Weiss sat down on her cot, exhausted after spending the entire day training with her new teacher. It had been almost a year since she left Beacon behind, and she knew she had gotten much stronger due to her training.

She closed her eyes and thought about the people she left behind. She was still horribly conflicted about what she did to Ruby. She thought that Ruby was dead, slain in that snowy field for trying to bring her back to that horrid school.

Suddenly, she heard familiar footsteps. "Weiss," said the woman's voice. Weiss' eyes snapped open to see a pair of blazing yellow eyes looking at her. "We are going to begin our operation tomorrow." Her teacher said. "Prepare yourself. I will wake you early." She watched as her teacher walked away towards the opening in the cave.

After her fight with Ruby, Weiss was brought to a cave in the side of an obscure cliff face. Here she had made her home for the past few months. Here it was that she trained, slept, and dreamt about revenge. Her mentor was making her play a part in some convoluted scheme of hers, so she was playing along for the time being.

Weiss watched her teacher's back as she left the cave, wondering a little about what tomorrow would bring, but she was too tired to worry about it. She finally put her head down and closed her eyes, bringing on dreams of fighting and bloodshed. She did not know that, at that very moment, a girl some distance away was dreaming about bringing her back to Beacon.

Weiss awoke the next morning with the usual chill in her bones, but this time she was shaken awake by her teacher. "It is time." She heard after rubbing sleep out of her eyes. She got up and followed the older woman out of the cave and into the pre-dawn light.

Her chilliness was soon gone as they hiked down the cliffside and moved northward, towards Vale. Weiss now was curious, "What exactly are we doing?" She inquired.

Her teacher replied, "Everything is in order for my boss' plan to happen. We are the first step in that plan. We are going to launch an attack on southern Vale to draw the police forces south, allowing for a raid on the commercial district. That is all you need to know."

Weiss looked away from her teacher and back towards the ground in front of her, contenting herself with walking for now. They soon reached a cliff overlooking the city. Weiss couldn't help but look over to the east, where Beacon lay dormant. She quickly looked back towards the city as her mentor said, "Our target is that building there." She pointed towards a large warehouse. "It contains many of the goods that Vale then exports overseas." Weiss nodded as she found the building the older woman was talking about. "Let's go." Her teacher said as she leapt off the cliff.

Weiss quickly followed, using her abilities to air step towards the warehouse. She was careful to conserve her Dust, as she did not know how much she would need. She saw her mentor doing the same and soon they both arrived, having gone right over the guards. They landed stealthily on the roof of the warehouse. With a whispered word, they sliced a hole in the roof and jumped inside. She followed the older woman over to a large shipping container, which was promptly cut open. Inside were several large crates. Her teacher then whispered, "This container is filled with Dust, we are going to detonate it." She pulled out a small timekeeper from her blood-red dress and then said, "Find cover."

Weiss quickly found a similar sized container and got behind it, erecting a Dust barrier around herself as extra protection. She heard a huge blast, which forced the container she was behind to slam into her. Her barrier reduced the impact, but she was still thrown to the ground.

She noticed, as she got up, that the light of the early morning was now filtering in through a large hole in the roof. She heard shouting outside and prepared for a fight, taking hold of Myrtenaster from her waist. Men burst in through a door behind her, pistols in hand.

Weiss brought Myrtenaster in front of her and charged at the first man, skewering him on her weapon. She then air stepped and launched herself towards the roof. She saw a second man follow the first and aim his pistol up at her. She barely had time to create a barrier before the rounds started pinging off of it. She shot herself towards the middle of the warehouse as more guards came in through the door.

Landing on top of a container that was half destroyed from the blast, she fired multiple Dust flakes at the men, smashing them into the wall. Two were knocked unconscious from the impact, yet one tried still to get up. Weiss quickly ended his resistance by freezing him into solid ice.

She looked over to see her teacher finishing off the guards that came at her. She did this ruthlessly yet efficiently, using little Dust to great effect. As soon as she was done, she called to Weiss, "Follow me!" She then darted out the door with Weiss hard on her heels.

They burst into the street to see people running away from the scene of the explosion. They heard sirens in the distance, but getting closer. The sirens, however, never reached them. They stopped a few blocks from the warehouse, setting up a perimeter. "They are acting strangely." Her mentor said. "They may have had some warning we were coming."

Weiss quickly looked up and down the street, seeing only the flashing lights of the police force on either end. "It seems that we're surrounded." She told her teacher.

"No matter." She replied. "We have done our job." It was now that Weiss' world was shattered and reformed in a second.

"Weiss!" Came an all too familiar voice.