Brutus and Nelira were shocked at Ruby had just done, as were Ruby's friends. Ruby had just had her weapon destroyed by Nelira, and now to compensate, she used the Omnitrix to turn into…
"A Kaiazorian?!" Brutus exclaimed in shock with widened eyes.
"Great… the one thing that had a nonexistent chance to appear on this planet, and showed up anyways." Nelira said as she grit her feline teeth.
Yang was conflicted at the scenario before her now. On one hand, Ruby using her new form, fittingly named Lycandrake, was cool, but the circumstances surrounding how she was pushed to do it made her wish she hadn't done so in the first place. "Oh Ruby…" She muttered.
"I never wanted to break THIS form out…" Lycandrake said in a low feminine growl. "I honestly should have seen this coming, but was somewhat confident, in that we HAD to stand our ground." Lycandrake said as her wings flared and her tail lashed at the ground. "But you messed with a Rose." Lycandrake slammed her right two-toed foot into the ground
BGM - Capabilities Unseen by Void Chords ft. L (RWBY: Ice Queendom)
"And when you mess with a Rose…" Lycandrake lowered her head down before raising it up as she yelled to her opponents. "You get THE THORNS!" And with that, she charged straight at them.
Nelira rapidly shot at her with her rifle, but Lycandrake was undaunted as she spun her body side to side to avoid the attacks as Brutus charged forward with Nelira stopping her shooting and readied her gauntlets.
Lycandrake used her wings and strong legs to jump up as she reared her claws back and swung them at Brutus, who dodged by jumping forward and rolling on the ground till he stood back on his feet. Nelira's gauntlets glowed orange again as she threw a punch at Lycandrake from behind, only for her to turn sidestep the attack and wrap her reptilian tail around Nelira's leg.
Lycandrake spun around and flung Nelira at Brutus, only for the minotaur-like alien to duck under Nelira, who backflipped over him, and charged straight at Lycandrake ready to throw some punches at her.
Lycandrake brought up her wings as Brutus began punching at them, and despite how her wings may have looked, they were holding back Brutus's rapid-fire punches well.
'I'm not really sure how I'm gonna beat him without killing him, but I've got to at least break down his defenses.' Lycandrake thought as she began to use one her current form's powers.
Brutus was busy throwing punches at Lycandrake to notice a faint red glow coming from her face. He punched at her wings one more time and her wings had been seemingly knocked back, only for Brutus to see a bright pinkish red light coming from her mouth.
Brutus quickly brought his arms in front of his head to block, as Lycandrake fired a concentrated burst of heat from her mouth in the form of an orb-shaped shot, hitting Brutus from close range and knocking him back from how intense the power was as he hit the ground rolling and stopped with his face on a concrete walkway around Beacon Academy's statue.
Lycandrake flew up into the air to get out of cloud of smoke that ensued as she flew downwards at Brutus who was having trouble picking himself off the ground, but Nelira got in front of her and used her orange-glowing gauntlets to grab Lycandrake's claws as she was immediately struggling with it, as the moment the two's hands collided Nelira's feet formed craters around them with how much force had been behind Lycandrake's diving attack.
Lycandrake growled as she planted her feet on the ground before pulling Nelira off the ground and spinning in the air before throwing her backwards, causing Nelira to wind up flying towards a tree, which she grabbed the branch of and spun upwards before landing in the tree itself.
At that point, Lycandrake turned her focus on Brutus, who charged at her with his horns, making her respond with a jump into the air and over him. Brutus turned around and pulled some chunks of the pavement out of the ground to throw at her, but Lycandrake countered by firing a pair of heat ray like shots from her mouth, tearing through Brutus's improvised projectiles and striking the ground in front of him, causing an explosion that knocked him onto his back before his leapt back onto his feet.
End BGM
As the fight was happening, Yang, Weiss, Blake, and all their friends were in shock at how well Ruby was doing in fighting off both alien opponents. "She's… actually holding her own." Yang muttered.
"Incredible…" Yatsuhashi added.
"This is… the power of the Omnitrix." Weiss marveled, as she noticed a faint gleam from the tree nearby. She narrowed her eyes and saw that Nelira had activated the sniper function on her rifle and was aiming a shot at Ruby from behind as she charged at Brutus. "Ruby, BEHIND YOU!" She shouted in an attempt to assist Ruby.
Lycandrake turned as saw Nelira just before she pulled the trigger, firing a laser bullet straight at Lycandrake as she made an attempt to dodge before it struck her.
(Meanwhile, in the Emerald Forest…)
Ozpin, James, and Glynda were wailing at the barrier they were stuck in. James tried punching the barriers as hard as he could before Glynda attempted to use her semblance, Telekinesis, to launch telekinetic bolts at the shield, only for them to do nothing as well.
"Dammit, this is getting us nowhere." James cursed as Ozpin tried rapidly striking at the barrier with his cane at barely trackable speeds.
Ozpin was admittedly amazed at how this barrier was able to hold up after all the three of them had done to it, but at the same time, he felt like whoever made this barrier didn't feel bothered to make it tougher than it already was.
"I didn't think the next time I'd see a feat of magic, it would be like this." Ozpin muttered as Glynda grit her teeth and fired more telekinetic bolts at the barrier, hardly caring about the fact that nothing good was coming out of it.
"How… how could there be magic of this variety on Remnant, even the ones who are capable of magic of any kind couldn't have formed a barrier THIS durable?" Glynda wondered.
James couldn't think of any other way to break out of their virtually indestructible prison, so he turned to Ozpin. "Ozpin, do you think that yo-" He began to ask until…
"My my… this isn't how I was expecting to see you, Ozpin."
A voice of some kind cut through the air like a pair of scissors cutting through paper as all three of them turned to the source of where that voice came from.
Then, a figure came up to the barrier as two more soon followed, the first figure's footsteps being comparable to that of a human's, while the second one had a mechanical sound to it's footsteps, while the third's footsteps were louder than the first two.
James and Glynda's jaws dropped as they saw the ones walking up to the barrier as even Ozpin couldn't contain his shock at the sight before them. "Unbelievable…" He let in shock, hardly able to comprehend what was in front of him.
"That's what many say upon seeing us." The figure said in a feminine tone as it raised a gray-skinned hand with four digits up to a black strand of hair hanging from its head. "But for now, let's get you out of this barrier, shall we?" The figure proposed with a smile.
(Back to Beacon Academy…)
Lycandrake was dashing towards the tree Nelira was in as the cat-like alien was firing precise shots from her rifle as it was in its sniper rifle form. Lycandrake growled when she got close enough and fired another blast of heat from her mouth.
Nelira leaped out of the tree's branches as the blast of heat tore through the tree itself. She put her rifle onto a magnetic clip on her back as she readied her gauntlets again, rearing her right arm back.
Lycandrake roared as she and Nelira threw their arms at each other, with Lycandrake catching Nelira's strength-enhanced punch while skidding back a little. "You're not getting the Omnitrix!" Lycandrake shot at the feline alien with nothing but anger in her voice.
"Wanna put your world's money on that?" Nelira said before she smirked and she threw her weight down to the ground and grappled her way around and behind Lycandrake.
"Wha- what is she-" Ren muttered.
Blake noticed Nelira taking something off her belt, and gasped. "Oh no, RUBY!" She shouted to her friend as she saw what it was.
What Nelira took off her belt was her energy whip, which she held as she spun around Lycandrake while wrapping it around her body, restraining her right arm and wings, and soon wrapping around Lycandrake's neck.
"OH NO!" Sun exclaimed as he tried to get up, only to wince in pain as he knelt in pain.
Lycandrake was held by Nelira, as to limit the Omnitrix-wielding transformed human's movement, Nelira wrapped a part of the energy whip's around her and pushed Lycandrake onto her back, keeping Lycandrake from moving much aside from her left arm and legs. "Rah… Grrrr… GrrrrRAAAAHH!" Lycandrake snarled as she thrashed around the best she could.
Nelira gripped her energy whip's line harder and pulled, causing the part of the whip wrapping around Lycandrake's neck to press harder, and make the Human-turned-Kaiazorian struggle to breathe as evident by how she was now grasping at the area around her neck. "NOW BRUTUS!" Nelira shouted through her gritted teeth. "TAKE HER OUT, HUURY!" She ordered.
"Aye aye!" Brutus responded as he steadied himself on his feet and charged forward.
"N- Noooo…" Was all Jaune could let out as he was still in pain from fighting Brutus. Pyrrha aimed at Brutus with Miló and with the intent of stopping his charge, she shot some rounds at him, only for her pain to result in only a few of them hitting him, and said shots barely doing anything against his tough skin.
Blake did the same as she took aim at Brutus's legs with this same goal as Pyrrha, only for her feline ears to pick up something coming from behind her as she dodged to the right to avoid… something, which looked like an orange disk made from energy. "What the…" She muttered as the disk soon disappeared after flying by her.
Lycandrake's growling got their attention again as they saw their transformed friend reaching her left arm up just as Brutus was getting closer.
Brutus threw his arm forward as Lycandrake's own arm came down and collided with the Omnitrix, causing a red light to shine just before Brutus's fist got two feet close to her.
As WBY, JNPR, CFVY, and SSSN watched the light dim down, they saw that Brutus was in front of Nelira… but there was no sign of Ruby, or what she may have turned into.
"Wh- What the?!" Nelira let out in shock.
"What happened?" Brutus wondered as he looked around and saw no sign of Ruby.
Nelira began to look around in caution, but noticed a sudden freezing sensation come from her feet. "Huh?" She looked down… only to find beams of cryonic energy blasting at her feet, locking her in place. "WHAT IN ALPOLON'S NAME!" She looked behind her and at where the beams came from, to find that Ruby had transformed into…
BGM - OST 11 Twin Sword Sparking (Danball Senki W)
"Icedrop!" Coco exclaimed, smiling at the sight.
"So that's how she got out." Weiss said.
The sight of Lycandrake's arm colliding with the Omnitrix came to view as she very quickly changed into Icedrop, just in time to use her form's small size and limited levitation ability to avoid Brutus's incoming punch, escaping Nelira's hold on her and staying out of sight by moving past Brutus's fist while staying out both alien's sight, before diving down and hiding beside Nelira feet.
"DAMMIT!" Nelira swore as she reached for the rifle on her back, only for Icedrop to fire a beam of chronic energy at her right hand right as it touched the trigger of the weapon, freezing both her hand and the weapon to her back. "Oh no…" Icedrop smirked when she heard Nelira's words as she continued encasing the feline alien in ice, leaving only her neck and head movable by the end. "I can't move!" She shouted as her breath was visible due to how cold she was.
"HAHA, gotcha! And that's for destroying my baby!" Icedrop shouted as loud as she could while she floated up a little ways away from her face.
"WHY YOU LITTLE FLOATING ICE CUBE!" Brutus shouted angrily as he launched a barrage of punches at Icedrop who flew out of his punch's range and launched cryonic energy beams at him.
Brutus raised his arms to guard the beams as they formed blocks of ice around his arms. He snorted in frustration as he slammed his ice-encased arms against the ground, shattering the ice to tiny fragments.
Icedrop grumbled at the sight. "There's no way ice is going to subdue this guy." She said to herself, which was when Omni's voice rung out from the Omnitrix on her body.
"Then I have a suggestion." Omni told her as Icedrop heard her out.
"I'm done… PLAYING GAMES WITH YOU, KID!" Brutus said, anger blinding him as he leapt up and reared back a fist and prepared another punch.
"RUBY!" The girl's friends cried out as Icedrop flew back to avoid the punch before another flash of light went off around her.
As the light dissipated, Brutus's fist collided with the ground as gray-skinned fingers from two hands touched the ground ahead of him as Brainblast, Ruby's Weza Izumokita form, was now present and doing a triple backflip to avoid what would've been large debris for Icedrop.
Brainblast raised her hands up in front of her as a defense as Brutus pulled his arm out of the ground. He charged at the transformed Weza Izumokita and swung his fists at her, only for Brainblast to easily dodge his attacks as she simply bent out of the way of his swings and punches. She jumped back to avoid a downward punch as he got his arm planted in the ground again, and retaliated by running up to him and kicking him in the face twice before flip-kicking him, landing back on her feet a little ways away from him as he staggered back.
He shook his head to shake off the pain as Brainblast smirked. She pointed at him with her right index finger before doing the 'come at me' taunt with a smile on her face.
This nearly got Brutus steaming as he growled and charged forward. "Now you've done it, kid. COME GET SOME!" He shouted in anger with a raised fist as Brainblast charged forward, she reared her hands back before launching them forward and…
End BGM
In what looked like a blink and you'll miss it moment, the two charging combatants were facing away from each other, with Brainblast pointing two fingers on each of her hands forward while Brutus did the same for his arm he used to throw his punch. Ruby's teammates and friends were nervous about what had just happened, with Nelira saying something in response to what truly happened the moment they met. "Brutus… you fool." She muttered, her breath visible in her frozen state.
Brutus registered what she said as… "AUGH, AAAAUUUUH!" He shouted in pain as he collapsed onto the ground, barely moving. "Wha- What happened? I… can't move!" He said visibly trying to move his body, but only getting that luck in moving his head.
Brainblast stood up straight as she folded her arms. "Relax, it's pressure-point induced paralysis. I used it to render you incapable of moving everything from below your neck." Brainblast explained with a smile on her face as she walked up to him completely unthreatened by his current state.
"Pressure-point… paralysis… but you… could only do that if you... had knowledge on my anatomy… and we only just encountered each other today." Brutus said through the discomfort of his paralyzed state.
"I used this form's hyper-intelligence to quickly pinpoint the pressure points in a Human's body and used that as a reference for where yours might be located, as both your body and that of a Human look similar to each other in build. From there it was as simple as striking at where I estimated those pressure points may have been, and just praying for the most to be made out of that move of mine." Brainblast explained in-depth, shocking just about everyone present.
"Woah… that's incredible…" Nora said, almost unable to fathom how Ruby of all people was able to make such a move with the Omnitrix backing her up.
"You have Omni to thank for that idea, she suggested that I try to fight brawn with brain, and I'd say that idea of hers paid off quite well." Brainblast said with a smile.
"Ruby, Omni… you… you're both amazing!" Velvet cheered while punching the air with a smile on her face.
"You can say that again, it's incredible!" Sun cheered with a smile on his face as well.
"So this is what someone with an Omnitrix can do… it truly is like Velvet said… It's amazing." Weiss muttered as a smile formed on her face at how Ruby was able to pacify both of her alien opponents.
Ruby's friends were all back on their feet as they all looked at her and smiled, with Brainblast smiling back before nodding and turning towards Brutus and his still-paralyzed self. "Now then…"
Brainblast turned Brutus over with her feet close to his face before looking him dead in the eyes. "What was your reason for blowing up parts of Beacon, and attacking me for the Omnitrix? What was your plan for if this sneak attack of yours succeeded?" She asked strictly, her voice in an interrogative tone.
Nelira cut in as she chuckled at the question. "Do you really think we're gonna give up that information to you all because you asked?" She asked with a smile.
Brainblast remained unswayed by her words as she walked past Brutus. "You're hardly in any position to say such things. Answer my questions and we won't have to fight anymore." Brainblast said looking at her before a retort came from Brutus this time.
"And you're hardly in any position to keep thinking that we came here without an escape plan." He snarked making Brainblast snap her head around at his fallen form in shock.
Just then, she felt a tingling sensation travel into her brain from the horns on her head, the sensation itself notifying her that there were multiple projectiles flying straight for her from three different directions.
At that moment, she jumped back towards the front of her friends as she saw that the projectiles in question were… orange energy-formed disks with detailed line-drawings on them. She looked around to see where they could've come from.
"I guess that's my cue to step in, now is it?" A rough, yet refined, male voice rhetorically asked as a new being was seen by Brainblast and her friends when they all looked up.
They recoiled in shock as they all saw a new alien being levitate down from air above them. This alien in question having lavender skin, black hair with navy blue tips, and eyes of black sclera and blue irises. He wore a navy blue and black suit that left his arms and legs exposed, showing his arm's lack of a fifth digit, and the sharp claws on his feet's three digits. And what made them really flinch was the pair of curved horns on his head and the purple tail coming from behind him that had black spikes on it.
"Another alien?!" Ren exclaimed in shock as the alien landed on the ground.
Velvet flinched at the sight of the alien and its demon-like features, while Coco tried to get in front of her in her best effort to keep her safe from the unexpected guest.
"Who are you?" Weiss asked him with a glare.
"Come now, I understand that my subordinates did cause trouble for you all, but I am not here for a fight with all of you at the same time." The new arrival told them.
Brainblast's glare that recently formed at the sight of him only hardened at what he said. "So… you're associated with these two? I take it your goal is to escape with them?" She asked.
The alien smirked when he heard this. "Well, looks like the knowledge that comes with this form of yours is certainly helpful." He snarked with a toothy smile before continuing. "Yes, I have come to retrieve the-"
"Ahem!" He stopped talking and turned to Brutus, who got his attention. "Ummmm… could you maybe hurry it up then?" Brutus asked, still paralyzed on the ground. "My body feels like it's gonna cramp with how and why it's not moving." He stated.
"Yeah, and I feel like everything below my waist is going to get frostbite from how cold I am." Nelira added.
The purple alien looked at the two while not turning his head, before sighing and raising his hand, signaling he was gonna snap his fingers. "Alright then… I suppose now's the time for us to take our leave." He then snapped his fingers as a large circle suddenly formed around the three aliens.
The circle in question glowed brightly and had a light blue color with green curved lines imprinted onto it. The lavender-skinned alien held up his hands with thumb and pinkie fingers before he spoke up again. "Cigam elcric, ees su yawa!" He chanted as Brainblast, in a fit of instinct, charged at him in an attempt to stop him.
She was too late however as a blue dome of energy formed over the three aliens and all of the sudden… They were teleported out and away from Beacon's grounds, to where exactly, even Brainblast with her hyper-intelligent mind, could not predict. "Dang it…" Brainblast cursed with the snap of her fingers before she turned back into Ruby.
BGM - The Last Piece (Sonic Frontiers)
"They're gone." Blake said as she stood back up while having Yang's arm on her shoulders.
"Damn it… and we don't even know where they went." Ren let out as Nora helped him get back on his feet as he clutched his stomach in pain.
"That's not even the worst of it." Weiss said, looking around the area where the fight was fought in and seeing all kinds of damage done. From holes in the ground, to rubble and debris cluttered about the place, to even a few singed areas in the grassy areas of the campus with small amounts of fire scattered about. She saw Scarlet and Sage getting back up, but barely having any strength to stand up on their own. "How are we… going to explain this?" She asked while looking down at the ground. "If Ozpin, Goodwitch, and General Ironwood don't get back soon from wherever they might've been taken to…" Weiss began to say as Jaune finished for her.
"We'll have to tell everyone that aliens attacked the school… because of…" Jaune didn't even finish that sentence as he looked at Ruby.
Everyone else did as well, having different looks on their faces from looks of worry, to widened eyes of shock, to cases like Yang, Nora, Velvet, Weiss, and Jaune himself… where they bore a paleness in their faces that varied from person to person that showed how… scared they were for their friend.
Ruby looked at the Omnitrix as Omni appeared over it. The Omnitrix's AI looked up at the silver-eyed girl. "Ruby… I…" Omni wanted to say something, anything, to cheer up the one who was currently wearing the Omnitrix… But she didn't even know what to say. Except…
"I'm so sorry…"
While she did hear that, Ruby's mind was in a downward spiral of confusion and bone-chilling panic. She was just a normal Huntress-In-Training just a couple of days ago, and now she has a device strapped to her wrist that's so powerful, aliens from other planets were willing to hurt her and her friends just to get their hands on it for who knows what. She couldn't even bring herself to be sad about the fact that her own sweetheart, Crescent Rose, was sliced to pieces because… there were so much more pressing matters to worry about in hindsight.
As she thought about all of this, she could barely notice that tears were streaming down her face as Omni was still stuck not knowing what to say, all while looking like she was gonna burst into tears herself. "I guess… this is why you wanted to try and do everything you could to protect me… when you said it back in our dorm room." Ruby said, sick of the silence flooding over her and her friends.
End BGM
Omni had dark red tears running down her face before she rubbed them away with her arm as they vanished in small pixels. She was going to answer…
Until Blake and Velvet's ears twitched from hearing something in the distance. "What the?" Velvet muttered as she and Blake turned towards the direction the sound they heard was coming.
"Velvet, what's wrong?" Coco asked her with Blake answering for the rabbit Faunus.
"There's something comi… no, flying through the air, and it's coming straight for us!" Blake exclaimed that last detail as everyone was on high alert now.
"Wait, WHAT!?" Nora shouted in panic as they all had looks of worry on their faces. They were in no condition to run and hide somewhere, and they were especially in no condition to fight against another alien being.
They soon saw something flying towards them, which appeared to be an airship with an appearance dissimilar to a Bullhead. "Wait a minute…" Omni muttered as she looked at the ship in question.
It was easily about 20 feet tall in size and double that size in length from the front to the back. It also had gray and white with neon blue lines that glowed on the hull that ran up from the underside to a quartet of energy boosters that were spear-like at the tips with had rectangular prism-like components attached to cylindrical pivots with the same kind of neon blue line in the center of it. It also had a clear window on the front of it, which let some of them catch a glimpse of the inside and see some non-Human figures at the helm.
But what caught Omni's attention was a logo on the left side of the ship, which looked like a four pointed yellow star surrounded by a white ring with green and blue planets surrounding it, and within the star itself, there was a '3-A' imprinted in the center. She gasped as her eyes lit up with hope. "It's one of the ships belonging to the transport I was on!" Omni exclaimed as everyone gasped in shock.
"It's one of the what now?" Neptune asked in shock as the ship hovered over the area in front of them with the front of the ship itself facing away from them, the backside of it facing them.
Ruby turned around towards the ship as it landed with the energy boosters on the sides acting as landing gear. She backed up as she and her friends wondered what or who could be inside of this ship.
A large hatch-like door on the back opened up by lowering down to the ground, as they all soon heard frantic footsteps, looked inside for only a moment before… Glynda, Ozpin, and James came running out, worry plastered on their faces as looks of confusion came from the students.
"What the?" Yatsuhashi let out at the sight of the headmaster, professor, and general. Ruby registered this fact quicker than the others as she panicked and hid her right arm and the Omnitrix behind her back, with Omni disappearing into it.
"They're back!" Scarlet exclaimed at the sight of the three people who just recently vanished from thin air.
"Ms. Rose, Mr. Arc, everyone!" Glynda called out to them as she ran up to them, sighing in relief as she saw that they were all accounted for and alive. "Thank goodness you're safe children." Glynda said with an open smile.
"Wha- bu- but… How!?" Weiss asked loudly, shocked at how things were going all of the sudden.
"We wound up in the Emerald Forest after that we were somehow teleported to the middle of it." James told them, which only added more confusion to their situation.
"Okay. But if you were in the Emerald Forest, how'd you wind up in that ship, it wa-" Sun was going to say more, but was shut up by Neptune who pointed her eyes in Ruby's direction.
Ozpin only smiled at the sight and sighed. "It's okay, children… We know." He said with a light smile on his face, earning a pair of widened eyes from Ruby.
The rest of RWBY, JNPR, CFVY, and SSSN were shocked to silence in retort to what he said. Blake spoke up before anyone else could. "Know about… what?"
Ozpin looked to his colleagues as they nodded with him doing the same before looking at Ruby, specifically at the arm she had behind her back. "Rest assured, Ruby, you can stop hiding the Omnitrix from us." He told the silver-eyed girl.
Ruby was gobsmacked at what he just told her. Ozpin knew about the Omnitrix, and since they were right behind him, so did Professor Goodwitch and General Ironwood. Her brain started to inwardly panic at what this could mean, a bead of sweat running down her head as she gulped… Only for a familiar warm and fuzzy feeling to hug her right wrist, which she quickly knew was Omni telling her that…
"Everything will be fine now."
Ruby started to calm down and breathed in and out, while letting her body relax while she held out her arm with the Omnitrix on it.
James and Glynda were openly slightly shocked at the sight of it, while Ozpin's eyes widened as he gazed upon the device itself. Omni materialized over it in holographic form as she looked at the three adults and did a curtsy bow to them. "It's an… honor to finally meet you three in person." Omni said to them.
Ozpin only saw this device in person for a few seconds, even Ruby knew that, and yet still, he could tell that the AI was distressed about the fight that had transpired in his and his colleague's absence. He smiled as he spoke to the AI. "It's an honor to finally meet you as well, Omni." Ozpin said in kind to her.
The mention of Omni's name from Ozpin confused everyone even more as Yang spoke their minds. "Wait… how do you know her name?" She asked the Headmaster of Beacon.
"I told them as much."
An unknown feminine voice practically echoed throughout the area as they turned to the direction of the voice, which was from inside the ship that was in front of them.
"As well as a few more… clarifying points for purposes that'll come to light soon." The feminine voice added as a figure walked out what darkness there was in the ship from their viewpoints and into the light of the afternoon sun.
The being appeared to be a scientist of some kind, with a white and gray-striped lab coat on her person over a black and blue colored bodysuit that completely covered her lean, yet fit, figure. If the female voice wasn't an indicator, she had long black hair that went down to the midsection of her back, and her hands had black fingerless gloves with blue empty circular lines on them. Her lab coat had four sticks holstered onto the sides that seemed to be made of some kind of steel alloy, and a black visor with a blue line running across it was wrapped around her neck.
But the one part about this female figure that stood out more than sore thumb… was that she looked A LOT like Ruby's Brainstorm transformation, gray skin, horns, and all.
"It's a… a…" Jaune muttered in shock, barely able to believe what he was seeing.
"A Weza Izumokita." Weiss finished as Blake rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things, while Nora pinched her cheek to make sure she was dreaming.
"No way…" Even Fox couldn't help but openly express his shock as he could sense the otherworldly presence in front of them all at the moment.
The Weza Izumokita walked down to the ground and up to Ruby, Ozpin and his colleagues, and the students as the red-hooded huntress could make out her eyes subtly moving left and right, giving Ruby the message that she was… analyzing them.
The gray-skinned alien passed by Ozpin, Glynda, and James and stopped in front of Ruby.
Ruby felt intimidated as the alien being looked at her with a look that was unreadable to her, she couldn't think of what was going through her mind, or how fast it might be going through it.
She was snapped out of her thoughts as she heard… Omni sobbing lightly.
Ruby and her teammates and friends looked at her and saw Omni crying with a smile on her face while drying her tears as they fell and faded away into pixels. "I'm… so glad. I th-thought that… you didn't survive th-the attack. I… I just… w-was so…" Omni muttered through her tears and sobs as the alien being raised her hand over her head… and pat Omni on the head.
Omni looked up to see the alien smile while looking at her. "It's good to see that you are unharmed, Omni." She said to the AI.
Omni smiled at her words as Ruby decided to try and speak up. "Omni, sorry if I'm interrupting something, but… is this who I think it is?" She asked while having an idea of who was in front of her, given what little info Omni has shared up till now.
Omni recomposed herself as she turned to face her. "Sorry, I was caught up in the moment." Omni told her before she tapped the Omnitrix's faceplate with her right foot twice.
The Omnitrix then glowed for a moment before Omni levitated away from the Omnitrix itself and floated beside the Weza Izumokita.
"Teams RWBY, JNPR, CFVY, and SSSN." She began as she gestured to the alien being. "This is Chorina Xenzos Altegori. The brightest mind among the Weza Izumokita and the creator of the Omnitrix that Ruby wears." She paused for a moment as she looked at the alien, now named Chornia, with a warm smile. "As well as… my surrogate mother."
Chorina bowed slightly as she spoke again. "It's a pleasure to finally see you all, even if I wish it were under normal circumstances. But still, I'm thankful, to all of you, for doing what you could to protect Omni and the Omnitrix." She said in gratitude.
Ruby had anticipated it in her mind, but she still didn't think it would be true. It has barely been half a week since the Omnitrix latched onto her hand, and now, as she stood in the middle of where she had just fought off a duo of alien bounty hunters…
She was face to face with… "The creator of… the Omnitrix…" Ruby muttered in shock.
"Surrogate… mother." Pyrrha repeated in her own level of shock.
"I think it'd be best if I explain." Ozpin spoke up as he got the attention of the students. "We were stranded in the middle of the Emerald Forest, stuck inside that barrier that had teleported us there somehow, and while we were attempting to break through it..." Ozpin explained as he looked at Chorina. "Chorina came by and managed to get us out without needing to break the barrier." He finished.
"Wait, what! How?" Weiss asked loudly before she faltered from some lingering pain.
Chorina looked at Weiss and the rest of the students in front of her as she shook her head. "That's not important at the moment. What is important is that you all are given immediate medical attention, we get all this damage patched up, and I, hopefully speaking at least, get a quick summary on what exactly happened here." Chorina told them.
Ruby nodded as she looked at her friends and saw just how bruised and beat up they were. "She's right, I'll tell her what happened." She told Ozpin, Glynda, and James.
James and Glynda nodded. "And we'll get them to the infirmary." Glynda said.
"If you're gonna do that, it'll probably help to have some extra hands for that."
Everyone stood still as that voice rung throughout the area, as they turned to where the voice came from, some foliage nearby one of the buildings consisting of some bushes and a pair of trees.
Chorina merely looked in the same direction and put her hands on her hips. "I was wondering when you'd speak up, otherwise I'd have to point you out myself." Chorina said in a loud enough tone to get the point across.
At that remark, four people came out of their hiding spot and walked towards, and who it was made Jaune and Velvet wish they could claw their eyes out.
It was Team CRDL, with Cardin himself holding a Scroll with a video playing on it, showing Lycandrake fighting against Brutus and Nelira. "I don't think I have a right to say this, but… maybe we can help out in some way." Cardin asked as the other students of Beacon in the area reacted accordingly to his apparent presence.
"We're doomed…" Nora let out with her face in her hand.
"Agreed..." Sun croaked out, agreeing with that statement as he did the same.