Have you ever imagined the other worlds that are out there?

by EXRB

(First Fic) (Discontinued) There's a lot story about Multiverse of RWBY, and those story inspire me to writing, but... I don't want to use the formula that's been using so much, so here I am writing this story. How will RWBY react to the world that is very different form their own? only one way to find out. (Chapters: 2,3,4 fixed and updated.)

4. React 2 (A Hat in Time)

React world origin: A Hat in Time (Chapter 2: Battle of the Birds Act 1). (Single-player mode) sorry, Bow Kid fans.

FOR THE RECORDER: Hat Kid's personality is believed the sassy type, judging by the game's in-game information.

And some of the methods of approach in-game puzzle has been alert to suit the story. (Because lets be honest, sometimes video game hitbox logical doesn't make any sense.)

And I've decided to try a different angle of the way we react a world, I will let the RWBY cast experience some of the said world's stuff or activities. Or getting the cast to the said world. Something are better experience than just sit and watching. It's more interesting this way.

Besides, this way made my story stand out when compared to other react fic.

OH MY GOD, novelization a story from a video game is HARD, HARD AS F*K I TELL YOU, now I understand why not much of people want to write Multiverse Remnant that's base on video games, you basically have to write the gameplay yourself, no script to follow. Because gameplay is not like anime, everyone's gameplay experience is different; you won't talk to the NPCs in the same order, complete the stages in the same order. And the fact some early era games have no dialogue means I have to head cannon how the character is going to talk in various situations.

That means I have to create a story that's not what the game is, and I have to worry about modifying too much of the game's plot, it gets worse when I try to choose those early days video games, The NES era. SNES era. The games that mostly don't have any of the storytelling.

BUT, this is a good challenge to me, and I intend to write a good story out of this.

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I DO NOT own any of the characters in this story except my OC, RWBY belongs to their rightful owner creator: Rooster Teeth, A Hat in Time belongs to Gear of Breakfast, Mod content belong to AHiT community, and so as all the other video games franchises that are going to appearing in this story.

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the plain text.

"Talking." "Whispering."

'Thinking.'

'Telepathy.'

(Author note.)

Bold text as screens.

{Talking through device.}

[Technology text.]

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Location: EXRB's dimension/ EXRB's Mansion(Or castle)/ Cinema Room

The break was really short; the time was enough for people to go to bathroom.

*CLAP* *CLAP*

EXRB claps his hand to get everyone's attention. "Alright guys, I've chosen our next world and we can start our next reaction right immediately."

Sun rises up from his bean bag chair. (What? Those are comfy.) "Already?"

"Yep, when you had a certain category in your mind, it's easy to choose. Or else it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Which sucks A LOT." EXRB explains, with a visible annoy frown in the end.

And with a snap, a file cabinet shows up in front him, however, this file cabinet is different than another cabinet, there's childish doodle drawing & cute sticker on it, and the most special feature on it? Was a little purple top hat with a yellow stripe.

Nora eyeing the cabinet with interest. "Oooooo, pretty cabinet."

"I know you wouldn't fail me, it was always a pleasant experience whenever I watch you." EXRB searching while talking to no one, looking for a specific file.

Ruby then asks. "So what is this world like?"

EXRB then take out the file he was looking for. "An interesting one, a lot of adventure. I sure had a really good time with this world.

So first thing first:

1. No Aura & Semblance,

2. No Grimms,

3. No Dust,

4. No Faunus,

And for future reference, these things are basically your world only. Consider yourself really special. You Faunus especially, you guys are the only species in the whole universe. You should be proud of what you are." EXRB turns around, facing the Faunus group at the last part.

Ilia pout at the words. "Only if we don't have Grimms, that'll be great." This earns her a hidden glare from Cinder, Tyrian, and Salem.

"One can dream my dear, one can dream."

Sun puff his chest up at the word. "Well, from now on we can at least proudly say we are special."

EXRB continues his notify. "True, Mister Wukong, and... As the previous one, no Faunus, but different sentient life's,

Magic exists,

And this world has its own unique laws."

Ozpin's interest spiked up at the word. "Unique laws?"

"Their own Physical laws, their own logical, it works like nothing in your world."

Summer then asks. "Does this world have a name?"

EXRB looking at the file in his hand. "Yes and no, this one is more like a story, this story we are about to see is mostly focused on the adventure of our protagonist."

Ironwood rais one eyebrow at this. "No name for this world?"

"Yea, every file you see in this room is collect by me, like collecting books, I didn't record all these worlds, these worlds and stories are created or reordered and mass-produced by other Gods, I Just basically collecting these, document these and watching these as my little hobbies." EXRB proudly gesturing to the walls of cabinets around them.

Winter speaks. "That still doesn't answer why this world have no names."

"Sometimes other Gods didn't pay attention to these things, hence why the world got no name, not everyone is perfect, us Gods include, and to answer your question, this story is called: A Hat in Time."

Ruby repeats the name. "A Hat in Time?"

"It had to do with our protagonist. And I don't want to spoil, so let's watch."

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A Hat in Time

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The scene start with a huge black building standing tall in a desert-like area, it has a large bird skull Logo and a name: Dead Bird Studio on it, it was a movie studio. With a rather impressive huge parking lot in front of the building.

Jaune titled his head at the name. "Dead Bird Studio?"

Nora lit up as they realize this is a movie studio. "Studio?! Does that mean we are about to see movies inside movies?!"

Pyrrha, finding the name of the studio rather... ominous for a business. "That's… a weird name for a studio."

EXRB rests his chin on one hand. "Well… that's because it was a movie studio located right in the center of a desert. A deadly desert. And the studio was running by sentient birds."

Emerald, finding the case to be rather lazy and stupid. "Really now? That's just dumb and meaningless."

"Told you, the worlds' own logic. Besides, says the world where a place is named: Fort Castle."

Nora smugly looks at her friend. "See, I told you that name is weird."

The scenes then show someone walking in front the building, it was a little kid, a girl, probably 10 years old, she have brown hairs, two braids at the side and a tied up short ponytail at the back of her head, her eye color is aquamarine, for attire: she dresses in a big purple long-sleeved shirt with a part of the garment that extends to the thigh, white pants clad in brown boots, and a yellow cape with a big sliver zip in the front, the most prominent feature of her, is the big purple top hat with a yellow stripe.

Coco eyeing the little child's attire. "A memorable first impression, I guess this is our protagonist, and the reason for the story's name. Right?"

"Yep, and for the clear out, the kid's name was never recorded, we only referring her as Hat kid."

Kali looks at EXRB funny. "Wait, you don't know her name?"

"The recorder of this story never get what the girl's name is, so don't care too much on this matter, it didn't affect the story that much."

Hat kid let out a sigh as she stands in front of the front door. "Sigh… Let's hope the Time Pieces haven't caused any damage in this place."

"Timepieces?" Ozpin asks.

"An artifact that has the power to re-write times." Again, EXRB states an incredible fact like it was nothing important.

"What?!"

"Base on the numbers, the scale of times that can be re-write is different." He continues the amazing feature.

Glynda then speaks. "The numbers? There's more of this Timepieces?"

"Yea, the Time Pieces are made up by a huge number of Hourglasses, the more you have, the farther you can go back. Or the bigger history you can create."

Cinder pondering on the info with huge interest. 'Interesting, re-write times, perhaps we can use this artifact for our plan, and rewrite history, does that mean we can prevent some people from born?' A sinister thought forming in her head.

Ironwood asking with worry. "And it was owned by this little girl?"

"Yep, to clear things out, she may look like a human kid, but she is an intelligent alien with human appearance. And long story short, an accident happens, not the girl's fault, the Time Pieces went scatter all over the place, so now she is recovering these pieces back." EXRB explains.

Yang rubbing her neck. "Sound like one hack of works to do. And she is just a little kid."

"Worry not, she may look like a 10 years old kid, but she... ummmm… ummmm… you know what, it was really a wonder how she retrieves all the Time Pieces back." EXRB was attempt to reassuring Yang, but then remember the tale of Hat Kid being a rather bizarre one.

"That does not make us feel convinced."

"sigh… I know, but sometimes, things just worked. It is a thing."

Hat kid then walk in the entrance glass door, into a long hall, black carpet floor, white plaid light in the ceiling, at the end of the hall is an automatic glass door with the bird skull symbol on it, but there's the sound of arguing coming from the other side.

Hat kid walk pass the glass door, finally entering the facility, but before she can take a look at this entire place, a fierce conversation is happening.

?: "This movie studio is too big for the both of us, D J Grooooovees! The movie should be made by REAL birds!

You Moon Penguins are just gonna write some loud, noisy drivel! If I wanted a bunch of peck necks to dance around while on bird seed, HA! I'd visit me grandchildren."

The voice is speaking in a funny accent, the owner is a male short bird-like… raptor things… Ummm… creature, his entire face is yellow with nothing but a jagged shape mouth, the inside of the mouth is the color light purple, the back of his head have 8 sharp manes, both side have 3 little manes at the down, and 1 big mane at the up that act like the ears. For the attire, he wears a black business trench coat with 3 golden buttons, a white business shirt and a pink-purple tie, a black pants, and black shoes, on top of his head, is a black train cap with a golden strip line.

Yang laughs out loud as she heard the voice of the ¿bird? creature. "Pfffff, what's wrong with his accent, he sounds like a cartoon character."

Port eyeing the creature with curiosity. "Ummm… what exactly is this creature? it looks like a bird, but more like the raptor type of creature kind."

Watts was puzzled by the creature's appearance. "Is he even count as a bird?"

EXRB answers. "Well, the recorder didn't record any information about he's biological, so… I don't know, but consider his relationship with other birds; I think it's safe to call him a bird, just special from the others. And no name, he was referring as The Conductor."

Neptune speaks. "No offense, but this world's recorder is doing a poor job. Incomplete information." (AN: Please don't sue me, Gear of Breakfast, this line is just for the story.)

EXRB waves him off. "Nan, don't be like that, while something is unknowns, that didn't affect the entire story, if anything, I would say it add a charm of mysterious."

Penny innocently asks. "umm… Peck necks? What does that mean?"

"It's a swear word. Possibly stand for f*k, I guess." Which his explanation gets an annoyed glare from Weiss, Winter, and Glynda.

"So he is a lousy mouth, hun?" Roman says.

"A veeeeery trash-talking guy, ummm… bird."

"Peck neck? Hun? Yea, I can see myself using it. Peck neck. *snicker*" Mercury immediately put his new learn knowledge into use, which I don't think I need to tell you who he was calling here.

Emerald rolled her eyes all the way back at the stupidity her insufferable partner is showing. "Of course it would be YOU who pick up bad habits."

"Behave, the both of you." And a death glares by the devil, effetely shutting up both.

"Yes, ma'am."

?: "Nonsense, darling, nonsense! You Owl Express birds are just going to record another boring train-related western! You've done so for the last ten years, darling!"

The voice is speaking in a very smooth tone, the owner of the voice is a male penguin, his attire is weird and funny and eye-catching, he wears a red hot rock star jacket, with 3 yellow buttons on both side of the front fly, outwardly extending spiky collar, 3 yellow buttons at both of the sleeve cuff, the back have a slashed yellow star symbol and 2 yellow buttons at both side at bottom of the star, the back part of the jacket is long enough to trail on the floor; as for the bottom part, he wears dark blue jeans, 3 yellow stars with a red outline at each side of the jeans, a brown belt with a rectangle golden button. The shoe he is wearing is a high red stilts shoes that fit his penguin feet. But the most obvious features is his face & hair; the star shape sunglasses on his face, the ridiculous thick yellow eyebrows that extended all the way above his head, and the big black afro hair on his head with a small blue comb stuck on it.

Coco nearly has a heart attack: "Oh my lord! What is wrong with his attire, does he live under a rock?! That attire is so outdating!" She wants to pass out, somebody please call the fashion police, this is an unforgivable crime.

Velvet could only shake her head at her leader's questionable habits. "sigh… Coco…"

The screen then shows three movie posters, one with Conductor dress up as a western gunner, another with an owl dress as a western bandit too, and the last one is just a poster of a cactus?

"Wha?! No we haven't, yer buffoon! " From Conductor's voice you can clearly tell he is lying.

"Conductor, darling, this year we'll be winning the annual bird movie award, as our new movie props will bring in the audiences!" As DJ Grooves finishes his words, a group of mafia looking penguins walks behind him while lifting a huge display box, there was some shining object in it.

"These shiny things fell from the sky! They will light our movie sets and fill them with glimmer!" Those shiny things are indeed a bunch of hourglasses.

Winter, looking at the hourglasses on screen, speaks. "So, those are the timepieces?"

EXRB confirms. "Yea, they may not look much, but trust me, they are really powerful."

Ironwood speaks. "Hard to believe a normal-looking hourglass can rewrite time."

"I didn't believe it the first time I see it too. But experiences teach me otherwise."

"Oh yeah?" Conductor, however, huffs at DJ Grooves' confidence. "Well, this time around, we're ALSO spicing it up with our newest movie props!" A group of formally dress owls walk behind him, they also lifting a huge display box, there too, have the timepieces in it. "These hourglass thingies will be the grand jewel in our train heist western!"

"Well, this is awkward." Sun says, as everyone looking at the scene with a knowing expression.

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Both birds take a look at other's display boxes.

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"WHADDA WHAT?!" Conductor, quickly recovers from this awkward shock, angerly yelled. "You no-good dirty peck necks! You copied our props!"

DJ Grooves protest back. "I would NEVER, Darling! Clearly you're the one who took inspiration in my flashy new props." He seems to take real offense by Conductor's comment, but chooses to not head-butt the conductor, however, the irritation remains visible in his voice.

Have enough with the afro penguin's word, Conductor spat his final insult. "That does it! Get outta here with ye, I've got a movie to record!"

"Fine by me, darling. But we'll be the one who win the annual bird movie award, MARK my word!" As DJ Grooves finishes his declare, he swifly turns around with a dance move, dances his way to the studio, the Moon Penguins follow after him.

Junior, finally decides to speaks. "Well, they are definitely anything but friendly relationship."

Weiss puting a hand on her temper. "Sigh… always vicious competition around business."

Roman, take a drag from his cigar, answers Weiss's question. "Well, that's real life for you, ice queen."

Weiss/Winter immediately snap their head at Roman. "Hey!/Excuse me?!"

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Then they both awkwardly look at each other. "You too?! … Since when?!"

Yang and Qrow whistle an "Awkward." while looking away at the same time. Which EXRB side glance at them with a look that speaks: it was you two who given them the nickname in the first pace.

But it seems like the Conductor have other things on his mind, as he walks in front of the studio door DJ Groove just walked in, a menacing smile presenting on his face.

"Oh yeah?! Let's see how well ye do when you can't get into the reception! GWAHAHAHAHA!" He then pulls out multiple wood planks and nails and a hammer, sealed the door with wood planks completely.

"Sheesh, talk about vicious competition." Coco says.

But then Conductor realizes something. "Oh wait… shutting the peck necks inside the studio will force them to work harder…" He realizes the possible outcome with his action.

"Looks like someone didn't thought it through." Ilia comment.

Weiss analysis. "Either he is confident about his movie enough, or he is underestimating DJ Grooves."

But Conductor decides to shrug it off, it's not like DJ peck neck can win the annual award again, ha, that'll be really rich, that one time is just the audience crowd being peck necks, they were baffled by that flash, noisy trash. After all, he wins all the other times, all those 345 minor trophies, and of course the most important: those 40 beautiful annual award trophies, that's right, all 385 trophies won by his marvelous movie direct talent. (Author note: the 385 number is not made up; it was the real number in the game, in Conductor's room in Dead Bird Studios.)

Weiss had her jaw lowering at the information. "Or that…"

"Damn. That's a lot of trophies." Sun awing at how much trophies the raptor-bird owned.

Conductor speaks to his man... birds. "Alright, time to go, owls! Let's make our killer movie!"

He then walking toward another door, which leads to another studio, but before he entering it, he turns around to the front desk.

"Oh, and receptionist, can yer PLEASE close off that vent already? I don't want the smell of penguin to come anywhere near my crew!" He making his complaint, finger pointing at the vent cover that clearly is loosened and hanging, which the reception bird only shrug off.

After the Conductor leaves the room, it shows how quiet this place is, not much people… errr… birds are talking.

Hat Kid, taking in the small event that just folds out in front of her. "Hun, so that's a thing in the movie business. Well, good news, at least that answered my question, no problem had been causing by the Time Pieces." But then she frowns.

"But bad news, I have to commit theft of studio proprieties, which is totally unfair, because the Time Pieces is MY belongings. Uhhggg, perhaps I need to stick a nametag on all my Time Pieces in the future, if things like this happened again… Sigh" She pulled the edge of her tophat in irration.

"Looks like someone get out of the bed on the wrong side." Yang says.

EXRB then speaks. "Well, you would be the same if you were on your way home, and suddenly get dragged into a completely avoidable mess."

Summer asks. "On her way home?"

"Yea, she was on her way back to her home, but an accident happened, which result in the space ship's fuel, aka, the Time Pieces scatter all-over the planet. And without the fuel, she can't go home."

Nora's eye lit up on the mentioning of spacecraft. "Space Ship?!"

"Well… more like a space-house in my opinion." EXRB snaps his finger, making a hologram of Hat kid's space ship. It was a wooden house, with a huge glass at the front that acts as the cockpit, but it was also the window of the living room? And there is a full range satellite at the left side of the house, and the rocket engine at the back of the house.

"I present you, the Mk. 14 Custom."

Weiss had her head tilted. "Wha?"

Ruby/Nora beaming at the cool looking space ship. "Ohhhhhh~"

Winter, eyeing the ?ship¿ ?house¿ "That… really does look like a house."

Ironwood, however, was surprised by the material used on the house. "… Is its outer shell made of woods?"

EXRB explains. "Well, space resistant wood. It's really durable, extreme temperature resistance, and high-pressure resistance."

Yang worringly comments. "Cool… but I don't think it's safe to use such huge glass as the front."

"Don't worry, the glass is comet proof. It can resist almost all kinds of impacts."

Cinder, interest spiked by the info. "Really? Such durable material really exists?" Which, she get a confirm nod from the host. 'Maybe I can craft weapons with this material.' (Awww, dreaming while you can Cinder, because reality was known for its cruelty.)

EXRB then close the hologram. "Yep, but, we are getting off topic here; we can discuss this after the reaction."

Hat kid the start counting how many Timepieces she saw. "So, how many were in there? 6? … yea, I guess that's the right number. Hopefully there's isn't time rift created by the Timepiece this time… "

Glynda asks. "Time rift?"

EXRB then explained. "There are two types of Time rifts.

The first type: When a timepiece is shattered. Its foolproof power will resort the Timepiece itself, and reverse the time around it a few seconds back, but if the Timepiece is shattered hard, for example: drop from the high sky, spitting the sand everywhere. To resort the Timepiece, the time power will get highly unstable, the outcome is the nearby area getting split, distorted then re-compressed the time and space around it, create a tunnel that lead to a temporary new dimension. This is the blue Time rift, or you can just call it Dream World.

The second type: Is when a timepiece crash into people. Absorb the memory of the person, then completely re-compressed and recreate the area that's in the person's latest memory. Create a tunnel to this new world, which is a parallel world, because emphasize the part: How the person remembered it. It could be mixed up with some imagination, some old memories, or something that doesn't exist in the first place. This is the purple Time rift, which I call it Parallel World.

And then there is the third result, the power didn't get triggered, and the hourglass is shattered, which is a very rare occasion."

"Damn, that's some powerful twist right there." Sun comment.

Nora then raises her hand. "Dream World. Does that mean the world of dreams?"

"The name is more in a way of describing. The Dream World is a calming and beautiful place, aside from the bottomless death pit that is."

Oobleck raises a finger at that. "No offensive, Mr. EXRB, but how does bottomless pit even work?"

"In your world, with your physic laws, a bottomless pit would never exist in Remnant, but remember, this is a different world, different laws, so it works here."

Watts, however, doubt everything EXRB just said. "And what physic laws is this?"

"Magic."

"What."

A book then appeared in front of Watts' face, its title says: Magic Laws of most universes. Edition 1337. 4. 2. 0 (Author note: See what I did there? I'll have you know I am a man of culture.)

EXRB casually replies. "Try not to look into it too seriously, the knowledge within it could easily destroy any mortal's mind, for this knowledge is not meant for mortals."

Watts hesitantly takes the book.

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Looking left and right, the host asks. "Any question? No? Then let us return to the react."

Hat Kid take a look around the main hall, there's the reception desk, trophy stands (With the same looking trophy for whatever weird reason), movie posters, benches, decorating pot plants, and the big cardboard cut-out of Conductor in a western theme & DJ Grooves in a modern theme that says filming in progress, Yep, this is your avenger studio main hall.

The room was separate to two sides, Conductor & DJ Grooves' territory. This shows how much these two are competing.

And then Hat Kid noticed there are two posters right above the reception desk, which said: No Humans allowed; Only birds allowed.

Hat Kid looks at herself. "Humm, pretty sure I don't count as a human, I know I looked like a human, but I am not a human. So that means I can enter the studio, I mean, technically I didn't break any rule, right?"

Roman laugh at the kid's definition of playing rule. "Heh, I like the way this kid thinking."

Weiss rolled her eyes at the crime lord. "Of course you would think like that."

Roman waves his finger at Weiss. "But it is true, Ice…(Cast a glance at Winter.) Princess. If the information this story given is right, then there is no reason this girl shouldn't get what's belong to her back."

Kali, however, pout at the way where this story is going. "There could be a better way than stealing, right?"

EXRB then sighed. "Sadly, no, life in this world has made itself well known for not being fair."

Hat Kid looked around while planning how does she sneak around this place. "Hmmm, so how do I sneak into the studio? There has to be a way." And then she notices the shaky air vent cover.

"Huh. That was easy." She looks at the vent with a smile of mischief.

Jaune rubbing his neck in worry. "I don't like that look."

Yang replies. "Neither is us, vomit boy."

'Well there is the method, but just in case, better investigate around, you never known if there's another way.' Hat Kid, decide there is no hurt in being prepared. So she explores this area first.

She walks up to the owl that's standing in front of the reception desk.

"I want to ask this reception guy a question, but he hasn't acknowledged me at all.

Unn, but now I've been standing here for so long; it'll be awkward to start up a conversation.

I really suck at interacting with other birds."

Ruby sherd a tear for the owl. "I feel your pain, fellow owl."

Yang shot her sister a look. "I dunno, maybe if you actually try to talk with people?"

EXRB suddenly jumps in. "It's not that simple, Miss Xiao Long, starting a conversation is a very deep philosophy."

...

Jaune then speaks. "You too?"

*Deep inhale* *Deep breath* … "yep I suffer from social awkwardness too." The God admits one of his biggest weaknesses.

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Weiss feels like her eyes is twitching. "You can't be serious."

EXRB shoots a finger at her. "You will never understand this pain."

Aside from the bad guys, and Ruby, everyone just simply sweats dropping or facepalming.

Hat Kid then explore the Conductor's side.

Express Owl 1: "Hun, you want that movie prop they carried in? Are you the kind of person that sells movie props on eBird?"

"That's kind an impolite thing to do." Jaune says.

Pyrrha then speaks, rubbing her shoulder with slight discomfort. "It is. People do that a lot if it's something that has connection with famous."

Nora asks her teammate with worry. "Do people do this to you a lot? Pyrrha?"

"More than I can remember."

EXRB comment. "Being a celebrity is troubling, especially when it became a pure idolization mess."

Winter raises a brow at the tone their host is using. "You have that problem before?"

"Gladly not, but I am not planning on getting into that pain train, it was bad enough among our gods society."

Sienna finally asks. "You keeps speak like your gods' society has a lot of problem."

EXRB chucked at the lady's word. "Oh no no no no NO, not just has a lot of problems, it's an unbelievable huge amount of s*t ton problems. A paradise, but also a hell."

Taiyang speaks. "Kind hard to believe God's society have problems."

"As I said before, not everything is perfect, and that sentence applies to us gods, we aren't perfect, we have problems. Just like you all."

Watts, shooting a glare. "And that problem is?"

"Trust me, you do not want to know, but if you insist, we can talk about it later, not now, I am in no mood to talk about how problematical our society is."

Express Owl 2: "Uhhh, hi there. I'm an Express Owl. Which really just means I ride the Owl Express that the Conductor runs.

I need to ride the train to get to work, but the Conductor makes unexpected stops all the time.

I have no idea why we're at a movie studio. I need to be at work in 15 minutes!"

Glynda frown at this. "Ok, that is just extremely irresponsible. How does he even get away with this!?"

EXRB casually answers. "Beats me, probably their logical."

Emerald shoot him an annoyed glare. "Are you just going to answer the entire problem with these lame excuses?"

"Hey, I've told you this world's logical works like nothing compare to your world."

"And I don't believe it."

"Your problem, not mine. Beside, bother this won't get you anywhere; I personally just look at all this like some funny jokes, remember, this is, by definition, a story. No need to get serious over it."

Express Owl 3: "I don't really get this feud between The Conductor and DJ Grooves.

Like. Why does a train operator and a disco guy want to compete? We're all birds here, right? Shouldn't we cooperate?

… I dunno, I guess cooperating is kinda stupid. I guess. Yeah… just ignore me…"

Neptune comment. "Ok, that's just depressing."

Mercury then asks. "Which one, the feud or the Owl's self-doubt?"

Ilia reply. "Both." 'What's the problem with this guy? What a jerk.'

Express Owl 4: "Un yeah sorry, the Conductor has said only birds are allowed past here. And he specifically said no penguins of any kind.

I have no idea -why-, I'm just a passenger on his train. Whatever gets us back on the train faster."

Glynda had a murderous aura emitting from her body. "…"

"Breath, Miss Goodwitch, breath." Their host says.

*Clink* The teacup she was holding got crashed, it's a good thing it was empty.

Ironwood eyeing the deputy worryingly. "Umm, Glynda?"

"I am fine, James."

"Just make sure-"

"I AM FINE."

EXRB then scrapped down a note. "Note to self, prepare a stress relief room."

And then there was a person who stands in the corner of the room.

The person is shrouded in a large red t-shirt that covers his torso, tied around by a brown belt and backpack. His lower half is clad in brown boots and purple baggy pants to help cover a majority of his body. The shoulders are shown as rounded and ending the sleeve with a red and yellow striped puff. At the back is an extension to the shirt, similar to that of a cape. In his left hand is a wooden staff, which is as tall as his height.

His head is covered in a deep purple cloak, further obscured by a white porcelain-eque mask that shows a single green eye in the right socket. This mask has simple facial features, such as light yellow surrounding the eye holes, a petite nose, and red lips similar to lipstick. Besides the features themselves is an intricate design painted in tan to define the ridge of the nose and cheekbones.

Badger Seller: ̶̡̖̳͒͋"̶͚̻̼͗H̶̹̲̔̀͌̋ͅä̵̝̰͚̤́v̵͙͖̂̅̒͘ė̵͓͍̱͔͊͝ ̸̻̫̔͑y̴̮͔̓̀̚͝o̸͓̟̙̩̅̏͒̒ư̵͙̖̈ ̷͇͑͝c̸̳̦͛̈o̷̭̹͙̹͌́̔͝ḿ̷̧̻͓͎̍̑e̷̛̤̽̕ ̴͕̰̀t̷̋́̒͜ö̵͉̬͇ ̵͉͓̹̆̚m̴̧̡̛̗̓̏́ạ̷̛͕̟̼̕k̶͕̓̋̈́̕e̸͚̾̌ ̶͎̺̒͜a̵̼͂͠n̴̼̏o̴̳͈̼̟̒͝t̸̘͙̘͔̄̄͐͗h̸͇̔̓ë̶̺́̇͌r̴̫̫̈́͜ ̷̺̝͖̣̎p̸͔̙͚͍̈̀̓u̴̧̟̎͝͝r̵͕̆c̴̢̀̕h̸̛̹͑͋ä̴̪̪̘́̇̾s̸̡̬̀̌̏͑ę̴̢̲̈́?̴̜̝̺̅͋"̷̡͐ His body keeps snapping to an uncomfortable angle, then snap back. And there's purple pixels that frequently emanate from his body.

Everyone all blinks.

Summer, trying to find the right word. "Ummm, Why is his body…"

Neptune: "Spamming?"

Ilia: "Twitching?"

Milita: "So creepy?"

Melanie: "Unnerving?"

Winter: "Rewinding back?"

Yang: "Trembling?"

Emerald: "Freak out?"

Roman: "A pile of mess?"

EXRB then speaks. "I believe the term you guys are looking for is Glitching?"

Summer: "Yea, that one."

Ghira asks. "Care to explain why he is in such a state?"

The host explains. "That happens a lot when people trying to reach places they were never meant to be."

Oobleck asks. "like?"

"I dunno, that information was never recorder in this entire story. Tho, I do have a few ideas where could cause such problem."

Qrow asks. "And those places are?"

"World of chaos, glitch dimension, cyberspace, and darknet, etc, etc, there's a lot of place like this in the universe. You will mostly never be the same if you step foot in it.

And if you are wondering where these places are located, don't worry; we will see worlds about them eventually."

"̷̜͆̂P̸̯̖̪̈́̊ļ̶̥̣͆ḙ̷̮̟̈ą̵̛̪̲͑s̶̬̓e̷̫͌̔̀ ̸̯̌d̴̞͑̐̓ȉ̴̘̤̊s̷̩̰̉r̸̯͂̅͝e̵̛̺g̴͍̠̗̈̉͝a̵̞͐͑r̶̳͠ḏ̵́̇ ̵̱̰̗͊́̚m̵̱̻̫͑y̴̞̓̽͆ ̴̢͕̣͗̑t̸̢̼̻̉͑̾w̷̱̐i̷̢̛̮̒͠ť̸͔͇͐̆ç̴̳̏h̴̢͓̀̈́y̵͍̿́́ ̷̯̺̃̑b̴̢̮̤͘ḙ̷̔͊͝h̸̟͈̑́͝a̵̗̠̩̿͂͘v̴͔̓͜i̴̛̱̯͈͛́ǫ̸̙́͐̚r̶̨͈͝.̷̢̢̄̎̏ͅ ̶̼͎́M̸̠͋͒ỵ̶̥͐ ̴̢̡͎͑̈̈́b̸̢͈̳̒o̸̖̝̩͌̔͑d̵̠̀̈́̈́y̶͕͋͝͝ͅ ̶͕̩̤̊̓̌ḩ̴̰̘̏ȧ̸̧̜̣̀s̶̢̮͖̎ ̵̢̘͙͂b̴̢̹̪̓͒̆ę̸̿͝ḙ̴̄n̴͖͙̤͌ ̸̥̥̘̌t̴̜̻̐̐o̴̘̽ ̴̈́̋̓͜p̵̩̙͋͝ĺ̴͍̌́a̷̜̥̒̆̃c̷̲̐̚ȇ̶̳͎̕ ̴̥̏t̷̬̊͌ĥ̵̩͎̬̓͝á̴̧t̶̜̑͋ ̴͎̒̅͑h̶̛͎͇͔͑̀ȧ̶͚̩́ͅv̷͎̓͌è̴̯̹̗ ̶̧̘̞̏͂̋l̶̻̊͌͆ȩ̷̳́f̴͇̞͆͆͝ṯ̷̀ ̸̛̱̙͓͆̕ą̶͓͑̄ͅ ̴̟̭̽͌p̸̺̲̥̑e̸͕̽́r̴̩̗̈m̷̗̏͜á̷̦̆͌n̴̺͈̓ẻ̶̛͉̀n̵̡̊t̶̳͛̇ ̶̖͒̍m̵͎̟̱̾͆ả̶̟͉r̴̩̳̀̌̌ḱ̶͎̥͜.̵̢̳̀"̵̙̄̇̎ Badge Seller then Take out some Badges.

Ruby asks. "Are those badges?"

EXRB confirms. "Yep, those are ability badges; they can grant the wearer the special ability they have."

Junior, speaking for the second time. "Are we just going to ignore them were sold by this shady glitching guy?"

"Yep, the badges are more interesting. Beside, Badge Seller isn't a bad guy, just a pure businessman. Wanna try one?" He pauses the screen, then pulls a cardboard box out of nowhere.

There were badges inside it, and they all look like your generally normal badges. (Author note: Some of these are MOD badges or made up for story.)

"These badges are supposed to be equipped on hats to active their ability, but since not all of you wear hats, I've made few adjustments, allowing them to work without hats."

EXRB picked up one. "Here, let me do a demonstration." He equipped the Grappling Hook Badge. (in-game)

Point his hand in a random direction. "Like this." A grappling hook shoots out from his right-hand palm.

Ruby awed at this. "Ohhhhhh!(Clap hands)"

Ozpin asks. "They are all magical?"

"All of them. Some are good, some are meh, and some is just why. But I'll get into that later."

EXRB picks up one for Ruby. "Here, Miss Rose, I recommend you equip this one." He gave Ruby the No Bonk Badge. (in-game)

Ruby takes the badge. "What does this one do?"

"You will forever being immune to bonking against anything when you are running with your semblance."

"GASP! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" SHe happily pinned the badge on the side of her hood.

Jaune says. "Well, at least we don't have to worry about accidentally getting tackled by Ruby anymore."

EXRB picks another one. "Neo, I think this one have the most use for you." He gave Neo the Glide Badge. (from Mod)

Neo eyeing the badge with a blue umbrella symbol. "The usage?"

"Your parasol will become almost indestructible, allow you to literally jump off buildings, and hover around as you pleased; you can even change your moving direction at will."

"Nice."

EXRB proudly speaks as he picks up the next badge. "Next one I've done a few experiments, and I find out the Badges actually affects Semblance, here, take this custom one. Miss Schnee. And you too, Miss Scarlatina" He gave Weiss, Winter, and Velvet the upgrade version of Fast Hatter Badge. (Made up)

Winter, looking at the badge. "Affect our Semblance?"

"It was originally used for magic hats, allow the power to cool-down faster. But then I thought: "Humm, why the hell not?" And voila! The first Fast Huntsman Badge! It allows Aura & Semblance to recharge faster."

Velvet eyeing the badge in her hand with amaze. "You made this? That's amazing!"

"It's was not an easy task. Have to combine two worlds' logical, and then make it work. I am happy I managed to pull it through."

Yang then asks. "Do you have any cool one?"

"Depends on your definition of cool, but I have a feeling you'll like this one." He gave Yang the Projectile Badge. (from Mod)

"And one for you as well Mister Wukong. And Mr. Xiong.(Junior)"

Yang asks. "So what do I do?"

"Concentrate your energy to your hand or weapon, and then released it."

"Unnn, and how do I do that?"

"Imagine it."

Yang, seeing no better option than go with the instruct. "Okeyyyyy. Ummm, Like this?" She holds her right hand up, then shoots her palm in a random direction.

"Booooom!" A blue energy beam shot out from her palm. It blasts a hole on the wall.

…

…

Sun speaks. "Holy dust."

Junior watches with his jaw open. 'Holy God, with this I can kick any idiot who dares to mess my club.'

Ozpin, recover from the shock. "That…certainly was…-"

Ruby: "COOOOOOL! ! !"

Yang/Nora: "AWESOME! ! !"

Neptune/Penny: "CRAZY! ! !"

Jaune/Velvet/Ilia/Glynda yelled. "DANGEROUS! ! !"

Weiss jump up from her seat. "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND! ! !"

EXRB just smiles smugly. "Hummmm, nope."

Winter, taking a defensive stance with her weapon out, the sharp tip point at EXRB. "Do you have any idea-"

"That everyone in here is under the protection of my rule, that nothing can hurt anyone. Yes, yes I do." EXRB speaks casually, his eyes never once looking at the sharp blade that is an inch away from his face. He then swept his hand, make the hole fixed itself.

Ironwood, gesturing the specialist to stand down, speaks. "Still you shouldn't just-"

EXRB speaks with mild annoyance this time. "You get extremely boring after living your life alone for like… 1, 2, 3, 4... (counting with his fingers, and moving then rapidly) 34 million, 625 thousand years and 317 days." (Author note: Made up numbers, there is no hidden reference or joke about.)

Qrow spat his drink at this. (Which earns him EWWW from almost everyone.) *cough* *cough* *cough* "ExCuse Me yOu whAt?!"

EXRB looks at him emotionless. "Understandable reaction. Don't get me starting on how many seconds have I lived, I am lonely, and boring, OK? Let me have my fun, it not like someone actually got hurt."

Salem is having an existential crisis. 'He is… way older than me… what?!'

The given of badges continues.

Nora then raises her hand. "Oh oh oh! I have an important question!"

"Yes?"

"Do you have any magical badge that has to do with hammer?"

EXRB smirk at the request. "I was wondering when you are gonna asked. Here."

Nora got Hammer Time Badge (made up)

"You can create Endless Explosive Hammers; I don't think I need to explain any further."

"GASP! YOU ARE THE BEST! ! !"

Team RWBY and JPR just simply stare at the host with a look that screams: WHY?!

"Don't worry, I've made rules that that badge cannot damage this place or anyone. But any damage you take while in The Arena is all going for counts." (1)

Pyrrha titled her head. "The Arena?"

"Another thing for latter. I'll show you guys eventually."

EXRB take a badge and handle it to Qrow. "Here, this one is for you." Qrow got No more external interference Badge (made up)

"What does this do?" The gruff man asks.

"Stop your Semblance from acting out of control, but this one is for temporary, I'm still working on a better substance & solution."

Yang cut in. "Wait, what's wrong with uncle' Semblance?" She asks with a puzzled look, and a hint of curious, during their life, their uncle keeps his semblance as a secret, no matter how much they pray or ask, their father nor uncle ever answered their curious.

Summer, ignore her daughter's question, asks. "Better substance?"

EXRB however, answered Yang's question instead, but only half. "Active Semblance cannot be controlled, which has caused quite a trouble in your uncle's life." This gets a pout from both Ruby and Yang. "And tell me you are going to sleep while wearing a badge? I think not. Besides, these badges can be lost; I need to make something that can't be lost."

Qrow looking at the badge with an unreadable expression, however, the hand he was holding the badge was shaken slightly. And after a moment. "Well… guess I should say thanks."

"Not a problem." EXRB gave the man a smile and a thumb up.

"Alright! Since we don't have all day, I'll just give each of you guys the Badge I think serves you the most. Then we can return to the react."

Coco, Oobleck, Zwei, Roman got the Compass Badge. (in-game)

"This allowed you to locate and find things that hold values to you, Well-made fashion clothes in Miss Adel's case; Historic objects in Doc.'s Case; Enjoyable toys in Fluffy boi's case; Valuable objects in Crime lord's case."

Coco: "Perfect."

Oobleck: "Fantastic."

Zwei: "Arff!(Thank you!)"

Roman: "Neat."

Blake, Ren, Glynda got Mumble Badge. (in-game)

"It makes any other people's noise you hear into quite mumbles, perfect tool when you want to be left alone or want some peace and quiet."

Blake/Ren: "Thank you."

Glynda looking at the badge with gratitude. "I certainly have use of this, thank you."

Pyrrha, Port, and Raven got 1-Hit Hero Badge (in-game)

"Challenge badge, make you go down by simply taking 1-hit, doesn't matter how weak the attack is, so use with caution. A perfect tool for people who want to constantly improve. Or just pure challenge."

Pyrrha looking at the badge with excitement. "Go down in 1-Hit? ... ... ... This is perfect. Thank you."

Port: "Oh ho! I certainly could try this challenge when hunting Grimms!"

Raven: "Finally, a good challenge I can use."

Ozpin, Ironwoods, Ghira, Sienna, Adam, Hazel, and Salem got Peace Badge (in-game, new DLC content)

EXRB: "Allow you to find peace in any frustrate situation, making meetings with councilman or some high-class jackass much more tolerable. Or finding peace that's long lost."

Ozpin/Ironwoods/Ghira/Sienna: "Thank you."

Adam says nothing. The mask of his stop anyone from reading his expression.

Hazel looking at the badge with hesitation. "… I see. Thank you."

Salem says nothing but was eyeing the badge intensely.

Neptune got Swimming Badge (from Mod)

"Allow non-swimmer able to swim."

Neptune looking at the badge mild dejectedly. "Oh… ummm, thanks." Which he gets a snicker and a pat on the back from Sun. "Not cool, dude."

Jaune, Milita, and Melanie got Many More Jump Badge. (from Mod)

"Make you an expert in momentum action, you would be able to do any kind of stunt action, wall running, wall jumping, backflipping, air diving, even double jump. Use this to training your fighting style."

Jaune: "Thank you."

Milita/Melanie: "Thanks."

Oscar got The Adventurer Badge (made up)

"Since you are still not sure how you want to do with life, and I am not your guardian, I can only proved you help this much; It allows you to be able to try any kind of jobs or hobbies, until you finally find what you are interested or wanted. Good luck young man."

The farmer boy thank the god with gratitude. "I see, thank you sir."

"Chuck, no need for that formal attitude. I'm just glad I can help."

Penny got Cooking Badge (made up)

"I've noticed you have taken a huge like to foods, Miss Polendia, so here is a badge that helps you create various types of dishes, you are going to like the art of cooking. But made no mistake, this only helps you, not make you a master, everything all start with basic works."

Penny: "Ohhhh! I can finally be like normal girls who love foods & cooking, this is the best day ever!"

Summer and Kali got Camera Badge (in-game)

"Since you both have lost a long period of time to be with your daughters, use this to capture any moment you want to treasure. There's nothing more valuable than good memories."

Summer/Kali: "Thank you."

Taiyang got The Real Fixer Badge (made up)

"This allowed you to be "Real" good at fixing stuff."

Taiyang smile at first. "Oh, it helps me fixing stuff… wait, what do you mean by "Real"?" Then he notices the wording used here.

Ruby hesitantly start. "No offense dad, but…"

Yang/Qrow/Raven: "You almost ruin Bumblebee./You were worse than mediocre./I still haven't forgiven you for ruining my armor." The three of the speaks without missing a beat.

Taiyang cried at his family's word. "Come on! I am not that bad? Right?"

EXRB however, wasn't feeling mercy at all. "In my opinion, honestly, you should never be allowed to attempt to fix anything on your own. You literally make things worse." (While RWBY Chibi is just for entertainment, I decide to add some part as canon.)

"Urggggg." Taiyang could only slump in his seat, pouting. With summer patting his shoulder in comfort.

Watts got Quick note Badge (made up)

"It generated a notebook, allow you to record any thoughts or information on it immediately. You don't have to write down, just need to think about what you want to record."

Watts eyeing the badge with interest. "This surely will come in handy, thank you."

Tyrian got Redtro Badge (in-game, new DLC content)

"This one will paint the world you see completely blood red, use at your own wisely." He hasn't even finished his word, and Tyrian is already wearing the badge right after the mention of the word: Blood.

"Ohhhhhhh~ So much blood, this is sooooo GOOOOOD! ! ! The world is finally painted red! Hahahahahahahaha! ! !" The scorpion man looks at their surrounding, rapidly turning his head everywhere.

'The flipping hack is wrong with this guy?' Most teenagers all think the same thought.

'And this guy is the enemy we are dealing with…' Ozpin's circle thinking.

'Why is this psycho my colleague in the first place?' Almost every other one in Salem's circle thinking the same.

'Why did I recruit this mortal again? Oh right. He is simple, and loyal. Hard to get a decent puppet these days.' Thinking by Salem.

EXRB however, swiped an invisible sweat. 'Phew, glad this Badge exists in the first place, or else I really don't know what I can give him.'

Emerald got Happy Badge (made up)

"Allow the wearer to be more positive about life, not that I have anything against how you want to view life, but you should smile more often, Miss Sustrai, smile fits your better."

Emerald instantly blushed from the extremely nice word, as her brain doesn't know how to properly react to this. "… I-I… thanks, I guess?"

Mercury rolled his eyes at EXRB's cheezy? word. "Wow, really smooth, dude."

The said man, however, returns with a burn. "Maybe that's because you don't know how to talk to a lady. Seriously, with that attitude of yours, at this rate, you are going to end up a virgin till the day you step foot in the grave." This earns snicker from the teen girls, an irritated Weiss, and a confused Penny, as she is too pure for the V-word.

Mercury's dignity is basically none existence at this point. "H-Hey!"

Emerald let out a toothy grin at Mercury's expenses. "Heh, that's actually not far-off from the truth."

"And there it is, a smile your pretty face deserved."

Emerald's embarrassment and blush only grow stronger.

Jaune and Neptune look at the god with newfound admiration. 'Wow.'

Mercury got Recover Badge (from Mod but with made up)

EXRB looks at the silver prick with a blank face. "Well… I have not much to say, because I don't personally like you, but I DO pity what you been through, this badge will help you regain what you've lost from your abusive father."

Mercury was sure his ear just play a trick with him. "Wha?" He was not expecting this, did… did this mean…

EXRB however, holds up his hand. "Don't get your spirit all up, this one is still my attempt experiment by theoretically, I don't have Semblance in the first place, and I don't have subject to test if this work, so there's no grantee your Semblance will be back, after all, Semblance is something that's way too unique and complex. It is connecting to the soul, the most complex matter that ever exists in all Universes.

If my understanding of your father's Semblance is right, this badge will slowly fix what he had done to you. It'll fix you, but might not resort your semblance, you may regain it; or not regain it, but re-unlock it latter, or it comes out as a different new Semblance. There's no telling which result might end up happening."

Mercury look at the badge in deep thought. Then he finally speaks. "... It's… it's ok… thanks."

"You are welcome."

Cinder got Aura Badge (from Mod)

"You are quite a challenge one, hard to pleased, Miss Fall, but I think you will mostly like… no, you will love this badge." EXRB speaks while doing a very intentional sly grin.

"Oh? It seems you've done your research right. But what makes you this confidence?" Cinder tries her best to keeps a straight face. 'What is he planning?'

"This badge allows the wearer to become invincible."

"What?!" "Really?!" "Serious?!"

Cinder blinked, then she blinked again, slowly look at the badge, then she looks at everyone, then she looks at the host. "I-I see… t-thank you." 'Oh my god, control yourself! Compose yourself! Lady! Don't let your emotion flow!' She almost screams. So much yes for this badge.

"Glad you like it, now let's return to the react."

Nora however, had a question. "But what about those badges?"

"Those are other ability, I'll let you guys try those when this react is over."

After purchase another badges, Hat Kid decide to explore the other side, DJ Grooves' side.

Moon Penguin 1: "Don't tell anyone this, but before DJ Grooves became fascinated by movies, he actually ran a night club. I know, crazy, right? Who would have thought."

"Hard to not come to that conclusion, that attire is way too obvious." Yang comments.

Moon Penguin 2: "Hey! Watching where you're going, buddy! Don't get near DJ Grooves, 'aight? DJ Grooves means a lot to us, so we've gotta protect him. Don't you think of anything, yeah? I'll be watching you buddy. Eyes on you." The mafia looking ground bird trying to intimate Hat Kid, point his wing at the kid, then his sunglasses, then the kid, then the sunglasses, and keeps repeating the action. In the end, it's just his wing turning back and forward in silence.

Jaune scratches his chin in slight confusion, a tiny drop of sweat goes down his head. "I don't know… isn't that a bit too extreme for bodyguards?"

Ghira watching the action in question. "Humm, it seems their relationship is more than just employer and employee."

Sienna adds. "The way he speaks. There is definitely something between them. No way could a business relationship drive such loyalty."

Moon Penguin 3: "You're no bird, eh? Then what brings you to Dead Bird Studio? Before you answer, you should watch DJ Grooves' latest movie. It's real good, and I'm not being paid to say that. Honest!"

Qrow rolled his eyes at that. "He is totally being paid."

EXRB however, proved him wrong on that. "Actually, they aren't."

Taiyang looks at their host. "Wait, really?"

"Their relationship is really pure, something you don't see every day."

Moon Penguin 4: "Hey, lil' girl! You should join our DJ Grooves Fanclub. You get a membership card and everything. It's a real good deal for any movie-going bird." The bird takes out what appears to be a contract, and a shiny white plastic card printed with the word GROOVE on it.

Neptune asks. "So what makes them this loyalty?"

"Would you believe if I told you it was a total one side support?"

Sun looks at him surprised. "Hold on, serious?"

"The best summation I can give is the nature of Penguin."

Ruby titled her head in confusion. "The nature of Penguin?"

EXRB then answered. "That's because penguin is normally animals that stick around together, they live as a group, they migrate together, like most other birds. Does Remnant have any penguin?"

Weiss answers. "We have, but there's not much we know about them, Grimms make observation and research wildlife very difficult for us."

"Well, today is your lucky day; there is a section all about scientific research of wildlife in my library."

Port beamed in on this. "Marvelous."

"This is their story." EXRB shows everyone the storybook of Groovy Underdog on Trivia's screen. How DJ Grooves' first attempt of movie, how people react to it, how the Moon Penguins just follow and support him, and ask nothing back.

Kali was touched by who heartwarming the story is. "Awww."

Velvet finding the story very nice. "That's really sweet."

Emerald, however. Shivering at the heartwarming story. 'Urg, disgusting.'

Moon Penguin 5: "You see my fingers here? See how they're snapping? That's the universal bird sign for "Beat it". Oh look, my fingers have a liking to you. Look at them go. Snap, snap, snap. You catch my drift?"

Neptune watches the whole action unimpressed. "Not sure what you are trying to say here, buddy. But I'll give you a C- for the effort."

Sun says. "Pretty sure we share the same meaning for that in Remnant."

EXRB then explains. "I guess they just misunderstanding the meaning of that sign, they think it was beating with the rhythm. Can't really blame them, they like music a lot."

Sun says. "Well, that's unfortunate."

Ignore the penguins' rude comments. Hat Kid explores the room more. "Ohhhh, what's this?" She then noticed the sunglasses machine.

Without thinking too much, Hat Kid cranked the lever and get herself a pair of sunglasses.

Coco eyeing the look. "Doesn't suit with her attire, but the shade does works with her face." A notebook, a pencil, an erase, and a cloth sample book suddenly appears in front of her.

"Go wild. Go creativity." EXRB speaks without looking at her.

Coco put her hand on her chest as if flattered. "My man, if you keep this up, I might start worshiping you. Not that I mind." A wild grin on her face.

EXRB however, was slightly uncomfortable when she said that. "Flattered, but pleased don't. That feels so weird." 'And bad.' He shivers as he remembers how bad being worshiped is, there is some very trobeling downside to it.

Hat Kid cranked the lever again, now she has two pair of shades, which makes her two times cooler. DANK LEVEL 200%

Yang snort at this. "I like where this is going."

But can she go even further beyond? Only one way to find out.

And she cranked the lever again. WARNING: Coolness level over lode. The Universe cannot handle a 3 shades wearer.

*BOOM*

The machine explodes into stars and smokes, it is now brokered…

"Ummmm…" Yang had her mouth hanging. Lost her word in the process.

"Wut?" Was all Neptune manages to say.

Suddenly a note of bill appears and floating in front of Hat Kid. Which she hesitantly take it.

Dead Bird Studio. Invoice #: DB574212. Invoice Date: Today. Currency: Pons.

Billing Details:

Weird Lil' Girl

Spaceship in the sky 1

6829 This Planet

YOU WILL BE BILLED FOR

Destruction of Property: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -3,000 Pons

"What." A lot said in union.

*Snap* It was the sound of a camera.

EXRB smile devilishly. "Ahh, Camera Badge, how I love you allowed me to capture any moment as I pleased." He was indeed wearing the Camera Badge.

Weiss, jaw hanging. "Wha?"

"Like hell I am going to let go of the chance to get a perfect reaction picture. This one is gonna get framed." EXRB was holding a picture of everyone's gob smacked facial reaction.

Pyrrha, finally retain her control over her mouth, asks. "Can you… explain what just happened?"

"Magical bill. No escape from it. That's what happened."

Hat Kid looked. She looked and looked at the bill.

She blinks…

She blinks again…

And again…

Then she slaps her tiny palm at her face, then drag it down in annoyance, making a face. "Great, just great, can today get any better?!" She can't pay the bill, because she just got robbed a few days ago, even though the Pons she has was never enough in the very beginning.

"Wait, robbed?" Kali asks.

"Long story, but for a nutshell, a twisted justice wannabe plus a tool that's too powerful for people to possess. There you go, the recipe of an unfortunate misunderstanding."

Ilia shot him a look. "That really doesn't explain anything."

"Sigh… A problem with a girl's certain past, then some misunderstanding happened, and she made an enemy with this said girl, the girl robbed her. There, does that answer the question?"

Nora eagerly shoots her hand up. "Oh! Oh! You mean there was a girl who was bullied in the past, which Hat Kid makes friends with, and she want to use the Time Piece to get her revenge, but Hat Kid declines the request, and then she takes that as treason?"

…

…

Adam finally decide to speaks. "The hell are you talking about?"

EXRB was impressed. "Actually… you completely described what happened. Miss Valkyrie."

"What?!"

"Before this gets any more confusing, let's stop the topic here, and return to the react."

Reception Guy: Oh, hey lil' chirper. They're recording right now, so no one is allowed in. We're only insured for bird staff. Let you in would be a liability! Don't even think about sneaking inside~."

…

Hat Kid give the bird a blank look. 'Yep that's definitely going to happen.'

Glynda pintch her brows. "Sigh… of course it going to be this solution."

She then sneaks her way up to the trophy shelf, without being detected by any birds, makes her way to the air vent cover.

She removes the vent cover.

The Bill got an update.

Trespassing: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -7,000 Pons

…

…

'Oh COME ON!'

Roman rubbing his neck uncomfortably "Okeeey, this magical bill is starting to creep me out."

EXRB sip his grape juice. "Yea, can't escape from it, it will directly find you."

Qrow rises a finger. "That makes it sounds worse."

EXRB then point out. "But there do is a solution to it, other than paying it, of course."

Glynda shooting a knowing it all look. "Does the method include illegal action?"

"Depend on how you look at it, but it's a surprisingly easy method."

Ilia glare at the host. "Which you are not gonna tell us, right?"

"Yep."

Hat Kid then enter the vent, making her way into the studio, it was a darkroom, like… really dark, so the first thing she noticed is the shiny Time Pieces that's been carried by the Moon Penguins, they stand on some kind of trolley platform, and with a flick of the lever beside it, the trolley sends them to the other side of the studio.

Hat Kid eyeing the direction carefully. 'So I have to go that way…'

The current room is split into 3 layers, the ground floor, the equipment layer, and the filming stage.

Quickly make her way behind some crates on the ground floor, she takes a sneak peek at the room.

There's 1 penguin on the patrol at the equipment layer, 2 penguins testing the camera, and DJ Grooves is directing… whatever he is filming on the filming stage.

'Ok, not much of eyes are looking, so take it steady, good things the room is dark, and the music is loud here, so they won't see me or hear my footstep.' Then she paused, as if thinking about something. 'I Better equip the Sprint Hat.'

Hat Kid then changes her hat in a 'poof' magic manner.

The Sprint hat she is wearing is now a vermilion visor cap with 3 white arrow symbol, and a white wing at both sides.

Nora's eye lit up at this. "She can use magic?!"

The host answers. "Yea, but only change hats, other abilities are coming from the badges or the hat."

Coco, eyeing the hat carefully. "So that is the magic hat?"

"It comes with different types, and different looks, as long as you have the required magic yarns. And there is the magic dye, if you are not satisfied with the color scheme. There's a lot of variety of colors to choose from."

Coco nod her head in satisfaction. "Nice."

Penny raise her hand. "What does this magic hat do?"

"This one, the Sprint Hat, allows the wearer to gain speed, while not as fast as young Miss Rose' Semblance here, it's above average. And it was enough for her need." EXRB explains.

'Alright, mission… START.' Hat Kid makes a hand gun gesture, ready for this Intrusion.

Such childish act gets a few laughs or aww from the female audiences.

Taiyang snickers at the little girl's act, reminds him when Ruby and Yang trying to play spy games as a kid. "Mature you claimed her to be, but I guess she is still a kid in the heart."

EXRB, in his defend, replies. "Well… to be fair, she is a child compare to her species."

- - - Playing music: A Hat in Time Music – Dead Bird Studio OST - - -

Blake raise her brows as they heard the music. "What's with the music?"

"The recorder's intention, it makes the viewing more dramatic."

Nora bumping up and down in her seat. "Now it's like a spy movie!"

Yang, munching on her popcorns. "Ohh, this is getting really good."

DJ Grooves, seating in his director seat, sepaks through his microphone. "Come on! Guys & Gals! I can feel this take being perfect! Let's go! ACTION!"

Using the crate box to climb up the first layer, Hat Kid leans against the wall, slowly moving her way to the other side, the first Penguin is a layer right above her.

The Penguin is patrolling the area in a square pattern, and he turns his way around, now it the chance to move.

Fastly, but not loudly, Hat Kid made her way past the equipment layer, those 2 Moon Penguins is still checking the camera. Not that everyone can blame them, they never have any experience at operating the movie camera. They were here because they just want to help DJ Grooves.

Hat Kid made her way to the filming stage, DJ Grooves seating right there, a bunch of cameras in front of him, recording a Moon Penguin who is currently playing some kind of DJ role character.

Hat Kid holds her breath, carefully crawling pass behind him, this way it won't make any step sound, slowly bypass the DJ penguin, reaching the trolley platform.

'Ok, onto the next area.'

The trolley sends her to the other side of the studio, Conductor's filming studio.

But unfortunately, there is an Express Owl right there assisting Conductor, and it seems he heard the noise of the trolley!

Velvet whispers. "Oh no, hide!"

Hat Kid widens her eyes in panic. 'Crap! Quick! Hide somewhere!' And she noticed a clothes stand.

The Owl turns around, but finds nothing.

"?" Seeing nothing happened, the owl focus back on the filming process.

Velvet let goes her breath. "Phew…"

Pyrrha, crossing her fingers. "That was close."

Conductor, yelling through his megaphone. "Let's make this movie happen, Owls! In position! ACTION!"

The scene set start moving, it was a chasing scene, cardboards of a bunch of bandit owls riding on horses chasing a train. Noise of gun firing, horseshoes, train engine start playing, Ok, at least now she'll have some noise to cover her trace.

Hat Kid peak her head out from the clothes stand. 'Phew… that was way too close…'

This room is a long hall, the camera set is covering the whole path, there's no space for walking, or for sneaking. She'll definitely get caught if she tries to sneak in that direction.

'Have to find a way…' And she noticed the tall building structure behind her. 'Maybe take a look from the higher ground will help.' She jumps her ways up to the building set.

There are multiple boxes of equipment up here, but there is one object that stands out. A yarn ball, floating in the air.

It was a Magic Yarn.

'Hun? Another Magic Yarn? Right here?' The kid looking at the yarn ball in surprise.

Coco, looking at the material in interest. "So that's the Magic Yarn?"

"Yep, it was the very material that required to creating a Magic Hat."

Well now she has 6 Yarns, perfect, now she just needs 1 more and a new type of yarns and she can create a new hat.

'Ok, now… where is the path I can take…' And she noticed the Pipe behind the camera line, and right underneath those Owls that's capturing the scene from the scaffolding. With this blind spot she can safely pass through.

'There.'

Make her way down to the pipe, Hat Kid again crawling pass the birds.

Now finally reach out the camera's sight, Hat Kid climb up on the stage floor.

Pass through another Express Owl when he isn't noticing. Making her way to another western building set, Hat kid notices a blue glowing light coming from the fake water tower that's right beside the building.

And wouldn't you know? It's another Magic Yarn; this one is an Ice Yarn.

'Ohhh~ I can make Ice Hat. It'll come very handy, if I can collect 1 more yarn.'

Now back to the entrance, a cactus cardboard is blocking her way.

'Sorry Mr. Cactus, but you are in my way.' She playfully thinking while pushes down the cardboard.

The Bill got another update.

Assault on Cactus: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -1,500 Pons

…

…

'Really? Really?!'

Qrow speaks. "Ok… this is getting ridiculous."

The host answers honestly. "Told you, their logical works like nothing in your world."

Focus on the current mission: chase down the Time Pieces, Hat Kid enter the door, to a room labeled as STAGE 5, right now she is standing on the higher floor, down there are 4 Express Owls, 2 on patrol, 2 are watching the elevator door.

Hat Kid looking at the elevator with curious. 'Hun? Where could that elevator lead to? … maybe next time.'

Luckly there were 3 clothes stands in the center of the room, perfect cover for bypassing.

Going down, follow behind one of the owls, Hat kid made pass the owls, and she notices a path that leads to the side of the building, curiously, she climbs up the path, and… there is another Ice Yarn right there.

Sun raises an eyebrow at how conveniently this entire infiltrate is. "Someone is being really lucky here."

Weiss remins him. "And un-lucky, remember the bills, how is she going to solve that problem?"

EXRB just smile at this. "It'll be show pretty soon. Don't worry."

Hat Kid immediately creates the Ice Hat, it was a sky blue beanie with cute bear ears, two little cute snowflake sequins at the hat's edge, and an icy snowflake decoration at the top. And she immediately test out the power, it turns her into an ice sculpture.

'Hun, don't know when it will come in handy. But whatever. It really is a lucky day… if not for this bill that is.'

And she notices there is another trolley, with an owl guarding it, but luckily enough; the control lever is right behind a cardboard bush, which blocking the sight of the lever from the owl.

Hat Kid watches the path carefully. 'Ok, this is a tricky one, I can bypass the owl right there, but the gap to the other side is too big.' She paused for a moment. 'I really don't have much choice here am I?'

Roman shook his head at this. "Sorry, Top hat, but life does not play fair."

'… Come on, think! There has to be a method. I just need to distract him for a few seconds. Like make some noise… like a little boom. But I cannot use the movie properties to make noise, come on, what tools do I have?'

And she gets an idea.

Ozpin eyeing the purple kid intensely. 'Humm… What will you do? Young lady?'

Hat Kid changes her hat to the Brewing Hat.

The Brewing Hat is a deep purple witch hat with golden stripe line at the edge, and a golden stripe belt strip, with two pink color vials attach on it.

Hat Kid 'Ok… here goes nothing.' She made a magic vial, and shaking it a few times, the vial is now glowing with pink light.

Hat Kid took an aim, and throwing the vial into the pit next to the owl.

…

…

"boom" It was a faint explode sound, almost sound like a poof, but it was enough to catch the owl's attention.

"?" The owl turns around, looking at the pit, trying to find where the weird sound coming from.

Now it's the chance. Hat Kid change to her Sprint Hat, run toward and immediately cranked the lever, jump on the trolley, moving to the next area. The owl never notices the trolley was not in the same spot anymore.

Port laugh at the little girl's creative use of her power. "Ho ho, using limit resources to solve the puzzle situation, there's no doubt this young lady will make a fine Huntress."

EXRB listen to the praise amusedly. 'No arguing here, after all, she did beat the s*t out of a soul snatching demon with just an umbrella later.'

"Without using the properties of the studio, that makes sure she leaves no trace, and the vial probably shatters into tiny glass shards by the explosion. No one will find out any trail." Ironwood adds.

Qrow however, points out. "Expect the magic bill."

Ironwood glare at the man. "Expect the magic bill, of course."

'Can't wait to see their expression when they find out just how easy the solution is.'

Moving to the next area, Hat Kid notices her Compass Badge is glowing. 'Hun? A relic is nearby?'

The mention of the word Relic almost made every person who knows about the secret jump in their seat.

'And that's why you don't use such normal word for calling something that's way too important.' EXRB telepathy to Ozpin.

'Duly noted.'

Ruby tilted her head in confusion. "Relic? What does that mean?"

"Well… for Hat Kid, since she is not a habitat of this planet, there's bound to be something on this planet she has never seen in her life. And those things are usually titled Relic by her."

Blake then asks. "And what usually are these relics?"

"Well… something very ordinary, usually common items the said planet has."

Nora asks. "Like what?"

"You'll see."

The room Hat Kid is in right now has a split path, a wood plank to the left; and a tightrope to the right. Gladly, this room is dark too. And the fact the penguins all wearing shade is gonna make it even harder to see her.

Oh and DJ Grooves is here too. Direct his subordinates.

Sun, trying to wrap his head around the confusing sight. "Unn, how… did he get here? Isn't he filming a scene back there?"

EXRB just shrug. "Beats me, probably finished that cut."

Weiss however, had a different view on this. "But it's a good thing, everyone's focus is on DJ Grooves, that means less chance Hat Kid will be noticed."

Hat Kid put her hand on her chin. 'Hmmm… a relic, but it was right across these big gaps.' And the only connection is a tightrope… which is right behind DJ Grooves' seat.'

DJ Grooves, meanwhile, was lecturing to his man. "Darling! Darling! I know you can bring up better performance than the owls."

He is currently very focusing on the filming. As long as he doesn't turn around, everything should be fine.

Yang had a bad feeling about this. "This is not gonna end well."

Hat Kid, looking at the thin rope in front of her. 'Oh boy… whoever was up there, please lend me your power…' She takes a step on the tightrope.

Everyone except the bad guy and the host all tense up. If she takes a wrong step, or loses her balance, it gonna get really ugly.

Ruby, chewing on her fingernails, mutters. "please be safe, please be safe…"

Velvet lowers her bunny hears to cover her eye. "Ohhh, I can't take this..."

First step, good.

Second step, fine.

Third step, smooth.

Forth step, a little bit too width, but fine.

Fifth step, we are making progress.

"Okaaay… she got a good balance, I'll give her that…" Sun tries to comment something, trying to lift up the mood.

"Sheeeee! Don't say anything!" Nora's finger is digging into the sofa.

Everything so far seems to be fine, until…

"Darling! What are you doing! Get out of the scene, Please!"

Hat Kid's heart stopped, and she takes a gulp. She's been busted.

Yang yelled at this. "Oh Come ON!"

Qrow can relate to this on so many levels. "Sigh… things always love to go wrong…"

Well… this is it, this is the farthest she can go, they are going to kick her butt out, but would it be better if she tries to apologize? Maybe they won't kick her butt if she apologizes.

Turning her head around, she saw DJ Grooves is looking at an opposite direction, he was scolding at a Moon Penguin that step a little bit too close to the stage.

"Phew" A lot feels relieved, and slumps in their seats, that was intense.

Weiss speaks. "Thank God…"

Hat Kid making a silent sigh 'Oh god, that was way too scary… better move on.'

Hat Kid carefully makes her way to the other side platform, sneak pass through 3 penguins, cross another tightrope, make her way to a red treasure box.

Hat Kid 'So this is what makes my Compass Badge freak out.' The badge glowing faster the more Hat Kid gets close to the box.

She opens the box, and she immediately spot something she like. 'Ooooo~ What's this?'

Nora lean in. "Ohhhh! What is it?! What is it?!"

It was a bottom part of a big burger cushion, the meat, and the bread.

Mercury almost anime fall. "Are you serious?!"

Jaune rised his finger. "That's… so… ordinary…"

EXRB looks at them with a riased eyebrow. "What were you expect? Some kind of weapon that banishes darkness? Alien watch with transforming power? Energy Tank that contains solar energy? Or a cursed mask that can cause massive destruction?"

Emerald admit. "Yea… things like that."

Ironwood however, finds one term EXRB used here interest. 'Solar energy? As if… the energy of the Sun? How? Maybe I can ask for more info later.'

Cinder too find something she like. 'A cursed mask that brings massive destruction? … I wouldn't mind to get my hand on that mask.' (No Cinder, you do not want to mess with Majora.)

EXRB waves them off dismissively. "Nan, there's no fun in that. The reason I like this world is because it throws me off so bad."

Ren raised his finger. "No offense, Mr. EXRB, but how is that a good thing?"

"What's a point to watch a story, if you can just predict the plot? Yea, that's something even worse than boring in my book."

Nora cuts in. "Hold On! Can I get a Pancake cushion?"

EXRB look at her for three second. "Ummm… sure, I don't see why not." (Finger snap)

And Nora get a Pancake cushion.

'Hey, this looks like a match to the relic Cooking Cat give me. Better bring this back.' She stores the relic in her purple top hat, like a magic trick.

"Ok, that hat really is convenient." Coco says.

"Can you make my hood magical?" Ruby asked the host.

EXRB however, holds his chin in thoughts. "Humm… It's more complex than hats, but I'll think about it."

Carefully make her way back to the crossroad, the wood plank leads to another platform, but the Moon Penguin on patrol is humming music, while the other one on a different platform is doing his job.

Neo smirk at this. "Looks like someone is slacking."

Hat Kid eyeing the path, strategize her approach. 'Ok… so penguin 1 is already distracting, I just need to find the right timing to avoid penguin 2' sight, I can made the first platform jump with air dash, but not the second one without some boost.'

And then she noticed the sand bag with the bird skull symbol hanging in the air.

'That'll work.'

Change to the Sprint Hat, and waiting for the right timing, Hat Kid makes her move, sneak pass the penguins, stomping on the sand bag to boost her jump to the new area. Performed a spin mid-air and landed safely in the new area. Which her athletic performance getting a 10 from Neo.

Many looking at Neo wondering where she get the score board.

Roman then speaks. "It's a Neo thing, just ignore it."

The Bill got another update.

Destruction of Property: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -3,000 Pons

…

Look behind her, the sandbags she used to boost her jump is not in the air anymore, it drop to the floor below.

'Oops.'

Roman grumbles at this. "That is just unfortunate. But such is life." He was staring to rooting for this kid. What? That top hat is nice.

Moving on then…

The new room is dividing into a higher stage and a lower stage. And Conductor is here. It seems he have finished his previous scene.

"Lights! Camera! A-A-ACTION!"

The scene they are filming is some sort of tribes battling, a bunch of Express Owls act as some western tribe native, two sides are throwing some ridiculous amount of fake projectiles at each other. This movie so far is really weird.

"Have to agree with that, what are they even filming?" Ilia says.

But that's not the point here, the problem is the owls are facing the cameras, and the only path Hat Kid can go is right behind the cameras.

"Now this is worrying, how does she sneak pass without being notice?" Kali says.

'Not good… too many eyes there, I can't just hide here and wait for them to finish the scene.' This is indeed a troubling situation, but looks like the goddess of luck was on her side.

"Ahhh ba ba ba ba ba! Oi! You in the background! What the peck is wrong with you?!" Conductor suddenly starts shouting toward the actor, make them stop and focus on their employer.

'… Ok… wouldn't you know it was that simple?'

Using this perfect chance, Hat Kid sneak pass and makes it to the other side. Jump down to the lower stage. Where a bunch of teepee props is being placed.

"Which scene are we on? 42? Oh, because YOU are NOT supposed to be in frame, for scene 42! !" He is still making his ranting.

'Just when you think it's going to be a difficult mission, heh, me and my luck. But seriously, how big can a studio be?' And Hat Kid just un-noticeably jinxes herself.

Summer titled her head. "What does that mean?"

"You will see what it means in the future." Was all their host says.

"It's not going to be good things, is it?" Winter says.

"Again, depends on how you look at it."

Hiding Behind a teepee, there is an owl guarding this area. And there is the lever control the trolley.

'Ok, had to call the trolley here, there's no way I can make that jump from here to that room.'

She takes a minute to observe the owl's pattern. It seems the owl turns around every 5 or 6 seconds.

Neo eating her ice-cream. "That's way enough for pulling a lever and then hiding."

Pyrrha, however, was uncertain. "Still too risky for her."

Roman raised his finger at the red-hair. "That's where you are wrong, champion girl. These birds are not professional security; if they really are normal citizens, they mostly will not expect anything to happen on this job. Which means they don't how to react should anything happen."

Nora glared at the meanie with a doubtable face. "And just how did you know that?"

Roman put his hand at his chest. "Please~ I didn't get my reputation for nothing. I am, after all, a professional thief."

Yang rolled her eyes at the criminal. "Yea, and we foiled your plan. Get your ass arres-" She suddenly got her mouth shut tight by a force.

EXRB was looking at her with a not-amused expression. "Please, Miss Xiao Long, don't start anything here, let this be a peaceful reaction experience please."

Yang can only sheepish nod her head, this earns back her freedom.

'They still fail to notice their action is already considered illegal by their belief stander, yikes, you can break the rule because you have a good reason? This is going to be an exhausting task isn't it? Sigh… better start planning it.'

Hat Kid pulled the lever, making the trolley coming to the room. And quickly running to another teepee to hiding.

"?" The owl notice the trolley coming, and he look back at the lever.

"Ummm, is the lever pulled? Is that even the control lever? Ohh, the Conductor never tell us anything thing about how the trolley worked. I am not being paid enough…" The Owl turns around again, wondering how he is going to do with the trolley.

Hat Kid quickly come out and pulled the lever again.

The trolley is moving again, the owl looks back at the lever, it's pulled to another direction, and Hat Kid uses this as a chance to jump on the trolley, moving to the next area.

"Unnn, is the lever broken? Should I inform Conductor… I probably shouldn't, he might yell at me for interrupting him." The owl failed to notice the trespassing little girl.

Making her way to the next area, a room full of speakers, and a giant neon sign saying: Groovy!, the first thing Hat Kid noticed is a Moon Penguin guarding behind a wire fence, he isn't facing the trolley, quickly reacting, Hat Kid running to the blind spot before the penguin turn around.

Climb up the speakers; make her way to another platform. This time Hat Kid runs into a narrow path, the fence blocking the path to an S pattern. And on top of that, several penguins and cameras are setting up here. And there is light here, meaning if she tries to climb the fence, she will most likely being spotted.

Jaune looking at the situation worryingly. "This is troubling, if only she can make herself invisible; passing here will be no trouble."

EXRB answers. "Sadly, to my knowledge, there isn't a badge that grants the power of invisible, but it is fine, because there is another method."

There is a big electrical fuse box right before the path. And it has a big red lever that basically screaming: pull me.

Oh… and… there is another fuse box in the middle of the path. How convenient.

"That's… way too convenient…" Ren says.

"More like way too much of a coincident." Neptune adds.

"Universe works in a weird way." EXRB says.

Hat Kid makes a devilish smile, and pulled the lever, cutting the source light.

No birds were expecting this, the sudden loss of source of light make them blind. And Hat Kid quickly use this chance sneak pass in front of them, pull the other lever of the fuse box, making the power out longer, so she can go pass them in a row.

There was another trolley at the end of the road, this time with the control lever on it, without thinking too much, Hat Kid jumps on it, pull the lever, exit the area before the light came back.

There were some mumbling and cursing, Hat Kid cringed, if she gets caught, she is in BIG trouble.

The Bill update again.

Tampering with Electronics: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -1,000 Pons

…

'This is start to getting old.'

Coco nods her head. "Agree."

The trolley she is on is moving at a slow pace, and it seems it would pass in front of two recording rooms. Which have glass wall. And is currently occupied by Conductor & DJ Grooves separately. How did they get here so fast?

Watts had enough with this. "Ok, how are they even here already? There's no way they can finish recording a scene that fasts?!"

Their host answers. "Beats me."

This only fuels his frustration more. "How? How can you not know?"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cinder looking at her enemy with a hidden smile. 'Perhaps this was not a bad thing at all, I got a powerful artifact (The Aura Badge), and Watts is getting annoyed. And my disguise hasn't been found.' (Ohhh, just you wait Cinder, every action has its consequence, and yours have a heavy price.)

It seems the trolley will pass right in front of the two recording rooms, and for some reason, both rooms have birds looking through the glass, don't know why they want to guard an empty wall.

But there is no time to wondering that, the trolley is about to pass the room, she have to do something, or they will see her.

Hanging on the edge of the platform? No, that's too dangerous.

Hide behind the lever pole? No, the lever is too slim.

Play dead? This is not the time to joke!

Wait... Play dead? That's IT!

Ruby lean in, what to find out what she'll do.

Hat Kid then change to her newly made Ice Hat, and transform into an ice sculpture.

Summer smile at the plan. "That's some quick thinking right there."

EXRB speaks. "In a sense, she is really smart, the space ship I showed you, it was designed by her."

To the birds, they saw an ice sculpture being sent by the trolley, they thinking this was just some new props, nothing weird.

Yang sweatdrop at the bird's un-awareness. "Man, these guys are not good at their jobs."

"Well… they tried." Coco says.

The trolley arrives the other side. The platform has two teepees set up here, making a good hiding spot, because the next platform has a lot of owls patrolling on it.

Divined the platform into 3 part, the first layer have 2 owls patrol in a square pattern, the second layer have an owl looking left and right, and the third layer have 2 owls blocking a two-way entrance. Luckily they all stand on higher ground.

'Ok… there's no way I can jump up without being spotted, have to distract them. But how? I can't throw potion from here, the owl from the higher floor will see.'

"This certainly is a troubling puzzle, moving directly, she will be seen; throwing potion, she still will be seen." Ghira scratching his chin.

Kali put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm certain she will find a way."

"But the problem is how will she do?" Winter says.

It was then she noticed the lowest ground has a blind spot, a shady nook that can be used for hiding.

'This is going to be really risky, but consider how these owls behave, this will certainly work.'

"Man, this kid surely is confident." Taiyang says.

Hat Kid go to the right corner of the trolley, brace herself, and make a sharp corner jump, make her way to the nook spot.

Change to her Brewing Hat, make an empty potion glass, and throw it as hard as she can to the teepee.

"Clink!" The teepee is knocked down by the force.

The sound startled the owls, and they immediately move close to investigate.

With all 5 owls leaving off their patrol spot, eye focus on the knock off teepee, non-of them notice a little girl merging from a dark corner, climb her way up to the top.

The Bill… got an update again…

Teepee T-KO: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -1,500 Pons

…

Yang laugh at this. "Oh my god, that is brilliant."

"Groan" And people is cringe again by the pun. (There's no escape from it. MuaHaHaHaHa!)

Weiss put her face in palm. "Not this story too."

Making her way to the top, Hat Kid move past another wire fence, move onto a platform, which has, a U.F.O prop? Or just a U.F.O light? Man, the taste of DJ Grooves is really weird. (At least that's how she assumed the owner of the prop.)

The path in front of her is another narrow path blocked by wire fence, and a Moon Penguin guarding it. But again, for some reason of convenient, there was a nook above the path Had Kid can use for hiding.

Ren comments. "Come to think about it, this really seems too much of a coincidence."

"Universe really works in a weird way, remember your initiation?" EXRB asks.

Yang recalls that day. "Kinda hard to forget, we slay off a Nevermore."

"And a Deathstalker!" Nora adds.

"And Professors, have you secure the entire Emerald Forest before the initiation?"

Port answers. "Of course we have, while we have no doubt of the ability of our promising rising stars, we wouldn't want any students run into dangerous Grimms."

Oobleck adds. "We spent 3 days make sure we clear out any potential dangerous Grimms in the forest."

"And there just happened to be an Elder DeathStalker resident in that specific cave that Mister. Arc and Miss. Nikos ran into. That no one ever noticed."

None of then had any word for that, but their host wasn't finish there.

"And a Giant Nevermore that somehow decides to fly passes the Emerald Forest that day. While all the other students only encounters normal Beowolf, Ursa, Boarbatusks, and Creeps."

…

Blake admits. "Come to think about it… it really does seem too much of a coincidence."

"Universe really works in a weird way, whether it was helping you, or screws you all over."

Roman then says. "Like little Red always somehow runs into my business all the time."

Ruby pout at that. "Hey!"

"That too." EXRB replies.

Using the nook, Hat Kid sneak pass the penguin, make her way around the corner.

But this time, there is no another studio room, there was the sight of a luxurious room, red curtain, red carpet, bunch of spotlights and star decorations, a large and high display stand at the center of the room, with a ramp up lead to it. It seems like this is the end of the studio. The Time Pieces are probably brings to here.

Using another 3 sand bags to jump her way to the room. And… of course,

Destruction of Property: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -3,000 Pons

Seeing there isn't much of threat here, Hat Kid changes back to her representative Top Hat. And walk up the ramp.

And there he was, DJ Grooves is standing in front of a huge trophy.

Ilia comments. "Ok, this is starting to creep me out, how did he get here ahead?"

"If you are expecting an answer from me, then I don't know." EXRB replies.

- - - Playing music: A Hat in Time Music - You Are Now Legally a Bird (Part. 1) OST - - -

"Magnificent! Stunning! This trophy is everything I desire…

On the shelf of my living room!" DJ Grooves is rambling, full of awe, while doing some dance move.

Hat Kid raises an eyebrow to that 'Then you are gonna need a ridiculous size of shelf for that.'

"Of course, this big trophy is just a plastic replica! The actual trophy is really tiny." He finishes his rambling, doing a spinning dance.

"!" He turns around again, facing Hat Kid.

"Oh my! Oh my! What is that I see? Is it true inner beauty? An innocent soul with a heart of gold?" He suddenly blunt out a praise, surprising Hat Kid.

The scene cut into a close-up focus on Hat Kid, there's pink background and some dramatic bubble and shiny star effect around. Which is a hilarious sight; consider it was showing a girl that's wearing 2 shades.

This earns a few laughs from the audience.

"Ok… you gotta admit, that was pretty funny." Taiyang says.

"Oh, no. It's just a little girl. Hello!" DJ Grooves realizes the person he saw is just a normal little girl, but it seemed there was no disappoint in his voice.

"Oh wait, you're not a penguin. That's good! I could use some non-penguin company around here, as all my penguins are frankly terrible actors." He speaks his evaluation of his employees, not with disappointment, but more in a helpless sense.

"That's a little bit harsh." Jaune says.

"Well, his penguins are only good at being bodyguards, not actors." EXRB explains.

"Here's the biz: I need your help. I'm on a terrible losing streak, and I just HAVE to win this next Annual Bird Movie Award. There's no doubt; I absolutely MUST have you as the star!" The DJ penguin leans in his distance at Hat Kid, with his beak pressed against Hat Kid's nose.

"I dunno, seems pretty sketch, the girl is having a bigger problem than yours, and, there really isn't a reason for her to help you." Coco says.

EXRB then points out. "You forgot one thing, he can help her with the problem of bills."

"How?" Glynda asks.

"Here, let me take care of this." He snatches away the bill that's charge onto Hat Kid.

And split it in half.

…

"Snap" EXRB took another photo again.

…

…

"I swear to god, you are doing this on purpose." Glynda had a very annoyed look on her face.

"Whatcha gonna do? Sue me?"

"I will if that's what you want."

"Not Remnant, no laws, your rules don't apply in here, which means I didn't break anything~"

Oscar raised his hand. "Unnn… excuse me… but… isn't that… illegal?" He is asking about what DJ Grooves just did.

"Remember I said about how this world's different rule, logical? Yea, this is the example."

"I am starting to believe you are just messing with us." Kali says.

"Agree." "Yeah." "No argue." "No objection." Several voices appeared.

"Fine by me, but my statement still stands."

Winter glare at him annoyed. "And you are not deny it either."

"Maybe I am? Maybe I am not? Whether the answer is, it's up to you to decide."

The evil Bill got destroyed; this makes Hat Kid feels relieved.

DJ Grooves then jumped behind some sort of photo stand (which is coincidently exist right there): "We need to give you a bird passport, darling! Step right over here. The most important part of a passport is the picture, darling! You need to look flashy and stunning! Step right over here. Let's take the pic."

Hat Kid then do as he said, walk in front of the camera, removed the 2 shades she's wearing.

"OK, put on a smile, and stand still, please! Don't move!"

Hat Kid then got an idea, make a pose like some sort of television idol star pose, you know… the scissor hand and eye wink pose.

Such childish act once again earns some "Awww" and laughs from the audience.

"Let's see how the picture turned out…

…

WH-WHA?!

Darling, you moved! The picture is ruined! How could you?!" Actually, it was a rather nice photo, but you know about how the rules of passport picture, it have to be front mugshot, no facial expression, only a little smile crap. And Hat Kid is having non-of that crap.

Nora, unsurprisingly, was the one that agree. "I totally agree, why must we use some boring looking photo?"

Ren could only shake his head. "Sigh… Nora."

Hat Kid only made a sheepish smile.

"We've gotta fix this ugly mugshot up with some old-fashion photo doctoring! Here, take these markers and turn yourself into the most stylish, fashionable young lady!"

And you can guess how it turns out, Hat Kid adds a bunch of cute doodle around the photo.

Yang laugh at this. "I really like this kid."

"Perfect! Let's slide this picture into your passport, and…

Here you go! One Passport for you!"

Hat Kid happily grabbed the passport.

-PASSPORT FOR THE FEDERAL UNION OF BIRDS- _ _ I'm legally a bird now! I think?

"Wonderful, darling! Just wonderful! Meet me at the movie set tomorrow, and we'll make you a star!" He excitedly declares, shovels a note of the location and timing in Hat Kid's hand, then dances his way out happily.

…

…

…

"HEY! WHATCHA THINK YER DOING?!" Conductor's voice suddenly coming out of nowhere.

"Oh… yea, kinda forgot that he exist." Sun says.

Blake massages her temper. "Sigh… this is not going to end well…"

Neptune raises his finger. "No one's gonna ask how did he get here? Or how long have he been ear dropping? No one?"

"Yer can't just jump in and fiddle with the Annual Bird Movie Awards! That's fraud! FRAUD! Hey everyone, we've got a FRAUDSTER OVER HERE!" Conductor is yelling in a high pitch voice, which is voice crack for his pitch.

Yang questioning while laughing. "Seriously, what's wrong with his voice? He sounds so silly."

Both girl and bird? standing there in silence for a moment.

"WHERE ARE MY OWL GUARDS AT! Why are the owls so darn useless?!"

Roman, as a nice guy he is, point out the problem for the bird. "I don't know buddy, maybe you should just hire actual real guards?"

'Why do I feel insulted?' Junior thinking bittery.

Seeing that nobody is coming to his side., Conductor resort to another method. "Alright, listen here, lass! Yer in big trouble. If you're helping crooked D J Grooves rig the awards, and I can't take yer to jail, then you gotta help me even the score!"

Weiss eyeing the bird angerly. "That's just absurd! He can't do that!"

EXRB simply speaks. "Sadly, he can, and he didn't break any law."

Winter, finding the entire thing absurd. "This world's law is broken."

Conductor point his finger at Hat Kid aggresively. "That's right, yer gotta be the star of my movies, too!"

"Here, hold our newest prop, practice showing it off, and bring it to my movie set tomorrow! Yer got that? Don't be late!" He finished his one-side demand, shove the Time Piece into Hat Kid's hand, along with a note of time, place, and then stomp off.

…

Hat Kid looking at the priceless object that finally return to her hand. "Well… this certainly is interesting. At least I retrieve 1 now, 5 more to go."

---

The Scene turns black, the reaction is over.

EXRB stand up from his seat, stratches his body. "Well, what do you think?"

Ruby: "It was funny!"

Weiss: "Fine… I guess."

Blake: "Certainly an interesting concept for a story."

Yang: "Is there more of this one?"

"There is more, but those are for the later. And first, I remember you guys want to learn about Hat Kid' spaceship." He makes the hologram appear again.

Ozpin then asks. "So you were talking about the comet proof glass."

"Ahhh, yes yes yes, the almost indestructible glass."

"Almost? There is a weakness?" Summer asks.

"There's one."

Watts questioned. "And what is the weakness?"

"Fist."

…

…

…

Watts blinking a few time, politely ask again, believe his ear played a trick with him. "Excuse me?" He received none.

Qrow then speaks. "You are joking, right?"

"Sigh… that's why I said the logical in this world works nothing like yours."

Watts, had enough with this god's nonsense. "That do-doesn't even make any sense at all!?"

EXRB only look at him with an unreadable expression. "…" Then he snap his finger, as if come up with an idea. "Well, a demonstration in order it is then. Dual screen." Two screens then appeared beside the main screen, one shows an open field, and there is the comet proof glass, right in the center of the field. And another one is currently a black screen.

"Take a look at the big windows that are at your right." Everyone did as he said. There is a field that looks similar to the one on the screen.

Penny raises her hand. "Ummm, Mr. EXRB, is that the same open field that's on the screen?"

"Yes, and watch." The black screen then turns on, showing an object.

Glynda, realizes something. "Wait… is that a-"

"A comet? Yes it is." EXRB replies with an amused smile.

…

"You wouldn't." Raven look at the host with shirked pupils.

…

The screen then zooms out, showing the comet is heading toward the glass.

…

Qrow gulped. "He would."

…

EXRB looked at this wristwatch, purposely doing a count down. "5, 4, 3, 2, annnnnnd, 1." He counts down while create an energy shield, forming an absolute shield zone that separates the about to be impacted field.

"BOOOOOOOM" There was a huge shaking, and the sound of the shockwave creates by the huge impact reach the room. Thought it was blocked off by the energy shield, it still makes everyone flinch in their seats, though Blake, Velvet, Kali, Zwei, Sienna all got an earmuff to protect their sensitive ears just for safety.

The screen is all block by the dust.

"Here, let me just…" EXRB speaking while waving his hand, blows away the dust.

The Glass was still on the screen, resting in an impressive crater, the glass itself it did not break nor had any cracks.

Everyone is completely gobsmacked by this turns of absurty. Which EXRB took another photo.

"Don't believe? Then let's take a closer look." He then summons the glass and holding it in front of everyone, there isn't even a single scratch on it.

…

"You have to be bull s*ting us." Mercury speaks.

"Still don't believe? Mr. Taurus? Can you help me by slice the window with your weapon?"

Adam looking at the man with a blank face. And everyone turns their head to him, waiting for his answer.

"Please?" EXRB adds.

"Are you sure you didn't get drop on the floor when you were a baby?"

EXRB holds up his finger. "Hey, first: Rude; second: no I didn't; third: can't you just help me?"

"No."

"Well, worth a shot. Specialist Schnee? Can you help me by stab the glass with your weapon?"

Winter looking at her boss. "… General?"

"… Sigh… just go with it, specialist."

Winter then proceed to stab the glass a few times, each with more strength in it, it did not leave a single scratch.

"Now, Mister Pine, can you help me, just simply throw a punch at the glass." EXRB asks.

"…Ummm… Ok?" Oscar then throws a punch at the glass, and it just simply shattered into tiny tiny sparkling dust.

…

Cinder feels like her entire life is nothing but a big lie, so much for trying to make weapons with this glass.

…

"I really am not going to questing any logical ever again, no matter which world it is." Roman lit up who knows which cigra is today.

"Count me in." Qrow chug on his flask too.

…

…

… the situation is simply an errier awkward silence.

"So… who wants to try out the rest of the badges?"

---

After explaining what the rest of the other badges can do, our host left the badges with the guests, let them have their fun with it.

"Alright, before I start prepare the next world, I'll give you guys… an hour to experience these badges or take a rest."

Ozpin, feel the need of asking. "Have you choose which world you are going to show next?"

"Already choose, it's the process of preparing it is going to take a while."

"What does that mean?" Summer asks.

"You'll know when I show you. Meanwhile, please enjoy yourself, now if you excuse me, I'm going to prepare the next world's experience."

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Phew… and with that, is our second react.

I originally choose this world with pure intuition, and then a few weeks later the Naykuza Metro DLC is announced, what's with these coincidences?!

I originally planned to content Act 2 or 3 into the story, but the length of the Act 1 story made me cut those parts for the next time.

The next one is Splatoon, as I already said in my little news update in April.

And to be honest, I never played Splatoon or even own a copy of the game, I am going to do a lot of researches for the story, so the next chapter will have to wait for like… really long, because I want to write a story that contains the right information.

Until next time.

(1) Try to take a guess what The Arena is, it's gonna be action relate.