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Chapter 18: Pacific Rim, Part 3

"Can we just discuss how badass you all looked in that last scene?" Nora asked.

"Ms. Valkyrie, please watch your language." Glynda sighed.

"Now, now, Glynda," Ozcar said, "Should we admonish them for making accurate statements?"

"Please don't encourage them, Ozpin."

'Ozpin?!' Salem, thought, looking at the young man sitting next to the older woman. 'So, he's reincarnated already? My plans must accelerate.' She tried to contain her rage as best she could.

Watts muttered to himself as he worked on a complicated math equation spread over several large chalkboards. Ironwood and Tai waited patiently until he was ready to explain. Nearby, Oobleck was busy dissecting a piece of a Kaiju.

"What the hell is he working on?" Weiss asked, unable to work out the math. "I can't even understand that math, much less decipher his writing."

"His chicken scratch is as bad as mine," Ruby commented.

"I assume it's some sort of predictive model." Winter hypothesized, "Worry not sister, this math is higher than anything we've ever studied."

"In the beginning," he started, "The Kaiju attacks were spaced by 24 weeks. Then 12, then six, then every two weeks." He descended the ladder he stood on and moved one of the chalkboards to reveal move math followed by a large four in a box. "The last one in Attika was a week. In four days we could be seeing a Kaiju every eight hours until they are coming every six minutes. General, we should witness a double event within seven days."

"Dr. Watts, I am to drop a 2,400-lbs thermonuclear bomb. I need more than a prediction." Ironwood said.

"Congrats, Ice Queen, you called it." Qrow said.

"Silence, drunkard." She shot back.

"What? It was a compliment!"

"Well, that's a problem," Oobleck said, looking up from his work, "See, cuz he actually can't give you more than a prediction." He tossed the bit of Kaiju gut he was holding at a table, which it fell off of.

"No Kaiju entrails over my side of the room! You know the rules." Watts said angrily as he kicked the offending organ over a painted yellow line on the floor. "Every bloody day, he's incessant- "

"Gents!" Tai barked, breaking up the fight. "On point."

"Numbers do not lie." Watts said firmly. "Politics and poetry. Promises. These are lies. Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of the Gods."

"An interesting philosophy." Glynda commented.

"And accurate, to a degree." Winter agreed.

"What?" Oobleck laughed.

"Would you give me a moment?" he snapped, annoyed at his colleague, "There will be a double event. And shortly thereafter three, and then four, - "

"And then we're dead." Ironwood finished. "I get it."

"Alas, this is where the good news comes."

"If certain death is the bad news, what could the good news possibly be?" Velvet commented.

"Hey, Sun," Coco whispered to the monkey faunus, "That girl okay?" she pointed at Ilia.

Sun waved his hand in front of her eyes, receiving no reaction. "I think she's catatonic after seeing her and Blake together." Coco gave him a confused look. "I'll explain later."