Ravage, the added clothing and additional weapons from his soul copying of Team RWBY now placed in his red pouch, was resting on a tree branch in the wilderness, sat up against the tree trunk with his left arm dangling off the side of the branch with his left leg and his right arm on his right knee. He was watching the sun rise in the distance with a smile as a gentle breeze ran through his head fur and blew his bandanna tail ends off to his right. As Ravage sat there and watched the distant sun rise a smile grew upon his face. His mother had left only a few hours after his 4v1 battle with Team RWBY yesterday and he was still in the mood for familiar company on this particular outing. Ravage had several ideas on who to invite but he felt like easing them into the world: he'd bring the first group over today and the other group another day...
"Are you ready?" Akiko, a woman of Japanese heritage, tightened the red headband wrapped around her forehead with a smirk. Her neck-length jet black hair was parted at the front so that most of it was just above her left eye and the rest over her right ear. Her eyes' pupils were a dark hazel, almost black but not quite. She was dressed in a white sleeveless kimono with a black martial arts belt and white slops. On the back of her kimono was the chinese character 長. On both of her forearms were silver, armored vagrant's kote with gold decals/trims and red cloth wrapped around the upper ends of both kote. On her feet were silver, armored vagrant's waraji with gold decals/trims and red cloth wrapped around her ankles. Hanako, a fellow Japanese woman, chuckled as she folded her arms and leaned back against a wall in Akiko's room. Her jet black hair was styled in a short ponytail. A black ashigaru headband with a yellow armor plate at the front was wrapped around her forehead. The pupils in her eyes were a fiery orange. She had on a yellow ashigaru shirt with the chinese character 火 on the back, with a black martial arts belt around her waist and yellow slops like Akiko's. On her forearms were yellow gauntlets and on her feet were a pair of yellow ashigaru greaves with black sandals. Hanako looked over to Impa, a Fire Oni. Impa was sat on Akiko's bed with her legs crossed. Her skin was a light shade of brown and her short, wild hair was a deep crimson, her eyes blood red and her face lacking a visible nose. Small spikes jutted out from her shoulders and elbows and the nails on her hands were razor sharp. Impa was dressed in a navy blue sleeveless turtleneck with navy blue combat pants and dark brown combat boots on her feet, with a brown belt with silver buckle around her waist and a brown shoulder holster over her turtleneck with brown fingerless gloves over her hands. A tattered crimson shroud laid besides her on the bed. Seijitsu, Akiko's pupil and human like her and Hanako, sat next to her master on the wooden floor. Her hair was cut short like Akiko's and parted mostly to her left but was a vibrant pink, her eyes a deep shade of blue. Seijitsu was dressed in a white ashigaru shirt, the chinese character 心 on its back and left breast, with a pink martial arts belt tied around her waist, with white slops to go with her ashigaru shirt and white cloth vambraces over her forearms with pink ashigaru greaves and brown sandels on her feet. Like Akiko and Hanako, Seijitsu wore a headband around her forehead, though hers was of course pink.
"Yep..." Seijitsu picked up a controller at the same time as Akiko. They were sat in front of a 50 inch flat screen with Hanako behind them and Impa sat off to their left. "I'm ready." Seijitsu smiled. Akiko nodded and smiled back.
"Not worried your clan won't fall into disarray whilst their leader is here for video games?" Impa looked over to Hanako and joked. Hanako smirked.
"They're not children." Hanako replied. "And the ones that are will be in bed by now." She added. "Besides, I have a bet with Akiko. She'll owe me a good bit of Yen after all this is done."
"Confident." Akiko scoffed, looking over her shoulder at her friend and rival. "You'll have to win at least twice by the end of all this."
"You don't really need it though, do you?" Impa laid back on the bed, resting her head in her hands. Hanako laughed.
"Of course not." She responded. "But a bet is a bet."
"Ahh, I was wondering how this Earth's two strongest women would be spending their free time... apparently training was not the right answer, for once, but video games were. You see, this, this is why I like humans." Ravage spoke up from the other side of the room. "Oh so weird."
"Wow... you managed to sneak up on three shinobi just like that... in a standard size bedroom..." Akiko muttered, looking over to the kitsune with everybody else. "Not sure if that means we're getting sloppy or if you're just that good."
"Probably both." Ravage snarked.
"We weren't expecting you, especially at such a random time." Hanako unfolded her arms.
"Nobody ever does. I'm like the spanish inquisition." Ravage shrugged.
"We should start expecting him." Seijitsu spoke up.
"Does this mean shit is about to hit the fan?" Impa wondered. "Such a strange saying..." She looked aside.
"What next? Gods?" Hanako remarked.
"Hah!" Ravage let out a quick laugh. Everybody else was silent.
"I'm scared." Seijitsu looked to the others, breaking the silence.
"Actually I'm here to offer you all a little holiday." Ravage informed the women.
"Holiday?" Akiko scratched her head.
"A multiversal holiday." Ravage answered. Akiko's eyes widened.
"A what...?" Impa asked.
"A trip to another universe." Ravage replied nonchalantly.
"Another... universe...?" Impa was still confused.
"You know, like a different reality, another world and all that." Ravage explained further.
"What an odd proposition..." Hanako raised her right brow. Akiko rushed to Ravage's side in the blink of an eye, leaving behind an afterimage where she once sat. Ravage looked up to her as she now stood by his side.
"Are, are you serious?" Akiko leaned forward.
"Yeah, I just came up with it before I came here. Thought it'd be cool to hang out." Ravage shrugged again.
"You'd really take us across the multiverse?" Akiko leaned further forward. Ravage nodded.
"Yeah, it's like crossing a street really." The kitsune responded.
"Will I get to meet him then? Will I?!" Akiko picked Ravage up, the kitsune's legs flailing about as he was held in the air by the human.
"Gah!" Ravage wasn't expecting that.
"Pleeeaseee..." Akiko looked him in his right eye. Hanako facepalmed.
"She's what? 32? She's acting like a child in a candy shop." Hanako muttered, looking over to Impa.
"You clearly still don't know her love for that franchise." Seijitsu replied.
"Well to be fair considering what she renamed Ryujin's blessing, of all things, I have a pretty good idea." Hanako looked to Seijitsu.
"You know there never was a recorded human with that blessing before, and none in the Underworld legends, for all we know the form may have been influenced by Akiko's subconscious." Impa proposed the notion.
"Great, she lumped the results of her own fangirling on me that day then. Really takes away the mysticism." Hanako rolled her eyes.
"Well, there's still the chance it's a giant coincidence." Impa shrugged.
"I take solace in that notion." Hanako snarked.
"Uhh, can you put me down...?" Ravage asked Akiko.
"Ohh... uh, sorry..." Akiko let the kitsune go.
"Sadly Akiko, I've already got a place lined up, because I just came from there..." Ravage cracked his neck as he landed back on the floor.
"Oh damn it..." Akiko sighed.
"But, I am planning to put a tournament together one day..." Ravage continued. "And you'll get the chance to meet your hero there."
"You serious?" Akiko was quick to inquire.
"Of course." Ravage nodded. "I need a lot of good fighters after all." He smiled.
"Awesome..." Akiko fist pumped the air. "Well, I guess the other place can't be too bad. What you have in mind?"
"Regardless we'll have to organise another time, I especially can't just be going off anywhere." Hanako interjected.
"You know time and space bends to mine and my mom's will, right?" Ravage looked over to Hanako. "I can literally just return you all to this exact moment after we're done, if you decide to come."
"I'm down for adventure." Akiko smiled.
"Me too." Seijitsu jumped up onto her feet.
"I don't do anything but 'hang out' with you all." Impa chipped in, sitting up.
"You know multiversal travel is... a big thing to put it lightly..." Hanako went on.
"It's just my entire life." Ravage shrugged.
"And we're all sat around discussing it like it's as normal as booking an actual holiday."
"It's way easier, and free." Ravage replied. "Besides none of you are close to your world's normal so it shouldn't be too out there." He added.
"Alright... where we going?" Hanako sighed.
"Yay! Adventure!" Seijitsu cheered. Impa gave her a curious look.