Blasting off with her jetpack, Ruby grinned madly as she sailed through the skies with a mighty and powerful roar, laughing as she passed by others who'd launched and not even come close to touching down. The forest below her was naught but a blur that she could perceive, and after about twenty seconds of jetpack usage, she finally pivoted her body, jetpack still blazing as she slowed her rapid descent unto the forest, igniting the nearby foliage ablaze and leaving a raging inferno in her wake as she finally came to a full stop. The unfortunate Ursa before her that did finally halt her descent met it's unfortunate end, as she slammed her fist down forcefully in her descent, her fist connecting with the Ursa Major's face at super-sonic speed, smashing it's head to bits and painting the nearby forest in it's remains as the flames of her jetpack scorched the earth and anything unfortunate enough to be within ten meters of her, reducing all but rocks and the ground before her to unrecognizable, ashy, black husks of whatever they used to be.

Rising her head to look up from the crouched position she'd landed in, some smoke rising up from off her fist, she took in the area around her. Everything within ten meters was totally black from the flames burning them, and everything about twenty five meters around her was on fire, with a huge column of smoke rising into the heavens. Behind her, she had no idea just how far she'd come since beginning her descent, but nearly the entire forest in a straight line that she could see behind her was ablaze with a raging inferno.

She chuckled, knowing full and well that her landing would likely attract most Grimm in the area, and that meant that the concept of "little resistance" most likely wouldn't apply for her trek towards the relics. Close howling and roars of the dastardly beasts only served to confirm her suspicions. Laughing internally, she rose from her crouched position, drawing forth her twin XA-25s and sprinting off towards the relics.

She didn't need to use her semblance for something like this, after all, her enhanced body allowed her to sprint near indefinitely at an, as Weiss had described, "Impossibly fast speed." The trek for her wouldn't be a long one as she rushed through the forest, guns blazing as any creature of Grimm that dared stand in her path was gunned down with a precise shot right between the eyes, dropping them instantly. She had her mind focused on two things, and nothing would stand between her, or and either of them.

Them being finding Weiss...

And finding that Relic...

Yang's attention was stolen by a mighty jet-like roar not far behind her, and the sound of a fiery explosion lashing out at the forest. For a moment, she thought a missile had struck, that the war finally begun, but was relieved, and annoyed, to find it was just CT-01-00001 showing up her descent into the forest by cranking the over-the-top-o-meter up to eleven. Groaning audibly, Yang returned her focus to her battle at hand with the two Ursa.

A small flurry of punches finished each one off, sending their discarded and disintegrating bodies reeling through the forest. She laughed heartily as more showed their ugly faces, only serving as bony punching bags for the ranging blonde brawler.

She was having a particularly good time, when a flurry of bolts sailed over her head as she'd stopped to take a small breath. Tracing the shots, she saw the bolts fly true, each one finding it's mark in an Ursa's head, killing each one instantly. Sighing, she looked over at the shooter, who was busy tangoing with a few dozen Beowulves. She growled with seething anger as she saw CT-01-00001 easily ducking and weaving through claws, as blaster bolts echoed out from her and flashes could be heard among the horde and zipped out, each having blasted clean through a target's given critical area, each shot resulting in instant death for the cannon fodder wulves. It was like the girl was playing with them, not even taking them seriously, not that she herself would, but this was just ridiculous.

Suddenly, a shot flew out, sailing straight for her, Yang panicked, and quickly raised her aura so as to not get a hole blasted through her head. The heat of the shot brushed past Yang's head, and she could feel the intense heat of the blaster bolt as it barely missed her head. Looking back, she saw an Ursa slump to the floor, a blast mark displayed across it's face telling the tale of it's death for a split second, before fading to dust. Shortly thereafter, the shooting stopped, and Yang returned her gaze to the clone, seeing her stand unscathed among dozens of disintegrating Beowulf corpses, spinning her blasters on her fingers before holstering the twin guns on her hips. Yang, unknowingly, was staring directly at Ruby for a few seconds, before her visor turned to look back at her, and though Yang couldn't see the girl's eyes behind the visor, she knew their eyes had met...

Meaning they were partners...

For the next four years...

Warning: Yang exe has stopped working...

Ruby rolled her eyes under her helmet, walking up and past the girl...

Rebooting: 10%

She stopped, having just passed the girl, noticing she wasn't following.

Rebooting: 15%

The hyper-enhanced clone waves her hand in front of Yang's face, snapping a few times.

Rebooting: 25%

Sighing, Ruby starts saying something to the girl, getting no response from the girl who's mind just broke.

Rebooting: 40%

Ruby brings her hand up and runs it down her face, then starts cracking her knuckles, placing her right foot back a bit...

Reboooting: 6- Reboot Complete:

"ACK!" Yang screamed as she fell to the floor, clutching her face as she hit the dirt following Ruby punching her in the face. Spitting out a little blood, she quickly willed her aura to heal her, and looked to the girl in armor who was now rolling her wrist with evident malice in her glare...

"If you're done spacing out and wasting time, I'll repeat myself for the seventh time. We need to go!" Ruby chastised, before walking off towards the relic's location, leaving Yang dumbfounded, and growling angrily after her. The audacity that a Number would speak to her in such a chiding way!

Rising to her feet, she blasted off towards the younger girl, intent with beating some respect of the girl's superior into her. She knew that she vastly outclassed the girl in raw strength, but forgot that Ruby's mind was hyper-enhanced for just this kind of situation, and was retaught the hard way when Ruby turned around to face her.

She stood still as the blonde rocketed into the air and came soaring towards her. At the closest possible second she moved to the right avoiding her punch, grabbing her opposite left arm that was cocked up near her shoulder by the wrist, and jabbed her right leg in the back of her knee.

Yang tried to throw Ruby over her shoulder with her left arm but she struck her right in between the shoulder blades with her knee, knocking the wind out of her and overextending her left shoulder to near dislocation as she kicked out her other leg to where she was kneeling.

Swiftly, she grabbed her other wrist and pulled back hard, replacing her knee with the entirety of her leg and pressing down so the bimbo's face was to the dirt, she upped the pressure with her leg until she heard the poor girl scream.

"STOP!" Yang cried, her shoulders feeling as though they were being ripped out of their sockets. Ruby pressed on her a little more, before releasing the girl, only to kick her back down as she was rising back up.

"Try to assault me again, and you won't live to tell about it. Understood?" Ruby threatened, getting a defeated nod from the older girl. Yang finally stood once more, rolling her shoulders and cursing under her breath as she slowly followed after Ruby glaring daggers into the back of the damned Number...

About ten minutes had passed, with Yang struggling to keep up with the Number's speed, muttering curses under her breath about the brutal pace that Ruby had set. She was rigorously trained, but seriously! This girl crossed in ten minutes jogging lightly what took Yang ten minutes to full on run! Holding her hand up, as if asking to stop, the girl ahead of her seemingly noticed, and stopped to look back at her, crossing her arms and tapping her foot impatiently.

"If you're asking for a break, I'm gonna beat the energy back into you." Ruby said, leaning her upper body towards Yang.

"Not... not a break. Just need to slow down, walk for a bit." Yang explained, getting a loud, annoyed sounding groan from the younger girl.

"I set an easy pace so you could keep up without getting exhausted so that if something did arise, you wouldn't be useless. Do you mean to say that you can't keep up with a light jog?" Ruby inquired, getting an angry look from her old elder sister.

"Light?!. Maybe for a freaking droid, who's programmed to just be another mindless machine with no emotions or personality like you! You're not even human, just a Number, CT-01-00001! Just another, stupid, faceless number that doesn't know her place in the world and has no life outside of training and combat!" Yang argued, getting Ruby to take off her helmet, revealing to Yang the face of the person she was talking to, contorted with rage of her own.

"No Clone is just a Number, Xiao Long! I am not just another number! None of us are!" Ruby yelled, getting in the blonde's face. "We are living beings! One and the same as you or anyone else! We live, we breathe, we love, we hate, we cry, we bleed, we fear, we die, all the same as you or any other human or faunas do! We are not mindless droids, for they are capable of none of that!" She roared, pushing Yang back.

"I remember, Yang!" She roared again, though paused for a moment to recollect herself, and stared back at her old sister with a somber expression. "I remember when I used to be able to call you my sister. I remember when you used to be proud to call me the same. If anyone here is just another number, it's you, for being corrupted like so many by the pointless hatred your 'friends' held towards Clones."

Yang stood shocked still for a moment, her mouth agape, before Ruby promptly did an about face and stalked off back towards the objective again, snapping her helmet back on as her new "partner" shortly after trailed after her.

Weiss sighed as she looked about with her new partner, the faunas, Blake, being rather snarky towards her, specifically, whilst being rather kind towards an energetic redhead and lethargic ninja they'd encountered along their way. Those two didn't stay long, as they sort have just disappeared after an encounter with four Ursa. On that same note, one of the Ursa had disappeared with them, so Weiss could only imagine they were doing the only logical thing for the situation, and riding that Ursa to the objective. She blamed her thought of such an action being logical on the Hoots Troopers and Ruby, who always found the most unique ways of reaching the battlefield in a timely manner, that she'd long since just ceased questioning the madness and just learned to go with it.

"So..." Blake began, "what's the story with you and that number?"

"Huh?" Weiss responded, momentarily confused by the terminology. "Number? What number?"

"Don't play stupid, the clone. Hard to believe someone like YOU would be so kind to a Clone, a number, given your family's treatment of Faunas." Blake groaned, eliciting a long, drawn out sigh from Weiss.

"Okay, don't go judging ME by the actions of my father. And, on the topic of Ruby, she's my little sister." Weiss answered.

"Yeah, I'm not buying that. Yang already told me about that defective brat. Besides, She couldn't be yours, or any of your family's clone, she looks nothing like any of you, and I already know she was cloned from her 'mother.' Useless number shouldn't even be alive from what I've been told."

"Hmph. Judgmental much? Typical hypocrite, no point in arguing this." Weiss scoffed, continuing towards their objective, making Blake sputter in indignity.

"Hypocrite?!. She's a clone, and I never said anything about anyone judging me." Blake snapped with a sneer.

"May not have said anything, kitty cat, but I know you're wearing that bow to conceal your ears." Weiss stated bluntly, not bothering to face the girl she'd completely caught off guard. "So, you hide your ears so people don't judge you on your birth, yet you judge her on her own birth, and you're not a hypocrite? Don't need to speak words to show your hypocrisy, Blake."

Blake growled, raising her fist for a moment, before letting out a breath she'd held and trailed after her partner, glaring daggers at the girl before her.

"Oh, and Blake?" Weiss began, getting the girl to raise an eyebrow at her. "Ruby doesn't take kindly being called such things. Call her a number again, and you and I are gonna have some serious problems."

"Like we don't already..." Blake grumbled, continuing to follow after the girl.

"I don't hate your kind, Blake, if that's what you meant. I've no problem with Faunas, but I do hate the White Fang. Important to differentiate the two." Weiss said, shutting the cat faunas up as she stilled and her eyes widened, scared of how on-the-dot Weiss was, before shaking the thought off, and angrily storming after her again...

The two groups did finally meet up at the ruins, with Weiss and Ruby matching each other's jog to the ruins, each clasping the other's right hand and drawing in close to slap the other's back, before separating a bit and giving each other a nod. Ruby quickly looked off towards the ruins, noticing a few chess pieces, though the set was incomplete. The few remaining pieces each had their own stand, being only eight stands. Slamming her fist on top of one of said stands, she managed to make the chess piece bounce up a bit, before slapping it away over to Weiss who easily caught it.

Looking down at the piece, Weiss nodded at the small compliment of giving her queen, before looking up to see Ruby holding king. She laughed lightly to herself, before punching Ruby's shoulder with her spare hand. "How Romantic. Plan on taking me out to dinner, then?" Weiss joked, getting Ruby in turn to laugh as well.

Their two partners didn't laugh at the joke so much as they just stared in disapproval at the mannerisms the two sisters shared, in Yang's case hypocritically so, as they were mannerisms that Yang would mirror with anyone else. Nevertheless, the two picked their own pieces, with Blake choosing a bishop and Yang taking a rook.

The all paused as they heard screaming descend from the skies, and looked up to behold the blonde boy, Jaune, sailing across the skies as if on que with a redhead and a ninja breaking through the treeline riding an Ursa. Weiss simply stared at the duo, before they disembarked from the now-dead Ursa, though quickly lost interest when Ruby started talking.

"Weiss, set up a few glyphs so that boy doesn't become a stain when he hits the tree." Ruby ordered casually, getting an affirming nod from the girl. Barely a second later, a few dark grey glyphs appeared in the sky, and the boy gradually began to slow down, as he hit each glyph, until eventually coming to a complete stop, feet first, on the ground. He sighed in relief, before darting for the ruins as the treeline broke once more to reveal a deathstalker tight on Pyrrha's tail.

"Ugh, I'll bet that boy got her in this situation... Weiss, soon as that Deathstalker gets close enough, freeze it in-" Ruby began, getting cut of by a loud "Caw" from above, and a downpour of sharp feathers. She simply slapped one headed her way away, before nodding to Weiss again, getting her order through. Weiss did just as asked, freezing the entire front of the deathstalker in place as the beast raged and the Nevermore above them responded with another hail of feathers.

Ruby deftly dodged a father by pivoting her upper body and leaning to her left. Looking about at all the new arrivals, Ruby noted that while they could take them here and now, the chances of Weiss and Ruby's partners kicking the bucket if they fought here was too great, and the risks of this position far outweighed the benefits. With a stern look to everyone, who seemingly understood her look even through her mask, she motioned her hand towards a nearby hill, signaling for the group to fall back in that direction. Weiss, knowing that there'd be some resistance from an order given from a clone, quickly motioned the same to get everyone on the same page.

"EVERYONE! Fall back to the ruins Southeast of here, we're at a disadvantage in this location!" She yelled, getting the whole group moving. Looking over to Ruby, she received a single nod of thanks, before the two darted off in the direction they'd planned...