The next day.
It's a peaceful sunday morning, everyone in team RWBY is still sleeping in. Ruby is the first to wake up with a smile on her face, "Can't wait to spend the day with Nobody!" Right when she said this, her scroll went off, she checked it and it was a message.
'Ruby,
I would like for you and your team to meet me in my office as soon as you can.
-Prof. Ozpin'
'Guess I spoke too soon' Ruby thought to herself. She went to wake her teammates up. Blake and Weiss were easy to wake, but she had a little trouble waking Yang. She then decided to push her sister off of her bed, this caused Yang to land face first to the ground.
"OUCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Yang yelled.
"Professor Ozpin has asked us to see him in his office when we can." Ruby replied.
"Must be important if he wants to see us this early." Weiss said.
"And on the weekend too." Yang muttered to herself.
The team changed into their normal attire and left to go see Ozpin. When they arrived, he was facing the window sipping on his coffee that seemed to never leave his hand. He then turned around to face team RWBY. "You must be wondering why I have asked you four to meet me this early." The girls nodded, "Well, we have had a report of a high activity of Grimm in a town about two hours from here. I would like for you girls to investigate the town and see if you can find out what is causing this unusual activity from the Grimm. You do not need to engage the Grimm unless you absolutely need to. How soon can you be ready to leave?"
The girls looked at each other and nodded, "As soon as possible." Ruby answered.
Ozpin nodded and replied with, "In that case, a private airship will arrive here in about 30 minutes. You are dismissed." And with that, team RWBY left his office and headed back to their room to get ready for the trip.
In team RWBY's room, 10 minutes before they had to leave, Ruby said, "Um, I have to go somewhere real quick before we leave."
"Alright, just make sure you make it back before we leave." Weiss said, getting her stuff ready.
Ruby left the room and started to walk towards team NKSM's room, right before she knocked on the door, "Hey, what are you doing here?" Ruby turned around to find who she was looking for.
"Oh, hey Nobody, I was just looking for you." Ruby said. "I just wanted to say that I might not be around for the rest of the day."
"Really? How come?" Nobody asked.
"Ozpin gave my team and I a mission, and I don't know when we'll be back, but i'm sure it won't be that long." Ruby said, then she grabbed his hand, "And when i'm back, we can hang out for a bit."
"That sounds like a plan, have a safe mission." Nobody said as he kissed her cheek, this caused Ruby to plush.
"I don't know if i'll ever get used to that." Ruby said as she started to laugh a bit. She said goodbye to Nobody and headed back to her room. She met up with her team and headed to the airship.
Two hours later.
The team was dropped off about five minutes from the town. The team walk the rest of the way until they made it to a area of what use to be a small village. Houses were demolished, crops were burned, and a lot of blood.
Ruby was a little terrified from what she saw, "What happened here? Grimm?"
"Yes," Blake answered as she was analyzing some scratch marks from a destroyed building. "But it looks a little different than what the normal Grimm would do."
"Sooo...what are you saying?" Yang asked.
"This might have been caused by a Grimm we have never encountered before." Weiss answered.
Then on cue, they heard movement from the forest nearby. The team then got their weapons ready to fight whatever was in the forest. For a few seconds, it was complete silence, then a mighty roar came from the forest, and by judging how loud it was, it was big. Then a giant Nevermore arose from the forest and headed straight for team RWBY. The team then started shooting everything they had at it, but the Nevermore wasn't affected by it, but instead of attacking the team, it just flew by them and started flying farther away. The team turned around to see the Grimm fly farther and farther away from them. "What was that about?" Yang asked. Then all of a sudden, they heard a loud thud and the ground started to shake. The team turned around to see what was behind them. The Nevermore wasn't trying to attack the team, it was trying to get away from the Grimm that was in the forest. The Grimm was twice the size than the Nevermore that passed them, the Grimm looked like a Tyrannosaurus with the armor plating covering its head and feet. "So, any plans?" Yang asked.
"Um, for now...RUN!" Ruby yelled as the team started to run away from the Grimm, this caused the Grimm to chase after them. Ruby looked back and noticed that it was catching up to them. "Weiss, set one of your glyphs under its foot." Ruby said, Weiss nodded and did what she was told, she set a glyph a few meters ahead of the beast, when it stepped on the glyph, Weiss activated it and then the creature was sent in the air and it landed on its back. The team stopped dead in their tracks, "Lets get it while its vulnerable!" Then the team headed toward the Grimm. When the team was close enough to the creature, it flipped itself rightside up and and it started to breathe fire, luckily, the team was able to dodge the attack before it hit them.
"It's smarter than it looks." Blake said as she was shooting at it with Gambol Shroud in its gun form.
The beast breathed in to ready its next attack, Ruby noticed this. "Weiss!" Ruby yelled, on cue, Weiss stabbed Myrtenaster in the ground and summoned a large wall of ice to block the the Grimm's attack. "Alright, this Grimm is smarter than any of the other Grimm that we have ever encountered, I think this thing is in it's own league, so-" before Ruby could finish, they heard thuds that were getting closer, they turned around and saw that the Grimm busted through the wall head on, shattering the ice into a million pieces with ease. "It's too much for us, retreat to the forest, we might be able to lose it in there!" Ruby said as the team started to head into the forest with the creature right on their tale. When they entered the forest, Ruby pulled out her scroll and pressed a button, this caused the scroll to start beeping. A few seconds later, the beast entered the forest, causing the trees to fall over the farther it went in. Luckily for the girls, the Grimm had a hard time finding them. This caused the Grimm to get irritated. It then breathed fire, causing the forest to catch on fire. This caused the girls to exit the forest and into the open, the Grimm saw the girls, jumped up in the air, and landed near them, causing a minor earthquake when the beast made contact with the ground. This caused the group to lose their balance and fall to the ground. The Grimm was a few feet from the girls and getting closer. Ruby then thought to herself, 'Someone...please help us...'
Back at Beacon.
Nobody was in the training room and was fighting a few sparring bots. He was winning with ease, even though the bots were set to the highest difficulty. A few minutes later, he got a message from his scroll. He opens it, it was from Ozpin and he wanted him to meet him in his office as soon as possible. After he read this, he headed to Ozpin's office to find him looking at his scroll. "You needed to see me sir?" Nobody said with his hands behind his back.
"Yes, we have a bit of an emergence." Ozpin said as he stood up from his chair, "About a couple hours ago, I sent some student to investigate a report about some Grimm activity . We have just received a distress signal from that group. Most likely, they encountered the Grimm and are in need of help."
"So you want me to go and rescue them?" Nobody asked. "What about the rest of my team, should they be coming along too?"
"Unfortunately, they have not answered any of the messages I have sent them for some reason, I would like for you to leave as soon as you can." Ozpin replied.
"Understood sir, I will leave now." Nobody said as he started to head out the door.
"And by the way," Ozpin said before Nobody left, "the team I sent was team RWBY." When Nobody heard this, he stop dead in his tracks. "This won't cause any problems, will it?" Ozpin asked as he sipped on his coffee.
Nobody stood there for a few seconds, "...no…" Right when he left the room, he made a mad dash out of the building. He made his way outside and was running to S.S.
"Well hello Nobody, what seems to be the trouble?" S.S. asked.
"Ruby's in trouble!" Nobody exclaimed
S.S. replied with, "With all do respect Nobody, why do you even care about that woman? She doesn't deserve to-"
Nobody interrupted her, "S.S., on ANY other day, I wouldn't care what you would say about anyone else, but I truly care for her and I do not like how you talk about her, so just for today, do me the favor and not say anything bad about her and help me!" S.S. was silent after he said this. "Now," he got on her, "What is the estimated time it would take to get to her?"
"Roughly around two hours." S.S. replied.
Nobody shook his head, "Not fast enough, i'm gonna override the power drive and give you as much juice as I can. Do you think you can handle it?"
"I'm not sure if I can, but I will do my best to help you reach her as fast as I can." S.S. said.
Nobody then said, "Thank you," he then focused his semblance to his hands, then his electricity started to surge into the spheres. "What is the estimated time now?"
"About 20 minutes." S.S. replied.
"Good enough." Nobody said, they raised from the ground and into the sky. "Hit it!" When he said that, they rocketed through the sky at amazing speed. Nobody then thought to himself, 'Ruby, please hang in their...'
Back with team RWBY.
The team has been hurt extremely bad from this Grimm they have been trying to defeat. "It's no use, we can't beat this thing." Weiss said as she was down on one knee.
"Come on Schnee," Yang said, "are you really gonna sit back and let this creature beat you that easily?"
Weiss then got back to her feet, "Hmm, i'm not gonna let you have the satisfaction to see me defeated."
"Uh, guys, can you guys talk about this later, we still have a giant monster right in front of us!" Ruby exclaimed trying to get them focused back on the Grimm. "Weiss, try to see if you can use your ice to freeze it to the ground, Blake, wrap your ribbon around the creatures snout so that we don't have to worry about its fire, i'll distract it and Yang, when you see an opening, activate your semblance and use all your strength to break its skull." When the team heard the plan, the Grimm charged at the girls. Ruby used her semblance to get its attention and the creature turned and started to go after Ruby, when it wasn't facing the team, Weiss used her glyph to quickly get underneath it and successfully freeze its feet to the ground. When the creature realized what happened, it inhaled so that it could use its fire to melt the ice, but before it could, Blake was able to wrap her weapon around its snout while on top of the beasts head which prevented it to breathe fire. Yang noticed that the Grimm wasn't able to move or attack, so she took this opportunity to activate her semblance which engulfed her in her flame aura, she then charged at the creature and put everything she had into this punch.
Ruby noticed that her plan was going well, too well to be exact. She then looked the beast in the eye, it looked back at her, and she could have sworn she saw it smile. The Grimm easily broke its feet out of the ice and kicked Weiss away, he ripped Blakes ribbon with ease and flung her off of her head. When Yang realized what happened, it was too late, the beast did a 180 and smacked its tail right into Yang which caused her to be flung into a tree and knocked her out. The Grimm then turned and faced Ruby. Ruby was terrified as to how smart and easily it was able to take out her team. Its mouth was about a foot away from Ruby's face, it opened its mouth and all Ruby could think of was, 'I'm going to die!' Right before it was about to eat her, the left side of its face just exploded, this didn't kill it, but it got its attention, Ruby saw this and thought, 'What was that?!' Ruby looked to her side and saw a familiar vehicle.
About a minute earlier.
"About how much farther?" Nobody asked.
"Couple hundred feet." S.S. replied
"When we're in range, I want you to lock-on to any threat in the area and fire the most powerful weapon you have." Nobody said.
Right when he said this, S.S. said, "Target Locked."
Nobody looked on the small screen he had and it showed what the creature looked like and what it just did to team RWBY. "Just in time, FIRE NOW!" Nobody exclaimed.
"Firing main weapon." S.S. said as she sent a mini missile straight for the Grimm. "Direct hit Nobody."
"Let's do this, i'm gonna fly over this thing and jump off, I want you to be parked somewhere safe, but yet within range incase anything happens to me." Nobody said as he was prepared to jump.
"Understood, and Nobody...please be safe…" S.S. said right before he jumped. When S.S. was flying away, she thought to herself, 'I don't know what I would do if I were to lose you...'
Nobody was falling through the sky, he landed on the Grimm's head and from the force of the impact, caused the creatures head to slam to the ground which knocked it out. "Hey!" Nobody yelled at the creature, "Why don't you pick on someone in your league?"
Ruby witnessed what happened and yelled, "Nobody!" She was very happy to see him here.
"Ruby, I want you to get your teammates and get away from here while I take care of ugly here." Nobody said as he motioned to the creature he was on top of.
"Nobody! Be careful, he's a lot smarter than he looks!" Ruby said as she started to back up.
"Don't worry about me, just get out of here." Nobody said as he felt the Grimm starting to wake up. Ruby nodded and did what she was told. Then the monster opened its eyes. "About time you woke up." Nobody mocked as he jumped off the creature. The Grimm stood up, "So, are we gonna do this the easy way, or the hard way?" Nobody asked. The creature roared in Nobody's face. "I'll take that as option B." The beast charged at him only for Nobody to dodge it with ease. "Is that the best you can do? Otherwise you might as well quit." The beast tried to breathe fire to hit Nobody. He saw this coming and jumped into the air, "My turn!" he then shot his electricity at the Grimm, which seemed to do a little harm to it. Nobody landed on the creatures back and started to do a fury swipe to its back. The Grimm roared in pain and Nobody jumped off its back. Then Nobody shot his bladed tips into the side of the beasts face and penetrated the armor plating. He then yanked his hands into a downward motion and this caused the the beast to tip over to its side and slammed its head to the ground. Nobody then retracted his bladed tips a was a foot away from the Grimm. "And stay down." He turned around and saw Ruby starting to run toward him.
"Nobody!" Ruby said with a smile thinking that Nobody won.
Nobody raised his hand showing a thumbs up and a smile, "Told you not to worry."
Ruby then had a horrified face, "Look out!" Before Nobody could turn around to see what happened, the creature got up and did a 180 and was able to hit Nobody with its tail sending him flying into a few trees, breaking them in the process. Ruby saw this and ran toward Nobody. He was starting to cough up blood. "Nobody, i'm so sorry. This is all my fault." Ruby said while she was holding his hand.
"No, it's not, I should not have let my guard down." Nobody said as he looked down at his chest and noticed there was a gash, not fatal, but it still hurt. "If it wasn't for my aura, I would have been dead." He then looked up and pushed Ruby out of the way. The creature charged at Nobody head on and made contact. Nobody was badly hurt, the Grimm roared to claim its victory, it raised its foot to finish off Nobody, but right before he slammed it to the ground to kill Nobody, it felt something hit its face. Ruby was using Crescent Rose in its gun form and trying to get the monsters attention, and it did work and it started to go after Ruby. Nobody was barely able to get up. 'Damn it, I really hope I didn't have to do this.' Nobody thought as he focused on his semblance.
Ruby was still shooting the creature trying to get it away from Nobody, she then reached into her pouch to get another clip ammo, only to find out she was out. When she looked up, the Grimm was a few feet away from her and was about to attack her, when all of a sudden, a blast of aura came from behind the creature, both Ruby and the Grimm looked behind it and say Nobody, but he looked different, his silver colored trench coat was now gold colored. "This is your last chance, leave now." Nobody said, his voice completely different than before. The creature turned around and roared at him. "Suit yourself." The creature charged at him and did his 180 tail whip attack, only for Nobody to vanish right before it would make contact. Nobody then reappeared right behind the creature, he then unsheathed his sword, " Seikatsu…" he then swung his sword and a slash of electric energy went through the Grimms neck in an instant, when Nobody sheathed his sword, the beasts head was decapitated, then the body slammed into the ground. Nobody started to float down and the moment he touched the ground, a flash of light surrounded Nobody and his coat was back to its silver color.
Ruby started to make her way to Nobody, then she saw him fall to his knees and started to cough up blood again. She then began to run towards him, "Nobody!" Ruby exclaimed.
"I should not have done that. Whenever I use that, I risk harming my body more." Nobody said, wiping the blood off of his lip.
"They why did you use it, you could have ran away." Ruby said, trying to help Nobody get back on his feet.
"Are you kidding me? You're my girlfriend, I wouldn't let the thing kill you, and besides," Nobody looked at the ground, "...I love you…" he said quietly.
"W-What did you say?" Ruby asked, not quite sure if she heard him correctly.
Nobody sighed, took his hood off, and looked Ruby in the eye, "I said, 'I love you'." He then cupped her cheek.
After Ruby heard this, she wrapped her arms around his neck and brought his face closer to hers, "I love you too Nobody." Ruby said, starting to tear up. She then kissed him. Nobody was surprised by what she did, but then he started to kiss her back. Ruby was starting to feel a tingling electricity feeling throughout her body. When the two separated from the kiss, there was a tiny spark of electricity between the Ruby and Nobody's lips.
Nobody saw the spark, "Heh, I guess you could say that was electrifying."
"You're just as bad as Yang." Ruby said, laughing to herself.
"I take offence to that!" The two slowly turn to see who said that, only to see Yang standing a few feet away with her hands on her hips, with Blake and Weiss closely behind her.
"H-How long have you been standing there?" Ruby asked starting to get a little red.
"Long enough, I do have to say," Yang said starting to approach the two, "It's about time you two would finally kiss." She stopped about a foot away from the two. "And by the way Nobody." Nobody looked at Yang, then all of a sudden, he was met with a fist in his face that sent him flying. "First, that was for yesterday, second, if you do anything to make my precious sister sad or anything else, you will pay dearly." Nobody laid on the ground, not moving, then he raised his arm and gave a thumbs up, meaning that he understood. Ruby then rushed over to make sure he was ok, she help him up.
"Are you ok?" Ruby asked.
"I flew here in 20 minutes, on what was suppose to be a 2 hour trip, fought a powerful Grimm, got my ass kicked by it, killed it, and then got punched in the face by your sister all just to save my girlfriend…" Nobody said with a blank expression, he then smiled, "I couldn't be better."
"So how are we suppose to make it back to Beacon?" Weiss asked.
"I'll send a message to Ozpin to tell him that the mission was a success, and then he should send a message to a nearby airship that should be able to pick you guys up." Nobody said as he was typing a message on his scroll. A few seconds later, his scroll received a message, "Ozpin said that a airship will be here in a few minutes." He folded his scroll and put it back in his pocket, "So if you guys are good, i'm gonna head back to S.S. and start heading back to Beacon." Yang, Blake, and Weiss nodded.
"Um, Nobody…" Ruby said.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Is it ok if I can ride home with you?" Ruby asked starting to rub the back of her head.
"If you want to, that's fine." Nobody said. Ruby then caught up to Nobody and the two were holding hands the rest of the way to reach S.S.
A few minutes later, an airship landed and picked up the rest of RWBY and started to head back to Beacon. Back with the dead Grimm, the body started to turn black and started to sink into the ground and create a pool of some sort of black mass. A mysterious figure appeared from the forest and raised its hand, then the black mass started to head toward the person and mysterious person absorbed it. Then a woman walked out from the forest as well wearing a red dress and had black hair. "I thought you said that your creation would be able to take care of those Huntress in training?" the woman asked.
"Well Cinder," the figure address the woman, "It would have been able to, but I did not expect him to come and save them."
"Well son," Cinder spoke back, "I guess this just shows that he is better than you, I am so disappointed in you."
After hearing this, he formed a blade claw type thing from his hand and held it at her neck, "Just because you are my mother, does not mean I will not kill you with a second thought." The two stared at each other for a few seconds.
Cinder then grabbed the tip of the blade and moved it away from her neck, "No need to be hostile, besides, we were able to get some info on Nobody." The figure looked at Cinder, "And that is that he cares about the one with the red hood, we could use that against him."
"We agreed that we would leave him out of this." The figure said.
"If he keeps intervening, then he is a threat to use too, do I make myself clear." Cinder said.
The figure glared at Cinder, "Yes mother."
"Good, be sure to tell your brothers about this and to stand by until further instructions are given." Cinder said as she started to walk away.
When Cinder was out of view, the mysterious figure spoke to itself, "I will not be bested by him…" He then entered what was left of the forest and then vanished.