"Hyde we ain't in Europe anymore." Jekyll bit his lip snickering at his admittily very poor tasting joke, Hyde face masked palmed and nodded his head to the sides.
"Really? That was horrible, you should feel horrible for making such a horrible joke. You are a horrible person for making that joke."
Jekyll chuckled half heartedly and glimpsed to the big ship those girls came of. His eyes fell upon the older, although she didn't look much older, woman of the group. He grunted clearing his throat, "Alight." Jekyll clasped his hands together with the AK hanging off of his shoulder, "Y'all can call me Jekyll," He drugg Hyde closer to him, "and this handsom fella is my brother Hyde, and yes ladies he is single."
Hyde elbowed Jekyll's side and gestured to him, "The nerve of this guy, one minute older and he thinks he's somebody!" Some of the girls especially the blonde one thought that was funny, but the older blonde woman didn't find it as funny.
"Gentlemen," She growled glaring at the both of them, "I believe we should be going before more Grimm show up."
"To where exactly Ms..." Jekyll asked rotating his wrist asking for the blonde woman's name.
"Professor Goodwitch." The venomous growl making the girls jump slightly, unaffecting and unimpressing Jekyll and Hyde immenslly.
Jekyll nodded his head chuckling softly under his mask, "After you Professor Goodwitch." With a small gesture to the ship, she ground her teeth but took the role of leading them to the ship.
Taking caution into his mind Jekyll clenched a fist and made a sparkiling gesture with it to Hyde, he nodded and pulled out a block of C-4 and activated it putting it back in his pack. Hyde pulled out a detenator activated and ready for a deadman switch. If things went south they had a plan B, kill everyone at once.
Jekyll was no fool and neither was Hyde, the both of them knew those girls weren't just some pretty faces coming to greet two heavily armed killing machines. No, they were the go-to team for dangerous situations and the brothers were just not taking that chance of being captured and tortured, no thank you!
Aboard the ship they took a couple of seats because sitting down with all of your weapons on your back isn't exactly comfortable. Doing a small look over of his AK Jekyll noticed the red riding hood girl looking at his gun with immense intrigue, if not weapon lust, "Hey girl," She took her eyes off of the weapon, "You want to take a look at it?"
Her eyes sparkled, "Could I?!"
With a small flash she was standing infront of him with a very childlike grin, "Yeah sure thing, just don't break or shoot anything in here." The girl started to look all over the assualt rifle with unbelievable intrigue, if she had more space she'd take the weapon to pieces.
Goodwitch looked annoyed, "Did you seriously give her a loaded weapon?"
Jekyll reclinded into the Bulkhead's seat with his hands behind his head, "Naw, the safety is on, clips empty, and I took the firing pin out." She seemed to visually calm down a bit and return to her regular neutral face.
"Wow it's so big!" That one comment and the way she was holding the AK made both Hyde and Yang double over laughing, Goodwitch and Jekyll facepalm, Blake and Weiss blush wildly all the while Ruby looking confused, "What'd I say?"
"Should've thought about that earlier, say kid can I get that back?" The hooded girl gave the rifle back with a pout on her face.
"I'm not a kid."
Jekyll smuggly crossed his arms, "Sure your not, but that's the only name I know you by, give me a name unless you like being called kid."
Jekyll knew from experience it is too easy to egg on a spiteful kid wanting to prove themselves and she was no exception, "My name's Ruby Rose!" She teleported...blinked?... bursted into a rose petal haze and appeared next to the girls across the ship, "This is my partner Weiss Shee, and Blake Belladonna."
Weiss glared and crossed her arms while Blake raised her hand for a small wave; Ruby appeared next to the blonde girl and gave her a hug around her waist, "And my sister Yang Xiao Long, together we are team RWBY!"
Hyde squinted tilting his head to the side, "Sister? You two look nothin- wait you mean step sister right?"
The older blonde nodded, "Yeah, it usually takes people a minute or two to figure that out, but we prefer just sisters. You guys said you're brothers?"
"Twins actually."
A grin came to her face, "Well I defiantly don't see the resemblance."
Hyde started to chuckle, "Beautiful and smart as a whip, your boyfriend must be a lucky man.
Another grin came to her face, "I don't have one." They started to stare into eachother's eyes with suggestive smiles spreading across their features.
"Maybe you might want one?"
Jekyll and Ruby both face palmed sighing, "I created a monster, no pun intended Hyde."
Goodwitch cleared her throat gathering everyone's attention aboard the ship, "We're landing, and gentlemen." The brothers turn their heads to face a cold glare, "behave yourselves."
"Roger Wilco!"
"Whatever you say!" They said with cheery tones further pissing Ms. Goodwitch off
Her glare intesified ever so slightly, "That means I'll need you to take your masks off."
"Nah, I don't think milady, that ain't happening." Her arms crossed over her chest as the glare focused on Jekyll, "You see... y'all look nice and all that but we know that a group of rather attractive young ladies such as yourselves don't just get picked out of a hat to greet two heavily armed strangers in the middle of a forest."
Goodwitch's glare started to turn into worried panic as Hyde revealed the C-4 detonator in his left hand, her heart beated faster as he tauntily shook the device, "It didn't take long for us to figure out you gals are fighters, so until we get some answers we're taking some... precautions."
"Now look, I don't want to erupt into flames, so please don't do anything we'd all regret." Hyde looked away from Yang's glare as she moved Ruby behind her, 'Well this is not a good first impression on a pretty lady.'
The hanger door opened and a man with grey hair with a cane in one hand, and a coffee mug in the other walked in with an unreadable expression, "Ah, you must be the head honcho here!" Jekyll exclaimed with sarcasm, not at all impressed.
"Gentlemen," His voice was laced with a calming tone, yet both brothers could also hear the authority that they knew Rios had, "perhaps we can discuss things in my office, I'm sure you have questions. And it's Headmaster, Headmaster Ozpin."
Hyde looked between the Headmaster and Jekyll, they were both locked in a staring contest. With a small wave of Jekyll's hand Hyde switched the detenator to its saftey, he released a breathe he had been holding in relief.
With a small inner grin Jekyll gestured, "Lead the way, Headmaster." The man sported a small smile before gesturing for the two brothers to follow; Jekyll gave Goodwitch and team RWBY a small bow with his right arm crossing his chest before leaving, Hyde gave them a small wave before following his older brother like a puppy.
Ozpin's office was... different for lack of a better word, he must tune out all of the clock work mechanisms to get anything done or he was just that into them. The man went behind his desk and took a seat.
Gently setting the mug down he steepled his hands and pointed for the two to sit down, Jekyll nodded with appreaciation and Hyde followed in suit. Another man with black hair and a military dress came in from the entrance, prompting Hyde to reactivate the C-4, "That won't be necessary Mr. Hyde, General Ironwood has no ill intentions, he's simply here to ask some questions."
The man identified as General Ironwood stood firm and crisp, the usual stance for a high ranking military official. He stood next to Ozpin sizing the boys up. Jekyll nodded in affirmation and motioned for Hyde to set the trigger on his lap, but not to deactivate it just yet.
"Well, who wants to go first?" Jekyll looked between Ironwood and Ozpin waiting for them to ask their questions.
Ozpin unfolded his hands and stared directly into Jekyll's eyes, "Who are you two really and how did you end up in the Emerald Forest?"
Jekyll lifted his mask up with a smile, "I'm Amos Engel Ben Abraham Engel," Hyde lifted his mask, "my brother is Benyamin Engel Ben Abraham Engel. The Ben part means 'son of' if you're wondering."
Ozpin's signature poker face expression was lost for a moment as he got a better look at the men, the boys underneath the masks. They were twins by the looks of it, the green eyed one being the oldest with a slash mark on his left cheek, while the brown eyed one had his right cheek covered with scars from what looked to have come from an accident.
"We came here by accident really. You see our father, Abraham Engel was a special forces operative from an old war, and during his time he came across a packet of documents that held the secrets to a wonder weapon."
Ironwood listened closer at the prospects of learning of a possible weapon these two could provide, "These secrets ended up costing him his life, and almost ours."
The Headmaster's faces softened, "I'm sorry to hear about your father." Ozpin's gesture was noted but it didn't impress the brothers.
"No need to be sorry, what's done is done. Besides, we butchered the lously gutless bastards for the trouble and pain they caused us, especially my brother here." Benyamin stared straight foward ignoring Ozpin's sympathetic look, another thing he hated was people's sympathy.
"Butchered? You've killed people? How old are you boys?" Ironwood was no stranger to seeing young soldiers, but these two seemed to be on a whole different level.
"Yes, we've killed many unsavory types; terrorists, drug dealers, traffickers, even entire criminal organizations have bled before us. We are particularily feared by crime networks." The way Amos spoke sent a small chill down Ozpin's spine, these were just two boys and they claim to be killers, not just that but taking a hint of pride in their proffession?"
"Do you have any proof to confirm this?" Benyamin and Amos fiddle with their masks pulling out small computer chips and setting them down upon Ozpin's desk.
"We have no reason to lie, we have no reason to hurt anyone unless they throw the first punch if that's what your worried about."
Ozpin looked deep into Amos's eyes looking for any form of mistruth, he saw none.
"Hyde disable the C-4."
"What?"
"Disable it, we have nothing to fear here." The younger brother reluctantly deactivated the detenator and the bomb, "Call it a gesture of goodwill."
"And an answer to your question General," Hyde looked into the General's eyes taunting him, "we're only seventeen. At least til the end of the week."
Ozpin raised a brow, "Seventeen? What army accepts seventeen year olds?"
"No civilized army without written permission of a parent or guardian. But we aren't regular soldiers, we're private contractors of the Trans World Operations, or TWO."
"Mercenaries?" The Ironwood asked with visual disquest.
Benyamin jumped from his chair and glared dangerously at the General, "Hey watch it, we find that to be a diragritory term. Conctractors is what we are."
Ironwood ground his teeth at the boy's arrogance, how dare he talk to his elders like this? Especially someone as lowly as a mercenary.
"Easy brother," Amos's hand gripped Benyamin's shoulder, "don't want to start a war over some minor insult from a suit." Benyamin sat back down but not without giving the General a deathly glare.
"We take missions from legitimate benevolent governments, especially our own. Though we may not be soldiers of the Republic we will ensure her safety from any bastard that crosses her. We're just expendable unoffical assets. For God and Country."
Ozpin felt a pang of pain in his chest, for these two boys to see themselves as little more than just expendable assets didn't feel right, "Here." Amos handed Ozpin a couple of pamphet documents, "They explain the United States of America's beliefs of society, and how people should be treated. We both swore early on that we'd follow them and never abandon their teachings, even as soldiers of fortune."
Ozpin gave them a quick glance, 'Constitution of the United States of America, Bill of Rights.' "Thank you, I shall look into them. Do you boys have any questions of your own?"
"A small recap of... this places history would be nice."
"Human's with animal traits? Interesting, and they have been faced with hardship?" Ozpin nodded with a grim look on his face, it was abvious he cared for these 'Fanus' as they were called.
"Yep, we've been down that road ourselves. Our people were and well still are persecuted for our religious beliefs, others have been persecuted and still are by their color of their skin. It's pathetic really, I mean here you guys have a common enemy threatening mutual destruction and even that doesn't fully unite everyone. People just suck."
Ozpin chuckled bitter sweetly; General Ironwood had left earlier because of a message he recieved having to deal with the military, so Ozpin alone explained Remnants history to the Engel brothers.
They were accepting of the idea of the Fanus which was refreshing for Ozpin, both showed a unique sense of itelligence and skill. Albeit it was disturbing skill, maybe his propositon could help these troubled boys find a better purpose.
"I've taken some things into careful consideration concerning you two," They fell silent staring intently at Ozpin, "how would you like to join my academy?"
"What?"
"It is obvious that the both of you have an extrordinary set of skills, and an admirable amount of intelligence. Here you'll be able to expand your minds and do good, hopefully you'll make a new begining, start out fresh."
The Engel brothers sat in awkward silence, the idea of starting out fresh seemed very tempting. Finding their own sense of peace in a foreign world sounded like somethingout of a fairy tale, but stranger things have happened so far.
"What do we have to do?" Hyde asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.
"Tomorro you will meet me and Professor Goodwitch outside near this cliff face," Ozpin showed them the location on his scroll in a three dimensional image, "and then you'll find a relic at this location," He pulled up what looked like a broken temple," then return to the clifface."
"A lot of Grimm in the area?" Jekyll asked analyzing the map, memerizing the images.
For a moment Ozpin sports a serious look, "The forest is infested."
Hyde's lips curled into a broad grin, "That sounds like fun on a bun Headmaster."
Fuck Wordpad... everything takes so much longer with it... like the next Walking Death Korps chapter is being delayed because of it. Stay tuned for Ruby shall discover the power of nutella! And Hyde's awkward apology to Yang. On a scale of one to ten how fucked is Cardin when the Engel bros meet him, and how fucked are the Grimm gonna be?