Ayyyyy I'm back and published my first chapter of 2021! And uhh gotta say, I thought I'd drop this chapter a long time ago due to the massive stress of college, but then again, I have real life to deal with, which sucks, but whatevah! You know what they say, follow your passion and . . . goddamn I have such a petty passion. Anyways, here's the second part on how the Vault Hunters train Team RWBY.

CHAPTER 10: A Montage (PART 2)

EMERALD FOREST (YANG VS AMARA)

Yang stops on a stump of a dead Grimm Beowulf as she takes a deep breath and exhales through her nose, smiling proudly as she looks around to see more Grimm Beowulves crowding around Yang.

The brawler Huntress slams her fists together, sparking flames on her Ember Celica. "OH, YOU WANT SOME TOO?!", she charges at the Grimm Beowulves and shoots a couple of Grimm down with her shotgun gauntlets, then goes up close to them and punches more Beowulves in the face.

Yang dodges the Beowulves' attacks with agility and retaliates by punching them dead, she keeps doing this until the last Beowulf is down.

Once Yang takes a breather, a Beowulf sneaks up behind Yang only to be lifted in mid-air and surrounded by a purple bubble and is seemingly lifted by a giant blue arm, with the palm of its hand holding the base of the bubble.

Yang immediately steps back and readies to do a final strike at the Grimm, but another giant arm slams it's fist down on the Grimm, like a giant mallet whacking an equally giant mole, squashing the Beowulf dead.

Amara whistles as she brushes off the leaves that's hiding her. "Uggh - every time we go deeper, the bushes are getting thicker."

"That's what she said - "

Amara turns to Yang, with a raised eyebrow, "Uhhh - excuse me? What did I say?"

Yang blinks her eyes rapidly for a moment, "O-Oh, uhm - you said something that's - you know what, nevermind, it was a little joke - you know to lighten the mood around here!", she smiles at her.

The Siren just chuckles as she takes out a new Legendary Maliwan pistol, Beacon, has a weird, futuristic look but with a mix of curvaceous style and the usage of colors fits the style of the corporation who manufactured such elegant killing machine. "Seems you and Ruby have a knack of making things light and happy, you two together or something?"

Yang kicks a Beowulf's dead body away from the their spot which is a massive field similar to Flak and Blake's but with no sort of foliage in the middle of it, but she quickly faces Amara with a disgusted face, "Are you kidding me?! We're sisters!"

"Pfft - ", Amara bursts into laughter in front of Yang, but the latter feels nothing at all, well expect a mild mix of confusion. Amara's laughter dies down then stares at Yang in disbelief. "You two are actually step-sisters? REALLY?!"

Yang looks around while standing still then goes around to scout the field for any Grimm that might interrupt them. "Uhhh YEAH! - Ruby and I are step-sisters, same father, different mothers. Ruby's mother, Summer Rose, died a long time ago, and mine . . . well", abruptly, Yang's cheerful demeanor is gone in a few seconds, replaced by a somber tone, ". . . let's just say she has her own goals beside raising me."

Amara squats down on the soft grass, her legs crossed together, showing her knees from the slits on her ripped dark-purple jeans. She looks away and purses her lips, not realizing she just touched a sensitive subject. "Oh - that's . . . I'm sorry, I don't normally talk about family and stuff. When I received my Siren powers, my family were the only ones that supported me all the way until . . . "

Yang checks her bullets in her weapons, "Until?"

The Siren brawler closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, her tattoos glows faintly as it charges her mystical energy, beginning her meditation state. "Until I left Partali . . . my family and friends, they felt sad, disappointed. Three days before my departure, I heard my youngest sister, Bhavna, cry in her room for hours. She and I were the closest ones, and leaving her is like leaving a huge part of yourself. I sometimes regret my decision on leaving my family, but my hunger for challenges and killing massive monsters is my dream, and . . . I'm already going into this rabbit hole far better than anyone could."

She looks at Amara with a sad face but slowly turns into a surprised one when she sees her floating in mid-air, not too high, but enough to see her magical fists in normal size, the hands behind her are posing different mudras for meditation, popular in South Asian culture. "I - uhh - "

" - You don't have to say anything, that one was on me. I left my family just for my own personal goals that only an insane person would dare to do it. But I'm sure your mother still cares about you and she has a reason to leave, like what you said."

Yang stretches her legs, while chuckles to herself. " Yeah, I guess - but do you still keep in touch with your family? Even though they know you are one of the rarest creatures in the universe? They know about you being hunted across space, right?"

Amara smiles while keeping her eyes closed, and her tattoos glow even brighter in contrast to her dark skin tone. "Yang, keeping in touch with your family is the most important thing you'll do for them - even a simple hello from an ECHO mail is enough to keep them happy. I still talk to them, but yes, they know all about it. And at least they always tell me to keep a clear head, after all, it's how I become powerful - train and meditate. Like right now."

Yang is finished loosening up her body and ready to fight Amara in an open area, although she's confused as to why Amara prefers such a boring and mundane method rather than improving her skills physically. "Meditate? How does that even help punching your enemies?"

"In all of my fights, I have learned that a clear and calm head is better than a full aggressive mindset. It's how most warriors fail."

Yang raises a brow, thinking she may be insulting her in a mild manner, either way, an insult is an insult. "Are you saying that I'm going to fail at being a Huntress?"

"No, you said that yourself. I am only saying that not every problem can be solved by rage. And there are other simpler ways of defeating your enemy without jeopardizing yourself in the process.", she then opens her eyes and stands up, facing her at a close distance. "Here."

She smiles at her, "Hit me."

"Uh, of course. You asked for it.", she smirks cockily as she balls her left hand into a fist and eagerly throws a punch at Amara, only for her to move her head slightly to the side, feeling the gust of wind on her cheek.

Amara clicks her tongue and smirks at her, putting her hands in the pockets in her ripped jeans, "Hmmm, too slow. Again."

Yang squints her eyes, feeling a vein pulsing in her head, although she's not visibly angry. "Alright. . . ", she throws another punch again in the same area, only for Amara to dodge it.

But Yang throws another punch to Amara's gut, only for Amara to nearly get hit and dodges it the last second, grabbing Yang's hand and uses her fists against her, hitting her chest and sending her crashing against the tree.

Amara cracks her knuckles, "See? ~ And I didn't even take a hit, nor even pissed about it. Come on, Xiao Long, time to see if you're capable of protecting your team.", Amara readies her combat stance, but takes out a stick from the ground and draws a thick circle on the dirt around her. "To prove to me that you are the better fighter than me, your objective is simple: Make me flinch or cross past this circle here, if I physically cross this circle: You win."

Yang opens her eyes, listening to her alien counterpart, a woman that has no weapons on her and a seemingly equal brawler. "You can shoot me all you want, or even use your Aura and Semblance, I can just take you down on my own and no Siren powers to top it off. Now, again."

She frees herself from the tree's trunk and gets herself up, growling at her, "OH, IT'S ON! - RRAAGHHH! - ", she loads up and shoots behind her to give herself a massive speed boost, launching a kick towards Amara, who is holding her ground within the circle.

Amara side-steps a little bit, lifting one leg, away from the circle but not touching it, then she grabs Yang's leg with both of her hands, and swings her round and round as one would do a 'Hammer Throw' in a track-and-field activity. The Siren goes along with her opponent's force and throws Yang away from her, crashing on the ground with her back first. "Again."

Her irises turn red and her hair glows as she gets up, "Fine! - EAT THIS!", she shoots two projectiles, moving erratically towards her in order to avoid the target on keeping track where it, however Amara merely closes her eyes and squats down, avoid the projectiles whizzing past her, sending a decent amount of grass on fire, thankfully it isn't flammable enough to burn the entire field. "H-HOW IN THE - !?"

Amara merely smiles at her, still in her circle. "Again."

Yang can feel her anger boiling inside her and boosts herself to Amara, planning to do what she always do; Beat her opponents to a pulp. Once she's in flight, she fires a three rounds from Ember Celica.

For the first time, Amara can finally face a worthy opponent, although she has seen this move plenty of times already from her enemies back in Partali and during the war with the Children of the Vault.

As soon as the projectiles are in range, she jumps up high in the air, doing a backflip in the air and moving her body in the air, dodging the projectiles.

But as she lands on the circle, but she widens her eyes in shock to notice Yang's presence (along with her flaming fist) is way too close for comfort, and already in her drawn circle. And with a perfect timing, the Siren blocks the the Huntress with only the palm of her hand, feeling the burn from Yang's fist and absorbs the entire force of Yang's punch all over her body, instead of focusing on her hand.

There is a slight pause for a moment, the two brawlers stare at each other, with Yang mildly appalled at how Amara just blocks her entire attack despite her Semblance already on and even using Ember Celica to double it's power. "No. Way.", now she knows why Glynda, Ozpin and Pyrrha warned her about Amara more powerful than Yang by a mile.

Amara smirks devilishly at her, the same how Zane and Moze are eager to kill the assholes they hate, and the loot they wanna get by any means necessary. "Just one?"

Yang snaps herself out of it, and is further angered by her opponent's taunts. "CATCH UP WITH THIS!", and throws a series of punches at her, hitting her chest a few times and on also on her neck, Amara can feel the burn from Yang's Semblance, yet it's in her nature to ignore such powerful hits.

At a normal person's stand point, Yang's barrage of fists is pretty fast considering Yang's agility and speed when it comes to fighting, but for Amara, it's like seeing a little child playing her favorite action character with the typical move like this. 'Hmmm - the more she's angry, the powerful her attacks her, but predictable.', she thought to herself and thinks about using her arms. "WANNA SEE A REAL FIST BARRAGE?!", Amara throws a punch straight through Yang's face since she was preoccupied on trying to hit her as much as she can.

Yang stumbles back a bit, groaning in pain but she remains standing, but not for long. For Amara summons one of her giant fists, uppercutting her, throwing her up in the air. And with Amara taking a deep breath, she casts all of her massive mystical arms, "THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! - GRRRAGGGHHH! - ", then focuses her Siren energy at Yang, commanding her fists to beat Yang up from above, further pushing her down until she hits the ground, but she gives a few good seconds for her six fists to pepper blow after blow on Yang, then disappears in thin air.

"That . . . ngh - could use some work.", but Yang's training never went one-sided. Amara's sweating bullets, as she crosses the circle, ending the lesson. On her body are burn marks from Yang's attacks, some are minor, but few are definitely visible and are clearly more painful to endure.

Amara stands over to Yang, laying unconscious for a moment, before letting out hard coughs and groggily opens her eyes. "Nicely done, Yang.", she offers her a hand.

Yang lets out a pained chuckle before taking Amara's hand, the latter lifting her up from the ground and taking out an Anshin Med-Hypo, the same one that was used earlier by Flak and Moze, and then injects it on Yang. However the brawler, for some reason, flinches away from her, "W-W-WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO TO ME?!"

Amara blinks in surprise, an outgoing and confident Yang is afraid of needles? That's odd, but then again, everyone's afraid of needles at first, she'll understand and get used to it later on. "Easy, this is just a Med-Hypo, latest healing technology developed by the Anshin Corporation."

"A healing injection developed by an evil megacorporation? Seriously?"

Amara shrugs her shoulders, "Actually Anshin isn't evil. They are a medical megacorporation, they are just a bunch of smart doctors and scientists that are helping whatever and whoever they can. They are like saints, but their products are so good, it is also used for good and bad guys alike. Just one prick of this and you won't even feel that pain of our fight."

Yang bites her lower lip as she moves her shoulder a bit closer to Amara, while looking away, scared to see her skin being punctured by a rather normal needle. "Fine - but if I turn into a massive monster that looks uglier than a Goliath, then I'll blame you for all of it. Actually, I'll be the first one to stomp you down."

Amara does a fake smile at Yang, before instantly injects her with the red liquid inside it. She quickly pours all of the contents in for a few seconds before pulling out. "There! - All done, now the effects should be right about . . . now."

Yang suddenly feels like her usual self, her physical pain from that fight is slowly being lifted away like magic. Not even Aura can heal her this fast. Whatever scientific liquid that's made, it really is like magic. "Woow - I'm feeling a bit woozy, but I'm alright! - Huh, no wonder you survived this long. I don't know if I can with what I have though.", she looks on the ground, feeling defeated.

But instead of leaving Yang all frowning and pouting, Amara playfully hits her arm with her elbow, "Come on, for a young agile muscle like you, you hit hard, but you can't rely on that Semblance of yours especially when you need to get hurt to activate it, If the enemy figures it out, they won't LET you get the power up they could just lop off your head and end it there. You need raw strength from the start and you need to channel it from within your soul, not your muscles. The fire comes from within."

The aspiring Huntress rolls her eyes around, "And I know this 'fire' won't be as strong and clearly it's gonna take a lot of time' - I know you'll say that."

"Yang. Nobody - and I mean NOBODY can get stronger in a matter of minutes or days, sure you can get angry and fight even faster and tougher - but your Semblance has a limit, and a very big limit at that; the angrier you get, the vulnerable and predictable you are, the difference is just Power, Power and more Power. Yet if you can just train yourself, and not rely on your Semblance, then those flaws will not be a problem."

"Yeah, no shit. Pyrrha was right . . . Even Ember Celica has no match for you.", she smirks at her, confidently placing her hands on her hips.

"We're cut from the same cloth, we have our own strengths, you just have to expand yourself more to be stronger.", Amara also takes out another Med-Hypo and stabs herself with it, healing herself.

"I guess you are right, I'm not you. Hey, uhh - I was wondering if we could spar again some time next weekend? Or when you are done roaming around Remnant or something."

The Siren nods, "Any time.", but both of their attention is diverted as they hear a loud boom from a distance followed by high-pitched laughter.

Yang snickers at the familiar laughter, "Heh, looks like little sis, is having fun - "

Amara sighs in disappointment, " - Too much fun. Honestly, Zane doesn't take anything seriously. That's why they get along so well."

(ZANE VS RUBY)

On the other hand, the two speedsters are having the time of their lives shooting different weapons the old man has on his inventory. But of course, Zane, also a weapons enthusiast like Ruby and Moze, he gently grabs Crescent Rose and whirls it around like it's a normal scythe/staff. "Ooooo ~ quite a grip here ~ and the blade's curve is definitely perfect, I almost feel bad for the Grimm or any poor boyo that ever got to meet the end of this."

However he hears a series of loud explosions behind him and smiles at the young girl who's holding a rather weird gun.

"YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH! WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!", the red riding hood shoots multiple rockets at dummy targets Zane set up, the weapon she's holding is one of the Borderlands' worst Legendary weapons, although it's presence is iconic: Torgue Corporation's 'finest' products, the Flakker. This shotgun sucks balls, and there's no denying it. Not only the user can't hit anything with it's flak cannon like attack, but it's also cumbersome and has a small amount of magazine size to compensate, and thus this weapon is only used purely for dumb ideas or the Vault Hunters ran out of fireworks for Mercenary Day.

Zane also laughs at Ruby, the old man feeling happy that he gets to enjoy his training time or in his words: Free Time, with Little Miss Hyper. "HAHAHAHAHHAAAAA! - HOW DOES SHE FEEL!?"

Ruby stops shooting and breathes heavily, and perks up with a big smile on her face, "I DIDN'T HIT A SINGLE THING! - BUT IT'S AMAZING! - If you give this to Nora, she would FLIP! - Do you have another one?!"

"Another one comin' right up! - "Zane smirks as he digistructs another gun and gives one to her, another unique looking gun as she examines it.

The gun being given to her has a mix of an assault rifle, but it also looks very similar to a grenade launcher with a base color of yellow or yellow orange and black along with a black star on the yellow paint, a large metal drum mag, presumably filled with something metallic, but the sound is rather . . . grainy, instead of sounding bulky like some grenade shells and has a scope attachment to it, a sturdy metal stock and the barrel is quite big, maybe bigger than Nora's Magnhild.

"May I introduce you to the . . . ", Zane does a jazz hands with a smile, " . . The Boring Gun. ~ ", he introduces the gun in a snazzy manner, but glances at the gun with a dead stare. "I got it from a weird-looking spiderant, Hammerlock called it an Antelope . . .", he turns to Ruby, trying contain his laughter at the joke. "G-Get it? . . . Because of the antelope, which is an animal?"

Ruby just stares the old man with a confused look ,before getting the joke and wraps her arms around her waist, "PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! - Seriously?! Why is it called an Antelope?! Does it have long branched horns?!"

Zane can't help but burst into laughter with Ruby as well, "YA DAMN RIGHT IT WAS! THAT GIT HAD A BODY THIS SMALL AND HORNS THIS BIG!", he adjusts his hands, trying to visualize the size proportions of the Antelope, while the two are laughing non-stop, but Zane's laughter dies down, "Ahhhh ~ anyway, this thing shoots quite the projectiles, but majority of peeps 'round the galaxy, including Moze, Amara an' Flak, they considered this gun . . . Boring!"

Ruby also stops laughing and suddenly gasps in horror at him, "Why is it boring? This looks awesome! - How could they say such a thing!?".

Zane clasps his hands rubs them, smiling mischievously, " Oooohhh, you'll see ~ Go on then, give it a try!"

The young leader licks her lips, aiming the gun at the wooden targets fires the gun, only to shoot 3 Saw Blades out of nowhere and charges at the dummies and then cause massive explosions, destroying the dummies, scaring the birds and the other animals away, Ruby has her mouth, T-Tha - THIS GUN SHOOTS SAW BLADES?! - THIS IS RIDICULOUS! - IT'S THE BEST!"

"I KNOW RIGHT?! ~ I MERELY USE THIS WHENEVER I'M BORED OUT OF ME MIND! - Ah . . .", suddenly he just said a bad pun.

There was absolute silence for a moment before the two burst into laughter again at the pun, with Ruby rolling on the ground, wrapping her sides. Zane also laughs but then accidentally presses the trigger on Crescent Rose firing a bullet in the sky, "JAYSUS! - Yeesh, haven't seen a complicated gun like this in a long time, is there anything this thing can't do?"

Ruby takes her weapon, and examines it with a big smile. "It is a High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe or HCSS - a hybrid between a scythe and a sniper rifle. I built Crescent Rose when I attended Signal Academy, like the rest of the students who attended. I based it on the Harbinger, the weapon of my uncle, he was a teacher at the school and taught me scythe fighting. My weapon has three modes, a "Storage" mode, its most compact form convenient for transportation, stored underneath my cloak at my waist, a "Rifle" mode, where it takes the form of a medium-length, bolt-action rifle. In this form, the absence of the scythe makes for more effective use of the rifle component. And my favorite - "

She whirls the scythe around, much faster than Zane's movements, "It has the "Scythe" mode, its most expanded form, where it fully extends into the form of a scythe, allowing it to be used as a mid-to-close-range bladed melee weapon. This form also doubles as a long-barrel sniper rifle for long-range shots without giving up the melee capabilities of the scythe. If needed, the bottom of the shaft can unfold to add more cutting power in a close-quarters fight."

Ruby: I wanted to upgrade Crescent Rose more but we'd have to do more than just train with our weapons - we got assignments and paperwork too, and it's too tiring.", she shudders in fear as she thinks about the piles of assignments being given to her.

Zane winces in pain and lets out a loud groan, remembering the massive piles of assassination contracts along with it are countless odd jobs that he didn't like at all. "AGHHHHHH! - PAPERWORK! I GOT OUT OF THE ASSASSINATION BUSINESS SO I CAN AVOID PAPERWORK! - I feel you, lass, it keeps me awake at night too, and NOT in a good way."

Ruby slowly raises her head up, "Really? I thought its because you are tired from your real job - "

Zane chuckles nervously at her, ruffling her hair. "What that? Oh nonononononono! - as much as I hate to say it with a sweet little lass like you, I'm afraid I have my own kinds of having fun. I won't tell ya' anythin' but it's not good for yer system, aye? Ya' don't wanna be like me, or Katagawa Jr. ", he smiles cheerfully at her.

"Kata-whaat? Who is he? Your friend?", she tilts her head to the side.

Zane strokes his beard, trying to remember him from his past jobs. "Hmmm, more like acquaintances, I met this boyo back when I used to work for Maliwan, back then he's just like ya' except he's rich, spoiled brat, he's not like yer friend Weiss, at least she knows her stuff. But I met him again, this time as - uhh - strangers, more or less, yet the good thing is he left me something handy that's gonna be fun!"

Ruby goes back to her playful grin and jumping in place, "YAY! - Story Time?!",

"HAHAAA! STORY TIME! - Okay, so this bloke got himself this nice tech he copied from me good pal, who is also a contractor, like me. He was the head of Mergers and Acquisitions of the Maliwan Corporation, bunch of douchebags who like money more than anythin' - they'd kill a lotta people for a small paycheck.", he rubs his index and thumb together with a sinister tone.

Ruby frowns, pursing her lips as she thinks how horrible they are. Even if she is out of Remnant, there are still enemies she'll face in all shapes and sizes. "I can't believe people like that still exist out there!"

Zane looks at her with a straight face, "Actually - that's the norm but I'll just pretend you said something cool because the writer's running out of vocabulary and ideas to use - SO, that Katagawa boyo, he's always annoying us during our time in Promethea, when suddenly, we blew up the Zanara, his pleasure yacht. He kept yappin' about it, YAP, YAP, YAP!", he then sees Ruby raising her hand.

"What's a pleasure yacht?"

Zane shrugs his shoulders, "I honestly don't know - but imagine a BIIIIIG spaceship with parties all the time, and filled with - uhm - rich people stuff like Fondue Fountains, Dessert Domains, Giant Pool Parties, even a Spa Palace!"

Ruby thought about it and let her imagination run wild, getting all excited. "Oooo ~ must've cost a fortune to make a ship that big! I WANNA RIDE IT!"

Zane shrugs his shoulders, "Eh, it blew up. BLLLLPPPFTT!"

She instantly loses her enthusiasm, slouching with a pout. "Awwwww ~ "

"Aye it was - and that's the reason why he was PISSED! - He then goes radio silent and tries to assassinate the CEO of the Atlas Corporation by disguising as my best friend, can you believe that?! - At least I know his handiwork from an impersonator, so we all know it wasn't me friend from the get-go. We found him and then that boyo had the gull to face all of us."

"So what happened? Did you guys arrest him?"

The hitman winces again, "You see - when he faced us - he - uhh - wasn't very cooperative, and we had to 'convince' him to stand down, but Moze triggered the self-destruct suit and - like the Zanara - BLLLLPPPFTT! - BUT NO GUTS AND BLOOD! Just exploded into pixels.", then breathes out to end the story and smiles at her. "But lass, there's an unspoken rule on travelling planets; And that is you always get a souvenir. And ya' know what we got?"

"Oooo! What is it!? A BIG GUN! O-OR MAYBE A BIG ENERGY SWORD THINGY! - TH-THAT CAN ALSO BE A GUN!"

Zane ruffles her hair playfully, "HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! - Not those lass, THIS!", he takes his Digi-Clone remote and shows a black rectangular box that's connected to the remote. Afterwards, he then gives it to Ruby.

Ruby checks the remote, seeing a big red button. "So, what does it do?"

"Watch ~ ", Zane takes the remote off her hands, smiling with glee while quickly steps to the side and gives a finger-gun expression to his Digi-Clone. "Hey gorgeous ~ ", the Digi-Clone also plays along, doing another finger-gun at the original Zane.

"Hmmm . . . But I already saw that - "

He turn to Ruby and gasps, "Oh it's not just one - ", as Zane side-steps again but he starts dancing, each pose the original Zane does, a Digi-Clone appears cool pose.

Ruby widens her eyes in amazement as she witness the clones are growing rapidly, she takes a step back, but she can feel faint whirring behind her, she turns around to find a clone, crossing his arms and smiling at her. "Woah . . . S-SO MANY CLONES!", she looks around as she's surrounded with Zane's Digi-Clones, at least 12 of them, separated all over the field.

Zane stops dancing and smiles at Ruby, and cracks his knuckles from far away, "HERE'S HOW'S IT GONNA GO DOWN! I'LL GIVE YOU A TEST RUN OF ME GUNS IFFFFF! - "

Ruby squints her eyes, trying to spot where he is, but she can hear his voice in the distance. Suddenly she hears a high-pitched static noise near her, followed by faint giggling " - You can catch me."

The leader immediately turns around and grabs Zane, but in his place is a Digi-Clone, just looking at her smugly. "A-HA! GOTCHA' - whaaa? ", she touches the Digi-Clone, feeling a faint tingle as she but sees a Digi-Clone of himself. She is suddenly confused and shifts her eyes to the original Zane in the distance.

Zane does a little Chicken Dance emote, "LET'S PLAY TAG FER 20 MINUTES , REEEEEED! ~ ", he then teleports to another clone, this time he's pointing comically at her. " - AND YAR' THA' IT! ~ ", time to test the team leader, seeing how she's already hyped up.

Ruby smirks as she takes out Crescent Rose, using the recoil to boost herself towards him. "YOU'RE ON! ~ I'M GONNA USE THE HECK OUT THOSE GUNS!"

Zane whistles as he then teleports elsewhere, with his arms open wide. "THIS IS GONNA BE FUN, SHOW ME WHATCHA' GOT, LIL' LASS! ~ PAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!",

His hilarity echoes around the field which makes her growling in anger and boosts herself again, this time with more power, focusing her vision on the original Zane, but as soon as she blinked he is then gone, and replaced with another Digi-Clone. "W-WHAT?! - BUT I JUST BLINKED! - "

Zane is already above her and teleports again, "OI! - YA' BETTER BE SMARTER THAN THAT LASS! - SPEED IS NOTHIN' IF YER BRAIN IS FULL OF GREY MATTER AND SUNSHINE RAINBOWS!", he yells as he's far away from her again.

"GET BACK HERE!", Ruby fires three shots from Crescent Rose, tripling her speed boost for herself, but the old man is always far away from her reach. Each time she's moves closer, Zane always teleports away from her with or without looking at her, it's as if these clones can send some sort of signal to Zane.

As he swaps places with another clone, he yells at Ruby. "OI! - STOP PLAYIN' CAT AND MOUSE! YA' CAN ALWAYS BREAK THE RULES!"

"W-what am I supposed to do? Think, Ruby, think!", she stops for a moment, eyeing the clones, sensing something wrong thought of something and tries it out.

Ruby takes aim at one of the clones and shoots it by the head, the clone groaning in pain before digistructing into non-existence, the rest of the Digi-Clones gulp nervously together.

At first she was shocked that she terminated a clone, "Woooahhhh - ", but then she realizes it's just a hologram, so she's ready to change her style now. She starts slicing off the holograms around her, each of them flinching in pain and disappear like the first one.

Zane notices his clones are decreasing by the second, "Cuttin' off me path, ay? - Smart move ~ but not smart enough!", he then pushes button in one of the buttons on the side of the remote and suddenly all of the clones explode into a burst of electricity.

"Nghgghghggghhh!", Ruby is electrocuted and gets knocked back from the clones shockwaves, putting her down on the ground. She can feel the numbness all over her body, preventing her from moving.

Zane runs and stops in front of her, "You're fast, but ya need more than speed, ya need Accuracy Lass! THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF SPEED TO START WITH, unless ya hit first or when the bloke ain't looking. Ya need to END the fight, not play with it.", the hitman grins at her. Even he's not giving Ruby any chance of victory, at the very least he can still give her some good feedback to correct herself.

However, she does a big move, by faking her pain - and touching Zane on his shoulder, with a impish grin. " Hehe - TAG! YOU'RE IT! YAAAY!", she fires her rifle again, flying away from Zane.

Zane blinks his eyes to realize she was just playing him for a fool. His eye twitches in irritation and takes out his remote and summons 20 more clones, spreading around the area and "I BLOODY HELL AM NOT! I'M COMIN' FER YA' ! ~ ", he grins as he teleports to catch up to Ruby.

Ruby looks back and does an Akanbe expression, which is just someone pulling down one's lower eyelid to expose the red underside towards someone, often accompanied by the person sticking their tongue out. You learn something new everyday.

"HAHAAHAHAHAAAAA! - Try again, little lass. This time, better change yer game plan. IF I were you . . . I'd shoot for the annoying bloke, already playing Tag.", Zane does the disco dance while circling around her, going behind the clones since being hit by Crescent Rose is a good idea not to be in range from that thing, otherwise, it's lights out for him. "Ahh shite . . . "

As Ruby slashes some clones down at ridiculous speed , she is starting to catch up with the Operative, now using her Semblance, leaving a trail of rose petals behind her, and the speed of which is on par to Zane's teleportation interval.

Zane looks behind him to see Ruby already close to his position. "AGH! FECK ME!", keeps spawning more clones, in erratic manner, it's obvious that he's trying to find a way out. "Are ya' KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!", his tone is more panicked than earlier.

"ALMOST THERE! ~ ", Ruby taunts him while she's almost in his vicinity, combining her attacks both melee ang ranged, keeping on slicing more and more clones in her sight while boosting herself with the recoil.

"Agh - guess Ii'll fookin' risk it . . . ", Zane, can't afford to be another IT again, so he takes out his remote teleport to another clone, located to Ruby's right side, but it's covered with another clone in front of it as cover, it may not be as much, but hopefully Ruby will be confused as to which is which.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!", Ruby uses her scythe as she slashes the clone in front of her, however, what she didn't know is the original Zane right in front of her, once the clone dies and disappears.

Zane clutches his wound and groans in pain, acting like he's in a near death state. "S-Shite . . . ", then he does the Death emote, with Ruby unaware that this is just a trick and falls on the ground, face-down.

"ZANEE!", Ruby has a feared look on her face, as she drops Crescent Rose on the ground, and rushes to him and assess his condition. "Oh I'm so sorry! - I - I thought - ", her eyes start to water as she sees the Operative's

Zane smiles weakly at the young girl, "D-Don't worry, lass . . . I'm proud of ya.", he opens his hand to reveal there was no blood, the visible slash mark is present but instead of leaking blood it leaks pixels. Ruby sees the 'wound' and turns to Zane with a Troll Face. "BECAUSE I HAVE A SHIELD ON! ~

Ruby shakes her head in disbelief and backs away a bit. "S-SERIOUSLY?!"

The hitman quickly gets up and presses her nose with his finger, " AAAAANNNND TAG, YOU'RE IT! - ", he then teleports elsewhere, before he gets touched by Ruby again. Afterwards, uses his device again to create more clones of himself, surrounding RWBY in a circle, doing to the Conga-Line, even wearing sombrero hats and stylish ponchos.

Ruby frowns as she just lost here chance to be the winner. "THAT'S NOT FAIR!", she launches herself again this time, but she's all surrounded with clones.

They all chant together, "One of these things is not like the other ~ One of these things just doeeeeesn't belong ~ ", the clones laugh together, drowning out the noise.

But their taunts backfires as Ruby slowly grows even more angry as Yang as she does a big whirlwind move, slicing all the clones in one go. Revealing the real Zane. The Operative checks himself for a moment before breathing a sigh of relief.

As for Ruby, all that fast movement in a few seconds made her all woozy and eventually falls down, looking up at the sky with her eyes and her mind swirling in a daze. Suddenly her stomach growls a bit, "Ugggh - my tummy doesn't feel too good."

She groans in pain as she is slowly recovering from circling round, in front of her is Zane crouched down and gives her a bottle of apple juice, instead of his flask. "Here, lass - I owe ya' a field test - ya' did good. And uh - it's my bad about me trick."

"No, that makes us even. Thanks, Uncle Zane. - Ah . . . ", she then shuts up, looking down in shame thinking Zane will be creeped out by her and feeling embarrassed to she said that to a old geezer she just met recently and by I mean recently, I mean few weeks ago.

Zane looks at the saddened Ruby, feeling sorry for the poor girl. But instead of a reluctantly reply, he smiles kindly at Ruby and pats her on the head. "It's alright, lass. Uncle Zane's fine with me! In fact, that's actually one of me nicknames, you see there was this job back at Promethea when I had to - "

Ruby looks up and widens her eyes sparkling as she immediately hugs him with a big smile, interrupting his story. "Thank you, Uncle Zane!", of course she didn't mean in a close manner, but Ruby now has someone to look up to and at the same time have fun with her, because in another person's perspective, these two are happy-go-lucky, cheery, and also good at what they do, except for Zane, who is too good in what he does. But the Operative is different from most killers out there in Remnant and across the galaxies.

A cold-blooded, emotionless killer would never accept such a gesture like this, but for Zane, seeing Ruby all happy like this feels as if he has a little niece that is also like him, but the difference between them is clear, Ruby had a proper happy family while Zane only had his brothers, and he left his family years decades ago, in search for a better life, only to find nothing valuable that really meant to him, the closest thing he has besides Ruby, is his team along with the Crimson Raiders.

But now, maybe the old hitman can change a bit, starting by taking good care of Ruby and her friends. "Ahh c'mere, lass!", Zane snickers while gently grabbing Ruby and lets her do piggy-back ride. "Let's go home, 'fore Ozzy thinks we're slackin' off and testing my guns."

COURTYARD - BEACON ACADEMY

In the Courtyard, the Vault Hunters and the rest of Team RWBY are talking about how their training went. Blake is playing with Broodless as she makes a little figurine made from Broodless' strong silk and gives it to Flak, to which the robot squints his eye at Blake, feeling happy that after all that training they still remain friends.

Moze and Weiss, on the other hand, are not talking to each other. Moze is playing music while taking a nap in Iron Bear's cockpit, leaving the door open, while Weiss is studying . . . while drinking Moze's root beer, all with a straight face.

Meanwhile, Yang and Amara are doing an arm wrestling match, with Yang not using her Ember Celica to try and defeat Amara, but the Siren brawler just waits for Yang to almost put her down, only for the Siren to put her down in one go. Although Amara gives her some tips to increase her strength the old-fashioned way.

"OIIIIIIIIII! ~ ", Zane's yell catches the attention of the Huntresses and the Vault Hunters, seeing him wave at his friends and seeing an unconscious Ruby, nestled on his back, taking a nap, with a little adorable smile on her face.

"RUBY!", Yang runs up to her and checks up on her and chuckles while pinching her cheeks, "Yeesh, she had quite the fun."

"Awwww come on, at least ya lasses had a great time right?", he smirks at the blonde.

Blake instantly snaps at the Operative with stern eyes glaring at him. "I almost got eaten alive by an alien dog, and got bashed in the head by an alien monkey with a baseball bat."

Flak sharpens his tribal axe with Moze's combat knife. "Honestly, it could've gotten worse, I can think of other possibilities that a human can suffer.", Blake just responds with a wince and a fearful look at the Beastmaster.

Weiss crushes the can in anger, "I was whisked away by a rocket and almost crushed to death by a rockslide, plus I'm starting to like this horrendous drink Moze has, it's called 'Root Beer'.", then throws it on the ground, crushing it with her feet.

Yang smiles slyly while crossing her arms, facing Weiss, "Ooooo ~ Weiss getting on like a real rebel huh? ~ "

"Eh, she's pretty easy to break if you ask me. - ", Moze snickers while listening to music, overhearing their conversation the whole time. She takes out another can of root beer and starts sipping it.

Weiss huffs into a fit at Yang, "IT'S NOT ALCOHOL! IT DOESN'T COUNT, YOU DOLT! - WHAT ABOUT YOU?! - YOU LITERALLY GOT YOURSELF HANDED BY A WOMAN WHO DIDN'T EVEN USE HER POWERS TO DEFEAT YOU!"

"Uhh - technically, I used my arms, sooo - you are wrong on that.", the Siren just floats in mid-air, continuing her meditation.

Ruby slowly wakes up and hops off Zane. "EVERYOOOOOOONE'S HERE! ~ ", she hugs Blake Weiss and Yang, speeding and hugging each of them before standing beside Yang. "IT WAS THE BEST TRAINING EVER! - I hope we can do this again, Uncle Zane."

As soon as she heard that, Amara breaks her trance, Moze accidentally crushes the can, spilling the rest of the root beer on her face and Flak, along with his beasts even looked at Ruby. However, Team RWBY fails to notice their expressions.

Just before Moze gets up and tries to lash out at the old geezer, she hears footsteps nearby, "Well done on the exercise, I hope you've all learned something today. Team RWBY, you may free to go now.", Ozpin and Glynda appears with the former smiling kindly at them.

Ruby turn to Ozpin with a sad expression. "B-But Headmaster, can we at least spend some time with them for a while? It's the weekend after all - "

Glynda steps forward, glaring daggers at Ruby. "They are NOT going else - ", but she is cut off by Ozpin who in turn, glares at Glynda, of which the Headmistress takes a deep breath and steps backwards. " - We're just letting the Vault Hunters come up to our office for a little conversation about settling things here in Vale.", she turns at the Vault Hunters, especially Zane, who is surprisingly not smiling anymore, with the Operative gives her a stern look.

Zane turns to Team RWBY, with a big smile. "Ahhh so sorry about that, but - uhm - we'll be back before ya' know it!", he follows Ozpin and Glynda to the office, the rest of the team also follows suit.

As they watch the Vault Hunters abruptly leave, Yang places a hand on Ruby's shoulder. "Should we do it?", her tone is mixed with worry, but the brawler knows that something's not right.

Ruby turns to her step-sister and nods, determined to know what's going on, because in her stand point, she's already considered them as her friends from outer space, and she'll be damned if they won't help them. "Yeah, let's do it."

HEADMASTER'S OFFICE

As the Vault Hunters enter the office, they see Tannis cupping her chin, while being interrogated with an angry General Ironwood, his frown is clearly visible to the team.

Ironwood appears on the screen with a fumed face at the Vault Hunters "What. The. Hell. WERE YOU ALL THINKING!?", his voice booms around the office.

Moze takes off her Vladof helmet and screws her ear with her pinky finger nonchalantly. "What's that? - I'm thinking there's a massive Drill-bit shouting at me like he's my father."

Ironwood growls at them, "This isn't funny, soldier. Didn't boot camp tell you to be respectful to your superior officers?!".

Zane smirks at the Gunner. "I dunno, the way killed that one dude was pretty God damn funny-"

Ironwood and Glynda snaps at the old man. "SHUT UP!"

Zane turns to both of them with a bored look. "...Well that was rude."

The general places his hand on is forehead, massaging it. "I can't even imagine the damage of what you've done, the expenses we'll have to cover for damage of property alone, we had to pay a small fortune just to keep the Police out of this! NOT TO MENTION THE GRAVEYARD YOU'VE ALL LEFT BEHIND AND WHATEVER THE HELL YOU ALL DID THIS FOR!"

Glynda frowns back at the screen. "Ironwood, calm down or you'll burst a vein."

Zane cockily smiles at Glynda, just seeing her defend him makes him feels special, although that statement has a hint of sarcasm in it. "Thank you Miss Good-stuff ~ I knew you'd be on our si - "

The Headmistress then leans towards Zane with the maddest eyes ever, her glare can literally send extreme down on someone's spine, however, Zane is completely unfazed by her. "You don't get to pretend we're friends, Mr. Flynt! He's right about everything you've done and then some, the amount pain you wrought is enough to rival the Great War!"

The Beastmaster is currently sitting with his legs spread open and his arms resting on his thighs looking down, but his head slowly raises up. "I am not seeing the issue here, but I am noting the Ozpin is showing signs of . . . confusion and worry."

Moze shifts her glance to him with a deadpanned look. "Yo Ozzy, ya got something to say?".

Whilst cleaning his glasses and putting 'em back on, he frowns a bit and stares at them. "Why DID you do all of this? You all knew the Vale Police Force would just take care of it."

Tannis steps up, "Not to insult anyone or anything, but the Vale 'Police Force' is rather incompetent at doing their job, of course Vale is a big city and all - but it's an ordinary city, and there has to be someone that's a veteran AND knows the ins and outs of this city, of which . . . there are none. So yes, the Vault Hunters basically did the dirty work. - "

The Operative just shrugs his shoulders. " - Besides boyo, it's all obvious from here. We're mercenaries, through and through. Put two and two together, then BOOM! - "

Ironwood raises an eyebrow at them. "Mercenaries?! This 'stunt' made massive acts of terrorism look like a toddler throwing a tantrum! - "

" - Look, we CAN explain if you let us because we have more of a reason than just 'We're Mercenaries'.", Amara cuts in between their conversation, and says it while giving an annoyed expression at Zane, The group had to always put up with something because of his Devil's Advocate attitude. "We also got in good with a Kingpin and something tells me-"

Glynda stares coldly at the Siren, "Do you mean Torchwick!?"

Zane smiles cheerfully and nods. "The One and the Same! ~ Boyo's pretty smart with his stuff, even saved me arse during that fight with the Paladin Prototype ~ ".

Amara snaps at Zane, "If you'd let me finish - ", the old man just went silent. " - We already have a favor he owes us and we could take 'em down for you. I know you all want to get rid of him - it's all on your faces."

But unable to resist cutting in, Zane raises his index finger. "IF the price is right of course. - "

Ironwood's face turn to red in pure anger, and ready to scream his head off at the annoying hitman. It's people like Zane that pisses him off, disobeying authorities, acting on their own volition and causing more damage even the situation could've been handled much more peaceful. But then again, peace can only be manipulated and the criminals that are arrested will just cause more chaos again - and the cycle repeats itself.

" - Which is free, the price is free! RIGHT ZANE?", Amara twists his arm, while turning to the Operative with gritted teeth.

Zane widens his eye, unexpected that she's breaking his good arm, "AYE AYE AYE AY-OOOOUUCHHHH! OF COURSE IT'S FREE! IT'S FREE!", he groans in pain, hearing his bones crack several times, before Amara letting it go.

Ozpin sighs and nods, "Very well then.", he puts down his coffee, wears his glasses and grabs his cane, walking to the Vault Hunters.

Glynda and Ironwood turn to Ozpin upon hearing this, are shocked and befuddled by the old man's calm and . . .happy tone? They were mixed between confusion, creeped out and enraged. Ozpin continued despite their silent yet obvious reactions towards him. "I'm willing to overlook this tragedy, but you must promise me something in return . . ."

" . . . Two years ago, a dark event took place. Amber, the Fall Maiden was ambushed and her powers stolen, this is the fight that took place. It was recorded by one of our elite Huntsmen.", He takes a remote from his pocket and turns on another screen, smaller than the one Ironwood is currently in right now, but it's visible for the Vault Hunters to see a first-person view of someone rushing forth into a group of teenagers, afterwards the Huntsman takes out his large sword and slices the black substance that connects to the girl's hand and Amber, and taking the latter's body in his arms.

The girl with the red dress smirks at the Huntsman before casting a fireball on his position, fortunately, he notices it perfectly dodged the attack, but looks back to where the enemy was only to disappear in plain sight, so as the other two teenagers that were with her earlier. The camera finally pans at the face of Amber, already clinging on for dear life.

"I have a mission for you four, and this time, it won't relate with training or touring around Remnant, because you will track down the attackers that were responsible for Amber. So far, she's been radio silent and I ask of you to bring her to Beacon safe and sound."

Glynda turns to the Vault Hunters, especially at Zane, who is awfully silent the whole time after the brief recording was shown. It's as if he's hiding something, or worse, the Vault Hunters know something they don't - and she doesn't trust them one bit at that.

But for now Moze breaks the silence, "Tracking down some broad and her goons and our 'sins' will be forgiven? Deal. But . . . we can't promise you on the 'safe and sound' part - you know our handiwork, Ozzy. We kill anything that's a threat to us.", she turns to the screen to reveal their training earlier, Flak's Gamma Bursts, Moze's Iron Bear, Zane's Digi-Clone, and Amara's Siren Powers. On the other hand is a news report from last night, the Vault Hunters were gonna get caught eventually.

Ozpin smiles at them, "Excellent. Now, I'm afraid you'll have a tougher time explaining your skirmish to our more . . . novice members." he presses a button on his desk and the doors open having Team RWBY fall to the ground, revealed to be eavesdropping.

Ruby slowly gets up and looks at Zane with a worried expression, but the Operative frowns and looks away. This is why he doesn't want anyone close to him, in the end, he's just a cold-blooded killer like his team and every asshole in the six galaxies.

"I believe this is where I use the phrase recommended for this situation.", he clears his throat. "Well, shit."

Allllllright! - That was Part 2 done and done! - Honestly, it felt rushed - really, really rushed, since the Second Semester is coming January 14, I better get myself ready (by crying in a corner) for it, that means there'll be little to no time for Still No Rest For The Wicked. I know it sucks, but I'll try to manage my time. I realize now that putting my imagination forward and testing my vocabularies, while remaining consistent to the story on both franchises is my passion, but it won't guarantee me real life benefits. But uhh - hopefully I'll release another chapter and I won't end this on a sour note.

Time for the reviews!

qazse:I love that they're giving the members of team RWBY a reality check. Especially with the stuck up, I'm-so-perfect Weiss. I hope the VHs train JNPR too. Cause I'm especially looking forward to how their deal with Pyrhha, as she's the type who believes in "fighting fair", "honourably" and doesn't do anything "unsportsmanlike". Now that may work in an official fighting tournament with rules and regulations, but in a REAL fight, especially with people trying to kill you, you take any and all advantages you can see. Even if it's as simple as shooting someone's kneecaps or groin.

TO qazse: Don't worry, The Vault Hunters will train JNPR later on in the story, but not before Volume 3 starts, maybe within Volume 2, drag the story a bit, then start the Training with JNPR, then Volume 3, which is gonna be a big one. Plus I completely agree with you on that one - If Team RWBY and JNR survive and leave Remnant with the Crimson Raiders, then they must be prepared to kill everything, that includes people, and 'Honor' doesn't exist in the six galaxies. Cheating is an option, and heroes and villains are no exception.

Guest: Are you going to bring the 4th trees in also for some reason I see zane acting like a father to ruby while he train her and by the time he finished with her she be a mini zane minus the drinking and the killing but twice the badassary in all honesty zane was the best they added when they made bl3 can tell he from Pandora just from his personality

TO Guest: Yes, there will be a plan to connect the 4th skill trees with the Vault Hunters, although it's not gonna be a big timeskip. (Maybe the Vault Hunters faced a massive enemy they almost died, and they all went their separate ways for a while only to come back with new skills.) And yes, considering Zane and Ruby's Uncle-Niece (term from TheWubbzler) dynamic, plus Qrow might meet Zane, and have a little competition as to who is the better uncle for Ruby, or the three just get along together.

Anyways, those are the comments and reviews for this rushed chapter, see you guys in the chapter - and feel free to comment, review or just shit on it. I'm fine with both XD DEUCES!