The next day Ozpin held an assembly to notify the students and staff of Peach's betrayal while Glynda and Ashley took the recording of her confession to the court before they could prosecute Anne.
Even though she was back in Beacon she refused to speak or teach classes for an entire week. Upon Peaches death Ashley had Somaya take care of the Greenhouse while she focused on her class. Speaking of which Ruby and a the others were early to class so they had to wait outside of Ashley's classroom while Ashley and Olivia prepared for today's lesson.
"Jeez I still can't believe Professor Peach was responsible for the dead students and Professor Mulberry." Said Coco.
"I can't believe I actually looked up to such a monster." Pyrrha said feeling ashamed.
"At least Professor Anne is back at the academy." Said Jaune trying to lighten the mood.
Speaking of lightening the mood Nora was walking over to them with a huge smile stretched across her face.
"Look what I got." She said with glee holding up a cryopod labeled AMBER.
"Nora what are you doing with that?!" Said Pyrrha. "Professor Dunes will be furious if she realizes-
"Relax Pyrrha she's not gonna find out." Nora said."now how do you open this?"
Nora then found a button on the Cryopod and she pressed it as it lit up she threw it out in front of everyone.
What came out appeared to be the head and wings of an eagle attached to the body of a lion, with Ashleys signature colors.
"Is that what I think it is?" Asked Ren.
"A griffin?" Said Weiss. "I thought there were only prehistoric creatures from where Professor Dunes came from."
"Well she did say that dragons existed in the ark system so it wouldn't be to far fetched to see other mythical creatures living there." Ruby pointed out.
Nora suddenly got on the griffin.
"Let's see what this beauty can do!" She cheered.
"Nora get off of it it doesn't know us and Professor Dunes isn't here to keep it in check." Said Pyrrha.
"It'll be fine now come on Amber show me what you can do yip yip!!" Nora cheered.
Amber took one look at Nora and then...proceeded to roll onto its back and attempt to suffocate her.
"MmmMMmmmmmph MmmMph Mmmmph!!!!!!!" Nora muffled While flailing her arms around.
"Hey get off her you dumb bird thing!" Yang said kicking Amber.
Amber did so but not before kicking Yang in return.
"I can breathe again!" Said Nora.
Amber then sat down and begun cleaning her wings without a care in the world.
"Wow this griffin is a jerk." Said Ruby.
"Nora put that griffin back in the cryopod before it causes anymore trouble!" Nagged Weiss.
"Fine." She groaned. "Okay Amber back into the cryopod you go."
Amber however didn't want to go back in the cryopod and used its wing to smack it out of Noras hands and sent it flying off the cliff.
"...oh boy, that can't be good." Said Jaune.
"Alright kids class is ready to begi-WHAT THE HELL IS AMBER DOING OUT HERE?!?!" Said Ashley walking out.
Everybody immediately pointed at Nora.
Ashley gave her a frown.
"You get an F for the day." She said.
"Aw"
"Alright give me her cryopod so we can put her back in." Ashley sighed.
"Yeah...about that...Amber kinda knocked it off the cliff." Ruby chuckled sheepishly.
...
"Ugh why god." Ashley muttered to herself.
"Hey what's she doing now?" Velvet said pointing toward the fountain.
Amber was sniffing the fountain. This caused Ashley to enter a small panic.
"AMBER NO DONT YOU DARE!!" Ashley yelled running toward the griffin.
Amber then lifted up her left hind leg.
Everyone then knew what she was gonna do and ran toward begging her not to do it
"NO AMBER!"
"AMBER NO!"
"BAD GRIFFIN!"
"AMBER DONT!!!!"
But it was too late Amber let the stream fly into the fountain.
"NOOOO! GODDAMMIT AMBER!" Ashley groaned. "Glynda's never gonna let me hear the end of this."
She turned to kids.
"MAKE SURE SHE DOESNT GO ANYWHERE." She ordered. "I'm gonna go grab a spare cryop-
Before she could finish Amber flew over them and disappeared into the forest.
...
"FUCK."
timeskip.*
Ashley and her students were on two separate bullheads searching the forest.
"Any sign of her yet?" Ashley asked out loud through her scroll.
"Not yet!" Said Pyrrha from the other bullhead.
"Dammit where the hell is she?" Ashley muttered becoming more irritated by the minute.
"Hey if I manage to find her does that mean I don't get an F?" Asked Nora.
"Hell no your the reason we're in this mess!" Ashley snapped.
Then her scroll rang showing that it was a call from Glynda.
"Oh boy here we go." Ashley winced as she accepted the call.
"Hey Glynda how are you do-
"MS DUNES WHY IS THE COURTYARD FOUNTAIN COVERED IN URINE?!?!"
"Look Nora somehow got her hands on one of my cryopods and let a Dino our particularly one that happens to be an asshole, if it makes you feel any better I'll put my earnings into a new fountai-
"Don't you try to put the blame on the students Ms Dunes! When you get back you are going to clean this fountain till it's spotless!!!"
"Glynda stop yelling I get it I fucked up leaving the cryofridge unlocked and now my Griffins on the loose! You don't have to screech the fact that I fucked up into my ear!" Ashley snapped back.
"YOU LET ONE OF YOUR ANIMALS ON THE LOOSE?!?!"
"Oh fuck me." Ashley groaned as she continued to listen to Glynda Nag and bitch at her on the phone.
"What in Oum's name is that?" Asked the pilot.
Ashley got over to the cockpit and looked over in confusion to see something flying in the distance.
Curious, she took out her spyglass to get a closer look.
"What is it Professor?" Asked Ruby.
Her eyes suddenly widen as she realized what it was.
"PILOT LAND THE BULLHEAD NOW!!!" She yelled.
But it was far too late the Tek pteranodon dashed toward the bullhead at an insane speed and begun twirling through the air like a bullet and the moment it made impact with the bulldog it exploded taking off a huge chunk of the bullhead sending it and its passengers spiraling down.
The shrapnel from the kamikazi cyber pterosaur flew into the pilot instantly killing him and preventing the bullhead any remaining chance of a safe landing.
"No!!!" Pyrrha screamed concerned for her friends
Team JNPR as well as Fox and Yatsuhashi were relieved to see Ashley and team RWBY along with Coco and Velvet jumped out at the last second.
"NOW THEY GOT SUICIDE BOMBING PTERODACTYLS?!" Jaune yelled in a panic.
"Look out!!!" Ren shouted as a another Tek pteranodon soared toward them.
Pyrrha shot its wing off causing it to stray off its target and passed the remaining bullhead. It blew up once it made contact with a tree.
"2 more closing in on our right!" Yelled the pilot.
Ren quickly moved to the other side of the bullhead and shot the one on the right causing it to fly into the other causing both to explode.
This time however the severed head of one went flying into one of the bullhead's engines.
"SHIT HOLD ON!!!" Yelled the pilot trying to control the crashing vehicle as best he could.
The huntsmen in training braced for impact as the bullhead came crashing down destroying trees till finally crashing down to the ground.
"Ugh" the pilot groaned. "Everyone alright?" He asked.
"Yeah were fine." Said Fox.
"I guess that's why that Dino woman wanted us to keep our bullheads low." The pilot muttered getting a pistol out.
"Wait...WHERES PYRRHA?!" Asked Jaune.
meanwhile in another part of the forest.*
Pyrrha got up and checked her surroundings, she must've gotten separated from the others when the bullhead came crashing down.
"Looks like I'm on my own as of now I just hope the others are ok." She thought to herself
She suddenly heard screeching in the distance she followed it to find Amber struggling to break free from a metal net while being surrounded by Federation troops, five of which was wearing armor similar to a Tek Dino.
"Oh no." She whispered to herself.
"Commander Verez," a soldier said to the present Commander. "our Tek Pteranodons brought down a couple of native aircraft but scanners are picking up signs of life from the areas where the vehicles crashed."
"Hm Ashley must be looking for her griffin and I'm willing to bet those huntsmen we've been hearing about are with her." He said calmly.
"Have the troops take the ATVs to handle the survivors at the furthest crash site," he ordered. "as for the other site send a couple Tek Trikes to take care of them."
"Yes sir." The soldier nodded.
"Sargent Graves you and the other commandos will remain here with me to make sure the griffin doesn't escape." He said to the armored soldier that was apparently the squad leader of these Tek Commandos.
Pyrrha took out her scroll to warn the others but it was broken from the fall.
"Damn I gotta do something." She thought.
She suddenly heard a gun cock she turned around to defend herself only to get hit with some kind of electrified Tek bola shot out from a odd gun.
"Sargent I subdued a huntress!" Shouted the Tek Commando.
meanwhile at JNRYF's crash site.*
"Pyrrha must've gotten separated from us when the bullhead crashed." Said Ren.
"Don't worry Jaune Pyrrha can handle herself." Said Nora.
"I guess your right, b-but still we should try to regroup with her as soon as we can."
"We will, don't you worry Jaune." Said Ren.
"Wait do you hear that???" Said Yatsuhashi.
Everyone stood quiet as they begun to hear something large heading there way.
The pilot began firing into the woods where the noise was coming from. Soon after a mettalic 3 horned creature bursted through the trees.
"Robot triceratops!!!" Nora Yelled.
The angry Tek Trike kicked some dust with its front leg signifying it was going to charge.
It then dashed toward the students who all dived out of the way, the pilot however wasn't so lucky as he immediately got impaled on the Trike's front horn which suddenly begun to heat up with plasma and then disintegrate the screaming man to ash.
"NO!!" Said Jaune.
Another trike bursted our of the trees and grunted.
"Oh great now there's two of them." Said Fox.
Meanwhile with RWBYVC And Ashley Dunes.*
"Everybody alright?" Ashley said as her archaeopteryx finished lowering her to the ground.
"Yeah we're ok." Coco Said dusting herself off.
Ashley looked up to the sky to see if there was any more TEK Pteranodons.
"Looks like we're clear for now." She said while putting her archaeopteryx back into a cryopod.
She pulled out her scroll to see that there was nothing but static.
"Anybody's scroll working?" She asked the students.
They all checked there scrolls to see they also had static on them.
"Looks like the Feds are jamming our signal." Ashley said. "I think we're gonna have some company here real soon kids, and not the good kind."
Not even a second after 2 TEK ATVs rolled up one of which had a mounted gun on the top manned by a trooper.
"There they are!" Pointed out a soldier in the passenger side. "MOW EM DOWN!"
The gunner turned the mounted gun to Ashley and her students and begun firing on them.
"SHIIIITTT!!!" Ashley screamed as she jumped over some wreckage and took cover behind it.
The students did so as well.
The soldiers exited out of the atvs and begun to fire their rifles upon them as well as they closed in.
"Someone take out that gunner!!!" Shouted Ashley ducking from a bullet.
Ruby turned to Weiss. "Mind giving me a Hand Weiss?"
Weiss nodded as she placed Glyphs on the trees that led to the mounted turret.
Rwby then used her semblance to dash along the glyphs which caught the gunners attention and she turned the turret to hit Ruby but she was too fast. Weiss placed the last glyph tilted upward to launch ruby into the sky.
The gunner tried to aim the turret upward but looked at it in shock to see she couldn't aim any higher she looked back in horror as Ruby came flying down with Crescent Rose in scythe form. The gunner panicked struggling to get out of the gunners seat before jumping out at the last second.
Ruby managed to destroy the mounted gun but Crescent Rose got stuck in the ATV.
The soldiers all turned their guns on her, however that proved to be a mistake as Coco took the chance to rev up her minigun.
"EAT DUST ASSHOLES!!!" She yelled as she mowed them all down.
After the dust settled not a single fed was left standing.
Everyone slowly peeled out from cover to see if the coast was clear.
"Damn nice job kids." Ashley said impressed with how fast they took out the feds.
"Coco you handled killing all those feds pretty-
Coco then vomited.
"...well." Ashley said.
"Holy Oum I wasn't expecting it to be that gruesome." Coco whimpered with her hands on her knees.
"Right then..We'd better find the others," Said Ashley. "I'm pretty sure the Feds sent something after them too."
"Back with team JNRFY"
Yatsuhashi readied his blade as the Tek Trike came charging toward him.
At the las second he dodged to the side and sliced off the Trikes front horn.
The metal beast roared in fury as it started swinging its remaining horns at the giant huntsman furiously. Yatsuhashi then blocked the attack with his swords holding in place as Fox dashed in, he took the opportunity to pounce on the Trike and stab it in the eyes blinding it.
Yatsuhashi finished it off by plunging his blade through its skull with all his might.
Jaune, Nora and Ren we're keeping the pressure on the other Trike.
The remaining trike became frustrated with the huntsmen being to fast to hit so it slammed its front horn into the ground sending a small shockwave that sent Ren and Nora flying back
Then it charged toward Jaune with all its fury. Being cornered into a tree Jaune held up his shield desperately hoping it could save him.
BANG!!!!*
The trike collapsed mid charge and skidded to a stop to where his horn barely tinked Jaune's shield before the lights on its body dimmed out.
Jaune looked up to see Ashley holding a smoking longneck rifle with a lever action chamber system and scope attached.
"You kids ok?" She hollered out to them.
"Is Pyrrha with you?" Jaune asked.
"No I was hoping she'd be with you guys my guess is she's further down the forest." Ashley said.
back with Pyrrha.*
"Well,well,well." Said the Commander taking a puff from his cigarette. "Your one of those huntsmen we've been hearing about."
He then blowed the smoke of the cigarette into Pyrrha's face, causing her to cough.
"I suppose you must be a friend of Ashley then if you attempted to save her pet griffin here." He gestured toward the angered griffin.
"Luckily for you huntress, lady Rockwell wants a live huntsmen to analyze. So you get to live a while longer."
"Holy shit!" Said a suprised Tek Commando. "Sir look at the back of her neck!"
The commander raised an eyebrow before walking over and moving Pyrrha's hair aside to reveal the mark of a BeastMaster.
"Impossible" he muttered to himself.
"that's right I have the same mark as Professor Dunes." Pyrrha said hoping to scare the commander a little more.
"Commandos execute her immediately having one BeastMaster around is irritating enough!"
"But sir she's still a huntress shouldn't we bring her to-
"Kill her now we can always find another one!" He shouted.
The Tek commandos looked to eachother before shrugging and aiming their weapons at Pyrrha.
Pyrrha closed her eyes waiting for death.
But at a moments flash a hooded figure jumped out of the trees and decapitated both commandos before she landed.
"Who is that?!"
"Who cares shoot her!!" Yelled the Commander.
The Tek Commandos. fired there Tek rifles at the hooded woman but she elegantly dodged each blast and even sent one flying back into one of them killing him.
The remaining Tek Commando decided that she wouldn't be able to hit her with the rifle and took out her tek sword.
She then dashed toward the woman and slashed downward only to look in surprise that the sword didn't even cut through the Chinese looking blade.
The hooded woman then threw her attacker back as they both engaged in a duel.
Pyrrha looked at the woman in awe, she was so elegant skilled at dueling with nothing but a sword, it was almost as if she was dancing.
The woman then managed to slice off the commandos leg before plunging her blade into her chest finishing the commando off.
She pulled out and sheathed it before walking toward Pyrrha.
The commander put his handgun to the woman's head.
"You forgot me you fucking bitch!"
"No...I did not." She stated calmly.
Amber suddenly tackled the commander and devoured him.
Then amber turned to face the woman.
"SIT." She ordered it.
Amber did just that.
"Ms. Dunes should have more authority over her animals." The woman sighed.
She then knelt down to Pyrrha.
"Are you alright child?"
"yeah...who are you."
"HEY WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!!" Ashley said aiming her revolver at the woman.
"I am not your enemy Ms. Dunes." Said the woman. "To be honest I have been watching you for some time now."
"Wha- how long were you watching me?!" She said in shock. "Just who the hell are you?!"
"I suppose my introduction has been long overdue." The woman sighed.
she slowly stood up and removed her hood.
Ashley's jaw dropped upon seeing her face.
"No way your-"
"I AM MEI YIN LI, THE GRAND BEASTMASTER."