Heya guys! Here it is! The next chapter! Honestly I didn't think I'd be able to finish it today, hehe. My brother kept bugging me. Fortunately after half an hour of me basically ignoring him if not for monosyllabic replies, he left me alone and went to his room to watch anime and play games, so I managed to finish this!

As usual, this story has been commissioned by Ultrahero74! Enjoy!

It really wasn't a good moment for the projectors to take longer than usual, but that was what happened either way.

The audience, left in the dark regarding the fate of the city, tried to find some ways to ease their tension while they waited. However, the empty cave was… well, an empty cave. So the most anyone could do was to get lost in their own thoughts.

Ozpin was considering interrogating the Kotaro Higashi from his Remnant. By then, it was almost certain that the dear Professor was the same man they were watching onscreen, but had simply been more cautious. Without the need to use his powers, perhaps he had decided to keep his identity a secret.

Not exactly a fool's move, to be honest.

He should really give that man a raise. If only because the man, or Ultraman, could probably kill him and all his future reincarnations with a single attack. Even if he would never do it from what they'd seen.

Ironwood, on the other hand, was a complete mess inwardly, even if his composure never wavered. He was still reeling from his earlier argument with Qrow, for one. While he and the drunk Hunter never really saw eye-to-eye on most things, he had always thought they could agree on the general points – for example on how some secrets had to be kept even from friends.

Project PENNY was a… complicated matter to say the least. While he personally did support the secret project of building an army capable of blending in, it really wasn't with the intent of waging war against the other Kingdoms – the opposite! He wanted to use Aura-generating androids like Penny so that the Grimm could be fought more easily. Penny on her own could give Qrow a run for his money in a fight, perhaps even win – with dozens of androids like her, Atlas would defeat the Grimm completely. Even Salem would find it hard to destroy Hunters as powerful as Penny.

Of course, the Council was another matter. While they agreed on not wanting another war, they didn't think Atlas should protect other Kingdoms from Grimm for free. They intended to offer the androids as mercenaries to the other Kingdoms so to create yet another stable influx of money into their pockets. Not only that, but once the Kingdoms did start relying on the androids, Atlas would basically be able to become Remnant's true ruler.

Again, the Council didn't want war… but that didn't mean they didn't find the idea of ruling Remnant appealing. They thought themselves so high-and-mighty and they thought that they would do a much better job at ruling than anyone else. And again, taxes meant money and money was good for them.

Ironwood, if he had to be honest, loathed that side of his people, but he could appreciate the effectiveness of Project PENNY in a combat situation. Her crushing victory against Torchwick and the White Fang at the docks had been a clear indication of that. Grimm would stand no chance against androids like her, and thus maybe even Salem would eventually be defeated.

After all, it wasn't like she was immortal or something, right?

Qrow was having more or less the opposite train of thought as Ironwood. He loathed the existence of Project PENNY. Oh, he didn't have anything against the girl, if anything he pitied her for what had happened to her, but the simple fact those scientists had gone against Nature to create man-made Life just made him want to throw up everything in his stomach, and he had seen and lived through some pretty messed-up stuff.

How could they do that and still call themselves human beings? To recreate Life in a lab was playing Gods and desecrating Nature. He'd never been a fanatic of naturalism or particularly religious, but there were some things one just shouldn't mess with. It would've probably been better had they resurrected a corpse – at least it would've been human to begin with.

But that girl? As he said, he had nothing against her. He even respected her for being able to live through knowing she wasn't human, and was made as a mean to a goal not her own. But her very existence was proof that Atlas knew no limits or morals when it came to money and power, or anything that would eventually give them the aforementioned two.

Penny was confused by the hostility between Ironwood and Qrow – they should've been friends, as far as she knew. Perhaps not friends like she and Ruby were, but on friendly terms nonetheless, if not outright respect. She could not understand why her origins made them split apart so suddenly, and so violently.

The students, instead, were divided between two groups.

Blake and Weiss were currently thinking about Penny and how she came to this world. Like Qrow, they didn't hold it against her at all. But while Blake shared Qrow's horror regarding Project PENNY, Weiss found herself kind of agreeing with Ironwood. Not to Winter's extent, of course, but it made sense. Even if Atlas did end up lording its power over the other Kingdoms and making them regions of a Remnant-wide Atlas, the Grimm would still be dealt with. Sure, the politicians of the other Kingdoms wouldn't like it, but Atlas's government was by far the most efficient, the most skilled, the most knowledgeable, the one with more seats, and the one who could deal with problems the best. As for the civilians, it wouldn't matter for them what their Kingdom was called, getting rid of the Grimm would be too good to pass up.

What Weiss failed to take into consideration was, of course, that while yes, Atlas would indeed also help the other kingdoms technologically, they would become more or less like Mantle – not exactly in misery, but shunned by the 'higher-ups' of the economy, aka those who lived in Atlas.

Instead the other, much larger side of the students were trying to comfort Jaune and Pyrrha as much as they could. Ruby, Yang, Ren and Nora had, unfortunately, experience with loss of family, so they knew what the two of them were currently going through, one in fear for his sister and sister-in-law, and the other for her parents.

No words were said. They knew that things like they're gonna be okay or it's another universe wouldn't do much to help with their current panic attack. If anything, it might even make it worse once things took a bad turn. Their presence was the only comfort they could give, a silent closeness that meant I'm here for you, and I'm not going anywhere.

Bit by bit, the two of them managed to calm down – mostly thanks to Ruby, who oddly enough was the one to point out that it was just a projection and might not even be true or anything, which greatly helped the two distraught teens.

Yang had experienced helping grieving people, having been the one to fill Summer's spot when Ruby lost her mother. And she too was simply reassuring them that their families were safe. Their real families.

Sun, Amber and Taiyang found themselves extremely uncomfortable. While Amber knew Qrow, Ironwood, Ozpin and Goodwitch, she still wasn't used to seeing them act so… tensely hostile with each other. Qrow looked just about ready to grab Harbinger and start a fight. Winter had more or less the same expression, but with more an arrogant certainty of being in the right.

Now, Qrow wasn't that old, but Winter was half his age – for her to be eager to fight him was just so Atlasian it really irked Amber. The difference in their training was so huge it wasn't even funny.

Taiyang, on the other hand, was worried. Still because of Qrow, but not because of the tension between him and the General. Qrow had never liked James Ironwood, declaring he was just a politician who thought his army could do anything while he only had a knack for fucking up people's plans when it was least convenient.

Sun just plain had no flipping idea what the hell was going on. He felt a bit sorry for his fellow male blue-eyed blond and his stunning redhead partner, but he wasn't exactly on friendly terms with them – not that they hated him or anything! It was more like they didn't really know him. Even Team RWBY barely knew him!

On the other hand, Raven was obviously uninterested and unimpressed by the show of human emotions from Jaune and Pyrrha, mostly since she totally lacked empathy herself, but she found herself observing Penny very intently.

She was a robot – that meant she had no will of her own, no actual soul. She had a soul stored in her body to act as a source of Aura – that didn't mean she had one. It didn't mean it was her soul. It was just a different kind of battery. She was just a robot that could be reprogrammed to act as her secret ace-up-the-sleeve. Even though she had no one in her tribe that actually had the software-programming skills to reform Penny's entire mindset into that of a battle-hardened warrior who obeyed her every order. It wasn't that hard to figure out how to capture her – in the end she was a naive, unaware, socially stumped little girl who had the mental capabilities of a 6 years old.

It was simply a matter of time before the opportunity arose and she could snatch the girl away, finally letting her use all her untapped potential against the unaware, worthless farmers and villagers of Anima so that her tribe could prosper. She had no idea how much her power actually was, but she was confident that if Atlas made her as a walking weapon of mass destruction against Grimm and the other Kingdoms, then it was something she had to have. And with the gynoid, she would make the Branwen tribe invincible.

Unaware of the horrible, and quite arrogant, plans of the bandit queen, Winter was instead focused on the dispute happened between Qrow and Ironwood. She knew she was a little biased against Qrow, but even then she knew her current spite for the man had nothing to do with bias or personal dislike. No, this spite was entirely because of his actions and words in his discussion with General Ironwood.

Why couldn't Qrow understand that the world didn't revolve around him? That just because he thought himself, pardon her language, hot shit people wouldn't fall at his feet grovelling to get in his good graces? That being drunk didn't mean he was always right, or had the right to try and get involved in people's business?

Atlas had secret. Atlas's military had even more secrets. As drunk and stupid as he might've been, Winter had supposed even Qrow couldn't be stupid enough to think he was entitled to be told those secrets. And even then, even if he had actually been trustworthy (which he wasn't, never would be), they were in a room full of children. Children who had no business sticking their snotty little noses into Atlas's military's top secret projects.

Now, Winter knew her temper could use some work. Every time she and Qrow met, he would bait her into starting a fight, and would thus be able to blame it all on her whenever the General broke the fight up. She knew what her weaknesses were, and she'd freely admit (to Ironwood, at least, not to many others) that her quick-to-anger attitude was one of those.

However…

However she felt that her short temper had nothing to do with the anger she was currently feeling. Qrow, and subtly so even Ozpin and Goodwitch, had been insulting Atlas as a whole without even trying to cover it up, plainly hinting at short-sightedness on their part. Qrow went as far as calling all Atlasians arrogant assholes who thought money was the essence of life and cared not for the lives of everyone else. He was borderline saying that Atlas would let hundreds of thousands people to die if it were to be profitable for them to do so. Which was absolutely false.

Winter knew her home kingdom didn't have the best reputation. While rich and technologically far more advanced than all the other kingdoms put together, Atlas was infamous for being the home of many so-called rich men whose only goal was to obtain as much money as they could, through any mean possible.

True, Atlasians did have some sort of racial pride or something. And many of its people did treasure money a lot and wished to increase their fortunes. But they were still people, and underneath the strict, law-abiding exterior they actually did care.

But not for those who shunned them because of their so-called 'bad reputation'.

Poor Winter didn't even realize just how close-minded her thoughts were.

The woman was a good older sister (in some cases, she was still horrible at greeting her little sister) even if she acted a tad too much like a drill sergeant even with Weiss, but her admiration for Ironwood and Atlas as a whole blinded her. A lot. So much so, that she found it hard to see the flaws in her home kingdom, be it in its politics or in its people.

And the bigger the flaw, the more she tried to ignore and justify it to keep her mental image of Atlas as perfect and immaculate as it could be.

Finally, after a tense quarter of hour spent in complete silence, the projectors glowed again, and the projection began once more.

As the sounds of the Grimm roaring in the distance could be heard, our heroes were moving at top speed as they ran straight towards the city of Argus. Both of them quickly closing the distance they bad between where they had been on the hill to the city as they rushed in, ready to help whoever they can when they arrived.

Fortunately though, despite how bad things seemed, Penny told him that Argus was actually under the protection of an Atlas base that was constructed there to protect it from any Grimm incursions that popped up. Like right now for instance.

"As I said, Argus is safe from Grimm attacks. The city's defences were actually made with Leviathans and other Titan-class Grimm in mind, specifically created to be able to fight massive Grimm and swarms of smaller ones at the same time," Ironwood spoke up, taking his mind off the Penny subject to inform everyone of Argus's security.

"Is it gonna be enough?" asked Penny. "It seems that the Atlasian soldiers are having trouble repelling the entire horde."

"It's gonna be just fine," Ironwood nodded. "Of course this does not mean no damage will come to the city or harm to the people, but it will be greatly reduced."

"That doesn't really reassure us, sir…" Ruby mumbled.

"It still is a Grimm invasion – they rarely die without taking something with them."

Currently from what they could make out as they were getting closer to Argus the area above the Leviathan was currently a dog fight as an entire fleet of Atlesian Airships, who were currently attacking any of the smaller Grimm which Penny had classified as Griffons and Sphinx, and blasted them out of the Sky.

And the Leviathan Itself was currently engaging what appeared to be an equally massive robot!

"Man that's one big robot," Sun commented, impressed. Ruby and Jaune would've both cheered and fanboyed/fangirled at the sight of a super robot, but both were still too worried about the people in Argus to do so.

"As expected from the Atlas military, we are efficient not only in the defence of our own kingdom, but in protecting any and all of our allies," Winter stated, or more like droned, in a voice that was eerily similar to Weiss's when she had read the 'Dust for Dummies' pamphlet to Ruby before Initiation. Could all Schnees do that?

Qrow almost died when he choked on his alcohol at hearing that. 'Where the fuck did that come from?!' he screamed in his mind.

It was as tall as the Atlesian Military Base situated in Argus. It has a stocky build, with a rectangular cockpit and long, armored legs. Its left arm has a joint and a hand with two fingers and a thumb. Its right arm is a cannon with rotary slots, and a large blade is fitted to the back. All but one of the rotary slots in its right arm contains a form of Dust; the rotary slot without Dust is a missile pod.

"Cool." Sun raised eight fingers of his hands. "Eight outta eleven. It's cool but it doesn't look all that great, and it doesn't seem to have any super-move or anything."

"Eight out of ten, you mean?" Ironwood asked, flattered by the compliment. True, he hadn't received max scores, but as Sun said it wasn't like the robot was very aesthetically pleasing to look upon. It wasn't its purpose. "And just so you know, it is equipped with a Dust generator that can create an energy shield all around it to protect it from even the strongest of attacks."

"Alright, nine outta eleven." He raised another finger. "As for who gets eleven, well that's when I raise my tail. But you seriously gotta impress me to get eleven outta eleven."

A few chuckled at the monkey Faunus's use for his tail and his carefree attitude.

Penny classified it as a Colossus. A military grade battle mech created to fight off massive hoards of Grimm or Titan-Class Grimm like the Leviathan.

Currently though it would seem for the most part of the conflict, no side was getting an advantage over the other as both the Grimm and the Atlas forces battled each other fiercely. Which only made the two move quicker than they already were moving.

"Not so invincible, huh, General?" Qrow grinned.

"Special Agent Cordovin is currently old enough to warrant retirement as a Huntress, yet she is fighting that monster on an even footing. Not even the world's most skilled Hunter could come close to that level of power," Ironwood bit back, internally smirking at Qrow's frown. "Atlas chooses not to rely on the powers of Hunters, who are extravagant at best, and downright unreliable at worst. We instead rely on trained and disciplined soldiers, and technology developed by the world's greatest minds."

Weiss and Winter both nodded, one more subtly than the other. It was true. Atlas was so powerful because they only relied on the most excellent and trustworthy of people. Both also winced. And then there was their father, who was neither. But they couldn't deny he did do a good job in gaining the monopoly of the Dust trade and becoming one of the world's richest and most influential men alive.

"Oh really?" Qrow snorted. "Alright, alright, Atlas is fine, but what about Mantle? Or all the other cities?"

"They are well-protected as well." However, this time Ironwood seemed less sure of his claim.

"Sure they are. Mantle doesn't even have functioning walls – the Grimm can reach right into the city whenever they want. And other cities… oh wait, I just remembered!" Qrow glared at Ironwood. "There are no other cities in Atlas! Maybe because all the soldiers are always stationed in Atlas, and if someone living outside were to send a call for help, it would still take too long to save them from the Grimm!"

"Hunters aren't much different," Ironwood retorted. "Atlas just has more powerful Grimm than the other-"

"Oh please, Vacuo is a shithole with stupidly big monsters roaming the desert and next to no actual government, and yet it's still standing and actually does have more than one city," Qrow replied with a huff. "Hunters don't have to stay in one place. Their job is to kill Grimm and protect people – wherever they can, and whenever they can. Plus it's not as hard as it is in Atlas to get combat training. In Atlas, if you aren't a licensed instructor using licensed and government-approved training grounds, you can't even teach some guy how to swing a sword or fire a gun to defend himself! At least out of Atlas, nobody gives a damn as long as you do report what you've done. And even then, only if you take the training past a certain level. Basic defence lessons don't even have to be reported to the government!"

"And this brought you to have well-trained criminals who can disobey the law and escape safely instead of being apprehended!" Winter exclaimed with a scowl.

"Break it up, all of you!" Goodwitch yelled, creating a purple runic shield between the two. "Now it's not the time."

"Got to say, when we where going to Argus i wasn't expecting to help save it as well!" Kotaro said as he sprinted across the landscape.

"We have to hurry!" Penny said as she was keeping up the pace with the Ultra, "while Argus is protected by an Atlesian forces they'll be to busy fighting the Leviathan than protecting the citizens from whatever smaller Grimm that break away from the battle to attack the city!"

"Then there's no time to waste, let's move!" and with that said the two bolted at top speed and entered the city. Prepared to fight off whatever came after the civilians as the battle in the cities waters raged on.

"See Jaune, he made it in time!" Ruby exclaimed, pointing at the projection. "And with an Ultraman warrior defending the city, nothing could go wrong!"

"Yeah… you're right, Ruby," Jaune nodded, calming down, but only marginally. He stopped hyperventilating and took a few deep breaths to calm himself.

The City of Argus was a nice place to live. It was very well maintained and the community as very pleasant, it was all and all nice choice to pick out of if you wanted to settle down and have a family. And with the Argus Base keeping a watch out for Grimm it was relatively safe too.

All and all at the end of the day, it's a good place to live.

However this was not one of those days.

It had started off as a normal day earlier in the day. Everyone went about their normal routine and went about with their lives.

When suddenly later on in the day the Argus base sent off the alarm all across the city, and no sooner did it start blaring out a entire horde of Grimm came flying from the nearby forest and over the city. And to top it all off, they flew past the city and came flying towards a enormous Grimm that came bursting out of the ocean, and started heading towards the city.

The people panicked, and quickly began to head to the civilian shelters as the Argus base quickly mobilized against the creatures of Grimm.

Unfortunately some of the Grimm that were flying around during the conflict picked up on the negativity in the city. And roughly thirty of them, without any of their opposition knowing it, immediately broke away from the dogfight and dive-bombed directly towards Argus.

Jaune immediately began to tense again, as well as Pyrrha.

Ruby nudged him again. "Taro's there! If he can fight Kaijus, he can definitely fight Grimm!"

Jaune nodded slowly. "Yeah… you're right. You're right, Ruby."

The citizens ran for their lives. The Grimm came down and attacked at anything that move, and ripped apart anything in their way. And all the while the Atlas force where to busy fighting for their lives and against the Grimm in the ocean to pull away and help.

Amongst these civilians that were making a break for it as the Grimm chased them down was a blond woman and her child.

"You're wrong, Ruby, you're wrong!" And Jaune was back to panicking after the Grimm began their rampage, and seeing his sister and his nephew in the chaos.

Ruby sighed. Pyrrha was still panicking. It seemed they wouldn't stop worrying until the very end, when Argus was actually saved.

She was a beautiful young woman with wavy, dirty blond hair and blue eyes. She wears an orange top with a beige vest, light brown trousers with orange stitches on each side, and dark brown boots. In addition, she wears her wedding ring on her left hand and a bootlace necklace around her neck.

The child in her arms, who was a boy, was a rather cute infant with short black hair and brown eyes. He wears a white and blue long-sleeved shirt with denim overalls and white socks.

All the women in the audience cooed at how amazingly adorable the little kid was.

"I want one!" both Yang and Weiss exclaimed at the same time.

Meanwhile, Qrow whistled to himself. 'Not a bad looker, the chick. Too bad she's married… and probably half my age anyway.'

Jaune had the sudden, inexplicable and most powerful urge to grab Crocea Mors and shove it through Qrow's chest until the hilt came out from his back, and then burn the corpse at stake. He didn't know why, but it overpowered even his worry.

And currently right now, much like everyone else, they were both running for their lives!

As the blonde woman ran as fast as she could while carrying her crying child in her arms, she darted around and got quick glimpses of debris and other things being launched at everyone as the Grimm continued to rampage after all of them. Ready to rip them apart when they get a hold of them, a fact which only made the blonde quickly pick up the pace in order to get away from those monsters.

But in her haste to get to safety and save her child, she tripped and fell to her side. Groaning as she slowly got up, she made sure her baby was safe, and fortunately he wasn't hurt from the fall.

But at that moment a loud roar got her attention and she quickly looked just in time to see a Sphinx baring down towards them!

Scratch that, Jaune's worry was overpowering everything else in his mind! Killing Qrow could wait forever for all he cared at the moment! If only he could reach out into the projection and do something!

Unbeknownst to him, his Aura began to flare wildly and violently, reacting to his desire to save his sister. He didn't notice, but everyone else in the room did, especially since given his large Aura reserves he looked like he'd just been engulfed in a rippling white shield of Aura, something that no one could do without the help of a Semblance.

'Is that Jaune's Semblance? Already?' Pyrrha thought. She was one of the only four people in Beacon who knew Jaune didn't have his Aura unlocked before Initiation, and that he cheated his way into Beacon. The others were their two teammates, and Ruby, who Jaune had told after the whole thing with Cardin's blackmail had been over with.

Ren had reacted in a way no one had expected. He said that he hadn't had a very high opinion of Jaune's combat skills since the start of the year as he thought he'd had years to train and hadn't improved much, and that instead to survive Initiation, successfully, and survive Beacon's training, all of that untrained up until then, was far more deserving of his respect. It was then that he and Jaune officially became 'brothers'. Ren still refused to say 'bro'.

Nora had known already. How, nobody knew, but she just seemed to have some kind of supernatural knowledge at times. She'd just demanded for pancakes as punishment for lying to them. Pancakes and hugs, lots of pancakes and lots of hugs. She was a very touchy-feely person.

Ruby hadn't batted an eyelid either. She'd actually said something similar to Ren, on how it just made him passing even more impressive. And that it didn't take away from him being a good person! She also told him how she had actually gotten into Beacon by an act of vigilantism, so in the end they both got in due to crimes of some kind.

Knowing that the creature was about to end their lives she held her baby close and closed her eyes tightly, waiting for the end to come in a form of fangs and claws.

But that moment!

*SHNCK!* *CRASH!*

Ever so slowly, after waiting a moment for their demise, did the blonde open her eyes. And much to her shock instead of seeing impending death, she saw the Grimm that was about to kill the both of them disintegrating as it's lifeless corpse was cur clean in half.

"YES!" Everyone was startled when Jaune pumped a fist in the air, Aura flaring and flickering even more wildly and brightly. "TAKE THAT!"

"Well, he surely got out of his funk quickly…" Amber commented with a sweatdrop.

'Tsk. If they are so weak to die by the claws of some Grimm, I see no reason to help them,' Raven snorted in her mind, knowing that speaking up would just cause everyone to start shouting, and it'd take forever to get back at the projection.

And then she saw the one who saved their lives.

It was none other than Penny. The robot girl stood protectively in front of the two of them as she activated her weapon 'Floating Array' and had ten swords hovering around her elegantly. She then turned around to face the two of them and gave them a kind smile as she bent down on one knee, "hello miss, have sustained any injuries?" she asked.

Snapping out of thoughts she said, "o-oh uh, no we're alright."

With that Penny just smiled and stood up as she faced the horde of Grimm still heading their way.

"Good, and don't worry miss." she said as she crouched down and the swords hovering around her shifted into striking position.

"I'm combat ready!"

And like that that the ginger haired girl dashed forward at impossible speed! She came upon the first Grimm, a Griffon, and slammed into it with incredible force and speed and tackling the Grimm and slamming it into another Sphinx! When she knocked them to the ground she quickly jumped up and maneuvered her swords and sent them flying down and impaled the two Grimm in vital areas killing them instantly!

She then came down fast and hard onto another Sphinx, crushing its head instantly when she brought both her feet down on it upon impact, and then quickly bent backwards to dodge a swipe from another Sphinx that attempted to dive-bomb her. Acting quickly as she ducked the girl grasped two of her swords in her hands and impaled the monster before cutting it in half and backflipping onto her feet as the Grimm's severed body disintegrated behind her.

As she righted herself up, Penny got into a fighting stance as the other Grimm, who realized how much of a threat she was, all diverted their attention away from the fleeing civilians on to her. Giving the people of Argus a chance to escape.

"Hell yeah!" Jaune cheered again, and this time Yang, Ruby and Nora all joined him in cheering for Penny, who felt her facial synthetic superficial components dramatically rise in temperature. This was of course made to replicate blushing whenever her Aura sent the appropriate signals.

Petro Polendina had seriously outdone himself this time.

Ironwood smiled. While he was still very unhappy about Penny being far from the Atlas military's protection, it could still be quite useful to observe the fight and take notes of Penny's current combat potential and how it could be improved.

Not like she needed improving anyway, he noted with a proud smile, since she was decimating the Grimm like they were flies, while even veteran Hunters like Qrow would have trouble fighting Sphinxes and Manticores. Griffons were laughable compared to the Northern species. Teryxes, Sabyrs, Megoliaths, Sentinels and so much more were native of Atlas, but even the more common species were stronger than their Southern counterparts, like the Ursai and the Geists. For Penny to be able to easily fend off Sphinxes and Manticores, it meant she could probably take on an entire team of professional Hunters with some difficultly. Unless they had Semblances that were especially dangerous versus androids and such.

Pyrrha withheld a sneeze.

Raven was interested too. Obviously, just to see if she could recruit her into her tribe, but still… she could adopt the gynoid. Yang was worthless compared to someone as skilled as Penny. And in time, she might even be able to break her mindset and convince her that being a pet warrior was and had always been her only role in the world. It would turn the Branwen Tribe into a force to be reckoned with, one even a kingdom would have trouble stopping.

All the while the Blonde woman and her baby watched with awe and shock as this one girl decimated the Grimm so easily. Both of their eyes wide and jaws dropped. Both of them amazed by the incredible display of skill that she had.

However they was snapped out of their thoughts when a hand gently grabbed the blondes shoulder making her jump. She turned to see Kotaro bent down and giving her a smile as well "miss i suggest you evacuate now, it's not safe here," he said as he brandished some kind or advanced assault rifle that he was carrying. "Me and my partner can handle these beasts."

"Oh, Yes! Thank you!" the blonde woman said as she quickly got to her feet and dashed away, and giving him and Penny a silent thank you as she ran to safety.

Which left Kotaro and Penny alone with the Grimm.

Acting quickly Kotaro immediately pulled up his rifle and charged into the fray, popping off three of the Grimm that Penny was fighting. Taking notice of him several of the Grimm charged at him with the intent to kill. Only to be shot dead one after another.

When the final Grimm got close though it started swiping and snapping at Kotaro with its claws and fangs! But Kotaro dodge every strike before throwing his gun into the air and then delivered three powerful strikes to the Grimm's chest shattering its ribcage from the powerful blows. He then finished the Grimm off by lifting his foot up high and brought his heel down onto it's bone plated head, causing it to cave in from impact and killing it.

"So cool!" Yang exclaimed. "I am so learning how to use my legs in a fight! Then I can do that!"

When the Grimm hit the ground he then caught his weapon and fired some shots at a Grimm that was about to pounce on Penny from behind and killing it. Penny looked behind her just in time to see Kotaro put himself behind her as the remaining Grimm surrounded them

"Okay Penny, Let's send these guys packing!" Kotaro said as he took aim.

"But Grimm don't have any belongings to pack…" Penny said, confused.

"But Grimm don't have any belongings to pack," said Penny as she glanced back to Kotaro confused.

"It was a metaphor, Penny," Ironwood explained with a sigh.

"That was a Metaphor Penny."

"Oh, okay."

"Oh, Okay!"

Every single one of the students burst out laughing, with Qrow, Tai and Amber following them. The hilarious repetition seemed almost set up. Ironwood had a tick mark on his forehead, while poor little Penny was even more confused as of why everyone was laughing at what had been a perfectly normal explanation.

And just like that the Grimm rushed at them! Both Kotaro and Penny were back to back with each other as Kotaro fired his rifle while Penny converted her swords into guns and started shooting at the monsters as well. The two of them dropping Grimm left and right as they fought side by side.

Meanwhile.

Caroline Cordovin was considered many things.

A special operative, a fearless commander, a fanatical Atlas supporter, and the commander of the Argus base. Many things.

"Ugh, if this turns out to be some kind of 'let's all kiss Atlas's ass' party, I'm outta here," Qrow groaned, gagging and retching at the mere thought of having to listen to some tightass chick far older than him showering Atlas in praise.

Winter growled in fury. "Then why don't you actually get out of here and free us of your insufferable presence?!" she provoked him, trying to keep her cool as much as she could. Not that she could ever keep her cool much when it came to Qrow Branwen.

Qrow, much to her fury, just stuck his tongue out at her.

Right now though what she is at this moment, is someone fighting a Giant Grimm in an equally giant robot mech.

Things had started off normal at the Argus base for all it's staff. Everyone of the soldiers made sure everything was in order and all the equipment was well maintained. But then the communications systems radar picked up something, and before they knew it they were up to their necks with Grimm.

Acting quickly, all available staff and soldiers immediately went to their battle stations as pilots hopped in Atlesian ships and began firing at the flying Grimm from the air.

But while their firepower worked against the smaller Grimm, their weapons proved ineffective against the Leviathan.

Cordovin meanwhile decided to take on the Leviathan Grimm directly by piloting the Colossus battle mech that was stationed at the Argus base for emergencies such as this.

Also admittedly her pride wouldn't allow anything else if she wasn't inside the mech and fighting the Leviathan herself.

Qrow snorted something terribly similar to "So Atlasian of her…"

She still had the best intentions in mind though regardless.

By the time she managed to mobilize the Colossus the Leviathan had already taken out one of the three protective hard light force-fields that had been deployed in an attempt to slow it down. But the creature had proven it's might when it shot a powerful energy blast from its mouth. It only took a single shot for it to destroy the first wall.

Luckily Cordovin had arrived on time to stop the Grimm by firing a beam of ice dust from the rotary canon on its right arm. Taking the advantage of the now less maneuverable Grimm Cordovin took a running charge before slamming the Grimm to the ground. Which was rather impressive considering how much bigger the Grimm was to the Colossus.

Afterwards the giant robot then preceded to delivery punch after punch to the monster's face before the Grimm shook it off and got back to its feet, and then let out an angry roar at it's opponent.

From inside her cockpit Cordovin could only smirk, "HA! I will not be intimidated by you monster! I'll show you what the true might of Atlas is!"

"I'm torn between wanting to see her lose and get her Atlasian-pride handed back to her with a thorough butt-kicking, or wanting to see her win to Argus's safe," Qrow mumbled.

"Only you would put your personal amusement over the safety and protection of thousands of people!" Winter snapped, disgusted by his behaviour.

Qrow, had it been anyone else, would've gotten quite angry at that accusation. But Winter had her head so far up Atlas's ass he could only be amused by her attitude. It was one of the reasons why he loved to push her buttons so much.

And so it went on like that for ten minutes now, both the large Grimm and the Battle-Mech delivering one blow after the other.

The Leviathan using it's larger size and deadly breath attack on multiple occasions. Along with using it's brute Strength in an attempt to destroy it's foe, swinging its tail with sudden twists at the mech, forcing Cordovin to duck out of the way. As well as block and dodge any strikes that the sea monster attempted to kill her with.

But Cordovin was managing to hold her own. Mostly thanks to the shielding and weapons systems that the Colossus came equipped with and let out barrage after barrage of missiles at the beast and fired different types of dust blasts from the arm cannon, before deciding to move in close.

As the two charged each other again, the Colossus's left hand suddenly shifted into a drill and tore a large gash in the Leviathans side as soon as they closed the distance.

The Massive Grimm let out a cry of pain as it jumped back, it's wound letting off pitch black smoke as it growled out in a mixture of pain and anger. And all the while Cordovin could be heard laughing from the speakers installed in the giant mech.

"Fuck that little Grimm bitch up!" Amber exclaimed excitedly, before shrinking down in embarrassment when everyone turned to look at her in shock.

'She didn't look the type to swear…' a lot of the students though.

'Too bad. I like well-behaved girls better – I'm a bad boy enough for two,' Qrow thought with a hum.

'I can just tell, Qrow's thinking something about women,' Taiyang thought, pinching the bridge of his nose and sighing in annoyance.

'Dammit, Tai is thinking! Don't you dare get another one, you womanising bastard!' Qrow shouted in his mind.

Meanwhile inside the base things were going on much differently than you would think in a situation like this.

For starters instead of doing their job, the remaining staff inside the communications tower were all gathered around the open window watching the two giants fighting each other like it was some kind of wrestling match.

"Do you see now beast?" Cordovin's voice spoke through the communications system, "Surely some where in that primitive mind of yours you can see the might that our glorious kingdom can offer yes?!" she declared with pride in her voice.

The soldiers watching whooped and hollered at the declaration as they cheered their commander on as she battled the leviathan.

However as they watched the battle outside like some kind of show, they failed to notice something.

Not five feet away from them was the communications radar. And as its sonar kept itself in operation, two new and very big blips appeared on the screen.

Everyone facepalmed, even Ironwood and Winter.

"Just how dumb can they be?!" Goodwitch exclaimed, shocked at how stupid Atlas's so-called trained soldiers could be. "They are just looking like it's a match of the Vytal Festival Tournament!"

Ironwood tried to hide his face behind his hands and made a note to fire Argus's entire military staff, aside from Special Agent Cordovin.

Ruby sighed as Jaune and Pyrrha went back into worried mode.

Back at the fight it would seem that the battle was about to reach a conclusion. The Atlas ships were mopping up what was left of the Flying Grimm and Cordovin was about to deliver the final blow. Her mech charging up one final shot as she took aim at the Leviathan.

"I Admit, for a Grimm you fought well" She said as the targeting system locked on to its target, "But we all must go eventually."

And like that the Colossus raised up its canon arm, the chamber already charging up with dust.

The soldiers and any civilians who were not in the shelters all watched cheering as the danger that had been threatening them was about to come to and end.

Or so they thought.

Because at that moment, just as the final shot was about to be fired something burst straight out of the water and slammed into the Colossus, tackling it to the ground!

"Another Leviathan?" Ruby wondered, trying to get a glimpse of the new opponent that just entered the fray.

"Odd, Leviathans usually don't wander in packs," Penny commented. "Perhaps is it some other kind of Titan-class Grimm native of the ocean between Atlas and Mistral. Kraken and Maelstrom are both not options as they do not move so fast and use their long limbs to attack their prey." Then she paled. "Perhaps it is a Ningen…"

"A Ningen?" Weiss repeated. "I've never heard of this Grimm before."

"A Ningen is a gigantic sea creature. Just its torso is as big as the Leviathan. But it never comes close to the shore as it is extremely slow out of the water, only good for short bursts of speed. If you are in possess of weapons with extremely high firepower, a Ningen isn't very difficult to defeat as it does not have any fast attacks. But it can destroy almost anything in just a single hit. It has an Energy Mouth Beam like the Leviathan's, and also a Freezing Mouth Beam it can keep up almost indefinitely. Both attacks are as slow as the Ningen, however."

Everyone paled at a creature as big as this new 'Ningen'.

"That's one scary Grimm…" Ruby mumbled.

And what it was could only be described as a monster in every sense of the word.

It was a sea monster. Over 68m in height though it seemed to stand hunched over. It's appearance was something akin to a massive green fish-like reptile creature that stood up bipedal on two legs. Its arms which had fins on them ended with webbed clawed hands, and its webbed feet ended in claws as well. The head was like that of an actual fish and had a head fin on it, and its mouth had red lips and was filled with sharp razor fangs. Its body was also covered in spines like that of a porcupine. But the most striking feature were its piercing yellow eyes.

"WHAT?!" everyone shouted in shock.

"Is that a… Kaiju?!" Blake exclaimed, flabbergasted at seeing one of those monsters in their world, and so close to the city too!

"OhmyGodohmyGodohmyGodohmy-" Jaune began to hyperventilate once again, this time more violently than the last, knowing that as strong as the Atlas Colossus was, Kaijus could destroy planets!

"Come on, Taro, kick its butt!" Yang yelled.

"Perhaps he isn't as strong as you believe and he cannot fight nearly as well as a Hunter," Raven sneered with a mocking laugh.

"As much as I hate to agree with the likes of her, Taro might've lost a lot of his power coming to Remnant. Normally, Ultramen were shown to be basically as large as Kaijus, while Taro is now human-sized," Goodwitch reasoned. "However not all hope is lost. Taro was trained by that Ultraking."

"Ultraman King," Ruby corrected automatically, causing Weiss to roll her eyes beside her.

And from where they were in the city, Kotaro and Penny, who had dispatched the Grimm they were fighting, looked on in shock as the monstrous sea creature pinned the Colossus to the ground and let out a guttural aquatic roar.

"What is that creature?!" Penny exclaimed in shock, quickly searching through her database for any information on the sea monster. Only to come up with nothing in her records on what it was.

Kotaro meanwhile had adopted a shocked look at what he was seeing. The Ultra hardly believing what he saw as It was impossible, and yet there it was right in Argus' waters.

But soon enough he began to adopt a more serious look as he stared at the monster, "That Penny is King Guesra. A Kaiju!"

Kaiju Analyzer

Sea Monster Kaiju King Guesra

Tier: Mid Tier 2

This Kaiju is actually a subspecies of the original Guesra Kaiju, and it is no doubt much stronger as well.

Originally, the Guesra was a Brazilian lizard species whose purpose is to scare off pests from interrupting cacao beans. However one Guesra egg accidentally carried along into a delivery cacao ship by accident. As Guesra hatched, it felled into the local ports sea waters, which at that time was polluted, and mutated it into a giant monster. And the creature grew bigger over time and developed into an entire species of amphibious Kaiju.

When fighting this Kaiju one must beware of its Shocking Venomattack that is generated from its barb-like spines.

If one is to truly any damage to the Kaiju, it is recommended to destroy the fin on King Guesra's head. The fin is the source of the monsters venom, and destroying or removing it can not only cause great pain but may also kill the monster as well.

"Then somebody cut the fin off!" Pyrrha exclaimed.

"They are not aware of its weakness, Friend Pyrrha," Penny stated sadly.

"She's right, that info panel was like in comics, only we could see it," Ruby nodded, for once not an ounce of cheer in her voice while talking about comics.

Penny looked to Kotaro with shock written all over her face. She remembered all the things that the Ultra had described to her about Kaiju before. But this was the first time in her life that she'd ever seen one.

Clearly the tales weren't enough to describe these creatures.

Another roar caught the two's attention as they looked back to the battle, and both of them could only watch as King Guesra clamped down on the Colossuses arm-cannon with its fangs. And in one jerking motion ripped the entire arm off it's socket before crushing it in it's jaws with a loud metallic crunch.

But the Kaiju wasn't done yet! Because as it spat out the destroyed limb it then grabbed the damaged mech in it's webbed hands and picked it up over its head! roaring all the while as it threw the battle-mech.

The mech was sent flying as it crashed into Argus base with a resonating boom. Before it laid motionlessly on its side sparking from the damaged inflicted on it.

Seeing its prey not getting up King Guesra let out a roar of victory.

"Of fucking course Kaijus and Grimm got along just great in their shared hobby of destroying every fucking thing around!" Yang shouted, eyes turning red and hair lighting on fire. "Why does it have to be always the same crappy thing everywhere! Why all fucking villains always join forces!"

Ruby could only shrug weakly. It was true, in a lot of her comics as well as the anime Yang watched, every time a new evil was revealed, it would ally themselves with the current evil and become even stronger. It was like everything in the world was out to get the main character.

The worst thing was that, in her comics, the main character usually lost the first time a new enemy entered the fray. And if that happened, then Argus was doomed.

Raven, meanwhile, was unimpressed. 'That thing might be able to sprint, but otherwise it's not fast. I could sever its fin without many problems, plus my Dust blades can have a dozen different effects, as opposite to its one-way brutish attacks. And even if I were to be unable to harm it, it still wouldn't be able to catch me thanks to my Semblance. But I suppose not everyone can be as strong as me. And as always, those who are weak are culled by the stronger species.'

Ironwood was sweating. Argus might not have been in Atlas, but it was still a city he cared about. And with the power Kaijus had demonstrated earlier, then the city was doomed.

"Kotaro what do we do? If that monster monster makes it into the City...!" Penny said as her mind already calculated the damage the sea monster would do if it got pass the barriers, and the already existing damage percentage already went up by two-hundred percent.

And if the defeat of the Colossus was anything to go by, the remaining forces wouldn't stand a chance.

However before Kotaro could respond another all to familiar roar caught everyone's attention.

It was the Leviathan! The massive sea Grimm let out another shriek as it stared down King Guesra. The Kaiju suddenly shifted it's attention to the Grimm before letting out a roar of its own at the creature of darkness. Both of them looked like they were getting ready to rip each other apart.

Yang calmed down, but just fractionally. The Leviathan itself would've been more than enough to seriously damage the city. Even if the Kaiju killed it, it just meant the entire city was gonna be destroyed by the Kaiju instead of by both sea monsters.

"Are they going to fight each other?" Penny asked, naturally though this didn't come off as much as a surprise to either of them.

From what she knew of Grimm was that despite their natural destructive nature, they still acted like most natural wildlife in terms of instincts. The Leviathan possibly saw the Kaiju as a invasive species encroaching on its territory.

Suddenly the Leviathan charged forward, seemingly ignoring its own injuries as it charged King Guesra with a loud shriek. And King Guesra charged as well in turn, quickly closing the distance with it's new foe. But before they two could collide, something else came shrieking out if the water!

Before the Leviathan could even react it was blindsided when something massive burst out of the water and sucker punched it. The force of the blow was so great it sent the wounded Grimm crashing to the ground.

And much to everyone who witnessed the sudden surprise attack shock, the assailant was another Kaiju!

Much Like King Guesra it was also some kind of sea monster. But that's where the similarities ended. It was over 48m in height. And running across its body where yellow fins from its legs, to its back, and also three on its head acting like a segmented crest. its arms which where fin-like as well as its feet ended in sharp claws. And there where blue marks all across areas of its body. its mouth was long and needle like and at the tip of both the top and lower jaw was a single fang. And its eyes were burning red.

"Fucking fuck you!" This time, Qrow joined Yang in cursing out at the projection. "You fucker- Fuck that shit- don't fucking know when- what are the fucking- to fucking quit it with- chances of two fucking Kaijus- all your fucking bullshit!- popping the fuck up out of fucking nowhere!"

Normally, Weiss and Winter, respectively, would've been outraged by such a show of utter vulgarity (though not the creative type as, eventually, they just kept repeating 'fuck' or 'fucking') from the two red-eyed Hunters, but for once they let it go. It was kinda called for.

Jaune was currently biting his fingernails in worry.

Kaiju Analyzer

Giant-fish Monster Kaiju Zoa Muruchi

Tier: Mid Tier 2

This Aquatic Kaiju is known for its incredibly fierce and aggressive nature. So much so that other races in the universe have been known to capture them and use them for intergalactic attack beasts, releasing them onto an unsuspecting world and letting them wreak havoc wherever they're released.

Strong and fiercely temperamental, this Kaiju is not to be trifled with. Its most dangerous ability is its Energy Beamattack, a powerful missile-strength heat beam fired from its mouth.

Once more, Raven just shrugged. She could get out of any situation, be it a fight or a conversation with Qrow, without breaking a sweat. Her strength also laid in her ability to choose which battles were worth fighting for. Staying with her former husband and daughter? Not worth it. Keeping the Spring Maiden's powers despite the fact Salem could go after her? Definitely worth it. Fighting Salem alongside Ozpin and his Inner Circle? She didn't get much out of that, so no, she'd let them do the fighting while she chose different battles. Raiding a nearby village? Definitely worth, and very easy too.

As she said, she chose her battles carefully. It was a great strength of hers. One very few of those naive students could understand, much less possess.

Zoa Muruchi let out a fierce shriek like roar as if attacked the Leviathan. The fish Kaiju brutally and ferociously beating the massive Grimm into the ground as it attacked.

King Guesra meanwhile was surprised by this sudden intervention, however its surprise soon shifted to anger when a barrage of missiles struck it from behind. Whirling around with an angry cry it looked up to see the remaining Atlas forces in their ships gunning down towards it, firing everything they had left at the monster in a last ditch effort to defeat them.

On their approach though, King Guesra suddenly let out a loud roar as the spines across its body began to crackle and surge with electricity. And fired its Shocking Venom attack at them. The spines shot forward like machine gun bullets, each one electrified with thousands of volts as they flew outward. The Soldiers barely had time to pull away from the hail fire of giant spines. Others weren't so lucky as they were hit and ejected from their exploding ships.

"Let me guess, the two Kaijus work together…" Weiss commented.

Back with the battle with the Leviathan and Zoa Muruchi, the Kaiju was effortlessly besting the wounded Grimm. Delivering blow for blow with its fin-like arms before suddenly twisting around and slammed its tail into the side of the Grimm's head, knocking it to the ground. And when the massive Grimm hit the ground Zoa Muruchi began to charge up its deadly Energy Beam. And then it fired it at the Leviathan, killing the Grimm as it exploded from impact.

Both monsters let out their own roars of victory from the defeat of their foes. But then they both suddenly shifted their attention to Argus. And then began making there way straight over to the city.

"One time, one time I don't want to be right, but of course I have to end up being perfectly correct," the heiress sighed, shaking her head.

Jaune, who had by now finished his fingernails, grabbed Ruby's hands and started biting hers instead, much to the poor girl's confusion.

The only reason Pyrrha wasn't doing the same, was because of her extensive training. But if she had to be honest, she'd never been one to bite her nails. More like starting to train obsessively. Too bad she couldn't just drop and start doing push-ups now…

And this was all that was needed for Kotaro to spring into action.

"Penny stay here." He said as he handed her his gun. And then take off into a sprint straight towards the two Kaiju.

"Wait Kotaro! Where are you going?" Penny cried out to him.

"Someone has to stop those monsters from destroying Argus!" he cried back to her "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!"

And like that he ran off. Heading straight towards the two monsters with the intent to stop them.

At that point, Penny just watched as her first friend went rushing ahead straight towards the monsters. A worried look coming across her face as she clutched her hands together, "Please come back safely."

Kotaro kept running until he had gotten a good distance near the shoreline of the city, glaring down the two approaching Kaiju as they stomped their way towards the city.

And for a brief moment, the badge on his arm flashed and shined.

With a determined look in his eyes, Kotaro pulled off his badge and raised it up high. And cried out only one name!

"TARO!"

*Cue Ultraman Taro rise and theme here*

Taro! Ultraman Number 6!

Everything seemed to go dark for a brief moment, before an eruption of light appeared! And rising from the light, his hand stretched upward reaching out, Was Ultraman Taro!

"Kick its scaly fishy ass/butt!" Yang and Ruby shouted together, pumping their fists in the air.

Weiss frowned. "Is he… getting bigger?"

Yang grinned at her and wiggled her eyebrows. "Wouldn't you like to know that?"

Quickly turning red, the heiress shrieked in embarrassment and outrage before creating a large icicle and throwing it at Yang, who just dodged it with a laugh. Unfortunately, this meant the icicle landed right on Jaune.

Oddly enough, perhaps because of the wild inferno of white Aura that surrounded him, he didn't even seem to register the hit. Instead, the icicle shattered in impact.

'Is that dolt's Semblance a shield of some kind?' Weiss wondered with a small frown. Now, don't get her wrong, there were many kinds of Semblances and all of them could be useful. But to be honest, a shield Semblance didn't really do much to increase the respect she had for the leader of the team she was kind of friends with. Said respect was very low anyway, and would probably remain so for quite a while.

The Ultra flew upward into the air! Then in a quick series of movements, he performed various spins and flips before shooting forward with his foot stretched out and delivered his famous Swallow Kick. Hitting Zoa Muruchi straight in the head and knocking the monster down before rolling away and getting to his feet.

And as the the two Kaiju quickly began to face their new foe, Taro got into his signature fighting stance, Ready to battle.

Ultra Analyzer

Ultraman Taro.

Subtitle: Ultraman Number 6

Ultra level: 7

Born from both the supreme commanders of the Spade Garrison. Ultra Father and Ultra Mother, or by their real names Ken and Marie, Taro has shown to have great and vast potential to become the most powerful Ultraman ever.

A noticeable feature about him are his Ultra Horns which he inherited from his father. This special horns help and allow Taro to control, absorb, and harness practically a limitless amount of power and energy, something that helps him vastly with his already monstrous strength and power.

One of his most signature moves is his Storium Ray.

Meanwhile with Penny, who had been helping any other civilians get to safety, the Gynoid couldn't help but feel stunned by seeing her friends true form.

His body was red and silver in color along with a silver head, with a pair of horns and a fin-like crest. his uper torso had a form of protective armor, with a glowing blue gem in the center of his chest. And his eyes where gold much like the rest of his species. finally he had some kind of crown like brace on his left wrist and a flowing white mantle resembling a scarf.

Penny felt amazed by her friends actual appearance. And from what her sensors were telling her his whole body generated incredible power. It was incredible!

Though she had to admit that Taro neglected to tell her how big his race was. Considering the Ultraman was over 53m in height.

"Fucking awesome!" Yang screamed in excitement, jumping up and down as Taro's real form was shown. "Get fucked, you assholes!"

"Yang! Language!" This time, Weiss did reprimand Yang, since she didn't have a reason to swear any more.

"Oh, chill down, Weiss-Cream, you don't need to shout so much. Or maybe you should warm up, since you're such an Ice Queen…" Yang grinned at her, fully aware that she'd just screamed much louder than the heiress.

The heiress too was aware of that, if the growing tick mark on her forehead was any indication. "Stop calling me that!"

"What? Weiss-Cream or Ice Queen?"

"Both!"

Yang faked a confused frown. "But I never called you 'both' before."

"You just did!"

"I called you Weiss-Cream and Ice Queen. Never both."

Weiss screamed in frustration.

"Shh, I'm trying to watch the movie!" This time, the giant ice boulder did not miss its mark.

She was snapped out of her awed shock from another roar from the Kaiju, the two giant monsters suddenly charging forward with the intent of ripping apart their new opponent. But Taro charged forward at incredible speed and slammed into Zoa Muruchi. He then Quickly grasped the monster in a tight grip before Judo-throwing the beast over his shoulder. The fish Kaiju hit the ground hard as it was thrown a good distance from the throw.

There's the Father of Ultra!

There's the Mother of Ultra!

And here before us stands Taro!

Taro quickly turned to face King Guesra. He quicly dodged and blocked some strikes that the monster attempted to hit him with. And then he retaliated by delivering two haymakers to each side of the monsters head causing it to stagger back, and then jumped up before delivering a powerful karate chop to the monsters shoulder. The impact was so fast and quick the friction actually generated sparks, and King Guesra let out a roar of pain.

Look to the sky, look to the stars, look to the cosmos!

Behold the red flame shooting towards us!

Suddenly Zoa Muruchi came charging up from behind. But as the beast closed the distance from the Ultra, Taro the quickly delivered a torrent of machine gun punches to the monster. But Zoa Muruchi managed to stop the torrent of punches before delivering some powerful blows to Taro's chest. But the strikes didn't even faze the Ultra before he delivered another torrent of machine gun blows, and then sent the Kaiju sprawling to the ground he he gave it one last hard punch to the face.

"Yeah!" "Take that!" "Go Taro!" "Go Prof 2.0!" No wonder who that last one was, obviously, only Yang would call him that. "Beat those assholes into the ground!" "Fuck them up!" "Qrow!" "Jeez, sorry. Bang them up!" "QROW!"

Needless to say, everyone was pretty happy to see the monsters getting some well-deserved, old-fashioned, very thorough butt-kicking! Except for Raven, obviously.

The black-haired [appellative rejected] of one, and well-known to be quite a [censored], was getting frustrated. Taro seemed to be perfect in everything he did, which was obviously a diamond-hard pill to swallow for her, so used to believe she was superior in every aspect to… just about everyone. She could admit some people did better than her in some fields – for example she was sure Goodwitch was more knowledgeable than her in a lot of topics, and she acknowledged that Qrow could hold his alcohol better than she did, and that Ironwood had more influence than her. But eventually, she had never admitted anyone could be stronger than her in combat, and she had never been outclassed by this much.

It was pissing her off. Denial was the first stage, after all. Then came despair.

But then King Guesra suddenly tackled the Ultra to the ground! The two then began rolling around as they both tried to pin each other. However Taro soon found himself pinned by the monster and had to quickly move his head to dodge every time the Kaiju tried to take a bite out of him.

When the World is threatened

The badge on his arm will shine bright!

Taro takes to the skies!

Taro fights to save our lives!

But Taro was quick to get the monster off him when he managed to get his legs free and plant both feet on the monsters stomach before giving a powerful push. Sending King Guesra flying with one good shove.

Then he twisted around and delivered a powerful kick to Zoa Muruchi's throat when the Kaiju came charging at him again.

Taro, Taro, Taro!

Ultraman Taro!

Now extremely angry from all the hits its been getting, Zoa Muruchi began to charge up its Energy Beam. And on the other side of him, Taro noticed King Guesra charging up its own Shocking Venom attack. The spines crackling with electricity as it prepared to fire.

Taking notice on how both Kaiju had surrounded him Taro acted fast and did the only thing that came to mind.

He Jumped!

And not a moment too soon, for as soon as he jumped upward the two Kaiju shot out their attacks and completely missed him. And ended up hitting each other instead. Both monsters letting out shrieks of pain.

The Father of Ultra has come to us,

The Mother of Ultra has come to us,

And now Taro has come to save us!

As Taro landed on his feet he immediately rushed forward to his opponents.

It was time to end this.

While the students cheered and laughed at how Taro had not just avoided their attacks, but allowed them to hit each other anime-style, General Ironwood had a much different thought process.

Taro was skilled. That much was obvious to anyone with a single working neuron in their brain. But it was beyond that – Taro was skilled beyond anything Remnant had ever seen. He could easily defeat dozens of Hunters on Qrow's level. The Ace-Ops were jokes compared to him, and they were Atlas's top fighters. Even if Winter inherited the Winter Maiden's powers, and teamed up with Penny, the two of them combined would be easily dealt with by Taro.

Simply put, Taro was currently the strongest entity in the entirety of Remnant. He could probably kill Salem with his pinky finger, if he was effortlessly defeating two Kaijus that on their own could destroy planets like that 'Kaiju Analyser' or whatever had stated.

If he could get Taro on Atlas's side, nothing would be able to oppose the Northern Kingdom. Not Grimm, or criminals like Torchwick or the White Fang, not Atlas-haters like Qrow, or anyone else. Remnant could be brought together under Atlas's banner and live in harmony as one single kingdom.

Ironwood was very well-read, especially when it came to history. He knew the Great War had ended when the King of Vale destroyed all the kingdom's armies. Quite frankly, even if he disliked the violent methods, he was charmed by how efficient it was. Give them no chances of fighting back, and once you have full control over them, you can improve their lives. Like the King of Vale stopped the war, formed the Academies and the Councils, and overall improved Remnant's governments as a whole.

With Taro on his side, he could do all of that and more. There was literally no limit for what could be. The possibilities were endless.

He quickly rushed up to King Guesra and delivered more powerful kicks and punches to the creature. Before delivering a powerful uppercut. Finally he grabbed the one thing that would truly cause some serious damage to the beast. He grabbed its head fin and with one quick yank ripped it right off the monster's head, electing a shriek of agony from the monster.

King Guesra continued to cry out in pain and Taro watched as it began to slowly sink into the water. Before long the sounds of roars from the monster soon vanished. As its lifeless corpse began to sink into the bottom.

"One down, one more to go!" Yang cried out excitedly.

This time, Jaune joined in on their cheers, the white inferno of Aura quickly dying down alongside his rampant emotions. "Kick its butt!" he and Ruby shouted at the same time before looking at each other in shock, and bursting out laughing.

Pyrrha smiled, letting her worry diminish a little, but her family still hadn't been shown to be among the survivors, so she still had a cold feeling in her heart.

What is that? Is that our enemy? What could it be?!

These mysterious invaders are attacking our home!

Now with one enemy defeated Taro quickly delivered his Attention back to Zoa Muruchi. The Ultra proceeded to run forward and jump up and deliver a powerful chop to the monsters head and raked it down the middle. Staring sparks as it went.

He then began to perform various spin punches, dishing out three of them before performing a roundhouse kick to the monsters side and knocking it down once again. Not done yet Taro quickly rushed up and grabbed the Kaiju before lifting it above his head with incredible ease and threw it. It's massive body making a loud boom as it fell and hit the ground

When he needs power to keep us safe,

The badge on his arm will shine bright!

And as the Kaiju staggered staggered to its feet, Taro decided to finish this here and now.

Taro takes to the skies!

Taro fights to save our lives!

Taro, Taro, Taro!

Ultraman Taro!

Raising his Right hand above him, his hand shined and flashed for a breath moment as he laced his left hand with his right. Then he closed his hands into fist as he brought his arms down and tucked them tightly to his side. As his whole body shined and glowed briefly with rainbow colored energy as power seem to flow in and out of him.

And as he brought his arms up with his right hand placed flat against his left knuckle, bringing his arms into a T shape, He cried out only one thing.

"Storium Ray!"

And a Powerful beam of rainbow colored energy shot out of his arms!

The Ray blast shot forward with such incredible power it actually created shockwaves and rended the seas as it shot forward! And as the attack struck Zoa Muruchi the monster didn't even have time to scream as it outright exploded!

The students exploded as well, but in cheer instead of energy and bloody bits.

"Fuck yes!" Yang screamed, hair alight in her excitement.

"Whoooohoooo!" Nora whooped and hollered, hugging Ren and swinging him around like a doll. Not that he particularly minded given he was cheering as well, but Nora was very strong and could spin very fast, which meant he was kind of starting to feel sick and turn green.

"N-Nora…"

Only to be completely ignored as the carrottop continued to cheer carefree.

Qrow laughed as well, drinking to Taro's health. Though to be honest he didn't really need a reason to drink anyway, he just drank. All the time. This was just one little extra as celebration, from his other flask. The one he would never ever show Yang.

Ozpin smiled. He'd been silent -and if he had to be honest, worried- for the entirety of this projecting session. Now he was sure he'd need to talk with the laudable Professor Kotaro Higashi of their own worlds. Who knew what secrets he might unfold…

Once again, back in Remnant, one Kotaro Higashi felt another shiver run down his spine. This time it was a 'Ozpin has his sights on me' type of shiver. He still hadn't discovered how he could have such precise feelings of dread, even after a long and exhausting search on the Remnet.

And just like that. The battle for Argus was over.

Taro's posture relaxed with the battle's end. The Ultra more than glad that the battle was over and Argus and its people where safe.

However at that moment something caught the Ultras attention, a loud sound coming from behind him. He turned around to see what it was and was mildly surprised by what he saw next.

The sound he was hearing was cheering! Everyone in Argus had come out from where they managed to escape the Grimm and had all begun to cheer out to him. All of them showing their appreciation for him for saving their lives.

To that Taro just nodded to them. And he looked up before "Shuwatch!" he took off into the air. Leaving just as mysteriously as he came as he flew up into the distance. Before completely disappearing from sight.

As the students came down from their high, Ironwood continued to analyse Taro.

He was too much of a wild soul to be trained into the strictness of an Atlasian officer. Trying to do that would only result in him leaving Atlas altogether, perhaps even in a grudge. And Ironwood surely did not want to anger a being that had just destroyed the two Kaijus with little to no problems at all, saving an entire city. Because as easily as he could save a city, he could destroy it just as easily. Perhaps even more so, since the city defences were obviously much less of a challenge than two Kaijus ranked as Mid-Tier 2, whatever that meant. Especially when Taro was a Tier 7.

Instead, Taro could be used to train new soldiers instead of becoming one himself. If he were to train them to even just a thousandth of his current power level, they would still be exceptional Hunters unmatched by anyone in the Kingdoms. Atlas could still become the supreme kingdom in terms of… well, everything. And since Taro had been sent to Remnant to rid it of evil, Ironwood believed he would also disappear once the great evil he was looking for was destroyed.

As well, Raven was also thinking about Taro's power. She wanted him in her tribe. At any cost. He would be a far too valuable resource to be let go to waste. She had to find a way to get him on their side, and quickly. She'd caught a few hints, and she believed that Taro existed in their world as well, but had simply kept his actions more of a secret than the one in the projection she was watching. If she could find him, preferable before Ozpin, Qrow or Ironwood misled him into thinking of her as an enemy he had to destroy, then she would be able to recruit him, and then the Branwen Tribe would become the strongest organisation in all of Remnant.

That was definitely something she wanted to see happening, no matter what. To have the power to do whatever she wanted with no repercussions was one thing, but to have the power to force the entire world on their feet, unable to do anything but accept that her word was law and there was nothing they could possibly hope of doing to stop her, was something else entirely. A victory against the enemy was sweet, but crushing them with no hope for them to fight again was something much better. She was no monster when it came to make others suffering. She just didn't care enough to actually waste time inflicting more pain that it was necessary. However, she did like the idea of being unstoppable. Even Salem herself wouldn't be able to show her face without being disintegrated, much less actually managing to harm her.

All she needed to do was to get Taro on her side. And she had quite a few ideas already.

The first would be to seduce him. Men were still men, after all, no matter what planet they came from. She was confident she had one of the best figures there were, body-wise. And her beauty was nothing to scoff at, either. Yang was just a cheap rip-off of her, and yet she risked drowning in the sea of propositions and fans of both genders. Raven knew she could have a man's heart in her palm as easily as she could kill that man with her sword. Taro wouldn't be much different from Taiyang. Both wanted to do good, and both had carefree, cheerful attitudes that could turn serious at a moment's notice. And both had the annoying habit of giving out advice.

The second method was just as simple as the first: she could very simply convince him to join them. As 'good' as he was, power corrupts the soul and she knew few people could resist the temptation of complete control over anything they wanted. Not just that, but she could convince that by destroying all opposition, he would be free to do as he wished with the world – including making it better. It might've been a peace brought with a rifle in hand, but it was still peace. Raven could use that against him.

The third, and the one she least wanted to use, was simple blackmail. Take something or someone he cared a lot about, threaten it, and force him into her tribe against his wishes. Of course, she loathed to do that. Not because she cared about him or his loved ones, but because servants brought to their knees by force usually tried their hardest to break their chains and get revenge. While she was confident Taro would never be able to catch her, her tribe was another matter altogether. And her tribe was one of the very few things that mattered to Raven.

Eventually, she would just wait and see what could be done. All three were acceptable options, even if the third was a dangerous one, but she still needed to find out more about Taro. Only then she would swoop in and take him for herself.

Penny all the meanwhile had witnessed the whole event took place from start to finished from her viewpoint away from the crowd of cheering people. The Gynoid completely amazed by what she had witnessed. However before she could worry about how Taro seemingly disappeared as he flew away.

"Hey! Hey Penny!" a sudden and all to familiar voice called out to her.

And Penny was overjoyed when she looked over to see Kotaro running towards her. Waving and smiling as he approached. At that moment Penny suddenly darted forward and quickly closed the distance between the both of them. And then proceeded to give him a bone breaking hug as she outright glomped him out joy.

Everyone winced a little. Penny was robot, which meant her strength was so much more than a normal girl her size and built.

Then they remembered Taro had just effortlessly kicked the butts of two titanic entities that, in turn, effortlessly killed the Leviathan Grimm and destroyed the Atlasian Colossus mech specifically created to fight off Titan-class Grimm, and suddenly they just shrugged at the sight of the hug, knowing Taro would barely feel it anyway.

"Kotaro that was incredible!" she said as she hugged him tightly, "you defeated those monsters and saved the city! It was absolutely sensational!"

Kotaro just smiled back as he returned the hug, "just doing what i was trained for Penny. After all its an Ultras duty to help others," he said as the two locked eyes together "but remember, no one must know about who i really am. So this must remain our secret." he said with the upmost seriousness in his tone of voice.

Initially confused, Penny just titled her head. not understanding why he was asking her that, "But how come?" she asked.

"You have to understand Penny. People can't know who i really am and where i come from. Chances are they moght not respond to it very well." he explained to her, "can i trust you to keep this between us?"

"Don't worry Friend Kotaro, I'm great at keeping secrets! You can trust me," Penny stated with a smile.

"Penny, what secrets did you have to keep before?" Weiss asked, still a bit weirded out by the girl. Not because she was a gynoid with functioning Aura, but mostly because of her attitude. Too much like Ruby, but even worse in a way.

"I currently have five secrets in my records! One of them is my nature as an Aura-generating android. One is a secret of my father's, and the other three are secrets my teammate Ciel Soleil confided me!" Penny explained proudly.

"You know, in hindsight it was really obvious she was a robogirl," Nora whispered to Ren. Only that she whispered it loud enough to be heard by just about everyone.

"N-Nora!" Still a bit dizzy and green from the spinning session with Nora earlier, Ren could only manage that single word before another wave of dizziness hit and he almost lost his balance.

"Ms Valkyrie, that was incredibly rude of you, apologize this instant," Goodwitch called out, making Nora wince.

Even the mighty Queen of the Castle had to bow down to the Witch of Beacon…

"Sorry Penny…"

"Don't worry, Friend Nora! I am not offended at all!"

Penny just smiled as she pulled away and gave him a salute, "Don't worry friend Kotaro, I'm great at keeping secrets! You can trust me."

"Can we appreciate for a moment how Penny keeps repeating herself?" Yang grinned. "We could say she's a… broken record, huh?"

"I am not broken, Friend Yang…" Penny said, confused by the pun.

Everyone else just groaned. "It was just a joke, Penny," Qrow commented. "She's always saying stuff like that."

"But you never had to keep a secret before," Kotaro pointed out.

"Yes I did! Even back then I was still keeping my true identity a secret from most people!" Penny exclaimed excitedly. "However, even if I hadn't, that would only prove my point as I wouldn't have told anyone any secret, being unable to do so! But he shouldn't worry, I would not tell a soul!"

"Which only proves my point! Don't worry, i promise not to tell a soul!" She said with the same happy smile she always gave him. Which just made Kotaro smile.

Yang fell on the ground, laughing as she clutched her sides. "Oh my God this is pure comedy gold! Do it again! Do it again!"

"Thank you Penny." he said, "Now. Since things are gonna calm down soon, how about we go sightseeing liked i promised?"

"Sensational!" Penny exclaimed, standing up just to jump excitedly. "I would love to go sightseeing in Argus!"

"Maybe we can arrange you to visit the city after the Vytal Festival," Ironwood told her. "It is a quite large city, so I don't think going in your free weekends could cover it all."

"Thank you, General Ironwood!" Penny said, her signature megawatt smile still in place.

"Sensational!" Penny said as she raised her hand up with a little hop.

By now Yang was short of breath for how much she was laughing.

The sad thing was, no one was laughing alongside her. They were all just looking at her weirdly. Like she was the one doing something odd instead of Penny, both in real life and in the projection.

"What?" she wheezed out once she got some air back in her lungs. "Don't… don't you think… this is hilarious?"

"Not quite, Ms Xiao Long," Winter replied frostily, displeased by Yang's actions. "Please do try to contain yourself in the future."

"Jeez, you're no fun, all of you!"

And like that the two went on their way as they began to explore everything that the city of Argus had to offer. No one none the wiser about who the two really are or how big of a role they'll both play in what is to come.

But all the while though as they walked together, Kotaro couldn't help but think of something now that the city was safe.

'King Guesura and Zoa Muruchi appearing on this world? What's going on?' he thought to himself. Only now realizing that the world of Remnant might be in more danger than he originally thought.

"No, you think?" Amber said sarcastically. "I mean, what could you possibly mean by that? It's not like we just saw two monsters that could've individually destroyed the entirety of a city, team up against a basically defenceless Argus, that had to be saved from total annihilation by some random overpowered guy who was just passing by…"

Qrow laughed at her thick sarcasm. "Well, those two were just Mid-Tier 2, who knows how many more of those Kaijus we're gonna see. Or where they might pop up. Who knows, maybe in Atlas next…"

"Silence, Qrow!" Winter exclaimed, angered by his comment. "Are you unaware of the consequences that would have?! If Atlas were to be destroyed, the Dust Trade would collapse alongside it, as well as technology! Remnant would be doomed, either against the Kaijus, or the Grimm!"

Qrow was unimpressed as he turned to Amber. "I'm betting that if a Kaijus does pop up in Atlas, it'll be up in Winter's ass. With how big the stick she has up there is, there must be a lot of room."

With a scream of fury, Winter grabbed her weapon and dashed at Qrow, only to be stopped by a purple runic wall courtesy of Goodwitch.

"ENOUGH!" the Deputy Headmistress of Beacon cried out, and silenced all noise, including the struggling Weiss trying to get out of Yang's grip to attack Qrow. "Specialist Schnee, you should know better than to reply with physical violence against a verbal offence! Qrow, you should be ashamed of yourself for both your unforgivable rudeness and your wilful provocation to the Specialist, who you very well know has time and again responded in this exact manner to previous offences by you. Both of you, this ends now! Am I clear?!"

Winter gritted her teeth. Qrow rolled his eyes.

"AM. I. CLEAR?!"

"Yes, Deputy Headmistress," Winter forced out, still glaring bloody murder at Qrow. Weiss and Ironwood alike weren't too far behind either.

Qrow just rolled his eyes again. "Sure, whatever. Sorry…" He then leaned closer to Amber and continued. "…for telling the hard truth."

Amber put a hand over her mouth to cover the smirk that was forming on her lips.

Meanwhile in the Argus base, Cordovin was quickly making her way to her office.

The special agent had thankfully managed to come out with only minor injuries. But when her own staff pulled her out of the cockpit She was bared witnessed to the Battle between Taro and the Two Kaiju. never before in her life had she ever witnessed anything like the battle between the Ultra and the two monsters.

"Well, at least Special Agent Cordovin is safe and sound, minor some secondary injuries," Ironwood commented. "I admit I was starting to get worried for her safety. The Kaiju hit the Colossus quite hard, and I wasn't sure its defences would've been enough to guarantee the safety of its pilot. I am happy to see I was wrong, and that the mech is stronger than even I gave it credit for."

Needless to say the moment the fight ended and Taro took the skies and disappeared did Cordovin make her move as she dashed to her office.

When she sat down she turned on the emergency communications system and speed dialed a single number. And when someone on the line picked up she had only this to say.

"This is Special Agent Cordovin of the Argus Base requesting an immediate word with General Ironwood," she said with complete discipline in her voice. "He's going to want to hear what I have to tell him."

"I gotta admit, it takes some serious self-control to be able to recover from a shock like that so quickly," Yang admitted. It wasn't that she didn't like giving credit where credit was due, but that was mostly when it came to her friends. When it came to people she didn't know or disliked, she usually never praised them.

Understandably enough, given her personality. While nowhere nearly as much as her mother, Yang did have a small superiority complex. Not enough to be dangerous for others, but big enough to be recognizable, and perhaps even a threat to her health in case she got herself in over her head.

Ironwood, meanwhile, was smiling. He knew that Cordovin would immediately inform him of what happened, and if his other self was smart, he would immediately do two things. First, contact Ozpin. As much as he hated to rely on someone else, Ironwood knew Ozpin had knowledge beyond what any other entity in the world did, living and not, except for Salem herself. He would first confirm it was nothing like Ozpin had ever seen, and then start investigating.

Once he found out Taro wasn't connected to Salem in any way, and was figuratively still up to grab in terms of who he sided with, his other self would then do anything to get him on their side. And for good reason, too! With Taro, Salem would be nothing but a distant dream.

Idly, he wondered if Taro had the normal lifespan of a human, or if he could live longer, perhaps even forever. He doubted the latter would be the case, but even if Taro could live longer than humans, it would still be incredible.

Not to mention Taro's children would obviously have immense powers as well, even if perhaps never as much as the father himself.

Ironwood didn't want to think about it, but having Taro father as many children as he could would lead to a true army of superhumans in their ranks, superhumans who could then be paired up with other superhumans to keep their Ultraman genes as pure as possible. He knew doing something even remotely close to that would be inhuman, but if he had to be honest, he was ready to become a monster if it meant finding a way to save humanity, once and for all.

Because if he could have Taro have enough children, then the Ultra-Atlasian superhuman community would slowly grow and remain even after his death by old age, if that were to occur, or his departure if he were to return to his home planet. And nothing would ever be able to harm Atlas, or humanity, again. Salem, Grimm, criminals, terrorists… nothing would be able to match Atlas's hybrid warriors.

Creating android would become obsolete. And if Ironwood could have something that made someone like Penny look obsolete in terms of combat potential, then he would be damned if it let that opportunity slip from his fingers.

Now, I'm not trying to make Ironwood the bad guy, but in canon we all saw how he was ready to sacrifice people if it meant getting a shot at saving his people. So I feel like I'm justified here.

I don't see him as a bastard, an asshole who should be bashed and insulted for all he's done, or anything of the sort. I just acknowledge his flaws as a character and use them to make an interesting story.

My opinion of him, honestly, hasn't changed at all.

Until next time,

Khor Evik Vlakhavlakh