Finally.
Yang made it to the City of Mistral. She's not alone, for she has bought Ragna and Penny there. Taking a good look at the city, it remind the former of Hierarchical Cities from his universe. The only difference is that the universe he is in now has no seithr. The people themselves are peaceful and living a harmonious life.
"What do you think of this city, Ragna?" the blonde asked him with Penny accompanying them for a walk.
"It's cool," was the response. "To be honest, it reminded me of cities that were on high altitude and mountainous areas."
"Really?" Yang asked with a curious smile.
"Yeah, like the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi for example."
"Kagutsuchi? Never heard of it."
That reminded Ragna of the fact that he is not from the universe he was once living at. This is a different universe. It had no Hierarchical Cities, except Mistral, and he had to use a tablet known as a Scroll. Luckily, he managed to get one while fight Grimm at Vale. He wondered if he can tell anyone about the fact he is from a different universe. There are some people that deserve to know, while there are other who doesn't.
Maybe he can tell Ruby and her friends about it, but only the ones that are close to her as not everyone she gets along with doesn't have to know of it.
"Well, that's a story to tell some other time," he muttered.
"Aww!" Yang complained.
Just then, they saw a brown-haired and silver-eyed girl with a red cape conversing with three people. She's with two boys; one is blond-haired and wears an outfit that looked like he's warrior of the modern world, and the other is black-haired and looked like he's Asian. They're with a girl with orange hair and looking hyperactive.
"Ruby..." Yang is starting to have tears coming out from her shades.
"Is that her?" Ragna asked her. "The girl who is copying me?"
"Yeah, that's her," was her response before she removes her shades and runs to the girl with open arms. "Ruby!"
"Yang?" the brunette noticed her and her sister wrapped her arms around her for a tight hug.
"Ruby, I'm so glad you're here!" Yang said while in tears. "I miss you!"
"I miss you, too, Yang," Ruby returns the hug. She is glad to see her again with the fact she has now recovered from being broken down. Jaune, Ren, and Nora smiled as they watched this moment.
After a few seconds, they let go of the hug, and she noticed the people she's with on her way to the city. Upon looking at Penny, she looked surprised.
"Penny...?" she asked the robot girl. Could it be really her? The very same robot she befriended at Vale? "Is it really you?"
"Yes, Ruby, it's me," Penny respond with a kind smile. The same kind smile she gives out.
This confirms she is the same robot girl she befriended at Vale. Ruby approaches her and wraps her arms around her for a hug.
"It really is you," she whispered while tears come out of her eyes. Penny returned the hug. They stayed like that for a few seconds before they let go of the hug.
"Well, this is one unforgettable moment," Ragna commented.
"And you are..." Ruby turned to him.
"Ragna. Ragna the Bloodedge. Just call me Ragna. It's nice to meet you," the white-haired man shook hands with her.
"Same here," the brunette greeted in return. "I never thought there is someone out there who is copying me."
"Well, I'm the original, and you're the copy."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I'm here first before you."
They stared at each other before Ragna turns to look at the people she's with.
"Um, Mr. Ragna..." Jaune approached him nervously. "I'm Jaune Arc, but you can call me Jaune."
"I'm Lie Ren, but you can call me Ren," his friend introduced himself calmly.
"And I'm Nora Valkyrie! Just call me Nora," the orange-haired girl introduced herself in a hyperactive way.
"Nice to meet you all," Ragna stated. "Is there a restaurant around here? Let's talk more inside."
They went inside a nearby restaurant. Once they ordered their meals, a conversation takes place.
"How did you come back?" Ruby asked Penny.
"My father found my remains after Vale has been overrun by Grimm. He managed to rebuild me, and I came back to Vale eight months later to investigate what happened there. That's where I found Ragna, and we decided to go to Mistral to meet you there," the robot girl respond to the question.
"I see..." her human friend took the information with understanding. "Thank you, Ragna, for being with her all the way here."
"Hey, what are friends for?" Ragna said with a smile at his counterpart. Then he changed the subject. "Anyway, why did you all come here?"
"We were trying to investigate of how Beacon fell," Ruby respond to the question. "For this, I became the leader of Team RNJR since the members of my team, Team RWBY, has been scattered around Remnant."
"Oh..." the white-haired man took a drink of water. "And I assume your sister is Y of your team, right?"
"Yup."
"I assumed you're missing a team member?" Ragna glared at Jaune, Ren, and Nora as they sad expressions.
"Yeah, we're missing one," Jaune said sadly. "Pyrrha... she died."
"If you don't mind, may I see a picture of her?"
Jaune gives his Scroll to Ragna have a close look on the picture of his deceased team member. As soon as he saw the picture, his eyes widened with shock.
"I see..." he gives back his Scroll.
"Why do you look so shock when you saw the picture?" Ruby asked with curiosity.
"Because... she just reminds me of someone, that's all," Ragna can barely hide the emotion of able to recognize Pyrrha as someone he knows from his universe.
"Who? Your girlfriend?" Yang teased.
"No, a girlfriend of... my brother, if I'm not mistaken."
"Oh..."
Just then, their orders have arrived. Everyone, except Ragna, is surprised when the waitress giving out their meals is none other than Weiss Schnee.
"Weiss?!" they said in surprise.
"Ruby, Yang, Jaune, Ren, Nora, Penny..." the former heiress said in surprise in getting this reunion, and looks at Ragna last. "...and you are...?"
"'Ragna..." the latter introduced himself with his arms crossed.
"Ragna... right," Weiss will remember his name before she gets crushed into a tight hug by Ruby.
"Weiss! It's good to see you!" the brunette girl excitedly exclaimed.
"It's good... to see you, too!" Weiss returned the hug. "Can you not touch me?"
A tsundere, indeed. Ragna commented in his thoughts about her.
"What are you doing here?" Ruby asked her partner before getting back to her seat.
"I came here because I thought I might look for Winter," was the response.
"Winter?" Ragna asked.
"Her sister... older sister," his copycat whispered.
"Oh..."
"Anyway, why are you working as a waitress, Weiss?" Jaune asked the obvious.
"I need money," Weiss responds the obvious while looking depressed.
"Really?" Ragna raised an eyebrow with skepticism.
"Yeah, ever since my 'performance' at the charity event at Atlas, I lost everything, including my title as heiress," the white-haired girl recalled on the events that had happened in her former hometown. Emphasizing on the word, 'former', since she won't be going back there after the borders will be closed so no one will get in and out of Atlas. "Of course, this means I don't have access to my riches anymore. I used all the Lien I had to get to Mistral. I didn't have enough to rent an apartment. Do you know how I have been living here?"
"You lived in a place called bullshit?" the white-haired man snarked.
Everyone seems to get a laugh at this, and Weiss is not amused.
"No, I lived in a homeless shelter for days!" the latter exclaimed in annoyance.
"Yeah, yeah..." Ragna could see that judging by her attitude, he reminds him of his younger brother, Jin. He has to check first. "Anyway, Ice Queen, right?"
"Yeah, you can call me that. Jaune calls me that," Weiss added.
"Can you use a sword? Can it help you manipulate ice?"
"Yes, I can. I use a rapier called Myrtenaster, and there are six slots where I can use Dust of different colors. Ice is one of those."
"I see..." Ragna understood her, and he looks at Ruby. "And what is your relationship with her?"
"Let's see... she's annoying, she's an idiot, and she's a loudmouth," her partner said the negativity about her before turning to the positivity. "Still, she's fine, and I appreciate her."
"Oh..." her new friend understands that. Yup, just like Jin.
"Why?"
"Oh, nothing. You just remind me of my younger brother."
"Well, if you're done talking, let's eat!" Yang excitedly exclaimed on her meal.
Everyone gets to eat their meals. As for Ragna, he's lucky to choose a meat dish. After all, he mostly cooks this. After everyone finished eating, he suggested to the manager to give him a job as he needed Lien as well like Weiss, and he's lucky he got accepted as a chef. He'll start the job tomorrow.
In an inn, Ragna is sleeping in a hotel room with Yang sleeping on a separate bed with Ruby having Weiss and Penny sleep with her leaving Jaune, Ren, and Nora in another hotel room next to theirs.
"Psst! Ragna, wake up," Yang shakes him to wake him up.
"What the hell? What is it, Yang?" he asked in a quiet tone.
"Do you know what tomorrow is?" she asked excitingly. "It's my birthday."
"Oh..."
"With the fact that everyone's too busy getting it together, it seems I won't be getting any presents from them, but that's fine with me."
"Really? Well, that's okay with me, too, in my birthdays," Ragna understood what she's saying. "Sure there's cake, but no presents, and that's fine with me. Sure there's presents, but no cake, and that's fine with me. All that's important is your birthday being celebrated normally or abnormally."
"Anyway, when I wake up tomorrow for my birthday, I wish to have Blake as my present," Yang told him of her birthday wish.
"Oh... Just go to sleep."
And she did. He fell asleep as well.
Meanwhile, Blake and Sun are continuing their walk to Mistral through the night in the forest. She heard a shuffling, and they went for a fighting stance.
"Sun, look out!" she yelled as she turned around, Gambol Shroud in hand, and saw Ilia charging at them with her whip. Ilia whips at the two, and Blake deflected it.
"You again?!" Sun took out Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang. Before he can attack, Corsac and Fennec appeared on the scene with sawblades on their hands. "I always knew there's something off with you two!"
"And now you know," the two brothers said together before they started attacking him.
Ilia, whose hair turns yellow and skin turns red due to being frustrated, tries whipping at Blake, but she manages to avoid getting hit by using her Semblance to make clones of herself that can be dispelled easily if hit.
"Ilia, you don't have to do this! I don't wanna fight you!" the latter said while defending herself from the whip.
"Funny, Blake. I was just about to say the same thing," the former stopped her fight as her hair turns blue and skin turns green due to looking sorrowful. "Which is why..."
Suddenly, Ouroboros came straight to Sun while he is exchanging blows with the Albain brothers, and he got captured.
"What the...?" he complained at its grip as it tossed him aside, knocking him down to unconsciousness.
"Sun!" Blake exclaimed with concern for him and she tried to help him, but the chain seems to slam her down to the ground.
Ilia, Corsac, and Fennec saw Hazama arriving to where they are, and the three Faunus are just going to watch how he fights her.
"She may not want to fight you, Blake Belladonna, but I do," Hazama said with a grin before his allergy is starting to act up with the cat Faunus near his presence. "Eeeeh... Achoo!"
"Whoever you are, you don't scare me," she stands up from the ground. "Especially when you work for Cinder."
"I am Hazama of the NOL Intelligence Department, and I work for no one."
Blake attempted to charge at him with Gambol Shroud in hand when he grabs her wrist and tossed her aside.
"Fast..." she said with surprise on her face. "Better not keep my guard down."
She turned her weapon to gun mode and started shooting Hazama. He dodged the shots before attempting to throw three knives at her. She dodged them, and he attempts to do a barrage of five rapid knife slashes which she uses her clones to dodge them. As she tries another use of her Semblance, Hazama does an outward crescent kick backward via a hidden blade that sticks out on his leg.
"Look at you. You're alone, and yet you're still trying to fight," he started to taunt her while his allergy is acting up. "Achoo! What a runaway you are. Ahahahaha!"
"Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about!" Blake tried to not him get under her skin.
"Sure I don't. Achoo!" Hazama added. "If only you knew..."
He pulled out a Scroll of his own, and he's been learning to get used in using it. He played a video about what Sun called her out about her method of pushing away her own friends for their safety against Adam.
"You think you're being selfless, but you're not."
"One more time," Hazama played that part again.
"You think you're being selfless, but you're not."
"Ahahahahaha!" he puts a hand to his face as he gets a good laugh at that. "Regret running away now? Ahahahahaha!"
"Stop mocking me!" Blake is getting angry at this as she attempts to attack him, and Hazama finds it good that he is getting under her skin. She tried slashing him with Gambol Shroud, but he easily dodges with no problem as she is losing concentration from his trolling. Next, Hazama sends a wave of snake-like energy along the ground with an inward scooping knife slash at her, and that deals her with a great amount of damage.
"Isn't it ironic that this is how one of your friends lost to Adam?" the green-haired man smirked with his arms crossed to his chest.
Blake tries to stand back up. Hazama has his knives and Ouroboros aimed at her, and she realizes the trouble she is in now. He continuously attacks her with his weapons, and Ilia winced in pain from seeing it.
(Author's Note: Just trying to make an offscreen writing of the part where Hazama continuously attacking Blake.)
The next day, Yang woke up with a yawn and stretched her arms. She is excited because today is her birthday and noticed a large gift in front of her bed. Curious about it, she approaches it and read the tag.
"To: Yang, From: H. Happy birthday!" she wondered. "Who's H?"
Thinking now's not the time to wonder the identity of the person giving her a gift, she decided to open it anyway. As she looked inside its contents, she lets out a horrified scream.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
Hearing it woke up Ragna, Ruby, Weiss, and Penny.
"What?! What is it, Yang?!" her sister is alarmed with her friends as they wondered of what is she screaming about.
"Yeah, having you as an alarm clock is so weird," Ragna gets up from bed.
They looked inside the present and their expressions turned into shock as they understood what Yang is screaming about. Inside the present is Blake, and she's all injured and unconscious.
"Blake?!" Ruby asked.
"And she's your birthday present?" Weiss asked her blonde-haired teammate when she read the tag.
Yang looks speechless about this moment. She wanted to be reunited with her partner after being apart with her for eight months, but not in a way that her wish gets taken literally.
"This is why there is a phrase called 'be careful what you wish for'," Ragna admonished. "You could have just wished for Blake to be your present, but not literally."
Suddenly, Jaune, Ren, and Nora arrive to their room.
"Guys!" the blond boy called on them. "There's something you should see."
They showed them Sun, who is not only unconscious like Blake, but also a writing from his chest that had been written in blood due to his skin being in cuts.
"H is here," they read the writing.
"Who the hell is 'H'?" Ragna wondered.
Author's Note: What do you think? After all, I did promised that the next chapter will have Team RWBY reunite.