Chapter 1: Let's Get Started Shall We?
The theft at the Vale Docks was thwarted thanks to Team RWBY, Sun Wukong the monkey faunus, and the mysterious girl penny late at night yet something different has happened. Roman Torchwicks bullhead came down crashing by a mysterious figure dressed black that moved way to fast for anyone to see and no, it wasn't Blake, but something different. Roman was later handed over to the authorities as soon as the police arrived and Penny disappeared into her father's car behind the scenes.
"Thanks for capturing Roman for us, bet he was a real hassle." said the Police Officer with genuine gratitude to his voice.
"No problem sir, we just do what we huntresses do: capturing bad guys." says the little red girl with silver eyes till Sun said "Ahem!"
"Oh and huntsman!" "Thank You!"
But close by, at the top of the rooftop of a warehouse, a woman dressed in red with yellow eyes and black hair accompanied by a young man with grey hair and a young tanned woman with green hair were watching Roman getting taken away with the green haired girl saying "What are we going to do with Roman behind bars?"
"That shouldn't be our concern for now Emerald, but we should do is formulate a new plan." said the woman in the red dress in a calm tone yet there was a slight irritation to it.
"Like what, Cinder?" said the grey haired man with a nonchalant tone, looking at the footage he recorded with his scroll, "As far as I can tell-" he slowed down the footage of what appears to be a person slicing off one wing of the bullhead "Wait a minute? Take a look at this!" He showed the slow motion recording to his two 'friends'. In the footage showed a man dressed in black coat & hood with a zipper that goes all the way down the middle along with silver chains and the man was carrying what looks like a giant black and silver key with what appears to be bat wings at the hilt.
"What the heck is that, is that a man wielding a giant key?" said Emerald with a confused look on her face.
"It looks like it but the guy was moving way too fast." said Mercury pulling his scroll back from the two girls.
Cinder went "Hmm?" while rubbing her chin and try to figure out who was this man and why is he using a giant key as a weapon. Then started to walk away and said "Well anyway, we should head back but if he appears again, we will deal with him." As Cinder walked away to the base, Emerald & Mercury followed.
5 Days Later in Team RWBY's Dorm
"It's been five days since we captured Roman & many of the Dust robberies lessened." says the white haired and white outfit girl with a very happy tone.
"Yeah, but how did his airship crashed, it was weird and where did Penny disappeared to?" asked Ruby, worrying about their friend and confused on what happened.
"Maybe there was a malfunction with the bullhead's engine?" said the girl with black hair, a black bow, and yellow eyes.
"Yeah but it looked like it was sliced off before falling down hard. Don't you think that is strange Weiss?" said the girl with blonde hair and lilac eyes.
"Well whatever happened Yang, we caught Torchwick before he manage to get away and that's that." said Weiss with a bright smile on her face with arms crossed.
"I bet you are just happy that no one ruined your family's business, Weiss." said Yang with a sarcastic tone and her arms crossed. "Oh Whatever!"
Ruby looked out her window with her arms on the windowsill wandering where Penny went and thought 'I hope Penny is okay.' while Blake was in her bed reading a book while Weiss was arguing with Yang. Then all of a sudden, a woman's voice was heard over the intercom saying "Team RWBY, please report to Ozpin's office at once. Team RWBY, please report to Ozpin's office." As soon as the girl's heard the announcement, they left for Ozpin's office yet as they left, Blake was still reading her book on the way out.
As they walked out of their dorm, they were approach by Jaune Arc & Pyrrha Nikos who just got done training on the rooftop. "Did you girls hear the announcement?" said the blonde boy. "Of course, everyone in the whole school heard it, duh!" said Blake with a harsh tone while reading her book while everyone looked at her at surprised that she said duh. Then after a long silent pause Weiss shouted, "Did you just say 'Duh,' you never say that, and that was supposed to be my line!" waving her arms up and down to her sides.
"Huh? Oh sorry, I was too busy reading this book. It is an interesting read actually and sorry for the harsh tone." said Blake apologizing to Jaune and then he said "Apologize accepted, just what are you reading?" Blake showed the title of her brown book with black trims: More Than One Universe? by Jukalov Ben Husahosen. "That is a strange name for an author." said Pyrrha who have never seen such a name. "Well we should get going before Professor Goodwitch yells over the intercom." said Ruby being frantic. And so the team ran their way towards the Headmaster's office. "More than one universe? How many universes do you think there are?" said Jaune looking at Pyrrha in confusion. "I have no idea but it does sound interesting, I think I should get a copy."
"Do you think Ren would like one?" asked Pyrrha.
"It does sound philosophical so yeah I guess so since he does seem to like philosophy...I think. We should get to know our teammates more."
Ozpin's Office
Team RWBY rode the elevator up to Ozpin's office and were greeted by both Ozpin who is in his chair and Glynda standing next to the enigmatic headmaster. "Ah, Team RWBY. How have you been?" said Ozpin then takes a sip from his mug. "Great!" said excited Ruby then looked nervous while asking "Are we in trouble or something?" "Trouble? No of course not, I just have some questions for you about the night at the docks where you arrested Roman Torchwick." said Ozpin with his usual stoic tone. Then Glynda step up saying "Actually we have something to show you, a recording on how the bullhead 'break down' that lead to his downfall." Ozpin pushed a button on his holographic computer and showed a 3D recording of the event that happened that night. The girls were watching very closely and confused till Weiss said "Okay, so what's the point of this?"
Then Ozpin said "I will show it to you again in slow motion and pay close attention to the bullhead's engine." Then he showed them again in slow motion then paused at a certain point where it looks like the engine was sliced off. The young huntresses took a closer look at the engine and noticed a human-like black figure wielding a giant scary-looking key that sliced the engine.
"What the heck is that?" asked Weiss with a confused tone and look then said "Looks like a large black key with bat-wings and chains on it with the teeth looking like some fancy design."
"Thank you Captain Obvious!" said Yang being sarcastic as always.
"Ooooletmeguessletmeguess!" said Ruby who is being a little too excited almost as if she had five espressos before coming to the office. "Youwantustofindthisguyandbringhimtoyouright!"
"Bravo Ruby, you are correct and please calm down." said Ozpin who is little surprise that the red cloaked leader of the group is on the same page.
Blake put down her book on the headmaster's desk and have a closer examination of the mysterious figure and try to see the man's face to see if the person is a human or faunus but it is too dark to see then she said "Hey Yang! Did you say that the engine looked like it was sliced before falling down?" After hearing that, Yang said "Hey yeah, your right I did say that and it looks like I was right about it! Yesss!" she fist pump being glad she was right with a big grin on her face. The biggest grin she has ever made. "Remind me to thank this guy for helping us stop Torchwick." said Weiss who wanted to thank the mysterious figure for saving the Vale's Dust supply along with having a very curious look thinking that the man might be good looking.
"Alright then," said Glynda Goodwitch "this individual was last seen in the Commercial District in the alleyways a few hours ago so please bring this man to Beacon...peacefully if possible."
"Alrighty," said Ruby with a large smile and being excited "Team RWBY will do their best at bringing this strange new hero back to Beacon by any means necessary!" 'Hero?' thought Weiss with a little disgust look at Ruby, but has to agree with her. Then Glynda stopped Ruby by saying "I said peacefully." Then Blake stated in her stoic tone "But possible which also means that bring back by force if necessary, right?" Then Glynda said with a minor irritation in her voice and a disappointed look "Oh very well."
The team ran to the elevator door and headed to the helipad but Blake forgot her book. Professor Goodwitch looked on Ozpin's desk, picked it up and said "Looks like Miss Belladonna forgot her book. More the One Universe?, an interesting title yet sounds a little to advance for her." Then put the book back down, looked at Ozpin and said "Is there a specific reason why you want this person here Professor Ozpin?" After he took a sip from his mug he said "Because I have some questions about our new hooded ally such as who he is, who does he work for, and what is the real reason why is he here in Vale, these are such questions I would like to ask before General James Ironwood shows up."
"Ironwood is coming here, why?" asked Glynda looking confused and a little irritable that the general is coming over since she doesn't like him that much.
"I don't know, but it is best to move quickly and be discreet about this mysterious person and yet something tells me that there is going to be trouble." He said with a serious look.
However, unbeknownst to the two staff members of the illustrious academy, there is a very tiny device on the book hidden in one of the trimmings that is transmitting everything from their conversation to the black hooded figure who is standing on the very top of Beacon Tower saying "Hehehe...this is going to be fun" then crushed the listening device that he held to his hear with his right hand then said "So, let's get started shall we?"