RWBY: Team Serpent and Team RWBY Chapter 5: Echidna's Tremor Trailer, a rwby fanfic

Echidna's Tremor Trailer

"Look at all the flowers, mommy!" Izuki cheered as the seven year old faunus ran into the flowerbed in a small clearing in the forest near their village. Izuki Uzuki had short snowy white hair and red eyes. Like most faunus she had a clear visible animal like trait- she had fox ears that flopped down and covered her more human ones and a white fox tail with a black tip.

"Don't run off too far, Izuki, we're just gathering some tree sap and then we'll be going back home, okay? I don't want you to be gobbled up by a Grimm," Izuki's mother, Clare, shouted to her baby girl. May had the same white hair as her daughter, though hers was much longer, and instead of having fox ears, Clare had rabbit ears growing out of her head.

"I wouldn't worry too much, dear," Shepherd said to his wife, "we've never had any Grimm attacks in this area before, so it should be safe, and besides, I think the Grimm would just get sick from our little Izuki's positive attitude" Shepherd had naturally wild gray hair and dark eyes to go with his own pair of fox ears that stuck straight up on his head.

Izuki had moved along to the edge of the clearing before she stopped and screamed, shocking both parents and sending them running towards their baby girl. Izuki was running as fast as she could, but a Beowolf was sprinting after her.

A fifteen foot tall black creature with a wolf-like head and long monkey-like arms tipped in white claws, the white mask-like shell that covered its face showed no hint of true life. Shepherd and Clare were horrified as they pulled out guns, but they were no Huntsmen, and they didn't know how to fight Grimm.

Izuki stumbled and fell to the ground in her haste to get away from the monster. The Grimm took it's chance and leaped at the girl. Izuki screamed, "Help me!"

There was a loud yelp and the world went still, Izuki turned back towards the Grimm to find a human woman standing between her and the Grimm, she looked around mid twenties, with snowy white hair with blood red vertical stripes and tips. Her body was covered in cuts and burns that seemed to give off a red glow, her fist had went right into the Grimm's body and had skewered the Beowolf straight through its throat.

The woman pushed the Grimm to the side, pulling out her fist in the process, the Grimm's body quickly started to fall apart and evaporate, "Are you alright?" The woman asked, turning to Izuki. The little faunus girl was stunned, she had never seen a human before and she had always heard bad things about them, and yet one had appeared out of nowhere and saved her. She nodded, not taking her eyes off of the woman's own bright orange eyes.

"That's... good..." The woman muttered, collapsing to one knee, she was breathing heavily and her eyes were unfocused, but she pulled himself up and walked off towards a large pine tree, where she leaned against the bark and closed his eyes.

Shepherd grabbed Izuki's hand, "Izuki dear, we have to go back to the village right now," The father said urgently

"But what about the woman?" Izuki asked as her father pulled her away

"She's human, Izuki, human's aren't allowed in the village, leave her," Clare said she gathered their things, "Grimm like that one live in packs, we need to hurry back to the village immediately and warn the elder"

"No! We can't just leave her here!" Izuki shouted and tried to pull away from her father but she was quickly dragged away, as she left the clearing she could see the woman watching her with a sad smile on her face as she waved goodbye.

Sometime later

Doctor Jessica Williams was actually pretty calm given everything that had happened, she was leaning up against the same tree she'd been leaning against when the odd foxjin girl had left with her parents, and was looking up at the night sky. The moon was broken; as if someone had blown half of it outwards from the inside.

"Those idiots in the government where never good when it came to their own military power" Jessica mumbled to herself, she couldn't say that she was thrilled about having been sent to another world, one that seemed to have its own monster population and ungrateful people with animal parts, with no understanding of how to get back or find her teammates, but he wasn't all that upset about it either.

After all, she had been injured to the point where she should have been dead, the only thing that saved her was dumb luck and the fact that no one could aim a gun to save their lives at him, hell, even an stormtrooper had better aim!

So for now she was mainly focused on trying to heal her wounds - a process that drained her energy reserves and bored her to hot tears, In truth the only thing that was really annoying to her was how ugly the broken moon made the otherwise perfect night sky look.

Noticing a quiet rustling sound in some bushes on the other side of the field, Jessica focused her perception on the area and noticed a small soul, the soul of a normal creature. It wasn't one of the monster; those, she quickly noticed, lacked a soul, she'd killed a few of them that tried to pass her in the direction that the small family had gone earlier, they never seemed to attack Jessica herself though, they circled around her as if contemplating it, but they always tried to move on. Jessica didn't know if they were just uninterested in her, or if they somehow felt like she was out of their league, even in her injured state.

But the movement in the bushes continued and a small being came out, Jessica looked at it and her natural night vision flickered the creature into focus, it was the girl! The one that she had saved from one of the monsters earlier, the first monster he had killed and had started his trend of killing them. After all, not having a soul wasn't a good enough reason to kill something, but, if their kind attacked children on sight, then that was a perfectly good reason.

The fox girl moved slowly towards Jessica, seemingly prepared to bolt like the fox she was at the first sign of trouble, "Ms. Human Girl Person, are you still alive?" She whispered

Jessica jiggled at the unusual name the fox girl had given her, causing her to jump before Jessica responded, "I'm still a live child, but shouldn't you be in bed? It's too late for a girl your age to be out and roundabout"

"I... I just wanted to make sure you were alright," The girl said before revealing some bandages and a couple apples, "I brought you some bandages for your scratches, and some food, if you're hungry."

Jessica smiled, "Thank you," she said as she picked up one of the apples, it was much better than Jessica had hoped for, it was better then eating those monsters, probably leave a bad taste in her mouth.

The fox girl was staring at Jessica. "Are you really human?" She asked, sounding curious, "The adults in my village always told me that humans were cruel and selfish people who would hurt me for being a faunus, but you don't seem that way at all"

Jessica paused and thought about it for a moment. "They aren't exactly right, but they aren't wrong either," Jessica said, confusing the fox girl a little, "It's true that there are some bad humans out there that do mean things to people who are different than them, but there are also humans that don't care about things like what you are and would be your friend regardless"

"How can they be both?" The fox girl asked

"Well... do you have dogs in your village?" Jessica asked

"No, but we have cats" The fox girl offered

"Ok then, you know how some cats are really tame and will let you pet them and hold them, but some try to scratch you if you get too close?" Jessica asked, and the fox girl nodded, "Humans are the same way: some are nice and some aren't, and some will be mean at first but then warm up to you, I bet there area few... faunus that are the same way" Jessica said using the word that she had heard the fox girl use to describe herself.

"Oh, I think I get it," The fox girl said, smiling, then she noticed a shiny object at Jessica's side, Jessica followed her gaze down to the weapon he had built during his time here on Remnant, it looked to be a standard bisento shaft made from white and red metals with a snakes head guard at top of the hilt that meets the blade, it was a bisento made for Jessica and Jessica alone.

Jessica picked up the bisento, holding it loosely by the snake head guard and held the handle out for the fox girl, "You want to see it?" She asked, Izuki nodded slowly, "Alright, just be careful, it's pretty sharp on the guard"

She reached out and gasped as her fingers wrapped around handle.

"You made this?" The fox girl asked

Jessica smiled slightly, "Kinda, I remade the shaft and added the cloth, the blade is made from something special, hey want to see something cool?"

The girl looked at Jessica for the cool thing to happen, Jessica stands up with six apples in hand and lunches them in the air...

*SWISH!*

And sliced them into evenly divided pieces, all the pieces landed on the large bisento blade into a perfectly shaped pyramid,

"Wow, is that..."

She tried, but the words got lost as she walked forward and grabbed one, shivering at the cold between her fingers, "I didn't know humans could do at"

Jessica chuckled, "Most can't, I'm a very special kind of person," Jessica said, "So what's your name kid? I can't thank you properly if I don't know your name"

The little girl grinned widely, "I'm Izuki, Izuki Uzuki"

"Izuki, huh? Well Izuki, I'm Jessica Williams, thanks for the food," She thanked her, smiling.

"Jessica Williams?" Izuki asked, confused, "That's a weird name" Jessica was a little surprised that the girl found her name weird.

"Your not the first to say that kit, but you can ether call me Jessica or Echidna" Raven said

"Can I really?" Izuki asked

"Go ahead, almost everyone does" Jessica shrugged as she finished the last of the apples, "But you really should be going back home, maybe I'll see you tomorrow"

"Yeah!" Izuki cheered, grinning, then she remembered that her village was moving,

"But my village is moving tomorrow to get away from the Grimm," She mumbled

"Well, I guess I'll just have to visit you before you leave then," Jessica said before getting up from the tree, "Come on, I'll take you home right now, it isn't safe for someone as young as you are to be running around alone"

"Are you really okay to be moving?" Izuki asked, surprised that Jessica was moving

"I'm fine, those apples you brought really did the trick," Jessica grinned, "Come on, we can talk on the way"

Jessica walked alongside Izuki towards Izuki's village, Izuki asked a lot of questions, but Jessica's answers only confused her, she had never even imagined half of the things that Jessica had told her. Most of them seemed like something out of a fairy tale to her, except that the endings didn't seem very happy.

"We're getting close to my village now," Izuki said happily, but then halted in her tracks with her fox ears twitching.

"What's the matter?" Jessica asked the little faunus

"I hear something..." Izuki whispered

There was movement in a bush to their right and a large black boar with a white mask-like plate over its face came barreling out of the bushes and straight at Izuki, who fell back in shock. But before the boar-like Grimm could reach her, Jessica grabbed Izuki and pulled her out of the Grimm's path before taking the bisento and sliding it into the eye hole of the Grimm's mask.

The Grimm squealed and turned to the pair, it hesitated for a moment, as if confused, before changing again, it started to roll, trying to run the two over, but as they moved to the side its back quills became stuck in a tree. Jessica drove the bisento into its stomach and after another squeal of pain, the boar disappeared into a puff of black smoke.

"Are you alright, Izuki?" Jessica asked the little fox girl as he quickly looked over her for injuries, keeping his eyes and ears peeled for other attackers. Yet again the Grimm creatures didn't seem to target her, they were more interested in the little girl.

"I'm alright" Izuki said a little shaken, "But... they're so close to the village. And I can still hear it... I can still hear something smashing things. Mommy, Daddy!" Izuki screamed and bolted towards her village.

"Izuki wait, don't go alone!" Jessica shouted, running after the girl as fast as she could

Izuki burst into the clearing that had been made for the small village and her heart sank into her heels, dozens of Grimm were destroying the village, jumping on roofs, ripping off doors and smashing windows. That is, the ones that didn't have their teeth buried inside a dead faunus.

Izuki nearly gagged, but instead ran straight past them in the hope that she would find her own house untouched in all the carnage. The Grimm were too distracted in their fit of destruction to even notice the girl as she moved past them. If Izuki had taken even a moment to think, she might have noticed that she couldn't hear any cries of resistance.

She reached her house and a whole wall had been smashed in. She went into the house and saw her mother and father... underneath two large bear-like Grimm.

"Mommy, Daddy!" She cried out, not thinking about her own safety, the Grimm's heads shot up and they turned to face the little girl, blood dripped from their mouths as they moved towards her.

A bisento flew through the air and buried itself in the throats of Ursas, turning them to a cloud of smoke in seconds.

"Izuki!" Jessica shouted as she moved to the girl's side, "Izuki are you alright?"

The fox girl didn't respond, Jessica followed her eyes to the lifeless bodies of Izuki's parents, torn completely open.

Izuki fell to her knees by her parents and sobbed, Jessica standing behind her, unsure of how to could help, but the sounds of movement brought her back to reality. What seemed like every Grimm in the entire village was circling the house. A giant snake, two huge scorpions, a massive bird and nearly three dozen wolves had been drawn in by the despair in the cries of the innocent girl.

(Play Game On by Waka Flocka Flame, Jessica's theme for the story)

Five of the wolves rushed forward, wanting to be the first ones to get to the small child whose despair had caught their attention, but as they got closer, a shockwave of tremor blasted them all back, killing them in the process. Izuki looked up as the bodies of the Grimm started to fade.

It wasn't until she wiped the tears out of her eyes that she noticed the bright light coming from behind her. She turned around to see Jessica standing over her, Jessica's fist was thrusted outward and the air seemed to crack itself against the force of Jessica.

"Echidna?" Izuki whispered, amazed at the Echidna

"I told you Izuki, I'm a special kind of person," Jessica said, glancing down at her

"Take all the time you need to grieve I won't let them reach you"

Then the ground shook beneath them as what looked like a sixty foot tall mammoth Grimm came into view of the house.

"The world can never go easy on me, can it," Jessica grumbled before getting to work on the small army around them

Jessica had placed the fox girl inside a house to guard Izuki from the smaller Grimm while she focused her attacks on the bigger ones, the snake tried to push past her towards the girl but a strong kick to the head quickly got its attention, the snake was fast and Jessica had a hard time dodging its lunges, but after a few attempts she got a clean shot on one of its eyes, causing the creature to reel back in pain long enough for him to get a strong blast in on the bottom of its neck that burnt a hole in its spine, killing the snake.

Next was one of the scorpions, they seemed to have realized that Jessica was a threat to them and that they needed to take her down first, they had yet to realize that they should have just turned and ran. With the aid of her bisento, Jessica flew up into the air to get away from the claws and tails before raining down rock shards on them, but their harder shells seemed to resist being blasted so easily.

"Stubborn, huh I have to bring out the big guns," Jessica grumbled as she grabbed one of the scorpion's tails and ripped it completely off, but before she could finish the job the bird dove at her and she had to dive to the side to avoid being eaten. Jessica glared at the bird as it came back around, Jessica waited for the bird to get close enough for an counter attack.

Jessica grinned before decided to spice things up and lifted her right arm. A clear orb glowed around it as she threw the punch: demonstrating her power. The trees began to uproot themselves, the ground splitting open. All the while Jessica had a sweet smile on her face. The shockwave was powerful enough to reduce the Grimm to a bunch of large feathers

But Jessica had taken too long: the Goliath had arrived, crushing the injured, bus sizes scorpion underneath its foot.

"Dang, it's even bigger up close," Jessica remarked, wide eyed, "But you shall not pass!"

Jessica unlashed her new move, stabbing her bisento into the ground then brought both her hands up grasp the air, with a mighty tug, the very ground began to tilt, the ground began to split open in till a large crater had appeared, the smaller Grimm were reduced to smoke instantly and the remaining scorpion was blasted away, falling into pieces as it went. The Goliath tried to stand its ground, but the shockwave was slowly peeling away the shell over its head.

But Jessica couldn't keep up the attack for long, not while bring Izuki into the crossfire from the other side, her tremor down died before the Goliath was destroyed. The Goliath seemed to understand that Jessica was weakened by her own attack and started to push forward again.

Gazing back at the Goliath, Jessica instantly went for her bisento, with the weapon in hand, a clear glow appears around the blade, the air around Jessica seemed grow dense and thicker, making it hard to breath,

"RRRRAAASSGGGGHHHH!"

Jessica swings her bisento with all her strength, releasing a quick-moving ball of the tremor directly towards the surviving Grimm. Anything in its vicinity was simply reduced to rubble as it surrounded Goliath. If Jessica had been looking closely she would have noticed the Goliath eyes widened as the tremor exploded around it. The aftershock had resulted in the destruction of several miles of land.

Jessica see all the Grimm dead and nods at her handy work, swerving around, Jessica returns to Izuki, "You alright Izuki?" She asked, kneeling down in front of the girl,

She pointed up at Jessica, "Your ears..."

Jessica blinked in confusion before reaching up to the side of her head, her eyes widened as she felt two pointed ears that had definitely not been there before, she also felt something waving about behind her and looked back to see a long, white and red snake tail. The only think she could think was, 'Huh!?'

(Later)

Ozpin could only sigh as he sat in the transport jetcopter that was moving towards the origins of the mysterious, massive power surge which had come and gone just days before. He had been very insistent on being among the group sent to check the area, since it had previously been home to a small band of faunus that had been too afraid to return to the cities after the end of the war.

He wanted to be part of any effort that would help those people in case there was a disaster, in hopes that it would help them come to terms with the passage of time and accept safe haven inside of the city walls. But unfortunately, he was not the one in charge. And it was set to be a military operation, not a relief effort.

The headmaster of Beacon Academy took a long sip from his coffee mug, he may have been getting along in years, but he was still a very strong presence, whether on a battle field, or at his school. He stood at an impressing height of six feet six inches, and his calm expression behind his spectacles and wild gray hair gave him the look of experience that one would expect of a man like him. And yet he was losing the respect of the Council due to his insistence that a time of peace should be used to enjoy peace and show how foolish war was, but the Council could only understand war and conflict, actions that only created more enemies.

"You aren't still sore that the Council picked me to lead the search, are you Oz?" Ozpin looked up to see an old student of his, Ironwood, standing over him.

"That they picked you? No, it's good experience for you General, the military force that you decided to take with you... that troubles me," Ozpin said, taking another swig from his coffee. James Ironwood was just as tall as Ozpin himself, with a military poster-boy look about him, his black and gray hair was well groomed and he was in a sharp, white military uniform. Just above his right eyebrow was a small piece of metal from his days as a soldier.

"Oz, we might be dealing with a new weapon, we can't go in unprepared, you know that these faunus could be working with the White Fang," Ironwood said, looking at his old friend.

"Or they could just be scared and innocent bystanders in whatever has happened, and we're only going to reinforce the fears they have about human kind only wishing to imprison them. You could have at least considered bringing one of our faunus Huntsmen as an messenger to try and find out what's going on," Ozpin replied, disappointed at Ironwood's stern look, "We are at peace General, shows of military might will only scare people."

"So you would rather we go in blind and accept the consequences!" Ironwood asked angrily

"I didn't say that," Ozpin said with a sigh, "I am just saying that discretion is the best policy. And I don't think that we are searching for a weapon, I can't image a group of misguided terrorist like the White Fang could produce a weapon that could generate energy on the scale that our sensors detected"

Ironwood and Ozpin sneered at each other for several moments before a voice over the speakers interrupted them, "General Ironwood, sir, we will have visual of the site shortly"

"Bring it up on the monitors," Ironwood instructed. But when the images came to them he almost wished he hadn't seen them, "My god"

"The village has been destroyed," Ozpin said drily, "We were too late," more than half of the building had been smashed to the ground, clear signs of a Grimm attack.

"We need to search for survivors"

"Right," Ironwood said, pressing a button for the intercom, "Send in the Atlesian Knights, the 200 models, see if we can't gather up any of the witnesses"

Ozpin's eyes nearly bugged out, "James, you can't be serious!" He said losing all pretense of respect in his disbelief, "Whoever has just survived this will be terrified, you can't send your heartless machines down there!"

"Would you prefer I send my living, breathing men down there to risk their lives?" Ironwood countered, "I'm sure you would have sent a few of your children down there to try to sort things out."

"Yes I would, because this situation requires thinking, feeling, people. These military drones are not like that Penny girl you're so proud of, They don't have souls, they don't even look all that human," Ozpin said, desperate for his old student to show some sense, "Please, I will go alone if I have to, just don't send in the bots"

"Oz... this is my operation," Ironwood said before giving the signal to continue the launch of the androids. The pod doors on the outside of the ship opened and a dozen white armored androids dropped from zip-lines down to the earth, "Don't worry Oz, You can calm everyone down once we've made sure that there is nothing dangerous down there"

The bots pulled out their guns and began to move through the village with caution, Ozpin and Ironwood observed their progress on monitor's that displayed the first person view from the androids' cameras "Something is missing here," Ozpin said after a few moments.

"What?" Ironwood asked, not understanding, "It looked just like any destroyed village"

"Yes, but where are the bodies? The Grimm are never this thorough, we should at least see some bones," Ozpin said, "There are patches of blood, but the bodies are gone"

Ironwood noticed what he was saying, "So there must be survivors to bury the dead," He reasoned, As if on cue, the androids stumbled across a few fresh, if poorly made, graves. They were arranged in three rows of twelve with crosses made out of bound twigs marking each of them. In front of them all was a large slab rock with four words burned into it: "May They Know Peace".

"We need to evacuate any survivors before more Grimm come," Ozpin said, knowing full well how the despair of those who grieve for the dead attracted the Grimm.

"Agreed, but I do wonder how anyone in a simple village like this survived an attack from the Grimm," Ironwood said as the androids were directed to move on, But as the bots reached the village square they were greeted by quite a sight.

"What on earth..?" Ironwood said, shocked at the sight

There was a wide cone of destruction in the middle of the area, and in the center of it was the body of a Goliath, still dissolving after being heavily damaged by something or someone,

"A Goliath! Something out there took down a Goliath!" Ironwood shouted, more than a little shocked, the Goliaths were the powerhouses of the Grimm world, having lived for hundreds of years. Most fully trained Huntsmen and Huntresses wouldn't risk a confrontation with one if they could help it.

"Indeed, I wonder what happened," Ozpin said, more curious than scared

The sound of a bucket falling against the ground caught the androids' sensors and their heads and guns turned to see a small faunus girl, only around seven years of age, standing with terrified eyes at the mobile unit. She had dropped a bucket of water at the sight of the droids, she turned and began to run.

"Follow the girl, she'll probably lead you to the other survivors," Ironwood said sternly

"It would probably have gone better if we had living people down there," Ozpin grumbled, "Poor thing is terrified."

"Echidna! Echidna help!" The girl was screaming

"Is she calling for the others?" Ironwood said, confused, then a second voice yelled out from the same sides

"Tremor!"

Five of the monitors died, messages of lost signal flared up on the screen, "What?" Three of the bots turned to see five of the androids on the ground, cut to pieces, A bright flash of clear light appeared on some of the screens before those too died, their droids laying on the ground with holes through their heads.

The dozen androids were picked off one by one until only one remained, it was turning about rapidly, its gun raised, trying to find the attacker, suddenly it had its legs pulled out from under it and a image of the sky was all it could see, until a black gloved hand brought down a fist into the camera. The only thing that the General and Huntsman would see of the individual that took out their droids.

"Well that was certainly interesting," Ozpin said, doing his best to keep a cheeky smile off of his face

"Interesting? There is a hostile force down there that took down a dozen of my state of the art Atlesian Knights, and all you can say is that it's interesting!?" Ironwood yelled

Ozpin couldn't help but to roll his eyes, it was like watching one of his less mature students throwing a hissy-fit about a smudge on their brand new spear.

"Saying that it's a hostile force might be going a bit far don't you think? Whoever it was heard the girl's cries for help and came and took down what he saw as a threat to an innocent child's safety," Ozpin said, getting up and pouring himself another cup of coffee, "But I do think that I would like to meet this man."

"Where are you going?" Ironwood asked as Ozpin walked to the back of their transport and pulled an emergency evacuation lever that caused a door to pop off.

"We tried things your way, now it's my turn," Ozpin said, his trusted cane in hand. "I'll contact you when I'm done," He finished before stepping out of the jetcopter, ignoring the General's shouts of outrage.

Ozpin cleared his landing without a problem, not even spilling a single drop of his coffee, he then proceeded in no hurry towards where he knew the living people to be. It was another reason that sending in a Huntsman in training made the most sense. Huntsmen could sense the aura produced by souls, a skill that Ozpin put a lot of weight on in his school, it was invaluable when performing rescue missions.

As he passed the slowly decaying corpse of the Goliath, the ground around it was destroyed, almost as if a massive battle had taken place here and the Grimm lost badly. Who or what could possibly do this? No ordinary Huntsman or Huntress could do this.

"It would have taken a lot of highly refined dust to make do this," Ozpin mused, "I'll need to get a sample of this before I leave," He said before checking on the droids, he found the final droid to be destroyed, a fist imprint on its head. And oddly as Ozpin unexpectedly found, it a rock spike. Ozpin took the spike and placed it in a small case that he had in his pocket.

Ozpin then walked towards one of the many ruined house, the only one that had any signs of being under repair, he could sense what felt like two souls inside, he lifted a hand and knocked on the door three times.

After a few moments the door opened and Ozpin was in for another surprise, Standing in front of him was what looked like a normal Faunus woman, about 18 or 19 years old with mix white and red hair and astonishingly bright snakelike orange eyes. She was holding herself in a defensive manner, one foot slightly forward, shoulder back, body slightly angled, as if she wanted Ozpin to know that she was ready for a fight if Ozpin made any move.

"Can I help you?" The woman asked, suspicious but not altogether cold.

"Yes, I'm Professor Ozpin; I'm with a group that was looking for survivors," Ozpin said. It was the truth, if not the whole truth. Ozpin took note of the bisento in the woman's hand, halfway hidden behind her. The woman just looked confused.

"You're a professor?" She asked raising an eyebrow, she had to look up to see Ozpin face,

"Well, actually I'm a Headmaster." He said, a small smile playing his lips, he was amazed by the woman's aura, he had believed that there was a Huntress in the house at first, but now he could see that there were only the two, and that the woman was producing as much aura as a veteran Huntsmen would have "I assume that you're the one that destroyed the those androids?" Ozpin asked,

"You could say that," The woman said, tensing up a bit at the mention of the bots

"I must thank you then, I'm hoping that this will teach one of my former students the importance of diplomacy before sending in armed robots," Ozpin said, shaking his head, "And you did a very impressive job,"

"Why were you here again?" the woman asked

"Well, I was hoping to convince the survivors of the village to take up shelter inside of the city walls where they would be safe from the Grimm, but it seems like it's too late" Ozpin said sadly looking about the destroyed village, "They died not even knowing that the war had been over for almost a century"

"Echidna?" a small voice asked curiously, behind the woman was the little faunus girl that had been running from the robots.

The woman backed away from Ozpin and put the bisento down, Ozpin didn't know if that was simply a test to see how she would react or an actual show of faith, but it was a step in the right direction. "Don't worry, Izuki, It's safe" She said ruffling the little girl's hair.

"Echidna? Is that your name?" Ozpin asked the Woman

"No, my name's Jessica, Jessica Williams," He said, looking towards the Headmaster. Ozpin momentarily thought about how Jessica Williams was an odd name especially for a Faunus. "So you're going to be taking us to this city, then?"

"Vale is one of the four safest places in Remnant," Ozpin said simply, "But I'm afraid that it might not be the nicest place to grow up for orphaned faunus children" Izuki hugged herself to Echidna's leg. "But I do have another offer for you, how would you both like to stay at my school? I think that you have potential to become a great Huntsman," Ozpin asked with a smile.

Echidna was quiet for a few seconds before she spoke again. "We were just about to eat; maybe we should discuss this over a meal," she said, leading Ozpin to a kitchen area. There, Ozpin explained everything about Huntsman and Huntresses, and Jessica agreed to go with him as long as she could remain with Izuki, who she seemed to have adopted as a younger sister (or daughter) after her parents' deaths.

At the end of it all Ozpin couldn't help but smile, not only did he just gain a promising student... but he also had one more thing that he could rub in Ironwood's face.

'It seems I'm in now' Jessica thought as she finally finished the second faze of her teams plan

The final silhouette appeared next to Yōgan, Kobra, and Vipera, the fourth and final one was filled in with Jessica next to Vipera, Jessica was currently in her hybrid form with her bisento in hand, the background appeared to be covered in glowing blue cracks, in Japanese 振戦エキドナ (Tremor Echidna) written at the bottom