A/N: Damn this went a lot than longer than I thought.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY and/or Hyperdimension Neptunia. They belong to their original creators.
RWBY: Press Start
Level Ten
Tutorial Battle
Everyone was in one of the travel paths in Planeptune. The CPUs were a little ahead of team RWBY. Speaking of the team, Ruby and Yang were enjoying the sites of the nation. "Dude this place is even cooler up close." Yang cheered.
Ruby shared her sister's enthusiasm. "I know. Think there are cookie shops around?" The young leader wondered what other dimension cookies would taste like."
"I'm wondering how tough the monsters here are? Thinking about it is making me feel pumped up." The brawler was all too excited to kick some monster butt again. However, her excitement wasn't shared with the rest of the team. Yang noticed the lack of excitement from Weiss and Blake. "Hey what's up?"
Weiss stared at the brawler of the group. "You don't realize how strong these monsters are. I've fought one of them before and I didn't even stand a chance against it. It shattered my glyph as well as smashed through my attacks. I wasn't able to do anything against it until Neptune over there managed to kill it in one strike."
"I had a similar experience." Blake spoke up. "A pack of wolves was chasing after me relentlessly. They didn't give up and any bullets I shot at them didn't slow them down."
Hearing about the other two member's experience about what they faced managed to deplete any excitement the sisters had now. "I wouldn't worry too much about it." The team saw IF and Compa walk up to them even though they were on a moving walkway. "Gear told me about your encounter with the Lizard Man earlier. That's classified as a rank C monster." Weiss couldn't believe a monster like that was such a low-class monster. "Don't worry though, we'll rack you all up with a class E mission. Perfect for rookies like you."
The rest of the team didn't understand what IF was talking about. "C? E? I don't get?" Ruby wanted to more what was the other girl was talking about.
IF sighed as she had to explain this all over again. "I'll explain it. We're going to a place called a guild. There, people can accept quests that other people have trouble dealing with monsters or trouble collecting a certain item or items. These quests have a ranking system. E is the weakest and easiest of the quests. After that comes D then C then B to A and then finally S which is the hardest level. After the quest is complete, you're rewarded. The more difficult the quest, the better the reward. Since all of you are still rookies, we'll pair you up with an E class quest. I don't know how strong these grim you fight are but you are in a world now where there are monsters so powerful, they even give the CPUs a hard time." That wasn't comforting to know. There are monsters that strong in this world? If Weiss and Blake struggled with low-class monsters, then they would not like to meet some of the stronger monsters.
Ruby beamed with happiness. "Wow, you're so smart."
IF crossed her arms. "Of course. This is basic knowledge you all should know. I have to teach you all of this before we reach the guild."
"Still I'm not used to being lectured by a girl who's about Ruby's age." Weiss commented.
The brunette shrugged. "Well judging by what you said about your school of hunters, I'd say I'm a qualified huntress already despite our age difference." And that comment stabbed Weiss' pride. A girl who was basically the same age as Ruby is already a huntress. "Once we're in the guild, we'll register you so you can accept the quests."
Yang raised an eyebrow. "So we have to sign up? How?"
"Also what's the appropriate age to accept these quests?" Weiss asked.
"Don't worry about it. The sign-up process will only take a few minutes. As for how old you're supposed to be, fifteen." Ruby was glad about that. She was old enough to take these quests.
The blonde brawler stretched her arms out. "That's cool. Now I'm back to being excited about all of this. It's kinda like we're huntresses already."
Weiss wasn't comfortable at all with this but she had to deal with it. If C class monsters were a challenge to them already, she hoped that an E class wouldn't be hard at all. Meanwhile, over to the CPUs, they had their own discussions. "You sure this is a good idea Neptune? We're just basically throwing them into an unknown danger." Noire advised.
Neptune, however, wasn't as worried as her. "It's going to be all right. It's not like I set them up on a secret quest fill to the brim with high-level monsters. Besides, I know you're dying to find out what these girls can do." She had Noire there. The Lastation CPU wanted to know what Ruby could do with a sniper/scythe combo weapon.
"If things do happen to get out of hand, we'll just save them. We are kinda responsible for them now." Blanc added.
Vert giggled. "Yes. Seeing them in action would be useful data the game I have planned."
Noire glared at the Leanbox CPU. "It's still unfair how you claimed that idea for yourself."
Vert gave Noire a playful smirk. "I'm sorry but you just have to deal with it. Besides, I feel like it's a much better compatibly with me rather than you. It feels natural." All the sisters with them just smiled as they liked how everyone can get along well. Most of the time.
Soon all of them arrived at the guild which was much larger than the one Blake was in back in Leanbox. Everyone stepped off the walkway and entered the building. Even the inside of the building looked like something from the future. IF walked in front of team RWBY. She pointed a few terminals. "Over there is where you'll register for the guild. It's pretty quick so it shouldn't take too long. Once you're done, I'll pick out an easy mission for you." Ruby raised her hand. "Yeah?"
The young leader put her hand down. "So if we're going to register, why are you picking the quest?"
IF smiled at the question. "Well, not all quests have to be solo. You can take them on as a party. I'll register all of us for the quest. That way once it's done, you'll get the reward." So far nothing is different than their hunting assignment. Except for the fact they'll be paid for completing something. "Hop to it."
All four girls nodded and walked to the terminals. They each took a separate one. Obviously, since it was touchscreen, all of them pressed on the screen. "Welcome. Are you a returning guild member or a new guild member?" All of them selected the second option. "Welcome new member. Please input your data." There wasn't much to put in. Just their name, when they were born, where they're from and a terms and conditions where the guild isn't responsible for any accident or death they may have while completing a quest. Everyone put in their respective name and when they were born. However, since the time here was G.C 2012, they had to subtract their age from the current year. Once that was done, they all wondered what to put in as to where they came from. Well, their home was out of the question so they went for the next best thing. Weiss put she was from Planeptune, Ruby put in she was from Lastation, Yang put in she was from Lowee funny as that is, and Blake put in she was from Leanbox. Once that was done, they all accepted the terms and conditions. There was one more thing they had to do. Suddenly they saw themselves on the screen. They figured it was for a picture. Blake and Weiss took their photo like normal but the sisters had a different idea. Yang posed for the photo while Ruby made a flashed a double peace sign. After a short process, a card came out of the terminal. "Welcome new guild member Ruby Rose. Welcome new guild member Weiss Schnee. Welcome new guild member Yang X. Long. Welcome new guild member Blake Belladonna. Please take your card and have a nice day."
They all took their card out and left the terminals. "Hey, Ruby let me see yours!" Yang walked over to her sister and saw her card. She giggled. "Nice picture sis."
Ruby giggled as well. "Thanks. Let me see yours." Her older sister was more than happy to show off hers. "Of course you would pose in front of a camera but why is your name X. Long?"
"That's because there wasn't enough room in that box so I had to shorten it a bit. Kinda sounds cool though."
"Hey over here!" The girls looked over to where IF was at. They all went to the terminal where she was. "All signed up?" Team RWBY flashed their cards to her. "Ok great. I'll look up a quest." IF turned to the screen and press "select quest." "Please choose a quest." IF immediately went over to the E quest section and scrolled down to choose which mission they should take on.
"No. No. No. Ah, here we go." She selected the quest she wanted.
"Please enter your party." IF brought out her card and inserted it into the slot. "Registered guild member IF."
She took out her card and looked at the rest of the team. "Come on."
Each of the girls put their card into the slot one after the other. "Registered guild member Ruby Rose. Registered guild member Weiss Schnee. Registered guild member Blake Belladonna. Registered guild member Yang X. Long." IF chose to accept the mission quest. "Quest accepted."
IF smiled. "And that's it. We'll come back here after the quest is done."
Ruby smiled. "Awesome! So where are we going?"
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In the outskirts of Planeptune, team RWBY and the goddesses were walking through the forest to the quests intended location where they were supposed to do. Everyone seemed to enjoy the others company. Well except for Weiss. The team was amazed by how the forest looked. Soon all of them exited out of the forest and saw multiple large green hills in front of them. "And here we are." IF declared.
Ruby ran past the guild member to take a closer look at the scenery. "Wow so cool!" Weiss rolled her eyes. Only Ruby would be amazed by hills.
IF walked up to her. "Maybe but we're not here for sightseeing." She pointed at the bottom of the hill they were on. "We're here for them." Team RWBY looked down to see that a ways from the bottom, they several large wolves that looked similar to the ones Blake tried to escape from the forest she landed in but they were in different colors. "The job is simple. Get rid of the monsters nearby and you'll be rewarded. Requested by Generic Quest Person."
All of the team members raised an eyebrow when they heard that. "Generic Quest Person? Who names themselves that?" Weiss asked.
IF shrugged. "Eh, you come across names like that when you're looking for quests. In any case, it's time to show us what this hunter school you go to taught you." She noticed Blake staring at the wolves. "If you're worried about how strong these ones are, don't worry they're not. These wolves are much weaker. Even a level one guild member beat them."
That was all what Yang needed to hear. "Well if that's true then this won't take long at all."
Noire rolled her eyes. "Just don't get a big head."
"This is Yang we're talking about. Saying that will only encourage her more." Weiss informed.
Neptune giggled. "Well if you all will be in some sort of trouble, we'll be here to bail you out."
"In other words, try not to get killed." Blanc added.
With all that said team RWBY was ready to take on their first quest. "Oh yeah before you fight, a bit of advice." They turned around to IF. "You'll have a better chance of fighting them if you catch them off guard. You'll be able to get a first strike."
Ruby smiled at the brunette. "Thanks for that." Now they turned back and slid down the hill. Once they reached the bottom, they started to walk toward the pack of wolves. Even thought IF gave them some good advice, she still whistled at them to get their attention.
All of them heard the whistle and snarled at the group. Noire face palmed at what she saw. "That moron! They had a perfect chance!"
"Maybe they wanted to up the difficulty level?" Neptune asked.
Meanwhile back down, the wolves started to run toward the team. "Nice Ruby. What did you do that for?" The heiress demanded.
"Well, we wouldn't be able to start off well. Besides how strong can E class monsters be?"
Yang cracked her knuckles. "Sounds good to me. Let's get this party started."
Weiss sighed at the two sisters. "Whatever but we should address something here. We only have a finite amount of ammo with us. Let us not become careless." Everyone nodded at the fact. For Weiss, it was more difficult since she only has a very small amount of dust she can use.
As the wolves were coming closer to the team, all of them pulled out their weapons one by one. The goddesses that were watching from above saw them take out their weapons. Noire noticed Weiss pulling out a rapier and noticed something about it. "Is that a rotating chamber at the base?"
Blanc saw Blake draw out her weapon. "Guess she's a simple weapon user."
Vert saw Yang's bracelets transform into gauntlets and she slammed her fists together. "What interesting accessories she has."
Neptune saw Ruby take something out from behind her back and it transformed into a scythe. "Whoa, that's really awesome!"
Nepgear had stars in her eyes. "Oh wow. That's a sniper/scythe combo weapon!"
"Combo weapon?" The other goddesses spoke at the same time. Noire and Uni already knew about Ruby's weapon but that's a combination of two weapons, then what are the other girl's weapons of.
One of the wolves came in close to Ruby and was about to strike her. The CPUs were ready to spring into action they the girls below didn't do anything. Ruby looked at the wolf in front of her dead in its eye and smiled. In the next second, the CPUs saw rose petals fly all over and Ruby in a different spot. The wolf that tried to attack her went flying in the air. The other wolves stopped at they saw one of their own being tossed into the air like that and snarled at the red hooded girl. All of them lunged at Ruby. Big mistake on that. Ruby swung her scythe her scythe around and struck all of them. Some were knocked back but others landed and tried to attack her again. This time the young leader blocked its attack with the other end of her scythe but that left her open for an attack from another wolf. As soon as the other one came in close, Ruby pulled the trigger to her weapon's sniper function and moved herself out of the way while pulling the scythe itself through the wolf that was in front of her. Ruby skidded and emptied the chamber in her weapon.
The CPUs above were astounded by what they saw. "Dude, did you see that?" Neptune asked.
Nepgear nodded. "Incredible. She used the recoil of her sniper to avoid the attack while cutting through the wolf that was in front of her."
"Quite the skill that young girl has considering she's wielding a weapon twice her size." Vert added.
The rest of the team continued to watch their leader deal with the monsters. "She just had to do this?" Weiss stated.
Yang laughed. "Well, we got to make a good first impression. We're in front of gods you know."
"Goddesses Yang." Blake corrected.
The blonde waved casually at her partner. "Yeah yeah. In the meantime…" All three of them saw the wolf that Ruby knocked into the air coming back down. Yang took a running start. "Hey, Fidos!" The rest of the wolves looked back to see her running toward them. "Play fetch!" As soon as the falling wolf was in front of Yang, she stopped and punched it in the center of its body. To add more, she fired a shotgun blast to increase the damage and send it back to the rest. The flying wolf crashed into the others. Those who stood back up eyed the blonde and some of them took a running start at her. The brawler smiled and ran to them. She chose the monster closest to her and as soon as she was nice and close to it, Yang pulled back her arm and uppercut the monster straight into the air. The impact of the attack forced the other wolves to move away from the one that Yang hit. In the air, the wolf saw Yang smile at it and she prepared to strike again. "Now play dead!" She hit the monster right on the top of its skull and sent it down with another shotgun boosted attack. The wolf crashed into the ground.
While the other wolves were busy watching one of their own crash, Weiss and Blake sprang into action. They each went to either side to deal with the remaining monsters. Weiss slashed through one of them cleanly while Blake did the same on the other side. To the heiress' side, several of them surrounded her and attacked her. Weiss rolled her eyes and summoned a glyph underneath her that launched herself at a high speed and slashed through one of the wolves. She didn't stop there as another one appeared beneath her to send her into another direction and did the same to a different world. Weiss continued to do this until she was all over the place striking the wolves. After all of them were hit, Weiss stopped using her glyphs and stopped while she flicked Myrtenaster. "And scene."
In the next second, ice spikes came out of the wolves and exploded. That impressed the CPUs. "How did she do that?" Uni asked.
"Who cares? That was awesome. Makes sense for Weiss being the ice girl because that was cool!" Neptune cheered. Noire was very impressed how the heiress handled herself using a rapier as a weapon. She suddenly wanted to have a fencing match with her to see how good she is.
On Blake's side, she avoided any attack the monsters did on her. As one of the wolves tried to get her from the side but the Faunus girl sidestepped to avoid the attack and countered attacked by slashing through its body. The others continued to chase Blake but she jumped back and her weapon transformed into a handgun. She shot at the oncoming monsters to keep some distance and unlike before, they had an effect on them. However, Blake noticed one of the wolves come up from behind her struck her. Or so it thought. Its paw went right through her and she disappeared completely. The next thing it knew was that it felt a blade run through its body. Blake reappeared on the side and flicked her sword as well.
The goddesses didn't know what happened. "What just happened? I clearly saw her being hit and she's fine?" Noire didn't get how the Faunus girl escaped the attack.
"Ooh, a cat ninja. That's really awesome!" Neptune shouted. "And she has that gunsword thing too like that one character in Last Fantasy. Talk about classy."
While Blake and Weiss dealt with the monsters on the side, Yang was falling back down and saw a good opportunity. She sent a few shotgun blasts from above to help out her teammates and deal a little bit of damage. The blasts hit the remaining wolves and she landed on her feet. Yang smiled and made a victory sign. However, she failed to notice one of the wolves coming at her. Blake and Weiss warned the brawler about the sneak attack and Yang turned around to see the wolf coming. She jumped back to avoid the attack. "Ha, you missed you!" Yang's gloating was cut short as she noticed a single golden hair fall in front her. She made a face Blake and Weiss knew all too well. Yang growled as she gritted her teeth. "YOU'RE DEAD!" Her lilac eyes now become blood red and her hair was glowing. She rushed over to the wolf and punched it directly into its face and sent it directly to the other side. To add to that, the wolf exploded as it crashed.
The goddesses didn't know what to think of what they saw. "Oh, my. And here I thought she was the most carefree one." Vert stated.
"Jeez. She has Vert's looks and Blanc's temper. Remind me not play hairdresser with her." Neptune added. While Blanc could say something about that, the other CPU was right. "And what's with her gauntlets? They sound like shotguns or something when she's firing them."
The other two members walked up to Yang as the other girl calmed down. "That'll teach you to mess with my hair!"
Weiss crossed her arms. "I guess even other dimension monsters should know better than to harm what she cherishes the most." Blake nodded in agreement. With that small talk out of the way, they all rushed to help out Ruby to take out the rest of the wolves. Speaking of the young leader, she was dealing the remaining wolves that were fighting her. Ruby used her sembalance to take them out quickly. They couldn't keep up with her as she cut through all of them with ease. They all fell one by one until Ruby shot the last one that tried to jump her. As it fell down, Ruby breathed out. She saw her sister and the rest of her team running up to her. "Hey, guys!"
The sisters high-fived each other and Yang looked around. "Nice work sis. These things weren't so tough."
This is one of the few times Weiss had to agree. They were much easier to deal than that dragon monster she had to fight the first time. However, something wasn't right. Blake felt the same way. "I don't think we're done yet."
The two sisters looked at her. "Why's that Blake? We did a pretty good number on them."
Blake recalled what happened when she fought with IF. "These monsters aren't done yet. I know because when they're killed, they turn into some flash of light." That reminded Weiss that the same thing happened when she saw Neptune one shot that monster. It turned into a bunch of lights as well.
They all heard snarls and turned around to see the wolves standing back up. Even if they were heavily injured, they weren't about to give up. "Jeez. All of that was enough to take out a pack of beowolves and ursas. These things are the weakest?" Yang complained.
"Well, we should've expected that. These aren't monsters we're used to hunting." Weiss stated.
Ruby walked in front of the team. "Then let's finish them. TEAM FORMATION RWBY!" They all knew what that meant. All of them readied themselves. "WHITEROSE! BUMBLEBEE!"
The other three smiled when they heard that. "Sounds good to me!" Yang shouted as she ran to the wolf pack with Blake right behind her. Ruby and Weiss followed suit. All of them knew the plan. Take out each half of the pack. However, Yang decided to add something extra. "First team to wipe their share tells the losing team whatever they do!"
"You're saying that now!" Weiss shouted. She shook her head. Now wasn't the time for a petty squabble. Both teams came in close to their halves. Ruby jumped and hacked through one of the wolves and it turned into countless lights. Another one tried to attack her but a glyph blocked the attack. "Pay attention, you dunce!" Weiss thrust her rapier through the monster and it too turned into countless lights. Both of them stood back to back with their weapons ready. As their backs were touching, Weiss felt her heart beat increase. This always happens whenever she was near the red hooded girl. "Get it together. You can figure it out later."
Meanwhile, over to Yang and Blake, the brawler of the group struck one of the wolves up and Blake jumped to slash it through. The wolf turned into countless lights and Blake threw the ribbon attached to the end of Gambol Shroud to Yang. While the blonde caught the ribbon, Blake turned her weapon into a gun again and began to shoot at the monsters below. As soon as she landed, Blake pulled her ribbon will everything she had along with Yang hold on to it. The Faunus girl threw the ribbon over where there was a group of wolves rushing at her. However, they were stopped and Yang punched one of them into the ground as the force of the attack sent the rest away from it. The wolf the blonde struck turned into countless lights and started to work on the next closest one. Blake slashed through her share of the wolves as they turned into countless lights.
Weiss and Ruby made quick work with the monsters they had to deal with thanks to their teamwork. The same with Yangs and Blake's. One by one the monsters fell until there was only one left on each side. Keeping up with the flow, Ruby aimed her scythe at it while Weiss placed several glyphs in front of it. Blake used her sembalance to confuse the wolf while Yang was behind her. The wolf struck what it thought was Blake but it went through her with ease and Yang was up close to it. Ruby fired a round and went through the glyphs as they made the bullet more powerful. Blake was behind the wolf ready to strike. The two attacks simultaneously finished off the remaining monsters as the bullet tore through the wolf and Blake and Yang's cross attack crushed the other one. Both of them turned into countless lights and there were none left.
All of them looked around then each other and cheered. While they did, the CPUs were also impressed at they did. "That was quite the show they did." Vert spoke.
Noire nodded in agreement. "Yeah but it's hard to believe they're still in training."
"Makes you wonder what the teachers are like." Neptune added.
Team RWBY continued to cheer at their victory until they heard a loud howl. All of them stop as they took in the howl they had just heard. They all felt a chill go up their spine when they heard it. Whatever made that was most definitely a large howl. All of them turned to the forest that was ahead of them and saw something very large come out. It was a wolf but it was much larger and much more feral than the ones they had fought. It looked at the group of girls with its bloodthirsty eyes. Yang laughed nervously. "So…who wants to take that on?"
