happy mother's day, and sorry for the late fix. I wasn't aware of the error for some time.

Noruas

It was a simple mission but Jaune and Luke were both in a hurry to get back. It was mother's day and they both had somewhere to be. Luke needed to be with Pyrrha and Jaune needed to see his own mother. If she found out that he missed mother's day because he was on a mission she wouldn't be happy. It had been five days since they left and Luke was receiving nightly updates on Pyrrha's condition. There were complications with the surgery but she and the baby both made it out, they were also both still in the recovery ward. Martin was staying with team Rockslide throughout the day. He would spend breakfast with team RWBY. then he would go with Suzanna to spend the day with Pyrrha. And he would then spend the night with Ren and Nora. Luke had been told that the giddy grenadier and monotone monk where surprisingly good with children.

Looking back to the matter at hand Luke saw Jaune staring down the optic of his rifle, he was locked in on their target. A white fang area supervisor. They both were a little unsure about essentially being assassins but when they heard that this man had a habit of "taking" any female soldiers he captured they were less worried about the moral implications. When at the briefing they were shown pictures of his victims. Jaune knew he had a tough stomach but he had a hard time not throwing up.

"I have eyes on the bastard, what do you see?" Jaune's question was direct. He wanted Luke to scan over the rest of the Fang camp with his monocular. Jaune didn't want to take the shot until they were sure that their exfil route was secure.

He scanned over and saw that the camp was almost empty. It was early in the morning and the scumbag of a leader was doing his morning stretches. If Jaune was asking then that meant that he had a shot and he wanted to know if he should take it. They had waited for days but the opening was finally there

Luke gave one final overlook and said. "Clean shot path, send it."

There was a brief pause as Jaune began to squeeze the trigger. Then the shot broke. They were using the suppressor that came built into Jaune's C.A.S.A.C.O.M. but even then they didn't use subsonic rounds. As such there was a loud crack as the large 55 caliber 400-grain bullet struck the man in the chest dumping well over 320 pounds of force into his chest all at once. Now because the bullet was supersonic someone would hear it. The important thing was that the enemy had no way of knowing exactly where they were.

As soon as the hit was confirmed by Luke they were on their feet and heading to the extraction point. They had been running for about thirty seconds when Jaune pulled out the detonator. When he squeezed the lever there was a moment of silence and then a loud blast. During the night Jaune had snuck down and placed explosives on the bullheads and trucks that were there. They had waited a few seconds to give the white fang combatants time to get into the vehicles before they destroyed them. After all Luke and Jaune needed to start a game of attrition, once it was more expensive to chase them then to let them go they would stop chasing them.

They still had a several second heads start and the Fang soldiers would be on foot. But they still needed to wait for the extract bird to get there.

When they reached the rally point Jaune wheeled around to face the direction the Fang would most likely be coming from while Luke went to work signaling for extract. It would be several minutes before they bullhead arrived but they had enough rounds in Jaune's rifle to hold the extract point and Luke was about to head out into the forest to pick off anyone he could.

Once the signal was sent the transmitter responded with a number, that number was the number of minutes before the extract would arrive. "5 Mikes Top." Luke used the callsign to avoid anyone hearing Jaune's actual name.

"Solid copy, get into position." as he spoke Jaune pressed a button and the rifle shifted over into its carbine mode. He was getting ready to have a close-range firefight.

Luke sprinted into the forest and found a good spot to hide. Once he was there he dropped to a crouch and waited. The first wave rushed right passed him. "Hurrghm," he thought to himself. They weren't very well trained, they didn't check for any traps of mines. That meant these were the cannon fodder. It would be best if he left these ones to Jaune. That way the experienced guys wouldn't know that Luke was even here.

Sure enough, there was a lot of gunfire for about 30 seconds but then there was silence. Jaune had cover, ammo, aura, and experience. Those poor bastards just got feed to a woodchipper.

Soon the next line was coming, these were the experienced and trained soldiers. Luke knew that he wouldn't be able to evade them so once one got close enough to him he struck.

Lunging to his feet he ran his blade through the man's throat. His body fell to the forest floor a moment later. The man to his left had a very nice set of antler which Luke promptly grabbed and used to pull the man to the ground and then ram his sword through his throat as well. By now they would know something was wrong but they wouldn't be certain what.

Luke then made his way to next pair, they saw him coming but it didn't do much good the first one had his head removed and the second had the flat of Luke's blade slammed across the back of her head and fell unconscious to the ground.

By now the bullhead was here and Luke needed to get to the extract point. The mounted machine guns in the bullhead would cover his approach.

He was inside the bullhead and on his way back to Beacon inside of 50 seconds. As usual, Jaune had more kills but that was to be expected.

The ride back was long but quite. The only major thing was that Luke got another status update on Martin and Pyrrha. It said that they were fine. Luke smiled at the thought of going home and being with Pyrrha for mother's day. It would be the first time that Martin had a mother on mother's day so he was eager to see the way his son's face lit up.

They had arrived at Beacon at around 4:30 pm. As part of the Doctors orders, Pyrrha needed to take a nap at around noon each day. That meant that Luke was currently trying to sneak his way to the hospital room and surprise both Martin and Pyrrha.

He had made his way to the room and when he peeked inside he was slightly dismayed to see the room empty, then he began to worry when he saw that the bed had been remade as though they were getting ready for the next patient.

Going over to a nurse Luke asked her. "Ma'am, where is Ms. Nikos?"

The nurse seemed to briefly have the look of a deer caught in the headlights before she finally said: " I am sorry sir but I am only allowed to talk to family members about a patient's condition.."

At this Luke grew more annoyed and held up his hand saying. "she is my fiance, and the mother of my child where the HELL IS SHE!"

It was likely that Luke didn't even notice his own voice growing louder as he spoke. His fear and worry taking over him. If this nurse didn't give him a straight answer he was going to start tearing the entire hospital apart brick by brick until he found them.

The Nurse again looked like a deer in the headlights, clearly, she didn't know how to respond to this situation. This wasn't in her training. There was an unstable man with a sword yelling at her and she was about to burst into tears.

"Young man," the words came from an unexpected source. Professor Port stood a few feet away and said. "The headmaster has summoned you to his office, he says it is about Ms. Nikos."

his tone was serious and it put Luke on edge. "What do you mean, where is she, professor."

The rotund professor offered no response to this and simply gestured in the direction of the headmaster's office.

Luke had just made it into Ozpin's office when he began to sense that something was wrong. The normally stoic professor had a face that could only be described as sympathetic. "Luke, I don't want to waste your time with frivolities, you're not that kind of man. Ms. Nikos. She is…" there was a moment of pause as Ozpin readied himself for what he was about to say. "Ms. Nikos is deceased."