Author's Note:

Here's my first fanfiction work before I wrote Detectives and Law Breakers. That was technically my second work.

I finished rewriting the first chapter, so please let me know how you feel about this.

Also, a short explanation of this OC, Allen, is coming along soon, explaining his powers and armour and a bit about my inspiration for him. This will probably be coming out tomorrow.

Chapter 1: Dust Raiders

Tonight was brisk as I walked through the streets of Vale. The evening was chilly enough to see my breath in the air. I was wearing a black fedora with matching dark pants. This was paired with a black dress shirt and dark blue blazer. I was also wearing a large black watch with a metallic silver strap. The functioned not only as watch but also held my weapon. It also functioned as a tablet like device with a GPS system.

My watch glowed and signaled that my objective is near; my mission was to locate a girl in black and red called Ruby Rose. I was supposed to bring her in for questioning unharmed to the headmaster at Beacon. Apparently he wanted to question her about admission to Beacon. I was given a single photo for a reference, in the photo her hood was down and she was wearing a dark dress, blouse and hood hybrid. I was also informed to be wary of a large scythe that she would carry around everywhere. I headed to where the point on my watch was indicating and walked into a store. At the front stood an elderly cashier with Dust in cases of all kinds. Dust was a miraculous crystalline substance that helped man prevail against the Grimm and evolve. The girl was nowhere in sight in the store so I moved into a music section.

Several men dressed in black with red glasses walked in. One of them who seemed to be the leader was dressed in a white suit with a black boiler hat. He had orange hair and held a black cane. He seemed to be threatening the cashier at the front desk.

"We won't hurt you," He said trying to make a sentimental sound to the cashier. He quickly turned his attention to the men, "Grab the Dust." He ordered to the men in black.

One of the men noticed Ruby and he began to make his way to her and I heard him threatening her. Great, I thought. I began to make my way to the other aisle away from the window. Ruby was still reading a magazine when he began to threaten her.

"Ah …" She said kicking him out the window.

My eyes widened at the tremendous strength the little girl possessed. The body lay on the floor dazed, lying face down on the cement. The people that were left on the street looked at the scene. That was, until the men came out to investigate the situation. The man in white looked at the girl in disgust, "Well, get her." He said motioning to Ruby. I walked out and examined the situation myself. I found several men on the ground killed by the girl. I was surprised, firstly as to how a girl that small can hold a giant scythe and secondly how she managed to kill all these men.

The white man appeared in front of Ruby pointing his cane to her. "I believe this, is our farewell." He said firing a bolt from his cane. Ruby dodged out of the way jumping high into the air. She looked up and saw that he wasn't there only finding out that he made his escape as she turned. He was already up the roof and running but Ruby began to chase after him.

This was my only shot to stop her. I jumped out running as I slammed my hand on my hand. A pop out screen ask for initialization of the battle system. Two white circles appeared at my feet as I ran after her. A clear barrier appeared and several metallic parts attached itself onto my arms, chest, and legs. They began to expand creating a thin cloth like black metal exoskeleton covering my arms and legs. The metal assembled thin metal sheets on my hands, which looked like hand gauntlets. They stretched to my wrist making a triangular pattern as it reached a bit higher. In the center of my hand light up a white light as it was assembled.

The chest plate assembled itself as two pieces moulded together creating a rectangular plate around my entire chest. There was distinct pattern showed cut through the center. A circular glowing white reactor glowed in the center of the chest plate. The shoulders were rectangular and had a rectangular pattern on top.

The helmet assembled finally as a silver mouth guard assembled on my mouth with a black V shaped visor assembled itself. There were two rectangular slits with lights along the sides of the mouth. As the armour finished assembling I put my hat on top of my head and the suit glowed. There was white trimming along the edges of the chest plate and my hand gauntlets became white. The exoskeleton was coloured black and the reactor turned on. As armour finished assembling and two lights glowed on the visor allowing me to look through my suit.

Finally a HUD glowed from inside the helmet showing various statistics. I continued to pursue Ruby, I punched a series of codes into my watch and the circular holes on my hands glowed. They began to fire up propelling me forward ahead of her. I landed with a ground slam in front of her with my fist on the ground.

I turned my head toward her and said, "That's as far as you go miss. I have orders to bring you in for questioning."

"Not going to happen," She said smirking raising her giant scythe.

She charged at me and I stood still, she was a reckless fighter. I stood biding my time and she swung horizontally and I took a step back. I rose my fists one to the right above my head and the other at an angle to her face. She jumped for me and disappeared in a flurry of rose petals. Hmph, speed, I thought. I predicted her to land on top of me swinging her scythe down. She appeared on top of me just as I predicted. I side dodged and tapped my watch, a screen showing a red flame, white snow flake, green tornado and brown rock icons appeared. I touched the flame icon and the white colour as well as my reactor and eye reticules became a deep red as it glowed, radiating with power. "BURN BURN BURN!" A voice from my watch rang.

She turned and began to run forward swinging her scythe in arcs. From the circular hole on my hand I created a flame, moulding it quickly into a fireball. I launched the ball toward her hitting her weapon. The scythe scorched and radiated with heat, Ruby panicking immediately swinging the weapon to extinguish the flame. At this point I ready to end the fight but I heard a whirring sound from up on the roof. I realized it was a helicopter from the roof that the man in white climbed up.

"Where's Glynda?" I said a bit frustrated. "Listen, as much as I want to stop you right here. We've got a common enemy escaping, so I'm going to leave you for today."

"What?" Ruby said surprised.

I activated my jets and floated off of the ground, hovering. "See you later, Ruby."

"Take me with you! I want to fight too!" She yelled jumping up.

She grabbed my leg and I felt myself being pulled down. "Gah! Let go!"

"Pbt," She sputtered as the jets spat smoke in her face.

I forcibly pushed the jets and we landed on the roof and I fell to a thud, the weight taking its toll on me. Ruby fell further forward but kept her footing. She began to run after the man in white. His face became annoyed as he squinted. "You are very, persistent, but this is the end of the line!"

He tossed a red dust crystal in front of her and Ruby halted. He shot the crystal and an explosion exploded in front of her. I saw herself shielding her eyes as a purple symbol appeared in front of her. Protecting her, Glynda stood there in her usual uniform. She was wearing a white and black business suit and held out a wand projecting the purple symbol. She pushed her glasses up as she halted the glyph. The shards of debris floated in the air and glowed purple as she kept them afloat.

A woman in red came out and I saw two fireballs in her hands. I touched my watch and changed into Ice form. My suit glowed a bright aqua blue, radiating energy like the heat form. "Freeze …" The voice from my watch said. I created two ice bolts and fired them at the fire balls intercepting them. They created small explosions and Glynda looked over to me. She seemed to be half annoyed and thankful, but mostly annoyed. She created a storm over the helicopter from her purple glyphs. I began to launch ice bolts toward the propellers as Glynda created a large purple bolt from the debris. Each of my shots began to slowly freeze the propellers bit by bit slowing them down.

Glynda launched the bolt and the helicopter swerved so that it hit the top. The bolts broke off into several more and began to circle around the copter. The woman in red raised her arms and made a large orange wall of fire. Melting against Glynda's bolts causing the debris to drop as it melted. I touched my watch's digital screen and touched the green tornado icon. The currently blue parts radiated green along with my visor. This changed my eye reticules to a green colour as the voice from my watch rang out "Tempest …" I held my hand out beginning to create a tornado as it began to surround the plane. The woman in red moved her hand across and orange bright circles circled around us. Glynda realized this and swept her wand and I felt myself pushed forward. I lost my concentration on the tornado and the copter turned and left.

I walked over to Glynda and she looked at me annoyed. Then towards Ruby, "Are you a huntress?" Ruby asked her eyes wide. "Can I have your autograph?" I face palmed and shook my head.

"Are you serious?" I asked before being forcibly taken by Glynda to a private room.

"Follow me," was all she said, ushering us forward.

I walked into the dark room with my armour still on. I sat down next to Ruby and she was looking down shamefully. I touched a small release button on the side of my helmet and steam came out as thin screws loosened themselves. I took off my helmet and placed it onto the table as well as my hat. I then touched a release on my chest plate; the chest plate loosened itself compacting into a rectangular piece. I detached it from the black metal exoskeleton and placed it onto the table.

Ruby looked over and was contemplating whether to be interested when Glynda stepped into the room. She then reverted to being sad and shamed looking down. I leaned back in the chair and waited to hear what she had to say.

"I would like you to know that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly miss," Glynda rattled off. "You put yourself and others into great danger, which he was supposed to stop." She continued pointing at me.

"Whoa, everything's fine here," I said.

"Fine?" She retorted. "You disobeyed your orders and got her into danger." She continued raising her voice. "You're as much responsible as her, even more." She said in a quieter tone continuing to pace around the room.

"If it were up to me I would have you taken from your entrance to Beacon." She said looking at me. "And you," she continued directing her attention to Ruby. "Sent home with a pat on the back." This caused Ruby to smile at that statement before frowning on her next statement. "And a slap on the wrists." Glynda continued slapping the table with a rod.

"Eek!" Ruby shrieked.

Glynda sighed, "But someone here wants to meet you." Ruby became surprised at that statement.

A man walked in, he was in his thirties approximately and was wearing a dark business suit with a green shirt underneath. He had grey silver hair and black circular rimmed glasses. He was my employer as well as the headmaster at Beacon, the school that I will be attending once this was all over. He was Professor Ozpin.

"Ruby Rose," He said bending over to look at her face. "You have silver eyes." He continued. "So where did you learn to do this?" She referred to the video that was held by Glynda.

"Um, Signal Academy?" She replied.

I was surprised at her statement; she handled the scythe quite well for a child of her age attending a small combat school. I mean, most Signal students that age weren't even allowed to use weapons. Let alone, a giant scythe!

I looked at Ozpin and saw that he was also surprised at her statement and began to question her, "They taught you how to use the most dangerous weapons known to man?"

At this point I wanted to interject saying that my combat suit was the most dangerous weapons but I decided to keep quiet watching the situation. It was mainly directed to Ruby and Ozpin didn't focus his attention on me yet.

"Well one teacher in particular," She responded.

"I see," Ozpin answered setting down the plate.

Ruby paused, holding out her hand wanting to grasp a cookie. She then committed and grabbed one, later stuffing the entire plate into her mouth.

I chuckled a bit, as she swallowed down the entire plate. Ozpin continued to talk as she ate, "It's only that I've seen one other scythe wielder of that skill before, a dusty old crow."

"That's my Uncuh," Ruby said as she had cookies stuffed up her face.

"Hehe, swallow Ruby." I said.

She swallowed immediately and glanced at me a bit embarrassed. "Sorry, that's my Uncle Qrow! He taught me everything I know, I was complete garbage before I met him. Now, I'm all like hyah!" She said to Ozpin flailing her arms in chops.

I ducked under one of them and chuckled at her childlike attitude. And Ozpin questioned her further. "So what is a little girl doing at an academy designed to train warriors?"

"Well I want to become a huntress and help people. They're just so cool and exciting!" She answered getting faster as each word passed. She was obviously enthusiastic about huntresses and hunters.

"So you want to come to my school?"

"More than anything."

"Very well, tomorrow." Ozpin stated. "You should be very lucky, I don't give this to just anybody." Glynda rolled her eyes at Ozpin's statement.

"Oh thank you sir!" She said jumping up from her seat. "I won't let you down!"

"I'm sure you won't, you are excused." Ozpin replied chuckling.

Ruby ran out of the room yelling hurray and hurrah. I began to get up when Glynda put me down. Professor Ozpin had left the room after Ruby and I sat down in the chair. "I'm not done with you mister." Glynda said.

"If I were you I would be extra careful tomorrow, Allen. The headmaster might let you go but I will be judging your performance tomorrow strictly." Glynda stated.

"Great …" I replied undertone rolling my eyes.

"What did you say Allen?!" She raised her voice.

"Nothing, I understand Professor." I replied looking at her.

"Very well, you are excused." She said ushering me out of the door.

I headed home into a small apartment complex. I went upstairs into my room; I lived alone as my parents were always away for work. They didn't really care about me being alone and took their priority of work over me. It didn't really matter; they left me a nice complex and a nice flow of money to live. I began to finish packing up boxes. I took off my suit and compressed it down into rectangular pieces and fit them into a backpack. I left the furniture there as well as the T.V. I would probably be coming back here during the break to bring things over and such. So I only packed up school supplies, a few clothes, my armour and weapon, which I kept in a kitchen draw box.

I pulled it out and examined it; it was a black revolver with a large square chamber. This was hand fashioned and custom made specifically for me. It had a button switch that transformed it into a long sword. I touched the button; the barrel disassembled itself in half and extended itself as a blade swung out. I turned the handle parallel to the barrel and it clicked into place. It extended to about just under meter, it was a thin sword made for quick swings. I touched the button again and the blade retracted into its gun form. I tossed this into the backpack along with my armour pieces. Finished packing I crawled into my bed, snoring blissfully.