"Are you alright?" Someone asked. He replied with a quick nod, noticing the blue hair of the blacksmith quickly making it's way towards him.

"Are you okay?" She asked, looking him over for any wounds.

"I'm fine." He replied, pulling some more glass out of his arm.

"What was that about?" Ruby yelled, hugging him tightly around his waist.

"Yeah!" Yang shouted, backing up her siblings question. "What the hell was that?"

"Just a small fight with some guys harassing someone.

"Thanks for that." He looked behind him to see Tukson standing there, rubbing his arm. "You really didn't have to."

"Yes I did." He stated, rubbing Ruby's head as she clutched him harder. "I couldn't just let them kill you, especially seeing as I was next door." He turned to the small blacksmith, hefting the sword onto his shoulder. "Thanks for this. Is this one you had ready made?"

"Nope." She held out her hand. "I'm Kováři. I started on it as soon as you left. I always have some metal melted and ready to go." He held the sword in the air for a few minutes before giving it to her.

"Thanks again." He repeated, shaking her hand.

"Why are you giving it to me?"

"Because I want you to engrave Rytíř on the sword, and Strážce on the shield." He pulled out some paper and wrote down the words for her. Walking off, she took the paper and the sword, barely able to hold it upright due to how small she was. He turned to Tukson. "You need to use that ticket you have and go to Vacuo, and never come back, do you understand?" He nodded curtly in response before walking away. Eric quickly grabbed him by the arm and whispered to him "But if you do come back, remember: Olly Olly Oxen Free." With that, he let him go and Tukson walked off, hefting a small duffle bag over his shoulder.

"So you gonna actually tell us what that was about?" Weiss demanded more than asked.

"After I ordered some stuff from the blacksmith, I popped over to the bookstore and started chatting to the owner there. One thing led to another, I helped him escape, and ta da. Here I am. So!" He shouted, clapping his hands loudly. "What now?!"

"We need to go this way." Weiss pointed, running down one of the many streets.

"Why?" Eric asked, following suite.

"Because there was some little rapscallion that we need to fi-" She was cut off she fell to the floor with a loud thud and a groan. "God dammit!" She shouted loud enough for the whole street to hear. "Now we'll never find him!"

"Um, Weiss?" Ruby pointed to the girl underneath her. With a small yelp, Weiss rushed off the floor and practically jumped into her girlfriend's arms.

"Sal-u-ta-tions!" The girl shouted merrily, dragging out each syllable in the one word.

"Hi." Ruby waved slightly, before letting her hand drop to her side.

"Are you...okay?" Yang asked.

"I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking!" The girl replied.

"Do you...wanna get up?" Eric asked, holding out a hand. She laid there on the floor for a minute, and the team looked quizzically at each other, before looking at Eric, who had a massive grin plastered on his face. Ruby turned to Blake and asked:

"Do you thinks thats..?"

"I believe it is." She replied.

"That's her?" Yang butted in. The girl took the hand outstretched to her before beaming at the team.

"My name is Penny. It's a pleasure to meet you." The team looks in bewilderment before Ruby speaks first.

"Hello Penny. My name's Ruby."

"Weiss Schnee; Heiress to the Schnee Dust Corp-"

"Blake." Blake chimed in, cutting Weiss of mid speech.

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Yang asked, receiving an elbow to the side from Blake. "Ow! Name's Yang."

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Penny exclaimed merrily.

"You already said that." Weiss pointed out. Penny raised a finger to her chin, deep in thought.

"So I did." She replied.

"Well...Sorry for running into you, I suppose." Weiss waved, starting to walk away from Penny.

"Take care friend!" Ruby called, joining Weiss.

"That was weird." Yang whispered when she was sure she was out of earshot.

"Now then. Where did that faunus go to..?" Weiss asked herself, wondering where to go next.

"What did you call me?!" Penny exclaimed, appearing as if from thin air.

"I'm sorry!" Yang shouted, an apologetic look on her face. "I didn't think you'd hear me!"

"Not you." Penny gently pushed past everyone until she got to Ruby. "Did you call me friend?! Am I really your friend?!"

"Erm…" Ruby looked past the strange girl and looked at her team to see they were all disagreeing in one way or another, except for Eric, who still had the grin on his face, giving her the thumbs up. "Yeah, sure. Why not?" Everyone comically fainted, hitting the ground with a resounding thud.

"Sen-sational!" Penny shouted, jumping with glee on the spot. "We could paint our nails, and try on clothes and talk about cute boys!"

"Like Eric, huh? Haha...Ha…" Ruby's laugh faded as she pointed towards the boy, looking at a small block he had in his hand.

"What's that?" Yang asked, popping her head over Eric's shoulder.

"It's a weapon." He replied.

"Really? That little block? What's it turn into?"

"A sword." With a flick of his wrist, another curved chunk flew out the top, ending in a flat top. He flicked the hilt around his wrist and a curved blade flew out the top, sliding into place so that the top blade lined up with the second chunk of curved blade. Holding the hilt, he pressed a button above his hand and a bronze circular hand guard flew out, a dull green power symbol on it. After a few minutes, the power button started to glow a bright green, the edge of the blade following suite.

"Whoa. That's pretty cool." Yang remarked, the glow of the sword reflecting off her eyes. "But to be honest, I didn't think you use something like this, especially seeing as we saw you with that big 'ol sword not to long ago."

"It's not mine. It's hers." He thumbed towards the ginger-haired girl bouncing around the scythe wielder.

"Wow. Does she know you have it?"

"I doubt it. I don't even think she knows who I am."

"Hey Penny!" Yang called, catching the red-heads attention. "Do you recognise him?" She pointed towards Eric.

"Hmmm…" Penny tapped her chin a few times before her eyes widened. "He does look familiar! Oh my god!" SHe shouted, running towards Yang and pulling her away from him. "Wasn't he that killer who appeared at Beacon?! That is him, but he had a trench coat and everything!" Everyone looked questionably between Penny and Eric.

"Eric." Yang slowly walked between him and Ruby, her fists clenched. "What's she on about?" With a sigh, Eric allowed his shoulders to slump.

"When I came back from whichever timeline I was in, I was covered in a lot of…" He looked towards Ruby's innocent face. "I looked less than desirable, considering I turned up at a school full of kids. But I can promise you that I'm not a killer."

"Makes sense." Blake pointed out. "I mean, given that we believe in his back story, that isn't exactly far-fetched. No one really saw him apart from security, so we can't say that he didn't look like that or anything." Slowly, Yang relaxed, allowing her shoulders to fall to her side. Penny, however, stayed tensed, her gears and servos barely audible, even to his sensitive ears.

"Please be careful." Penny pleaded, looking Ruby in the eyes, holding her shoulders. "I still don't trust him!" Ruby nodded to her, and Penny visibly calmed. "So!" She said merrily, as though their previous conversation never happened. "What now?"

Now, it may seem that Ruby has just re-appeared out of no where and no one reacted to it, but I'll clean that up in the next chapter, or maybe the one after that if not that one. Sorry if it causes confusion amongst you all, but I'll sort it out at some point, trust me.

Please review n all that jazz. Thanks