When Jaune and Pyrrha broke apart and turned to Ren and Nora, Flash was nowhere to be seen.
Jaune looked around, wondering where he had gone. While he was looking he watched an airship land.
Abandoning his search for the man, Jaune told his team, "Let's get down to Vale,"
As JNPR approached the airship, the doors opened and Hunters stormed out, no doubt ready to retake Beacon.
As the crowd parted around JNPR, Jaune saw a familiar face.
"Dad?" Jaune muttered before calling out, "Dad!"
The man turned and his eyes caught on JNPR.
"Jaune?" he asked, before running over to his son and embracing him, "Thank goodness you're alright!"
"Yeah, Dad, I'm fine," Jaune said, leaning into the hug, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm a Hunter, Jaune, it's my job to handle things like these."
Nora cleared her throat and asked, "You going to introduce us, Jaune?"
"Oh, this must be your team!" Jaune's father said, looking at the teens who were watching their interaction intently before extending his hand, "I'm Henry Arc, a pleasure to meet you."
"A pleasure to meet you too, sir," Ren said, taking his hand and shaking it.
"It was nice to see you again, Dad, but my teammate needs a doctor."
"Alright, Jaune," Henry said, watching Jaune help Pyrrha over to a medical station.
"Excuse me?" Jaune called to the many doctors working diligently, "My friend needs some help!"
"We're a bit busy, son," an older doctor said, pointing to chairs that were lined up, "If it's not too serious you can wait over there."
Helping Pyrrha over to the chairs, Jaune set her down and sat beside her.
"What happened up there?" Jaune asked.
"I lost," Pyrrha said simply.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"No."
"Alright. Just know that I'm here if you want to."
"Okay."
A few minutes later, a doctor finally came to look at Pyrrha.
"What's the problem?" the doctor asked.
"It's my ankle," Pyrrha told the doctor.
"What happened to it?"
"Hit with an arrow."
The doctor took Pyrrha's injured ankle and looked at it for a moment before saying, "Ah, there's definitely something stuck in there."
"Can you get it out?" Pyrrha asked.
"I don't think so," the doctor replied, "It looks like you'll need surgery and we can't do it here. Where do you come from, kid?"
"Mistral."
"Well, I would advise going home and having the surgery there."
"I see," Pyrrha said simply.
"I'm sorry we couldn't do more for you," the doctor said.
"You've done more than enough," Pyrrha said.
Jaune helped Pyrrha up and walked her back towards Ren and Nora.
"So what did they say?" Ren asked.
"I'm going to need surgery," Pyrrha said, "And it's going to be back in Mistral. Will you come home with me?"
"Yes!" Nora shouted. "Will we get to see your house? Meet your parents?"
"Yes, Nora," Pyrrha laughed.
A few minutes had passed since Barry broke down and he had been able to compose himself. Standing up and wiping his eyes dry, Barry backed to the edge of the tower and ran. Barry didn't stop when he reached the other ledge. Instead, he ran straight down the side. Weaving around gaggles of monsters, Barry reached the evacuation point in under a second. He wished he had not. What Barry saw could not be real. It was his father, Henry Allen, in the flesh. Barry closed his eyes and smacked his head a few times to try and shake the hallucination. When Barry opened his eyes he was still there. Barry didn't know what to do. So he ran. His heart hammering in his chest. He didn't get far as tears were blocking his vision. Deciding it wasn't safe to run at Mach speeds without being able to see clearly, Barry stopped and leaned against a wall, thoughts of his father running through his head. Turning around and sliding down the wall, Barry buried his face into his hands and waited for his heart rate to decrease. That couldn't be real. Barry thought. Dad is back home. In prison, and I'm wherever here is. Free. As he was taking deep breaths and processing what he just saw, he heard a thud in front of him. Looking up, Barry saw a girl in black and white clothing with a bow on her head. The girl approached Barry and kneeled down in front of him.
"Are you alright?" the girl asked.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine," Barry said, waving her away.
"You know, the evacuation point is over that way," the two of them said in unison.
"Well, why aren't you over there?" the girl asked.
"Bad memories," Barry said before asking, "Why aren't you?"
"I got someone I cared about hurt. They're better off without me."
"That's not true."
"It is. You weren't there. You don't know what happened."
"No, I don't, but running from your problems won't make anything better, and I know a thing or two about running."
"I have to go," the girl said, starting to walk away but was stopped by Barry asking, "Are you afraid they'll hate you?"
Turning around, the girl looked at Barry and asked, "Do you know what it's like for someone you care about to get hurt because of you?"
"No, but I know what it's like to feel like you could have —should have— done something to stop it," Barry replied, looking down before saying, "If you're afraid they'll hate you, running away will only make things worse. If you stay you'll have a better chance of fixing things."
"You really think that?" the girl asked.
"I do," Barry responded.
"Alright. I'll give it a try," the girl said before she began walking off toward the safe zone.
Before the girl went out of earshot, she stopped, turned around and told Barry, "Thank you."
"No problem," Barry said, waving goodbye.
Letting his hand fall back to his side, Barry closed his eyes and drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
Leonard and the other Rogues awoke to the sound of roaring engines. After taking a moment to rub the sleep out of their eyes and come to their senses, they started looking for the source of the noise, they noticed an expensive-looking airship with four wings and a snowflake on the side landing near the air docks. It took Leonard a moment but he soon remembered where he'd seen the logo before. It was on every crate of Dust the Rogues had stolen at the docks months earlier. When the door opened, a man in a white suit with white hair, and a white mustache accompanied by security robots strolled out of the airship like he owned the world. Leonard knew who this was. It was Jacques Schnee, the CEO of the SDC. If he was here that meant that the airship he arrived in was likely his personal one. The personal airship of the CEO of the largest company on Remnant probably had something valuable.
Nudging Sam, Leonard pointed over to Jacques and said, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"That we ignore the rich guy and rest?" Sam asked.
"Get up," Leonard said, grabbing Sam under the arm and turning to Mick and Marco, "C'mon, let's go."
Mick and Marco stood up and followed Leonard over to the newly landed airship.
"We gonna rob this guy?" Marco asked
"No, we're gonna ask him nicely to give us every valuable thing he has," Leonard said sarcastically. The Rogues put their masks back on and carefully approached the airship, hands on their weapons.
The Rogues snuck behind the mechanical guards and entered the airship. Working as quickly as possible, The Rogues swiped everything in sight.
"Hey, Mirror Master!" Mick called.
"What is it, Heat Wave?" Sam asked as he was gathering valuables.
"There's a safe over here. Think you can glass it?"
"Yeah, sure," Sam said, collecting his pile of valuables in his mirror and drawing his remaining pistol.
"Move outta the way," Sam ordered.
"Alright, alright," Mick muttered, shuffling out of Sam's line of fire.
Sam fired a single shot and the door of the safe turned into glass. Kicking the door, Sam was quick to gather the Lien that was stored in the safe.
"Everyone got everything?" Leonard asked. When he was met with a positive response, he said, "Let's get out of here."
The Rogues were walking towards the exit of the airship when Jacques, his daughter, and the robot guard entered.
When Jacques and The Rogues came face-to-face, he was shocked for a moment. The robots weren't as reactive as they raised their arm cannons and bullets flew. The Rogues scrambled out of the way as rounds flew through the air and tore up the airship. After finding cover behind a seat, Marco stood up and raised his wand, a gust of wind blowing Jacques, his daughter, and the robots all over. Standing back up, The Rogues bolted out of the airship and back onto the landing pad. As bystanders began to gather, Leonard aimed his gun at the ground and fired, ice spreading beneath The Rogues' feet.
"Mirror Master, get us out of here," Leonard commanded.
"On it," Sam said, and to the astonishment of onlookers, The Rogues sank into the reflection.
Barry awoke to the sound of gunfire. When his eyes opened he began to panic when he found he was not in his bedroom. His heart began to race but soon sank as he remembered the events that led up to this moment. He wasn't home. He may never be home again. Standing up, Barry ran to the source of the gunfire. By the time he got there he saw the men who helped him fight the woman sink into a patch of ice on the ground. There were onlookers, so Barry stopped running and got as close as possible without drawing attention to himself. When he got to the front of the crowd, Barry asked a woman, "What happened?"
"Those men just robbed Jacques Schnee!" the woman told him.
"Oh," Barry said, pretending he knew who Jacques Schnee was before he saw a man limp out of an airship a little to the left while holding his arm. The man wore a white suit, had white hair, and a white mustache.
"Dammit!" the man shouted along with some more profanities but Barry's attention was grabbed by the man who looked exactly like his father. He was leaving the crowd and heading to the monster infested school. Barry felt an intense desire, a need, to follow this man and find out why he looked exactly like his father. If it meant figuring out this man's identity, Barry would follow this man to the end of… wherever he was.