Finished with Tests! Hated them as usual! Here's a new chapter that's longer than my usual writing. Introducing a new team into the fold, thank my Betareader TheMischievousPuppy for this one. He wrote it out and designed it, and I plan to implement the team in a few ways that some won't expect. And an idea from Jauneforever about some roadblocks. Enough talk, let's GO!
A few days later, team NDGO came back from their mission and quickly met up with JNPR and RWBY. They all met up at a Juniors to hold a party for their first successful mission.
"I saw that footage. I know that was you, Jaune, right?" Dew questioned with a smile.
"Can't deny that," smirked Jaune.
"Excellent work, young master!" Junior hollered with a smile as he brought out some drinks for them.
"Thanks, Junior," Jaune replied giving his own smile towards him.
They were sitting on the second floor, watching over the dance floor to see Junior's men working out. Junior had declared that his men stop being cannon fodder and start being slightly more useful. Melanie and Militia were kicking their asses into shape, and at least have better aim than the White Fang members. They wanted to help, but they would need training in order to actually help somewhat. Still, having a nice information network always helped.
"Got something for you, Jaune," Junior began, as he showed Jaune his scroll "There's been information about some sort of activity going on the Emerald Forest. Whatever it is, it's attracting Grimm."
"Hmm. I remember Professor Port asking for a team to check it out," Jaune began. "Mentioned something about the security network there not working."
"Whatever it is, it might be bad news," Junior stated, "Also, word on the street is that Roman may not have been working alone like he says he was."
"You think it might be linked?" asked Blake.
"Maybe," Junior guessed as he rubbed his beard, "could be just a coincidence."
"I think we should check it out," suggested Pyrrha.
"Yaa! Another adventure! Maybe we can find a sloth!" Nora gleefully shouted
"Well, we do have some time until the Vytal Festival Tournament," Ren began, "It's the middle of the second semester, and we do have 3 months left. I hear Ozpin will announce which teams will be chosen to represent Beacon in 2 months."
"It'll be us for sure!" cheered Yang.
"There are other people who are older and stronger than us, including the upperclassmen," reminded Weiss, "Still, I do think we have a chance."
"I heard that most of the upperclassmen will be busy with missions thanks to the Breach incident," said Gwen, "Although that's not stopping team ARLN from participating in the tournament. Says he needs to 'defend his title'. "
"Psh, we all know that title would have gone to Winter if it wasn't for that time," said Octavia, hugging Ren.
"Yea, but he thinks he could've taken Winter. In fact, he stated that Winter got scared of him and injured herself on purpose," stated Nebula.
"What!?" shouted Weiss, "My sister would never do that! That jerk! I'll kill him!" The heiress would have gone and left to confront the ignorant little shit if it weren't for what Blake had said next
"Calm down, Weiss. It's just him bragging," said Blake.
"You know what would make you feel better? A good old round of breaking his legs," Nora happily said with a grin bringing magnhild out of nowhere
"Still, it's worth investigating," said Ruby, trying to return back to the original subject of missions.
"Well, we had our break, and we're caught up on our classes," said Weiss.
"Then team RWBY is on the case!" shouted Ruby, "You guys want to come with?"
Jaune shook his head, "We're going to the village that Ren and Nora wanted to go to, to shadow the sheriff."
"We get to be deputies!" cheered Nora.
"It's near Emerald Forest, so we might see each other still," said Pyrrha.
"We're headed towards the city to help out some guy," stated Nebula.
"All right then. Guess we're splitting off on missions. Hopefully, our next one won't be as exciting," said Jaune.
"Yea, but first, there's something important we have to do!" shouted Yang. Everyone looked at her while she stood up on the table, raising her drink to the sky.
"We need to hit the beach this weekend!" commanded Yang, "Summers almost gone, and we haven't gone there yet! We won't have a chance after our next missions!'
"Yeaa!" shouted NDGO, Ruby, and Nora.
"That sounds grand!" smiled Pyrrha.
"If it's a beach you want, I know an area," announced Junior, "It's a good place away from all the tourist. Kinda private. Let's you guys get the peace and quiet you want."
"Sweet," thanked Jaune. They all had plans ready, and Jaune even invited team SSSN to come through his Scroll. Only Sun wanted to come, though. Neptune was all ready to hang out with the hottest girls he had seen until they told him they were headed to the beach. Then he made up some excuse, saying he forgot he had a dentist appointment he really needed to go to. Sage and Scarlet had other priorities to deal with.
They were all laughing and were eating the night away until the Malachite twins trapped Ren in between them.
"Are you sure," began Melanie.
"That you don't want," continued Miltia.
"To date us?"
"We'll give you,"
"The ride of your."
"Life," finished both of them with a seductive tone.
"Back off!" yelled Nora.
"Mmm don't be like that," said Melanie.
"It's hard to find a good guy. Jaune's already taken with six women. Ren still only has two, making enough room for us," purred Miltia.
"Plus, I'm sure it's every man's dream to do twins," smirked Melanie, "We do share everything. That includes boyfriends and our senses."
They both grabbed Ren's hands before placing them on their breast. One on the right one of Melanie and the other one on the left one of Miltia, causing Ren to blush.
"Mmm I can feel your real hand on my breast, and a phantom warmth on the other one," purred Militia.
"It feels good," said Melanie, "Imagine what it feels when you're doing us. You'll be satisfying both of us even if you're only doing one of us. Of course, we'll want the real thing. After all, only phantom pleasure is such a tease."
Ren was trying his best to sink into the floor while Nora and Octavia were getting fired up.
"I don't know whether I should be mad, sorry, or proud at Ren for somehow attracting my nieces," sighed Junior.
The party came to an end when Nora grabbed her weapon, intent on breaking some legs.
A few days later, they discovered that Ruby had a problem. It started one day while in the library. RWBY, JNPR, and SSSSN were studying when Neptune had raised his hands towards Ruby, intending on grabbing a book in front of her. Ruby's eyes suddenly widened as she had a flashback about the lecherous Faunus whose hand had also strayed towards her. She screamed in terror, flipping the whole table into Neptune's face.
"Why?" cried Neptune as the table slammed his face.
"Ruby? What's wrong?" asked Yang in deep concern while Sun tended to his partner. Noticing that it would be a private conversation, he quickly led his team out.
"I… I…," sniffed Ruby, "I dunno. When I saw Neptune's hand, I was suddenly reminded of back in the cave. While I was still captured. One of the White Fang tried to grope me. Surprisingly, Torchwick stopped him from doing that. But seeing a hand going towards me scared me so much!"
"Ruby," comforted Weiss as she surprisingly gave her a hug
Jaune was pissed off. It took a lot of self-control just to fly out and try to find the guy who tried to molest one of his mates, especially the younger one.
"I fear Ruby might have a bit of PTSD," explained Ren, "We can't forget that Ruby is younger than us, and such an event could affect her more than the rest of us."
"But she seemed fine earlier?" cried Yang, "She didn't flinch when she was with Jaune. She even cuddled with him!"
"Jaune is someone Ruby is already familiar with, but it might affect her now that Neptune accidently triggered it," replied Blake.
"Then what can we do?" asked Nora.
Jaune slowly raised his hand towards Ruby, who began to flinch again before remembering it was Jaune. That Jaune would never do anything towards her. As he slowly reached for Ruby's face, she began to shake. Upon skin contact, Jaune could feel Ruby quivering and try her best to stop it. It broke his heart, and he immediately hugged her, to remind her that she was safe.
Ruby panicked and struggled a little before he felt Jaune's warmth and Aura, calming her down. Jaune had linked up with Andusk to calm her down, considering Andusk was the one responsible for the silver eye warriors. With that, Ruby could feel that she was safe. But it didn't stop her from shaking a little.
"I'm sorry," sniffed Ruby, "I know that you're here to help, but I can't stop my body."
"No worries," whispered Jaune, "I'll always be there for you, just like your team will also be there for you too. We'll help you out of this. We promise."
Ruby looked to see her team and friends all nod in agreement.
For the next few days, Ruby cuddled with Yang so she could feel safe. She skipped her turn with Jaune as she still wasn't over it. They even took her to a private counselor who specialized in this type of stress. Slowly but surely, she started her road to recovery, but it would take awhile. For the time being, Jaune and Ruby agreed not to cuddle or go on date nights for a little bit.
It was late Friday night, around 8 pm, tomorrow was the day Jaune and the gang would be going to the beach to have some relaxation and fun before heading off to their respective missions. However, even though Ruby was getting better from her PTSD, Jaune still get his mind off of wanting to hunt down the bastard who nearly groped her. Deciding it was best to vent his anger on some training droids in one of the training simulator rooms within the arena, Jaune began his walk towards there.
Upon entering, however, he was greeted with the sight of four people exiting out of the locker room. Thank the dragons it wasn't Team BYDD, but instead it was a team he never seen before. One of the members however stuck out the most considering the facts that for one, he was the tallest in the group, about Yatsuhashi's height if not taller. There was the height, but also his hair! On top of the man's head was a gigantic brown afro far larger than the man's skull, and here he thought Yangs hair was the hardest to maintain!
"Wow. That's a very large… afro," commented Othim, "Wonder how he manages that at all."
"Yang takes a long time to wash her hair, if I recall," mused Alaerth, "Maybe he takes longer, or there's some sort of spray to manage it."
Back in Vale, a certain shopkeeper was restocking a hair spray with the word Remnant's finest Insta-Spray Afro. Guaranteed Afro within 20 seconds!
Back to the group, the man with the giant Afro was currently walking backward in a cha cha type of rhythm with what looks to be lions tail happily swaying along to the dance. Just by looking at him you could tell he loves the color yellow considering the yellow jacket he was wearing with the matching leather pants and boots. On the back of the jacket must have been his emblem seeing how it was the face of a lion giving off a toothy grin while wearing sunglasses and it's mane styled to have its own Afro up above its head.
The man would have continued walking backward if not for the man wearing a black hoodie on top of his silver hair stopped him by saying something. Luckily with Jaunes enhanced hearing he was able to pick up what the man said
"Hey Dandy, looks like we got company," the man spoke to the now known Dandy. Dandy stopped his dancing for the moment and turned around, revealing that he was wearing sunglasses the same brand that Coco would be wearing, the jacket having an opening just like Sun's to show off his abs, and finally the belt buckle in the shape of a lion. Dandy lifted his hands up and tilted his glasses down a bit to show Amber eyes with slit irises stare right at Jaune. His nose twitched a bit as he stared at Jaune for a bit which was kind of awkward, yet slightly worrying to both parties. Considering the fact that Jaune didn't know who this man was, and why he was just staring at him in a stand still motion. He could be a white fang member for all he knew. But the word Dandy did kind of ring a bell in his mind. He felt like Nora had mentioned him once or something.
'Eh,' thought Jaune, 'Probably nothing important.'
Before any of the three members behind Dandy could ask him why he was staring for so long, Dandy's serious mood changed back to his usual self and literally danced walked right over to Jaune. "Mah sincere apologies friend for starin! Just that you kind of seemed familiar tah me is all. Names Dandy, Dandy Lion, team leader of the GROOOOVIEST team around, Team DSCO of Atlas!" With that Dandy struck a disco pose by having one hand on his hip while the other pointed to the sky. Behind him and perhaps Jaune, couldn't help but sweatdrop by Dandy's display.
Getting out of his pose and began to do a side step dance, Dandy looked over Jaunes features "May I ask of your name friend?"
"Jaune Ryu-Long, leader of team JNPR of Beacon" replied Jaune.
"Wow. For some reason, he reminds of a certain eccentric man from long ago," mused Andusk.
"You mean the guy that wore that hideous green tight leotard with a bowl head and extremely hairy eyebrows?" replied Fafnir, "That man would not shut up, even if he was strong from normal standards."
"It's ah pleasure to meet yah Jaune! These are my teammates-" turning around Dandy pointed in the respective order "my partner, second in command and finally rocker of our team Soul!-"
Soul was around the same height as Jaune, wearing a black leather jacket with a hoodie over his head covering his silver spikes hair with a silver necklace dangling from his neck which had a cross with a laughing skull on the top side. One of the hairs covered his right eye, concealing the mismatched eye that was red instead of grey like left eye. Wrapped around his arms were metal chains then went all the way up his shoulders and disappeared inside holes that were made for the chains to enter. Wearing also black combat boots and pants, Soul extended out his right hand to show he was wearing dark red fingerless gloves as he gave a firm handshake to Jaune. "Soul Silver, nice combat clothes you got bud."
"Next is our third in command, and mystery man of the hour, Coral-" having a bright in between Yang and Blake, taller than Blake but shorter than Yang by a few inches, Corals type of clothing was quite unique, considering the fact that his clothing was a mixture of blue, orange and black. He wore a light darkish blue striped shirt with the sleeve stripes being orange. While his pants were blue on the top but began getting darker until at the bottom it was black. The most noticing thing about his appearance was his head considering the fact that he had a futuristic mask concealing his entire face and hair all except the mouth part. The visor had a holographic visor that would blink automatically depending on if the user wearing the mask blinked or depending on the mood change to different eye emojis. Also extending his hand he shocked not only Jaune but also the dragons by what he said next….in the exact same voice as Jaune!
"Jaune Ryu-long, leader of team-" he would have continued if it weren't for a smack to the back of his head by Soul. Which caused the holographic eyes to change to two X's
"Coral, knock it off dude, I know you like to joke around with that semblance of yours but the joke gets old bud." Soul stated giving a light glare towards his team mate.
"That is…. surprising," muttered Aryz, "For somebody to be able to mimic a voice easily. He would be great for infiltration missions."
"That, or a great singer," commented Ryo-Wo.
Coral rubbing the back of his head looked towards Soul, the holographic eyes glowing a dark red and giving its own type of glare, the voice however changed to that of someone with a robotic voice to hide the voice "Fine, fine, you ruin all my fun." Turning his head back to Jaune the holo-eyes changed to two upward triangles only without the bottom line "Coral Scream, and you my friend just witnessed a part of my semblance, vocal manipulation, I can-" suddenly Souls hand clamped onto Corals mouth.
"Hey, don't go revealing your semblance, he is of another team after all, can't give anyone the advantage against us now can we?" Soul stated as he gave another glare towards Coral, who sheepishly began rubbing the back of his head.
Dandy who couldn't help but let out a chuckle from his two teammates antics turned his introduction to their final teammate. "Last but not least, are old oldies Dj master, walking music sheet and beats player, Onyx!"
Onyx was the last male of the group, his height was just under Yatushashi, and the second tallest of the group. If Roman had a brother in fashion this would be him, only difference is, he would be a cross between Roman, a knight in shining armor and finally a pianist. Onyx wore a pianist tuxedo, one with the two extra spikes that went beyond the waist connected to the tux shirt, complete with black dress shoes, a top hat and a black bowtie. The only difference from it being regular dress clothing is that the suit was not made of cloth, but instead metal! He was literally wearing the most fanciest suite of armor anyone would wear! His pitch black hair that was tied in a pony tail that stretched to his upper wack was shaved on the right side of his head. Taking a guess why, it must be something that has to do with a metal rectangular plating that was on the side of his head. Taking a guess on why he had it, it may have something to do with the faded three claw scars he had starting from where the metal plates were covering, all the way to where it nearly reached the right eye from Jaune's perspective.
Currently Onyx was bouncing his head up and down, with closed eyes almost as if he was listening to some music right now. Dandy taking notice of this let out a nervous chuckle. "Sorry about this, he's not actually rude, just that new music he likes to call Electric Swing, which is also the name of his semblance, tends to show up every now and then and he takes a high interest in what these new beats are. A sort of side effect of his semblance but he doesn't mind, helped his popularity grow in the DJ industry really." Dandy stated before tapping Onyx's arm, which made the man open his eyes, showing of brown irises.
"Oh sorry about that," Onyx began in the same accent Velvet has, as he turned his attention to Jaune, "Names Onyx, Onyx Beats, hey think you can take out your scroll real quick, I need your thoughts on this new track that came to me," Onyx asked as he waited for Jaunes response as he held out his hand showing off white metallic gloves.
"Ummm, sure?" sweatdropped Jaune. Taking out his scroll with a bit of hesitation he handed it to Onyx.
"Thanks, mate," lifting up his free hand Onyx lifted his hand towards one of the metal plates, to which a scroll plug of some kind popped out after a piece of the meta playing moved aside to reveal it. Taking the plug away from the metal plate, it was revealed that instead of a metal cord was connected to the plug, it was a physical manifestation of Aura shining in different areas of color. Now normally Aura was of just one color, but it seems whatever his semblance was must have something to do with the Auras color. Plugging the plug into Jaunes Scroll, Jaune could see tiny music notes come from the source of the Aura cord all the way down to Jaunes scroll.
The screen on his scroll showed a downloading emblem, only instead of the usual download arrow, it was a picture of a shield with something round in the middle and a top hat hanging on the top right corner of the shield. Once the shield was filled up by the musical notes, the emblem bounced once before heading straight into Jaunes music app.
Taking the plug out and back into his head, Onyx placed the plug back where it belonged and Jaunes scroll back to Jaune. "Here ya go mate, give the song a play, should have my emblem in the picture area next to the title of the song. Give it a play!~"
Jaune unsure about this all went to the music app and found the song Onyx was talking about, to which he pressed the play button next to it. He listened to it for a bit before commenting on how catchy it was.
With a small tip of his top hat, Onyx have Jaune a smile "Why thank ya mate, I think I'll call this beat Posin', considering the lyrics in it and all."
With introductions done, Dandy looked up to noticed the time which his eyes widened when he saw the time "Oh that is SO not groovy, guys we gotta skiddadle before Goodwitch shows up and sees that room! Oum knows she is far worse than Winter when it comes to disciplinary!" Dandy stated towards his teammates to which they nodded quickly with wide eyes before running out of the room. Dandy would have followed them if he didn't pause to yell, "Ah'm sorry for the inconvenience my friend, as much as ah would love to stick around and chit chat, mah team really gots to go! Hope what eva training yah doing ah hope it goes well! Peace my friend and don't use Arena 113!"
With that Dandy ran after his team. Jaune wasn't exactly sure what to make of this, though they seemed harmless and friendly.
"Well they sure were an...interesting team" commented Aryz
"Yeah…, but I don't like how he was staring at Jaune. It's like he knew something. Be cautious around him Jaune, we don't know what his intentions are," Stated Lung Wang ,to which Jaune gave a nod in response before heading to the training room. Though upon passing Arena 113, curiosity did get the better of him and upon looking inside he was greeted to the sight of craters the size of a mini wrecking ball, that and lots of scorch marks that would look to be from something electrical. Bots were scattered everywhere. Glynda was not going to like repairing this.
"Woah….may Oum help them from her wrath" Jaune sweat dropped as he closed the door and went into another training arena.
Meanwhile with Team DSCO, Dandy had caught up with his team. With Soul seeing his partner next to him, he began to ask "Hey Dandy why were you staring at Jaune anyway? You know him or something?"
The glasses on Dandy tilted down to show a concerned eye expression "Nah, nah, but his scent..it smelled..,familiar to me"
"Woah Dandy, didn't know yah "Swinged" that way mate!" Onyx joked only to get a hateful glare from their leader
"No, just no Onyx! Ah do not go that way nor was that pun necessary! Ah mean, I smelled his scent somewhere before that had an important meaning to the item that had his scent, Ah think I might know where but I need to get the item to clarify if the scents match! Anyway let's just hurry up before-" upon turning the corner of the hallway Dandy was greeted to the sight of Miss Goodwitch with her arms crossed and a stern look towards the team which brought Dandy and the rest of DSCO to a screeching stop.
"Ahem.." Glynda began as she tapped her foot on the ground, her eyes twitching. There was a muscle mark on her forehead. Team DSCO gulped at this. Glynda had gone through the security footage.
Seeing no way out of this, and knowing they were all screwed, Coral changed his voice and said the most well-known line from one of his favorite web series in the voice of the guy with the sniper "Son of ah-"
The weekend arrived, and team RWBY, JNPR, NDGO, Zwei, and Sun took a bullhead to the place where Junior had recommended. The Malachite twins wanted to come, but Junior reigned them in, saying he needed them for their usual shifts. Ruby was slowly recovering from her flinching due to therapy. Sun, Jaune, and Ren were all setting up basically everything, from a bonfire to the poles and net for beach volleyball. They had already switched into swim trunks. Sun was wearing yellow swim trunks, Jaune with blue swim trunks, and Ren with... pink swim trunks. When they asked why that color, he just shrugged and said he didn't mind the color. That, and Nora had been the one to choose for him.
They were just about done setting up everything when they received quite a view. Ruby was charging forward first, wearing a frilly red one piece swimsuit that just suited her, with Zwei barking right behind her. Weiss came next with a rather elegant white two piece strapless bikini and skirtkini while carrying an umbrella. Blake had dropped the bow, revealing her cat ears while wearing a black flounce bikini with a halter top. She was also carrying a knife and a fork, with a rather dazed look on her face. She kept repeating that she wanted all the fish. Yang finished up team RWBY's entrance with a yellow microkini, just barely having enough fabric to cover her rather sizable assets. Before Jaune could stop his nosebleed, Pyrrha walked in with a rather daring red slingkini and a red sarong. Ending Jaune's little harem was Dew wearing a forest green string bikini. The rest of NDGO were also wearing string bikinis of lavender, black & purple, and brick red. Nora came charging out with a tube on her waist, wearing a pink high neck bikini.
"Dude," stared Sun, "Thanks for inviting me to see this."
"Uh huh," replied Ren and Jaune, unable to take their eyes off their respective girlfriends.
Back in the girl's locker room, Pyrrha had first been thinking about wearing a high neck bikini when she saw Yang put on her microkini.
"Yang! That barely covers anything!" gasped Weiss.
"I know," grinned Yang, "I'm just letting Jaune know what he can expect when it's time."
Weiss looked at Yang's body, seeing her killer curves and bust while looking back down at her own body. She was quite slender as usual, but her bust size wasn't something to brag about. She sulked in misery, saying she was still beautiful. Pyrrha looked at Yang and admitted that she would definitely attract a lot of attention. Luckily, they were at a private part of the beach, so no ogling stares from strangers nor paparazzi. With that in mind, she switched off to the slingkini her mother had given her before she left to Beacon. She had been so embarrassed when her mother gave her that swimsuit. Watching Jaune unable to take his eyes off all of them, she was glad of the choice. Although she had to admit, her mother had been careful with choosing that swimwear. Unlike other slingkinis, hers was adjusted so she wouldn't suffer any 'accidents' easily while playing in the water or sand.
As the boys finally shook off the shock, they started to enjoy the day. The first thing Yang did was tease Jaune, asking him to help her put sunscreen on her back and front. Needless to say, the other girls except for Ruby and Weiss made the same offers. Weiss merely wanted help with her back, while Ruby was still flinching from any wandering hands from males. Jaune had to go cool down in the ocean after putting sunblock on their back. They made sand castles, though when Weiss tried to cheat using her glyphs to create some towers for her castle, Jaune responded by linking up with Fafnir and stomping the ground before lifting his hands, as if he was lifting something heavy. The ground shifted, the sand coalesced to form something. As soon as Jaune was done, he had created a 10 feet tall sandcastle with intricate designs. Everyone immediately gave up, stating that Jaune won. Then they had fun destroying it. Nora had grabbed Magnihild from somewhere and started to smash the walls. The others shrugged and joined in on the destruction of Jaune's sand castle. Zwei finished it up when Nora hammered him into the castle door and through the whole thing.
After that, they began to swim in the water. Blake and Weiss had declined, saying they wanted to just relax under the umbrella. The real reason was one of them didn't really like getting wet too much, while the other just wanted to work on a slight tan. She felt too pale. While in the water, Jaune linked up with Ryo-Wo and began swimming around at high speed. He dived and grabbed a few fishes, chucking them over to a freezer they had brought with them. Blake was drooling when she saw the fishes slowly start to stack up. As soon as Ruby saw how fast Jaune could swim, she begged him to let her ride him while he swam, to which he complied. She still quivered upon skin contact, but she forgot about it as soon as Jaune began to swim. After giving Ruby, Dew, Yang, and Pyrrha a ride, they finally came back to dry land. Nebula had returned with Gwen and Sun, stating that they had explored a little to see what else there was around the beach.
They quickly started to grill the fish using the bonfire and grill gate Junior had given them. The cooking was handed to Ren, Dew, and Nebula. Jaune, for all his wilderness training, only knew how to add salt to his food for some extra taste, as well as make sure he ate anything from the wild that would keep him healthy. He had tried to make a fancy dish once and ended up with goop somehow. Blake ate the most fish, going through them as soon as they were laid out ready for consumption. They had also brought a few other finger foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers.
After finishing on eating the food and taking the time to just rest and tan, they started a beach volleyball tournament. Sun, being the lone man out, agreed to be the referee for their matches while Zwei acted as a second. Everybody else agreed to pair up with who their partners were for initiation. No Semblances were allowed. That made Ruby pout as she wanted to use her speed to be able to get the ball, and Yang wanted to use the extra firepower for her spikes.
The tournament started, and the first teams to be eliminated was Ruby and Weiss, Pyrrha and Nora, Octavia and Gwen. Ruby was still clumsy while trying to run on sand, Nora had no concept of holding back, resulting her hits to always be out of bounds, and the last two lost to a fair match against Blake and Yang. The tournament ended with those two winning.
During the match of Yang and Blake against Jaune and Ren, Yang decided to use her body to their advantage. Yang had distracted Jaune quite a bit by emphasizing her bust size and always making sure she was in front of him when she jumped, letting him see in full definition just how they moved as she landed. When she received the ball, she made sure that her arms squeezed her girls. It didn't help Jaune that Blake decided to tease him and do the same thing. At one point Jaune swore he saw her parts start to harden, which also caused a sudden uprising in his trousers. He could barely move properly the rest of the game.
"You should just claim her here and now," teased Othim, "You know she wants it. Just take her to a private place, have Fafnir make a wall to prevent others from seeing, and bang her until her eyes roll up."
Jaune ignored Othim's advice, although he couldn't stop himself from storing that tidbit for a much later time. It was just so tempting. After that match was Dew and Nebula against Yang and Blake. It was a hard battle, but Yang managed to finish it with a killer cross spike. Everyone went into the ocean after to cool off while Zwei napped on a towel.
As the sun started to set, they all just stared off into the distance, watching and admiring the view as the sun had just touched the water from the distance. It was quite a view. As they watched the sun slowly start to disappear, they packed up and head back to Beacon.
"That was fun," commented Ruby, rubbing her eyes in tiredness.
"We should do this again sometime," agreed Weiss, "But we have our next mission soon."
"Where you going?" asked Yang to JNPR and Sun.
"My team is heading to the northern quadrant of Vale to check out some rumors," shrugged Nebula.
"We're still helping out with the Vale police department," answered Sun, "With the amount of tourists pouring in, they need all the help they can get. Too many people trying to smuggle illegal goods during the preparation of the Vytal Festival."
"Alright. We'll see you after our missions," waved Jaune. Everyone headed back to their respective dorms except for Dew. It was her turn to snuggle with Jaune.
"Whew. I don't think we've been this far in the forest," Ruby said as she was leading her team through the Emerald Forest. They killed a few Creepers and Beowolves as they continued forward on their path. They had Professor Port on speed dial in case they needed anything. They finally reached their destination, a cave, where a control center that acted as the power and communications center for the security network in the forest. It was what allowed Beacon to have cameras in the forest to monitor students taking their initiation.
As they drew closer, they noticed that something was attached to the control center. They quickly took a few photos and sent it to Port.
"Hmm some sort of foreign object," mused Port out loud over the Scroll, "I feel like I've seen that symbol before. Never mind that. Attach a Scroll to the Control Center. Defend it while I undo the damage. Make sure your weapons are loaded and your mustache waxes stowed!"
RWBY all looked at each other at that last comment before shrugging. Professor Port was just weird like that.
As Port was trying to figure out what was wrong, he saw that the Control Center had been reprogrammed to suit hacker's needs. Its purpose was to attract as many Grimm to its location. But for what reason? Suddenly, he accidentally activated the program, causing the Control Center to start ringing.
"Oh. Whoops," said Port, "Students, you may have some Grimm coming to your location."
Yang and Ruby look happy at some excitement while Blake and Weiss merely frowned, but got ready. Soon, they had waves of Grimm coming at their location. However, they were easily dealt with, as it was only Creepers and Beowolves. A few Alphas showed up, but Yang took care of them with a wicked uppercut, followed by a slam to the ground, upheaving the ground below them. Blake went with swift strikes, cutting them in half. Weiss channeled her glyphs to shoot beams of energy at her opponent. Ruby sliced her enemies in half with her scythe. Blake stunned the last Alpha, and Yang came up and finished it with a huge right straight into its stomach, blowing it away.
Soon enough, the Control Center stopped ringing and attracting Grimm.
"Good job team!" congratulated Port, "The Security Network in this region is in ship-shape condition once again. I'll see if I can't get some of our staff to see if they can find anything about that mysterious symbol.
Meanwhile, with team JNPR, they were shadowing the sheriff of a nearby village, near the Emerald Forest. The Sheriff told them that recently, they had been dealing with quite a bit of Grimm lately. It was if they were all gathering at one spot, and their village just so happens to be near it. JNPR decided to check it out. They met a few Boarbatusks on the way, and Jaune finally got to see Nora slam her hammer into one that was spinning, sending it flying into another Boartusk. Not to be outdone, Jaune loaded his leg with Aura while linking with Fafnir before kicking one into the sky, hitting a stray Nevermore.
"I win this one," smiled Jaune while Nora pouted. Ren merely smiled while Pyrrha giggled.
They saw an ancient bridge that would have required them to activate the drawbridge and most likely draw in more Grimm, but Jaune decided to just fly his team over. Soon, they were looking at a Control Center with cages all around.
"What is this?" Asked Nora, inspecting the cages.
"It's definitely made to capture something strong. But what? Grimm?" Ren wondered as he inspected the cages.
"Let's take some photos for now," Jaune stated as he grabbed his Scroll. He sent the photos to Ozpin. The rest of them merely inspected the area. Soon, he got a call from Port.
"Jaune, my boy! Where did you find these symbols?" asked Port.
"We're at some Control Center," replied Jaune, "We were investigating why the village was having an unusual amount of Grimm attack, and this place was the source."
"Ah, more sabotage from the friend with the symbol," said Port.
"Ren thinks that these cages were meant to capture Grimm," added Jaune.
"Hmm. They certainly look strong enough to hold them. But what for? I don't like the look of this," murmured Port, "For now, let's focus on the objective. Put the Scroll into the Control Center. I need to undo any damages our friend has done to it."
Jaune nodded and put it in.
Port immediately started going through the programs when it suddenly activated the same trap.
"What the.. I didn't activate it this time. Somebody must've noticed and did it themselves. Team! Prepare for an attack!" shouted Port.
JNPR nodded and quickly drew their weapons out. They were assaulted with Creepers, Beowolves, and Boarbatusks.
"Hmm. I think it's time we field tested our triple combo move," said Jaune as he grabbed his shield Dragonscales, and reinforced himself against the Control Center with Ren and Pyrrha near him.
"You serious?" asked Nora with glee.
Jaune nodded before shouting out, "Hidden Whirlwind!"
At this, Nora charged up before spinning in a circle wildly with her hammer. Pyrrha used her Semblance to keep her rotating, and Ren used his Semblance to keep Nora from being seen by Grimm. Since Pyrrha was the one guiding the attack, it did not break Ren's Semblance. If Ren attacked during his Semblance, it would automatically turn off. The same was for others when he hid them. The end result was that the Grimm had no idea a whirling hammer of death was upon them, sending them flying. After wiping out 3/4ths of the Grimm, they stopped. Nora was feeling dizzy.
"We'll take care of the rest," said Jaune, drawing out his sword. An Alpha came, but it was easily dealt with by a cut through its neck, followed by Ren smashing his palm at its body. As it was sent flying back, it suddenly exploded, sending its spines into stray Grimm.
"Whoa. When did you learn that?" asked Pyrrha.
"Learned it from Fox when I saw him do it. It looked interesting, but it takes a lot of Aura," said Ren, "I think he can do it much easier. Might be something to do with his Semblance. I usually release my Aura on impact when I attack. What he does is insert his Aura into the Grimm before forcibly making it expand. And since Grimm has no Aura, it can't run through its system. With nothing in its body to use it, it just expands until it blows up. Doesn't work on humans, as they just take the Aura for themselves."
Jaune nodded as he sliced another Beowolf in half. The alarm stopped ringing, and Port managed to get through it.
"Good show, team! I just received a report," said Port, scrolling through what the security staff had just sent him from team RWBY. His eyes widened as he remembered the symbol.
"That's right! The symbol we've been seeing belongs to Merlot Industries. It's an old Research and Development Corporation far before your time. The company was crippled by the collapse of when Mountain Glenn fell, where they lost their primary research facility and chief staff members. They never recovered from the incident, and eventually shut down," exclaimed Port.
"Ok, but why is it popping up now?" asked Jaune.
"Hmm. I can't say. I'll have to pass this one to Professor Oobleck for more information," said Port. From a distance, JNPR could hear Oobleck yelling at Port that it was Doctor.
"Well, least we solved this area's problem," said Jaune, "Let's head back."
"That sounds grand," smiled Pyrrha.
They quickly ran back to the village, telling the sheriff that the village shouldn't have to worry about any more Grimm attack for awhile.
Professor Port passed the details to Doctor Oobleck, who was studying the report. Afterward, he sighed out loud, "I'm going to need a team to head over to Mt. Glenn to check up on the old Merlot lab, to see if we can't get anything more."
Port nodded, "What about team RWBY? They found it, have them continue with the investigation."
"I don't want to burden the girls after their last trip there," replied Oobleck, "Plus, we might need a upperclassmen team to for this job."
Port thought about it for a second before suggesting team CFVY, team FIRE, or team PRPL. Oobleck thought about it and agreed.
"All right. Let's see if they are agreeable to that. They may have something else planned, though."
Glynda walked into their conversation, bringing them news that all those upperclassmen were actually busy with another mission, and that CFVY was trying to prepare for the Vytal Festival Tournament, considering their last mission had its deadline extended.
"Damn," cursed Oobleck, "What other team is available right now. How about CRDL and BLUE together?"
"Both are also busy," replied Glynda.
Oobleck sighed, "I'm guessing team RWBY is our only choice?"
Glynda nodded. "Also, Ozpin suggested it," added Glynda.
Both Port and Oobleck raised their eyebrows at this but decided to obey. Ozpin hadn't led them wrong before.
"Great. Mountain Glenn.. again," deadpanned Blake.
"Aww I thought we were done with Mountain Glenn," moaned Ruby, remembering the last time they had been here.
Team RWBY found themselves continuing the mission to investigate the recent sabotages at Mountain Glenn. They had returned back to Beacon to rest for a day while restocking on whatever they needed before flying out.
"Professor Port has informed me that you found some of their old technology interfering with our security system. It might be nothing... OR IT MIGHT BE EVERYTHING!" shouted Oobleck, "Either way, I believe it's worth investigating the Merlot Industries building in Mountain Glenn."
"All right then. Gooo TEAM RWBY!" shouted Ruby.
"If my old maps are still accurate, it should be located somewhere in the center of town. Just do your best and not end up like the brilliant men and women who worked there.." warned Oobleck.
"Don't worry, we got this Doc," said Yang.
They quickly traveled through the city, taking out random Grimm. Soon, they found that the bridge that led to the city had been blocked off.
"Well, that's an issue. According to my map, you should be able to take a detour through the city's old waterway system," advised Oobleck.
"Eww," said Weiss, uncomfortable with going through dirty mucky water.
"Just pretend it's a day in the water park," suggested Ruby.
"I've never been to one," replied Weiss.
"Uhhh..." hummed Ruby, not knowing what else to say.
"Well, Water we waiting for? Let's go," grinned Yang, causing her whole team to groan.
Blake also didn't seem to like going through that way either and was thankful to see it was mostly dried up. They soon encountered a lock at a gate. Ruby was all for activating it and just waiting, but Yang punched the edge of the lock a few times with Weiss freezing it. Soon enough, it fell off, opening the gate. Just as they were about to go through, an Alpha Ursa came to attack them.
"Burning Rose!" shouted Ruby as she and her sister ran forward. Yang attacked high while Ruby attacked low. The Ursa roared and swiped its claws forward. Yang punched it away while Ruby slammed her weapon down on its shoulder before firing, leaving a gash on its shoulder. Weiss charged in, stabbing it multiple times on its body before doing a somersault kick on its head. Blake finished it with 5 successive slashes at its stomach.
"Let's keep moving," said Yang after reloading her gauntlets. Finally, they arrived to see a tall building they had not noticed the first time they were here.
"There! That's the facility," said Oobleck, "Go inside and see what you can find. And girls... Be careful. Although it looks stable, it has been many years since it was built."
RWBY nodded and went inside, taking photos of anything that seemed useful. Ruby had an idea and put her Scroll into a computer that seemed to still be working. She could hear it working, just not the monitor. After having Yang call Oobleck to link into her Scroll, Oobleck was scrolling through the information.
"I can't believe how all this data has withstood the years," said Oobleck in amazement, "Even after the fall. Still, its very like Dr. Merlot to not let something like this hinder his progress."
Suddenly, the building started to blow up.
"What's happening!?" shouted Weiss.
"The building has a self-destruct function!?" shouted Blake.
Soon, team RWBY found themselves running for their lives out of the building. They didn't make it out, and the building blew a hole into the ground, sending everything inside into the hole. Including team RWBY.
"Team? TEAM!? TEAM RWBY, RESPOND!" shouted Oobleck. He slammed his fist onto the table, feeling helpless. This was supposed to be a simple investigation mission, not a search and destroy! He was worried for the girls when all he heard was radio static
Suddenly, he heard coughing noises from the other line.
"Team RWBY, are you alright?" asked Oobleck.
"Yea, we're all here," coughed out Ruby making a head count, "And I don't think anyone's hurt. We might have to hold our position for the while to recover."
"A good idea," said Oobleck, "Take this chance to get a breather, but try to find a way out. I'll have a Bullhead on standby to pick you up. Your mission now is to just get home safely."
"Roger that," said Yang.
Team RWBY took the time to rest up before heading off to find a way out.
Meanwhile, Team JNPR had returned back from their mission.
"Welcome back," said Glynda, "I hope you aren't too tired right now."
"What's wrong?" asked Pyrrha.
"We need a team to investigate Forever Falls," said Glynda, "The Merlot insignia that your team and RWBY sent to use has Ozpin worried. He's noticed something is wrong there and wants any available team to check it out. If you accept, then you'll be heading out tomorrow with team CFVY"
Jaune looked to his team, who nodded back at him.
"We'll do it," said Jaune.
"Excellent. Go get some rest now," said Glynda. As they left, Jaune paused for a second before asking, "Is team RWBY back?"
"They encountered some trouble at Mountain Glenn, but rest assured, they are safe," answered Glynda.
Jaune nodded before walking back to the JNPR dorms. Inside, though, he was worried.
'Should I just fly out there to check if they're all right?' thought Jaune.
"They should be fine," said Lung Wang, "Have trust in your future potential mates."
"It will do you no good to keep worrying about them," advised Ryo-Wo.
Ren, as if sensing what Jaune was feeling, turned around to speak.
"Team RWBY has always performed exceptionally on the field. Not to mention all that extra training we've crammed in with them."
"Yea.. You're right," said Jaune, brushing his hair back, "Just a bit concerned. Let's get some rest. We have a big day tomorrow."
That night, Dew had come into their room to snuggle with Jaune. She was quite jealous to hear the other girls snuggle with Jaune during sleeping time. They had a whole semester to do so while she was at Shade dealing with an annoying Arc. So she took this time to snuggle with Jaune even though it wasn't her turn. Pyrrha glared at Dew for a bit before jumping into the bed with Jaune. They ended up sleeping together, with Jaune in the middle while has arms were stuck in the clutches of girls on either side. He didn't terribly mind it, though.
Team RWBY had eaten and rested for a bit before continuing on to find a way out of what seemed to be the sewer system. As they were walking, they saw the weirdest Creeper ever. Instead of the usual black and white design, this one had sickly colored green spikes on it and was much larger than normal. But yet, it didn't seem to be an Alpha Creeper.
"What is that?" asked Blake.
"A new Grimm? Let's kill it!" said Ruby, jumping in with her scythe.
"Ruby wait!" shouted Yang, but Ruby had already charged in.
She sliced the Grimm in half before turning around, "See. No big deal."
Weiss then noticed that the Grimm, instead of dissolving, seemed to be expanding instead. Her eyes widened, and she quickly made a movement glyph, sending Ruby towards her.
"Hey, why-," started Ruby, but never finished her sentence as the body of the green Grimm exploded. If Ruby had still been there, most likely her Aura would've been destroyed, and potentially hurting or killing her.
"What was that?" shouted Ruby.
"I dunno. But I see a few more of them up ahead," said Blake, taking out her Scroll. She snapped a few photos before writing in some key details and sent it to Port. If it had to do with Grimm, then Port would be the one with answers, no matter how long or boring his stories were.
They continued ahead, noting that the green Creeper, or Mutant Creeper, weren't as abundant, but still very dangerous. They soon got a call from Port.
"Hello, students. I've just seen the pictures you've sent me and the details. Unfortunately, I don't know what it is. I've never seen it. Oobleck theorizes that it's a Grimm but heavily mutated. I would say capture one for further study, but based on your description, that would be dangerous. For now, just gather data about these new Grimm, and find a way out. I suggest using your ranged weapons on killing these green Grimm, so you're safe from the explosion."
"Well, that was informative," grumbled Weiss.
Walking forward to any path available, they encountered a mix of both Grimm. It seemed like the green Grimm and the regular Grimm had no problems with each other, making them think that it was indeed a Grimm creature. They found themselves staring at a huge door that was blocking their way.
"You should be almost to the exit," said Oobleck,
"Just plug your Scroll into any available port, and I'll be able to open the door for you."
Weiss put hers in, and the doors opened, revealing a path with a railroad system... and a bomb that was ticking in front of them. It started as soon as the door opened.
"Umm, Professor?" said Weiss.
"Doctor!" replied Oobleck.
"We have a problem," Blake continued
"What's wrong? Is the path blocked?" asked Oobleck. Weiss turned the Scroll to video and showed Oobleck the cart with a ticking time bomb.
"Oh dear... That is a bomb. And a very large bomb at that. Who would booby trap this place?"
"Not another bomb!" cried Ruby.
"Give me a moment to analyze that bomb," said Oobleck, looking at the picture. He then declared that it was impossible to move the bomb or tamper with it and that their only chance was to use and Dust engine crystals to keep the cart moving into a deep chasm and underground river that was just ahead.
"Remember, time is of the essence, but remain calm," said Oobleck, until RWBY and Oobleck heard Grimm howling in the distance, "Right. Forget being calm. JUST HURRY!"
Ruby and Blake were in charge of finding Dust Crystals, which were thankfully laying around the cave. Yang and Weiss were dealing with the Grimm that was charging towards them. The cart was slowly moving, but time was ticking, as could be seen on the bomb.
"Go go go!" shouted Yang, as if trying to make the cart hurry up.
"Ladybug!" shouted Ruby, as she and Blake dealt with an Ursa blocking their way. Weiss finished it with a stab upwards into the air before diving back down, stabbing it in the head.
Time seemed to extend forever when it was only 2 minutes and 30 seconds. With 30 seconds left on the clock, the cart finally reached the end of the track and fell down. It exploded upon impact, but luckily, none of them were in danger.
"Urg, can't wait to get to the showers," said Weiss.
"No complaints here," said Yang, "I need to get all this dust and water off my hair."
"Just call the Bullhead, Ruby," sighed Blake.
Ruby called Oobleck in for a ride, to which he made a huge sigh of relief.
"Good job students. I'm glad you were able to keep your cool... and not explode... that would've made for an uncomfortable parent/teacher conference. Still, all of these signs are quite worrying. Team JNPR and CFVY are at Forever Fall right now, checking some things out. Just get back here, and you'll rendezvous with them later."
"Copy that," Ruby replied before putting her Scroll away.
Hope you enjoyed it. Team DSCO moving in with their groove on! Also, buncha easter eggs in that. Team DSCO is a team that TheMischieviousPuppy designed all by himself, with me giving some but minimal advice on it. Read and Review! Almost hitting that 1k mark! That's my next goal! That, and surpassing the review count on my other story.
And so this time's arc is the RWBY game Grimm Eclipse! Otherwise could be known as vol 2.5, as it does take place in between vol 2 and 3.