Chapter 2: First Contact
Meanwhile with Teams RWBY, JNPR and CFVY…
Teams RWBY, JNPR and CFVY were silently walking through the the Forest of Forever Fall with their weapons at the ready, the students had a hardened expression on their face until they reached to what seemed to be a White Fang encampment, and what the students saw will disturb them for years to come, as Faunus corpses littered the ground with some of them missing a limb or two. Most of the students were shaking nervously as they observed the battlefield.
"Don't look Ruby" Yang said as she buried Ruby's head in her chest attempting to shield her from the sheer carnage and destruction around them, she could even feel Ruby's unnatural breathing as she tried to calm herself.
The blond of Team JNPR took it the worse and threw up where he stood, "Jaune are you alright!?" Pyrrah asked worriedly,
"Yeah…yeah…just give me a sec" Jaune said as he spat out what remained of his insides,
The students paused for a bit to recover and took this opportunity to get a good look of their surroundings or at least what remained of it, "What kind of person would do this?" Blake questioned
"I don't know Blake but if we end up finding whoever did this I want to try and handle this peacefully" Coco said with a stern look
"Look around Coco, do you think they'll want to talk it out with us?"
"No but it's worth a shot…"
"I agree" Weiss said getting the attention of the group "Unless we want to end up like them we should only use violence as a last resort"
Coco nodded and faced her team "Alright lets form up, Yatsuhashi take point" without question Yatsuhashi took a position in front of the other teams while Coco gave the other teams a look.
"Yang go with Yatsuhashi" Ruby ordered the brawler nodded and got in front of her team with her fists raised
"Nora take point" Jaune ordered, Nora gave a quick salute with a smile and moved in front with her hammer in her hands
After walking for what seemed to be a lifetime but Yatsuhashi singled the group to stop, "Hold up, I see something"
"What do you see?" Fox questioned
"Red lights in the distance and its moving"
"T-that might be whoever were looking for" Velvet said with a worried look on her face
"Let's sneak up on whoever it is, as much as the rain gives us an advantage I hate that it's messing up my clothes" Coco said
The rest of the group nodded and slowly moved towards the moving lights in the distance hoping they would get the jump on whoever and after getting closer they hid behind some bushes and got a good look of the source, the team saw a very tall male bulked up male with red LED lighting on his armour.
"Stay down he's right there" Ruby whispered
"What should should we do?" Ren asked
"I don't know, lets try and reason with him"
The freelancer walked up to two wounded White Fang members and executed one right before their eyes, Ruby immediately turned away from the ruthless execution while Blake gripped Gamble Shroud tighter. Suddenly two other White Fang members came out from the cover of the trees for an ambush, only for one getting strangled and the other getting hit from the freelancer's forearm, sending her to the ground.
"CELLA!" the white fang member yelled out, he then used his handgun on the freelancer's head but he didn't seemed fazed by the shots at all, the freelancer then used his ripjack and stabbed the white fang member making him struggle violently before slowing giving up and dying.
The three teams froze as they observed the ruthless executions that was performed, they then saw him walk up to a white fang member that was leaning against a tree, they saw him kneel down and grabbed his handgun before the white fang soldier could use it and as they heard the white fang soldier egg for mercy they heard the freelancer speak which sent chills down their spines.
"You…slaughterer of the innocent…you harmed those who've begged for mercy from you and now…when you're on the other side of the gun…you dare ask for mercy" he pulled the trigger killing the soldier instantly before throwing the gun away and moving towards the last white fang member, the freelancer then pulled out his own handgun and pulled the hammer down but before he could pull the trigger Blake stepped in to intervene.
*Line Break*
Before Vajo could pull the trigger he heard someones voice, "BLAKE WAIT!" He turned only to see a girl throw her weapon at him which in the process bounded his hands with a ribbon.
Vajo saw on his tracker eleven more unknowns showed up, he looked at their attire and knew instantly that these were Huntsmen and Huntresses-in-training,
"WHY DID YOU SLAUGHTER THESE PEOPLE" Blake yelled
"These so called 'people' are terrorists, they are a threat to society and must be wiped off the face of Remnant!"
"THEY'RE ONLY A GROUP OF VERY MISGUIDED FAUNUS, THEY CAN BE REASONED WITH!" Blake said as she tighten the bounds
"Why reason with them if you have the power to destroy them with your own hands"
Blake only tensed up even more and applied even more pressure to his bounds, "Stay calm Blake" Vajo looked to who spoke, it apparently was a little girl with a red cloak and noticed that there was a single feature of the girl and what he's been searching for.
"Silver eyes…" Vajo muttered,
"What did you say?" Yang asked but he ignored the question and then Coco slowly took a step forward "Listen here big guy we don't want to fight you but we have orders to take you back to Beacon now please come quietly"
Vajo chuckled and surrendered, he let them take his weapons and Blake pushed him signalling him to move "Get moving and don't get any funny ideas about your blades" Blake warned to which he silently nodded. As the rest of the group walked in a direction Weiss pulled Ruby aside, "Whats wrong Weiss?"
"I don't know but his capture seemed too easy, especially after seeing what he did back there and how do we know that dropship of his wont come back for him?"
"Listen…I know we're dealing with something that we aren't used too but I sure that we can handle this if we stick together…you with me?"
"Yeah, I'm just on edge"
"All of us are…come on lets not keep the others waiting" Weiss nodded and jogged with Ruby towards the group who reached a area with enough space for the transports to land. Coco looked around and pulled out her scroll "Hold up, I'm gonna call for our ride"
"You got it Coco" Fox said, the rest of Team CFVY guarded the freelancer while Teams RWBY and JNPR formed a perimeter around the him,
While the students did their thing Vajo stood at the centre of the field silently and got a scoped out the surroundings, "This is terrible position, we're too exposed, theres no cover and the enemy could easily encircle us" Vajo thought to himself,
A disembodied voice joined his thoughts "I agree, we could get ambushed at any moment"
"Angel, contact Juno and have her on standby I've got a bad feeling about this…"
"Yes Lieutenant" Vajo's HUD abruptly began malfunctioning as it displayed errors and false readings, he could even hear static in his comms,
"Sir, transmissions jammed, proximity coverage only"
"Shit…did you get a signal out?"
"Yes, she'll be able to home in on our transponders last known location"
"Guys we got a problem!" Coco said prompting the other teams to look in her direction,
"Oh shit" Vajo muttered to himself before looking in Coco's direction,
"What's wrong?" Velvet asked,
"Here check this out"—she handed Velvet her scroll—"Do you hear that?"
"It's nothing but static" Velvet stated as she handed it back
"Wait how is that possible, the CCT is still up and surely we're not out of range" Weiss said,
"Maybe someone is intentionally jamming our signal" Ruby suggested
"Yeah but who?" Jaune asked,
"Oh I think I have a good idea on who's responsible" Yang said as she eyed the freelancer, and quickly moved behind him, and kicked him behind the kneecaps which made him kneel on the ground. The freelancer looked up only to see a fiery blond grab him by the armours collar and pull him in closer to her face, "Well…want to explain anything?", the rest of the students watched as Yang interrogated the freelancer.
"Explain the fact that we're being jammed and you're busy blaming me even though the enemy already has us in their sights and are debating on who to target first, other than that no not really"
"What are you talking about?" Yatsuhashi said with a slightly raised voice,
The students we're unaware of figure walking up behind them "Well well well, look what we have here!" the students and the freelancer looked in the direction in which the voice came from, it was a man, "Who knew that the URG's pet project would let himself get captured by a bunch of students"
"You there identify yourself!" Coco ordered as she turned her handbag into a mini-gun and prompting her fellow students to draw their own,
"My name isn't important, what is that the person you have in your custody is worth a lot of Lien and my client is a little…harsh, so make this easier on yourselves and hand him over" the unknown said,
Vajo stood up and looked at the unknown and his gear, he had a helmet that covered his whole head, he wore specialised combat gear (armoured police armour from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided), Vajo scanned him from head to toe and noticed a notorious patch of the Phantom Talon Corps (Phantom Talon Corps logo)
Vajo chuckled when he realised what he was dealing with "Heh, I hope you brought more than the PTC mercenaries you've brought with you"
"PTC?" Ruby confusingly said to herself,
"Of course, after all you're worth a lot of Lien"—he drew his custom dust powered rifle—"So whats it going to be?"
The Team leaders gathered together to discuss a plan "So what're we going to do?" Ruby asked
"I say we take them, if the freelancer helps us then we might stand a chance" Coco suggested,
"But we don't know how many there are, I mean what if he's just bluffing and its just him?" Jaune said,
"He's not" The there leader looked at the freelancer as he joined them with Blake following having his hands still bound "We're in the middle of a field with no cover, up against ruthless mercenaries who have no problem killing you, you'll be slaughtered"
"And you won't?" Blake said doubting him to which he shook his head in response,
"We're not giving you up, we have orders from the Headmaster to bring you in and thats what we're gonna do"—she looked at the three students with her—"Any objections?" Ruby, Blake and Jaune said nothing in return and returned to their respective teams,
"So, have you decided?" The mercenary said with a dark tone,
"Blake cut him loose"—she turned her head towards Yatsuhashi—"Yatsuhashi return his weapons"
"Are you sure, what if he turns on us?" Blake questioned,
"He won't…not cut him loose" Blake hesitated but eventually she released the freelancer as Yatsuhashi dropped Vajo's weapons in front of him. The freelancer picked up his weapons and stared right at the PTC mercenary.
"Well…we tried doing it the easy way, I guess we'll have to do it the hard way"—he brought his left hand to the side of his helmet—"Fire"
As the students and the freelancer started taking fire from the treeline, some of the students took some hits but recovered quickly and started deflecting what rounds they could while some of them couldn't do it as well, "WE'VE GOT NO COVER HERE, WE HAVE TO MOVE BACK!" Ruby shouted,
"Belay that order, stand your ground!" Vajo ordered, the students ignored him and started shuffling back slowly, "Oh for the love of Oum"
Hardlight Shields Online…
Vajo instinctively returned fire while slowly advancing towards the enemy, he was taking rounds on his arms, chest and legs but the rounds kept bouncing off his shields. As the students pulled back slowly they watched as the freelancer advance, "HEY, WE HAVE FALL BACK!" Coco said as she laid down a blanket of suppressing fire on the opposing side destroying the trees and exposing the mercenaries, there were only a small group of 8 mercenaries and 2 large figures wearing a heavily armoured suit with weapons attached to them (EXO-suit from Deus Ex Mankind Divided).
"SHIT ENEMY EXO!" Vajo shouted, he redirected his rifle towards the EXO and opened fire to which the EXO's responded by raising their right arm and firing at the freelancer while the other mercenaries cloaked and focused on the students. Vajo's shields were taking a beating and eventually broke staggering him in the process, and allowing the shots to pass through dealing reduced damage to his aura.
Hardlight Shields Offline…
"ARGH, Angel scan for weak points in the armour!"
"Yes sir"
The freelancers HUD highlighted the approaching EXO's weak points, "That armour can take a beating from the front but it's vulnerable from behind, I would advise using your grenades in this situation sir"
"These things take forever to make and aren't cheap, I planned on using them on tanks or a giant robot!"
"Well…do you have any other ideas?"
"Yep" Vajo placed his rifle on his back and raised his fists, "On my mark activate stimulants and transfer aura to shields!"
"Sir I recommend an alternate course of action"
"Get ready Angel"
"…Y-yes sir" As Angel awaited Vajo's signal, both EXO's seemingly overheated their weapons forcing them to temporarily shutdown their systems, "MARK!"
The freelancer felt a surge of drugs flowing through his bloodstream restoring his aura while simultaneously restoring his shields, he charged and got in close. The EXO pilot rebooted his systems and attempted to smack the freelancer, but Vajo raised his hands and withheld the attack, he then threw the pilots arm to the side, lifted him up by the legs and threw him on the ground, he deployed his ripjack and stabbed the EXO centre mass disabling the suit.
"One down and one to go" Vajo looked at the students battle but couldn't seem to find them all he saw was explosions in the forest, "Angel what the status on the students?"
"Sir, the mercenaries are pushing them back deeper into the forest, they're holding their own but with the mercenaries cloaking tech they can't manage to hit one"
"Great I tell them to stand their ground and what do they do?"
"Sir, the mercenaries have more advanced gear and real combat experience, the students don't stand a chance without help" Vajo sighed and watched the other EXO pilot reboot his systems and retract his ranged weapons and activated the EXO's shock gauntlets, "I'll be there soon…just have to deal with this guy and destroy the jammer"
Vajo faced the last EXO pilot, "So…you ready to die?"
The EXO didn't utter a word instead he charged forward and leapt up in the air, Vajo jumped back to avoid the ground pound and as the EXO hit the ground he released a electrical shockwave that surrounded the EXO. Vajo saw the shockwave come towards him so he jumped over it, rushed the EXO and went for a superman punch to which the EXO responded by returning to his fighting stance and blocking the punch, though the block did little to stop it as soon as Vajo's fist came into contact with the EXO's forearm the EXO's gauntlets shattered and pieces of armour were sent flying. Vajo followed up the punch with a forward kick to the EXO's chest which knocked the pilot to the ground a few metres away from him.
The EXO rolled on his chest and attempted to crawl away from the freelancer, he didn't get far since Vajo came up next to him and deployed his ripjack and impaled the EXO in the back where the pilot's spinal cord is located, "Target neutralised, Angel where's that jammer"
"I've displayed a waypoint on your HUD, the source is coming from the forest, 100 metres ahead of you"
"Copy that" Vajo grabbed his rifle from his back and sprinted to the general area where the source of the jamming device was coming from, as he got closer the jamming signal become stronger as it also disrupted his equipment. "The signal is getting stronger…it has to be around here somewhere"—he kept walking and noticed red and green coloured strobe lighting—"Aha found it!" He approached the device and he recognised the design, it was a X3-JMR model and he knew a arms dealer who sold them, "Damn it Blackjack…" he though to himself. The freelancer quickly took a photo and destroyed the jammer, as soon as it was destroyed his comms and equipment were back online, "Comms are back up" Angel said.
Vajo established a connection with Juno via his helmet "Juno I need a pickup"
"Copy that, whats your location?"
"Marking my location via flare, get here ASAP we're going on a rescue mission"
"Let me guess, people from Beacon?"
"Yeah, students"
"Hold on, they sent students?"
"Yeah, I expected them to send a of instructors"
"Anyway, I'm in the area I'll head to your location, ETA 5 minutes"
"Copy that" Vajo grabbed a flare gun from one of the pockets on his armour and pointed at the sky and fired, the flare illuminated the dark night rainy sky, "What are the odds of the students surviving the engagement?"
"According to Beacon's records these students are the top of their classes, excelling in combat and studies, I'd say they have a 70 percent chance of survival, with a 20 percent surviving without injury, except for one…"
"Which one?"
"Jaune Arc"
"I've heard of an Arc before, don't we have one in the URG Peacekeeping Corps?"
"Yes we do, Koa Arc, the eldest sister of in the Arc family, she leads Noble Team, one of the most reputable Fireteams in the URG, they've once held off a level 5 Grimm attack in one of the remote villages in Anima with no casualties"
"What do we know about Jaune Arc?"
"Jaune Arc has no official records of attending a combat school and yet he somehow made it into Beacon with forged transcripts"
"Heh he sounds resourceful"
"But sir he cheated his way in, looking at his records, he only seems to excel in one area which is leadership, I doubt someone like him will survive till graduation"
"Maybe, but he's an Arc, they're family has a history of being the most finest warriors on Remnant so maybe you should give him the benefit of the doubt"
"But…thats not in my programming, I look at the facts"
"Then adapt Angel, thats how Humans and Faunus have survived this long for"
"Yes sir, I will modify my programming"
"Good" Vajo then looked to the sky and saw a URG dropship coming in hot, "Spearhead 1 this is Goliath 2-3 are you ready for pickup?"
"Yeah, don't land we have to help those students right now!" the URG dropship hovered above Vajo and dropped a rope, he grabbed it and it pulled him up next to the cabin to, he got in and stood next to Jake.
"Do we know where the students are?" As soon as Jake asked an explosion occurred in the distance, "I have a good idea, Juno take us to where that explosion occurred"
"You got it boss man!" The dropship then took off in the direction, as they approached the area they could see a firefight occurring in a area with a thick concentration of trees, stray dust rounds and grenades seem to fly through the air in one direction while small missiles and laser rifles seem to fly in the other, "Whats going on down there?" Vajo asked
"We've got students on one side with mercs on the other, but with this thick concentration of trees I can't get a clear shot and I might hit one of the students" Juno said
"Alright, Angel, establish a comms link with one of the leaders on the ground"
"Yes sir…link established"
Students POV (Third Person)
The students were fighting tooth and nail but couldn't get a clean hit on the mercenaries, most of the students kept a distance from behind cover and used their ranged weapons except for a few who couldn't with their melee based weapons. Weiss used the revolving cylinder on Myrtenaster to switch dust types, as it landed on ice dust she stepped out of cover and sent concentrated forms of ice at the opposing force but she took a round to the shoulder, the force of the round made her stumble behind her tree, she leaned on it and slowly sat down, "Weiss are you alright!?" Ruby asked worriedly as she ran from her own cover.
"Yeah, I'm fine…we just can't land a hit on these guys" Ruby grabbed Weiss' hand and patted her on the shoulder, "I know but we're not going down without a fight"
"I know but look around you Ruby, morales low, we're running out of ammo and dust, we're exhausted from the mercenaries pushing us back so far and our aura's are low, while the mercenaries have a never ending amount of dust ammunition and haven't even taken a scratch"
"Just hang in there" the two girls then heard the sound of engines above them and could see some thrusters through some small clearings in the branches of the trees, Ruby then heard her scroll ringing, when she looked at who was calling her and it just said 'REDACTED'
"Wait we got a signal?"
"Looks like it…please tell me you're not gonna answer that call right?"
Ruby just smiled and pressed the answer button, Weiss face palmed herself and leaned out of cover to try and find the enemy but all she could see was the dark side of the forest and tracer rounds coming towards them,
"Hello, who's this?"
"The person you captured"
"You, where are you!"
"I'm in a dropship above you, we're here to assist but we can't get a clear shot with the thick concentration of trees, we need you to move to the nearest clearing which is South-West of your current location, do you copy?"
"Ruby!" Ruby faced a girl with a beret and sunglasses called out her name, "Wait is the signal clear?"
"Yeah"
"In that case I'm calling for emergency extraction"
"Wait don't do that yet"
"OI I SAID DO YOU COPY?" Vajo said on the other side
"Yeah I heard you" Ruby then ended the call and shouted out "HEY WE HAVE TO HEAD SOUTH-WEST"
"WHAT WHY?" Yang shouted back
"THAT PERSON WE CAPTURED BROUGHT HELP!"
"AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO JUST TRUST HIM?" Jaune said
"He's got a point Ruby" Weiss agreed
"WHY WOULD HE COME BACK THEN, WHEN WE WERE SEPARATED HE HAD THE CHANCE TO ESCAPE BUT HE DIDNT, HE CAME BACK"
"WHY?" Ren asked
"I DONT KNOW BUT I"LL ASK HIM WHEN HE GETS US OUT OF HERE"
"YOU BETTER BE RIGHT RUBY, ALRIGHT TEAM FULL RETREAT, HEAD SOUTH-WEST!" Coco ordered
"The others reluctantly nodded and got up and sprinted South-West, as they ran the concentration of trees got lighter and they could see a spotlight tracing them but after a few seconds it stopped and it lit up the area behind them. Ruby turned her head as she ran, time slowed as the spotlight illuminated the darkness she briefly saw a male black armoured figure with a skull painted on his face plate and red LED lighting coming from the eyes but then the figure slowly disappeared as the spotlight went to another area of forest, Ruby looked back ahead and kept running, eventually they reached a clearing and saw a dropship fly overhead and faced them.
Vajo linked his comms to the dropship's speaker system "Get clear!" he said, the students quickly complied and got underneath the hovering dropship and aimed their weapons at the forest. Vajo jumped out and landed next to the students, but the students noticed that he was surrounded by a purple aura of energy and that he was slowly bringing his arms to his chest before abruptly throwing them to outwards, as he did this the students saw a purple field surround their position and slowly the three teams were surrounded by the same purple aura that the freelancer was surrounded by and suddenly they felt rejuvenated and determined.
Out of nowhere they started taking fire from inside the forest but as the rounds entered the field they slowed down, when the mercenaries noticed this they stopped firing, Vajo activated his helmets night vision and smiled underneath his helmet, "Goliath 2-3, you're cleared hot"
"Copy that, cleared hot" the dropship then launched its rockets and fired its chin-mounted autocannon, the mercenaries tried shooting back but all of their rounds were slowed from the field and finally they fired a few homing missiles at Goliath 2-3 but Weiss instantly reacted created a hardlight shield in front of the missiles flight path which caused them to explode midair. Vajo could see the mercenaries slowly recover and the leader ordering them to fall back, they then deployed a smoke screen, grabbed their wounded and retreat into the forest.
"So is it over?" Ruby asked
"Yes, they're retreating" Vajo confirmed
"Then lets go after them!" Yang said as she ran ahead but was stopped as Coco blocked her path with her arm,
"No, we stay here until evac arrives" Coco said
"Why we have the advantage, we shoul-"
"I said NO, we only have a slight advantage, we outnumbered them and yet they still beat us without suffering a scratch"
"She right Yang…their gear is more advanced than ours" Blake pointed out
"Yes their gear is something to speak of, their ability to turn invisible significantly hinders our ability to combat them…we cant hit, what we cant see" Ren said
"Awwww I would love to the ability to turn invisible"—she eyed Ren—"I would get a good look at someone I know" Nora muttered to herself,
"Nora why are you looking at me like that?"
"Oh no reason!" Nora said as she innocently smiled
As the students chatted amongst themselves, they didn't notice the dropship land behind them and the freelancer walking towards it, Coco turned and noticed this, she ran to catch up with the freelancer, "HEY!" Coco shouted,
Vajo stopped and turned only to see a fashion icon run up to him, "Where do you think you're going?"
"Beacon, you were sent to apprehend me were you not?"
"Uh yeah but why aren't you trying to escape"
"Innocents don't run"
"Oh well alright…so can we get a lift?"
"Yeah, I was going to offer you guys a lift anyway" Vajo turned and kept walking to the dropship,
"Well that was easier than I thought" Coco thought, she turned to face her fellow students, "HEY GUYS THE GUY WE CAPTURED IS GONNA GIVE US A LIFT BACK TO BEACON, COME ON JUMP IN!"
The students looked at each other confusingly and ran to board the dropship, after the students jumped in and each took a seat the dropship took off and flew straight for Beacon Academy. It was awkward on the dropship, the person they captured offered them a lift back to Beacon, Ruby then broke the silence, "Soooo…we never actually got your name, you know…cause we captured you…" Ruby said, everyone could hear the crickets chirping, making it more awkward.
"My name is Vajo Onyx, as you can see I'm a URG freelancer"
"So uhhh…how old are you?"
"Seventeen" This answer shocked most of the students
"Wait you're seventeen and you're with one the most powerful PMC on Remnant?" Weiss questioned
"Yep"
"How did that happen?"
"Its complicated"
"Riiiight, and you expect us to just believe you?" Yang said
"I expect you to give me the benefit of the doubt considering I just saved your asses, even knowing that I could've just left and escaped but I didn't"
"Fine but I still don't trust you"
"Fine with me"
*Line Break*
Time: 05:00, Day: Friday, Location: Beacon Academy
The gunship then arrived at Beacon with the sun not even close to the sky yet and Vajo could see the landing pad which had an medical team on standby to help the students. Then Vajo saw a man wearing a black suit, green scarf, he carried a cane though he didn't appeared to be crippled and beside him was a blond haired woman with a white top and a black skirt and she carried a riding crop, Vajo then walked up to the headmaster and placed his hands behind his back in a professional manner.
Ozpin smiled and said "Welcome to Beacon Academy, I'm Professor Ozpin, I'm the headmaster at this prestige establishment, I trust that my students were taken care of?"
"Yes Sir" Vajo replied with a nod
"Please come with me but first what is your name?" Professor Ozpin asked while holding his hand out
"Vajo, Vajo Onyx, Headmaster Ozpin" Vajo said, as he shook the professors hand
The professor smiled, turned around and started to make his way to his office. As Vajo walked with the headmaster he noticed that there weren't too many students out though considering it was around 05:01 but the freelancer did see students working out to stay in shape and while he did get some odd looks from the students but he dismissed them.
Vajo and Professor Ozpin arrived to what seemed to be a large clockwork tower that apparently was Professor Ozpin's office though the freelancer wasn't impressed as he's seen better designs in the city of Sanctuary, they then entered the base of the tower and stepped into the elevator which carried them to the top floor. The Headmasters office was a large circular room with gears and cogs behind some glass beneath the floor and around the room showing its clockwork design, Vajo looked around as Ozpin just sat down at his desk while gesturing to Vajo to sit on the chair opposite of him.
"I'll stand if you don't mind professor" Vajo said as he removed his helmet showing his young tanned skin, showing his dark grey eyes with a large scar across his left eye and dark hair that was fixed into a military undercut.
Ozpin just looked at Vajo with a straight face as he thought the freelancer would look a lot older by his posture and military discipline, he then asked "Forgive me for asking but…how old are you?"
Vajo raised an eyebrow before replying "Seventeen sir"
Ozpin looked at him curiously before asking "and how does a seventeen year old become part of the most powerful PMC on Remnant?"
"It's complicated sir"
Ozpin then clasped his hands together, "I see…and how did you manage to encounter my students in the Forest of Forever Fall and could you recount the events that occurred"
"Angel send a video feed of what happened in Forever Fall" he thought to himself
"Yes sir"
A video screen was then displayed on the headmasters desk, Ozpin reviewed the footage with interest in his eyes, and knew that he needed the URG on his side on Salem's, time passed and the videos ended, Ozpin looked at the freelancer as he leaned on his chair, "You have my most sincerest thanks for saving my students, I'm in debt to you, especially after they captured you, now I was wondering…would the URG be willing to form a defensive contract with Beacon?"
"Allow me to contact my employer" Ozpin nodded while Vajo turned and contacted the Director of the URG
"Sir"
"What is it son?"
"The headmaster wants to form a defensive contract with the URG"
"Good…Phase 1 is complete prepare for Phase 2"
End Chapter 2
A.N: I hope you *word that means friends in Australia* enjoyed reading, I hope somewhat long chapters compensate for the amount of time it takes me to write a single chapter but you can't rush things like this even though I'm Australian and we're so (friendly language) laid back but anyway feel free to review, PM me for questions, all that shit blah blah blah and I'll see you next time.