Team ATMC: 8 Phase poem

Chapter 1: recap, the Sons of Merlot

(Note: I do not own RWBY, all rights to RWBY go to Rooster Teeth in honor of its creator, Monty Oum)

I, Aidan, along with my cousins Chris and Makayla and our friend Tyler were students at Beacon Academy in the kingdom of Vale and made Team ATMC... however... during the Vytal Festival a woman named Cinder Fall orchestrated an attack on the school by pretending to be a student of Haven Academy in the kingdom of Mistral, along side two other school age children named Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black, and with nefarious criminals Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan, and finally along with high ranking White Fang member Adam Taurus so that she'd have the White Fang under her thumb and they released Grimm into the school itself while Roman hacked general Ironwood's ship to gain control of the Atlas Knights protecting Vale. During the attack all the students of Beacon and the students of the other school fought along side each other to protect Beacon if they could... and my team was on the battlefield but it was all for naught because Cinder had gotten to Professor Ozpin and killed him before Beacons Ruby Rose could use some kind of flash to cripple her. After Beacons fall the Beacon students continued their education in the combat school Signal Academy but my team went with the students of Shade Academy back to Vacuo to attend Shade ourselves, while there I had gained a reputation during the summer before the next semester, I was known as the 'Turnabout Terror' and I became this to get answers out of criminals if they knew Cinder Fall to no avail. During my hunt I was sent on a mission to an abandoned village where I encountered a black robot named Crimson Blade who was created by the Merlot Twins, the sons of a scientist named Merlot, the twins created their own Time Dust to bring their father to our present time before he died in an explosion in one of Team RWBY and JNPR's mission before the fall of Beacon. My team and I destroyed Crimson Blade and stopped the twins from being their father back and in the process the youngest twin Sour died in the time stream while the eldest twin Bitter was arrested for his crimes. We were able to do this thanks to special bracelets made by Atlas military scientist that gave us the ability to summon a Spirit Guardian through our Aura, the bracelets mechanism was built into my bionic arm while four of them were given to my other 3 teammates and a girl attending her first year at Shade this upcoming semester named Angel, however when we got back from Merlot's island the remaining 3 Guardian Bracelets were stolen from Ironwood's before he left for Atlas. But my biggest concern is that my old teacher from Signal, Masters von Shang, may be involved in this whole mess somehow with the amount of times I've seen him during this case. We are now currently at Shade about to have a meeting with the Headmaster, Professor Jade Quartz, but she seems a little... off? According to other professors she had a visitor yesterday and she's been like this since that visit. Flashback to the scene between Jade and Masters.

Jade: ""I certainly didn't expect to see you here... Masters von Shang."

Masters: "Well that's a way to greet an old friend. And by full name too? Jade Quartz?"

Jade: "Well sorry! So... what brings you to Vacuo? I thought you were helping with the preparations for the upcoming semester with the Beacon students at Signal?"

Masters: "Is catching up with an old friend and wanting to see his old student not a good enough reason? I'm on a leave of absence from Signal because of the fall of Beacon. I'm here to see how much stronger my greatest student has grown. I haven't seen him at all since he graduated Signal, I couldn't even make it to the coliseum to watch his tournament fight up close, I only had time to watch him on TV so I was stuck in Vale during the fall of Beacon."

Jade: "I can appreciate a great teacher such as yourself wanting to see how much his old student has grown and I can assure you Aidan's made quite a name for himself."

Masters: "'The Turnabout Terror.' He's all most of the students talk about. Especially the girls from what I can see."

Jade: "However... I'm afraid you've come at a bad time. He's had a rough time for a while now and is still tackling a big mystery that could very much be a large threat to the kingdoms of Remnant! Nothing as big as Salem but definitely a serious danger!"

Masters: "The sons of Merlot."

Jade: "Huh?"

Masters: "The Merlot Twins, Sour and Bitter. It would seem that Bitter has been arrested and Sour is nowhere to be found. It certainly seems like he's been busy lately."

Jade: "As always you know a lot of what's been going on and with the type of person you are I won't question how you know this. But I do have questions regarding these past few events."

Masters: "I shall answer depending on what those questions are."

Jade: "First of all: Aidan swears he saw you in a village before he passed out, he was fighting a black robot wielding dual daggers called-"

Masters: "Crimson Blade? Yes that was me who saved him in the village. Anything else?"

Jade: "Aidan also had a match with a bully named Devon and during the match he could have sworn he saw you on the screen above the audience when he was about to lose, but the strangest part was that the screen showed static before you shows up on it unlike how it actually transitions to the next shot."

Masters: "All computers glitch out every now and then."

Jade: "Once again, given the kind of person you are I won't press further... even if that wasn't an... unsatisfactory answer. But the biggest question is that the student he fought, Devon, he was using the same weapon style as you with a bayoneted rifle and the dagger and he also using gun arts from your fighting style however... Aidan says he never saw lion tailed Faunus at Signal when he was there and your records show that you only taught Aidan your fighting style of weapon arts and Devon's records show he never attending Signal Academy for combat school. Your the only person who has this fighting style so I must ask, how did Devon learn your fighting style when Aidan was the only one you taught it too?"

Masters: "And like always you know how to twist my arm with your resourcefulness. Your just like your grandfather, you know?"

Jade: *gasp* "How did you know about that?!"

Masters: "Heh. So much for not pressing me on things I seem to know, hmm?"

Jade: "But that information is something no one is supposed to know! Not even the other Headmasters!"

Masters: "And just like him, you just love to keep secrets from those who trust you the most. Your definitely his spitting image!"

Jade: "Stop it! Don't speak anymore of him!" He stays silent.

Masters: "Well... I supposed thats enough of this meeting. Would you mind telling me Team ATMC's dorm room number?"

Jade: "Room 201! Now leave! Now!"

Masters: "My my. I've never seen you so emotionally broken like this before. I supposed it's just a sign of growing up no matter what your age is. Wouldn't you agree?" He's says that while walking towards the door and then it closes once he's done. Jade is just crying in her desk then she takes out a photo out of her desk drawer.

Jade: "Oh grandfather! What should I do in a problem like this?" And then she puts the photo down on the desk and we see it's a picture of... Professor Ozpin?! Flashback end. None of the professors know who her visitor was do we don't know ourselves but that same night of her visit, we had gotten a visitor in our dorm room. At that time the only people in the room was me, my teammates and Angel until our visitor arrived, we heard a knock on the door and when I answered I couldn't believe my eyes on who it was!

Aidan: "M-Masters?!"

Makayla: "Wait! Masters von Shang?!"

Chris: "What are you doing here?!"

Tyler: "This guys your old Signal teacher you told me about?!" Tyler being a Faunus with wolf ears

Angel: "Well that's unexpected!" Angel's also a Faunus who had the misfortune of having two physical animal features instead of one, both cat ears and a tail. Masters just stood there in silent for a moment.

Masters: "Well that was quite the greeting I wasn't expecting. To answer your questions I'm here because I took a leave of absence from Signal because of the fall of Beacon. I came here to Shade to see my old students. You know I haven't seen you at all since you graduated Signal. I especially wanted to see you, Aidan."

Aidan: "Me?"

Masters: "I've been hearing a lot about you since I've gotten here. Stuff like your reputation earning you many names like the 'student Huntsman!' 'Shades green fire!' 'Grimm's worst nightmare!' And even your most well known name: the 'Turnabout Terror!' Heh. You've gotten quite strong, a lot stronger than you were back then."

Aidan: "Well I was forced to become stronger thanks to Cinder's attack!"

Masters: "Well let's just say I'm proud of you and that regardless of how strong you are now you and your team still have a long to go as Huntsmen. Even when you graduate this Academy and become a real Huntsmen you will all still have a long way to go... Graduating doesn't mean your done, you can still learn... and keep moving forward!" He finished with a grim look on his face. We all just stood there silent from that sudden lesson. "I must be going. Until we meet again... Team ATMC." He walks off and I shut the door.

Tyler: "Ok ok... what just happened?!"

Makayla: "Our old teacher came and gave us a rather deep lesson!"

Chris: "But what I don't understand is, Aidan, why didn't you ask him anything about these upcoming events if you think you saw multiple times?"

Aidan: "We know Masters better than that, he's not gonna just hand over a straight answer to important questions, and besides there's no point questioning him at all on anything because he always seem s to know too much all the time! And besides... knowing him... him bring here just confirms that he knows something important about this case with the Merlot Twins! He may even know who their informant is!"

Angel: "You really think so? That would just seem to convenient right now don't you think?"

Aidan: "Knowing Masters for as long as we having nothing is too convenient with that guy! He has to know something!... And I'm gonna find out what!" That's what happened last night before Angel went back to her room and since she was apart of this case she joined us for this meeting with Jade but again... she seems rather off? "Um, Professor? Are you ok?" She stays silent just sipping her coffee rather stressfully.

Jade: *sigh* "No... I'm not! Students... there's something I need yo tell you... something very important that may be linked to your case!"