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Chapter 2: TWO days of class
Snow's POV
I wake up to a knock at the door and go to open it. As soon as I do I see team RWBY standing there.
"Good. You're up. Now lets get a move on." Says Weiss.
"Love to but I got to change and so does Shadow." I say.
Weiss peeks past me and sees Shadow still asleep. "He's not even up yet?!"
"Give me a second." I look at Ruby and see she has cookies for some reason. I point to one of the cookies. "You mind?" She shakes her head and hands me a cookie. I turn around and chuck it at Shadow who's hand shoots up and grabs it out of the air.
"Thank you." He mumbles and sits up. I hear the girls gasp when they see his face. He has a scar that cuts into the right side of his top lip, another down his left eye, and another diagonal from the top left of his face down and across his nose.
"Gear up. We have a class to teach." He does a little salute with two of his fingers and starts to take off his shirt. I block the door. "We'll be right out." With that I close the door.
RWBY's POV
"Did you guys see the scars on his face?" Asked Yang.
"Yeah but where could he get scars like that from.?" wondered Ruby.
"I don't know but I think we should learn more about them. I still don't trust them." says Weiss.
"You don't trust anyone." retorts Yang. Just then the door opens back up to reveal Shadow and Snow dressed in there combat gear. "Why are you guys dressed like that?"
They shrug. "It feels natural." Shadow says.
"Okaaaay. Then lets get a move on. We have to show you your classroom." We all start to walk toward the classroom in silence.
My POV
I look at the classroom they gave us and noticed that it was huge. Big enough to hold all the training sessions that TWO does.
"Quite a sight isn't it." We turn around to see Ozpin standing there.
"Hey Ozpin. I got a question for you." He just raises his brow. "We can turn this into our own type of training right?"
"That is correct. Why?"
"Then I'm gonna need your help to gather some stuff for the training." He smiles at that.
"Taking this personally I see. Alright. I'll get you what ever you need."
I smile mischievously. "Good. Lets get to work."
Snow's POV
A couple weeks pass and soon our classroom is ready to be used. I wait out side the classroom for the students to arrive while Shadow waits inside. Soon a crowd is formed outside the room. I walks in front of everyone with my mask down.
"Hello everyone. Welcome to combat teamwork training. I'm one of your teachers. My name is Snow. Before you ask it's not my real name and don't ask what my real name is. Now in this class you will be learning about how to work as a team to complete an almost impossible challenge. You can use your own weapons and tactics but we will be watching how you fight as a team. Any questions?" A hand is raised by a red haired girl. "Yes?"
"You said you were one of our teachers. Are there more teachers for this class?"
"Yes. One other teacher. He's waiting inside for all of us. Any other questions?" A hand is raised by a tall boy with a mace as a weapon. "Yes?"
"What's with the mask? You ugly or something underneath it?" Some of the other students snicker at that.
"No. It's part of the armor I'm wearing right now. It also serves as a HUD or Heads Up Display. Anymore questions?" No one raises their hand. "No? Good. Follow me." I open the doors and the kids look around in amazement. I stop and look around for Shadow but don't see him. "Shadow you here?" I yell.
"Yeah! One sec!" I hear above me.
My POV
I toss a rope down and start to slide down it. When I reach the bottom I see all the students looking at me.
"Hello kiddies! My name is Shadow. I'll be your other teacher who will be grading you. With the combined efforts of me and Snow here, along with funding from Ozpin, We have created a little obstacle course for you guys. One team will go in at a time while the others wait in the other room. Reason being is so nobody's at an advantage when they go in. You won't know what to expect. Now you will be being shot at, But it will be with rubber bullets with a special toxin in them. Be warned though. It stings like a bitch. Now If you will follow me to the room where you will be waiting." We all go into a room where they will wait to be graded. "Wait here till we call your team's name." Me and Snow leave the room and head to the end where we will wait. We get through most the teams leaving only one left.
Ruby's POV
"Team RWBY. You're up." came Shadow from the speakers. We head out the door to the set of double doors that's the start. I slowly open the door only for rounds to be fired at me. I close the door quickly and look to the others.
"What the heck are they trying to do?!" I say.
"I don't know but you almost got hit." Says Yang.
I think for a bit for a plan. I come up with one but it was a long shot. "Okay. I have a plan. Weiss puts up a glyph to deflect the rounds while me, Yang, and Blake shoot at them with our weapons. Ready?" Everyone nods at me. I open the door and the rounds start to fire at us. Weiss moves forward and puts up a glyph. Meanwhile, me, Yang, and Blake shoot at the drones with our weapons. By the time we destroy all of them, there were more appearing. We all take cover and shoot them from a distance while Weiss started to launch everything she could from her sword. I get hit in the arm but manage to take out the drone that shot me. Soon the drones were gone and we moved up to the corner. We walk out and instantly get dropped by some sort of armored machine gun. An alarm goes off and the drones stand down. Shadow and Snow come out and stare at us.
"Every single team." says Shadow while laughing. "Every single team was taken out on this part."
"Not true that one team with the mace guy didn't make it past the first room. What was their team name? CRDL I think?" says Snow.
"True. Now if you guys would follow me we will explain what that all was."
We get up and go into another room where everyone else was. As soon as we enter JNPR looks at us.
"Turret?" asks Jaune. I just nod.
"Alright listen up kids!" Shouts Shadow, getting everyone's attention. "This was to see how you guys can work as a team while being fired upon. So far only one team didn't make it past the first room. Tomorrow will be a regular class day so be ready. Oh, and you don't have to wear your uniforms." Just then the bell rings and we all leave with bruises.
My POV
The following day we get some breakfast and head to our room. Soon the room is filled with the students who sit down in some desks we found.
"Alright!" Says Snow. "Now the first thing we will be teaching you about is Breaching. You have to make a gap in the enemy and try and get past them as with the first part of the course." All of the students gave him a weird look so I pipe in.
"Take the enemy by surprise. Kick the door in to scare them, then take them out while they try to recover."
"Oooohhhh." Says the whole class.
"Why don't you teach them about the next thing since you know how to pull it." says Snow and I smile under my mask.
"The other thing you will learn about today is Aggro." This time I got the weird look. "Let me put it this way. If there was someone with a big weapon like my sniper here," I say pulling out my sniper, "Or someone with a pistol like Snow. Which one would you take out?" Weiss raises her hand. I nod to her.
"The one with the sniper." She says.
"Right. But if Snow was shooting at you and I wasn't you would go after him right?" Everyone nods. "That's where I come in. He takes all the attention for himself then I come in and take out the enemies by surprise. Then they would come after me and Snow would take them. It's a hard tactic to use but it's an effective one." I see some of the students start to take notes on this. "Now say there was an area with no cover, One way to go, and a turret set up for any unfortunate soul. What would you do?" A red haired girl with green eyes raises her hand. "Yes miss..."
"Nikos. Pyrrha Nikos. That's impossible to get passed then." She says.
"Wrong. You can get past it with a creative mind and some ingenuity. How you do it is up to you. Now since you don't know us how about we let you ask some questions about us. Nothing to personal though." Pyrrha raises her hand and I nod.
"Why are you guys called Snow and Shadow?" she asks.
"Well they're code names. Nobody really calls us by our real names and we're fine with it. As for how we got them. They were given to us. Snow is called snow because he normally wears White. I'm called Shadow because I usually wear Black and red." Another hand goes up by a blonde boy. "Yes mister..."
"Jaune Arc. Why do you wear those masks all the time?" He asks.
"These function as protection for our whole face along with giving us a HUD or Heads Up Display." The boy with the mace raises his hand. I nod to him.
"I heard you guys aren't even from this world. So what are you? Aliens?" He asked.
"Your names Cardin right?" He smirks and nods. "Well Cardin. Me and Snow are both humans from another universe where there is no Grimm or dust so. Dimension travelers?" I look to snow and he just shrugs. "Something along that line." A girl with orange hair shoots her hand up. "Yes um..."
"NORA!" she yells and I just laugh.
"Alright Nora. What's your question?"
"What did you guys do on your world?"
"We were part of an organization called the Trans World Operations or TWO. Basically we were military contractors who went after terrorists or protected political parties. The only difference between us and you guys is you train in teams of four while we did things in teams of two."
Pyrrha raises her hand again and I nod to her. "So you aren't from this word. But have you killed any grimm while here?"
"Yes. In fact I believe Team RWBY saw what we killed. What were they. A group of Beowolves and a Deathstalker?" Everyone was shocked at that except for RWBY.
"How did you kill a deathstalker with just the two of you?"
"With these." Me and Snow take out our snipers and the class just stares in disbelief. "This is the AMR-50 sniper rifle. A 50 caliber sniper rifle with Long range scopes and a muzzle Brake. Mine however has a laser sight and ballistics shield."
"Wait. My sniper is 50 caliber but the rounds bounced off the deathstalkers armor." says Ruby confused.
"True but yours are regular rounds. Ours however are explosive rounds. These rounds can destroy a tank crew while they're in their tank." The students stare at the rifles with their mouths open. "Any other questions?"
One students raises their hand. "I'm not even gonna bother with names anymore. What's your question?"
"Can you take off your mask?" Asks one of the female students.
I sigh. "Are you really that curious about what's under the mask?" She nods. "Fine then. Snow. You first." Snow nods and raises his mask. He was white with no scars, had a clean shave, and Blue eyes. Some of the female students stare in awe at how he looks.
"Now you Shadow." I sigh and nod. I raise my mask and some of the female students gasp at what they see. I had a black goatee and deep brown eyes. But that isn't what they gasped about. Oh no I had a scar that cuts into the right side of my top lip, another down my left eye, and another diagonal from the top left of my face down and across my nose. I hear some murmurs about my face and decide to intervene.
"Any other questions?"
"How did you get those scars?" Asked a girl with rabbit ears.
"Now THAT is too personal of a question." I say.
"How is that personal but the others aren't?" Asked one of the guys from CRDL. I gave up on trying to figure out who they are.
"Simple. These scars have bad memories behind them."
"They can't be that bad?" States Weiss.
My face twitches in anger. I take a deep breath to try and calm down. "Let just leave it at this. Snow wasn't my first partner." Hush falls over everyone and the bell rings. "Now get out of here." All the kids get up and leave.
"Shadow. Calm down." Snow says.
"I'm gonna go kill something. If I don't I'm gonna go insane." I grab my guns and walk out the door. On the way out I pass Ozpin.
"Ah hello Shadow."
"Not now. Gonna release anger." I say as I pass.
Ozpin's POV
After Shadow left I run into Snow. "Ah. Snow. Is there something wrong with Shadow?"
"Yeah we let the kids ask questions about us and someone tried to dig too deep." Snow says.
"I see. So how does he usually handle this anger?"
"Goes on missions. All the missions we do usually end up in killing something and it relieves stress for him." He then sighs. "Now I have to go make sure he doesn't kill himself."
"Do you want me to send Team RWBY with you. They are the best team we have."
"That would only make things worst."
"Oh?"
"One of the students asked about Shadow's scars on his face, He said it was too personal, Then someone asked how that was too personal, Scars equal bad memories, Then Weiss said it couldn't be that bad."
"I see. Are you his first partner?"
"Nope. For every scar he has is a different partner. Now if you will excuse me." Snow runs to try and catch up to Shadow.
"Those two have been through quite the ordeal. I guess that's to be expected."
Meanwhile at an unknown location
I take down the last thug and hear clapping. "Well done! I see you're a man who enjoys destruction." says a man with orange hair, a bowler hat, a cane, and cigar.
"No. I just hate it when people attack me."
"Fair enough my masked friend. Say how would you like to join me?"
"Will I be paid?"
"Of course, of course you'll be paid. It's hard to find good help these days but I can get you as much money as you need."
"Then I'll accept your offer. But first. What's your name?"
"My name is Roman Torchwick. And what might your name be?"
I raise my mask. "Salem. Elliot Salem."
Bet you didn't expect that eh? Anyways tell me what you thought and be sure to check out my other stories. Some are on hold till volume 2 of RWBY is out and others I have writers block or is on hiatus. Also, how many of you thought it was shadow at the end. Till next time. Stack OUT!