NOTE: This is my first fanfiction upload which is essentially a crossover between the marvel verse, and RWBY verse. This is something I am doing just for fun, and not expecting a lot (or any) to read this. If I get people who read this or review's then that would be cool, and I would listen to any and all criticism. However I am not doing this for any particular reason than just to write it, so if you enjoy it then that's cool.
so... enjoy(!?)
The Vytal festival was going on as of recent a match had ended, one that involved a Coco and Yatsuhashi against a Mercury Black and Emerald Sistrai. Ozpin the headmaster of the prestigious academy in all of Vale, Beacon was sitting in his chair drinking from his coffee mug.
Recently there had been a meeting of rather concerned faces about a matter of utmost importance, and he was now waiting for an old friend to meet him here.
Through the empty halls of Beacon walked a man wearing a black trench coat, black pants, black boots with a lightly shaded buckles, and a well kept hair that was black.
He was analyzing his surroundings from the pristine architecture to the detailed surfaces, and just how detailed the school's interior got when it came to design.
'I had a feeling that some type of educational job was the future for him' thought Max as he made his way to an elevator at the end of the hallway he was walking through, he pushed the button to open it and got in.
Ozpin finished drinking his coffee when the elevator ding rang, and it opened for Max to see two large double doors a couple feet in front of him.
The doors opened by themselves without any physical contact, and Ozpin's gaze was directed to the center of the opened double doors which was his old friend from a time long forgotten. Max Eisendhart.
"this might be a little bit too much now wouldn't it?" asked Max as he walked up to Ozpin, and closed the doors behind with the flick of his wrist. "It wasn't my design fortunately. It came with the job" said Ozpin as he directed Max to the chair facing opposite to himself, and Max took a seat.
"it has been a while old friend, and look how well your life turned out. I told you headmaster was the job for you all those days ago..." said Max with a warm smile as did Ozpin to his comment, it was something of a rarity for Max.
"yes I know, and I know what your going to say next so let me avoid redundancy and get to the point" said Ozpin with the thought of what Max's possible dialogue could have been, "I didn't think you brought me here from Atlas all this time for idle chat and getting together now was it?" asked Max as his tone of voice became more serious.
"that was partly the reason, the other part...well...a bit more grim" said Ozpin with a more deepened tone of voice, and that got Max's attention. It was a tone of voice that would only be used if what he was going to say next would change time, and space.
Ozpin began, and told Max about the secret conspiracy concerning the uprising threatening to shake the balance of power and peace on Remnant.
"I see..." said Max who was considering it all in thought "and we have no idea who is orchestrating any of this?" asked Max, "sadly...no" replied Ozpin as he let out a sigh.
"then I guess for what is to come in this world...you may need more than a dusty old Qrow, a raging Winter storm, and an Ironmonger" said Max as he hinted at the meeting of Ozpin's last to which Ozpin raised a brow "you knew?", "I have had my thoughts on the matter yes...".
"your semblance never fails you Magneto" said Ozpin with a smile as Max turns to him "that is the name I went by in the past, but no more" said Max with a firm tone of voice that added solidity to his words as, they came out of his mouth.
"it may not have been back then, but it might be in the near future" said Ozpin as he got up from his chair, and got behind Max.
"never let go of the past Max, learn from it instead" said Ozpin as he put his hand on the man's shoulder, and looked at him before saying "you have been burdened with crucial information, what you are to do with it is completely up to you".
Max got up from his chair, and was on his way out.
"I spent quite an effort getting here so as expected I'm staying here for a while, and who knows? I might enjoy this Vytal festival after all..." said Max as he made his way to the two giant doors that opened at the flick of a wrist, "you might see more images from our past soon enough Ozpin".
With that the master of magnetism was off, and the double doors closed behind him.
"you chose wisely..." said Ozpin to himself as he looked out the window, and into the clear skies filled with airships.
In the courtyard of the school there was what can only be considered as an unfortunate consequence...
Mechanical troops were idly walking around with a woman wearing a white overcoat with a snowflake symbol on the back of it, and had blissful white hair, whose name was Winter.
She was walking with her younger sister Weiss as the two were chatting with each other throughout the walk, and what happened next was completely unexpected.
Winter, and Weiss's chat came to a halt at the sight of several 'dissembled' mechanical soldiers.
"what in the world, what happened?" asked Weiss as she looked around for the source of the destruction, and as fast as she began she found it.
Not far off in the distance there were four mechanical soldiers engaged in combat against a being who wore a brown leather jacket, blue jeans, had sideburns, uncontrolled hair, and his most unique feature of them all. Retractable metal bone claws.
He dodged several shots from the mechanical soldiers, and proceeded to impale his claw's into the first one and rip it in half.
The mechanical soldier behind fired off another shot that he used the torn torso of the mangled synthetic to block, and then threw it at the synthetic.
It was dazed for a moment, and in which it was sliced to a million pieces.
Logan stood still for a moment, and pulled back his claws as he observed all the destruction he had caused.
Winter, and Weiss were more or less aggravated at the man's aggressive behavior.
Winter was about to go, and scold him down like she would normally do.
This on the other hand was a different situation, especially when Logan turned around to face her.
Winter's eyes widened for a moment as she realized just exactly who it was that tore apart her military escort, the same man who hasn't changed appearance even in the slightest since 10 years ago.
It was then Weiss who started the whole debacle by waltzing up to the man, and started scolding at him about what he had done.
"listen kid I didn't start this mess those hunk of junk robots came after me for no apparent reason..." said Logan attempting to stop any occurring squabble, and that was when he saw Winter.
"...primarily because you were the suspect of interest for several criminal actions that deemed you hostile by the military. Ironwood personally." said Winter with a sly smile as Weiss looked back to her sister, and back to Logan.
"your a criminal!?" said Weiss in shock that a criminal would have been allowed on the premises of such a prestigious school, "even worse, a hunter".
Weiss was exasperated at the statement, that this man could be a hunter/huntress.
"so let me guess then this is your little sister" said Logan as Weiss who at this point was backing up to her sister "yes, she is", "well I can see the resemblance, both are snotty, bratty, stuck up, rich kids who have never had a rough moment in their life" said Logan casually with a hint of laughter in his tone of voice.
It was apparent in how he spoke that he has had a considerable amount of alcohol to attain a partial drunken state, but it must have been an impressive amount as his healing factor negated the effects of most alcoholic products.
Weiss was angered at that statement, and to a certain degree so was Winter. "I suggest you give yourself up right now before you hurt yourself" she said as she commanded her troops to stay back, and pulled out her rapier.
"hurt from what? fighting you? HA!" shouted Logan with his claws coming out "I fought the likes of you a thousand times over, so you think you can beat me?" asked Logan as he got in a combat stance with his claws protruded to fight.
Winter in less than a second ran at Logan at speeds faster than the eye can track, and Logan parried against her strike within moments notice.
Logan pushed back Winter's rapier then began delivering a flurry of strikes from his devastating claws that Winter avoided by flipping backwards to safety, and then Logan went for a downward slash with his adamantium claws.
Winter narrowly dodged this blow, and then ran headfirst into the mutant.
She managed to kick him the head, and send him back a couple meters.
The a sharp pain hit her foot as she grumbled in pain "HA! That's what you get for being an idiot. Metal coated skeleton snow cone" said Logan as he managed to recover from the devastating blow, 'still that was one hell of a kick' thought Logan as he resumed the fight.
Logan rushed Winter with incredible speed, and so did Winter.
At this point a crowd had managed to gather around the two fighting in the courtyard, and Weiss was filled with a mixture of excitement and anger.
Logan let out a flurry of blows that Winter blocked with minimal effort, and delivered her own set of blows. Logan did not take a liking to blocking so instead he let her hit him, and his leather coat simply rebounded most of her attacks.
"remember this old thing?" asked Logan as he dived at Winter as a ball of spikes to which she blocked with her sword, and pushed back.
Winter remembered how he wore a leather jacket that was made of a highly strong, and versatile material that made for a perfect defense.
Winter managed to slice him at the leg, and then hit him in the side of the head with the end of her blade.
Logan ducked underneath the blow, and the grabbed her and then rampaged himself into a nearby concrete pillar.
The two hit it with immense force as Logan pulled back his arms, and attempted to slash at Winter.
Winter ducked underneath both blows, and managed to weave her away from the mutant's grip and leaving him stuck onto a wall.
'shit' thought Logan as he looked at his current predicament, and then from behind he heard Winter's actions.
The noise accompanied by her making an exceptionally large glyph underneath Logan that glowed a shade of red, "you were never a good strategist were you Logan" said Winter with a cocky attitude as she triggered the glyph.
It exploded like a large bomb, and brought the large pillar down to the ground.
The debris from the fall of a large concrete pillar was spread all around the small gathering that was formed, and visibility was cut to near zero.
Winter did not let her guard down as she kept her rapier up, but Weiss was wondering why.
It was then she saw that Logan was not down for the count, and was still standing after a blow like that.
"I don't strategize...well...I think that's a statement we'll have to change now won't we?" said Logan as he honed his alternate sense's, and closed his eyes.
The crowd that had formed could barely see what was going on inside the smoke covered arena, but Winter knew all too well about what was to happen.
Slashed from the left, and right came out of nowhere.
She managed to block most of them, but some of them had managed to hit her on both legs, and one came to her face sending her stumbling backwards.
More slashed from behind came out as one landed her clean across the back her aura was able to absorb most of the damage, but his claws managed to injure slightly.
Winter winced in pain as she fell back down, and with one hand she ran her her hand through her back to see tell tale signs of injury.
To her relief her aura had managed to absorb most of the damage, and she was back on the defensive.
Several more slashes appeared from the dust cloud from all sides, and at that point she managed to grab hold of Logan.
Logan on the other hand had plans for his little close encounter, and landed a low blow to her stomach.
Winter winced even more in pain, and threw Logan back into the smoke filled clearing.
Logan was using his animalistic sense's to keep himself on the offensive, and pressure her into the defensive.
She was at the disadvantage, and had to do something about it.
Fast.
An idea popped into her head as she summoned a glyph in front of her as she put stuck her rapier into the ground, and from the glyph where the sword stood came out white doves.
The doves circled her like a tornado, and blew away the smoke with an elegant wind storm.
The air cleared, and the arena was visible.
Winter took back her rapier, and focused on her target once more.
Logan was standing, waiting, she did not like it.
Winter pulled back her rapier, and then charged at the mutant, Logan barely moved in response.
Winter left off a barrage of attacks that Logan dodged, and then she summoned a glyph underneath Logan that he stepped backwards to barely dodge.
The debris from the explosion at close range managed to temporarily blind the mutant, and Winter then decided to seal the deal.
She sliced at his stomach, and impaled it with her rapier.
Kicking the mutant back into a wall, and summoning a glyph to terraform the ground near Logan into hands to hold him in place.
"I'd love to see you move now" said Winter in a more serious attitude as she then summoned two large Ursa's to attack the detained Logan, they managed to land several hits onto the detained mutant, as Winter charged for her finishing move.
Logan at that point was getting frustrated with being held back he tried to move only to get slashed across the face, and that is when he snapped.
Winter charged up a glyph behind her to increase her speed tenfold, and then charged at the mutant with immense speed and power.
Winter hit her target, and caused the nearby debris to hit the air reducing visibility for a short period of time.
By the time the visibility came back everyone saw that Winter's attack was being parried by a testosterone driven Logan with his feet anchored into the ground like weights, and his claws holding back the assault.
His eye's glowed a piercing red, as he let out a low growl.
"that's it Winter, your going on a one way trip to the EMERGENCY ROOM!" shouted Logan as he pushed her assault back in a roar, and Winter continued the assault.
Weiss was more or less surprised at the man's sudden change of appearance, although to her it made more sense to see him like this.
Winter had a harder time than usual at landing hits as Logan seemed to prefer evading, and striking when it was required.
Logan, and Winter were at each other's ends when delivering blows faster than the eye can track.
Logan, and Winter then made way for a final slice across each other as the two stood still and apart from each other for a moment.
The entire audience was quiet for a moment to see who had beat who, and it was then when Logan's stomach gave way.
A slice was seen across his stomach as he felt nothing, and Winter had a slice across her leg as she held the pain in as best as she could.
Despite her best efforts, she could not.
Logan saw this weakness, and barraged her with a flurry of blows that gave her no time to react.
"YOUR DONE!" roared Logan as he barraged her with a flurry of unblockable strikes that sent her back with each strike, more and more slashed appearing over her each time.
Winter's back hit a concrete pillar as Logan ran at her, and she made a glyph right in front of her to explode upon contact.
Logan ran into it, and it exploded upon contact.
Logan was sent flying through the air as he then decided to dive bomb at the structure where Winter was, and Winter had thought of a similar idea.
Using a glyph she created on the wall of the pillar she ran up it with her rapier in hand, and when she reached the end of the concrete pillar she jumped off of it and met Logan head on in mid air.
Winter slashed her blade through his chest, and through his heart.
Logan grabbed Winter, and the two dive bombed head onto the concrete pillar.
The concrete pillar collapsed to the floor as debris covered the area for a while, and everyone (mostly Weiss) became a little worried at what had happened.
In one of the dorms of Beacon Academy a man wearing a slightly tattered cape, with a five'o clock shadow was playing video games with his two niece's.
It was at that time he heard a large crash outside, and the three of them decided to check it out.
The debris cleared, and Winter was found to have been alright.
Weiss was overjoyed to see that she had won, or so she thought.
Winter thought of victory as before she even had a chance to react something his her in the back of her head, and sent her stumbling forwards.
Winter turned around, and saw Logan standing on all fours like an animal and scowling at her with his evil red eyes.
He was the most volatile in his group, and she should have known better than to try and put him in to a bad temper.
She also knew her biggest disadvantage which was why Logan had no scratch on him, and that was because Logan had a semblance that allowed him to heal from any manner of wound.
Qrow, Ruby, and Yang had manged to get to the front of the crowd where Weiss was at this point, and Qrow immediately recognized who it was.
"Weiss what's wrong?" asked Ruby as Yang looked at the crazy guy on his all fours "some crazy animalistic mad man attacked my sister..." said Weiss with a hint of concern for her sister, and the Qrow pulled out his weapon.
"uncle Qrow what's wrong?" asked Yang with a lock of confusion on her face "I have to stop him before he loses control again, stay right here" said Qrow with a concerned tone of voice, and that was able to strike slight fear into Ruby and Yang.
"You...are...FINISHED!" roared Logan as he ran at inhuman speeds towards Winter with the intent of tearing her to shreds, and possibly even killing her where she stood.
Winter had her weapon on guard, and was prepared to continue the fight as her aura healed her remaining minor wounds.
Before Logan could get far a fast red blur hit him onto the ground, and he was pinned down by a sword etched into his rib cage.
"calm down Logan, don't get out of hand like you usually do..." said Qrow as he pushed his blade down on the mutant, and Logan on the other hand was thrashing around like a violent maniac.
Qrow was having a hard time keeping him down for quite a while, and then Logan kicked him in the shin and Qrow lost balance.
Logan side kicked Qrow to the side as Logan got up, and then attacked Qrow.
Qrow blocked with his blade, but Logan's claw managed to dig into an intricate gear mechanism located on the side of the blade and managed to disarm Qrow.
"uncle Qrow watch out!" shouted Ruby as Yang assured her that there was nothing the crazy guy could do to Qrow, as they assumed him to be a legendary hunter.
Neither of them knew of the merits that Logan had earned in his ears on the field...
"god damn it" said Qrow as he kept back stepping in an attempt to dodge his flurry of blows, and that was then when Logan was inexplicably pulled back towards a concrete pillar that was still standing.
"enough!" said a stern, and commanding voice that everyone seemed to turn their heads toward.
It was Max.
With one hand he was holding Logan back towards a wall, and then Logan saw him.
"YOU! I'M TAKING YOU DOWN!" shouted Logan in his blood rage as he attempted to move, but couldn't.
"You would like that now wouldn't you Logan?" said Max in a disinterested tone of voice, and thought about what Logan was thinking about as of now.
Winter put her rapier down after she saw who it was that was holding Logan back, and Qrow retrieved his weapon.
Ruby, Yang, and Weiss were for the most part confused.
"how long is he going to be like that?" asked Qrow as he got his sword back, "give him a minute and he'll be back" said Max as he turned his head to Winter.
"of all the things you could have done you decided to engage him in a fight. What were you thinking?" asked Max in a serious tone, and before Winter could respond Weiss came to her aid.
"she was doing her duty and taking him down for all his crimes" said Weiss as she looked up to Max as if she was of nobility, "and you of all people know how volatile he is to a blood rage. I can't guarantee other's safety when he goes into his berserker rage. Even more so for yours" said Max as he eyed Winter's sister.
"and as for you, his criminal motives are of none of your concerns. He's just been collecting information on his own accord." said Max trying to say that Logan steals information in a nice way, and Winter could not say anything as she simply put her rapier away.
Winter was then called by general Ironwood over her scroll, and so she made her way there and away from Max. Weiss followed behind.
"oh...OK WEISS WE'LL SEE YOU LATER!" shouted Ruby at her friend who was leaving with her sister, and Yang decided to go and ask the important question at hand.
"that was awesome, who are you guys?" asked Yang as Max looked at the blonde haired girl's facial features a bit more, and realized who it was.
"so I take it these two are your nieces then." said Max with a smile, and Ruby said "how did you know that?".
Qrow would have normally answered that question, but Max put up his hand and insisted that he answer it instead.
"for one you happen to be wielding one of the most dangerous weapon's in all of Remnant, and two you have silver eyes. That and you remind me of some I knew once" said Max as he looked at Qrow, "so did I get it right?" asked Max.
"pretty much" said Qrow as he came for a hand shake that Max gladly accepted, "you guys know each other...how?" asked Yang out of curiosity "oh me and Max go way back" started Qrow as the two started to walk back to Beacon with Max dragging Logan with the aid of his magnetic powers.
Midway Qrow explained how Max was apart of a team of hunters/huntresses who had worked with them along time back, and even knew Ozpin from along time back.
It was now Max's turn to explain about his semblance, and what his weaponry consists of.
"first thing is how are you dragging him around like that? And why is he mad all of a sudden?" asked Ruby as she pointed to Logan who was thrashing wildly, "I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU TO PIECES!" shouted Logan in his rage, and before Qrow could reply Max raised his hand to silence him.
"if you respond then this will never end" said Max as Qrow stopped attempting to speak with the mutant, "well his semblance gives him a metal coated skeleton coupled with retractable bone claws, and an accelerated healing factor. My semblance gives me power over magnetism." said Max as with one hand he smashed Logan to the side of a wall inside Beacon.
"GOD DAMN IT YOU WORTHLESS LIVING MAGNET!" shouted Logan in his continued rage "cool! But what about him?" asked Yang as she pointed at the guy who seemed to be in a more aggravated rage than she could ever get, "yes about him. From time to time he goes into a blood rage that is triggered from pure frustration. He never means harm but in this state he will kill you within an inch of your life without mercy. In fact he was wanted for one of these reasons actually, he once went on a rampage and 'killed' an entire warehouse full of white fang thugs..." said Max as the two girls looked at the man in horror.
Injuring someone beyond battlefield capability was one thing, but straight up killing someone. That was too far. "he did all that?" asked Ruby who was shuddering at the thought, as Logan continued his restless thrashing. The thought of all the blood shed caused from this one man bothered the two girls, and they shivered at the thought.
Qrow noticed this, and said "don't take him seriously right now. He may not sound friendly right now but he ain't always like that...".
"I thought you said he would have to be in 'excruciating pain'?" asked Qrow who seemed to be puzzled at Logan's outburst, and he was right.
Logan has not had an outburst like the one before for quite a while, and that was quite strange.
"no idea. I think it might have to do with the fact that he didn't exactly get along with Winter" said Max as they finally reached the dorm room of Ruby, and her team.
"he must be drunk cause I smell alcohol" said Yang as Max have a confused look as to how she knows what alcohol smells like, then shrugged it off.
"wouldn't work. His healing factor is fast enough to heal the damage of alcohol so it has no effect, heck he could out drink Qrow in a drinking contest" said Max with a hint of laughter as Qrow took it personally "hey! It hasn't been proven yet and I'm pretty sure I'm much better", and at that moment Logan was pulled out of his induced rage.
Logan got himself back up which scared the two girls, and then turned his head to Qrow "...any day and time dusty and I'll wipe the floor with your face!".
"so alcohol snaps you out of a blinding rage...I should have known" said Max as he rubbed his temples while Logan got off of the bed he was on, and then gave a surprised look at two girls who were in the room with him.
"who are they?" asked Logan with a raised brow, and before Qrow could answer Max raised his hand.
"take a good look at them and tell me you don't see the resemblance" said Max as Logan looked at the two girls facial features, "I don't what your talking about..." said Logan as he started to see similarities in the two girls with someone he had known a while back.
A smile appeared on Logan's face "Oh...so these two are your nieces right?" said Logan pointing at Qrow, and Qrow giving a subtle nod.
"why didn't you say so?" asked Logan as Max replied with "I wanted you to put effort into 'something' in your life Logan", and Yang asked "are we that easy to identify?".
"oh yea, both of you carry your mothers facial features" said Logan then turned his head to Max "speaking of which I meant to ask why are you here?" asked Logan with a hint of seriousness on his face, "I was here at the request of an old friend and what about you?".
"oh you know running away from authorities hijacking an airship and then crashing it into a nearby dock then burning the evidence...so the usual..." said Logan as casually as he could as the two girls simply gave questioning looks, "I meant why you are here not how you got here..." said Max who was eager to know why he was here.
Max had known Logan before, and after he had arrived on this world. The only other person that rivaled Logan's crazy actions, was the other man that was with them in the same room. Qrow. The two of them together at times was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off, the only thing that could rival them in insanity was the conscience of Deadpool. But thank god he wasn't here with them. Max wasn't sure how Remnant would take to a true mad man.
"I came here because I heard that Ironwood's bringing his little toys with him for the Vytal festival..." said Logan as he got in Max's face "so I wanted to know whether he was an idiot or a a power hungry dictator" said Logan with anger lingering in his voice, and Qrow responded with "the one thing he can't get through his thick skull".
Logan seem's to know about the conspiracy from the context he uses to talk about the general's actions, and then it dawned on him. The reason why Logan had gone off the grid for quite a while, and it may have been because of the conspiracy itself.
"he has no idea what he's up against...he ain't going to stand a chance..." said Logan as he backed up a bit, and crossed his arms.
"at this rate that's about right..." said Qrow agreeing with his statement, and then proceeding to leave. "going somewhere?" asked Max as Qrow said "just scouring the area and what not, and Logan later you and I are going to have a drinking contest and you are going to lose" as he left, "in your dreams dusty!" shouted Logan as Qrow left.
Max, and Logan said their own dues to the two girls as the two of them left them to their dorm.
Logan was on his way to see the headmaster of Beacon, and Max decided he will take a little tour around the premises.
Max was walking down the court yard throughout Beacon Academy when in his sight he caught glimpse of Winter, and his younger sister Weiss.
Max gave a wave that Winter took notice, and stopped by for a moment.
"you!" said Weiss in an angered tone, but before she could do anything Winter silenced her.
"about earlier on in the day I just wanted to apologize on my...comrade's behalf...he tends to get ahead of himself at times..." said Max doing his best to make it up to her for Logan's actions, but it didn't look as though Winter was happy about any of it.
"i have had enough trouble's as it stands, and then you come here to make things even more complicated. What exactly are you doing here anyways?" asked Winter in an angry tone, "I came here to seek the truth, and now that I have found it I am taking it my own actions since everyone else is too afraid of what is to come" said Max in a stern voice that commanded his voice to Winter.
"so you know then..." said Winter as Max responded with a look of his own that conveyed everything she needed to know, "and what do you supposed your going to do then? gather around your team of 'heroes'?" asked Winter in a sarcastic tone of voice.
"it's what I was trained to do Winter, nothing else...and that may be the only hope that still stands..." said Max as Winter let out a sigh, before saying "then it seem's as though you have your work cut out for yourself..." said Winter as she thought about the other members of Max's team.
"who are you? and how do you know my sister?" asked Weiss who put the question out straightforwardly, and Max simply smiled at her forward appearance.
"I am a hunter, and belong to one of the oldest teams on Remnant. Rivaling only one team STRQ." said Max as Weiss looked at him for a moment of disbelief, and then looked back to her sister for clarification.
"...yes...he...is apart of another team of hunters...a group of reckless hunters might I add, from what I heard about Logan's history with the military. Don't even get me started on the actions of Danny or Blade, and what they have done as of now..." said Winter with her stern voice that she normally used "I presume your her younger sister then...Weiss...was it?" asked Max as Weiss confirmed, and that's when it then it dawned upon him.
'Weiss...knows...Schnee...snow...' thought Max, and then briefly analyzed the sibling's attire.
'it's all snow related, much like their name...how could I have not seen this before hand?' thought Max as he mentally face palmed, because he should have seen this about 10 years ago.
"you don't seem to be carrying a weapon, how do you fight?" asked Weiss as Max responded with a devilish smile "the only way I know how...", and with that he lifted his hand into the air and the very ground around the three of them started to break off and levitate into the air.
"your semblance grants you the ability to summon glyph's to do various things from time dilation to summoning creatures of impossibility, and mine on the other hand gives me control over the electromagnetic field..." said Max with a smile, and Weiss was put into a temporary state of shock.
"...the entire electromagnetic field?" asked Weiss as some of her previous physics knowledge seeped into her mind about the effects of the electromagnetic field, and what Max could 'theoretically' do with full control over it.
"yes and before you say anything else sister he used no weaponry, as he seem's to have an uncanny strength in his semblance that most seem to lack...even for when he first started out..." said Winter as she gave Max a look filled with enjoyment, and fear.
It reminded Max of the old days when the two were inexperienced teams, and how her skill varied but his was constant.
There was a gap of power in semblance control at the time, and Max was called upon as a prodigy at the time.
Only being able to outshine Winter in the field of semblance control, as he seemed to have a degree of precision that most would not seem to have.
Winter, and Max talked for a while with a question here and there from Weiss.
She had learned about what his name was, and a bit about himself.
Max waved the two goodbye as the two left off on their own, and Winter was glad to see old faces for the most part.
He was the least reckless, and most levelheaded of his entire team.
Max then looked up to the skies, and saw the floating amphitheater where all the battles for the Vytal festival took place.
"this is going to be...an interesting year..." said Max to himself as memories of his past as Magneto the master of magnetism went through his head, and unknown to him of the danger that lies ahead.
Meanwhile in a museum off in Atlas...
The window's shattered to pieces, and the guards inside knocked out.
On the wall opposite to the shattered window lies a purple highly modified arrow that has letters etched on it, it reads 'bullseye'.
In the center of the museum there lies the most magnificent jewel of all of Atlas, called the red gem of infinity.
A man wearing purple shaded armor exposing his arms, and wearing purple shades walked up to the gem protected in a glass casing.
"hmm...the most priceless jewel of them all...just waiting for me..." the man said to himself before pulling out an arrow from his quiver, and then stuck it on the glass casing.
The side of the arrow itself displayed in red colored text 'INITIALIZE', and the arrow pierced through the glass casing via an acid release.
The man then pulled out the arrow, and took a small device which was no bigger than a penny.
The penny sized object was then put into the hole burned from the acid, and the rubber top was pressed.
The device released a gaseous substance into the glass case, and revealed that there were red colored lasers all inside the glass container.
"huh...should have expected that by now..." said the man to himself as he then pulled out a larger palm size device, and pushed a button.
An electromagnetic wave emanated from the device, and took out the electronics within the glass container.
The red lasers dissapeared, and the man got to work.
He put his hands on the sides, and lifted the container up to remove it off of the display.
He took the gem off of the display area, and then was about to put it in his internal jacket pocket.
It was then when a thug bumped into him, and caused him to drop the gem right into the thug's grasp.
"what t-" said the man as before he could finish his sentence he was surrounded by three guards, and the one who took his gem ran off to where the exit of the museum was.
He heard clapping coming from that general direction, and turned his head to the source of the sound.
Roman Torchwick was walking towards the man with the gem in hand, "well...well...well...look what we got here..." said Roman as he eyed the gem with interest.
"...a thief AND a beauty...two for the price of one I would say..." said Roman as the man looked at him with a smirk, and then spoke in a serious tone of voice.
"you better give that back to me before I make you regret your presence...in a heart beat..." said the man as he went to reach for his bow, but was stopped by thugs who had surrounded him with their weapons drawn.
"tsk...tsk...tsk...I wouldn't do that if I were you..." said Roman in a sly tone of voice, indicating that he was controlling the scenario.
But he was going to be proven otherwise, and as such the man didn't even remotely halt.
He reached for his bow, and in the blink of an eye three guards fell to the ground with up to 1,000 volts of electricity running through their body.
Roman only had seconds to react as an arrow flew past his head, and nailed a wall behind him.
"holy sh-" said Roman as he tumbled his way out another arrow that nailed an expensive painting, "I'll send you the bill!" said the man as he drew up another arrow.
Roman got up, and fired off several blasts from his cane. The melodic cudgel.
The shots brushed past the marksman as he tumbled his way out the explosions grasp, and continued his barrage of long range artillery.
"I don't have time for this...if I keep this up the damn authorities will get to me first..." said Roman to himself as he made a run for a nearby window, and the man followed suit.
Dodging arrow after arrow, and barely making it to the window Roman jumped through the building's central window.
The man did not expect to see a VTOL flying overhead the building, and catching the criminal as he fell out of the building.
"OK...did not see that coming...oddly enough..." said the man with the last part being muttered to himself, "I loved to stay around uh...eagle cornea..." said Roman trying to say his name. "Hawk eye..." said the man with an expression that conveyed a hint of anger.
"...yea...whatever...well Hawk eye, it's been fun but I think the night's coming to a close..." said Roman as he walked deeper into the flying machine, and the machine started to take off.
Hawk eye smirked, and thought 'this evening's still full of surprise's'.
Roman was having a 'blast' piloting his flying machine when he heard both his engines give in, and explosions ensued.
"what the hell...?" asked Roman to himself as he saw the engines completely destroyed, and before he could react Hawk eye smashed through the cockpit window.
Roman managed to put the mechanical beast on auto pilot before getting whacked in the face by a metallic heavy bow, and then kicked on the chest.
Roman managed to get his bearing, and pull out his melodic cudgel only for it to be swept out of his hands and onto the floor.
"you've got to be kidding me..." said Roman as he went in for a punch to the face as Hawk eye intercepted it, and then kicked him in the shin.
Roman bent down in pain, and Hawk eye kneed his head.
Hawk eye sealed the deal with a smash from his bow to the back of Roman's head that sent the criminal smashing onto the cockpit, and the two were in for a nasty surprise.
"oh now you've done it!" said Roman as Hawk eye saw the auto pilot had been disengaged, and the ship they were on was about to crash.
"did not think this one through..." said Hawk eye as Roman took advantage of Hawk eye being distracted, and delivered a gut wrenching punch that sent the man smashing his back onto the steel interior of the machine.
Roman took hold of the controls, and he lost them afterwards.
An arrow hit the cockpit, and exploded in his face.
"DAMN!" shouted Roman as he covered his eye's in pain, and another arrow nailed him in the face as he turned around.
The arrow was filled with a sticky substance that latched onto the criminal's face, and Hawk eye charged the blinded criminal.
He punched him in the stomach, and with his remaining hand he pushed the criminal against the steel interior.
Hawk eye put Roman in a choke hold, and using his right hand he searched the man for the gem.
"aha! found it!" said Hawk eye in a lowly whisper, and was kicked backwards putting the criminal out of the choke hold.
Hawk eye rolled himself out his vulnerable position, and then fired an arrow in a split second at the cargo bay door.
The arrow exploded as Hawk eye covered his eyes, and then jumped out of the hole he had made out of the steel interior.
Hawk eye at this point was free falling, and turned himself to look at the burning airship.
The flying machine exploded a bit more, and it changed course going head long into the ground.
Hawk eye focused on his current situation, and then took aim with bow.
A suction tipped arrow fired from his bow, and tagged onto the side of the roof of a nearby skyscraper.
Using his momentum he managed to swing himself onto the side of the building his arrow was latched onto, and climb his way to the top.
Hawk eye reached the roof of the skyscraper, and then sat himself on the ledge looking down upon the world.
"sometimes you look down, and everything looks...small..." said Hawk eye to himself with a smile in hand, and then pulled out the stolen jewel out his pocket to look at.
"at least you got this one..." said Hawk eye as he looked at the shining gem, and counted in his head about the total he has recovered so far.
'one...I have one of them...when there are four in the world...' said Hawk eye as he looked at the shattered moon above, and thought to himself for a moment.
'right now we are down by one...we need to get ahead or it's going to be hell...' thought Hawk eye as he thought about the previous battle that tore apart most of the multiverse, and pulled himself out his momentary flashback.
Remnant was about to have it's darkest days to come up, and few would face the oncoming storm.