I didn't say this before in the previous AN before the actual start of the first chapter. This story is under a well-needed rewrite, which means that some plot points in the beginning here are going to be reduced to non existence. When I first started writing this story I was nowhere near as experienced as I am now. So hopefully I can resurrect this story by re-writing the first 10-15 chapters or so, as long. After that point however, I think I am going to be halting the rewrite process for a bit so I could continue the actual story with my co-writer and Beta CrowSkull. Just keep in mind that the almost every chapter past this point is not going to be the same quality of writing as the next few remastered chapters.

For those coming from one of my other stories, specifically An Unlikely Hero. I am letting you know now that Hector in this story is FAAAAR different then the Hector of that story. So just keep that in mind as you read.

Of course, if you want to read it all anyway, go right ahead. I won't stop you.

Beta: CrowSkull


A Tale of Two Heroes

Chapter 2 REMASTERED: First Day

Hector was in a state of shock, and bewilderment as he blinked his eyes several times and did his best to actually get words to leave his mouth, only to stammer and stutter at the beginning of every sentence when he tried to wrap his head around what the hell just happened to him. His partner didn't help at all of course, nudging him in the side and giving him a congratulatory smile. She would have preferred that she be made leader, but she is content with the results. It didn't mean she didn't have questions to ask however. The other two members of the newly formed Team HAMR already stepped away and got back into their seats, content with waiting for their leader and other teammate. Glynda Goodwitch was slowly running out of patience as the other students left the room already, leaving Team HAMR as the last remaining team to have yet to leave the room. The headmaster simply stands still, facing toward them with a kind grin as he took sips from his mug every once in a while. Waiting for the inevitable question to be asked.

"Why!? I mean what did I do to deserve this? How am I the most qualified- I mean, how do you even know my name?" Hector asked finally, pointing an accusing finger at the amused headmaster.

"Well if you're just going to say it like that... I am a little curious myself." Ashley agreed not so helpfully, honestly a little amused herself with her new leaders antics.

Ozpin simply smiled at them, finishing his coffee and frowning when he realized that there was none left. Next, he hid that hand behind his back and tapped his cane on the ground once. Getting himself the attention of everyone else once again.

"I am sure you have many questions, especially you Mister Rivers. Which one would you like to begin with?" Ozpin asked, already knowing that he has been asked three already.

Hector held back on the urge to raise his voice again, only stopping when Glynda's emerald eyes glared into his soul and terrified him into submission. Only after taking a deep breath and crossing his arms did Hector finally calm himself down enough to make his words sound coherent and well thought out. Now if only his partner would stop having that smug look on her face like she is enjoying watching him struggle.

"Why did you make me leader exactly?" Hector finally asked. "I don't mean any disrespect, I just really don't think I am the best choice for a role like this, and if you knew what I know you would know exactly why." Hector asked in as calm a voice he could possibly muster up. Ashley shrugged to herself as she realized that this wasn't about to end anytime soon, and this excused herself from that entire conversation, taking a seat near the exit and resting her head against the back of the seat. Waiting for her new leader to stop acting up like he is now. On the inside, she was actually getting a little annoyed now, this was just getting boring to watch now.

"Hm, and apt choice of words Mister Rivers. Come, I'll show you why I decided to choose you over your other teammates." Ozpin said as he gestured over to himself, a scroll in hand with a video already queued up on pause.

Hector shrugged his shoulders, seeing no problem with seeing a video explanation of why he was selected as the leader. He stepped up to beside Ozpin, and looked down at the scroll presented before him. Ozpin pressed the play button with his thumb and let it roll. It was a video of the encounter Team HAMR had with the Deathstalker, something that only just happened a few hours ago already felt like it was much longer ago. But other then that, Hector couldn't help but not notice anything that was intended for him to see.

"Okay, I'm watching myself running away from the Deathstalker after spewing off a plan I came up with on the spot." Hector pointed out with a shrug, as if it was obvious already. "That's how I normally do things."

"Understandable, but I must ask you to look closer. The answer will be right before your eyes, all you must do is look for it." Ozpin said, intending to let Hector figure this all out on his own because he knew that he could. Also just for the fun of it, it was definitely one of those.

Hector internally sighed but ultimately listening to the headmasters advice and leaned closer into the screen, watching as the headmaster rewinded it back to the point where the Deathstalker fight first started. He watched as his own face changed from one of confidence to one of concern once his team started to lose the fight. The first thing he did when he finally convinced himself to jump into the fray was help anyone who was down back up, starting with Ashley Cain. After that, he used himself as bait to distract the Deathstalker so that the others could catch it off guard and land a fatal blow. When Reggie was coming down for his mini nuke, Hector saw that he was the only one left without protection from the blast even when he asked for it from Michael Cedric. Luckily his aura protected him, and the tree he was behind blocked most of the blast.

Once the video ended Hector began to understand why he was chosen over anyone else, and then rubbed his face with one long stroke as he realized that there was really no other way out of this. His faunus partner of course listened in to the whole thing with her faunus dog ears listened to the whole thing, and felt just a little bad for not offering her own protection since he helped her before, possibly even saved her life. But only a little bad, he was still alive after all. No harm done.

"Alright I get it," Hector said with an external sigh this time. "I see how you would have chosen me over anyone else to be leader."

Ozpin smirked at him. "You also showed many qualities of how a true leader should act and behave during a life or death battle such as that. You put the lives of your teammates before your own, and when you saw that there weren't any other options when they all left you out in the open as a destructive projectile was plummeting toward the ground at terminal velocity." Ozpin points out, shooting a glare toward Mike, Reggie and Ashley, to which they all turn away and begin whistling as if they are minding their own business. Except for Mike of course, who simply shrugged his shoulders and lazily turned his head to meet eyes with both of them.

"Guilty as charged." He said as he puts his hands behind his head.

"So as you can see, despite your objections you were the only real option for the role of leader for Team HAMR. As for how I know your name, do you really think I wouldnt find out that part of you." Ozpin whispered that last part to Hector, his tone hitting a serious edge for a moment as if to let Hector know that he had his eye on him. If that didn't happen already of course, that would be a question for another time. Preferably when he had an actual idea on how to defend himself, and fight.

"Oh that's nice," Hector ended up saying, doing his best to not show the fear he felt. "I'm glad you did your research because that would've been an awkward conversation to have in front of so many people.." Hector said as he looked away from Ozpin, and walked off the stage, already feeling the looks of not only Ozpin, but also Glynda Goodwitch herself.

"Oh, you finally ready to be a leader boss?" Reggie said as he jumped up to his side and playfully punched his shoulder.

"Ow, and sure Im ready lets go to our rooms and we can discuss this further." Hector said as he rubbed his shoulder of the pain.

"Guess I'll come to." Mike said in a bored tone as he joins us, walking up to the leaders side.

"Miiike, don't you have something to say to our leader?" Reggie said, nudging Mike with his elbow with more power than what was necessary.

"Ugh fine." Mike rolled his eyes to look at Hector. "I'm sorry I didn't give you protection from the blast earlier. It was immature of me." He apologized as he bowed his head slightly in his new leaders direction.

"It's alright man I don't hold grudges. No point to them." Hector said with a friendly smile. On the inside he did kind of hold a grudge, but he felt like there would literally be no point to it. He'd rather start off nice rather then on a bad note.

Hector looked to his partner as they grew nearer to the exit of the room, she was still sitting down sideways on the chair with her head down. But Hector could see her blue eyes looking into his as he got closer to her.

"C'mon Ash we got shit to do." Hector said with a wave of his hand, gesturing her to follow, and she did.

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After a couple more minutes of quiet walking they finally make it to their room, which was on the third floor, room thirty two. Hector hid the fact that he made that up because he honestly had no idea on where they actually needed to go. Eventually, they found it, and after failing to open it with his scroll, Reggie kicked the door down and welcomed them all into their new room that they have claimed. Reggie even carved in the words 'Team HAMR' on the outside of the door, so unless the door is replaced this is now going to be their room by right of conquest. Then they realized that something was a bit wrong with this room. There's only three beds.

Reggie and Mike claimed two of them almost right away, pushing them up together so that they almost made one bigger bed. Their actions caused Hector to raise an eyebrow. He figured that the two of them were close already because of initiation, but he didn't think they were that close. He could just leave it be and not ask, but he felt it important that he have some confirmation about something.

"Is there… a reason for this?" Hector asked carefully.

"What? He's my boyfriend." Mike said with a shrug, as if it should have been obvious. It only confirmed it even further when Reggie planted a kiss on the other boys cheek, snuggling him into his chest as they lied on the bed.

"Okay, that would have been nice to know before, but I have no problem with it." Hector said with a shrug, using the desk pushed up against the wall to hold himself up

"So, what are we going to do about our bed situation here?" Ashley asked from beside him.

"You can take the bed, I'll just sleep in the chair or something." Hector said with a shrug, he wasn't unused to sleeping sitting up, it was something he did all the time in school. Speaking of school, he still had a lot to think on. He hoped that this was just some crazy dream that he was going to wake up from and find himself still in that boring math class when the bell rang, but with each passing second this was beginning to feel more and more real to him.

"Or you guys could share the bed." Reggie suggested with a laugh as he rolled to face them with a smug grin on his face. They both rolled their eyes at the childish quip, even if it managed to make Hector chuckle a bit and actually grow nervous as to what is going on in her head because of that, luckily, he saw that she was just as amused as she was with the idea.

"Alright, since we got everything settled now," Hector said as he sat down on his new sleeping chair, completely ignoring what Reggie said and not responding to it. He looked down at the scroll he found in his pocket, he figured Ozpin must have slipped it in while he was distracted. So far, he was thankful that he was reverse pickpocketed.

"NOW let's go over our schedule for tomorrow morning," I say as I pick up a schedule meant for all of us that was conveniently left out on the desk.

"Alright so combat class at nine am, and that ends at twelve, then we have Grimm studies at- Hey are you guys listening?" Hector noticed that Ashley was just glued to her phone, typing away a message to someone, probably family or something. Reggie was asleep, Mike still wasn't very interested in anything and kept reading his Ninjas of Love book.

"Oh great, so we're doing this now." Hector cleared his throat, preparing himself to become just a little louder so that he couldn't possible be ignored.

"SO!" He screamed at the top of his lungs, catching the attention of his whole team while also startling them. Ashley fell off the bed halfway while Reggie jumped up awake from his quick nap, Mike got startled as well as he threw his book across the room accidentally. Hector was pretty sure that he could be heard from another room, but at this point he had already hit the fuck it button.

"SINCE YOU FUCKERS WERE BEING ASSHOLES, THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THINGS. EIGHT TO EIGHT FIFTY AM IS BREAKFAST, NINE TO TWELVE PM WE HAVE COMBAT TRAINING, AFTER THAT WE HAVE TO GO STRAIGHT TO GRIMM STUDIES 12:15 TO 3:15, SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A HEALTHY BREAKFAST." He coughed a few times after that, and that was when the loud voice was no longer needed, nor was it welcome for anyone within a five meter radius.

"Lastly, we have World History at the end of the day, so are we all good now or do I need to raise my voice again?" Hector asked, rubbing the base of his throat as it began to get a little sore after he nearly blew up his voice box.

"I think we got it…" Mike spoke up and removed his hands from his ears.

Reggie just nodded furiously, and Ashley just slams the pillow over her head, already trying to will herself to sleep. He didn't even notice that it was night time already, and honestly, he was glad that it was night. Hopefully he wouldn't be here anymore when he woke up

"I'm glad everyone understands." He said with a yawn as he sat back down in his chair. The next thing Hector did was close his eyes, and slowly drifted off to sleep as the dorm room grew darker.


Hector was still there when he woke up, and while that may have been a moment of celebration for most. For him it was terrifying really. He was the one to wake up first, and he ran into the bathroom as soon as he did. Wetting his face with water and thinking to himself.

So... I'm still on Remnant... this is going to be a thing apparently. He said as he held his face with his hands, and then groaned into them. Okay, maybe this isn't permanent, i'll just play along for now, and hope that one day I'll go to sleep, and wake up back on Earth. Hector was the kind of person who did his best not to overthink things, and in this situation he has found himself in. He really could not afford panicking. After brushing his teeth and freshening up, he let himself out of the room, and took a peek at the clock near the corner of his desk.

Turns out his alarm was only loud enough to wake himself up only, so now he was tasked with waking up the rest of his colorful team who are all training to kill monsters from the restful sleep at seven in the morning. It sounded just has fun as it was to actually do, but of course being the leader, he was the one who had to do it.

"Mmm." She whined as she slapped his hand away

"C'mon Ash time to wake u-"

BRRRRRRR Goes a whistle from behind the wall beside them.

Reggie and Mike both shoot up and get into battle positions at the sudden whistle and Ashley jumped up from the bed and wrapped herself around Hector's head and shoulders to get away from whatever she thinks was attacking them. Hector didn't enjoy it much since he was already losing balance and almost fell a few times if it wasn't for the other wall just a few feet to his right, using it as support to hold up his now top heavy body.

"Boss, man what was that?" Reggie asked tiredly, yawning even as another blast of a whistle pierces through the air.

"Mmph!" Was all that Hector could respond with.

"Eh, must have been the wind or something!" Reggie yawned again and tried going back to sleep, but luckily for Hector it was the M of their team that kept him awake. Mike just silently laughs at the whole situation since he figured it out right away.

"Mmph! Okay, we're good now." Hector said as he finally managed to push his partner off from around his head, catching his breath as soon as his lungs were able to take in air again.

Ashley opened her eyes for the first time since she was rudely awakened, she stammered off her apologies and stormed off to the bathroom to do her morning routine. It was odd to see her light grey hair with those black streaks down and not in it's usual ponytail. But something tells him that is going to change quickly pretty soon.

"Alright, since that is settled, we gotta go-"

BRRRR Another piercing sound nearly made him go deaf again, making him cover his ears with a soft gasp as the. From inside the bathroom he could hear a slip and then a thump, followed my a variety of curses yelling at whoever it was blowing that damned whistle. Then screamed out a curse to whoever it was that was actually doing that.

Hector followed up on her curse with one of his own, and banged on the wall to get their attention.

"Hey! What's the point of that?" He asked loudly.

"Bonzai!" Is the only response he got. Making him widen his eyes in shock as he immediately recognizes the voices. It made him feel incredibly stupid that he forgot that he ran into the whole team of girls back in initiation, all of Team RWBY. It nearly made him choke on air but he managed to recover quickly and hide his nervousness with a emotionless mask. After shaking his head to completely bring himself back to reality, he handed his scroll to his other teammates, a hastily yet smart idea running through his mind at the moment. Mostly just to distract him from his own shock.

"Give me your numbers so I can make a group chat for the team." Hector said after he handed it to Reggie, who types his number in and saves it before handing it to Michael. He didn't even have to look at the scroll to type his own number in a save it. Hector figured that he must have spent a lot of time on phone- no, not phones. Scroll's, it was definitely going to be taking some time to get used to all that.

"Awesome, I'll get Ash's number before the end of the day." Hector said as he went to the one massive closet in the room. Of course since he didn't bring himself any clothes, he didn't have any besides some stock school clothing, but of course it seemed like the rest of his team did. There was four sections in the closet, each with labels on them. That explained what Mike and Reggie did while Hector and Ashley packed it in early. Speaking of whom, Michael and Reggie both seemed to be ready to head out of the room already, with their own sets of clothes in their arms.

"We know how girls work so we're going to the public restrooms, and showers to get our stuff done, we'll be back soon." Mike explained easily, something Hector was easily able to understand. He gave them a two finger wave and reminded them where the classrooms were and what time they were supposed to be there. Just because he felt like it was expected of him to do so since he was the leader of this team.

Maybe something like this wouldn't be too bad... being the leader of a team? Sounds fun, sure. If you forget the part where he was the leader of a team of superpowered teenagers who were able to bend steel with their bare hands. And there he was, nowhere near as strong as any of them with not a second of actual combat experience besides some years of grappling and wrestling tournaments. Besides all of the cast and the world of RWBY suddenly becoming his new reality, it didn't seem all that bad. he did miss his family, but for some reason he didn't really miss his own life. That should be touched up on in the near future for sure. But now, it was time to be a leader. Time to be someone actually worth something. With a soft hum to himself. Hector made up his mind, he would make the best of this predicament.

Ashley poked her head out of the bathroom shyly, and asked him to get her the clothes she forgot to bring with her.

Hector sighed, his self-hype moment completely ruined because of the interruption.

Well... maybe not every second of it would be awesome.


After dealing with that little issue, Michael and Reggie returned to their dorm room. Shortly after that, all of Team HAMR all sit in around in a random empty lunch table that Reggie marked as ours my taking a spray paint can that Hector really hoped came out of a magical back pocket, and not where his messed up mind thought it might have came from. Then proceeded to spray paint the words 'Team HAMR' on the tabletop In multiple colors. Dark red for Hector, dark blue for Ashley, green for Michael and an orange for himself. Hector tried to stop him at first but by the time Reggie started listening to his words he already finished writing the letters.

Ashley decided to sit next to me, while Mike and Reggie are on the other side sat next to each other. They all devoured their food in such a short amount of time that they still had some time to hang out for a few minutes and just talk. Ashley was been much more chatty and friendly that Hector originally thought she could be, even throwing a few jabs his way playfully in the forms of some witty quips. She seems alright so far, not a bad person at all. Pretty, friendly, witty at times. But there was one thing that Hector felt like he needed to get used to, which were those extra set of ears on top of her head.

"So what's it like being a faunus with your traits?" He couldn't help but ask, and hoped that he didn't offend her in any way. Luckily, she didn't seem to mind as she perked up at his question, her canine ears also standing up and at attention. "Do you have super hearing because of the four ears thing or sense of smell because of your canine parts?" He made sure to make it sound like he was genuinely curious, which seemed to have pleased her and maybe a few other faunus listening in. Looks like he was off to a good start already, if there was anything he was good at, it was talking to people in a certain way. By acting like he was something better than what he actually was. The best and worst thing about it was that it worked most of the time.

"I can't really answer that super hearing part, because well I've never known how humans hear, I only know how I hear. But I do know that if someone blew a whistle it hurts, but I definitely got the smell thing." She explained politely. "So please make sure you take a shower ever night, I'll be able to tell if you don't."

"Hehe, sure." Something else popped into his mind. "What about that night vision thing, is that true too?"

"Yeah, it's a thing for all faunus." Reggie answered before she could, surprising his leader and other teammate with his quick response. Just in case Hector somehow managed to miss a person with animal parts, he took a quick glance toward Reggie, looking over his face, the top of his head, and even his exposed arms to see if he happened to have any more patterns or anything of the sort on his body.

"Yeah it's pretty useful when power goes out." Reggie said as he swallowed his food.

"Wait, you're a faunus?" Hector asked him with an arched eyebrow.

"Yeah boss," He confirmed as he flexed one of his arms. "I'm a rhino faunus, but when I was younger I got into an incident and lost it." Reggie explained simply, he must have been able to get over whatever happened to him back then. He even moved his hair to reveal a scar in the middle of his forehead where his horn used to be. It looked like a scarred circle slightly darker then he usual tan-caramel colored skin tone.

"Oh shit… Well with the way you like charging into battle I guess that was a giveaway." Hector said with a shrug. They already had one faunus on the team, why not two? At this point, nothing is going to be able to surprise him.

"Would all first years please report to their first scheduled class." the intercom spoke up in Glynda's voice, and that alone was enough to get most of the people in this cafeteria running scared.

"How did all that time pass already?" Hector asked as he took a peek a the clock on his pho- scroll. Seeing that it is just five minutes before their first class starts. He scrambles to get out the schedule on his scroll to see what class they have, and he originally thought that they had combat training, but saw that he had the times mixed up. "Oh fuck, we're going the wrong way!" He shouted as he re-directed his team to the rightmost hallway, using a map app on his scroll to guide him.

"How do you mess up that badly?" Michael asked, slightly annoyed as he keeps pace with the rest of his team.

"Hey, at least I am trying!" Hector defended. "How come none of you decided to take a peek at the schedule, huh?" He countered with a internal satisfied cheer when he saw that the rest of his teammates flushed and chuckled nervously.

In the end, they all managed to make it barely on time. They actually walked into the classroom right as a green blur zoomed right past them and into the center of the room. If Hector wasn't already in the 'I don't care' kind of mood, he might have been shocked to see someone like Professor Oobleck standing at the head of the classroom, eyes already locked with his.

"Ah! I'm so happy that you could have joined us Team HAMR!" The teacher exclaimed. "Just in time as well, please take your seats next to Team JNPR right over here." The hyperactive professor instructed as he pointed his arm Team JNPR. Hector didn't even respond, at least not verbally. Rushing up to take the open seat beside the blonde of the team, while Ashley next to him, and then Michael and Reggie following after that. Right as the blonde guy was about to introduce himself, the door barged open again, allowing four girls to push through and into the room. They took the last four seats before even the teacher could properly acknowledge them beside looking at them with a slightly agape mouth.

"Ah, it seems like we have a lot of late comers today. I will let it slide just this once since its the first day, but I must warn you all, this will be the only time I allow this." Oobleck warned as he raised a finger to push his glasses back up the bridge of his nose.

As the lesson started, Michael and Ashley already found themselves trying to keep Reggie awake while also trying to keep up with the lesson. Hector keeps trying his best, but he can't do two things at once, so he silently handed off that responsibility to his willing teammates. After a few minutes of that, Hector finally built up the courage to look to his left, only to see a pair of azure eyes already looking back at him. Jaune Arc, here he was, in the flesh.

"Hey I'm Jaune. Jaune arc." Jaune Arc in the fleshed introduced himself with a friendly nod.

"Hector Rivers." Hector didn't miss a beat, and introduced himself in turn with his own kind nod.

"Hector? I haven't heard a name like that like... at all. Where are you from?" Jaune asked curiously, even adding a tilt of his head for extra effect.

"Err..." Hector didn't know how to explain this. "Lets just say that I am just otherworldly." He put up air quotes as he said this, technically he did tell the truth. He wasn't really from Remnant, and by the amused look on Jaune's face he could put together that he must have thought that he was foreign or something of the sort. For now, Hector was content with that.

"Nice one, I hear you're the leader of your own team. Right?"

"Yup, that's me." Hector affirmed, before jabbing his thumb in the opposite direction toward his ashen haired friend. "And this is-"

"Mister Arc, Mister Rivers! Care to explain what you two are talking about in the middle of my lecture? On the first day of classes no less!" Oobleck scolded, suddenly appearing in front of both Jaune and Hector and startling them immensely. They stammered to try and defend themselves, much to the amusement of the rest of the class, but only one of them were actually able to form cohesive words in the heat of the moment.

"This blonde guy is my new friend." Hector said simply, and even placed a hand on Jaune's shoulder as the words came out of his mouth.

"And this black haired guy is my new friend." Jaune said in a panic and did the same thing to him, making even the teacher chuckle amusedly.

"I see, well, since you two or so friendly with each other, please refrain from speaking with your new friend during lectures. Or at the very least don't speak to each other loudly as to not disrupt the class." Oobleck said right before he sped away and continued his lecture, something about a faunus war from the past from what Hector was actually able to catch.

"Well... we're off to a great start." Hector said as he leaned back, using his quietest voice.

"Yeah, I'll have to agree with you on that." Jaune said with a soft snicker. "It's nice to meet you though, my mom always did say that friends are just strangers you haven't met yet."

"Yeah..." Hector chuckled nervously in agreement, and it was only thanks to Jaune's denseness that he didn't notice.


In the middle of the Forest of Forever Fall, a young man roughly around the age of twenty or twenty one years old woke up from his makeshift lean-to tent made out of branches and red leaves. He woke up with a yawn and stepped out of his shelter. He was just like Hector was, he was just walking around the subway at some point in the day and decided to sit down on a bench, it was late at night so he was understandably tired. He fell asleep on that bench, and suddenly woke up in a forest of just red. He was currently wearing simple black jeans, black shoes not really meant for an environment like the one he was in, and a striped black and blue shirt that was snug against his body.

Unlike Hector, he actually liked to keep his body in shape most of the time, and was also able to make shelters for himself in the case of getting lost in a forest like this. At first he was freaking out, who wouldn't when you fall asleep and suddenly wake up in a forest surrounded by nothing but red leaves? But he figured that it was better to stay calm then it was to lose his cool. Especially when he had no idea where he was. Robert Urra has never seen a forest like this before from where he was from, and he was someone who wasn't unused to seeing some spectacles in his life.

"Alright... phase 1 of my foolproof plan." He said to himself as he started traveling through the woods, trying to remember where that stream of water was from before that kept him hydrated the day before. "Try to find out where I am, and then try to find a landmark. Then phase 2-12 is beating the shit out of the person who put me here." He chuckled to himself. Talking to oneself wasn't exactly a healthy thing most of the time, but in his case, it kept him busy and stopped him from thinking about how shitty his situation was. Obviously, someone or something brought him here while he was asleep, and just left him there.

Other then keeping himself alive, there wasn't really much going on in his life at the moment beside worrying about his own family. They must have been worried sick about him, and he them in turn. He would have to get out of here whenever he can, or so he thought to himself. He honestly had no idea where to go from here.

He considered the idea that this scenery looked eerily similar to some spot in a show he loved watching. But he shrugged it off as some silly idea, there must have been someplace like this somewhere in the world. There was a lot of things left to be discovered after all.

Now, where was that stream of water again?


Three hours later...

The rest of the class went on without any issue, it was mostly thanks to Ooblecks strictness at making sure that no one spoke or got distracted during his class. It was... interesting to say the least. Hector found himself strangely enjoying the less that the Professor - sorry, Doctor was giving them. He made that mistake a few times when he asked some questions throughout the class, earning himself a stern correction each time. The time that went by didn't even feel like a full three hours with how into the topic Hector was. He didn't really know anything about Remnant beside what he was able to watch himself, and he seemingly turned himself into the kind of person who always asked questions throughout the class, not that he cared really.

"We got combat training lets go." Mike said suddenly, cutting off any further deep thought that his leader was having.

"Ah man, I can't wait to finally stretch my muscles." His boyfriend said as he stretched his hands out above his head and let out another yawn. "Lets go!"

"Yeah, let's go team." Hector said as he stood up. Surprisingly, it seemed like Jaune and his team were also going in the same direction. So the two leaders decided to just let their teams join together and walk to their next class. Jaune was chatting with Hector again, the ginger haired one, Nora as she introduced herself started talking to Ashley. And while the faunus didn't really seem to be all that invested in their fast paced introductions and conversation, she seemed to be amused by the ginger haired girl, so they made quick friends. Other then that, Michael and Reggie were talking to both Ren and Pyrrha Nikos respectively. Hector overheard that Michael and Pyrrha actually knew each other from a school in Mistral, and apparently they were good friends there, and also apparently they used to be rivals. Which was great for Hector to know so that he never pissed of Michael, from what he heard, he was the one who was the closest to giving Pyrrha her first tournament loss.

"Oh Jaune, is this the new friend you made?" Pyrrha asked as she caught up with them. Hector was startled a bit to hear her voice, but recovered quickly as he gave her a two finger wave.

"Yeah, that's me." Hector greeted. "Name's Hector Rivers, leader of Team HAMR."

"Pleased to meet you Hector." She greeted back, and didn't point out that besides his last name, he didn't have the kind of name related to a color of some kind. "I am Pyrrha Nikos, Jaune's partner and teammate

Stay calm. Hector had to tell himself. "Good to meet you." He said as he held out his hand in greeting, and smiled when Pyrrha took it happily and shook it. She had a tight grip, but luckily he had aura to numb the pain he felt as the bones in his hands grinded together.

"To you as well, I hope our teams can have wonderful relationship for the duration of our term here." She said kindly as she let go of his hand.

"Yeah... same here." Hector said a little hesitantly.

Ashley was about to speak up to ask about Pyrrha and her time as a champion. But when Glynda Goodwitch suddenly appeared and glared down Hector, they all stopped. Hector froze, and feared for his life. Why would this woman- dangerous woman want anything to do with him? He was practically harmless!

"Did… I do something wrong?" He finally managed to ask. His team along with JNPR all dispersed out into the classroom, making Hector realize that he was actually in the classroom as well. He didn't even remember when he entered to room itself, he must have been too involved with the conversation he was having with Jaune and Pyrrha.

"I'm glad you arrived just on time Mister Rivers." The professor said with no real pleasure in her voice. "You will be sparring in the first practice match today per the Headmaster's personal request. Please, do not disappoint. Now sit, class is just about to go in session."

Hector looked around the classroom a little frantically, seeing that most of the seats and spots were already taken. However, he was lucky to have a partner who came to his rescue during his greatest time of need and whistled to get his attention, and then gestured to the seat beside her. Hector gladly took it and sat down in the empty spot.

"Thanks for that." He said with a bow of his head.

"I couldn't really let my leader just stand there like a deer in headlights now could I?" Ashley asked with a smirk.

"Heh, I appreciate it." Hector said as he thought to himself on what the actual fuck he was going to do in his match. Why Ozpin apparently wanted to see him fight, he didn't know, and likely would never know. "I don't know how to fight and in the next half hour or so I am going to be thrown in there against someone who does, please help." He said suddenly, clapping his hands together in a begging gesture as Ashley stared at him with wide eyes.

"Uh... I don't think I am the best person to ask that question." Ashley said honestly

"At this point, I'll take anything you can give me." The leader of Team HAMR pleaded even more, finally breaking his partner after the fifth please.

"Alright, fine! What weapon do you use?" She asked, trying to get some foundation going first before doing anything else.

"Uh..." Hector looked down at his hands, and clenched them a few times. He didn't really think about that yet, which was another reason for him to curse himself out in the comforts of his own mind. "Yeah... I don't have a weapon to use."

"No training, no aura, no combat experienced, you don't know how to fight, and to top it all off, you don't even use a weapon." Ashley said as she pinched the bridge of her nose, and each time she spat out another truthful statement Hector winced. "Alright, honestly all I have to go off of is your dodging skills from the Deathstalker, so for now just go with that, and try to grab them or something. If you're too close a lot of weapons become useless, try to use your explosive strength to pin them down and eke out a win that way."

"I''l keep that in mind, thanks." Hector sighed and nodded his head in understanding. "What about offense?"

"You're on your own there."

"Sounds like fun..."

"Don't worry, I have full faith in you my fearless leader." Ashley teased with a snicker.

"I am just glad you even have enough faith in me to even fake it, really, it warms the heart."

"Glad I could help!"

"For the first hour and a half of this class we will have three matches. One on one, two on two, and four on four. Each with a maximum time limit of thirty minutes, in order to win you must deplete your opponents aura, or render them unable to fight back. Unnecessary violence will be punished severely and if you kill a fellow student you will be expelled and arrested for murder. Understand?" Miss Goodwitch explains the rules of the bouts quickly and makes it easy to understand. Good for me and any other dummies like me. "Furthermore, after the combat sessions are completed I will assign you and your partner exercises according to the weaknesses of that pair for the remainder of the time we have. If you were involved in a match beforehand it will be optional but I suggest that you take that time to improve yourself. Any questions? Good. Now Mister Rivers please go change as I decide your opponent."

Hector sighed and listened to the teacher, sparing one last look toward to Ashley as she gives him a thumbs up for good luck. Since he had no real combat gear, he would have to go back to his long sleeved shirt and blue jeans. It wasn't much, but it was better than fighting in his school uniform.

"Miss Cain. I'm sure you wouldn't mind sparring with your partner correct?" Miss Goodwitch asked, making Hector stop in his tracks and look back toward his partner, begging her with his gaze to not accept that proposal.

Ashley gave him an apologetic look as she gave her his answer.

"Sure, why not?"


And there we go, REMASTERED chapter 2 is now finished, finally. I didn't think rewriting would be so difficult, but I am managing it so far. Fixed a lot of mistakes and typos already. I am actually embarrassed that I had this posted for so long. So I am glad that I am finally fixing some of it.

Those of you who still see Team HAMR at the top of some chapters, that is the old name. I changed it because well, Hector isn't the only MC anymore. The ones who read this story since the beginning would know that I kinda shifted the role of MC back and forth, and so this new title will be able to fit this story better.

What do you guys think of the remaster? I hope you guys like it as much as I do.

Please review or send me a PM to let me know what you think, if you are new to the story then welcome, if not and you already reviewed chapter 2 back when it came out, then I am sorry but you may have to send me a PM or review as a Guest if you want to let me know what you think again.

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