AN: Sorry for posting this rather late but I had a lot of ideas for how it Riku's and Ruby's teams were going to meet and decided on a 3-4 part for it. Anyway's many thanks for reading this.

Chapter 2 Same colors, different people


-Vale, Schnee Dust research building-

It's roughly 8:50 at night, the workers were gone for the weekend save a few over-timers and the security. Sadly however the building was going to receive 10 unexpected guests and wasn't likely going to enjoy their 'visit'.

-Rear of the building-

Here we find Gold, Embers, Diamond (who was given a piggyback ride by the other white haired girl due to her energy deprived condition), and Rose standing there staring at the building. Gold wore a long light yellow coat with the hood pulled over her head and various belts strapping a few pieces of armor to her body,under the coat she had a an equally light yellow sweater under a small gray chest plate, a pair of light brown pants, and light brown boots, she looked like an assassin from the a time long past. Ember's clothes had obvious wear and tear on them as nothing looked new, she wore a long black short pointed hat that had seen better days, a long black trench coat that had holes and burns all over it, a old belt that ran from her right shoulder to her lower left hip on the belt it held various vials of red liquid, around her arms were a pair of old and abused ornate gold gauntlets that went up to her elbows but never went passed her wrist, ragged black gloves,a equally ragged brown belt that had a holster on her right side holding a single revolver over burned black pants and mud and blood covered black boots, she looked liked an old hunter from an older time, further reinforced by the old cane in her left hand. Diamond wore a simple one piece white dress that exposed her upper back, white stockings that extended to her white heels, she looked like an angel if you saw her at a distance minus the wings and halo though. Rose still wore his black military uniform but now had a red cloak with its hood pulled over his head, and scythe whose blade was covered in stains of dried blood, he looked like a grim reaper to the world. They started to walk towards the building only stopping in front of a security door. Rose simply raised his left hand and a spark of electricity arced from his fingers and into the security panel associated with the door.

After a few seconds Rose asked "You in yet Cali?" which was met with another few seconds of silence before a image of a blond American girl popped up smiling

"Yeah I'm in." Cali answered "I'll have Tango team give me a hand in here."

"Don't think you can handle it by yourself ?" Gold asked skeptical that Cali needed help

"I could do it by myself, but that'll involve trashing the system and having security welcome you." Cali answered and Gold nodded in understanding

"I say trash it, it'll make things fun." Embers said with a hint of malice in her voice

"Embers, we're not here to kill people remember." Gold reminded her

"Come on Gold Cali trashes they system, we get in, kill a couple of guards, and get the Dust we think Diamond needs to feel better."

"How are you this optimistic?"

"And how are you this pessimistic?"

"Guys, hate to break up your little 'to kill or not to kill' discussion but we still need to take care of Diamond." the other white haired girl interrupted as she raised Diamond up a little to remind them why they're there "So I don't really care how we get in there so long as we do."

Both Gold and Embers looked at each other and nodded at different speeds, Gold a slow defeated nod and Embers a quick 'ha ha I win' nod, Gold sighed a bit but said "Diamond's parallel has a point."

"Alright Cali time to destroy the system and make things fun." Embers a little to happily ordered

"Hate to kill your blood lust fueled happiness but Cali already had Tango team help hack the system." Rose said without turning to see Gold's relived expression and Embers recoil back in shock and anger

"Wha-when?" Embers asked out of curiosity and anger

"As you two were arguing" Rose answered as he opened the door "Cali can you stay in there and keep an eye out for anything that may be trouble?"

"Will do."


-Front of the building, 3 minuets later-

Team RWBY had arrived a little after Rose, Diamond, Embers, and Gold had entered the building, dressed in their usual outfits. Ruby with her black blouse on top red skirt and corset underneath, gray stockings running from her thighs to her red and black boots, and red cloak. Weiss wore her white dress with a equally white jacket along with her mid calf high boots. Yang with her low cut shirt under a tan vest, an orange scarf wrapped around her neck, brown belt over black shorts and white back skirt, and knee high boots. Blake had her bow on her head, a black scarf wrapped around her neck, black buttoned vest over a sleeveless white shirt, white shorts, and stockings of black to purple leading to her black shoes.

"Weiss, are you sure your father is fine with this?" Blake asked still skeptical about Weiss being nice for no good reason.

Before Weiss could respond Ruby beat her to it and told her "Come on Blake, it's not often we get to do anything fun for the weekends."

"Rubes right Blake, even more so considering how Weiss usually shoots down any of our weekend plans about as often as she shoots down Vomit boy when he tries and hit on her." Yang added that earned her a scoff from the heiress.

"I...suppose you have a point..." Blake hesitantly agreed as she fell in line with Yang's logic, which in of itself caused her to have a chill run down her spine. She remained quite as she followed the others into the building still trying to figure out why she was having this feeling of uncertainty about the building. Probably because it';s a Schnee owned research facility...no that can't be it, even if I do have a hatred towards the Schnee family...then what exactly is it? Blake scratched her head trying to figure what it was that was making her feel like this, not that her team could help since they'd just say its because they were likely not supposed to be there, she let out a silent sigh of frustration and decided to let things continue to pan out so she could see what exactly it was that was causing her this feeling.


Elsewhere we return to Rose's group as they close in on the buildings main elevator so they could reach one of the floors where the Dust research was supposed to be held. As they walked Rose was giving Diamond a piggyback ride as her parallel was exhausting her already empty energy reserves, so Embers was told to hold his scythe for him. After Gold called one of the elevators up, Embers decided to talk about his sense of combat fashion to kill time as they waited.

"And what's wrong with my outfit?" a defensive Rose asked "You don't see me questioning your sense of combat attire."

"It's just you don't really need the cloak is all." Embers began "You already have a military combat uniform; I just think the cloak will get in the way."

"You've seen me fight with it on, it doesn't give me any problems, and besides I like it." he argued

"He's got you there Embers." Diamond weakly said but it was load enough for them to hear her without the need of repeating herself.

"Not helping Diamond..." Embers sighed

"I think its a good idea for him to wear it, it'll help him blend into the crowds around here a lot easier." Gold said as the elevator arrived and the doors began to open.

"I don't think reds the most 'blend into the crowd' color out there." Embers sighed aging

"You never know Embers; he might even look like somebody from this world with the cloak on." Diamond said as they entered the elevator.

"I'm sorry but I find it a little hard to believe that there lives someone in this world that wears black under a red cloak, has black hair with red tips in it, gray eyes, and possesses a scythe." Rose deadpanned as the elevators doors began to close

"Your eyes are silver Rose, not gray." Gold reminded him

"Whatever, my point still remains." Rose said as the doors closed


Back with team RWBY, Ruby sneezed out of the blue and Yang could only capitalize on it. With a teasing smile she asked "You know what it means when sneeze, right Rubes?" Ruby only stared at her waiting for an answer as she wiped her nose with a finger. "It means somebody's thinking about you."

"You mean Jaune?" Ruby asked with hope in her eyes, while back at Beacon a certain blonde was reading a comic book when he sneezed; he blew it off as something in the air and continued reading.

"I don't think it's Jaune, sorry Rubes." Yang said a little apologetic as Ruby deflated a little, but in her head had a different tone to Ruby's question If Vomit boy still wants to have kids at all, then he better not be thinking of my baby sister the same way I think she's thinking of him. Meanwhile Blake had a new feeling of worry for him (not the romantic feelings mind you), as it was well know that Yang would burn anyone that dared to try and get Ruby into an intimate relationship. As she feared for Jaune, they had stopped in front of the buildings main elevators and saw one of them was currently being used.

"I thought no one was here?" Ruby asked confused that an elevator was being used.

"There are night guards around, I think they decided to check the upper floors." Weiss said knowing the building only had emergency stairs that no one, even security, used or even knew about. She merely pushed a button to call the next available elevator. As they waited Yang had decided move back to more pressing matters "Seriously though Rubes, there are other people that can think about you aside from Vomit boy."

Ruby was still taking a defensive stance about her relationship with Jaune and countered with "Yeah like there's another guy out there around my age, loves cookies and weapons of all kinds, and is socially awkward."


-Back with Roses group-

As they stood in the elevator,Rose had sneezed out of the blue and Embers was more than willing to poke fun at his expense "Looks like somebodies thinking about ya Rose."

Rose simply shook his head as he said "Nah probably something in the air." the elevator then stopped and the doors slid open showing the 4th floor as they walked out of the elevator. It's hall was painted white from top to bottom with the walls strewn with various paintings. There was a balcony on the 5th floor that shadowed the floor they were on a glass wall with some oddly color changing Dust behind it. The hall extended towards the towards a central plaza with a chandelier on the roof and a balcony shadowing the 3rd floor with a even bigger color shifting dust filled glass wall that nearly stretched to the ends of the plaza, however this one had yellow caution tape over it. "That seems promising." Embers said as she stared at the Dust wall. While she was pondering what would happen if she broke the wall, the others thought of a better question among them What the hell was the point of adding a chandelier? Before they could come up with an explanation the sound of anoyher elevator coming up brought them out of thought.

"Security?" Diamond asked with some fear in her voice knowing where this might be going while Rose simply sighed his agreement, whereas Embers, who was itching for a fight ever since they got there, pulled her revolver out of its holster, tightened her grip on her cane, and smiled "Good lets welcome them." this earned her a angry and frustrated sigh from Gold who simply began with "Oh for the love of..." before grabbing Embers by her ear and pulling her away from the elevators with Rose and Diamond in toe despite Embers protests. They walked down the hall and then turned left before entering the first room there without even looking at what the label on the door said.


-Back team RWBY-

"All I'm saying is that its doesn't have to be Jaune who's thinking about you." Yang said as they stood in the elevator.

"And if it is Jaune?"

She simply shrugged at her while her head screamed for his death if it was true. The elevator then stopped and the doors opened showing the 4th floor in front of them, they followed Weiss down to the hall and to the right and through a door labeled 'Dust munitions testing range'

-Rose's group-

Once in they were surprised to see crates upon crates upon even more crates in the room. Gold walked over to one of the crates and rolled up one of her sleeves to reveal small arm leather bound bracer/gauntlet hybrid which where her wrist was had a barrel leading to a revolver style magazine and a small hammer behind that, all wrapped nicely in a light metal protector. However she wasn't interested it using the firearm part of it for now, with a simple flick of her wrist a short blade came out, short enough as to not raise any suspicion but long enough to kill anyone if hit in the right place. With the blade she stabbed one of the crates space between the lid and the rest of the box, it popped open after a few seconds of struggling and Gold cursing under her breath for it to open. She slid the top of and looked inside before turning back to the others with a smile on her smile on her face, the others knew immediately what it meant and responded with their own smiles.

Jackpot.


- Team RWBY-

To say that Ruby and Yang were happy with the firing range that had a workbench built in was a massive understatement. Yang had smiled a mischievous smile as she began thinking of the various types of ammo she could make for Ember Celica other than just the 00 incendiary buckshot idea she originally had. While Ruby looked like a kid in a candy store (which to be honest wasn't to far off considering its Ruby.) as she looked like she was ready to start bouncing around the place, only to be held down by Blake. As soon as she assured Weiss that she wouldn't go to overboard and she in turn gave her the green light, Ruby instantly bolted over to the workbench to get to work on some ludicrous ideas she had for ammo for Crescent Rose.

-Rose's group-

Diamond was sitting on one of the crates with a shot glass full of Whiskey in one hand, a vial containing white Dust in the other, several vials of white Dust to the side that had the hand with the other Dust filled vial, and a large bottle of Whiskey on the other side (courtesy of Embers). With each shot she glowed a faint white and told them she was feeling a lot better but needed more if she was going to be back at 100 percent. As she downed another Dust mixed shot of Whiskey the others were huddled in a triangle.

"As glad as I am that Diamond's feeling better, I think we have a new developing problem on our hands." Embers said as they all turned back to eye Diamond as she poured more Whiskey into the shot glass then returned their heads back to each other.

"Agreed, I would have never thought she would become an alcoholic within 5 minuets..." Gold said

"Best thing we can do is try and keep it under control starting tomorrow with both the liquor and Dust." Rose said

"Why the Dust?" Embers asked

"Last thing we need is her snorting Dust like it's cocaine if we take away the liquor." Rose answered and Embers nodded in understanding

"Alright so any idea how we're going to bring this Dust with us?"

"We're only bringing enough to last Diamond some time, we're not looting the place...as tempting as it sounds." Gold mumbled the last part before they all heard what sounded like a cannon go off and someone scream in pain coming from outside causing all of them to stare at the door.

"Well that never sounds good..." Embers said and Rose walked over to a crate that had his scythe sitting on top of it, grabbed it with his left hand and made his way to the door.

"You guys stay here, I'm going to see who just got shot." Rose said

"Don't you think you'll need help?" Embers asked

Rose simply rested the scythe on his shoulder and said "This is all the help I'll be needing thanks, besides if I need help you'll hear gunfire." and walked out the door to find whoever decided to shoot somebody in the middle of the night


-Team RWBY-

Ruby was about to start loading some new explosive dust rounds into one of Crescent Rose's magazines when they all heard the same cannon fire and scream of pain coming from outside.

"What the?" Yang said after she flinched causing her shot to miss her target.

"Sounds like someone's in trouble." Blake said as they all looked at the door

"Thieves here? Impossible... we have one of the most high tech security system's here!" Weiss yelled not believing that the building could be broken into.

"Stay here guy's, I'll go see whats going on." Ruby volunteered loading a normal Dust magazine in to her baby.

"You sure Rubes?" Yang asked with concern in her voice as Ruby made her way to the door

"Don't worry if I need help I'll fire a round." Ruby said and closed the door behind her

-Outside both doors, in the plaza-

A Schnee security guard was on the floor with a orange haired man with bowler hat, cigar in his mouth, long white coat and black slacks pointing his cane at the guard as if it was a gun.

"Now will you be a good little guard and run off now?" the gentleman asked in a calm manner

Before the guard could say anything however, the sound of a machine shifting caught both their attention they looked to where the sound came from and found a girl in a red cloak, black hair with red tips, and a black blouse with a terrifying scythe in her hands "Let him go and nobody gets hurt." the girl said

The gentleman knew who she was and despite his anger and annoyance at seeing her again said in a still calm and now slightly amused manner "Red, I didn't know you would be here."

Before Ruby could respond another voice shouted "Hey!" and the three of them turned to the sound and found a boy walking towards them in a black military uniform, red cloak with the hood pulled over his head, and in his left hand and resting on his shoulder a scythe who's blade was stained with dried blood. As they continued to stare at the boy, he asked in a semi joking semi serious tone "Don't you think threatening the workers is a weekday job, not a weekend one?"

The gentleman was surprised to see another scythe wielder and asked in a annoyed tone as he turned back to Ruby "There's two of you now? What do you multiply or something?" before Ruby could answer, Rose appeared in the air behind the gentleman with his scythe ready to behead him. The gentleman however was actually quick on his feet to some degree as he backpedaled to avoid it and slammed the bottom of his cane into Rose's back and pulled a trigger sending a concussive blast into his back and sending him flying to next to Ruby, who aimed Crescent Rose at the wall behind her and pulling the trigger she was sent flying towards the gentleman. She brought her scythe in front of her and the gentleman simply blocked the attack with his cane, he then grabbed her hood and pulled it over her head, twirled her around and fired another blast that sent her in the opposite direction of Rose.

-Dust munitions testing range-

Hearing two cannon shots and one from a sniper rifle go off had sent Weiss, Blake, and Yang's minds and bodies into overdrive as they began to rush towards the door with the worse possible situation in their head. Ruby was shot and possibly dead. Once Yang ripped the door of it's hinges they ran out while yelling "Ruby!"

-Dust storage room-

Gold, Embers, and Diamond were in a similar situation as they rushed towards the door, Embers instinctively ramming the door open, yelling "Rose!"

-Plaza-

"Ruby!" Rose heard from behind him

"Rose!" Ruby heard from behind her

They both turned to see who was yelling

Rose turned to see Weiss, Blake, and Yang and responded with "Uh ma'am's you may have the wrong person."

Ruby on the other hand turned around, pulled down her hood and yelled at Gold, Embers, and Diamond "Who are you!? How do you know my last name!? And I have a first name you know!"

The six of them were shocked to see in front of them wasn't who they were yelling out for not even a minute ago and before any of them could say a word in either anger or confusion, alarms sounded off everywhere and the room was flooded with red light. In the middle of the plaza the gentleman disappeared and the guard had ran off in the confusion and were replaced by a wall coming from the back of the plaza effectively cutting them off from the others group. This left Rose with angry a Yang who's eyes had turned red, a irate Weiss who wanted answer's as to how they got in here without setting off alarms prior, and a semi shocked Blake who was beginning to think this was the bad feeling she had all day. While Ruby was stuck with an equally angry Embers, a shocked Gold who was confused that there was a girl in front of them with a scythe and even weirder perhaps even creepy was the fact that she looked like Rose, if Rose were a girl, never heard of tanning, and not part wolf, and a confused Diamond who wanted to know who Ruby was and why her last name was the same as the boy who's nickname was that.

-Rose, Weiss, Blake, and Yang-

A vein bulged from Rose's head and he yelled in a clearly pissed voice "Cali!" to which the speakers in the room crackled to life with Cali's voice "Sorry!" she yelled before turning the speakers off along with the alarms and turning on the floors lights, leaving only the wall still separating him from the others.

"Who was that?" Blake asked as soon as she snapped out of her semi shocked state

"I don't know and I don't care, she's getting the worst of it when we're done." Weiss said as she unhooked Myrtenaster and Yang bum rushed Rose with every intent of beating all the answers out of him.

"Yang wait!" Blake yelled as soon as she saw her rush him

As she neared him a red circle appeared under his feet just as Yang hit him ending in nothing but smoke and a new dent in the wall which earned her a voice yelling in pain from the other side.

Once the smoke settled only Yang stood there angrily confused that she missed and looking everywhere but up for him. Blake and Weiss were surprised at what just happened, "Was that a glyph he just used?" Blake asked who got an "I-I never saw anyone use a anti gravity glyph in such short amount of time..." from Weiss before tilting her head upward and her eyes widened as she saw Rose in the air above Yang as he began to descend. "Yang look up!" Blake yelled but Yang didn't hear her because the sound of Crescent Rose being fired from the other side drowned out her voice, Rose planted his boots on Yang's shoulders and forcing her onto the ground hard. Weiss was loading dust cartridges when Rose bolted towards them at a speed managed only by Ruby's semblance. Speaking of Ruby...

-Ruby, Diamond, Embers, and Gold-

"Put her down, but don't kill her. I want answers." Gold ordered as she flicked both her wrists and out came two hidden blades from her sleeves, she received a grunt from Embers who flipped the cane upside down and held it like a sword and a silent nod from Diamond who summoned eight white claymore like blades that appeared behind her but all pointed at Ruby. Embers yelled a war cry as she charged headlong at Ruby as Diamond fired her blades at her a few seconds after Embers charged, Ruby easily dodged her strikes and darted away as Embers ran into the wall thanks to her momentum and into a newly formed dent in the wall courtesy of a unknowing and very angry blond on the other side. Ruby giggled a little as she heard Embers spit every possible curse word in the book to emphasize her pain, however it was short lived as she had to dodge Diamonds energy blades, but instead of impacting the ground they shifted direction and went back to chasing the young girl down. Ruby pointed Crescent Rose at each blade and opened fire causing each one to explode with each round that hit them, then she flipped it behind her and fired a round that shot her towards Gold and Diamond. Gold simply teleported out of out of the way in a dim yellow flash while Diamond rolled out of the way in the nick of time. Her Parallel then appeared out of nowhere and with two energy claymores in hand heading straight for Ruby with the sole intention of disarming her, however Ruby misread this and fired a few rounds in hopes of stopping the attacker. As the rounds whizzed by her she she jumped into the air to dodge more of the rounds but caught a dust round to the stomach as Ruby adjusted her aim and simply disappeared in a white flash. Ruby was shocked for a second as she believed she had just killed a person but soon recovered realizing it wasn't an actual person, only to dodge more of Diamonds energy blades and used her semblance to tackled Diamond to the ground. Gold had appeared behind her and returned the favor by tackling her to the ground in front of Diamonds head, she was sitting on Ruby's stomach with one hand holding her neck and another with the blade pointed her the girls face cocked back ready to put a couple new holes in her face.

"Who are you people?" Ruby asked in a mix of fear, confusion, and some anger despite her situation

"I don't think your in any position to be asking questions, little one." Gold chuckled and Ruby just smirked saying "Oh I will be." Gold looked straight into Ruby's silver eyes and saw in her a burning determination to win no matter what with a hint of innocence in the mix. To her, Ruby was likely just like Rose and not just in style either, but on a more internal level as both seemed hellbent on winning despite the odds that were constantly put up in front of the innocence in her eye couldn't be said for Rose who lost his innocence at a very young age. She was so engrossed in the comparison of the two she failed to noticed Ruby pull the trigger of Crescent Rose sending her skidding across the smooth tile floor and Gold landing on her side as she never expected her to do that. She got up and pointed the scythe at behind her, firing another round into the wall, rocketing towards and slowly rising Gold, tackling her, and was soon on top of Gold with a face that said 'See I told you I would.' and then an rather loud explosion was heard from the other side of the wall and everyone looked up and over to the wall with Embers asking what was on everyone's mind at the moment "The bloody hell was that?"

-Rose, Weiss, Blake, and Yang-

Rose's speed almost matched Ruby's semblance speed minus the rose petals being left behind, he had just rammed Weiss with his shoulder causing her to drop the Dust cartridge she was loading along with several others that came out out of a pouch on her and sending her flying a good 10 ft away as Rose turned to Blake who had jumped onto his back and used it as a springboard, jumped back into the air. She took note of Weiss' dust cartridges scattered and decided to use them in a manner not recommended by anyone, she pulled out Gambol Shroud, that was in its pistol form, and fired a shot at each one on the ground causing a massive explosion around Rose. She entered the massive Dust cloud and she could easily make out Rose's figure in the smoke and readied her self to bring him down, sadly she didn't know he was a faunus as his hood twitched a bit and he backed up to avoid the her pounce and while she landed on her feet Rose was on top of her as he spun, stopping in a half circle with his scythe a mere few inch's from her neck and his body positioned in a way that if he completed his spin then her head would be rolling on the ground. She had her head and weapon pointed at Rose as they merely stood there in the Dust cloud staring into each other's eyes. As they stared each other down Blake noticed his silver eyes were filled with determination, anger, fear, and loneliness, she wondered why the boy before him had those emotions as she thought only the faunus had those felt those. Perhaps he was a faunus that hid his heritage? I can certainly relate. Blake thought beforeRose brought her out of her thoughts by asking "Alright start talking. Who are you?" Rose asked in a serious yet professional tone.

"I don't thinkyour in any position to be demanding answers." Blake answered in a emotionless tone

"I'm not the one with a scythe to his neck."

"Nor am I the one with a pistol to her face."

As they just stood there waiting for the other to make a move that never came, the Dust cloud settled and Weiss who was still angry decided to create a glyph in front of her as she murmured "Sorry Blake..." and several icicles shot out of the glyph and straight towards Blake and Rose.

Rose's eyes widened in alarm as what he heard what was coming and Blake seemed to have the same idea of what was coming. Something sharp, pointy and was coming from behind Blake at high speed. Deciding to be the hero he quickly spun in the reverse direction, grabbed Blake with his right arm and spun her around with him and put her in a protective hug as he shielded her from the ice cold spears that were sent their way. This very much and very understandably shocked Blake as this boy who the three of them were fighting literally 45 seconds ago had saved her life. No sooner did she enter her shocked phase she was brought right out of it, she heard Rose try to stifle the urge to scream in pain by biting his lower lip so hard it looked like he was going to draw blood as the sound of several icicles finding nice places in his back kept up for another few seconds.

"H-hey...y-you alright?" Rose shakily asked after he was sure that there wasn't a second salvo of icicles coming for them.

"S-shouldn't I be the one asking out t-that...?" Blake just as shakily asked making a note to yell at Weiss later

"I-I'll be alright..." he coughed while still tiring to sound like nothing happened he then loosened his hug and faced her with a caring face on him before continuing "I'm more worried about you, if you have a bitch like her on your side."

If it wasn't for the fact that they were in a Schnee Dust research facility, that they were more or less in a life or death battle, and his face wasn't trying to hide the amount of pain he was feeling she would have at least giggled at the comment. However all the above were true at the moment, they were in a Schnee research facility, they were in a life or death battle, and his face was hiding the amount of pain was feeling. He then completely let go of her and wobbly stood up much to both Weiss and Blake as he turned to face the heiress, using a single movement of his scythe it went in a 360 degree behind him removing all 22 blood tipped icicles from his back. Both of them were stunned at just how resilient the boy was if he still possessed enough dexterity to do something like that.

Just who is this boy? they both thought then went down different trains of thought about Rose

He just survived Weiss' attack and he's staring her down, ready for more... he's either extremely brave or insane... Blake thought in awe of him

H-how the hell did he survive that? I had aimed at body parts of his I could see but then... he turned around and protected Blake...exposing himself to my attack Weiss thought before she snapped out of her thought and entered a battle pose Regardless I need to stop him here and now.

However before Weiss and Rose could clash, Blake yelled "Look out!" and Rose turned to his left to catch Yang's fist and Ember Celica discharge to the face sending him flying all the way to the floor below.

"That'll teach ya." Yang smirked at her handiwork

"What the hell Yang!" Blake yelled while trying not to punch her partner at the same time, who simply looked at her and shrugged "What he had it coming."

"He saved my life!" she yelled and this time actually punching her in the face

If Yang wasn't confused at what Blake yelled then she'd be pissed that she just punched her, so the only thing she could say was "Huh?"

Weiss then walked over to them calmly while still processing what just happened then spoke up "Nice job Yang,now lets go see if he's still alive after that." and walked over to the balcony with a still somewhat confused Yang and clearly pissed Blake in toe grumbling "For both your sake's he be better be."

-Ruby, Diamond, Embers, and Gold-

Ruby was now forced to dodge Diamonds ever homing energy swords of death, her Parallel who was slashing at her at ever possible chance, Gold who was taking stabs at her every few seconds, and Embers who was taking both stabs and swings at her. She had to admit they were well coordinated, her own team could take a page out of their book...assuming they survive this ordeal of course. Using her semblance she gave her self more room to work with, only problem was Gold teleporting to her every time she did and Diamond readjusting her blades trajectory to have them continue to chase her down and she couldn't get near Diamond because of Gold of course and Diamond bringing another Parallel to defend her from any sort of attack that was coming her way.

"Get back here!" Embers yelled frustrated that she had to literally run all over the place just to keep up with Ruby since Gold ordered them to not use firearms when she said 'Put her down, but don't kill her."

Ruby tried again to take Diamond out of the equation but was repelled by another Parallel stopping her in her tracks and forcing her to run again. Then Ruby had an idea, one insane enough it might just work. She stopped in the middle of their area and rehooked Crescent Rose, much to Embers relief, and waited until everyone was with in her little mental trap. Once they were she reactivated her semblance and ran, not away from them but around them. All of them were on guard waiting for who she was going to strike first, but she never stopped and they soon looked at each other and finding they were still there. Until they felt themselves being lifted into the air and being spun around the little tornado Ruby was creating, then Ruby stopped abruptly forcing all of them to be sent flying into different directions. Then she grabbed Crescent Rose again waiting for one of them to get up. Embers was the first to and Ruby turned to face her.

"Alright lassie you asked for it." Embers angrily said as she let more of the Irishmen in her take control of her actions causing Ruby to flinch a little. She pushed a button on her cane and the thing fell apart in front of her. It wasn't broken it was just in its second form, the cane pieces were held by a high tension wire in the core of it and each piece revealed blades that were hidden in them . Embers extend her whip towards Ruby, but it never reached her no that would imply she was going to kill her if it reached her, it wrapped itself around Crescent Rose much to Embers joy and Ruby's dismay. Embers got up and begun to spin the whip around her head along with Ruby for a few good seconds before sending her flying towards the floor below.

"Nice job Embers." Diamond complimented causing Embers to smile before Gold motioned them to follow her

"Come on lets go make sure you didn't kill her by accident, last thing we need is more pissed off locals then usual." Gold said as she walked which got Embers smiling at the thought "I don't know that sounds mighty fun." but she followed nevertheless.

-3rd floor plaza-

Both Ruby and Rose were sent flying due to the others team and when they landed on the tile floor the groaned as the got up.

"Ugh...didn't think she was that good with a whip..." Ruby groaned as she struggled with even standing still as there still swirls in her eyes

"Ugh...did she have a shotgun built into her arm...what the hell..." Rose groaned as he tried nursing his newest wound with his free hand

As they tried to regain their bearings Gold,Weiss, Yang, Embers, Diamond, and Blake jump from the 4th floor onto the 3rd all of them asking if they were alright. Before either of the could answer a loud bang came from high above them. They all looked with wide eyes a massive chandelier from the top of the building began to fall with Ruby and Rose underneath it.


AN: Again sorry for the late post, but trying to balance this with college isn't fun in the slightest. Also on the outfit design for Rose's group Gold's outfit is based on Ezio's assassin outfit prior to any upgrades from AC2, Embers is based off the cover hero of Bloodborne hence the rugged outfit and the threaded can reference, Diamond's based of those movies that show an angel in white, as for Riku aka Rose you guessed it, his outfits based off our favorite red clad reaper. I'll be working on chapter 3 as soon as possible to bring it to you guys. For now I'll leave you with a bit of a hint of chapter 3. It'll involve a really long fall and white light. Till next time, oh and don't forget to leave a review!