(A/N: Hey everyone, how's it going, I know most of your might not have heard of me or expected to hear from me posting so soon but I'm doing this Ruby Heart Crossover for a good friend of mine, Chris Nest, and will complete the story for him with the best of my ability. I do not own any of the RWBY or Kingdom Hearts Characters, well except for Vino and Gin, other than that all characters belong to their rightful owners.)
Ruby and Sora continued to stare as Ruby, finally finding her voice spoke first, "Penny, I…I don't understand."
"Most girls are born, I was made." Penny said as she looked to her hands befoe her friends, "I'm the world's first synthetic person capable of generating an aura."
Her smile faded as she said in defeat, "I'm not real."
She felt a pair of warm hands over her metal ones before seeing it was Ruby's hands that were holding hers. Penny's shock was evident on her face as she saw her friends' faces haven't changed, even after knowing the truth about what she really is.
"Of course you are." Ruby said "You think just because you've got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real than me? Than Sora?"
Sora nodded, supporting Ruby's words as Penny's face became more confused, "I don't…Um…you're both taking this extraordinarily well."
"You're not like those things we saw back there, Penny." Sora assured he ginger headed girl as he placed a hand on her shoulder comfortingly, "You have a heart, just like me, Ruby, and well, everyone."
"You also have a Soul! I can feel it!" Ruby added.
If Penny could produce tears, they would be streaming from her eyes like water falls as she pulled the two into a tight, bone crushing hug, squealing happily, "Oh Ruby, Sora!"
Pressing them tightly into her frame she said happily, "You guys are the best friends anyone could have!"
They gave their gasps and other vocal attempts for air as Ruby squeaked, "I could see why your father would want to protect such a delicate flower."
"Y-yea…" Sora pipped up before wheezing, "Air…"
Penny let go and said, "Oh he is very sweet. He's the one that built me, I'm sure you two would just love him."
"Wow…so he built you all by himself?" Ruby asked while Sora stretched his neck to make sure that everything's still there.
"Well, Almost." Penny stated before saying, "He had some help from Mr. Ironwood."
"You mean that guy with the uniform presenting those robots?" Sora asked, remembering the man's hologram from the presentation.
Ruby, thinking it was just as strange asked, "The General?"
Her eyes widen before asking, "Wait! Is that why those soldiers were after you?"
"They like to protect me too." Penny mentioned, remembering the two men in armor as well.
Sora, with a bewildered look on his face asked, "They don't think you can protect yourself?"
"They're not sure if I'm ready yet." Penny sadly told them, her eyes looking downwards. This made the two confused even more. They thought she wasn't ready yet? Ready for what?
"One day it will be my job to save the world, but I still have a lot left to learn. That's why my father let me come to the Vytal Festival. I want to see what it's like in the rest of the world and test myself in the tournament." Penny explained as she looked back to her friends.
Sora was more confused as he thought that if it was the Heartless they were worrying about but they're only a truly serious threat if someone like Maleficent, Ansem, or someone who has control over the Darkness in their hearts is commanding them. He then remembered the Grimm and his thoughts brought up the Grimm-Heartless things that his, Ruby's and Jaune's teams faced when Sora and his two friends arrived in this world.
"Penny what are you talking about? Save the world from what?" Ruby asked, still not understanding what Penny's being told.
"Yea, I thought this was a time of peace." Sora pointed out. Confusion and misunderstanding are now shown in Penny's eyes as she said, nervously, "That's not what Mr. Ironwood said…"
Before another thing was said, the three of them heard one of the Soldiers order, "Check down here!"
Grabbing both of her friends, Penny said desperately, "You have to hide."
And with a strength that could only come from Penny and her special origins the ginger girl dragged the two over to a dumpster, despite their protests and tossed them in.
"Penny You don't have to go with them!" Ruby shouted, before being tossed into the dumpster.
Yeah, we can help you!" Sora added before being tossed, face first into the same dumpster before the lid closed on the two.
Penny opened it and assured her friends, "It's okay, Ruby, Sora. They're not bad people. I just don't want you both to get in trouble."
Her face became serious as she said, "Just promise me that neither of you will tell anyone about my secret… Okay?"
Sora and Ruby glanced at each other before saying simultaneously, "We promise."
Before she closed the lid Sora brought up, "But why should we keep it a secret if you want people to accept you for who you are and not what they'll think of you later?"
Penny, closing the door, thought about what the boy said before seeing the solders coming her way, "There she is!"
Putting on the bright smile that she was taught she said, "Salutations officers!"
"Why were you running?" One asked, looking around he asked, "And what happened to the other girl and that boy?"
"What boy and girl?" Peny asked innocently as she lied, "I've been by myself all day."
She gave another hiccup. Sora, finally figuring out, sees that this is what happens when Penny lies. It's quite different from how it's shown how Pinocchio is telling lies himself.
The other soldier looked to Penny before saying in a stern tone, "You shouldn't cause such a scene."
The first soldier that spoke asked, concerned for her, "Are you okay?"
Penny then showed her hands to the two saying, "Just a scratch."
The second soldier sighed, frustrated as he said, "Penny, Your father isn't going to be happy about this…"
"Please, just come with us…" The first one requested.
Penny saluted, "Yes, sir!"
Just as the three of them were walking away one stopped, thinking he heard the sound of what seemed to be birds chirping and a thud from the Dumpster lid. He shrugged it off and continued on his way.
Meanwhile in the shady part of town a bike yellow-themed sport bike, with a design emphasizing speed and aerodynamics. The person riding it was none other than Yang Xiao Long. She took off her helmet and goggles as she got off and said, "My friend's over here."
She then heard someone landing behind her and saw Vino smirking as he stood there, "Aw Hell…you beat me by one or two seconds…"
"Next time get a bike, big boy." Yang said, teasingly, sure she has the hots for Sora, but she can't help but admit, well to herself, that Vino's not as bad as she first thought when he decided to go with them.
"Maybe I will." Vino said as he followed Yang into the familiar bar.
Neptune however was still sitting right behind her, hair and goggles messed up with a petrified expression of terror on his face.
Neptune, sounding dizzy replied, "Cool..."
He then Shook his head, somehow perfectly fixing his appearance, and gets off the cycle, looking around worriedly, "And where exactly is... here?"
The music from the Club gets louder as it goes. Junior behind the bar adjusting his cuffs as his henchmen stock the bottles, carry boxes, and otherwise stand around on the dance floor, until the doors opened and two of his men came rushing inside shouting, "Hurry, Close the door – they're coming!"
He and the other Henchman proceed to roll the doors shut and tried to keep it that way with their bodies as the others began carrying things to barricade the doors.
Leaning over the bar to get a better look at them, Junior asked, loudly, "What are you idiots doing?!"
The Henchmen shout incoherently until an explosion knocks them to the ground and forces the doors open, allowing a familiar face to walk in through the smoke as 'I Burn' starts playing.
Yang smiled as she raised her arms up like in a presentational way, "Guess who's back!"
Yang continues to smile and pose as eight guns are pointed in her face with an equal number of angry henchmen behind them. Though this doesn't faze her, she stops and glares at the recording studio where the track is messing up until the frightened bear-headed DJ takes the needle off the record and retreats back under the table.
Neptune poked his head from behind Yang as the henchmen continue hoisting their guns at the two, "Yeah, so could you define 'friend' for me?"
"Ah, don't worry, I can handle these pansies." Vino assured the blue headed guy. As soon as he came into view the nervousness of Junior's goons had become full grown afraid as some of them took some steps back. They even began to whisper in fear of seeing Vino there as he looked at them with a look that shows that he'll enjoy fighting them.
Just as it looked like they were about to fire on the three of them, Junior forced his way through the crowd of goons, straightening his tie, shouting, "Stop, stop! Nobody shoot. Blondie, Vino… You're here… Again…"
Gulping at the sight of both of the brawlers, Junior then asked, scared and perplex, "…Why?"
Smirking Yang pointed at the club owner and stated, "You still owe me a drink."
She then grabbed Junior by the arm and began dragging him to the bar through the group of goons.
Neptune and Vino were left to watch in expressions that suggest that they were full on love stricken as Neptune said, fully entranced by how well the blond woman handled the situation, "Whoa-ho-ho-ho, what a woman..."
"I'll say." Vino answered, in a similar love struck stare, his eyes never leaving Yang as she and Junior continued going to the bar.
Neptune, missing the dazed tone in the warrior with the dark armor, then breaks from his love-struck staring to see the twins Melanie and Miltia Malachite standing beside him and the dark warrior, acting cool he asked, flashing his signature grin, " 'Sup?"
Melanie and Miltia however were not amused or interested as they went "hmph!" and said simultaneously annoyed, walking away with their noses in the air, "Whatever."
Vino, snapping out of his daze heard and not even trying to stifle a laughter mused, adding more salt to the wound, to the dejected Neptune, "Burn…"
"Shut it…" Neptune muttered as the two went to where Yang and Junior were. As the two continued their way the blue-haired student from Mistral noticed the nervous and fearful looks that Vino was receiving from the goons.
Meanwhile, at a warehouse on the other side of the kingdom, Blake's group was surveying what appeared to be a warehouse where Faunus were gathered as the cat-Faunus traced fingers on the three scratch marks on a wall before peeking around its corner and seeing a pair of horned/antlered Faunus as they are ushered into a building by a bearded man.
Blake turned to the others and said, "This is it."
"Are you sure?" Donald asked, not liking the feeling he's getting from the meeting point.
As Blake glares at them and starts moving towards the entrance while unfastening her bow. Sun shared a look with the other two with him as he just said, "Y'know, we're just gonna take your word for it."
The four walk inside the building to a hallway filled with cases, seeing another man deeper in tone announced loudly for all to hear, "New recruits, keep to the right!" at the young pair as they follow.
"Umm... Blake? I don't get something..." Donald stated as he held the mask that he was given, "If you believe what you're doing is right, why do you hide who you are?"
"The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters." Blake explained, her tone suggested that she didn't agree with the reasons to wear it even in the slightest.
Sun looked down at the mask in his hands and asked, just to be sure, "Grimm masks..."
"That's kind of dark, don't 'cha think?" Goofy admitted, afraid of what caused the White Fang leader to bring this idea to the other Faunus.
Blake, putting her mask on began to walk and said darkly, "So was the guy who started it"
Puts her mask on and walks inside, Sun sighed as he murmured, "Always sunshine and rainbows with you..."
They three put their masks on and followed her lead.
The new recruits to the White Fang are moving in a line to the side of the stage, a mere few dozen compared to the hundreds of white-vested, black-hooded soldiers to their left and up above in the balconies. Blake, Sun, Donald, and Goofy look around themselves when they stop, and a fully-masked man with tattoos standing starts speaking before the large sheet emblazoned with the bloody wolf and claw marks.
The man in the full mask with the markings on it suggest that he was someone of high rank in the White Fang, Blake recognized him from before she left the White Fang, he apparently didn't as he spoke to the crowd, "Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for so long!"
The dark pants and brown shoes step forward before the orange tip of his Melodic Cudgel tapped on the stage. The person that this 'Lieutenant' had introduced as a special comrade was none other than Roman Torchwick, smiling confidently even as the crowd starts protesting.
Torchwick began waving mockingly to the crowd. The shocked and outrage of the Faunus nearby was a deafening silence even as he spoke to the crowd, a short girl with blink and brown hair walked out from behind the sheet, standing to the side, "Thank you, thank you! Please, hold your applause!"
"What's a human doing here?!" A female, antlered, Faunus pointed at Roman from her place right in front of the four snoops. The hatred in her voice shook Donald and Goofy greatly.
Torchwick smiled and spoke to the crowd of Faunus, unafraid of their anger towards him, "I'm glad you asked, 'Deerie'! Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans... are the worst."
Salutes to himself as to make an example. "Case in point. So, I understand why you would like to see us all locked away, or, better yet, killed!"
Leaning over to Blake, Sun asked, "So, is he going somewhere with this?"
"I hope it isn't going to make things worse…" Goofy added worried about how this was affecting the crowd. Donald, though angry, was getting upset as well.
Torchwick continued speaking despite the anger in the new recruits eyes, "But, before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms!"
The crowd began to change their tune and starts agreeing with him. Allowing him to continue with his speech. "Government, military, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life!"
Paused to let the crowd cheer as the four heroes share a look. Not used to this kind of hate and anger, Donald and Goofy began to get nervous, even as Roman continued, "And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around..."
He then said, quickly, "No offense to any rodents in the room."
With a snap of the fingers, the curtain falls, and the whole mass of Faunus applaud at the sight of the Atlesian Paladin-290 behind it, the mark of the White Fang painted on its shoulder.
Sun stared in shock, "Whoa, that's a big robot..."
"Garwsh…it looks powerful too." Goofy added, concerned.
Looking back to her friends, Blake asked, "How did he get that?"
"As some of you might have heard, this right here..." Torchwick paused to tap the giant mech, "...is Atlas' newest defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my 'employers', we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, 'hit the shelves'. And of course, these guys are available for turning the tide against the Grimm or the humans what want to bully you."
He snapped his fingers again as several Heartless, the same height as the human, appeared and stood still, their yellow eyes staring blankly out to the shock crowd of Faunus and the four intruders.
"All it will take to command these creatures is just the will as well as pointing your darker feelings towards the humans that dare harm you for being born as you are." Torchwick explained, pacing as he showed how even tapping the end of his cane against one of the Neoshadow's head that it remained neutral.
Laughing a little to himself he then got back on topic as he spoke, "Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast."
"If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine... " Torchwick said with a shrug before his tone became serious as his expression and said, actually motivational, "But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?"
The White Fang, veterans and new recruits alike began a roaring applause. It was clear to the four infiltrators that the crime boss got his answer. and their growing dark feelings were making the Heartless in the room twitch and change the directions of their yellow eyes, as they look through the crowd almost as if they could see the darkness that gave them life emanating from the group before them.
"How did he get control of the Heartless?" Donald asked, bewilderment on his face, as he asked his friends.
Blake, silent thought before turning to Sun and the others said, "We should get out of here."
White Fang Lieutenant the called to the assembled Faunus, "Will all new recruits, please come forward!"
Sun watched as the line surges forward with the four having to follow, to keep appearances, the monkey tailed Faunus, Donald, and Goofy then whimpered, "Welp!"
Back at the Club, Junior slammed his glass hard against the counter as he sits behind the bar, separating him from his interrogators.
Junior frustrated said, "I don't know!"
"How can you not know?" Yang asked loudly, anger on her face as she questioned the informant.
Junior then answered still angrily, "I haven't talked to him!"
"I haven't even seen him since the night you first came in here." Junior said leaning over to point in Yang's face. Seeing the glare from the dark warrior made Junior dropped his finger nervously.
Clearing his throat he explained what the interaction between himself and the ginger redhead, "He paid up front, I lent him my men, and none of them ever. Came. Back."
"So where did they go?" Neptune then raised a question of his own, rushed to Yang's side to try and impress her.
After a long pause, Junior asked, his anger growing at the question, Vino even face smacked himself at how stupid that question sounded, "What kind of stupid question is that?"
He then repeated what he just said, "They never came back!"
He then asked Yang, annoyed, "Who is this guy?"
Yang pushed Neptune out of the way with one hand. In response Neptune straightens and stood to attention. "Don't worry about him; worry about me if I don't find out what I want!"
"I already told you everything! Torchwick hired my boys, and I guess he wasn't happy with them, which is something I can relate to!" He shouted back before shouting the last bit at his own men, who grumble and walk away in response.
"Come on, Neptune." Yang said turning from the bar and walked away. Frustration on her face.
Neptune, following behind her, with his hands in his pockets asked, "We get everything we need?
Yang answered, still upset that she couldn't get anything useful from Junior, "Well, we got everything we can. Hopefully the rest of the team is having better luck.
Noticing someone missing, Yang turned to see Vino grabbing Junior by the throat and lifted the tall man into the air, making it look like Junior wasn't weighing anything as Vino Said, "Cut the bull, I know you know something… a man once said, if you wanna know a city, ask the rats."
Tightening his grip Vino added, "And since Torchwick is one of the biggest rats in town I know you know more than you're telling us."
"I... Don't know…anything…I-I swear…" Junior wheezed trying to breathe through the iron trap like grip the Dark Warrior had him in.
Unconvinced Vino punched Junior in the gut, "Liar."
Junior wheezed as he strained to say, "I honestly…don't…know…"
Vino, still not convinced slammed Junior's head to the bar top, pressing his elbow into the man's head.
"VINO!" Yang called, forcing the dark warrior to stop his interrogation to look at the angry blond haired woman.
"Yea?" He asked, sounding slightly bored and confused.
She began marching up at the guy as she asked, hotly, "What do you think you're doing?!"
He thought about it for a moment before guessing, "Getting some answers? You know this scumbag's lying!"
"But we don't do that to them." Yang roared her face becoming angrier.
Smiling as if her anger was something pleasant, Vino told her something as he let Junior go, "You're beautiful when you're angry."
Everyone in the room winced as a very angry Yang slapped Vino in the face. Though she did like the compliment, she was ticked on how the guy was torturing someone for information.
Vino got up and said to a horrified Neptune, "So worth it."
The two hurried to catch up as they left the club after the blond beauty.
The White Fang, still cheering loudly as the recruits are marched to the stage, with Blake Donald, Goofy, and Sun having no choice but to follow along.
Whispering to Blake, Sun asked, nervously, "What are we going to do?!"
Blake looking back shushed him by saying, "I'm thinking..."
"Please hurry…" Goofy pleaded in a whisper as he looked around worried.
Watching Roman lean on the robot smoking his cigar and laughing with the girl beside him before he zeroes in on the four, frowning as he recognized them, especially the duck and dog. Donald, noticing this whispered, urgently, "I think he sees us..."
As he and the others try to smile and wave at being spotted. Blake noticed the junction box on the wall, assured the other three, "He can't see in the dark."
Donald and Goofy shared a worry glance as, they haven't told their Faunus friends that they couldn't see in the dark either. Before they could however, Blake unsheathed her Gambol Shroud, transforming it into its pistol mode, and fired a shot at the box, making the lights go out for the whole building and turning the screen dark.
Roman, instantly pointed at where he last saw the four, ordered "Don't let them get away!"
Instantly the White Fang and the Heartless present hurried to catch the spies.
Blake cried out kicking one of the Heartless away, "Sun! The window!"
"Wait what about the dog and duck?!" Sun asked as the two saw the other two of the group being as blind as Roman.
"Blake! Sun! Where are you?!" Goofy called through the darkness.
"We can't see you!" Donald cried out as he held up his wand.
"Grab them and hurry!" Blake told him as the two grabbed their friends' hands and hurried through the windows.
Roman, frustrated, shouted, "Stop them!"
{Begin Night of Fate - Kingdom Hearts OST}
Before the two student Huntsmen crash through the window and start running as fast as they can, the mechanized sound of running power signals the Altesian Paladin's activation, and it crashes through the wall of the building in pursuit of the runaways, who leap off of a car and manage to get on the roofs. The Paladin follows beside them on the street as Blake and Sun run, jump, and flip from rooftop to rooftop.
Sun, turned to the cat-Faunus and amidst the twirls in the air he asked, "So you wouldn't happen to have... oh, I don't know... some form of BACKUP?!
"On it!" Blake said as she grabbed her Scroll and puts it to her ear as she continues to jumping and running with Sun, Donald, and Goofy. The two at the rear saw that following behind them were the Heartless, pursuing though through the rooftops.
Weiss and Gin are seen leaving the CCT tower's elevator when Weiss grabs her Scroll and listens to Blake's message as she spoke into it, "Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-"
Sun however shouted, interrupting the heiress' teammate with a loud and desperate, cry for, "HEEEELLLLP!"
With added evidence, Donald and Goofy were heard shouting for help as well.
Weiss rolls her eyes and starts running out the door, a little smile on her face as she does so. Gin, on her heels became more serious as he ran to catch up as well.
Ruby and Sora were still beside the dumpster, which is boarded up, possibly to keep the rat or anything else imprisoned within, staring at her Scroll.
Sun called for anyone to help, "Big robot! And it's big! Really big!"
"HURRY!" Donald's voice shouted from the Scroll.
Ruby, excitedly said at the thought of a big robot battle, "Oh, I am not missing this!"
She then ran off to join the fight. Sora calling, "Hey wait up! Not all of us have the speed you know!"
Yang is back on the motorcycle in her helmet and sunglasses with Neptune looking at the Scroll in her hand over her shoulder.
Sun said from the Scroll, "That Torchwick guy is in it! But not, like, it didn't eat him; he's, like, controlling it or something!"
"And the Heartless are coming too!" Goofy shouted loudly, even as Donald attempted to use his fire spells on the Heartless.
Yang, glancing to the two boys with her asked, "Where are you guys?"
Right on cue, behind them, Blake, Donald, Goofy, and Sun can be seen running through the street with the Paladin hot on their heels before they all disappear from view. Goofy gave his signature cry as they went passed.
Sun shouted, both from the Scroll and in-person, making it sound like a surround-sound, "HURRYYYY!"
Neptune looking over at the two in his group said, "I think that was them."
Yang however commented, annoyed, "Yeah, I got it."
Putting her Scroll away, she quickly circles her ride around, much to Neptune's alarm, and drives off to follow them.
Vino shrugged as he raced to catch up with the blond girl's bike, after jumping up to the roof tops to keep up this time.
Blake's group somehow make it to the highways, jumping down into the busy street and continuing their escape by hopping on cars while the Paladin follows them by pushing vehicles out of the way. Sun pauses to look at their pursuer's path of destruction and offer a quick "Whoa!" before leaping onto more cars, much to the anger of thug inside the robot. His anger however had more Heartless appear, slightly different ones than the NeoShadows that were summoned in the recruiting station in the warehouse, these heartless looked like large dark balls with tendrils and a mindless face.
Yang and Neptune are able to follow the mech suit on their ride, coming up next to it as it runs after the four. Without looking behind her Yang cried, "We've gotta slow those things down!"
"Got it!" Neptune reaches for his gun, but Torchwick notices the pair on the Paladin's sensors and crashes into a multitude of cars with the machine's strong bulk, sending them flying towards his chasers. Several of the Dark Balls when after the two on the bike as well.
Noticing this, Yang warned, "Hold on!"
Neptune, who was already ready to fire and let go gave a surprised, "Wuh-oh...!"
Yang swerves, leaning her bike to the side in avoidance of flying debris while Neptune flails in a panic. Back on two wheels again, Neptune un-sling his weapon, aims as sparks start flying, and fires several bolts of blue electricity at the Paladin, those Heartless that weren't able to get out of the way dissolved from the force fo the attack, the same attack caused Roman to grimace.
Switching strategies, Neptune flips the gun and it grows a shaft and an energy blade at the end, then jumps from Yang's bike as the spear's head splits in three and drives it into the top of the Paladin, the impact gotten rid of the Heartless surrounding him as well. Sun and Blake pause in their car-hopping to look back. Noticing his friend in danger, Sun called, "Neptune, hang on!"
Neptune tried his best, but the mech kept bucking and threatened to make him fall. Closing his eyes, Sun smashes his palms together, and from the golden Aura around him, two glowing outlines copies of their creator appeared, before leaping off and going back over the tops of vehicles to collide into the Paladin's front. They explode into blinding light upon contact to let Sun leap forward with his weapons, Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang, held high, but Roman finally turns enough to send Neptune flying off and knocking into his teammate, sending both of them off the highway.
As Blake looks on from her spot, she hears a voice from her Scroll "Blake! We're in position!"
Blake turned to see both Weiss and Gin twirling/flipping over a highway's edge and landing in the middle of the road, holding their swords at the approaching Paladin.
Inside, Torchwick smile as his robot charged at the two. Weiss spins and plunges her blade into the ground, summoning a circle of ice across the pavement. Gin swung, as he did this, his sword's blade began to cause smaller blades to extend from the previous one before sending a blade of energy at the battle suit. Both the ice and the aura attack caused the Paladin to slip and crash, flying over the two colorless haired students and falling off the ramp, landing further down before Ruby, already having her Crescent Rose out in scythe form as Sora summoned his Keyblade.
The Paladin began to stand back up, while the rest of Team RWBY and Team SDG land beside their leaders to take up positions. Gin stood between the two teams, wondering where his brother is. Torchwick chuckles from inside, moving the robot slowly towards the eight of them.
"Freezer burn!" Ruby called, confusing the three man team. Gin, guessing what is going to happen, had told the three of them to back away.
Ruby and Blake jumped back, out of the way as Weiss performs her same ice-circle trick, but backs out of Yang's way when she jumps into the air and hits the epicenter with her buckshot-gauntlet, creating a wave of mist that surrounds Roman. Immediately, the Paladin activates its laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but it barely sees the afterimage of Blake and narrowly misses the dashing Yang. A gun manages to fire at the area between Blake and Yang, but out from the blast comes Ruby, who slashes the metal with her blade, causing it to falter.
Sora used this time to help by swiped at one of the Paladin's legs, causing it to fall to a knee. Goofy tossed his shield like a Frisbee to deflect one of the shots away from his friends. Donald, getting annoyed, raised his wand into the air and cried, "THUNDERA!"
Bolts of lightning rained down, causing technical problems throughout the suit. Ruby took this chance to call out, "Checkmate!"
This time Blake and Weiss began their attack, each girl going for the feet until Weiss jumps up and stabs a sensor before leaping off of a white glyph. Torchwick raised one of the Paladin's foot to crush Blake, but Weiss summoned another glyph under her teammate to send her backwards before the foot could. Goofy added into the offense by spinning around like a tornado causing even more damage to that leg. Roman growls and fires off the missiles, but Weiss and Blake flip backwards as the missiles exploded where the two were. Sora and Donald gave some support by using fire and fira spells at the robot.
Finally, Weiss jumps up too high, and Roman fires a double energy blast at her. Myrtenaster absorbs the damage, but Weiss is thrown back, so she casts a beam of light from her weapon to the ground under Blake, forming a yellow clockwork circle that's absorbed into the Faunus girl and lets her slice through each launched missile with ease in a flurry of super-fast slashes. Gin was shocked to see then began to concentrate, getting the time needed to do something that might help.
Inside Torchwick spat, "You guys are getting annoying!"
He didn't pay attention as a dark shadow landed on him. Everyone saw Vino, finally arriving reaching behind him for that short sword on his back, after raising it high into the air what it did next shocked everyone, even Sora, Donald and Goofy. It became a giant sword the length and width similar to Cloud's, however unlike his, Vino's sword had many teeth on the sides as if it was made for shredding than slashing. Vino smirk became more sinister, his sword's blade-teeth began spinning like a chainsaw, forcing it into the robot's hull as sparks began flying in a rapid pace as Vino continued to laugh. He was so focused on what he was doing that Vino didn't see one of the Paladin's arms grabbing the dark warrior and tossing him to the ground.
Knowing he needed to do something Sora called, "Donald!"
"Okay!" Donald called back, understanding as he raised his wand into the sky and cried, "STOPRA!"
Vino and everyone, that wasn't used to Donald's magic, stared as a time face appeared causing it to stop in place. Weiss stared in shock at seeing this, it was different than what she had used for Blake, but was similar. Looking back at Sora and his friends she began wondering where they were from to know something like that.
Vino got out of the way as he called, "Any time now, Gin!"
"Give me some time…" Gin called from the smoke/mist, sounding a bit strained. Vino let out an aggravated groan as he went to retrieve his weapon. The Time freeze that Donald used had worn off as Torchwick blinked at what just happened.
"Lady Bug!" Ruby called, shooting herself forward and cuts at the robot's legs, then turns as Blake aims herself at the giant's feet as well. Sora, Donald and Goofy began to fire at the They both dash forward and attack at the same time, circling each other around the Paladin with each strike until they both launch themselves into the air and come down together on the shoulder, cutting off the left arm entirely.
Yang and Vino doesn't waste a second, jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts. As Vino began his shred slashes, his dark aura causing his sword's teeth to keep spinning. As Sora watched he couldn't help but get worried for Yang's safety and for Vino's using the Darkness so excessively.
The two attacks caused Torchwick to get knocked around in the controls, but seeing as he can't reach her with his remaining mechanical arm, he runs backwards through two columns and leaves her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her where as Vino held on for dear life. Just as she is falling down, the remaining arm extended into a closed fist.
Seeing this, Vino jumped in and took the blunt of the attack for Yang who stared in shock as the fist sent Vino flying into several support pillars even as she flies through the column and doesn't seem to be getting up. Vino remained unconscious as he was burried in the rubble.
"Yang! Vino!" Blake cried concerned for her two comrades/friends.
{End: Night of Fate; Begin: Die - RWBY Volume 2 OST}
Ruby however turned and called assuring her teammate, "Don't Worry!"
"Don't worry!?" Sora asked, confused, before shouting a bit more worried than he let on, "We don't know if Vino or Yang are okay after that last hit and you tell us to not worry?!"
Slightly taken aback from Sora's worried as she explained, "With each hit she gets stronger, she uses that energy to fight back!"
Looking over to her big sister with more admiration than concern Ruby said, "That's what makes her special."
"That's good for her but what about Vino?" Donald asked, he may not like how Vino acts but that doesn't stop him from concerning about others like him.
Gin however said, his tone remaining the same, "He'll be fine. The more dark emotions he feels the stronger, faster, and better he becomes. THAT is what makes him such a fierce warrior...unfortunately..."
Before either of them asked what he was talking about They saw an eruption of what appeared to be black and red flames emanating from Vino's body as he slowly began to get up, as if nothing was wrong from him. The Heartless that were about to attack stopped in their tracks and where actually afraid to get near him for reasons unknown to the huntsmen and Huntresses. And it seems like Vino's wounds were already recovering.
Yang slowly gets back on her feet, hair burning a brilliant white as she clenches her fists. Sensing victory, Torchwick threw a punch, at the still unconscious dark warrior, but Yang catches it in her own hand, causing the ground cracking beneath her, well them, with her eyes red with rage, smashes her knuckles into the second arm, obliterating it under her force.
Getting desperate with his armless robot, Roman immediately kicked Yang to the side, but as she passes her sister and teammates.
Sora and his friends stared in surprise at this. he tried to help but Ruby beat him to it.
Ruby, deciding that now was the time called, "Bumblebee!"
Blake throws her weapon out to Yang, for her to catch while flying, and the Faunus uses the momentum to swing the empowered girl around for a final hit to the robot.
He doesn't understand why, but Sora called, "Yang!"
And tossed the Keyblade for the blond brawler to catch. This action shocked Torchwick, however, steps out of the way just in time to avoid complete destruction. Getting up Vino saw what was going to keep happen if Torchwick were able to continue as he called to his younger brother, who hidden himself in the mist, "Gin!"
"Ready." Gin said his voice cutting through the dust catching everyone's attention.
The dust cleared and many pale colored aura copies of Gin standing. As the dust cleared Sora and everyone could see a small army of copies made by Gin's Aura. Sora and everyone had their own reactions Torchwick stared in shock as this was more than what the monkey boy was able to create. Gin then ordered his copies, "Attack…"
The copies charged while four of them remained near their creator, As the Aura army was keeping Torchwick distracted as it swung its legs and fired what's left of its weapons. The remaining missiles were fired at the original Gin, only for the four copies to slashed and defend their creator as if Gin wasn't able to move for some reason.
"We have to slow it down!" Ruby called seeing that Gin's Aura army weren't about to last that long, even with the Heartless getting out of the way.
"And how do you propose we do that?" Weiss shot back, seeing it as an impossible feat.
Ruby then got an idea as she cried, "Ice Flower!"
Twirling their weapons so they both point at Torchwick, Weiss creates a series of glyphs in front of the scythe's sniper barrel, and a single shot through the circles creates a dazzling spiral of energy that creates large icicles upon impact with the Paladin. Ruby continues to shoot as Weiss freezes the fire, and as the ice completely envelops the robot's body, Blake swings her partner around in a circle one more time, but with Roman unable to move, the Paladin is hit by the speed and power of Yang's fist and the Keyblade, flying into the air before crashing down in a hundred pieces and the said pilot.
"Just got this thing cleaned…" Roman complained as he stumbled up as he saw one of the buck shots from one of Yang's gauntlets speeding towards him. He would've been knocked out had it not been for the same girl with the brown & pink hair landing before him and used her umbrella to shield them both from the impact.
The rest of Team RWBY and the two brothers joined her as Neo folded her umbrella and rested it on her shoulder while her partner addressed the six meddlers, "Ladies, Ice Queen, Freaks."
"Hey!" Weiss, Donald, Sora, and Vino snapped from the insults. Gin however kept his eyes trained on the two criminals before closing them. Roman said, "Always a pleasure. Neo, if you would."
Activating his ability by closing his eyes. Gin saw that as soon as the girl with the umbrella curtsies to the group with a confident smirk on her lips as her mix-matched eyes glanced at the silver-haired youth before her. That instant he saw that her and Torchwick's aura's flicked for a moment as Gin snapped his eyes open and said loudly, seeing Yang charging, "Wait!"
But it was too late for as soon as Yang and Sora's Keyblade made contact with the girl the image of her and he red-headed man shattered like a glass. All turned to see a Bullhead flying with both Torchwick and Neo in it before the hatch closed and the vehicle flew away.
{End Die - RWBY Volume 2 OST}
"Soo… guess he got a new henchman." Yang commented seeing where direction where the two left in.
"Yeah," Weiss began, "I guess she made our plans… Fall apart?"
Vino snickered, while Sora and his friends laughed at the weak joke, but Gin however lowered his head shaking it lightly. Ruby laughed at the joke as well. Blake just walked away and Yang said to the heiress, "No…Just, no."
"Hey at least they got it." Weiss added following her teammates as Vino walked with them, Gin following before stopping, sensing Ruby not following as fast as he asked, "What's the matter?"
"Has anyone seen where Sun and Neptune are?" Ruby asked curiously.
Sun and Neptune are sitting in the middle stools of the "A Simple Wok Noodle House" eating their plates of noodles with the Shopkeeper behind the counter and their weapons leaning on the other two stools.
"They're probably fine, right?" Neptune asked his Faunus friend, a little concern in his voice.
"Probably, especially with the others with them..." Was all Sun said, not concerned for their friends.
His question answered, Neptune turns back to his noodles, and the two eat in silence.
Back at the last battlefield, Sora would've forgotten about a certain thing had it not been for Donald, who squawked, "Sora!"
The Keyblade wielder then noticed that the Keyblade was still in Yang's hand and called, "Hey, um... Yang?"
"Huh?" She then realized she was holding onto the Keyblade before holding it up for her friend to see.
"Oh yea, here!" Yang called tossing the Keyblade back to its wielder when Ruby used her speed to catch it.
"So this is how your Keyblade looks up close…" She said as she swung it a few times as she examines it, "How were you able to do all that with the fire balls, and things… I don't see a barrel, and there's no cartage for any Dust shells."
"Umm… that's harder to explain…" Sora said as he reached for the Keyblade and it disappeared from Ruby's hand and reappeared in Sora's before disappearing completely.
Using her Semblance to get up to the brown hair boy's face, with her eyes sparking in excitement, Ruby pleaded, "Please tell me how you did that!"
Sora sighed, even with him feeling tired he felt like this is going to be a long story to tell... If he'll be able to tell it.
(AN: So What did you all think? Am I preserving Chris Nest's story well or have I changed some things? Let me know via the reviews. until then have a great time, Twilightnite13)