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[theme music playing]

? Sinking down into depths of nowhere ?

? I am undone ?

? Clasping tight onto memories I know they'll be overrun ?

? By a girl ?

? We must live with balance But balance is blind ?

? Lost her world ?

? Vengeance is a riptide ?

? In a fairy tale ?

? She'll find ?

? Inside ?

? A new me, I'm ready But who will I find? ?

? Inside ?

? I've gotta let go But could I lose my mind? ?

? Inside ?

? Our worlds unwind ?

[ominous music playing]

[blade whooshes]

[explosion booms]

[girl shouts in echoey voice, then screams]

[Jaune in echoey voice] Penny... Just hold on.

[grunts, then gasps]

[people screaming in echoey voices]

[gasping]

[yells]

[Jaune screaming in echoey voice]

[music fades]

[panting]

[coughs]

Where...

am I?

[mysterious music playing]

[leaves rustling]

[Jaune grunting & blade slicing]

[panting]

[watch ticking in distance]

[ticking louder]

[ticking]

Hey, no. Uh, wait.

[in distorted voice] Wait! Stop it!

Please stop!

[breathing rapidly]

[watch shatters]

[Jaune] I thought maybe I'd never see you again.

[mysterious music playing]

But I knew if I waited long enough that you would fall.

Just like I did.

It's...

It's really you, right?

When I saw you in the market, I...

[Ruby] Jaune.

It's us.

How did you find us?

How are you the Rusted Knight?

-And when did you get so--? -Mature.

Uh... [sputters]

What happened in Atlas?

After the rest of us fell?

[exhales]

I, uh, guess we've all got a lot of catching up to do.

[thunder rumbling in distance]

[Ruby] She's got two relics now.

[Yang] And with Cinder, the ability to get another.

[Blake] She doesn't know where the Beacon relic is.

[Weiss] Well, there's that to be thankful for, at least.

We lost Atlas and the relic.

[Blake] But we got everyone out safely.

Jaune said so.

We risked their home to save the relic.

And we failed.

Getting everyone out has to count for something.

What good is saving anybody if Salem just destroys the world anyway?

That's how Ironwood thought. You don't mean that.

[Jaune] Are you done?

We need to move before the weather turns,

or it's going to take us a lot longer to get to safety.

[breathes deeply]

There will be plenty of time to lick your wounds later. Come on.

[thunder rumbling in distance]

-So where are we going again? -[Jaune] My village.

I can't believe you made it all the way from the Crimson Keep on your own.

Not on our own.

We had help.

Uh-- Oh.

I hope the Cat is okay.

[thunder rumbling]

What cat?

[whimsical music playing]

[Little] That cat.

[grunts]

Whew. I found you.

Why is it you always find the thing you're looking for

in the very last place you look? [chuckles]

[gasps] Jaune.

Oh, my.

It has been an indeterminate amount of time, hasn't it?

So how have you been?

Wait. You two know each other?

Well, they'd have to. From the story.

-[growls] -[Blake] Oh, Jaune.

I think there's a misunderstanding.

The Cat can get us all out of here.

[thunder crashing]

We don't have time for this. We've got to get to my village.

Don't worry. We don't need a guide.

But your friends wanted to go to the Tree.

That's where you're letting them take you?

Well, yeah.

That's... That's how Alyx got out.

Right?

You didn't tell them anything.

Now, that's simply not true. I told them plenty of things.

A few anythings and lots of somethings.

Can somebody please make sense?

[Jaune] That tree is death.

It absorbs you, takes your memories, and turns you into something else.

If you go there, it's going to erase you.

They call it "ascension" here.

That's really what it is.

Wait. The Tree is what causes ascension?

That's what got the Herbalist. The roots of the Tree.

Pretty curious that you neglected to mention that.

Ho-ho. Excellent "punmanship."

But you are not from here.

It won't do that to you guys.

[Jaune] Oh, yeah?

Then what happened to Lewis?

Who?

[Jaune] Alyx's brother.

[eerie music playing]

That...

That can't be right.

She had a brother? Why didn't you mention him?

Well, you never asked, silly.

It was always "Alyx this" and "Alyx that."

We've been following this story the whole time, and it's not even true?

[thunder crashing]

[Jaune] Let's go. I've got a plan.

[Cat] A lot of good that's done you after, what, how many years?

Can everyone please stop?

This is a lot to take in.

Hmm. Looks like we're stuck at a crossroads, then.

No!

[Jaune sighs] Damn it.

[thunder rumbling]

Welcome to a Punderstorm.

A, uh, weather pattern that creates a physical manifestation

of a mental or emotional problem.

So we appear to be at a metaphorical and literal crossroads.

How perfectly, stupidly Ever Afteran.

[sighs] This place really is the pits.

[screams]

The only way out is to resolve the problem or wait until the storm passes.

Let's just get moving.

[Weiss screaming]

Okay. I asked for that.

Where's Yang?

And Blake?

Must have had something bigger to work out.

-[ropes creaking] -Huh?

Blake!

[Blake] Yang!

[Yang] What do we do?

We need to get to that platform.

[quietly] But how do we take the next step?

[mysterious music playing]

[Jaune] You know, this would go quicker if you make up your minds.

[both chuckle]

[Ruby] I just don't get how the story is both real...

and not.

[Jaune] It all happened.

Just not the way Alyx said when she wrote it.

So, what? She just lied?

You have no idea.

I waited for you to fall. For years.

But somebody else showed up first.

It was Alyx and her brother, Lewis.

Two siblings from Remnant.

I told them I was from there too. I was waiting for my friends.

Once I started helping them,

it didn't take long for me to figure out I was in her story.

I was the Rusted Knight.

But things weren't always the same as the book.

Like Alyx.

She wasn't just a little petulant or inconsiderate.

She was selfish.

Cruel.

Like this whole world was simply make-believe

and the rules didn't apply to her.

Lewis was the kind one.

The clever one.

We went places she didn't mention in the story.

Like the Herbalist.

Something changed there.

Whatever he said to her, she wasn't the same after that.

She lost all trust in us. Started accusing us of things.

The more I tried to get the story back on track,

the more she distrusted me.

Was it my fault? Did I change the story?

I couldn't even be the make-believe hero.

I didn't have time to make it right.

The Rusted Knight drank the poison in her stead.

She said she wouldn't let anyone get in the way of her leaving.

That she'd do whatever it takes.

And then she was gone.

So...

not exactly my favorite story anymore.

I'm so sorry.

Wait. Why don't you trust the Cat, then?

[sighs]

[Jaune] The Cat's role in the Ever After.

I figured it out later, when the Cat came back for me once Alyx left.

When people lose their way here, the Cat convinces them, somehow,

either to keep performing their role or to go to the Tree and get a new one.

The Cat calls it "healing," but it's manipulation.

The Cat was never helping Alyx or you.

Their purpose here is to feed the Tree.

To keep the cycle going.

How can you be sure?

Because the Cat took Alyx and Lewis there.

But only one of them made it back to our world.

[panting]

[Yang] You all right?

I'll feel a lot better when we're together on that platform.

Uh, is it a password or something?

Together.

Platform.

No luck?

I'm sure you'll figure it out, though. You're good at that.

You think so?

Well, yeah.

You've got a really good brain.

Okay, that did something.

Uh, I talked about you, so...

[clears throat]

You have cat ears.

I think your cat ears are cute.

Nailed it. Even though I don't know what it is yet.

Maybe it's saying things we never said.

To each other.

[tender music playing]

I...

think you're an extraordinary person.

You're always the first to lighten a situation.

You act bravely when you're afraid.

You do what you say.

Try to keep up.

I like that you've never been intimidated by me.

Even when you didn't like me all that much.

I was a little wary of people in general.

But you never gave up on them, even when they hurt you.

You never give up.

You know what matters to you.

Let's make this quicker.

Any big truths we haven't dropped on each other yet?

Did you just think of something but didn't say it?

That can't be what this is about.

[Yang] It's like a cliff.

And if I do it, I'm just going to fall.

[Blake] I think we're already falling.

Just...

Say it, Yang.

[breathes deeply]

I think I love you.

I love you too.

-? Now I know I'm worthy of you ? -? Oh, can't you see ?

? You could be with me? ?

-? With every smile, you told me ? -? I am your dream ?

-? "I love you" ? -? I love you ?

[mysterious music playing]

[Cat gasps] Oh, how odd.

This time you were in the first place I looked rather than the last.

Jaune told us.

Oh, I thought there was more to the story.

You're accusing me of something. Same page now.

You're the one who gives Afterans to the Tree.

Why haven't you been telling us the truth?

[Cat] When Afterans get all higgledy-piggledy, I help them return to the Ever After, yes.

But you're not Afterans. I'm not taking you there to ascend.

I'm taking you there because you all have such delightful information for me.

You pretended like you'd never heard of the story when you met us.

But Jaune had already told you.

I think old Jaune's maybe a few sandberries short of a picnic these days,

-wouldn't you say? -[growls]

What happened when you took Alyx and Lewis to the Tree?

[sighs]

I...

I don't know.

She had told me she'd take me with her through the door to Remnant,

but she tricked me.

Just...

Just like all of you.

You only want to use me,

in the same way I've only seen others as sources for knowledge and entertainment.

Well, at least now I know what not to do.

We...

We just want to get home.

Thank you for this lesson, Ruby Rose, Huntress.

I'll be on my way now.

Stay with your friend.

[whinnies]

[thunder rumbles, then subsides]

[squeaks]

[gasps]

Did we miss anything?

Feels like I've been waiting forever for that.

Come on.

[tranquil music playing]

Hey.

There's something I've been holding on to for you.

It was the first thing I saw when I was falling.

Years later, when I finally found it...

[in fading voice] I knew I'd caught back up to the time that my friends were here.

[foreboding music playing]

[in normal voice] Ruby?

[music stops]

Hey!

I...

Ah...

Thank you, Jaune.

Don't mention it.

Jaune?

What did happen to Lewis?

I think Alyx traded him to the Tree in order to leave.

And then she wrote him out of the story.

Good night, everyone.

[dramatic music playing]

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