Well guys, here we go once again, now just so everyone knows, despite updating rather quick, don't get used to this. My main priorties in life don't revolve around updating this story. It revolves around work, gym, and trying to save up money so I can get to my future goals faster. Right now, almost paid off my first student loan, should have enough money to buy me a gun and a motorcycle in a few months.

Right now, also looking at my options for when I get out of the army, because Illinois sucks ass, and I don't want to move back there, so looking to move states. So trying to see what would be the best option.

And no, I will not move to California, that state sucks.

Anyways, enjoy the chapter.

Jem was in a good mood, he had put up a video on his instagram detailing his recent adventures. And by recent adventures, I mean he posted a five minute video talking about how he couldn't believe his time in the army was up, and he almost cried like a little bitch because he got emotional when talking about how he was going to miss his friends. After he took one last picture of Strike rock, he got back in his truck and began the long drive home. Well, long was only about an 8 hour drive, but in all honesty, he was probably going to make some stops along the way. After all, he had to celebrate, so what better way than touring the US a bit? Granted, there wasn't a lot of places he could visit on the way back, so mostly he was going to stop at some nature reserves. It gave him some time to enjoy the fresh air, take some aesthetic photos, and do some outdoors workouts.

In reality, PT was something he was probably never going to stop. Especially since it was a lot more fun to do on your free time. Again, waking up early in the morning for PT wasn't any fun when you felt like deep throating a shotgun each time you woke up. But whenever he got to go to the gym in the afternoon on his free time, it was fucking heaven.

Now here he was, just relaxing, drinking a beer out by the lake while he was listening to one of his personal playlists on spotify. It was finally starting to hit him that he was finally able to start a new chapter in his life. In all honesty, despite having a plan for when he got out, he still wasn't sure where to begin. He had the job all figured out, he had his hobbies down to a tee, but there was still one matter he wasn't sure how to deal with.

Finding a wife and kids. That was what eluded him the most. Mostly because finding a good woman was hard these days. Or at the very least, one that wasn't insufferable to be around. He knew he had to stop thinking about it so much, if he kept worrying about finding a wife, he wouldn't find one. Plus it was hard for him to think that far ahead considering all the new things he wanted to do now. Eh, he shook the thoughts from his head. I mean, what was going to happen, some woman was going to just fall from the sky into his life? Nah, this wasn't a movie.

"Man, its funny, I hated getting up early in the morning for PT, and yet here I am, up early in the morning so I can watch a sunrise." He thought to himself.

It was funny, suddenly all the little things that used to piss him off didn't seem so bad. Granted, it was probably because he didn't have work to go to in the morning, so maybe he didn't mind. He thought back on all the memories over the years. From when he was going through field exercises with his buddies, to when he was getting drunk in nashville, and to his time in the gym.

A few downsides of being out, no more free gym time. Which sucked, but then again, that was life.

He took a bite out of a protein cookie and started to think back at all the events leading to this moment.

….

Wow, when he thought about it, he really lived an uneventful life until now.

"Shit, I never realized how boring my life was…" Apparently after so many years of being in an environment where you were on edge, he suddenly realized just how boring of a person he was before college and the army.

"Oh well fuck it, back on the road." He said to himself as he needed to come up with something fast.

Because he couldn't live the rest of his life without doing something new or exciting.

RWBY

"Geez, Ruby, you sure packed a lot of dust for a simple mission." Yang said as Ruby had a full bag full of ammunition.

"Hey, you never know what could go wrong!" She said as she was just trying to be prepared.

Right now, everyone was sitting on the bulkhead waiting to get sent to the LZ. Both teams were excited, Jaune wasn't feeling sick this time due to taking his motion sickness pills. Nora was looking forward to having fun at a secluded area, however there was one problem.

"No one could chaperone your mission." Glynda said as the teams look disappointed.

"What do you mean?"

"Despite the simple nature of this mission, its still required that you have an official huntsman or hunttress chaperone, and sadly everyone is booked." Glynda was touching her tablet, trying to figure something out.

"Can't you do it?"

"No, I'm far too busy." She said as she was looking through a list of available faculty.

"But what happens then?" Ruby asked as Glynda looked at the.

"You'll have to cancel the mission." She said as a matter of fact.

"Perhaps I could help?" A voice said as everyone saw Weiss's jaw dropped.

"WINTER!" She stood up from her seat in the bulkhead.

"Inside voice Weiss." She said as the specialist came into view.

"Miss Schnee? What are you doing here? We weren't expecting Atlesian personel for another week or two." Glynda was confused.

"I came ahead of the rest of the fleet, I wanted to catch up with my sister." Winter said as she was still retaining her poise.

"But, this all seems out of place." Glynda really couldn't figure out why Winter was here so early, there was no way she was just there to see Weiss.

"I may not be on the best terms with James, but even I know he wouldn't let one of those who he works closely with so far away unless there was a reason." Glynda was rather suspicious.

"Well the truth is that in order to insure the vytal festival is secure that any soldiers who are exeperienced huntsman will also help volunteer to help Beacon Academy with any Grimm stragglers that may be in the surrounding area, that includes recon and surveillance missions such as this, so in reality, this is just General Ironwood taking precautions to make sure that the perimeter is secure." She couldn't argue with that, that appeared to be a good enough reason.

Glynda sighed at it. It didn't surprise her that was the case. Ever since the council had trusted security of the vytal festival to him, he had been rather zealous in his attempts to make things safe. While she could appreciate the help with the missions coming in to free up time for the students for the tournament, at the same time she agreed with Ozpin when he said that the mass amount of troops would bring worry to the people.

But then again, what the hell could she do now?

"That being said, I would like to accompany them on their mission." Winter said as Weiss got excited but everyone else groaned.

"Oh come on, no offense Weiss, but your sister seems like the awfully snooty type and might make us actually work if its nothing but a chill job." Nora said as this was a buzzkill.

"That's not true! We'll still have plenty of fun! I'm sure of it!" In reality, Weiss was just happy to talk to her sister again, even if it was over work.

But sadly the rest of the team were bummed all to hell. While it was nice to see Weiss coming out of her shell. The situation at hand was just a big boner killer. They didn't know enough about Weiss's sister, but based on how she told Weiss to use an inside voice when they were outside, they were going to guess she was the high class military officer type who had to follow every procedure in a strict and orderly military manner.

In other words, most of them thought Winter was the 'stick up the ass' type.

How were they going to have fun when their relaxed mission just became an actual mission!

"This is great!" Weiss however was completely oblivious to her friends suffering.

"I will require a layout of everyone's gear before we go to make sure they packed mission essential equipment." At this, Nora froze.

"Uh oh, all I did was pack extra pillows, games and lots of food!" Nora was not about to have fun.

Especially if Winter was the kind to be really anal about that kind of stuff.

EARTH

"Huh, weird, My E4 sense is tingling…..someone is about to get the green weenie." Jem said to himself.

In reality, he was just saying that because everyday in the army you were at risk of getting the green weenie, so its not like it was ever a surprise. He remembered one of his buddies accidentally stabbed himself in the leg, and they still made him go out to the field. The Green Weenie did not care for rank, for injury nor time left in service, no soldier was outside of its max effective range.

"Oh well, screw it." It was no concern of his.

Right now he was helping himself to a nice breakfast of blueberry pancakes, bacon, and black coffee. In reality, he could have been back home with his family yesterday, but he was deciding to take some time away before he went back right away, so he stopped at a small mom and pop diner on the way back. He was trying to think about what to do now.

Every Soldier had that list of things they were going to do when they got out. So far he had already cut a pair of his OCP pants into daisy dukes of freedom, he already drank for one last night out in Nashville. He had sold most of his uniform items except for the stuff he wanted to keep. And the best thing of all, he made fun of all the brand new privates straight out of basic who were at the replacement center who had no idea what they were in for.

Now despite Jem making fun of his time in the military, he still liked it. He just hated the green weenie, as all soldiers did. It wasn't uncommon.

He finished his breakfast and got back in his truck. The old beat up shitbox was almost as old as him, but she was still running good. Even if he had probably put more money into fixing it then he paid for it in the first place.

He rummaged through his old cd collection which ranged from Burzum to Elton John until his eyes settled on something. A RWBY soundtrack CD, he had completely forgotten he had it. Hell, to be honest, the last year or so, he hadn't really been paying attention because he had been so busy with preparing to get out of the army that he didn't really have time to pay attention to his shows.

Now that he thought about it, he was probably super behind on a lot of the shows he used to watch. Then again, you invest time into the things you want. And at the time he was more concerned about getting more tattoos and getting swole as fuck.

Mostly because he thought these things would help him with women.

Just one problem.

And to quote Letterkenny.

"Wish you weren't so fucking awkward bud."