AN:

Okay, I'm getting mixed answers for the Summer and Taiyang getting back together thing. Some want them to hook up again while others said it was a bad idea. It doesn't make coming to decision any easier but the ones against Summer/Taiyang pairing gave me good reasons why they shouldn't get back together while the ones for Summer/Taiyang didn't other than either saying how it feels right or threatening me.

But in conclusion, a majority of you wanted them to stay friends. If you don't like it, then you can stop reading this story.

You may give your suggestions on how the story should go but I'm the one with the final say. If you don't agree with what I've wrote, then that's too bad. Go write your own story.

I understand that the Xiao Long/Rose family should become a proper family again but let's be real. Their family situation was already messed up before Summer came back from the dead.

For now, I'll just write the story as it is without having to worry over a pairing. I'm not very good at writing romance anyway.

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Team CFVY was sent to a small settlement outside of Vale to exterminate the increasing Grimm population there. It was a simple extermination mission that they have done many times before but it was also their first mission without a Huntsman shadowing them, which made it special for them.

When the team of Huntsmen in training made it to the settlement, they weren't greeted by a quaint little village but a nightmare.

The buildings were either crumbling, burning or a combination of the two and the streets were littered with the dead bodies of the village's inhabitants. There was no short supply of corpses wherever they go.

Whatever attacked the village had no care for age, gender or species as they saw children, elderly and Faunus alike sprawled lifelessly across the village. The way they were lying face down and the gaping holes on their backs told the young team that the villagers were cut down as they tried to run and it wasn't the Grimm.

Coco Adel, the leader of Team CFVY, was not ashamed to admit that she threw up after seeing a dead mother cradling her just as dead baby, both of their eyes glassy and lifeless.

"Oh god," Coco gasped in horror after dispelling her lunch, "What kind of monsters would do such a thing?"

Her teammates had no answer to that question. The rest of Team CFVY were just as horrified as her.

The rabbit ears of the lone Faunus in the group twitched, detecting a disturbance that the others couldn't with their human ears.

"Guys, I hear something!" Velvet immediately alerted her teammates, pointing towards a building.

Team CFVY immediately went on guard as they waited for what was behind the building. They were greeted with a man running out from behind it and into the streets. The man's eyes were delirious and looked like he had been running for hours, which might be why he survived in the first place.

Good. He might be able to tell Team CFVY what happened here.

Coco was just about to call out to the first survivor that they found when a tall armoured humanoid with broad shoulders and a single glowing on its head suddenly materialized right in front of the poor man, blocking his way. The man screams were cut short as the humanoid grabbed him by the head and squeezed. With a sick plop, the man's head was reduced to a bloody pulp.

The Coco's stomach lurched, threatening to make her vomit once more at the sight of such a brutal execution. Team CFVY had seen and done such acts of brutality before but those were inflicted upon the Grimm, not people and the Grimm corpses dissolved after a short while.

The being seemed to finally notice their presence and turned to face them, giving the team of students a good look at its dark brown form.

It looked like a robot but it was bulkier and taller than the new models that Atlas had released. It had three glowing lights. One where its face should be and one on each shoulder. One of its arm sported the biggest cannon that she's ever seen while the other arm ended in a three pronged claw, which was still dripping with the blood and brain of its victim.

"You bastard!" Coco shrieked in rage as she unleashed her gatling gun on the man's killer but it suddenly vanished before her very eyes, "What! Where did it go!?"

As if to answer her question, the mysterious robot reappeared behind her with an arm raised to crush the unaware leader. Fortunately for the brown haired girl, Yatsuhashi saw it and moved to save his leader.

"Coco!" the greatsword wielder cried out, pushing her out of the way and raising his sword to block the strike.

Yatsuhashi was stong enough to stop a charging Boarbatusk in its tracks so he was confident that he could tank the blow better than his not as durable teammates.

But not good enough.

The tall student's entire body rattled painfully from that one blow. His guard was not tough enough to stop the attack completely and he was sent crashing into a building.

"Yatsuhashi!" Velvet cried out for her partner, reaching out her hand to him. The Faunus girl turned to glare at the bulky robot with a growl. She rushed forward with Fox just a step behind her. They intend to pay the automaton back for what it had done.

The bot lowered its cannon arm and fired several large energy bolts at the two teens. The teens easily sidestepped the projectiles but they didn't know that the energy bolts exploded upon contact so they were knocked off their feet by the blasts.

Collapsing her gatling gun into its more compact form, Coco quickly ran to where Velvet would land and caught her safely. Fox wasn't so lucky as he landed close to the hostile android.

The dark skinned boy didn't had enough time to recover when the android made it to his position and raised a foot over his form. Fox hastily rolled out of the way as its foot came down, shattering the pavement where he previously was. He rolled to his feet and slashed his arm blades at the back of the knees of the android, hitting where amour was usually at the weakest.

He expected to do some damage like cuts if he did not outright amputate its legs but his blades met with resistance like they were striking someone's Aura, which was impossible.

Machines don't have souls.

Fox Alistair raised his arms to block the retaliating swipe from the android. He knew how powerful the blow was from watching the toughest member of their team being sent flying so he kicked off the ground as hard as he could and followed the direction of the attack to lessen the impact.

The young man was still sent flying, lost a good chunk of his Aura and his arms felt like jelly but he was able to prevent every bone of his body from breaking. His impromptu flight was put to a halt as his back slammed against a wall.

For something so large, it was surprisingly fast.

Fox slid off the wall and fell on his rear as the android aimed its cannon at him. Seeing her friend about to be killed, Velvet activated the box at her waist. The box projected the wire-frame copy of Gambol Shroud, the weapon of Blake Belladonna, in its kusarigama form into her hand. The rabbit Faunus threw the copy at the android, wrapping the weapon around its cannon arm. With a sharp tug, she redirected the shot so it now devastated the building next to where Fox was.

The android turned its head to face her and then pulled back its tied arm. Instead of fighting the pull, Velvet went along with it and shot herself towards the robot, landing consecutive slashes on it as she did so but its strange forcefield protected it from such light attacks.

Velvet kicked off the android's face, launching herself high into the air. The copy of Gambol Shroud faded from her hands and was replaced with the copy of Yatsuhashi's greatsword.

The android lifted its cannon up to shoot her out of the sky but it was peppered by a stream of bullets from Coco's gatling gun, reminding it of her presence and depleting whatever forcefield it had. It also distracted the droid long enough for Velvet to bring her sword copy down with a battlecry.

The light projection sliced through its elbow, severing its cannon arm. The android snapped its leg up to kick the Faunus. She raised her sword copy up but the copy had already reached its limit so it shattered from the blow and its wielder was sent crashing into a crumbling house.

Seeing that it was still being bombarded by Coco's gatling gun, the android disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared next to the heavy weapon user, remaining arm raised to strike. Coco hurriedly collapsed her weapon and jumped out of the way as its claw slammed into the ground.

Rocks that were flung by the android's attack slammed into the young leader's sunglasses, cracking the lenses and obscuring her vision. Coco ripped the broken glasses off her face to see the robot's leg coming towards her in a kick. She ducked under the leg and smashed her handbag on its other leg, knocking it off balance.

The android fell flat on its face as she activated her mini-gun to finish it off but it disappeared again in a flash of light. Cursing, Coco looked around cautiously, her hands shaking in fear. The android suddenly emerged from behind her and attacked her with its claw before she had a chance to react.

Fortunately for the leader of Team CFVY, Yatsuhashi and Fox were able to get their second wind and tackled the robot from behind, toppling it to its knees. The robot pressed its remaining arm to the ground to prevent it from falling completely and it raised its head to find itself face-to-face with Coco's gatling gun.

"Die, you son of bitch!" the girl roared, squeezing the trigger. In less than a minute, the android's very durable armour was ripped to pieces under the barrage of high caliber rounds and its torso and head were shortly torn apart.

Panting, Coco ceased her barrage and stared at the wreckage that was once the android.

"What the hell was that thing?" the leader asked as she turned to see Yatsuhashi digging Velvet out of some rubble.

"Whatever it was," Fox began to say as he approached his leader and assumed a fighting stance, "It didn't come alone."

There at some distance from them was another android just like the one that they had fought and destroyed earlier. Team CFVY tensed as the new android aimed its cannon at them.

"Fuck," Coco swore, aiming her gatling gun at the second android.

The first one caught Team CFVY off guard and nearly killed some of them. They managed to pull off a victory but fighting another one right after was just pushing their luck.

Without warning, a burning aircraft came crashing down from the sky and into the building beside them. The students of Beacon raised their arms to shield themselves from the ensuing explosion.

"Was that the bullhead that brought us here?" Velvet asked after lowering her arm to assess the crash site. She hoped that she was wrong despite how unlikely that would be.

"Yup," Coco replied, popping the 'p' for emphasis, "Fuck me."

"As much as I would like to, now's not really the time," Fox retorted, still facing their enemy, "Maybe after we survive this."

"Not what I meant, Fo-wait what?"

Before Fox had the chance to take back what he said, they saw more flashes of light around them. These flashes of light revealed themselves to be more killer androids.

These androids were shorter, slimmer and had cone shaped heads in comparison to the first one but there were a large number of them, armed with a smaller version of the big one's cannon.

Followed shortly after the smaller androids were a swarm of what appeared to be floating rods. The rods then opened up to reveal two guns hidden inside and six tendrils attached to the main body. They reminded the students of drones except these drones were weaponized.

Yatsuhashi opened up his mouth to say one word that was appropriate to their situation, "Shit."

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Team CFVY discovered that the smallers ones were much easier to kill than their bulky variants but the sheer number of them was enough to push them back. The students could definitely dodge their energy blasts but they could only dodge for so long under such heavy fire. All it would take was one slip up and they were good as dead so they were forced to take cover within one of the only buildings still standing.

But their shelter wouldn't last for long as energy blasts and explosives shook its entire foundation. Coco desperately called for help on her Scroll but it would take some time for their backup to arrive.

Time that they don't have.

Already, time was beginning to take its toll on the young team. Their Aura levels were in the red from taking one too many hits and they were about ready to collapse in exhaustion. Yatsuhashi was shot in the right shoulder by one of those sniper androids, losing the ability to wield his sword properly. Fox had several singes where plasma bolts grazed him. The only ones that remained mostly uninjured were Coco and Velvet for however long that would last.

It didn't help that half of the team was at a severe disadvantage. Fox and Yatsuhashi were primarily melee fighters while Coco and Velvet were the only ones that could fight at long range if the latter had enough long range weapons stored in her box. The male members couldn't go out and fight since they would be shortly overwhelmed by the onslaught of plasma bolts. If the androids were using regular bullets, then they could just deflect them but plasma bolts couldn't be deflected so easily.

Yatsuhashi and Fox's wounds were a testament to that.

Velvet was running out of weapons to use fast while Coco still had plenty of bullets to spare. As effective as her weapon was, the copies that it made don't last long and can't be used twice. The rabbit Faunus would have to take pictures of the weapons again if she wanted to replace them. To make up for this, she would take a picture of her leader's weapon, wield it and repeat the whole process again when the copy ran out.

But it still wasn't enough.

And they just kept coming. No matter how many androids that they destroyed, two more would take its place.

Just when everything seemed bleak, a group of those thin androids approaching their shelter were blown to bits. Coco peeked out the window to see an aircraft firing at the androids from above. She had never seen that model before but that was the least of her worries at the moment.

"Guys, they're here!" the leader of Team CFVY called out to her teammates in relief before her ears caught a tune that was slowly getting louder, "We're sa- wait, is that music?"

(AN: your suggestions were great but I found the perfect one for this scene. Go play X Gon' Give It To Ya by DMX)

Arf arf

Yeah, yeah, yeah (Grrrr)

Uh, yeah don't get it twisted

This rap shit, is mine

Motherfucker, it's not, a fucking, game

Fuck what you heard

It's what you hearing

It's what you hearing (Listen)

It's what you hearing (Listen)

It's what you hearing (Listen)

The androids ceased their assault, most likely just as confused as they were. A figure then dropped out of the ship and landed in front of the robots in a crouch. Coco couldn't see the features of the figure except for that tacky white cloak on their back.

~X gon' give it to ya~

~Fuck wait for you to get it on your own~

As the next verse of the song came on, the figure opened up their cloak to reveal that it was a Huntress in light armour. The unknown Huntress drew the biggest handgun that they ever seen in one hand and fired a round that tore through the closest android and into the one behind it.

~X gon' deliver to ya~

~Knock knock, open up the door, it's real~

The Huntress hurled herself toward the androids, feet first. After drop kicking the closest one, she drew a knife in her second hand and sliced the head off of another one while shooting a second one in the chest. She then turned her gun on the headless robot and shot it in the chest as well.

~Wit the non-stop, pop pop and stainless steel~

~Go hard getting busy wit it~

~But I got such a good heart~

~I'll make a motherfucker wonder if he did it~

Weaving her way around the plasma bolts, the Huntress fired into the assembled androids around her, each shot spelling destruction for two or three androids. The clip of her gun ran empty but she simply used it to pistol whip an android while throwing her knife into the glowing white core of the one behind her.

~Damn right and I'll do it again~

~'Cause I am right so gots to win~

~Break bread wit the enemy~

~But no matter how many cats I break bread wit~

She reloaded her gun in a flash and continued to shoot the androids. Velvet spotted a grenade heading her way and was about to yell out a warning to the Huntress but she noticed without the Faunus' help. She jumped into the air and kicked the grenade into the androids below, blowing them to pieces. She landed on top of an android and drew another knife, stabbing it into the torso of the android beside her.

~I'll break who you sending me~

~You motherfuckers never wanted nothing~

~But your life, said bitch that's for the light day~

~I'm getting down, down~

The Huntress aimed her gun behind her and shot an android in its white core without even bothering to look while slicing another android in half with her knife. Once again, her hand cannon ran out of bullets but she simply used it as a club to slaughter more androids with her knife. The big android that gave Team CFVY so much trouble suddenly appeared and fired energy bolts at the Huntress, which she quickly dodged.

~Like a nigga said freeze~

~But won't be the one ending up on his knees, Bitch Please~

~If the only thing you cats did is come out to play~

The Huntress reloaded and returned fire. Each shot was powerful enough to stagger the bulky android and black lines spread from wherever her shot hit. She then holstered her knife and gun in exchange for the sword on her back. She dashed toward the android with her sword raised high.

~Stay out my way, motherfucker~

And promptly sliced the big android in half.

The jaws of Team CFVY fell to the floor at the impressive display of skill. They were part of the lucky few to see how professional Huntsmen fight in their first year but this Huntress made them look like amateurs compared to her skills.

The Huntress twirled her sword before sheathing it on her back. Without warning, she drew her black hand cannon and fired a round at their direction. The students immediately went on guard despite knowing they don't stand a chance against the Huntress that thoroughly trashed what gave them so much trouble.

"Don't let your guard down," the Huntress advised them, motioning her helmet covered head to look behind them.

They turned to do so and saw one of those slim androids laying on the ground with its core blown to pieces. From how it was still twitching a bit, the android must have snuck up behind them without them noticing.

"Thank you for saving our lives, ma'am," Velvet was the first to recover and turned to express her gratefulness as they left the building that they were taking shelter in.

"Don't thank me just yet," the Huntress replied, expelling the spent rounds before reloading her gun, "The Vex rarely ever come in such a small group like this."

"Small!?" Coco exclaimed indignantly, gesturing to the wrecked androids that they learnt were called the Vex, "There were at least dozens of them out here! And you call that a small group!?"

"Yes," she answered before even more androids popped into existence before them. The Huntress pulled out a small object before throwing it to the ground, revealing it to be a smoke bomb as smoke concealed their forms.

Coco thought that something like a smoke bomb won't work on these androids but to their surprise, the androids were looking around as if confused. She looked down to see that her body was now transparent.

Her mouth opened up to let out a cry of panic but an armoured hand covered her mouth before a sound could escape. The brown haired girl turned to see the Huntress, just as see-through as her, raised a finger to her mouthpiece in a sign to tell her to be quiet. Out of the corner of her eye, Coco could see her teammates, who were also as transparent and astonished as her.

The masked Huntress pointed towards the building where they were just in. Team CFVY understood what she was trying to convey and made their way to the building. Once they made it inside, whatever semblance that the Huntress used to make them invisible to their enemy wore off.

"What now?" Coco couldn't help but asked as she snuck a peek out a window to observe these 'Vex'.

"You kids stay here while I take care of these guys," the Huntress told them as she was about to exit their shelter.

"What!" the leader of CFVY whispered loudly in protest, "You expect us to sit on our asses while you're fighting alone out there."

"You guys are injured and tired," she pointed out, "While I'm still fresh. You'll only get in the way."

Knowing that the masked Huntress was right, Coco clenched her teeth in frustration. She wanted to agree with the Huntress but mind kept flashing back to the dead bodies of the village's inhabitants. They were originally sent here to protect this village but they had failed spectacularly.

"We were supposed to protect the people here but we couldn't," Velvet spoke up, the usually reserved girl now full of fiery determination, "It's too late for our team to save them but it's not too late for us to avenge them."

The Huntress was silent for a few moments before coming to a decision, "Fine but tell me what all of you are capable of first. I need to know what my allies can do to make a battle strategy."

"Heh," Coco chuckled, feeling proud of the rabbit Faunus for convincing the Huntress, "Payback's a bitch."