The next day came and I started it by waking my team up at 6 in the morning to start running drills. With them not going to sleep until 10 o'clock at night, it goes without saying that most of them were not happy with me waking them up this early.
"One of these days, and I don't know when, I am going to slit your throat while you sleep Zach." Said a somewhat ticked off Percy. It was early enough still that no one was up yet, meaning that we could talk about the things that we were trying to keep a secret without people overhearing it.
"Good luck with that, Percy." Sakura said. She was still doing the run with the rest of us because I had told her specifically to not use her semblance.
"Oh, stay out of it, Sakura." Percy replied.
"No, I was being serious. Good luck slitting Zach's throat. You would need some serious good luck to slit his throat. Especially if you decided to try and use Riptide or Whirlpool."
Then, out of seemingly nowhere, came a Massive King Taijitu. I then promptly pulled out my energy swords and sliced both of it's heads off in one slice each.
"I think that's enough drills for today." I said.
"Agreed." Percy replied.
We then made our way to our first class of the day, because at that point, people were starting to get up for the day and classrooms were beginning to be unlocked by the teachers.
During lunch, we heard someone who sounded in pain, as well as someone telling someone else to stop, and the surefire sounds of people who are bulling someone else. We had already gotten our food and had sat down at that point, and immediately, Sakura saw the issue. Cardin and his team were bulling a girl with rabbit ears. I saw it a split second after Sakura and said to Sakura, "I know what you are about to do, but don't seem like the aggressor. And no going over half the speed of sound."
"Got it," was her only response before she sped off to the bullies. She stopped right behind Cardin, her helmet still on our table, and said, "What do you think you're doing?" They turned around to see her, and immediately noticed that she was a half a foot taller than any of them, was wearing an armor that could block who knows what, and that she had a pair of cat ears that were white as snow.
"None of your business, you freak."
I heard that from my team's table and became pissed. With Maliki taking over, I teleported over there and said in a voice that, I swear, scared the absolute shit out of them, "What the hell did you just say!" My voice audibly deeper.
"I said that she's a freak," Cardin retorted, pointing at Sakura.
"That was the wrong thing to say." Sakura said to Cardin.
"Why, are you gonna cry now?"
"No, it's just that he is probably going to punch you into the stratosphere." Just as she finished that sentence, I did just that. Cardin's team just looked absolutely f'ing terrified of me because of what I had just done.
"Zach, calm down." Sakura said in an annoyed tone. I did calm down and took back control from Maliki. Just as I took control again, the rest of team CRDL had run off, and David had teleported to Cardin and brought him back down to the planet safely and told him that he only did that to keep him from dying, and Cardin "repaid" David by running off with the rest of his team.
I then said to the girl they were bulling, "You're welcome for getting them to leave you alone. I'm Zach, what's your name?" in a tone that, to Percy, seemed uncharacteristic for me, but he kept his mouth shut.
"Velvet" the girl replied extremely hesitantly.
"Well, Velvet, if they ever start bothering you again, I want you to let me know, Ok?"
"Ok."
After that, lunch that day was pretty uneventful. It wasn't until our second to last class, combat training in the arena with Professor Goodwitch, that things really started to go off again. Team CRDL decided to challenge me, and I said, "Why not have team Grey vs team CRDL and another team." Just as I said that, team RWBY stepped up to fight alongside team CRDL, mainly for the chance to fight us. All teams agreed to the fight and it was soon on. I pulled out Black Death, switched it into scythe mode, and started to fight Ruby. Sakura pulled out her weapon, a quarterstaff that can split in two to become drumsticks and is a 9mm rifle, as well as her lightsaber, Morte Necemi, and proceeded to engage Wiess as ridiculous speeds. Percy proceeded to engage Cardin with what is now his lightsaber, Riptide, and a pistol similar to Ren's only it is semi-auto and fires 12.7mm rounds that he calls, Whirlpool, with Percy turning invisible to avoid hits that he wouldn't be able to block. Gregor engaged Russel, using his ridiculous abilities in hand to hand and his weapons, similar to Percy's pistol, named Hammer and Anvil, after the famous tactic of the same name. David teleported to the edge of the arena and started picking people off with his sniper rifle, saving his best weapon, Control V, for later. Momaw ran right at Yang with his massive keyboard sword, named Skull Crusher, because with one swing, he could easily shatter a person's skull. Nick fought Dove, using his dual Myrtenaster style rapiers that were also his lightsaber, and capable of merging into one at the bottom of the hilts, named, for whatever reason, Impale and Stab. Ponda ran at Blake and Sky, engaging both of them with his endless supply of shuriken that he could throw with enough force to rival a sniper rifle, and his katana style sword, Acnologia. The fight ended with us still above 85% aura level and everyone we were fighting, down in the red or completely out of aura.
The next week, I was challenged by Pyrrha Nikos. I accepted. I decided to not risk it with the invincible girl and pull out the laser pointer that points things into oblivion, the Spartan Laser. I had tested it on Momaw after we had unlocked our auras, and it didn't hit him, but it had destroyed his aura. Basically, Pyrrha never knew what hit her. One moment she was at full aura, the next she was at three percent.
A few weeks later, we were in the forest of Forever Fall gathering sap, when a large jar full of sap is thrown at me. I was bending down to pick up our jars of sap just as it was thrown, meaning that it completely missed me, but it hit Sakura and managed to short out her shield. Come to find out, Sky had been the one to throw it while his teammates were beating up Jaune. Then, right as soon as I look up to see what happened, Sky had released the Rapier Wasps. I was about to help Sakura clean her armor, but at that moment, a lucky Rapier Wasp managed to sting her through a weak point in the nano-composite material around her elbow, and it was able to land on her because the sap shorted out her armor's shield. She felt the effects much faster than most people and within seconds, was about to pass out. I grabbed her in one arm and used my other hand to grab my pistol and shoot the Rapier Wasp. I then teleported her and myself to the locker room to remove her armor so it would be easier for doctors to help her (our immortality was acting weird here and it could take years for us to come back if something actually did us in, also, yes she was wearing clothing under her armor). After I got her armor off, which I managed to do in a little under a minute, I teleported her to the nearest hospital. And the reason I was so concerned that I took her to the hospital was because I had found out that our immortality worked differently here and that it took us much longer to reform if something managed to do us in, and I found that out because when making our weapons, I lost a finger, and it took a lot longer for it to regrow than it normally would have.
After the doctors started to get to work on helping her, I got on comms with Percy and told him what happened, minus who did it because I didn't know at the time, and to inform Professor Goodwitch. He did, and then, when everyone was heading back to Beacon, Ruby asked, "Where are Zach and Sakura?"
Glynda answered her question by saying, "Sakura was stung by a Rapier Wasp and Zach took her to the hospital."
Cardin muttered under his breath so he thought no one would hear him, "Serves that freak right."
Unfortunately for him, every member of my team that was present heard exactly what he said.
"What did you just say?!" said a normally, extremely calm, but now visibly angry Nick.
"What does it matter to you?" Cardin retorted.
"It matters to us because she's our teammate, and you just insulted her!" David replied.
Now Glynda could tell that a fight was about to erupt, and she said, "What is going on here?"
"Give me a second to pull up the audio logs from my armor." Said Gregor, with even his normally reserved tone being overwritten by the situation. "Here it is." He then let Glynda hear the audio log starting from the moment she had answered Ruby's question.
"Mr. Winchester, we are going to have a chat about this with Professor Ozpin when we get back."
Cardin gulped in fear after that.
Sakura was in the hospital for a week and a half after being stung, and it is needless to say, when she found out just how much she had missed out on, she was pissed, and understandably so. But the day she woke up, things went to Hades and back faster than a round from Eta 3, which moves at Mach 17. When we got back to our dorm, the entire team was there, and then, the next thing we know is that we are in some kind of forest where we had to fight other people to get back home. Wouldn't you know it, team RWBY was there too. We spent the whole time trying to catch up to them, mainly because we didn't want to appear in front of them during the middle of a fight. When we finally caught up, Ruby had collected a total of 4 keystones. It then turned into a large creature which I didn't get the chance to fight. We soon returned home after Ruby and Wiess beat the thing. We went to check on team RWBY, and wouldn't you know it, Ruby had the red keystone. It had changed, however. I then mentioned that with my alternate personalities and A.I., it would be more convincing if someone noticed me talking, they would think I am talking to one of 'myself' and that my armor has more than enough space to put the keystone, now called Red, on it and keep her safe. Team RWBY agreed to let me hang on to Red, and I even connected her to Cortana. As it was already getting late, I pressed a button on my soundboard that played Ace the Ocarina Maker (a really funny youtuber) saying "I'm gonna go take a comma. Bye everybody." After I did that, the whole room, aside from my brothers who had heard it a thousand times already, burst out laughing.
A couple weeks after that and the break from school came and went. On the last day of the break, teams RWBY and JNPR got into a food fight. Before it started, I shot each and every one of them a look that said, 'you mess with me while I'm eating lunch, and you go flying into the stratosphere,' and then set up a domed energy shield around me and my team just as the food fight started. After the food fight, Glynda came into the cafeteria and fixed everything all at once. As soon she started, I took and lowered the shield.
After lunch, none other than General Ironwood showed up, bringing with him an entire Atlesian fleet. To be honest, my first impression of an Atlesian fleet was 'this is the best kind of fleet this world has, this is nothing compared to my fleet, the Lord of Time.' I made sure to get to Professor Ozpin's office so that he wouldn't leave me out of any information, because, remember how I told you that I gave Ozpin my secrets. Well, I told him that the only way he is getting my secrets, is if he gives me his, and that he would only tell very specific members of his inner circle about my secrets. Ones that I chose personally. So, with me being in his inner circle, I wanted to know what he was talking about with the General of Atlas. I teleported to his office celling and cloaked myself up there. It went like this from the moment I was revealed, which happened due to me beginning to get dizzy from all of my blood going to my head.
"Who are you, how long have you been in here, and why are you here?!" Ironwood asked angrily.
"Give me a second to let my blood go back to flowing normally." I said, "Alright, I am Zach Deeg, I've been in here since before you started your conversation, and I'm in here because I didn't want Ozpin leaving me out of the loop on what's going on."
"What do you mean, you didn't want Ozpin keeping you out of the loop?"
I then proceeded to explain what I had told Ozpin to Ironwood, including how I was now in Ozpin's inner circle. He was confused but then continued his conversation with Ozpin as if nothing had happened. After that, I went to the library to find teams RWBY, JNPR, and part of team SSSN about to play a board game that is similar to Axis and Allies, kudos to you if you know what that game is, and asked if I could play as Atlas. They allowed me to play and Yang, who was playing as Vale, said "Prepare to be defeated."
To which I replied, "Consider yourself targeted." The game was over in a little over an hour, and I wiped the floor with all of them. Every time I rolled the dice, I got a perfect roll, and I made every decision that would ensure my inevitable victory. Although they thought I was just good at the game and dice rolls, when in actuality, it was a combination of the force and Cortana that got me the victory. I was about to go to my dorm to go to bed when something caught my eye. It was a book on a shelf containing a lot of old books, but what was different about this one was that it had a special kind of power about it, and that it was written in a language that didn't even exist on all of Remnant, Standard Galactic, the very same language that the Republic used, and the same one that was used for the Minecraft enchanting table. I grabbed it and continued to my dorm. I read the title and it said T⍑ᒷ t𝙹ᒲᒷ 𝙹⎓ uリ╎⍊ᒷ∷ᓭᔑꖎ mᔑ⊣╎ᓵ, which translates to The Tome of Universal Magic. Intrigued, I read the book after arriving at my dorm room, and after reading it, I had gained all sorts of new powers and decided to store the book in the maximum-security vault on Epsilon by teleporting it over to inside the vault. I then tested something, I drew a circle like the book had told me, spinning my hand in a clockwise direction until I reached the bottom, where I flicked my wrist to invert my hand so the palm was facing me, and my two extended fingers were in the center of the circle. The circle had two layers, one being in the center, the other outside of it. The center had what looked like a dragon on it and the outside ring had several small symbols, from the top in a clockwise direction they stood for, gravity, fire, space, water, light, electricity, darkness, earth, time, and air. I decided to hide this new power of mine from the other students and teachers and that I would tell Ozpin about it in the morning.
