Hello fellow reader, I finally got this chapter done. Sorry for the wait but was busy and such. Still I went over this chapter and tried to fix as many mistakes as I could. Though I loved writing up this chapter despite how long it took, I hope you love it too. Anyways, I should let you all off to reading.
NOW ONWARDS MY FELLOW READERS, ONWARDS READING!
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Four Hearts of One Journey
Ch. 20: Traverse Town adventure Pt.4- Darkness, light and new allies
"Alright here we are!" Ruby yelled out as she along with the whole entire group made their way out the other side of the gate. Though instead of darkness, blood and gore surrounding the place. It was just a quiet forest with high closed in tree that had sun light shinning down from above the tree lines. The girls, Kali, Ghira, Glynda, Ozpin, Winter, Crow and Tai Yang were surprised by this. The others in the group just looked around, wondering what was so wrong with this place
"So… this is supposed to be the scary place you need us all for?" Noire asked, though suddenly realized how rude she sounded "Oh ah I mean, not that I'm complaining. Just asking is all… sorry."
"No, no it's okay Noire." Weiss answered as she and the other Remnant natives studied the area "It's just…."
"Just that you didn't expect this place to look so nice?" Sundance asked
"Or that you thought we'd be attacked right we entered here?" Springer asked next as the others nodded in agreement with that statement
"I guess you could say that, we though the Grimm would all try an ambush on us." Blake responded, but then she and the other Remnant natives heard someone clear their throat in an obvious attempt to get their attention. Which worked as the Remnant natives turned around to face their literal small army, who did the cough was Peter
"Yeah… about that, can you maybe explain what the hell Grimm's are?" Peter asked
"Along with explain how dangerous they arm?" Lehm asked next
"And what kinds there are?" Slade asked now
"Along with if they have any weaknesses?" Rarity asked this time
"Basically, we just want to know if we're going to die, if we're going to die horrible and if there's even a small chance we may live." Rocket remarked
"Yeah…I'd like to die quickly if that's a choice." Lena stated sheepishly as mostly everyone gave her a quizzical look "Just saying is all."
"Anyways, we'd all like to know as much as we can about these Grimm's." BumbleBee kindly stated
"I am Groot." Groot kindly remarked
"Oh it's fine, still about the Grimm's well first off the most common are Beowulf's, Boarbatusk and Creeps." Glynda answered
"Okay, well what do those look like lady, come on give us some more would ya?" Haung asked with slight inpatients
"You know you could be a bit nicer asking her?" Compa responded back
"Eh whatever." Haung replied as Compa stuck her tongue out at him
"Still, can you please answer us?" Alfred asked, bring back the conversation to the main point before it went off course anymore
"Right, right. Well Aside form the three I've mentioned there are Ursa's." Glynda began off
"Which are like giant bears." Blake stated
"Then there are King Taijitu's." Glynda continued
"Those are like snakes, tree sized snakes." Kali answered with a slight shiver, having run into one of those things in her younger years and almost being killed by said Grimm type
"Indeed, then we also have Death Stalker." Glynda answered, now waiting for someone to chip in
"Big killer Scorpions." Ghira explained this time
"Oh yeah." Glynda remarked "We also have Beringel's, Geist's, Seer's, Lancers, Sea Dragons, Griffons, Goliaths, Nevermore's, a rare Grim Dragon and one in only myths from country folks called the Nuckelavee."
"Beringel's being giant Gorillas like Winston over here." Winter said as she pointed to Winston at the groups far left
"Thanks…" Winton muttered, feeling slight irritations towards Winter
"Geist's are ghost basically, creepy things." Qrow answered as if there was on Grimm type that creeped him out, it was Geist's
"The Grimm Dragon well being a dragon and only spotted a few times many years ago in our worlds history." Tai Yang sheepishly explained
"Goliaths are Elephants, Lancers being Wasps." Weiss answered
"Seer's from what I've heard at least are Jellyfishes." Yang stated this time
"Nevermore's are giant birds, me and the girls handled one before." Ruby proudly said "Also Creeps are like lizards, Boarbatusk are Boars and Beowulf's are like werewolf's
"And the Nuckelavee is just an old folks tail, most say it's like a man connected to a horse's body though." Ozpin explained with a smile
"Anyways, questions?" Glynda asked happily, as only Yuffie raised her hand up "Um yes Yuffie?"
"The hell is wrong with your world?" Yuffie asked wide eyed as most of the others seemed to be in agreement with her
"Yeah I got to agree with them, seems more like a horror show if you ask me." Vert remarked
"I don't like horror shows." Fluttershy muttered nervously, though felt slightly better when Wiley gently petted her head
"Hey no need to worry little lady, if any of those things come near us. We just take care of them." Wiley explained with a slightly sadistically happy tone, as he and the others from Koko's groups smiled sadistically too while flashing their weapons
"Is it wrong to say I'm slightly nervous around them still?" Neo asked Yoichi, IF, Rarity and Slade who were near her
"Nope." Slade, IF, Rarity and Yoichi answered as Neo just sighed nervously; though felt better when Celestia moved over to her and nuzzled her cheek with her snout "Thanks Celestia."
"Best friends remember?" Celestia whispered kindly as Neo smiled gratefully
"Okay wait hold up, let me ask. But…. is a Nevermore a large bird with black feathers, a white mask with red tribal markings and red eyes?" Publius suddenly asked
"RASBERRIES!" Hannibal screamed
"Okay well one yeah and two why are you asking?" Ruby asked
"Because of that!" Scootaloo screamed as she pointed her hoof out at sky. The group looked up to see five Nevermore's flying above them a good few feet above the air, odd thing was that they were just staring at them
"Wow, those are some big birds." Pinkie Pie stated "Wonder if they like sweets?"
"I think it's more of the flesh of living creatures they like pink one." Drax answered as he was ready to attack if needed
"Oh…well okay then." Pinkie Pie said with slight worry, then quickly smiled "Well let they look cute anyways."
"Seriously, what are you on?" Rocket asked
"Little rude to say?" Olminu asked with a raised eyebrow
"What I'm just being honest, come on some of you have to admit she seems like she's on something right?" Rocket asked back as some of the members awkwardly looked in other directions and shrugging "Yeah that's what I thought."
"Okay, um can I ask. But do those things look like their on fire or something, you can all see the black smoke coming from them right?" Jazz stated
"Wait what?" Team RWBY asked as Dante, Guin, Ikail, Donald and Goofy moved next to the girls
"Yeah I think we see it." Ikail remarked wide eyed
"Great…" Donald angrily said
"Okay so what's going on?" Neptune asked in slight confusion
"Heartless." Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Ikail, Guin, Dante, Goofy and Donald answered as a few Shades could be seen on top of the Nevermore's; which were engulfed in darkness or well even more darkness than usual for Grimm's. What happened next was strange, the Shades entered into the Nevermore's which didn't change their appearance what so ever; but instead engulfed the Nevermore's in black fire as they started to dive bomb right at the group at blinding speeds
"That's not good!" Chum Bucket yelled as suddenly Koko's group, Huang, the Autobots and well everyone else who had projectile weapons or magic began firing at Nevermore's. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang and Donald did the same; firing off spells at the Nevermore's. But their efforts were for naught as the bullets and magic just bounced off the Nevermore's at how fast they were
"OH COME ON, REALLY?!" Ruby yelled out, as she kept firing off more and more aero spells with no luck really
"Hey ah…I think we might be in a tizzy fella's." Applejack said wide eyed as the Nevermore's were just inches away from them now
"Oh fu-" Winter started to muttered, but was stopped when the Nevermore's made contact. For the group everything went dark and they all were out cold
-Hours later…somewhere-
"Oh…. oh my god my head." Yang muttered as she opened her eyes, feeling a dirt road under her. Though she noticed Blake was laying on top of her, in a cuddle position of all things. Seconds later Blake opened her eyes, seeing Yang who made a prevented smirk towards her girlfriend "So, getting frisky to get in my pants huh kitty?"
"Later, when we have a less open area." Blake responded back, as she smirked in a perverted way to; then she and Yang noticed heard many groans of slight pain. Blake and Yang looked to see some of the refuges they knew, some of their friends and family all on the ground just waking up. This group consisted of Kali, Ghira, Donald, Goofy, Lutz, Publius, Vert, Compa, Tojo, Wiley, Yuffie, Hana, Eileen, Spike, Slade, Fluttershy, Grimlock, Snarl, Slug, Swoop, Valmet and Pinkie Pie "Huh, guess we still have company."
"Yeah." Yang stated as she and Blake got back up onto their feet, then after that they looked to see their party slowly or quickly get back up. Yang whistled suddenly getting the groups attention as they looked to her "Hey, look I know this all probably really confusing and stuff. But I need to know how many of you are fine against how many of you might have an injury or some other form of pain!"
"I'm good…kind of." Lutz responded, rubbing his head and then making sure he still has his sniper; which to his relief he did. Though he also had a slight red mark on his forehead. Wiley, Fluttershy and Yuffie seemed to receive the same sorts of small injures as they nodded in agreement
"I think two of us are broke ladies…" Publius stated as he seemed to have dislocated shoulder "Ah…that's going to sting for a bit."
"Yeah…. sting." Spike remarked in pain, as he had broken one of his legs; which was bent slightly to the right. Spike seeing this and feeling the sudden pain began to try panting quickly to keep his mind off of it "Okay…good…good...good."
"Anyone here a medic that can do a quick temporary fix?" Blake asked as she and Yang looked at the young drake along with Publius concernly
"I do." Eileen responded as she seemed to be fine then walked up to the two boys looking over them for a few moments, then looked at Tojo, Donald and Compa "Boys, young lady may I ask for some help holding them down?"
"Sure, if only to help my elders." Tojo joked a bit, though felt a slight shiver down his back when he could just feel the unamused glare from Eileen
"Yeah…maybe not the best thing to say to the lady with daggers." Donald sarcastically stated
"Yeah not to be mean, but not smart Mister." Compa remarked as she sheepishly smiled
"Tread carefully big guy, tread carefully on these waters." Pinkie Pie whispered appearing behind Tojo; before disappearing back to spot she was just at like she hadn't even moved
"Seriously, are you like a wizard or something?" Hana asked as she seemed well enough, other than messy hair with a few twigs in them
"Oh Hana dear, I'm Pinkie Pie. You don't question the Pinkie Pie." Pinkie Pie happily said before taking out a cupcake from her hair before eating it
"You know what…not going to ask." Hana muttered, before she and the others notices that Eileen had placed Publius shoulder back in pace; while Tojo held him down so Eileen could do that in the first place. Then Donald did a two heal spells, before Compa got a large cloth out of her skirts pocket to make a sling for the man. Eileen, Compa, Tojo and Donald then turned their attention to Spike who was nervous to say the least
"Hey ah I think I'm way better now. So if you could just let me be I'll-" Spike began to say as he tried backing up; only to bump into Slade and Ghira who held both of his arms tightly enough to give him the message he was going to be getting his leg bone placed back "Hey let me go please!"
"Trust me kid, it's not as bad as you would think. Mostly…" Ghira explained, as he knew exactly how Spike was feeling since the first time they had to replace the bone; it was in the middle of a small-scale battle he'd been thrown into. Aura or not, that was probably one of the most painful memories of his life
"Yeah, besides got to man up one day or another kid. Good start at that." Slade joked as Spike laughed just a little as he felt some slight comfort, then he suddenly felt Tojo holding his good leg down as extra support. Mostly so Spike wouldn't squirm when Eileen placed his leg back into its natural position
"Alright child, just take a deep breath and…" Eileen said as she then quickly if not forced Spikes leg bone back into its natural position, which was followed by a snap. Spike went wide eyed as he opened his mouth, only to let out a silent scream
"Ah!" Hana, Snarl, Slug, Goofy, Blake, Yang, Kali, Yuffie and Vert said from the cringe-making sound
"You did good kid, no tears too." Valmet joked a little as she walked over to Spike and patted the young drakes head, she then looked over to one of the trees near them; before turning her attention to their autobot allies "Hey could one of you maybe cut two small blocks of wood quickly?"
"I can." Swoop answered as he got out one of his talon fingers, walked up to the tree Valmet was eying and cut out two pieces of wood. After that he then used his other clawed hand to smooth out the pieces of woods until they were two small blocks that were short enough to go around spikes broken leg; but not prevent him from moving his foot around at least. He knelt down and handed the wooden blocks to Valmet
"Thanks." Valmet kindly said as she knelt down next to Spike who had already gotten to heal spells from Donald. She then placed the wooden block on both sides of Spikes legs before looking over to Compa "Hey kiddo, got anymore cloth to use?"
"Yep." Compa happily answered as she wrapped the wooden blocks with another piece of cloth that made a makeshift cast of sorts as she then helped Spike up, placing him on her back in a piggy back stance "There we go, this will help you out till we find a good place to rest."
"Oh thanks." Spike replied kindly, though finally she and the others began to take notice of their surroundings
"So… anyways pain aside and all. Where are we?" Hana asked
"It's located in a tropical area for one." Tojo explained "Two, seems like were close to a village."
"Yeah, I think they know something about it too." Grimlock stated as he along with the rest noticed Blake and her parents looking around the area wide eyed
"Hey Blakey, what's going on with you and your folks?" Yang asked in slight confusion
"We…" Ghira began to say
"We're…" Kali began to say too, though stopped as she covered her mouth
"Back h…" Blake started to say, but like her parents stopped as she was nervous yet also happy too
"Back what?" Yang asked suddenly, only for her and the others to be quickly surrounded by a wide militia of men and woman. All of them with animal like appendages on them aiming guns, spears and swords at them. The group just decided to stay still, though Grimlock would have attacked if not for Kali giving him a quick look saying that he better not. Meanwhile Yang suddenly realized what her girlfriend was trying to say "Oh…home, right."
"Who are you and why are you here?" A middle aged deer Faunas man with a pair of antlers asked sternly, aiming what looked like a hunting rifle at them; while the rest of his party just narrowed their gazes. This man didn't trust the humans here or the giant robots or even the really animal looking folks along with their ponies and small purple baby lizard on one of the human's backs. Though he then looked to see two, if not also three familiar faces "Chief Ghira, Lady Kali…Lady Blake is that you?"
"Huh?" A female Faunas asked taking notice of this too, as some of the other faunas noticed the who Ghira, Kali and Blake were
"Is it really them?" A young male Faunas asked out loud as suddenly the whole militia began to talk amongst one another loudly
"Whoa hey calm down everyone I'm sure there's an explanation for this!" The lead deer faunas stated, though it didn't seem to help as the other faunas were starting to question where their leaders and their daughter had been. Why they were with over mutated faunas, why they were with giant robots, with ponies, with a small purple lizard and most importantly why they were with humans of all things. It got so loud that, finally Grimlock out of the group decided to shut the militia up
"You talk to loud, SHUT UP!" Grimlock roared out as he pulled his sword out and slammed it into the ground. The force created a loud boom and a small burst of air that passed by the militia members quickly, though they all shut up as the could see Grimlock was growling a little; thankfully his eyes hadn't turned blood red again and stayed blue. Kali just simply walked up to him and patted his leg
"Thank you Grimlock." Kali kindly stated
"You're welcome miss Kali." Grimlock replied back shyly as the militia just stared at the odd sight
"Seriously, that woman is kind of scary since she can keep big guy here in line." Valmet remarked, then looked at Yang "That's going to be your mother in law one day kid, good luck."
"Thanks Valmet… really makes me feel better." Yang responded as Blake just snickered while standing next to her, meanwhile Ghira made his way up to his wife and Grimlock as he kept his attention to the deer faunas in front of him
"Carter, good to see you again friend." Ghira kindly said as he and Carter quickly shook one another's hands
"You as well Chief, but where have you and your wife been. It's been a few weeks since you both disappeared." Cater asked, then looked to see Blake next to a human girl she was smiling at; while the human girl smiled back at her "Also, when did you find your daughter and who are the others with you?"
"That… that will be hard to explain, but please trust me when I say they are friends." Ghira explained as Carter looked at him oddly, then at Kali
"They are, even the humans." Kali said as Carter seemed to want to argue but sighed as he began just making his way back to the village. The other militia troops saw this and took the hint the people with their chief's family were alright even if they were wary of most of them. The group just shrugged as Ghira and Kali motioned them to follow. They did so, wary too of what may happen now. Though behind them Blake, Yang, Donald and Goofy followed
"So, this is your home Blake?" Goofy asked as he looked around "Nice and warm if you don't mind me saying."
"I just hope the rest of this place isn't like here." Donald asked
"It isn't, this is more of the rural area of Menagerie." Blake explained
"Oh so this is Menagerie. I've only hear tales about the place, an island where Faunas moved too to live in peace and seclusion from humans." Yang explained as she smirked "Hey maybe we can make this our pre-marriage honey moon hm?"
"You never stop do you?" Donald asked, though found it slightly amusing
"Nope, but that's just how I… oh crap." Yang stated, though kept on following the others back to what she could presume to be Blakes home town or village in this case
"Something wrong Yang?" Goofy asked
"Yeah, if we're here. Then where's everyone else?" Yang asked back as suddenly Blake, Donald and Goofy went wide eyed
"Oh…" Blake said as she, Yang, Donald and Goofy continued to follow the others; now very worried about their friends
-Hours later… somewhere again-
"For the love of Primus… what just happened?" Hot Rod asked out loud, rubbing his head as he looked up to see Aerith, IF, Guin and Qrow on his chest waking up too "Glad to see you folks are alright."
"Hot Rod, right?" IF asked as Hot Rod picked her and the others into his hand, before he let them down on the ground
"Yep, got that right little lady." Hot Rod answered kindly, though suddenly he and the others heard groans of slight pain from the left to see other in in their previously large group waking up
"Seems like we have company." Guin remarked
"Yeah, guess we do." Qrow stated, seeing Rocket and Arcee walking up to them "You two feeling okay?"
"Other then feeling like I just got in fight with Megatron one on one. Yeah fine." Arcee answered
"Well I feel like shit." Rocket remarked, only for a rock to be throw against his head "Ah, the hell?"
"You mind, kids here." Rainbow Dash asked, as she covered the CMC's ears while giving Rocket and annoyed look
"Oh they'll learn one way or another lady." Rocket responded, giving Rainbow Dash an annoyed glare back
"Anyways, more importantly. Where are we?" Ugo suddenly asked he and the rest of their smaller group joined up; some of them seeming to be relatively unharmed
"Were in a desert for one." Haung explained
"Yeah we can see that." Butch replied as Sundance just nodded in agreement with his friend
"Well if we're in a desert, maybe we can find a city or a town?" Naoshi suggested
"Wow, how long did it take you to think of that?" Cat Mao asked as Naoshi glared at the feline
"Shut it flea bag or I'll skin you." Naoshi threatened
"But he's a cat, not a bag of fleas." Drax remarked, missing the whole point of the insult
"It was…. oh never mind." Leon said, looking around some more" Still, which way should we go?"
"Maybe North, though which was is north is a better question." Alfred suggested first
"Beep, vroop, stzz?" Bastion suggested next, pointing south though seemed hesitant in knowing if he was pointing south actually
"What about…wait is this way east?" Solider 76 suggested now, though like the others didn't know what directions they were facing at the moment and if he was correct
"Well maybe west?" Sundance suggested last, as he didn't know which actually way he was pointing either
"Or we could just make our way over to the smoke in the air is." Toyohisa stated as he pointed to the right of Sundance
"That works." AppleBloom happily stated as Rainbow Dash finally removed her hoofs from over hers, Scootaloo's and Sweetie Belle's ears
"I'm just wondering why we didn't notice beforehand." Dante asked, kind of shocked that none of them had seen the smoke up in the air
"Who knows better to not dwell on it though." Johnny responded back "So ah, how far do you think the source of the smoke is?"
"And again, like Mister Ugo asked. But where are we?" Sweetie Belle asked, slightly nervous of their new surroundings
"Yeah now that I look around, were like in a wasteland." Scootaloo remarked, nervous a little too but trying to play the tough filly; Aerith seeing at least two out of the three CMC members were scared. She quickly moved over to them and gently patted their heads
"Hey no need to be nervous, trust me we all are or well most of us are." Aerith kindly explained as Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle smiled, feeling a bit better now
"Ugh… too sweet." Naoshi muttered, though Rainbow Dash and Bastion overheard him before quickly smacking the back of his head semi hard. Naoshi quickly gave the two a glare, but Bastion and Rainbow Dash just acted like nothing happened. Naoshi just sighed and huffed, deciding it was too much of a waste of energy to deal with right now. Meanwhile Aerith turned her attention to Qrow
"Mister Qrow." Aerith asked to get the man's attention
"Just Qrow please, Mister makes me sound old." Qrow asked with a small smirk as Aerith smiled back
"Okay then Qrow, I wanted to ask. But would you know where we are. Since this is the world you come from." Aerith asked back kindly, as Qrow looked around trying to remember until it suddenly came to him
"Vacuo." Qrow explained
"Vacuo?" The others asked, wondering what was up with this place now
"Yeah, short of it this place is a barren wasteland because that use to be a lush jungle paradise. This place had the resources needed for the other kingdoms and for that they thrive. But after years of exploitation along with the great war and well the Grimm's. This barren wasteland is what's left, some people move around here and there, other well if I'm guessing right. We're right around where Shade Academy is located at, along with the settlement built around it." Qrow explained as the others looked to one another, then back at Qrow
"Anything we should know?" Arcee asked
"Yeah, because I don't think any of us wants to get blindsided." Sundance remarked, as Qrow sighed
"Well for one, this place has no government to say. Since people here have a high disregard for the law. Secondly that means they're a lot of criminals that rule this place and third, the people in Vacuo believe if you can survive these conditions. The your welcomed here as one of them, no matter who or what you are." Qrow answered
"So… we can stay out of our alt modes then?" Hot Rod asked with a forming smile
"Yeah, but don't be surprised if people here are wary of you at first. Trust me I was at first, till just a while ago." Qrow responded back, as Hot Rod smiled at Arcee; who smirked while rolling her eyes at Hot Rod's childlike excitement
"Still, I don't think anyone will try messing with us." Toyohisa proudly said as he patted his katana's "Not one bit."
"We can only hope." Qrow replied as he began to make his way over to where probably Shade Academy was, the others just followed behind quickly though Qrow decided to give them one more piece of advice "Oh word to the wise, one last thing but people here might want to test you in battle. Not everyone, but some might."
"Well then, guess we'll just have to be ready then." Guin remarked as he cracked his neck, the others even the CMC all nodded in agreement. Qrow just smiled a bit at his companions as he and the others continued their way to Shade Academy. Though after a minute of them walking to Shade Academy, from the area they had woken up in. A single heartless Duster Wisp, four Shades, four Knights and two Beowulf's appeared watching the group continued their way to Shade Academy
"Grr." A Beowulf growled, wanting to attack now. But stopped when it felt it's much smaller cousin, one of the Shades poke its leg. The Beowulf looked at their recently new family members as the Shade just nodded no. The Beowulf then just backed off, the other Beowulf laid on the dirt seeming bored already. The few knights and remaining Shades also laid on the Beowulf's body, meanwhile the Duster Wisp kept watching their target who were going further away and already planning out a way to kill them all; before taking their hearts
-Hours later… somewhere yet again-
"You had to just antagonize them, didn't you?" Neo asked, as she stared at Peter, Hei, Nobunaga and Blanc all seeming to have gotten into a fight, cover in some dry blood; though it wasn't their blood. Neo and the others, aside from the autobots were stuck in a large prison cell while Ozpin was trying to get them out
"Okay one, they started it." Peter replied in his and the others defense who had enacted said crime
"One guard is missing his left eyeball and another will probably have to have her leg amputated. Not to put aside the fact of the school kids that saw two more guards get stabbed to near death. Then finally the mental trauma from the guards that survived their heads being slightly caved in from the blunt force applied to their skulls. The doctor said they'll never be able to speak or read again. This all started because none of you wanted to go through with a body check for security reasons." Celestia bluntly explained "So, who's in the wrong here?"
"Hey they're lucky I didn't just go full force with my mace to their skulls." Blanc answered as she tried to play the innocent card, even though it didn't really work since the crime had already been committed
"Yeah and those two guards didn't take my warning seriously, told them I don't like being touched. So it's their fault." Hei coldly explained
"Yep, the guard trying to search me learned not to after I basically crippled her leg which you said is being amputated right?" Nobounaga asked as Neo just slowly nodded "Ha, that will show the punk. Ha I say!"
"You're a jerk. You know that?" Lena stated as she and Winston didn't care for the man's lack of empathy
"Well just to say, the eyeball thing was totally by mistake. I aimed a little too high since I just wanted to knock the guard out. My mistake I will admit to that, still I stick by also that they started it." Peter remarked, as Gomora smack him hard across the head; along with Rarity who had conjured up a magical hand to do so
"Good job then at that you ruffians. Because of you four we're stuck in this dreadful place!" Rarity angrily said, though sighed as she rested on the ground. R just moved over to Rarity, gently patting her back as a way to help comfort the fashionista pony "Hm, thank you R."
"Hey what can I say. Guess I can be a gentlemen when I want to be, not just some horny hound dog." R joked, getting a small laugh out of Rarity as Groot then came over giving her a small flower he quickly grew out of his hand; gently placing it into her hair
"I am Groot." Groot kindly said, as Rarity couldn't help but smile more from the kind gesture Groot did
"Why thank you Groot, such a kind one you are too." Rarity said happily as Groot smiled. As Rarity and the others could already understand him by this point
"Hey curious, but why don't you or Twilight here break us out?" Human Mao asked out of the blue, laying on the ground trying to get some sort of rest
"Yeah, now that I think of it. Why doesn't Twilight, Vladimir or Olminu here try to get us out too?" Lehm asked too
"First off, I have none of my weapons with me now. If I had my saw cleaver maybe. But I don't and I don't know locking picking well either." Vladimir answered as he sighed sitting on the ground bored, while Maria had decided to use his shoulder to rest her head since they were stuck in the jail cell until Ozpin hopefully would get them out
"What about you Maria, know how to lock pick?" Yoichi asked "I sure don't know how to."
"Sorry to say, but no. I only act as an advisor back in the dream. That and empowering the hunters that came or went." Maria explained
"Well at least it's a better answer then our autobot friends gave us." Neo remarked as she looked outside the bars of their jail cell to see Ratchet, Springer and Ultra Magnus with chains around their ankles
"Come on, give us a break. It's not like we could do anything." Springer answered as he looked through the outer bars of the jail cell
"You're two are giant robots, we think you could do a few things!" Gomora yelled, making Springer flinch back just a little
"Miss, as autobots we're expected to uphold the law." Ultra Magnus answered sternly
"Yeah, but it's not like we were asking you to kill the guards. Just to scare them away." Jonah explained with a blank expression, bored too but didn't show it
"Even if we did, Magnus here wouldn't be happy about it. He's a stickler for rules." Ratchet explained "I mean I am too, but him. Well…"
"Rule are made for reasons, breaking them is unacceptable." Ultra Magnus answered sternly still
"He's a stubborn one…" Olminu remarked with a sigh, already knowing she wouldn't do anything since she was worried what might happen reaction wise if she did break them out
"Yeah, reminds me of a few ponies I know back home." Twilight added in as she also didn't want to possibly make their situation worse. Then again, it seemed most of the others with her in the jail cell felt the same since this world was an unknown
"I am Groot." Groot said
"Maybe so, but if it meant breaking rules then I refuse to do so." Ultra Magnus explained, though with a softer tone
"So we're stuck in here, great. Hey ah want to ask, but anyone need to go to the bathroom?" Lehm asked as R, Blanc, Rarity shyly and Peter did "Great…"
"What?" Winston asked, raising an eyebrow
"What, well because that's our toilet." Lehm asked as the pointed to a patch of hay with some old newspapers bunched up
"No…oh no, no way I'm going now." Peter remarked
"What's the matter, afraid we'll peak and see you aren't as… well made as you may think?" Neo teased as Peter glared at her a bit, though some of the others got a quick laugh out of it
"Did you just make a joke like that?" Peter asked
"Yes, yes I did." Neo responded with a smirk
"What?" Ultra Magnus, Springer and even Ratchet asked; confused by the term
"When you're older kids." Lena joked as she gave the three autobots a smile and thumbs up
"Anyways, we're stuck here until Ozpin comes back. So till then, guess we wait." Winston stated as he and the others sighed. But just then Dinky Di raised his head up, having just laid on the ground all this time
"Arf!" Dinky Di barked, as he clawed at the jail cell bars getting the others attention
"Hey boy, what's got you riled up?" Winston asked, until the wounds of two sets of foot steps came in. The group turned their attention ahead, along with the autobots who still were just looking through the outer jail cells window bars to see that Ozpin and another man with him
Said man was around Ozpins age, had a tan complexion, dark brown eyes and a tan/gray mane like hairstyle along with a beard. He wore a brown great coat that had a matching mantle with cross emblems on each side, a white dress shirt underneath, a western neck tie, wore dark brown slacks and dress shoes. He was carrying around in his hand a pocket watch and a disk shaped weapon strapped to his right wrist. Finally he also had a lion tail poking out behind him. The man just stared at the group, while Ozpin gently petted Dinky's head.
"Hey there boy, miss me?" Ozpin asked kindly as he petted Dinky- Di's head as the dog happily wagged his tail
"Ozpin nice to see you again." Twilight joyfully stated, then looked at the man next to him "Um, who may you be good ah…sir?"
"This is an old friend of mine, Leonardo Lionheart the head master of Haven Academy." Ozpin answered as Leonardo gave Ozpin a friendly nod
"Yes he is right on that. Now Ozpin explained to me the situation with you folks and though I find it hard to believe. Ozpin has never lead me astray yet." Leonardo stated kindly "Anyways, I've been able to clear at least your guiltier friends of their crimes."
"There's a but though, right?" Yoichi asked
"Yes you're right. In exchange for your charges being cleared. You'll all have to stay at Haven and help out around the place. Along with helpings us out with a more recent problem." Leonardo answered
"Wait why are we all being punished?" R asked
"Also what recent problems?" Rarity asked next
"One, that was the only way I could clear your friend's charges. So you all have to pay the price." Leonardo responded as the not guilt members sighed but decided not to argue as Leonardo continued "Secondly, our recent problem has to involve the Grimm and their new… cousins you could say."
"Cousins?" The group asked, as even Ozpin hadn't been told that yet
"Yes, small dark creatures with big yellow eyes, no mouths and antennas." Leonard explained, as the group quickly sighed aside from the autobots who hadn't been really given the time to learn about the whole situation or the more important parts of the situation at least. Leonard raised an eyebrow seeing the groups reaction to the news "I take it you know of these things?"
"In a way yeah, for what I've heard. Some of us, like Ozpin here have dealt with the so called Heartless a few times. For people like me and some of the others, we've only been told about it." Peter answered
"Ah I see…well enough of this. Come on let me show you to you're rooms back at Haven for a while. I'll get the robots out once we're outside." Leonardo stated as he opened the jail cell. He then began to make his way off, with the others following while the autobots waited to be released. Ozpin followed behind the group, as he wondered now how the others were doing. Knowing that they all had been separated because of the heartless possessed Nevermore's, he really just hoped they were doing fine
-Hours later… somewhere one last time-
"Ruby, hey come on kiddo wake up?" A voice stated worriedly sounding like her dad Tai Yang as Ruby was slowly waking up, her head feeling like she'd just been hit by a brick and her body feeling like she fell off a cliff and landed on the solid ground
"Is miss Ruby going to be okay?" A younger voice asked, sounding like one of twins Kim or Tina
"I'm sure she is, just have to wake her up is all." A more robotic voice answered, though seemed uncertain himself as Ruby thought this was Jazz
"Yes indeed, she's healthy in all other aspects thankfully." A older woman stated in relief, sounding like Angela
"Well what do we do to wake her up then, I'm out of idea's myself?" Another woman asked, sounding like Miss GoodWitch
"Statement: We could use an incentive to wake her up." A voice Ruby defiantly knew said, as she could tell easily that it was HK-97
"So like what, leaves, flower or-" Another younger woman began to asked, sounding like one of the new girls she met named Noria; until she was cut off
"RASPBERRIES!" An old, somewhat crazy sounding old man exclaimed as it sounded like he pulled something out of a coat
"Why do you have a box of raspberries in your coat… you know what never mind." A voice Ruby also could tell was Robbie asked, as it sounded like he took a raspberry out of the box
"So, we just give it Ruby here. Okay who's doing it?" Another younger girls asked, sounding like the girl the meet named Neptune
"Of course I'm the one doing it, she is my girlfriend after all." The voice Ruby knew imminently, which was her lovely Weiss stated. Ruby then felt Weiss put a raspberry in her mouth and then felt Weiss kiss her while shoving the Raspberry into Ruby's mouth. Ruby ate it before taking a bit longer to kiss her beloved. After a few more seconds Weiss got up as she held Ruby bridal style in her arms, as Ruby decided to cling onto Weiss like a princess with her knight "I HAVE AWOKEN MY PRINNCESS!"
"Oh thou can taketh this maidens womanhood anytime my shinning knight!" Ruby yelled out with a loving tone, only for her to realizing what she said and for Weiss to realize how she was acting as they looked to see most of the group members just staring at them oddly, though Winter seemed like she wanted to murder Ruby
"Did ya'll have to give her the raspberry like that?" Applejack asked with a deadpanned tone
"Yeah got to agree, we got kids here you know that right?" Robbie asked as the two girls rubbed the back of their heads awkwardly. Weiss then let Ruby down back onto her feet as the girls got a good look at who was with them. Currently who was with them was their father Tai Yang, Ikail, Neptune, Norie, Hannibal, Robbie, Tina, Kim, Applejack, Angela looking over the duckling triplets, Koko was looking around the area with Glynda and Max. Optimus, BumbleBee, Fareeha sitting on top of Optimus shoulder. Finally Chumbucket, Yin and Jazz were looking around another part of the area. Though Tiana and Kim's ears were being covered by Neptune and Norie; both of the young twin sisters seeming slightly irritated by that
"Ah…. right, right sorry." Weiss replied with a sheepish tone
"Question: Mistresses, I detect you both are in a sort of heat with one another right now. Would you like us to leave you two alone for a while?" HK-97 asked, as Ruby and Weiss blushed
"T-T-That's not it!" Weiss yelled in utter embarrassment as she covered her face from all the thoughts involving Ruby coming to her mind quickly, which only made her blush even more
"HK, did you have to say that?" Ruby asked trying to keep her blush down
"Response: Mistress Ruby, I was only suggesting it as it would seem to help you both with this rising heat with one another. I only ask because I care for you well beings mistresses." HK-97 explained as Ruby sighed, knowing it wasn't like HK-97 meant to say it the way he did. Though in front of so many others, especially her dad and future sister in law who from what Ruby could see was growing a hatred of her even more now
"Yes, still none of that right now." Winter stated through her teeth, forcing a smile as she clasped her hands together "At the moment lets just see if we can find civilization."
"Speaking of which, doesn't this seem… well familiar?" Glynda asked as she and the others looked around the area grouped back up with the rest. With Angela, Yin and Koko holding one of each duckling triplets in their arms now since they seemed to be injured. Neptune and Norie meanwhile released their grip around the twin sisters ears "Like really familiar, especially for you Winter?"
"Wait what do you…" Winter began to ask, as she had only woken up a few minuets before the girls did. What she noticed was that aside from their area being all green she also noticed the ground was covered in puddles of water, then she looked at some of the trees to see that they had water dripping from them with what looked like snow on the other side of the trees and the ground. Winter went wide eyed, starting to get a good idea of what this area was located at or more to the fact near
"Wait…can someone please explain this?" Ikail asked with a confused look
"Yeah, I'm getting pretty lost too ladies." Jazz stated as he rubbed his head
"We are too." Huey, Dewey, Louie, Tina and Kim stated
"I think Winter knows where we are." Optimus remarked as she looked at Glynda "That's what you're getting at. Correct?"
"Yes, yes I am. Now come on Winter remember." Glynda stated, then looked at Weiss "Same with you Weiss, you should know this place as well. Even if Robbie melted away the snow in this area."
"Yeah, thankfully you didn't start a damn fire." Max said with a deadpanned tone
"That would have been bad. Especially if we have enemies around us." Yin said as she made sure she had a grip on the duckling triplet she had, which was Louie
"Still, how did Robbie melt all the snow around here?" Ruby asked "Did he you know, go all skeleton burning man?"
"Yes he did." Chumbucket answered "The kids freaked out a little, along with Norie."
"Hey don't judge me. I was taken by surprise is all." Norie remarks with a pouty tone
"Is that why you jumped into Neptune's arms and asked her to protect you?" Prowl asked, with the rare smirk as Norie glared at him; while Glynda flashed her cattle whip making Prowl shiver in slight fear "Ah never mind…sorry."
"Good boy." Glynda remarked in amusement
"Wow, your whipped." Fareeha said "Cattle Whipped. Eh, was that that good or what?"
"I think we just found the Yang of your team Angela." Ruby stated as she and Weiss stared at Fareeha with deadpanned looks
"BOO!" Koko yelled as she threw a small pebble at Fareeha's head, which thankfully was covered by her helmet currently
"Ugh…everyone's a critic." Fareeha muttered with a slight pout as the others just shrugged
"Anyways, aside from that. Yeah I think I know where we are." Weiss said as Winter just nodded in agreement with her little sister, figuring out too
"Okay so where?" Max asked as Winter happily giggled
"Our home, we're near Atlas!" Winter joyfully said, making her usual cold and clam demeanor melt as she looked like a giddy school girl. That in turn freaked out some of the others, having only seen Winter in her colder persona
"Okay now this is creepy." Tai Yang muttered as Robbie, Koko and Applejack nodded in agreement
"So, wait if we're near your home. Then could our arrival have been noticed?" BumbleBee asked
"Hey yeah, if we got noticed do they know we're friends?" Kim asked now
"Yeah and did anyone else see us too, like bad people?" Tina asked next
"Please I hope not…" Huey muttered as Koko was holding him, Koko quickly patted his head
"Oh don't worry sweetie. If any bad guys come, then we'll take care of them." Koko happily answered, though Huey could feel a more mischievous and violent under tone which made his spin shiver for just a moment
"Well that could be a possibility, if so then maybe-" Wiess began to say, until she was cut off
"FREEZE!" An Atlas Solider screamed at the top of her lungs, aiming a rifle right at the group. Now this wouldn't have been as bad if only she wasn't accompanied by a whole three dozen more soldiers all aiming their weapons at the group
"PUT YOU'RE HANDS UP ALL OF YOU!" A man yelled from the pack of Atlas Soldiers as some Alta's knights came in from the left aiming their guns at the group also
"You have five seconds to comply." One of Atlas knights stated in its robotic tone
"Okay, okay we'll do as you say!" Ruby nervously yelled out, not wanting to upset the people aiming the guns at them. The others didn't want to either, since they didn't know what could set these people off and the autobots did too, since they didn't want to hurt any of the organics. Ikail herself huffed, knowing that even if she tried something using the force, that didn't mean the others wouldn't get hurt if some of the soldiers decided to fire at them in a fit of slight panic. So Ikail followed the others, though she wondered if any of the troops here would recognized Weiss and Winter. Since she remembered Weiss saying she was part of well know and rich family in Atlas. So she hopped someone would noticed who at least those two were, she hoped at least
"Alright that's it." Winter yelled as she stepped in front of the group with a stern looked "Stand down now. Don't you recognize me and my sister?"
"Miss Winter, is that her and her sister?" Another man asked as he looked to some of his comrades
"Maybe it is?" A woman replied back still aiming her rifle at the group
"No wait what if it's one of those new things with the Grimm in disguise?" Another woman stated worriedly "They can probably do that!"
"Wait what?" Weiss asked, only for the soldiers to get even more tense as they aimed their guns at the group still, though one of them shot off a round near Winter's feet making the girl back off a little as she stared at her solider in shock; wondering what could cause hem to get this paranoid. But before anyone else could do anything or well shoot anymore, someone else came into the fray
"Stand down soldier's. I'll handle this." A man said as he came out of the crowd of Soldiers and Atlas knights
Said man was tall, muscular, well dress and clean. He wore a white overcoat with some grey accents a black sweater underneath with a red neck tie, white gloves and a black belt with a silver buckle around his waist. His lower half was a pair of white suite pants with grey accents as well and silver boots with grey accents on them too. Finally he had white skin, black hair with some grey at the sides, blue eyes, a clean shaved face and a strip of metal on his forehead right above his right eyebrow. Finally he had a white and grey colored bulky revolver in his left hand with the hammer pulled back. The man stopped as he stared at the group.
"General Ironwood sir, it's so nice to see a familiar face." Winter happily said, but stopped when she saw Ironwood aim his revolver at her
"Don't come any closer, in the likely case your one of those new things with the Grimm's. I want to be ready." General Ironwood stated sternly "Still if you are who you say you are. At least Winter here, then I'm going to ask you a few questions only you would know the answers to. So come closer, but slowly and keep your hands up in the air."
"You have got to be kidding me, really?" Robbie asked as General Ironwood glared at him, before looking back at Winter
"Young man, I'd keep quiet if I were you right now." Ironwood sternly ordered as he then saw Glynda too, though happy to see one of his old friends again. He didn't want to take any chances either, Winter meanwhile just slowly walked up to Ironwood as some soldiers turned their sights on Winter if she turned out not to be the real one. Ironwood then pushed his revolver against her stomach with his finger over the trigger slightly as he leaned over to her left ear and whispered a few things. Winter just sighed, though smiled a bit as she whispered back. Ironwood went from stone cold faced, to smiling a little as he quickly removed his revolver from against Winter stomach and patted her shoulders and faced his troops "It's alright, she's the real deal. So make your way back to the city while I stay here and explain the situation to Winter and her unit."
"Sir?" Some of the soldiers asked in bewilderment as Ironwood quickly turned back to a cold stone glare, though unlike the soldiers the Atlas knights already were making their way back to the city
"I said that will be all, now go back to the city. That's an order." Ironwood ordered sternly as the solider just nodded and quickly made their way back too, Ironwood then look back at Winter along with the others "Now then, follow me. I know this is sudden for you all. But trust me it's not safe out here."
"I'm guessing somethings going on?" Ruby asked worriedly as Weiss held her girlfriends hand to make the girl feel better
"Yes, that would be the case young lady. But it's best to come back to the city behind the walls where you'll be safe." Ironwood stated as he began making his way back to Atlas, followed by Winter who quickly moved over to his right side. The others looked to one another, following too though warry of Ironwood still. Weiss and Ruby were left as they stared at each other, before sighing
"This is going to be a strange time isn't it my little rose?" Weiss asked with a weak smile
"Yeah, but hey after all we've been through so far. This is just another chapter in our journey. But at least I get to see your home and spend time alone with you when I can." Ruby happily answered as Weiss smiled before kissing Ruby on the lips for a good half a minute, before retracting back
"Yeah that's a good thing dear, still let's get going before we get left behind Ruby." Weiss suggested as she and Ruby started to catch up with the rest holding on another's hands still. They hoped everyone was alright, though until they knew that for sure. They swore to stay positive for as long as this newest part of their journey would take
-Meanwhile at Maleficents castle-
"So how is she?" Maleficent asked as she was waiting outside the medical facility or more accurately the makeshift one in Cinder's quarters. She was asking Prozen and Rodrigo, Rodrigo with bloody gloves; while Prozen was carrying out a small table with bloody medical instruments
"It was close at one point or another, but she will recover. But with a lack of precision obviously." Rodrigo answered, with a small chuckle at his own dark joke
"Yes indeed it was, still it will take some time for her wounds to heal." Prozen said "Though she seems out of it now, mentally."
"What do you mean?" Maleficent asked curiously, hoping she would still have her uses until Maleficent deemed otherwise
"We believe the lost of her eye and the defeat has put her in sort of trance." Prozen answered "Or a state of deep thought."
"Basically PTSD?" Maleficent asked, remembering what she had at one point overheard Loghain explain the concept to Neo before the girl turned traitor
"Yes that would be the case." Rodrigo responded this time "She's still able to fight. But it may take a day or more to get her head back on straight as they say."
"She better, I have no use for anyone who can't pull their own weight." Maleficent stated, as she made her way off to her own chambers. Though she smiled joyfully, as Cinder was her rival in a way. She hated how the woman was since her stay here, she hated how Cinder acted like she was in charge. Maleficence wanted to see her in this stated of shock with one of her eyes missing. Though Maleficence decided to not do anything at the moment, mostly because she wanted some rest after dealing with their fail attempt to capture the traitor Neo along with her two other companions. As she made her way off though, Makuta appeared from the shadows behind her. Glaring at the witch slightly, before looking at Cinders room. Once in front of the door, he simply knocked before waiting for a possible answer
"Oh ah, a moment." Emerald answered from behind the door, as the sounds of whispers could be heard. Then the door opened, showing Emerald as she gave Makuta a stare before moving aside. Makuta then saw Mercury standing behind Cinder who had a blank expression, her hair cut short and her mangled eye now covered up in bandages. Mercury and Emerald just looked at one another, before looking back at Makuta
"Ah, want us to leave you two for a bit?" Mercury asked, though he didn't want to admit it. But he was somewhat uneasy around the giant metal man
"For a bit, I think Mumm- Ra, Praxis and Jaune needed some help moving a few delicate items." Makuta stated
"Okay then… just keep Cinder safe." Emerald replied sternly as she made her way out, while Mercury followed. Once alone Makuta then knelt down at Cinder, who didn't even notice she had been left alone or that he was with her. She just stared at the floor with her still good eye, though she seemed dead inside or more to the fact her confidences had been crushed to basically nothing. Makuta then decided to do something, as he grabbed cheeks gently with two of his fingers on his left hand and moved her face so they could stare at one another. Makuta then smirked as he lifted up a small box
"It's your lucky day my dear Cinder, while out in my own world making sure it stays the state of darkness it has been for so long. A woman came to me, though I could tell she wasn't like you or the others; humans I mean. Though she looked like one, I could tell she was a creature of darkness like me. Though with her were two men in black long coats, with black covering their bodies and hoods that covered their faces in shadows. But besides that, the woman gave items in this box to…in her words improve you. She had heard of what occurred here and asked me to be her instrument in your upgrades." Makuta said as he pulled out a small mask that looked like it was made to cover the missing portion of Cinders eye, but then placed the mask down and pulled out an old styled saw. He patted Cinders head, as the woman still seemed to not be having any sort of reaction to what was going on "Though, she did say she had a few other upgrades for you dear Cinder, so I'll have to cut some pieces off of you, mainly your left arm and leg. So… lets just hope you can withstand the pain."
With that from outside the doorway, the sounds of flesh and bone being cut through started. Though as this happened, within Maleficents Chambers. The slumbering bodies of Pyrrha, Nora and Ren were being examined by Maleficent herself. Maleficent smiled as she looked over the bodies with her magic, seeing how the darkness in their hearts was doing. She hoped it would last long enough for her to be able to use Jaune as her warrior of darkness to get rid of the four annoying keyblade wielders, that had been throwing wrenches into her plan. Though as she observed the three, she scowled a bit looking at Pyrrha.
"Again you seemed to be pushing away the darkness… again. How, how in the world are you able to brat. You shouldn't be able to." Maleficent angrily remarked "It's like…. wait, it can't be?"
With that Maleficent quickly stopped as she moved over to a book shelf, taking out a book labeled legends. She quickly skimmed through the book, until she stopped at one legend. She decided to read it out loud, since she wanted to make sure she wasn't going crazy with this sudden theory of her.
"Long ago… in a world far away. They're live a king and a queen who ruled their nation with utter benevolence. They were just and fair, they care for all who were under their rule like their own. But after years of rule, the king and queen wanted a child to take after them once they passed onto the next life. A year later, a baby girl was born though unlike her parents who had brown hair and blue eyes. The only two things different but stood out was her bright red hair and green eyes. Still they loved her so much, sadly though a day or two after the new princesses birth a woman in pure dark armor came, demanding they surrender and accept her rule as the queen of their world. The king and queen refused. With that a war began, one that only lasted two days, with the dark woman's forces killing all in her way until only the king and Queen remained. In one last ditch effort to save the one thing they loved even above their own safety, they sent the child away into a portal unknown. Not much is known on what happened to the king and Queen after, but most likely they died. For their child, it was never known what happened to her. But the legend of the missing princess still is told this day, maybe one day the princess will be found or maybe she never will be. Though one thing is known of the princess, her name which was…. Pyrrha."
As Maleficent closed the book and put it back, she looked back at Pyrrha before smiling widely as she then used her magic on Pyrrha once more. As she did, she laughed a bit from her luck.
"Oh…oh this is great. Another princess of light in my grasps and I didn't have to find her as she was just dropped into my hands." Maleficence said in utter amusement, until she stopped for once shocked "Wait, no this is…. you're having a girl and twins to be exact. Ha, this is too much. Three princesses of light in my hands. HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Though as she laughed from this news, she didn't noticed something was going on with at least Ren and Nora's body.
-Meanwhile with Ren, Nora and Pyrrha-
"So you're sure this could work?" Ren asked as he and Nora stood in the center of circle. The circle being actually Radian, Gehrman, Vergil and Griffa standing around the two members of team JNPR. Pyrrha meanwhile just stood at the sidelines, nervous on what was going to happen
"Possibly, mostly we theorized it could." Griffa answered
"Yes indeed, if our theory is correct. Then if I am my fellows concentrate our power, we might be able to get you two out and teleport your bodies well who knows where. But it should be a safe place." Virgil explained, before looking at Pyrrha "Again I do apologize that it can only be these two to do. But still it was noble of you to stay behind."
"It's no problem, besides if it means these two are safe at least. That's good enough for me." Pyrrha happily said as Nora and Ren smiled weakly
"Just… just stay safe and do anything stupid kay?" Nora asked as she teared up a bit, while Ren gently gave her a one-armed hug
"Yeah, besides who else will be able to get Jaune's head back on straight?" Ren joked for once, as Pyrrha chuckled
"I know…. see you whenever." Pyrrha kindly said as Ren and Nora waved their hands, Pyrrha did the same before Raiden, Griffa, Gehrman and Virgil concentrated their powers. With that a blue glow happened, engulfing the two before it died down showing that they were gone. Pyrrha just smiled weakly before doing a small prayer "Please… please stay safe you two."
-Somewhere-
"Oh god… I feel like I got bashed in the face with a pipe." Ren muttered getting back slowly, then looked to see Nora to his right as she got up too, both of them rubbing their heads for a few moments "You okay Nora?"
"Yeah, just glad were out." Nora answered as she looked around to see they we're in a very familiar area "Hey Ren I think we're near Vale. This is the Emerald Forest!"
"I think so. Still if we're in the Emerald forest, we should make sure no Grimm's are around." Ren stated as he pulled out his weapons by instinct, feeling them in his hands as he sighed in relief "Glad our weapons we're teleported with us too."
"YES!" Nora screamed loudly as she pulled out her weapon and hugged it like a baby "I'm so sorry, mama is here again."
"Same old Nora." Ren remarked in slight amusement as Nora kept hugging her weapon, but suddenly a loud roar could be heard. Ren and Nora quickly got their weapons ready, as they looked to see well… four Death Stalkers, six Ursa and a couple of small dark creature or from what the two could guess were heartless. All of them closing slowly in on Ren and Nora as the two backed up, knowing they could take out a few of their advisories; but not all
"For once, I think we should run." Nora stated, as she even knew this was a battle that wouldn't be easy or good for their health
"Agreed." Ren replied, but then stopped seeing a pack of Beowulf's behind them "Or not. Great."
"Well guess we have to fight them, you take a few on and I take on the others?" Nora asked happily
"Not like we have a choice." Ren muttered as he and Nora got ready for a fight, but before this could happen; suddenly a large grenade which was way to big to be made by humans landed right near the death Stalkers and Ursa's. Meanwhile Nora saw with the Beowulf's on the other side, three normal sized grenades were thrown under the beasts before the large explosion from both grenades went off
"What was that?" Nora asked as she and Ren covered their eyes, as dust built up while suddenly the sounds of gun fire along with bludgeoning echoed. After a few moments the dust began to die. Nora was the first to open her eyes, as she saw a heartless had gotten around Ren and lunged at her, ready to kill her "AH!"
"NORA!" Ren yelled, opening his eyes as he began to pivot his foot to keep Nora safe. But that wasn't needed as seconds before the attack, a small black figure rammed into the heartless taking it out. After that Ren and Nora looked to see their savior was a… small black/white furred corgi with a red collar and a small gold dog tag
"Okay even for me…ah…what?" Nora asked as she was even surprised as she and Ren hadn't ever think this would be something in their life. The Corgi just happily barked, as Nora decided to gently pet the pup; who loved the attention "Oh aren't you just an adorable baby waby!"
"Nora you don't know where that dogs been." Ren stated, while dust was dying down still
"Ren how can you say that, look at this face!" Nora stated as she picked up the corgi who just stared at Ren with happy look on his or her face "Does it look like I could be harmed by this adorable little baby waby?"
"Well…I guess not." Ren remarked as he patted the pups head, as the little dog barked happily as the dust was almost dead. But as it was a deathstalker began clawing towards the three with a few of it's legs blow off. One of its claws half mutilated, it's tail somewhat damages and half of it's shelling that covered it's face was blow off showing the gross flesh that bleed "Oh crap…"
"KILL IT WITH FIRE!" Nora screamed as she by instinct made sure the puppy in her arms was safe, while Ren got his weapons ready. But yet again before anything could happen, a large bolt blasted through the half dead Death Stalkers head killing it. Ren and Nora could only look to see a large figure towering above them, the puppy just barked happily in Nora's arms
"You two okay?" The figure asked as it was a robot as big as the trees around them, with a metallic face, blues eyes, bulky armor, along with a red/sliver and black color scheme. Next to him was another robot, with a sliver face, blues eyes, medium plated armor, an aqua teal color scheme with some light grey and holding a large weapon. Both bots had what looked like a vehicle form integrated within them and lastly a red face symbol painted on their chests. Ren and Nora just stared at the two robots, wide eyed
"I think you broke them." The other robot remarked as the first one scratched the side of his awkwardly
"Well at least they're safe that is a good thing indeed." A man stated from below Ren and Nora who snapped out of their daze as they recognize that voice easily. Said man was thin, tall, had wide green hair, pale, bug eyed glasses and wore a uniform that was a bit messy with some stains too. He had with him a canister of sorts hooked to his belt. This was Professor Oobleck.
"Still this does remind me of a time when I and my fellow hunters got into a small scuffle with a few bandits and-" Another man that Ren and Nora recognized began to say. Said man was shorter then his friend, had white combed hair, a white combed large mustache, wore a red suite, black boots and tan pants. He wielded a large two handed axe with what looked like a blunder bush integrated into it. This was Professor Port.
"Professor Port, maybe is not a good time." A woman remarked kindly. She was young, had pale skin, yellow eyes, red long hair with strains cover her right eye, some black eyeliner, wore a pair of black pumps, a black dress that stopped around her start of her thighs and wielded a umbrella that had odd looking orange orbs built into them
"Aw but Parasoul I like hearing his stories." Yet another woman replied. She had pale skin, wore white long sleeved school shirt with a black tie, her mid waist showed a little, she wore a black short skirt, a pair of long black stocks, black school shoes, had red eyes and black hair. Though oddly, the hair had a face and teeth that popped out from the back like it was a living organism that substituted fore the girls hair "They're so fun to listen to, don't you think Miss Fortune?"
"Yeah I do Filla and it beats the utter silence we've been having to exhibit since getting stuck here." The woman Miss Fortune remarked happily as she had slightly dark skin, light blue eyes and short white hair. Her attire well… it was a bit revealing as she wore a blue sleeved knitted top that barley showed the underside of her ahem… breast. She wore a black pair of undergarment that looked like they'd work better on a bathing suit, a pair of black fingerless gloves, black pant pieces around the upper portions of her legs sort of along with two pieces around her lower legs and finally a black collar with a golden bell that had a face on it. Her bare arms, stomach, upper thighs slight, fingers, calf's and feet were exposed to the open. But despite the oddly of this woman, she was only weirder because she had a cat tail, long pointed cat ears, claws on the tips of her fingers, a set of fangs that popped a bit from the upper part of her lips and sharper claws over where her toenails show have been. The last odd thing, which was the oddest of it all believe or not was that around the upper parts of her arms, her forearm, upper parts of her thighs, center of her calf's, center of her feet and neck were large white scar that looked like she'd been stitched together. Ren just stared, having that slight perverted part of his mind start up by accident as he couldn't help but check her out a little. Nora took immediate notice of this as she pouted and she smacked the back of Ren's head, getting the man's attention
"You can take a picture if you want…" Nora said in slight anger as Ren realized what Nora had guess
"What of ah no wait Nora that's not…ah… I can't talk my out of this huh?" Ren asked as he did the rare cringe as Nora just looked away from him, with her eyes closed angrily and placed the pup back on the ground before crossing her arms together
"Hmph." Nora simply answered as Ren wanted to say something, but sighed deciding to just let Nora cool off
"Having trouble with your girlfriend are we?" Miss Fortune asked as she and the others made their way over to Ren and Nora
"Ah…"Ren tried to say, but really didn't know what he could say and decided to get some answers as he turned his attention primarily to Oobleck and Port "Okay no wait, look first off me and Nora are glad you two are safe but…"
"But who are you people, what are you two giant robots supposed to be, why are you here, how are you here and does anyone have some pancakes to eat because it has been like forever since I had some." Nora asked as Ren and the others looked at her, surprised she came up with those questions quickly along with the more odd question of the bunch
"Wow, are all organics this quick like you lot?" Iron hide asked
"Arf!" The puppy happily barked as he ran up to Miss Fortune
"Aw Zewi so glad you're safe, you know any other dog I might not be so welcoming. But you are way to cute to not like." Miss Fortune sated happily as she picked up Zewi and let the dog lick her face
"Anyways, I'm Parasoul. Military Leader and Princess of the Canopy Kingdom." Parasoul kindly stated, then sighed "Though maybe that won't mean much here."
"I'm Filla." The girl Filla happily stated as she touched her alive like hair "This is Samson. Say Hi Samson."
"Hey what's up?" Filla's hair or well Samson remarked with a toothy smirk, Ren and Nora just awkwardly waved
"And I'm Miss Fortune or you can call me Fortune. Which ever you like." Miss Fortune remarked happily as she kept a good grip on Zewi "For how we got here, well… personally I don't remember."
"Same." Parasoul, Filla, Kup and Iron Hide remarked
"All we know is that Vale is gone." Port stated
"Still it's good to see you two alive, after the whole incident with Vale being utterly take away but pure darkness. We had to survive, well more and Port at first. Then we met the others." Oobleck explained at a very fast rate
"Seriously, he needs to lay off the coffee." Filla joked a little, getting a quickly augh out of the others who heard her
"Speaking of which, were are out other six friends?" Kup asked
"Other six?" Nora and Ren asked curiously, until they heard gun fire from behind. Ren, Nora and the others looked to see a pack of Creeps flung onto the ground dead with bullet wounds, stab wounds and burn marks as three men and two women came out of the bushes. Then a Nevermore crashed into the ground, as a jet landed on the ground; before transforming into yet another giant Robot much to Ren and Nora's surprise. Though the two also knew or at least hear of two of the men and woman; they were an upper class team by the name of team CFVY
The first was woman with short brown hair, pale skin, brown eyes that were showing since her pair of black sun glasses were dropping down on her nose. She also wore a black beret on her head and had one side of her hair slight longer which also had a caramel high light. Her attire consisted of a long cocoa colored shirt that had a waist cincher, a pair of long brown pants with ribbons on the left side, then a brown bullet with bullets and a cross haired belt buckles. She also had black gloves, a black neckless, a pair of black leather high heeled boots with buckles, a what appeared to be a black skirt draped on her right side and a black hand bag with the strap as a bandolier of bullets. This was Coco Adel, the leader of team CFVY and also a woman to fear; especially if you tick her off
The First man was dark skinned, had burnt orange colored hair, tall, had pure white eyes, wore a sleeveless orange zipper vest with black lining and high collar. Black jean, brown laced shoes, a pair of black gloves, a belt with black pouches, wielding a pair of gauntlets with blades coming out at the ends, along with many scars on his arms and one on his lip. This was Fox Alistair, one of the more silent members of team CFVY along with from what was said about him; a caring man to those he considered his friends
The second woman was the shortest of her group but not by much, she had pale skin and long brown hair, brown eyes and brown long bunny ears on top of her head. She wore a short, long sleeved brown jacket with a gold zipper, brown shorts with some gold detailing, black leggings that covered her feet with what looked like golden high heels that covered toes and heels. She also wears a semi-translucent undershirt beneath her jacket, a pair of golden spaulders, gold vambraces on both arms and a gold belt. She also carried a brown box with golden metal around it, two small golden circles with a heart shape on both sides of the box and had a brown strap which was used to carry said box. This was Velvet Scarlatina, a shy girl who didn't like to fight if not need and she was also the only Faunas of the group
The last man was the tallest of the group, muscular, had tanned skin, shaved black hair and brown eyes. He wore a long short sleeved robe that is wore over one of his shoulder over his black shirt, an armored leather belt with two pouches fastened the robe, wears brown pants, black/green boots and a five layered sode that extended over his shoulder. He wears a pair of green bracers, black gloves with green plates on the back and finally wielded a slight curved, long, dual edged, rusted brown colored sword. This man was Yatsuhashi Daichi, a very strong, loyal and protective member of team CFVY.
The robot had a metallic face with a nose and blue eyes. Had white helmet with a blue center piece bulky white, red and some black colored armor, though had a slimmer waist line with red glowing pieces of glass on his forearms, stomach and sides of his legs. This was Jet fire, one of the only autobots aside from Swoop who could fly.
Finally the last man looked the oldest our of the group, he had peach skin, a shaved face wore a military uniform with orange, grey and white camo coloring. Wore a think helmet that had a face mask and a pair of what look like night googles connected to it. Then finally the man wielded a gun that looked like a makeshift rail gun as it seemed to have an electric glow coming from around the barrel area. Said man looked to see the others, smiling just a little
"Ah, comrades. Good to see you're okay." The man said as he, team CFVY and Jet fire made their way over to the others where he noticed Nora and Ren "Hm who would these two be?"
"Those two Hunter are Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie of the first year team, team JNPR." Velvet answered kindly
"Oh so these are one of the teams you spoke of." Hunter said as he gave Ren and Nora a friendly nod
"Still, where we're you at?" Kup asked
"Busy with Grimm as you can see old timer." Yatsuhashi answered motioning to the dead Creeps and Nevermore
"Yeah we can see that big guy." Miss Fortune happily said as she looked to Fox who just gave her a friendly nod, as she nodded back
"Anyways look I think right now would be the best time to make it back to the camp." Velvet suggested
"Camps?" Nora asked
"Yes, after everything that happened. The survivors of Vale we're left homeless. So Oobleck and I decided to help make a refugee camp from them until Vale comes back or if it does." Port explained with a sigh, sounding tired "Hm. I may need to take a rest, I hate to admit it but my age is catching up to me."
"As well as I my old friend." Oobleck remarked as he patted Ports back before looking at Nora and Ren "Come with us, I believe much is to be explained from both of our sides."
"Yeah I think so too." Ren stated as Nora just nodded in agreement
"Well then come on, lets get back to camp!" Filla joyfully said as Samson smirked flexing a strand of the girl's hair like it was a flexing arm before the girl just began walking back to the camp. The others followed quickly, with Ren and Nora following last. Though as they followed they wondered what would happen now and hoped their friends we're still okay…
So end of the chapter and I do apologize if this seemed short kind of or rushed. It wasn't, this was suppose to be just a intro to this new arc in the story. Also like I said earlier I've just been busy lately lol. Also, yeah that's right they're all in Remnant along with me finally finishing up the line up for all of the members for the Traverse Town guild which when I got done counting was at the total final of 115. So yeah, big guild here and a big defense force for Traverse Town when the time is needed for that. For the moment I'll place a list down for the teams in this arc which I called the Remnant Arc. Anyways here's the list and until the next chapter. I wish you all to have the most wonderful days to come!
Group- Menagerie
1. Blake
2. Yang
3. Kali
4. Ghira
5. Donald
6. Goofy
7. Lutz
8. Publius
9. Vert
10. Compa
12. Wiley
14. Hana
15. Eileen
16. Spike
17. Slade
18. Fluttershy
19. Grimlock
20. Snarl
21. Slug
22. Swoop
23. Valmet
24. Pinkie Pie
Group- Atlas
1. Ruby
2. Weiss
3. Winter
4. Neptune
5. Koko
6. Hannibal Barca
7. Huey
8. Dewey
9. Louie
10. Optimus Prime
11. Prowl
12. Tai Yang
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14. Glynda
15. Max
17. Norie
18. Mercy (Angela)
19. Fareeha
20. Chum bucket
21. Robbie
22. Yin
23. Jazz
24. Applejack
25. Bumble Bee
26. Tina
27. Kim
Group- Vacuo
1. Qrow
2. Mao (Cat)
3. Aerith
4. Alfred
5. Hot Rod
6. Guin
7. Dante
8. Arcee
9. Toyohisa
10. Butch
11. Sundance
12. IF
13. Ugo
14. Leon
15. Haung
16. AppleBloom
17. Sweetie Belle
18. Scootaloo
19. Johnny Blaze
20. Solider 76
21. Bastion
22. Rocket Racoon
23. Drax
24. Rainbow Dash
25. Naoshi
Group- Mistral
1. Ozpin
2. Neo
3. Celestia
4. Twilight Sparkle
5. Lena Oxton
6. Winston
7. Groot
8. Rarity
9. Vladimir
10. Maria
11. Hei
12. Dinky Di
13. Lehm
14. Jonah
15. Mao (Human)
16. Nobunaga
17. Yoichi
18. Blanc
19. Springer
20. Ratchet
21. Olminu
22. Peter Quill
23. R
24. Gomora
25. Ultra Magnus
Group-Vale Refugee
5. Jetfire
Fortune
7. Parasoul
8. Filla/ Samson
9. Hunter
10. Coco Adela
Alister
12. Velvet Scarlatina
13. Yatsuhashi Daichi
14. Zewi