below.

Thank you for reading and stay tuned.