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Dance Dance Infiltration

Combat classes were in session again, as once again a match was being held. But that wasn't what Gyro was focused on. No, what Gyro WAS focused on was the stopwatch he had in his hand. Why?

Cardin slammed into the ground, groaning something about 'lucky shot' like the deluded moron he was, before falling over, down for the count. At that, Gyro stopped the watch and chuckled. "Called it, those four didn't last one minute," he said to the rest of the group, who all chuckled, as down in the arena, Pyrrha had just finished defeating the entirety of Team CRDL, though unlike canon, there was a small difference this time. Gabumon was by her side, having helped her in the fight, as attested by Dove who had singed pants from the Petit Fire Gabumon had used on him.

This was something new that the Kingdoms had agreed to field test in the tournament. With the rise of people who'd formed bonds with Digimon, there were suggestions of allowing the Digimon to compete in the tournament as well. However, there were mixed reactions, with the most pragmatic one being the matter that not EVERYONE had one, and thus it might be unfair to include them. That was countered with a simple answer. The Digimon would only be able to join if the opponent also had a Digimon, or alternatively, as a substitute for a missing teammate, though only ONE Digimon was allowed to do so, and for the moment, only Child levels, as Adults COULD cause unintended damage.

"Well done Miss Nikos and Gabumon," Glynda said as she stepped in, having called the match. "Both of you should have no trouble at all in qualifying for the tournament," she said approvingly.

"Alright!" Gabumon cheered, bringing a chuckle from Pyrrha.

"Well, guess everybody's slowly taking to the Digimon pretty well." Sun said, a row in front of Gyro, before looking back at him and the others "By the way, why are you guys still in the outfits from the other night? Wasn't that just a temporary thing?"

Everyone looked at each other, and down at Pyrrha in the ring, the 10 of them still wearing their outfits from the other night when they were gathering intel and preparing for the breach, before looking back at Sun, Pierce being the one to answer "We felt a change of wardrobe was warranted after wearing the same thing for so long."

Sun nodded at that after a moment "Can't argue with that."

"Plus we do look pretty cool in these," Ruby added with a chuckle.

"Alright, now I know that's a tough act to follow, but we have time for one more match. Any volunteers?" Glynda asked, this time not pointing at Blake, as unlike in the show, because she knew what was happening and what was going on, she wasn't losing sleep over the issue with the White Fang, nor was she getting behind in her studies.

As she scanned the crowd, Mercury suddenly raised up his hand "I'll fight."

Glynda looked at him, adjusting her glasses "Mercury was it?" she asked, looking down to her scroll "Very well, let's find you an opponent."

"Actually…" Mercury started "I want to fight… her." he said, pointing at Pyrrha.

The group tensed at that, as despite knowing this was coming, it was still a small but key point of the story...one that fortunately was easily countered.

"I'm afraid Miss Nikos has just finished a match. I'd recommend you choose another partner," Glynda said.

"Yes, I'd appreciate that. Even with Gabumon's help, going four on one isn't as easy as it looks," Pyrrha said, earning a few annoyed growls from the nearby team CRDL.

"I'll do it!" Nora said with a grin as she shot up of her seat.

"This is gonna be good." Yang muttered with a grin.

"Yeah! Go for it Nora!" Salamon cheered as Nora stood up, bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"Very well, please come to the ring, Miss Valkyrie," Glynda nodded, to which Mercury hid a small grumble, but accepted it all the same.

Nora was smiling as she skipped into the arena...but inwardly she had a positively DEMONIC grin, as she already had a plan to expose this jerk's little secret in a way that was painful enough without being obvious.

The two were soon in the arena, and at a silent signal, Mercury surged forward, aiming to kick Nora in the face, but Nora was faster and blocked it with her arm, before expanding Magnhild in a way that caught Mercury in the gut, pushing him back.

Mercury growled when he was pushed back, before he ran forward and started to deliver several fast kicks, putting Nora at the defensive, but he too couldn't keep up the attacks forever, and when a single opening appeared, he was met with a hammer to the gut again, pushing him back. Now quite annoyed he moved to land several spin kicks...but was stopped cold when Nora caught his leg with her arms, having dropped Magnhild.

"Gotcha," Nora grinned, before she pulled and well...pulled him into a chopper spin, grabbing his other leg along the way. Mercury was shouting in the spin while Nora was laughing like a loon, until….something was sent flying, and Nora landed on her butt holding….his legs?

Nora made an almost exaggerated scream as she dropped the legs, looking very much like someone who had NOT expected that, while Mercury was left painfully trying to pick himself up from his fall...something hard to do when he was missing both legs.

"And there goes the Knight," Pierce whispered to Gyro, both brothers fighting hard to suppress a smirk as they watched Cinder lose one of the factors she'd made use of in the coming assault.

Once Mercury shook off his dizziness, he could only stare at his rather empty pants, only feeling his two stumps that cut off at the thighs "Oh come on!"

"Mister Black, I was not aware that you used...prosthetics," Glynda said, after confirming he was okay. "There are no mentions in your health records or student file of your condition. Care to explain?"

"It's… uh… a little recent… hasn't been updated yet." Mercury said after a moment of thought.

"I see." Glynda said, sound a little skeptical, but ultimately let it slide for now, as Nora came up with his legs.

"Uh… here, sorry about that." she said, placing them right next to him, doing her best to seem apologetic.

"Yeah… it's alright." Mercury said, obviously doing his best to play his part as he started the annoying process of putting his legs back on.

"Well, seeing how that turned out, I think it's best we call it a day." Glynda said, sighing as she adjusted her glasses, before looking to the class "Now, remember, the dance is this weekend, but you have your first mission on monday, and I'll accept NO excuses."

Once everyone was out of the class, they all grouped up and started walking together "So, is team CFVY still not back yet?" Ruby asked.

"Still out late for their mission, which means Yang and I were chosen to set up the dance, we're almost done preparing for it." Weiss said.

"We have fog machines!" Biyomon added.

"And a disco ball, that I set up myself." Tentomon said proudly.

"We did a coin flip on if it was fog machines or doilies." Yang said with a laugh.

"Lucky flip. Fog machines would probably have a better effect in this kind of setting," Gyro chuckled. "Doilies I'd imagine fit better in a more...calm, party."

"...huh...didn't think about that," Tentomon mused, as considering the decor they had, the fog machine WOULD work better with the disco ball.

"Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose." Weiss said with a shrug, not bothered by it as she would have been were she still her old self.

"Anyway, just have fun with the decorations. I'm sure it'll be great," Jaune smiled.

"What we're worried about is during the dance," Pierce sighed as Gyro looked at his scroll and opened up a small app which he quickly closed.

"Right...the 'counter move'," Blake nodded. With what was going on, Gyro still hadn't had a chance to install the counter virus, not with them finding signs someone had been managing to get into Beacon's systems and somehow wasn't leaving any traces.

"Well, its now or never. I'll install the program at the dance itself if I have to," Gyro sighed.

"But enough of that, what else are you gonna do for the dance?" Nora asked, sounding quite excited.

"Whatever it is, I'll bet it'll be really fun!" Salamon said in excitement too, the Digimon always up for a good party.

"Well now, don't you all seem happy," came an amused voice, to which they turned to the sound, and saw a Digimon lying on its back on a nearby tree branch, before it rolled over and looked at them, revealing itself to be...well...a black colored Gatomon. In short, a Black series Digimon, BlackGatomon.

"...okay...never seen you around here before. Did you come with some of the new transfers?" Agumon blinked.

"Something like that," BlackGatomon chuckled.

"Well, it's nice to meet ya!" Gomamon said with a grin.

"Just as long as you're friendly, if you aren't we'll prank the ever living daylights out of you." Veemon added, and he and Gomamon shared a high five.

BlackGatomon laughed lightly at that "Noted, I'll be sure to behave myself." she said, jumping down from her tree branch "So, when did you all arrive? Around the same time vampire head tried to take over this town?"

"Just about yeah." Patamon said, looking away for a brief millisecond.

"What about you?" Wormmon asked.

"I landed in Vacuo while the Dark Masters were having their fun," BlackGatomon said simply.

"Rough times, but good thing they were defeated." Gabumon said innocently.

"Anyway, I'd better get going before…" BlackGatomon started, but couldn't finish as someone was calling her name.

"Ah, the runaway partner schtick." Pierce mused as Nebula came around the corner.

"You could say she's a stray cat." Yang said with a grin, before grunting as Blake elbowed her in the gut.

"Geez, why do you keep running off when I'm not looking?" Nebula scolded her partner who'd jumped up and landed on her shoulder.

"Cause I keep getting reactions like right now," BlackGatomon smirked in amusement, much to the annoyed look from her partner, who proceeded to pinch her cheeks.

"Sorry if she caused you any trouble," Nebula said. "She REALLY likes to go wherever she pleases."

"Oh, it was no trouble at all," Pyrrha assured.

"So...I haven't introduced myself. I'm Nebula Violette," she introduced herself. "I'm here with my team for the Vytal festival. We're from Vacuo."

"Yeah, BlackGatomon told us about the Vacuo part," Gyro nodded, catching her attention...and suddenly she was up in his face.

"Well hello there." Nebula said and was honest to god fluttering her eyelashes "You doing anything tonight handsome?"

Gyro… was honestly thrown for a loop… it probably didn't help this was honest to god a first time for him "Uh…"

And suddenly Ruby was clinging onto him and glaring at Nebula with the fury of a thousand suns "He's mine!"

Nebula blinked as she looked down at Ruby "Wait… oh come on! Seriously?! Why are all the hot guys taken or jerks?" she groaned.

"I mean… if it helps we know some guys that are decently good looking that we're pretty sure are single and aren't jackasses." Pierce said, while making sure to be holding Yang's hand so Nebula didn't start flirting with him next.

"Where?" was all Nebula asked.

"We split from Sun right when we left the auditorium, he went to the left with his team, he's the blonde monkey faunus." Ilia (yes she was there the whole time) answered, and like that Nebula was gone.

"Well...that was….something," Ren blinked, not sure what else to say.

"Wasn't that one of the transfer students we saw in the Vytal festival?" Jaune checked.

"Yep, that was Nebula alright. Her team fights Sun's team and loses, but to be fair, it was decently close...though a good deal of that came from Neptune's overdone phobia," Gyro sighed. He did NOT expect THAT to happen. "Guess things are already changing with us interfering…"

"I suppose it WAS only a matter of time before the Butterfly Effect started," Weiss sighed.

"Let's just hope it doesn't butterfly into something that we're all gonna regret," Palmon said with a worried frown.

However, any further train of thoughts was slightly derailed when a new voice entered the fray.

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" the cheers were heard, followed by the sound of someone screaming, right as Dove landed on the ground, not far away from them, seeing stars and out cold.

"What?" Pierce asked flatly.

"Are we missing something?" Blake wondered.

"That didn't originally happen…" Gyro said, before they all went in the direction that Dove had come from, and right as they arrived, Sky and Russell were sent flying as well.

"Ok, who's kicking ass right now? That's usually our job." Nora wondered.

Right after she said that, they saw Cardin get sent flying courtesy of a double uppercut, and the culprits were…

"Ok… never seen that guy before… but he has an Agumon with him." Gyro said, feeling a bit weird at seeing someone with the same partner as him.

Weiss hummed, before activating the analyzer "Not actually an Agumon, that's a GeoAgumon, a subspecies. VERY similar in appearance, but you'll see the differences if you know what to look for."

Then the fight got weird, as the two seemed to start arguing over who got the last hit in, and suddenly the two were in a fist fight with each other, matching it blow for blow.

"...okay, I have no idea if this guy's bonded with that GeoAgumon or not," Gomamon said flatly as everyone sweat dropped at the sight.

"Oh no, not again…" came BlackGatomon's voice, to which they turned and saw the cat-like Digimon alone, apparently having escaped Nebula again.

"You know those two?" Kotemon asked.

"They came with Nebula's team, their like the extra backup for the school. Meet Marcus Diamond and GeoAgumon… their kind of muscle headed idiots like that." BlackGatomon explained, gesturing at the two morons fighting each other.

"I see…" Gyro said unsurely.

"Oh, by the way, you might want to get away, Nebula knows you have a girlfriend, but, well… she might try to flirt anyway, she can get desperate sometimes." BlackGatomon added as she looked at Gyro.

Gyro had… several scenarios in his head about what that might mean, and he'd rather not stick around to find out which it was "Let's go!" he said as he ran back to the dorms, the others blinking in surprise for a moment before following after him.

"Sorry about that," Gyro apologized. "I wasn't keen on finding out how desperate she might be."

"How bad could it be?" Yang asked.

"Best case scenario, she's willing to share, and suddenly I'm a harem anime protagonist," Gyro said flatly. "Worst case scenario, she turns out to be a Yandere, and we kill her before she kills Ruby...and probably anyone else she thinks is 'in the way'."

A few of them gulped at that. "I take back what I just asked," Yang said lamely.

"...so...about the dance decorations...need any help?" Jaune asked, hoping to change the subject.

"Well…" Weiss started, a few thoughts going through her head.

What followed was the rest of them getting roped into helping with the decorations for the party….not that any of the were complaining. It was honestly an enjoyable 'distraction' from the things to come.

"You wanted to show us something?" Veemon asked, as currently the group was with Azure as he was busy going through something.

"Yeah… remember when you were going to plant the counter virus and saw someone had been in the area needed to place it in?" Azure asked his younger brother.

"Yeah? What about it?" Gyro shot back, wondering what he was getting at.

"Well… whoever was going through that area sent me something… it's the controls to their own counter virus… it does all the things we had wanted ours to do, and it even has several extra layers of protection." Azure explained, receiving stunned silence from everyone.

"It's also possible a digimon helped them code this, as some of the data seems similar to other strips of coding I've seen from various digimon." Wizardmon added.

"Wow...someone made something that advanced?" Pierce whistled.

"But...can we trust whoever made this?" Agumon asked.

"He's got a point," Wormmon agreed.

"We don't actually know whoever made this…" Patamon frowned.

"I've gone over the program a few times. Seems like this is exactly as it claims to be," Azure sighed.

"So we're going to plant this instead?" Ruby blinked.

"Actually...it's already been planted, hence why we were sent the controls," Azure said.

"So I guess we're really doing this," Pierce sighed. "Well, at least that fixes the question of how to plant it…" he chuckled lightly.

Time moved rather quickly as it was soon the night of the dance...and the night where Cinder would plant her virus.

"How's things looking so far?" Pierce asked as he went up to Yang, he was wearing a simple clean suit and tie, while Yang was wearing a plain white dress that was mildly frilly at the bottom.

"Well… Blake got here with Ilia a minute ago, their just dancing a bit, Ilia decided she'd wear the pants." Yang said with a chuckle, pointing over and, indeed, Ilia had obviously opted to wear a suit and tie as well, while Blake was wearing a dark purple dress.

"You'd think that says a lot about the relationship… but Blake's the one that ties people up." Pierce said with a joking grin, which made Yang snort.

"Anyway, Ren and Nora are already here, their probably around dancing… or Nora pulled him somewhere to make out, I didn't really pay attention. Jaune and Pyrrha are also here, they're just by the punch table last I checked. Weiss is chatting with some of the others from what she said she'd do, and… most of the Digimon are by the snack table." she finished, pointing over her shoulder, and Pierce turned to see most of the Digimon gorging themselves on the buffet.

"Yeesh, good thing we got a good caterer." he said with a wince.

"Yeah, anyway, the only ones not here are Sun's team, but Neptune said they'd need plenty of time to wrangle Sun into AT LEAST wearing a tie, and Ruby and Gyro should be arriving right about…" the doors suddenly opened "Now." she finished with a grin, looking up as she saw the two in question walk in and simply holding hands, Ruby wearing a red dress and, after a compromise was made, flat tops instead of heels, it gave her a bit more height, and she could at least walk in it better than with heels. As for Gyro, much like most of the boys, just a simple suit and tie.

She had to resist laughing when she saw that Agumon was wearing a bow tie though as he and Palmon went to join the other Digimon at the food table, before looking back to her sister and eventual brother-in-law "You two look good like that."

"Thanks." Ruby smiled, blushing a bit, "So, we all set up?"

"Well… pretty much yeah, we're just waiting to see if anybody else arrives." Yang said with a shrug.

Aside from the usual people they'd expected such as Sun's Team, some of the other students and a few teachers, one thing they DIDN'T expect was for Azure to come...with Lisa, both of them dressed in a way that made it painfully clear they were together for the dance.

"Well now… nice to finally have that confirmation." Pierce said with a teasing grin, as Gyro and Ruby had moved to another location by now so it was just him and Yang greeting the guests.

Azure laughed awkwardly "Uh… yeah…"

Lisa on the other hand, blushed a bit "Were we THAT obvious?"

"Well, I mean… you met up with each other a LOT these last few months, more than what was mandatory for exchanging information, so…" Yang trailed off with a grin.

"Well, I do believe the saying goes, you're on your own." Wizardmon said, having come in just after Azure and Lisa, with Monitamon trailing behind him "Monitamon my friend, I believe the buffet is calling our names!"

"Let's eat!" Monitamon added as he and Wizardmon practically ran towards the food table.

The four humans sweatdropped at the sight, before Yang turned back to Azure and Lisa with a grin "So… it's official now then? You gonna come out with it?"

The two sighed at her not letting go "Fine, fine, yes, Azure and I are dating… we have been for a week actually." Lisa admitted in slight embarrassment.

"Welcome to our crazy family Lisa, hope you left your sanity behind." Pierce said jokingly.

"PLEASE don't scare away my girlfriend." Azure said drily, before he and Lisa moved to the dance floor.

"They make a good couple." Yang said as she watched them start to dance.

"Yeah, I'm happy for Azure." Pierce added, before noticing someone and waving them over "Spotted anything yet?"

"Not at the moment, though I HAVE had to break up a fight that was being started by a… Cardin Winchester I believe?" the one he had waved over turned out to be Leomon, wearing a bit of extra clothing, a simple white vest with a tag that read SECURITY pinned to it.

"Well, at least you're doing a good job of a security guard." Yang said with a small laugh.

"Yes, though I must say, some of the teachers have very interesting stories, like that Peter fellow, a rather impressive hunter if his stories are true." Leomon said with a smile, while Yang and Pierce looked at each other awkwardly.

After that small moment, Leomon went back to keeping an eye on things, while Yang kept her attention on the door, Pierce scanning the ballroom, letting out a small laugh as he saw Penny doing the robot, one of her guards joining her, and Monodramon TRYING to do the same, albeit awkwardly.

And finally a certain two came into the hall too. "Looks like the 'princess' is out to the ball," Pierce frowned, seeing as Mercury and Emerald were there by themselves, to which he made a quick signal to Gyro, who nodded, before he and Ruby slinked off carefully, Agumon and Palmon soon following when they saw them leave. They'd all planned for this after all.

"Think it'll really work?" Yang asked in slight worry.

"It will, I just got this gut feeling that tonight is gonna be a win for us. She won't know what hit her." Pierce said with a grin.

Back with Gyro and Ruby, they had quickly reached the tower, along the way both changed out of their dance clothes into more...combat ready outfits, and even came with some masks to hide their faces, Ruby going so far as to not wear her usual cape and hood to further ensure that Cinder wouldn't make the connection. Even Agumon and Palmon were in on the act, Agumon having applied an easily removed black body paint to make himself look like a BlackAgumon, while Palmon applied bits of coloring to make herself look like an Alraumon.

Gyro had even had a special idea for his and Ruby's disguises, they wore completely different colors for starters, him in white and her in blue, and had cloths covering their heads, acting as hoods, with masks over the upper half of their faces, Gyro's mask being of a unicorn, and Ruby's of a snake, while they had faceplates on the lower halves of their faces, complete with voice modulators, giving them older more mature sounding voices. They'd even changed out their weapons to throw Cinder off further, Ruby using a simple extendable iron staff, and Gyro holding a smaller pair of dual blades, but in reverse grip as opposed to his frontal grip.

"So… what did you say these were based on again?" Ruby asked once they reached the base of the tower, her modulator making her voice more lower pitched.

"A game series called Kingdom Hearts, it has these characters called the Foretellers, I thought the masks would work well enough for this." Gyro told her, his own modulator making his voice deep and almost booming.

"So, now she won't suspect a thing, and think that there's even MORE people she has to worry about." Agumon said with a chuckle.

"Making her paranoid is pretty fun." Palmon admitted with a slight cackle.

"Can't deny that." Ruby said, before they reached the doors of the tower, spotting a guard having been stuffed into the bushes "Is he…?"

"I doubt she'd kill him, too risky for her to do so, a corpse would put everyone on high alert." Gyro said as they went in, spotting all the rest of the unconscious guards and heading to the elevator, finding two more knocked out men in there.

"It's a good thing she didn't go on a killing spree." Ruby said as they moved the two men out and the four of them got into the elevator "So… you have codenames for us, right? Just in case?"

"Yeah, we're using the same names as the Foretellers to keep it easy, I'm Ira, and you're Invi." he said, before looking down at their partners "Think you two can act all feral? Make her think you're just wild Digimon that we tamed to obey us rather than our partners."

"Can do." Agumon said, before hunching forward a bit, his eyes narrowed into slits like a raptor, as he snarled lightly, Palmon not having to do much other than keep her face neutral.

At that moment, the elevator doors opened, the four of them walking out and fanning out, knowing where Cinder was hiding.

"Hiding is useless… Miss Fall." 'Ira' called out into the room, knowing she had heard him, and that while she likely had control of her emotions, she was no doubt shocked.

"We have a good idea of why you're here, no doubt trying to disrupt the CCT for your scheme." 'Invy' continued, being sure to keep her cool, even though she was nervous.

"We also know about Salem. Of her plans, what she intends for Remnant, what she promised you… what she is." 'Ira' added, the last part being a bluff, but knowing it would only serve to make their enemies more paranoid. "And I can say right now, it's not going to happen."

"The Foretellers will make sure of that." 'Invi' added, deciding to kick the paranoia even higher.

"Oh? Is that a new club Ozpin decided to throw together in another pitiful attempt to try and defeat us?" Cinder's voice said mockingly, the voice surprisingly coming from a different area, though Gyro could see a glimpse of her hair, so that meant she could throw her voice… good to know... and Gyro could believe this probably wasn't the first time Ozpin was...less than successful...in an attempt to fight Salem. Of course, this wasn't going to be anything like she'd faced before.

"Ozpin? Please, don't put us in the same league as that washed out mage. Compared to our Master, he's but an insignificant insect we could squash at any time," 'Ira' chuckled.

THAT seemed to have an effect, if the stunned silence was anything to go by, so Gyro decided to press the advantage. "We know all about your little plans. It was so easy to move a few of the students around here with a few well placed leaks," 'Ira' said.

Realizing what he was going for 'Invi' joined in. "The Dust robbery was a clever move, but sadly one we wouldn't let happen. Funny what dropping that tip to a few students would do," she chuckled. "Trying to kill Tuckson wasn't nice either. It's fortunate Emerald and Mercury were easy enough to spot. What do you hope to do next? Mess with the round placements in the Tournament? Maybe have a tragic accident happen to cause panic, and release the Wyvern buried deep in the mountains outside the city?"

Gyro grinned, just like that, Cinder thought their real identities had been nothing but simple pawns for 'The Foretellers', and the woman was more than likely breaking into a cold sweat by now, wondering how they could know all of this, and even though he wanted to drive the final nail into the coffin, he kept quiet about Amber, leaving Cinder with just a small bit of hope that her plan could still be done.

"Now then, why don't we stop beating around the bush," 'Invi' said, pulling out her staff. "Surrender and you may yet receive mercy."

There was silence for a moment, before slowly, Cinder stood up, facing them, hands behind her head, looking at them neutrally, but they could see the cold sweat on her forehead, before suddenly, she threw her hands forward, sand in her hand, which she quickly superheated into flying shards of glass.

Ira moved first, suddenly in front of Invy, as he slashed away at the shards, deflecting them all, before Invy jumped, used him as a boost and came down on Cinder with her staff in a stabbing motion, forcing her to evade as it plowed into one of the terminals, destroying the screen completely.

Cinder dodged to the side, ready to counter...if Ira didn't suddenly whistle, as several vines shot out, snaring Cinder by the leg as she was pulled out of the air and slammed into the ground, followed by several fireballs impacting her. She growled and moved to cut the vines, but they retracted by themselves, the source revealing to be a pair of Digimon, which moved to stand alongside the Foretellers.

"These new arrivals are quite the useful pets, aren't they?" Invi chuckled, petting the plant-like Digimon in a way that made them look more like...well...pets...than the sentient individuals several students had.

"Now then, our turn," Ira said, before surging forward, the BlackAgumon at his side firing several more fireballs at the same time, forcing Cinder to block before they were soon dueling with their swords, both matching each other blow for blow. However, in the fight, Invy got behind, and using the Alraumon, snagged Cinder's legs again, pulling and making her lose balance, just barely managing to avoid getting slashed in the face, but not getting hit with a fireball, sending her back right into Invi's waiting staff, sending her tumbling to the side.

As Cinder got up, it was easy to see she was livid, especially as her eyes started to glow with the power of the Fall Maiden "I've had enough!" she growled as her hands ignited with flames and she started to levitate off the ground slightly, before throwing a barrage of fireballs at Ira and Invy.

Both 'Foretellers' were ready to deflect the flames, but they didn't have to, as suddenly, a pair of lights started to glow, and suddenly two symbols appeared in front of the two, the fireballs hitting...and doing absolutely no damage as they splashed off against the symbols like they were nothing.

"What?! Impossible!" Cinder gasped.

"Why so surprised? Did you really think we didn't have a few tricks up our sleeve?" Ira chuckled, quickly reigning in his own surprise that the Crests had that kind of ability, and quickly pretended like that was all according to plan. "And here's another one. You must be really desperate to want powers that you'd steal someone else's Aura. But see...that was a bad move."

"What?" Cinder's eyes widened, unable to figure out how they knew about THAT, before suddenly, her eyes went to Invi, and she saw a glow come from within the cracks of the mask over her eyes, a rather SILVER colored glow "No… not anot-" she was cut off as she tried to blast Invi with another barrage of fireballs, as a literal optic blast slammed right into her, sending her flying and breaking out the window.

Cinder felt like screaming, not in rage, but at the searing hot pain that passed through her, focusing on her arm, it was like it was boiling, and her breath shot out of her lungs as she crashed onto her back, the glass clattering around her as her aura finally gave out, biting down on her lip to stop herself from screaming as she clutched her left arm and started to slink away into the shadows, knowing when to run.

"Well, that taught her a lesson," Ira chuckled, before going to one of the remaining terminals, and tapped it with his Scroll, activating the counter virus, while giving control to Azure's Scroll for now. Once the deed was done, his Scroll and Invi's started beeping as well.

"Ironwood's coming, wash off you two." 'Invi' said as she pulled out two water spritzing bottles from her clothes and handed them to Agumon and Palmon, who sprayed each other to get rid of the paint they had used, making sure to clean the paint off the floor as well.

Acting quickly, they moved to another room, specifically the bathrooms, while making sure there weren't any cameras, and quickly changed out of their outfits and back to their party clothes, and stuffing the extra outfits into their pouches, making full use of its near infinite storage to hide any evidence. They even pulled out their normal weapons from it to keep up the image of them coming here like this, before expanding them and leaving embedding them into the walls and one of the terminals, while Agumon and Palmon went to nearby them (but not too near) and lay down on the ground (after putting some dirt on themselves), acting like they'd been knocked out. Once everything was set, they went into a closet that was nearby the terminal room...and one that had a digital lock at that, Gyro quickly locking them into the room. They waited for a bit...before they heard the sound of footsteps, several of them, and some mechanical clanking. With that…

"Hello? Is anyone out there?" Gyro shouted, banging on the door.

"Let us out of here!" Ruby added, banging on the door as well. The sound of the lock being disengaged was heard, before the door opened, and they were met with the stern face of General Ironwood.

"What are you two doing here?" Ironwood asked sternly.

"Well, we saw this lady jumping across the rooftops and heading in this direction, so we thought that we should try and tail her, see what she was doing." Gyro answered.

"Yeah, and we tried to fight her, but got knocked into this thing before we could really do anything, but then some other people came up apparently, they called themselves the Foretellers I think?" Ruby added.

"Sounded like that, they were taunting the woman I think, mentioned a lot of things that… well, we probably weren't supposed to hear, since it sounded super dangerous." Gyro said with a frown.

Ironwood frowned at that "Any names in particular?"

"Well… they mentioned someone called Salem, and how these Foreteller people knew about her plans and stuff like that, it also sounded like they'd been throwing a wrench in her plans for a little bit since from what I get, they were the ones that sent that information about the shipment about to be stolen and the Paladin things being taken too." Ruby explained.

"I think they also said something about some base in the southeast," Gyro frowned.

Ironwood's eyes widened "I… see… I think you two need to come with me, quickly, we need to go to speak to Ozpin."

"Um, what about our partners though?" Gyro asked as he gestured towards the 'clonked out' Agumon and Palmon.

Ironwood sighed a bit "Of course, I'll have my men bring them to your dorm and inform your teammates, is that alright?"

"That's fine sir, we know our friends will look after them." Ruby said with a smile as they were ushered out.

Right as the elevator doors closed, one of the monitors came to life, a logo of a fanged grin underneath a dark hood being visible, with the words 'REMOTE ACCESS ENABLED' written underneath, and back at the party, standing on one of the outside balconies, Azure grinned.

"Time to mess with them."

So, quite a few things happened.

First, yeah, we've screwed up the plan to have Mercury pretend his legs were broken.

Second, yes, Nebula has a thing for Gyro, because we thought it would be funny.

Does this mean a harem will happen for Gyro? Probably not, if it does though, that just means we changed out minds partway through.

Third, yes, we now confirm that Azure and Lisa were falling for each other off screen, and yes, she will become Lisa Vermillion eventually.

Fourth, a small one, Leomon is at Beacon, just because we wanted you to know weren't forgetting about him.

Fifth, and this is the big one, The Chosen are playing mind games yes, using the identities of characters from another series to make everyone believe a new faction is in play and working independently from Ozpin's own to stop Salem.

We kind of thought this one up just a few hours ago and we decided to g ofor it since it has a LOT of potential for screwing with Cinder lol.

Either way, hope you enjoyed this chapter, because, as usual...

The Adventure Evolves.