Chapter 7 - The Initiation, Part III

We see Weiss and Ruby hanging on to something very feathery and vert fast.

"Ruby! I told you this was a terrible idea!" Weiss shouted.

"We're fine! Stop worrying!" Ruby shouted back.

"I am so far beyond worrying!" Weiss said.

"In a good way?" Ruby asked.

"In a bad way! In a very bad way!" Weiss answered.

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

"What are you? Insane?!" Weiss objects.

Unfortunately, Ruby already jumped, leaving Weiss alone.

"Oh, you insufferable little red-" Weiss was interrupted.


Meanwhile, Mario and Sonic is still navigating through the forest.

"I wonder where Mega Man and the karate boy are right now..." Sonic wondered.

"They must have already reached the temple." Mario guessed.

"Yeah, I think so too." Sonic said.

However, they heard someone running.

"Did you hear that?" Mario asked Sonic.

"Yeah, I heard something too." Sonic answered.

When they take a closer look, they saw Pyrrha running away.

"I wonder why she's-a running?" Mario wondered.

"Hey, what's the hurry?" Sonic asked Pyrrha.

"You guys need to get out of here." Pyrrha said while running.

"And why is that?" Sonic asked.

"There's a big scorpion heading right through us!" Pyrrha shouted.

Pyrrha soon left the scene and Mario and Sonic were left wondering why the girl ran like that. However, they soon felt an earthquake coming and there was a scorpion coming in their direction.

"Mamma mia! That's-a one big of a scorpion!" Mario was surprised.

"We should get out of here before this scorpion thing got us. Hang on to me!" Sonic told Mario.

Sonic then rides Mario on his back and prepares to run.

"Hold on tight, buddy! This might get bumpy!" Sonic said.

But before Mario could say anything, Sonic was already running at the speed of sound.


Back at the temple, the gang looked up at the sky, wondering who that was.

"Blake, did you hear that? What should we do?" Yang asked.

Blake points up to the sky, and it was Ruby who falls from the sky.

"Hey, isn't that...?" Mega Man wondered.

"Heads uuuuuuup!" Ruby shouted.

But before she could hit the ground, Jaune comes flying through the air and crashes into Ruby, sending them both on the tree on the left. Ruby was dazed by the rough landing.

"Ooohhhh...What was that?" Ruby wondered, dazed.

"Eh-hem!" Jaune clears his throat as he hanging upside down. "Hey, Ruby."

"Did you sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked Yang.

"I..." Yang could not answer.

Before she can continue, several crashing noises are heard in the forest ahead of them.

"Something's coming..." Ryu said.

The gang put on their fighting stance. There was an Ursa, riding by Nora. However, a pink blast hits it in the back and it crashes to the ground.

"YEEEEE-HAAAAW!" Nora yelled. "Awwww...It's broken."

Ren comes up behind her.

"Nora! Please...Don't ever do that again." Ren begged Nora, but she suddenly disappeared.

She was already in the temple, examining a golden rook piece.

"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She sang.

"Nora!" Ren shouted off-screen.

"Coming, Ren." Nora said as she salutes and catches the piece with her hand.

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked.

"I..." Yang was interrupted once again.

They heard another screech from the right, and Pyrrha, along with Sonic and Mario, arrives in the temple as the scorpion creature chases them. Pyrrha and Sonic narrowly dodge it's giant claw and keeps on running.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha called out.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune shouted.

"Sonic! Mario!" Mega Man called out to the two.

"Whoa!" Ruby said while looking at the monster below.

She starts running off the branch and landing in a roll

"Ruby!" Jaune whinned.

"Ruby?" Yang said.

"Yang!" Ruby said before giving her sister a hug before it gets interrupted.

"Nora!" Nora called out.

Sonic and Mario managed to separate themselves from Pyrrha, allowing them to regroup.

"Sonic! Thank goodness you're safe!" Mega Man said.

"Whew! Glad we found you guys! I was wondering where you've been this whole time!" Sonic said as he dismounts Mario.

"Actually, we've been here a long ago." Mega Man answered.

"Ah, looks like-a everyone is here!" Mario said.

The scorpion Grimm continues to follow Pyrrha as she runs.

"Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?" Blake asked.

"I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!" Yang furiously said as her eyes turn red.

Ren catches up with the gang and Ruby noticed something in the air.

"Um...Yang?" Ruby said as she looked up in the air.

Above, they see Weiss hanging on a Nevermore.

"How could you leave me?!" Weiss asked.

"Whoa, that's one big bird." Sonic commented.

"I said jump!" Ruby shouted.

"She's gonna fall." Blake told everyone.

"She'll be fine." Ruby reassured everyone.

"She's falling." Ren said.

Jaune finally gets out of the hanging and catches Weiss in mid-air.

"Just dropping in?" Jaune asked.

However, they soon realized that they're gonna fall. But then, Sonic and Mario had an idea.

"Uh...what are you guys doing?" Ruby asked.

Sonic pulled a Spring out of nowhere and placed it on the ground.

"Did that...hedgehog just pulled a spring out of nowhere?" Blake asked.

"Here we go!" Mario said as he has prepares to run.

Mario continues to run, he then jumps into the spring, allowing Mario to jump higher and catch Weiss.

"I got you, princess!" Mario said.

Sonic soon followed and saves Jaune.

"Gotcha, dude!" Sonic said.

They soon land the ground perfectly. Mario

"My hero..." Weiss said to Mario as he released her from his grips.

"You know, you should be careful next time." Sonic could only scratch his head in disappointment.

"Thanks..." Jaune said.

Pyrrha was still being chased by the scorpion, but she manages to land on the heroes.

"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said.

"Not if I can help it!" Ruby said as she unsheathed her scythe.

"Ruby, wait!" Yang shouted.

Ruby charges at the scorpion head on, but the Grimm knocks her back.

"D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!" Ruby said.

Ruby decided to run away from the scorpion.

"Ruby!" Yang said as she runs forward.

Ruby rushes towards Yang, but the Nevermore arrives, using it's feathers to catch Ruby's cape and prevent Yang from reaching her.

"Ruby, get out of there!" Yang begged.

"I'm trying!" Ruby is struggling to get out.

The scorpion approaches, was about to use it's golden stinger on Ruby.

"Ruby!" Yang said.

"Mega Man, don't you have a Time Stopper? Use it!" Sonic asked.

"I can't. I already used it to get me and Ryu out of those waves of Beowolves in the forest." Mega Man answered.

Then, Weiss dashes off towards Ruby and reaches the stinger just as it's about to pierce her.

"You are so childish!" Weiss said.

Ruby opens her eyes to the sight of the stinger encased in ice.

"Weiss...?" Ruby said.

"And dim-witted, and hyperactive, and don't even get me started on your fighting style. And I suppose I can be a bit...difficult...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." Weiss said.

"I'm not trying to show off. I want you to know I can do this." Ruby said.

"You're fine." Weiss said as she walks away.

"Normal knees..." Ruby said with a sigh of relief.

Ruby looked at the Death Stalker as it still struggles.

"Whoa!" Ruby shouted.

Yang rushes up to Ruby and gives her a hug.

"So happy you're okay!" Yang said.

Then, they saw Nevermore roaring.

"Guys? That thing's circling back! What are we gonna do?" Jaune asked the group.

"Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us." Weiss said.

"She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the Cliffs." Ruby said as Weiss nods. "There's no point in fighting these things."

"Run and live - that's an idea I can get behind." Jaune said.

"Well, I'm-a go and grab a piece." Mario told the group.

Ruby goes over and grabs a gold knight, Jaune grabs a gold rook and Mario grabs a rainbow king piece. The three looked at each other, smiling. The Death Stalker cracks the ice that encased him.

"Time we left!" Ren told the group.

"Right. Let's go!" Ruby commanded the group.

Soon, everyone, except Yang and Blake, followed her. Yang could only look at Ruby as she leading them.

"What is it?" Balke said.

"Nothing..." Yang said as she and Blake goes with her as well.


The group finally came out of the forest and Nevermore follows them from the air. They spread out when it passes above, concealing themselves behind some of the stone block with their allies as it perches on a high columns and caws.

"Well, that's great!" Yang was annoyed.

Jaune looks behind as the Death Stalker bursting onto the scene.

"Ah, man, run!" Jaune shouted.

They all emerged from their hiding spot and run away. The Nevermore rise up into the air.

"Nora, distract it!" Ren ordered Nora.

Nora runs from her block and dodging the feathers. She then takes out a grenade launcher and fires a grenade at it, causing it to retreat. However, the Death Stalker was behind her until Blake and Ren perform a cross-slash with their Gambol Shroud and StormFlower against it's shell, with Mega Man performing a straight slash with his Flame Sword. Weiss used her glyph to leap both of them to safety. Jaune and Pyrrha are still running while the Death Stalker are now chasing Ren, Blake and Mega Man.

"Go, go!" Pyrrha said to Jaune before getting her weapons out.

Pyrrha shoots the scorpion with her weapon, with Ren and Mega Man joining in by firing StormFlower and Mega Buster, respectively. This had no effect whatsover and it tried to swipe them, prompting them to run away.

The tweleve race over the ancient stone bridge, not noticing the Nevermore closing and used it's giant wing to shatter the bridge, separating Ren, Blake, Pyrrha and Mega Man from the group while Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Nora, Jaune, Mario, Sonic and Ryu managed to get closer to the building. Ruby fires a shot at the Nevermore who retreats while Blake is beaten back by the scorpion.

"Man, we gotta go over there! They need help!" Jaune told the group.

"Let's do this!" Nora said.

"Yeah, but, uh...I can't make that jump." Jaune was nervous.

Nora smiles and turns her weapon into a full-length hammer and jumps on the edge of the bridge.

"Oh, wait!" Jaune tried to stop her, but was too late.

She slams the hammer into the bridge and throws Jaune to the other side, constantly screaming.

"No, no, no, no, no, no!" Jaune continued.

Nora rides on her hammer and fires it off the collapsing section of the bridge, launching her to slam it's face right in the center of the Death Stalker's skull. It fires a stinger at her, but she managed to dodge. But Nora accidentally knocks Blake off the bridge, but thankfully, she latched on the bridge, allowing her to swing and get on the top of the Nevermore, slashing it many times before landing on the other side.

"It's tougher than it looks!" Blake told the group.

"Then let's hit it with everything we got!" Yang said as she readied her Ember Celica.

Ryu and Mario joined Ruby, Blake, Weiss and Yang in taking down the Nevermore. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang all fired their shots simultaneously while Ryu and Mario fired a Shinkuu Hadouken and Mario Finale, respectively. The Nevermore didn't take any damage whatsoever and crashes the column that they were standing on. The group leap from one section of falling stones to the next until they reach the higher bridge on top, just below the cliffs.

"None of this is working!" Weiss stated.

"How are we supposed to take that big bird down?" Sonic asked.

"I have a plan! Cover me!" Ruby said to Weiss.

She blasts away as Weiss, Mario, Sonic and Ryu heads into the fray.

"We gotta move!" Jaune told the group.

The Death Stalker aims a claw at Pyrrha, but she deflects it with her Akouo shield and slashes it with her blade. The scorpion tried to attack with the other claw, but Jaune deflect it with his shield, knocking it back. Ren runs up firing and gets on the stinger as he tried to shoot it, while Nora fires more grenades at the attacking claws, with Mega Man assisting her by firing a fully-charged Mega Buster. Pyrrha hurls her javelin straight into one of the monster's ten eyes, making it throw Ren to the side.

"Ren!" Nora shouted.

Ren hits the side of a stone block hard and falls into the ground, not getting back up. Jaune notices the stinger is hanging limply.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune called out.

"Done!" Pyrrha said as she throws her shield into the stinger, causing it to fall down on it's head as she retrieves her shield.

"Nora, nail it!" Jaune ordered.

"Heads up!" Nora said.

Nora jumps on Akouo, Pyrrha leaps as Nora aims her blast down to give herself a maximum lift. As she goes down, she strikes the scorpion with her hammer, crushing the bridge beneath it. Jaune, Pyrrha and Mega Man bound over the monster to land behind it and Nora fires up and away behind. They all landed on the ground safely, with Ren simply walks over them.

Yang is still burning through her ammo on the beast, landing a blow at it's face, causing it to head right towards her, but she leaps for it's open maw and forces the beak to open.

"I! Hope! You're! Hung-!...-gry!" Yang shouted as she fires more shots at it's mouth.

Yang jumped away from the Nevermore as it crashed into the cliffs. Yang smiles as she spots Ruby, Blake and Ryu on the broken columns wtih Weiss rushing to the battle and Ryu charging up another Shinkuu Hadouken. Yang passes her while Nevermore starts to fly back up, but Ryu managed to make it stuck on the cliff by firing his Shinkuu Hadouken, which turned into a large beam, at it while Weiss hops over and froze it's tail, preventing it from flying. Blake used her Gambol Shroud and Yang catches it, making it a slingshot. Ruby hops into one and bend it back into Weiss' black sigil.

"Of course you would come up with this idea." Weiss said.

"Think you can make the shot?" Ruby asked.

"Hmm! Can I!" Weiss said confidently.

"Can't?" Ruby asked.

"Of course!"

Ruby looks forward and pumps Crescent Rose as Weiss turns the circle from black to red and releases Ruby at such a speed that the ground behind her launch cracks rose petals flying from her ascent. With each shot, she got closer to the trapped Grimm until her scythe catches the neck of the Nevermore. Weiss raises her sword and creates a series of white circles up the wall, which Ruby dashes through by firing the entire way up. She did this until she managed to get to the top and decapitated it's head. Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren and Mega Man watch in amazement.

"Wow..." Jaune said.

"She did it!" Mega Man said.

Ruby looks down to her friends as they peer up.

"Well...That was a thing!" Yang said.

"She has grown to become a warrior..." Ryu said.

"You think so?" Yang asked Ryu as she goes over to him.

"Yeah, but she still has a long way to go in order to become a Huntress..." Ryu said.

"That I can agree." Weiss said.

Sonic goes over to Blake to compliment her.

"Hey, cat lady. You're pretty good." Sonic commented.

"I could say the same to you, hedgehog." Blake replied.

"Please, just call me Sonic." Sonic said.

"I'm Blake." Blake said.

Sonic and Blake shake hands. Weiss then goes over to Mario to thank him.

"Thank you for saving my life, Mario." Weiss said.

"No problem! It is-a my duty to save the princess from any danger." Mario said.

"Heh. You're quite a gentleman." Weiss said. "I imagined you've done this to any other princesses."

"Yeah." Mario nodded.

Yang approaches Ryu and ask him to teach her his moves.

"You were awesome back there! Firing a giant laser out of your hand! Can you teach me that move?" Yang asked.

"Sure. But you gonna need to learn the basics first..." Ryu said.

"Heh. I can go through that." Yang said with confidence.

"Then it's settled." Ryu said with a smile while offering a fist bump.

Yang and Ryu perform a fist bump with each other.


Bck at the Beacon Academy, Ozpin can be seen alongside with four students on stage.

"Russel Thrush. Cardin Bronzewing. Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL (Cardinal)...led by Cardin Winchester!" Ozpin announced.

The audience gives one more wave of ovation, while four students walk up to the stage to take their place.

"Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR (Juniper)." Ozpin said.

The audience gives one more wave of ovation. While it's doing that, Nora laughs and gives him a hug.

"Led by...Jaune Arc!" Ozpin continued.

"Huh? L-Led by...?" Jaune was surprised by the announcement.

"Congratulations, young man." Ozpin said to Jaune.

Pyrrha offers a shoulder bump so hard that it knock him off the stage. The audience were laughing.

"Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY(Ruby). Led by...Ruby Rose!" Ozpin announced.

Weiss looks surprised while Ruby was in shock as Yang goes over to hug her sister.

"I'm so proud of you!" Yang said.

"And finally: Mario. Sonic the Hedgehog. Mega Man. Ryu. The four of you retrieved the hidden rainbow king pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team MMRS(Mars). Led by...Mario!" Ozpin said.

Sonic, Mega Man and Ryu grabbed Mario and tossed him into the air over and over again.

"Mario number one! Woo hoo!" Mario shouted.

"It looks like things are shaping up to be an...interesting year." Ozpin said while the cheer is going on.