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(Insert Song: The Saga Continues... - Bruce Faulconer) (Songs are an option)

Last time on DRAGON BALL Z! ...wait... no that's right. Our hero, Kei, has been accepted to Beacon Academy by some means or another. There he met three young huntresses Yang, Blake, and Weiss. Kei and the rest of the first years were called to Beacon Cliff for their initiation. Once they got there Ozpin and Glynda revealed that once they land in Emerald Forest and the first person they make eye contact with, that person will be their partner for the next four years. Unfortunately for some, Ozpin didn't mention how they will land. One by one the students were launched into the air. Kei landed soon after and ran off to find his partner but as he left a Mysterious figure appeared behind the trees. Who will be Kei's partner? and who is this mysterious figure? The Story Continues Now!

Battle in the Emerald Forest PART 1

(The Emerald Forest Part 1 - Jeff Williams)

"Helloooooooo? Is anyone out there? Helloooo?" Yang was walking around, looking for everyone that may be her new partner. When she was launched, she traveled further into the forest thanks to her Ember Celica and was quite a ways from Ruby. While she would love to be Ruby's partner, she was serious about her being someone else's partner in order to help her little sister break her out of her shell.

She could only hope that she didn't run into Weiss.

But while it's cruel that she didn't want to be Ruby's partner, she would rather be Kei's partner. A faint blush appeared on her cheeks. Hopefully, she would be able to gather up her courage and not make a complete fool of herself.

Then again there were supposed to be four-person teams right? She supposed the best she could hope for was her running into Kei and Ruby running into Blake and forming a four man team. While quiet Blake seemed nice or at least that was the teen's thought of her.

"I'm getting bored here!" she shouted before hearing some rustling in the bushes behind her and turned around, "Is someone there?"

She went to the bushes to take a peek.

"Ruby? Is that you?" she asked before hearing a low, inhuman growl, and looked up to find the source, "Nope!"

She dodge rolled to the side as a large Bear Grimm called an Ursa charged out of the bushes to take a bite out of her. Yang righted herself and activated her Ember Celica Shot Gauntlets before sensing another Ursa who flanked her from behind. She back flipped over it as its fellow Ursa charged at her, only to get blasted back by a fiery punch. The second Ursa made another run at Yang, but she countered by ducking under its swipe and delivered several machine gun-style punch before finishing up with a kick to send the Grimm back.

"You guys wouldn't happen to have seen a girl in a red hood, would you? About yay high and probably in the midst of spazzing out right now." she asked, only to receive a couple growls in response, "You know, you could just say "no", right?"

One of the Ursa took a couple of swipes at her, but Yang backflipped out of the way and laughed.

"Geeeez, you two couldn't hit the broadside of a ba-" Yang started to say tauntingly when a single strand of her golden blonde hair falls in front of her face and lands on the ground, "You..."

Her shook with anger as she closed her eyes and opened them to reveal red eyes, making the Ursa look at each other in confusion.

"MONSTERS!" she screamed as an inferno enveloped her as she charged forward unleashing the hell of a barrage.

She targets the first Ursa and delivers a devastating combo of fire-infused melee blows before unleashing a powerful punch that sent the offending Ursa through several trees that set them on fire. The other Ursa soon met a similar fate.

After the heinous beating, Yang felt someone tap her shoulder. "WHAT!" She screamed in the person's face still in the midst of fury.

"Wow. Did I come at a bad time? Should I come back later?"

Yang pupil's shrunk as she realized she had exploded in the face of her friend. 'Idiot. Idiot. Idiot.' She mentally cried. He probably thought she was a total psyche now. She was panicking so much it slipped her mind that the boy would be her teammate. That thought didn't last for long as a third, much larger Ursa had emerged from the tree line. "Look out!" she blurted out, but before either could react a whirling noise is heard at the same time, followed by a "thunk", making the Ursa freeze. The Ursa whines before falling down a second later to reveal Blake Belladonna with her Gambol Shroud in Kusarigama Mode in the Bear Grimm's back.

"Hey, Blake!" Kei gave a cheerful wave to the girl.

"Hello." Well, nothing said that you explicitly could only team up with a single person or that they couldn't work as a four-man team of two partners. Blake could only hope to get lucky and find a useful partner while traveling with them.

'Gotta find Yang! Gotta find Yang, gotta find Yang, gotta find...' She repeated.

'Oh, this is bad, this is really bad... What if I can't find her? What if someone finds her first? Well, there's always Jaune. He's nice. He's funny! ...I don't think he's very good in a fight, though. Ooh! What about Blake?! So mysterious, so calm... Plus she likes books! Then again, I'm not sure I'd be able to hold a conversation with her... Okay, who else do I know in this school? There's Yang, Jaune, Blake... There's Kei! He seems to be awesome and powerful! Who else is there?' thought Ruby. Time seems to slow down as Ruby skids to a halt in front of Weiss as she is turning to face her. She stops just in time for their eyes to meet and a pause follows. This ends when Weiss turns on her heel and walks the other way.

"Wait! We're supposed to be teammates…" trailed off Ruby sadly as she followed her slightly.

Ruby followed after Weiss and watched as she struggled through the bushes and low tree branches.

"Don't follow me. I'm not being partners with you." Weiss snapped as she walked toward her way, having a hard time to go through the bushes. There's no way she can be a partner with Ruby. As she's out of the bushes, she heard a voice from above.

"Come on! Come on! Stupid…!"

Weiss looked up to see Jaune stuck to a tree thanks to Pyrrha's weapon embedded in the trunk, and was trying to pull it out until he saw her and gave an embarrassed wave and laugh. Weiss promptly did a one-eighty and came back to Ruby, grabbing her by her hood after realizing that Jaune would've been her next choice after leaving Ruby.

"By no means does this make us friends." she said as she pulled Ruby in the direction they were walking.

"You came back!" cheered Ruby as she was too busy celebration to care that she was the second pick as she was quite literally dragged off.

"H-hey wait! Come back! Who's gonna got me down from here?" cried out Jaune, his arms flailing as he was pinned to the tree.

"Jaune? Do you still have room for me on your team?" asked Pyrrha as she appeared, smiling kindly to him to retrieve her javelin. Jaune did all that he could do, which was cross his arms and pout.

"Very funny." smiled Jaune lightly, which she reciprocated.

After skillfully dispatching twin black and white massive vipers with the use of his aura Ren began searching for Nora. Suddenly he stopped when he heard a noise from above. He looked up in time to see Nora hanging upside-down from a tree branch.

"Boop." Nora said as she appeared in front of him and touched his nose. Ren smiled for a second.

Well, now that he found Nora it was time to head towards the temple and look for more teammates.

"Looks like Mister Neo have formed a three-person team with Miss Belladonna and Miss Long. Expected considering his and the other ones inclusion led to an uneven number of students." Glynda informed Ozpin as they checked the progress of the first-year students. "The last of the two-man teams had been formed, Nora Valkyrie and Lie Rin. Either way out of all the teams I say they have a fair shot of being better off than Miss Nikos."

"Mmmm…"

"I don't care what his transcripts say. That Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat. It's even odder that I can't find any record of him attending a school for Huntsmen before coming here to Beacon." Glynda noted before deactivating her tablet scroll, "I guess we'll find out soon enough. At their current pace, they should reach the temple within just a few minutes. Speaking of which, what did you use as relics this year? … Professor Ozpin? Also, I find it coincidental that there are an odd number of students, leaving one of the other students on his own even though he arrived first and exploiting your rules is unheard of. It's smart, but still. The chances of him being paired up are very slim if he knows the rules before him. What will you do if he cannot form a team?"

Ozpin didn't answer as he watched live footage of a bored Ruby sitting cross-legged on the grass picking it and yawning while her partner Weiss paces around her in random directions.

"It's definitely this way… I mean... this way! It's definitely this way… Alright, it's official: We passed it."

"Is it really too hard to just admit that you are no idea where we're taking us?" a completely annoyed Ruby asked as she skipped up.

"Because I know exactly where we're going! We're going... to... the forest temple!" Weiss replied a bit lamely.

Ruby face palmed herself and growled in frustration.

"Oh, stop it! You don't know where we are, either!"

This time, Ruby started punching herself on her head as her frustration increased.

"Hitting yourself is not helping!"

"Well, at least I'm not pretending like I know everything, and exactly knew where we're going before you hijacked it!"

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

"It means that you bossing me around is getting us nowhere!"

"I'm not bossy! Don't say things like that!" Weiss ordered her.

"Then let's get back on track! The reason I was looking up at the sky was because I was using it as a compass to see if we're heading the right direction! The temple's to the north, remember?!"

"What?! How does that…"

"Of course…you wouldn't know anything about that, acting like you're so perfect." Ruby said as she went to head in the right direction to the temple.

"I'm. Not. Perfect! Not yet... But I'm still leagues better than you." Weiss countered and pushed Ruby out of the way of her path.

(Disturbed - Striken) (I was listening too, sorry)

Before the girls could come to blows the sound of a piercing loud howl drew their attention. Skulking out of the woods was a small pack of Beowolves or what looked like Beowolves.

They looked far larger than the average creatures. They carried the same muscular frame and pitch black fur, but the arms, legs, and head were armored with blue like skulls with violet gems embedded in them.

The Alpha among them revealed to have a scorpion like tail with a stinger on the end. The two girls were definitely in for the fight of their lives.

Ruby and Weiss had managed to face off against most of Grimm with only marginal trouble.

Weiss was well trained and skillfully made use of Myrtenaste and her dust to immobilize the enemies while Ruby would hack off the limbs of the Grimm using Crescent Rose.

While the lackeys had been dealt with the Alpha was proving to be anything, but easy pickings. Its shell was proving tougher than the others and any attempts to freeze him were proving ineffective.

Weiss could feel her stamina steadily weakening. The Grimm proved relentless in its single-minded pursuit in killing them. Even their attempt to run was ruined by the beast's superior speed.

"Weiss, I'll hold him off. Get out of here and go get help." Ruby told Weiss as she was balancing herself with Crescent Rose.

"Are you stupid? You'll get yourself killed. I am no coward!" The stubborn girl wouldn't admit it, but even if Ruby was far from her favorite person she was not simply going to just let her die.

Weiss glanced at the injury on Ruby's leg and an expression of guilt formed on her face. "Idiot…why did you…"

"Stop being so stubborn, would it kill you to listen to someone else?"

"In the case of the person being you yes." She answered as the Grimm continued to circle them. It seemed to be studying them, waiting for the right opportunity to strike. '…no one else would have. Despite how mean I was to you…you.' Weiss moved in front of Ruby.

"What are you…" Ruby began to say.

"When that thing attacks I'll use my Dust. That'll give us eight seconds. You don't look that heavy I think using my glyph I should be able to get us a good amount of distance from it. You got that?" she asked Ruby who was surprised.

"Y-Yeah." She didn't understand. Didn't Weiss hate her? So why was she?

The Grimm suddenly jumped towards them, and Weiss readied for her counter attack. 'Now!' Her attempt to freeze the Grimm proved unsuccessful as the creature placed its two front paws on the ground and pushed itself to the side, avoiding the attack and using its back leg to ground itself and quickly leaping once more.

Weiss was frozen in shock. Grimm of advanced age was known for developing a modicum of intelligence, but nothing like she had just seen. He had baited her into the attack, avoided her attack and was now leaping towards them at full speed.

It was too fast. They were going to die. A shriek escaped Weiss lips as the hungry jaws of the creature loomed closer. Tears began streaming down her cheek.

She didn't want to die. Not like this. She wasn't ready.

"See anything!" Jaune called out from the base of the tree.

"Not yet." Pyrrha answered as she continued looking until suddenly something exploded from the top of the tree line.

Pyrrha Nikos and Jaune Arc are making their way through Emerald Forest when Jaune heard a far off noise and turns to look. A Beowolf. One much larger than anything she had seen and she watched at how it swatted down to the ground like it was nothing.

Pyrrha leaped down from above. "We will stay our course." Right now getting out of the forest and finding the temple was top priority. "It seems some of our comrades have encountered the enemy."

They continue onwards with Jaune not paying attention as Pyrrha brushed away a branch that accidently smacked Jaune right in the face, flooring him hilariously.

"Jaune?! I'm sorry!" Pyrrha said as Jaune laughed it off with a hint of frustration.

"It's okay. Just a scratch!" Jaune assured her as she noticed the gash on his cheek.

"Why didn't you activate your Aura?" she questioned as he got up.

"Huh?"

"Your Aura." Pyrrha repeated, thinking that he didn't hear the first time.

"Gesundheit." Jaune replied.

"Uh, Jaune, do you... know what Aura is?" Pyrrha asked as a frown now marred her features.

"Psch, of course, I do!" Jaune replied instantly while avoiding eye contact with his partner, "I know exactly what Aura is. Do you know what Aura is?"

Pyrrha appeared insulted for a little bit with the slight tightening of her features before shaking them off and smiled. While finding it odd that Jaune didn't know the common knowledge that up-and-coming Hunters should know before coming to a school like Beacon, she decided to explain anyway.

She had hoped with unlocking his aura Jaune would begin to look up to his potential.

Part of that potential did not include navigational skills. Skills which lead them into the din of an angry and ravenous Death Stalker.

The three had arrived at the area. The temple mostly consisted of broken ruins of a rotunda. Three of the columns were broken and lying around the area in pieces. There were five stone columns still standing that hold up a circle of stones.

The floor of the structure bore a symmetrical design. Behind the Temple, there were additional ruins, consisting of a long stone pillar-lined walkway leading to a steeple in a chasm.

"Hey, Blake... is this the place?" Yang asked as they saw a small ruin with pedestals that each had chess pieces on them. Kei looked at them strangely for a moment, before he looked at the one that looked like some kind of weird pony.

"Is this it?" Kei asked as he picked up the golden pony thing with his hand and tossed it up in the air a few times. Before he knew it Yang took the pony thing and showed it to Blake.

"How about the pony?" Yang asked with a cheesy grin, and Blake rolled her eyes before walking over in Kei's direction.

"Sure," Blake shrugged her shoulders, "But I don't why you're asking me, Kei's you're partner."

"Hey, it looks like some other pieces are missing." Yang said, and the others noticed that she was right. Other pieces were missing, which means that other people had already been here.

"Yeah, I can see what you mean." Blake said with a small frown on her face when she saw that both black knights had been taken. She wondered for a moment why they were placed like this, and wondered if they had something to do with the team placements before they all looked up into the air when they heard a loud high pitched scream of terror.

*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

"Some girls in danger!" Yang said as she prepared to go see what was going on before Kei grabbed her arm when saw Blake's worried face.

"I don't think going to the sound of screaming is a good thing right now. That was a scream of fright, not one before dying... And I think that was a guy screaming." Kei said in deadpan at the last part, and Yang looked at him with a surprised face.

"Really? Well, I'll be darned... Hey Blake, how much you wanna bet that the scream was from that flirty blond boy... Jaune I think his name was?" Yang asked with a grin on her face, and Blake just looked away from her.

"No bet." The black haired girl responded with an even tone, even though she was worried for Jaune's safety. She was worried for everyone's safety because they were all comrades here. She was also pretty sure that the only person that would scream in terror was the blond boy Jaune, so she wouldn't be stupid enough to make a bet about it.

Blake and Kei both looked up at the sky when they heard something falling down.

What was that red thing getting closer?

"Hey, did you guys hear that?" Yang asked Kei and Blake as they looked up at the sky with blank or surprised looks on their faces. Yang looked at Blake and saw her pointing up with her hand, while Kei held his arms out to catch the falling girl... who by the red hood he would say is Ruby. Yang looked up before she blinked when she saw her little sister falling out of the sky while waving her arms around.

(Players and Pieces - Jeff Williams)

(A few minutes earlier)

"Ruby!" Ruby opened her eyes at the sound of Weiss' voice shouting over the rapid wind sound, currently both girls were holding onto the feathers of the large Nevermore they encountered and Ruby had the idea of hitching a ride on the Grimm to get a better view from high above, "I told you this was a bad idea!" Weiss added.

"We're fine! Stop worrying!" Ruby shouted out over the wind sounds so that the heiress would hear her.

"I am SO far beyond worrying!" Weiss said which confused Ruby for a moment in wonder.

"In a good way?" the redhead's questioned caused an angry white-haired girl to respond.

"IN A BAD WAY! In a VERY BAD WAY!" Weiss shouted while still holding on to dear life on the Nevermore.

"Well, why don't we just jump?" Ruby suggested.

"What?! Are you insane?!" Weiss questioned in disbelief, only to realize that Ruby wasn't any longer there meaning that she did jump, "OH YOU INSUFFERABLE LITTLE RED-!"

(Present Time)

"Heeeeaaaaaaads uuuuuuup!" The red hooded girl shouted in panic before Kei could catch the girl he saw a blond haired boy crash right into her in mid-air and sends both of them flying into the branches of the nearest tree. Kei blinked at how perfectly timed the two had collided, before lowering his arms when he realized that he didn't have to catch Ruby... she had been knocked out of the air and into a tree by a blond dude that he would assume was Jaune. 'I know that's gonna have to hurt on both of...wait where did Jaune came from?!' was the teens thought till she heard tree crushing sounds coming from the same direction the blonde boy came from while hearing Blake speak.

"Did your sister just fall out of the sky?" Blake asked when the trio looked up into the tree and saw a dazed Ruby shaking her head. Jaune was hanging upside down, and not much longer later Ruby seemed to right herself.

"Ug! What hit me?" Ruby asked before she heard coughing and saw Jaune looking at her sheepishly.

"Hey, Ruby." Jaune said in embarrassment, today was not his day... and neither was yesterday or the day before that. Now that he thought about it no day seemed to be his day. Kei's ears twitched and he turned his head to the forest to see an Ursa coming out of the woods. Kei got into battle position before he saw a small pink explosion behind the bear. The bear fell forward, and the orange haired girl rolled off the top of the girl.

"Aww... It's broken." Nora said with a pout, before she jumped on top of the dead animals head and started looking at it like it was a bunny. The trio raised their eyebrows in sync when a boy dressed in green Chinese clothes came from behind the bear panting.

"Nora... never do that again." Lei Ren and Kei couldn't help but comment.

"She isn't there anymore!" Kei shouted, and Lei Ren looked to see Nora wasn't on top of the Ursa anymore. In true anime form, there was a blinking surrounding the place where Nora had been standing. Now she was looking at a golden rook piece, before she grinned and started singing after grabbing the rook.

"I'm queen of the ca-stle~! I'm queen of the ca-stle~!" Nora started singing while she played with the rook piece, and honestly Kei was left speechless for a moment when he saw how cheerful this girl was. She started running back to her partner when he yelled her name though, and Kei couldn't help himself anymore.

"I don't know what she is on... but I want some too," Kei said with a grin, before Yang punched him in the arm for saying that. He was still grinning, though, "Just saying."

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked herself out loud before a red haired girl ran out of the forest, and then trees fell behind her as a giant black scorpion covered in bone armor with a golden stinger burst through the trees after her. Kei nodded his head as the red head jumped through the claws of the scorpion tried to gut her. She was skilled to be able to dodge that so narrowly without looking, and she had some endurance to since she wasn't even breathing hard.

"Yang!"

"Ruby!" Yang yelled as she prepared to hug her sister and before the two of them could hug Nora popped up between them.

"Nora!" The orange haired girl yelled her own name and ended up stopping the sisters from hugging.

"Kei!" Kei yelled, and Nora grinned at him for joining in on the fun. She didn't know that many people that would be willing to play along with her hyperactiveness.

"Did that girl just run here with a Deathstalker on her tail?" Blake asked.

"Grrr..." Yang said in anger before her eyes open and was red again. "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! COULD EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN?!"

Kei checked his watch as about 2 seconds passed before Ruby pointed up and gently tapped her sister, with Rin hurrying over and stopping between Nora and Blake, still panting. "Um...Yang?"

The girl's shoulders dropped and everyone looked up to see Weiss Schnee holding onto a Nevermore's claw as it flew around. "HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME?!" she yelled.

"That is one big bird." Kei commented, and everyone heard the sound of Weiss yelling something from the bird.

"I said jump." Ruby said with a shrug of her shoulder.

"She is gonna fall." Blake commented dryly.

"She'll be fine." Ruby told Blake before Lei Ren commented in a deadpan tone.

"She's falling." Ren said when Weiss had finally let go.

They all continued to watch Weiss fall and Kei had thought maybe it was a good time for them to choose if they should decide whether to catch the heiress or not, fortunately, they didn't have to make that decision as Jaune would leap into the air and catch Weiss in his arms in attempt to impress her for his heroic deed. This was short lived when he realized that they were still in midair and fallen together with Jaune landed face first on the ground then Weiss landing on top of him with a bored look on her face.

"My hero." the heiress said sarcastically before getting off the blonde boy.

"My back..." Jaune groan in pain as he too got back onto his feet, while this was happening the Deathstalker that was chasing Pyrrha manage to land a hit that threw her over to the rest of the gang and slammed into the dirt ground right by their feet.

"Great," Yang said sarcastically. "The gangs' all here, now we can die together!"

"Not if I can help it," Ruby said as she charged at the Deathstalker. "Yaaa!"

"No, Ruby!" Kei yelled as he followed her. He dodged a bullet that Ruby shot backwards for propulsion. He caught Ruby as her attempt to hit the Deathstalker with her scythe failed. He threw her back to Yang who caught her as Kei punched the Deathstalker with his weapon causing it to go back a few feet, then turned and ran back to the group as Weiss froze the Deathstalker with her rapier.

Yang hugged Ruby. "So happy you're okay!" she said as she looked at her sister, before the two looked to the sky at the Nevermore, as it was cawing.

He swore upon noticing a red embedded in the head of the Death Stalker before it attacked again. "Move!" he barked at them, jumping back, being joined by Pyrrha and Ruby as the Death Stalker jabbed its tail into the ground where they once were. Suddenly the creature seemed to freeze in place as it was commanded to. There was a sudden shift in the wind that caught the attention of the group, and a synthesized voice soon beckoned to them.

"My, what interesting young fighters you are," the metallic voice said, "It's a shame my Grimm friend here is unable to speak." The voice said as the Death Stalker moved towards the side to reveal a new being. Something that none of them had ever seen before was walking towards them. It had the appearance of a humanoid-lizard of some kind with its body completely metallic blue other than its eyes, which were red, but what stood out was the two R's etched on its arm with the insignia of the organization surrounding it.

"But then even if it were, what would you really expect it to say?" The metallic being asked as it stopped a few feet away from them and then slamming its tail onto the ground creating a small crater.

"W-Who… What are you?" Kei asked, unsure of what to make of this as the gleaming silver figure standing tall in front of the group.

(Battle Theme #8 (Breaking The Limit - 'Qi' No Limit) - Kenji Yamamoto)

"I'm your enemy and your worst nightmare." The cyborg smiled as his metallic body disappeared from its position and then emerging in front of Kei, planting his knee firmly into his enemy's gut and causing him to cough up some blood. While Kei was stunned, the cyborg wrapped its tail around him and began to run across the plains, dragging Kei's face across the dirt and leaving a trail of blood onto the dying grass. From there, he quickly lifted his tail up and turned to face it before beginning to throw several punches and kicks at the body he held. After losing interest, he released his hold on Kei's neck and planted a fist straight at Kei's face, sending him flying in the mountain's direction. As a finishing move, the cyborg's eyes lit up and a small ball of energy was flung at Kei before erupting upon contact with him and consuming him in a field of smoke. "The fool wasn't even hard to kill, what a waste of time." The cyborg scoffed while turning its attention towards the others.

Seeing what they were up against was more than expected the others ran to help him. "Sorry. But I can't leave any witness. You understand right." Cooler's fingertip glowed. "Now witness the great power of Meta-Cooler. DEATH BE–" But before he could launch his signature attack, the good Metal Cooler was sent flying by an unknown punch. Everyone had eyes widened when they noticed a figure standing within the mist.

"Heh, you know that was not a nice cheap shot you gave to me. You could have at least let me get ready first." The mist dissipated to reveal the black haired hunter. Kei looked sternly at his new opponent. 'Damn this guy came out of nowhere' he said to himself. 'I didn't even feel his ki. I better get serious or else we will be in big trouble.' Kei clenched his fists and crosses his arms. As he brought his arms down, a white aura appeared around him, causing some eyebrows to go up.

Kei charged at Cooler, who swung his leg across his body to stop the attack. Anticipating the hit, he slid his body down along the grass and caught Cooler off guard, appearing behind his enemy and throwing a kick at the tyrant's robotic neck. In order to stay on the offensive, Kei rushed the stunned Cooler and punched his back several times, cracking the metallic shield and crashing into him with both his feet.

The next thing the group knew an array of feathers began to rain down forcing them to jump apart. Glancing up the sight of a giant Nevermore could be seen. 'Another damn Grimm. Things are going from bad to worse.'

An array of lightning from Cooler whose only identity was the insignia began to track the boy. Suddenly a blur shot passed it. "Ruby don't!" Ruby swung the blunt end of Crescent Rose at the cyborg who twisted out of the way and swung the knuckles of its hand across Ruby's skull sending her falling back.

"D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!" Ruby called back as she got up and put a hand to her head, feeling blood as she bled from her head.

Kei attempted to rush at it only for Cooler to take a swipe at him. Before it could follow up it was forced to dodge as Blake and Lie Ren attacked it with their weapons.

"Long range! Useless against me!" It appeared behind them. Quickly launching windmill kicks to which the two were forced to dodge.

"Hiiyah!" Nora swung her hammer down only for Cooler to rear back and punched her chest with a purple lighting covered fist sending the girl flying back and burning her top.

Before Cooler could continue it was rammed into by Pyrrha using Akouo to break the machine's guard following by slashing at her with Milo.

She jumped when the Death Stalker shrieked at her and retaliated by shooting it in the skull as she jumped back, using the recoil as a boost to run the opposite way away from the scorpion Grimm and towards Yang.

As this was going on the Nevermore began to descend, targeting Ruby.

It flapped its wings and rained down a wave of sharpened feathers with sharp quills that nearly skewered Yang and halted her advance cold while Ruby was pinned down by her cloak, jerking her forward and sending Crescent Rose flying.

"Ruby, get out of there!" Yang screamed at her sister, who struggling with her cloak.

"I'm trying!" Ruby shouted back after unpinning one of the snaps on her cloak and was working on the other one.

Kei's focus changed as he went to help Ruby. The nevermore was going for a dive and she was a sitting duck. Kei phased out and then reappeared in front of Ruby and punched the nevermore in its beak. His body soon felt like a rock as he could feel his Ki sapped away. He landed on one knee, winded and looked to Ruby. It was going to take him too long to recover.

Cooler was about to give chase, but found itself having to shield himself in an orb as he was pelted by Rin's Storm Flower gun, Blake's Gambol Shroud in Pistol Mode, and Nora's grenade launcher weapon Magnhild, before his armor gave way he was pierced in his side Milóin its Javelin Mode by Pyrrha.

Meanwhile, Ruby managed to free herself of her beloved cloak and looked to escape, but failed to notice the Death Stalker flanking her and knocking her back into the feathers, causing her to cry in pain as she was cut with the feathers that tore into her outfit.

Cornering its now wounded prey, the Death Stalker raised its golden stinger above Ruby and brought it down in an attempt to pierce her.

"RUBY!" Yang screamed in distress and reached out in vain as a white blur raced past her.

With nowhere to go, Ruby closed her eyes and raised her arms over her head, waiting for the pain…yet it never came.

"You really are insane you know that!"

Ruby opened her eyes to discover the Death Stalker's stinger encased in ice that trapped it where it is struggling to get free and blinked in surprise at her unexpected savior who had one knee on the ground with her rapier stabbed in the ground.

"So difficult to get along with, totally unpredictable, and don't even get me started on your fighting style." Weiss said as she recovered and turned to look at Ruby, "And I suppose I can be a bit... anti-social... but if we're going to do this, we're going to have to do this together. So if you quit trying to show off, I'll be... nicer."

Ruby just looked at her before shaking her head, "Touché, Weiss." she said as she got up and tugged her cloak out of the quill it was pinned on, "Just don't say that you'll be nicer, show it. Until then…" Ruby put her cloak back on and smiled brightly at Weiss, "Thank you…"

"Uh, well…" Weiss stuttered, mesmerized by her partner's bright smile as she brushed past her, "Any…time… No one has ever thanked me like that before…"

Walking out of the small forest of feathers, she noticed the Death Stalker still struggling to escape.

"Whoa…" she muttered until she was wrapped in a bone-crushing by her sister from behind, "Urk!"

"So happy you're okay!" Yang squealed as she hugged Ruby close.

"Don't worry, I'm fine…but let up! You're hurting me…Owowowowowow!"

"If you're all done with your little touching moment, a little help here!" Blake called out as Cooler began firing waves of Ki blasts, burning the grass forcing them all to be on the defensive.

"Guys? That thing's circling back! What are we gonna do?" Jaune asked, pointing up at the cawing Nevermore circling around the area.

"We need to get to the temple. If we can meet up with more teams we stand a better chance." Kei said as his vision began to blur.

"He's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to Beacon Cliff." Ruby added.

"In other words, there's no sense in fighting those things right now." Weiss said to Jaune directly.

"Run and live. That's an idea I can get behind." Jaune agreed with enthusiasm, probably because Weiss actually talked to him.

"Problem is Mr. Roboto won't be as easy to lose." Yang noted. It was proving far too fast for any of them to land a solid hit on.

'I got something that might do the trick but let's see out happens!' Kei then bent his knees down and put his cupped hands to the side. "KA…ME…," he cried out as a blue ball was forming in his hand. "HA…ME…" Everyone stood in shock as they started to feel the power emanating from the blue ball. Blake was wondering how could this person possibly know how to do an energy attack using Aura? Aura is meant to be defensive, not offensive. But what Blake and everyone else doesn't know is that Kei doesn't use Aura but Ki instead. 'Who was this guy?' The energy in his hand easily doubled his own. "HAAA!"

Kei threw his cupped hands forward and out came a large blue beam of Ki. It caught everyone by surprise including Cooler at the size and power emanating from the beam itself. Cooler scowled as he promptly raised his metallic hands up to catch the beam.

It struck his palms with a shocking degree of power, making Cooler grunt with the effort of halting the beams advance. His whole metallic body began to glow with the reflecting light, a star bursting to life directly above the ruined city. The power of the energy wave forced Coolers superhumanly strong arms back, overpowering even his incredible strength. The heat was growing so intense that it was even starting to melt at his metal shell.

Finally, the blast engulfed him and causing a huge explosion that began spreading fire across the meadow. It would be a miracle if a good deal of the forest wouldn't be burned down as a result of this. Everyone stood in awe at the power.

"Did he…did he just shooting a giant energy beam from his hands!?" Yang asked in a bit of awe and shock.

Kei lowered his hands, huffing for breath after the exertion of releasing so much power at once and the strain it caused on his already injured body. He still had the strength to keep going, but with his injuries and his growing exhaustion, it didn't seem he'd be capable of keeping it up much longer. He kept his gaze focused on the cloud of dust where Cooler had been, just to see if that attack had done the trick.

It hadn't but barely.

Without a doubt, the blast had managed to damage Cooler significantly. Both of his arms had been blown clean off above the elbows. Large portions of his torso and legs were molten and dripping, slowly drying. Cooler couldn't believe it, someone like Kei, a teenager, was able to do so much damage to him.

Jaune grinned. "Alright! He did it!"

Kei smiled a bit.

Cooler started to chuckle.

Everyone noticed the look on his face while they had smiles on their faces. "What the?" said Weiss. "Why are you smiling? Don't you realize you've been defeated already?"

"Heh heh heh, do you really think you could defeat me that easily?" Cooler laughed. Out of his battered state came several wires emerged from this missing limbs as they began to repair the body back into its proper state.

Everyone watched first in question and then in complete shock and utter horror. This thing can regenerate!? Cooler stood up fully, his arms slowly being rebuilt with sturdier armor, while the molten metal on his body slowly retracted back to where it belonged.

Cooler laughed as he squeezed his fist and then the other. "Perhaps I should have said something earlier," Cooler said as he stood there. "My body is monitored constantly by the Red Ribbon's main computer." Cooler told them.

Kei eyebrows frowned. 'The Red Ribbon Army?' The same organization that was after him and they were responsible for Shin's death as well.

"Any injury I might suffer is instantly detected and repaired." Cooler said as he squeezed his arm again.

'Shit, this might take longer than I thought'

(Tree Of Might Stage / Turles and Slug's Theme - Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 OST)

"And any flaws with my design that allowed the injury are corrected." Cooler said evilly. "It's quite remarkable really." Cooler admitted. "In simple terms, of course, this means you can't win." Cooler said as he laughed.

"Guys go! That grimm is going to break free soon. I'll hold off metal head." He ordered as the Death Stalker began to break free from its icy confines. The others hesitated for a moment. "You don't need to worry about me. This is the time to act, not think. Now go!"

"He's right," Pyrrha said. "He's too much for us. We won't be of any help if we stick around here. And our being here will just distract Kei, and make him worry about us." Taking advantage of their temporary reprieve the group of eight continued on ahead.

"Alright! Kei, we're leaving Cooler to you," Blake said.

"Okay be careful guys," Kei replied. Blake and Ruby were about to leave when they noticed Yang hadn't budged.

"Yang, aren't you coming?" Ruby asked.

"I think I'll help Kei right now he's my partner after all," Yang answered. "You guys go." Ruby and Blake nodded and then ran off.

"Yang, you should go with them too."

"Not a chance Kei, we're partners and partners stick together." She then took a battle stance with a smirk on her face.

Kei looked her as he returned the smirk with one of his own. "Alright then but be careful Yang," Kei said. "He's a lot strong than he looks." Kei then took a look around. "Where did he go?"

Sure enough, Meta-Cooler was nowhere to be seen until he appeared behind the two fighters. Kei then realized at the last second where Cooler had appeared but he was too late to stop Cooler's attack. Cooler went to punch Yang with his left, but she parried it. However, it was just a feint to his real attack, which he went in for a punch with his right. The force of the punch made Yang skid off the ground, bouncing into the tree, then smash into the tree far away from Kei. She even coughed up some blood.

"Shit! Yang!" Kei said. Kei phased out and appeared in front of Yang. "Are you alright Yang?" Kei asked.

"I'm fine," Yang lied though she winced. "Just didn't see that one coming," Kei nodded.

Maybe it was time to make a timely retreat and begin a new plan.

Kei smiled as he put his hands to his temples, palms inward, fingers spread. "Yang, please close your eyes right now," Kei muttered. Yang was unsure on what he meant but she did as she was told. Kei then let out a loud yell, "SOLAR FLARE!"

Meta-Cooler screamed in shock as a massive flash shot from nowhere and made the world go dark with the gray-green afterimage of Kei with his hand next to his face and Yang standing behind him burned into its mind. He, for several seconds, was totally blind. Finally, after a seeming eternity, the world, very blurry and out of focus, swam into view, then gradually sharpened until they could see well again. Cooler looked around and noticed that Kei and Yang had left. "Where the hell did they go?"

Cooler was furious. Kei had given him the slip. 'No matter.' Cooler said to himself, 'He is still no match for me. If that was all of his power, then he should be no match for me when I show my full power.' An evil smirk appeared on his face as he thought up a new plan.

Glynda and several faculty members being flanked by several squadrons of students were being dropped into the safety zone of Emerald Forest.

The appearance of this mysterious cyborg, as well as his control over the Grimm, alarmed Ozpin and the faculty. As such Glynda and several faculty members would be leading experienced older teams in an effort to engage and capture this mysterious cyborg as well as discover how it entered Beacon property undetected and search to see if there were any unsavory elements in the area.

"Professor Oobleck you and the scouting party will be searching the area for any other unsavory elements."

Oobleck is a rather young man, with messy green hair and brown eyes. His attire disheveled, a white shirt partially tucked into his dark-green pants and its collar raised, showing a slack yellow tie, along with mismatched brown and black shoes. He also has round glasses that appear to be opaque. A man known for his eccentricity, but his great speed would allow him and the faster students to get in and avoid trouble.

"Professor Port you and relief team will be waiting at the temple on the off chance I am unable to catch up to the students on time."

Peter Port, unlike his colleague, was a middle-aged man, possibly in his mid-fifties. Wearing a double-breasted burgundy suit with gold piping and buttons. His pants were tucked into olive boots, similar in appearance and construction to cavalry boots. Port was one you would describe as well mattered man who was quite the hunter back in his day.

His appearance was that of a gray d and a gray mustache and slightly overweight.

They could only hope their rescue effort was not in vain.

(Battle Theme #5 (The Battle With All My Force) - Kenji Yamamoto)

Kei and Yang were able to meet up the others after Kei used the solar flare to escape Cooler for the time being. No telling when he will appear again. So now the group made their way towards the temple.

The Temple is twenty miles north and two point three miles to the east of here. If they get separated then continue on to the temple. There they can use the structure for a defensive base.

That was the plan of course. They continued on for miles as they were continuously being hunted down by Cooler and its Grimm. For five miles now they were starting to tire. If at a moderate pace most of them could have kept going all day, but having to go at full speed with what amounted to someone who was like a living lightning bolt chasing after you, toying with you, firing bolts trying to catch you slipping, it made sense why their stamina levels were dropping.

It seemed like things were looking up when they came across the bridge. "Hurry! We can at least shake the Deathstalker if we cross!" Pyrrha cried out upon spotting an old and worn down looking bridge. The gap was far too big for even a creature of that size to have any realistic hope of jumping with the bridge itself human size.

Ruby being one of the fastest was the first across along with Pyrrha. "Guys! Hurry!" she cried out as one by one they began crossing the bridge. A bolt of lightning surged past them made it to the other side.

The ropes were set afire and were quickly being eaten through.

'He won't stop until either he or we are dead. I'll have to strike him with a killing blow before he can hurt the others. I'll only have one shot at this.' Kei paused and turned as he began readying another Kamehameha.

"Kei, what are you doing! Run!" Ruby shouted to him.

"What is that idiot doing?" Weiss added wondering what he hoped to accomplish getting himself killed like that.

Hearing her sister's shout Yang turned to see that Cooler was getting ready to attack her crush. Yang was many things, but she was not a coward. She could also not leave a friend behind if she could help it. Turning she leaped just as the ropes gave way and the bridge began to fall.

"Yang, hold on, I'm coming!" Ruby was getting ready to try to jump when several of the others grabbed. "What are you doing! Let me GO! LET ME GO!"

"Are you crazy! You're going to get yourself killed!" Jaune argued as Ruby fault against their hold.

Kei waited until Cooler was in striking distance and he reacted. He fired off his ki blast straight at Cooler, who vanished and appeared behind the boy, grabbing his right arm and twisting it behind his back. "Aah!" Kei cried out as Cooler continued pulling at the arm. He then felt his face pressed into the ground once Cooler planted his foot onto the back of Kei's head, smothering him.

"Hey, Kei heads up!"

The next thing Cooler knew the size of his face was caved in by Cecilia as he was sent crashing through several trees.

"Holy shit!" Kei couldn't help but exclaim. He instantly felt the force of that blow and if the cyborg's skull wasn't seriously fractured or split open.

His screeches of pain and the clutching of its head would have been proof enough, but the fact it was heavily broken and the side portion of its face had been dented in from Yang's blow served to prove how powerful the young woman was.

"You dreadful worthless monkey! I'll kill all of you!" Cooler was livid as his head repaired itself.

"What's wrong? You were having fun when you were chasing us down and trying to kill us. Now you start losing and it's no fun anymore?" Kei taunted as the cyborg began firing ki blasts at them wildly.

"You ready Yang!?" He asked as the blonde gave a nod and pounded her fists together. The two of them shot forward as they began to close the distance between them and Cooler.

His hands covered in lightning Cooler began swinging at Yang who weaved to the sides of its attacks. Using Cecilia she blocked one of the strikes as Kei leaped over and landed a kick to Cooler's face.

Meta-Cooler's head whipped to the side and its stance stumbled as he was slugged in the stomach causing him to double over. He let loose a burst of Aura from its body forcing the two to jump back.

Landing with a skid using his hand to stop his momentum, Kei shot towards Cooler. Launching a wave of attacks, the metallic cyborg managed to dodge or block all of them, then delivered a shot right to Kei's face. Kei brought his foot up and kicked Cooler in the face. "No. Why. I am a Cyborg. I shouldn't lose to the likes of you."

"I guess if this is the limit of a Red Ribbon's power the only thing I had to worry about is defeating them." For a while there Kei had feared what kind of power the highest ranked members of Red Ribbon held, but if the only thing they could do was make robotic grimm and cyborgs then there just weak.

Cooler took to the air as it began to fire a solitary Ki blasts into the sky. "You want power. I'll give you power!" Extending both arms he began using a high discharge from both her palms attempting to fry both teens.

"How good is your aim?" Kei asked as they jumped back into the tree line to avoid the wild strikes.

At this rate, the whole place really was going to burn down.

"I say pretty good! Why?" She responded, the heat of battle overriding her inability to talk to the teen without becoming a shy mess.

"I'll set up the ball you serve?" He suggested as he produces a Ki Ball from his hand.

Yang grinned. "I like the way you think." She said as she grabbed the ball and with a mighty blow the Ki Blast flew.

Cooler in his arrogance dismissed the blast as a threat and was ready to let it phase through him. The blast hit causing a small explosion; however, a blue began to emanate from the cloud. A loud chant was heard across the area. "KAME…HAME…" It was Kei, charging up a Kamehameha wave! He had his cupped hands to his side, ready to fire the wave at it. "HAAAAA!" with a yell, the teen hunter threw both his hands forward.

Cooler turned and to his horror, he watched as the beam came at him. He let out a cry as he was enveloped by the beam. The blast struck, destroying it and sending its remains careering to the ground to form a massive pile of rubble and smoking debris.

Kei landed on the ground back with Yang as Cooler's heavily damaged body was sent falling down into the wide expanse below. From the other side, the others were cheering. The teen's fight had been incredible after all.

"Let's join the others." The claw of the nevermore and the sound of crashing and following trees signaled the Grimms had finally caught up.

Kei made a step and had to catch himself. He winched. Damn, he used so much energy during that last attack. So much for performing a body flicker. They were going to have to make the jump.

"So this is the part where you bust out a teleportation move right?" Yang asked as Kei sighed.

Oh, the irony.

"We're jumping it." He said as the hunter moved back to get a running start.

Yang sighed; well they didn't really have much of a choice. She joined him as they both got a running start just as they were about to launch themselves the ground suddenly gave away into the landslide. Startled Yang lost her footing and was sent tumbling on the other side with Kei joining her.

"Hang on!' Kei grabbed Yang's wrist and pulled her close as he aimed for the water.

"Kei!"

"Yang!"

The cries of the group grew further away as they fell.

The two of them fell into the water below and were being pulled away by the strong currents and away from the group.

"Kei! YANG! YAAAAAAAAANG!"

Kei opened his eyes and let out a strained groan of pain. A sharp stab of pain rushed through his side as he tried to sit up, only to find that he was slung over someone's shoulder. He turned his head to the side to figure out who was carrying him and found himself looking into lilac eyes of the blond bruiser Yang.

"Thank goodness you're okay. When you passed out I was worried."

What was the last thing he remembered? He could…remember dragging them out of the water and passing out.

"I'll…I'll be okay." He insisted as he pulled away from her.

"H-Hey," Yang called out with her hand extended slightly. "Don't overdo it."

His back and side wasn't faring well, but nonetheless, he gained his composure and walked confidently, not wanting to burden the girl who risked her life for him. Looking up he noticed it was late in the evening. How long had he been passed out?

He walked through the pain for about five minutes until he tripped on a rock only to be caught by Yang.

"What's with guys having to be macho?" The girl grumbled, unaware of Kei's sensitive hearing picked it up.

"It has nothing about being macho Yang. I am injured and you would think me a meathead?" He replied with a mock pout, teasing her resulting in Yang panicking and flushing furiously.

"No…I…um…" Flustered she was trying to come up with something but was stumbling over her words.

He then felt it. The coppery smell was also a dead giveaway. He was bleeding. Yang, looking into his eyes with worry bleeding from her gaze.

"I'm fine Yang, don't worry about me. We need to find a way out of this crevice."

"I'm not gonna buy that shit. You're hurt and it's because you protected me. Let me help you." She pleaded as Kei looked away from her.

Yang's expression dampened into sadness as she took the boy's action as a sign of rejection.

"Alright fine, you win!" Yang's eyes widened in surprise as her head snapped up. A small smile formed on her face as she one more took to helping the blond walk. "Tell me a little about you, Yang."

(The Way We Breathe - Ara)

Did he want to get to know her? She wanted to burst out in a little cheer, but it took all her restraint to remember she was helping the blond walk.

"W-Well, I spent most of my youth growing up on the island of Patch, off the west coast of Vale alongside Ruby."

"Patch?"

"It's a secluded island. Lots of gray forests and the location of Signal Academy."

"It's a hunter in training facility right?" he asked as Yang nodded.

"How did you manage to develop your skills as a Huntress?"

"I also attended the academy where our father Taiyang Xiao Long is a teacher and huntsman." She answered as Kei fell silent for a moment. "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." He answered but Yang didn't buy it.

"Come on, I'm not going to be the only one sharing during storytime am I?" she asked as he simply chuckled.

"No, it's not that. I just wasn't sure if I should bring it up or not."

"Bring up what?" she asked with a curious tilt of her head.

"You and Ruby are different, yet only some of your features are shared and you have different surnames. I didn't want to jump into something too personal."

"Oh." All things considering. It was funny someone didn't bring up the fact before. They probably just assumed any number of things. Adoption. Remarriage. There were a number of things that could explain the discrepancy. "We're half-sisters. Same father, different… mothers."

Kei chose not to push the point any further noticing how Yang lingered on mothers. "So your father raised the two of you? He sounds like a good man. It must have been a pleasant experience."

Yang had wondered why he praised it like that but instantly picked up on what he was saying. Normally Yang was not the most perceptive of girls. Being rather brash and boisterous, but she was far too used to people sympathizing with her about her missing mother that she had picked up on Kei's hinting. "I did grow up with a woman I did and do still call to proud mother for the time she was in my life. And I have made it my mission to find the women that abandon me for answers. It's difficult for me to imagine growing up without my dad, but, you at least had a mom right?" she asked only to receive silence in return. "Oh…" her face tightened. She didn't…she didn't know. "I-I'm so sorry I…"

"Don't apologize. You said nothing wrong; I'm the one that started this conversation. Besides I don't remember my parents at all, don't remember them yelling, don't remember them smiling. To be honest with you, I don't remember what they look like."

"Kei…"

"Knowing they loved me and they made sacrifices to keep me safe is enough. A lot of my past is a bit blurry at some points. I promise you Yang in time if I remember something I'll let you know."

She was willing to accept it for now. Everyone had their secrets after all. And he seemed like a good guy. "Kei. Thank you."

He looked at her, a mixture of surprise and confused. "For what? You would have done the same for me."

Yang shook her head. "No not that. I mean thank you. For being Ruby's friend. She's not the most social person and I was worried about how she would fit in. Especially giving she's two years younger than everybody, but you've been kind to her. That's…really cool of you."

At first, he had simply been the cool and really hot guy and if Yang was honest she could be a bit superficial in her interests…especially if they were good looking, but over the past few days, Kei had proven also strong, wise, and kind. The more she got to know him the more she went from just crushing on him to genuinely liking him.

"Ruby's a nice person. She's strong, enthusiastic, cares about others." She was a mix of many of the positive traits, but she was adorable, innocent, and a bit geeky making her shine as her own person. "I am proud to call her my friend and you as well."

"M-me? You consider me your friend?" Considering this was the first time she was able to hold a real conversation with him she was surprised.

"You kidding me? At first, I thought you were really weird." He began as Yang's head hung down.

"But now I see you for who you really are. You're strong, boisterous, and really crazy."

"Crazy?" she wasn't sure if she should feel complimented or insulted.

"Yeah you're a spirited girl and really strong as well. I wouldn't want to be the target of your punches, especially when angered." He would probably have to be at least Ki to tank them. "And seeing how you and Ruby act has shown me what a real sibling bond is like." Kei said as he continued. "My first understanding of that kind of bond was well weird since I don't have any siblings not that I know of anyway, but seeing how much you two care about each other, even when you're making fun and teasing each other has shown me something I wish I had when I was a kid. And even beyond that, you're also brave and honest. You're the kind of person I like." Kei was then filled with a strange sense of warmth. He didn't know why but he had this odd sort of connection to Yang.

"Oh god oh god oh god oh god.' Yang was inwardly panicking as her face heated up. Was he confessing? So soon. She wasn't ready. And what was this strange feeling in her heart?

"Yang are you…" Kei paused as he realized something. 'Wait a minute. This feels…familiar.' Face always going pink or really red.

Stammering.

Unable to look him in the eyes.

Came off as really weird, but actually a pretty cool girl.

Risked her life for his.

Damn it, he can't remember. There were so many similarities. He just wishes he could remember who that person was.

"Y-Yang." His cheeks began to burn red. "Do you…have a…" he paused as the sound of moving terrain caught his attention. "Look out!" he shouted as yanked her forward as a boulder soared over them. The two of them turned just in time to see their attacker, Kei's eyes widening at the gleaming silver figure standing tall on a mound of rubble behind the two.

(Meta-Cooler Theme - Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 OST)

The metal facsimile of a cyborg curled his tail around his legs, a cocky grin plastered on his face "I told you before you can't win. Now, I'll give you one chance, If you surrender we will give you the honor of having your bodies be used for the greater glory of Red Ribbon."

"You…you perverted freak!" Yang exclaimed, her mind instantly jumping to the most perverted conclusion.

"Yeah, like that's ever going to happen. I would like to keep my body intact thanks." He said as he got into a fighting stance.

"It appears you two refuse. I gave you a chance now I must end your lives."

"You don't scare us you metallic freak. We beat you before!" Yang boasted.

'Yeah after spending the better part of the day running.' Kei thought with the shake of his head.

"I will crush you both in an instant." Cooler immediately powered up, a purple blazing aura surrounding the cyborg.

Kei turned to Yang with a smile. "Let's hit this bastard with a little tag team action." He said as they readied to take on Cooler again.

Cooler's body was proven tough as every strike or kick landed on him would leave only superficial dents. Still, it was metal and even reinforced metal could be broken if enough pressure was applied to it.

Kei and Yang stayed in their fighting positions, wondering what Cooler was going to do. Then, without warning there was a second explosion, followed by a loud whoosh of rushing wind. In that moment, Cooler took to the skies. Coming to fly five stories above the tree line, he pulled back his right hand and threw it forward, unleashing a powerful energy blast at the two standing below him. Reacting quickly, the two partners split! Flying in opposite directions, they went their separate ways before regrouping and charging down their opponent from both sides.

Meta-Cooler remained smiling as he landed on the ground below the trees while the two fighters went at him. He was ready. Kei attacked first, sending and kicks his way. Cooler avoided the first ones before moving into the defensive parrying mode. He blocked the next blows to come and quickly knocked the boy away. As soon as Kei was sent flying, Yang attacked. She attacked Cooler relentlessly, but was unable to land any blows. She was closely followed by Kei who had recovered, the two way attack forcing Cooler back even more, and also making him increase strength and speed of his defenses. He was now using his full concentration and strength.

Unable to take the pressure of the two fighters tackling him, Cooler leapt back and crossed his arms over his face, bringing his knees to his chest. With a quick energy gather, he threw all limbs out, a purple energy shield appearing around him. The quick blast knocked both Kei and Yang back, who were about to attack again. As soon as they were off, Cooler shot forward, intent on attacking in kind. However, he was met full on when Kei suddenly appeared out in front of him. Striking Cooler across the face while he was in mid-flight, he sent Cooler falling. But the cyborg recovered quickly and pulled up, retreating as Kei gave chase. The male hunter honed in upon reaching Cooler when he once again made a stand. Cooler responded to this and attacked, only to have the faster fighter avoid all his blows.

Kei then rushed forward towards Cooler. Collecting Ki in his arm, Kei sent his attack. "HA!" However, the attack wasn't heading for the Cyborg but rather, the ground! The result was a dust explosion, causing Cooler to cover his eyes from the dust.

Before he could gather up his senses, Cooler was attacked from behind. Yang rammed her fist straight into the back of the cyborg's neck, sending it flying. Cooler yelled in shock, spinning out of control as he flew. Yang and Kei watched as Meta-Cooler headed towards a boulder.

Flipping back into submission, Cooler tucked himself up and spun, before extending himself and taking his fall into control. He shot straight again, heading for Kei. The teen hunter was ready. With no more need for diversionary tactics, the teen flew at Cooler, picking up speed and using the momentum he had gained as an advantage. Then, with an enormous burst of power, the two fighters clashed, fists first. As a result of the clash, a strong wind emanated from them which caused Yang to back off.

Suddenly a tremor began to course through the ground from the power struggle. Tremor after tremor occurred as the walls of the canyon began to take damage from the tug of war.

'If I can't overtake him with what I have maybe I can try that.' Breaking the connection Kei darted over to Yang.

"I'm going to weaken his armor. You be ready to attack once I do." He said as they both dodge Cooler's attacks.

"How will I be able to tell if his armor is weakened enough for my attacks to get through?" She asked as she turned her head to the side when the latest slab exploded into chunks.

"Trust me you'll know." He said as he charged ahead and leaped over the right slab. He let out a grunt of pain as he landed on it hard and proceeded to roll over it and landing kneeling.

This calls for something drastic. Something that he definitely wasn't prepared to do nor was he ready for. "HYAAAHHHH!" He yelled a very loud war cry. His face was fixated on Cooler as Cooler started to take an interest in him. "TAKE THIS! KAIO-KEN!" yelled Kei as he brought his arms down. A crimson blazing aura appeared around Kei. Pebbles began to levitate and the ground began to shake because of the energy emitting from Kei. With a yell of rage, Kei shot forward, the ground from which he took off from crumbling.

It surprised Cooler a bit when he saw Kei hurl himself straight at him at an incredible rate. Just as he was backing away and raising his hands to defend himself, Kei came in with a powerful hook that he sent across Cooler's face.

Meta-Cooler was not deterred as he used his tail to rip a tree out of the ground and threw it at Kei.

"Oh no, you don't!" Yang shouted as she launched herself into the air and punched the tree breaking it in half.

Using the opening Yang gave him Kei began to descend, twisting out of the way of the broken tree as he took aim.

Once more Cooler began sending out Ki Blasts to which the teen began easily cleaving through them like nothing.

Throwing his arm forward Kei's fist met its mark. It pierced the Meta-Cooler's torso causing electricity to course through the metal body causing cracks to form all over it.

Kei jumped back as energy blast jutted from the body as Cooler tried to skewer him. "Now!"

Yang shot forward and with a decisive blow shattered the left foot of the cyborg body causing it to crumble. Not stopping there she leaped and landed a solid kick to the right's ankle. Landing on the foot of that she launched another punch shattering the left knee with Cecilia. Piece by piece she began taking it apart as the cyborg began to crumble.

Cooler soon found himself having no chance to regenerate his body. He looked up to see Yang was about to attack his expose body when he suddenly began tunneling into the ground.

Almost instantly the earth shifted and he disappeared into the depths. He was being overwhelmed. He wouldn't be able to take the both of them on at the same time if this kept on like this. He needed to end this.

Rising from the ground and encircling above his palm is a large purple saw blade which is his death slicer technique. He sent it flying at Yang who dodged it.

Kei leaped over it and already forming a Ki ball shoved it into Cooler's gut. When Cooler began to break apart Kei realized that Cooler had faded away. 'Where did he?'

Cooler popped up behind Yang readying his Sauzer Blade to strike. "Yang, look out!"

"It's as Doctor Merlot says. Others are your weakness!"

Kei turned just in time to get hit with something rather shocking. Cooler had reappeared behind him, left fist held back and ready to strike.

"Let me show you a real attack!" Cooler launched his attack. Kei's eyes became saucers as the he felt the massive amount of power heading his way. Then everything went white.

*BOOM*

"Kei!" Yang screamed, having to cover her face from as the blast of energy was expelled from Cooler's fist and literally obliterated a good part of the forest. She rushed to save her compatriot. She watched in horror as she saw a bloodied Kei face up on the ground. His clothes were in tatters, as he lay lifeless. "KEI!" Yang shot forward only to watch as Cooler grabbed Kei's body and threw the boy's body far away and out of sight.

"The body is useless now. Mere trash. I would appreciate it if you make it where I do not have to ruin yours as well. I hate wasting valuable material." He said as he gathered energy around his hand and formed a sword.

"You monster." Yang's head dipped low as she began trembling with rage. Her hair began to glow brightly. "How dare you…" It began to catch firing as parts of her began to radiate fire. "I'll make you…" She lifted her face, showing crimson irises as tears began drifting down her cheeks her eyes pure rage. He was her ally. He was her friend. "…BURN!"

(I Burn ~Orchestral Battle Arrange~ - Jeremiah George)

Cooler's stance remained confident, unshifting. "Is that so? Well come on then monkey, show me what you can do." said Cooler.

Yang roared, shooting straight at Cooler and unleashing a powerful combination of punches. Cooler was surprised at the incredible speed and strength of the energy fist combination, forcing him to duck the first few blows. But when the final punch came, it struck him in the chest, when he assumed it would be nothing. It wasn't, as the fist strike cracked and smashed a hole in his armor and thumped against his chest. Cooler staggered through the ground, winded.

Cooler looked up, intrigued that a girl like Yang could do damage like that. Had she done more training, she could have done much worse to his body. With a quick hand combination and energy manipulation, he held out his right palm and unleashed a powerful energy ball. The attack shot at Yang like a bullet, but was not to hit its target as the fighter was able to avoid it.

Moving away some distance Yang began a series of rapid-fire punches. A pained cry from Cooler was briefly heard before the noise of blasts colliding with Cooler's body.

After some time Yang ceased firing her firing and paused to charge a last attack in order to finish Cooler off. "Is that all?" A voice asked from the smoke cloud Yang created. The smoke quickly dissolved and from it a severely damaged 'Meta-Cooler' was revealed. "Is that really it?" Cooler laughed. Out of his battered state came several wires that repaired the body back into its proper state.

Yang rushed in towards Cooler, throwing one fist out aiming for Cooler's head. The mechanical cyborg swung his arm up so fast that Yang only saw the faintest flicker of motion, and Yang found her knuckles straining against the dense metal of the back of Cooler's hand.

Meta-Cooler spun and struck the shocked blond with his long tail, the blow catching Yang in the abdomen and sending her hurtling through two ruined trees.

He stood there waiting for her to get back up. 'Consumed by rage. Fool. I'll let her tire herself out.' He thought, binding his time.

Ten straight minutes of furious assault. Ten minutes of the girl growing steadily angrier and destroying the landscape. Ten minutes of dwindling stamina and observations.

He appeared behind the girl as he readied his next attack. He would knock the girl unconscious with this next attack.

Pain. Burn. A lack of vision and his head felt like it was hit with the force of a cannonball. What in the world happened?

Cooler landed on the ground. Impossible. The girl hadn't found him. He had been observing her so how?

Hearing the commotion Yang turned and spotted the man and… "K-Kei!" Her semblance began to recede as her fury was replaced with Joy.

(Theme X - Xenoblade Chronicles X (Rock Cover) - Shady Cicada)

"Sorry for worrying you, Yang. I'm ready now. Let me finish him off." Kei went into his fighting stance and expanded his ki aura around him.

"How? I killed you!" Cooler could barely stand the side of his face aching.

"You only caught me off guard, but I won't let happen again." He said with a grin as Cooler snarled at him.

Kei's body wouldn't be able to take the stress of the Kaio-ken again so soon. The boy is already hit its limit today.

Instantly Kei triggered Kaio-ken, he then charges at the opponent and elbows him away. Then, he attacks the cyborg with a powerful barrage of kicks and punches, Kei decided he had enough and gave a devastating punch to the gut, sending poor cyborg flying.

Kei let out a yell and cupping his hands together and throwing it forward. "KAMEHAME-HAA!" His yell echoed with the massive blast that shot out, lighting up the area.

Cooler quickly putting his two hands together above his head, "Take this!" he shouted quickly as he sent his beam to intercept Kei's Kamehame-Ha. The two beams hit each other, Cooler's never even slowing Kei's down. In an instant, the combined power of the two attacks hit Cooler full force pulling his body completely apart and effectively destroying him. His machine-like body slowly deteriorating into nothing.

Kei breathed a sigh of relief as he realized his entire body is in pain. "Hehehehe," chuckled Kei with a bright smile on his face. "I guess I pushed my body past its limit." He turned his attention to Yang "Y…" Kei was nearly knocked over as he was glomped by Yang. Upon her touch, Kei winced in extreme pain. 'Damn it,' Kei said to himself but he gladly returned the hug.

"Idiot…I thought…I had thought…" she cried into his chest. Overjoyed that he was alive.

"I know. I am sorry," Kei said weakly. "Just be careful when touching me, though. I'm in a lot of pain right now."

"What was that red flame thingy you did?"

Kei said. "It was a technique that my grandpa used a while ago but stops using it; I wanted to learn how to use it but grandpa said it was for too early for me to use it. But It was incredible. This is known as the Kaio-Ken."

"The Kaio-whatnow?"

"The Kaio-ken. It's a technique that multiplies the user's ki for a 'heart beat', enabling them to inflict serious damage to opponents who are considerably stronger than them. It's like a massive upsurge of energy. Everything is heightened; power, speed, even hearing and vision improve dramatically. You sort of become a super-self. But it can only be sustained for a short time, so you have to get the job done quickly. But the Kaio-ken technique is also known as a double-edge sword."

"Why?" asked Yang.

"While the Kaio-ken grants you great power, it can also destroy you if you are not careful," Kei explained. "It puts a very heavy burden on the body. Right now my body is killing me. This was the first time I used that technique."

"Sorry," Yang said, small tears coming out of her eyes. She was happy for Kei first most for defeating the cyborg but most of all that he was safe right now. "Thank you. I knew you could do it, but I just Kaio-can't believe it."

"No problem but I should be thanking you," Kei said ignoring the girl's horrible pun. "If it weren't for you helping me, I would have been killed. So thank you." He said as he realized they were still hugging. "Uum. Yang." He said as his cheeks started to glow a little pink. He had given her a passing glance that first day he had met her, but he was now beginning to realize she was pretty damn hot and her clothes were a bit tattered. His eyes wondered a bit and…

"It was unintentional." Kei inwardly snapped, realizing where he just looked.

"What?" she asked, but then realized upon noticing his expression. She let out a yelp and jumped away from him. Her face soon matched his.

"We need to get out of here." He said as he turned his attention to the wall.

"And how are weeeeee…" She let out a squeal as he suddenly scooped her up in his arms bridal style. She was automatically flustered. A flustered Yang was a nervous Yang. And a nervous Yang often did things not so smart to make the atmosphere more comfortable. "At least take me out for dinner first." Oh god, why did her mind always default to the dirtiest possible thing? No wonder her father made the joke that he was more worried about her and not the boys themselves.

"I have enough energy left to make one last jump before I pass out from using too much energy." Kei said as he used the last once of energy to make the jump.

One second they were on the ground the next they were on the other side of the cliff side as Kei let Yang down. "Okay. Tell me the truth. Are you an alien or something? You have way too many cool powers for it to be because of your Aura."

"Last time I checked no. You weren't asking me that so you could make a joke about me probing your anus were you?" Like her sister Yang was proving to be a very likable and fun person he would enjoy getting to know better.

"Noooo." She replied rather unconvincingly. Hey it wasn't her fault she thought of it in the same moment he pointed it out.

"Anyway, I think I'm going to pass out now" Kei blanked out, staggering forward as he began to fall in unconsciousness. He was really tired, but he blamed it on the Ki exhaustion.

Yang rushed to save Kei. She stopped the male teen from falling down as she held on to him tightly with a hug. "Kei…?" No reaction. She stared into his face for a moment longer, the feeling that was in her chest growing stronger. She shook her head and took a deep breath. She smiled at him and reached over, brushing his hair from his eyes.

"Come on, let's go find our friends."

"I'm so hungry!" Jaune complained as Pyrrha continued to stoke the campfire. It was nightfall and they had made a small camp. They had finally lost the damn Nevermore and Deathstalker, but the mood had been rather sullen.

Kei and Yang were still missing and while no one wanted to voice it, some of them like Weiss and Blake feared the two were dead. Thankfully no one had the good grace to voice their thoughts because they feared it would break poor Ruby who hadn't so much as said a word or looked any of them as they dragged her away from where the two teens failed.

She had only just stopped sniffling an hour ago.

"We're all hungry Arc. Stop whining!" Weiss angrily snapped at him. They weren't supposed to have been in the forest this long, but they had gotten lost when they had run into a nest of Beowolves.

"Hey! Don't be mean to Jauny Snowflake! He's just voicing his thoughts!" Nora immediately jumped to Jaune's defense. In a list of things, Nora did not like it was people being mean to others.

"Don't call me Snowflake my name is Weiss." Nora's peppy attitude had already annoyed the Schnee when she had spent the better part of the previous hour singing campfire songs.

"Well, you're not acting particularly Wise right now."

"Weiss not Wise!"

"Girls, please. We're all tired and hungry. We should not be fighting each other. Especially if the noise ends up attracting the Grimm." While Ren was not one to get himself involved in squabbles as Nora could handle herself, usually, now was not the time for them to be turning on each other.

"What are you all fussing about now?" Blake asked, trying and failing to get to sleep in her spot up from the tree.

"Nothing! And Ren is right. Turning on each other gets us nothing! We are allies. The only way we will survive is by working together." Pyrrha's words had put an end to the squabble for now, but that did not change the fact they were hungry. By tomorrow their thirst would be intensifying.

Suddenly the rustling of the leaves alerted her and she grabbed her weapon and shield and jumped to attention. Alerted by Pyrrha everyone else grabbed their weapons and readied for whatever Grimm they would have to deal with. A gasp left her lips.

Was her mind playing tricks on her?

(Intro To Finale And Closing - Bruce Faulconer)

"So…we brought dinner." Kei said as he woken up not too long ago. He held up a collection of small dead animals on a stick while Yang hoisted up a bag of berry and plants.

"Food!" Jaune cried tears of joy as he got up.

Ruby's eyes widened as she began to speak. Her voice hoarse. "Y…Y…YAAAAANG!" she cried darting out like a bullet running over and flattening poor Jaune into the ground.

Yang let the berries drop and opened her arms. "RUU…" She was tackled in mid-greeting having not expected her little sister to use her semblance.

Pyrrha hopped to her feet and paused. Having to compose herself. "Kei…welcome back!" She greeted him with a smile. She just knew deep down…she could feel it in her heart he would come back.

"It's good to be back." He said as he was to his shock suddenly slugged in his stomach.

The others gasped, wide-eyed at what happened. Kei clutched his stomach.

"You…you worried us. Please, do not be so reckless again in the future." She told him as she turned away from him. She felt like she was going to cry and if so she didn't want him to see her tears as it would embarrass her greatly.

"I'll keep that in mind." He began to wonder if Pyrrha had sisterly feelings towards him? In fact, he never did get to finish his conversation with Yang. He would have to remember to talk with both girls when he had the chance. He'd worried about it later. He then went over to the fire and planted the sticks in the ground and set up the rabbits and squirrels to be cooked. He was being welcomed back by the others.

"Kei, is that thing, Cooler, still around?" Ruby asked, a little sacred that the evil cyborg would show up and kill them all. After all, he was really strong that Yang and the others were not able to deal any damage on him. She had never encountered anyone like that Cyborg before. It was quite a scary experience for her.

Kei sighed as he looked up to the sky. "He is gone for sure," the male hunter replied. "I defeated him. He won't be coming around this time."

It felt weird. Most of them had hardly talked yet; there was a sense of comradely. Experiences like being chased down by a psychopath cyborg tend to lead to people bonding he guessed.

"So you managed to avoid getting yourself killed. You even managed to bring back food. Commendable job… Kei"

Kei raised an eyebrow. Was Weiss giving him a compliment? Looks like she was trying to defrost already. "Thanks, I guess."

"Good." Weiss, in her mind, sighed with relief. She was thankful that Kei was still alive, she then immediately flinched. 'What is wrong with me?' She said to herself.

"So Kei? How did you and Double-D's manage to get out of your sticky situation?" Nora asked as she focused on him intently.

"Well, that freaky lightning cyborg was a lot tougher than we thought. It took me and Yang a long while before we defeated him…" He began going over the events of what happened.

With the evil cyborg, Meta-Cooler, destoryed. Our heroes now wonder out else is out there waiting for them. Why did Meta-Cooler want Kei dead? Didn't the Red Ribbon Army want him? Who is this Dr. Merlot that he mention? What else could the Red Ribbon Army throw at them next? Find out on the next exciting chapter of DRAGON BALL Z!

Author's Notes:

Alright! Happy New Year's guys hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'm so sorry about that pun that Yang made...it did hurt me writing that. Ok, I'm not revealing why Cooler was there or why he was defeated by Kei this early in the story and I know Meta-Cooler should have been a lot stronger than the whole cast even Kei in the normal DBZ Universe standards but I have my reasons. Also, when Kei used the Kamehameha agaisnt Cooler the first time my beta-reader Dub it the 'Unstable Kamehameha' because of the fact that Kei didn't know how much Ki he was supposed to use. It was the first time he used the move against someone stronger than him so yeah. Oh yeah and the music hopefully you guys like it. Again its an option if you want to listen to it or not.

Anyway, thanks for reading hope you guys like it and I see you guys on the next one Peace!