Ren and Nora joined the crowd of people at the top of the cliff, and Ren looked around during the briefing to see if he could locate the boy from earlier, but with no luck. He listened as Professor Goodwitch explained the rules and that the class would be launched in two groups, with the second group being launched slightly further to compensate for the disadvantage of going late. "Oh," Ren thought, "He must be in the other group". He and Nora took their positions and were launched.

His landing was fairly easy for him and he began moving quickly through the woods towards the objective.

"No need to look for Nora," he thought, "either she'll find me or I'll just follow the trail of chaos she leaves". He ran into the middle of a clearing and paused, feeling something that wasn't right. He pulled out his StormFlowers as a large group of beowolves came out of the forest, nearly surrounding him. He was about to charge when a massive figure flew over his head. A large figure in futuristic HALO style armor, colored green with brown accents, stood up and charged. As he charged, he pulled a dagger off of his chest plate and started to kill the beowolves with immense speed for a person of that size. As he fought, the dagger in his hand changed, expanded into a one-handed sword, slicing through the Grimm, and as he swung an overhead blow into a wolf's skull, it shifted mid blow into a war axe, splitting the Beowulf open, then he spun and stabbed towards another, and it changed in mid-blow again, striking, not as an axe, but a spear. The figure pulled it out and it shifted back into the sword for a few kills, then after dispatching one, he spun and threw his sword towards another, chasing after it immediately. As the sword flew, it shrunk and compressed, and struck into the grimms heart as a long knife. The figure grabbed it and as he pulled it out of the creatures chest, it re-expanded, and he pulled a sword out where his knife had gone in, and continued to destroy the wolves until none remained, and the man turned back towards Ren, sheathing his weapon, once again in dagger form.

"Wow" Nora said, right next to Ren, making him jump, "He's good."

"Nora! That's the quietest I've ever seen you!" They turned around as the man got to them. He put a finger to the side of his helmet,

"Sigma, do a scan. 200 meters." He paused a moment, then looked at Ren and said, "We're clear. No Grimm remaining in the area. And don't worry," he said, tapping his visor, "you two are partners. No eye contact from me, technically."

Nora practically explode with questions,

"Who are you? Who's Sigma? How did you know Ren and I wanted to be partners?" He held up his hands to stop her.

"Hold on just a second and let me answer those before you add anymore questions on. Sigma is the AI built into my suit. He controls all the transformations my weapon does and can do other things using the suits tech that I can't. I knew you two would want to be partners because I saw you last night and this morning and I thought you might be close. And you can just call me H for now. Hey Sigma, take your holographic form for a bit, would you. I bet these people would like to meet you."

Nora squealed as Sigma popped into being just in front of H's left shoulder, in the form of an 8-inch tall warrior in armor similar to H's, but was completely glowing orange.

"Nice to meet you," he said, before turning to H. "We have two incoming signatures. Human, not Grimm, but it's best to be on our guard. 100 meters northeast and closing."

"They must have noticed the fight," H replied, "Alright Sigma, thanks for the heads-up, now you can head back inside and check my gear is ready. I get a bad feeling that that I'm gonna need it"

"Ok, I'll stay in your ear and let you know if I pick up on anything."

"Ok, thanks Sigma." H said as Sigma faded from view. "Sorry about that, he's a little aggressive and paranoid about new people. It's just his personality."

"It's all right," Ren replied, "now let's see who we have coming in. It seems like another pair of partners"