Ozpin and Glynda sat at Ashley's table along with Weiss Blake and Yang. Ruby was over petting Charlie the compy.
"Alright here's the food everyone." Ashley announced to her guests as she placed a plate of baked savaroot a medium well cooked steak and some roasted tintoberries for each person.
"OLIVIA DINNERS READY!" Ashley hollered.
"Who's Olivia?" Asked Weiss.
"Yes yes I'm coming dear, no need to yell." Said Olivia.
Everyone saw a gallimimus with glasses come out.
"Must you always be so ru-" the gallimimus then noticed everyone.
"Did that gallimimus, just talk?" Asked a stunned Glynda.
"Ashley who are these people?" The gallimimus muttered to Ashley.
"Everyone this is Professor Olivia Oakwood" Ashley introduced her. "or the gallimimus that has the brain of Olivia Oakwood to be exact, she switched brains with it."
"You switched brains with a dinosaur?!" Glynda said in shock. "Why on Remnant would you do such a thing?!"
"For science my dear, we mustn't be afraid to push past any boundaries for the betterment of mankind." Olivia retorted.
"She did it because she's a sociopathic mad scientist that doesn't care about anyone's safety including her own." Said Ashley.
"That's a rather harsh way of putting it." Olivia scoffed.
"It's true and you know it Olivia." Ashley said as she put Olivias plate on the ground.
"Why can't I eat at the table?" Olivia asked her.
"Because Your breath smells terrible and I don't want to be sniffing that while I'm eating, plus you eat like a pig."
"How humiliating." Olivia muttered to herself.
"I must say Ms. Dunes your food is wonderful." Ozpin said after taking a bite. "You certainly know how to cook."
"Well I've been surviving for a long time I needed to learn how make anything edible enjoyable." Ashley replied.
Ashley sat down with her plate when ruby tapped on her on the shoulder. Ashley saw that rwby was already holding onto an empty plate and had berry juice smothered across her mouth.
"Can I have some more please?" She said with puppy eyes.
"Sure." Ashley said handing ruby her plate.
"So Ozpin right?" Ashley turned to ask the old man. "What is it you wanted to tell me?"
"Well where should I start, I mean a human woman from another world I thought human life only existed on Remnant."
"Many other human inhabited worlds tend to think that as well." Ashley shrugged. "Hell on my old home world of Earth, we used to think we were the only world that had humans."
"And these pets of yours they're all prehistoric creatures thought to be long extinct, do they exist on this earth to?"
"Well they were extinct on my home world as well." Ashley rubbed the back of her head. "But just like humans, we've discovered that dinosaurs existed across the universe."
Everyone went wide eyed upon hearing Ashley.
She pulled out a paper that showed some kind of galaxy.
"While they perished through most worlds including yours and mine, we found a galaxy where prehistoric life thrived, we called it the ARK System."
"I remember how excited I was to see real life dinosaurs for the first time." Ashley smiled but then looked down. "unfortunately the corporation that I was once a part of had other plans with the creatures."
"What do you mean?" Asked Glynda.
"Prehistoric times had some of the deadliest creatures that ever lived, and if corporations and governments found out that they still existed on other worlds...what do you think they would do?" Ashley asked them.
"They would try to capture them." Ozpin said. "Weaponize them, sell them for profit."
"Exactly."
Ozpin could see that Ashley was not comfortable talking about this so he decided to change the subject.
"So I suppose the ability to tame all these creatures is your semblance?"
Ashley looked at Ozpin as if he was speaking gibberish.
"My what now?" She asked dumbfounded.
"Your semblance," he replied. " your manifestation of personal power projected by your aura."
Ashley now looked at Ozpin as he was crazy.
"I have no idea what your talking about." She said.
"Ozpin" Glynda whispered. "I can't sense her aura, it may sound crazy but I don't think she has aura at all."
Ozpin looked at Ashley in surprise. "Do you not have aura?"
Ashley shook her head. "I don't even know what aura is to be honest."
"Aura is the manifestation of our soul." Glynda explained. "It shields our body's from harm."
"Huh...yeah I don't have that." Ashley said to them."
"Everyone gasped."
"You don't have a soul?!" Yelled Weiss.
"Well Yeah I have a soul but it doesn't work like that for me." Ashley explained.
"I overheard you all." Said Olivia walking over to them. "I may have a theory but I'd need a quick experiment."
"Ms belladonna correct could you shoot Ms Goodwitch here for me dear?"
"WHAT?!" Blake freaked out. "NO!"
"Oh relax I meant shoot her somewhere nonfatal like the arm Its not like im asking you to kill her." Olivia rolled her eyes.
"What crazy idea do you got cooked up now Olivia!?" Ashley barked at her.
"I wish to do a test Ashley to see the result of how aura would react to an attack to a native of Remnant compared to how it would react to an attack from a being of another world."
Ashley sighed and shook her head. "Do you really have to see that I'm sure there semblances-
"Aura." Weiss corrected.
"Right there aura will absorb any attack regardless." Ashley told them.
"Ashley you know how I am about research."
Ashley sighed, she knew Olivia wasn't gonna stop bugging till they did it.
"Alright look instead of shooting her why don't we just talk this knife and drag it across her palm to see if it draws blood?"
"Well I suppose that works too." Olivia shrugged.
"Well I guess if Professor Goodwitch is alright with it."
"Go ahead child I'll be ok." Glynda said putting her palm out.
Ashley handed Blake the knife. Blake was hesitant to drive the knife across but She ended up doing it. Unsurprisingly Glynda's aura absorbed it.
"Hmm interesting." Olivia muttered. "Now Ashley you do the same."
Ashley took the blade and placed it on the end of Glynda's palm, and then drove it across.
"Gah!" Glynda winced.
Everyone stared in shock to see blood dripping from Glyndas palm.
Ashley grabbed some bandages and some disinfectant and began tending to Glyndas wound.
"Just as I suspected." Olivia stated. "Your aura only protects your from things native to your world."
The talking gallimimus then began to pace back and forth.
"And since me and Ashley are NOT from Remnant, I have reason to believe that in the mind of aura 'figuratively speaking' it sees us as an illusion, or a Hallucination. Which means it won't defend itself from us because it doesn't believe we are real."
"So our aura is ineffective against anything or anyone off planet?" Asked Ozpin.
"Precisely." Said Olivia. "To our it simply Ashley could easily kill Glynda just as easily Glynda could kill Ashley.
This was very concerning for Ozpin, if Ironwood found out about this stunning revelation, he would surely panic, and maybe even start an unnecessary war with another world.
"If I may I wish to run tests on you all I must know more of how the remnant human operates." Proposed Olivia.
"OLIVIA THEIR NOT GUINEA PIGS!!!" Ashley snapped at her.
"Well obviously, a guinea pig would not be constantly giving me lip." She scoffed.
"So if you don't have Aura or a Semblance...how did you tame these dinosaurs?" Asked Ruby.
"Well The villagers from the various worlds of the ark system said I was the last of special type of people." Ashley said. "They would always call me 'beastmaster'."
"Beastmaster?" Ozpin asked intrigued.
"Well from what I know, sometimes a person is born with a mark.
Ashley stood up and turned around and move her pony tail to reveal a mark on the back of her neck.
"This is the mark of the Beastmaster." She stated. "They told me whoever bears this mark had the ability to bend nature to there command."
"That's so awesome." Ruby said. "How many other beastmasters are back on your world."
Ashley became a little down.
"Like I said... they told me I was the last beastmaster." She said.
"Oh." Ruby said feeling a little bad.
"I would occasionally find tombs of ancient beastmasters during my travels across the Arks." Ashley said. "The writings in them said they were wiped out in some kind of war with beings of another world."
Ashley gulped. "Then the ghost of the ancient beastmaster inhabiting each tomb would try to kill me cause I was trespassing on there burial ground."
"You fought undead ghost warriors?!" Yang asked "that is so cool."
"Not really I got my ass handed to them." Ashley said remembering how terrifyingly badass the ancient beastmasters were at kicking butt.
"I would love to fight an undead ghost warrior!" Yang boasted.
"Careful what you wish for Yang." Ashley warned the blonde.
"What's that implant in your wrist." Asked Glynda.
"Ah yes my prototype specimen implant." Olivia cut in. "This invention of mine was created to bring the host it was planted in...back to life whenever the host was killed."
"WHAT NOW THATS PREPOSTEROUS!" Weiss shouted.
"I assure you it's all true." Olivia retorted. "Ashley prove it to them!"
"Olivia I'm not gonna kill myself in front of people just to prove your point."
"Well why not?!" She scoffed.
"I don't want to traumatize these kids!" Ashley snapped at her.
"Oh please they've obviously seen combat before it's not gonna hurt them to see a little blood." Olivia snorted.
"Olivia are you even listening to yourself?!"
"Of course I am I just wonder if anyone else even bothe- Ashley dear what's that dot on your forehead?"
"Dot?" Ashley asked before she her eyes went wide and she turned around, pulling out her revolver.
But it was too late, a bullet broke the window and went straight through Ashley's forehead. Her lifeless corpse fell to the ground in front of everybody.
"ASHLEY!!!" Ruby screamed.
The federation sniper loaded another round into the chamber as the people accompanying Dr Dunes dove into cover.
"Targets down." The sniper radioed his squad. "move in and kill the others before she comes back."
"Copy that were closing in."
"OH DEAR THEY FOUND US!!!" Olivia panicked as she hid under the table. "SAVE ME YOU SIMPLETONS!"
Blake peaked out the window to see strange men and women in military like uniforms closing in on them.
The parasaur and moschops ran into the trees to hide. Blake then ducked avoiding another shot from the sniper.
"The snipers has friends with him!" She shouted to the others. Ozpin leaned next to the door as one of the soldiers kicked the door open. He knocked the rifle out of his hands and thwacked him in his Adam's apple. The soldier behind him opened fire on Ozpin but ended hitting her comrade instead. Ruby stood out from cover and shot the other soldier in the face, it worked a little too well as ruby stood there looking in shock at the person she just killed.
"Agh!"
The sniper fired and grazed ruby in the cheek.
"RUBY!!!" Yang yelled seeing her sister get hurt caused her hair to glow and her eyes to turn red as she went beserk and jumped through the window and launched herself at the snipers direction.
The sniper was caught off guard of how the girl used her shotgun gauntlets to launch herself at a terrifying speed at him. Before he could pull the trigger Yang landed on him and begun emptying her shells into the screaming sniper.
With the sniper out of the way the others were free to engage the rest of the soldiers head on.
Glynda and Ozpin weren't as shocked as the kids since they've seen bloodshed and death before. But it still managed to put there stomachs in knots.
A robotic raptor pounced on Weiss but Charlie came to her rescue and pounced on its back distracting it long enough for Weiss to shove myrtenaster through its mouth killing it. Blake ended up tearing the leg off a soldier when she was just trying to cripple him. The results made her sick. Glynda took out the last 2 soldiers with her wand.
"PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN OR I'LL BLOW HER. FUCKING BRAINS OUT!!!"
Everyone turned to see one last soldier had ruby in a headlock with a hand gun to her head.
"PUT YOUR FUCKING WEAPONS DOWN!!!"
Ozpin now knew aura wasn't gonna save ruby from and outworlder.
"Everyone do as she says." Ozpin ordered as he put his cane down, the rest soon followed.
"Now here's what's gonna happen we're all gonna wait here for back up to arrive and then me and the others are gunna ki-
The soldier was cut off by a bullet to her head. The soldier collapsed to the ground dead.
Everyone looked behind them to see Ashley alive and well in the upper window with a sniper rifle.
"Is everyone ok?" She called out to them.
"Ashley your alive!!!!" Ruby squealed with joy and dashed into the house.
"Ruby wait I'm-
They heard ruby scream in embarrassment.
"Naked. '-_-" Ashley sighed.