"I'm telling you, she should come with us at least until the mission's over." Wrecker said the next morning while the girls were getting ready. "Wrecker… she's a criminal." Hunter said rubbing his temples. "But she lost someone she cared about." the gentle giant persisted. "Outrider, some input could help." Hunter said. "I think she should decide not us." Outrider said as yang rested her head in his lap. The group looked at the still sleeping heterochromatic woman.

"If she does come with us, she have better not get any ideas." Yang said looking up at her boyfriend. "About me or everyone?" the heavy gunner teased. Yang glowered and merely replied with a disgruntled "both". This got a laugh out of the present people. "Hey slowpokes we going?" a voice rang out.

The group turned to see ruby tapping her foot while the rest of bad batch and Team RWBY had impatient looks. "Yeah we're coming. We just need to do something first." Outrider said getting up to wake the woman.

Neo woke to someone shaking her awake. Rubbing her eyes, she saw the one called outrider had been the one to wake her. "Sleep well?" neo nodded before yawning. That she had. "I see you've packed up camp." She said via scroll. Outrider nodded. "I have a question for you Neo." He said getting the heterochromatic woman's attention. "you can come with us until the mission's over and we will part ways or we can part ways now." Neo frowned and turned away crossing her arms with the parasol under one of said arms. "I understand… be safe out there and may the force be with you." Outrider said gaining a raised eyebrow from the ice cream themed girl.

"well?" wrecker asked hoping neo would tag along. "she's not coming." Outrider said passing the gentle giant. Wrecker looked at the heterochromatic with a somber expression as she began to walk in the opposite direction. "I… was hoping she would. After all I was the one who saved her."

Neo froze mid step. "did I hear correctly?" she thought. That's when she remembered. "roman and I placed explosives around this area. He must have detonated them while I was unconscious." She turned her head just in time to see team RWBY and bad batch, more specifically wrecker, disappear from sight. She tightened her grip on hush, her parasol, and blushed. "thank you wrecker. I owe you." Neo thought.

WITH THE GROUP OF TEN

"Well, with neo no longer bothering us. We can move on." Weiss said. the heiress casted a glance at the group's muscle. "you ok wrecker?" she asked. "I wish she'd come with. I mean what if she gets overpowered by Grimm?" wrecker said. "Does someone have a crush?" Yang asked in a sly tone. "No! I'm just worried for her safety is all." The gentle giant said. "That's called having a crush, wrecker." The blonde brawler insisted. "yang that's enough." Outrider said before gaining a Cheshire cat grin beneath his faceplate. "after all he's big enough to admit that he's got a crush on her." This gained a round of chortles from the members of bad batch and giggles from team RWBY at wrecker's dismay.

Unaware to the group Neo had continued to follow them

'Why am I still following them? Following him?" she thought bringing a hand to her chest. "is this what it means to be in love?" neo thought glancing at wrecker. The heterochromatic girl shook her head. "no, I owe him one and that's that."

MEANWHILE ON A BULLHEAD ENROUTE TO THE GROUP OF TEN'S LOCATION

HC-003 looked at her so called batch(1) team. HC-001 looked like Ruby Rose save for the red being replaced by blue. HC-002 looked like Weiss save for the light blue highlights, and left side pony tail. HC-004 looked like yang with her emblem tattooed on her upper left arm. "HC-001, have you done maintenance on your weapon?" the Blake clone asked. "Of course, HC-003 I have." HC-001 said showing the fauna clone a grey version of crescent rose.

"So, does father(2) or Adam have a mission for us?" HC-004 asked. "Adam wishes for us to combat our originals and the bad batch." HC-003 said. "Kill or capture?" HC-002 asked. "Kill all but my template(3)." HC-003 said. the other three clones nodded as the bullhead landed.

BACK WITH BAD BATCH AND TEAM RWBY

"Well, that's another sensor back online." Echo said. "understood. The signal's a bit clearer, but there is still some interference." Port's hologram said. "Must be a third control station then." Hunter pondered. "I agree. Also, you said something about roman Torchwick earlier." Port said. "yes, he and his accomplice, neo, ambushed ruby and I. however, he perished when several boulders fell onto him when he tried to kill us with explosives." Hunter said "and what of neo?" the professor asked. "she survived, and we let her go. There was no point taking her prisoner sir." The tattooed clone said before turning off the communicator.

"guys, do you have a feeling that we're being watched?" Wrecker asked. "Maybe it's neo following you?" Crosshair said snickering. Outrider saw something saw something in the corner of his eye. "WRECKER LOOK OUT!" he yelled. The gentle giant looked to see a projectile headed his way. "Holy…!" he began before an explosion resounded in the valley

"Nice shot HC-004." HC-002 said. "thank you." HC-004 said cockily as she reloaded her gauntlets. "um girls, it didn't kill him." HC-001 said looking through her binoculars. "WHAT!" was the collective response.

The smoke cleared to reveal an open pink parasol facing the direction in which the projectile had come from. "Neo!?" Wrecker said seeing the petite woman standing in front of him a sour look on her face. "How dare those four try to kill my gorilla." She thought before her eyes widened. "What did I just say?"

"Guess we'll do this the hard way. HC-003 said leaping to the platform bad batch and team RWBY were on followed by her fellow clones.

"Guys…. Is it just me or am I seeing double?" Ruby said. "Nope, we see them too Rubes." Yang said activating ember Celica. "Who are you?" hunter demanded unsheathing his vibro knife. "Who are we? We're the White Fang's Team RWBY." HC-003 said unsheathing her gambol shroud. The RWBY clones gave the originals, Neopolitan, and bad batch a malicious grin at the group of eleven brandishing their weapons.

TO BE CONTINUED…

A/N: a cliffhanger again? Why am I this evil? Anyways it looks like Team RWBY has to face their greatest foe yet… THEMSELVES. Thankfully they have bad batch to back them up as well as Neopolitan.

Explanations:

1-a group of clones

2-the RWBY clones see Merlot as their father since he created them

3-the person a clone is based on

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