Yang sat alone in team RWBY's dorm room. She was on her bunk, cross legged, and her eyes, while still a soft purple, were red and puffy. The one thing that burned far greater than her shock at Jet was the sadness and pain that came at Ruby's absence. Her tears still flowed freely, and she sobbed, as she had done several times. She barely even registered the opening and closing of the door, and barely reacted when Lilac leaped up onto the bunk. Lilac, for her part, said nothing. She took Yang's hands in her own and pulled her into a hug. Only when Yang submitted to the hug did she speak.
"Let it all out babe." Lilac said, soothingly, her blonde locks intertwining with Yang's as she sobbed into her shoulder. "I miss our leaders too." Lilac admitted, a tear of her own falling onto Yang's back.
"Why? Why did this have to happen AGAIN?!" Yang yelled, her voice shaking at the effort of keeping it steady. "Why did Jet do what he did? Why did Ruby go after him?"
Seeing Ruby's sister like this, broken and downcast nearly shattered Lilac's resolve. She lifted Yang off her shoulders, and cupped her hands around her face, lifting it up so that they made eye contact.
"Ruby and Jet were deeply in love with one another. Ruby would have been heartbroken if she didn't go after him, even though Jet was, and probably still is, insane with his other half."
Yang pushed herself up. "You mean the Grimm half?" Yang asked, and Lilac nodded. "Why didn't he tell us?"
"Would you, or anyone he had met besides LIJN be friends with him if they knew he was half Grimm? Lilac responded, keeping a level tone.
'She did have a point' Yang thought. Both girls were distracted by the rest of team WINBLY entering the dorm.
"As much as I'd hate to interrupt you two, Izzet here has something to show us." Weiss called up to them, and Lilac sighed, before jumping down from the bunk. Yang followed, and took a seat in the circle of six.
"Izzet and I 'ave been talking. We need you to know what Jet's Grimm half forces him to do. The whole situation was covered up, and no-one knows what truly happened, save for un." Nouvelle said, promptly.
Izzet pointed to her own head as she was addressed.
"She's going to show you all first-hand what happened. It was a basic mission, save a small village from an attack by ze Grimm. But Jet, he'd just learned of his parent's deaths. Combined with ze emotional strain of an argument I had with him before," she blushed at this, but continued, "ze crystal in his heart cracked and zen rolled out of his chest. We only learned about what zat can do when we got to ze village. Now, everyone, close your eyes. I'll let Izzet take over."
All but Izzet obeyed, closing their eyes. Eyes flaring colours across the visible spectrum, she replayed the memory in front of her eyes, transmitting it to the five around her.
'It was not a pretty one' she thought to herself, as the familiar feeling of flames began to heat up her body.
"Ahh. It feels so good. I am finally free!" Jet roared as she stood amongst several burning huts. Fire and smoke filled the dusk, and the village was home to corpses of pale-skinned tribal warriors. Not a sign of life, apart from Jet, was present. His customary jacket was thrown aside, and his wings cast a dark, flickering shadow across the scene. His eyes were Flux's, and they scanned the area hungrily. Finding nothing to gore, he grabbed the corpse of the village chief, and dismembered it, lapping up the blood.
It was only when he was finished that Izzet arrived on the scene, Lilac close behind her. They stared, open mouthed at Flux, who controlled Jet at the time, and he regarded them cruelly.
"What's the matter? Time to go?" he asked, as a child might before being taken from a playpen.
"What have you done, Jet?" Lilac yelled at him, pulling out her whips, Izzet the same with her swords. Flux activated Shadow Meteor, the purplish flames contrasting with the mass of red and orange.
"Sated my hunger, of course." Flux replied smoothly, as if he'd done nothing wrong, merely plucked some weed growing in his own personal garden.
Izzet suddenly tapped Lilac, and with eyes still focussed on him, spoke telepathically.
"He's not himself. His mind's overthrown by something! I have a way to stop him, but we need to act fast!"
Lilac nodded, and turned her hair to electric curls, similar to her crackling whips. Flux roared with Jet's derisive laughter, insanely.
"Fine. You both will provide me with my next meal!" he shouted, and leapt up, taking flight with his wings. Izzet and Lilac watched him as he rose, then charged, plummeting towards Lilac with Shadow Meteor pointed directly at her heart!
Lilac kept her cool, waiting until the last second before diving out of the way. Jet's weapon embedded itself in the ground, and the wielder was sent flying, landing several hundred metres away. Lilac leaped on him, and zapped him with everything she had, desperate to stun him. Jet was resisting the high voltage, and was rising when Lilac yelled out "Now, Izzet!"
Izzet raised her hand, and a sphere encased Lilac and Jet, before turning greyscale and freezing them in time. Izzet concentrated with all her might, determined to keep them encased. She heard rustling behind her, and turned to face Ozpin, who had come with a fast transport vehicle.
"We need to restrain him. Now!" Izzet begged Ozpin, still holding the time sphere.
"We will." Ozpin simply said, as early model androids injected Jet with heavy sedatives, and Izzet leaped into the passenger seat of the vehicle, as Ozpin himself took the wheel, while Jet and Lilac were loaded in the back, the latter unconscious from overuse of her aura.
As the vehicle made its way back to Beacon, Izzet gradually started to drift off, and the entire environment started to blur and fade.
As everyone came back to her senses, Izzet fell backwards, exhausted. Weiss immediately noticed, and dove behind her, supporting her.
After realising that Izzet was in no state to move, and was starting to burn up, Weiss picked the smaller girl, and tucked her into her own bed. She barely recognised the fact that this would mess up her bed, but did it anyway, her concern for her ally outpacing ideas of pride. When Izzet was tucked in, she turned to the rest of her team.
"S-see?" Lilac stuttered. "See what he was like the last time he lost control? We need to save him and Ruby!"
"We won't be able to do that when Ironwood and his lackeys are with us." Nouvelle replied.
"Then we go without them." Weiss said, and everyone turned to look at her. "They can't control us if we're not there."
"Then that's what we'll do." Blake smiled, and Yang signalled her consent to this plan via a thumbs up.
"Ok then." Weiss said, business-like. "Prepare yourselves. Tomorrow, we find Jet and Ruby!"
Yang and Blake immediately left, but Lilac and Nouvelle remained.
"What about Izzet?" Lilac asked.
"Don't you worry. I'll take care of her for you." Weiss said softly. "Do what you need to do."
With a nod, both Nouvelle and Lilac left, leaving Weiss alone with Izzet. She went to the bathroom, taking a bowl filled with cold water, a small flannel and a cup. Returning to the room, she filled the cup with drinking water, then returned to Izzet. The girl was snoozing gently, but when Weiss gave an involuntary sigh, she opened her eyes. Realising where she was, Izzet started fussing weakly, and looked up worriedly at Weiss. She gave her a questioning look.
"What's wrong, Izzet?" Weiss asked, as Izzet gave up out of exhaustion.
"This is your bed." came Izzet's voice.
"Oh, don't be silly." Weiss replied. "Here, you might like this."
She dipped the flannel in the cold water, then wiped Izzet's burning and sweaty forehead. Izzet smiled in appreciation, leaning so Weiss could get more of her face with the flannel. She closed her eyes, and Weiss could swear she felt the girl loosen up a little.
"That's so nice…" Izzet thought, and Weiss couldn't help but give an internal 'aww' at the sight of her, wrapped up in a blanket. The sight reminded her of Ruby, someone who never failed to look cute in bed, even though Weiss kept her cold exterior up as she removed the flannel from Izzet's face.
"I'll let you sleep." Weiss whispered. "But first, I need you to listen to what we plan to do regarding Ruby and Jet."
Izzet said nothing, but propped herself against the wall as Weiss began to fill her in about the events after the memory had ended, her attention on Weiss' every word.