Coming in with Chapter 24. With this comes the last chapter before the wait for six more. We'll finally be getting to the actual USJ attack in the next couple chapters. I'm unsure how long I'll have it last but it shouldn't be too long. Now some review replies.

Dragon lord Syed 101: As of now, yes Lancaster.

catastrophiqu: I thought of doing that, but with the way I have the switch working it wouldn't work. The switch from the RWBYverse to the MHAverse causes those brought over to be changed to fit the world. If someone did show up before quirks, they'd be changed to fit the world before quirks so they'd have no powers. If however, they'd arrive around the times quirks were emerging, they'd be a possibility of them not getting their quirk initially but getting them later.

With that out of the way let's get on with the chapter.


USJ Arc

Chapter 24: Investigation

Ruby bolted through the hallways of UA. Okay, if their braking in and not causing any destruction, that means they likely want info on us. But what would they want? Let me think their not attacking now, probabley because it would be suicide the minute they did anything. Then what could they be after? As she ran down the hallway she saw up ahead a familiar dusty old crow.

"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby called out.

"What the Ruby?!" Qrow exclaimed.

Ruby skidded to a stop right in front of her Uncle.

"What are you doing here? You should be evacuating the building." Qrow stated.

"I know but I thought with all teachers being busy handling the media outside no one would be able to look inside for the intruder." Ruby explained. "So I thought I'd try and find him."

Qrow sighed but smiled lightly.

"I trained you well didn't I?" Qrow expressed.

"Wait you only showed me how to fight you didn't…" Ruby began.

"Just shut up and let me have my moment." Qrow stated. "Anyways, your right someone's using the media to distract everyone while they infiltrate the building. They're probably after the itinerary to see when the best time to attack a class is."

"Itinerary?" Ruby questioned.

"Schedule," Qrow explained.

"Ohh… why didn't you just…" Ruby begna.

"ANYWAYS… There are a couple places they can get this at. I shouldn't do this, but I'll let you help us." Qrow stated as he pulled out a map of the school.

He pointed to several locations.

"Investigate these while me and some of the other available staff will look into the others." Qrow directed.

"Got it, I won't let you down Uncle Qrow." Ruby stated.

"Yeah, yeah I know, now let's get to it." Qrow declared.

"Yeaaaah…" Ruby replied.

They headed off in separate directions to where they needed to go.


Meanwhile, in the cafeteria…

A large mob of people continued to storm the exit. They threaten to trample each other ironically causing more harm in an attempt to escape than the media or the villain who broke in. Jaune's mind work to try and think of the best solution to calming everyone down.

"How are we supposed to calm all these people down?!" Izuku exclaimed.

"I'm working on it!" Jaune replied.

"Maybe we could find Yaoyorozu and have her make a megaphone!" Ren pointed out.

"Good idea, any idea where she is though?!" Nora asked.

"I think I she her and a few of our classmates trying to not get stampeded!" Itsuka noted.

"Think we can reach them?!" Jaune asked.

"We'll aside from Nora just bulldozing through them, no!" Itsuka answered.

Nora was about to speak.

"No!" Jaune shouted.

"Ohhh…" Nora whined.

"Come on Jaune think, think." He muttered to himself.

As Jaune's mind worked to find a solution. As it did, his eyes drifted to the exit everyone was rushing towards.

"That's it." He muttered. "Guys I have an idea! If we can get some up towards the exit they can shout out in front of everyone. If we're able to tell them it's just the press they should calm down."

"Get someone towards the exit…" Tenya muttered. "I got it! Uraraka, make me float!"

Tenya held out a hand towards her.

"Huh?" Ochako questioned, but used her quirk anyways.

Jaune immediately realized what Tenya's plan was.

"Good idea Iida!" Jaune complimented.

"Thank you my friend!" Tenya replied as he tossed him his glasses.

I get the feeling these might break with what I'm about to do. He thought to himself. As he floated up into the air, Tenya pulled up his pant legs to expose his calves. He revved up his engines and pushed off a nearby wall. He twisted through the air and eventually slammed into the wall in a cartoonish pose. Everyone else tried to hold back their laughter from this. Tenya took a deep breath.

"Everyone! EVERYTHING IS FINE!" He declared, drawing everyone's attention. "It's just the press! There's no need to panic!"

"He's right! I can see some of the teachers dealing with them!" Jaune shouted.

"This is UA! Behave in a way that befits such a grand institution!" Tenya shouted.

Realizing that there was no threat, everyone finally calmed down. With this done, Tenya breathed out a sigh of relief. I'm not a fan of lying to everyone but it's for the best. The real question is who is the one who broke into the building. While I don't agree with her doing things on her own. I do hope Ruby can find whoever it was.


Elsewhere in the building…

Neo used a computer to search for the staff schedule. Looks like Tomura's distraction worked. While the press keeps the heroes busy, I'll be able to find everything I need. After a bit more searching she finally found it. Good and it looks like All Might's next class will be a Wednesday. And it'll be at a more remote location. This is perfect. She quickly wrote down all the info before closing down the computer. Suddenly the door creaked. She quickly created an illusion to hide herself.

Stepping inside was Ruby, all by herself. She looked around the room for any sign that someone could be here. So she is here. And it looks like she wasn't fooled by Tomura's little distraction. And my my, it looks like she's here all by herself. Ruby slowly made her way around the room her eyes carefully scanning every corner of the room. As Ruby drew near, Neo was ready to attack. But then she stopped. If I kill her now, it'd only raise alarms. They'd cancel that little trip they have planned. Sure it'd ruin UA's reputation, but that's what Tomura wants, not what I want. I need to focus on building up power in the underworld and I need their failure at this USJ attack to make that happen. Ruby stopped and noticed that the computer had been used recently. Seeing this she grew more suspicious that someone was here and scanned around the room. Killing you can wait Ruby Rose. Since you're becoming a hero, I'm sure fate will provide us with an opportunity to meet. For now I should focus on finding and dealing with Cinder.

Finding nothing Ruby let out an annoyed sigh. After taking one more look around the room, Ruby found nothing. With little to go off of, Ruby left the room to search the others. Farewell Ruby Rose, be sure to survive the coming attack so I can kill you myself. With Ruby gone, a portal opened up. She quickly stepped through it, leaving little evidence she was even there. Through this she was transported to a nice looking bar.

"You're back, did everything go well?" A man of black mist asked as he closed the portal.

Neo nodded.

"Did you get what we needed?" The boy with light blue hair questioned.

With a smirk on her face, Neo handed him the information he asked for.

"Hmm… Wednesday… welp Kurogiri we have the time and location. Get everyone ready." The boy ordered.

"As you command young Master." The black mist man now named Kurogiri replied before warping away.

"You've been very useful to us Neo. You can take your leave until the attack comes." He ordered.

Neo took a bow before taking her leave. After she left a TV in the room came on.

"You know you can't trust her right Tomura?" A man with a deep voice.

"I know master. I trust her about as far as I can throw her. But she's definitely useful to us for now." The boy named Tomura replied. "But we'll need to keep a close eye on her."

Tomura let a smile creep on his face.

"Not that it matters, when we kill All Might their won't be much she can do to us." Tomura declared.


Later that day, in Class 1-A…

Ruby and Jaune stood in front of their class.

"Alright first things first, we need to choose the other student council members." Ruby announced. "First things first, for Treasurer we'd like to have Momo Yaoyorozu take the role."

Momo perked up at this.

"Really?" She questioned.

"Mhmm…" Ruby replied. "Your really smart so I think you're perfect for this position.

"Thank you, I humbly accept your offer." Momo returned with a bow.

Well that makes things easy. I can get close and find out what their hiding without having to pry too much. Thank you Ruby Rose.

"Cool, and for secretary we'd like to have Tenya take on the role." Ruby stated.

"Very well, I shall carry out this role with the utmost dedication." Tenya declared with a robotic bow.

"Good, any complaints, comments?" Ruby asked.

"Why ain't I on the student council?!" Katsuki shouted.

"You just answered your question." Jaune replied.

"Screw you blondie!" Katsuki shouted back.

"Anyone else?" Ruby asked.

No one replied.

"Good, now there are things I'd like to discuss with you two after classes let out. Is that okay or will you two be busy?" Ruby asked.

"I should be able to attend." Momo answered.

"I am free as well." Tenya replied.

"Great, and I believe that covers everything." Ruby stated.

"Meeting adjourned." Jaune whispered in her ear.

"Meeting adjourned." Ruby quickly added.


Outside, by the front gate…

Many teachers, including the principal gathered by the front gate. The gate had been destroyed, turned to dust.

"It's as we thought, no ordinary reported could have done this." Nezu noted.

"Now the real question is what's the message." Qrow added. "Was this a warning shot, or did they use it to gather intel."

"That reminds me you said you let your niece do some investigating during the whole thing." Nezu noted.

"Yeah but she said she couldn't find anything concrete. One room looked like someone had been in it recently but she couldn't tell how soon that had been." Qrow replied. "Regardless we should air on the side of caution. They'll probably wait for a time when a class is a way from the main building and strike then."

"True it'd be wise to cancel such activities then." Midnight suggested.

"But that would also show a sign of weakness. That'd be what the villains want." Glynda pointed out.

"All true, we'll discuss this later. For now the trip to the USJ should be okay. With All Might attending it's highly unlikely they'd choose to attack then." Nezu pointed out. "For now all of you do your best to find out who did so justice can be brought swiftly."


Later, in a meeting room…

After school let out Ruby was able to get a room where Class 1-A's student council could meet up and talk. They all entered and sat down.

"Okay so I called this meeting for two reasons." Ruby stated. "One is so we can get to know each other a little better. Jaune Tenya and I all know each other but Momo's new to the group."

"A wise decision what's the second reason?" Momo asked.

Ruby's face hardened as she truly became serious.

"It has to do with the break in to day." Ruby stated.

Momo gave her a perplexed look.

"But wasn't that just the media. Sure they caused quite the commotion but Iida was able to calm everyone down." Momo pointed out. "Good thinking out their Iida by the way."

"Thank you Yaoyorozu, but the media wasn't the real problem there." Tenya replied.

"He's right the alert level was three which means someone was in the building." Jaune explained. "The media got on the campus but never in the building."

Momo's eyes widened in realization.

"The press were nothing more than a distraction." Momo stated.

Ruby nodded.

"Ruby you went to try and find whoever had broken in, did you find anything?" Jaune inquired.

"Wait you what?!" Momo exclaimed.

"No I didn't find anything, that doesn't mean they didn't get any info on us." Ruby pointed out. "They probably want to know when the best time to attack a class is."

"Hold up, hold up, you went to investigate. That's the job of the teachers. Us students shouldn't get involved." Momo pointed out.

"But a lot of the teachers were either busy with either trying to calm down their students or dealing with the media. I couldn't sit by and do nothing." Ruby replied.

"As well intentioned as you are, we're just heroes in training, not full-fledged heroes. We don't have the kind of authority to just get involved in something like that. Not without a teacher's permission at least." Momo returned. "And I'm guessing since your bringing this up here you want us to help try and find anything on this. Well sorry that won't happen, president or not I won't let it happen."

"We can't sit by and do nothing. The teachers can only do so much. Any help we give could prevent any sort of attack from taking place." Jaune pointed out.

"While true, I must concur with Yaoyorozu. I would be dangerous and possibly illegal to get involved in this." Tenya added.

"Also true, why are so adamant about doing this anyways?" Momo questioned.

"Because I refuse to let what happened before happen again!" Ruby declared.

Momo was stunned by this, and while Tenya knew what she was referring to, he too was stunned by Ruby's outburst. Ruby breathed heavy.

"Again?" Momo questioned.

"Mine… Ruby's, Ren, and Nora's old school was attacked. And a lot of these events are similar to what happen there." Jaune explained. "First some broke in and gets into the system. Then it was quiet for a bit. Then there as a smaller scale attack which caused tenses to become high. Then at the worst possible time everything happened."

"Our school was over ran and left in ruins. Everyone fought hard to defend it. But it was too much. And… and…" Ruby began as tears formed in her eyes.

Jaune tightened his fist.

"And we lost a good friend." Jaune finished.

Momo was speechless, she could not believe such a horrible thing had already happened to some of her classmates. Ruby wiped the tears from her eyes.

"That's why I won't let it happen again no matter what." Ruby stated.

"Good to hear kiddo." Qrow stated from behind Ruby.

"GAH! UNCLE QROW!?" Ruby exclaimed.

She quickly spun around and saw her uncle sitting in the windowsill.

"How'd you get here?!" Jaune questioned.

"Why are you sitting on the windowsill?" Tenya questioned.

"What happened to the crow that was there?" Momo questioned.

Qrow looked away nervously.

"A-anyways… glad to hear you kids are so antsy to get into the hero business." Qrow quickly moved on. "But you can't very well go storming any villain strongholds, legally that is. But that doesn't mean you get give us a hand. Now while we shouldn't let you… I already talked to the principal and other teachers about enlisting the help of students."

"Really?!" Ruby exclaimed.

"You'd have students help in this?" Momo questioned.

"Of course, us teachers can't be everywhere. However everyone's not on board. For now me and Glynda convinced them to let you guys get on board. When we're able to convince them to let more on board, we're planning on keeping it limited to each classes student council though. It won't be odd to see student council members talking to a teacher about anything" Qrow stated.

"Okay, but what will we be doing?" Jaune asked.

"Good question. For now it's just keeping an ear out to see if you hear anything here in the school." Qrow explained. "There's the possibility of a traitor being in the school. It could either be a student or a faculty."

"That'd make sense. Whoever broke in would need someone to help him get in." Momo pointed out.

"Correct you are young lady. Which is why I want you guys to try and find anything. But keep it on the down low. Don't want to raise suspicions." Qrow explained. "And if you find anything, first report it to Ruby, then she'll report it to me. It won't be odd for her and I to talk since we're related."

"Got it, we won't let you down Uncle Qrow." Ruby declared with a salute.

"Well… I guess since we have permission now we can investigate things." Momo noted.

"Let us do our very best." Tenya declared.

"Good to hear we're all fired up. Let's do this!" Jaune exclaimed.

"Alright now Uncle Qrow who…" Ruby began.

However Qrow had already vanished. All that remained was a black feather. Ruby, Jaune, and Tenya all looked confused as to how Qrow had vanished all of a sudden. Momo however, had a different response as her jaw had practically hit the floor. What kind of quirk lets you turn into a bird, clothes and everything!


Ruby: Aww... were off again?

Izuku: Yeah, unfortunately.

Ruby: Stupid lazy writer.

Izuku: We've been over this, let's get on with the next chapter preview.

Ruby: Fine, next time we go the USJ.

Izuku: And you know the rest.

Ruby: Get ready though, with team RNJR...

Nora: Team JNRR!

Ruby: WITH TEAM RNJR on the scene, things will be looking a little different.

Izuku: Next time Chapter 25: The Attack Begins.

Ruby: Till then.