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Weiss groggily opened her eyes from her bunk in her team's room. Though, it was earlier than the alarm she had set for her team to get some training done. When she heard Team JNPR were doing that too, she didn't want them to get stronger than Team RWBY; the Vytal Festival was still coming up when they returned home. It also helped that Ruby wanted to work on more team attacks. The ones they used against Torchwick and the stolen Paladin were...good, not that she would actually say that outloud for Yang to tease her, but Ruby did have good ideas to toss around.

But, why did it feel like she had an extra weight on her chest?

She may not have a...decent...rack like her friends (she was still growing, damn it!), but unless it was Ruby trying to wake her up early, or she magically grew some bigger boobs overnight, what could it actually be?

She rubbed the sleep out of eyes and drew her gaze down to her chest and she saw a pale green slime blob on top of her with what looked like a baby pacifier where its mouth seemed to be.

"Ahhh!!" She propped herself up on her elbows and the blob jumped back a bit.

Her scream woke up her teammates, Blake recoiling at the screech with her cat ears and falling out of her bunk to the floor.

Ruby: "Weiss!! Are you ok?!" she called out from her top bunk.

Yang: "What's wrong, Ice Queen? I'm pretty sure this is way earlier than the alarm you set?" She glanced at her scroll, 2 hours earlier. "Yeah, much earlier."

Blake: "No wonder I still feel tired," she muttered from the floor.

Soon enough, the door bursted open, revealing Winter in her pajamas, her saber in her hand.

Winter: "Weiss, is everything alright?!"

Weiss blushed at seeing her sister, ready to defend her.

Everyone then noticed the addition to the room on Weiss' bunk.

Ruby dropped down from her bunk. "Is that...a baby Digimon?"

Yang: "It...looks like a blob of slime," holding Nyokimon in her arms.

Blake noticed Weiss' Digivice glow. "Looks like you're getting your own D-Spirit."

After the glow dispersed, Weiss picked it up.

D-Spirit-W: "New Digimon registered, Miss Schnee. Bubbmon."

Winter: "Bubbmon?" dropping her stance with a raised eyebrow.

Ruby: "I'll admit, it's different compared to the others," placing her hands on her hips.

Weiss went to reach out to hold Bubbmon, and hesitated once its eyes fell back on her, but when he didn't do anything else, she was able to grasp him and place him into her lap. "He's...not as slimy as I expected."

Blake: "Well that's comforting. At least he won't be leaving as much of a slime trail whenever he moves around."

Yang: "Yeah, that wouldn't be fun to clean up."

Winter looked down at the green fresh Digimon, who had also looked over at her, but with a look of understanding the importance of her just like her sister was to him. "I may not always be around to protect Weiss, so I hope you could fill that void, Bubbmon."

Ruby: "Hey, I have a theory."

Weiss smirked. "You have a theory? This oughta be good."

The red reaper pouted. "These Digivices already know the names of the fresh forms of our partner Digimon once they hatch, right?" She was met with some nods. "Well, shouldn't they also have the names of the forms that come after?"

Blake: "That's...actually a good theory."

Winter: "It has some merit."

Yang: "No offense, Rubes, but I doubt Hedge would have these programmed to tell us what they would evolve into." She finagled with her D-Spirit, finding the Digimon entry for Nyokimon, but when she looked specifically for her evolutions, she was met with some question marks. "Yeah, I just looked for Nyoki's evolutions, but all it showed was just blanks."

Weiss: "Which means I'd probably find the same with Bubbmon's, and the same with Pyrrha and Nora for theirs."

Blake: "No doubt spoilers for what we may see further in the story."

Winter: "Didn't Hedge say there are Digimon that had multiple evolution lines? That could stem from even the fresh form."

Ruby: "Okay, that theory has more hold than mine does."

Yang: "For all we know, our partner Digimon could be the same as the ones our others have on screen."

That could be true too, but until they evolved to their baby and child forms, they'd have to keep an open mind.

Weiss: "Thanks for checking in on me, Winter. We were planning on getting some training done for a bit. Do you want to join us?"

Winter was surprised she was being invited to train with her sister and her team. She hasn't done any training with Weiss for a long time, and she really wanted to see how well her sister was doing with their semblance's intricacies, especially regarding summoning. But she also knew how important not getting rusty while they were here in Hedge's dimension was important too. "Sure, I shall join you. I have wanted to see how well you have done with using your semblance since last I saw you."

Weiss winced internally, as she knew what Winter was really referring to. Her sister had essentially perfected the art of summoning, but Weiss would always have trouble being able to even summon a mere Beowolf.

Maybe...maybe she could get some help for that.

After everyone freshened up, ate breakfast, and met the new Bubbmon, everyone moved back over to the theater room to start up the next chapter.

To be expected, Hedge didn't tell them what their partners would evolve into and it would just happen naturally.

The TV booted up once more.

Electric Shock! Kabuterimon!

No one gave any commentary on that title. Tentomon was the only Digimon that had electric-based attacks, so it was obvious it was him that was going to evolve. The real question was what was going to happen to Weiss to cause it?

Team RWBY and Winter weren't exactly wishing to see that.

"Okay, so according to the Yokomon, the factory should be just over that hill," Gyro mused as they were walking in the early morning, having spent the night camping out by the Yokomon village. By now they'd exited the savannahs and were in grassy hills again.

Jaune: "That's good. At least we'll have the trees to block the sun."

Ren: "We'd probably still want to be wary of our supplies. Wouldn't want to run out even after we deal with Andromon."

"Still, its incredible how drastically the landscape can change here. Its as if we left Vacuo and suddenly ended up in Vale with how sudden the changes were," Weiss mused as they walked...until she idly looked at her scroll and blinked. "Huh?"

Qrow: "I probably would've said Vacuo then turning into Mistral given how Anima is. But I can see the reasoning behind that given how large Saunus is."

"Something wrong?" Tentomon asked.

"That's strange… it looks like my scroll is working perfectly fine again." she noted.

Ozpin: "That's good to hear, but I doubt you'd be able to try calling anyone from Remnant."

Glynda: "Still, being able to use all functions a scroll has would be beneficial."

When they had found that they could at the very least contact each other, they also learned that it was pretty much the only option available to them, as apparently it took everything for their scrolls to do just that.

But now, it seemed to be working at full capacity.

"Well, maybe we can find something interesting then." Gyro said, about to pull out his own scroll.

"I'll handle it, most scrolls are manufactured in Atlas, so I've got a good idea how they work." Weiss told him with a raised hand.

Ruby raised an eyebrow. "Is that actually true?"

Ironwood: "Well the first CCT tower was built in Atlas."

Winter: "So it's not hard to deduce that Atlas also constructed the scrolls as well."

Weiss looked over at her leader. "How could you forget that? I literally told you about the first CCT when we did our investigation."

Ruby blinked before she realized. "Oh yeah, that honestly feels so long ago since we did that."

Weiss: "You're not wrong." The weird time manipulation of Hedge's dimension must have some effect on that.

Gyro blinked at that, before shrugging "If you say so." he said, before reaching into his pouch and pulling out a black marker and a notepad, handing them to her "Here, in case you need to take notes and it stops working."

"Right. Thanks," Weiss nodded, taking the offered items.

"Hey, I see smoke up ahead!" Salamon suddenly said, to which they looked and noticed that yes, there was smoke wafting into the air.

"Let's hope that that's the factory and not a forest fire," Jaune said as they continued walking.

Blake sweat dropped. "Hopefully Agumon or Biyomon don't need to use their fire based attacks to clear a path."

Eventually they reached the edge of the hill...and saw their destination. "Whoa, that's one big factory," Ruby commented at the sight of the sprawling facility.

"It's so big you almost think there's a huge group of workers in there." Pierce said.

Pyrrha: "Probably more than your average factory on Remnant."

Winter: "Or that of an SDC one."

"There isn't though, from what we've heard Andromon is the only one here." Veemon told his partner.

"So he's living in this big place all alone? Sounds pretty lonely," Nora frowned.

Qrow: "Not many people would see it that way and would probably understand his reasoning for doing so," he shrugged.

"Keep in mind, if the pattern holds, this is a good thing," Gyro reminded. "He's probably infected with a Black Gear, so the fact nobody else is there, means we don't have to worry about innocent bystanders."

"We'll have to be careful going in." Ren said.

"Right, he could be anywhere in the factory." Wormmon agreed with a nod.

Yang grunted. "Great, it'll be like finding a needle in a haystack."

"Maybe we should split into two groups, and each group has two of the Digimon that can evolve with them, just in case." Blake suggested.

Glynda: "Considering he's a perfect level, it's best to have some with access to the Adult level to try and go toe to toe with him in both groups."

Weiss: "The real question is if even with the Adult level, can we beat him?"

"Sounds reasonable to me," Yang nodded.

"Same here," Ruby agreed.

"Seems like a good idea," Weiss agreed as well.

"It's settled then. Who's going with who?" Gyro nodded.

After a short deliberation, the groups were divided into team A, consisting of Ruby, Palmon, Weiss, Tentomon, Gyro, Agumon, Blake, Patamon, Yang, and Biyomon; and team B, consisting of Jaune, Gomamon, Nora, Salamon, Pyrrha, Gabumon, Pierce, Veemon, Ren, and Wormmon.

The twins did find it a bit interesting how they had essentially been split into teams RWBY and JNPR, along with the two of them as tagalongs.

Ruby: "That's right. We were never officially deemed as such before we got swept into the Digital World."

Jaune: "I hope we'll still be placed as such."

Ozpin: "You probably will, though, it probably won't be known as 'Team RWBY' given Gyro's presence."

Glynda: "And there wouldn't be any pronunciation changes to Juniper. You'd just have an extra P in the acronym."

As the teams entered the factory, the first thing they found was what appeared to be a fully automated assembly line, though what it was making...was anyone's guess.

Ironwood: "What could be being made here?"

Qrow: "Beats me."

"Strange contraption," Blake mused at the sight of the object seemingly being put together.

"Looks like there are two sides of the factory. Guess we'll go this way then," Jaune said, to which his group started moving down one path.

"If anyone runs into trouble, give the others a call, and run back here, okay?" Ruby said.

"Yeah, that sounds fair," Pyrrha nodded.

"Later, bro," Pierce waved, before their group went deeper into the factory.

"Alright, let's see what we find on this side." Gyro said as his own group started walking.

"I hope if we find Andromon, the Black Gear didn't get to him." Agumon mused.

Yang: "Anyone want to bet which group finds Andromon?" A smirk on her face.

Glynda face palmed. "Miss Xiao Long..."

Nora: "50 lien on Team JNPPR finding Andromon first!" Slamming her lien onto the middle table.

Ren: "Nora..."

Weiss: "20 lien on Team RWGBY finding him first."

Ruby: "Same as Weiss."

Jaune shrugged. "Ah what the heck, 15 lien for us."

Qrow and Winter also put 10 lien in for Team RWGBY finding Andromon.

Yang: "25 lien for Team RWGBY."

Hedge: "Any other bets?" he asked jokingly.

Ironwood, Glynda, and Ozpin denied. Hedge conjured up the bet lien into a sphere and had it in his possesion until the moment came.

"I doubt we'll be that lucky." Patamon said.

"If we do find him, we'll have to think of a way to trap him somewhere so we can pull the gear out of him." Palmon threw in a makeshift plan.

"Or at least find out where in his body the gear is so we can do a precision strike." Tentomon countered.

"Yeah, just like I did yesterday with Meramon." Biyomon added with a nod.

"Let's just be glad the gears are an obvious weak spot," Yang said, pinching the bridge of her nose. "If it weren't for that, I think we might be in trouble here."

Ren: "Especially because a Perfect level is the equivalent to 5 Adult levels. Adding on a Black Gear could put them up to more."

Jaune: "And if the Black Gear couldn't be destroyed from a direct strike, it'd take longer to take down a Perfect at just the Adult level."

Weiss: "Leading to our Digimon tiring out."

"Yeah, at least now we have a plan," Weiss said, before noticing a room labeled 'power room'. Curiosity taking hold, she opened the door...and blinked at the sight. "Okay...this is just getting weird…"

Ironwood rubbed his temples and sighed. "Should we prepare our brains?"

Hedge chuckled. "I mean, that's totally up to you."

Reluctantly, they prepared to see something really out of the ordinary.

"What is it?" Tentomon asked as they all looked at what she saw...and the huntsmen blinked in confusion.

"Is… is that a giant battery?" Ruby said after a moment.

"Yes… yes it is." Gyro said, bewildered.

"So this entire factory...is being powered by a giant battery?" Yang said slowly, as if trying to wrap her head around the concept. Eventually she just lifted her arms in surrender. "I quit. I'm done trying to figure out how this world works," she deadpanned.

The audience wasn't too far behind.

Winter: "How can a single battery power an ENTIRE factory all by itself?"

Glynda: "That shouldn't even be feasibly possible."

Nora: "And yet, somehow, it is," even she was at a loss for words.

"Well I'm not," Weiss frowned, examining the battery. "There HAS to be a logical explanation for how this battery can somehow power this entire factory to the point of complete automation," she said as she started looking around the battery for any signs of what was making it work the way it did.

Yang: "Weiss, quit being a nerd. I don't even think you could figure out how things make sense there."

Weiss huffed and crossed her arms. "Well one of us has to be the smart one and understand how things work there. Might as well be me."

Yang: "Then I guess your nickname would be the 'Ice Nerd' then."

Weiss' face turned red and she snapped at her teammate. "You wouldn't dare!"

"You sure you want to look this over?" Gyro asked her, raising an eyebrow at her.

"Positive." she said, before turning to the rest "You can go on ahead, Tentomon and I will stay here and try to figure this out."

"Okay, but if anything happens, call us," Ruby said, earning a nod from the heiress before they left her and her partner to their own devices.

Meanwhile, Team B was walking through the other side of the factory, on their guard in case Andromon showed up out of the blue.

"You know, this place is kind of creepy with no one around." Jaune said, looking around worriedly.

"Tell me about it, you'd think the machines make it better, but they just make it creepier." Gomamon couldn't help but agree with him.

Jaune groaned. "Why am I reminded of every horror movie/game in existence?"

Ruby/Yang: "Same."

Blake: "Doesn't help that we split off from a single person, even though that person does have someone else with them," referring to Weiss and Tentomon.

"As long as you don't say something like 'Let's split up gang', I think we'll be just fine," Pierce said with a light snicker.

Jaune quirked an eyebrow at that. "WHY in Oum's name would I suggest something so colossally stupid in this situation?"

"I'm not saying that. This just reminded me too much of an old saturday morning cartoon from Earth where the blonde leader of the team REGULARLY told his team to do that when they were investigating a HAUNTED house," Pierce explained.

At that everyone, even Nora, stopped and looked at him with a dry expression.

"Wow, that guy must have been a real idiot," Veemon said, summing up their collective thoughts very well.

"Considering how the cowards of the group were the only ones that reacted logically to everything, yeah, basically." Pierce said with a shrug.

Hedge: "The name of the cartoon was Scooby-Doo. Which, fun fact, wasn't even the name of one of the humans of the group. It was actually the name of the dog." A picture with all members of the group, two women and two men, along with a brown Great Dane with a few black spots on his body, in front of a green van with the words "Mystery Machine" on the side. "The blonde is Fred, orange-haired girl is Daphne, the other female Velma, and the other guy is Shaggy. They would drive around in their Mystery Machine van to different towns and deal with any type of mystery that would be happening there, whether that be someone trying to play a prank on the town, to even dealing with the paranormal."

Ironwood: "Hold up. You're telling me they even deal with things...like ghosts?" Not realy believing that.

"Yes."

Ironwood: "I don't believe that."

Qrow: "Jimmy, it's a cartoon."

Glynda: "While I may even find that far fetched, I can see anything being possible in a cartoon of all things."

Jaune: "Still though," eyeing Fred, "how can anyone in the leader position ever suggest to split everyone up?"

Hedge: "You'd be surprised. There are moments where that suggestion leads them to finding out what's causing everything to happen. Does it always work? No, but it does have its moments."

"...how about we keep moving on?" Pyrrha suggested, earning a few nods of agreement.

After walking down what seemed like another endless hallway, they came upon a room full of machinery...an an odd being lying on the ground. "I'm guessing this is Andromon?" Ren guessed, looking at the literal android that was made up of mostly metal, though some flesh was also visible. It was interesting how his helmet and shoulder pads were in the shape of metal skulls however.

Nora cackled. "Haha! Team JNPPR is victorious!" While Hedge passed out the winnings to Nora and Jaune.

Yang: "Yeah, yeah. Enjoy your victory while it lasts."

Ruby: "Remind me again who has more victories between our teams?"

Jaune: "Them's fighting words, Rose. Think you can back that up?"

Weiss: "Only if you think you can step up to the plate, Arc."

Ozpin: "How about you settle it in the Vytal Festival?" A hint of amusement in his voice.

"Is he stuck?" Nora asked, noting that Andromon's lower body seemed stuck inside the machinery.

"Looks like it," Salamon said.

"Think we should help him get out?" Wormmon asked.

"Normally I'd say yes, but I'm honestly worried about what happens if he IS infected," Jaune frowned.

Ironwood: "Right, it would probably be best to find the Black Gear first, destroy it, then help him get out of the machinery."

Pyrrha: "That's of course if we can find it before he wakes up."

Qrow: "Better get on it then."

"Ah yes...the old sucker dilemma," Pierce nodded. "Help him or not help him. If we don't, we feel like douches. If we do, he might try to kill us."

Silence for a moment "It says a lot about me I'd rather have someone try to kill me than feel like an asshole." Jaune said with a sigh.

Ruby didn't even need to say anything as a lien card landed in her lap.

Jaune: "I'm not even going to fight that one."

She plopped the lien into her jar.

Winter: "If anything, Mr. Arc, that's the Huntsman side of you talking, which is a good thing."

"Let's try and get him out then." Gabumon said as everyone grabbed onto whatever they could of the android and started pulling as hard as they could.

Unfortunately, in the midst of the struggle, Nora's hand slipped, and she stumbled back and accidentally hit a lever, which caused the machines to turn on...though it seemed the moving machines actually made pulling Andromon out a little easier.

Everyone turned to the bubbly girl.

Nora shrugged. "Uh...oops?"

Ruby: "Now hold on, this could be a good thing," she said in Nora's defense.

"Thanks Nora," Jaune said as they started to be able to pull Andromon out more easily.

"Your welcome," she said.

Eventually they got him out completely, but he was still seemingly unconscious.

"Okay...now what do we do?" Jaune blinked.

Blake: "Anyone know how to wake up a machine/android?"

Nora: "An electric shock maybe?"

Weiss: "That...actually could work."

"I'm guessing walking away while he's still unconscious isn't an option?" Gomamon half joked.

"Definitely not," Veemon deadpanned.

Pyrrha: "What type of Huntsmen and Huntresses would we be if we just left him there after freeing him?"

Ren: "Not a good one."

"Though...he's not really waking up," Ren commented, as he was currently poking the side of Andromon's head.

"Hold on, I usually do this for Gyro, so who knows, maybe it works." Pierce said with a grin, before standing up, clearing his throat, and suddenly stomping the ground, producing a rather loud metallic clang "GOOOOOOD MOOOOOOOORNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!"

Blake hissed at Pierce's yell.

The group waited for a few moments...but nothing happened.

"Wow...he's a real heavy sleeper," Pierce said with a huge sweatdrop.

Ruby looked over at her sister with a giggle. "Who's a heavier sleeper? Andromon or dad?"

Yang snorted. "That's a tough one."

"Step aside, there's only one way to handle a machine that isn't responding," Nora grinned.

"Uh...Nora? I don't like that look on your face…" Salamon groaned. She had a feeling her partner was about to do something stupid.

"Hey! That's what Ren said when I tamed that Ursa the other day." She said with her usual bright grin.

"Oh dear Oum please don't remind me of that." Pierce said with a groan.

Ren: "Right, Pierce was along for the ride."

Taking a moment to just giggle, Nora started winding her fist up, before bringing it down on top of Andromon's head.

She seemed frozen in the pose for a moment, before quickly pulled her hand away and cradling it, whining to herself about how hard his head was.

"Nora, you shouldn't hit unconscious Digimon," Salamon scolded. "But is your hand okay?"

"I'm okay. But man, he's harder than any Grimm armor I've ever tried hitting," Nora said.

Ironwood and Winter looked warily at Nora, still wondering what goes on in her head.

"That's not comforting at all," Jaune deadpanned...right before he felt something cold and metallic grab his leg. "...of course…"

Jaune: "Oh boy, here we go."

He didn't even have time to look down, as he ended up being lifted into the air by his leg, hanging upside down and staring right at Andromon's chest armor.

"Why does that look like it opens up?" he said, noticing the hinges on the bottom of it.

Yang: "Wait, does that mean he has flesh underneath his armor?"

Weiss: "Possibly."

"Intruders...detected," Andromon said, his voice completely drone-like.

Pyrrha: "Okay, that voice is kind of creepy."

Digimon Analyzer: Andromon

Andromon. Vaccine Type. A Perfect Level Cyborg Digimon. Designed as a prototype for cyborg based Digimon, his technology would later go on to be used for other Digimon. He acts as a stoic guardian, and is known to not be the kind to seek out conflict. His special attacks are Spiral Sword, making his right hand spin into a drill which launches a wave of energy, and Gatling Missile, firing a pair of missile from his chest that hide gatling guns within them.

Ozpin: "And because of the Black Gear, he'll actually seek out conflict."

"All he needs is a leather jacket and we'd have a Terminator on our hands." Pierce muttered, mostly to himself. "But more importantly...hands off our friend tin can!" he said, grabbing a piece of broken metal and throwing it at Andromon, hitting him on the head. Unsurprisingly, all that did was draw the Digimon's attention to him.

Ironwood: "Terminator? Why do I not like the sound of that?"

Hedge: "Because it's not a good thing, despite it starting out as one. Long story short, humanity had decided to create romote AI to help the world. However, the AI essentially became sentient and had decided that it was superior to its creators, and went on a worldwide purge, leaving only machine as the ruler. A resistance was formed and it's leader was able to take it down, but the AI had sent a Terminator into the past, it's sole directive to eliminate the person who would birth the Resistance leader, or the leader themselves while they were younger, depending on the movie."

Everyone was shocked at that, Ironwood especially. He and the rest of Atlas have been wanting to remove the human piece of war and have just the Atlesian Knights fight. But to hear that the AI had become sentient and decided to rebel against humanity? He dreaded that ever happening.

Qrow: "Still thinking about using your tin cans, Jimmy?"

Thankfully, he wasn't really attacked… unless getting Jaune thrown at him and having to catch him with Veemon's help counted as being attacked.

"If this was the plan...thanks…" Jaune groaned. While he wasn't a fan of being bodily thrown...it beat being held upside down by a killer robot.

Jaune: "Not sure how being a ragdoll is any better, but it's better than being dead outright."

"Yeah, well, hope someone has an ACTUAL plan, cuz I ain't punching him again, I'm not that crazy." Nora said as they all eyed Andromon warily.

"What do we do now?" Veemon asked.

"How about we run?" Jaune suggested.

Weiss: "A wise plan, Jaune."

Nora: "He is leader for a reason."

"I can get behind that plan," Wormmon piped up, and with that, they all did an about face, and ran like hell, Andromon soon following after them...but not before Pierce noticed something.

"Pyrrha, metal bars!" he said quickly.

Pyrrha saw the bars dangling over Andromon, and nodded. "Got it!" she said, activating her semblance, and causing the bars to fall on Andromon, the Digimon pinned down, but didn't seem the least bit damaged. "I think it's safe to say we need to find where the Gear is infecting him. I don't think any of our attacks are going to be able to get through that armor," she said as they ran.

Ruby: "Could it be...in his flesh underneath his armor?"

Ren: "It's possible, but we'd have to use something that could penetrate his armor."

Ozpin: "Maybe you wouldn't need to penetrate the armor."

Glynda: "What are you saying, Professor?"

Qrow: "It makes sense. I mean look at him, he has points of his armor where you can see his flesh. Maybe the gear hit one of those spots."

Back with Weiss, she was almost done observing the giant battery, not really finding anything of note, that is, until she reached the back of it "Is… is this a door?" she said incredulously.

"That's definitely not something you see everyday." Tentomon said as he hovered behind her.

Weiss: "Took the words out of my mouth."

"It definitely isn't," Weiss said, before prying the door open. When she stepped in she blinked at the sight that awaited her. The inside of the battery was completely hollow, but the walls were covered from top to bottom in strange symbols, and if she wasn't mistaken, more than a few computer codes.

Winter: "I'd imagine Pietro would be thrilled to see all of this."

Ironwood: "I agree."

Ruby: "Pietro?"

Winter: "Dr. Pietro Polendina, a well-knowned scientist in Atlas. He works on a lot of Atlas' big projects, including that of Amity Coliseum."

Ruby thought about that. Penny had mentioned about her father, but she never said his name. Now she has one to the person who created her robot friend alongside the General.

"This... " she couldn't think of anything to say as she tried to wrap her head around it.

"Can you understand any of this?" Tentomon asked her.

"Some of it." Weiss admitted after a few moments of looking at it all, before standing in front of a specific section "Except for this part. I've never seen this before."

Blake: "You saying you've seen code before Weiss?"

Weiss: "Maybe not as much as my other has, but I have learned a bit to properly code and understand parts of it."

Yang: "You know we won't stop calling you a nerd, right?"

Weiss: "Do you mean only you won't stop calling me one?"

"Guilty as charged."

Tentomon hovered up, looking right over her shoulder "Well, I know WHAT it is, but not what it means. It's Digicode, the written language here… but none of us know how to write it, we were never taught."

Weiss frowned at that, but then she got an idea. "Wait, if you can read it, then maybe we can decipher it together. Mind lending me a hand, Tentomon?"

Ruby: "Awesome, if Weiss and Tentomon could figure out how to understand the Digicode, we'll be able to bypass any firewall that impedes us!"

Weiss: "Assuming whomever created said firewalls didn't place any countermeasures."

Nora: "Maybe she could even hack past any firewalls on Remnant."

Ironwood: "I highly suggest she doesn't do that."

Jaune: "How about only when necessary?" he compromised.

Ironwood sighed. "Ok, I can agree to that."

"Of course," Tentomon nodded as the two of them went to work. Weiss began compiling the data into her scroll, while asking Tentomon about the sections she couldn't understand, and deciphering them into her scroll as well. Before long, she found a program was being formed in her scroll based on the data they were acquiring.

"This is...really strange…" she couldn't help but say, taking a moment to look away from the data and examine the wall more closely. Idly brushing a hand against it...she was understandably surprised when the bit her finger touched was rubbed off. Then the lights went out.

"What the?!" Ruby said in alarm, as the light suddenly went out where they were.

Winter: "I think you erased some of the code, Weiss."

Glynda: "And somehow that also knocked out the power to the whole factory."

Yang: "Do we think that also turned off Andromon?"

Ozpin: "Not unless he was connected to the factory's power source."

Jaune: "So we probably still have a killer robot Digimon on our tail. Lovely."

"Someone or something must have cut all the power in the factory," Blake said in surprise, noting that even the production lines had stopped working thanks to her kinds' night vision.

RWYJNPR: "Rub it in, Blake."

Her cat ears drooped to her head.

"Everyone stay together. The last thing we want is to-"Gyro started, before…

"Ow! My nose!" Yang shouted as she'd accidentally bumped into a pillar when she tried to walk in the dark.

Yang: "Can someone please just turn their light on from their scroll?"

"I think we should all stay put till the lights come back on…" Palmon said simply, earning a few sounds of agreement from the others.

"...okay, someone turned out the lights…" Pierce deadpanned as they had been in the middle of running and suddenly the lights went out.

"Maybe without the lights he won't notice we're here?" Gabumon said hopefully.

"I wouldn't count on it," Pyrrha sighed. "It's fairly common these days for machines to have some kind of night vision."

Qrow: "I think you just jinxed it, Nikos."

Pyrrha: "No doubt there."

As if in confirmation of her words…

"Spiral...Sword!" came Andromon's voice, and a section of the wall exploded from the attack.

Nora: "Holy Oum!"

"Run for it!" Jaune shouted, and nobody argued as they started running despite the darkness.

"Seems like all power in the factory has stopped," Tentomon said, peeking outside.

Winter deadpanned. "You don't say?"

"Did this happen because I erased part of the code?" Weiss blinked in surprise, using her Scroll's light to find where she had erased the bit of code.

"Could be. You might have disrupted whatever about those codes was powering the factory. It might be best if you tried fixing it," Tentomon nodded.

Glynda: "Not sure if that's wise, all things considered."

Ironwood: "Better than running in the dark."

"You're probably right," Weiss conceded, but then a new problem came up to her. How was she going to fix this? Then a thought crossed her mind. Taking out the marker that Gyro had given her, she carefully fixed the bit of code she'd erased by accident...and winced as the power went on instantly. "Huh…that was surprisingly easy…"

Weiss blinked at her other fixing the Digicode in a matter of minutes. "That...didn't seem too hard."

Ozpin: "No, James, you can't get her to transfer over to Atlas."

Ironwood sputtered at that. "I wasn't even going to ask that."

Ozpin: "But you were thinking it."

Ironwood didn't deny that. He actually was.

"Huh...that was fast," Biyomon blinked as the lights suddenly came back on.

"Wonder what could have caused it," Agumon blinked.

"If I had to guess, Weiss was fiddling with something," Gyro blinked. "I mean, she WAS in the power room."

Ruby: "I mean it's not like she intended to do that," she defended her bestie.

"Should we head back?" Patamon wondered.

"We don't really need to, besides, if there was trouble, someone would have called." Blake said simply.

Jaune: "See about that..."

And any further conversation was halted as Gyro's scroll started ringing, looking at Blake dryly "Don't ever tempt fate again." he said, Blake looking away with a slight tinting to her cheeks as Gyro grabbed his scroll and brought it to his head as he opened it "And the problem is?" was the first thing he said.

Yang laughs. "He just knows something is wrong."

"Andromon's after us and his hand can turn into a spinning sword!" came Pierce's panicky voice from the other end.

"That's not good." Yang said with a wince.

"Where are you guys?" Patamon asked quickly, flapping over to Gyro's shoulder.

A few screams and an explosion were heard before Ren started talking. "We're on a bridge in what looks like a chemical plant!" cue another explosion. "Follow the sound of destruction and you'll find us!"

And with that the call was abruptly ended.

Blake: "So everything has gone to hell pretty quickly."

Nora: "Weiss, we need Tentomon to evolve!"

Weiss blanched. "Are you asking for me to get hurt or something?" Winter wasn't too happy either.

Nora sweat dropped. "Uh...not necessarily?"

The group looked at each other, before running in the opposite direction they were going. "Should we grab Weiss along the way?" Ruby asked.

"No time. We'll have to call her and ask her to meet up with us!" Gyro said.

Meanwhile, Weiss and Tentomon were continuing to try and decode the data, and before long, they'd almost finished. "You certainly seem to be having fun, Weiss," Tentomon said, and if he could, he would no doubt be smiling right now.

"I'll admit, this isn't something I usually do, but now that we've gotten this far, it's actually quite fascinating," Weiss said. "These codes actually act like a program to startup a system, which somehow translates to being the literal power source for the entire factory. In fact, as long as the codes are intact, I'd wager this factory could run by itself for an indefinite amount of time."

"Nerd!" This time, Nora joined in the teasing.

Weiss thought about this. "Maybe I should try to learn more about coding."

"Seems rather complicated," Tentomon folded his arms.

"It can be. But I'm happy that I'm starting to finally make sense of how this world works, and in retrospect, it should have been so obvious," Weiss nodded. "This is the DIGITAL world. If this world was made up of data and information, then it should make sense that codes and programs would have an affect on the world itself rather than just inside of machines. In fact, just a little more and…" she trailed off as she finished the code...and suddenly the data started to react, seemingly moving and shifting on the screen. However, before she could make sense of it…

"W-Weiss!" Tentomon's alarmed...and pained voice called her name.

Hearing the tone, her head immediately snapped towards her partner, only to find him flailing around, the small cracks in between parts of his carapace glowing and letting off some steam.

Weiss: "Tentomon!"

Ren: "Is it the program causing this?"

Ozpin: I don't see any other reason why, but I'm curious why it's affecting Tentomon when the code is inputted in Miss Schnee's scroll and not her Digivice."

And then her attention was brought elsewhere, as she felt the Digivice hooked against the belt on the back of her dress start to vibrate, grabbing it to see that the screen had several full bars on it. She would be lying if she said she wasn't curious as to what was happening, but the more important fact was that whatever it was, it was clearly causing Tentomon pain, and that made it not worth trying to figure out at the moment. "Hang on, Tentomon!" she said, before forcing her scroll to restart, stopping the program, and with it, ending the phenomena happening to Tentomon and her Digivice.

"Glad that's over…" Tentomon said as he sagged a little, while Weiss was looking at her Digivice in suspicion. What was that? And why did the reaction happen?

Ironwood: "Could it be because they're both electrical devices?"

Glynda: "That or because both of them hold Digicode in them."

Weiss: "Whatever the case, I don't want Tentomon to be hurt because of it."

However, before she could dwell on it, her scroll suddenly started to vibrate as a call was coming through from Ruby. Answering the call…

"Pierce and the others are in danger! Andromon WAS infected! We're going to help them, come quick!" was what Ruby said, not even giving Weiss a chance to say anything. Normally she'd have been a little annoyed at that, but considering the circumstances...she could accept it this time.

Ruby sighed at that. "Sorry Weiss."

Weiss: "It's ok, Ruby. Everyone's safety is more important than something small like that."

"Let's go Tentomon!" Weiss said as she quickly ran back out of the power room, Tentomon buzzing in the air right behind her, having quickly recovered from his brief ordeal.

"Oh jeez I can't believe that worked!" Jaune panted out as the group finally had a chance to rest, having managed to stall Andromon behind them for a bit.

Jaune: "What did we do?" actually curious how they got away from Andromon.

When they'd been in the chemical plant area, then ended up in a rather precarious situation where they were hanging off by the rails on the bridge, Andromon stalking towards them to no doubt make them fall off, but thankfully, Ren had noticed something that ended up saving them.

A crane platform.

He'd jumped off the bridge and onto the platform, quickly figuring out the controls as he hooked Andromon and lifted him up, before leaving him dangling as far away from the bridge as possible.

Nora: "Good find, Renny."

Ren chuckled. "Who would've thought a crane platform would be the thing to stop a Perfect level?"

"Yeah, well, I don't think we can expect it to work a second time." Gomamon said, hanging onto his back.

"Then we'd better meet up with the others before that happens," Pierce said.

"Hope they can find us. This factory is like a maze," Veemon frowned as they continued on their way, aiming to get as much distance from Andromon as they could.

After a while more, they found themselves in a rather spacious area, something a connecting area between sections of the factory. "Well...at least if we get into a fight here there'll be lots of room," Salamon commented.

Pyrrha: "Don't think we really want a fight, Salamon."

Qrow: "I'd say it's inevitable though given the Black Gear."

"Hopefully it won't come to that though. At least not before we meet up with the others," Pyrrha sighed. She didn't want to send her friend or Salamon up against an opponent that was supposed to completely outclass them if she could help it.

"Hey guys!" they heard from a little ways up, looking to see the others, minus Weiss and Tentomon, standing on a bridge just a few feet above them.

A moment later, the group landed down next to them.

"So, where are Weiss and Tentomon?" Gabumon asked as he looked around.

Weiss: "On our way."

"Weiss ended up staying in the power room for a bit, she should be on her way though." Ruby answered, Jaune's group nodding in understanding.

"Alright, we managed to leave Andromon LITERALLY hanging, but I doubt its gonna stop him for long. Heck, for all we know, he's already…" Pierce tried to explain, but before he could finish, a section of the ground exploded and out came Andromon. "Nevermind. Mr. Terminator is back!"

"Not even gonna bother being angry because for once that's not a joke." Gyro muttered from next to his brother.

Hedge: "In the earlier Terminator movies, one of them actually broke free from their programming and had actually decided to protect the person they were originally programmed to terminate, and would end up fighting against another Terminator, sometimes even a model better than what they are."

Sadly, Andromon didn't give them any more time. "Gatling Missile!" he announced, as his chest plate opened up, revealing two holes in it, which were quickly loaded with a pair of orange piranha like missiles.

Students: "Ew!"

Qrow: "Ok, that's some nightmare fuel."

Winter: "Hate to do so, but I agree with you."

"Okay, that's creepy and a little disgusting! Hit the deck!" Jaune said quickly as they dove out of the way of the missiles were launched. At first it seemed like they'd managed to avoid them...but then the missiles revealed that they were GUIDED missiles, and on top of that, the 'Gatling' part made itself known as the 'mouths' of the missiles opened, and out came a gatling gun for each, opening fire and forcing them to run to avoid being riddled with bullets. However, in the midst of the chaos, Agumon and Gabumon managed to break away from the gunfire, and ran towards the missiles.

At that moment both Gyro and Pyrrha's Digivices shined brightly, as their partners started to glow as well.

The waterfalls of data came down, but this time both showed an image of Greymon and Garurumon respectively, before they were soon absorbed into the corresponding Digimon.

"Agumon, Evolution! Greymon!"

"Gabumon, Evolution! Garurumon!"

Pyrrha: "Be careful, Garurumon." She may like a challenge when fighting, but that's against other humans and faunus. Here? This was a whole different level.

The missiles were soon destroyed by a strike from the two Adult Digimon, and quickly turning their sights on Andromon, lunged for him...only for him to grab Garurumon, and throw him into Greymon, knocking them both over the edge and down to the ground below, before Andromon soon jumped down after them.

Glynda: "He didn't even break a sweat. He just threw them like there were nothing."

Jaune: "Is there really that big of a gap between the Adult and Perfect level?"

Hedge: "Not exactly." They whipped their heads towards him. "Not all Digimon at the higher levels means they are stronger than the lower ones. That's all I say on the matter."

"Well, that's not good." Gyro said as he ran to the edge and looked down, seeing Greymon and Garurumon practically getting their asses handed to them.

It certainly wasn't helping that Andromon was cutting through their respective flames by simply swinging his arm through it.

"The power difference between their levels is too much!" Pyrrha said, worry on her face as she saw Garurumon take a Spiral Sword to the head.

"Maybe if we had more Adult levels things would be going easier." Ruby said as she frowned in worry.

Nora: "Well, we have Birdramon and Gatomon to join in."

Yang: "Still, a Perfect is equivalent to 5 Adults. He could still probably outclass us."

Weiss and Winter started to worry. If that was the case, it would mean something would have to happen to Weiss for Tentomon to evolve.

Ruby: "Urgh, if only we had our weapons, we'd be able to save Andromon a lot faster!"

Just as Andromon finished throwing Greymon by his tail, making him fall on top of Garurumon, his attention turned upwards, eyes locking onto the hunters as his chest opened again "Gatling Missile!" and once more the missile flew out, heading straight towards everyone.

Biyomon and Salamon both looked at each other, before quickly nodding as they jumped off the platform, at the same time as Yang and Nora's Digivices started glowing.

Once again the signal called for the lights that released a waterfall of data, images of Birdramon and Gatomon appearing for a moment before the data flowed into the two mon.

"Biyomon, Evolution! Birdramon!"

"Salamon, Evolution! Gatomon!"

Blake: "Gatomon can keep up with her speed and pepper Andromon with quick attacks."

Ironwood: "She is the fastest of all of them," he noted.

One of the missiles was knocked away by a large wing, while the other was cut apart by sharp claws, as the two Adult Digimon descended to help their friends, Birdramon grabbing Andromon by the shoulder and lifting him up a little before throwing him aside, giving Greymon and Garurumon time to recover.

Yang: "How's it feel to be ragdolled?"

Qrow: "Yang, I wouldn't antagonize the Perfect level that could probably best all of you."

"You two okay?" Gatomon asked.

"Feel like we just got hit by a Monochromon, but we'll live," Greymon said.

Considering how big those were when they saw them fighting over territory, they could believe it.

"But thanks for the assist. I think it's gonna take all of us to even start to stop him," Garurumon added.

"Then let's do this. Together!" Birdramon said as the four of them charged at Andromon. However, while their attacks were once again being fended off with little difficulty, Andromon clearly was having a harder time trying to deal with 4 Adult Digimon at the same time, so they'd started to be able to land more hits...but overall it seemed like this had only become a stalemate.

Pyrrha: "Well, things are going somewhat better."

Ren: "But how long can they keep this up before they get tired and revert back?"

Weiss: "Where am I and Tentomon?! We should be helping them!"

"This isn't good. They can only go on for so long before they need to get tired. And if they do…" Gyro said through gritted teeth.

"Everyone!" They all turned as they saw Weiss running out of an open door, quickly catching up to them.

Weiss: "It's about time we showed up."

"Well at least everyone's here now." Jaune said with a grimace.

Yang: "Now we can die together," she said jokingly the same phrase she used back during initiation.

Ruby: "Yang, not the time or place."

"Still doesn't help us deal with Andromon." Gomamon said with a frown.

"I doubt my net could slow him down." Wormmon said, trying to think of an idea.

Ren: "It worked with Thundermon, but that's only because he was smaller."

Winter: "He'd also be a lot heavier to hold back given his armor weight."

Weiss looked down into the area below, seeing the 4 Adult Level Digimon they had on their side putting Andromon in a stalemate, but even she could tell this likely wouldn't be ending in their favor.

That's when an idea started to come to her, remembering the code from earlier, how her Digivice had started acting up, in a similar manner to how all the others did when they had evolved so far.

She had to seriously think about this before even suggesting it, but eventually, she turned to Tentomon "I think I have a plan, that program from earlier may be able to help us, but only if you're ok with trying to use it again."

Ozpin: "Hmm, it seems we assumed too quickly on Miss Schnee being the one going through the harrowing experience."

Weiss: "But...can Tentomon power through the pain?"

Glynda: "He'd have to if he wants to evolve as well."

"If you think it can give us an advantage, then I'm willing to try." he said, doing his best to assure her it was ok.

Weiss nodded after a moment, smiling at her partner, before bringing out her scroll as she started to repeat the process from earlier.

Weiss: "Here goes nothing."

When the coding started twisting and moving all over the place on her screen, once more, the cracks in Tentomon's shell started to glow, as the Digimon grit his metaphorical teeth.

Ruby: "Come on Tentomon! Fight through it!"

Everyone else gave their own encouragements.

He was going to power through the pain, because this is what was needed to make sure his partner stayed safe!

(Play Brave Heart)

In response to his determination, and the extra power the program was creating, Weiss's Digivice shined brightly, releasing the signal that called forth the light and the waterfall of data which soon entered Tentomon.

"Tentomon, Evolution!" he called out before he transformed. "Kabuterimon!" Gone was the little ladybug, and in his place was a large rhinoceros beetle, with a dark blue carapace covering his body, his head being adorned with a grey helmet that hid his eyes and had a single sharp horn on it, his four wings standing out in the open, no shell to cover them, but also allowing him to move at his fastest.

Weiss: "He did it," a smile on her face.

Yang: "whistle That's a gnarly evolution he's got."

Qrow: "I'll say."

Blake: "That should even the playing field, or even push it in our favor."

"Go! Kabuterimon!" Weiss called out, pointing at Andromon, something her now evolved partner was all too happy to oblige, as he rammed into Andromon, knocking him off balance a little before getting some range quickly.

Digimon Analyzer: Kabuterimon

Kabuterimon. Vaccine Type. An Adult Level Insectoid Digimon. Possessing ant like power relative to his size, and the defensive abilities of a beetle, he's one of the strongest insect like Digimon. He swoops down on his enemies with no mercy, using his now metallic horn to attack them. His special attack is Mega Blaster, firing an electric ball at his enemies.

Yang: "Shocking," she grinned. The others groaned.

Kabuterimon circled around again and this time rammed dead on into Andromon, the force, while stopped by the Perfect Level, was enough to dig a small trench into the ground. After a few moments, Andromon finally moved a little to the side, allowing Kabuterimon to gain a bit more distance again, while his distraction had given his friends time to regroup a little, while Andromon's attention was now focused on Kabuterimon.

Ironwood: "The same amount of force he's dishing out is now the same on the other side. Plus, he can't focus on all 5 of them at once."

Winter: "Which in turn will leave him wide open to attacks."

"Gatling Missiles!" Andromon declared as he launched two more missiles, though Kabuterimon proved to be a faster flyer than Birdramon, as he easily maneuvered around the missiles, causing them to collide into each other, exploding harmlessly in the air. At the same time, the other Digimon took advantage of Andromon's distraction, with Greymon ramming him from behind, causing him to stumble forward, while Gatomon landed a rapid series of kicks to his head, but he didn't seem to be TOO affected by it.

"Damn, all of them are ganging up on him and he's STILL barely feeling anything," Gyro growled.

"No choice then, we NEED to find where the gear is. With how strong his armor is, there's no other way," Weiss said.

"Wait...that's it!" Pyrrha said in realization.

"What's it?" Nora asked.

"His armor is so thick and strong...there's no way the black gear could have penetrated it normally," Pyrrha said. "That means, the only place it COULD have penetrated…" she trailed off as all of them looked at the cyborg Digimon...and noticed the only place that fit the criteria.

"His right leg! That's the only part of him without any armor!" Yang said.

Glynda: "You were right, Professor."

Ozpin: "And Qrow was right about his leg. I wouldn't be surprised if the gear tried to strike Andromon multiple times through his armor, only to finally succeed in striking him in the leg."

"Then we know where to attack," Weiss nodded. "Everyone, the Gear is in his right leg!"

"Right!" the 5 Adult Digimon nodded, but this proved a little harder than planned, as the fact remained Andromon wasn't exactly standing around like an idiot.

"Well if he's not going to stop…" Garurumon growled.

"We'll just have to MAKE him stop!" Birdramon agreed.

"Kabuterimon, the shot's on you!" Greymon said, before the four of them charged at Andromon, Birdramon tackling him from the front, before moving away...revealing Gatomon coming up behind, who grabbed onto his face and didn't plan to let go anytime soon.

Yang: "Ugh, anyone that has owned a cat probably knows how that feels."

Jaune: "Believe me, I do," he groaned.

At the same time, Greymon and Garurumon grabbed hold of his arms and used their weight to keep the stronger mon from moving, before Birdramon came back and landed on his shoulders, adding her weight to the mix. The end result was Andromon was now unable to see nor move properly, a chance Kabuterimon wasn't going to pass up. Positioning himself for a clean shot, he charged up his special attack. "Mega Blaster!" he called out, firing a massive blast of electric energy, the blast flying true, and striking Andromon dead on the right leg, the energy which was soon traveling through him forcing the others to let go, right before a Black Gear emerged from his leg, before dissolving in the air.

(Song end)

Ruby: "Woohoo! We managed to beat a Perfect level!"

Ren: "Which I'm pretty sure is no small feat."

It was like a weight had been lifted from the Perfect Level Digimon, as his body lost all signs of tension, before falling to his hands and knees, his eyes finally turning to normal "The evil has been deleted." was what the Adult Levels heard him say, before all of them reverted back to Child Level.

"He's ok guys!" Agumon shouted up at all the others, earning several sighs of relief.

A few minutes later, everyone had gathered down on the same level the fight had taken place.

"We really got lucky back there." Gyro said as they walked up to Andromon.

Weiss: "Pretty much, but I'd rather not have to fight another Perfect for awhile, thank you," getting some agreements from her friends.

"It is fortuitous that you did, had you not found where the Black Gear was hidden in my body, I fear to think what I could have done to you all." Andromon said, bowing his head in apology.

Nora: "Let's not and say we did."

"Do you remember what happened before the gear got stuck in you?" Jaune asked.

Andromon nodded "I had noticed that certain sections of the factory where only operating at 50% capacity, as such I had to ascertain the cause of this problem, finding that the Black Gear that would infect me had gotten stuck inside a set of gears, halting their movement. Sadly, I ended up going offline when I started to ease myself into the set of gears, as while the gear didn't enter my body, having it so close to my body made me malfunction. Once again I apologize for what I had nearly done."

"Hey, its cool. You weren't yourself. If anyone is to blame, its wherever or whoever these Black Gears are coming from," Gyro said with a friendly grin, something the others also agreed on.

Andromon smiled and nodded in thanks.

Pyrrha: "Hopefully we can find them quickly."

Ruby: "And stop them before they can infect more innocent Digimon."

A few more minutes passed, finding the group in front of a large open pipe "I have to apologize for my lack of relevant information in your search for your home, however, I do know of the fastest path to Mount Infinity." Andromon said, the hunters having explained their circumstances to him.

"I have a feeling it's through the sewers." Ren said dryly as he, and everyone else, were looking at what was obviously a sewer pipe.

Everyone sweat dropped at the path they would have to take.

Yang: "Oh my other is going to hate every moment of that." She may not be the one going through it, but she would pray for her other.

Weiss: "And there's no other way to it?" She considered herself a neat freak and a germaphobe, so she could also imagine her other not enjoying her time in the sewers.

Andromon simply nodded "It is, if you follow this path you will come upon Toy Town, where Monzaemon makes his residence, going through the town, you should end up finding a large hive after exiting. The hive is home to several FanBeemon, with a Waspmon acting as their guardian. A trail should lead you onto a mountain path afterwards, and finally, onto the base of Infinity Mountain."

Ironwood: "Well if the trend keeps up, then I think we know whom the next few Black Gears will infect."

They didn't like it, but they had to agree.

"Right, we'll keep that in mind, thanks," Ruby said with a nod.

"But before you leave, I must caution you regarding the Black Gears. While I was under its control, I could feel a malevolent will moving them. These are not random occurrences," he said gravely. "I must implore you to exercise the utmost caution on your journey, for any Digimon you encounter may well be under their control."

Blake: "Great. So someone is actually behind the gears."

Glynda: "All the more reason to find them and eliminate them."

"That's… definitely an issue, hopefully we can find whoever's controlling the gears before they do something a bit too grand scale." Pierce said with a frown.

"I pray that you do." Andromon said simply, before wishing them well on their journey, as they headed into the sewers.

A bit more walking, and the group found themselves marching on next to a river of waste… all kinds of waste at that.

"Well… this is far from pleasant." Blake said, covering her nose as she eyed what was quite literally a pink swirling poop floating on top of the water.

A few of them turned green in the face and fought to hold back their breakfast.

"Let's just get out of here fast ok? This place is really damp and that's bad for my hair." Yang said, her hands raking through her hair.

"Here, maybe this'll help a bit." Pierce said as he passed her his bomber jacket, which she used to cover her hair.

"Thanks, definitely better than just leaving it as is." Yang said with a grateful smile.

Yang: "Thanks Pierce."

Meanwhile, Weiss was fiddling away at her scroll, something that was quickly noticed by Ruby "What's up?"

"Some of the normal functions of the scroll are gone, though all the coding I entered earlier seems to have done something, because from the looks of it, I have a sort of wireframe map of the surrounding area."

Ozpin: "That could be useful. It should allow you to plot the best and quickest path to leave the sewer."

"Let's make use of it then, none of us want to be in the sewers longer than we need to." Pyrrha said, pinching her nose.

With that said, the group continued on, ready for what may come next.

With that, the TV shut off.

Winter released a breath of relief. "Well, I'm glad nothing bad happened to Weiss."

Weiss: "You and me both. But I'm happy that Tentomon wanted to go through...whatever that was with the code so long as it meant to protect me."

Ruby: "Like we would allow anything to happen to you, Weiss," a giant smile on her face.

Weiss looked at her other two teammates and saw them with grins or smiles, telling her that they shared her leader's sentiment. "Thanks guys."

Soon, though, they heard another Digiegg starting to crack, eliciting a loud, excited gasp out of the owner.

AN: Chapter done!

Story is back in session! Should be back to the regular release pace that I've had, which is roughly within a week's time, possibly longer if I'm trying to work out kinks in a chapter or dealing with IRL things.

I've made it 29 times around the sun, and I don't feel like it. Speaking of birthdays, we've had two of the RWBY cast happen since last discussed, that being Weiss and Jaune. Debating on what should give them as presents. Any ideas?

Till next time. This is Shadow Drivver, signing out. Peace.