"Welcome to Beacon. I did say I would introduce you two properly didn't I?" Ozpin said in a warm tone opposed to his normal emotionless voice. The gunship peeled off to a separate port and the transport landed on the pads in front of Beacon. When they opened the bay doors upon landing, they were greeted by Professor Goodwitch along with the rest of team CFVY and team RWBY on the insistence of Weiss wanting to 'learn' about the competition and Blake's concern for Velvet's solo mission. When the pair of Ghosts walked down the ramp into everyone's view, everyone save Goodwitch was in complete shock and awe. Velvet was met by Blake and the two embraced, the latter thankful for the former's safety. When Velvet got to her team, she was greeted by a smiling Coco who returned her attention to the new arrivals and Yatsu gave her a deep bow and returned to the spectacle in in front of him.
Dalton and Luke walked down the ramp in a confused silence, unknowingly giving the others a good view of them. Ruby was to first to talk,
"Oh. My. Oum. YOU'RE GHOSTS! CanIhaveyourautographwhatsitliketobeaghost..." she was talking at a mile per minute and Yang came up and began to talk to the Ghosts over the sound of Ruby babbling to Weiss.
"Sooo, yeah. Sorry about my sister doing that. She's kind of a weapons dork and drools at the sight of weapons and the people that use them."
"No I don't… well kinda." Ruby admitted with a dejected sigh.
Dalton and Luke were still very much confused at what was happening and it was only after Yang walked away with a inviting wink that Dalton managed to grasp what was happening. That was when Luke spoke up,
"Sir, just what exactly are we supposed to be doing? I mean, we aren't getting very much done just standing around on the landing pad." Ozpin replied with,
"Relax Mr. Canary. You are no longer in the military. Call me Professor Ozpin or Professor or Ozpin. I really don't care. The same applies to you too Mr. Wilson. Now, follow me. It's time that you two meet your teammates." he turned to address the others, "As for the rest of you, school starts in just a few days. I recommend to prepare yourselves for the second semester and enjoy your break while you can." with that he finished and walked away motioning for the two former Ghosts to follow. The two followed Ozpin and Luke gave Velvet the parting gift in the form of a smile and a wink to which Velvet returned with her own.
When the two newcomers were leaving, Yang saw the wink from the person with a sniper rifle gave to Velvet and saw it returned so she walked up next to her. She whispered,
"So I see that you met the sniper on the flight over here. You guys have any plans for each other?"
Velvet responded with a growing blush, "Well uh, he seems like a really nice person and we talked for a little on the way back here." wanting to end the conversation she said to Coco, "Come on, let's head back to the dorm. I'm feeling tired from all the healing and sitting around." Yang knowing the reason for the last part didn't bother pressing the subject further.
While the greeting party was leaving and talking about the Ghosts, the duo was following Ozpin to their dorm. Ozpin called ahead and told the current occupant their new teammates were on their way there. The trio was greeted by two men standing in front of the dorm and casually talking with each other. Ozpin spoke first,
"Mr. Falken and Cross, these two are the rest of the team you are assigned to. You will all be formally introduced to the rest of Beacon and be assigned a team name tomorrow at the induction ceremony. Take today to get acquainted with each other and to get rearmed. Mr. Wilson and Canary here expended all of their ammunition on the way here." and with that he left with a small smile on his face.
Wilson extended his hand out to his new teammates and introduced himself,
"My name's Dalton Wilson and that is my partner Luke Canary." Luke shook hands with the rest when the person wearing a battle kilt and watch cap spoke up,
"Hi. I'm Samuel Cross and this is my partner Lance Falken. Welcome to our team I guess. Come on, we can talk inside." They all moved inside when Lance asked,
"Hey, what took you guys so long to arrive here? The schedule said that you guys would be here yesterday."
Dalton and Luke spent the next couple of hours explaining in great detail about the shootdown and the fight to get to the extract zone. They were only interrupted by questions that Samuel and Lance asked every now and again to make sure what they heard was correct. When they finished, Samuel took his watch cap off revealing his wolf ears he had.
"I'm glad that you guys are accepting of faunus. Now, you said that you guys were out of ammo right?" Luke showed him his empty mags and Wilson emptied the casings of his grenades out of his grenade launcher to exaggerate their point. Samuel just kept talking, "Well you guys are in luck." he opened a case labeled Reloading Parts and gave four of them to Dalton and Luke. "Here take these and head down to the forge to make some more ammo. You guys probably don't trust the ammo sold over the counter since you guys have such specialized weapons. I have tons of these cases so if you need any more feel free to ask." Dalton said,
"Thank you so much Samuel. And yes, we don't trust ammo that we didn't load ourselves. Nice catch." to which Samuel replied,
"You're welcome, and please, call me Sam. Now if you don't mind, I have to take care of Lance. He's had too much to drink and he's trying to stop drinking so much."
And with that the duo left heading for the forge receiving stares from of awe from everyone, including most of the upperclassmen. They ignored them as politely as possible and made their way to the forge. I was there that they heard a voice pleading for someone to stop hurting them. They instantly recognized the voice as Velvet's and triple timed it over there.
They saw a boy in grey armour and a mace pulling on one of Velvet's ears and velvet kept pleading,
"Cardin, please stop it. It really hurts." she said that with tears of pain collecting in her eyes. The two Ghosts got there and Dalton called out in his command voice,
"Let her go."
"Or you'll do what?" Cardin said arrogantly
Dalton transmitted on the radio Click-Click Click-Click and with that Luke turned his arm into the dagger and followed Dalton. When he saw Luke turn his arm into a dagger he let go of Velvet and grabbed his mace into a low ready. Dalton walked up to him stopping a foot away from him and said,
"Recognize this unit?" he said showing the Ghost tab on his arm and tilting his head so Cardin could see the unit patch on his beret. "Unless you want to see what Ghosts can do first hand and be on the receiving end of it, leave and don't even come close to Velvet ever again." To reinforce the point, Luke put his dagger arm up to Cardin's throat. Cardin just about shat himself the moment he saw the Ghost tab and managed to slightly regain composure and said,
"Fine, let your servants do the fighting for Velvet." but was said so timidly that the others around the forge began laughing at Cardin's timid composure.
"Thank you so much." Velvet buried her face into Luke shoulder and hugged him when she said that. She gave Dalton a shorter but still meaningful hug and packed up the things she was working on into a box and attached it to her hip. Luke asked,
"So Velvet, what you working on?" Velvet replied with a smile,
"I can't tell you, it's a secret." and she left the forge heading back to team CFVY's dorm.
They set to work and began casting moulds for the ammo their weapons used and began reloading empty shell casings. All was going well until Professor Goodwitch came up to them with Cardin right behind her. Goodwitch began talking to the two Ghosts,
"It has come to my attention that you two have threatened Mr. Winchester and put a blade to his throat. Is that true?" they both replied with a yes and Goodwitch continued, "Why did you do that?"
"It's 'cuz Cardin was being an ass." This came from Coco, much to the Ghosts' surprise. "The only reason I didn't stop him myself was because Velvet didn't want to escalate things and I decided that he needed to be taught a lesson." Goodwitch began talking again,
"Miss. Adel, please watch your language and I will take your word on Cardin bullying Miss. Scarlatina. Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Canary, please meet me in Ozpin's office in one hour. You two are going to be Cardin's punishment. I have been informed that Mr. Wilson has interrogation techniques that are morally and ethically questionable. Just don't kill him and leave him in one piece." she concluded and walked off with a very scared Cardin in restraints behind her. The two boys continued to work on getting their ammo reloaded and finished their work in forty-five minutes. They cleaned themselves up and headed to Ozpin's office.
When they entered they saw Cardin sitting in a chair with metal restraints on his arms and legs. Professor Goodwitch was in the corner and Headmaster Ozpin was sitting at his desk, moderating this punishment that was about to be delivered. Dalton took out a space heater and pressed it up against Cardin's chest slowly heating up his armour. Cardin began sweating and felt very uncomfortable as his chestplate became increasingly warmer. Dalton kept heating Cardin's armour and Luke began to chill water that was below freezing. To prevent it from freezing, he was stirring it and waiting for the signal to execute. Dalton kept on heating Cardin's chestplate and added a heater to his backplate and heated both of them up to 110 degrees. Dalton nodded to Luke who took the water that was ten degrees below zero and dumped it on Cardin. The sudden chill caused Cardin's armour to shatter and the temperature shock made Cardin scream in pain and began to shiver violently. Dalton told Cardin in a very neutral, even voice,
"This is only a fraction of what we're capable of, and if you mess with Luke girlfriend again, you'll get the full deal. Wait. Luke, is she your girlfriend?" Luke responded with,
"Well not exactly. I sorta have a crush on her and I think she has one on me but it's only been one day so who knows?" Dalton told Cardin again,
"Okay, if you mess with my friend's crush again, then you'll get the full deal."
It was then when Ozpin spoke into a mike and Velvet entered the room and told Luke,
"Well I do have a crush on you." She walked up to him and gave him a hug and gave her thanks to Ozpin and Goodwitch for allowing this to happen. "It's been happening for too long and I don't think team CRDL will be messing with me again." Ozpin with his nearly sadistical (he just tells himself that to make him feel better) sense of humor decided to break up the moment.
"Curfew starts in twenty minutes. I would recommend heading back to the dorms and preparing for tomorrow." Luke sent a silent curse to Ozpin for ruining the moment and want back to the dorm with Dalton. When they got back to the dorm Lance had recovered from his hangover and asked what had happened. Luke told him,
"We taught Cardin a little lesson for messing with a friend of ours." he told them with a smug smile and changed into his shorts and shirt getting ready to sleep. "We're getting inducted tomorrow, get some rest while you can." and with that he drifted off into sleep with the others following suit.