Chapter 4 breaking news I'm a refugee
The last time we saw our unlucky hero, he was drugged into unconsciousness. Now, we return to him… still drugged. Yeah, nothing new happened in the last day. But today is a new day for the young hero in this new and exciting world filled with adventure, danger and-
"Pancakes!"
"Nora, how many times do I have to remind you that you don't need to yell out pancakes every time we have pancakes." Ren said, his tone felt like a drone as he had once again reminded his childhood friend/partner of her loud proclamation.
"Awwwww, but it's more fun when you yell out 'pancakes,' Ren!" Nora exclaimed happily while her partner just sighed, giving up on yet another lost cause.
"In other news, how is speaking to that guy you summoned going?" Jaune asked Ruby, who just smiled and shrugged.
"He was actually pretty cool. Apparently his world doesn't have dust and uses this stuff called gun powder for their bullets." Ruby happily exclaimed while the rest just stared at her with a befuddled look on their faces.
"Soooo he's cool. Alright then." Jaune replied unsure how to take the information he just heard.
"Sounds like my adorable little sister has a crush on this guy?" Yang openly teased and watched as her sisters cheeks turn as red as her cape.
"What n-no I don't h-he's just cool that's all." Ruby defended but everyone knew better than to think otherwise.
"Yeah sure that's the reason, it's not because you find him nice or anything." Yang said teased while her sister just turned away still blushing at her sisters implications.
"Anyway, what's he like other than being nice?" Jaune asked Ruby changing the subject immediately, much to the relief of Ruby. She took a second to think about it seriously.
"He, well…he swears a bit and um, well he knows a bit about weapons. He seems kinda weird." Ruby said, unsure of how to describe him in the most likable way possible.
"Oh, come on, tell us about your boyfriend's world, then." Yang teased while Ruby just gave her a blank look before sighing at her sister's persistent teasing.
"He didn't actually say much about his world, just more about the weapons." Ruby said, frowning before she suddenly stood up.
"Where are you going?" Weiss finally opened her mouth, narrowing her eyes at her partner.
"I'll be back for class. Don't worry about it!" Ruby yelled out, leaving the cafeteria as her team and friends just blinked in confusion at the younger girl's sudden attitude shift.
"She must be going to go see her boy friend" Yang joked with a smirk. Everyone else just sighed at the blonde brawler's attitude.
"What? He's a boy and he's her friend!" Yang objectively defended herself while everyone just turned to ignoring her and her terrible jokes.
"You people have no sense of humor."
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Meanwhile, back in the infirmary Hamish finally woke up from his forced slumber.
"Uuuuuuuugh, why the hell does my everything hurt." Hamish let out a big ol' moan, feeling as if his entire back was on fire and then some.
"Might be the fact that you took a 1 story high fall back-first into concrete and broke a bone only 10mm away from your vertebrae." a voice piped up, causing Hamish to turn to said voice and stare in confusion as he saw a nurse stand right next to the beeping heart rate monitor. She was dressed in light blue scrubs that seemed to fit her very nice figure and her skin was more or less flawless as she had her black hair pulled back into a low ponytail.
"Um, hello?" Hamish more asked than greeted, watching as the woman turned to him and nodded back to him with a small polite smile that easily looked forced.
"Hello to you, too, and as I said, you have a major bone fracture. For lawful reasons, we unfortunately cannot unlock your aura unless you sign a waiver and since you are apparently not from around here, you are counted more or less as a refugee. Sorry, but you are going to be in that bed until we can get this all sorted out." The nurse explained in a very casual tone of voice that caused Hamish to just stare owly at her for about a minute before quickly catching on to what she meant.
"So, I'm stuck in this bed until you are allowed to unlock my aura?" Hamish slowly processed as the nurse just nodded.
"Aw shit." Hamish couldn't help but swear, seeing as he was most likely going to be stuck in the bed until he was discharged and only then could he most likely get the green light to have his aura unlocked.
"Yep, sorry." the nurse said before holding up a simple syringe. "Now, don't worry. I'm about to give you morphine to help with the pain. You might feel a little off." the nurse said as Hamish had a quick flashback to the last time he was on morphine.
flashback
"Hey, mum?" a young Hamish called from the hospital bed, looking directly at his mother sitting right next to him.
"Yes, dear?" she asked, curious as to what her son had to say.
"Can we get KFC after this?" He asked casually while his mother smiled.
"I don't see why not." She said with a smile. Hamish gave her a truly mellow smile and turned back to the TV, watching the BBC show 'Would I Lie to You?'
Flashback end
'Here we go again.' Hamish thought, taking a deep breath as the nurse injected him. Slowly but surely, he felt the drug take affect on him.
'Annnnnnnnnnnd theeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeee weeeeeeeeeeeee goooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.' Hamish thought lazily. As a large dopey smile appeared on his face, he simply leaned back into the pillow and stared at the ceiling.
".…Oooookay. That doesn't usually happen like that but, uh, oh well." the nurse shrugged before properly disposing of the needle and taking no real mind as to how mellow Hamish was looking or acting in the moment.
'Usually I would do something, but at this point with the shitty morning I've had so far, this is someone else's problem.' the nurse thought before turning on the nearby TV, putting on some cartoon channel and leaving Hamish to watch said cartoons.
Ten minutes later, however, Hamish started to think about the cartoons and how much they sucked.
'I don't why, but this is a shitty cartoon.' Hamish thought honestly in his mellowed-out form. He could think of ten better cartoons/anime that were much more interesting than some autistic kid going around and fucking up everything.
'There's Dexter's Laboratory, Fairly Odd Parents, Samurai Jack, Johnny Bravo, the OG Powerpuff Girls (NOT the shit one that's been redone), Regular Show, Ed Edd n' Eddy, Codename: Kids Next Door, Zoids, One Piece and so many others that are better than this.' Hamish thought as he reached out and grabbed onto the nearby controls and just flipped to another channel, hoping that Remnant had some better shit than this.
'Hell, a documentary would be more interesting than this shit.' Hamish thought bitterly before stopping on what appeared to be the shopping channel. 'Huh, Remnant's own home shopping channel. Well ain't this an interesting looking thing.'
Deciding that this was better, Hamish just laid there and watched as different salesmen talked about different products and saw how each product was kinda useful in a sense. Though, just because he saw the usefulness of one product didn't mean he was all that pulled in to the actual channel. He was just about to change the channel again when the next portion came on.
"And now, we finally move on to the next portion of the show, Huntsman and Huntress grade weapons!"
Hearing this, Hamish's attention was immediately glued to the TV as his interest was fully piqued.
"That's right: Huntsman and Huntress grade weapons! Each product I am about to show you is one of a kind, meaning the first person who calls and pays for it will own that unique weapon! For legal reasons, you must either be applied in a training academy or be a fully licensed Huntsman or Huntress in order to be applicable to purchase said weapons. We are not joking when we say you must meet one of these qualification." the TV presenter explained while Hamish's eyes widened in excitement.
'Hold on. He said I have to be in a training academy to purchase the weapons. Well, technically I am inside of a training school, soooooo that should work, right?' Hamish thought deviously. He was not wrong, but then he remembered that he didn't exactly have the body to hold a weapon nor the money to buy one.
Still though, his attention was set on the channel and watching every single weapon that was showcased on the screen.
And his attention was all but ruined when a certain red-caped reaper walked into the room.
"Morning!" Ruby exclaimed happily, watching as Hamish shook his head and turned to the girl, realizing that there was someone in the room with him.
"Oh, uh, hey… Ruby." Hamish greeted, quickly reminding himself that this was actually happening and wasn't a drug-induced hallucination caused by the morphine he was given.
"Hey, I see you're doing okay. Um, how's your shoulder?" Ruby asked somewhat nervously. She didn't know how bad it was, but with the way Hamish physically winced at the memory that he was indeed injured, she guessed it was bad enough.
"Because of reasons, I am apparently a refugee, and with that I am not allowed to have my aura unlocked, which I don't think I have technically." Hamish said, unsure if aura referred to everyone in the universe or just Remnant by itself.
Hamish did silently hope that it was the first option rather than the latter, but quickly shot it down, knowing full well that with his luck, it was definitely the latter in this instance.
"What? Of course you have aura. I mean, if you didn't have an aura, you wouldn't have a soul and you have a soul, don't you?" Ruby asked, shocked to hear something like that from Hamish.
"Uuuuuuuh, I don't know how to answer that question." Hamish said as he was on the fence between giving her the 'Bitch, souls are for the weak' jib or the 'I am soulless' remark but decided it was best to just openly state that he does not know what to say.
"Psh, fine I'll prove it then." Ruby said as she walked directly towards Hamish. He just looked at her in utter confusion before she stopped and placed her hand on his own. "Close your eyes and dig deep." Ruby instructed. Hamish was just about to decline, now knowing where this was going, but stopped as Ruby started to glow brightly, a dark crimson red surrounding her and causing Hamish to close his eyes at the light show.
'Ok, maybe the real reason why Pyrrha told Jaune to close his eyes was so he didn't get blinded by the freaking light!' Hamish thought, feeling more or less blinded by the show and continued to keep his eyes closed during the entire demonstration.
"For it is in passing that we achieve immortality." Ruby voice was crystal clear as Hamish felt a particular warmth travel through her hand and up his own. "Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all." The warmth continued to travel up his arm and somewhat dispersed itself around his entire chest, moving to his other arm and down the rest of his body. "Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee."
In the end, Hamish's eyes suddenly opened up and he looked down at his body. His head felt very clear, as if the morphine was burned away, leaving his mind remarkably clear. The pain he had in his back also seemed to disappear, but what really took him by surprise was that his body was glowing dark blue.
"Whoooooa." Hamish commented more or less amazed by the sudden change, just marveling in how different he felt.
"Phew, that took a lot out of me. Do you feel better?" Ruby asked, feeling more or less exhausted from the experience. Despite this, she smiled as she stared at the bewildered-looking Hamish who slowly sat up, rolling his shoulders and cracking his neck. Hamish actively tested if he could still feel the pain of the broken bones and found that he couldn't.
"Yeah. In fact, I feel better than ever." Hamish said with a sigh as he continued to glow.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" A loud voice roared suddenly, causing the two to turn and stare at a now infuriated looking Nurse.
"Tell me you did not just unlock aura!?" the nurse yelled at the two, mainly directing the question to Ruby. However, Hamish decided to answer for her anyway.
"Uh, no. I did not unlock my aura?" He said watching as the nurse actively face-palmed, feeling a headache coming on.
"Well, I definitely lost my job this time." The nurse moaned out, moving away from the room to go and call up the head doctor, who now had to tell Ozpin.
Yeah, this was not a good start to the day for her.
"Well, we are in the shit now." Hamish mumbled as Ruby couldn't help but moan at the incoming scolding she was going to get from her partner.
"You're telling me."
Chapter 4 end