AN: I'm back, with another serving of Elder Remnants for you. but first, I have a few thing to say.

First and foremost, I would like to apologise to everyone who read the last chapter before I edited it. I'm not entirely sure why it was like that, but anyway, I fixed it.

Second order of business. I'm not getting nearly enough reviews for these chapters. if you want me to write these properly, I need feedback. So I'm not going to post the next chapter of this until I get at least five reviews of this one.

And finally, I need an OC but can't think of one, so if you could send me some ideas I might be able to work with them.

With that out of the way, enjoy the story.

Edit: This chapter has been edited as of 2/10/2016

Chapter 4

The investigation

Weiss stared at the clock in front of her. It was almost the end of the day. Professor Redbreath was finishing a demonstration on how to escape a head lock with a training dummy. Next to her, Jaune was unsuccessfully trying to flirt with her. "So, Weiss, y'know, uh, I-I was thinking after this, maybe we could go grab a bite to eat?" he turned to look at the teacher for a second, and then turned back around to continue. "And, uh um, I-I've got two tickets to that new Spruce Willis movie, if you wanna make the trip to Vale. I hear it's awesome." He paused as his words had no effect. "Aaaand maybe after that, we could study together? I mean, you're smart and I'm, uh... Y'know."

He was cut off when the bell signalling the end of class rang out. Pausing his actions with the dummy Professor Redbreath looked at the clock in surprise. "Oh. It appears time got away from me. I'll have to finish this another time. Don't forget next week, you all have your first huntsman's assignments, so come prepared and try to avoid injuring yourselves. i dislike paperwork, nor do i want a repeat of last year." He muttered to himself, "I told him not to move." He cleared his throat. "Class dismissed.

As Weiss stood up, Jaune asked, "Weiss? Did you hear me?"

Without even looking behind her, Weiss replied, "No, no, no, yes."

Upon hearing this, Jaune groaned and did a faceplant into his desk.

Yang patted his head as she passed. "One day."

Back in their dorm room, team RWBY was getting ready. "I thought that class would never end." Blake said as she tightened the ribbons wrapped around her arms.

Ruby looked down from her bunk. "Alright, guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!" the cookie-loving speedster happily leapt off of her bunk, almost landing on top of Weiss.

"I'm glad to see we're taking this so seriously." The heiress said.

"Hey, we've got a plan!" Yang shot over from her bunk. "That's... moderately serious."

Ruby looked around at her teammates. "Right! Everyone remember their roles?"

"You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies," Weiss said. "Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem."

"The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members." Blake stated. "If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning." The raven haired girl looked to Yang.

"I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard..."

"Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found." Ruby pumped her fist in the air. "Let's do this!"

"Yeah!" the voice came, not from any of the girls of team RWBY but from outside their window. The whole team is taken aback by the appearance of Sun Wukong who was hanging around outside the window, literally.

"Sun! How did you get up there?"

"Ah, it's easy; I do it all the time," was the monkey tailed Faunus's reply.

Weiss wasn't too happy with that statement. "You do what?!"

"I climb trees all the time!" Sun clarified. Ignoring Weiss's scowl, he flipped into the room. "So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"

Blake stepped forward. "We are going to investigate the situation... as a team."

"Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to."

The monkey Faunus laughed. "Psh! That's dumb! We should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune!" he gestured out the window.

The girls leaned to see the aforementioned teammate of Sun's standing outside, cool as can be. "'Sup?"

"How did you even get up here?" Ruby asked.

"I have my ways." The girls looked at his feet to see he was standing on a very thin ledge circling the building under the windows. "Seriously, though, can I come in? We're like, really high up right now."

Inside the dorm room, the group stand in a circle as Ruby lays down the new plan. "Alright, I'll go with Weiss; Sun, you can go with Blake." She pushed Neptune past Weiss, and he slipped her a wink. Weiss looked mildly shocked but then comes to her senses quickly.) "And Neptune, you can go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner. Everyone good?"

"Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang?" Weiss suggested. "After all, she is your sister."

Ruby pushed Neptune, who was stiff as a board, up next to yang. When she was done pushing him, he rocked back and forth looking nervous. Yang put her hand on his shoulder to stop him from rocking as team RWBY's leader turned to Weiss.

"But, Weiss, who would go with you, then?"

"Well..." the white haired girl looked nervous but carried on with what she said. "I guess Neptune could come with me."

Neptune's face turned suave and he pointed at Weiss as the team leader cracks up. "Hahaha, nah!"

Weiss was not happy yet was powerless to stop Ruby from pulling her by the back out the door. The heiress stuck her arms out fruitlessly trying to get back to Neptune. "But! But!"

Holding back laughs, the rest of team RWBY, plus Sun and Neptune, hurried to catch up.

When they reached the courtyard, they were in for a somewhat… strange sight. Professor Redbreath was standing next to a pile of curtain-covered cages, poking one with a long metal pole. "Back I say! Back in your cage!"

Yang walked up to the possibly insane teacher. "What's in the cage, Professor?"

The red-haired teacher whirled around. "Ah, Miss Xiao Long. I assure you, you will find out in due course. But for now, carry on with what you were doing." A suspiciously Grimm-sounding growl echoed from the nearest cage. The errant professor smacked the cage. "Don't make me come in there!"

Shaking her head in wonder, the blond brawler walked off, followed by Neptune.

In the shadier parts of Vale, the club belonging to Junior Xiong was just finished undergoing repairs. The man himself stood behind the bar inside. He was adjusting his cuffs when he heard panicked shouts from nearby. The boss looked towards them as one of his men ran inside and slammed the door behind him.

"Close the door- she's coming!"

"What are you two idiots doing?!" the henchman was spluttering and incoherent. Junior had only seen his men this panicked twice before. Once when that professor from Beacon came here with his scythe-wielding friend, and the time… "Oh no."

An explosion from behind them blasted the door open and in walked the person Junior dreaded to see. It was her, the blonde girl who had blown apart his club and beaten up his men. But that wasn't going to happen this time, oh no.

The bane of his existence stepped forward, an enormous grin on her face. "Guess who's back!" The smile didn't fade even as a dozen guns were pointed at her face. Behind them the record playing started to mess up until the DJ removed the needle. Behind the blonde girl, a boy with blue hair spoke up.

"Yeah, so could you define "friend" for me?"

Junior moved forward straightening his tie. "Stop, stop! Nobody shoot. Blondie, you're here! ...Why?

Yang grabbed Junior's arm and dragged him to the bar. "You still owe me a drink."

"Whoa-ho-ho-ho, what a woman..." muttered Neptune. He looked to the side to see the twins Melanie and Militia Malachite standing beside him. "'Sup?"

Together, they say "hmph! Whatever." They walked away, noses in the air.

"I don't know!"

"How can you not know?" Yang was incredulous.

"I haven't talked to him! I haven't even seen him since the night you first came in here." He lent over towards Yang's face. "He paid up front, I lent him my men, and none of them ever. Came. Back."

Neptune rushed to Yang's side to raise a question of his own. "So where did they go?"

"What kind of stupid question is that? They never came back!" he turned to Yang. "Who is this guy?"

Yang pushed Neptune out of the way with one hand. "Don't worry about him; worry about me if I don't find out what I want!"

"I already told you everything!" Junior stated. "Torchwick hired my boys, and I guess he wasn't happy with them, which is something I can relate to!" this last part was shouted to his men behind him, who grumbled and walked away in response.

"Come on, Neptune." Yang turned from the bar and walked away.

Neptune followed with his hands in his pockets. "We get everything we need?"

"Well, we got everything we can. Hopefully the rest of the team is having better luck."

I turns out, they weren't. As Yang left the building, her scroll went off. Blake. As soon as she answered the call, Blake's voice came from it, sounding panicked. "Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-"

Her voice was cut off by Sun's. "HEEEELLLLP! Big robot! And it's big! Really big! That Torchwick guy is in it! But not, like, it didn't eat him; he's, like, controlling it or something!"

"Where are you guys?"

Just then, behind them, Blake and Sun were seen running through the street with the Paladin hot on their heels before they disappeared from view around the building.

"HURRYYYY!" Sun cried.

"I think that was them," Neptune stated.

"Yeah, I got it." Putting the Scroll away, she quickly circled her ride around - much to Neptune's alarm - and drove off to follow them.

A few streets away professor Redbreath was walking down the footpath. It was quite and empty, just as he liked it. It reminded him of his solitary travels in Skyrim. As he walked, the thought about what to do. 'I could visit the docks,' the Breton mused. 'Although, I don't really want to walk back to Beacon smelling like fish. Oh, I could go to that bar and… no wait they won't let me back in there…' the rest of the teachers musings were interrupted when he heard screaming and felt the ground shake with giant footsteps. He turned the corner only to see Blake Belladonna and another Faunus running on the rooftops, being chased by a giant robot!

The professor leapt into action, climbing up a dumpster onto the rooftops and whirlwind sprinting out of harm's way. He gave chase from behind. He watched as the rest of team RWBY appeared, attacking the giant machine and managing to knock it off of the highway to the ground below. He followed them and stood above them, watching from the bridge, waiting for a moment to strike.

The rest of Team RWBY falls beside their leader to take up positions. Roman chuckles from within the giant Mech suit, moving the robot slowly towards the girls.

Ruby started to cry out instructions. "Freezer Burn!"

Ruby and Blake jump back out of the way as Weiss created a huge circle of ice, then she backed out of Yang's way when she jumped into the air and hits the epicentre with her Ember Celica, creating a wave of mist that surrounds the giant robot. Immediately, the Paladin activated its laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but it barely saw the afterimage of Blake and narrowly missed the dashing Yang. A gun manages to fire at the area between Blake and Yang, but out from the blast came Ruby, who slashed the metal with her blade, causing it to falter.

"Checkmate!" Blake and Weiss go in this time, each girl going for the feet until Weiss jumped up and stabed a sensor before leaping off of a white glyph. The Paladin's foot raised to crush Blake, but Weiss summons another glyph under her teammate to launch her backwards before the crushing blow can land. The giant fires off several missiles, but Weiss and Blake flip backwards as the explosions merely hit where they were.

Finally, Weiss jumps up too high, and the Mech fired a double energy blast at her. Myrtenaster absorbs the damage, but Weiss was thrown back. As she flew, she casted a beam of light from her weapon to the ground under Blake, forming a yellow clockwork circle. The energy was absorbed into the Faunus girl and she launched a flurry of slices at each missile with ease, slicing them to pieces.

Ruby ran into the fray now. "Ladybug!"

Ruby shot herself forward and cut at the robot's legs, then turned as Blake aimed herself at the giant's feet as well. They both dashed forward and attacked at the same time, circling each other around the Paladin with each strike until they both launched themselves into the air and come down together on the shoulder, cutting off the left arm entirely.

Yang didn't waste a second, jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts. The Paladin struggled to remove its unwelcome passenger, but upon finding that the arm can't reach, it runs backwards through two columns and leaves her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her. Just as she is falling down, the remaining arm extends a closed fist, and when it made contact with her, she flew through the column and didn't get up.

"Yang!" Blake started to rush forward, but before she could, a brown shape dropped down from above, striking the giant robot suit on the head with an enormous hammer before leaping back away from it. "Professor Redbreath? What are you doing here?"

"Thank me later! Right now, we have an obnoxious Milk-Drinker to defeat."

The five resumed their attacks, striking the Mech suit from different angles. Redbreath raced forward and brought his hammer down on the front of the robot while Ruby and Weiss had combined their attacks to shoot frozen bullets. The rounds exploded on contact, covering the Mech's body and freezing the joints.

Professor Redbreath smashed Volendrung into the top over and over again before he was knocked away by a giant metal hand. Before he had even landed, he drew Auriel's Bow and fired several shots. The sun-hallowed arrows struck the robot suit and then detonated, creating a large flash of light. The errant professor then leapt backwards and reached into a pouch on his belt. He drew a handful of powdered dust and threw it in the air in front of him. He took in a deep breath and then shouted "YOL…TOOR!"

A plume of fire burst forth from his lips and washed over the Paladin, scorching the front and melting its remaining arm into a pile of slag. "If you had a plan, now would be a very good time to implement it!"

"Right!" Blake throws her Gambol Shroud out for Yang to catch, and the Faunus uses the ribbon to swing the now glowing girl around for a final hit to the robot. Yang's fist blasted into the side of the Mech suit with great force, sending the Paladin flying through the air. The robot smashed into the ground and blasted apart, sending pieces of metal flying everywhere. Roman crawled out of the wreckage, unharmed, and swept some dust off of his suit. "Just got this thing cleaned."

Yang, still burning with power, fired a single shot at the defenceless thief, only to have a woman dressed like an ice cream lady jump down in front of him and open her umbrella, deflecting the shot entirely.

The new arrival hung the weapon over her shoulder as Roman addressed the victors. "Ladies, Ice Queen. Possibly psychotic teacher"

"Hey!"

"I resent that!"

"Always a pleasure! Neo, if you would..." The pink-and-brown girl curtsies her enemies with a bow, but Professor Redbreath raised his bow and fired another arrow, at the same time that Yang charged forth, fists raised to strike the outlaws. The arrow and the enraged hunter met their targets at the same time… only to break their image as if made out of a mirror. The five turn just in time to see them escape in a Bullhead. The rest of team RWBY ran up to Yang's side, now cooled down with the end of the fight.

"So I guess he got a new henchman..."

"Yeah," Weiss said. "I guess she really made our plans... fall apart!"

While Weiss smiles, Ruby giggles, Redbreath lets out an annoyed puff of air and Blake starts walking away, Yang simply states "No. Just... no."

"What- But, you do it!"

"There's a time and a place for jokes."

"Was this not it?

"No, it just wasn't very good." The blonde turned to follow Blake.

"Well, at least I'm trying!' the heiress said while walking with her teammates.

Professor Redbreath cleared his throat. "Ahem… ladies, are you forgetting something?"

Ruby caught on to what the professor was saying "Oh professor, please don't tell Ozpin about this!"

"Don't worry, your secrets are safe with me. Just be a little more discreet next time." The teacher looked around then frowned. "Didn't you have some friends with you?"

"Yeah… Where are Sun and Neptune?"

Several streets away Sun and Neptune were sitting in the middle stools of the "A Simple Wok Noodle House" eating their plates of noodles with the Shopkeeper behind the counter and their weapons leaning on the other two stools.

As they ate, the blue haired boy turned to his friend and said, "They're probably fine, right?"

"Probably."

AN: phew! that was a long chapter but hopefully I did alright. As always, if you see any problems, don't hesitate to tell me. And of course, don't forget to review and come back for the next chapter, whenever it comes out.