I do not own RvB or RWBY
A/N: So this is it. The final chapter. I hope you have enjoyed this story till the end.
As the Wyoming clones began firing at them. Weiss, Tucker, and Church began running out of the base.
"They're getting away!" One of the Wyomings shouted. The copies then proceeded to follow them out as they continued to shoot at them.
"Come on!" Tucker shouted to Church.
"Hurry up Church!" Weiss shouted as well.
"Why aren't you two being affected by any of this?" Church asked as they ran.
"He said it has something to do with the sword," Tucker explained.
"For me, he assumed it was because I'm not from this universe," Weiss said.
Tucker stopped running and turned around. He then fired a shot from the sniper rifle, and shot one of the Wyomings right in the head.
"I told you to stop doing that!" Weiss shouted. Even though Wyoming wanted to kill them, she would never condone killing anyone.
"Like I said before," Tucker said to Weiss. "It's us or him. You may not like it, but around here, we can't afford to worry about the freakin' welfare of the people shooting at us. We gotta kill to stay alive. It's called reality."
Weiss just grumbled at Tucker's words. While his methods may be what's needed right now, that didn't mean she needed to participate as well. She pulled out Myrtenaster and created several glyphs, shielding them from the gunfire. Pointing her rapier, Weiss pushed the glyphs forward towards the Wyomings, knocking them back.
"You do things your way, I'll do them my way," Weiss said with some finality.
"Who said what?" Church said, trying to get back on topic. "When?"
"Just trust us!" Weiss shouted.
"Let's move!" Tucker shouted. The three of them did just that.
As they ran past the ledge of the base, Tucker turned and shot another Wyoming on top of the ledge, who now fell off the ledge, dead.
"We need to head to the cliff!" Weiss said. "That's where Tex is!"
"Are you sure?" Church asked, stopping on his tracks beside some rocks.
Weiss turned around to Church and summoned another glyph, pushing forward towards Church. Church immediately ducked, the glyph blocking the Wyoming behind Church from shooting at him. That Wyoming was immediately shot from behind by Tucker, who caught up with the two.
"Hey you know what, I kinda like this new all-knowing badass Tucker. He's certainly a lot better than the old one," Church commented. "And this new Weiss is actually trying to keep me alive. Who would've thought that?" Church then began to head between the rocks.
"No Church wait! The other way!" Tucker shouted.
Church stopped when he saw that he was face to face with tank controlling Gamma.
"KNOCK KNOCK CHURCH," Gamma said as he prepared to fire.
"Son of a bitch!" Church shouted.
Gamma fired, but Weiss was able to create glyph between Church and the shell, stopping Church from getting killed, but the impact of the shell to the glyph caused a small explosion which knocked Church back. Weiss headed towards Church.
"Get up and keep moving," Weiss said, pulling Church back to his feet. They then continued running away from the base.
"I meant the other other way," Tucker said as he caught up beside the two. "My bad dude."
"I take back what I said!" Church shouted at Tucker. "You still suck."
The three of them finally made it behind the cliff, where they saw Tex hiding.
"Okay Tex, you're here," Weiss said. "Now listen-"
"What the hell!?" Tex shouted. "Why do you guys keep giving away my position?"
"It doesn't matter," Tucker said. "They know where you are any way. DUCK!"
On command, Church and Tex ducked, narrowly avoiding a bullet that passed over the area where their heads were a moment ago.
"See?" Tucker said smugly.
"What's going on?" Tex asked, confused by what was happening.
"Tex, this is almost gonna be impossible to explain, but they know exactly what's going on," Church stated. "We just need to trust them."
"Trust them," Tex said skeptically. "The snow princess and the guy that shot me ten minutes ago."
"Yeah well that's I mean... you know, come on," Church muttered. "Kind of a bitch."
"It sounds strange, but it's the truth," Weiss said. "So if you want to make it out of this alive, you'll have to listen to us."
"Grrgh, fine," Tex said reluctantly. Weiss smirked a bit as she took some pleasure in being able to give orders to the female Freelancer. Weiss thought of it as a form of payback for her earlier comments.
"Don't worry," Church said. "Now that we're together, I'm sure they have an awesome plan. Right guys?"
"Right, now you and Tex stay here and distract the Wyomings," Weiss said. "Tucker and I will take care of the tank. Let's go Tucker," Weiss and Tucker then began to leave.
"Distract!" Church shouted incredulously. "How!?"
"Not getting killed is a great way to start!" Tucker suggested. "Watch your back!"
"Jesus!" Church shouted as he and Tex began to run as well, the Wyomings following and shooting at the pair.
Tucker and Weiss made it over a hill and finally spotted Caboose, who was just standing around doing nothing.
"Caboose, are you ready to help?" Tucker asked. "We need you to do something."
"Great!" Caboose said.
"We're going to need you to run out there and get the tank to shoot at you and try to draw it closer to the ship," Weiss explained. "It's going to be extremely dangerou-"
"Okay!" Caboose answered quickly.
Weiss was a little surprised with Caboose's quick reply. "You don't want to hear any-"
"I'm good," Caboose quickly said again.
"Caboose, that's why I always liked you," Tucker said. "Everything falls in to two categories. Either you don't understand it, or you just don't care."
"Yeah, I don't know what you mean by that." Caboose replied. "But I guess it doesn't matter."
"Exactly," Tucker said. Weiss merely shook her head at Caboose's simple thinking.
"Why didn't you have Tex or Church help?" Caboose asked. "Is it because I'm the best?"
"Not exactly," Weiss said.
"It's because Church is an asshole and Tex doesn't trust me right now," Tucker replied.
"Really? Why not?" Caboose asked.
"Because I got to use the sniper rifle and I ended up unloading a round in to her ass," Tucker said.
"Please don't phrase it like that." Weiss said.
"Hey chicka bum-bum," Caboose said.
"Caboose, what did I tell you about that!?" Tucker said, insulted that Caboose would use his catchphrase, and moreover, get it wrong.
"Sorry," Caboose said.
"Alright you two," Weiss said. "Let's just get this done.
As soon as he spotted the tank, Caboose quickly started getting its attention.
"Hey. Big mean tank jerk!" Caboose shouted. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?"
The tank turned to face Caboose and began heading is way.
Yeah, that's more like it," Cabose said, until he realized that he got the attention of a tank that was coming his way to most likely kill him. "Uh oh."
The tank began firing several shots, but a glyph soon appeared in front of Caboose, protecting him. However, the tank was getting closer and continued to fire, causing the glyph to begin to weaken."
"Just hold on Caboose," Weiss muttered, trying to maintain the glyph.
"Uh- okay," Caboose replied, through he was beginning to freak out. "Uh Tucker, uh, uh here it comes. Tucker?" Caboose saw that Tucker had not shown up yet. "...Tucker."
Eventually, the tank broke through the glyph, and stopped inches away from Caboose, its barrel pointed directly at him.
"Um, yeah, I- I I didn't really mean anything," Caboose said, trying to diffuse the situation. "I I just wanted to say um... Hi?"
"Tucker, hurry!" Weiss shouted.
"I'm moving!" Tucker said. He was running from behind the tank and carrying a cable. He then attached the cable behind the tank.
"Now Sheila!" Weiss shouted on her Scroll.
"Affirmative," Sheila replied from the other end.
"WHAT!" Gamma shouted. "NOOOoooo...!" The barrel then dropped down as the tank shut off.
"Did you get him Sheila?" Tucker asked.
"I have him! He is currently isolated behind a firewall," Sheila informed them. "He is attempting to get through, but it will take some time. He is not that smart."
"Great," Tucker said. "Caboose, stay here. I'll be back in a bit." Tucker then headed back to where they left Church and Tex.
"Okay, but I still don't know what's happening," Caboose said, confused and not understanding that the tank shut down. "Good tank? Nice tank?"
Weiss just sighed. "Just stay here Caboose. I'm going to go with Tucker." She then followed Tucker back to Church and Tex.
Back at Blue base, The Reds were still watching the Blues, specifically Church and Tex, being assaulted by the Wyomings.
"Man, that seems like a really big fight," Simmons commented.
"Yeah. Looks like they don't stand much of a chance," Sarge said. "Ah, those Blues are finally getting what they deserve. I always knew this day would come."
"You mean you knew that the Blues would be killed by an unknown group of cloned enemies while in control of our base, and while we were in control of theirs?" Donut said. "Seriously? You knew that was coming."
"Absolutely," Sarge stated. "It's so obvious. Durrr. What a glorious day to be Red."
"And the best part of it all is that the Blues are finally gonna be driven out of the canyon, and we get to sit on the sidelines," Grif pointed out. "Man, someone does all the battling and we just have to kick back and let 'em take the glory, while we enjoy the benefits. We don't have to do anything."
Sarge immediately growled at hearing what Grif said.
Grif immediately sighed, regretting his words and realizing what they were going to do now. "You know, one of these days, and I don't know when, I'm gonna learn to shut my fuckin' mouth."
"Hey," Donut realized. "Where're Ruby and Yang?"
When Blake fired her weapon, Yang immediately got between Ruby and the bullets, taking the hits. With her Semblance, Yang wasn't injured and was able absorb the attacks.
"Blake, what the heck!?" Yang shouted, confused by her partner's action.
"Die human filth!" Blake shouted as she changed her gun into its katana form and charged forward.
Yang activated Ember Celica and used the gauntlets to block Blake incoming blade.
"Blake, what's wrong with you!" Ruby shouted.
"What's wrong is that I should've done this when I first met you," Blake said, her voice lower than normal and sounding deranged. "I know I need to take you alive, but I'm sure a few missing limbs wouldn't be a problem. And as for the Schnee girl, she'll know the rage of all the Faunus that her family has persecuted! Then I'm going to kill all the humans here and show them the terror of the Faunus race!"
"Okay, you are not Blake," Yang said. She then pushed Blake back and punched her in her stomach, releasing a kinetic blast and knocking Blake away.
"Yang, what's going on with Blake?" Ruby asked, concerned for their friend.
"I don't know," Yang said. "But whatever's going on, I think it has something to do with that helmet."
"So, we take off the helmet, Blake goes back to normal," Ruby guessed.
"Either way, we're gonna have to fight her," Yang said.
Ruby nodded as she pulled out Crescent Rose and unfolded it into its Scythe form.
Blake raised both her katana and sheath and charged forward.
As soon as she was close, Blake used her Semblance and created a clone, leaving it in her place and propelling herself forward and behind Yang and Ruby. Blake raised her blades and prepared to strike.
However, Ruby quickly reacted, grabbing Yang and using her Semblance to speed above Blake. In the air, Yang then fired several long-range shots at Blake, but Blake was able to dodge the shots. Yang then launched herself forward with her gauntlets at Blake and began to deliver several punches at her.
Blake blocked the punches, but not all of them. Yang was dealing some damage to her, and Blake couldn't allow it any further. She created several clones in rapid succession, allowing her to move around Yang quickly and deliver several cuts.
Yang didn't feel any damage though, as she absorbed all of Blake's slashes. Once she was done, Yang punched the ground, creating a shock wave and knocking Blake off balance.
"Ruby, now!" Yang shouted.
Ruby quickly appeared behind Blake and attempted to grab her from behind to restrain her. However, when Ruby made contact, 'Blake' instantly dissipated, having been another clone. The real Blake appeared behind Ruby and swung her sheath, knocking Ruby right in the head and down to the ground, knocked out.
"Ruby!" Yang shouted.
"I think I changed my mind," Blake declared as she walked towards the unconscious Ruby, raising her blade. "I think I'll just kill you!"
"No!" Yang shouted, unable to contain her anger as she saw her sister in danger. Her eyes turned a bright red as flames surrounded her hair. She rushed forward and tackled Blake, delivering several punches in rapid succession. Yang threw one final punch, knocking Blake to the ground.
Yang exhaled heavily as her hair and eyes returned to normal. She then went to Ruby, who was getting back up.
"Ruby, are you okay?" Yang asked.
"I'm good," Ruby said. "Just a little roughed up. Where's Blake?"
Yang looked over to their unconscious teammate. "I'll go check on her and take off the helmet, you call Weiss and see what's happening with the Blues."
"Got it," Ruby said as Yang headed to Blake. Ruby was about reach for her Scroll but realized that it wasn't on her. She then remembered that she had given her Scroll to Weiss so she could have Simmons fix it to work. This left Ruby with no way to contact anyone.
"Wait a minute," Ruby said as she remembered that she did have something to call them with. Ruby then pulled out the helmet that Donut asked her to carry. She figured that the radio in the helmet still worked, so she decided to give it a try and put it on.
"How do you turn this thing on?" Ruby wondered. When she was able to finally switch the radio on, she felt something... weird in her head as she gave a short yelp before her mind blacked out.
As Yang headed to Blake, she saw Blake stirring and getting up. Yang raised her arms again, preparing for another fight.
"You up for round two?" Yang said as she readied herself.
"Yang?" Blake asked, sounding weak and confused.
Yang noticed that Blake's voice was back to normal and no longer the voice that she had when she attacked them.
Blake then removed the helmet over her head and was giving Yang a confused expression. "What happened?"
"We should be asking you that!" Yang shouted. "You attacked us and tried to kill us! Want to explain what all that was about!?"
Blake touched her forehead, feeling a major headache. "The last thing I remember was getting captured in the caves. I had this helmet placed over me, then I blacked out."
"That is really weird. Hey Ruby!" Yang called her sister as she turned around. "Blake's up, and she's got a weird-"
Yang failed to finish speaking as she saw Ruby swing Crescent Rose, hitting Yang under the chin, causing her to fly overhead into the air.
Ruby turned to face Blake, who was already up and raising her weapons in defense.
"You're next," Ruby said in a deep voice.
After Tucker and Weiss met back with Church and Tex, the four of them found themselves pinned down as they hid behind the rocks which were their only cover from the the firing squad of Wyomings.
"Okay, I'll take the ones on the right, you take the ones on the left," Church said to Tex.
"There's twice as many on the left," Tex stated.
"I know, I can count," Church replied.
"Just keep backing them up!" Tucker shouted as he tried firing at them.
"Why, what are we waiting-" Church began to say but stopped when he began to hear some sort of Tejano music.
"Wait a sec," Church then looked over the rock to see what was going on, as the music grew progressively louder. "The hell is that music!?" Tucker, Tex, and Weiss looked over the rock as well.
"That's our backup," Weiss said.
Suddenly, the Warthog, still playing the music, came over the hill, running down most of the Wyomings on the left. Once the vehicle stopped, Sarge shot down the Wyoming nearest him.
"Yeah, now that's what I call ridin' shotgun," Sarge shouted joyously. "Blammo, haha!"
"Excellent shot, and follow-up one-liner Sir," Simmons commented as he stood behind the vehicle's chain gun.
"Thank you Simmons," Sarge said before he fired at another Wyoming trying to get in the driver's side of the Warthog. "Now get to blastin'"
"On it sir," Simmons then started to fire the gun of the Warthog, shooting down two more Wyomings, while the other clones began shooting at them.
"Yeah, suck it Blue! And you too White!" Simmons shouted, enjoying the shootout. "Suck it crackers!"
"Crackers? I thought you were Dutch Irish?" Grif tried clarifying as he drove the Warthog.
"Fuck that shit. Shut up and drive, bitch," Simmons said, not paying attention to anything else but shooting. Grif did as he was told and drove right towards the crowd of Wyomings, running down several of them, and Simmons shooting the ones that weren't hit.
"You like that? Yeah, I got plenty more here!" Simmons shouted. "Take that ya honkey mother fuckers!"
Simmons stopped firing when they saw that, as far as they could see, all the Wyomings were dead and on the ground.
"Hey Reds!" Caboose yelled as he ran in front of the Warthog. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?"
As soon as they heard Caboose, the Reds turned the Warthog to his direction and began to go after him.
"Uh, is he going to be okay?" Weiss asked.
"I am Caboose! The vehicle destroyer!" Caboose shouted as he ran, the Warthog following him.
"...Yeah, probably," Tucker said.
"Hey one of them's still alive," Church said, getting their attention.
The four of them crowded around one of the Wyomings, who was struggling to breathe and stay alive.
"What's your plan, Wyoming?" Church asked, wanting answers. "Why are you here, and what do you want with Junior, and Team RWBY?"
"He already told us," Weiss explained. "He wanted my team so that they could find a way into our dimension and take any resources or weapons for their war."
"Yeah," Tucker said. "And my kid is the last part of that big prophecy we thought failed."
"That part Tucker explained to me after a while," Weiss added.
"He's supposed to become some big religious savior for their whole race. Or some crap," Tucker explained.
"What?" Tex said in surprise.
"Yeah, so they wanna make Junior fulfill the prophecy and have O'Malley infect him," Tucker continued. "Then they can use him to enslave all the aliens by corrupting their religion from the inside."
"Okay. That's disgusting," Church said.
"No, that's our job," Wyoming stated, struggling to speak with his injuries. "To win the war at any cost."
"That isn't winning," Weiss said. "You're planning on subjecting those creatures to a cruel fate. No one deserves that."
"They wouldn't think twice of doing the same thing to us," Wyoming argued.
"Yeah well good luck," Church said. "Now that we have you, all we need to do is stop O'Malley. And Tex will be more than happy to do that."
"Oh on the contrary my friend," Wyoming chuckled. "Now that she knows our plan, not only will she not stop us, our dear Tex is going to help us."
"Oh yeah, I'm sure she'd be happy to help O'Malley," Church said sarcastically. "Ain't that right Tex?"
Tex did not respond and fell silent.
"Tex?" Church said.
"He's right," Tex suddenly said.
"What?" Tucker said.
"What?" Weiss said.
Suddenly, Tex shot Wyoming right in the face, killing him. The others didn't have time to feel shocked at her actions as Tex then proceeded to get on her radio. "This is Freelancer Tex broadcasting on an open channel.
"Tex! What are you doing!?" Church shouted in disbelief.
"You want me O'Malley? Come and get me," Tex stated.
"Oh fuck this," Church said as he switch on his radio. "This is Private Church broadcasting on an open channel."
"What are you doing!?" Tex demanded.
"I'm making you harder to find," Church revealed. "Tucker, turn on your radio!"
"Fuhuck that!" Tucker stated. "If O'Malley gets me he'll take the sword. Get Weiss to turn on her Scroll."
"I doubt that would slow him down," Weiss said.
"Yeah, but at least you won't get infected," Tucker pointed out. "O'Malley can only get in your head through the helmet radios."
"... Fair point," Weiss said as she turned on the radio in her Scroll, now broadcasting as well.
"Attention all Blues!" Church said through the radio. "Turn on your radio and start broadcasting right now!"
"Okay, I'm on the radio too now!" Caboose said over the radio. "This is fun! What do you want to talk about?"
"Well, he can't find you now Tex," Church said confidently.
"Don't get involved Church," Tex said. "Omega wants me, he can have me."
"Why, so you can kidnap Tucker's kid?" Church accused.
"And enslave an alien race?" Weiss added.
"What's up with that, bitch?" Tucker declared with some outrage.
"It's like Wyoming said," Tex said. "We have to win the war at any cost."
"Even if that cost means enslaving an entire race to an A.I. which, from what you've said, is insane and wants to kill everyone," Weiss pointed out.
"She's right," Church agreed. "What about after? You think Omega's just gonna stop after he gets a whole species for an army? He's gonna take over everything Tex, and you're not gonna be able to stop him!"
"I guess we'll find out," Tex said, clearly adamant on her decision.
"Hey Church? It's Doc," Doc called over through the radio and Weiss' Scroll. "Yeah uh, you remember that Blue leader guy down here? Well, you might want to know that he keeled over a while back. And after that Blake left."
"Wait, what do you mean Blake left?" Weiss asked. "Why would she just leave?"
"The Blue guy put a helmet over her head," Sister said, inserting herself into the conversation. "Then she got all weird, started laughing and left."
"Shit," Church said. "It's probably O'Malley."
"Yeah, so I think O'Malley's on his way. Just FYI," Doc said.
"Tex, shut off your radio," Church ordered.
"I would get away from me if I were you," Tex said threateningly.
"Not a chance," Weiss said. "Doc, do you have any idea where Blake is?"
"I have no idea. And that alien guy here took off with Junior too," Doc said. "If you want I could look for them on this computer down here."
"Computer?" Church asked.
"Yeah. It's showing us the whole canyon," Doc informed them. "By the way, what's with all the dead white guys?"
"What computer?" Church asked. "You know what, never mind. Just keep looking for him, and tell me if you find him."
"Okay," Doc replied before he switched off his radio.
A moment passed between the group before they all raised their weapons, with Church, Tucker, and Weiss on one side, pointing their weapons at Tex.
"Tex, is he in there?" Church asked, unsure if the rogue A.I. was already around.
"No," Tex replied. "Not yet."
"Bullshit, I don't believe you," Church stated.
"Believe what you want Church," Tex said dismissively. "The only thing you need to know is that O'Malley coming with me, and so is the kid."
"What about my friends?" Weiss asked.
"Not interested in what Wyoming was gonna do to you," Tex replied. "As long as you stay out of my way, we won't have a problem."
"You actually think that me or my friends will let you do this?" Weiss said. "We're not going to let you enslave anyone."
"An what exactly are you gonna do about it?" Tex asked.
Weiss replied by bringing the point of her rapier closer towards Tex. "I'm going to stop you."
Tex tilted her head up for a second before looking back to Weiss again. "I don't think you will."
"What is that suppose to-"
Weiss stopped speaking when Yang landed right on top of her.
"Ow," Weiss muttered on the ground.
"Sorry," Yang groaned.
"You can be sorry when you get off me!" Weiss shouted.
Yang stood up and got off Weiss and then proceeded to help her up.
"Where have you been!" Weiss shouted. "You went down a hole to look for Ruby and the Reds' leader and you never came back. Now you show up falling from the sky!"
"Yeah, funny story about that," Yang began to explain.
However, the two of them were interrupted as another figure was thrown in their direction and landed on the ground beside them.
"Blake!?" Weiss said in surprise. "What happened to you?"
"Explanations later," Blake said weakly as she got back on her feet. "We have other problems."
Everyone looked to the direction that Blake was thrown from and saw what she was talking about.
"Ruby!?" Weiss said, seeing their red-cloaked leader in front of them.
However, Weiss noticed that Ruby was acting strangely. For starters, she was wearing a helmet. Secondly, she had Crescent Rose out and pointed towards them.
"You fools will taste oblivion!" Ruby shouted in a deep voice. "Hahahaha!"
"Oh no," Church said.
"O'Malley," Tex growled. She then charged forward intending to knock out Ruby and take back her A.I.
"Tex, don't!" Church shouted.
Weiss immediately rushed forward as well, planning to stop Tex, and save Ruby from Omega.
"I'm guessing that you know what's going on?" Yang asked, turning to Church and Tucker.
"Yeah, short version is that there's a evil Artificial Intelligence infecting Ruby," Church tried to explain. "And now Tex is trying to take it back inside her, which will make things really bad."
"Like really really bad," Tucker emphasized.
The four of them then witnessed the fight that was about to erupt between Weiss, Tex, and Ruby-Omega.
"Shouldn't you guys like do something?" Yang asked Church.
"Have you met us?" Church stated flatly. "We're not exactly the A-Team. Or B. Or even Z. We can't exactly stop them. What about you two? Aren't you suppose be some kind of badass huntresses?"
"We are!" Yang assured them. "Except that I sort of used up all my Aura and Dust ammunition when me and Ruby were fighting Blake when she was being controlled by the A.I..."
"What about you?" Tucker asked Blake.
"Pretty much useless right now," Blake admitted. "I'm too injured after getting beaten."
"Yeah, sorry about that," Yang said, sheepishly.
"So, you've just left your teammate to deal with your other teammate, who is currently being infected with an A.I., and a professional soldier that can probably tear someone in two," Church said.
"I'm sure she'll be fine," Yang shrugged.
Weiss was not fine.
She prepared herself when she decided to fight against Tex, believing that she could take her on one-on-one. She didn't expect to have to deal with Ruby as well. Especially a psychotic Ruby that wants to kill everyone.
The plan should be simple. All she had to do was take down the possessed Ruby and get the helmet off her, while also making sure that Tex didn't get a chance to take back her A.I.
Fighting two people that would probably kill her if she wasn't careful. Weiss was really not enjoying this at all.
Weiss first released some Ice Dust onto Myrtenaster, then stabbed it on the ground. Ice then shot up from the ground, and combined with her glyphs, it created a large wall of ice that blocked the way between Tex and Ruby-Omega.
"That should keep them separated for a while," Weiss thought. She then began to make her way to Ruby, deciding to take her down first.
"Ruby!" Weiss shouted to her infected partner. "If you can hear me, please stop!"
"Never!" Ruby-Omega shouted. "I'm the leader, I make the decisions! And my first order of business, eliminate the opposition!" She then started firing several shots from Crescent Rose at Weiss. Weiss created several glyphs in front of her, shielding herself from the bullets.
"Ruby, I don't want to hurt you!" Weiss shouted as the glyphs dissipated.
"Good, it'll make it easier for me to kill you," Ruby declared. She pointed her scythe behind her and fired a shot, propelling herself forward, and after getting close enough, swung her scythe right at Weiss.
Weiss blocked the attack with her rapier, though Ruby pressed forward, intent on ending Weiss.
"Prepare to be sliced into itty-bitty pieces, Ice Queen. Mwhahahaha!" Ruby cackled.
However, before Ruby could press the attack any further, she was kicked on her side by Tex, who had punched her way through the wall of ice, and knocked Ruby to the side.
"I suppose I should say than-"
Weiss was cut short as Tex grabbed her by the neck.
"I told you what would happen if you got in my way," Tex said. She then pulled out her handgun and pointed it directly at Weiss' forehead. "Give up yet?"
Weiss struggled to speak due to Tex's grip, but was able to get a few words out, giving the female soldier a smirk. "I suggest you take a step forward."
"What the hell does that-"
Tex was immediately hit on her right as Ruby delivered a drop kick, knocking Tex back and causing her to let go of Weiss.
"You die first, bitch!" Ruby shouted at Tex.
"Ruby, language!" Weiss shouted. She knew Ruby wasn't in control of her words or actions, but hearing her say those kind of things just didn't feel right.
Ruby ignored Weiss and charged right towards Tex. Tex pulled out another of her handguns and began firing both guns at Ruby. Ruby twirled Crescent Rose around her, blocking and deflecting the oncoming bullets.
As she got closer to Tex, Ruby fired a shot behind her and propelled herself forward, swinging her scythe and aiming for Tex's head. Tex threw down her guns and grabbed the blade with both her hands, stopping it inches from her helmet.
"O'Malley, I know you're in there," Tex said, still keeping the scythe away from her face. "End this now and get back in me."
"Where's the fun in that," Ruby said. "I'll get back in you, but first, I'm going to make sure you won't fight back!" Ruby then pulled out a handgun she had hidden under her cloak and pointed right at Tex. "Time for you to-"
Ruby was knocked away from Tex as a flurry of ice crystals pushed her back. Tex turned to see Weiss had created a glyph and was still pushing Ruby back.
"Why did you help me?" Tex asked in confusion.
"Despite what you're planning to do and what you almost did to me, I'm not a person who would stand by when someone else might get killed, despite what I think of their decisions," Weiss stated.
"Hmph, if it makes you feel any better, I wasn't really gonna kill you," Tex admitted. "You're just a kid, and I don't want that kind of thing on my conscience." After a beat, Tex added, "I was probably just gonna shoot you in the arm or leg or something."
"Surprisingly, that doesn't make me feel better at all," Weiss said. "Oh by the way, I'm apologizing in advance."
"For what?" Tex asked.
"For this," Weiss said as she switched the chamber of Myrtenaster into the red chamber, placing the Dust into the blade. She then created a glyph and placed her blade through it, the glyph turning red. She then moved the glyph towards Tex and immediately put some distance between them. The glyph then exploded right in front of Tex, the blast sending her upward and away.
"Son of a bitch!" Tex shouted as she flew off the distance.
"That should take care of her for now," Weiss said. She then faced Ruby, who was regaining her composure. "Now, all that's left is to deal with you."
Weiss then switched the chamber of her rapier again, placing yellow Dust into the blade. Weiss went into her stance. She knew she had only one chance to strike, so she had to wait until the exact moment to attack.
"Well then," Weiss goaded Ruby. "Are you waiting for an invitation or are you frightened?"
"Die!" Ruby growled as she raised her scythe, and using her Semblance, dashed forward.
Weiss had seen Ruby move with intense speed many times, and it was always difficult to spot her. But the fact that she had seen Ruby move this fast many times taught Weiss to know exactly how fast Ruby was moving and how to attack.
It was a split second, but as Ruby was inches away from attacking, Weiss dashed forward and in one swing, slashed Ruby right on her the helmet. Upon contact, the Dust on Weiss' blade released a surge of electricity, short circuiting the helmet and shocking Ruby enough to knock her down to the ground.
Weiss turned and went to her partner, removing the helmet. She could see that Ruby looked okay, just unconscious.
Weiss sighed in relief. "Glad to have you back."
However, her joy was short lived as she was immediately hit from behind, and was knocked out.
"Now, we're even bitch," Tex said. She then noticed the unconscious Ruby and the fried helmet. "Shit." O'Malley most likely jumped to another person, and now Tex didn't even know who. She just growled in frustration and crushed what was left of the fried helmet.
"Where are you O'Malley?" Tex said through clenched teeth.
"What happened? Are they alright? What's going on?"
Church took his attention away from the scope of his sniper rifle and faced Yang. "Maybe I would find out faster if you didn't ask me what was going on every five seconds!"
The fight with Weiss, Tex, and Ruby-Omega had been moved to a farther location, with none of them able to see what was going on. This led to Church, who had the only thing that was capable of seeing at far distances, to try to assess the situation.
"Well, what did you see?" Blake asked.
"The only thing I saw was ice flying around and some explosions," Church mentioned.
"That's not very helpful," Tucker said.
"Hey, at least I'm trying to do something," Church shot back, irritated. "What are you contributing right now?"
"Hey, both of you quit fighting," Yang said. "Let's focus and try to find out what happened."
"Um guys," Blake said, calling their attention.
They all turned to see Tex walking towards them carrying both Ruby and Weiss over both her shoulders.
"Ruby!" Yang shouted. She immediately rushed towards Tex, who dropped Ruby down to her sister.
"Tex, what happened?" Church asked.
"Omega's out of Ruby and still roaming around the canyon," Tex explained.
"And I'm guessing you're still planning to get him back and finish your plan," Blake accused. "Church filled us in on what's happened."
"That's none of your concern," Tex replied coldly.
"Okay, we don't need to get into another fight," Yang said. "Let's just be glad he's out of Ruby."
"Yeah, but where's he now?" Tucker wondered. "I mean, he could've jumped in someone else, but we wouldn't know who-"
He was cut short as another radio transmission was being picked up in their helmets and Yang and Blake's Scrolls.
"Nothing, why does something have to be wrong with my voice? Maybe something's wrong with your voice," Simmons said over the radio, though his voice was now deeper. "You ever think about that cocksucker?"
"I think we know where O'Malley is," Yang said, pointing out the obvious.
At that moment, Tex suddenly threw Weiss to them. Blake caught Weiss before she hit the ground. Tex then hit Church with the end of her rifle, knocking him down and ran, heading to the direction of the Reds.
"Fuck!" Church shouted. "Tucker, stop her!"
Tucker pulled out one of his grenades and threw it at Tex. The grenade missed by a small distance and Tex was able to escape.
"Shit," Church said as he got back to his feet. "We need to go after her, come on!" Church then began running to the direction of the Reds as well.
"I'll go after him," Blake said. "You two stay here and keep an eye on Ruby and Weiss."
"Got it," Yang replied.
"Keeping away from potentially getting killed and staying with three chicks? No complaints here," Tucker said.
Blake just rolled her eyes and followed Church.
Church and Blake finally spotted the Reds, who were in some sort of argument.
"Hey Reds!" Church shouted as the two of them reached the group.
"Freeze, you dirty Blue!" Sarge shouted as he pointed his shotgun at Church. "Oh, hello there Blake," he said in a friendlier tone.
"No wait, don't shoot," Blake said. "We're here to help you."
"Yeah," Church said. "Omega's on the loose, and I think he's infected one of your guys."
"Infected?" Sarge declared in surprise. "Initiate Emergency Plan Delta men!" He then turned and fired his shotgun at Grif.
"Ow!" Grif shouted as he collapsed. "What the fuck!?"
"We didn't say who was infected yet," Blake deadpanned.
"We actually think it might be Simmons," Church said.
"That's okay," Donut assured them. "That's how all our emergency plans begin."
Simmons then ran up to the Warthog's turret, aiming it right at Sarge.
"Simmons, get off that gun right now!" Sarge ordered.
"No!" Simmons shouted in his deep voice.
"What did you say to me?" Sarge said, shocked at what Simmons said.
"I said no, hahaha!" Simmons laughed. "How do you like that? No!"
"Well since you asked, I don't like it at all!" Sarge shouted.
"First, I'm going to kill you. And then my plan to be leader of the Reds will be complete!" Simmons stated. "After that I'm going to kill every being in the Universe. From now on, everyone will kiss my ass, mwahahahahaha!"
"Yeah, it's definitely Simmons that got infected," Church said.
"You don't say," Blake said dryly.
"Donut!" Sarge shouted "Initiate Emergency Plan Traitor Simmons Number Eleven!"
"Got it Sir," Donut said. He then turned to Grif, who had just gotten back up, and fired a shot at him.
"Ow-how-how-how," Grif gagged as he dropped to the ground again.
"Donut! I said plan eleven!" Sarge shouted.
"Where am I gonna get a steamroller?" Donut asked.
Blake just facepalmed while Church sighed at the display.
"Simmons, do not fire that weapon," Sarge commanded. "That's an order!"
"Too late Sarge!" Simmons declared triumphantly. "Simmons is getting a promotion. Mwahaha, mwa-"
Simmons' laughter was interrupted as he was knocked down from the turret by Tex, who had been sneaking up behind him. She then proceeded to continue beating him.
Simmons was obviously not okay with this, and his words were making it abundantly clear. "Ow, the back of my lower legs! Ow, the side of my head! The back of my face! The front of my front!"
"Blake! Church!"
Blake and Church turned to see Tucker and Yang, both of them carrying a still unconscious Ruby and Weiss, heading their way.
"Hey Church, we think Tex is over here!" Tucker shouted.
"Thanks for the update!" Church said sarcastically.
"Tex I know now might not be the best time," Sarge began to say to Tex, who had finally stopped her attack on Simmons. "But I'd really like you to consider coming over to the Red team. Technically you know black is just a really dark shade of red. We'll talk later."
"Church, are we still talking on the radio?" Caboose asked over the radio. They all saw that he was a few feet from them, hiding behind a tree. He then suddenly began laughing maniacally. "'Cause I'd love to talk on the radio. What? What am I doing in this idiot?"
Tex quickly headed to Caboose's direction and dropped to the ground.
"Hegagergerk!" Caboose groaned as he stood perfectly still.
"Um, what just happened?" Yang asked.
"Tex just ditched her body and went inside Caboose's head," Tucker explained. "Oh yeah, Tex is a ghost like Church too. Did we forget to mention that?"
"Yes, you did," Blake replied in irritation.
"Oh crap," Church said, seeing the situation they were in. He then turned to Sarge. "Sarge, I need you to do me a favor. If I'm not outta there in ten minutes, I'm gonna need you to help disable that ship. 'Cause if Tex gets out of here with O'Malley and that kid, there's no one that's gonna be able to stop her." Church then walks up to Caboose and now stood still.
"Did he-" Yang began to ask, wondering if Church had also jumped into Caboose.
"Yup," Tucker said.
"Would someone explain what the hell he was talkin' about?" Sarge asked.
"Oh. Tex and Omega have some kind of stupid plan to enslave the whole alien race," Tucker explained to the Reds. "But Church thinks if she does, she's gonna become the Queen of the Universe or some shit."
Donut immediately gasped at this. "Queen of the Universe? No one even told me we were having a competition!"
"No," Blake said. "That is not what's happening. Yes about the enslaving an alien race. Wrong about the other thing."
"Aww," Donut sighed in disappointment.
"I'm still confused about what in Sam Hill happened here," Sarge said.
"I'll tell you what happened," Grif said as he walked up to the group. "My own fucking teammate-"
Grif's rant was interrupted as Simmons shot Grif from behind.
"Ow!" Grif shouted as he fell to he ground for the third time.
"Nice to have you back Simmons," Sarge said.
"Thank you Sir, good to be back!" Simmons said. Then after a beat, he added under his breath, "Cocksucker."
"Alright then," Sarge declared. "Let's go blow up that ship."
"Woah, wait a minute," Yang said. "Church said to wait until he gets out."
"Yang, due to your capacity for violence and downright destruction, I have the utmost respect for you," Sarge began. "But blowin' up stuff ain't a democracy. Simmons, where can we get some explosives?"
"Well, if you recall, we recently saw Andy the bomb and Lopez in one of the caves," Simmons reminded them. "So-"
"Of course!" Sarge exclaimed. "Come on men! Let's go ask Lopez if he knows where we can find some explosives!"
"Excellent plan Sir," Simmons sighed. He and the rest of the Reds then followed Sarge.
"Okay, someone needs to stop him," Tucker pointed out.
"I'll go," Yang volunteered. "I'm pretty sure that I can convince Sarge not to do anything crazy." She slowly put Ruby down and quickly followed the Reds.
"She's not gonna help the situation, is she?" Tucker asked Blake, a few moments after Yang had run off.
"Probably going to make things worse," Blake admitted.
"So, what do we do now?" Tucker asked.
"How about you start with putting me down!"
Tucker and Blake saw that Weiss was awake and fidgeting as Tucker was still carrying her over his shoulder.
"Oh right, sorry," Tucker then put Weiss down and on her feet.
"Good," Weiss said as she dusted off her skirt. "Now, can someone explain what's going on?"
Weiss' questions were cut short as the three of them saw Tex getting back on her feet.
"Oh shit!" Tucker shouted. "Tex, is that you? Or is it O'Malley?"
"It's still me," Tex said. "Church got in the way and O'Malley left."
"Good, maybe now you'll stop with this insane plan," Weiss said.
"Nice to see you awake, princess," Tex said snarkily. She then turned to Tucker. "Tucker, give me the sword."
"How about, no way in hell," Tucker replied.
"You're not getting the sword," Blake said.
"Okay, we'll do this the hard way," Tex said.
"You're outnumbered," Weiss noted. "How do you expect to get past us?"
"Easy. Cheat." Fatser than they could react, Tex threw a something in the middle of the three of them. It then exploded, and the next thing they saw was white.
After getting both Lopez and Andy out of the caves, Sarge had quickly explained the plan to Andy and placed him in the ship.
"Well, that takes care of that," Sarge said.
"I still think this is a bad idea," Yang pointed out. She had tried to convince Sarge not to go through with his plan, but decided to give up after seeing he wouldn't budge.
"Blowing up a ship to stop an enemy from escaping, with the possible chance that the debris from said ship might fall on and kill Grif?" Sarge stated. "What could go wrong?"
"A lot of things," Yang muttered. "Hey, where is Grif?"
"I sent him to disable the other ship you crashed in," Simmons explained. "Just in case Tex might think to use it. He wouldn't go, so I had to get Donut to drag him to help."
"Disable it how?" Yang asked.
"I don't know," Simmons said, shrugging. "Like, cutting the fuel or something."
There was suddenly a huge explosion in the site where the Bullhead was. They then saw Donut and Grif headed their way.
"What the heck was that!?" Yang shouted.
"Um, us disabling the ship?" Donut replied, as if it should be obvious.
"I told you two to disable the ship, not blow it up!" Simmons shouted.
"We didn't know how the ship worked, and it would've taken too long to figure it out," Grif said lazily. "Besides, if it's blown up, it can't fly now. Job done."
Simmons facepalmed. "You're a fucking idiot."
"Well, I didn't want to leave without a souvenir, so I took this," Donut said as he showed them a small container that he took. "Ta-da!"
"Wait a second," Yang realized. "Is that the experimental Dust?"
"Is it? I wouldn't know," Donut shrugged. "It looked pretty to me, so I decided to keep it." Donut then went silent for a second before speaking again, this time in a deep voice. "Maybe I could use it to kill people. Mwahahaha!"
"Oh no," Yang said.
After both O'Malley and Tex were killed, it took around several seconds before Church followed them out. When he got out, he was confused at what he was looking at. Tucker, Blake, and Weiss were crouched on the ground, covering their eyes, and Doc and Sister looking over them.
"What the hell are you guys doing!?" Church shouted. "What happened?"
"Ooh, let me tell," Caboose said. "Tex appeared out of nowhere and threw a grenade which exploded in bright, pretty light, and then she took Tucker's sword. Also, someone may have been surprised by that, and peed his pants, just a little bit. Or a lot."
"I was only behind for like thirty seconds!" Church shouted. "Where the fuck is she!?"
"She took the sword and a Wyoming helmet to the ship," Caboose said. "I think she went to the ship to save Tucker's kid. He's on the ship too now."
"Fuck!" Church shouted. That meant that all Tex needed was her A.I. and then there won't be anything that can stop her. "What about O'Malley where's he?"
Suddenly they heard a radio transmission.
"Hahahaha!" Donut's deep voice laughed over the radio. "That's the problem with living in a Patriarchal society; men just automatically assume they know everything. Hahaha!"
"Never mind," Church said. "Tucker, Weiss, Blake, get up. We need to go!"
"Are you even seeing what's happened to us!" Weiss shouted, raising her head to look at his direction, but her hands still over her eyes. "Because we can't!"
"We're completely blind Church," Tucker said. "Everything's all white."
"We can't do anything right now," Blake said.
"Sorry Church, but these three aren't going anywhere for a while," Doc said.
"And I thought the only thing that could get you blind was non stop-" Sister began to say.
"God dammit!" Church interrupted. "Who's suppose to help me now!"
"Hey guys, keep it down."
Church turned to see Ruby, who still seemed groggy, but was no longer unconscious and was slowly getting up.
"Ruby, perfect!" Church declared. "We need to go now! Doc, when they get better, follow us. Let's go!"
Back with the Reds and Yang, they were dealing with the now infected Donut.
"Whoa easy Donut," Simmons said. "You've been infected by a computer virus, and we just need to figure out what to do about it."
"Mwahahaha!" Donut laughed. "No! It's my body! It's my choice! And another thing: why do I do as much work as you guys, but I only make ninety-two percent-"
Donut stopped speaking when Tex came up behind him and knocked him out.
"I'll take that," Yang then took the container of the experimental Dust, not wanting the Reds to have their hands on it and avoid any other problems.
"Hey," Sarge said. "Don't hit my soldiers without my permission." His voice then became much deeper, Omega having jumped into him. "I'm the one who gets to hit my soldiers. Wahahaha, yeah! Eat lead, world. Drop and give me infinity."
"Sarge, you've finally gone crazy," Grif said. Yang then hit Grif in the back of his head for not understanding the situation. "Ow! What did I do?"
Tex disappeared for a second and reappeared behind Sarge, then knocked him out.
Grif then started to speak in a deep voice as well. "Whoa, that's weird. I have a sudden urge to conquer the Universe. Which is odd for me because, well that would take actual work... I think I'll just fall asleep instead." Grif then stopped speaking.
"Did you fall asleep inside your armor?" Yang asked in surprise. The snoring that could be heard from him just confirmed her answer.
"Guys, we're here!"
Everyone turned to see Doc with a recovered Tucker, Weiss, and Blake.
"Is anyone hurt?" Doc said before he began to laugh maniacally. "Anyone need to be killed? Huahahaha!"
"Not again," Tucker said as he, Weiss, and Blake back away from Doc.
"Alright," Church said as he and Ruby arrived as well. "Nobody move!" He then felt a strange sensation in his mind. "Shit, O'Malley's in my head."
Ruby then backed away from Church. "I have no idea, what's going on, but I know that's a bad thing."
"You know uh... I don't really feel all that different," Church admitted. "Mha, mhu mha, mhu mhu, mhuh. Uh, nope, feels pretty much the same, That's, that's kinda weird, ah, I mean, I expected more-"
Church was then suddenly hit in the back of his head by Tex.
Church shook his head, feeling Omega's presence gone. "Alright, where is he? Where'd he go? Is he gone?"
"Um Church," Ruby said.
Church turned around to see that Tex backing away from the group.
"Tex?" Church said.
"Church, run!" Tex shouted.
"Tex, don't!" Church shouted, realizing what was happening.
Tex stopped backing away and looked at all of them.
"You have no idea what kind of trouble you are in," Tex-Omega said in a deep male voice, Omega now asserting control.
"Tex please, just stop," Ruby pleaded. "Church told me what you're planning to do. You don't need to do this."
"Sorry," Tex said in a calm cold voice. "Tex isn't here anymore." She then made a run for it.
"Someone stop her!" Church shouted.
Tex didn't get far as a wall of ice rose from the ground in front of her to block her path. Tex turned around and saw Team RWBY stepping forward, each of them having drawn their weapons.
"Tex, stop," Ruby said. "We don't want to fight you. It doesn't have to be like this."
Tex was silent for several seconds, just staring at all of them.
"Yes," Tex said lowly. "It does." She then threw several vials in their direction.
"Is that Dust!?" Weiss shouted. It was, in fact; Tex clearly having swiped some beforehand.
As the vials reached close to Team RWBY, Tex pulled out a handgun and aimed it at one of the vials.
Ruby, realizing what was about to happen, immediately shouted to everyone.
"Get down!"
The Reds and Blues quickly ran away from the area.
Weiss, seeing that they were too close to be able run far enough, quickly thought of a plan.
"Get over here now!" Weiss shouted to her teammates.
Ruby, Blake, and Yang did as she said and ran to Weiss. Weiss then created a large glyph under the four of them. Using some Ice Dust, she shot the glyph upward, with the four of them over it.
Tex fired the shot, hitting one of the vials and causing it to explode. The initial explosion caused a chain reaction with other vials, leading to one giant explosion. The blast wave of the explosion caused the glyph to blow Team RWBY further away, crashing them to the ground, somewhere far from Tex, as well as the Reds and Blues.
"Uggh," Yang groaned. "A little warning next time before you do that."
"Next time I try to save our lives, I'll be sure to ask first," Weiss said sardonically.
"Is everyone okay?" Blake asked.
"Just a little dirt on us, but we're good," Yang answered.
"Guys, hurry! We need to go and stop Tex!" Ruby exclaimed.
As the four of them got back on their feet, they began to hear some sparking noises.
"What's that sound?" Blake asked.
They turned to see one of the dead Wyomings near them, his helmet sparking and emitting a strange noise.
Yang then began feeling something hot in her pocket. She then pulled out the container of the experimental Dust that she took from Donut, the Dust inside starting to glow.
"Um, guys," Yang called to the others.
Ruby, Weiss, and Blake saw the glow of the Dust as the high pitch whine coming from Wyoming's helmet started getting louder.
"Guys," Ruby said. "What's going-"
A bright flash came from the Dust as it seemed to react to Wyoming's helmet. The light blinded Team RWBY as they were enveloped by it.
After a few moments, the light died out, with Team RWBY having disappeared alongside it.
As Ruby slowly opened her eyes, she immediately sat up in a panic.
"Church!" Ruby shouted. However, as she focused, Ruby saw that this wasn't Blood Gulch or even the ground of a canyon. In fact, Ruby saw that she was on a bed.
"Ruby, you're awake."
Ruby looked to see Yang in front of her in a bed as well.
"Yang, what happened?" Ruby asked. "Where are we?"
"We're in the infirmary," Blake answered. She was in another bed beside Yang's. "In Beacon."
Ruby's eyes widened in surprise. "Beacon!? Wait, that means we're back! How?"
"We're not sure ourselves," Weiss said. She was in the bed beside Ruby's. "We think it may have something to do with the experimental Dust reacting with the time device in Wyoming's helmet."
"Which apparently came with us," Yang said as she held the helmet up to show Ruby. "That took a while to explain to Professor Ozpin."
"Ozpin came here?" Ruby asked.
"So did Professor Goodwitch," Blake said.
"Yeah, that was a little weird," Yang admitted. "Seeing her again was a bit hard to adjust to after what we went through. I almost called her Tex like three times."
"They wanted to know where we had been," Weiss explained. "Apparently, we caused quite a panic after the Bullhead disappeared with us in it. They said we went missing for only twelve hours, but I know we were gone for much longer. I guess time moves differently when you cross other dimensions? Anyway, they told us that we were found outside the courtyard of the school. I woke up first and explained to them what happened."
"And what did you tell them?" Ruby asked wondering what her partner had said.
"Well obviously not the truth," Weiss scoffed. "I told them that we fell unconscious when we were in the Bullhead. We don't know happened with the Bullhead, and we don't remember anything that happened during the time we were gone. It was better than having to explain where we went and how our Auras were nearly depleted. We would sound insane."
"Oh," Ruby said, surprised that Weiss was able to think of a story so quickly. "So what do we do now?"
"Now we rest and recover and hope that we won't be in trouble for losing a Bullhead and all the Dust it was carrying," Blake stated.
"I can agree to that," Yang said, yawning to emphasize her point. "I feel like I could sleep for weeks."
"No," Ruby said. "I mean, what are we going to do to go back?"
Ruby teammates stared at Ruby like she said something insane.
"Are you out of your mind!?" Weiss shouted. "We were trying to leave that place! Why would we go back!?"
"But what about Church? Or Tex? Or the others?" Ruby asked.
"Whatever problems they have, that's there business," Weiss said, folding her arms.
"How can you say that!?" Ruby argued. "You know what Tex plans to do."
"I also know what Wyoming wanted to do with us if he had succeeded in capturing us!" Weiss argued back. "You didn't here his plans, but he wanted to take us, and dissect us to learn about our world. There could be others back in that universe who would do the same. It's not worth the risk going back."
"But they need our help!" Ruby protested.
"Ruby, you know that I want to go back and help too," Blake said. "But the fact is we don't even understand how we got back here, much less how to find our way back to the Reds and Blues."
"We have to go back!" Ruby shouted.
"Why!?" Weiss shouted, not understanding why Ruby was adamant on going back. "Please, explain to all of us why we have to endanger ourselves by trying to go back to a place that, really, has nothing to do with us, when we should be glad that we made it back home."
Ruby looked to her teammates, who were waiting for her answer. Taking a deep breath, she simply asked them one question.
"Didn't any of you wonder why we were there?"
Weiss, Blake, and Yang looked at each other, confused by Ruby's question.
"It isn't really any wonder," Yang shrugged. "We ended up there by accident."
"I mean, yeah we ended up there by accident, and there was a chance we couldn't come back home," Ruby said. "But, we also made friends there."
Ruby's teammates said nothing, pondering her words and the truth in them.
"Sure they were weird, and some of them did try to kill us, and each other, but they're good people," Ruby continued. "I know it's dangerous, and I know we might not get lucky and find a way back again, but I can't just leave them the way we did and forget about it. I don't how to do it, but I'll find a way to help our friends, so it would be really great if you guys can help me. Please."
Ruby finished talking and looked to her teammates, waiting for a response.
"Well, I guess that settles it," Yang said with a grin. "If you say we need to help our friends, then we need to help them. I've got your back on this."
Ruby smiled back, glad that her sister would help.
"I'll help too," Blake agreed, giving a small smile. "You're right. They're our friends, and we can't just leave them."
Ruby continued smiling as Blake finished talking. She, Yang, and Blake then looked to Weiss, waiting for her response.
"You three realize that you have no idea how to get back to the Reds and Blues. If we do get back, we have no real plan when we get there, much less how to return home. Overall, I think that this plan is idiotic and will get you all killed," Weiss said.
Ruby, Blake, and Yang looked at each other, slightly discouraged by Weiss' words.
"Which means," Weiss continued with a small smirk. "That you three are going to need my help for this to work."
Ruby gave a squeal of delight at Weiss' answer. "If I wasn't so tired right now, I'd go over there and hug you."
"And I am grateful that you can't," Weiss said. "And I assure you, we will find a way back. But right now, we need to rest. We have a lot of things to plan and take care of before we do anything."
"Great, we're all in agreement," Yang said. "Now, can we get some sleep?"
"Yes please," Blake agreed.
The four of them laid down on their beds, finally getting some well deserved rest.
Before Ruby closed her eyes, she had several thoughts running through her head. She knew that this plan wouldn't be easy, and may be near impossible, but she wouldn't give up until she and her team succeeded.
"We'll be back Church," Ruby muttered to herself, before sleep finally claimed her. "I promise, we'll be back."
A/N: And that concludes this story of mine.
But don't worry, as Ruby said, we'll be back. I will be posting the next story in this series, RvBvRWBY: Revitalization.
A/N 2: I would also like to thank the several people who have followed this story and given me reviews to keep going:
sonicxben, New Universe Returns, djmegamouth, Iron-ninja, raw666, Chucknorren, Mandalore the Freedom.
Thank you all and enjoy the wait.