Jaune: "WEISS!!!"

He shouted as he ran to the Heiress. Oscar Pine watches Jaune approach and pick up the unconscious Weiss Schnee from his position. He then looks over to the unconscious Ruby Rose. Angered, he smacks Leonardo Lionheart with The Long Memory, causing him to fall down the stairs and into Hazel Rainart, who remains unfazed as Lionheart falls to the ground. Oscar quickly runs over to Ruby, with Nora Valkyrie joining him.

Oscar: "Ruby, get up! Get up!! We need you!"

Hazel picks up Lionheart by his collar, lifting him off the floor.

Hazel: "You're lettin' that boy make a fool of you."

Lionheart: "That's not just a boy! It's Ozpin. He's already reincarnated!"

But as he spoke this, a Shadowy hand grabbed him and swung him far, bringing him towards a wall, and he crashed painfully. Hazel looks over to Oscar, who is still trying to nudge Ruby to wake her up. He then notices The Long Memory being held in the young farm boy's hand.

Hazel: Ozpin?

Suddenly, the usual calm demeanor of Hazel slowly turns infuriated. Ruby stirs for a bit.

Oscar: Ruby! You--

Hazel: "OZPIN!!!!"

Oscar looks up.

Ozpin: 'Oh no...'

Hazel: "You thought you could hide from ME?!!"

Hazel rips his coat off, and then grabs a pair of lightning Dust crystals from a couple of pouches on his legs.

Hazel: "You'll pay for what you did! You'll die over and over again!!"

He stabs the lightning Dust into his arms, with his blood vessels turning yellow and popping out from his skin as well as having some lightning coat them.

His eyes glow yellow, and he lets out an intimidating roar. Oscar slowly backs away, holding his cane up cautiously.

Oscar: "Do-- do we fight?"

Ozpin: 'No, run!'

Hazel leaps forward to charge into Oscar, but Qrow Branwen gets him out of the way in time. Qrow transforms Harbinger into its scythe form while the Grimm Copy watches. Raven Branwen and Vernal walk to her sides.

Lionheart gets back up and approaches the statue in the room. He takes out his pocket watch and places it in a small niche on the statue. The hands on the watch gradually spin faster and the statue lowers. Yang Xiao Long watches the situation in front of her. She looks to Jaune and Lie Ren as they tend to Weiss and then looks over to Nora who is still trying to wake Ruby up. Nora looks to Yang.

Nora: "Stop them! We've got your team covered!"

Yang lingers a bit before heeding Nora's advice, but she gets kicked to the ground by Mercury Black.

Mercury: "You wanna get to them? You're going to have to get through me!"

He than began to fight Yang. While Yang blocks Mercury's attack, Jaune uses his hands to apply pressure on Weiss' wound, while Ren holds her wrist checking her pulse.

Jaune: "Ren, talk to me!"

Ren: "This is bad."

Ren said with him shaking his head sadly.

Jaune's eyes widen in horror.

Jaune: "No, no, no, no, not again! Weiss, c'mon, please!!"

Meanwhile, Vernal steps onto the platform leading down to the vault. platform. Raven looks back a bit as she hears her daughter fighting vainly, shaking her head really sadly before she steps on the platform too. The platform then lowers down. Oscar is then shown dodging out of the way as Hazel slams his fist into the ground.

Ozpin: "Oscar."

Oscar: "No!"

Oscar dodges another attack from Hazel.

Ozpin: "Oscar!"

Oscar: "I told you, no!"

Oscar gets punched back by Hazel several feet into a column.

Ozpin: Please, let me take over! I can handle him!

Oscar: "You told me I needed to fight for myself! I will!"

He said, as he stood back up on his feet, tightly gripping The Long Memory like a sword.

Ozpin: This is not your fight!

Oscar: "What does that mean? Why is he so upset with us?"

Hazel than walked with an angered expression on his face, as he walked menacingly towards the farmer.

Hazel: "He didn't tell you my tale, did he, boy? thought you looked familiar, to think that evil was inside you when our paths first crossed. Your blood won't be on my hands, it'll be on his."

As he raised his fists high in the air, Qrow jumps in the way to block Hazel's attack, but he slams his fist into the ground, the shockwave knocking both him and Oscar back. They both get back up as Qrow engages Hazel.

Oscar: "What was he talking about?"

Hazel: "Tell him, Ozpin! Tell him how you KILLED HER!!"

Oscar: "Her?"

Ozpin: "Gretchen Rainart was Hazel's sister. Despite her brother's wishes, she enrolled at Beacon Academy to become a Huntress and tragically lost her life on a training mission. Hazel... holds me responsible. Please, let me fight. I know Hazel. He's wounded in a way that cannot be healed."

Hazel: "You know now! You can forgive me for what I'm about to do."

He spoke, as he threw Qrow away. But Oscar spoke to him.

Oscar: "Did she know?"

Hazel stops in place at his inquiry.

Oscar: "Did she know the risk of being a Huntress?"

Hazel: "She was only a child! She wasn't ready!!"

Oscar: "She made a choice! A choice to put others before herself!"

So do I.

Oscar spoke, while putting his Hazel just glares at him.

Hazel: "Then you've chosen death!"

Oscar glares back, determined.

Ozpin: "I'm sorry."

Oscar: "What?"

Oscar's eyes glow and his body falls to the ground as Ozpin takes over him.

Ozpin looks up, and Hazel looks back at him, enraged.

Hazel: "OzzzzPIIIIIIIIN!!!!"

Meanwhile, Jaune and Ren continue tending to Weiss.

Ren: "She's hardly breathing. I... I don't know what we can do..."

The both of them look down to Weiss as she struggles to breathe, before suddenly stopping.

Jaune: "No, it wasn't supposed to be like this! Please! We can't lose anyone else..."

Jaune spoke as his voice began to break down, sadly closes his eyes. Suddenly, a faint shimmering sound is heard and a white aura starts to coat over Weiss' body. Weiss suddenly gasps for breath again.

Back at the Mantle Kingdom...

Sans blocked one of the Sais heading to his face. Carmine has finally appeared and she is now ready to fight against her. He just hope to not kill her and ruin this.

"So...back for round 2?"

Carmine than levitated her Sais, as she spoke out.

"The answer here is obvious, handsome."

Sans flied high into the air and charged at her. She jumped down from the building, and manipulated the weather. Sans was able to hold on, even without the Transformation. He than launches an Abyss Chain at her, which she used Telekinesis to send it away from her own face. She than lifted boulders and try to crush him, painfully. But Sans used his bare hands and held them away. He than crushes them with his scarves, which formed hands. As he is fighting, Soul Gaia and Kyo in astral projection form started a conversation.

"Do you think that he can truly use the Relic?"

Soul Gaia spoke to Kyo. The God of Evolution looked sternly at where Sans is.

"He can. He has gone through many hardships and challenges. He will soon have to face Salem when he matures. For now, he must weaken her forces to make it easy for him to fight. Sans...I have faith that he is capable to defeating Salem if he just tries."

Soul Gaia looked in surpise, but he nodded his head, as he looked back at the battle from below them.

Back at the Academy again...

Hazel and Ozpin fight each other intensely. Lionheart tries to intervene by launching another attack from Stalwart, but is stopped by Qrow. The two of them fight each other, with Qrow blocking Lionheart's projectiles. Ozpin and Hazel engage against each other again.

Hazel tries to smash him with his fists, but Ozpin is too fast for him. He backflips and jumped on the stairs high. Ozpin jumps on Hazel and off of him. He than dodged hazel's punches, and hit in with the top of the cane so fast, it is impossible to reach that speed.

Than, he ducks under and hits Hazel at the side. Eventually, Ozpin manages to knock Hazel down on all fours. Ozpin then twirls his cane and prepares to deliver the finishing blow, but Hazel roars and smashes his fists into the ground, creating another lightning shockwave.

Meanwhile, Weiss starts to gasp and breathes normally again as the white aura encoating her continues to glow.

Jaune: "Huh? Wha- what's happening?"

Ruby noticed and shouted out an worry.

"Weiss!"

Nora helps Ruby up on her feet, who then quickly runs over to her teammate's side.

Ruby: "What happened? What's going on?!"

Ren smiles, as he spoke to Ruby.

"I think she's going to be okay! She seems to be stabilizing."

With Weiss breathing again, Ruby smiles, relieved that her friend's life is not endangered anymore. Ruby then hears her sister struggling, she looks over her shoulder to see Yang getting knocked back by Mercury. Yang charges forward, but Mercury charged forward as well, as the both of them clashed attacks together. As they are still fighting, Papyrus had came out of nowhere and attacked Mercury's leg. This damage and made the leg unable to shoot anymore. Than, both Papyrus and Yang than fought Mercury together.

Ruby then looks over to Oscar fighting Hazel, with the latter's attack becoming too wild and unpredictable for the young boy. Oscar is then hit by one of Lionheart's projectiles and holds his shoulder in pain. Hazel is about to punch at Oscar again, but Qrow pushes Oscar out of the way and takes the blow in his back, launching him upwards. Ruby then lifts Jaune's hands up to see that Weiss' wound has closed.

Ruby: "Whatever you're doing, don't stop!"

Jaune: "I won't."

Ruby: "Good. Oscar needs help."

Ren: "I'm on it."

???: "Me to."

Everyone turned and see May Zedong approaching them. Her gun is armed and ready to attack the brute. Ruby nodded and spoke out.

Ruby: "Jaune and Weiss still need cover!"

Ren takes out StormFlower, while Nora approaches his side holding Magnhild. Nora and Ruby smiled out.

Nora: "No one's gonna touch 'em."

Ruby: "Than let's make it happen, everyone."

Ruby stands back up, transforming Crescent Rose into its scythe form and flips over. She lands to her sister's side, knocking Mercury away. Papyrus than turned and decide to help attack Hazel.

Yang: "Thanks, sis. You okay?"

Yang said, as she stood back up. Ruby growled out in a rage.

Ruby: "No, I'm angry."

Ruby proceeds forward. May does the same thing.

Back down in the vault, Vernal, the Grimm Copy, and Raven walk towards the Relic chamber. Suddenly, a symbol on the ground glows bright, as well as the circle enclosed around it. Similar circles with symbols in them also glow leading up to the Relic chamber's door.

The tree's flowers then glow even more, and it's petals gently fall and float around the vault. One petal falls into Vernal's hand.

Vernal glares back at Cinder as the petal in her hand dissolves into particles.

Raven: "Vernal, stay focused."

Vernal nodded. She doesn't like the Grimm Copy at any way. There is something very suspicious of what it wants to do.

Raven is always prepared. She knows that the copy wants her power. Which is why Vernal volunteered to be a decoy of said Maiden. Although she doesn't like it, she has to keep her trails off of Salem, silently. She will not expect it.

Vernal approaches the door. While she does so, Raven slowly reaches for the hilt of Omen, but stops when the Grimm Copy prepares something. Suddenly, the Grimm Copy then lets out a blue, frost-like projectile from her hand.

Raven: VERNAL!!

Raven reaches out, but she is too late as she is frozen in place from the copy's attack. Vernal takes her hand away from the door and takes her weapons out on it, but she is stabbed by something in her stomach. She looks down and notices an elongated Grimm hand coming from the Grimm Copy.

Vernal is then pushed to the ground, and she screams out in pain as she struggles to get the Grimm hand out of her stomach. The ice coating Raven is shown cracking.

Eventually, Vernal stops struggling and goes motionless and quiet. The Copy looks as she looks down on Vernal's body, but then realizes that something is wrong.

The Grimm Copy: "Wha-- what is this? Where's the power?!"

The Grimm Copy than suddenly hears the ice crack from behind her and sees Raven free from her frozen prison.

Raven: "You won't find it, because Vernal isn't the Spring Maiden..."

Raven opens her eyes, with a red flame-like effect glowing and trailing from them

"...I AM."