People have been asking about Xion and if she will be joining the roster, to be honest I don't know. Haven't planned that far ahead. Enjoy.
"I've heard incredible things about you Mr. Roxas. Qrow says you can heal wounds instantly, summon portals out of thin air as well as materialize objects at will. Now with my own eyes I've witnessed you create lazers and move at fantastic speeds. How do you do this?" Ironwood asked from his chair next to a roaring fire place inside an extra study within the Schnee manor.
Roxas tilted his head a bit in confusion, he'd been questioned about his abilities by others several times since his arrival. He wasn't sure what the big deal was, he'd been to plenty of worlds and most never batted an eye when somebody used magic. "Uh, magic. I'm not really the best at it but I know enough to get by." He shrugged.
James stared at him for several seconds. "How long have you been able to use 'magic' like you do?"
"Hm." Roxas thought to himself. "As long as I can remember, some of the others... taught me." He wanted to bite his tongue for that slip, but then again he couldn't really think of much of a reason to hide the truth. Maybe his organization training was still making him paranoid.
"Others?" The general asked now even more interested.
"Y-yeah, there are... were thirteen of us. We got separated after being attacked, so now I'm trying to find them." Roxas explained.
"And these others can also use this magic you use?" James shifted in his chair.
"Yeah, like I said I'm not the best. Some of the others can do all sorts of different things. Like splitting in two or warp space." Roxas couldn't help but think of the blonde nymph and the one eyed marksmen. They were both far from the nicest of the group but he still wanted to find them.
Ironwood nodded. "And do you have any clue where they might be?"
Roxas shook his head. "No, but I'm hoping if I keep searching I'll get lucky."
Ironwood hummed to himself for a moment. "Searching Remnant for less than a dozen people is definitely a complicated task, one that could easily take years, especially by yourself. What I said I could help you?"
Roxas looked at the man with a small bit of suspicion. "Why would you do that?"
Standing to his feet the general stepped closer to the fire. "I'm not a fan of complicated underhanded games Roxas, I'm a huntsmen and a soldier. I prefer a straight forward battle with an enemy I can bring down with my own hands. I leave the manipulating to the politicians, that being said I'm going to be straight with you. Your ability to use magic makes you a very large threat with possible ties to an enemy I've sworn to oppose, however after speaking with you and watching your match with miss Schnee I have strong doubts about the second part." He turned to look at the boy who was now frowning.
"Why are you telling me this?" Roxas asked still calm but ready should the general try anything.
"Because while you don't trust me and I don't trust you, I also see the possibility for that to change. I truly do not want you as an enemy Roxas, you seem like a good kid, not to mention I've already got more than my fair share of enemies as is. So I'd like to extend an olive branch, I want to help you in your search and in return I want you to work as a specialist for me." James made his offer with a straight face.
"What's a specialist?" Roxas asked truly interested.
"They are a special forces group in the Atlas military made up of only the most skilled warriors to come out of Atlas academy. Though obviously you wouldn't need to attend." He explained.
"If I were to accept this offer what would you be asking of me?" He asked further.
"Only that you follow my orders and those of your commanding officers and that you complete any missions given to you. Along with the assistance of the Atlas military in finding your friends you would also receive payment, more than most huntsmen make might I mention. I'm also willing to offer you Atlas citizenship." Ironwood continued.
Roxas sat quietly for several moments as he turned all this over in his head. "May I set one condition?" Roxas asked finally making eye contact with the general.
"Possibly, what is it." James smiled hoping he had just sealed this deal.
"If I feel the desire at some point to leave the Atlas military I'd like to be able to do so." Roxas said this after remembering how the Organization had a 'kill all deserters' philosophy.
"You will be able to file for discharge like any other soldier can." James nodded.
Roxas smiled and stood up. "I accept you offer sir."
Vale Seven Months Later
Roxas sat with his legs hanging off the edge to the speeding train as it moved through the Forever Fall forest, the fresh air brought a smile to his face. He'd been working for Ironwood for just over half a year and had quickly found he was extremely good at it. His current missions weren't remarkably different from when he was in the Organization, and an added bonus was that he was for the most part helping people with his actions and not hurting them. All in all he was happy with his decision to accept the general's offer, he'd even manage to meet a couple people he was beginning to see as friends.
Weiss was a good example of this actually. He'd run into her several times during his first few weeks as he was assigned to shadow Winter until he got the basics down, after that he'd sometimes see her when he would go to the Schnee manor to give her elder sister a report. He and Winter herself had manage to for an amicable relationship, one based more on respect for the other than anything else, but they never had any major disagreements.
So far they hadn't had any real progress in locating members of the Organization but Roxas wasn't all that surprised, he expected them to lay low, it's what they were trained to do. Even still he'd find them.
He was soon brought out of his thoughts by a ringing from his coat pocket. He wore a new outfit tailor made for him by the Atlas military. It was rather similar to his Organization uniform with only minor changes, aside from it now being completely white with light gray trimmings. His coat now only reached down to just below his waist, and underneath he wore a gray undershirt. Across his back the Atlas military emblem was sewn in. He wore white pants and white combat boots.
Pulling out his scroll he answered. "Hello?"
"Roxas, wow where are you? It sounds like your in a hurricane." Weiss's voice came over the scroll.
"I'm on one of your companies trains actually, I'm suppose to make sure it reaches it's destination in one piece." He answered the girl. "I should be in Vale by nightfall. By the way, how did you get my number?" He asked curiously knowing he never gave it out, not that he minded really.
"Winter gave it to me, I'm actually on my way to Vale also. My classes at Beacon start in a couple weeks. I should be there by tomorrow around noon." She explained sounding excited though subdued. "So Roxas."
"Yeah?" He responded before hearing a screeching sound in the distance, standing up he looked in the direction of the sound.
"I was wondering if maybe you'd want to do a little sight seeing tomorrow when I arrive, if your free of course." Her voice held clear nervousness but Roxas didn't notice as he felt and heard gunshots and explosions coming from the rear of the train.
"That's sound fun Weiss, can I call you back, something just came up." Roxas asked just asked a pair of intruders blasted out of one of the train cars while fighting a giant scorpion droid.
"What was that noise, are you okay?" Weiss sounded worried.
"I've gotta go." He quickly ended the call and shoved the device back into his coat.
The battle was happening several cars down from him so he began making his way down the train while watching the pair and taking in their fighting styles in case he had to fight. The droid didn't last long after one of the pair, a red haired boy with a katana attacked it with an incredibly powerful slash the completely obliterated it. The other, a girl with long black hair had only just noticed Roxas. "Adam!" She called gaining the boys attention and quickly his eyes fell on the young nobody.
"More? Fine." He growled.
Roxas simply stepped forward and looked to the redhead as he looked to be in charge. "Leave now or I will be forced to place you both under arrest for trespassing and and destruction of property." He said calmly as he had been instructed to by Winter. He wasn't sure why since anytime he said it the bad guys always ignored him.
Adam dropped into a combat stance once again as did the girl, Roxas only sighed before holding his hands out in preparation. Adam soon rushed him drawing his blade at blinding speed which Roxas managed to dodge by leaning back and quickly jumping backwards while sending several spot beams at the attacking boy who also either dodged or cut through. Sensing something behind him Roxas performed a quick reversal just as the girl attempted to slash across his back.
Before she could turn around Roxas held his hand out towards her back. "Fire." He spoke his weakest fire spell sending a ball of fire into the girls back exploding on contact, Roxas's eyes only widened for a moment as she disappeared and reappeared to the side leaving behind a double to take the hit. "Hm." He hummed to himself as he thought about his next move, he wanted to hold off on calling his keyblades for as long as possible, he was trying to get better at fighting without them. It was more difficult but his mastery over his magic was getting better and better, he could feel it.
Lifting his hand to the sky he called out his next spell. "Wind." A sudden gust of wind surrounded him forcing the to faunus to brace themselves from the powerful wave of air.
Without wasting time Roxas launched himself forward towards the girl who appeared to be the weaker of the pair, taking out the weak and working your way up was a tried and true tactic after all. Startled by his impressive speed the girl shifted her weapon to gun form and began to rapidly fire off rounds only for them to bounce off the wind barrier swirling around the boy. Before she could react Roxas buried his fist deep into her stomach causing her to double over. He only had an instant to roll to the side as a red blade sliced through his wind barrier.
"I don't know how you're doing all this, but it ends now!" The redheaded faunus growled pointing his blade at Roxas.
Holding his hands out to his sides Roxas created eight spot beams that spun around him quickly, in the blink of an eye he dashed to to side nearing the edge of the train car, he repeated this action several times with his beams launching towards the redhead every time he shift directions. To his surprise the boy only absorbed the attacks into his blade. Frowning Roxas threw his arm into the air. "Thunder!" A moment later lightning shot down from the sky, and again the bull faunus caused Roxas's eyes to widen by partially unsheathing his blade and again absorbing the attack. "That's a pretty cool trick." Roxas chuckled to himself.
Adam smiled as well. "Oh but it gets better." He said as he dropped into the same stance as when he took out the scorpion droid sending alarm bells ringing in the Nobody's head. In an instant Roxas summoned the Oblivion blade and fell into a stance of his own.
Then in a flash of movement faster than the eye could follow the pair attacked.
"MOONSLICE!"
"ZANTETSUKEN!"
Everything was completely still for several seconds as the two swordsmen remained in their stances, after a few moments Adam's blade cracked and snapped while a large gash opened up along Roxas's left arm. Then the pair heard the sound of metal being cut causing them to look to the source, the girl with the bow had just cut the coupling detaching the train car they were on along with all the cars behind them. "Blake?" The boy asked trying to take a step forward only to fall to one knee as his body was suddenly wracked with pain.
"Goodbye." Roxas could barely hear her say to the redhead.
Quickly Roxas opened up a corridor of darkness in front of him and jumped through soon coming out on the car just behind the girl. He could tell the red haired boy had noticed him but made no move to warn the girl. Raising his keyblade he placed it on her shoulder causing her to stiffen instantly. "You're under arrest." Roxas panted lightly with his arms still bleeding heavily, he wasn't to worried though, a quick heal spell and he'd be fine.
After a moment Roxas pulled out his scroll and dialed a number. "General, we have a problem."
There we go, sorry if the quality dropped a little near the end but I'm not feeling to great so my writing probably suffered a bit. Also for those wondering I'm trying to combine Roxas's fighting style from his fight in the 2.5 remix as well as the 358/2 game. Anyway leave me a review and let me know what you all think. LATER.