Right then Batman, Aquaman, Flash and Wonder Woman walked up to us, "There will be consequences for your actions, you disobeyed orders, hacked league systems, and placed yourselves in harms way."

"Punished for helping out? How's that for a thanks?" Sapphire remarked as she stood up

"Know what I agree with her." Kid joined her.

"What did you say?" The dark knight narrowed his eyes.

"Simple we saved lives here. We can do more then sit on the sidelines." Robin stood up.

"We respect you but that is a two way street." Kaldur also stood up.

"Aqua lad stand down." Aquaman ordered his student.

"Apologies my king but no." Kaldur made a gesture over his heart.

"Why do have to listen to them, it's simple get on board or get out of the way." Superboy stepped forward.

"Ruby you have anything to say?" Wonder Woman looked over to me.

"A Huntress must always do what she must to protect the innocent, first lesson my teacher taught me, I intend to stand by that." I stood up as well.

"Your dead set on working as a team?" Batman looked over us.

"We did good work here." I said just as another section of wall collapsed. Great timing Ruby.

"Very well."


Chapter 4: The Cave, a Pair Birds Clash

We stood in a cave that had no right being as high tech as it was, various heroes were repairing things, Batman, Flash and Wonder Woman were briefing us on the location. "This used to be leagues Headquarters, before it was discovered." Batman started.

"So why do we want to be here?" Kid Flash asked.

"We'll be hiding in plain site." Robin explained.

"Red Reaptress, Blue Reaptress and Superboy, you will be staying here." Wonder Woman ordered.

"Ummmm? What?" I was slightly confused.

"The petals, all the petals. I live in a apartment." my hero mentor closed the conversation.

"The seven of you will be dispatched on covert missions by me, Black Canary is in charge of training, and Red Tornado is in charge of over seeing you all." Batman left little room for argument... except for...

"Seven? There's only six of us." And at the moment the Zeta tube activated and two aliens stepped trough.

"This is the Martian Manhunter's Niece, Miss Martian." the dark knight moved to one side.

"Red, blue and green this just keep getting better and better." Wally was a little too obvious.

As we got acquainted to the base and the new teammate, the heroes left one by one.


No Pov

In the midst of a deep forest far from the team's headquarters, a wind kicks up the leaves, swirling in a tight spiral, as the foliage is pulled in to it the wind stops and a man lands lightly on his feet. Taking a swig from a canister, the golden liquid quenched his thirst. "All right kid where are you?" He asked himself before walking into the woods.

Not much longer he found himself on the edge of a small town and he began asking around.

"Excuse, me but have you seen this girl?" he held up a thin see through device, on it was a image of him and a girl in red and black clothes.

"Why that looks like Red Reaptress, I heard she was in Washington D.C. the Capitol." One man answered.

"Thank you." the dark grey haired man put the device in his pocket and went to the town library to find a map.

"What's your name by the way?" the local asked.

"Qrow Branwen."


A few days later he stood outside the ruins of Cadmus labs, "Where are you?" as he stood lost in thought.

"Why are you tracking my sidekick?" A female voice brought him back to reality.

"Sidekick? Oh your referring to Ruby." He slowly turned around.

"How do you know her name." her eyes narrowed, her outfit left little to the imagination. Very brightly too.

"Yes, after all she know well. Now where is my niece?" he reached behind him.

"Your niece? You look nothing a like." Wonder Woman reached for a lasso

"Well I am a battle hardened Huntsmen, she's a inexperienced child." Just then a bolt of red came racing down the street.

"UNCLE QROW! HOW DID YOU GET HERE!" Came the bubbly voice of the reaper, who clung to his arm.

"Ozpin."

"How's everyone?"

"Their worried sick,"

"Why are you here?"

"To keep an eye on you until we can get back."

"Ruby you really know this man?" Dianna stepped forward.

"He's the one who trained me." She swung from his arm.

"Okay... Lets head back to the cave..." Wonder Woman just walked off.


Ruby Pov

We stepped out of the Zeta tube, to find that the others were training with Black Canary... well almost all of them.

"Where's Sapphire?" I asked still hanging from Qrow's arm.

"She had nightmares again, she hasn't slept all week, Manhunter is helping her right now, who's that?" Black Canary pointed at Qrow.

"My uncle Qrow, he taught me how to fight." I swung right off and landed on my feet.

"I would very much like to see just how he fights, given your hand to hand skills." I turned bright red.

"I'm a sniper!" I complained, I still had a sore spot from my last training session with the blonde woman.

"Very well." He moved on to the training deck and the team joined me to watch.

"No weapons." Qrow groaned as he took out his blade and tossed it to me.

As each fighter put up their fists and stared each other down the tension was palpable.

3...

2...

1...

"Begin."

Canary struck first, attempting to land a blow on Qrow's chin, her fist only to be stopped by his aura. her then brought his knee up into her stomach doubling her over before grabbing her arm and twisting it behind her back. "I don't like putting a woman in this position." She kicked a leg into his stomach and pushed off landing in a roll.

"Your gonna have to try harder than that..." As she was talking Qrow took out his flask and after he took two swigs from it she kicked it out of his hand, the liquid spilling. "Focus."

"I am." He landed a blow under her chin forcing her back. A kick deadened her right arm. Blows to the gut forced her back. She took a deep breath.

"Qrow! LOOK OUT!" I yelled just as the scream came, Qrow stuck dead center. But he slowly stepped forward, step by step, and to keep him dead center she stepped back, slowly the path began to turn, until...

"GAH!" Black Canary yelled as she fell in a puddle of... whiskey.

"Loss Black Canary."

"WHAT!?" everyone yelled.

"What is with all the noise!?" Sapphire came down the hall.

"Ruby why is there a blue you?" Qrow asked as he looked between me and the flask now back in his hand.


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