GammaTron: ...Okay...so our reviewers better guessers than I thought.

ZER0: Knowing the internet...we just gave them enough to narrow it down to what fanservice filled series fits the mold.

SZ: Eeyup, so...we may need to bump this story up to am M rating…

Z0: Not...really...I mean, we're not exactly gonna do more cursing...or nudity...or bloody murder…

GT: True. But well...the game involved with the Bugster...involves clothes being torn to shreds...except for bras, panties, and boxers/briefs.

Z0: *raises eyebrow* What were you two knuckleheads planning?

GT: ...I blame ON! *flees*

Z0: *snaps finger as GT runs into the door* Guys...that's what happens in the game, it's not like we're gonna enforce that rule. Mainly because I'm not that entirely interested in the concept. Besides the rule of that type of Fan service is subjective.

SZ: Oh...so to the one who posted that suggestion...we're not gonna go M rating.

Z0: Besides the M rating is more for if you plan to curse a lot, and or show more explicit content. While the game itself is M rated due to the fact it relies on just the fan service for the rating, we don't exactly have to bring that out. That's all I have to say about it, GT you still okay to write?

GT: *disoriented and slurred voiced* Meema~ The razz berries are rebelling against the monkeys in the ballroom toilets~ *collapses*

Z0: He's had worse.

SZ: Yeah...ahem. Anyways, we don't own anything in this story aside from OCs and OC Bugsters. Now...let us begin!

(Cue Opening: This Will Be The Day

They see you as small and helpless

They see you as just a child

Surprise when they find out that a warrior will soon run wild

Prepare for your greatest moments

Prepare for your finest hour

The dream that you've always dreamed is

Suddenly about to flower

We are lightning

Straying from the thunder

Miracles of ancient wonder

This will be the day we've waited for

This will be the day we open up the door

I don't wanna hear your absolution

Hope your ready for a revolution

Welcome to a world of new solutions

Welcome to a world of bloody evolution

In time-your heart will open minds

A story will be told

and victory is in a simple soul

Another calm and peaceful morning at Beacon. The students all began to drag themselves from bed and prepare themselves for the day ahead: classes, studies, combat practice. All of that and more awaited them, but first... The daily morning rituals for many of the students. For one such girl mornings where once a calming time, but as of making some...interesting new friends. It has changed into something much more interesting.

"You'll never take me alive!" Kiriya shouted as he was being chased by an angry Weiss.

"Wait until I catch you, Kiriya!" she shouted.

"Guys wait!" Emu called out as he chased them down.

Blake held a mug of tea up as she just watched the scene slowly grow into greater chaos as somehow Yang and Jaune got involved, which dragged along Nora and Ruby...and only seemed to snowball further and further into insanity. She sighed, taking another sip, as, once again, the lounge for their dorm had become a miniature warzone of nonsense.

"One normal morning...Is that too much to ask for around here?" Blake sighed to herself.

"This is normal for me most mornings, even before Beacon," Ren admitted, sitting beside her while drinking his own morning tea.

"Ack...Meijin...help!" Kiriya gagged as Weiss strangled him.

"I've heard normal is relative...but this has to count as not normal," Blake admitted bluntly.

"Ah...ah…" Emu gasped for air, dragging himself up onto the table and taking a seat across from the two calm friends of his before letting his head fall onto a pile of napkins, "I don't know why I bother at times...It's like Kiriya won't be happy 'till he makes someone so mad they snap."

"Meijin seriously, help! Help before she goes total ice queen on m-ACK! COLD!"

"Weiss no! We talked about this! No murder!" Ruby cried, trying to pry her partner off Kiriya.

"Grandpa...is that you? ...I didn't think you went up that way…" Kiriya groaned.

"No, Kiri! Don't walk towards the light!" Nora exclaimed.

Blake facepalmed, giving a sigh of annoyance at it all.

"Well...at least it's only the start of the day." Ren sighed.

"So all it can do is...is go up from here...oh god, these friends are gonna be the early death of me." Emu groaned, "Yang...why did you punch me in the kidney?!"

"Eh, why not?" Yang shrugged, which only earned another facepalm from Blake.

"Can't….Breath…" Kirya wheezed out.

"Weiss, no!"

"Weiss, yes!"

"I'd give anything for this to end…" Blake groaned to herself.

"I can make that happen…" Emu groaned, "Professor Hanaya said we have early class today because of a test." he spoke up, making everyone snap to attention.

"What?! Why didn't you say so sooner!?" Weiss snapped as she let go of Kiriya and ran out.

"Ahh! Air...sweet blissful air~!" Kiriya exclaimed.

"Well I didn't say so because it's not true." Emu grumbled, rubbing his head, "I just know what makes her rush off faster then Ruby when you say the C word."

"C word?" Rwby repeated.

"Oh, that's easy!" Nora smiled.

"Hmm?"

"Wait Nora please…" everyone began to say.

"COOKIE!-!"

"Cookie?! WHERE?!" Ruby exclaimed, pulling her weapon out as she looked frantically around the room, "Where?! Where the cookie at?!"

Blake did not put her hand on her face. This time...she hit her head on the table, groaning in annoyance.

Parad plugged the Bugvisor into a computer as he scrolled through lists and streams of code. He typed away madly until he found what he needed.

"This should be fine as it stands." he muttered, looking over at the Bugvisor as he hit the A button, causing a stream of orange mist to shoot out, "Hey, Fritz!"

The door before the orange mist slid open and one of Torchwick's hired men entered, "What do y…" he inhaled the mist, "?!"

"You stole the wrong version I asked for," Parad stated, holding up a Nintendo 3DS inches before him, "I wanted Ultra Sun, not Ultra Moon."

"But...aren't they the s-"

"Finish that sentence…I dare you," Parad growled, "5AM! I have to get up at 5AM just to get my cute little puppy into an awesome orange wolf! I can't mess with the clock on my system or it'll mess up my other games and lock me out of daily events for days at a time!"

"Hey Parad…" Graphite began as he entered and saw the scene, "Nevermind…" he quickly replied as he left.

Fritz grit his teeth as he eye twitched, inhaling more of the mist unknowingly, "So? You're more focused on that game, so why should it matter?"

"...Matter? Why should it matter?" Parad's eye twitched, "It matters, I am a completionist! I finish everything and anything, this is the will of a Gamer!"

"It's a game meant for little kids!"

"...Did…?" he blinked before he unleashed another burst of Bugster Virus mist right into his face, "For that...you pay."

"?!" Fritz began to convulse as the Bugster virus took effect.

"Oh it can't be that bad, Dragon Breath. I'm sure the kid's...just murdering someone...ugh...Gonna need to hire more folks." Roman groaned upon seeing the scene.

"He got the wrong version and insulted the entire franchise," Parad informed, unleashing a few more blasts of the virus into Fritz's face.

"I keep telling the recruits don't insult games in front of the tech kid...but do they listen? ...No!" Roman groaned while walking out, "Gonna need to ask Beasty boy to send us over some temps."

Fritz gave out an agonized cry as his body convulsed further while it appeared to be glitching out. After a few more moments, his body broke apart into data, leaving behind a new figure that slowly stood up.

"Are you done killing humans now?" Graphite knocked on the door.

"Yep," Parad replied before offering a hand to the figure, "And welcome to your new life."

"Really...this is who you went with?" Graphite blinked, seeing the new figure, "Just...why?"

"I can explain," Parad quickly responded.

"This better not be one of those fantasies you're trying to make a…"

"Oi-oi-oi! I-It's not like that!" Parad sputtered, blushing now.

"Sure it's not…" Graphite crossed his arms, "I knew we never should have let you have at those M rated games."

"Just listen to what I have planned, okay?" Parad did his best not to whine in embarrassment.

"I'm listening…"

"It's like trying to explain things to a pesky older brother with you."

"I question the fact you're kinda older as well…" Graphite argued.

"Grrr...will...will you just let me explain already?!"

"Oh by all means. This has just been a bit to get back at you for turning our telecommunications room into your personal game room."

"...ugh…" Parad groaned, "Look, we know where those guys are living right now, right? And that one guy knows what you look like, right?" he motioned to himself and the new figure, "So why not send in spies?"

"Hm...interesting," Graphite nodded in understanding, "I can see your point. Spy on their progress and comrades and search for a weakness to exploit before we finish them off once and for all. Sneaky and not my style, but I respect it as military strategy."

"Yep. And what better way to spy than with one of the best?" Parad grinned.

"Parad...you know I don't know the game she is from…" Graphite reminded.

"Only because you took one look at the poster and said 'nope' and just walked away without letting me try to explain."

"Ugh…" Graphite groaned, "Just...Just go and get fake documents set up already…And don't forget to make a color-themed last name for her."

"Wait, why?"

"I don't know! The Humans just enjoy that nonsense!" Graphite snapped.

"Come to think of it, even your name…" Parad began before Graphite's giant double ended dragon fang sword was embedded in the wall next to him, "Message received…"

"Now class, now that we have covered the Great War, let us cover a new topic shall we?" Dr. Oobleck spoke quickly as he moved about quicker than most of the students could follow, writing forming on the blackboard the instant he went by, "Now let us speak of a unique kind of Hunstman that first appeared in Menagerie; the Ninja." Blake's eyes looked at Oobleck as he was now before his desk, "Who here can tell me where ninja came from? Any guesses? Come now, show a hand! Mr. Lie, yes! Good on you!"

"They were simple farmers at first," Ren replied.

"Yes, exactly! Simple farm folk who toiled day and night for the upper class of society. They decided to fight back. They utilized simple tools and reforged them into weapons that can counter those of their oppressors. These everyday people who fought back and became something which modern society enjoys as a great mythical warrior of sorts. Accurately or not," Dr. Oobleck noted, "Now then, for something to coincide with this, each Team is going to have their Leader come down and pick a name from this hat." everyone blinked and a hat was suddenly in Dr. Oobleck's freehand, filled with slips of paper, "Your Team will have one week to study the character or group that is on the paper and prove that they are either accurate ninja or inaccurate ninja."

"Wait...you want us to disprove if someone who is famously called a Ninja...fits the actual mold of one is meant to be?" Kiriya asked, "Unfair. Team RWBY has an actual Ninja!"

"Wait, what?" Blake blinked twice as quite a few other students were all looking at her.

"Oh come now, Mister Kujo. That is just exaggeration."

"Actually...not that Kiriya's random shouts make sense often...but to Blake's credit...she can be rather...ninja like," Emu spoke up.

"Yes. 'Ninja like.' But truly a ninja? That is something that needs to be studied further before you can say whether she is one or not," Dr. Oobleck replied, "Now come. Team Leaders line up please. Once you all have your slip, we'll continue to discuss about the history of the ninja."

Soon, class ended for the day. The three teams were some of the last to leave with Jaune, Emu, and Ruby all looking at the slips they got.

"So...What do we have, Fearless Leader?" Nora asked.

"Some guy named Hanzo from a game called Overwatch," Jaune replied.

"Ahh~" Emu complained, he really wanted that one.

"What did you get, Emu?" Pyrrha asked.

"Some bat guy," Emu replied as Nora peeked.

"The Batman?!" Nora gawked, "Aw man~ So lucky~"

"What about you, little Red? Who'd you draw from the magic hat?" Kiriya asked.

"A girl named Asuka. There's a name, but the source is rubbed out," Ruby replied, showing the bottom of the slip had a smear followed by 'Senran Kagura,' "So I don't know if she's from a book, a show, or something."

"Wait a tick…" Kiriya lifted his shades, reading the name, "I think I know this...hehehehe...Hahahaha!" he began laughing happily, "Oh god...You have to tell me when you show the other two what the series is!" he pointed at Weiss and Blake.

"Huh?" Ruby blinked twice.

"I'm lost too, Ruby," Emu added.

"Wait...what!?" Kiriya blinked, turning to Emu with wide eyes.

"I've never heard of this 'Senran Kagura' thing," Emu admitted.

"I think I have...but I might've been distracted by my sisters about the latest Dancing game when I heard of it," Jaune added.

"Meijin...how do you not know this? You're the master of video games. Genius Gamer M is your literal title!" Kiriya spoke, still shocked.

"Oh...so it's a video game…!" Ruby realized.

"I don't know...I'm mostly a pro at competitive games." Emu shrugged, "Most other things are for fun." he frowned at his slip, "And I have no idea who this guy is we're supposed to write about."

"How have you not heard of the Batman?!" Nora threw her hands up in disbelief.

"So...you're a video game nerd...but not comic books?" Kiriya asked.

"Nope," Emu shook his head.

"...Well...we're in deep trouble with this assignment then," Kiriya sweatdropped.

"Hmhm." Nora smiled, "Not necessarily. There is a game that will handle your issue perfectly."

"Eh!? Really? A game that will teach Meijin everything?!" Kiriya gawked, "Wait...I know that look. It's the 'you want one of us to do you a favor' look, isn't it?"

"Maaaaybe~"

"I wouldn't risk it…" Ren spoke, "It's probably enough to know there is a game for you to find."

"Aw, Renny~" Nora whined.

"Hey, Blake, what do you…" Ruby began before she noticed Blake was gone, "...Where'd she go?"

"Told ya...Ninja!" Kiriya laughed.

"Or she got tired of all this and left to go read something," Emu offered, "Also, wouldn't the correct term be Kunoichi?"

"...How…"

"I've played a few of the Disgaea games."

"You means those tactics RPGs that are massive grind fest?"

"I don't see your argument…" Emu blinked, confused.

"The max level for those games are 9999, and the stats go up to ridiculous levels."

"Ehehe...I know, right? They're awesome." Emu smiled happily.

"So to be clear...rather than Senran Kagura...you spent your days grinding a game 'till you hit level 9999!?" Kiriya asked.

"I still don't know what that is." Emu replied, making him toss his arms up in exasperation.

"Think those two kunoichi from the Dead or Alive fighting games, but more in a sc-" Kiriya began.

"Isn't that game filled with fanservice?"

"What's your point?" Kiriya asked, annoyed he was getting interrupted.

"I mean you're comparing this Senran Kagura game to a game filled...with….it's a fanservice game too, isn't it?" Emu deadpanned.

"...no…?"

"It is, isn't it?" Weiss deadpanned.

"...It also has Dynasty Warriors Style fighting in it?" Kiriya offered.

"They run around half naked, don't they?" Yang asked.

"That's...possible debatable with one of the characters," Kiriya admitted, "…Then again, who has time to look when she starts kicking with with those rocket boots of hers,"

"Uh-huh…" Almost everyone replied.

"I'm telling you guys there's more to it then that!-!" Kiriya snapped.

"Sure it is…" Yang deadpanned, "Though rocket boots do sound pretty awesome…"

"As fun as messing with Kiriya is becoming, we should get to work," Ren offered.

"Good idea."

"...Eh. Might as well try and look up info on it," Yang shrugged as she pulled out her scroll.

"Sure that's a good idea?" Kiriya asked as he walked off with Emu.

"Oh relax. I…" Yang began as she pulled up the series, "...Oh...oh wow…"

"What did you find?" Ruby asked.

"Nothing," Yang quickly replied as she pocketed her scroll.

The Black Ex-Aid watched Parad work furiously at a computer. The Doppelganger Rider arrived to check on the progress of his associates, only to find Parad hard at work at making fake files and a full history for someone.

"What...what is he doing?" he asked, walking up to Graphite.

"Making fake papers for his newest friend," Graphite replied, "He is sending humanoid Bugsters in undercover."

"Humanoid...interesting plan. With the amount of RPG series in his files, he should be able to summon forth characters not even Ex-Aid will automatically recognise."

"True."

"So...Who is he making the papers for now?"

Graphite pointed to the new Bugster, looking around.

"...Are we sure that he didn't pick her because of him fulfilling some sort of personal fantasy?" The Black Ex-Aid bluntly asked, "I mean, his body is that of a teenager...maybe he has virtual puberty."

"Very tempted on deleting the entire Megaman X games on here!" Parad threatened, not once looking at him.

"Don't! I just finally found the entire collection, and the spin off RPG game!"

"Sometimes I wonder who's the worst video game nerd?" Graphite muttered to himself as the two began arguing.

"Let me see~!" Ruby begged.

"No." Yang denied.

"We need the info to study~!"

"Uh-uh," Yang kept her scroll out of reach of Ruby.

"I'm...with Ruby on this. Why…" Weiss began before Yang quickly showed her what was on her Scroll, "...ok. That's just unfair."

"What? What was it?" Ruby asked, "Was it a weapon far more cooler than what we use? Did it transform into a bigger weapon? *gasp* Can it combine with other weapons?!"

"...We need to go see Dr. Oobleck and ask for a different character and series," Weiss informed.

"What? Why?" Ruby asked.

"Trust us!" they both shouted.

"...No. I wanna know why! Why are you to so adamant on not letting me see?!" Ruby demanded as she tried reaching for Yang's Scroll again.

"I'll let you see them when you're older."

"Aw man…" Ruby pouted with her arms crossed under her chest and puffing her cheeks out, "You and dad always say that…"

"Just...trust her on this," Weiss added, 'Ugh...seriously, not...fair. Practically half the girls in that image alone were...ugh! Who would make a series like this?!'

"Guys, I lost Meijin!" Kiriya shouted, "I showed him the games Nora told us about...and-poof!-he vanished."

"Eh?!" the girls gawked before Ruby noticed Yang's arms were down.

"...Chance!" Ruby beamed as she snatched Yang's Scroll and ran.

"Dang it! Look what you did, Kiriya!" Yang snapped.

"I'm freaking out! How do you lose a person into thin air?!" he snapped back in response.

"Is there any reason why Emu nearly ran me over to get to the game systems?" Blake asked, carrying a Scroll that she gave to Yang, "And you're welcome, Yang."

"Oh...thank god...For a moment, I was worried I'd have to explain puberty to Ruby," Yang sighed in relief.

"Yang...she's not that young. You and your dad can't possible shelter her forever." Blake pointed out, "I mean...one of your friends is...this." she pointed at Kiriya who had calmed down knowing Emu was...well alive and proceeded to clean his ears like an ape.

"Oh Blake, Blake, Blake…" Yang shook her head as she put her hand on her shoulder, "You clearly have no idea how much conviction my dear old dad can have in these scenarios."

Blake raised a brow.

"Come to think of it, why does it seem your father babies Ruby...and yet you are well...you?" Weiss pointed out.

"Well...I think it's because I got upset when I was nine, and he unlocked my Aura for my ninth birthday since it's a family tradition, I triggered my Semblence and hit him between the legs," Yang shrugged, "Don't fully remember why I got upset, but I think it involved cutting my hair."

"Well that somewhat explains it. But why does he treat Ruby...like well...a sheltered kid? She runs around swinging a giant scythe and has a strange obsession for weapons that at times...borders on unhealthy."

"Caught her having a tea party with Crescent Rose?" Yang asked.

"I saw nothing…" she quickly replied.

"Well...look at her," Yang noted, "She's like a little puppy at times and, well, when dad told her the Tooth Fairy isn't real…" she tapped her chin, "Come to think of it, I can't fully remember what happened. All I do remember is lots of cuddling a sad Ruby and cookies and strawberries."

"In short, Little Red is so innocent that both Dad and Sis agreed never to ruin it… They couldn't take the crying," Kiriya shortened.

"Says the jerk who told her that the Dust AK47 dad keeps on the mantle doesn't talk," Yang deadpanned before both of them shuddered.

"We lost a week and had no idea how that happened..." Kiriya admitted, "Also I thought you were over that after you knocked out my wisdom teeth as payback!"

"It'll take more then teeth that I don't get cash from for putting it under pillows to make me get over losing a week and missing the prime time event on the TV that I had been excited to watch," Yang deadpanned.

"I said I was sorry!"

"No, you didn't!"

"Oh, I didn't, that's right…" he nodded to himself.

"Can we get back to focusing on why you don't want Ruby to see a picture on your Scroll?" Blake asked.

"Oh right," the others nodded.

"Yang...show her," Kiriya smiled in anticipation of her reaction.

Yang rolled her eyes. Taking the Scroll offered by Blake, she brought the picture back up and showed it to Blake. Blake raised a brow.

"Okay...So you don't want her to feel inferior to the figures of seven of these girls and feel sympathy for the shortest?" Blake asked.

"No that's this one." Kiriya pointed at Weiss.

"Hey!" Weiss scowled.

"If I had to guess, you and your dad still don't think Ruby can handle suggestive content?" Blake asked.

"A little for me; a ton for dad," Yang admitted.

"Well she has to learn sooner or later. I mean the clothing you wear normally wouldn't seem out of place in this." Blake added.

"She got you there, Yang." Kiriya added.

"..." Yang looked back and forth between the picture and then down at her clothes, "...Huh...True. Then again...with the outfit the smallest one is wearing, Weiss' would fit, too...maybe Pyrrha's...okay, maybe a lot of Huntresses could have outfits meant for this franchise."

"My point exactly." Blake sighed, crossing her arms, "It'd be better to slowly introduce her to these things so she's not a grown woman who doesn't understand things she should know about...like modesty."

Yang sighed, "Fine, fine. I get the point. But I am aiming dad at you if things go south."

"I'll just say it was Kiriya's fault." Blake smirked in response.

"Hey! Only Yang gets to do that!" he complained.

"So we're keeping this as our assignment?" Weiss asked.

"Well I'd rather we take something else, but I guess in the end this could help Ruby," Blake spoke, "And inadvertently Yang."

"Hey!" Yang scowled.

"So I think it would be good to keep this, if at the least a benefit could be helping Ruby mature," Blake added as Weiss agreed with the suggestion.

"Right. And Kiriya, aren't you going to go find Emu?" Weiss asked.

"Oh, right!" Kiriya nodded as he ran off to the common room for the dorms, "Yo, Meijin, are…"

"I finished the game!" Emu informed, sitting before the TV with game controller in hand.

"...You work fast," Kiriya blinked twice.

"Next game!" Emu cheered, pulling out another disk as he flung it into the game player just as the first one ejected.

"Only you, Meijin," Kiriya rolled his eyes with a chuckle.

"Okay, Ruby, you want to know what this is about?" Yang asked, holding her Scroll.

"Uh-huh!" Ruby nodded, Team RWBY in their dorm for the night and in their pajamas.

"Well, I got the first game on here," Yang informed, holding a 3DS to Ruby, "Have fun."

"Yay!" Ruby cheered as she grabbed the 3DS...only for Yang to not let go, "Uh…" she tugged, "...Uh, Yang?"

"Let it go, Yang," Blake sighed.

"Mmm…" Yang struggled with herself before finally letting go at the same time Ruby tugged and sent her self tumbling into one of the beds.

"I'm okay!" she cheered.

"Okay, Ruby, now there's a reason why Yang's been trying to not let you play this," Blake noted, "But Weiss and I think you're more than ready for the content."

"What is it?" Ruby asked after hearing that, "Is this one of those games that start nice but then get Super creepy after a while. Where the nice girl turns out to be a crazy stalker?"

"Wait...what?"

"It's this scary net game Emu's been playing at night. I watched him play once...and MAN did it get creepy fast!" Ruby explained, "We had to stop after a while 'cause it was really creepy for a visual novel."

"I'm afraid to ask…" Blake admitted.

"..." Yang reached for Ember Celica when a glyph cut her off.

"No…" Weiss scolded.

"But…"

"No…"

"If anything this shows she can handle things you didn't expect," Blake noted.

"So I get to play it now?" Ruby asked.

"Go ahead," Blake replied.

"Yay!" Ruby cheered as she opened the 3DS and turned on the game, "Huh...A lot of these girls have boobs like Yang."

"Huh, Kiriya was right…" Blake muttered.

"Ah! She has a parasol that turns into guns?! Oh wow~!" Ruby smiled as stars formed in her eyes.

"And like that...we have nothing to worry about," Blake smiled, "Notice how when weapons are involved, everything else becomes...pointless."

"Oh my gosh! She has rocket boots! How c-SIX SWORDS?! She can use SIX Swords?!

"Ruby, anything else you notice?" Weiss asked.

"No, not really why? Oh wow~ That's so cool! She uses 3 swords in each hand like claws! Uh...anything else I should pay attention to?" she blinked, looking up for a second.

"OH I don't know...some of their outfits maybe?!"

"Yang has worse in her closet at home." she muttered, half heartedly.

"Hey! That is not true!"

"Yeah, yeah whatever." Ruby shook her hand at her team, "Boss lady's gonna be busy."

"Just remember to study the character named Asuka in there, Ruby," Weiss reminded.

"Ooh~They can interchange their-EEK!" Ruby freaked as she jumped into Yang's arms with wide eyes, "Giant pink bunny!"

"Oh come on! Of all that things, that's what freaks her out?!" Weiss snapped.

"To be fair...Our ex-neighbor had a pink rabbit that actually attacked Ruby when she was four," Yang admitted.

"Exactly how many things are wrong with the two of you?" Weiss asked honestly.

"Okay...So Ruby is not allowed to play as this Hibari character since she uses the 'giant pink bunny,'" Blake noted.

"Make it go away…" Ruby cried.

'This is going to be a long assignment…' Weiss and Blake sweatdropped.

"Okay...so he uses bows and arrows to fight…" Jaune noted, looking at some gameplay videos for their character.

"Says that they got rid of this one arrow that performed a shrapnel attack," Pyrrha noted, looking at an article on her Scroll.

"That seems like a bummer," Jaune admitted, "That sounds pretty useful."

"True. Ren, what do you think?" Pyrrha asked, looking over at Ren as he was just staring at a picture of Hanzo, "...Ren?"

"Hmm?" he blinked, coming back to his senses, "I'm sorry. What?" he shook his head a few times.

"You...were pretty quiet there for a while there. Is something wrong?"

"Oh! It...it's nothing," Ren replied.

"Are you sure? You've never done that before Ren." Pyrrha added, "If anything's the matter you can always tell us."

"No, really. It's fine." he replied, "I was just lost in thought all of a sudden. I don't think it's worth worrying over. Maybe all the crazy hijinks are just finally catching up with me."

"Like with Blake?" Jaune asked.

"I guess," Ren replied, giving another glance at the image of Hanzo, drawing his bow's string back with arrow notched...and all he heard was a demented shriek of a monster and a man's final cries of life amidst a city in flames. Ren shook his head again at that, "Maybe I just need a little air. How about I go get us some snacks?" he smiled to his friends as he stood up.

"Good idea."

"Well that was...odd. And this is Ren; he's our pillar of normal." Jaune pointed out once their friend had left.

"I guess it was only a matter of time," Pyrrha admitted.

The next morning was...rather interesting for our group of young heroes. After all nighters of studying - if one could call what they did 'studying,' that is. After completing their normal homework and studies, they all focused on researching whatever character they had been assigned for this Ninja study assignment. Most just spent the night watching films, playing games and reading graphic novels. To some...it was the best homework assignment ever. To the more studious, however, it was just bizarre.

"Seriously you played all night and nothing but the bunny strikes you as wrong?" Weiss complained, walking alongside Ruby.

"Nope," Ruby replied.

"Not even some of the more...questionable…'weapons' they had?" Weiss deadpanned, recalling one had a squid replacing an umbrella as an alternate weapon and another getting a paper fan on a stick to replace an axe-like blade.

"Haha...I know. Weird, right? But alternate skins will do that sometimes." Ruby laughed, "I mean come on, Weiss! You act like there is something very wrong about this game. It just seems silly to me. I mean, that's not how clothes work...silly game designers."

Weiss sighed as she facepalmed.

"Ah...man, that was a fun night." Emu smiled as he walked up alongside them, "Who thought playing a game about a man dressed as a bat and beating up criminals would be so much fun?"

"I did~!" Nora cheered, popping up between him and Kiriya, "But those Riddler things are such a pain to find in City, right?"

"Oh you have no idea. Quite a few of those were real brain scratchers, but I got 'em all." Emu gloated proudly.

"How was looking up your character?" Yang asked.

"It was kinda cool. Especially when he summoned two dragons from an arrow," Jaune grinned.

"Yes. It seems the series is rather popular with a good list of diverse characters." Pyrrha added, "Though...Ren are you sure you feel alright to go to class today? You seemed really distracted last night." she turned to their resident silent member.

"It's okay. I'm feeling much better," Ren assured, pulling out a drink bottle with a green mixture in it, "I have a nutritional smoothie on hand. It has a few roots, bacteria from wheatgrass, beets, lettuce, spinach..."

"Blech…" Nora and Ruby shuddered in disgust at how...healthy...it sounded.

"Boy, you drinking a salad!" Kiriya gawked.

"Well it does seem healthy," Emu spoke, "Gives the proper energy for the day and easy to process the vitamins and minerals while also bolstering immunity."

"Than you. I'm glad someone understands it," Ren nodded as they soon got to their seats in Professor Port's class.

Once the bell rang, Port looked around, "Now, class, before we start, we have a pair of transfer students to introduce."

The professor moved to the side, revealing two kids around their ages had been behind him. One was Parad, wearing the male Beacon Academy uniform and tugging on bits of it with a raised brow. The other was a young girl with long black hair pulled into a ponytail while he wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses. She wore the female Beacon Academy uniform, but was also modified with the white replaced with a rich black. A few of the males in the class were the first to notice she had a generous figure with a slim waist, firm behind, and ample chest.

"These are Kagura Shade and Parad Phlox," Professor Port introduced.

"Greetings," Parad smiled happily.

"Hello," Kagura bowed.

"Our new students come to us from Mistral. They will be studying with us as new students for the rest of the year. Please treat them as you would your fellow classmates," Port informed before looking around, "Now let's see...ah. Right these beside Emu and Kiriya will do nicely. Please take the empty seats by them, you two, and we'll get started on today's lecture."

"Of course," Parad smiled as they walked up and took the seats.

"Hey," Kiriya smirked to the new girl sitting next to him.

"Down boy," Weiss ordered as she smacked him with a book.

"Now then, let's begin today's class with an interesting story about the time Dr. Oobleck, Professor Peach, and myself encountered a Beringel on a trip to Atlas," Port spoke.

"And like that...nap time," Kiriya spoke as he replaced his book with a pillow, took off his shades, and let his face fall down on the pillow.

"Ah…" Emu shook his head as he turned to the new students, "Hi, I'm Emu Hojo." he greeted politely.

"I know," Parad smiled, "Genius Gamer M, everyone knows you back home. It's a pleasure to finally meet you."

"Hi! I'm Ruby! Welcome to Beacon," Ruby greeted.

"Ah...Hello," Kagura nodded, "A pleasure to meet you."

"And so that is why Professor Peach, Dr. Oobleck, and myself are banned from Atlas and why Professor Peach has a fear of heights and Beringel," Professor Port wrapped up his tale, "Now then, who is up for this week's Grimm?" he looked around before seeing Kagura holding up a hand, "Ah. Ms. Shade! How wonderful of you to volunteer!"

"So what do you think we're going to see him bring out this time?" Yang pondered as Kagura went off to get changed.

"This time?" Parad repeated.

"Professor Port catches Grimm and has a student fight one," Yang explained.

"And I'm the only one that got stuck with a frickin' dragon," Kiriya grumbled.

"I said I was sorry."

"You. invoked. Murphy."

"I think I'm gonna like it here," Parad smiled. 'I hope Graphite doesn't take my leaving as excuse to do whatever…'

"Riot!" Graphite, in his monster form, roared as he chased after the criminals who worked around his hideout.

"What's going on in…" Torchwick began as he looked in, only to pull away slowly as he saw the carnage that was going on, "Ugh...why do I need to watch the monsters? All while Gamer Boy goes to live school life...for some reason."

=Rar-rawr-rah?= Bowser replied on the computer screen nearby, a caption program reading out 'Because he's getting insider information on the Academy?'

"Oh yeah…" Torchwick recalled before ducking under a thrown grunt, "Just wish he stayed and sent another human-like Bugster out there…so he can stay here to keep dragon boy from going adrenaline crazy."

"WHOO!" Graphite roared as he threw a couch.

"Aw come on! That was real Mistralian leather!"

"Are you ready?" Port asked as Kagura stood before a cage, the girl wearing a black skirt, black stockings with pouches on the sides, a black blouse, and a tiny black cape like Glynda's while she had a nodachi on her back.

"I am."

"Then face your opponent!" Port declared before shooting the lock off the cage and quickly jumped behind his desk...just before the lights turned off.

In the dark classroom's cage, two three-clawed hands reached out and grabbed the sides of the cage. Giving a gurgling snarl, a Grimm stepped out of the cage. It appeared to be a Beowolf at first, however its head was shaped like a cobra's, hood included, while its back and snake-like tail had bone spikes growing down them, seemingly soaking in any visible light.

"A Shadewolf," Jaune gasped, "In Taddle Quest, they can cast a Darkness Spell, causing a Blind Status which makes it nearly impossible to hit them."

"But in real life, they absorb light to make it hard for anyone to see them," Blake noted as the area around the Grimm grew darker to the point no one could see it at all.

The dark area tensed before shooting out, engulfing Kagura. The girl giggled before throwing a tiny sphere onto the ground, creating a large flash of light and a loud bang. The Shadewolf screeched as it stumbled back from Kagura. The dark-haired girl grinned before becoming a blur and appeared behind the Grimm, nodachi partway out of its sheath. She slowly slid it back into its sheath before, with the final bit clicking into place, the Grimm collapsed in two, cut vertically down the middle.

"?!"

"Owie…" Ruby groaned, covering her ears, "Why did it have to be so loud?"

"..." Blake's eye twitched as her ears were still ringing loudly from the flashbang.

"I still can't see…" Yang complained, rubbing her eyes.

"She used a Flashbang to illuminate the area and both blind and deafen the Grimm…" Ren noted, lowering an arm he used to block the light, "Giving her time to strike."

"A very tricky and sneaky trick," Kiriya replied, lowering his shades, "I think she out-ninja'd Blake."

"Why do you keep calling me a ninja?" Blake complained, rubbing her head around her bow.

"You like dark clothing, your weapon is a sword that becomes a ballistic chain scythe, you make copies of yourself and have an underhanded way of getting out of anything...and everything." Kiriya listed.

"Kusarigama," Ruby corrected as the lights turned back on, "Her weapon turns into a Kusarigama."

"That was a fast victory, Ms. Shade," Port applauded, "While it was an excellent use of flashbang as a distraction, mayhaps a bit of advice? Please try to not use those in an enclosed space such as the classroom."

"What did he say?!" Jaune shouted.

"Jaune…" Pyrrha sighed with a smile as she wrote something down on paper: 'Wait until your ears pop, please. And please speak quietly.'

"Oh...you got it, Pyrrha," he nodded in a quiet tone.

"While we didn't get to see all it could do, you all have your homework for tonight: a team report on today's Grimm. Class dismissed!" Port informed, "And take those who have trouble with hearing or seeing to Professor Hanaya, please."

"What did he say?" Jaune whispered.

Kiriya held up a sign reading: 'You're gonna die of ruptured ear drums.'

"..." Jaune looked at Pyrrha.

"..." Pyrrha held up a paper saying 'OK' before covering her ear closest to Jaune.

"NOT FUNNY!"

"Ow~" Kiriya groaned, flat on his back and his ears ringing.

"Well, despite the vision and hearing loss, that was pretty cool," Yang smiled as she walked out with her sunglasses on to both help her eyes slowly adjust to light again and because they look cool.

"The new girl seems to be really talented," Weiss admitted, who seemed to be one of the few who got away from class with almost no issues whatsoever.

"I didn't get to fully see her sword…" Ruby pouted before adopting a thinking pose, "Do you think she'd let me look at it if I asked her?"

"...There better not be a tea party with it when I go to the dorm later," Yang deadpanned.

"Yang! I'm not that excited...I mean it's a nice sword...but it's just a sword. It's not something cool like a sword that can turn into a gun...or spear...or axe...or use fire and ice like Gashacon Sword…"

"We get it. You like big mechanized weapons of doom and destruction," Yang sighed with a roll of her eyes and ruffled Ruby's hair.

"Ah! Yang, no~!"

"Still that was some surprising skill. Not many people can act that fast against a rare Grimm like that," Ren added.

"I know, right? She was just like 'blink' and into action and going all kungfu on that thing!" Nora added, "You know, in retrospect, was the Flashbang really needed? If she was that fast, she could have done it without it. At least then, we could see how cool she looked. Oh...maybe she's shy!"

"Not exactly. In Taddle Quest, the Shadewolf is immune to all damage until you use a Light Spell on it," Emu noted.

"Emu...that's a video game," Weiss reminded, "Unless it's a Bugster, it doesn't count."

"The Boarbatusk," Emu recalled.

"...Th-that doesn't count!"

"The dragon," Kiriya shot a glare at Yang.

"I said sorry!"

"I demand more than a 'sorry,' woman!"

"Mr. Dan...seems to know a lot about Grimm," Jaune added, "I mean, so far he's programmed in weaknesses that more or less are what works on the real deal Grimm they are based on. Maybe Light Magic is just a replacement for something like a flash of light from a flashbang or Dust weaponry?"

"Ugh…" Weiss groaned as they entered the cafeteria and saw Parad playing on a 3DS while sitting beside a large pile of candy being eaten by someone behind it.

"Oh my...that can't be healthy." Pyrrha spoke as Jauna and Kiriya stared in shock.

"Oh...my…" Nora paused as she stared at all the sweets, "Gimme…" she spoke as Ren held her back.

"Yummy~!" a little girl's voice awed, muffled from something.

Blake leaned to the side to see a little girl in a tiny version of the female Beacon Academy uniform with short black hair and glasses munching away at the pile. She didn't wear shoes and she had a open bag with several red orbs by her.

"Um...Parad?"

"Her Semblance lets her alter her age from her current to younger," Parad explained, not looking up from his game, "Ah! My Croconaw! Darn you, Salandits…" he sighed, "Why did I go with a Nuzlocke?"

"Eh!?" Emu shouted as he rushed past Jaune and Kiriya, knocking them over, "You play Nuzlockes?!"

"Only when I complete the game first. Then I go back and do a Nuzlocke if I liked the version enough," Parad replied, "And right now, I'm livid with a pair of male and female Salandit that know a Dragon-Type move that took down my Croconaw." he pressed a few buttons, "Drown, you stinkin' non-evolving gecko."

"So cute~!" Ruby and Nora squealed upon seeing Child-Kagura.

"Why are you using your Semblance like this?" Pyrrha asked.

"Candy is sweeter when I'm younger," Child-Kagura giggled after she swallowed the candy in her mouth, "Wanna share?"

"Oh, no thank you." Pyrrha smiled.

"I will!" Ruby and Nora shouted.

"No!" Weiss, Yang and Ren all shouted in panic.

"We're okay, if anyone cares." Kiriya groaned from the floor with Jaune.

"So favorite Gen of Pokemon?" Parad asked Emu, having taken a seat beside Parad.

"I have to admit that Gen IV is one of my favorites...mainly because of Lucario and the Shinx line."

"Luxray should've gotten a Mega Evolution alongside Lucario," Parad nodded.

"I know, right? And what's up with that one Mega Evolution? I swear, he just grew so much fur and they shaped it into a lightning bolt."

"So good~" Ruby, Nora, and Child-Kagura moaned happily, mouths filled with sweets.

'ALL OF MY HATE!' Kiriya and Jaune thought.

"Well...they seem to mesh well with our friends," Blake noted.

"Is that a good thing or…?" Weiss trailed off.

Blake shrugged.

"Well, aren't we the glowing conversationalist today," Weiss sarcastically deadpanned.

"Finally...finished with compiling the data on Ms. Scareltina's Bugster infection," Taiga sighed as he looked at a monitor, the broken moon shining outside his office window, "I'm still unsure if her unique patterns are due to her being a Faunus or from the Bugster being from another game company, though. While it would be a bad thing to have another infected with a Bugster, it would be good to study..." he sighed, "I need to look into this further...If this was a test, this could mean they'll actively choose to infect Faunus from now on. With how different one is from another...treating them the same would be a useless process." something tapped against his foot, "Hm?" he looked down to see a tiny ball, "Wh…" the ball exploded, engulfing the room with a blue smoke, "What?!"

Taiga jumped back from his seat, knocking his chair over, as he moved his arm up over his mouth and nose. He coughed behind his arm as his eyes began glowing, trying to focus and look around. The wall of smoke was too thick, but his eyes slowly transitioned to a different spectrum due to his Semblance...he could make out someone hiding behind the door...but it was too late. He had already inhaled too much gas. His sight began to blur as his body began to go slack. Within a few moments, he collapsed, fast asleep. The door opened once the smoke dissipated and the figure entered. Kneeling down, the figure reaching into Taiga's coat and pulled out the Bang Bang Shooting Gashat before leaving. As the figure walked away, they failed to notice a very small device stuck to the back of the Gashat as it beeped.

"Ah! Where is it? Where is it?" Jaune's frantic questioning was the first thing to awake Pyrrha.

The Mistralan sat up to see her leader searching around the messed up room of Team JNPR for something, "Jaune...is everything okay?"

"Taddle Quest is gone!" Jaune informed before Nora popped out of a pile of laundry.

"Not in the dirty laundry!" Nora called before pulling out a black lacy thong, "But I did find these~!"

"Ah! N-Nora!" Pyrrha shouted as Jaune didn't even pay attention as he began to check under his and Pyrrha's bunk bed.

"What?" Nora asked, confused as to what she did, before freaking out as a spear almost hit her, "Eep! Putting them back down..."

Frantic knocking erupted at the door. Ren came out of the closet where he was either searching or hiding from the chaos; and opened the door.

"Have you seen our Gashats?" Emu asked, he and Kiriya outside the door.

"Emu!" Jaune ran over, "I can't find Taddle Quest!" he looked over at Kiriya, "Are you pranking me or something, Kiriya?"

"Hey, hey, hey! Bakusou Bike is missing too!" Kiriya frowned, "Besides, that was only once."

"We had to pump Nora's stomach since she ate the cake you hid it in whole!"

"What's going on?" Blake asked after opening RWBY's door across from Team JNPR's door, the other three girls of RWBY groaning in their beds at being woken up so early.

"Oh...we've lost our tools used to save humanity from evil video game virus monsters, so...we can't save people and the world is now doomed. But not until Snipe finds and murders all of us with personal conviction. Other then that? Breakfast is chocolate chip waffles!" Kiriya snapped.

"WAFFLES?! NORA SMA…" Nora whipped out her hammer before Ren pinched a spot on her neck, making her collapse into loud snores.

"Wait. You lost your Gashats?" Blake blinked twice.

"Stolen more like it," Emu spoke, "I...uh...sleep with my Gashat under my pillow."

"You too?" Jaune asked.

"Whoever took it must have nerves of freakin' steel...I hide mine in my boxer drawer," Kiriya smirked, making most of the girls gag at that admittance.

*BANG*

The three teams slowly looked out their doors or down the hallway to see Taiga glaring at them.

"Kiriya...Did you steal my Gashat?" he asked, loading an actual sniper rifle with a bullet the size of his finger, said bullet glowing bright red with fire Dust.

"...That does sound like something you'd do," Blake noted.

"Wait! Wait! Time-Time!" Kiriya panicked as a red pointer light was on his forehead right between his eyes.

"Are you ready to repent?" Taiga asked, cocking the gun.

"Professor, wait! They've lost their Gashats as well," Pyrrha exclaimed.

"What?" he asked with a snarl as two more sniper lights aimed at Emu and Jaune as well, making them yelp at how that even happened.

"Oh! Do you hide your Gashat under your pillow or in your boxer drawer, too?" Nora asked.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I keep it inside my jacket at all times." Taiga groaned.

"What about when you don't have your jacket?" Yang asked bluntly.

"In my boot." he motioned to his combat boots, "Now tell me...why have I tracked my Gashat down to this floor!?"

"You put a tracking device on it?" Emu blinked.

"It's not that special. I also implanted one in Arc's skin...oops…" he realized what he revealed.

"Wait, what?" Jaune gawked, "WHAT?!"

"It's not that illegal…" Taiga countered calmly, "Look...my stuff is here...I'm gonna find it...even if I need to go back to bounty hunting to pay for the damages I'm gonna do to this floor."

'Bounty hunting?!' the students thought.

"Look, you kids don't know this but those things have more power then you know. You could use them to evolve any of the Bugsters from the game they are based on or summon the same one repeatedly."

"...Not again with Salty…" Emu groaned, "Why can't it be the World 7 boss for once...?"

"Emu, focus," Blake ordered before seeing Taiga aim his rifle at a door, "Ah! Professor, wait!"

A faint black aura came off the sniper rifle before it pointed up at the same time Taiga pulled the trigger. The good news was that the door wasn't blasted in, but the bad news was that there was a new hole in the ceiling.

"What was that for?!" Weiss gawked.

"What's going on o…" Cardin growled as he started to come out of his dorm room before yelping as a bullet grazed his cheek, "AH!" he ran back into his room and slammed it shut followed by the sound of multiple locks locking mixed in with nails being hammered into wood.

"..." the three teams slowly looked at Taiga as he reloaded.

"Block the doors!" Ruby called, "Mad Professor on the move!"

"I'm too young and pretty to die!" Kiriya freaked.

"Where is my Gashat?" Taiga growled as he charged down the hallway.

A door opened and a student started to come out. Before a bullet could hit the student, a flurry of rose petals knocked the student over back into their room before Ruby slammed the door shut, ducking under the shot. A door started to open before the handle glowed with a black aura and it was slammed shut.

"...Uh…"

"Shh! He'll hear us!" Ruby whispered.

"?"

"Profesor Hanaya…"

"...Meep."

"What is going on over at the first year dorms?" Glynda frowned, looking out the window of Ozpin's office.

"Hmm…" Ozpin pulled out a tablet and pulled up the camera feed, "It seems Professor Hanaya is shooting at anyone that opens their doors."

"He's what?!"

"It would appear someone stole his Gashat," he revealed, "He tracked it to the dorm, so now he's using any means necessary to get it back before and I quote: 'Some idiot brat gets themselves killed trying to use that thing.'" he quoted, even copying Taiga's gruff gravelly tone of voice.

"Of all the…" Glynda's eye twitched.

"Let it be, Glynda," Ozpin advised, holding a hand up, "We'll deduct the repairs from his paychecks for the next few months. Plus...it is better to let Taiga...be Taiga then let a student possibly hurt themselves with that infernal device."

"Just how much Dust ammo does he have?!" Yang groaned, the hallways littered in scorch marks, broken debris, and even bits of ice.

"How many guns does he have?!" Kiriya shouted as Taiga pumped a shotgun with orange Earth Dust before he shot a burst of rocks at a door, tearing it down; before he began searching the room.

"There was the fire Dust sniper rifle, this earth Dust shotgun, that ice Dust revolver...the lightning Dust derringer." Ruby listed, "He also has some kind of Dust combat knife holstered behind his back and hidden under his coat." she paused for a moment, "...Can I borrow his guns later?"

"If you can find the Gashats...I'll let you keep one." Taiga spoke as he reloaded his shotgun.

*BANG!*

"WHERE ARE THE GASHATS?!" Ruby roared behind a door with a Ruby-shaped hole in it as screams followed.

"...And things have gone from bad to worse," Weiss facepalmed.

"Well...I suppose this is better than someone using our Gashats," Emu sighed.

"How?!" Weiss snapped.

"Well if a normal person without the compatibility surgery tried to use a Gashat...they would...well…" he trailed off.

"Dead! Gone! Six feet under! Dressed in wooden nightgown! Gonzo Kemosabe~" Kiriya listed bluntly, "You ain't like us...just turning the darn thing on would kill ya! If not instantly then slowly and painfully as a Bugster forms."

"Ulp…" Jaune paled.

"Okay... yeah... That's kinda worse than...this!" Yang panicked, "Why didn't you guys tell us those things are deadly to normal people!?"

"We never thought we'd lose them!" Emu shouted in panic, "And please stop yelling at me! I'm already panicking as it is!"

"I'll yell all I want!" Yang countered.

"Stop yelling, you dolts!" Weiss snapped at them.

"I didn't find it in the bullies room!" Ruby called out running by.

Taiga nearly kicked open a door before noticing the number on it. He knocked twice gently and Velvet opened the door.

"Yes? Oh, good morning, Professor."

"Do you remember the item you asked me about taking a picture of?"

"Your transforming gun with the two buttons?" Velvet asked, her ears sticking up.

"Yes."

"What about it?"

"I'll let you take as many pictures as you want in trade of you looking in your dorm room for a set of device," Taiga informed, showing a picture of Bang Bang Shooting, "Do not touch the black piece on them."

"...One moment," Velvet replied before she closed the door.

"...Okay...I'll bite," Yang noted, "Why did you knock instead of knocking down their door like all the others?"

"Because no one likes to see startled Velvet in tears if Coco has her handbag around," Taiga admitted, "I'm bad...but that's 'no more Dorms at all' bad."

The door opened and Velvet poked her head out, "Coco's annoyed with it all, but I checked everywhere and there isn't anything like that in here."

"Thank you, Ms. Scarletina. I'll contact you when I have time to give you your chance to take pictures," Taiga thanked.

"You're welcome!" Velvet beamed before going back in.

"...You sure it's not because you like bunny girls?" Kiriya asked.

"No, that's Hojo."

"Wh-What?!" Emu stammered while blushing.

"No he's right…" Kiriya nodded.

"Why do you two chose now to agree on something?!" Emu complained before hearing another door being crashed through.

"WHAT THE HECK?!"

"NOT IN HERE!" Ruby called as she ran out and through another door before Parad poked his head through the Ruby-shaped hole, wearing a pair of blue and red PJs.

"...This too early for this crud…" Parad grumbled before noticing the time, "5AM?!" he opened his 3DS and pulled his head back in, "I'm getting that Dusk Form."

"Uhm...Emu?" Yang blinked.

"Video game thing," he explained simply.

"Ah…" Yang nodded before Taiga kicked open Team RWBY's room, "What?!"

"Hey, you can't…" Weiss began before Taiga flipped over Ruby's pillow...revealing Bang Bang Shooting, "...Ruby?"

"NOT IN THE JANITOR'S CLOSET!" Ruby called, dashing by before Taiga's hand shot out and caught her cloak by the end, causing her to gag and fall flat on her back.

"Ruby...Rose…" Taiga growled, slowly turning around with his eyes glowing brightly.

"That's freakin' terrifying!" Nora screamed in terror.

"Ruby! Why is the Gashat here in our room?!" Weiss snapped.

"Howzit?" Ruby blinked, sitting up.

"This…" Taiga showed Ruby the Gashat, "Was under your pillow."

"What?!" she shouted, "No, wait! I swear I…"

"You didn't what?" Taiga asked, "Steal my Gashat? Hide it in your room and then faked your dumb act to get me to believe it wasn't you?"

"Well...with due respect, sir...it's not an act. She really is dumb," Weiss added.

"Hey!" Ruby spun around to Weiss, knocking off the pillow on Yang's bed...exposing the Bakusou Bike Gashat.

"The heck Yang?!" Kiriya snapped.

"Wait, what?!" she shouted.

"So the two sisters are thieves..." Taiga glowered at the two, his eyes glowing ominously while pumping his Shotgun.

"No! Wait, hold on! I didn't steal nothin'!" Yang shouted, "I would never steal that thing!"

"You would after Emu found out he can summon a bike by just plugging it into the finisher slot of his belt," Kiriya pointed out.

"Wait, it can?" Yang spun around to Kiriya.

*BANG!*

"Enough!" Taiga growled before hearing a wall crack, "..." the ropes holding up Weiss's bed ripped out of the damaged wall from Taiga's shot, breaking Ruby's bed underneath it while also tossing off Weiss's sheets...letting Taddle Quest clatter down to Jaune's feet.

"W-Weiss?" Jaune looked at Weiss with shocked eyes, "Y...You took Taddle Quest?"

"What?! Don't be absurd! That would imply I walked into your room and put my hand under your pillow…" she responded with a look of disgust, "Nora says you leave all your laundry around your bed! As if I'd ever get that close!"

"Some of that pile's Pyrrha's," Nora noted before flinching under the look Ren gave her to be silent.

"And from this pattern…" Taiga grabbed Blake's pillow and threw it off, revealing a book, "...Ms. Belladona, you are aware that Ninjas of Love is a banned book on the campus, correct?"

"That's not mine," she denied quickly as Yang and Weiss just stared at her while Ruby blinked, confused as to how a book could be banned. .

"So Blake didn't take Mighty Action X?" Emu asked.

"Oh-hoh-hoh~ Ninja girl's kinky," Kiriya chuckled before Taiga opened it and showed them the inside was hollowed out...exposing Mighty Action X inside of it, "...And a thief."

"Ahh!" Emu screamed before falling over.

"Yes...disappointing," Taiga nodded.

"No! I read one of the pages!" Emu explained.

"Oh, meijin…" Kiriya facepalmed before everyone froze at Taiga cocking his gun.

"You four…" Taiga growled, glaring at Team RWBY in pure rage, "Ozpin's office with me...NOW!"

"But we didn't…" Yang began.

"No negotiations…" Taiga growled as he tossed the Gashats back to their owners and put his back in its pocket in his jacket.

"But…" Weiss began as she looked to see the others trying to not look at her.

"Just go with him," Jaune spoke, Weiss flinching a little at his, surprisingly, cold tone before he walked out.

"I'm...just gonna...go be me," Kiriya added as he left, "Good luck in prison, Yang!"

"Ugh…" Emu groaned while getting up; he looked at his Gashat and then at the girls, "..." He sighed before looking at the hollowed out book in Taiga's hands, "Those pages are really worn out...like if she reads this a lot?" he realized, looking between it and all of Blake's other books, "Hm…" he pondered as he was the only one who followed after the four girls and livid professor.

"Ah. Good morning, Professor Hanaya," Ozpin greeted before seeing Team RWBY behind him, "...Or not so good morning, it appears."

"I found the stolen Gashats." Taiga stated simply, "In the very last place I looked no less. Any guesses as to who's room it was?"

"Really now?" Ozpin glanced at the four girls, "I'm rather surprised, in all honesty."

"I can't say I am...then again, I hardly trust most people." Taiga explained.

"So then...you want me to expect these four girls here somehow made a knockout gas so strong it put you under? A man whom I personally know has once gone weeks without sleep, and developed an immunity to certain toxins? And these girls knew how to make a gas too strong even for you?" Ozpin asked with an arched eyebrow.

"You're aware of Ms. Schnee's connections," Taiga informed, "She could use them to create that and send it to her in private."

"Hmmhmm…" he thought for a moment, "True." he admitted, "However, that would require her to go a few steps up the ladder as it were...and I hardly feel she has the desire to make that unpleasant call." he argued, "But...then how did the other girls grab the others then? Did they sneak into their friends rooms in the dead of night? These girls who are often in your class just under the wire due to sleeping in? You also want me to believe they had the knowledge of where the Riders hide them at night?"

"Nora Valkyrie," Taiga stated.

"..." he glanced at the girls with a raised brow.

"She knows things…" Yang sighed.

"Oh...well then I guess he has you on that one, girls," Ozpin apologised, "I'm afraid not even I know how to counter that one. Honestly vexes me each year when we have that one student whose name alone explains so much."

"..." the four nodded slowly.

"But I do have one simple question, Taiga: What was their motives that you theorize on their supposed stealing?"

"Ms. Rose has a...fascination with the weapons made by the Gashats; Ms. Xiao Long would most likely figure out how to modify her own motorcycle to be powered by Bakusou Bike, and Ms. Schnee...considering Atlas has been trying to obtain a Gashat of their own for 'research'..."

"Let us not bring up that topic…" Ozpin quickly spoke, "That theory is not acceptable in my office." he took a sip of his hot chocolate, Taiga looking away with a look of annoyance, "Still...You found the Gashats in their room?"

"Underneath their pillows...and in a hollowed out banned book in one case," Taiga informed as he put said book on the table.

"Hmm...Ms. Belladonna, even if your team does get off, this is a contraband, so you'll still be dealing with a smidgen of detention or a week in ISS, if there are...ehem more," Ozpin informed, showing the inside of the book's cover had her name written.

"..." Blake just rubbed her arm...ashamed to really say anything at the moment.

"Keep in mind that this is more a big school in general thing...I personally don't care for what students read or view for...entertainment." he coughed, "But rules are rules after all, young lady."

"Ozpin...you and I both know what that thing is…"

"WHAT IS IT!?" Ruby shouted, tired of everyone seeming to know what this book is while she didn't, before flinching under the cold harsh glare from Taiga.

"I'm afraid, Ms. Rose, that you're not allowed to know. If it helps anything, your father not signing that permission slip is the reason," Ozpin informed.

"Dad…" she groaned in annoyance.

"Ozpin…" Taiga sighed trying to get back on topic.

"Taiga...I'm afraid you haven't been making this easy for me." Ozpin countered, "You have done this before mind you...Yes, I know you found the Gashats there...and that these girls could maybe have a reason as to why they stole them. But in the same instance, we also have to remember these girls are friends with the Riders; And thanks to their continued help and support, they are still around and proving you wrong about them. I am inclined to think these girls are innocent until firmly proven guilty. Before you say anything...no. Much like when you were 18...your gut instinct is not proof."

"Grrr…"

"Now, girls, I feel you need to return to your dorm and get ready for the day," Ozpin informed, motioning that they were still in their sleeping clothes.

"I wondered why Weiss was extra short…" Yang spoke.

"Hey!"

"Ozpin, you…" Taiga began once the girls left.

"This was an attempt at subterfuge," Ozpin stated.

"What?"

"Taiga, you are a brilliant fighter, a warrior, and a Hunter... but you are not a General," he sighed, "You are not the strategic leader type, I'm afraid. You are impulsive and follow your instincts...at times I'm almost sure your Id is controlling your every action. But a general in combat could tell what this is: this is an attempt to ruin the names of others and turn them against their allies." he went on, "I'm sure that their friends are confused and wondering why...and I'm certain that those among them who trust them utmost know the same thing. In fact...come on in, Mr. Hojo."

"Hojo?" Taiga repeated before Emu walked out from behind one of the pillars in the spacious office.

"Hi…" he awkwardly greeted.

"How did he...?"

"You would not believe how easy it is to sneak around after playing stealth games for over 24 hours straight." Emu spoke, "I jumped up to the ceiling and used the tall roofs to follow after you guys."

"As for how I know...security cameras. I have them all over the outside of my office," Ozpin replied, "So do you agree with what I've noticed so far, Mr. Hojo?"

"I do, sir." Emu nodded as he walked up and looked at the book, "This book...despite what its about...is something important to Blake. She would never carve it out for something like that." he explained, "I wondered about why they had them...but only when things got to Blake and why she went the extra step of hiding it in a hollowed out book did I begin to wonder. I know them… They are my friends, and yes...Ruby and Yang would probably do those things. But…"

"They'd be very in your face about it," Ozpin laughed a little.

"Majorly. They can't do stealth for their lives." Emu sighed, "Weiss...she's cranky...and kinda mean. But she'd never do that...never."

"Yes, I believe so to be true as well." Ozpin smiled, "But do you know why Blake would steal it?"

"She'd never steal it. Even if she could, she wouldn't. She just seems the type to try things on her own...plus, I don't think pink is her color anyway." he joked.

"...Then if those girls didn't do it, who do you think did, Mr. Hojo?"

"Well...I know it might be rude...but what about looking into our newest transfer students?" Emu asked, "I don't like having to point at people in accusation, but this only happened shortly after their arrival. I'm no detective...but...isn't that, you know...incriminating?"

"True," Ozpin admitted looking up at Taiga who grumbled something, "We'll look into them. How about it Taiga...want to do some digging?"

"...Tsk…" Taiga spoke, as he walked past Emu, "Don't go getting cocky now...You're still far from my accepting you as a Kamen Rider."

"Headmaster, sh…"

"Just be there for Team RWBY at this time, Emu," Ozpin noted.

"Right." Emu nodded as he walked off.

"Ugh...this stinks!" Yang complained as they made it back to their room. Several of their fellow students worked on fixing their doors after the mad search...many of whom that had a Ruby-shaped hole in their door glared at them as they walked down the hall.

"...Sorry…" Ruby whispered, cringing at the glares she and her team were getting.

"I swear if this is someone's attempt at framing us…" Weiss growled out.

"That would make sense...but the next question is why us? Who could be so mad at us to do this? Or what could they gain from deflecting all of this to us?" Blake asked.

"...Good question…" Yang admitted as the group pondered for a bit.

"...I don't wanna accuse anyone, but...maybe it's one of the new students?" Ruby suggested.

"Ruby, that's…" Weiss began before blinking, "...Very plausible…"

"But kinda stereotyped for cartoons," Yang added.

"...Cartoons?" Blake repeated.

"Speaking of new students…" Yang motioned to where Kagura was tilting her head at the Ruby-shaped hole in her and Parad's door while she was carrying two trays with pancakes on them.

"Yes! Finally!" Parad cheered on his knees as he held his 3DS up in the air, "It's amazing! Now to save before the battery runs out!"

"It's like looking at a taller, lanky Emu…" Ruby whispered to her team.

"Maybe he's Emu's long lost brother…" Yang joked a bit.

"But Emu says he's an only child," Ruby blinked, "How could he have a brother he doesn't know about?"

"That's a topic I'm not explaining to her." Weiss muttered.

"...Hmm…" Blake muttered a bit, shooting a suspicious gaze at Kagura as she walked in.

"Come on. Let's go try and clear up our names with our friends..." Yang sighed as she and Ruby began walking, "Blake?"

"Oh...right. I'll be right there." She answered as she gave one last look at the new students.

Kiriya sighed as he sat next to Jaune. He sighed even louder as he leaned against him...and he then sighed even louder as he leaned in so much, he pushed him off the table.

"Hey!" Jaune yelped.

"Oh good. You're paying attention." Kiriya grinned, laying down on the seats, "Good, so you guys ready to find the real thief?"

"Let's break their legs!" Nora encouraged enthusiastically.

"Real thief?" Jaune blinked.

"Well, duh! You were faking you believed it to fool the thief, right?" Kiriya asked.

"...Right," Jaune nodded, 'Aaaaahh!-!-!-!-! Everyone was in on some act and I wasn't?!'

"Alright...so Meijin is working with Ozpin, so we need to think of how we can fix this from our side." Kiriya spoke up, "Best bet...new kids. Ren, you're slick and smart. Anything you noticed?"

"Wow Kiriya...you're...not your normal goofy self." Nora noted.

"Never pick on my friends…never." he spoke, fixing his shades, "I once financially ruined a dick who made fun of Yang while we were walking to school." he smiled.

"What did he do?"

"Let's just say he said a certain word you NEVER call a certain lady." he replied, "Now...back on track."

"Kiriya...has anyone ever told you that you can be scary?" Jaune gulped a bit.

"Eh...just my parents and anyone else who has pissed me off." Kiriya smiled, "Now where was we? Ah yes, finding the people who picked on our friends. So, Ren, got the goods?"

"Well, Parad seems to be an excitable gamer like Emu," Ren noted.

"Cool, cool...and anything on Miss. Curvy-ninja-who-can-turn-little?"

"Nothing."

"Okay we...wait. Nothing?"

"What do you mean?" Jaune asked, equally confused.

"There was nothing on her. And when we tried spying on her...she just vanished without a trace, almost as if she never existed," Ren explained, "She even managed to avoid Nora."

"...I call bull," Kirya bluntly stated.

"She had pancakes, Kiriya, pancakes!" Nora informed, "And I couldn't track her!"

"Meh. I prefer waffles."

"WAFFLES?! NORA SMA…!" Nora began, whipping Magnhild out before Ren pinched her shoulder/neck once more, knocking her out into loud snores.

"Lock your door and windows...actually...barricade them," Ren advised, "With the strongest metal you can find."

"So let me get this right...nothing on this girl at all?" Kiriya asked.

"Yes. It seems this girl is a 'total ghost' as the term goes." Ozpin told Emu who had just come back after being told a discovery was made, "The record was good enough to get her in, but once we dug past middle school...nothing of sorts to be shown. So it seems this girl...is not who we believe her to be."

"So...then I was right to assume," Emu spoke.

"I can't look into these things too often. Searching for people in different kingdoms is not an easy task." Ozpin sighed, "So we may need to be on our toes from here on."

"Yeah..Let's hope Professor Hanaya can find anything on her."

"...You do not have a signed slip either?" Taiga's eye twitched.

"Sorry, sir," Kagura apologized, bowing.

"Well...There goes today's lesson," Taiga snorted as he looked at the class, "Since we have two who don't have signed permission slips, we now have to skip another two chapters. And before anyone asks, blame the Vale Education Committee and not me for why the loss of chapters correlates to the amount of unsigned permission slips." as groans followed, Taiga watched Kagura, 'Observation 1: After being provided information from Ozpin, I'm studying the enigma that is Kagura. Height: 173cm; BWH: 95cm-55cm-87cm. Judging by the lighting of the room...she has no lenses in her glasses.'

Taiga continued to watch the class as he handed out worksheets for them to do. These were for the next chapter so as to prepare them. He walked back to his desk and sat back as he watched over Kagura closely, his eyes flashing for a moment as he switched between spectrums of vision.

'...What are you hiding? Why are you trying to hide yourself...hmm...maybe a quick examination or a sample of her blood will help sort things out…' Taiga thought, "Kagura, mind coming over here for a second?"

"Yes, Professor?" Kagura asked as she walked down.

"There's been an issue with your medical records."

"Really?"

"Yes, so I need to do a quick examination and need a blood sample from you."

"..."

"...Is that a problem?" Taiga asked with a slight frown.

"...No. Not at all."

"Good...then meet me at my office after class." Taiga nodded simply, "You may return to your seat."

"Yes, Professor."

"Okay...so what do we know about our new classmates?" Ruby asked her teammates quietly.

"Two new kids. Tall gamer guy who shares a lot in common with Emu." Yang began, "Then we got ninja girl who is a bit odd. She can change size, and seems she is really fast."

"She loves sweets, too," Ruby nodded.

"A lot of sweets."

"We get it," Weiss deadpanned, "She likes-are you seriously playing that game now?"

"Hm?" Ruby looked up, "No. I finished Senran Kagura last night before bed. This is the sequel."

"How many games of those are there?" Weiss asked.

"Um...I think just the first two on the 3DS and the rest on the PS4 with the latest being a water gun shooting game," Ruby replied, "I looked it up last night, too."

"Wait...let me guess: in the water gun game, they all run around in swimsuits?" Weiss deadpanned.

"Yep! And they all have neat water guns!" Ruby beamed, "Oh, I wonder if I can remake them and challenge Team JNPR to a water gun fight for shooting training…" she went back to the 3DS, "But I wanna finish this first. I'm in the third scroll and…" she paused as the cutscene was playing, "...Uh…"

"Oh thank you! It finally caught up to her what the issue with the game is!" Weiss praised to the ceiling.

"Huh?" Ruby tilted her head, "No, no. But...um…" she quickly finished the level and brought up the cutscene, "Does this little girl look familiar to you guys?"

The three watched the cutscene. It depicted a young woman in orange running...while carrying a little girl with short black hair with red ribbons in it.

"Oh my…" Blake realized first.

"Aw~She looks like Ruby when she was five and I put those ribbons in her hair," Yang cooed.

"No...well...I mean that does sound cute. But look closer, Yang. Doesn't she seem like someone...we've met before?" Blake reminded as Weiss was next to process that.

"...wait...that's….!" Yang began with wide eyes.

"See!" Ruby shouted, "We need to tell the guys!"

"Alright, so we have no clues...no leads...and so far, we know about as much as Jaune during a pop quiz?" Kiriya spoke as he walked down the hall with Team JNPR.

"Ah...hey, that's not fair...I'm surprised because we never know they are coming!" Jaune argued, "Besides it's not like you got any leads."

"Hey...I'm already thinking of revenge. I need someone to be my logic half of the brain and Emu's gone so like it or not it's you, Brave boy." Kiriya complained, "'Cause lets face it, if Emu ever leaves, you're gonna have to learn to deal with me from now on."

"...yeah. Way to put pressure on me…" Jaune whispered.

"Anyway, this means someone who not only knows about our Gashats is here but is a danger as they can clearly just take them off of us in our sleep. Our own home is no longer safe," Kiriya added.

"With that in mind...what can you four even do? If they can attack us at any moment in your safest of places...how can you see their next attack coming?" Pyrrha asked.

"Honestly...we can't." Kiriya sighed, "We just have to hope we can hit harder than them as we have been. Now they are taking a big leap at us. The Gashats are the only thing that can clear a Bugster's game and destroy them 'till they can reforme via reinfecting people."

"If only there was a vaccine for them."

"If only…" Kiriya sighed, "But for now, this is the best we got. So...let's go find Emu and group up. Say sorry to Yang and Weiss and then get to the look for a sneaky bastard." he said, walking into his room.

"Yeah, you can say that...cause you're not the plan guy!" Jaune complained while entering with him; as they did, the door suddenly slammed shut, "Guys…"

"Oi...why'd you close the door? Emu cleans this place!" Kiriya complained, trying to open the door, "It's stuck...locked from the outside...we trapped, Jauney boy!" he panicked.

"WHAT?!" Jaune freaked.

"Guys...what happened?" Ren asked.

"The door is stuck!" Kiriya shouted from the other side, "Open it for us!"

"HELP!"

"It must be jammed with something." Ren said as he jiggled the handle for a bit.

"Can you make it fast please? I'm worried Jaune is gonna projectile worry all over our room!"

"I told you that I don't do that!" Jaune shouted.

"This thing really is locked." Ren spoke.

"I got it!" Nora shouted, kicking the door swinging it open and flinging Ren as he was still holding the door handle, "Open!" she cheered before it slammed shut again, "Oh come on!"

"WHAT'S WITH THIS DOOR?!" Kiriya and Jaune exclaimed.

"And now I'm stuck in here…" Ren spoke up, "Speaking of...Kiriya...why is your half of the room so messy?"

"It's not a mess; it's organized chaos!" Kiriya defended.

"It is a mess!" Ren argued, "Not even Jaune and Pyrrha are this messy with their side of the room in ours!"

"And it just got worse…" Jaune sighed, "Nora, try it again!"

"Hayah!" Nora shouted, kicking the door, but the force of her leg just pushed her back and into the wall, "Owie…"

"It seems to be...really stuck now." Pyrrha sighed, "We're going to have to call someone...or make things worse for Ms. Goodwitch by breaking another door."

"Find a locksmith…" the boys groaned in defeat.

"Oh! Pyrrha, magnet it!" Nora exclaimed.

"Mag-what now?" Kiriya asked.

"Don't focus on them; focus on me beating you in this argument on cleaning this filth," Ren ordered.

"Come on!" Ruby shouted, running out of her room and into Nora and Pyrrha, "Oof!"

"Hi, Ruby!" Nora greeted, "Hey...There's a big pile of weapons about to be melted behind this door."

"WHAT?!"

*WHAM!*

"Ow~" Ruby groaned as she slid down the door, twitching.

"Wow...Not even a panicking Ruby can't break it down," Nora blinked.

"Oh yeah...I broke the door our first week here and we had to buy a hyper reinforced door," Kiriya recalled.

"I'mma kill him!" Jaune screamed, "Let me go, Ren!" he cried in protest.

"Haha...good luck! I tested that one with Yang knocking on the door!" Kiriya smiled, "Yeah, we stuck...Let's just climb out the window!"

"There are bars on the window," Ren noted.

"WHAT?! WHEN?!"

"I'm gonna spend the rest of my life trapped in Kiriya's room!" Jaune panicked.

"Who's crying?" Yang asked as the rest of Team RWBY walked out.

"Jaune, Renny, and Kiriya are trapped in Kiriya's room and Renny's gonna commit murder if Kiriya doesn't clean up his side of the room," Nora explained.

"NEVAH!"

"Is...Is that a sock covered in mold?! It hasn't even been two months since we had these places! How did you grow mold that fast?!"

"Still not cleaning up th-ACK!"

"Ah! How'd he get Gashacon Sword?!"

"CLEAN THIS UP NOW!"

"...Yeah...we should leave," Nora cringed.

"Ren! Please don't murder Kiriya!" Pyrrha called out.

"Thank y…"

"He owes me five Lien still!"

"Aauugh! ALL OF MY HATE!" Kiriya groaned as it seemed he was attacked again.

"Emu's still out there along with Professor Hanaya," Weiss noted, "Let's hurry."

"Oh good the competent Kamen Riders." Yang smirked.

"AH! HE FROZE MY LEG! HE FROZE MY LEG!"

"Ah! My butt's on fire!"

"CLEAN UP THIS ROOM!"

"Emphasis...on competent." the other girls muttered.

"What's wrong?" Pyrrha asked, trying to ignore the other room.

"We think Kagura's a Bugster," Yang informed.

"I knew it!" Nora exclaimed.

"No…" Pyrrha quickly shook her head, "No, you didn't."

"Here's the evidence," Ruby added, showing her the 3DS.

"Wow...Those girls have got Yang Boobies," Nora noted, "Except the gothic kitty girl; she's got Weiss Boobies."

"Rrrr…" Weiss's eye twitched.

"Nora...focus, please. Or at least spend time trying to free the boys," Pyrrha sighed.

"Oh god! Don't attack me here! If I dodge, you'll get us both killed by Meijin!"

"Wait, Ren, stop! You've seen Emu in his wild state! You'll get us all murdered!" Jaune shouted.

"...I thought Ren was the sane one…" Blake sweatdropped.

"Oh, he is. But when he's stuck in a room with a slob and the mess level gets too bad...he snaps," Nora informed, "Now onwards to Emu and Professor Hannibal!"

"Hanaya, Nora," Ren calmly corrected on the other side.

"Him too!"

"Alright...let's see what you're hiding…" Taiga whispered as he held a sample of blood underneath a stethoscope, "Hmm..nothing peculiar here...seems normal...too normal…" he stopped, "Cross check...this is not hers. It's almost as if..." a frown soon grew on his face, "Someone switched it out…lucky for me, I got a backup..." he soon reached into his pocket and pulled out a thin thread of hair, "I was lucky to obtain this before Port had his class cleaned up. Now let's try this again..." he took out the blood sample and put the hair under the scope, "Hmm...son of a…." he lingered as the computer began beeping like crazy. "That sneaky little….she's a Bugst-!" he began before a hand grabbed his neck...and a shock went through his body, knocking him out.

"It's a good thing his aura was relaxed," Parad smiled, "Otherwise that would have never worked." he sighed, "And...she actually left...god damn it... making me hide the body on my own…" he grumbled dragging Taiga off, "This guy is...like...all muscle…" he grunted, "Also, it's rude to leave a guy hanging as he begins gloating...Rude!"

"What do you mean they are trapped in my room?!" Emu panicked as he got a call from Pyrrha, "Oh yeah...I reinforced the door...sorry. That's my bad. But in retrospect, with all our friends it felt like a good call. Last thing I needed was Yang or Ruby barging into the room while I was changing to either steal Bakusou bike or my Gashacon weapons respectively. Also please don't tell her I'm designing a new one…"

=Emu? Emergency?= Pyrrha reminded.

"Oh right!" he snapped back to attention, "Alright...I'll be right there. I have a master key for the door. But for now they are kinda useless in there. You guys go find Professor Hanaya and tell him what you found out. Once I get the guys out, we'll regroup."

=Understood=

"I really hope they haven't broken anything in there…" Emu sighed, rubbing the back of his head.

"Ah!" Kiriya cried in panic, "No Ren! That's Emu's! If you move it, he'll go ballistic!"

"I almost wish we could see what was happening." Yang muttered.

"Uhm…" Ruby spoke as she returned in a sudden gust of wind and rose petals, "Professor Hanaya...is gone."

"Gone? Now?" Weiss asked.

"He's not in his office," Ruby replied, "Not at the shooting range nor the cafeteria nor the forges nor the track…"

"Ruby, those are places you go to often," Weiss deadpanned.

"Your point?"

Weiss facepalmed with an annoyed sigh.

"Oh yeah... Also his office was a big mess, like if someone was struggling." Ruby added, "And I looked at his computer."

"Wait...how?" Blake asked quickly.

"His password is Snipe1…" she revealed.

"How did you find that out?" Yang asked.

"I guessed," Ruby shrugged, "Ah! That's not the point! He proved our point! That girl is a Bugster!"

"Well...I guess that's the good news." Weiss grumbled, "But...where did he go then?"

"Who knows." Yang shrugged.

"There's also a bit of bad news," Blake noted, playing the 3DS, "It depends on if Grimm could act as a substitute of the Yoma enemies in this game."

"...Why do you need to know?" Weiss asked.

"Because it says here that when Kagura kills enough Yoma, her body breaks down into what's called a Reincarnation Sphere."

"Oh! So if that's true, then we just need to find her and drop her in a big Grimm-populated area and problem solved!" Nora beamed.

"Problem not solved. When her body breaks down into the Reincarnation Sphere, there is an immeasurable amount of heat that goes off when it happens, leveling the area surrounding it," Blake informed.

"How much heat?"

"...The city becomes a hole in the ground." she bluntly explained.

"Bad! Very Bad!" Weiss panicked.

"Wait, wait, wait. The whole city?"

"Yang, the main city, including Beacon and the Emerald Forest, is an estimated 1,780 square miles give or take a few square miles. The blast of heat that Kagura will release is recorded to be 1,781 square miles," Blake informed.

"Oh...well...that's not good."

"Oh you think!?" Weiss hissed.

"Okay...so we need to make sure she doesn't kill Grimm then if they are good substitutes," Ruby noted, "Which we live smack dab in the middle of a few areas abundant with them…"

"So...now what?" Nora asked.

"Hey, I know currently I am locked in a room with a cleaning ninja and a panicky knight...but I have one useful thing to say...STOP HER!-!-!" Kiriya shouted/shrieked in panic.

"Right!" the girls replied as they ran off.

"Ugh! This is useless!" Weiss threw her arms up, "We've searched all over the school! Where the heck is she?!"

"Found her~!" Nora called, waving beside an open window.

The five other girls ran over to the orangette and looked out. Standing and facing out towards where they had their initiation was Kagura. However...she looked different as well. She looked older, possibly in her mid-twenties in terms of appearance, with longer hair. She wore a pitch-black sailor uniform/dress fusion reaching down to just above her ankles with the scarf of it being a dull silver.

"And she grew…" Nora added, "So to recap...she can become younger...and older."

"How is she…?" Pyrrha pondered.

"Apparently, she uses Red Orbs to age her to her strongest form," Blake explained, "And she can cough them up to revert to her younger forms and, if anyone else eats one, they'll become a chibi version of themselves."

"You are scary fast at reading stuff…" Ruby pointed out.

"I got her!" Yang shouted, jumping out the window. Yang boosted herself with bursts from her Ember Celica sending her flying directly at her as she readied a fist to punch her, "TAKE THIS!"

"..." Kagura said nothing as she sidestepped, causing Yang to miss.

"Whoa!" Yang shouted as rolled across the ground, stopping herself just short of falling over the cliff.

"If you're going for an ambush, you need to be far quieter. Firing guns and shouting only exposes yourself," Kagura noted.

"Oh great...now she lectures people." Yang grumbled, rolling to her feet, "Alright...what kind of Bugster are you? You're not...a monster."

"Monsters can come in all shapes and sizes. Even humans and Faunus are capable of becoming monsters," Kagura noted before vanishing and letting Ruby collide with Yang while she appeared sitting where Ozpin and Glynda had been when they were launching students into the forest, "I heard the gunshots from your weapon."

"She's...really good at that," Yang grunted while getting up and gently placing Ruby beside her.

"You've been playing the game I am the final boss in. It should be obvious I am not meant to be taken lightly," Kagura noted.

"I don't know. Blake's been playing for the last hour…" Ruby muttered, getting up, "But we know not all your powers can be used out here in the real world. Emu explained it to us!"

"True," Kagura noted, "I can't dimensional travel."

"...What?" Yang blinked twice.

"And I've attempted to use Susanō a few times since I was 'born' in this world to no avail."

"Phew…" Ruby wiped her forehead to sweep away the sweat from her worrying.

"However…" Kagura waved a hand and several red 'tears' appeared behind her, "I can still summon these."

"Move!" a white glyph appeared beneath the two sisters before it pulsed and sent them into the air in time to avoid a barrage of red sword-like objects shooting out of the portal and stabbing into where the two had been.

"All we need now is Ms. Belladona to complete the set of four," Kagura noted in amusement, glancing over her shoulder to see Weiss with her weapon out.

"Yeah, well if I didn't have to save the savant sisters, I might have been able to get a shot in," Weiss complained.

"What'd she call us?" Ruby complained as she and Yang landed in a tree.

"Forget that! She got sticks in my hair!" Yang growled as her hair erupted into flames...along with the tree's leaves around them.

"Ah! Yang! Fire!" Ruby freaked, "It's the treehouse all over again!"

"Savants might be too high a compliment...but they are good at hurting and breaking things."

"I suppose so," Kagura giggled before catching Blake's weapon's blade between her index and pointer fingers without even looking and let it drop to her feet, "You disturbed the grass."

"So stealth is utterly useless on you then," Blake noted as she backed away and regrouped with Weiss while the two siblings of their team jumped out of the burning tree.

"Considering not a single one of you awoke when I hid the Gashats under your pillows, it should have been obvious."

"Speaking of which…" Blake muttered a low growl in her voice, "Why did you destroy my book only?"

"It was filth," Kagura deadpanned, "I only had to read the first sentence to come to that conclusion. That and to see if anyone was smart enough to realize that Gashat was hidden."

"Well...I guess that makes sense." Weiss replied with heavy sarcasm.

"Why us?" Ruby asked.

"Why not you four? You were, outside of those who use them and the three teammates of one, to know of their existence in this academy and each with a good reason to obtain one," Kagura noted, "The weapons, the armor specifications that could be implemented into the latest in whatever Atlas can make, the bike…" her eyes settled on Blake, "Though you...I must say that I couldn't think of a valid reason."

"Don't I feel special..." Blake replied, "So you used our personalities as the motives for stealing the Gashats, dangerous items that would be deadly for us. But then again...if that were common knowledge, your plan would have been a bust."

"Admittedly, yes" Kagura acquiesced, "But that is not all. Please note this...where are the users at this time?"

"..."

"Where are they?" Ruby asked innocently.

"Okay. On three?" Brave LV2 asked.

"Wait, wait, wait. Do we go when you say '3,' or do we go when you say '3' and then 'go'?" Lazer LV1 asked.

"On 3…" Snipe LV2 replied.

"Right," the two Riders and Ren agreed as the four turned to the closed door.

"One...Two…" Snipe counted, "THREE!"

With that, all three shooters began to open fire on the door as Brave stabbed at it with his sword. They continued until the door was covered in smoke from the impacts. The four stayed tense as it dissipated...to reveal an unmarked door.

"...What kind of door did you two buy?" Ren asked as he, Brave, and Snipe slowly turned their heads to Lazer, their eyes all wide.

"Oi, oi, oi! Don't look at me! Meijin was the one who bought it!"

"I thought it was a good idea at the time!"

"JUST GET US OUT ALREADY!" Lazer shouted as Emu was on the other side of the door going through a large ring of keys.

"Locker for the shooting games...locker for the RPGs...locker for the other RPGs…"

"Why do you have so many keys?!"

"I'm sorry I have a lot of things I need to lock up here!" Emu shouted.

"This is why we made the locks electronic to these things!"

"Well I'm not letting that douche Cardin destroy them! Do you know how hard it was to get everything he deleted back?!" Emu snapped.

"Of course it was Team CRDL…" Snipe groaned, "That's it! Next time I see them, they're getting a twenty page report on the history on the doors here in Beacon due in two hours after being assigned it!"

"Wait...wait...wait!" Lazer spoke, "That's it! We don't need to break the door...just the wall!"

"Excuse you?"

"Think about it! If we destroy the wall around the door or next to us, we can get out!" he explained, "We can worry about the demon door later."

"...I swear if this backfires and it comes out of my paycheck...you're getting in-school suspension."

"That's not a thing!" Lazer laughed, "Also...what do you have to worry about! It's our wall! You got your own dang room in the teachers dorm."

"Port and Oobleck are my neighbors to both sides," Snipe rolled his one visible eye.

"..."

"Are you giving me a look of pity?"

"AH! BUST DOWN THE WALL!"

"How?!"

"We have the Rider with the highest defense stat as a battering ram." Lazer looked at Brave.

"Wait...what?"

"Your helmet is double reinforced and layered. You are meant for this!" he shouted, "Well...maybe Meijin's. His Ride Hair is strong enough to deflect missiles explosion."

"Don't ask how we figured that one out," Emu noted.

"Brave, use your head," Snipe ordered.

"Wait, what?!" the sounds of struggling went off, "BUT I DON'T WANT TO USE MY HEAD!"

"Let us say...they are all sufficiently distracted."

"Well...getting them out of the picture seems like the smart thing to do. Their powers are the only thing that can kill you," Blake spoke up.

"Yes, their pesky powers are a burden." She replied, giving a small nod of agreement, "And I'd rather not let them get in my way."

"In the way of what?" Weiss asked, "You're a Bugster. What do you even do now that you're free?"

"Kill the Grimm."

"What?" Ruby blinked, "You want to kill Grimm?"

"Ruby, remember that power I explained?" Blake spoke up.

"My duty has always been to end the Yoma, but since they are not here...the Grimm are more than an acceptable substitute," Kagura informed aas she closed her eyes, "The way they feel...the way they act...their merciless acts upon the lives trying to live...It is what I must do every century that I am reborn."

"But you're not reborn!" Yang pointed out, "This isn't your world. And if it wasn't for that whole

blow up a city thing,' it might not be a bad idea to let you out there...but again. You could waste an entire city!"

"We do what me must, even if it is something we wish to not do," Kagura replied as a red aura began to come off her.

"Now I see why Emu tries to enjoy fighting them...Bugsters are insane," Weiss groaned before noticing Ruby...was crying comically, "Ruby!?"

"E-Even if she's gonna die, she still wants to protect people~!" Ruby cried.

"Now is not the time for that!" Weiss barked, "City! Blowing up! Extreme danger if she kills enough of them! Did you forget that?!"

"I'm sorry! I was absorbed in the emotions!"

"She's insane!"

"We get that you want to continue what you did against the Yoma, but if you do then you're going to most likely go into the Reincarnation Sphere again!" Blake argued.

"And? The meaning of my life is to follow the course of my fate."

"And blow up a city and all the people in it!" Yang added, "Can't you just...chill or something?! I mean, what's so important about following that silly rule from the game?"

"...Yang, that's not a rule. That's canon to her character," Blake noted.

"So she can't just stop because she wants to?" Ruby asked.

"Yes," Blake nodded.

"Well...Then why not change it around?" Ruby pondered.

"Change it around?" Kagura repeated.

"Well...what if we kill all the Grimm before you?" Ruby asked.

"What?!" WBY all looked at Ruby with wide eyes.

"...You must truly be a fool. Such a thing would only be possible if you were stronger than I," Kagura noted.

"Well...I'm just saying…"

"You idiot! How would we possibly do that?! They are everywhere and just respawn faster then they can be killed!" Weiss snapped.

"Hey now...You said that'd only be possible if we were stronger than you, right?" Yang asked.

"Of course," Kagura replied, an amused smile as she crossed her arms under her impressive bust.

"And in Goodwitch's class when you beat up one of Cardin's teammates, you proved you had aura," Yang noted, "So...how's about this? We'll prove our team's stronger than you by beating you 'till your aura shatters! You lose, you're not going to hunt any Grimm!"

"Yang…" Blake spoke up in objection.

"Yang's right! If we can break your Aura, then you gotta promise to not go after any Grimm!" Ruby declared.

"Ruby!" Weiss shouted.

"If we can do that then it proves to her that she doesn't have to go after the Grimm and leave it to us," Ruby explained, "She won't have to blow up and no one will die tonight."

"..." Weiss sighed after a few moments before holding up her blade, "Let me be clear that I'm against this, but to make sure Beacon and Vale aren't destroyed then fine."

"Since it seems like the only viable option we have, no choice but to do it," Blake added, "We need to stop her somehow. But for the record...don't sign me up for something stupid like this again."

"You four young women have a strange sense of humor. Very well," the aura around Kagura collected into a black, red, and gold scroll, "I will consider you a warm up exercise." her eyes snapped open, revealing their color had changed to a crimson red, "Shinobi...Tenshin!" the scroll glowed before engulfing her in red energy, dispersing to reveal a long flowing red cloak draped over her shoulders as an armor breastplate pitch black with gold detailing covered her chest with more covering her shoulders while she began to float a few feet in the air, "Come. Feel the true power of Kagura!"

"Well that happened…" Yang blinked before shaking it off.

"Blake, you and Weiss attack from the sides!" Ruby ordered, "Yang, I'll cover you!"

Kagura swung her arms out in a pair of horizontal swipes, creating two red slashes in the air that fired a barrage of red swords at the four. The girls dodged before Kagura was before Ruby. She flicked a hand and a crescent of red energy appeared above Ruby. The red-wearing member of the team yelped, rolling out of the way of a series of spikes that shot out of the crescent and impaled the ground where she had been. Kagura backed away as she avoided multiple swings from both of Blake's swords, she leaned back from each swing while backing away. Kagura turned away from the last swing, letting Blake rush past her. As she stepped back, she stepped into a Glyph placed in her path and trapped her foot in place.

"Ha!" Yang shouted as she landed a punch that struck Kagura's abdomen, sending her flying away with a burst of flames from Ember Celica, "Got her!"

Kagura flipped in the air before landing on her feet. She clenched her hands before swinging them downwards, creating two large crimson rifts. The girls barely avoided two massive swords shooting out of them before going back into the rifts as they sealed shut.

"Well...that's not disheartening..." Blake grumbled.

"No, we can get her. We just have to keep her from moving around," Ruby spoke, "Um...oh! Weiss, freeze the ground! Yang, blow it up!"

"Come again?" Weiss blinked.

"Trust me!" Ruby quickly shouted.

Kagura began to move her hands when Weiss stabbed the ground, forming a sheet of ice before the four. Yang roared as she slammed a fist on the ice, firing off a round from her gauntlet shotguns. The heat from the attack evaporated the ice into a thick steamy mist that engulfed the human-looking Bugster. Kagura stopped as she realized the new development and tactic. She began looking around as the mist became thick enough that it was hard to see the four. She closed her eyes and began to listen for them. Grass crunched as she spun around before her back lit up with an explosion. She came out of the mist from the force of it and landed near where she heard the grass being crunched...exposing a block of ice that had been thrown there that Yang quickly punched, engulfing them in another mist.

Kagura turned around as she heard something rush past her from behind. She turned towards the sound only for her foot to snag on a black ribbon. Suddenly a gunshot went off as it sprang up and wrapped itself around her legs. Her balance disrupted she was dragged down and through the mist until the person pulling lifted her off the ground. The human-like Bugster twisted her body, freeing her from the binding mid-air. But as she floated in the air for a moment, she was distracted long enough to miss hearing the sound of a trigger being pulled. She turned towards the sound of the rifle fire, only to be blasted by a bullet of lightning Dust, sending her crashing into several trees. After a few moments, there was a red glow amidst the tree's before they exploded and Kagura shot out. A rift appeared underneath a hand and she pulled out a red sword from it. Weiss formed a wall of ice, but it shattered with one swing of Kagura's blade.

"Okay seriously. That's pretty cheap," Yang frowned to herself.

"She's the final boss of the second game! Of course she's not going to be easy!" Blake informed.

"Yang, Blake, keep her distracted," Ruby ordered, "Weiss, can you make a glyph that I can shoot through to make them faster and blow up bigger?"

"Are you really asking that?" Weiss deadpanned.

"Just try it."

"Of course I can do it, you dolt. What do you take me for?" Weiss countered, forming one of her glyphs.

Kagura prepared to summon another sword before using the one she already had to block shots sent by Yang's punches. She moved back to avoid Blake's attempt to strike her with a blade before summoning a rift to fire a barrage at Blake. Blake was impaled by them all...before exploding into flames that forced Kagura to shield herself with her cloak before having to dismiss her heavy blade to jump back from the real Blake's swipes. Kagura summoned another sword that blocked a swing from both sides. As she prepared to counter attack, she turned around to cut down an explosive round fired from Yang. Blake used the smoke to back away as their enemy cleared it with a swing of one of her swords. She heard Ruby fire her sniper rifle in its Scythe Mode and spun around to block with a blade when her entire arm and the blade were engulfed in ice.

"What?!" Kagura's eyes widened before a shining white bullet slammed into her other blade, engulfing it and her arm in more ice before another coated her lower body in ice as well.

"Got her!" Ruby smiled, "Yang! Blake! Hit her now!" she ordered as the two charged in at her command.

Blake held both her swords up as she reached Kagura first and spun around before slashing Kagura several times, the sword striking her Aura and chipping away at the ice near her torso. Yang roared as she charged in and began to deliver a series of punches right in Kagura's face. Yang finished it with one final blow to her torso, sending her flying away as the ice covering her shattered with the explosive shotgun burst from her blow.

Kagura bounced across the ground a few times upon landing. With a grunt, however, she corrected herself and landed on her feet. Yang dashed forward as she aimed her arms back and blasted herself forward with her Ember Celica. Yang jumped and punched down to down their enemy, only for Kagura to duck under the swing and kick her, sending the blonde up higher into the air. Blake, seeing this, tossed her Gambol Shroud in its kusarigama mode. It shot a bullet, sending itself flying faster with the recoil until it reached Yang, who quickly wrapped the ribbon around her arm and grabbed the handle of the weapon. Blake pulled at the same time as Yang as the tension of the ribbon snapped and brought her forward. Yang aimed her free arm back and fired her Ember Celica, sending her rocketing faster and faster towards Kagura who was frankly taken aback by this tactic. She couldn't even summon a rift before Yang slammed a fist into her face once more.

The two tumbled across the ground with Yang pushed herself up and regrouped with her team as they watched Kagura slowly get back on her feet. She began to summon a rift only for it to dissipate as soon as it was made. Her eyes widened as she tried to make another, only for it to fail as well. Blake pulled out her Scroll and sighed in relief.

"She's drained of her Aura," Blake informed.

"We finally made a dent...good." Weiss sighed, "Best not to give her a chance to get her second wind."

"Yup, so let's get her," Yang added

"Wait!" Ruby called before looking over at Kagura, "We broke your Aura, so we win!"

"My Aura…?" Kagura's eyes widened, "It...It can't be."

"Are you convinced now?" Ruby asked.

"Oh yeah...our bet. You underestimated us, and now we won." Yang gloated.

"Even in my true form, I still lost…" Kagura looked at her hands.

"Yeah. You lost to the four of us," Ruby pointed out, "So if we can win against you, doesn't that mean we can handle the Grimm just as easily?"

"She's right, and we are just four examples of first year students," Blake added, "This entire school trains people like us to do this. We're not even the strongest people here."

"Yeah. Pyrrha would have smoked you way faster. But she got too worried about the guys, so she's looking for them." Yang muttered.

"Emu!" Pyrrha called as she ran over.

"BUT I DON'T WANNA USE MY HEAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

*CRASH!*

"...Huh...That didn't hurt," Brave LV1 noted, looking around...his head being the only thing poking out of the new hole in the wall, "Oh. Hey, Pyrrha."

"Okay...now cancel the armor and crawl out," Emu ordered.

"I would, but uh...My arms are stuck now," Brave admitted sheepishly, his eyes emoting waterfall tears.

"Not it!" Lazer and Snipe both shouted from the otherside.

"Emu, Kiriya was going to use one of your consols as a…" Ren spoke up calmly.

"I'll do it!" Lazer changed his mind quickly.

"That was cruel, undermined, and vicious. ...Why are you not the leader of your team again?"

"Hey!" Brave complained as his armor faded away while Emu and Pyrrha helped pull him out of the hole, "Yes! We're free!"

"Okay! We're good to go!" Emu cheered as he poked his head in, "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PS4?!"

"Kiriya and Ren did it!" Jaune called, hiding behind his shield with Pyrrha...down the hallway.

"No wait, Meijin!"

=MIGHTY ACTION X!=

"Come here!" Ex-Aid shouted, jumping in after them inside the room.

"Let's get going," Snipe ordered, crawling through the hole as he ignored Lazer's pleas of mercy.

"She's this way!" Pyrrha informed as she ran off with the two following.

"Alright...so we win. What is stopping her from not keeping her word again?" Weiss asked Blake.

"No need for that," Kagura sighed, "If I could not defeat you four working as one, it wouldn't be much hope for victory against all the Grimm in the world."

"That's what. Despite what we might assume, she has a sense of honor." Blake explained, "So you promise you won't attempt to…" she paused, trying to think of a better term to get her point across.

"Go boom?" Yang finished for her.

"Considering you fought me to this point, I won't," Kagura replied.

"Considering how much you're talking right now, you wouldn't happen to know where the missing Gashats are?" Weiss questioned.

"I do. They're with…" Kagura began before shots went off, hitting the girls' weapons and sending them scattering, two shots even managing to force off Ember Celica from Yang.

"What?!" Ruby gasped before her eyes widened, seeing the black Ex-Aid approach.

"..." the Black Ex-Aid leaned back as he took a deep breath before he let out an annoyed sigh, "And here I was hoping this little scheme would work. The effort to fake those papers and brainwash that kid to give you a backstory." he shook his head, "This is why I don't like characters who don't fit the level design." he sighed as he pulled out Shakariki Sports Gashat, "They ruin the investment." he sighed again, slotting it into his Bugvisor as he flipped it around to chainsaw mode.

=Shakariki Critical Finish!=

Black Ex-Aid raised his arm as green energy pooled into the chainsaw before forming into a giant green circular saw blade. He raised the weapon wielding arm into the air as the blade began spinning. He then grunted as he tossed it. Like a boomerang, it flew past the girls before curving around and flying straight at its target: Kagura. She cried out as the blade went through her, causing her to collapse with sparks coming off her. It returned to the Black Ex-Aid and vanished.

"Kagura!" Ruby gasped as she ran over to the Bugster.

"I regret to say that while you did well, you failed to collect the data I wanted," Black Ex-Aid spoke, "But I suppose it was worth something. However I'm afraid this is Game Over for you."

"Why you…" Yang growled as she charged at the Black Ex-Aid.

"Yang, wait!" Blake called.

"HIYAH!" Yang roared as she threw a punch at Black Ex-Aid, only for him to catch her fist.

"Hmph," Black Ex-Aid snorted before throwing Yang at Weiss and Blake, knocking the two over, before walking off.

"Ow...that's just annoying." Yang groaned.

"Did you forget he blocked your punches before, you dolt?!" Weiss grunted while pushing Yang off her and Blake.

"Ruby...Rose…" Kagura whispered, "Can...can you…"

"Kagura, hold on please!"

Kagura weakly shook her head, "Please...tell Parad...I'm sorry for…for..." her body gave in and exploded, making Ruby back away.

"Tell Parad that she's sorry? But...for what?" Yang pondered.

"Didn't you hear what that fake Ex-Aid said? He must have brainwashed Parad to think that Kagura was his partner," Blake scowled, "That dark Rider...how could he do something like that to someone innocent like him?"

"I bet there are a lot of things he's okay with doing," Weiss frowned before glancing over at Ruby, who was still looking at where Kagura had been just moments ago, "Ruby?"

"She didn't seem evil…." she explained, "All this time, Emu and everyone has believed all the Bugsters are evil, but…"

"What if some are actually good?" Blake finished for her.

"Uh-huh," Ruby nodded, looking over at the ninja of the four.

"Oi! Girls!" Brave LV2 shouted as he skidded to a halt, "Where's the Bugster?"

"...You're late!" Weiss complained, kicking him over.

"Gah!" Brave yelped as the others ran over.

"Alright! Where's the Bug...ster…We missed it, didn't we?" Lazer asked, lowering his tire tonfas.

"Yeah…" Yang nodded.

"Everyone's sad...What the hell did we miss?" Lazer asked.

"And you and Ren are...well…" Yang motioned to the two, revealing they were covered in bandages with huge bumps growing out of their heads, Lazer's somehow visible through his giant helmet.

"The blame is fully on Ren," Lazer pointed.

"If you had a clean side of the room, neither of us would've been attacked by an Angry Video Game Nerd," Ren's eye twitched.

"Yeah...past tense," Ex-Aid said, holding his sword up behind them.

"Professor, we were about to learn who stole the Gashats, but...the fake Ex-Aid appeared," Weiss explained.

Snipe looked at all of them, lingering on Ruby for a second, "...Forget it. You're alright. That's all that matters. The Black Ex-Aid is our issue; let me and those who need to worry about it handle it. You kids...go...relax." he sighed, patting Ruby's head, "I'll go see if I can catch him. Ex-Aid, take care of things while I'm out."

"Got it," Ex-Aid nodded.

"Ah! Wait! He messed with Parad's mind, too!" Yang added.

"Hm?"

"When he came, he said that it was a lot of hassle to fake her paperwork and hypnotize Parad for her to have a backstory," Yang explained.

"I'll tell someone who's better at mental stuff then me," Snipe spoke, "I can pop an arm back in its socket and do surgery...but I'm not one to come to for...that."

He went off at that to try to find the Black Ex-Aid, leaving the teens alone.

"Wait, wait, wait. She was from a game...and you never knew it?!" Kiriya gawked at Emu as Ruby showed them Senran Kagura 2.

"Hmm...nope. I never played these kinds of games," Emu explained.

"Why?" Kiriya asked.

"Eh-heh-heh...Mom wouldn't let me get any M-Rated games," Emu sheepishly explained.

"Hah?" Kiriya asked, his eye twitching erratically at that.

"Huh? But...M is for 'Mature' games…" Ruby tilted her head, "I don't get it. I mean, aside from one girl, they all have Yang's body type and it's so cool to play."

"Oh…" Emu blinked, "Huh... You're right. They do share a similar figure…"

"That gothic lolita cat girl's got a Weiss body type," Kiriya chuckled before Weiss's fist slammed repeatedly on the very top of his head, "Ugh…"

"...I don't get it, so...she was a Bugster, but she wasn't evil. Has that ever happened before?" Jaune asked.

"Not 'till now…" Emu shook his head, "Each and every Bugster I have come across has been violent and cruel. They attacked people without reason and tormented their hosts to the point of despair."

"Despair?" Ruby repeated.

"Yup. Despair…"

'...Note to self; pray there's isn't a Bugster based on that psycho bear from those Danganronpa games,' Kiriya thought.

"So this is the first time you've heard of a Bugster who's kinda nice?" Ruby asked.

"Very first time," Emu nodded.

"Yo~" Parad greeted as he walked over, "Hey, uh, have...any of you seen Kagura?"

"Uh, well, see…" Kiriya began.

"She had to go home," Ruby explained/interrupted, "It was an emergency and, if I wasn't going out to get some water from the vending machine in the rec room, I wouldn't have bumped into her. She asked me to tell you that she's sorry she had to go." she said all in one breath before taking a big gulp of much needed oxygen.

"Oh...wow, really? ...I figured she'd leave a note. Must have been a big deal," Parad shrugged, "I'm sure our friends back home will know. I'll ask them once they arrive next semester."

"Hubba wha?" Ruby blinked.

"Eh, well...I made plans to check out the game shops around town with her. Guess I'm going solo. More game money for me!" he smiled walking off, "Later!"

"Why did you tell him that?" Nora asked once he was gone.

"Kagura asked me to tell him she was sorry," Ruby replied, "I didn't know how to tell him she was a virus person who brainwashed him, so I thought maybe this would be easier, and he knows she was sorry. Plus, maybe he'll slowly remember himself and things will go back to normal for him."

"Ahh...I suppose that's fair," Pyrrha nodded.

"Still...I…" Emu began.

"Hmm?" Kiriya began before he opened his scroll, "...welp. Looks like our next assignment is a group project, this time on a game called….Fate Extella? What kind of title is…?"

"YES! YES!" Emu beamed as he shot up.

"What's Fate Extella?" Weiss asked.

"Dynasty Warriors style game where you play as characters from the Fate series, which was a light novel series turned anime."

"Wait. How do you make a game out of something based on light novels?"

"Look it up, and then let's get to playing the game."

"Wait, wait, wait. What's the assignment meant to be?" Weiss asked.

"All the characters are loosely based off real life people, so we're going to have to pick one each per team and do a history report on them," Kiriya explained.

"Well there's one that's not…" Emu muttered, "I'm calling dibs on the cool antagonist character Gilgamesh!" he cheered leaving, "Professor!"

"...Yang, check and see that it's nothing like Senran Kagura please," Weiss ordered.

"On it," Yang complied as she looked up the series on her scroll, "...Oh...oh wow! This is a...really...REALLY big series."

"...What about the ones just in Fate Extella?"

"Well, it has two female leads…" she muttered, looking at Weiss, "...Maybe it's not the series for you. Why not Fate Zero? It's considered a dark drama series."

"...Yang, show me the female leads," Weiss's eye twitched.

"Uh...Drive, Kiriya, Drive!" Yang freaked, jumping onto Kiriya's back

"Ack! Not again!" Kiriya panicked as he ran off, carrying Yang, "You'll never catch us, Ice Queen!"

"I said show me!" Weiss snapped as she ran after them.

"..." Blake blinked as she looked up the game, "...Wow."

"Hm?" Ruby looked over at the image, "...Huh. More Yang body types...Wait. Is that one girl with the fox ears and tail a Faunus?"

"Not sure. But…" Blake began as she looked at the girl with said fox ears and tail on the image, "Maybe…" she shrugged indifferently.

"Why is this beginning to feel normal?" Jaune asked, referencing to the chaos going on around them.

"I'm...unsure," Pyrrha admitted.

"Well...that was a bust…" Parad whispered as he looked at his screen, "Couldn't get some data either…welp. Back to the drawing board..."

=Grr?=

"Not sure yet…"

=...Grr?= Bowser pulled up an image of a black and white bear.

"...Oh god no. I am not gonna turn this school into an arena for a killing game," Parad frowned.

=Rrr?= Bowser held up a picture of a boy in blue armor with a blaster for an arm.

"He's a good guy, Bowser."

=Rawr= Bowser put it down and held up a teenager with long blond hair with a glowing omega symbol on his left glove.

"That is overkill, even for you."

=...Rrr?=

"...Now that's MASSIVE overkill!" Parad paled at the image shown to him.

=...= Bowser held up a sign reading 'Ganondorf.'

"You got your ass handed to you on a web series by him. You tell me if that's a good idea," Parad deadpanned.

=...= Bowser immediately threw the sign away at that before searching through the images =Rrr?= he pulled out a poorly drawn picture of Parad and Kagura kissing.

"ACK!" Parad quickly deleted it, "You never saw that."

=Grr~= Bowser wagged his eyebrows.

"Stop it or else I'll throw you in a Mario Kart level with nothing but blue shells aimed right at you."

=...Rawr…=

"Ugh...come on. I need a Bugster that can be sneaky and resourceful, but is pretty powerful and hold themselves in a fight. Someone that can give those girls and the Riders a run for their money."

=...Grr?= Bowser held up a pair of images showing a fox girl and a woman in priestess robes

"...Hmm...Hard to say," Parad admitted.

=Rrr?= Bowser then held up a robot resembling a knight with blades on the lower arms.

"Fulgore? Hmm...Well...I do need to give these Gashats out," Parad admitted as he pulled out a red Gashat displaying a robot with the words 'Gekitotsu Robots' on it.

Z0: Are we done?

SZ: I think so….yeah. Yeah I think we're done with this chapter outside the preview.

GT: Onwards to the preview!

Emu: What the...that's Fulgore...but it's different. He has Red armor.

Ruby: EEEEEEEEEEEEEE~! OH MY GOSH~! ALL THOSE WEAPONS~!

Kiriya: You do know that it runs off the brain of a murdered Guy, right?

Ruby: Messed up...but still cool!

Taiga: It has one of the stolen Gashats inside it. Be careful; its power is much higher than any Bugster we've faced before.

Emu: Need a level up…

Black Ex-Aid: Yes, keep battling, Emu Hojo, grow further, evolve faster.

Save File 7: Great Gathering! Clash Ex-Aid!

Emu: Dai-Dai-Dai-HENSHIN!

GT: Hoo boy...Fulgore...That is gonna be scary…

SZ: Oh yeah...let's just hope our heroes can handle this deadly machine.

Z0: Things gonna get intense! I plan to make the next fight scenes intense as hell!

SZ: Awesome, so until next time readers…

GT: Please Read and Review!

Z0: Bye-bye~!