A/N: Hopefully this will stop that typical Monday feeling right in its tracks. Guess what! I finally have set dates as to when I'm supposed to put up a new chapter! The next one should probably be up by the fourteenth of March. I just thought I'd let you guys know. Guess what else? I'm gonna continue with Velvet until probably next chapter, where her portion will end and maybe go to Yang or someone. Anyway, Enjoy!

Our group was back on our horses. We trudged a couple miles along before Blake's "emergency phone" rang. She told us it was Sun.

I heard his muffled, excited voice blasting out of the speaker end of the phone.

Blake responded to whatever she was hearing with, "Yeah? What's up? I know it's something big if you called me."

Of the words I could make out, he said, "It's something big alright. Adam moved [garbled mess of words] somewhere, someplace up toward [more jumbled mess]. [Coughing, sputtering and laughing] NEPTUNE!"

"Alright then. Thanks again, Sun," Blake said, once again unfazed by her friend's antics.

I asked, "Blake, can I talk to him for a second?"

"Hold on, Sun, Velvet wants to talk to you."

I heard a perfectly audible "Uh-oh."

"So…Sun. How has it been? How many have been treated since I left for this…business trip?"

A stifled voice sounded from the phone, saying, "Uhhh, NEPTUNE! How many people have left here healthy since Velvet left?"

An almost inaudible voice sounded out from a different room. It sounded like something from the thousands. Maybe more.

"He said just about eight thousand. I'd say we're doing fine on our own."

"I'm sorry to inform you, Sun, but it would seem that is just about one thousand and one less than what we were capable of before I left. Go back to your work before any more die of your carelessness. You're needed in the O.R. Doctor Free is waiting."

I heard him gulp down what sounded like the whole of his Adam's apple.

He said nervously, an easily-heard shake in his voice, "Y-yes Ma'am."

I heard a click, and suddenly I was talking to a wall. The talkative, yet silent person on the other line that is the dial tone.

"Hello? Ground control to Major Tom? Velvet? You somewhere you shouldn't be right now?"

"What?" I asked confused as I suddenly snapped back into existence.

"I said, 'are you in your own head right now?'" said a large mass of yellow.

"Wait. Yang? Did I space out again?"

"Yup. I totally nailed that David Bowie joke."

Yang. Always quick with a joke. She was always a bit cheesy, but she was good for a laugh if you haven't heard her material.

"Yang, snap out of it. You're back in the 1900's. You need to exit the matrix. Neo, you're going in too deep! Get out of there! Wake up, damn you!"

"Oh? Hello? I'm sorry. I just didn't think it was PC to tell you that I think that [obvious fake coughing noise] I'm dying of stupidity and other comedic ailments."

"Of course it's politically correct you ninny!"

"So," Yang jested, "is it also PC if I were to say that all male faunus are total assholes?"

I heard the clinking of metal upon metal, knowing that noise could only be Blake.

"A – Freaking – Men, sister. Also, get out of the 90's. PC is a very touchy subject in that time."

I stated confidently, "Yang, Blake, you both know that everything is PC now. It's the apocalypse! Nothing matters anymore! No-one to tell you 'no.' Nothing to stop you from driving on a full tank of gas as far cross country as possible, as fast as you want. You're free to do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it. My motto from the start of the end was, 'If I'm to die today, I'm going to die knowing that I've done all there is to do.'"

"S**t Velvet, you're so deep I can't even see you anymore."

"Yang, shut up. Pretty please?"

Blake put on a strange Russian accent, "Dee feesikull appearance off dee please does not change anytink."

"Blake?" I asked, "Since when were you the funny one?"

"I'm allowed, aren't I?"

"Ruby?"

"Yes Velvet?"

"Do you even know where we're going?"

"Of course, Velvet. If I didn't know, we would have passed that orange rock that we marked only four times now."

"Oh. Because Blake actually does know where we're going."

"Well why didn't she f**king say anything? We've been going in circles for hours!"

Blake joined in, "Because you looked the same shade as your clothes, so I didn't want to make you even angrier."

"You made me angrier not telling me until now! My eyes are burning from looking at that GOD DAMNED ROCK FOR HOURS!"

"Okay! Jesus, lady! He's gone up north toward a hospital in a small city kind of like back home."

"Did we get. The goddamned hospitals. Goddamn name."

"No. We 'goddamn' didn't get the name of the 'goddamn' hospital."

Yang once again attempted a joke, "So when do we get to Goddam Memorial Hospital? Also, do we know who Goddam is? He sounds really interesting."

"Well…" I tried, "Uhh. Sorry, Ruby?"

"Damn it. You know I can't stay mad at you, Velvet."

"That's what I'm here for."