("Thinking/in head conversation")
"Talking out loud"
{"the mystery person who sent Gajeel"}
[*] authors note found at the bottom.
'Means a pun'
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Ironwood walked through the barracks with his purposeful stride. Usually he would stop and talk with groups of cadets, or students heading to class, but today he had other things on his mind. Walking past the training grounds something caught his eye, turning to look he saw that the man whom had shown up one day at random a few months back was on the field fighting androids. The man had just appeared one day out side the school gates holding a red rapier with runes running down the side, wearing a matching red long coat and clothing. But the most notable things was he had a single solid black wing and was bleeding, a lot, with a large wound to the side of his head. The only thing he said was "thank you Zack" before passing out. He looked as if he had just came out of a war. The medics patched him up, and at one point the wing disappeared, but when he regained consciousness he had no clue where he was, who he was, or how he got there. When asked if Zack was his name he simply shook his head. But he did know how to fight. At one point he had slipped away and was walking through the hospital and a group of white fang members attacked, taking the entire building hostage, but by the time any hunters could get there all they found where the bodies of the terrorists, all killed by a scalpel that the man had picked up. When Ironwood arrived he saw the man standing off to one side with a few Atlasian Knights watching him. What really shocked Ironwood was that there was not a scratch on him nor a drop of blood. After about two more days he was discharged from the hospital with all his wounds healed up, the doctors had no real explanation except that they found a foreign substance in his blood and body, and his semblance may have be healing oriented, which was excruciatingly rare, when Ironwood reached out to the other kingdoms and asked if they where missing a healing semblance holder, because healing semblances are extremely rare they have to register with there kingdom so they can be watched, the reason they were being watched was because the white fang tried very hard to eliminate them because of their combat potential. But none of the kingdoms where missing any of theirs and when they heard how he had cleared out the hospital they suggested that Ironwood kept him in atlas for the time being. Ironwood was surprised and pleased that the other kingdoms placed their trust in him to keep the man in his kingdom, even Ozpin had agreed on the condition that Ironwood not approach the man with a military positions, Ironwood agreed and instead offered him a part time teaching position, surprisingly the man agreed to teach a combat class. However within a few weeks most the students dropped out of his class. When Ironwood went to the class he immediately understood why, the man was acting like a trainer from hell, at one point even saying it was a good possibility, he also was continuously quoting a book that he always read, afterwards he would point to a student and the student would respond with were the quote was from, Ironwood later found out he had made copies of the book and gave them to the students, if the student was right the class was given a break, but if the student was wrong the class had to participate in a class vs teacher battle, at one point Winter had stopped by and offered the class some advice about fighting a superior combatant with superior numbers, which actually made a vast improvement in the fights, however the man started to fight in random styles, not sticking with one style for more than five moves, and that caused the students trouble, because the students where trained in honorable combat, but when told that the man simply said that there was no honor in war.
Ironwood shook himself out of his reminiscing when he realized the man was walking towards him.
"Hello general," he said.
"Hello," Ironwood responded. "Where are your students today?"
"Oh, you didn't hear the last one dropped out," he said with a bit of aggravation in his voice. "You wouldn't happen to have any potential candidates for me would you?"
Ironwood thought for a minute, "unfortunately no I don't, how ever I do have a mission for you if you want."
The man perked up instantly "what kind of mission?"
"Do you remember that girl you met about 3 weeks ago?"
"Yes."
"She if being transferred to Ozpins school."
"I thought you said she couldn't be near any crowds?"
"Yes, but recently someone with similar circumstances as you appeared, however he did retain his memories."
"But he is from a different world?"
"Yes, and according to Ozpin his combat power matches yours maybe even surpassing yours."
"Hmm, so what's the mission?"
"Well I need someone to go with the transport to make sure everything runs smoothly."
"So I'm a guard?"
"Yes, also I figured you may want to see some of the world."
"Ok sounds great, when do we leave?"
"As soon as we get her."
Walking down the hall towards the room an orange haired girl steps out of the door.
"Oh salutations General Ironwood sir, I was jut coming to find you."
"And why is that Penny?" Asked Ironwood slightly worried.
"Well I was talking to Amber about her maybe getting to have a new partner and she suddenly started twitching only saying go get Ironwood." Penny replied in her cherry voice. "Oh hello Red coat how are you?"
"You do know I don't like that nickname right?"
"Yes but I don't know what to call you, so until you have a name I shall call you Readcoat."
"Penny." Interrupted Ironwood, "Did Amber have any armor on?"
"Yes. On her hands and on her feet."
"Ok, you should probably head back to you father now he might get worried."
"Oh you are correct. I shall go now good bye general, see you later Red coat."
As soon as Penny left Ironwood walked quickly to the door.
"Amber," he called out
"Come in," came the strained reply.
Ironwood stepped in and looked around.
"Im back here." Came a voice on the other side of the single bed
Walking around the two men saw the girl, she had her arms locked together, ask well as her feet.
"Was it another attack?" Ironwood asked.
"Yes." Came the simple reply.
"Ok," Ironwood pulled out a card and swiped it over her gauntlets and boots. "Can you stand?"
"Yes." She said as she stood.
"What was it this time?"
"Darkness"
"I don't understand."
"I just saw darkness and then I heard a voice, it was the same one as a few days ago."
"Hmm, are you still willing to try having a partner?"
"What? I thought we agreed I couldn't be placed in a normal team because of my attacks?"
"Well Ozpin found someone who can help."
"How can they help?"
"Remember when you had that last attack and you fought me?" Asked the man standing behind Ironwood.
"Yes."
"Remember how you felt better afterwards?"
"Yes."
"Well according to Ozpin he found someone as strong as I am."
"Really?" the girl asked.
"Yes," the man replied.
"So are you ready to go?" Asked Ironwood.
"Almost." She said walking over to a cabinet. Punching in the combination the doors opened up to reveal a deep sage color full body armor with white edging, and a black visor. Reaching out the armor formed around Amber and locked in, only leaving the helmet in the case, reaching out she picked it up and placed it on her head and locked it into place as well.
"All right General all I need know is my other case."
"We shall drop by it on the way to the bullhead."
"Ok"
As they walked Amber ran a diagnostics on her armor finding nothing amiss she looked over here equipment, camo, check, jetpack, check, armor lock, check, hologram, check, bubble shield, check, sprint, check, hard light shield, check, the list continued for a while after which she walked in silence.
When they got to the lockers Ironwood put a code into one and walked over to the piglet, as the locker opened up to a large arsenal of small to large firearms, Amber smiled at the guns, grabbing all of them and putting them into a dimensional pocket caused by a special armor enhancement she had received from a bounty hunter a few years back. Finally she placed two specialized pistols, one on each thigh and an assault rifle on her back. Reaching forward she stopped with her hand hovering over two handles.
"Would you mind grabbing those sir. I don't want to risk an attack while holding them."
"Sure" replied the man in red.
"Do you have a name you've been here a month or so."
"No and it's been four months" he replied.
"Hmm how about one of those names written in the cover of your book?"
"No those are not my name for the using." His tone letting Amber know that the conversation was over.
"Alright," Said Ironwood walking back over. "You will arrive tomorrow at the edge of the emerald forest and be introduced to the class then you shall team up with the one whom Ozpin has selected. Any questions?"
"No sir!" Was the unanimous reply. " alright then have a safe trip."
The two boarded the airship and departed.
"This will be fun" said Amber.
"Yes I hope so" said the man holding his weapon up to the light for no reason.
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Alright that felt like a really long chapter for me. And sorry no Gajeel in this one but he will be in the next one! And there will be a fight scene. Please bear in mind that this is my first fix so the fight scenes may not be the best but I am open to constructive criticisms. Also who is the mystery man in red... If you don't know...go play crisis core. And is bullhead the correct term for those ships? Let me know. Anywho thanks for reading, leave a comment/review and tell me what you think, please, I live off of reviews. Thanks bye.