Chapter 2: Trailer 1
A light flicks on within a room surrounded by many different video screens. A young woman enters, no older than twenty-one. She wears armor that is black, silver, and red in coloration. Her hair is a messed mop of black with red tips. She has two horns atop her head. Bullhorns. And her eyes are silver in color. She looks at the camera. Her name is Commander Alicia Rose. Second-in-command of the Swift Retribution.
Alicia: *looks at the camera* Oh! I didn't see you there! I'm Alicia Rose! You'll probably learn more about me in the coming chapters. Anyway, I'm here to show off the security room aboard the ship. And yes, before you ask, it is similar to Phoenix Champion's Reading THOR. But anyway, Tronmaster wanted to let you, and Phoenix know that he'll be updating the reading a few days early. So, without further adieu, let's get this party started!
Just before Tronmaster could start reading, the elevator stopped, and the doors opened, revealing a young woman. Around the same age as Tronmaster walked out. She wears armor similar to Tronmaster, but it is red and black, instead of green. She has black hair with red highlights at the tips. She also has two bullhorns on her head. Her eyes are also a deep silver.
"Shit, did I interrupt you just as you started reading? Sorry. I just wanted to let you know that the security room is set up." Said the mysterious woman.
Blake got a look at the mysterious new stranger, and her eyes went wide at the sight of her horns.
The woman looks at the group of assembled readers. And she looks at Blake, and her mind clicks. "Oh, you're probably curious about my horns. And about who I am, right?" The new stranger asked.
"That, is kind of an understatement." Blake spoke, bitterness clear in her voice.
"Gotcha. I'm Commander Alicia Rose. Second in command of the Swift Retribution. I'm Tronmaster's direct subordinate. I am also the daughter of Ruby Rose, and Adam Taurus from an alternate universe." The now named Alicia said with mirth in her voice.
"Wait, who's Adam? And why do I have a daughter with him?" Ruby said, clearly confused by the whole situation.
Everyone looks at Tronmaster, as if he knows the answer.
With a sigh, Tronmaster spoke, "Yes, I know. And no, I won't say. It's not my place to say."
"Okay, this is getting awkward. So, I'm just going to go." Alicia said.
"NO! No, it's ok. I don't mind if you stay." Ruby said. Excitement in her voice.
Qrow rolls his eyes and laughs at his niece's antics.
"I mean, if you want me to go."
"It's cool, I can have Jenkins run the security room for awhile." Tronmaster said.
"Ok." Alicia said.
"Alright, without further delays, can I begin reading?" Tronmaster asked.
"Yep." Everyone said.
"Alright. Without further adieu, let's get started." Tronmaster said.
[Yang Xiao Long: Age 7]
[No P.O.V.]
"What does 'P.O.V.' mean?" Ruby said, confused.
"Point of View." Said Winter.
"Why did it say, 'age seven' ?"Asked Weiss, only to look at Yang. Who herself, had a look of utter terror.
"Oh no." Yang said clearly frightened.
"Yang?" Nora asked, concerned for her friend.
"Let's just keep reading." Tronmaster spoke, getting a swift nod from both Yang and Qrow.
A little girl with blonde pigtails pulled along behind her a child with black hair with red tips wearing a bright red cloak in a little red wagon through the forest.
"Oh crap." Yang said, panic clear in her voice.
Yang Xiao Long was dirty, sweaty, smelly, but at that moment didn't care, all the blonde cared about was finding that house that belonged to her birth mother.
It had taken her all day, but she and her little sister Ruby will have a mommy, that she promised.
"Wait, what?" Raven said, herself confused.
'Oh shit.' Qrow thought, clearly having some explaining to do, assuming that Raven didn't know about Ruby's origins.
However, what she wasn't aware was two thing.
First of all, her Uncle was flying through the forest as Crow as fast as his wings could take him.
Second, was a large figure watching her and her sister. "Heh, the human girls got some powerful determination." The creature said in a deep, bestial voice, "I think I'll keep an eye on her for a moment."
"Wait a moment, is this one of those 'Guardian Forces' you told us about?" Pyrrha asked.
"That it is Pyrrha. That is." Alicia said, quite excited for what's about to happen.
Only a few minutes later, Yang arrived at the place she had seen in the picture of her mother, a house in the middle of the woods.
However, it was old, and dilapidated, in no condition for anything or anyone sane to live in anymore.
"What's so frightening about some abandoned, dilapidated house in the middle of the woods?" Jaune asked, while not noticing the death glare that Qrow was giving him.
Yang fell to her knee's ad started to cry, her only lead was a dead end.
"Oh, jeez. I didn't know. Sorry if I said something that upset you Yang." Jaune said apologetically.
"It's all right Jaune." Yang said, still distraught. But, more at ease.
"W-why?" Yang cried, "Why did she leave?"
The creature that had been following the two children put a clawed hand to it's chin, "The child wished to find her mother..." I said to itself, "Perhaps it's time we ceased our hiding to the humans of this world, and lend out power to humans once again."
Yang's crying ceased quickly when she heard growling coming from the dilapidated house, she looked up in fear and soon saw the dozens of pairs of glowing red eyes coming from the doorway.
"Oh no." Yang said, absolutely mortified from her past experience. Qrow, though not the best person in the world (even by his own admission), took the safety of his nieces extremely seriously. And, he put a protective arm around Yang.
"G-Grimm." Yang said scooting away from the house toward the wagon.
"Yang?" Ruby asked sleepily as she woke up.
"No, no, go back to sleep little Ruby. Nothing to see here!" Yang said, trying (and failing) to lighten the mood.
"Ruby." Yang gasped realizing she had brought her sister to her death with her.
"Yang, what the hell is wrong with you!?" Weiss shouted/asked at Yang.
"Look, it was a stupid decision that she highly regrets, can we please move on?" Alicia asked. She was getting a tad uncomfortable watching a version of, essentially her aunt's near-death experience.
The Grimm known as Beowolves stepped out of the broken down house, their numbers totaling 10, and stalked towards the two defenseless girls.
"I don't want to keep watching what was essentially my own near-death experience." Yang said, trauma visible on her face.
"Believe me aunt Yang, I don't like this either, but it's essential to your other." Alicia said, putting a comforting hand on her aunt's shoulder.
"H-help. Somebody please help!" Yang cried out as one of the Beowolves charged toward them.
Help did arrive, though not one that anyone would expect.
A lion-like roar filled the are as the creature that had been following the two girls leaped out of the forest and smashed it's fist down on the charging Beowolf.
"Unnecessary badass moment!" Nora shouted, not realizing the octave of her voice was harming Blake's ears, and Alicia's.
The two sisters hugged each other as they looked at the creature that had, hopefully, chosen to come save them.
"That would be nice." Glynda said, clearly concerned for Ruby and Yang's others.
It was larger than any adult they had seen, with brow muscled skin, and red fur that covered it neck like a lions mane., with more fur going down its back, legs, arms, and around it's waist, on it's wrists were a of golden bracelets, its hands an toes had large nail-like black claws, and ithad a pair of long black horns curling down it's back, it had long ears with two pairs of golden earrings on them.
"Wow, that looks awesome!" Ruby, Yang, Jaune, Nora, and even Weiss, strangely enough said at the sight of the creature.
"Ladies and gentlemen, that, is Ifrit. One of the Guardian Forces. Pretty badass-looking, isn't he?" Tronmaster said, a smirk on his face.
"Yep." Yang and Ruby both said. Excitement in their voices.
The creature roared in challenge and this resulted in a few of the Beowolves charging it, only to be brutally slugged by the creature and dying off instantly.
"Fatality." Alicia said, in as deep of a voice as she can get.
The remaining four Beowolves stepped back in trepidation, only for the creature to thrust out its hand and for the Grimm to suddenly catch ablaze in a burst of fire and turn to ash.
'Damn. Talk about you're disco inferno." Yang said, not realizing that she maid a reference to a song.
"Goddammit Yang." Ruby said. Getting a snicker from Alicia.
"Whoa." Yang and Ruby breathed, this creature had destroyed a pack of Grimm in just seconds.
"That, is rather impressive." Pyrrha said, in awe of Ifrit's power.
However, when they spoke the creatures head turned to face them, causing the sister to clutch each other tighter and closer than before.
The creature calmly turned around stepped over to the two girls and kneeled down to get closer to eye level with thee two. "There's no need to be afraid children." The creature stated.
"Hopefully." Spoke Qrow.
This calmed the two girls down just enough so they weren't shaking. "W-who are you?" Yang asked still scared.
The creature chuckled. "I am Ifrit, the lord f hellfire, and a Guardian Force of ancient times." it said.
"Guardian Force?" Ruby asked.
"You never did answer her question properly." Weiss said to Tronmaster.
"Truth be told, I don't have that much information about them. Tronmaster said, although, adding something under his breath "I've never played the game from where they're from."
"I suppose we have been forgotten." Ifrit mused, "We Guardian Forces lent humanity our power millennia ago, however when humanity discovered Aura fewer and fewer believed they needed our power, as such we have faded from humanity truth and became nothing but legends. Although I say it's high time we aid humanity once again."
"It's a shame that these Guardian Forces don't actually exist in our world. They would prove to be a massive benefit." Glynda mused, curious about their godlike power.
'Not unlike the Maidens, eh Glyn?' Alicia thought, knowing the truth about why her father's main timeline counterpart had sided with the raven haired alpha-bitch Cinder.
"A-are you offering us power?" Yang asked.
"No, I'm offering you power." Ifrit said pointing to Yang, "Within you I can sense a powerful blaze, and an unwavering determination. You and I have a lot in common."
"I can see that. Quite clearly in fact." Blake said, giving a knowing smirk to Yang. Who, feigned offense.
"M-me?" Yang asked.
"Of course." Ifrit said, "Long ago, humanity had to think much more carefully about this though, as combining powers with a Guardian Force- Or Junctioning as they called it back then- could result in memory loss, however when humanity discovered Aura, even if it was still slumbering, memory loss became impossible when junctioned with a Guardian Force."
"Sounds complicated." Qrow said.
"Eh, kinda." Alicia said nonchalantly.
"So," Yang started, "If I accept you're offer, you can help me get strong enough to find my mommy without anything bad happening?"
"Well that all depends on what you do." Ifrit said. "If you get yourself into trouble with your parents I can't do anything to stop that."
"Huh, I guess even an all powerful Guardian Force can become afraid of some parental action." Winter joked, much to everyone's surprise.
Ifrit then held out his pinky claw to Yang, "So then, will you accept my power child?"
Yang looked at the claw and reached out for it, "I will mister Ifrit." Yang said grabbing the claw and shaking it.
"A girl and her demonic lion thing. Sounds like a really cheesy kids movie." Jaune said, laughter in his voice.
A red glow appeared around Ifrit and channeled into Yang, causing her to gasp.
Yang could feel it, a powerful fire appearing and coating her body in a comforting grasp, and untapped potential awakening within her: Ifrit's power joining with hers.
"So, awesome." Ruby breathed. Clearly mesmerized by the display.
When Yang let go if Ifrit her body's red glow soon became bright yellow, her Aura awakening as well.
"Heh, not the first time I've seen an Aura awaken with joined with a GF's power. Ifrit said.
A howl broke out from the house behid the group, causing Ifrit to turn around and see an Alpha Beowolf standing at the opening to the house.
"oh, crapbaskets." Yang, Ruby and Qrow all said at once.
"Huh, you say that too." Alicia said.
"Looks like I missed a puppy." Ifrit said cracking his knuckles.
However the Alpha was sliced in half by a scythe, one that was held by the grey vested, tattered caped, stubble bearded, drunk uncle or Yang and Ruby, Qrow Branwen.
"Uncle Qrow!" Yang and Ruby said. Qrow looks at his nieces with a smirk.
Qrow pointed his scythe at Ifrit, "Back the hell away from my nieces." Qrow threatened.
"Please." Ifrit sighed catching Qrow by surprise, "You couldn't hurt me very much if you tried human. Besides, I don't plan to harm the children, especially because one of them now shares my power."
"So basically, I wouldn't be able to kill him?" Qrow asked, getting a look from both Alicia and Tronmaster, before the latter got back to reading.
Qrow's eye's widened with surprise, "Which one?" He demanded.
"The blonde one." Ifrit said turning around, "Right ki-" Ifrit planned to continue, only to see the two children had fallen asleep.
"Aww, you two look so cute!" Nora said, getting a glare from Ruby, and an sheepish smile from Yang.
"Yang then." Qrow said putting his scythe away and running to said blonde and checking on her, "What are you?" Qrow demanded.
"We already know. My other doesn't, but we do." Qrow stated.
"Ifrit, The Lord of Hellfire, and currently Yang's Guardian Force." Ifrit said.
"A Guardian Force..." Qrow said, "Look's like they're real too then." With that Qrow picked up Ruby in his arms and reached for Yang, only for Ifrit to pick her up and set her next to his mane, and he also picked up the wagon up as well.
"Wait, Uncle Qrow, what did your other mean by, 'they're real too'?" Yang asked her uncle, Ruby giving him a confused look as well.
"Ah, crapbaskets." Qrow sighed. Qrow looked to Tronmaster (seriously, that's starting to become a thing), assuming that Tronmaster knows as well.
"For the love of, yes Qrow, I know what you're thinking about, and after the next trailer, I'll explain some thing." Tronmaster said, clearly getting annoyed.
"Yep." Ifrit said as Yang clung to his mane, "In fact, just from what I see in the red child, I know a GF that I'm certain would be interested in meeting her."
"Huh?" Ruby asked.
Qrow looked at the girl in his arms for a moment, "Who?"
"Yes, who indeed." Ren added.
Ifrit smirked, "All I can say is that you should take her to the Balamb Museum on the other side of Patch in a couple of years." Ifrit said.
"Balamb Museum?" Glynda inquired.
"Balamb Museum?" Qrow asked, "You mean that museum that used to be a Combat Academy before the Vale council decided it's facilities would prove more effective as a museum that a modern academy?"
"Oh." Jaune said, that confusion cleared up.
"That's the one, hell the place used to be more that a simple Huntsman Combat academy." Ifrit said.
"Wait, really?" Blake asked, getting a knowing smirk from Alicia.
"Really?" Qrow asked.
"Take the tour, it'll help." Ifrit said.
"It better. That's what museum tours are for after all." Pyrrha said.
"I'll be sure to remember that." Qrow said, "Hey, you know Tai's gonna have a fit when he see's you."
"Yeah, that sounds like Tai." Qrow said with a smirk.
"Not a problem for me." Ifrit said.
Yang proceeded to snort in response.
Tronmaster closed the book, "Well, that was something. Ruby, here you go." Tronmaster said as he passed the book to Ruby.
"Well, this was fun, but I need to head back to the security room. Make sure that Jenkins didn't destroy anything. I'll see you tonight?" Alicia asked Tronmaster.
"Yep."Tronmaster said in response, giving a quick kiss to Alicia.
"Ahem." Ruby said, an annoyed look on her face.
Both Tronmaster and Alicia looked at Ruby, one both thinking along the lines of, 'Oh, crapbaskets.'
Jenkins: Well, that happened. Anyway, I need to calibrate the cameras in the security room while Alicia is getting chewed out by a version of her mother. So, as the captain would say, have a great day!