A/N: I'm back with a new chapter. Hope everyone is doing well and being safe during this time. Anyway I had to choose what version of the film I wanted to go with. Do I go with the original 1979 release or the 2003 release with additional footage.

In the end I decided to go with the 2003 release simply because it adds more to film such as Ripley finding Brett and Dallas being cocooned and slowly being turned into eggs. To me this added character to Ripley, solidifying her as a badass female character that we see in Aliens. (My opinion)

Any mistakes are mine and mine alone. Also line break represents a scene change.

With that out off the way, let's begin.

Inspiration: Alien

Jaune led his sister out of the theater and towards a nearby empty room down the hall from the theater. Opening the door to the room and checking to see if it's empty before entering. Saphron closed the door behind them and locked it making sure no one can disturb them.

"What's going on, Jaune?" Saphron asked crossing her arms under her chest and adopting a look that reminded Jaune of their mother.

"I just found out why I never received training from father." Jaune said sitting down in one of the chairs in the room. "Dad never wanted me to be a hunter." Jaune looked at his hands and formed a fist.

"He wanted me to have a simple life! After he told me stories of grandfather and our ancestors. What did he think would happen!"

Saphron waited patiently while her brother vented his feelings. In truth she knew about their parents decision regarding her little brother and his dream. She had argued with them on her brother's behalf for their father to train him. Their father refused to budge and their mother also didn't budge since Jaune is her only son.

From a parents perspective she could see their point being a parent herself. From a sisters perspective she hated them for denying her brother's dream. It pleased her to see Jaune pursuing his dream despite their parents.

Saphron sat in the seat opposite Jaune and placed her hands in her lap and looked at her younger brother. "Jaune, do you hate them?"

Jaune looked at his older sister surprised. "I- I don't hate them. Just disappointed, I always saw dad as a rock, someone to look up too."

"Did father tell you what happened to his team?" Saphron asked looking at her brother.

"Yeah." Jaune said releasing his fists. "But this is what I want. At the very least he could be supportive."

"Being a parent is never easy, Jaune." Saphron told him with a smile. "As mother I would be concerned if Adrian told me he wanted to be a hunter." She said before chuckling.

"I'm sure Terra would argue with me." Saphron said, already she could imagine the fight between them. "Terra wants him to be free from danger."

"And you?" Jaune asked curious.

"I would wish him luck and try to be there for him."

"You're a great mother." Jaune told his sister.

"Let me ask you, why is father harder on you than us?" Saphron asked looking Jaune in the eye. "Why is mother softer on you than us?"

Jaune didn't have an answer and looked at Saphron for the answer.

"Father sees himself in you and mother in us." Saphron told him the answer. "You weren't born yet, but I remember when father came back from Mt. Glenn."

"He hugged mother and cried." She said recalling that night when father came home and broke down. "It was a sight I never hope to see again. Father wanted to shield you from feeling that pain."

Saphron looked at Jaune and smiled gently. "Obviously you didn't listen."

"This is my decision." Jaune said with determination. "This is the path I choose."

"Never forget that Jaune." Saphron told her brother standing up. Jaune followed and gave his sister a hug. "This is your choice, there is no going back."

"Thank you."

"We're here for you and each other." She said releasing her brother from the hug.

"Attention everyone please comeback to the theater."

"Let's get back." Saphron said walking to the door and unlocking it. "Oh, Jaune. Don't let mom pressure you into marriage with Pyrrha or the others." She said walking out the door leaving behind a blushing Jaune.

Clearing his throat Jaune recomposed himself before leaving the room and heads back to the theater. Entering the theater he sees that the children and his sisters along with Terra are being escorted out of the theater by Spart's helpers.

"Don't worry, the children and the others are being led to a different theater that will show them a universe that will be more suited to them." Spart told them as Jaune sat down next to Pyrrha. "Your sister chose to go with them." He told Jaune.

"Does that mean we are going to be shown something from the dark 'verse?" Glynda asked looking at Spart.

"Yes, it's a universe that it linked to the Predator one." Spart told them making them remember the Predator universe with a shudder. "This one is actually one of my favorite unvierse to occasionally check in on."

"Let's get it over with." Yang said wondering what they are going to be shown. She hoped that Ruby will be okay, she didn't handle the Predator universe well.

The lights faded and the screen came to life.

In the empty vacuum of space, a distance planet can be seen surrounded by a ring, the light from the sun reflecting off the planet and the ring giving it a warm orange glow. Drifting by the planet is a ship.

Commercial Towing Vehicle 'The Nostromo'

Crew: seven

Cargo: refinery processing 20,000,000 tons of mineral ore

Course: returning to earth

The ship drifts through the vastness emptiness of space on auto.

"Another one set in space." Summer noted with excitement being a sci-fi girl.

"It does resemble a mining refinery." Li noted looking at the ship's overall design.

"The Nostromo?" Nora said with a small tilt of her head at the name of ship. "They need a better name."

"A ships name has meaning. Some of them can be personal to those who named it." Ren said knowing how some Captains are when it comes to their ships name.

"Still it should be something majestic! Like Slothian." Nora declared.

"Is that even a word?" Yang asked.

"It's best not to think rationally when it comes to Nora." Pyrrha advised RWBY.

Inside the ship, nothing can be heard, the corridors are devoid of life giving off an unsettling atmosphere. The kitchen and dining area along with the infirmary are empty, even the bridge is silent. The rustling of paper is the only thing that can be heard. Over the pilot seats are emergency helmets in case of a hull breach or lack of oxygen should occur. None of the screen on the bridge are on, almost as if the ship is asleep.

"The silence is indeed unsettling." Weiss said feeling uneasy by the silence. The halls of Beacon were always filled with noise and even at night the sounds of owls and other nocturnal animals could be heard. Bu the silence of the ship is unnerving.

"Anyone else getting a mild case of claustrophobia?" Jaune asked and some nodded showing that he isn't the only one.

"Where is the crew?" Nora asked.

"Different area of the ship?" Yang said unsure.

Suddenly a screen came to life with a loud noise.

RWBY and JNPR as well as some of the adults jumped at the sound since they weren't expecting it.

"Stupid noise." Nora grumbled and Ruby nodded in agreement since she doesn't handle horror or jump scares well. That is more Yang's department but even a seasoned horror connoisseur, Yang was startled by a simple noise of a computer coming on.

"Cheap jump scare." Sun said trying to sound calm despite his nerves. Like Ruby he didn't handle horror that well.

The images on the screen could be seen reflecting off the helmet's visor, different screens appear running through the ship's systems. A noise similar to digital clicks can be hears almost as if two machines are talking in their own language.

Soon everything on the ship slowly comes back to life as lights come back on and the door to the stasis pods opens and the lights come up. The clear lids of the cryo pods open with a hiss as the crew members slowly wake up.

"So the crew was asleep." Jaune said looking at the screen trying to spot himself through the clear lids of the pods.

"Are we gonna see Jaune in his underwear?" Velvet whispered blushing as her imagination took off.

Coco smiled when she saw Velvet's blush and leaned closer to her partner. "Are you going to enjoy hopping his bones?" She whispered into Velvet's ear.

"No!" Velvet yelled getting everyone's attention. She yelped before sinking lower into her seat in a attempt to hide. Coco chuckled at her partners action, Velvet is to easy to tease and the poor girl is a bit of an introvert. She tried helping her overcome her shy tendencies with little success. Hopefully being here will help her.

One of the crew members is the first to wake up as he moves his arm slowly and removes a monitoring tag on his neck and sits up with his eyes still closed. Breathing slowly before swinging his legs over the pod and standing up. The man grabs his robe with a yawn before walking towards the shower just as another crew member wakes up.

"Where is Jaune?" Nora pouted not seeing Jaune in any of the pods.

"He could be in a different pod in another room." Ren told his friend knowing that she wants to see Jaune naked or as close to naked as can be. He felt bad for Jaune since Nora could be tenacious when it comes to things she likes such as pancakes and seeing Jaune naked. Once he found Nora setting up micro cameras in the shower. Ren told her that he would no longer make pancakes for her if she kept the cameras up and he only saw a blur as Nora quickly took the cameras down.

After that he made sure to remind her that the threat still stands and he swore Nora looked like a kicked puppy but he stood his ground to protect his friend's nudity.

"I hope we get to see him." Nora whispered to herself.

In the dining area everyone is fully dressed and eating and some are smoking, others are drying their hair after a much needed shower as they chat among themselves.

"What do you say? You got any biscuits over there?"

"I keep seeing corn bread."

"I am cold." One of the female crew members said.

"Still with us, Qrow?"

Qrow took a large sip of coffee. "Right."

"Finally I make an appearance." Qrow said looking to his on screen self with a smirk at finally being seen on the big screen.

"Bart, as well." Glynda said noticing the familiar green hair that her fellow teacher has.

"Is that Amber?" James said noticing the Fall Maiden sitting at the table.

"Yes, it is." Ozpin agreed recognizing the familiar woman.

Yang noticed that her partner is writing something down in a notebook. "What are you doing?'

"I'm writing names down." Blake said showing her notebook to Yang and the others to see. Indeed there are names written down of everyone on screen.

"Where's Jaune?" Ruby asked curious about her friend's whereabouts.

"I don't see him." Emilia said also wondering where her son is until her eyes landed on a blonde woman sitting next to Qrow. 'It can't be. Can it?'

"Oh, I feel dead."

"Anybody ever tell you, you look dead, man?" Some of the crew laughed. Qrow covered his mouth with his hand and mouthed something to his friend.

"Oh, yeah, right. Now, I just forgot something, man." Taiyang or Tai said. "Before we dock, I think we oughta discuss the bonus situation."

"Right, right." Qrow said while rolling a cigarette.

"Qrow and I, we think we oughta – We deserve full shares, right, baby?" Tai asked gesturing to Qrow.

"You see, Mr. Tai and I… feel that the bonus situation has never been on equitable level."

"Well, you'll get what you're contracted for like everybody else." Ozpin, the captain of the ship told them from his spot across the table.

"Yes, but everybody else gets more than us." Qrow said while a beeping sound can be heard in the background.

"Ozpin, MOTHER wants to talk to you." Bart, the science and medical officer said noticing the beeping.

"Mother?" Bart asked thinking it has to be an acronym for something.

"Most likely it's the ship's A.I." Summer said wanting to see the tech of this universe. So did Velvet.

"Ever the geek." Qrow said making Summer stick her tongue out at him in a manner similar to her daughter.

"I wonder what she looks like." Penny said interested in seeing the machine. She wondered what her creater would think of MOTHER.

Ozpin looked behind him and saw the beeping yellow lights. "Yeah, I saw it. Yellow light's for my eyes only." He said getting out of his seat and grabbing his jacket. "Okay, get dressed, huh? Tai, come on."

"Can I finish my coffee?" Tai said raising his cup of coffee for Ozpin to see who grunted an acknowledgement. "Thank you. It's the only thing good on this ship."

"Another coffee lover." Ozpin said holding his cup to the screen in a toasting gesture.

"Hopefully they don't spend half their budget on coffee." Glynda said recalling when she saw the budget report for Beacon and saw that half of the budget has been spent on coffee.

"I still don't see Jaune." Ren said eyeing each of the crew but didn't see his friend. "The only other blonde is the woman sitting next to Qrow."

"Maybe that is Jaune." Emilia suggested and everyone looked at the blonde woman on screen.

"She does have blue eyes like Jaune." Coco said noticing some familiar features that Jaune has.

Ozpin entered the bridge taking a sip of his coffee, heading to MUTHUR's core and inputting the code on the panel next to the door. Ozpin entered the small corridor and set his coffee cup on a shelf before pressing a button and entering another code, a small panel opened and Ozpin took the key card inside and inserted into another panel which opened up compartment. Inside the compartment is another button, pressing the button granted him access to MUTHUR.

"Such heavy security." James said already getting ideas for something similar to some R&D labs in Atlas.

"Makes sense if MOTHER controls the ship." Jaune spoke up. "She probably controls the systems when the crew is asleep."

"Interesting design." Penny said examining the core of MOTHER. It reminded her of her father's lab.

"I wonder what happens if you skip a step?" Pyrrha wondered seeing all the steps that went into accessing MOTHER.

"The alarms would sound probably." Ren told her while sipping some hot tea.

Grabbing his cup of coffee and walking to the entrance of MUTHUR and pressed the open button and entered MUTHUR's core. The core is a small room surrounded by screens and blinking lights that housed MUTHUR, the artificial intelligence that helped the crew of the Nostromo in mining operations. In the center of the room is a chair in front of a console that the Captain can use to directly communicate with MUTHUR, sitting in the chair, Ozpin pressed a switch that rotated the chair so it faced a screen.

"Morning, MOTHER." Ozpin said while typing bringing up a screen that showed all the ship's systems. Scrolling down to "Interface" and pressing it brought another screen.

" READY FOR INQUIRY"

"WHAT'S THE STORY MOTHER?" Ozpin typed.

Inside the bridge, the crew sit in their assigned stations and start turning on their screens.

"Right."

"Okay." One of the pilots said sitting in the pilot's chair which moved forward bringing him closer to the screens. "Plug us in." The overhead lights came on along with the other screens.

"Thank you." Bart said putting on a headset and flipping some switches on the overhead panel.

Amber, the other female of the crew looked at her screens and noticed something was off. "Where's Earth?"

"Earth?" Bart asked looking to Spart for clarification.

"This world line's version of Remnant. Jane Arc and the rest of the crew work for a large multinational conglomerate known as the Weyland-Yutani Corporation."

"So the blonde woman is Jaune." Nora said looking at the blonde woman at her station. "It's FemJaune!"

"She's hot." Pyrrha said looking at the screen before realizing that she said that out loud and hid her face behind her hands.

"So, even as a girl, you still have the hots for Jaune." Yang said looking at Pyrrha as she pulled a Velvet and shrunk further into her seats.

"She looks like you." Leon told his wife seeing how Jau-Jane looked. Emilia nodded in agreement unsure what to say.

"8/10." Ilia said finding the older and female version of Jaune attractive. She was always attracted to black hair but maybe it's time to broaden her horizons to include blondes.

"I'm confused by what you mean, Ilia" Penny said looking at the chameleon Faunus. "Why would you assign a number to friend Jaune/Jane?"

"We'll tell you later." Ruby told her friend.

"How large is the Corporation?" Weiss asked Spart wondering how it compared to the SDC.

"If we're comparing it to the SDC. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation could buy your company fity times over." Spart told and every Schnee in the room had wide eyes when they heard just how large Weyland-Yutani is.

"You should know."

"It's not our system." Jane said from her spot behind Amber.

"Scan." Kane said flipping a switch and the screen moved showing the nearby stars but no Earth.

"I can't believe this." Amber said with sigh.

"Contact Traffic Control." Kane told Jane

"This is commercial towing vehicle Nostromo out of the Solomons. Registration number: 1-8-0-niner-2-4-6-0-niner. Calling Antarctica Traffic Control. Can you read me? Over." Jane said trying to contact Traffic Control and repeated what she said. "Nothing."

"Keep trying." Kane said.

"Calling Antarctica Traffic Control. Do you read me, Antarctica? Over." Jane said while Amber worked on finding out where they are.

"I found it. Just short of Zeta II Reticulli" Amber said bringing up a map of the system while Jane can be heard still trying to contact Traffic Control in the background. "We haven't reached the outer rim yet."

"That's hard to believe." Kane said bringing up a map of the system.

"What the hell are we doing out here?"

"Are they off course?" Pyrrha asked now sitting properly in her chair.

"Don't see how that could be possible with MOTHER controlling the ship." James said having some experience when it comes to computers, navigation and Artificial Intelligence.

"There is a first for everything." Ozpin said taking a sip from his coffee cup.

"True." Willow said thinking of Winter and her desire to join the military.

"Unless something caused the ship to alter it' course." Penny said and everyone looked at the former android. "MOTHER could have certain conditions built into her that made her alter the ship' course."

"If that is the case. Then what are the conditions?" Sun asked. Penny shrugged in response and went back to watching the screen.

"I don't know. What the hell are you talking about?" Kane said in disbelief.

"That's not our system." Jane pointed out.

"I know that." Amber said with a forced smile.

Inside the maintenance area of the ship, Tai and Qrow walk down a corridor. "Do you ever notice how they never come down here?" Tai asked following Qrow. "I mean, this is where the work is, right?"

"It's the same damn reason we get a half share to their one." Qrow said looking over his shoulder to Tai. "Our time is their time. That's the way they see it."

"No, but- listen, man."

"Same old shit, man."

"The same could be said of Faunus workers." Sienna spoke up. "They don't get paid for their hard work and are instead harassed, put down, and generally looked down upon."

"And instead of addressing the issue calming, you chose the more violent path. Making it harder for the rest of the Faunus, who have nothing to do with the White Fang." Kali said glaring at Sienna who glared back. "You're putting a blade against every Faunus out there that just want to live peacefully."

"Peacefully? Don't kid yourself, Kali." Sienna said looking at Kali. "There is no peacefully when it comes to Humans and Faunus."

"Enough!" Leon yelled looking at Sienna and the Belladonna's. "Save it for after the showing, when in a more private setting."

"I agree." Ghira said placing a hand on his wife's shoulder calming her down.

"I think I know why they don't come down here." Tai said as they turned a corner and went down another corridor. "It's because of you. You don't have no personality."

"I have plenty of personality." Qrow said defensively. "Right?" He asked his nieces.

"Yup." Ruby and Yang said at the same time.

"It's improved over the years." Tai said agreeing with his daughters.

Summer smiled sadly at the interaction between the three wondering what else she missed. Shaking her head to clear the thoughts from her mind, there will be plenty of time to make up for and hopefully make new ones.

"Raven, on the other hand..." Tai said looking at his ex. She looked back and dared him to finish his sentace which he didn't.

In the dining area, everyone is gathered except for Tai and Qrow who are now just entering after being called.

"Wonder what they want now. What's going on down here?" Tai asked upon entering the dining area. "Um, you happen to be in my seat. Can I have it?" Tai asked Bart who is sitting in his seat at the table.

"Yes, of course." Bart said getting out of the seat. "I'm sorry."

"Thank you." Tai said before wiping his seat and sitting down. "What's happenin' now, baby?"

Ozpin put his right leg on the seat of the chair and leaned on his knee with his arm. "Well, some of you may have figured out we're not home yet." He said looking to his crew. "We're only halfway there."

"What?" Tai asked looking to Ozpin.

"MOTHER's interrupted the course of our journey."

"Why?" Kane asked.

"Yeah, she's programmed to do that should certain conditions arise. They have." Ozpin explained to the rest.

"Like what?" Jane asked curious.

"It seems she has…" Ozpin paused trying to figure out how to say it. "Intercepted a transmission of unknown origin. She got us up to check it out."

"A transmission? Out here?" Jane asked confused.

"It looks like you were right Penny." Yang said ordering a soda.

"Maybe it's aliens." Neptune said ordering some pizza that he shared with Sun and even offered a slice to Weiss who declined respectfully.

"Hopefully they don't meet the Predators." Weiss said hoping to not see another one of those creatures again.

"Something tells me that we'll see them again in the future." Ozpin said casting a glance to Spart who floated in place above them.

"We'll see. There are plenty of good world lines that feature them." Spart said ordering some tea.

"Yeah."

'What kind of a transmission?" Amber asked.

"Acoustical beacon. It repeats at intervals of 12 seconds" Ozpin told them.

"S.O.S.?" Kane guessed.

"I don't know." Ozpin answered looking to Kane.

"Human?" Jane asked looking at Ozpin.

Ozpin shrugged his shoulders. "Unknown."

"He just told them that it was from an unknown source." Weiss said crossing her legs and ordered some lemon water. "How clear can he be?"

"Miss Schnee, it would be safe to assume that every ship in space would transmit a sort of identification signal to prevent collisions even when the crew is asleep." Bart said pushing up his glasses so the light from the screen reflected off them hiding his eyes. "Given how little information is presented to us, we can assume that only Humans or Faunus are the only ones in space at the moment."

"That does make sense." Jaune said after processing what their history professor said.

"I wonder if there is a planet ruled by sloth's?" Nora wondered out loud.

"There is a planet ruled by apes." Spart informed them.

"Well, so what?" Qrow asked earning a chuckle from Tai.

"We are obligated under section eight-" Kane said before Tai cut him off.

"I hate to bring this up, but, uh. This is a commercial ship, not a rescue ship." Tai said placing an arm on the back of his chair.

"Right." Qrow said agreeing with him.

"And it's not in my contract to do this kind of duty." Tai said looking to the rest of the crew. "And what about the money? If you wanna give me some money, I'll be happy to oblige." Tai said looking to Qrow who nodded in agreement.

"The man's right."

"Let's go over the bonus situation."

"Money makes the world go around." Raven said with a smirk. "Or in this case runs the ship and the crew."

Everyone chose to ignore her unless she had something useful to say.

"I'm sorry. Can I say something?" Bart asked while Tai is stilling asking to go the bonus situation. Eventually he quieted down and allowed Bart to talk. "There is a clause in the contract which specifically states… any systematized transmission indicating a possible intelligent origin must be investigated."

Tai put his head on the table frustrated. "I don't wanna hear it."

"We don't know if it's intelligent." Qrow pitched in.

"I wanna go home and party."

"Tai, will you just listen to the man?" Ozpin yelled clearly frustrated with him.

"Suddenly I'm recalling Tai in his youth." Glynda rubbing her temple remembering the blonde man and the parties he would throw in their dorm in an attempt to impress Raven.

"I can suddenly see the family resemblance." Weiss said thinking back to the times Yang tried to throw a party their first year in Beacon. Of course with the help of Ruby they put a stop to it.

"I remember issuing a lot of detention to team STRQ." Ozpin said with a fond smile remembering his students in their youth before they learned the truth.

"Why was our team punished for something Tai did again?" Summer asked looking at Ozpin.

"Because said person is part of a team. His punishment is yours, team bonding and all that." Ozpin told her makign her pout at the answer.

"It wasn't fun." Summer said crossing her arms remembering all the detentation with Port. They had to clean his trophies while listening to him tell the tales of his youth.

Bart nodded his thanks before looking to Tai. "On penalty of total forfeiture of shares. No money." Tai looked his shoulder at Bart with a look of annoyance.

"You got that?" Ozpin asked.

Tai chuckled lightly trying to make the tension lighter. "Well, yeah."

"Alright, we're going in."

"Yeah. We're goin' in, aren't we?" Tai asked Qrow before playfully hitting him in the arm.

"Something tells me that this will be their last voyage." Winter said watching the screen.

"Sheesh, debby downer much." Yang said drawing the ire of Weiss.

"That is no way to speak to my sister." Weiss reprimanded her teammate. "I have been respectful to your family. The least you can do is be the same towards mine."

"Including your dad?" Yang asked looking Weiss directly in the eye. Weiss looked away before speaking.

"He is the exception."

Winter looked at her sister from the corner of her eye and understood how she felt about their father. All Jacque cared about is extending his reach and securing his legacy, the man was never a father to them.

On the bridge, everyone finds a spot to sit or stand as Amber sits in her chair at her station.

Ozpin clears his throat. "Can we all hear that, Amber?" Amber flicks a switch and the transmission can be heard on the speakers. Everyone on the bridge listens to the electronic pulses of the transmission.

Kane scoffs. "Good god."

"Doesn't sound like any radio signal I've heard." Jane said setting her cup of coffee down.

"Maybe it's a voice." Amber suggested.

"Well, we'll soon know." Ozpin said before looking to Amber. "Can you hone in on that?"

Amber brings up a map of the system.. 'What was the, uh, position?"

"6550-99."

Amber inputted the coordinates and the computer beeped before showing where the signal is coming from. "All right. It found the quadrant. Ascension: six minutes, 20 seconds. Declination: 39 degrees, two seconds."

"Okay. Put that on the screen for me." Ozpin said pointing to the screen in front of him. Amber pressed the button and the screen in front of Ozpin came to life showing the location of the transmission.

"LV-426." James said reading the name of the planet that the signal is coming from.

"Strange name for a planet." Port said while leaning back in his chair.

"Could be an unexplored planet." Bart said with excitement at seeing an unexplored planet. "Just imagine the history off the planet."

"Never change, Bart, never change." Port told his friend with a smile.

"All right. Well, that's it." Amber said as everyone looked at the screen. "It's a planetoid. 1200 kilometers."

"It's tiny."

"Any rotation?"

Amber pressed some keys and another screen appeared next to the image of the planet. "About two hours."

"What about gravity?"

"Point eight-six"

"You can walk on it." Bart said looking at the screen, Jane looked at him before taking a sip of her coffee.

"I suppose they are going to have to land on the planet to find the signal." Ren said getting a refill on his tea.

"I wonder how they are going to land that large ship." Velvet wondered thinking of the ship's design from the scene of the Nostromo flying through space. She couldn't imagine the ship is capable of landing on a planet.

"It is possible they are going to take a smaller craft down to the planet." Penny said adopting a thinking pose.

"That makes sense." Velvet said looking at the screen.

Slowly the Nostromo flew towards the planet.

"Approaching orbital apogee." Amber said over the radio. "Mark 12, 11 –"

On the bridge everyone is at their stations and wearing their harness since re-entry can be a bumpy ride. "Equatorial orbit nailed." Bart said plotting a course to the planet.

"Nine, eight seconds on descent."

"Grids energized. Fields focused."

"Five, four-"

Soon the Nostromo arrived at the planet where the transmission is coming from.

Ozpin looked at the screen in front of him. "D.O.R.'s online."

"What's the status of the lifters?" Jane asked from her station.

"Give me an A.C. pressure reading." Ozpin told her.

The Nostromo is now in orbit of the planet.

"Forty-eight seconds and counting."

"SR-1 stable."

"Prepare to disengage from the platform." Ozpin told the crew on the bridge.

"Mark, 20 seconds. Eighteen, 17 –" Amber counted down as the bridge prepared to disengage from the rest of the ship.

The bridge separated from the rest of the ship and is being held by a crane that extended. "Three, two, one, lock." The crane stopped.

"There is your answer Miss Scarlatina. The bridge can separate from the main body of the ship." James said interested in the engineering that went to the creation of the ship.

"I didn't think of that." Vevlet admitted also interested in the engineering behind the ship.

"Maybe some of our dreadnoughts should have something similar." Winter suggested knowing that their dreadnoughts could benefit from such a design. In case of catastrophic damage then the bridge could separate from the body of the ship.

"The engineering would be a nightmare. Not to mention the cost of retrofitting the entire fleet would be too much for Atlas." Sienna explained to Winter and earning a nod of approval from James.

"She is correct, Winter." James said glancing at Sienna who scoffed and went back to watching the screen.

"I didn't know that so much went into entering into a planet's atmosphere." Pyrrha said not having much experience when it came to sci-fi or movies in general. She always spent her time in training.

"Every sci-fi movie is different when it comes to this sort of thing." Summer said while getting a refill on her popcorn. "Some just gun it and others are like this. Where there is a process."

Ozpin flipped a switch on the overhead console. "Disengage." The clamps on the crane released the bridge.

"Umbilicus clear." Jane said watching the screens.

Ozpin flipped more switches on the console. "Money's safe. Let's take her down."

The ship engines come to life for a brief second just long enough to push the ship forward leaving behind the main section of the ship.

"Roll 92 degrees port yaw." Kane said watching his screen as the ship followed the trajectory.

"Prime to port."

Above the planet the ship prepares for entry to the planets atmosphere.

"Prime ventral. Prime dorsal."

"Down a degree."

"39,000 meters."

The ship passed through the atmosphere and began shaking. "Turbulence." Jane said while looking for a good spot to land.

"Locked and floating. You can drop us anytime now. We'll catch you." Jane said looking at her screens and sees the landscape slowly coming closer.

"Inertial damping's going off. Hold one, people. There's going to be a little bump." Ozpin told the crew and the shaking intensified as the ship slowly descended. The sound of metal creaking loudly could be heard throughout the ship.

"That can't be good." An said knowing that any creaking sound from any ship can't be good.

"That will probably hinder their ability to take off." Iliia said ordering a cup of peach tea.

"I'm sure they can repair it." Velvet said finding it hard to believe that a ship doesn't have spare parts on board.

"I think that depends on how extensive the damage is." James said.

"What the hell was that?" Tai asked looking over his shoulder trying to find the source of the creaking.

"Pressure drop in intake three. Must've lost a shield." Qrow said over the radio and pressed some keys trying to confirm.

"Let's go with it." Ozpin said watching the screens as the ship slowly approached the ground.

"Dropping off now." Bart said watching his screens closely. "Still dropping. Here we are. We've got it."

"Take her down." Ozpin ordered lowering the landing gears. "Navigation lights on." On the belly of the ship rows of lights can be seen along with large searchlights that help in visual navigation.

"We've got 5-3 still out. No problem. Just down 11%." Kane said as the shaking lightened up a bit. "Grid status okay."

Slowly the ship descended towards the ground.

"Five, four, three, two, one." Amber counted down.

"Kill drive engines." Ozpin said as the ship was a few feet from the ground. The landing gears touched the ground but one of the gears touched down in an awkward position and sound of creaking metal can be heard.

Inside the bridge everyone is jolted in their seats roughly and some of the consoles exploded in a shower of sparks as an alarm went off along with some pipes rupturing. Quickly everyone undid their harness and grabbed a fire extinguisher and began spraying at the electrical fires.

"I've seen worse landings." Emiilia said and she meant it having once been in a crashing bullhead during her time with the Knights.

"Same here." Qrow said from his spot, of course his experience came from his semblance which caused the bullhead's engines to malfunction.

"I'm never riding in the same bullhead as you, uncle Qrow." Ruby said remembering the time the bullhead had to do an emergency landing due to an engine failure. She was riding with uncle Qrow and she never forgot the experience. Evertime Qrow comes by the house they need to be careful not to fall victim to his semblance.

"What the hell happened?!" Ozpin shouted over the alarm. Bart went to his station and turned the alarm off. "Somebody give me a straight answer!"

"Is the hull breached?"

"I don't see anything. We've still got pressure." Jane said looking at the screens at her station.

"Hit the screen." Ozpin ordered as Kane sat back down at his station.

"Right."

"At least the hull wasn't breeched." Saphron said while wondering what Terra and the others are watching.

"Looks like bad luck follows you in any world line." Raven told her brother which he ignored and focused on the screen.

"I wonder if that's an omen for things to come." Li spoke scratching his chin.

"It feels like it." Ren said agreeing with his father.

Outside the ship intense winds are blowing up the sand and particles into the air.

"Secondary load sharing unit… is out." Tai said over the radio. "Three to four cells are gone."

"Is that it?" Jane asked as everyone on the bridge took in the news.

"No, hold on. We can't fix out here anyway, and we need to reroute a couple of these ducts, wouldn't you say, Qrow?"

"Dry dock time." Kane said looking at Ozpin sitting in his chair.

"What's that?' Ruby asked not familiar with the term when it comes to ships.

"It's usually ten to fourteen days." James told her. "Though they can go on longer. It's not uncommon."

Ruby nodded and looked back at the screen. "Can they do it without a proper dock?"

"Probably, depends on the damage. At best they can patch up the minor things but the larger damage will need a dock." Velvet told her. "Hopefully the damage isn't too servere."

"Don't jinx it." Ruby told her.

Inside the engineering section of the ship, Qrow and Tai are assessing the damage. "Dry dock. Tell her we need to dry dock." Qrow tells Tai who flicks the radio switch.

"Look, we couldn't fix it out here anyway. We gotta reroute all these ducts." Tai said pointing to the exposed wiring in the panels of the walls. "And in order to do that we've gotta dry dock."

Ozpin sighed at the report. "What else?"

"Some fragments kicked up, and we got to clean it out and repressurize it."

"How ling before we're functional?" Jane asked over the radio.

"Look, what is –what –" Tai said frustrated.

"Its 17 hours, tell her."

"At least 25 hours."

"Yeah."

"Get started on the floor panel. I'll be right down." Jane said on the radio.

"What the hell's she comin' down here for?" Tai asked looking to his partner as a spark off in the background.

"She better stay the fuck out of my way, I'll tell you that." Qrow said ducking under some exposed wires with the flashlight to see the extent of the damage.

"I'd like to see what she's gonna do when she gets here."

"Probably readjust your attitude." Sun said with a smirk. "Something tells me that Jau- Jane is the strong willed type."

"She must get it from me." Emilia said with proud since all of her daughters are strong willed. "No offense, honey.'

"None taken." Leon said and he meant it, after all that's what attracted him to her in the first place. That and her uniform, he loves a woman in uniform.

"Jane probably deals with people like Qrow and Tai all the time." Yang said wondering just what type of woman Jane is. "So, she probably knows how to deal with them."

Back at the bridge Ozpin came back from the kitchen with a fresh reheated cup of coffee. "Any response yet?"

"No. absolutely nothing." Bart said sitting at his station. "Except the same transmission every twelve seconds. All the other channels are dead."

Ozpin ran a hand through his beard. "Kick on the floods." He told Kane. Outside the ship the floodlights came on showing a barren rocky landscape.

"What a desolate planet." Glynda said being reminded of the images taken of the Grimm lands provided by drones before they were destroyed by Nevermore's.

"Looks like something out of a nightmare." Willow said feeling uneasy just by looking at the landscape.

"Some might find it beautiful." Ozpin said thinking of Salem and her castle in the Grimm lands.

Ozpin sat on a console next to Bart's station, Kane walked over and looked at the screen. "We can't go anywhere in this."

"Mmm." Was Ozpin's reply.

"Well, MOTHER says the sun's coming up in 20 minutes." Bart told the two.

"How far are from the source of the transmission?" Ozpin asked Bart.

"Uh, northeast. Just under 2,000 meters."

"Walking distance?" Kane asked making Ozpin laugh.

"Well –"

"Can you give me an atmospheric?" Ozpin asked Bart.

"Yes." Bart replied flicking some switches. "Oh. It's almost primordial." He said looking at the readings. "There's inert nitrogen, high concentration of carbon dioxide crystals, methane. I'm working on the trace elements."

"What does that mean?" Blake asked Pro- Doctor Bart sitting with the rest of the teaching staff above the students.

"I do not know. I have a Doctorate in History, Miss Belladonna. Not in Science." Bart told her making the black haired girl nod and looked back at the screen. "Still, its interesting to hear."

"Anything else?" Ozpin asked looking at the readings on the screen.

"Yes. It's… rock, lava base, and deep cold. Well below the line."

Kane looked at the screen then to Ozpin. "I'll volunteer to be in the first group to go out."

"Yeah, that figures." Ozpin said looking to Amber, who is smoking at her station. "You too, Amber."

Amber sniffs and smiles. "Swell."

"Better break out the weapons." Ozppin said leaving the bridge with Kane and Amber following.

"Hopefully they don't need them." Yang said being hopeful.

"It's better to be safe than sorry." Leon said thinking back to the times he packed an extra med kit or aura booster and was told that he didn't need it. Only for a situation to arise when he did need to use them.

"Plus they are looking for an unknown signal on an unexplored planet." Port said from his spot next to Bart. "I remember one time I was told to investigate an abandoned factory and-"

"That sounds like a fascinating story and I'm sure the students would love to hear about in detail at a later date." Leon said and all the students gave him a look of disbelief, betrayal, and horror.

Inside the operation control room, Bart finished putting a green jumpsuit. Taking a few steps before running in place to help loosen the jumpsuit so it won't be too constrictive, after that Bart sat down in front of a console.

Inside the airlock Ozpin, Kane, and Amber are wearing EVA suits. The suits are bulky with some plating around the shoulders and chest for protection against debris, the helmet features a headlamp on top of the helmet and has a large visor designed to protect the wearer's face and give them as much view as possible. The airlock doors hiss before opening and the strong wind blows into the airlock.

"Those look fun to move around in." Velvet said while wondering how much those suits weigh with everything on.

"Brings back memories of basic." Emilia said remembering the times she had to run in full gear and that was before she joined the Knights. "Maybe we should run in full plate armor." Emilia smiled at the memory of her friend and eventual spotter. 'I miss you J.'

"Could you imagine trying to fight in that?" Yang asked and suddenly she was engulfed in a flash of light. When the light died everyone saw that Yang is wearing the same EVA suit as those on screen.

"How does it feel?" Ruby asked eyeing her sister sitting in her chair in the bulky space suit.

"Very warm and uncomfortable." Yang said though her voice was muffled somewhat by the helmet. She lifted her arm slowly and made a fist. "It's tough to move around in."

The flash of light appeared again and Yang is back in her clothes, everyone looked at Spart. "You can see the suit after the showing and even have the opportunity to try it on."

"I can't wait." Summer practically jumped in her seat at the prospect of seeing the suit and maybe trying it on.

Ozpin leads the group out of the airlock carrying a small case of equipment. All three step onto the lift that begins to lower them towards the ground.

Bart sits in the chair that moves from the console to an observation booth so he can better see the trio. Seeing the three make it to ground level and leave the lift, Bart's chair rotates to face the monitors.

"I can't see a goddamn thing." Amber yelled over the wind.

"Bart, are you receiving?" Ozpin asked looking to the observation booth.

Bart waves at the group even though they can't see him and smiles. "Good contact on my board." He tells them looking at the monitors to check their camera feeds.

"Clear and free. Keep the line open." Ozpin says facing the camera. "Let's go." The trio leave the ship to find the source of the transmission.

"Despite the circumstances, I'm envious of the group getting the opportunity to explore an uncharted world." Bart said with envy in his voice and eyes. "If only it were possible to visit other worlds in our world line."

"One day, we will." James said hopeful for their future. Atlas is looking into other potential energy sources other than Dust. If they can find a suitable source than they can gradually move away from Dust.

"I wonder what Remnant looks like from space." Jaune said imagining what their planet looks like.

"I'll show some pictures later." Spart told them watching the screen.

Inside the engineering section, Tai and Qrow are in the process of repressurizing the section when they spot Jane checking the panels. The two walk over and Qrow lights a cigarette with a just used welding rod.

"Hey, Arc." Tai said placing a hand on the wall next to some pipes and a valve. "Hey, Arc, I wanna ask you question." He yelled over the sound of the coolant being pumped through the vents. Jane turned to them. "If they find what they're lookin' for out there, does that mean we get full shares?"

"Don't worry, Tai. You'll get whatever's coming to you." Jane replied making him smile.

"Look, I'm not gonna do any more work…till we get this straightened out." Qrow stated.

"Qrow, you're guaranteed by law to get a share."

"What?" Tai asked.

"Why don't you just fuck off." Jane said turning to leave.

"That's my girl." Emilia said with pride.

"She defiantly has some of your personality." Leon told his wife making her smile.

"Damn right."

"Sexy." Velvet whispered wishing that Jaune could take that tone with her in the bedroom when the time comes.

"They seem at odds with each other." Ilia said noticing the slight tension between the two.

"Yeah, you're right." Yang said also noticing it. It reminded of her guys back in signal that would annoy her.

"What?" Tai asked again with a smile.

"What'd you say, Arc?"

Jane turned to them. "If you have any trouble, I'll be on the bridge." She said before leaving the two to their work.

"Hey, Arc, come back here!" Tai begged mockingly before twisting the valve to the off position and stops the coolant vents with a chuckle. "Son of a bitch."

"What's the matter?" Qrow asked taking a puff of his cigarette. Tai turns the valve back to the on position.

Over the barren landscape, the trio continue their trek through narrow passages and vents blowing gas into the air.

"Can't see a goddamn thing." Amber gripped.

"Quit griping." Kane said annoyed.

"I like griping." Amber replied looking to Kane.

Ozpin turned to face the two. "Come on. Knock it off." He chastised the two silencing them.

"I'm reminded of my earlier days as a teacher." Ozpin said with a chuckle at the memories of rowdy and eager students. Every now and then he liked to teach before advancing to the headmaster position.

"I'm reminded of every combat class." Glynda said happy to be taking an impromptu vacation away from Beacon. She had to dea with teenagers constantly baiting each other in combat class, and she had to constantly remind them that in the field they need to focus. Some took her advice and others chose to ignore it.

"I'm reminded of Ruby and Weiss our first year of Beacon." Blake said earning shocked looks from both Ruby and Weiss. "I couldn't get any sleep the first week because you two were always arguing about something.

"Sorry." Ruby said giving her a shy smile.

"It worked out in the end." Blake said also smiiling. She couldn't help it since Ruby was so damn adorable and she knew it too.

Back at the ship, Jane set her coffee cup down and sat down at a nearby station and turned the screens on. Loading up the transmission on the screen before leaning back and ran a hand through her blonde hair. The binary numbers on the screen repeating every twelve seconds; she activated the decoding program and waited. In the background is an orange tabby cat named Jonesy, grooming himself without a care in the world as too what's going on.

"Aww, such a cutie." Kali cooed at the sight of the Jonesy grooming himself. "Remember that white cat we had, Blake?"

"Sergeant Fuzzy Boots, I remember." Blake said recalling the fluffy white cat that she had when she was a child.

"Please tell me that you picked out the name." Yang said trying her best not to laugh and failing.

"I was young and he was so fluffy." Blake said defending the name she chose.

"Our cat's name is Mr. Whiskers." Jaune said thinking of his sister's calico cat.

"How original." Blake said wondering how they got to talking about pet names.

The harsh winds stopped blowing over the rocky landscape leaving only silence in its wake now that the sun has come up. Even though the sun is in the sky, it didn't do much in terms of light, everything was still dark and what little light that managed to make it though the dense clouds barely illuminated the land.

The trio passed through a narrow passage making sure to avoid the gas vents. The only sound came from the vents and from the suits respirators. The group made it out of the passage and came upon an open area where they saw something in the distance that stood out among the rocky barren landscape. The object had smooth lines from what they could see, it appeared to be a ship.

"Looks like they found the source of the signal." James said looking at the ship on screen and felt nauseous just by looking at it.

"Something feels off about the ship." Pyrrha said feeling nauseous like James. Something about it just felt wrong.

"Yeah." Yang said feeling uneasy by the ship and they still haven't seen it up close yet.

"Bart, can you see this?" Ozpin asked knowing that Bart is watching through the cameras.

"Yes, I can." Bart said looking at the screen in amazement and zoomed in on the ship. "I've never seen anything like it."

Bart watched the screen in amazement and made sure to record everything.

The group made their way towards the ship. "It's very bizarre."

The helmet camera began to malfunction the closer the group got the ship. "All right. Moving on to second… position."

"What is it?" Amber asked as they go to the ship. "Let's get out of here." She said feeling uneasy in the ship's presence.

"We've got this far. We must go on." Kane said. "We have to go on."

"Will you say that again?" Bart asked only to get static. "Shit." Looking at the screens showed that the camera's still work but would flicker in and out.

"Bart, as you can see, it's kind of hard to describe." Ozpin said over the radio.

"I'm going back to the console." Bart said pushing a button on the chair that moves back to the console.

"The ship must be projecting some kind of field that is disrupting their communications." Jaune said looking at screen and the occasion skips in the helmet cams. "I wouldn't be surprised if communications cut off."

"I agree." Winter said agreeing with him surprising Weiss.

"It could be part of a defense mechanism." Leon said looking at the ship.

The group arrive at the ship and are amazed at the sheer size of it. A fog rolled in and made it hard it to see the ship. From what they could see, the ship has an asymmetrical, wishbone design, with what appeared to be thickened central section between two prongs. One of the prongs appears to be shorter than the other.

"Interesting design." Velvet said marveled by the engineering and wondered who built it.

"They aren't going to enter it, right?" Ruby asked nervous chewing on her lower lip.

"Looks like it." Blake said also feeling nervous since she read a lot of horror books and could see something lurking inside the ship waiting for new victims.

Bart sits at the console and tries to boost the signal to the team, on the screen the team seemed to be exploring the outside of the ship.

"Seems to be solid. To walk- you can walk on it." Ozpin said examining the hull of the ship.

Bart continued to watch on the screens. The group found a large opening in the side of the ship that they used to enter. The moment they entered the ship, the camera feed shut off showing only static.

"Ozpin?" Bart asked over the radio only to be met with static. "Shit."

"Looks like you were right, Jaune." Ren said impressed that his friend managed to call it.

"It was just a guess." Jaune replied with a shy smile.

"I wonder what they're going to find." Sun said wondering what horrors are lurking inside the dead ship.

"Anything living would be dead, depending on the severity of the crash and how long its been." Sienna said taking a sip of wine. Her instincts were screaming at her that something is wrong.

Inside the ship, the trio walked down corridors making sure to not touch anything. The inside of the ship differed from the outside, the hull of the ship had smooth lines while the inside had organic designs giving the feeling that the group are inside a creature making them feel unsettled. As they progressed through the ship they grew unsettled since the only thing they could hear is their own breathing and the sounds of their respirators.

"Silence seems to be a thing in this world." Tai said noticing the lack of ambience.

"It does help create the feeling of unease." Summer said knowing how unsettling it can be when everything goes quiet and the only thing you can hear is the sound of your own breathing.

"The interior of the ship is giving me the creeps." Weiss said feeling uneasy just by looking at the organic construction of the inside of the ship.

"Same here." Ruby said playing with the ends of the cape.

Ozpin stopped to gather samples while Kane and Amber continued. Kane noticed something above him. "Come on down here. Something different down here." He told Ozpin and Amber. "I don't know what it is, but- See if we can get up that wall. If we can get up that wall, we can find out."

Ozpin and Amber looked at the wall in question while Kane went to find a way up. Eventually he found some footholds and began the slow climb up the wall. Soon he reached the top and what he saw took his breath away, hearing the others climb made him remember what he's doing and grunted with effort as he pulled himself up.

Kane and the others found themselves in a large open chamber and they stood on a platform. In the center of the platform is what appeared to be a chair with something sitting in it. The chair looked to be attached to a spire that pointed towards the ceiling.

"What is that sitting in the chair?" Port said squinting at the screen to try and make it out.

"Need glasses, Port?" Bart asked with humor in his voice at the sight of his co-worker squinting at the screen.

"Nonsense, I have perfect vision despite my age." Peter said defending his actions.

"Looks like a skeleton." Blake said looking at the screen. "I wonder how old it is."

"Amazing." Kane said taking in the area.

"Alien life form." Ozpin said as he and Amber examined the chair and saw a humanoid skeleton. "Looks like it's been dead a long time. Fossilized." Both Ozpin and Amber climbed the chair to get a better view. "Looks like it's grown out of the chair."

"It's possible that the skeleton fused with the chair during the decomposition." Bart theorized.

"Or maybe something like a harness is giving the illusion that it's grown out of the chair." Sienna said looking at the screen with interest. She wondered what secrets the alien ship might be hiding.

"This is quite the find." Willow said looking at the alien skeleton in the chair.

"Do you think that's a gun?" Nora asked refering to the chair that the alien is sitting in. "It looks like a gun."

"I don't know, Nora." Ren said intrigued by the alein ship. "Maybe its the pilot chair."

The two made it to the top and saw the skeleton up close. "Bone are bent outward." Ozpin said noticing the broken bones on the chest. "Like he exploded from inside."

"Wonder what happened to the rest of the crew." Amber said while Ozpin examined the bones more closely. She looked at the skeleton and noticed that even though it had a humanoid appearance, it was vastly different. The bones are thicker and the structure of the skeleton is larger than that of a human, she wondered how big the alien had to be. Sitting in the chair it was still larger than any of them.

"That thing might be larger than the Predators." Yang said trying to imagine just how tall the alien might be.

"Did something come out of him that killed him?" Nora asked hoping that the crew don't run into what killed the alien.

"It would appear so. There is very little to go on." Glynda said taking in everything about the dead alien.

"Let's get the hell out of here." She suggested having enough of ship and the silence. Ozpin's helmet light shined on the skeleton giving them a better view of it's head.

"Hey, Ozpin, Amber, come on over here." Kane said kneeling next to a melted patch on the platform that looked to lead to another chamber. "Come on." Amber climbed down first while Ozpin took one last look at the skeleton.

"What do you got?" He asked Kane before climbing down after Amber. With the light gone, the skeleton was once again bathed in darkness.

"See what you make of this." Kane said pointing to the hole.

On the bridge, Jane noticed something about the transmission after part of it was decoded. "Bart." She said over the radio. "That transmission- MOTHER's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S."

"What is it, then?" Bart asked from the operation control room.

"Well, I- It looks like a warning." Jane said. "I'm gonna go out after them."

"She won't make it in time." An said thinking of the time it takes to get into the suit and then the travel time to the ship. It would be too late to warn them. "With communications down they can't warn them over the radio."

"So, they're on their own." Ilia said knowing the feeling of being on your own.

"That's the way it goes sometimes." Qrow said taking a sip from his flask.

"What's the point?" Bart asked watching the screens. "I mean by the time it takes to get there, you'll- they'll know if it's a warning or not, yes?"

Jane doesn't like his reasoning as she flicks the radio to off and grabs Jonesy as he passes by.

Bart exhales deeply and wipes sweat from his brow as he re-watches the recording from the helmet cams.

"He has a funny way of showing his concern." Leon said ordering some water.

"He's not wrong though." Raven said. "I'm sure we'll see what the warning is referring too."

Back at the ship, Ozpin and the others set up a small crane with a winch that lowers Kane into the hole he found.

"You okay down there?" Ozpin asked over the radio as Kane is lowered down a shaft. "Can you see anything?"

"Uh… a cave." Kane said as he clears the shaft. "A ca- A cave of some sort. But I- Well, I don't know, but it's like the goddamn tropics in here." He said referring to the heat and the humidity he feels through his suit as he goes lower into the chamber.

"What the hell is this?" He asks himself while shining his handheld light around to better see. When he reached the bottom, Kane tugged the line notifying Ozpin and Amber that he's reach the bottom and to give him some slack so he can explore.

"The cave is completely enclosed." Kane said describing his surroundings as he began his exploration. "And it's full of... leathery objects, like eggs or something."

"Those do look like eggs." Kali said trying to see the eggs better through the mist that is covering them.

"There must be hundreds of them." Coco said lowering her sunglasses to better see the screen and the eggs.

"There is no way they can still be alive." Bart said intrigued. "Based on the skeleton, it can be assumed that at least years have passed."

"The Grimm can live for hundreds of years under the right conditions." Ghira said recalling what he knew about the Grimm. "It could be the same for the eggs.

"Interesting, some form of hibernation?" Bart said to himself.

Kane walked on what appeared to be a platform, on either side of the platform are small convex chambers that are full of the eggs that Kane saw. Above the chambers is a thin layer of mist that glows blue from the blue lights on the walls, kneeling down Kane reaches towards the mist.

"There's a layer of mist… just covering the eggs that reacts when broken." Kane said as he broke the layer of mist. Kane losses his footing and slips into the chamber.

Ruby yelped thinking that something grabbed Kane and pulled him into the chamber.

"It's OK, Rubes." Yang said comforting her sister.

"Kane? Are you all right?" Ozpin asked hearing the sound of shuffling over the radio.

"I'm okay. All right." Kane said as he got back to his feet, thankfully the fall didn't damage his suit. "I'm okay. I just slipped."

Kane looked the eggs and approached one and kneeled in front of it to get a better look. The top of the egg has four "lips" that are closed and its greenish grey in color. "Appears to be completely sealed." He noted reaching out to touch it when it hissed when his hand came to touching it.

"Some type of warning? Like a rattlesnake?" Bart talked to himself pulling out a notebook and began writing notes down.

"Then maybe he should heed it." Ilia said wondering why he doesn't just leave. "Bloody curiosity is going to be the end of him."

"We don't know that." Ruby said looking at Ilia for a moment.

Withdrawing his hand quickly, Kane shined his light on the eggs and noticed that it appeared to be partially translucent since he could see movement in the egg. What looked like fingers could be seen twitching. Grabbing his gun and looking around before looking back at the egg and sees movement.

"It's reacting to the light." Jaune said feeling uneasy seeing the erratic twitching inside the egg. Pyrrha grabbed his hand for support and comfort.

"It almost looks like a hand." Blake whispered feeling a chill go down her spin.

"Wait a minute. There's movement." Kane said shining his light on the egg, the light from his light making the egg "glow". "It seems to have life. Organic life."

The egg opened making Kane stumble back a bit. Shining his light, Kane could see the inside of the egg, white veins can be seen along with a pulsing sack. Kane got closer to the egg.

"No." Ruby yelled at the screen.

"Don't do it!" Sun also yelled. "Get out of there."

He leaned over it.

Something screeched as it jumped out of the egg toward Kane knocking him over.

Ruby screamed and pulled her hood up hiding her face.

"Shit!" Yang screamed and jumped in her seat. "I hate it when they do that. Wait for your face to get close then boo!"

"Yang!" Weiss screamed not expecting Yang to yell making the poor girl jump in her seat again.

"What was that?" Jaune asked once he got his heart rate down.

"It looked like a pair of hands." Coco said after taking a deep breath to calm herself.

Outside the ship everything appeared to be calm with the wind gently blowing.

Inside the operations control room, Bart is sitting looking out the window when he spots Ozpin and Amber carrying Kane towards the lift.

"Is he-" Ruby asked dropping her hood to look at the screen again.

"I don't know." Pyrrha said letting go of Jaune's hand. "I hope they can help him."

"I'd be more concerned about the thing that attacked him." Ghira spoke looking at the screen. "It could have followed them."

"Meaning it could enter the ship." Sienna said following his train of thinking and Ghira nodded.

An alarm alerts Jane that the group is back and she sets Jonesy down.

Bart heads to the airlock as Ozpin and Amber set Kane down on the lift and head up to the airlock.

"You there, Arc?" Ozpin asked over the radio.

"I'm right here." Jane said flicking the radio switch to on.

Ozpin and Amber gently set Kane down in the airlock before sealing the outer doors.

Bart arrived at the inner doors and peeked through the small windows to make sure the group is in. "Okay, Arc, I'm at the inner lock hatch now."

"Right."

Inside the airlock Ozpin and Amber hold their arms out while the decontamination protocols are activated. "Okay, Arc. We're clean. Let us in." Ozpin said.

"What happened to Kane?" Jane asked from the bridge.

"Something as attached itself to him." Ozpin said waiting for the inner doors to open. "We have to get him to the infirmary right away."

"What kind of thing? I need a clear definition."

"An organism. Open the hatch." Ozpin said agitated.

"And they brought him back to the ship?" Raven said finding the decision stupid. "What are they stupid?"

"You'd probably leave him behind." Qrow said looking at his sister. "Probably consider him dead weight."

"I would think of everyone else." Raven countered. "By bringing Kane back, they could doom the rest of the crew."

"Didn't think you care about anyone else other than yourself." Leon said earning a glare from the bandit.

"I care for those that serve me." Raven said making him Tai and Summer scoff.

"Evidently that doesn't include your daughter or me." Tai said looking at his ex-wife.

"Let it go. It's obvious that the three of you need to talk or fight it out." Ozpin said with a firm voice. Raven huffed but didn't say anything else and went back to watching the screen.

"Wait a minute. If we let it in, the ship could be infected." Jane said still on the bridge. "You know the quarantine procedure- 24 hours for decontamination."

"He could die in 24 hours. Open the hatch." Ozpin said again looking at Bart though the small window.

"Listen to me. If we break quarantine, we could all die." Jane explained over the radio.

"I hate to admit but she does have a point." Neptune said getting everyone's attention. "I mean there is a reason for such procedures. By bypassing or refusing they could endanger not only the crew but the ship. It sucks but she's doing the right thing.

"I agree." James said agreeing with Neptune. "Sometimes doing the right thing requires a hard choice and I respect Jane for following proper procedure."

"Since when is doing the right thing difficult." Ruby whispered looking at the floor. She felt herself being pulled into a hug.

"It's just how the world is, sweetheart." Summer said comforting her daughter. "It's not always black and white."

"Look, would you open the goddamn hatch? We have to get him inside." Amber said clearly frustrated and shaken.

Jane hesitated for a moment before making her decision. "No, I can't do that."

"Sometimes hard decisions are needed." Ozpin said looking at the coffee in his cup thinking back on every bad decision he made over his different lives.

"Such is the way of the world." Leon added with a somber tone.

Bart is looking through the small viewing widows and looks in the direction of the bridge in disbelief.

"And if you were in my position, you'd do the same."

"Arc, this is an order. Open the hatch right now." Ozpin ordered. "Do you hear me?"

"Yes."

"Arc, this is an order! Do you hear me?"

"Yes, I read you. The answer is negative." Jane said again sticking to her decision. Bart is quietly listening to the exchange.

Ozpin punched the door in anger and went to check on Kane.

Bart pressed the unlock button and backed away to let Ozpin and Amber enter. "Inner hatch opened." He said over the radio.

"Why would he do that?" James asked confused at Bart's onscreen actions. "He could endanger the crew."

"Isn't Ozpin the Captain? Could be he's just following orders." Glynda said but also finding the action odd.

"Something isn't right, with the Captain gone the second in command has authority." Winter said thinking about the situation.

"So Jane is in command?" Ren asked looking at the screen as everyone brought Kane on board.

"If that's the case, then Bart just disobeyed an order." James said with disapproval.

"He could be protecting his friends." Qrow said looking at James. "Loyalty to friends will always take precedence over orders."

"He's right." Ghira said agreeing with Qrow.

Inside the medical bay, Kane is on the operating table still alive with his helmet still on but his suit is discarded. The thick visor is broken and melted, and something is inside the helmet. Ozpin and Bart are in surgical garb and wearing masks, Ozpin holds the sides of the shattered helmet while Bart cuts the helmet using a special tool that doesn't cut human skin. The device lets out a gentle whirring as it cuts through the helmet.

Finishing the cut, Bart sets the cutter down and assists Ozpin in removing the helmet so they can see what the organism is.

"My god." Ozpin says upon seeing just what is attached to Kane. Bart looks in amazement.

"That is disgusting." Weiss said having to look away from the screen. Everyone felt the same when they saw what is attached to Kane.

Blake shivered when she imagined something crawling up her back.

Ruby hugged her sister for comfort already imagining the creature lurking in the dark corners of their dorm room, waiting for them to go to sleep.

"It cracked his helmet." Jaune said wondering just how strong the creature is to be able to get through a space helmet.

The organism resembles two skeleton hands fused together with a spine like tail. The long digits are wrapped around Kane's skull keeping it secured to his face, it's tail is wrapped around his neck, and the sacks on the either side of the body can be seen expanding and contracting, almost like it's breathing. Pale yellow is the color of the skin of the organism; it almost looks like a spider hugging Kane's face.

"What the hell is that?" Ozpin said still holding a section of Kane's helmet.

"A very good question." Bart said trying his best to sketch the creature and cursing his lack of artistic ability. "It almost looks like its hugging his face."

"So, a face hugger." Yang said seeing the creature hugging Kane's face tightly.

"An apt name." Blake said looking at the creature and seeing the tail wrapped around Kane's neck and wondered what purpose it holds, since the creature's fingers wrap around to the back of his head.

"Is it keeping him alive?" Sienna asked seeing the sacks on the creature moving.

Outside the med bay, the rest of the crew save for Jane who is coming from the bridge watch what is happening through the observation window.

"Jesus Christ." Qrow said backing away from the window and sitting on the bench next to Tai who is sitting on the floor. "What is that, man?"

Tai looks up from his magazine and looks at the scene on the other side of the glass. "Hey, how the hell is he breathing?" He shouted wanting to know.

"Another good question." Bart said taking notes and writing down his theories in his notebook.

"Is he still alive or what?" Qrow asked.

"Hey, why don't you guys freeze him?" Tai asked/suggested closing his magazine and sitting on the bench. "How come they don't freeze him? What's going on in there?"

Amber heard the sound of Arc coming down the ladder from the upper decks.

"What the fuck is going on?" Jane asked once on the deck and approaching the group. Amber walked up to her and slapped her hard on the side of the face.

"You bitch!" Amber yelled as Jane stumbled and grabbed the wall for support. Amber wasn't having it and grabbed the front of her jumpsuit.

"Jesus Christ!" Jane yelled trying to push Amber away. Fortunately Tai and Qrow helped and pulled Amber away before any more punches could be thrown.

"Hey! Hey!" Qrow yelled getting between the two while Tai pulled Amber away.

"You would've left us out here." Amber yelled while struggling to get free from Tai.

"Break it up. Break it up." Tai said still restraining Amber.

"I get where she's coming from but at the same time, Jane was doing her job to keep the ship safe." Velvet said seeing both sides of the argument. Jane was doing her job by not letting Amber and the others in. Amber on the other hand was concerned about her friend.

"Tensions are high right now." Ren said seeing the signs among the crew.

"Can you blame them?" Jaune asked looking at his friend.

"Arc, when I give you an order, I expect to be obeyed." Ozpin said through the intercom.

Jane looked at Ozpin though the glass. "Even if it's against the law?!"

"You're goddamn right!"

Tai let go of Amber when she calmed down and looked at Ozpin. "Maybe she has a point. Who the hell knows what that thing is!" He shouted and pointed at the organism hugging Kane's face.

"How are gonna get that off him?" Ozpin asked setting down the helmet. "How are gonna get it off?" He asked again when Bart didn't answer.

"I'm gonna get some instruments." Bart said holding out his hand in a placating gesture before opening a compartment revealing medical instruments, he grabbed set of medical tongs.

"Are they going to attempt to pry it off." Ruby asked hopeful that they are successful.

"It looks that way sis." Yang told her younger sister with a smile which brought a smile to Ruby. Summer smiled at the interaction between the two.

"My god." Jane said upon seeing Kane and the organism.

"Right. I'll make an incision here." Bart said moving to the side of Kane's head. "Try and remove one of the digitals from-"

"You're gonna do what?" Ozpin asked.

"Finger. I'm gonna try and get his finger off. Just a minute." Bart said placing the tongs on one of the fingers and tried to move it only for the tail to tighten around Kane's throat.

"No, that's not- It's tearing his scalp." Ozpin said noticing that Kane's scalp is tearing as the finger moved.

"I know!" Bart said frustrated and set down the tongs.

"It's not coming off without tearing his face off with it."

"It was worth a shot." Yang said with a sigh. "That thing really doesn't want to come off."

"There must be more to its actions." Nora said thinking. "What does it want?"

"I'm afraid we can't really know." Ozpin said looking at the creature on screen. 'What are you doing?'

"We'll have to take a look at him inside." Bart said moving to a machine and began calibrating it. "Right."

Outside everyone is watching the scene unfold. "How come they don't freeze him?" Tai asked again and no one answered.

"How come you guys don't freeze him?" Tai's voice can be heard through the glass.

Bart finished calibrating the machine and a panel opens as Kane's bed moves and enters the machine and the panel closes. Bart activates the machine after the panel closed.

"All right, you can take your mask off." Bart said removing his mask as did Ozpin. The machine scanned Kane and projected the scans on the screens.

"What's it got down his throat?" Ozpin asked looking at the screens.

"I would suggest it's feeding him oxygen."

"Paralyzes him, puts him in a coma, then keeps him alive." Ozpin said looking at Kane lying still in the machine. "Now what the hell is that?"

"It could be trying to take control of him." Nora said horrified. "It's a brain bug!" She shouted pointing at the screen.

"Somehow that could make sense." Yang said already imagining the scenario with Kane running around the ship with the creature still attached to him and controlling him.

"We shall have to wait and see." Li told them.

"We gotta get it off him." Ozpin said looking away from Kane.

"Just a minute. Just a minute." Bart said getting Ozpin's attention as he continues to look at the screens. "Let's not be too hasty. We don't know anything about…it. Now, we're assuming it's feeding him oxygen. If we remove it, it could kill him."

Ozpin is quiet as he weighs the decision in his mind. "I'm willing to take that chance. Let's cut it off him now." He says making his decision.

"You'll take responsibility?" Bart asks to make sure.

"Yes, yes. I'll take responsibility. Get him out of there." Ozpin says putting back on his mask.

"If the worst does happen. The blame will fall on him, not the crew." Emilia said before taking a sip of her wine.

"What's the worst that could happen?" Weiss said and her team looked at her shocked. "What?"

"Why would you say that? You jinxed it." Ruby told her partner.

"Ruby, there is no correlation-" Weiss began but stopped when Ruby covered her mouth.

"Don't jinx it more." Ruby hissed.

"Where do you wanna do this?" Ozpin asked as they prepared the medical instruments.

"We'll make an incision just below the knuckle there." Bart said pointing to the area as he turned on the cutting laser.

"Right here." Ozpin said holding towels on either side of the pale finger to soak up the blood.

"Stand by." Bart put the laser against the skin and slowly made a cut, the moment the cut was pale yellow blood shot of the wound and landed on the floor. "Good god!"

A sizzling sound could be heard near the blood and the laser cutter began smoking. Ozpin looked at the blood and noticed that the floor is melting. "That crap's gonna eat through the hull."

"Is it acid?" Yang asked unsure.

"It looks like it." Bart said continuing to write in his notebook.

"That thing has acid for blood!" Nora yelled. "How would we fight such a thing? Bullets would only cause the blood to spray everywhere and blades would melt after cutting them."

Ruby imagined cutting one of the face huggers with Crescent Rose and seeing the blade melt from the blood. The imaginary scene made her cry mentally at the thought of Crescent Rose melting. She made a vow to treat Crescent Rose to be acid proof or at the very least able to resist its affect.

"Make a hell of a defense." Sienna said slightly impressed at the biology of the creature. "Can't kill it without the blood melting everything. And can't remove it without tearing the face off."

"Sounds like you admire it." Blake said looking to the leader of the White Fang.

"In a way, I do." Sienna admitted.

Ozpin opened the door to the medical bay and ran past the crew. "That thing's gonna eat through the goddamn hull. Come on!" He yelled spurring them into action. Ozpin climbed the ladder to the deck below medical and started searching for the blood.

"This way." Ozpin said opening a door and noticing the smell of burnt plastic and rubber. The blood had melted through the ceiling and is now melting through the toe of a boot and the floor. "Next deck."

The crew made it to the lower deck and started searching for the blood, they made sure to move carefully and stay close to the walls. The sound sizzling caught the attention of Tai first.

"There it is." He said pointing to a spot on the ceiling where the metal grating is beginning to melt. Everyone ran to check it out. "Don't get under it! Don't get under it." He told everyone as they looked at the grating melting.

"Looks like its stopping." Jane said noticing that the grating isn't melting as fast as before. Ozpin is looking around for something to poke into the grating.

"Take a look at this, man." Tai said to the Qrow moving aside to let him see.

"Yeah."

Ozpin noticed a pen in Qrow's shirt pocket. "Qrow, give me- What do you got, a pen there?" He said pointing to the pen before removing his medical gown. "Give it to me, quick. Come on! Come on!" Qrow handed him in the pen and Ozpin stuck the end of the pen into the melted grating.

"Don't get any on your arm."

Ozpin removed the pen and saw the tip is smoking. "It stopped. Don't see anything like that except, uh, molecular acid." He said examining the pen and then the grating.

"It must be using it for blood." Qrow said looking at the grating.

"It's got a wonderful defense mechanism." Tai said while chewing gum. "You don't dare kill it."

"What about Kane?" Jane asked looking to Ozpin.

Ozpin didn't answer and handed the pen back to Orow. "Here's your pen back."

"What do we do now?" Qrow asked holding the ruined pen.

"Leave Kane to Bart. You get back to work." Ozpin told Qrow and Tai as he left with Jane in tow.

"At this point, it's all they can do." Jaune said ordering a soda. "At least the acid blood stopped."

"After melting through two decks." Ren spoke. "I wonder how potent the acid in its blood is?"

"I would guess a PH of maybe -25 or lower." Glynda said earning surprised looks from the students and the teaching staff. "I'm a Professor or Beacon." She said with pride. "With a lot of reading time."

"Huh, learn something new everyday." Nora said turning back to watching the screen.

"Ever the book worm." Emilia said remeberign when she met Glynda and how she loved to read and listen to music.

Tai and Qrow are in the process of fixing a console and rerouting wires. "Okay. Try it." Qrow said removing his goggles. Tai flicked a switch but nothing happened except for the sound of metal scrapping each other. "Damn it. I though sure that was it."

"Try it again." Tai said once again flicking the switch and the same thing happened.

"I feel like I've been in this place a month."

"We shouldn't have landed in this place in the first place." Tai said adjusting a dial.

"Shouldn't have landed on this damn ball, I know that."

"Well, the sooner we patch this thing up and get out of here, the sooner we can go home." Tai said sitting down in front of computer looking at the readings. "This place gives me the creeps."

"I heard that." Yang said cracking her neck. "I wonder how long they've been on the planet. Hours, days?"

"I see nothing that could indicate a passage of time other than the repairs." Blake said from her spot.

Inside the medical bay Kane is lying on one of the beds while Bart has his back to him while he works on analyzing the samples he took from the organism. He places a slide under a microscope and looks at through the magnified lens.

"That's amazing. What is it?" Jane asks coming up behind him. What she is referring too is the image on the monitor.

"Ah, yes, it is. Um-" Bart looks at the image. "I don't know yet." He says turning off the monitors and stretching. "Did you want something.?"

"Yes. I, uh-" Jane grabs a medical tongs and opens it and closes it. "I'd like to have a little talk. How's, uh- How's Kane?"

"She wants an explanation for earlier." James said having done the same things multiple times throughout his career. "I would like to hear his explanation."

"You would." Qrow said smirking. "Ever the stickler for the rules. You must have been fun during school. Always the first to class?"

"As a matter of fact, I was." James said with straight face silencing Qrow.

"He's holding. No changes."

"And, uh, our guest?"

"Well-"

"Hmm?"

"Well, as I said, I'm still… collating, actually, but, uh. I have confirmed that he's got an outer layer of protein polysaccharides." He began explaining what he found while writing a report "He has a funny habit of shedding his cells… and replacing them with polarized silicon, which gives him a prolonged resistance to adverse environmental conditions."

Bart stops writing and looks at Jane who is leaning against his desk. "Is that enough for you?"

"That's plenty." Jane said before looking through the microscope lens. "What does it mean?"

"Please don't do that." Bart said stopping Jane from looking and putting down his report. "Thank you."

"I'm sorry."

"Well, it's and interesting combination of elements." Bart said scratching his ear. "Making him a tough little son of a bitch."

"And you let him in." Jane said looking Bart.

"I was obeying a direct order, remember?" Bart said looking back at Jane.

"Bart, when Ozpin and Kane are off the ship, I'm senior officer."

"Oh, yes. I forgot."

"Something tells me that he conveniently forgot." An said not believing Bart on screen.

"I agree." Willow said looking at Bart on screen. 'Why, though? That's the real question.'

"You also forgot the science division's basic quarantine law." Jane stated.

"No, that I didn't forget." Bart said putting his hands on his desk.

"Oh, I see." Jane said not surprised. "You just broke it. Huh?"

Bart placed a hand on his hip and turned to face Jane. "Look, what would you have done with Kane? Hmm? You knew his only chance of survival was to get him in here."

"Unfortunately, by breaking quarantine, you risk everybody's life."

"Maybe I should have left him outside." Bart said thinking back to the airlock. "Maybe I've jeopardized the rest of us, but it was a risk I was willing to take."

"That's a pretty big risk… for a science officer." Jane questioned. "It's not exactly out of the manual, is it?"

Bart was silent for a minute before answering. "I do take my responsibilities as seriously as you, you know." Jane listened patiently. "You do your job… and let me do mine, yes?" Jane set down the medical tongs and leaves.

Bart removed his surgical gloves and tossed them before grabbing a glass of milk and drinking the whole thing.

"Why do I get the feeling that something else if going on." Pyrrha said looking at the screen. "He reminds me of some sponsors that wanted something more from me."

"Did that happen a lot?" Jaune asked concerned.

"A few times once I got older and more…developed." Pyrrha said the last part with a blush. "Of course, after I reported a sponsor to the authorities. It stopped."

"Is that why you came to Beacon?" Ren asked looking at Pyrrha.

"Yes and no. I came to Beacon to get away from the endless praise and to make friends." Pyrrha said folding her hands in her lap. "It got annoying. 'Miss Nikos your amazing, please marry me, I can rub your shoulder, what's your bra size, you're a goddess.' It got so annoying to have to thank them and smile, even towards the perverts." She said with frustration.

"It's nice see you complain about something." Yang said with a smile as she looked at Pyrrha. "I was starting to think something was wrong with you. You're being too nice to everyone. Nice to see I was wrong."

"Thank you, I got used to being nice." Pyrrha said thankful that she made the decision to come to Beacon.

"Still you need to be a bitch. I know you know how." Yang added making her team gasp along with JNPR.

"Yang!" Ruby yelled embarrassed that her sister would tell her friend something like that.

"I'm not saying be a bitch all the time. Just occasionally. Mix the two, little bit of the bitch in the nice. Little nice in the bitch." Yang explained making Pyrrha laugh.

"I'll work on that." Pyrrha said wiping a tear away that came from laughing. "Thank you."

"Anytime, P-money." Yang told her before focusing back on the screen.

Inside the shuttle located on the underside of the ship, Ozpin is listening to classic music.

"Where's Ozpin?" Jane asked over the radio.

"In the shuttle." Bart replied.

Ozpin is relaxing and enjoying the music that is playing over the speakers when a beep silenced the music. Sighing in frustration, Ozpin flicked the radio switch. "Ozpin."

"I think you should have a look at Kane." Bart said over the radio.

"Why?"

"Something's happened."

"Serious?"

"Interesting."

Ozpin thinks for a minute then turns off the music before hitting the intercom switch. "Arc, meet me in the infirmary right away."

"What do you think happened?" Weiss asked her team and also JNPR for their thoughts.

"Maybe we can watch and found out." Blake said glancing at Weiss then back to the screen.

Inside the medical bay the organism that is attached to Kane is no longer attached. Kane is lying on the medical bed looking asleep.

"Where is it?" Jane asked looking through the viewing window on the door.

"Well, I don't know. I mean we ought to try and find it." Bart suggested.

"Yeah, let's check it." Ozpin said not liking the idea of whatever was attached to Kane running around the ship.

Opening the door to the medical bay Ozpin, Jane, and Bart entered slowly, making sure to check the vents on the ceiling before going deeper into room. "Ozpin, please be careful." Jane said as Ozpin slowly approached Kane.

Ozpin checked Kane's pulse to make sure he's alive, satisfied Ozpin continued the search for the missing organism.

Jane looked under the bed when a loud crash startled her.

"God!" Sun yelled after getting scared just by the sound. Everyone felt the same since they also jumped in their seats.

"The silence doesn't help." Neptune said agreeing with Sun.

"It does make everything unsettling." Weiss said looking at the screen.

"Sorry." Ozpin said holding a light rod to check the corners and dark places.

Bart sealed the door in case it tried to escape that way. Ozpin searched his corner of the room, making sure to check every place wide enough for the organism to hide in. Jane checked another spot, standing on her toes to better see.

"No, not in the corner." Bart said when he saw her looking into a dark corner. "Psst. Have one of these." He told her holding up with light stick for her to see. "Just in case."

Jane decided not to risk it and went to check on Kane. Bart went to another corner and poked his light stick the corner.

Jane leaned over Kane. She didn't see a tail drop from the ceiling behind her.

"No! Stay away from her." Nora shouted pointing a finger at the screen. "Turn around!"

Emilia grabbed Leon's hand for comfort worried that the face hugger would make Jane the next victim.

"Kane? Ozpin?" Jane said turning and felt something land on her shoulder. Screaming she grabbed the organism and held it in her hand briefly before tossing it away from her as she fell to the ground and backed away. Bart and Ozpin rushed over, Ozpin shielded her in case it tried anything.

"You okay?" Ozpin asked and Jane nodded.

"I didn't see it. Was it in the overhead?" Bart asked kneeling next to the organism. The organism's fingers were curled inward similar to a spider's when it dies.

"What? It was up there somewhere."

"My god." Bart said looking at the dead specimen.

"Cover up the damn thing!" Ozpin ordered worried that it might still be alive.

"Wait." Bart said while poking it with the end of the light stick. The organism twitched making Ozpin and Jane back away.

"That's alive!"

"That's a reflex action." Bart told them. "Well, we've gotta have a look at this."

"They should kill it with fire." Nora said relieved that the creature is dead. 'Or blast into space."

"There is still much they can learn from a corpse." Bart said. "For instance they could see what it did to Kane?"

"Agree to disagree." Nora said with a shrug of her shoulders.

Bart put the dead organism on a tray and set it on his desk and turned on the overhead lights to better see. Ozpin and Jane are on either side of him both interested and wary of the organism. Various small organs can be seen once the organism is turned on it's back, still wet with moisture.

Bart grabs a medical instrument and lifts a flap of flesh before letting it drop. "Excuse me." Bart says reaching across Jane to grab another instrument. "Seems dead enough." He tells them after lifting up the flap of flesh and poking under it.

"Well, good. Let's get rid of it." Jane said making Bart sigh.

"Arc, for God's sake, this is the first time that we've encountered a species like this." Bart said as he continued his examination. "It has to go back. All sorts of tests have to be made."

"Bart, are you kidding? This thing bled acid. Who knows what it's gonna do when it's dead."

"I think it's safe to assume it isn't a zombie." Bart said before looking to Ozpin. "Ozpin, it has to go back."

"well, I'd soon… as not burn it at the stake, but you're the science officer." Ozpin said looking briefly to Bart then back to the organism. "It's your decision, Bart." He said before leaving.

"Ozpin." Jane said surprised that he would leave the decision to Bart.

"I agree. Why would that decision be left with Bart?" Qrow said before looking to the green haired Professor. "No offense."

"None taken. It could be that since I'm the science officer. The decision lies with me." Bart said finishing his notes and put the notebook away before taking a quick sip of coffee.

"Its similar to when the local militia of a village will defer to the opinions of a hunter." Leon said. "They have more experience in their field."

"How come I've got to change my mind? The decision's been made." Ozpin said walking down a corridor with Jane following him.

"I'm not trying to change your mind, Ozpin. I just want you to listen- Will you listen-" Jane said and continued to be ignored. Jane pressed the bulkhead door button and the bulkhead lowered, cutting off Ozpin's path. Ozpin groaned and turned to face Jane.

"Just tell me how you can leave that kind of decision to him." Jane asked curious to hear his answer.

"Look, I just run the ship." Ozpin yelled raising his arms in frustration. "Anything that has to do with the science division, Bart has the final word." He said pointing his finger to Jane.

"How does that happen?"

"It happens, my dear, because that's what the company wants to happen." Ozpin told her while stepping in her direction.

"Since when is that standard procedure?"

Ozpin stepped closer to Jane. "Standard procedure is to do what the hell they tell you to do." He said to her. "What's happening with the repairs? How's it going?"

"SDC practice in a nutshell." Sienna said having read reports on their procedures from her spies that infiltrated mining camps.

"A practice I intend to change." Weiss whispered to herself though Blake heard and wished her luck in her endeavor.

"Same could be said for the military." Emilia said and Witner agreed.

"They're pretty much finished now." Jane told him.

"Why the hell didn't you tell me so?"

"Because there's still some things left to do." Jane said placing her hands on her hips.

"Like what?" Ozpin asked interested.

"Well, we're blind on "B" and "C" decks." Jane began listing off the things left to do. "The reserve power system's blown-"

"That's a bunch of horseshit." Ozpin said turning around and resuming his walk. "We can take off without that."

"Yeah, we can. You think that's a good idea?"

"Look, I just wanna get the hell out of here, all right?" Ozpin told her as he walked away.

"Can't blame him. This planet has bad written everywhere." Tai said grabing a hadnful of popcorn from the bowl in Summer's lap.

"I agree, this planet is creepy even without that alien ship." Summer said handing the popcorn bowl to Qrow so he can eat some.

"Some places should be left alone." Ozpin said cryptically.

"Unfortunatly there will be people who don't listen." Ghira said speaking from experience.

The ship's engines activated and it slowly lifted off the ground kicking up dust and small rocks.

"Dust in the intakes again. Number two's overheating." Qrow said shaking in his seat from the turbulence.

"Spit on it for two minutes would you, for Christ sake?" Tai said checking the monitors.

"We're hot. We're getting hotter." Jane said watching the monitors. "Engine room, red clip status?"

"One kilometer on ascension." Amber said.

"Engage artificial gravity."

"Engaged.

"I'm altering the vector now."

"Inhibit C.N.G. control." Ozpin said watching the screens for any problems.

"Struts retract."

"Struts retracted." Parker said over the radio.

The ship slowly ascended.

"Max stress to fifth overload."

"Ease it back. She's great. Beautiful."

Soon the ship left the planet and flew back to the main body of Nostromo.

"Walk in the park. When we fix something, we stay fixed." Tai said with a smile. "Don't we, Qrow baby?"

"Right."

Everyone on the bridge smiled and laughed at the two.

Soon the Nostromo is complete and resumes its journey back to Earth.

"At least they are off the planet." Ruby said excited that the crew is off the planet and back in space.

"I do wonder what's going to happen to Kane." Jaune said while wondering what's going happen to Kane.

"Maybe they'll put him in stasis until they get back to Earth." Pyrrha said thinking back to what Tai suggested about freezing Kane.

Inside the dining area everyone is relaxed after finally leaving the planet behind. Jane is drinking some coffee while Qrow rolls a cigarette.

"What I think we should do is just freeze him." Tai said from his spot across Jane. "I mean, if he's got a disease, why don't we stop it where it is." He said scrapping some crumbs out of a Tupperware container. Ozpin sat next to him listening.

"He can always get to a doctor when we get back home."

"I agree." James said and all of the adults in the room agreed. "Better to halt it's progression in stasis than risking the rest of the crew.

"And besides the medical facility will be more advanced than those on ships." Willow said. "Hopefully they can save him from whatever that thing did to him."

Winter and Weiss looked at their mother surprised that she is worried about someone. All the time they knew her, she was always drinking wine and never had time for them. It was surprising to see her sober and worried.

"Then they have to explain why they broke quaratine procedure to the authorities." Leon said sipping some water.

"Right." Qrow said rolling another cigarette.

Jane turned to look at Qrow. "Whenever he says anything, you say "right", Qrow. You know that?"

"Right."

Jane sighed before looking at Tai. "Tai, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around, says "right"." She said with a shake of her head. "Just like a regular parrot."

"Yeah. Shape up." Tai said before chuckling. "What are you, some kind of parrot?"

"Right."

"Polly want a cracker." Penny said with a smile holding a cracker out to Qrow. "I believe that is what you say to a parrot."

"Where did you learn that?" Ruby asked trying to hold in her laughter at the sight of Qrow dumbfounded.

"I read that parrots like crackers." Penny responded before retracting the cracker. "Was I wrong? I do believe this situation is meant to be funny."

Ruby laughed with Yang and everyone chuckled. Even Qrow, after all its not often that someone offers him a cracker and thinks he's a parrot.

"Come on. Knock it off!" Ozpin said getting out of his seat and passing Tai. "Kane's gonna have to go into quarantine. That's it."

"Yes, and so will we." Jane said watching Ozpin as he stood next to Amber who held a clipboard.

"Well, how about a little something to lower your spirits?" Amber asked sounding down.

"Thrill me, will you, please?" Ozpin said crossing his arms.

"Well, according to my calculations, based on time spent getting to and from the planet-"

"Just give me the short version." Ozpin said placing a hand under his chin. "How far to Earth?"

"Ten months." She said making everyone groan at the news.

"Oh, God."

"Great."

The intercom buzzer went off. "Yes." Jane asked answering the buzzer.

"Ozpin, I think you should come and see Kane." Bart said over the intercom.

"Has his condition changed?" Ozpin asked.

"It's simpler of you'd just come and see him."

"We're on our way." Jane said getting out of her seat and following Ozpin to the medical bay.

Qrow stuck a cigarette in his mouth and followed the group. "Right."

"You really are like a parrot." Summer said to Qrow making him grumble something that she couldn't hear. "Want a cracker to cheer you up?" She said while holding out a cracker to him.

"Qrow want a cracker?" Tai said joining his wife in holding out a cracker to Qrow.

Qrow wasn't one to say no to free food so he took the crackers knowing that they are teasing him. After all what friends don't tease each other.

Inside the medical bay Kane is awake and sitting up, he rubs the side of his neck while the crew laugh in relief at the sight of him alive and well.

"He's awake." Kali said surprised. "I guess whatever the creature did to him wasn't severe."

"They still should keep an eye on him just in case something does happen." James said with an eye on Kane. "We still dont know that that thing did to him. It could have given him a virus or something."

"He's fine and breathing. Plus Bart is there so he must have given him the ok." Leon said looking at James.

"Still, they don't know the alien is capbale of."

"Paranoid, much?" Qrow asked looking at the General. "You need to relax, Jimmy."

"And you need to cut back on drinking." James retorted.

"How are you doing?" Amber asked. Tai handed Kane a cup of water which he accepted after a cough.

"Thank you."

"How you doin'?" Tai asked standing to the side.

"Um, terrific. Next silly question." Kane said making everyone laugh before drinking the water. Bart approached and handed him another cup. "Oh, thank you."

"Do you remember anything about the planet?" Ozpin asked approaching Kane's bed. Kane stops mid drink and shakes his head.

"What's the thing you do remember?" Jane asked as Kane finished drinking the water and thought for minute.

"I remember some… horrible dream about… smothering." Kane said making everyone look at him with concern. "And- Anyway, where are we?" He asked changing the subject not wanting to recall the dream.

"A dream about smothering…" Ozpin whispered.

"Ozpin?" Glynda said looking at him concerned.

"I'm fine, just thinking." Ozpin reassured her and took a sip of coffee before ordering another refill. Glynda looked at him concered before watching the screen agian.

"Right here." Ozpin simply said.

"We're on our way home." Jane added leaning on the bed.

"Yeah, back to the old freezerinos." Qrow said with a chuckle and everyone smiled at the joke and the atmosphere changed to a livelier one.

"Could I have something to eat before we go back?" Kane said.

"I- I need something myself." Tai agreed with a laugh.

Ozpin chuckled. "Yeah, right. One more meal before bedtime, I'm buyin'." He said holding out his arms to everyone.

"Hey, that's a break."

"I agree, you never pay the check." James said looking over his shoulder at Ozpin. "Nor do you offer to buy the food."

Ozpin simply lifted his coffee mug to his lips and continued to watch the screen.

"You owe me 150 lien." James told the headmaster who didn't answer.

The crew sat around the table in the dining hall eating a meal and talking amongst themselves. they know that this will be there last supper before going back to stasis. Kane dishes up a large helping of spaghetti.

Bart looks at Kane with interest when he goes for another helping of spaghetti.

"Kane must really be hungry." Yang said raising an eyebrow at his plate and the ever growing spaghetti on his plate. "Reminds me of Ruby when she discovered chocolate chip cookies."

"I was never that bad." Ruby said defending herself. It wasn't her fault that they tasted so good. "Ish." She said after seeing her team and JNPR look at her with "really" looks on their face.

"Suddenly I see Nora with pancakes." Jaune said with a smile.

"It's not my fault they taste so good." Nora said defending her favorite food.

"The first thing that I'm gonna do when I get back." Kane said putting the tongs back in the bowl. "Is to get some decent food."

"I can dig it man. Let me tell you, I've eaten worse food than this." Tai said from his spot next to Kane. "But then I've tasted better, you know what I'm sayin'?"

"Well, you pound down the stuff like there's no tomorrow." Amber told Tai holding a cigarette between her fingers.

Tai looked in Amber's direction. "I'd rather be eatin' something else, but, uh, right now I'm thinkin' food." He said holding up his spoon to show her. Amber scoffed and looked away taking a puff of her cigarette.

"Well, you should know. You know what's it's made of." Kane told Tai before laughing.

"No, man, I don't wanna talk about what it's made of." Tai said with a smile. Kane stopped eating and started gagging. "I'm eatin' this just to-"

Everyone stopped eating and looked at Kane who began coughing and gagging.

"Is he choking?" Saphron asked looking at the screen. Kane showed the signs of choking but something felt off.

"Maybe he ate too fast." Jaune suggested.

"This doesn't seem like it." Ren said eyeing Kane feeling something bad is about to happen.

"What's the matter?" Tai asked thinking it's a normal reaction. "The food ain't that bad."

"What's wrong, Kane?" Ozpin asked when Kane started retching and gagging.

"Are you choking?"

"What's wrong?" Tai asked as Kane continued gagging and got out of his seat. Ozpin hit Kane's back in an attempt to dislodge whatever he's chocking on. Bart watched the scene unfold with interest.

"isn't he the medical officer? Shouldn't he do something?" Glynda said wondering why Bart isn't doing anything.

"He reminds me of a scientist watching his experiment." James said recalling the same look in Dr. Polendia whenever he came to visit the scientist.

"It could be that he doesn't think the situation is serious." Port said also wondering why Bart doesn't act.

Ruby once again played with the end of her cape as she watched the situation unfold. "I don't like this."

Kane stood and everyone got up as well, Tai and Ozpin held Kane's arms as his gagging intensified.

"This is serious." Bart said getting up to help.

"Kane, what's the matter?" Ozpin asked laying Kane on the table. Kane started thrashing and spasming on the table along with gasping for breath.

"It's okay!" Tai told Kane while holding his limbs in place so he wouldn't hurt anyone.

"This isn't a choking situation." Coco said narrowing her eyes. "It looks like he's in pain."

"What did that thing do to him?" Sun yelled looking at the screen. He looked around the theater and saw that everyone is tense. 'They can feel it too. Something bad is about to happen.'

Kane stuck his tongue out and Bart tried to insert a spoon between his teeth so he wouldn't bite his tongue off. Tai took the spoon from Bart and tried to get in place.

"Hold him down!" Ozpin yelled while struggling to keeps Kane's arms from hitting anyone. "Hold him-"

"Get the spoon in!" Bart yelled helping Ozpin.

"Damn it!" Tai yelled letting go of Kane's arms and grabbing his face to get the spoon in.

"Get it into his mouth!"

"I'm trying!"

Kane began screaming.

Ruby covered her ears trying to block out the pained screams but failed. Yang held her sister also feeling disturbed by Kane's screams, it was the sound of a man in extreme pain.

Weiss looked away taking deep breaths to calm her nerves. Blake held herself hoping to not such screams again.

Ren closed his eyes and breathing hard as the screams triggered memories of his village being destroyed by the Nuckelavee. Nora hugged Ren for comfort also relieving the same memories.

Pyrrha held Jaune's arm tightly as the screams filled the theater.

Leon closed his eyes as memories flashed behind his eyes of Mt. Glenn and everything that transpired there. Emilia held his hand to provide comfort knowing that he's trying not to relieve the horrifying moments again.

Everyone in the theater is put off by Kane's anguished screams.

Tai couldn't get the spoon and Kane arched his back as his chest erupted blood staining his white shirt red. Amber screamed and let go of his legs.

Everyone looked at Kane in shock but shook it off when his thrashing intensified. Ozpin and Tai wrestled his arms down as Kane struggled in blood curdling grunts.

Ruby uncovered her ears and hugged her older sister, she wanted to look away from the screen but couldn't out.

"Wh-" Sun said trying to comprehend what is happening.

Something came partially out of Kane's chest making everyone let go of him and back away. The creature burst out of Kane's chest in a bloody fashion, blood flew everywhere and some landed on Amber's face making her recoil with fear.

"Oh, my God! Oh, God!" Amber said with fear.

"What the fuck!" Weiss shouted surprising her sister, mother, and her team.

"Ahh!" Ruby screamed before she buried her face into Yang's chest trying to forget what she saw. After seeing the Predator 'verse she didn't lose her lunch but it still unsettled her to see such a gory scene.

"That is fucked up." Sun said looking at the sight on the screen.

"Is that what happened to the alien on LV-426?" Velvet said covering her mouth.

"Looks that way, Vel." Coco said horrified at what just happened. "That is fucked up."

"You said it." Jaune said looking pale but thankfully he didn't lose his lunch.

Nora gagged a little from the sight. "Somehow that is worse than what the Predator did to Cardin."

Everyone agrred with Nora. With the Predator they only saw the aftermath, but here they saw the alien just burst out of someone. Thankfully no one lost their lunch.

Raven looked away from the screen. It isn't the first time she saw a man die, but too see someone die in that fashion unnerved her.

The creature is small and covered in blood as it growled and hissed at the crew. A tail could be seen coming out of the wound, small silver fangs lined the mouth. No eyes is visible on the creature as it rose out of the wound it made on Kane's chest. The skin color is a light beige similar to the organism that was attached to Kane.

Kane's body continued to twitch from the violent end that came from the creature erupting out of his chest. The creature looked around the room.

Tai acted first and grabbed a knife ready to stab whatever the creature it. Ozpin held him back wary of what the creature is capable of.

"No!" Bart yelled holding out his hand stopping Tai. "Don't touch it! Don't touch it!"

The veins on the side of the creature pulsed before it screeched at the crew and climbed out of Kane's body and ran across the table away from the crew.

Everyone is shocked by what they'd just saw. Bart looked in the direction the creature ran off in.

"Ruby, it's ok." Yang said trying to coax her sister out of her chest. "It's ok, its over."

Ruby let go of her sister after she removed her head from Yang's chest. She still played with the ends of her cape for comfort.

"Now we know the face huggers true purpose." Bart said writing in his notebook again. "They for the lack of a better word impregnate other species. After a short incubation period the creature is "born"."

"Guess the same thing happened to the alien in the spaceship." Ilia said remembering the bent outwards bones of the alien. "That would explain the crashed ship."

One on of the decks Qrow and Ozpin are searching for the creature. "Ozpin?" Qrow yells, his voice echoing through the corridors.

"Yeah."

"Anything?"

"No. you?"

"Nothing."

"You see anything?" Ozpin asked after checking the vents.

"No."

"I think they won't find the alien right away." Velvet said after recovering from the traumatic scene. "There are plenty of hiding places for it to hide and the ship is large to properly search."

"Regardless they still need to search for it. Who knows what it can do." Coco told her partner.

"I imagine they also want some payback for killing their friend." Qrow said having experienced the same feeling after Summer's death.

"Only if they can catch it." Tai said looking at his friend.

"Shouldn't be too hard." Yang said looking at the screen. "I mean it small and can't put much of a fight."

"Even a cornered rat with bite when provoked." Ren said with a sage like voice.

On the bridge everyone is around Ozpin looking at the screen with Kane's body in a body bag. "Inner hatch sealed." Ozpin said looking at the screen. "Anybody wanna say anything?" When no one does Ozpin presses a button opening the outer airlock doors.

Kane's body is launched into the vacuum of space leaving behind the Nostromo and her crew as it flies through space.

"Similar to burial at sea." James said remembering the stories his father told him during his time as a sea captain.

"In a way space is similar to the sea." Ghira said. "Both are endless and often lonely. No one but yourself and the crew."

"I hate the ocean." Neptune said crossing his arms and trying not to think of the time he almost drowned as a child.

"Luckily there is no water in space." Sun told his friend.

In a room on the Engineering deck there is an assortment of items laid out on the table. "This is just an ordinary prod, like a cattle prod." Qrow said picking up the prod to show everyone.

"It's got a portable battery." Qrow explains as everyone listened. "It's insulated all the way here, all the way up to here." He said pointing to the tip, making sure to not touch it. "Just make damn sure nobody puts their hand on the end of it." Qrow touches the ceiling with the tip of the prod and a spark could be seen as it touches the metal.

"It shouldn't damage the little bastard." Qrow said setting the prod down carefully. "Unless its skin's thinner than ours. But it will give him a little incentive."

"They also need to worry about the acid blood." Penny spoke up. "If the skin is thinner then there is a chance the prod will puncture it and the acid blood will spill out."

"How are they going to catch it. With their bare hands?" Nora asked ordering some pancakes for comfort.

"They are probably in the midst of discussing their plan." Ozpin told them quieting them.

"Now we just have to find it." Amber said wearing a fresh pair of clothes.

"I've taken care of that." Bart said reaching for something on the ground and bringing it up for everyone to see. "I've designed this tracking device." The device has a long tube connected to a box with handles for easier carrying along with a screen. "You just set it to search for a moving object, like so." He said turning the device on.

"It hasn't got much of a range, but when you get within a certain distance, it'll start to give off a signal."

"What's it key on?" Jane asked.

Bart sighed before answering. "Micro changes in air density."

"Give me a demo." Ozpin said grabbing the device and holding it out in front of him. Bart waved his hand in front of the device and it gave off a whirring sound.

"See?"

"Again." Ozpin said just to make sure and Bart waved his hand again. "Got ya." He said putting the device down. "Two teams. Bart, Amber and I. Arc, you take Tai and Qrow." He said and everyone looked at him. "Now, anyone sees this thing, you catch it in the net that Tai's holding on his lap.

"Tai, I don't want any heroics out of you, all right?" Ozpin said looking directly at Tai. "Catch it, put it in the air lock, get rid of it. Now channels are open on all decks. I want you to communicate, keep in touch at all times, all right?" He said looking to everyone.

"Let's go."

"Let's hope they can find it before it kills anyone else." Yang said leaning back in her seat. "Then again, it is small so I doubt it can do much too them."

"It can still chew the wires and such." Blake told her.

"Regardless it still needs to be caught." Weiss said to both of them.

On the cargo deck Jane led the through the dark corridor since the power is out. "I thought you fixed 12 module." Jane said turning on the flashlight and holding it with one and the tracker in the other.

"We did." Qrow said holding the prod towards the floor so no one would get accidentally shocked. "I don't understand it."

"The circuits must have burned out." Tai said when they reached the junction. Setting the net down, Tai pulled out his tool kit and opened a panel on wall. Jane passed the light to Qrow as she checked the corridors with the tracker.

"What do we got here?" Qrow asked checking on Tai.

"Damn it! Hold your light over here, would you?" Tai said struggling to see what's he's doing in the dark. Qrow shined the light on the panel. "Yeah, that's it. I don't know if this is going to work."

Jane slowly moved into a room with the tracker making to keep in visual range of Tai and Qrow.

"Think the alien did that?" Neptune asked Sun. "Chewed the wires to the lights would go out."

"It's possible." Sun replied watching the screen once again unnerved by the silence.

"If I could just put this- put this in there."

"Right."

"Oh, damn it." Tai said receiving a small shock after

Not seeing anything on the tracker, Jane went back to the others.

"Check the insulation." Qrow suggested.

"Oh, shit." Tai said to himself and managed to get the lights back on. He put his tools away and grabbed the net just as the tracker whirred as it picked up a signal.

"They found it." Jaune said." Now, if they can capture it."

"They can blow out the airlock." Yang said adding with a smile. "Now to catch the little bastard. Should be easy for them since they have a net."

"Underestimating your foe can have dire results." Leon told the blonde brawler. "Until you know otherwise. Always assume they have the upper hand, that way you don't get caught off guard."

Yang thought back to the screen that showed her getting her right arm cut off because she charged in like an idiot. Then again she did see Blake wounded on the ground and Adam standing over her with his sword ready to strike. She really needs to work on her sense of control to something similar won't happen to her in the future.

Jane followed the signal to a bulkhead that lead to another room. Tai stood next to the bulkhead while Tai readied the net.

"Steady." Jane said looking at the screen on the tracking device. "According to this, it's within five meters."

Qrow opened the bulkhead door and the trio slowly entered with Jane taking lead.

"Micro changes in air density, my ass." Jane said as the tracker began beeping. "It's within five meters."

"Be careful." Tai told her as they slowly walked further into the room. Mining EVA suits hung from the ceilings and various cargo containers are scattered around the room.

"Christ." Jane said feeling unsettled by the room.

"Don't do that. Don't creep up on me with that thing." Tai whispered to Qrow who is behind him and holding the prod.

No one said anything as they watched. Some tensed ready for anything to happen.

"You guys, stick together." Jane said moving the tracker around the room, Tai checked a corner looking over the containers, while Qrow stood off to the side with the prod ready to go. Jane looked at the tracker and saw that the screen is malfunctioning and the whirring stopped.

"Don't fail me now." Jane said shaking the tracker trying to get it working again.

"What?" Tai asked looking to Jane. "What is it?"

Jane got the tracker working again the whirring picked up along with the beeping. "Tai, Qrow, it's in this locker." She said aiming her flashlight at a locker.

"Where?" Tai asked as Jane set the light down.

"Here take this." Qrow said handing Jane the prod.

"Get over there and get the net." Jane whispered taking the prod. Tai moved past her and handed one end of the net to Qrow.

"Get it?" Tai asked looking to Qrow.

"I got it. I got it. I got it." Qrow said holding the net.

Yang mentally prepared herself for another scare and looked to Ruby who is trying her best to appear calm and failing. This brought a small smile to Yang since she knew that her sister never handled horror that well after she watched "Nightmare on Vale Street" with Yang during Halloween.

She still remembers her father punishing her for scaring Ruby and for showing her the film despite her being so young. She didn't get it at the time since Summer first showed her the film when she was Ruby's age. Actually come to think of it, Summer showed her a lot of films that wouldn't be appropriate for a child.

"Wait a minute. Wait a minute." Jane said setting the tracker down and holding the prod with both hands. The trio approached the locker. "All right, Tai. When I say."

Tai slowly reached for the locker while still holding the net.

Weiss clenched her fists to hide how nervous she felt. Like Yang she prepared herself for another jump scare.

Blake thought about messing with Weiss by placing her fingers on her shoulder and moving them to simulate a spider on her back. But she decided not too since she's worried that Weiss might try and slap her in retaliation.

Pyrrha gripped the chair handles tighter.

"All right. Now." Jane said holding the prod at the ready.

"Easy." Qrow told his friend as he grabbed the locker latch and quickly opened the locker.

Inside the locker is Jonesy, the orange tabby who hissed at them and ran out of the locker.

"Stupid cat." Nora yelled jumping in her seat before looking at Blake. "No offense."

"None taken." Blake told her knowing that she is talking about the animal and not the Faunus. Still a small part of her felt hurt at the accusation at Jonesy, the cat. It wasn't his fault he got picked up by the tracker.

"This is why I prefer dogs, they don't hide and scare you when they get bored." Ruby grumbled crossing her arms.

"Not all cats are bad, Ruby. Look at Blake." Yang said pointing a thumb in Blake's direction.

"Har, har." Blake said crossing her arms under her chest.

"Do you have a hairball?" Yang asked with a straight face and Blake flipped her off.

"I like cats." Sun said earning a look from both Blake and Yang.

"That explains it." Yang said referring to his crush on Blake.

"No, really I do." Sun told them. "I visit an animal shelter and play with the cats so they don't get lonely. They really like playing with my tail."

"It's true." Neptune said backing his friend up and also joining him whenever he visits the shelter. Those puppy eyes could melt any cold heart.

Qrow dropped his end of the net and Jane set the prod down. "Wait! Don't let him go!" She yelled at the two men but was too late since Jonesy ran out of the room.

"What the hell are you doing, man?" Tai yelled at Qrow for dropping the net and letting Jonesy escape.

"Now they have to catch him." Jaune said. "Otherwise they might pick it up on the tracker again."

"Shouldn't be too hard." Ruby said confidently.

"Have you ever tried to catch a cat that doesn't want to be caught?" Saphron asked with a small smile and Ruby didn't answer since she's more familiar with dogs than cats. "They can be quick and hide for minutes or hours."

"It's true, we couldn't find Blake for almost a day." Yang said with a wide grin.

"I am not a cat." Blake hissed growing tired of Yang and her cat jokes.

"Likes fish, playing with boxes, and follows a laser pointer." Yang said listing off the things that she noticed in the past year. "That sounds like a cat."

"Blake, are you a walking stereotype?" Kali asked wondering where her habits came from. Certainly not from her. It's not uncommon for Faunus to develop some habits, usually it's one. But three? That's unheard of.

Blake didn't answer her mother and focused on the screen. Kali narrowed her eyes at her daughter.

"It's the cat." Qrow simply said making Jane sigh and Tai laugh.

"Hey, look, now. We had to bag it, man." Tai told Qrow while Jane looked in the direction that Jonesy ran. "Now we might pick it up on the tracker again."

"I'll- I'll- I'll- " Qrow stuttered.

"Go and get it, man."

"All right. You get him. We'll go on." Jane told Qrow before he left the search for the cat. Jane sighed as she picked up the prod and the tracker, Tai scoffed picking up the net.

Qrow searches for Jonesy in the general direction he saw the cat run. "Here, kitty!" He said in a high pitched voice. "Here, kitty, kitty!" Qrow stopped in front of an open bulkhead. "Enough of that kitty crap."

"Jones." Qrow said in his normal voice. "Jonesy?" Qrow entered the cargo room. "Here, Jonesy." Not getting a response Qrow decided to meow and he is rewarded with the sound of Jonesy meowing coming from further in the room.

"Jonesy?" Qrow walked around the containers on the ground as he progressed further in to the room. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."

"Why did they separate?" Weiss asked confused by their actions. "Shouldn't they stick together?"

"They probably figure since he let the cat go, he should be the one to find it." Leon said.

"Won't that get them killed?" Weiss asked again referring to the splitting up. "I mean in this situation wouldn't it be better if they search for Jonesy together."

"Yeah, but not everyone can think clearly in a stressful situation." Yang told her.

"Here, Jonesy." Qrow said again stopping in his tracks to look up in the rafters. "Jonesy?'

Jonesy meows can be heard faintly in the background getting Qrow's attention. Qrow looked to his right and moved towards some mining equipment. "Here, kitty, kitty." He said slowly approaching the equipment.

Looking between the gaps in the equipment Qrow sees Jonesy yelping as a wire burst spraying water on the cat. Jonesy tumbled out from the engine and jumped out of the mining equipment, Qrow tried to grab the cat but couldn't since Jonesy leaped over some containers and entered another room through the open doors.

Qrow cursed to himself and turned to walk around the containers but stopped when something caught his eye on the floor grating. Picking up the material in question with his thumb and index finger, Qrow got a better look at the material and saw that it's almost like skin. The color is the same as the alien that killed Kane when it burst out of his chest.

Qrow looked at the skin in disgust before realizing something and dropping the skin before quickly going after Jonesy.

"Like a snake. It shed its skin." Bart said interested. "Sign of growth?" He mumbled away. Meanwhile Sun grimaced after seeing the shed skin, he hated snakes with a passion.

"Guess it's no longer small." Blake said.

"I wonder what it looks like now." Nora pondered trying to imagine what the small alien could have morphed into.

Inside the mineral processing room, chains hung from the ceiling and clinking as they hit each other from swaying side to side. In the center of the room is where the raw mineral is broken down with the help of machines. Water dripped from the ceiling thanks to the coolant pipes that helped regulate temperature.

Qrow entered the room and adjusted his hat as he continued his search for Jonesy ." Kitty, kitty, kitty." He said again looking for the cat. "Here, Jonesy. Jonesy."

Qrow walked under the water droplets and took off his hat, letting the water hit his face and closed his eyes so the water wouldn't get in.

Above him the chains continue to clink and sway, some raw minerals still hung from the chains waiting to be processed.

Qrow shook his head and ran a hand through his hair before putting back on his hat and resuming his search for Jonesy. "Kitty, kitty, kitty." Walking to another section of the room, Qrow found Jonesy hiding behind some crates peeking out.

"Hey. Hey. Come on, Jonesy." Qrow said leaning down to better see the cat, he smiles to put the cat at ease as he slowly reaches for it. "Come one, baby. That's a kitty." Jonesy slowly came out of his hiding place and approached Qrow but backed away when something moved behind Qrow.

"Look behind you!" Ruby shouted at the screen trying to warn her uncle. "It's behind you."

"That almost looks like a tail." Ren said seeing how it moved and uncurled itself.

"It must have been hiding in the rafters." Tai said not wanting to see his friend die. Summer held both Tai and Qrow's hand for comfort, she hated seeing teammates and friends die.

Raven gripped the chair armrest tightly that the wood threatened to break. She may not have the best relationship with her brother but he's still family. Even if he is Ozpin's puppet.

Jonesy hissed making Qrow back up. "Hey, hey. I'm not gonna hurt you." Qrow said standing up unaware that something silently dropped from the ceiling. "Come on."

"Turn around! Turn around!" Yang shouted at the screen with Ruby.

"Run! Forget the cat." Ruby shouted and Blake's eye twitched. She had to remind herself that they are only worried about their uncle, but to abandon the cat? That was uncalled for since she knew for a fact that they would do anything for Zwei and risk life and limb for the little devil.

Jonesy backed away snarling. Qrow grew confused since Jonesy is familiar with him, then it dawns on him that Jonesy wasn't hissing at him but something behind him. Turning around Qrow sees the creature that killed Kane now fully grown.

"By the Brothers." Glynda said with a gasp upon seeing the alien fully grown. Truly it looked like something out of a nightmare.

Bart once again took out his notebook and quickly sketched out the fully grown alien.

"That's worse than the Predators." Yang said scared of the alien more than she was of the Predator. She shuddered to think about the alien being loose in the halls of Beacon.

Summer is glad that no such alien exists in their world line. She shuddered to think what would happen if Salem found a way to control them or worse if they spread out among the general populace.

The creature has no eyes and has a smooth elongated skull, its body structure and limbs are thin. Four tubes protrude from its back and it was a long tail with bony ridges and a sharp curved blade on the end of the tail. Its skin is black with hints of grey and green when the light hits it at a certain angle.

The creature opens its mouth revealing humanlike teeth with two sharp fangs and a second smaller mouth that also has sharp fangs. Its lips quivering in anticipation as drool flows from the mouth as the second mouth opens and quickly shoots out stabbing Qrow in the head.

"Qrow!" Tai and Summer shouted at the screen.

"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby and Yang shouted at the same time when they saw their uncle attacked by the alien.

Everyone is put off by how the alien attacks using its second mouth. They never saw anything like that before.

Qrow screams as the creature knocks him down and grabs him before dragging him up towards the ceiling.

Tai and Jane quickly enter the room and see Qrow's hat covered in blood on the floor. "Qrow!" Jane shouts looking up trying to spot him.

"Qrow!" Tai cries out for his friend. Blood drops from the ceiling in droplets staining their clothes in it. Tai looks at the blood in his hands and drops the prod with the light. "Qrow!"

Looking at the ceiling is Jonesy, the light from the water reflecting off his fur.

"Maybe it wants him alive." Weiss said trying to sound positive despite seeing the blood and wound inflicted by the alien.

"Maybe." Yang said unsure what to think at the moment.

Bart wanted to inform them that the alien may need to eat to support it's growth and needs. But a look from Ozpin prevented him from doing so.

Tai and Jane met up with the others in the dining hall after telling them about Qrow. Tai takes his head out of his hands and looks at the others. "Whatever it was, it was- it was big and-"

Ozpin looks at Tai as he retells them about Qrow. "You're sure it took him into the air shaft?" He asks Jane looking to her.

Jane nodded. "Disappeared into one of the cooling ducts." She said pointing to the ducts on the ship's map.

"No question, it's- it's using the air ducts to move around." Tai said confirming what Jane told them.

"It can also remain unseen." Blake said having the unpleasant experience of crawling through the air ducts. "They probably run the length of the ship too, multiple access points. It could come out anywhere on the ship."

"They could close junctions and force it in a direction they choose." Jaune said already thinking up a plan.

"Fearless leader already coming up with a plan." Nora said proudly making Jaune smile at her actions.

"Could he want Qrow alive?" Amber asks Jane who is watching Ozpin go over the map of the ship.

"What?"

"Could Qrow be alive?"

"No. I mean, I don't think so." Jane honestly answered placing her hands on the table.

"Well, this air shaft may work to our advantage." Ozpin said looking at the map of the air ducts. "Here, it leads up to and comes out in the main air lock." He said pointing to the map as Bart looks at the map.

"All right. There's only one big opening along the way." Ozpin said pointing to the opening. "We can cover that up, and then we… drive it into the airlock and zap it into outer space."

"Jaune called it." Nora said giving him a thumbs up making him chuckle.

"So they are going to force to the airlock." Ilia said thinking of the plan. "It wont be enough to just seal off sections of the vents. Someone need to be there to drive the alien to the airlock. Otherwise it might go another direction."

"I wonder who the lucky one is." Qrow pondered not wanting to be the one that crawls through the vents searching for the creepy alien.

"Lucky, right." Tai said sarcastically.

"This son of a bitch is huge!" Tai said looking at Ozpin. "I mean, it's like a man. It's big!'

Amber smokes a cigarette with a shaky hand at the news.

"She's starting to lose it." James said noticing the shaking in her hand and the frantic eye movements to the ceiling.

"Can't say I blame her." Tai said looking at James. "She lost two of her friends and right now they are planning something dangerous. She strikes me as the kind of person who doesn't handle stressful situation well."

"A far cry from the Amber I knew." Ozpin said thinking back to when he met the Fall Maiden that was scared of the power she now possessed. After explaining everything to her she chose not to accept his offer of protection and left on her own, figuring that she would be safer on the move rather than in one place. In the end she was a strong willed woman that fell because of one's person need for power.

"Kane's son." Bart said drawing the attention of everyone.

"Come on, Bart. Science department should be able to help us." Jane said determined. "What can we do to drive it?"

"Yes, well, it's adapted remarkably well to our atmosphere, considering its nutritional requirements." Bart said looking to Jane then back to the map. "The only thing we don't know about is temperature."

"Okay. What about temperature?" Jane asked. "What happens if we change it?"

"Let's try it." Bart agreed. "I mean, most animals retreat from fire. Yes?" He asked Ozpin.

"Fire, yeah." Ozpin said looking to Bart then to Tai. "Tai, can you rig three or four incinerator units?"

Tai let out a deep breath. "Give me about 20 minutes. I'll do it."

"Who gets to go into the vent?" Amber asked putting out the cigarette.

"Time to see." Sienna said slightly impressed at their plan.

"If only the Grimm retreated from fire." Ruby said thinking about the Grimm and how they don't fear fire.

"It would make life easier." Yang said agreeing with her sister since her Semblance causes her to generate heat and embers.

"I do." Jane volunteered.

"No." Ozpin said getting a look from her. "You and Bart… take the main air lock. Tai, Amber, you cover up that maintenance opening, please."

"Right." Amber said with a sniff as everyone left to do their tasks. Jane looked at Ozpin for minute before leaving to join Bart.

Inside the main airlock the inner hatch is open and the alarms are going off. Jane and Bart are outside the airlock with the bulkhead sealed.

Meanwhile Tai and Amber are at the maintenance opening, Amber is holding the tracking device and calibrating it to track inside the vents while Tai is keeping watch with an incinerator ready to go.

Inside the vents Ozpin is crouch walking through the vents while carrying a flash light and an incinerator. "I'm at the first junction." He says over the radio.

"That looks cramped." Ren said not a fan of tight spaces. "It must be hot in there with the flame on the end of the incinerator."

"I imagine it would be like being in a bullhead during Summer without air-conditioning." Penny said and the veteran hunters internally groaned remembering their time they experienced the situation that Penny described.

Jane is outside the airlock looking through the viewing window. "Ozpin, I'm right here."

"Tai?" Ozpin asked crawling through the vents.

"Yeah?"

"Amber?"

"We're in position. I'm just trying to get a reading here." Amber said fiddling with the tracking device.

"The airlock is open." Jane says adjusting the headset.

"Okay, Arc."

"Ready?"

"I hope their plan works." Pyrrha said hopeful that their plan works and the alien won't kill anymore of their crew.

"We'll just have to watch and see." Jaune told her and held her hand. Pyrrha smiled at him and moved her fingers so they interlocked with Jaune's.

"Finger's crossed." Nora said crossing her fingers.

Inside the vents Ozpin closes the hatch behind him to make sure that the alien doesn't sneak up on him.

"All right. I've got a reading on you now." Amber says when the screen on the tracker displays a dot moving, a beeping sounds every time the dot moves.

Ozpin continues through the vents, the light from the end of the incinerator is casting a glow on his face. Soon he came upon a closed hatch, Ozpin put on the headset. "Uh, open the hatch to the third junction." The hatch opens and Ozpin continues onward slowly.

Jane listens to everything that is happening over the headset.

"Okay, I'm through."

Jane sighed in relief at the news.

"Arc?"

"Yes."

"Close all the hatches behind me." Ozpin told her and Jane couldn't believe what he told her. "I'm moving on." Jane sealed all the hatches behind Ozpin.

"That's a double edged sword." Port said putting down his mug. "It prevents the alien from sneaking up on him. But it also cuts off his escape."

"Making him trapped along with the alien." Ren said getting a bad feeling as he watched Ozpin progess through the vents. He wasn't the only one as everyone felt the same. "Where is it now?"

Ozpin climbs down a ladder heading to the lower levels.

"Ozpin, hold it a minute. I think I got it." Amber says over the headset when he reaches the bottom of the ladder.

"Yes, I've got it." Amber said looking at the screen. A second dot appeared and headed for the first dot which is stationary.

"Where?"

"It's somewhere around the third junction."

Ozpin looked in front of him then behind him.

"Okay, moving on." He said grabbing the light and pressing on. He made to another ladder with some pipes running parallel to him.

"It is right around there. Now, Ozpin, you're gonna have to be careful."

Ozpin set down his light and stood up aiming the incinerator down the ladder shaft and fired off two streams of flames hoping to scare off the creature.

"All right. I've reached… the third junction, and I'm going down."

Jane held a hand to the headset listening to everything while Bart looked uninterested as he watched the airlock.

"What's his issue?" Nora asked seeing Bart's expression. "Ozpin is risking his life and he looks bored."

"That could be how he deals with the situation." Emilia said looking at Nora. "People deal with difficult situations differently. Some choose to crack jokes, lash out, and some close themselves off. So they can focus on the task at hand."

"She's right." Coco said from her spot. "Our first mission, Velvet here, cracked jokes from start to finish."

"Coco!" Velvet yelled embarrassed, she couldn't believe that she tell them something like that. "I told you I was nervous and jokes are my coping mechanism."

"So, like Yang then." Weiss said looking to the blonde brawler.

"You haven't seen my coping mechanism." Yang said smashing her fists together.

"And I hope I never have too." Weiss replied looking back to the screen.

Ozpin slings the incinerator on his back and grabs the flashlight before climbing down the ladder.

Amber sees the dot representing Ozpin moving down on screen, the dot beeps every time it moves. Amber looks at the maintenance opening for a moment then back to the tracker. She smacked the side of the tracker hoping to get to wok better.

Tai looked at her in concern.

Ozpin got off the ladder when he reached another junction.

Tai went over to Amber and looked at the tracker screen. "The hell's the matter with that box?" He asked when she stopped hitting the side of it.

"Oh, no." Nora said worried when the tracker began malfunctioning. "Why now, of all times?" She cried to the heavens.

"This is a good example of not placing your whole trust in technology." Leon said earning a childish glare from both Ruby and Penny. "I'm not saying don't trust technology. Just don't rely on them too much. Since they can jam or malfunction leaving you in a bind."

"Agree to disagree." Penny said cheerfully making James smile at her cheerfulness.

"Ozpin, you're gonna have to hold your position for a minute. I-"

"I've lost the signal." Amber said over the headset while Ozpin closed a vent hatch.

Jane looked at the airlock shocked at what Amber said.

"What? You sure?"

"I don't relish being in his position." Ozpin said after drinking his coffee.

"I agree." Qrow said not wanting to experience what its like to be stuck inside a narrow vent shaft chasing an alien. "I would prefer open combat."

"Still a Branwen at heart." Raven said with a sly smirk at her brother making him scoff.

"The tracker only shows their movements, not their location." Velvet muttered tapping her chin. "The alien could be above, lower, or in the same vent as Ozpin and there would be no way to tell." She said thinking back to the scene that showed the tracker screen and how it only showed a dot.

"It was probably thrown together in a matter of hours. So, a few defects are to be expected." Coco said.

Ozpin placed his hand on the vent floor and felt something wet. Ozpin held his hand to the light to see clear liquid drop from his hand.

"Checked it out, Amber. You may be getting interference."

Jane looked fearful as to what's going on in the vents with Ozpin.

"Ozpin, are you sure there's no sign of it?" Amber said sounding panicked.

Ozpin looked at the liquid in his hand and looked to the pipes to see liquid leaking out.

"I mean, it is there. It's gotta be around there."

Ozpin fired a stream of fire down the vent corridor, just to be safe he fired another stream.

"Ozpin?" Jane asked wanting to know what is going on.

"God, what is happening?" Ozpin said to himself. "All right."

"Uh, am I- am I clear, Amber? I want to get the hell out of here." Ozpin nervously said looking around.

"I would too." Blake said not relishing being in that position. Stuck in the vents with an alien and having to rely on faulty equipment to track it. "At this point, I think the alien is the one hunting now."

"As much as I hate to admit. You maybe right, Miss Belladonna." Peter said.

A second dot appeared on the tracker screen and headed towards the stationary dot that represented Ozpin.

"Oh, God. It's moving right towards you." Amber said in a panicked voice.

Ozpin looked up the ladder confused. "Um-"

"Move! Get out of there! Behind you! Move!" Amber cried seeing the second dot rapidly approaching the stationary dot.

Ozpin quickly grabbed the flash light and the incinerator and quickly climbed down the ladder.

"Ozpin! Move, Ozpin! Move, Ozpin!" Amber said even more panicked.

Jane and Bart listen. Jane fiddles with her headset to calm her nerves while Bart looks uninterested.

Ozpin climbs down the ladder as quickly as he can without slipping.

"Get out!" Amber cried, her sobs can be heard over the headset. "Move!"

Ozpin reaches the bottom of the ladder and shines his light down one end of the vent.

"No, the other way!"

Ozpin moved his light to the other end of the vent and shines his slight on the alien, causing it to screech.

Everyone jumped once again at the sight of the alien that appeared to be waiting.

Blake chuckled a bit after getting scared to help calm her nerves.

"Shit." Yang said trying to clam her heart after the jumpscare. Its easer to handle when you know its coming but it's another matter when you don't expect it. She looked to Ruby to see her eating a fresh plate of cookies, her coping mechanism when it comes to horror.

"Easy there, Ruby." Yang told her sister when she finished her tenth cookie. "You don't want to choke on a cookie."

The only sound on the headset from Ozpin is a shrill feedback.

"Ozpin?" Jane asked adjusting the headset.

"Oh, no." Amber cried holding the tracker tightly.

"Take it easy." Tai told here gently taking the tracker out of her hands.

"Ozpin?" Tai called out and didn't get a response.

Jane closed her eyes to hold back her tears

Tai slammed the incinerator unit that Ozpin used on the table in the dining area. "We found this laying there…" He looked to Jane. "No blood. No Ozpin." He then looked to Bart then to Amber who is on the verge of crying. "Nothing."

"This can not be good for Amber psyche." Glynda said seeing how Amber looks to be approaching her breaking point.

"No doubt she feels responsible for Ozpin." Leon said.

"What happens now?" Saphron asked wondering what their next course of action is. "They can't continue with the plan. they already lost one person in the vents."

"I'm sure they'll come up with something." Jaune said looking at his sister.

Tai looked at everyone before slamming the incinerator on the table again in frustration making everyone jump at the sound. "How come I don't hear nobody saying nothing?"

"I'm thinking." Jane said placing a finger against her lips. Tai grabbed the incinerator off the table. "Unless somebody has got a better idea." She removed her finger from her lips and set her hand down. "We'll proceed with Ozpin's plan."

"What? And end up like the others?" Amber cried, the tears finally coming. "Ohh, No, you're out of your mind." She said shaking her head.

"You got a better idea?" Jane asked calmly.

"Yes. I say that we abandon this ship." Amber said getting her tears under control but her voice is shaking. "We get the shuttle and just get the hell out of here. We take our chances and just hope that somebody picks us up."

"It's not a bad plan." Pyrrha said. "Keeps them alive and they leave the alien behind with the ship."

"Until someone stumbles across it and meets the same fate as Ozpin and the others." Ren said glancing towards Pyrrha. "There could also be limit to the amount of people the shuttle can take."

"He's right." Jaune said agreeing with Ren.

"Sorry." Pyrrha said shyly.

"Its ok." Jaune reassured her making her smile.

"Amber, the shuttle won't take four." Jane said.

"Then why don't we draw straws-"

"I'm not drawin' any straws." Tai said cutting her off. "I'm for killing that goddamn thing right now." He said walking around the table.

"Okay." Jane said taking control. "Well, let's talk about killing it. We know it's using the air shafts- " Tai grumbled voicing his own thoughts. "Will you listen to me, Tai? Shut up!"

"My kind of gal." Ilia said impressed that Jane is already taking charge of the situation.

"Such a commanding presence." Leon said proudly. "Reminds me of you."

Emilia smiled at his compliment. "That's my girl." She said looking at the screen with pride.

"She needs to be the rock that everyone can rely on at this time." James said impressed that Jane is already taking control of the situation.

"Let's hear it." Tai said gesturing for her to continue. "Let's hear it."

"It's using the air shafts." Jane repeated looking away from Tai to Amber.

"We don't know that." Tai said placing a hand on his hip.

"It's the only way." Jane said explaining her plan. "We'll move in pairs. We'll go step by step and cut off every bulkhead and every vent… until we have it cornered, and then we'll blow it the fuck out into space."

"Is that acceptable to you?" She asked looking in Tai's direction.

"If it means killing it, it's acceptable to me."

"Obviously it means killing it." Jane told him before looking back at Amber. "But we have to stick together." Amber nodded and sniffed trying to calm her nerves. "How are our weapons?" She asked Tai still holding the incinerator.

"The weapons are fine." Tai said before pointing the incinerator in his hand. "This one needs refueling."

"Will you get it, please?" Jane said placing a hand under her chin. "Bart, go with him."

Bart got up from his seat ready to help when Tai put a hand on his shoulder.

"No, no, I can manage, Bart." He told the science officer passing him by. "Don't follow me."

"Didn't she just tell them they need to stick together." Weiss said surprised that Tai would deny the help of Bart. "That's just foolish."

"Must be a guy thing." Yang said with a shrug. "Dad was never good when it came to teamwork."

"Hey." Tai said hurt that his daughter would even say such a thing. Where had the sweet young girl that used to ride his shoulders go? "I'll have you know, I'm good when it comes to teamwork."

"Student Festival, 4th grade, three legged race." Yang said and Tai frowned as he recalled the memory. There was a three legged race and he and Yang lost because he didn't tell her which leg to start off with.

"That doesn't count." Tai simply said.

Bart turned to leave.

"Bart?" Jane said looking at his back from her peripheral. "Any suggestions from you or MOTHER?"

"No, we're still collating." Bart said crossing his arms.

Jane laughed briefly. "You're what? You're still collating?" She said removing her hand from under her chin. "I find that hard to believe."

Bart uncrossed his arms. "What would you like me to do?"

"Just what you've been doing, Bart. Nothing. I've got access to MOTHER now." Jane said noticing that he glanced over his shoulder and tensed slightly. "And I'll get my own answers, thank you."

Bart turned to look at her before wiping his brow. "All right." He said leaving the dining area leaving Jane and Amber alone.

Jane looked at Amber and saw the fresh tear tracks on her face and her red eyes. She didn't say anything as she left Amber alone to head for the bridge. Amber took a deep breath before leaving to find Tai.

"I wonder what answers she'll get." Ruby wondered after finishing the cookies and handed the tray to the droid helpers.

"It's best to be wary of answers, Miss Rose." Ozpin cautioned her. "They may not be to your liking, and are seldom worth the hassle of finding out."

The students had an idea of what he's talking about since they saw their future and the answers waiting for them. Such as Salem and the Grimm, the Relics, the Maidens, and the fact that Gods are real. Those answers came with the added responsibility of keeping quiet, less they accidentally spilled the beans about the whole thing.

Jane completed the steps to gain access to MUTHUR and waited for the door to unlock, once done she pressed the open button and looked behind her to make sure nothing is following her inside. Once inside the core she sat in the chair and entered commands into the computer, the chair whirred into position and MUTHUR came online

"INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY"

"REQUEST CLARIFICATION ON SCIENCE INABILITY TO NEUTRALIZE ALIEN" Jane typed

"UNABLE TO CLARIFY" MOTHER responded. Jane looked at the answer in frustration before typing her next question.

"REQUEST ENHANCMENT"

"NO FURTHER ENHANCEMENT. SPECIAL ORDER 937. SCIENCE OFFICER EYES ONLY"

Jane frowned slightly at the answer and wondered what the special order is.

"What do you think that order is?" Ruby asked her team wondering what their thoughts are.

"Something not good." Weiss said getting a sinking feeling that whatever Order 937 is. It isn't good.

"EMEGENCY COMMAND OVERIDE 100375. WHAT IS SPECIAL ORDER 937?" Jane typed looking at the screen.

"NOSTROMO REROUTED TO NEW CO-ORDINATES. INVESTIGATE LIFE FORM. GATHER SPECIMEN. PRIORITY ONE. INSURE RETURN OF ORGANISM FOR ANALYSIS. ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS EXPENDABLE."

"What?" Yang yelled her eyes flashing red as soon as she reading what the order is. "All the company cares about is the alien?"

"Typical." Sienna said not all surprised at the order. "The same thing can be said of the SDC. All they care about is making money, not the lives of their workers."

"They're willing to sacrifice the lives of the crew to protect the alien." Ruby said in disbelief that the company they work for would do such a thing.

"That does explain some of Bart's actions." Jaune said thinking back on everything that Bart did. "He stopped Tai from killing the alien, and he let Kane back into the ship even though he knew it was against protocol."

"He's been protecting the alien this whole time." Pyrrha said now realizing why some his actions felt off to her.

"Sickening." Glynda said and those around her agreed.

Jane pulled her head back in disbelief unaware that Bart is next to her.

"There is an explanation for this, you know." Bart said looking at Jane then to the screen. Jane grabs his shirt and gets out of the chair.

"Is there really?" Jane asked pushing Bart against the wall and tearing open his shirt. "I don't want wanna hear your goddamn explanation!" She yelled pushing Bart against the wall again letting go his shirt as she begins to sob.

"I want- I want-" She said in between the sobs while Bart backed away. "I want- I w-" Jane couldn't finish her sentence and covered her face with her hands before running them through her hair and leaving.

"I can't imagine what she is feeling right now." Pyrrha said worried about Jane.

"Betrayal and abandonment." Sun said looking at the screen. "I mean how would you feel if everything you did was for nothing but for the freed of others?"

Pyrrha didn't say anything since she knew that feeling after she discovered that one of her trainers was pocketing money that she gave him for his gym to continue operating. Once she found out she cut ties with the trainer and decided to move onto more practical applications of her skill set, other than tournament fighting.

Now determined Jane goes to the dining area and hits the intercom. "Tai. Amber?" She said and didn't get a response, so she went to find them. She walked over to the corridor leading to the engineering section but stopped when the bulkhead lowered cutting her off, she hit the open button but nothing happened. Turning around she saw Bart near the door console.

"Bart, open the door." Jane said but Bart didn't instead he looked at her with a blank expression. Jane decided to try another door but again the bulkhead closed trapping her in the dining area. "Bart-"

"Oh no." Velvet said worried that Bart is going to try and harm her.

Jane walked over to Bart and noticed a drop of sweat running down the side of his face. "Will you open the door?" She asked stopping in front of Bart who started giggling. She tried to force her way past him but stopped when Bart slammed his palm against the wall startling her.

She saw that the drop of sweat is colored white like milk. Bart's mouth began twitching before he grabbed her hair, Jane screamed as she fell back trying to get away from him. Bart held a fistful of her blonde hair.

"Stay away from FemJaune! You bastard!" Nora shouted at the screen pointing a finger at Bart on screen. "If there is any hair pulling. It's gonna be me that's doing it." She proclaimed proudly.

Jaune blushed at what Nora said unsure if he should be afraid or aroused by her statement.

"Kinky." Coco said impressed that the ginger girl would say such a thing in front of so many people.

Blake wrote something in her private notebook quickly and put it away just as fast.

Jane crawled on her hands and knees trying to get away while Bart walked fast to get her. Bart grabbed the lower half of her jumpsuit and lifted her off the ground, Jane tried to get free but couldn't when Bart pushed her into a wall. Jane slammed into the wall hard and fell on the ground stunned.

Bart looked at her stunned form almost like he's studying her but looked away when the sound of jingling caught his attention. He grabbed Jane by her collar and tossed her into a small alcove, she stumbled from the toss and fell on bench on her back.

Bart entered the alcove and turned on the light showing posters of naked models on the walls. Bart looked at Jane on the bench unconscious but breathing. He brought his right to his chest, his fingers twitching uncontrollably. Bart grabbed a magazine and rolled it up tightly when Jane appeared to be coming too.

Bart held the rolled up magazine tightly before placing it inside Jane's mouth cutting off her air flow. Jane struggled to get free but Bart didn't budge and continued to hold the magazine in place.

"He seems intent on drawing out her death." Raven said. Personally she never liked the drawn out method, she preferred the quick and clean method when it comes to killing.

"He doesn't seem bothered by his actions." Willow said feeling uneasy by his method of killing. Something about it didn't feel right to her and the notion is shared by the other females

"Where are the others?" Pyrrha cried fearing that she might be seeing the slow death of the FemJaune. "They should have heard the scuffle."

"I don't know." Blake said.

Tai came up beside Bart and saw what is going on. "The hell are doing?" He tried to pry off Bart's arm holding the rolled up magazine as Jane's struggles intensified, Amber tried to retrain him from behind but couldn't.

Bart moved his other hand but Tai grabbed his wrists to restrain him but couldn't as Bart moved his hand towards Tai. Tai struggled to hold back Bart's hand but couldn't as Bart gripped his chest causing Tai to scream out in pain.

"What the hell is he?!" Ruby shouted.

"He doesn't seem normal." Weiss said agreeing with her partner.

Tai collapsed with pain from Bart and Amber took his spot trying to free Jane. Tai grabbed a small fire extinguisher and pushed Amber out of the way hitting Bart in the back of the neck which caused him to spit up white liquid and stumble of the side of the alcove.

"Get her up. Get her up. Get her up." Tai told Amber who rushed to help him with Jane. Tai fell on the floor from slipping on the white liquid spit up from Bart.

Bart spun around in the corner of the alcove, his arms hitting the walls. Bart was also chittering and spitting up more liquid.

"What the-" Weiss said upon seeing the white liquid spew forth from Bart. The way he moved unsettled her since it reminded her of a dying spider that would twitch erratically before succumbing to death.

Tai got to his feet still holding the fire extinguisher. Bart stopped spinning and walked to Tai. Not wanting him to get close Tai hit Bart across the face which had the effect of almost decapitating him, Bart's head remained attached to the back of neck so it hung on his back.

"Fuck!" Sun shouted seeing how Bart's head hung on his back.

"He's a robot!" Nora shouted pointing a finger at the screen. "Evil robot."

"Android!" Tai shouted as Bart continued to move without his head, white liquid spurted out of his body from the almost decapitation like a fountain. "He's and android!"

Bart continued to move so Tai hit him again forcing him to his knees, Tai hit Bart again repeatedly until the android was on it's back trying to grab Tai but couldn't since Tai kept moving his arms bashing the android until it stopped moving. White liquid spurted out of the wound and continued to flow.

"Jesus!" Tai said looking at the still android as it occasionally twitched. "It's a robot. Bart is a goddamn robot!" Tai moved closer to the still android holding the spot Bart gripped on his chest. "God!"

Tai got grabbed by Bart when he got to close. "Oh! Get off me- oh!" Tai shouted struggling with Bart and falling on his dragging Bart with on so the android is on top. "Holy shit! Help! Help me get this fucking thing off!"

Amber finished dragging Jane away from the two and rushed to help Tai who is struggling to hold back Bart from killing him. Amber grabbed Bart's head and pulled trying to pull him off Tai but only succeeded in tearing off the head. Throwing aside the head she grabbed a prod that had fallen off the table.

"Aah!" Amber screamed stabbing Bart in the back making the android short circuit from the prod.

"God! Jesus!" Tai yelled glad that Bart stopped moving.

"Oh, God! Oh, God!" Amber cried dropping the prod and moved to help Tai in getting Bart off of him.

"Hopefully they can get some answers." Emilia said. "Maybe he can tell them how to kill the alien."

"Yeah, they can rewire him and get the answers." Ruby said before turning to Penny who looked distraught. "Are you okay?"

"I'm confused. Bart was an android and is only doing what he's programmed to do." Penny said looking at the screen. "I was an android, so does that mean I had a hidden directive in me that I never knew about. I could have pulled something like Bart and hurt my friend." She said with tears on the verge of falling.

"You could never do something like that, Penny." Ruby said hugging her friend. "You're my friend and friends are always there for each other. In the dark times to help them." She told the former android who eyes had widen and started crying.

Penny returned the hug and cried while Ruby held her.

James smiled at the two happy that Penny has a friend after being isolated for so long.

Jane now recovered with the help of Tai moved Bart's body onto the table where she began rewiring the circuits and wires to bring the android back to life.

"How come the company sent us a goddamn robot?" Tai asked watching from the side as Jane worked.

"All I can think of is they must've wanted the alien for their weapons division"

"In the end, it all comes down to greed." Sienna said with disdain and crossed her arms. "Weyland-Yutani probably wants to turn the alien into a weapon that they can control."

"Who in their right mind would want to do that?" Jaune asked looking at the leader of White Fang.

"You'd be surprised." James said thinking of cult that existed that wanted to control the Grimm. Unfortunately it lead to their deaths when their leader brought Grimm into the compound and tried to control them.

"He's been protecting it right along." Jane said finishing the rewiring process. "Tai, will you plug it in?"

"I don't know why-"

"Because he may know how to kill it." Jane explained grabbing a soldering tool and lifted up Bart's head which is still connected to the body via wires and cables to better see. She touched a wire with the tool causing a spark to appear and the arms to twitch. She touched the same wire and more sparks appeared.

Once done she placed Bart's head upright but it fell back, finally she got to stay upright. Bart's head and body are caked in dried android milk, some it still leaking out of his mouth.

"Bart, can you hear me?" Jane asked not getting a response, she moved closer to the table and slammed her fists on it causing Bart's eyes to open. "Bart?!"

More liquid leaked out of Bart's mouth as the android looked at Jane and other. "Yes, I can hear you." He said in a distorted voice.

"That's just wrong." Neptune said seeing the decapitated head talking.

"Yeah." Sun said agreeing with his partner this was more disturbing than the Grimm porn one of his classmates showed him. How anyone could find the Grimm attractive is beyond him.

"I feel like I should say about the milk being all over the place. But that's too easy." Yang said watching the screen.

"And we thank you." Jaune told Yang with a small smile.

Jane sat down in a chair facing Bart. "What was your special order?"

"You read it. I thought it was clear."

"What was it?" Jane repeated so the other can hear what the special order is.

"Bring back life form. Priority one. All other priorities rescinded."

Tai got up from his spot and marched over to the table holding an incinerator in case Ash decided to pull a Frankenstein and attack them again. "That damn company! What about our lives, you son of a bitch?"

"I repeat: All other priorities are rescinded." Bart repeated looking at Tai.

"The company really doesn't care for their lives." Weiss said seeing some similarity to the SDC under Jacque's control.

"The board maybe. But there may be some in the company that don't approve of what their bosses are doing." Ghira said thinking of the Humans that helped when the White Fang was just starting out. One of the finders actually came from the SDC. The other came in the form of Emilia, she helped him see that relationships between Human and Faunus are possible

"How do we kill it, Bart?" Jane asked getting Bart's attention as his eyes moved to her. "There's got to be a way of killing it. How- How do we do it?"

"You can't."

"That's bullshit!" Tai yelled sitting back down next to Amber.

"You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?" Bart said shifting his eyes to all three of them before settling on Jane. "A perfect organism. It's structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."

"You admire it." Amber stated noticing the slight admiration in Bart's voice.

Bart looked at Amber. "I admire its purity. A survivor… unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality."

"The same could be said of the Grimm." Port said getting looks from the students. "They are bred to kill and have all the traits that Bart listed."

"You sound like you admire them." Ren said looking at his teacher.

"I admire their tenacity when it comes to fighting. Plus they never hold back when it comes to fighting, it makes it more thrilling." Peter told them with a radiant smile making the student wonder if they should be taught by such an individual.

What Bart said made them pause.

"Look, I- I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug." Tai said having enough of Bart and the news. Jane moved to unplug Bart.

"Last word." Bart said stopping her as she looked at his head.

"What?"

"I can't lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies." Bart told them smiling at their plight.

"Smug bastard." Pyrrha said knowing his type. "Good riddance."

Jaune and the other students looked at Pyrrha with surprised expressions since this is the first time they ever seen anything close to hate from the champion fighter.

Jane scowled before yanking the plug silencing Bart who is still smiling at them mocking them. "We're gonna blow the ship." Jane told the two standing up. "We'll take our chances in the shuttle."

"Blow up the ship." Jane said grabbing the incinerator on the table while Tai stood up ready.

"Good." Tai said before bending over to grab Amber's arm to help her up since she looking at Bart's body. "Come on." He helped Amber and led her to Jane who is waiting for them and opens the bulkhead taking point.

Tai turns around before leaving to look at Bart's body one last time before setting it on fire with the incinerator. The heat of the flames caused the fake skin to form bubbles, Tai pulled the trigger again letting loose another stream of flames. The flames melted the fake skin exposing the blank face of the android underneath.

"Was that how I looked?" Penny asked herself thinking back to when she was first made. "Before my creator settled on this appearance."

"No, Dr. Poledina already knew what you were going to look like." James told her remembering the first time he saw the 3D model of Penny.

"Really?" Penny asked looking at James.

"Yeah, he knew from the start." James said reassuring her and bringing a smile to her face.

"That's good to know." Penny said with a smile. She couldn't wait to meet her creater again and see his reaction now that she is human.

"When we throw the switches, how long before the ship blows?" Jane asked holding the incinerator at the ready as she led the way with Amber following behind holding the tracker and Tai covering the rear.

"Ten minutes." Tai responded.

"No bullshit."

"If we ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space."

"We're gonna need coolant for the air support system." Jane said coming up to a junction, she checked one of the corridors before looking at Tai and Amber. "You two go down, get all the coolant you can carry."

"I'll get the shuttle ready. I'll give you about-" Jane looked at her watch briefly. "About seven minutes. Come back up here. I'll shut the switches off, and we'll blow this fucker off into space."

"Okay. All right. Come on." Tai told Amber heading down a corridor.

"Ready?" Jane asked Tai before he left with Amber to get the coolant.

"Take care of yourself."

"Seven minutes." She reminded them before heading for the shuttle.

"We're nearing the climax." Summer said eyes glued to the screen.

"I hope they show it being blown up." Yang said smashing her fists together. "The bastard deserves to be blown up.

Ruby nodded in agreement after seeing the death of her favorite/only uncle. She wanted the alien to die.

"Let's not count our chickens just yet." Tai told them.

Jane enters the shuttle and sets her incinerator down next to the console and begins prepping the shuttle.

The shield protecting the shuttle retracts allowing the shuttle to launch.

Moving to pilot seat Jane grabs a hair tie and pulls her hair into a small bun before typing in commands into the computer

"Take it easy." Tai's voice can be heard on the speaker as Jane flips switches and starts checking the systems. She stops when meowing is heard over the speakers.

"Jones." Jane said before checking to see where Jones is on the computer. She sees that the meowing is coming from the bridge and grabs the incinerator before leaving the shuttle to get Jones.

"I forgot about the cat." Nora said.

"Same here." Weiss said more worried about what was happening with the alien than the cat. "I assumed that the alien ate it."

"That's harsh." Sun said looking at her.

"It killed Kane, Ozpin, and Qrow. So would it spare the cat?" Weiss asked looking back at Sun. Neither of them looked away until Neptune waved his arms distracting them.

"Settle it in the ring." Neptune told them.

Tai and Amber enter the hold containing small mining shuttles. Amber is pushing a small cart while Tai guards her as she stops in front of a mining shuttle. Grabbing the flashlight off the cart Amber climbs into the hold of the shuttle and sets the light down so she can access the coolant canisters. Tai walks over after checking the area and takes the canisters from Amber as she disconnects them and passes them to Tai.

At the same time Jane steps off the ladder and steps onto the deck with the bridge. "Jones?" Hearing nothing Jane goes to a suit closet and retrieves an animal carrying case.

Back in the hold Tai and Amber are gathering the canisters and putting them on the cart. Once they are done Amber gets the light from the shuttle and pushes the cart with Tai to another section of the hold in search of more coolant. The two stop in front of a room and enter.

"Okay, check the bottles." Tai said standing guard at the entrance. Amber leaves the light on the cart and points at a wall with small openings holding coolant containers.

Jane's search leads her back to the bridge. "Jones?" She said upon entering the bridge.

Tai is helping check the bottles to make sure they are full. "How you doin?" He asks from his spot across the room.

"Fine." Amber replied rolling the full containers towards the door where the full containers are.

"She's doing a good job at hiding her fear." Glynda said impressed at Amber's resolve.

"Probably because she is getting her wish at leaving." Kali said recalling earlier when Amber wanted to leave. "Though she is making needless noise. It might draw the alien to their location."

"Fool." Raven said refering to how much noise Amber is making.

"Kitty." Jane said while tapping her fingers on a console to draw out Jonesy.

"Okay. Go ahead." Tai's voice is heard over the speaker being broadcasted all over the ship so they can stay in contact with Jane.

"Jones?" Jane repeated setting down the incinerator. "Psst! Psst! Psst! Psst!" She said looking under the consoles and searching for the cat. "Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty."

"Come here, Jones. Come here." Jane said looking over the seats. "Jones." Seeing nothing Jane checks another part of the bridge.

"Come here, boy. Come here."

Jane hears something rattling near her station. "Jones?" The rattling continues. "Jones?"

Blake mentally prepared herself for another jumpscare as did others.

Jane slowly approaches her station. "Come here. Come here, sweetheart." She said and sees nothing when she reaches her station. "Jones?"

Moving towards the front of the bridge Jane keeps a lookout. "Jones? Jones?" She keeps calling out and checks between the seats to hear hissing and Jones jumping out from between the seats scaring her.

Jane places a hand on the console to keep herself from falling and covers her mouth as she gasps. "Jones! Goddamn it!" She says after removing her hand and tries to calm her nerves. Moving around the console Jane catches Jones grooming himself.

"You said it." Jaune said referring to what his onscreen counterpart said.

"Cats are evil." Ruby whispered, once again thankful that she is a dog person and that Zwei would never scare her like that. "Look at him pretending like nothing is wrong."

"Did a cat wrong you in someway?" Weiss asked curious.

"Ruby is a hardcore dog lover." Yang said and Ruby nodded in agreement.

"Now I got you." She said hugging the cat and kissing the top of its head before walking towards the animal carrier. Jane kneels next to the carrier and opens it before putting Jones inside. "Here, sweetie. Nice kitty."

Jones is not happy since he growls his displeasure at being placed inside the animal carrier.

Back inside the room Amber is rolling the full coolant canisters towards the door while Tai checks the canisters at his side of the room. Amber goes back to looking for more full coolant canisters with her back to the door.

A shadow appears on the light being shown on the wall.

"Oh no." Velvet said.

Amber rolls more canisters towards the door and goes back to checking but stops and turns around.

Tai sees Amber from his spot and sees the alien slowly approaching. "Oh, my God."

Amber now faces the alien and backs away towards the wall with a gasp.

Jane closes and locks the lid on the animal carrier and slings the incinerator over her shoulder.

"Get out of the way." Tai said over the speaker.

"I can't get out of the way!" Amber cried her voice breaking with fear and hysteria.

Jane hears the two and stops what she's doing as she listens.

"Get out of the way, Amber! It's gonna kill us!"

"I can't!"

Jane set the incinerator down and goes to the overhead console.

"Amber, for Christ's sake, get out of the way!"

"Tai? Amber-" Jane reaches the overhead console and begins trying to find their location.

"Is she going to make it?" Ruby asked though deep down she knew that it was impossible.

"She can try." Raven said earning a glare from everyone in the room.

"Where did you go wrong, Rav?' Summer whispered seeing the teenager that favored violence all over again.

Amber can't move as the alien is blocking the way. The alien rises to its full height over 7 feet.

"Get out of the way, Amber!" Tai yells aiming his incinerator at the alien but he can't fire without hitting Amber as well.

The alien approaches Amber and reaches out to her.

"Tai? Amber?" Jane asks over the speaker after locating them. "Amber? Tai?" She repeated and heard Amber sobbing.

Tai gets to his feet and rushes to help Amber but stops when he sees Amber is huddled in a corner crying with the alien towering over here.

Seeing the alien reaching for Amber drove Tai to act and charge the alien from behind. The alien senses Tai and quickly turns around swinging its tail knocking him back.

The alien quickly moved to Tai and grabbed his shoulders and brought its face closer to Tai's.

Summer held her husband's hand for comfort. She didn't want to see him die again.

"It's ok." Tai whispered into her ear.

Ruby held Yang's hand once again for support. She didn't want to watch her father die again, the first time was traumatic for her.

Jane quickly grabbed the incinerator and the carrier case and rushes out of the bridge to save her friends.

The alien digs its claws in Tai holding him in place and making the blonde bleed. Tai struggled to free himself from the alien's grip.

The alien's lips quivered as they opened showing its fangs.

Jane climbed down the ladder to the cargo deck and sets down the carrier case before running towards Tai and Amber's location.

The alien opened its mouth.

"Get outta the room!" Tai yelled to Amber before the second mouth of the alien shot out and stabbed Tai.

Summer held Tai's hand tightly not that he minded. It was strange seeing himself die again.

Ruby and Yang closed their eyes the moment the alien struck, not wanting to see their father die again.

Raven looked away from the screen. Deep down she felt conflicted about seeing Tai die, part of her felt that Tai was weak and that was the reason he died. The other part felt angry that Tai died, she wasn't sure why.

Qrow pulled out his flask and prepared to take a swing but stopped. He had to remember that the Tai on screen isn't the Tai he knew, so he put the flask away and ate some popcorn.

Jane runs down the corridor to try and help her friends.

The alien turned to Amber after killing Tai and slowly approached her, its arms open ready to grab her in case she tried to run.

Amber couldn't do anything but cry hysterically as the alien froze her in place with fear.

The alien's tail moved between her legs and moved up.

"What the-" Yang said not liking where this is going and looked to Ruby hoping they won't show what she thinks is going to happen. Ruby has already seen death, she doesn't need to see someone being sexually assaulted.

As Jane ran through the corridors the sounds of Amber screams is heard over the speakers.

"Oh, God!" Amber screamed along with the sounds of Tai whimpering.

Jane stopped when she reached a junction and looked behind her as Amber's blood curdling screams can be heard again but is overtaken by the sound of the alien roaring. Jane ran down another corridor as everything went silent, the only sound is the vents and Jane's footsteps.

Finally she made it to the room and stopped outside to grab the incinerator off her shoulder holding it at the ready.

"Tai? Jane asked and didn't get a response so she slowly entered the room. She didn't get past the door when she found Tai and Amber. The state of their bodies caused her to shudder.

Tai is in the sitting position hunched over disemboweled.

Amber is hanging from the ceiling and her pants and shoes are missing, blood can be seen running down her legs.

"Did it do what I think it did?" Coco said through clenched teeth. Her grip tightened on the armrest of the chair.

"I think it did." Blake said horrified at the implications. Her imagination didn't help either since they only see Amber's legs and the blood.

"That sick fuck." Sun said disgusted. "That's messed up."

Glynda looked away to recompose herself after seeing the gruesome scene. Amber didn't deserve what happened to her, she didn't deserve to be violated and killed afterwards. No one woman should have to go through that.

Jane backs away in fear and leaves the room. Jane grunts when she trips but regains her footing and runs down the corridor to the self destruct room on the engineering deck. She is grunting and panting as she runs trying to get the images of Amber and Tai out of her mind.

Making it to the room Jane opens a panel and flips a lever causing a beeping to sound. Moving to a glass panel Jane removes the screws with her fingers and tosses the panel to the side when she frees the final screws. Inside the panel are two levers, grabbing one of the levers Jane pulls the lever down and struggles with it. Light from the room is reflected off her skin due to the sweat on her hands and face.

Getting one lever down Jane moves to the second having a slightly easier time pulling it. With both levels down a floor panel opens with a creak. Moving over she fully opens the panel to show a warning label regarding the self destruct system.

"After five minutes you can't turn it off." Velvet said reading the warning label. "Interesting."

"It's probably there to in case someone wants to abort the sequence." Winter said.

"Most self destruct systems are typically entering a code and that's it." Emilia said looking at the screen. "This is actually refreshing to see a system that has the option to turn it off."

"You have experience?" Winter asked looking to the Arc matriarch. Emilia simply smiled at her and went back to watching the screen.

Jane reads the warning and moves her finger over the line about how the system will not operate after 5 minutes. Moving on she reads about how to activate the system. After punching in the code on the keypad four cylindrical objects are pushed out. Grabbing one Jane inserts it into a hole and screws it into place before pulling out a brass tube. Sliding open a panel on the side to reveal a red button which she presses and slides the cover back into place.

Repeating the process again for the second while the first tube slowly moves out of the panel to reveal a glowing rod. She sniffs and tries to hold back her tears as she moves on to the fourth.

"Danger. The emergency destruct system is now activated." MUTHUR announced as an alarm blared and a countdown began counting down from ten minutes.

"The ship will detonate in T-minus ten minutes."

Jane gets back to her feet as coolant is being vented outside the room.

"The option to override automatic detonation expires in T-minus five minutes."

Jane grabs the incinerator and runs out of the room placing her hand on the walls to help guide her as she passes through the coolant smoke.

"Now she needs to avoid the alien while on a time limit." Neptune said wondering how she is dealing with the added pressure.

"Talk about being in an alarming situation." Yang said with a smile while looking at her team.

"Don't even." Blake said with a frown.

"That's horrible." Weiss said and Ruby nodded in agreement.

"You guys don't know true comedy." Yang said glumly while crossing her arms and going back to looking at the screen. Unknown to Yang, Jaune had smirked at the pun. It reminded him of the joke book that Saphron had when he was young.

Jane climbs down the ladder using a shortcut. Once off the ladder she lights the end of the incinerator with a lighter and slowly moves through one of the maintenance sections. She uses the light from the incinerator to help her navigate the dark room.

MUTHUR is repeating the same thing about the option to override in the background.

Jane sees something black on the wall and uses the light from the incinerator to see when a groaning sound catches her attention. Moving slowly she comes upon a growth of some kind on the walls.

"That looks like the inside of the alien ship." Ren said remembering the interior of the alien ship. "Is the alien trying to recreate it?"

"Unlikely, since it never saw the inside of the alien ship." Bart theorized looking closely at the growth. "Maybe a nest?"

"Why would it make a nest? It's the only one on the ship." Nora said.

"Unfortunately, like all new species. All we have is theories about its habits." Bart said while taking notes.

Reaching to touch it, she quickly withdraws her hand and moves the incinerator to better see. She backs away when the light hits something in the growth. Moving closer she sees what's in the growth.

"Oh-" Jane said with a gasp seeing Ozpin cocooned in the growth. "Ozpin."

Jane's mouth quivers with emotion as she moves the incinerator and sees Qrow as well. "Qrow." She gasps when she sees that he's in some type of egg, his face is barely recognizable. Jane moves the incinerator back to Ozpin.

"What the hell." Yang said horrified at what she's seeing on screen. "Are-are they turning into eggs?"

"It looks that way." Jaune said wondering if this is how the eggs are made. "How's it doing it?"

"Again, all we have are theories." Bart said looking at the screen.

"That's no way for a person to die." Leon said seeing how Ozpin and Qrow are being into eggs from the looks of it. "It's not enough to just kill them! Now it desecrates their bodies."

"This thing is worse than the Predator." Ren said looking away from the screen. "At least with them, you have a fighting chance."

"Oh."

"Kill me." Ozpin groans looking at Jane, his voice barley a moan. "Kill me!" He orders.

Jane takes a few steps back crying and pulls the trigger following the last order of her Captain. The flames envelop Ozpin killing him and sparing him from a grim fate. Moving on to Qrow, Jane does the same thing and mercifully killing him. She pulls the trigger again aiming the incinerator all over the growth.

Letting go of the trigger she looks at the burning bodies of Ozpin and Qrow for a moment before shedding more tears for her friends. She sniffs and wipes the tears from her face before adopting a look of determination. She needs to kill the alien for her friends.

"She did the right thing." Tai said taking a sip of water. "No one deserves that fate."

Everyone in the room agreed. Truly there are fates worse than death.

"I hope she kills it." Ruby said surprising the rest of the students since they knew Ruby as sweet. She would never wish harm and death upon another, it appeared that Ruby has a dark side.

Jane climbs back up the ladder to the cargo deck and peeks over the railing to check the area before stepping onto the deck. Jonesy carrier case is on the floor, Jane is breathing heavily as she aims the incinerator down the ladder and grabs the handle to the carrier.

Walking quickly down the corridor Jane keeps looking back towards the ladder to make the alien isn't coming. She grunts and gasps as she rushes down the corridor holding the carrier case in her left hand and the incinerator in her right. She keeps looking back to make sure and leans against the wall to catch her breath.

"The option to override automatic detonation expires in T-minus three minutes."

Moving on Jane shuffles against the wall until she gets to the corner and peaks out to see the alien rising out of the vents. The alien is blocking the only path to the shuttle.

"Come on!" Nora shouted throwing her hands up. "How does it know?"

"Random chance?" Pyrrha said unsure.

"How many random chances have you had?" Nora asked her and Pyrrha didn't have an answer.

Quickly leaning back into cover she looks at the corner and sees the alien's shadow moves across the wall and slowly backs up. Setting down the carrier case she backs up quickly when she sees the alien coming around the corner.

Jane grips the incinerator and backs up before turning around and running back the way she came making sure to check behind her as she ran.

The alien crouches down and looks at Jonesy in the animal carrier. Jonesy looks back and hisses, his ears flattening on his head.

The alien swings his arms at the carrier case.

"Not the cat." Pyrrha and Sun said at the same time.

"Maybe it's afraid of cats." Nora said.

"That's stupid." Weiss said turning in her seat to face Nora. "What kind of monster would be afraid of a cat?"

"You never know." Nora replied leaning back in her seat. "It's a big multiverse."

Jane is now back on the cargo deck and heads back to the self destruct room.

"The option to override automatic detonation expires in T-minus one minute."

Jane runs through the barely lit corridors, the only light coming from the vents and from the orange alarm lights. Soon she makes it to the corridor leading to the room and covers her face when passing through the coolant smoke.

"Twenty-nine, 28, 27, 26-"

Jane enters the room and starts undoing what she did.

"23, 22, 21, 20 seconds."

Jane reads the instructions on how the disable the detonation and enters the kill code.

"17, 16, 15, 14, 13-"

The tubes begin lowering back into the console and Jane pushes them to speed up the process.

"12, 11, ten seconds."

Once the tubes are back in place Jane slides open the panels and pressed the button again turning them off. She quickly moves on to the remaining ones.

"Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four"

"Why is she trying to turn off the self destruct system?" Ruby asked confused at her actions.

"She's probably trying to get more time since the alien is blocking her path." Li said drinking some tea. "The time needed to get around the alien safely isn't within the time limit."

"So, she needs to buy time to escape." Yang told her sister.

"Come on!" Jane shouts finally getting all the buttons and rushing over to the levers. Kneeling in front of them she grabs the handle of one and pulls back to its previous position.

"Three, two, one. The option to override detonation procedure has now expired."

Jane moves the second lever and pulls back to its previous position. Once done she gets back to her feet.

"MOTHER? I've turned the coolant unit back on. MOTHER!" She yells at the intercom and looks to the screen to see the countdown still going.

"The ship will automatically destruct in T-minus five minutes."

Jane scowls at the screen and grabs the incinerator by the barrel. "You bitch!" She screams slamming the butt of the incinerator into the screens.

"There is something satisfying about smashing something." Nora said with a smile. "Its almost therapeutic."

"Yup, it's a smashing good time." Yang said with a smile and everyone internally cringed.

Ruby punched her sister in the arm for the pun. A habit that she developed during their time in Beacon.

Jane leaves the room and runs back to where she left Jones. "You bitch!" She screams as she runs through the corridor.

"Goddamn it!" She yelled reaching the ladder and looking behind her before climbing the ladder.

Jane peeks over the railing checking the area before climbing back onto the deck. She lights the incinerator tip and moves slowly through the corridor making sure to keep an eye on the vents as she passed by them.

Coolant vented when Jane got close scaring her before shaking it off and pressing on.

Jane makes it back to where she left Jones and checks around the same corner where she saw the alien and saw nothing. She leans back into cover and rests her head against the wall when she notices something in the corner of her eye.

Jones is still in the carrier case unharmed, though the case is on its side.

"He's alive!" Sun said happily. "The case protected him from the alien."

"Finally someone survived an encounter with the alien." Blake said relieved that the cat survived.

"Jonesy." Jane says in relief and moves to grab the carrier case handle before moving on to the shuttle. Finally she makes it to the airlock for the shuttle after checking the corners just in time as explosions occur throughout the ship.

Seeing the explosions in the corridor made Jane rush into the shuttle and tossed the carrier case into the airlock and pushed it into the shuttle. Once inside the shuttle Jane hit the button for the door, the shuttle doors closed as the explosions became more frequent.

"You now have now one minute to abandon ship."

Jane tossed the incinerator on the floor and grabbed the carrier handle moving the case further into the shuttle before setting it down.

"The ship will automatically destruct In T-minus one minute."

Jane ran to the pilot seat and sat down in the chair pressing buttons and switches releasing the clamps holding the shuttle in place. Jane activated the Purge sequence and strapped herself in with the harness, she held the harness tightly as the shuttle lowered.

"She made it." Ruby exclaimed happily. "Take that, stupid alien!"

"She's not out of the woods yet." Qrow said getting her attention. "She still needs to clear the blast zone."

"He's right." Tai said agreeing with Qrow.

"T-minus thirty seconds. Twenty-nine, 28, 27, 26."

The shuttle's engines reversed so the shuttle flew backwards while the Nostromo continued to fly forward.

Jane held the harness tightly as the shuttle began shaking, she watched the underside of the Nostromo pass through the shuttle windows.

"20 second, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 13."

Finally the Nostromo could be seen from the cockpit of the shuttle as it flew forward.

"12, 11, 10 seconds."

Jane watched as the Nostromo fly away and grow smaller.

"Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four."

Jane watched the Nostromo with a stern gaze.

"Three, two, one."

The Nostromo detonated in a flash of yellow. Jane shielded her eyes from the light of the blast. A second detonation occurred and finally a third. Soon the light died down and the Nostromo was no more than particles and debris floating through space.

Jane looked out the window with tired eyes. "I got you… you son of bitch." She said to herself and closed her eyes briefly. She let go of the harness and sat in the pilot chair catching her breath and to calm her nerves.

"Woohoo." Nora cheered throwing her arms into the air. "Now, that was an explosion. Do you think I can recreate that?" She asked Ren.

"Probably not, it's safer that way for everyone." Ren said glad that Nora didn't have access to unlimited explosives. He shuddered to think what the damage would be if she did.

"He's right." Jaune said getting the energetic girl's attention. "It's safer if you didn't attempt to recreate it."

"Boo.' Nora said leaning back in her seat with a defeated expression.

"Is she okay?" James whispered to Ozpin referring to Nora.

"She's fine." Ozpin said looking at the screen.

Jane opened the carrier case and took out Jones who meowed happy to be out. She hugged the cat and rubbed her cheek against his ears. "Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh." Jane said closing the case and hugged him again.

"It's all right." She said kissing his head before pressing a button and a cryo tube lid opened with a hiss. "Shh, shh, shh." Jane said knowing that Jonesy hates going into a cryo pod.

Jane sat down next to the pod and petted Jone's head. "Shh, shh, shh. It's all right." She said continuing to pet the cat as she looked at the shuttles interior.

Jonesy began growling at Jane getting her attention.

"All right. It's nice to see you too." Jane told Jones hugging him again. "Shh. It's okay." She said before placing Jones inside the pod and closing the lid.

"I'm surprised that the cat went in without a fight." Ilia said impressed that the cat didn't put up a fight.

"Didn't you hear him growling? He clearly didn't want to go in." Blake said looking in her direction.

"Just saying, surprising." Ilia said looking away from Blake's gaze and back to the screen.

With Jones taken care of Jane went to the closet containing EVA suits and found a package with some sleep wear. Taking the package Jane closed the closet door and set the package on the console and unzipped her jumpsuit peeling it off.

Jane wore a white short sleeved button up shirt with a green undershirt and no pants. Taking off her boots she stepped out of the blue jumper and removed the button up shirt before removing her shirt. Leaving her in a white tank top and underwear

"Nice." Coco said looking at the form of Jane on screen.

"Coco." Velvet hissed embarrassed that her friend would say such a thing.

"Don't deny it. You were thinking it too." Coco whispered back making Velvet blush and deny it as best she could.

Sun and Neptune looked away out of respect for Jaune. It was still weird to think that the woman on screen is another version of Jaune.

Ren could admit that the female version of Jaune is a good looking woman. Not his type, but still good looking.

Yang whistled in appreciation at the sight. "She's got a figure."

"8/10." Ilia said drinking in everything about Jane on screen. 'Yup, defiantly looks like I need to include blondes.' She thought to herself.

"This is weird, right?" Jaune asked his partner and saw that she has a blush on her face.

Jane sighed happy to be out of the damp clothes and walked over to an overhead console undoing her dog tags which she tossed next to her discarded clothes. She checked the systems before tuning around to check a console below coolant pipes. She couldn't reach the console and had to bend over slightly to reach it.

Once done Jane moved on to the next bringing her closer to the pipes. She began switching the systems to auto since she would be going into cryo sleep.

Suddenly a hand reached out from the pipes making her scream and back away.

"Ahhh!" Ruby screamed when the hand emerged from the darkness.

"Are you kidding me!" Weiss shouted pointing to the screen. "It's in the shuttle. How?"

"There's no way it could have known that the ship is going to explode, right?" Neptune asked his fellow students.

"It may have just been looking for a spot to rest." Bart said tapping a finger against his lips. "Of course, the other option is that the alien has basic understanding of our language. And it fled to the shuttle to escape."

"I think you're giving it too much credit." Glynda said not liking the idea that the alien is capable of learning. "After all, it's still an animal."

"Even some animals are capable of learning." Bart told her. "After all, the Grimm knows to avoid large groups of hunters and only go after solo targets.

"He has a point." Ghira said.

Jane covered her mouth when she saw the alien laying amongst the pipes. She couldn't see it due to its smooth elongated head blending in with the pipes. The alien moved its head and hissed at Jane making her run to the closet.

Jane quickly opened the closet door and entered shutting the door behind her. Once inside she stood in the farthest corner in the small room gasping for breath. Once she calmed down Jane looked at the alien still lying in the pipes barely moving its head.

Jane stared at the alien wondering what it's up to.

The alien reached out and touched the consoles before bringing them back and hugged itself.

Jane looked to her right and saw an EVA suit. Getting an idea she shuffled over to the suit and opened the white jumper and placed her leg into the suit leg. She grabbed the suit to hike it up her leg to make sure her leg is properly in the jumpsuit.

The alien opened its mouth and the second mouth slowly came out.

"It looks weak." Blake said noticing the lethargic movements. "Could it be tired?"

"More like its dying." Jaune said looking at the screen. "When an animal doesn't meet its nutritional requirements. They'll develop health problems. I think what we're seeing is the result of that."

"Impressive." Ozpin said surprised that Jaune would know such a thing.

"My sister, Karen is studying to be a veterinarian." Jaune explained to those listening. "She leaves a lot of her books lying around."

"I told her time and time again. To pick up her things." Emilia said with a sigh, she wondered if their messiness came from Leon.

"So, the alien should be weak enough to not fight back." Pyrrha said sounding hopeful.

"Let's wait and see." Jaune told her with a smile.

Jane got her other leg into the jumpsuit and placed her right arm into the sleeve never taking her eyes off the alien.

The second mouth opened and closed before retracting.

Jane got both her arms in and held the collar closed as she zipped it up and closed the zipper flap. Moving to the helmet and respirator pack, Jane lifted the chest plate and ducked to get into the helmet.

Once inside she reached up and released the cables holding the unit up. The helmet now fit properly, Jane reached under the plate and closed the seals. Once done the helmet hissed as the air seals closed and the internal lights came up.

Jane checked the shoulder pads and made sure they are properly in place before slapping them as a sign of good luck.

Once in the EVA suit Jane grabbed a grappling gun and loaded a bolt. She held the gun tightly and took a deep breath before opening the door and stepped out. The inside of the helmet already has beads of water running down the visor due to Jane's heavy breathing.

"I would be sweating too." Blake said that she isn't in Jane's situation.

"She needs to calm down." Leon said worried.

"How can someone be calm in this situation?" Emilia asked her husband.

"Training and experience." Leon replied looking at his wife.

"Which she has none of. She saw her friends killed, and now she is face to face with the alien." Emilia said looking at the screen. "I don't blame her for being scared."

"I would be scared too." Yang said surprising everyone since they know her to charge in headfirst. "I'm only human after all."

"Come on. Come on." She said sitting down in a chair next to the cryo pods.

"You are my lucky star."

Jane sang setting the weapon in her lap and grabbing the harness straps.

"You…are my lucky star."

Jane looked at the alien who didn't move from its spot and appeared to be sleeping. If it could sleep that is.

"You…" Jane clicked the harness together. "Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. Okay." She said moving some sliders up on the console next to her and pressed a switch. A panel slid open which control the coolant pipes.

"Well, come on." Jane said pressing a button and a jet of coolant flowed from the pipes above where the alien is.

"You are my lucky star."

She pressed a different button and this time the coolant flowed further away from the alien.

"You… you are my lucky star."

Jane pressed another button and this time the coolant flowed directly on the alien making it screech and thrash around in the small space.

"You are my lucky star."

Jane held the button down trying to draw out the alien from its hiding place. The alien continued to thrash and flail.

"You are my lucky star."

Jane mumbled the lyrics when she saw the alien crawl out of the pipes. "Oh, my God." She saw the alien land on the floor and start to get up when her chair slowly rotated.

"Oh no." Ren said tensing up.

"You can do it." Ruby yelled at the screen.

"Ruby…" Yang said looking at her sister.

"Shut up." Ruby told her sister before looking back at the screen. "You can do it!"

"My- My lucky-" Jane tried to sing to calm herself in between her heavy breathing.

"You… are my."

Jane began gasping when she couldn't see the alien anymore thanks to the chair rotating. The last thing she saw was the alien looking in her direction.

"You are my."

Jane gasped in fear and was on the verge of hyperventilating.

"Lucky."

Feeling something behind her, Jane turned her head in the helmet and saw the alien above here with its mouth open ready to strike.

Jane screamed and hit a red button on the console that opened the airlock doors in the shuttle sucking out the oxygen and creating an explosive decompression. The alien screeched as it was pulled away from its prey.

"Yeah!" Pyrrha shouted throwing a fist in the air. She looked at everyone and chuckled to herself.

Jaune smiled at his partner and her antics.

Jane faced the alien as her chair rotated to face the airlock, her harness keeping her in place.

The alien grabbed the airlock doors before it could be sucked out into the vacuum of space and held on.

Jane grabbed the grappling gun and twisted the loaded bolt making small hooks spring out at the tip. Aiming at the alien she fired when the alien tried to pull itself back in once all the oxygen was sucked out. The bolt stuck the alien in the chest knocking it out of the airlock with a screech, the gun flew out of Jane's hands.

The emergency bulkhead closed quickly once it detected no obstruction. The grappling gun stopped when it hit the bulkhead and the alien was dragged behind the ship thanks to the cable being held in place by the bulkhead.

The alien grabbed the engine with its tail.

"Persistent bastard." Sienna said impressed at the alien's resolve.

"How is it breathing in space?" Weiss asked shocked to see the alien still moving despite the lack of oxygen. "Does it even need oxygen?"

"So many questions." Bart mumbled face buried in his notebook.

Jane quickly looked out the window and saw the alien climb into the engine.

She quickly went back to the console and activated the engines and went back to the window just in time see the alien get blasted into space.

"Take that! You bastard!" Sun cheered throwing his fist into the air.

"Dark meat, anyone?" Yang said with a smile after seeing the alien get friend in the engine.

"Please, Yang…" Weiss said rubbing her temple to ease the headache that came as a result of Yang's humor.

"That was quite the show. I should try that sometime." Peter said impressed at the ingenuity of Jane. Killing the alien with the engine, who would've guessed.

"Please don't." Glynda said hoping that Peter isn't serious. She doesn't want to explain to the council why Beacon needs a new bullhead.

"She did it. She killed the alien." Nora cheered for her. "Our fearless leader wins again!"

"Jane is a badass." Neptune said looking at the screen admiring her.

"Indeed." Raven said impressed that Jane managed to survive when her friends didn't. She definitely is strong willed and would do well in her tribe.

"Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo. Third officer reporting. The other members of the crew-" Jane paused thinking of her friends as she sat in the chair recording her message while petting Jones. "Kane, Amber, Tai, Qrow, Bart and Captain Ozpin are dead."

"Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks." Jane stated scratching Jonesy between the ears. "With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Jane Ripley Arc, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."

Jane finished her recording and smiled at the cat yawning in her arms. "Come on, cat."

Inside the cyro pod is Jane sleeping in a white robe with Jonesy by her side. The lights switch off as the shuttle flies through space. Everything ended as it began with a silent ship and the emptiness of space.

The screen faded to black and everyone stretched. Some felt their joints pop.

"In space no one can hear you scream." Spart said getting everyone's attention.

"What?" Kali asked confused.

"Nothing, just something that is associated with this universe." Spart told them before floating to the front of the theater. "So, what did you think?"

"It was scary." Ruby said looking at her hands for a moment then to Spart. "But I liked it."

"The silence was unnerving and the feeling of claustrophobia was present." Weiss said thinking back on what she just saw.

"The face hugger was creepy. And the-the-" Penny said trying to think of what to call the infant alien.

"Chest burster." Spart said supplying the name.

"Correct, the chest burster was unnatural." Penny said with a shiver recalling how Kane died from it.

"I would like to know how the ship ended up on LV-426." Bart said looking to Spart for an answer.

"That is complicated to explain." Spart said with a nervous tone. "Anyway, I need to set up the next showing. So in the meantime, if you'd like, you can see some of the equipment that was used in this universe in the lobby."

That got everyone's attention as they left for the lobby to see the equipment and to take a restroom break.

"Should I tell them that I placed a dummy of the xenomorph, alien egg, face hugger, and chest burster in the lobby for them to look at?" Spart said to himself as he worked on finding a new universe for them to watch. "Nah."

A scream could be heard in the lobby which brought a digital smile to Spart.

AN: Whoo, another long chapter done. I was debating on whether or not I should separate this into two chapters, but everyone seems to like the whole movie in one chapter. To me having separate chapters kind of breaks the flow of whatever is being shown. One chapter will be this and the next will be something different. Finally two chapters later we are back to the one being shown chapters earlier.

This isn't me critiquing the other reaction fics. I read them and enjoy the stories and the selections that the author picked. It's a personal gripe and nothing else. (Please don't take it personal other reaction authors)

Another thing should I include hints for the next showing?

I kind of like the guessing what is being shown next. Will it be a horror, comedy, game, or show? Who knows?

Anyway before I go I want to mention that this story isn't going to be 100 chapters long or anything crazy. It will end since I don't the cast to be stuck watching moves forever. I'm not sure when the cutoff point will be but it will end at some point.

Take care, everyone.

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