December 5th, 2040

12:14 PM

Agent Callows stood at the edge of the forest alongside Private Tucker when they saw Taiyang emerge.

"Hello there, Mr. Long," Agent Callows said.

"Do I know you?"

"No, but I know you. You are currently in danger. Officer Tucker here will return you to the precinct in Burlington."

"Wait, I'm in Burlington. My god, I have to get home," Taiyang said.

"Yes. Yes, we will just need you to fill out some paperwork at the precinct. It shouldn't take more than an hour or so. Tucker?"

"But, sir, the drones—"

Agent Callows looked to the soldier with daggers, sending shivers down his spine, "I mean, yes sir. Follow me Mr. Long."

As Tucker and Taiyang walked away from the entrance, Agent Callows proceeded into the forest.

12:16 PM

"Come on, Jaune," Coco yelled.

Turning the corner, around a tree, the two saw a soldier just inches from them. Luckily, Coco was the first to aim and fire, hitting the soldier in the chest twice and taking him down.

"Oh my god…" Coco said.

"No time! Come on," Jaune yelled.

The two arrived at the wall and looked down both left and right to see Hazel waving to them.

"Over here!"

Coco and Jaune ran as fast as they could as soldiers began to fire in their direction. Hazel turned, his arms extended and shouted, "Tempus Tardus Maximus."

Coco and Jaune saw the forest had almost frozen in time, the snowflakes were still and the soldiers were frozen. Looking towards Hazel, they saw his veins were almost popping from his arms and his nose began to bleed.

"HURRY!"

Coco and Jaune ran to Hazel and saw that at the wall was almost peeled open from a spell. As the children ran through said hole, Hazel released the spell and ran through as well as the spell began to quickly wear off and the soldiers quickly approached.

"Quickly. Close the hole," Hazel coughed.

Being made of metal, Nora and Ren quickly said in unison, "ferro."

Nora and Ren mimicked a pulling motion as the wall began to close up the hole before finally sealing up as the soldiers continued firing at them. Luckily, none of the bullets hit.

"We made it…" Hazel said as he stood up.

Looking to Coco and Jaune, he saw the looks on their faces, "Where is Pietro?"

"…"

"And Miss Rose?"

Jaune turned away and walked away from Hazel, who looked seemingly disappointed.

"I give my condolences to the loss of your friend as well as your sister. Ut inveniunt pacem quaerunt."

Coco wiped her eyes as she looked over to Jaune, "What now?"

"Now… comes our aid."

Looking in the direction that Hazel was looking at, which was in the direction Jaune was walking, a group of people drove up in a convoy vehicle. The man who got out was older, but seemed to be very confident.

"Hello there, my name is Ozma or Ozpin and I am the leader of The Light. You do not have to worry anymore. You are safe now. If you are all ready to go, please step into the convoy so that we may depart before any soldiers see where we are going."

As Ren and Nora proceeded to the convoy and Hazel began to speak with Ozpin, Coco walked up to Jaune who was staring back at the wall leading into America.

"Jaune."

Jaune looked at Coco and she could see the pain in his eyes. It was the same pain she felt in her heart.

"What if she is still alive… she needs us. She needs me to come help her," Jaune said.

Coco hugged Jaune, who embraced her.

"We… we have to survive for them, Jaune. Neither of them would want us to die here alongside them."

Jaune did not have to say anything to know that Coco was telling the truth. He just nodded and proceeded to the convoy.

"Mr. Arc, is it? And Miss Adel, please come here," Ozpin said.

The two walked up to Ozpin, who just nodded to Hazel to dismiss him, "Hazel told me what happened in the forest. You have my deepest sympathies. You two have been on such a perilous journey and the cost has been far harsher than what it should have been. When we arrive in Liberteria, come see me and we shall discuss this further."

Coco, Jaune, and Ozpin got into the convoy and they drove towards their freedom. But no one was smiling… and all Jaune could do… was continue staring at that damn wall.

12:20 PM

As I sat there, I felt the snow landing on my shoulder… my eyes were heavy and my breath was wheezy… I was dying, I knew it already and deep down, I was okay with it. If I was able to help them get away, then what I did was worth it… I guess in a way that I did escape. I did make it out and found the freedom that I was looking, it just wasn't the type that I was expecting…

As Ruby sat there against the tree, she heard a voice… it was faint, but she heard it call out…

"Ruby."

Ruby looked ahead and saw a figure approaching her.

This was my dream… or perhaps my glimpse of the future. As the figure approached, I could see the figure's form more clearly and my eyes widened in amazement. Or at least, I assume that they widened.

"M…Mom?"

Ruby watched as mom give a warm smile as she kneeled down in front of the bleeding girl.

"Oh child, look what happened to you…" She said.

"Mom…" Ruby said again as tears streamed down her face.

She placed her hand on Ruby's wound, causing her to wince slightly, but she heard her mom say, "Shhhhh Shhh… it's okay. Sana."

Suddenly, Ruby felt something. This feeling was like a warm clay that had filled the wound and was now beginning to mend the wound. But as she felt herself being healed, she saw the ironic phrase of a Grimm reality.

Where her mother was in her vision was a man in a suit. He had a small medkit that had some needle and bandages. Looking down at her wound, Ruby saw that it was healed and she felt as though she was healing.

This was Agent Callows.

"Oh dear, did mommy go away," He asked.

Ruby was about to open her mouth to scream when Agent Callows placed his hand on Ruby's mouth and shushed her.

"There will be no point in that, little Rose."

How did he know who I was?!

"I will say, that little memory wipe spell you pulled was quite entertaining. The look on his face with his desperate struggles, and oh my goodness how you lied about his poor dead wife. I wonder how that Raven women is going to respond to that. But enough about that nonsense. I saved your life, miss Rose, because I believe that you can help me. And if you can't… well, let's say that I will not be pleased. So… how about we start with a little question. Short and simple: Where is Liberteria?"

That is it for Escape. Let me know what you guys thought by reviewing it please so that I can tell if writing a sequel will please the masses of FanFiction.