Okay, so i wanted to get this chapter out of the way pretty quick.

"Okay, this time we're going straight towards the cabin." Clover said as they were not going for the stealthy woods approach.

It was only shortly after they got back that Clover realized they when they had been attempting to take a stealthy approach that they had wandered into the woods that was behind a shooting range. That was information that would have been incredibly useful BEFOREHAND. But oh well. Too late now. Now they were going for the simple approach.

Fuck it, straight out into the open, walk up to the door and break it in.

"Alright Elm, get ready to breach the door." Clover said as they all stacked on the door, weapons in hands.

"OH GOD NO!" They heard a yell as Goodwitch panicked.

BOOM!

She kicked down the door with her telekinesis.

Only to see a very shocked Team RWBY and JNPR playing Risk.

"Wait...what?" She said as she noticed everyone looked unharmed.

"Professor Goodwitch!" Ruby said as she rushed over.

"How did you get here? How did you find us? What are you doing here?" Ruby was asking questions a mile a minute.

"Wait, what the hell?" Clover asked as everyone looked relatively unharmed.

Where was the chainsaw? The meat hooks? The torture chamber?

"Oh what the hell is this?" Harriet asked as she placed her hands on her hips.

"Wait, who are these guys?" Jaune asked as he didn't know who they were.

"The Ace Ops." Winter said as they all saw her.

"Wait, Ma'aam, you're okay?" Now Elm was confused.

"Of course I am, we've just been waiting for some kind of rescue, why do you all look so tense?"

"...You're...You're not being held hostage?" Harriet asked.

"No, thats ridiculous! What kind of nonsense is that?" Winter said as everyone turned to Harriet and glared.

"But, we heard you crying in pain?"

"I wasn't crying!" Winter defended herself as she didn't want people to know how weak she was to spice.

"I was...I don't handle spicy food well."

"But...we got shot at!"

"Oh Jem and Nala were shooting earlier, you might have accidentally wandered into the woods behind the range." Ruby said as suddenly that made a lot more sense.

The ace ops were still confused. The two teams and woman they had been sent to rescue were fine. No harm done. But that still didn't explain the scary looking redneck guy or the trigger happy daughter.

"Hi new people!" Said girl appeared.

"Ah!" Elm said as she just came out of nowhere.

"Are you friends of Ms. Winter?" She tilted her head in a cute way.

"..." And all of a sudden they couldn't remember why they thought this girl was scary.

She walked over to the cooler and pulled out a can of hawaiian punch. And happily began sipping on the delicious beverage as the ace ops took careful notice of the gun strapped to her waist.

"Uhm, why does she have a gun?" Clover asked as she seemed young for weapons training.

"Oh! Mr. Jem gave it to me!" She said as she twirled it around a bit.

"...I'm guessing thats the bald guy with the beard?" Clover asked as Winter nodded.

"Although I don't see why he gave her a Colt Python..." Winter thought the gun was too big for her.

"I like it!" She said as she even had a bullet belt with her holster.

"..." Marrow was remaining silent as he noticed the tail waving around behind her.

"Wait...she's a faunus?" This was just getting more and more confusing.

"Oh yeah, she came through here on mistake, accidentally hit the dust the general had been working on." Winter didn't feel like explaining.

Clover however was going over the situation in his head. He did remember the general did mention how there was a girl working at the conveniant store front they had set up over the research lab, but she had somehow broke into the facility, but Clover wasn't tracking this, he thought she had somehow escaped. But then again, Ironwood probably left it out of the intel because the odds of her landing in the same spot as everywhere else was nearly impossible.

"Okay, this is just getting weirder and weirder, so you mean to tell me, you all are completely fine, you've been sitting here playing a board game, and for some reason...theres also a little lion faunus whos got a bigger gun than most huntsman, and...why is she wearing a cowboy hat?" Clover asked as she suddenly had a cowboy hat on.

"Oh! Jem gave it to me, we watched this movie together with some funny singing cowboy with a white hat, and I wanted to be like him!" Nala said with her tail wagging.

Winter thought Jem must have shown her some kind of cartoon or something...oh boy was she wrong.

"Okay, wait a minute, lets all back up and try to get a clear understanding what is going on, because right now I'm confused as hell." Clover said as this was giving him a headache just thinking about it.

About 44 chapters worth of exposition later

"That literally sounds like bullshit." Harriet said as this all seemed weird as hell.

"I don't know, something tells me this story could be a lot crazier than we think, so we should be grateful that this is pretty tame." Clover said as he was just glad there wasn't something batshit insane like Sienna Khan having a crush on a human.

All in all, while there were some parts that seemed absolutely ridiculous and impossible, it wasn't nearly as weird as they had originally assumed. They were certain they were going to be dealing with psycho hillbillies or crackheads. So to see that things were relatively normal actually helped them out. Clover was happy that this whole mission was going to be a lot easier with then they thought. For all they know they could have been tunneling under a wall to get into this place, and dealing with a bunch of bullshit security measures that would have no place in the real world.

"Theres just one thing." He said as he looked around.

"We notice you kept mentioning a man named Jem, but where is he?" He didn't see him.

"Oh he went out to get some steaks for dinner, he promised Nala a big one, and he figured while he was at it that he might as well go get extra, so he went to a local butcher to get it." Winter said as she was just happy it wasn't going to be overly spicy.

The last thing she wanted after that whole cajun fiasco was something spicy. Especially since Jem had been making fun of her with all those 'Mayo is spicy' memes and saying she couldn't handle seasoning. She had not heard the end of it since they had gotten back from the woods. And to make matters worse, Nala had not only handled the spicy food like a champ, but had even throw on some hot sauce to really add a nice burn to it.

That girl ain't right.

"Look you got nothing to worry about, he may seem a bit odd, but hes friendly." Winter said as everyone was in general consensus.

"Oh come now Winter, surely you have more than that to say." Alex said as Winter looked away.

"Thats sufficient for the task at hand." She said as Alex huffed.

"Geez, I'm dealing with two idiots dense about their feelings." He said as his matchmaking plan had not been going well so far.

Nobody really knew why Alex looked so upset over the first few hours at the cabin, but people assumed it was because he wasn't used to being in the great outdoors for this long. He seemed more like a city boy. So they just let it go. But everyone soon heard the sound of a pickup truck pulling up. And Winter sighed in relief as she realized she wouldn't have to explain any more of the weird ass adventures they had been having.

"Look, Jem will be here soon, he can explain everything." She said as the ace ops got ready.

"Okay, but just so you know, I'm still skeptical about this guy." Elm said as she crossed her arms.

"Okay guys I'm ba-" Jem opened the door and immediately saw Elm standing in front of the door.

CLUNK

And immediately dropped the bag of steaks he had been carrying. Luckily Nala had swooped in to save them and start getting them ready.

Elm didn't know why he stopped so suddenly.

Jem was frozen to his spot. And if you were in his head, you would notice it was drawing a blank.

*Play Marvin Gayes Let get it on*

Jem took a few steps slowly as he got closer to Elm, who honestly didn't know what to expect as he got closer, but he didn't seem to have any harmful intentions.

"You're..." Jem said as he got closer.

"You're..." Closer and closer as Elm was so confused.

"Amazing." And with that he hugged Elm, granted she was so much taller than him that he was literally hugging her around her midsection.

Meanwhile, Elm was not only confused as fuck, but she was also feeling awkward as fuck as she was expecting a friendly handshake or maybe even a friendly greeting.

Never did she imagine she would be getting a hug and a smile.

And Jem was just smiling as he felt nothing but muscle as he hugged her.

"Uhm...uh...thanks." She said as she patted his head.

Winter meanwhile felt her blood boiling as she couldn't understand why she was feeling so pissed off right now.

Alex however was horrified.

"OH NO NO NO NO!"

He had realized a horrible truth.

He had forgotten one very important fact.

He had forgotten to ask what Jem's type was when they first met.

He took a look at elm.

Short hair.

Muscular but feminine.

Tall.

Athletic.

Oh god

"JEMS INTO TOMBOYS!"