Somewhere in the glowing mushroom fields of the Garden's Acre, Ruby, Glimmer, and Rex are seen running while carrying the still-shrunken Weiss, Blake, Yang, Team REBL, and CRMS in their hands. Ruby pants, stops running, and looks back. Ruby sighs in relief as Little pats her cheek.

Rex: Ruby, don't push yourself. Take a break if-

Ruby: We don't have time!

Rex and Glimmer took a step back from Ruby's voice being raised at them. Her eyes widen in realization at what she did.

Glimmer: Ruby...

Ruby: I'm sorry. We just... I just...

Rex: Hey, I'm not mad, Rubes.

Curious Cat: (hopping on top of mushrooms) I'm so glad the rest of you are still the rest of you.

Curious Cat: Not always the case in the Ever After.

Shane: You're one to talk!

Crim: We wouldn't be in this mess if you hadn't ditch us!

Weiss: Which, by the way, was how we ended up in that mushroom house to begin with! You know, where that delirious caterpillar-guy tried to drug us and then was swallowed up by a freaking hole in the ground?!

Mason: I mean, what the fuck was that back there?!

Curious Cat: (licking their paw) Ah, yes, yes. Alyx had a similar reaction the first time she saw someone return to the Ever After. But it's not how it seems... well, I suppose it is... but not the way you think, if you think like Alyx, which it seems like you do.

Weiss, Blake, Yang, Team CRMS and REBL exchange glances with each other. The Cat hops from mushroom to mushroom while Rex, Ruby, and Glimmer looks on, before looking down to Little. Their attention is then grabbed again by the cat.

Curious Cat: Ah ha! We're here.

The Cat proceeds down the path, and Ruby, Glimmer, and Rex follows. She looks with astonishment at a large lake with lily pads carrying various denizens of the Ever After on them. They seem to be heading towards a grand structure toward the center of the lake with a large, pink lotus flower at the top.

Rin: What is this place?

Curious Cat: Better run.

They hurried and jumps over to the giant lily pad with the Cat.

Yang: So, Cat. Going to explain to us how a giant caterpillar disappearing into a hole "isn't how it seems"?

Curious Cat: Mmmm, when we break or wear out or simply finish what we were made to do, we're called back. But Herb... his heart was too weak to listen, so I gave him a little bit of mine.

Luke: So you mean he kicked the bucket? Or bite the dust? Oh fuck...

Blake: Is he... dead?

Curious Cat: (chuckles) No, no! Well, maybe a little bit, but not at all.

Yang: Ugh! Which is it?

Curious Cat: (clears throat) Now that Herb's properly returned, he'll be fixed up nice, and made into the Herb he wanted to be when he was still "Herb". Then he'll come back and find his purpose. Could be the same as before, or maybe not.

Ruby: When Herb comes back, will he remember anything?

Mason: Reincarnation. Got it.

Curious Cat: (laughs) What would be the point of that? (stretches) Just like Alyx, you lot. I know, I know, where you're from, things... (shudders) ...die... but we're just not like you at all. We... ascend. Herb will have a purpose again.

Weiss: That's impossible. Things have to die someday. Right?

Elena: Normally, should have. But take Ozpin for example.

Briana: He's been reincarnated Oum knows how many times, and Salem, an immortal bitch queen who can't be killed.

Rin: Weiss, in case you didn't notice, we're not on Remnant. Rules are different here from those in our world. If we keep thinking we're back in our world, we'll end up in so much trouble, like Alyx did last time.

Curious Cat: Indeed, you're right. Though I suppose there is a creature... No, no, that's not the sort of thing you talk about in polite company...

Team RWBY, REBL, CRMS, Glimmer and the Cat make landings to the center structure, and they step off the lily pad. A bird-like denizen is seen walking around carrying a tray.

Hawker: Get your hot, fresh, right-out-of-the-oven... (inaudible)

Blake: Wait, so what happened to Herb... that what happened to the King?

Team RWBY, CRMS, REBL, and Glimmer walks past the vendor.

Hawker: C'mon! Try our mud cookies! They're delicious! You don't wanna miss them! (inaudible)

Shane: You heard what the Herbalist said. 'This is how a king winds up a prince.' So the King must've ascended when Alyx beat him for the first time; he broke his purpose. And then became the Red Prince.

Curious Cat: Oh, it was all very sad. The Red King couldn't cope when he lost to Alyx, a crying mess. Thankfully, he was called back and fixed up, and now he's the Prince you met.

Crim: Fixed up? The Prince was worse. He cheated the game, threw a temper tantrum like a 4 year old, and tried to chop our heads off!

Glimmer: Yeah, I've seen bad kids in a daycare.

Curious Cat: The Prince isn't supposed to be nice. He's meant to play the game and win, no matter what.

Blake: So, that's why he cheats, when the Red King didn't. But that still doesn't explain why the Red Prince was so much meaner.

Briana: Typical rich spoiled brats look like angels.

Curious Cat: While the Prince may not remember Alyx's deception after ascending, the heart very rarely forgets.

Blake: But there was nothing about ascension in the story.

Curious Cat: Of course not! Exposition is terribly boring. Even this conversation was, on the whole, rather tedious!

Blake: I wonder what else Alyx left out.

Weiss and Yang ponder with Blake about this.

Elena: If Alyx didn't write about that in the book... what else didn't she write about? How much or little of the story do we actually know about?

Rex: We'll think about it later. Now, let's focus on getting you guys back to normal size.

Later on...

Curious Cat: Well, to make a Growgurt Parfait, one needs a bushel of grumpy ivy, one good-sized spicy potato, the lint off a griffon's sweater - Ethel's Dragons and More should have that - which is next to...

Ruby: I'll never remember all of that.

Curious Cat: (chuckles) No, I can procure those. But there's another ingredient we must have that's only available on the third level. Some nose hair from a leprechaun.

Team RWBY, CRMS, REBL, and Glimmer become disgusted.

Glimmer: Nose hairs?! What the hell?!

Curious Cat: What if you retrieve that while I go get the rest?

Ruby: Sure, I guess so.

Rex: Yeah, sure. We'll take care of that.

Curious Cat: Wonderful! Look for the Teapot Lady. She'll have it now. Now off you go.

As the Cat goes off, they get distracted when a leaf-headed creature waves from a vendor holding a flower in their hand.

Yang: Ugh... Guess I'd better go with the Cat so they don't get distracted by a shiny doorknob and never come back.

Blake: I'll go with you.

Elena: It might be best if all of us little guys stick together to get those things.

Rin: What about you, Rex?

Rex: I'm going with Rosebud and Glimmer.

Weiss: Get me as far away as possible from the nose hairs, please.

Little: I'll go with you, Ruby.

Ruby sighs as she and Rex bring Weiss, Blake, Yang, Team REBL and CRMS to the Cat.

Yang: Nice try, Kitty.

Luke: You'll be sticking with us for now.

Weiss jumps and lands onto the Cat's head.

Weiss: But we're coming along.

Yang, Blake, Team REBL and CRMS follow and land on the Cat. The Cat leaves the vendor who tries to offer Ruby the flower this time. Ruby awkwardly stammers and walks away.

Some Hunter Mice steal the cheese radish on the vendor's table, much to their dismay.

Little: (giggles and scurries up to Ruby's head) Onward!

As Little makes a pose, they yawn.

Glimmer: I think I found Little's real purpose.

Ruby chuckles.

As Ruby, Rex, and Glimmer continue walking around, Little takes a nap in the back of her hood.

Ruby: Teapot Lady... Teapot Lady... Uh...

Suddenly, a loud clanging can be heard. Rex and Ruby find themselves alone with all the other denizens walking around suddenly gone. Darkness encroaches and surrounds the area on all sides except for the small area Ruby and Rex are standing in. They both gasp as they notices what is happening. They raise their hands as a bright light is emitted from their right. They notices a rack of weapons, among them being Penny's Maiden sword. Ruby grabs it off the rack and holds it in her hands.

Rex: Penny...

???: (off-screen) Does that one interest you?

Rex and Ruby look up to who spoke, and sees a feminine-looking, metallic Blacksmith standing before her forge.

Their features are obscured by the forge's bright flames. Ruby and Rex approaches her, entering the shop.

Rex: Who are you?

Silence.

Ruby: I... I thought this was lost forever. How'd you have it?

Blacksmith: Nothing. No one is ever truly lost.

Ruby stares at the Floating Array sword and a reflection of Penny appears in it. She gasps.'

Rex: What the...

Blacksmith: And what of you? (turns to them) Are the both of you lost?

Rex: Not at all...

The Blacksmith holds a pair of tongs holding a heated, metallic butterfly wing.

Ruby: No, no. We're just... Our friends went somewhere else.

Blacksmith: You're doing this all alone?

Little wakes up and notices their surroundings in the Blacksmith's tent.

Little: Rex, Ruby... I don't think we're supposed to be here.

Blacksmith: Are you their guide, little one?

Little: Yes. Rex and Ruby are my friend and I want to help them get home. Even though I don't know where that is or how to get there.

Blacksmith: Hmm... (hits the hammer on the glowing half part of a butterfly wing and turns to Rex) The Crystal on your chest. Your emotions are telling you that you're still feeling guilty. That's what she told me.

Rex: 'She?'

Blacksmith: (to Ruby) You seem to be carrying a rather large burden with you. (hits the hammer again)

Ruby: I'm fine. I can handle it.

Blacksmith: If you change your mind, you may choose any one of these you like and set your burden down.

Ruby looks down to find a dagger in the Floating Array sword's place.

She and Rex stare at the blade and a reflection of Alyx appears.

Ruby: I already have a weapon. Rex was the one who found it.

Blacksmith: And yet, here you are, searching for something else that you do not even know.

Ruby sets the dagger down on the table next to her, before looking up to see a rather intricate axe-like hybrid weapon with a trigger function.

Rex: Who's weapon is this...?

Ruby: I... wish I knew.

The Blacksmith continues hammering, the clanging sound ringing. Ruby gasps as she and Rex sees on the blade with a reflection of Summer Rose.

Rex: Summer?!

Summer's Silver Eyes starting to glow and obscuring the screen in a bright white light.

Curious Cat: (echo) Ruby? Rex?

Glimmer: Guys? Hey!

Ruby gets startled and turns around. She is seemingly back, having snapped out of Rex and her vision with the Blacksmith. The Cat is seen holding the Growgurt Parfait ingredients in a basket with their mouth. Weiss is riding on the Cat's head with Team CRMS, REBL, Blake and Yang in the basket.

Curious Cat: Ruby? Rex? Who are you talking to? Did you retrieve the nose hairs?

Hawker: (to other customers) C'mon, try our mud cookies! They're delicious! You don't wanna miss it!

Rex: We uh...

Rex and Ruby looks around, noticing the Blacksmith's shop and forge is gone.

Rex: What?

Ruby: Uh... no, not-- not just yet, but--

Weiss: Ruby, come on. We got everything else.

Ruby: I... Uh... I'm sorry.

Rex: Rosebud, don't worry.

Blake: (pointing to the left) Is that the Teapot Lady?

Hawker: Best mud cookies you'll ever have!

Team RWBY, CRMS, REBL, Glimmer and the Cat approach the Teapot Lady's booth.

Teapot Lady: Welcome to Things n' Things! How can I help you?

Curious Cat: Looking for nose hairs. No, not the ogre ones.

The Cat nonchalantly tosses aside and tips over the various items on the booth, much to the Teapot Lady's annoyance. Suddenly some fireworks go off, the crowd goes to see it.

Yang: Woohoo, a festival!

The crowd begins to scream and everyone runs for their lives, the fireworks saying the word "DANGER" in green.

Hawker: Jabberwalker! It's the Jabberwalker!

Luke: I don't think it's a festival, Yang!

The Teapot Lady screams and quickly takes away the items by sucking in with her spout. The Cat hangs on to the jar they found.

Ruby: Wait, please! We need those leprechaun's nose hairs!

Teapot Lady: No time!

Ruby: Here! I'll give you this! (shows off her brooch) I-It carries a mother's promise!

Rex: Rubes, are you sure?

Ruby: You have any better ideas?! (Rex shook his head)

Teapot Lady: (gasps and sucks in Ruby's brooch) Take it! (begins running away) Run!

Curious Cat: This... is exceedingly bad...

Crim: Yeah, no shit!

Blake: Wait. What's a Jabberwalker?

Curious Cat: It's a truly terrible creature. If the Jabberwalker eats one of us, we do not ascend.

Weiss, Blake, and Yang gasp.

Mason: So you can die here, noted.

Yang: How do we make the parfait thing?

Shane: And it better be quick!

The Cat uncorks the jar of nose hairs with their mouth and places it on the table.

Curious Cat: Toss everything in here. But be careful, eat too much and we'll have to shrink you back again. And that's a completely different potion.

Ruby tosses everything together in a span of a few seconds, and the Parfait is prepared. Weiss, Blake, Yang, Team REBL and CRMS run forward and take a scoop of it in their hands, consuming it. They start to grow a little bigger, bigger than the parfait cup.

Blake: It wasn't enough!

Elena: Just keep eating!

The Jabberwalker then appears, breaking a vendor booth. It notices Team RWBY, CRMS, REBL, and Glimmer and charges toward them.

Jabberwalker: FOUND. GRAB. MAIM. KILL.

Glimmer: It's coming!

Little screams. Rex and Ruby grab their friends in their arms and use their Semblances to dodge out of the way, but the Jabberwalker hits Ruby with its tail. The parfait falls away from Ruby's arms. Some of it spills on the Jabberwalker, who wipes it off.

Weiss: No!

The Jabberwalker starts to grow bigger from the spilled parfait. Ruby holds her friends in her arms and runs away.

Briana: Are you fucking kidding me?!

Jabberwalker: PREY. EAT. DEVOUR.

The Jabberwalker chases after Rex, Glimmer, and Ruby. Suddenly, Hawker shows up swooping in on his wings and tackling the Jabberwalker to the ground.

Curious Cat: Run!

Ruby: What is he doing here?!

Curious Cat: I gave him something new to do for the moment. Now go! Your friends need to get big again, or we're all Jabberwalker dinner!

The Jabberwalker grabs Hawker as Ruby runs towards the parfait. Hawker gets thrown into a booth, groaning in pain. The Jabberwalker stops Ruby and Rex again. Suddenly, another creature comes galloping in, with an armored warrior riding on top of it.

The creature charges forward and bashes the Jabberwalker with its antlers.

Blake: (surprised) It's the Rusted Knight!

Yang: (to Ruby) Get the parfait!

Rex: Run!

With the newly arrived ally keeping the Jabberwalker occupied, Ruby runs towards the parfait. They set Weiss, Blake, ,Yang, Team REBL and CRMS down, and they take more scoops of the parfait in their hands, eating them. Ruby looks behind, before looking back to their teammates, now finally back to their regular sizes.

Yang: Ah, finally!

Rin: Now that's more like it!

Shane: Now it's our turn!

Weiss, Blake, and Yang, Team REBL and CRMS run forward to join the battle. Ruby and Glimmer looks on.

Curious Cat: Rex! Ruby! Glimmer! Follow me!

Glimmer, Rex, and Ruby follow the Cat. The Rusted Knight leaps over the Jabberwalker with his Jackalope mount. The Jabberwalker tries to charge forward, but is held down by Weiss' black glyph and Elena's Psychokinesis. The Jabberwalker tries to use its tail, but Mason pins it down with Panther's Claw's thunderbolt. Yang then jumps on top of it, punching away.

Yang: I said... I wasn't done with you yet!

Crim, Elena, Mason, and Weiss then launch the Jabberwalker into the air, followed by Blake, Luke, and Shane swinging above and kicking it back down, before a Semblance-enhanced Yang punches it in the gut.

It disappears into a bright, pink light, but the team looks on in shock.

Rin: That Semblance!

Blake: (shocked) Neo?!

Weiss gasps.

Yang: (confused) Huh?

Shane: Shit! She's here, too?!

A growl is heard. Another Jabberwalker emerges out from the water.

Rusted Knight: What?! There's only supposed to be one!

Multiple Jabberwalkers appear and surround Weiss, Blake, Yang, Team REBL, CRMS, and the Rusted Knight.

Rex: I get it. Her Semblance evolved...

Jabberwalkers: Detecting... Searching... FOUND!

Rusted Knight: What? Run! This way!

The Knight gallops away on his jackalope mount, with Luke, Blake, Mason, Crim, Elena, Briana, and Yang following him. Weiss looks for Ruby and Glimmer and finds them hiding nearby the booth.

Weiss: Ruby, Glimmer, come on!

Curious Cat: Go! We'll hold them off!

The Cat and Hawker proceed to battle off the Jabberwalker doppelgangers. Ruby looks back as she runs, noticing Hawker get thrown to the ground and the Jabberwalkers surrounding him. Ruby winces as she hears his dying screams. Team RWBY, REBL, CRMS, and Glimmer follows the Rusted Knight to the top of the marketplace, pointing them in the direction of the giant lotus flower. Weiss stops to look as many various Ever After denizens flee screaming on the lily pads.

Smoke plumes rise from the destructive aftermath. Weiss looks on wide-eyed helplessly. She turns around, noticing the Teapot Lady sobbing and crying over her broken things. There are some cracks on her. Weiss holds her hand to her mouth at the heartbreaking sight.

Rex: Goddamn it...!

Ruby arrives and gives her a sympathetic look as she walks her away.

Weiss: (disheartened) I am so tired of leaving places in ashes...

Rex: Me too.

Rex, Ruby and Weiss head inside the lotus flower, and the Rusted Knight follows. The Rusted Knight sheathes his half-broken rusted sword as he walks past Team RWBY, CRMS, REBL, and Glimmer and towards his Jackalope mount.

Blake: (excited) I can't believe it. The Rusted Knight, in person!

Rusted Knight: You did good, Juniper.

Juniper coos as the Rusted Knight pets her on the head.

Mason: Juniper, as in Team JNPR?

Luke: Wait a second...

Rin: It can't be...

Briana: Who the fuck are you?

The Knight takes off his helmet and turns around to Team RWBY, CRMS, REBL, and Glimmer showing them his familiar face. The Rusted Knight is revealed to be Jaune Arc, now older than Team RWBY, CRMS, and REBL. His blonde hair has grown longer tied in a lower ponytail, with white streaks in it, and has a full beard. There are also age lines under his eyes.

Jaune: (smiles) Team RWBY. Team CRMS. And Team REBL...

Team RWBY, CRMS, and REBL gasps, stunned over Jaune's appearance and his identity as the Rusted Knight.

Jaune: You finally made it.

Rex: Jaune...? Is that you...?

Briana: Why are you so old...?!

END OF PART 110