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Chapter 7 come rain or shine, I still have no idea what is going on!
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEE-!
"Shut the fuck up." Hamish groggily and angrily griped at the stupid scroll before grabbing it and turning off the alarm. It was only the next day and Hamish was already feeling the oncoming dread of attending the upcoming classes that he was forced to take. Then there was the first official day of training with his new supervising team. That was something he was definitely looking forward to.
#sarcasm.
"I hate mornings."
30 minutes later, he stepped out of the bathroom, wearing a fresh uniform without the waist coat and tie for the simple reason that he just didn't like feeling as if he was choking or something.
No longer feeling burdened by the drowsiness he was feeling, Hamish took one last look in the mirror. His skin was fairly white, but he had a bit of a healthy tan to it. His short, shaggy, curly brown hair looked a bit too long for his liking, while his neck was covered in a light fuzz of hair and his chin had the start to a short goatee.
"Man, I need a shave and a haircut." Hamish said, lightly scratching his head while he thought about how he should to meet up with Weiss later. He needed to get some more necessities, cause as much as he liked wearing a uniform 24/7, he was more accustomed to wearing simple pairs of shorts and hoodies, nothing overly fancy or outstanding. But he knew that this thought process was going to have to change if he wanted to survive this school, let alone the incoming shit-storm that was canon and other bullshit.
Knock knock knock!
"Hey, wakey wakey! It's almost time for class, so get your butt out of bed!" Hamish heard from outside his room. He instantly recognized it as his new team leader, Coco. Quickly getting up and grabbing his scroll, Hamish opened the door to see a semi-surprised looking Coco and Velvet in their own uniforms, each fitting to their own bodies.
"Well, aren't you Mr. Early?" Coco said with a snarky tone and a smirk on her face, while Velvet just kindly smiled at the young man.
"Morning, Hamish! Sleep well?" Velvet asked, her tone of voice the complete opposite to Coco's own snarky tone, and to be honest, Hamish didn't know which one he liked better. A blunt, snarky girl or a kind, curious girl? Either way, he felt that having both was better than having neither.
"Morning, and yes, I do get up early. I hate it, but I also hate being late even more. And yes, I had an alright sleep, Velvet." Hamish admitted to the girls as they both gave him their own smile/smirk.
"Good, cause first class is in an hour so let's go get something to eat. You're with us today, newbie." Coco said, waving her hand to Hamish and gesturing to follow. She turned around and walked off with the other two quickly following after her. Velvet had a kind of bounce in her step while Hamish tended to stumble a slight bit and had his hands slipped into his own blazer pocket.
"What's the first class anyway?" Hamish asked Velvet, who pulled out her own scroll.
"Well, you have the first class with us and the rest of the team, which is Weapons cla- oooh your going to have trouble with that since, well, you know." Hearing this, Hamish sighed and nodded, knowing full well that Velvet was talking about the fact that he didn't exactly have his own weapon, so the class was most likely going to be an introduction to weapon modification and creation for him.
Which was something he was most likely was going to like and also have some trouble with in certain ways.
"Noted. After that?" Hamish asked, curious to what else he had with the team.
"After Weapons class, we have an hour break before moving on to our next class, where you and I will go to a first year class for history." hearing this, Hamish decided it was time to ask the question everyone in the fandom was wondering.
"First year? Why first year?" Hamish asked the Rabbit girl, who blushed furiously.
"Hah, it might not look like it, but our little bunny friend here didn't exactly pass history last year, so she's taking first year classes to make up for it." Coco jumped in with a teasing smirk as the girl just blushed even more.
"Shut. up. Coco!" Velvet growled out with a pout as the girl in question just snickered at her teammate's reaction.
"*Huff* Forgetting that for now, after history, we have lunch and then you and Coco have one class. After that, you're off for the rest of the day." Velvet finished. Hamish quickly caught onto the fact Velvet didn't explain one thing: what the class he and Coco had was.
"Don't worry about it, newbie. I left that little detail of what you and me are doing in our class out for a reason." Coco said, most likely doing it to sound mysterious and possibly because she liked the way Hamish somewhat squirmed under the attention he was getting from the girls.
Coco quickly deduced that in his world, he wasn't exactly well liked or was a hit with the ladies. Still, his reaction seemed to be very blunt, something Coco knew was somewhat of a turn off to most girls, but it made her interested in seeing how he reacted to certain scenarios. The first reaction would be seeing how he does with crowds, and after hearing about what happened to Cardin Winchester, Coco may have already figured out the answer. Yes, she knew about Cardin and how much he liked tormenting Velvet, but as much as she didn't like that, Velvet wouldn't let her do anything about it. Coco genuinely laughed when she heard what Hamish did to the arrogant dickhead yesterday.
'Lets see how he reacts to some bratty kid coming after him.' Coco thought with a smirk while refocusing on her group's destination.
As soon as Hamish stepped into the cafeteria, he could see how different the atmosphere was compared to yesterday. The cafeteria was fairly calm then, but this morning was kind of rowdy. He ignored it as he followed Coco and Velvet to the lunch line, seeing as he would feel much better if he had something in his stomach rather than nothing.
Grabbing a plate full of toast, bacon, and eggs, he moved along with the girls, his mind more or less focused on how the classes would go today, or better yet, how he would do in said classes. Weapon class was going to be an interesting test, seeing as back when he was in school, he was in automotive for most of his time. Hopefully, he will know how to use some if not most of the tools they would be given in class.
But making weapons was going to be a new thing to him. That, and there was the even more interesting dilemma of figuring out what kind of weapon would work for him or how he would make it. While thinking about this problem, Hamish remembered that Ruby openly said she would be happy to help him in making weapon, but that still left the 'what'.
Deciding to think about it more during class, he silently followed the girls as they sat down at a nearby table where two other students were sitting.
"Hamish, meet Yatsuhashi and Fox. They don't talk much but they are good people." Coco introduced the two, who just nodded their heads to Hamish. He nodded back at them before setting his tray down and sitting at the table.
"Fox and Yatsu know your circumstances, as does the rest of the school." Velvet said to Hamish, who looked more or less shocked.
"Oh, don't look surprised. When you hear that the heiress screwed up and summoned an actual person, word gets around fast." Coco said, reassuring that no matter where Hamish went on campus he was not going to have the chance to fake it till he made it.
Which was kind of nice, since it meant that he didn't have to hide behind any kind of disguise or hide any secrets, well except for the fact that in his world, Remnant was entirely fictional place. Yeah, he'll keep that one under wraps as long as he possibly could of course.
Meanwhile on the other side of the cafeteria.
"Tch. There he is." an annoyed voice grumbled, his eyes narrowing at the site of Hamish as he casually sat around a bunch of second years, eating his breakfast and acting all high and mighty. It was so aggravating to Cardin's own eyes that he had to force himself to look away and focus on his own meal.
"Cardin, you good there?" Cardin's teammate Dove asked, genuinely concerned as his team leader/friend/partner somewhat struggled to eat his food or pay attention to anything in general.
"Huh, wha-?! Uh, yeah, just-" Cardin paused for a moment to look up and glare over towards Hamish. "-peachy."
Hearing this and seeing where Cardin was staring, Dove mindfully decided it was better to give his leader some much needed advice.
"Uh, Cardin? I know you're pissed, but don't make a scene here." Dove whispered to his friend, hoping to convince him to not jump up and run over towards Hamish.
"*Sigh* I'm not going to do that, Dove." Cardin said, actively taking a long and deep breath to calm his heated nerves before speaking. "I am going to *ahem* wait for the right time."
Once Cardin said this, his mind slowly started to spark a couple of vengeful ideas that he could play on the otherworlder. He'll just have to be patient.
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Hamish walked down the hallway until he saw a plaque next to a classroom door that read "Weapon Class". He followed the small crowd as Velvet, Coco, and the rest of the team told him that they had their own desks. This, of course, meant that he would be forced to sit by himself or next to some random second year. Hopefully, these second years weren't the same as every other second year in every other RWBY fanfic, or in other words, bat-shit insane. But Hamish decided they probably were just insane that he should just expect anything.
"Oh! Hi, Hamish!"
Hearing the sudden greeting, Hamish paused and turned to the voice to see…. Ruby?!
"The hell are you doing here, Ruby?" Hamish asked in utter confusion as the red-themed girl just gave him the biggest, cheesiest grin she could.
"Well, not to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm kind of a prodigy with weapons. The first year class was just… well… too easy for me." Ruby admitted. She normally felt embarrassed admitting that she had been doing 10 times better in one class than everyone else, but she actually didn't mind telling Hamish. He was her friend after all.
"Huh. Who knew?" Hamish lightly muttered before noticing everyone starting to take their seats. No one really sat next to or anywhere near Ruby. "You mind if I sit next to you?" Hamish asked Ruby, seeing as he was most likely going to be in this class for a while, he might as well sit next to a friend rather than a stranger. Then again, that could be his Aspergers popping up and reminding him that social interaction with random people is not his forte.
"Huh? Uh yeah, sure." Ruby said smiling before somewhat blushing as she remembered her sister teasing her yesterday about her sudden relationship with the otherworlder.
"Thanks." Hamish quickly thanked the younger girl before sitting himself down next to her, not really noticing her blushing face or the fact she was looking away from the young man.
RING!
Hearing the bell go off, Ruby shook her head and focused on the class in front of her as the teacher finally walked out behind his desk to address the class.
"Morning class. Good to see you up and about… well most of you." The teacher said before casually pulling out a simple looking handgun from his back and pulled the trigger.
BANG!
Hearing the shot, Hamish more or less flinched back before looking towards where the teacher was aiming and saw a small hole on the desk right in front of a now highly awake student.
"Now that I have everyone's attention, we'll start off with where we left off last week." the teacher said, walking to the chalkboard where a set of levers sat next to it. "Miss Rose, since you have our new student sitting next to you, I trust you will do your best in assisting him with the project."
"Yes, Mr. Ambrose." Ruby said with a smile before grinning up at the fairly confused Hamish, who just stared at the teacher with wide eyes.
'I'm pretty sure there is a law that states you shouldn't shoot nor let alone point a gun at anyone.' Hamish thought watching in slight fear as the teacher openly flipped two levers.
The entire classroom was suddenly filled the sounds of turning gears and moving pistons as it seemed to well… transform. The tops of desks flipped over, changing from the nice even writing surface to a more rugged work bench with an assortment of tools on a small tool rack and about four vice's located all over the desk.
"Ok, kids, get to it. If you need me, just call me over." the teacher said before moving back to his desk while Hamish just stared at the desk with a bewildered look on his face.
"Cool isn't it? That's what I thought when I came in here." Ruby said with a smile, watching Hamish as he just shook his head out of the bewilderment he was feeling.
"Uh, yeah. Um, what do we do now?" Hamish asked, unsure what he was supposed to do now.
"Well," Ruby paused for dramatic effect as she pulled out her personal weapon, Crescent Rose, "we get to work, of course."
"...Work on what? Your weapon or a concept for my own?" Hamish asked seriously, his eyes darting between Ruby and her incredibly large weapon.
"That is… a good question." Ruby said placing her weapon on the table before scratching her chin in a more detailed thought process.
"Well, until we have an idea of what we are doing, I'mma gonna be that one disabled kid and do nothing." Hamish said, turning back to the desk, his eyes moving over to the different tools in front of him. The assortment was quite impressive, ranging from screwdrivers, wrenches, allen keys, and even power tools.
"Quite the set up." Hamish mumbled to himself, looking at the initial setup of the desk.
"Yeah, the class was set up to change on the fly as well have a lot of tools on hand for fixing our weapons." Ruby explained happily, grabbing a nearby blow torch and a pair of welding masks from under the desk.
"Now put this on, my baby's got some work that I've been meaning to do for a while now." Ruby said, handing the second welding mask over to Hamish. He just gave up and watched how everything went down.
10 minutes later
KABOOM!
"*Cough* Who's *Cough* the fucking dumbass that did that!?" Hamish yelled couching as he barely managed to pull both himself and Ruby out of the classroom while everyone else did the same.
"Sorry!" Hamish heard a voice yell out from within the classroom. Everyone watched as the cause of the explosion walked out through the smoke covered from head to toe in soot and ash.
"Hammond, detention!" the teacher exclaimed as the short second year groaned in displeasure.
"Does this happen every day?" Hamish asked Ruby, who just grinned up at him with her arm over his shoulder.
"Nope. It's usually James who brings in something that ends up exploding, but this time, it looks like it was Richie." Ruby said as three other teens walked over to the short sulking teen. There were two obviously older-looking boys while the other looked like-
'Is that the fucking Stig!?' Hamish thought as he watched as a white-helmeted individual followed behind the other teens with his arms folded over his chest. 'Wait. Richie Hammond!? As in like Richard Hammond and James like James May!?'
Feeling more or less shocked to see a Remnant version of the Top Gear presenters, Hamish silently wondered if-
"I can't believe it, not even 2 seconds and you bollocks it up, you bloody idiot!" one of the teens yelled as Hamish's wonder turned to truth. That sounded just like a Jeremy Clarkson rant right there if he's ever heard one.
'This place is just getting weirder and weirder by the fucking second.' Hamish couldn't help but think as the smoke was removed and everyone was rushed back into the class.
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The next class was the one Hamish was more or less nervous about considering this was the class that had the one the only-
"Professor Oobleck!" Ruby exclaimed loudly at the teacher, who simply frowned at her.
"Doctor, Ms. Rose. It's Doctor Oobleck." The good Doctor corrected, adjusting his glasses before turning towards the awkwardly standing Hamish.
"Ah, Hamish. I was told that you will be in my class today. Usually I would organize a personal meeting between the two of us to become better acquainted, but I believe that, thanks to certain events, we will need to have a meeting later to speak of… well, everything." Doctor Oobleck said in a quick fashion. Hamish managed to catch most of what he was getting, but he talked just a bit too fast for his liking.
"Uuuuh sure, I wouldn't mind that." Hamish said, feeling kind of embarrassed with the amount of attention he was receiving so suddenly. It was somewhat mind boggling how he just seemed to attract this kind of attention. "Well, we'll take our seats then." Velvet said, pulling Hamish away lightly and back towards the desks while Ruby happily made her way to to her own team's seats.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Hamish mumbled towards Velvet, whose response was a small giggle.
30 minutes later
'Sweet mother of all that is fucking just, will someone, anyone, please MAKE OOBLECK SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!?' Hamish thought in complete agony. He didn't like it when people talked rapidly, especially when it was about a subject he had little to no knowledge on.
So when Doctor Oobleck started talking, his speed could easily match that of a seasoned rapper. And he wasn't talking about mumble rap. No, he was talking Eminem Rap God levels of speed.
"Velvet, please kill me." Hamish begged while his head was leaning on the desk. He was feeling physically incapable of keeping up with the mental strain of understanding a single word that came out of this teacher's mouth.
"Sorry, but hey, at least you have an excuse to not listen. You don't know anything about Remnant's history." Velvet said. She was right for the most part, but in some cases, Hamish knew more than someone might think.
He knew of the Great War, the oppression of the faunas and he knew the threat of Grimm wasn't really the most pressing of matters. But he knew better than to call it out, seeing as the longest lasting peace was slowly starting to crack open with the amount of how much movement the White Fang was moving as well as the hidden darkness that followed under the Shadows of the Oblivious Light.
Yeah, Hamish knew there was more at stake and if it was up to him, he'd rather be 10 feet to the left of nowhere near the fallout, but with the way he was seeing it, he was going to be dragged directly into it like every other RWBY SI he's read. Rubbing his eyes, Hamish knew that he had to do something to stop the oncoming shitstorm… but at this point he had no choice but to sit back and go through the paces of everything that came along. It wasn't his usual way, but surviving in an environment he truly hated for so long tempered his patience. Compared to 6 years of highschool, the oncoming 6 or so months before the Vytal festival was going to be more or less a cake walk for the young man.
Then again, that was his optimistic side outweighing the unfortunate oncoming pessimism he was very much accustomed to.
'Going to have to move with it, Hamish. No matter how fucked things are going to be, I'm just going to have to roll with it.' Hamish thought, slowly tilting his head up and staring at Oobleck as his high speed explanation just seemed to get faster and faster. 'If he doesn't shut the fuck up, I might steal a couple syringes full of morphine just to slow him the fuck down… actually on second thought, maybe I could use them on myself?'
While Hamish was thinking of turning to drugs to solve his problems, a certain team was doing more than just taking notes.
"Soooo, you and Hamish in the same class, huh? How was it?" Yang teased her younger sister, watching as the teen girl huffed in annoyance and only slightly struggled to take down some notes from the teacher.
"It was fun, he kinda took everything like a sponge." Ruby said as she remembered how Hamish actively nodded his head, agreeing to the girl's statements.
"Hold on. Are you sure you were talking to him or talking at him?" Blake decided to jump in, curious as to how her leader was more or less dense enough to think that Hamish was really listening, which she was right to assume. Hamish was barely listening.
"Ok fine, he probably wasn't listening, but you should have seen him when he started giving some ideas for my baby." Ruby said with an awfully large grin on her face. Among the many ideas she remembered, Hamish's unique idea of implementing a laser sight or a high powered scope to her baby stuck out as having great potential.
"So my sister has really fallen for this guy, huh?" Yang said with a small smirk before turning her head towards the other side of the room where the utterly bored-looking Hamish just stared at Oobleck with an obvious grievance in his eyes.
"Makes me wonder what he's really like." Yang said with a very obvious smile plastered on her face, thinking of ways to get a rise or a smile out of the older man.
"Yang, whatever you're planning, you can do it without me." Weiss objected, knowing that smile on her face was something of a trouble starter. It didn't take long to understand that when a team member like Yang donned a mischievous smile, things will get troublesome.
"Well, for your information, what I have planned doesn't involve little princesses." Yang said with a smirk, watching as Weiss stopped and gave the teen a scowl before quickly going back to her work.
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"How was your time in history?" Coco asked, her smirk in full form on her face while she watched as Hamish gave her an annoyed look while he took a bite out of his burger.
"It was… interesting." Velvet decided to answer for the young man, seeing as he was more or less annoyed with the mentioning of the class.
"Interesting? Well that's something. Any other problems?" Coco asked, curious to see what Hamish's opinion was on the situation.
"Rather not say if I'm being honest." Hamish said as he decided to not tell exactly what his thoughts were. Said thoughts included a large amount of swearing, insults, and other things of that sort.
"Oooh come on. At least say something." Coco teased, leaning forwards and watching Hamish huff out a breath before going back to eating his meal, obviously ignoring the snarky girl. "Well fine. But know this: our next class is going get us very intimate."
At that statement, Hamish paused for a couple seconds to give Coco the most confused look he had ever shown her. What the hell was she on about? What seemed to be the obvious question popped into his head, but Hamish knew better to ask that. Then again, he had a tendency to forget that he did know know better.
"What the fuck are you insinuating?" Hamish openly questioned. Coco felt a bit of a boost in her pride at the fact that Hamish took an obvious bait and just leaned her head on her hand and while grinning at the older man.
"Depends. Are your up for being very intimate with someone like me?" Coco said, watching Hamish as he had a look of being caught in the middle of something he shouldn't have been a part of and a very awkward moment. "Well big guy, what's your answer?"
"...No comment." was all Hamish said as he got a quick laugh out of the girl from the sudden response.
"Coco…" Velvet said, frowning at the girl and feeling more or less embarrassed because of her team leader's teasing. "You shouldn't be making these gestures to Hamish."
"Ooooh? And why's that? Are you by chance interested in our otherworlder." Coco suggested, wiggling her eyebrows towards the Faunas. Velvet just blushed at the implications.
"Again… no comment." Hamish said, once again feeling like this was going to be a recurring thing. 'I wonder if this is also going to happen with Ruby and her team if I hang out with them?'
Shaking his head, Hamish focused back on his meal and hoped that the next class won't leave him twice as confused as the other two did.
'Really liking the fact that I only have 3 classes a day cause any more of this crap and I think I'm going to lose my mind.' Hamish thought tiredly as he dreaded what kind of class Coco was going to drag him into.
"Well lunch is nearly done, so finish your food." Coco told Hamish with a grin. "We have quite the interesting class to attend." she said as Hamish just rolled his eyes at the girl's persistent attempts to annoy the 20-year-old.
"Fine, let's get this over with." Hamish said, quickly finishing the rest of his food before standing up. He knew full well that he was most likely going to be dragged to class if he denied the fashionable girl's request.
"Good to see that you're actively excited for this." Coco said, grinning up at Hamish before getting up alongside the young man.
"It's not like the next class is going to be any different from the others." Hamish sighed. This apparently caused Coco to openly laugh at him before moving away and gesturing for him to follow.
'And like that, my bad feeling about this has, not surprisingly, escalated.' Hamish thought bitterly as he just followed, his dread very much at the peak of everything.
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"You're kidding me." Hamish said in a more or less disbelieving tone while Coco just stood next to him with a very large grin on her face.
"Nope! Welcome to Home Economics." Coco said, wildly waving her arms out and gesturing to the entire classroom. Said room was filled with benches attached to ovens with stoves on top while every student in the room seemed to be of the female gender.
"Well well well, I didn't think Mr. Otherworlder would be in this class, but I'm glad he is." a voice said as Hamish looked over to an apron-clad Yang who just stood there looking at Hamish with her signature grin on her face.
'Someone. Anyone. I don't fucking care who is listening to me but please, fucking kill me.' Hamish thought as he felt the urge to just turn around and walk away. Unfortunately, he was somewhat stuck as Coco was standing right behind him and blocking his only safe exit. The other exit, which was very much open, would most likely lead to some very graphic memories popping up and reminding him how shit really went down for him.
'I'll only go for the window if it's my last resort.' Hamish mentally decided, knowing that unlike last time, they were on the 1st floor so the only thing that would hurt would be the window crashing.
"Alright! Let's get into the lovely lesson that is cooking!" the teacher exclaimed loudly and happy, catching everyone's attention as the class finally began.
Chapter 7 end