"Before we begin, I have an announcement to make." The author said as he's digging a grave in front of a tombstone with 'Here's lies a terrible writer' written on it. "I am telling you all, how I feel, about all this. I don't see myself as anything but a lowly writer who can't do anything but be terrible. But I should let you know, that I will not quit on this work, no matter how long the last update was. I know I procrastinate basically 24/7, I know I can't type a good story at all, I know I can do better than this, and I should let you know that I was basically writing this thing as it goes along with no planning besides whats in my mind, but I'm just making this for fun. I am not working on this every day at every hour cause what would I gain besides approval from the internet, I got to go to school, this ain't a work that pays, and it's not mandatory to always be working on this, cause lord knows if that was the case, then a LOT of writers here would not be here due to inactivity. I am not going to update this as frequent as you guys may want it, but I still will, as long as there's an idea in my mind, I will use it." the author finished both his speech and the grave, before jumping in, and filling in the hole back up with dirt.
Ch.3
Now we see the mercs, with their stuff crammed in boxes and suitcases, having conservations with the search group due to the deal they made with Hale, who is now speaking with said group about weird, pointless nonsense like politics, technology , history, and whatever it is they're talking about.
"So you're saying this world has accomplished space travel, extend the lifespan of people, and advance an continent by hundreds of years, all cause by a metal called 'australium', which is named after it's country of origin and only source?" Oobleck asked Saxton Hale, as he was always interested in history of anywhere and anyone.
"Yep, though if you think you can use australium for your planet, your out of luck, cause the only source of it left in the entire world is in space as a coating for a rocket." Hale responded, causing the group to wonder what kind of idiot would use a metal capable of anything, just as a cosmetic paint for a rocket.
"So is there any history books that I may borrow, Mr. Hale?" The green haired professor asked the hero of Australia, wanting to know the history of 'earth' and see if any theories about the effects of no grimm and no faunus has on society is .
"Yeah, there's a library over there." Hale pointed towards a room that has 'Library' above it.
"Wait, that's a library, I always thought it was where we kept live babies." Scout said from afar, unable to understand the difference between the words 'library' and 'live baby'.
'Guess smarts goes farther in both ways here.' Coco thought out as she had heard the Scout's statement, wondering what he did instead of going to school and learning how to read , judging by his attire and the bat he is holding, she figured it was most likely Baseball, probably with others who decide to skip school as well.
"You serious about that?" Fox questioned as he can't tell if the Boston is joking or not.
"Serious about what, Blind eye?"
"I'm not blind! I just…look like this."
"…Sure. Now what's so shocking?"
"The fact there's a world, where grown man are unable to read at a most basic level, are hired to become killers, I don't know whether to be I should be laughing or be terrified of this place." Yatsuhachi said, aghast at Scout's inability to do something children can do, LITTLE CHILDREN, for god's sake.
"Well, reading and writing isn't really needed for a guy like me, We just have to write our name on a contract, then go out and shoot." Scout explained as he attempts to put his entire collection of Tom Jones memorabilia all in one box.
"That's because you're an idiot, Scout" Spy said in response to his more-than-likely Boston-born son illiteracy
"Go to hell, Spy!" Scout yelled, a usual counter to Spy's insult, next to shooting/bashing him in his dumb french face, and flipping him the bird.
"Aren't you two on the same team?" Velvet asked, her ears faltering a bit along with her expression after hearing the two mercenaries talk to one another, especially when they have apparently been working together for ten years now, despite the Scout looking to be around five to nine years older than her.
"Yes, but that does not mean any of us like each other at all, I would rather kill myself than be with these imbeciles outside of work." Spy explained further saddening the rabbit faunus, to which the Frenchman responded with a sigh. "Though there may be exceptions." grabbing Velvet's attention.
"Really, like who?" she asked with that oh-so cheerful expression that everyone knows (hands into fists that are raised to chin level, eyes that are sparkling as if they're decorative flashlights, mouth in a small and cute open smile, all to create something that cute girls use to win the audience with a mixture of innocence and excitement)
"Well, I can at least have a normal conservation with the Engineer, the Heavy, and to a lesser extent, the Medic and the Sniper."
"Why those four and not the rest?" Fox asked from behind the Spy, joining in this conversation as he was getting kind of bored just sitting in the background.
"Out of everyone else, they are the sanest and least annoying out of my coworkers, especially the Engineer. And the rest, The Scout is as annoying as they can be, The Soldier is a simple-minded maniac, The Demoman is a drunkard who can only consume anything alcoholic, and The Pyro… we don't talk about it."
Meanwhile, Coco and Yatsuhachi decided to chat with the Heavy, seeing as how the brunette has a similar weapon, and how Yatsu has a similar builds.
"So, Heavy is it, mind showing me that minigun of yours?" Coco asked, as she wanted to see how her Gatling gun would stack up against his minigun.
"Of course, but if you touch Sasha, you will be given pain without end, I promise." Heavy stated with a serious tone, sending shivers down their spines. The Russian then got out his minigun, getting a questioning look from Yatsuhachi, who ask about a certain detail that he noticed upon seeing how the giant mercenary went to grab his weapon.
"Where did you pull 'Sasha' out from?" He asked as he saw the Heavy pull his precious minigun from behind his back, and while he doesn't use a gun, he does know there isn't a gun holster for a gun of that size.
"She was in backpack." He explained as he held out a gray backpack of average size, held together by four straps that contain a tag, a rag, two keys, three arrows, and a wooden baseball bat. The same bag that Coco and Yatsuhachi are gawking at.
"What!? How could it fit in there, the minigun is clearly bigger than the backpack."
"Like this." Heavy explained as he put Sasha back in the backpack, freaking out the two students. "I also have other weapons." Heavy continued as he pulled out not only his standard minigun, but also the rest of the miniguns, along with shotguns, snacks, and different kinds of punching tools.
"Is it some sort of weird black-hole or something?" Yatsuhachi asked as he put his entire arm there and saw it easily fit in, and feeling no confinement at all, even while he moved his arm around. After that, he decided to put it on top of his head, only for it to swallow him whole, scaring the crap out of Coco.
"W-what the hell, where did Yatsuhachi go?!"
"In bag, I'll get as she saw the Heavy hammer in a 'pitch,', tie one end of a rope around it and the other around his waist, and dived right in the bag, further freaking out Coco to no end, as she could only watch for a few seconds before Heavy got out with Yatsuhachi in tow.
"Huuuuh phuuuff" Yatsu gasped in exasperation, while Heavy was handing him sandviches to calm himself down with.
"Heavy usually does not like others eating Heavy's sandviches, but I make exception for now."
"What was it like in there?" Coco asked, calming herself down with a mental slap.
"It was big, and empty. I felt as though I was just floating around." The swordsman explained as he took a bite out of the sandvich. "Hey this is pretty good."
After Oobleck came back from the library with a tower of books that cover his face Hale taking a leap into and went towards the nearest person he could find.
"You! Tell me where these 'Grimm' are at!" Hale shouted as the person pointed a direction that Hale soon went towards by BRAVE JUMPING!
Soon the exploration group, along with the nine mercenaries, came out of the portal. After receiving a message from Ozpin, Oobleck lead the group towards a medical center, much to the confusion of others.
"Why are we here, I thought you wanted us to meet your boss?" Spy asked Oobleck, since his boss appears to accept them, it would be unclear why they are going to a Hospital, unless they wanted Medic, but that would be highly unlikely.
"We're going to test you to see how you compare to the rest of remnant."Oobleck explained to the mercenaries, who just wanted to get this whole thing over with.
In a hospital room some time later, the mercs are looking at some sort of a scanner, while the medical staff were adjusting it for the otherworldly travelers.
"Alright mister..." one of the staff members asked before forgetting that no one really asked their names, but thankfully Scout told them what it is.
"The name of this oh-so handsomely gorgeous face your speaking to just so happens to be Jeremy, fellas." Scout said as he pointed both of his thumbs towards his face, which has a shining smile.
"Man, how often does he brush his teeth." Coco wondered as teeth that well takes a lot of dedication and was thankful that she was wearing sunglasses so she wasn't blurred by it's shine.
"Right... Jeremy, please step in front of the scanner." The staff member asked, which Scout complied, letting the machine scan his muscular body and handsome face, which then produced an empty bar on the screen, confusing the shit out of the doctors.
"An empty bar?" Velvet asked as that machine was to check one's aura and apparently, they don't have any.
"What kind of mercenaries or any fighter for that matter, don't have aura?" Fox questioned as the nine men were as vulnerable as the regular citizens.
"Maybe they didn't unlock it or maybe… they just don't have it." Yatsuhachi theorized, wondering how powerful they could be if they had aura.
"Oh course they have aura, the only ones that don't have it are grimm, and do they look like grimm?" Coco gestured towards to the Scout who was 'flexing' his arm, not noticing that it has no muscle in them at all.
"Excuse me for intruding but can you explain to us what this 'aura' is?" Spy asked as the rest were wondering to, with Soldier wondering if it's a communist thing , Pyro hoping if it's flammable, Medic wanting to dissect this world's people or faunus to see where this aforementioned aura is located(Sure, he could just read one of their book here and find out about it, but where's the fun in that), Engineer being the only other person actually thinking like a sane-ish person besides the Spy, and the rest…simply don't care about it at all in favor of something else (Scout with himself and those handsome looks of his, Demoman being drunk as usual, Heavy taking care of his guns as a pastime, and Sniper refilling his jarate jars with no shame).
"To put it in layman terms, it's the life force that protects all living beings from harm such as the grimm."
"Yeah uh listen, we keep hearing about all this 'grimm' stuff, but what the hell do they actually look like?" Scout asked as they never really showed them pictures or any kind of info that would tell them what it looks like.
"Well since where you're from is somehow lacking of any grimm and aura, and we have some grimm in containment, perhaps you all could test your strength against them to see how you stack up compared to Huntsman.
"Well, if you nine aren't as powerful as the shirtless one, then might as well send someone down there to fight some grimm."
"Scout" The seven out of nine other mercenaries responded immediately, much to the Bostonian's ire.
"Screw you guys, at least Pyro didn't choose me, ain't that right mumbles?"
"Mmph."
"What, you too!? Uh, at least I get to show how awesome I am." Scout sighed in defeat, as he went to fight this 'grimm' as the rest watch, as a cage pops up and opens, showing empty darkness till a dark boar-shaped being with white bone-like armor, and red eyes comes out, looking straight at it's target.
"Whoa! Is that what them 'grimm' thingies look like?" Scout asked as he backed up a bit upon seeing this strange looking pig.
"Some of them, yes. But there are other form's out there, each created for the sole purpose of ending humanity as we know it."
"Really? Do you hafe any photo's I kould perhaps look at for research purposes?" Medic asked as was wondering what would animals made for the purpose of killing humans would be like. (To add to his own research of animal organs.)
Then the Boarbatusk suddenly charged right at Scout, who screamed like a little girl, and run away while getting chase by the Boar.
"How do I kill this fucking ghost pig!?" Scout yelled out
"It's not a ghost."
"So it's a zombie pig!?"
"It can die like any other being."
"Seriously?" Scout questioned as he soon came to a stop, a large distance between him and the swine due to Scout being much faster than it, when it rolled into a ball and charge right at the scout to at least get to the Human faster.
"Then how about I end this fucker with a…" Scout stopped a bit as he hold his bat up, preparing to swing as the rolling pig came up to, before the Bostonian swung.
"HOMERUN!" He yelled out as his bat connected with the rotating boar and sending it soaring, becoming a measly stain on the ceiling, impressing and slightly freaking out everyone.
"Yeah, don't mess with me and smashy, or else…" The Red Sox fan stopped at bit upon seeing the mashed grimm evaporate.
"Uh, mind explaining that to me?"
"Well, whenever a grimm dies, they evaporate into nothing, We currently have no idea how and why they do that."
'Oh really, vell maybe zat's somethink I kould do, sough zee vole efaporation zing might be a hindrance.'
"Huh, well if they didn't do that, I'm sure they would due to my…" As Scout continued boasting about his exaggerated muscles, skills, suave, and overall awesomeness, much to the already nonexistent patience the other mercs have with Scout, especially the Heavy, who nudged Spy as the Russian held up one of his fist of steel, before throwing it at the still talking Scout, hitting him right at the face.
"Argg, what the hell was that for, Fatcakes?!" Scout yelled at the Giant Russian, covering his bruised face as he held up his bat.
"What, tiny baby man want to go to mama for changing smelly diaper?" Heavy mocked, angering the slugger
"I show ya who needs to change his diaper, FATASS!" Scout shouted as he and Heavy began to fight with their melee weapons, resulting in Spy accidentally receiving a speeding fist to the face from Heavy.
"I know better than to make things worse by getting involve." Spy calmly said, not really surprising anyone as he seems to be a man of secrecy, and such a man would not really be eager to engage in a fistfight, but would rather strike at exposed moment or handle it peacefully.
"Well, at least we know there's at least one of them that 's as calm as Ren." Velvet said as she doesn't seem to enjoy the idea of people fighting one another, especially if they have been together for a while.
"Yeah, but isn't he the one who killed that soldier guy?" Fox asked as they did see Spy backstab Soldier, sure he did get revived, but he did kill his ally.
Spy's response to the punch did lead to something worse, as Soldier looked like he saw Spy fuck his mother and fiancee at the same time while staring him in the eyes. (Basically, pissed him off to the point of a rampage)
"YOU FRENCH RIFLE DROPPING COWARD, A REAL SOLDIER WOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING LIKE THIS!" Soldier yelled as he picked up Engineer, threw him right into the fighting duo, and jumped in himself with his trusty shovel, after he smacked Spy into the scuffle with said shovel for being a pussy.
"Ya damn Yankee!" Engineer scowled before pulling out his pistol to shoot the war loving psycho, but instead shot Demoman's bottle, enraging the Scot.
"YA BIG UGLY TOYMAKING GIRL, HOW DARE YE BRONK ME PRECIOUS BOTTLE OF SCRUMPY, I'LL BEAT YE INTO A SOUP CAN!" Demoman yelled as he got out eyelander and attempted to cut off the Texan's head, but instead slice Sniper right at his scar, getting him involve in all this.
"Ya bomb-lobbin wobblin scot." Sniper calmly said before taking out his jarate an threw it, hoping it would hit Demoman, so he can learn not to mess with the best, only to hit Medic, who wasn't pleased that his clothes is now drench in urine."
"Dummkopfs!" Medic yelled as he got out the crusaders crossbow and fired, only to do the most terrifying thing to do, hit Pyro and get it involve in this, as it had a needle in the back of it's head and turn around to see the brawl, gladly joining in with the sharpened volcano fragment, thereby all of the mercs are fighting each other with bruise and severe burns, until Glynda showed up and used her semblance, suspending everybody in the air, freaking out the nine men as they healed off their wounds, confounding the group below them as they remember that the mercs don't have aura at all.
"What's happening, why can't I move, who's that hot lady over there, can I have your number?" Scout rapidly asked, the last one referring to the woman he has just saw right now, more specialty her sharp glasses that just oozes smarts with some discipline and the large keyhole that shows off her cleavage.
"I'm using my semblance, My name's Glynda Goodwitch, and no." The professor answered, much to the disappointment of Scout. "I'm here to bring you all to Ozpin so that we can talk about the situation." she told the Tuefort nine as she telepathically carried them in the position they were in.
Meanwhile...
"And I manage to transfer the film reels and comics into the scroll network, so everybody could watch and read as to their hearts content, now if you'll excuse me, I got some inter-dimensional history to learn." Oobleck said as he left the mercs at the hospital, when he was notified that Glynda is going to bring them to Beacon, he went towards Ozpin office to give the films and comics.
"Thank you Oobleck, I be sure as to hold off your classes until you have finished the history of their world." Ozpin told the coffee addict, when Glynda showed up with the nine men and the turned off cameras. "Glynda, could please set the nine men down, we don't want to get off on the wrong foot." Glynda did just that, not without getting complaints and questions about that weird trick she had perform on them.
"Now that all this has happened, may we be explained why we are needed by you?" Spy asked as he, the other eight, and everybody else in Remnant wanted to know why he had accepted the deal with Hale.
"Simple, I need you to teach the students here how to be hunters." Ozpin replied, getting affirmative responses from the mercs.
"So, are you willing to accept this offer?" Ozpin asked, with the Tuefort nine debating what they should do, before facing Ozpin.
"We shall do it, in the name of FREEDOM!" Soldier yelled, ready to give students and enemies a fistful of democracy and an ass-kicking amount of liberty.
"I'm willing to teach them how to at least try to be as cool as me." Scout said, hoping to give tips on how to be such an amazing ladies man like himself.
"Mmph" Pyro mmphed, wanting to spread love and cheer everywhere it could get it's hot hands on.
"Heavy will teach babies to fight." Heavy stated, already thinking about showing off Sasha and his other precious guns, and getting others to appreciate guns.
"Teaching kids to fight of whatever these things are, just gives off that Texan feeling of childhood hunting." Engineer sighed, fondly remembering memories of hunting trips with his father.
"Time to show these 'grimm' what an arse kicking looks like!" Demoman exclaimed, ready to blow them away along with some medieval slice and dicing, whether it be monsters, students, or kegs of alcohol that may or may not go into his mouth.
"As long as I'm shooting something, I'm in." Sniper coolly said like the professional not-so Australian that he is, getting nods of satisfaction from the equally cool Coco.
"Might as vell keep you idiots alife, hopefully wis more experiments to test as vell, I suppose." Medic shrugged, but was thinking about the bunny girl and wondered if they are more like her, maybe of different variations or a cadaver to dissect.
"As you can see, we accept your deal, now when do we start?" Spy wondered
"Next week, but for now..." Ozpin stopped as he activated the school microphone
"Attention all students, we have upload some videos of these men that we highly suggest you watch as to get a general idea of who they are, after which, please head towards the Emerald forest for further instructions." Ozpin announced as he went off his office, signaling Goodwitch to bring along the mercs as there is something that will happen after the students watch the video's.
So yeah, decided that this chapter needed a little polishing here, as it's the least visited and smallest chapter and just to clarify with some of you out there, I am a beginner at this kind of stuff, plus I'm in high school and I procrastinates a lot, so I might as well try to improve on everything here and not be known as one of those writers who have stories with a lot of spelling errors on them.( I don't mind being known as one of those who updates their fanfiction after a long ass time, since I'm just like that, just wait for summer, than this becomes my number 2 priority, since I'm old enough to have a job.)
Oh, also accents are going to happen to the mercs, just a heads up.
And with that, I shall see ya in 4 months (If you that's bad, it could be worse, others would take years before sending another chapter, and some time it's a abandonment announcement.)