The remaining members of team RWBY and Koan followed behind Yang as she strode through the crowded street, her eye's focused on her scroll that displayed a small app that allowed the teammates to track each other's scrolls something the girls had put in place after the dock incident in case they were ever separated again, Alex had left his scroll back at the Plumber's base so that was a dead end but the signal from Blake's scroll was transmitting from Bellwood.
Yang wasn't worried Blake can take care of herself Alex included, but the fact the two hadn't come back last night had raised some suspicions, it wasn't much of a secret Blake and Alex had feelings for one another although neither seemed to show it often apart from some quick glances from one another and the dance a few days ago at least until last night. It was enough to give any mischievous love angel like yang herself a headache don't get her wrong she was happy for her partner in fact she was ecstatic, although she would very much like to know why their relationship suddenly changed over night
The four rounded the corner Yang glanced down at her scroll once more before looking up at the apartment building across from them. "This is it"
"Ok wow..." Koan idly said
"What?" Ruby said confused by his comment
"Are you sure this is where her scroll signals coming from" Koan said, as he glanced to the upper floors
"Yeah why." Yang said
"Ok well, Alex own one if the apartment here." Koan said rubbing the back of his neck, the blond brawlers and heiress head snapped towards the apartment.
"Wait are you implying they..." Weiss face began to turn beat red "H-how indecent"
"Wait what are you guy's talking about" Ruby asked looking to Weiss who stood their wide eyed her mouth opening and closing akin to a fish out of water
"Ruby..." Koan began "You know what happens when a guy and a girl have... intimate feelings for one another" Koan said
"Yeah they go on dates and stuff why" Ruby said offhandedly as she looked at the others in confusion
"Yes, but over time people get closer more... physically " koan said with emphasis on the finally word.
For so long ruby had been seen as the kid of the group, like a little sister to everyone which only furthered to make this conversation more...awkward, she stood there in deep thought her innocent mind mewling over the implications suddenly it hit her, and she turned as red as her name described "Ohhhh"
Yang struggled to keep a perverted grin from spreading across her face 'Wow Blake, I didn't know you were such a dirty kitty.'
/
Blake groaned as she woke up that morning stretching her arm out hearing the satisfying pop of her joints, glancing around the room for a moment before the night came back to her seeing Alex's home, their discussion...the moment of passion they shared, idly Blake's finger trailed up gentle touching her lips as the memory was pushed to the forefront of her mind looking to the clock on the nightstand it read seven thirty
Getting up she made her way into the shower grabbing a towel a white shirt and sweat pants they were a little big on her but she could make do, her cloth reeked of ash and smoke after their escapade the night prior and insisted on washing them, the warm water washed over her scrubbing away the dirt and grime of the previous night stepping out of the shower Blake quickly got changed grabbing her scroll off the night stand before exiting into the hallway where she was greeted by the smell of fresh eggs and bacon.
Making her way down the hall she stopped in the living room the news channel displayed on the T.V "Morning, you sleep well" Alex greeted her from the kitchen
"Yes" Blake responded as she took a seat at the counter. "Did I miss anything?"
"Apart from the fact we made the headlines, not much" Alex said placing a plate down in front of her as he gestured to the T.V Blake glanced over as she began to dig in.
"Witnesses from the blaze described two figures the vigilante known as The Omni ranger along with an unknown woman who accompanied him the authorities have released a statement asking for anyone with information concerning her identity to come forward " An image of Blake in the street from last night appeared on the screen " The young girl rescued from the blaze by the vigilante duo is expected to make a full recovery we will have more on the story as it develops."
Blake turned back from the T.V as she took a bite out of a piece of bacon. picking up her scroll off the counter she checked for any messages her eye's widened slightly seeing a number of messages from each of her teammates
'Blake where are you Yang's been acting weird all night' one from Ruby read
'Blake please answer, we are worried about you' Weiss message read
Then a new message popped up from yang shrugging she opened it
'I hope you and your boyfriend had a fun night was he any good' Blake raised an eyebrow at the message
'Yang what are you talking about?' She texted back
'Oh, you know the two of you sneaking out for some time together, then spending the night at his place... I hope you used protection" Blake's eyes practically bulged out of her skull, her face flushed bright red as she quickly texted back a reply
'Yang we didn't do anything like that!' she texted back frantic
'Sure, whatever you say kitty, anyway we're on our way up see you soon' Blake let out an annoyed growl alerting Alex who leaned over her shoulder reading the line of text.
"We better get dressed." Alex said, as he placed her outfit on the seat next to her, picking up her attire she made her way back to her room, but the messages from Yang had struck a chord in her after last night's events what did this mean for her and Alex now, she wouldn't deny it they had feelings for one another last night proved that.
She needed to talk with him latter when they were alone, she picked up voices and footsteps closing in from down the hall some muffled voices on the other side "Are you sure this is the right room" She heard Ruby asked from the other side.
"Definitely" Koan's voice came through, Alex walked down the hall opening the apartment door
"You know it was unlocked, right?" He said as the other came in.
Blake walked into the living room in her usual attire Yang looked at her a smirk forming on her face, amber eye's stared down her partner, yang's eye's trailed up and generally widened in surprise seeing her partners cat ears on display "Whoa...Blake what happened to your bow"
Ruby and Weiss even seemed surprised by the lack of their teammates signature black bow sure Blake would sometimes take it off when they were alone in their dorm comfortable showing her heritage to her friends, but outside even in their sister team JNPR's dorm she would always wear it
"I lost it in the fire last night" Blake answered returning to her normal demeanor
"Wait fire? what fire" Weiss said in some confusion
"Ugh guys" Ruby said pointing to the T.V displaying an image of Blake and Red-light speed ranger side by side before a shaky video began to play most likely taken by one of the people in the crowd showing a raging inferno behind the two as they bolted into the burning building Blake emerging soon after a little girl in her arms, the four blinked once looking to the T.V then Alex and Blake
"We had a busy night" Alex said
"So is there a reason you came to find us so early, or are you just here to spy on us again" Blake said with a raised eyebrow directed at Yang
"Wait you saw us!?" Ruby said in alarm, before Weiss clamped her hand around Ruby's mouth silencing the young rose before turning her attention back towards their teammate and friend.
"What may or may not have happened" Weiss began with some embarrassment " Doesn't matter Magister Tennyson sent us to find you two and bring you back. Blukic and Driba said they've finished testing the portal, we can go home."
"Why didn't you guys just lead with that" Alex said in surprise
"Yang, thought the two of you were... you know." Ruby said poking her fingers together.
"Oh" Alex said he and Blake glanced to one another, before looking away a small blush on their cheeks
"Can we just move on from this, Nothing. Happened" Blake pressed
"Whatever you say kit-cat" Yang said as she made her way towards the doorway "Come on, I know we've all enjoyed our little stay here but I'm not missing the Vytal Festival."
"I'll catch up just gotta quickly grab something" Alex said, walking back to his old room, pushing open the door me made his way to the closet opening the door he pushed aside the clothing reviling small a panel placing his hand against it a small green light flashed over his hand "Palm print accepted" A robotic voice spoke as the panel split down the middle opening out.
A small glass cylinder sat in the center of the compartment, inside was what appeared to be a watch similar to the Omnitrix Ben wore although held more bulk spreading up the forearm with a black and grey color scheme at the center of the watch was a dial with a white hourglass symbol reaching out the cylinder opened the device leapt out wrapping around Alex's wrist locking firmly in place the dial rotated before locking in place a small white glow coming from it.
He stared down at the device it was a morpher his morpher when he first received it 'He' said the morphing grid had never been wrong before, that he was worthy. For a time, Alex believed those words he had faith in 'His' word's this was the first time he had even looked at it since Anur Transyl, the day she died. Alex glanced over to the side a picture frame sat on the desk he alongside a girl with dark brown hair and stunning blue eye's he shut his eyes memories flooding back to him
...
"T-he Morphing Grid h-as never been wrong...before"
"I am Lord Emperor Millieous of the Incursion Empire!"
"It is a scene of pandemonium in the streets."
"I realized we're still human beings after all"
"Welcome to the resistance"
"Call me Bullfrag"
"Run Alex, run!"
"It's Morphing Time!"
"Welcome to the plumbers"
"It's the winter Contingency"
"Were the Psycho rangers"
"I'm sorry Alex... T-his is...as far as I go... li-live...a good life... for me"
"Is that all you have Omni ranger!?"
"let's find out!"
...
"Alex?" he spun around Blake stood in the doorway a worried expression on her face
"You've just been standing there for a while, are you alright?" she said walking up to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine" he said glancing over to the picture on his desk Blake followed his gaze her amber eye landing on the item,
"Is that..." She asked.
"Yeah" he responded as Blake picked up the frame examining the photo
"What was she like?" Blake asked setting the picture down
Alex let out a small laugh but there was no humour to it he took a seat on his bed Blake taking a seat next to him "Kate... Kate was one of the strongest people I knew when push came to shove, she wasn't one to give up so easily. In all honesty, Yang reminds me of her sometimes, she always seemed to act so care free, but a lot more to her than just that."
"She was complicated, determined, kind but the one thing I remember the most about her was how passionate she could be, not in the romantic sense, nut in the way she put her heart and soul into everything she did, no matter how big or small. I swear she could have gone on to change the world even if she was a bit of a hard-ass at times. The two of you probably would have gotten along pretty well."
"So, your calling me a hard ass now." Blake said with a raised eyebrow.
"Wha- no, no I..." Then he noticed the small smirk on her face he couldn't help but laugh "Good one kitty are you sure Yang's not rubbing off on you."
"Hmm Maybe" Blake said offering him a hand, taking it, he stood up. "The others are still waiting, and I don't want yang to get any ideas. I think we've all had enough teasing for one day."
/
Ruby stared down at her scroll entertaining herself with a few video games while waiting outside of Alex and Koan's room, Weiss, Blake and Yang stood close by, the heiress leaned back against the slanted wall fileing her nails while Blake and Yang were busy talking or more accurately Yang was trying to learn more about what happened on Blake's date with Alex.
The sleek metal door into the room slid opened and said young man walked out alongside Koan a grey duffel bag slung over his shoulder Alex glanced at his longtime friend "Whoa, whoa, whoa please tell me those aren't what I think they are."
"What? it's just my usual gear, you know" he unzipped the bag reaching inside as he listed off numerous items "Tachyon cannon, Kinetronic blaster and a nuclear fusion grenade" Koan said as he pulled out a small white sphere.
Ruby drooled over the weapons, for once Yang seemed to share her excitement "You know the rules about bringing level five technology to a world that's only level two" Alex said
"Fine" Koan said with a dejected sigh throwing the bag back into their room onto his bed
"Killjoy" Yang muttered.
"Come on guy's Blukic and Driba are waiting for us" Ruby said with some excitement in her tone, the six made their way through the hallways finally reaching their destination, Entering the Lab the Six were greeted by two familiar figures stood chatting with Blukic and Driba.
"Ben, Rook" Alex said Ben wore his signature hoodie on top of his usual attire while Rook sported a poncho and hood on top of his usual attire "I thought you guys were off world."
"Grandpa called us back when he said the gateway was finished, you guys really didn't think you were going without us " Ben said
"You guys are coming with" Yang said
"Magister Tennyson asked us to go with the six of you, more Plumber agents are expected to follow at a later date, so we may apprehend the Psycho rangers, until then we are to covertly assess the situation on your home-world and report back regularly in the event further reinforcements will be required " Rook said
"That's great, once we get back to Vale we can take you guys to professor Ozpin and-"Ruby was cut off by Rook
"We can't miss Rose?" Rook said
"Wait why?" Weiss asked finding the situation peculiar it would make the most sense to combine their forces with Atlas and the Hunters present for the festival
"Do you want to tell them what you told grandpa." Ben said all eyes turning to Alex
"Alex?" Ruby said" What are they talking about"
Alex sighed "When I was being debriefed after we escaped the Nullvoid I informed magister Tennyson that I had reason to believe that Vale's security including Beacon may be compromised."
"Compromised" Blake questioned
"The Psycho rangers can disguise themselves as humans, from what I've been able to gather from my investigation the Psycho's along with their alleys in the white fang may have infiltrated Beacon"
"I could understand them sneaking into Vale but Beacon? The only people who would be there are students visiting for the Vytal festival and staff members... wait are you saying" Weiss grew quiet the implications soon dawning on the other.
"The Psycho's have been posing as students during the Vytal festival, the question right now is who." Alex said RWBY grew quiet absorbing the information they had been living with the people who had tried to kill them for the past few months, they could have been watching them during theirs spars any Combat advantage they seemed to have went out the window at that realization.
"If Rook and Ben can infiltrate the kingdom covertly, they can gather information concerning the Psycho's while the five of us keep up appearances as to not raise suspicion. then we can all review it at a meat up point" Koan said
"That's actually a rather sound plan." Weiss said
"Then we can get started" Blukic and Driba turned to Ben and Rook
"The energy source used to power this machine is very rare, so we only have enough for a single jump at the moment, we'll maintain contact via the link with your new badges once were able we'll send in the others." Driba began
"Make sure you keep'em on you at all times" Blukic said as he began typing on the control panel inputting the last coordinates the device used. Suddenly the gate way burst to life the other instinctively taking a step back. a vibrant wall of light projected in front of them Alex reached out gently tapping the surface causing it to ripple across its surface
"Once we reach the other side, keep radio chatter to a minimum until we know are channels are secure" Alex said
"Got it" Ben responded, Rook nodding to his friend
"Good luck to all of you as well" Rook said
"Nothing's gonna stop us or hold us back from here on out, TEAM RRWBBAYK let's move out. "Ruby cried pointing her finger towards the portal the others just stared at her in silence
"Team what? "Koan said
"You know all of us Me, Rook, Weiss, Blake, Ben, Alex, Yang and Koan, Team RRWBBAYK get it." Ruby said shrugging
"Would that even make a word?" Weiss wondered
"I am not sure" Rook said rubbing his chin in thought
"Maybe team Rubik, you know like one of those puzzle cubes" Koan said
"Forget it the moments gone" Ruby said pouting
"Sorry Rubes " Alex said patting Ruby's shoulder "anyway, let's do this." The eight took a tentative step forward before vanishing into the portal.
/
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Ruby called out as she plummeted through the tree canopy before impacting the forest floor," Ohh~" she groaned, regaining her focus Ruby glanced around at her surroundings. 'The Emerald forest' Ruby realized they made it they were home, a few more cries came from above as the others plummeted through the trees landing around them.
"Guy's" Ruby said running up to Weiss helping her partner up.
"Ok, we are never doing that again." Yang said shaking her head
"Consider yourselves lucky when I arrived I landed in a dumpster." Alex said as he got up turning to Rook and Ben "looks Like this is where we part ways."
"Keep in touch" Ben said as he and rook made their way into the Forrest heading towards Vale. The other began their trek back through the forest towards Beacon.
"What do we tell the others when we get back" Ruby asked
"We don't. until we know how far this goes we can't trust the others...even our friends" Blake said her gaze falling
"Professor Ozpin will still want us to give a statement about what happened and where we've been" Weiss said
"We'll figure that out latter right now let's focus on getting back to Beacon" Alex said
Suddenly a Bullhead soared overhead a large spotlight shone down on them blinding the teens, landing at the edge of the clearing the ramp at the rear came down three Atlesian trooper stepping into the clearing approaching the hunters in training weapons raised "Identify yourselves."
Ruby stepped forward "T-Team Ruby from beacon academy" Ruby stated
"Alex fissure mentor for the Beacon first year's." Alex said the soldiers looked at each other
"Come with us" the leader of the group stated, the others boarded the bullhead, the engines roared to life as they took off back towards the academy, two of the three soldiers remained in the back while their sergeant entered the cockpit to contact Ironwood. A tense silence fell over the group as they waited for his return.
As the Bullhead docked in Beacon, the sergeant emerged from the cockpit looking over the students he turned to RWBY and Koan" The five of you are free to head back to your dorm's" he then looked to Alex " General Ironwood wants to speak to you."
/
The ride up to the headmaster's office was tense, Alex glanced at the soldiers beside him who did nothing but stand in silence apart from adjusting their grip on their weapons occasionally. The elevator doors opened, Glynda Ozpin and Ironwood turned away from their conversation to address him with Ironwood dismissing his men.
"Alex." Ozpin began "It's good to hear that you Mr. and team RWBY have not been harmed after the breach we feared the worst, I trust Ironwoods men treated you well."
"Could have done without having a rifle shoved in my face" Alex said
"My men were sent to investigate an energy spike in the forest, I'm sure you can imagine their surprise when they arrived and found a group of huntsmen students." Ironwood said
Alex nodded in agreement" I can see where you're coming from have there been any developments on our situation?"
"No, things have been relatively calm since Torchwick was apprehended in the aftermath of the breach." Glynda said
Ironwood looked to Alex " That raises another question, how exactly are you here from what the reports from team JNPR and CFVY you and team RWBY vanished. And that raises the question where have you been all this time" Ironwood said
"The Psycho's used a piece of technology from my world a Nullvoid projector" Alex began
"Nullvoid?" Glynda said
"The Nullvoid a pocket dimension we use to store the worst criminals my world has to offer, the only way to get in or out is with one of these projectors" Alex continued
"Then how did you all escape" Ozpin inquired.
"Like I said, I have friends back on earth they were able to trace the signal my badge gave out and open a portal from their side to come get us." Alex said, "from there we were able to reverse engineer a way back using the tech they had managed to scavenge from the Psycho's original portal device "
Ironwood spoke up " And what about these friends of yours can we expect them to show up"
"I wouldn't count on it. The element used to power it, is highly volatile and very rare" Alex said he didn't want to lie to the professors, but he and the others still didn't know how deep this rabbit hole went plus he had orders from magister Tennyson, they had to be patient and if worst comes to worst Ben and Rook could back them up. " With all due respect general it's been a long day can we head back to our dorms."
"Of course," Ozpin said before James could answer, Alex nodded heading back to the elevator as the doors closed Ironwood turned back towards Glynda and Ozpin
" I have a feeling that boy isn't telling us everything" Ironwood said
"Are we any different" Glynda said
"How is Amber condition" Ozpin said taking a sip from his coffee.
Glynda began typing on her scroll pulling up a small image of a young woman in her early twenties inside a glass pod monitoring her vitals. "She's stable for the moment although her condition has slowly begun to deteriorate" Glynda said
Ozpin hummed in thought "Is Qrow still on route?"
"Yes." Glynda replied "I'll inform him of the recent developments I'm sure he'll be relived."
Ozpin hummed in response, turned to stare staring out towards Vale, these recent events were troubling and with the Vytal festival just around the corner it's timing couldn't be any worse, with the first appearance of these Psycho rangers, the Council wanted answers, answers he could not give or risk Alex and his companions safety. Ozpin sighed placing his mug onto his desk as he rubbed his brow staring down at the image present on his scroll Psycho Red green energy crackling in his hands as he fought RWBY, Alex, Koan, JNPR and CFVY this enemy had made themselves known they were powerful, they were cruel and had aligned themselves with the White Fang and most likely one of 'Her' emissary in the process.
The queen had found her Black knight.
'To be continued'
P.S-Happy Halloween