Hello everyone and welcome back to another chapter of Digital Story!
I know, it's been a while, but again, I had ideas for other stories I wanted to work on.
For example, if you check my main page, you'll see that Kamen Rider W is locked in to crossover with Lupin the Third, a beast of a story to be sure, and that Kamen Rider Fourze is locked in to Outlaw Star.
As well, Overwatch is gone from the list now, and Drive is now crossing with boy the 2003 version of Astro Boy and a currently non specific version of Cutie Honey.
Yeah, expect boobs in that story.
Anyway! For now, let's focus on the Digimon!
Best Day Ever!
The streets of Vale were rather quiet that morning. As such, few really took notice of an odd pair walking through the streets. One was a boy that had silvery hair that was swept back slightly, wearing a blue, short sleeved jacket with black pants, and next to him was a girl with dark skin, with mint colored hair and red eyes, wearing an intricate white and green top that left her stomach exposed, along with brown chaps over a pair of white pants.
The two were walking down the streets, headed towards a certain shop: 'Tukson's Book Trade'. Once they were at the shop, both of them looked at each other with a smirk, and walked into the store. However…
"...did we come early?" the green haired girl, Emerald, asked, noticing how...empty the place was.
"No...the stock's all here, the door wasn't locked, and the sign says open," the silver haired guy, Mercury, noted.
"Then...where is he?" Emerald frowned...before Mercury was suddenly blown back, and seemed to hit an invisible wall. "What the?!"
"Barrier set and ready," came a new amused voice, as a pair of almost invisible walls were now present, keeping them from touching the shop's stock and making a somewhat small area to move in. Then three figures faded into view, all three clearly Digimon. It was Wizardmon, Renamon, and Guilmon, with the reptile growling at the intruders, eyes narrowed into slits.
"What are a bunch of Digimon doing here?" Mercury frowned.
"Well, we should ask you the same," Renamon said. "It's not nice to plan to kill nice people."
"What?! How did you…?" Emerald blinked.
"Know? Let's just say a little bird told us some bad people were planning to off Mr. Tukson. That's not nice, especially when he's been so nice to us and the other kids," Wizardmon said.
Now Emerald and Mercury's eyes widened in alarm. They knew. Somehow, they knew ahead of time that they were coming. That...shouldn't be possible. However, they weren't easily deterred. "Oh yeah? Well, what are you going to do about it?" Mercury growled...before suddenly darting forward, as a blade suddenly extended from his foot, to which he aimed it at Guilmon. However, the blade promptly broke when it made contact with the dinosaur's hide.
Guilmon growled angrily, before turning to him and opening his mouth, firing a ball of flames, which hit Mercury dead on, sending him flying out the door, as the barrier didn't cover it.
Emerald acted quickly, and tried to use her Semblance on one of them...but suddenly Wizardmon made a hand seal and suddenly she felt like something hit her right back, causing her to stumble back.
"And stay out," Renamon said, appearing before her, and kicking her in the face, sending her flying out as well.
"Who...the heck...told you about this?!" Mercury growled...noting part of his legs had been melted off.
"Didn't say, though they mentioned something about 'Dust Shipment' to make us trust them. Glad we did. If you ever feel like trying again, we'll be ready and with friends," Wizardmon said, before they slammed the door, leaving two VERY confused assassins.
Meanwhile…
"Man...time sure flies," Gyro mused as teams RWGBY and JNPPR along with their Digimon partners were gathered in the cafeteria for breakfast...which frankly had QUITE a spread for 'breakfast'.
"We're already in Volume 2, which means…" Pierce noted, as right as he said that, a thud was heard as Ruby had placed a...okay, if that was Weiss's binder, than he didn't know binders came in that size…or why she even needed that in the first place.
"Sisters! Friends! Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream." Ruby said.
"Someone's in an extra good mood today," Gomamon commented from where he was munching on a sandwich.
"A dream that one day, all of us would come together, and as a team has the most fun anyone has ever had, ever!" Ruby continued, not remotely deterred by the comment.
"Hey, isn't that the binder that went missing," Tentomon commented, looking at the binder...which had the words 'Best Day Ever Activities!' written under a very obviously scratched out previous name...which still very clearly read 'Vytal Festival Activities' with 'Property of Weiss Schnee' under it.
"I am not a crook," Ruby said.
"The crudely scratched out label says otherwise," Salamon said flatly from where she was next to Nora, watching her partner spoon-catapult another pea...which Yang caught in her mouth and ate without issue.
"So...what is this about anyway?" Agumon asked.
"It's about kicking off the semester with a bang!" Ruby said.
"I always like to kick my semesters off with a Yang," Yang joked.
"Boo." Gyro said as Nora threw a banana at Yang.
"I liked it." Pierce said.
"Because she's your girlfriend." Jaune pointed out.
"Actually he liked those BEFORE they dated, remember?" Veemon pointed out.
"We're getting off track!" Palmon said suddenly.
"Yeah!" Ruby agreed. "Look, it's been a good two weeks, and between the tournament and exchange students, this semester is gonna be great," Ruby said. "But classes start up again tomorrow, so I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us to do today!" Ruby grinned.
"...can we even DO that much stuff in one day?" Biyomon blinked at the binder owlishly. Even if every page was for ONE event, that was still...a very long list.
"And I don't know if I should be proud or scared of what you might have in store," Weiss said, before promptly turning to the brothers for answers.
"Don't look at us, we never saw what was in that thing," Gyro waved his hands defensively.
"That's comforting…" Patamon said dryly, as with how thick the binder was, assuming he folded his wings, the binder was taller than him when he stood on all fours.
"Aww, come on guys, it'll be fun," Palmon urged.
"Palmon's right. Whatever we do today, we should do it as a team," Weiss said.
"I got it!" Nora shouted.
"Oh boy…" the brothers gulped, as Nora, completely ignoring the silent protests from Yang and the not so subtle tackling from Salamon, promptly threw a pie which hit Weiss in the face...then tried pin the blame on Ren who had his face held in his hand, while everyone else on their team had looks of varying surprise (and exasperation for Salamon).
When Weiss wiped off the pie filling, she looked at Nora with daggers. "Okay...this means war," she said coldly.
"Eh screw it," Pierce sighed, before getting up "Food War!"
And all hell broke loose.
"So, those guys found you when you arrived in town then?" Neptune asked Sun as they walked towards the cafeteria, Betamon following closely.
"Yeah, helped us out a bit, though I DID have to get chewed out by the deputy headmistress since, you know, snuck my way over." Sun said with a shrug.
"I still find it hard to believe that YOU of all people agreed to this." Betamon said to Coronamon.
"What? I'm allowed SOME fun, right?" the red Digimon shot back, lowering his voice a bit.
"Anyway, they know a lot of other people with partners then?" Neptune said, looking away from Betamon and Coronamon.
"Yeah, like, a good few, even that news lady, Lisa Lavender, has a partner." Sun said.
"Huh, that so? Neat." Neptune mused.
"Yeah, hanging out with them is pretty fun. Hey, speaking of hanging out, where are the others?" Sun asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Koemon made a mess… again." Neptune said with a sigh.
"He gives us monkeys bad names." Sun said with a sigh.
"Anyway, they should be right around…" Coronamon started...right as the door to the cafeteria burst open and a throng of students ran out like the hounds were on their tail. The last to come out was Ilia and Kotemon, who took one look at them and said, "Go in at your own risk," both gulped, while Ilia added, "I'm waiting for Blake and the others in the room." And they promptly joined the fleeing crowd.
Now filled with morbid curiosity, the two boys and two Digimon looked into the cafeteria and well… "What. The. Fuck?" Betamon asked, jaw dropped.
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Nora laughed as she was standing atop a bunch of tables piled up, her teammates at the bottom, and flanking them were their partners...all in Adult form.
On the other end of the hall, a foot slammed on a table, rattling several dishes off of it, the owner revealing to be Ruby...holding a carton of milk for some reason. "Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful! It will be delicious!" she declared, squeezing the carton till its contents squirted out from several new holes, before she lifted it up in a war cry pose.
"Yeah!" came several roars of agreement from her teammates and all their Digimon partners...also in adult form.
"Off with their heads!" Nora declared, jumping down, before team JNPPR launched a salvo of watermelons.
"Yang, turkey!" Ruby said, Yang grabbing a pair of turkeys...and using them as makeshift boxing gloves, to which she defended against a few watermelons, while the remainder went past her...and were promptly caught in several large mouths as the Digimon seemed to be both joining in with the war...and taking the chance to pig out while they were at it.
"Well...at least the food isn't going to waste…" Gyro sweat dropped at the sight, before he and Blake darted forward, and grabbed several baguettes which they were both using as makeshift dual swords.
"I saw it the first time and I'm honestly still not believing it…" Pierce said dryly at seeing food being quite literally, weaponized. He didn't have long to ponder as his girlfriend soon fired off her dual turkey gloves...only for Veedramon to get in the way and snatched up the turkeys in his mouth.
Not being distracted for long, Pierce and Pyrrha darted forward, both also grabbing baguettes to act as makeshift swords/spears, and before long Pierce was dueling Gyro while Pyrrha was dueling blake, the sound of crust cracking as the breads clashed filling the air, before Pyrrha and Pierce managed to bypass their opponents' defenses and knocked them back, their 'weapons' breaking in half...and flying right into the the open mouths of Garurumon and Ikkakumon, before the two kicked tables, sending more food flying...which was soon caught by Greymon and Birdramon who were all too happy to catch the flying treats.
Pierce and Pyrrha soon threw their 'spears'...which were broken by yang, and the halves caught by Angemon, Togemon, and Kabuterimon who joined the assault...while munching on the bread they caught along the way.
In the midst of that, Greymon used his tail to give Ruby a boost, allowing her to grab a tray and start surfing on the tables, throwing food where she could grab it, forcing Pyrrha to dodge...and allowing Stingmon and Gatomon to grab more flying food and enjoy it mid-fight.
Ruby soon reached the end of her surfing, and the tray hit Pyrrha, forcing her back, while Ren and Nora continued the assault, Ruby quickly getting out of the way as Weiss brandished a ketchup bottle, and launched a wave of the red sauce, creating a makeshift oil slick which Ren slipped and slid on, causing him to ram into a pile of tables like a bowling ball, while Nora jumped up, grabbed a pole, and broke it off to combine with a surviving watermelon to create a makeshift hammer. At the same time, Jaune ran forward, grabbing a pot lid and another baguette, charged forward with his 'sword and shield', prompting Gyro to do the same...but with a link of sausages he was trying to use as a makeshift whip. "Castlevania don't fail me now," Gyro chuckled as he began to fight against Jaune, the two being a bit of a stalemate due to one being stuck with an unfamiliar weapon despite being more skilled.
At the same time, Nora went for Weiss who threw the ketchup bottle aside and grabbed hold of a whole swordfish...which was lying around...for some reason...and used it as a makeshift rapier, dueling with Nora for a while before Nora gained the upper hand and knocked her back into Kabuterimon who let out an 'oof' at the impact.
Ruby saw that and caught Weiss as the momentum caused her to rebound from Kabuterimon. "Weiss, no! Don't leave me!" she shouted dramatically, while Weiss just gave her a deadpan stare, completely fine, if somewhat dazed.
"Uh...I'm PRETTY sure that didn't even leave a mark…" Jaune blinked.
"Dude, I'm fighting you with a sausage whip. Roll with the insanity," Gyro said flatly.
"Fair point…" Jaune admitted.
While that banter was going on, Yang 'saw red' and charged forward with a new pair of turkeys, to which Ren met her head on with a pair of leeks. The two clashed before Yang managed to knock him into the air, to which he threw his leeks at her which she dodged and soon slammed him back into the ground, followed by Nora now setting her sights on Yang and attacking her with her makeshift hammer. Another clash occured, before Nora found an opening and smashed Yang hard enough to send her flying through the roof, with Birdramon flying up after her… which made a bigger hole in the roof, while the melon hammer broke from the impact. At the same time, Jaune was sent flying back, and Blake avoided the debris from the roof to which Gyro tossed her the sausage whip which she used to send Nora flying back into a vending machine which released a few cans.
Nora grabbed a few fallen cans and threw them at Blake who avoided the makeshift 'grenades'. However, Pyrrha saw the freshly spilled piles of metal and used her semblance to send a barrage of them at Blake, causing her to be unable to evade (the Digimon on both sides grabbed a few cans and started drinking). Pyrrha then sent a larger wave of cans, catching all remaining members of team RWGBY (minus Ruby) who were still standing, and thus Blake and Gyro felt themselves being barraged with a few 'soda grenades', Gyro using his semblance to cushion the blows.
Seeing her teammates down (and the Digimon too busy grabbing at whatever bits of food were still in the air), Ruby glared at the opposing side, and got ready into a sprint start position. Then with a surge of speed, she darted forward, moving so fast she was pulling various bits of food and plates along with her, before pulling into a spin and flying right past the standing and/or recovering members of team JNPPR. The team looked at what the red reaper had brought with her and well…
"...this is gonna hurt…" Stingmon said flatly, as the humans were promptly caught in the pull of the spin and speed, while the Digimon could only watch blankly as they were pelted with so much food (and their partners) that they were all pushed into the walls, with so much food and stuff hitting them that by the time it was done, there was wall art...and 10 figures peeling themselves off of the wall.
"We give…" Pierce groaned, holding up a white flag.
"Jeez, I'm away for less than 5 minutes…" Yang trailed off as she and Birdramon came back in from the hole in the roof, staring at the… unique piece of art that Ruby had made.
"Well… at least we have nice view to go with the food." Angemon said as he bit into a turkey leg, before looking down at Greymon who was stuffing his face, sighing after a moment "Biggest black hole out of all of us." he muttered.
The mood didn't last for much longer though, the doors suddenly slammed open, and in came a...pissed off...Glynda Goodwitch. With a wave of her riding crop, she used her semblance to clean up the entire cafeteria, putting everything back in place and fixing the damaged walls, tables, dishes, and roof till it looked like the food war never happened. Once she was done, she looked at them with an expression that just screamed 'fighting to NOT blow my top'. "Children, please," she started with a strained voice. "Do not play with your food," she said, before turning to the Digimon. "And please refrain from evolution unless in Combat Class."
The response she got in a way was a burp from Nora and the Digimon who all reverted to Child Form...looking rather stuffed, earning a few laughs from the little group.
Glynda looked ready to ground them for a month, before Ozpin came and put a hand on her shoulder. "Let it go," he said calmly.
Glynda sighed at that. "They're supposed to be the defenders of the world," she sighed, completely oblivious to how ironically fitting her statement was.
"And they will be. But right now they're still children. So why not let them play the part? It's not something they'll have forever," Ozpin said, earning a sigh and nod from Glynda.
Her moment of relief was broken however once the 10 Child Levels that had eaten their fill ran out of the room, all of them shouting the same thing "Bathroom!"
"Hey hold on you'll get lost!" Gyro said as he ran after them, followed closely by his brother.
Later, at an old, supposedly abandoned warehouse in Vale, the supposedly 'empty' warehouse was very much bustling with activity as the White Fang was busy moving various crates of Dust, the warehouse stocked with a sizeable amount of Dust...albeit not as full as it would have been had the recent large shipment been successfully stolen. It was to this scene that Emerald and Mercury came in, Mercury with a notable limp thanks to his slightly melted leg. They walked past the various White Fang members...all of which didn't seem to pay them any mind, save for the occasional odd glance.
Roman was busy looking at a map when he noticed them coming in. "Oh look, she sent the kids again," he said sarcastically, before walking over to them and put his arms around them from behind. "This is turning out just like the divorce," he said dryly.
"Ugh. Spare us the thought of you procreating," Emerald said dryly, both of them getting out of his grasp.
"That was a joke," Roman said flatly. "Though I do wonder why you two look like you got into a fight and lost, and THIS…" he said, holding up a piece of paper. "Just might tell me where you've been all day."
"What?" Emerald gasped, wondering when he'd had the time to steal that.
"I'm a professional sweetheart. Pay attention and maybe you'll learn something," Roman said sarcastically before looking at the paper and stopping short. "...why do you have this address?" he asked, the usual sarcastic levility gone from his voice.
"Wouldn't you like to know," Emerald glared.
"Yeah, I would," Roman said. "Now where have you been all day, and why do you look like you both lost a fight, and don't try to hide it. I noticed the limp."
Mercury grumbled a bit at that. "Cleaning up your problems...or at least trying to."
"I had that handled," Roman growled, and just as he said that, Neo popped in, looking rather annoyed at the two assassins. "But since we're on the topic, might I ask why exactly he hasn't been dealt with?"
"Does 'He had Digimon bodyguards' count as a valid answer?" Emerald shot back in annoyance.
Roman paused for a moment, looking at Neo, who shrugged "Yes… yes it does. Got any IDs on them?"
"Literally or you mean what they are?" Mercury asked.
"What do you think genius?" Roman shot back in deadpan.
"A fox, a dino, and a wizard." Emerald answered with a sigh.
"I HATE how that doesn't narrow it down enough." Roman grumbled under his breath.
"Yeah well you're gonna hate THIS more," Emerald frowned. "They KNEW we were coming. Somehow they already knew."
"And we were taking initiative. The only way someone could do that is if they were warned that he had a hit on his head," Mercury added.
THAT stopped Roman short. "Excuse me?" he asked dangerously.
"You heard me. They knew we were coming cause someone tipped them off somehow. Heck, when we asked them about it, they didn't know who it was, but they DID mention something about a 'Dust Shipment tip'," Mercury continued.
Roman frowned at that "So… someone who knew about the shipment we were trying to steal… which is why those damn kids were there then… question now is who squealed?" he said, looking around the warehouse at the various grunts and goons he had working about.
"Your guess is as good as mine," Emerald shrugged.
"But that IS rather important information," came a new voice, as from a higher section of the warehouse, a woman stepped on the shipping elevator and used it to descend to their level.
She was beautiful, that would be the first thing anyone would realise when they looked at her, but there was also something deadly about her, with the way her amber eyes almost glowed, her long black hair falling across one side of her chest as glass heels clacked on the floor, the yellow seem lines of her red dress looking almost like there shifting with flames.
"While it is worrying, the fact remains now we know they exist," the woman, Cinder, said. "We simply need to weed them out," she said simply. "At any rate, while the runaway is annoying, he's ultimately not the biggest of our concerns anymore. Besides, if he DOES have Digimon guarding him, then trying to deal with him discreetly will be more trouble than he's worth. After all, dealing with him was just a precaution. He's quite keen on staying out of anything related to the White Fang, if I recall."
"Awww, and here I had a plan all ready and prepared," Roman snorted. "But yes, there's no point in going after him with this new bit of information."
"Though, while we ARE on the topic, didn't I tell you two to keep your hands clean while we were in Vale?" Cinder said to her two subordinates.
"Well uh...we thought…" Emerald started, but was cut off.
"Don't think. Obey," Cinder said, completely ignoring the expressions Roman was making at the two behind her back.
"Yes, Ma'am. It won't happen again," Emerald said quickly.
"And you," Cinder continued, looking at Roman. "Why wasn't this job done sooner?"
Roman responded by gesturing all over the warehouse with the still sizeable stockpile of dust. "Sorry if I've been a little busy stealing just about every speck of Dust I could get my hands on in the Kingdom!"
"You're an inspiration to every punk with a gun and a ski-mask," Mercury said dryly, while Emerald was trying not to laugh.
"Look around kid, even with the new additions, I've still got this town on alert," Roman said. "Even with the new pet monster fad, I've got the police camping out in so many corners, Dust prices are among the highest they've ever been, and we're still sitting pretty with more Dust than we know what to do with," he asserted. "...even if some of it isn't being used in the way I'd like," he added with a grumble, looking at a few Digimon that were also in the warehouse...eating some of the Dust they'd gathered. It seemed the ones who looked like they were MADE out of a certain element, found Dust of that element to be quite the delicacy. "Speaking of which, if you guys wouldn't mind filling me in on the grand-master plan, it might actually make my next string of robberies go a little smoother," Roman added with a touch of annoyance at being kept partially in the dark.
"It's on a… need to know basis." Cinder said, looking at him, about to step towards him till Neo got in front of her, opening her parasol with narrowed eyes, causing Cinder to smirk "Just do as you're told, and everything will go along perfectly, despite the few minor hiccups."
"I do NOT call needing a new leg minor." Mercury muttered, causing Emerald to elbow him.
"Besides, we're done with Dust. Even with the new information, we're already set to move to phase 2 of the plan," Cinder said. "Have the White Fang clear out the warehouse. I'll send you details and coordinates tonight."
"Huh? Are you sure that's a good idea?" Roman asked. If they really did have a traitor then wouldn't it be better to weed them out first.
"We've already gotten this far. We can't afford to let something like this slow us down," Cinder said simply. "As long as everyone keeps an eye and ear open, we'll find them eventually," she smirked.
A few days later…
"Well...doesn't this bring back memories," Summer said in mild amusement. Currently she was with Ozpin and Glynda in the former's office, Renamon at her side as always. Outside the office window they could see an entire fleet of Atlesian ships parked in mid-air. "I see James hasn't changed a bit."
"This happens often with him?" Renamon quirked an eyebrow.
"Yes," Summer and Glynda deadpanned...at the same time.
"Qrow is out there somewhere and rambling on about how James is being excessive, of that I'm sure." Ozpin said with a sigh.
"He said he was gonna go see if any grimm were slipping through the walls of Vale while they were repairing them." Summer informed him, receiving a nod from the headmaster.
"Well, at least he can take his job seriously when it's important." Glynda said with a sigh. As she said that, a beeping came from Ozpin's desk, to which he checked it and saw that it was an entrance request.
"Come in," Ozpin said, to which the door soon opened and in stepped one James Ironwood. The metal plate on his brow glinting in the light, a fully white militaristic coat covering his body, with a splotch of red in the form of his necktie.
"Ozpin," James said with a smile.
"Hello, General," Ozpin nodded.
"Please, drop the formalities," James said as he walked closer. "It's been too long," he said as the two of them shook hands, while Glynda and Summer walked up after Ozpin, Renamon following behind her partner. "And Glynda," he added, seeing her. "It's definitely been too long since we last met," he said.
"Oh James…" Glynda said, before turning to Ozpin. "I'll be outside," she said as she walked away.
"Well she hasn't changed a bit," James commented.
"I could say the same to you, and it's been a decade," Summer said in amusement. "It's nice to see you again, James."
"Nice to see you again too Summer." he said, shaking her hand "Honestly, I think it still hadn't settled in for me that you were actually alive till just now."
"Seeing my TV special not enough proof?" she asked in amusement.
"To be fair, it WAS a rather hard to believe special," Renamon added in amusement, before turning to James. "So you are James Ironwood. I've heard much about you as well," she said, holding out a hand.
"And you must be Summer's Digimon Partner," James said, shaking the hand.
"Renamon, yes," Renamon nodded. "I hope things have been calming down in Atlas as well."
"Oh it's been a little rough, but like all the other Kingdoms, we've adapted well enough to the new arrivals," James said with a light chuckle as they broke the handshake. With that bit of banter done…
"So…" Ozpin started, before going to his table and pouring them all a few mugs of coffee. "What in the world has brought you all the way down from Atlas?" Ozpin said. "Headmasters don't typically travel with their students for the Vytal Festival," he said, before giving a mug to James, while Summer and Renamon took their own.
"Well, you know how much I love Vale this time of year," James said, idly taking out a flask from his coat and pouring a bit of it into his coffee. "Besides, with you hosting, I thought this might be a good opportunity for us to catch up, especially when I heard about Summer returning. Speaking of which, thanks for the Digimon Studies lessons. They've definitely helped in allowing us to understand them better."
"That was the entire point," Summer said with a light chuckle.
"I can certainly appreciate some quality time between friends," Ozpin said as he sat down. "However, the small fleet outside my window has me somewhat concerned."
"Well...concern is what brought them here," Ironwood sighed.
"Come on you two, get to the point already. We all know why the fleet is here," Summer sighed. Some things really DON'T change.
Ozpin sighed at that. "We are in a time of peace," Ozpin said.
"About as peaceful as getting off of what recently happened anyway," Summer added, thinking about the recent incidents with Myotismon and the Dark Masters destabilizing the Digital World. Speaking of which, aside from the random gates, the entryways to the Digital World were STILL closed according to Gennai as Yggdrasil was still busy undoing all the damages.
"...shows of power like this, are just going to give off the wrong impression," Ozpin said, slightly miffed at the small interruption.
"But if what Qrow said is true, then…" James started.
"If what he said is true, then we will handle it tactfully," Ozpin said.
"On top of that, it's not like Vale's been completely complacent. If there's one thing the random Digimon emergences has done, it's made everyone a bit more cautious than normal," Summer added to which Renamon nodded.
"And if I understand correctly, this Vytal Festival is supposed to be a time to celebrate unity and peace," the fox added.
"They are correct," Ozpin nodded. "Which is why I suggest you do not scare people by transporting hundreds of soldiers halfway across the continent."
"I'm just being cautious," James said.
"As am I," Ozpin nodded. "Which is why we will continue to train the best huntsmen and huntresses we can."
"Believe me, I am," James said, turning to walk away a bit. "But ask yourself this…" he added. "Do you honestly believe your children can win a war?"
'They already did,' Summer and Renamon couldn't help but think, working hard to suppress the smirks that threatened to appear on their features while James bid them goodbye and left the room.
"I hope they never have to," Ozpin sighed.
Meanwhile, the Chosen were all in the library, and while you'd think they should be studying...they weren't really doing such. On one side, team RWBY were playing a game of 'Remnant: The Game', and on the other side, team JNPPR along with Gyro and some of the Digimon were playing on the Nintendo Switch, specifically a game of Smash Bros. Ultimate.
"Ok, that is a lot of characters." Jaune said as he looked at the the massive character select screen of 80 characters, before deciding to choose Link, mostly because of the sword and shield.
"You think that's bad? You should see some of the older Dragon Ball games, Tenkaichi 3 had over 100 characters." Pierce said as he picked Ryu.
"Except if you count each Mii as a separate character, same for the Koopalings and the gender flips, you can hit over 100 here as well." Gyro shot back after choosing Pit, and he was the last to choose, so the fight started, showing all the fighters.
Pyrrha had picked Bayonetta, Ren had picked Lucario, Nora had picked Dedede, and the two Digimon playing, Agumon and Palmon, had picked Pikachu and Piranha Plant respectively.
While their fight started, the rest of team RWGBY was still playing their game… though only half the team really knew what they were doing.
"Right so… I'm not asking Yang how to play, she'll just pull me into a trap." "Hey!" "It's true and you know it you oaf." Weiss said after a moment, earning an indignant shout from Yang.
"Well...the rules say the goal is to conquer Remnant using the pieces you have, and each Kingdom has its own abilities and advantages. Says here you can also use Grimm pieces, but those run the risk of turning on you, so it's a gamble," Blake said, going through the rule book.
"Don't forget you can set traps and the like too," Ruby supplied.
"So it's like a war," Weiss nodded in understanding. "Well then, let's see who takes over the world."
"Right, well, while we're talking about taking over the world, think Renamon and Wizardmon did the job of tricking our enemies who want worse than that?" Yang wondered.
"Well…" Ruby trailed off, before her scroll buzzed, making her pull it out and look at it "Oh, text from mom, yeah, says here they did."
"Good, that should give us more time to deal with Cinder if she's too focused on possible internal struggle." Weiss said as she looked at her cards before setting one down.
"Speaking of her, if we got our time right, she and her 'team', should be arriving later tonight as 'exchange students'," Gyro mused.
"And you all know what that means. We all put on fake smiles and nod and wave while we plan to introduce her to the business end of Ultimate level attacks," Pierce said with a light chuckle. "Wow...we're really messed up to be enjoying this…"
"We REALLY should look into getting therapy…" Jaune sighed.
"We would, but how can we without revealing everything that happened to us in the Digital World?" Ren pointed out.
"...when the Digital World is open again, I say we ask if Gennai knows any good therapists," Jaune said flatly.
"...probably for the best…" Pyrrha sighed, mentally preparing herself to meet her would be murderer in another time.
"But until then, we'll just have to place a trap of our own. Speaking of which, you just activated my trap card, sis. Giant Nevermore!" Yang said, before flipping over the card she'd laid as a trap.
The time went on relatively enjoyable, till the time came when Sun and Coronamon soon showed up, but this time they weren't JUST with Neptune. He'd brought his entire team with him...AND their Digimon.
"Sup, losers," Sun said, coming up behind them.
"Did ya miss us?" Coronamon added with a cheeky grin.
"Oh, hey Sun," Ruby said in reply.
"I never got a chance to formally introduce you guys to my old friend, and the rest of my team," he said with a grin, as the rest of team SSSN came up.
"I'm Neptune, and this is Betamon," Neptune introduced himself while Betamon waved with a big grin.
"Scarlet. And this is Tinkermon," Scarlet said with a light wave, while Tinkermon fluttered around. "And don't you forget it," she smirked.
"I am Sage, and this is Koemon," Sage introduced himself with a polite bow, while Koemon jumped on the table, narrowly missing the game board much to the girls' annoyance. "Nice to meet ya!" he said cheerfully.
"Nice to meet you all," Gyro waved from where he and the others had paused the game, with the others giving various greetings as well.
"Isn't a library normally for reading?" Neptune couldn't help but ask as he looked at the board game… and then at the TV and game console on the other table.
"Normally yes… but trust me, we've earned this one." Ren said in deadpan.
"Rough week?" Scarlet guessed.
"Something like that," Nora said, all of them not planning on revealing 'details' just yet.
"Must have been some week," Koemon said. "So...what ya doing?"
"Playing games obviously," Tinkermon said as she zipped around him.
"They were supposed to answer and I was gonna ask if we could play too," Koemon said in annoyance.
"Are they like this often?" Gabumon blinked.
"Pretty much, yeah," Betamon sighed, hopping off of Neptune's shoulder.
"Guess there's always something like that on every team, huh?" Biyomon chuckled.
At that, several of them looked over at Weiss and Yang.
"What?" they both asked.
That did it as a small round of laughter ensued, much to the two girls' annoyance and a bit of confusion.
"Well, that was a fun day," Ruby said as they returned to their dorm room (Gyro making sure the board game wasn't left behind this time).
"Yeah, it was," Blake chuckled. "So...what's next?"
"Next is looking into Torchwick again, and leading to us having to smash a Paladin," Gyro said. "We'll be going into town to get some info, and a few things will happen, including meeting Penny again, Ruby 'finding out' about her being an android, and then Yang causing Junior grief. Again. Also Sun and Neptune helped you guys out, even if they didn't help much in the Paladin fight, on account of losing the trail while you four fought it," he listed off.
"Think we could get in on that this time? I know we didn't in canon, but it would suck to be left out?" Jaune asked.
"Yeah! Let us help too!" Gomamon added.
"And me too, I want in." Ilia said with a raised hand.
"Sure, we'll probably try to look into more leads." Gyro said with a nod.
"Hey guys?" Veemon said, looking out the door.
"What?" Pierce asked, before looking outside and into the hallway "Oh…" he said, before coming back in and closing it "Their here."
The room stilled at that, not needing any further words to know who he was talking about.
Cinder, Emerald and Mercury were right outside their dorm room, walking in the hallway.
"This feeling certainly drives it home." Pyrrha whispered, barely hearing the rhythmic clack of Cinder's heels.
Gyro put a finger to his mouth, telling everyone to be quiet, till the clacking couldn't be heard. "Well, it's official, we're now on a one way trip to shit hits the fan…" he sighed.
"Mission is a go then." Ruby said seriously.
"Think the mission is gonna need big booms?" Nora asked.
"For the paladins? Yes." Weiss said with a nod.
"Try not to go TOO big Nora." Salamon said.
"Oh come on, even I have limits." Nora waved her off.
"That aside, we should start getting ready." Ren said.
"It's gonna be a pretty important mission, that much is sure." Ilia said with a sigh.
"We'll make it though, we have to." Blake said seriously, as they all nodded in agreement.
And voila!
Volume 2 has officially begun, and we knocked out two episodes of it.
Also, yeah, shameless thing with Smash Ultimate.
Hell, here's everyone's main:
Ruby mains Kirby, Weiss mains Marth, Blake mains Sheik, Yang mains Incineroar, Jaune mains Link, Nora mains Dedede, Pyrrha mains Bayonette, Ren mains Lucario, Gyro mains Pit, Pierce mains Ryu, Agumon mains Pikachu, Gabumon mains Duck Hunt, Biyomon mains Falco, Tentomon mains Ness, Gomamon mains Greninja, Palmon mains Piranha Plant, Patamon mains Captain Falcon, Salamon mains Zelda, Veemon mains Pokemon Trainer (Charizard) and Wormmon mains Dark Samus.
I had a bit of fun coming up with all the mains, trying to see who would fit who, some make sense, others don't, but hey, I did my best.
Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this chapter, because...
The Adventure Evolves.
