Luckily y'all still have your electronics in tact, correct? After the last review, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm making these chapters too dramatic. Ah...well, all for the sake of a good story. Onward!

"Huh? Again?"

"I'm telling you that I don't know, okay!?"

I turned around, seeing Sierra hovering over Ruby in her hospital bed with a knife pointed to her. If I could've done something, I would've. But I couldn't move. I could speak, but it was as if they couldn't hear me.

"Quit lying to yourself already, Rosey," Sierra hissed to her, pressing the knife up against her cheek even harder, drawing a little blood. I'll admit; I actually felt a little sorry for Ruby. Her tears streaking down her cheek as Sierra held her down at knife point.

"I don't…! I…!"

Sierra's glare only sharpened as she looked like she forced herself to pull the knife away.

"…I'm not gonna force you. But if he doesn't change back to his normal self…."

Sierra's eyes continued glowing an ominous red as she said, "You can guarantee that I won't forgive you."

Ruby covered her eyes with her forearms as her aura quickly healed her wounds. I felt a pang of pain in my chest at the face she was making.

"…Ruby…," I muttered out.

I opened my eyes, feeling a single tear streak down the corner of my eye. I sat up, immediately noticing Sierra standing next to my bed, staring out the window. She looked at me, almost exhaustedly as she said, "…morning."

"Umm…morning…?"

She turned her attention back to the window as I said, "You look tired, Sierra."

Sierra sighed and replied, "Couldn't sleep."

"Umm…okay…," I said, getting up from bed. Hotel was the next to stir as Sierra suddenly said, "And that's all that happened."

Hotel looked at me, then back at Sierra, nodding.

…she's not telling me something, is she…?

"Sorry Yang."

"Huh? What for?"

"If Ruby's scared of me, then you'll know why."

"What? What'd you do to her?"

"Don't worry about it. But let me ask you something."

"Yeah?"

"Do you care about Delta?"

"Wha…? Well, of course; he's Ruby's childhood frien-."

"That's not what I meant."

"Then what do you mean?"

"I mean, do you see them together?"

"Huh? Well, of course. I'd prefer if she'd be with Delta than with Bullseye."

"Why?"

"Because, if you saw those two in the past, they were practically inseparable. It was obvious that Delta wanted to ask her out, but then Ruby left Signal early, so…."

"…Alright."

"Huh?"

"Yang, I'm getting those two together if it's the last thing I do here at this god forsaken school."

"Yo, Delta!"

I turned around to see Sierra running walking up to me.

"Team meeting right now."

Right now? Seriously?

I sighed, walking back to the team bedroom. However, Sierra walked back with me.

Why's she walking with me?

"Hey, Delta."

"What's up?"

Sierra kept her eye on me, then suddenly asked, "You know what happened to team MGNM?"

Huh? What's with that?

"I believe they're on a class assignment mission right now," I replied. Sierra smirked, then said, "Alright, thanks for the info. Now how do you feel about Ruby?"

What the fuck?

"…why…?"

I raised an eyebrow suspiciously as Sierra said, "Just curious; no reason at all."

"Are you under the impression," I said with an annoyed tone, "that I still like her?"

Sierra nodded. I sighed with annoyance as I pushed back some of my bangs and said, "Look; I'm over her already. Hell, for all I know, she's probably off BFFing with Magnum on that mission for all I care."

That was an obvious lie. I really still liked her. So much that I pained me just to say that.

Sierra stared blankly at me, then said, "…I hope you know they're with us for our next assignment, right?

…what?

Part of me was jumping for joy, yet the other part of me was groaning in distress. I seriously didn't want to see Ruby, yet at the same time, I really missed her. The conflicting feelings made me lose my train of thought as I was suddenly picked up off the ground as Hotel said, "C'mon bro, let's get going."

"Alright team! Search and Destroy time! We have a rogue robot on the loose and its wreaking havoc around the northern part of the forest! Temperatures are gonna fluctuate, and you can damn well bet we're not gonna have a smooth drop! Team RWBY's already on the ground and will debrief us!"

We all nodded as Sierra opened the chopper doors and yelled, "OUT! OUT! OUT! OUT!"

With that, we all jumped from the open door as the chopper whirred away. I quickly shot one of my swords to the ground as Lima quickly grabbed a hold of me. I focused my aura to my sword, quickly teleporting to it, feeling my feet on solid ground. Lima quickly let go of me, dusting herself off. I then heard a loud "BANG," looking up and seeing Hotel with a picture perfect landing as I noticed the smooth, scraped trail down the trees. I sighed, then felt a chill crawl up my skin, causing me to let out a yelp of surprise as I heard Sierra laughing behind me.

It was then I realized our landscape.

Snow.

It was snowing.

I was taken back as I remembered the time Ruby and I walked through the Christmas lit streets of Vale back at Signal. However, I shook the memory out, sheathed my sword and asked, "So where are the girls then?"

"Oh, they'll get here," Sierra replied, pulling out what appeared to be a flare gun. Pointing it upwards, she fired it, the bright light filling the cloudy skies as it had just began to clear out.

Within moments, team RWBY came bounding through the leaf-less trees in their alternate uniforms. However, the moment my eyes met Ruby's, I set the tone with our system of communication. She stiffened up, looking away from me, her smile fading away just as quickly as Sierra said, "Okay Ruby, fill us in."

"…"

"Ruby?"

She's not going to speak.

"Oh well…Blake, fill us in."

"We are to infiltrate some nearby caves for enemy movement," Blake answered. Lima then perked her ears and said, "…movement…faunus…White Fang…."

Her sensory abilities are so high she can tell the difference between human and faunus?

We each reached for our weapons as Lima said, "…paydirt…now!"

With that, my team hit the deck. Team RWBY, surprised, reciprocated as a chopper with the White Fang symbol painted on its side flew overhead. I peeked my head up, seeing that it had gone further north.

"Exactly how far north are we going," I breathed out, slowly getting back to my feet. The others reciprocated as Sierra said, "We'll have to find out.

With a grunt, she froze time around us, the small silhouette of the chopper still visible.