Melody: How'd this schmuck get past the ship's biometric scanner?

Jenkins: Hell if I know.

Hector: No worries, the captain and Alicia can handle things.

As everyone looked at the scene between the Swift Retribution's commander, and the mysterious man, there was a pregnant pause in the air. Before suddenly, Tronmaster sighed and sheathed his Gunblade.

"Who are you?" Alicia asked.

"You didn't tell them specifically about what happened in Volume 5, did you?" The mysterious man asked.

"No. But I will tell them after the chapter." Tronmaster growled, "Now, answer her question. Who. Are. You?"

The man sighed, as he tapped a button on the side of his helmet, said helmet retracting itself until it was completely compacted into the outfit. At the sight of his face, everyone, even Tronmaster, gasped at what they saw.

"You look..." Ruby started.

"Just like..." Jaune added, as Tronmaster finished everyone's thoughts.

"Me."

"Yep." The man said, sighing, "The name's Racer Rose." The now-named Racer answered.

"Rose?" Weiss asked, wondering if he's related to Ruby, Summer and Alicia.

"Yep. I'm Tronmaster and Alicia's son from the future." Racer replied, everyone adopting a look of shock.

"W-we have a son?" Alicia asked Tronmaster.

"He's a time traveler?" Tronmaster added, as Racer ran to the kitchen, coming back with a pepperoni, cheese, bacon and jalapeño pizza with garlic flavored crust.

"Sorry about that, had to get myself something to eat. Time travel's hungry work." Racer said, snapping Tronmaster out of his stupor.

"Jesus Christ, you're a speedster, aren't you?" Tronmaster deadpanned, making Racer nod.

"What's a speedster?" Ruby asked, herself snapped out of her stupor as well.

"Later." Racer replied, "Pyrrha, mind reading the next chapter?" Pyrrha grabbing the book, and opening it.

[Ruby's P.O.V.]

What I found in the supply crate was what I could actually find useful, and grinned at it.

At Pyrrha beginning the chapter, everyone was snapped out of their stupor.

"I wonder what Rubes found in the NG crate?" Yang asked.

"A weapon?" Penny asked.

"Perhaps parts of a set of armor?" Glynda added.

"Let Pyrrha continue to read, and find out." Racer said.

First off there was an NG standard issue sword. Sharp, practical, nothing special, but at least I could use it. Plus I was okay with using swords, I mean Uncle Qrow did have me train with them for a while in case I couldn't use Crescent Rose and I had to use his weapon.

"How common are sword users in the Final Fantasy series?" Winter asked.

"Quite common." Alicia replied, "Want me to list a few?"

"No thank you." Winter answered.

'Sorry I laughed you off like that Uncle Qrow.' I thought, sure I wasn't using his weapon, but I don't have Crescent Rose.

"When in doubt, take every advantage you can." Summer said.

Next in the box was an NG marked First Aid kit, I cracked it open to find several bottles I knew nothing about.

"And now, we'll get a look at couple of recurring items from the Final Fantasy franchise." Alicia stated.

"I hope they're good." Ruby mumbled.

'The Green vials are Hi-Potions.' Alexander said, 'They're effective healing items, don't know if they work on Aura though, and the blue bottles are Elixirs, they're full heals and can remove all status ailments... I wonder how the NG replicated them, the knowledge in creating these are long since forgotten by the common folk.'

"The NG aren't exactly 'common folk' though." Qrow deadpanned, using air quotations to emphasize his point.

Hooking the kit to a latch under my cloak I turned back to the crate and pulled out...a small white rock?

"What?" I muttered.

"Holy shit, is that a Holy Stone?" Alexander asked, befuddled.

"Holy Stone?" Weiss asked.

"I'm sure the story will explain." Alexander explained.

'That's a Holy Stone.' Alexander said, 'They are basically stones that hold a single spell, most people who don't have GF's giving them magic use them to cast magic. Of course you can Draw the magic from them and add the spell to your stock.'

"Nice." Ruby cheered, earning an amused eye roll from her white-haired girlfriend.

"Nice." I whispered, then I felt myself pulling the magic from the stone, causing the stone to dissolve into powder.

Next in the case was some food rations, mostly bread and water, took those.

"Blech, I hate having to eat rations." Tai retched.

"Yeah, considering that half of that shit is probably stuff like, rotten meat, or spoiled cheese left over from a bombed-out Walmart." Racer added, making everyone turn to him.

"The future doesn't sound fun." Neptune finally said.

"It really isn't." Racer added, as Pyrrha continued reading.

There was also several boxes of ammo, shotgun, pistol, sniper, and assault rifle rounds, though the casings of each bullet were pitch black.

"Going by RPG element types, those rounds have GOT to be infused with Darkness damage." Jaune mused, causing everyone to turn to him in confusion.

"If you'd only apply yourself to your studies as much as you do your video games, perhaps you might be able to progress at a much faster rate." Glynda muttered, as Pyrrha got back to reading.

'Dark Ammunition.' Alexander said, 'I used to assist a SeeD named Irvine Kinneas who used ammo like this.'

"What do they do?" I asked quietly.

"Well, it's ammo that uses Darkness, take a wild guess." Raven joked, before getting smacked by Summer.

'Dark Ammo has a small chance to inflict an enemy with abnormal status ailments.' Alexander said, 'Poisoning, Blinding, Silencing, even sudden drowsiness.'

"Yikes. That, is some scary ammo." Sun said, shivering slightly.

Okay, that's something to keep on hand.

"It's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it." Racer advised, everyone nodding in agreement.

After putting the ammo boxes in my ammo pouch I pulled out the last thing in the box... A copy of The Girl Next Door.

"Frankly, having something like that, is a major waste of time." Racer chided.

"Why's that?" Qrow asked.

"Call it seeing it first hand, but being distracted by a pair of tits during a major engagement with hostile enemy forces, whether it be in real life, or with a Playboy or something, can and WILL get you killed." Racer answered, promptly shutting Qrow up.

"Why is this in there?" I muttered prying the magazine open, and almost immediately snapped it back shut.

"Yeesh, what could've caused her to snap that thing shut?" Raven asked.

The first page was completely covered by a naked woman, and she wasn't even trying to cover herself.

"It's a porno mag, what'd you expect?" Tronmaster shrugged.

"Seriously, I get it that soldiers need to have SOME form of stress relief, but keeping a porno in a supply crate seems ass-backwards." Alicia added.

I threw that back into the crate and shut it, determined to get that picture out of my mind.

"Yes, please let this embarrassment come to an end." Ruby muttered, burying herself in her cloak.

"Let's move on." I muttered picking the NG sword back up and moved through the tunnels.

"Moving on." Qrow added, waiving his hand in a similar motion.

'Is that a train?' I thought peeking around a corner.

"Get ready for the biggest fuck-up of Torchwick's criminal career." Tronmaster said, chuckling.

"The Breach?" Racer asked his father.

"Oh yeah." Tronmaster replied.

There was indeed a train, I saw several White Fang members loading boxes of something onto it, one member accidentally dropped a crate, causing the lid to pop open a bit and reveal red Dust Crystals.

"Well, that explains what happened to all the stolen Dust." Blake said, narrowing her eyes.

"Exactly how much Dust was nabbed by the White Fang anyway?" Neptune asked.

"Enough Dust to turn part of a city like Vale or Detroit into a smoldering crater." Racer answered darkly.

At the sound of the crate being Dropped I saw Roman walk up to the guy and started to berate him for dropping the crate...right as someone else tripped over a Dust Crystal that popped out and fell, causing the crate to pop open to reveal a few guns inside.

"If it weren't for all the stolen Dust, or guns, I'd say the White Fang would be more like a circus comedy show." Qrow added, before getting shocked by Raiden.

'Alexander, you got any idea's?' I asked my GF in my mind.

"None that would end without causing the entire cave system to collapse, I would assume." Glynda noted.

'None... You're out numbered at the moment and you don't have your preferred weapon on hand.' Alexander said, 'Ifrit would probably just go with the biggest explosion he can muster, but that could cause these caves to collapse.'

"And Murphy's Law goes into effect in 3, 2, 1..." Penny counted down.

At that moment, there was an explosion.

"Ya don't need to be a time traveler to see that coming." Racer added, rolling his eyes.

"It's Yang and Ifrit, what did you expect?" Shiva asked sarcastically.

'Oh geez.' Alexander and I thought.

"To the surprise of literally no one." Blake added, making Yang stick her tongue out.

Another explosion tore through the area, revealing the rest of my team, Dr. Oobleck.

Just as some White Fang ran past me I dash toward my team at top speed.

"For a non-speedster, you're still rather fast." Racer noted.

"Ruby!" Yang cried as she suddenly grabbed me and pulled me into a hug, crushing me slightly.

"Are you okay?" Weiss asked with genuine worry.

"Of course she is, outside of a swift beating from Torchwick." Racer joked, as Summer, Tai and Qrow growled.

"I'm fine, I'm fine! But listen! Torchwick's got all kinds of weapons down there." I said pointing the NG Sword at Roman, who seemed to be walking toward the train.

"What?" Blake asked as she handed me Crescent Rose, which I took and sheathed the NG sword where Crescent Rose normally sat.

"Good idea, at least until you can acquire a proper scabbard." Alicia noted.

"Note to self, acquire a sword scabbard, in case of sword acquisition." Ruby mumbled to herself, typing a reminder into her Scroll, as both Raiden and Boko chirped.

"I saw them carrying crates of Dust and weapons onto that train." I said as Boko flew out of Yang's hair and into my hood.

"I don't mind if it's Boko messing with my hair." Yang stated, as Boko chirped again.

"Ahhhh, that's ridiculous. These tunnels are sealed, the tracks lead to a dead-end." Dr. Oobleck said.

"It wasn't ridiculous, was it?" Neptune asked, the family of Askr heroes, along with everyone else, looking at him like he was stupid.

"You DO remember the Breach, right?" Pyrrha deadpanned, as she continued reading.

At that moment Roman's Voice came on over the speakers, "Get to your place's we are leaving now!" Roman announced, and then the train let loose steam and began to move.

"Well it sounds like they're going somewhere." Yang said.

'Remember we can't get a signal out here.' Alexander reminded me.

"And there's the catch." Qrow noted.

"Hey, where did the GFs go?" Nora asked, as they all now noticed the Guardian Forces sleeping.

"Jesus, what the fuck?" Racer mumbled, as Pyrrha continued.

'Ah that's right, we can't call for backup.' I grumbled.

"So what do we do?" Weiss asked.

"Open a fast food restaurant!" Jaune joked, as Siren snorted in her sleep.

"I believe we only have one option." Oobleck said.

"We're stopping that train." I said deploying Crescent Rose.

"That's my girl." Tai said, proud of his daughter.

"A natural leader." Glynda added.

We got aboard the train rather easily seeing as it wasn't going too fast yet and climbed to the top of the car's.

"Must. Resist. Urge. To play. Ozzy Osbourne." Racer mumbled to himself.

"Alright children we have to get to the front to stop the train." Oobleck said as Yang ripped off the hatch of the car we were on before throwing it off the side of the train, and causing me and my team to freeze at what we saw inside.

"Oh, I don't like this." Summer muttered.

"Uh professor." Weiss said.

"Doctor." Oobleck growled.

"Seriously, how can one man be so anal about something so asinine?" Sun asked, befuddled.

"You, you don't know the half of it." Yang answered.

"What's that?" Weiss asked pointing inside the hatch.

"That my dear, appears to be a bomb." Oobleck said causing me and my team to take a step back.

"At least it's not the monster kind." Diablos said.

"Um, pardon?" Jaune asked concerned.

"A bomb that's around the strength, or is at the strength of, a nuclear weapon." Alicia answered grimly.

"I'm gonna guess that's pretty bad." Neptune replied.

"You, you have no goddamned idea." Tronmaster added.

I've got to remember to ask one of the GF's about that later. Then I noticed several dozen White Fang members climbing to the top of the Train cars.

"And, cue the redshirts." Tronmaster joked.

"We've got baddies!" I shouted pointing at them.

"Diablos, get them." Blake said.

"With pleasure." Diablos said spreading his wings and launching himself at them.

"Yikes, and I thought I could be terrifying." Racer noted.

"Really?" Yang asked.

"Considering I actually come from an apocalyptic future, yeah, I've been told I'm quite scary." Racer answered, as Pyrrha continued reading.

"Well I didn't expect them to go-" Oobleck started but stopped when we heard the bomb arm itself, "Easy on us."

"Ah, crud." Team RWBY all said exasperated.

"Well, this isn't good." Glynda said.

'Don't bother putting Firaga to your Elemental Resistance.' Ifrit announced, 'It won't stop the bomb from tearing your body apart.'

"Jeez, that's brutal." Neptune winced.

"Thanks for the tip." Yang said as we started moving to the next car, however Dr. Oobleck stopped Blake.

"Blake detach the caboose, it will kill us all." Oobleck ordered.

"I just realized, that was probably an RVB joke." Racer noted.

"What?" Sun asked.

"Well, Oobleck's voice actor is a beautiful human being named Joel Heyman, and his first voice role for Rooster Teeth was a character named Caboose." Alicia replied, "And Caboose is known for one thing: accidentally killing his friends."

"On it." Blake said jumping down to cut the car off, but it disconnected, before she could, "Huh, it decoupled itself.

"What!?" Oobleck called.

"I guess he really doesn't want us on this train." Yang said as the disconnected car exploded, shattering part of the tunnel.

"That's not good." Oobleck said while I opened another hatch, only to be met in the face by another bomb.

"How many bombs were ON that train?!" Summer exclaimed.

"More than you think." Blake replied.

"Uh, neither is this." I announced.

"No, no, no." Oobleck said as he ran to the next car to check, "The all have bombs!"

"Good gods." Winter breathed.

"This doesn't make sense." Yang said as several White Fang flew by in the air, looking over I noticed Diablos had kicked one guy in the nuts with enough force to lift them into the air, we didn't stand on the cars we knew had bombs and had quickly rushed off of them.

At the sight of Diablos kicking a WF troop in the crotch, all the males in the room cringed.

"Ouch, that looked like that hurt." Neptune cringed.

"He's leading Grimm into the city!" Oobleck called shortly after we heard another explosion.

"Is this Torchwick guy nuts?!" Summer cried out.

"Considering that his boss is a psycho-bitch with delusions of godhood, he's not even in the top 10 of crazy." Racer answered.

"What!?" Weiss shouted as we looked back, sure enough there were Grimm climbing out of the holes made by the explosion and chasing the train.

"It's the cars! They detach and explode, creating openings for the Grimm!" Oobleck explained.

'And the Grimm follow the negative feelings of everyone on board.' Shiva said as yet another member of the Fang flew past her.

"I'm pretty sure one or two of those mooks must've performed the Wilhelm Scream." Alicia noted.

"The what?" Sun asked, confused.

"The Wilhelm Scream is one of, if not THE most iconic sound effects in cinematic history." Tronmaster answered.

"That's insane!" Blake called as another train car decoupled.

'We've met crazier.' Alexander said, 'We'll explain later.'

"I can believe it." Yang said, shrugging.

"We have to hurry!" Oobleck shouted, "You three go below try to stop those bomb's!" He ordered pointing at Yang, Weiss, and Blake.

"What about us?" I asked.

"We're going to stop this train." Oobleck said.

"Copycat." Ruby grumbled.

"Yeah I know, I said that earlier." I said.

"Diablos!" Blake called.

Diablos nodded and faded away as two WF members tried to tackle him, only to end up tackling each other.

"Seriously, not even Battle Droids are as dumb as these guys." Alicia muttered to herself, making Blake and Sun snicker.

[No P.O.V.]

"Time for the one-on-one brawls." Blake said.

"Oh crud." Yang groaned.

"Neo?" Alicia asked, Yang nodding in response.

Yang, Weiss and Blake dropped down into the train car, which really only had a few crates inside and was otherwise empty.

"You think they'd have more troops guarding something important like the train." Tai noted.

"I guess this is what we trained for." Yang said.

"Here this should help you." Weiss said handing Blake a clip of Dust ammunition.

"Thanks for that, by the way." Blake said to Weiss.

"No problem." Weiss responded.

The group started to run through the car, but was soon cut off when Roman's right hand woman, Neopolitan, dropped down from the top of the car.

"You guys go on ahead, this one's mine." Yang said cracking her knuckles, Weiss and Blake ran past her, with Yang firing once to keep her attention.

Yang and Neo walk up to each other and stare at each other face to face, with Neo being a head shorter than Yang and suddenly inverting the color of her eyes before grinning.

"Holy mother of Oum, she's short!" Neptune called out.

"And she can kick your ass six ways to Sunday." Tronmaster added.

Of course Yang also grinned, because Ifrit manifested behind Neo and threw a punch, blindsiding her and throwing her to the side.

"Ouch, that's gotta hurt." Yang said, chuckling.

"Fira!" Yang shouted casting the spell, causing a pillar of fire to burst up beneath Neo, who quickly dodged the attack, but still got her coat singed.

Neo looked at the singe and then proceeded to glare at Yang, who had cast a Protect Spell while she was distracted.

Neo opened her parasol and gave Yang a 'come at me' gesture.

"Oh, she's screwed." Jaune said.

Yang smirked and cast a Haste spell on herself before dashing toward Neo, who was caught off guard by Yang's sudden burst of speed and took several punches to the face and chest before getting roundhouse kicked into a crate.

Surprisingly Neo recovered and instead of crashing into the crate she managed to land so she was sitting on the crate.

"Lucky cunt." Yang muttered under her breath.

"Be lucky no one else heard that." Alicia mumbled herself, Racer chuckling to himself.

Ifrit decided that Yang had this covered and chose fade until Yang called for him, all while Yang grinned and cracked her neck.

Yang lunged at Neo once again, this time Neo was more prepared for Yang's speed, and began to use her parasol to push aside Yang's attacks, however it was not working as well as Neo would have hoped.

Her parasol was infused with Dust, which gave it incredible durability, enough that it could survive a tornado with little damage, however Yang's punches were causing the parasol to creak from the force of the deflected attacks.

Neo was then pushed back when she faltered to make sure her weapon wasn't about to break, and as a result slugged in the face to push her back.

"Not so fun when the shoe's on the other foot, is it you hectochromic bitch?" Yang yelled, scaring the Guardian Forces awake.

"I WAS NOT OVERSLEEPING!" Diablos yelled, smacking Ifrit in the face with his wing.

"Racer." Tronmaster said simply, the young time-traveler quickly tying the GFs together, quickly returning to his chair.

Neo realized that her weapon couldn't protect her in this fight, and in turn used her ability to escape, leaving Yang with a glass illusion that shattered under her punch.

"Of course she ran." Yang grumbled.

"If I'm right, I was the one who scared her off." Raven noted.

"Yep. I wonder why she was so scared." Alicia said.

"Perhaps she was a member of your bandit tribe." Tronmaster said to Raven with a low growl, making the ex-Huntress sink in her seat.

"Coward!" Yang shouted angered.

What Yang didn't know was that Raven was watching her, having created a small portal that was only big enough from her to look through with one eye.

"She's gotten so strong thank's to Ifrit." Raven mused, wondering if she had made the right choice... because it was looking like her current choice is getting ready to bite her in the ass.

"Considering that she ran because she's afraid of Salem, no friggin' duh." Racer spat.

"Wait, THAT'S why you left?!" Tai said, shocked, as Raven made another attempt at fusing to her chair.

"Well, you wanna explain yourself, Spring Maiden?" Racer added, Pyrrha putting the book down, her and everyone else looking at Raven in shock.

"Y-you're the Spring Maiden?" Yang asked with shaky breath.

"Yes." Raven said after sighing, "But, can that wait until after the chapter?"

"Fine." Yang growled, as Pyrrha picked up the book and continued to read.

[During this point in time, with Weiss and Blake]

"Guess it's you and I Blake." Weiss noted.

"Yep." Blake added.

Weiss and Blake ran through the next train car, only to stop when they heard the revving of a chainsaw.

The holder of said chainsaw was a large member of the White Fang, a Lieutenant to be exact.

"Dude's about as crazy as Grandpa Adam, but damn if he doesn't have a badass weapon!" Racer said, giddy at seeing the chainsaw sword of the WF Lieutenant.

"Guess we know where Ruby's weapons lust came from." Tronmaster whispered to his girlfriend.

"You go on ahead!" Weiss said.

"Got it." Blake agreed before dashing past the Lieutenant.

Of course, the big guy didn't just let her pass, but Blake blocked his attack, allowing Weiss to jump in and landed several strikes to knock him down, allowing Blake to pass.

What they didn't notice was that his aura collapsed from the attack.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Jaune muttered.

The Lieutenant chuckled, "Finally." He said, "I get to kill a-"

He was cut off in his speech however when a gunshot filled the car, followed by a blade protruding from the Lieutenant's chest.

The room was later filled with various shouts of shock.

"Holy jeez!" Sacred yelled, falling out of his seat, taking Pandemona and Alexander with him.

"Dammit Sacred!" Alexander shouted.

"You don't get to kill anything animal." A male voice said as the lieutenant by a foot, "I'm gonna kill you." Slate said.

"Well, that was brutal." Sun said after a few minutes.

Weiss went wide eyed at the ruthless murder performed by Slate.

Slate kicked the body, "Heh, did you really think you'd get away with from me?" Slate asked the corpse, "You wouldn't have beaten the ironing board there if your Aura was that low."

"Ironing board?!" Weiss shrieked.

"Weiss, babe, calm down." Ruby said, massaging her shoulders.

"Hey!" Weiss snapped, mainly at the ironing board comment.

"Oh sorry about that, I forget that flaties are sensitive about being... well flat." Slate said, "Allow me to introduce myself, I am Slate, one of the eight Neo Galbadian commanders."

"Why are you here then?" Weiss demanded pointing Myrtenaster at Slate.

"Well then flaty let me explain." Slate said ignoring the tic mark that was growing on Weiss's forehead, "I just came to kill, mostly Grimm, but the Faunus of the White Fang would do."

"Why exactly did Musaline decide to hire this schmuck?" Racer asked.

"No idea." Alicia shrugged.

"Are you going to try and kill me next then?" Weiss demanded.

"Oh how I wish I could." Slate said lowing his gunblade, "But Musaline finds you and the other Guardian Force users entertaining or something because she's given me orders not to kill you. ME, no one else!"

"Considering he's a racist, homicidal maniac, no shit Musaline's put him on such a tight leash." Penny muttered.

Weiss raised an eyebrow at that before Slate's scroll went off, surprising Weiss at the reception.

"Yeah Muse?" Slate asked answering his scroll and putting it to his ear, "Alright fine." He grumbled hanging up, "See you again flaty."

With that Slate walked trough a rippling wall of the car.

"Hey, where did Ruby and Weiss go?" Ifrit asked, as everybody now noticed that the White Rose couple was no longer in the room.

"Either Ruby took Weiss out of the room to calm down, or to get laid." Ifrit said, only to get smacked by Yang, Tai, Summer, Qrow and Winter. In that order.

"Pyrrha, continue please." Alicia motioned to Pyrrha, the redheaded champion reading.

Weiss on the other had was steaming when Yang came in, "You okay Weiss?" Yang asked.

"Peachy." Weiss growled as she walked past the WF corpse, Yang doing the same though a little on edge.

"Considering that Slate straight up assassinated the Lieutenant, that's not surprising." Racer noted.

The two walked into the next train car, and noticed Blake had already pinned Roman before knocking him out with a kick to the head.

"Boot to the head." Alicia chuckled.

"You guys okay?" Blake asked.

"I'm fine, Weiss is steaming though." Yang said hiking a thumb at Weiss, who was still rather ticked.

"Then I think it would be a bad time to mention this." Diablos said holding up a metal bar with a grip, "Roman candle here broke this off the train.

"Collateral damage, great." Glynda groaned.

"Shit happens." Tronmaster shrugged.

Weiss's anger vanished into worry, "We gotta go let Ruby know!" Weiss shouted.

"And I know hat's coming up." Blake groaned.

"What!?" Ruby shouted when Weiss told her the train can't stop.

"So what do we do?" Blake asked as they noticed a concrete wall coming up.

Weiss stabbed Myrtenaster into the top of the train to create a shell of ice, while Yang cast a Protect Spell on her, Ruby and Blake casting the same spell on themselves.

Pyrrha closed the book, passing it to Ren, just as Ruby and Weiss returned to the room, wearing new clothes, based off of their current outfits.

"Um, I'm calmed down now." Weiss finally said, her face a scarlet red.

"Guess you found out your new clothes." Racer said, standing up.

"Where're you going?" Alicia asked her future-son.

"I need to set something up, don't worry, it'll help." Racer answered, speeding off.

"Well Raven, time to start explanations." Tronmaster growled.

"Guess it's time." Raven sighed, as everyone looked at her.

Jenkins: Guess Alicia and the captain have a kid.

Melody: And he's a time traveler.

Hector: What was he talking about?

*Jenkins and Melody shrug in response.*