My sincere apology for the delay of this story. While I didn't lose my interest in this story, I feel like my current works IRL cannot let me use all of my imaginations to get RWBY's reactions right. So, for the moment, when I feel like it's possible, I return.

Since I have PMed back the review, let's just get to the main story!


After the break, everyone returns back to their seats and Ruby picks up the controller. "Nero should better save her right in this mission..."

"I doubt that, Ruby. The game can't be that short."

"Saving her girlfriend and beating up the bad guys are two different things, Blake." The leader whines.

"I have to be on her side this time, Ruby."

"Not you two, Yang..."

Mission 9: For you

Locate the captive Kyrie!

In the new picture, Nero is standing in some sort of office given by the bookshelves on both sides, and demon vines from the Forest of Ruin are straight in front of him. Given by that, Ruby predicts: "We're going to destroy those vines to proceed, huh? Sounds easy to me."

"Uh, no. The Order is against him, and the demons are still around..." Weiss counters. "It's going to be a long way."

"Don't ruin it, Ice Queen."

"Make me, Firecracker."

Ignoring her partners' banters, Ruby checks her Power-up again, and after some considerations, she buys Air Hike so she could get out of the stick situations better. "Right, let's head into the Order HQ!"

The building itself is not very special, with its walls painted white and having the Order's insignia on the front wall. There are also some windows, thought they're in a somewhat weird location.

Crossing the bridge, Nero then sees two Bianco Angelo armors guarding the door. Slowing down his speed, Nero prepares to attack them, then he notices two Assault demons rushing to him... or not, because they ignore him and head towards the armors, which respond by counterattacking. While the Bianco Angelo have heavy armor, they can't really land a good hit on the nimble Assault...

Then, the demons look up to see a different Angelo armor descending to the ground. Its armor looks more luxurious than the other two, being cladded in gold, and it's wielding a sword instead of a lance. Once touching the ground, the new armor slowly walks towards the demon, the steps emitting heavy sounds that echo in the air. The Assaults decide to change their target and rush to the single armor... only to be deleted immediately with one blade swing.

Once the demons are dealt with, the golden armor then faces Nero, and it orders the other armors to attack, just in time Nero is starting to rush to them too...

"So now we have a leader-type armor. Kind of a giveaway there." Ren remarks.

"Though it would make the fight harder." Pyrrha analyzes. "If those are just all silver armors, then we only have to be careful of being backstabbed. This, not very sure..."

When the cutscene ends, the Bianco Angelo armors stand next to Alto Angelo and the trio go into an attacking stance position, then Alto goes in first with a Strike-similar skill, causing Ruby to jump up immediately to dodge it. The Bianco thrusts at where she would land down, but thanks to Air Hike, she stays in the air and avoids getting hit. When she lands on the ground, she executes the MAX-Streak towards the Alto which dashes right at her, giving her free three hits. However, when she tries to High Roll it, it immediately backs away to avoid damage, then the three fly away from her camera. Then, the whole screen shakes, and since she doesn't know what is coming, Ruby decides to jump up and Air Hike to dodge whatever it is.

"That's definitely a new attack." Weiss speaks up. "Would they repeat it again?"

T.O: 'It's like an ultimate skill. Kinda hard for it to be repeated.'

"Aw, so we can't see it again?" Ruby whines. "I should have spinned the camera faster!"

Turning back to the armor, Ruby sees Alto landing on the floor, then it orders the Bianco to stand before it and raise their shields up for defensive formation. Unfortunately, she has already Streak to it, causing the order to be useless. She then jumps up and behind the Alto to try to Split it, but again, it dashes away.

"Oh come on! It just keeps dodging!" Nora shouts. "Can't the yellow armor use its wings as shield like the other two?"

"I think it can." Blake replies. "But it seems to be on mobile mode or something, so..."

After a few Snatch and unsuccessfully swings due to the constant moving, she decides to use Charged Shot to hit the armors, but the yellow one doesn't falter once. And when she manages to stun one of the Bianco, with one single order from Alto, it would go back up immediately and return to the formation.

Then, when she's being cornered, the armors gather up in the air and start creating a large orb of energy. Without thinking, Ruby tries to Buster one of the Bianco to stop it but misses... and hits the orb which just happens to fly straight at her at that moment. And, thanks to that, it flies back to the armors and shatters them immediately and boosts the style meter straight up to SSS-rank.

"OOOOHHHH!" Everyone exclaims in surprise. They didn't expect an easy kill like that.

Qrow whistles: "Wow, now that's a lucky move."

"It is!" Ruby cheers. "But who cares? It's cool!"

"That arm is awfully powerful. I might think of getting me one." Qrow chuckles as he rubs his chin. "Maybe Ironwood could provide me one."

"I don't think my sister would let you be near any of the Schnee Military Base anymore. Remember the last time you came to one?" Weiss critics the dusty old crow.

"Yeah, accidentally blew up a cache of Dust. Thankfully no one was nearby."

"Seriously, Uncle, that Semblance of yours is too troublesome."

Collecting the leftover Red Orbs, Ruby heads into the Grand Hall of the building. Spinning the camera to the left, she sees the feature of the Combat Adjudicator. Obviously that's her next destination, and after she grabs the Blue Orb Fragment dropped from it, she checks every corner of the hall and finds a Devil Star S with a hidden stack of Red Orbs. Breaking chairs gets some bonus as well.

Heading to a small column powered by red energy, Nero sees the bridge being sealed by the demon vines. He tries to press the button on top of the column, and he sees the bridge trying to lower down, but with the vines on the way, it could only struggle for a bit. A little puzzled, he returns back and plans to find another way... before he sees the room which is now filled with moving lasers. Thankfully, a hidden wall removes itself revealing a secret stair going up.

"Lasers? Lame."

Ren nods, agreeing with his friend's disappointment. It's not about its power, it's how they're used in this room. Basically harmless.

It's clearly no dangers at all as Ruby uses Calibur to move to the high ground and heads to the hidden stair. Though, when she reaches Key Chamber, lasers appear and stop her from either going back or moving forward. Another group of armors appear, and this time Ruby decides to focus on destroying the Bianco first since they're not very nimble if hit. But the real problem now is the Alto, because it's much faster and it could give orders to Bianco that could screw up her combos. It gets difficult to the point that she has to use Devil Trigger to regain her health, stop incoming attacks and stagger the armors. Also, she has discovered one thing: Buster the Bianco is NOT a good idea to try to stop the charging ultimate.

Even when all Bianco armors are down, Alto Angelo is still a considerable threat. When it's a 1v1, it starts using shield more often, forcing Ruby to use different moves to try to get behind it, only for it to dash away quickly. Thankfully, its health has been reduced quite a lot during the previous fight with the Bianco, so a few chip damage and its shield is down.

She decides to end its life by suplexing it and giving it a double-legged kick to the face.

"OH! Nice move!" Yang praises.

Once the fight's over, the red barrier cracks and disappears...

Nero walks to the column and sees some sort of key floating in a purple light. He grabs it with a little curious smirk, then feels something rising behind him, so he turns to see a device emerging from the floor. It's a small pillar with a box on top of it. He looks at the key, then to the device...

"Key of Cronus?" Ruby reads the name of the item, then to the description. "...Manipulate the very fabric of space and time. So..."

"Basically a Time Stop item." Weiss concludes. Then, a hint about the item appears. "Oh, it can only slow down time for a short duration?"

"Well, at least we have something fun. Let's use it!" Ruby immediately walks to the device and activates it with the key. And true to the item's example, the lasers slow down, allowing Ruby to go upstair...

Entering The Gauntlet, she immediately sees the blue pedestal and runs to it, while getting the hidden Red Orbs midway. She also sees a CA, but since its light is red, she doesn't bother hitting it.

Once activating the pedestal, a cage-like elevator descends down, and it has a ladder for her to walk into, even though she could jump into the elevator. Though, when she enters, the exit is now blocked, and a group of Scarecrows appears... which is zero problem at this point.

"They're just there for you to practice at this point." Jaune weakly jokes. "I mean, after a few times being overwhelmed."

"They're seriously only on the level of the young wolves." Blake agrees. "The Ice demons and the reptile ones and the Geist-like, however, are different stories."

After Ruby has done killing the Scarecrows, the elevator goes up one floor, then stops. Another door opens for her to exit, and she enters the floor just to have the lasers activated upon 'sensing' her arrival. She also notices the Time Stop device is also near, so she activates it to get past the lasers easily. She sees the Blue Orb Fragment floating outside of the area she's in and at the same level, but she finds no way to take it yet. She activates the device one more time at the end of the road to extend the Slow Time duration before entering the elevator... and in slow motion (with her being able to move freely), Frosts emerge and try to attack her, and fail miserably.

During the fight, she also notices that the Blue Orb Fragment is outside of the elevator, though when she's finished with the demons, the elevator just goes up. She enters back to the main floor and tries to find a way to get to the item, but fails...

"Hey, return back to the elevator. Maybe it has opened another door that we didn't see?"

Listening to Weiss' suggestion, Ruby does so, and true enough, there's a door opposite to the main exit. She jumps down to the floor below, spins the camera and sees the item. However, it has been put in a position that takes a lot of her attempts to use Snatch to get it. In the end, she manages to get it, but then she can't return back to the elevator no matter how hard she tries... and in the last resort, she decides to just jump down to the first floor and starts the elevator riding all over again. Thankfully, since she has beaten the first two ones, no demon encounters has been repeated until the third one, this time a group of Assault appears.

Reaching to the highest level, Ruby sees a Divinity Statue on the left, and a Green Orb on the right. "We're definitely going to fight Agnus."

"Beat him up, Sis!" That simple cheer from Yang is a good sum up to everyone's desire right now.

...

Entering Agnus' Room, Nero looks around to search for any possible threats. Then, he lets out a gasp when he sees the cage on the ceiling containing the unconscious Kyrie. He plans to rush to her, but Agnus' demonic form's appearance stops him. In Agnus' hand, the artificial demon sword holds ready. "So, you've come."

Nero immediately asks in anger with his demon fist clenching: "What have you done to Kyrie?"

Agnus decides to not directly answer it by saying: "Why don't you check and find out." Though, he follows with a threat: "But don't expect me to be as easy on you as I was last time."

Knowing that he has no choices, Nero exclaims: "If I have to kill you and save Kyrie, then let's roll!"

"Alright, time to..." Before she could say a word, Ruby gets an instant, unexpected slash from Agnus. "HEY! That's cheating!" Thankfully, she manages to dodge the second follow-up. She then pauses a bit and whines: "That's so unfair! He just attacked me with no warnings!"

"I have to agree there. That's a little cheating in gaming term, though Nero would probably dodge it easily." Blake has to deal with many stealth attacks before, but this is a new level for newcomers.

Ruby resumes the game and starts attacking Agnus, though she still gets another cheap shot to the face. Agnus then raises his right arm and says something, but Ruby comes in with MAX-Streak, so his quote is interrupted. He then summons two demon swords that spin vertically behind him, causing Ruby to try to run away, however a bad-timing jump gives the swords two free hits and knocks her to the ground. Though, when she stands up, she decides to aim towards the swords and plans to throw them back to Agnus, though it takes a few times to do so since she is either too close or too far to Agnus. But when she succeeds, it stops Agnus from doing whatever he's planning to.

After a while, he's stunned for a few hits. Nero slashes him up a few times, before goes in for a suplex on the demon. He then throws the boss up to the air and jumps up above the demon and slams Agnus down with his foot onto Agnus' back. Then, Nero grabs nearby demon swords and thrusts them through the demon's body, before slamming Red Queen into the same location and then swings the demon away.

"Yes! That's for Kyrie!" Yang shouts excitedly.

"Yeah, it's satisfying seeing that stutter demon getting beaten up." Weiss agrees with Yang's enthusiasm.

When recovered, Agnus flies to the middle of the room and gathers his energy, attempting to do something, but Ruby interrupts it since she doesn't want to give him any fighting chances. He backs away and opens another portals like when he calls out the swords. However, something else pokes out of them and starts spitting fire on her, causing Ruby to dodge away during the section. And once it's done, she goes in for the beating again, but she has to back away because Agnus calls out two of the fishes before and wields them like dual blades and swings them like a top. Then, he raises up a little higher and throws the fishes towards her, which causes her to roll to the side to avoid getting hit.

And after many more hits that stagger Agnus again, Ruby enters DT and Buster him again. This time, after suplexing the demon, she swifts him on the floor two times then throws him into the air and spins him vertically multiple times, slams him back to the ground, stabs him with demon swords/Summoned Swords/Red Queen/Yamato and slashes him away, ending the fight.

...

Flying away from Nero's attacking range, Agnus grunts in pain: "Damn you! DAMN YOU! I will kill you! I will kill you!"

Weiss snorts: "All talk and no bite."

Nero retorts back: "Is that all you got?"

Weiss nods, satisfied. "Exactly."

Nero decides it to be enough playing around and declares: "I think it's time to put you out of your misery."

Hearing that angers Agnus as he tries to kill Nero again, but then the Bianco armors appear that causes him to stop for a moment. They start attacking Nero, who is forced to start deflecting the lances away from him.

Agnus is a little confused, but then an Alto Angelo with a bright aura appears before him. The demon recognizes the power as he bows down: "Your Holiness!"

"Wait, that's the Priest?" Ruby is confused. "How did he wear that armor? That thing is alive, right?"

"It... looks like it's being controlled by the Priest from afar." Pyrrha guesses. "I think that's the right thing here."

"That's enough, Agnus." The voice of Sanctus emits from the armor. "Go and prepare for activation."

The camera temporarily shows that Nero's too busy fighting against the Biancos.

"Nero! They're getting away!" Both Nora and Ruby shout at the TV hoping, failing, that he could hear them.

"Right away." Agnus complies and flies away.

Sanctus then looks down to Nero fighting against the Bianco armors, then to Kyrie...

"DON'T YOU DARE DO ANYTHING TO HER!" The 'young girls' in the group shout, while the others wait in worry about what will happen next.

Nero then sees the Alto Angelo holding Kyrie in its arm while flying away, though it notices his gaze and slows down its speed. Throwing off the Bianco away, he rushes to them while getting Red Queen disarmed by one of the Bianco, jumps up to try and grab Kyrie.

"LET HER GO!"

In slow motion, Nero slowly ascends and reaches his Devil Bringer towards the duo. Nero and Kyrie, with the later even still in her unconscious state, calls out each other's name...

Even with his effort, Nero could only grab the necklace, the one he gave Kyrie as the gift, and his velocity stops. In despair, he watches the armor holding Kyrie just right out of his reach...

"NO!"

Before the Bianco armors slam him to the ground and pile up on him, not letting him go.

"You have indeed inherited Sparda's power." Sanctus says to himself as he watches Nero glaring at him angrily while trying to push the armors away. The Alto Angelo then flies away, leaving the Bianco to deal with Nero.

At this point, his demonic power arises, as he knocks away all the armors, stands up and tries to directly run straight to where the Alto just flied off, but stops himself upon seeing the vines. Looking at the necklace in despair and anger, he then falls on his knees and starts punching the ground, cracking it with his Devil Bringer while screaming from the top of his lung...

And with that, the mission ends.

"Dang it!" Ruby swears as she throws the controller away, thankfully Zwei grabs it with his mouth before it breaks. "All of that efforts, and it's so close too!"

"That's so sad." Pyrrha feels the same way as Nero now, given that she almost died trying to defeat Cinder. "I hope Kyrie is okay..."

"Why didn't he just kill Agnus instantly?"

"He has the other demons' help, Blake. It's not as easy as we see here." Yang answers her friend's question.

"Urgh, this is getting worse!" Unconsciously Ruby shouts, as she takes the controller back from Zwei. "Let's just..."

"What is that screaming, miss Rose?" Someone suddenly opens the door, as everyone turns to see Professor Glynda standing there. She then notices Qrow sitting with the group as well. "Mister Branwen, what are you doing here?"

"Hey Glynda." The Huntsman just lazily waves his hand to her. "Just enjoying some fun times with the kids."

"...Fun times doesn't come with angry shouting." She doesn't really understand how fun works.

"Sorry, Professor Goodwitch!" Ruby apologizes. "We are... kinda in the middle of the story, so..."

"...I see. Try not to disturb the other students." Upon hearing it, the professor immediately understands and leaves.

"Phew, that was close."

"To be fair, Ruby, that shout is not usual from you."

"I know, Weiss. So...next mission?"


Chapter 9 end!

Sorry for the short, and kinda low quality. It seems to be much harder to describe this game's story, since 1. I'm not English-native so I don't know many words and 2. The game's story is not top-notch.

Skill added:

Air Hike

Well... see you all in the future!