Despite being the last two to get moving towards the ruins, having to make sure that everyone was actually moving, Ruby and Weiss were the first to reach them, their intense Hoots Trooper training allowing them to more easily break into faster paces on their way to the ruins with less effort than the rest of the group. Swiftly darting behind a pillar together, they each motioned to a group of two the positions to go, with Weiss thankfully motioning to Blake and Yang. The Nevermore was already seemingly roosting atop the ruins which conveniently happened to be positioned directly over a large, gaping chasm.

"Weiss, if we can get to those ruins, we can cut off the Deathstalker. Motion to the others to get moving, I'll have the redhe- er... I'll have the one with a grenade launcher distract the Nevermore to cover out approach." Ruby said quickly, receiving an affirmative nod from her sister, followed by Jaune, Pyrrha, Blake and Yang moving towards the ruins. Ruby and Weiss were hot on their heels, uninterrupted by a hail of fire from the grenade launcher peppering the sky with pink explosions. It did little more than enrage the beast, which sent a hail of razor sharp fathers her way, none of which connected as she deftly ducked, weaved and rolled under all the feathers, returning fire once more.

The mad lady with a grenade launcher continued her standoff for a few more seconds, before breaking out for the ruins with the rest of the group as the Deathstalker emerged from the treeline. Ruby, noticing the girl lagging behind, broke her sprint for the ruins, holstering her blasters and readying a grenade. Thumbing the detonation button, she leaned back, setting her right foot back about two feet, before lunging forward slightly and throwing the grenade hard, sending it sailing through the air.

The grenade landed just about a foot in front of Nora, who's eyes widened as she realized what was thrown. Swiftly, she lunged forward with all her might, just barely clearing the explosive radius as the grenade exploded right under the deathstalker's face, making it reel in agony. Though she'd cleared the explosive radius, she was still caught in the shockwave, which sent her reeling a few extra feet. Her aura tanked the blow, but it'd left her ears ringing, not that it phased her, and she was able to pick herself up and keep moving with due haste, swiftly reaching the rest of the group that had formed a sort of firing line to cover her.

Only a few actually managed to clear the bridge before it was smashed to bits, separating the two groups with Blake, Pyrrha and Ren on one side, and everyone else on the other. Weiss dropped her rangefinder down to scan the remnants of the bridge, before nodding and pointing to Nora and Jaune, shouting out orders over the roaring nevermore.

"Get over there and kill that deathstalker, and send Blake our way!" She roared, the two quickly complying as she herself motioned for Yang and Ruby to get to higher ground. The two complied without argument, with Ruby drawing out her XA-22S as she propelled herself up on top of a pillar, the former simply rocketing up with assistance from her gauntlets.

After a few seconds, Blake had finally managed to join them, finding out first-hand just how tough an elder nevermore's topside was. Landing deftly on a pillar with the rest of them, she quickly looked back and forth, scanning the battlefield for anything useful yet finding no such thing.

"That thing is tough! How are we gonna take it down!?" Blake inquired, an unsure look crossing her face as the Nevermore began to change it's course.

"We hit it with everything we got, that's how!" Yang yelled back, getting Ruby to shake her head in disapproval.

"Really? Well, it's smarter than what I expected you to say." Ruby groaned, before kneeling and taking aim at the Nevermore. A flurry of gunfire echoed out from their position, all of Ruby and Weiss's shots flying true but doing very little to actually effect the massive beast before it smashed right back through the ruins, sending all the warriors falling save for Ruby who had the sense to propel herself into the air with her jetpack, continuing to take pot-shots at the nevermore as she slowly lowered herself back to even ground.

"Didn't work. Ruby, got any ideas?" Weiss yelled over rampant explosions from the other nearby battle.

"Gimme a sec." Ruby said calmly, dropping her rangefinder and scanning over the battlefield, idly making note of battlefield conditions and her own equipment...

Four of us fighting a Deathstalker, four fighting the Nevermore. We've shotgun-gauntlets, a sword with a ribbon attached to it, most likely akin to an ascension cable in durability... Weiss has Myrtenaster and her glyphs, I have a Jetpack with only five percent of it's fuel left, my guns, my monomolecular knife, grenades, one Thermal Imploder... There's two pillars still standing, adjacent to each other and opening up to the cliff face... That'll do.

"Xiao Long! Get up on that pillar and grab that thing's attention, make it crash into the cliff face then return here!" Ruby yelled towards her sister, the brawler surprisingly complying. "Blake, once she's back, get your ribbon across those two pillars, we're making a sling-shot with this!" The faunas merely gave her an inquisitive look, before moving out to the adjacent pillar. "Weiss, we'll only get one shot at this. Once Xiao Long drives it into the cliff, I'm gonna need you to freeze it in place and return so we can make the shot."

"You've a weapon to kill it?" She asked, readying her rapier as she prepped herself. Ruby simply answered by pulling out her Thermal Imploder, grasping it tightly in one hand.

"I lack the fuel to fly up and ram this bomb down it's throat, but I've enough for one last, high-powered burst. A near explosion from this thing won't kill it, but if it's inside, it's a death sentence. Think you can make the shot this time?" Ruby said in a cheeky manner, making Weiss groan in slight frustration.

"I'm never going to live down Attio, am I?"

"You missed the shot on a Grimm the size of a four story building, so no, you're not gonna live that down." Ruby laughed, making Weiss sputter indignantly.

"I've told you, I sneezed just as I was making the shot!"

"Yeah, yeah, don't worry about it, sis, just givin' you crap!" Ruby joked, punching her sister in the shoulder lightly, before looking back to the fight, seeing the beast get driven straight into the cliff. "Go, now!" She ordered, Weiss snapping into action without hesitation.

Using her glyphs to speed herself up, blazing past Yang being perceptible as naught but a blur as she passed, she leapt up high, before stabbing her blade into the ground below the beast, encasing it's tail end in ice. Immediately she raced back towards the team, barely managing to beat Yang back to the group. Within seconds, the slingshot was up, and Weiss utilized another glyph to help Ruby bounce up into the ribbon, before summoning another glyph to hold Ruby back so she could take aim.

"Remember, we're looking to just barely clip it's head, the imploder will do the rest." Ruby reminded, getting an affirmative nod from Weiss. Quickly setting her Jetpack to a supercharged configuration, she gave a thumbs up to Weiss, who returned the gesture, signaling she was ready. With a deep breath, Ruby closed her eyes and pictured the scene around her for a second... before grinning confidently, and returning her gaze to her target...

"Let's do this!" She roared, with the glyph reducing itself to nothing, Gravity did it's job in propelling the clone towards her target. Without a second thought, as soon as she'd cleared the ribbon, she blasted off her jetpack, blasting off with such force that the stonework around her shattered like glass as she passed. Faster than any could blink, Ruby had driven her fist into the mouth of the nevermore, pinning it to the cliff as the rock before her gave way, sending a spider-web of cracks cascading across the cliff.

Thumbing the detonation key, Ruby kicked off the cliff, Letting Weiss's glyphs slow her descent enough that she didn't become a stain against the stonework when she landed. She barely cleared the implosion, nearly being sucked into the lethal radius as it roared loudly, crushing the Nevermore inwards with a loud, ear-splitting screech, before exploding outwards, blasting the big bird to meaty, disintegrating bits all over the place, the ladder explosion forcing ruby back down to earth, landing hard on her back and damaging her aura heavily as the stonework around her exploded outwards from her impact...

"...Ow..." Ruby groaned, shortly after being helped to her feet by Weiss, who helped shoulder some of her weight. "I'm beginning to remember why I hate Nevermores so much!"

"Reckless, but it worked... looks like the others finished their fight too." Weiss stated, nodding her head towards the others. With a small laugh, Ruby gently pushed Weiss's support off, walking back off towards the others in her group, before nodding to each of them...

"Well... you didn't slow us down. Not exceptional, but you did... OKAY." Ruby said, before brushing past them, Weiss trailing behind slightly.

"Huh, would you look at that! I think Ruby just complimented you two! That's rare, especially from her! Should be honored!"

Their return from the cliff was a short, though rather animate one, with Nora chatting loudly about how much she wanted to see more of Ruby's explosives, wanting her jetpack, the normal jazz. Blake and Yang whispered among themselves, though mostly tried to keep to themselves. Pyrrha complimented Ruby on her ability to take charge, and kept in conversation the most with her, Weiss and Jaune. Ren was about as silent as one could be... big shocker.

Though, now in the auditorium, Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake all stood shoulder to shoulder, hands held behind their backs and backs straightened as they stood at attention... well, at least Ruby and Weiss did. Blake and Yang were a bit more lax in how they stood. The Headmaster had already rattled off the titles of the other teams that had passed the initiation, them being CRDL and JNPR. Ruby and Weiss still donned their helmets, having developed the preference of wearing them over not from their years of training. The prototype armor was comfortable to them, and them being so advanced served to signify them above others around them.

"...and finally, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. You four of you showed ingenuity in the field of combat, even for huntresses. From this day forward you will work together as Team RWBY [Ruby]. Lead by..." Blake and Yang held their breathes, hoping it wasn't a specific- "Ruby Rose." Ozpin finished, making their jaws nearly hit the floor. They managed to correct themselves in a split, and glared daggers towards their newly declared leader.

Weiss's reaction differed from theirs, instead opting to bump her fist on the snowflake on her chest twice, before clasping Ruby's hand and bringing her in pat the girl's back. Breaking off slightly, Weiss looked ruby dead in the visor before nodding, a wide smile playing across her face as she acknowledged Ruby's leadership...

"Hell yeah, you and I are gonna kick some ass, that we are!" Ruby cheered, though only loud enough for the people on the stage to hear. Ozpin decided to turn a blind eye to the clone's language, and instead opt to finish up the ceremony as the crowd began to cheer and clap.

"Looks like things are shaping up to be an... interesting year..."

Getting prepared for night was a bit different, sharing a room with two girls that they practically didn't know, and if they were being perfectly honest, it was a little cramped for their liking. Stowing their armor together in the closet, Ruby and Weiss had changed into more appropriate nighttime apparel, that being a nightgown for Weiss, and the black body-glove that all clone troopers wore under their armor for Ruby, and began actually unpacking their things.

Weiss had brought some extra materials that would make studying easier, including books on the various uses and applications of dust, combined histories of many different wars, journals, some new computers, reading lamps, all the nice amenities that would make studying less like hell. Ruby, on the other hand, essentially brought all the tools and equipment necessary to turn her own desk into a weaponry modification station. She'd also brought various armor modifications that she or Weiss could use, given the nature of any given mission, they'd be able to adapt to it.

The other two occupants of the room just stared idly as the two neatly darted about their side of the room, setting everything they'd brought with them up for later usage. It's not that they had the wrong idea, Blake thought, but they just finished a rather intense fight, and they don't wanna rest? Contrary to them, Blake and Yang were just getting prepared to go to sleep, and weren't too keen on the amount of noise the two soldier-like huntresses were making...

"Hey, could you two, like... keep it down or something?" Yang asked while brushing her hair, only getting a response from Ruby (who didn't even bother to look her way while she spoke).

"We're facilitating the room we'll be living in for the next four years, once we've settled in, we'll tuck in for the night. If that's a problem for you, that's why there's ear muffs." Ruby monotonously replied while hanging up a crimson curtain over their window while Weiss was busy drilling into the support beams of the ceiling and bolting ceiling support hooks in, running steel cables through each one.

"Ugh... Well, then Weiss, at least tell us what YOU'RE doing..."

"Setting up ceiling support hooks in the support beams so the ceiling can support a bed. Room is pretty cramped, so Ruby and I are improvising, at least on our side. If you wanna do the same later, we have enough extra supplies for you to do so." Weiss replied, stating it as though it were the most obvious thing in the world, likewise receiving concerned looks from the two.

"Woah woah woah, wait... what if the cables snap, or the ceiling can't support the weight?" Blake questioned with wide eyes.

"That's we're using high carbon steel and bolting it into the support beams. The cables are low carbon steel for greater flexibility, but are still more than strong enough to hold the bed, and any occupants on it, up without any issue." She answered, putting the last bolt through and running a cable through the hook. "Okay, last cable is through. Ruby, you ready?"

"One second... okay, curtain's up. Bed's already on top of yours and I see the cables under it, let me get to the other side and we can lift it." Ruby worked out, before crossing to the other side of the bed and taking hold of the cables. A simple nod was all they needed before they started pulling on the cables, pulling them through and lifting the bed a few feet up. "Alright... nothing to it. Linking mag-locks."

After a few seconds, followed by four loud clicks, the two let go of the cables. The bed held up nicely, much to the surprise of the other two members of the team, and Ruby quickly hopped on to test it out, bouncing up and down a few times before she smiled in satisfaction.

"Alrighty then, that'll do it. Good work, sis."

"Likewise, Rubes. Now that we've got everything important set up, we can worry about decorating with non-essential items tomorrow. Let's tuck in, it's 2330 now, and we've got classes at 0900 tomorrow." Weiss declared, a swift nod of agreement sent her way by the girl.

"Wake up at 0600?" Ruby inquired.

"0600. Agreed, will give us time to get in some early morning workouts." Weiss stated, giving a small salute to the girl, before ducking under her covers as if their conversation were the most normal ever, leaving Yang and Blake sharing dumbfounded looks. These were their teammates? The idea of bunk beads was creative, they had to give, but they weren't expecting, when they got paired with the two, to practically get thrown into the military...

Sighing in unison, the two girls turned in for the night, hoping that those two's declared workout time wouldn't be theirs, too...

Yang was rudely awakened with the blow of a whistle, right between herself and Blake, and nearly fell out of bed at the sudden outburst. Looking at the source, she found both Ruby and Weiss wearing nothing but their body-gloves, with crossed arms and expressions that said "wake the hell up or we're gonna beat you up." Groaning loudly, Yang cast her gaze over to the clock, which for whatever reason had been converted to military time.

"Get up, ladies. We've got three hours before classes, and I plan on whipping you two into shape enough that you won't slow us two down in the future, over the next few months." Ruby ordered, successfully bringing the two out of bed. "Since you're both already familiar with what a Hoots Trooper is, I'm gonna cut to the chase here. You two are looking at a pair of sisters that have been training under Hoots Troopers specifically for the last six years, and while I don't expect either of you to go toe-to-toe with a Hoots Trooper in any conceivable future, I plan on chiseling you out of diamond until you're at least hanging onto our coattails. Understood?"

"Ugh... understood." The two girls droned, before Ruby blew her whistle again at them, startling them again.

"Get yourselves dressed for a workout, you have five minutes. After that, we'll head down to the mess hall for a light meal, fifteen minutes chow. Post meal, we will be working out until 0800. After all that is accomplished, we'll get ready for classes at 0900. Hop to it, hunters!" Ruby managed to order it all in one breath, and the two immediately set about getting dressed, and Weiss chuckled lightly beside Ruby.

"Think they know that if they'd woken up a few minutes earlier, you wouldn't have blown the whistle at them and we'd have more time for chow?" Weiss inquired jokingly.

"Eh, I'd still have blown the whistle at them... and I thought they would've realized that we'd wake them up too. I thought we'd made that obvious." Ruby shrugged, before doing a few small stretches...

The meal was so short that Yang had forgotten that they'd eaten at all, as in comparison to the time they spent eating to the time they were working out, it felt to Blake and Yang as though they'd spent five minutes tops eating and spent an eternity doing intense physical workouts, and it was all they could give to not just collapse then and there, trying to keep up with the brutal standards of their partners. Finally, 0800 had struck, and Yang felt a level of exhaustion that she'd not felt in years, likewise to Blake, and both were practically soaked in their own sweat, breathing hard to match.

In contrast to those two, Ruby and Weiss had hardly broken a sweat, and simply made do without any real struggle. They'd trained for years to be the best, and they were flaunting that training without realizing it. After sharing a quick shower, the two stepped out, fully dressed in their school uniforms and checking each other over for any imperfections that the other might've noticed. That process only took about a minute or so, and the two went to briskly skim over their educational materials before the day would start in fifty minutes.

Blake and Yang took markedly longer than the two sisters did, leaving them only ten minutes to spare to get to class by the time they were both dressed and ready to go with all their materials. The two sisters groaned in dissatisfaction with the two, who each still seemed a little short on breath, before gesturing for them to follow them out the door, towards the next class.

"Jog if you want, but don't try to match our pace. You'll exhaust yourselves before you even get to class if you do that." Ruby droned, before jogging off with Weiss towards their first class with Professor Port, their partners trailing after them, if much slower than the two speedy troopers...

A/N: To the reviewer who was wondering in clones have a belly button, we can solve this by a simple roll of dice, 1-3 no, 4-6 yes...

5.

Yes, they do have one.