RWBYVerse: Hunting Time

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Best Day Ever. Of All Time.
Snore. Snore. More snoring.

Ben is sleeping on one of the beds. Ever since Ben and Yang became a couple, they began sleeping beside each other. But right now, Ben's alone in the room. Or so he thinks.

Ruby snuck up to him and blows a coach whistle, which was so loud, Ben woke up and fell off the bed.

Ruby giggled. "Wake up, Benjamin! It's morning and it's time for breakfast!" She said to her new best friend, much to his dismay.

Ben rubbed his forehead and said, "Ugh...Can't a guy sleep for five more minutes?"

"Nope." Ruby replied. "Our team is eating breakfast now. So...I need you to help me with some stuff."

She took out what appears to be a folder. Empty.

"I'm going to put in some pages and you'll make a book for me." Little Red Riding Hood said.

Ben sighed. "Fine. Hang on." He said and activated the Omnitrix and slammed it down.

After a flash of light, Ben turned into a tiny devil with an aviator outfit.

"Jury Rigg!" the transformed teen yelled.

Ruby felt skeptical about Ben's current form. She hasn't seen this one, so she doesn't really know what it does. Ever since Ben joined, team RWBBY has been training to work together as a team and come up with crazy combos. Ruby remembered like it was just yesterday.

2 weeks ago...

"Ice Flower!" Ruby yelled. Weiss immediately created a line of glyphs in front of Ruby's rifle. Ruby fired and her bullets were covered with light and as soon as it hits the practice dummy, it exploded and covered said dummy with ice.

Ruby raised her fist in the air. "Alright! We did it!"

There were in some kind of abandoned gym found by Ben and Ruby when they were looking for something fun to do. Right now, Ruby and Weiss are practicing their combo while Blake is reading her "Ninjas of Love" book and Yang is drinking a smoothie, watching the two. Ben was...sleeping and drooling on a table. Bored.

"Is Ben okay?" Blake said, not turning away from her book.

Yang just shrugged. "He's probably just got bored while we were practicing our combos."

Ruby folded back Crescent Rose while Weiss sheathed Myrtenaster, the two girls heading over to the table where Yang, Blake and Ben are.

Ruby sat down and looked at Ben, saying, "Come to think of it, Ben's part of the team but we haven't thought of a combo for him."

Yang nudged Ben to wake him up, which succeeded.

Ben woke up and rubbed his head. "Ugh...I'm awake. I'm awake."

Ruby pointed at Ben. "Benjamin Kirby Tennyson! You're about to enter a few phases of training with the best team in Beacon! Do you accept?"

Ben sweat dropped. "Uhhh...I guess...?"

Ruby beamed and replied, "Excellent! Sister. Why don't you two start?"

"Alright. We're gonna have fun, babe." Yang said as she stood up and headed for the training spot.

Ben shrugged and followed her, Ruby trailing behind him.

Ruby crossed her arms and said, "Alright. Let's see...Turn into something, Ben."

Ben activated the Omnitrix and did not even select an alien form. He slammed down the dial and hoped for the best.

After a brief flash of light, in Ben's place was Heatblast.

"Oooh. You look hotter than usual, babe." Yang chuckled at her own pun. Heatblast also chuckled, admitting it was funny.

Ruby held her temples as she tries to come up with a combo name.

"Hotties? No...Too obvious. Ummm...Flame Brain. No.. Kinda insulting... Ugh...I got it! Fire Fighters!" Ruby yelled.

Heatblast and Yang looked at each other and smirked. Yang shot a few shotgun shells from her gauntlets at a test dummy while Heatblast fired a few fireballs at the same dummy, creating a huge explosion from their combined attacks. The brawler and the Pyronite high fived each other.

"Niiiiice! My turn!" Ruby said. Yang slapped Heatblast's butt as she returns to her seat. Said alien yelped a little. Ruby then took her place beside Ben. "Now switch forms!"

Heatblast did not think twice and slapped the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and he transformed into Fasttrack.

"I knew you'd pick that Ben! Good thing I'm prepared! I call our combo 'Speedy Quick'!" Ruby yelled.

Fasttrack chuckled. It's gonna be a long day.

~O~

Present day...

"Whatcha doin'?" Yang asked Blake, who was reading her notes.

Blake immediately closed her notebook thinking Yang might see something...inappropriate.

"Nothing. Just going over notes from last semester."

A grape suddenly flies over to Yang and said brawler catches the fruit with her mouth. "Lame." Yang said to Blake as she chews and gives Nora a thumbs up, who threw the grape and was on another table.

Suddenly, Ruby, with Jury Rigg on top of her head, arrives and slams the table with a huge binder. Written on the cover is "Best Day Ever Activities". Below the title is a excellently drawn faces of Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang and Jury Rigg. Said alien was responsible for the drawing and the binder itself while Ruby was the one who wrote the title and pages.

Ruby clears her throat and Jury Rigg got off her head, laughing maniacally and heads for the table of team JNPR.

" Friends! Sisters! Weiss..." Ruby said, causing the heiress to say "Hey!"

"Four scores and seven minutes ago, I had a dream..." Ruby continued.

Meanwhile, Jury Rigg jumped up on the table and looks at Jaune who was working on his broken scroll.

Jaune talked but not looking away from his scroll. "Hi Ben. Got anything to fix this?"

Jury Rigg laughed maniacally as he took the scroll away from the boy's hands and, with ludicrous speed, he begins fixing the scroll. "FIX FIX FIX! DA-HAHAHAHAHA!" the little imp alien said. In only a few seconds, Jury Rigg fixed the scroll and tossed it back to Jaune, surprising the said boy and Pyrrha.

"Interesting. A form that can fix objects in a blink of an eye." Pyrrha commented.

Jaune nodded as he checks his scroll. "Yeah. He must be really smart."

Jury Rigg laughed again. "Smart and stubborn!" He replied.

Suddenly, Nora threw an apple at Yang and said, "Boooooo!"

Jury Rigg saw this action. But because he's Jury Rigg and not Ben, instead of getting angry at Nora...

He picked up a plate of pie. And threw it at Weiss' face.

Team RWBY, especially Weiss, were flabbergasted at what their teammate did. Team JNPR, even Nora, were also shocked. Nora accusingly pointed at Jury Rigg, who was rolling on the floor, laughing.

~O~

Sun and his buddy, Neptune, are walking down outside the cafeteria, both about to enter.

"You're gonna be cool, right?" Sun asked the blue haired teen.

"Dude. I'm always cool." Neptune said, his teeth seem to gleam.

"Good point." Sun replied.

As both enter, Sun was smiling while Neptune got worried. And there's a reason why he is.

Food Fight.

"Ahahahaha!" Nora laughed evily, Jury Rigg on her shoulder, holding a small flag with Nora's emblem on it. The two, along with the rest of team JNPR, are on a fort made up of stacked up tables.

"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle! ♪" Nora sang. After she finished, Jury Rigg jumped off her and stabbed the small flag on a table below Nora and Jury Rigg laughed maniacally.

Ruby, along with her team, are on the opposite side of the cafeteria.

Ruby pointed at the opposing team and her teammate-slash-enemy in this food fight.

"Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" She said as she crushes a milk carton in her hand. "It will be delicious!"

Team RWBY all raise their fist in the air and all say, "Yeah!"

Nora, as she jumps down, yelled, "Off with their heads!"

Jury Rigg slapped the Omnitrix symbol and turned into Ditto and immediately created 2 clones of himself. Nora threw some watermelons. Jaune jumped forward and threw a watermelon too. Ren did the same and so did Pyrrha and the three Dittos.

"Yang! Turkey!" Ruby yelled. Yang then dived forward while managing to put in two cooked turkeys like boxing gloves.

Yang narrowed her eyes at Ditto Prime while smiling.

Ditto Prime did the same and smirked.

Divide then Conquer
"All in favor of becoming the youngest Hunter and Huntresses to single-handedly taking down a corrupt organization conspiring against the Kingdom of Vale... say aye." Ruby said.

Inside team RWBBY's dorm was the entire team. After the food fight, introduction of Neptune, Sun's best friend, and a little game of Remnant: the game, they discussed about Roman and the White Fang and how they'll put a stop to them.

Yang pumps her fist enthusiastically and responded, "Yes! I love it when you're feisty!"

"Well, I suppose it could be fun." Weiss added.

Ben shrugged. "I've been doing that since I was ten years old."

"Nobody said aye..." Ruby said.

Blake nodded. "Alright then. We'll do this together.

"Let's hatch a plan." Ruby added.

~O~

Team RWBBY all wore different outfits. Ruby wore a brown attire and changed her hooded cape to more of a scarf with a cape. Weiss wore a white uniform-like outfit that suited her well. Blake wore a white jacket and had a bunch of black straps on her wrists. Yang wore a brown vest with a few accessories. Ben wore a black jacket with star like glitters around him, making him look like he's wearing an Alien X jacket.

Blake tightened the ribbons on her wrist. "I thought that class would never end."

"Alright, guys! Todays the day! The investigation begins!" Ruby said.

She hops off from her bed, nearly hitting Weiss.

Weiss sighed and said. "I'm so glad we're taking this seriously."

"Hey! We have a plan! That's…" Yang said and trailed off, trying to come up with the right words.

Ben smirked. "Completely serious?"

Yang snickered. "I was gonna say moderately but that works too."

Ruby nodded and said, "Everyone remember their roles?"

Weiss stood up and responded. "You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I am in the family, it shouldn't be a problem."

Blake stood up next. "The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning."

Yang and Ben stood up next the former saying, "I have an old friend at the shady side of town that typically knows everything."

Ben nodded as he crossed his arms. "With a little bit of 'convincing', getting info out of him should be easy."

Ruby fist pumped. "Great. We'll meet up tonight near Yang and Ben to go over what we found. Let's do this!"

"Yeah!"

Sun yelled...Wait...Sun?!

Team RWBBY were taken aback by Sun, who was hanging upside down on a tree using his tail.

Ben and Blake both yelled. "Sun?!"

~O~

Well, the team was surprised when Sun, who also brought (or dragged) Neptune, decided to join the hunt. Weiss wanted Ruby to join Yang and Ben since, according to her, "Yang's her sister and Ben's her best friend" and that Neptune should just go with Weiss. But Ruby, being herself, just laughed and dragged Weiss away along with Neptune. Poor Weiss just wanted to be alone with Neptune. Blake then was joined by Sun and Yang and Ben still remained as a duo.

Yang is approaching a club using her motorcycle, Bumblebee.

However, Bumblebee looks different. It still looks like a motorcycle but it's wheels are horizontal, seemingly used as a hovering system. It also has two rocket boosters at the back. All in all, it looks like a hovercraft crossed with a motorcycle. It's color is black and green.

Yang parked in front of the club. As Yang got off the bike, a black, liquid like being oozed off Bumblebee. The being then formed itself into a humanoid alien. This was Ben, who calls himself Upgrade.

Upgrade looked at his girlfriend. "Where exactly are we?"

Yang smirked. "My friend's in there. But I want you to do me a favor."

If Upgrade had an eyebrow, he could have raised it in confusion.

~O~

It was just another normal day at Junior's club. Goons cleaning, DJ playing music, and Junior being Junior.

Suddenly, two of his goons enter, seemingly terrified and running away from something. Both kept yelling, "She's back!" while closing the doors.

Junior got a bit irritated. For all he knows, those two are trying to close out customers. "What are you two idiots doing?!" He yelled.

The two tried responding but the result was an explosion the opened the door.

Everyone in the club took defensive actions. The goons all went to the door.

Then, Yang started coming in to greet the club members.

"Guess who's back?" Yang said nonchalantly. She's pretty confident. Besides, if she beat them before, she can do it again.

All the goons brought out their guns and all aimed at Yang's face. Yang then smirked. She could just beat them up again, but she has something else in mind. She claps her hands, giving Ben the signal to move.

Suddenly, a bunch of bat shaped objects all attached to the foreheads of at least four to five ofthe goons. The rest all backed away from their comrades.

Then, a vampire like alien came down from the ceiling.

Whampire landed beside Yang. "Alright! Nobody move!" The alien said.

Junior growled, though he was shocked at first, mainly because some sort of monster was suddenly beside Blondie and is apparently helping her.

Suddenly, the five goons who had those bat things attached to their foreheads turned around and aimed their guns at their comrades.

Junior was confused. "What are you idiots doing? Don't aim at them, aim at Blondie and Freak show over there!"

"But Junior, we're not doing it! Our bodies are..." Goon #1 said.

"...Moving by themselves!" Goon #2 continued.

Whampire and Yang smirked. "That would be my boyfriend's doing." Yang replied.

Whampire then continued, "If you don't want your men shooting each other, tell them to stand down."

Junior sighed. "Alright. Nobody shoot." He said as he fixes his tie and walks up to Yang.

Whampire then commanded his minions, or rather their bodies, to drop their weapons and make way for Junior.

"Blondie! What are you doing here?" Junior asked as if nothing happened.

Yang frowned. "Only he gets to call me Blondie..." She said pointing at Whampire who turned back to Ben, surprising everyone.

Junior raised a brow. "Who and what is he?"

Yang smirked. "He is Ben Tennyson and he is my boyfriend." She said and dragged Junior to the bar.

Ben sighed in content. "That's my girl." He said as he followed the two.

~O~

"I don't know."

"How can you not know?!"

It's been a few minutes and Yang, Ben and Junior have not finished talking.

"I never talked to him. I never even seen him since the night you first came in here." Junior responded.

Ben leaned in close. "You sure?"

Junior looked at Ben with a slightly annoyed expression. "Of course I'm sure! He payed up front, I lend him my men and none of them ever came back!"

Ben sighed. Yang, however, was not satisfied.

"Tell the truth, Junior! Or you'll regret knowing what I'll do if I don't get what I want!" She said angrily.

"I already told you! Torchwick hired my men and I guess he wasn't happy about them." Junior said. "Which is something I can relate to!" He yelled at his men.

Yang sighed. "Let's go, Ben." She said as she heads for the exit, Ben following behind her.

Ben asked her girlfriend, "We got what we need?"

Yang shook her head. "We got what we can."

~O~

Ben and Yang finally exited the building. Yang began putting on her helmet.

She suddenly smirked as he looked at Ben. "So how did it feel?"

Ben was choosing an alien form when he heard Yang ask so he stopped and looked at her. "Feel what?"

Yang smirked more. "Me riding you." She said as she winked.

Ben blushed as he remembered that Yang was technically riding him when he merged with her motorcycle as Upgrade.

"Ummm..." Ben stammered but Yang's scroll began ringing.

Yang took out her scroll.

"Everyone! If you can hear me, we need--"

"HEEEEEEEELP!"

Ben and Yang got surprised. "Blake? Sun?" Yang said.

"Big robot! It's big! Really big!" Sun yelled through the scroll.

"Ruby would love to see that." Ben said.

"Shhhh!" Yang said as they kept listening.

"That Torchwick guy's in it! But it's not like it ate him! He's like, controlling it or something!" The monkey Faunus continued.

"Where are you guys?" Yang asked.

Suddenly, Yang and Ben heard screaming and giant, robotic footsteps behind them.

They turned around and saw Blake and Sun running away from a giant robot. They disappeared from view once they crossed the street, the two Faunus running while the machine giving chase.

"HURRYYYYYY!" Sun yelled both in person and on the scroll.

Ben sweat dropped. "That's definitely them."

Yang got on her bike. "Got it." She said as she started her bike and drove away.

Ben followed her example by slapping down the Omnitrix and turning into a blue raptor with wheeled feet.

"XLR8!" Ben, now as the said alien, yelled and he ran off with high speed.

~O~

Roman, inside the Atlesian Paladin, is still chasing Blake and Sun. They are currently on a highway, the two Faunus jumping on cars and evading Roman while the latter just mowed down the cars that get in his way.

Following behind is Yang and XLR8, both chasing after Roman.

"We got to slow it down!" Yang said to XLR8.

"Lemme try!" XLR8 said as he reached for his Omnitrix symbol.

However, Neptune jumped down from a bridge and, using his trident, stabbed and got stuck on the Atlesian's back.

Sun and Blake stopped on top of a bunch of cars to look around and check out their friends.

"Neptune, hang on!" Sun yelled.

Sun then concentrated his Aura and slammed his right fist into his left palm, creating two clone silhouettes of himself. The clones then jumped from one car to another to reach the Atlesian Paladin. After reaching the mech, the clones slammed themselves at it and exploded into golden lights, damaging the Atlesian Paladin. However, they only did little damage and vaused Roman to get angry. Roman used the controls of the mech to spin around and fling Neptune at Sun, who was just charging at Roman. Both Neptune and Sun hit each other mid air and get thrown off the highway.

Blake, still standing on a moving car, watched as Roman got near.

"Blake! I'm in position!" Weiss called through her scroll.

Weiss was now twirling over a highway and landing in the middle of the road, holding Myrtenaster at the approaching Roman. He smiles as his robot charges the girl, but Weiss spins and plunges her blade into the ground, summoning a circle of ice across the pavement that causes the Paladin to slip and crash, actually flying over the young Huntress and falling off the ramp, landing further down before Ruby, already having her Crescent Rose out in scythe form.

The Paladin stands back up, and the rest of Team RWBBY falls beside their leader to take up positions. Weiss readies Myrtenaster, Blake brings out both swords of Gambol Shroud, Yang cocks Ember Celica and XLR8 slaps the Omnitrix and turns into Astrodactyl, squawking once he switched forms. Roman chuckles, moving the robot slowly towards the girls and Ben.

"Freezer Burn!" Ruby yelled.

Ruby, Blake and Astrodactyl jump back out of the way as Weiss performs her same ice-circle trick, but backs out of Yang's way when she jumps into the air and hits the epicenter with her Ember Celica, creating a wave of mist that surrounds Roman. Immediately, the Paladin activates its laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but it barely sees the afterimage of Blake and narrowly misses the dashing Yang. A gun manages to fire at the area between Blake and Yang, but out from the blast comes Ruby and Astrodactyl, both slashing the metal, Ruby with her blade and Astrodactyl with his energy whip, causing it to falter.

"Checkmate!" Ruby yelled.

Blake and Weiss go in this time, each girl going for the feet until Weiss jumps up and stabs a sensor before leaping off of a white glyph. Roman lifts the Paladin's foot to crush Blake, but Weiss summons another glyph under her teammate to launch her backwards before the crushing blow can land. Roman growls and fires off the missiles, but Weiss and Blake flip backwards as the explosions merely hit where they were.

Finally, Weiss jumps up too high, and Roman fires a double energy blast at her. Myrtenaster absorbs the damage, but Weiss is thrown back, so she casts a beam of light from her weapon to the ground under Blake, forming a yellow clockwork circle that's absorbed into the Faunus girl and lets her slice through each launched missile with ease in a flurry of super-fast slashes.

"Speedy Quick!" Ruby yelled as she runs into the fray.

Ruby shoots herself forward and cuts at the robot's legs, then turns as Ben, who just turned into Fasttrack, runs in and aims himself at the giant's feet as well. They both dash forward and attack at the same time, circling each other around the Paladin with each strike until they both launch themselves into the air and come down together on the shoulder, cutting off the left arm entirely.

Yang doesn't waste a second, jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts. Roman is knocked around in the cabin, but seeing as he can't reach her with his remaining mechanical arm, he runs backwards through two columns and leaves her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her. Just as she is falling down, the remaining arm extends a closed fist, and when it punches her, she flies through the column and doesn't get up.

"Yang!" Ben yelled as he turns back to human form. He then glares at Roman, anger written all over his face.

Ben slammed down the Omnitrix and turned into a humongous, humanoid dinosaur.

"Humungousaur!!!" Ben yelled angrily as he slapped down the Omnitrix symbol on his chest again. This time, it gained four spikes around it.

Humungousaur began evolving into a different creature.

He turned into an Ankylosaurus-like creature, being about 20 feet tall. He seems more buff and muscular than his pre-evolved form, while having camo green skin instead of tan.

His head possesses a dark blue, Ankylosaurus-like helmet with three spikes running down the top, which are silver. On the sides of his helmet, there are black ram horns, pointing down.

He possesses a dark blue, turtle shell with long spikes running down each side. His plated chest and torso are dark blue with five spikes on each end. His tail has a blue mace on the end of it, with silver spikes.

His knuckles have silver barrels on them, which he can transform into four-barreled missile launchers at will. The outline of the barrel cannon is black and also has a black circle at the center. When not in use, his fingers now support black claws instead of human-like nails.

"Ultimate Humungousaur!" Ben yelled as he charged at the Paladin.

Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang, who just got up, look at their teammate and his new form. "Is...that...Ben?!" Yang questioned.

"He's never shown us that form before." Weiss said.

"How many more can he turn into?" Blake asked.

Ruby was just awestruck by Ultimate Humungousaur.

Roman looked at the hyper evolved alien charging at him and decides to try and punch him. But Ultimate Humungousaur grabbed the mech's fist with his left hand and punches the mech's arm with his right, completely destroying it's right arm.

Roman, noticing his Paladin is now literally armless, makes it jump backwards. Ultimate Humungousaur then turned his hands into cannons and proceeds to bombard Roman with missiles. But the Paladin was too quick as it continued dodging and jumping to avoid the hyper evolved alien's attack.

Ruby noticed that her teammate's attacks are failing. "We need to slow it down!" She suggested.

Weiss replied, "And how do you propose we do that?"

Ruby looked at the machine and thought of the perfect combo. "Ice Flower!"

Twirling their weapons so they both point at Roman, Weiss creates a series of glyphs in front of the scythe's sniper barrel, and a single shot through the circles creates a dazzling spiral of energy that creates large icicles upon impact with the Paladin. Ruby continues to shoot as Weiss freezes the fire, and as the ice completely envelops the robot's body...

"Bumblebee!" Ruby yelled.

Yang then fired her gauntlets to launch herself backwards in order for Blake to throw her Gambol Shroud out for Yang to catch while flying, and the Faunus uses the momentum to swing the glowing girl around for a final hit to the robot.

Ultimate Humungousaur then decided to join Yang as he charges towards Roman.

With Roman unable to move, the Paladin is hit by the speed and power of both Yang's and Ultimate Humungousaur's combined fists, the mech flying into the air before crashing down in a hundred pieces and leaves a defeated criminal.

Getting up, slightly dazed but unharmed, Roman inspects the damage while brushing himself off.

"Just got this thing cleaned!" Roman said, referring to his favorite white outfit.

He looks up just in time to see Yang, still burning with her absorbed power, fire a single shot at the defenseless thief, but he's saved at the last instant when a girl drops in front of him and merely opens her pink umbrella, deflecting the blast entirely. The new arrival is actually Neo, and she hangs the weapon over her shoulder as Roman addresses the victors.

"Ladies. Freak Show." Roman said.

"Hey!" Ultimate Humungousaur yelled as he turned back to Ben.

Roman continued, "Always a pleasure. Neo. If you would."

Neo curtsies her enemies and mockingly winks at Ben with a bow, but Yang, angered at her winking instead of her curtsie, will have none of it. She charges forth with fists raised to strike the outlaws... only to break their image as if made out of a mirror and turn just in time to see them escape in a Bullhead. The rest of team RWBBY runs up to Yang's side, now cooled down with the end of the fight.

"So I guess he got a new henchman." Yang said.

"Yeah, I guess she made our plans... fall apart?" Weiss joked.

While Ben and Ruby chuckled at her joke, Blake just walked away and Yang simply replied, "No. Just...No."

"Ugh...At least these two dolts get it." Weiss said, referring to Ruby and Ben, as she walks away.

"Hey!" Ben yelled as he follows Weiss, Yang following behind him.

Ruby felt like she's forgetting something. But then it her...

"Where are Sun and Neptune?"

Searching Answers or Searching Yourself?
Everyone is gathered in the amphitheater to watch matches that will prove if a student can qualify for the upcoming tournament. The current match is Pyrrha Nikos against team CRDL.

Pyrrha launches her spear at Dove Bronzewing and then knocks Sky Lark to the ground. Cardin unleashes a short column of fire from the red Dust crystal in his mace before he and Sky attempt to double-team Pyrrha.

Pyrrha throws her shield, which hits Cardin in the face and bounces back to hit Sky as well. She then flips backward through the air to land on Sky, incapacitating him. Dove and Russel Thrush rush her together, but she is able to drive them back as Cardin leaps in to smash at her with his mace.

Pyrrha opens fire with rifle-form Miló, but Russel covers Cardin, deflecting every shot with his daggers. He and Dove charge at Pyrrha, with Russel leaping into the air and performing a triple somersault; however, the attack is easily deflected. Russel and Dove proceed to strike at Pyrrha together, demonstrating precision through their ability to avoid hitting one another during the attack. Cardin attempts to capitalize on the distraction, but is unable to keep up with Pyrrha. Russel ducks in under Cardin for a surprise attack, but also proves himself unable to wear her down.

Dove moves in after Russel is knocked to the ground. After a couple of deflected swipes, he fires on her with his sword, but she is able to bull right through using her shield. Although he is able to avoid her attack, Dove finds himself knocked out of the fight by an errant swing from Cardin, who moves in for one final assault. Pyrrha knocks Cardin into the air and then leaps to slam him into the ground.

Glynda approaches from behind Cardin who clutches his ribs.

"And that's the match." Glynda said.

"Lucky shot." Cardin said as he finally falls unconscious.

"Well done, Miss Nikos. You should have no problem qualifying for the tournament." Glynda said to Pyrrha.

Pyrrha replied, "Thank you, professor."

Glynda begins tapping on her scroll and said, "Alright, now I know that's a tough act to follow, but we have time for one more sparring match." Glynda looks around at the observing students. "Any volunteers? Ms. Belladonna?" She said and Blake immediately slams her book shut and stares wide-eyed at Glynda. "You've been rather docile for the past few classes. Why don't you -"

"I'll do it."

Everyone turned and looked at the one who spoke and raised his hand. It was Ben!

"Ben Tennyson? Finally attentive in class I see. Very well. Let's find you an opponent."

"Actually..." Ben interrupted her. "I wanna fight Pyrrha."

Team RWBY and JNPR all widened their eyes.

"I believe Ms. Nikos has just finished a match. I recommend you choose another partner." Glynda said, her eyes narrowed at Ben.

Pyrrha looked at Glynda and stopped her. "No. It's fine!" She said and faces Ben. "I'd be happy to oblige." She said to Ben, smiling.

Ben smiled too. He's always wondered how skilled Pyrrha really is.

~O~

Ben walks calmly in front of Pyrrha as he readies the Omnitrix.

"Why challenge me, Ben?" Pyrrha asked with a smile.

Ben smiled back. "I've always wanted to know how a 'World Renowned Fighter' fights."

Pyrrha chuckled. "You won't be disappointed." She said as she takes a fighting stance.

Ben slammed down his Omnitrix and is engulfed in emerald light.

After the light died, in Ben's place is an alien that resembles a combination of a rooster and a hawk. He has sharp claws on his toes and talons on his hands, as well as two larger talons protruding from his arms. He has a short beak. He is covered in brown feathers and also has a white mohawk.

He also wears a green mask, a green belt with a white stripe, and black underwear. The alien wears a strap vest with the Omnitrix symbol on the vest hooker.

"Kickin' Hawk!" Ben yelled.

Ruby wiggled in excitement. Meanwhile, behind team RWBY is a teen boy with gray hair and a girl with green hair are watching the scene curiously and with amusement.

Kickin' Hawk charges in and kicks at Pyrrha, but she lunges forward, blocks it with her shield, and sweeps his other leg from beneath him with Miló. He falls onto his back but then kicks his legs into the air, spins on his hands, and does a double back-handspring. The two stop and stare at each other for a moment as Pyrrha stands up from a kneeling position. She runs forward to attack, but Kickin' Hawk strikes first, leading her to instead block the first kick with Miló and a second with her shield, before turning around and blocking a further barrage of kicks with her shield.

Pyrrha ends the barrage by hitting his leg away with Miló, creating an opening for her to ram her shield into him. He lands on his feet and slides to a stop some distance away.

After correcting himself, Kickin' Hawk slapped the Omnitrix symbol and turned into Water Hazard. Water Hazard then blasted Pyrrha with a stream of water from his palms. Pyrrha is forced to block his attack using her shield.

After blasting her with water, Water Hazard slapped the Omnitrix and switched to a new form.

This new form has clothing which covers most of his body. His chest is covered by a white shell. He has four pointed fins instead of three. The clothing goes all the way up to his head and his pants are fully black. The black stripes on his face do not go through his mouth anymore, instead going around his mouth. The spikes on his face are now on his chin. His gills are no longer visible. The Omnitrix symbol is on his chest.

"Articguana? Cool!" Ben said and then inhaled sharply and blew a cold beam at Pyrrha.

Pyrrha dodged at the last second, the beam hitting the wall behind her a while ago, coating it in ice. She then threw her shield at the alien, causing Articguana to get hit and stagger. The shield ricochets back to Pyrrha and she charges forward at the alien.

Articguana changed forms again by slapping the Omnitrix.

This time, he's a humanoid, plant-like alien that has an overall green and black colored body, mostly with a flame-patterned head and root-like feet, seemingly holding rocks.

"Swampfire!" He yelled as he took some kind of seeds from his arms and threw them at ground. As a result, the seed immediately grew into vines that wrapped themselves around Pyrrha. Fortunately for her, her arms are still free, with only her lower torso trapped in the vines. She threw her shield at a wall and it bounced back at high speed. The sharp edges of the shield began cutting away at the vines as it keeps bouncing back and forth on walls. Finally cutting herself free, Pyrrha catches her shield and switches her spear into rifle form and fires at Swampfire. Swampfire puts his arms in front of him to block her attacks but the bullets keep passing through his arms and body. Good thing he can regenerate or else those bulletes would have killed him. He then raises his arms and throws fireballs at Pyrrha, who dodged them with relative ease. She charged forwad and slashes at Swampfire's left arm, cutting it clean off.

Everyone was surprised, thinking that Pyrrha made Ben lose his arm. But they got even more surprised when Swampfire regenerated his arm back.

"Cutting off hands is so not cool." Swampfire said and smirked as he punched away Pyrrha, but she manages to block the jab with her shield. But the force of the punch caused her to slide back a few meters.

Swampfire slapped the Omnitrix symbol again and turned into a living diamond creature with the Omnitrix symbol on his belt.

"Diamondhead!" He said as he transformed his right hand into a diamond sword. He then engaged Pyrrha in a sword-to-spear battle.

Despite being durable, Diamondhead can't help but feel outclassed as Pyrrha kept landing blows on his diamond body while all his own attacks are deflected and blocked by Pyrrha.

After getting knocked back by Pyrrha, Diamondhead fired multiple shards at her but she kept charging, using her shield to protect herself.

Pyrrha managed to land another blow on Diamondhead, finally causing a crack to form on his face. The alien staggered and regained his composure. "Not bad." Diamondhead said as he slapped his Omnitrix symbol.

Ben's new form, after the light died down, has a magnetically floating metal head which levitates in an arch between his shoulders, however, it is still bonded to his body as wherever his head goes, his body follows. He has crab-like claws for hands and his body is mainly black with yellow feet, hands, shoulders, and chest. His mouth never moves, even when he's talking. The Omnitrix is on his chest.

"Lodestar!" The alien yelled.

Pyrrha prepared herself. "Lodestar? Isn't this the form you wanted to show me?" She said with a smile.

If only Lodestar could smirk. "Yep. And this one is the one that's gonna beat you."

"Don't disappoint me then, Ben." Pyrrha said.

Pyrrha transformed her spear into a rifle and open fired on Lodestar. Lodestar simply raised his arms forward and emitted green energy waves. Then, the bullets simply stopped in mid-air. Turns out, those energy waves were actually magnetic waves. Lodestar made the bullets drop on the ground and looked at Pyrrha.

"Got more?" He taunted.

"I have enough." Pyrrha responded with a smirk as she threw her shield at Lodestar, causing him to use his magnetic powers to redirect it back at Pyrrha. However, he was too late to throw it back as Pyrrha has already managed to come very close to Ben. Pyrrha then grabbed on Lodestar's floating head and, using her own Polarity Semblance, removed the head from it's magnetic field on it's body and successfully took off Lodestar's head. Lodestar's body then began walking by itself while Pyrrha held Lodestar's head.

"I must say Ben, you didn't disappoint me. You were a good fighter." Pyrrha said.

"Are you kidding me? You actually forced me to transform multiple times. You were better." Lodestar replied.

Pyrrha chuckled and so did Lodestar. But then, Lodestar's body began moving by itself and kept looking for it's head. It is currently headed towards Glynda. Glynda, irritated, used her telekinesis to push away the headless body.

"Mr. Tennyson. Would you please behave yourself?" She said, angrily at the body.

"Don't bother, professor. He can't hear you. His ears are over here." Lodestar's head said. Everyone in the theatre began laughing after he said that.

"Ummm.. Pyrrha. Could you... you know...put me back on my body?" Lodestar requested.

Pyrrha laughed a little.

~O~

Outside, Sun's team, SSSN, are standing at the entrance as Team RWBBY walks past. Sun notices Blake and runs after her.

"Hey, Blake!" Sun said as he grabs Blake by her shoulder. "You uh, doing okay?

Blake shuts the book she is reading and faces Sun with a seemingly irritated expression. "I'm fine."

Sun scratched the back of his head and said, "So I hear that there's this dance going on this weekend, and it sounds pretty lame, but you and me, I'm thinking, not as lame, huh?"

"What?" Blake replied.

Sun seems shocked but quickly regained his composure and replied, "The dance! This weekend! You wanna go, or what?"

Blake gave him an irritated look and began walking away. "I don't have time for a stupid dance. I thought you of all people would get that."

Blake walks away past her team. Sun sinks from his rejection.

Ben went over to Sun pats him on his shoulder while Ruby looked at Blake, still walking away.

~O~

A glum Ruby is resting her head on her hand and staring into the distance. She's still worried about Blake. She says she doesn't want to go to the dance. She said there are still unanswered questions. She says they shouldn't be wasting time. She said...she'll be in the library. Ruby let out a sigh. She was then startled by someone slamming their palms on the table she's at.

"I need you to pick a tablecloth." Weiss, the one who slammed her palms on the table, said. She slides two squares over to Ruby, both seeming to be similar shades of white.

Ruby got confused. Aren't they both the same? She thought.

Suddenly, Spidermonkey drops from the ceiling and looks at the tablecloths. "Hmmm...They're the same." He said as he scurried away, making monkey noises.

Weiss sighed in frustration. "I don't even know why I asked!" She yelled as she walked away.

Yang comes in carrying a massive sound speaker on her shoulder, which bounces her sister and the table she's moping on again to jump in the air when she drops it on the ground.

As she brushes her hands Spidermonkey hops on the speaker Yang just placed.

"So, have you picked out a dress yet?" Yang asked her sister.

Ruby sighed. "What's the point? Who cares about the dance if Blake isn't going?"

Spidermonkey turned back into his human form. Ben then sat on the speaker. "Don't worry, Rubes. Blake's going." Ben said.

Ruby then looked at her best friend. How does he know...

"Weiss! I thought we agreed: No doilies!" Yang yelled at Weiss.

Weiss then angrily walks up to Yang, pointing in her face. "If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines!"

The gang is suddenly interrupted by the sound of doors opening.

Walking in the ballroom is Sun and Neptune. "Your dance is gonna have fog machines?" Neptune asked.

Weiss, entering fan girl mode, steps up to him then tries becoming sweet. "We were thinking about it..."

"That's pretty cool." Neptune replied.

Sun then comes into the scene, acting suave to Weiss' ire, and asks "You ladies all excited for dress-up?"

Ruby scoffed. "Pfft... Yeah, right!"

"Laugh all you want. I'll be turning heads tomorrow night!" Yang said, crossing her arms.

"I'm gonna have to buy a fancy get up later." Ben said as he got off the speaker.

Weiss then asked Sun and Neptune, "What are you two wearing?"

"Uuhhh... this?" Sun said as he gestures to his current shirtless outfit.

Neptune steps up and holds a hand in front of his friend's face. "Ignore him for he knows not what he says." He said dramatically.

"Hey, I may have moved to Mistral, but I grew up in Vacuo. It's not exactly a shirt-and-tie kind of place." Sun said as he knocked away his friend's hand.

Yang scowled and said, "Yeah, we noticed."

Ben pointed at Sun mockingly. "Oooh! Sick burn!" He said and laughed as he headed to the door.

"Soooo... what does Blake think of all this? She still being all, y'know... Blake-y?" Sun asked, rubbing the back of his neck, nervous.

Weiss sighed. "Obviously." she said, turning and crossing her arms in disapproval.

"I still can't think of a way to change her mind." Ruby said.

"Guys."

Everyone looked at Ben, who was about to leave the room.

"She'll be at the dance." He said. He then opened the door and left, closing it behind him.

Everyone in the room all just looked at each other, confused.

~O~

The Faunus herself is sitting at one of the library tables with a holographic screen in front of her. She is obviously more sleep-deprived than ever, barely focusing on what she's seeing. But she needs to focus. She needs more info, more answers, more...anything! Anything that can help find Roman and end his plans once and for all!

"Blake."

Blake was startled by some spooky voice mentioning her name. She actually yelped and fell of her chair.

Almost everyone at the library looked at her. Those who were doing work even stopped what they're doing and looked at Blake.

Blake stood up and fixed herself and her chair. She finally notices all the looks everyone is giving her. "I-I'm fine..." Blake said as she sat back down and continued typing.

Everyone else continued whatever they were doing.

Now that everyone is busy again, Blake then closed her eyes and spoke to the invisible voice that called her by name.

"I know that's you, Ben." She said.

Appearing in front of her is a phantom/ghost-like alien with claw like hands. He has grey skin with black lines running all over him.

He also has green chains all over his front side which lead to his neck, waist, and center/chest. He has spikes on his elbows have returned and also has two cuffs on each of his arms. The Omnitrix symbol is located at the center of his chains.