Hello again people. How'd you like the training matches? Me no like flames...oh well. I"m gonna have to live with it. Enjoy.

"Where am I?"

I walked around, seeing flashes of my memory fly by.

"Stop! Please stop!"

I turned around, seeing the first time I met Ruby.

"Hey? Who's this kid?"

I couldn't help but smile at how helpless I was at the time as they turned on me just as quickly.

"Hey! Cut it out!"

And there's Yang running in and saving the day.

"Oh crap! It's Yang! Run!"

"That's right! And don't come back you cowards!"

Ah, the memories. Then I turned around, seeing Ruby in a dress. Ah, when we were at Signal. That was the first dance I've ever attended.

"I want my hoodie…," she complained to me. I had laughed it off and told her it was fine as Yang suddenly pushed her into me. It was at that moment that the music had finally changed from techno to some romantic slow dance. I had sighed and went along with it. It was after that night that I felt, like, I wanted to be more than just a friend. Best friends? No. More something along the lines of…never mind.

I sighed, turning to my left, seeing the first day of school the following year. It was when Ruby disappeared from my life at Signal. I grew depressed at the thought of not being able to go with her, wondering why and how she had gotten out of Signal early.

"Was it on skill alone? Did she excel in class? What if, what if."

The kinds of questions you would commonly ask yourself if you were to believe you could've done something different. I sat at school like an empty husk, unaware of my surroundings until one day, my teacher, Professor Qrow, told me, "if you want to follow her, then you should train your mind and body until you've achieved your goal."

And suddenly, her disappearance was my motivation to go to Beacon. I remembered the first time I went for an early morning jog. Then when I first created Alternate Echo. Then my first practice fight. Then, finally, Signal graduation.

I smiled, chuckling softly, only to stop as I saw what looked like a light.

…warm…?

I began to walk towards it, reaching my hand out in an attempt to touch it as I came closer to it.

"…ELTA!"

That caught my attention. Was that Sierra?

"DELTA! STAY WITH ME!"

"Stay with me?" What's that all about?

"YOU DAMN SON-OF-A-BITCH! WAKE UP!"

Hotel? Man, he must be pissed.

Suddenly, I felt my heart throb as I heard Ruby's voice.

"D…don't…die…!"

I then turned around, seeing the darkness. I then turned back to the light, seeing a hand extended towards me. I stared at it for a fair amount of time, smiled, and turned around, sprinting towards the darkness.

I slowly, but surely, opened my eyes to a bright white light in my face. Groaning, I could feel a sting of pain keeping me on the bed I was apparently on. I just flat out felt like crap as I sighed, feeling the pain intensify even with just a small gasp of air.

"Delta?"

I turned my head to the right, seeing my team seated next to me.

"Delta! You're awake!"

Sierra stood up just as quickly, almost in amazement as Hotel said, "See? Told you he'd make it!"

Lima kept her eyes on me, walking up to me and kissing me on my forehead. I blushed a little as she said, "…new partner…not wanted…."

I couldn't help but smile at her remark. I suppressed a laugh to save me the pain I was feeling in my torso. Sierra smiled as well as she said, "Man, we were worried about you!"

"What happened?"

Sierra's smile instantly faded away as her aura suddenly became hostile. Hotel caught on, placing a hand on her shoulder and said, "Sierra, I'll tell him."

"No," she replied, "I can do it."

She cleared her throat and said, "A cheap shot is what happened."

Cheap shot?

"After time was called," she said, "he swung his weapon at you. I know it wasn't on accident; his eyes didn't say it was an accident."

So Magnum cut me on purpose?

"…Ruby…Delta…awake…," I could hear Lima in the other room. Next thing I know, teams RWBY and JNPR are in the room and surrounding me as I fought the pain, sitting upright.

Huh? Ruby's eyes are red…?

"Delta…," Ruby croaks out. That was a biggie; she was crying, wasn't she? Of course that would cause her eyes to redden. I couldn't bear to look her straight in the eye having just sustained significant damage.

"Oh? You're awake?"

I looked up, seeing the nurse entering the room. She walked over just as quickly so as to check my heart rate and such. She then smiled and said, "We'll be keeping you in here for a couple days. Please do not push yourself to train or anything that involves physical work; I'm pretty sure you do not want to sit in bed for the rest of the semester."

I nodded, looking back at the teams around me as Sierra said, "Hey, we have to go to Headmaster Ozpin's office, so we'll drop by sometime, okay?"

I nodded, watching them leave.

"Man," I heard Jaune say, "That sure was a good fight up until that last shot!"

I looked at him, asking, "Was it really that good of a fight?"

The rest of them nodded. I sighed, suddenly remembering my weapon.

"Where's-?"

"Alternate Echo," Blake interjected, "was put back in your locker."

I sighed with relief. No way in hell I would've wanted to lose that!

Regardless, I soon found myself falling back into bed as Pyrrha asked, "By the way, what's the semblance of your team?"

Glancing at her, I answered, "If you want to know the others', then ask them. All I can tell you is that mines is weapon tracing."

"Weapon tracing…," I heard Ren say, "You mean like teleportation?"

"Yeah," I replied, "something like that."

I ran them through cliff notes of my semblance, not caring to show them the complete extent. If they didn't see me fighting earlier, then that's too bad.

"Hmm…interesting," Ren said, putting a finger on his chin as Jaune said, "Man, I wish I could have your semblance."

I laughed and said, "Well, beggars can't be choosy, Jaune."

We all laughed as Pyrrha asked, "Hey, Jaune, don't we have somewhere to be?"

Jaune looked at her, then at the clock, jumping in panic as he said, "Hey, JNPR! We're going to be late!"

With that, team JNPR left.

Leaving only team RWBY with me. I laughed and asked, "What was that all about?"

"I think," Yang replied, "it was something along the lines of supplementary lessons?"

"For Jaune," Weiss finished.

"Right," Yang said as Ruby sat on a spot of the bed next to me. She then traced the bandaging on my torso, her eyes looking at it curiously.

"Why did it have to be you," she muttered to herself.

I took notice of her muttering and answered, "Because I was involuntarily volunteered?"

There was a moment of silence, then laughter as Yang said, "Don't worry; you're not the first."

"I'd better not be," I replied, sitting back up.

At least the pain isn't as bad anymore.

I was, however, caught off-guard as Ruby suddenly put her head on my shoulder and said, "I'm glad you're still alive."

"I'm not about to die yet, Rubes," I replied, taking a glance out the window. The sun was just about to drop below the horizon as the sound of the door opening caught my attention. Turning to the door, I saw my team come in with Professor Ozpin. Team RWBY made a look to leave until Opzpin said, "team RWBY, I'm going to need your presence here as well."

Ruby, who was just about to stand up, sat back down next to me as he said, "As you all know, the injury to Delta Ordance is, at least, going to sideline him for the next few days as his aura works to heal his body."

I shot a glance at Ruby as he continued, "I apologize, but when Delta is healed, I'll be sending you out on a mission."

"Umm, okay but…," Sierra asked, "wouldn't a mission be something more suited to RWBY and JNPR? Not RWBY and SHLD? I mean, team SHLD is just first years, Headmaster."

"Yes," he replied, "that is true Sierra. But there is a reason why I'm sending SHLD instead of JNPR."

"I am sending you," he continued, "because I have trust in you."

"Trust…," I said looking down on my lap.

…Thank you….