A/N: I just re-read this story and asked myself why I never finished it, so I checked what I already had written, and decided to just go ahead and post that.

Maria placed her hands on either side of Nora's head, mumbling the word; "Wake." The ginger suddenly leapt from her sleep, shoving away the Guardians and taking a few stumbled steps away from them.

She turned back and saw her hosts each pointing their weapons of choice at her, "Who the hell are you guys?" She suddenly asked.

There was a rather sudden cut to them all sitting around, talking as Nora slowly ate away at a bowl of soup.

"The entire time I knew Salem," Raven began, "she only ever had one goal: to bring balance to the universe by wiping out half of all life. She used to kill people planet by planet, massacre by massacre…"

"Including my own," Ironwood solemnly added.

"If she gets all six Infinity Stones, she can do it with the snap of her fingers." Raven added.

"You seem to know a great deal about Salem." Nora quietly noted.

"Raven…" Ironwood said, "is the daughter of Salem."

"Your mother killed my brother." Nora said, springing to her feet and angrily striding over to Raven.

"She's screwed!" Jaume exclaimed.

"Not necessarily," Ren quickly added, "if she plays dead she might have a chance."

"None shall escape my wrath!" Nora shouted.

"None but those who play dead." Oscar quietly added under his breath.

"THE FUCK DID YOU SAY TO ME, YOU LITTLE SHIT?!" Nora leapt across the room and throttled the boy, quickly finding herself placed back in her seat. She tried lunging at the boy a few more times, but after about three hundred tries, she realized it was futile and gave up.

Taiyang stepped between them, trying desperately to defuse the situation.

"Oh, boy," Taiyang frantically said, "stepmother, technically, she hates her as much as you do." Nora softened a bit and clapped her hand on Raven's shoulder.

"Families can be tough." Nora said, "Before my father died, he told me I had a half-sister...that he imprisoned in Hel. Then she returned home, and stabbed me in the eye, so... I had to kill her. It's life, isn't it, I guess. Goes round and round and... I feel your pain."

"Excuse me, what?!" Ruby loudly asked.

Taiyang suddenly pushed his way between the two.

"And I feel your pain, as well." Tai cut in, "I mean it's not a competition, but I've been through a lot. My father killed my mother, then I had to kill my father. And that was hard. Probably even harder than having to kill a sister. Plus, I, came out of it with both of my eyes-!" Nora was not paying the blonde man the least bit of attention, instead looking intensely at her soup spoon.

"Are they seriously arguing over who has the more tragic backstory right now?" Blake incredulously asked.

"Seems so." Yang nonchalantly said.

"No further questions, your honor."

"I need a hammer, not a spoon." She mumbled to herself. She suddenly walked over to a panel and began pointlessly fiddling with the controls. "How do I open this thing?" She asked, "Is there some sort of a four-digit code maybe… Maybe a birth date or something…?"

"What are you doing?" Tai asked.

"Taking your pod." Nora nonchalantly told him.

"No, you're not!" Tai indignantly yelled at her.

"Yeah."

"No!"

"Yeah!"

"No!"

"Why is Dad so… immature?" Ruby asked.

"You know that's exactly how he acted before you two crotch goblins were born, right?" Qrow said.

"I'm sorry; what 'goblins'?" Weiss asked.

"Apology accepted." Qrow coldly said.

"Enough!" Raven suddenly yelled.

"He started it." Nora quietly told her.

"We need to stop Salem." Raven continued, "Which means we need to find out where she's going next."

"Knowhere."

"She must be going somewhere!" Maria noted.

"No. Knowhere? It's a place. We've been there. It sucks." Taiyang clarified as Nora began to dig through their belongings. "Excuse me? That's our food!"

"Not anymore." Nora quietly told him.

"Yup. That's Nora." Ruby deadpanned.

"Nora…" Raven said, "Why would She go to Knowhere?"

"Because for years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored, there with a man we call the Collector." Nora told her.

"If it's with the Collector," Tai said, "Then it's not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a stone."

"Or a genius." Nora simply said.

"How do you know she's not going for the other stones?" Raven asked.

"There's Six Stones out there." She said, "Salem already has the Power Stone because she stole it last week, when she decimated Xandar. She stole the Space Stone from me when she destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The Time and Mind Stones are safe on Remnant. They're with the Avengers."

"The Avengers?" Tai asked.

"They're Remnant's Mightiest Heroes." Nora said, By way of explanation.

"Like Spruce Willis?" Maria suddenly asked. This question seemed to momentarily confuse Nora, who briefly paused.

"I think Spruce Willis might be a bit old for the superhero gig." Jaune noted.

"Did you not see 'Unshattered'?" Ruby asked.

"No. Why?"

"Because that's what the whole thing was!"

"No, you're thinking of 'Birdguy' with that dude from 'Mister Mother'."

"No, no," Yang interjected, "Spruce Willis was in a superhero movie that W. Bam Shangalang made."

"Oh? Really? I thought that was Lucius—"

The conversation was abruptly brought to a halt when Ozpin began loudly slamming his head into his chair.

"He may be on the team. I don't know. Haven't been there in a while. As for the Soul Stone, well, no one's ever seen that. No one even knows where it is. Therefore, Salem can't get it. Therefore, she's going to Knowhere. Hence, she'll be getting the Reality Stone. You're welcome."

"Then we have to go to Knowhere now." Raven told Nora.

"Wrong." Nora said, "Where we have to go, is Nidavellir!"

Ruby almost screamed in excitement.

"What's Nidavellir?" Jaune asked.

"Only the most legendary weapon forge ever!" Ruby said, "It was where the Norse gods made their weapons!"

"That's a made up word!" Ironwood told Nora.

"All words are made up." Nora simply said.

"I'm not in the right mental state for an existential crisis right now." Jaune said, as Ruby curled up in a ball in her seat.

"All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle…" she quietly muttered, repeating the same phrase over and over again.

Qrow suddenly scurried his furry raccoon body onto the table, "Hold up, Nidavellir is real? Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend." His voice was becoming increasingly gleeful, "They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the Universe. I would very much like to go there, please."

"The rabbit is correct, and clearly the smartest among you." Nora declared.

"Rabbit?" Qrow said, taking clear offense to this.

"Only Cordovin, The Dwarf Queen can make me the weapon I need." Nora said, before turning to Qrow. "I assume you are the captain, sir?"

"You're very perceptive." Qrow said, shooting a sly smile at Tai.

"You seem like a noble leader. Will you join me on my quest to Nidavellir?" Nora asked.

"Lemme just ask the captain. Oh, wait a second, it's me! Yeah, I'll go." Qrow said, taking a sadistic joy in bursting Taiyang's bubble.

"Wonderful." Nora said.

"Except for that I'm the captain." Taiyang tried to point out.

"Quiet!" Nora told him, grabbing a backpack off the wall.

"And that's my backpack."

"Go sit down." Qrow called back.

"Look!" Tai suddenly called, somehow getting them to stop. "This is my ship! I'm not going to…" he paused, looking for the name of the place, before changing his thought mid sentence, "Wait, what kind of weapon are we talking about here?"

"The killing kind, dipshit." Qrow said, briefly standing up to see that Ruby was still having a breakdown. "You good, kid?"

"Uncle Qrow; tell me I can leave the theater whenever I want."

"You can't. We're all trapped here."

"Right." She said, sitting up and suddenly acting completely normal again. "Forgot about that part."

"The Salem killing kind." Nora told him.

This answer did not seem to satisfy Tai, "Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?"

"No. You simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies will crumble as your minds collapse into the madness." Nora told him.

"Is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?" Audience Ruby said, in sync with Raccoon Qrow.

"Mmm," Nora quietly hummed, "a Little Bit, Yeah."

"If we don't go to Knowhere and Salem retrieves another stone, she'll be too powerful to stop." Raven protested.

"She already is." Nora simply said.

"I got it figured out." Qrow told them, "We got two ships, and a large assortment of morons. So me and Zwei will go with the pirate-angel here, and the morons will go to Knowhere to try and stop Salem. Cool? Cool."

"So cool." Nora said, smiling a big grin.

As Nora got loaded into the pod, Tai slowly approached Qrow, "For the record… I know that you're only going with her because it's where Salem isn't." He told Raccoon.

"You know, Tai," Qrow said, "you shouldn't talk that way to your captain, Tai." He quickly stepped into the driver's seat, just in front of Nora. "Come on, Zwei. Put that game down. You'll rot your brain."

"I bid you farewell and good luck, morons. Bye." Nora said, nodding farewell to the Guardians, as the pod departed.

"I'm going to exit every room with that now." Weiss said.

"Pecking order." Ruby simply said. Weiss loudly gulped.

"I apologize." She shakily said.

"What?" Jaume asked.

"Pecking order."

"What's the pecking order?"

"It goes you, the dirt, the worms inside the dirt, Ruby's stool, Ozpin, then Ruby." Ruby slowly explained, as though talking to a child. Jaune looked over at Team RWBY.

"Are you guys okay?" Ruby roughly grabbed his face.

"Don't look at them, look at me!" Behind her, he could see every member of her team shaking their heads.

[MYSTRAL]

Penny stood in front of a window, watching the outside calmly. The only difference between Penny in this and Penny as they knew her before, was the yellow Infinity stone in the center of her forehead.

A high pitched trilling suddenly sounds off, causing Penny to gasp and hold her hand to the stone in pain. Emerald suddenly leapt from the bed.

"Penny?" She asked, her voice laced with worry. "Is it the stone again?"

"It's as if its speaking to me." Penny told the green haired girl.

"What does it say?" Emerald asked.

"I don't… I don't know. But something." Penny told her. The stone suddenly trilled again, and Penny flinched in pain. Emerald took the ginger android's face in her hands. Penny turned to kiss Emerald's left palm, before lifting it up to touch the stone. "Tell me what you feel." Emerald swirled her hand, a red energy emanating from her fingertips, flowing into the stone.

"I just feel you." She told Penny.

There was an abrupt cut to later, when the two are out on a stroll.

"There's a 10AM To Haven, to give us more time together before you went back." Emerald told Penny.

"What if I miss that train?" She asked.

"There's an 11."

"What if I missed all the trains? What if this time, I didn't go back?" Penny asked.

"You gave Rose your word." Emerald said, sounding shocked.

"I'd rather give it to you."

"There are people who are expecting me too, you know. We both made promises." Emerald told her.

"Not to each other," Penny said, putting her hands on Emerald's shoulders. "Em… For two years, we've stolen these moments, trying to see if this could work. And... I don't know." The Android began to stammer and stumble over her words. "You know what, I'm just gonna speak for myself. - I, I... I think…"

"It works." Emerald smiled adoringly at Penny.

"Ope." Yang said, eyebrows raised. "Did not see that coming."

"Bad guys with cinnamon rolls is a popular trope." Blake explained.

"Bad guys are baking cinnamon rolls?!" Ruby and Nora asked at the same time.

Blake glanced over at the two, and without missing a beat or cracking a smile, she deadpanned; "Yes, but they're made of puppies." Nora collapsed, while Ruby said nothing, just calmly and slowly curled back up into a ball.

"All these squares make a circle…" she began again.

"It works." Penny repeated back. "Then stay with me." Emerald looked down, then back up, but her eyes and attention drift to her left. Penny suddenly became very uncertain, "Or not! If I'm overstepping…" Emerald walked right past Penny, pulling the ginger with her as she did so. Her eyes were glued to a TV in the shop behind them. It was a newscast, showing Watts and Hazel with the headline: "VALE ATTACKED", but soon switching back to the anchor. The headline had changed as well, now reading "RUBY ROSE MISSING". Beside the anchor was a picture of Ruby, wearing a pair of aviators and an expensive looking pantsuit. She had an uncharacteristically cocky look on her face that also somehow managed to look entirely neutral.

"What are they?" Emerald fearfully asked.

"What the stone was warning me about. I have to go." Penny said, beginning to slowly back away.

"No. No! Penny!" Emerald yelled back, "If that's true, then maybe going isn't the best idea.

"Emerald, I—!" Tyrian suddenly appeared behind Penny, jabbing a Glaive through her back. The android screamed in pain as she was thrown down.

"NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENED!" Ruby suddenly shouted, sitting up and scaring the life out of her friends. A few seconds passed after Ruby jumped up, then Yang half-heartedly shouted and punched Weiss in the face.

"Sorry, she scared me!" She excused herself, no one acknowledging the large space of time between Ruby's outburst and Yang's punch.

"Penny!" Emerald worriedly cried out. She circled her hands, gathering up her energy for a counter attack, but before she could, Cinder attacked her from behind, launching the green haired woman several yards, into the window of a nearby shop.

Meanwhile, Tyrian has Penny pinned down and was digging the tip of his Glaive into the stone, trying to extract it. But Emerald hits him with her own surprise attack, launching them both away and using her powers to lift both herself and Penny to a nearby courtyard, dragging the android to rest in a concealed alleyway.

"The blade," Penny panted, "it stopped me from phasing."

"Is that even possible?" Emerald asked.

"It isn't supposed to be." Penny told her. The android's voice suddenly distorted electronically. "My systems are failing." Emerald began to use her magical powers to quickly knit Penny back together. The ginger girl continued speaking, in a gasping, wry tone. "I'm beginning to think… we should have stayed in bed."

"How does… that work?" Qrow wondered aloud.

"Think about it for a minute." Maria said.

"Oh."

"Yeah."

Tyrian decided very suddenly to make his entrance then, shoving Emerald aside and grabbing Penny, lifting her up.

"Penny!" Emerald called, watching as Tyrian began to fly away with the girl, slamming her against several walls.

Meanwhile, Cinder engaged Emerald with her staff weapon and they too began to fight.

"Give up the stone and she lives." Tyrian threateningly told the stonekeeper. Penny flew the evil alien to the roof of what appeared to be a church, ricocheting off the steeple and onto the metal-clad roof.

Simultaneously, Emerald and Cinder fought down below. Staff weapon vs magic energy hands until Cinder used the blaster effect on her weapon to blast Emerald several meters away, stunning her as Cinder leapt after her, brandishing her weapon within bare inches of the green haired girl's face, held back only by Emerald's Powers.

Furiously, Penny pummeled Tyrian, then throwing him across the roof. Next, the ginger fired a beam from the stone, but Tyrian blocked it with his Glaive, causing the beam to split into several beams, slicing through ancient, Mistral stone like butter. One of the beams came danger close to Emerald and Cinder's ongoing fight, hitting an unoccupied truck just a few feet away.

Slowly, Tyrian was able to angle one branch back at Penny, causing the girl to slam into the steeple behind her.

Down below, Emerald had Cinder's staff once again, when she heard an agonized cry from Penny. Desperation strengthened her to throw Cinder into the burning, segmented truck, stunning the alien woman. This gave Emerald enough time to get to Penny on the roof, where Tyrian had once more pinned Penny and was attempting to take the stone once again.

"Hands off!" Emerald told the man, casting a bolt that hit him and launched him back through the wall and down a shaft.

The girl then tried to use her magic to fly the both of them away. Unfortunately for them, however; Cinder had recovered and used her weapon to shoot them down. The two fell from the sky, crashing through a glass window and hitting down hard in a train station.

Emerald crawled to Penny, who couldn't even muster the strength to stand.

"Come on, Come on," Emerald pleaded in a hushed voice, "you gotta get up, come on! We have to go!"

"Please." Penny told her, panting still, "please leave."

"You asked me to stay." Emerald told the android, "I'm staying."

"Please."

"Get up."

Behind them, Cinder and Tyrian crashed through the roof, and advance on them. The villains brandished their weapons, as Emerald built up her powers to protect the ginger girl behind her.

Cinder suddenly looked up at the passing train, cocking her head, as of aware of another presence on the other side.

Confused, Emerald also looked, just as the final train car passed by, revealing a man's silhouette on the far platform.

Cinder threw her weapon at the shadowy figure, who deftly caught it and stepped from the shadows. It was none other than Jaune fucking Arc, barely recognizable with the large beard, and longer hair. He looked furious, but more than anything, he looked like a man who had fought more than his fair share of wars.

"That's how you make an entrance!" Sun and Neptune shouted in unison.

Penny And Emerald looked hopeful and relieved.

While all parties were distracted, Sun swooped in, gliding on what appeared to be a rather large pair of mechanical wings. He kicked Cinder across the platform, through the enclosed security gate and furniture. Swooping around, he started shooting at Tyrian.

At the same time, Jaune threw Cinder's weapon to Blake, who engaged Tyrian, ducking under his swing, stabbing him in the gut and executing a flying kick, knocking the man backwards.

Cinder suddenly rushed back into the fight, summoning her weapon back to her and attacking Blake, but not before Jaune leapt forward, rolling and scooping up Tyrian's dropped Glaive and begins to hold her off.

Blake too joined in with her own escrima sticks. While the three are fighting, Sun returns and again kicks Cinder backwards; She scuttled over to her fallen ally, and Sun drew his duel Submachine pistols on the two.

"Get up." Cinder harshly told Tyrian.

"I can't." He shot back.

"We don't wanna kill you," Blake coolly told them, "But we will."

"You'll never get the chance again." Cinder snarled. With that final remark, the two of them departed, being beamed up just as Watts and Oscar had been earlier. The group watches as they do, but Tyrian's Glaive is snatched from Jaune's hands by an invisible force, joining the two in the ship.

"Can you stand?" Sun asked Penny. Electricity shimmered over her surface as her voice distorted.

"Thank you, Captain." She told Jaune, her voice full of gratitude. Jaune simply nodded.

"Let's get you on the ship." He told her.

[QuinJet]

Blake closed the doors of the ship from the cockpit, addressing Emerald, "I thought we had a deal," She scorned, "Stay close, check in. Don't take any chances."

"I'm sorry." Emerald told Blake. "We just wanted more time."

"Wait, so Emerald's not a backstabbing piece of crap in this universe?" Jaune asked.

"Not yet." Ruby corrected.

"Where to, Cap?" Sun asked Jaune.

"Home." Jaune simply said.

[Flashback]

Raven's homeworld, a young Raven and her mother were hiding, the sounds of guns and screaming were the only sounds other than the young Raven's whimpering.

"THAT ONE'S STILL GREEN!" Nora shouted, pointing at Raven on the screen.

"We'll be safe." Raven's mother told her.

An explosion went off nearby and Raven screeched by reflex, revealing their hiding spot.

The door was suddenly kicked in by two humanoid Grimm creatures, both wielding large rifles.

"Nightmare fuel!" Ruby shouted with a transatlantic accent, "Get your nightmare fuel here!"

Outside was pure chaos, as energy bolts from numerous sources crisscrossed the panicked population, felling them randomly.

"Bandits," Watts could be heard monologuing somewhere close by, as Raven was dragged by her arm. She hit at the creatures arm, calling and screaming for her mother.

Something distracted the creature and it let go, allowing the girl to walk between the separated crowds. "One side is a revelation," Watts' voice was distant now, barely heard under the panicked screaming that was heard all around, "the other, an honor known to only a few."

"Mother!" Raven screeched above the others. She turned to find herself facing Salem as Ozma had known her. After his first resurrection. The evil woman knelt down before the small girl.

"What's wrong, little one?" She asked.

"My mother," Raven told her, "Where is my mother?"

"What's your name?" Salem gently asked.

"Raven."

"You're quite the fighter, Raven." She told the young girl, "Come, let me help you." She led Raven to a pavilion, where she crouched so that she was at eye level with the girl. She produced a small, Red jeweled handle. When she pressed the switch, a blade popped out from either side. "Look. Pretty, isn't it? Perfectly balanced." Salem balanced the blade on her index finger, "As all things should be. Too much to one side, or the other…" she overbalanced it purposefully, letting it fall from her finger, and catching it with her other finger. "Here." She handed the blade to Raven, "you try." Raven tried to balance it on her finger, but Watts could be heard, distantly finishing his monologue.

"Now go in peace, and meet your maker." He loudly declared. One half of the crowd behind Salem and Raven was massacred behind them, and the survivors screamed in horror. Raven tried to turn around, but Salem prevented her from seeing the massacre.

"Aw, that's sweet," Nora cooed, "she doesn't want her to see all the genocide she's committing!"

"I guess…" Qrow said, "in a fucked up sorta way."

"Concentrate." She told her, Raven managed to get it balanced pretty quickly after that, and the witch congratulated her, "There!" She happily told Raven, "you've got it!"

The scene changed to Taiyang entering a room with a grenade belt in hand.

"Rae. Do you know if these grenades are the "blow off your junk" kind or the gas kind? 'Cause I was thinking I might hang a couple on my belt right here. But I don't want to-." Raven Cut off his ramblings mid sentence.

"I need to ask a favor." She told him.

"Yeah. Sure." He immediately said, looking caught off guard.

"One way or another, the path that we're on leads to Salem." She thoughtfully told him.

"Which is what the grenades are for!" Tai Cut In. She silenced him with a look. "I'm sorry. What's the favor?"

"If things go wrong… If Salem gets me… I want you to promise me… you'll kill me." Raven told the blonde man.

A beat.

"What?" He asked, confused.

"I know something she doesn't. If she finds out…" Raven paused, "the entire universe could be at risk."

"What do you know?"

"If I Tell you, You'd know too."

"If it's so important, shouldn't I?"

"Only if you wanna die."

"Why does somebody always have to die in this scenario?"

"Just trust me…" Raven looked at him pleadingly, "and possibly kill me."

"I mean, I'd like to. I really would—!" Taiyang didn't even get to finish his protest, as she covered his mouth with her hand.

"Swear to me." She demanded. "Swear to me on your mother!"

Another beat.

"Okay." The two kissed, until an odd crunching sound startled them.

Yang, Ruby and Qrow all loudly gagged, causing Jaune to gag just from hearing the noise.

Ironwood was standing in the corner. "Dude!" Tai whined, "How long have you been standing there?!"

"An hour." Ironwood simply responded.

"An hour?! Are you serious?"

"I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still… That I've become invisible to the eye. Watch." Ironwood stood motionless—until he began to eat more of his snack.

"You're eating a Zark Nut." Tai exclaimed.

"But my movement… So slow… And it's imperceptible." Ironwood explained.

"No." The couple shook their heads at the grey skinned man.

"Hi, James!" Maria greeted, much to his lament.

"Dammit!"

The scene changed once more this time to the Guardians' ship began its approach a giant severed head floating in space. The screen reads "KNOWHERE".

"I'm reading movement." Ironwood said, "From the third quadrant."

"Yep." Tai confirmed, "I'm reading that, too. Let's put it down right here."

They were shown now entering a large room with a ton of glass cases, seemingly in ruin. Salem was threatening Junior in the center of the room so they decided to hide behind rubble.

"Everyone in the Galaxy knows you'd sell your own brother if you thought it would add the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection. I know you have the Reality Stone. Giving it to me will spare you a great deal of suffering." Salem told him menacingly.

"I told you! I sold it! Why would I lie?" Junior pleaded.

"I imagine it's like breathing for you." Salem said, seeing through his lies.

"Like suicide!"

"So, you do understand. Not even you would surrender something so precious." Salem hissed.

"I get that Salem's evil and all, but she's also kinda a badass." Nora stated, earning everyone else in the room's incredulous glares.

"I didn't know what it was!" Junior lied again.

"Then you're more of a fool than I took you for. Last chance, Hei. Where's the Stone?"

A/N: That's all for now. I can't confirm that this story is back, as this was just me finishing up a chapter I'd had mostly done for a while now. Like over a year ago. Yeah. Anyway, the reason I can't confirm this story's fate is because I don't really have any interest in RWBY at the moment. I just got a string of reviews earlier today and it resulted in me rereading this story and wanting to at the very least finish the chapter I was on. When I initially started this chapter, the goal was to do the rest of the movie in one chapter, but as you can see, I did not manage that. Anyway, hope you enjoyed and let's hope I have the interest to write more chapters soon!