Ninjas and Huntresses: Rangers in Remnant

by Darren1138

An intergalactic gladiator is willing to travel into a new dimension to obtain a great source of power. But when he did not know was that the world is protected by groups of gifted and skilled fighters. Two worlds will collide and heroes must band together to beat a common evil! Ninjas, huntsmen and huntresses, fear no danger! Takes place between RWBY Vol 2 & 3, and Ninja Steel.

3. An Alien in Forever Fall

CHAPTER 2: An Alien in Forever Fall

It hasn't been easy writing the RWBY-style fight scenes since they look so awesome, yet so much faster in the series. I have been more used to writing Power Rangers fight scenes since the choreography is much simpler and easier to follow. But I did my best to at least make something decent. Hopefully, I can do better in the future.

Remnant

It was now a bright day since the mysterious circumstances that happened the night before. The city square had been reopened one month after the tragic attack by the creatures of Grimm, but the scene was still being monitored by a platoon of white armoured robotic soldiers armed with an assault rifle each, standing guard and watching out for any more signs of trouble or strife.

People were once again able to enjoy the serenity of the clean square, free from any beasts of darkness from miles around. But unbeknownst to them and the authorities, things were about to get a whole lot worse really fast.

A month after the tragedy of the Breach, everyone was to be on high alert for any signs of malicious intent, preferably any shady figure like a common gangster or probably an even more dangerous member of the White Fang who could be up to no good.

For now, though, everything seemed to be quite docile. Not a single mishap or danger in sight other than the usual everyday problems of the busy city. All was normal in the city of Vale.

Except for one person…

Outside the city walls, the land was covered in thick patches of forest and cliffs. It would look like a nice peaceful place to be, just sit around and enjoy the fresh air of the wilderness.

Unless the sounds of slicing and flesh being ripped out in rapid succession were to be called peaceful…

The forest was riddled with faint sounds of slashing and even loud bangs were heard over the distance, scaring off flocks of birds from their homes. No one was in sight to monitor the event, but then again, none would have to worry either.

A battle was being waged between two unlikely foes. On one side, there were packs of large dark beasts with white bone masks patterned with red lines and yellow glowing eyes poised for the kill. But even with all their ferocity, they were simply no match against the prey they were trying to hunt down.

One by one, these beasts were all cut down to pieces or shot down with gaping wounds to their bodies. Like an army on a rampage, their hunting target was no pushover, with loads of attacks here and there, killing off one Grimm at a time.

What would surprise most was the fact that this was not the work of an army or even a hunting party loaded to the brim with guns, swords and enough manpower to defend a whole colony.

These beasts were being destroyed… by an energetic little girl hyped up for action.

She never wanted to just sit around and wait for the damages to be repaired and the chaos passed on. Especially since a brewing tournament was almost two months away and she needed to prepare for the epic matches ahead.

With nothing more to do, given that it was her day off, a young girl with her signature red hood and even more formidable scythe thought that the Grimm would serve excellent target practice. Showing off her prowess in battle by spinning her scythe in violent speeds, she did, however, flourished her weapon around with surprising grace and balance in her spins. Like a baseball player with a mighty but steady swing, or perhaps even a sharpshooter with a high-velocity rifle to bring both the heavy damage and the perfect hit.

That was practically the girl in her own right. Hard-hitting and graceful flow of swings. A deadly combination. Fortunately, only the Grimm would face her wrath.

The young Ruby Rose was about to finish off these deadly beasts without breaking a sweat.

"Okay, you Grimm!" she exclaimed with a burning fire in her soul. "Just try to keep up and I'll let the heads fly!"

She aimed the scythe that was almost twice her own body height, pointing the tip of the weapon at the charging wolf-like monsters heading her way. In one blinding dash, the girl charged for the pack and sped out like a dart, with the soft and wavy cloak trailing along for the ride and leaving behind a shower of rose petals behind her.

In the blink of an eye, the Huntress-in-training clashed with the Grimm and was already swinging at them with one surprisingly lightning fast swing for such a huge weapon. The first Grimm she laid her eyes on, she sliced it up before it could even react, cutting of an arm and instantly killing it off.

She was within the other Grimm's sights for a short time, allowing them to try and attack her with their huge deadly claws, but the rapid fast Huntress cruised through the strikes without harm.

Within her path of escape, she spun crazily through another cluster of Beowolves while her scythe made short work of every one of them down. She made a landing afterwards, dragging across the ground to see the carnage she ensued upon her equally murderous attackers. The trail of severed corpses littered her path, followed by the new arrivals of more Beowolves. They all crept up into formation, waiting for each other so they could all charge in and slaughter the seemingly small and innocent little girl. Their bloodthirsty gazes and glowing yellow eyes all honed in on Ruby, bent on getting their kill. The odds were apparently against her.

"Oh dear…" Nonetheless, Ruby sighed sarcastically and covered her mouth with her free hand, still unfazed by the growing numbers. "Ten of you big and scary Beowolves, against little ol' me! Can a defenceless girl like me do be free of this wretched torment?!" She continued to spin around, weeping mockingly like a damsel in distress, using her scythe to balance herself as she turned.

As soon as she stopped, she cracked a wicked grin. Forget damsel in distress. This was exactly the fun she was waiting for.

"Watch me." That was all she said, but with a snarky comment, it was enough to show that she was going to bring the pain, really badly… for the Grimm.

The beasts charged forward, mouths salivating with hunger in their minds. Their jaws all opened wide for the kill, grunting and howling along the way.

But Ruby was ready for them. She bent forward, raising her Crescent Rose up and waited for the right moment to strike.

Three Beowolves were already right in front of her; their jaws itching to bite her down. However, there was nothing they could do to stop her.

Ruby unleashed her weapon at them, swinging it and cutting the Beowolves one at a time practically with each second passed. Her curved blade crippled through the ten Beowolves with remarkable speed, leaving another ten Beowolves for her to finish off.

Before she knew it, one Beowolf managed to catch her off guard and proceeded to lunge its claws at her.

Right before the claws reached her, Ruby bounced out of the way before she could be met with a fatal blow to her face, jumping right over the creature. While in mid-air, she held her scythe so that the tip was pointed straight at the Beowolf that attacked her. Then, in a stunning twist, the Crescent Rose began to transform. The blades retracted into the armoured plates and the body of the weapon contracted itself into a smaller shape. The hilt was pulled in and soon, Ruby held the grip at the end.

The scythe was turned into a rifle, with Ruby aiming it at the lone Grimm down below. The way she slowed her airborne spinning and the fact that she was holding the gun with one hand made it truly incredible for any common folk. With the pull of the trigger, she let loose a powerful bullet that zoomed towards the Beowolf.

It immediately hit the creature with such velocity it could tear its guts out with one shot. The Grimm could not anticipate the shot and was soon blasted by the gun. The high-velocity bullet tore right through the skin, piercing into its flesh and into its insides. Eventually, the bullet shot right out of the creature's stomach, ramming onto the ground with practically the same speed as it had when fired.

In short, the Grimm was eviscerated by the lone bullet, with the impact violent enough to break it into a diagonal cut, splitting it into two. The two halves of the body fell, leaving behind a smoking trail from where the bullet landed on.

Ruby landed on the ground, satisfied with her successful hit. Now, it was the rest of the pack's turn to taste her wrath. She aimed her rifle towards the other Beowolves in the forest and cocked the gun, loading in the next round. Within a split second, she fired another shot at the next Beowolf closest to her, gunning it down with same force and power to slice it apart.

Ruby continued to let it rip and fired her gun over and over again, shooting in half a second and then cocking the weapon back and forth in the next. All of those shots never missed their mark, obliterating all of the Grimm she could shoot down.

Eventually, at one point, she pulled the trigger again. However, instead of a loud bang and the heavy recoil of firing a high-powered shot, she felt nothing, hearing only a faint click each time she pulled it. She was out of juice.

But that was alright, she thought. Just load up another cartridge. She did so, pulling out a fresh new magazine from her satchel clipped to her belt before discarding the old one locked into her scythe. She then reloaded her gun and cocked it again. She was ready for some more action, with a new bunch of rounds set to sweep up the soulless predators again.

A new pack of Beowolves emerged from the forest. Now, they were surrounding the young Huntress during her reloading. Ruby looked all around her, watching all of them circle her in a slow creeping stance as they walked. While they corralled around her, Ruby converted her gun back to its scythe mode. She eyed each of them, waiting for the right moment to defend herself.

Then, with a loud gruelling bark, one of the Beowolves ran forward and attempted to pounce the human from behind her. Just as she predicted…

"Gotcha!" Ruby stepped out of the way just in time, letting the Grimm jump right past her. Within that brief moment, the Huntress immediately got to action. She swung her scythe down while the creature was right next to her, pinning it down so the curved blade could catch the top of its neck. Then, once the blade pierced the ground, keeping the monster's head down with it, she pulled the trigger that was still on the hilt of the weapon, firing another round from the tip of the scythe.

The force of the blast, coupled with a loss of weight using her Semblance of speed, propelled her all the way to her left in a split second. Unfortunately for the trapped monster, the sudden thrust was more than enough for the blade to slice its head off, leaving behind its decapitated body and a long crack on the ground from the scythe dragging across the ground as Ruby sped off.

Immediately as she slowed down, she made for a nearby tree and pushed her two feet against it. With a strong push of her legs, she bounced right off, zooming in another rosy sprint of blinding speed. Like a comet, she speared right for another Grimm. She swung her weapon again, cutting it in half, before cutting off the arm of another Beowolf behind the former one.

As she slowed, she rolled on the ground while slicing up another Beowolf just behind her two previous kills.

With no time to stop, she continued her mad dashing abilities to dismember more of the Beowolves, spinning her weapon like using a baton in a marching band, skilfully swinging it around and around all over her body and slicing up the next few Beowolves around her.

When she was free, she moved on to the beasts behind the fallen ones. One by one, they pounced on her, but the caped girl fought them off, slicing one Beowolf and then shooting down another. Two came by, she just knocked her scythe on the one in front and crashed it into the other behind it.

Suddenly, she heard the bone-chilling sounds of roars coming from above her. She thrust her head upwards to find three more wolves raining above her. Their bloodlust fuelled their rage and hunger for her flesh, but even their appetite was not enough to rule over the fighter's skills. All at once, the creatures crashed onto the ground, feeling that they managed to squash their prey down to where they wanted her to be. Still, not a chance.

Their prey was already high up in the air after speeding upwards the moment their claws were inches away from her. And now that she was airborne, there was one way this could end.

Crescent Rose in check, all she did was one hard-felt dive and a devastating slash to all three Beowolves. and for better results, after she landed, she spun around and swung her scythe to inflict further dismemberment. The creatures all fell to the ground in pieces, leaving Ruby to swirl around and hold the scythe to her back after stopping.

She stayed in her victorious pose for a little while, waiting to make sure if she left anything else. Just when she thought it was over…

BANG!

ARRRWOO!

SPLAT!

Yep. All done.

After shooting down that last Beowolf, she spun her scythe again and folded it into its inactive form before locking it to the back of her belt. She made one last grin at all the fallen bodies, or at least what's left of them, all around the once pure green grass, now reddened with blots of Grimm blood.

It's a good thing these things don't have souls, or it'd be genocide if Ruby knew any better.

"And that's how you do it, Ruby-style~" Alas, she gloated in a sing-song voice while waving with her two fingers of her right hand up. "Now, I gotta get back to the others."

With her hunting done, it was now time to pack up and head back to her team of friends somewhere in the forest. On her way there, she walked her way deep into the trees, stepping over the remains of her ironically murderous victims, which then began to evaporate into ashes and disappear into nothingness.

For Ruby, though, the less these creatures were, the better. As she walked on, all she could do was keep an eye out for more, when her mind was filled with more desire to fight.

She couldn't help but poke fun at a particular moment in her battle. 'A defenceless girl', 'be free of this torment'. She sworn, this was what she got for sharing a dorm with a bookworm like Blake, her rather quiet teammate.

Speaking of her teammates, she had to head back and reunite with them before sun down, for the sun itself was getting ready to set down over the horizon, signalling the end of her mission.

It was not officially a mission given to them by their academy's teachers, but just a little fun activity for the team to do before the upcoming Vytal Tournament in a few months' time.

But it was without some significance to the city's safety. As far as Ruby was concerned, she overheard some talk from soldiers overseeing the city's protection that more of the Grimm were dangerously close to the city walls since the Breach.

To Ruby, it was such a fortunate stroke of luck that she overheard those men. It wasn't like, as her friends falsely accused her of, she was just snooping around, purposely listening in to people's conversations or anything, right? That would just be…

Yeah, she had to admit, she was being nosy.

What was she supposed to do? There was almost nothing exciting to do back at Beacon Academy, especially sitting around listening to Professor Oobleck's sleep-inducing lectures and Professor Port's boring stories. Even the one class she would be head over heels for, fighting classes, were just not enough.

There just had to be one little activity that she would gladly take on, something that was legit exciting. Legit, in her terms.

That meant, going nuts with Crescent Rose against something killable. So, who better to be the sacrifice than the beasts of Grimm? Lifeless abominations with only death and destruction in their dark minds. They weren't really worth leaving behind to haunt the forest.

Of course, she still had to be mindful, for not every Grimm was some violent husk of death. She would have to be mindful of the other more powerful forms of Grimm that were more intelligent than the Beowolves she fought against.

The beasts of Grimm may not have souls, but they were not without brains. And a Grimm with intelligence was worth avoiding.

Luckily, nothing of the sort was ever faced so far. Thankfully, all she had come across were just ordinary and easy Beowolves. And a flying Nevermore, but as her sister would ridiculously put it, that Grimm was, ahem, 'never more'.

Puns aside, her overall hunting trip of the day went off really well. A much needed break from the stresses of her time at Beacon. All good things had to come to an end though. It was time to head home and rest up before the next day of classes.

Even as she thought her day was done, any surprises were welcome for her.

But nothing could prepare her for what was about to happen next.

"Huh?"

A sound was heard. Ruby stopped moving for a second and looked around, ears now listening in for what that weird noise was. After a moment of tuning in, she could slowly pick up to what it sounded like, and made some small suggestions of what could be lurking just beyond.

Weird chattering noises. Like a high-pitched choir of rats squeaking about.

Soft, but heavy footsteps stepping all around. Could it be an army marching along?

A lone blabbering noise. Sounded like some jerk was giving out orders.

There was nothing else she could do to describe what was making those sounds. With not enough details or even a solid guess, Ruby made her way to where the source of the sounds came from.

She headed towards some thick bushes which she thought of hiding in to peek through and see what was going on. You could never know who was over there or what they would be willing to do to you. Ruby knew that well enough to stay quiet and investigate; something quite out of her character.

She dug through the thick vegetation, hearing the mysterious sounds getting louder as she neared. When she managed to get close enough, she peeked through the bushes and saw what was there.

Needless to say, it was the most baffling sight of all in her days as a Huntress. Nothing she had ever seen before.

~Dear Monty!~ she thought in her head.

There they were. A group of six blue men, dressed in warrior outfits and wearing black fisherman hats or wolf head-shaped helmets, armed with outdated arquebus and bizarre-looking spears, trekking the forest in a messy formation, something like a hunting party. Ruby took a closer look at their faces. What she saw only added to the confusion. A blue mask and stuck on that mask was a wide mouth perfectly straight and the lips somewhat partially stuck together, revealing teeth that budded out of the mouth.

There were even more surprises in store for Ruby. Just beside the marching soldiers, there was one huge creature walking alongside the troops. He looked like some sort of giant wrecking ball with arms and legs. The appendages were covered in golden armour pads and his arms were different made into two scythe-like blades slight smaller than Crescent Rose herself. His head, monstrously spiked, and yellow eyes furrowed in an angry posture, stuck out from the very center of his spherical body. On top of him was a large stud that was reminiscent of a huge button. (A/N~ This is the character Bomb Shadow from Ressha Sentai ToQger)

This was all a huge discovery for Ruby. She had never expected to find such extraordinary-looking monsters in this forest. The only monsters she thought she could find here were the Grimm. Now, she was facing a bunch of new humanoid creatures that were merely… out of this world.

The arquebus and spears those weird blue soldiers were armed with were unlike anything even a weapons enthusiast like Ruby could identify. How she could pick out the diamond-like material of the spear blades which shone with the Sun's rays reflecting on them, and the design of the muskets, though apparently ancient-looking, sported some spikes underneath them.

Ruby just couldn't put a finger on the arrival of these abnormal beings. What were they? Where did they come from? Were they associated with the Grimm or were they a new kind of gang of bandits that roam around the lands between the kingdom's cities? In fact, she did not even know if these things were friend or foe.

"What in Remnant are those things?" She covered her mouth, quietly whispering to avoid attracting too much attention.

All those questions flooded her head at once, making Ruby feel very dizzy from what was happening in front of her eyes. Faced with a huge dilemma on what to do; either face them head on, just wait and tell her friends and those in charge of what she found, or just let them be on their way, Ruby needed to act fast.

"This looks bad."

Soon, given their monstrous appearances and the unknowing of what they were capable of, Ruby had to go with the plan to find her team and pick up from there. Maybe they would have an idea to what she could do with these unknown strangers.

Doing as best she could to remain discreet, she slowly wriggled her way from out of the bush, reversing while trying to prevent any audible rustling and hoping that these creatures did not have good hearing.

She managed to get out of the bush. Looking back to where the creatures were patrolling, she waited in caution, making sure that those things did not catch on to her movements. She stayed put for a little bit, hand moving towards Crescent Rose behind her back in case her cover was blown.

After a few seconds, finally, a sigh of relief. Nothing happened. She could only hear the footsteps of the strange beings getting quieter and quieter, suggesting to her that they were finally leaving the scene.

Ruby was now convinced that she was safe. Now, she planned to move on to gather her team. She was still shaking from the sudden discovery, trying to compose herself to stay her course of action.

"Okay! Calm down, Ruby." She groaned to herself. "Just relax. All I got to do now is call the others and tell them of what's going on." "I sure hope nothing terrible happens."

She backed away, resorting to silently step away from the patrol and running off to use her Semblance to dash her way out of the area. She inched backwards, eyes still fixed on the direction of the monsters without even turning around for extra assurance that she would be able to escape undetected.

KRAK!

"YIP!" Unfortunately, she did not watch where she was going. Her nerves shocked up with the sudden cracking sound of a stray tree branch on the ground, prompting her to yelp slightly from the shock.

"What was that?!" To add to her misfortune, the shrilling voice of the walking wrecking ball monster told her that her attempt to escape quietly had been thwarted.

The gigantic bomb-like creature groaned in disapproval upon seeing that his crew were just watching over aimlessly at his call. He slapped his own head dumbfounded, wondering why did they not just listen to a very obvious snap sound in an otherwise quiet scene.

"Turn around, you numbskulls! Didn't you hear something snap?" He went over to one of the lost Bashers and proceeded to bash it on the head with his scythe-like hands, rendering it dizzy while rubbing its head in pain.

"Don't just stand there!" bellowed the monster. "Search that way!" He pointed towards the location he wanted them to go. The squad complied, marching their way towards the same designated spot the creature told them to go to.

Towards Ruby.

Ruby was running out of time. In a panic, she quickly hid back into the bushes before the Kudabots and Bashers could even start their investigation. She looked out the tiny opening of the leaves to look back at the soldiers making their way towards her. Ruby ducked down even lower, hoping that they would just pass by and ignore her hiding place.

The Kudabots took their time to look around, finding wherever place they could. The boss behind them just moaned disappointingly again, infuriated even more by their continuing lack of direction. After all, they did not even hear the sound to begin with, so how the heck would they know where their leader was referring to.

The girl hiding down was praying for dear life that she would not be caught by the strange monsters. Just thinking about what they would do to her was enough to give her very nerve-wrecking chills. She could feel her body shiver as the creatures got much closer to the bush.

Much to her chagrin, one of them stood right in front of her; two boots stepping inches away from her face.

Ruby bent down further, backing up very slightly. She really wanted to bail out and warn her friends, but the situation demanded her to remain silent and hope for all she could of these creatures to simply leave the area. She could always fight them. After all, she did just kill packs of bloodthirsty Beowolves with no trouble at all.

It was just that these things were just so bizarre. She did not know what to expect from their weapons. Could they powerful enough to blast off her limbs? Vaporize her even? She just could not put a finger on it.

She had to be prepared as well. In the event that she did get caught, she would have to give it her all and fight like a true Huntress. She reached for Crescent Rose at her back, waiting for the moment to strike when the Kudabots would get too close for her taste.

She focused her sights on the lone Kudabot checking the area from its position. Seconds went by, the soldier just kept on being there, with no movement whatsoever. The stable soldier was making Ruby feel quite impatient. Forget silence. Now, her instincts were kicking in again.

Her feet prepared to pounce forward, ready to strike. But then, after a while, the Kudabot's feet began to move again. Fortunately for Ruby, she could see that the creature was moving away from the bush. The oblivious drone was now going further away from her current location.

The hooded girl's anxiety started to vanish. Finally, calmness was restored. She could finally have the space to try and flee for safety, but she still took caution with her movement. She was still within earshot of the creatures and did well to move slowly and make another break for it.

The round giant took his turn to look around after having enough of the Kudabots' incompetence, taking the search to his own hands. As he moved forward to join his men, he suddenly saw something.

"What the-?" There, he could get a good look at what appeared to be some small shaking coming from a bush.

Ruby was only halfway out of the bush when she heard the bellowing brute's voice, forcing her to stop, scared stiff. She could still see the monsters on the other side of her hiding spot. Unfortunately, much to her extreme panic, the big beast was looking right at her and pointed his right arm at her location.

"YIKES!"

BRAMM!

A large laser blast fired from the tip of the monster's abnormal hand, blasting its way for the bush in a split second. The attack reached for the vegetation faster than anyone could figure out what happened and completely disintegrated the bush upon impact.

A loud explosion was sent off, causing the grass and the nearby tree to catch on fire in a bright blaze. The bush itself was no more. Instead, a black blast mark and a thin trail of smoke was all that was left of the plant, and supposedly the human that was hiding within.

Seeing that nothing was there, at least not anymore, the large monster lowered his arm, somewhat amused by his destructive firepower. If anything or anyone was in that bush, then it was tough luck for that goner.

He was about to call the team of Kudabots back into formation, confident that he had taken care of what was watching him and his forces. The underlings all complied to his command, stopping their own search patterns and huddled around their lumbering leader.

"Huh?" Then, from out of nowhere, a small flat piece appeared right in front of him, slowly floating down like a dry leaf in the autumn breeze. However, it was much smaller and looked softer than any leaf. Dropping down and landing on the ground, the flat object landed on the ground below him. The monster bent down to see what it was. It looked like…

A red rose petal.

From out of nowhere, more petals began to flutter about in the calm wind, pouring down on the unsuspecting monsters. They could not figure out what was happening. Indeed, this was a new world with weird creatures and weirder occurrences even for their standards.

All was quiet as the Kudabots and their big brute of a boss stared away at the falling petals, clueless as to what could this mean for them. Probably something to do with the weather, they thought.

But the silence was about to be shattered.

BAMM!

"DARGH!" In an instant, everyone was reeling from the alarming sound of a gunshot coming from above them, forcing them all to scatter and take cover, dropping to the ground in military fashion.

They all fell down, even the bigger monster was able to get down faster than he looked. When they rose back up to find out what had just transpired in the blink of an eye, they planned to watch all over the area.

"What just happened?! Who did that?!" The larger monster roared, shock replaced by anger. He then looked up to find that the shower of petals had finally stopped with all petals having landed on the ground. But something else was about to hit the ground next.

From above, a dark figure emerged from the sky. It then sped towards the ground with such rapid speed, right in the middle of the shaken creatures, and yet landed gracefully and softly with no violent force.

The figure came with a red cape fluttering upwards from its lightning fast descent and revealed herself to be none other than Ruby Rose. Having escaped just in the nick of time, the fifteen-year-old was able to dash with her super speed before the monster could vaporize her. Now fully aware of what kind of creatures she could be dealing with, she was ready to go toe-to-toe with this threatening bunch of weirdos.

She instantly turned to the round-shaped one, pointing her finger at him with a cross look on her face and a tight grip on her deployed battle weapon.

"Just what in the name Zwei's butt are you?!" she demanded. "Some sort of mutated Grimm?! A beast of the underworld?! Talk!" She spun her trusty weapon and pointed its barrel at the monster.

The brutish creature just stared at this unusual sight. A tiny human girl, innocent on the outside with a huge weapon double her size pointed at him with the strictest look on a human's face if he ever saw one. Yep. He's seen some crazy stuff in his time in the Warrior Dome, but this just blew all of that out of proportion.

Still, he then breathed heavily in utter rage. No matter how capable this human could be, how dare this insolent little brat attack him when he wasn't looking! He puffed out a heavy breath of steam before groaning at the Huntress.

"I don't know who you're callin' grim, but I'll show 'ya somethin' that'll make you feel the same way!" He slammed his hooked hand to the ground, showing off his ferocious demeanour. Ruby backed away after the intimidating gesture, with her Crescent Rose still poised to strike. "So, if you know what's good for you, you better turn around and flee, little missy!"

Despite the monster's threat, Ruby stood her ground. All around her, the Kudabots and Bashers took to their positions and surrounded her, closing in with their weapons at the ready. Even with this new standard of battling, she was still determined to give them a fight they'll never forget. This could be a piece of cake. She's fought armed men and women before, so how could a bunch of alien-like creatures be any different.

One tense stare from her gleaming silver eyes was enough to tell the monsters that she meant business.

"Oh... you did not just call me 'little missy'!" She began her stance with a threat back to the new enemy. Apparently, she took the offensive word to heart and now her blood was boiling with adrenaline flowing in her body. "That's it... you... you... deformed creature of the deformity... in which you came from!"

Ruby flushed red after such an embarrassing roast. So much for a comeback.

"Wha-?" The brute sighed awkwardly.

"Never mind!" Ruby shook her head to forget the lousy taunt and glanced bravely at the monster again. "Let's just get this started..."

"Your funeral, little human!" The beast himself was also staring at the girl with a cold evil glare. The Kudabots around him steadied themselves to attack Ruby with their weapons pointing at her.

Both sides began watching each other, anticipating on who should make the first move. The longer they stood, the itchier their limbs were in making that first move.

Ruby scanned the blue soldiers for any signs of preparation to fire their weapons, or if the Bashers would step forward to try and clobber her down. She then laid her eyes on the bigger monster just getting ready to aim his hook arms at her.

After studying her opponents, she then looked for an opportunity of her own to take the charge. She looked towards a random group of Kudabots to her right. They were still looking at her, waiting for her to move forward.

If they wanted some action, she'll give it to them. In a burst of speed, Ruby too her chance, acting before anyone could even act themselves.

SLASH!

It wasn't even a second and suddenly one of the Kudabots was cut down by the power of Ruby's massive scythe.

"What?!" The orb-like monster was stunned, taking only another second to respond after one of his men was already taken out. The girl had disappeared in a flash, leaving behind more rose petals to fall on the ground. The rest of the troop was also in a panic after the attack. All they could do was look around flustered by the sudden disappearance of their new foe. After she was gone, they kept searching for wherever she might had gone to, following what was left of her trail of petals.

Then, there was another strike. Like a red blur, something jumped right by within half a second and took out another Basher. The alien soldiers all scattered from the shock of the swift blow, but recovered too late before another one of theirs went down again. It all happened so fast, no one knew what to do within those ten seconds. After that time was up, already five of their men were taken care of.

"Keep your eyes open! Watch out for that… girl…" The alien Commander tried to keep his squad at bay, only to realize that he was already down to five men. Naturally, the remaining Kudabots and Bashers gathered back to their leader, circling him while searching around for their speeding enemy.

Then, as the larger monster looked around, Ruby sped from out of nowhere, fell from above the sky and attempted to strike him from behind. She prepared to swing right from above and take out the bumbling monster with one heavy strike.

KLANK!

Instead of penetrating through the monster's armour, Ruby felt a heavy swing back from her scythe after hitting the metal surface. She spun back after the failed attack, flipping backwards and landing on the ground. She took a good look at the monster's armour and she could not see any visible dent or scratch mark on him.

The brutish beast turned around to find the girl slightly shaken by the successful defence of his hardened shell. The creature turned around to look Ruby in the face while chuckling in a gloating grin, followed by the rest of his troop.

"Nice try, girly!" he taunted. "But nothing can penetrate the iron-hard steel of Toma Bomba! Not even your puny scythe!"

Ruby cringed after her failed attempt at landing a critical blow on the lead monster. On the other hand, her left brow furrowed upwards when she replayed his name in her head.

Toma Bomba? What kind of ridiculous name was that? Anyway, Ruby had to act fast now that her scythe proved to be of little help against such durable armour. Perhaps she needed a little more punch to her power in her attacks.

She tried a new approach, choosing to keep up her stance and attack the monster head on again. This time, she aimed for the short and thick head instead. Given that the rest of his body was fully protected by armoured plating, she deduced that the weak point would be that head where the surface looked quite thin compared to all of his other parts.

Once again, Ruby flicked her cape up and used the power of her extreme speed to race for Toma Bomba's head. She brought her weapon to her side before swinging it towards it. Toma Bomba saw the incoming blade reach for him and immediately defended himself from harm, using his hooked hands to block her attack. Despite the slow speed of the arms, his durability more than made up for it as he stopped Crescent Rose from inflicting damage.

Ruby landed on the ground and proceeded to try again from another side. Again, the move failed. She tried again and again. In some hits, she was able to land a few hits on the monster's head and was able to push the leader back with pain.

But more often than not, the monster's own limbs were able to successfully defend himself with his slow moves against her own quick swings.

Despite her hits on the monster's supposed weak spot, there was not much progress in hurting him down to a pulp. She would have to change her tactics hurriedly to switch up her advantage.

Ruby leapt back away to safety and converted her weapon back to its rifle state. If her scythe wouldn't work, then maybe her high-piercing bullets would. It was worth a shot, literally.

She got to work, firing her gun at Toma Bomba while still in mid-air. The heavy bullets were hitting the monster with enough force to push him back with each shot.

Nevertheless, he was only knocked back a few inches from every shot taken. Worse still, the armour could finally be dented, visible in lumps punched into his body, but nothing too serious for the monster. Toma Bomba did feel the pressure of each shot threatening to punch through the thick iron shell.

Ruby touched down from her aerial attack and transformed her weapon again. She stuck the tip of her scythe's curved blade into the ground, turning it into a bipod to stabilize her weapon's stance. She fired her weapon with a steady aim, pinning Toma Bomba down with her faster firepower thanks to her more stable position.

The alien was forced to withstand the blows by covering his face with his hard steeled hands. The bullets continued to knock heavily on the monster's hooked hands, each bullet pushing them back and forced to bump at his own face and slowly exposing his vulnerable body. If this kept up, his guard would be broken and the bullets would be able to break his face apart.

Suddenly, Toma Bomba felt the heavy force of the bullets were no more. He opened up his eyes to see that Ruby had stopped firing her weapon. He could have sworn he heard the soothing sounds of clicking sounds coming from her location. He could easily see that Ruby was looking through her belt for something.

She was out of ammo. Ruby had to find a new cartridge before Toma Bomba would react and make his own move. She found her new magazine and hurried to reload. But as soon as she was about to place the ammo in, she was alarmed to find her foe coming right at her.

"Yikes!" Without much time to reload, she cancelled out her attempt and moved out of the way before the big brute charged his body at her. She safely rolled away before the creature could do her in. Toma Bomba missed his mark and it forced him to drag his feet on the ground to stop his rush, leaving behind a pair of deep thin ditches on the ground below from his feet.

However, while Ruby moved out of the way, she had dropped her rifle cartridge before she could even lock it in, losing her chance to take more shots at attacking her opponent with her strongest asset yet. With no other option, she had to go back to the close-quarter offensive.

Toma Bomba dragged his right foot back and swung the dirt off behind before going back to do it again over and over like a bull ready to ram over a matador. Like the latter, Ruby too inching the hand holding Crescent Rose behind her and stepped back to anticipate another run by the raging monster.

Her enemy was already on the run, ducking his head down and letting his whole weight push his forward to try and crush his foe again. At full speed, he threw himself at Ruby.

The Huntress-in-training immediately shifted away before the brute could hit her. But as she did so, she looked to the monster's legs and moved her scythe down for the blade to catch them. Toma Bomba felt the sharp edge of the blade cut through and he tripped over, tumbling down in a huge crash and rolling forward.

As he was down, Ruby prepared to load up another new cartridge to her weapon to shoot at him. Once she was done, she prepared to meet her foe face-to-face so she could fire one good round at him.

Suddenly, once she was loaded, she was met with more blistering laser bolts, forcing her to jump away from Toma Bomba and retreat to the safety of the trees. She quickly hid behind one tree and stayed there. She breathed in and out, catching her breath from the close shave with the lasers while also mentally cursing at herself for letting the remaining minions slip her mind like that.

She peered over the trunk, lasers still blazing. With much luck, she was able to find the formation of Kudabots firing at her. Her frustration grew when she caught Toma Bomba rising up to his feet and walking towards the Kudabots.

"That's right, boys." commented the leader. "Rain down on that insolent little child!"

Ruby hid her head back to cover, hoping the frenzy could just end up already. She squeezed the hilt of her weapon, feeling practically constricted by her inability to even move an inch away from her safe spot.

One laser blast seared through the trunk just millimetres away from her face, prompting her to jerk to the opposite side. In another second, another shot to the other side. All around, she was getting pinned by ongoing blaster fire. After each shot, she felt her odds were slimming down.

After a while, she could hear nothing. The enemy fire had halted, bringing a moment of peace and quiet. At that moment, Ruby could finally try and calm down. Her head back in the game, she knew she had to do something. It was time to pull out her next move and take out the rest of the underlings before she could get back at their fat bozo of a leader.

"It's now or never. Please by Oum's grace I'll survive this…" She prayed to herself. Before the Kudabots could fire again, she took out the last cartridge of Dust-powered bullets from her belt. Finally, she then swallowed up her bravery and came out from behind the tree and made a speedy run for her foes.

"Open fire, you lousy dolts!" Toma Bomba was immediately distressed by Ruby's sudden emergence and yelled at his men to hurry up with their reloading. Too little too late.

Ruby was like a comet, zooming at extreme speeds with petals flying off behind her. She was in range to take one on, stopping and sliced it up with one clean cut from below. When the Bashers came forth, they swung their blades at her, trying to spear her down.

One Basher lunged forward while another came from the other side for a slash. Ruby instinctively made a move for the Basher closer to her, stepping a little to the side and catching the yari spear with her blade.

When the other Basher came, she spun her scythe so hard that the Basher caught by her blade was thrown off elsewhere before Crescent Rose came to cut down the other after multiple spins.

She quickly fired her weapon back at one of the Kudabots with a Dust-powered bullet to the chest that blew up in a fiery explosion. The blast was strong enough to throw away the other unfortunate bunch in the group, including Toma Bomba. The Kudabots were knocked out for sure, but Toma Bomba simply rolled away, groaning in shock and pain.

Soon after, there was only one Basher left; the one thrown off by Ruby's advance. It tried to grab a hold of its spear, but Ruby was quick to intercept the minion by letting out one more slash, ending its life and the need for backup for Toma Bomba.

He knew he was now all alone with no one to back him up. It didn't matter. No more of those stupid minions to get in the way this time. They were expandable, so he wouldn't care less about what happened to them. It was his turf all to himself!

Standing alone, Toma Bomba readied himself against the Huntress. He charged up his forearm hooks and aimed them at her. Ruby bent down and prepared to jump into action, grabbing tightly to her scythe. This monster was certainly a tough one to fight, so a different approach was needed. But just how would she come up with a way to gain the upper hand?

The only way she could evidently do damage was to fire her weapon at him where she could easily pin him down with every shot. But right now, there were some complications to that plan. One; she was already down to her last cartridge. The one other full mag was dropped down on the ground after a sudden attack by the Kudabots. She could try and get it back, but that was where another problem presented itself. With Toma Bomba ready to fire his weapons, any attempt on getting the cartridge would end with a burnt body and a one-way trip to who knows where her soul would go.

In the end, she had to make do with what she had. With her Crescent Rose loaded with one mag left, Ruby prepared to fire.

Unfortunately, Toma Bomba was quicker, firing both of his high-powered lasers at Ruby. She prepared to make the jump out of the way.

FWOOSH!

But then, as she was about to make a run for it, the laser blasts from Toma Bomba crashed in a massive explosion.

"Huh?"

Ruby shielded her eyes away from the blinding flash but not before noticing that she was saved from the lasers, by what appeared to be a large white snow flake surrounded by a beautiful coat of light.

When she opened her eyes, she could still see that floating shield and the explosion fading off into smoke. Ruby could finally breathe in ease knowing that this snow flake was a sign that backup was just a stone's throw away.

"Ergh... Who did that?!" Toma Bomba, angered that his attack had been thwarted. He turned around vividly to find out where did that magic shield come from. "Show yourself!"

From out nowhere, there was another blasting surprise for the monster when he felt a powerful blast from behind him, knocking him off his feet and falling to the ground face first.

When the monster fell, Ruby looked behind him to find more excitement in the form of a taller blonde woman with a pair of golden wrist gauntlets.

"Yang!" Ruby cried out to the woman she knew as her older half-sister, Yang Xiao Long. The older girl ran over to her sister, but not before giving Toma Bomba another embarrassing bash by stepping on his back on her way, digging his head deeper into the ground.

"Ruby! Are you okay, sis?" The worried Yang ran for Ruby and embraced her in the tightest hug any sister would give. A little too tight for the little sister…

"Oww... I'm fine... But Yang..." Ruby choked, gasping for her air and space to breathe. "You're the one... killing me...!"

Yang ignored her sister's chortled request, almost intendedly. She even chuckled her satisfaction of messing with her sister. Eventually, she released Ruby. The red-haired Huntress held her throat and, almost exaggeratingly, gasped in and out from the deathly grip of Yang's powerful muscled embrace.

Soon, the two were joined in by two more additions to the team. From the trees, a girl dressed with a black bow and a sword with a thick string attached to its grip and a blade flipped back on top of it, along with another cleaver-like weapon to her other hand.

The other one was another girl with beautiful white hair tied to a pony-tail dressed in an icy-white coat over an otherwise cleaner combat dress, armed with a blade with a revolving cylinder inserted in it, as she slid into the fray like an ice-skater charming her audience.

The four girls were now united together. The team of Ruby's friends came to her aid and were now united against the common threat of the unknown monster before them.

Team RWBY looked at their new foe. Apart from Ruby, her teammates all looked in instant horror or disgust, clearly never having seen such a creature of this monstrosity.

"Ugh! What in the cake butler's book of dumped recipes is that thing?!" bellowed Weiss Schnee, utterly repulsed by the monster's gobsmacking image.

"Some kind of… troll?" added Blake Belladona, who was more curious than disgusted.

Toma Bomba managed to get himself from out of the dirt and rose to meet his new enemies. Four girls against a powerful warrior such as himself? This was something of a joke to the warrior because no one, especially women, deserved to take him down. It would be such a disgrace to the Warrior Dome to fall to some young teenagers, unlike the other contestants who have fallen to similar warriors.

"I'm not a troll!" he yelled back. "I'm a Verzerker from the planet Abderon! And I'm here to finish you all!" He stomped his feet to show more of his might to the girls. Though, no one from team RWBY appeared to be the slightest bit scared. Instead, it was a rather awkward introduction from this boasting ball of metal that the girls couldn't help but wonder if they should be scared or amused.

"Uh huh." Yang immediately dismissed the monster's words. "Well, I got news for you, fatso." She came forward and pointed her finger at him, clearly showing that she meant business. "When you mess with my little sister, you get the 'Yangs', real… bad…" She slammed her fists together and the ammo belts wrapped around her gauntlets were slotted into position.

"Yang's poorly thought puns aside, you'll have to get through all of us." Blake mused quietly, the blade on top of her gun flipped upwards to be held as a katana like-weapon.

"Ugh! If I have to forget being the gentle woman I am and be rid of this monster, so be it." Weiss shook her head, ridding herself of her unpleasant feelings for the monster in front of her. Her blade, Myrtenaster, clicked with the spinning of the central cylinder with in the frame of the weapon. Weiss prepared herself in a graceful stance of a fencer, pointing her blade towards the creature. "But let's do it properly."

"You kids don't learn, do you?" The alien warrior steamed in fury at the sight of the women primed for battle against him. One of them was bad enough, now he had to face a whole team of them. Who knew how would these three other newcomers fare against him? Being apparently older than the girl who was already all over him like an easy target, could he possibly handle them all together now?

"Nope." Ruby came forward to address her team's stance against Toma Bomba. As leader of her team, she felt it was her duty to make sure she stepped in for her friends, leading the way as they did battle against enemies against them. That, and her body was pumped with adrenaline and overwhelming desire to bring the hurt. She held Crescent Rose with both of her hands and stood with the weapon back behind her body. "We kick butt instead!"

"Bring it on!" Toma Bomba showed no sign of stopping his rampage either; his intent to destroy these pesky teenagers burning brighter than the nearest star. He dragged his feet back and forth again to make another mad dash for the group.

Team RWBY was already armed and waiting, anticipating the abnormal creature's next move, which was not hard to deduce as he appeared to make like a bull and ram them down. Now that they were together, though, their odds could be stacked against him and they could be done before Beacon's curfew was up.

The monster charged, roaring with fuming fury and a charge that would scare the living day lights out of any village within Remnant. But Team RWBY stayed on the defence, depending on their numbers and more importantly, their teamwork and coordination to win the battle.

"Here he comes!" Ruby signalled to her team. "Let's give him everything we got!" The rest of the girls did not need to say anything. They complied by standing with their immature yet somewhat dependable leader. From times before this, even if she was childish at most, Ruby was still someone worth of high regard. A team leader who could actually lead them to victory, as was done several times before. Yang obviously had unending faith in her little sister, Blake carried a great amount of respect for the younger girl, and even the proud Weiss Schnee grew to understand Ruby's conviction to help others, even if she couldn't really tolerate most of her antics. Whatever happened, the team was united behind her back.

The monster was getting closer to the team, ready to batter them down. RWBY's weapons were now pointing right at the incoming beast, poised to move out to carry out their usual strategic moves.

"What the-?!" But then, as the team began to defend themselves, the creature pulled himself, dragged across the ground and barely came to a complete stop. The humans in front of him reeled in surprise by the sudden stop to Toma Bomba's advance.

Toma Bomba himself was quite disgruntled by what had caused his fight to be cut short. Darn! Just when it was about to get good, he was suddenly interrupted by a loud beep coming from his ear.

He tapped the right ear to answer the call he was getting, much to the mixed feelings of ease and confusion of team RWBY.

"What is it?! Can't you see I'm busy?!" The monster spoke up with diminishing temper and evidently vexed at the person who contacted him.

Meanwhile, RWBY just stared on in uncertainty, wondering what the heck was going on with this goon. Ruby, especially, thought this was kind of disappointing. She did have a wild round with the monster and thought he was going to be a real challenge. She let loose almost three magazines worth of high-powered bullets on him and his cronies, and had a blast slicing through Toma Bomba's men before taking on the seemingly durable monster head on.

With her whole team together, she would have thought the fight was going to get a lot more exciting. Unfortunately, it looked like she was going to get a lot more dissatisfaction than all-out fun.

"But-? I've got…" The monster bickered even more to his mysterious caller. He sounded like he was pleading to continue his fight with his enemies, but since he was stuttering in a defeated tone, fat chance that he would get his opportunity.

"Argh… Fine." Forced to concede, Toma Bomba put off his communicator and grunted in rejection. His fight had to end right here, just when the fun was just getting hyped up. Judging by how his caller was insistent with his call, he forced himself to accept the inevitable. Toma Bomba turned to his enemies with a displeased look on his face.

"You fools may have won this one, but I shall be back!" He still snarled to ensure that they will feel his might another time. After scoffing disapprovingly, the menacing alien turned around, leaving behind the otherwise puzzled team of Huntresses.

"Hey!" Ruby jumped in front to call upon her enemy. She really didn't want this fight to end on such anti-climactic terms. She wanted a real fight with an awesome climax and a satisfying ending being the monster being owned by her team's skills and cool moves. They did not have such uncalled for interruptions in most of their previous fights, only during sparring sessions back at school, but their encounters with the beasts of Grimm were always met with total annihilation and death, on the Grimm's part, that is. "Come on! Our fight's just getting started!"

Toma Bomba ignored the girl, choosing instead to venture out on his own. Then, to everyone's surprise, he was then covered in an instant flash of light and electricity before suddenly disappearing altogether.

No one knew how to react to this situation. From out of nowhere, this large mysterious abomination showed up with no explanation of its intentions, and now he was gone in the blink of an eye.

"Darn." Ruby just moaned in disappointment. She admitted that she felt for that monster's own frustration of how their battle finished. Only she believed she had the better reason to win against such a strong enemy.

Nevertheless, it was done. No more fighting and the team could finally relax after their brief tension against such a beast.

"That was…" Blake struggled to find a word to describe the situation. "Weird."

"Well. At least it's over." Weiss shrugged her shoulders, choosing not to care since she didn't have to fight so much and holding her head up high proudly to show it. Everyone, even Ruby, soon agreed that it was time to move on and call it a day. They regrouped to gather up what they found so far from their usual hunting periods before they ended up meeting this creature from wherever it came from.

"Still, what was that thing anyway?" Blake, as usual, was the first to question.

The mystery surrounding this encounter was just too bizarre to just simply ignore. They had never seen such a creature before in their entire lives. Not a single recollection of weird monsters from any of Professor Port's classes. Nothing from the books read in the library. Not even in Yang's bedtime stories which Ruby so attentively enjoyed. There was just something extremely odd and extraordinary about this particular monster.

"It's… not like any of the Grimm we've faced before." wondered Yang.

"Whatever it was, it's gone now, so let's just… head home." Weiss rubbed her head trying to forget what she saw today. The creature was just too wretched to be questioned.

"I dunno, Weiss." reminded Yang. "I don't think we should be forgetting that thing. It can't just simply appear around here for no reason." Her instincts told her that the monster would return, given that he was still holding onto his word. "I say we just watch our backs in case something like this happens again."

The three girls had to go with Yang's suggestion.

"What do you think, Ruby?"

Ruby jumped at the sound of Blake's voice; the Faunus girl asking for her opinion on the strange event. It became clear that she was in deep thought about what happened to her today.

What was even offbeat about all of this was the rest of the other humanoid creatures, and since Ruby was the only one who fought them and beat them all, the whole ordeal was getting quite troublesome for her.

Worse still, whoever was contacting him was something to note. Who was it that was talking to him? Where did he or she come from? Was there something going on that would probably pose some serious trouble for the team or anyone else in Remnant?

One thing was for certain though. The fight was over, but even Ruby knew that after all of this, it was only the beginning.

"I'm… Hmmmm…" She wanted to say something to them. However, it was all so puzzling, she wasn't sure if she could be able to put it all together. But maybe one person could. At least, she hoped he would. "We should ask Professor Ozpin. Maybe he knows something about all of this."

"Good idea." agreed Yang, followed by the other two girls as they nodded. No doubt this was going to take some higher power to help them understand the circumstances of the events. If the great Ozpin himself would not be able to give them any details, then he would at least have some form of action to get things straight.

For Ruby, however, she couldn't help but wonder. If this monster had backup, then more would be coming, right? She prayed on, hoping that such a conclusion could never be met. Otherwise, she would have to find a way to settle it once and for all.

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Elsewhere in the forest, not far from the battle, a lone creature was spectating the scene from another grove of trees, where light could not reach other than the small openings between leaves.

Madame Odius was studying the confrontation between Ruby and Toma Bomba to see for herself if these Huntresses were as formidable as her unexpected allies had told her. So far, she was duly impressed.

Certainly, these warriors were quite powerful enough to take on a troop of Kudabots and a lone contender on their own. Together, though, would be the one thing that she would have to watch out for.

"Interesting…" She stroked her chin, fascinated yet curious as to how she was going to deal with such powerful warriors. Perhaps even the Power Rangers would have trouble catching up with their speed and weaponry. These weapons, large and surprising, would make them all powerless to stand a chance against the Huntresses.

Wait a minute… Could that be true?

"Odius!" Her observation was interrupted when a strict yell roared from behind her. It wasn't loud enough for the four humans further away to catch on, but Odius was surely annoyed. The cry was all too familiar to her.

Looking behind, she found that the one and only Ripcon was right behind her. The one person she did not need to see right now. The bad-tempered General marched his way towards the otherwise scheming and quiet soothsayer, eager to yell at her ear for her disobedience.

"Galvanax is currently waiting for your news!" he blabbered. "Why have you not reported to him yet?"

Odius cursed within herself. She had forgotten about Galvanax. What was the champion going to do with her if she was going to leave him in the dark too long? He would have gone down there to pulverize her for being uninformative of her whereabouts.

Of course, he had to send the bigmouth to find her. It was not as gruelling as what would come if Galvanax himself was to show, but Ripcon was no pleasing matter.

"You darn fool, Ripcon!" She hushed him as quietly as she could. "You will give away my location!"

"Like I care." Ripcon crossed his arms, staring at Odius with a look of dissent. "You've been taking too long. Galvanax is still waiting to hear how your alliance is going so far."

"It has only been a day!" complained Odius. "How could he-?" She was going to rant against Galvanax for his impatience, but knowing Ripcon was such a tattletale, she would be wise not to complete that sentence. "Never mind."

The moment she got cut off by her own realization, Ripcon chuckled slightly. How he enjoyed watching someone as mischievous as Madame Odius to stumble in humiliation.

"So, what are you going to say now?" Ripcon asked arrogantly.

"I have a reason to delay my meeting with our brave warrior." explained Madam Odius. "I am to meet with our new allies right now."

"Well, where are they?" Ripcon bellowed, seeing no one anywhere near him other than the witch in front of him.

"Oh. I see you've brought some company, Madame Odius." Then, the two aliens heard a devilishly quiet female voice. As they turned around, Odius relief had finally arrived. The posse of human collaborators had arrived to meet their new company.

Ripcon stared unbelievingly at the three humans, a woman backed by two more younger ones. Three kids. That's all there was. Just three young teenagers. Though, it could have been worse than six of these tough children. Still, if Madame Odius truly thought the group was worth working with, he might had been going nuts.

"Aahh. There you are, my new allies." Madame Odius welcomed the trio of shadowy teens. Cinder, however, refused to return the gesture with a warm heart.

"Cut to the chase, Madame Odius." Cinder spoke. "Why have you brought us here?"

"Gather around, children." The alien brought the humans together with her and the newcomer with the group. Mercury and Emerald took one good look at the strange ancient-looking warrior they had first met. All they got in return was a startling snarl from the General, spooking them up.

"So, what took you lot so long?" asked Madame Odius, though Cinder could sense a taste of impatience from the creature's voice.

"Yeah. We kinda have some plans of our own right now." answered Mercury with a sheepish grin.

"What? And lose the opportunity to get our mutual plans in order?" Madame Odius came over, creeping towards Mercury and gently stroking his chin. The touch made the boy's skin shiver to the core after the feeling of the cold and shaky hand uncomfortably tickled him. Emerald couldn't help but grin evilly at her partner's suffering. Once Odius let go, he let out a nervous exhale before the soothsayer met up with their leader. Odius shifted her body back, allowing the presence of her reluctant ally to be welcomed.

"This is my associate, Ripcon." She introduced the General to them. Ripcon walked to look at Cinder in the eye regardless of what she was capable of.

"So, this is the filth that we are forced to rely on?" He approached the humans trying to promote superiority with his larger figure and demonic voice, taking on Cinder like she was nothing but a defenceless little girl. "What are you supposed to be? Some sort of witch? Like someone we know?"

But when Ripcon was about to continue, he was suddenly cut off by a single spark from the snap of Cinder's finger, igniting a fire that nearly burned his face. The alien General stepped back from the warning, earning a evil snicker from Odius.

"Take a guess." Cinder taunted back before snuffing the flame out by loosening the power to her hand.

"I warned you, Ripcon. Do not underestimate these humans." reminded Madame Odius. "They're certainly not like the ones we're so used to."

"Yeah, I prefer them scrambled and running for their lives…" agreed Ripcon begrudged and humiliated.

"Why are we not getting the chance to meet your master?" Cinder took her turn to ask a question. It was strange for Madame Odius having another meeting like this, when the alien herself promised one between her and Galvanax. "I'm sure we could have arranged our meeting with him instead of his underlings."

"Galvanax does not have the time to be dealing with humans like you, but he will be watching our partnership as it develops." said Ripcon.

"But only if you decide to keep your word on giving us this 'Aura' in which you possess." added Madame Odius.

"Ahhh. A trust exercise, I see." Cinder touched her chin in anticipation. This could be quite the partnership and a challenge to prove her cooperation to her allies. She would need to exercise caution if she was to ensure that nothing went wrong with this mutual agreement. "Very well. We shall not disappoint him."

"Your revolution is in good hands, my dear Cinder." assured Madame Odius, but the last words sort of ticked Cinder off, causing her to glare at the monster with her glaring fiery eyes. The chilling fear from the human's gaze was just as powerful as Galvanax's own furious rage, instantly reminding Odius to not mess with her.

"You call me that again, and I will be forced to repeat the same punishment I gave you earlier." Cinder reminded her that rude comments would end with agony on her part. Odius stood back, managing to maintain a calm posture to her apology by raising her hand out.

"In order to carry out our plan to hunt down your enemies, Ripcon will provide the champions we need to help incite chaos to this world. They are all combat-ready and will be prepared to wreak havoc." explained Madame Odius.

"You mean, like that ugly troll you sent to fight that Huntress?" Emerald called with a sly grin. "Doesn't seem like a champion to me."

"We did not anticipate that your enemies would be that powerful." countered Odius. "But fear not. This can only mean that our warriors will have to give it their all."

"What? Did he like go easy on her or something?" added Mercury. "That brat was clearly all over his toes the whole fight. He was only lucky to have survived a whole team of those Huntresses."

Suddenly, Ripcon pulled out his swords and pointed them both at the two smack talkers, instantly shutting them up in panic.

"We'll see who's lucky when we show you the rest of our glorious combatants." After being satisfied of them knowing their place, he sheathed his blades back in his holsters, leaving the two to breathe out from their dread from those shining and sharp silver blades. Now, they should really not mess with a tough guy like him.

"Very well. Then I shall prepare to assist your warriors anyway we can." acknowledged Cinder, willing to allow the inclusion of several monstrous creatures into her plans. "I have many contacts across the city of Vale. They will be… cooperative in your assaults. One way or another…" She then put in mind her own cohorts throughout the city. They may had been weakened by the resolve of the Huntsmen and Huntresses of Beacon, but Cinder was willing to move on with her schemes.

"Then I will inform Galvanax of the next move. Just in case of any possible friendly fire…" Ripcon informed Cinder of his own next move. He was just willing to see what Galvanax would do with Odius after her month-long absence. "We wouldn't want our alliance to be shattered because of a few misunderstandings, would we?"

"I like this guy." Even after nearly feeling the cutting power of Ripcon's blades, Mercury and Emerald could learn to like someone of power over the one being who defeated them in battle the day before.

"Yeah. He's got the spunk." Emerald followed up with her partner's praise.

"Finally, I get to have some respect around here." Ripcon placed his hands on his hips with pride building up.

"Ah ah ah. You're losing that respect, pal." Mercury spat back, naughtily twiddling his finger in a as-a-matter-of-factly manner. "Don't push it."

"Grrgh…" Ripcon snarled. This was going to be one heck of a partnership.

"Very soon. We shall get what we need, and you will have this world under your control." Odius extended her hand out to shake Cinder's, assuring the woman of the fruit they would bear from their combined efforts.

"Good." Cinder agreed, accepting the exchange.

With things done, the two sides were ready to part, prepared to make their next move against their enemies. Both of the parties left each other to their own devices, ensured that their alliance would be able to fulfil the conditions they needed.

Unfortunately, that left one side oblivious to the other's intentions.

"Last chance, Cinder. You sure we have to work with these clowns?" Mercury whispered, looking back at the departing aliens making sure that they were out of earshot. "The more they come, the creepier it gets. And I'm really not liking the looks of it."

"Don't be alarmed, my comrades." Cinder calmly convinced her partner. "I'm sure that their presence here will cause enough trouble to Ozpin and his worthless students. Perhaps even the army won't be able to find it so easy to get rid of them. Such huge creatures would indeed become powerful obstacles against the whole student body for that matter."

Mercury looked to Emerald, who gave him a shrug of her shoulders. She too could not figure what could happen with this alliance with monsters of a game show.

"Besides, even if they fail to impress us, we will make sure to use whatever we can to reach our goals. They shall become expendable when we see fit…"

Meanwhile, Ripcon and Odius were prepared to return to the Warrior Dome to report to Galvanax. However, Ripcon was still uncertain about the arrangement between Galaxy Warriors and this human menagerie of dark figures.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" he asked Odius. "Galvanax is still not very enthusiastic about this arrangement with some humans. Even if they could cast some magic spells, do acrobatics or change weapons from blades to guns, I still don't like this either. Thought the last part sounded impressive."

"Why worry so much, Ripcon?" asked Madame Odius.

"You know why!" Ripcon answered exasperatedly. "Our champion failed to defeat a little girl! And not a team of them. Just one! And now we have to deal with a whole army of them. It's like dealing with the Power Rangers times ten!"

"And we will side with the people who shall assist us in our mission." reminded Odius. It did not make Ripcon feel any easier, but she probably wouldn't care any less. "Don't worry about them, Ripcon. I promise that when this is all over, we shall allow our glorious champion to seize the power for himself and perhaps, with some opportunities… rule this world."

"Yes…" Ripcon agreed. "For once, Odius. You actually managed to impress me."

"Haven't I always?" A quirky remark put the General back in his usual end of her taunts.

"Speaking of the Power Rangers, I'm just glad they aren't here to spoil our fun. They won't be able to find us even if they have to travel all the way to the planet Onyx to do it."

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As Ripcon and Odius disappeared from the forest, at the battleground from which Team RWBY had finally left from, something else was watching from the top of a tree.

Standing on the branch with great balance, another lone figure just sat there, probably watching the whole battle earlier. After a while, it finally decided to jump down on the grassy ground, still eyeing the remains of the last battle; fallen Kudabots and craters formed from the explosions.

Then, he was joined by another figure coming out from the trunk of the same tree the former was at. The two figures came together to discuss what had transpired over the past few minutes.

"Gee, Brody." spoke the latter being. "Why did we not help that girl?" It then came over to the light, revealing itself to be a human-sized robot built with red and white armour, walking over like any robot would.

The other being was then revealed to be a young human, almost the same age as the Huntresses, dressed in a red shirt with white undergarments coming out from the sleeves.

"What? You saw it for yourself. She totally aced it against that monster. Plus, she had backup." The boy named Brody Romero spoke to his robotic partner, Redbot.

"But shouldn't we at least try to help?" Redbot told him again "It would seem like the logical way to…" Suddenly, the robot was interrupted by a finger from Brody to his thin mouth slot.

"We can't, Redbot." From his previous humorous tone, the boy changed to become more serious, emphasizing his own logic on the robot. "At least, maybe not yet." The two then walked over to the battered patch of land.

For the whole time, Brody watched the whole fight take place and the mysterious little girl with her… Giant scythe-blaster hybrid? He couldn't find the perfect way to describe the huge weapon she was carrying. He saw as she, with great effort and precision, was able to single-handedly took on one of Galvanax's warriors and his backup before the intervention of her friends.

"The way I see it; we probably shouldn't reveal ourselves to this world until we know if we can trust these girls." He knew they had to conceal themselves from any local from these parts, no matter if they could become potential allies or not. At least, until the moment was right.

"They sure look formidable and friendly to me." remarked Redbot.

"Yeah, but still. we'll just have to wait a little more, Redbot. I'm sure we can be friends sooner or later." Brody came over to pick up one of the Kudabot's fallen spears, twirling it around in his casual mood. "Besides, we have to keep looking for Galvanax, or any of his cronies before anything terrible happens to this world."

"I guess that's the decision you want to follow. I would be frying my own circuits if I don't have your back." Redbot saw no reason to argue with the human he had befriended all this time.

"Dad always used to say, 'A ninja must be patient, no matter what the situation.'. So we'll wait until we can get to know these fighters better and see if they would like to help us in our fight." Brody then threw the staff down; the blade piercing down on the ground and the hilt sticking upwards. "I just hope Galvanax doesn't send another monster to cause more trouble."

"You know what else I hope for?" said Redbot, placing his fists at his hips. "That the rest of the team can find their way around this place."

"Hey, we're ninjas!" Brody tapped his friend's shoulder, assuring him that more of his friends who were also in this world with him were in good hands. "There's nothing we can't do. We'll always find our way around new places. Fear no danger, Redbot. Fear. No. Danger."

Then, Brody noticed something wrong with his robot friend. He stared at him, noticing sudden frantic movement in the form of his shivering hull. Redbot couldn't say anything to him for what he saw behind Brody scared the operating circuits out of him.

"Except… for that giant scorpion coming our way!"

Brody's eyes widened, curious at first, but Redbot's description made him turn around quickly to find that he wasn't kidding around.

"Whoa!" There, he saw a massive white scorpion-like creature with bloody red eyes and a golden stinger at its tail, glowing brightly and pointing dangerously at the duo.

Then, when the scorpion set its sights at them, it shook its stinger before it lunged it forward at the robot.

"Look out!" Brody yelled as he leapt into action, grabbing Redbot and throwing himself away with him before the stinger could harm them. It stabbed on the ground, barely missing its targets.

Brody and Redbot landed roughly away from the creature. After stopping, they then slowly rose from their fall, turning to face their attacker. Fear began to envelop them with the hairs on Brody's skin jolting up from the sudden terror.

"Are you OK, Redbot?" He called for Redbot. The robot dusted himself up before hiding behind his human companion.

"A-affirmative. My circuits are still functioning!" Redbot reported before he trembled at the sight of the monster they were now facing. "What is that thing?! My scanners cannot identify this creature!"

"Maybe it's one of the local wildlife. And if you ask me, it wants a good bite out of us!"

With great bravery, Brody defiantly stepped out at front to defend his friend from the giant arachnoid creature. The scorpion clamped its large pincers at the human, showing its staggering might and deadly arsenal. Its stinger, freed from the ground, began to wriggle more from the lustful desire to kill.

"D-does it f-f-find robots tasty?" Redbot stuttered. Brody just stared at the scorpion, displaying no fear on his part, as it was now full-on courage that took over.

With one push of his body strength, the human boy moved his hands for his belt buckle. Then, from out of it, he two items from it. The first thing he pulled out was what looked like a metallic red star twice the size of his hand. It had a yellow centre with a hole inside that seemed to be an insertion point for something. The other hand held a smaller star, half his hand's size, which was also red all over. At its surface, it had something of a red helmeted warrior with a blazing four-bladed star plastered on its face.

He pointed the smaller star at the monster while the larger one was moved to his back.

"Who knows and who cares? Whatever this thing is, it's not going to stop us!" Brody then swung his arm with the small star and inserted it into the middle hole of the other star, locking it in place with a twist.

He then thrust the device forward and raised his free hand upwards. Finally, he then gave that hand one mighty lunge and it grazed through the small shuriken star to spin into a blazing fire.

"NINJA SPIN!"

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TO BE CONTINUED…

So at the end, I decided to use a monster not from Power Rangers, but rather from the show's source material, Super Sentai. I use this technique in my other Power Rangers story, Power Rangers Hexagon, where I would look through the list of Japanese monsters from Super Sentai and find out which ones were not used for Power Rangers when it was adapted. And since ToQger was never adapted into Power Rangers at all, it's safe to say that its monsters are safe for me to adapt without clashing with other potential appearances. Also, it so happens that one of the Ninja Steel villains, Cosmo Royale, was actually also from ToQger instead of Ninninger (Ninja Steel's Japanese source), so what a coincidence it was for me to choose other villains from ToQger to be used in this story XD

R98: Your prayers have been answered! And soon, we shall see how in the next chapter.