Days Before The Fall

"I'm sure you must have questions."

"Maybe one… or two…"

The voices always came in so distant from where she slept. To be fair she slept in a bulletproof glass tube with a direct connection to the planet. It's the only way she's been able to live so far, until she can find the partner she's dreamed of since she was first brought here.

The silver eyed girl…. She felt a connection with her whenever Remnant planted a dream inside her head. She always felt so distant, yet so close at the same time. She just wishes that she finall-

"Professor, who is this girl over here? She doesn't look like a maiden."

The voice cut off her thoughts as we finally see her. A girl in plain white pajama clothes floats inside of a glass tube with a strange green liquid covering her. Her black hair flows in the substance ever slowly as the sounds clearly reach her now.

"She Ms. Nikos, is the product of unfortunate circumstance who has been under my care since a friends passing."

She would have nightmares of that night rarely. The first Begins Night, well at the time, the only Begins Night.

10 Years Ago

"Ozpin!" The well dressed man in white and black, with skull tatoos around his face shouted as the helicopters shot down the tower they stood.

Ozpin, carrying a small child, ducked as the man stood over the professor and took the bullets. As he fell to the floor, he layed his hand out to the child as he gave his final breaths, and final words.

"Please be safe… My gentle Breeze…"

She never knew who that man was. All she could gather was that they knew each other at some point or another. And she was important to him in a way. Perhaps he was just a mercenary that grew too attached to a mission. A father concerned for his child. Or maybe, he was just a random man that knew her name, because he wanted to help her.

She would never know because he died saving her. At least she took comfort in her name from that night. Breeze Prism… Breeze as gentle as the wind meeting with a prism to create the rainbow… She always loved that name.

"Why is she in that device?" The voice asked another question about her. She was getting irritated now, why not just ask her directly?

As if reading the mind of the girl in the tube, Ozpin pressed a small button off to the side, as the liquid slowly drained. Ozpin stepped to the side as the tube slowly slid open to allow the girl out. As she stepped out, she opened her eyes to look at the source of the voice that was asking so many questions. Slowly they look up, to reveal a green eye and a pupil-less eye.

The source of the voice was a tall, very tall, girl with long red hair and calm as a forest green eyes. She wore her bronze armor well, accentuated by a red sash on her waist.

"Why not ask her yourself?" Ozpin simply replied in question as the two stared at the other for a few brief moments before finally Breeze spoke.

"Yo, Nikos~." The girl stated in a curious and playful tone. Well, if that's how you would describe her voice anyways. She looked at the girl in excitement as she slowly walked around her in excitement.

"I was only able to do a little read on you because all the students here this year really fascinated me. You really stuck out to me with your fighting skill, and my my your sense of men is re-"

"Ahem." Ozpin interrupted, as Breeze stopped talking.

"Sorry, about to go personal there. As for your question, I reside in the Remnant Diviser to keep me alive, until I find my partner at least."

"To keep you alive? Partner? Bu-"

"I believe we should let be for now, we have much to discuss." Ozpin cut off, as Breeze went back to the large tube. Climbing back in, and letting it close, she felt the data of the planet begin to flow into her once more. As she went to sleep once more, she began to dream of the silver eyed girl once more. How happy she looked to be next to a girl with orange hair and freckles.

Perhaps a read on her would help her transition into being friends with the girl later on when they can finally meet.

Moments Before The Fall

Breeze was awoken abruptly as she was ejected out of the tube machine all too suddenly for her liking, as a frantic Ozpin handed her a briefcase of considerable weight, Pyrrah and a scraggly blonde teen by his side

"I'm having Mr. Arc here, escort you and the project out of here, and to a safer location. No time for questions just go!" The usually calm man from her experiences with him shouted as an arrow flew past them.

"Please, as if I'd let you just walk out of here calmly…" A woman's' voice spoke out as another arrow flew, the blonde blocking it with his shield. As the blonde took Breeze's hand, they began to run as fast as they could while Breeze heard a sound she hadn't heard since Begins Night so many years ago.

"SKULL."

Looking back, if only for a moment, she saw the man who had taken care of her for the past ten years of her life be surrounded by skulls and armored plating for a moment before the trio ran into an elevator and left, with the last sight of Ozpin being the sight of his tired smile and a skull helmet forming around his head.

As the trio left the room Breeze had called home, if in a way, for so many years of her life, she opened up the briefcase and from it jumped out a small opaque white robotic dinosaur. It let out a roar, as Breeze gave it a small smile. "I'm glad to see you as well, Fang!"

The two others in the elevator looked at the sight in confusion until the elevator stopped and the three went running out, Breeze closing the case back up. As the trio went on running, they heard explosions come from the tower, and looking back saw a large dragonous monster fly ever closer.

As Breeze could only watch in horror at the sights, she could feel the presence she had felt in her dreams grow close. "The silver eyed girl… She's here!" She shouted as she ran off, Fang staying on her shoulder.

"Wait!" The blonde man screamed as Pyrrah stopped him from running after her.

Breeze runs as fast as she can, until she finds she finds her. A girl in red and black clothing standing next to a girl in a pretty white dress. But what makes the girl in black and red is her eyes. The silver eyes that Breeze had been looking for. She ran as fast as her feet could carry her before stopping in front of the two girls, panting heavily.

"I...finally...found you...The...silver..eyed...girl…" Opening the case with what strength she had in her, she pulled out a red buckle with various wires and pipes poking out of it. Two slots, one on each side of the device each sporting a small window. She took the device and placed it upon the girl in red's waist, the same device appearing on Breeze's wait in a small glimpse of light at the same time.

Understandably confused, the two girls were about to unleash a storm of questions upon Breeze, when the girls in white has a sudden eruption of sound from her pocket. Pulling out a small screen device, the man that Breeze was with before shows up on screen.

After a quite hectic conversation, the girl in red looks at Weiss for moment, before looking back at Breeze. "I'm very sorry, I have somewhere to be, I'm sure whatever this is can wait-" As she attempts to take the device off, Breeze stops her.

"Please take it with you, along with these…" Breeze spoke softly as she handed the girl three small USB sticks. Each of a different color. "I'm sure they will prove useful later." Breeze spoke as she took three other USB's out of the case and placed them in her pockets. She tossed the briefcase away, as Fang let out a roar.

"I'm sure we will see each other again." Breeze spoke as she walked away, off to the sounds of people yelling.

As Breeze was put into a large airship, she saw a girl with bright orange hair talking to a boy with dark hair and one pink stripe.

"Do you think they'll be okay? I'm worried that…"

"Nora, they'll be okay."

Breeze saw them comfort each other for a moment, before pulling out a green USB, and pressing down on a button placed on its front.

"CYCLONE."

She placed it within the right side of her belt as it turned into data, and dispersed. As she felt her eyes grow heavy, she could swear the two she was just watching were approaching her. Possibly to check on her. And from there...

...it was a blur. Breeze could see through the eyes of the girl she had just encountered, as she watched Pyrrah die. The same woman who was there the last time she saw Ozpin, was there the last time she saw the first person she had met in years outside of the protectors.

And then it happened. The bright flash, and the gusts of wind.

As the light seemed to wrap around her, so did the wind, enveloping her in green and black armor as she kept screaming. And then it was blank.

Standing in a white void with green data flowing all around her, Breeze walked through until she happened upon the silver eyed girl crouching crying.

"Hello..?" Breeze let out quietly, as the girl poked her head up to look.

"You...You're that girl from that night…" The girl let out quietly. Breeze sat down next to her, as the girl finally noticed where they were. "What is this place?"

"This is our connected subconscious. We're linked like this as long as the Double Driver is upon your waist. I'm Breeze by the way."

"R-Ruby. Wait, linked? Like chains?" The girl sniffled out, as the data flew ever closer to the two. Breeze nodded, as she looked up.

"Remnant was telling me you were my destined partner, so I found you as soon as I was able. Guess soon as I was able, basically meant the night everything went to hell, huh?" Breeze let out. She looked at Ruby again, as the girl had stopped crying.

"Guess so… So, Remnant told you we were partners, huh? Sounds pretty interesting. My first partner is probably halfway to her home by now, so maybe Remnant just thought I'd need another partner right away."

"I guess we each have our own stories to talk out…"

And talk out they did. Breeze spoke of everything she could recall about herself. Living in a tube, the nightmares of Begins Night, and how she just kind of always had this connection to the planet.

And Ruby spoke of her dream of being a Huntress, her partner Weiss, and her team RWBY. Her time at Beacon, and all the events that happened the night of the fall.

Soon, the two had become friends already. Laughing when one of them attempted to make a joke of the situation, talking when the other cried about the events, and asking questions when something bothered them. But the biggest question, was what had happened last.

"What was that feeling? That strong gust of wind and the light?" Ruby had asked, Breeze sitting up from where she had been lying down.

"I don't know much about the light, I'll have to look later when I can connect to the planet. But that gust of wind, was us. That, was Double, or W if you prefer."

"Double? What is-" Ruby was cut off, as her body begin to slowly dissolve into data. "What's happening?"

"Someone must have de-transformed you finally. Don't worry, we can always talk as long as the Driver remains on your waist! Goodbye friend!"

And with that, Ruby woke up in a bed, in a wooden hut, as the armor slowly drifted off of her. A man with blonde hair looked at Ruby before hugging her, tears coming out of his eyes.

"Hi...Dad." Ruby spoke as she hugged the man back, tears of her own flowing out.

Breeze woke up in a hospital bed, sounds of medical equipment beeping, as she heard footsteps slowly approach her. A main with black and grey messy hair, in clothes far too fancy for him to be wearing approached her, as he gave a slight grin.

"So, you finally found your partner huh? Was I right? Was it the silver eyed girl?"

"Yeah... Mr. Qrow."

Qrow simply smiled in response as he closed his eyes, sitting down on a nearby couch. "Well then, looks like I know where we're going when we get you out of here."

"Where to?"

"Patch. Home."

Next Time

Ruby: I met someone before the fall, and I need to find her!

Qrow: Your partner is one of the greatest people I know.

?: Beacon is gone, Ruby! What's the point?

Arc: I'll keep fighting! For Pyrrah's sake!

Breeze: I didn't get to ask before, but now I can. Ruby Rose, do you have the courage to ride with the devil?

Ruby: If it means protecting others, I'll fight!

The Fallen B/Moving Towards The W

?: Now, count up your sins!