So. You ready for another chapter? Here's another chapter. I am starting to worry about you guys still reading this. This is a very bad story; why are you in this far? You are digging too deep!
Chapter 9: News, Secrets, and Mission
Andy hated what Percy did with Bolts. When Andy, Leo, and Eve limped to their dorm room after the extra credit; they found Percy installing something into Bolts. Percy said it was a "mainframe", and "it will help it stop being suicidal." Ever since he installed that thing, Bolts has been completely boring like saying stuff like, "I have seen the light and I know what I must do now," or "I can feel, hear, and see everything clearly now. Life is so beautiful," and the worst one was yet was, "I love this world. I hope I never die". Andy really hated how unfunny Percy made Bolts. Andy would have tried to fix Bolts but getting hit with a twenty-three combo from one of the strongest students in Beacon makes one very sore. At least he got a free ice pack after his fight.
"Yo Andy. You awake yet?" Percy said as he shook Andy awake. Andy groaned in response as his muscles screamed in pain from being touched. Percy kept shaking Andy until Andy lazily punched him in the shoulder. Percy stopped shaking Andy and went to go wake up his remaining teammates. Andy sat up with great effort, his muscles hissing and writhing in pain from the beatdown he received yesterday. A few moments later Eve got up. Eve kept rubbing her face, complaining about the power of sniper rifles. Percy tried to get Leo up but he didn't want to leave his bed, saying, "No, I'm too sore. Go on without me." After a few more attempts to roll Leo out of bed; team APLE decided to leave him behind as they went to class.
Leo would try to sit up but fail, sliding back into his bed and slipping under the covers. Bolts would walk and sit next to Leo as it grabbed Leo's Scroll and tapped the news app all Scrolls come with. After a brief opening segment; the news anchors appeared. Leo would watched as Bolts held up the Scroll to Leo so he can see.
"Welcome to the Vale News Network; I'm Lisa Lavender coming at you with the news. A recent Faunus protest turned violent when White Fang sympathizers arrived and clashed with local Human shop owners. Around three stores were looted and several people, mostly Faunus, were arrested. Five protests turned riots this month alone. Now we go to Ying Yellow with the weather."
Bolts would look at Leo as the weather played and say, "Leonardo; isn't the White Fang the people who-"
"Yes Bolts. They were," Leo said as he watched the weather, a distant look in his eyes.
"But seeing what they did with your father-"
"Don't talk about this Bolts."
"But Leonardo; if it wasn't for the White Fang, your father would-"
"Shut the fuck up Bolts! We are not going to talk about my father!" Leo said as he slammed his fist into the wall. Bolts would nod and shut off the Scroll as Leo started to calm down. Bolts then stopped and looked at Leo with what could be considered an accusatory glare for a robot. Leo sighed and knew that the gig was up. He wasn't all that sore.
Leo liked to be lazy at times.
Eve decided it was time. Time to make Andy spill his secrets about his father and why he is so put off by "The Green Warrior". She simply wondered where she can take Andy so no one can interrupt them. Eve looked around for a suitable place as she walked next to Andy; Percy on Andy's other side chatting with him. Eve knew that she needed to get rid of Percy but how could she do it. Of course!
"Hey Percy."
"Yeah Eve? What is it?"
"What's the author?" Eve asked. She knew that Percy would burst out in a rant with anything concerning his insanity. Eve smirked as Percy started to tremble and twitch.
Percy stopped in his tracks and said, "The fucking author! He's the idiot responsible for all of this shit! Our existence is because of him! He is the position that is ruining the world for us! Do you how many mistakes the author has already made? Too many! I don't know if I a family or not! He's making Leo's backstory with his father a big deal in this excuse for written English! Only a few members of TRQS have a BIT of character development! He didn't even highlight the team members who were at the sparring thing! I should know! I saw Sam and Ramona in a ice cream shop having themselves a little date when I went to go get coffee. It was super cute but the author didn't include it! People eat fluff up like Ruby eating cookies for Monty's sake! I can even go into a flashback so the reader can see it! Here we go!"
Percy was walking/teleporting to Cafe Mocha when he saw Sam and Ramona. They were sitting down in an ice cream parlor with a large bowl of ice cream with pocky sticks stabbed all over it. Percy watched as Ramona continued to feed Sam ice cream, her cheeks a bit red from the situation she was in. Sam, impassive and silent as always, took the ice cream like a champ. After a couple more bites Sam looked like he had enough. He pushed the bowl to the side and took out one of the pocky sticks and jabbed it into Ramona's mouth. He then chomped down on the other end and began to chew his way forward. Before Sam could get a quarter of the way there; Ramona broke the pocky away from Sam. She then grabbed the back of Sam's head and pushed it forward, meeting it with a kiss.
"You see! That's fluff right there! Now let us get ourselves into the ships in this fanfic! I don't understand-" At this point; Eve and Andy had already left Percy to his rambling. In fact; Eve had Andy pinned down in a empty dorm room with her machete/shotgun at his throat. Eve was on top of Andy, the shotgun/machete near his throat as Eve smiled sadistically at Andy.
"Ok Mr. Verde! Time to tell me your secrets!" Eve said as she looked down at Andy.
"What secrets?" Andy looked at Eve with confusion and fear mixing together on his face.
"What's your deal with your father? Is he "The Green Warrior" or not? Spill it handsome!"
Andy would sigh as he turned impassive at Eve's request. "Did Leo tell you?" Andy asked as he looked at Eve.
"Um… Yeah, he did. Why do you ask?" Eve said as she slid off of Andy; her weapon falling to her side.
"Because Leo is known to tell other people's secrets if he deems them stupid as secrets."
"Really? That's really mean if you ask me," Eve said as she looked down at her hands.
"Leo isn't know to hold back; punches and words included. Well to answer your question about "The Green Warrior"; Yes, he is my father."
"Then why do you look so put off when someone mentions him?"
"Because it reminds me of how much of a disappointment I am."
Eve would look at Andy with concern etched all over her face as she asked, "What do you mean, 'A disappointment'."
"Well, you heard how my dad slayed a thousand Grim right? Well when people realize that I am his son; they get so excited of how cool my dad is and how I will outshine him when I grow up. Thing is; I hate it when people set expectations for you because when you fail, it's the worst feeling in the world. The hearts of the people who set those goals and helped you along the way shatter and you feel wave after wave of disappointment, anger, and sadness come from them. Now combine that with your own emotions and you get the feeling. Not only that but imagine me; an airhead who can barely pay attention much less make a B- in school try to outshine someone who is an accomplished Hunter with thousands knowing about him. Yeah. That's why I hate it so much. But look at me now; the leader of a team consisting of an overpowered Faunus, a Deus Ex Machina, and you, a girl who likes to kick people in the balls. My plan of cruising through life died after initiation." Andy sighed as he sat up, a thousand mile look in his eyes.
Eve nodded mutely at what Andy said before asking,"Andy; what is with Leo and his father?"
"I can't say," Andy said, standing up while helping Eve to stand up as well.
'Why's that?" Eve said as she was dusted her leggings off.
"Because I won't tell anyone my closest friends' secrets. If there is one thing this airhead can do; is to keep secrets even if my friends tell everyone my deepest and darkest secrets."
"You are a very loyal person."
"If there is anything I learned from my father; it was that 'Loyalty can make or break entire empires.' Now come on; I think we left Percy by himself for too long." Andy walked out of the room and was followed by Eve who grabbed his hand. Andy looked back at Eve who simply said, "Let's go, together. If you tell anyone I am doing I'll kick you so hard you won't have any children!" Andy smiled at Eve's threat and walked with her, hand in hand, back to Percy who was still rambling about "The grammar of this Fanfic".
After a little jog to the cafeteria with Leo joining up with them, bullshitting how he was so strong that the soreness went away; team APLE went to their classes like usual. They were in their fourth class with Mrs. Mitoca about to go into her mad German scientist mode when some asked how dynamite was made when the intercom came online.
"May team APLE report to Professor Ozpin's office at this time. Thank you."
It's time.
Team APLE rushed out of Mrs. Mitoca's class and to Ozpin's office. They knew what was going on. It was time for their second mission. It took fifteen minutes before they arrived to in Ozpin's office, Professor Goodwitch standing near Ozpin's desk. As APLE caught their breath; Ozpin walked out of his personal office and into his main office, sipping some coffee as he neared his desk.
"I'm glad that you came. Professor Goodwitch; can you please brief team APLE on what their mission involves?" Ozpin said as he sat down and continued to drink his coffee.
Goodwitch nodded and pulled up the map for APLE to see. "Ok. Listen up. Your mission is a simple search and destroy mission. A large concentration of Grim have been spotted in Emerald Forest by some settlers. The strange thing about this sighting is the there are no livable dens nearby the area the Grim were spotted. Team APLE; your mission is to destroy any Grim that may come your way and search for a reason why the concentration of the Grim are so high in that area. Along with that, seeing how you were successful on your first mission; you are now entitled a percentage of the profit of mission for now on stated in the rules."
Team APLE looked at each other with Lien in their eyes. There was a rule in Beacon that for every successful mission, the team would be rewarded with Lien or special rewards. However, due to the high amount of Lien required to keep Beacon running; the school would take all of the Lien from a team's first mission for themselves and then on take around eighty percent of the money and give the teams twenty percent. Because of the fifty Lien allowance Beacon already gave their students, enough to eat out for a couple of times or stock up on school supplies; missions were considered payday, the rewards ranging from thousand to five thousand Lien for ever mission. Team APLE saluted Ozpin and rushed to their dorm room to get ready.
Ozpin would take another sip of his coffee as Goodwitch said, "Team APLE was really impressive at the sparring the other day."
"Really? I thought team RWBY won," Ozpin said as he looked at his Scroll, watching team APLE.
"They did but team APLE was able to hold their own. However they are still green in the art of combat and I wonder if we should have assigned team TRQS this mission."
"Nonsense. Besides team TRQS are the next team to be selected for a mission so don't you worry. They are capable fighters despite it being a couple months since school began."
"A couple months? It feels like years."
"It sure does. Now I hope that Mr. Verde will upgrade his katana soon. He lacks ranged weaponry."
"Ozpin; Mr. Anthony's sword is a broadsword, not a katana."
"Of course I know Glynda… I know everything…" Ozpin would chuckle uneasily at Glynda correcting his observation of Mr. Verde's blade.
So. Hope you liked this chapter. Seeing how the grammar, characters, and plot is absolute garbage; I am still surprised that people are still reading this. But hey, if they managed to make it this far I guess I'll keep going. Goodbye!
EDIT: So. I fucked up this chapter didn't I? So I replaced the parts and ideas I absolutely hated with something marginally better. I don't want to give cancer just yet. Only the black plague.