Kudos to the guy who believed me adding depth to Pyrrha that the CRWBY couldn't show assumed I was sucking dick. Must not have a lot of imagination too. Nobody needs to bother themselves with that review and honestly I'm just leaving it because it's just plain laughable.

Also, I had this done for awhile, but the internet in my home got fucked, so I couldn't post anything for awhile.

Ruby had no idea what was happening.

One second she had just landed onto the remains of the tower witnessing Pyrrha, of all people, kneeling as that older transfer student shot at her. In that brief second she felt a pit of utter horror and despair that she couldn't remember ever feeling before.

And then all of a sudden Pyrrha had thrown herself at the transfer student in a red dress with a ferocity she had only seen in Grimm before. She carried her shield on her arm like usual, but she attempted to crush the other woman's skull with it, not fighting with the calculated movements of her usual style and instead wasteful and wild movements with rage. The arrow that was sticking out of her foot wasn't stopping her at all.

Worst of all, Pyrrha ignored Ruby's attempts to get her attention. As if she didn't care or couldn't hear for her shouts.

She felt hurt that Pyrrha would do such a thing, but it was as if she hadn't realized what she actually did. Her attention was laser focused on Red Dress.

Red Dress in response was leaping around doing her best not to be too close to Pyrrha, a challenge as the girl was using her semblance at full power, constantly ramming small gears into Red Dress and obstructing her bow shots and fire blasts.

"Why won't you simply stay down!" Red Dress yelled angrily.

"Raaaarrrgggghhh!" Pyrrha just roared as she attempted to crush her target's skull.

Ruby shook her head. Whatever was going on with Pyrrha, it didn't matter. It was Ruby's duty to help her! She lifted up Crescent Rose and started shooting, forcing the fire blasts to stop in order to hyper focus defend against her bullets.

"You children are insistent on getting in my way aren't you!?" Red Dress slightly rose her voice, but returned to being collected. Pyrrha bashed her fist and shield into the definitely-not-an-aura-shield again and again, forcing Red Dress to slide back.

"Shut up and die yourself!" Pyrrha punched and punched.

Ruby wished she had enough juice in her to use her semblance again, but with the energy she's used already, she couldn't be sure she'd be able to use it and make it behind Red Dress. There wasn't much room to maneuver up here either. With Pyrrha's movements, even if she went off slightly to the side, she couldn't absolutely positively be sure she'd be able to shoot without hitting her friend.

"Why so angry? You've already accepted your destiny. You and little red over there are only prolonging the inevitable." The woman continued to talk nonsense. Ruby didn't get this woman's problem, but she spoke like Roman Torchwick and Cardin mixed together. Basically, as if she knew everything and condescending.

"I don't want to hear you sprout your shit!" Pyrrha said viciously. Ruby would have gasped if the situation weren't so serious. As it was, Ruby could understand why Pyrrha was losing it.

As she thought that, the whole tower rumbled in response to Pyrrha's words...and tipped over like Team RWBY's bunk beds after their second day.

Red dress shot fire from her hands and tried to fly away in her free fall, but Pyrrha completely refused to allow her to gather her composure, as more bits and pieces shot towards her and struck her body. She was mostly uninterrupted until a chalkboard sized metal gear slammed into her.

Pyrrha crashed into the ground shield first, before rushing toward the initial cloud of smoke where the other woman crashed.

As for Ruby, luckily Pyrrha's semblance hadn't done much but slightly pull the debris that she used to step down as her landing strategy. It dropped her closer to them, so even though she had to use up some bullets for safety she couldn't really complain.

"Pyrrha?!" She called out. There was a lot of dust, and not the ammo kind, but the 'makes things hard to see' kind.

"Eep!" She was forced to cover her eyes and step back as a explosion of flames push back the dust and reveal Pyrrha holding her ground against the flames with her shield.

The sight made her look on in wonder before a quaking roar took her attention. She swung her head back to see the Grimm dragon flying towards them.

"Oh god!" She sped over as quickly as she could to Pyrrha's back. "Pyrrha! We have a giant dragon coming after us-! We really got to move!"

Pyrrha shrugged away her hands as much as she could as the flames concentrated onto one point:her shield. "No! I have to finish her now!"

She made the same sound Weiss usually did whenever she had to deal with Yang's jokes and jumped off to the side, shooting Crescent Rose at the woman and get her to just STOP.

But her perfectly aimed shots were blocked by a wall a fire that kept the woman out of her sight, leading Ruby to recoil jump to the other side and proceed firing when something unexpected happened.

From behind Red Dress, a wave of green energy slammed into the woman and shattering her aura.

She struggled to get up only for Pyrrha to lift her up with one hand and slam a shield into her skull when the black haired woman was suddenly inside of a blue sphere with numbers flying around the surface and it's insides, before disappearing completely in the same second.

Uh, what?

What?

WHAT!?

"RAAAGH-!" Pyrrha screamed out in anger.

"Where did she go!? She can't have just disappeared!?" Ruby said as she appeared next to Pyrrha.

"Don't worry friends, Cinder Fall has been appropriately detained and will not be causing us further trouble. And may I say, I'm glad to see you both relatively unharmed."

Huh?

That voice was instantly recognized by the two of them, it was slightly deeper than how they remembered but-

They looked over to see a girl with orange hair that went below her waist and curled inwards. She wore black stocking that went above her thighs and ended below a short combat dress that was white at the top and black at the bottom with small green frills. Her eyes were covered by a green visor and connected to a floating spiked jetpack that doubled as slim armor for her arms and chest. In her black gloved hands were two sleek rifles of sorts.

"N-no way-Pen-ny is that-!" Ruby stumbled over her words and her eyes blurred as they felt wet.

"Yes, it's me Penny! I'm so relieved to see you okay!" The visor separated into two and sunk back behind her head to reveal bright green eyes.

Ruby jumped onto Penny and trapped her in a hug as word vomit came out of her mouth like the time Jaune first came to Beacon. "HowareyouhereareyouokaywhatisthatweaponyouhaveBoobsandwhyareyousosquishy-!"

"Y-you're okay?" Behind her was a kneeling Pyrrha. So shocked by the appearance of the girl she 'killed', she was snapped out of her rage and her conscious mind became coherent again.

"Hello Miss Nikos. Please don't feel guilty about what happened to me. That wasn't your fault, but rather the fault of our enemies who clouded your eyes. I understand you may have questions about who I am, but I believe we have a bigger problem."

"H-Huh? What problem?" Ruby asked.

"That problem." She nonchalantly pointed behind them and they saw the dragon Grimm fly towards them at a car's speed.

"Ungh. I don't think I'll be able to move much anymore unfortunately." Pyrrha stumbled on her shot foot as she turned around completely.

"We aren't leaving you behind so don't ask!" Ruby stated as she reloaded in hopes it would work.

"Ruby! I'm fully combat ready! If you and miss Nikos can distract the Grimm dragon for two minutes, I'll be able to unleash an attack to destroy it!"

"R-right!" Ruby forced out. She wasn't looking forward to doing that alone.

"I'm sorry Ruby." Pyrrha started to talk as the Grimm landed. "I won't be much help with this leg."

"Don't worry Pyrrha! I got this! I think." She ended uncoolly. In her defense, that was a very big dragon. She stared it down, and it stared back as it slowly inched towards them.

"Miss Nikos, if I can advise you, HE said your semblance will be much easier to manipulate, but you must be careful or you will find yourself lost into the battle as you have against Miss Fall. You must allow yourself to follow our words or you will only harm yourself as you fight." Penny gave instructions to Pyrrha for some reason, and Ruby had the distinct feeling she was missing something as the orange haired girl's eyes were re-covered by the visor.

Pyrrha closed her eyes. "Okay...okay. I can do that."

"Alright Pyrrha! Penny!" She called out to them. "Let's do this!"

Pyrrha flung her hand forward, sending waves of shrapnel that ultimately didn't do much toward the dragon at first. But Ruby noticed that the waves she could manipulate grew over time. The dragon swung its wings trying to knock the projectiles away.

"Now send all of it to the right eye!" Penny shouted as she spotted an opening through her visor.

The dragon's head swung back in pain as it's right eye was replaced with gritty metal.

She took the opening rushed to the dragon, swiping it with her scythe in a useless hit. It's head moved quickly to nip at her, only for metal rubble to slam it back.

'Oh man it's skin is too dense!' She thought as she ran to its back to its tail, slicing along the way.

She felt a trickle of uselessness, but pushed it back and continued to slice. Who knows, maybe she'd find a softer spot.

The dragon stood to get her off its back, forcing her to jump off. It roared as the metal in it's eye pushed deeper as much as it could, as Pyrrha ran out of ammo for her semblance.

It turned and snarled at Ruby, it's attention still on her.

'Uh oh.' Ruby ran with her back towards the dragon, hoping to lose it in the rubble, when she looked back, its body was stretched out and its jaws were just behind her hood.

"Eep!" She panicked and recoil jumped, shooting inside its mouth to get away.

It growled, and its jaws snapped shut as it followed, ignoring Penny and Pyrrha.

'That's good right? I think that good!' She thought to herself.

Just then, a wave of ice shot from the ground, partially trapping the dragon keeping it from following her.

"What is with you and charging Giant Grimm. Do you ever pause to think how insane your actions are?"

Weiss!

Her partner was bent over in exhaustion even as she scolded her.

"Weiss! Penny's okay!" Was probably the worst thing to say at that moment but it came out anyways.

"What?" The white haired girl had a double take as she saw Penny giving more instructions to Pyrrha who kept clenching and unclenching her fists.

"What the- Why- actually, I don't care. Let's just finish this thing for gods sake!" Weiss gave up thinking halfway through and glared at the dragon.

"We just need to hold it off for Penny for another 30 seconds!"

Weiss nodded and the dust chambers of Myrtenaster spun as she stared down the Grimm as it ripped itself out the ice.

Angered by its newest prey, it swung its claws towards the RW pair.

"Weiss!" Ruby called out to her partner, who knew what she wanted. Glyphs appeared beneath them and they were flung out of the way before it was anywhere near them.

It pushed off its claw and lunged at them with its maw wide open.

"Not-" Weiss winced and breathed hard. "On my watch!"

A large steel arm that looked like it was made of ice tried to hold back the beast, but it continued to come after them.

Ruby grabbed Weiss and sped away.

Then, a pillar of steel came crashing past them, impaling the dragon grimm through the side, making it roar in pain. It stumbled, trying to get up, but Pyrrha followed Penny's instructions well, impaling through the wing on the opposite side of where she struck.

Relief quickly filled the three Beacon girls, only to vanish as the dragon Grimm, well, Ruby didn't know how to describe it other than saying it melted on its sides. Each puddle that landed quickly turned into an alpha sized Grimm that shot towards them.

"Ruby! Weiss! Please retreat to us!"

Quickly, the two jumped backwards, landing next to Pyrrha who was on Penny's left.

"Sword Summoner Revision: Legacy Edge!" The jet pack spikes detached and transformed into green swords before vanishing as dozens of swords appeared and began to slice the dragon apart. They quickly deduced she was trying to limit how much Grimm spawn would appear, but unfortunately even the sliced pieces turned into small Grimm.

"Ruby! Weiss! Pyrrha!" Penny called out to them again as she raced toward the Grimm with the rifles turning into sword hilts as green energy formed into a sharp pointed blade.

The pillar that impaled the dragon was re-collapsed and turned into a shard storm that hailed down on the Grimm horde.

"Penny Polendina entering Close Combat!" Penny stated, her jovial tone clear in her somewhat lower pitch of voice. The blades returned behind her and into the pack she wore before transforming into thicker armor that covered her upper body. She spun unhindered by the new weight around her body and bisected four Grimm at once.

"Ice Flower!" Ruby and Weiss moved in unison to unleash their coordination attack. Ruby quickly shot the Alphas, freezing parts of their bodies and interrupting their movement.

"Nice assist Friends!" Penny sliced the frozen Grimm before they could remove the ice.

"Penny l don't think close combats a good idea!" Ruby realized as she saw an Ursa bat Penny's armor and throwing her aside only for her to kick off of a Grimm to slice the one that hit her. The metal shards tried to cut down the horde, but there were already too many of them.

"I believe it is for the best-!" Penny jumped and let her swords return to the rifles and shot down. "That I keep their attention on me!" She landed and jumped into the horde with her swords.

A small airship flew right over them.

"Reinforcements are here!"

"Go AWAY!" They heard two shouts and a crash.

Ren and Nora looked battered down, yet they fought with ferocity as they worked together to kill the Grimm. Ren's clean slices were accompanied with Nora's crushing swings.

"Hey! Sun sent us over to help with the Dragon, but this works too!" Neptune called out to Weiss as he landed on an Alpha grimm with his weapon. His hair was messy and his clothes were torn, but he looked like the Hunter he was training to be.

"Don't forget you're not alone!" Velvet called out as she killed the Grimm with graceful kicks. Dirt was all over her face and outfit, yet she looked undeterred and fierce.

Sage and Scarlet of Team SSSN landed as well, both too tired to shout words of encouragement, but still nodding with smirks at the girls. The airship landed behind Pyrrha, its pilot waiting for the hunters and huntresses.

Together, they fought to defeat the horde that spawned from the dragon's body.

But they weren't the only ones who fought.

"Cardin watch out-!"

"Focus on the grimm damnit!" Cardin swung his mace fiercely as a handful of Grimm hung off his large frame. He grabbed one with his other hand and threw it to another Grimm.

"No!" Russel shouted. "I mean behind you!" A griffon Grimm dove from the skies to swallow Cardin.

"Eat this-!" The chambers in his mace prepared to fire off whatever dust was left within when someone shot out from the rooftops slamming into the beast and they fell to the ground.

""Arc?!"" Team CRDL was surprised to see the young man they bullied in what feels like a lifetime ago.

"We don't have time to talk! I saw a ton of the griffons drop people not too far from here! We need to go help the other hunters before it's too late!" Jaune stumbled off the Grimm and ran past a corner, using his shield to bash his way through.

'That Arc. Even now he's thinking of others in a shitty situation.' Cardin gripped his mace tighter.

"Come on! You heard the dweeb!" He called out and followed with his team who didn't doubt him for a second.

'They aren't hesitating to follow...fuck! I really am pathetic!' He thought sardonically as he took his anger out on the Grimm. "Dove! Russel! Keep behind Arc!" The two sped up on his words and followed. "Sky! Keep in front of me and spin your halberd!" His sole teammate vaulted using his weapon right over him and followed his orders, cleaving Grimm that dove at him and ignored Sky.

Dove and Russel easily caught up to Arc due to their own speed and held his shoulders to steady his run. Together, they pushed past the Grimm to where Arc said they were needed.

When he and Sky reached Arc, civilians were pushing each other into the buildings for some sense of safety as a remaining few hunters and huntresses fought in their defense. Cardin noted that the leader who lost against Arc's team in the first round was at the front of the crowd was cleaving rows of Grimm with his claws extending by several feet. He didn't know why he took note of him, just that he did. Further down the street was a pissed off Goodwitch who was flinging away Grimm and creating tiny storms that annihilated the fuckers.

But that was enough of that. "Sky! Hold the line at the bar!"

But then Cardin's eyes widened as he saw a Beowulf jump onto the girl with the sniper and reacted. "Hya!" He threw his mace, crushing the thing and rendering him weaponless.

And honestly.

He couldn't bring himself to give a FUCK.

He reared his fists and slammed into a boarbatusk, crushing it's skull.

He was tackled by Grimm in swarms, leaving him to punch and toss them off by twisting his body.

"Cardin!" Arc called out to him and tossed his sheath. Without needing to hold a shield, he held his sword with two hands to swing faster and harder.

With his temporary weapon, Cardin swung the sheathe and batted away the Grimm before turning it into a shield as a griffon slammed him into the ground.

He cursed and moved his head back as the griffon aimed to hit his head only for a buzz saw to go through its neck. He looked over to see one of the other hunters back handing a Creep. "That's a thanks for May!" The saw bounced back to his arms as he fought back.

"You'll need your weapon!" The hunter with the baton tossed back his mace as he stunned Grimm for the sniper, May apparently, to shoot.

He looked over to Arc to hand back his shield only to see him shake his head and continue to fight with just his sword. "Keep my shield! The Grimm are focusing on you the most so you'll need it more!" As if to prove his words, Cardin instinctively switched it into a shield to block and bash Grimm.

Cardin didn't have anymore time to think as the claw guy shouted. "They're beginning to clear up on this street! Just hold on a little longer!"

His eyes burned with something fierce. "We can hold on as long as we need to with me here!" He used his remaining fire dust to send a wave of inferno through the Grimm as they rushed at him.

"These fucking monsters need to go through me first!"

Golden transparent clones tackled down Grimm after Grimm. Hopping from one to another.

Originally Sun needed to sit still to use them, but now he fought alongside them as he defended his comrades. He may not know most of their names, but they all stood together.

They defended the Vale shelter with dozens of other hunters and huntresses, even some of the white fang who had long since removed their masks and pretending as if they weren't any part of this. Blake and Yang along with other fighters who could no longer fight were inside 'safe'. He sent the ship they used with some of the others to grab Ruby and Weiss, hopefully Pyrrha too, as the voice showed him the robot girl tricked out with more weapons, enough to kill the Wyvern. The amount of griffons have long since diminished for the air to be safe-ish, and really, they needed to stick together.

"Big guy!" Sun jumped up to Yatsuhashi who used his fist to connect with his shoes to send him through a horde, where he used his staff to batter the beowolves.

He skidded across the ground and flipped to land on a Creep at just the right angle that he skateboarded it across the street to spin his staff and fire it across several meters.

"Damn it we aren't looking so hot here!" Coco grounded out as she swung her weapon in its purse form. Her ammo has long since emptied out. Her beret and sunglasses were gone as well.

"No they've been letting up!" Sun noticed. It was weird. Like he can sense the Grimm on some sort of internal radar. "The Grimm outside the walls have been pushed back already! We just have the ones inside to deal with!"

"How do you even know that!?" Reece shouted as she stabbed with her weapons, her ammo also gone.

"I can sense it! Look just trust me! This nightmare's almost over!"

Fox pounded an Ursa, launching it and blowing it up along with others. "I can't say if he's right about the walls, but the amount of Grimm in the city are lessened, and they're all converging on two spots-" he paused as he hammered down an alpha Beowulf.

"Feel free to continue any moment now." Arslan commented as she snapped an ursa's head that was behind him with a kick.

"It's somewhere out in the city where all the griffons vanished." He grunted as he hopped back to catch his breath.

"And here." Said an unamused voice accompanied with a bang through the air.

It was the apparently half robotic Ironwood. He was using one of the weapons from the mech troopers.

"Great." Coco commented, throwing her bag which popped through an Ursa and through several beowulves. "Well at least there's a hundred of us to take down a thousand Grimm each."

Nebula jumped over him to slice through an Alpha Ursa like butter. "I never realized how much I hated Grimm until tonight."

"You and everyone else here." Dew grunted as she sliced off the neck of a Beowulf.

"I can't say I don't feel the same." A girl in a red dress said as she sliced away with viciousness.

"It takes a special kind of psychopath to like this situation." Her twin in White kicked and spun near her sister. Weirdly enough, the same feeling he had from Nebula and himself was inside them as well, but that wasn't really the point.

"Do you have to banter like this." A man with a bat for a weapon scoffed as he stood near them and crushed grimm.

The fact that they were all able snark was the sign things were better than earlier as far as he was concerned.

Still, they still had a pretty massive horde to deal with.

He jumped back to the shelters entrance where the Atlas soldiers who still had ammo continued to fire. "Watch my back!" He sat in his meditation pose skidding across the floor and summoned four more clones, making six currently out.

His clones didn't necessarily obey normal physics anymore it seems, as he controlled them personally to toss Grimm like toys, and one of them was able to use his staff and extend it by several feet, piercing the grimms' armor. No longer just using them to create openings, his clones jumped into crowds of Grimm to kill them in droves.

His eyebrows furrowed as he created another six. The further out the clones went, the less he needed to be careful on hitting his friends, so the amount of management he needed to do decreased.

"Everyone just hold the line!" Ironwood called out. "The end of the horde is nearer than ever! Fight as long as you can! Reinforcements-!"

"Reinforcements already here!" A boisterous voice said. It was Oobleck and Port and together they cut down the horde on the way to them. They were accompanied with more soldiers and hunters as they moved to defensive positions leading a small group of civilians inside to the shelters.

Emboldened, they fought fiercer as they stuck together. Many had died, but they can at least make sure that everyone doesn't die.

"We should be looking for Cinder!"

"Shut it Em you saw the way she vanished! We need to look after ourselves now!"

Mercury and Emerald retreated across the city in panic. Cinder disappearing as she did made what little confidence they had disappear. They were only sure the Grimm wouldn't attack when she was around, but without her...

"Well well well. Look at what we have here." A gruff voice stopped them in their tracks.

'Shit.' They thought in sync for once.

It was Qrow, scythe already brandished.

"Thank gods another hunter! We're trying to get to the shelters to help with the defense, can you come help us?" Mercury tried to lie at first, not sure if the man recognized them.

"Yeah, that ain't happening." He said simply before slicing one of Mercury's legs off in a blink of an eye.

"Mercury!" Emerald immediately used her semblance on the man, letting him see them disappear as Mercury jumped back clutching her.

"Not so fast!" A bone crushing blow landed on Emerald's side and knocked them to a building.

"Ugghh." Emerald tried to shake off the blow and saw a blonde man who patted Qrow familiarly.

'Oh shit.' They thought again, recognizing the other man as well.

This was karma.