Vale, it was always quiet on the seventh day. All of the local businesses were closed to rest and most people were enjoying the time off.
Stupid homework! I'd rather face a Nevermore without help than find some kind of rare root for Professor Peach! Ruby was bored; even Weiss falls asleep in Professor Peach's classes about mixtures and plants. I'm becoming a Huntress, not a Botanist! I'm not gonna kill a Beowolf with a Daffodil! She stopped in the Bakery, buying a cookie. She tried getting the Bakers attention but his eyes were fixed on the holographic screen. She coughed but he was still hypnotized by the screen.
"EXCUSE ME!" She bellowed, the old man almost fell of his stool in surprise. He didn't know whether to be angry or surprised.
"Sorry miss, I didn't notice you. What ya buying today?" He asked.
"Just this please." Ruby said, holding the cookie she picked up "Oh and sorry for scaring you."
"Nope, it's my fault, Sorry I didn't notice ya. It's just hardly anyone has been in today and I've been distracted by the recent craziness happening"
"What's happened, another robbery?" Ruby asked, looking to the old Baker who was still looking at the screen.
"Didn't ya here kid, some kind of meteor shower happened last night. Apparently one of them hit a cargo train." The old baker explained. "I'm probably wasting ya time kid, aren't you a huntress?"
"Um, kind of. I'm attending Beacon Academy." Ruby replied, unsure of why the man was asking.
"Why didn't ya say so?" The Baker said joyously "That cookie will be half price. Hunters and Huntress discount."
"Thanks sir!" Ruby said with glee as she handed over her Lien. She headed outside with a skip in her step. Maybe today won't be so bad after all. Ruby thought as she walked towards the forests.
Suddenly, A Bullhead flew over her, the deafening turbines blowing the trees as they passed. Ruby looked up to see the insignia on the door; she had seen it two days before when they had found Blake after her and Weiss's argument. The White Fang. Ruby wasn't sure what to do. Should she call her team or go after them herself?
She took a moment to think until she pulled out her scroll and contacted Weiss. The devices screen then showed the white haired girl, sitting in their dorm room.
"Ruby, what is it? You better not be asking for help again because I already told you, I'm not going into that forest again!" Weiss hissed, as she showed her displeasure with an annoyed face.
"There's no time Weiss! Just get everyone to come to the forest now, its super urgent!"Ruby yelled, leaving no time for Weiss to reply as she placed the device back into her pocket and ran towards the forest.
Roman was in a fouler mood than usual. It was bad enough he had to work with the White Fang again after that failure at the docks, but now he was being threatened by Cinder and her two weirdoes'. At least this job will be easier for these freaky faunus than the last one. He thought, the train had already crashed in the forest and there were no survivors. It was easy pickings, boring but easy.
The Bullhead landed next to the train tracks, the train had been taken off the tracks entirely and was on its side.
"Okay you animals, I want that train picked clean of dust!" Roman ordered "I don't care whether you have to sweep up a broken vial, bring me every last grain!" The White Fang members grudgingly followed his orders. Overhearing one of the members muttering, he lifted his cane and pointed it at the White Fang members feet and fired, launching it into the air as it landed against a tree. "I don't like you too but you do as I say!"
As the faunus stood up, his eyes were fixed on a certain point. "Sir, over there!" he shouted before he ran into the tree line. Roman followed cautiously as the faunus continued to go deeper into the forest. The White Fang member stopped in amaze and fear whilst Roman finally caught up to him.
"What's wrong with you? Did you need a walk or somethi..." Roman stopped talking once he saw it. It was a strange giant disk with a bronze colour, it was larger than any sort of aircraft he had seen. It was damaged and burnt from the impact. Roman couldn't think of any way to describe it other than his pale, confused face. He noticed an opening into a possible interior.
"You!" Roman barked as he pointed to the faunus."Get everyone over here now!" The White Fang member nodded then ran back towards the train.
Roman smiled. "Well hello sweetheart..."
Ruby had managed to reach the Bullhead by the train wreck. It was strange, usually the pilot stayed to guard it but there was no sign of it. Cautiously, she crept over to the derailed train. No one was here as well. Ruby was confused, This isn't right she thought They had the perfect chance to take all this dust, but they're not here.
All of a sudden, Ruby felt a slap on her back which knocked here over. Turning around, she saw Weiss, Blake and Yang Their faces a shade of red that would put Ruby's cloak to shame.
"Where were you?" Weiss furiously shouted. "Why didn't you wait? You could've died or be captured!"
"Relax Weiss, I'm fine" Ruby said, trying to calm her down. "Look, no one's here."
Weiss and Yang looked around the cart with a look that suggested she found this train familiar. "This is definitely a Schnee Dust Company train, look at the bottles."
Blake had a look of concern on her face, as if something had turned out completely wrong.
"This is bad. The White Fang would usually have the dust by now. Something's wrong"
Yang was about to speak before she was cut off by screams and explosions. Team RWBY immediately ran in to the forest, following the sound of the commotion. Running through the tree line until they saw two figures running towards them. One of them was wearing a white coat with a red lining and a bowler hat on top of his ginger hair. The girls immediately recognised him as from their previous encounter with him and prepared their weapons.
"Oh just great!" Roman yelled when he saw the girls. "Just run!" He was uncharacteristically out of breath and genuinely scared. The White Fang member was following behind him, he was tired and muttering "Oh dear god, please save me!
Suddenly, a beam of light hit the White Fang member in his back from above. He screamed in pain as a light flashed around him, causing an effect which showed his skeleton before he fell to the floor. Blake immediately ran over to him to check his pulse.
"He's dead." Blake shouted. She was terrified, all of them were. They had never come across something like that. A metallic screech began to get closer.
"We should hide!" Blake said as they ran back into the tree line, making sure that they weren't seen by what was coming. Their faces shared a look of terror as they stared at it, silence reigned until Yang whispered "What in the world is that?"
Descending from the sky was a metal creature, it had spheres covering its body up until it reached its middle where it had some sort of gun barrel and what looked like a toilet plunger for arms. Going further up the body, it had some form of vents until it reached the dome. The dome had two lights on either side with an eyestalk protruding from its front.
"HUMAN LIFEFORM EXTERMINATED!" Screeched the creature in a horrid, harsh machine like voice. Slowly, another descended next to it.
"EXCELLENT!" It said "PREPARE ALL DALEK UNITS FOR BATTLE PROTOCOL!"
Slowly, Ruby aimed Crimson Rose at the creature on the left. She got at a perfect angle then pulled the trigger, sending a bullet towards its eyestalk and carefully hitting it in the middle of the tube that helped it stay attached. Upon impact, the eyestalk was snapped into two pieces. It sent the creature into a loud, painful scream.
"DALEK DAMAGED, REQUESTING ASISTANCE!" It screamed. Its dome was spinning around and it was moving uncontrollably.
Ruby dashed towards the other one whilst Yang screamed at her, demanding she came back. But before she could reach it, the creature noticed her. It spun around and aimed its weapon at her.
"ACTIVATING CAPTURE MODULE!" It screeched, as it shot Ruby. Slowly she collapsed, dropping Crimson Rose onto the ground as she fell. TAhe creature moved closer to her.
"REQUESTING EMERGENCY TRANSMAT SHIFT!" Screeched the creature. Only seconds after, a light engulfed them and once it disappeared, so did the creature and Ruby.
"RUBY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Yang screamed in anger as she attempted to reach her sister in time. But she was too late to stop it from taking her sister, she collapsed to her knees and burst into tears. Blake and Weiss slowly walked up to her to comfort her. They had never seen Yang get upset, let alone cry. Yang had always been the tough one who would never break down, no matter what happened. Blake tried to place her hand on Yang's shoulder, only to be pushed away. Weiss clenched her fist as she picked up Crimson Rose and walked over to the injured creature, pushing it over. She slowly raised the scythe and began to violently slash at the creature, screaming at it as she attacked.
"YOU MONSTER, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"
Blake quickly ran over to Weiss, taking Ruby's weapon away from her as she attempted to calm Weiss down. Even without a weapon she continued to attack it, no matter how much it hurt her. Blake eventually stopped her but not before Weiss's knuckles were bleeding.
"What the hell are you?" Weiss whimpered to the creature, as a tear rolled down her face. "Don't you realise what you have done?"
"YES" Said the creature in an injured voice. Blake and Weiss could tell that it was laughing. "I HAVE IGNITED THE FLAMES OF WAR, THE DALEKS SHALL REIGN SUPREME!" It began to laugh in its maniacal machine tones.
Blake had reached her limit, she left Weiss's side and unsheathed Gambol Shroud, holding it above the creature's torso and preparing to strike.
"If its war." Blake said in a cold, bitter and angered tone."You have it!"
She plunged the blade into the creature, ending it's laughing...