*Adam, Jenkins, and Melody are covered in bandages. While Adam and Melody are busy cleaning up the bullets, Jenkins is looking at the camera with an apologetic face.*
Jenkins: Well, this has been heavily delayed. Damn you internet!
Melody: That, and the captain lost some drive during the whole 'alerts being broken' situation.
Adam: That was a clusterfuck.
Melody: Yeah, no kidding.
Adam: Anywho, Jenkins, watch the cameras, I'm going to give Ruby a call.
Jenkins: She is so going to kill you.
As Tronmaster and Alicia stepped off of the elevator, they looked over to admire their handiwork. Said handiwork consisting of positioning Ruby and Weiss into a frozen state of making out (minus groping), Yang and Blake both in a similar position, but with groping, Sun, Neptune and Tai set up like the Three Stooges, Nora and Ren were playing whack a mole with each other, Jaune and Pyrrha were both dressed as Male Corrin and Caeldori respectively, Summer and Raven were both chained together by a pair of handcuffs. And Penny was dressed as Donna Noble from Doctor Who (the best of the Tenth Doctor's companions in Alicia's opinion).
"We've really gotta thank Phoenix for teaching me about the freezing time thing." Alicia said, chuckling.
"Yeah, tell me about it." Tronmaster said, snapping his fingers and unfreezing time.
"YANG XIAO LONG!" Tai shouted upon looking at Blake and Yang's direction.
"Um, w-what happened?" Yang asked, blushing.
"Well, something was happening with this site I worked on, so, until said problem was fixed, I froze this entire room in time." Tronmaster replied.
"And we also decided to, have some fun as it were." Alicia said, chuckling.
"What kind of fun?" Penny asked.
"Well, we made Ruby and Weiss go into a make-out session, minus the groping that we did for Yang and Blake." Tronmaster said.
"Then, we dressed Jaune and Pyrrha as male Corrin and Caeldori from Fire Emblem Fates." Alicia added.
"We also had Nora and Ren play whack a mole with each other, chained Summer and Raven together with handcuffs, posed Tai, Neptune and Sun like they were the Three Stooges, and dressed Penny like Donna Noble." Tronmaster finished.
"Hey, where's Raiden?" Sun asked, before Raiden appeared on Ruby's lap.
"Oh, there he is." Jaune said.
"Come to mama boy!" Alicia said, clapping her hands, and Raiden proceeded to jump into Alicia's lap.
"Alright, who's reading next?" Winter asked.
"I think it was Jaune." Raven replied.
"Aunt Yang was last to read.. Yeah, it's Jaune's turn." Alicia said.
"Alright, cool." Jaune said, picking up the book.
[No P.O.V.]
"Once again, no perspective." Penny said, growing to like her new look.
"Okay, enough you two!" Summer called teleporting in between the attacks of Cardin and Pyrrha.
"Aww, I wanted to see Cardin get his ass kicked more." Nora said, pouting.
"Don't worry Nora, I'm sure there are other moments of seeing Cardin having his ass handed to him." Quezacotl said, reassuring Nora.
Cardin's Aura was in the red, while Pyrrha's was still untouched.
"Not surprising, considering that Sauron knockoff always telegraphs his attacks." Tronmaster said.
"Plus, he's quite easy to anger." Alicia added, earning a nod from her boyfriend.
"Tch, who do we even need to train against people? Just let us fight some Grimm, that's a Huntsman's job anyway." Cardin grumbled as he made his way to his seat.
"Such arrogance." Summer said, nodding in disapproval.
"Yeah, he's a grade-A douchebag grandma Summer." Alicia said.
Summer however heard that and was not pleased, "You really think a Huntsman's job is just to fight Grimm?" Summer asked.
"No, it isn't. We also deal with criminals, terrorists, and general jerks." Tai said.
"Along with self-entitled little twats like team CRDL and little Shitley?" Alicia said, earning a laugh from the readers, Weiss and Winter included.
Team RWBY knew better, after all they had infiltrated the facility of the NEO Galbadians a few months ago, and then there was the White Fang they fought a few days ago.
"Well, less Metal Gear-style infiltration, and more busting in like the Kool-Aid man." Alicia said, chuckling.
"OH YEAH!" Said the Koo-Aid man as he busted into the reading room to the shocked gaze of everyone present.
"What. The. Fuck?" Sun said, shaking his head.
As the Kool-Aid man backed away, Tronmaster pressed a button on the wall, activating the security system.
"Gotta go!" The Kool-Aid man said, as several reprogramed Daleks started following him.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" The Daleks said.
"I'm just going to keep reading." Jaune said.
"For the sake of our collective sanity, that's probably a good idea." Blake said, as Jaune continued to read.
"Can anyone tell me two threats to Remnant that are NOT the Grimm!?" Summer called out.
"Easy, terrorists, aliens, and little shits." Alicia joked, earning some laughs from everyone.
Weiss raised her hand, "The White Fang." She called out.
"And to be serious, the NEO Galbadians are the other threat." Penny said.
"Not to mention Salem and her associates." Glynda added.
"Yes!" Summer called, "The result of Faunus being absolutely sick of being pushed around, thus creating a threat to Remnant's people. What else?"
"I would say clowns." Tronmaster said, causing everyone to look at him like he was crazy, save for Alicia.
"Um, what?" Tai asked in deadpan.
"I hate clowns, ok?" Tronmaster said.
The Room was silent for a moment before Pyrrha raised her hand, "The NEO Galbadians." Pyrrha said.
"I have a feeling that Cardin's going to show why exactly he's a total dumbass." Jaune said.
"Yes." Summer said, "The NEO Galbadians, you know their threat much more directly than most people have seeing as they attacked Sanctum almost two years ago."
"Don't remind me." Pyrrha said, cringing at what happened to her other.
"Yeah, that wasn't fun to watch." Yang said.
"Please, Atlas can take care of those upstarts." Cardin said.
"Considering a few chapters ago, we saw my other have her ass handed to her, yeah, there's no way Atlas can fight the NEO Galbadians." Winter said.
"No offense babe, but that was a curbstomp." Qrow said, wrapping Winter in a hug.
"No, they can't." Summer said flatly, "I know."
"Yeesh, talk about a death glare." Neptune said, cringing in fear.
"Yeah, no kidding." Sun said.
This caused a wave of murmurs to sweep across the room, except from Team RWBY and Pyrrha.
"Jaune, I'd recommend having some water nearby." Alicia said, handing Jaune a comically-sized pitcher of water.
"Why's that?" Jaune asked, taking the pitcher from Alicia.
"Cause this next part is extremely long." Alicia said.
"Let me tell you the short history of the NEO Galbadians." Summer called out, "Thirty six Years ago the NEO Galbadian's appeared out of nowhere, and attacked an Atlesian High Security Prison, only a few Prisoners were left there, when questioned they claim to have refused an offer made to them by the NEO Galbadian Leader, a woman known as Musaline. She broke out a total of 50 Prisoners, including the ones that were on death row. General Ironwood himself was there, but he was defeated by Musaline. The Atlesian Military followed the NG to a remote location in the Atlesian Forest, however when they arrived at the location of the tracking device placed on a prisoner all that was found was a massive gaping hole in the ground. Sixteen years later The NEO Galbadians returned, razing a small village known as Coral and killing all who lived there, however there were no children's bodies and there were several Missing persons reports filed a few days before the village was destroyed. It is presumed the Leader had decided to move the children away from the attack site along with a few parents, as during the prison Breakout Musaline managed to save children from becoming victims of collateral damage. Since then the NEO Galbadians have appeared in random locations, usually destroying White Fang encampments or causing a mass prison breakout. And then there was the attack on Sanctum."
After taking a massive drink of water, Jaune finally spoke, "Holy shit, that was long."
"That was seriously a mouthful." Yang said.
"And he did it all in one go." Glynda said, impressed.
"Yeah, no kidding. Kudos Jaune." Penny said.
The room was silent, news of the NEO Galbadians was kept very quiets it was in the local area because the news did not want to cause a mass panic and attract the Grimm.
"Cause panic, among many other negative feelings or emotions, can and most certainly attract the Grimm." Tronmaster said grimly.
"Yeah, no kidding." Tai said.
"This is why we train against human opponent's people." Summer called, "To combat criminals, terrorists, and the NEO Galbadians."
"Yep. Terrorists that want to wipe out an entire species." Alicia said, growling slightly.
"You really hate the White Fang, don't you?" Raven asked.
"Only what they've become. I idolize what the White Fang was." Alicia replied.
Weiss was pacing around the hallway, today was the day her sister arrived at Beacon to visit for a month.
"I can understand why you'd be concerned about your sister." Summer said.
"That's more than what your parents would do." Alicia growled.
"Yeah, my parents are, old fashioned, like that. Never wanted me to be a Huntress." Summer said.
"I've got a Cura and a Curaga spell." Weiss said mentally checking her spell stocks, "I did give her the right floor number didn't I?"
"I'm sure you did Weiss." Shiva said, putting a comforting hand on Weiss's shoulder.
"Thank you Shiva." Weiss said with a smile.
"Yes you did." Winter said, making Weiss jump.
"Boo!" Nora said, making everyone jump.
"Nora! That's not fucking funny!" Pyrrha shouted.
"Winter!" Weiss said almost ready to hug her sister, only to notice the cast on her arm, and then she remembered the broken arm under that cast.
"I would've used my non-broken arm to hug you Weiss." Winter said, causing Weiss to smile.
"Aww, that's cute Snowcone." Ruby said, giving Weiss a peck on the cheek.
"R-Ruby, this is embarrassing!" Weiss said embarrassed, but she gave Ruby a kiss anyway.
Winter followed her sisters gaze to the cast, "Yes, this is going to be a bit difficult to get used to for a whole month."
"Not until Weiss uses a healing spell." Qrow said.
"Yep." Penny said.
"Winter..." Weiss said slowly, "What would you do if your arm healed much before the time the doctors said it would? Would you head back to the military early?"
"I see where you're going with this Weiss." Winter said.
Winter raised an eyebrow, but answered anyway, "I would still stay the rest of the month here with you."
"Aww, sister group hug!" Ruby and Yang said, grabbing both Schnee sisters into a group hug.
"Dolts." Both Weiss and Winter said, before hugging the Rose-Xiao Long sisters back.
Weiss looked around before taking Winter's good hand, "Follow me." Weiss said pulling her sister into Team RWBY's Dorm.
"Time for me to see the Team RWBY Dorm room." Winter said sarcastically.
"Yeah, we seriously need to fix those when we get back." Raven said.
"I can recommend a good guy capable of fixing up those beds." Tronmaster said.
Inside the room, Ruby and Blake looked away from their reading material, Weapons Monthly and The Man with two souls respectively.
"I can recommend another awesome book series." Alicia said.
"Hey Weiss." Ruby said, "Is that your sister?"
"No Ruby, I'm the pizza delivery girl." Winter said sarcastically.
'Great, now I can't stop thinking of Winter in a pizza delivery outfit.' Qrow thought with a small nosebleed.
"Jesus Qrow, get your mind out of the gutter." Tronmaster said, shaking his head.
"Yes." Weiss said, "Ruby, Blake, this is my sister, Winter Schnee."
"Uh... It's a pleasure to make your aqu- aqua... It's nice to meet you Winter." Ruby said.
"Awkward." Yang said.
"This actually went much better than in the main timeline." Alicia said.
"Huh. Neat." Ruby said.
"Hey." Blake said returning to her book.
"About what I expected I'd do." Blake said with a shrug.
"It's nice to meet you two." Winter said, then her eyes registered the Bunkbeds, "That is very unsafe."
"Yeah, we know! We. Know." All of Team RWBY said.
"Hey they work!" Ruby called out.
"Surprisingly well." Blake added helpfully.
"Gee Blake, thanks for the help." Ruby said, rolling her eyes.
"I see..." Winter said, "Now, Weiss, what is it that you're planning?"
"My guess using either the Cura, or Curaga spells." Penny said.
"Obviously." Ren said.
"It's... kinda hard to explain so... Let me demonstrate first so you'll know what I'm about to say is true." Weiss said.
"Always got to show, instead of just telling." Glynda said.
Blue Particles rose up from Weiss' feet, "Cura." she intoned.
"Huh, so it's Cura." Penny said.
"Neat." Tai said.
A blue light appeared over Winter's head as a trio of blue rings appeared over her head and sank down.
"One of a few ways to recover health in a game." Tronmaster said.
"What are the other ways?" Summer asked.
"By using a health kit, eating food, and by drinking this." Tronmaster said, holding a bottle containing a red liquid.
"What is that?" Raven asked.
"A health potion." Alicia replied.
"What was that?" Winter asked.
"A clothes beam." Nora joked.
"That, didn't make sense Nora." Raven said.
"Shut up bitch tits." Nora said, Tronmaster clotheslining Raven before she could tackle Nora, taking Summer down with her.
"Jaune, continue reading." Tronmaster said in deadpan.
"Sorry if this hurts." Weiss said and before Winter could react she shot her hand out and grabbed the cast tightly.
"Meep!" Winter said, grabbing her arm.
"Was that a meep?" Weiss asked Winter, who had the decency to blush.
Winter winced in preparation for a sudden pain to shoot through her arm.
Instead all she felt was Weiss gripping her arm tightly through a cast, "What the?" Winter breathed.
"I'd be shocked too if my previously broken arm was suddenly healed without much explanation." Summer said, speaking of which?" She asked, holding up her and Raven's wrists.
"Alright, here." Tronmaster said, tossing a key to Summer, who then freed both herself and Raven.
"That was a healing spell." Weiss said, before she went into an explanation of Shiva and the other Guardian Forces.
"Well, looks like my other's about to get a crash course in magic." Winter said.
"It's just become normal at this point." Neptune said.
Winter was silent through the whole explanation and when Weiss finished Winter only had one question.
"When's the wedding?" Qrow joked.
"Ha ha ha." Winter said, rolling her eyes.
"Can I meet this Shiva?" Winter asked.
"Of course you may." Shiva said as she appeared, sitting on Weiss's bed with her legs crossed.
"Damn, I was hoping that it was the wedding one." Raven said, chuckling.
"Although seriously Weiss, when's the wedding?" Winter joked.
"W-Winter!" Weiss said, blushing.
Winter's head snapped to the Guardian Force that sat on the bed, "It's a pleasure to meet you at last Shiva." Winter said, "Although it's a little disconcerting to know that you've been with my sister for seven years... Although it would explain why she seemed much happier that concert."
""Yeah, after that concert, I was miserable." Weiss said.
"Not anymore Snowflake!" Ruby said, giving Weiss a kiss.
Shiva smiled at Winter's implied acceptance of her presence.
"Of course I approve." Winter said.
"But must you lack decency?" Winter then asked.
"Hey, it's not my fault I look so damn good." Shiva said with a massive grin.
"Right, and I'm Emperor of Mistral." Ifrit said rolling his eyes.
"Fuck off hothead." Shiva mumbled.
Shiva's expression then went flat, "I'm the empress of ice, what you call cold I call barbeque weather. What you call hot I call being in a volcano." Shiva said.
"It's true." Shiva said.
Tronmaster mumbled something about wanting BBQ Ribs.
Winter sighed, she couldn't really argue with that however then she noticed Shiva taking another glance at Weiss.
"Wait, what?" Ruby growled.
"Huh, interesting." Shiva mumbled.
Weiss also noticed this, "Shiva? What's with that look?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah, what is that look for?" Ruby said, glaring at Shiva, causing her to flinch.
"Every time you use magic Weiss, I see something flare up inside you." Shiva said, "And I think I may have figured out what it is."
"Ah, it's something magic related." Ruby said, "At least it wasn't, something else..." She added with a small blush.
"What is it?" Weiss asked slightly worried.
"Yes, what is it?" Weiss asked.
"Blue Magic." Shiva said, "The potential to learn and cast Blue Magic."
"Holy shit." Alexander said.
"Wow, I've never heard old buckethead swear before." Diablos joked.
"Fuck off Kabuki head." Alexander said, causing a few laughs.
That's when Diablos appeared, "Whoa, whoa, whoa." Diablos said appearing causing Winter to jump at his demonic visage, "Are you telling me the Ice Queen is capable of using magic as powerful as Blue Magic!?" Diablos demanded.
"What is Blue Magic?" Glynda asked.
"Well, let's let Jaune continue reading so we can find out." Alicia said.
Winter's face twisted into a slight frown, she didn't really like the fact that her younger sister gotten the same nickname as her, however that thought was pushed aside for the main question at the moment.
"Uh... what's Blue Magic?" Ruby asked putting her magazine aside.
"I'm guessing we're going to find out soon." Penny said.
"Blue Magic..." Shiva started, "It's a type of magic that not even a Sorceress is usually capable of using, only a small handful of people are even capable of learning it."
"Whoa, that's pretty rare." Qrow said.
"Yeah, no kidding." Sun said.
"Lucky." Blake grumbled.
"Blue magic isn't like magic that is drawn." Diablos said, "Once you've learned it you can cast it infinitely, making it much more dangerous than other types of Magic. Heck many of it's spells hit multiple targets."
"Damn, that's pretty impressive." Neptune said.
"Yeah, no kidding." Yang said.
"What do I have to do to learn Blue Magic?" Weiss asked interested in this new type of magic.
"I'm guessing that she could use Triple Triad cards." Nora said.
"Nora, that's ridiculous." Raven said.
"That's where the problem comes in." Shiva said, "Blue magic is learned by collecting, then absorbing certain objects that Monsters tend to leave behind once you've killed them."
"Oum, Nora might be onto something." Winter said, dumbfounded.
"Come on Winter, there's no way that Nora's right." Summer said.
"Basically." Diablos said taking over, "You learn Blue Magic by lopping off parts of monsters that could use that Blue Magic and absorb them."
"So that's what the problem is..." Blake said, "The monsters that could use Blue Magic are long gone, replaced by the Grimm."
"Dammit." Weiss mumbled.
"Wait, does that mean..." Penny said, trailing off.
"Exactly." Shiva said, "Learning Blue Magic without those monsters is going to be a pain, we'd need for the NEO Galbadians to replicate those monsters for Weiss to learn Blue Magic."
"Oh my Oum, Nora's right." Team STRQ said.
"Nora, from now on, please don't spoil the plot points." Tronmaster said, removing his sunglasses.
"No problem!" Nora said, saluting.
"What about that T-Rexaurs bone?" Weiss asked.
"The what?" Winter asked her head snapping to Weiss.
"I'll explain soon." Weiss said.
"No, that's not something to learn Blue Magic from." Shiva said.
"Drat." Weiss said.
"Oh brother, I can't believe Nora's right again." Sacred said, facepalming.
Ruby then hoped off her bed, "Welp, Weiss while you tell your sister about our mission to the NEO Galbadian facility a couple of months ago, Blake wanna play a game of Triple Triad?"
"Hey Diablos, are you ok?" Quezacotl asked.
"I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Nora's probably right." Diablos replied.
That's when Shiva and Diablos's heads shot up, "Triple Triad?" They asked each other, "That's it!" they said in synch.
"Wow." Neptune said.
"Fucking hell." Diablos said.
"Huh?" Ruby asked.
"Ruby, do you still have that second Caterchipillar card?" Shiva asked.
"Yeah?" Ruby said, "Why?
"Do you have any reason to keep it?" Shiva asked.
"No." Ruby said, "Why?"
"Cause that's how-" Nora said before being cut off my Tronmaster holding up an electric razor.
"Yeesh, remind me not to piss you off." Yang said, Tronmaster nodding in response.
"That may just be what we need to help Weiss with learning Blue Magic, can I use it?" Shiva asked.
"Obviously." Ruby said.
"Uh... sure." Ruby chirped, "As Leader of Team RWBY I'll do what I can to help Weiss learn Blue Magic." With that Ruby held out the card.
Right then and there Diablos snatched the card from Ruby and sped out of the room.
"Jerk." Ruby said.
"Hey, I'm just helping your girlfriend learn some Blue Magic." Diablos defended.
"What's going on?" Weiss asked.
"Quezacotl can turn cards into object's." Shiva started, "And most of the Blue Magic spells I can recall can be refined from the right Triple Triad cards."
"Huh, that's actually a good idea." Weiss said.
Weiss's eyes went wide as she looked at the drawer she put her Triple Triad starter deck, she just found a new hobby it seems.
"And so have I." Weiss said with a smile.
"I'm back." Diablos said, now holding a thick looking Spider web, "A Caterchipillar's Spider Web, within it holds knowledge of the Blue Magic, Ultra Waves."
"Ewww..." Ruby said.
"Yeah, I'm not too fond of spiders." Tronmaster said shuddering.
Weiss took the web from Diablos, and figured she may as well work it like she was drawing magic from it.
"I'm more or less sure that you could do the same thing Aunt Weiss." Alicia said.
"Neat." Weiss said.
The web turned into blue particles of light and were soon absorbed into Weiss's body, giving the Heiress knowledge of the spell.
"Nice." Weiss said.
"Talk about convenient." Blake said.
"Incredible." Weiss said looking at her hands.
"Ultra Waves." Shiva said, "Capable of hitting multiple enemies and driving them berserk even."
"Damn." Qrow said.
"Yep, an AOE, or 'area of effect' attack basically." Tronmaster.
"They're quite effective." Alicia said.
Weiss smiled at this, she now had a new edge in battle.
"Same here." Weiss said, smiling evilly.
'Man, Weiss is hot when she's evil.' Ruby thought.
[Meanwhile in Vale]
[FF8 OST- Never look back]
"Alright, looks like we're cutting to Vale." Glynda said.
A female figure shot out on an alleyway, clutching her bleeding arm that held her odachi.
"Wait, is that me?" Raven asked.
"I'm not telling." Tronmaster said, a cheeky smile on his face.
The woman was wearing a black shallow cut dress with five bead necklaces, a red-girdle belt with a pair of matching red gauntlets, also wore detached black leggings with a red splatter pattern, and black leather boots beneath them, attached to her hip was an object of some sort made of rave feathers.
"Yep, definitely Raven." Qrow said.
However her attire was damaged, several tears were visible as well as a few bullets holes, and the normally full faced nevermore mask that covered her face was cracked and chipped, even having chunks missing.
"Damn Rae, you look like hammered shit." Summer said with a chuckle.
"I'm gonna say that my other's beat up look has the markings of the NEO Galbadians." Raven said.
This was Raven Branwen, and she was not having a good day.
"Not surprising, considering who I apparently pissed off." Raven said.
"You probably did piss off the NEO Galbadians sis." Qrow said.
"What the hell is up with that thing..." Raven growled looking behind her, yet not seeing anything.
"What thing?" Ren asked.
"My guess, it's a boss from Final Fantasy VIII." Penny said.
Not that it meant anything, that thing would catch up to her soon enough anyway.
"I'm guessing it's some sort of machine." Glynda said.
"Probably." Winter said.
Raven glanced at her arm and saw how much she was bleeding, she wasn't sure if she'd be able to find a good place to hide from the thing before she passed out from blood loss.
"Yeah, passing out from blood loss isn't fun." Alicia said.
"Speaking from experience young lady?" Ruby asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Y-yes ma'am." Alicia answered, slightly fearful of her mother.
She was lost in thought so long that she didn't notice when she slammed into someone in front of her.
"Raven?" Summer asked looking at the lost member of her team.
"Well, this is going to be awkward for our others." Summer said.
"Yep." Yang said.
"No kidding." Raven said.
Raven's eyes went wide as she looked at the person she bumped into, "Summer... you're... alive... ?" Raven panted, then she saw someone standing next to Summer.
"Who'd be standing next to me?" Summer asked.
"Ten Lien says it's Yang." Penny said.
Raven's daughter, Yang stood there staring in shock at Raven, both in seeing her, and seeing her condition.
"I'd be shocked too, being in my other's position." Yang said.
"Same here." Pyrrha said.
"This day... just keeps... getting better..." Raven wheezed before passing out from the blood loss.
"Yeah, I was fortunate to be near some allies when I passed out from blood loss." Alicia said.
"Really? Who were they?" Glynda asked.
"A group of, I guess you could say dimension hoppers like myself. The Order of Heroes." Tronmaster said, holding up a bizarre, handgun-like weapon.
"The hell is that?" Raven asked, raising an eyebrow at the weapon.
"Oh, this old thing? This is known as the Breidablik. And I'm actually a member of the Order of Heroes." Tronmaster replied.
"We can get into my boyfriend's storied military career later. Jaune, continue reading." Alicia said, motioning for Jaune to continue.
Summer managed to catch her old teammate as she fell, "Raven? What did this to you?" Summer asked, then she looked up at Yang, "Yang please tell me you have a Cure Spell stocked."
"I have a feeling that I don't." Yang said.
"Oh gee, thanks Yang." Raven said, rolling her eyes.
"Uh... sorry, I kinda used them all to fix myself up after sparring and I haven't had time to restock." Yang said nervously, "I still have one Cure spell I can use though."
"It'll have to do." Summer said.
"Better than nothing." Neptune said, shrugging.
"Okay." Yang said as blue particles floated up, "Cure." She intoned, and a few blue lights rose up from below Raven, not healing her by much, but it at least stopped the major bleeding.
"It's better than nothing." Penny said.
"Yep." Raven agreed.
"We need to get her to Beacon." Summer said throwing Raven over her shoulder, "It's the closest place with a medical facility."
"Really? You're not taking me somewhere else? Like, you know, a hospital?" Raven asked.
"I'm guessing a quick escape is required." Ren said.
"Probably." Sun said, shrugging.
Yang was about to reply, but that's when she felt the ground shake, "What's causing the ground to shake?" Yang asked.
"Whatever it is, it's probably massive. Like Alexander- DAMMIT!" Penny said, hiding her face in her hands.
"Wow Penny, you need to control yourself." Tronmaster said, chuckling.
At that moment the source of the shaking ground leapt out of an alley and landed in front of the trio.
"Boss fight!" Nora said.
"Seems like it." Winter said.
A large black machine that had four legs and two clawed arms that appeared to be pincers, on the four legs appeared to be open valves that opened away from the body of the machine, near the back of the machine were four whirring cylinders that were helping the machine function, on the 'face' of the machine was a large cut made by Raven's odachi.
"Badass." Yang said, complementing her birth mother.
"Thanks." Raven said, Yang nodding in response.
"What the hell is it?" Winter asked.
Yang quickly scanned the Machine.
[X-ATM092: The NEO Galbadian unmanned mobile attack weapon, also known as 'Black Widow'. Doesn't stop until it kills it's intended target- Weak to Thunder, Immune to Poison]
"Gee, who would think that robots are weak to lightning?" Jaune asked.
"Everyone. Everyone would think that Jaune." Penny deadpanned.
"Plus, this thing doesn't hold a candle to some of the robots I've tangoed with." Tronmaster said.
"Well if it's weak to Thunder Magic..." Yang said as blue particles rose up from her feet, "Thundaga!" she shouted.
A massive bolt of lightning hit the machine and the ground below it, cracking the ground before causing electrical energy to burst out of the ground to further shock the machine.
X-ATM092 collapsed to the ground, one of the legs spazzing slightly every now and again.
"Well, that was shocking." Yang punned.
Everyone save for Tai groaned in response.
[OST end]
"It's not over." Sun said.
"Oh come on Sun, it's fried. It's dead." Neptune said.
"Piece of cake." Yang said dusting off her hands.
"It was too easy." Winter said.
"Good, let's hurry." Summer said as she started to run down the street with Raven on her shoulder.
"Wait, why can't you teleport her over to Beacon?" Nora asked.
"I think the story will explain why." Summer said.
"Why can't you teleport her there?" Yang asked.
"I can't." Summer said, "Anyone I take with me feels nauseous at most because of the effect, if I teleport with Raven like this I could very well kill her. And Raven is not dying when I haven't even had time to punch her for abandoning you like she did." Summer explained.
"Oh, that makes sense." Nora said.
"Yeah, it's not exactly pretty." Summer said.
"Guys." Ifrit said translucently, he himself remembered the X-ATM092 from his time with the SeeD Squall.
"Wait, so this thing was seen around Squall's time?" Tai asked.
"Yep. And even then, this thing was a pain in the ass." Alicia said.
"What?" Yang asked.
Before Ifrit could answer a shadow shot over head.
"Not good." Yang said.
Then an X-ATM092 landed in front of them.
"Dammit, Sun's right!" Neptune said.
"Another one?" Yang asked.
"Nope. It's the same one." Penny said.
"No, it's the same one look!" Summer said pointing at the 'face' of the machine.
"Why the face?" Neptune asked.
"We'll find out man." Sun said.
The X-ATM092 did indeed have the exact some scar made by Raven's odachi, except pieces of metal were being fitted in and welded into place in just seconds after it was notice.
"Well, that's lame." Ruby said.
"What did the NEO Galbadians use in recreating that, essence of Wolverine?" Penny joked, causing Tronmaster to snort.
"It's repairing itself..." Yang breathed.
The X-ATM barreled forward, intended to ram the women.
"Metallic jerk." Yang said.
"No kidding." Summer said.
Yang readied Ember Celica to counter, however Summer was quicker on the draw and pulled her weapon out in sniper form and shot several times at the ground the machine was passing over, freezing it with Ice Dust bullets.
"When in doubt, freeze the shit out of something." Alicia said.
"We can't afford to waste time fighting it unless we can completely destroy it." Summer said, "Just run!"
"Let's hope you graduated Magna Cum Lade from the Prometheus School of Running Away from Things." Alicia joked.
"What?" Weiss asked.
"It's a reference to something." Tronmaster replied.
[FF8 OST- Never look back]
"Another Final Fantasy VIII song?" Glynda asked.
"I've just accepted this at this point." Tai said.
Deciding not to waste time letting the machine recover Yang nodded and the two women shot off as fast as they could run.
However the moment the two turned a corner the X-ATM092 had recovered and was charging after them.
"Man, that thing is resilient." Nora said.
"How is this thing up already!?" Yang shouted looking behind her.
"I don't know!" Summer shouted, "See if you can slow it down though!"
"Seems like the best option, really." Winter said.
"Yep." Pandemona said.
Yang nodded and noticed they were passing by a nearly destroyed building, one that was partially destroyed because of a tornado and no one was willing to shell out the Lien to fix the old place.
"I've noticed several buildings that looked like they suffered the aftermath of a Kaiju fight." Alicia said.
"Have you seen a Kaiju fight before?" Winter asked.
"Oh yeah, it's brutal." Alicia replied.
Yang, still having her weapon deployed, shot at a chunk of wall that was still standing, causing it to shift and fall on top of the X-ATM092.
"TIMBER!" Neptune shouted, causing a few laughs.
This resulted in the machine collapsing under the sudden weight of the cinder blocks.
"Guess it really was a blockhead." Yang punned, causing Tai to laugh, and everyone else to groan.
"Goddammit Yang." Sun said.
"That'll buy us some time." Yang said.
"Yeah, but only a few seconds." Qrow said.
"C'mon Qrow, don't jinx them." Glynda said.
It brought them enough time to run a block and turn the corner, half a block later Yang looked back just in time to see the massive machine slid out from the previous turn and began chasing them again.
"This thing's like a Terminator!" Yang said.
"Yep, Qrow was right." Tronmaster said.
"Are you kidding me!?" Yang shouted.
"What my other said!" Yang said.
Not seeing anything to drop the NG machine Yang did the next best thing, she junctioned Thundaga to her Elemental Attack and jumped into a spin to shoot off round from Ember Celica while not dropping her speed too much.
"Not bad Yang. Not bad." Weiss said.
"Thanks Weiss." Yang said, Weiss nodding in response.
It took four shots to cause the machine to stumble and fall over once again, sliding to a stop.
"Yeah, it's not done yet." Penny said.
"Alright." Yang said pumping her fist before continuing to follow Summer.
"I'm wondering how that thing's going to be taken down." Raven said.
"Same." Winter said.
The two turned another corner, and Yang saw someone that could no doubt help with their current situation.
"Really? Who?" Summer asked.
"Penny!" Yang shouted speeding up.
"Wait, me?" Penny asked.
"Yep. Penny's the hero of the chapter!" Alicia said.
"Awesome!" Ruby said, dragging Penny into a hug.
"Yes?" Penny asked before her eyes widened seeing Yang, then Summer, then the injured Raven, "What's going on?"
"To put it simply, we're getting our asses kicked!" Ifrit said.
Yang grabbed Penny by the shoulders, "Penny, Ruby told me you could shoot a laser that cleaved a Bullhead in half. Is that True?" Yang asked.
"Yeah, I can also do the Thriller dance." Penny said, rolling her eyes, "But seriously, I can do that dance."
"Y-yes." Penny said surprised by how Yang was acting.
"Good, because we need that laser." Yang said turning around, while also pulling Penny in front of her.
"Penny ex Machina." Tronmaster joked.
Just in time for the X-ATM092 to stomp around the corner.
Penny's eyes widened at the sight of the machine, "Alright, I'm combat ready." Penny said as her backpack opened to release her blades, which soon shifted into the same position they had at the docks.
"And it's just as awesome there, as it is normally." Alicia said, Penny nodding.
"Target confirmed." Penny said quietly, "Firing." Penny shouted just before the massive shot out toward the NG Machine.
"Firing main cannon." Alicia said, using a voice changer.
"Heh, nice RVB reference babe." Tronmaster said, giving Alicia a kiss.
The X-ATM092 barreled straight into the laser and took the blast head on. X-ATM092 slid back from the force of the laser before it's leg was broken off, followed by a claw, , the laser tore halfway through the machine before the laser died down.
"Damn, talk about overkill." Winter said.
"There's no kill like overkill." Tronmaster said.
"Amen." Nora said.
The X-ATM092 collapsed on the street before it's center exploded. It wasn't going to get back up from that.
"Sayonara!" Yang said.
[OST End]
"Whew, that was exhausting." Ruby said, "And we weren't even fighting it!"
"No kidding." Weiss said.
"It's over, thank Oum." Yang breathed, then she looked at Penny and pulled her into a hug, "Thanks Penny, I'll explain all this later but first we need to get... the woman on Mom's back to Beacon's infirmary because it's the closest." Yang avoided calling Rave her mother because that's a conversation she didn't want to waste time with.
"I don't blame you." Raven said, "Hell, I'm actually glad that you considered Summer as your mother."
"Hey, you're here now, so you're going to make up for lost time missy. Understood?" Summer said, using a commanding tone.
"Y-yes ma'am." Raven said.
Penny nodded just in time for Yang of just behind Summer.
Penny then turned around to the wreckage of the X-ATM092, "I wondered why this thing was chasing them?" Penny asked before pulling out her scroll and making a call for someone to come clean this wreckage up.
"Probably because my other pissed off the NEO Galbadians." Raven said.
"To be fair Rae, who HAVEN'T you pissed off?" Tai joked.
[NEO Galbadian Headquarters]
[No P.O.V.]
"Time for more of the Goon Squad show!" Diablos joked, causing a few laughs.
"Uh Musaline?" A woman asked, she was wearing her own variant of the NG Commander outfit, which had no armor except on the entire forearms, and a small hole in the back for her Cheetah tail to poke out.
"Ok, not for nothing Snow Angel, that's kinda cute." Ruby said.
"Hey, I'd be good with doing that someday." Weiss said, blushing at what she said.
"Wow. I am learning more about my sister's kinks than I probably should." Winter said, shocked.
"Yes Beige?" Musaline asked looking toward the Cheetah Faunus.
"I didn't know that there were specific types of a Faunus species." Neptune said.
"Oh yeah, in fact, I think Ghira might be a panther Faunus." Alicia said.
"He is." Blake confirmed.
"The X-ATM092 that was sent to attack Raven because of her attack on Facility 5 in the Forever Fall Forest was destroyed." Beige said.
"That would explain how specifically I pissed them off." Raven said.
This caused Musaline to blink, it's very uncommon for an X-ATM092 to be destroyed, "What caused that to happen?" Musaline asked.
"Badass android is what happened." Penny said, smirking.
"It was the work of that Penny Polendina girl." Beige said.
Musaline chuckled, "Penny Polendina..." Musaline said with a chuckle, "Remnant's first Aura capable android... it's first machine with an actual soul... interesting..."
"It's disturbing how she knows about this stuff." Pyrrha said.
"No kidding." Nora said.
"Muse?" Beige asked.
"Muse?" Qrow asked with a chuckle.
"Probably a nickname." Glynda said.
"You can go Beige, I believe you wanted to visit Rojo and her son today." Musaline said.
"I'm curious how Rojo's life is going when she's not doing her job." Raven said to herself.
"Oh shit!" Beige said before she scrambled out of the room.
Musaline also stepped out of the room, and soon walked to the outside area of the building.
"Time to see the outside of the NEO Galbadian headquarters." Winter said.
"Yep. And I have a feeling it's like the Balamb Museum." Ren said.
The building itself was a large orange structure that had a golden ring floating below it in a diagonal angle, the building itself was floating within the sea, and ripples in the water showed it was moving.
"Alright, it's beautiful. I'll give it that." Summer said.
"Galbadian Garden..." Musaline mused looking at the structure that was her base, "It only seemed fitting that this place has become the base of operations for a Sorceress once again, I can't believe it can still fly though, the machinery within this place is ancient."
"Holy shit, this was a long chapter." Jaune said as the book closed shut. And he passed it to Nora.
"Yeah, no kidding. Damn, I feel like I need a nap after that." Summer said, yawning.
"I don't blame you grandma Sum. That whole exposition dump courtesy of your other didn't help matters any." Alicia said, yawning herself.
"Whew, and not to mention, the fight against the X-ATM092 was exhausting to watch." Nora said.
"Amen." Everyone said in agreement.
*Adam, Melody and Jenkins are sitting around eating pizza.*
Adam: Damn, I forgot how terrifying Ruby could be when she's angry.
Melody: *laughing* Yeah, but FINALLY! This can get out to the masses!
Jenkins: Agreed. Who wants to watch Lord of the Rings?
Adam and Melody: I do.