"Ten thousands of your years ago, we lived in a planet closer to the center of the galaxy. We were a thriving society, with science at its core. One day, our scientists discovered something unusual as we started exploring the stars ourselves. Life, but not any we knew about, life made of black matter inside the subspace."

"It fascinated our people, and we spent centuries studying it until one day we did a discover that would doom our people and the galaxy. We discovered that those black matter life forms could absorb normal life forms and become similar to them, but violent, deadly creatures attracted to the negative emotions of people. We called them Devourers."

"But instead of abandoning them we kept studying it, and another dark discover was made, one that shouldn't be. It was discovered that we could convert the hybrid creatures into an elixir that would defy the one thing all living creatures are made equal: death. The black elixir would stop aging, prolonging our life spam eternally. As long as we had Devourers to turn into black elixir."

"Our Queen ordered the use of it in our brightest minds and herself, and what was supposed to usher a new age of prosperity and enlightening, transformed into a life of nihilism and hedonism. The fear of death drove us to send the Devourers in dark spores to other planets with living, sentient beings, so they could feast on their negativity thoughts and bodies. And once the planet's life ended, we would reap the Devourer's essence so to have the black elixir and so they could prolong our lives."

"But life became stagnant, devoid of purpose and fascination, yet fear of death drove the Queen and our people to keep destroying. They convinced themselves that their existence was complete and got stagnant. So, we seceded from them, refused the black elixir, but the Queen vowed to destroy those who 'betrayed' her. We hid here, in the subspace, where time flows differently from normal space and we waited."

"We can't fight back against the Queen as she holds power over us. Her orders are still absolute to our people, and a single word of her mouth will end our life. So we waited the day we would find someone that we could offer assistance, someone who would take our gifts and use them towards good. For too long all we found were people that would become as evil and distorted as our Queen, but you passed the final test."

"You showed kindness and compassion when no one would. You were confronted with hard, harsh choices with no apparent right answer and yet your choices were moved both from your desire to help your people and compassion to those in need. Therefore, we offer you our friendship and allegiance, Captain Jaune Arc of the Nagato." Miltiades finished speaking with Melanie. Jaune just stood there in silence, too shocked to answer.

"And what you ask of us in exchange?" Glynda spoke first, and the twins smiled.

"We don't offer our help expecting something in exchange, because your confrontation with our Queen will be unavoidable. She knows of your existence already." Melanie said and with a movement of her hand the mysterious saucer appeared in a holographic projection. "This is her vessel."

"Wait, she attacked the pirates and us? Why?" Coco questioned as she removed her sunglasses, thinking she might as well be seeing things. Miltiades raised her hand and showed the Grimm spore they tried to destroy.

"She fears you. You are the first species able to travel between stars to see how the Grimm arrives from place to place. This knowledge would make you able to stop them before they could attack. That is why she chooses underdeveloped planets first. But those are more and more rare. We don't know what she plans to do, but whatever it is, she can't allow this knowledge to exist." Miltiades explained.

"Look, I have know those girls for some long time and I can attest you all they are sincere. They can't leave this subspace realm they created for their people because otherwise this Queen would find them. That is how we met. I found the wreckage of an exploratory ship they made some twenty giga-cycles ago. If they return to normal space, the Queen will know. It is some type of telepathic link." Qrow explained.

"If it is not to ask us for help, why the tests? Why even helping us?" Weiss questioned and Qrow laughed.

"Before meeting those girls, I was a weapon's dealer. Selling guns to both sides in any war and making profit. Here is the fun thing, you learn a lot about people selling them death bringers." Qrow explained. "The poor noble underdog becomes a bloodthirsty conqueror if you give them weapons powerful enough to be on top. So, you see why we just don't go giving tech to anyone we cross with, or else everyone would be fighting to rule the galaxy."

"But we confess our interest is not as noble and selfless as they sound. One day the Queen will cast her eyes on you. Confrontation with her is unavoidable as she will not risk losing the source of her immortality. We believe when that day comes, you will have a chance to defeat her and we could return to the world of the living again, instead of hiding forever here." Miltiades finished the explanation.

"We know it is too much for you to think about. But as we speak, Qrow is repairing and modernizing your ship, so when the day comes, you will be able to fight the Queen." Melanie said, and then her and her sister grabbed a still shocked Jaune by his arms. "Now, you promised to treat us next time we met."

"What?! When?!" Velvet, Pyrrha and Yang shouted together before rushing to follow them.

"I love you all." Qrow said as he laughed once again.

…

"A beach party?" Was the universal answer when Jaune said he was planning to do one in the fourth planet.

"According to them the fourth planet in the system we were in is fit for our species, and isn't inhabited. We have being in a lot of stress recently, and I would like us all to get some… vacation time?" Jaune justified as they were having tea with the twins and Qrow.

"There will be fish?" Blake asked and Jaune nodded. "I am in."

"Oh, the chance to show the skipper me in a swimsuit? I am so in!" Yang said winked at Jaune, who blushed madly and hid it with a sip on his tea.

"Sun, my brother, barbecue, music, maybe some alcohol if we are lucky!"

"Neptune, I was in when they said beach." Sun answered with a smile as he used his tail to grab more fruit.

"I think someone needs to stay at the ship to supervise the repairs." Ren said for some reason.

"No no no! Renny, you are going to the beach with us!" Nora said in a threatening tone unfitting to her usual persona.

"I will do it. I am too old for a swimsuit anyway." Glynda stated with a sip of tea.

"Nonsense. You have a great body, Glyn." Jaune said absented mind before realizing what he said. "GAH!"

"Captain, please stop flirting with me. I don't want to have more troubles than I already have." The commander answered with a smirk and three girls watched him with jealousy and anger in their eyes.

"You all are going. I am an artist and I don't want any of you peeking in my work before completion." Qrow said with his usual laugh.

…

The beach they chose was in a crescent moon shaped island, and hat crystal clear calm waters with soft white sand surrounding it. Sun, Neptune, Jaune, Nora and Ren were busy putting a tent up and setting a barbecue grill they got with Qrow. They were wearing tight shorts because it was the standard ones provided by the military. Glynda meanwhile was having a stern talk with some of the girls. Yang made sure to transform the one piece standard swimsuit in a bikini, as revealing as possible, and in the end Shen, Pyrrha, Coco and Velvet did the same. Blake found a rock under the shade of a tree and was already fishing with equipment provided by Qrow. Ruby and Weiss were with Penny in the water trying to teach the android how to swim.

They were interrupted when a transport bullhead appeared and landed on the sand close by.

"Hey, everyone. She woke up and I decided I didn't want her there too." Qrow said as he opened the door and Neo appeared. She rushed and hugged Jaune tightly. "Uh, so you are the one she imprinted with."

"Imprinted?" Jaune asked as Neo kept hugging him.

"Oh yeah, she is a Politan. Her species was artificially created to be servants, and they even copy parts of the genetic code of the owners she imprint with to be able to survive the same environments." Qrow explained. Yang and Pyrrha pushed her off Jaune. She looked at him and smiled.

"So she is Jaune's… servant from now on?" Coco asked with a playful smirk as she lowered her sunglasses.

"Oh, nononono. Neo, you are not my servant. You can do as you wish; you don't need to do anything you don't want to." The alien girl answered by hugging him again. Qrow left a laugh at the scene.

"Politans create an empathic link with their masters, so she shares the same basic personality and moral traits you have. Oh, and she can't speak, so the link help to provide insight in what she want to convey." Qrow informed them, and Jaune petted Neo's head, making the small alien girl smile at him happily.

"Are you basically saying if the master is an asshole she will be one too, but if it is a decent guy like the skipper she will be a sweet girl?" Sun summarized.

"You got it. Now I have to go and keep an eye on Moe, Curly and Larry. They are not the brightest drones ever made." Qrow closed the door of the transport and returned to work on the Nagato. Jaune sighed and watched Neo smiling at him. It remembered him of his sisters, so we couldn't just drive her away.

"OK, Neo, we will be friends, not master and servant. You are not to do anything you don't want to." Neo nodded and smiled. "Now, why don't you go introduce yourself to the others and play? Though we do need to provide you a swimsuit."

"She can't use one of Rubes or Weiss since she is not as plain…" Yang started with a smirk.

"WE ARE NOT PLAIN!" The two girls yelled.

"Oh, she can use mine! We just adapt it to a bikini!" Nora said as she jumped around.

"VICTORY!" They all looked at the back as Blake jumped around with a big blue and silver fish on her hands.

…

Night came maybe too fast to some of them, especially Ruby, Nora, Sun and Dr. Verd (that now sported a healthy tan, as did Pyrrha. Nora and Ren though were red as shrimps and couldn't be touched). Now they all sat in a circle while Jaune played the guitar. Sun and Coco handled the grill where they were preparing the fishes Blake caught, the cat girl hovering them with her plate in hand. Neptune was flirting with Doc, and the wolf Faunus woman was playfully answering to them. Glynda entertained herself with a book on her scroll while Yang, Velvet and Pyrrha tried to compete for Jaune's attention. Nora and Ren helped to apply soothing cream on each other (they were really red).

"Captain, I think something is wrong with Cpt. Rose…" Penny called and they saw a tipsy Ruby being held by Weiss and Neo. The girl had a cup on her hand.

"I am fiiiiineeee…" Ruby said and hugged the android girl. "You are the beeessst!"

"She took one small cup of this beverage Qrow sent us and got like this." Weiss explained. Yang approached and smelled it.

"Oh, she is drunk." The blonde explained. "She was always weak with her drinks."

"I can't be drunnnk… It ish chocolate miiiilk." Ruby answered with a hiccup. Yang grabbed the bottle and looked at the light brown liquid.

"Well, it does look like chocolate milk." She sipped a little. "And it does taste like it too."

"Of course that would happen. Damn it Qrow. No one drinks anything without checking if it is alcohol or not."

"GAH! Nora!" Ren yelled as Nora was hugging him and giggling. By her side was a bottle.

"Renny, Renny, Renny… Do you know captains can marry people? So how about we *hic* do it?" Nora slurred as she hugged Ren, something really painful with his sunburn.

"I will marry yooouuuu! I, am a captain!" Ruby celebrated as she stumbled towards them.

"You are not even a ship's captain!" Weiss protested as she rushed towards them to support Ruby.

"I will marry them." Jaune said with an evil smirk. Glynda arched an eyebrow.

"Sir, we both know ship captains actually can't marry people. It is an urban legend." Glynda commented but Jaune smirked again.

"I know, you know, they don't." Yang smirked together with Jaune and giggled a little.

"I knew you had an evil side. OK EVERYONE! LET'S MARRY THOSE TWO!"

"JAUNE! I THOUGHT WE WERE BROTHERS!" Ren yelled as they were improvising a bride's dress for Nora and a suit for him.

"Oh, come on Ren! Nora is quite the catch!" Jaune said back with an evil smug.

"Thank yooou!" Nora answered as they put a white clothe on her head.

…

Pyrrha watched as the sun rose once again. She never expected to see a scene like that in her lifetime. At least, not when everything was so peaceful. She barely could believe she was able to enjoy a day at the beach like that, something that just happened in old movies, yet she did, and now she was about to return home to tell everyone that they could one day do the same, and that brought tears to her eyes.

"Pyr?" She looked to see a concerned Jaune sitting by her side and put an arm on her shoulders. She leant on him and left the tears flows freely.

"This is so beautiful but…" She started and he hugged her tight.

"You are thinking what I am thinking." He said and she nodded. "So stop. At least until we go back to the Nagato, we are not wasting time thinking. We are going to swim, eat, play, annoy the Commander and enjoy everyone's presence this week. Then and only then we will worry. And this is an order, Major."

"Aye aye, skipper." She answered as she dried her tears with the back of her hand.

…

"AHAHAHAHAHA! I am queen of the castle; I am queen of the castle!" Nora sung as she was atop the hugest sand castle ever built. She got help of Ruby, Penny and surprisingly Weiss to create that. Ren watched from below.

"Nora, be careful! Sand is not the most appropriate building material!"

"Don't worry hubby, it is made with the power of love! And Penny's precise calculations." Nora answered with a smirk.

"We used the best proportion of water and sand and reinforced it with seaweed." Penny sadly as she proudly put a 'flag' on top, someone's bikini top.

"And Nora, haven't I told you we are NOT married. You was drunk, you could not consent!" Ren tried to argue put Nora just rolled her eyes.

"You can't prove it in the court of the law."

"I have witnesses!" He shouted.

"I am pretty sure Nora was completely under control of her faculties at the time." Weiss said while checking her nails. Ren stared at her in shock.

"Come on, Ren, married life can't be bad. And it is Nora." Ruby chimed in.

"Now that you two have a house, does it mean you will have children?" Penny asked in an innocent way.

"YES!"

"NO!"

"I am confused."

…

"OK, Neo, let's create some ground rules. The skipper is mine…" Velvet coughed as Yang was lecturing the alien girl. "…ours, so you can be his friend, maybe even his little sister, but no making advances on him, understood."

"I am not sure she knows our language." Velvet commented as the alien girl stood there with her head lightly tilted.

"She better knows because there is already too much competition." Yang commented and Velvet nodded, then the bunny girl noticed the t-shirt she was wearing.

"Why are you wearing a t-shirt?"

"Oh, I couldn't find my top anywhere, so I got one of skipper's t-shirts. Smell like oranges." Yang grinned as Velvet blushed hard and started mumbling incoherently. "Anyway, Neo… are you even listening?"

Yang put her hand on Neo's shoulder and the illusion shattered in thousand pieces. The two girls looked around and saw the girl playing with Jaune on the water. When Neo noticed, she smirked and showed her tongue to them. The blonde girl eyes glowed red and she rushed over there with Velvet. As she entered the water, the t-shirt got transparent and Jaune fainted at the sight.

…

"Coco, are we really sure we want to do this?" Neptune asked as Coco prepared a spear with her combat knife and a stick.

"Yes, we will compete in fishing. The one who get more fish wins." The brunette answered with a smirk. Sun also finished preparing his own spear.

"Or you are too much of a nerd to try a real soldier's challenge?" The monkey Faunus said and Neptune glared at him.

"Intellectual! And I can beat you two! After all, I am Neptune, god of sea!" He said as he also finished his spear. They were about to enter the water when Blake emerged and carried a fish twice her size by its tail. The fish itself looked like he couldn't believe it.

"Hey guys. Do you think Jaune can prepare this one for lunch?" She asked as they all dropped their improvised lances.

…

"Ah, to be young again." Shen commented as she saw the crew creating as much havoc as possible. Glynda looked and gave a small smile.

"Were we like this when we were their age?" she wondered as she saw Velvet and Pyrrha fanning Jaune, Yang lecturing Neo (the blonde already retrieved her top/Nora's castle 'flag') and the alien girl just smirking at the blonde.

"Are you kidding me? We were way worse. Remember that time Tenryuu and us decided it would be funny to put itching powder in the space suits?"

"Yes, I remember the five hours long reprimand we received for 'endangering of fellow trainees'. At least they aren't endangering themselves." It was in that moment the gigantic sand castle Nora made fell over the younger crew members. "Oh for heaven's sake!"

…

"Hey, Penny, do you know what star is ours?" Ruby asked as the whole group was lying on the sand and watching the starry sky. It was already the seventh nigh spent on the planet.

"I am sorry, Ruby, but our star can't be seen from this hemisphere."

"Hey, Jaune, what do you think your sisters are doing right now?" Ruby turned to the blonde boy and he sighed.

"Knowing them, they are either trying to build their own starship, a FTL radio or leading a coup d'état." There as some laughing at the idea of the seven girls trampling the government.

"I would call that an improvement." Weiss said and they laughed loud now.

"Oh, a shooting star! Let's make a wish!" Nora said as a white light trail could be seem, but the light started maneuvering in their direction.

"I don't think it is a shooting star, Nora…" Ren said and they all got up. A few minutes later and Qrow's bullhead landed between the water and the sand.

"Heya, kids. We finished with your ship and I came to see if you want to go see it right away or if you want to extend your holiday." The crow-like alien said, his voice showing he was a little tired.

"Well, I am going; a captain shouldn't be away from his ship for so long. Penny, sorry but I would rather have you with me. The rest of you can stay here for the night if you want." Jaune stated, but Neo was already by his side.

"I think I am going to." Pyrrha said and soon everyone started packing up. Qrow left a laugh out but helped them to put everything on board.

…

"IT… doesn't look that different…" Nora stated in disappointment as the bullhead circled around the Nagato. It still looked the same dagger-shaped black ship with short wings ending in shield-like structures. Jaune thought notice the subtle differences.

"Are those canards at the front? And what are the bumps on the top? And you removed the MASERs?" He questioned and Qrow nodded.

"Ah, you noticed. Yes, yes. I didn't change much externally, since whoever designed your ship is a genius." Jaune smiled at that since it was their sisters, in part, that designed the ship. "Penny, show your new toys to your friends."

Penny contacted her second core and the ship entered in battle mode, showing the new three-barreled canons instead of the usual two. On the bow, the canards moved down to reveal the MASERs where now installed in the front, and could move to be aimed; not needing them to move the whole ship for that. The AA guns were now more numerous, and appeared to have bigger barrels too. Eight smaller canons appeared along the sides of the ship, and Coco and Sun eyes shone at the sight.

"We also installed extra missile ports, and who came up with those 'flares' thing? I swear I expected to never find stuff there I would be impressed except for Penny." Qrow said as the bullhead moved to enter the docks by the ship's stern.

"I am honored you think of me as impressive, Master Qrow. Mother said the secret is love." The android said with a big smile.

"Mother?" Qrow wondered for a second.

"My sisters projected Penny, and they are a bit… well, a lot crazy." Jaune admitted and Qrow nodded.

"I want to meet them one day. Ah, the things we can create together." Jaune trembled thinking about what type of doomsday device their sisters could create with Qrow.

The bullhead finally entered the dock and the first thing they noticed was that the place seemed roomier. Yet it had now three fighters docked on the ceiling, and the bullheads were four once again, stored on the sides. The Pumas were there, too, in the back, with the bullhead's many modules. The Hunters where stored now in two rolls, one in each side, but they couldn't see the workstations for maintenance now.

"WHERE IS MY STUFF?!" Nora yelled as they landed and get out of the bullhead, Jaune feeling the change in gravity making his stomach complain. Qrow made assign to penny and the several workstations came from the ground and walls. "AWWWW YEAH!"

"Most changes I made were internal; your ship was very inefficient in some ways, and surprisingly efficient in others. I maximized space usage, so you all got an increase of ten to fifteen percent on living and working space. But I will let you all discover those later. Let's go to the bridge where I will explain the best upgrades I did." Qrow said and the whole group moved towards the bridge. Ren had to pull Nora though, as she was jumping around examining the new workstations.

The bridge probably felt like entering in a complete different ship. It was twice as big as before, partly due to the fact it had two levels now, and its walls, ceiling and even the floor was now 3D displays showing the space outside. It was both a bit unnerving and impressive, and some of them felt like they could fall towards empty space like this. As they started sitting the images were overlaid with tactical holographic displays. Jaune sat in his chair, and noticed it was covered in a different material than usual.

"What you used for the seats?" The blonde captain asked as he felt the material.

"Real leather, only the best for you guys." Qrow explained and Jaune just nodded. "Now, let me talk about the other changes. First, your sensors were crap. How you could even find something out there with them is beyond me. You have more, better, diverse set of sensor arrays thanks to me. You can find a mouse in the grass from orbit now. Second change, your engines. They are quite good for a first attempt, but you can do better. Your ionic engines are now ten times faster, and you can use them on the subspace slipstream."

"I thought all we needed is find the right stream and let it take us whenever we go." Neptune said as he sat on the pilot's seat in the second level of the bridge and checked the terminal.

"Usually. Most people just do that. But with the new dual engines you can actually navigate the subspace. You can change your course from within if you feel like you forget something and want to take it back without warping out. Or you can just accelerate and get your trip 30% shorter." Qrow explained and Neptune smirked as he wanted to test that as soon as possible. "What reminds me, I installed warp drives on your fighters too."

"Really?" Jaune and Yang said at the same time with wild grins for different reasons.

"Yes, but those are for emergencies. They can't carry all the Dust for constant trips, just for one jump. So better create some emergency protocols for them. Oh yeah, about Dust, I increased the efficiency on Dust usage overall the ship in five percent, what tells a lot about how efficient you are on the use of it already. The warp engines had the biggest increase, they now need ten percent less dust to run, again a testament on how good they are for a first attempt. I also installed subspace cameras so you can actually see outside when there."

"Is there really anything to be seen? I thought subspace was just energy." Glynda commented for the first time.

"Oh, you all will be so surprised. Let me see what more I have to tell you… Oh yea, I installed a new subspace radio so you can talk from subspace to normal space and within subspace… Not that you will find many people to talk too when there. Improved your force fields too, so you can take more punches. Your recycling plant and food factory are surprisingly better than ours, so I just moved them a little here and there to use the space better. And that is all." Qrow finished, his eyes probably showing he would be smiling, but his hard beak couldn't display emotions.

"Thanks, Qrow, for everything. I wish I could thank Miltia and Mel too." Jaune spoke and the alien man laughed and pressed a button on the communications panel. Instead of the traditional two-dimensional image the twins appeared in a holographic full body projection.

"The blondie said he missed you girls." Qrow said teasingly. Jaune blushed a little while the twins laughed.

"I just wanted to thank you girls for everything you have done for us. We won't forget your kindness." The blonde said and the two twins smiled at him.

"The help we gave was not out of kindness, Cpt. Arc. It was a prize given to your own worth. Use it well and wisely." Melanie started.

"We wish this to not be our last meeting. We wish you luck, and give you one last warning. The Queen's mind is upon you. She fears your knowledge. She is searching for you." Miltiades finished and smiled gently. "Farewell, Jaune Arc."

The image disappeared and Jaune hold a troubled expression. He felt Neo's and Pyrrha's hands on his arms and tried to smile.

"Well, my work here is done. Time to pack up and move." Qrow said with a big flourish. "I put all the schematics of your new equipment on your data bank. I am sure Nora and Penny can fix whatever it is need. Your Dust tanks are filled, we also filled your food banks with organic matter, and I installed freezer storage for and with real food."

"If there is fish, it is mine, and I will murder you and your sleep if you take it." Blake threatened, generating some concerned looks at her.

"I think I will leave before someone decides they like poultry." Qrow said and laughed as he walked rather fast to the elevator.

…

The donut-shaped space station converted into a long tubular structure with its warp engines in the mid section, and left to its own warp point. Jaune stared at the crew spread over the bridge, checking everything out and sighed. He still needed to plan his next step and wasn't sure what to do. That was when Glynda rested her hand on his shoulder.

"One step at a time, Captain." She said and he sighed again and nodded.

"Very well… Attention everyone…" Jaune was ignored, so he rolled his eyes and activated the alarm. They stumble over each other before going silent. "Now that I have your attention, first orders of the day. I want everyone checking everything. For more thankful I am to Qrow and the twins, I don't want any surprise. Neptune, move us to the warp point, let's see what our remodeled ship can do."

"Shouldn't we rename the ship? After all it is a tradition to rename a ship if it receives a major overhaul." Sun commented and Jaune nodded. But he was already emotionally linked with the ship, so he wasn't unsure eager to change the Nagato's name.

"I will think about it later. I will be on the sky deck if you need me." Jaune finished as he jumped off his chair.

"Which one?" Penny asked and Jaune stared at the android.

…

Qrow installed a second star deck on the back of the ship, and this one was larger and prepared to receive visits, including gravity flooring, like a big party room. He turned off the gravity as soon as he entered. Jaune observed the star system they were leaving, and smiled a little. Now they had two planets fit for colonization and all they needed was to return to Remnant and tell everyone.

But he never expected to be questioning if that was the right thing to do.

He stared at the now distant star with Zwei on his lap, the robotic dog apparently sleeping.

"You are thinking of not going back to Remnant." He turned around to see Weiss. He knew she was one of the crew that was most wishing to go back. And he thought to himself that he had no right to deny her that.

"Out there, there is a mad Queen throwing monsters at people because she wants to live forever. And apparently she wants us dead because we know her secret. If we go back to Remnant now, how long before she find us?" He wondered and Weiss floated to his side.

"Maybe days, maybe centuries. Maybe someone else will end her existence before she has the chance." Weiss wondered as she grabbed Zwei and petted him. "Going back to Remnant is our obligation."

"It is. Report to the command, start colonization plans."

"Then they will start building colony ships, we all get promoted and assigned new posts, the Council will classify the information about the Grimm so to not let the common people realize that at any moment our new home can be attacked, while creating defenses for the case of it happening that may or may not work. You said in your discourse once that we should plan for our children, not for us. I would rather know my children will grow up without the fear one day some alien species will kill them just because." Weiss stated and Jaune was quite surprised. "Don't give me this look. I am as much part of this crew as anyone else and I trust you."

"Thanks, Weiss. I still not know what to do, but thanks." She gave a rare smile towards him.

"Hey, skipper, we are at the warp point." Neptune's voice came from the intercom.

"I have something to do before we go. Stay put until second orders." Jaune answered and he remembered he had something to do. "Nora, prepare my Hunter and some red paint. I know how we will call the ship from now on."

…

"Really? That is it?" Ruby said in a bit of a disappointed tone. Jaune, Nora and she were floating outside the ship as the two girls helped painting the ship's name in the hull.

"Simplicity is always the best way, Rubes. Besides, this is a Spacy tradition." Jaune justified.

"Spacy have some weird traditions. But I like it already." Ruby said a she took a second look.

"I especially like the flower!" Nora yelled over the radio.

The name was painted in red, and the last syllable of it was enveloped in the drawing of a flower. The new name for the upgraded FTLRSSS-7.

Nagato Kai.