Her footsteps echoed slightly as she walked into her small bathroom. Luckily all the rooms at this place were one person rooms with their own bathrooms. She didn't like anyone seeing her bed-head in the early mornings.

Every time she brushed her hair, the dog tags around her neck would 'clank' together. The dog tags read "Ruby 'Red' Rose. Captain - Team Leader. Sniper."The other read "H&H Mercenary Services"

Below the name of the company was her symbol, a large red rose. It was the one thing that described her perfectly: Beautiful, yet dangerous.

Ruby had been doing this same routine for the past 3 years. Get up, get dressed, train like a madman, eat, sleep, and repeat. There was usually a large possibility of an assignment being thrown into the mix of that routine.

Some assignments would last a day or two, others weeks. She wasn't only a mercenary but also a bounty hunter. She collected bounties when she could.

She would have to look at her rifle to see how many bounties she had claimed.

There were no wanted alive bounties in her business. Not even dead or alive. Only dead or dead.

It was a couple days ago when she was looking through the large list of bounties that the place had and saw a name that brought her pain. Weiss Schnee.

Weiss had completely gone off the radar after college. No matter how many times Ruby had tried to call Weiss. But every time she called, she wouldn't get anything. Just an off the hook tone.

Weiss had promised to contact Ruby, she promised, right in front of Ruby. And then she just forgot about her, and never talked to her again. Not even an E-mail or anything.

Although, even though Weiss didn't contact Ruby, she had a feeling that it was not Weiss's fault that she wasn't contacting her. Ruby still held feelings Weiss, she still deeply did. She hoped that one day that she would see Weiss again. Slowly, the hopes turned to memories that seemed like they had happened only the day before.

Years after the graduation at Beacon University. She, Blake and Yang graduated from the VPD's SWAT Training Facility. They then went to a bar that night to celebrate. Later into the night a bar fight was started and the three of them were right in the middle of it.

In the end, they came out as the winners of the fight, all the other people in the bar were on the floor and unconscious. Only one other person was left.

A man sat in the corner of the room, casually drinking from a glass of scotch. His eyes were covered by a pair of deeply tinted shades. He had black hair with streak of cyan blue just over the right eye. He wore a white jacket and blue jeans. A pair of dog tags were hidden under the collar of the jacket but Ruby could see the metal beads that held the chain together. When he finished the glass he started to speak to them, said that they were pretty food fighters. He asked what their occupations were and they had told him that they just graduated from the SWAT training.

The man pulled three cards from his pocket and handed one of them to each girl. "Let me know if you're interested." he said and walked out the door of the bar, and disappeared into the night.

H&H Mercenary Services was what the cards said, and below that was the number of the company.

They all went back to the apartment they had in Vale, after explaining to first responders that they had used self-defense and had been allowed to go home.

They discussed it until almost 3 AM. Most of the time it was Blake and Yang trying to convince Ruby to do it. The two were already wanting to do it the moment they had gotten the cards. Yang had heard of the mercenary group from her time in the military. She said how the group was one of the most intricate groups out there and said how the personal invitations were rare. They apparently had a training school where the base for the group was as well. But if you got a personal invitation, you didn't need to go through the training courses.

Ruby's only thought on her mind while deciding to go into the group was Weiss. Ruby thought of what would happen if she were to go into the group and never have a chance to see Weiss again. Yang said that one day, maybe they would meet up at random. And maybe Weiss would have and explanation for her disappearance.

Eventually, Ruby broke and agreed to do it.

Later that morning, they called the number on the card that was given to them. They got a voice that was hidden by a voice modifier, which made it incredibly deep and rasp.

They told the voice how they were given a card with the number of the company on it and said how the person had said "Let me know if you're interested". The voice told them to hold and then came back five minutes later.

The voice said that they had tracked their call and that three representatives will arrive at their apartment tomorrow. After that the voice hung up.

The next day came quick and around two o'clock, there was a knock at the door. When Ruby answered it, she saw three people standing there. The first two were in all out combat gear.

The first was a woman with long red hair that was done up in a ponytail which was still at great lengths. She had a pair of caramel tinted shades hiding her eyes. Around her mouth was a gold colored scarf, almost like what Yang would wear sometimes around her neck. In her right ear, Ruby could see an ear piece for communications. On her torso, she had a black Kevlar vest which held a few magazine bands, a combat knife that went straight across in its sheath, and a satellite phone. On the left side of the chest was her possible codename, it said "Amazon". Under the Kevlar vest was a short sleeved crimson shirt. At the top of the left sleeve, sewn into the sleeve was her rank, a yellow bar signifying she was a lieutenant. On the other arm was the symbol of the company, which was a Valkyrie sword with a shield in the background. The sword split down the middle of the shield and on the two sides of the shield was an H on each side. And on the sword was an "&". Under the shield was one word, Mercenaries. On her legs she wore long black cargo pants. Strapped to her right thigh was a pistol holster. In the holster was what looked to be an M1911 handgun. More ammo seemed to be in the pockets of the cargo pants because they were bulging with box like shapes. On her feet she wore black combat boots. In her hands rested her weapon. An M14 semi-auto rifle. It was one of the older models which had a fixed stock at the end. For a sight there was a simple red dot scope. Under the barrel was a fore grip for better recoil control and accuracy. It weapon was painted a red and gold.

The other person standing next to her was a man with short messy, blonde hair. He too had a pair of shades covering his eyes, but his were tinted silver, almost like a mirror. The scarf around his face was white. An ear piece rested in his ear as well. He had the same combat gear as the girl next to him. He had the black Kevlar vest with the ammo bands, combat knife, and satellite phone. On the left side of the chest was his codename, it read "Knight". Under his vest though, he wore a black hoodie that had orange in the inside of the hood. The sleeves of the hoodie were rolled up to his elbows. On the right side of the hoodie was the company logo again. And on the left side of the hoodie was his rank, he bore the two silver captain bars. He wore black cargo shorts and combat boots as well. Strapped to his right thigh was also a weapon holster, but instead he had what looked to be a Glock 17. In his hands, his weapon was a Kriss Vector SMG. It had an EO-Tech holographic scope, a small grip under the barrel, a folding stock, and a suppressor on the barrel. His weapon was painted a pattern of gold and white.

Ruby knew what these weapons were because she became a weapon nerd during the SWAT training school.

Behind them, was the man they had met at the bar the other night. He wore simple clothing, much like what he had worn the other night. A white jacket and jeans. He still had the dark tinted shades on as well. But, around his waists were two pistol holsters, each one held a .44 magnum revolver. He didn't have one of the scarves around his face either. He looked like an everyday citizen, minus the hand-cannons at his sides.

"May we come in?" he asked.

"Uh... Sure." Ruby said. She stepped back from the door and let the three in. "In the living room." she said.

They walked into the living room and found Yang and Blake sitting on the couch. Yang was watching T.V. while reading Blake was reading a book. When Blake turned her gaze from her book and saw the three people standing by Ruby, she shut her book and tapped Yang's arm. Yang turned and saw that they had arrived. She immediately turned off the T.V.

Ruby brought three chairs over and sat them in front of the couch. She, Blake and Yang sat on the couch while the three people sat in the chairs. The woman with red hair sat on the right chair, the man with blonde hair sat on the right, and the black haired man sat in the middle.

"So," he said first "you wish to join our group?" he asked.

The three girls looked to each other, having a brief mental conversation. Finally, Yang spoke.

"You gave us an opportunity and we took it. You wouldn't be here if we weren't serious about joining, now would you?" she said.

The man looked to be thinking it over for a second. He then shrugged. He took off his tinted shades to reveal his brown eyes. "You can take them off." he said to his two companions.

The two looked to be unsettled by this, but the reluctantly took off the things that were hiding their faces. The man on the left took off his shades to reveal blue irises and the girl on the left revealed emerald green irises. The two then pulled down their scarves to reveal a black device that hugged their face.

"We must wear these in case someone has a chance of recognizing our voices." the blonde man said. The device was a voice modifier that made his voice deep, just like over the phone. They reached around to the back of their necks and undid a buckle and took them off.

The man in the center spoke then. "Sorry, they wear those for security. Whole company could be compromised if they didn't wear them and they saw someone they knew." he said

"Then why aren't you wearing one?" Blake asked.

The man shrugged. "Not from around here, my chances of seeing someone is extremely low." he said. "Anyways, this is one of my lieutenants, Pyrrha Nikos." he gestured to the woman on the left. "And this is one of my captains, Jaune Arc." he said while gesturing towards the man on the right.

"Hey." Jaune said.

"Hello." said Pyrrha.

"Hey." The three women said in unison.

"Finally, my name is Dan Scottson. I'm one of the commanders of H&H." he said with a smile as he stuck his hand out to shake their hands. They all shook his hand. When they did he brought his hand back down and his smile faded, becoming very serious. "Now, if you three are serious about joining, we need to get planning." he said.

"Planning? Planning for what?" Ruby asked, fairly confused.

"Why, planning your deaths of course." he said plainly.

The three girls eyes widened in shock. "Why do we have to plan our deaths?" Yang asked.

"Because everyone at H&H, are in the books as deceased." he said, as if it were completely normal to be known as dead.

"So if we want to be in your group, we have to fake our deaths?" Blake asked.

"Correct." Dan said.

"Which means we'll have to leave our old lives behind?" Yang asked.

"Correct again." he said.

"As well as people we know or knew?" Ruby asked.

"Correct, again! Man, you guys are on fire." he said with a smirk.

The women looked at each other once again, having another mental conversation. Finally, they looked towards the three again.

"Ok, we're in." Yang said.

"What's the plan?" Ruby asked.

They then went on brainstorming ideas. After about a half hour, they came up with the idea of a car accident. They would need more people from the company to help in the plan. What they were going to do was that they would take Blake's car, much to her dismay, and put three fake bodies inside of it.

The car would be controlled by a small remote control that took over the entire car without there being wires all over the place. They would have one of the other mercenaries in another car to fake almost hitting a deer. The remote controlled car would swerve to avoid hitting the other car, the car would begin to flip, and a non-traceable explosive device would ignite the gas tank, "killing" the three occupants.

All first responders to the scene would also be mercenaries, dressed in disguises as the first responders.

It was a tricky operation when it took place, but they managed to pull it off.

Ruby snapped out of her subconscious thoughts.

Now, Ruby had been doing this for three years, and she was the leader of one of the smaller teams in the company. In the team, it was just her, Blake, and Yang.

There were other mercenaries here as well, plenty of others.

They all were stationed at a vase that was hidden in a forest a few miles outside of the more populated areas of Atlas.

Ruby then finished brushing her hair and walked it of the bathroom. She put on some shorts and t-shirt. She took out her scroll, which was given to her by the group, and placed it in her pocket. She put on some boots and walked over to the small table beside her bed.

She reached down and picked up the crystal snowflake necklace that Weiss had given her and she wrapped it around her neck and latched it on. She might have been wearing two necklaces now, but she didn't care. The necklace was her sort of good luck charm, plus it made her feel close to Weiss.

Ruby glanced at the clock and saw the time. 10:37; she was up early today.

She turned around and walked towards the door and walked out. After closing the door she turned and went down the hallway to the left, towards the firing range and the armory.

When she arrived at the armory she looked around at the vast amount of weapons on the walls and racks. Rifles, shotguns, pistols, machine guns lined the walls in great numbers on the left side of the room. In the center of the room layer a long metal table that held the heavier weaponry such as rocket launchers, HMG's, and high caliber rifles. On the right side of the room was the storage lockers for every mercenary. The lockers were large enough to hold their personal weaponry and their combat gear.

Ruby walked to hers and looked inside. Hanging on spare hangers was her gear. First off was a long red cloak. The bottom of the cloak was torn in some parts from years of wear and tear. She had the same Kevlar vest, black cargo pants, black combat boots, and voice modifier as everyone else as well. Her scarf that went over the voice modifier was red, the same as her cloak. Sitting on a small shelf at the top of the locker was her red tinted shades.

Behind the shades, sat her pistol. An FN57 semi-auto. It had her rose symbol engraved into the side of it and the gun was painted crimson. There was a suppressor screwed into the barrel for more silent kills.

Then, standing in the locker, we're her two favorite weapons. The first was an M110 sniper rifle. It had an ACOG scope for medium range and then on the ride of it at an angle was an iron sight for close range combat. It had a vertical grip attached to the bottom of the barrel. There was a suppressor of to the side, in case she ever needed it. It was painted in a black and red pattern.

But, standing right next to that, was her sweetheart as she called it. An M98B, high velocity, customizable, armor piercing sniper rifle. It had the classic long range scope, a bipod for steady aim, and a fixed stock. It too was painted the pattern of red and black. Along the side of the rifle, she had tally marks. There were 47 marks in total.

People all around the base wondered how she had been able to use that weapon without breaking her shoulder at some points.

She grabbed her M110 rifle and a few full magazines. She closed the door to her locker and walked out the door of the armory. She made a right and walked into the indoor firing range that they had. Inside she found one other person.

It was a man named Lie Ren, but everyone just called him Ren. He had black hair with a neon pink streak dyed over his left eye. His eyes were also a neon pink. At the moment he wore a green t-shirt and long black jeans. He was shooting down the range, his weapon, a Glock 18 full-auto pistol. The other one was sitting beside him, he usually used both at one, but must have just been practicing his aim with one. They were both painted green.

When he finished a mag and unloaded, Ruby spoke.

"Morning, Ren." She said stoically.

Ren turned his head and saw Ruby beginning to set up with her rifle. "Hey, Ruby. You're up early." he said.

"Ha-ha. Very funny, Ren." she said. Ruby was known for sleeping in until almost noon, her getting up at ten was unheard of most of the time.

Ren shook his head with a chuckle and loaded another magazine into his pistol and began firing down range again.

Ruby placed down the magazines on the small stand next to her and loaded one of them in. She picked up a pair of ear plugs and put them in her ears. She aimed down range and began to fire. She had nice grouping on the target. All of her shots were hitting dead center of the chest. Halfway through the mag she switched from the chest to the head. The grouping was good there as well.

After another 10 minutes, she had a few shots left in her final mag when she felt her scroll buzzing. She set the weapon down and pulled out her scroll. It was a message from one of the Scottson's, Dan, saying to grab her team and meet in the briefing room.

Ruby quickly fired off her final shots and picked up the spent rounds off the floor. She walked back to the armory after saying 'bye' to Ren and placed her M110 back in her locker and left the armory.

She knew where Yang and Blake would be at this moment. They were in the gym, possibly sparing in hand to hand combat. When she walked upon the door to the gym, she walked in and found just what she was expecting.

Yang and Blake were throwing and blocking punches at and from one another. Yang had brought her leg up in a kick in which Blake had caught, Blake was about to punch Yang when Ruby spoke.

"Ok, you two, hold on for a second." she said. The two stopped their spar and looked towards her.

"Hey, Ruby." Blake said.

"Mornin', sis." Yang said.

"Hey guys. Come on, we're needed in the briefing room." Ruby said.

"What do they need?" Yang asked.

"Don't know. All I got told was to come to the briefing room with you two." Ruby said.

"Alright." Blake said. The three of them then walked out of the gym and began walking towards the briefing room. While walking they passed by other mercenaries who they waved and said "Hi" to.

While walking, there were many things that they were thinking about. What crazy assignment did they have in store for them today? Was it another bounty that needed to be claimed? Or were they going to be stationed somewhere as guards? There were many more questions along with those.

They found the door to the briefing room and walked inside.

Inside they found Dan and his brother, Tyler, staring at some notes. Tyler was looking at them on a laptop and Dan had a plain sheet of paper. They sat at one side of a long table and to their right there was a projector in which screen was currently black. Surrounding the table were chairs that had cushions on them and had wheels on the bottoms.

Ruby, Blake and Yang stood in front of them with their backs straight and their hands behind them.

"Morning, Ladies." Tyler said.

"Good morning, sir's." the three said in unison.

"And, uh, how are you three today?" Dan asked.

"Fine." said Ruby.

"Alright." said Blake

"Great." said Yang.

"Fantastic." Dan said as he put down his notes. "So, today, you three are going to be deployed on an escort assignment. And the father of the person you'll be escorting owns one of the largest gas companies in all of Remnant." he said. "Please, take a seat." he said while gesturing his hand towards three cushy chairs on wheels.

The three sat down on the three seats and looked at the brothers who were looking at the laptop, whispering things into each other's ear and pointing at the screen. Finally, they looked towards the three women.

"So," Yang said. "Who's the poor bastard who we'll be escorting?" she asked.

Tyler pressed a button on his laptop and the projector turned on to reveal an image of a face that was all too familiar to the three women. They hadn't seen her face in years, but it was still familiar. Her white hair was in a sideways ponytail and had sky blue eyes.

Ruby almost had a panic attack at the face of who they were escorting but she didn't want the brothers to know that they knew her, or else they'd put someone else on the task.

"Weiss Schnee." Tyler said. "Daughter of Hareld Schnee who is the owner of the Schnee Gas Company, multi-billionaire, and has one of the largest bounties in our database. Mr. Schnee has asked of us to escort Weiss from their house, known as White Castle, to Tanner Oil HQ in Vale." he said.

"Are they crazy?" Blake asked. "Vale is where the White Fang is based as well and god knows what would happen if they caught wind of her being in that city." she said.

"And that's why they called us." Dan said. "By our guesses, they feel that their regular guards are not enough and they need some extra help. You three will be given a few bullheads and SUV's with heavy armor and weaponry. Along with ten other lower mercenaries for support." he said.

"I originally told that I would send three people, but after looking it over a bit, I decided to send a few extras. You three will be leading this operation though, alright?" Tyler said.

"Yes sir's." the three said.

"Ok, you have one hour then you're leaving. Load up weaponry and get your people ready, make sure your transport is set completely and get going to White Castle. You should arrive by tomorrow morning by the time you leave." Dan said.

"Dismissed." Tyler said.

The three women stood out of their seats and walked out of the briefing room. They walked in complete silence until they got to the armory and started to load up.

"So. This is going to happen?" Blake asked.

"Apparently." Ruby said.

"I guess so." Yang said. "Nervous?" she asked.

"A little." Ruby responded as she changed her shirt from her regular t-shirt to her red shirt which sleeves stopped at her elbows. It had the captain bars on the left sleeve and the logo on the right sleeve.

"Kinda." Blake said as she cocked her M9 suppressed pistol and slid it into the holster at her thigh.

"I'm guessing that you thought that if you said anything or showed any nervous signs in there they would have picked up on it and would have assigned someone else?" Yang asked her sister as she slipped on her black Kevlar vest.

"Yes." Ruby said. She didn't really want to talk about this and she hoped her sister would pick up on it. Thankfully she did.

Ruby switched her pants from her shorts to her black cargo pants. She slipped on the Kevlar vest and slipped the knife into the sheath. She started placing M110 magazines into the bands on the vest and in the pockets of the pants. She loaded a magazine into her FN57, put the safety on and slipped it into the holster. She took her cloak off of its hanger and attached it to her vest. She wrapped the voice modifier loose enough around her neck so she could easily put it up to her mouth when needed along with the scarf over the modifier. She slipped into and tied on her combat boots. She picked up her M110, screwed on the suppressor and loaded in a new magazine. She placed the weapon on safety and slung it behind her right shoulder. She grabbed her pair of red shades and slipped them over her eyes. She shut the door to her locker and turned around.

Blake and Yang were just finishing loading up as well. Blake turned and shut her locker first. Her shades were tinted completely black and her scarf was purple. Her shirt was purple as well. On the left sleeve was a golden lieutenant bar. Her weapon in hand was a UMP-45 SMG. It had a suppressor screwed into the barrel and a regular red dot sight. The most interesting part about her weapons though, was that she didn't have combat knife on her vest. On her back she had a long katana sheath. She learned to use it her second year in the mercenary group and she was quite effective with it.

Yang then shut her locker and turned as well. She had shotgun shells running down the sides of the Kevlar vest instead of magazines. She had more on her long gloves that went up to her elbow. All the shells were different kinds, like buckshot, flechette, frag, and slug. Her shades were tinted gold along with her orange scarf and yellow shirt. The golden lieutenant bar on her shirt had a black background so that it didn't blend in with the shirt. She had her shotgun locked and ready. It was an R870-MCS pump-action shotgun. The pistol that was strapped to her side was a .50 desert eagle. In some situations, Yang was the definition of overkill.

Ruby looked at her two friends and noticed something about Blake. "Blake, your bow." she said.

Blake looked confused for a second then nodded. They couldn't risk Weiss recognizing the bow. Blake opened her locker again and brought out a purple beanie. She took the ribbon out of her hair and slipped on the beanie. It didn't look really professional but it helped. Luckily her cat ears didn't poke out of the top.

They didn't have to worry about Weiss noticing Yang's crazily long hair. When she was in the Vytal military, she had to cut it short and it went down to her upper back now.

"Ready?" Ruby asked.

Yang and Blake nodded. The three of them left the armory and made their way towards the vehicle bay.

When arrived, they found the three SUV's the Scottson's talked about. They were all black and looked heavily armored. Outside they could hear the engines of the bullheads they would be flying in.

Four of the lower mercenaries who they were going to be working with were checking out the vehicles.

"So what do we got here boys?" Yang asked them.

One of them walked up to them. He had a blue beret on his head and blue tinted shades. At the moment his voice modifier was around his neck. His only weapon was a pistol strapped to his thigh. "Well," he said. "The SUV in the middle is the one the person were escorting will be transported in. It has at least 3 inches of steel plating. The other two are for support, there are hatches at the top where our Gatling guns will be mounted." he explained.

"Miniguns? Are you serious?" Ruby asked.

The lower mercenary shrugged. "Hey we got assigned these, don't ask me why." he said. He looked to his watch. "Alright, we're just about ready to go." he said as he walked back towards the vehicles. The three girls walked slightly behind him. "The other six of us are back outside with the bullheads, we're all outside and ready to go when you are." he said as he got in the driver's seat of the first SUV.

Another one of the lower mercenaries joined him and the other two got in the back SUV. Ruby, Blake, and Yang all got into the middle SUV with Blake driving, Yang in the passenger seat, and Ruby in the back and they drove outside onto the small airstrip that they had. They quickly drove up to the three bullheads.

When they did, they were told to come out of the car so that they could hook the cars to the bottom of the bullheads with chains.

Five of the lower mercenaries got into one bullhead, the other five got into another. That left Ruby, Blake and Yang alone in the third one, except for the pilot. The three women got out of the SUV and climbed aboard the bullhead. Shortly after they did they took off and hovered there until they heard the clunk! of the bullhead's cables attaching to the SUV. After a few more minutes, they began to fly off towards White Castle.

"Arrive by tomorrow morning." Dan had said.

Ruby sat down on one of the small seat that were against the wall of the interior. She set her rifle down next to her and closed her eyes.

She slept for what felt like a minute. But when she opened her eyes and saw Blake standing with her voice modifier and scarf her mouth, she learned otherwise.

"How far are we out?" Ruby asked.

Blake looked at her. Ruby could see her own reflection in Blake's darkly tinted shades. "About three minutes." she said, her voice deep from the modifier.

Ruby nodded and stood up. She pulled her modifier up over her lower half of her face and turned it on. "Good morning." she said as a test. Her voice was very deep now. She pulled the scarf over her modifier and flipped the hood of her cloak to hide her hair. She slept with her shades on so she didn't need to put them on. She grabbed her rifle and slung it over her shoulder again.

She heard Yang stand up and put her facial gear on as well. She flipped on the switch to her modifier and said "Good morning" as well. Her voice deep. She pulled up her scarf and slipped on her shades.

"One minute." the pilot said.

Ruby looked to her friends and nodded. She walked over to the side door of the bullhead and opened it. They were slowing down and below them grassy plains whizzed by.

They finally came to a hover just above a field, there was a road next to it.

"Just follow that road and you'll come up on the manor's driveway." the pilot said. As he said this they felt a jerk and heard another clunk! as the SUV was released from the bullhead.

"Got it." Ruby said. She turned to her friends. "Codenames from now on." she said.

"Understood, Red." they said in unison.

Ruby nodded and jumped from the craft. It was a five foot jump and she landed in a crouch. Yang and Blake landed next to her, also in a crouch.

They stood and the other bullheads were hovering around them.

"Black, you're driving. Yellow, passenger seat. I got the back." Ruby said.

"Ok." said Yang.

"Will do." said Blake.

They got in the SUV and began to drive. It was another 5 minutes when they came upon the large metal gates that belonged to Schnee Manor.

They had arrived right at Weiss' front door and were ready to go in without knocking.

"I'll be glad to see you again, Weiss," Ruby thought. "Just this one last time."

AN: Chapter 2, complete! That was the second chapter guys, and I hope you all enjoyed it. I must say, holy shit, what a turnout for the first chapter. I didn't expect it to be that good. Well I hope the people who really enjoyed the first chapter, also enjoyed this one. I liked writing this one. Shout out to Shattered Spectre once agian for beta reading this chapter, AND, making the amazing cover photo.

Hope you all liked it, and I'll see you all, in the next chapter!