Ever wanted to sleep but at the same time couldn't?

Well Jacob was having just that - he was laying in his bed, tired, but too worried.

You see, realisation finally hit him.

And it hit him like a truck.

He is in a different fucking dimension!

What if he will never get back?

What if he will never see his friends ever again?

Are there even any vaults here?

How can he call himself a hunter of something that doesn't exist!?

If he can't be a vault hunter, then what will he do?

He clenched his fists.

"All because of that stupid Eridian!" - he thought - "Oh, look at me! I am an immortal being coming from a highly advanced alien race and I'm gonna send this shitter into a different dimension just for the lolz!"

...

"What should I even do?"

...

The questions...

"How did they open up a vault without a siren? That makes no sense!"

...

"The most dangerous prisoners are kept under multiple locks..."

...

"...What if... nah...maybe?"- he had just gotten a theory.

What if the vault, was indeed, not a vault?

What if the REAL vault was inside whatever maliwan opened?

...A monster so powerful it had to be locked inside a vault, that was inside a different vault?

Well, not really a vault, but an additional layer of defence.

But then... what was Hydra doing there? ... Was it just a guard dog or something?

...

Maliwan didn't have neither a siren, nor the vault key - but maybe it was possible to make an artificial one?

"Ahh! I hate having to think hard!"

Wait...

But that would mean that the real Vault is still waiting to be opened...

He smiled... but that smile went away almost instantly...

"... I guess it's no longer my problem..." - after all, he is stuck here...

...

"Life is so pointless when you don't have a clear goal..."

"You should be happy - after all it's better to have nothing to do than having a hundred problems to take care of"

"And what? What am I supposed to do with myself?"

...

Looks like he isn't going to sleep tonight... oh well.

He started playing with his PDA for a moment, until he accidently clicked on "quests"

Igniting the Torch

-Track down Roman Torchwick ( )

-Kill him ( )

-...by setting him on fire ( ) +++

...

Oh right, the mafioso-wannabe, Jay completely forgot.

"Well I guess it will help me out in getting some fast EXP..."

...

"I mean... We could just become some sort of a vigilante and keep hunting down major criminals for money and EXP I guess..."

"Please don't tell me you want to become a superhero..."

"Wha? Hell no, I meant something more along the lines of Deadpool, you know?"

"I guess as long as we get to kill someone I won't complain..."

"Aaand since we will kill only the bad guys we will technically be the "good guys", right?"

Jay smiled. Now, that he had a clear goal he was finally able to sleep.

Sure it wasn't vault hunting, but it was something.

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

Jacob was now sitting in his desk, watching how Jaune fought with this guy named "Cardin".

Well, to be fair you couldn't even call this a "fight", but something more like "beating", couse that's what Cardin was doing to Jaune.

What Jay found insteresting was their "health" system - kinda similiar to his own world's version, both fighters had their condition displayed in a form of "health bars", and from what he had learned so far, it was meant to represent their "aura".

Aura was supposed to be a "manifastation of one's soul", which, first of all, was bullshit, but that's not important - things you can do with it, now they were interesting - you could use it to greatly decrease the amount of damage you may take from an attack - kinda like his shields, you can use it to accelerate your health regeneration (but nowhere nearly as fast as with his own one) and you could even use it offensively - hence the "magic" he had seen so far- It wasn't infinite tough, and had to be recharged from time to time, tough it seemed like it could recharge on it's own - again, like his shields.

Now, those idiots think it's a manifestation of one's soul, but Jay had a different theory - What if it's just a biological radiation people on this planet eminate? After all, it was possible that altough they looked identical to him, they could be completely different species.

(AN: If you can't quite follow, Jay thought that "Aura" was something similiar to Pandora's stalkers' biological shields)

Anyway, he woke up from his thoughts when the beating ended.

Quite obviously, Carden won.

Then the witch bitch started to talk, but it wasn't anything important. She just confirmed what he had already noticed by himself.

Oh, right, a "scroll" - basically this world's version of his PDAs. He will have to ask Ozpin for one.

Then she said something about some sort of a "tournament" - He actually thought about signing in for a while, couse why the fuck not, but he changed his mind - he can't kill so he won't get any EXP, so it would be just a waste of time.

Anyway, looks like it's lunch break.

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

He was sitting with his team, next to Ruby.

On the other side of the table there was another team - "JNPR"

It consisted of Jaune,

a red-haired chick that was wearing ancient rome armor - Pyrrha Nikos,

a short girl that talked too much - Nora Valkyrie (Now that's what i call a cool last name!)

and this guy that looked like Shun Kazami from "Bakugan" - Rookie's favourite chilhood cartoon. -His name was Ren.

All of them were chatting, except Jay, of course.

He was examining a scroll he convieniently got from Ozpin right after he thought he would want one - Was the guy a psychic? Whatever.

You see, his PDA 9000 had a special function - it could absorb alien technology and upgrade itself with it - so Jay did just that - He "absorbed" the scroll with it, and indeed his PDA got updated with all of scroll's functions.

Just to be sure he called Ruby.

Indeed, her scroll ringed, so he hung up and proceeded to ignore her, couse she thought it was a joke or something and used it as an excuse to talk to him.

Suddenly everyone became quiet - ?

Jay looked at them, it turned out all of them were looking in the same direction, so he looked there too.

...Wow...

That Cardin guy and his friends were actually mocking some girl with bunny ears.

(He learned they were called faunus, but whatever.)

Well isn't that just funny?

RWBY and JNPR then started to talk about that Cardin has bullied Jaune for quite some time now.

Jay looked around again; NOBODY was doing anything with that situation.

"Excuse me, what the fuck? Weren't people here supposed to be future heroes?" - He said in his mind.

"We both know that true heroes don't exist"- Az.

"People like that Cardin guy should just die" - Eden, the voice of alleged good.

"OWW THAT HURTS!" - that faunus girl shouted.

Jay looked at her; Cardin was pulling her ears and laughing with his friends.

He looked around once again, but nobody was doing anything.

THAT'S IT.

He punched the table, got up, and approached the bullies.

"What do you want!?" - Cardin.

"Leave her alone" - Jacob said with calm voice and his emotionless expression.

Cardin looked at his teammates and back at Jay.

"HAHAAHA!" - They all started laughing.

The whole canteen went silent and were now watching.

"LEAVE. HER. ALONE." - Ohh boy, he was starting to get angry.

"And what will you do if we won't ?" - Cardin taunted.

"Please, stop, that's okay, you don't have to help me" - The girl said.

"I will hurt you" - He ignored the girl.

"WOHO! Would you look at that, boys! We got ourselves a hero here!" -Cardin said to his friends and laughed.

Jay was clenching his fists, he wanted to cut the bastard into pieces, but he couldn't.

"I guess i should have shown you your place a long time ago!" -Cardin said as he launched his fist right into Jacob's face.

Jacob dodged it in the last moment, cought his arm with his organic one, pulled it to straighten it, and then used his metal arm to punch with all of its strenght.

*CRACK! - a loud sound of bones breaking could be heard.

"AAAAAAAAAGHH!" - Cardin's cry of agony.

"What the fuck dude!" - One of Cardin's team members said, and together with the rest proceeded to attack him.

First, a guy with a mohawk - he jumped on top of the table and actually wanted to superman-punch Jacob.

Holding back laughter, Jacob cought his arm mid-air, pulled and smacked him into the ground.

Then, the other two wanted to take him two on one, but Jacob menaged to do something that surprised both of them - He just tackled one of them into a table, breaking it and then he double tapped him with a quick punch to the face with his metallic arm.

He instantly got up to face the last one.

Would you look at that? He actually raised his hands in a symbol of giving up.

...

But it was too late.

Jay punched him in the gut, which succesfully made him bend in two. While he was still bended, Jay made a 360 spin and hit his head with his heel, which completely knocked him out.

...

Jay looked around, people were looking at him like on some sort of a psychopath. Cardin was still rolling on the ground from the pain, one guy was laying on top of a broken table, other one was just laying on the floor, and the mohawk guy actually started to get up...

...

Jay immediatly kicked him, knocking him down once again.

"STOP!" - It was Ruby who shouted at him.

"What?" - He asked her with a nonchalant voice.

"THAT'S ... enough!"

Suddenly the bunny-eared girl started crying.

"Th-th-thank you!" - She menaged to say through her sobbing, and then she hugged Jay.

He almost immediatly pushed her away.

He pointed his finger at her and said with the coldest voice he could make:

"Don't expect others to help you in need next time. Learn to fight for yourself."

...

He then looked at everyone and said:

"Honestly, you are all pathetic! Wasn't this supposed to be a school for heroes or some shit? And when that girl needed help NOBODY DID ANYTHING, NOBODY SAID ANYTHING!"

...awkward silence...

"I AM FAR FROM A HERO MYSELF! ... But at least I'm not pretending to be one..."

...

"Mister Jacob Rook is requested to arrive to the headmaster's office. Now." - Ozpin's voice came from the speaker.

"...Of fucking course they will try to label ME as the "bad guy" now..."

Some teachers and nurses came, they took unconcious bullies, witch bitch started to say something to him, whatever.

...Eh, fuck it.

He went straight to Ozpin.

*/*/*/*/*/*/*

"I have received information that you have brutally attacked students from team CRDL, is that true?"

"YES! I have approached them and proceeded to beat the shit out of them for NO REASON WHATSOEVER! I know, I know, I am a psychopath that should be locked in prison, oh well, whatever."

"... This is serious, Jacob."

"Ohhhh riiiight...This is a serious school for serious people with serious teachers... hmmmm... wait a fucking minute! If that's the case, then why did NOBODY do anything when a faunus girl was getting mocked by those four idiots? NOBODY! Nor the students, neither teachers did ANYTHING! You see, concept of racism isn't alien to me! I have seen way too much of it in my homeworld, and I refuse to stand idle when such idiotic things are happening right next to me!" - Jay exploded.

"So what you are saying is, that you've beaten them to protect a girl?"

"HAH! Don't make me sound like some sort of a hero here! I just did what I felt was the right thing to do, and now I am suffering consequences because of that."

"... I approve."

"WHAT?"

"... That said, you have gone a bit too far, so much so that the teaching council forced me to force you to start attending to a psychologist..."

"HAH! I'd love to see you try!"

"... If you won't do that, this case will go viral, and will reach Vale's judicial office - you see, since you are almost an adult, and your parents are nowhere to be seen, you will suffer full responsibility - after all, having a fight in school is one thing, while breaking one's bones is another..."

"He's got us here, not gonna lie."

Jay was just sitting in silence - he was coinsidering his options...

...Damn, he is right ...

You have to understand just how many positives being here at Beacon had - he could learn lots of things about this world, frequent grimm hunting meant lots of free EXP, and finally it opened up a possibility of playing vigilante on nights while being one of the last people to be suspected, after all, he is just a student, right?

"...Judging by your silence, I suppose it's fair enough to assume that you know you have no choice..."

...

"Great! Now, your first "visit" will be today at 7PM, so be sure to go to the school psychologist then!"

"..."

"...Well... that's it, now, return to your classes."

Jay just left.

He wanted to shoot something... or better yet, shoot someone.

*/*/*/*/*/*/*

OK now these are the lessons he was talking about!

Yea, sure the teacher seemed like he drunk way too much cofee, and he talked so fast normal students had troubles understanding him, but thanks to Jacob's PDA, he was able to simply record everything and display it again later when he needed it.

Yep, his PDA basically gave him ability to never forget about things as long as he somehow saves them, be it an MP3 clip, or a screenshot/video saved from his very own POV.

Within a couple minutes he knew basically everything about this world's Faunus vs Humans conflicts.

Quite funnily, there wasn't anything he couldn't have guessed by himself.

Oh, except that one thing: "White Fang" - basically terrorists.

It seemed like they were originally supposed to be peaceful, but in the end... yeah, we all know that one...

After some more listening he also learned from that Pyrrha girl that many Faunus have near-perfect sight in the dark.

"That seems useful... I wish I had that..." - He thought to himself.

"But you do have that, idiot! - remember that our PDA has nightvision googles?"

"Oh shit, right..." - See that's one of the very few upsides to having voices in your head - even if he will completely forget about something, either Az or Eden can remind him of that.

Other than that, nothing particularly interesting happened during the lesson.

*/*/*/*/*/*/*

"Stupid Ozpin, stupid psychologists, stupid Eridian, stupid Vault!" - he just muttered random curses to make himself feel better. The "visit" was coming.

He was coming to his room, so angry part of him wanted to punch every random student he came across on his way there.

...He went in...

"Oh hi Jay!" - Yang greeted him while grabbing his arm and pulling him closer to her -"Say, could you please help me with my homework, eh?" -She said while trying to be as seductive as possible.

Oh right, thanks to his infinite memory he excelled in every class without trying.

"Where are the others?" - Inside the room there were only Yang and Blake, with Blake obviously reading books.

"Why? Are we two not enough for you?" - She said while pretending to be upset about that question.

He just rolled his eyes at that. She chuckled.

"Seriously though, where is Ruby? I want to ask her wether we could go to town or something."

Her (and Blake's) eyes widened.

"What, you in love in her?"

"WHAT!? NO- I mean mayb- AHH! Just tell where she is!"

She giggled and proceeded to carefully watch him from all directions.

"The fuck you think you are doing!?"

"...Inspecting..."

"Girl, I know just the thing you can inspect..."

"Hmmmm, you two have my blessing!"

"...Wha?...OH!" - he didn't understand it instanly -"NO! I mea- JUST TELL ME WHERE SHE I..- AHH! Whatever..."

She just giggled.

"She is at the firing range." -Blake said while still looking at her book.

"Thank you!"- He was so confused and baffled he actually said the magical word.

He looked at the clock: 6:57 PM.

...shit...

Well looks like he will have to ask her later.

"Go get her, tiger!" - Yang called to him while he was leaving.

"I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL STRANGLE YO-.. Eh, whatever."

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

Jay was sitting in front of that psychologist or whatever.

"Who knows, maybe it will be fun?" - Eden

She was a woman in her late twenties (Jay guessed), and let me say this, she was haaaawt.

Too bad Jay was too pissed off to notice. For her that is.

"So... You are the infamous mr. Jacob Rook... My name is Emma Rebrum. Nice to meet you."

"Likewise."

"Ozpin had informed me that you are... special..."

What? Oh cmon! Last thing he needed was Ozpin telling everyone that he is from a different fucking dimension.

"What exactly has he told you?"

"That you are an orphan and that you are quite... unstable at times."

Oh, right, Ozpin and him made up his backstory in case anyone would question him. Basically the oldest story in the book - parents die when he was a child, he escaped from the orphanage and lived on the street as a pickpocket.

Funnily enough, this wasn't that far away from the truth when you think about it.

"I see..."

"Well, how about we start with some basic questions I would give to any normal patient?"

"So I'm not normal?" - He asked while smiling.

"From what I've learned about you, you truly seem unique."

"Heh... Whatever you say..."

"So... Let's start with this one... What brings you here?"

"You mean like this exact situation or life in general?"

"Hmm... Both."

*Sigh...

"So apparently I have beaten some guys a bit too hard..."

"And why did you do that?"

"They were making fun of a girl only because of her race... and nobody was doing anything with it ... so I fucking beat the shit out of them..."

"So you wanted to be a hero to that girl?"

"Oh God I hate when we have to repeat ourselves"

"I AM NOT A HERO! I didn't do it for the pride, I didn't do it for any praise, Hell! I didn't do it for her, I did it in order to punish those idiots for their supidity!"

"...So you don't view yourself as a Hero?"

"Not even a little." - He had killed like, thousands of people before, wether they deserved it or not, this is not what a hero would do.

"Now, as for life in general?"

OK, Jay actually thought about this one - Just what did he do to deserve all he has gotten?

"I dunno, I guess I'm just super unlucky."

"I see... Now, Have you ever seen a psychologist before?"

No... wait, did he?... ehh, he doesn't remember.

"No."

"Hmmm. So what is the problem from your viewpoint here?"

"To me there is no problem at all - They did something stupid, they got punished for it, Yeah, yeah, sure, I'm not the one to judge, but in the end does anything even really matter?"

"What do you mean that it doesn't matter?"

"I mean... In the end their wounds will heal, so it will be like nothing ever happened..."

"You are speaking as if physical pain was the hardest thing their experienced... but what about their minds?"

"I dunno... I mean... It's none of my problems, is it?"

"I'm afraid that it is..." -She said while looking straight into his eyes.

"You said you didn't do it to be labeled as a Hero, but because you felt like those boys needed punishment... If that's the case, then what makes you think you have the right to punish others for their crimes?"

"I dunno... Couse I'm stronger than them?"

She opened her eyes wide.

"Elaborate."

"I mean... I have the power to make things better, so it's my duty to do so, right?"

"Yet you've just said that you are not interested in being the hero."

"Sure I'm not a hero... But it doesn't mean I have to be the villain, right? Couse, doesn't ignoring one's sin even tough you could have stopped it makes you partially responsible?"

"You are giving me quite some contradictory statements, like you suddenly became a different person..."

"Shit, she is onto us!"

"Maybe I'm illogical, maybe... But at least I know that I am myself, and not a person everybody wants me to be."

"What do you mean by that?"

*Sigh... "For some reason everybody around me wants me to become some sort of a hero, but I don't want to."

"Why are you so aversed towards Heroes?"

"Couse they... Don't exist?"

"Elaborate."

"Cmon, we are not children, we both know that perfect people don't exist."

"Maybe, but it doesn't stop them from trying to be the best they can."

"And what? Aren't heroes just villains but on our side? Think about it! What do heroes do? They defeat villains! But villains have families of their own, which then start viewing the said Hero as their Villain! After that they will want to defeat him, and that creates an infinite cycle of never ending fights."

"...I have to admit I've never heard such an opinion...But, if that's the case, how do you think things should be?"

"My opinion doesn't matter. Sure I'd love to see world at peace and all that crap, but... I'm smart enough to know that it's impossible, so I just... Don't care anymore..."

...

*Beep * Beep - Emma's wristwatch started ringing.

"Well, looks like it was all the time we had for today, I have to admit you are quite an interesting person... Anyway, see you tomorrow at the same time!"

"...Whatever..."

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

He entered his room, just to be greeted by sad Ruby and angry Yang.

"What?"

"Weren't you supposed to ask her out!? And you didn't even go to her!" - Yang.

"Whoah! Calm the fuck down, the fuck are you talking about!?"

"You said you wanted to see her to ask her out!"

Ruby looked away, ashamed.

...

...What?...

OHH!

He facepalmed and actually laughed at his own idiocy.

"When I said "we could go out to town or something", by saying "we" I meant all five of us, not just me and her." - He said, tough now that he thought about it going there with only one person would be even better.

You see, he obviously didn't do it in order to socialize, but in order to go out of school without any suspicions in order to find information about that Torchwick guy.

"...ohhh" - Yang said.

...

...

...

Ok, this is awkward

...

"Hey!" - He remembered something. - "Ruby, I told you I would show you some of my guns, still interested?"

Her expression immediatly changed to a much happier one. -"Now that's what I like to see!"

"Sure! You wanna go now? It's a bit late though" - As she said it Yang said something to her ear which made her blush.

"That yellow girl ... I don't like her... "

Anything so that the atmosphere here will stop being so awkward.

Anyway, they went to the firing range and spend some time there.

No. Nothing perticulalry interesting happened.

"DAMN!"

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

Boy that was long.

Anyway, from now on I will put quality of chapters over frequency of updating.

Also, as some of you may have noticed, I have updated some of the previous chapters:

- Chapter 1 got completely rewritten, It just felt a bit too edgy compared to the rest of this story to me.

-Chapters 1-8 grammar corrections (most of them at least)

-In chapter 3 I have completely reworked Reality Bender's capstone to something much more logical.

Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter!

Cya!