Obligatory note

So I kind of ran into a wall in the creation of this fic. So I'm going to leave it for a bit and expand on Blood is the Answer. This is not an abandonment of this story. This is a break. I will be back sometime in February with a new chapter but for now, a sneak peak at my plans for this fic.

Ironwood, due to "losing" three airships, regiments, Winter Schnee, Weiss Schnee, a team of Ace Operatives, Beacon Academy and the CCT is demoted from his rank of general to a lieutenant in the ground forces.

Andrei fights Feldrict in the ruins of Vale. Feldrict dies, but not before unleashing warp lighting, which frys Andrei's prosthetics, crippling him until he can get them repaired.

Ruby and team RNJR hear about the fighting still happening in Vale and go there to assist.

Tyrian and Hazel still think that Ruby is going to Shade Academy in Mistral. They get lost looking through the wilderness for her.

Blake meanwhile does her thing in menagerie. It is a bit easier due to the massive losses Adam's forces had in Vale causing a loss of support for the extremists.

Adam himself was crippled on the frontlines from a "few" mortar shells and a cannon when he tried to assault the cafeteria with his troops in an effort to raise morale as a sort of commissar. We all know what happens when a commissar dies in a guard army.

Yang goes to Mistral looking for her mother. Basically nothing changes for her.

Watts meets Raven. He gets her help.

Weiss, being with Andrei for so long, eventually puts her under his semblance. She becomes a commissar-like figure. They find a new aspect of his semblance.

Blake goes to mistral to stop it from being bombed by the new extreme extremist white fang leader with her group of faunus fighters. They fight off a large group of hacked atlas robots and some of Ravens bandits. The relic is _?

After Vale is secured, He and his about one and a half regiments worth of troops head back to Atlas in the single working airship they have.

At Atlas, Andrei gets a surprise and a half. (no spoilers on the surprise.)