Okay guys, sorry I've been gone for so long. But things have gotten pretty busy for me. After leave. I basically hit the ground running with training. But I do have some good news, I officially have less than a year left in the army. So getting close to starting the next chapter of my life. Should have my last student loan paid off this year, can move back home, temporarily of course, because I don't plan on staying in Illinois for the rest of my life. And I can focus on the next chapter of my life.

Now just a few things to get out of the way, not sure how much time I'll have to write, considering training picked up, but I'm starting to outprocess, and hopefully get some trade school training on base. If I can get into that, I can have a good paying job right out of the army, and I can focus more on building a side career in fitness.

Now, for those who keep messaging me asking for my facebook or instagram. Again, not giving that out unless I talk to you for awhile.

Either way, enjoy this short chapter.

"What the hell? I was gone for five minutes!" Jem said as he saw Ruby had somehow mounted a mini gun on his motorcycle.

"Don't you like it?"

"Well, my inner american is saying Yee Yee…." Jem said but Ruby was confused.

"Buuuuttt?"

"I can't ride that on the street unless the boogaloo kicks off."

"The what?"

"Don't worry about it, look Ruby, I can't legally ride that on the road, please take it off."

"Awww…..do you want me to leave the mount on so if you change your mind you could put it back on?"

"…Yeah that's fine." Like Jem said, if the boogaloo ever kicked off that would be cool to have.

Granted, it would be kind of impractical because of the weight, balance being thrown off, and the fact that it didn't even include the ammunition or the lack of cover, but it looked cool, and lets face it, everyone has a mall ninja moment where they buy or use totally impractical things.

But the point is, Jem was kind of sad it wasn't very practical or in this case street legal. But the good news is they had done a good job at fixing his bike up. Surprisingly Ruby was a bit of a mechanical wiz kid even if she had some rather odd ideas.

The laws of physics must be completely different in the world of remnant. Then again, who the hell was he kidding, Coco had a fucking minigun in a purse.

"Here you go!" She tossed the mini gun to him.

The surprising part was when he caught it and it didn't weigh as much as he thought.

"What the hell? Shouldn't this weigh a lot more?"

"Nope! Made it out of some spare metal I had on me!"

"….Spare metal? But it feels light, more importantly, you didn't have a bag on you when you showed up! And further, how the hell did you have enough to make a mini gun?!" Jem knew he really shouldn't be asking questions, but it was making no sense.

"Anime logic!" Ruby said as Jem groaned.

"Are you seriously going to use that now because you found out you're in a web series?"

"Yep! I don't have to explain anything!" Ruby teased.

"Oh come on!"

"Nope! Your curiousity will not be sated."

"You're surprisingly evil."

"Yang told me its good to be a tease!"

At that, Jem froze a bit.

"Uh….Ruby, what did you think she meant by that?"

"Well, I assume she meant teasing people playfully like pranks or something!"

Jem couldn't believe this, he knew Ruby was pretty innocent, but he would have figured seeing the future of her world would have at least given her an idea about adult interactions. But then again who was he kidding. His life was turning into one giant gag.

"Look, Ruby…." She was looking at him expecting to learn something new.

"Go ask Yang." He said as she groaned.

"Why?"

"1. Because I'm ten years older than you, and if I explain to you what she meant, I'm gonna go to fucking jail." Jem explained as Ruby was still confused.

"Uh okay, I guess I'll go ask Yang then."

Jem breathed out a sigh of relief. He really didn't want to explain that when Yang said 'be a tease' it meant…you know the other thing. Seriously, he really didn't want to explain that. Hell, he didn't even like it when he had to have the birds and the bees talk with one of his younger cousins. It was awkward as hell.

He sighed as he thought of what he wanted to do next. So he decided to go over and grab a homemade protein smoothie mixed with a banana, some ice cubes, a scoop of protein, some tart cherry juice, and a bit of almond milk.

Good for muscle building and for helping the joints, plus it was delicious. Just had to make sure he worked legs today. Since he knew he had a habit of neglecting it on days he felt like shit. He took a sip from it as he sat back in an office chair he kept in the garage and turned his radio on. The sound of Heilung helping him relax from working on the bike.

"What is that noise?" Winter asked as she heard Maria Franz vocals in Othan.

"It's music, I'm taking a break." He said as he took off his hoodie revealing his tank top and letting himself breath a bit.

"Sounds like something out of those films you were asking me about.' She said as Jem looked back really suddenly.

"Did you finish them all?" He asked excited to hear her opinion on lord of the rings and the hobbit.

"I did." She said as Jem leaned forward.

"Annnnd?"

"Well…..Yes I enjoyed them." He breathed out a sigh of relief.

"But that being said, the dwarves looked a bit cartoonish in the hobbit films." Jem was about to say something but he stopped.

Originally he was worried she was going to bring up that bullshit 'Why didn't they fly the eagles to Mordor.' Argument. But she actually brought up one of the points he agreed with.

"Yeah, pretty sure the reason they did that was because the hobbit was intended more and less as a childrens book." He said as she made an 'Oh' face.

"Either way, the first three were much better than the hobbit films."

"No argument there, but both trilogies are entertaining."

"one question though, I also read the books and-"

"Wait, you read the books in the time since we last talked?"

"Well yeah, we had time."

"It was literally yesterday."

"I will borrow a line from my sisters friend and say 'Anime logic'." At this Jem got mad.

"Oh you got to be kidding me, is everyone going to use that anytime they do something that makes zero sense or is impossible?"

"My point is, I don't quit understand why they made the hobbit into three films when it could have been one?"

"Well, honestly I want to go into the easy explanation and say Money, but to be honest, I don't know. All I know is I enjoyed them."

"It doesn't bother you at all?"

"Nah, I will admit it bothers me how some things in the book got changed or how some of the characters in the movies weren't in the book, but again, the films make up with it with those touching scenes with Bilbo and Thorin, I mean come on, the scene where he's dying and apologizing to Bilbo, that shit touches your soul."

"Agreed…" She said as she admitted to having to dab her eyes a bit during that scene.

"I will admit, I felt sad for Boromir." At this Jem got happy.

"Yeah, because if you see the extended movies and read the books, hes a much more sympathetic character." Jem stated.

"Plus the idea of a man under so much pressure to save his people, trying to do the right thing, but is brought to a rage where he's blinded amongst all the anger and fear stuck with me." She thought to herself as she remembered what she saw with General Ironwood being under so much pressure.

"Yeah, but still if you like those books, I got some more recommendations."

"I would like that." She said as Jem suddenly realized something.

"Huh, funny." He said as she raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

"Well, this is probably the first pleasant conversation we've actually had that didn't involve you lecturing me or threatening me with violence at the end of it." He joked as she narrowed her eyes.

"Are you trying to tempt me?"

"Nope! I'm okay with this."

"Good, because it would be a shame to ruin a pleasant conversation." She sat down in another office chair he had.

"Do you have anything to drink?"

"Yeah, in that fridge, theres protein shakes, some soda, some water, and some yoo hoos." He said as she gave him an odd look.

"Huh odd, no alcohol? That's a surprise for once."

"Hey, I may enjoy a cold beer every now and then, but I know my limits."

"You literally drank 24 bottles worth of guinness to piss me off."

"Well yeah, but that was because you threw my beer out, normally I wouldn't do that. I'm not 21 anymore you know."

"I just don't understand you, you make so many unhealthy choices, and yet you actually care?"

"Winter, did you seriously only eat healthy food before coming here?" Jem asked.

"Yes, I never saw a reason not to."

"Look, you can care about your health without only eating healthy, one bad meal isn't going to ruin your body, its like if a morbidly obsese person eats a salad, it doesn't mean they're suddenly going to be skinny, you got to find balance."

"You're not going to come at me with some Bruce Lee quotes are you?" She rolled her eyes.

"What? No and…wait you know who Bruce Lee is?"

"I went through your movie and book collection, so yes I know who he is."

"Well the point is, Nope, but either way, the thing about balance still stands. Its like how you can enjoy spending money as long as you know when to save it, its how life works."

"I suppose." She said as she grabbed a Yoo Hoo.

"Hmmm, pretty good." She said as she had never had chocolate before now.

"See? Enjoy it, but remember, don't overdo it like you did with the bacon."

She glared at him a little at that.

"Hey, you yelled at me for not warning you then, so I figured I would do it now."

"…..For once you said something smart."

"HA! Wait….what?" Did she just call him an idiot?