Chapter 31

Atlas plan's

After transferring to an atlas helicopter Reese realized that it was not heading to patch island.

"Pilot, where are we going? Reese asks.

"We are heading to the Atlas super carrier Kronos." Pilot said.

The Kronos is currently the largest airborne carrier in Atlas; it easily towers over the other airborne fleets, armed with 400 different types of aircraft, helicopters, transports, and various land vehicles. Maned with a crew of over 20,000 it's a big ship. Armed with various defensive weapons the ship is the most powerful in atlas military plus it can float in water, and if necessary with the most powerful anti gravity dust available it can fly at an altitude of 15,000 feet.

"Is team rwby and Winter on board?" Reese asks.

"Yep they are on board waiting for you." Pilot said.

Reese then sat back down and waited for the flight to be over.

After thirty minutes the pilot made a call out.

"Kronos in sight."

Reese got up and saw it, the ship looked like it was brand new.

"Patty data." Reese says.

"No data, I need a direct link to gather information." Patty says.

Reese just sat back down and waited for the landing.

He didn't have to wait long, after five minutes touchdown and the ramp lowered and the medical crew got in first and got to work on Emerald who was knocked out the whole time.

The first thing Reese noticed when he got off was how cold it was, and this was coming from the same guy who trained at the "facility" during the coldest time, that made Reese put his helmet back on.

"Where should I go?" Reese asked Patty.

But a com link answered for him.

"Come to the bridge, son." Winter said then cut the link.

Reese then noticed a marker on his helmet guiding him to the bridge.

When he approached the door it opened up and it gave way to the complex maze of hallways the ship had to offer.

But thankfully Patty was able to guide him, and when he got to the door it was guarded by two guys in black armor, the predator version four armor.

"So that's what it looked like." Reese thought.

"What is your clearance?" One guard asks.

Just then the door unlocks and opens.

"That's my clearance." Reese says as he walks in.

The bridge was big and looked like 50 individuals were in this one space, but Reese saw who he was looking for. Winter she was in the captain's chair, sitting slightly higher than the floor with her white hair in a braid.

Reese then saw someone look over and see him then they went up to Winter and whispered something, then Winter hit a bell twice and all the crew got up and walked out leaving Reese and Winter alone.

"Turn off Patty, I want to talk to you." Winter says.

"You heard her shut down for a bit." Reese says.

Reese then took off his helmet and the visor was dark indicating that it was offline.

Reese put the helmet down and waited.

"Come here." Winter says.

Reese walks up the place where Winter is and her eyes meet his red vs blue, while she looks intimidating but Reese knows that's for show around others, but when it was just him and her, the mother side shows.

When he got in front of her he had to wait for a minute, Winter was working on something, when she was done the screens and desks retracted Winter stood up and Reese saw something new, a cape, now Reese is familiar about an general's cape like the late Ironwood's cape, but Winter's cape goes down to her knees.

Winter turns and walks to another office/room must be the captain's quarters.

"Come." Winter says.

Reese walks into the office with Winter, and right as she closes the door Winter gives Reese a hug.

"Is everything okay? Are you eating properly? How is your wife?" Winter asks.

"Yes, everything is ok except for the sharks." Reese says.

"Yes, well they are pretty mindless, but I do know you're hiding something." Winter says in a teasing singsong voice.

"I still have yet to figure out how you know I'm hiding something." Reese says.

"Call it mother's intuition, now what is it?" Winter says.

"Sigh yang is pregnant." Reese says.

Now Reese just felt winter's hand flinch, and out of the corner of his eye winter had a stunned look on her face,a first if Reese recalled correctly.

"What how is that possible?" Winter whispers.

"Is what possible, mom, don't tell me you're hiding another secret." Reese said as the flashbacks from the event when she revealed that he was her son.

"No it's not a secret it's just a detail that is never mentioned to you." Winter says.

"Go on." Reese says.

Winter walks to the desk and takes a seat.

"You know your lab grown and I gave birth to you right?" Winter asks.

"Yep." Reese says back.

"Well when we gave you those growth enhancements part of the side effects was that you would have difficulty reproducing, like the chance of you being successful is one in ten trillion." Winter says.

"And somehow I beat the odds." Reese says.

"You're correct you did beat the odds, how many times did you have to do it?" Winter said without thinking.

"I'm not saying that's between me and Yang." Reese says.

Winter was about to berate him but then realized what she just asked.

"Sorry I just went into data mode, part of my job was to collect data for future projects." Winter says.

Reese cools down a little but his face is a little red.

"Ah, you're remembering those nights." Winter says while observing him.

"Stop it." Reese says.

"All right I will, now onto more important matters. While you were chasing emerald we scooped up Mercury and well he is not being talkative." Winter says.

"Figures as much I remember him being very stubborn during the tournament." Reese says.

"Yes that was something, it was a difficult fight to watch especially when you were rolling around, why were you doing that when you clearly won?" Winter asks.

"It was because Emerald used her semblance to try to make me strike a downed opponent, thus removing team rwby from the tournament. By the way, who would be the next match up if team rwby was removed?" Reese asks.

"If I remember correctly it was Penny vs Pyrrha." Winter says.

Reese leans back in the chair to think.

"Well we will ever know what Cinder was planning but it did cause panic, that's probably what the objective was." Reese says.

"Speaking of Cinder, what happened to her?" Winter asks.

Reese's face then goes blank as he remembers the literal duel to the death with her and Pyrrha keeping her head down, then the last thing Reese remembered was the shot when he put the threat of Cinder was over.

"Reese!" Winter says and shakes Reese.

Reese jumped a little.

"What?" Reese says with a surprise look.

"You kinda zoned out for a minute, you ok." Winter asks.

"Yeah just remembering what happened that night." Reese says.

"It's obvious that you probably don't want to talk about it, so for now you're free to go until I'm ready to talk to you again." Winter says in a comforting/authoritative voice.

"Right we'll I'll be on my way." Reese says as he gets up to leave.

"By the way, your wife is in cabin 10A she is waiting for you." Winter says.

Reese nods and leaves to cabin, he then picks up his helmet and leaves the bridge.

"Patty, where is cabin 10A?" Reese asks.

"Let me in the ship and I'll tell you." Patty says.

Reese then finds a computer terminal and touched it, Patty then did her thing and wirelessly gets back into the armor.

"It's two decks below us." Patty says.

Reese made his way down and saw that the cabins were bigger than normal from what he saw.

"Patty, what's the average size of a cabin for a regular crew cabin?" Reese asks.

"The average crew member doesn't get one, they will hot bunk. This cabin is the VIP one. There are ten of them." Patty says.

"Oooof, that sucks. What's the key code?" Reese asks.

"It's 593, be advised yang is sleeping." Patty says.

Reese got the code in and it made a click sound and he opened the door slowly and indeed there was a golden hair beauty in the bed.

Reese got the door closed silently but he failed to notice that Yang was awake but fake sleeping, as he just took a seat yang rotated around and grabbed Reese around his waist and put her lips on his nape causing him to yelp.

"Yang what are you doing?" Reese says with a surprised look.

"I'm giving you affection as your wife, plus you have been away for a while now so I'm making up lost time." Yang says and at the same time she throws Reese on the bed.

Reese now found himself looking straight up at Yang's face, and she was grinning while her purple eyes were staring right into Reese's soul,her golden hair covering their faces so you couldn't see what was going on.

"Honey what's going on?" Reese says in a nervous voice.

"Ohhhh. Having a moment." Yang says in a loving voice.

"I don't know if I can stay for…." Reese was about to say but a kiss from Yang stopped him.

"Honey, be quiet." Yang says.

"Oh ok." Reese says back.

Instead of a kissing time, Yang instead lays down next to Reese and wraps her arms around him and cuddles up.

It took a few seconds for Reese to realize that she just wants to hold him in her arms, for a bit.

Just then the coms came on.

"Reese, Emerald just woke up and she is in the interrogation room." Winter said.

"Got it just don't let anyone near her, her semblance can trick people." Reese says.

"Understood." Winter says as she closes the coms.

"Duty calls?" Yang says while pouting.

"Naw it can wait, I'll let emerald stay for a bit." Reese says .

Reese then puts his arms around Yang and closes his eyes for a quick nap.

KNOCK! KNOCK!

"Hey Reese, it's been a while come out, we need your help." Winter says.

Reese wakes up in a very groggy mood.

"K I'll be out in a second." Reese says.

Reese gets up and sees Yang getting up.

"Hey, did you think you would end up getting married to me?" Reese asks.

"I have a feeling we have had this conversation before. But I'll answer it's yes and i have no regrets about my decision, I honestly can't see myself as a lesbian like most of the students said back at school, it stems from, I can't give up the great honor of raising a family, unlike Jaune's sister who is one but I can see right through the lie." Yang says.

"Didn't expect to go that deep, but ok." Reese says.

Reese then feels Yang's arms around him.

"I'm glad I'm with you." Yang says.

"I'm glad you chose me sweetheart." Reese says back.

Reese and Yang made their way to the holding cells where Emerald is tied up and wide awake saying profanities.

"COME ON IN HERE I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!" Emerald shouted.

"Anyone else been in there?" Reese asks.

"No." Winter says back.

"What's up with her?" Yang asks.

"She is probably woke up from the sedative and it's working through her system." Reese says.

"Emerald is having a bad side effect from the medication." Winter clarified.

"How long has she been awake?" Reese asks.

"About 15 minutes." Winter says back.

Reese then got the microphone.

"Sit down Emerald." Reese said.

"NO MAKE ME!" She shouted.

Then Emerald started to hit the glass of the interrogation room. At first there was no effect, but Patty picked up a small crack forming.

"Reese glass break imminent." Patty warns.

Reese then ran out of the room and got to the door and it unlocked.

"Sit down!" Reese commands."

Just then Emerald got silent but just looked at him, just as Reese suspected it was a ruse, he could feel in his mind that she was trying to trick him.

"I know you're trying to get out. No point." Reese said as he removed his helmet and looked in her eyes.

"My turn." Reese thought as he used her semblance.

Just then emerald got a shocked look on her face. What did she see well she saw Salem in the room slowly reaching her hand to emerald.

"Why have you not captured Ruby?" "Salem" asks.

"She is under heavy security and I can't get close." Emerald says.

"Now remind me why do I need her?" Salem asks.

"So that you can corrupt her, make her the new grimm queen, and take over Remnant." Emerald says in terror.

"And how would that be done?" Salem asks.

"I can't remember you said something about Watts experiment failing, and you were going to do the same with Pyrrha." Emerald says.

"And that would be?" Salem asks.

"I don't know you didn't tell me. Please don't hurt me!" Emerald says as she breaks down.

Reese then cut the image and Emerald was stunned.

"Thanks for the info." Reese says with a grin.

When Reese got out of the room he turned to Winter.

"Tranq her and throw her in the brig." Reese says as he walks to the mess hall with Yang in tow.

"What did you do to her? It looked like you were just staring at her." Yang says.

"I was using her semblance against her, what she saw was Salem." Reese says.

"Yeikes no wonder she was freaking out." Yang says.

"Yep now I wonder what's on the menu." Reese says.

"Same hey have you seen the rest of the team?" Yang asks.

"Nope I haven't explored this big ship, but if I'm correct they got a mess hall schedule, and if they want to look around they probably have an escort." Reese says.

When they got to the chow hall it was somewhat packed and a little rowdy.

"Please tell me we won't eat MRE's"? Yang says.

"No we won't, food is part of the moral of the crew, if they got mre's all the time it would be miserable, from the smell of it it's cooked potatoes with salt and pepper buttered, with grilled ribs, and a salad." Reese says.

When they got to the pick up area Reese's guess was correct.

"I have never seen food look this good since Beacon." Yang says.

"He he that's a first." Reese says.

After they found a spot, they were eating in peace for a bit but a message runner interrupted them.

"When you two are both done eating, report to the bridge with the rest of your team." The runner said before heading back.

"Glad Winter gave us time to finish our food if this was any other time we would have to leave." Reese said.

When they got done they both went back to the vip cabins.

"Patty, where is the rest of the team?" Reese asks.

Patty looks through the ship's cameras to look for them.

"We'll only Weiss is out, she is with winter, Ruby and Blake are in cabin 595." Patty says.

Reese approached the door and knocked.

"Yo We need to get to the bridge." Reese says.

From the other side Reese hears audible groans as both women are waking up.

The door flew open and in their pajamas stood two angry women.

"We barely got to sleep now, you want us to wake up?" Blake says.

Reese however was unfazed.

"Winter requests our presence on the bridge,and it's important." Reese says.

Blake rolls her eyes and grabs two bathrobes and throws one to Ruby.

"If we are going I'm not going to get in uniform." Blake says.

"Fair, I'll be sure to keep it short." Reese says.

They then marched up to the bridge and were promptly let in and when they got to the office.

"So you know why we are on the ship?" Winter asks.

"Yeah to keep ruby on the move because we don't know why Salem wants her right?" Weiss says.

"Yep that's one part but the other is when we get information about Salem we can mount an attack against Salem." Winter says.

"I hear a but coming." Blake says.

"The but is we figured out why Salem wants Ruby." Winter says.

"I already know why. It's so I can lose hope and give up on being a huntress." Ruby says.

"That's one part, the other is so she can change you into the new grim queen." Winter says.

The room went silent and Ruby was now wide awake.

"How would she do that?" Weiss asks.

"We don't know yet." Winter says.

Blake was about to shout but Reese cut in.

"She is telling the truth we don't know yet." Reese says.

"So what are we going to do about it?" Weiss asks.

"Well that's why I called you all in. We got two options. Option one you guys stay on the run until the end of time, and who knows how much resources Salem has at her disposal. Option two we don't wait and do a first strike and take her out." Winter says.

"Do we have to make a decision now?" Ruby asks.

"No, I'll expect a decision in five days, until then talk it over and get some sleep." Winter says.

After the team left no one spoke a word, but they somehow made their way back to their cabin and they all went in.

"Well I don't think we are going to sleep now." Ruby says.

"With that kind of news, who wouldn't." Blake says.

"I know we need to talk as a team, but we should sleep." Reese says.

"How?" Yang asked.

Reese then brought out sleeping meds.

"This is the military grade sleep aid, take one and you will be out shortly." Reese says as he opens up the package.

All of them took one and grabbed a blanket.

"How long till it takes effect?" Blake asks.

"Not long 3-5 minutes tops." Reese says as he got a spot on the floor, while the woman took the beds.

After a few minutes Reese could hear the steady breathing of people going to sleep.

"Good that was quick." Reese thought as he blacked out.

For tonight team rwby would get a peaceful night of sleep for they will have to make a decision in the following week, one that will affect the future of the world.

End.