W: Well, here we are chapter 2 ready to go!

DD: What kept you? We were getting bored.

W: Hey University is time-consuming.

DD: So?

W: I have stuff to do! Still 5 favs and 10 follows, not bad.

DD: Could be better though.

W: Could be worse…Now we ready to go?

DD: Yah, everything is set up.

W: Good, as usual I don't own Destiny or RWBY.

Ruby: Hey! What about me?

W: Oh calm down Ruby your coming soon. Now start the show!


Far from the musings of the Speaker and antics of the Vanguard a Ghost was searching the ruins of a destroyed city. Said Ghost sent out a cone of blue light scanning for something, when that scan came back negative the Light construct muttered to itself before pausing, thinking it had heard something.

"Come on. Where are you?" The ghost whispered to itself in Its calm male voice.

As the Ghost searched through the streets it suddenly stopped.

"Could it be?" It said to itself, doing another quick scan confirmed the readings, "I finally found you."

The Ghost hovered in place before expanding in a sphere of bright blue light.

As the light died down the ghost looked down at the sleeping form of it's new Guardian, brought back from the dead. She was young 14 to 16 if it had to guess, she was small and lean at 5' 2". She was wearing black boots with red soles, grey leggings, a black coat and skirt with a matching corset. Around her waist was a black belt with a rose symbol on her right and a handful of ammunition on the left. Her naturally pale skin contrasted against her black hair with red highlights. The ghost had to admit, if it wasn't for the (albeit little) information the Traveler had given it about the girl it probably would just dismiss her as an innocent little girl. Suddenly a roar was heard off in the distance causing the ghost to become startled, this was not good.

"Guardian! Get up Guardian!" The ghost quickly shouted at the newly reborn guardian.

"I'm u…" Clang! The ghost winced as much as it was capable of as the guardian woke up and the banged her head on a piece of steel debris.

"Ow." The guardian said rubbing her forehead and blinking, trying to dispel the stars and beowolves dancing in her head.

"Guardian." The ghost said again.

The girl raised her head and looked at the Ghost, it's central blue eye and four black with three white stripes going across horizontally.

"Um… What are you?" She asked curiously.

"I'm a Ghost," The floating Light construct said coming down to hover in front of the young girl, "Well more specifically I'm your Ghost, and you, well, you've been dead a very long time."

"Dead?" The girl answered skeptical, "What are you talking about yesterday I was…" she started but stopped as she saw something sticking in the ground a few meters away.

Walking past the ghost she stumbled towards the object, her legs surprisingly stiff. When she saw the object she gasped and collapsed onto her knees. The ghost curious about what the guardian found so distressing floated over and looked at the object. It appeared to be a large scythe but the handle had a firing mechanism like a sniper rifle. The Ghost noted that the blade was rusted and chipped with the handle warped and with several holes in it from rust, showing it to be hollow with the firing mechanism being so rusted that the metal had fused.

"Guardian, what is this?" The ghost asked. Looking at it's guardian and surprised that she had tears in her silver eyes.

"It's Crescent Rose, my weapon." She choked out. The Ghost was surprised by this looking between the girl and the large scythe witch was easily bigger than her.

"I'm sorry guardian, but we need to leave, Fallen and Grimm are crawling everywhere here."

The guardian was immediately alert at the word Grimm, she quickly stood up her face turning serious.

"If there are Grimm around I need a weapon." she stated, her eyes darting quickly to the rusting scythe before returning to the Ghost. The Ghost just sighed before floating over to the rusted relic and giving it a quick scan. Once completed the weapon suddenly disappeared on a flurry of blue cubes. As the guardian stared at what she had just seen the ghost also disappeared.

"Don't worry," The Ghost explained, catching her off guard at the sudden voice in her head, "I'm still with you. However, it will take me some time to fix your weapon from your memories of it and until then we need to hide. Fortunately, a building nearby will be perfect. Just follow the grey diamond Guardian."

The girl was surprised as a screen of sorts went across her eyes, as her vision suddenly had a bar across the top of her vision, a round circle on her top left corner with a grey dot along the right edge and a grey box in the bottom left. Off to her right she noted the grey diamond her Ghost had mentioned as well.

"Don't worry, you're not seeing things." Her Ghost stated. "Normally this would be displayed on the inside of a Guardian's helmet but for some reason I can't seem to make one. However, overlaying it on top of what your eyes normally see seems to be sufficient."

Suddenly the roar from earlier was heard, much louder and closer this time. The guardian quickly stated running towards the diamond, noting a red edge to the circle in her vision pointed behind her.

"Quickly! They are within scanner range if we don't hurry you will be dead again!" Her Ghost exclaimed, panic clear in her tone. Quickly putting her head down and increasing her speed, she was inside the building with only a bunch of rose petals showing she had been there before.

Once inside the building the Ghost appeared again. She had a look of curiosity on it's faceted face, or at least the closest it could get.

"How did you do that Guardian?" The Ghost asked, "By my calculations you suddenly accelerated to almost 20 times your speed in less than a second."

The Guardian raised her head taking a few labouring breaths before saying.

"It's my semblance I move really, really, really, fast. Also my name is Ruby, Ruby Rose. I'm a huntress-in-training not a guardian."

"Sorry Ruby, I did not know. Good thing you have that ability, the Fallen after us have stopped since they can't see us. In fact, I think they are now fighting a pack of Grimm." The Ghost responded.

"No problem, but I need to know…" Ruby began, "I was dead, but you brought me back. Why? And what about my Teammates?"

"I was told by the Traveler," The Ghost replied but quickly noticed the blank look on Ruby's face, "I see you have no idea what I'm saying, so let's skip that. As to why, I was told you could help save humanity from the darkness seeking to destroy it. Your teammates, I'm afraid I do not know what became of them." As the Ghost explained it made note on how Ruby's face seemed to brighten up at the idea of protecting people but quickly dropped again as she heard about her teammates. Before it could comment further a sound perked their attention. The Ghost quickly disappeared again before quickly stating.

"It's the Fallen, they must have eliminated the Grimm and saw this place and are looking for items to salvage. Luckily I have repaired you weapon." In a shimmer of cubes what appeared to be a red and black box appeared on Ruby's back. Ruby also noted on the screen over her eyes that her beloved weapon was there with it's compact, gun and scythe forms clearly shown. However, she noticed the number 5 next to the pictures of her scythe's many forms along with a smaller glowing number to he right that said '00'.

"Unfortunately I only had enough glimmer to make 5 of the high-caliber rounds you -err- 'sweetheart' uses. The good thing is that once you eliminate your enemies I can convert the ammo they carry into extra round." Her Ghost explained.

Ruby asked, "Are these 'Fallen' like Grimm?"

"They are evil and deadly like the Grimm but much smarter and…" Whatever the rest of the Ghost's response was going to be was quickly put aside, as while she had been distracted Ruby had not noticed her radar suddenly light up in a red cone in front of her as she stopped cold at what was in front of her.

The being in front of her look humanoid, with two arms and legs with a few straps of armour and reinforced padding. On one hip looked to be some sort of pistol but with a spiny shell on the top. In one hand was a knife with a cloth wrapped handle and little arcs of electricity dancing along the small blade. The face though was almost insect like with a pair of mandibles, grey skin, and four glowing eyes. On the creature's head was some sort of helmet that had two spikes on the side and a Mohawk of hair. The creature appeared just as surprised to see Ruby and stared at her for a second before quickly reaching for it's weapon and bringing up it's knife to slash at her. Ruby acting quickly sprinted forward jumping up and kicking the creature in the face and out of the window onto the street outside. Quickly deploying Crescent Rose and stabbing it into the remains of the street below, she looked back at the window to see three more of the creature now labeled 'Dreg' with a red bar below it. However, a new creature was also standing among the group.

The new creature labeled 'Vandal' was definitely alien, with four arms and much more armour than the Dregs, in it's top pair of arms was holding a rifle with a glowing blue barrel, the head had a white horned helmet and a respirator and with a cloak on it's back. The Vandal didn't seem to take Ruby to seriously as it simply pointed forward an said something in it's own language. The three Dreg rushed out the door and rushed towards her, the first one came in for a slash with it's knife but Ruby just jumped over the attack before spinning on Crescent Rose and planting her pair of boots into it's face. Using her momentum, she pulled her weapon out of the ground before firing off a round, using the recoil to spin and knock another Dreg into the second floor of the building across the road, the third Dreg decided to change tactics and began firing its weapon at her, using her semblance and firing off rounds she sped around the field before slide-tackling the Dreg sending it into air. She planted Crescent Rose into the ground again before spinning and kicking the poor Dreg to the feet if the Vandal witch looked completely shocked at the display.

In Ruby's head her Ghost was also shocked at the combat abilities of the new guardian. Ruby however was panting slightly also noting the yellow bar that had been almost before was now depleted to about a quarter. 'Guess I need to train up again, using my semblance like that shouldn't be tiring me out like this'. Surprisingly her Ghost answered her.

"Well you have only been alive again for about 5 minutes, so you shouldn't be that surprised."

Ruby was about to answer back when she felt three shocks on her chest, staggering her slightly she looked up to see the Vandal had recovered from its shock and had fired at her. She noticed that the white bar in the middle of her vision had dropped down about half, reacting on instinct she rushed forward and slashed with Crescent Rose. The Vandal's chest armoured did nothing for it as it's chest burst open and it collapsed, dead. Ruby was shocked, she had expected for Aura to stop it yet she felt no resistance she staggered again absently noting the bar returning to full. Sensing Ruby's sudden nervousness it quickly said.

"Ruby, if you hadn't killed it you would have been dead, and you can't protect anybody or find your teammates if you die."

Ruby took a deep breath before sighing, "O.K, let's get out of here." Looking up she couldn't help but fee a sense of melancholy as she noticed the sign 'from Dust till Dawn'.

"Well the good news is that I saw a ship to get to the Last City and it's nearby, plus we now have much more ammunition." Her Ghost stated as a new waypoint appeared to her left and her ammo count had gone up to 50.

"One second, I want to check something." Ruby said. Quickly heading back inside the store she was relieved to see some Fire/Burn, Wind, Lightning and Water Dust still in the display case even if the glass had bee shattered long ago.

"Hey -um- what do I call you?" Ruby asked.

"Well I have no name but I know that other guardians give their Ghost a name." The Ghost replied, Ruby frowned before thinking of one considering the ghost was her companion.

"How about Zwei?" she asked, thinking about her beloved pet Corgi.

"I see no issue," Her now named Ghost stated, "However what are we doing here, we need to leave the area."

'Well I want to take this Dust with me, it might com in handy so can you do the same thing that you did with Crescent Rose?"

Zwei just sighed, "Put up your hand palm up and summon me and I'll take care of it, however if you want to use it for anything you need to make it." Ruby did as she was asked and watched as Zwei appeared and quickly scanned the crystals before transmating them away for later.


About 20 minutes later, after taking out several more patrols of Vandals and Dregs, Ruby was outside of a hanger with the roof destroyed at the remains of Vale airport. She had been surprised to not run into any Grimm, however Zwei had explained that the fallen here had cleared most of them out with just a few strongholds left. As Ruby stepped through the door she noticed a symbol appear in the center of her vision. The symbol was a diamond with a human skull in the center frozen as if in mid-scream with what looked like flames dancing across it.

"This is a Darkness Zone," Zwei explained, "the Darkness has a lot of power here, if you die here you will stay dead I can't revive you." Ruby just nodded and reloaded her weapon, she looked through a door to her right and saw a Bullhead sitting on the ground in surprisingly good condition. However, she noted 6 drones surrounding it. The 'Shanks' as Zwei had labeled them were small rust coloured drones with round bodies that had three yellow sensors on the front. At the back the body were two small engines allowing them to hover and maneuver quickly. Below was the only weapon they had a small gun located in a turret.

Ruby quickly brought Crescent Rose to the eye and aimed at the first Shank. Taking a deep breath, she fired, the Shank exploded into shards, as the other five panicked she quickly fired away and dispatched them. Smiling she walked forward before her radar went off, reacting quickly she blocked a sword blow from a new creature before retreating.

This alien was muck like a Vandal with four arms, however it had much more armour and a much larger cape. There was also a strip of cloth at the front the helmet was much more elegant with several 'sails' at the top and four tubes that went off to the sides. In the top pair of arms was two swords crackling with electricity. Above the enemy instead of the normal red bar was a yellow one that said 'Straks Scarred Captain'. Ruby just shrugged at the change and charged changing Crescent Rose into scythe mode and preparing to slash the Captain in half. She was shocked a that her weapon was stopped cold a few inches away as a misty blue shield appeared and jarring her grip. The Captain grabbed her weapon and kicked her in the stomach casing her to fly into the wall and lose her grip on Crescent Rose.

The Captain threw her weapon away and gave a roar. As Ruby tried to get up the Captain jumped over and landed on her stomach and knocked the wind out of her and depleting her heath to red, as it raised its swords to skew her Ruby realized she was doomed.

"No!" she screamed in her head, "Not again, how can I save people if I die again! I need to stay alive if I want to see anybody again. No!" She then closed her eyes as the swords came down towards her head.


And cliffhanger! Yep I did it already. Actually had this done for a while now but kept forgetting to post it. Luckily Rooster teeth decided to upload the sneak peak of volume 4, and Oh boy it looks awesome. I have some thoughts on it but, no spoilers.

Also It is time for People, Places, Planes, Peggio und Panzer! Don't forget answer right and get a shoutout next chapter!

And RNGesus has picked Planes!

Produced by Republic aircraft from 1941-1945, this aircraft was nicknamed 'The Jug' due to the shape created by the massive Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp and turbocharger. Armed with 8 Browning .50 caliber machineguns and able to carry 2,500 lbs of bombs the aircraft was perfect for ground attack and support. With 15 600 aircraft produced it is one of the most mass produced aircraft in history. Despite being inferior in performance to it's opponents in terms of maneuverability this plane with it's self-sealing fuel tanks, incredible armour and bulletproof windshield it was nearly indestructible with stories of aircraft taking full loads of ammunition from aircraft or having half the wing chopped off after hitting a chimney and still being able to land.

Next Chapter: An Unexpected Appearance