Zen awoke as per usual, just before the sun had a chance to rise, allowing him the chance to run before coming back in time to shower as Penny woke up, though somehow, something in the back of his mind felt different today...
What did I do yesterday?

Doesn't matter, better get going now, otherwise I never will.
He thought to himself shook his head while changing into his combat attire before quietly shuffling to the door and closing it behind him.
Although he couldn't hear it, the door closed with an imperceivable click, which was just enough for a certain redhead to smile while lying her bed before slowly opening her eyes and getting up.

After a half hour or so, with the morning run complete, Zen opted to swing by the cafeteria to grab breakfast first, remembering that today, his lessons didn't begin till midday, meaning he'd be able to train with Penny , as well as with Ruby and Blake that morning, hopefully Blake did come to help again.

Guess that momentary bout of uneasiness in the dorm must have been me trying to remember that was today, but at least I didn't forget.

Once he finished breakfast he headed back to his dorm, the time displayed on his scroll telling him that Penny should be up by now, and will be probably be waiting for him so they can head over to the training room.

"Hey Penny you-"
He cut himself short as he looked around the dorm, Penny's bed made up as she normally did each morning. Yet the room was devoid of the bright eyed android.
Zen moved to the bathroom just to check if she were there, though she would have heard him as he entered, and as he poked his head in... nothing.

As he turned to leave, while pulling out his scroll to send her a quick message, his eyes fell onto her desk, and sitting atop it was a small yellow note addressed to him.

Good morning Zen, hope you had an enjoyable run this morning after sparring with Jaune yesterday.
If 'the run' wasn't enjoyable (which is definitely not the case), meet us at the training room.
Though it might take you longer than normal, don't give up and we'll see you soon.
P.S no need to contact the others as its all been arranged.
We'll see you soon.
Penny.

Zen's brows furrowed at the seemingly odd note, before pocketing it and heading for the training rooms.
As he walked his thoughts still lay with said note, especially the line with regards to sparring with Jaune, he'd done it alright, yet somehow things after that fight felt... Abrupt.It's as if somehow an entire moments between the end of the fight with Jaune and this morning had gone missing entirely.
Obviously there was the spar between Blake and himself beforehand, but JNPR had interrupted it.
We sparred, I won, we shook hands and then... What happened next?

Okay this is starting to get just a little weird.
He thoughts caused himself to pause as he lifted his scroll to the training room.
I didn't get a concussion in the fight... so why can't I remember?
Maybe the others will know?As he was about to place his scroll onto the scanner, he felt another pang.
This time his instincts told him something was a miss, he couldn't hear anything or anyone on the other side of the training room, cautiously hovered his scroll over the scanner, which chimed to indicate he could open the door.
And as the he pressed against the door, it revealed... No one.
This had always been the training room they used and had it booked since the start of lessons, yet no sign of Penny, Ruby nor Blake.

His heart began to pick up pace as he let the door shut before moving to the opposing room, then the adjacent one, then the one opposing that, each door he tried was empty and with it came more dread something was terribly wrong, either with the others, himself or even the whole of reality.
When he thought about it, at breakfast he hadn't seen any sign of either team RWBY or JNPR.

As he closed the final door he leaned back first against it as his head made a soft thud, his eyes moving to the ceiling as he wracked his brain as to what was going on.
His reached for his scroll as he unintentionally slipped into his pocket.
And as his hand pulled it out so he could dial anyone, out of the corner of his eye he saw another door.

Zen stood back up and glance back down the hallway, the string of doors leading away, then back to the one now his attention was affixed to.
That's strange, I don't recall a door ever being at the very end of the hallway, far as I remember the doors either side of me were it.

For some inexplicable reason, Zen felt compelled to walk to the door.
Slowly he raised his scroll to sensor.
After what felt like eons, the door chimed, followed by the tell tale click.
He was hesitant, but his fingers curled around the handle before gently pushing against the door.

And as he entered he was speechless.

There, in the middle of the training room floor was a three sets of red sofas sitting atop a red carpet.
If he had time to think for a second, it reminded him of the lounge in RWBY Chibi.
Sitting on those couches were Penny, Team RWBY, JNPR and Sun.
And just in front of everyone a meter or two away stood a movie grade camera mounted on a tripod, pointed directly at them.

As soon as he entered, the others stopped whatever chatter they had amongst themselves and all looked to his direction.

"Took you long enough." Yang happily said sarcastically.

"That camera isn't recording yet is it? Blake asked beside her.

"Only once he get's here it will." Weiss answered before looking back to him expectantly, with an expression that was a mix of take your time and we haven't got all day.
Or maybe he was over analyzing things

"What?" Zen asked blinking for a second.
The more he stood the more confused he felt.
Penny and Ruby sat opposite one another on the main middle couch, with a space separating the two.

"C'mon Zen, are going to come sit down or are you going to stand there all day?"
Ruby smiled at him while patting the space on the couch.
"Happy anniversary."

Zen still remained where he stood, his mind racing as to what Ruby was talking about.
As he eyes drifted to Penny, the girl smiled back at him, a sense of reassurance washed over him before she spoke.

"We're all gathered here to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Foresight with you Zen. Or should I say Danilyss."

Instantly, everything clicked, this weird morning hadn't been a case of him going crazy, with that he moved for the couch, plopping himself in between his two mentors as he looked at the camera, a little bulb on the the right hand corner of the camera began to calmly pulse red signalling it was working.

[Danilyss]: "Hello to all you wonderful readers on Fanfiction, both new and old, those who've just found me and those who've been there since day one. First off we're just going to present it in this format to prevent constant use of 'he said' 'and she said' as this is just going to be a little fun add lib celebration.

[Blake, sat on the left couch next to Yang]: "I can't say I really envy you having to do that, I mean I know how skilled you are in writing, but writing dialogue tags has never been your strong suit."

[Danilyss]: "Yeah it is a case of learning, but those old habits are hard to change."

[Yang]: "And you mean 'add lib' you mean anything off the top of your head?"

[Danilyss]: "Anything and everything, no editing apart from spelling and grammar or second guessing what's being said aloud.
Oh and while I think about it, apologies in advanced to any readers, who are like me, who tend to enjoy other fics while using the text to speech function on the app before going to sleep. This format is probably going to sound like the app is having a stroke."

[Weiss, next to Yang on the far left]: "So what are doing this for anyway."

[Yang]: "Really Icequeen. You're really going to ask this question just to set up Dani boy to tell the beautiful readers out there in internet land why he's doing this."

[Weiss]: "Yes. Yes I am actually. Anyway, if you're done being you in the fic, I think Danilyss has something to say."

[Danilyss]: "Thank's Weiss. So to begin with I'm sorry that there is no new chapter.
In the time leading up to this day I had been thinking of trying to get a chapter out, but the more I thought about it, the less comfortable I was with the idea of rushing a chapter where it might downgrade in quality.
I also did want to acknowledge this, so I came up with this little moment between me and the others here.

So with that said, five years ago (maybe a little before that too) I had a dream once, one where I was in fact in Ozpin's office talking with him about the entirety of Fall of Beacon.
With that I then began writing the story leading up to that point (a chapter you have already read).
Several other ideas began to float around too, all because I had become hyper fixated on RWBY (mainly the first three volumes) a few years ago, mainly through watching Chibi first, then going back to the original trailers and the show.
The very first chapter, the introduction, was published on this site on the 6th of November 2018, with it came enjoyment, firstly from actually putting an idea 'on paper' and then having people read that idea.
It also gave me an outlet to work on writing (though I do not have intentions of becoming a writer) while also allowing me to relax in a hobby that... well I guess I can call it a hobby.

[Pyrrha, sitting next to Jaune on the right couch]: "Five years and twenty nine chapters, you've come a long way."

[Nora, beside Jaune with Ren next to her]: "A little too long don't you think."

[Jaune]: "Nora!"

[Danilyss]: "It's okay, she has every right to say that, I mean I know what it's like to have found a fic that takes my interest, only for it to end on a high note or just not end at all. There are readers out there who have PM'd me about my situation with the story (I hope you are reading this). I have expressed I do unfortunately tend to run into issues, some of them can be as simple as lack of time, others can be writers block, nothing sticks and it all reads as junk, and sometimes it's a lack of motivation, the worst definitely can be a combination of all of them.
Having no time, but motivation and writers block. Or even the other way round, all the time, no motivation and no writers block.

[Sun, just standing behind BWY couch]: "I hear that."

[Yang]: "But I've seen you're 'roadmap' and this story is going end with some seventy or so chapters, and that's maybe not even counting additional parts were you have one whole chapter that needs to be broken down into smaller chapters. And also didn't you say you were going to write more for this fic as part of your New Years resolution... this year we've been in for eleven months now."

[Danilyss]"True, I'm not denying it. But what I'm trying to get at is, that I love RWBY and I love this fic, I aim to finish it one way or the other. But again, unfortunately, there are factors that are beyond my control (including my own motivations) that prevent me from blitzing through the story, like today, I worked nine hours today but funnily enough, despite that, I wanted to do this.
The time has just ticked over (though still the sixth in the northern hemisphere) to midnight as I write this sentence."

[Nora] "You're not writing anything at the moment..."

[Danilyss] "Just bear with me Nora.
Anyway, as I was saying, there are other hobbies/things that take me away from writing, although I take every spare moment (usually in the evenings or nights) to resume writing, like work, house work, gym at home-"

[Yang] "Looking good, but you need to bulk up more."

[Danilyss] "Thank you and yes, I know as well as gaming with Friends or going through the back log of games in my personal library.

[Ruby]: "You still need to finish Outer Wilds."

[Danilyss]: "Yeah-"

[Blake]: "And you've just started Jedi Fallen Order."

[Danilyss]: "Well it's because it went on special-"

[Ren] : "Not to mention Half Life."

[Danilyss]: "I know-"

[Jaune]: "You keep playing Fornite with your mates, also you have a tendency to main Erisa from season 3 chapter 2."

[Ruby]: "That's the one that kind of looks like Blake?"

[Blake]: "What?"

[Danilyss]: "That grind is real for that game. Also we don't talk about that... but yes, she reminds me of Blake,. she looks cool because Blake looks cool."

[Yang]: "Nice save."

[Danilyss]: "Thanks."

[Blake]: "You're still trying to convince Sillil to play Halo co-op."

[Danilyss]: "Just need him to play Halo 2, he's never played it and I haven't tried it in anniversary graphics."

[Blake]: "Still have the second half of CE to finish first."

[Danilyss]: "I know."

[Penny]: "Plus you sometimes want to play Need for Speed Hot Pursuit or moreover, Need for Speed The Run... hence the note."

[Danilyss]: "That game is just an underrated gem from the Blackbox era,they went out on a good note.

[Ruby]: "Let's not forget, you're still waiting on Age of Mythology Retold, and if that Game comes out, well we might as well put this thing on hi-"

[Danilyss, hand covering Ruby's mouth]: "Shhhh, I know that and you know that, but they don't need to know that. Besides, its a three way tie between me, the developers of AOMR and JohnTron as to who publishes their content in the shortest amount of time."

"In other news in all that time, there has been a lot happening in the real RWBY-"

[Nora, with a hurt expression]: I thought this was the real RWBY.

[Danilyss]:" You are real to me... but you know full well I mean the offical RWBY."

[Ruby]: "Oh like what?"

[Danilyss]: "Well, you've finished you're nineth season, which was basically set up around the equivalent of Alice in Wonderland (with more than one or two things being quite on the nose.
And the big one, Blake and Yang are finally a thing."

[Nora, pulls out a party whistle and blows it happily]: *FWOOOOO*

[Pyrrha]: "Congratulations you two."

[Yang]: "Thanks Pyrrha, but that's the Blake and Yang in the show, Blake and I really aren't a thing here... I mean, not that I don't think you're bad looking or anything."

[Danilyss, glancing to Yang]: "Nice save."

[Blake]: "No offense taken, I mean if I had a thing for girls, I'd probably go with Ruby, personal bias talking here since we're really an underrated ship and well Danilyss got into fanfic after reading 'Healing a Black Rose' by rellf that sparked his interest in the first place."

Just as Yang was about to express her own potential interest with the Icequeen, the door to there training room was flung open.

"Wort Wort Wort."
Moving past the threshold stood an Elite in cobalt blue armour, it snarled at the humans who stared at him before raising the Plasma rifle he brandished, firing several plasma shots at the group.

Not even a single shot was able to land as within those short seconds, Danilyss pulled out a bubble shield seemingly out of thin air before deploying in just in the centre of the group which enveloped them in a translucent barrier.

[Danilyss]: "Hey! This is Foresight RWBY."

Within the instant he finished speaking, the Elite calmed as he straightened up, speaking with a somewhat speakerphone tone.
"My apologies I will seek them elsewhere."
After which, he turned to leave the way he came, closing the door behind him.

The others, merely stared blankly at the now closed door, but before anyone had the chance to ask what that was even about, the door was once again flung open,
This time however, standing there, stood four identical members of Team RWBY, not only did they carry their own weapons but they also appeared to carry a set of unique weapons none of them had ever seen before.
Ruby held a long sniper rifle, Weiss wielded a long purple gun which had pink crystals jutting out from the top of the body of the weapon. Blake was armed with a meaty looking pistol that probably could kill you instantly from a direct shot to the head.
While Yang carried a shotgun, but strapped to her back was a long tubular weapon with the letters SPNKr written on it.

Ruby stared at the group but mainly kept her focus on the boy in the middle sitting next to a Ruby that looked like her and Penny, something about the boy was familiar to her... she blinked before address them all.

"Did you guys happen to see an Elite run by this place by any chance."

[Danilyss]: "He went out that door and went left."

[Yang]: "How'd you know he went left if he closed it behind him."

[Danilyss]: "Dude, everyone goes left once they leave everybody knows that."

The Ruby standing nods.
"Thanks for the intel, c'mon guys move on out."

With that the four 'other RWBY' leave through a door which had manifested in front of them rather than simply exiting out of the one that Elite had used.

[Weiss]: "What- What even was that, where did that door come from and more importantly why were there exact versions of us, and why were they hunting that Elite."
The way she said 'Elite', it almost gave Weiss a sense of DeJa Vu.

[Danilyss]: "Well that was Team RWBY from my other fic Halo: RWBY Evolved."

[Everyone in the room besides Danilyss]: "WHAT?!"

[Blake]: "You're working on another story."

[Weiss]: "While also doing this one?"

[Danilyss]: "Well yeah, I love Halo just as much as Ruby, I mean hell, Crescent Rose's sniper sound effect is the Halo CE shotgun, even now when I hear her sniper I think its just the shotgun.
Plus I wanted to write a story with you four in it as no one really has explored all the team in the Halo universe, mostly its either Ruby on her own or the Master Chief being on Remnant.
And well, it helps me relax."

[Blake]: "I thought Foresight was an outlet for you to relax."

[Danilyss]:"Can't I have more than one way to relax, I mean the country I live in, Australia is going through a period of economic inflation and other things."

[Nora]: "Oooh you guys on Halo, I can't wait for you guys to run into the Flood."

[Blake]:"The what?"

[Ren, covering Nora's mouth before she blurts out a twenty year old spoiler]: "Best not to think about it and let it take its course, it will be more entertaining that way. Though I have to ask, who exactly is going to find out first.

[Nora, uncovering her mouth and pouting at Ren before smiling back at the group]:"I bet it's Blake."

[Blake]:"Why me?"

[Pyrrha]:"Well you've already seen the horror under the White Fang...

[Danilyss]:" Actually it's Yang."

[Yang]:"Is it because of what I've done to you here, because I'm sorry. But also you did that to yourself... but I'm still going to apologies.

[Danilyss]:"No, wasn't really because of that, I just thought of place you and Cheif in the same situation at the same time, and that was the place and time.

[Yang]: "Well lucky me."

[Ruby]: "Hey don't be like that, besides you literally just saw your other version of yourself, it's not you that has to deal with the Flood, its her, plus.
How many chapters before she does?"

[Danilyss]: "Quite a few, we're still on the Halo, not even sieging alpha base yet."

[Ruby]:"See, nothing to worry about-"

The group hears a knock at the door, they stare at one another before a second knock is heard. Blake sighs as she gets up.
As she opens the door a jar, they can hear a small growl under the girls breath before asking aloud "What do you want."

A second later a nefariously familiar voice can be heard.
"I heard about the celebration and I simply want to stop by to congratulate you all as well as give you this cake as a gift."

[Danilyss]: "Blake, who is it?"

[Blake]:" No one, don't worry about it."

A second later, Blake is shoved aside by Mercury as Emerald, Neo and Cinder walk past her.

"Hello everyone, as I said to the house pe- I mean Blake, I simply wish to give you this seemingly innocent cake as a present for you to enjoy, five years a worthwhile milestone for... whatever it is you're having.

Neo smiles, blinking, her iris colours swapping as she pulls out a sign that reads 'It's Gluten Free Too.'

Now since there's not enough for all of us, I'll just leave it here, and be on my merry way... oh and before I forget, Mercury could you be a dear and light the candle.

[Danilyss]: "Wow, thanks for such a kind gift, thank you Cinder.
Also Em, welcome to the light side, knew you were going to change from the day of the Fall."

[Cinder, looking at Emerald angrily]:"What?"

[Emerald, sweats nervously]:"I have no idea what he's talking about boss."

[Mercury]:" Cake's lit, let's get out of her before- so they can enjoy it in peace.

[Cinder]:"Right right, come minions we must take our leave... oh and happy, whatever it is you're all here for."
With that Cinder and co, turn their heels and hurriedly walk out the door.
Blake then slams it shut and stares daggers at it before looking back to the others.

[Nora]: "Well that was a thing."

[Danilyss]:"Yeah it really was. Hey Blake?"

[Blake]:"Yeah.'

[Danilyss]:"Do me a favour, with such a nice gift, why don't you give it back to them."

[Blake]: "I've seen this before."
She says as she scoops up the cake tray, the flame almost reaching the base of the wick of the candle. She the moved back to the door, quickly opening it and just like a clown with a comical pie, tosses it directly at Cinder and Co, who are waiting just past the entryway.
With that Blake quickly shuts the door and puts her back against it.

A second later a loud *KA-BOOM* is heard, causing everyone to laugh uncontrollably as Blake causally opens to the door to reveal Cinder and her lackeys covered in a mix of cake and frosting.

[Danilyss]: "And that's a wrap people."

A/N Hello... wait we've done this already.
Anyhow thank you all again and I hope this didn't come as a disappointment or seemed to cringey for what it was, I wish I could write more but right now as always, the time here is 2 am and I've been up since 6:30am after working nine hours.

Again thank you to everyone who has let me know how I've gone with this story and I wish I could make the process faster so you can read what I have because there are gueniely some interesting things i have in store for the characters.

But also check out Halo: RWBY Evolved if you haven't aleardy, you've never played halo? Then you might find this interesting to see how I write it vs the actual game , if you have played, then you can see where I have altered the events to fit with the idea of Team RWBY being there.

I will also note that when I do have a new chapter, it will replace this one and I will make all you have read above part of the OMAKE/ post A/N summary.

Again thank you SOOOOOO much for being with me since the beginning or any part of the journey and I hope you will stick around.

Danilyss.

Foresight 6th November 2018- 6th November 2023