A/N: Hello, welcome to my imagination, where physics and law enforcement go out the window, and I become unstoppable (I just had to say that). This is my first story (except for those that my English teacher in school asks for), and I really don't know how well I did in setting things up. So I'm going to say this now, please review and tell my how shit I am, so I get knocked back to my senses and continue with life before I started needing to write things. I wrote this because I needed to get some ideas out of my head, and onto paper, and I put it here so other people can enjoy it, or tell me that I'm a shit writer. I don't mind which one. Anyways, this was an idea that spawned while writing about another idea, so I went with this one, because I have more places to go with it. Cover image courtesy of Google and my own skill in Photoshop, or lack thereof.

So, enjoy (or hate) my first fanfic, story, etc.

DISCLAIMER: I don't know if I even really need one of these, because half the stories I read don't have them, and this entire site is about taking someone else's idea and write about it, so others can read the crazy things that happen in your imagination. Anyways, RWBY Belongs to Rooster Teeth, all characters in this (except the ones that aren't) are the property of Rooster Teeth, the only thing I own is the actual story, which belongs to me, and I wont be putting any more of these up, because I've already disclaimed it.

BTW, I won't put any warnings up for anything like smut, violence, gore, and anything like that, because its really just a big spoiler, and also interrupts the flow.


Ruby was relaxing in her dorm, waiting for the time to tick by. She should be somewhere right now, helping the police in their hunt for Torchwick, but had to delay because the bloody graduation was rescheduled.

Why, after 4 years of working their arses off, in peace and quiet, occasionally getting caught in the news, but in general out of the spotlight, did she and her team have to stand in front of all of Vale and say some massive boring speech that she was sure no one wanted to listen to.

Needless to say, 4 years of working out of the spotlight made her used to it, and she didn't really want to be put into it again.

Then again, I suppose that's the idea she reflected.

The schoolwork over the last year had been the hardest, because someone decided that all 4 years of their work should be summed up in 1, very hard and stressful, year. Then that year being summed up in 1 set of end of year exams. Not even mid-years to take the stress off.

Still, she had finished in the top 10 of the year, 4th overall, with Weiss, Blake, and Pyrrha (In that order) being the only ones who did better than her out of everyone in Beacon.

She felt a bit sorry for Yang though, as much as Ruby tried to persuade her to work and study more, Yang just did her own thing, and had a nervous breakdown the day before exams started.

She couldn't do the exams, and had to have her score be estimated from her performance throughout the year. She managed to get in the top half (Just), but she is still recovering from the breakdown. Nora was helpful with that… Ruby grinned at the thought of Nora and Yang.

Suddenly, a beep sounded on her alarm, interrupting her thoughts, and reminding her that she needed to head off. She sighed, got off from her bed, the old ropes groaning.

Weiss has been sleeping on the floor for months, ever since the first rope started fraying, probably smart, because I can't be bothered to change the ropes over. It seemed like a good idea at the time…

Ruby grinned at those memories, and started walking towards the transport ship.

The first year had been the most exciting, with them getting to know each other, and getting caught up in criminal affairs.

2nd year had been boring, with nothing exciting happened, until the yearly camp happened. This involved being dropped off at a random, remote, poverty stricken village with the rest of her team, and spending her holidays learning how the less fortunate lived. It was a very fun experience, and they were without doubt the happiest people she had ever seen. After that, she started giving to charities whenever she got the chance. She also sponsored a child, one from the village she had been in, by coincidence, and made her life better.

Most definitely a life lesson learned there. Then in 3rd year, they started have 'Mandatory Grimm Population Control Patrols', M.G.P.C.P. for short, but she and the rest of her team had taken to calling it shit.

4th year saw the end of team activities, and you just worked with your partner. They still shared a dorm, and tonight was the first time they would sleep anywhere other than beacon or in a campsite in 4 years.

Team RWBY had bought an apartment, courtesy of Weiss, and it wasn't half bad. It was fairly large, with 4 bedrooms (a requirement), a kitchen, a bathroom, and a small living area. It was pretty much an exact copy of countless other ones throughout Vale, but they liked it.

Ruby arrived at the ship, just in time to see the rest of Team RWBY and Team JNPR get on. Ruby activated her Semblance to catch up, and appeared right next to them. They didn't even flinch, as they were used to it by now.

'Hey guys!' said Ruby, putting on an act of excitement, 'Looking forward to graduation tonight?' '

We're all dreading it, and so are you, Ruby.' Blake replied, a ghost of a smile on her face.

'We know exactly where you want to be, and we all want to be there as well.'

'Well, if I'm that easy to read, let's go get this over with.' Ruby said, her act disappearing as quickly as it had arrived. They sat on the transport in silence, watching the other teams climb in, and waiting for the ship to take to the air. They were allowed to wear their combat gear for the evening, as it was meant to signal the end of their schooling.

Ruby had changed her outfit the most, after her cape had been incinerated in a fire caused by Cinder Fall. Ruby winced at the memory. After that, she decided that big trailing things like capes wouldn't work well. So she replaced it with a trench coat. Maybe it wasn't that big of a change, but it was red, and looked good on her. And it was very warm, as it was made out of special thermal material, and was layered with special linings and coatings that made it damage resistant.

Weiss had replaced her combat skirt with a fashionable white suit that gave her lots of room to move around in. Like Ruby's, it was warm, and damage resistant.

Blake had lost the bow (after lots of persuading from Ruby, Weiss and Yang), and had gotten her clothes more resistant and warm.

Yang hadn't changed her outfit at all, but probably will in future years, when it starts to work against her.

Also, Ruby had grown to be around Blake's height, while all the others had stayed pretty much at the same. She was 2 years younger than them, after all.

Finally, the ship took to the air, and Ruby turned her focus to her speech, and what she was going to do after the ceremony.


3 HOURS LATER…

'That took WAAAAAAYYY to long!' Nora complained, 'but now it's over, I'm going to go break some Grimm faces!'

Ren sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose, and got pulled along after Nora, who was singing happily.

'Some people never change' said Blake, but after considering herself, and her team, added, 'but I suppose that we haven't really either.'

Except Ruby and Yang have matured a bit… and Weiss has grown to be more friendly… so really, it's just me who hasn't changed in Team RWBY.

She shook these thoughts from her head, and started walking off towards the ship, where all their belongings were being stored, waiting for their respective owners to come and get them.

Team RWBY and the rest of Team JNPR made their excuses, and walked off in separate directions, both having gotten an apartment, but of different size, and location. JNPRS was a 2 room apartment, in a less nice area. But they had less money to throw at these things, and they were happy with what they had.

'Ren and Nora won't be back for a while…' Jaune started, and Pyrrha put a finger to his mouth, silencing him. They looked at each other, started to smile, and walked off, hand in hand, heading towards their apartment.

Team RWBY just got their stuff, piled into either Weiss's car, or onto Blake's bike, Bumblebee. They put their stuff into the respective room in the apartment, but didn't bother to unpack. They just grabbed their weapons and starting looking for Torchwick, the source of all problems.


Roman Torchwick was relaxing on a chair, watching the White Fang do all his work, when Cinder Fall, along with her annoying accomplices, Emerald and Mercury, walked up to him.

'Roman, we've talked about this, we can't have you relaxing, our plans have been foiled in the past because of laziness, and we need this Dust bomb to work.' Cinder said, putting on her best 'sweet little girl' voice, even though everyone could hear the annoyance, aggression and anger in her voice.

Roman promptly got up, and bowed dramatically, 'Of course, dear Cinder, we don't want anyone stumbling on the 5 Megaton Dust bomb that I just activated to go off in 3 hours, with no way to shut it off!'

She really annoyed him. And he knew the feeling was mutual. 'If it's started its countdown, the WHY ARE WE STILL HERE!' she yelled at him,

'This bomb is big enough to take out half of Vale, and any dust in that area will just increase the blast radius. We want to be nowhere NEAR this thing!'

She wasn't very comfortable being here, for obvious reasons.

'Hey, calm down, you don't want to alert anyone nearby we're here. The Beacon graduation ceremony isn't that far from here, and someone might hear, and alert all those new hunters and huntresses, along with all the older ones present, and half the fucking police force!'

Roman was nervous as well, but didn't want the 'good guys' to get in their way as well. Cinder calmed down, and nodded.

'No more yelling, let's just get out of here.' At this time Mercury noticed Blake sitting on the roof, watching them, Gambol Shroud in her hand.

'We've got company' was all he said. Roman turned around, following their gazes, and noticed Blake. 'Hello, kitty,' He mocked, 'come to play all by yourself?' At that, the other members of Team RWBY stepped out, pulling their weapons out and taking fighting stances. 'We're going to take you down, Torchwick. You, Cinder…' Ruby's voice faltered slightly 'Emerald and Mercury.' At that, Cinder laughed, and they all attacked each other.

Blake fought with Roman, spinning around, throwing up shadow clones, attacking him from multiple angles at once. But Roman was a good fighter, and he blocked all these blows with Melodic Cudgel, and rapped her on the head, which just made her attack faster.

He laughed all the time, countering Blake's blows with ease, pushing Gambol Shroud out the way. All of a sudden though, Blake's Cleaver came down in her left hand, and managed to land a hit on Roman, who snarled, and increased his pace. Blake responded by throwing Gambol Shroud in its smaller form around, pulling it through, while slashing at Roman with the cleaver. Roman blocked the cleaver, popped open the bottom of Melodic Cudgel, and shot her. Blake just used a shadow clone to get out of the way, pulling the blade attached to the ribbon into Romans arm. Roman roared with pain.

Ruby and Emerald fought. Crescent Rose spinning in a fast circle of death, but Emerald blocked this with her pistol daggers, firing them into Ruby whenever it lined up.

But Ruby blocked these with her weapon, all the while keeping it moving. She activated her semblance and started attacking from random sides, But Emerald blocked this with great reflexes.

She then jumped out of the way, shooting both pistols at Ruby, who blocked these. A roar was heard, and they looked around to see Roman stumbling, Gambol Shroud stuck in his upper arm. When she saw this, Emerald shot Blake in the leg. Blake, not expecting it, screamed and stumbled. Roman then span his weapon around, smashing it into Blake's face, knocking her unconscious, and sent her spinning into the corner.

Weiss broke from her fight with Mercury, to help her, only to be kicked in the back by Mercury. She span around, changing Myrternaster's setting to red, and slashed at him. He kicked her weapon out of the way, spinning around with a roundhouse kick coming in from the side. Weiss blocked that, using the momentum to spin around and slash Mercury's face with her rapier. She then felt the ground warm up underneath her and she quickly jumped out of the way as the ground exploded where she was.

Cinder had seemingly burned Yang out, with Yang staggering around, regaining her bearings. When she saw what happened, Yang punched Cinder in the back, causing Cinder to let out a massive wave of fire, sending Yang flying backwards, where she hit her head. Weiss and Ruby now stood back to back.

Mercury had been caught in Cinders blast, leaving him lying on the ground, unmoving. Ruby took on Cinder and Emerald, showing massive amounts of skill, but the onslaught meant that she had to give ground, which wasn't something that she could do when unless Weiss gained ground. Weiss landed a hit on Roman, who was slowed by his arm, and was about to finish him off when She and Ruby were blasted off their feet. She saw the wall coming just a little too late, and hit it head first, the world going black.

Ruby was a little luckier, she managed to keep consciousness after landing roughly, but was dizzy, and the world span. Emerald shook Mercury, waking him up, and they slowly walked over to Ruby.

Then they heard explosions behind them. The goons that had fired the shot were being beaten to a pulp by Yang, and Blake was limping through them as well, having been woken by the explosions.

They quickly dispensed of them, but they were still left facing off with Roman, Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury. Nevertheless, they dove into the fight, slashing and punching as hard and fast as they could, trying to take down 2 enemies at once. Blake was injured, and was quickly knocked into unconsciousness by Roman, who chuckled at it.

'2 times in one night, you must be getting slow, kitty.'

'Not now, Roman.' Snapped Emerald, who wasn't in any mood for Roman at that time.

The 4 of them quickly overpowered Yang, by the end of it, blood was flying everywhere, all of it belonging to Yang, who slumped down, needing medical treatment. Once again, they turned towards Ruby, walking slowly, all smiles. 'We've wanted to do this for a VERY long time, Red.' Said Roman.

Then, from above, a gruff and deep voice said, 'You'll have to wait a while longer, I'm afraid' suddenly someone jumped down, wearing full body armour, and holding 2 katanas, and walked slowly forward towards the group.

Then Ruby blacked out.


She awoke with a start, seeing a masked face in front of her, she started crawling backwards, but he held her in the spot.

'I've arranged your friends to make it look like you 4 took them down. You are to tell everyone this. If you mention me at all, even once, in passing, where no one can hear you, I WILL come for you, and you will regret it.'

Ruby nodded, still shocked at what happened, she looked over at the scene, and was shocked.

Roman Torchwick was dead, His neck cut open in what looked a lot like a scythe slice. Probably by design. She thought Mercury was also dead, his head having been caved in. Emerald was in chains, with slashes all over her. Only Cinder seemed to of escaped.

Her team looked like they had been fighting, knocked down, and protecting each other. She looked behind her, and saw Blake. This guy did a really good job. Suddenly, she heard a motorcycle, and realized that the man was leaving.

The police and paramedics arrived very soon afterwards, along with Professor Ozpin, and Team JNPR.

I had time to make up a story. We stumbled across them, and fought.

Yang managed to get a massive hit on Mercury, killing him. Then was cut to pieces my Emerald.

Weiss went about stabilizing Yang while Blake and Ruby help off the rest. Blake got multiple cuts on Emerald, leaving her staggering. Ruby then did a swirl of her Scythe, and cut Torchwick's neck completely open.

She started to cry at this point, to help to add realism to the story.

Then Blake was shot by Emerald, and thrown into a wall by Cinder, who then turned around and did the same to Weiss, who had gotten up to fight. Ruby knocked Emerald unconscious, and had a furious fight with Cinder, leaving both wounded.

Cinder staggered off, and Ruby had time to handcuff Emerald. She got these out of Weiss's bag, as she kept things like that in their, which is true. Ruby than staggered back, fell unconscious for a little while, and woke up to the sound of sirens.

The officer accepted this, possibly because they were all preoccupied by the massive bomb Ruby was sitting on. They analysed it, and decided to take it over the ocean, where citizens were safe. There they would attempt to disarm the bomb.

As this happened, Ruby and co were moved into hospital, where she finally had time to think the thoughts she wanted to.

Who the hell was that man who saved her, and where is he now?


A/N: Hmm, plot, back-story, describing things, introducing things that won't be used for ages. Who was the mysterious man? Why are the police dumb enough to accept that story? What is this entire thing even about? When will we discover some secrets (apart from everything about that man)? I know all this (except why the police were so dumb. Meh, its a story. And it came from me. Common sense went out the window), and you will at some point in the future. The next update will be sometime soon, but I'm not going to bother with a schedule, unless I get (hmm, whats a reasonable number...) an undetermined amount of favorites and follows, in which case, I'll try to write more often, instead of spending the entire day doing nothing. Really, all I would need is motivation. Anyways, don't forget to review an leave a COMPLETELY HONEST opinion. I don't want people saying I'm a good writer and not believing it themselves. Don't be afraid to review something like this:

From: Insert_Your_Name_Here
THIS IS THE WORST FUCKING STORY I HAVE EVER READ! MY UNBORN BROTHER COULD WRITE BETTER THAN YOU! IF I KNEW WHERE YOU LIVED, I'D KILL YOU SLOWLY FOR MAKING ME READ THIS!

I won't be offended, and I'll be sure to give you the address of the person I like least. Also, Follow and Favorite, and enjoy the rest of your day/week/year/life!

Next chapter, we get into the real deal, because now I've summarized the last 4 years of their lives, we get to have more interesting things happen, like a plot (he, call this a plot?), and more really bad action sequences! Actually, how did I do with that? Please tell me, I have no idea, and if I need to improve, it'll be good to know. Till next time!

P.S: I wrote this before things like Yang's Semblance was explained and Neo was introduced, but next chapter, everything will be up to date. I edited this slightly so I wasn't stuck with Yang having a Semblance similar to Cinders. I didn't publish this for a while because I was doing other things, but now I have, so its all good.