Weiss took some time to observed her new body. She was wearing a skinsuit made of some sort of synthetic material that felt like woven metal. She wore light blue boots with heels that floated a short distance from the boots. The boots turned into stockings climbing up just below her knees. Around her waist was a pair of very short grey pants matched with a very unusual skirt. The skirt was composed of about 10 floating plates that encircled her. These plates were shaped like a very elongated crystal and were made of another strange material that was a vivid orange and had elaborate blue designs flowing across them. Her midriff was completely bare and her chest was covered with a grey tube top. Weiss paused here and wondered for a moment. 'Did my chest get bigger?' She quickly filed that away to be addressed later and looked at her arms. There was more skinsuit material that traced patterns up her arms and stopped at her shoulders, allowing space for thin square plates to float. These plates were the same light blue as the rest of her outfit but had orange geometric details flowing on the top. Looking behind her, Weiss saw two large snowflake shaped wings that resembled her family crest. Running a hand through her hair, Weiss stopped and realized that her offset ponytail was almost as long as she was tall and it now faded to blue towards the ends. Perched above her head were a few small orange crystal shaped objects that formed the shape of a tiara with one of them extending down and stopping right above her left eye.

"Whoaaaa. This is amazing!" Weiss heard what she assumed to be Ruby squealing to her right. 'Her voice sounds a bit deeper.' she thought. Turning to look at her, she almost lost her jaw.

Ruby's outfit was significantly more covering than Weiss's. Rather than a plain skinsuit like the one Weiss wore, Ruby wore a matte black undersuit with various armor plates on it. Her legs were mostly exposed save for the black boots she wore with a few small red rose shaped objects floating near them. Her skirt was very similar to the one that floated around Weiss herself but was comprised of many black and red tubes. Weiss caught a glimpse of black shorts through the skirt, not that she was looking down there on purpose. Ruby's upper body had a black skinsuit that covered most of her with the exception of exposed midriff under red laces. There were many small plates of crimson armor on her sides that formed geometric patterns as they followed the curve of her body. Her chest was fairly exposed, to say the least, as her skinsuit had a deep v-cut. Floating above her back were several large elongated triangles that seemed to replace her trademark cloak as they pointed towards the ground. Her arms were quite asymmetrical, the left one kept the theme with a few plates of armor overlaid onto the black material that covered her forearm but her right arm was quite different. It looked quite robotic, possessing a gunmetal finish and was fully armored. Various gears and pistons covered it and there was a large tube that ran along the inside of her forearm before stopping at the wrist. Above each shoulder was a red crescent that had the same curve as Ruby's beloved scythe. Ruby's hair was quite different, it was now around a foot longer and the colors had inverted completely, deep red at the roots and fading to black at the tips. A pair of red half dome shaped objects floated above said hair and looked not unlike her hood.

"Weiss you look awesome too." Weiss felt herself blush a bit at Ruby's comment.

Closing her eyes, Weiss started to speak. "Thank you Ruby, you look..."

"Ohmygawd!" Ruby squealed so high, Weiss was sure it went beyond everyone's hearing range. Irritated at what had interrupted her from reciprocating, Weiss opened her eyes again. Weiss was not surprised at what had Ruby so worked up. Weiss never thought her partner's weapon could get even more dangerous but she was quite wrong. Crescent Rose now possessed not just one, but four blades. The fairly main blade looked relatively "normal" but it was now solid black and slightly larger. Right next to the joint, there was another blade perpendicular to the original that was a maroon color and resembled a form of Crescent Rose that Weiss had only ever seen Ruby use once. As if that whole system wasn't dangerous enough, the rifle system looked like it had gotten a upgrade in caliber. However the worst part of it was that there was an identical blade on the opposite end of the handle, complete with the extra war scythe blade and an entirely separate rifle barrel.

Weiss took a moment to look at her own weapon, hoping that the changes to it were less life threatening. Thankfully Myrtenaster was mostly unchanged. The hilt was now much wider to compensate for the much widened single edged blade. One of the prongs now extended well past her hand and on the reverse side there were two of the original ones now oriented at an angle to provide room for her wrist. The revolving chamber had shifted out of line with the blade and now was aligned with a small wedge shaped hole directly beneath the blade. Aside from that, the blade was also slightly longer and the entire weapon now sported a ice blue paint scheme with the exception of the revolving chamber and handle, both of which were red.

"Well this is certainly interesting." Weiss heard Vert's voice. "You two might have some of the most radical changes between forms."

"Do you guys have some sort of training ground?" Weiss wanted to know how her altered weapon performed.

"No, but you could go to the get a quest at the Guild and clear some monsters out. It's just down the street." Vert said.

"Alright. Come on Ruby, let's go."

"Before you go, you should deactivate HDD. It would be best to not reveal that Neptune and Noire are gone."

Blanc spoke up, "Vert can you take Histoire? You and Nepgear watch over her. I can go coach these two."

As Blanc gave the small sleeping body of Histoire to Vert, Weiss had a question. "How do we go about switching this on and off?"

Blanc sighed. "It's hard to explain. To turn it off, you have to be either very tired or you can just will it off. You just have to think to yourself to turn it on or off."

Weiss processed this for a moment and then tried it. She imagined her normal body and wished herself to go back to that. There was a long flash of light and suddenly she was back in her regular body. She looked next to her and saw that Ruby was the same. However Weiss couldn't get the image of HDD Ruby out of her head. Had Ruby always been that... attractive? Weiss stopped herself as she felt a blush creeping up her cheeks. She turned back to face Blanc who raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

"Alright come on you two, I'll show you how the Guild works." Blanc said as she walked out of the room.

Blanc watched to two new CPUs slice through monsters with ease. Not that this was a terribly hard quest to begin with. After showing them how the guild worked, Blanc decided that they needed something easier to get used to their new power. So here they were, in a ruin far from the city, mindlessly slaying monsters. The girls seemed to be catching on quite fast. Weiss was starting to experiment with the new functions of her sword which, as far as Blanc could tell, created a temporary elemental edge on the blade which could be launched as a projectile later. Ruby's scythe monstrosity just turned her into a garbage disposal, nothing lasted long against it. However the most interesting features were in Ruby's right arm which appear to be completely robotic. It seemed to be able to launch a sharp boomerang like piece of metal out of the side of her forearm and now possessed a large cannon that could be activated by flipping her wrist back.

"Hey, Blanc, you're a CPU right? Do you want to have a quick sparring match against us?" Ruby looked quite enthusiastic.

"Alright then. Don't think I will hold back on you two though." Blanc said as she stood up and cracked her knuckles. Activating HDD she took advantage of the momentarily disoriented CPUs and launched into an overhead smashing attack against Ruby. Weiss caught the strike on her own blade as Ruby quickly vanished into a silhouette of petals. Hearing a cry from behind her, Blanc dashed away from the two right as Ruby's scythe came down. She spun her hammer to deflect a few bullets launched by Ruby and parried a flurry of blows from Weiss. Charging at Ruby, Blanc swung her hammer in a upward sweeping motion and caught Ruby's weapon. Launching Ruby into the air, Blanc flew up and exchanged blows with her as they slowly floated down. Sensing an attack coming from behind her, Blanc flew up a few feet and narrowly dodged a flaming spike. She then rapidly sped towards the ground and charged her hammer with ice, creating a massive ring of icicles around the crater she had made. Jumping over this, she pressed her assault on Ruby who parried her attacks before jumping and shooting a ball of lightning from her arm. Blanc dodged out of the way only to be confronted with several large ice shards encircling her. Blanc summoned a handful of projectiles of her own and launched them with her hammer, destroying the ice around her. Blanc was running out of options, these two were too good at teamwork. 'Well here goes nothing.' Summoning the power of her EXE Drive, Blanc launched into and all out hammer assault against the two. Unfortunately, she only landed a handful of blows on them before creating another impact crater in the ground. She knew she was done now, she was far too open to an attack. Sure enough she got a glimpse of a fireball and green spike flying towards her before she found herself enveloped in a pillar of fire. After she landed back on the ground, she deactivated HDD and Ruby and Weiss followed suit.

"That was great! Thanks Blanc." She found herself being hugged by Ruby. Blanc was sure that she could see a hint of jealously in Weiss's eyes. Did these two have a thing?

"No problem Ruby. You two make a great team." Ruby broke the hug and opened her mouth to say something but now stared at something behind Blanc.

"What is it?" Blanc asked as she turned around.

"I thought I saw someone by the doorway but I must have been seeing things. Who would come all this way to watch us?"

After returning to the Basilicom, Ruby and Weiss both collapsed on the nearest furniture they could find.

"Uggghhh. Limbs not responding. Need food." Ruby groaned. Blanc gave a smirk at their state. While she was tired herself, she clearly hadn't pushed herself as much as those two. Walking to the kitchen, Blanc filled up a kettle and put it on the stove. Her favorite tea was laid out right next to Vert's. Speaking of Vert, where was she and how was Histoire? Blanc made her way to the guest rooms, pausing only to smirk at Weiss who was currently dealing with a sprawling Ruby in her lap. However upon inspection, the guest rooms were all empty, as was Neptune's. Maybe Nepgear knew where Vert had gone. Blanc descended towards the underground workshop that Nepgear was bound to be in. Stopping at the door, Blanc heard some very interesting sounds coming from the room.

"Higher Vert!"

"Like this?"

"Yes right there."

Furious that Vert would take advantage of Nepgear at a time like this and wanting to embarrass Vert a bit, Blanc burst into the room.

"ALRIGHT WHAT ARE YOU TWO... doing?" Blanc's anger trailed off as the situation revealed itself. Vert and Nepgear were both working on something. It appeared to be some sort of leg but Blanc really had no idea.

"Oh hello Blanc. Did you need something?" Vert seemed unfazed by the circumstances.

"I-I was just looking for you, how is Histoire doing?"

"Oh she's doing just fine. She's in her room next to Neptune's. I've got some people watching her."

"Alright then. Oh I also just put some tea on, do you want any?"

"That would be lovely, thank you Blanc." Leaving those two to whatever they were working on, Blanc went back up and knocked on the door to the oracle's room. As it opened, she was greeted by two familiar faces.

"Yaay, Blanny is back!"

"Compa, keep your voice down."

"Oh, sorry Iffy."