"Fuck! Need some help over here!"Engineer shouted as another buckshot round escaped his shotgun.

"We're busy!" Weiss shouted back.

"Killing Grimm!" Yang added. Another punch, another dead Beowolf. "Ah! Eat this!" She returned the favor of being slashed at with a point-blank blast to the Grimm's mask.

Engineer took a risk and glanced at the black sphere of Dark surrounding the White Reaper and her enemy."Shit, I sure hope Summer's doing fine over there…" He was promptly interrupted by an Ursa crashing into his face.

"Ruby, look out!" Looking up, Ruby barely got time to react as a large paw of an Ursa crashed down onto the spot her head was just a moment ago. "Thanks!" Ruby replied and rewarded the Grimm with a decapitated head. Nearby, Weiss casted a time dilation glyph on Blake while using Dust to summon Ice crystals and propel them towards the sea of Grimm encircling them.

"Weiss! Ice flower!" Ruby shouted out to her friend as she spots a large Ursa approaching. Weiss casted an ice glyph on the muzzle of Crescent Rose and Ruby pulled the trigger immediately thereafter. The result was a Dust round coated in Ice Dust flying through the air and striking the Ursa in the head. This was followed by multiple shots until the beast was completely immobilized.

"Engineer, Sentry here!"

"Got it Doc!" The Engineer pulled out a toolbox from literally out of nowhere and placed it on the ground. "Buildin' a sentry!" He pulled out his wrench and gave it a little swing, before bashing the tool against the toolbox. Through some magic and the logic of 'Hit something broken and it will fix itself', the toolbox accelerated its building speed of the sentry. The Lv 3 popped up a second later and began firing countless rounds at the wave of enemies around the group.

While the battle raged on outside, two figures encircled each other inside the dome of blackness. The Queen, also known as Salem, slowly paced around the careful figure of Summer Rose. Her silver eyes met the dark pupils of Salem. The Beringels stood by Salem's side as they watched the two.

"Shall we?" Salem said with a fake politeness in her voice. Summer responded with a scoff. "I've been waiting." She drew the bowstring back and aimed it at her adversary. "Time for you to finally die." The Queen stopped her pacing and turned her head slowly towards the White Reaper. "Not me."Black and demonic looking wings started to sprout from Salem's back, with a slowly growing smile on her face. Her fingernails started to enlarge until they became white serrated claws and her teeth began to grow into ones of a Grimm.

"Begin."Summer aimed and shot an arrow, but said arrow was caught by Salem and thrown back. Using her semblance, Summer blinked away and rolled away from a black projectile launched by Salem.

"Ugh!" A projectile grazed Summer's hand, but her Aura stopped it from causing much harm. She drew an arrow from her quiver and notched it onto her bow. She rapidly aimed down the red-dot sight and released the bowstring.

"Something like this wouldn't harm me, you should know!" Salem's voice turned very ominous and deep, along with a slight echo to it. Her black wings continued to flap rhythmically as her outstretched hand launched projectile after projectile at the Rose.

"Yeah right, keep telling yourself that!" Summer taunted and fired a Fire Dust arrow at Salem. A grunt of pain proved that the arrow hit its mark. Salem commanded her wings to fly higher and swooped in on Summer. "Whoa!" Summer ducked just in time to avoid being clawed by the Queen's clawed hands.

"Alright, stop playing." Summer said to herself, and risked closing her eyes for a moment. Once she opened it, her right eye started to glow brightly and her bow and arrows began to give off a white Aura. With speed, Summer drew three arrows at once and fired them at Salem. One arrow actually punched through the wings, earning her a grunt-scream of pain, while the others missed and hit the dome of black surrounding them.

"You think your Silver eyes can help you?!" Salem reared her body back and swooped down to perform another claw attack, and this time managed to hit her enemy's aura. Not giving her a moment of respite, Salem continued to repeat this action with her speed increasing each time. To observers, this battle would've been nothing more than a blur completely unable to be seen by the naked eye.

"Shit!" Summer blinked around a claw, only to get surprised by yet another claw. She pulled out an arrow and held it where Salem's next attack is going to land, and stabbing her clawed hand. The metal alloy arrow broke upon contact with the Queen's hand, but still managed to weaken the Queen's Aura.

"My children, attack!" The Beringels obeyed and charged towards the woman. She reacted by stabbing one through the eye with an arrow while jumping onto its back. It roared in pain, and attempted to use its hands to shake the woman off.

"Missed me!" She taunted, and proceeded to repeated stab the arrow in and out of the eye. She ducked down just in time for a swipe to pass by her head. Summer jumped off the back of the Grimm, her cape fluttering as she blinked into the middle of three Beringels. The Grimm saw her and swiped their fists at her, only to hit thin air as Summer blinked away. The Grimm did not have time to react as each of their respective fists continued on their trajectory and hit each other, the pure kinetic energy behind them snapping their necks.

"Hah!" Summer laughed, then turned back to Salem, who was visibly seething. The Queen of Grimm held her hand out, and multiple Beowolfs emerged from blobs of red liquid on the ground.

"More eh? You sure you don't want to surrender now?" Summer smirked as she taunted the Queen further. "No. Charge."

"Fuck this! Everybody, heads up!" The Engineer shouted as he pulled out a stick with a flashing red light on the tip from his pocket. "Incoming!" He threw the rod into the horde of Grimm surrounding them.

"Wha- Oh…" Spy said in realization as the rod hit the ground and promptly eaten by an Ursa. "What's that!?" Yang shouted from the other side of the battlefield.

"Ya'll gonna remember!" Engineer shot three more Beowolves with his shotgun and punched one in the face with the gunslinger. "Cavalry has arrived!" Demoman yelled and pointed at the sky. Everybody looked up, even the Grimm paused to observe the five burning objects flying towards them.

"I feel sad for ze Grimm zat swallowed ze stick…" Medic mumbled.

The Grimm started to howl and roar at the shape incoming, their minds not thinking about running away from imminent death via blunt force trauma from objects exceeding terminal velocity.

The shapes in the air slowly became recognized as the Dreadnoughts the mercenaries used during the Tsunami's invasion, leading Ruby to feel slightly weak in her knees as a thin line of drool began to drip down her mouth.

The Ursa that swallowed the rod was immediately crushed by the Engineer's Dreadnought, while the other four Dreadnoughts took out more Grimm, splattering black blood everywhere. The R.E.D. team members took the moment of confusion by the Grimm and climbed into their respective Dreadnoughts.

"Everybody get down!" Engineer yelled through the microphone. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang complied and dropped down to the ground, just as the Dreadnoughts began to wreck havoc on the Grimm's collective asses. The Engineer's rotary cannon mowed down Grimm by the bullet, while the Medic set up a shield around themselves to allow the Dreadnoughts to fire outwards while keeping out the Grimm.

The Demoman's Dreadnought continuously fired grenade after grenade at the crowd of Grimm surrounding them. "WOOOOO! DIE!" The Pyro activated both flamethrowers on its arms, burning and outright melting the flesh of the Grimm. Team RWBY clambered inside the shield, as carnage unfolded around them.

The bullet hell and massacre continued for around a minute or so before finally stopping.

"… That… WAS AWESOME!" Ruby squealed loudly. Blake covered her ears with her hands as her hyper-sensitive cat ears began twitching violently from Ruby's voice. Ruby saw this and apologized.

"Wait! Mom!" Yang ran over to the dome of pure black, and touched it. A large shockwave suddenly ripped through the air, knocking everyone, including the Dreadnoughts, backwards.

"Shit! Let me try!" The Engineer then raised the Dreadnought's rotary cannon and began firing, but the bullets did nothing more than do nothing.

"We gotta get in there! Mom probably needs help!" Ruby yelled to her teammates, just as the dome collapsed. "Huh?" An arrow flew right over her head and impacted the Demoman's Dreadnought's hull, denting it a slight bit. The arrow was then followed up by a roar of anger and more arrows sailing through the air.

The White Reaper jumped out of the dome while still drawing and firing arrows at her adversary, while the Queen used her wings to maneuver out of their way. Summer's right eye was glowing a bright white, while her clothes were tattered and torn.

"Need some help over here!" Summer screamed over to the mercenaries. The pilots quickly raised their robotic weaponry and began firing at Salem. Scowling, Salem flew over to the Demoman's Dreadnought and began tearing through the armor with her claws. "What!?" The Demoman narrowly ducked a claw going straight through the hull of the cockpit and out of the view screen, causing sparks to fly everywhere. Grunting a bit from pain, the Demoman opened the hatch and jumped out, leaving the Dreadnought pilotless. This all happened within the span of five seconds, and after the Queen was done with literally tearing apart the Dreadnought which took only three seconds more, she quickly flew over to the rotary cannon of the Engie's Dreadnought and cut off the entire arm with one swipe of her claw. This was repeated until the Dreadnought had no limbs left, while the others continued to fire at the Queen, who dodged every single attack or bullet.

"So pathetic." The Queen tore through the Medic's Dreadnought and splitting it in half, exposing the Medic who was quickly beheaded by a claw slice. "NO! Weiss! Use Ice dust on her! Try to slow her down!"

"Got it, Ruby!" Weiss revolved her Dust chamber to Ice Dust and casted a glyph over Salem and casted Ice Dust. The Dust successfully slowed the Grimm-woman down, but was quickly clawed off by her. "It's not working!"

The Queen seemingly teleported when the Spy's Dreadnought was about to drive a large knife into her back, and ripped the cockpit off the hip of the machine. She then threw the hunk of metal she held in her hands toward a nearby building and continued onto to destroy Pyro's Dreadnought by forcibly redirecting the flamethrower towards itself and melting the hull.

"Everyone! Run!" The White Reaper yelled out to everybody as she stepped between the Beacon students and professors and the Queen. "RUN!" The words could not get out of her mouth sooner, as the Queen sliced a claw through her Aura, and shattering it completely. The weak body of Summer Rose fell down onto the floor. "MOM!" Without even missing a beat, the Queen raised her hand and sliced at Summer Rose.

Ruby watched as what was once her mother's right arm turn into a lifeless hunk of flesh as it flew off the stump that once held the arm. Anything below the Rose's elbow was disconnected from her body. The older Rose was helpless as a scream escaped her lips, making Salem smile a sadistic glee. Ruby prepped Crescent Rose and was about to recoil-jump forward, but Salem's hand glowed before all of the surviving fighters were held by an invisibly force.

"Yes, yes! Scream! I want your final death to be the most painful! And most of all…" Salem picked the almost dead body by the neck, and looked the suffering female in the eye. It's silver pupils lost the glow that they once held. "Your daughters will be watching."

Finishing her monologue, Salem raised her other hand and turned Summer's body around so that her daughters and the others could see her final look. The Queen started to laugh maniacally, eyes widening and brought the claw down to the Rose's head.

Ruby watched this scene unfold in slow motion. The world around her seemed to darken and grey, the Queen's supposedly quick movements slowed to a snail's pace. The claw slowly cutting through the air, inches before reaching her mother's neck.

"No…" A thought began forming in her mind as tears began forming.

"No… No…" Her mother was lost once, and she was about to lose her again.

"No…" The look of sadness in her mother's eyes, the watering corners of her vision.

Suddenly, she felt a feeling erupt throughout her body. Something she never felt before. Not sadness, not despair, and certainly not surprise. No, what she felt…

She felt power.

Ruby remembered the day that her Aura was unlocked by Taiyang, her father.

"For it is passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee." The second the words were uttered by her father, the same feeling arose, giving the young Ruby, who was only eight at the time, a sense of power, the feeling that anything is possible, and that she could conquer everything.

This was the feeling the Ruby now was feeling.

Gathering all the lung power she has, Ruby screamed at the very top of her voice.

"NO!"

Her vision whitened, but before her view was fully painted a bright white, Ruby could make out the shape of Salem dropping Summer down to the ground and looking surprised.

And scared.

The vision turned to white briefly, before darkness overtook her.

"Ugh, scheisse! Glad ze AutoRev vorks." The Medic, now with head attached to his body, slowly crawled out of the cockpit. What's left of it anyways. He took in the view around him. The first thing he saw was the damaged hull of his Dreadnought.

"Huh? How zid- Ooh. Oh." The second was that Team RWBY was lying down on the ground. His comrades' Dreadnoughts were all destroyed and wrecked as well, pieces of metal scattered around the battlefield. "Ugh, guys! Vake up!" He stood up, but felt a burning pain in his legs. "Ah!" He stumbled back to the ground. He looked at the offending leg, only to see a sharp metal rod extruding out of it.

Wincing from the pain, the Medic brought out his Medigun and directed it at himself before pushing the handle. The healing beam connected with his body and he felt rejuvenated. The rod in his leg was forced out and the hole left behind quickly grew back.

"Ja, much better!" He stood up with no problem and made his way over to Team RWBY, before remembering something crucial. "Schiesse! Summer!" He ran over to the lifeless body of the woman and kneeled down next to it.

He ran a finger across the neck. "Good, zere is a pulse. A veak one." He quickly pushed the handle on the Medigun and watched as the bloodied skin and gashes visibly healed themselves. But, there is a peculiar matter. "Why isn't ze arm growing back!?" He almost shouted at the sight of the stump that was her elbow not extending into a forearm.

"Interesting." He said after he took a closer look at the stump. Instead of a normal bloodied stump, Summer's was a black goo-y substance, with black veins protruding out of it and connecting to the immediate area of the elbow, which is her arm.

Before he could make any further examinations, the patient woke up and kicked the German in the chin. The now awake Summer looked at the Medic before apologizing. "Oh Dust, I'm sorry!" She said before noticing something. Or rather, a lack of.

"Huh? Where's my -AHH!" Summer gave a small scream when she noticed the empty space below her elbow where the rest of her arm should be. "Fucking Salem! Ruby! Where are they?! Are they okay!?"

"I think so, they zon't look injured." He replied. Completely ignoring her current predicament, the woman rushed over to her daughter's prone figures and shook them. Yang was the first to wake up, and the first to scream at the sight of the severed arm. Ruby however, could not wake up.

"Medic! Ruby isn't waking up!"

"Huh!? Alright, I'm calling for ze evac.

Sometime later

"Come in." Weiss did so, followed by her teammates. "Good morning Mrs. Rose." She curtly bowed. Said woman was sitting by an unconscious Ruby, who was lying on the stark white mattress of Beacon's infirmary. "Heyo." Yang said from the other side of the room as she looked outside the window.

"Good morning Weiss, and please, no need to call me that, makes me feel old." Summer replied with a sad smile. "How are you holding up?"

Weiss looked a bit surprised that the woman in front of her would ask her a question. "Well, the nurse says that we only had Aura exhaustion, should be okay in a few days. Ruby though…"

"Yeah… This is the third day now, and she still hasn't woken up." Summer picked up a mug on the bedside table and sipped from it, the hot chocolate flowing down her tongue really soothed the bitterness she was feeling for the past couple of days.

"… So…" Weiss stole a glance at her partner's mother's arm. Rather, what's left of it. "What did the doctor say about your… arm?" Yang, who stood by the window, answered instead.

"Doc says that its some sort of infection. Nothing they've ever seen." Weiss and Blake were slightly taken aback by the tone Yang, the normally cheerful and fun-loving person, now used, a tone which carried no emotion except despair.

"Basically? I'm patient zero, and there's no cure."

"…" Nobody really talked for a moment, as WB of RWBY fidgeted awkwardly. The only sound in the sterile white room was the steady beeping of the heart rate monitor hooked up to the comatose Ruby, accompanied by the quaint chirping of birds outside the window.

"Hmm?" Summer looked up when the beeping intensified. "What the-" Yang strode over to her sister's side, looking at the monitor in slight confusion and shock. The heart rate picked up dramatically.

"Dust! Call the doctor! Quickly!" Weiss rushed out of the room and into the room next to theirs, while Blake stood up frantically from her chair. The doctor came running in as Weiss followed closely behind.

"What's going on!?" The doctor asked immediately. He answered himself when he looked over to the heart rate monitor. The heart rate suddenly ticked down to a steady pace, returning to the normal heart rate. "… What?" The doctor walked over to the patient's body and checked the pulse.

"Nothing out of the ordinary…" Just as his hand left Ruby's, the heart rate monitor began to let out a shrill continuous beep. "Oh shit! Everybody clear out!" The others did as told, as the doctor reached into a cabinet and pulled out a pair of defibrillators.

In the middle of counting down, the door to the room got busted down, and Medic came entering with his Quick-fix in hand. Without saying anything, he aimed the Medigun variant at Ruby's unconscious body, flicked a switch near the bottom handle and pushed the activation handle. The beam was sparkling with electricity and energy as the healing fluid attached itself to Ruby's body

"What are you doing?!" Summer, Yang and the Beacon doctor shouted at the Medic simultaneously. The Medic replied by saying, "Performing medicine."

The body of Ruby promptly began to jerk, while the heart rate monitor stopped the continuous and drawn-out beeping and began to beep normally.

Just as Summer was about to tackle Medic down, Ruby suddenly woke up and sat up. Summer turned mid-run and instead ran over to her daughter's body. "Ruby!"

"Ah! What happened!?" Said girl shouted out.

"…" The doctor simply stood there slack-jawed, while the Medic stood beside him with a smug grin on his face. The doctor slowly turned to the German. "What did you use and where can I buy one?" He managed to say.

Several minutes later

"Alright, sign here and you'll be discharged." The nurse at the reception told Ruby, who signed her name on the paper. "Thank you."

The nurse glanced at Summer pitifully. "Ma'am, I'm sorry." Summer smiled grimly and nodded, to which the nurse returned.

As they were about to exit the Beacon infirmary, the R.E.D. Team members walked in. "Hey! Heard ya got discharged. Came here to welcome yah." Engie said.

"Yea, thanks to Medic though." Ruby smiled at the German who returned the gesture.

"But…" Everybody looked at Summer's elbow. "Zere's still zis to vorry about."

Team R.E.D.'s dorm room

"So, yer got 'ny ideas fer Summer?" Demoman asked the Medic, who shook his head.

"My Medigun isn't vorking on her, and if she dies, I vorry zat the infection vould not allow me to revive her." He answered grimly.

"C'mon team, we'll think of this. Eventually, we'll come up with an idea."

The Medic let out a dark chuckle at his comrade's words. "I appreciate your optimism, Dell, but vat vill happen if ve can't fix zis vorries me."

"…"

"…"

"…"

Nobody spoke. Spy was counting his Lien, Engineer went back to tinkering with his Gunslinger, Demoman read up on Dust explosions, Medic continued to load syringes into cartridges, and Pyro is being Pyro.

"Wait." Spy stopped everyone in what they were doing, and looked at him. "Engie."

Said man raised an eyebrow. "Yeah?"

"You were pretty close with Soldier, aren't you?" The Engineer nodded. "So I take it that you know Merasmus well?" Demoman slowly contemplated poisoning the Spy's next meal.

"Uh… Pretty well? Solly told me he dabbled in dark magic a lot. Like every year." Engineer added the last part. "We know." Medic said from his bed.

"So, do you think that he will help us cure Summer?"

"… Spy, why in god's name do you think that sonuvabitch will help us?"

"Money. Because think about it, every year, he owes either the mafia, Yakuza, Italian gangsters, or Italian Yakuza Mafia a ton of money. There all gonna be after his head, so if we pay him, he'll help us."

"But I already tricked him last time with fake gold. He'll probably von't fall for it again." Medic added in.

"I got a plan. So, we go for it?" Spy asked his team. Everybody looked between each other, and sighed collectively. "Guess there's no other option. C'mon guys, start packin'."

"Ve'll need to bring along Summer for ze ride." Engineer nodded at the Medic, and walked out of his room and headed down to Team RWBY's dorm room.

Team RWBY's Dorm Room

"Hm? I'll go get it." Blake said as she walked over to the door and twisted the handle, opening the door. "Professor Engineer?"

"Hi, just wanted to tell ya'll something." He motioned to Summer, who was sitting on Ruby's bed. She jumped down to the ground and strode over to the Texan. "What do you want?"

The Engineer sighed. "Sit down." Summer and the other girls did as he told. He took a seat on Yang's bed, and sighed yet again.

"Your arm. We might have a cure for it." Everybody's eyes collectively widened. Yang jumped at the chance. "Then what are we waiting for?! Let's go get that cure!" Yang sat up with determination in her eyes. "Please, sit down first, I'm not finished." Yang reluctantly did so.

"Now, do you remember Merasmus?"

Ruby raised her hand. "The wizardy guy that revived my mother?" Engineer nodded.

"Now, he's a wizard, more specifically a dark wizard, meaning he dabbles a lot in dark magic." Weiss scoffed slightly at the mention of magic.

"Sooo, we might be able to bribe him into helping us, by removing that infection o' yours." Summer looked down to her bandaged elbow.

"What are we waiting for then!? Let's go find him!" Ruby said excitedly, jumping down from her bed and almost running out the door.

"Well then, better start packing. We're going on a trip."

"Huh? A trip to where?"

Engineer smiled broadly. "The Badlands."

The Next Morning

"I still can't believe you convinced Professor Ozpin to let us go along." Weiss said to the Spy. She was wearing a small white backpack, with the SDC emblem on it. Ruby walked alongside her with a slight bounce in her steps, while she carried a small brown backpack.

Yang had the largest backpack out of the group, saying 'My hair care products are never leaving my side' or something. Blake had an alicepack strapped to her back, while Summer carried along a red and white highlight travelpack.

"Meh, I only said it was an extracurricular activity, so we're all set. He did have some requests though." Spy and the others had virtually no luggage at all, only electing to bring some weaponry and ammo. Lots of it. In places where no one knows except themselves.

"What is it?" Weiss questioned the assassin, who took a puff of smoke before answering. "That I take a few items from Earth, preferably a gasoline sample and gunpowder."

Weiss nodded, and the group continued to walk to their destination, the one room in Team R.E.D.'s garage that nobody ever went since Heavy, Sniper, Scout and Soldier left Remnant.

"Alright, step right on that." Engineer gestured to the Enhanced Teleporter, which had a green glow surrounding it.

"Ladies first." Spy said, giving room for the females in the room.

"Soo… Who's gonna go first?" Ruby asked, to which Yang promptly volunteered and stepped on. "Don't worry mom, it's safe!" She managed to get out before she disappeared in a flash of green light.

Summer went in next, followed by Ruby, Blake, and – reluctantly – Weiss, then the rest of the RED mercenaries followed.

Engineer was the last to leave, and made sure to lock the ballistic steel door using magnetic locks and stepped through, leaving the room devoid of life.

Unknown Location

The room was empty, nothing but dust, the dirty sort, littered the creaky wooden floors. Suddenly, the room was engulfed in a bright green light. When the light subsidized, a feminine figure stepped off the long since unused teleporter.

"Alright!" Yang whooped a bit, then looked around the room. She was interrupted when another blast of light engulfed the room, this time her step mother walked out of the teleporter.

"*Cough* *Cough* Ah! So dusty!"

Soon, the entire gang was here, including Team R.E.D.

"Hmm, we should be in a RED base right now." Engineer muttered as he reached out for the door handle. "Shield ya eyes, might get a lil' bright out there."

Taking a deep breath, he twisted the handle…

And promptly discovered the door was locked. He took the shotgun out, and unloaded a shell of buckshot at the door, then proceeding to kick it down.

"Argh!" He grunted slightly as he covered his eyes with his hands, before slowly lowering them. "Ho ho ho…"

"My friends." He turned around to face the others in the room.

"Welcome to the Badlands!"

A few Minutes Later

"Alright, they should be in here…" The Engineer rapped the metal shutter three times. Some movement and shuffling could be heard behind the thin wall of metal before loud footsteps erupted. "Yep they're here."

The metal sheet raised up to reveal the Heavy, who after saw his old teammate, immediately bear hugged him.

*CRACK*

"AH! Heavy! Back! Spine!"

That happened.

"Ah! Doctor!" Heavy bear hugged Medic.

Another spine. Demoman, Spy and Pyro ran off.

"So what brings ya back to the Badlands, eh mate?" Sniper said as he took a sip from his coffee mug. A minute had passed, and the mercenaries were sitting on wooden crates inside the spawn room.

"Yeah! Livin' over at Beacon's pretty nice, why'd ya come over here?" Scout asked, tossing a baseball up into the air and catching it. "Missed us? Of course ya did, c'mon admit it, ya missed me." Scout added with a genuine smile.

"Well, we were hopin' we could ask the Soldier for a favor…"

"SOMEONE CALLED MY NAME?!" The door leading to the bathroom got kicked off its hinges, and out walked the man with more than a thousand Nazi kills under his belt.

His gruff faced turned happy when his sight landed on the five ex-mercenaries, snapping into a salute. "Engie! Nurse! Pyro! French bastard!"

Spy facepalmed. "Ugh…"

"And you drunken Scot!" Soldier walked over to the Demoman and put his right hand over the Scotsman's shoulder. "How'd ya been?"

"Fine, laddie! How yer doin'?" The man replied in heart.

"It's good to see you again, Dell." Sniper said as he smiled at the team's antics. The Engineer gave a light chuckle at that. "Agreed. Don't you think Pyro?"

The person – Or thing – in question looked up from its lighter and gave a nod. "Mmph!"

"I'll take that as a yes." The Engineer crossed his arms as the Soldier and Demoman continued to exchange banter. Team RWBY plus S was sitting on a bench nearby, watching the mercenaries interact with each other.

"They sure look happy to see each other." Blake noted, earning the other's agreement. "How's your arm mom?" Ruby looked at Summer, who gave a smile. "A bit itchy, but that's it." Ruby nodded at her mother, while Weiss was seemingly bothered.

"Weiss, what's wrong? You look bothered." Weiss looked surprised for a moment before recomposing herself. "What's wrong? We're in another world, Ruby. How does that fact not concern you? I-I mean-"

"Weiss, just think of it like a trip, we'll be back in Remnant before you know it!" Ruby exclaimed cheerfully, but looked a little glum after looking at her mother.

Three knocks were heard from the door. "Hm?"

"I'll go get it." Scout stood up from his seat and walked over to the door with his hand extended. He grabbed the door handle and opened the door.

"Huh? Miss Pauling?"

A/N: Yay! New chapter! All of you that wanted to see the mercs, well now you get the chance! Next chapter we'll see Merasmus, and a person without a head. Guess who that is. You probably already know.

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Up n Down: A creeper is a Grimm, if you want to see what it looks like, its the Grimm that Yang landed on and jumped off of in Chapter 12 of Volume 2. The Queen, spoilers if you haven't watched RWBY volume 3 to the end, is the woman that you see in the last scene(not the after credits scene), speaking to Ozpin. As for tips on Pyro, don't try to charge Heavies head on. Just don't. As well as learn the map, learn of any flank routes and use those routes to surprise the enemy. Also learn airblast, F**k those Soldiers up. That's all the pretty basic things you need to know about Pyro. As for CSGO, don't consult me. I suck at it. As for DoTA 2, I ulti'ed a creep. Thats how bad I am.

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