It had been months since Ruby had gone off to properly earn her title as Time Lord—or Time Lady as Weiss so frequently reminded her teammates—and there was still no sign of the girl returning. In Ruby's absence, Beacon had been cleared of Grimm and was currently being rebuilt. Most of the school seemed to be still intact, but Ozpin's old clock tower had been mostly destroyed and the debris had scattered, inflicting some damage on the few of the other buildings. Nothing too serious, however.

Jacques Schnee had been arrested, but the charges were not publicly released. Weiss, now being eighteen, took over her father's company and began to actually do some good with her family name. The Faunas workers were being treated just the same as the human workers and nothing illegal was being done, so the White Fang withdrew their attacks on the company, but that wasn't their only reason for doing so.

Blake and her family had managed to take back the White Fang from Adam—with Yang's help, of course—and Blake's father was back in charge. Not that the White Fang was needed much longer. With the Schnee Dust Company treating them as equals, many other businesses and people followed suit.

The remainders of Team RWBY still tried to meet regularly, even if they were all very busy people, they managed to make time at least once a month. They usually met up at the same restaurant in Atlas every month, sitting at the same table every time. How Ruby found out about this, they'd never know.

When they met up for the tenth time after Ruby went off, they saw someone sitting at their table, resting their black boots on top of the table. Their face was covered by the restaurant's large menu.

"Excuse me, ma'am." A waitress said to the woman. "But this table is reserved." The woman in question sat up, setting the menu down in front of her. She was wearing a crimson t-shirt with a long, leather jacket that stretched down to her knees. She also had on a pair of dark blue jeans that neatly covered her ankles. WBY didn't immediately recognize her, but when she spoke, it clicked.

"I'm a friend." She motioned to the three, and the waitress looked over at them.

"Do you know this woman?" She asked. Yang nodded.

"Yeah." She said. The waitress wandered off and the three sat down beside their leader. "What are you doing here?" Yang asked. "I thought your 'title earning thing' would last a bit longer than a year." Ruby looked over at the blonde.

"Has it really been a year?" She asked. Yang nodded.

"Right of passage is the term you were looking for, Yang." Weiss said, ignored by the others.

"Meant to come back sooner." Ruby told her. "Well, I'm still learning."

"Did you fly back here?" Yang quietly asked. "In a spaceship?" Ruby chuckled.

"I guess you could say that." She said.

"Where did you park?" Blake jokingly asked.

"Out front." Ruby simply said. All three strained their heads to see out the front window. Ruby chuckled again. "It's camouflaged." She told them. She suddenly stood. "Would you like to see it?" All but Weiss rose and followed Ruby out of the restaurant. Realizing that she had been left behind, Weiss quickly followed them into the alley behind the restaurant. When she caught up, she found Ruby unlocking a large, blue, wooden booth. It had several white windows on every side of it, and a sign that read,"POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX"

"It's a lot smaller than I imagined it would be." Yang said.

"Just wait." Ruby said, pushing the door open. She stepped in and they all filed in behind her. They were shocked when they saw what was inside. There was a large, circular room housed in the small, blue box. It was mostly filled with a silver color, small archways encompassing the room and holding up the catwalks that lined the walls. Despite the darkness the room held, there were circular lights on the walls behind the catwalk. There were also lights occupying the space between the walls and the ceiling. There was a catwalk directly in front of them, leading to a circular platform with a hexagonal control panel in the center. It had all sorts of switches and levers on it, including two monitors that were mounted to it with two short arms. Sprawling up from the control panel was a glowing, cylindrical tube that fed up into a disk in the ceiling. The disk itself had engravings similar to what they had seen Rassilon wearing. Instead of railings in the center platform, there were more control panels.

There were two sets of stairs that led up to the catwalks, one beside the entrance, and one opposite. Just beside the one opposite to the entrance was another stairway, but it led downwards. Ruby shut the door behind them as them marveled at the large room.

"It's bigger on the inside." Yang said, cracking a smile. "This is so cool."

"It's also a time machine." Ruby told them. They all returned their focus to her.

"You're kidding!" Blake excitedly said. Ruby bounded over to the control panel with a smirk painted on her face.

"So!" She exclaimed. "All of time and space. Everything that's ever happened or ever will—Where do you want to start?" She began to rapidly hit buttons and switches, and the box began to loudly moan and groan. "What do you say we check out Apalapucia?" She asked. "It was voted number two in Top Ten Destinations for the Discerning Intergalactic Traveller, and boasts soaring spires, silver colonnades and the mirrored Glasmir mountains!" She happily declared.

"That sounds rather nice." Weiss said, surprising the others. Ruby looked to Yang and Blake for confirmation, and they simply nodded.

"Apalapucia it is, then!" She said, continuing to push buttons and flip switches. The groaning stop and there was a loud thud. Ruby raced to the door and quickly opened it, frowning. "This looks a bit more like New Remnant." She said.

"New Remnant?" Blake asked.

"It's exactly as it sounds." Ruby told her. "Not too creative, they are."

"They?" Weiss asked.

"Y'know!" Ruby said, making wild hand gestures at Yang and Weiss. "They! You! Humanity!"

"What happened to Remnant?" Yang asked. Ruby sighed, closing the doors.

"It'd be better if I just showed you." She said. "It's actually quite beautiful, even if it is the end of the world." She ran back over to the console and the groaning began again. It wasn't too long before it stopped, again, with a thud.

[Shift]

The space station that Ruby had taken them to orbited the planet they had all spent so much time on, never thinking of leaving. Never wanting to. Never being able to.

"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. Maybe even the Grimm." Ruby said, as they all looked out to their planet. "But you never take time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive. This is the year five point five slash apple slash twenty six. Five billion years in your future, and this is the day that the sun expands. The end of the world." The aforementioned star suddenly flared and turned red, as if on cue.

A voice suddenly echoed throughout the space station. A robotic, female voice. It said, "Shuttles five and six now docking. Guests are reminded that Platform One forbids the use of weapons, teleportation and religion. Remnant's Death is scheduled for fifteen thirty nine. Followed by drinks at the Holiday Inn."

"It says guests," Weiss began as the four began to walk down a long, metallic corridor. "Does that mean people?"

"Depends on what you mean by 'people'." Ruby told her.

"I mean people." Weiss said. "What do you mean?"

"Aliens."

"What are they doing on this spaceship?" Yang asked. "What's it all for?" Ruby briefly glanced over at her.

"It's not really a spaceship, more like an observation deck. The great and the good are gathering to watch the planet burn." She said. Ruby suddenly stopped and kneeled down beside a wall panel. She neatly tore it open and whipped out her sonic screwdriver, waving it in the wires. A door suddenly opened and they walked into the room behind it. It was a large room with a few display cases and a view of the planet.

"Why?" Weiss indignantly asked.

"Fun." Ruby said with a smile. "Mind you, when I say the great and the good, I mean the rich and powerful."

"I read this in a book once." Blake said, her voice holding no emotion. "Shouldn't this take thousands of years?"

"Millions." Ruby corrected. "But the planet's now property of the National Trust. They've been keeping it preserved. But now that the money's run out, so has the planet's time."

"How long does it have?" Yang asked. Ruby checked her watch.

"About half an hour." She said.

"You saved Remnant before," Yang began. "So, is that what we're doing here? Are we gonna save it?" Ruby shook her head.

"I'm not saving it." She said. "Time's up."

"What about all the people?" Blake asked, seemingly worried.

"It's empty. They're all gone." Ruby said. "No one left. The human and Faunas races have spread out amongst the stars." There was silence for a long time before Ruby spoke again. "I'm not going to do anything because there is nothing for me to do. It's too late!" She said. "Besides, even if I could, this is a fixed point in time. It can't be stopped." The other three began to disperse, and Blake quietly called back.

"We understand." She said. "It's just kinda hard to watch."