Hello everyone! Nutshop here. I just wanted to say hi as to this being my very first Fanfiction for this site. Copyright obviously goes to Roosterteeth for both RWBY and the show Red vs Blue for their multiple hilarious references ( OC being the only idea that was mine). So without further ado, let us be underway!
Chapter One: Prologue
The sky slowly began to change from a bright orange to a dark purple throughout the city of Vale. The sounds of newspapers and fliers dancing freely could be heard within the now empty streets. With the shattered, pale moon rising higher into the sky, shops all over town Vale begin to close their establishments for the night preparing themselves for the new day that awaited them.
As darkness began to cover the streets of vale, a lone, male figure with grey hair and clad in dark green clothing was casually enjoying the soothing sounds of the night with a long metal cane in one hand and an oddly shaped package in the other. After a few minutes of casually walking around the streets, he suddenly locates his destination. A small, run-down shack that consisted of broken bricks, stone, metal plates and wooden boards all nailed together to make a rather fascinating construct to those who pass by .With his objective in sight, the lone figure tightened his grip with his package and quickened his pace to toward the single beacon in the darkness to complete his mission. No way would he tackle the next day without the gift that his package provided for him and for both his fast and large colleagues.
As he made it to the front door of this place, he noticed the unique dust crystal wind chimes that dangled freely under a wooden board that had the words Evi's Friendly Fixin's painted in a bright neon green colour rather sloppily. After confirming that this was indeed the place, he hooked his cane to his left arm and began to reach for the door. The moment he grasped the doorknob with his now cane free hand, he heard a sudden explosion emanate from the building within and quickly stepped aside whilst opening the door for the something, or someone, who happened to be sent flying a few feet from the repair shop's main entrance and land rather ungracefully into the dirt path.
"...ow." The young man mumbled while having his face still in contact with the earth before him. The older man clad in dark green couldn't help but chuckle at the sight before him. A young man, completely covered in a thick, dusty coat of soot, flew from his own establishment and landed face first into the ground. It appeared that this happened on a daily basis whenever he came over to have something repaired or to just simply chat with him. After a few seconds had passed, he slowly began to walk towards the young man who was currently sprawled all over the ground to lend him a hand.
"Why is it this seems to occur whenever I come to visit Mister Evi Magkumpun?" The older man asked with a small smile of amusement evident on his face.
"Uh, *cough* no reason Mister Ozpin *cough* sir." Evi replied as he slowly got up thanks to the assistance of the man now known as Ozpin. "I was just trying to fix up old Swampy from the last job that I had to do. It isn't easy trying to repair a sidewalk while your completely covered in concrete."
"I see..." Ozpin said as he watched Evi attempt to remove the soot and dirt from his clothes. Evi looked like the age of seventeen , the usual age for many of his first year students being the height of approximately 5"9. He had scraggy, chestnut brown hair with dark yellow eyes and had what appeared to be rectangular metal casings that successfully covered his ears with oval shaped earrings that apparently could transform into goggles at a moments notice. His clothing attire consisted of a white short sleeved T-shirt that had a giant pink cross at the front with two more on his sleeves, a multi coloured scarf with the colours red, yellow, green and blue patterning along its fibres, a utility belt, no doubt used for holding a majority of tools needed to run his simple repair business, that had long, light brown, rectangular shaped bits of fabric that went down to his knees along the sides and one more on the backside, a pair of black shoes with black steel plates at the the point of his shoes, and a pair of cargo pants that, for some reason, concealed blue plaid patterned pajama pants.
The most interesting thing about Evi's attire was the backpack, or what he thought was a backpack, that happened to be strapped onto his back. It looked like a thick, dull metallic circle was with leather straps that went over his arms, a crooked antenna that stood out from the left side of it and it appeared to have four circular monitors that seem to be attached to the corners of it. He would have inquired more about what it was, but he had a job to fulfil by tonight that only this young man could accomplish.
After Evi tried to clean himself for about a minute, he simply shrugged and mumbled something quietly and began walking back into his establishment with Ozpin right behind him. "So what brings you here this fine evening today sir?" Evi questioned as he walked behind the counter and grabbed the nearest handkerchief to clean up his his soot covered hands and face.
"I came here for two reasons. One of them involving this package here-" Ozpin lifted his oddly shaped package and carefully placed it onto the counter top, "and another involving a situation involving my school Beacon Academy ."
" Right then! First things first, lets see what problems we have with to deal with today." Evi then tossed his now dirty handkerchief into a bin at the end of the counter-top and begun to slowly, but carefully unwrap the package. Once the package was unveiled of its contents, it revealed a critically damaged device with several dents, scratches and smaller pieces of itself scattered loosely around it. It had its wires sliced apart, glass shards all gathered up in a see though container, a few coffee beans that appeared to be jammed into some of its newly created cracks and the scent of freshly ground coffee that began to dance around the store.
Evi only needed to say one word which would solve what had caused such a fate for one of man's most greatest discoveries, besides dust. "...Glynda?"
"Glynda..." Ozpin replied with a frown as he gazed sadly at his object of affection, his trusty, reliable, coffee machine. Seeing the despair within his customers eyes, Evi then examined the remains of the device very carefully before taking a deep breath and soon disappeared behind a set of swinging doors to retrieve his tools and supplies for this incredibly serious operation.
While he was currently occupied, Ozpin began to look around Evi's repair shop and checked to see if Evi had happened to have discovered any unique knick knacks that had been thrown away in the Vale junk yard. There were devices that modelled all the way back to the the beginning of the White Fang, weapons of all shapes and sizes, random dust powered appliances and... Was that a cyborg duck that could shoot laser beams from its head?
It truly baffled him by how someone like Evi was able to live in the Vale junk yards for the past few years and create this small yet simplistic lifestyle of using the old, discarded junk thrown out by the most of society and fashion it into something even better than it was originally intended. Ozpin was simply awestruck when he first witness the ingenuity of Evi Magkumpun. He couldn't fathom how this young man was able to repair an entire city street with damage, caused by some his more energetic students, that would have taken days or even weeks worth of time, not to mention thousands of lein to pay for it, and this young man fixes it with some rubble from a nearby construction site and repairs it as if nothing had happened in a span of minutes or an hour for free! It truly was a mystery on how he did it, but one thing was for certain, he needs this boy's help if his school was to stay standing for the years to come.
"OK then, lets get started shall we?" Evi said loudly as he placed his toolbox and the spare parts needed fir the operation onto his flat workspace, causing Ozpin to snap out of his train of deep thought and stare directly at the eyes of wielder of his beloved machines fate.
"Will he make it doctor?" Ozpin asked dramatically with sadness laced in his voice. Evi laughed in mirth from this older man's sense of humour and with a look of determination, he replied," Do not worry my good man! I shall heal your child and coffee shall be restored throughout the land!"
After a few good laughs, Evi began to work on repairing the coffee machine while Ozpin simply sat across the table always impressed by how Evi's hands expertly moved between the patient, his toolbox and the piles of scrap that was scattered everywhere on the table. While this was happening, the two men engaged in their usual talk's which usually include how life's been treating them, if anything new had happened, simple man stuff like that.
"So remind me again why your assistant Miss Glynda broke your coffee machine again? This is, what, the third or forth time she's done this?" Evi asked as he currently was replacing the wires and power cables with a pair of scissors.
"Fifth time actually." Ozpin clarified. He chuckled as he saw Evi's eyes go wide by this information staring at him while his arms continued to work at the task at hand. " Apparently, she disapproves how me and the other professors are using up about two-eights of the schools finances to quench our desires for coffee."
Evi snorted from that ridiculous comment. "Well if you put it like that, I would have done the same." Evi replied as he recoloured the coffee machine with a dark mahogany tint while earning himself a glare to the face by the Headmaster of Beacon himself. "But this is coffee were talking about here, so it makes complete sense."
" My point exactly! Me and the other professors couldn't imagine being able to survive a day full of students and paper work without coffee to fuel us." Ozpin exaggerated as he watched Evi now adding the finishing touches to his child.
"I swear, your blood is replaced entirely with coffee if you guys drink that much every day." Evi commented as he removed his hands from the coffee machine to reveal his successful operation. " Well, your child has been restored back to full health like the day it made its first cup of coffee!" Evi proudly exclaimed as he went under the counter-top to retrieve two clean ceramic mugs with the letter O on one mug and the letter E on the other and a bag of coffee beans with Beacon Academy's insignia etched on the surface.
Ozpin had a look of relief and happiness when his precious device had been restored to its natural beauty. He almost began to tear up as memories of him and his coffee machine swelled up within as his object of affection was able to comfort him throughout his happier times, and when he was at his worst. "Thank you, thank you so very much. Now, shall we celebrate this successful operation with a nice warm cup of coffee?"
" I wouldn't have it any other way." Evi said with a smile as he prepared their usual drinks. They plugged in the coffee machine on an outlet located at the sides of the counter-top and with the flip of its on switch, it soon whirred to life. As they loaded it with the coffee beans and hot water, the black golden form of coffee began to form at the bottom of the kettle. They only had to wait merely thirty seconds for it to be completed and soon grabbed their respected mugs and began to pour their coffee, sugar and creams into their small, handheld, ceramic thrones. Once both mugs had been filled with their black gold to their liking, they raised their mugs in unison and brought their drinks to their lips.
With just a single sip, their senses of smell and taste were overwhelmed as the brewed flavours of coffee erupted to their senses as their bodies shuddered from the warn mugs that held in its flavourful goodness. The subtle sounds of a satisfied 'ahh...' began to emanate from both side of the table as both men simply lounged in their chairs with smiles and closed eyes on their faces.
"So what was that second thing you were talking about when you came in here sir?"Evi asked curiously with his drink being held in his right hand.
Ozpin slowly began to sit up straight from his rather comfy position of his seat when he remembered the other reason why he came here. "Evi Magkumpun, my instincts are telling me that this year is going to be a rather interesting year, meaning the amount to property damage that I will have to spend on replacing it all is probably going to sky-rocket."
"Oh my, that's not good." Evi replied rather concerned as he leaned forward from his spot, both elbows flat on the counter-top, "What about all the grounds keepers that you have? Can't they take care of stuff like this?"
"Not exactly." Ozpin said sadly, " My current ground keeping staff are dwindling from being collateral damage to my student's antics and I've seen the profiles of the newest batch of students. From what their previous schools have told me, the amount of damage that they are able to deal to school property, whether it would be intentional or not, will reach well over a million lein this year alone."
"That does not sound good at all. Though I'm still unsure as to why your telling me this." Evi stated as he lifted his mug for another mouthful off coffee.
"That's where you come in, I am inviting you to go to Beacon Academy to become a hunter." Ozpin replied bluntly.
Luckily, Ozpin was quick on his feet and was able to avoid the danger of his face getting burnt and his clothes getting coffee stains.
"*cough**cough* What?!" Evi exclaimed as he wiped his mouth with a nearby napkin. "B-but sir with all due respect, I can't go there! I've never been to school before! Not to mention the closest thing to a weapon is Swampy over there which is just an oversized wrench, my aura can't even protect me from all the bumps and cuts I get from my job, and I become a nervous train wreck if I'm ever near a crowd of people! That place is for young hunters and huntresses go to thrive to become the best and I'm- I'm just a-a reject! An experimental mistake! A problem that was supposed to be gone and vanish with all this ju-"
Before Evi could continue to say how much he was inferior to everyone else, Ozpin bonked him on the forehead with his metal cane. Due to the sheer force of the blow, Evi's chair tipped backwards which in turn caused Evi to fall onto the floor the second time tonight.
"OW!" Evi yelped as pulled back his head and began to rub his newfound bump,"What was that for?!"
"I am only doing this for the sake of both of us." Ozpin said with a calm and determined tone of voice as he leaned forward from his seat to look at Evi directly in the eyes. " You need to expand your horizons and go learn more about the world beyond this junk yard. You need to interact with new people, see the world around you with your own eyes, and quite possibly, become a hunter yourself."
Evi was speechless, he never thought that in his most wildest dreams that one day that he would be able to go to THE Beacon Academy to become a hunter. Truthfully, he was ecstatic! But before he could scream and jump for joy at such an opportunity, there were a few thing's that really concerned him.
"B-but what about funding? I can't afford to go there! I've literally been fixing thing like weapons and appliances free of charge ever since I started this business!" Evi exclaimed as he picked himself from the ground to sit back onto his chair, waving his arms to his current financial crisis.
"Remember when I mentioned how property damage would rise to over a million lein this year when these new students arrive?" Ozpin rhetorically asked. Evi had to tilt his head to recall that memory and then began to nod up and down when he remembered. " With you being able to enrol in Beacon Academy, not only will you save my schools finances, but we will be able to pay for a majority of your expenses. Schooling, supplies, textbook's uniforms, all taken care of thanks to you presence and your ability to repair all of the damaged school property."
Evi thought about it really carefully just to make sure he was hearing this all correctly. Evi was given his chance to go to Beacon Academy and Ozpin gets a repair man without spending a single lein. Ozpin saves hundreds of thousands of lein, and Evi's finances are taken care of by simply repairing stuff that becomes broken... This was practically a win-win scenario for both sides! But then he remembered another depressing detail...
"Then there's the issue with my lightish red aura." Evi sadly stated as he commanded his aura to his hand. Slowly, his hand was covered in a pink tinted aura that glowed rather brightly within the repair shop.
"A yes, that pink aura problem of yours." Ozpin commented with a smirk of amusement on his face.
"Its not pink! Its lightish red!" Evi huffed as he crossed his arms. His cheeks puffed as he pouted and stared angrily at Ozpin.
Ozpin chuckled at Evi's childish expression before voicing his solution over this simple problem,"My assistant Glynda Goodwitch is a licensed specialized in the fields of aura manipulation. She would easily be able to discover what sort of problems your aura currently has or figure out its true purpose." Ozpin said while looking at Evi's shocked expression.
"Wait a minute." Evi asked as he tried to collect this new-found information," If she's a specialist in that kind of field...would she be able to change the colour of my aura to be something not lightish-red?!"
" Sadly, no." Ozpin replied. " Aura is the manifestation of ones soul and apparently, your aura's colour is pink. With how technology is advancing, nothing has been discovered to alter the colour of anyone's aura so unfortunately, it cannot be changed." He soon began to chuckle as he saw Evi's world turn black and white, fall onto all four, and succumb into a state of deep depression with a dark thundercloud forming over his head.
After recovering from his state of sadness, he then asked his next question," But, where am I supposed to learn about all that curricular stuff, and fighting Grimm when I've never done any of these things beforehand?"
Ozpin didn't even need to give an answer since his dead-panned stare towards Evi gave it away."...Oh yeah, at Beacon. You know that question sounded way better in my head before I said it." Evi grumbled as he simply embarrassed himself in front of Beacons headmaster.
"So are there more questions that need to be answered?" Ozpin asked as he finished his cup of coffee.
" Just one more...When do I start?" Evi asked with a smile and excitement in his eyes.
Ozpin smiled and replied," Tomorrow morning, I suggest you get ready for the big day." He then grabbed his beloved coffee machine and with a firm handshake, he turned around began walking out the door.
"Thank you very much for this chance Mr Ozpin!" Evi yelled happily as he waved to his friend now soon to be headmaster. That was, until he noticed his clock at the entrance of the door saying that it was currently 4:38 am that his face paled in realization.
"OH CRAP! I HAVE TO GET READY!"
Ozpin heard Evi's sudden exclamation as he slowly walked away from Evi's repair shop and began to chuckle with his coffee machine in hand. His smile and and chuckle began to grow wider and louder as he heard the sound of glass breaking and display cases falling over as Evi tried to control the situation as he panicked, though only making it worse than it was beforehand.
"I'M OK! I'M OK! I'M DEFINITELY O-"
Suddenly, an explosion could be heard from the store completely cutting off Evi's voice and control of the situation. After a few seconds, Evi coughed and groggily shouted;
"...I'M NOT OK...ow!"
After his back arched forward from laughing non-stop for a few moments, Ozpin wiped the tears behind his glasses and with a smile on his face, he went to his vehicle and began long drive back to Beacon to prepare for the initiation of his soon-to-be students.
"Looks like this truly is going to be an interesting year."
And there you have it folks! The first chapter of my fanfiction! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did when I wrote it and hopefully, there will be more chapters to come! I don't know when I'll post the next chapter but hopefully it will be soon. Until then, this is Nutshop saying farewell and I hope I will see you again soon!