Here we are at chapter 10. Time to see how things are going for Agnika as he gets settled in at Beacon. I do not own RWBY or Gundam IBO. They belong to their respective owners. Here's chapter 10. Enjoy.

Chapter 10: The First Piece

After Blake and Weiss' revealing conversation about Blake's past, they met up with Ruby and Yang and told them what happened. Thankfully, both sisters understood the situation and still welcomed Blake with open arms, just glad that she was opening up to them more. Weiss, with Agnika's approval, also told them about his real name as he figured that they could be trusted and that they would've learned about it eventually. As with Agnika, he uses his new base of operations set at Beacon to monitor for any unlawful activity that would require his assistance. Currently, Agnika is going over some criminal records on one Roman Torchwick.

"…Roman Torchwick. Long-time criminal mastermind. Records of theft, robbery, assault, resisting arrest, aggravated assault…Has recently been connected to a number of Dust shop robberies within the past few weeks. Looks like I'll have to deal with him while I'm here in Vale before this gets any worse. However, the question remains on why he would need so much Dust if it's just for himself…Unless it's not just for himself. He may be working with someone or even a group of people that needs the Dust altogether. Hmm…" Agnika hums to himself as he goes over the data. Just then, the alarms go off and Agnika goes over the console to check the issue. "White Fang activity outside the city, in the east sector. Better get moving," he thinks and leaves to handle the situation.

…

Meanwhile, the members of Team RWBY are coming out from Professor Port's class and moving on to their next ones.

"You'd think he'd figure out that this class is about studying Grimm, not his personal story-time," Yang groans.

"I admit, his stories can be a bit…illogical…but the fact remains, he's still our teacher, so we'll just have to deal with it," Weiss says.

"At least it's over for now. Let's just focus on our next class," Blake adds.

"I think the only stories I'd be interested in listening to are Agnika's," Ruby notes, then gets stars in her eyes. "I would just love to learn more about his weapons and if there are others like them. They were so cool!" Ruby exclaims excitedly.

Weiss stares flatly at her, "Of course you'd only be interested in his weapons, you weapon-loving dolt," she says.

"Hey, at least she's interested. But, she has a point. I'd like to hear about them as well. More importantly, I KNOW you'd want to learn more about him as well," Yang says with a teasing smirk aimed at Weiss.

Weiss scoffs, "I have no idea what you're talking about…But I admit, I would like to know more about him, "She admits while playing with a strand of her ponytail.

"Know more about him. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you'd want to marry him," Yang teases her.

Weiss gets a slight blush, "I would do nothing of the sort, you blonde-headed brute! I'm simply interested in knowing more about him," Weiss retorts, but then glances around to make sure no one is nearby to hear her. "Besides, how many people can say they've met a mech with the soul of a human inside it and using it as a new body?" she points out.

"She has a point?" Blake says.

"Yeah, okay, whatever. By the way, you wouldn't happen to know what the big guy's doing right now would, you?" Yang asks.

"If he's not in his operations room, then I have no idea," Weiss replies. "I wonder what Agnika's doing right now?" she wonders.

…

Outside the kingdom of Vale, the forests east of the city remain peaceful and quiet. A haven for wildlife and anyone travelling through the trees without a care in the world…Until a White Fang member gets sent flying through one of the trees in the area. All of a sudden, bullets are flying everywhere and explosions ring out as other White Fang members fire their rifles up into the sky. High above them, Agnika flies around, easily avoiding the rounds being fired at him before he flies down and slams into the ground, sending up smoke and debris along with a few Faunus soldiers' into the air. Agnika soars out of the smoke, swinging his sword at three more White Fang members as he passes by them. He turns around and fires off several cannon shots at four more, taking them down. Looking to his left, he sees two more enemies aiming rocket launchers at him, firing off a few missiles towards him. However, Agnika waits until their close and then swings his swords down, slicing them in half, and making them explode in front of him. He bursts forth from the smoke and rushes the two members, elbowing one in the face, and kicking the second one in the torso, knocking them out.

Seeing three more approaching him from behind thanks to his sensors, Agnika activates his thrusters to blow them back before sheathing his swords. He then turns around, throwing his two combat knives that strike two of them and then charges forth to punch the third straight into the ground. Seeing that the group had been defeated, Agnika calmly retrieves his knives and walks over to the reason for him coming here: crates filled with stolen Dust crystals. He opens him up and scans them, seeing that none of them were damaged. However, his sensors pick up one of the defeated White Fang members crawling through the bushes, attempting to escape, and pursues him. The White Fang member pulls out his scroll and calls for backup.

"Do you read me? We need reinforcement here, now! The Devil is here! I repeat the Devil is-ah!" he yells when a golden sword suddenly impales itself through his scroll. The Faunus looks back to see Agnika standing over him, sword drawn in his right hand. He grabs the Faunus and holds him up by his neck, close to his face.

"Now then, care to tell me why you've been stealing all this Dust. This wouldn't have something to do with Roman Torchwick, would it?" he interrogates him.

"I'm not telling you crap!" the White Fang member yells, and then spits on Agnika's face.

In response, Agnika head-butts him in the face, breaking his mask and knocking him out before tossing him onto the ground.

"If it was a little Dust, then it would be just a normal robbery. However, the fact that the White Fang is involved and that they've been stealing large quantities of Dust means that they're up to something big. I need to find out what and stop it before innocent people get hurt," he thinks before opening up communications with Ozpin. "Ozpin, contact the local authorities and send them my coordinates. I have several members of the White Fang here along with a large stash of stolen Dust. I'll let them handle the clean-up," he informs him.

"Understood. They'll be there shortly. Good job, Bael," Ozpin replies.

"…What is going on here?" Agnika wonders.

…

At an abandoned warehouse in Vale, a White Fang member approaches Roman Torchwick, who is going over a map of Vale with marked-out locations of the school, police, and several Dust shops.

"Uh, sir," the Faunus gets his attention.

Roman looks back at it," What is it?" he asks.

"There's been a problem with one of our teams that's supposed to ship some of the stolen Dust to our hidden base," the White Fang member says.

Roman walks up to him, "And what would that be?" he says, narrowing his eyes.

"Um…This," he replies and pulls out his scroll to show a video.

Roman takes the scroll and looks at the video. It shows another White Fang member's mask as he calls for back up, but then Roman's eyes widen when he sees a strange-looking white and blue robot step forth from behind him and shove a golden sword into the scroll before the video goes out.

"Okay…Explain to me…Just what the HELL was that?!" Roman exclaims.

"Honestly, we don't know, sir. But it's been interfering with our operations for some time, even before we started this new operation. Other White Fang members call it 'the Devil," he says.

Roman groans, "Ugh, if this…thing…keeps this up, we may never get this job going. And I do not want to tell the boss lady about that," he says.

"About WHAT, Roman?" they hear a female voice behind them and look back to see a young woman with black hair and eyes that burned like fire, wearing a red dress. Cinder Fall. "I sincerely hope things are going well with phase one of our plan…"

…

A few hours later, Agnika returns to Beacon, making sure that no one sees him during his approach. The authorities arrived and arrested the White Fang members that he left tied up at the site, along with the stolen Dust. He left before they arrived since he still needed to remain hidden for the time being. He knew that more people would find out about him eventually, but for now, he needed to keep that to a minimum. Otherwise, Ironwood would blow a gasket, and he really didn't need to deal with that. Anyway, he returned to his base. After getting into his little command center, he checked over his weapons and body to ensure that everything was undamaged. While checking his gear, he receives a call from Ozpin and pulls it up on the monitor.

"What is it, Ozpin?" he asks.

"I just wanted to let you know that the White Fang members you apprehended have been arrested and taken into custody by the authorities and the stolen Dust you found has been recovered. Good work," he says.

"Good. However…" Agnika trails off.

"What's wrong?" Ozpin asks.

"It's just that something doesn't feel right. All these Dust robberies leads to the question of why they would need that must Dust? I have a feeling that they're planning something big. It leaves me concerned. I haven't seen an operation this large since I first came to this world. I don't like it," he explains.

"I see. Unfortunately, there's not much we can do right now with how little information we have. We'll just have to prepare as best we can and react accordingly. I wish we could do more, but I can't risk making the public in Vale uneasy, nervous, or scared. That negativity will draw the Grimm in, and I can't allow that," Ozpin replies.

"You make a decent point. For now, I'll continue my investigation into this matter. Hopefully, I'll find something that can give us some answers," Agnika says.

"Let's hope so…" Ozpin replies.

…

Meanwhile, later that night, the members of Team RWBY are in their dorm. Weiss is studying, Yang is playing a game on her scroll, and Blake is reading a book.

"So, any idea where Ruby went?" Yang asks.

"She said she was at the weapons forge, trying out some idea she had in her head. Didn't really give me any specifics though," Weiss replies.

"Let me guess, she's looking to make Crescent Rose into an even more complicated and dangerous weapon of destruction?" Yang jokes.

"Beats me," Weiss shrugs her shoulders.

Just then, the door opens and in walks Ruby, who's hunched over and having am exhausted look on her face as she walks to her bunk, jumps up, and slumps on the bed.

"Man, why can't I get it right?" she whines.

"What's wrong, Rubes?" Yang asks.

"I've been working on trying to improve Crescent Rose's blade to make it as strong as Agnika's swords, but the school doesn't have the kind of materials I think his swords are made of. Oh, if I could see what he used for them, my sweetheart would be even sweeter!" Ruby pouts, puffing out her cheeks.

"Isn't your scythe dangerous enough as it is when in your hands?" Blake chimes in.

Ruby sits up, "Well, duh, of course it is. But that doesn't mean I can't make it even better than before," she says.

"Well, maybe the next time we see him, we can ask Agnika what materials he used in forging his blades. After that, we can check to see if there are any stores in Vale. Hopefully, one of them has the materials you're looking for. It shouldn't be too hard," Weiss offers, but then thinks back on it. "Oh, I forgot he's not from Remnant, so it's obvious his swords may have been made from materials not on this planet."

"Yeah, that could work. Oh, his blades were so cool when we were fighting him," Ruby says as she gets stars in her eyes.

"You do realize that was when he was practically tossing us all around like rag-dolls, right?" Yang flatly asks.

"Oh, yeah, he-he. Sorry," Ruby replies while rubbing her head.

"Well, anyway, it's getting late. We should probably turn in shortly," Weiss says, to which the others nod in agreement and soon head in for the night.

…

A few days pass after Agnika's assault on the White Fang and so far his investigation has turned up little rewards for his efforts. Going over what data he does have for a while now has left him a little frustrated. Breathing a heavy sigh, Agnika decides to leave and take a break for now.

"Perhaps taking my mind off it for a little while will help. I keep this up, and I'll just become more agitated, which will make it more difficult to find the pieces I need," he thinks as he leaves.

Ensuring that no one's nearby, he takes off into the sky for a little flight through the clouds to help ease his mind. As he flies, he notices Weiss and Ruby walking through the courtyard. He looks around to make sure no one is nearby and when the coast seems clear, he flies lower to get their attention. When they hear the sound of his thrusters and look up, Weiss smiles when she sees him and waves to him. Agnika returns the gesture and then motions for them to follow him. They run across the ground to keep up with him and end up catching up to him in one corner of the school. He slowly descends and lands in front of them.

"Agnika, it's good to see you again," Weiss happily greets him.

"Always a pleasure, Weiss. Good to see you as well, Ruby," he nods to them.

"Hi, Agnika. What are you doing?" she asks.

"Just taking a little break from some work I've been doing. I've had little progress with it and I thought getting some fresh air would clear my mind a bit," he says.

"Really? What are you working on?" Ruby asks.

"Ruby, we can't ask him that! Due to his situation, it's probably something that he has to keep secret," Weiss berates her.

"Now, now, no need for that, Weiss. However, she does have a point Ruby. My work is something I can't exactly discuss with you, much like how law enforcement detectives can't discuss their cases to the public," Agnika says.

"Oh, sorry. I understand," Ruby replies, but then gets an idea. "Actually, it's good that we bumped into you. We wanted to talk to you about something," she says.

"Oh, what would that be?" he asks.

"First, can I look at one of your swords?" Ruby asks, fidgeting a little bit in excitement.

"Um…" Agnika hesitates.

"Trust me, it's either that, or having her swarm all around you until she gets it. Just go with it," Weiss informs him.

"…Very well," he says and pulls out his left sword and hands it to Ruby. Ruby takes it carefully into her hands as if it's a gift from God, gazing at it in awe as she inspects every millimeter of the blade. "Um, so what is it you needed of me?' he asks.

"Well, the truth is I've been trying to find the same materials that you used in your blades, and use them to re-forge the blades on my scythe, making it stronger. I could tell from our fight that your blades were strong. However, I could tell that none of the materials the school's forge provide were the same ones your swords are made of. None of them just felt right, so I wanted to know what they were," Ruby explains.

"Hmm, that could be an issue," Agnika says, crossing his arms.

"What do you mean? Are you saying you can't tell us?" Weiss asks.

"No, it's not that. It's just that you won't really be able to find the same materials my swords are made of here, or anywhere on Remnant for that matter," Agnika says.

"What do you mean? Are you saying that those materials are depleted now?" she asks sadly.

Agnika looks at Weiss.

"You can trust her, Agnika. I most certainly do," she says, knowing what he was thinking.

Agnika looks back at Ruby and sighs, "Ruby, my swords are made out of the same material that comprises my body's frame. A material that can't be found on Remnant…because it is not from Remnant," he confesses.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Ruby asks, confused.

"Well, it would be better if I started from the beginning…" he begins.

…

"So, this machine has become a nuisance to our plans, is that what you are saying?" Cinder asks Roman.

"Well, from what those mutts from the White Fang are saying, yes. Apparently, they've a bone to pick with him since he's sent plenty of their guys to the slammer over the past few years. What am I supposed to do about that?" Roman asks.

"YOU will continue to obey my orders and continue with your little Dust robberies. Whether this machine interferes or not does not change your objective Remember that," she commands him. "Besides, if he's an enemy to the White Fang and is working with OUR enemies, then that can serve as motivation for them to continue working with us. The hope that one day, they'll get a chance at revenge against him. For now, proceed with phase 1 as planned," she says and turns to walk away. Roman just grunts as she leaves while taking out a cigar and his lighter. "This may become a problem. I'll have to see what she thinks about this."

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"…And that's about it," Agnika says as he just finishes telling his story to Weiss and Ruby.

"Wow…So that's how you ended up the way you were," she mutters as she's deep in thought.

"I…I never thought that there would be people suffering like Faunus, or even suffering in worse forms than them," Weiss says melancholy.

"Now you know who I am, where I came from, and why I'm here," he says.

"I'm sorry that that happened back home Agnika," Ruby apologizes.

"It is all right, Ruby…Quick question, do you know where Blake and Yang are?" he asks.

"They should be in class right now. Why?" Weiss asks.

And that's the chapter. Sorry if this one seemed a little off, but the next one should be better. Don't worry, you'll hear Agnika's story in a later chapter. Now Ruby and Weiss know all about Agnika, but what about Blake and Yang? And now Cinder knows of him? What will happen next? Until next time, please Read and Review.