Four Hearts Of One Journey

by Owriush

Their life's were as normal as can be. The girls of team RWBY living day, by day and enjoying the life they had. Until they became wrapped up in a destiny none of them had any idea they were apart of. One that would send them on a journey unlike anything they could have expected. With friends, new allies and each other. They'll have to be the hero's, everyone needs...

18. Chapter 17

Hello my fellow readers, I finally got around to getting this chapter done and decided to relax a bit from the world hopping with the girls of team RWBY and have them deal with some temporary home sweet home business. Also I'm making this a few parter episode, so this will be some very fun stuff to come in the next few chapters. Anyways as usual, did the best I could with grammar and I just hope you all enjoy this chapter. : )

Now forward my fellow fanfiction members into the realm of READING!

I do NOT in any way own Kingdom hearts/associated show, game etc. which belongs to Square Enix and Disney, RWBY which belongs to RT/ Mounty Oum along with all the other added in franchise as well which belong to their respective creators

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Four Hearts of one Journey

Ch. 17: Traverse Town adventure Pt.1

-With Pyrrha, Nora and Ren-

"Hello, mister stranger are you okay?" Nora asked as she, Pyrrha and Ren had been left alone. While Virgil, Gehrman and Griffa were off doing something else. Though Nora, Pyrrha and Ren started to converse with each other to kill the boredom, a man had appeared on the ground out cold. Which brought them to their current situation

"Nora, I don't think that's working." Ren stated as he knew Nora meant well, but didn't always have the most practical solutions when it came to simplicity

"Yeah I don't think it is. But what I want to know is who this guy is and what's with his weird outfit?" Pyrrha asked as she, Nora and Ren studied the man's foreign attire

Said man was taller than them from what they could tell, he had peach skin; but had his eyes closed still and a clean shaved face. The man wore a white long-sleeved baggy shirt, baggy white pants and white socks. Though on him also was a pair of black steel greaves/sandals and gauntlets with gold engravings. A blue/yellow vest that went down into a long cloth, that ended at the front and back of his body. Finally he wore a black cap over his whole head and a large rounded brimmed straw hat. To Pyrrha, Ren and Nora; this was a strange attire for someone to wear. Even if it did in some ways resembled what Ren wore in ways.

"It's not that weird Pyrrha." Nora replied back, as she kept poking the man's face to see if he'd eventually wake up from her doing that so much

"Oh you know what I mean Nora." Pyrrha said with a deadpanned tone, before sighing a bit "Still, I wonder if he's like the others?"

"You mean advisors for team RWBY?" Ren asked curiously

"Yeah that's what I mean." Pyrrha answered

"Either way, we at least get a new buddy." Nora happily remarked as she continued poking the mans face, only for seconds later for him to open his eyes which were pure blue

The man then quickly grabbed Nora and flung her over him, Ren was about to attack; but the stranger quickly rammed his pam in Ren's chest. This sent Ren back away as Pyrrha quickly swung a right hook, only for the stranger to dodge her attack as he ducked under it; then elbowed Pyrrha under her chin sending the up into the air before she landed on the ground hard. The Stranger quickly got into a defensive position as he backed away a bit, while Pyrrha, Nora and Ren got back up.

"Who are you three and where am I?" The stranger asked sternly

"Okay wait just a second there mister, you better say-" Nora responded back, a little peeved about the attack; but was cut off by the man

"NO, YOU ANSWER ME NOW!" The stranger yelled, as his voice echoed with a boom and thunder appeared suddenly striking the ground. Meanwhile the stranger's body started to course with electricity through it "I will not ask again, where am I and who are you?!"

"Well ah… we ah…." Pyrrha tried to say, but she was struck with slight panic until back up arrived for the rescue

"I believe we can answer that for you my good thunder lord." Virgil answered calmly as he, Gehrman and Griffa appeared behind the stranger

"And who might you be spirit?" The stranger asked warily, keeping a defensive stance

"Virgil, a pleasure to meet you and these are my friends." Virgil answered as he motioned to Gehrman and Griffa

"I am Gehrman, well meet." Gerhman said as he tipped his hat off

"And I am Griffa." Griffa answered calmly, then looked passed the stranger to Pyrrha, Nora and Ren "I believe we haven't meet either, though from what my friends here have explained you three are Nora, Ren and Pyrrha. Which I must ask Pyrrha, but how does the pregnancy go?"

"Oh ah, it's going good and it's nice to meet you too Griffa." Pyrrha responded kinldy as Nora and Ren nodded in agreement

"Wait you're pregnant?" The stranger asked as Pyrrha nodded slowly, much to the man's sudden guilt as he bowed to her, Nora and Ren "Then accept my apology for attacking you three and especially for attacking you Pyrrha when are with child."

"No worries really, Nora here shouldn't have been poking you in the first place." Pyrrha replied back sheepishly, as she could tell that the stranger had only acted in self-defense from the probably perceiving Nora's poking of him as a sort of attack or something else along those lines

"Hey I was just poking him is all Pyrrha." Nora said with a slight huff, as Ren placed his hand on her shoulder

"We know, but maybe don't do that again. Might give people the wrong idea when they wake up." Ren explained

"Guess so Ren." Nora said kindly, turning her attention back to the stranger "sorry about that mister stranger."

"No need to apologize, we can say we both were at fault here." The stranger stated with a small smile , while Nora smiled back

"Anyways, with all that put behind us. Who are you?" Ren asked

"Right I forgot to tell you my name, I am Lord Radian the god of thunder and protector of Earth realm." Radian answered "Though can someone please explain to me what's going on and why my body was here in the first place?"

"Well Radian, that may take some time to explain." Griffa replied back "Though with us, we have all the time in the worlds right now."

"Indeed, come let us and the children explain to you what's been going on lately." Virgil kindly suggested as Radian just nodded. Then with that Virgil, Gehrman, Griffa, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora began explaining the situation he had been thrown into

-Traverse Town hotel: Medical center a few hours earlier-

"So that's the whole main issues we're dealing with, any questions?" Glynda asked as she, Ozpin, Neptune, Norie, Vert, Blanc, Compa, Koko, Jonah, Valmet, Toyohisa, Nobunaga, Yoichi, Angela, Bastion, Hana, Robbie, Johnny, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, a still healing Max and Dinky-Di were inside the hotels makeshift hospital. While the others had taken to getting some good night rest as Aerith with the assistance of Leon, Yuffie, Maria and Yin helped a large part of newer townsfolks into their respective rooms; with only a few rooms left. The rest had gone out for one thing or another and still hadn't come back yet. Leaving Glynda reluctantly to be the one to explain everything with, though thankfully with Ozpins help with anything that may have slipped her mind

"Okay one, are you sure this ain't just some hellish nightmare?" Nobunaga asked, but got a quick buck to his left thigh hard by Applejack "Ow, what the hell?"

"Hey ya'll asked if this was dream, so I just wanted ta prove it ain't." Applejack explained with a small smirk, as Nobunaga glared at her a bit; before having Neptune cut in between them

"Hey none of that you two, we wouldn't want to give our medics anymore work to do." Neptune remarked as she motioned her hand over towards Angela, who was looking over Robbie like a mother hen

"So no feelings of fatigue or anything else Robbie, you don't even feel any broken bones?" Angela asked looking over his face a little; cleaning the small cuts from the previous battle

"Yeah I am Angela, I just got the cuts as you can see." Robbie replied back as he winced a bit from the cleaning Angela was doing, though took noticed of Johnny snickering a bit "What?"

"Nothing just find it a little funny that you can take a brutal beat down without flinching and now you're flinching from a simple checkup." Johnny explained snickering some more, until he suddenly got a quick smack to the back of the head from Valmet "Why me, I was joking?!"

"Because I wanted to." Valmet answered calmly, with a small smirk as Compa walked up to the left of Johnny

"Mister Blaze, you should be resting like that other man is. Not sitting up." Compa kindly stated with an amused smirk "Also, weren't you flinching a lot more when I cleaned up your face up?"

"Ouch, stabbed me right in the pride little lady." Johnny responded with a fake tone of hurt and was about to say something, but was cut off by Max

"Hey girl." Max said as Compa turned her attention towards him nervously

"Y-Yes?" Compa asked, taking in a few deep breaths to help calm her nerves down

"Max." Max replied calmly, yawing a little "My name is Max."

"Oh okay then…" Compa responded back, trying to break the sudden awkwardness before it could actually startup "I-If you don't mind me saying, but I like your doggy."

"Yeah I got to say, despite how fierce that dog of yours acts. He's such a sweetie in the end." Koko remarked as Dinky-Di was lying near Max's bed like a guard

"Well like the saying goes, dogs are man's best friends." Yoichi stated with a shrug "Though I'm fine with dogs, I prefer cats a little more. More agile like I am."

"Same, well not the whole agile thing. But I've always like cats a little more as pets than dogs, much easier to deal with and keep up with." Blanc said with a small smile as Yoichi gave her a two finger salute up, prompting Blanc to do the same

"Vroop, beep, vroo." Bastion remarked joyfully, as Twilight patted his shoulder

"Indeed, more friends always makes everything great!" Twilight joyfully stated before realizing that only Angela, Robbie, Hana, Rarity, Applejack, Ozpin and Glynda understood Bastion; while the others didn't being so new to this place

"What language does the metal man here speak?" Toyohisa asked, before taking notice of Hana snickering much to his slight annoyance "Something funny?"

"What, oh nothing bad dude for real. Just trust me when I say the magic in this place will enable you to understand the big guy here eventually." Hana explained snickering some more

"Anyways, he said that 'I guess we're making more friends' and also re-asked on what Glynda had asked." Hana explained as Bastion nodded in agreement

"Right we'll there's a lot of questions actually, at least for me and the gals here." Noire said as Neptune, Vert and Blanca nodded in agreement

"Same here again, like why the hell do we have to rely on four teenaged girls to save us. Seems like a load of-" Nobunaga began to say, but stopped when he saw Compa glaring at him a little or at least the best glare she could muster up. So not wanting to have to deal with the girl since he wasn't caring too, he decided to rephrase himself "Ahem, a ah… strange thing."

"Yes strange indeed I guess you could say." Glynda responded in amusement, before getting serious once more "Still yes, the girls are our only hope for any of us getting back home."

"No offense Glynda, but that doesn't really help with brining any possible hope to us." Yoichi remarked "I mean look, from what we can guess these girls are trained well enough to keep themselves safe. But having to rely on whoever these four are, without even knowing them doesn't help really. Feels like we're putting faith too much in these four girls if you ask me."

"Fareeha said something like that a while ago too, but the girls aren't alone. They have their other five friends with them as back up." Glynda explained, even if she was still a little cautious of those five that traveled with the girls

"That just makes it less reassuring. Since from what you've explained to us, make the idea of having to rely on four teenaged girls and five strangers to save us all even more unnerving. It doesn't sound like the best of plans or the most sensible one. No offense." Valmet stated bluntly

"Well I think they can." Jonah said calmly, as the others turned their attention to him "I mean what choice do we have, besides since we're not able to do much to help. No point in doubting our only hope to get back home right, what help does that do?"

"Wise words, you're a smart boy." Ozpin replied back, as Jonah just shrugged

"I wouldn't say that, I ain't that smart just sensible I guess." Jonah responded as Koko suddenly hugged him from behind, pressing her chest a little bit against his back as she rubbed her cheek against his

"Oh you just keep getting more cuter every minute!" Koko said happily as she hugged a slightly blushing Jonah some more, while the others watched in slight awkwardness

"My Koko is… touchy with him huh?" Rarity asked quietly, as she felt like she was watching the start of something a bit taboo in front of her

"Yeah, think she's one of THOSE sort of women?" Nobunaga asked, but got a hard punch in his right side by Valmet who had quietly and quickly made her way over to him just to punch him for that comment "Gah, damn woman what the hell was that for again?"

"For speaking about Koko like that, she's just being nice to Jonah since he's a good kid that deserve some kindness." Valmet answered sternly, though seemed slightly hesitant with her answer as she looked back at Koko still fawning over Jonah until Vert moved up next to her with Applejack

"Hey don't worry Valmet, I'm sure it's just a platonic sort of thing." Vert kindly said, with a reassuring smile

"Yeah, Vert here gots it right. Besides, ya'll seem like an interesting gal. I'm sure she'll like ya one day more than a friend." Applejack said next, since it was kind of obvious that Valmet had a thing for Koko

"Oh, ah I guess…thanks." Valmet responded back, half smiling out of appreciation and slight surprise from hearing such reassuring words from two girls she had just meet; even if one of them was a pony

"You're welcome." Applejack responded back, but suddenly the door opened getting the groups attention as they looked to see HK-97 walk in with his gun out

"Greetings: Hello, I do apologize for interrupting whatever this was. I was walking around the hotel to check it over. Then heard some noises coming from here and thought we were under attack, so I was coming in to deal with it." HK-97 explained as he moved up to the group, stopping behind Glynda and Ozpin; though Hana was the only on to responded back

"Okay just because you hear some noises doesn't mean that an attack is happeing." Hana responded, as HK-97 put his gun away "Also I know this is weird to bring up and I know you're a robot or droid as you call it. But do you have to talk the way you do, seems repetitive to say statement or whatever else you say before you actually say what you want to say."

"Yeah and a little annoying too." Toyohisa stated in slight annoyance

"Don't be rude you two, it's not like he can help it." Angela remarked as Hana rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, while Toyohisa just shrugged to Angela's slight irritation. She then turned her attention to HK-97 "Still, I'm kind of curious myself on why speak the way you do."

"Explanation: I can't say to be honest, that's just how I was made. I tend not to question my natural functions you could say, it's like asking why your organics have the need to mate whenever your hormonal urges arise or the fact that you keep those urges hidden in most of the times. Well mostly the single ones I guess you could say." HK-97 explained as he looked to Robbie and Hana "Like you both, I have a ninety-nine percent guess that from how you've 'SUBTELY' glance at one another while we made our way back here. That you both have urged to mate with one another."

"Wait what?" Robbie asked, suddenly flustered from the accusation

"Yeah, what are talking about you crazy droid. Oh ah…I got to go bed bye!" Hana yelled, as she ran out of the room; not taking notice that she was blushing a bit

"You good droid have the subtly of a Griffon." Rarity remarked with a disapproving frown

"More like a dragon Rarity." Twilight remarked next as she and Rarity gave each other a high hoof, staring at HK-97 still in disapproval

"Confused: What, I was just stating the obvious facts is all. You organics seems to be very touchy about this privacy stuff, when it would just be easier to be honest about it. Then again it's not like it affects me much." HK-97 bluntly said as the Twilight, Rarity along with Angela and Glynda now glared at the droid

"Beep, boop, vroo, vroop, beep." Bastion stated, as HK-97 sighed angrily

"Agitated response: Really, you think I should try to be more understanding. Why, because it's the human thing to do, well I'm not human and you aren't either. No we're both machines in the end of the day, though at least I seemed to be a more of a proper one than you." HK-97 responded back, as he quickly made his way out of them room before anyone could say anything

"Well that metal man was annoying. But I'm going too, maybe see if I can find a good place to practice my sword skills; you know keep them fresh in my mind and body." Toyohisa remarked, getting back up as he made his way out of the room quickly too

"Yeah, I think I'll be getting to bed. Way to damn tired to do much else." Nobunaga stated leaving now, as he grumbled on needing more sleep

"If you'd excuse me." Yoichi kindly said, getting up and giving a quick wave goodbye before he exited the room

"Well at least Yoichi was nice enough to wave goodbye." Blanca remarked with a deadpanned tone

"Yeah, look I've told everyone else here the same thing. But we just need to have some faith in the girls is all." Glynda kindly said

"Glynda, that's a lot to ask of us." Max responded as he closed his eyes trying to get into a restful position. While Dinky-Di moved next to Neptune, Norie, Blanca and Vert as the four started to pet the dog, who loved the attention he'd been getting lately

"Well you're going to have to learn to put some faith in people dude." Johnny stated as Compa who was checking over him still, nodded in agreement

"Indeed, besides wouldn't it be more reassuring to have some faith than none at all?" Ozpin kindly asked as Max huffed a bit

"Right... trust me on this Ozpin, faith is just a lie; especially in the world beyond the gates of this place." Max answered as he sighed, still trying to get some rest

"Man what a grump." Neptune whispered to the girls and ponies

"Totally, he could use some more sunshine in his life." Vert replied back as she was the only one now petting Dinky-Di, while Noire and Blanca yawned a bit

"Seems like you two getting tried." Glynda said as she yawned herself

"Same could be said of you Glynda." Twilight responded kindly as she yawned now, followed by the others soon after other than Bastion

"I think we all could use some rest, so why don't we get some rest." Ozpin suggested as the group looked to one another, before nodding in agreement and making their way out to get some rest. Other than Max, Dinky-Di, Ozpin, Glynda, Angela and Robbie who Angela was still looking over even if he was alright for the most part

"You know I'm fine now Angela." Robbie answered as Angela chuckled a bit

"I know, but just want to make sure is all. Since you're in my care I always make sure that my patients are alright." Angela explained kindly

"Trust me, she's telling the truth." Max remarked opening his eyes once more as he gave Angela a deadpanned look "She spent six hours checking up on my health at one point."

"Well a good doctor makes sure their patients are up to the standards of health, which I might say you were lacking somewhat; but more around your right leg." Angela stated "I mean how have you been walking around all this time with a leg that damaged?"

"I have a brace I usually wear, but I had to take it off since I need to fix up one of the bolts." Max answered as he moved his right leg a little to see that the usual pain in it was gone for the most part "I'm surprised you were able to heal it up."

"The healing technology I've developed does wonders, though please don't move your right leg for a day more. It's close to fully healing up." Angela explained as Max just nodded in appreciation

"Hey not to be nosy, but how did your leg get so messed up?" Robbie curiously asked, though was worried Glynda would hit him with her cattle whip for asking something so suddenly or something along those lines

"I'm curious about that myself actually." Glynda said as Robbie sighed in relief that the ladder wasn't the case while Max sat back up slow. Mostly to not get Angela to start scolding him for moving so much or something along those lines

"Look all I can say is that I had a few… run ins with some rough characters. Some things happened and that's how my leg got all mess up." Max explained as he laid back down on his bed just as quickly

"Come on man, there more to that." Robbie responded back in slight annoyance

"Maybe, but until I get to know any of you better. That's all you get." Max answered as he closed his eyes again, trying to get some actually sleep for once

"Nice guy." Glynda remarked, yawing herself some more "Maybe we should get some rest now for real."

"Maybe we should, Angela you should get some rest yourself along with Robbie." Ozpin suggested as he and Glynda stood back up; stretching their bodies out

"Sounds like a plan." Angela replied kindly back, finishing with her fix up on Robbie while giving him a serious look "Now Robbie, no rough housing for a while. You'll need these wounds of yours to heal."

"But-" Robbie tried to protest, since he knew his powers would help speed up his healing process since it already was. But he stopped seeing the serious look on Angela's face, one that was making her statement more of an order than a suggestion. So Robbie being a sensible young man for the most part, decided it was best not to argue with the woman who just healed him up "Ah, right I'll do that then."

"Good, now get some rest and be thankful that unlike Max here. You are well enough that you don't need to spend the night in this place." Angela remarked in amusement as Robbie just nodded, then got up and made his way out of the room; while Glynda snickered at the interaction

"You know Angela, if any of us ever figured out a way to cross in between our worlds after all this stuff is done and over with. You should come to our world for a bit, you'd make a great doctor for Beacon." Glynda suggested, chuckling a little

"That does sound tempting, though I'd be healing up the young boys and girls of Beacon then correct?" Angela asked with a calm, but also somewhat angry tone

"Yes you would, maybe even if fate was cruel enough to do so. But you'd maybe have to deal with the dead as well." Ozpin answered as Angela's back stiffened, while Ozpin sighed knowing that despite how horrid some of the other worlds they'd heard about were. Aside from hearing anything of the new comer's home worlds. They're world of Remnant wasn't looked on in a good light, the Grimm sure didn't paint a pretty picture for everyone who had learned of their world. But what got to most of their comrades was the concept of Hunters and Huntresses. From what he and Glynda had learned from what they'd been told. Most of the other worlds didn't use young boys and girls to fight in their battles, even Vladimir's world as horrid as it was didn't use this practice at all. So their word was… a hot, if not uneasy topic when spoken about

"I see, look I'm not one to judge much and far be it from me to judge. But if you don't mind me saying, I think the way your world deals with those so called Grimm is horrid. Disgusting to be exact" Angele stated bluntly, with an angered frown from remembering the information Ozpin and Glynda had explained. She remembered having a sickening feeling in her stomach the first time Hunters and Huntresses were explained, to her it seemed like a death sentence waiting to happen

"That's life." Max answered back calmly as he sat back up again, much to Angela's slight anger

"Really, so kids dying is just life then?" Angela asked as Glynda and Ozpin walked up next to her, as Glynda gently patted her shoulder to help keep her calm

"Yeah, well in my life at least." Max answered as Angela, Glynda and even Ozpin were a little surprised at that. Though before any of them could ask, Max continued "Look outside of this place, my world out there is cruel and unforgiving. No laws, no morals, no nothing. Just yourself, people you may risk putting trust into and your car. Outsides of those gates is nothing more than what people really are, dumb bloodthirsty animals."

"You're wrong, people aren't like that." Angela replied back clenching her fists a little "But even if that's the case with your world, then you must be the same as the rest of them then right?"

"In a way, but at least I still have…morals in a way." Max said calmly

"Whys that?" Ozpin asked as Glynda and Angela were curious themselves

"I used to be a cop." Max answered, much to the others surprise once more

"No really why?" Glynda asked in disbelief as she couldn't see Max as a law abiding type, Max just huffed in annoyance

"Well believe it or not I was a cop once. Though I guess you could call me a road warrior too before it happened." Max stated

"It?" Angela asked, while Max sighed knowing he'd have to explained it the best he could from what he could remember. Since he also knew that it might be best to explain his world outside on the other side of this towns gates. Mostly so they could be prepared for what they would have to face, when the inevitable time came that most of them would want to explore that place

"A war, one that plunged my world into barren wasteland." Max explained "Short version, our oil dried out; people started to get greedy with the remaining oil. Then all out war broke out once it became thinly scares, a lot of people died and I remember it all."

"You were alive during this war then?" Ozpin asked, as Max nodded slowly

"Yeah, I remember a lot of it still. The day it started, the days after, the death, the killing, the stealing, the fires, the planes falling from the sky… the… the sounds of people screaming to death…" Max explained, but then stopped as he was in a daze from sudden repressed memories flowing through his mind. Ones of terror, agony and blood curtailing screams of people of all ages dying horribly. Glynda, Ozpin and Angel look to one another worriedly

"Max?" Angela asked, walking up to make slowly. Then gently placed her right hand on his left shoulder. Though Max snapped out of it calmly, turning his attention to Angela

"What, something wrong?" Max asked as he shook his head a little "Were we talking about something?"

"No, but I think I'll stay here with you for a while longer. Just to run a test or so." Angela answered kindly, as she was deciding on conducting a mental examination on Max. Since he had just showing signs of PTSD and some other worrying issues. She looked back at Glynda and Ozpin with a small smile "Don't worry about me, I'll get to bed soon."

"Sure, have a good night." Glynda replied back as she and Ozpin exited the clinic, once outside they looked behind to see HK-97 looking out of the window a foot away from them "What are you doing HK?"

"Answer: I'm keeping watch for any heartless that may show their ugly faces around this place and if so I'll be ready for them." HK-97 answered as he kept his gaze looking out the window, while holding his repeater in his hands

"Oh, okay then." Glynda said, though a sudden question that had been bothering her a bit came to mind "Actually I have a question or two for you?"

"Curious: Questions, what kind of questions?" HK-97 asked as he turned his attention to Glynda and Ozpin now, staring at them with his emotionless metal face "Statement: I hope I can answer them to the best of my abilities."

"I'm sure you can." Glynda responded back "Well the first question I wanted to ask was what other functions you have, aside from combat related skills."

"Explanation: Miss Glynda I have many functions, from being able to translate a multitude of languages, tactical planning within a few milliseconds, being able to cook some well made dishes for you organics and to be honest I have too many functions to list in one sitting. Though I can so proudly say that I do make an excellent body guard." HK-97 explained proudly

"Well that does seem like you're a jack of trades." Ozpin remarked with a quick chuckled

"Indeed, but now I also wanted to ask; but why else are you here?" Glynda asked, much to HK-97's slight surprise at how perspective Glynda was being

"Questions: May you please elaborate on that. I need more context on what you mean by 'why else I'm here'." HK-97 asked back, while Glynda sighed having a feeling HK-97 was being somewhat too secretive for her liking

"Okay, what I mean is what other reasons are you here for. I mean I can tell that you're probably being honest that you were separated from you master as you call him. But there's something else too, I can just tell in way." Glynda explained with a stern tone

"Remark: You would be right then." HK-97 answered, chuckling a little himself even if it sounded way to robotic. But also having decided to let Glynda on a sort of lie/ truth he had just thought up, to quell any uneasy suspiciousness of him from Glynda and Ozpin at least "Answer: Anyway's, I was sent here for a reason; that reason was to keep an eye of the girls of team RWBY."

"The girls, you're supposed to be protecting the girls?" Ozpin asked

"Answer: In a sense, my master knows they're safe enough as it is. But I will keep them safe while during they visit and stays in this place." HK-97 explained "Continued Answer: Other than that, I am here to help you all to best of my programing."

"I see. That's good to know then, though I need to ask as well. But will you follow our commands too if or when we give you one?" Glynda asked curiously

"Statement: Yes I will, as longs as said commands do not contradict my programing or avert in self harm. Then I shall follow your orders to the letter." HK-97 explained as he was so happy that he had the ability to lie

"Alright Glynda, I think that's enough questioning our metallic friend here. Let's get to bed." Ozpin suggested kindly as Glynda smiled and nodded back, with that they made their way off to their room. Though as they did, HK-97 started at them some more, though more primarily at Ozpin as they finally disappeared into one of the hotel rooms

"Warry: I may have to watch that Ozpin fellow, I can't say why but I feel like he can see through my lies." HK-97 whispered, having the sudden suspicion that Ozpin had already caught onto his lies; but he didn't let it bother him much anymore. As he then went back to looking out the window, wondering when the girls of team RWBY would get back here. So he could get into their good graces as soon as possible, before finding the right time to test them to see if they were really worthy of the Keyblades

-With team RWBY present time-

"And we're back!" Donald yelled out as the Gummie Ship launched out of the gateway to Tarzan's world. Then he stopped the ship as its slowed down its speed until it halted completely, and turned his attention back to the others "So, you all good or do you need a barf bag?"

"Oh ha ha, very funny Donald." Weiss responded back in amusement as she, Ruby, Blake and Yang this time were all fine. But that might be because they had finally gotten use to the space travel

"Well I tried to crack a joke, did I do good?" Donald asked kindly

"You did EGGcellent Donald." Yang joked with a wide smirk, much to only Ikail and Dante's amusement

"Oh that was a good one Yang!" Dante said laughing hard

"Totally, you should do stand up comedy as a secondary job!" Ikail said next, laughing hard as well as she teared up a bit; while the others stared at them with weird looks

"Those two have a weird sense of humor." Guin stated as he winced a bit from the still healing gunshot wound in his bicep

"You okay Guin?" Blake asked as she and Ruby turned their attention to him; while Ruby patted his wounded bicep

"I'm fine, just never have been shot by a gun. So I will admit it was more painful than I had believed." Guin answered kindly "Though I appreciate your concerns girls."

"Hey you're part of this little weird team/ family too and we make sure we watch each other's backs." Ruby explained happily as Blake nodded in agreement, while Dante and Ikail finally were ceased with their laughing

"You two gonna be alright?" Goofy asked as Ikail and Dante's faces were a little red from laughing so much

"Y-Yeah well be fine Goofy." Dante answered, taking in a few calming breaths

"I don't think I'll ever understand why you both find Yang's puns so funny." Weiss remarked, but before anyone could responded a loud snoring could be heard as she and the girls looked back to see Huang snoring loudly on the ground. Having used his coat to make a small pillow; leaving his undershirt exposed and his hat to cover his eyes. Huang had made in a way, a small bed for himself as the girls wondered how he stayed asleep for this long

"So who wants to wake Huang up?" Blake asked as suddenly Ruby smiled widely with slight mischievousness as she looked to Donald

"Donald, remember when I asked if I could use the new aero magic me and the girls got once we were back in the ship?" Ruby asked with an innocent tone

"No." Donald replied bluntly as Ruby pouted a little

"Oh come on, please, pretty please!" Ruby said as she did a wide eyed smile

"No." Donald stated, having an immunity to the wide eyed look. Since he'd dealt with his three nephews who did the same thing almost every day with him when they wanted something or wanted to do something that was dangerous

"PLEASE!" Ruby asked with a wide smile and a puppy dog stare now, which made Weiss suddenly start gushing over how cute her girlfriend looked

"Oh well… no." Donald remarked with a still unconvinced look, as Ruby huffed angrily while pouting some more and then rested her head on Weiss shoulder

"No fair…" Ruby said with a defeated tone, as Weiss patted her shoulder and kissed her on the top of the her head; before turning her gaze towards Donald with a narrowed eyed along with an intimidating smirk

"Donald." Weiss stated as Donald felt a shiver down his spin, knowing for a fact from having to deal with Daisy his girlfriend for a long while; that this was a mood that he never liked dealing with and would usually give into because he didn't know how to handle it

"Oh no…no W-Weiss." Donald responded back, though Weiss staring at him with her narrowed eyes and intimidating smirk wasn't helping him from caving in. A few more seconds went by before Donald groaned in annoyance "Alright fine, she can use the aero magic. Spoil her some more why don't ya?"

"YAY!" Ruby happily yelled out as she hugged Weiss and kissed her repeatedly on the lips "Thank you snowflake, I love you!"

"I love you to Ruby." Weiss responded back happily as she kissed Ruby back a few times "But for real Donald, I'm not spoiling her."

"Seems like it to me, next you'll be buying her all the clothes she doesn't need because you just want to shower her with gifts." Ikail joked as she posed like a love struck woman "What it is to be young and in love."

"I wouldn't do that, I'd only buy her the most expensive and well crafted clothes along with everything else I'd buy her. Only the best for my little rose here." Weiss answered as she hugged Ruby closely to her

"You know if she even spoke of wanting a mansion, you'd probably buy her one in a second." Blake remarked with a smirk, as Weiss huffed from the accusation

"I'd buy her one in a millisecond thank you very much." Weiss answered back proudly

"Really, you're not even denying it anymore that you like spoiling my little sister and would give into her requests easily?" Yang asked with a deadpanned tone "I mean I spoil her at times, but I even know what limits I should have; if only to keep my little sister humble and healthy."

"Well I… I just love my little rose deeply." Weiss answered kindly, as she hugged Ruby some more; while Ruby smiled joyfully and kissed Weiss on the lips for a few more seconds before retracting back

"I love you deeply too Weiss." Ruby said joyfully, then turned her attention back to Donald "Look I promise to be a safe as I can be with my aero magic okay, besides I'm only going to do this one time."

"Alright, just give me and Goofy a moment to hid behind our chairs." Donald responded back

"Yeah, just give us a second." Goofy remarked as he and Donald hid behind their chairs

"Aren't you two being a little too dramatic?" Blake asked as Donald and Goofy nodded no

"Aside from that, let me see how this aero magic works." Ruby said as she stood up on her seat, summoned her keyblade and then aimed it at Huang. She took a moment to line up the shot, before finding it "Aero!"

With that, a blast of air shot out of her keyblade hitting Huang as it flung him against the back of the ship waking him up quickly. But as that happened, the power of the air based attack blasted Ikail, Guin and Dante against both sides of the ship. Blake was blast up a little and back in Yang's lap; preventing Yang from being blasted off as well. Weiss meanwhile had been blow right into Ruby's legs, tripping Ruby who landed in her lap. Once the quick chain of events stopped, Donald and Goofy slowly got back up from behind their seats.

"This is why we don't use magic in the ship." Donald remarked

"Yep." Goofy remarked next

"Yeah… makes sense." Ruby responded back as she and the others slowly situated themselves back in their seats

"The hell was that?" Huang asked getting up from behind the seats, rubbing his pained back as he grumbled

"Oh I used some aero magic to wake you up!" Ruby happily answered, with a kind smile

"What are you, some sadistic little witch or something. You could have broken my back?" Huang asked, grumbling some more from the sudden pain

"Be nice to my little sis alright Huang." Yang asked sternly as Huang huff, then grumbled some more

"Anyways, maybe we should get back to Traverse Town now. Maybe some new things have happened since our last visit." Blake suggested as the others nodded in agreement

"Totally, let's get to it!" Ruby happily said as Donald and Goofy nodded to one another, then with that they moved the ship some ways till they were right above Traverse Town. Though Huang took notice of this, realizing how they we're ready to be teleported down to this new place

"Please tell me that this ain't as stomach churning like last time?" Huang asked as Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang smiled at him in amusement; much to his annoyance "You four are little witches, you know that?"

"Nah, we're just friends that like to mess with ya." Yang answered kindly, before turning her attention to Donald "Time to get back to home sweet temporary home!"

"Got it." Donald said as he pressed the teleporter and with that the group teleported back down into Traverse Town

-Traverse Town Present time-

"AND WE ARE-" Ruby yelled happily, as she and the others appeared into the towns first district. Only to be hit by water balloons on both sides, along with Weiss, Blake and Yang getting hit as well from both sides. The others had quickly moved away from the water balloon attack, from gut instinct as the girls faces and hair were oddly enough the only things to get soaked "Here…"

"Alright who did that?" Blake asked as she shook her head to get some of the water off of her, thankful that her bow was dry enough. Meanwhile Weiss sighed, while Yang used her shook her head to get some of the water off and Ruby spit some water out

"Oh that was funny!" A young duckling in red said, laughing hard along with two other ducklings in green and blue

"Yeah we got them good huh?" The red duckling asked as the triplet duckling laughed some more

"I wonder what the look on their faces are like?" The blue duckling asked as they laughed still, before stopping and finally to take a few breathers. Though team RWBY saw a striking resemblance to Donald, who by this point sighed angrily as he walked up to the duckling

"Huey, Dewy, Lewy what's the meaning of this?" Donald asked back sternly, as the three triplets shy a bit with guilty looks on their face "Well?"

"We we're just having fun with the others." Dewy answered

"Others?" Donald said curiously

"Yeah the others we just hit with… oh, wrong targets." Lewy explained, until him and his brothers noticed they had hit the wrong targets

"Wrong targets, yeah wrong targets. Now say sorry to Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang." Donald sternly stated as the motioned the duckling to go in front of him towards the girls. They did so, looking shyly at the ground

"Sorry Miss Ruby, Miss Weiss, Miss Blake and Miss Yang." The duckling triples said with an apologetic tone, as the girls looked to one another before smiling

"Oh it's okay, since you didn't mean to hit us all is forgiven." Ruby stated kindly as she patted the three ducklings on their heads, who sighed in relief that none of the girls were mad at them

"But who were you trying to hit anyways?" Blake asked

"Them!" Huey, Dewy and Lewy answered as they pointed behind the girls. Who took a gander to see that it was AppleBloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Spike who all had been trying to make a quick escape; until they were stopped by Ikail using a force hold on them as she moved the four in front of the girls

"So, anything you'd like to say children?" Weiss asked kindly, but with a slightly stern tone

"We're sorry Weiss." Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo said while Spike took a step forward

"Yeah, we we're just having fun with Huey, Dewy and Lewy since there's not that many kids here. But we didn't mean to hit you with our water balloons honest." Spike explained shyly, with a slight fear of being yelled at until Weiss patted him, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle on the heads like Ruby had done with the triplets

"All is forgiven, but try and be more careful or you might hit someone who isn't as forgiving." Weiss kindly stated

"Well we already kind of did." Huey answered as he along with his brothers made their way next to Spike, AppleBloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle

"And who'd that be kids?" Blake asked curiously and in a slight protective tone

"Hei." Sweetie Belle answered with a nervous look "Spike accidently threw a water Balloon at him and um, what did he say again Spike?"

"He said he'd break my neck, gouge out my eyes and feed my remains to the dogs. Then he stabbed his knife near my face when I was against a wall in utter terror." Spike answered calmly, though his body twitched from the quickly repressed memory "I'm totally fine and not scared for life just to say."

"Right." Ikail responded, as she frowned worriedly at the obvious terror the young Drake had endured

"I've known Hei for a while now and this is a first for even him. He must be frustrated beyond belief, well if the damn monster could feel in the first place." Huang remarked, but got a quick glare from the girls "What now?"

"Kids, swearing." Ruby explained sternly as Huang just shrugged, much to Ruby's slight irritation

"What's damn mean?" Sweetie Belle asked

"Oh ah nothing, nothing at all children. Don't pay mind to Huang here, he's a delusional old man that's close to his grave sooner or later." Weiss sheepishly answered, then turned her attention to Huang with an irritated twitchy eye "Maybe you cannot swear in front of the kids, how about that or are you capable of restraining yourself?"

"Whatever. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to walk around this place for a bit. Get my bearings in order, because I have a feeling I'm going to be stuck here for a while." Huang replied back, shrugging and made his way quickly off through the second districts entrance

"Well at least he won't be swearing in front of the kids anymore." Ruby stated, then turned her attention to the kids "Alright now, why don't you go exploring some more or maybe anything else that doesn't involve water balloons okay?"

"Yes miss Ruby." AppleBloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Spike and the duckling triplets said; as they passed by the group. But as they passed by, Sweetie Belle and Lewy stopped in front of them

"Oh we almost forgot to tell what we all found!" Lewy stated

"Found, what is it that you found?" Blake asked kindly as she knelt down next to the Lewy and Sweetie Belle

"Well we found ah…um." Lewy started to say, but stopped as the words weren't coming to him

"We found another district door way. It's appeared in the same area where the entrance to Mister Merlin's hut is." Sweetie Belle answered

"Yeah, oh and speaking of Mister Merlin. The nice old lady that lives with him wanted to see you Miss Blake along with Miss Weiss, Miss Ruby and Miss Yang." Lewy stated

"Well thank you for telling us to you two, now get going. Wouldn't want to get left behind form your friends." Yang remarked kindly, as Lewy and Sweetie Belle quickly made their way to catch back up with the other kids; leaving the group alone once more

"So I guess a task or two here to do before relaxing." Weiss said with a sigh "Darn and here I was hoping that me and my little Rose could go out on a date this time."

"Aw Weiss, don't worry me and you can go on a date when the right time comes. I promise I'll make it the best date ever!" Ruby happily replied back, kissing Weiss on the lips and left cheek a few times "Sounds good snowflake?"

"It does, such a silly and loving girl you are." Weiss responded, nuzzling her nose against Ruby's for a few moments

"Alright, enough with the sweet words. I mean for real, if I hear anymore I might get a tooth ache from how sweet your little moment is." Yang joked, before taking noticed of Ikail, Dante, Guin, Donald and Goofy making their way off "Going off again buddies?"

"Yeah, me and Donald need some sleep. So we're going over to the hotel to get some rest." Goofy answered

"Well you two get some good night rest then." Blake kindly replied, as Goofy and Donald nodded; then made their way off

"I'm going to be sharpening my blade a bit, just need to ask someone at the hotel if there's a place where I can do that." Guin explained, making his way off now

"I was going to find a place in the second district to do some meditating." Ikail explained, then grabbed Dante by the left arm "I'm also going to bring Dante with me, since he seems to be in need of some good old relaxing meditation."

"Oh well ah-" Dante tried to say, but was quickly dragged off by a giggling Ikail where the others had went leaving the girls all alone

"Should we be worried?" Yang asked

"What, why big sis?" Ruby asked back, raising an eyebrow as Blake and Yang chuckled; while Weiss just smiled than patted her girlfriends shoulders

"Sweetie, I know your pretty innocent with most stuff. But surly you even see the little flicker of love Ikail is showing for Dante now?" Weiss asked kindly as Ruby went wide eyed

"Really that's so great to know, oh they'll be… wait, right." Ruby happily yelled, but then remembered that Dante already had a fiancée waiting for him to save her "It would be a good thing, if Dante wasn't already engaged. Oh no, this isn't good at all then."

"Which is why I asked if we should be worried. I know we all agreed that nothing was going on with them or at least Ikail towards Dante back in Tarzan worlds. But seeing this well… I'd hate to have Ikail feelings hurt or Dante having to be the one to break the reality to Ikail." Yang explained worriedly

"We can talk with her about it later on." Blake responded back kindly, kissing Yang on the lips for a few moments; before wrapping her arms around Yang's left arm "Right now let's enjoy our time here and get to our little two tasks at hand done. Then we can actually enjoy the rest of our time together."

"Yeah sounds like a plan Kitten." Yang replied happily, then turned her attention to Ruby and Weiss "You two ready?"

"We are and I say we…hm, well how about we go see the Fairy Godmother first?" Ruby suggested

"Sounds good to me." Blake stated, holding Yang's arm tightly as she rested her head on Yang's shoulder too

"Same here, besides it would be nice to see the old man and GM again." Yang remarked happily

"Well then Ruby lead on." Weiss said, clinging onto Ruby's right arm tightly "Though I hope you don't mind me hanging onto you."

"I don't mind one bit." Ruby replied back joyfully, then looked onwards to the third district entrance way; followed by the others and as they made their way off. Elsewhere in the town, life was going on as normal as psychically possible

-Fourth District-

"Max, you know Angela will have your hide right?" Lutz asked as he, Twilight, Max, Slade, Robbie, Solider 76, Naoshi, Norie, Neptune, Dinky-Di and Chumbucket were inside of the fourth district. Though only Robbie, Max and Chumbucket were doing something; which was tuning up their cars

"Yeah, I know." Max answered, having now placed back on his right leg a metal brace that reach to the top of his upper right thigh; though it was mainly so still his healing leg wouldn't get strained before it fully healed. He also winced a bit from his still healing stomach wound, which thankfully wasn't bleeding at all; but hurt a lot when he moved certain directions

"Well at least you stick to your guns." Lutz responded back, then took notice of Twilight eyeing his sniper rifle "She's a beauty, ain't she?"

"Oh it's a girl, I am so sorry!" Twilight yelled worriedly, only for Lutz to laugh a bit

"Hey calm down Twilight. It was just an expression." Lutz remarked, as Twilight realized how silly she had just been acting and laughed a little too

"Right, right an expression. I'm sorry it's just that gun as they're called and everything else here technology wise is just a little much to get use to easily." Twilight explained sheepishly "Especially these self-moving carriages."

"Car's, that's what you meant." Solider 76 replied back

"Right cars, they just seem so interesting and are well really; like really convenient." Twilight responded "Moving around would be so much more faster than taking the train."

"Personally, the world me and Noire are from don't have cars either. No need for them really since everyone likes to walk around and explore." Neptune stated as she and Noire sat on their knees; petting Dinky-Di whose leg was getting much closer to being fully healed up

"Yeah, though me Norie, Neptune, Vert and Blanca had the advantage of flying." Norie stated next proudly, but then heard Naoshi grumbling "Oh is mister tough guy jealous of our magnificent ability to fly, hm?"

"Shut it you damn brat." Naoshi responded annoyingly, before taking a somewhat calling breath "Just pissed off that my Zero ain't here with me."

"Zero?" Neptune, Norie and Twilight asked curiously hearing those words

"A plane, you dumb asses." Naoshi answered angrily, but then got a mildly hard hit on top of the head by Slade "Ow what the hell old man, want me to kick your ass?"

"Shut up, you're way too young to be moaning and groaning likely you are or getting annoyed by the youngin's words so easily." Slate answered calmly, before looking at Robbie "Speaking of youngin's, boy what's the point of doing maintenance on your car. The thing's nearly indestructible, just like any Ghost Rider's well ride."

"Well old man, I'm doing this because I like too. I mean I was a mechanic before everything that happened to me happened." Robbie answered

"So you're a driver and a car doctor?" Chumbucket asked as Robbie slowly nodded "Oh, a rare and very useful individual to be, saint here's the same but he has me to work on the Magnum Opus!"

"Yes we can see that Chumbucket." Twilight answered kindly, having gotten use to the hunchback very quickly

"Anyways, you're a mechanic huh. Your parents must love having you around to fix up their car?" Lutz joked, as the others who at least understood the joke got a quick laugh out of it; while Robbie stopped working on his car frowning a bit

"Well actually my mom and dad left when I was around thirteen. Which left me in charge of my own life and little brothers life." Robbie explained as the laughing halted, then became awkwardly silent

"Oh ah…sorry." Lutz responded back, rubbing the back of his awkwardly

"It's okay." Robbie said, going back to tuning up his car as it became awkward once more until Noire decided to break the ice

"So ah, you have a brother. Older or younger and what's his name?" Norie abruptly asked, scolding herself quickly for doing so – "Stupid, stupid, stupid. You could have asked a bit calmer dummy!"-

"Yeah, younger and his name is Gabe. Nice kid, you'd all like him." Robbie answered, sighing a bit "I guess none of us have talk much about one another's lives. Guess I'll start off a little."

"Oh no, you don't have to really." Neptune kindly stated, as Robbie sighed

"Maybe, maybe not but we're going to have to get use to each other. Some of us more than others, so might as well start." Robbie explained calmly, as Naoshi and Solider 76 made their way passed the group

"Hey, where are you two going. It's sharing time." Twilight happily asked, only for Naoshi to glare back at her annoyingly

"Sorry little…pony, I ain't doing sharing or any other sappy shit." Naoshi answered sternly, making his way out of the area quickly; but not before flipping of Twilight

"He's a rude one." Neptune remarked annoyingly, before doing a quick one eighty on her mood "But come on 76, I'm sure you'd like to share buddy!"

"Nah, not much for me to tell. Just some random mercenary is all, nothing special." Solider 76 explained, then made his way out of the area quickly too

"Guess sharing isn't something they do." Twilight stated as her ears flopped down, not being used to such sudden aggressiveness like Naoshi displayed and she could also guess that him flipping her off with his middle finger was an insulting gesture. Though she did appreciate Soldier 76 at least being polite about not wanting to share, but she was already planning on how to help the older man open up more about himself when she found the right time to do so

"Eh, don't let it get to ya kid. Some people just ain't the sharing type." Slade replied, patting Twilights head as she smiled a little

"Guess so, maybe they'll be more opened if we give them time." Twilight responded back, then turned her attention back to Robbie "Mind telling us your life story though please?"

"I was going to already, but since you're asking so nicely okay then." Robbie said with a small smile, while getting back to tuning up his car "So yeah I have a little brother. Took care of him my whole life after I turned thirteen. Before you ask, yeah I know what possibly happened to my parents; but I ain't going into it. Anyways, me and Gabe lived in a not so pretty part of Los Angeles."

"Okay hold up!" Neptune yelled, raising her hand up like a she was in school

"Ah, sure. Go ahead Neptune." Robbie replied, snickering a little at Neptune's childlike gestures

"Cool, so first can you tell us anything more about your little brother. Seems like you're not painting a great picture of him and two, what's Los Angeles. Sounds like a funny place to live in." Neptune asked

"Well maybe I'll tell you a little more on my brother once we get more use to each other." Robbie answered "Also, trust me the part in Los Angeles I lived in was all but funny. Drugs, gangs and all other sort of dangerous crap. Was trying to get me and Gabe out of that place, then…"

"Then what?" Lutz asked, as he and the others took notice of Robbie's sudden stop in his explanation

"Nothing, nothing at all." Robbie responded a little too quickly, but before Neptune, Noire or Twilight could pry anymore out of him; Slade cut in

"How about we ask someone else, sound good?" Slade suggested, as he knew how all the Ghost Riders had their powers given to them one horrific way or another. Sometimes they got it straight from Satan himself, other times which he guessed by Robbie's behavior; he suspected that Robbie's gateway to granting him his Ghost Rider abilities wasn't pretty one bit

"Sure, guess we can." Neptune said, turning her attention to Max with a small smirk "Maxy, time to share!"

"Huh?" Max asked, getting out from under his car in slight confusion "The hell are you talking about?"

"Haven't you been listening at all?" Noire asked, in a slightly scolding tone

"To be honest, I haven't been listening myself Noire. Me and the saint are a bit busy, you know fixing up the Magnum Opus here." Chumbucket explained, as Noire sighed

"Of course, but anyways we we're asking Max about his life." Noire explained "I mean Robbie shared a bit, so we thought Max might want to as well."

"Yeah, like do you have friends outside of this place, what do eat and did you have a family?" Twilight asked suddenly, taking out a note pad from who knows where along with a pen; while smiling too widely

"Maybe tone down the creepy factor Twilight." Lutz joked while Twilight gave him an unamused look "What just saying, looks like you're going dissect him at any moment."

"Very funny Lutz's." Twilight responded, sticking out her tongue at him before turning her attention back to Max "But would you kindly please tell us a little about yourself. I mean like Robbie said, we're going to be stuck with each other. So might as well get comfortable with one another and not have the ever gnawing fear that one of us will try kill the rest in a sadistic blood hungry rampage."

"Why…why did you say that like it was normal?" Neptune asked as she, Noire, Robbie, Slade sort of and Lutz even were wide eyed at Twilights statement

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked, as the others couldn't word up a good enough sentence to explain to Twilight how creepy her statement was

"Forget it, anyway look I'm n-" Max started to say, but stopped himself as he decided that maybe it might be a good idea to explain some things about him. Mostly because he had a feeling Twilight and maybe Neptune at least wouldn't stop pestering him if he didn't tell them anything now "Actually yeah sure, I'll tell you somethings."

"Oh that's great!" Twilight replied, readying her pen and notebook while Max gave her a deadpanned look

"Do you really have to write down what I'm saying, I mean there's like six of us here not including me or you. I'm sure one of us has a good memory." Max asked irritably

"Well best to have a back up plan for the back up just in case." Twilight explained with a wider smile than before, as Max sighed seeing no way out of this now

"Fine, whatever." Max responded, pinching the bridge of his nose for a few moments "Anyway's first off friends well… I guess I do somewhat."

"Somewhat?" Noire asked

"Yes somewhat and that's all, two what do I eat." Max said with a raised eyebrow "Well for me at least, I'd say anything from old cans of dog food, rats, lizards and well maggots."

"Dog food?" Lutz and Slade asked curiously, while Robbie made a 'bleh' sound

"Rats?" Twilight and Neptune asked in sudden shock

"MAGGOTS?" Norie screamed, getting a little green in the face "Ugh, I… I think I'm going to be sick."

"Well best not tell you where I had to eat the maggots from sometimes." Max joked, as Noire glared at him while trying to keep her lunch in

"Not…funny." Noire stated as Neptune patted her back, while Dinky-Di licked her left cheek to help make her feel better

"Was to me a bit." Max remarked, with a rare quick laugh

"Funny, but what about your family?" Robbie asked curiously, as Max quickly went back to his usual serious self "Um…"

"Don't worry, I ain't gonna hurt ya. Just be more careful next time you ask me or someone else that… though at least with someone else you wouldn't likely get shot for it." Max explained sternly as Robbie just nodded slowly "Anyways, yeah. A wife and my ten year old daughter."

"Aw that's sweet, but wait shouldn't you be getting back to them then?" Neptune asked, as Norie and Twilight wondered the same thing

"Well actually that ain't an issue." Max answered, getting a slight agitated edge in his tone

"Um girls, maybe-" Lutz was about to say, but was cut off as Slate who placed his left hand over Lutz left shoulder "What why?"

"They got to learn somehow not to ask to many questions or what to ask and not to ask. This seems like the best time to do so." Slate explained, knowing from listening to the three girls with them that none of them really had ever probably dealt with sensitive topics or many sensitive subjects. Topics like the one he could already tell Max had experienced. He also knew Robbie even agreed, seeing that the boy was just keeping quiet while Chumbucket yet again wasn't paying much attention on them so much, as he continued working on Max's car. Dinky-Di whined a bit, feeling the tension that was coming from Max at the moment

"Whys that?" Noire asked kindly as Max stopped working on the Magnum Opus with Chumbucket, got back up and walked up to the her, Neptune and Twilight with a cold; lowering his face to their level

"Because their dead, been dead for a long time." Max answered sternly, though a slight hint of pain could be heard too. Then before any of the girls could responded, he quickly made his way out of the area

"Sorry…" Twilight muttered, hanging her head down in self shame from having probably brought up some painful memoires

"Well we messed up." Norie remarked as she and Neptune hung their heads down too, realizing how insensitive they might have sound with their questions

"No kidding, but then again I guess you all learned a good old lesson." Slade stated as Neptune and Noire got back up on their feet, while Twilight gave Slade a slight glare

"You mean you let us, why?" Twilight asked angrily

"Because it was a good way for you three to learn when it's a good time to keep your mouths shut. That's all, plain and simple." Slade explained, as Robbie stopped what he was doing and got back up

"Yeah, have to agree with the old man. Look I know I said I'd share stuff with you all, but you also put Max on the spot. Which if want my honest opinion wasn't a smart idea, guy seems unstable enough as it is. I mean I accidently walked in on him once sitting on his bed talking to himself like someone else was there." Robbie said, feeling a slight shiver down his spin

"Speaking of which, didn't Angela say that in half an hour we're supposed to get back into the hotel for a psych evaluation?" Lutz asked "Which is weird why she'd want us to do that in the first place. Most of us are sane."

"What about Hei, Alfred and Naoshi along with everyone else that was with him specifically and HK-97?" Twilight asked with a deadpanned tone, as she had taken the time to get to know the more newer members of their town. Which made her feel slightly uncomfortable with how quickly they were to solving things violently, Alfred she liked well enough; but found him also a little to blood thirsty. Naoshi and his friends were polite enough, granted they seemed like harden warriors. Hei she was nervous around a little, though she also had at one point talked to him a little after the situation with Yin; she came to the conclusion that the man was nice in his own way but was still a possible threat if pushed the wrong way. Then came the droid HK-97, he made her feel extremely uneasy and not just because of his extremely violent one sided battle with the now dead Father Gascoigne. No, something else really made Twilight feel so unsafe around the droid, she just couldn't piece it together at all

"Like I said most of us Twilight, MOST of us." Lutz responded back, rolling his eyes at Twilights need to correct him "But anyways, I guess we should be getting on our way huh. I might be a highly skill combat specialist along the rest of my friends. But that don't mean I ain't scared of pissing off our kind medic. First thing Lehm told me, never ever piss off the person who heals you. It's bad luck from then on."

"Then I guess we should go." Slade responded making his way off to the districts entrance, followed by Lutz, Twilight and then Dinky-Di who just wanted to get petted more by some of the others in the town

"Hey Noire." Neptune said calmly, as she and Noire watched the others make their way off

"Yeah Neptune?" Noire asked

"Is it me or do you think things are just going to get weirder?" Neptune asked back, as Noire tried to find the best answer she could for her friend

"Personally, it probably will get even weirder." Robbie answered, moving up next to the girls along with Chumbucket

"Like really weird stuff, but at least none of you have to deal with the War boys, Roadkill or Buzzards." Chumbucket remarked as he, Robbie, Neptune and Noire made their way off to the districts entrance "Same one's you dealt with Robbie."

"Oh, so that's what they're called. Huh, in all honestly all I remember is getting blasted in a grenade blast, then after getting attacked by Blake. Damn jaw and throat still hurts." Robbie responded, frowning a bit at his still sore jaw and throat

"Blake, that's one of those keyblade wielding gals." Noire said "Why'd she attack you in the first place, ain't she and those other girls with her supposed to be protecting us or something."

"Well first off you know that Johnny, me and Slade come from the same world right?" Robbie asked

"Yeah, Johnny mentioned it. Why?" Noire asked back, raising an eyebrow

"Alright, well anyways I asked because me and those two are what you'd call super heroes or vigilantes. Depends on who you ask and what your personal belief in the law system is." Robbie explained as Neptune suddenly stopped in her tracks, making the others stop "Um, you okay Neptune?

"I'M FRIENDS WITH A SUPER HERO, SWEET!" Neptune suddenly screamed out, running around in circles a few times; before stopping in front of Robbie jumping up and down in the air "Do you fly, do shoot lasers out of your eyes, do have super strength, super speed, super jumping or what?"

"Ah…" Robbie said, though didn't want to tell Neptune or Noire just yet; they'd already become quick friends with him and he didn't want to scare them off with what his powers were "Look Neptune, trust me on this, but you along with everyone else new to this place will see what I can do one way or another."

"Aw, come on. Tell me the good details. I want to know what one of my newest buddies can do in a fight!" Neptune joyfully stated as Noire sighed

"Neptune stop pestering Robbie, besides it might help you if you learn some patients." Noire stated as she grabbed Neptune by the hood of her sweater, then dragged her off through the entrance. Robbie and Chumbucket looked at one another, shrugging before following the girls out of the fifth district

-Elsewhere-

"Ugh..." Neo thought angrily to herself, bored out of her mind

"For once yeah...ugh." Celestia stated angrily too, bored too as she and Neo were stuck in the newest called council meeting. With everyone she had met so far, along with the rest of the remaining original members of the group too. She and Neo found the newest three being Hook, Jaffar, Ursula insufferable; which made Oogie Boogie seem less insufferable. Though only by a little, plus the already annoyance of having to be around the jerks Makuta, Prozen, Mumma-Ra, Rodrigo and Praxis didn't help with the mood either. Mercury, emerald, Roman and Cinder were with them as well; but Neo at least was comfortable enough with those three. Roman was the one of two people she tolerated along with Celestia feeling the same. Loghain was probably the only other person they were alright with, since the man have proven to be a much more kinder type from his fellow acquaintances. But still they listened on as the boring meeting kept going

"And I say we deal a preemptive strike on the scallywags!" Hook angrily argued, raising his hook hand towards Loghain who was giving an annoyed glare back

"Is this guy for real with the whole pirate get up?" Emerald whispered to Mercury, who also was snickering at the pirate captain

"Yeah and he's got the most cliché pirate name ever. Hook, like for real come on now." Mercury responded back, both him and Emerald snickering louder than needed

"Got something to say brats?" Hook asked, glaring at the two as he shoved his hook near their neck "Say it again and you'll be gasping for your last breaths of air in now time. Besides what right do you got to even be here, you and your little band of misfits barge in here like you own the place."

"To be perfectly honest they're much more appealing company that you Hook." Jaffar remarked, with a wide smirk

"Shut it you snake!" Hook screamed back angrily, glaring at the man who kept smirking; like he was proud of getting under Hooks skin

"Fight, fight!" Emerald and Mercury chanted. Followed by Oogie boogie and Praxis surprisingly, who joined in on the chanting

"Neo hun, tell me again why your friends with those two?" Celestia asked, unamused by the scene before her – "Reminds me on how some of the courts back home turned out sadly."-

"Friend might be stretching it a little Celestia, I mean before I meet you; I only had Roman as one of my best friends. But when he was off doing his job wherever that was at the time, I'd usually be left alone till he came back. Most people didn't befriend me since I creeped them out with my lack of speaking; along with just my appearance itself the jerks." Neo explained clenching her right hand a bit, before calming down as she and Celestia continued to watch the scene in front of them "Sorry, but anyway's those two really aren't my friends. Roman is… along with you being my other best friend and stuff."

"Well I'm glad I've been bumped up to best friend's status with you." Celestia responded happily as she and Neo smiled, until their attention was caught back at the growing hostile scene; that was until Loghain decided to intervein

"Enough!" Loghain roared, slamming his shield against the table hard and making an echoed sound that caught everyone else's attention. Once Loghain took notice of this, he cleared his throat before glaring at Hook and Jaffar "You two are supposed to be grown men, well beyond your years of immature youth. So start acting like it."

"You-" Hook was about to say, but stopped remembering a little spar he had with Loghain when they first meet in the castle. He also remembered the intense pain he felt afterword's from getting his left arm cut up a bit from the spar too. So much to his reluctance, he decided to let it go and just go with it; those his pride had been wounded "Fine, Teyrn Loghain. My… apologizes."

"Yes I do apologize myself, I tend to have a bad habit of messing with weaker wills at times." Jaffar explained with a small smirk, while Hook scowled though forced his though back as to not give Jaffar anymore enjoyment in messing with him

"I like him, seems more sensible than some others here." Emerald whispered as Mercury nodded in agreement

"Oh I agree too, though I got to say I like you both a lot more than anyone else in this place." Oogie Boogie whispered, wrapping his arms around the Emerald and Mercury who just awkwardly smiled; along with getting slight shivers down their back from the bugs crawling out of Oogie boogie; then onto them

"Aside from that distraction, what are we going to do. We've already lost two of our own. Both being beaten by the keyblade wielders and their group of annoyances." Muma-Ra explained angrily, trying to figure out how five strangers and four teen girls could take two of theirs down so quickly already

"I say we plan a frontal assault on whatever homeward their staying at. I mean that would be the smartest thing to do in my opinion." Prozen suggested

"Oh I have to agree with that plan too, best to attack them while they feel relaxed and at ease with life." Rodrigo stated, seconding Prozens suggestion

"I as well, we should just go in a crush them like the wastes of flesh they are." Praxis remarked proudly, supporting Prozens suggestion whole heartily

"Admiral, as much as I'd say that would be a good idea. We have no idea what defenses they have." Ursula responded, speaking up for the first time during the whole meeting; but only because she didn't feel the need to contribute at all "I might be a queen in my own self-appointed rights, a powerful one at that I will say. But even I know when choose to wait for an attack. Especially with your little suggestion handsome."

"Ah… thanks you for the words Ursula." Prozen responded back, feeling slightly uneasy with how flirty Ursula was starting to get with him

"I agree with Queen Ursula as well. We should wait for an attack." Cinder said kindly, mustering up the best undying servant tone she could to score some points with Ursula to get the sea witch on her side of things "I mean isn't it best to listen to the one who does rule a… unique kingdom of her own, I'm confident that she has the most experience in these sorts of things."

"Oh dearie, you are such a treat." Ursula said with a chuckled as she pinched both Cinder cheeks, while Cinder was doing her best not to fry the sea witch. Though thankfully that didn't have to happen as Ursula released her cheeks seconds later, before returning to her original spot

"Thank you Queen Ursula." Cinder responded back with a fake smile, then turned her attention to a bored Roman "You haven't said much, mind giving us your thoughts?"

"Not going to be much of a differing opinion. I mean like Mercury and Emerald, I'll follow whatever you go with. So yeah I got nothing helpfully to say." Roman explained, much to Cinders annoyance as she had a feeling that was going to be his answer; along with also knowing he had a point that Mercury or Emerald would go along with her choice as well. She'd ask Neo, but she had a feeling the mute girl would go with it as well; so she decided not to

"I see, well what about you Makuta. Do you agree with them or me?" Cinder asked as she gave Makuta a puppy dog stare

"Ah I…" Makuta tried to say, but was hesitant as ever since Cinders first time flirting with him; he'd been having trouble with talking to the woman. Though it didn't help that since then she'd been coming to his room to talk while flirting with him almost every day since then. He didn't like the feelings of uneasiness she was bring out if him, he was more of angered beyond reasonable belief; yet he just couldn't bring himself to hurt her and he had to admit much to his reluctance. But he had been seeing Cinder in a new light, finding her to be stunningly exotic to be exact much to his increasing anger with himself "I agree with you of course…"

"You do?" Cinder asked happily, doing a deviously cute giggle of appreciation as Makuta growled a bit, annoyed with himself for giving into Cinders demands so quickly

"You do?" The others in the meeting, except for Maleficent and Neo asked. Surprised to see such a large and intimidating being like Makuta, be so easily persuaded by Cinder who was dwarfed by his size

"Yes, I believe we should wait. Plan out our attack and then spring it at the right time." Makuta explained, trying to hide his slight nervousness

"Oh thank you Makuta, you such a sweet man!" Cinder stated, loving how easily she already had Makuta wrapped around her fingers

"Yes… sweet." Makuta responded, trying his best to keep his cool down as Maleficent coughed loudly getting the others attention

"Back to our original reason for being here. But yes we all know two of our comrades have fallen and we could be next. But to make sure that does not happen, we will plan an attack on the keyblades wielders temporary home world eventually; but only when we have enough recon data to plan a proper invasion. Hopefully with the numbers we currently have still." "Maleficent explained "Anyone have objections?"

"I believe not maleficent." Loghain answered, as the others looked to one another and nodded slowly in agreement

"Good, then this meeting is closed." Maleficent stated as Neo, upon hearing this quickly slipped out of the room before anyone could take notice of her. Once outside, Neo and Celestia sighed in utter relief

"Oh thank god that's done with, Celestia you said you've had to deal with these sorts of meeting every day and with snotty nobles to bat?" Neo asked with a bewildered tone "No offense, but how the hell did you not snap at one point and trying gutting some of those nobles or just snap in utter insanity?"

"None taken at all, but trust me Neo. After a thousand years of being the ruling lone princess of a large nation, with strained peaceful alliances with the other races. I learned how to keep my utter boredom, fear and nervousness in internally. While I just smiled and listened externally, though I've asked myself how I haven't snapped yet at times." Celestia explained kindly, though sighed a bit "You know I envy you Neo, despite what your thrown into. You at least don't have to be look on continuously by your peers, worried they'll try something to back stab you if you show the slightest sign of weakness around them. You also don't have to worry about your decisions effecting everyone around you either. Don't get me wrong, I love my job and love my ponies. But sometimes it the responsibilities that weight on me. More so than ever recently before all this happened. Now all I can do is worry and hope my subject along with my friends are okay."

"I'm sure they are and you'll be reunited with them too. I promise." Neo responded kindly "Hey how about we try looking for your body now?"

"Are you sure, because if we do than there's a possibility we'll have to flee this place and what your friend Roman?" Celestia asked worriedly

"What about me?" Roman asked, appearing suddenly behind Neo as she and Celestia frozen in slight panic

"Neo, can he hear us ?" Celestia asked, worried at what might happen next

"I-I-I don't know." Neo answered, wide eyed "Wait if we stay quiet maybe he'll think he was being delusional."

"Neo, you really think you can con a conman?" Roman asked, with an amused smirk

"Oh I like him already." Celestia remarked with a playful giggled, feeling much better quickly from how friendly Roman was being with her and Neo

"So, how long have you been able to hear us?" Neo curiously asked, calming down herself as Roman took a minutes to think it over

"Hm, about a week or two ago. Maybe it's because of this place and the magic in it or something else entirely. Can't say, but your voice is just about what I pictured it, cute and innocent." Roman explained as Neo shyly smiled "Anyways, you and your little friend Celestia are going to look around for her body right?"

"Yes that's the mission, though I'm guessing your with us then; even if we have to escape afterword's correct?" Celestia asked kindly, but with slight sternness

"Yeah I am." Roman responded smirking

"Wait for real, I mean we're best friends and all. But I thought you'd take some more time to convince." Neo stated, shocked by how easy Roman was on broad with her and Celestia

"Again yeah I'm with you and Celestia." Roman said kindly as he patted Neo's shoulders "To be honest I've only stayed with the others so long because I wanted to keep you safe from them, I maybe a scoundrel; but I do still have a heart…somewhat. Besides, any friends of yours is a friend of mine."

"Thanks you really are one of my best friends." Neo happily replied back, as Roman patted her head

"Welcome little buddy." Roman responded kindly "So Celestia, where should we start looking for your body. Any possible idea's?"

"Hm… I think I have one idea, but we'll have to be quick." Celestia answered as Neo suddenly went wide eyed at the place Celestia was thinking about

"Oh my god it's so obvious!" Neo happily stated

"I know right, I can't believe neither one of came to that conclusion." Celestia remarked as she and Neo had a quick laugh, while Roman was even more confused

"Mine telling me what this ever so obvious place is?" Roman asked, as Neo and Celestia laughed some more, making their way off. Roman sighed having an idea that they wanted him to follow. So he did which took a few minutes, which he was thankful hadn't attracted no one else's attention. Though finally Neo and Celestia stopped as they entered into a room, then Roman entered it. Though once he saw which room it was, he face palmed himself at how obvious it was "Of course…the library. You two have been in here day and night."

"Correct, it's also where me and Neo felt the first surge of my magic from my body." Celestia explained

"Which means if I moved around here some more, while Celestia actively looks for her body. Then maybe-" Neo explained, but was cut off by Roman

"Maybe then the surges will start popping up, acting as sort of GPS." Roman proudly said as Neo smiled widely

"Exactly, whatever GPS is though. But anyways, since I wasn't looking for my body actively before now the surges must have stopped. So if our theory is correct, we should be able to find my body soon enough. Once we find a way for me to get back in, we'll then have to make our escape." Celestia stated as she suddenly felt a surge of energy that went through Neo, making her fall to the ground; but not before Roman caught her mid fall

"Hey you okay Neo?" Roman asked worriedly as Neo got back up on her feet, rubbing her head a little

"Yeah I am, thanks for asking. I'll be ready next time." Neo replied, taking a few deep breaths "Ready Celestia?"

"Ready." Celestia responded back, as Neo made her way quickly around the top portion of the library. Though no surges came to her as much, only small snippets of energy here and there. So Neo quickly went back down stairs as she and Celestia felt the surges get stronger. But after a few minutes of looking around nothing either than a few snippets of energy

"So no luck?" Roman asked

"No… maybe the library wasn't the place my bodies at." Celestia answered sadly

"Yeah, guess maybe… AHHHH!" Neo screamed out as extreme surge went through her body, but instead of it going away; the energy surge increased by the second

"Whoa, what's going on now?" Roman asked as Neo stood strong, ignoring the intense energy flowing through her veins

" I think my body is sending me a message that's it's here, but…ugh… where?" Celestia explained as the power surges were hurting her a little too

"Well I think I may have found it…" Neo muttered painfully, walking slowly up to one of the book self's in the far end of the library that she'd never really taken notice of. She saw a very brightly red colored book that stood out from the dull grey books around it, she walked up to it as the pain in her body increased. But once Neo was right up to the red book, she pulled it out as a large hidden chamber appeared. Though before Neo could say anything, she screamed in horrid pain falling to her knees; before the pain abruptly stopped "What…what was that?"

"I don't know, but it looks like you were in a tone of pain." Roman responded, helping Neo back up to her feet

"I was, you okay Celestia?" Neo asked, but got no response which worried her immediately "Celestia, are you there?"

"I am, but not the mind to mind anymore my dear best friend." Celestia answered as the sounds of clomping could be heard

Once outside of the darken room, Neo and Roman saw that Celestia was a tall regal pony. Taller than either of them to be exact, she also had white fur, golden slippers on her hoofs, a golden tiara, a golden neckless, pink eyes, a set of wings and a horn. Finally she had long bright pink, light green and light blue hair that flowed through in the air somehow as there was no wind to blow it in the direction it was flowing at. Roman and Neo stared at Celestia, who stared back before smiling.

"I take it you're appreciating my stunning good looks?" Celestia joked, with a playful laugh

"Oh ah yeah, sorry about that. It's just nice to see the actually you." Neo responded back happily, as Celestia walked up to her and then hugged her tightly with both of her wings

"Same here Neo, same here." Celestia said happily "I'm so glad to see one of my best and closest friend face to face. Especially after all you've help me with. From becoming my friend, to helping me find my body. I can never thank you enough, despite what you believe about yourself; you truly are a benevolent person."

"Wow, a little sappy for my taste. But I ain't one to judge." Roman muttered, smiling a little at the scene as Neo's lip start to quiver a bit from the kind and rare words she heard. She felt overjoyed to be considered anything positive from anyone else other than just Roman. So she hugged Celestia back with the same tightness, with some tears going down her cheeks by this point

"And I'm so glad you're my best friend too, I'm so glad I could help you with this. I'm so glad to have to get to know you so much. You're really an amazing best friend." Neo said overjoyed, but suddenly realizing after a few seconds that she actually spoke for the first time in her life. Roman and Celestia took notice of this too, wide eyed of their friend's sudden ability to speak like she had been doing it for years "W-What in the world, how am I doing this. I've never been able to speak before?"

"Okay, I've seen some weird things happen in my lifetime. But this is actually a new one me. Wow, just wow." Roman stated, happy and yet confused the same time while Celestia though it over for a few moments

"Hm… the only logical explanation or depending on what either one of you two consider logical. But the only actual explanation I can come up with, is that maybe somehow the time I and Neo spent together mind wise somehow fixed or granted Neo the ability to speak so fluently. But to be honest I can't say myself, even in my world this is a rare if nonexistence miracle to happen to anyone that's mute." Celestia explain, though bewildered beyond belief if not also happy for Neo

"W-Well either way, I'm glad about this too." Neo responded back, trying really hard to get use to actually speaking words "But w-we need to get out of here now."

"Out of here, but why?" Cinder suddenly asked as Neo, Roman and Celestia turned around to see Cinder with company. Said company was Mercury, Emerald and Maleficent "You know you're lucky that the others went back to their own worlds for personals business. While Jaune was asked to accompany Rodrigo this time to his world. Then again you might not be so lucky."

"Indeed, I should have known that a being like you fair pony princess could not be contained with an enhanced slumber spell. I also should have caught on with your little talks with miss Neo here. Oh well, I guess we all make mistakes one way or another." Maleficent stated calmly

"Enough talking, let's take care of these traitors." Mercury said getting ready for a fight

"Yeah, let's take care of these traitors for good." Emerald said next, with a small smirk of excitement "Always wanted to kill myself some royalty."

"Indeed, you three have nowhere to run." Maleficent remarked smugly a she summoned a small group of a dozen heartless "It would better to accept your fates to be or you can fight and make yourselves suffer for a long time. Though to be honest, the second choice sounds better for me in my opinion. Cinder if you would start off."

"As you wish." Cinder responded back, readying up her semblance to shoot out a fire ball. Only to realizing as she tried throwing one out, that her semblance wasn't working one bit "Huh, that wasn't what I thought would happen."

"Yeah, wait let me try something." Emerald said as she tried using her semblance, only for nothing to happen either "Crap are you serious?"

"Well I can already tell the same will happen to me." Mercury replied in annoyance, though was happy he still had his prosthetic/shotgun legs to use in battle "But we still got our weapons."

"True very, true." Emerald stated pulling out her twin revolvers/sickles in their melee forms "Actually this will be the more fun way, killing them nice and slowly."

"Any last words before we kill you three in the most horrific ways possible?" Cinder asked pulling out her bow/ twin scimitars in its melee form as Roman quickly pulled Neo's parasol out of his coat and threw it to her. Then readying his weapon which was a cane for battle, only for Celestia to step in front of the two

"Yes, you're going to let us go with no issues. That's final." Celestia sternly demanded with a glare; while Maleficent, Cinder, Mercury and Emerald laughed while the heartless just stood ready for battle

"Oh and why's that, you three are surrounded with no hope of leaving this room alive." Maleficent asked, laughing even more smugly as Celestia smirked suddenly making Maleficent cease with her laughing and scowl intensely "Pray tell what's worthy to smirk about?"

"Because, after one thousand years of ruling over a peaceful land with some enemies here and there. One thing all my now ex-enemies/ allies learned is one thing that's universal." Celestia stated as her horn suddenly glowed with a bright and intense fire. She then shot off a blast of pure concentrated fire that annihilated the heartless while pushing Cinder, Mercury and Emerald back against the wall on the other side of the area. Thankfully they had their auras to protect them from getting burnt, but they still fell to the ground in pain from the force of the attack. Maleficent herself had dodged to the left, getting back up slowly to only receive a hard buck to the face from Celestia; which threw the witch against the wall behind her hard. Maleficent took a few moments to get her bearings back, looking up to Neo, Roman and Celestia walking up to her as blood dripped from her mouth. Celestia glared at Maleficent with intensity that countered the benevolent vibe she gave off as Celestia lowered her face to Maleficent's "You don't bucking screw around with the sun princess!"

"Holy… I mean, jeez Celestia you're a badass." Roman remarked as Neo nodded in agreement. Meanwhile Maleficent tried to attack, but only to be lifted up by Celestia's magic and was throw into Cinder and the others hard

"Vulgar terminology, though I appreciate the compliment. But come on, I know of a way we can get out of this place easily." Celestia stated as she, Neo and Roman quickly made their way off into Maleficent's room which thankfully I hadn't been locked. Once inside they saw a few things, one being the bodies of Jaune friends Nora, Ren and then his finances Pyrrha's bodies all lying down on the table like they were in a peaceful slumber

"Should we take them?" Neo asked "I mean I'm guessing whatever Maleficent is planning on doing with them ain't going to be good."

"I'm sorry Neo, but we can't. It would take too long to do and-" Celestia responded back sadly as the sounds of foot steeps could be heard "And we don't have the time."

"I see, I hope these three get saved before whatever Maleficent plans comes to." Neo muttered as the door swung wide opened to show Maleficent, Cinder, Emerald and Mercury glaring at them

"Nice little tricks you did, but it wasn't enough to keep us at bay. Now give up, you have nowhere to go, no possible way of escaping here alive." Maleficent sternly said, with an intense need to kill Celestia, Neo and Roman in the slowest ways possible

"That's what you think witch, believe yourself as powerful as you want. But your spells are easy to learn. Even a unicorn filly could learn them in no time." Celestia stated with a smirk, making Maleficent scowl at the jab "What I'm trying to get is that I've learn some spells of yours including one involving the mirror in this room."

"Mirror, what mirror?" Roman asked as he and Noe looked around to see no mirror at all

"This mirror my friends." Celestia remarked proudly as her horn glowed, then out from behind hem a large oval shaped mirror appeared which then glowed brightly making Maleficent and the others cover their eyes from how bright it was "I've learn a particular, if amateurish spell to create gateways between the worlds. Ones that you've been using if I'm correct. So if you don't mind we'll be leaving now."

"NO YOU WON'T!" Cinder screamed, raising her blades and quickly running pass the others towards Neo, Roman and Celestia. But as she ended up right in front of them in a quick manner, in a panic fit of instinct Neo used the sharp tip of her parasol and rammed it right into Cinders right eye which the aura tried blocking but couldn't as the attack broke through. But as Cinder felt the sudden extreme pain in her right eye being mangled by Neos attack, in a fit of rage she thrusted her scimitars back at Neo who couldn't move out of the way "DIE YOU LITTLE BITCH!"

"No…" Neo muttered, fearing that this was the end of her life, only for Roman to intervein

"Neo!" Roman yelled, getting right in front of Neo and taking to attack head on. As both scimitars broke through his aura, then right through his chest as a little bit of blood sprayed on Neos face and clothing

"Roman!" Neo screamed, as she looked on in horror, while Cinder pulled her blades out from Roman; leaving two heavily bleeding and gaping wounds as the result

"You psychotic witch!" Celestia roared in rage, bucking Cinder hard on the face and into the others like she had done with Maleficent. She then quickly scooped Neo and a mortally wounded Roman on her back as they went through the portal. Once inside, the portal surrounded them in a light blue and white vortex as the blood on Neo disappeared suddenly; while she held tightly onto Roman

"It's going to be okay buddy, I promise it is." Neo stated, trying her best not to hyperventilate as she tried to stop the bleeding. But her nerves weren't calming down quick enough and seeing Roman coughed out blood wasn't helping her either

"Yes indeed, we'll get to somewhere soon and I'll heal you up the best I can. That's a royal promise." Celestia said as she hoped she could keep that promise, along with praying that Neo could keep Roman for bleeding out long enough for her to heal the man

"Ha…" Roman responded with a small smirk, as he bleed some more from his wounds "It's funny…"

"Shut up, shut up and stop talking or you'll make it worse." Neo replied back sternly, but in an extremely worried tone

"Neo, it won't make a difference." Roman said calmly, smiling a little more "I've done horrible things in my life, so many horrible things to survive. I know I'll be burning for all I did, but I hope I don't meet you in the afterlife. Because…you…you don't deserve to be in a place like where I'm heading. You deserve better."

"Stop talking nonsense, we are going to fix you up. It's you, me and Celestia as three best friends for life got it!" Neo yelled, trying to fight back the tears making their way out while Celestia could already see the outcome much to her dismay

"I'm sorry… Neo, I'm glad I got to… got to have you as my friend. You both promise me to stay…safe." Roman responded back, as his body started to suddenly glow and disappeared into bright dust

"No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!" Neo screamed in agony, tears flowing form her face while holding Roman even more tightly. Though after a few more seconds, his body disappeared from existence for good; leaving a crushed Neo in the aftermath "Roman…Roman…why…"

"I'm so sorry Neo." Celestia said, tearing up as well having not seen any death in so long. But knew she had to be strong for her and Neo "I promise I'll keep you safe Neo, me and you will find somewhere safe to stay at until we can find a way back to our homes. I swear it."

"I know, I know." Neo responded, calming herself down the best she could and wiping away her tears "We'll make it through this, I know we will."

"We shall, let's just see were this portal leads us too. Hopefully it will be our new home for the time being." Celestia said as she and Neo continued through the vortex; wondering what was to await them next

-Meanwhile back with team RWBY-

"Thank you for the tea Merlin, it's nice to have after all the training we did." Weiss kindly said as she, Ruby, Blake and Yang sat around a table inside Merlin's hut. They hadn't taken the time to talk with the Fairy God mother yet, since she was busy from what Merlin had told them. So the girls decided to use some of their time to train their familiarity with their magic

"Oh yeah, I'm surprised how easily using magic can be. Once you get the hang of it of course." Yang replied, whipping her face off of black dust still "Along with learning that mixing fire and lighting together doesn't make a very well made spell combination or a safe one."

"Well at least I learned that blizzard spells are good for cooling things down. A little too well." Blake stated as she wiped off a little bit of frost from her shoulder. Yang quickly wrapped her left arm around Blake, making Blake smiled as she accepted the gesture "And now I'm feeling much warmer."

"Good to know, I'm always looking out for my girl." Yang stated happily

"Anyways, thanks again for the tea Merlin." Ruby kindly said as she was actually enjoying the tea's honey flavoring

"Welcome, I'm just glad you ladies are feeling comfortable and taking a liking in learning more of your magic." Merlin responded, taking a sip of his tea "I do apologize that the fairy god mother is still busy with whatever she's doing. But at least you got to experiment with your magic and see how it works after some training."

"Yeah that's true, hm have you seen any new townsfolks at all?" Ruby asked

"I have indeed, mostly to get acquainted with them and such. Though I must say some of them are a bit…" Merlin started to say, but couldn't find the right words to use; well in polite company at least. But then was startled as the door to his hut was opened, followed by metallic foot steps

"Statement: Violent, scary or even insane Mister Merlin?" HK-97 asked, coming into the hut while startling the girls a bit from his appearance and that he was openly carrying a gun with him

"Possibly, thank you." Merlin responded back, slightly nervous of the droid "But ah, what are you doing here?"

"Answer: I asked the duck and pony children if they'd seen anyone in the first district new or returning, they told me of the girls here and their friends." HK-97 explained, turning his attention quickly to the girls "Overjoyed: How glad I am to see you four finally, after all this time. It brings joy to my circuits, yes it does mistresses."

"Okay, first off who are you, second why have you been looking for us and third; why are you calling us mistresses?" Blake asked, slightly warry already of the droid as her cat ears under her bow stood up straight of this new cautious gut instinct

"Explanation: Mistress Blake, I am HK-97. Protocol droid and expert body guard. Which is why I'm here, to keep you and the other mistresses safe while traveling in Traverse Town when wanted of course. For why I call you mistresses, I do because I was programed to serve you with undying loyalty and mistresses are the best words I can find to call you four. I hope this has answered your questions Mistress Blake." HK-97 explained, doing a quick stiff bow

"It has, thank you." Blake replied back still very wary of HK-97, even if he seemed nice enough at the moment

"If I may say, I do appreciate the politeness your showing us and that we'd be more than happy to have you as part of our party while here." Weiss kindly said, though feeling slight wariness of the droid herself as she looked at her girlfriend and Yang "You good with our new friend girls?"

"You bet ya Weiss." Yang remarked with a thumbs up "It would be a good idea to have extra back up aside from our summons."

"Speaking of which, maybe we should let our summons out once we get out of this place. You know so they can relax some more. They deserve a good rest." Ruby happily suggested as Weiss, Blake and Yang nodded in agreement

"And speaking of your summons ladies." The Fairy Godmother stated, appearing to the right of them with a warm smile like before as she pulled out four more summon gems "These are for you four, I don't know how; but they ended up in Merlin's front door like someone left them there."

"Is that why it took you so long to speak with us GM?" Yang asked as she and the girls got up from their seats, then walked up to the Fairy Godmother

"Yes that was it, I usually like looking into the summon gems I'll be giving you. But these four were… tricky to read. I took me a while, but I figured out what kind of summons at least three of you will have." The Fairy Godmother explained, much to the girl's slight worry

"Question: Ma'am, which ones did you identify for?" HK-97 asked, as the Fairy Godmother gave the droid a subtle uncharacteristic glare before smiling once more

"Well dearie, I was able to identify Weiss, Blakes and Yang's. I won't say what they are since I don't want to spoil the surprise. But I'm sure you'll get along with your summons." The Fairy Godmother explained happily, handing Weiss, Blake and Yang their summon gems

"Um… what about mine then?" Ruby asked curiously, as the Fairy Godmother smiled faded a little; though seemed to be giving Ruby an apologetic look too

"Oh, yours I can't seem to figure out. It's… stubborn and has high will power to be able to resist my magic." The Fairy Godmother answered, hesitantly handing Ruby over her summon gem "Now please listen to me, I can't say what kind of summon this is. But despite how it looks once summoned be careful, an unidentifiable summon can be dangerous. So when you summon what or whoever is in this gem. Take extra precaution."

"Okay, I promise I will then." Ruby said, as she and the girls placed their new summon gems away with their other gems

Though now Ruby was internally starting to worry about what her new summon could be, she hoped it wasn't another killer one like her other two. Though to be fair Ruby had never seen Mister B kill anyone, she could tell that her first summon probably had killed before in brutal ways with that drill hand of his before meeting her though. Then there was Jungle hunter, she had seen him kill a few times even if most were heartless. But since seeing how Jungle hunter killed Lord Grand, she knew how Jungle Hunter killed in one of as much as she dread; many other ways he probably could kill. So this third summon she was hoping wasn't a killer, not that she didn't already care a lot about her other two summons. But she was worried that theme of killer summons was what she was receiving, while Yang seemed to be getting magical summons, Blake outcast like summons from her honest guess and Weiss receiving mechanical like summons.

"Anyways, I think maybe we should get going." Weiss suggested kindly as she and the girls looked to HK-97

"So, will you be able to keep up with us buddy?" Ruby happily asked

"Answer: Mistress Ruby, I shall be by your sides whenever needed in this town. You have my word." HK-97 answered proudly, until he looked around the room suddenly in slight caution

"Something wrong?" Merlin asked curiously

"Statement: Don't the rest of you sense the magical presence increasing around the table?" HK-97 asked back, much to the others confusion until a portal suddenly appeared above the said table

"AHHH!" Two female figures yelled out, as they rammed into the table hard breaking it and making some dust on the floor still burst up into a small cloud of dust; making everyone other than HK-97 cough a little

"What was that?" Yang asked as the dust cloud started to clear up

"Query: Mistress Yang, whatever it is take caution just in case." Hk-97 stated, putting away his gun so as to apprehend whatever just came crashing in by hand and snapping said things necks for fun

"Right, right." Yang responded back as she and the girls summoned their keyblades, while the dust cloud finally died down. What they saw was a young girl around their age range and a pony that was similar to Luna; but with a very different look while also seeming to be a bit taller than Luna

"Who are they?" The Fairy Godmother asked moving next to the girls, HK-97 and Merlin

"Can't say, but we should take caution just in case." Weiss responded as the two new arrivals started to get out of their daze

"Ugh… Neo are you okay?" The pony asked slowly getting back up as the girl got off of her back

"Yeah, I am C-Celestia. Thanks for-" Neo responded back, but stopped as she and Celestia looked to see the others staring at them in awkward silence

"Hi, who are you two?" Ruby asked kindly, with her keyblade lowered a bit

"STAY BACK!" Neo suddenly screamed out, pulling out her parasol and aiming it at the group

"Wait Neo, d-" Celestia started to say, but was cut off as HK-97 suddenly appeared in front of them and grabbed both their neck lifting them into the air slightly

"Statement: Not a smart move you two, now I must kill you both." HK-97 said sternly, slowly tightening his grip around Neo and Celestia's necks

"No wait stop don't kill them!" Yang yelled out angrily

"Yeah let them go now!" Blake screamed sternly as HK-97 looked back at them, then quickly let go of their necks as both Neo and Celestia fell to the ground trying to catch their breaths. The Fairy Godmother along with Merlin quickly moved to helped them up

"What the heck was that for?" Ruby asked with a disapproving tone

"Answer: Mistress Ruby, it is part of my programming to keep you four safe at all costs. The two newcomers were threatening you all with possible violence. So my programing went into my execution sub routines." HK-97 explained "Question: Was I wrong with this mistresses?"

"Very, we don't kill people just because they're confused of scared. We don't really kill at all." Weiss explained

"Remark: No offence mistresses, but is that a wise policy to have. It may make more problems in the later future than you'd like." HK-97 stated as the girls looked to one another, sighing for a few moments

"We get what you're saying HK-97. But we'll deal with those problems then, just promise us that you won't kill anyone. I mean you can incapacitate them and the heartless you can take out. But still no killing any non-heartless beings, understood?" Ruby asked kindly, as she then patted HK-97's shoulder with a small smile

"Statement: I understand fully mistresses. I will not kill unless I am given no choice in the manner. This I promise." HK-97 explained with a quick respectful nod

"Well that's all we can really ask for now." Ruby happily replied back as she and the girl turned their attention to their two new visitors "Sorry about that, HK-97 is like our body guard from what we've gathered."

"Better question, but are you two okay?" Yang asked kindly

"Y-Yeah, now we are." Neo replied back, rubbing her throat as she coughed a bit

"Thank you for asking young lady." Celestia stated, glaring a bit at HK-97 "Though your metallic friend's actions were a bit much."

"Query: My only intention was to eliminate a then consider threat from harming my mistresses. That is all, I won't apologize for following some of my prime directives." HK-97 responded back

"HK-97, apologize to them please." Weiss kindly asked with a smirk, while HK-97 sighed

"Response: Of course mistress Weiss." HK-97 said, knowing that even if he didn't have to obey; but he still knew he'd do what the girl told him to do because he care for them that much. Though his willingness to obey was to an extent of what he deemed followable when it came to the girl's orders. HK-97 then did a quick bow to Neo and Celestia who were still rubbing their throats from the sudden attack "Statement: I do apologize for my actions to you both. I do hope you shall forgive me dearly and that we can put this passed us."

"Hm, well I don't know…" Neo responded smirking mischievously "Maybe you could say it a few more times or so?"

"Neo, that's not proper behavior." Celestia stated sternly, before smirking herself "Not unless we also use your, what was it called again. I know the word but I can't get it at the tip of my tongue."

"Oh, I think you mean my scroll right?" Neo asked mischievously smiling in joy, while pulling out her scroll

"Yes, yes your scroll. Let's recorded this shall we." Celestia happily remarked

"Two minds think alike very much my dear friend." Neo responded, as she started up her scroll at an unamused HK-97 "So, whenever you're ready bolt head."

"Response: You're very cruel." HK-97 responded back annoyingly "Statement: I am truly sorry for what I have done, I shall never harm either of you for as long as my processors function…"

"Oh that was good, but maybe we could get a small little apology dance or so?" Celestia suggested, not having this much fun in over a millennia

"Yeah a small dance, maybe we can show Ro…man." Neo muttered, though frowned a little as Celestia frowned herself being the only other one to hear her. Neo then quickly changed her attention back to HK-97 "Ah, never mind. You're good with the a-apology mister robot."

"Statement: Thank you, so very much." HK-97 remarked sarcastically

"Be nice." Ruby, Blake, Weiss and Yang stated in amusement as HK-97 sighed some more

"Response: Yes mistresses, I'll try." HK-97 replied back, as the girls smiled once more; then turned their attention back to Neo and Celestia

"Anyways, you two are going to have to be introduced to the others. Along with us with the new-newer citizens who we haven't even met yet." Blake explained

"If so, I think I and Merlin can take them. It would be nice to walk around a bit." The Fairy God mother suggested as she looked at Merlin "Would you care to?"

"Hm, I think I'd like that. Some fresh air might do me good." Merlin kindly said, looking to Neo and Celestia "Would that be good with you ladies?"

"Sure, but could we stay in here for a few minutes. Just to get our bearings back fully." Neo asked, sitting down and taking a few deep breaths as the feelings of losing Roman we're to much for her to just try and ignore; Celestia meanwhile knelt down next to her

"Something wrong?" Ruby asked worriedly

"Sorry we just lost a friend not too long ago, so we just need a little bit of time to make peace with it fully and this place as well." Celestia explained as she gave a friendly nuzzle against Neo's face to help her friend feel better if only a little more

"Oh, our condolences then." Blake stated as Ruby, Weiss and Yang nodded in agreement

"Yes indeed and that's fine, take your time." Merlin kindly said, then turned his attention back to the girls "If you four want to stay some more, you can."

"Thank you, but I think we need to get going anyways. Got to check out a few more things." Ruby replied back as she and the girls gave a quick respectful nod

"Query: Will I be accompanying you mistresses?" HK-97 asked

"Yes you will be, thank you." Ruby happily answered as she, the girls and HK-97 made their way out of Merlin's hut. Then quickly over the still bewildering moving rock path, then finally through the door way and into the third district

"Alright, so now that we're out of there. Maybe we should let our summons out." Blake suggested, while looking at HK-97 primarily "Just to say, please refrain from attacking them. They're our friends, despite how some of them look."

"Statement: Mistress Blake, do not worry about that. I shall be on my best behavior." HK-97 responded

"Good to hear. Ladies?" Ruby asked as she and the girls pulled out their summon gems; other than their newest one. Then the area shined brightly as Mister B, Jungle Hunter, M1-4X, Medabee, Motoko, Zilla, Luna and Annie appeared before the girls

"Hey ladies, you call us?" Motoko asked, yawning a bit before taking notice of her surroundings "Hm, back in this place huh. Weird to say, but I knew we'd been somewhere else. Just not where exactly though."

"Yeah same here." Medabee explained "But I have a feeling I wouldn't have liked where ever you were."

"Agreed." MX-14 remarked as Mister B nodded, though Mister B felt extremely wary about HK-97 as he moved between him and the girls

"Statement: Something wrong big guy?" HK-97 asked sternly as he and Mister B glared at one another, until Ruby cut in

"Hey chill out you two." Ruby said, walking in between Mister B and Hk-97 "Now Mister B, be nice to HK-97. He's a friend just like you and the others are."

"Graahhh…" Mister B asked worriedly, as Ruby giggled appreciating Mister B's protectiveness of her

"Yes, he's okay buddy." Ruby happily answered as Mister B looked at HK-97, then back at Ruby and gently patted the top of her head "I'm glad you're taking my word for it buddy."

"May I ask, but why have we been summoned once more?" M1-4X asked

"Yeah, we gonna kick some more bad guy butt?" Annie asked with a smile

"The enthusiasm is welcomed, but no. We all called you out so you can relax some more or well move around some." Yang answered

"Indeed, just try to be careful you all okay?" Weiss asked

"We will." Motoko responded, then looking back at the other summons "Right boys and little ladies?"

"Yeah!" Medabee and Annie answered, the others just nodded in agreement. Except for Jungle Hunter and Luna. The summons then made their way off as Motoko, Medabee and M1-4X went off into the first district. Mister B meanwhile went into the second district through the back entrance with Annie who had Zilla following her, as the young lizard had somehow built a sort of kinship with Annie. Annie meanwhile was just smiling as she skipped in between Zilla and Mister B, while also was holding Tibbers in her arms tightly. The only Summons that stayed behind were Luna and Jungle Hunter, who seemed confused as he looked around the area

"Something wrong Luna?" Yang asked, wondering if something was bugging her summon

"No, but forgive me for presuming this my friends. But, I have a feeling someone I know is here. Other than Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy and the fillies from my world." Luna asked shyly

"Well first off, you said have a sister right?" Yang asked happily

"Yes, my big sister. Why thous ask?" Luna asked back, raising an eyebrow "Is this what ponies, I mean people call a reverse psychology test?"

"What no, I was asking because we just meet a pony or Alicorn just like you. Her name was Celestia and-" Yang explained, but was cut off by Luna

"MY BIG SISTER IS HERE?" Luna screamed out in her booming voice, making everyone, other than HK-97 cover their ears "Opp's sorry about that, but my sister is here?"

"Yes she is." Blake responded, cringing a bit from her cat ears hurting a lot once more; though Yang held her left hand to help comfort her "Thanks dear."

"No problem hun." Yang responded back kindly, before looking back at Luna "But yeah she's at Merlin's house with a friend of hers. You should go see her, trust me I know how it is to miss a sister at times."

"Yep, now get going and see you big sister Luna!" Ruby yelled joyfully with a wide smile, as Luna nodded and passed by the group. Though the only other one was now Jungle Hunter, still confused as he looked around the area

"Something wrong…monster." Blake asked, whispering the last part as even though she was getting use to Jungle hunter; she still was against his ideology and morals from what she had seen so far from him

"Just…just having a hard time figuring out what to do." Jungle Hunter answered, ignoring Blakes whispered comment that his mask picked up and overheard. Weiss sighed, deciding to help out her girlfriends second summon if not to help with the still uneasy tension she, Ruby somewhat, Blake and Yang with Jungle Hunter

"Look, what do you do for fun and relaxation usually?" Weiss asked, a little curious too on what Jungle Hunter or well his race would consider fun. Though she flinched as he turned his attention to her now, as the mask made the creature creepier to Weiss still

"Equipment management, studying, hunting, skinning, killing my prey from the shadows to cause psychological fear to them. A lot of things involving hunting my prey, too many to list." Jungle Hunter explained, much to Weiss disgusted with some of his answers

"Great, sounds…great." Weiss responded with the best fake smile she could muster up

"Well you won't be doing the killing and skinning stuff while you're here. Well unless it's heartless. But that's it." Ruby stated

"Statement: That might be hard to ask for, I can already tell that this aliens species is a hunter centered race. It's like asking a dog not to bark or a cat to not meow. It's part of his nature." HK-97 explained as Jungle Hunter snarled a bit

"Yes, but I'll try." Jungle Hunter stated, as he looked back to Ruby "Since you asked me nicely enough and to spite the rust bucket here."

"Oh that's… good. But go have some none killing related fun; okay buddy." Ruby said kindly as Jungle Hunter nodded not as slowly as he usually did; then made his way off into the second district. Once he was gone, all that was left was the girls and HK-97

"Question: Mistresses would you like me to accompany you for now or not?" HK-97 asked "I know you said I could join your group at the moment, but I thought I'd ask again is all."

"Hm, maybe not at the moment. We're going to check out a new district doorway the kids told us was in this area and I think four of us will be enough to check it out. But we'll come back to pick you up soon after. Promise." Ruby happily answered

"Statement: Mistress Ruby, your kindness is well appreciated and I understand completely." HK-97 responded back

"Good to hear. Though if you would, maybe you can also see if anyone needs help or something with whatever tasks they ask of. Heck maybe you can also go heartless hunting, huh I wonder if Jungle Hunter will be doing that now that I think of it." Ruby remarked, before shrugging to herself "Maybe he will be, still would you like to do that for us?"

"Joyful response: Mistress Ruby, if helping others here along with hunting any heartless in my sights will bring joy to you and the other mistresses. Then I shall with full compliancy to do so." HK-97 answered, bowing to them once more

"We appreciate it HK-97, but stay safe okay?" Yang asked, as she felt somewhat warry of the droid. Even if he was kind to them so far, she was going to keep her eye on the droid just incase

"I shall mistress Yang, you all stay safe too." HK-97 responded kindly as he made his way out into the first district

"So now where is that door, I mean did any of us see it before we went through the entrance to Merlin's hut?" Ruby asked

"Actually I did, its over there to our right." Blake answered as she and the girls looked to see a very large metallic door with the title District 6 over it

"How did we miss that?" Weiss asked, bewildered that none of them other than Blake saw the large door to their right

"You know Weiss, I stopped questioning some of this stuff a while ago. Best to just go with it." Yang answered with a sigh "Well, what are we waiting for?"

"Right, let's get to it ladies!" Ruby joyfully stated as she and the girl made their way up to the door; which opened up by itself oddly enough as they warily stepped through it

-District 6-

"Here we are!" Ruby yelled out joyfully as the large metallic door way closed behind her and the girls. Though went wide eyed at the sight of the area they were in now as it was extremely huge and metallic looking "Whoa, what kind of place is this?"

"I don't know, but this place is..." Weiss responded, by stopped trying to find to most accurate word she could use to describe the place before them

"Really freaking big!" Yang screamed looking around the new area, as everything was so much bigger than any other sort of buildings she'd seen in this journey so far

"And it's made completely out of metal, with no plants in sight." Blake remarked as Ruby, Weiss and Yang looked around to see Blake was right about her statement

"Wait then, how are we breathing in this place then?" Weiss asked

"Magic?" Yang suggested as Ruby, Weiss and Blake looked to one another; before looking back at her

"Magic." Ruby, Weiss and Blake said calmly; then went back to looking around the enlarged metallic landscape around them

"Well I guess we should start exploring then?" Blake suggested

"Blakey no offense, but that might not be one of your best ideas." Yang replied back, looking over to a ramp a few good feet away from them to their left "I mean look at that ramp over there, it's freaking wide enough to fit a small army of Atlas Knights."

"Okay now that's funny thought." Weiss responded as she laughed a little, before calming down from the rare joke of Yangs she found funny "But for real Yang, we really have no choice in the matter when it comes to exploring this place. Right Ruby… Ruby?"

"I think she's already ahead of us." Blake answered, sighing as she and the girls looked to see Ruby stop midway on the larger ramps ahead of them

"RUBY!" Yang screamed suddenly, feeling a sisterly panic set in from seeing her baby sister already exploring an unknown area without taking any sort of precautions "GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!"

"Oh don't worry big sis, I stopped so you and the girls could catch up with me!" Ruby responded back, a little startled from her sister yelling at her; but knew she it was because Yang fretted over her much more than she usually showed

"How does she always do that?" Blake asked, still baffled on how Ruby could get to one place or another so quickly, especially when not using her semblance

"That's a mystery even I can't figure out. Come on let's just catch up to her" Yang answered, as she and the girls made their way up to a smiling Ruby after a good minuet; while already feeling tired from the quick run

"Okay, that was a lot more tiring than I thought it would be." Weiss stated, taking in a few quick breathers; before looking at her girlfriend "Anyways, why'd you go off up here so quickly?"

"Sorry love, but I swore I heard something move around up here. It was pretty loud too." Ruby explained

"If so, then why didn't we-" Yang started to say, but was cut off as a loud bang coming from a bridge connect to the ramp as it echoed through the area "Well we've heard it now."

"What are we waiting for then, let's check it out!" Ruby joyfully said as she quickly sprinted up the rest of the ramp like it was nothing

"Huh, so that's how she does it." Blake remarked in amusement "Having a semblance that involves speed must help with her cardio a lot."

"Seems-" Yang started to respond back, but yet again was cut off

"HOLY MOLY!" Ruby screamed in shock

"RUBY!" Weiss, Blake and Yang yelled in a panic, ignoring their own fatigue as they sprinted up the ramp only to see something; in which despite everything they had seen so far. This particular thing shocked them like it did with Ruby

"W-What is it..." Weiss asked nervously as she and the girls summoned their keyblades. Since what they were looking at was giant robot lying on the ground with its eyes closed

Said robot was male from the slim, but strong body build it had. Its face was grey, with a red/ orange tinted helmet that had a yellow point crest and a small bulky piece on top of the helmet. Its body was a mixture of orange, slight red, a yellow chest piece and a large yellow point crest connect to a red connector on its back. Its arms were a mixture of yellow, red and orange. Said arms had pointed upwards red/ yellow tinted should pieces, yellow biceps connected to red forearms that had wheels oddly enough on the bottom of both. The robot also had two blasters on each forearm, that looked like car exhausts along with smaller yellow crest on them and yellow hands. The robots waist was a red piece that connected to two orange/yellow thighs, which connected to the lower legs which had red in the back and wheels built in where the heels would be. The front of the legs had two grey pieces that looked like pieces of an engine block with grey crests on the knees and two red/ orange tinted horned like feet. Finally, on the center of the robot's chest was a symbol, one of an engraved red man's face. The girls inspect the robot in awe, wonderment and shock.

"Well it's a robot I think." Ruby answered, poking the robots head with her boot a few times

"Ruby stop that." Blake said with a stern, yet caring tone as Ruby quickly ceased what she was doing

"Oh sorry, I was just curious." Ruby replied back, with a sheepish grin

"So are we honestly." Weiss stated, becoming more worried suddenly "Y-You think that maybe... well maybe there's more giant robots?"

"Huh, good question." Yang said, as she and the girls started to become increasingly worried by that possibility: but before anyone of them could say anymore. Suddenly the robot's eyes opened to show its pure blue irises, with slightly noticeable white rings in the center. The girls backed off quickly as the robot got up, stretching his arms and yawning for a moment

"Man, what a stasis nap that was." The robot remarked, getting onto his feet which showed the girls how massive their new possible ally/ enemy was. The robot looked around a bit, only to become confused "Huh, where the frag am I?"

"He seems nice enough." Ruby whispered, as she and the girls watched the giant robot looked around the other way some more

"Yeah that's what they want you to think, before eating your brains and taking over the world. Trust me, I've seen enough movies to know." Yang whispered back, reading up a fire spell if needed

"Yang really?" Weiss whispered, with a deadpanned look

"What?" Yang quietly asked

"Dear, you have to admit that movies aren't the best representation of actual life." Blake quietly explained as Yang sighed, knowing that her girlfriend and Weiss had a good point

"Well bad or not, I'm going to say hi." Ruby stated proudly

"Ruby no!" Weiss, Blake and Yang quilted yelled as to not tip off the robot of their presence. But it was too late as Ruby already walked up right behind the robot, who was talk with himself loudly at this point

"Maybe... no, no Prowl and Ultra Magnus aren't the joking type." The robot said, thinking deeply "Those two wouldn't know a joke if a scrapplet bit them on the tail pipe."

"Hello?" Ruby said, but wasn't loud enough as the robot continued talking to himself

"Wait…oh I swear to primus, if this is another of Wheel jack experiments gone wrong. I'll-" The robot yelled, but was cut off by Ruby

"HEY!" Ruby screamed, getting the robots attention as he looked down at her "Um… hi."

"AHHHHH!" The robot suddenly screamed, aiming his blasters at her. Weiss, Blake and Yang quickly moved next to Ruby while summoning their keyblades making the robot back away; before tripping onto his back side while he covered his face in fear "Don't shoot your acid spit at me please, I'm too young to die!"

"Um... what?" Blake asked, surprised to see that the giant robot was afraid of her and the girls

"Yeah, I didn't not expect this." Yang remarked, finding the sight of the scared giant robot somewhat funny

"Okay, so maybe he is friendly." Weiss said, slowly moving up to the robot along with the others as they unsummoned their keyblades

"Please stay back." The robot asked, scared senseless of them

"Hey buddy don't worry, we're not going to hurt you." Weiss kindly responded, trying her best to start off the conversation

"Yeah besides we can't even shoot out acid spit. Though that would be kind of cool." Ruby stated happily " But we come in peace. Oh and I'm Ruby."

"I'm Weiss." Weiss said next kindly

"I'm Blake." Blake stated a small smile and a nod

"And I'm Yang!" Yang said happily with wide smile

"So anyways, since we introduced ourselves. What's your name?" Ruby kindly asked as the robot looked at the for few moments, before hesitantly lowering his arms

"H-Hot Rod." Hot Rod answered in slight nervousness

"Well that's a weird name." Yang remarked, as Weiss and Ruby elbowed her sides "Ow…I mean, not that it is weird. But a usual name is all."

"Yeah sure. So ah… you four are organics right?" Hot Rod asked

"Yes, why?" Blake asked back

"Oh nothing, just got to say and no offense but you are a lot smaller than I was lead to believe." Hot Rod stated

"So you thought we'd be bigger. Huh good to know." Yang said, amused for some reason that form what she could guess organics to him were like bogyman stories "Anyways, what are you and are you here to kill us?"

"Yang really?" Blake asked, pulling on Yang's cheeks for a few moments with a smirk "When me and you have some alone time, I'll give you a little nip or so for every rude comment you've made so far. "

"Oh, kinky. Yangy likey." Yang responded in amusement and a flirty smile, while Blake rolled her eyes in amusement herself; having a feeling Yang would react that way

"Hm, maybe then I'll bite when we kiss at times too." Blake remarked as Yang giggled, both girls kissing one another for a few moments before retracting back giggling some more in delight

"Oh primus please stop, all that weird lovely dovey stuff is bleh." Hot Rod asked as the girls snickered a bit; then Hot Rod laughed himself before calming himself down "But to answer your questions Yang, I'm a cybertronian from the planet Cybertron."

"So you're an alien then?" Ruby asked with a wide smile

"Yeah I guess you can say that, also none of you worrying about me harming you. I'm an autobot." Hot Rod explained, much to the girls confusion as they raised an eyebrow making Hot Rod sigh "Right, don't know what that is I guess. Alright so autobots are the group I'm part of, bots that share the same ideology that ever sentient being has the right to choose the life they want, to be free and a right to live in the first place without being stomped down by tyranny."

"That's a very noble belief, though if you're part of a group I'm worried to ask. But do you have a rivaling group then?" Weiss asked worriedly as Ruby, Blake and Yang wonder that themselves now

"Yeah… sadly, they're call the decepticons. Basically, some bolt heads that think power is everything and that the strong should rule of the weak with an Iron grip. Our two group have been in civil war way before I was brought online." Hot Rod answered with a slight frown "Look I'd love to give you a history lesson, but I need to find my friends. Huh, if we're lucky maybe I'll find Optimus and he can give you way better answers than mine."

"We'll take it that's your leader." Weiss remarked as Hotrod got back up

"Yep, the leader of the autobots and trust me probably one of the most selfless bots to ever exist." Hot Rod explained "But, you girls willing to help me find my friends in…where ever this place is?"

"We'd love too, but this place is way too big for me and the girls to just walk around in." Ruby answered with an apologetic tone

"Huh, is that so…hm maybe I can. If you'd give me a second." Hot Rod responded as he started to do something weird with a small computer built into his right forearm "Hm maybe if I, oh yeah there we go."

"Um what are going on about dude?" Yang asked curiously

"Yeah, you're not making any sense at all." Blake said, as Ruby and Weiss nodded in agreement. Then a few moments later, Hotrod turned back to them with a wide smile as he laughed for a moment

"Sorry about that, but you ladies won't have to worry about walking one bit." Hot Rod stated

"Why's that, you got some sort of car we could drive in or something?" Ruby asked, raising an eyebrow once more

"Better than that actually." Hot Rod replied back with a wide smirk, as he suddenly did something that shocked the girls once more…he transformed in a car. Said car was a slim futuristic looking sports car with the crest that was on his back, facing outwards on top of the car, while the logo he had was showing clearly on the hood of his car form. The top of what was now the roof/mirrors/windows of the car, opened up showing four leather seats with a complete dashboard, steering wheel and gas pedals "You got me!"

"What?!" Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang screamed in shock, wide eyed at their newest friend's ability

"I guess this would be pretty cool to organics like you four, but mind jumping in please?" Hot Rod asked as the girls snapped out of their bewilderment, then hopped into the car. Ruby and Weiss sat in the back of the car. Meanwhile Blake sat and Yang sat in the front seats, with Blake in the passenger seat; while Yang sat in the driver's seat. Once the girls were settled in, the top hatch closed leaving a blue hue from the windows "Thank you for choosing Hot Rod as your valet today, our destination is finding my other friends."

"This is so freaking cool!" Ruby yelled out happily

"Indeed, if you can do this then the others you speak of must do the same." Weiss remarked with a small smile, already seeing the shocked look on her sister Winters face if she ever saw one of these Transformers as she dubbed Hot Rod and his yet to be met friends

"Though I wonder if they can turn into anything else or it's just cars. If so, can their these decepticons do the same too." Blake muttered, thinking over the good and bad if that was the case

"Hey Hotrod, do I drive or what?" Yang asked, confused on how this was going to work

"No need to drive, I got it all under control. Though I do ask that your ladies do enjoy the trip or the outside view while we explore this place is." Hot Rod answered as he revved up his engines

"Um Hotrod, how fast are you planning-" Weiss asked in a sudden worry, but was cut off as Hotrods engines revved up louder

"HANG ON GALS, THIS IS GOING TO BE A BLAST!" Hot Rod yelled out with a laugh, as he blasted off down the bridge that turned out to be a very long built one. Meanwhile in the car the girls were dealing with the sudden burst of speed in their own, separate ways

"THIS IS SO AWESOME!" Yang yelled out joyfully, enjoying the intense rush of speed

"I HAVE TO ADIMT, THIS IS PRETTY COOL!" Blake yelled out joyfully next, as she and Yang laughed at how fun this car trip was already

"Oh look at the pretty towers." Ruby stated, being use to this sort of speed and even great feats of speed thanks to her semblance. Though she was definitely enjoying the scenery of the multitude of metallic towers during this trip "Weiss don't you think this is pretty secrecy?"

"I can't say my little rose bud." Weiss answered in a calm tone, though as Ruby turned her attention to Weiss. Weiss was, all but calm "BECAUSE THIS IS WAY TO BLOODY FAST, HOT ROD YOU BETTER SLOW DOWN OR SO HELP ME I WILL MAKE YOU INTO SCRAP METAL!"

"What was that, go faster Weiss?" Hot Rod asked, snickering a little

'No, no I did not say that Hot Rod!" Weiss yelled angrily

"Alright, faster it is then!" Hot Rod remarked, laughing a lot more as he activated a nitro booster; making him go even faster down the long built bridge as Ruby, Blake and Yang all laughed in enjoyment. Weiss though, she was not dealing with this well once again

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Weiss screamed out in a super high pitch tone, making the girls cover their ears from it

"Please stop!" Blake asked, as her cat ears were hurting beyond belief now

"Alright settle down." Hot Rod amusingly stated as he slowed down his speed, until it he was going at least forty miles an hour "I got to admit, that was totally worth it to see your reactions. Priceless."

"You are such a child." Weiss responded, calming herself down as she took a few deep breaths while Hot Rod laughed some more "But…it was fun I will admit, aside from me screaming. But voice of a singer, so yeah I can get to some pretty high pitches."

"We can tell." Blake remarked, silently thanking whatever gods were up there in the sky for saving her cat ears from Weiss high pitch scream

"Anyways, see anything out of the ordinary yet or what?" Hot Rod asked as the girls started to look around, only for Blake to suddenly catch something on her side

"I think I got something, it's a bit of a far fetch. But it looks like three or five dark purple figured in the distance." Blake explained

"Wait purple." Hot Rod muttered, with a sigh "Great, just great…"

"Something wrong?" Ruby asked worriedly

"If those figures are who I think they are, well you'll see soon enough." Hot Rod explained "Blake do you see anything else?"

"I see nine large pods of sorts. Seems like three of the figures are guarding them. The other two, they're looking down at something. But we need to get closer so I can get a better view." Blake explained, squinting her eyes a little

"Alright then, thankfully for us there's a right turn just up ahead that will lead us right next to our little friends." Hot Rod responded as a few more feet he took a right corner turn, then as he drove further down the new pathway; the girls all were now looking at what else the figure were guarding along with what they looked like from up close. Once close enough to Hot Rods guess, he slowed down and quieted his engine to make sure whatever Blake had seen didn't notice him "So what can you see now?"

"Well yeah they're purple robots and they're all sporting the same look." Yang answered, as the figures in questions all were a scheme of purple, black and dark gray. They all were slim in the body, arms and legs. Their hands were three fingered along with their feet, their heads were flat on the top and square around the face, with a sliver mask that had red v shaped visor slits. Their bodes also had wheels on the shoulders and the side of their calf's, while all of them wielded black colored blasters. Finally the figures all had on their chest, an engraved purple colored face. Though this one looked more like a mask, with a more sinister look, having a slimmer look, two spikes coming from the sides and finally a spiked crest in the center

"Oh they are, but aside from the first three the other two are guarding; guarding… wait a minute. Yang look closer at what the other two ar guarding!" Ruby yelled out wide eyed

"Ruby what are…HOLY CRAP IS THAT OUR DAD AND UNCLE QROW?" Yang screamed as two men were being guarded by two of the robots, with the blasters aimed at them. Though with the men was one other man and two women

"Wait what?" Weiss asked, looking down to in fact see two men that from her guess was her girlfriends and Yang's dad along with their uncle. But as she looked to the others with them, one of the women she recognized immediately "My big sister Winter is with them too!"

"Your sister?" Blake asked, as she, Ruby and Yang were surprised that Weiss had a sister. Blake then looked down as she, Ruby and Yang could defiantly see that one of the women was related to Weiss; but that was because she looked pretty much like an older Weiss. Though as Blake set her eyes on the remaining man and woman, her eyes went wide and her mouth slightly dropped "That's my mom and dad!"

"Really, wait... one of them has cat ears and the other looks like he has cat claws or something." Weiss remarked as Ruby took notice of that too, with both of them then turning their attention back to Blake "Blake, what's going on?"

"Yeah I'd like to know too?" Ruby asked as she and Weiss were waiting for an answer

"Guess now is a better time than none Blakey." Yang stated as Blake nodded, then slowly took her bow off revealing her two cat ears

"Yeah, I'm a Faunas girls. I'm really sorry for not telling you, Yang just figured out a while ago and I was trying to find a good time to tell; but you know…" Blake explained, worried about Ruby and Weiss reactions

"Huh… well okay then." Weiss stated, much to Blakes disbelief in what she had though would be yelling and scolding

"Yeah that's pretty cool, I mean we understand that you hadn't found the time to tell me or Weiss yet. But it's all good now." Ruby said kindly, much to Blakes disbelief once more as expected some slight anger from Ruby for keeping a secret like this

"That's it, no yelling. You both are just okay with this?" Blake asked, pointing at her ears

"Blake look, we've gone through some crazy stuff already and we would be more shocked. But to be honest… well me and my snowflake kind of had a feeling you were faunas since this journey started." Ruby explained as Weiss nodded in agreement

"Wait you two did?" Yang asked

"Yeah I mean how, I did everything I could to keep my heritage a secret?!" Blake asked next, wanting some answers herself

"Blake, no offense. But wearing a bow that looks like cat ears over your actually cat ears; which twitch at times is kind of hard not to put one and one together. Even for someone who can be as dense as me sometimes." Ruby explained with a small smile "Though I will say, dealing with some of the weirdness of our journey so far helped me and Weiss kind of open our minds to perceive our environments more often. Which how we started to take notice of your how your bow twitched at times."

"Indeed, but Blake don't worry we don't hate you for this. I mean I think we can all understand why you'd keeping well your actually heritage a secret. Especially with how faunas are still treated back on Remnant. Trust me I know, since my family well… you all know." Weiss stated with a small smile "So don't worry, you're still part of our little family."

"Thanks girls…thanks." Blake responded, tearing up a bit as Ruby, Weiss and Yang all gave the best group hug they could

"Hey not to ruin the moment. But can we deal with the matters at hand currently?" Hot Rod asked as the girl returned back into their seats, donning on serious looks

"Right, sorry Hot Rod." Ruby replied, before sheepishly smiling "But ah… who is it down there keeping our family members hostage?"

"Right, those figure down there are decepticons." Hot Rod explained as the girls looked back down at the decepticons

"Okay then, so I guess we'll have to take care of them?" Yang asked happily, ready for a fight even if the opponents dwarfed her and the girls in height

"You girls, no, no, no. Look you saw them and that's one thing. But we autobots don't put innocents at risk no matter what. Just let me deal with the bolt heads down there." Hot Rod stated sternly

"Hot Rod we understand, but our families are down there and we need to save them. Besides if you went down there, you might get shot up yourself. So we got to work together. Please." Ruby responded back, with the most serious tone she could muster up as a few seconds of silence passed by; before Hot Rod let out a sigh

"You organics are just as stubborn as us cybertronian's are at times. Alright fine, what's the plan?" Hot Rod asked

"Well what I was going to suggest is that me and the girls play a decoy with the decepticons holding our families hostage. You then take those two out as we get our families out to safety. Then you deal with the other three with our help as support." Ruby explained

"Also before you ask, but trust me when I say me and the girls can do some pretty cool things." Weiss remarked happily

"You know, any other organic I wouldn't believe. But for some reason you four I can tell you're being honest. Okay then, but give me a few moments to get to get a better position before we enact this plan of yours." Hot Rod stated as the girls nodded in agreement, Hot Rod then continued a little faster on the bridge to find the perfect place to set off their plan of attack. Meanwhile team RWBY's family members were having the weirdest day of their lives so far

"So what's the plan Qrow?" A tanned skinned man, with blue eyes, blonde short spikey hair and a blonde soul patch with stubble around his jawline asked. He wore a tan dress shirt with the right sleeve cut off, a brown leather vest over his dress shirt, brown cargo shorts, a brown belt, black shoes, a leather vambrace around his right arm, a metal spaulder on his right shoulder and a brown fingerless glove on his right hand. He also a red bandanna around the bicep of his left arm and a black tattoo on his right bicep

"Taiyang my friend, I think we can take these two on. Maybe we can make a distraction or something." Qrow answered back, taking a swing of a half empty bottle of rum. Said man was a pale skinned, with red eyes, graying black hair and some stubble around his jawline. He wore a long tailed grey dress shirt, black dress pants and black dress shoes with a red tattered cloak. He also wore a crossed shaped neckless and a few rings on his fingers

"With what you morons, our weapons probably wouldn't be able to do anything against these things. So just shut up and don't get us killed." A young woman with pale skin, light blue eyes and white hair tied in a bun sternly whispered. She wore a white coat with a red broach, while also have the upper portions of her arms exposed and a wore a pair of black gloves. Finally she had white pants with garters incorporated within them with high heels incorporated within the garters themselves

"Wow Winter, even after all this time. You still got to act like a bi-" Qrow started to say, but was cut off by the only other woman in the group

"Alright enough, now is not the time to argue." An older woman, with olive skin, short black hair, yellow eyes with a bit of purple eyeliner on top and two cat ears stated. Though her right ear had two golden piercings on it, while her left had only one. She wore a black hakama, with sandals and tabi socks. Over that she wore a black shrug, with the right side being long sleeved and the left being up to a little bit over her shoulder. She also wore two long black arm warmers with an extended end around the middle fingers and a pair of two golden bangles around her left wrist. Her lower half she wore a gold/black sash that trialed behind her, the belt also had a flower shape buckle at the end of it.

"Alright calm down, we we're just trying to help us out this situation is all." Taiyang responded back

"I actually got to agree with the two men here Kali, we need to figure out a quick way to escape from these things." An older man, peach skin, yellow eyes and a medium length black hair/ medium length bear stated. He wore an open violet coat with a white fur trim that exposed his chest, along with two metal clasps connect to his coat. He wore a pair of beige pants with a matching sash that wrapped around his waist that was secured by a large silver buckle. He had on large curved tipped metal spaulder that connect to the left metal clasp on his coat, finally her wore a pair of black leather boots with white toes that were shaped in way that they looked like were claws at the tips

"I know that Ghira, but as much as I hate to agree with the… Schnee here." Kali remarked as she and Winter glared at one another for a moment "But, if we try something. We'll probably end up dead."

"What are you taking about you fleshing's?" The lead decepticons angrily asked, aiming his gun at them "Huh, what is it?"

"Look ah, we're just wondering why you're keeping us hostage." Taiyang asked back "I mean, it's not like any of us attack you or your friends."

"You were seen lying next to these stasis pods, with these autobot sleeping in them. As far as we know, your they're little spies or whatever." The second deception helping guard them answered "Disgusting if you ask me, being near organics this much is making me sick already."

"Well that's nice of them to say…" Winter muttered as she looked up to suddenly see a car on a bridge driving closer to them to the right. Kali took notice of this, then elbowed Ghira who wondered why she did that until he took notice of the closing in car. Taiyang and Qrow looked back at them to notice the three looking up, they then looked passed the two decepticons who were now conversing on how disgusting organics were; then saw the car too as the top opened up

"Back up?" Qrow asked quietly

"I think so." Ghira responded back

"But who could be coming to help us?" Winter asked as suddenly the car passed by them with a loud engine roar which got all of the decepticons attention as four figured leaped out of the car

"An autobot?" The third decepticons asked, as he and the other two near the pods walked regroup with the two guards; seeing the car only

"Shoot him!" The fourth deception screamed as he and the other four began shooting at the autobot as he moved away from them. Meanwhile the figures that jumped out of said autobot landed in front of the adults; only to their shock of it being people they knew

"Ruby, Yang?" Taiyang and Qrow asked quietly

"Weiss?" Winter muttered seeing her little sister

"Blake?!" Kali screamed out, while Ghira was wide eyed at seeing their daughter

"Wait what?" The fifth decepticons asked as he looked down to see the girls now, but before he could do anything team RWBY summoned their keyblades and aimed it at him

"AERO!" Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang screamed; shooting out a powerful gust of air that launched the decepticon into his brethren as they were flung from the group a few feet away

"Wow, that worked as a better distraction than I thought. Good work ladies." Ruby happily stated as she looked to Weiss "Good job especially with you my snowflake."

"Oh my little rose bud, same to you." Weiss responded back as she and Ruby kissed each other then nuzzled their nose for a few moments

"Have to say that was a good idea." Yang stated as she kissed Blake on the lips "Good job yourself kitten."

"Same with you hunny." Blake responded, kissing Yang back for a few moments before they retracted from one another. Then suddenly Blake realized who else was with them "Um girls… I think we were a little too proud right now, that ah…we forgot we're with company. Family to be exact."

"Ah…" Ruby, Weiss and Yang stated as they along with Blake slowly turned their heads around to see their family members looking at them. Winter seemed shocked, along with Taiyang, Qrow seemed somewhat surprised, Ghira was surprised and Kali was wide eyed with her mouth agape

"W-What is going on?" Kali suddenly asked

"Look mom, we don't have to time explain right now but we can once-" Blake answered, but was cut off as she and the others looked to see the decepticons had gotten back up; angry as they aimed their cannons at them

"Any last words flesh bag!" The lead decepticon asked angrily, as the sounds of an engine could be heard coming back around very fast

"Yeah, say hi to our friend!" Ruby screamed as Hot Rod leaped off the bridge coming back, transforming quickly into his robot form as he rammed his knee into the lead decepticons head knocking it off as the other decepticons moved back to not get hit themselves. Hot Rod then landed on his feet in front of the girls and their family members

"Nice work girls, get your family out of harm's way and I'll keep these guys off for as long as needed." Hot Rod explained joyfully as he glared back at the remaining decepticons, smirking as he started his attack on them "Come on deceptacreeps, lets tango!"

"Okay what is going on, what's with those weapons of yours and also..." Winter asked, glaring at Ruby "Why did you kiss my little sister and call her snowflake?"

"Okay Winter everything will be explained soon, we just have to get you all away from this!" Weiss responded back as she tried to pull Winter away from the fighting that was heating up already

"No Weiss, I want some answers now." Winter stated sternly once more, as she grabbed Weiss arm to scold her; though that didn't go well with Ruby

"Hey let my girlfriend go!" Ruby yelled pushing Winter away from Weiss, as Winter was about to attack; though was lifted up by Ghira

"Okay none of that in the middle of a warzone." Ghira remarked as Winter was trying to break free with no luck "Trust me, I got tight grip on you so no use trying to escape."

"Thank you so much." Yang happily said as Ghira gave her a somewhat stern look himself, making Yang sheepishly laugh

"Okay, can we please just get out of here?" Taiyang asked, as two more of the decepticons landed behind them, with their chests blown out "Alright, anywhere not in that direction to be exact!"

"Well where to then?" Kali asked as they started moving to the left of them to hide, but Hot Rod had just finished off another decepticon by blows it's head off with a well-placed shot. Then without thinking he threw the headless body in the way of the group once more "Or we can just stand here because in all honesty it's go to the right and possible get shot at since that's the only option we have left. Well other than just standing here, but that's not much of a difference."

"Maybe just staying here would be the best case." Weiss suggested, though Kali gave her a slight untrusting glare while Ghira put a somewhat calmer Winter back down onto her feet "Well I'm just saying is all, but we should get to helping Hot Rod."

"Actually I don't think the big guy needs help." Qrow answered, taking in another swig of his rum as the girls looked to see Hotrod quickly finish of the second to last decepticon with a blast to the leg, then a blast to the chest as the robot's body feel to the ground dead. The he did a quick round house kick, kicking out the last decepticons gun out of his hand

"Alright bud, me and you." Hot Rod asked raising his fists up with a cocky smile, the decepticon growled angrily as he lunged at Hot Rod. Hot Rod quickly stepped to the side as the decepticon missed, but midway of his lung passed Hot Rod; he rammed his elbow down on the decepticons back. Hot Rod quickly then grabbed the decepticons arm, flinging him over his shoulder as the decepticon hit a wall hard and shut down from the blunt force trauma. Hot Rod cracked his neck, laughing a little "Well that was easy."

"Easy yeah, but you made it hard for us to get our family members to safety." Blake stated, as Hotrod turned around to see the girls giving him looks of disapproval

"Ah right sorry, I get way into my fights at times." Hotrod replied with a sheepish grin

"Well at least we're safe now." Qrow said, as he looked to Ruby and Yang "Glad to see my favorite nieces are okay."

"We're your only nieces uncle Qrow." Yang remarked happily, hugging Qrow who hugged them back

"Hey where's my love?" Taiyang asked, with a fake hurt tone as Ruby and Yang moved themselves over to him; giving a loving hug

"We miss you too dad, we're so glad your safe." Ruby stated as Taiyang gave them a bear hug

"Same, I'm glad you two are okay." Taiyang said, while Weiss was dealing with her big sister

"So, what's with the red head?" Winter asked sternly, as Weiss sighed knowing she'd have to deal with this issues with her big sister

"The red head is my little rosebud Ruby Rose, my girlfriend, my lover." Weiss explained sternly back, though not usually one to argue with her older sister. She also knew this wasn't something she was going to back down to, mostly because of how much she loved Ruby

"Weiss, be it me to go into your love life. But… couldn't you find someone a little more impressive to match your stature?" Winter asked as Weiss scowled at the suggestion

"Excuse me for not holding up to the so called standards you have for me sister, but despite how you feel about it. Ruby is my girl, now till the ends of time." Weiss respond back

"No it's not… look did it have to be someone that was in the same family as well, that man?" Winter asked as she pointed to Qrow, with a glare of utter distain for the him

"I don't know what your problem is with Ruby's uncle, but you're going to have to accept my relationship with Ruby." Weiss explained sternly as Winter wanted to argue, but sighed knowing that her little sister had made up her mind

"Alright, alright. But don't expect me to take a quick or even possible liking to your little… girlfriend." Winter remarked, glaring a bit at Ruby already

"As long as you can try and get along, that's all I can ask for." Weiss responded back kindly as she hugged Winter, who froze for a moment at the rare interaction she and her sister were allowed to show; but smiled as she hugged Weiss back

"Good and I'm glad your safe." Winter stated with a small smile

"Same with you Winter." Weiss replied back happily, while Blake was dealing with her parents

"So…um." Blake said shyly, having remembered her departure from her home before going to Beacon as not such a great one. Things were said and possibly a few things broken from the anger at that time, Blake really didn't like thinking about it and felt bad still about the whole thing for losing her temper that badly. But to her surprise and relief, Kali ran up and hugged her tightly

"I'm so happy to see you Blake, so happy. You have no idea how worried me and your father were about you!" kali happily stated as Blake slowly hugged her back, while Ghira walked up to their right. Once Blake and Kali let go of one another, Blake then turned her attention to her dad

"Dad…" Blake said calmly, but feeling slightly nervous

"Blake…" Ghira responded back, as an awkward silence filled the air; though Kali gently nudged both of them "Um so… how have you been?"

"Good…" Blake replied, as it was getting more awkward "Look I'm, I'm… really sorry about that day when I left. It was just after everything we said to one another out of anger, I just wanted to run away I guess. Find my own path you could say, which I did in a way."

"Look Blake it's okay, we said things we didn't mean. But me and your mom were never mad." Ghira explained as he gave Blake a hug, with Blake hugging him back before they let go of one another

"You weren't?" Blake asked, relived by that fact

"Like I said, me and your father have been worried about you since you left. But it's good to see you're okay." Kali said happily, then looked at Blakes friends and her daughters… girlfriend "If you don't mind me asking, but I'm surprised by your friends being all human; with one of them being your you know."

"What's the issue?" Blake asked raising an eyebrow, surprised a little at her mother since she was usually the more accepting one of her parents

"Oh it's, I just never thought you had a liking for… the other type of fruit in the basket if you get my drift." Kali explained as Ghira was very surprised by his wife's sudden discomfort. In all honesty he was fine with the relationship and couldn't see why his wife was having a hard time accepting it. Though to be exact, Ghira was half-half fine with this revaluation, in all honestly for him if Blake dated a boy or a girl he'd treat them the same way; which was being a scary dad till the end. Then again, the only issue he had with Yang was that she was a human and not a faunus; so he'd be keeping an eye on his daughter girlfriend despite how happy the two seemed with each other

"You mean that I'm have a relationship with my human girlfriend Yang right?" Blake asked, getting a little angry at her mother

"It's just how are you suppose to have kids, like at all. I mean seems kind of hard to do." Kali explained, having a hard time wrapping her mind around this. Then again with everything that had just happened, from waking up in this place of pure metal with three other humans, having been kept hostage by a group of murderous giant robots, then just seeing her daughter once more after a long while, along with seeing her daughters human friends and human girlfriend also made things more stressful then needed to be at the moment

"Well actually they're have been break through in Vale when it comes to same sex pregnancies and such. I read a few news... reports…" Ghira started to explain, but stopped when he saw his wife glaring at him unamused by what he was trying to do "I'll shut up now."

"You do that." Kali stated, taking a calming breather

"Look mom, maybe you have issues with me dating Yang or it's the stress of this situation at hand still getting to you. But right now, we could still be in possible danger if the heartless decided to show up. Which I hope they won't." Blake explained

"What are these heartless?" Qrow asked as he, Taiyang, Winter, Ruby, Weiss and Yang grouped up with them. While Hot Rod stayed quiet, listening in on what they were conversing about

"They're creatures me and the girls have been fighting for a while now Uncle Qrow." Yang explained as she and Blake held each other's hand tightly suddenly, which made Kali flinch a little in slight uncomfortableness while the others didn't seem to take much mind to it

"You and the girls here, like by yourself?" Winter asked

"No we got friends with us, along with our summons." Ruby answered, as Winter glared at her "Sorry, just answering is all."

"Yeah she was Winter." Qrow remarked, as he and Winter glared at each other now trying to resist the urge to attack one another

"Hey ah, not to break this up. But can we get back to looking for my friends girls, you can bring your family along too; though it might be a bit more of an uncomfortable ride." Hot Rod kindly asked

"Okay wait a moment, I don't think you should be asking them to do anything for you. How can we trust you?" Winter asked back angrily

"Really, I just helped save your tail pipes and this is the thanks I get from you. Talk about ungrateful." Hot Rod remarked, huffing in annoyance

"Yeah try being nicer will you, Hot Rod is our friend and we're going to help him." Blake stated, glaring at Winter intensely

"Indeed, ladies and gentlemen shall we proceed? Weiss asked sternly, but before anything else could happen; the decepticon that Hot Rod finished off last appeared quickly behind him with its blaster aimed right at his head

"HOT ROD! The girls screamed as Hot Rod closed his eyes in a sudden frozen fear of getting his head blow off, but before that could happen another blaster went off killing the decepticon for good this time. As it's body fell to the ground, with its head gone showing off some exposed wiring while purple liquid pouring form the headless stump; as sound of another set of metallic foots steps could be heard

"You know kid, you got make sure that they're actually offline." A male cybertronian stated, as he had a white paint scheme, with its hands, biceps, face and thighs being a light grey. His chest piece was that of the front of a car with a black bumper, a set of wheels on the shoulders and the front doors formed up into side wings pointing outward. His head was covered with a white helmet with a red crest in the front, while his lower half was black, with his calf's/ feet being that of the lower half of his car form with the wheels as the ankles of sorts. He held a blaster in his right hand, while the autobot symbol was engraved on the top of his chest piece

"Prowl am I glad to see you, wait does this mean some of the others are around?" Hot Rod asked, with a hopeful tone

"Yes, Ratchet and Optimus are the only other ones with me. Though I think you and me can guess, by looking at the stasis pods here that the others are in those." Prowl explained, before taking notice of team RWBY and their others "Organics, great another headache."

"Hey what does that mean bud?" Yang yelled, already annoyed by Prowls attitude

"Yang I think it's best not to yell at the giant robot." Taiyang remarked, nervously grinning at Prowl

"Sorry mister Taiyang, but I agree with Yang. Mister Prowl here doesn't have to act like such a jerk." Weiss stated angrily as she and the girls glared at Prowl, who just sighed in his own annoyance

"I am way too tired to explain, just get out of here. You'll just be getting in the way." Prowl answered as suddenly a futuristic ambulance came up from behind Prowl

"I have to agree with Prowl here." The Ambulance stated with a man's voice, quickly transforming into his robot mode; that consisted of a mostly white body color, that had red thick lines around the shoulders, legs, forearms and the front part of his chest. His body plating had smoothing rounded edges, with his helmet that had a red crest in front of the helmet; showing off his dark grey face and blues eyes. Also from how he sounded, this autobot sounded like he was much older than Hot Rod or Prowl. Finally like his two friends, he had the same logo engraved on the upper tip of his chest plating. The newest cybertronian looked down quickly at team RWBY and the others "If they stay here, we might accidently make them go squish or well I don't know what else to be honest. But I know that it wouldn't be good for their health."

"Oh come on Ratchet, they helped me out. Well the girls did, but still they could be a big help to us." Hot Rod explained as Prowl and Ratchet looked to one another with skepticism. The girls seeing this stepped up, to help out their newest friend Hot Rod

"Hey dudes, look just give us a chance. Besides you'll just have to watch where your step for the time being; since we ain't going anywhere till we know that we're not need." Yang stated sternly

"Yeah, so just get use to us meanies!" Ruby yelled, crossing her arms

"So not only is she an unworthy girl for my little sister, she's also immature. Great my little sister is dating a child basically." Winter muttered, already developing an even deeper disliking for Ruby

"Listen here small ones, you're just going to get in the way of things and we have better things to do than watch over any of you." Ratchet responded, with a passive aggressive tone as Blake then threw a rock at his face suddenly "D-Did you just throw a rock at me?"

"Where did you get a rock anyways is what we're wondering?" Weiss and Hot Rod asked

"I had some rocks in my pocket still after we left Tarzan's world." Blake explained as she kept a stern glare at Ratchet and Prowl "Now listen here you two, like it or not we're here to stay and help. Believe it or not this is only one district of a few many. So we're going help, then leave, then re-visit over and over again every time because that's just how we are. Got it?"

"Why you-" Prowl started to say angrily, but was cut off as from the distance behind them one last car was coming up; in the form of a red and blue futuristic semi-truck

"Um, who's that?" Kali asked as she and the other adults regrouped with the girls

"Optimus Prime, leader of the autobot." Hot Rod answered with a wide smile, as the girls could see how much admiration he had for this his leader

As Optimus Prime stopped in front of the group, he quickly transformed into his robot form which compared to the others was unintentionally more intimidating. His upper half was complete red with a bit of grey at the lower half of his chest, while his hands were blue. His torso had the front windows on the chest, along with the grills most truck had around the stomach and two wheels connect to his back. His shoulders were squared shaped, and his forearms seemed to be reinforced for battle. His lower half was grey on the upper portion, while the legs/feet were solid blue, with some sliver and with pairs of two wheels on behind each leg. His head was shaped as a double pointed helmet with a mouth guard, leaving his light blue eyes showing, he also had two autobot symbols engraved on his shoulders. Finally despite the already dwarfing height of Hotrod, Ratchet or Prowl; Optimus dwarfed the three by a good few feet. Optimus looked around the area, moving passed his fellow autobot and taking notice of the group who just stared at the larger autobot in front of them. Optimus knelt down looking at them in an awkward silence.

"H-Hello." Ruby said, only to freeze up a bit as Optimus move in his face a little closer to her and the others

"Hello there organics, I am Optimus Prime; leader of the autobot. Who may you all be?" Optimus asked kindly, despite his deep voice

"Well I'm Ruby Rose." Ruby answered nervously, with a small smile and a wave

"I-I'm Weiss Schnee sir." Weiss answered next, stuttering despite how she and the girls had faced in battle beings almost as large as he was

"Blake Belladonna, nice to meet you." Blake stated calmly, while internally she was nervous like Ruby and Weiss

"Yang Xiao Long, what's up!" Yang happily said, feeling somewhat nervous; but also being already able to tell that Optimus was a gentle metal giant

"I'm Taiyang and this is my brother in law Qrow or well kind of, but…well it's confusing." Taiyang answered as he and Qrow gave the autobots a quick wave

"Winter Schnee." Winter remarked with a passive aggressive tone

"I'm Kali Belladonna and this is my husband Ghira Belladonna. Nice to meet you." Kali kindly said as Ghira just nodded and waved a little

"Well met organics, well met." Optimus stated, the looked back up at Prowl and Ratchet "Prowl do your scanners read anymore decepticon signatures and Ratchet, what are the status on the autobots in the stasis pods. Also, who's in them?"

"Readings are clean sir, no decepticons left in this place." Prowl answered, activating a visor quickly, before retracting it back

"As for the stasis pods it seems that we have eight of them. All vital signs good." Ratchet said, looking over a monitor built into his arm "For who we have, well we got BumbleBee, Springer, Jazz, Arcee, Ultra Magnus, Grimlock, Swoop, Snarl and Slug. The others I can't say if they're here or back on the ark."

"I see." Optimus responded, thinking over a few things before looking at Hot Rod "Hot Rod, these organics were with you before you got to the pods here?"

"Yeah the girls and I meet just a while ago, the cons were keeping their..." Hot Rod explained, but forgot what the words the girls used "What were the words again?"

"Parents, sister, but I think the best word to use would be family." Ruby answered

"Right, thanks. Anyways though, the cons had their family held hostage. So we planned an attack against them. Though I took them out, I did see the girls fire air out of some weird weapons of theirs." Hot Rod stated, as the adults of the group looked at the girls once more with questioning stares

"Speaking of which, what's with those weapons of yours anyways?" Ghira asked, crossing his arms

"And how'd you fire out that blast of air?" Winter asked next as she and the others waited for answers

"Girls?" Ruby asked now with a small smile, as she, Weiss, Blake and Yang summoned their keyblades once more, stunning the adults along with the autobots even as they studied the key shaped weapons

"Well this is something." Qrow remarked "I've never heard of weapons like these."

"Same." Taiyang responded as he inspected the weapons intensely

"Well these weapons have been what's been helping me and the girls fight our mortal enemies, the heartless. With these we shall defeat them!" Weiss proudly proclaimed, only for Winter to snatch the weapon out of her hand

"Oh no, no more of this Weiss. I'll just find some trash can or something to throw this away in." Winter stated, trying to hide the how protective she was being currently with her little sister

"For once I agree with you miss Schnee." Kali remarked, quickly snatching Blakes keyblade to do the same "No daughter of mine is doing anything perilous!"

"Should we tell them that ain't going to work?" Blake asked, seeing her mother and Weiss sister walking off to find a trash can, though the prospects of that was most likely impossible

"Just give it a few more moments." Weiss remarked with a deadpanned tone, as suddenly their keyblades appeared back in their hands. While Kali and Winter were surprised by that, then regrouped with them not looking very happy

"We would have told you, but the keyblades are kind of stuck with us." Weiss explained

"Yeah, they chose us so they stay with us." Ruby happily remarked

"Fascinating, this will require some study when the occasion arises." Ratchet remarked, as he began studying the computer in his arm once more "But right now is not the time, I got to see if I can override these stasis pods."

"I'll just stay here and keep guard, make sure nothing attacks us just in case." Prowl said, going into a sentry like stance

"So what now?" Hot Rod asked

"Now, if you all would be kind enough. But maybe you can give us some answers to where we are at." Optimus suggested

"We can, but we may have to find Leon to explain it." Ruby responded back "We can lead you back to the districts entrance and from there, we'll have to see."

"Yep, along with our relatives." Yang said with a smile, as the adults looked at one another nodding in agreement. Though Winter was the only one who seemed reluctant to do so, with that Hot Rod and Optimus transformed back into their alt mode

"That really is cool." Weiss remarked

"Oh yeah." Ruby, Blake and Yang replied back with a quick chuckle as Hot Rod opened his top once more; then the girls situated themselves back into their seats. Optimus meanwhile opened his doors to Taiyang, Qrow, Winter, Kali and Ghira

"Hop on in please." Optimus asked as Taiyang, Qrow, Kali and Ghira hesitantly climbed on in, getting comfortable in their seats; Winter was the only one that didn't get in "Is something that matter?"

"Well It's just that there's not that much room in there. I think I'd be better with the girls and Hotrod." Winter explained, quickly making her way over to Hotrod who still had his top opened

"Oh great." Weiss stated, knowing her sister as much as she loved her; knew Winter would make the atmosphere tense if anything

"Hey don't worry Weiss, you can sit on my lap. Your sister's approval or not." Ruby responded back with a flirty tone, as Weiss giggled joyfully while getting herself quickly comfortable on Ruby's lap, As Winter got in, she took imminent notice of Weiss and Ruby's closeness as she scowled

"Is it really necessary to sit on your… girlfriends lap. There's enough room between us to sit on your own." Winter asked, with an unamused tone

"Well sister, I want to sit on my Ruby's lap. Because I love her so much." Weiss explained with a defiant smile, as she began kissing Ruby on the cheeks "Oh how I love you."

"I love you too Weiss." Ruby responded joyfully, as they snuggled a bit making Winter rolled her eyes

"This is going to be one interesting ride, huh gals?" Hot Rod quietly asked Blake and Yang

"Oh yeah." Blake said, already not having a great liking towards Winter

"Anyways, let's get going. Optimus can follow us." Yang suggested

"Right, you got that Optimus?" Hot Rod asked

"Roger, lead the way Hot Rod." Optimus responded back, as Hot Rod closed his hatch making his way off towards the districts entrance; while Optimus closed his doors then followed behind. Meanwhile the girls wondered what else would happen, during this stay here in Traverse Town…

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And here we are, yeah not as long as my last chapter. First off with the descriptions in this chapter, I'll say it again but I am really not that great when it comes down to them. Second some of the stuff in this chapter that I wrote, I added so that issues will arise later on in the story. But I hope you all like the other little things I put in there anyways, I won't talk about them on this ending note. But, if you want to ask me about this chapter or anything really about this story. Then either leave a review if you want to or feel free to PM me. I'm always up for talking with my readers and getting feedback from all of you. So until the next chapter to come, I wish you all a wonderful if not spectacular day's to come! : D