"Pyrrha? Are you ok?" - Nora worried.

"I'm... fine" - Pyrrha gave a strong face.

"Perhaps you should take a break." - Ren advised.

"No no, I need to know what Jaune went through."

"Yeah, we don't know much about our fearless leader, are we?" - Nora's ashamed.

"He hid it well." - Ren comforted."

"The next viewing will start in 10 min"

"Let's go." - Pyrrha declared

"Yang, I have to go." - Ruby shouted.

"No, you don't." - Yang stated.

"He's my best friend!"

"Yang, let her go." - Weiss said.

"No, Ruby isn't ready."

"And she may never be! You can't just stop her from caring for her friend." - Blake objected.

"She just saw Jaune killed her damn it!" - Yang's eyes turn red.

"It's... was me who attack Jaune, didn't it?" - Ruby's shaken.

"No no no, It's wasn't." - Yang realized her mistake.

"Do you really want to go Ruby?" - Summer came in, asked.

Ruby hesitantly nodded.

Summer took a good look at her daughter, gave a sad smile. - "We won't stop you."

"The next viewing will start in 10 min"

Ruby took a deep breath. - "Let's go."

"It's time." - "Alright, after yesterday, this viewing will be something softer." - Author said.

"Will this a happy one?" - Velvet hopefully asked.

"Not exactly, I think bittersweet is the better word."

"Anymore question?" - No one spoke up.

"Now showing: Fallen city."

Jaune opened his eyes to see he's in an old abandoned house. He instantly felt the cold air. - "I don't even know if I want to rip out my onesie".

"He doesn't have the blacked eye in this one." - Pyrrha said.

"Yes, this happened a month before it." - Author replied.

The house was really old, the window was covered by ice made it hard to see outside.

"They must have left in a hurry." - Jaune noticed they left many things behind as he walked toward the front door.

The door was stuck but Jaune slammed it open. Outside the sky was clear. The entire city was covered in snow. Jaune could tell the city was evacuated a long time ago.

"This city looks familiar." - Penny wondered.

"It's this a good or bad sign?" - He then saw 3 Sabyrs on his left.

"Grimm! Good sign." - They started to notice him.

"Ok! Bad sign." - Jaune immediately ran back inside.

"Easy enough." - Yang smirked.

"How will you deal with them, Yang?" - Ozpin asked.

"Uhmm, punch it in the neck?" - Yang surprised by the question.

"I see." - Ozpin didn't continue.

They charged inside the house only to see Jaune had escaped by the window.

"He ran away?" - Yang surprised.

"That's the correct response. There is no point to fight them, He can't afford to waste any resources in an unknown environment." - Ozpin said.

"But they won't just give up." - James joined in.

One jumped out the window after him. The rest ran out, split up in a pincer movement."

"Ha Ha! It's time to hunt my boy." - Peter laughed.

"Why?" - Ruby asked.

"Mr. Arc made a very smart move. If the Grimms stuck together, they couldn't track him down easily. But if they split up, He'd only need to face them one at a time. And if my collage here thinking is true, they are heading right into his trap." - Oobleck answered.

The left Sabyrs noticed a subtle sound, slowly moved over to investigate. A noose came out under the snow tided its front leg together, dragged it backward. Jaune came out of hiding, charged over, made a heavy swing to its neck. The Grimm took a fatal hit, evaporated.

"Wow!" - Ruby awed.

"Ffffftttt, I can take all of them at once." - Yang snorted.

"Yes, but how much bullets or Aura will you wasted?" - Tai asked.

"On the other hand, Mr. Arc didn't lose any of his resources." - Ozpin said.

"Don't get me wrong but when Jaune's this skilled?" - Coco asked.

"True, the dolt usually dead last in class." - Weiss said.

"How many times do you think Jaune had done this.?" - Author asked.

Not waiting for an answer. - "A lot."

"Why didn't we noticed this?" - Blake asked.

"Maybe because of his fighting style?" - Fox suggested.

"It's more because of his mentality." - Author said. - "Here, he's alone, he's more confident of his judgment. Back at Beacon, Jaune has his teammate, people who had to receive repercussions if he made a bad call. That's why he took a sword and a shield, if he can't lead or support them then at least he can take a hit for them. This line of thinking stopping him from bringing his full potential out."

"What can we do?" - Pyrrha asked.

"Keep being his teammate, soon or later Mr. Arc will realize sometimes hesitation is more dangerous than a bad call." - Ozpin said.

As Jaune was preparing his next attack, Two snippers shotted instantly killed the rest of Sabyrs. Jaune immediately hid behind a wall.

"Who there?" - He shouted.

"This is a restricted area. Put your hand in the air." - A voice shouted back.

"Alright, just don't shoot." - Jaune prepared a smoke grenade for the worst-case scenario then came out.

"Jaune?"

Heard his name he looked up to see a 30 years old woman wearing a red riding hood.

"Ruby?"

"Me?" - Ruby surprised to see her older self.

"Jaune!"

"Wait! Wait! Ruby!" - She used her semblance, crashed him into a hug.

"Nothing changed." - Tai chuckled.

"Ruby let go! I can't breathe." - Jaune groaned.

Ruby instantly turned cold, crushed him with her hug. - "Young man, don't you ever disappeared on me like again."

"It's not my fault." - Jaune defenced.

Ruby crushed him harder.

"I promised." - He yelped.

"That's our daughter alright." - Summer gave a warm smile.

"He been here before?" - Yang asked.

"Yes, this is not the first time he came to this dimension." - Author said.

"You don't know how much I missed you." - Ruby let go.

"I'm sorry. How long was it?" - He asked.

"One year."

"It's 2 months on my end."

"How is me over there?" - Ruby asked.

"She's fine, still the same old Ruby who love cookies."

"Hey!" - Ruby pouted.

"Accurate." - Yang chuckled.

Ruby's eyes lighted up. - "That's reminded me." - She hopefully looked at him. Jaune smiled and pulled out a bag of cookies.

"You really should make them yourself." - Jaune chuckled.

"No can do, I just don't have time to, besides your is delicious." - Ruby put one in her mouth.

"Well, I had to make this every day for months now." - Jaune groaned.

"And I'm sure you gave them to your Ruby." - Ruby grinned.

"Ohhh." - She enjoyed his realization.

"Ohhh." - Ruby realized too.

"So that's why, and here I thought he tried to get into my sister's pant." - Yang face-palmed.

"Yaangg." - Ruby groaned. - "Wait! You didn't threaten him, did you?"

"No?" - Yang sweated bullet.

"Yang!" - Ruby shouted.

"Ok ok, I'll make it up to him"

After a minute of silence.

"So, where are we anyway?" - Jaune asked.

"Mantle." - Ruby frowned.

"Mantle? Then where's Atlas? The floating city?" - Jaune surprised.

Ruby said nothing, used her semblance, dragged him to the top of the nearest building.

"There!" - She pointed toward the north.

True enough, Jaune spotted the city, crumbled, lying flat in a cater.

"What's happened to my city." - James shouted angerly.

"It can't be." - Winter and Weiss shocked.

"No." - Penny covered her mouth.

"What happened?" - Jaune shocked.

"Ironwood's stupid decision."

"How... can I?" - James baffled.

"The first and biggest failure in the war against Salem." - Ruby said.

Jaune stunned by the information, sat down, taking it all from the scenery.

"The... first war?" - Jaune swallowed.

"This... is the place where your Jaune died, isn't it?".

As you can guess, I got the inspiration from volume 7.