"FUCKING BULLSHIT!" Church yelled into the sky, and yet not one person turned to look at him.

Which was indicative of the problem.

Church had been a ghost for a while now, ever sense caboose had killed him with his own tank. And most of the time, he got round in his robot body, only becoming a proper ghost when it suited him.

And when he did turn into said ghost, people could still see him.

Until now.

Now on this planet, not a single fucking person could see him.

Fucking bullshit.

After figuring out that people couldn't see him, Church had been trying the second part of his powers. Possessing people.

Unfortunately, he was having as about as much luck as he was when trying to get people to acknowledge his existence.

"I swear, if this doesn't work this time, I am going to loose it." Church said to himself as he walked towards another of the people just walking in the street.

Honestly, seeing people without armour was a weird experience, as it had been years sense he had last saw anyone that wasn't wearing full body armour.

Maybe it was some how influencing his ability to take over peoples bodies?

Regardless, Church went to possess the civilian just walking in the street.

He went over to him and-

Just walked right through him. Again. It honestly filled him with such a rage that he couldn't really do much else than yell curses to the sky.

"What! The! Fuck! Is! Wrong! With! Everyone!" he gave a scream so full of rage, that he reminded himself of O'Malley.

"You really shouldn't swear, mister invisible man."

"Jesus Christ!" Church phased backwards out of shock, looking around to see a little girl with orange hair in a dress.

"Christ kid, where did you come from?" The cobalt trooper asked her.

"Well, originally I was born in Atlas, where I grew up with a perfectly normal family" The kid told Church, before she gave a small hiccup.

"Right...uh, kid." Church began.

"Penny, my name is Penny Polendina!" She interrupted him.

"Right...Penny, my name is Church and uh, i'm a ghost." Church explained awkwardly, "And uh, no one here can see me, except you."

"Oh! I can't see you mister Church." Penny interrupted.

Church took a moment to ponder what the orange hair girl just said. "Uh firstly, just call me Church, no 'mister' i'm not 50 for gods sake. and secondly if you can't see me, then how are you talking to me?"

"Well I can't see you with my eyes, which is odd because they can process over 10000 frames per second." Penny told him like it was perfectly normal. "But my ears can pick you up perfectly fine"

Church blinked under his ghostly helmet. "Right, so you can hear me but not see me?"

"That is correct mister Church."

Right, so someone can hear him, but no see him. Fuck it, at this point he would take what could.

"Right kid, do you have any idea why you can hear me, but others can't." He asked, gesturing to the other people, who were looking at Penny weirdly as they passed her in the street.

"Nope." Was her heart-crushing answer. "But my friend ruby might know."

"Ruby?" The ghost asked "Who's she?"

The smile that was already of Penny's face widened, "Ruby is my most, absolute best friend mister Church!" Penny informed him, giving Church a minor flashback to being inside caboose's brain.

"She has friends who are just like you."

As penny said that, church's mind raced with the possibilities and landed on one.

"Did any of the voices, like, give their names? Was one of them Tex?" Church asked, mind full of hope.

Penny considered what Church had said. "No, none of them were named Tex, but there was more than one."

"Alright, take me to Ruby." Church told her, causing the robot girl to shake her head.

"No...i'm afraid we can't." The orange haired girl said with a sigh. "I'm afraid that i'm not able to see Ruby again until the festival. And technically I am not supposed to be outside at the moment."

Church froze, "Why the hell not!?" He exclaimed.

"It's the orders of General Ironwood."

"Why would a general-" Church cut himself off. "Right, tell me something, you don't like this order right?"

"Yes."

"So why don't we just, you know...break the rules."

Penny gave a little shocked gasp. "But mister Church, we can't do that. General Ironwood and my father would not approve."

The gears in Church's head turned, Penny seemed to be a stickler for the rules, kinda like Simmons was. But she was also a teenager.

"But kid, don't you want to participate in a little teenage rebellion?" Church asked craftily, causing Penny to give a little gasp.

"Teenage rebellion?" Penny repeated before her eyes lit up, "Teenage rebellion! I've always wanted to participate in that!"

Church nodded encouragingly, not that Penny could see it.

"Alright mister Church, I will help you find Ruby." Penny nodded.

"Alright then, when can we start?" Church questioned.

"An optimal search routine based on known, previous movements of Ruby Rose would have to start from 16:00 to 00:00 hours." Penny paused, "We can start tomorrow, I shall need to get back before some one notices I am missing."

"Alright kid, meet you hear at four tomorrow, got it?"

"Yes mister Church!" With that Penny skipped off, leaving church to ponder his first success.

He just had to follow that weird girl around tomorrow and he would find this 'Ruby' girl.

Then he could find Tex.

In her surprisingly short, yet fucked up life, Tex has seen a lot of weird shit.

Ancient prophecies, swords that were also keys, an A.I that thought it was a ghost, etc.

But honestly, waking up on a different planet, after dying to an E.M.P, that was apparently in a completely different universe?

That took the proverbial cake.

Still, once she had figured out that she was most likely in a different universe, stuck with Omega, Tex knew there was only one thing to do.

She had to get a drink.

Of course she couldn't actually drink said drink, being in a robot body and all, but she'd ordered one anyway.

"And I am O'Malley." Omega said, using the voice modifier."Now where the hell are we?" He'd said it to the dude that was chatting with her (his name was Qrow apparently), he seemed as miserable as she felt, and hey misery love company right?

"what?" Qrow asked her as Tex shook her head violently.

"Fuck off O'Malley." Tex threatened the genocidal A.I, forcing him to a place at the back of her mind, she then turned to Qrow. "Sorry about that. My A.I, Omega, is being a real bitch lately."

Of course this apparently made him confused, "A.I?" Qrow repeated like a question.

"Yeah, an A.I, i'm guessing that they aren't too common?" Tex asked, but never received an answer, as someone tapped her on her shoulder.

Tex turned around to see a small group of guys, 8 in total, all big one ones, with more brawn than brain looking at her.

"You two are in our seats. move." The biggest one said, Tex guessed that he was the leader.

Tex gave a short, mocking laugh, "Yeah, I don't think so buddy. Now why don't you are your little buddies there, just fuck off." Omega finish for her.

"Look." Qrow held up a free hand. "We don't want any trouble."

"Then move." The big guy told them, flexing his muscles in an attempt to threaten them. Tex gave a snort. Carolina's were bigger.

"What if we don't want to?" Tex asked, knowing the cliched answer.

"Then we make you move." The big guy cracked his knuckles will his friends jeered.

Getting up from her seat, Tex passed her drink to Qrow. "Feel free to drink it." She told him as she looked the big guy dead in the eyes.

"Gonna fight us, Atlas?" he taunted.

"I wouldn't say fight..." Tex said casually as she stretched her robot body. "I'd call this a good ol'fashioned, no-hold-barred beatdown."

"Cute." Was all the big guy said before throwing his fist right toward Tex, which she simply caught with her hand.

"What?!" He yelled out in surprise, causing Tex to give a phantom grin, as she twisted his hand downwards, as he winded in pain and struggled in her grasp.

"What's wrong?" Tex taunted, "Didn't expect to be beaten up by a girl?" She poked holes at their masculinity. She then let the guy go and sent him flying into his friends with a powerful kick.

"Who's next?" The number one freelancer asked as the other seven men charged at her in a mess of punches, which she parried easily, sending two of them flying into tables and putting the rest on the defensive.

In one fluid motion, Tex charged at one of the men, but at the last moment she channelled her momentum into a slide, going under his legs and hitting the thugs groin on the way past, causing him to kneel over.

With four out of eight done and out, Tex continued her taunts. "Is this the best you have? Seriously?" She asked them in a mocking tone. This caused them to reach for their belts and pull out swords. Honest to god swords.

Tex looked at them for a moment and gave a long, hearty laugh.

"S- s- swords!? Seriously!?" Tex breathed out between laughs, "What is this, the eleventh century?"

The four idiots looked at each other and then charged, causing Tex to grab the cue stick from the table behind her and use it to parry their strikes.

Despite not being what one would call a duellist, Tex could tell that the big guy's rarely took out, much less used their swords. As a result their technique was sloppy.

Tex batted aside one of the thugs attacks, and hit another one right in his face, breaking his nose and jaw with a satisfying crunch. She then effortlessly dodged the other two's attacks as their swings went wild. Sensing an opening, Tex delivered a picture perfect roundhouse kick to one of the brutes groins and delivered an uppercut to another in a fluid motion. After seeing her being a complete and utter badass, the final grunt dropped his sword and ran out of the bar.

Tex turned around to face Qrow who was looking at her with a carefully schooled expression.

Tex started to walk back to her seat, when Omega pinged her.

Behind you.

Before she fully turned around Tex heard the familiar bang of a gun.

It only grazed her side, causing her body to spark. But it was enough to fully enrage Tex.

Using the cue stick and fully in sync with O'Malley, they bashed the attacker, (who was one of the thugs that she thought was knocked out), and shattered the stick over his head, sending him to the ground.

Taking several robotic breaths, Tex looked at the trashed bar as Qrow got up from his chair and walked up to beside her.

"wanna get out of here?" The drunk asked her.

"And go where?" Tex replied.

"I know a place." Was all he said, Tex nodded and they left the bar.

Notes:

As always, that was a fun chapter to write.

To be honest, Alpha!church is my second favourite red vs blue character. So pairing him with Penny, my fourth favourite RWBY character, was a no brainier.

The idea of teaming up Tex and Qrow in their own subplot, came after I listened to 'a girl named Tex' and thought of those two in a bar fight. Let me tell ya, it was one of the best ideas I've had and will pay off in the finale.

There isn't much else to say for this chapter except to ask; is there any RvB character you would like to see pop up in this fic, as I am thinking about adding in more. The only stipulation is that they must be canonically dead.

As always, all reviews comments and constructive criticisms are welcome as i read them all.

Next time we can expect an appearance from Jaune and the rest of team SALN.
Till then, thank you for reading and i'll catch ya'll on the flip flop.