"Did that crater just say what I think it said?" Ruby said looking over the brim of the hole. Her eyes grew wide she covered her mouth with both hands and she took two steps backward. Tears of joy started to well up in her silver eyes and Ruby stood there speechless.

"Guess we're going next." Weiss muttered, "Following the cliché and all." She made the awkward smile that often follows her attempts at humor she pointed at her tail.

"That joke implies were about to get killed." Blake scoffed.

Blake's response was to facepalm and started inching towards the hole followed by Weiss. Fortunately for them, the smoke dissipated before they reached the edge. As they looked over they confirmed everyone's suspicions. Contently lying there, looking no worse wear after falling out of the sky, and just as they remembered her none other than. "Penny?" both faunus said simultaneously.

"Sal-u-tations, my friends. Long time no see." She responded. "I seem to be stuck in this hole."

Blake threw her the ribbon of her weapon. In a few moments, she started pulling "Yang a little help here. " She asked her teammate before the blond and her sister joined her on either side and began pulling. It still took a little bit to get Penny out of the crater.

"Penny, what happened? What are you doing here?" Ruby asked.

"And more importantly why is their crater in my backyard now?" Weiss added.

Penny started to answer "After my long stay in the..." She paused for a moment "hospital " she said followed by a hiccup.

Ruby interrupted her "It's okay Penny everybody knows now."

Nora spoke up "Even if we didn't I'm pretty sure you'd have to be a robot to survive that!"

Penny looked down at the damage he caused side and eventually said. "Point taken, after my new body was completed I was upgraded with new flight capabilities, but I got so excited about seeing you guys again I left without properly testing them."

"Penny that was dangerous!" Ruby scolded her "That crash could've hurt us very badly."

"And we don't have backups," Yang added.

"I'm so glad to see you again." Ruby hugged Penny tightly turning off any response the robot could've made so she just wrapped her own arms around Ruby.

"I'm glad to see you all too." She said after a moment "you've all undergone a few upgrades I see, especially Weiss and Yang. I was unaware you could upgrade into a Faunus."

"Actually I was always one." Weiss responded, "my tail was cut off when I was very young, but I found a way to regrow it."

"Do you remember what happened, Penny?" Ruby asked

"I disable my memory back up during battle, so I don't know exactly what happened." Penny reopened.

"Tell you about it in a little bit," Ruby responded somberly "we have a lot of catching up to do, and not all of it will be pleasant."

Penny looked around for a moment "Where is Pyrrha?" she asked.

"Let's talk inside," Ruby said before taking her hand and leading her inside. Penny nodded and followed.

"Never a dull moment in this group." Velvet spoke up from the burrow she dug.

About 30 minutes later Penny and Ruby were sitting alone on the sofa the two were physically close. Ruby was holding on to Penny's hand with both of hers as they talked, Penny just continued looking down throughout it.

"I'm sorry about Pyrrha," Penny said after she was informed on events starting from after her fight in the tournament. "If I had known that was going to be the outcome I would have dropped out."

"Don't blame yourself, Penny," Ruby said. "Emerald and Cinder are bad people."

Penny looked up and said "I don't think I understand evil. Now I think I understand it even less."

"A lot of people feel that way, but you can't dwell on it," Ruby answered. Her response was the second biggest surprise of the day as the robot pressed her surprisingly soft and warm lips against hers. Ruby muttered in confusion before breaking the kiss and saying. "Not complaining, but what was that for?"

"You told me not to dwell so I engaged in the first pleasant activity that came to mind," Penny responded with a big smile on her face. "I wanted to do that for a while even not counting the time was out of commission."

"That was my first kiss!" Ruby exclaimed.

Penny asked, "Was it inappropriate?"

"I'm just surprised and I wasn't ready." Ruby answered and tried to calm down "Do you mind if we tried again?"

The two girls all locked lips again it was awkward it was clumsy and they couldn't stop giggling. But they both enjoyed it anyway.

"Ruby and Penny sitting in a tree." Yang sang as she came into the room.

"We are not in the tree," Penny said scratching her head.

Jaune joined the three girls "oh come on, was Pyrrha the only straight girl in Beacon?"

Nora walked in holding hands with Velvet "Yes, yes she was. "

Yang blushed and spoke up. "Actually I'm pansexual, but... you're like the little brother I never wanted."

"Yaa that figures," Jaune said.

The others found Weiss kneeling beneath her family portrait her weapon was at her left and a glass of sake was in front of her. Her eyes were closed her expression was blank and her breath was steady.

"Ruby you should go over there, and be prepared to decapitate her."

"Crikey!" Everyone shouted looking at the robot. Ruby continued in "why should I have to decapitate Weiss?"

"She appears to be preparing for seppuku," Penny responded.

Weiss interrupted her "what makes you think I am..." She opened her eyes and realized the answer to her question before she finished asking. "Sorry I didn't realize what this looks like."

Between gasps of relief, Ruby squeaked out the question "okay... Then what... Are you... doing?"

"Reflecting on my identity" She answered. "My family" pointing at the painting. "Being a huntress." holding up her sword. "And because I can't have my tail in front of me" she held up the sake. "This represents regaining the faunus part of me."

"That makes so much more sense," Ruby said catching her breath.

Only just then did Blake join the group. "Weiss don't!"

"I'm not commenting seppuku." she started to laugh at the misunderstanding. "I think we're feeling cooped up, we haven't left my property scene last night."

"I suggest we go out for lunch." Ruby smiled and said.

"Great idea, I just found a good Sushi place online," Blake said excitedly "It will help Weiss reconnect with her people and it's great for a first date."

"Miss Belladonna, did you just ask me out?" Weiss teased.

"I guess I did." Blake squeaked

"Well, it sounds wonderful." Weiss smiled and took her hand.

"Hope you don't mind it being a double date," Ruby spoke up taking Penny's arm.