Solace wakes to find himself in an unusual situation. He is very well aware that he is at Beacon Academy and should be in his room as he is still wearing his pajamas and yet he's not, the room he is instead inside of resembles a cabin, this can't be right? Although he doesn't recognize the cabin room, everything about it feels eerily familiar, as if he's been inside of it before. He walks around the room and makes a more detailed observation; the cabin room had only one door and window; he tries to look outside but it is late at night and no moon was out to illuminate the land, making it too dark for him to see anything. The floor sounded pretty old as every step he made caused the wood to creak, the walls were decorated with photos of people he doesn't know but feels like he's seen before and there was only four pieces of furniture found inside, a spring mattress being supported by rust covered metal frames, a night stand, and an ordinary cheap wooden chair along with a table. While looking around Solace felt like something was also in the room with him as if it was trying to grab his attention, he turns around towards the source of his uneasiness and sees that it was coming from a photo hanged on the far left side of the wall. He walks closer to it and sees that the picture was of a very young Faunus girl, no looking older than 6 years old; the young girl had blonde hair, vibrant golden eyes, a white skin complexion and cat ears along with a tail. While observing the photo the glass cover suddenly cracks, startling Solace a bit and making him take a few steps back, afterwards the scent of smoke becomes present and the sound of a child crying came along with it. The sources of these two came from behind the door and so Solace quickly opens the door and rushes room he rushes in was caught in flames and sees that the child he saw in the photo was in the middle of the room trying to drag both of her parents out of there, who appears to be passed out. Solace immediately runs towards her to help the child out but was a bit surprised when he just realizes that he was in his Vanguard uniform and armor all of sudden, pushing his thoughts aside he continues to run towards her and when he finally arrives he was again surprised by the fact that her parents were actually dead not passed out; the two bodies had three holes in their torsos, suggesting that they were gun downed. He grabs one of the parent's arms and tries to lift the corpse up but was stopped when the little girl pushed him away from her mother and father.

"GET AWAY FROM THEM YOU MURDERER!" After pushing Solace away the child stood in the way between him and her parents.

The fire becomes more intense as a wooden rafter from the ceiling came crashing down next to both of them, not wasting anymore time Solace makes the decision to get up and pick the girl up against her will then rushed out of the wooden home via the front door; the structure was coming down very quickly and the fire was only getting stronger so he had no choice but to leave her parents corpses behind. Once the two got outside and was a safe distance from the building he puts her down, but not wanting to leave her parents behind she tries to fight Solace to let her through to get to them, but he wouldn't allow it, trying to tell her that she would only get herself killed if she does. Realizing that he was right the child breaks down into tears and collapses onto her knees, Solace turns around to look at the house and sees that the fire was not a natural one but was being intentionally spread by fellow Vanguards equipped with flamethrowers.

"Why? Why did you kill them but not me?" The little girl asks while still crying.

"What are you saying I didn't-" he looks onto his arms and notices blood splattered around them, as well as his torso; he checked to see if it was his but he wasn't injured at all.

Eight more Vanguards arrived to rendezvous with him and recognizes one of them; it was his closes friend in his unit 1st Lieutenant Blue Falcyn. "So you found another one hiding?" The eight men begin to encircle him and the little girl.

"What are you talking about? Why are we doing this?" Are the words he wanted to say but instead he says "yeah, she came out of hiding after I eliminated her parents."

"Did you have a struggle with civies?" Blue asks.

"Don't mock me, they were taken out easily."

"Well shall I do the honors or-" hands his pistol to Solace, "should you finish on what you started?"

Solace takes the pistol then aims at the child, wait, wait, wait, I don't want to do this! This isn't what I wanted to do! No matter on how hard he tries he couldn't stop his body from moving, it's as if everything has already been put into motion and he's only there to suffer through the ride. The little girl's weeping begins to slow down and she looks up slowly towards Solace to see him aiming his weapon at her. The Vanguard's armor comes with a helmet that fully covers the user's head, making sure the enemy cannot see the operator's face but even though she can't see it, Solace has the look of regret as he simply just doesn't want to pull the trigger, but instead all she saw was a mirrored version of herself on his visor. In the back of his mind he's trying to tell himself to not do it, that this is wrong but out of nowhere he hears a very familiar voice in his head, you are to follow your orders to the letter if you want to save not only yourself but everyone else as well. He pulls the trigger then immediately everything goes black before waking up back in his room and rushing towards the toilet in his bathroom, once there he begins to throw up immensely. He spends the next 10 minutes regurgitating everything that he ate last night into the toilet before pulling himself together and seeing on what time it is. The clock read 0500, which was perfect since it gave him enough time for an early morning run and since it was so early in the morning nobody else was awake wandering around, making his run rather peaceful. The sun had not risen during his run making the morning air very crisp and cool, the perimeter of the academy was his track and after running for about an hour his mind was once again cleared and he returns back to his room to shower. While washing up he tries to make sense on what he was dreaming and realizes that he was reliving the Vanguards most tragic operation on Black Marsh. The girl he saw in his dream was one of many innocent victims who had been executed by him and his brothers, the Vanguards fought those who caused nothing but sorrow and strife and on that fateful day the noble warriors were blinded and accidentally became that which they sought to destroy. In the end all of the Vanguards he fought with for years left the program and was never heard of from again, leaving him a captain without men to lead. To this very day the whole mishap still makes him sick to his stomach as he demonstrated earlier and he wishes that he could've denied the order but you just can't change the past and the only thing he could do now is learn from the whole mistake so it doesn't happen again in the future. He finishes up his shower, shaves his face, gets dressed then puts on his back pack, his books and other school supplies were already inside so with everything all set for the day he locks up his door then sets off to go to team RWBY's room. He figures that since he will be working as an asset to them he should introduce himself. Solace makes it to their hallway and hears yelling from one of the room, he continues to walk forward then sees Weiss Schnee leaving and looking pretty angry. She sees Solace ahead of her and takes the time to greet him.

"Hey, aren't you the guy that fought the Death Stalker and Nevermore with us?"

"That I am, my name is Solace Krieg. Captai- er, I mean retired captain of Sanguine Company, 1st Vanguards." The way Weiss presented herself reminded Solace of all the higher ups he used to talk to, demanding respect but doing so with elegance, but at the same time she was also giving off a vibe that told Solace that she was really sheltered and if anything spoiled.

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you Solace, I'm Weiss Schnee heiress to the Schnee Dust Company."

"Really, you're related to the man who owns the Schnee Dust Company?"

"As the name implies."

"Well funny you mention that, cause I actually had talked to your father while working with the Vanguards."

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah, I was assigned to be his personal body guard for awhile and me and him would occasionally talk whenever he wanted to."

"Huh, listen I was going to go to the cafeteria and grab breakfast would you care to join me?"

"I'd love to." The two then traveled together to the cafeteria.

"So you claimed that you were in the Vanguards? I've never heard of them before, what are they some kind of Atlesian military unit?"

"Yes, they're a Atlesian Special Operation Group, their sole job is to hunt down anybody or anything that is going to unleash strife and violence onto the innocent. It's also good that you've never heard of them, the less people that knows of us, the easier it becomes to do operations stealthy."

"How did you get your rank of captain? You look very young so I can't imagine you being with them for that long."

"Actually I have. The details of how long I've been with the Vanguards are completely classified but I'll tell you this, the lessons I've learned from my time there can put my level of wisdom on par with most adults."

"Wow, you sound like some kind of secret agent."

"Heh, very funny."

"But being serious though, did you really worked with my father that closely and also how did that even happen?"

"A while back your father was going around inspecting his refineries out in the hot zones and needed some protection. He learned that we were around maintaining the peace at that area and requested for security personal, I was one of few who were sent to look over him and in the end he enjoyed my company so much that he requested to have me protect him. He's the reason on how I even heard about this school, actually."

"Oh, did he by any chance ever talked about me while you were with him?"

"He didn't talked about you a lot but he did every now and then. It sounded like he wanted to be back with his family rather than be out here ensuring his company staff wasn't being harmed."

"Didn't sure as hell looked that way whenever he leave..." she says quietly.

"What was that?"

"Nothing, I was just thinking out loud, that's all. Anyways that's pretty cool to know you served my father and now go here with me, small world?"

"I agree." The two arrives at the cafeteria and grabs their meals before sitting down and eating together.

"So how do you like it here at Beacon Academy so far?"

"It's pretty nice, the uniform and the teachers remind me of the military life a bit but I do like the relatively quiet environment the school gives off."

"Relative quiet?"

"The absence of the worry of combat. Back then I remembered being constantly stressed with everyone if this would be the day we all go out again but since this is a school I don't feel too tense."

"Well that's good to hear, the academy is suppose to help train Huntsmen after all."

As the two enjoy their meal the rest of team RWBY arrives at the cafeteria as well and sit down next to the two.

"Whoa, who's this you're new boyfriend?" Yang asks teasingly.

"For your information, this is Solace Krieg and he's a friend." Weiss rebuttals to Yang and deep inside of Solace's mind something about her remark causes him a bit of pain.

"Ouch. You really are an ice queen, aren't you?"

"I told you to stop calling me that!"

"Look, I apologize for my friend's denseness but trust me. With enough warmth you can melt her Weiss heart." As Yang finishes her sentence Weiss blushes from embarrassment and Solace was left confused.

"Yeah... thanks for the advice. "

"Remember just Yang in there! Eh? Eh? You guys?" the rest of RWBY didn't think her joke was as amusing as they either just shook their head or smacked their forehead in disappointment.

The group enjoyed their breakfast together and were mingling fairly well when something a few tables away had grabbed Solace's attention. A Faunus girl was being teased, by who he recognized as Team CRDL, Cardin was grabbing onto her ear and it was clear that she was being irritated. The students around them ignored the scene and hoped that a teacher would stop it but this only angered Solace even more. Seeing no one was willing to do anything he slowly gets up from his seat.

"Where are you going, Solace?" Ruby asks.

"Don't worry I'll be right back I'm just going to dump the trash away" he then walks towards their table.

"Wait, shouldn't you bring your tray with you?"

"Ruby, just be quiet and watch" Yang insist.

"What do you mean? Ohhhh."

Solace finally arrives where team CRDL is, and the whole team shifts their focus to him while the Faunus girl was still in Cardin's grasps.

"What the hell do you want?" Cardin asks.

"Excuse me, but why do you have your hands on her? She clearly doesn't like being touched that way."

"Please don't get involve, you'll only make it worse!" The Faunus responds.

"Who the hell are you to question me like that?" Cardin asks.

"Aren't you the guy with no partner?" Russel, one of his teammates, asks.

"Oh yeah, you know it's dangerous for a huntsmen to go alone. It's even considered suicidal." After Cardin says this his pals behind him began to make some dangerous gestures.

"That may be true but my question still stands."

Cardin looks at the Faunus then back at Solace and smiles. He squeezes his grip on her ear and causes her more irritation and Solace began to clench his fists. Cardin's friends sees this and prepares themselves if Solace attacks "I'll tell you what I'll let her go but I'll need a new person to play around with. Do you want switch spots with her hero?"

"Sure, but I'll warn you I don't like being touched and will fight back."

Cardin laughs then lets her go, to which she gets away from them, then stands right in front of Solace. The man stands a full head taller than Solace and tries to look down on him to intimidate but he wasn't afraid at all, if anything he wants Cardin to fight him. Back when he was with the Vanguards they didn't tolerate any form of bullying and were taught to handle it in anyway possible if it does occur, which usually meant in beating down the aggressor. Solace had his fair share in fighting these degenerates back to their place and was more than happy in doing the same to him and his friends. Cardin finally makes his move and grabs Solace's left shoulder with his right hand, to which he responds by grabbing the right hand with his and twists it backwards then forces it to bend downward with his thumb. Cardin in turn then falls to one knee and screeches out in pain. "You know, degenerates like you are the reason why people like me fight." The rest of CRDL get up and tries to get closer to Solace but stops their advance when he presses down again on Cardin's hand, making him scream in pain. One of Cardin's pals, Russel, decides to go in anyways and gets Solace to let go of Cardin. He tries to use his tray to smack Solace's head but was kicked in the gut first, causing him to lose his grip, then gets smack at the face by the very same tray. Cardin got himself back together and tries to grab Solace but he was too quick, and he was able to dodge his grapple by doing a spinning motion to get behind him. Dove and Sky, the other members of CRDL, ended up behind him and the two were able to hold down Solace by grabbing his arms as tight as they could. Cardin turns around and prepares to use Solace as a human punching bag.

"I'll teach you on what happens when you mess with team Cardinal!"

Solace waits for Cardin to walk just a bit closer and once he was close enough he raises his legs up onto the air and kicks the left side of Cardin's face with his right foot and tries to kick the other side with the other foot but was unfortunately caught by him. Cardin felt confident from catching his foot but was blind to the fact that by holding on it allows Solace to contract his left leg, bringing Cardin closer and once close enough again he wraps his other leg around Cardin's neck then flexes to choke him. Dove and Sky were shocked from the move that Solace performed and loss their grip on him for a second; which was all he needed as he was able to free himself from them then quickly traps both in a guillotine head lock on each arm. From their he knew he had won as all he needed to do was hold them down for a couple more seconds before they passed out. But Russel got back up and saw on what was going on and tries to desperately save his comrades from Solace's grapple; he tries everything from punching, to kicking and to even using his tray again but unfortunately Solace was set on to what he was trying to do and doesn't let go and within a few more seconds the three losses consciousness and falls to the floor. Solace then slowly gets up and sets his eyes for Russel; while he was in the Vanguards he'd learned of something called the killer's intents. A state of mind in which every predator enters that gives off the feeling of animosity to their prey. This little trick has saved countless amounts of Vanguards as they've been able to deter conflicts that could've happened. This situation is a good demonstration on how powerful the killer's intent can be as he was able to get Russel to turn the other direction and runs from him. Solace felt relieved that he had won the conflict but when he looked around he saw his fellow students just shocked on what they had witnessed and whispers of him can be heard among the crowd.

"WOO, WAY TO KICK THEIR ASSES SOLACE!" Jaune yells in the crowd then proceeds to clap. Others must have been waiting for him to say that as they all began to clap as well.

He walks back to where RWBY were and there he was praised for his skills but they'd prefer it that he'll fight them when they're in the arena and not in the cafeteria. He agrees to their terms, very reluctantly, then the group gets up and goes to Professor Goodwitch's class.