The screen showed Jaune lied flat on the raft in the middle of the ocean.
"What will I do." - Jaune groaned.
"He still not figured it out yet." - Glynda concerned.
"No, I sure he already thought it through." - Ozpin said. - "Venture to the unknown or go back to the island."
Jaune got up as he was closing into the crashed spaceship.
"Alright! No sign of the giant creature! Let head the other way just in case." - Janue quietly paddled.
The audience listened closely for any sign of the Reaper Leviathan.
"Just keep paddling, just keep paddling..." - Jaune chanted to himself.
A big shadow appeared looming underwater.
"Janue!" - Pyrrha shouted.
Jaune noticed it right away, took a spear out and got into a battle-ready stand.
He and the audience held their breath as the creature moving closer and closer.
"Ooommmm" - A rumbling sound came from the creature.
Jaune confused as the shadow is much wider as the monster before.
"That is a Reefback." - Author said. - "It doesn't do much."
See no hostility from the shadow, he dropped his guard.
"The other side of the ship doesn't have many opening." - Jaune looked at the spaceship. - "Let search underwater just in case."
He docked the raft near the ship, then got his diving suit ready.
"Alright, let's go." - Jaune jumped into the water.
The spaceship's bottom was heavily damaged. But there's no easy opening as the layered sand covered most of the holes.
"Anything dropped out?" - Jaune searched the seafloor. - "There are some containers." - Most of them and the item inside were heavily damaged.
"Ah, a good one." - Jaune pried one open. Inside was another strang looking gun.
"It looks more like a plasma cutter." - Ruby tilted her head.
Janue pulled out the battery from the Habitat Builder then put it in. As he turned it on, the tip grew hot red and the water surrounding it boiled.
"Yup, definitely a plasma cutter." - Ruby nodded.
"This should help me cut through some wall." - Jaune turned it off. - "But it does eat a lot of power."
"Anything left?" - Jaune looked around one last time. - "No." - He went back up to the raft.
"There's no opening on this side." - Jaune sighed. - "But that monster shouldn't be close to the spaceship." - Jaune then paddled around to the other side.
As he's paddling, he saw a long shadow looming in the distance. But it didn't come any closer.
"Thank Oum, it didn't notice him." - Velvet said.
"Here is good enough." - Not taking his chances, Jaune docked the raft and quickly headed inside.
Jaune stopped in front of a stuck door. He gave a few knocks just to be sure there is an open space behind. After hearing the confirmation, Janue fired the plasma cutter and cut through.
The room was bigger than Jaune expect. In the center, a small vehicle was firmly held by a metal crane.
"The Seamoth: It goes anywhere but land." - Jaune read the advertised paper.
"It looks cool." - Ruby's eye lightens up.
"Base on the advertising and appearance, it seems to be a one-person submersible." - Penny said.
"No power." - Jaune shook his head.
"Oww" - Ruby whined. - "But maybe he can-"
"Seem the engine was busted too." - Jaune checked.
"Damnit!" - Ruby lost all hope.
"Does it have some kind of storage?" - Janue checked more thoroughly.
He found a small locker mounted to its side. - "Interesting design."
"That seems not secure." - Winter said.
"It most likely a custom add-on." - Penny replied.
Inside the locker are some flares, and a flashlight.
After some thinking, Jaune took the flares with him.
After some more exploring, Jaune decided to head back to the raft.
"There still many more rooms I haven't explore, but..."- Jaune looked at the plasma cutter. - - "I'm done for."
"The battery finally died out." - Ren sighed.
"I checked everywhere." - Jaune lied down. - "There is no sign of any escape pods anywhere." - He stared at the sky.
"Will I stay here forever?" - Jaune choked up. - "All alone?"
"Jaune..." - Everyone's tearing up.
Jaune cried himself to sleep.
**Riiippp** - A high pitch sound woke Jaune up from it slumber.
He opened his eyes and saw a small bird landed on top of the spaceship.
"It's so cute." - Nora cheered everyone up.
"Where did you come from?" - Jaune asked the bird.
It obviously didn't reply and flew away toward the island he came from. Jaune then heard more of them up in the sky. He stared at the direction the birds came from. A realization hit him right in the face. - "Dryland." - Jaune cheered.
"Yes!" - The students cheered with him.
"Ok! Ok! Calm down." - Jaune held back his breath. - "There no guaranty it has people there." - He strengthened his resolve. - "But there is still a chance."
"Food! Check! Water! Check!" - Jaune barely held back his excitement as he readying the raft.
"Let sail toward the high sea."
After half a day, Jaune looked back at the only keeping him from getting lost drifted out of his sight.
After 1 long day on the sea, Jaune had yet not seen any sight of dryland. He's getting more worry. - "It's can't be too far." - As he having a second thought, Jaune suddenly saw a tall shadow appearing at the skyline.
"A tower?" - Ruby asked.
After coming closer, Jaune saw another island twice bigger than the floating island before. But the thing caught Jaune attention is the big tower was mounted beside it.
"It's looked strange." - Coco wondered.
"It's looked like it wasn't built by the same people from the spaceship." - Oobleck nodded.
**Zap** Jaune suddenly felt a migraine, water flowed into his lung. He panicked held his breath. Opened his eyes, Jaune saw his already underwater in the middle of the ocean.
"What?" - Everyone surprised.
Looked up, Jaune saw his raft still floating on the surface, He immediately went for it.
**Skeeek** - Jaune heard an unknown sound close to his back. He pulled out his ax in a ready position. A purple squid-like creature was coming toward him. Under its cloak-like skin, its body is transparent revealing the organs within.
"What the fuck!" - Everyone's horrified.
Ruby covered herself with her hood. Summer hugged her tightly, protecting her from seeing the monster.
"That thing is..." - Oobleck nauseated. - "not natural."
"It's looked like it was heavily modified." - James sickened.
As when Jaune tried to take a swing at the creature, a bright light blinded him, he now teleported farther from the raft.
"It teleported him." - Oobleck shouted.
Seeing the creature was swimming toward him again, he pulled out a flare and tossed it near the creature. The creature simply ignored the flare and continued to swim toward Jaune.
"Fuck!" - Jaune cussed.
Jaune charged toward the creature, made another attempt to hit it. But an energy sphere ejected from the creature, he now teleported lower toward the bottom.
"I'm running out of breath soon." - Jaune panicked.
"Swim away!" - Velvet shouted.
"No, It will catch up to him." - Winter shook her head.
"He has to kill it to survive." - Raven coldly said.
Jaune charged at the creature again.
"Fool." - Raven snorted.
Right when the creature fired the energy sphere again, Jaune threw his ax at it. The ax disappeared with the sphere, Jaune did not give the creature a chance to recover, jammed a lighted flare into its mouth. The creature screamed in pain, bright light erupted from it.
"It disappeared?" - Jaune swam back to the raft.
"Thank Oum." - Everyone relieved.
"Aha, That creature is no match for Beacon finest Hunstman." - Peter laughed
**cough, cough** - "What the fuck was that?" - Janue dragged himself on to the raft. Fear the creature would return, Jaune paddled faster toward the island.
"He got away." - Pyrrha relaxed.
"Fearless leader is awesome." - Nora cheered.
"What was that monster?" - Yang asked Author.
"That's a Wraper." - Author replied. - "And yes, it is a bioengineered creature."
"Made by whom?" - James asked.
"You'll know soon."
After docking to the island, Jaune ready this spear for any danger. He headed toward the tower. The tower was looked old, maybe older than the spaceship, but there no sign of plant grew on it. The entrance door emitted a green barrier.
"It does not look like it was abandoned." - Jaune poked the barrier with his spear. The spear was unharmed but Jaune could not push it through the barrier.
After some attempts, Jaune gave up trying to get in the tower. He headed back out. He then made his way around the island. After got to the other side, Jaune saw an escape pod in a small crater, covered by plants.
"How unlucky. Out of all places, it had to crash on to an island." - Jaune shook his head.
Tai gave Qrow a weird look.
"What? It's crashed a long time ago." - Qrow retaliated.
Jaune examined the pod. Inside he saw a human skeleton, broken in many places. - "Poor guy, even the lap bar was ripped out." - Jaune looked around. - "Broken Radio, Fabricator..." - **sigh** He then opened the supply box. - "That can't be right." - Inside, it's empty.
"Someone got it before him." - Ozpin said.
Found nothing he could use, Jaune headed out.
After some more searching, with hope up, Jaune finally saw a habitat in the distance.
"Yes." - Ruby cheered.
"No." - Jaune disheartening to see it was already abandoned. The habitat's window was covered by dust. Plants in the small garden were all ready wither.
"They already left." - Jaune chocked up.
"So close." - Yang cussed.
"They must have left only a few years back." - Glynda said.
Inside, the interior covered in thick dust. The room layout is very minimalist, a bed, a table, and a chair.
"They must have not planned to stay here for long." - James said.
Jaune picked up a Scroll-like device covered in dust, surprised to see it still working.
"Dear diary, there's no one else survive, I checked everywhere. The Aurora, all of the deployed escape pods, nothing! They were all died long before I got there. I'm the only one left, alone."
"They were alone too." - Ruby's welling up.
"...Dear diary, I finally know what the fucking tower is. It's a fucking gun. It's the thing shot us down. It just killed everyone on the Sunbeam."
"It just killed more people?" - Ruby horrified.
"God, if I didn't call them for help... I need to find those who were responsible."
"... The Precursor was the one built the gun. After knowing the truth, I can't blame them anymore. If they didn't do that, the Kharaa Bacterium will spread all over the universe, Human race as you know it won't be able to survive."
"They build a gun to quarantine the planet?" - Weiss shocked.
"All those people on the ship." - Ruby horrified.
"It was necessary." - James said.
"...Dear diary, 50 years have passed and yet no one came for me. Not that matter right now. I'm dying, not by the Kharaa Bacterium, thank god, but by old age. I can hardly move anymore. If I'm going to die, at lease I going to choose how it will go."
"You were a great friend diary."
"They lived there for 50 years alone." - Ruby cried.
"That's..." - Ozpin lost his word. He lived for a very long time, but he was never truly alone.
"That's..." - Jaune's dumbstruck. - "50 years, no one came, 50 years." - He felt more and more tired. Jaune collapsed on the dusty bed.