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"Bye Merc! Take care of yourself!" Ruby waved off the boy as he waved back.

"I'll see you around Ruby!" The assassin smiled, "And make sure you get some sleep!"

"Aha Ha! Screw you!" Ruby giggled.

"And Pyrrha!" The spartan perked up. The boy simply clicked his tongue and finger gunned her. The girl fumed red as she shot a bird. He just laughed as he walked off.

Turning a corner, Emerald awaited the boy flipping a switchblade she stole. She glanced up at the happy boy, sneering before walking off.

"Huh?" Mercury saw Emerald storm off, "Heh, what's your problem?"

"My problem?" Emerald snarled, "My problem is that not only did we blow trying to kill Tukson, but now, apparently people know who we are!" a warehouse grew into view as a White Fang member let them inside.

"Relax they're just friends," he shrugged off her nagging. The passed by some White Fang who simply gave them dirty looks.

"They're Huntsmen Mercury! Do you know how much of a problem that's going to be?!" Emerald wanted to skin the boy. How could he not see the potential threat they'd be?

"I told you, relax." he continued to shrug her off.

Emerald stomped her foot and her eyes glowed. Activating her Semblance she attacked the boy with her illusions. But she didn't stop there, her eyes glowed a fierce blue as she influenced the boy with her Karma.

From his point of view, Mercury was consumed in a black void. He just rolled his eyes, knowing it was Emerald messing with him.

"Yeah yeah Emerald, ooo look at me! Where am I? Where is everyone?!" he mocked shaking his hands. "Get a grip Em, and knock off the bullshit."

The scenery changed and he was in a home. He blinked and looked at himself, noting how his hands were smaller as was the rest of his body. Everything was large as if he were a child. But that wasn't what set off the boy. No, it was how familiar the home was as footsteps could be heard.

"Emerald... you better stop this now." Mercury threatened, his voice sounding much younger and squeakier. The footsteps grew louder as a large gruff man appeared. Someone Mercury despised with an animosity.

"Mercury..." his 'father' spoke. It was distorted and malformed as Emerald had never actually heard his dad's voice. But that didn't make it any less terrifying.

The giant looming figure reached out to him, human hands slowly morphing into demonic clawed hands.

"Emerald!" Mercury yelled as he stomped his foot. His gray eyes burned red with Karma as the illusion shattered like glass. He stared at his green-haired friends with red fury as did she with her own blue.

Purple Karma sparked in the air as the two's willpower clashed. It wasn't a great clash like Ruby and Yang's, but it could be felt in the air by the grunts. They felt their breaths quicken as the air grew heavier.

"Don't... do that," the assassin warned, his eyes narrowed. His hands flashed red, the fleshing subconsciously hardening as he wanted to beat that nasty look of her face.

"Don't do what?" Emerald took a step forward, her eyes flashed blue again, "You mean this?" the world changed briefly changed again. Emerald turning into Mercury's dad as he was a kid.

The butcher sneered as his eyes burned brighter. He took another stomp forward, his Karma slowly overpowering the girl's. The illusion slowly burned away to reality, like a film being ruined.

"I will beat you Emerald..." he threatened, "I will beat you just like my dad did. So you best think about what you use for your shitty illusions."

Emerald felt her will slowly losing, so she brought a hand up with a rune, but Mercury blocked it. More purple Karma sparked out as Emerald blue rune fought against Mercury's reinforcement. Direct contact with the rune allowed Emerald's illusion to become stronger and effective, but with the red Karmic reinforcement, it countered the rune.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

"Now, now kids," a condescending voice spoke, "It's not nice to fight-"

"Shut it, Roman!" the two killers shouted, not looking away from each other. They knew the bastard's voice well enough to recognize his meddling.

"Sheesh, what up with them?" the thief looked over at his partner in crime, Neo. The mute sociopath simply shrugged with a smile. "Ah, anyway, not that I care or want to get into your fight, but where were you two?" he flopped down on a chair and lit a cigar.

"That's none of your business," Emerald snapped, trying to overwhelm her partner.

"Really? So tell me, what's this then?" he held up a notecard with an address.

Emerald's eyes widen, "What the-? How did you-?" that distraction was her mistake as Mercury jerked his knee up to the illusionist's chin. She stumbled back, but he dashed forward with his Karma before delivering a hardened fist to her face.

"Oo! That's gotta hurt!" Roman winced at the brutality.

Emerald spat out blood before teleporting him away. With the distance, she pulled out a set of playing cards and flicked them at him. Glowing blue, they embedded themselves into the stone floor and metal walls. Mercury did his best to dodge, but a card struck his metal legs.

The girl smiled before snapping. The cards flashed before exploding, Mercury's legs too. He fell to the floor, but landed on his hands and picked himself up. He raised his arms to block, the karma imbued cards bypassing his Aura and Karma.

He flipped them off before they exploded. He dashed forward and, with his bleeding wounds, swung his arms spewing blood. The blood quickly hardened into blades and he slashed away at the girl, nicking her a few times.

"Oh? That's new," Roman dug out some lien and tossed them to Neo. "Twenty lien on chocolate mint over there." Neo smiled at him before pulling out twenty from her bust.

"Two hundred on Lt. Dan." she signed.

Emerald shoved back the boy with a telekinetic shove before flicking out several cards. She threw them all at Mercury, barely taking the time to aim. They all flew passed him, leaving little nicks on him, but the girl created a rune and teleported them all.

She reported them all at Mercury who flipped and dodge. She kept teleporting them, creating a tornado of cuts. She maneuvered her hands and they all stopped near him before violently exploding.

A cloud of smoke formed, but not wasting a second, Mercury leaped out of the cloud. His arm had been blown off, but he held it as a weapon before slamming the jagged bones into Emerald's shoulder.

She screamed out in pain before the assassin latched onto her. From the cuts and wounds he had all over his body, he made his blood expand out as jagged spikes, impaling the girl.

Emerald tried teleporting him away, but with parts of him inside of her (shut up), she couldn't. It broke the laws of Blue Karma.

So she grabbed her guns and impaled the boy's shoulders. He screamed as the guns were imbued with Karma, but she didn't stop there as she fired right into his face.

The two fell off of each other and collapsed. Blood painted the floor as they picked themselves up. They healed themselves panting from how quick they burned through their energy. Mercury reattached his arm using a majority of his Karma and Emerald just healed herself with Aura.

Roman shifted in his seat as he awaited the climax. If the stuck up girl won, Neo owed him. But if the boy won, well shit...

Mercury and Emerald both charge up their Karma. The butcher's body glows red, swirls and markings appear on his body as his eyes burn red. The thief's arms are covered in straight symmetrical markings of blue. Lines and dots covering her as a bubble envelops. Her eyes spark a violent blue as crows feet grow on her eyes.

"Oh shit, it looks like things are heating up a bit too much," Roman takes a step back. He didn't know much about all this Karma bullshit, but he knew shit was crazy. He took note of grunts around the room, noticing how they had a bit of trouble breathing and were distressed.

The butcher and the thief were just about to clash against one another, but an overwhelming wave of power washed over the area.

"Enough..." Cinder's commanding voice boomed as her eyes flashed red. The two minions stumbled and tried to hold their footing as Roman and the grunts have even more trouble staying conscious. Few grunts passed out while Roman grit his teeth.

Neo simply filed her nails, completely unbothered by the willpower.

Cinder released the pressure from her followers, watching in disappointment as they fell to the floor. She scoffed before strutting over to the two.

Emerald panted as she caught her breath. She didn't want Cinder to just cut into their battle because she was afraid she reprimand them for not doing as she was told.

She heard the clinking of glass as her boss approached. Mercury would get it now, Cinder would show him.

The girl smirked as she awaited Mercury to be punished but wasn't prepared for a burning hot glass shoe to stomp on her foot. She let out a scream as her Aura stopped the glass from touching, but the heat still burned her.

Cinder narrowed her eyes as her thief screamed. She rubbed her heel on her hand as the girl's yells grew louder.

After a few more seconds, she raised her foot, revealing a first-degree burn on Emerald'd hand. Nothing her Aura couldn't fix, but it was sufficient punishment.

Now for the boy.

Mercury froze as he saw Cinder approaching. He wanted to run, but he knew that'd only make it worse. He saw her smirk, as she knew what he was thinking.

The boy tended himself as he prepared his body, but Cinder simply stomped on his leg.

Despite being made of metal and having no nerves, pain still struck through the boy's body. He felt as if he'd broken a bone and his muscles were cooking. He screamed out loud as tears threatened to spill.

He was about to pass out before Cinder raised her leg again. The pain immediately subsided but without warning, the woman jerked her leg out in a crane kick, smacking Mercury right in the face. Bits of molten glass broke off onto the butcher's face as he screamed. He scratched his face, trying to peel off the glass, as his Karma glowed instinctively.

"Sheesh, talk about abuse," Roman breathed as he lit a cigar. The boss glanced over at him, her eye burning orange. He cleared his throat and looked away, not wanting any of that.

Neo waved at the maiden, a knowing smirk on her face.

Cinder just frowned as she turned back to her subordinates. She waited a bit for them to recover before speaking.

"Now," she demanded, "Would any of you two mind explaining to me as to why you were fighting, and with Karma no less?" Her voice was smooth but there was an aggressive hint to it.

"It was Mercury!" Emerald blurted, "He started it-!"

"I asked," her eyes sparked orange, "for an explanation. Not a pathetic excuse." she sneered as her heel glowed threateningly.

Emerald flinched, feeling the heat from the glass from her spot. She cleared her throat as the boy sat up.

"We went into town, " she began but was cut off.

"And what were you doing in town?" Cinder narrowed her eyes as she circled the girl. Emerald tried to speak, but her words were caught in her throat.

"I believe this has something to do?" Roman flicked out an address before reading it. His brow furrowed and he frowned. He looked at the girl. "Why do you have this address?"

"Cleaning up your mess!" Emerald snapped, pointing at him.

"I had that under control," Roman hissed at the girl.

"A ticket to Vacuo and two packed bags said otherwise," Mercury interjected. The mob boss simply sucked his teeth.

"Why wasn't this taken care of?" Cinder turned her gaze to the criminal mastermind.

"I was gonna have Neo here take care of it, but I've been rather busy!" Roman defended.

"With what?"

"Eh?" Roman gestured to the loads of crates filled with Dust.

"Eh?!" he gestures to more crates.

"EH?!" He gestures to rooms filled with Dust.

He opens a window showing White Fang unloading Dust from a truck.

"EHHHHHHHHH?!?!?!?!?!" he shouts like some kind of Canadian.

"Fire, freeze, combustion, electric, gravity, earth, wind, hard-light, etc. I have every available Dust in this city has! I got the police chasing their tails and clerks cowering in fear!" Roman monologues like the wonderful bastard he is. "Every speck of Dust I have taken from these dumbasses!"

Neo just rolls her eyes as her boss blows himself. She grabs the address he dropped and checks it. Her brows furrow as she thinks about the events. She snaps at the ginger idiot, snatching his attention.

"Wha-? Neo! I'm monologuing here. I've told you not to interrupt me when I'm gloating!" he complains like a child.

She just scoffs before signing to him.

"Uh-huh. Yeah, Yea-, well I know that! Yep! No, no... yeah..." Roman nodded as his partner signed to him. His brow furrowed as his face paled a bit.

"What is it?" Cinder huffed, noting how there was enough Dust. There should be enough, but they would need more.

"You two!" he snaps to Emerald and Mercury, "You did finish the job right?"

"What?"

"Answer the question!" he shouted, "Did you kill Tukson?" he stressed.

"Do you doubt us?" Emerald scoffed.

"Then why the hell were you two fighting? Why are you guys so pissed off?!" he slams his fist on the table, "DID YOU KILL HIM?!"

"What's your problem?!" Emerald's eyes glow blue.

"Emerald," Cinder calls the girl's name. She turns to her boss only to pale from the menacing gaze from the witch. "Mercury?"

"Did you complete the job?" she asked calmly. The girl couldn't speak as her throat felt dry.

The Cinder's eyes sparked once again in a fiery blaze. A mix of blue came into the fires, creating a color of magenta. A rune appeared beneath Emerald and Mercury followed by an intense heat. A soft screaming could be heard as the glyph glowed an orange.

"Did you kill Tukson?" Cinder's mouth snarled as she raised her hand. The screaming grew louder as the rune grew hotter. The two kids tried to escape the glyph and rune, but the maiden's power way too strong.

"N-no," the assassin grunted out, "W-we didn't."

The heat spiked and the two were pulled down onto their knees again. They tried to pick themselves with their hands, but only served to burn themselves. Cinder's hand was burning an intense fire as her eyes burned brighter, the magenta taking a redder color.

"Why?" she spat, her teeth gnashed.

The two felt their psyches buckle under their boss' will. They glanced at each other as they panted.

"We were interrupted by a group of Huntresses in training." Mercury began, "They didn't suspect anything, but..."

"But?" Cinder lowered the pressure.

"Two of the Huntresses recognized Mercury!" Emerald blurted, "They know his face and have a connection!"

"Emerald!" the boy lunged at her, but the pull slammed him down headfirst. His face sizzled as he grit his teeth.

Cinder frowned at the news she received, processing it all through her wicked mind. Two Huntresses recognized the boy. This normally wouldn't be a problem, but with the plan being to infiltrate Beacon as transfer students, suspicion would arise.

"Mercury?" she turned to the boy who was panting heavily, "Is this true?" she waved her hand and the magic disappeared. The two gasped as the pressure disappeared as well as the unbearable heat.

Mercury jerked his face up, revealing his horribly scarred and burnt face. His eye was exposed as well as his teeth. Muscles were burnt like a steak and his nose was mostly gone.

"Yes..." he wheezed out as his Karma set out to heal his face. His lips were already regenerating.

"Who are they?"

The boy took a breath before licking his lips. He thought about lying, but he knew it would only bring worse punishment.

"Pyrrha Nikos and Ruby C. Rose," he answered.

Neo perked up at the names, recalling that was the girl that gave Roman trouble. She tapped his side and signed to him.

"Isn't that the brat that stopped you?"

"Okay, first of all, she didn't stop me," the thief clarified, "and second of all, yes, she's that brat that ruined my heist and the one who brought that damn Narra-" he held his tongue as he felt his neck hairs spike. He felt his amputated fingers itch and a cold sweat upon him. He cleared his throat before talking again.

"The storyteller that sliced off my fingers." he flexed his hand.

Cinder furrowed her brow as she thought. She had asked for information about the girl ever since their run in with The Second Narrator, even saying the name brought a shiver. To her surprise, there wasn't much about the girl other than a troubled childhood? The information was unreliable, but it brought suspicion.

The girl had ran away from home before disappearing completely off the grid. After some years, Atlas had sent out a warrant for a criminal that matched her appearance. Though why they would want a ten-year-old girl brought suspicion as well. After some years, the girl had opened a bakery and cafe despite not being an adult. She had some relations to Junior, though the man wouldn't admit it.

Any other information was fuzzy at best. Father was Taiyang Xiao Long, sister was Yang Xiao Long. She had impressive experience in medicine, was exceptional in weapons craftsmen. She had an armory underneath her cafe, which for some reason didn't raise any red flags from the police department.

This girl had certainly intrigued the maiden.

And now, she was... is great friends with Mercury Black.

"Mercury," she approached the boy, whose face had regrown his muscles. "When I found you, you were beaten, bloody. Your legs, no longer usable. I came there to find Marcus Black."

She laid her arms around him, stroking his shoulders. "but instead I found you, his predecessor..." she stroked his chin. "You surpassed your father..."

She angled his head up to look into his steel eyes.

"Tell me..." she brought her face closer to his, "what happened?" She leaned into his ear, her hot warm breath tickling him, "What really happened?"

Mercury could feel heat rise within him. But rather than a hot scorching flame that would kill him, he felt a pit in his stomach heat up.

He knew what she was doing, so he steeled himself. Cinder may have given him a place, a purpose, and direction.

But it was Ruby who allowed him to experience all that.

No, wait, what were his values-?

The boy stepped back and shook his head, trying to rid himself of Cinder. He was loyal to Cinder, but Ruby and Pyrrha were important to him. He wouldn't just oust them like that. Not because of fear, but because of friendship. As cheesy as that sounds.

That and he knew Ruby, and by default Pyrrha, would stop at nothing for vengeance.

"I'm-, I'm sorry Cinder. I just can't," he shook his head. His lips were pursed, readying himself for any punishment. "Look if you're gonna punish me, I accept that. But their my friends, they were there before you were."

Cinder just sneered as he subordinates disobeyed her. She had expected to give in, whether, from fear or seducing him, she didn't care. She needed him to subdue him. It irked her whenever something doesn't go her way. And she was aware that she may have OCD, but it was more than that.

The witch just sucked her teeth and spat on the boy. She turned and strutted off but not before saying one thing.

"I'll let you off this time, Mercury," she huffed, "But you will learn what you're values are. You will learn who your loyalty lies." she walks off.

The woman approached Roman and Neo, but her mind was already set on the mute sociopath. Though she wondered why the mute was sitting on a stack dangerously balanced crates.

"Neo," the Maiden started, but just had to ask, "Why is she up there?"

Roman just shrugged and lit a cigar, "She likes to be tall."

Cinder stared but shook her head. She had orders to give. "Neo, go hunt and kill that Tukson. We cannot allow him to escape. It will set a bad example, make the others believe that they can leave when they know they can't." her eyes narrowed.

Neo just scoffed before hopping off a crate, the stack tilting before it falls on top of Roman.

~ ~ ~

Back over at RWBY(Ruby) (plus Pyrrha), the group of girls roamed around the city of Vale, the local princess leading the group. They were currently walking through the docks.

"Ugh, remind me why we're spending our free time at the docks?" Yang wrinkled her nose.

"Eh, smells like fish..." Ruby covered her nose.

"Hmmm... fish~" Blake hummed, but the Rose elbowed the girl in the side.

"Well, with the arrival of the new students from each nation, especially with the elusive Vacuo, I feel it is my solemn duty to greet these wonderful competitors to our kingdom." Weiss smiled resolutely.

"Soooooooo, you wanna spy on the new kids to get an edge in the tournament?" Yang deduced.

"Wha-?! Yang Xiao Long, how could you accuse me of committing such a depraved act-!"

"Hey, look the new kids." Blake pointed.

"What?! Where?! Where are they?" Weiss turned around like a dog to a steak, as her eyes scanned for any transfer students.

The girls all snickered at Weiss' reaction as the heiress realized she was tricked. She huffed and crossed her arms, grumbling about lies and games of emotions.

"By the way, Yang," Blake called out the blonde, "What's with the crate?" she gestured to the box tied to the brawler's back like a backpack.

"Oh! These are the pieces of Dragkov I could salvage. I brought it to so that I could get it repaired by a blacksmith. There's a shop with an old man who might give me a discount for the materials." she explained.

"You wouldn't have to get it repaired if you had simply taken care of it," Weiss grumbled, sending a stink eye to Ruby.

"Hey, my sword got broken too y'know? Even got some of the shrapnel stuck in me along with Dragkov's massive ass." she rubbed her side with a frown. Pyrrha aww'ed as she patted the girl's head.

"If I wasn't so pissed, I'd say it was impressive," Weiss lead the group down the stairs to the docks, "Dragkov was made by an exceptionally skilled blacksmith with some of the finest materials the Schnee Dust Company can provide."

"Isn't it just metal and Dust?" Yang ever so oblivious said.

"Wha-?! You of all people should know, Yang!" the ice mage fumed, "That blade is made of refined iron and has been imbued and implemented with several kilograms of Gravity Dust! It would take a disaster to chip, let alone destroy the blade!"

"I guess that makes me and Ruby walking disasters huh?" Yang gave Ruby a heavy slap on the back, nearly winding her. Pyrrha slowly slid up behind her to strangle her.

"Please," the redhead wheezed out, "I'm at least a calamity." she gloated, using her Blue Karma to slide Pyrrha away from the blonde.

"I don't think that's something to be proud of." Blake let her thoughts aloud.

"Hey look, we're here!" Ruby rushed ahead to the great crowd of people gathered up in the docks. Many people were gathered here for the arrival of the transfer students for the vital tournament. Due to the Kingdom of Vacuo's status as an isolationist nation, little to nothing was known about the kingdom. It was only recently that the kingdom had decided to interact with the rest of the Remnant as well as the council.

The girls reached a spot where they could see the ship approach and boy were they blown away.

It was a great massive ship made of wood painted a menacing crimson with gold trimming. Its sails were of a red leather, billowing in the wind. The sun would shine a baby blue hexagonal pattern across the sails every now and then as it grew closer. A red flag flapped proudly in the wind, a depiction of a gold dragon pinning down an unknown monster. Men and women that worked the deck as they pulled ropes and moved cargo. Compared to the modern-day boats and ships, the vessel seemed rather low tech.

The girls were left speechless as the crowd cheered in enthusiasm. Confetti was thrown as people held banners saying 'WELCOME TO VALE!'.

"Hey... is that, Ozpin?" Yang pointed out as the girl turned.

True to the blonde's words, Headmaster Ozpin walked down a cleared path as he approached the ship. He was followed by some other dressed men as they stopped. A ramp was placed from the ship as several men, women, and presumably, Huntsmen and Huntress exited.

A certain man led the group as he stopped in front of Ozpin. He had a tanned skin tone, plenty of wrinkles adorned his face as well as a scar across his nose. A great mane of hair and beard spiked out and unkempt hung from his face, like a storm. He had a sword at his hip and armored guards flanked his side as well as a man and a woman, presumably a Huntsman and Huntress.

Ozpin and the leading Vacuan man met in the middle, the two political figures standing still as they stared at each other down. There was a beat before the man let out a howl of laughter.

"Ozpin!" he shouted, "It is so good to see you again!"

"The same could be said about you as well Emperor Atakan," Ozpin offered a hand, but the emperor grabbed the wizard for a hug.

"Aha! No need for formalities, friend! Everyone should know that there is no hostility between us!" he gave a pat on the old man's back.

"Emperor Atakan," the suited people behind Ozpin stepped forward and bowed, "It is an honor to meet you."

"Ah, yes, I am also honored," the emperor bowed his head in respect, "I am Emperor Atakan Avonmora, I look forward to seeing what the Kingdom of Vale has to offer." he smiled, showing off his jagged canines.

The politicians are unsettled by the man's teeth but maintain their composure. The group talks for a moment before the politicians' gesture for the emperor to follow. Atakan turns to his guards and speaking in a foreign tongue, the guards salute before returning to the ship. The Huntress and Huntsman stay with his majesty.

"We will be traveling by Bullhead if that is no problem." Ozpin gestures to the aircraft whose ramp opens.

"Ah yes, I have heard of these so-called Bullheads." Atakan examines the airship. "Are they safe? I am quite curious as to how efficient."

"Indeed!" a no-name politician exclaims, "These Bullhead are..." the man trails off about the bullheads bullshittery and whatnot.

"Hey! Stop that Faunus!" Someone shouts as everyone's attention turns to the ship's dock. They see a fat chef with a butcher's cleaver chasing after a blond Faunus with a monkey tail. He has a cooked leg of ham in his mouth as he leaped over some crewmen.

"Gotta be faster than that old man, haha!" the Faunus leaped off the ship, rolling onto the docks. The Faunus shot a peace sign at the chef before he zoomed off, a cleaver slamming where he just was.

"God damn it Sun! That was the last of the Ham!" the chef fumed.

Sun chuckles as he dashes through the crowds, making his way up the stairs of the docks. He soon passes the group of girls, time slowing down as he sends a wink to Blake. The cat blinks at the flirt, but confusion sets on her face when she sees Sun look at someone else. Horrific realization setting on his face as he zips off.

"Ah, looks like you competitions running off Weiss," Yang commented as the Faunus sprinted off.

"Quick! We must observe him!" Weiss led the chase as the rest of the girls joined in.

"Tch! That damn Sun Wukong!" the huntsman growled as he prepared to chase after the boy, but a clawed hand stopped him.

"Ah, leave the boy alone Ivan. It has been weeks since we've touched land, you'd get excited too if you saw land for the first in weeks." the emperor laughed. "Ah, I bet the children on the boat are wanting to explore the city, no?"

"I-, yes your majesty. I'll let the children know they can explore." Ivan turns to a guard and speaks in a foreign tongue. The guard nodded before he set off.

The man sighs, he turns to his comrade noting how she was staring at where the girls stood.

"Is something wrong, Sasha?" he spoke in his mother tongue.

Sasha, a green-haired woman with wrinkles on her face furrowed her brow before turning away. "No, I simply thought I saw a familiar face." the two followed their emperor, making sure he was safe.

~ ~ ~

"I think he went this way!" Weiss turned a corner only to slam into what felt like a wall of metal. The air was squeezed out of her as she made her Roblox death sound, falling onto whatever she had crashed into.

"Weiss! You okay, ice queen?" Yang looks down at her friend who's on the ground.

"Yes, I'm fine." the girl looked up to see her info-, no, her advantage-, no, I mean, her competition running off before disappearing. "No! He got away!"

"Uh, Weissy?" the blonde pointed down at the girl Weiss was mounting.

"Huh? Oh! My apologies!" the girl jerked up off the girl.

"Salutations~!" the adorable ginger greeted with a smile.

"Uh... hello?" Ruby greeted back.

"Are you... okay?" Yang wondered if Weiss gave the girl brain dablage.

"Yes, I'm fine. thank you for asking!" the ginger smiled, still lying on the comfy ground.

"Do you... want to get up?" Blake asked, great more weirdos. She already had enough with her teammates and friends, she didn't need more.

The girl seemed to ponder on the question. Should she get up? Or should she let the earth consume her? Can she return to dust once her immortal life has finally extinguish-

"Yes, I would!" the girl cut me off as she flipped onto her feet. The girls taking a step back from her agility. "Hello! I'm Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you all!"

"I'm Ruby,"

"Pyrrha Nikos"

"Blake,"

"Weiss Schnee," the heiress flipped her hair

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Yang hummed only for Blake to elbow her, "Oh, Yang Branwen Xiao long," she clicked her teeth with some finger guns.

"Oh! Are you related to Raven Branwen aka Raven the Terrible or better known as Bloody Raven?" Penny asked a bit too innocently.

"What? NO, ugh! Why does every say that?!" the blonde huffed.

"Oh, well that's because Raven Branwen is an extremely dangerous criminal wanted globally!" the ginger explained.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Ruby asked. She knew Raven was the blonde's mother and that she was a bandit leader, but a wanted criminal globally?

"Yes, it all started with the-"

"Forever Falls Massacre." Blake finished the sentence, a cold look on her face. "There was a White Fang settlement set up on forest, nearly over a thousand troops."

"Indeed! Survivors of the massacre stated that a woman in red and a cloak of feathers flew down from the sky before attacking the settlement. Nearly 98% of the settlement was destroyed. Some even say that its the reason why the Forever Falls is red, that the blood spilled from the massacre stained the forest." Penny stated still a little too jolly.

The mood took a depressing turn as the girls all stood in somber silence.

'What the fuck? Dad never told me that about mom.' Yang held her breath, never realizing that her mother was a mass murderer. Guess she knew why Faunus reacted like that when she said her name.

"But why would they consider her a criminal for killing White Fang?" Weiss asked ignorantly, receiving some sharp looks from Blake, and disbelief from Ruby and Yang.

"Oh! Well it was because she was later seen at an Atlesien outpost which was soon destroyed as well." Penny nodded.

"Well that's horrible!" Weiss covered her mouth. Blake and Yang could only stare in shock while Ruby stared with a look that said 'dafuq is wrong with her'?

"Well, Penny, it was a pleasure meeting you, but I think we need to go," Pyrrha said, noting how Blake was glaring at Weiss.

"Y-yeah, see ya Pen." Yang glanced between her monochrome friends. Blake simply huffed before storming off silently. Weiss perked a brow before chasing after her friend.

"Well, she was weird. Blake, is something wrong?" Weiss asked, setting off a bomb.

"Bye friend, don't be a stranger!" Ruby smiled sweetly before following the group. She had to prepare for the eventual shitstorm that would happen.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?!" Blake didn't know whether to be angry at Weiss' ignorance or viewpoint, but she was going to give her a piece of her mind-

"What did you call me?" Penny suddenly zipped in between the two girls.

"Huh? But you were, and now you're-, wait, wha-?!" Weiss had a mental breakdown as she looked back at Penny and where the girl just was.

"She called you weird, she tends to call people names without thinking." Blake frowned.

"No not her," Penny walked forward to the short redhead. "Ruby!"

"Ho? You're approaching me?" Ruby smirked arrogantly.

"Huh? Me?" the girl in question pointed to herself as Penny approached her. Pyrrha didn't like this and step in between them, but the ginger simply shoved the spartan out of the way like a little bitch she was.

"What did you call me?" Penny leaned in real close, that the two's faces were nearly touching. Pyrrha let out the challenging screech of the gay as she prepared to commit a war crime.

"Did you call me a friend?" Penny grinned unsettlingly wide, Ruby thought the skin on the girl's face was going to rip.

"U-Uh, well," Ruby glanced over at her friends who were all saying no vehemently. "Yeah, I did!" she smiled, just wanting to screw with her friends who all fell in disbelief.

"OH THIS IS SO WONDERFUL!!" Penny hugged the girl, Ruby's face in her breasts. "Oh we can paint our nails, go on dates, get married, and have children!" the girl ranted, already imagining the future.

Pyrrha slowly slid up behind the girl, a demonic aura surrounding her as she prepared to snap the ginger's neck. In fact, she would have if the others hadn't pulled her back.

"Whoa, whoa there! I said friends, not girlfriend, or wife, or mother..." Ruby paused at the last word before she began imagining what her children would look like. A cute blush on her face.

Pyrrha stopped her struggling before she also began imagining her future. Obviously, Ruby would be at home with the kids while she was out protecting her beloved. She glanced at Ruby before lewd things like hand-holding entered her mind. She covered her faces with her hands, a bright blush on her face.

"Oh right! Well, let's start out small with a date!" Penny smiled as harsh reality annihilated Pyrrha. She would have to find someplace to hide the girl's body.

"O-Oh! Uh, well... sure! Why not?" Ruby smiled accepting the girl's request(demand).

Pyrrha choked on blood as she fell into a pit of despair. An aura of depression surrounded her as she crumpled like sand. All around her were familiar faces, worn out places...

"Here, lets exchange numbers!" Ruby tapped on her scroll.

"So, why are you here in Vale?" Yang ignored the broken spartan on the ground. Was she crying?

"I'm here to fight in the tournament!" Penny smiled. Pyrrha perked up at the sound of the sentence.

"Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?" Weiss perked a brow.

"Yep! I am combat ready!" the girl saluted. Pyrrha grinned devilishly as she rubbed her hands. If she defeated this ginger then Ruby would look at her in awe. That's surely to get her beloved rose back!

"Forgive for assuming, but you hardly look the part."

"Sez the girl in the dress," Blake scoffed.

"Hey, this is a combat skirt!" Ruby skid next to the girl, slapping the hand with a 'yeah!'

"Didn't we already do this part?" Yang scratched her head.

"I believe in the last chapter?" Weiss noted.

"Or were those the deleted ones?" 

"What?"

"What?"

"What?"

"What?"

"Wait! We're getting off topic!" Weiss exclaimed, she grabbed Penny by the shoulders, holding her close. "So, if you're fighting in the tournament does that mean you know that monkey tailed rapscallion?"

"Da who?"

"You know!" the heiress pulled out a crude drawing of Sun from her ass, "The degenerate from Vacuo, the filthy Faunus!" Each word was setting Blake off more and more until she reached her boiling point.

"Stop that!" she shouted, "Stop calling him a degenerate, stop calling him a rapscallion! He's a person!"

"Oh, so I shouldn't call things by their names, like this trashcan a Jaune, or this lamppost a lampost?" Somewhere in Vale, Jaune felt the familiar sting of his pride being stabbed.

"Ugh! You're such an ignorant brat!" Blake huffed storming off.

"Wha-?! Hey! I am your teammate!" Weiss followed the ninja, "Don't walk away from me!"

"Uh... I think its time to go." Yang whispered to her sister.

"Yeah... come on Pyrrha. Quit trying to kill Penny." the redhead grabbed her friend by the hand(how lewd) and dragged her away from Penny.

6,436 words total, excluding Disclaimer and Author's Note. I will accept criticism and opinions.

Whoo... man, I'm tired.