A/N: Hello again. So... The page is still up and running on Facebook. It has the pictures of all the freelancers except Halsey. I'm going to post the weapons next so you can get a feel for what they look like. Now lets get to the story.

Chapter 3: Team Freelancer

Soon we reach the school and me, Ghost, Snow, and Phoenix are speechless. The school was HUGE. We almost didn't think it was a school. I snap out of it just in time to see some other students... and the uniforms...

"Ah hell no!" I say snapping the others out of the trance.

"What's wrong man?" Asked Ghost as he looks where I'm looking.

"My old nemesis." The girls look at me confused. "Ties." My group bust out laughing and I see Phoenix fall over holding his stomach.

"Why are you guys laughing?" asks Ruby not getting it.

Snow starts to calm down and explain. "Sorry. Sorry. It's just that Shadow can't tie ties and last time he attempted we found him tangled up."

"Look all I'm saying is that ties should just be burned. They're more worthless than... than... I don't know. Something worthless."

"You can't think of anything can you?"

"Nope."

We follow the girls through the school until we reach a door. They knock and we hear a voice saying to come in. We all enter and we see a man dressed in a green suit with white hair and glasses sitting in a chair behind a desk. The room was huge and my hand instinctively went to the sword at my hip.

"Hello team RWBY." the man says. After he says that he looks over to us. "And who might these people be?"

Before anyone of the girls could speak, Snow intervened. "My name is Snow. My companions here are Shadow, Ghost, Phoenix, and Doctor Halsey." he said motioning to each of us. The man looked back to RWBY.

"We found them in the forest after their ship crashed." said Ruby.

"I see." said the man. "My name is Professor Ozpin. I run the school here." he said as he smiled at us. "I saw what you did out there through the many cameras that were out there. Especially you Shadow."

"I've had tougher." I say.

"How would you four like to attend this school?"

We all look at each other and I speak up. "On two conditions. One, Halsey gets to stay at the academy. Two, and I cannot stress this enough. No uniform for us." The others try and fail to hold in their laughing.

"Okay then. From here on out you will be known as the Freelancers led by-"

"I'm gonna have to stop you there. There is no need of a leader. Reason being we are all power hungry. If you put one of us as leaders it will get to his head."

Ozpin nods and tosses each of us a scroll. "Your room is next to RWBY's dorm. Halsey will take the guest housing." Halsey nods at this.

"May I ask if I can study more about these creatures?" asks Halsey, hoping to learn more about these creatures. Ozpin nods and calls Goodwitch over. "Can you please show Doctor Halsey to the library." She nods and her and Halsey leave.

Ruby realizes why she came there in the first place. "Professor Ozpin about the mission." Ozpin holds up his hand.

"Don't worry about it Ruby. It was taken care of. Not necessarily by you but it was still done." Ruby smiles. Ozpin turns to us. "Do you mind if I see your faces? I feel like seeing the faces of anyone I meet."

"Sure." says Snow as he takes off his helmet. Soon Phoenix and Ghost take off their helmets but I leave mine on. Ozpin looks at me waiting to take off my helmet.

"No offense but I only show my face to people I trust. I just met you. How do I know you won't turn on us if the time arises?" Ozpin nods in understanding.

"It's no problem and you bring up a good point. I will respect your privacy."

"Thank you."

"You are free to go." We all leave and head towards the dorms.

When we get to our dorm we see the beds. I turn around and head back to the door. I take out my hardlight shield and set it up above the doorway so it faces up and set it to never run out.

"Why did you do that?" asks Ghost.

I look at him and my visor turns clear to reveal my face. "I'm sleeping here." I point to the bed. "Not there." He just shrugs and I get on top of the shield and lay down.

After a couple minutes of relaxing there was a knock on the door. Snow gets up since he knows I'm sleeping. He opens the door and team RWBY is standing there.

"Sup girls." he says.

"Not much wanted to come over here and talk to you guys." says Ruby. Snow moves aside and lets them in. They look around the room and notice I'm not on the bed.

"Where's Shadow?" asks Yang as Snow sits on his bed. Snow points at the door and they all turn and see me sleeping above the door.

"How is he doing that?" asks Ruby, clearly amazed.

Before he can say a word I speak up. "Magic." The guys chuckle at that.

"Look who decided to wake up." Says Snow.

"Been awake since you opened the damn door."

Snow just waves me off and I hop down from my makeshift bed and sit on the bed next to Yang. "Why are you sitting by me?" asked Yang raising an eyebrow.

"To tired and this is technically my bed." I respond. "So what did you guys want to talk about?"

"Well for one. How are you so strong Shadow? I mean you snapped that alpha beowolf's jaw like it was nothing." asked Ruby. I look over to Snow and he nods.

"All of our bodies have been augmented to be stronger and faster than the average human."

"Then how fast are you?" asked Yang.

"I think the fastest I've needed to go was around 80 mph." The girls looked shocked at that.

"That's impossible?!" Yelled Weiss.

"Any of you have a car or a bike that want to challenge me?"

"I do~"says Yang.

"Then lets head to a place we can race."

We head into town with the rest of team RWBY at Beacon entrance. Yang gets on Bumblebee and starts her up. I jump in place ready to run. Soon Snow stands between us to explain the rules.

"Okay. This will be a fair race. Stay on the path and first to Beacon wins. Ready... Set...GO!"

Yang takes off and I stand there counting. As soon as I count to five I take off from 0 to 80 in a second. I catch up to yang in a matter of seconds. I slow down to stay neck and neck with her. After the half way mark she increases her speed to as fast as she could. Soon she was going 180 mph. I speed up my pace and activate my thruster pack and bring my speed to 210mph. I deactivate my thruster pack and keep running at the same speed. I pass yang and make it to Beacon in a matter of seconds. I activate my jetpack and thruster pack at the same time and point them forward to slow my speed. I stop right in front of Blake. I turn around to see yang just pass through the gate. She had a look of disbelief on her face. Soon the others in my team get there and ask who won. Everyone pointed at me.

"No surprise. Shadow what did you top out at?" asked Snow.

"Let me check." I bring up the speed gauge in my helmet and see what my max was. "I topped out at... 210 mph." The girls looked so surprised I thought there eyes were going to pop out.

"Damn! That beat mine of 150." Said Ghost.

I turn to the girls. "Any other questions?"

"Were you using all of your strength on the alpha beowolf?" asked Blake.

"Nope. Now is there a place I could get some grub? I'm starving." Everyone agreed to getting some food and we headed toward the cafeteria.

When we got there. Me, Snow, Ghost, and Phoenix all just stared at the food we were given.

"Is this some kind of joke?" asked Ghost.

"If it is I'll be pissed." I said.

"What if it's a trap?" asked Phoenix.

"Maybe it is maybe it isn't. Either way."

"WE ARE IN HEAVEN!" We all say together. Team RWBY just stares at us as Snow, Ghost, and Phoenix start to devourer the food. Steak, Mashed potatoes with bacon, Shrimp, and greens.

"What's with you guys? It's like you haven't eaten this kind of food before." said Ruby with a light smile.

"Because we haven't had food like this before. All we've had was MRE's for all our life. They aren't meant to taste good." I said taking off my helmet. The girls gasp as they see all the scars on my face and well... my actual face. I had tan skin, Black hair that was buzz cut, and deep brown almost black eyes. I had a scar going from the top of my right eye to the bottom of my eye, another across my face diagonally from top left to bottom right, and a scar going across my entire left cheek. I start to eat my food with the others as the girls continue to stare at my face. I notice and stop eating long enough to look at them. "What?"

"What happened to you?" asked Ruby with tears in her eyes.

"War is what happened. We have recordings of what we did before we came here if you want to see them."

Weiss speaks up this time. "Sure we'll watch them." I couldn't help but think she had an ulterior motive for this but I just went back to eating. Once we finished I put my helmet back on and went back to the room. While everyone else hung back.

Soon everyone joined me in our room. I already set up the projector and hookups for our helmets.

"Okay I say we watch our best moments." I said looking at the guys.

"I agree with you on this one." Says Snow. "But you have to go last."

"Fine by me. Best is always last." Snow hits my arm and sets up his helmet. His video was of him sniping an entire covenant platoon without them noticing. Next was Ghost with his hammer. He took out an entire platoon plus a ghost pilot without getting hit. Next was Phoenix and his flying skills. He dodged shot after shot of enemy fire and ended up killing everyone with the gun on the pelican. Finally it was my turn. I take off my helmet and hooked it up.

In the video

The video began to play and it was shown from my helmet cam like everyone else. It showed me walking with a rail gun in hand down a corridor of a covenant ship alone. "Man why do I always have to go alone. Ah well knowing my luck I won't run into anyone." I turn the corner and see a shit ton of elites of different ranks staring at me. "Me and my big mouth." One of the elites rush me and I shoot him with the rail gun. Before I can reload I'm tossed back and into the wall losing my weapons in the process. "Alright then." I take out a knife and hold it military style. "Who's first?" And elite rushes me and I dodge his sword and stab him in the head. Just as I take out the knife another is right there in front of me. I barely dodge the sword and stab him in the back killing him. I turn and see another one but he slams with his free hand and I go flying. My helmet comes off and faces the elites. I get up and sprint at them I manage to stab one in the back and get caught between two. One tries to hit me but I duck under the blade and hit him in the face. I spin around and connect my fist with the other one's face. I go back and stab the first one in the heart then jump off his body and stab the other one in the head. I grab his sword and block a sword as it was about to hit me. I stab the elite with the knife and hear another behind me. I leave the knife and turn only to get slashed across the face diagonally. I recover and slash the elites head off. I turn again and get tackled by one. He activates his wrist dagger (Play Halo reach and you'll understand) and I grab his arm. He brings it down and cuts down my right eye. I scream and kick him off of me. I beat the living shit out of him to kill him. I see another running at me. I find the elite with my knife still in him and grab the knife. I run at him and as he tries to stab me in the head with his dagger. I move to the side last minute with the dagger cutting my left cheek. I stab him in the throat and stand over the body. As I move toward the helmet, there is a shimmer behind me. I get about 5 feet from the helmet and get stabbed in the shoulder. I take out my knife, spin myself around, and stab the final elite in the eye killing him. I walk over to the helmet and put it on as the rest of the gang appears.

"You look like shit man." says Ghost.

"Feel like it. Now lets get out of here." The video ends.

To real life

The girls look shocked at my video. "Well that was... Bad-ass" says Yang fist pumping.

"What were those things?" asked Weiss. I explain what the covenant is and their troops.

"Worst part is that the smallest is a grunt and it's around Ruby's height." I finish.

"You're joking right?" asked Ruby in a small voice.

"Nope. The elites are around our height which is around 8 feet tall." The girls just stare at me. "Well I'm beat so I'm going to bed." I get up and activate my bed. I hop up on the shield and fall asleep.

A/N: Hey hey hey! Chapter 3 baby. Now you know what I look like and if you still don't know what my armor looks like visit my page on Facebook called "Surviving as traitors". See you next week.

Fun fact: I was listening to 'It's dangerous to go alone' by starbomb by the end of writing this.