Chapter 2
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"I agree with Yang's earlier comment. We're all going to die." Weiss says as Emerald skips to providing covering fire.
"Everyone, prepare your landing strategy." Ruby says as she notices that the first Nevermore takes out the bridge before corpse can disintegrate.
"Landing strategy? What do you meeeaaaaa..." Weiss says as Emerald uses a portion of her mental focus combined with her psionic abilities to launch the other eight back across the canyon and up the cliff to Beacon.
Meanwhile at the top of the Beacon cliff...
"The final pairing has been formed, Ly Ren and Nora Valkyrie. I pity the boy, I don't know how they'll ever get along. Still, better than Ms. Nikos. I don't care what that boy's transcripts say." Goodwitch says to Ozpin as she looks though video feeds on her scroll.
"Brace for impact." Ozpin replies as he notices things are moving quite quickly while Glynda Goodwitch comments on the compatibility of long-time friends and clueless blondes. As Goodwitch tries to ask Ozpin what he means, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Ren, Nora, and Pyra all safely land on the clifftop. Jaune is safer than his earlier javelined to a tree landing, but only because he buried his face in Goodwitch's cleavage and knocked her back ten yards.
"That's eight students safe. What about Ms. Death?" Goodwitch comments as meteorites come out of nowhere and start impacting inside Emerald Forest. Ozpin waves away her concerns and suggests they announce the results with Ruby and Yang not having any objections. In fact, Ruby suggests that Emerald will show up before the results ceremony gets to the final three teams.
Roughly half an hour later, Ozpin stumbles over announcing Team CRDL when Emerald walks in covered in blood, twigs and leaves. After Emerald says she'll talk after the team announcement ceremony is over, Ozpin finishes announcing Team CRDL lead by Cardin Winchester. Next is Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyra Nikos, and Ly Ren who collected the white rook pieces and are now Team JNPR lead by Jaune Arc despite Professor Goodwitch's misgivings about Jaune. And finally, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xao-Long, and Emerald Death collected the three kings and are now Team RWBYD co-lead by Ruby Rose and Emerald Death. Based on her expression, Weiss is shocked that she didn't get the leader position... in addition to the team having two leaders.
After getting their room assignment and storing their weapons in their lockers, RWBY are so tired that they collapse onto the four single beds crammed into the room. Much to the displeasure of the Schnee heiress however, Emerald takes one look at the perfectly safe beds and converts them into a pair of surprisingly safe bunkbeds while her teammates are still in the beds. With the increased floor space available, Emerald folds her legs beneath herself and leans back into her meditation posture with the poles of her organic sniper-scythe limbs supporting her upper body. Within moments Emerald is in deep meditation while Weiss takes a few more minutes staring at the clearly non-human member of the team and trying to figure out what type of Faunus she is... or if she is a Faunus at all and not something freakier like an alien.
In the morning, Emerald slips out of her meditation just in time to stop Ruby from blowing a whistle directly in Weiss' ear as the Schnee heiress slowly wakes up. The next few hours are spent unpacking all of RWBY's belongings and cleaning any resulting messes. RWBY then panics when they realize class starts in five minutes... only to panic even more when Emerald Mass Recalls them directly from the dorm room to the classroom.
After shrugging off Emerald's apologies for how RWBYD arrived in class – and a lecture to JNPR for arriving late – Professor Port gives a lengthy and dull lesson all about how great he was as a huntsman when he was younger. Near the end of class, the boredom finally ends when the professor asks if anyone thinks they have the qualities of a true huntsman and Weiss, who had been getting angry at the behavior of the two youngest students, volunteers Emerald in an attempt to make her look bad. Emerald simply uses a Psi-bolt to break the cage that had been sitting in the corner, releasing an Alpha Boarbatusk. After a minute of both combatants not moving, the Grimm swine launches into a rolling tackle only to be halted by Emerald grabbing both its tusks with her bare hands before ripping the monster pig in half. Five minutes of shocked silence later, the bell to end class rings and Professor Port suggests Emerald isn't a true huntress... because she has the traits to be mythical.
A few weeks later, combat class ends with Jaune getting a lecture from Professor Goodwitch after yet another loss to the school bully, Cardin Winchester of team CRDL. During the lunch period, the other members of JNPR offer help for dealing with the bullying but Jaune shrugs it off and points out that Carin isn't a jerk only to him... just as a second-year rabbit Faunus cries out in pain from Cardin pulling on her ears to prove she isn't wearing a costume. Before Cardin can do anything worse, Emerald uses her psionics to subtly beat him and his team over their heads until their faces are bloody pulps due to aura exhaustion.
That night, Jaune is confronted by Pura and Emerald about his lack of actual combat skill and given an offer of help from Pyra... as well as blackmailed by Cardin despite the unexplained beating at lunch. Emerald is aware of the blackmail, but chooses to wait and see if Jaune will be a coward or do the right thing over the next few weeks. At the time of a class trip to Forever Fall Forest, Jaune is still the lapdog of Cardin and Team CRDL, his most recent task being the collection of the rival team's tree sap. Pointing out a box of highly dangerous Rapier Wasps, Cardin tells Jaune to throw a jar of sap at Emerald so the wasps will attack her when they are released. Despite being more attracted to Pyra, Jaune feels strongly enough for the youngest appearing student at Beacon that he turns and smashes the jar on Cardin's feet, attracting far more Grimm than anyone could expect.
On seeing a pack of Ursa approaching, Cardin actually does the right thing and tries to fight them off but is quickly overwhelmed while the rest of Team CRDL runs away in a complete panic. Despite only having a handful of lessons from Pyra, Jaune does his best against the Ursa Major leading the pack while protecting Cardin from the occasional Ursa Minor attack. Luckily for Jaune, the panicked screaming of RDL attracts NPR and Emerald. While Pyra uses her semblance to subtly help Jaune against the Ursa Major and boost his confidence, Emerald, Nora and Ren decimate the rest of the Ursa pack, as well as the Beowulf pack that shows up, and the King Taijitsus and the Boarbatusks. When the battle is joined by Deathstalkers and Goliaths, team JNPR drags Cardin away and convinces the teachers to evacuate the forest, leaving Emerald behind to deal with the Grimm the way she did during initiation.
A few weeks after the creation of Forever Fall Crater, Team RWBYD is walking through Vale to spy on the teams coming in from other schools for the Vytal Festival when Weiss puts her foot in her mouth and starts bad mouthing all Faunus. When Yang suggests that not all Faunus only know how to lie, cheat and steal, circumstance does its best to prove her wrong as a monkey Faunus escapes from some sailors who nearly caught him stowing away on their cargo vessel. As the 'monkey tailed rapscallion' runs past, he winks at Blake for a few possible reasons. Once informed she just saw some of the competition, Weiss leads a short chase after the monkey Faunus and crashes into an odd girl named Penny Polendina with a clang of heavy metal.
Unfortunately, meeting Penny is only a short reprieve from Weiss' racist attitudes and the argument only ends when Blake suggests 'we' were tired of being pushed around. "We don't know that Blake was identifying with the White Fang when she said that. She may have been identifying with Faunus in general. Also, don't forget Doctor Oobleck's class where he suggested that the current White Fang are the result of anti-Faunus discrimination. If Blake were a part of the White Fang at one point, it might be more disappointing if she left than if she were trying to curb the violent tendencies from within the group," Emerald says when Weiss starts ranting about having a member of the White Fang on the team for months without realizing it.
Roughly twelve hours later, Ruby, Penny and Emerald are drawn to an explosion at the coastal docks and find Blake and the monkey Faunus fighting a young woman with three toned hair while White Fang grunts load crates of Dust onto three Bullheads. "Stay back, I haven't tried precision work on this scale yet," Emerald says to her companions as she generates a number of fireballs over the battlefield using the power she absorbed after defeating Torchwick and his unidentified partner. In the blink of an eye, the Bullheads, the White Fang grunts and Ms. Three tone are incinerated in columns of fire that smell of burning leaves. As the Vale Police Department deal with clean up and identifying the corpses, Weiss and Yang walk up to find Blake wrapping up an explanation of her past to Ruby and Emerald. While Team RWBYD resolves their issues, Emerald notices Penny going away with some Atlas soldiers and scientists. It would seem that like Blake, there is more than meets the eye to the orange haired girl who claims to be 'combat ready!'.
"Any chance you are going to be telling us more about your past Emerald? Even Yang and I don't know about the years before you joined our family," Ruby comments on the way back to Beacon.
"You wouldn't believe me even with all the crazy stuff we seem to get into," Emerald replies just before a portal opens up and takes Team RWBYD away from Remnant.
AN: Thanks for reading and please review. Any tips for intermission segments or future arcs? Intend for the Remnant Rumble arc to cover up to the fall of Beacon roughly.