Back in the streets of Vale, Reginald is speeding down the street as everyone else in the car holds on for dear life. The boy swings the wheel around as he drifts around the next turn and Ruby and Weiss go flying across the back.
The two girls go flying towards Sapphire, who catches them before they can run face first into the wall, and Weiss glares up to the front as she shouts, "Could you please stop trying to kill us!?"
"Hey, do you wanna get there quick or not!? Now shut up and let me drive!", Reginald shouts as he shoots a deadly glare back at the heiress through the mirror.
Suddenly, Persi eyes widen as the bear shouts, "Watch out!", and Reginald slams down on the brakes, forcing the van to come to a screeching halt and sending the girls flying forward into the wall between the cab and the back of the van.
"What the hell was that for!?", Weiss exclaims as she pulls herself off of Sapphire and Ruby. To her surprise, Reginald doesn't even yell back at her, instead he he completely ignores her and swings open the door before leaping out of the van. "Where are you going!? Get back here!", the heiress exclaims as she goes to open the door.
Before she can open it however, it swings open and they see Penny standing there with a baffled expression on her face. "Sal-u-taions!", the young redhead happily calls out to the girls with a smile and wave, shocking them.
"Penny? What are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be, you know, at the dorms or something?", Ruby asks the girl nervously.
"Hello, friend Ruby, friend Sapphire, friend Weiss, I was helping clean the streets before going back to Beacon before Reginald nearly hit me with your van.", Penny quickly explains as she looks to the girls.
Reginald quickly pushes the girl into the van as he quickly growls, "Come on, Penny, we don't have all night. You're coming with us."
"Really? You want to hangout with me!?", Penny cautiously asks, not sure if he's being serious.
The boy pinches the bridge of his nose and lets out a reluctant sigh before telling her, "It's a long story, but all you need to know is there's some STG business we need to deal with."
Penny's eyes widen as she hears this before a focused look comes across her face. With an understanding nod, the ginger replies, "Understood, Alpha Unit. Beta Unit is ready to move out."
Reginald smiles at redhead as she gives him a quick salute before shutting the door and heading back to the driver's seat. As the boy leaps into the driver's seat, he slams the door shut and tells Penny, "Alright Penny, we're going to the docks. You have your weapons, right?"
"A-firmative! I am combat ready!", Penny replies with a nod, to which Reginald floors it.
"Then let's get this show on the road!", Reginald exclaims as they go flying down the street, the girls all holding onto Sapphire for dear life as they go flying around the back of the van.
With the three girls clinging to her like children, Sapphire shouts, "REGINALD! YOU BASTARD!"
While Roman stands next to Neo and as he glances down at her, she gives him a few quick hand gestures with her free hand, talking to him through sign language, and Roman laughs. "Yeah, you can play with the mummy and the bimbo. I'll deal with the fleebags.", Roman jokingly replies as he twirls his cane around in one hand like a smooth criminal.
With a quick nod, Neo shuts her umbrella and rushes down Yang, surprising the blonde as she thrusts the sharp, pointed end of her umbrella at her.
Yang quickly throws up her hands to block the short girl's thrust, but Neo just leaps over her and goes to stab her in the back. The blonde rushes to turn around to defend herself, but it's too late as Neo's sharp umbrella is just about to meet her throat.
Ash, however, uses his semblance to create a wall of blades that not only blocks the colorful girl's assault, but forces her on the defensive as the blades go flying towards her.
This forces the shorter girl to retreat with a series of backflips before opening her umbrella to block the blades. To her surprise, Ash manages to maneuver around her and flank her as she blocks his barrage of aura blades.
The mute hastily leaps up into the air to dodge the boy's horizontal slash, but as she does so, she encounters another problem: Yang.
The blonde is right behind her with her fist pulled back and ready to turn the multi-colored girl into a thin paste. As Neo's eyes widen in disbelief, Yang's powerful fist connects with her face, but instead of going flying through the air, the mute shatters into glass. "Glass?", Yang thinks to herself as he eyes widen in confusion before hearing a cocky huff from above her head. The raging blonde manages to glance up just in time to catch a glimpse of a small boot as its heel strikes her right in the face, sending her crashing down to the ground.
Like a meteor, Yang crashes into the ground, going past Ash before to a halt as Neo floats back down on her umbrella, closing the weapon as she lands.
With Yang down for the moment, Ash dashes in to face the girl alone, slashing at her with a trio of quick swings from his Dragoon. As Neo meets the boy's blade with her umbrella, blocking his onslaught as he forces her backwards, he thinks, "Her semblance seems to allow her to disappear, so I just have to be patient and wait for an opening." Neo continues to block his attacks perfectly with her lethal umbrella until Ash mixes up his fighting style as he mixes in a few kicks on her
Ash, however, breaks through her defenses and manages to slash her across the chest, but she shatters into glass yet again as she evades the attack.
Appearing behind the boy, Neo goes to skewer Ash with her umbrella like a piece of meat, but she's astonished when he quickly turns around and counters the stab with his sheath by redirecting her attack off to the side.
With one quick thrust, Ash stabs Neo's chest with all his might, but the girl only lets out a slight wince as her aura protects her from any serious damage.
Neo quickly retreats as she holds her chest, glaring daggers back at the boy as he sheathes his blade back into its sheath.
Ash's cold, stoic glance meets Neo's enraged glare as he tells the girl, "No matter how much you try, you'll never beat me. Surrender peacefully and we won't need to go any further."
The devilish girl replies only with a dastardly grin before pointing her umbrella at him and opening it.
In less than a second, the veil shatters and the multi-colored girl is replaced with a furious Yang, who's charging right for Ash. With her eyes burning with her crimson fury, Yang unleashes a wave of quick punches on the mummy boy, who does his best to block with his sheathed Dragoon.
While the boy desperately tries to evade Yang's overwhelmingly powerful blows without harming her, Neo appears seemingly out of thin air and attacks Ash, lunging at the boy with her rapier like umbrella. Ash manages to dodge past the small girl, evading both her sharp umbrella and Yang's devastating punch as he moves to attack her from behind. Motioning his open hand at Neo, Ash launches three aura blades right at the girl, which she manages to block by opening her umbrella as Yang continues to pursue Ash in her rage. "This is bad, Yang seems to be under this girl's control. I have to break her out of this somehow.", Ash calmly assesses as he continues to dodge the blonde's familiar attacks.
This time, as Ash dodges around the red-eyed warrior's attack, he steps on her left foot, causing her to growl out in slight irritation as the boy moves behind her. Yang swings around, unknowingly throwing a full power punch at the boy's face, but Ash manages to evade her attack again as he steps on her foot one more time as Neo rushes in to attack.
"Ow! That's my foot you-", Yang exclaims as she finally breaks through her spell and sees Ash standing by her as he blocks the short girl's umbrella. "Ash? But, I was fighting-", Yang continues before noticing Neo attacking Ash, to which she quickly assists the boy, firing a quick shot off at the girl to force her to stop her approach.
"She's using illusions to cloud our minds. Try to keep focused and not let your mind be corrupted.", Ash explains as he looks around for any way to give them a slight advantage against the girl.
"Illusions? So that means I wasn't really fighting her then? That bitch thinks she can just make a fool out of me, Yang Xiao Long!? Well she has another thing coming if she thinks she can just get away with pissing me off!", Yang growls to herself as she clenches her fists and glares at the smug multi-colored girl smiling back at her.
Ash only gives the blonde a quick nod before telling her, "Why don't we put that motivation to good use? I have a plan, but we need to keep her on the defensive. We can handle that much, right?"
Yang just smiles over at the ashen boy as she cocks her shotgun gauntlets and tells him, "If it's the two of us, I think we'll be alright."
On the other side of the battlefield, Blake and Sun are struggling to keep up their defenses against the Master Thief: Roman Torchwich.
As Blake goes to unleash a series of quick slashes on the handsome devil, Roman uses his can to grabs Sun and use him as a Faunus shield, kicking the monkey boy towards her as he launches a quick shot from his cane at the couple.
Sun, however, manages to pull his staff together just in time to twirl it with enough speed to deflect the attack off into the air, where the shot explodes in a red fireball of an explosion.
There isn't a moment to rest, however, as Roman tosses his hat back at the two Faunus, rushing towards them as he uses his razor sharp hat as a distraction.
As Blake deflects the deadly cap with her sheath, the crimson devil throws a quick kick at her, grazing her aura-protected cheek as he swings his cane at Sun, who barely reacts in time to block with his staff. Roman isn't done yet though and as the cap on the end of his cane pops open, the devilish man fires a shot directly at Sun, sending the boy flying.
"Sun!", Blake exclaims as she watches the monkey boy skid across the ground as she blocks the thief's attacks while also trying to see if Sun is okay.
With her attention elsewhere, Roman takes this moment to launch Blake back with a trio of rapid shots to the gut before finishing her off with a powerful kick to the chest.
The dusk colored girl falls backwards, flipping over onto her stomach as she loses her Gamble Shroud, the weapon flying from her hands as she hits the concrete with a thud.
With a sly grin on his face, Roman looks down at Blake as he tells her, "Well, it's been fun kiddies, but it looks like this is check and mate." The crimson devil points the end of his cane upwards, and as the end pops open, Blake looks up to see the giant metal container above her. "Looks like it's curtains for you, kitty cat!", Roman exclaims as he fires a shot at the chain suspending the freighter, shattering the chain entirely.
Time seems to slow down for the Faunus as the tons of metal descends upon her, drawing closer and closer with every microsecond that goes by. Blake quickly shuts her eyes, waiting for the end, but she's instantly met with the sounds of a loud engine and screeching tires as the air chills around her. As the Faunus opens her eyes, she sees an ice barrier around her with a van off to her side, its engine rumbling inside the barrier. The van's side door quickly swings open and Blake is instantly met with Weiss scolding her, shouting, "What do you think you're doing!? Were you going to just sit there and let him squash you or something, you idiot!?"
"Weiss? What are you-", Blake begins to ask the heiress before Sapphire leaps out behind her as she growls, "We got Yang's message, can you move?"
Before Blake can reply, Ruby rushes out of the van, tackling the Faunus with a warm embrace as the hooded girl squeals, "Blake! You're okay!" "You were gone for so long, we were worried sick! But don't worry, we're here to get you out of this mess.", Ruby continues as she holds the dusk cat girl in her arms, Blake looking down at her as the little red girl cuddles herself into her chest.
As she looks back up to the van, Blake sees the rest of team SAPR exiting the van and asks, "Everyone...you're all here..? But, why?"
"We're here to save your ass, what does it look like? Now get ready, we have to deal with this fraiter before my barrier breaks.", Reginald scoffs at the Faunus girl as he manipulates his wires and the cylinders on his Silver Lining start to spin.
They all look up to see the ice barrier around them cracking as the weight of the metal freighter starts to take its toll.
As the cylinders in the backs of his gloves click into place, Reginald's wires begin to shine with a brownish glow before forming a stone structure around them. Almost instantly the ice shatters and the freighter falls perfectly into the stone structure, which holds it perfectly.
Seeing the Huntress with her reinforcements, Roman quickly turns his attention to Neo, who's struggling to keep up with Ash's overwhelming combo of speed and aura blades mixed with Yang's punishing blows. "Neo, fall back and regroup!", Roman shouts before pressing a button his his wrist watch, causing the device to light up as the words; 'Message Sent', appear on its touchscreen.
Before the short girl can retreat to the crimson devil, Sapphire shouts, "We need to keep them split up! Reginald, you take Blake and Weiss over to help Ash and send Yang back over to us while we deal with Torchwich."
Reginald gives his leader a quick nod and helps Blake up to her feet before looking to the monochrome duo and growling, "Now if you're done laying down on the job, why don't we go kick some ass?" With a quick nod from the Faunus and Heiress, the three rush off to assist their comrades as Ruby, Sapphire, and Persi all stare down the criminal kingpin, Roman Torchwich.
Roman lets out a loud groan at the sight of Ruby's crimson hood before growling under his breath, "Great, that little red brat's back, and she brought her Power Ranger friends with her, what fun."
Much to his surprise, Sapphire takes a step towards Roman and sternly tells him, "I'll only tell you this once, stand down and come in quietly."
This attempt to intimidate the thief fails as he only laughs Sapphire off before telling her through his chuckling, "That's not gonna happen kiddo. If you didn't notice, I'm not nearly done yet. And I can't afford to stop here, not now." Roman twirls his cane in his right hand as he growls at the small group, saying, "If you knew what was good for you, you wouldn't have stuck your nose in my business."
Sapphire draws two of her Azure Drakes and with a blade in each hand, she growls back at the thief, saying, "Fine, have it your way then." With her eye glowing with her strong blue aura, Sapphire charges at Roman as she exclaims, "We'll just have to force you to surrender!"
As the two clash, Roman blocks the one-eyed girl's blades with his cane, thought the force of her rush causes him to skid back a few inches. "Well aren't you a treat? Haven't I seen you somewhere before?", Roman quips as he forces the azure warrior back. After getting a better look at the girl and noticing her eye-patch, Roman lets out an irritated chuckle before growling, "Sapphire Cobolt? That girl from the vids? What the hell are you doing here!?" "Not only did those idiots blow the whole score, they somehow lead a small army of children with guns here! Great! Fucking fantastic!", the crimson devil shouts in his mind as he glares at the ragtag group of junior Huntsmen in front of him.
Shifting her Crescent Rose into sniper mode, the crimson hooded girl glances over to Persi and shouts, "You back up Sapphire, I'll cover you!"
Without a moment of hesitation, the intimidating Faunus rushes into battle with his ax in hand.
Looking down her scope, the trained sniper fires a swarm of bullets over the bear's shoulder as he rushes Roman down, forcing the crimson devil to evade not only the powerful rounds aimed at his head, but also the deadly flurry of blades coming for his throat.
As the master thief ducks under the last bullet, the chunk of metal zooming past his face almost in slow motion, he's faced with another problem; the deadly melee fighters who've just closed the gap between them.
Persi attacks the criminal with an upward slash from Riptide, but Roman manages to shoot himself backwards with a blast from his cane, which covers both of the Huntsmen in a thick layer of smoke. "That should daze them for a bit. Now, to go get Neo and regroup.", Roman quickly plots as he glances over to his partner in crime.
Across the small battlefield, Neo is fending off not only Ash and Yang's assaults, but also protecting herself from Reginald and Weiss' Dust attacks and Blake's shadow clones.
"Neo's still sick, I've gotta do something!", Roman growls in his mind as he prepares to rush to the multi-colored girl's side, but something seems to pull him back. Glancing over his shoulder, Roman notices one of the azure warrior's blades glowing with a dark energy. "Gravity Dust?", the man mutters to himself in confusion before feeling the blade's pull continue to drag him closer to it.
Much to his surprise, Sapphire rushes through the dust cloud with a sword in her left hand and another in her mouth. The warrior leaps towards the glowing blade as it pulls Roman towards it before grabbing the weapon and pressing its button to stop the Dust consumption. Now in her Three Swords Stance, Sapphire uses all three blades to slash at Roman, each blade coming at the master thief from a different angle.
Though her attack is swift and well calculated, Roman still manages to block all three of her blades, blocking the two in her hands with his cane in one hand and blocking the blade in her mouth with his hat in his other hand. "You might be good, Patchy, but you still have a ways to go before you'll ever catch me off gua-", Roman starts to say before getting slammed in the face by a golden punch that sends him hurdling into a nearby freighter.
"Took You long enough. You still up for this, or do you need a nap already?", Sapphire asks the blonde as Yang fixes her golden locks.
"And let you guys have all the fun? Fat chance, Sapphire. Besides, last time I checked you only have more wins than me in official tournaments.", the blonde boldly replies, causing the one-eyed swordsman to scoff.
Before they can continue, Persi and Ruby rush over and the crimson girl growls, "Yang, now isn't the time for that! We need to end this quickly!"
Snapping back into the situation, Sapphire and Yang both nod to one another before turning their attention to Roman, who's still trying to recover from that last hit.
As he places his razor sharp hat back on his dome, Roman lets out a wince as he mutters to himself, "Did anyone get the number on that truck?" With his redish orange aura glowing around his body, Roman thinks to himself, "I just have to stall a little longer now... Those idiots better not fuck this up too!"
On the other side of the docks, Neo is evading and blocking as many attacks as she can muster against the inexperienced team of Huntsmen. Short of breath, the mute girl pants as she tries to force air back into her little lungs.
"What? Tired already? Or maybe you're just charmed by my good looks~", Reginald quips as he notes the small girl's panting.
Blake and Weiss, with their eyes rolling at the pervert's comment, turn their focus to the exhausted enemy before them.
"Like someone would be interested in a pervert like you, Reginald.", the heiress pesters the boy with a slight grin, earning a slight growl from the silver colored boy.
"Both of you need to focus. This one isn't a push-over, so stay vigilant.", Ash warns the two Atlesians, grabbing the hilt of his blade before rushing the tired mute again.
As Blake follows close behind the mummy, she nods her head in agreement with him as she notes, "Good point, now let's get this over with."
Noticing the duo's odd amount of teamwork, Reginald and Weiss share a quick, yet understanding glare before breaking from their tiny squabble and returning to the fight.
"Alright, you three go in! I'll cover you!", the master of threads exclaims as his wires shoot through the air, letting out shrieks as they unreel from the boy's gloves.
Weiss follows the wires into battle, her Myrtenaster in one hand as she summons a glyph on the ground with the other. The white sigil that the girl summons shoots her straight into battle with Ash and her dusk colored team-mate.
Neo, still tired from her previous scuffle with the burning blonde and the mummy boy, can't find the energy to move in time to evade the trio's attack, so she's forced to hold her ground and defend. As Weiss takes the first attack, she lunges at the ice cream girl with her rapier, but Neo manages to deflect the attack with her closed umbrella and as Blake goes to slash at her she opens the umbrella to block the dark blade. With her defenses focused on Blake, Ash manages to maneuver around the small girl and unleash a few quick strikes, which clash against her pink aura. The attack causes the girl to quickly turn around, slashing at her attacks as her multi-colored eyes quickly shifting to pure pink rage.
"An opening!", Weiss shouts internally as she sees Neo's back turned and goes to strike. As her rapier meets its mark, the ice cream girl shatters into glass, leaving the heiress baffled.
"Behind you!", Blake warns her team-mate as Neo reappears behind the snow colored girl.
It's too late for Weiss to turn around however, and as she barely manages to glance over her shoulder to see her assailant she sees Neo with her blade ready to stab into her pale flesh. With a twisted, enraged smile, Neo stabs down at the heiress with all her might, but the blade stops mere inches away from the pale girl's face. "Now come on Ice Queen, anyone could've seen that one coming!", Reginald scolds the Schnee from across the battlefield before his wires slice at the thief.
Neo manages to barely dodge the attack, making herself shatter into glass and reappear a few feet away from the heiress and her allies. As the four Huntsmen prepare to attack the helpless girl, she glances up at them with a cheeky smile.
"She's...smiling?", Weiss mutters as she notices the girl's odd expression.
Leaning on the side of caution, the four halt their attack before seeing the sly girl point happily up into the sky behind them. With a slight hum coming from far behind them, Blake, Reginald and Weiss glance back at what Neo's pointing at to see an oncoming onslaught of airships heading straight for the docks. As Reginald focuses his gaze on the ships, his eyes widen as he reels back at the sight. The airships quickly open fire on the teens, forcing them onto the defensive and allowing Neo to escape.
As Weiss forms a wall of ice to protect Blake, Ash, Reginald and herself, she shouts, "What in the Gods names are those things!? They look Atlesian!"
"Atlesian airships! Fucking ATLESIAN AIRSHIPS!?", Reginald growls as he rushes out from the heiress' cover, running towards the nearby warehouses. As they see the seemingly helpless boy, the airships shift their fire towards him, but Reginald easily blocks their rapid fire with his many wires, forming a small, mobile wall between himself and the hostiles.
"What are you doing!? Are you trying to get yourself killed!?", Blake exclaims as she looks to the boy with a baffled expression.
Reginald only glances back at the two girls and his team-mate before shouting, "Don't worry about me, just distract them for a little while and keep them off the others! Weiss, if you can deal hold them off, we'll take them out!"
Weiss only responds with a quick nod before spinning the cylinder on Myrtenaster and sending small balls of fire at the flying ships as it stops on its Fire Dust. Following suit, Blake and Ash both shoot at the airships, Blake using her Gamble Shroud and Ash shooting aura blades at them. This distraction surprisingly works, causing the airships to fire down at the other three Huntsmen as they rush into a nearby warehouse with Weiss protecting them from the oncoming fire with her Ice Dust.
"Good job Ice Queen, now it's our turn to fire back.", the sly boy thinks as he rushes off towards a nearby warehouse.
When he reaches his destination, the boy uses his Silver Lining to hoist himself up to the warehouse's rooftop and as he reaches the top he's greeted by the wonderful ginger Penny Polendina, who asks him, "Reginald? Is this the signal?"
"Yeah Penny, we got incoming airships at our nine o'clock. You remember that attack we practiced back in the STG, right?", the silver boy asks the ginger as the airships continue closing in.
The awkward girl happily nods to her former comrade and replies with, "A-firmative! But should we use an attack like that here? It could be dangerous."
"Penny, we both know what ships those are. We're taking them down, now.", Reginald growls back at the girl as he weaves his threads around the Penny and himself.
The young ginger gives her friend a reluctant nod before releasing her swords from her backpack. With a flick of Reginald's wrists, Earth and Light Dust fill his wires, forming a large glass prism in front of the duo with its top aimed straight at the enemy. Following her friend's lead, Penny clenches her fists, causing her swords to transform into pistol like weapons as their inner workings start to glow with a bright green energy. Pulling her fists back, the energy quickly builds up inside the weapons, causing their green glow to only intensify. And as she throws her fists towards the oncoming airships, green lasers shoot out from the tips of her weapons. When the beams hit Reginald's glass, the beams seem to focus into a single point inside, turning them into one overwhelming green beam of death! As the single beam launches out from the prism, it cuts clean through the wing of one of the airships, causing it to come crashing down onto the nearby train station.
"Alright, Chronos formation is a go! Let's do this, Penny!", Reginald gleefully exclaims as he shifts the beam towards another airship. Before the pilots can even react, Reginald manages to slice through two more of them. While he adjusts the beam one last time, Reginald hears the sound of his glass starting to break as he sees the cracks slowly forming from the beam's contact point. "Come on, just one more!", Reginald internally growls before finally landing a hit on the final airship.
The beam cuts through the airship, splitting the metal shell clean in half, but as it crashes down to the ground Reginald's prism shatters and Penny stops firing her lasers. "It would appear my weapons are out of energy. Recharging now.", Penny notes as she looks to her blades as they blink with a red light, seeming worried by the color.
"That's fine Penny. We kept them from esc-", Reginald begins to say before seeing Roman and Neo reunited with one another as they board their docked airship with a metal box in the crimson criminal's hand. Clenching his fist as he sees the airship starting to take off, Reginald curses to the sky, "Mother fucker!", before leaping back down to the ground.
"Reginald! Would you like me to assist you with your mission?", Penny worriedly asks the boy as she leans over the edge of the building to look down at him.
Reginald glances back up at the ginger and shouts, "Come on Penny, if we don't hurry they'll get away!", causing the freckled girl to leap down to join him on his quest.
"You guys got any ideas!?", Reginald exclaims as he rushes over to his allies with Penny close behind him.
Sapphire's eye suddenly erupts with her bright blue aura before she turns her eye to Persi and growls, "Weiss, form ice pillars! Blake and Reginald, you two make me a giant slingshot. Persi and Yang, you'll pull us back. Ash, you provide covering fire."
"And what about me!?", Ruby desperately exclaims, to which Sapphire gives her a slight smile and says, "You're coming with me."
With the airship starting to fly away, Weiss forms two large which Reginald wraps his wires around with Blake wrapping her bows around them to make sure they don't come loose. As Ruby and Sapphire sit on top of Crescent Rose, Persi and Yang pull the two back, tensing the wires to their maximum hold. Glancing over to the small hooded girl behind her, Sapphire asks, "Ready?", to which the girl simply nods. A confident grin comes across the one-eyed warrior's face as she sees this and she shouts, "Fire!", causing Yang and Persi to let go, launching the duo through the air like a small rocket from the tension in the wires.
As Ruby fires off a few rounds from her sniper rifle, Roman glances out through the window in the door to see the girls coming straight for them, causing his eyes to widen in rage. "For the love of-!", Roman exclaims as he drops the metallic container on his seat, leaving his co-pilot's chair to deal with the oncoming threat. The master thief pulls open the door and as he points his cane at the two gems, he shouts, "You should've stayed put, kiddos! Now it's game over for you!" He quickly fires off three shots at the girl, emptying the last of his shots at them, but they're quickly met by Ash's aura blades as he launches his own projectiles to counter Roman's.
As the two girls draw closer and Ruby continues to unload the last of her shots into the air, Sapphire draws three of her swords and contemplates to herself, "It's now or never!" With her eye still glowing, Sapphire leaps from the crimson missile, aiming her blades right for the airship's wings. Neo however has other plans and shifts the ship's wings to a safe distance from the azure warrior. Missing her mark, Sapphire starts falling down to the concrete ground below. The one-eyed warrior isn't phased in the slightest though and as she presses the buttons on her blades, they coarse with blue lightning. Using the last of the Lightning Dust in these three blades, Sapphire launches a dragon-shaped bolt of lightning at the ship's engine. The dragon-shaped lightning bolt hits its mark, sending energy surging through the entire ship as it fries the engine in the right wing entirely.
Without any life left in the ship, it starts to spiral out of control as it falls from grace.
Looking down, Sapphire sees her death approaching just as quickly and she coats herself in her blue aura as she prepares for the blunt damage to hit her like a train. Before she can hit the ground, Reginald shouts, "I got her!", as sends his wires out towards the warrior.
The wires quickly weave into a spider web that catches Sapphire, stopping her descent just in time to keep her from splatting face first on the concrete. As the girl manages to find her way down to the ground from the web-like net, Reginald quickly asks her, "Are you alright, Boss?"
Sapphire reels back slightly after hearing this and thinks, "Did he just call me 'Boss?'" Her train of thought is instantly blown to smithereens when they hear the airship crash into the roof of the nearby train station! As the roof starts to crumble apart, the whole building comes toppling down on top of the airship, burying what's left of the criminal duo inside.
Ruby rushes over to the rest of the group, shouting, "Come on guys! We have to go in there! The workers in that station need us!"
Penny just giggles at the little red hero's enthusiasm and shatters it as she informs Ruby, saying, "Don't worry, friend Ruby, the Vale Train Station has been abandoned for over ten years. Nobody uses the train system anymore."
This causes the red haired girl to hang her head in embarrassment, but her mood instantly lightens up when she feels a gentle hand grasp her shoulder. Ruby glances over to see Weiss giving her a surprisingly kind smile before telling her leader, "Don't worry Ruby, it's the thought that counts, right?"
"Yeah! You're right!", Ruby happily exclaims as she returns to her usual cheerful self, gleefully leaping into the air like a carefree child.
As sirens roar from the nearby roads, Yang points over to the shining red and blue lights as she says, "How about you tell that to the cops?"
Hearing the word 'cops' causes Ruby and Persi to both tense up, the two looking to each other before glancing over to the stolen van, which is now riddled with bullet holes. "We're so in trouble, aren't we?", Ruby groans as her shoulder slump again and she hangs her head in fear.
Reginald only chuckles at the scarlet girl before replying with, "Yep. But it was worth it."
Surrounded by police officers and with the exit barricaded, all the members of Teams SAPR and RWBY sit and stand by the nearby ambulances as they receive treatment for their low Aura levels.
"I can't believe we're not even in the slightest amount of trouble. We toppled a whole building.", Weiss notes as she holds an ice pack to her head.
Holding up a finger at the girl, Reginald quickly corrects her by saying, "An abandoned building that was going to be demolished anyways. We basically did the city a favor."
"And we're just off the hook, scot-free?", Blake asks the cocky silver boy, to which he happily nods.
"Yep, since Penny and I are still part of the Atlesian STG, they won't even come near us now. As long as we were doing something to protect the peace or some junk, we'll all be fine.", Reginald answers the Faunus girl with a slight grin.
With a loud groan, Ruby scowls over at the Atlesian boy and retorts, "Well, speak for yourself. Our Dad's gonna kill us when he finds out we stole a van, toppled a whole train station in one night, AND broke curfew all in one night."
"Man, we're so gonna get grounded for this.", Yang chuckles at her sister as she glances over at Ruby, who's hiding her face in despair.
"Grounded isn't gonna be half of what I'm going to end up with when my parents find out about this...", Sapphire groans as she leans against the nearby ambulance.
Persi looks over to Ash and asks, "I wonder what the Academy will do. We were just doing our jobs, right? They probably won't kick us out...hopefully."
"We stopped a massive robbery and eliminated one of the most wanted criminal kingpins Vale has had to deal with in ages, I doubt that the Headmaster will allow anyone to terminate us after that.", Ash calmly replies as he sits on the ground, meditating with his legs crossed and his eyes closed.
With a twitch of her bow covered cat ears, Blake gives a light smile as she hears this and notes, "At least we're safe for now, right?"
Suddenly, Weiss storms over to the Faunus girl, standing in front of her with a somewhat intimidating scowl on her face.
"Weiss, I-", the cat girl begins to say before the snow queen envelopes her in a surprisingly warm hug.
There's a moment of silence between the two before Weiss breaks off the hug and gently scolds the Faunus, asking, "Do you know how worried everyone was about you? Do you know how long they were searching for you?"
"Weiss, I'm...I-", Blake stumbles to reply before the heiress pokes the Faunus on her white shirt and growls, "Twenty four hours!"
Weiss takes a single step back from her team-mate as she adds, "Now, are you or are you not a member of the White Fang?"
Feeling the Ice Queen's cold glare focused on her ribbon, Blake quickly replies with, "Of course not, I haven't been with them si-", but before she can finish, Weiss silences her with a by placing her cold finger against the Faunus girl's lips.
"That's all I needed to hear.", the white haired girl kindly tells the dusk colored girl, causing Blake to raise an eyebrow at her. With a hint of surprise, Weiss sighs, "What? You said you aren't with them anymore, right? Then it doesn't matter. All of that is in the past, and for all I care it can stay that way. But next time you need someone to lean on..." As she pauses to look over Blake's shoulder at the shirtless monkey boy sitting in the ambulance, Weiss gives the boy a slight glare before turning her gentle gaze back to her team-mate and saying, "Next time you need someone to talk to, you'll come to one of us and not some...and not someone else."
Hearing the Ice Queen's surprisingly warm remark, Blake gives her a light smile before wiping away a stray tear running down her face and and looking over to her other team-mates. Yang and Ruby are both looking at her with warm smiles, causing the monochrome girl look back to the smiling heiress and lightly answer with, "Of course."
"Looks like we all get to live happily ever after, right Penny?", Reginald jokingly notes as he glances over his shoulder for the ginger only to find her missing. This causes the boy to raise an eyebrow before pondering, "Now where did she run off to?"
Off near the roadway, Penny is sitting in a parked limo, looking back at her friends through the rear window of the vehicle as it drives off. "Penny, seat belt.", the driver calls out to her as he looks back at the ginger through his mirror.
Penny begrudgingly complies, sitting proper in her seat as she secures herself and mumbles, "Yes Sir."
As he turns his gaze back to the road, the driver scolds the young girl, growling, "You know you shouldn't be wandering around in a strange city. And you even got yourself involved with such a large amount of trouble. Just think of what your father is going to say when he hears about this."
"I know Sir. I'm sorry Sir.", Penny feebly apologizes as she slouches in her seat and hanging her head in shame.
The driver lets out a heavy sigh at the depressing sight before telling the young ginger, "Penny, your time will come. Just be patient."
Back at Beacon Academy, Ozpin is sitting in his office, relaxing in his comfy chair as he watches a live feed of the situation down at the docks on his scroll. Glancing over the destruction the young Huntsmen in training caused, the Headmaster takes a sip from his nearby mug. The feed pans over to the young Huntsmen and as he sees the two teams standing together, seeming to laugh at one of Yang's jokes as the blonde has a wide grin as they do so, he smiles internally at the sight. "It seems they're finding their way after all...", the wise old man mentally notes as he pauses the live feed, focusing his gaze on the two leaders. Looking intently at the hooded girl's silver eyes, the Headmaster's slight smile shifts to a worried frown.
Before he can do anything else, the message app lights up with a blinking green dot. With a press of the icon, Ozpin opens his messages to see he has a message from a contact named 'Qrow.' The simple message only says, "The Queen Has Pawns", but this seems to trigger something in the old man, causing him to let out a light 'Hm' as he looks it over.