He reached the hall for the second time that day and walked in seeing that most of the students were getting ready for bed but knew that they wouldn't actually go to sleep for another couple of hours yet. The problem with them being teenagers he thought to himself. The hall was noisy but not loud so he took his chance at getting their attention now before it was impossible.
"Good Evening Students!" he called out from the main door which made the noise stop almost instantly. When he could see that he had their undivided attention he continued.
"Now as some of you have guessed, I'm here to make sure you all behave yourselves this evening. That means if you do anything which might be considered inappropriate then I have the right to make you regret it instantly." All the students seemed to get the message from the looks on their faces. "Good I'm glad we understand each other, and by the way I'm professor Tinman before any of you start thinking I'm the janitor or something." He made his half-smile and then stated to walk through the hall, noting that several of the students made a little too long eye contact with his cybernetic eye. He reached the storage closet and opened it up to find the bedding kept in there for this purpose, he always felt a bit stupid whenever he had to do this but if these students did start taking liberties this early on then there would be no hope for them later.
After he pulled out what he needed he took it all to the balcony overlooking the room and set it up. Once finished he looked down at the room and noticed that it was considerably quieter than when he first entered. He was slightly happier about that as he thought they would more than likely go to sleep earlier and he could try and look over his notes on his scroll before he too tried to get some sleep.
After an hour, the students did indeed start to go to sleep but a few lingered on awake so Andrew had to keep an eye on them. Luckily his cybernetic eye could watch them and alert him to any problems while his normal eye could read his notes on his scroll. This was a talent that took a few years to perfect because his brain still thought his eyes should work together and caused him no end of motion sickness. Just as he reached a point where he thought everything would be fine he heard a loud "Helllooooo" coming from down stairs so instantly switched both eyes to the offending person. He saw it was a girl with very long blond hair and wearing quite revealing pyjamas, Andrew rolled his eyes at her thinking that she should really cover up a bit more but that wasn't his place to say. She was also dragging another girl and then Andrew sighed when he saw it was Ruby Rose.
"Must be a friend of hers." He said to himself and saw they were going to talk to another girl who he couldn't see properly so gave up on the situation noting it as just students getting to know each other. As he started to get back into his notes he was then interrupted by a commotion and wasn't surprised to see the same three girls were involved in the ruckus, it seemed to be Ruby and the blond were the main focus of the event.
"Doing well aren't we miss Rose." With that he got up and started to walk down the stairs and by the time he reached the bottom another girl had join the commotion, a girl with long white hair, a scar over her left eye and pale skin that was almost white. The group were becoming very loud so he marched over at a quicker pace but being very careful as to make as little noise as possible. When he was almost upon them, the girl sitting down had noticed him approaching them, she had long black hair and a bow on top, yellow eyes and a narrower face. She was trying to tell the other three girls that he was coming but they were in a full argument and were not paying any attention to anyone else. Now Andrew was standing right behind Ruby and decided it was the best time to make his presence known so he started by clearing his throat. All three girls span round to face him, and they all went silent so Andrew half-smiled and said
"Now then ladies, could I ask you why you are making such noise? Particularly since there are many other students trying to sleep in preparation for tomorrow." Ruby was stuck in stunned silence and had gone quite pale.
"That is why I had come over here, to tell them to be quiet for that reason Professor Tinman" said the white-haired girl while sending a cold glare towards the blond hair girl."
"No one asked you to come over here!" the other girl shouted back. Andrew rolled his head.
"So, you thought by shouting at them to be quiet it would make things better?" The white-haired girl looked rather embarrassed at the statement.
"And if you hadn't been making a scene in the first place then she wouldn't have needed to get involved." Turning to the blond girl.
"Whatever teach." Was her reply with no respect at all. That was something he couldn't stand for
"Erm Yang" Ruby tried to say before Andrew took another step towards her.
"What did you say?" he asked with a voice dripping was malice. Yang turned to face him and he saw a change in her attitude.
"I mean sorry professor." She reluctantly said to which Andrew nodded
"That's better, now if all of you would kindly get some sleep before anything else happens and I'm forced to make an example out of all of you" he gave a quick glance to all four in turn in which they all quietly nodded. He then turned around and headed back to his own bed. Before he got too far away his enhanced hearing in his left cybernetic ear heard Yang say under her breath
"He really needs to work that stick out of his butt" and Ruby snickered but stopped abruptly when Andrew did.
"If you're going to insult someone, at least say it to their face" he said back turning his head so his cybernetic side was facing them. Ruby was once again white as a sheet and Yang was standing to one side with her arms folded. Under his cybernetic gaze, she eventually lowered her head and Andrew then proceeded on his way back to his bed. When he was back, he looked over the hall to see the girls had done what he said and now the whole hall was almost sound asleep. He then chuckled to himself
"That Yang doesn't lack for confidence, I can't wait to see how she fairs with Glynda." Without knowing it his mind had started to forget about his problems and he was instead laughing to himself over his soon to be possible new students. Before long he found himself slowly slipping into a dreamless sleep.
