“So how do we get down there?” Reese asked. “I don’t see an entrance.”

Fox held up his hands. “You’re asking the wrong guy.”

“If this is a mining rig, there has to be a mine, right?” Scarlet looked around. Then he looked down.

“If it’s buried under the sand, how can anyone get in and out of it?” Reese asked.

“Carmine can move sand,” Coco and Fox said at once.

“Whoa, that was weird,” Fox sent.

“Carmine Esclados’s Semblance is telekinesis,” Coco explained.

“Like Professor Goodwitch?” Nolan said.

Coco pinched her fingers together. “Sort of. She can only move small things, but sand is very, very small.”

Sage kicked some sand. “That’s gonna take us a while. And we didn’t bring shovels.”

“Does anyone have Gravity Dust?” Coco asked.

They took inventory and came up with enough Gravity Dust to fuel Olive’s awl pike.

“But I can still only fire a few Gravity waves,” Olive said. “Not enough to move all this sand.”

“Leave that part to me,” Coco said. “I can enhance the effect of the Dust. You guys might want to stand clear.”

The team scrambled to get away from the tower as Coco and Olive stood before it. They looked at each other and nodded. Olive started spinning her pike like a baton, and Coco concentrated. Suddenly a gravity pulse burst from Olive’s weapon, which blasted a massive wave of sand away from the bottom of the tower.

When the sand had cleared, Scarlet wiped grit and tears from his eyes. The full mining rig was visible, and an entrance had been bored into the bedrock at its base. The group moved toward it.

“Someone should probably stay out here,” Scarlet said. “We don’t know what we’re going to find in there.”

“If Carmine’s involved, chances are it’s going to be a fight,” Coco said. Though Scarlet knew she was mostly worried about whether Carmine was targeting Velvet right now.

- RWBY: Before the Dawn, Chapter 13