Oh hello everyone! What is up? It's your boy LilMichaelxSonikku back with a fresh chapter! Thanks to Hurricane Matthew, my internet was shot and I had to wait for almost 3 to 4 days to get a new router! But now I have a new router and now I can update this story now. Enough of that, leggo! Enjoy.
Disclaimer: Sonic goes to SEGA and RWBY goes to Rooster Teeth Productions and Monty Oum!
-Music: Wave Ocean ~The Inlet~ (Sonic the Hedgehog 06')-
We see a sight of Weiss Schnee and Ruby Rose hanging on to something very feathery and very fast, as evidenced by the loud wind and the two being blown sideways.
"Ruby! I told you this was a terrible idea!" Weiss shouted to be heard.
"We're fine! Stop worrying!" Ruby raised her voice as well.
"I am so far beyond worrying!" The Heiress called.
"In a good way?"
"In a bad way! In a very bad way!"
"Well, why don't we just jump?" Ruby suggested getting a terrorized look from Weiss.
"What are you? Insane?!" Weiss asked with her in voice.
She is met with silence; Ruby has already disappeared.
Weiss huffed. "Oh, you insufferable little red-!"
Down on the ground in the Abandoned Temple, Blake Belladonna is still staring skyward and pointing for Yang Xiao Long to look up. As well Sonic Maruti, Shadow Donovan, Knuckles Geb, and Miles "Tails" Prower Uzumaki.
"Blake, did you hear that? What should we do?" Yang asked her partner.
Ruby who was falling towards them. "Heads uuuuuuuup!"
Just as she's about to hit the ground panicking, Jaune Arc comes flying through the air and crashes into Ruby, knocking her off course and sending them both into a tree to the left of where Blake and Yang are standing. Ruby is dazed by the rough landing as evidenced by the cutesy Beowolves and stars circling her head.
"Oohhhh... What was that?" The dizzy Ruby asked, then her dizziness passes when she shakes her head.
"Eh-hem!" Jaune cleared his throat to gain Ruby's attention as she glances at him dangling upside down. "Hey, Ruby…"
Blake rose an eyebrow glancing at the tree. "Did your sister just fall from the sky?"
"I…"
"It seems that she did." Sonic said chuckling. "Hey you two! Having fun-"
Before he can continue, several crashing noises are heard in the forest ahead of them, and an Ursa comes out, claws swiping, just as a pink blast of energy hits it in the back and it crashes to the ground, depositing its rider.
"YEEEE-HAAAAW!" Nora hollered as she rolls off of the creature's back, then gets up and groans, saddened. "Awwww... It's broken." Then she dashes onto its neck and observes the carcass as Ren comes up behind her.
Ren stops as he pants and leans on the monster for support. "Nora! Please... Don't ever do that again." He looks up again and notices by the pink dotted outline of where his partner should be that Nora has run off again, and looks around frantically.
Nora was now in the Temple, staring at a golden rook relic. "Oooohh…" Then she suddenly grabs it, an animation of stars and her hammer symbol playing in the pink background as she dances and sings with the chess piece. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!"
"What the fuck?" Knuckles asked with confused expression of Nora's antics. "She must have been dropped as a baby…"
"Nora!" Ren shouted.
Nora stops dancing with the rook on her head, then salutes, dropping the relic into her hand. "Coming, Ren!" The random girl skips off to her friend.
"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" The Cat Faunus asked.
"I…" Yang began to speak.
She is interrupted once more as a screech is heard from their right, and Pyrrha Nikos comes onto the scene as the scorpion creature uproots entire trees in its chase after her. Pyrrha narrowly dodges its giant claws and keeps on running.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha called as she kept running.
Jaune gasped. "Pyrrha!"
Ruby stood up looking at the monster below. "Whoa!" She starts running off of the branch and landing in a roll.
"Ruby!" Jaune whined.
"Ruby!" Yang cheered excitedly.
"Yang!" Ruby chimed excitedly jumping into her sister's arms.
"Nora!" Nora randomly appears between the two and knocking them off-balance in surprise.
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 asked angrily as her eyes turned red and small bursts of fire came from her.
"Ah! She blew up!" Sonic and Tails yelped in unison.
"What did I just say?!" The Pyro Maniac Girl glared at the two Faunus.
"Chill the hell out Yang! Damn!" Knuckles growled.
The tick-tock of a clock counts down the two seconds of Yang cooling down, Ren running over to a ditzy Nora, and Blake and Ruby looking up.
"Umm... Yang?" The younger sister of Yang tugs on Yang's sleeve and points upwards.
Up above, Weiss is revealed to be hanging on a talon the size of her entire body that belongs to a gigantic Nevermore.
"How could you leave me?!" Weiss cried.
"Oh sweet merciful crap! Is that fucking Nevermore?!" Knuckles asked in horror. "Oh goddamn it! We got a Death Stalker and now a Nevermore!"
"I said "jump!"" Ruby shouted back.
"She's gonna fall."
"She'll be fine."
"She's falling." Ren added.
Jaune is finally out of the tree, panting until he looks up and grins at the sight of Weiss falling through the air, giving him the opportunity to jump off the branch with arms outstretched and catch her in a slowed-down moment.
"Just... dropping in?" Jaune asked failed at the attempt to be cool.
Weiss is speechless... and Jaune realizes why when they both look down.
Jaune sweat drops. "Oh, God." Jaune and Weiss hang on to each other wide-eyed as their moment of suspension ends, their weapons flying behind them. "Oh, noooooooo- Oomph!"
The two stopped falling as both of them opened their eyes to find themselves in a black sphere by Shadow as he lowered them gently as the sphere vanishes.
"Thank you." Weiss said to the Black Hedgehog Faunus who just nodded.
The Death Stalker is still hunting Pyrrha, but she manages to land on her side at the feet of the heroes.
"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said cheerily.
Knuckles looked at Yang like she grew two heads. "The fuck we are! I won't die here!"
Ruby smirked. "Not if I can help it!" She sounds a battle cry and rushes towards the Grimm.
"Ruby/Rubes wait!" Sonic and Yang cried in unison.
Ruby, still screaming, fires Crescent Rose and charges at the oncoming Death Stalker. When the two meet, the Grimm swipes Ruby away and she is knocked back.
Ruby got up slowly. "D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!"
Ruby turns back to the monster and shoots it in the skull, running away from it and sheathing her scythe as the Death Stalker now goes after her.
Yang ran forward to aid her little sister. "Ruby!"
Ruby rushes towards Yang, but the Nevermore caws above them, flapping its wings and releasing lines of sharpened feathers with points that catch on Ruby's cape and prevent Yang from reaching her.
Yang skids to a stop. "Ruby, get out of there!"
Ruby was struggling with her cloak. "I'm trying!"
The Death Stalker approaches, raising its golden stinger above a scared Ruby and heading down on the helpless girl.
Yang reached out in vain. "Ruby!"
A white and blue blur races past Yang and reaches the stinger just as it's about to pierce her, cutting the scene to black.
"You are so childish!"
Ruby opens her eyes to the sight of the stinger encased in ice and lowers her arms from their futile position over her head as she stares at her saviors. It seems Sonic trapped the Death Stalker in a white sphere.
"Weiss...?" The silver eyed girl squeaked.
"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 with a sigh as she removes Myrtenaster from the ice.
Ruby glanced down on the ground. "I'm not trying to show off. I want you to know I can do this."
"You're fine." She walks away.
Sonic gave Ruby a gentle pat on the pat. "Be more careful next time alright."
Ruby nods as she breathes a sigh of relief, then closes her eyes and clasps her hands as she gratefully whispers. "Normal knees…" Then she gets up and stares at the Death Stalker as it struggles to escape with its tail trapped in the ice. "Whoa!"
Yang rushes up to Ruby and gives her a hug which Ruby grunts at upon receiving.
"So happy you're okay!" The Buxom Blond as the two stare at each other for a moment, then look up at the Nevermore still flying overhead and roaring.
"Guys? That thing's circling back! What are we gonna do?" The Blond Knight asked pointing upwards to the Nevermore.
"Don't forget our objective. Grab an artifact and head to the cliffs." Shadow said showing his black rook piece.
"He's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the Cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things." Ruby said nodding to Shadow.
"Run and live - that's an idea I can get behind!" Jaune said eagerly.
Ruby goes over and grabs a gold knight identical to the one Yang picked out and Jaune takes hold of a gold rook similar to Nora and Ren's piece, smiling at each other. The Death Stalker continues to fight its bonds, cracking the ice a little in the process.
"Time we left!" Ren stated.
"Right." Sonic waves to the others. "Let's go!" As he goes forward with everyone following except for a smiling Yang and Blake as the latter approaches her partner.
"What is it?" Blake asked.
Yang was staring proudly at Ruby as she leaps on a boulder and motions the group onward. "Nothing..." She moves on as Blake smiles in realization - possibly towards the audience - and leaves as well.
-Music: Players and Pieces (RWBY)-
An overhead shot shows that the group is heading out of the forest and into another abandoned series of structures as the Nevermore follows them from the air. They spread out when it passes above, concealing themselves behind some of the stone blocks with their allies as it perches on a high column and caws.
"Well, that's great!" Yang said with annoyance.
Then the Red Knight felt a pulse on the ground making him turn into the foggy trees. "Shit! Death Stalker coming from there!"
Jaune looks behind at the Death Stalker bursting onto the scene. "Ah man, run!"
The group emerges from their hiding spots and causing the Nevermore to rise up into the air.
"Nora/Knuckles, distract it!" Sonic and Ren said.
Nora and Knuckles obliges, running out from her block and jumping through the feather projectiles with Knuckles before reaching behind her and launching several heart-topped shells from her grenade launcher, bursting into pink electricity when they hit the Nevermore, and causing it to retreat, then Knuckles he created his "Rokku Senbon bakugeki (Rock Senbon Bombardment)" at the Nevermore making it lose it's wing rhythm. Nora is unaware of the Death Stalker rushing up behind her until Blake and Ren perform a cross-slash with their Gambol Shroud and StormFlower against its shell. Weiss lands next to Nora so she can create a jumping platform beneath them and leap to safety while Blake and Ren are now being chased.
"Go, go!" Pyrrha stops running beside Jaune and gets out Miló, firing red shots along Ren's green blasts for a second until it reaches them and tries to swipe, prompting the group to run again.
The twelve race over the ancient stone bridge, not noticing the Nevermore closing in on them until it uses its giant wings to shatter the path right in the middle sending the Fox Boy flying, but Tails made his arms into large orange claws to push Ruby, Sonic, Weiss, Shadow, Yang, Nora, and Jaune closer to the central collection of columns and Blake, Knuckles, Ren, and Pyrrha on the other side with the Death Stalker before being hit. Ruby fires at the retreating Nevermore while Blake is beaten back by the scorpion, then she saw Tails fall which made her eyes widen in horror.
"Tails!" She cried gaining everyone's attention as they noticed the plummeting Kitsune Faunus.
-Music Stops-
-Music: The Grid (TRON Legacy)-
"Man that hurt…" Tails' voice echoed in a dark sewer like place.
Tails woke up in water as he sat up looking around, then his sight was caught on by a massive cage with a seal at the center. "Huh? What is-" He realized something as he grinned a bit.
"Hey Raijin! You awake?" His question was answered with a growl coming from the other side of the cage in the darkness as red slit eyes appeared.
"What is it kit? Do you see I'm taking a nap." The beast sounding creature known as Raijin yawned.
"Lend me some power please. I'm about to plummet to my death." Tails said raising his fist.
Raijin snorts as he rose his fist touching Tails' fist. "Whatever, just let me sleep."
Tails giggled. "You're a lazy creature."
Then the sewer-like environment turned into a TRON-like environment as the walls had circuit designs with yellow lights flowing through them, then the floor was dark blue, then the cage bars had a yellow glow, and the seal had a red glow came from as it as the place was covered in a white light.
-Music Ends-
(Back at the Battle)
-Resume Music: Players and Pieces (RWBY)-
Then the clouds began to turn grey as the creatures of Grimm and the eleven wondered what caused the weather to change. Then thunder began to boom and then lightning struck the ground causing the Nevermore to halt itself to keep from being zapped. Then the a bolt of lightning made a large sphere at the middle of the path which was destroyed by the Nevermore. The sphere bursts to have everyone cover their eyes from the flash to see a figure shaped like Tails. The figure had Tails' shape but his skin was yellow and his eyes were white. Then just by one swing of his sword sent a wave of lightning to send the Death Stalker hurling back into the trees. Some people from the eleven had their weapons ready in case this figure was a foe but they were going to be in for a surprise. The figure's skin was falling apart like a shell so everyone can find out who is this person till their eyes widen in shock and surprise to find Tails was the one who sent the Death Stalker back which was making it's way back to Blake, Knuckles, Ren, and Pyrrha.
"HEY! DON'T GAWK! HERE COMES THE DEATH STALKER!" Tails pointed at the scorpion.
Knuckles spins his sai when they had a green glow. "Got it! Aiansaisu (Iron Sais)!"
Knuckles' weapon turned steely grey as they collided with the Death Stalker's stinger as the clash between two strengths. But the three on his side took this chance to attack the creature of Grimm.
Jaune ran to the edge of the break in the bridge. "Man, we gotta get over there! They need help!"
Nora ran up beside him. "Let's do this!"
Jaune looks down at the misty abyss. "Yeah, but, uh... I can't make that jump."
Nora smiles diabolically at him, laughing as she knocks him back, turns her weapon to its full-length hammer form, and jumps to the edge of the bridge.
Jaune's face was at loss of color realizing of what she's about to do. "Oh, wait!" Unfortunately, too late, she slams the hammer into the bridge and throws Jaune to the other side, constantly screaming. "No, no, no, no, no, no!"
Nora places one foot on the hammer and fires it off the collapsing section of bridge, launching her to slam its face right in the center of the Death Stalker's skull. She fires it just as the stinger comes down to get her, and blasts back again to avoid its reach, accidentally knocking into Blake and making her fall from the edge. She sees the Nevermore above her and launches her whip so the gun's blade sinks into the edge of the bridge, circling around and leaping onto the aerial Grimm's back. She dashes all over its body, slashing the entire time, before jumping off and landing on the ruined platform at the top of the columns next to Ruby, then going over to Yang and Weiss.
"It's tougher than it looks!" Blake states.
"Then let's hit it with everything we got!" Yang said readying her Ember Celica.
The Nevermore approaching, Ruby, Blake, Weiss, Yang, Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles, and Tails set their weapons to fire a barrage of blasts at the bird, which it either dodges or takes harmlessly until it crashes through the columns and platform. The girls and boys leap from one section of falling stone to the next until they reach the higher bridge on top, just below the cliffs.
"None of this is working!" Weiss said.
"Nevermores of those sizes have feathers thick enough to withstand our weapons! Of course it's not going to work!" Shadow glancing at her.
"This turkey will be a pain in our asses till we find a way to kill this thing!" Sonic said in annoyance.
Tails was thinking till a light bulb appeared on his head. "I got it! What if I lessen the thickness, stay behind me!" He shot a bolt of lightning at the Nevermore to gain its attention which succeeded.
"Wait Tails!" Sonic called reaching out in vain to his best friend who walking.
"Wait Sonic! T is up to something, wait it out man! We know Tails got KO'd by that thing once but we know when Tails finds a solution, he executes it." Knuckles said gripping Sonic's arm.
"Be careful man…" Sonic thought with worry.
"What is he going to do?!" Weiss asked demanding to know what is going on.
The girls looked at Sonic, Shadow, and Knuckles wondering what is the Fox Boy's plan is. They seen Tails' power in action once by that lightning show, now what?
"He's going to do it…" The Azure Knight said with a smile on his face.
"Ladies, you're about to witness the youngest of us besides Ruby, Tails' power which comes from the greatest source." Shadow said with a smirk. "The same power that changed me when I first met Sonic and his friends."
"His will." Knuckles finished with a grin. "Power in its strongest and purest form. Power that can topple anything that the wielder wants to prevail. All of us are about to have demonstration of how all of us get surprised of something small bring the biggest effects on the world."
As the Nevermore came around diving in to kill its target once and for all, Tails kept walking with his Kaminari no Seiken sheathed, his fist was balled up as he walked to the edge. The Nevermore screeched as it gotten closer to Tails who stood at the edge of the higher bridge with his eyes closed with the wind blowing. The Nevermore was dangerously close to him, then suddenly…
Tails opened his light blue eyes as he sent his fist aiming at the Nevermore's forehead. "Raitoningufokkusukurō (Lightning Fox Claw)!"
As Tails shouted his attack, then his fist made contact with creature's tough forehead, the Nevermore was electrocuted in place as it screeched in pain as the electricity coursed through its body making it lose its thick feathers as they fell. Sonic and Knuckles cheered, Shadow smirked in approval. While Ruby, Yang, Blake, and Weiss were in shock again as their eyes widen in surprise, then Ruby and Yang cheered. Then Sonic bellowed "Go Tails! Finish it!" making Tails' attack intensify as large blast sent the Nevermore hurling down till it shook its head shaking off the damage but electricity sparked around its body as it flew around.
Knuckles ran to Tails to see the Fox Boy kneeling. "Yo T! You okay man?!" His eyes widen.
Tails' left hand was all bloody. It was broken as Tails' face was scrunching because of the pain. "... ow… ngh…"
The others came next to the hurting Fox Boy but then a screech from the Nevermore got their attention as they stood in front of Tails.
"Tails. You did enough, rest your hand." Sonic said to his friend.
Tails slowly rose as blood fell from his hand. "N-No… It's not enough…"
"With that hand, what can you do-" Weiss was interrupted by Tails intensive glare which made her flinch a bit.
Tails limped slowly to the edge again with a small smile on his face. "... I gotta believe in myself… I can't rely on you guys forever… I gotta learn how to stand on my own two feet and… and fight to the very end… my fire won't go out so easily. So it's not enough… I need to pour more to it this time… for us to be Huntsmen together from here… to the future! A better future where humans and faunus can be in harmony… no more White Fang… no more darkness… I-I…"
The Nevermore closed in on them once more. Dangerous close, Tails' opened his eyes which were crimson and silt and three whisker marks appear on his face.
"I'LL PURGE THE DARKNESS AND REMNANT WILL BE BATHED IN THE LIGHT OF PEACE!" The Fox Boy cried electricity violently roared to life on his fists as he struck the Nevermore with a right hook making it fall.
Then the Nevermore roared in anger as it went high into the sky to gain momentum, then the beast came down at the eight like a missile but Tails roared as he shouted "Raitoningufokkusukurō: Daburusurasshu (Lightning Fox Claw: Double Slash)" as he gave the huge bird a left hook cracking its forehead a bit and then a right hook which the electricity took shape a claw shaped into a fist. Then while the Nevermore was in hitting range, he sent a final left hook which it turned into a claw shaped fist knocking the Nevermore down to the abyss thus Tails fell on his back panting heavily.
-Music Ends-
-Music: Forgotten Hero (HalusaTwin)-
"You did way past cool buddy. Not only you showed us, but you showed the world your resolve, there will be strong forces of darkness that will oppose you… But from what you have showed us, your will, you have inspired us to unite our goals with yours since you have a better vision of the future than we have. So in your behalf buddy…" He laid Tails in a safe place away from the higher bridge. "We'll stand united! No matter who or what we are! Faunus or human! We shall fight for a better future! Are you all with me?!"
"Yeah!" Everyone shouted in unison as they rose their weapons. Then a screech of a Nevermore got to their ears as they turned to face the bird.
Down below, the Death Stalker is still battling Jaune, Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha.
"We gotta move!" The four rush towards it.
The Death Stalker aims a claw at Pyrrha, but she deflects it with her Akoúo shield and slashes it with her blade. The scorpion recoils and swipes at her with its other claw, but Jaune is there to deflect it with his shield, knocking it back so Pyrrha can leap over and attack its face. Ren runs up firing and gets on the stinger when it tries to hit him, shooting at the base between it and the tail while Nora fires more grenades at the attacking claws. Pyrrha hurls her javelin straight into one of the monster's ten eyes, making it throw Ren to the side.
Nora gasped in horror. "Ren!"
Ren hits the side of a stone block hard and falls to the ground, not getting back up. Jaune, though, manages to stand and notice the stinger is hanging limply.
Jaune turned to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha!"
Pyrrha nods. "Done!" She raises the shield and hurls it like a discus, slicing the stinger off and causing it to fall into the Death Stalker's head as Pyrrha retrieves her rebounding shield.
"Nora, nail it!" Jaune commanded.
"Heads up!" Nora warned as she jumps on Akoúo, Pyrrha leaps as Nora aims her blast down to give herself a maximum lift, and she smiles the entire way up before twirling down until her hammer slams its head into the stinger, driving the point through the Death Stalker's head and crushing the bridge beneath it.
Jaune and Pyrrha bound over the monster to the land behind it, and Nora fires up and away behind them as the monster falls to its doom. Jaune hits the ground on his back, Nora lands on her bottom, Pyrrha manages a crouched pose, and Ren simply walks over to them, panting and groaning until he just collapses. The other three get up and watch as the Nevermore is peppered with firepower and energy.
-Music Ends-
-Music: Red Like Roses Part II (RWBY)-
Yang is still burning through her ammo on the beast, landing a blow at its face and causing it to head right towards her, Knuckles made jump as he glided the air as one sai had a fiery red glow enveloped and the other had a green glow turning into hammers. Then Knuckles charged at the Nevermore as he shouted "Ō Yagyuu no de~yuaruhōnhanmā (King Yagyū's Dual Horn Hammers)" as he hacked at the Nevermore with multiple hits on the head to either burn and bruise, then he merged the two small swords and turned into a white blade. Knuckles swung his sword making the Nevermore flail as it tried to keep airborne, then this makes room for Yang to leap for its open maw and forces the beak wide as she attack.
"I! Hope! You're! Hung-! ...-gry! Yang screamed out each syllable as she attacks, then looks behind her and jumps back from its mouth onto a ruin, causing the creature to crash into the cliffs.
Despite Yang's attempts, the Nevermore recovers quickly, and Yang smiles as she spots Ruby, Sonic, and Blake on the broken columns with Weiss and Shadow rushing to the battle. Yang passes them while the Nevermore starts to fly back up, but Weiss hops over to the ruin it's lifting off of and freezes the tip of its feathery tail to the ground, and Shadow appeared over it hovering using his hover skates as his Arondight glowed red as he said in a chant "Poizunchēn (Poison Chains)", thus making black chains with a red glow leaving it stuck in the same spot despite its flapping. Weiss back-flips into a snowflake-circle jump and lands on the other side, running to the group. Blake fires the pistol portion of Gambol Shroud over to Yang, and the two tighten it between the columns so Ruby can jump on the center with Crescent Rose and bend it back into Weiss' black sigil, right next to the caster. Then Sonic who was on the cliff as he implanted Caliburn on the Nevermore's neck as he glances on Ruby.
"Of course you would come up with this idea." Weiss stated.
"Think you can make the shot?" Ruby asked.
"Hmm! Can I!" Weiss said confidently.
A second passes.
Ruby rose an eyebrow. "Can't?"
Weiss gave Ruby a small glare. "Of course I can!"
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 new shot, she gets closer and closer to the trapped Grimm until her scythe catches the Nevermore's neck in its blade and causes them both to fall to the cliff wall. Weiss raises her sword and creates a series of white circles up the wall. Sonic and Ruby nod with smirks on their faces as they their ascent which Ruby dashes through by firing the entire way up. Knuckles, Yang, Shadow, Blake, and an exhausted Weiss watch them climb up with the bird in their grasp until, both warriors and monster crying out, Ruby and Sonic reaches the top of the cliff, circles up, Ruby fires one last shot, and rends the Nevermore's head from its shoulders in a shower of petals. The two speed demons lands beside the severed head as the body of the giant Nevermore falls lifeless to the ruins and crevice below while the girls and, farther away, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren watch in amazement.
-Music Ends-
"Wow…" The Blond Knight croaked in awe.
Ruby, her cape and petals flowing with the wind and Sonic's jacket flowing in the wind as blue crescents mixing in with the petals, the two look down to her friends as they peer up.
"Well... That was a thing!" Yang said breaking the silence.
"You said it… Ozpin better let us fucking pass or otherwise I'll be pissed." Knuckles said rubbing the back of his head.
Ruby and Sonic smiled at each other as the faint sounds as the winds blew gently.
-Music: Go Quickly! (Sonic Runners)-
"Russel Thrush. Cardin Winchester. Dove Bronzewing. Sky Lark." Ozpin's voice announced as the screen of the auditorium shows each of their profiles as the boys are lined up for the applauding audience to see. "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL, led by... Cardin Winchester!"
The audience gives one more wave of ovation, while four students walk up to the stage to take their places in front of the headmaster as their faces fill the screen.
"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." Ozpin stated.
Amid the clapping, Nora laughs and gives Ren a hug.
"Led by... Jaune Arc!"
Jaune's eyes widened in surprise. "Huh? L-Led by...?"
Ozpin glanced at the young man. "Congratulations, young man."
A grinning Pyrrha offers a friendly shoulder bump to Jaune, but her "fine leader" is knocked over and falls to his butt in front of the laughing audience.
"Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long." The Headmaster motions over the four as they stand before him. "The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by... Ruby Rose!"
Weiss looks to her right surprised, where Ruby is obviously in shock as Yang goes over to hug her sister.
"I'm so proud of you!" Yang said happily.
"And finally: Miles Tails Prower Uzumaki, Knuckles Geb, Shadow Donovan, and Sonic Maruti. The four of you obtained the black knight pieces. From this day forward, you'll be working together as Team SSKT. Led by… Sonic Maruti." Ozpin said with a small smile as the applause grew louder.
"Oh hell yes! We made it boys!" Knuckles cheered as he gave Tails a high five.
Sonic gave his teammates a thumbs up. "Good job everyone! For tonight, we should party!"
"Well you and Ruby's plan worked. I'm impressed, you'll be great leader Sonic." Shadow said with a smirk. "And indeed, this is a time for celebration."
"It looks like things are shaping up to be an... interesting year." Ozpin said.
Then the view pans over the auditorium's structure until it escapes into the open sky and shows the scattering crescent moon amid the day's clouds...
... before going into the night and seeing the moon through a window, providing a view to the outside for a shadowy room filled with shelves and a desk in the back, where Roman Torchwick is getting a call on his phone. The muffled conversation ends, and Roman angrily slams the phone down, sighing. He holds a cigar to his mouth and puts his symbolized lighter to the end, just as a man in a gray mask and black hood comes with a trolley. Roman holds out a collection of Lien, which he places on the table and the man takes.
"Open it." Roman said.
The masked man does so with a crowbar, revealing a large amount of Dust crystals of varying colors - orange, blue, white, red, green, cyan, gold, yellow, and more. Roman picks up a blue gem in his hand and looks at the loot.
Roman taps his chin. "We're gonna need more men…"
The view zooms in on the map above the desk, showing Vale and various districts and areas of crossed-out locations, all leading into a specially-circled place - Beacon - as the scene sets to black.
The teams have been chosen…
Our heroes have stood united for the first time…
Their real test begins…
Now!