Note: I own nothing in this story except for any OCs featured in it, and this story will be featuring elements from both Yu-Gi-Oh and Ultraman. Word of warning this will mention some events of volume 6, be sure to watch it when you can and also there will be some gender swapped characters as well.
Los Angeles, 2019.
It was another cold winter day in the city of Los Angeles, snow covered the city in its cold beauty, many of the children were seen outside playing in the snow and building snowmen and having snowball fights. A lone figure was seen walking on the sidewalk, wearing a grey coat to keep warm in the cold wind. He was a young man around 17 years of age, with emerald green eyes, his hair was a golden blonde color that hangs down to his shoulders. He parts his bangs in the middle so that they frame his face on either side as they fall. He has a lean built frame that was neither too small nor too big, perfect for speed and power.
He wore a greyish black shirt underneath his coat, blue jeans and tennie shoes. His name is Richard Drake, but he prefers to be called Rick. He was walking all by himself to go to find his friends at their usual hang out spot, which was an abandoned warehouse that was next to a local park. On his shoulder was a strap that was attached to a large bag, and inside that bag was a collection of tin containers from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, which a large collection of Duel Monster cards.
Rick was a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh ever since he first saw the first series, since then he had began collecting cards left and right when he was little. Most of them were gifts from his mother and father for his birthdays and Christmas presents, sadly however his parents had passed away when he was young, leaving him with his grandfather who was a retired soldier from the army. During his time with his grandfather he learned how to survive out in the wilderness while they were camping, learned many different types of martial arts as well as received more cards from him. Unfortunately his grandfather had died due to heart failure when he was 12, leaving him with no family, thankfully however a friend of his parents had decided to take him in and gave him a new home.
Not only was he a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh, but he also took a real shine to another Japanese show; the Ultraman franchise.
Rick had seen all of the Ultraman shows and has finished watching Geed, however his most favorite by far was Ultraman Orb, he loved how Orb used the cards of his fellow Ultramen and fused them together to form a new type of Ultraman, which is why he ordered the toy replica of the Orb Ring. He would often joke around with it by placing his Duel Monster cards through the ring, and pretended to scan them, not only that but a few years ago his friends had introduced to a new show that he grew to love. And that was RWBY. His friends had showed him the trailers of it when they came out in 2013, and when the rest came out he immediately became a fan of RWBY, his most favorite characters of the show were Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long.
He had seen all the volumes especially the sixth volume which came out last year on October, and his mind was completely blown away from what he saw in the sixth volume, last Saturday he had just saw the 13th and final episode and was very anxious for a possible 7th volume in the near future. "Oh man, that was the best volume I've ever seen! I just hope they do make a 7th volume, there's still so much to be revealed." He said to himself with a grin. He stopped at a road which was leading to the park which was a few blocks from where he is now, suddenly he heard his friends calling out to him, shouting and waving their arms at him.
He smiled and started running to the other side, but stopped when he heard the sound of a truck, he looked to his right and he did see a truck coming his way, except it was swerving out of control due to the icy road. Rick barely had time to react as the truck came ever so close until his vision went completely dark.
(Insert opening song - Precious Time, Glory Days by Psychic Lover)
The scene begins with a darkened background with a deck of Duel Monster cards appearing, the cards then scatter all over the screen in every direction, until the background changes and with the final card gone Rick was seen running towards the camera and in his left hand the Duel Ring.
[Wasurenai yo hajimete no yume Oitsuzukete KEEP HOLDING ON]
As Rick ran the cards started flying across in front of him, and flew around him, then he suddenly stops and jumps back and lands on his feet with Emerald Forest behind him. All the cards fell all together creating a pile, before taking on the shape and form of Adam Taurus who drew his sword and points it at Rick. The young teen then brings up the Duel Ring which opens its flaps and glowed white hot light.
The camera switches over to Ruby Rose wielding Crescent Rose, then to Weiss Schnee with Myrtenaster in her hand, Blake then appeared with Gambol Shroud and lastly Yang appeared in a boxing stance with Ember Celica.
[Te ga todokanakute akiramekaketeta BROKEN DREAMS]
The camera switches over to team JNPR who waved at the camera while, before moving aside to show team CFVY, then to Glynda, Port and Oobleck until reaching to Ozpin who finished sipping his mug before smiling at the viewers and moving aside to reveal Beacon Academy.
[Okizari no yakusoku Mune ni sasatta mama nukenai kimi no kotoba wo Nando mo kurikaeshiteru]
The camera switches over to Rick who was leaning against the entrance of the school, with a somber expression on his face, as his old life on earth flashed beside him. He shuts his eyes before shaking his head and looking up in the sky, the scene switches over to the sun shining in the sky until suddenly he saw Avian and the other Elemental Heroes flying out of the sun, zooming across the screen until Flame Wingman appeared last with his arms crossed.
[Ima kaze ga senaka wo oshiteru]
The camera switches over to Rick's feet before slowly scrolling up to his face he gripped the Duel Ring in his hand, and let out a determined smile before turning his gaze to the forest and the city of Vale.
[GET UP! BURNING HEART bakuhatsu shisou]
Rick was seen running through the forest with the Duel Ring and his huntsman weapon strapped to his back, as he ran Ruby was seen running beside him, along with Weiss, Blake, Yang and team JNPR who all caught up with him and all of them smiled or grinned at him, while he returned their smiles and the camera shoot upward revealing the Elemental Heroes flying together above the children, with Flame Wingman flying closer to the screen.
[Umarekawaru ima wo nugisutete PRECIOUS TIME, GLORY DAYS Ichido dake no LIFE]
Rick appeared before the viewers with the Duel Ring in his hand, and a Duel Monster card in his other hand, it switches over to Ruby who was smiling brightly with stars in her eyes and started looking around in a frenzy, before she tripped and landed on her bottom. The camera zooms out to show her teammates standing with the Neo-Spacians and laughing at her foolery, while Blake and Weiss only face palmed, and Ruby's face giving a cute pout. The camera shows Qrow Branwen with her sword in hand, before switching over Amber the Fall Maiden with her hands engulfed in magic and smiling at the viewers, then it switches over to Raven Branwen with her hand holding her mask and barely removing it, exposing half of her face with Vernal beside her.
[Iroaseta sekai wo akaku nure! TAKE A CHANCE, SHOUT IT LOUD Jibun dake no STYLE]
The scene switches over to Rick sliding a card into the slot of the Ring, it flashes and he was bathed in light as he transformed into Neos, who threw his head back and shouted in the air. The camera switches over to Salem who smirked and threw her hand out and her forces, along with Cinder and her team began attacking, but Rick as Neos easily battered any enemy in his path, and then the dark god Zorc appeared before him and loomed over the hero. Rick/Neos crossed his arms as he was engulfed in light and soured into the air, as two glistening wings of light sprouts from his back, turning him into Honest Neos.
[Wasurenai yo hajimete no yume Oitsuzukete KEEP HOLDING ON!]
Rick/Neos flew towards Zorc as the two warriors arched their fists back, and punched each other with their glowing fists, before the screen flashed and revealed the title card, then Rick's smiling face appeared before the viewers and points two of his fingers at the screen, similar to how Jaden Yuki does and the camera zooms out to show teams RWBY and JNPR beside him with Beacon behind them, and everything fades away into darkness.
Darkness is all that Rick saw, he mumbled to himself as he laid there on the grass...… wait, grass? He slowly opens his eyes and saw several blades of green grass in his face. "Huh?" He uttered. Slowly he picked himself up till he was sitting on the ground, he looked al around himself and saw that he was in a forest, which is really odd since Los Angeles wasn't anywhere near any forests and he saw it was nighttime.
"Wh-Where am I?" He asked himself as he looked around. "For that matter what the hell happened to me? The last thing I remembered was...AH!" His eyes became wide as plates as he remembered what happened to him before he blacked out.
(Flashback)
He barely had time to scream as the truck seemingly collided with him, his friends cried out in horror as the truck collided with a tree, the driver slowly crawls out and walked over to the front of his truck which was wrecked, while Rick's friends ran over to try and save him. But to their surprise they found no blood, no dismembered limbs, no organs turned into paste, nothing. It's as if he just...vanished. The question is; where did he go?
Rick suddenly found himself falling or rather flying through a portal of some kind, the young boy cried out in fear and panic as lightning flashed and thunder exploded all around him. "Wha, what's happening?!" He exclaimed as he flailed wildly in the tunnel.
Then he suddenly heard this laughter, a deep, dark and sinister laughter that sent chills down his spine. And yet it was a very familiar laughter. He turned around and to his shock and horror, there stood before him was the familiar form of the dark god of Egypt; Zorc Necrophades from the first Yu-Gi-Oh anime series!
"Z-Zorc?!" Rick gasped in fright. 'B-But that's impossible, he's only a made up character, how the hell can he be real?!' His heart almost stopped when he saw the dark one reaching out for him. "S-Stay away from me, stay back!" He shouted while trying to get away from the evil god.
Zorc only grinned as his chest bulged out and the familiar dragon head grew from his chest. The creature snarled at the frightened teen and opens its mouth, intending on feasting on the young mortal. Rick felt his heart racing like an engine, his whole body trembled like an earthquake and was sweating up a storm, never had he felt such fear in his whole life, nor had he felt such evil from a being who's supposed to be a fictional character. 'Help me! Someone...please...help me!'
"It's useless to cry out child. No one will help you now." Zorc taunted Rick which made him gasp, as the dark god heard his pleas. Just before he could kill the boy, a bright flash of light appeared and blinded the dark one. "AGGGHHH!" He cried out as he shielded his eyes from the light and then...
"TWAO!" A Loud cry was heard and then a figure that was bathed in white light appeared out of thin air, and kicked Zorc's face. The dark god was flung back from the kick as he let out a shout in surprise and anger.
Rick gazed upon the glowing figure who stood before him, its back was facing him as it towered over him, the being turned its head and looked at the stunned teen with its featureless face. The only thing he could make out of the figure, is the curved antenna facing backwards, the elbow blades and shoulder blades. Rick stared at the being in awe as it raised its left hand up, and flashed him a thumbs up while letting out a soft grunt. They heard the growling from the dark god which made the white being face him and got into a fighting stance.
Zorc threw his head up and let out a powerful roar of anger, and glared at the glowing figure before charging at him. The being returned the gesture in kind and charged at the dark one. When both warriors came close, Zorc rears his fist back and swings his punch at the being, but the being quickly ducks and delivers a knife hand strike to his side. "TWAO!" The being exclaimed as he struck the dark god and made his stumble back, and launched a left uppercut which caused a shockwave throughout the tunnel.
Rick felt the shockwave washing over him and almost was blown away, then he saw the two titans clashed their fists together, creating an even stronger shockwave powerful enough to blow Rick away from them and further into the tunnel. As he screamed at the top of his lungs, his bag suddenly opened and all of his cards started flying out and scattered everywhere in the tunnel, then he saw his Orb Ring almost flying out but grabs it with an iron grip and to his surprise, the ring suddenly began glowing and he was plunged into darkness once more.
(End flashback)
Rick's mind finally came back to reality as his eyes slowly widen themselves and then...
"AAAAAHHHHH" He cried out as loud as he could with his eyes becoming comical circles and white as sheets, and his mouth comically turning square. "MY CARDS!" He quickly looked around and saw his bag against a random tree, rushed over and opens it, and to his dismay and horror he found that all the cards within their tins were completely gone. The upper part of his face was turning into a dark shade of blue as he cried comical waterfall tears, with a few strands of his hair sticking out.
"M-My...cards..." He whimpered as an aura of sadness and depression enveloped him. "GAH! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" He exclaimed in anguish as he closed his eyes and his tears fell from his eyes separately in a comical manner.
"My...my card collection...all 100,000 of them...gone in a flash." He said in utter dismay when he opened his left eye, and suddenly snapped out of his depression in a flash, as his tears immediately dried up, his mouth comically vanishing and two red lines suddenly appeared on the side of his head, while flickering before vanishing. he dug a little deeper inside his bag and pulled his hand out to reveal 12 cards which were his Elemental Heroes and Neo-Spacian cards. "Well, at least not all of them are gone." He said with a small smile. Then he spotted his Orb Ring about three feet from him, he quickly made his way over to the replica and picked it up. "Good thing you didn't vanish on me." He smirked only to notice that something was off, the replica somehow felt...metallic and lighter than it was when he ordered it. He turned it around saw that it had a slot, like the kind you would insert a credit card on a ATM machine.
"That wasn't even there before." He quietly said to himself. He saw his shadow on the ground which was made by the moon, he turns around to look up and suddenly he became a cut out version of himself with his eyes becoming blank white and small circles when he saw the moon, only it was shattered. His jaw was now hanging past his chest as he gawked at the moon, then he snapped out his daze and returned to normal. "W-Wait a minute, t-that moon...it's...it's the same moon as the one from RWBY!" He exclaimed as he pointed at the moon having recognized it. "If that's the same shattered moon, then, does that mean that I'm..." He then froze when he heard the sound of growling coming from the forest.
He slowly turns around and his eyes became blank white again and his mouth comically turning into a square shape with a red exclamation point flashing beside his head. Coming out of the forest was a familiar form of a creature of darkness, a Beowolf. Then another and another soon followed their pack member until they almost surrounded the stunned teen. His skin was white as a sheet, his body shook which made a rattling sound like a skeleton. "B-Beowolves! Uh-oh!" He chocked.
One of the Beowolves howled and lunged at Rick, he yelped and quickly ducked when it swiped its claws at him, he made a few backflips as the creatures of Grimm tried to kill him with their teeth and claws but he easily avoided them until he found himself backed against a tree, and the Grimm cornering him. He started shaking up like an earthquake when he saw the Beowolves slowly moving closer, no doubt wanting him to feel despair before his death. 'Shit this is bad! Even with my martial art skills, there's no way I can handle a Beowolf, much less a pack!' He inwardly panicked, however he shook his head and gained a determined expression. 'No, I'm not going down like this! I'd rather die fighting then cowering!'
Suddenly a light caught his attention he looked away from the Grimm and to his surprise, he saw the hoop of the Orb Ring shining brightly in a white light. It was giving off a light pulsating humming sound as it continued to glow, he stared at the glowing ring in awe when he saw the card slot glowing a golden light, and giving off a deep rhythmic pulsating sound as it flashed. "What in the?" He said then he noticed his pocket glowing, he reached in and pulled out to his surprise a glowing card, when the light faded it revealed one of his Duel Monsters: Elemental Hero Neos!
'Neos?! But what's going on?' His train of thought was broken when he saw the Beowolves getting closer, he looked at the ring and the card before he decided to take a big chance. 'I'm not sure what's going on, but it looks like I'm gonna have to put my faith, trust and most importantly...my heart in the cards!'
Taking in a deep breath his slides the Neos card into the slot which easily sucked the card in and the light from the slot grew brighter. The Beowolves stopped when they saw the light coming from the ring, Rick stares at the Orb Ring in awe and wonder and slowly raises it over his head. The Beowolves growled louder and lunged at the young man only for the flaps on the ring to snap open, and a blinding light erupted from the ring, a powerful shockwave had pushed the Grimm away from the light as it burned them from its radiant glow. The light then began to dissipate and in the place of Rick, was something else entirely different, one that may chance the course of this world forever.
(Insert background music - Ultraman Ginga no Uta)
The being wore a white suit, with red lines on its body which was a masculine built. His chest had a blue orb as did his back, there were three red triangles surrounding the orb on his chest piece, while his arms were equipped with elbow blades. He wore shoulder guards, while his eyes were sapphire blue with a yellow gem stone on his forehead, and on top of his head was a long curved antenna facing backwards.
The being slowly raised his head at the stunned Beowolves, and spoke in a deep yet strong voice which sounded heroically. "I...am the light that shines through the darkness, I am...Neos, Elemental Hero Neos!" Neos exclaimed to the creatures of Grimm before assuming a fighting stance. Inside his mind was none other than Rick, who was freaking out on what or rather who he had become! 'I can't believe it! I'm actually Neos! This is so cool!' He inwardly shouted in joy, however the growls of the Beowolves snapped him out of his fangasm and steeled his resolve.
The lead Beowolf howled and charged at the Elemental Hero with the rest of its pack. Letting out a small grunt, Neos charged at the Grimm with renewed speed, he then leaps in the air, arching his right fist back and punched the Bewolf's head in, with enough force to cause its skull to cave in. "TWOA!" He shouted in the similar manner as Ultraman Tiga did. The blow from the punch actually sent the Beowolf flying back, plowing through the pack and crashing into a tree. Its body started to dissolve the moment its head caved in.
Landing on his feet, Neos quickly spun around and delivered a powerful backwards heel kick, at three Beowolves. The hit from the heel kick either snapped their lower jaws or their necks, then he palm thrusts at another Beowolf which sent it flying and colliding with another tree, killing it from the sheer force of the impact. Neos then backflipped a few times from the Grimm and lands perfectly on his feet. A sudden thought came to his head, he wasn't sure if it would work but he had to try. Standing straight up he brought his right hand over the antenna and concentrated, a light appeared around the antenna and pulls his hand away from it.
Twirling his hand around for a bit, he gets back into a fighting stance and held his hand out, while holding a glowing object in the shape of the antenna, then it took a different shape and the light died, revealing a blade almost identical to the Eye Slugger from Ultraseven! Letting out a small chuckle, Neos held the newly named Neo Slugger in a reverse grip and charged at the Grimm.
One Beowolf tried to swing its claw at him, only for Neos to duck and swiftly swing the Neo Slugger in blinding speed at the Grimm and charged at another Beowolf, and slicing off its arm before slicing its neck. Arching his arm back he threw the Neo Slugger like a boomerang and saw the spinning blade slicing through the creatures of Grimm, and piercing the last Beowolf in the head.
Another growl caught his attention as he turned and saw an Ursa plowing through the bushes, roaring at the top of its lungs. Neos calmly crossed his arms as the blades on his arms glowed, and extended themselves into fully formed blades. As the Ursa stood up and swings its paw at him, the Elemental Hero swiftly slices its limb off, the Grimm roared in pain while standing fully up, which allowed Neos to jump high in the air while the Ursa looked upward and saw the shattered moon behind him. Neos spun himself in a rapid pace as he let gravity bring him down, the Ursa only stared in horror as the Elemental Hero stopped spinning and raised his elbow blade high.
"SEIYYYAAAAA!" He shouted as he sliced the bear Grimm in half, leaving a glowing line in his wake. The Ursa let out a small yip before its body fell in opposite directions.
He looks over his shoulder to see the two halves of the Ursa dissolving, then felt a tremor from beneath the ground, he quickly made a huge backflip as the ground erupted and a large Deathstalker rose from the ground. As he rolled in the air Neos stopped and floated before the scorpion Grimm, who snapped its claws and trilled at him. Letting out a soft grunt, Neos flew towards the Grimm while it raised its claws and curled its stinger, when he got close the Deathstalker snapped its pinchers at him but he easily avoided them, and sliced through its boney armor with his elbow blades. The Deathstalker screeched loudly and swung its stinger at Neos, he easily kicked it away before leaping off of the Grimm and flew higher in the night sky.
A twinkle was seen and Neos came flying straight downward, as he flew he wanted to try out another test, he brought both of his hands which were flat close to his chest, then trusts his left hand forward and fires a beam that was similar to Ultraman Zoffy's M87 Ray, the beam struck the left claw and caused it to explode leaving nothing but a smoking stump. The Deathstalker cried out in pain and then charges at Neos, the Elemental hero landed on the ground and had his left hand facing upward while having his right hand across it, forming a plus symbol and fired a beam that was much like Ultraman's Specium Ray.
The beam struck the right claw and destroyed it, with both claws gone the angry arachnid spun around and managed to strike Neos with its stinger, the Elemental Hero grunted loudly in pain but managed to regain his momentum and slides on the grass. As he kneeled he brought two fingers from both his hands to his head just above the yellow gem, and fired a yellow beam that was akin to Ultraseven's Emerium Ray. The beam struck the stinger and destroys it, leaving the Grimm completely weaponless.
Blinded by anger, the Deathstalker charged at Neos intending on trampling him beneath its weight, however Neos quickly summoned his Neo Slugger and threw the spinning blade at the Grimm. The Neo Slugger sliced through its left legs which caused the scorpion to tilt over the loss of its legs, only for the blade to come back and slice through its right legs and causing the Deathstalker to fall on its belly. The Grimm let out a weak trill and Neos decided to put it out of its misery, he brought both of his hands to his hips before stretching them out, crossing one hand over the other forming a V formation and spreads his arms apart, creating a line of light to consolidate energy.
Then he had his left arm facing upward while hand his right under beneath it, creating an L shape and fired a beam similar to Ultraman Tiga's Zeperion Ray, and before the Deathstalker knew it the beam struck it face first.
(End background music)
Boom!
The sound of an explosion echoed throughout the forest, scaring any animal into running away from the sound. With the last Grimm dead Neos eased his stance and gazed into the blazing fire. Knowing what he had to do, he brought both hands flat together to his right side, and thrusts them out and fired a powerful stream of water, to extinguish the fire. In a matter of minutes the fire was put out leaving nothing but smoldering heat, steam and smoke from the burnt ground. With the situation over Neos looked at his hands in awe and wonder. 'This is...this is amazing! I just used the powers of the Ultramen as a Duel Monster! This is...unbelievable!' He inwardly exclaimed at what happened to him just now, never in his wildest dreams would he not only become one of the Elemental Heroes, but also using the powers of the Ultramen as well.
His body was engulfed in light once more and suddenly his form reshaped itself, until the light faded and revealed Rick in his normal human form. He looks himself over in surprise to see himself normal again, then he turns his attention to the Orb Ring and brings it up to his face, the slot suddenly glowed and then the card he inserted popped right out, slowly he grabbed it and pulls it out and stared at the Neos card in stunned awe. "Whoa..." He softly spoke at the card. It took a full minute for his brain to process what happened to him, and then his lips formed a small smile before extending to a fully wide smile that could split his head in half, and his eyes comically grew big as they twinkled with stars in them and a white cloud and a rainbow appeared over his head.
He slowly let out a few chuckles before he exploded in a full blown laughter. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! YAAAAHOOOOO! WHOO-HOO-HOO!" He shouted in absolute joy he literally shot in the air like a rocket with stars flying out from behind him. He was so excited he was doing several backflips, rolling on the grass in a cartoonish ball, all the while howling with laughter like a hyena. "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, I ACTUALLY BECAME NEOES AND USED THE POWERS OF ULTRAMAN!" He screamed in the night air with his eyes shut as he somehow glides over the grass like a skater would on ice. "AHAHAHAAA! THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY...GAGH!" He suddenly cried out when he collided with a tree, and somehow comically turned into a cut out form of himself with his left cheek against the tree, his eyes blank white circles, and his mouth in a square shape.
"...Well...moment's gone..."He moaned in pain as he slowly fell from the tree and crashed on the ground.
He let out a groan as his arms and legs remained stretched out from crashing into the tree, his right leg twitched a few times before he quickly returned to normal and sat up. "Hold on, if that's the shattered moon above me, and those were Grimm I just fought, then that would mean that I'm..." Suddenly a glowing light from a bush next to the tree caught his attention, he crawled over to the light and reached into the bush and pulled out not one but two glowing cards! The light surrounding the cards faded and revealed two of his missing cards.
"Time Wizard and Tuning Magician!" He softly exclaimed before letting out a small smile. "Well at least I have 14 cards now, and that just leaves me only 99,986 to go."
"Well that was quite the show you just put one there kid."
Suddenly a feminine voice caught his and looked over his shoulder, his eyes went wide when he spotted what could be described as the most beautiful and downright sexy lady he ever laid eyes upon. She looked to be in her mid or late 20s, perhaps in her 30s and still looks hot and sexy! Her hair was short and pitch black, reaching down her neck, her figure was slender like a figurine doll, her waist was slim and looked almost narrowed, and her bust size was around a double F cup. But what caught his attention is that her eyes were red, behind her waist was a large sword that looked very familiar as did her outfit which left her slim stomach exposed.
'No way! She can't be... Could she?' "... Um...excuse me miss... But can you tell me who you are?" He nervously asked having a strange feeling about who this lovely lady might be.
The woman smirked and chuckled. "Why not? The name's Qrow, Qrow Branwen." She answered with her hand on her hip.
This hit Rick harder than that truck that almost ran him over. This woman is the veteran, bird shifting and drunkered huntsman himself; Qrow Branwen, as a woman!?
'N-NO WAY! HOW'S THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A MAN!' He inwardly shouted in total disbelief, never in his wildest imaginations would he ever see a genderbent version of one of the characters of RWBY in person, sure he's read fan stories and seen fan art of gender swapped versions of RWBY characters, but this is something else entirely.
His eyes suddenly moved on their own, going up and down, taking in the full detail of the huntress before him. He was so taken by her beauty he didn't even noticed her gently pulling his head up until he saw her smiling face. "My eyes are up here kid." She said with a small chuckle.
This snapped him out of his trance, realized how close she was to him and looked down and saw her exposed cleavage at the top of her shirt, and could see into the valley. His eyes comically turned white and his face went cherry red. "AHHH!" He yelped and scooted away from her till his back was against the tree, face still burning red and heart pounding like a drum.
Qrow gave a teasing smirk and walked over to the blushing teen.
The young teen only stared wide eyes as the former member of the Branwen tribe stopped before him while letting out a smirk. "I mean, it's not every day I see someone get so excited and start acting like a giddy school girl." She said with mirth.
Rick felt his face heating up with embarrassment, no doubt he must've been hiding somewhere and saw him making a fool of himself before crashing into a tree. "Uh...you didn't record any of that, did you?" He asked while his body shook and made a rattle sound.
Qrow let out a chortle and shook her head. "Relax kid, I didn't record anything. Though, it's not everyday I see someone like you turning into that white suited man." She said before leaning closer to Rick who leaned back, then turned her gaze at the Orb Ring and spotted his two cards in his hands. "Nor have I seen items like those you have before." She then stood up and gave Rick a questionable expression. "So tell me kid just where did you come from and where did you get those?"
Rick knew that he would be questioned by one of the characters of RWBY, he had read many RWBY fanfiction stories back on earth, and while he knew that those would try to keep the main character from telling the cast too much about their universe, he decided to risk it and tell them everything he knew about them. Especially if his cards are somewhere in the kingdoms of Remnant, and the likely hood of Zorc actually being in Remnant as well.
"Um, before I tell you anything, you think perhaps we can go somewhere else? You know, somewhere that's not crawling with those monsters?" He said while keeping his knowledge of the Grimm a secret from her and hoping he'll be able to meet Ozpin.
Qrow stared at him for a second before rubbing her chin in thought. After some careful thinking she shrugged. "Eh, why not? First I gotta make a call to someone before we leave." She said before pulling her scroll out and walked away from Rick.
As Qrow walked away from him Rick quickly tuned around and became a cartoonish cut out version of himself, while gaining a sly grin which had a twinkle t the corner of his smile, and his pupils shrinking into dots. 'This is perfect! Not only did I meet one of the characters of RWBY, even if it is a gender swapped version of one of them, but I'll get to meet Ozpin himself! I'm not sure how I got here or why, but I'm not gonna let this opportunity slip by, not only that but I need help in finding all my missing cards!' He inwardly chuckled to himself as he's living the life every RWBY fan ever dreamed of!
Then he saw Qrow coming back as she placed her scroll back in her pocket. "Well I just got done talking with my friend, he said he wants to meet you over at Beacon for a chat." She said as her crossed her arms under her bust.
"Ok, sounds good." He said while extending his hand to Qrow, who then grabbed it and pulls him up... Which sadly seemed to make Qrow raise a brow again and tried to prevent a laugh from escaping. When Rick looked up to her, which he literally did since he only came up to her abdomen, and his face gaining a dark spot in between his face and his eyes almost squinting as he glared at the huntress. "What's so funny?" He asked in a rather hard tone.
"I...I'm sorry, it's just seeing you standing up right now, I realize that you're barely up to my niece's shoulder!" She said before letting out a laugh and hold her sides which caused her bust to bounce, while not noticing a red tick mark appearing on Rick's head as he lightly trembled. As an insult to injury, Qrow had to kneel down just to meet Rick literally face to face. "I mean no offense or anything." She then placed his hand on Rick's head and started patting on him like a dog, much to Rick's ire. "But look short how you are, shorty! Not to mention how cute you look when you're short!" She exploded into a laughing fit while still patting Rick's head.
Suddenly Rick appeared in a red background with him turning into a cut out version of himself, while matching the color of the background, his eyes completely darkened and his teeth clenched tightly and turned into a slightly bent rectangle shape with his teeth sharpened, and the tick mark expanding over his head and turning white. Rick let out a growl from what Qrow had just said to him, and before the huntress knew it she suddenly found herself being grabbed by the back of her shirt, and spun around and around with Rick holding onto her and spinning in a comical manner.
"Shorty?! Could a shorty do this?! What else you want to call me? A half-pint, bean-sprout, midget?! I'm still growing you drunkard bitch, and I'm 17 years old for god's sake, and don't call me cute!" Rick exclaimed loudly as he spun the yelling huntress around in a circle.
Yes, this is true, while he may be 17 years old the only real problem for Rick, is his height. He's around 3'4" which makes him rather short compared to other teens his age, despite him being 17 years of age. Which makes him very sensitive about his height, and often being called the modern Edward Elric from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist by his friends back on earth. Not only does he dislike being called short, he really hates it when people call him cute due to his height.
Eventually the both of them were lying on their backs, panting heavily from that little outburst of Rick's. "Hah...geez kid, you're like my other niece Yang when she goes crazy over her hair, except you go crazy about your height." Qrow heaved while her eyes were in a dizzy swirls.
"Yeah well, don't go calling me short or cute again, or else I'm kicking your ass." Rick rebuked her for calling him short.
"Ugh. Fine, whatever. Let's just go." Qrow said as she slowly stood up still feeling dizzy and wobbly from being spun around so much. Eventually both Rick and Qrow were on a Bullhead on its way over to Beacon, Qrow was simply relaxing on her seat while briefly glimpsing at Rick who was looking out at the window taking in everything they passed by. Never in her entire life as a huntress has she ever seen anything like this kid, and that ring, whatever it is has a strange power. Power that is unlike anyone on Remnant has ever seen before. 'Hopefully he'll be able to tell us what he just turned to, and what those cards were.'
After what felt like an eternity they finally arrived at Beacon, which to Rick's surprised looked a lot bigger in person, than it did on a computer screen. Qrow chuckled at the gawking expression Rick had and patted him on the back. "Well? Come on, no use standing around here." She urged as she walked ahead of the young teen who snapped from his daze and followed her. Once they were riding in the elevator, Rick was really nervous, it's not every day a guy suddenly finds himself in a world that's supposed to be pure fiction, being able to transform into a creature that from a card game and meet yet another character of said fiction, who happens to play a major role in future volumes.
He gulped almost audibly as a sweat drop was rolling down his cheek. 'Shit! This is so damn nerve wracking, I can't seem to keep myself calm at this moment!'
The dinging sound of the elevator broke him from his train of though as the doors opened for them, Qrow lead Rick out and walked over to the door that lead to Ozpin's office. She stopped at the door and turns to Rick. "Wait here, they'll call for you when they're ready."
Rick nodded and sat down on a nearby chair as Qrow went inside to speak with Ozpin. He sighed and rubbed his head, his mind was still trying to process on how he ended up on Remnant, instead of being turned into paste by that truck. Not only that, but how was it even possible for Zorc to even be real? As far as he knew Zorc was supposed to be defeated during the final battle of the first Yu-Gi-Oh series, and yet he not only saw him but was almost eaten by him. 'Something's going here, I don't know how Zorc's even connected to all this, but whatever it is I need to not only find my missing cards, but also stop him. Somehow.'
Inside his office both Ozpin and Glynda were watching the video of Rick fighting the Grimm as Neos, needles to say they were shocked and amazed by what they saw, after that the video ended and the screen was turned off.
"..Professor Ozpin...what did we just see?" Glynda being the first to ask with her eyes wide as plates.
With his hands clasped together and staring at the blank screen, he turned his attention at her. "Something that no one on Remnant has ever seen before." He merely said to her.
Back with Rick he was seen looking over the Orb Ring as well as his cards in his other hand, he looked back and forth between them with a curious thought. "I wonder, if the slot allowed me to transform into Neos, perhaps it could do the same with my other cards. And if that's possible then perhaps the ring could allow me to fuse with them as well." He said to himself recalling the number of times he would playfully scan his cards through the ring, he was about to test his theory when he heard the door opening and saw Glynda herself walking out.
"Professor Ozpin will be seeing you now." She told him in her usual tone that he's familiar with.
Putting his cards away and still holding onto the Orb Ring, Rick followed her inside as the door closed behind them. Rick was sitting in the middle of the room as Ozpin was sitting behind his desk with Glynda and Qrow on both opposite sides of the desk. "Now I want you to know you're not in any trouble or anything, we simply wish to ask you a few questions young man." Ozpin said in order to ease his nervousness.
This made Rick let out a small sigh of relief and smiled. "Sorry it's just nerve wracking to meet someone like you. By the way name's Richard, Richard Drake. But call me Rick." He introduced himself with a grin.
Ozpin smiled back. "It's a pleasure to meet you Richard, my name is Professor Ozpin the headmaster of Beacon which you're in now. Beside me are my associates Glynda Goodwitch." He said while gesturing to the blonde haired combat instructor, who offered the young teen a nod and a small smile. "And you've already met Qrow Branwen."
Said huntress only offered Rick a half smirk and slight nod while winking at him.
"So if you would please Richard, where did you come from exactly and how were you able to transform into that white being?" Ozpin asked the young teen with a curious tone in his voice.
From that moment Rick explained everything about himself to Ozpin, Glynda and Qrow, telling them that he's from another world called earth, telling them that it was much like Remnant but different in many ways, next her explained to them all about the cards as well as telling them about the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise and the Duel Monsters that he has on hand. Then he told them about his Orb Ring once being nothing but a simple toy replica from Ultraman Orb. Next he dropped the mother of all bombs on them by telling them all about their universe, how he knows them and about every other character on Remnant, events that've happened or will happen in the near future as well as the war with the Grimm. He even showed them proof by showing them clips of their universe through his phone, which had all six volumes downloaded.
Ozpin, Glynda and Qrow were stunned in total silence, what Rick had told them completely blew their minds away, a young man from a world where theirs was nothing but fiction? Fortunately he assured them that if they're talking to him in person then that meant they're very much real as he is.
"...I...I don't believe this." Glynda said in disbelief while palming her head at the revelation Rick had told them.
Qrow looked at her flask and screws the cap on it, obviously too stunned to even drink it, especially seeing a male version of herself on Rick's phone.
"I know that this is all so much to take in, but I can tell you is that even though you all may be fictional in my universe, you all still have your lives and there's nothing that can change that!" Rick said to calm them down before they have some sort of identity crisis.
Fortunately his words were able to ease their worries. "Sorry Richard it's just...this is overwhelming for us, and you're right we do have our lives. And that's never gonna change." Ozpin said with a smile which also seemed to calm both Qrow and Glynda as well.
This made Rick inwardly sigh in relief. 'Phew that was close. And now to drop the atom bomb.' Rick cleared his throat which got their attention. "Not to sound rude or anything, but you think if I can speak with you Ozpin, in private?"
This made Qrow and Glynda raise a brow in confusion and turned to Ozpin who seemed to be thinking it over, then he nodded and motioned them to step out of the office. The then walked across the room with Qrow walking out first while Glynda briefly looked over her shoulder, before following Qrow and closing the door behind her.
Silence filled the office once again before Rick turns back at Ozpin, with a hard look in his eyes. "I'm not sure how to say this, but." He then lowers his head till his eyes were darkened by his hair, this made Ozpin raise a brow and leans forward to listen to what Rick had to say. "I know who you really are...Ozma." Rick said softly but loud enough to be heard.
Ozpin's heart practically skipped a beat and felt his blood turn cold when he heard that name. His eyes wider than humanly possible as he stared in a shocked and awe state.
"And I know the relationship you had with...with Salem." Rick said while his body slowly trembled for some reason, his hands slowly closing into fists while the headmaster only stared frozen like a statue. "I know all about you, when the Brother Gods once walked among humanity several thousands of years ago. Remember me telling you that your universe has six volume? Well in the sixth volume it explained your origin as well as Salem's." Rick's fists were slowly trembling as if to keep his anger under control.
Ozpin could clearly tell what Rick learned about who he was in the past was upsetting him, but was too stunned to speak and let Rick continued explaining. "And I know the reason why Remnant became what it is in the first place!" Rick said with his voice slowly rising. "It was because of you that she's what she is now! It's because of you that she suffered all these years, lost and alone, cursed to live forever because of her immortality!" He exclaimed loudly which made Ozpin flinch at his tone.
"I know what she did was wrong and that she should've just let you rest, but you were the only person to ever make her feel free and give her happiness, and she fell in love with you because of that! But what did you do? You went and got yourself killed by a virus, and caused her pain!" He retorted while tears were seen falling from his eyes while his head was lowered.
"And because of those two brothers she lost everything and became a prisoner again! And to make things worse." He said before raising his head and glared at the ancient wizard who flinched from his steely gaze as tears flowed from his eyes. "You went and accepted the light god's offer, never even knowing that there's no chance of ever defeating her and continuing this never ending war of yours! You and her were happy together, you had each other again but because of that stupid promise, it tore your family apart!"
As Rick rebuked Ozpin for what he did, his mind went back to the time where he met Salem once more, them being reunited and having a family of their own, in that moment he knew there was true happiness between them especially with their daughters. But it all changed that very night he remembered his promise to the God of Light, which resulted in his death and his rebirth throughout the years, and finally knowing the horrible truth of never being able to defeat Salem.
"But still." Rick said once again which broke Ozpin from his train of thought. "If she can't be defeated then...she can be saved!"
His words stunned Ozpin once more. Did he hear right? Did Rick actually say that Salem, the queen of the Grimm could be saved? "Richard...you can't possibly think that-"
"I don't think, I know she can be saved!" Rick cuts him off while standing fully up and holding the Orb Ring tightly in his hand. "You may not believe it, but the two brothers said that unless she learns the true meaning of life, she will forever be cursed to wander the land forever! I know for a fact that there's a way to free her, and if you won't save her Ozma, then I will and there's nothing you can say or do will stop me!" He firmly declared while holding the ring close to his chest, with a look of pure determination.
Rick's words stunned Ozpin, never in his whole life had he seen such fire in his eyes, nor has he heard such passion in his voice. In all honesty just seeing Rick before him in such a manner has reminded Ozpin of what he once was and stood for all those years ago. A small smile wormed its way onto Ozpin's face. "I'm not sure if it is even possible to save Salem from the path she walks on, but if you strongly believe that you can save her, then I ask you this Richard." He paused for a moment before finally speaking again. "Please...save her."
Rick blinked a few times before giving the headmaster a big grin. "Hey you can count on me, Oz!" He chuckled while flashing a thumbs up.
After their little talk both Glynda and Qrow were called back into the office, standing by Ozpin again as Rick was explaining his cards once again. "So before you even arrived to our universe, you had well over 100,000 of these Duel Monsters?" Ozpin asked while holding the Neos card.
Rick nodded. "Yup. They were gifts from my parents and grandpa before they died, while the rest came from my friends before I even got here."
Qrow let out a whistle as she was looking over Avian and Hummingbird. "I gotta say that's one helluva collection you got there kid." She commented.
"But when you were brought here you saw all of them scattered everywhere within the portal?" Glynda asked while she was looking at Burstinatrix, Sparkman and Dolphin.
This made Rick slump. "Sadly yeah." However he quickly shook it off and straightened himself. "But after fighting off the Grimm in the forest, I was able to find these two." He picked up both Time Wizard and Tuning Magician and showed them to huntsmen and huntress. "Which means I have 14 cards and that leaves me only 99,986 to find."
They all handed his card back to Rick which he placed them back in his pocket. "Though the problem is, even though I know about your world from a computer screen, I don't exactly know Remnant personally. So I wouldn't even know where to begin looking." He said while rubbing his head.
"And that's why we'll help you find them. From what you've told us about them, as well as this...Zorc character, if what you showed us and told us about him is true, then he may present an even bigger threat than the Grimm." Ozpin said while his eyes narrowed. Both Glynda and Qrow nodded, agreeing with the ancient headmaster to help Rick find his cards.
Rick smiled in gratitude of their offer to help him. "That would be great. Though I am curious about one thing, if the Orb Ring or rather Duel Ring as I'll call it, allows me to transform into Neos then maybe it can do the same with my other Duel Monsters as well. It may even allow me to fuse with them." He theorized while looking at the ring again.
"Then perhaps we should test that theory out in our training room." Ozpin said as he stood up from his chair and walked around his desk. "I'm sure professor Port won't mind in helping us with this little test."
Rick, Glynda and Qrow followed Ozpin out of his office and went down on the elevator. Once they made their way through the halls Rick was taking in every detail of the academy, it truly was amazing to actually be inside the fabled school itself rather than watching it on video. They finally reached the training room and walked inside, and standing before them was the familiar form of professor Peter Port himself.
Port turns to see Ozpin entering the room and smiled. "Ah, professor Ozpin! To what do I owe this pleasure of meeting you before the school year starts?" The story telling huntsman said as he shook Ozpin's hand.
"I apologize for having you come down at this hour Peter, but I was wondering if you would help us with something." Ozpin said before motioning Rick to come up beside him. "This is Richard Drake, he was brought to me a few hours ago and we wanted to help him test out a theory of his here in the training room, and we were hoping you can help with this theory."
This peaked Port's interest and walks over to Rick. "Oh? Is that so?" He said before looking down on the young teen. He lets out a hearty chuckle while placing a hand on Rick's head, which made his brow twitch. "Well now, it does my heart good to see a young newcomer to seek the aid of a valiant huntsman, like yours truly!" He proclaimed in his usual boastful tone. "Still it is rather surprising, to see someone as small as you here young man."
His words made Rick become stiff as a board, before surprising lunging at him and throwing various attacks at him. "WHO'RE YOU CALLING A LITTLE RUNT, YOU JERK?!" Rick shouted while his eyes were comically blank and angry.
Both Ozpin and Glynda turned into cartoonish cut out versions of themselves while question and exclamation marks flashed above their heads. And Qrow also a cut out version of herself had a large sweat drop forming on her head, and sighed while a cartoonish cloud escaped her mouth.
"Oh ho! Well now I see the young lad has a fire inside him, hahaha! I like that, no doubt you would make a fine huntsman in the near future." Port boisterously chuckled as he either dodged or blocked Rick's attacks.
Eventually Rick felt himself freezing in midstrike and found himself floating back to Ozpin and Glynda, who used her riding crop which glowed with her semblance and dropped him beside her. Then she smacked him on the head with her crop. "OW!" He cried out while holding his stinging head. "What was that for?!"
"That was for attacking one of our staff members, you should know better than to let someone's insults get the better of you." She chided him like how a mother would with her child.
"WELL HE'S THE ONE WHO CALLED ME SMALL!" He exclaimed while turning into a cut out version of himself, his teeth turning sharp and a tick mark forming on his head.
This only made her brow twitch and began to slap him silly with her crop, which made the two men in the room wince from the sound of her crop smacking skin. She finally stopped and Rick was seen on the ground with several angry red welts, and little spirals and stars floating from his head. "I think someone should teach you to control that attitude and temper of yours, understand?" She said while tapping her crop in her other hand.
"Yes ma'am." Rick moaned in pain.
Glynda only let out a small smile at his words. "Well, I'm glad you understand since you won't be doing that again, will you Richard? And to make sure you don't do this again, you'll be getting a strict mommy from this day forward." She said with a small nod. "Plus I'll also be training you as well, should you chose to accept it of course."
Both Ozpin and Port had multiple blue lines on their faces, with small blank white eyes or in Ozpin's case blank white glasses and a small sweat drop or two from the blonde's harsh treatment on the young teen. 'She's an absolute she-devil when she wants to be.' They thought in unison.
While Qrow shook her head and chuckled at Rick's misfortune. "Sometimes I wonder if you're not secretly into bondage, Glyn." She grinned which earned her a heated glare from the blonde witch.
"Be quiet Qrow!" She snarled at the bombshell ravenette.
After Rick's little episode about his height, he was seen in the center of the stage with a bandage or two on his face. On the spectator seats were Ozpin, Glynda, Qrow and Port waiting to begin the test. "Alright Richard, we're ready to begin when you are." He called out while the others were waiting with anticipation.
'Well here goes nothing.' Rick slowly took a deep breath and releases it, calming his nerves. Getting into a stance similar to how Gai Kurenai from Ultraman Orb would, Rick then thrusts his left hand out and the ring glowed and his vision was engulfed in light. Rick suddenly finds himself in a cosmic background with several stars all around him, then he pulls out the first card from his deck; Avian.
"Avian!" He called out as the card suddenly flashed green and wind was swirling around the card. He slips it through the ring with the back of the card facing the bottom, and to his surprise it scanned his card while the ring flashed a green light.
Erementaru Hīrō Fezāman
The card was engulfed in light and passed through the ring in a flurry of wind and leaves. The wind appeared on his left as it took shape and finally taking on the full form and appearance of Avian, who let out a grunt.
Amazed by this Rick let out a smirk and pulls out his next card. "Burstinatrix!" He called out as the card flashed red and flames were dancing around it. He slips the card through the ring as it scanned it and the ring flashed from a green color to a bright red color.
Erementaru Hīrō Bāsuto Redi
The card was engulfed in light as it passed through the ring in a flurry of fire and small embers as it appeared on his right, like with Avian the flames took on the full form and appearance of Burstinatrix, who let out a lady-like grunt.
With both monsters beside him, he knew what fusion form he'll become. With a large smile, he knew just what to say with to finish this. "Give me the power of wind and fire!" He exclaimed while thrusting his left hand in their, and to his surprise both Avian and Burstinatrix mimicked his movements, the flaps of the ring opened and the ring glowed brighter.
Fu~yūjon'appu!
The ring and Avian flashed a green light, while it switched to a red color as did Burstinatrix, before the ring flashed a darker shade of green. With their arms down both Duel Monsters were pulled into Rick as they let out a grunt in unison, before merging with Rick as his body was engulfed in light and changing into a different shape. Fire and wind danced around his body as he felt a rush of power flowing through his body. Then the light and the two elements started dissipating from his body starting from his feet and climbing up.
Fu~yūjon rīz Erementaru Hīrō Fureimu Winguman
Once the light and elements had vanished, there stood in Rick's place was none other than Flame Wingman!
The background changed from a green hurricane wind, to a raging fire and Flame Wingman was seeing flying through the flames in a similar manner to how Ultraman would once he's transformed.
Back in the arena Ozpin and his friends had to shield their eyes from the blinding light, and when it faded their eyes slowly became wide as plates, and their jaws almost dropped. Rick as Flame Wingman stood tall and proud before the veteran huntsmen, they could feel the air around him radiating power, they saw that he only had one wing on his left side which has a clawed hand, while his right arm had red scales and to their surprise, in the place of his right hand was a head of a dragon with a tail swinging lazily behind him. "Oh my god!" Glynda breathed out stunned by what she had witnessed.
Qrow may've saw Rick turning into Neos back in the forest, but seeing him turning into a fusion monster almost made her drop her flask. However, she gripped her chin with her thumb and index finger, and suddenly gained this hungry look in her eyes. She had this foxy smirk as she eyed the fusion monster before. 'Not bad, not bad at all. I must say, despite his cuteness in his height, he could have a killer body like that.' She inwardly purred while slightly licking her lips.
Port felt his heart skipping a beat when he saw Rick becoming Flame Wingman, and stroked his moustache in total amazement.
Even Ozpin was amazed to see such a fusion monster in person, just seeing it he could feel the power emitting from the creature Rick had transformed into, if he were unleashed against an army of Grimm he would no doubt come out unscathed. Speaking of which he turned to Port and nodded. The Grimm studies teacher nodded and pulled out his scroll and pressed a button.
Rick was looking himself over feeling amazed that his theory of becoming a fusion monster was true, then he heard the sound of doors opening, he turns to the source of the sound and saw several doors opening and in the darkness were multitudes of blazing red eyes and the sounds of growling. Knowing those were Grimm, he got into a fighting stance with the mouth of the dragon head on his right hand glowing.
When the doors were fully opened, the Grimm charged into the stage with the intention of feasting on the creature before them, sadly for them Flame Wingman charged at them as well and when he got close he fired a powerful stream of flames as everything turned white.
(Time skip)
It had been what must've felt like months if not a whole year since that day Rick arrived to Remnant, and his stay in Beacon was...even more interesting than simply watching it from a computer. He was given a room of his own, some private teachings from the staff members of Beacon, familiarizing everything he could see from the show, and had to endure Glynda's training, (which now haunts him in his dreams.) But despite all that she actually treated him like he was her own son, and even Rick admitted that he saw her like a mother. Those two were practically inseparable, much to Ozpin's amusement.
However during his time in Beacon he hasn't found any clue as to where the rest of his cards are, luckily Ozpin had Qrow keep an eye out for any signs of glowing cards or hearing rumors about cards no one's ever seen or heard of. Even so, he wasn't sure if the Duel Ring, would at least sense the cards. Despite that he wasn't gonna give up searching for them, as well as preparing for when the main timeline of RWBY would arrive, and the possibility of encountering Zorc.
Not only that as he was staying in Beacon, he would explore the kingdom of Vale, it looked a lot bigger in person than he realized, but he also saw many Faunus getting treated poorly. So, he did what no one in Remnant should've done; help those who're different. His actions quickly gained the attention of the public, especially the Faunus, then in secret he would go out as either of his Elemental Heroes or Neo-Spacians and save both humans and Faunus from various things. His actions as his Duel Monster had gain him a somewhat of a popularity amongst the people, mostly the Faunus.
He did everything from stopping muggers, killers, thieves, even members of the White Fang. As well as saving lives from Grimm, accidents and natural disasters. And during his time in Remnant he actually came across his four favorite characters; Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long. His encounter with them was exactly like from the trailers, well his encounter with Weiss was different than what he was hoping for.
He meet Ruby as Avian during her visit with her mother's gravestone, he encountered Wiess as Sparkman when the train she was on was under attack by the Fang, thankfully he was able to give her some words about not hating the entire Faunus race because of the actions of a lost few. Then he met Blake on the train as Dark Panther much to her surprise to see a panther like him, and fought Adam Taurus by using his own image and semblance against him, much to his surprise. And finally he met Yang as Burstinatrix when she was wrecking Junior's bar, and suffice to say she took a real liking to Burstinatrix, since she's a fire user like her.
Right now he was seen as Neos floating in the sky with his arms crossed and the moon shining behind him. His blue gaze scanned over the city until he spotted the store he was looking for; Dust Till Dawn. "There it is. And if things are going according to the canon timeline, she should make her move right about..." The sudden sounds of glass breaking cut him off as he saw a man flying out of the store, and then he saw her flying out of the store with her sniper shifting into its scythe form, Ruby Rose has arrived!
"Now." He said. And just like in the first episode he saw her easily taking out those hired thugs that surrounded her, then he noticed a familiar man in a white suit and black bowler hat getting ready to shoot her. "And that's my cue." Neos quickly flew towards Ruby just in time as a large fireball had almost reached her.
Boom!
Roman Torchwick, the infamous wanted man in the criminal underworld, smirked, feeling pleased that he snuffed that little red hooded girl for ruining his operation even if those losers from Junior barely did much. However his smirk faded, and was replaced by a look of surprise when he saw a shield of light. Ruby thought she was done for, she braced herself for that fire dust to hit her, however she suddenly felt fine. She opened her eyes to find herself in one piece, then she looks up and then her eyes went wide and a gasp escaped her mouth.
Neos was standing before her with his hands stretched out, and a light shield was created just in time before that fire dust hit them. 'Good I made it on time.' He inwardly sighed in relief. "Are you alright kid? You're not hurt are you?" He asked only to see her eyes had grown bigger which almost popped out of her skull, literally sparkling like stars, and her mouth shaped like an O. A sweat drop appeared on the back of his head when he saw her awestruck face.
"OH MY GOSH, IT'S YOU! YOU'RE THAT HERO NEOS!" She squealed like a little kid with so much joy and excitement in meeting him, she suddenly turned into a chibi version of herself and started moving all around him, and taking in every detail of his being. "I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M ACTUALLY MEETING THE NEOS, THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE!"
A thought bubble appeared from his head, and a cartoonish version of his normal self hunched over with a large sweat drop, and his eyes blank white. 'I know she's into heroes as she is into weapons and all that, but this is ridiculous.' He said as he just stood there like a statue while she kept looking him over and asking questions.
"Dammit."
Hearing Roman's voice made his thought bubble pop and getting Neos' and Ruby's attention (even though she's still in her chibi form).
His face had what could possibly be describe, as the most vicious and angriest scowl Rick had ever saw on him. Of course he did foiled his plans time to time during his exploration in the kingdom, while looking for his cards of course.
"Of all the times you just had to show up, didn't you?!" He snarled lowly while gripping his cane. "You just don't know when to mind your own damn business and stick your nose in places where it doesn't belong!"
Rick inwardly smirked at his furious expression, he just loves pissing him off when he ruins his plans. "What can I say? I make it a habit of stopping guys like you from harming others. As well as my fellow Elemental Heroes and Neo-Spacians, after all you just can't seem to learn your lessons, eh Roman?" He said before crossing his arms and lowered his head to give an intimidating look. "I'm only gonna say this one, surrender now and come quietly, or else things will get ugly here"
"That's right!" Ruby exclaimed with Crescent Rose in its scythe form...while still in her chibi form and standing beside him.
Roman only clicked his tongue in anger. "I so don't have time for this!" He aims his cane at them and fires another fire blast at them.
Ruby quickly changed back to normal and yelped when she saw the fireball coming at them, Neos got in front of her and shielded her when the fire struck him on his back. He grunted when the fireball hit him but it wasn't too bad, Ruby heard him and looked at him with a concerned expression. "Are you ok? You're not hurt are you?" She asked him.
Neos only gave a chuckle. "Don't worry it'll take a lot more that that to hurt me." Then he looked over his shoulder and saw Roman escaping at the building where the Bullhead would arrive, along with a certain false Fall Maiden as well. "Come on, let's go!" He exclaimed while scooping Ruby up in a bridal style, much to her surprise and then cried out when he took off into the sky with her in his arms. Her eyes moved upward and let out a small gasp when she saw just how heroic he was as he soared through the night sky, it didn't help at all when the stars and the moon shined brightly around them, making his body somehow glisten like a diamond or snow. To her it was like a brave and noble hero. valiantly rescuing the fair princess and riding off into the night.
Ruby suddenly felt her heart racing and her face turning a healthy shade of pink, she quickly covered her face with her hands but peaked through her fingers as she gazed at him.
Neos briefly looked down and saw her acting like a typical shy girl in the presence of a handsome man. A sweat drop appeared on his head as he heard her giggling like crazy. 'I swear I will never understand this girl!' He inwardly exclaimed at her behavior.
Roman was able to make to the other side of the building when...
"Hold it right there, Roman!"
The voice of Neos made him stop as the Elemental Hero landed on the roof and gently puts Ruby down and readied her weapon in the case of a fight breaking out.
"Persistent bastard aren't you, Neos?" He snarled under his breath as he turns to face them, the air was filled with the sounds of engine noise and suddenly a Bullhead rose from the side of the building. Neos looked at the cockpit of the vehicle and can already tell who's flying it. Roman then climbs aboard the opening of the Bullhead and then faced them once again. "Well little red and Neos." He said to them with a large amount of venom when saying Neos' name. "As much as I love to stay and chat, I have other places to be!" He pulls a large enough fire dust crystal and then throws it at them.
Neos wrapped Ruby in his arms again and had his back facing the dust crystal, as Roman shoots at it and caused and even bigger explosion.
Boom!
Roman howled with laughter as he watched a great blaze of fire erupting before him. He hated Neos, he really, REALLY hated Neos so much! Every operation he pulled off that white skinned do gooder and his elemental freaks have always ruined all of his schemes and heists, it was driving him crazy! But now he's finally rid of that pesky hero in white and hopefully the same will happen to those other freaks as well!
His laughter soon died down and his smile had dropped when he saw the flames dissipating and his face contorting into an angry scowl again.
Neos slowly looked over his shoulder as did Ruby and to his relief, Glynda had arrived just in the nick of time, and as she did in the canon timeline. 'Took her long enough.' With the fires gone, Glynda canceled her shield which allowed Neos to stand by her left while Ruby stood by her right. Glynda took a quick glance at the young huntress-in training and turns to Neos while silently gesturing to the young silver eyed girl. Neos nodded at her and turned his blue gaze at the Bullhead and saw a familiar false Maiden partially stepping into view and created a ball of fire in her hand.
The fight was very much like in the first episode, only with Rick as Neos swatting any fireballs, and firing plasma balls at the Bullhead. It was becoming too much for the Bullhead, so Roman quickly flew it away while it was still intact. With the fight over and the fire around the put out, Neos gazed at the fading Bullhead, and decided on following it. "SHUWATCH!" He exclaimed while leaping in the air and soared in the night sky before his body seemed to flicker and faded from sight.
Glynda gave a small smile as she watched the young teen faded from sight. 'Be careful Richard.' She thought when felt a tug on her cape and turns to meet the silver eyes of Ruby, who looked at her with admiration.
"You're a huntress! Can I have your autograph?" She asked with a beaming smile and her eyes sparkling.
Glynda felt a sweat drop appearing on her head, recalling what Rick had told her before. A Thought bubble appeared from her head and played a cartoonish memory of Rick explaining to her. 'Ok in the original timeline in my universe, Roman and Cinder fly off in their Bullhead and you two simply watched them flying away.' Rick in the memory explained to her with a chalkboard and several pictures of said events of the episode, before adding a picture of him and Neos. 'However even though I'm here, the results will be pretty much the same, except I'll follow them while cloaked so they won't see me. And once Ruby asks you for an autograph, just humor her before you go an interrogate her ok?' The thought bubble popped and Glynda sighs which a cartoonish cloud popped out and faded before looking at the young girl.
She reached into her pocket and pulls out a marker. "Where do you want it signed?" She asked uneasily.
This made Ruby squeal happily as she was surrounded by a pink background and rainbows. This made Glynda gain two sweat drops on her head and sagged her shoulders. 'You owe me for this Richard.'
(Beacon)
After questioning Ruby and granting her the privilege to join Beacon due to what Rick had told them, Ozpin and Glynda had returned to the academy after bidding Ruby goodbye. "Have you gotten any word from Richard yet Glynda?" Ozpin asked s they exited the elevator.
"I just gotten a call from him saying that he found them landing near an abandoned warehouse, before he cut the connection off." Glynda answered as they entered his office.
"Well I'm sure he'll be back before we even know it." He said back.
"Or he could be simply waiting in here for you two to get back." They stopped when they heard a familiar voice when they noticed Ozpin's chair with its back facing them, and turns around to show Rick in his normal form sitting on it with his hands behind his head and placing both his feet on the desk. "Miss me?" He said while giving them a cheeky grin.
Their surprise faded and Ozpin only chuckled. "You certainly got done quicker than we expected."
Rick shrugged his shoulders. "Eh, what can I say? I can get things done in a real hurry if I want to. Not only that I got something." He pulled his feet off the desk and reached into his pocket and suddenly pulls out an orange ball of mystical flame.
Both Ozpin and Glynda felt their jaws almost fall and their eyes became wide as plates, in his hand was the missing half of the Fall Maiden's power!
Rick got off of Ozpin's desk and walked over to him and was about to hand him the Maiden powers, only for Ozpin to gently push it back to him. "Huh?" Rick uttered with a blue question mark appearing over his head.
"Richard, I believe that you should be the one to give it to her. After all you were the one who healed and awakened her, and promised to get her powers back after all." Ozpin said with a knowing smile.
Rick only stared at the headmaster for a second, before giving a big smile and snorting smoke from his nose. "Sure! You can count on me Oz!" He exclaimed before making a dash out of his office and raced to the elevator.
Ozpin only chuckled at the young teen's enthusiasm. "He's certainly something of a wildcard." He said before going to his chair and sitting down.
Glynda gave a small smile still staring at the door. "He definitely is something else." She said before her smile faded into a frown. "Although I can't help but feel a little worried. I know that those cards are special to him, but I just hope that nothing bad happens." She gently tightens her hand closed to her chest, she may not openly admit it but she grew close to Rick during their time in training, she helped him whenever he needed it and helped sharpen his skills when he's not using the Duel Ring. But she couldn't shake this feeling inside her and she has no idea why.
"I'm sure nothing bad will happen, after all he was trained by everyone here, so I wouldn't be too worried about him." Ozpin said with a sudden teasing smile rising. "In all honesty, I've never seen you become so attached to him, like a mother hen with her baby chick."
His words made her become stiff before turning to face him with her eyes shadowed, and suddenly gained a twinkling star in both eyes before raising her crop. "What was that, Ozpin?" She lowly growled while her body was enveloped in a darkish purple aura. "Care to repeat that last sentence?"
Ozpin comically became white as a sheet as his face gained a blue color. "Oh nothing Glynda, it was nothing, nothing at all I assure you!" He exclaimed while waving his hands back and forth rapidly hoping to placate his assistant's wrath, sadly it was for naught. Outside the academy you could hear the sounds of her crop smacking skin, and the anguish cries of Ozpin echo throughout the air.
Then it zooms back inside the academy and revealed Rick walking through the hallway and stopping in front of a door. He raised his hand and gently knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
"Hey Amber it's me, Rick, can I come in? I got something for ya." He said while holding his hand with the Maiden power behind his back.
"Oh Richard! Yes, come on in!" Amber answered on the other side of the door. Smiling he opens the door and spotted the familiar tanned skinned, brown haired Maiden herself. Amber was sitting on her bed with a book in her hand, which she puts down when she saw him come in. When he finished testing his theory about transforming into his fusion Duel Monster, Rick asked Ozpin about taking him to see Amber herself, telling him that he might be able to heal her and help her awaken from her comatose state.
Ozpin was reluctant to take him to Amber, but after recalling Rick telling him what happened to both him and Amber in the final episode of volume 3, he decided to take his word and brought him to the Fall Maiden. When they arrived at the very bottom of Beacon Rick had transformed into Neos and asked them to hand her to him. When she was taken out of her life-support system, Neos had suddenly started glowing and began transferring his energy into her. They all just stood back and waited with baited breath and hoped beyond hope that he would succeed.
Then to their surprise not only did they see her scars vanish and her waking up, but they saw what looked to be some type of Grimm worm in is hand. He told them that it was a parasite that was keeping her from recovering and waking up, and possibly to track her for when Cinder arrives during the assault. After healing her and helping her regain her strength, Amber was forever thankful to Rick, much to his embarrassment when she pulled him in a hug and smothered his face in her breasts.
"So, what is it you have for me?" She asked when he stopped in front of her.
He smiled widely at her. "Don't blink ok? Ta da!" He exclaimed as he presented her the missing half of her Maiden powers.
Amber's eyes were wide as plates when she saw the missing half of her Maiden powers, flames were coming out her right eye as it sensed its missing half. Rick slowly stretched out his hand to her as she reached out for the flame, the missing half then flowed into her arm before moving to her body as it was bathed in an orange light. Her eyes closed as she felt the familiar warmth of her power returning to her, she slowly opens her eyes as flames were now coming out of her left eye now and briefly shined an orange color. Finally, for the first time in years, Amber the Fall Maiden is now complete.
The light around her body had faded and the flames around her eyes had ceased, she lets out a sigh and gave a small smile at Rick. "Richard...you, I don't know what to say, but you not only saved me from a possible sleeping death, but saved my soul as well. Thank you." She said with a few tears of happiness falling.
Rick only chuckled and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Heh, it's nothing really! I mean it's only natural that I..." He was cut off when he felt Amber grabbing his face and then without warning gently captured him in a kiss! His eyes became wide as plates, his heart almost completely stopped and his face was becoming a new shade of red.
Amber slowly pulls away from the kiss and giggles at the site of Rick's blushing face. "I owe you my life Richard, and hopefully I can help you find your missing cards as repayment." She said while tenderly stroking his face and gave him a quick peck to the lips. "I hope to see you do well in the initiation soon, goodnight Richard." She lets go of his face, turns her lamp off and placed her book on her desk before turning around so her back is facing him.
Rick only stood there frozen like a statue, face all bright red and eyes comically blank and doing a good imitation of a gold fish. "Ah...uh...I...g-g-goodnight...A-Amber." He stuttered as he shakily turned around and walked towards her door as a trail of steam was coming from his head.
Amber wasn't really asleep when she heard her door opening and closing meaning he left, she giggled to herself again, ever since she saw how short he was compared to her, she couldn't get over just how cute he was at that height. She always found it hilarious on how he reacts to her calling him cute, something he really hates. 'Oh Rick, why did you have to be so damn cute like that! I hope that one day I can be by your side for all time, perhaps we should discuss about marriage someday!' She quietly giggled to herself as her face turned into a cartoonish cut out with a wide smile.
Just outside her room Rick's mind was a complete mess, it was like a combination of a hurricane, tornado and thunderstorm all rolled into one, it's not everyday that he gets kissed by a beautiful, tanned skinned woman who's obviously a few years older than him, as well as supposed to be pure fiction, but that was his first kiss he got from a gorgeous vixen no less! 'She kissed me, she kissed me, she Kissed me, she kissed me, she kissed me, SHE KISSED ME, SHE KISSED ME, SHE KISSED ME, SHHHHEEEEE KKKKIIIIIISSSSSSSSSEEEEEDDDD MMMEEEEEEEEEEE!' His mind couldn't take it as his whole face was turning so red it looked like he was going critical as steam rose from his head and came out from his ears and the sound of a kettle was heard until...
BOOOOOMMMMMM!
The whole hallway was filled with smoke, covering everything around it.
Glynda sighed to herself while rubbing her forehead, after smacking Ozpin silly for that mother hen remark, she stormed out of his room in a huff and rode down the elevator to get to her room. She respected Ozpin she truly did, but at times he can be childish, still she couldn't get over the feeling that was growing whenever she and Rick were close to each other. Sure she can be strict during her teaching with Rick, but deep down she was only looking out for him and guiding him so that he would be prepared for whenever he finds his cards, but still she couldn't shake that feeling that's swelling up inside and she has no idea why.
"Perhaps a nice relaxing hot bath would help before I go to bed." She said to herself when the elevator dinged on her selected floor. When the doors opened what she saw made her jump back in surprise and yelped.
There before her was a cut out version of Rick, balancing himself on the tips of his toes on his right leg while his left leg was raised and bent, his hands were facing upward and flat like he was holding something and lastly his whole face was so red it was glowing, his head was still steaming while his eyes were comical swirls and wiggling his body while he was mumbling nonsense.
Glynda blinked a couple of times before composing herself and walked over to the atomic red duelist. "Richard? Richard, are you feeling ok?" She asked him as she watched him waving his body side to side.
"...Uh?...Oh...H-Heya Glynda...how're you doing thish lovely evenin'?" He mumbled to her, still blushing up a storm and clearly not thinking straight.
"Are you feeling ok? Is something wrong?" She asked again feeling a little worried about his red face.
"Who me? Oh...no I feel fine, I am nothing wrong at all. I feel SOOOO...Lightheaded...and very...shleepy." He said in a manner similar to how Qrow is when she's drunk, and then fell backwards and crashed on the floor.
Glynda kneeled beside him and placed a hand on his forehead, only to recoil due to how hot his skin was, it was like she touched white hot metal and waved her hand around to cool it. She sighed heavily and used her crop to pick up Rick via levitation and carried him off with her, still listening to him mumbling utter nonsense.
"So much for my relaxing bath." She said with a cloud over her head and Rick giggled like a kid on too much sugar.
(Next day)
Inside the airship that was flying towards Beacon, was Ruby Rose who managed to actually attend the fabled huntsmen school Beacon Academy! When she told her father and uncle they were very proud of her being able to attend the school, if being moved two years ahead was anything to go by, Yang however was practically ecstatic for her little sister to attend Beacon with her. And poor Ruby was nearly crushed by her sister's bear hug.
Still she didn't feel real comfortable about being some special student, that's what was eating at her for the duration of the flight, however she still had the autograph she got from Glynda that one night yesterday after teaming up with her and her most favorite hero of all; Elemental Hero Neos! Ever since he and the others along with the Neo-Spacians just seemingly appeared out of nowhere, the young reaper had gone crazy over them, to her they were everything she always wanted to be, being a hero, stopping the bad guys and saving lives.
Before she had two favorite things cookies and weapons, but her number one favorite of all were Neos and his fellow heroes, you could say she practically worshiped them!
Right now she was sitting on the cushion of the airship, after the whole throw up incident and having to run away from her sister, and watching the news of the White Fang being taken down by one of the heroes, which was Sparkman when they were assaulting a Faunus rights group, and saved the lives of those people before vanishing. Though she did have this frown on her face as she let out a sigh.
Then Yang appeared and sat down beside her. "Why so gloomy Rubes? You're not still bummed about not getting a picture of that Neos guy from last night are you?" Yang asked while placing an arm behind Ruby.
"What do you think? Of course I'm still upset about not getting an autograph, much less of Picture of Neos!" She exclaimed while breaking out of her depressed state. "I mean you should've seen him Yang, he was so cool and awesome, and he was so heroic when he came to stop those bad guys, I mean to meet one of those Elemental Heroes is like a dream come true!" She beamed with her face becoming a cartoonish cut out version with her eyes growing big, stars twinkling in them and a rainbow appearing over her head while she smiled. "They're everything I've always wanted to be, I SO can't wait to meet him again and his team, and possibly team up beside them!"
Yang's eyes closed until they became horizontal lines, a sweat drop appearing on her head, and letting out a weak chuckle. Ever since those heroes showed up they were all the rage among the youth, especially the Faunus and even more so to Ruby, she knew that she wanted to grow up to be just like their mother Summer Rose. To them she was indeed a supermom and a great idol to the young reaper, and now that those heroes had suddenly showed up, Ruby was more fired up to be just like them as well as her mother.
The blonde bombshell placed a hand on Ruby's head which snapped her out of her fantasy. "Whoa there sister, I'm sure it'll probably be a long time for you to even meet them, much less team up with them." She said then her mouth morphed into a cat-like teasing smile. "Unless of course you're more anxious to meet a certain knight in shining white armor that swooped in and saved you last night, right?" She wiggled her eye brows with tiny cat fangs sticking out of her mouth.
This made Ruby's face turn cartoonish again and went bright red with her eyes changing complete silver. "Y-Y-YANG! It's not like that at all!" She exclaimed while rapidly waving her hands at her sister.
"AHAHAHAHAHA! Oh relax Ruby, I'm just funning you!" Yang laughed at her sister's embarrassment which she found hilarious.
Ruby gave a rather cute pout which made her cheeks puffed. "That wasn't very funny Yang." She said then she felt something sticking out of her pocket, which got her attention and a small yellow exclamation mark flashed beside her head. She reached into her pocket and pulled out not one but two cards. She held them out for her to get a good look at them, the first card appeared to be a copper colored, left and muscular arm being pulled back by a chain. The next card beside it sent chills down her spine do the grisly smiley face that stared back at her. The picture was a strange creature she never saw before, with the same color as the left arm, its smile seemed to almost split its head in half as its gums were a very dark blue, almost black in color like it never brushed its teeth in ages. On its head was a strange headpiece in the shape of a cobra and by the way its body looked, she could guess that it was built like mount Glenn.
Ruby continued staring into the cards, particularly the one with the face of the creature, it was almost as if it was staring right back at her.
Yang noticed how quiet she was and saw her looking at the two cards in her hand. "Still holding onto those?" She asked while pointing at them.
Ruby slowly nods. "Uh huh. I mean I've never seen anything like these two, Exodia the Forbidden One and the Left arm of the Forbidden One?" She said while eyeing the two cards like a Nevermore, before turning to Yang. "You still have that other card you found?"
"You know it." Yang answered before reaching into her pocket, and pulling out a card similar to the one Ruby had, but it was a right arm. "Though, I'm still wondering how this ended up in my underwear draw. I mean I thought some perv was trying to take something from me, but the window in my room was locked."
"Mine too. I mean, I don't even know how these two got into my sock drawer. Though this things face gave me the creep when I saw it." Ruby said with a shudder, recalling finding the two cards in her drawer when she woke up, and almost got a heart attack when she saw Exodia's face.
"Tell me about it when I heard you screamed, I thought someone was attacking you, and barged into your room when you were pointing at your drawer." Yang said with a chuckle, recalling Ruby freaking out over a grisly smile from a card.
"Well can you blame me? I wasn't even expecting a card with a scary smile to greet me in the morning!" Ruby huffed before looking at the card again. "Although looking at these cards now." She placed the head above the left arm and held them in her right hand, while Yang brought the other card over and placed it with the other two. "They're kinda like puzzles in a way. We have three of them, but we don't even have the other pieces."
Yang hummed to herself while tapping her chin. "Well who knows where those pieces could be, but if we hang onto these, I'm sure the other pieces might turn up." She said and placed the right arm in her pocket.
"Hmm, maybe." Ruby said while pocketing the other two card in her pocket, unknown to both sisters that the three cards were softly glowing before fading.
In another airship were Weiss Schnee was seen sitting by herself, looking out at the window below, she had trained for all her life to become a huntress so she can become a better person, and undo whatever wrongs her father had done in the name of her family. She recalled that one event months ago, where she and her mother were riding on a train to Vale and were attacked by the White Fang, she and her mother were among the captive people as they waited for help to arrive. She thought they were all going to die that day, and they would've if not for a flash of lightning striking at the White Fang.
She remembered that one humanoid being flying down from the sky, the sky flashed with lightning as he made short work of those radicals, never in her life had she ever seen a being like Sparkman as he mentioned his name to her and the people he saved. After that moment she felt anger for the White Fang rising within her, because of those degenerate Faunus they've made her life a constant hell, ruining her childhood and would've ripped them a new one, had Sparkman convinced her otherwise. She remember his words that anger will only breed more hate and hate will only breed more suffering, and that she mustn't shift the blame on all Faunus due to the actions of the Fang.
His words ran deep in her mind, after seeing him flying off that day she kept replaying his words over and over again, she knew that the Grimm practically feed off of negativity and the anger and hatred that's coming from both humans and Faunus would be like a magnet to the Grimm. From that day she promised herself that she would at least try to give the Faunus the benefit of a doubt, especially if she wishes to set things right.
She sighs softly to herself before looking at a card that had a copper colored and muscular left leg with a chain at the ankle. The Left Leg of the Forbidden One, a rather strange name for a card she had never seen or heard of before, not even the family butler Klein has ever heard of such a card. She wasn't sure why she's still hanging onto this card, she could've just thrown it away, but for some reason she couldn't. She sighs and then puts it in her pocket and looks outside the window again, unaware that the card was softly glowing before fading away.
In another airship, Blake Belladonna was seen sitting by herself, reading one of her books in silence. It had been months since she left the White Fang, it broke her heart to see how far the Fang had fallen, they were supposed to bring equality to all the Faunus of Remnant, but instead had turned into a terrorist group and making things harder for their fellow Faunus in the kingdoms and in Menagerie. What scared her even more is what Adam Taurus had become, the one person she knew in the Fang had slowly became a monster who would kill anyone in cold blood.
When things would get bad she always ran, that's all she ever did, she ran from her parents thinking they had abandoned the White Fang, she ran when the riots got out of control and now she ran from the White Fang itself and Adam Taurus. All she ever wanted was peace and equality for all Faunus, that was all she ever desired. However her life took a major turn on that day months ago during the train heist.
She remembered when she and Adam were fighting that massive spider-bot, something unexpected had arrived, never in her entire life would she encounter a panther suddenly flying in the air with a black cape and red on the bottom, and wearing a golden emblem with the letters N and S stamped on it. But what shocked her is that not only did the panther spoke like a person, it had shapeshifted into an exact replica of Adam Taurus himself!
Both her and Adam were stunned beyond belief when the panther in the form of Adam had fought him, and to his surprise used his own moves against him, to both Blake and Adam it was like fighting his own reflection. During the fight however, Blake stood on the sideline preparing to leave the Fang for good and start over, and hopefully bring the equality the Faunus craved for. But when she had reached the other train she heard a loud scream of pain, and the sound of fluids spraying in the air, she remembered it all too well when she saw Adam on his knees, holding a bloody stump that was once his right arm.
Adam Taurus was known to be a notorious and brutal fighter, no one, human or Faunus have ever been able to hurt him much less slice of one of his limbs, not even Blake could beat him in their sparing matches. And yet this copy-cat panther who took on his image and likeness, had used his own moves and skills against him.
She had taken that chance to unhook the cars of the train, which the panther returned to its natural form and landed beside her, she could still hear the cries and screams of anger and pain from Adam as he faded from her view. When she asked the panther who he was, she can recall the name he gave to her; Neo-Spacian Dark Panther.
She had never heard of such a being like Dark Panther or this Neo-Spacian before, she recalled his words of wisdom when he mentioned her doing the right thing in leaving the Fang. However she rebuked him asking that how could a wanted criminal like herself, do anything right except run when things get bad and hide like a coward. His only response to her that if she were to give up now, not only would she fail to accomplish whatever goals she had, she would only fail herself. His words stunned the former member of the Fang, before she even got a chance to talk to him more he had bid her goodbye and took off into the air.
That was the last she saw of Dark Panther, until she saw the news of him again, saving the Faunus to her surprise and amazement. And that's when she saw the other Neo-Spacians as well as the Elemental Heroes. From what she saw of the Faunus on the news, they praised them for saving them from those who would treat them badly, even going as far as to save human-Faunus couples as well. They weren't biased to the Faunus as the humans are, considering that they themselves aren't even human at all.
Still just seeing them saving the Faunus put her at ease, if only a little, and right now she's feeling a little anxious to head for Beacon. When she turned the next page is when she noticed a card falling out of the book. She picked it up and revealed to be a copper colored and muscular right leg bound by a chain. The Right Leg of the Forbidden One. She found the card in a hotel room she was staying in when she was training to attend Beacon, and held onto the card for some time, not sure why she still has it, but chose to hang onto it in case. She places it inside her pocket and returned to her book, unaware that the card was glowing softly before fading.
Back in Beacon Rick was seen inside the combat room, practicing his katas from his martial arts back on earth, and training with a weapon that was created just for him; Inazuma, the lightning spear. The spear itself was based off of the yari Japanese spear, with an elegant double edged spear hear, that was narrowed enough to easily slip past boney armor on any Grimm with body armor. It had a smoky greyish color on the pole with a yellowish tint, almost like a cloud and a lightning bolt. The one thing about this particular weapon is that it can shift into another form, but unlike most weapons huntsmen and huntresses have, Inazuma has four forms.
After a few more swings of his spear, Rick eased his fighting stand, and lets out a much needed breath and held the spear on his shoulder. "Phew. That was a good work out." He said while wiping off some sweat.
"I'll say it was."
The sound of a beautiful voice called out to him and he looked over his shoulder, there standing at the entrance was Fox Alistair, however this Fox was very different from the Fox he knew from his universe. For instance this Fox Alistair is a girl, much like how Qrow's a woman in this universe. She looked exactly like her male counterpart with dark skin and dark, messy copper hair that has a long fringe and a cowlick which her hair was slightly longer. She wore a sleeveless, muted orange zipper vest with black lining and a high collar, a pair of black jeans, and brown, laced shoes. She also wears a pair of long black gloves and has several pouches attached to her belt, and like her male counterpart, her eyes were bleached white. Her frame was almost slime with a nice curvy body, a pair of breasts that were almost like Yang's and a slightly heart shaped face but had a tomboyish look.
He had meet her as well as the rest of team CFVY months ago, and recalled the shocking news about some of the people of this universe, who're also gender swapped like Qrow.
(Flashback)
It was around noon at that time and things seemed peaceful at Beacon until...
"WWWWHHHHAAAAATTTTTT?!"
The sudden shout of Rick comically turned the academy into a cut out version of itself, and shook violently while floating in the air and then lands and changed back. Inside Ozpin's office were the headmaster in question and Glynda who were holding their ears shut from the young duelist's shouts. Rick stared bug eyed in a cartoonish version of himself, several question marks randomly appeared and vanished around him as he stared at them in a look of total disbelief. "W-W-What do you MEAN that there's no Jaune Arc or Lie Ren? HOW CAN THAT EVEN BE!?" He exclaimed loudly while his head comically grew much bigger than anyone thought.
Ozpin slowly pulls his hands from his ears and clears his throat. "It is as I've said Richard. When you told us about the future team members of JNPR, we already went through the list of future students that'll be attending to Beacon in a few months, but we found no one by the names of Jaune or Ren. But we have found two students that have their last names." He said while pulling out his scroll, going through the student roster and then shows it to Rick.
The green eyed teen looked at the screen and almost face faulted from what he saw. "WHAT?! That can't be possible!" He digs into his pocket and pulls his phone out, he scrolls through the pictures until he found what he was looking for and placed it side by side with the scroll. On his phone were the pictures of Jaune Arc and Lie Ren, but on Ozpin's scroll had two similar pictures of them, the two differences about them is that 1: their names are Joanna Arc and Lie Rin, and 2: Their faces while they look like Jaune and Ren they were feminine looking compared to the ones on his phone.
Rick looked back and forth between his phone and the scroll, stuttering and mumbling to himself as his mind was blown away by this. "...S-So...you mean to say that...these two...are girls?!" He asked the headmaster with his eyes shadowed by his hair, sweat drops falling down his head and shaking like a skeleton.
"Yes they are. And from what I can recall, when you mentioned miss Scarlatina and her team before, I had forgotten to mention that they're an all female team instead of the one you told us about from your universe." Ozpin explained. "Also, don't forget that the Qrow in our univers happens to be a woman as well, so this really shouldn't be very shocking to you."
This only made Rick even more shocked to know that not only were Jaune and Ren girls in this universe, but Fox and Yatsuhashi are also girls as well! However Ozpin was right about one thing, he did meet a female version of Qrow when he first arrived to Remnant, so why should this be any different as well? Maybe he wasn't even sure if Qrow was the only one who's gender swapped and the others remained the same. 'Well then again, this is reality, albeit a very different reality, but completely different from a fictional one.'
Rick shook his had rapidly and gasped as a sudden memory hit him. "Wait a minute, now that you mentioned it, do you two remember the fight I had back when I chased after Roman and Cinder two months ago?" He asked them.
Both Ozpin and Glynda nodded recalling him finding their hideout, fighting them, and getting Amber her Maiden powers back.
"Well when I was fighting them in that warehouse, I fought one of Cinder's members, Mercury Black, the assassin I told you about? Well, the Mercury I fought back then did sounded different from the one I know from my universe. Then it hit me, it was then I realized this Mercury wasn't a boy, but a girl! It completely threw me in a loop!" He said recalling just how slightly how Mercury's voice was slightly higher than it should be. 'This is gonna take some getting used to. So much for that Arkos and Renora shipping.'
(End flashback)
And he was right it did take some getting used to know the fact that some of the male characters from the show, are now gender swapped while their female members remained the same. After meeting Fox he also met Yumina who's the female counterpart of Yatsuhashi, it was so weird for the young duelist to take in, but he managed all the same. "I see you're working yourself hard for the test tomorrow." Fox said while walking toward Rick and offered him a bottle of water.
He took the bottle and drank about half of it and sighs. "Well, what can I say? Ever since I was brought her, I've been training non-stop for this day." He said with a excited smile for not only to partake in the initiation, but to fight alongside both teams RWBY and JNPR.
Fox let out a chuckle. "I can tell. Oh and Rick?" She said which caught his attention.
"Yeah?" He asked only to gasp when he saw the dark skinned beauty leaning to his height, and planted a quick kiss on his cheek. This made the young man blush a cherry red color when she pulls away from him and chuckled at his expression.
"Thanks for being friends with Velvet aside from me, Coco and Yumina. She really needs friends like you who don't care if she's a Faunus." She told him while winking at him and turns to walk out the room.
Rick was only left there stunned from being kissed on the cheek, then he shook his head from his stupor, and gasped at what time it is. "That's right, I better get going if I wanna meet them!" He said before sheathing his spear and took off like a rocket to get outside. After making his way outside he saw that the airships had all landed, he saw all the new students from across the kingdom, and possibly from others arriving, he started walking through the new students while also looking for Ruby and Weiss who should've crashed into each other by now.
"What are you doing?!"
A familiar voice cried out and he stopped and saw the two girls he was looking for. "Found them." He said under his breath. And just like in the second episode, he saw Weiss scolding Ruby for bumping into her luggage and causing them to fall, and that's when he saw her picking up a vile of dust and began to shake it, which made red dust power flying in the air. "And that's my cue." He quickly made a mad dash over to the due and before the silver eyed reaper could sneeze, he clasped his hand over her mouth and caught Weiss' hand.
"Huh? What the, where'd you come from?" She exclaimed when she suddenly saw some boy getting in between her and the red hooded dunce while grasping her hand with the dust vile.
"What's it look like? Stopping you from shaking too much red dust in the air, and keeping her from exploding on you two." Rick said as he slowly released Ruby's mouth and showed Weiss what he meant. "See? That vile isn't properly secured, and you shaking it around caused a lot of powered fire dust to fly in her face and would've caused her to explode."
Weiss blinked at his words, she checked the vile and saw that he was right. "I can't believe it! I thought it was secured!" She chided herself before she made especially sure the vile was sealed and puts it back in her luggage. "Thanks for pointing that out, it would've been disastrous if it weren't for this klutz of a dunce hadn't crashed into my belongings!" She aimed a glare at Ruby who then glared back.
"Hey, I said that I was sorry, princess!" She snapped back.
"It's heiress actually."
All three of them turned their heads to see Black walking towards them while carrying an empty vile. 'And cue Blake's arrival.' He thought to himself and watched as Blake mentioned the Schnee Dust Corporation, which Weiss took in with pride, only to have her ego deflate when Blake mentioned the shady business her family's company deals with. And before Weiss could even go off in a huff, Rick decided to play peace maker and clears his throat which caught their attention. "Look, it seems we all got off on the wrong foot here, so let's try again shall we?" He said in hopes that Weiss might calm down long enough to listen, thankfully she did as she sighed and crossed her arms, while Blake remained beside Ruby.
Rick nodded to himself seeing as this was going a little smoothly just now. "Now then I may know you because of your family, but I wanna know you, the REAL you. Not just from your family's company." He said to Weiss which caught her by surprise. "So I'll start us off then. The name's Richard, Richard Drake, but you can call me Rick." He offered her a grin and reached out to the heiress for a handshake.
Weiss looked at the short teen who was barely able to reach that silver eyed dunce's shoulder, and actually wanted to know her personally? Usually people who say that only wants to be with her due to her family fortune which has happened time and again, but when she looked into his eyes, she can tell he was being truthful which is a very rare thing in these days. So she decided to be polite this once, and grasped his hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you Richard, I'm Weiss Schnee, and again thank you for pointing out that mistake." She said in a more gentle tone than what she had before.
"Hey no worries." He said while shaking her hand. Then he turns to Blake and offered her his hand, which made her flinch no doubt still feeling a little nervous about talking with a human, due to her being a Faunus in hiding. She slowly reached out and grasped his hand and gave a slow shake.
"...My name's Blake, Blake Belladonna." She said and felt his hand gently squeezing hers which caught her off guard.
Rick gave her a soft smile and nods. "It's nice to meet you Blake! Hope we can be friends." He said. 'And hopefully help you before you lose yourself in your guilt.'
When he lets her hand go, he turns to Ruby and offered her his hand, who seemed a little hesitant at first since she wasn't very good with people but slowly reached out and took his hand. "Hi, name's Ruby, Ruby Rose. It's nice to meet you Rick." She said while smiling a little brighter. Then she suddenly blinked for some reason. She placed her other hand on her head, then placed it over Rick's and leveled it to her height, then she felt a smile threatening to appear on her lips, and almost snorted as she covered her mouth.
Both Weiss and Blake suddenly noticed this as well and felt a chuckle building up.
Rick noticed this and narrowed his eyes at Ruby. "What's so funny?" He asked in a low voice having a sense of déjà vu.
"I-I'm sorry it's just." Ruby said before letting out a chuckle which seemed to make both Blake and Weiss let out a chuckled as well. "I...I've never met someone so...small." She exploded in laughter and held her sides and almost toppled over. Blake and Weiss almost laughed as well until Rick felt a tick appearing on his head and gritted his teeth.
As Ruby laughed, an angry cartoonish cut out version of Rick suddenly got up in her face, with his eyes blank and teeth became shark teeth. "WHO'RE YOU CALLING A TINY LITTLE ANT HUH?!" He shouted angrily at her which made her cease her laughter as did Blake and Weiss, who were taken aback by his sudden burst of anger.
"Uh, sorry, so sorry! I didn't mean to call you that, honest!" Ruby exclaimed waving her hands back and forth in a rapid pace.
Rick was breathing heavily, smoke shot out of his nose like a bull snorting, trying to calm himself because of that comment about his height. After a few minutes he finally calms down and sighs. "It's fine. Just don't call me little, ok?" He said hoping she understands it.
Ruby nods and apologizes to the young duelist. After that little outburst of his both Blake and Weiss bid the two goodbye, while Weiss seemed to sent a slightly heated glare at the hidden Faunus from behind before she went on her own path, Rick only shook his head at this, he knew that it was only the beginning before the whole dock incident would arrive in a few days if not a week. 'Hopefully I can get Weiss to loosen up on her view on the Faunus as a whole.'
He then heard a heavy sigh and a thud, he looked down and saw Ruby lying on her back. "Welcome to Beacon." She said to herself in a slightly depressed tone.
"Hey, c'mon Ruby don't be like that." He said while kneeling down beside her. "It's only day one here, it'll get better with time. And besides, You'll love it here."
His words seemed to brighten up her spirit as she gave him a smile. "Thanks Rick." She said. Then they heard footsteps and a shadow appeared over Ruby, they looked up and to Rick's surprise and awe was Joanna Arc, the female counterpart of Jaune Arc. She definitely looked a lot better in person than as a picture, she looked exactly like Jaune but with a feminine face, slender waist, a mid-sized bust contained in the chest armor which fitted her, her hair was a little long reaching past her neck and was tied into a tail at the base. Overall, she looked rather cute in Rick's opinion.
"Hey. I'm Joanna." She introduced herself with a voice that was almost like that of a princess.
Ruby sat up while Rick stood up, while eyeing Joanna carefully. Even though she was a boy in his universe, she did indeed looked cute which made his cheeks slightly turn pink. 'C'mon Rick get it together! Even though she's cute looking, it's still weird to suddenly feel like this around a gender swapped character.' He chided himself but he couldn't help it, the kiss he got from Fox awhile ago still ran fresh in his mind, and dear god the kiss he got from Amber still made his heart skip a few ticks whenever he saw her.
The sound of Ruby stifling a chuckle broke his train of thought and felt a grin forming.
"Aren't you the girl who threw up on the ship?" Ruby asked much to Joanna's dismay.
Rick only shook his head. 'Different gender, same personality.'
Rick was seen following both Ruby and Joanna as they were talking to each other, and like what he saw in chapter 2 of volume 1, their talk was pretty much the same, except of course him intervening and stopping Ruby from causing that explosion from her sneeze, which she still got called 'Crater Face', no doubt Joanna saw what transpired despite him preventing her sneeze. But unlike her male counterpart, she didn't appear to be much like him in terms of attracting the opposite sex, which was a blessing in of itself, since he knew that Jaune practically sucked in attempting to woo a lady's heart, especially Weiss when he had Pyrrha with him all that time. Sadly he was too dense to even notice her, and still tried to gain Weiss' attention.
'No offence Jaune, but I say Joanna's a lot better than you.' He thought to himself when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned and saw Ruby looking at him as did Joanna who had their weapons out.
"Hey Rick, I've been meaning to ask you this, but what sort of weapon do you have?" Ruby questioned him with a slight pleading look.
He inwardly chuckled since he knew she would've asked him about his weapon, due to her passion for weapons. He grabbed Inazuma from his back, gave it a few twirls and spins, and then throws it up in the air while Ruby and Joanna followed the spinning weapon, it then fell downward while it still spun around, Rick had his hand opened behind his back and effortlessly caught his spear, before spinning it around and slamming the butt end on the ground. "This Ruby, is my weapon which I made myself; Inazuma the lightning spear!" He proudly said while the lightning dust in the weapon sparked and electricity danced around the spear head and body.
Joanna's eyes slightly widened at his little performance, while Ruby on the other hand, her eyes grew so big they would've popped right out of their sockets and had starts glittering in them.
"And before you ask Ruby, yes it can shift forms, but the difference with this little beauty is that it had FOUR forms." He said with a grin as he twisted the body of the pole, it suddenly collapsed on itself until the spear head was sucked into the body, while a large sickle blade popped out and the bottom of the handle opened and a chain with a weighted anchor popped out and fell into his right hand, he gripped the chain and spun it around while holding the sickle in his left hand. He pressed a little button which pulled the chain back into the body and the sickle blade as well, then the body extended until a barrel popped out, a handle along with a trigger came out as well as a magazine clip and the bottom became the buttstock. With one last press of another button, the rifle split in half while the upper half gained its own handle and trigger, both halves shifted until they became a pair of twin pistols.
Rick smirked when he saw their expressions, Ruby's eyes were replaced by comical stars and her mouth becoming an O shape again and turning into a cartoonish cut out. And Joanna's eyes became white circles and her mouth became an O shape as well. Chuckling, Rick twirled the pistols around his fingers like a gunslinger, then pressed the switches on them and combined them together to form their spear mode again and straps it on his back.
"You like?" He said with a grin, only to be tackled by Ruby and caused the both of them to comically roll into a wheel and crashed into a stone pillar. When he was regaining his senses, he suddenly was bombarded by Ruby who asked him a multitude of questions in such a rapid pace, he could barely even understand a word she was saying. All he could do was sweat drop and nervously chuckle at her cartoonish, starry eyed face. 'How did Yang even put up with this?
Sometime later after finally getting Ruby to calm down, Rick lead both of them to the main hall of Beacon, he bid them goodbye and went his own way. He was looking amongst the new students to find the other two members of JNPR, then he managed to find the ever lovable, pancake obsessed, sloth loving leg breaker herself Nora Valkyrie! He spotted her talking who he saw was the female counterpart of Ren, Lie Rin, who looked even more beautiful in person than in the picture he saw before.
She looked exactly like Ren but with a slender face, her hair was a little longer going past her neck, it looked smooth and clean like silk, she still has that magenta streak on the left side of her hair, her outfit looked more like those Chinese dresses women would wear back on earth, her white pants was a bit altered with her pant legs stopping at her knees.
While a part of him wanted to go over and say hi, he'll have to do it another time, then he suddenly heard someone crying out 'You!' and turns to see Weiss chiding Ruby who leapt into Yang's arms. Seeing this Rick sighs and shook his head. "Oy vey." He muttered and walked over to the threesome before the heiress could pull out that little book of hers. He cleared his throat loud enough to get their attention. "Is there a problem here?" He asked knowing what's really happening.
Ruby's eyes brightened when she saw the young duelist walking over, much to her relief. "Rick!" She exclaimed feeling happy to see him again.
Weiss sighs to herself and pulls her hand out from her pocket which held the pamphlet she brought with her. While Yang felt her eyes widening when she saw her sister standing next to Rick, and seeing the height difference between them, she felt a smile creeping up on her face and had to place her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing.
"I thought you two were gonna be ok after almost getting blown up." Rick said as he walked up to Weiss and crossed his arms with Ruby behind him.
"Sorry, but she was telling this girl beside me." She gestured to Yang who looked to be struggling to hold her laughter. "About what happen earlier. While I'm grateful you pointed out that mistake, she still should've watched where she was going!"
Rick would've retorted had he not heard Yang letting out a chuckle, he looked over to the blonde bombshell and saw she was doing her best to keep herself from laughing. Both Ruby and Weiss saw this and almost froze. 'Uh oh!' They simultaneously thought.
She broke out in a laughing fit and held her sides, which made Rick narrow his eyes and grit his teeth, knowing full well what she was about to say.
"I...I'm sorry, but just looking at you next to Ruby, I can't help but see how..." She was suddenly cut off when she saw a darkish purple aura around a cut out version of Rick, which leaked out a massive amount of anger, and glaring heated daggers at her.
'Go on, say little. I dare you!' He inwardly snarled at the blonde fist fighter.
Yang was at a loss for words as the young duelist continued glaring at her, waiting for her to make a comment about his height, she looked behind him and saw Ruby whose eyes were white and rapidly shook her head and hands, while Weiss only palmed her face. The only thing Yang could do was rub the back of her head, close her eyes and gave a sheepish smile. "Uh, you know what? It's nothing, nothing at all." She said with a sheepish chuckle and a sweat drop appearing on her head.
Both Ruby and Weiss sighed with a cartoonish cloud escaping their lips.
It was around nighttime in the kingdom of Vale, after hearing Ozpin's speech, all of the students were in the ballroom in their sleep wear and getting ready to sleep. Rick was in his sleep shorts and a white tank top and was seen sitting down with both Ruby and Yang. "I know we got off to a bad start before, so let's try this again. The name's Richard Drake, but you can call me Rick for short." He said while stretching his hand out to Yang.
Yang grinned and took his hand. "Nice to meet ya Rick! Name's Yang Xiao Long, thanks for helping out Ruby earlier." She said while she shook his hand.
"Eh, no worries, she looked like she needed up so I decided to lend a hand." He said with a cheeky grin.
"Still you should've seen his weapons sis, a multi changer! That's SO rare these days, they're almost impossible to find!" Ruby beamed with twinkling stars in her eyes.
Rick only chuckled at her enthusiasm for weapons and rubbed the back of his head. "Don't worry, you'll see it in action soon." He said until he noticed Blake sitting by herself and reading her book by candle light. He knew that in the second part that is episode 3 Yang would drag Ruby to try and make friends with the hidden Faunus, so he decided to go to her first, and perhaps coax her into coming over.
Both Ruby and Yang saw Rick standing up and walked over to where Blake is. "Hey, that's the girl that I met when Rick helped me out earlier." Ruby said.
"Really? Well looks like Ricky's gone over to say hi, might as well get in on the fun." Yang said but before she could bring Ruby over, they saw Rick actually bringing Blake over to them, though she seemed a bit hesitant of wanting to be around others, but it looked like Rick was able to convince her. Rick was the first to sit down before looking up and patting at the spot next to him. Blake still feeling hesitant at first, but slowly sat down beside the young duelist.
Rick cleared his throat which caught Ruby's and Yang's attention. "Ruby, Yang this is Blake Belladonna. We met each other back at the airships when I saw Ruby almost sneezing at the red dust. Blake, you already know Ruby from earlier, this is her sister Yang Xiao Long." He introduced the Faunus to the two sisters who smiled at the ravenette.
Blake looked at the two sisters for a moment, before offering them a small smile. "It's nice to meet you both, I'm just glade he managed to defuse the situation earlier." She said recalling him showing up in the nick of time, before Ruby could sneeze from all that powdered red dust.
Ruby sheepishly chuckled at that little event. "Yeah well she wasn't doing me any favors when she was shaking that bottle in my face."
As the three of them started talking, he noticed Weiss possibly looking around for whoever's making noise, since he knew that in his universe both Ruby and Yang wrestled each other from having spoken with Blake, and getting Weiss' attention which would lead to the end of the episode with Ruby agreeing with Weiss about how late it was. So like with Blake, he's gonna try and get these four to be friends as quickly as possible, if only for them to be familiar with each other at least.
So he got up without them knowing and quickly made his way over to Weiss. The young heiress sighed heavily, she was trying to get some sleep for tomorrow's initiation, but someone's being too loud for her and she's hoping to find whoever's making that racket, and shut them up. Just as she was looking, she felt someone tapping on her arm and saw it was Rick smiling at her. "Ollo!" He greeted her with a wave.
"Huh, Richard?" She said in surprise.
"Come with me." He said while grabbing her hand and leading her over to the other future members of team RWBY. His approach caught their attention and he saw Blake's bow lightly twitching, no doubt the sight of Weiss made her a little agitated considering what her bastard of a father has done to the Faunus over the years. When they came over to the trio, Rick sat down and had Weiss sit next to him just close to Yang. "Now, Blake, Ruby I know you just met her but Yang here hasn't. Weiss this is Yang Xiao Long, she's Ruby's sister. Yang, this is Weiss Schnee. Like Blake we also met her at the airships hours ago."
Weiss had an uneasy look on her face when she saw a slightly narrowed gaze aimed at her, no doubt she remembered her from what her sister said to her. Swallowing a lump forming in her throat, she sighs through her nose to steady her nerves. "Look, I know that we've gotten off to a bad start back there, so how about we try this again?" She said in hopes to rectify her outburst earlier.
Yang only eyed at the heiress for a few minutes, before shrugging her shoulders. "Eh, why not?" She said.
As they began to talk amongst themselves, Rick was inwardly cheering himself for having successfully bringing the foursome together, something he'd been planning for months now. 'This is perfect! Absolutely perfect! Now all that's left is for the initiation to start, thing are going according to my plan! Hopefully Ruby and Weiss won't be at each other's throats when it happens.' He inwardly grinned and laughed like a hyena.
(Next day)
The sun was barely up and the many future students of Beacon were still sleeping. Rick was already up and about, he quietly tip-toed around the sleeping students, and looked over his shoulder to see the future team members of RWBY, sleeping together from talking through the night with him. He smiled to himself having recalled the fun time they had last night, he was very happy that he managed to help them get to know one another, before the initiation starts, which is today by the way.
As he exited the ballroom and had a quick shower, he was heading for the cafeteria when he saw Glynda coming his way. "Huh? Hey, miss Goodwitch morning!" He greeted the combat instructor with a wave.
"Good morning Richard, I'm sorry if this seems out of the blue, but professor Ozpin requests that you come with me to his office. He said he might have something that belongs to you." She said before turning around and walked ahead of him.
Rick was like a statue when he heard her words, did he hear right? Could it be possible that, Ozpin found his cards? 'Only one way to find out.'Rick then followed Glynda and managed to catch up with her, still trying to process her words and felt a small amount of hope swelling up inside him. Once inside the office, the silence in the air was so thick you can cut it with a knife. Rick felt his heart beating like a drum which echoed in his ears.
"Richard, do you recall telling us about your missing cards, and that we promised to help you find them?" Ozpin said breaking the silence.
Rick nodded. "Yeah I did. Does that mean you found one of them?" He asked with the feeling of hope rising up.
Ozpin smiled. "Oh, I found more than one." He reached for the drawer of his desk and pulls it out. He dug inside the drawer while Rick watched with baited breath, when the headmaster pulls his hand out Rick lets out a soft gasp at what he saw. "I believe these happen to be yours." Ozpin said as he held a handful of the young duelists missing cards, and they were the rest of his Elemental Hero cards, from Ocean to Woodsman! The silver haired headmaster let out a chuckle when he saw Rick's eyes glittering like stars when he laid his cards down.
Rick zoomed over and spreads them out on the desk, looking them over and counting to make sure he wasn't missing anything. Both Ozpin and Glynda smiled at each other, feeling happy that the young teen has some of his missing cards returned to him.
"These are all of them I can't believe it!" Rick exclaimed before looking up with a cartoonish cut out version of his head and grinning like a loon, with stars replacing his eyes. "Thanks Ozpin, thank you so much!"
"It was my pleasure, Richard." Ozpin smiled. "Strangely enough I found those cards when I came into my office to prepare for the initiation, and when I saw that they had the name Elemental Heroes, I knew they had to be your missing cards. So I asked Glynda to bring you here, so I can return them to you." He explained before sipping his coffee.
As Rick was placing his now united Elemental Heroes in his pocket, he felt Glynda's hand on his shoulder and stares at her questionably. "Ozpin's not the only one who found something that belongs to you." She said with a smile and placed a small box on the desk.
Rick opens it and lets out an excited shout as he turned into a cartoonish cut out of himself, with his smile shaping his whole head and his eyes replaced with stars again. Inside the box was a lot more of his cards, which he recognized as his Cyber Dragons and his Chimeratechs! As well as a few other cards like Cybers Larva, Valley, Phoenix and Dinosaur, Jade Knight, FalchionB, Satellite Cannon, Solar Wind Jammer, Shining Angel and Reflect Bounder!
As Rick stared happily at his cards Glynda cleared her throat which made his snap out of his daze and turns his attention back to her. "Like how Ozpin found your Hero cards this morning, when I was dressing myself after having a shower, I suddenly found these cards inside my clothing drawer. Having recalled you telling us about them I knew they had to be yours." She said with a small smile.
Rick's eyes were wide when he heard this, he remembered Ozpin telling him that he had Qrow keep an eye out for any of his cards, or at least rumors about cards no one's ever seen before, and lo and behold they were found by both Ozpin and Glynda, on the day of the initiation. This just couldn't get any better for him!
"I...I don't know what to say. Thank you, thank you both of you!" He thanked them with tears swelling up in his eyes.
They only smiled at Rick feeling happy that he's happy to get his cards back, they remembered what he told them about his cards, they were the only gifts and mementos of his friends and family back in his reality, They were glad to have helped him recover some of them.
"With these cards back to me that makes 64 cards I have on hand, and that makes at least 99,868 cards to find." Rick said as he placed the last of his cards in his pocket.
"I'm glad that you have them back Richard. Now, I do believe you should grab yourself a bite to eat, and prepare yourself. Cause today's the day, you meet your future team." Ozpin said with a knowing smirk.
Rick's face gained a wide grin, excitement and ecstasy was swelling up inside him. He could hardly wait...
"WWWWAAAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOOO!" Rick shouted at the top of his lungs as he was hurled through the air, just an hour or two ago he and all of the other future students had arrived to the cliff where Emerald Forest was located, he stood by Ruby when they were on their launchpads. He toned out Ozpin's and Glynda's words, since he already knew what they were saying to them. The next thing he knew, he was launched into the air just like the others, when he was his Duel Monsters he loved flying through the air. The wind rushing past his face, the rush of adrenaline and the feeling of freedom, that's the one thing he loved about flying.
He did several forward flips in the air and then stretched his hands out, and suddenly whirlwinds appeared before his hands and he was surrounded by a cluster of wind. During his training with Glynda before the initiation had arrived, Rick actually managed to attune himself with his cards, he spent several hours to almost days trying to see if his cards might actually be alive. And to his surprise and awe, they were indeed very much alive!
The young man quickly became friends with the Duel Monsters, or rather Duel Spirits like from GX, and they helped him in his training. They even allowed him to gain control and manipulate the elements to aid him in his fights, right now he's using the power of wind to slow his descendant as he saw an opening through the trees. Once he saw the ground he canceled out his whirlwind and lands on his feet. "Woo, what a rush!" He exclaimed while throwing his fists in the air.
He lowers his hands and looked all around him. The Emerald Forest was indeed a nice place, he could see why Ozpin would use it for initiations. However, like all roses, the Emerald Forest bares its thorns as well. Just when he was about to begin his journey through the forest, he stopped when he heard the sound of growling, from all around him. He narrowed his eyes when he saw the Beowolves slowly coming out of the trees, just like that one night when he first arrived here to Remnant, but this time he's prepared.
He grins and brings out Inazuma, he twirls it around and brandishes his spear at them as the blade head sparks from the electricity. "Well, c'mon then! I ain't got all day!" He called out while gesturing them to attack.
They accepted his invitation and lunged at him. Letting out a yell Rick swung his spear around him, striking any Beowolf that got close, some got knocked by the butt end while others were sliced by the spear head. With some breathing room Rick leaped into the air with the aid of the wind to send him flying, he spun around before stopping and jousts his spear into the head of one of the Grimm. Pulling it out, he charged at the Grimm while slashing the spear head in lightning fast strikes, almost blind to the untrained eye and those who're used to fast attacks.
After passing through the first batch of Beowolves, he pressed a switch on the spear and it split apart, then shifted into its dual pistol form. He turns around and started shooting the Grimm who barely had time to react. Each of the Beowolves yelped or howled in pain as the bullets went right through them, some had body shots others had head shots. Rick then jumps in the air again as another Beowolf snuck up from behind and tried to kill him, but the young duelist lands on its shoulders then shoots it in the head. Pressing another switch on the pistols, he brought them together as they combined into their rifle form.
Rick took aim and began shooting at the Beowolves who tried to get up despite their wounds. Hearing movement in the woods again, he shifts the rifle into its kusarigama form and spun the chain around fast enough and throws it into the woods. He felt the chain becoming taut and heard a strangled growl. "Gotcha." He grinned and suddenly Inazuma was bathed in electricity and it traveled through the chain, and the air was filled with a pained howling growl and the forest was lit up by the lightning. When it faded he felt the chain becoming loose and pulls it back. What fell on the ground was a dissolving Ursa that was electrocuted to death from his lightning.
His ears picked up another sound from behind him and swung the sickle blade at whatever was behind him. The blade made contact with another Ursa as it sliced through its neck. The Grimm let out a chocked growl before falling face first, and started dissolving.
With the Grimm around him dead Rick smirked to himself and shifted Inazuma back into its spear form. "Looks like all that training really paid off." He said while dusting his hands, feeling proud of himself for fighting the Grimm as himself. "Now to find Ruby and the others. They should already be at the temple and probably finished up by now."
He then started running through the forest as fast as his legs can carry him, unaware that there was someone hidden within the forest, someone who watched him fight the Grimm. The figure was shrouded in a dark cloak with a hood, its face wasn't even visible but its sleeve moved and an ominous glow shined through it.
"…. Fight while you can child... For soon, you will fall into darkness." The figure let out a sinister chuckle that seemed to echo through the woods.
Back to where Glynda and Ozpin were, they monitored the progress of all the students, but kept a watchful eye on Rick. "It seems he's doing well for his first time here, he's already shown himself capable of fighting on his own without the use of his Duel Monsters." Glynda commented with a ghost of a smile. She felt proud that he was able to stand his own ground against the Grimm, thanks to her training and whatever training he got from his world.
Ozpin nods. "Indeed he does." He said only to gasp as his body became stiff, and felt a horrible feeling racing through his body, and somehow heard a dark chuckle somewhere in the forest.
Glynda noticed this and became worried. "Ozpin? Ozpin what is it?" She asked.
An uneasy expression appeared on his face as a few sweat drop appeared on his forehead. "I...I don't know. All of a sudden I felt a chill racing through my spine, and could've swore I heard something out there in the forest." He said with his eyes narrowed on his grim face. "Whatever it is Glynda, it's not good."
"Do you think it might pose a threat to the student? Should we call off the initiation?" She questioned him. For him to get like this made her worry, if there was something that made Ozpin feel worried, almost afraid, then that makes her afraid as well. Especially if whatever's out there in the forest might hurt the students, or worse Rick.
"No. We can't stop now, not when the students are almost finished. And besides, we have to put our faith and trust in Richard, and pray that they make it in one piece." He said before sipping his coffee to settle his nerves.
Glynda wanted to protest but she knew he was right, like it or not, they have to complete this if they want to attend. But should things go south, then they will intervene. 'Please be careful Richard.' She inwardly prayed for his safety.
Ruby had made a successful landing on the top of the cliff, having used Weiss' glyphs to climb up the rock wall and drag the large Nevermore in her Crescent Rose, and then beheads it after pulling the trigger. It was a bit of a rocky start when she saw Weiss again, but if it wasn't for Rick for helping them get to know one another last night, things might've been different. The young reaper quickly made her way down below where her sister and friends were waiting, and found herself wrapped in Yang's bear crushing hug.
"Ruby that was amazing! You showed that oversized chicken who's boss!" She exclaimed in happiness.
"Ack! Yang...Please...Air!" Ruby wheezed through her sister's hug.
"Oh, right, sorry!" She said before letting go.
Weiss came up to the sisters with Blake by her side. "I will admit, it was an impressive tactic, even if it was made on the fly." She said with a slight smile.
Blake nodded with a ghost of a smile of her own. "For someone who's two years younger than us, you weren't so bad."
"Oh yeah? Well you should've seen us kicking some major butt back there!" Nora exclaimed while she along with Rin, Joanna and Pyrrha walked over to them.
Suddenly they heard the sounds of someone clapping. They turned and saw Rick who was walking towards them and clapping all together. "That was impressive you guys, I gotta say, that was incredible to see." He said as he stopped before them. Sure he saw them fighting back in his universe, but seeing them fighting the Nevermore and Deathstalker in person was a lot better than on a computer screen.
However before anyone could speak up, a loud gasp was heard as Nora pushed through Yang and Pyrrha. "Cute boy AHOY!" She shouted with a cut out version of her head with hearts in her eyes and pointing at Rick.
Rick's eyes turned comical white and became a cut out version when he saw this. "WHA!?" He was then tackled by Nora and ended up rolling in a wheel before he found himself pinned on the grass and Nora rubbing her cheek against his, with her eyes squinted shut. His whole face was a healthy shade of pink when she held him in an iron grip and was spun around in her arms. "HEY! LEMME GO, LEMME GO LEMME GO!" He cried out.
His words fell on deaf ears as she suddenly buries his face in her ample bust. Nora continued hugging him with this cat like smile. "Such a cutie boy, where've you been all my life? I never would've imagine meeting someone as cute as you!" She said while nuzzling his head.
Ruby and the others all saw this before them and question marks suddenly popped up on their heads. Rin only sighs and palms her face. "Nora, that's enough. If you don't let go he'll pass out on you." She called out to her hamming swinging friend.
Nora heard her friend's words and pulls a cut out Rick from her bust, who was limp in her grasp and leaned back and suddenly his soul was coming out of his mouth. "Grandad, is that you? I think I see the gates of Heaven right now." His soul said as Nora yelps and drops him. Rick slowly gets up as he was surrounded by the girls.
"Are you alright Rick?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah... I'm fine." He said while popping his back from Nora's bear hug.
"You'll have to forgive Nora, aside from pancakes, sloths, hammers and grenades, she's very found of cute things and boys. Looks like you fit those two categories." Rin said as she kept Nora at bay from wanting to hold Rick again.
Rick flinched when he saw that hungry glint in Nora's eyes and could swear he saw her fingers opening and closing in a grabbing motion. He gulped loudly and felt a chill racing up his spine. "I'll remember that. But please don't call me cute or small, ok?" He said before walking away from them. "Now if you girls don't mind, I'd like to go and grab a relic before this thing's over."
The girls looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders and followed the young duelist. Unaware that the figure who watched Rick's fight earlier, had followed from a distance. The being lifts its arm as the sleeve fell and revealed a ring that's identical to Rick's Duel Ring! The only difference is that the body was a blueish purple and the hoop was a dark shade of red. The ring started glowing a bright red as the being lifts its other hand to reveal three cards, one was a blue robot with twin cannon barrels on its shoulders, the second was a red robotic dragon and the third was a yellow tank.
The names of these cards were X-head Cannon, Y-Dragon Head and Z-Metal Tank.
The being chuckles as it placed the cards through the ring, it glowed brighter as it scanned the cards and they were enveloped in a dark shadow, and suddenly flew through the ring and towards the sky. "Let's see how well you do against your own precious cards child." The being said as it let out an even darker laughter.
Rick and the others reached the temple were the chess pieces were located at, all of the pieces were already taken except one, a crystal clear pawn piece with a blueish tint was seen sparkling in the light of the sun. Rick grins and knew that was there for him, courtesy of Ozpin himself.
"Huh, that's odd. I don't remember seeing that there before." Weiss said as she and the others eyed the new piece.
"Maybe it was for anyone who was late or last?" Ruby suggested.
"It could be that." Pyrrha said.
Rick grabs the pawn piece and when he got a closer look, he spotted a few colored gems inside it a green one, a red one, a yellow one, a blue one and a brown one. 'Oz you're one sly and sneaky devil.' He knew why this piece was so special, the pawn piece represented Neos while the colored gems represented Avian, Burstinatrix, Sparkman, Clayman and Bubbleman. Once he slips it in his pocket he turns to the others. "Alright now that I got my relic, let's head on back!" He said while the girls gave a smile and nodded.
Just as they were about to leave something flashed in the air. They all stopped and looked to the sky as a rumbling sound was heard, the clouds began to darken and the wind started to pick up, the girls suddenly felt an ominous and foreboding feeling in the air and pulled out their weapons. "W-What's going on here?" Joanna asked with a small amount of fear in her voice.
"I don't know, but whatever it is, it's coming so be ready." Pyrrha said while aiming her rifle at the sky.
Rick's face gained a hardened expression, a bead of sweat was rolling down his face as he felt a terrible and dark feeling in the air. And yet, this sensation felt strangely...familiar.
The sky was then lit up by a bright red flash of light as the clouds dissipated and something big landed before them. The ground shook violently which caused a tremor and almost knocked the children down, when they regained their balance they looked up and suddenly felt their blood turn cold, Rick's eyes slowly grew wide as a look of shock and dismay appeared on his face. "... Oh no, it...it can't be!" He softly exclaimed.
What the young huntsman and huntresses-in training saw was a gigantic robot around 15 meter, easily dwarfing the trees around them. What's strange about it, its whole body seemed to be made of three different types of robots. The upper body was a blue somewhat humanoid in shape with twin cannon barrels on its shoulders, the biceps had curved yellow armor with a blue tip facing upward, the chest had a yellow square center and the eyes were a bright red which was glowing a malevolent color. Beneath the blue robot is what looks to be a red metallic dragon, its tails lazily swishes back and forth while its eyes also glowed a malevolent red and lets out a mechanical growl at the children. And the bottom half was a yellow tank with two sharp points on each side where the caterpillar tracks are, and at the center is what could be described as a singular eye which also glowed red.
To the girls this was an unknown robot of unknown origins, but to Rick this robot was very familiar to him as its name is...
"XYZ Dragon Cannon." He softly said to himself.
The robotic fusion Duel Monster turned its sights at the boy and girls, its shoulder cannons lowered themselves until they were aimed right at them. The barrels started to glow which meant it was gonna fire!
"EVERYONE SCATTER!" Rick cried as loudly as possible as he and the girls quickly got out of the way in time when the Duel Monster fired.
Boom!
The whole forest was filled with the sounds of a great explosion, as the shockwaves rushed through the trees and scarring the wildlife and any Grimm in the forest.
The fusion Duel Monster stared at where it fired as the dust cleared, and all that was left was nothing but a big crater. Dragon Cannon searched for its targets when it felt bullets pelting against its body. It turns its sights at the children who fired their weapons in unison, while Nora fires her grenades. Sadly, nothing seemed to work as the dragon part of the body lets out a mechanical roar and swings it's tail at them.
"LOOK OUT!" Pyrrha shouted as they dodged, leapt or rolled out of the way as the tail tore the ground and took down some trees.
Back to where Ozpin and Glynda were, both teacher and headmaster felt their hearts skipping a beat, when they saw the fusion Duel Monster through their scrolls and heard the sounds of what could be described as a warzone. "Glynda is that one of Richards' Duel Monsters that's attacking them?" Ozpin questioned.
She slowly nods. "Y-Yes, I remember him showing us the pictures of them on his phone. If I remember correctly, that's XYZ Dragon Cannon, the fusion monster between three monsters." She explained recalling the young teen telling them all about his Duel Monsters that were missing, even showing them what they look like should they encounter the cards. "Ozpin we must get them out of there and fast!"
"Glynda I know you're worried about them, so am I, but we have to put our trust in them most of all in Richard. He's the only one who knows these cards here, and has a means to fight back." He said in order to ease his assistant. He too felt worried for the children especially Rick, he and the whole faculty grew to view the young man as one of their group, their family. Port and Oobleck have come to view Rick as a nephew to them, just as Peach came to view Rick as a nephew or little brother to her. Ozpin himself has come to see Rick as the son he never had, he still remembers the promise the young man made to him months ago.
In all his years, he's never met someone with such a fire and spirit within him, in all honesty a part of him felt happy that he would go as far to actually save Salem from her fate. 'Gods be with you, Richard. For you may be the light our world needs.'
Glynda knew that Ozpin was right but still couldn't shake the uneasy feeling inside her. She tightly gripped her hand together and brought it to her heart, she tried to keep her composure but a part of her, a part that she never even knew she had told her, screamed to her to go out there, and rescue Richard. She doesn't show it, but she actually cares for the young man as a mother would for her child. "Come back. Come back to me in one piece, Richard." She softly said to herself as a lone tear fell from her eye.
This was not Rick's day, everything was going according to the timeline in his mind from what he saw of the first volume of RWBY, with the exception of him joining the initiation along with Ruby, Joana and the others. But what he didn't count on, was seeing one of his duel monsters, one of his MANY missing duel monsters, attacking them and it had to be one of the fusion monsters he had; XYZ Dragon Cannon.
The A-To-Z monster was firing its shoulder cannons while the lower half fired its caterpillar tracks. He saw Yang and Nora racing past the explosions, leaping in their air and were about to strike, but the fusion monster was a lot quicker than they thought, as the upper half of the body spun around and bats them with its arm. Weiss tried to use her gravity dust and Pyrrha used her polarity semblance, but Dragon Cannon was able to jump out of the way thanks to its thrusters, and its body was surrounded by an aura of pure darkness that the Spartan's polarity had no effect.
Rick knew that unless he did something, the others will get killed, and knew that if they get taken out not only would it effect the timeline, but with Zorc using his monsters for his dark purposes all of Remnant would fall. 'I know Ozpin said that I should only use my cards when the situation calls for it.' He thought to himself as he gripped his Duel Ring tightly, the sound of an explosion as well as the cries of his future friends was more than enough to make up his mind. 'Guess now's the right time!'
He runs out of his hiding spot and racing towards his friends, and his corrupted monster. Ruby takes notice of this and called out. "Rick, get back it's too dangerous!" Her cries caught the attention of the others, and gasped on his actions. Before either Weiss or Blake could try to pull him to safety, they all saw him pulling out his Duel Ring and stopping in front of Dragon Cannon. The fusion monster turned its sights at the boy and slowly rolled towards him, aiming its cannons at him.
Rick crossed his arms with his left leg straightened out, and his right leg slightly bent, he thrusts his left hand holding the Ring and it glowed a bright light. Finding himself in the celestial background Rick moved the Ring from his face and brings up the Elemental Hero Sparkman card. "Sparkman!" He called out as the card flashed and lightning danced around it. He slips the card through the glowing ring as the left half glowed yellow while scanning the card.
Erementaru Hīrō Supākuman
The card was engulfed in light and it flowed through the Ring, in a flurry of lightning bolts, before appearing on his right(left) and taking shape before turning into Sparkman as he let out a grunt.
Rick then brings out another card which was Elemental Hero Clayman. "Clayman!" He called out as it flashed with sand and rock dancing around it. He slips the card through the Ring and it changed from a yellow color, to a brown color as it scanned the card.
Erementaru Hīrō Kureiman
Like the first card, Clayman's card was engulfed in light as it flowed through the Ring in a flurry of sand and rock, while appearing on Rick's left(right) side and taking shape, and finally turning into Clayman as he let out a small bellow.
With both duel monsters beside him and the ring glowing their respective colors in halves, he knew that this was the time for him to use it. "Let's show them the power of our might, and lightning!" He exclaimed while crossing his arms to his chest with both monsters following his movement, before moving them in a clockwise pattern and moving the Ring under his right fist that was close to his face, and thrusts the Ring in the air while bringing his bent right arm down. The Ring's flaps on both side open revealing the rest of the Ring as it flashed brightly.
Fu~yūjon'appu!
The ring flashed yellow as did Sparkman and changing to brown which did the same to Clayman, while Rick was bathed in a white light before the Ring changed to a yellowish-brown combo. As they lowered their arms both Sparman and Clayman let out a grunt and bellow, as they were pulled into Rick's glowing frame and merged with him. Rick's body while still bathed in light had changed his shape and appearance, while lighting, sand and rock danced around his body before the light and the two elements dissipated from his body.
Fu~yūjon rīz Erementaru Hīrō Sandā Jaianto
With the elements and light having receding from him, all that was left of Rick was his fusion form; Thunder Giant! When the camera zoomed to his grinning lips, an explosion of light appeared behind him and the screen showed the cracked earth, before exploding with lighting flashing across the screen and Thunder Giant flying towards the sky.
All that the future huntsmen and huntresses saw was a flash of light and the sound of booming thunder echoing the sky, and then they saw Rick as Thunder Giant landing before them and Dragon Cannon, which caused a powerful tremor which shook the forest, rock and dirt flying upward and lightning flashing in the sky and thunder exploding. Thunder Giant slowly stood up which made him reach the same height Dragon Cannon is, making the two of them around 15 meters. Everyone felt their jaws dropping and their eyes almost bugging out of their skulls as they saw Rick somehow transforming into this, towering behemoth with the power of lighting in his possession.
"W-What in the world..." Weiss breathed out.
Both Ruby and Nora's eyes were practically stars as they had the biggest smiles on their faces, their heads would split in half. Back to where Ozpin and Glynda were, they were taken aback by this sudden arrival of Thunder Giant, they knew that Rick told them that the Duel Ring allows him to transform into his duel monsters, but this is the second time they've ever seen him turn into another of his fusion monsters, after seeing him become Flame Wingman! "B-By the gods!" Glynda softly exclaimed as her eyes were glued to the monitor.
Ozpin slowly calmed himself down and sipped his coffee mug. 'Let's see this power of yours, Richard.'
Thunder Giant then points to himself, in a similar manner to how some Ultramen did on the TV shows on earth. "My name is Thunder." He said in a booming voice before switching to a fighting stance. "Thunder Giant!"
(Insert background music- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Rules of Nature)
Dragon Cannon, unfazed by his arrival charged at him with its metallic claws bearing at him, which he charged as well, his steps caused the ground to shake and the dirt and rocks flying up with each thundering stomp. When they came close they clasped each other's hands, and began to push against each other with all their might.
As these two titans pushed against the girls were taking by total surprise by what they saw. Richard Drake, the boy who they just met yesterday and talked with, had somehow turned himself into a gigantic titan with a strange ring of some kind, and is now fighting that strange machine that suddenly appeared out of the sky and attacked him.
"Holy shit!" Blake gasped at the sight of Thunder Giant. Never in her entire life had she ever seen such a titan, nor had she ever saw anyone actually TRANSFORMING into said titan, it looked strong enough to take out a whole army of Grimm and Paladins at the same time!
Yang whistled at the sight of the second fusion monster, she's seen a lot of things but this was something else entirely. "Now that's what I call king sized, eh girls?" She said which only earned her a few groans.
Thunder Giant gritted his teeth as he held the corrupted Duel Monster in his grasp. He rears his head back and headbutts it in the face, with Dragon Cannon stunned he threw a couple of jabs at it, before giving a left hook followed by an upper cut, which was strong enough to lift Dragon Cannon briefly off the ground before Thunder Giant grabs it and held the Duel Monster over head. Thunder Giant then threw Dragon Cannon away from them as it roll in the air, but its thrusters caught it in time and landed safely on the ground. Clicking his tongue, Thunder Giant charged at the Duel Monster who aimed its upper cannons while the panels on its tracks opens up and fires its lower cannons in unison.
Thunder Giant simply swats the coming attacks like they were flies, while a few lucky shots struck him but he still kept going, He pulls his right fist back as electricity gathered around it, when he drew close to the machine he stops in front of it. "Ha!" He exclaims loudly as he threw his electrical fist and struck Dragon Cannon's chest.
"SO COOL!" Both Ruby and Nora shouted loudly as they turned into chibis.
"This is...unbelievable." Rin gasped when she saw just how strong Thunder Giant is by throwing that robot away from them, and bravely charging at the machine barreling through its attacks and actually punching it with lightning.
Then they felt the ground shaking and to their shock and awe, they saw a pillar made of dirt shooting up in the sky, with Dragon Cannon being pushed upward, and Thunder Giant flying towards it. They saw the fusion hero flying above the machine and slams both fists on its back, making the corrupted Duel Monster crash through the pillar and falling back down.
"This...this is incredible, that guy's actually controlling both lightning AND earth?!" Joanna exclaimed.
"But that's impossible! I didn't see any dust crystal on him, nor did he have any weapons, and there's no way for Earth Dust to do that!" Weiss exclaimed.
The sounds of explosions caught their attention as the two Duel Monsters battled it out with each other. They looked at each other and then shrugged before running towards where the battle is.
The being saw this battle between Thunder Giant and Dragon Cannon before humming to itself. It brings up the dark ring which glows again and brings up its other hand, this time revealing two other cards. "Let's see if you can fair better against a much stronger foe."
Thunder Giant let out a yell as he slugged Dragon Cannon's face and sends it crashing on the ground. The fusion hero was softly panting from the fight, but he was able to bring down one of his missing Duel Monsters. "Now then, let's see if we can find a way to free you." He said to the down monster, only to get struck by several missiles which made him block. "Hey, what the...GUH!" He suddenly cried out as he felt something rammed against him as full force to send him flying back.
(Pause background music)
Ruby and the girls saw this and gasped when they saw Thunder Giant coming their way. "Look out!" Yang exclaimed when she grabbed Ruby by her cloak and pulls her out of the way when the fusion hero crashed right before them. They all coughed from the dirt and dust but heard a groan coming from Thunder Giant. He picks himself up with his hands and lightly shook his head. "Rick!" The fusion hero turned his gaze at the girls who looked at him with concern. "Are you alright right?" Ruby asked.
"Ruby, girls? What're you doing here?!" He questioned them. Before they could answer, the whistling sound of missiles were heard, and Thunder Giant moved his large frame over them to act as a shield. The missiles struck the hero as he let out a few grunts from the rockets, while the girls huddled close to each other under him. When the missile assault had ceased, Thunder Giant stood up on his knees as he looked down on the girls, checking if any of them were alright, which they were. Then the sound of a growl caught their attention and Thunder Giant turns his head skyward, his eyes behind the vizor widened themselves when he saw yet another familiar Duel Monster.
"VW-Tiger Catapult!" He gasped loudly which did not go unnoticed by the girls who heard him. Did he know these machines? Is what they all thought in unison. 'If he's here then that mean, oh no!' His worries were confirmed when he saw Dragon Cannon getting up and flying towards the second Duel Monster as they were both engulfed by light.
When the light faded a new shape appeared before them, it landed before the children which gave an even bigger tremor than before. Even the students and faculty members felt it all the way to Beacon. When they looked up they felt their heart almost stopping, when they saw the biggest robot in existence. To the people of Remnant it was a gigantic robot that was made of several others, but to Rick he know it a lot better than them.
"VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon!" He gritted his teeth when he saw that the corrupted Duel Monster towered over them at a whopping 60 meters in height.
The gigantic fusion monster turned its gaze at them and aimed its cannons at them. "Shit!" Thunder Giant quickly but gently scooped the girls up in his hands, and took off into the air just in time when the robot fired.
BOOOM!
The explosion was much louder and greater this time as the spot where Thunder Giant and the girls once stood, was now nothing more but a great big crater, big enough to hold 10 possibly 30 or more Goliaths in it.
Both Ozpin and Glynda watched in awe and horror when they saw the titanic machine appearing before all of them, they were extremely worried that Rick and the girls were caught in the blast, but to their relief they saw Thunder Giant Flying towards them. When the fused hero landed by the cliff he gently placed the girls beside them. "Richard thank the gods, you're all alright! Just what is that thing out there?!" Glynda asked almost fearfully when she saw Dragon Catapult Cannon almost killing them in one blow.
"No time to explain, can you two watch the girls while I keep him busy?" Thunder Giant asked the headmaster and combat instructor to look after the girls, which made them look at him in shock.
"WHAT?! You mean you're going to fight that thing, alone!?" Ruby exclaimed with a distraught face.
"NO WAY YOU'RE LEAVING US BEHIND! We're not gonna stand by and do nothing!" Yang exclaimed angrily that he would leave them behind just to face off against a dangerous and unknown enemy.
The other girls also voiced their protest, none of them wanna be left behind, and they didn't want him to fight that robot by himself. Sadly he stood firm. "No time to argue! Professors, get them out of here!" He said almost demanded them to get the girls to safety. Before they could protest again he took off into the air again, leaving the girls behind with Ozpin and Glynda.
(Resume background music)
When he was high enough in the air he saw Dragon Catapult Cannon turning its attention upward and started firing its missiles at him. Thunder Giant's hands were covered in lightning as he brought them above his head and thrusts them forward, shooting out powerful bursts of lightning and striking the missiles. The air was filled with explosions and the sound of lightning and thunder rumbled in the sky. Seeing its missiles having no effect, the corrupted fusion monster spreads its wings open and used its thrusters to fly towards the young duelist.
Thunder Giant saw this and dove straight for it.
Both monsters flew towards each other as Thunder Giant's left fist sparked with energy and pulls it back, Dragon Catapult Cannon mimicked this and pulls its right fist back. When they came close, both monsters punched each other's fists and created a powerful shockwave that traveled through the air, and the sky exploded with lightning.
As their fists were locked together Thunder Giant suddenly vanished which made the fused machine topple forward, it regained itself and started scanning for the young teen, only for Thunder Giant to appear above its head and gave a powerful axe kick to the head. The blow was powerful enough to send the machine flying down only for the hero to grab it by the tail and started spinning it around and around.
To everyone back in Beacon who witnessed this clash of titans were completely blown away by his strength, just how strong is this warrior?
After the final spin, Thunder Giant throws Dragon Catapult Cannon flying towards the ground and crashed, creating a large cloud and debris flying everywhere. The Duel Monster shakily tries to get up, but the sound of thunder caught its attention and looks up. In the sky the clouds began to darken as lighting flashed and thunder rumbled, and at the center of it was Thunder Giant as all the lightning flowed from the air to him. His hands crackled with a large amount of energy to finish this fight. Raising his hands over his head he lets out a mighty war cry and throws a powerful lightning bolt at the robot.
Dragon Catapult Cannon could do nothing except watch as the bolt of lightning came and...
BOOOOMMMMM!
The whole area around the machine was devastated by the power of the lightning bolt, rocks and trees were blown away by the explosion, at the cliff Glynda had to create a shield with the help of Weiss to keep themselves from being blown away.
(End background music)
When the force of the wind died out, Glynda cancels her shield and looked over to the forest with worry and prayed. The same was said for Ruby and the girls who looked at the large cloud of smoke as the cloud briefly flashed and rumbled. When the clouds dissipated, they saw only one lone figure in the sky. Their faces broke out in big and relieved smiles as they saw Thunder Giant hovering in the air. They started cheering loudly while Glynda only smiles and wipes a tear away from her eye. The whole academy erupted in cheers from all the students and faculty members who saw this battle in the forest. Ozpin only smiles and nods. 'Well done Richard, not only did you prevail in this test, but you also reclaimed more of your cards.'
Thunder Giant landed in the crater as he saw a now broken and battered Duel Monster before him, he was engulfed in light and returned to his civilian self while he pocketed Sparkman and Clayman. He slowly walks over to the beaten monster's face, and held his Duel Ring before it. The ring began to glow as it showered Dragon Catapult Cannon in golden glittering dust and light, as it began to heal and purify the fused monster. Eventually the machine was engulfed in light and began to shrink.
The particles of light flowed back to the ring and through the hoop as eight glowing cards came out and landed softly in his waiting hand. He looks at the glowing cards and smiles as the light fades and revealed the eight members of the A-to-Z family. "Welcome back you guys, and don't worry. I'll find the rest of you and our missing family." He said to them softly and gently stroke them. "I promise."
The being who watched the fight unfold gave a low growl of disappointment and anger. It turns its back and walks away as a portal made entirely of darkness appeared before it, and vanishes as it walked into it.
Rick was now seen within the auditorium, listening to the cheers and claps of everyone who were applauding not only the newly formed teams, but also him for becoming Thunder Giant and facing off against Dragon Catapult Cannon, and saving the lives of his friends in the process. He stood by himself as he had witnessed Ozpin declaring Ruby and her newly formed team to the whole school.
"And now Richard Drake, if you would please step on up." Ozpin called out.
He gently smiles and walks over to the headmaster, which incited more cheers and claps from the students, he even saw team CFVY among them who all gave their own cheers and claps, with Coco being the loudest. When he stood before Ozpin, the ancient headmaster turns to him. "Richard Drake, not only did you attainted the crystal pawn, but you've also shown an act of courage and heroism in the face of danger. Risking your life to save your fellow students and possibly the whole academy." They turned to the monitor and showed Rick transforming into Thunder Giant and fighting Dragon Cannon, shielding teams RWBY and JNPR, and bringing them to safety before fighting Dragon Catapult Cannon.
"Because of such act, you will be given a privilege to select whichever team you wish to be a part of." Ozpin said before giving him a knowing smile and wink.
Rick returns the smile and wink. "If it's all alright professor, I think I wanna team up with RWBY." He said before looking over and smiling at them, which he saw both Ruby and Yang beamed in happiness and excitement when he chose them, Blake only gave him a small smile and a nod, while Weiss only gave him a half smile and a curtesy. "They were the first friends I made when I saw them."
Ozpin smiled at this, recalling what Rick had told him about them and asked if he could join them, when the initiation started. "Very well Richard. As of this day you will now be assigned to team RWBY as their first five-person team in Beacon."
The whole auditorium erupted in cheers once more as Ozpin shook Rick's hand who returned it. "I look forward to seeing you and your friends doing their part, Richard." He said before letting go of his hand.
"Don't worry, you will." Rick said before he was wrapped in a hug by Ruby and Yang while Weiss and Blake came over to congratulate him and welcome him to their team.
This was it, this was the day he had waited for, this was the beginning of Rick's new life on Remnant as his journey to find his missing card and to help alter the course of history of Remnant begins.
Cards on hand: 12.
Number of cards found: 60.
Total of cards: 72.
Remaining cards to reclaim: 99,796.
To Be Continued.
Finally! After all this time, I finally got done with the first chapter of a whole new story! Sorry it took me so damn long, but after the whole page suddenly went blank and was deleted on me, I had to rebuild this whole thing from scratch, it was a monster pain in the ass it was as this is by far, the longest chapter I've ever written in my time here on Fanfiction. But, with it said and done, once I post it I'm gonna be taking a major break from story writing to read my books that I got last year, play some games and watch shows that I've been holding off while working on this. Consider this as my late Valentines day gift to you all. Until then see you later!