The Grimm rushed at them, Danny quickly jumped forward and augmented his hands knocking away any and all Grimm that came his way. Ren charged at the main one; the Nuckelavee who just stood there and shot out one of his arms at Ren, making the Huntsman duck while he was firing on the monster
"REN!" Nora shouted as she used her weapon to lob grenades at the monster. Jaune saw that a Beowolf was charging at Qrow, with his options Jaune bolted over slew the Beowolf and picked Qrow up. Looking around Jaune found a safe place for him and started to move slowly over to him. Ren raced over and helped Jaune, hiding the three by using his semblance
"Over there" Jaune said
"Got it" Ren said as the two set Qrow down before making sure he was safe and then ran off to the battle, as a Beringel appeared. Jaune drew his sword and then lopped its head off as Ren blasted a Creeper. Once the two got to the amen squared Jaune put his sword away
"Jaune what are you doing?" Ruby shouted as Jaune lifted the sword and gripped the grip as the sides of the sheath sprung up making a wider blade for his sword. A Ursa was behind him and using the weight of the blade Jaune took it down.
"What do you think?"
"Awesome" Ruby said as Ren charged at the Nuckelavee again, only to be pinned to the building behind him.
"Ruby!" Nora said as Ruby used Crescent Rose to fling Nora at Ren, before the Nuckelavee threw its other arm at Ren, but it was blocked and deflected by Nora who was above him, Ren looked at her before Nora turned to him before she realised, she was giving Ren a decent view
"Stop looking" she said
"Ah-ugh" Ren said turning away, missing the sly grin that Nora had on her face when she was flung to the ground hard enough to break her aura "NORA!" he shouted before stabbing and slashing at the arms to make it let him go and once he landed on the ground he charged forward with no plan
"Ren knock it off!" Jaune shouted before he slashed a Beowolf and a Creeper in half. "You're going to be killed!" Jaune said as he was knocked back.
Nora saw Ren get knocked over to where she was and his aura break. Thinking fast as he got up to charge again, but he was knocked to the ground and under a hut as the Nuckelavee destroyed Magnhild. Ren looked out to see Jaune and Danny holding back the beast while Ruby was sniping at it before jumping while using her semblance to get away from the long arms attack him while dodging on the rooftops. Ren scowled and was about to run out of there but he was held back by Nora
"Nora, let me go; they're about to get hurt we have to" Ren was cut off by a slap as thunder sounded
"No" Nora said making Ren look at her "I won't let you kill yourself. After all the things we've been through I won't let it end" she said as she looked up but Ren making him see that scared little girl from before when they first met and when he blinked the current Nora was in front of him with tears in her eyes. "Not like this" she whispered making Ren quickly pull her into a hug which he loosen enough before she kissed him on the lips. Once she pulled back Ren looked down and drew his father's knife and clutched it in his hand "We can do this"
"And we will" Ren said
Danny was facing down several Beowolves and Creepers. He stepped back making his foot connect with something, looking down he saw that Ren's guns were behind him, looking back and seeing a charging Beowolf Danny ducked picked up the guns and augmented the blades on Stormflower with his chi and used them as daggers to slice it in half before aiming at a couple of Creepers coming at him, so he pulled a card out of his pocket and pressed an area of it before putting it back in and ran forward kicking the Creeper into the air and firing at it making it splat on the ground. Danny charged his chi again and then sent it to her feet and kicked behind him making the Beringel fly back into a couple more destroying them. Looking around he saw a Beowolf was about to attack Ruby. With his eyes going wide Danny so he ran to her
"RUBY LOOK OUT!" he shouted making Ruby look behind her as the Beowolf was about to strike her when its head blew up. Ruby ducked and upon releasing that nothing happened she looked around and gasped at what she saw.
Standing on a rooftop a bit away was none other than Hawkeye, he looked around and drew two more arrows before firing them into the sky. They exploded giving a location as Falcon swooped in with guns blazing taking down a large amount of creepers and Beowolves. He banked left and shot at the Nuckelavee who roared unleashing a sonic attacked, but it didn't reach him. Suddenly a beam of red came in and damaged the Nuckelavee's back leg as War Machine flew across the sky and nodded as a bolt of crimson took down three creeper down. Out of the shadows holding a ball of red energy was Scarlet Witch and behind her was Black Widow twirling two batons as two Creepers came at them. Ruby and Jaune smiled at each before a Beringel jumped at them, only to have a shield intercept them and smack it into a building as the shield came back to who threw it, Ruby softly smiled as Captain America caught his shield and walked up to the two students and placed a comforting hand on their shoulder and nodded until he walked off belting a Creeper with his shield, Nora and Ren came out of hiding just in time for Nora's father Thor walk over to them
"Dad!" Nora shouted hugging him
"Are you okay Eleanora?" Thor asked
"We are now" she admitted hugging Thor. It was then the Asgardian noticed his daughter's destroyed weapon and reached behind him to present Nora with an Axe "This is Jarnbjorn the axe I held before I obtained Mjolnir, I now pass it onto you my daughter until Magnhild is repaired" he said
"Thank you father" Nora said taking the mighty axe which filled her with magical energy and causing an eruption of lightning magic, that when it died down revealed Nora now had a black form fitting jacket like her father's tunic and had armoured sleeves, her hair was not long and straighter as well. "FOR REMNANT!" she shouted charging into battle.
Ruby was sniping down Beowolves that were surrounding her and Jaune. But they were quickly being overrun. Jaune swung his sword at a Beringel, only for the Grimm while Ruby was surrounded by Grimm.
"RUBY!" Jaune cried out
"JAUNE!" Ruby shouted as she was surrounded by Grimm when a barrage of bright green beams cleared them all away, the light was so bright that Ruby had to use her cloak to look away. Once the light died down she saw a girl standing there with orange hair pulled back into a ponytail, she wore a beige shoulder-less top, grey flared pants with green designs over them, black boots and a backpack on, in her hands were a pair of swords
"Hello Ruby" she said
"Penny, PENNY!" Ruby shouted hugging her "How?"
"Mr Stark helped repaired me" Penny said as she bifurcated a Beowolf
"It was difficult but it was worth it" Ironman said as he landed before a portal opened and Dr Strange walked out as he closed the portal
"Sorry we're late hard to open multiple gates around a world I am not familiar with is quite difficult" Dr Strange said, suddenly a SHILED Quinnjet landed and it released a team of agents, Ruby noticed one of them had gauntlets
"Who's that?" Ruby asked
"I'm Quake, nice to meet you" Quake said
"Okay, we're here Capt call it" Ironman said
"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" Capt's voice cried out.
Falcon dive bombed a couple of Beringel Grimm while Quake sent out a massive shockwave knocking them back and rolled to shoot another seismic barrage as Hawkeye and Black Widow were talking while they were killing Grimm
"So where were you?" Black Widow asked
"A little farm on Patch" Hawkeye said as he sniped a Creeper
"Is it nice?" Black Widow asked
"Oh yeah, but the Raven's are a problem" Hawkeye said as Black Widow shot behind him "Thanks" he said
"So why there?" Black Widow asked
"Helping with Yang's rehabilitation" Hawkeye said
"How is she?" Black Widow asked
"she's good." Hawkeye said as he stabbed a Beowolf
"Behind you sister" Quicksilver said as he knocked a Creeper away from Scarlet Witch, who threw a hex bolt at several. Scarlet witch sighed before turningto Quicksilver
"Where were you?" she asked
"I was looking for someone" Quicksilver said
"Who?" Scarlet Witch asked
"An old friend" Quicksilver said
"Him" Quicksilver said as someone landed on an Ursa
"Vision" Scarlet Witch said happily hugging him
"Hello Wanda" Vision said before he smiled and then pulled her into a hug and phased so that an Ursa went through them making Quicksilver dodge it, before giving them a look which said assholes
"Sorry" Scarlet Witch said
Jaune was busy slaying Beowolves he failed to see the Ursa behind him. Suddenly a shot rang out as a blur of red landed and skidded behind Jaune facing the other way
"You really should watch out behind you" Pyrrha said as she arrived
"I thought you were with the Guardians" Jauen said stabbing a Creeper coming from the side.
"This is an emergency, I was asked to stop by" Pyrrha asked "Besides they're heading for Atlas, so I can catch up" she said throwing her spear, killing it and recalling it, shifting to rifle mode and shooting a Creeper about to kill Hawkeye, who turned and nodded before sniping two Beowolves behind the pair.
"He's good" they said before the Nuckleave sounded out and the two ran off as Penny, Ren, Ruby and Nora were attacking the monster. Ruby jumped over one of its arms and helped Ren leap into the air and destroy a horn as Thor threw his hammer at it forcing it to recoil
"Come on" Jaune shouted as the two ran off
"Oh no you don't" Strange said as he roped a Beowolf and flung him away "Ah Coulson"
"I'm here, we'll evacuate Qrow" Coulson said as his team started giving Qrow medical attention
"He's been poisoned, scorpion venom but how?"
"A Faunus or Death stalker" Coulson said before a roar was heard as a Berignel rounded the corner
"I'll lead him off" Strange said "Over here Monkey" he said making the Simian Grimm follow him giving the others time to shift Qrow. Strange then stopped and opened a portal "Hey Salem
"What?" the Grimm queen, "You" she glared at Strange before she was about to fling dark magic at the Sorcerer when he ducked and made the Beringel land on her "Get off of me"
"Bye Salem" he said closing the door "that felt good" as he walked back to the battle, only to see a squad of Beowolves fall to a large energy blast from the Destroyer cannon
"Man I love this thing" as Coulson readied another round for it
"Pin him down" Ren said sliding under an arm of the Nuckelavee as Ironman aimed at its back, Capt then threw his shield into its head and Thor smashed his hammer into the back legs.
"Got it" Jaune said stabbing the right arm making it stick to the ground.
"I'm on it" Nora said using Jarnbjorn to pin it to the ground. Ren walked up to it brandishing his knife, Pyrrha and Ruby showed up and removed the front legs.
"Ren now!" Ruby shouted as Ren walked up to it calmly
"For my mother" He said cutting the left arm, "For my Father" he said cutting the right arm off "And for me" he said decapitating it. After five seconds the Grimm became smoke making the rest of the Grimm run away
"Victory" Jaune said before collapsing
"We did it" Nora said as Ren walked up to her
"Yeah, we did, didn't we?" Ren asked
"For now" Nora said
Ruby ran over to where Jaune had hidden Qrow. She sighed as she saw the SHIELD team working on him.
"It's quiet, good job kiddo" Qrow rasped out
"thanks uncle Qrow"
"He'll be alright we've given him an anti-toxin and it seems to have taken hold" Coulson said
"That's a relief
"Guys, I hear something" Jaune said as an Airship landed.
"Wow you guys had a party huh?" a familiar face said as he approached Ruby
"Yeah we did, but it's over now" Ruby said
"Sure is, how are you Neptune?" Jauen asked
"I'm good, knowing that a lot more of my friends are okay" Neptune said looking over to Penny and Pyrrha before seeing the Avengers. "Come on, we'll take get you out of here"
"Okay" Ruby said as the SHIELD team loaded Qrow on to the Mistrali airship with the other members of Remnant before they headed over to the Quinjet with the over non flying members of the Avengers. The flyers took to the skies and followed. Pyrrha, jaune and Ruby sat near Qrow while Ren and Nora sat off to the side of them with their hands linked.
Soon Ruby walked into the temporary housing they were given and placed Crescent Rose on one of the beds before checking Qrow and sitting down to write a letter
"Hey sis, I hope my letters have been reaching you and dad. Handwritten stuff's never been super reliable, but I guess it's all we got these days. Anyway in case you haven't been getting them, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for leaving when I did. I know you told it was a reckless idea and after everything we've been through, I can say that you were definitely right. It's been a hard tiem for all of us, and I'm not just talking about the monsters out there" Ruby wrote as tears came to her eyes.
'Every step we made took us farther and farther away from the things we knew, and every morning we woke up wondering, if just over the next hill was something good or terrible
An Atleasian pilot counted the lien Weiss had given him.
"Alright I'll take you as far as I can, but if we get caught you're on your own" the pilot said
"Understood" Weiss said as she boarded while Spiderman check his computer and saw that the intel Agent venom had on Blake was there and he also activated his spider tracer so Ironman could help them if they needed it.
"Wait for me" he said
'Not know what's going to happen next. And the things we know now, just how bad it can get it almost makes things worse
'You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it and I didn't want to listen'
Taiyang looked at a picture of his huntsman team sadly before patting Zwei on the head
"You think they're okay?" he asked making Zwei bark and Timber nod as Tai looked over to see a picture of the team his daughters were in, he walked over and picked it up smiling as he did so. "Yeah I guess they are" Taiyang said as he smiled softly and put the picture down and sighed knowing that Yang was looking at the same pictures as him while she was on her way to Mistral
'We've all lost something and I've seen what loss can do to people'
'But if we gave up everything we lost then we wouldn't be able to move forward'
Jaune stared at the sword leant up against the wall and sighed as his team came in and placed their weapons next to his and sat down Nora leaning on Jaune, Pyrrha placing a hand on Nora's shoulder and Ren grasping her hand as well and sat down next to Pyrrha.
"We're back together again" Jaune said
"Yeah, but they're not" Nora said
"Well they should be" Pyrrha said
"And they will" Ren smiled
"And hopefully we'll be there to see that day, all of together seeing out friends once again" Jaune smiled
'We'd never have a chance to see what beautiful things the future might have waiting for us. We'd never have the strength to change; whether its ourselves or the world around us'
'And we'd never be the for the other people who might be lost without us one day. This is what we've been training for Yang, to become Huntresses, to be the ones to stand up against all the bad things and do something about it in this world'
"They're out there you know" Hawkeye said
"Who?" Strange asked
"Salem, Cinder, Raven; anyone who wants to harm the world, those affected by the darkness
"Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren" Black Widow recounted
"Are we just going to sit here and make them take every bit of the weight of this world's problems on their shoulders?" Hawkeye asked
"No we're not. We're going to be here and together we will help them, it's a promise" Capt said
"And they have dozens of allies around the world" Strange said smiling softly
"Speaking of, I'm late to meet one of them" Capt said
"Who?" Falcon asked
"Yang, she need a riding partner" Capt said walking out to a bike. "And I'm it" he laughed as he took off to meet the young blonde.
"Have fun" Widow said
'Because there are plenty of people out there who are still lost and even more who will try to gain everything they can from their sorrows'
"But we have to try, if not for us then for the people we have yet to lose, I miss all of you, Weiss, Blake. But I would like to think you would be proud to know that I made it to Mistral. We all did and met up with Uncle Qrow and a few old friends as well"
"Aren't I the one who usually rescues you?" Qrow said propping himself up as she smiled and walks past Ozpin's cane and his blade on the wall.
'He's going to take us to see Professor Lionheart, the headmaster of Haven Academy. He also told us some things that I can't trust will make it to you in this letter. But maybe if you could join us he could tell you himself. With Beacon gone they'll need dad more than ever at Signal and I know you need to focus on yourself before I can even expect you to come out here with me and the others But it sure would be great to get Team RWBY back together' she continued to write.
Yang was riding Bumblebee when she came to a sign, one way said Mistral, the other way said Bandits.
"You are in so much trouble when I find you" she said before she took off down the road. She heard an engine other than her own and looked but "Hey Captain, good to see you" she laughed
"I could say the same to you Miss Xiao Long, so where are we heading?" he asked
"Where ever I need to go to get to my little sister" Yang said
"Sounds good" Capt laughed as the two rode off into the Mistrali wilderness
'Until next time, your loving sister Ruby Rose' Ruby finished her letter
"So how much trouble is she really in?" Capt asked making Yang smile while laughing
"You'll have to find out" Yang laughed
'Oh uh PS I'll be sure to give you the address of where we're staying in Mistral! I'd love to hear back from you and Dad, and I can't wait to fill you in on whatever's going to happen next! now that we've made it to Anima really think things are going to go our way'
Meanwhile in the office of Lionheart he sat at a small table while his aide Roberto stood next to him leaning on the wall, looking with venom and hatred at the sight of the man sharing tea with him
"Why thank you Professor, Salem always did say you were quite hospitable.
"Of course" Lionheart said
'Enjoy the tea, it will be your last' Roberto though as his green eyes became flames and his fingertips turned bright red. 'Because I'll show my hospitality next' he growled
That night Qrow was at a bar drinking, he turned around upon hearing footsteps
"Excuse me" a quiet voice said as Qrow turned to see a boy standing there
"You know, I don't think they allow kids in here pipsqueak" Qrow said
"Shut up I'm getting to it" Oscar said as he looked away and then back at Qrow "I'm supposed to tell you that I would like my cane back"
"It's good to see you again Oz" Qrow said pulling Ozpin's weapon out and throwing it at the boy, who caught it and activated
"Ah good you're here, a little late, but that's okay. Now we can get to work" Strange said walking in and seeing Oscar
G'day Guys Grizz here and wow that was a long one and of course there is some adaptions here but most of it is original since Pyrrha, Penny and the Avengers weren't in the original. Oh yeah Penny's back thanks to Stark, yeah I was keeping her for the finale of this volume anyway. So yeah I'm not going to do Volume 5 just yet since I just adapted the end of Vol 3 and all of 4, so I'm going to take a breather and post a different fic and come back to Vol 5 which will be subtitled War of Light
So time for a usual thing for final chapter, a big thank you to Mrotrax, BrutusPrimus, warrior of six blades, bestpony666, Greer123 and New Universe returns for their multiple reviews, thanks to those who reviewed once, a thanks to those who faved, followed and just plain read this fic now and in the future
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