CHAPTER 2: The Shining Beacon
Ben was dumbfounded by what he saw. A huge, palace like school called Beacon. "This is the most amazingest thing I've ever seen." He said.
Ruby chuckled and said, "Amazingest isn't a word." "Do you have a better word for it?" Ben responded. Ruby smiled and said, "No."
The team and the shape shifter walked down the halls of Beacon. No words were spoken. It seems that what happened earlier left the girls dumbfounded and left the the boy wishing he could just go home... or have a smoothie.
Finally, as they near the cafeteria, Blake spoke. "One of us should find Professor Ozpin. The rest should watch over this...guy."
Ben rolled his eyes. "Wow. I feel honored." He said sarcastically.
A few minutes later, Weiss volunteered to find Ozpin while the rest headed for the cafeteria. There, Ben was introduced to Ruby, Blake and Yang. Ben then explained who and what he is and whete he came from to Yang. She barely got any of it but Ben was patient enough, but still annoyed, to explain things slowly. Then team JNPR arrived. They were also informed of what happened and about Ben, which shocked them. Jaune was interested, actually seeing a real hero like X-Ray and Vav.
"I still find this...very unlikely..." Ren commented.
Ben frowned. "Dude, I explained like 100 times-"
Ren interrupted, "Five, actually."
"Not the point!" Ben yelled.
Suddenly, team CRDL, who apparently had gotten over Yang's attack, are now bullying on a bunny Faunus named Velvet.
Cardin is currently pulling on her bunny ears.
"Ow! Please stop..." Velvet begged as Cardin kept pulling while he and his team kept laughing.
Ben and the others saw this. He turned to Ren, saying, "You want proof?" He vaulted over the table and confronted the bullies.
Cardin laughed with his team. "I told you they were real." He said to them. Suddenly, they were interrupted by a brown haired boy with green eyes.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" Ben yelled. Cardin let go of Velvet's bunny ear and stood up, trying to scare Ben with his towering height. To his surprise, Ben didn't even flinch or back away. After all, he's been nose to nose with Vilgax once. Facing Cardin is no problem.
"You're defending this freak?" Cardin replied.
Ben raised a brow. "Freak?" He looked at the worried Velvet. "She looks normal to me. In fact, those Bunny ears make her look cute." He said, facing Cardin again. Unknown to him, Velvet blushed.
"Speaking of freak, have you looked in a mirror lately?"
Ruby, Yang, Jaune and Nora snickered at his words while Ren and Pyrrha got worried. But Blake...Blake found herself smiling at Ben. On how he was willing to defend a Faunus like her.
Cardin, however, was irritated. This kid had the guts to stand up to him and now he's making fun of him? That really ticked him off. "Why, I oughta-" He attempted to punch Ben, but Ben's next move surprised him.
Before he could get punched, Ben slapped down the dial on his Omnitrix, engulfing him in emerald light.
The next thing everyone in the cafeteria knew, standing in Ben's place was a being clad in red, durable armor.
"Say hello to Water Hazard!" Ben, who just transformed, said in a voice similar to a man talking underwater.
Team CRDL and team JNPR were dumbfounded while RBY knew Cardin is screwed.
Cardin, recovering from his shock, punched Water Hazard on his chest. However, he hurt his hand instead of his opponent.
Water Hazard could smirk if he had a mouth. "This armor is tougher than yours. So...why don't you cool off?" He said, ending it with a pun, much to Yang's delight. He then blasted Cardin with cold water from the holes in his palms.
Cardin was blasted across the the room and ends up hitting a wall. The rest of his team ran over to him. Cardin glared at Water Hazard. "You're a freak. Just like them."
Water Hazard replied, "Blah blah blah. Don't talk when your mouth is full." He blasted Cardin again, this time, in his mouth. After Ben stopped, Cardin began spitting and coughing out the water.
Cardin snarled at him. "I'll get you one of these days!" He said, walking out the place, his team following, glaring at Ben as well.
Water Hazard waved goodbye at them, mocking them. "Eat me! Don't forget to write!" He said.
The Omnitrix began beeping and turned Ben back to human. He sat back down with his new friends and began drinking on his drink (which isn't a smoothie, much to his disappointment).
Everyone was silent...Until Nora glomped Ben.
"A superhero! I want a moster watch too!" She yelled as Ben pushed her aside.
Ben sat back down. "Sorry. It's the only one in the universe... Errr...My universe." He replied. Nora pouted and sat back with Ren.
Ben had a victorious smirk on his face. He was about to talk when suddenly, Weiss returns with a blonde woman dressed up like a witch...minus the hat.
"Ben Tennyson, I presume?" the woman said.
Ben raised a brow. Was he in trouble? "Ummm...the one and only."
The woman nodded. "Headmaster Ozpin would like to see you. Follow me. The rest of you, finish your meals ans head to your classes." She said, leaving the cafeteria.
Ben, still confused, followed her anyway.
~O~
Team RWBY were leaning on Ozpin's door, trying to listen to the conversation.
They heard a very faint, "Thank you. You are dismissed." from the other side of the door. Not wanting to get caught, they instantly backed away just in time for the door to open, revealing Ben.
Ruby was the first to ask the brunette. "What did he tell you?"
"I told him everything I told you guys and he believed me. Then he told me that until I have a way to go back to my universe, I should stay here in Beacon." Ben replied, shrugging.
"Makes sense." Blake commented.
Yang was next to ask. "Did he tell you if you should have a team?"
Ben shrugged again. "He told me I'm staying with you guys as a mentor."
Weiss was slightly irritated and said, "You'll be our mentor? Preposterous! If anything, we should be your mentor. We know Remnant more than you."
Ben smirked. "Actually, I'm your mentor in combat. Ozpin thinks I'm a one man army and thinks I'm better than you." He said.
Actually, he never told me I'm better than you, but whatever.
Ben thought.
Team RWBY was silent for a while. But then Weiss stomped on the floor and shrieked.
"There is no way you're better than me!" Weiss said, while her team all sweat dropped.
"You mean 'us', right?" Ruby said, but was ignored by the heiress.
Ben sneered. "Wanna prove it?"
Weiss grit her teeth.
~O~
Team RWBY and JNPR were gathered in the amphitheater. Weiss is on the stage with Ben, prepared to face each other.
Ruby and Nora were excited. Jaune was a little worried. One the other side is the girl he likes. Then on the other side is a superhero that he thinks is cool.
Yang was cheering as well. "Kick his butt, Weiss!"
Pyrrha, for some reason, is cheering for Ben. "Fight well, Ben!"
Weiss prepared herself and took a fighting stance with Myrtenaster.
Ben looked at her and observed.
She could use energy and elements when we fought that giant bird in the forest. Then I know just who to use.
Ben thought as he selected an alien form and slammed down the Omnitrix dial.
In a flash of green light, Ben transformed into a black being with tendril like antennas and electrical plugs on his fingers and tendrils.
Ben, now in Feedback's form, smirked. "Let's see if I can shock some sense into ya." He said.
Weiss immediately spun around and stabbed the ground, creating a wave of ice coming at Feedback. But the Feedback aimed his hands down and blasted electricity to launch himself off the ground, evading Weiss' attack.
Weiss, looking up to spot Feedback, did motion with her hands and rapier and fired beams of lightning from a few small glyphs she created. She thought that Ben would at least block her attack. But she knew he'd get electrocuted if he did that. However, much to her surprise, Feedback used his tendrils to absorb her attacks.
"Okay. That was actually awesome." Yang said. Ruby and Nora had stars on their eyes.
After absorbing the heiress' attack, Feedback landed back on the ground and blasted Weiss with a bolt of electricity.
Weiss puts both arms in front of her and creates a glyph to shield herself from the attack. As Feedback's attack subsides, Weiss creates a glyph below him and activates it, making Feedback bounce in the air.
Feedback found himself launched in the air. After struggling, he sees Weiss in the air with him, preparing to stab him. Instinctively, he manages to catch the rapier's blade in his hands, much to Weiss' surprise. "It's bad to use pointy objects on friends." He replied, smirking and electrocuting Weiss, using her Myrtenaster as a conductor.
Blake eyes widened. "That's kinda harsh." She commented.
Yang chuckled, "Yeah. It's kinda 'shocking'. Eh? Eh?" She said, earning groans and "boos" from her friends. Yang pouted.
Both fall back on the ground, with Weiss lying down, still conscious and Feedback, arms crossed, smiling and thinking he's victorious. Weiss stands up and creates a glyph below her. She then begins glowing with a white aura surrounding her.
Feedback observed closely and got an idea. "Come at me, girl." He said.
Weiss, with incredible speed, slides towards Feedback, attempting to stab him again. But Feedback managed to dodge by back flipping and slamming the Omnitrix symbol on his chest, engulfing him in green light.
Standing in Feedback's place is a being that looked like a giant walking oven.
"NRG!" Ben yelled in a Russian accent.
Weiss stabbed the ground again and unleashed another wave of ice at NRG. This time, he didn't move and was trapped inside the ice prison.
"Oh. He didn't move. He was like frozen in place." Yang said. Her friends groaned again and from out of nowhere, an apple struck Yang on the forehead.
Weiss smirked this time and began walking away.
"You're kinda cool, Weiss."
Weiss turned around to see NRG glowing red hot, melting away the ice around him.
"But I'm too hot to handle." NRG finished.
Team RB and JNPR all groaned. But Yang suddenly stood up and raised her fist in the air.
"You tell her, Benny!" Yang yelled.
Ruby sighed. "I guess Yang found her pun partner."
"Wasn't she cheering for Weiss a while ago?" Jaune replied.
Weiss prepared another fighting stance. She slided forward and attempted to stab NRG. But to everyone's surprise, as soon as her attack landed, she bounced off NRG, and her rapier... snapped!
If only NRG could reveal his smiling face. "Sorry about that, Weiss. But no weapon can break this armor. Heck, this thing's tougher than Water Hazard's armor." He said.
Of course, only Taydanite can pierce this armor.
Ben thought.
Weiss stood up. She analyzed everything. Myrtenaster is broken, she has limited Aura and Ben's in a form that's virtually indestructible. Did she really just lose? She grit her teeth.
"I...forfeit." She said. NRG slapped the Omnitrix and turned back to human.
"Now say sorry to your mentor." Ben said, smirking while everyone else have gone down from the seats and joined them on stage.
But instead of apologizing, Weiss slapped Ben on his face so hard, he got knocked back on the ground.
Teams RBY and JNPR were startled.
Ben rubbed his face from the pain. "Ow! What's with you?!" He yelled. However, he just saw Weiss walking away, carrying her broken Myrtenaster.
Was it something I said?
Yang helped Ben up. "Give it time, she'll like you eventually." Yang said.
Ben shrugged.
Ruby and Nora now glomped Ben again.
"Come on! Let us borrow that watch!" Both girls said. Ben groaned and tries pushing them both off.
Jaune looked at Ben.
I wish I had that watch...then maybe...I'd be a good Hunter...
He thought. Pyrrha noticed the look on Jaune's face. It worried her...
Jaune...