Updated Note: Chapters #1-#3 have now been updated as to have less resemblance to Starlight's Poet's Metastability, something that I didn't know about until I was working on chapter #4, but the openings from both stories were so freakishly similar and I've felt bad for a while now about that. To me it just seemed like I was copping their work, and I didn't like that feeling. I don't think it would be fair to them if I didn't make a few changes. Now that doesn't mean that I've changed everything, (cause it would effect the story too much) but hopefully these changes make my story feel like it's own thing and not some accidental carbon knock-off. Once again, as stated in chapter #4, I apologize to Starlight's Poet for what happened.

Old Note: I do NOT own RVB, RWBY, or any music!

Okay begin!

Pyrrha lie wide awake on her bed. She hasn't hardly slept, or eaten anything for that matter, ever since… that day. Her teammates, friends, and teachers were worried about her. They should be. She had lot weight due to her not eating much, constantly had dark circles under her eyes, would hardly speak, and just seemed awful.

The only times she got sleep was if either she cried herself to or if Ren and Nora forced her to take sleeping pills. She just couldn't do it on her own. Every time she closed her eyes she saw him there. Jaune. It had been a little over a month since they took that job. The first semester was almost over and it was her idea to take up the task. She requested it. She let her guard down at the last second. She was the reason that he died. When it happened Ozpin told teams NPR and RWBY to skip classes for a while if need be, which they did. They had also hardly done anything over their break and it was now close to being over. He just wished that there was someway to help them.

Meanwhile on Sidewinder…

"Auug! Hey Grif!" Sarge grunted as he was being choked. "I've lost my shotgun! What an I gonna do without… my shotgun? Shotgun damnit!"

"Shotgun?" The overweight orange soldier asked. "Come on Simmons." He said as he ran over to the flipped Warthog.

"Aah… Hey Meta, settle a bet would ya? Does that thing kind of look like a big cat to you?" Sarge asked as he hooked a claw to the Meta and pointed his head at the car.

[Play: Ice Fight - By: Jeff Williams]

The brute turned to look at what the red soldier was going on about when he saw two more soldiers pushing a warthog off the cliff.

"C'mon Grif, push!" one said.

"I am pushing!" replied the other.

The Meta then noticed that it's grapple was leading towards him and quickly looked down to see it's claw attached to his chestplate. The warthog then started to fall and he let out a terrified hiss as he was dragged to the ground. He released the red sim trooper and the capture unit flung off his back. While he was being dragged over the side, he grabbed the ankle of the orange one in either an act to save himself or to take the idiot with him.

"Guow!" he mumbled as he fell.

"Grif!" Simmons yelled as he jumped to save his friend.

He grabbed his hand and the sudden jerk made the monster of a man lose his grip. He let out another hiss which only meant one thing.

'Son of a biiitch!'

As the Meta was falling his life started to flash before his eyes. He saw the other freelancers, their missions together, and when he killed them. His heart jerked in pain as these events replayed in his mind. Sigma had brainwashed him... and having Omega just ended up making it worse. He had nothing. His friends? Gone. His life? Ruined. Washington? Just another traitor. He tried to save the AI, so if he somehow lived from this he would find them... and he would kill them both. Even though the AI were gone and dead... to him, they were very much still alive.

Go on

Take it

Kill them

Even though he eventually realized that Sigma was a complete, fucking, asshole, his life was over. He was a monster. There was no going back from it, and strangely enough, he didn't really care anymore. He deserved death more than anyone else, even Wash. Why fight it?

Just as he was accepting his fate, he noticed that the time-distortion unit was activating. 'Great…' he thought sarcastically to himself.

'Not only am I gonna die the same way I killed Carolina. I get to it in slow-mo... fucking perfect.'

Under the first notification however, a second one appeared which read:

*Transporting...*

'Wait what?! Since when could it do that?!'

Right as he hit the water a huge flash of light emerged.

[Music end]

"It started last night, but I just assumed that it was glitching out due to the storm." Ozpin told his assistant "However, the fact that it's still going on has me somewhat concerned."

"Agreed." Goodwitch responded. "Should we have some students investigate?"

"Yes. Please bring me Ms. Rose and Ms. Nikos."

Nora would have been the new leader because of the letter order… but she's Nora.

Goodwitch was shocked, and after a moment of silence she finally spoke.

"…Are you sure that's the best choice? I mean, team RWBY has, for the most part, been doing fine… But the others…"

Ozpin raised one hand and took a sip of coffee with the other.

"I understand your concern, but, I am hopeful that this will take their minds off that."

"If you say so."

The students were down at breakfast when the professor arrived. She paused for a moment after she saw Pyrrha. She looked as terrible as ever. Goodwitch then approached the teams.

"Good morning students."

"Good morning professor!" Ruby, Yang, and Nora shouted, the others just nodded at her.

"Excuse me but can I borrow Ms's Rose and Nikos for a little while?"

Everyone looked towards Pyrrha.

"S-sure." Ruby responded.

"Of course." the spartan girl agreed, they then followed Goodwitch.

"So uh…" Ruby whispered as they walked down the hall. "What do you think this is about?"

"No idea." Pyrrha answered, as they stepped into the elevator to go up.

"Good morning." Ozpin greeted them as they arrived. "I suppose that you would like to know as to why you are here?"

The girls nodded.

"There has been an energy fluctuation…" the headmaster explained as he showed them the chart on his scroll.

It was odd, it started small then shot upwards. Then back down, and shot up again. Something defiantly seemed off about it.

"It started last night but I just assumed in was a glitch from the storm. If you are inclined, I would like you and your teams to investigate."

"I'll go." said Ruby, then everyone turned towards Pyrrha.

"No problem." she said after a moment.

"Ms. Nikos." started the blonde professor. "If you don't feel comfortable with this, then by all means we can send another…"

"I-it's fine. We... need to get back out there eventually anyways."

"Very well." the headmaster started again. "The readings come from Forever Fall Forest. You may depart when ready."

The Meta woke up in a place that he didn't recognize. He grunted as he sat up.

'Aaugh… My head is fucking killing me.'

Another headache? He had been getting them ever since the E.M.P. went off, killing the A.I., but more importantly...

What is this place? A forest? Why is everything red? Standing up, he looked around and rubbed his head.

'The hell?' he asked himself as he looked down.

Sparks were coming off of it and it was covered in static. He then entered a command on his arm after he opened a hatch that was protecting a screen.

*Rebooting System...*

"H-hey!" Ruby said after seeing the signal on her scroll suddenly stop, with Yang watching over her shoulder. "The signal's gone!"

"What did you do?" Weiss demanded.

"Hey hold on." Yang stepped in. "She didn't do anything. It just, stopped."

"Whatever." the ice-queen continued. "I guess now we'll just have to walk around aimlessly until we find something."

"What about that?" Nora asked.

Everyone turned to see what she was pointing at, which happened to be huge amounts of black smoke rising above the trees.

"Someone's fighting grimm?" Ren asked curiously.

"And they're completely destroying them." Blake added.

"Alright then!" her leader started. "Team RWBY let's investigate!"

"Shouldn't we looking for the energy fluctuation?"

"Well that could be it." Yang suggested. "Besides, I want to see whose beating the crap out of those things."

"Agreed." added Weiss.

"Okay then." Ren began. "You guys check that out while we keep searching this way. We'll let you know if we find anything interesting."

[Play: When Your Middle Name is Danger - By: Torcadero]

The Meta ran into some creatures as he explored his surroundings. Some seemed to be giant scorpions and snakes, while others resembled either a bear or what he imagined to be werewolves. They had on some kind of armor around certain parts of their bodies, it was white with some red patterns. The beasts themselves were midnight black and for what ever reason, evaporated into smoke when they died?

Whatever, they were in his way to get back to Sidewinder and killing everybody there, so they must be dealt with. Another one of the bear like ones ran at him, so he put his fist in his hand and charged at it. The thing swatted at him but he jumped over it and ran his fist into its neck. It let out a roar of pain as it fell to the ground, he then brought his boot to it's head. He crushed it repeatedly until it cracked, before splitting in half and releasing a pool of blood onto the ground.

While he was doing so, a werewolf type charged at him, he grabbed it's neck when it arrived, breaking it and killing it instantly. At this time, team RWBY arrived and stared in awe as to what was happening in front of them.

"What is that thing?" Yang asked while the Meta turned to the other grimm.

"I-I don't know." Weiss winched as the Meta ripped of the top half of the snout of another Beowolf clean off.

After he tore another one in half, Yang then decided to cover Ruby's eyes with her hand. The hooded girl had no qualms about this being that she was disturbed by the sight. The Meta growled as he ran to a Deathstalker, he grabbed it's stinger as it tried to bring it down on his head. He then ran straight forwards and rammed it into it's own skull.

It screeched in pain and tried to cut him in half with one of it's pincers. He ripped it off and threw it like a javelin into an Ursa. Now the only things left were two more Beowolves, which turned and ran for their lives. The Meta let out another growl and charged.

"You think he's a huntsman?" Ruby asked nervously as they followed the man as he chased his prey.

"Possibly. But he seems, kind of… off." Blake stated, the others nod in agreement.

At this time the former freelancer had caught up to his targets and grabbed the fur on their backs. They let out terrified screeches as he pulled them back, spun on his heel, and sent them flying. He then walked to where they were lying and growled again.

"Seriously what's up with the growling? Are we sure he's even human?" Yang asked.

"Maybe he's an Atlas robot?" Ruby suggested.

"No, I've never seen a model like that before. This, is something else entirely." states Weiss as the subject of the conversation picked up both Beowolves by their throats, and snapped their necks like their comrade from before.

The mysterious character then dropped the evaporating bodies and started to wipe his gloves against each other when a King Taijitu came out from the trees. The armored man turned around and let out an annoyed growl before charging.

"Mabye it's a Grimm?" Yang voices, causing her teammates to give her looks. "What? I mean, we did learn in class that it's possible for people to transform into those things. Plus he has the white armor and has black underneath."

"Yang, that was a myth we learned. Along with the whole 'Queen of Monsters' thing. remember? People can't do that." Weiss argued. "Besides, even if he somehow was a Grimm, why would he kill the others?"

She had a point. Why would he kill his own kind?

"Maybe he remembers that he was once human?" Ruby suggested.

"Even if it was possible, then maybe, but still…"

Just then, the bloodcurdling screech of the monster reached their ears. The Meta had was standing in front of the two headed snake, one of it's bloody fangs from the black head in his grip. The un injured white head tried to snatch him in it's mouth, big mistake. The Meta allowed it's mouth to cover him, where he impaled it's tongue. The creature roared in pain as it pulled it's head from the ground, the ex-freelancer still standing in the same spot. Then the second head came back, so he jumped over it and landed on top, using his fist and knee the slam it into the dirt.

Again the other head tried to swallow him, again it failed. The Meta jumped out of the way and made the snake-like creature clamp down on it's other head, he then used the opportunity to punch the white head in the snout so hard that all of the bones inside broke and it's head caved in from the impact, also forcing it's fangs further into the black head's skull, killing them both in one blow.

As the King Taijitu faded into smoke, he noticed four more targets on his motion tracker

'You have got to be kidding me.' he thought to himself.

He turned to his new targets but they were… not what he had expected. They were what looked like teenage girls hiding behind a bush.

'What the fuck?'

They all swallowed hard as he looked down upon them.