Hi everyone! Here's chapter two.

I'm just going to say Transformers Prime and RWBY are not mine.

Hope you enjoy the chapter!


Jack sat in his history class, slouching in his desk (which Miko had nicknamed "The Main Character desk" due to it's location in the second to last row and right next to the window), hearing but not listening to the lecture from a boisterous, overweight middle-age woman that taught the class. He wouldn't regret it, since most of her "lectures" were just "I knew a guy who..." stories that only connected for one second with the topic at hand.

Instead, Jack's focus was on the open notebook in front of him. It was a new one, reasonably thick, spiral bound with a gray cover. There were already about ten pages filled front and back, the eleventh with two drawings. The first was the cloaked woman who'd saved him, Raf and Miko from Silas three days before. It was a rough sketch of her, red tattered cloak giving off red petals drawn only in red pen and lightly colored in with the same pen. The second sketch was her weapon, drawn in the similar fashion with red, silver, and black pens. He'd scrawled notes on the side.

What I Know On Red Cloak

- Adult (Mom's age?)

- Black hair that turns red at the ends (wig? dye?)

- tattered cloak (hermit?)

- Took out all the guards & Silas (some form of secret agent? assassin?)

- Didn't kill, despite having the opening to (ordered to take out ME**?)

- Polite (curtsied to O.P.)

- Accurate w/ weapon

- Silver Rose pin holds cloak together

- Weapon is a combination Scythe and what looks like a sniper rifle (foreign?)

- Weapon can collapse into a smaller size for travel (nomad assassin?)

- Silent, seems to be able to talk, just didn't want to (gag order?)

- Super fast (mutant?)

- Created a tornado of rose petals capable of lifting us up

- Wasn't scarred of the B*** (knew of them?)

Next to the list he drew what he little bit remembered from the woman's rose pin. He censored certain parts of the list should it fall into someone else's hands. Jack huffed and ran a hand through his black locks. 'Bangs are getting long again,' He thought. 'I'll need to cut them soon.'

The bell rang and everyone practically bolted out of the room. Jack was one of the last ones out. As he passed by the front row, he noticed a red covered notebook laying on the floor. He shrugged and picked it up, brushing the dirt off the cover. Confused as to how the notebook had caught his attention, Jack walked out to the courtyard for lunch. He sat underneath a tree farthest from any other student.

'I shouldn't look in it. It's probably someone's journal or something,' He thought. 'Then again, it might just be a history notebook.'

He weighed the choices as he ate his sandwich. Finally deciding to read it, he flipped it open to the last written page. A large drawing sat in the center. It was a circle with a spear drawn through it. Around it were several other symbols. A flaming heart; a hammer with a lightning bolt; a lotus flower; a snowflake; a group of gears; two crescents one above the other; a crown; something resembling a sword; a flower like design; and...

Jack dropped the book.

An exact copy of Red Cloak's symbol sat amongst all the others. The spear lacked a name, but the rest had a name written in next to them. Yang. Nora. Ren. Weiss. Professor Ozpin. Jaune. Professor Goodwitch. Penny. Blake. Ruby. Written below it was a single phrase in red cursive.

Do you believe in destiny?


Ruby sat in the café, palms sweaty. She only had twenty minutes to meet with Coco. It would be their first face-to-face meeting in daylight in years. The café's bell chimed as the door opened. Silver eyes sprung up to see a familiar self-assured smile as Coco strutted over and slid into the booth.

"Hi," Ruby greeted.

"Hey little red," Coco smirked. Ruby pouted adorably.

"I'm not that little anymore," She pouted. Coco laughed at how little it looked like Ruby had changed sometimes. Within seconds that younger Ruby was gone, replaced by the powerful woman she'd grown into. "Let's get down to business."

She pulled a thick folder from the bag at her side and slid it over to Coco. The older woman flipped through the files, trained eyes pulling information from the documents.

"This is some pretty classified stuff," She finally said, looking up at Ruby. "How'd you get these? I don't even think my youngest son could get stuff like this, and he's skipped several grades."

'He can do more than you realize,' Ruby thought. She swallowed before replying slyly, "I have my ways. This is serious Coco. Silas is a danger. To everything we've worked for."

Coco nodded. She looked over her shoulder to see if anyone was watching before pulling out her Scroll and expanding it. In it was a map of Jasper with the symbols of every available Huntsmen or Huntress. Only four appeared on the map, the two of them at the café, Coco's husband Fox at his work, and one Cardin Winchester at the auto repair shop where he worked. Several other dots moved around, marking family members.

Ruby's eyes drifted to the three at Jasper High School. Cardin's son, Coco's youngest son, and Ruby's own son. She stared at the silver colored dot that represented her son. She'd do it for him. Everything she did was so that he'd have a better place to live. His father had sacrificed himself for the same reason.

"Okay," Coco began. "We have one team worth of Huntsmen power. According to the documents you got, we have about six different locations for potential MECH bases. It's an unequal balance, so we'll have to solo four and partner for two."

Ruby looked over the six locations. The Autobots could show up at any of them, especially since they had a bone to pick with Silas. And if the Autobots showed up, the three children were never far behind. Always reckless, always unarmed. God it made Ruby want to scream sometimes!

"Alright, I'll stake out these ones," She pointed to two. "Just to see if they're not duds."

"Fox and I'll check out this one," Coco pointed to another one. "I'll scout this one later."

Coco's cell phone went off and she pulled it out of her non-gun purse. With a flick of her manicured nail, she flipped it open.

"Hello?...She did?...Oh she is in SO much trouble when she gets home...alright love you to babe...bye." She shut the phone before pulling herself from the booth. "Sorry to cut this short Ruby, Pilar was just caught peeking in the boys' locker room at her school. Got herself suspended."

"Oooo," Ruby teased. "She's taking after you."

Coco scoffed, "She doesn't bother with the fashion traits and goes straight for the boys."

The brunette smiled and waved goodbye as Ruby packed up her things. As Ruby walked back into the Jasper daylight, she looked to the direction of the high school. Pilar was in for it, not that it wasn't something Coco herself had done at Beacon before the Fall. As Ruby walked to her car, she saw a familiar blue and pink motorcycle drive by, leather clad driver 'gripping' the handlebars. She took a deep breath and let it out. She had other things to worry about.


Later that night, as her son slept below, Ruby popped open a secret panel in the wall of the attic. She slipped inside and turned on the light. The dusty blub lit up weakly as it cast shadows behind old memories that hadn't seen the light of day in years.

She was hunched over due to her attic being very short in terms of height, but it didn't bother her too much. She shoved and pulled boxes around until she found the box she was looking for. This one was slightly newer than the others and labeled 'John' with thick black marker. She pulled a box cutter from her jeans and slit the tape with a few quick slices. Her thin hands pulled the flaps away.

Inside rested photo albums, an old black and orange hoodie, an old comic book, a bundle wrapped in cloth and other miscellaneous items. She pulled the hoodie from its place in the box and unfolded it; she held the hoodie to her body, inhaling what little scent still remained of him.

"Almost fourteen years since he left," Ruby muttered, wiping a stray tear away from her silver eyes. She folded the hoodie back up and returned it to it's place in the box. She pulled the bundle out of the box before folding the flaps of the box back up and crawling out of the secret room. Silently, she replaced the panel and descended to the main level of the house. Her trained ears picked up her son's light snoring in his room off to her right. Slowly, she nudged the door open to her son's room, peering in at his sleeping form.

He didn't know her past, or her current activities. Ruby liked that. The less he knew, the better. No matter how bad she wanted to unlock his Aura, he'd question his newfound Semblance. It would make him a target. She'd lost too many people she loved, she didn't need him to be a target too.

She softly shut the door, returning his room to the night. Ruby headed across the hall to her room, where she changed from her jeans and red V-neck into her blouse, corset, and skirt. As she pulled her boots on, she heard her son roll over in his room. A sigh escaped her lips as her eyes caught her reflection in the full-length mirror.

It was like she was an imposter in her own life. Either way she looked like she was trying to be the other side. A stranger in her own clothes. Ruby sighed and activated her aura. The red glow surrounded her and the color slowly crept up her black locks. She pulled it from it's ponytail and scrunched up her eyes. When she opened them, pools of silver stared back.

"There. Much better," Ruby said.

She walked over to the other side of the bed and pushed the nightstand to the side. Her trained eyes found the hairline seams in the wall. With a press to the top right corner the wall popped off and swung on a hinge.

Within the wall was a small armory, with stacks upon stacks of magazines of varying Dust types, cleaning equipment, extra Dust, and the crown jewel itself; Crescent Rose laid at a slight angle, red finish gleaming. Ruby pulled the beloved weapon from it's hiding place and slid it into it's place on her belt. She pulled her pouch from her back and filled it with several magazines. After sliding it back onto her back, Ruby shut the panel and left her room with a flick of the light switch.


Arcee sat in vehicle mode in the garage of the Darby household, unable to rest. The kids' abduction by MECH three days before had left her shaken. The mysterious human woman that showed up bothered the blue femme to no end. Not only had the woman (who they'd all taken to calling 'Red Cloak' for obvious reasons) showed up from nowhere, knocked out all of Silas' guards and Silas himself, and vanished without identifying herself, but she exuded an aura of danger.

She was pulled out of her thoughts by the front door of the house opening and closing. Arcee transformed as quickly and silently as she could, peering out of the small windows of the garage door. Her blue-pink optics widened at what she saw.

Red Cloak stood in the middle of the street, head bowed, cape waving to a non-existent wind. The red rose petals glowed in the moonlight as the swirled around her. Neither one moved, waiting for the other to do so.

After at least two minutes of stalemate, Red Cloak turned and sped off down the road. Without a second thought, Arcee opened the garage door, transformed and pulled out after her.

Arcee didn't care where Red Cloak was going, but if she led her to more information, it'd be worth it.


Okay...slightly longer chapter. I'm trying to build up suspense, so sorry if things seem weird.

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