Well here's the next chapter please enjoy. I would also like to thank Dream Dragoness for being my beat reader.
'Talking'
'Radio talk'
'Thinking'
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Chapter 9
The Emerald Forest
Axalon
As Ruby and Yang were undergoing their initiation test at Beacon, the Maximals were doing their own things back at the base. Rattrap was on sentry duty, making sure nothing popped up on them be it a stasis pod, an enemy attack, or anything else. Rhinox and Cheetor were at a safe ring in Vale somewhere, seeing how similar it was to the one on Patch. Dinobot was in the control room, looking over weapon blueprints that Ruby gave him. And Optimus was using this chance to enjoy the quiet and catch up on his reading.
As Rattrap watched the screen, he turned around and looked at Dinobot, who had a grin on his face.
"What you looking at, Chopper-Face?" Rattrap asked, wondering what the ex-Predacon was looking at.
Hearing the question, Dinobot looked over to Rattrap, trying to hide his interest.
"If you must know, Ruby gave me some of her blueprints for weapons she designed. Some of them are quite interesting."
As he told Rattrap this, he looked at design for a shield that doubled as a missile launcher. He might ask her to upgrade his own shield in such a manner.
"What? You not happy with your gear or something?" Rattrap asked as he left his post and looked at some of the designs Ruby made that were scattered on the table.
Dinobot just scowled at the rat Maximal. "No. But a warrior can never have too many weapons."
But before either could say anything else, the lift activated and Rhinox and Cheetor entered the base. Rhinox saw the two of them became curious.
"What are you two doing?"
Dinobot answered the rhino Maximal, shifting his gaze from Rattrap and the blueprints once again.
"I am looking at weapon blue prints that Ruby made, while the rat is being annoying."
Rattrap glared at Dinobot over the remark. But before the two could go at it Optimus entered the room. The gorilla Maximal took immediate notice at the two recently-returned Maximals and greeted them.
"Oh! Good to see you and Cheetor back, Rhinox. What did you learn out there?"
Rhinox proceeded to give Optimus an explanation on what he and Cheetor found.
"From what we found the safe ring in Vale, it is just like the one we found on Patch. It uses the same type of rocks and formations with an energon source in the center."
Hearing this, a thought crossed Optimus' mind. He voiced his thought to his crew.
"Do you think we could call the aliens again?"
Rattrap gave Optimus a look of disbelief, as if his leader had gone mad or something.
"For booting up cold, have you lost your mind?!"
Optimus shook his head at Rattrap's accusation. Still, Dinobot and Cheetor were beginning to wonder the same thing but said nothing. Only Rattrap could voice his mind so loudly.
"No, but we have many questions about this world, its people, even the Grimm. Whoever built the safe rings, they might be the only ones to give us the answers we need."
It was a thought that ran through everyone's processors. But none of them were too keen on the idea. Especially if there was a slight chance the safe rings were created by Decepticons during the Great War long ago.
After some silence, Cheetor choose to speak up.
"Optimus, we nearly lost you last time. What if next time, whoever the aliens takes won't give them back?"
Despite his own thoughts, Optimus understood the second-youngest Maximal's concern. It was then that Dinobot gave a rare grin as he gestured to Rattrap. He voiced a thought that he wouldn't mind come true.
"Then perhaps we should have the rodent do it then."
Rattrap jolted from his seat in indignity.
"HEY!"
Despite Rattrap's protest, the others got a chuckle out of it. After the laughter died down, Optimus continued to address the crew on the theory.
"Very well. If you all feel that the idea of contacting the aliens is too dangerous, then I accept it and will hold back on it."
"While it's true that it's a dangerous idea, we must note that the Predacons might attack us while doing it." Dinobot reminded everyone, not that it was needed.
"Noted." Optimus told him, remembering the Predacons as well. He then turned to Cheetor and spoke.
"Come on Cheetor. Ruby voiced her concern about a possible Pred attack today. So were going keeping an eye out for her."
But before the gorilla and the cheetah could move, Rattrap's console sounded an alarm. Hearing it, Rattrap went over to the console and looked at what was on it.
"Hey, boss monkey! You don't need to worry about the Predacons attacking Ruby. Because they're attacking us!"
The base shock from a blast fired at them. Rattrap brought up the outside camera, showing them at least twelve White Fang soldiers and one giant mech attacking the base. Acting fast Optimus gave his orders.
"Rattrap! Activate the auto-guns while the rest of us head out! Dinobot! I know you've been studying the weapons on this planet! What is that thing out there?"
Dinobot looked to the image of the mech and went over his memory until he found a match.
"I believe that is an Atlesian Paladin-290. A new weapon the Atlas military has been working on. But from what I gathered, it shouldn't be ready yet."
Hearing this, Optimus developed a feeling the Pred's had a hand in its acquisition.
"Prime!" cursed Optimus as he looked at the Paladin again as he gave his crew their orders. "Cheetor, Dinobot, Rattrap, Rhinox! You four take care of the White Fang. I'll take care of the Paladin."
Heeding the gorilla's orders, the Maximals headed to the lift to engage in battle. As they went out Rattrap looked at the Paladin before muttering something to himself.
"Us? Against that thing?! We're all going to die."
He activated the auto-guns and went to join the others.
Vale: The Emerald Forest
Meanwhile, back at Emerald Forest, the first-year students were flying through the air as many of them were using their personal landing strategies to land safely. As Ruby flew through the air, she saw a bird in front of her and, unfortunately for her, she couldn't stop and crashed through it.
"Birdie! No!"
Ruby then used her landing strategy of shooting Crescent Rose to slow herself down, then using its scythe-mode to catch a tree branch and slow herself enough to land on the ground. Once on the ground, she rushed forward in search for her sister.
"Gotta find Yang. Gotta find Yang! Gotta find Yang! I need to be her partner so no one else gets involved in the Beast Wars! If more people get involved, then I don't know how I can live with myself. It's hard enough knowing both me and Yang are involved. But to involve a stranger in it..."
As Ruby thought about this, she came to a stop when she saw Weiss turning around. They stared at each other for a moment before Weiss started to walk away. At first Ruby was annoyed that she walked from her. But then thought it was for the best. But as she began to walk on, Weiss came back, grabbed her by her hood, and started to drag her.
"Crap! Why did it have to be Weiss of all people! I bet Jaune or Blake would be fine. At least I can get along with them. But Weiss?!"
The two walked in silence for a while; Ruby not sure what to say, Weiss being more concerned with finding the temple. It wasn't long before the silence became aggravating to Ruby and decided to take a chance to speak with the Ice Queen of Beacon.
"Well, I guess if there is no choice. If Weiss and I are going to be on the same team, then maybe she should know about the Beast Wars. I mean, her family owns the largest Dust empire in the world! And there's the energon deposits all over Remnant…"
"Weiss, can I ask you something?"
And hearing the tone in her voice, Weiss stopped and looked at her before huffing her response.
"What?"
Ruby paused for a minute as she thought on how to ask her question.
"What would you do if say…you had to work with a person who was involved in a big fight that could happen at any time, at any place? Would you still want to work with that person?"
Weiss had no idea what she meant by it.
"What are you talking about?" Weiss asked her, wondering why the child in front of her asked such a strange question.
But before Ruby could answer she heard a familiar buzzing noise. Hearing this, Ruby froze and, unfortunately for her, it was enough time for Wazzpinator to show up as he flew down through the trees. Seeing Wazzpinator, Weiss gave a scream.
"What is that thing?!" She cried and brought out Myrtenaster, a rapier that has mutli-dust actions.
Weiss then felt Ruby put a hand on her shoulder. The heiress looked over to the girl and was surprised when saw such a serious look on Ruby's face.
"We need to leave now!"
But before they could run, a large scorpion jumped from behind a tree and landed in front of them.
"You're not going anywhere! Scorponok, Terrorize!"
As Scorponok transformed into his Cybertronian form, Weiss' eyes widened. No matter how many times she replayed the memory in her head, couldn't believe what she just saw.
"Wazzpinator, Terrorize!" Wazzpinator called out as he transformed and began to fire at the two girls.
Meanwhile, Weiss was so shocked at what she just saw that she didn't see the Predacons readying their weapons. But then everything went blurry as Ruby carried her away with her semblance. When they stopped, Ruby made sure Weiss was ok before slapping her. The shock of the slap snapped Weiss out of it.
"What are you doing!?" Glared Weiss as she held her cheek.
But despite the sting on her cheek, she was more shocked at the look on Ruby face. It was serious and filled with anger and worry.
"I was going to ask you the same thing! Why did you freeze up back there!?"
Weiss immediately became annoyed at Ruby's protest. Even more so at the red-cloaked girl's manners toward her and the situation they had just escaped from.
"Well, who wouldn't when they see something like that?!" Weiss countered.
Realizing this was getting them nowhere, Ruby sighed.
"I'm sorry about that. But right now, I'm being hunted. And with you near me, you're now a target, too."
Weiss kept silent as Ruby continued, hoping to get an idea on what was happening.
"I know you have a lot of questions. But let me warn my sister first. Then I'll tell you what you need to know in order to get out of this."
As Ruby finished, she prayed on the inside that it would be enough to keep the Schnee heiress sated. Weiss thought about it for a moment and figured that since Ruby knew more about this, she'll follow her lead. After all, this test had turned into a matter of survival.
"Fine. But make it fast."
Ruby nodded and touched the Maximal symbol on her belt.
Yang's location: a few minutes earlier…
After Yang landed, she slowly wandered the forest in search of her sister.
"Hello!"
She continued to walk through the forest and failed to see a blur move by her.
"Hello" Yelled Yang once more. "Is anyone out there?"
She then heard some leaves shuffling behind her, causing her to wonder what it was.
"Is someone there?" She asked, hoping they would reply and not be a Predacon or something like that.
She went to the bush that was making the noise and pulled it apart to see what it was.
"Ruby is that you?" She asked, hoping it was her
Unfortunately for her, it was two Ursa charging at her.
"Nope."
Seeing this, Yang jumped out of the way and activated her Ember Celica as she stood up. Then, one of the Ursa jumped at her. But Yang punched it in the stomach and sent it backwards. Meanwhile, the other Ursa charged at Yang, but she punched it in the jaw, sending up a bit, then roundhouse-kicked it. Seeing that she had thing under control, Yang decided to ask them something as more of a joke.
"You guys wouldn't happen to have seen a girl in a red hood, would you?"
Like any Grimm, the Ursa growled in response. Yang gave a slight frown as the Ursa charged again
"You could have said 'no'."
The Ursa closest to Yang charged and swung its paws at her. But Yang was too fast for it and somersaulted away from it.
"Geez. You two couldn't hit the broad side of a ba..."
But Yang's taunt froze when she saw a single strand of her hair fall in front of her. If there was one thing about Yang you shouldn't do, it's cut her hair in battle.
"You..." Started Yang as the Ursa looked at each other, confused. "You monsters!"
Yang let out an angered cry as fire exploded around her and charged at one of them. She sent serval shotgun punches to it before starting a barrage of punches. When she was done, the Ursa went flying through serval trees. Meanwhile, the other one was about to attack her from behind when someone dealt with it already. When the Ursa went down, Blake was standing behind it as she pulled her weapon from the beast's back.
"I could have taken him." Yang told her, jokingly.
Blake had a sly smirk on her face.
It was then that Yang's Maximal communicator went off.
"Yang come in!" Ruby's voice called over the channel as the sound surprised Blake and Yang.
Yang knew Ruby wouldn't use it unless there was trouble. She pulled out her communicator from her pocket and spoke into it.
"I'm here, Sis. What's going on?"
Blake gave Yang a confused look as Ruby spoke through.
"Yang! We've got Predacons here! I've already ran into Scorpinok and Wazzpinator."
Yang's eye went wide as she heard this. She temporarily forgot about Blake as she spoke into the communicator.
"Ok, Ruby. What's the plan?"
"We've got to meet up, so we'll meet at the temple. Yang? Do you have a partner yet?"
Yang looked to Blake for a second before responding. She knew that one way or another, the teams she and Ruby would be on would have to know about the Beast Wars.
"Yeah. It's Blake."
"Tell her everything she needs to know, Yang. I know it's not ideal, but it needs to be done. Also, the other Predacons might be here. So be careful."
Then, the channel went dead.
Hearing this Yang looked at Blake, who was quiet the whole time. Yang was about to say something when she heard an all too familiar laugh. Looking up, Yang and Blake saw Tarantulas crawling out from the top a tree, laughing.
"You better listen to her. Because now you're in trouble! Tarantulas Terrorize!"
As Tarantulas transformed, he landed on the ground and was about to attack when he was shot at. Looking over, Yang saw that Blake had her weapon ready and pointing toward Tarantulas. The barrel of her weapon, Gambol Shroud's, was smoking from firing the Dust bullet. Blake gave Yang a side glace before speaking.
"I'm guessing that's a Predacon?" She asked.
Yang nodded as Tarantulas got up and glared at Blake.
"I don't know who you are, but you'll pay for that."
But before Tarantulas could do anything, Yang came up and punched him into a tree. The blow was so strong that the tree fell down forward toward Tarantulas.
Seeing this Tarantulas gaped.
"Oh no!"
The tree fell on top of him pinning him under it. Seeing that he was down for now, Yang looked over at Blake as she put her weapon away for the time being. Blake kept a calm stare on Yang as the latter knew she had to tell the former the truth.
"So…you want the long version or the short version?" She asked as they made their way to the temple.
If the two of them waited a few more seconds, they would have seen Terrorsaur in robot mode land next to the tree that landed on Tarantulas and push it off him. Seeing that he was now free, Tarantulas got up with a glare on his face as he said something.
"I really hate that girl, now."
With Ruby and Weiss…
Ruby had just finished explaining everything to Weiss, who was having a hard time processing everything, as they kept walking toward the direction of the temple. Weiss then went over the things Ruby listed as she kept count with her finger. Ruby nodded with each response.
"So, what you're saying is that two alien robot factions are now on Remnant and are fighting against each other. Worthless Dust is called "Energon," a powerful source of fuel that can power just about anything. And you and your sister are part of one side called the Maximals."
Weiss then stopped and gave Ruby a blank stare before she said any more.
"If I didn't see those…. things earlier, I would have said you were crazy. But now I believe you."
While Ruby was glad that Weiss believed her, she still felt guilty for getting Weiss into this mess. Ruby then spoke as her tone told Weiss that Ruby was upset.
"Weiss. I'm sorry that I got you involved in the Beast Wars. It was my goal to keep people out of it the best I could. But as you can see, that didn't happen."
Ruby held her head down in shame. Weiss didn't know what to say to her after hearing that.
Weiss then broke the silence.
"If you want to make it up to me, then make sure we make it out of this."
Ruby raised her head, hearing that. Ruby then shook her head, clearing her thoughts and nodded.
"Your right. Now let's see where our reinforcements are."
She activated her communicator again. This time, on Optimus Primal's frequency.
"Ruby to Optimus. Ruby to Optimus."
At the Axalon…
Currently, Optimus was in the air and firing his shotgun at the paladin when he heard the call.
"Optimus here, what's wrong Ruby?" He asked as he dodge fire from the mech.
"Optimus I'm in the Emerald Forest and it's crawling with Predacons. Where are you and the others at?" Ruby asked him as she heard fire in the background.
Hearing this didn't make things easier for Optimus. He did a quick look around him to see how the other Maximals were doing. Cheetor and Rattrap were pinned behind some rocks, Rhinox was holding off several White Fang members with his machine guns, and Dinobot was in a sword fight with their leader. "Adam" he thought his name was.
"Sorry, Ruby. But were all busy right now. We're under attack as well. You and Yang are on your own for now." He told her as he dodged a punch from the mech, as he tried to slash it.
Hearing this made Ruby worry, but she knew that there was nothing she could do at the moment.
"Ok. Be careful and if I don't contact you within three hour, it means…."
She trailed off as they all knew what it meant.
Optimus fired his missiles at the Paladin, taking an arm off the mech when he heard that. He was really hating the situation they were in, knowing that while the sisters may be strong, they couldn't handle the Predacons alone.
"I understand. I'll send help when I can."
As he ended the talk, Optimus refocused on the mech in front of him with a new fire in his eyes as he fired everything he had at it.
In the Emerald Forest…
Hearing the channel end, Ruby looked at Weiss with a grim look on her face.
"We're on our own, for now. So let's get to the temple and regroup."
Weiss agreed with her as the two rushed to find the temple, encountering little to no Grimm resistance on the way.
When the two of them finally reached the temple, they saw both Yang and Blake waiting for them. As the four regroup, Ruby took charge she gave the other two girls a quick glance over.
"Are you two ok?"
Yang held her sister's shoulders, letting her know they were alright.
"We're fine. We had a quick run in with Tarantulas, but we took care of him easily enough."
Blake nodded to further Yang's claim. Ruby then did a quick count on the Predacons that were presently in the forest.
"Well, we saw Scorponok and Wazzpinator. And if you saw Tarantulas, that just leave Terrorsaur and Megatron unaccounted for."
"What if they're attacking in teams?" Wondered Blake as she was surprisingly calm about everything.
Ruby thought about it and knew the most likely answer.
"No. Megatron's ego wouldn't allow himself to let someone else finish us off. And after the power play Terrorsaur just did, Megatron wouldn't leave him alone."
Weiss then remembered something and spoke to the three of them.
"In case your all forgot, we're still being tested. And the longer we wait, the worst it could be for us."
Remembering the test, Ruby spoke up once again.
"Weiss is right. We should focus on the test right now and worry about the Predacons latter."
Seeing the three girls looks of disbelief, Ruby explained further.
"If we finish the test, then we can be with the others at Beacon. And hopefully, the Predacon won't attack us there. After all, they have been quiet for some time now and haven't made any big moves in public. So it's our best bet."
The others thought about it and agreed. The two pairs proceeded into the temple and saw that the artifacts were chess pieces. And without realizing it, the both teams grabbed the white knight pieces. Seeing that they got what they came for, Ruby turned to face the girls.
"Ok. We got what we needed. We'll go through the forest as fast as we can so the fliers can't see us from the skies. We have no idea if reinforcements from the Maximals will come, so we're on our own. We'll have to count on each other and help each other out the best we can."
Ruby then threw her fist in the air like a warrior giving out a war cry.
"So let's transform and roll out!"
The girls were inspired at first. But when she said her last line, it confused them.
"What's that supposed to mean, you dolt?" Questioned Weiss as the other shared similar looks on their faces about what she said.
Ruby then realized what she said and blushed.
"Sorry. Took someone else's catchphrase. Let's go."
Ruby then rushed into the forest with the others following behind her. If they waited a bit longer they would have seen the girl with orange hair coming riding in on an Ursa and Jaune flying through the air.
As the four of them ran, Weiss matched her pace to Yang and spoke to the blonde.
"I'm curious about something. How can she such a good leader if she so young? And the truth this time."
Yang wondered if she should tell her or not before finally coming up with an answer.
"If I told you the truth right now, you would stop and right now we don't need that. When we get through this, I'll tell you."
Remembering their predicament, Weiss reluctantly agreed with her.
They reached the middle of a clearing when a missile landed in front of them, causing them all to stop. They heard a buzzing sound and saw Wazzpinator flying toward them as he stopped in front of them. They then heard footsteps to their sides and saw Scorpinok on their left and Tarantulas on their right. And finally, they heard jets from above and saw Terrorsaur fly in behind them.
Seeing this the girls formed a mini circle as they got their weapons ready. Ruby got Crescent Rose ready while Yang activated Ember Celica, Weiss drew Myrtenaster and Blake brought out Gambol Shroud and put it into it clever and sword form.
Scorponok then started to laugh as he pointed a pincher at the girls.
"It's over for you two and your friends. Just make it easy on yourselves and go down easy."
The girls glared at him as Ruby whispered to her team.
"Yang. Take Tarantulas. You have the most experience with him. Blake, take Wazzpinator, he's the flying bug. You should have no problem with him. Weiss, take Scorpinok. He only uses missiles that he fires from his pincers. I'll take Terrorsaur."
Then Ruby disappeared in a flash of rose pedals as they then heard Terrorsaur screaming. Looking at him, both Predacons and Huntresses saw that Ruby had both of her Silver Thorns in his back as Terrorsaur screamed in pain. Terrorsaur then started to fly up, causing Ruby to let go of him. But the damage was done as he now had two holes in his back that were leaking energon. Even with internal repairs working, he was in real bad shape. He then turned to face Ruby with his shoulder cannons ready, only to be hit in the chest with Crescent Rose in sniper-mode.
Meanwhile, Yang was giving Tarantulas a beating with a shotgun punch after shotgun punch. Tarantulas then had enough and fired his machine gun legs to get her off him, which worked. He then drew his gun and fired at her and with no time to react, Yang crossed her arms and took the hit as it sent her back with some damage to Ember Celica. Looking at her opponent, Yang's eyes turned red and she rushed him. Tarantulas was caught off guard with such a reckless move and before he knew it, Yang punched him with enough force to send him flying into another tree, causing this one fell on him as well. Tarantulas could look up in horror as another tree pinned him once more. Seeing that Tarantulas was done for, Yang's eye reverted to their normal coloring and she looked at her work.
Blake was having a rather easy time with Wazzpinator like Ruby told her. Every time Wazzpinator tried to shoot her, she used her semblance and avoided each shot. And each time, Wazzpinator wondered what happened. Soon, Blake was close enough and used her cleaver on Wazzpinator, cutting the arm that held his gun off. She then turned her sword into a gun and fired into Wazzpinator face. With no warning, Wazzpinator head fell of his body. Blake looked on in fear as she never killed anyone before, but relaxed a little when she heard him speak.
"Wazzpinator has a terrible headache."
After hearing that Blake let out a sigh of relief.
Weiss, meanwhile, was dodging all the shots that Scorponok was firing at her. After dodging another missile, several white glyphs appeared around her. Scorpinok wondered what they were until each one fired icicles at him. With no time to dodge them, each one struck him as one jammed the rocket launcher on his right arm. Seeing this, he went to pull it out, but in doing so left him wide open. A black glyph appeared under Weiss as she then rushed at him with impressive speed. Weiss slashed him serval times and with one last thrust sent him to the ground.
Seeing that it was over, Weiss started to walk away, unaware that Scorponok got back up and aimed his left launcher at her.
"Die!" He screamed at her as he fired.
Time seemed to slow down for Weiss as she saw the missile coming towards her. Then, out of nowhere, she felt someone pushing her out of the way. She then heard the missile hit whoever pushed her out of the way. When time went back to normal for her, she saw Ruby on the ground, holding her stomach in pain. Weiss then saw red liquid coming from Ruby's fingers.
Blood.
Weiss just shut down for a moment at seeing this.
"I was nothing but mean to her since I meet her. She could have let me take the shot, but she pushed me out of the way and took it herself."
Seeing Ruby's position, Yang and Blake both saw this rushed over to Ruby's side. While they checked up on Ruby, Scorponok couldn't believe his luck. He was aiming for that white-haired girl, but Ruby jumped in front of the shot and took it. They came to end Ruby and now it looked like the Allspark was glowing down on him.
"Now to finish the job." Scorponok said to himself as he took aim at Ruby once more and fired.
This time, nothing got in the way of his shot and it exploded on contact. As the dust flew in the air, Scorponok felt good about himself. He indulged in the thought of the praise he would get from Megatron. But when the dust cleared, he couldn't believe his optics. There in front of the girls was a white glyph from earlier with the white-haired girl pointing her weapon in front of it.
"What!?" Cried out Scorponok as he couldn't believe that he missed.
Meanwhile, Yang and Blake checked Ruby's injury and it didn't look good for her. Her aura took most of the blow, but it still broke skin and left her with a big chuck of her stomach bleeding.
"Yang! She need medical attention now!" Blake told her companion as Weiss kept the shield up. But Weiss knew it was her fault because she underestimated Scorponok. Then, Ruby did something no one expected: she started to get up.
Blake tried to push her down, but Ruby pushed on.
"Ruby! You shouldn't move." Blake tried to reason with her, but Ruby kept moving until she was standing.
The silver-eyed girl then glared at Scorponok, who didn't seem fazed at all.
Ruby then walked forward, almost tripping a few times, but was able to walk past Weiss's shield. As she looked at Scorponok, Ruby couldn't contain her hate and anger for him anymore. This was a time for new students to enter Beacon and he turned it into a hunting ground. As she thought more about it, she felt something build up inside of her.
When she felt it was ready, she let him have it.
"Scorponok! Begone!" Yelled Ruby as a white energy surged from her.
It was so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes. When the light died down, everyone, even the Predacons, were shocked to see the state Scorponok was in.
Lying on the ground was Scorponok, but his body was twisted and turned and bent in ways no Cybertronian should be able to bend. He was in so much pain that he went into stasis lock to deal with it. The other Predacons that were still active back away from Ruby as Terrorsaur said the smartest thing he's ever said since coming to this world.
"Retreat!"
As Terrorsaur cried, he shot at the tree that was pinning Tarantulas before quickly grabbing Scorponok. He had to show this to Megatron. Tarantulas changed into beast mode and ran while Wazzpinator put his head back on, grabbed his arm and flew away as fast as he could.
The girls witnessed the Predacons' retreat and didn't care as they rushed over to Ruby, who was just barely standing. By the time they reached her, her legs gave out and she collapsed on the ground. As they checked her, they saw her wound was closed for now. But they knew they needed to get her help and fast. It was then they heard the sound of jets and without saying anything the girls formed a circle around Ruby. Blake was the first to see where the sound was coming from. She pointed in the sky as they saw a figure coming their way.
"There!"
As the figure got closer, Yang got a good look and relaxed.
"It's ok. That's Optimus."
Hearing this, Weiss and Blake relaxed slightly. Optimus came in for a landing and they saw he wasn't in good shape either. He had bullet marks all over his body. Optimus looked at the three of them and then saw Ruby on the ground. He frowned at the sight, his gears churning with fear.
"What happened here?" He asked Yang as he rushed over to them as fast as he could.
"To be honest I don't know. After Ruby got hit by a missile, she released some weird light and when it died down, Scorponok was in terrible shape." Yang told him as Optimus gave Ruby a quick scan to check her.
Seeing that she was ok for the time being, he looked at the other two girls. Weiss and Blake froze as Optimus turned his attention to the two of them.
"Greeting. My name is Optimus Primal. Leader of the Maximals."
The two girls remained frozen until Weiss took a step forward. She introduced herself, but anxiety was obvious in her voice.
"Greetings, Optimus Primal. I am Weiss Schnee. Ruby has informed Blake and I about you already."
Optimus looked at the two new girls, then back to Ruby. She needed medical attention and fast.
"Ok. We should finish this talk back at base, then."
As he went to grab Ruby, Optimus felt on his shoulder. Looking at who it was, he saw that it was Blake as she spoke.
"We're being tested right now. If we all disappear, people will notice."
Hearing this, Optimus as he knew she was right. He turned to the three teenagers and spoke again.
"Ok. But when you can, slip away for a couple hours. Come to the base and bring Ruby. The CR chamber will fix her up as good as new."
But before anyone could say anything, they heard someone coming towards them. Optimus ran towards the forest edge and disappeared from sight just as Glynda Goodwitch walked out from the tree line.
Glynda looked at the area and saw it was a battle zone. She was about to react, but stopped when she saw Ruby on the ground and rushed over to her.
"What happened here?!" She demanded as she knelt beside Ruby, checking her over.
Knowing that Glynda would not believe that they were attacked by Predacons, Yang quickly fabricated a story. One that she hoped Glynda would accept.
"There were Grimm. A lot of them. We fought them off, but I misfired and Ruby took the hit. We were checking her over before we made our next move."
Glynda checked Ruby's wound and saw that a shot from Yang's weapon could cause something like this. And if Grimm were here, it would explain the damage to the area.
She then looked over at the other two girls.
"Is this true?" She asked them as she looked at them closely.
"It is." Blake told her with a straight face.
She wanted to learn more about the Cybertronians first before deciding what to do. Glynda studied her for a moment and saw she was telling the truth.
She then looked over at Weiss waiting for her answer. Weiss on the other hand didn't know what to say. She wasn't sure if she should tell her the truth or the lie Yang told her. As she thought about it, she saw Optimus at the tree line behind Glynda, looking at her. As she looked at him, she saw he was merely watching, waiting to see what she would say not as a Schnee, but as Weiss. Seeing this she made up her mind.
"It's not all true." Started Weiss as everyone looked at her wondering what she was going to say.
"Yang's shoot didn't hit Ruby. It was going to hit me. I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings and Ruby took the shot for me. If it wasn't for her, I would be the one on the ground."
Yang and Blake let out a small sigh of relief, glad that Weiss was only telling a half-truth. Weiss looked over at Optimus and saw him nod to her before transforming and walking off.
Glynda took in what Weiss said along with the motions of her body language and somewhat believed her. She had the feeling she wasn't telling her the whole truth, but deicide to deal with Ruby's injury first.
"Very well, then. All three of you come with me back to Beacon. We will give Ruby the proper medical treatment there."
She lifted Ruby up, using her semblance to keep her level. As the girls followed, behind her Blake wondered something.
"Professor, why are you out her? You said earlier that no teachers were going to get involved in the test?"
Glynda who merely looked back at her.
"The cameras all died and Ozpin got worried about everyone. He sent the teachers out to make sure everyone was ok. Ruby here was the only one hurt that I know of."
The girls looked at each other and knew why the camera's died, but stayed quite about it.
As they walked back Weiss and Blake looked at each other and both asked the other 'what did we get involved in?'.
And neither one had the answer for the other.
Well the initiation is now done and before you ask the move Ruby used is my own move called the 'Prime blast'. What it is, is the energy from the Matrix in her mixes with her aura and creating a large blast of energy like what we saw at the end RWBY volume 3. The more aura she has the more power it gains. But the down side is that the more power she uses, the longer the recharge is, since it uses two different power sources. Right now she can't control it and can only use it when her emotions are high while it also drains her energy a great deal. As she grow it will become easier on her in both ways.
Also like I said in an earlier chapter team JNPR won't join in the Beast Wars right of the bat like Weiss and Blake did. But they will join. Just not any time soon, but it will be during a big event.
Until next time.