Chapter 2

The reveal.

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, it belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum.

I do, however own this fic, which means the story can diverge however I want.

Weiss Schnee was launching off a dust rune, but fumbled when she heard Ruby's voice, "oh Crescie… you're so warm!"3 The blush crept up Weiss's cheeks as she stumbled through the air, fantasies of a girl and a high caliber sniper scythe filling her head. The heiress landed uncomfortably on the top of the hill, aura protecting her from breaking anything. Shaking away that last image of Ruby and "Crescie" cuddling, Weiss slowly sat up.

That's when she saw it: Ursa, beowulves, nevermores, boarbatusks, and deathstalkers. Just dust on the wind, illuminated by the last glow of twilight. Ruby was crouching a few meters away, another ursa collapsed in the distance and ruby cycled the bolt, but there was no gunshot. Just a click and a faint hiss. Yang was right; ruby was only lowering the local grimm population.

"Ruby! There you are!" Weiss shouted, "You just went missing, and weren't picking up your scroll!"

"ahh! Weiss…I can" Ruby stumbled over her words.

Weiss interrupted, "No, first we will get out of here, then we can talk."

Weiss pulled out her scroll and sent a message

'Ruby was just fighting grimm. The emerald forest is almost empty.'

'That's my little sis! The PUNisher is waiting for you.'

Weiss rolled her eyes.

Getting back to beacon was easy enough; most grimm fled from Ruby's presence. A few of the stupider ones did try to stop them, but were quickly dusted by a cloud of rose petals. While admiring her skill, Weiss noticed that the young leader was still fighting like she hasn't been trying to drive the creatures of grimm into extinction for the past hour.

"Rubes. How many grim have you killed today?" Weiss interrogated the younger girl as the two of them neared the dorms of beacon.

"… too many to count" Ruby said, candidly.

Weiss looked around at the countless ash piles and said, "Most huntsmen would pass out after slaying as many as you just did. You look like you could do this all week. How do you do it?"

"You mean yang never told you? Each grimm gives me as much energy as a cookie, and if I'm slaying grimm quickly enough, I get supercharged! Kind like Nora when she gets hit by lightning!" Ruby explained excitedly.

"So, you have multiple semblances like the man with two souls? Or my butler Klein?" Weiss scoffed, "I guess that explains how you got to be the youngest student to ever attend Beacon."

"When I took down my first Beowulf I thought I discovered my semblance: 'devouring the souls of grimm'- Uncle Qrow says it's a form of magic I inherited from my ancestors… it wasn't enough to save her." Ruby trailed off, pain visible on her face.

Weiss understood: Summer Rose had this power too. She grabbed Ruby and pulled her into an embrace. Tears streamed from the silver eyes, as the high of battle wore off. She quietly cried into Weiss's shoulder for a few minutes. The Heiress backed off, holding ruby at a distance, she said, "Bring your 'BFF' with next time you go hunting, we fight the forces of darkness together, okay?"

Ruby smiled and nodded, "It's a date."

Weis turned on her heels, "Let's go, yang is waiting to barrage us with her puns."

Meanwhile, outside RWBY's dorm:

"500 lien says the ice queen is in love with your sister.", stated Blake.

"Are you sure? I'm raising the stakes. Whoever loses gets 'that'." threatened yang.

"It's on." Blake asserted, confident that she couldn't be wrong.

They were glaring at each other intensely when Ruby and Weiss approached them.

"Blake, Yang? What are you doing?" asked ruby.

Weiss sighed, "They are probably gambling… Again. Anyway, we still have things to discuss."

The four students walked into their room and plopped on the lower bunks, staring at each other. Blake broke the silence "Ruby, how many grimm did you kill?"

"I lost count in the first few minutes, I had only killed 200 by then." Ruby pouted.

Blake and Weiss were horrified, having estimated their leader's kill count at 4000.

Ruby realized her mistake. Trying to reassure the shocked huntresses ruby stammered, "Ah! Don't worry, the grimm got really hard to find as I went on, so I probably only got… 1000! … yeah."

Yang face grinned mischievously and said, "So you emptied our training grounds?"

"Yang, Please… Well, I guess nothing can stop you now." The heiress mumbled. Resigned to her fate, she fell on her back stared up at Ruby's hazardous bed.

"Sounds like Ozpin is in-"

Ruby prayed, "Crescent Rose, protect me.", clutching the folded-up scythe. Blake recovered and smiled in anticipation, having planned this with her girlfriend while waiting for the other half of the team.

"-a grimm situation." Yang and Blake finished in unison, putting on sunglasses in sync. Ruby groaned, and Weiss sighed.

Weis growled, "Now that you two have had your fun, we need to interrogate our illustrious leader."

Yang and Blake pulled off their sunglasses. Yang asked her sister "What did you invent this time?"

'I guess I was going to tell my team eventually' thought ruby. "Here" ruby expanded crescent rose, revealing a compact cylinder at the end of the muzzle. She spun it in front of her and the cylinder expanded to 15 inches.

"Is that why we it took so long to find you?" asked Blake.

"Yes. Allow me to demonstrate." Ruby said in her leadership voice. She opened the window and sent a bullet into the sky. "I wonder if this bullet will hit someone?" she mumbled

"…that was really quiet. Did you guys hear that?" said Blake, clearly impressed.

"The click of the firing pin?" asked Weiss.

Blake responded thoughtfully, "No, the blast itself- it was somehow slowed down in that container before it could leave. If there was any background noise, I probably wouldn't notice it."

"You know, I've never heard of anything like this. You should patent it." Said Weiss, with the faintest hint of a smile.

"Weiss? Did you just…"

"Sis, I always wanted to know why you held yourself back at the initiation ritual." Interrupted Yang.

Ruby explained the situation while processing what her partner said, "Ozpin told me not to draw too much attention to my awesomeness because he was broadcasting the whole thing through cct. He said to let other people fight grimm." She then realized what must be true "Besides…what matters is that you are corrupting people with your puns!" the leader shouted. "I challenge you to a pillow fight!"

A/N:

Ruby is over powered. Why?

One thing that always bothers me in anime and tv shows is how inconsistent things like "Aura", bullets, and the characters' combat prowess really are (when yang got disarmed for example, Aura did nothing). So I made all the characters overpowered by scaling everyone to the badassery shown in the Red, White, Black, and Yellow trailers.

I also added an expensive mixture of dust that is designed to disrupt aura (recipe is Schnee family secret). Ruby displays the most lethality in her trailer, but decided to have her fight to her full power while her silver eyes are kicking in. They only help her against grimm… for now.

The reason our silver eyed warrior was able to quickly take out 10 thugs was because she was coldly assassinating them, not taking them in a proper fight.

The small amount of ash I'm having the grimm drop are just the mundane compounds that the grimm are constructed of- pure carbon.

Meanwhile in some shady, grimm ravaged town:

Roman Torchwick was giving orders to some new mercs while Cynder watched from the shadows. He spun his cane and paced before his men, "So to simplify, someone has been sneaking around and ruining our plans by killing whoever we send out. Really, whoever is doing this is eviler than us by far. Clean-up crews are expensive. Ask your questions." He ordered.

"Do you wish to recruit this person boss?" asked the one with the dragon shaped eyebrows.

"No you fool, the last group was killed while trying to abduct a Schnee so we could extort her father for dust. 'This person' is obviously too well paid to join us."

"What's in the bag" asked another.

"Good question! Here." Roman tossed them the large shopping bag. "These are normal clothes. You will need to blend in while watching suspects. Do not interact with anyone unless want to end up like the last bunch." Roman started spinning his cane in the opposite direction. "Neo will be giving you info while you are in the fiel-Ow!" Roman yelped and dropped his cane, something had fallen out of the sky and hit him. Hard.

He took of his extremely stylish hat to see a high caliber sniper bullet, sitting in the huge dent it had left. The hat had saved him from a concussion.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he cried out.

He knew only knew one person who used this type of weapon. Roman Growled "Little red, little red… Now it's personal…"

A/N:

CRMEN as in criminal seems to be the best possible name for Cynder's team.

Neo was the person that sent those detailed messages to the would-be kidnappers in chapter 1

Next chapter, Team JNPR is here.

If you are wondering, yes I do ship Guns n' Roses. It just isn't the best ship for a long story.