"Blargh?"

"Yep, a big ship with infrasound stuff. And we now have the details! We can build you all noise cancelling headsets! And not those expensive crappy ones with a 'B' on the sides… something more… Germanic!" Ruby explained to Zwei in her ever excited manner.

"Blargh… Blargh."

"What do you mean you don't have the factories to buy them?"

"Blargh."

"Oh yeah, unions…"

"Should I be happy or worried they are able to communicate?" Weiss questioned.

"Meh, she's fine. So, kitty, that creepy ex of yours. What should we do about him?"

"I have some ideas." Blake answered Yang as she sharpened her battle knife.

"Anyway… Penny! Where's the blues!?"

"Oh, Ren is trying to fix some Pelicans for us. I'm actually going to help him and Glynda."

"How about lover boy?"

"Girls… can we…"

"No." Pyrrha answered as she removed his helmet and kissed Jaune.

"You talk too much, Jaune-Jaune! Less talking, more bumping my back bumpers!" Nora declared as she already removed her armor.

"I even got us some energy drinks." Pyrrha said as she showed the red can.

"Meep."

"Perverts. All of them." Weiss scoffed.

"Good news everyone!" Ruby said as she approached.

"Oh, we will get the new Dacia Sandero?" Penny asked.

"Penny, just go help Ren." Weiss asked and the robot saluted and left.

"So, after much talking with Zwei, we decided we need to blew stuff!" Ruby said and Yang celebrated.

"I already dislike this plan." Weiss added. "What and where we are going to explode stuff?"

"See, while that enemy ship is in the air, Zwei and his people can't help us. So we will blow it up! Glynda knows where it goes to resupply, and its schematics. So all we need to do is to go to the resupply point and put some charges and soon we'll have an army again!"

"you mean the nine of us… just… the nine of us." Weiss questioned.

"We'll do it stealthily!"

"We?" Blake questioned, knowing very well they weren't the stealthiest people in the universe.

"Don't worry! Ren is installing stealth drives in the Pelicans! They will never see us coming!"

"They are so coming here next." A green armored girl told the silver one by his side, while the ice-cream themed one sat on a box as the ship resupplied.

"Yep, so predictable, like flies to honey." The silver one answered.

"That's… such a weird phrase. Don't flies prefer shit? Though, if that was the case I'm surprised they aren't around you, Mercury."

"Har, har, Emerald. If at least your aim was as sharp as your tongue…"

"Shut up you two. I'm not paid enough to tolerate your little banter, even when it is entertaining. Cinder wants us to be sure we'll get rid of the pesky UNSC soldiers so I hope her lackeys to be as good as she stated." A man in a white armor with orange and black details said.

"I'm certain we are better than your little helper there, Roman." Mercury said as he pointed to the ice-cream colored one.

"Neo is reliable, I assure both of you. Her little problem with them was nothing to worry about. Now, you two better get ready. I'm sure our little problem will make sure to come soon enough." Mercury and emerald left while bantering with each other. "Neo, dear, are you sure they had the key?" The girl nodded. "Good. Let's keep pretending we obey to Cinder until we got our hands on it. Then we'll see a change in leadership on this little operation."

"Here the wrench you asked for, friend Ren."

"Thanks, Penny. You're sure you can fly a Pelican?"

"Certainly! I uploaded all the needed manuals and ran all the needed 300 hours of simulated flight in my head plus a few combat scenarios!"

"Good enough for me."

"Hey, Blue, how long before we can go kick some ass?" Yang called as team RWBY approached.

"A few more hours. We don't want to be the ones exploding." He explained.

"Good, because I have the blast charges ready! All the blast charges!" She proudly pointed at the pile of deadly explosives. "We totally need to record it!"

"I'll do it, friend Yang!" Penny said.

"I love you!"

"Like Nora and Pyrrha loves Captain Jaune?" Penny asked.

"Not that much. By the way, were are they?"

"Wow… I... Wow…" Pyrrha said as she caught her breath.

"I need… a few… more minutes…" Nora said as she too panted.

"If you two want to stop…" Jaune said as he drank from the red can.

"That's it… next time… no energetics!" Nora said as she took the can from Jaune and sipped it.

"Next time… but for now…" Pyrrha grabbed the boy.

"Oh, so they're playing chess!" Ruby said.

"No, they are…" Penny was about to correct.

"Chess! Playing! Nothing else!" She yelled.

"Weeeell. Hope they are able to fight when were ready to go." Blake said as she observed the Pelican. "Where did we got one of these anyway?"

"The aliens said something about debris of a secret UNSC space station some AI powered soldiers blew up." Ren explained.

"Wow, what a coincidence! What are the chances?" Yang asked.

"Who knows, I'm glad we have it." Ruby said as she grabbed some paint. "And I'm going to make it look awesome!"

"Oh no you won't! Not without supervision!" Weiss protested.

[Estimated time for all systems to go on-line is three standard UNSC hours.]

"Oh, we'll use quick-dry paint!" Ruby said as she grabbed a spray can.

"Ugh, do not let this hit me! It is hard to clean the armor after!" Weiss complained again.

"Anyway, should we warn the three love birds of this?" Yang asked.

"Blargh."

"STOP SAYING SUCH OBSCENITIES!" Ruby protested.

"I don't trust that Roman guy. He's just a petty thief." Emerald informed Cinder over the comm.

"Neither do I, dear Emerald. Let him and his men do the hard work and die for our objectives and then we'll just kill him when he stops being useful."

"What we do if he betrays us?" Mercury asked.

"When he betrays us, because he will, I'll deal with him personally. And then everyone will learn why no one betrays me." Cinder ended the communication.

"Well, we have our orders." Emerald turned to Mercury.

"I'd rather just kill Roman right now. Maybe I'll do it and make it seems like an accident."

"Oh, no you won't! I won't lie to Cinder if something goes wrong, and she'll put a hot rod up your butt if you disobey her."

"Pffft… Yeah… wait, she would?"

-knock knock-

"Blake? Hi?" Jaune said as he opened the door of his room.

"Hey Jaune. I just came here to tell you we're going to start our next mission in two hours."

"Oh, thank you. I'll make sure everyone is ready by then."

"Will the girls be ready for it? I mean, they do sound exhausted."

"Oh, they'll be fine. Don't worry."

"Good. Oh, and next time… wear pants when getting the door."