So...this is a bit over due now guys, sorry about not posting regularly. I had hoped to use most of my free time to give this story a huge kick start like how the first one started, but sadly I keep burning myself out to the point where writing or even thinking up a chapter idea becomes a challenge, though. But now, i give you guys the newest chapter! (Though it might have a strange start, wanted to try something new)

It had been a day since his encounter with Ironwood at the SDC and Tai was no where near the man or the Company, instead he was back in Vale, far away from his mission point and his own Team and Team RWBY. The boy sighed as he walked through the streets of Vale, still wearing the military uniform that had kept him warm during his stay in Atlas, though it was a lot shorter then expected. As he walked, he let himself get lost in thought over what happened.

The day before...

Tai stood before Ironwood, a dueling sword in his hand, while the General stood across from him, his own basket hilt sword in his good hand. The General had gotten to the point fairly quickly. It seemed he was not happy with Tai being there, and decided to exercise what Ozpin would not do after the breach. Tai was given two options. He could beat Ironwood in a duel and be free to wander Atlas as he pleased...but if he lost he would be forced to leave Atlas and not return for the duration of 1 year, unless a special circumstance arose which Tai was not told what it would be.

The two males squared off, the duel was to be fair. No Dust, No Semblances, No Aura usage. It was clear in the beginning of the fight that Tai had the speed advantage, but it was soon cut short when his blade was knocked out of his hands with a flick of the General's wrist, a swift kick made the boy double over, before he received a had strike to the face with the basket guard of the mans sword. The fight did not end there..but was far from in Tai's favor. After another ten minutes, the boy was crumbled to his knees, he could feel bruises forming, blood flowing from minors cuts and a bloodied nose. Ironwood only said one thing once the boy had clearly given in.

"At least the blades were dull."

Present time...

Tai huffed a bit before feeling his scroll go off for the 15th time. It has begun to become a game, which of the 7 girls still in Atlas was trying to get a hold of him this time? He took a wild guess and it seemed by the strongly worded preview it was from Weiss, guess he was wrong on guessing it was Nirvana or Ruby sending pouty face emotes again. He did kinda deserved it, stating only that he had to leave and that Guinevere was now in charge of Team TGSN.

He stopped as he came to a cross walk, grumbling a bit that he had to walk all the way across Vale to get to an airdock to get back to Beacon, as the ship that dropped him off had landed not at Beacon, but the Vale Military Base, seems Ironwood had a grudge for those bots he turned to scrap.

As he made it past the cross walk, his scroll buzzed again. They were messaging him again already? He pulled out the scroll only to see it was from Ozpin instead. Tai frowned and sighed...it seemed Ozpin was informed of what happened. Walking faster, Tai decided not to keep the headmaster waiting.

Back in Atlas, a certain Heiress was glaring at the screen of the scroll sitting on the table before her. The girls were all in the penthouse suite. Yang and Svetlana were arm wrestling, with the bear faunas having to hold back her semblance to keep from sending Yang through the table...and wall, Blake was reading, Guinevere was preparing dinner and Ruby was playing a game with Nirvana on the large TV.

After a few minutes, the heiress slammed her fist on the table, seething from the fact she was being ignored. "Why is he not answering any of us?!" She nearly screeched, half tempted to throw the messaging device across the room and out the window.

"He might be busy...he did seem in a rush before he left," Guinevere stated, not taking her eyes off the pan in front of her, not wanting to burn the stir-fry, "He will message back when he can."

Weiss looked at the female knight, who was currently wearing one a dress instead of her armor, all of them wearing casual clothing rather then combat attire. "How can you be so calm over this? Your leader just came back, stated he was leaving and that you were in charge, then left...aren't you at all worried?"

Guinevere shook her head "Not at all, I trust him." She turned her head and tapped her eye patch.

Weiss frowned a bit, remembering how the girl had earned that cloth that covered her eye. Three Team, way out of their league, defending a doomed village till evacuation arrive. She had thought at the time that it was a mistake to try and save the village instead of evacuating the villagers, but since then..she learned being a refugee was not a good experience, as most o those villagers had been displaced to many corners of the Kingdom.

She shook her head and sighed "Well, I'll give up then..."

"Hopefully your ghostly boyfriend won't get jealous that you are worried over another boy." Normally that type of thing you of been said by a certain blonde..but instead it came from the raven haired cat faunas.

Weiss crossed her arms, "He is not the jealous type, and we have all been messaging him." She huffed, her fingers wrapping around the dust crystal around her neck. Sebastian had mostly been dormant for a few days, though he would sometimes awaken at night to look at the moon or just to talk.

"Well at least i did not forget to tell my mother that I broke up with a certain half-faunas." Weiss fired back, causing Blake to flinch behind her book.

"You forgot to tell you Mom you broke up? Awkward." Yang stated from the table her and Svetlana were at.

"Awkward is an understatement, especially after that bombshell they dropped on us." The heiress huffed, picking up her scroll and flicking through the various apps and screens to find something.

"Bombshell?" Ruby asked, looking at the Cat Faunas who was trying very hard to hide in her book before everyone's Scrolls went off, save Weiss's and Blake's.

There was shared looks before they all looked and blinked, silence coming over everyone as Weiss huffed in annoyance and Blake just blushed, her face in her book at this point.

...everyone had just gotten wedding invites to the Wedding between Weiss's Father...and Blake's Mother.

"So...that's a thing" Was all that was said, coming from a certain Blonde brawler.

Glynda looked up from where she stood next to Ozpin's desk as the doors opened to the office, followed by the footfalls of boot clad feet. She looked over the military inspired get up Tai was wearing a rolled her eyes, "A few days in Atlas and you are already sporting the military look." She then looked the boys face over, seeing the black eye he had, and a swallow cut on his cheek, before she could remark, Ozpin spoke up.

"No need to explain anything, The General sent a report. Cunning man to give himself the upper hand by choosing swordplay as the challenge." Ozpin looked over the boy in front of him before relaxing a bit "If I knew he was going to hold a grudge for that small incident I would of pulled some strings, but with his influence in Atlas..there is nothing that can be one now." The Headmaster frowned.

"I don't mind, honestly Atlas is not the most pleasant place to be." Tai smiled a bit, kinda glad to be out of the frozen hell, but sad that his friends and team were still there.

"Well truth be told, that mission was really meant to be a vacation, the mission was just a cover by Mr. Schnee." Glynda added, "But it is good you are here...some people are currently here that you need to see." The woman swiftly headed to the door, her heels clacking as she went.

Tai blinked and turned to Ozpin with a question look.

"Some people did survive the attack from the video..people you know." Ozpin nodded to the door as it opened.

Tai then turned and blinked as a two familiar faces walked in. Cinder and Roman walked into the room, Cinder looking exhausted while Roman's face looked like he had tried to fight a jackhammer with his face. Roman was still wearing his blood splattered clothes while Cinder was in a fresh shirt a bit large on her frame and a pair of shorts...it looked like the pyromancer had just woken up too.

"We just got all the kids to sleep right when you called too." Roman chuckled a bit, waving lazily at Tai "Hey kid, you look better then I do" He smirked, pointing at Tai's black eye then his own bruised face.

"Did..the others make it?!" Tai cringed at his own volume, but he had no idea that they had been at the massacre.

Cinder butted in, nodding sleepily "Mhm..they are currently in a room Ozpin is letting us use...all of them are sleeping...the need it after what happen."

Tai blinked and walked over to them, "Explain?"

Roman chuckled a bit grimly before looking at Tai...

"Oh do we have a story for you Kiddo..."

And there you have it. Might of seemed a bit lazy, but I got my point across, and left it at a point that I can get a new chapter out fairly quickly. New events are on the horizon with the announcement of the wedding, and the Arrival of Roman and Company at Beacon. Coming chapters might contain fluff as he have been missing it for a long time XD So until then, Arrix out!