"Is that a Panda, and is it talking!" Yang exclaimed surprised.
Just as Blake and Yang left the vault they run into a few colorful characters. A tall young woman with green hair in a ponytail and a pair of pink framed glasses on, along with a young man whose mouth was covered and the most surprising of all a giant Panda who could apparently talk.
"You must not be from around here," the Panda exclaimed "don't worry I get this a lot."
Yang and Blake both rubbed their eyes to wonder if they were beginning to see things. They were in a new world after all so maybe talking Pandas where just a thing that occurred naturally here.
"Ah my students!" a boisterous voice echoed. Yang turned to see Gojo walk towards the three of them "Miss Xiao Long, Miss Belladonna, these are my students. Maki Zenin, Toge Inumaki and Panda" Gojo said pointing towards them.
"Uhm…that's a talking Panda?" Blake pointed out.
"Actually he's not a real Panda but details details. But I called them here since I know you all have been itching for some training and I think my students are the best ones to help you out!"
At this Yang snickered slightly "I'm sorry but I don't think this girl can take me on, no offense" she said confidently while crossing her arms.
Maki stepped forward with a smirk "oh I think you're going to eat those words hun" she said confidently adjusting her glasses. At this mention Yang got fired up, literally as her hair turned slightly red "oh bring it on sister!" she said as she clenched her knuckles together and followed the three outside, with Blake reluctantly following behind her.
Qrow smirked and turned to Megumi "20 bucks saying my niece kicks her ass" he said. Megumi stoically rebutted with "you're gonna lose that 20 bucks" before he walked off back into the dining hall. Qrow turned back to see Nora and Ren exiting the vault.
"Ruby not with you guys?"
"No she wanted to look around more. You know how she is" Nora pointed out to which Qrow couldn't help but nod. His youngest niece always had an affinity for knowing everything she could, mostly about every weapon she could find. And Gojo had many weapons and trinkets he had collected from his fight against the Collective.
Qrow shrugged and walked off without another word.
Ruby was pacing through the many shelves full of items in the vault. She was looking for something that specifically mentioned the Infinity Stones.
Upon this thought she felt something shake in the small satchel around her waist and a dim yellow glow appeared from it. Quickly turning around to see if anyone else was in there, and when she saw there was nobody but her in the vault she grabbed the satchel and emptied the contents in her hand.
A single glowing yellow stone. The one she took after knocking evil Weiss out of a window to her supposed doom.
She had no idea what it did, but she could feel it had some sort of power. Once she woke up to it glowing at her and almost…as if it was calling to her. When she touched she got a vision…she saw her mother holding her as a baby. She wasn't supposed to remember that. It was like this thing could see into the deepest repressed memories she could not access.
What was it? Why did the other Weiss had it?
She had a hunch what it could be after uncle Qrow had told her about the power Thanos possessed, six incredibly powerful artifacts from his own universe said to give him the power to manipulate all of reality with a snap of his fingers. Could she be holding one of those stones right now?
"Is this an Infinity Stone…." She muttered to herself.
"Interesting observation dear girl. Maybe I can help you with that" a voice suddenly said.
Immediately grabbing for Crescent Rose, Ruby turned around the room saying "whose there! Where are you! I am armed!" she shouted.
"Right over here girl, on the shelf on your right" the voice again said.
Ruby turned her head to the nearby shelf and looked at it closely. In between a few books and trinkets she seemed to look at a small glass case with in it a…
A…very tiny creature. She could barely describe it. It looked like something akin to a bug, wearing a weird looking hat and his entire appearance looked…almost as if he had been infected with disease. She had a hard time describing it.
"What is this…did you just talk to me.." Ruby inquired curiously.
"That I did young lady," the small creature echoed "you may call M, how may I be of service to you."
Thanos placed the box on the table and opened it, producing a shining and glowing star. The rest of the Collective looked at it with a curious expression.
"My Lord Titan what is that?" Silco asked.
"A beacon to call someone who owes me a favor. I didn't want to use it for this occasion but desperate times call for desperate measures," Thanos said as he raised his hand with the star upwards "anything to bring Kara back safe."
With a mighty thrust upwards he threw the star down on the ground. An explosion of glitter scattered throughout the room as the members of the Collective awaited what was to come next.
"I swear if you don't bring in those new potion ingredients this instant I will bring the guillotine down on your…"
A female voice. As the glitter dispersed the figure of a woman became clear, one in a blue sparkling dress, wearing glasses, her hair almost a pinkish lilac color and most notably, she was floating in the air with wings. To her ear was something resembling a cellphone.
"Are you listening to me you dumb incompetent oaf and…" she screamed into the phone but stopped once she turned to look at her surroundings, finding herself in a different place then before. When she finally turned to look at all the members of the Collective standing there.
"Who are you people? And where am I?" she demanded to know.
"In my headquarters" Thanos spoke up, firmly yet softly.
The woman's eyes widened as she slowly turned around and faced the Mad Titan. Her entire earlier angry tone was now subdued and she was all smiling "Lord Thanos. What a pleasant surprise! I…I didn't expect you to call upon my services."
"It's not your services I need, I need your help with something. And you still owe me, don't you Godmother?" Thanos asked, clearly a rhetorical question. The flying lady gulped and replied "oh absolutely, how I could forgot after how you helped put my dear son on his rightful throne."
"Uhm," Asa suddenly spoke up "father who is that?" she asked, asking the question everyone there wanted answered.
Thanos stepped forward "this," he began pointing to the woman "is the Fairy Godmother."
