"Why am I so hungry today?" Weiss asked staring down her large vanilla milkshake.

RWBY decided to get Ice Cream before rejoining Jaune and his group. Ruby had a large strawberry hot fudge sundae with sprinkles, Yang went for something with salted caramel in a cone. Blake had a small dish of a dark chocolate ice cream. Penny had a cone of Butter Pecan. Weiss was going to go for a small vanilla milkshake, but she found herself saying large.

"Probably because you're not holding back anymore," Blake remarked. "Also that amazing job with healing Resulted in you growing bones, flesh, muscles and quite a bit of fur. And I'm no scientist, but that has to come from something. Your resources are probably depleted."

Jenny scoffed "That fur will probably require you to ingest more proteins as well as iron and vitamin B. It's possible that you need supplements for a while. I think it'll be likely that your appetite will be slightly higher on average after you readjust. "

"That's a lot of speculation," Weiss said after a big gulp.

"Regrowing the impossible is unprecedented," Yang said.

"I guess that's true." Weiss shrugged. "Oh, I just thought of something, cats can't regrow tails but lizards can. Illia doesn't have a tail but she does have connections maybe she knows somebody that can tell me about it."

"Ohh.." Ruby said as her scroll went off. "Jaune texted me, that's strange. He wants to know if we know sign language."

"Well, I do," Blake said singing along with the words. "It was part of White Fang training."

Weiss gave a chuckle "A week ago that would have been surprising."

Yang did the same "Dad taught us when we were younger. Haven't practiced in a while"

Jenny answered, "Well, of course, I do it's pretty easy for somebody like me."

Wiess, remarked sadly "That just leaves me."

"All of us but Weiss, why do you ask Jaune?" Ruby texted back.

The reply text read "this girl we picked up is mute. The more people that can understand her the better."

A text from Nora read "She's been through a lot."

Ruby looked at the rest of the group "so that Faunus girl Ilia mentioned is also mute. Sounds like she's having a rough day"

"Poor thing." Weiss replied, "well, we will be meeting up soon."

Nora looked down at her new friend "It's okay Neo, we are meeting up with the rest of our friends."

"They're not going to like me." Neo singed back.

Don't be silly Nora responded, "They don't have a mean bone between them. They're the greatest girls you could ever meet."

"Do I have competition?" Neo singed

Nora smiled "Don't worry, four of them are dating each other the last sees Jaune as a brother."

"Wait a second, since when do you know how to sign?"Neo asked.

"It's supposed to be hard to learn?" Nora shrugged. "Anyway, I think you and Jaune might work."

"Thank you, coming from you that means a lot." Neo signed with a smile.

When Ruby locked eyes on the new member of Jaune's group she drew Crescent Rose immediately. Acting on instinct Yang put up her dukes, Weiss and Blake both drew their weapons. A sword slid out of Penny's wrist. Jaune drew his shield and sword. Noria took out her hammer, Ren dew his weapons and Velvet took out her auxiliary dagger. The friends all had weapons drawn on each other before anybody but Ruby knew why.

"What are we doing?" Nora asked.

"Your protecting Neoplatian," Ruby responded. "She was part of Cinder's team when she infiltrated Beacon."

"I was different then." Neo signed.

"Cinder's the reason Pyrrha isn't here!" Yang yelled

"Emerald tricked Pyrrha into killing me," Penny added.

"What?" Neo looked confused. "They never told me about that."

"What are you doing here anyway?" Weiss added.

Neo signed in her defense"I was hurt badly if they didn't find me…"

"She would probably be with Pyrrha right now." Jaune finished for her

"I seriously doubt she would be with Pyrrha," Ruby replied.

Weiss remarked "This is a case of the farmer and the snake if you ask me."

"Who you calling a snake?" Neo singed as Jaune translated.

Neo held out her umbrella then quickly realized the physical impossibility of holding it out and sighing. Nora took the battered thing and held it for her.

Neo had a mixture of sorrow, anger, and betrayal buzzing in her head"I didn't know my knight was here. I didn't know anything about his powers. I only have two mementos from my mother, one was this umbrella. It was ruined in the assault. This could not would not be a con."

"How do I know you're telling the truth about that?" Ruby scoffed, she immediately regretted the words but they were already out. She looked around to Jaune and his team they all looked like they had been stabbed in the chest. Ruby never saw Velvet's ears drooped down so low.

Looking back at her team, Blake wasn't looking at her, ears down. Weiss was confused, tail drooped down between her legs. Penny muttered "Error..." her eyes looked dark and she was as still as a statue.

"You of all people Ruby!" Yang steamed.

She looked back to Neopolitan. That look on her face it was the same as Pyrrha had in her final moments. She started to walk off, not getting far with her short legs.

Ruby put a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry."

"Don't touch me!" she heard Jaune translate. "This is the sweetest girl you ever met? The bravest huntress you know? The girl you were willing to follow to Haven on foot. The girl you stole from the Atlas military for! The girl you are willing to follow into battle with Salem!"

"Ouch…" Ruby muttered those words cut her worse than any blade. At that moment she felt like no better than Cinder.

Jaune continued for Neo "I'm a criminal, but I didn't hurt your friends. I only just found out who killed Pyrrha…"

"There's a sign for Pyrrha?" Weiss asked.

"Well, the literal translation would be Pumpkin Angel." Nora answered clarifying with the correlating signs, "But who else would she mean?"

"She's gone!" Blake said.

Everyone looked around, there was no sign of Neo anywhere. June and his group looked worried.

"She couldn't have gone far," Nora said. "We never found the guy that hurt her."

"Don't panic Nora," Ruby exclaimed. "That's my job!"

"Reboot, complete," Penny said, "What's wrong?"

"I probably just killed somebody!" Ruby yelled.

Weiss slapped her "Ruby don't get hysterical."

"Or arrested for that matter," Ren added.