Hey guys, it's been a pretty rough time for me lately. I'll be quitting my job soon, which will relieve a whole lot of stress for me. It was a nice first job, but the novelty's worn off, leaving me pretty bitter. On the plus side, I'll be going back to college to study electrical engineering, a field where I will probably be appreciated and paid more. Of course, even being associated with my company is probably a black mark on any resume I make, but hopefully they'll see that I was just one of the regular workers, and not involved with the huge scandal they were involved with.

As for more positive news, how many of you guys watch Star Wars Rebels? The trailer for Season 3 was released not too long ago, and my god, it's gonna be amazing. I mean, the season 2 finale was incredible, but this season has all sorts of cool things. Wedge Antilles, who was one of the main pilots in the original trilogy, will be joining the crew, and that will probably give us hints about Rouge One... maybe. Also, there's a lot more Mandalorian segments, including the early concept Mandalorian Stormtroopers from the original trilogy. But the one thing that has Star Wars fans in a frothing frenzy, myself included, is the introduction of the most iconic villain from the Expanded Universe:

Grand. Admiral. THRAWN!

I mean, I was not happy at all when Disney cut out the EU from the canon, so when I saw that Chiss commander on screen, I nearly broke down in joyful tears. I mean, it's obvious that I like him a lot (I mean, look at my username, lol). Even better, Timothy Zahn, the author of the first books of the Expanded Universe (The THRAWN Trilogy), is going to be releasing a new book next year which explains his role in the new universe. For those who don't know who Thrawn is, he's the only nonhuman of the Imperial forces to ever be awarded the rank of Grand Admiral. He's a cunning strategist who can find weaknesses in a person or species' by studying their art. That's right, their ART. I mean, how badass is that?

Wow, I talked about Thrawn a lot. I'd better get to the chapter before you guys get bored. I don't own RWBY or Sonic. Enjoy!

Beacon Academy, Tornado X workshop, 10:05 a.m.

"Wow… you guys sure had a heck of a time," said Jaune as the moon team finished telling everyone else what happened. "I don't think I could have lasted past the launch."

Sonic nodded. "Yeah, but we should really thank Koki and Amara. Their timing could not have been better." The hedgehog shuddered at the memory, which was the closest he came to dying since saving the Wisps from Eggman's theme park- or more accurately, the explosion that they saved him from.

"I attached a gift card with Ironwood's paycheck to them," said Ruby, swinging her legs under her chair. "By the way, Weiss owes me a few hundred Lien since she couldn't pay for it."

"My card was declined," the heiress said stiffly. "I don't want to talk about it."

A loud gasp drew everyone's attention as Nora pointed a finger at Yang. "Blondie, I hope you remember your promise about getting me a moon rock!" she declared.

Yang grinned and reached into her pouch, pulling out a hand-sized rock and tossing it to the hammer wielder. "Here ya go. That's probably the one rock that wasn't confiscated by the Atlas scientists when we got back."

"I don't even want to know how you managed to hide that," muttered Shadow.

Nora beamed and put the rock in her pouch. "Thank you~"

"Now that you're all safe and sound, maybe now we can talk about that bomb that was on the ship?" asked Blaze, clinging to Silver tightly. The cat had clung to him ever since he came back and learned about the explosive that increased the debris field of Remnant's moon.

Aeromi's image appeared on a nearby holoprojector. "Post-mission analysis indicates that the cameras were tampered with the night before launch. There's a ten minute period where looped footage of blank hallways were played. Unfortunately, whoever did it erased the original footage completely. Even with my processing power, I can't recreate it."

Ren put a hand to his chin in thought. "I'll go ahead and ask the big question on everyone's mind- Could Eggman be the one who did it?"

"Negative. An approach like that is not part of Eggman's M.O. His methods include explosions,wasteful boasting, and proclamations of doom," answered Omega. "Clearly, this was caused by someone like Rouge."

"How did someone get into the ship during that time, anyways?" asked Pyrrha, her hand in Jaune's. "Wasn't Tails in the Ogygia when all of this happened? Not to mention out of all of us in the room who could detect an intruder, Aeromi's probably the best person to do so."

The A.I. turned her head to the warrior with a smile. "First of all, thank you for thinking of me as a person, not just a program. Second, I was unfortunately offline for an hour for system maintenance and upgrades, so I didn't see or hear anything."

"I thought I would take a nap while waiting for the upgrades, so I was asleep at the time," admitted Tails, his head lowered in embarrassment and shame. "I'm sorry guys… It's my fault…"

Shadow, who was employed at a place where someone could be arrested for similar acts of dereliction of duty, did something no one expected. "You were able to discover it before it left us stranded on the moon surrounded by Arachnids. I'd say you made up for it in full." The black hedgehog gave an encouraging smile, showing that there was nothing to be sorry about.

"Well, isn't this a pleasant sight?" said a voice from behind the Tornado X, the owner revealing his presence to the gathered beings. This was the same traveler who had a drink at the bar on the coast the night before, and if his clothes were anything to go by, he still hadn't gotten himself cleaned up. Teams RWBY and JNPR, as well as the Mobians, immediately lifted their weapons to face the intruder.

Except two of the humans.

"UNCLE QROW!" Ruby shouted, launching herself at the man. He somehow caught her as she clung to his arm. "I missed you so much!"

Yang was a little more contained as she ran up and gave him a hug. "Stand down guys. He's no enemy, except to the Grimm."

"Wait… who are you?" asked Sonic, putting away his swords. Everyone else followed his lead, though Omega was still pointing something at him.

The man ruffled Ruby's hair before face the hedgehog. "Name's Qrow. I taught these girls everything they know. At least, before they started coming here," he said with a grin. "I'm also Ruby and Yang's uncle."

"This human's Blood Alcohol Content is .80%," stated Omega, sounding bewildered despite his monotone voice. "Error. Does not seem physically possible."

"So what if I like to drink?" Qrow grumbled, reaching into a flask from his shirt and drinking some unidentifiable liquid, most likely more booze. "There's nothing wrong with that."

"There is if your blood has more alcohol content than a light beer," muttered Shadow.

Qrow ignored the comment as he studied the otherworldly beings. "So you're the aliens I've heard about…. You're shorter than I thought you'd be."

"What does that have to do with anything?" asked Amy indignantly.

"Absolutely nothing. I know for a fact that even the smallest person can be the most dangerous given the right circumstances. Case in point, the girl on my arm," he said, pointing at Ruby.

"Does that make Zwei Exhibit B?" asked Knuckles, who was holding the corgi. The dog barked an affirmative, making everyone chuckle in amusement.

"All that being said, I do have a few issues with you… Mobians. You sure messed up by bringing that mad doctor with you."

Sonic narrowed his eyes, fingers tightening on Cobalt Shard's handle. "What was that?" he managed to say through his teeth, fighting back his anger.

"Technically, Eggman brought them," said Ruby, letting go of his arm. "But what's your point?"

"My point is that a megalomaniac running around causing panic is the last thing that we need," said Qrow as he leaned against a pillar. "The Creatures of Grimm are naturally attracted to negative emotions. So whenever that Eggman decides to go on a rampage- which I'm guessing he will if your expressions are anything to go by- you'll end up fighting on two fronts as the civilians panic. Unless you can find a way to make this big fight an even bigger secret, Eggman will be the last thing you should worry about."

"So what, we're supposed to try and find out where he is and bring the fight to him?" asked Silver sarcastically, then he put a hand to his chin in thought. "Actually… that doesn't sound like a half-bad idea."

"You're right… except we have no idea where he is. All we know is that he's allied himself with the White Fang and Roman Torchwick," Blake pointed out.

"Hold on, didn't that Tali girl infiltrate their ranks? Why don't we just ask her?" Jaune suggested.

"Wait, so someone was able to infiltrate the most elusive terrorist organization in the world?" scoffed Qrow, narrowing his eyes in suspicion. "How the heck did she pull that off? And can she be trusted at all?"

"Easy questions to answer. One, she disguised herself as a disgruntled and revenge-seeking Faunus," answered Aeromi. "And two, she's part of an organization called The Company. She's currently engaged to the captain of their base of operations, the Normandy."

"Oh, those guys?" the Huntsman asked, his expression brightening somewhat. "They actually saved me once. Pretty fancy ship, though it doesn't look like it on the outside. Then again, that was the point."

"Wait, you needed saving at one point?" asked Ruby, poking his cheek.

He swatted her hand away. "Hey, get off my back, Red. Even I can't handle a stampede of raging Goliaths." He got up from the pillar, ruffling Ruby's hair. "Now before you guys go off to see them, I gotta meet up with Ozpin. Catch ya later, kiddo." With that, Ruby's uncle left the room for his unknown errand.

"So he couldn't stand up to a herd of Goliaths?" asked Nora. "Isn't he a badass Huntsman? I bet I could have taken them with my thunder thighs!"

"Isn't that a derogatory term?" asked Aeromi with an amused smile.

In response, Nora stood up and squatted down in a sumo pose. She then lifted one foot off the ground and holding it up for a few seconds before slamming it back down. The resulting boom could have been heard all the way from Vale. Nora smirked at the AI's shocked expression, which pretty much mirrored everyone else's. "You tell me!"

Mountain Glenn, Eggman's Backup Facility

When Eggman first joined up with these native villains, he viewed the Creatures of Grimm as a convenient power source, not unlike the small animals of Mobius, the organic fragments of Dark Gaia, and even the Wisps. But as he typed his findings into his journal, he couldn't help but wonder if he had bitten off more than he could chew. Sure, they were infinite in number, but when one of the energy sources was a 20-foot tall Nevermore, the logistics of using it became as much a nightmare as the creature itself was to most of the world. Remnant's Most Wanted criminal wasn't exactly helping matters, either.

"Hey Doc, what are these squiggly lines for?" Roman Torchwick asked, studying a sheet of paper coming out of a machine. He had entered the room half an hour earlier and kept asking questions about the various sensors and gadgets laying around. It was hard to tell if he was looking for something or just snooping around.

The would-be tyrant glanced his direction. "That's just a Richter scale. It detects changes in the planet's geology and displays them on that paper. The lines indicate earthquakes and intensity levels." He ripped off the sheet and studied it closely. "Hm… A 2.0 level earthquake at Beacon Academy?"

"I'm sure it's just one of the brats showing off. I swear, these kids just keep getting weirder…"

"How could human adolescents do such a thing?" asked Orbot, who was keeping an eye on Torchwick. Cubot was currently getting a system update that would hopefully fix his voice chip, so he was offline for the moment.

Roman shrugged. "I don't know, how can there be world full of talking animals who have abilities similar to Semblances?"

"Hm…" Orbot hummed and scratched his head in thought. "You do have a fair point."

Eggman turned back to his desk. "Well, it doesn't matter. Soon, my factory will finish replenishing the Dark Pawn army, and my ultimate creation will be complete!"

Before Eggman could begin his maniacal laughter, the door to the lab slid open. "And how soon is soon, dear doctor?" said Cinder, her ankle bracelet clinking as she stepped in. "With your main adversary gone, I'm surprised you haven't proclaimed your rule of Remnant already."

Eggman slowly turned to face her, his expression unreadable. "I wouldn't underestimate that hedgehog, he has more lives than I care to count." He then slammed a button on his desk, a TV screen turning on and showing drone footage of the Ogygia landing at Beacon, safe and sound, and definitely not blown up. "What the hell happened?! The ship barely has any burn marks!"

There was a brief flicker of surprise as she watched the mixed crew of Mobians and humans walking out of the ship. "So… they're more resilient than I thought…"

"So even the great and mighty Cinder Fall couldn't beat Sonic?" Eggman taunted her.

The woman glared at him, and Roman was very surprised that there wasn't an Eggman-shaped pile of ash right after he said that. "There was an unexpected variable… An artificial intelligence program that was inserted into the ship before takeoff. It must have detected the explosive."

"An AI?" Eggman asked sharply, leaning forward on his desk. "How advanced was it?"

"Very… It could engage in conversation with the orange fox, as well as offer opinions. She was actually more human than some people I know," she admitted.

Eggman froze up as he listened to her. "Wait a minute… 'She'?"

"The one who actually placed the bomb in the ship mentioned a female voice. She couldn't sabotage her with the ship since that would have immediately raised an alarm. After all, we did want the launch to be successful."

Eggman began typing furiously on his keyboard. "There was a female program who was helping those rats in Remnant's digital network. It must be the same one," he growled, furious that something managed to outsmart him. The fact that she was an AI who could think hundreds of times faster than he could was irrelevant.

"Doctor, how are you going to deal with the AI? It poses as much a threat to our plans as Sonic, possibly even more," asked Orbot, rolling to Eggman's side and looking up at the screen.

Eggman looked down at him, a furious expression on his face. "Find out where its main storage unit is, isolate it so it can't jump between devices, and delete that program." The doctor put up a security feed of Beacon Academy's workshop. The footage showed the hologram of Aeromi flash from a table projector to the Tornado X. "Permanently," he finished, his mouth twisting upward into an evil grin.

I just couldn't resist putting in a RWBY Chibi reference, there really hasn't been much of those in this story yet. ;)

We are approaching the end... but I predict that I may end up going to 100 chapters at this rate. I'm quite surprised at how well this story has been received, though I'm sure that it isn't the best Sonic/RWBY crossover on this site... anymore. Thanks for reading, and leave a review if you liked it or had questions! Also, if you want to make sure you know when the next chapter is posted, don't be afraid to follow the story.