It was a normal day at Beacon academy, with the many students either resting their little heads from homework or recent missions they got back from. Though for one team, it was just a lazy Saturday afternoon. Second year team RWBY, led by young 16 year old Protege Ruby Rose was lazing around in there room away at their own devices. Ruby was on her scroll playing a game while laying down on her bed. Her partner, 18 year old Weiss Schnee was busy filing her nails while she sat in her desk chair, the world around her blank. 18 year old Yang Xiao Long, older sister of Ruby Rose, was lying down on her bed while playing with her hair. And her partner, 18 year old Blake Belladonna was reading a book while on her bed.

Now that they were second years, they were laying in a second year dorm, which was remotely bigger than the first year dorms, and had more visible space for their stuff. But that didn't stop their team leader in making bunk beds once more even though they kinda didn't need to.

"Ahhh, i'm so borrrrrred," Yang said.

"Well what do you want to do?" Her partner asked.

"I don't know, is PRN (Prawn) back from their mission yet?" Yang asked, referring to the team once known as (J)NPR

"No yang, but they should be back tonight,"

"Ahhhh, Why can't anything interesting happen right now?"

As if some mystical force was writing it down and answering her scripted prayers, team RWBY' scrolls all buzzed as message from the headmaster displayed on the screens asking them to report to his office.

"Well ask and you shall receive I guess," Yang said while getting out of bed.

"You think it's a mission?" Weiss asked.

"I hope so, it's been awhile since our last mission," Ruby said.

"That was last week you dunce."

"I know, so loooooong."

Weiss just shook her head, and promptly pulled her partner out of bed and all together walked to the headmaster's office to see what he had in store for them.

As the team entered their headmasters office, they were greeted with a middle aged man standing behind a desk, with silver hair and wearing a dark green suit, next to him was a woman of similar age, with platinum blonde hair, wearing a white blouse with a black cape.

Headmaster Ozpin, and Professor Glynda Goodwitch of beacon academy.

"Good evening team RWBY, I hope I haven't stolen you away from anything important," Ozpin said.

"Not too worry sir, just lazing around is all," Ruby said.

"Well that's good, because I have an assignment for you."

"Really, what is it?"

Ozpin let a smile form on his face, Ruby was always the same, no matter what she was always full of enthusiasm, and ready for anything.

"I'm glad you asked,R we have received reports of a mysterious energy reading coming from the Emerald forest. I was wondering if you lot would mind going too check it out really quickly. "

"Of course Headmaster, we won't let you down," Ruby said with the rest of her team agreeing.

"Excellent, i'll send the coordinates to your scrolls, in the meanwhile there will be a bullhead waiting for you at the launch bay, good luck girls,"

Team RWBY then walked out of the office and made their way down to the launch pads too see a bullhead docked and waiting for them.

"Alright team, operation find the weird energy source is a go," Ruby said as she rushed into the bullhead.

Weiss only shook her head as she watched her partner use her semblance to get into the bullhead. She was always like this, ever since they became second years and started accepting missions, she was always the first one too the boards so she could accept the good ones. Sometimes without her team's consent.

"Honestly could she be any childish?" Weiss asked.

"Well I think it's great to see her in a good mood," Yang said.

"True, it's a lot better than having her mope around," Blake said.

"Yeah, she still misses him."

There was a moment of silence as the three remembered their fallen comrade, but they pushed that for a later time, and packed into the bullhead.

As the bullhead carrying team RWBY reached its destination after a relatively short flight lowered to the ground, and hovered a few feet before the doors opened and the four girls jumped out armed and ready.

"Alright spread out, the data says that the source of energy is coming around this area, yell if you find anything," Ruby commanded.

The girls all nodded and spread out too search for the mysterious energy signature.

So everyone spread out, looking for anything that would stand out too them

As Yang walked through the vast vegetation of the emerald forest humming to herself as she walked around, she spotted a clearing not too far from where they were and walked right in and saw someone laid against a tree with what looked like a rifle and duffel bag by his side. she couldn't see the person's face because some weirs helmet was covering it, but she could make out the strands of blonde hair coming out.

"Now what do we have here?" She asked herself

She walked over to the person who laid asleep, and noticed that he was wearing the weirdest clothing, but couldn't see his face because it was covered by his weird helmet.

She walked in front of the person, and could now tell that it was a man. She knelt down and shook his shoulders, expecting him to wake, but no response, fearing the worse she put her fingers up too his neck and checked to see if there was a pulse, Which there was.

'Okay good he's alive, whoever he is.'

"Hey guys I found someone," Yang said aloud.

"Okay we're coming!" Her sister yelled from afar.

As Yang waited for her team to walk over, she noted the attire and equipment on her mystery man. His outfit was nothing like she ever seen before, and it was covered with pouches and bandoleers. She got tired of not seeing his face, and decided to unmask him.

"Alright, let's get a good look, see if your cute or not," Yang said as she reached for his helmet.

She pulled it off his face and gazed at him, only for her to go wide eyed and freeze like a deer in headlights and drop the helmet.

"J-j-jaune!"

Her eyes must be deceiving her, for Jaune arc was dead He died over a year after that explosion, but here he was alive and hopefully well. Meanwhile the rest of her team made it to where Yang was, and Ruby noticed her sister frozen in shock and rushed over to her.

"Yang, what's wrong? Are you hurt? Who's this guy? is he oka… Oh my god," Ruby said, but was unable to finish her sentence as she gazed at the man in front of her.

"What are you two staring at, did you find something?" Weiss asked from behind Ruby.

She scoffed at the sisters who appeared to be awestruck at something, but couldn't see because they were in the way, so she walked over to them and took a look for herself.

"Honestly what could be so-," That was as far as Weiss got, before her mind just shut down after gazing at the man in front of her.

Blake didn't say anything, already having seen Jaune using her faunus vision, and stopped processing information the moment she stood in the clearing.

"Is, is it really him?" Ruby asked.

"No, this can't be, he died," Weiss said in shock.

"Wait, whats this, around his neck," Blake pointed out.

Yang saw what Blake was pointing too, and grasped some sort of necklace around him, and pulled it out to reveal it to be a set of dog tags.

Arc

Jaune M.

0102-243-4532

O positive

Christian

"Oh my god, it's really him," Yang said in shock

Ruby just stood there in front of her first real friend, the person who helped her that first day. She cried for days on end when he 'died', and never left her room. It took her almost half the second semester too get over his death, but eventually the tears did run dry, weather it was that she was over it, or she couldn't cry anymore. She hasn't cried like that ever since her mother died.

Blake seemed to shake herself out of her shocked gaze after her faunus senses picked up something closing in on them.

Grimm, and a lot of them.

"Guys, we have Grimm closing in on us," Blake said as she readied her weapon.

Ruby seemed to perk up after hearing the Grimm were coming, and it couldn't have been at a worse time. Her best friend came back to them, and the Grimm were coming too try and take him away again.

"Yang, help Blake keep the Grimm and bay, Weiss, call the bullhead back and help me stay close to Jaune and provide support, I don't want too see a scratch on him when we're out of this," Ruby ordered.

No one protested anything Ruby said, only nodded silently and got in position, it was clear what the objective is, get Jaune the hell out of here and back to Beacon.

Ruby looked down at her best friend, she wouldn't let anything happen to him now, she will not lose him like she lost her mother.

'Where, where am I' Jaune thought to himself.

Last he remembered he was checking on the fireworks for the 4th of July party, and then, everything went white.

Jaune stumbled in his place, wherever that was, and his ears began to pick up some sort of sound, gunfire.

'Target practice, wait no, this is different,' Jaune thought.

Jaune than felt his eyes try and open, but they felt heavy too him, and tried to get up, but couldn't, and grunted as he tried to move his surprisingly stiff body

'Why-why do I feel weaker than I was?' He thought.

"He's waking up!" Someone shouted.

"Alright, keep him cover don't let them get close," Another said.

'What, Shit are we under attack, but who'd be stupid enough to attack a U.S. base on home turf?'

Jaune tried to move as the sound of gunfire picked up, his instinct telling him to get up and try and help.

"Jaune don't move, we're here to help," The first voice said.

'That voice, why does it sound so familiar,'

"Ruby we need some help over here!" Another voice screamed.

'Wait a second, no, it couldn't be,'

Jaune then felt his eyelids become lighter and lighter as he tried harder to get up, and soon his eyes met the rays of the blinding sun. His vision was blurry, and he had a hard time seeing, but it was slowly coming back too him.

"Stay down Jaune, you're in no condition to fight," The second voice said to him.

That voice, her name, no it couldn't be, it's been years since he heard that voice, the voice of someone he use to call snowangel.

"W-w-Weiss," Jaune said weakly, and with a higher pitched voice than he remembers.

Jaune then felt his eye adjust, and found himself looking up at the face of a young pale woman, with icey blue eyes and snow white hair.

"Jaune, listen too me and stay down, the bullhead will be here soon too pick us up, and you're in no condition to fight the Grimm," Weiss said.

"G-Grimm," Jaune said weakly.

How long has it been since he heard that word? Those ancient creatures of darkness that use to be the thing that threatened mankind.

Jaune managed to get a good view of his surroundings and see where the gunfire was coming from. He saw the entirety of team RWBY fighting off against the Grimm, beowolves to be specific. And there were a lot of them. Weiss then took her vision off Jaune and stabbed her rapier into the ground too place up a wall too cover Yang from a few beowolves trying to sneak up on her. Jaune took the time she was not looking to try and get up, and noticed his M1 Garand rifle on his left. He reached out his left arm and grasped the slang of the rifle and pulled it too him, thought his muscles strained a bit and the rifle felt a little heavier than he remembered it. He managed to pull the rifle up to him, and grasped it in both hands. He saw it wasn't loaded, and reached into his ammo bag to grab a fresh clip, and with some shaky weak hands, loaded the rifle.

As Weiss was using her Dust and glyphs to lend support to her teammates, the horde was almost dealt with, and they needed too just take care of the stragglers now.

"Weiss look out!" her partner cried.

Weiss then looked at her right to see a lone beowolf got past the line and had its claw ready and was ready to strike her. It was too close and she prepared her aura to take the blow But it never came

*Bang*

Weiss opened her eyes at the sound of a gunshot close by, and saw the beowolf was missing half of its head. She looked at her partner too see if she fired the shot, but she saw she was on her left and had not aimed at it, so who took the shot? Weiss then turned around to see none other than Jaune holding a smoking gun with a bullet casing on the ground next to him. And it looked like he just finished off the rest of the beowolves as well.

"You owe me a drink snow angel," Jaune said with a slight grin on her face.

Weiss was baffled at first, but let a smile on her face as she walked over too Jaune, she than bent down, and Jaune saw that smile turn into one of anger.

'Oh no,' Jaune thought.

The next thing he knew was that Weiss's hand smacked him right across the face.

"Okay ow."

"You have a lot of explaining too do you!" Weiss yelled in his face.

"I understand that I have been gone a long time no doubt, but right now I can't really move and feel really weak, so perhaps you could bitch too me some other time ice queen," Jaune said.

Weiss was just baffled, she personally felt insulted, not only did she call her and ice queen (even thought she should get use to it now) but he just called her out for bitching. Oh she was pissed if anything.

"You- how dare you!"

"Listen Princess, I've been through Hell that's probably 10 times the amount of hurt you could put me through, so can we please settle this in a more civilized manner, and at a place not infested with creatures of pure evil," Jaune said.

"He's right guys, look I can see the bullhead coming in now, so why don't we wait before we get back to Beacon before Weiss decides to castrate Jaune," Blake said as the bullhead was coming over the horizon.

Weiss only grunted and grit her teeth, she was going to give Jaune a piece of her mind that was for sure, but it had to wait. So she just pushed her plans for the arc at a later time and helped i'm get too his feet while Ruby took his rifle and duffel with, no doubt too look through everything and sneak a peek at the rifle.

As they loaded into the bullhead, Jaune leaned back in his seat, and watched as the bullheads doors shut in front of him. He gazed a look at his old friends and noticed something, they weren't as old as they expected them to be. They don't look like they aged at all. 5 years may not be that long, but they should at least look a bit older right?

"Man, you ladies look like you haven't aged a day," Jaune said.

"What?" Yang asked

"Well, it's just that I thought you'd look older after all these years, but you look no older than 17 still."

"Because we're 18 now Jaune, you were only 'dead' for a year after all," Blake said.

...What?

"What, but, how? Wait does anyone have a mirror?" Jaune asked quickly.

No one had a mirror, but Yang took out her scroll with the front camera on, and Jaune didn't see a 22 year old man with a short stubble and more defined muscles on the screen. He saw a young scrawny 18 year old boy.

"What the fuck!" Jaune yelled!

"Curse word!" Ruby yelled while pointing at Jaune.

To be continued.