Flashback...before going on train...
The group is now discussing on what Ozpin said for them to go to for the Relic themselves.
Ruby: "We need to take the Relic to Atlas?"
Team RWBY, JNPR, and Qrow Branwen are seen back at the house in Mistral.
Qrow: "That's what Oz said."
Everybody looks to Weiss Schnee.
Weiss: "You've got to be joking..."
Nora: "I mean, bright side, we finally get out of this house!"
Weiss sighs.
Qrow: "Well trust me, I'm not crazy about it either. And without the Spring Maiden here to seal the Relic back in its Vault, it's our best option."
Ren: "Atlas may be the safest kingdom we have at the moment, but their borders are closed. General Ironwood called everyone back."
Qrow: "Eh, not everyone."
Qrow than activates his scroll, showing a hologram of a highlighted portion of land.
Qrow: "The city of Argus is a ways north of us and it's the primary trading port between Anima and Solitas. They've got the largest Atlas military base outside the kingdom. There's no way they'd leave it abandoned, and if we play our cards right, I think there's a good chance we could convince them to escort us straight to Ironwood."
Blake: "I mean, we do have the missing Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company."
Weiss: "Ex-Heiress, actually."
Yang: "True, true. But if there's a chance of reward money, I say we go for it."
Weiss: "Ugh..."
Ozpin: "Hopefully the first option will suffice."
Oscar Pine, letting Ozpin take over, walks into the room.
Qrow: "Glad to see you're feeling better."
Ozpin: "Likewise, and while I'm sure we could all use more time to recover, I'm afraid time is of the essence."
Blake: "Right, as long as that thing's out in the open, its power could fall into the wrong hands."
Jaune: "Speaking of, what does it do exactly? Qrow never really told us."
Everyone looks to Ozpin, who turns around to face them.
Penny: "Yeah! Even I'm interested at that."
Mecha: What can you tell us?
Ozpin than detaches the Relic from his hip, and allows it to grow in size, while it floats, and increased back to how it was found.
Ozpin: "Of course. The Relic of Knowledge has a wonderful, and incredibly dangerous ability. Its user can ask any question, and the lamp will provide an answer.
Ren: "Intriguing..."
Blake: "That's incredible..."
Mecha: It's like being omniscient.
Penny: "It's so incredible!"
Papyrus: "I never thought that this was possible."
May: "Is there any drawbacks of this?"
Ozpin: "Indeed. However, it's not without drawbacks. The lamp cannot tell of events that have yet to happen, and it will only ever answer three questions every one hundred years."
Everyone felt really bummed, but Yang brightens to mood up.
Yang: "Well, I guess that's not so bad. Adds a lot of pressure though."
But as she spoke, Nora acted crazy as she shouted.
Nora: "Then let's put it to a vote! What should we ask first? Oh! Can we ask for more questions? CAN WE ASK FOR MORE QUESTIONS?!"
Everyone than shouted to Nora.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!"
Nora jumped at the sheer volume of that, and Everyone than stops, and Ren sighed, while speaking out to her, facepalmed.
Ren: "They're not wishes..."
Ozpin: "I'm afraid you won't be able to ask it anything at the moment."
Nora grunts in frustration, but then did poses, while she is walking away, while sticking her tongue out.
Ozpin: "The questions were used before I sealed it away."
Ruby: "Well, at least now we know what it is. And we'll be sure to keep it safe!"
Now in present time...
Back in the present day, Ruby scours through the train wreckage and picks up Dust bullets, before looking to see the Relic of Knowledge slightly buried in the snow nearby.
Yang can be heard complaining as she struggles to get Bumblebee out of the snow.
Yang: "Great! This is just great! We're stranded, we lost a third of our party, and we've gained a defenseless old lady!"
With one final heave, Yang manages to extricate Bumblebee, but falls over to the ground, with her motorcycle following suit as she's partially covered in snow.
Maria: "My name is Maria Calavera, and I am not defenseless! I'm just a little hard of hearing. And blind without my eyes, that are in desperate need of repair."
She than taps on her weapon, which open wide and close, before opening narrowly again..
Yang: "Okay, I'm starting to see your point."
Qrow: "Yang, knock it off, will ya? If we lose our cool now, we'll just be inviting even more Grimm."
Blake: "Does that even matter? Apparently, we've been attracting Grimm ever since we left Haven."
Yang: "Oh, and how could I forget about that?"
Yang than turns to Oscar.
"What happened to "no more lies and half truths"?"
Oscar: "Yeah, I think it's time we got an explanation..."
Oscar's eyes glow as control of his body is switched to Ozpin, who furrows his brow at Yang's accusations.
Ozpin: "I did not lie to you..."
Weiss: "Well you certainly didn't tell us everything about the Relic."
Ozpin: "Please, now is not the time."
But Yang cuts him off, as she spoke really frustrated.
Yang: "No, we're past that! I wanna know why you're still not telling us everything!"
Than both Papyrus and Mecha joined in, shouting.
Mecha: In fact...why didn't you tell us before we left for the Godsdamned train?!
Papyrus: "You promised us that you would tell us everything! What went wrong for you to close your mouth and seal it?!"
Ozpin sighed, before speaking out
Ozpin: "It is true that the Grimm are attracted to the Relics. It's faint, but undeniable. I believe it has to do with their origin, but I'm not entirely sure. Regardless, I feared that making you all aware would only add anxiety and negativity. It seemed like the safer option."
But the group wasn't amused. In fact, they are more suspicious than they are letting go of this entire thing.
Weiss: "You know, I'm getting real tired of people choosing what's best for me."
Penny: "As well as tired of people thinking that they have control over my will."
Yang: "Is that why you chose to lie to everyone about Lionheart too?"
Ozpin: "Yes, as a matter of fact, I believed the Kingdom of Mistral deserved better than the truth. And I believed Leonardo deserved to be remembered for his lifetime of service, and not for the unfortunate missteps he made in his final years."
But Yang shouts out, angrily.
Yang: Missteps?!
Mecha: He sides with the enemy! You call that 'Missteps?!
Papyrus: "What he did was a really unforgiving crime there!"
But Ozpin, remaining form, continued.
Ozpin: "What Professor Lionheart did was reprehensible. I am not here to argue differently, but does one lapse in judgment truly negate all of his good? Do we not all have regrets? You may have met Professor Lionheart, but you never met the man he was before Salem found him."
Summer, so confused, spoke.
Summer: "Look, we are supposed to be in this together. You can trust us! We are not going to turn our very own backs on you."
But Ozpin, getting immensely angry for what she said, shouted.
Ozpin: "Do you really think Leo was the first?!"
Everyone stops. Ozpin than calms down, as he spoke.
Ozpin: "That he didn't say those exact same words to me? I'm sorry, but you have to understand that my behaviors are backed by experience. I'm not saying that I have reason to think you will betray me. I'm saying that I have reasons for the things that I do, the secrets I keep, the reason I..."
Ozpin than looks down at his waist, as he realized something. The Relic is missing.
Ozpin: "Where's the Relic?
Ruby: "Right here. It got scattered in the crash."
Ruby spoke, holds it in her hands. Ozpin than gestures her to give it to him
Ozpin: "Please, hand it over."
Ozpin reaches his hand out, but Ruby hesitates.
Ruby: "So all those times you talked about having faith in humanity, that was just for everyone else?"
Ozpin hesitates, and than sighed stressfully.
Ozpin: "That's not what I meant to suggest. Miss Rose, the Relic is a powerful item and I simply feel as though it is my burden to bear."
Ruby: "But, you said it couldn't do anything right now."
Pyrrha than chimes in, speaking
Pyrrha: "Why does it matter who carries it?"
Ozpin, now getting a bit angry, than starts to demand.
Ozpin: "I need you to listen to me--"
Ozpin reaches his hand out, but suddenly is stopped, stuck in his position.
Qrow: "Oz?"
Oscar, now fighting back for control, begins to warn her.
Oscar: "Hurry... he's... trying to stop you!"
Yang: "Stop her from what?"
Oscar: "He's afraid... you'll find out what he's... hiding!"
Oscar suddenly collapses, Yang, Weiss and Blake glare at the boy with intense looks while Ruby holds the Relic of Knowledge defensively. All the others began to look worried. But Papyrus and May began to prepare forth their weapons
Oscar: "Her name is Jinn. Say her name to summon her."
Ruby: "Her name?"
The wind picks up much more gradually, blowing snow even harder. The Relic starts to glow in Ruby's hands.
Ruby: "Jinn?"
Suddenly, the snow stops, floating in midair. The wind stops blowing too.
Qrow: "What?"
Mecha: What is happening right now?
Penny than noticed the relic glowing and spoke.
Penny: "Everyone, look!"
Ruby then lets go of the Relic as it floats a short distance away, cyan smoke emanates from it. Suddenly, the lamp is enveloped in the smoke, and from it, a giant, semi-nude feminine figure emerges.
The skin and hair colored blue, and decorated with gold jewelry and ornaments. The figure stretches and moans as she has been awakened once again.
It looks like that she had woken up from a nap from the beginning of Remnant.
Jinn: "Wonderful."
Everyone stares in awe at Jinn. Even Mecha was very surprise.
Jinn: "Tell me, what knowledge do you seek?"
Back with Sans and Amber...
Sans and Amber than went out of the hole from the ground, as he spoke.
"Okay...the coast is clear."
Sans and Amber than crawled out of the hole. As Sans looks up, he noticed that the Grimm are still up there. He than spoke to Amber.
"They are waiting for us to get up there and fly back up. We cannot risk this sort of thing. If we go walking, while it may be harder than flying, it will at least get us there without any Grimm trouble showing."
As they walked away, thanks to the trees shielding them, Amber than spoke out to Sans.
"Sans...do you have a plan to defeat Salem, should Ozpin not have one?"
Sans froze for a little bit, but spoke to her, calmly.
"That is what I am going to find out, when we get to the Domain of Light for answers."
Sans and Amber began to float a bit into the air, as the both began to fly, not above the trees, but at ground level between the trees, and began to get away fast. They just hope that it isn't to blinding to get there.
Back with Ruby and Co...
Back in the snow, Maria adjusts her goggles to get a better look at what's in front of her.
Jinn: "I am Jinn, a being created by the God of Light to aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. I've been graced with the ability to answer three questions every one hundred years. You're in luck, as I am still able to answer--"
Ozpin, trying to stop her, shouted at her.
Ozpin: That's enough!
Everyone looks to Ozpin, who managed to regain control over Oscar's body. Jinn, however, kept on going with explaining.
Jinn: "...two questions this era."
Everyone is shocked, despite Ozpin telling them that the Relic won't work for them beforehand. Penny was shocked, but Mecha and Yang are immensely enraged. Papyrus looks like he wants to slug him for this. Jinn chuckled, as she spoke out.
Jinn: "It's a pleasure to see you again, old man."
Ozpin, now very terrified, began to beg to Ruby.
Ozpin: "Ruby, please... Don't."
Qrow glances to Ozpin, and steps forward.
Qrow: "Hey."
Suddenly, WBY, PPM, Papyurs, May and Summer get defensive at Qrow. Either by pointing their blades, or prepare shooting. Ruby stares in disbelief. Qrow relents, but allows it to happen.
Qrow: "Do whatever you think is right, kiddo."
Ruby, remembering why they are angry, and what answers they need, speak out.
Ruby: "Jinn?"
Ruby turns around to face Jinn, who has a curious look on her face, while Ozpin grits his teeth in anger.
Ruby: "What is Ozpin hiding from us?"
Ozpin, in a panic, screams.
Ozpin: "NOOOOOOO!!"
Ruby gasps and looks behind her. Ozpin lunges forward and is about to touch her, but suddenly, Ruby finds herself alone in a blank white space.
Ruby: "Wha-- what? Weiss? Yang?"
Ruby goes off screen, Yang comes from her position.
Yang: "Blake? Ru--"
Yang goes off unseen, and Weiss then appears, also calling out for their team leader.
Weiss: --by? Ruby?
Weiss goes off Unseen, and Blake then appears.
Blake: "Yang?"
Suddenly, an environment manifests, showing a path leading to a castle in the distance. A woman humming can be heard in the background. Jinn than begins to narrate this.
Jinn: "Once upon a time, there stood a lonely tower..."
Smoke envelops Blake, and Qrow appears where she was. He looks behind him.
Jinn: "...that sheltered a lonely girl."
A rather beautiful woman sitting in front of a mirror then appears. Ruby is seen walking up to her.
Jinn: "Named... Salem."