Oscar was seen sitting on a red armchair, nervously looking at the members of Team JNPR and Ruby as they fawned over him.

"This is unreal! I knew of the Maidens, but this is something else entirely!" Pyrrha cried out.

"Did he age backwards?" Nora asked.

"He's possessed!" Jaune shrieked.

"Or reincarnated!" Ren theorized.

"Oh! Isn't it weird?" Ruby asked.

"It is very weird, yes." Oscar admitted.

"Which is why you should all take a minute to calm down. This must be as new and strange to Oscar as it is to us." Ryu informed them all.

The former students all stepped back together and nervously chuckle. "Thanks." Oscar said to Ryu, who nodded.

Nora then popped up in front of her boyfriend. "Ryu, how are you so calm about this!? This is new levels of crazy!" She cried out.

"I've already dealt with resurrection. Twice, actually." He admitted.

"Four times for me." Kratos declared.

"That is... kind of disturbing." Pyrrha said, shocked to know that her brother had died 4 separate times.

Qrow then walked in with a cup and took a seat on the couch next to Oscar. Ruby and Nora had taken a seat on the couch perpendicular to Qrow's, while the boys and Pyrrha remained standing. Oscar then shared a brief look with Ruby, who giggled, causing Oscar to blush. "Ah, sorry!" He apologized and briefly looked away. "It's just I've never really met Huntsmen and Huntresses before." He explained.

"Well, uh... we've never met a person with two souls! So, first times all around." Ruby told him. Oscar smiled and chuckled at Ruby before he heard Qrow clear his throat.

"Not to break up the whole 'getting-to-know-you' game, but we need to have a talk. Mind showing us your little parlor trick, kid?" Qrow asked.

Oscar groaned at this. "Yeah, okay. Just so you know, I'll still be here." He assured them.

The members of Team JNPR and Ruby looked at him in confusion, while even Kratos and Ryu were intrigued. Oscar then lowered his head and closed his eyes. Suddenly, a green and white aura shined from his body for a moment. Oscar opened up his eyes, which were now glowing and he smiled. When he spoke, they all heard a familiar voice overlapping with a bunch of other voices, including Oscar's.

"It is so very good to see you again, students." Ozpin declared.

The students, minus the Revived, shared brief looks of confusion and even Ryu and Kratos looked at each other, rather surprised. "And I thought this world could never be as strange as the one we left." Kratos said.

"Wait, what just happened?" Jaune asked.

"Professor... Ozpin?" Ren questioned.

"Correct. And though I may be the one speaking, Oscar is still present mentally. He's merely handed over the control, so to speak." Ozpin explained.

(Just don't make us do anything embarrassing...) Oscar mentally pleaded.

"I'm afraid this all must be very perplexing." Ozpin told them.

"And alarming and bizarre and just really kind of hard to believe overall!" Nora cried out, before Ryu put a hand on her shoulder to calm her.

"Harder to believe than Salem, or the fact your own boyfriend was reincarnated from a different world?" Ryu asked.

Nora considered that for a moment, before nodding. "Touché." She admitted.

Ozpin chuckled at this. "It's good to see you children still have your sense of humor." He said, before her started to frown. "I know you've all been through tremendous hardship already. I'm sorry."

"I mean, it's not your fault." Ruby told him.

"We knew becoming Huntsmen and Huntresses would put our lives at risk and we'd be in danger constantly. We made peace with this. It's the path we've chosen and I know we all plan to follow it to its end." Kratos declared, the others all smiling and nodding at him.

Ozpin smiled at them as Qrow got up and left the room to get Ozpin something to drink. "I'm glad to see you've all kept your convictions strong. Something I find difficult these days. Now more than ever. "I'm... cursed. For thousands of years, I've walked the surface of Remnant, living, dying and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form and clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process on everyone involved." He explained.

"So who... what... are you?" Jaune asked.

"I am the combination of countless men who've spent their lives trying to protect the people of Remnant." Ozpin explained as Qrow walked back into the room and hands him a cup of tea. "With every rebirth, my soul is eventually merged with another and I am changed, but my memories stay with me. This curse was bestowed upon me by the gods because I failed to stop Salem in the past. But we must stop her now." He finished.

"And how do we do that?" Ruby asked.

"We start... by ensuring the safety of the Relic of Knowledge." Ozpin declared.


At night, Weiss and Dante awakened to find themselves trapped in a cage and her wrists bound by rope. She looks around and noticed the bandits from earlier that took them. One of them is drinking, while the other notices Weiss waking up.

"Well, well, well, look who's awake." A voice said as the Schnee siblings woke up to see a shirtless man with a strange core device on his chest and a robotic right eye. "G'day. Name's Kano. Welcome to the party." He told them.

"Wha... what's going on? Where are we?" Weiss asked.

"You... You attacked us when we crashed. You killed Enzo." Dante growled.

"Oh, yeah. The tubby guy. He was more trouble than he was worth. Best not make the same mistake." Kano said with a smirk.

Dante growled and was about to snap at the robot-eyed man, when a new voice rang out. "You know..." Vernal said as she emerges from her tent. "I never thought I'd see a Schnee in this camp. Let alone the infamous twins." She stated.

"Vernal!?" Another bandit said, standing at attention.

"'Bout time you got here." Kano said.

"Well, unlike you, Raven actually has uses for me." Vernal taunted as she walked over to the twins' cage, holding Myrtenaster in her hand.

"Only as long as she needs a decoy. When that stops, it's my time to shine." Kano grumbled.

Weiss stood up, while her captor admired her weapon. "What do you want?" She demanded with a glare.

Dante then felt his pockets and noted his weapons had been taken. "And were are my weapons?!" He demanded.

"Aww, come on, Schnee! You had plenty to spare. And you can always by the stuff to make 'em again. Learn to share. A few of our mates had an eye for quite a few of them." Kano said.

Vernal looked at Weiss "Straight to the point, girl. I like it. We don't normally deal in trafficking people - not really worth our time. But, once we realized we had a Schnee," Vernal explained as she pointed Myrtenaster at Weiss. "That changed." She said.

"Of course. Everyone only cares about the name." Dante said.

"Because it means something. And to us, it means money." Kano told him.

"You're going to ransom us back to our father, is that it?" Weiss questioned.

"It's a shame you're a Schnee. You'd probably do quite well around here." Vernal stated.

"I could think of QUITE a few good uses for her. Not so much the pretty boy here." Kano said.

"Thanks, Bright Eye, but I don't swing that way." Dante taunted, causing Kano to growl.

"We would never sink to your level." Weiss snapped.

Vernal's expression then changed to a frown. "Just keep quiet and cooperate and you'll be back in your mansion before you know it." She told them and started walking away from the cage. "Don't make this complicated." Vernal said.

"Oh, darn. That's my favorite thing to be." Dante teased.

"What's going to make this complicated is when my sister finds out I didn't make it to Mistral. You know our sister, don't you? Winter Schnee? Special Operative of the Atlas Military? She's in Mistral now and when she hears we're missing, it won't take her long to find us - and you." Weiss warned.

Suddenly, the bandits started laughing, much to Weiss' surprise. "What's so funny?" Weiss demanded.

Vernal turned back around and laughed. "Oh, I don't know if it's more funny or sad, but you're clearly out of the loop. Your sister isn't in Mistral anymore. No Atlas personnel are in Mistral anymore. General Ironwood closed the borders and recalled all his little troops and tin cans. No one is coming to rescue you." Vernal explained.

Weiss was shocked at this, while Dante narrowed his eyes at this and looked down. "Winter... Damn. What are you planning, general?" He questioned quietly.

"So get comfy, because you're gonna be stayin' for quite a while." Kano said, but then leaned in towards Weiss. "Just let me know if I can do anything to make you more... comfortable." He said suggestively.

Dante reached through the bars and grabbed Kano by the throat, lifting him into the air. "Listen, pal. I'm already pissed with your group here! So I wouldn't suggest giving me any more reasons to burn this place to the ground. And I'll be sure to make your eyes match before I do that." He threatened, shoving Kano back.

The bandits laughed at this as Vernal smirked at Kano. "Raven's always telling you to watch that attitude. Looks like it's catching up with you." She taunted as she walked away from them.

"Caught me off-guard is all. He won't get that lucky again." Kano declared, glaring at Dante, before he winked at Weiss as walked away while the former heiress closed her eyes forlornly as Dante growled at the bandits.


"This is perfect! We were stuck at a dead end, but now, we can just take little cute boy Ozpin to Lionheart and have him set things straight!" Nora declared excitedly.

"Please don't call me that." Ozpin requested.

"We're not sure that's the best idea." Qrow told Nora, to which the hammer-wielder pouted and groaned and went back to sit down next to Ryu.

"But I thought the headmasters all took their orders from you?" Ren questioned.

"That was the intention. Four lieutenants I can trust, especially during times of reincarnation. But Qrow told me about your meeting with Leonardo." Ozpin explained as he got up and walked towards a painting of Mistral. "He isn't just behaving irrationally, he's disobeying specific instructions I had left him. Something's wrong. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I don't want to rule out any possibilities, either. No one outside of this room knows that I've paired with Oscar and I think it may be best to keep it that way." He told them all.

"Play things close to the chest until we get a better hand." Qrow simplified things.

"Precisely. Now, we have two steps ahead of us." Ozpin stated as he turned around to face the rest of the group. "The first is enlisting the aid of more Huntsmen." He explained.

"But the Mistral council-" Ren started.

"Doesn't own every Huntsman in the Kingdom and I've been here enough times to know where we can find some more." Qrow explained.

"So long as they're trustworthy." Ozpin stated.

"You can trust them to put up a good fight. I'll throw together a list tonight." Qrow assured him as he put his foot on the table, but his Semblance caused one of the legs to break and spill his cup of tea.

"Good luck with that." Nora grumbled.

"Just think of that cup as our enemies." Ryu suggested, to which Qrow gave a thoughtful look before he cleaned up his mess.

"After that, we can move on to step two." Ozpin told them.

"What's step two?" Nora asked.

Suddenly, Ozpin had The Long Memory in hand. "Getting you all into fighting shape." He declared.

Team JNPR and Ruby once again exchanged looks of confusion. Ryu and Kratos narrowed their eyes a bit at the implication, but both knew how much of a role constant training played into their success.

"But, uh, we already know how to fight." Ruby insisted.

Ozpin pointed to Ruby. "You can only fight so long as you have Crescent Rose, but you're still lacking in hand-to-hand combat." He told her.

"Well, uh, yeah." Ruby asked.

Ozpin then pointed to Jaune. "Mr. Arc, I'm glad to hear you've improved, but sorry to say, you've yet to unlock your Semblance. Only Ryu, Kratos and possibly Miss Nikos are currently any threat to Salem's forces. And surely, they'll have their own Revived who can challenge you." Ozpin explained.

"We'll fix Jaune's Semblance issues in no time, sir. Don't worry." Pyrrha assured him.

"Indeed. He was close before Beacon fell. He should need only one last big push." Kratos agreed.

"And though Oscar can give me temporary control, he'll need to strengthen his body and his Aura." He explained.

(Wait, what?) Oscar asked mentally.

"He'll inherit my muscle memory in time, but practice will expedite the process." Ozpin added.

"But if Qrow's out looking for Huntsmen, then who's going to teach us?" Ruby asked.

Ozpin then propelled himself into the air with his cane, spinning counterclockwise into a barrel roll before landing onto the seat of the armchair, twirling his cane. "Well, I believe I was the headmaster of Beacon Academy." He declared as all of Team JNPR and Ruby had various, mostly impressed looks on their faces. Even Ryu and Kratos were rather impressed. "And as Revived, surely Ryu and Kratos have skills far beyond their years." Ozpin reminded as well.

"I was one of the top teachers in my old village." Ryu admitted.

"And I used to be the general of the mighty Spartan army." Kratos declared.

"Awesome! We'll be as skilled as full fledged Huntsmen by the time we fight Salem's forces." Jaune stated.

"And don't forget to train yourselves, Kratos, Ryu. For with enough training and careful focus and practice, you may very well regain all the abilities you once had in your previous lives. Perhaps not to the same level, but you will regain the abilities themselves." He told them.

"Our old power... inconceivable." Kratos said.

"I can't see that changing too much for me, but to you, Dante and Bayonetta, that could turn the tide of this entire battle." Ryu stated.

"We have approximately one month before classes resume at Haven. If Salem were to plan an attack, it would make sense that it would occur prior to students' return. It's not much time, but it's better than nothing. Between the three of us, I'm sure you'll reach heights you've only dreamed of." Ozpin told them, before he stopped twirling his cane. "Just don't expect me to go easy on you." He warned.

"It's true. You can't hold back. Your enemies won't." Ryu told them all.

Suddenly, Oscar glowed green and white again, Ozpin switching control back to Oscar. He had a hard time keeping his balance on the armchair before falling backwards. "You've gotta be kidding me." Oscar groaned as Qrow, Ruby, Ryu, Kratos and Team JNPR looked on with various expressions again.


Back at the bandit camp, the two bandits had fallen asleep. Dante and Weiss noticed this and the former demon went to work, taking Weiss' hair pick and silently picking the lock to their cage. He soon had it open. "Well, that's one problem dealt with, but we can't just leave, or attempt to fight them without our weapons." Weiss said.

"I know. I'll sneak around and try to get them back. You just stay here and don't do anything that could alert them." Dante told her.

"You? Sneak around?" Weiss asked, not buying it.

"Hey. I can be subtle when I have to. I picked up quite a few tricks from Ryu back at Beacon." Dante assured her, before making his way out and into the camp.

Weiss simply sat down, focusing and using her Semblance to create a small summoning Glyph. A small Arma Gigas appears in her hands, sword at the ready. Weiss smiles before nodding at it.


The next morning, the sound of a motorcycle was heard. Yang was riding Bumblebee with the Shady Man through a forest in Anima while Bayonetta was wrapped around Yang's neck in her snake form. "How much further, pal?" Yang questioned.

"This should just about do it." He assured her. Yang stopped her bike at a clearing. "You wait here. I'll go up ahead and make sure the coast is clear." He assured them before he dismounted from the bike and ran into the bushes.

Yang shook her head in annoyance and discarded her sunglasses, sleeve and coat tails before stretching a little.

Suddenly, someone pulled the trigger of a gun and Yang blocked the shot with her arm. The Shady Man reappeared with several bandits in tow. "I can't believe you were dumb enough to let me lead you here." The man taunted as the bandits presented all have their weapons drawn at the sisters.

"Is this everyone?" Yang asked.

Bayonetta quickly counted them. "Seven in total. Shame, that means one of us gets one more than the other. Oh well. Still, I don't know if they're idiots, or just too confident in their abilities. I'm going for the former." Bayonetta said.

The man growled at this. "Oh, it's more than enough, sweet cheeks! And even if it's not, we got plenty more guys back at camp!" He said as he gestured behind him with his thumb.

Yang pointed a finger in the same direction. "That way?" She asked.

The man grunted in confusion and looked at his tribe mates first. "Yes. That way." He confirmed.

"Good to know. Thanks." Yang said as they prepared to move on.

"Well, then. I believe we're done here, then. Have a nice life." Bayonetta said.

The man shook off his initial disbelief and put on a serious face. "We ain't done here yet! Now to pay me back for my back and tooth, we're going to take your bike. And you're going to take your lumps." He said as he punched his fist. Yang engaged Ember Celica on her left arm as Bayonetta hooked two of her pistols to her feet. The bandits got cautious and kept their weapons trained on them. The Shady man aimed his gun at them. "You got the jump on me last time, sweetheart. But the two of you really ought to think twice about fighting all—" He began, but was cut off when Yang engaged the gun on her robotic arm and Bayonetta drew her guns . The rest of the bandits gasped. "Alright... Get them!" He ordered.

The bandits attacked, Bayonetta jumped onto Yang's shoulders, then into the air to shoot at the ones with guns, before pulling out Kulshedra and wrapping it around the girl with a rifle, reeling herself in and slamming down on the girl's chest, feet-first, before spinning and standing on her left leg, extending the right one and firing more rounds at the other gun-wielding bandits, shooting the guns out of their hands and doing a triple handspring towards them, pushing off one last time when she was in range and delivering a helicopter kick.

As this happened, Yang had blocked a kick from the first bandit that came at her with one of her own, sweeping him and punching him in the stomach to take him out. Another came at her, but she did a similar handspring to Bayonetta and knocked his arm back with a kick as she was mid-rotation, spinning herself with Ember Celica and backhanding his leg as she crouched to take him off-balance, before leaping up and spinning to knock his machete away, before knocking him back with a kick. Another girl came up to her with a machete, but Yang dodged her attack and punched her back, before turning and countering another thug's machete, punching him back as well.

The Shady Man tried to strike at Yang with the knife part of his knife/brass-knuckle/revolver, but Bayonetta wrapped Kulshedra around his hand and pulled back, causing him to look back at her. She then wagged her finger at him. "Uh, uh, uh~" She teased, before pulling him towards her. After that, she quickly did one more handspring to launch herself, feet-first at the bandit, wrapping her legs around his neck and throwing him into a tree with a devastating hurricanrana. She stood up and discovered after she did this, Yang had take out all the remaining bandits.

After the fight, Yang's left hand was shaking once again, but she calmed herself down. Bayonetta put a hand on her sister's shoulder. "It's alright, Yang. It's over." Bayonetta told her.

"Yeah... Thanks." Yang said, before they walked back to her motorcycle.

The shady man coughed as he struggled to get up. "Who are you? It doesn't even matter. When Raven finds out what you did, you're dead!" He shouted at them.

"Possibly. But I doubt it. We are her daughters, after all." Yang explained.

He went wide-eyed at this. "I'm dead." The Shady Man said as he fell to the ground.


Oscar and Ruby were training hand-to-hand combat whilst Team JNPR, Ryu and Kratos were looking on. "Man, Oz wasn't kidding. Oscar's picking up on this stuff fast." Jaune noted.

"Indeed. Professor Ozpin was always known as a prodigy. And if he's been a warrior in every lifetime, the level of skill Oscar can collectively gain from them is immeasurable." Pyrrha added

Oscar hit Ruby straight in her face. Ruby recoiled from the blow and looked visibly angry. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" He apologized, before Ruby hit Oscar back and he landed a few feet away on ground as Jaune and Nora winced.

"Although, he still has to learn not to let his guard down." Ryu stated

"And not to show sympathy towards his enemy. They will not feel for him." Kratos agreed

"Ha! Yes! I did it!" Ruby cheered for herself. But her brief moment of cheering was replaced with concern as she looked back. "Oscar?" She asked.

(You forgot to engage your Aura, again.) Ozpin mentally chastised Oscar.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Oscar questioned.

(Because this method makes you less likely to forget.) Ozpin mentally explained as Oscar groaned and got to his feet.

(Mind if I give it a shot?) Ozpin asked mentally, before Oscar stiffened briefly while his eyes glowed in a yellow light. "Not bad, Miss Rose. But Oscar doesn't have the years of training that you do. Or I do." Ozpin now vocally declared, before Oscar's body shimmered green as Ozpin engaged their Aura.

Everyone else realized what Ruby was in for. "Ozpin, that's hardly fair." Ryu told the former Headmaster as Oscar determinedly approached Ruby.

"That definitely feels like cheating, old man." Kratos said.

"Oh, ha, well, maybe we should uh... take a break." Ruby staid

Ozpin attacked Ruby with a few punched aimed at her head, forcing her onto the defensive until he landed a blow to her face which knocked her back several feet. Ozpin closed the gap with a leap and kicked her in the face. Ruby leapt at Ozpin to throw a left cross which Ozpin evaded by ducking and retaliates with a headbutt from below.

Jaune and Nora winced from this. "Ouch."

"That felt just a bit abusive..." Ryu said suspiciously.

"Clearly retaliation for Oscar's defeat." Kratos agreed.

"The next time you want to throw a left cross, remember to push off with the appropriate foot. And as always, do be aware of any openings." Ozpin advised.

"Gooooot it." Ruby gave strained answer as she sat up.

Ozpin relinquished his control and Oscar fell to the ground, panting. "Oh! Hey. Are you okay?"

"How is this so exhausting?" Oscar asked.

"Your body isn't used to this kind of training, not to mention generating a defensive Aura on your own. It takes intense concentration at first, but in time it will become second nature, allowing you to deflect attacks and gradually heal your wounds. After that, you can begin focusing on your Semblance, whatever that may be." Ren explained.

"Semblance?" Oscar asked.

"You know! Like your very own superpower! Everybody's got one. It's just a matter of finding it and mastering it. Ruby moves super fast, Electricity makes me stronger, Ren can mask emotions, Ryu can shoot energy based on what Dust he has on hand and Jaune... can, uh, um. Hmm." Nor explained, falling apart at the end.

"I can't do anyth—" Jaune began.

"Jaune's like you!" Ruby declared as she took Oscar by the hand and lead him over to Jaune. "He hasn't found his Semblance yet, but we all know he will. And you will, too. We all just have to try and help each other get stronger." She explained.

"Cool." Oscar said.

Kratos spoke up at this moment as well. "But never forget, your semblance is a tool, like anything else in your arsenal. Use it when you need it, but do not allow yourself to become reliant upon it." He told them all.

"Wise words, brother." Pyrrha told him.

"A common philosophy is that a warrior's Semblance is a part of who they are. Some say your personality and character can define your Semblance while some claim that it is the other way around. Of course, there are still many who don't see a connection at all." Ren explained.

"It's hard to know when you know sometimes. Ren's Semblance was unlocked from intense stress." Nora explained.

"And mine kicked in during training one day." Ruby gave her story.

"As a Revived, I've had mine for as long as I could remember. I basically started with them." Ryu told them. Kratos nodded at this.

"And what about you?" Oscar asked Nora.

"Oh. Struck by lightning. Didn't die. Craaaazy Thursday." She declared.

"I just don't understand what's wrong with me. I train. I meditate." Jaune explained.

"I know you're close, Jaune. We were about to discover your semblance any day when you, Kratos and I all trained together. I'm sure we'll figure it out soon enough now that we're together again." Pyrrha told him.

Oscar's eyes glowed momentarily as Ozpin took control of his body again. "Don't worry, Mr. Arc. Your journey is far from over. And the same might be said for all of you. Unlocking your Semblance isn't the end. It can still grow and evolve. Providing you're willing to put in the work, who knows what could happen." Ozpin told them all.

"He's right. with the proper determination and keeping your mind, body and skills sharp, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. That way of thinking has served me well in this world and the last." Ryu agreed.

"It is only your mind that limits you. A warrior's true potential has no limit." Kratos finished.

Ruby smiled at this. "Then let's get back to it." She declared.


Yang and Bayonetta finally entered the camp, escorted by a few bruised bandits who they had roughed up earlier. They noticed more bandits lining up along the path, giving angry glares at them. Vernal stepped out of her tent to see what the commotion was about. The two bandits guarding Weiss and Dante were playing cards with each other, before joining the rest of their tribe to see the twins walk in. "Well, well. Something big must be going down. Want me to go take a look? I'll see if I can get Myrtenaster back for you." Dante said.

"No. If something is going on, they'll all be on high alert. Whatever our next move is, we do it together." Weiss insisted.

Yang, Bayonetta and their escorts arrive at the camp's main tent. Raven emerged from it with her mask on. "Mom." Yang greeted.

Raven removed her mask. "Yang. Cereza." She greeted them, smiling.

"Bayonetta." The former Umbra Witch corrected.

"I gave you your name. The least you could do is use it." Raven told her.

"That's precisely why I don't use it." Bayonetta countered.

Raven rolled her eyes, deciding to ignore the jab. "So, after all this time you finally decided to visit me." She said sassily.

"I decided against it, but Yang was driving." Bayonetta told her.

Yang felt her left hand shaking once again, but she uses her robotic hand to calm it down. Bayonetta also put a reassuring hand on her sister's shoulder. Yang nodded to her twin and looked back to their mother. You know that I searched for you. I spent years looking for you." Yang told her.

"Far more time than deserves to be wasted on you, I might add." Bayonetta added.

Raven growled a bit at this, but smirked once again. "And you've found me. You were patient, determined, and strong enough to make your dream a reality. Well done, Yang. And Cereza, you were just as strong and your skill let you push through any obstacle. But did you have to be so rough with my men?" She continued to somehow both praise and sass her daughters.

"We didn't want a fight. They started it." Yang explained.

"Well, you certainly finished it." Raven stated. Silence.

Bayonetta had enough. "I was thinking of finishing them, but your forces seem pathetic enough, I'm sure they need all the numbers they have. It looks like the only successful warriors you've produced are us. But you had nothing to do with where we got our skills from!" She snapped.

Raven's eyes narrowed at this. "What then? You came to injure my men and insult me?" She demanded,

Yang put her arm out in front of Bayonetta to get her to stop as well as Raven. "We're not here for you. Ruby is somewhere in Mistral. She's with Qrow and she's going to need our help. We just need you to take us to her." Yang explained.

"And why would I do that?" Raven questioned.

"Because we're family." Yang told her, to which Bayonetta scoffed.

Raven scowled, and muttered. "Family. Only coming around when they need something." She mumbled, before she started projecting again. "I have to say, I'm disappointed. After all, you found me, didn't you? Why not take that drive and use it to find your little sister if she means that much to you?" She questioned.

"Because you're going to save me time. Ruby was heading to Mistral, but there's no guarantee she's made it there. Looking for her in Anima could take ages. But... Dad told me how your Semblance works." Yang explained.

"Tai..." Raven sighed under her breath.

"You can bond to certain people. And when you do, you could create a portal that takes you straight to them. You've got one for Dad. One for me and Bayonetta. And you've got one for Qrow. He promised us he'd watch out for Ruby before he left. And I trust him. So, make a portal to our uncle and sister and we'll be on our way." Yang told her.

"You know, it takes real strength to march in here and demand such a favor of me. I've got to say, I'm impressed. It's very noble to want to help out your sister. But if she's with Qrow, then she's already a lost cause." Raven declared.

"The only lost cause is you. You abandoned everyone who cared about you to hide out here with a bunch of criminal freaks instead of doing what's right. We'll find Ruby one way or the other, but depending on which way this goes down, you can save yourself some embarrassment. Either do the honorable thing and send us to uncle Qrow to do something nice for your daughters for once in your life, or I can kick your ass in front of all your bandits and we'll find them ourselves." Bayonetta ordered as she took the guns off the back of her feet, replacing her footwear with her Odette ice skates.

"Bayonetta, quit it! We need her help! She's not gonna give it this way!" Yang warned her. Bayonetta simply scoffed at this.

"Are you forgetting I saved both of your lives?!" Raven demanded.

"That's what someone would expect from their parents, it's the least you can do. And you mentioned how you'd only give that courtesy once. That's the minimum you could have done. This is doing something right for once. I know you're not used to it, but it would be very helpful." Bayonetta said.

Raven finally lost her patience. "Enough! If you really think you can talk to me like that, you're sorely mistaken! But, I suppose as you're mother, that's on me. Tai probably never disciplined you girls. So, I'll have to do it myself!" Raven snapped, rushing at Bayonetta, who pushed Yang aside, drew Shuraba and locked blades with her mother.

Background Music: "Daughters of Darkness" by Halestorm (Nightcore version)

Mother and daughter locked blades against each other, attempting to force the other back. Despite the fact Bayonetta was a Revived, it didn't change the fact she was half Raven's age, so her mother had the strength advantage and was indeed forcing Bayonetta back a bit. However, Bayonetta thought quickly and pushed back as much as she could, before back-flipping and creating an ice spike that hit Raven in the chest and knocked her back. Bayonetta then sliced the spike horizontally in half and kicked the top part at Raven, who cut it in half, but was caught off-guard by Bayonetta being right behind it and kicking her in the head.

"Mom, Bayonetta, stop!" Yang shouted.

"She's attacking our leader! Get her!" One of the bandits snapped as they all charged in. Yang growled at this, but as much as she was against Bayonetta's current actions, she couldn't let the bandits gang up on her sister, so she rushed in and started beating them away. She delivered a sweep kick to one bandit and then a side kick to send him into a large group of other bandits, grabbing another's leg as she threw a kick at her and spinning around, using her like a bat to knock away any nearby demons, before holding her behind her head and throwing her off. She then turned as she heard what she assumed was a knife or something being thrown at her, but she was shocked to see it was a guy actually hurtling through the air, curled up in a ball. She was caught off-guard, so all she could do was block this, causing her to take a huge step back.

Kano popped out of the ball at this and smirked. "Well, you really are your mum's daughter. But let's see just how far that gets ya." He said, rushing at her.

Back with Bayonetta and Raven, the two were fairly even matched before Raven hit Bayonetta with a powerful strike that, while she blocked it, still sent he skidding back several feet, before Raven stabbed her sword blade into the ground, currently a blade of ice, before slicing forward, sending a wave of ice spikes at Bayonetta, who broke down into a swarm of bats, weaving around the ice spikes and reforming in front of Raven, smashing the butt of her sword into Raven's face, knocking her to the ground. Bayonetta prepared to come down on Raven with a devastating split stomp (think Chun-Li's Hazanshu). Raven didn't have enough time in this form to block or parry, so she quickly, though begrudgingly, entered her bird form in order to avoid her child's attacks. Bayonetta transformed into a panther and leapt at the bird that was her mother, attempting to bat her back to the ground, but Raven managed to avoid this, forcing Bayonetta to also become a bird and grapple with her mother in mid-air, their wings flapping furiously as they tumbled through the air together, claws locked.

Yang blocked one of Kano's attacks and pushed him back, before seeing what was happening with her sister and mother. "What!?" She cried out in shock. She know of Bayonetta's crazy abilities, but she had no idea her mother could do that as well.

However, her distraction cost her as she was blasted in the chest by Kano's eye laser. "Hey, hey. Don't take your eyes of the prize, Sheila." He told her. Yang growled at this before launching herself at Kano, throwing an aerial round kick at his head, which he ducked under, before she kicked him in the chest with a rear kick for her other leg, landing and turning towards him, holding her robotic arm out and launching it towards him, sending it rocketing at his face, knocking him down and causing his aura to flicker with the mighty punch as she caught the arm as it flew back towards her.

Back with the birds, mother and daughter continued to wrestle in mid-air in their aviary forms, before finally returning to human forms, with Raven holding Bayonetta by the lapels. However, once again, Bayonetta managed to escape as a flock of bats, flying higher into the air, before descending on her mother with a diving kick, sending her flying down to the ground and crashing into a very specific and important tent.

End Music

As Raven crashed through the tent, Dante and Weiss' cage was revealed, allowing the two groups to see each other. "Yang?" Weiss cried out.

"Weiss?" Yang questioned, shocked as the heiress.

"Bayonetta!" Dante called out, more happy than shocked.

The same could not be said for the former Umbra Witch, however. "Dante?!" She asked, shocked, before glaring at her mother. "Why are they in a cage?!" She demanded.

Everyone else present was surprised that the four of them knew each other.

"Alright, well, subtlety is out." Weiss said.

"A shame. I only got back about half my weapons, but at least they were the good ones." Dante said, readying his a new weapon he had started before Beacon, but never finished. But he had worked on it since coming home and was now ready to fight off the bandits with Cavaliere, a motorcycle that splits into a pair of saws. Weiss turned to her miniature Arma Gigas and made it grow, destroying the cage in the process. They quickly made her way towards Yang, with the now giant Arma Gigas following close behind.

"What is that?" Yang asked.

"My dear sister finally got her summoning to work right. So, not that this reunion isn't lovely, but what are you to doing here?" Dante asked.

"We were here to have Mommy dearest send us to Ruby, but now I'm more interested in busting a cap in her old ass." Bayonetta said, aiming her guns at her mother as she stood up from the tent.

"Ugh." Ravens scoffed.

"Your mom kidnapped us?!" Weiss asked incredulously.

"You kidnapped them?!" Yang demanded.

"You just keep adding to the reasons why you're never getting a mother's day present." Bayonetta told Raven.

Yang, Dante, Weiss and Weiss' summon turn and run to fight the bandits while Bayonetta prepared to rush her mother once more, but a lightning bolt appeared in between mother and daughter, summoned by Vernal, stopping the fight before it started.

"Enough!" Vernal shouted, an echo following her voice.

"Thank you." Raven said gratefully to Vernal. She then turned back. "You truly have a talent for trying people's patience. If this had continued any longer, this whole place would be crawling with Grimm." She snapped, before looking around. "Everyone give the Schnee's their weapons." She ordered.

Vernal looked surprised at the command, then tossed Myrtenaster to Weiss. The other bandits were reluctant, but stepped forward and returned the few weapons Dante had yet to steal back. Kano stepped forward and growled, before handing Dante back Artemis. "There's that Mistral hospitality I've been looking forward to." He said.

"You four. In my tent. Now." Raven ordered once more.

"Why?" Yang questioned.

"If you're really going after your sister, then you need to know the truth." Raven explained as she entered her tent and the bandits went back to their own businesses.

Weiss placed her hand on her chest in relief. "Sorry about-" Yang began. Suddenly, Weiss drops Myrtenaster and strongly hugged Yang.

"I missed you so much." Weiss said, shedding some tears.

"I've missed you, too." Yang said and put her hand on the back of Weiss' head and hugged back as her summon disappeared.

Dante and Bayonetta smiled at seeing half of team RWBY reunite and they're sisters being truly happy for a long time in a while, before turning to each other. "I almost thought I'd never see you again." Bayonetta said.

"No force on Remnant could keep us apart for long." Dante told her as they kissed and held each other close. The four of them remained embraced before everything went black.