The Soldier and The Knight: Part 1

Chapter 3: Advice from an Old Fool

It had been 2 weeks since Jaune's meeting with Winter in Vale and since then, they had hung out more. Jaune had learned more about Winter's upbringing, which also kind of meant he learned what Weiss also kind of went through growing up, but to balance that out, Jaune would tell her about his family and his time growing up, hoping it wouldn't bum her out.

But that's not the only thing the two did, as a matter of fact, Winter had also been helping him train secretly. Jaune would admit she was a lot tougher and stricter with him than Pyrrha was, but he knew it was training, and probably the same training she went through, but he didn't care about the pain because he was improving, rather fast too.

But now was not the time for that, as of right now, Winter along with a few other Atlas Soldiers had raided a building where some of the White-Fang were hiding, thankfully, the raid went off without a hitch and no one was seriously hurt, and most of the White-Fang members had thankfully been arrested without injury.

After the Raid, Winter, along with another soldier explored the building, looking for any information or any other members of the terrorist hiding.

"Report," Winter asked.

"The Fang here were holding onto 7 large crates of dust, however, the dust isn't really the problem here, Specialist Schnee," the soldier told her.

Winter looked at her with confusion, "What do you mean?" She asked.

The soldier looked at her, "You may want to follow me, Specialist Schnee," they told her.

Winter followed them to the back only for her eyes to widen when they showed her the 10 stolen Atlas Mechs they had. Winter was shocked that they had stolen that many, and her mind raced to the thought that they could have more hideouts, which meant more stolen dust as well as more stolen tech.

"I have to report this to the General immediately," Winter said, "If they stole this from underneath our noses, who knows how many more or what else they've stolen from us," Winter said.

The soldier nodded, "Besides that ma'am, is there anything else?" they asked.

Winter nodded, "Just look for any other information on where more of their hideouts could be or what they are planning,"

The soldier gave her a quick nod, "Yes Ma'am" They replied.

Winter told them they were leaving to give the General the report of the situation and what they discovered and to call in case anything else happened. With that, Winter returned to Beacon and the soldiers searched for more clues.

Unbeknownst to them, Bane-Saw had been hidden and had heard everything the two had said, and not only that, he knew who had led the Raid and once Adam was informed, vengeance was theirs...

Meanwhile, Back at Beacon, classes were finally over and team RWBY and JNPR were sitting around the table enjoying dinner, and Jaune was happy than most.

"I'm telling you, guys! Did you see Cardin today during my spar with him? I swear I had him on the ropes!" Jaune said with a wide smile.

"Darn right ya did Jaune-Jaune!" Nora cried, wrapping her arm around her leader. "Now you just need to go for the legs!"

Pyrrha then placed her hand on Jaune's shoulder, "It's quite remarkable how fast you are improving," She told her partner

Ren nodded as he set down his drink, "Indeed," Ren said, "I suppose all that training with Pyrrha is really doing wonders," he said.

Jaune scratched the back of his head and nodded, "Yeah, but I also couldn't have done it without you and Nora's help as well as-! Uh... never mind," Jaune chuckled nervously.