After Xal got back to his room he removed his armor and went to sleep after briefly contacting the Headmaster to inquire about Floats Aimlessly's location, he was told that the huragok was working somewhere in Beacon Tower's lower levels. Xal soon fell asleep and dreamt of one of his finest victories.

Xal and his lance were in a boarding craft, waiting for a human cruiser to exit slip space. The enemy's ship was escaping a now burning world, it had already repelled a boarding party a month ago, before it fled, but not before losing most of its defenders and having a tracker placed on it.

Xal and his lance would commence boarding action the moment it entered real space. They would retrieve the holy relic that made them spare the ship for this long, capture its A.I., and destroy the vessel after they left. His men were excited, not to see the holy relic, but for the fight ahead. It was rumored that there was a team of demons aboard.

He and his elites would deal with the relic and the A.I. while multiple craft full of regular infantry would mop up and distract what remained of the defenders. And if the stories were true, Xal's lance would get to kill the demons as well, since they would likely be the only ones capable of such.

Their boarding craft launched as soon as they saw the black-blue disk of a slip-space rupture appear. They would be going directly to the cargo hold, the relic was far more important than the construct. The artifact retrieval team consisted of three Spec-Ops commandos, including himself, and three rangers, who would continue the mission in the hangar in the event that the humans decided to vent the atmosphere. His lance would survive, their harnesses were sealed, but humans had an annoying tendency to turn off the gravity along with life support, making the rangers invaluable.

The tick latched on without so much as a lurch, and began burning an entry point into the cruiser's hull. The second the hole was opened up the rangers rushed out and killed the few marines and crewmen unlucky enough to be in that specific cargo hold. Xal's unit began securing the area while the rangers began opening crates in search of the holy artifact.

Even with the presence of demons Xal knew this would be an easy mission, the humans only had a skeleton crew and there was no way that they were prepared for the suddenness of this attack. Before long the rangers had already found the relic and were making their way off the ship. Now comes the difficult part of the mission, Xal and his men would make their way towards the bridge, kill whoever was present, take the humans' construct, make their way towards the nearest hangar bay, call in a phantom, which would be carrying an antimatter charge, leave, and finally watch the explosion.

"Warriors, engage active camouflage! Do not reveal yourselves until after we make it to their bridge!" Xal ordered, his body fading from view. His warriors followed suit, the only real evidence they were ever there were the bodies of fallen humans.

As they ran through the corridors towards the cruiser's bridge, one of Xal's lancemates had a question, "Where are the demons? Surely they would be making their way to try and secure the relic by now."

"Their priorities are different from ours, our priority was the artifact, theirs would either be protecting their construct or finding a way to ensure it does not come into our hands." By that Xal meant they would probably try to destroy the ship and deny them access to any information pertaining to their home world.

Commandos, we have taken control of the engine room, the huragok have disabled the remote detonation procedures. They cannot destroy their ship now." the sangheili minor on the other end of the communicator proudly announced.

"Excellent." Xal responded, he now had nothing to worry about. There was no way to stop them from winning now. "Forward."

Xal's wake up alarm woke him from his slumber. He got up, put on his clothes, and walked out the door.

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Walking to the forge, all Xal could think about was how great it felt to be out of his combat harness, his armor and body weren't uncomfortable, far from it actually, but he couldn't help but feel constricted inside of it despite it being perfectly made to fit his body. The clothes Coco Adel had made felt much better. More relaxed.

Xal opened the door to the forge, surprised by how conveniently empty it was again, he supposed it only showed how durable Remnant's weapons were. The only other person here was Phyrra Nikos, she was working on her spear. "How is your morning so far Miss Nikos?"

"Oh, good morning Professor." She greeted, only looking away from her work to give a friendly smile, "I'm doing fine, I'm just working out a few mechanical issues on Milo." The weapon in question was separated into its individual components, which there were a lot of, Xal could see how something like a small bend in one piece of the blade could make it all jam up. "What brings you here?"

"Science experiments." Xal then gestured to the pile of glowing objects. "I am relieved that the tools available to me seem more than capable of working on complex technology."

Xal figured he should begin with making a substitute for blamite, seeing as it would most likely be the easiest project. "Your help would be greatly appreciated as a matter of fact." Xal commented, "Your knowledge of dust undoubtedly exceeds my own."

"Of course, what do you need to do with dust?" Oh, so he was not thinking out loud.

Xal walked over to the crate of needlers. "I need it to mimic this mineral right he-" strange, one of the needlers was empty, Covenant crates never stock empty weapons. And he thought he knew exactly who emptied it, just something else to add to his to-do list.

He put the empty gun back and grabbed one that was loaded. "This mineral right here." Xal pointed to the glowing pink crystals sticking out of the top.

"And, what does it do?" Phyrra asked, patient as ever. "You aren't doing a very good job of explaining any of this.

"Allow me to demonstrate." Xal pointed the weapon at a testing dummy near the back, and launched seven needles. The dummy was destroyed by the resulting supercombine.

"I think we can pull that off easy enough." Phyrra stated, nodding. "But I don't think it's very safe to be firing raw dust crystals."

Xal chuckled, "Since when is anyone on this planet concerned with gun safety?"

"What do you mean?" The red haired girl was clearly confused, only confirming Xal's assertion.

"You use your weapon's recoil to increase your mobility and striking power." The sangheili spoke like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Yes, that's a very common practice, everyone with a sufficiently powerful weapon does it." She still wasn't quite getting it.

"You fire the your weapons behind you, in the air, all around. Physical bullets don't dissipate over time." Hopefully that would dawn some understanding.

"The rounds burn up eventually so we don't need to worry about it too often."

"Oh, carry on then." Xal really couldn't say anything to that, back to the previous topic then. "Now we can get back to our old tangent, do you think it can be done."

"I think we can, the guided effect might be hard to replicate, you know what you should do, go talk to Weiss, she knows the science of dust better than I do." Phyrra's scroll began beeping. "Well, see you later Professor, I have class in a few minutes." And with that she left, leaving Xal to carry out his business alone.

Xal went back to examining the empty needler, only to realize that he would actually need to buy a decent amount of dust to fuel his experimentation, and considering the steadily rising prices of dust, it would be a nightmare. Perhaps he would take a look at the local bulletins, see if there was need for his talents anywhere.

He would also need to figure out new activities for his class in case things got dull. With his phantom he could get to all kinds of new areas within minutes. As a matter of fact, he should begin researching that soon.

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"Welcome back to class younglings, today I would like to start class with a demonstration." Xal picked a cookie off his desk. Everyone in the room was wearing confused expressions, with the exception of Ruby who was staring at the treat, wide eyed and drooling.

"This is a cookie." Xal turned the confectionary between his two fingers. "A soft, warm, freshly baked, chocolate chip cookie."

"Excuse me Professor!" Weiss raised her hand, Xal nodded for her to continue. "Is there a point to this?"

"That's for you to decide after I have finished." He then picked up the plasma rifle that was also on his desk, Ruby's face immediately fell as he tossed the cookie up in the air and shot it. The bolt of superheated, ionized gas vaporized the baked sweet and put a hole in the roof.

Ruby fell to her knees. "Nooo! You destroyed it! You maniac!" She then began pounding on ground with her fists. "Darn you! Darn you all to heck!"

By the gods! It was like he executed her sister or destroyed a treasured monument. Maybe her reaction wasn't that extreme, but still.

"And that concludes the demonstration." He placed the plasma rifle back on his desk. "Today we will only do hand-to-hand drills, and prepare for a field trip tomorrow when class is finished."

"Xaaal!" The mentioned alien's pupils immediately narrowed to slits at the noise. He turned to the source, young Ruby was pointing at him, her spine straight and her cape billowing despite the absence of wind. "I challenge you to an honor duel! You must pay for your crimes!"

"You should reconsider Miss Rose, grimm and common criminals are very different from an experienced warrior." Xal would have no choice but to accept if the child decided to continue, his honor would demand it, but he would rather not.

"I will not, you crossed a very sacred line, and for that you must be punished!" Xal never thought he would meet someone more dramatic than him, but he would not be outdone!

But before he could begin some dramatic acts of his own, Weiss slapped Ruby on the back of her head. "You dolt!" The white haired girl looked angry. "You are not going to start a fight with the Professor over a cookie."

Weiss was in turn slapped upside the head by Yang. "Don't hit my sister Ice Queen."

"Hey! It's not my fault she's acting like a complete dunce!" Xal was almost starting to feel bad now, almost. It was not his intention to start any conflict between the girls, he only wanted to punish Ruby for touching his things. But now he might actually be able to turn a malicious act into an actual les-

"Don't call her a dunce you spoiled little b-" the blonde stopped herself from finishing her insult. "You planned this." The little dragon said, turning her head to him. "You knew exactly how to divide us." Her eyes went red.

"Indeed." Xal lied. "And it would seem you passed the test." Xal gave his best grin, not that anyone of the humans could tell. "You saw straight through my ruse."

"Yeah! And now we're gonna kick your butt as a team!" Ruby loudly announced, the rest of her team preparing for battle, even Blake, who just sat out the recent, fleeting feud.

"Yes, and now you're going to-" Xal registered her words just in time to avoid having his head taken off by Yang's fist. He ducked under her strike and rolled to avoid a kick from Ruby.

Xal could only chuckle at their audacity. "I thought I taught you all than tha-" he was interrupted by a kick to the head generously provided by Blake Belladonna. He grabbed the cat girl by the leg as she was jumping away only for her to disappear as his hand closed around the clone's ankle. He quickly rolled to the right to dodge what he thought was the inevitable follow up hit. He was proven right as Blake sailed over his previous position.

"You caught me monologing!" Xal could still only chuckle despite their success, perhaps he would test the other teams in terms of their combat prowess later.

Xal removed his shirt to ensure it would not be ruined. "See! That is what happens when you do your sit-ups!" Nora yelled to team JNPR. "You all need to get in shape!" The rest of her team looked terrified, there were clearly problems if they that adverse to exercise.

Meanwhile, during the fight, team RWBY had Xal on the ropes, he was stuck on the defensive. More aggression on his part would be needed. He would need to eliminate Weiss first, her glyphs were impeding he his movement. Deciding he could afford to take a few hits, he rushed the white clad girl and slammed his shoulder into her face.

He followed up with a few liver punches, they didn't hurt her much thanks to her aura, but it was felt nonetheless. Not wasting any time, Xal then threw the girl at the approaching Yang Xiao Long, which was not a difficult task when was able to throw thousand pound spartans.

Xal jumped back a few times to avoid Blake Ruby's counterattack. He used the very brief respite to check his aura, the charge at Weiss cost him half. Aggression wouldn't work, perhaps he would avoid their strikes until they tired, he knew from experience that unaugmented humans couldn't fight for more than half an hour, then again this world was not home to regular humans, who knew how long they could go.

Xal needed this to end soon regardless, the other teams were watching rather than working. While Xal was dodging and counter attacking he came up with a plan, it was a bit more savage than he would have liked and could potentially cause severe injury to everyone involved, but it was his best option.

He waited for the next kick to come his way. It came in the form of a red boot, he saw the attack coming from a mile away. He sidestepped Ruby's kick and grabbed her leg. He then used her as a bludgeon against Weiss. Ruby's momentum along with his strength resulted in more than enough force to finish the rest of Weiss's aura.

Xal then flung Ruby at Blake. And as predicted, his excessive display of force against Ruby caused her sister to go berserk. In a ferocious display of power, Yang launched herself at him, hair aflame, fist cocked back ready to finish him off. And as Xal guessed, she was aiming for his head, which allowed him to duck under punch and deliver a savage uppercut to her abdomen. This launched her very high into the air and ate a good chunk of her aura.

The blond landed on top of her other two teammates, who were still recovering from being slammed into each other, and knocked them back down. Xal found himself short of breath, this altercation had taken more out of him than he thought it would.

"I believe that is enough for now." Xal had seen all he needed to see from this group, and he would need time to examine the others as well. "You fought admirably, however, I have notes." Xal cleared his throat. "You all still seem to be having difficulty with generating enough power in your fist to cause a stagger, which is very important in a hand to hand fight like this, you will get more power if your feet are planted on the ground."

He then turned to Yang. "And you have an even more glaring weakness."

Yang quirks up an eyebrow. "And what's that?"

"You are impulsive, that makes you predictable, predictably leads to defeat." Xal explained. "And after my aura recharges I will be examining the rest of you, so prepare!" He announced, catching his breath.

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I am sorry that this took so long, I was busy with school stuff. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, please leave a review telling me whether or not you did.