Ruby and Blake arrived at the Roses' apartment not long after they started racing. It was a close one, but Ruby ended up making up for lost time and won. After her little victory celebration, both friends made their way into the apartment complex. Though, Ruby totally forgot something, and it only came to her when Blake had pushed the button to call the elevator and started waiting.

"Oh, uh, by the way Blake. I hate to tell you this, but the elevator is kinda broken."

Blake raised a brow. "How'd it get broken?"

Ruby could feel a sweat drop forming. She shifted her eyes to the lower right corner of her eyes, and started poking her pointer fingers together.

"Well you see, um, I was working on my first ever test with...explosive ammo. And uh, well one thing led to another, and... I've really need to fix the elevator one of these days. Hehe...he..." She laughed awkwardly as the embarrassment grew with the sweat drop.

Blake's left eye began to twitch when she realized what Ruby was trying to tell her. She looked to the end of the hall to a door. A door marked, "STAIRS".

"Son of a bitch! Not again!" Blake yelled.

After another fierce war between Blake and twenty-four floors of stairs behind them, the duo had finally reached the apartment. Ruby took out her spare key, unlocked the door, and entered.

"Yang! Yang I'm home! Yang?" Ruby called out as she rushed into the living room, with Blake cautiously following close.

Only, when both girls entered the living room and looked around, Yang was no where to be seen. No one was here. The TV was still running, Yang's scroll was lying on her work desk in the living room, and Ruby's room looked ransacked (more then usual).

"What happened here?" Blake asked.

"I'm not sure." Ruby answered. "But I'm guessing we weren't robbed. If anything, it just looks like Yang was looking for something in my room and just took off. She even forgot her scroll."

Blake took a quick sniff. "You're right. I'm only getting one scent, and I'm guessing it's Yang's. Though she's been gone for awhile, it's really faint."

Blake tried to find and track the freshest scent , while Ruby took Yang's scroll and started going through the history.

"There's a video that's been played recently. Says it's the 'Mark 8 tutorial'." Blake called from the TV. Yang's scent had settled here for quite awhile.

Ruby stopped looking through Yang's messages. She zoomed over to a nearby locked drawer, which turned out to be unlocked, and found it empty. She sat there on her knees, staring inside the container.

When Blake moved over by Ruby, she also started looking in the drawer. After a glance she asked, "What'd she take?"

Ruby looked up at Blake and explained. "She took a new model of her gauntlet weapons. I recently redid the firing chamber to withstand more heat, allowing for even more stronger types of explosive ammo and fire manipulation. I also was playing with the idea of making a super charged shot that would be pretty devastating, becoming an area of effect weapon. I called it the 'Super Nova shot'. It was going pretty well until I realized I couldn't get a strong enough ammo for it. So I shelved it till I could figure something out."

"Hmm. Wonder what she would need that type of weaponry for." Blake pondered.

Ruby handed the holographic tablet in her hands to Blake. "Well if I had to guess, probably you."

WWWWWWWW

Well…it seems Jane Doe missed her.

When Yang showed back up, she found the girl sobbing. Yang had to, embarrassingly, sooth the girl for at least twenty minutes, even though she couldn't figure out what the girl was even crying about. Something about "her fault", and "should've just been me". Though with all the crying and her croaking voice, it's hard telling what she's on about.

After the girl had calmed down some, Yang was able to get her to drink some water. Her strength was starting to return, so her aura must be recovering and healing her, or at the very least was giving her the strength to withstand all the pain. So, just in case, while Jane was drinking Yang checked on all her wounds. Most actually seemed to be healing nicely, though she could tell that broken arm would take some more time. Really Jane was just lucky that was her only broken bone, since even the strongest of auras have trouble healing bones.

"What's your name?" Yang asked, checking the last of the girl's wounds.

The girl mumbled an inaudible sound in response.

"Sorry, didn't catch that." Yang started replacing the girl's bandages for new ones.

"My name is…" The girl tried to repeat though stopped. She struggled, trying to make each individual sound as if learning to speak for the first time. "We…Wei…Weiss. Weiss. My name is, Weiss. Weiss…Sch…Schn…Schn-"

"Okay okay, I get it. Just don't hurt yourself. My name's Yang." The fiery girl interrupted.

The girl just nodded, not even caring to try and finish her scattered thought. She just started staring off somewhere Yang couldn't see, with a look that almost seemed doll like.

When Yang finally finished checking all of Weiss's wounds and reapplying, she decided to use the extra water they had to scrub away any leftover blood in Weiss's hair. She couldn't do anything for the dress, but it could be salvaged. The jacket however was another story; It got the full flow of blood. It may have gotten all of it and the dress would've been saved, if not for that weird huge chunk in the back being torn off. Maybe it had her emblem on the back?

Maybe I should try and find her something else to wear. Yang thought to herself. While I'm at it, maybe look for a new vest too.

It's just a shame really. She's got such a beautiful dress, like something a princess would wear, and now it's ruined. Actually, now that I think about it...

"Weiss," Yang said while running more water through Weiss's hair. "What exactly happened to you?"

Weiss didn't answer her right away. She just continued to stare off into the distance, with her eyes continuing to seem vacant and lifeless. And after a minute of that, Yang started to get worried and stopped. She tried putting her right hand in front of Weiss and snapped her fingers repeatedly. It seemed to do the trick, making Weiss snap out of whatever day dream she was having, and making her blink slowly several times before answering sleepily.

"Huh?"

Yang just rolled her eyes, resisting the urge to make some smart ass remark about brain damage. But even by her standards that'd be mean and uncalled for.

"I said, what happened to you anyway? Were you in an accident or something?" Yang finished getting the last of the blood out of Weiss's hair. She was now using a brush to try getting the clumps out and straiten the thing while it was still wet. Meanwhile Weiss went dead silent again, and Yang thought she'd have to get her attention again.

"I fell from a shuttle."

Yang stopped mid brush. She could feel her eyes widen and her jaw hanging barely open. She slid in front of Weiss, sitting on her knees in front of her, and locked eyes. "Say what?"

Weiss's eyes went dark and she lowered her head, causing her wet and messy hair to start covering her face. Put that together with her bloody dress...she suddenly looked very frightening.

Not helping was the fact she was stuttering and mumbling almost every word. And her voice was still somewhat croaky, making things even harder to understand.

"I, don't remember all the details. It's strange. The airship parts seem mostly clear, but everything else before that seems fuzzy. Like my name. I knew I knew it. But when I tried to remember it, it got really fuzzy and unclear. Though I know I was on a airship, heading...somewhere. I was with knights, and they were... escorting me... I think."

Guarded by knights?! Whoever she is, she must be someone of value. Is she a councilmen's daughter? A Dust company maybe?

Weiss continued on. "We were traveling with someone. Someone...important. We were all waiting in a seating area, I think. The knights and I were just talking... and then I think a worker came to tell me that someone wanted to talk to me... So I went with her to his office.

"When we reached his office, he was talking to some people. Though they left, and I was alone with him. He kept asking if I knew someone. Someone called, To..Torch..Torchwi..."

Hairs on the back of Yang's neck started to stand up. Goose flesh covered her.

It can't be possible. One can't be here! There hasn't been one in over a hundred years. It was said the last one was wiped out, that their whole damn clan had been wiped out!

"Torchwick." Yang finished for Weiss.

Weiss nodded, confirming Yang's fears. "I said no. I've never heard the name before... at least, I don't think I have.

"And...that's when he attacked me. He shattered my arm in one hit... because my aura wasn't at full strength... I didn't think I was in danger."

Weiss put her left hand up to her head and started clutching it, like it was hurting her. "Then he started beating me. Said he was going to make me suffer. Though I don't remember much... think I started blacking out when he dragged me by my hair into the elevator.

"We started to go down somewhere. Then I think I heard some kind of explosion. Gunfire too I think.

"Roman actually seemed really happy at first... but then really confused when more explosions went off. He started talking to himself and was pressing on his ear. When we stopped at a new floor, he dragged me through some kind of hangar like area. He'd set up a room somewhere...a fun chamber he called it."

Weiss started talking faster and more clear. She was starting to even hold her scar more tightly with both hands.

"We entered the room, and he strapped me into a chair in the center of the room...and then started hitting me some more. He kept telling me to scream. He kept saying he'd stop hitting me if I screamed louder and louder. Only the more I screamed, the harder he hit me."

Weiss's breathing became more rapid, and tears were starting to escape from her. Meanwhile Yang was trying not to throw up at the thought of all this. All she wanted was to run away and not have hear anymore of this.

Because the more Weiss went on, the more Yang saw a similar thing happening to Ruby.

"When he finally stopped hitting me, he told me he was going to go get some... tools. He told me to relax, to take a seat, and to get comfortable. He said I needed to be relaxed if he was going to enjoy everything.

"I don't remember everything exactly after that. But I think after he left, I tried escape. When that failed, I screamed and shrieked for help. After my voice died, I think I just gave up. I just sat there... with him whispering to me."

"Him? Who's him?" Yang asked, though Weiss just seemed to ignore her.

"I don't know how long I waited. But after awhile, I heard the door being unlocked. I waited for the inevitable pain.

"Only...it never came. Instead of pain, I could feel the bolts and straps keeping me in place being released. I looked up and I saw a boy with brown hair, the lead knight. He said they were going to get me out; Get me off that ship. I was so happy. I thought everything was going to be okay.

"But...as the knight and I got out of the room, we saw Torchwick with some strange looking soldiers. He and the knight bantered about something, though I can't remember what. And by that point, I was just trying not to black out.

"The two went on and on about something. Torchwick was up in some kind of glass office, like a control tower or something. He said something, and then started laughing. The knight started to look very frightened, and I think he tried to tell me... to hang on to something. Air suddenly started rushing all around us, the hanger door had opened, and we were being sucked away. I held onto the young knight, and he held on to some nearby piece of the wall. He was slipping though. We were both going to die at that rate... So did the only thing I could think of at the time.

"I let go of him...and I fell."

Yang could see the rest of the story.

Weiss fell, clipping the side of a roof with her back, ripping the back of her jacket and maybe hitting her head. She landed in some alley, directly on her right arm. Weiss then somehow lifted herself up onto her feet, and the rest is history.

Frankly it's amazing this girl's aura was strong enough to block most of that damage, but it still would've been fatal. So if Yang hadn't been there, Weiss may have been dead in minutes.

After Weiss finished her story, Yang calmly got up, went to the nearest exit, went outside, and thew up.