Hello everyone! This is my first RWBY fanfic and also my first Fortnite fanfic! Like I said in my previous fanfics, I always read other people's fanfics and one day I thought to myself, "Why not join in?" So that's what I am doing here. This fanfic is both for fun and to help me be a better writer.

This fanfic was inspired by the Batman Fortnite comic called Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point. Check it out! I liked it!

I should point out, as I said in my previous fanfics-specifically Deku Lad and Deku the Conqueror (check these out! Would appreciate it!)-this is JUST a ONESHOT! This one-shot, like the others, is a proof of concept, basically. I have NO INTENTIONS of expanding it into a full series. So yeah, there you go. It's a free story, so if you want to use it, go ahead. Just PM me first to ask for my permission first and make sure you credit me. Remember people: Give credit when and where credit is due. If you plagiarize, shame on you.

I do NOT own RWBY nor Fortnite, both are owned by their respective creator(s)/owner(s).

Well with that all done and out of the way, I hope you like and enjoy it!

Vytal Festival.

A tradition that was created to celebrate the peace between the Kingdoms. Every two years, a kingdom would be chosen to open its doors to allow citizens from every place and corner of Remnant to meet and immerse oneself in various cultures.

But that's not the main part of it.

No, the main part of the Vytal Festival was the combat tournament, which students from each of the four huntsman academies: Beacon Academy for Vale, Shade Academy for Vacuo, Haven Academy for Mistral, and Atlas Academy-formerly known as Alsius-for, well, Atlas (how original).

Anyway, that was what the Vytal Festival was.

Very exciting, especially for the combat tournament where many students training to be huntsmen and huntresses compete in. Many including teams RWBY and JNPR.

These two teams easily made it through the tournament. Everything was going well…

…until it didn't.

Things went awry at the start of a singles round, namely the start of the first match between Mercury Black and Yang Xiao Long. The match was about to start with the two getting to fight when it happened. The power suddenly started going weird and fluctuated as a series of rifts in reality opened up, encircled the arena. And it wasn't just the arena but all over Remnant as well!

When the rifts occurred, everything and everyone started getting sucked in.

Including Ruby Rose, leader of Team RWBY.

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She opened her eyes.

What happened?

She was lying down, facing up. She sat up, confused. She looked around, taking in her surroundings.

Where was she?

She saw that she was in a forested area and wooden fortifications around her…

What the…?!

…until she saw a purple storm closing in her!

She got up and got away from it quickly, with roses trailing behind her. She kept moving away until she noticed that the purple storm stopped moving. She stopped and narrowed her eyes at it.

Weird.

The purple storm was still and yet it continued to rage on. She then fully took in her surroundings, seeing lots of foliage along with various fortifications.

What was this place…?

She crossed a bridge over a river. She doesn't know where she was, or how she got here. She continued walking, going next to a tree. Was she caught in that storm? She padded herself down. She's not injured, so that was a plu-

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow next to her. She looked up and saw a man leaping out of the tree, holding a makeshift scythe! She moved, disappearing and then reappearing several feet away with her weapon, a scythe (why was she carrying a scythe?), with the maniac's scythe striking down where she had previously been in. She got a good look at him.

The man was wearing a gas mask, red shirt, gear, gloves, brown shorts, spiked knee pads, and spiked boots.

She opened her mouth…

"-"

…and she…she can't talk…? That's not good.

The man stalked toward her, makeshift scythe in one hand.

Need to think, need to think! He could be confused as she was. He might be attacking in self-defense. That could be it! Need to show him that she wasn't an enemy.

She quickly used her scythe to carve letters in the ground…

"My name…"

…that she was…

"...is…"

Her eyes went wide as dinner plates.

…what was her name…?

The man took a swipe at her, with her ducking the attack. He took another swipe in a downward motion, but she blocked with her scythe.

Not good, not good!

She kicked the man hard in the stomach, sending him back a couple of feet.

What was her name?!

The man charged at her, taking a swipe at her feet. Focus, whoever-she-was, focus! What does she know? She planted the blade of her scythe in the ground before jumping over the attack, then did a spinning double kick to his face. Her attack broke off the right lens of his gas mask and sent him flying back in a spiral before he landed face down on the ground.

Well, she was a trained fighter, that is for certain. And…

The man got up, using his scythe to push himself off the ground. He looked her in the eyes. With the right lens gone, his eye was shown, narrowed with determination burning in it.

…it seemed that the man was too.

He charged at her once again. His scythe held high in the air.

She gripped her scythe then fired it in the opposite direction of the man, the shot making her spin around a couple of times before uppercutting him with her scythe. The impact sent him flying into the air and made him release his scythe, where it was sent far elsewhere. He was in the air momentarily before coming back down, where she finished him off by slamming him to the ground with the blunt end of her scythe.

She sighed, thankful that it was over; the man was unconscious and lying face down on the ground. Wow, she was a really good fighter.

She put her weapon away before walking away. Now where exactly was she? She looked around, seeing more trees, mountains, and more. Was this a prison…? That can't be right, because she and him got weapons. Maybe this was a training ground…?

She surveyed more of the landscape. The place she was in doesn't seem familiar. For some reason, she knew she wasn't from here and that she knew that she could talk and so should be able to.

From that fight she just had…her muscles remember what training she had…

She took out her weapon, taking a closer look at it.

…and how to use her weapon.

Upon closer inspection, she saw that it was a sniper, judging from the sniper scope on it.

A feeling creeped up into her mind, a familiar feeling. Like she knew what this weapon, this (admittedly awesome) scythe was, and how it was a part of her like an arm and that she should always treasure it.

She put away her weapon and continued walking, going in no particular direction, just forward. Although she kept her guard up, ready in case there were any other people like the man.

Okay, so what she knew so far is that:

A. She can fight.

B. She had a scythe that was also a sniper, and also knew how to use it.

C. She had some kind of power.

She scratched her head, trying hard to think.

What else does she know…?

She closed her eyes and thought hard, searching deep into her mind to find something, anything really. And yet…she drew a blank.

That's about it…that's all she knew.

She soon saw a cliff and so ran to it, hoping to use higher ground to give her a better sense of where she was.

She got to the cliff really fast. Huh, another thing she now knew about her power: she was fast.

She used the sniper scope from her scythe to take in her surroundings more. She saw a grand foliage landscape with trees, bushes, etc. She saw below her at the bottom of the cliff that there was a huge fight going on. Many people fight in costumes with various weapons, such as a woman in a pink bear costume shooting a robot with a shotgun.

She continued surveying around her, until she saw a tomato man behind a tree holding a rocket launcher…

Her eyes grew the size of dinner plates.

…and he was aiming right at her!

He fired, the rocket flying at high speeds. She managed to disappear and reappear at the bottom of the cliff, and the spot where she was exploded, sending rocks flying everywhere.

Was everyone here a murdering maniac?!

Once she made it to the bottom, she looked in front of her and saw the brawl she was viewing from high up. She looked around, seeing if she could stealthily get away from it, until a couple people rushed at her.

She fought them while thinking to herself at how crazy the place she was in. Just what kind of place was this?! She knocked one of the people-one with a giant ax-away with a spinning attack. Why is everyone fighting each other?! She shot the other person in the chest multiple times before they were knocked out. And why do some of these…people not look human?!

The first person she attacked-the one with the ax-came back, not giving up. He swung their ax down on her, but she blocked it with her scythe.

Was she in an alien world…?

The tomato man stalked behind her as she was distracted, this time holding a weird shotgun.

She defeated the axeman by knocking him out with her scythe.

Why was she and everyone here…? Wh-

BOOM! BLAM!

She looked behind her and saw the tomato man get blasted, with him losing his shotgun but he got a shot off. Luckily the blast made him miss.

She smiled. That was close! She looked to whoever saved her-

Thank you, whoever you…

-and saw who they were.

…are.

The person who saved her was a girl close to her age, with wild long blonde hair, lilac eyes, and very beautiful. On her arms were shotgun-gauntlets (which are cool!). The girl was standing on top of a pile of metal boxes.

They made eye contact.

Her…she felt like she knew her…and she felt like the feeling was mutual.

They then continued to fight as more people attacked them.

That blonde girl looked like she couldn't understand why she just saved her. Yet she kept looking back at her while she did the same.

The person fighting the blonde went to get a sneak attack on her while she was looking at her, but she (not the blonde) saved her by shooting the attacker with her sniper scythe (there must be a name for the thing).

They looked at each other again before the blonde returned the favor by shotgunning an attacker that was about to hit her.

They both continued fighting as more and more people arrived, some dropping in from the air.

The blonde girl felt it too. They both don't just knew each other. They've fought together before.

They don't remember…

The blonde girl took her hand before swinging her around, which she used to knock people around with her scythe.

…but their coordination was perfect.

Were they partners…? The blonde uppercutted a person dressed as a lizard away, while she used her scythe to also uppercut a person dressed in rags. Friends…? She used a person wearing cold gear with her scythe. They both continued on fighting.

What were they?!

The blonde was awesome!

They both continued on the onslaught as more people came to join in the big brawl.

They're going to win!

Maybe after they win, they can go find answe-

WHOOOOSH!

…On no.

They both looked to where the sound came from.

The storm. It was closing in. And closing in fast. They saw a few people getting caught in it.

They both turn to look at other people that weren't caught in the storm. The others saw the storm too. Yet…they all seem determined to continue fighting.

Both her and the blonde look at each other.

Their only chance now was…

Both attacked the others.

…to end this now.

They finish off the others, leaving the two the only ones left standing.

Both then look around, desperately trying to find a way out…

…except there wasn't one. The storm closed in on them; the hole they were both in getting smaller and smaller.

…

…They were going to die. And the blonde knew it too.

She wished she could talk to the blonde, with the feeling being mutual. She wished she could remember her. She wished they had more time.

The blonde looked into her eyes and put her right hand on her left shoulder.

…But they don't.

She smiled sadly, tears well up in her eyes. The same was happening to her.

There was this moment. Before the end was on the-

The storm closed in on them…

…and everything goes dark.

And that's a wrap, folks!

I had a lot of fun writing this! A big THANK YOU for reading my first RWBY and Fortnite fanfic! A double milestone for me!

Like I said in the beginning, that this is JUST a ONESHOT! This is a proof of concept, NOTHING MORE. I have NO INTENTIONS of expanding it into a full series. HOWEVER, it IS a free story, so if you want to use it, GO AHEAD! Just PM me first to ask for my permission first and make sure you credit me. Again remember people: Give credit when and where credit is due. If you plagiarize, shame on you.

Please leave constructive criticism, what you liked, what could have been improved, etc. I tried staying true to Ruby as best I can. If I wrote her right, then SWEET! If she acted a bit OOC, then my bad, I did my best and let me know. I am NOT an expert on RWBY, so yeah.

Like I said in the beginning, this was inspired by the Batman Fortnite comic, so you might recognize some of Ruby's thoughts as similar to that of Batman's, so again there you go!

I should note that I will be writing a My Hero Academia one shot where Izuku is basically Lex Luthor, so be on the lookout for that!

Anyway, thanks for reading, have a nice day/night! Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy Hanukkah, and happy New Year!