Rescue Team Blade was a normal Rescue Team, if you ignored the fact that their leader was a human and that they had saved the world once. Oh, and the fact that they freely traveled between the human world and the pokemon one.
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Prologue
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Ruby closed her eyes as the heat of the destroyed meteor swallowed her, feeling the metal of her sword and shield crack and begin to melt. They'd done it, they'd saved the world…
Tomorrow, her and Skarmory would… would… they'd go on new adventures. Maybe look for a way back to the human world. She was sure she had someone waiting for her there.
You do, the voice that had started Ruby's voice rumbled around her as the Aegislash floated in a white void, I'm sorry for taking them from you, even your memory of them, but you would not have been able to do what it took to avert the End had I not. We both knew that.
Memories flowed through her mind, of a scruffy old Qrow, and a caring older Dragon, and a loving younger one.
Qrow, Dad, Yang… oh, how could she have forgotten about them?
I can send you back to them. It can be as it was.
But .. she didn't want to leave Skarmory.
Well then, the voice rumbled, There is only one thing that can be done, is there not?
She'd find a way back, even if it took her years, that was what they di-
I will send you both there, the voice said, brooking no argument. And the next thing she knew she was falling and falling, and falling and-
Slamming into place, the twelve, thirteen now, girl jerking upright and gasping for breath. She was lying on a bed in Yang and her room, a portal opening in the wall next to her and out of it flew Skarmory. They turned to look at Ruby, opening their mouth and asking, "Ruby?"
Ruby rushed forwards, wrapping her arms around Skarmory's neck and hugging them tightly. The wings rose and wrapped her in armor of steel, "Hey, Partner."
"You're human," they said.
Ruby glanced down at her hand, feeling ghostly energy deep in her, "I think I can turn into a Pokemon if I wanna. Let's try, huh?"
Ruby willed her shape to change, and sure enough the ghostly energy rose up around her and transformed her into an Aegislash. Another burst of will turned her back into a human.
"Rosebud?" Dad called, walking into the room and stopping, before falling into a defensive posture, "What is that thing? What's that portal?"
"This is Skarmory," Ruby said, rubbing her cheek against the smooth metal of their head, "They're my partner. Skarmory, this is my dad, Taiyang Xiao Long."
"It's nice to meet you," Skarmory said.
"That's… why could I understand that? It just said its name, but…"
Ruby transformed back to Aegislash, to a yelp from her father, "That's probably my fault, come on Dad, I got a lot to tell you. It started with me waking up in a forest-"
—
"So, let me get this straight," Tai said, staring at his daughter who was sitting on the bed with the armored bird's head in her lap. Ruby was picking at a pinion of the razor sharp wings without a care in the world. Finally a feather popped off with the sound of crunching metal and the bird gave a relieved sigh, "During an hour long nap, you were taken to another world, turned into something called a "pokemon" and went on a months long adventure to save that world?"
"Yep," Ruby chirped happily, weighing the steel feather in one hand before putting it to the side and going to work on another battered feather, "We're Rescue Team Blade, because I was a Honedge and Skarmory has sharp feathers!"
"So you can turn into something called a Honedge now," Tai said, feeling a pounding headache and a desire to break his years of sobriety.
"No, I evolved a couple of times so now I'm an Aegislash," Ruby chirped, unaware of the aneurysm she was rapidly building Tai towards.
"Right," Tai said, "That's not how evolution works."
"It's how Pokemon evolution works," Ruby said, as if that explained everything, popping off another feather and weighing it before putting it into a separate pile, "it's more like… growing up, but not every pokemon goes through it. Skarmory doesn't, for example. They just molt their feathers once a year. That's what I'm helping with now."
"It feels good to get the old feathers removed," Skarmory sighed.
"And they're a good source of throwing weapons," Ruby continued to chirp, running a hand down Skarmory's head and spine, "I might use them to make my weapon when I go to Signal."
"So you still plan to go?" Tai felt slightly relieved at that.
"We can't get paid to rescue people without a Huntsman license," Ruby nodded, "and we wouldn't be Rescue Team Blade if we weren't trying to rescue people, but we need Lien for supplies. So, Signal it is! It'll take longer than I'd like to start operations on Remnant since I gotta go through Signal and Beacon, but it's better than nothing, right partner?"
"I don't know what a Signal or a Beacon is or why we have to go through them, but if you say we do, then I'm ready for it!" Skarmory said.
—
Tomorrow, her and Skarmory would… would… they'd go on new adventures. Maybe look for a way back to the human world. She was sure she had someone waiting for her there.
You do, the voice that had started Ruby's voice rumbled around her as the Aegislash floated in a white void, I'm sorry for taking them from you, even your memory of them, but you would not have been able to do what it took to avert the End had I not. We both knew that.
Memories flowed through her mind, of a scruffy old Qrow, and a caring older Dragon, and a loving younger one.
Qrow, Dad, Yang… oh, how could she have forgotten about them?
I can send you back to them. It can be as it was.
But .. she didn't want to leave Skarmory.
Well then, the voice rumbled, There is only one thing that can be done, is there not?
She'd find a way back, even if it took her years, that was what they di-
I will send you both there, the voice said, brooking no argument. And the next thing she knew she was falling and falling, and falling and-
Slamming into place, the twelve, thirteen now, girl jerking upright and gasping for breath. She was lying on a bed in Yang and her room, a portal opening in the wall next to her and out of it flew Skarmory. They turned to look at Ruby, opening their mouth and asking, "Ruby?"
Ruby rushed forwards, wrapping her arms around Skarmory's neck and hugging them tightly. The wings rose and wrapped her in armor of steel, "Hey, Partner."
"You're human," they said.
Ruby glanced down at her hand, feeling ghostly energy deep in her, "I think I can turn into a Pokemon if I wanna. Let's try, huh?"
Ruby willed her shape to change, and sure enough the ghostly energy rose up around her and transformed her into an Aegislash. Another burst of will turned her back into a human.
"Rosebud?" Dad called, walking into the room and stopping, before falling into a defensive posture, "What is that thing? What's that portal?"
"This is Skarmory," Ruby said, rubbing her cheek against the smooth metal of their head, "They're my partner. Skarmory, this is my dad, Taiyang Xiao Long."
"It's nice to meet you," Skarmory said.
"That's… why could I understand that? It just said its name, but…"
Ruby transformed back to Aegislash, to a yelp from her father, "That's probably my fault, come on Dad, I got a lot to tell you. It started with me waking up in a forest-"
—
"So, let me get this straight," Tai said, staring at his daughter who was sitting on the bed with the armored bird's head in her lap. Ruby was picking at a pinion of the razor sharp wings without a care in the world. Finally a feather popped off with the sound of crunching metal and the bird gave a relieved sigh, "During an hour long nap, you were taken to another world, turned into something called a "pokemon" and went on a months long adventure to save that world?"
"Yep," Ruby chirped happily, weighing the steel feather in one hand before putting it to the side and going to work on another battered feather, "We're Rescue Team Blade, because I was a Honedge and Skarmory has sharp feathers!"
"So you can turn into something called a Honedge now," Tai said, feeling a pounding headache and a desire to break his years of sobriety.
"No, I evolved a couple of times so now I'm an Aegislash," Ruby chirped, unaware of the aneurysm she was rapidly building Tai towards.
"Right," Tai said, "That's not how evolution works."
"It's how Pokemon evolution works," Ruby said, as if that explained everything, popping off another feather and weighing it before putting it into a separate pile, "it's more like… growing up, but not every pokemon goes through it. Skarmory doesn't, for example. They just molt their feathers once a year. That's what I'm helping with now."
"It feels good to get the old feathers removed," Skarmory sighed.
"And they're a good source of throwing weapons," Ruby continued to chirp, running a hand down Skarmory's head and spine, "I might use them to make my weapon when I go to Signal."
"So you still plan to go?" Tai felt slightly relieved at that.
"We can't get paid to rescue people without a Huntsman license," Ruby nodded, "and we wouldn't be Rescue Team Blade if we weren't trying to rescue people, but we need Lien for supplies. So, Signal it is! It'll take longer than I'd like to start operations on Remnant since I gotta go through Signal and Beacon, but it's better than nothing, right partner?"
"I don't know what a Signal or a Beacon is or why we have to go through them, but if you say we do, then I'm ready for it!" Skarmory said.
—
Chapter 2
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Ruby was listening to This Will be the Day while reading a magazine on the newest climbing gear when the heavy hand landed on her shoulder. The black suited man jabbed at his ears, and Ruby took the headphones off, hiding her right arm under her red cloak as she did so.
"Lien," the man growled out, holding out his hand out expectantly.
"Are you… robbing me?" Ruby asked in amusement. Being robbed, that was a new one. She'd have to tell Skarmory about it when she got him out of the PokeBall they reluctantly put them in when they had to go to Vale. Which was annoying and dumb, she wanted to enjoy Vale with her partner, not with them stuffed in a ball.
The man started to raise a red machete, and Ruby's right arm, transformed into an Aegislash's shield, slammed into it and knocked it down the aisle. Grabbing the man with Petal Burst, she used it to carry him through the aisle and out into the street, slamming him into it with a loud thud and knocking him out.
Turning, she drew Crescent Rose off her hip, the pair of kama-cum-climbing picks twirling as she stepped over the groaning member of the Xiong family before the tassels on the end connected to the bracelets around her wrist in a clicking of gravity dust as she flicked a switch on them. Two other goons drew their machetes off their hip while the third drew a gun, the leader, easily distinguishable by his white suit and black bowler hat, continued to lean against the counter top with a look of boredom on his face.
Ruby activated Petal Burst, dashing past the two melee mooks and reappearing in front of the one with the gun, kicking at him with a leg transformed into a sword and watching him backpedal rapidly, only to hook Crescent and Rose around the gun and wrench it from his hand. Transforming her foot back, she stomped hard on his foot and Crescent's haft into his skull, causing him to buckle and collapse.
Unhooking Crescent and Rose with a flick of the switches, Ruby threw them both at the remaining two members of the family, Petal Bursting behind one as they deflected the kamas and driving her hand, now in the form of her Aegislash's blade, into his back and watching him spit up blood. Crap, they didn't have their Aura unlocked? She hadn't meant to kill anyone with this.
Returning her sword to a hand, Ruby pressed the buttons on her cuffs, pulling Crescent Rose back to her and snapping them in place. She rushed forwards, flipping the kamas so their hafts were barred and using them as a pair of escrima sticks to batter the last one down with a series of heavy thuds. Turning to the leader, she had just enough time to widen her eyes before the gun-cane he was aiming at her went off and blasted her back into the wall across from them. She didn't even have time to go intangible.
She shook her head, eyes closed as her Aura healed the flash burns over them, and fumbled with the ball at her hip and throwing it into the air, calling, "Flying Sword!" as she transformed into Aegislash.
—
Skarmory grabbed Ruby by the tassels as soon as they were out of the PokeBall, feeling them wrap around his talons until he was sure he wouldn't drop her and flying into the air. Eyes landing on the human that had hurt his partner. He was running along the rooftops, not even using the cane he had shot Ruby with to move.
It was still too slow. Far too slow. Tilting his body downwards, Skarmory dove into a, well, dive, folding his wings at his sides and streaking straight for the man. He glanced back, eyes widening as he saw Skarmory and swinging up a cane, firing a red flare at Skarmory as he continued to run.
Skarmory barreled right through it, slowing only slightly as he did, and felt Ruby swing back, recognizing that as a sign to throw her as she swung forwards like a pendulum. Ruby stabbed through the air, transforming back into a human a second before she stabbed into the man and turning it into a full body tackle, slamming him into the ground, knocking his hat off and causing a flash of orange Aura. Ruby's left arm became the tassels of an Aegislash, wrapping around his arms and causing his Aura to slowly but surely start to drain while she gently hooked Rose around the man's neck.
The guns on the bullhead he was running to turned towards Ruby, and Skarmory felt their eyes widen, speeding up so he was in front of the first salvo, his steel gray Aura flashing repeatedly as it hit home, pinging off his steel body. Did they not care that they might hit their partner?
The second burst was interrupted by a wall of stones that suddenly sprang into existence between the bullhead and Skarmory. Once the guns stopped firing, the stones turned sideways, revealing edges as sharp as Skarmory's feathers, they fired at the bullhead, forcing it to pull up sharply. A whip crack echoed, and the stones pulled up with it, chasing the bullhead off into the distance before crumbling to dust.
"They escaped?" Ruby asked, and Skarmory nodded, "Dang. At least we got this one."
"Yes," a voice said from behind them, and with another whip crack stones formed around the man's legs and chest, pinning him in place, "You can let him go now."
"Right," Ruby's left arm turned to a human hand and she stopped straddling the man. Both Pokemon and, at the moment, human turned towards the woman approaching them. She had on a white blouse with a high collar and a small cut out that went from her collarbone to the top of her breasts, a black skirt and a purple and black cape, "Skarmory, you know who that is? It's Glynda Goodwitch!"
"I know who it is, Skarmory said in amusement, "Holder of the record for the most civilians saved when the Vale Airliner Hope of Vytal crashed into Mountain Glenn after an attack by a flock of Nevermore. While over forty huntsman were deployed, she was the leader of them, and given the lionshare of the credit.'
"A less known achievement of mine, but correct," Glynda said, despite her eyes widening under her glasses, "and you two are?"
"Ruby Rose, and this is my partner Skarmory," Ruby said, "Could we have your autograph, pretty please?"
—
Glynda read the information sent to her from Signal, taking a moment to glance at the duo sitting in the interview room without a care in the world, grinning at the scrap of paper she had scrawled her signature onto. At least, she thought the bird was smiling at it.
Ruby Rose, Semblance(s) Petal Burst, the ability to turn into a storm of rose petals to accelerate rapidly, and Aegislash, the ability to turn into a living sword and shield that went by the same name. If Glynda hadn't already been aware of Qrow's "dimension hopping niece", she would have written it off as absurd. Two Semblances, who had ever heard of that?
Average in most regards of history, math and most cultural classes, but excelled, to a degree that left a completed note to check for nepotism, in combat and rescue operation classes, especially when accompanied by the three strange animals that made up "Rescue Team Blade", as Ruby called them. The steel bird, currently with her, Skarmory, a white furred, wolf-like creature called Absol, and a large magnetic disc called Magnezone.
Pokemon, they were called, according to Ruby, who had the ability to translate what they said into Vytalan. That was a fact proven to her when Skarmory had listed an achievement Glynda didn't normally broadcast despite her pride in it.
"They took down Roman Torchwick," Glynda said to Ozpin, who nodded, "They did something the entire Vale police force has failed to do for years."
"It's a very impressive feat," Ozpin said, taking the cookies he had ordered from a police officer and pouring them onto a plate, pushing open the door, "Ruby Rose, Signal's prodigy, you have Silver Eyes."
There was an infliction on the last words, before he put the plate down on the table.
"I… wouldn't call myself a prodigy, I just have a lot of extra training," Miss Rose said modestly, "it's a long story."
"Your Uncle Qrow told us about it, I hope you don't mind," Ozpin said, "That you travel to a world full of creatures called Pokemon and act as a "rescue team" for them?"
"I would have preferred if Uncle Qrow had at least asked my permission first," Ruby pouted.
"And you enjoy it?" Ozpin prompted, "Rescuing people?"
"Fighting too, but definitely Rescuing. We would have broken up as a team years ago if we didn't enjoy it, right, partner?"
"What's not to enjoy? Skarmory asked, taking an offered cookie and swallowing it in one go, "We're helping people."
"We're trying to get through Signal so we can go to Beacon and become licensed, that way we can expand operations to Remnant," Ruby explained happily, "There are plenty of people on Remnant that need to be rescued too."
"And fighting Grimm?" Ozpin prompted.
"A bonus. A really enjoyable bonus, but a bonus," Ruby said, "Why are you asking me this, Professor Ozpin?"
"So you know who I am," Ozpin said, brown eyes twinkling lightly, "You want to go to my school?"
"I need to, if we're gonna help people on Remnant. Well, I suppose I could try going to one of the other schools, but that would mean leaving the Pokemon of Pokemon Square to do the work themselves for years, and I don't wanna do that."
"Well then," Ozpin said, meeting Glynda's eyes. She sighed and shrugged, aware she couldn't stop him even if she wanted to, "Why don't I see if I can't move your application up a couple of years? I take it you would be bringing your partners with you?"
Ruby and Skarmory both nodded, eyes wide and glowing with excitement.
—
Next time, we see Yang travel to the Pokemon World in a flashback, meaning I have to decide if she turns into a Pokemon or not.
"Lien," the man growled out, holding out his hand out expectantly.
"Are you… robbing me?" Ruby asked in amusement. Being robbed, that was a new one. She'd have to tell Skarmory about it when she got him out of the PokeBall they reluctantly put them in when they had to go to Vale. Which was annoying and dumb, she wanted to enjoy Vale with her partner, not with them stuffed in a ball.
The man started to raise a red machete, and Ruby's right arm, transformed into an Aegislash's shield, slammed into it and knocked it down the aisle. Grabbing the man with Petal Burst, she used it to carry him through the aisle and out into the street, slamming him into it with a loud thud and knocking him out.
Turning, she drew Crescent Rose off her hip, the pair of kama-cum-climbing picks twirling as she stepped over the groaning member of the Xiong family before the tassels on the end connected to the bracelets around her wrist in a clicking of gravity dust as she flicked a switch on them. Two other goons drew their machetes off their hip while the third drew a gun, the leader, easily distinguishable by his white suit and black bowler hat, continued to lean against the counter top with a look of boredom on his face.
Ruby activated Petal Burst, dashing past the two melee mooks and reappearing in front of the one with the gun, kicking at him with a leg transformed into a sword and watching him backpedal rapidly, only to hook Crescent and Rose around the gun and wrench it from his hand. Transforming her foot back, she stomped hard on his foot and Crescent's haft into his skull, causing him to buckle and collapse.
Unhooking Crescent and Rose with a flick of the switches, Ruby threw them both at the remaining two members of the family, Petal Bursting behind one as they deflected the kamas and driving her hand, now in the form of her Aegislash's blade, into his back and watching him spit up blood. Crap, they didn't have their Aura unlocked? She hadn't meant to kill anyone with this.
Returning her sword to a hand, Ruby pressed the buttons on her cuffs, pulling Crescent Rose back to her and snapping them in place. She rushed forwards, flipping the kamas so their hafts were barred and using them as a pair of escrima sticks to batter the last one down with a series of heavy thuds. Turning to the leader, she had just enough time to widen her eyes before the gun-cane he was aiming at her went off and blasted her back into the wall across from them. She didn't even have time to go intangible.
She shook her head, eyes closed as her Aura healed the flash burns over them, and fumbled with the ball at her hip and throwing it into the air, calling, "Flying Sword!" as she transformed into Aegislash.
—
Skarmory grabbed Ruby by the tassels as soon as they were out of the PokeBall, feeling them wrap around his talons until he was sure he wouldn't drop her and flying into the air. Eyes landing on the human that had hurt his partner. He was running along the rooftops, not even using the cane he had shot Ruby with to move.
It was still too slow. Far too slow. Tilting his body downwards, Skarmory dove into a, well, dive, folding his wings at his sides and streaking straight for the man. He glanced back, eyes widening as he saw Skarmory and swinging up a cane, firing a red flare at Skarmory as he continued to run.
Skarmory barreled right through it, slowing only slightly as he did, and felt Ruby swing back, recognizing that as a sign to throw her as she swung forwards like a pendulum. Ruby stabbed through the air, transforming back into a human a second before she stabbed into the man and turning it into a full body tackle, slamming him into the ground, knocking his hat off and causing a flash of orange Aura. Ruby's left arm became the tassels of an Aegislash, wrapping around his arms and causing his Aura to slowly but surely start to drain while she gently hooked Rose around the man's neck.
The guns on the bullhead he was running to turned towards Ruby, and Skarmory felt their eyes widen, speeding up so he was in front of the first salvo, his steel gray Aura flashing repeatedly as it hit home, pinging off his steel body. Did they not care that they might hit their partner?
The second burst was interrupted by a wall of stones that suddenly sprang into existence between the bullhead and Skarmory. Once the guns stopped firing, the stones turned sideways, revealing edges as sharp as Skarmory's feathers, they fired at the bullhead, forcing it to pull up sharply. A whip crack echoed, and the stones pulled up with it, chasing the bullhead off into the distance before crumbling to dust.
"They escaped?" Ruby asked, and Skarmory nodded, "Dang. At least we got this one."
"Yes," a voice said from behind them, and with another whip crack stones formed around the man's legs and chest, pinning him in place, "You can let him go now."
"Right," Ruby's left arm turned to a human hand and she stopped straddling the man. Both Pokemon and, at the moment, human turned towards the woman approaching them. She had on a white blouse with a high collar and a small cut out that went from her collarbone to the top of her breasts, a black skirt and a purple and black cape, "Skarmory, you know who that is? It's Glynda Goodwitch!"
"I know who it is, Skarmory said in amusement, "Holder of the record for the most civilians saved when the Vale Airliner Hope of Vytal crashed into Mountain Glenn after an attack by a flock of Nevermore. While over forty huntsman were deployed, she was the leader of them, and given the lionshare of the credit.'
"A less known achievement of mine, but correct," Glynda said, despite her eyes widening under her glasses, "and you two are?"
"Ruby Rose, and this is my partner Skarmory," Ruby said, "Could we have your autograph, pretty please?"
—
Glynda read the information sent to her from Signal, taking a moment to glance at the duo sitting in the interview room without a care in the world, grinning at the scrap of paper she had scrawled her signature onto. At least, she thought the bird was smiling at it.
Ruby Rose, Semblance(s) Petal Burst, the ability to turn into a storm of rose petals to accelerate rapidly, and Aegislash, the ability to turn into a living sword and shield that went by the same name. If Glynda hadn't already been aware of Qrow's "dimension hopping niece", she would have written it off as absurd. Two Semblances, who had ever heard of that?
Average in most regards of history, math and most cultural classes, but excelled, to a degree that left a completed note to check for nepotism, in combat and rescue operation classes, especially when accompanied by the three strange animals that made up "Rescue Team Blade", as Ruby called them. The steel bird, currently with her, Skarmory, a white furred, wolf-like creature called Absol, and a large magnetic disc called Magnezone.
Pokemon, they were called, according to Ruby, who had the ability to translate what they said into Vytalan. That was a fact proven to her when Skarmory had listed an achievement Glynda didn't normally broadcast despite her pride in it.
"They took down Roman Torchwick," Glynda said to Ozpin, who nodded, "They did something the entire Vale police force has failed to do for years."
"It's a very impressive feat," Ozpin said, taking the cookies he had ordered from a police officer and pouring them onto a plate, pushing open the door, "Ruby Rose, Signal's prodigy, you have Silver Eyes."
There was an infliction on the last words, before he put the plate down on the table.
"I… wouldn't call myself a prodigy, I just have a lot of extra training," Miss Rose said modestly, "it's a long story."
"Your Uncle Qrow told us about it, I hope you don't mind," Ozpin said, "That you travel to a world full of creatures called Pokemon and act as a "rescue team" for them?"
"I would have preferred if Uncle Qrow had at least asked my permission first," Ruby pouted.
"And you enjoy it?" Ozpin prompted, "Rescuing people?"
"Fighting too, but definitely Rescuing. We would have broken up as a team years ago if we didn't enjoy it, right, partner?"
"What's not to enjoy? Skarmory asked, taking an offered cookie and swallowing it in one go, "We're helping people."
"We're trying to get through Signal so we can go to Beacon and become licensed, that way we can expand operations to Remnant," Ruby explained happily, "There are plenty of people on Remnant that need to be rescued too."
"And fighting Grimm?" Ozpin prompted.
"A bonus. A really enjoyable bonus, but a bonus," Ruby said, "Why are you asking me this, Professor Ozpin?"
"So you know who I am," Ozpin said, brown eyes twinkling lightly, "You want to go to my school?"
"I need to, if we're gonna help people on Remnant. Well, I suppose I could try going to one of the other schools, but that would mean leaving the Pokemon of Pokemon Square to do the work themselves for years, and I don't wanna do that."
"Well then," Ozpin said, meeting Glynda's eyes. She sighed and shrugged, aware she couldn't stop him even if she wanted to, "Why don't I see if I can't move your application up a couple of years? I take it you would be bringing your partners with you?"
Ruby and Skarmory both nodded, eyes wide and glowing with excitement.
—
Next time, we see Yang travel to the Pokemon World in a flashback, meaning I have to decide if she turns into a Pokemon or not.
Chapter 3
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Yang stared at the golden portal in front of her and Ruby, finally sighing and following her little sister into the portal. It had taken weeks, and more puppy dogs eyes than Yang had ever seen before her Dad had ever given in, but in the end, he had given in and was letting Ruby visit (return to, Yang corrected herself gently) the pokemon world. So long as Yang, Uncle Qrow or he was with her.
And that meant Yang, since Dad and Uncle Qrow had to chaperone a field trip for graduating members of Signal for the next week. And as much as Yang loved her little sister to death, she wasn't exactly excited for a trip to another world if that's even what that was. How did they know this wasn't on the Brother's Continent? You know, the weird dragon shaped one?
Yang blinked as they exited the portal to a tingling feeling across her entire body, a weight off the top of her head and an uproar. A big red dragon grabbed Ruby, who was transformed into her weird black and red sword form and flying high in the air so the gathered creatures could see. They were in front of a building shaped like a sword impaled into the ground, a giant fake Skarmory on top of the golden pommel, and gathered around were various creatures letting off bursts of different elements like they had breathed Dust.
"And who are you, little one?" One of them, who looked like a tall, bright yellow man with a long flowing mustache and a pair of spoons in his hands, asked Yang. Yang bristled, little. She wasn't little! "Apologies, but compared to me, you are quite short and quite young. I am Alakazam, and I'll admit, I didn't expect a Hakamo-o to come with Ruby."
Hakamo-o…?
"I-I've never seen a pokemon like this before," a small caterpillar pokemon stuttered, staring at Yang with wide eyes.
"They're a rather reclusive species," Alakazam explained, "they prefer to live in the mountains away from other species, practicing their martial arts."
"Hold on, I'm not a Hakamo-whatever, I'm a human!" Yang said
"So you are like Ruby then, a human that transformed into a Pokemon?" Alakazam asked, gesturing to the pond to one side of the building. Yang shot him a stink eye, and then glanced into the water, only to jerk back at the reflection staring at her. Instead of her, there was a gray lizard with violet eyes staring back at her, a long gold crest stretching from the top of its head and down the back. Where Ember Celica should have been, there were a pair of golden scale covered fists. Where… where was her hair?
"Yang?" Ruby called, having finally landed and been put down by the dragon, "Is that you?
Yang turned, watching the silver eyed sword watch her carefully, before running back into the portal with a wail. She didn't want to be a Pokemon, she wanted to be a human, she wanted to have her hair, not some lizard crest!
—
Ruby's eyes flickered over the people coming into the Beacon airship as she leaned against Absol, running a hand through her white fur as they waited for the airship to launch. Skarmory was planted firmly with his head on Ruby's lap, her other hand running along the metal of her partner's head. Yang was playing with her new Scroll, legs crossed, on Magnezone, who was taking it as a challenge not to tip over and dump their passenger on the ground.
"Anyone interesting, Sis?" Yang asked, ignoring the people slowly gathering around them and staring at Rescue Team Blade. Ruby's vision, made sharp by years as one of the frontline(wo)men of many disasters, swept over the gathering crowd, picking out each individual member and quietly judging them.
Unworthy, unworthy, unworthy- a whole lot of people who were unworthy until finally, kingship.
"Guys" Ruby sent out quietly, a mental voice like steel ringing on steel speaking out, What do you think about her?
"Her" was a beautiful redhead with a shield and spear on her back standing half way between the crowd and the door, occasionally sending a curious look at them and otherwise appearing to try to use them to avoid attention.
BZZT. SHE HAS A STRANGE MAGNETIC FIELD. BZZT. Magnezone said, turning slightly and wobbling with Yang as they did so to stare at the girl. Skarmory's head swiveled around to look at her, while still resting in Ruby's lap while Absol raised her head to look at her.
Yang curved an eyebrow up, looking up from her Scroll to look at the redhead, "What's up?"
"She'd make a good leader," Ruby said simply as the girl glanced at them and gained a troubled look as she realized Team Blade were all staring at her. Ruby nodded, just slightly, before leaning back against Absol and beginning to look at the people still marching into the airship, looking for anyone else who would make a good leader out of the gate.
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And that meant Yang, since Dad and Uncle Qrow had to chaperone a field trip for graduating members of Signal for the next week. And as much as Yang loved her little sister to death, she wasn't exactly excited for a trip to another world if that's even what that was. How did they know this wasn't on the Brother's Continent? You know, the weird dragon shaped one?
Yang blinked as they exited the portal to a tingling feeling across her entire body, a weight off the top of her head and an uproar. A big red dragon grabbed Ruby, who was transformed into her weird black and red sword form and flying high in the air so the gathered creatures could see. They were in front of a building shaped like a sword impaled into the ground, a giant fake Skarmory on top of the golden pommel, and gathered around were various creatures letting off bursts of different elements like they had breathed Dust.
"And who are you, little one?" One of them, who looked like a tall, bright yellow man with a long flowing mustache and a pair of spoons in his hands, asked Yang. Yang bristled, little. She wasn't little! "Apologies, but compared to me, you are quite short and quite young. I am Alakazam, and I'll admit, I didn't expect a Hakamo-o to come with Ruby."
Hakamo-o…?
"I-I've never seen a pokemon like this before," a small caterpillar pokemon stuttered, staring at Yang with wide eyes.
"They're a rather reclusive species," Alakazam explained, "they prefer to live in the mountains away from other species, practicing their martial arts."
"Hold on, I'm not a Hakamo-whatever, I'm a human!" Yang said
"So you are like Ruby then, a human that transformed into a Pokemon?" Alakazam asked, gesturing to the pond to one side of the building. Yang shot him a stink eye, and then glanced into the water, only to jerk back at the reflection staring at her. Instead of her, there was a gray lizard with violet eyes staring back at her, a long gold crest stretching from the top of its head and down the back. Where Ember Celica should have been, there were a pair of golden scale covered fists. Where… where was her hair?
"Yang?" Ruby called, having finally landed and been put down by the dragon, "Is that you?
Yang turned, watching the silver eyed sword watch her carefully, before running back into the portal with a wail. She didn't want to be a Pokemon, she wanted to be a human, she wanted to have her hair, not some lizard crest!
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Ruby's eyes flickered over the people coming into the Beacon airship as she leaned against Absol, running a hand through her white fur as they waited for the airship to launch. Skarmory was planted firmly with his head on Ruby's lap, her other hand running along the metal of her partner's head. Yang was playing with her new Scroll, legs crossed, on Magnezone, who was taking it as a challenge not to tip over and dump their passenger on the ground.
"Anyone interesting, Sis?" Yang asked, ignoring the people slowly gathering around them and staring at Rescue Team Blade. Ruby's vision, made sharp by years as one of the frontline(wo)men of many disasters, swept over the gathering crowd, picking out each individual member and quietly judging them.
Unworthy, unworthy, unworthy- a whole lot of people who were unworthy until finally, kingship.
"Guys" Ruby sent out quietly, a mental voice like steel ringing on steel speaking out, What do you think about her?
"Her" was a beautiful redhead with a shield and spear on her back standing half way between the crowd and the door, occasionally sending a curious look at them and otherwise appearing to try to use them to avoid attention.
BZZT. SHE HAS A STRANGE MAGNETIC FIELD. BZZT. Magnezone said, turning slightly and wobbling with Yang as they did so to stare at the girl. Skarmory's head swiveled around to look at her, while still resting in Ruby's lap while Absol raised her head to look at her.
Yang curved an eyebrow up, looking up from her Scroll to look at the redhead, "What's up?"
"She'd make a good leader," Ruby said simply as the girl glanced at them and gained a troubled look as she realized Team Blade were all staring at her. Ruby nodded, just slightly, before leaning back against Absol and beginning to look at the people still marching into the airship, looking for anyone else who would make a good leader out of the gate.
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Chapter 4
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Blake was watching the lupine creature with a paranoid feeling in her gut, even though it wasn't doing anything to harm her or even imply it realized she existed. Yes, she was scared of canids, yes, it was stereotypical, so what?
And this one was strange because Blake had never seen something like it. White furred, except for the face with exposed black fur and a single, sickle like horn exposed out of the right side of its face. It was laying there, resting its head against its forepaws as the girl wearing a red cloak, bandana and a pair of kama ran her hand through the fur.
Glimmering silver eyes met Blake's amber ones across the three layers of gathered students and for a brief moment, Blake got the distinct feeling she was being judged. Then the connection broke and the girl continued to slowly pan her head left to right. Finally she seemed to notice something that drew her attention, as all three of the animals around her, at least she assumed the strange thing that the blond next to her was sitting on was some sort of animal and not a drone, turned to focus on. The wolf's head came up to look, the bird's head swiveled to do so, and the drone-animal-thing turned in the air to stare.
Blake turned to see what they were all staring at, only to find a redhead staring out over the city. The girl in question glanced back, only for the serene look on her face to suddenly break as she realized she was being stared at. Finally, the feeling of the stares from the strange group of animals and their owner broke, and Blake looked back to see what had happened, only to see them lounging around again, the owner looking at Weiss Schnee with an unimpressed look on her face.
What had that been about?
—
Weiss watched the strange group of animals walk out of the Beacon airship with their owner. The wolf-like one fell behind them to guard their flank, while the blonde jumped off the disk and followed next to the younger girl. What was this, why was someone so young doing at Beacon?
Weiss approached, the wolf looking at her and tugging on the cape gently, to a high pitched, "I saw her, Absol, but thanks for the warning," their head turned from watching a blonde walk off with a group of other students, and the girl asked, "Can I help you?"
Weiss met silver eyes that seemed both open and inviting and quietly judging, the voice equally open while also holding a tinge of easy authority. It was the voice of someone who obviously was used to being respected and listened to, not like her father but like Winter.
Weiss took a second to look over the girl again, noticing the diamond pin shaped like an egg with two wings keeping her cloak pinned, a splash of ostentation in an otherwise conservative, almost gothic outfit. Weiss coughed into her hand, before saying, "I was wondering what someone your age was doing at Beacon. You're a bit young to be here, aren't you?"
"I'm only a couple of years younger than you are," the girl's lips spread into a grin, "to answer your question, Professor Ozpin invited me into Beacon early."
A prodigy, then, to be invited in by Professor Ozpin himself? Weiss wanted her on her team if that was the case, that was for sure.
"And the animals?" Weiss prompted, looking over them, "It's hard to work with them as a Huntress."
"Part of my Semblance lets me, and other people, communicate with them. Isn't that right, guys?"
"Yep," a sharp voice came from the bird as it landed, apparently deciding they were going to be standing there for a bit, "I'm Skarmory, it's nice to meet you!"
"Absol," the wolf said, staring up at Weiss with red eyes.
"BZZT," Weiss jumped slightly as the drone suddenly spoke out in a voice like electricity and clanging steel, "MAGNEZONE. BZZT.
"You're an animal too?" She asked in bewilderment, having expected it to be some sort of robot.
"BZZT. YES. BZZT."
"I've never seen anything like any of you," Weiss admitted, reaching out to touch Absol's fur, only for the wolf-like creature to jump back. That was fair, disappointing, but fair.
"We're all fairly rare," Skarmory said like that explained everything. Well, they were articulate for animals, that was for sure. She wondered how the specifics of the Semblance worked, did she have to already be close to the animal, physically or emotionally? "We're Ruby's partners, Rescue Team Blade!"
"I see…" Weiss said, feeling slightly bemused. They said it like it was something to be proud of, like being the heiress of the SDC, "I'm Weiss Schnee, do you mind if we walk together to the Entrance?"
"I'm Ruby Rose," she said, "These are Skarmory, Absol and Magnezone.
—
Ruby flew through the air after deployment, mind going through the options she had for a Beacon partner. There was the redhead, Weiss, and Yang. Someone she could work with.
Well, that answer was obvious.
Transforming entirely, Ruby wrapped her arms around Skarmory as they came rushing in, Absol landing on Magnezone and the two of them flying after the leaders of Rescue Team Blade.
"What are we doing, Ruby?" Skarmory asked, gliding around and keeping an eye out for any airborne Grimm as he did so.
"Follow Yang," Ruby said, and they tilted downwards, following the blond catapulting through the air with loud whoops and bangs from Ember Celica. Before they could do anything other than meet her eyes, a loud caw came from above them and they were all forced to go into the treeline as a Giant Nevermore flew towards them.
Ruby let go of Skarmory as they approached the ground with her sister, transforming and landing in a combat roll that brought her to the base of a tree. Spinning around it, her back hit the bark as she listened, watching Absol, Skarmory and Magnezone go to ground in their own ways as Yang joined her against a tree.
One of those things you learned as a Rescuer, not every fight was worth taking or even needed. Your goal was to rescue people, and the longer you took to find them the harder it was to do that. So take what fights you needed to have, sneak passed anyone asleep for example, and focus on the objective.
It was slightly harder as a Huntsman, because you were expected to kill any Grimm you came across, but even then there were Grimm where fighting them just wasn't worth the effort. Too dangerous, too strong, too tough. Once a Grimm got old enough, unless you were there to hunt it, it was best to avoid it if you could.
And a Grimm as large as that Nevermore was at least a couple of centuries old. Ruby quietly pulled out Crescent, opening the breach and sliding in a .50 HEAP round before clicking it shut and digging the kama into the tree's bark and doing the same with Rose. Next to her, Yang swapped out her regular shells for FRAG-12s.
The raven flew over them once, twice, three times before giving a cry and flying off to the east. All the members of Rescue Team Blade breathed out a sigh of relief before pushing off and looking at each other.
"Really," Yang said, "You couldn't even try to find another partner?"
"Ozpin said we should find someone we can work with. You're the only person other than Skarmory I trust to use me if we have to go that far. And you can help explain the more weird stuff to our team."
"Ruby," Yang deadpanned, "You turn into a sword, talk to animals and travel to another world every weekend, there's nothing about you that isn't weird."
"Every other weekend now," Ruby said, "I'm gonna need to cut back to work with the team until they're ready to come rescuing with us."
—
And this one was strange because Blake had never seen something like it. White furred, except for the face with exposed black fur and a single, sickle like horn exposed out of the right side of its face. It was laying there, resting its head against its forepaws as the girl wearing a red cloak, bandana and a pair of kama ran her hand through the fur.
Glimmering silver eyes met Blake's amber ones across the three layers of gathered students and for a brief moment, Blake got the distinct feeling she was being judged. Then the connection broke and the girl continued to slowly pan her head left to right. Finally she seemed to notice something that drew her attention, as all three of the animals around her, at least she assumed the strange thing that the blond next to her was sitting on was some sort of animal and not a drone, turned to focus on. The wolf's head came up to look, the bird's head swiveled to do so, and the drone-animal-thing turned in the air to stare.
Blake turned to see what they were all staring at, only to find a redhead staring out over the city. The girl in question glanced back, only for the serene look on her face to suddenly break as she realized she was being stared at. Finally, the feeling of the stares from the strange group of animals and their owner broke, and Blake looked back to see what had happened, only to see them lounging around again, the owner looking at Weiss Schnee with an unimpressed look on her face.
What had that been about?
—
Weiss watched the strange group of animals walk out of the Beacon airship with their owner. The wolf-like one fell behind them to guard their flank, while the blonde jumped off the disk and followed next to the younger girl. What was this, why was someone so young doing at Beacon?
Weiss approached, the wolf looking at her and tugging on the cape gently, to a high pitched, "I saw her, Absol, but thanks for the warning," their head turned from watching a blonde walk off with a group of other students, and the girl asked, "Can I help you?"
Weiss met silver eyes that seemed both open and inviting and quietly judging, the voice equally open while also holding a tinge of easy authority. It was the voice of someone who obviously was used to being respected and listened to, not like her father but like Winter.
Weiss took a second to look over the girl again, noticing the diamond pin shaped like an egg with two wings keeping her cloak pinned, a splash of ostentation in an otherwise conservative, almost gothic outfit. Weiss coughed into her hand, before saying, "I was wondering what someone your age was doing at Beacon. You're a bit young to be here, aren't you?"
"I'm only a couple of years younger than you are," the girl's lips spread into a grin, "to answer your question, Professor Ozpin invited me into Beacon early."
A prodigy, then, to be invited in by Professor Ozpin himself? Weiss wanted her on her team if that was the case, that was for sure.
"And the animals?" Weiss prompted, looking over them, "It's hard to work with them as a Huntress."
"Part of my Semblance lets me, and other people, communicate with them. Isn't that right, guys?"
"Yep," a sharp voice came from the bird as it landed, apparently deciding they were going to be standing there for a bit, "I'm Skarmory, it's nice to meet you!"
"Absol," the wolf said, staring up at Weiss with red eyes.
"BZZT," Weiss jumped slightly as the drone suddenly spoke out in a voice like electricity and clanging steel, "MAGNEZONE. BZZT.
"You're an animal too?" She asked in bewilderment, having expected it to be some sort of robot.
"BZZT. YES. BZZT."
"I've never seen anything like any of you," Weiss admitted, reaching out to touch Absol's fur, only for the wolf-like creature to jump back. That was fair, disappointing, but fair.
"We're all fairly rare," Skarmory said like that explained everything. Well, they were articulate for animals, that was for sure. She wondered how the specifics of the Semblance worked, did she have to already be close to the animal, physically or emotionally? "We're Ruby's partners, Rescue Team Blade!"
"I see…" Weiss said, feeling slightly bemused. They said it like it was something to be proud of, like being the heiress of the SDC, "I'm Weiss Schnee, do you mind if we walk together to the Entrance?"
"I'm Ruby Rose," she said, "These are Skarmory, Absol and Magnezone.
—
Ruby flew through the air after deployment, mind going through the options she had for a Beacon partner. There was the redhead, Weiss, and Yang. Someone she could work with.
Well, that answer was obvious.
Transforming entirely, Ruby wrapped her arms around Skarmory as they came rushing in, Absol landing on Magnezone and the two of them flying after the leaders of Rescue Team Blade.
"What are we doing, Ruby?" Skarmory asked, gliding around and keeping an eye out for any airborne Grimm as he did so.
"Follow Yang," Ruby said, and they tilted downwards, following the blond catapulting through the air with loud whoops and bangs from Ember Celica. Before they could do anything other than meet her eyes, a loud caw came from above them and they were all forced to go into the treeline as a Giant Nevermore flew towards them.
Ruby let go of Skarmory as they approached the ground with her sister, transforming and landing in a combat roll that brought her to the base of a tree. Spinning around it, her back hit the bark as she listened, watching Absol, Skarmory and Magnezone go to ground in their own ways as Yang joined her against a tree.
One of those things you learned as a Rescuer, not every fight was worth taking or even needed. Your goal was to rescue people, and the longer you took to find them the harder it was to do that. So take what fights you needed to have, sneak passed anyone asleep for example, and focus on the objective.
It was slightly harder as a Huntsman, because you were expected to kill any Grimm you came across, but even then there were Grimm where fighting them just wasn't worth the effort. Too dangerous, too strong, too tough. Once a Grimm got old enough, unless you were there to hunt it, it was best to avoid it if you could.
And a Grimm as large as that Nevermore was at least a couple of centuries old. Ruby quietly pulled out Crescent, opening the breach and sliding in a .50 HEAP round before clicking it shut and digging the kama into the tree's bark and doing the same with Rose. Next to her, Yang swapped out her regular shells for FRAG-12s.
The raven flew over them once, twice, three times before giving a cry and flying off to the east. All the members of Rescue Team Blade breathed out a sigh of relief before pushing off and looking at each other.
"Really," Yang said, "You couldn't even try to find another partner?"
"Ozpin said we should find someone we can work with. You're the only person other than Skarmory I trust to use me if we have to go that far. And you can help explain the more weird stuff to our team."
"Ruby," Yang deadpanned, "You turn into a sword, talk to animals and travel to another world every weekend, there's nothing about you that isn't weird."
"Every other weekend now," Ruby said, "I'm gonna need to cut back to work with the team until they're ready to come rescuing with us."
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