Chp 13: Welcome to Beacon!
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"I DON"T WANT TO BUY PRESENTS!" ~ ARK
Cinder's hand burst into flames. She held it up to the random White Fang soldier. "You're telling me both Roman and Neopolitan were detained and we have no visuals at all as to how it happened?"
The White Fang shranked back. "Uh, uh-yes?"
Emerald snickered. "Ooh, Cinder's mad."
Mercury smirked. What sadistic puppies those two were.
Cinder suddenly grabbed the White Fang. He screamed as his face was burned. He fell to the ground, limp. Cinder looked back at her two disciples. "Well? Don't you have things to do too?"
Emerald and Mercury speed-walked out of the room. They didn't want to deal with angry Cinder after all.
Ozpin pinched his nose. "Are you serious?" He quickly took a sip from Juniper Coffee...who would never replace Maple Coffee. Glynda had a look of 'HELL no' on her face, though knowing her it was probably thought of more elegantly.
Team Future RWBY (name pending) looked at him. By their side was Neo and Vernal, who both looked very irritated.
"Why wouldn't we be?" asked Dragon.
"Because you're asking me to let a well-known criminal and an emotionally unstable bandit into Beacon!"
Belladonna stared. "...but you've let bandits into the school before, and former White Fang members, and emotionally unstable people, and combinations of all of those."
Glynda frowned. "Well, yes he has, much to my disapproval of course. But usually they weren't also Ma-"
Red suddenly pulled Neo out of the room in a flash of red petals. Moon covered Glynda's mouth.
"Mmf! Mf?"
Belladonna put a hand to her head. "Neo's been through some stuff as a Maiden… so doesn't like the m-word."
"We'll work on it," said Yang.
Ozpin put his hands on his head. "...make that two emotionally unstable people." He looked up. "You do realize the Maidens should be in their respective continents right? Not in one place."
"It hardly matters," said Moon. "If anyone hunts for them, they would go all out anyways."
"...fine. Even barring that, there is only two people, Huntsman Academies work on four-man teams."
Dragon grinned. "Then we could just grab a few of my tribe's bandits to fill in the spots."
"Ugh, more bandits…" Ozpin did not have the best experiences with them *cough, Raven *cough*.
...and that was how Team NVIM (Nevermore) was formed. One of the most dysfunctional teams to date, which was saying a lot.
"I don't get it!" Vernal threw her hands in the air. She stamped down the halls, going to her first-period class. "Why do I need 'to socialize and join society like a normal person?' Fine! Even if I did. Why am I not Team Leader? Why the mute person?"
Bandit #1, whose name starts with I held up a finger. "...because V can't spell out a word?"
"It can," Bandit #2, whose name starts with M said. "VNIM."
Vernal whirled on them. "Will you two shut up?! I'm ranting!"
Neo walked pass. She really wasn't in the mood for idiots.
"Hey! Mute kid! Don't just walk off on me!"
Neo twitched. She wasn't a kid! Even if her height says otherwise! Heck, she was probably older than that annoying blue eyed loudmouth!
Team NVIM paled considerably when they got to the Lecture Hall.
"Hello! I'll be teaching…" Dragon quickly looked up at the board that said 'Grimm History' in giant letters on it. "Grimm History!"
Vernal pointed a shaky finger at the blonde. "Wha-what are you doing?! You have a tribe to run!" She didn't even care everyone in the class was staring at her.
Neo face-palmed. Great, the loudmouth makes a bad impression in the first five seconds of class.
"Eh," Dragon waved away her concerns. "It was getting boring. Besides, Raven can handle it. She's been doing it for the last seventeen years or so anyways."
Bandit #1 and #2 blinked. Their diminutive less than side character minds could not handle this new information.
"So…" Bandit #1 started. "You are our teacher?"
"But not our leader?" said Bandit #2.
"What? No. Of course I'm still you're leader. I'm just taking a leave."
Vernal pulled out a giant tome from somewhere. She flipped through it. "Nowhere in the Bandit Code does it say the Leader can go on vacation!"
Dragon tore the tome from Vernal's hand and threw it behind her. It made a dent in the wall besides Jaune. "Woah!"
"Since when did bandits have codes? That's, like, completely contradictory." Dragon stepped back. "I'm Leader, I get to make the rules." Alright, that sounded completely badass.
"Um! Excuse me!" Weiss waved her hand at Dragon, not bothering to act as a teacher's pet for the future, other-dimensional version of her teammate. "We still have a lesson to learn!"
Dragon looked at her and grinned. "Oh Snow Angel, you're right."
Weiss frowned at the nickname. She shivered, something bad was going to happen, she just knew it.
"Come on! When I was your age, I could totally take this!"
"You totally couldn't!" denied Yang as she was hit across the room by a giant Beringel.
Dragon frowned as she watched her sort of younger self slam into and broke a desk. "You totally need work. Mertle could do better than you."
Jaune screamed as he was grabbed by a King Taijitu.
"Your turtle?! Bullshit!" Yang's eyes turned red and she readied a punch.
Weiss slid pass. She froze the Beringel's feet with ice dust. Yang threw her punch, blowing a clear hole through the Grimm.
"...Mertle finds that offensive."
Pyrrha sliced off the King Taijitu's head. Jaune tumbled to the floor.
Dragon looked over. "Oh...Jaune is still horrible at everything right now." She wondered if she should keep it that way. Scientist Jaune was scary.
A Nevermore flew through the room. Fittingly, Team NVIM was attached to it.
Neo pulled out her estoc, silently grunting (a feat that should be impossible). Vernal transformed her Deer Horn Knife into a pistol and shot at the Nevermore's face. Neo ran up the NVIM, estoc slitting through its back. The Nevermore fell to the ground with a thump and disappeared into black ash.
Bandit #1 and #2 fell down on their butts...they weren't much help, at all.
"See? That's more along the lines of what I was expecting," said Dragon.
Ruby and Blake slashed through a horde of Beowulf. They paused as they saw the giant form of a Death Stalker. It screeched.
"Ahehe...Team RWBY unite!" exclaimed Ruby, diving to the side as the Death Stalker's stinger came down.
Dragon muttered under her breath. She pulled out Mertle from her wallet. "Mertle can do better."
The turtle looked at her, unamused. Dragon hurled Mertle at the Death Stalker. The Grimm wailed as Mertle hit its head. It staggered back, its face imploded inwards from Mertle. It heaped to the floor and disappeared.
"...I take back what I said," decided Yang.
Least to say, Glynda was not happy about the newly destroyed classroom. "What is this?" She said, whisking the room back together.
"We were studying Grimm," answered Dragon. "Y'know, Grimm Studies?"
"It looks to me like you were demolishing Grimm, not studying them. Didn't you take Professor Port's class?"
"Yeah…?" For an year, at least. "I kinda slept through most of it though."
Weiss glowered at Yang, her 'combat skirt' torn and tattered. "This. Is. All. Your. Fault."
"She's not me!"
Neo silently contemplated what the rest of the classes might be like. She shivered, this was only first period after all.
"Huntsmen...they're all crazy," declared Vernal.
Neo decided this was the most biased history lesson she had ever taken. Sure, she had only taken like, three, but there was no way anyone could top this.
"In the beginning," said Moon. "There were two idiot brothers."
Cue stares. Pyrrha raised a hand.
"Yes?"
"Is this history or legend?"
"Of course it's history, we're in history class!"
"But-"
"I'm older, therefore I am wiser." Moon coughed. "Right, so there were two idiot brothers. One created life. The other created Grimm. Then they both created humanity to fight Grimm."
"Of course, humans were gifted with the power of knowledge, creation, destruction, and choice. Meaning humans are complete jerks."
Blake weren't sure if she should be happy someone acknowledged humanity's problems or worried that Moon didn't seem to have much of a problem admitting that. She looked at Weiss, who was convulsing. Huh, guess she's not taking her older self that well.
"But there was an even bigger jerk. Her name is Salem. She's a terrible conversationalist and has a real big stick up her ass. I honestly don't know what the brothers were thinking, creating her...oh and she's a Grimm."
Yang whistled appreciatively. "Weiss sure doesn't through her punches in the future."
The still convulsing heiress glared at her.
"So…" Suddenly a penguin appeared and started handing out paper to the students. "I need everyone to write the most offensive letter they can think of to her. Bonus points given for curse words in the right context."
Yang inhaled. "Weiss, you are the best teacher ever!"
Weiss did not take that as a compliment.
Neo grinned. She could get behind this. Sure, she didn't speak...but that didn't mean she didn't have a vocabulary.
Ozpin banged his head on the table. "Salem isn't supposed to be public knowledge! What part of secret is hard to understand?!"
Glynda patted the ancient man's back. "Look on the bright side…Salem will be getting a lot of hate mail?"
Yang looked over at Weiss's desk. She began laughing, hard. So hard in fact, she fell over. Weiss turned red, pencil trembling.
Ruby blinked. "Eh? Yang?"
"Hahaha! Weiss can't-can't curse!"
Blake scooted over to get a better look. "...it's bad."
"What does it say?" whined Ruby.
Blake looked at Moon, who was pleasantly scrolling through her scroll.
"Ahem. It says 'Dear Salem. Shit is flying at you.'"
"Oh god!" Yang wiped a teardrop form her eye. "That-that's golden!"
"I thought it was fine!" Weiss blew up. "It looks fine!"
Moon suddenly stood up. "It seems some of us have difficulty with the art of cursing." She looked pointedly at a sweating Pyrrha, a flabbergasted Jaune, and her own red younger self.
"Neopolitan, would you like to give an example?"
Neo nodded sweetly. She went up to the board and began writing.
A few seconds later she revealed the board.
Fuck you, Salem
You are a mother-fucking piece of shit that should burn in the pits of the crappiest parts of Hell...and that would be too good for an asshole like you.
Lose a life, Neopolitan
Pyrrha fainted. Yang covered Ruby's eyes. That was way too much cursing for her.
Vernal blinked, gaining new respect for her team leader.
"Lovely, just lovely," said Moon. She made a mental note to send that letter to Salem on the shiniest, longest day of the year. You could always count on Neo to dirty the mood.
Weiss crossed her arms, looking up at Moon. She pointing a finger at the woman. Ruby and Yang watched from their beds. "You should be running the Schnee Dust Company. What are you doing teaching?"
Moon raised a flippant eyebrow. "I like to think I'm a very good teacher."
"You're not!"
Ruby's eyes widened. "Did Weiss just insult herself?"
Weiss ignored her partner. "You have a responsibility as the President of the Schnee Dust Company to take-"
"And I'm fulfilling my responsibility," cut in Moon smoothly.
"How is standing here fulfilling your responsibility?"
"Well, summons are lovely things."
Klein walked into the SDC President's royal-*ahem* study hall. He flipped through his papers.
"Ms. Schnee? Your 'Efficiency' Plan was a success. Our shareholders were very surprised when stock actually increased, not dropped." Klein paused, waiting for an answer. "Ms. Schnee?"
He looked up from his papers to see a giant, smoking white knight sitting at the President's desk.
"Oh, uh…"
The white knight pulled out a notepad and flipped to a certain page. It held it up for Klein to see.
'LEAVE PAPERS HERE.'
The knight pointed at the desk. Klein swallowed and compiled.
The knight held up another message. 'WILL INFORM PRESIDENT.'
"A-alright?"
'THANK YOU.' A pause. 'PLEASE LEAVE.'
Klein robotically walked out of the room. Moon Schnee was certainly an unusual employer. She was nice, but unusual.
"Which reminds me…" Moon looked at Weiss. "You can't summon yet."
Weiss frowned, disappointment quickly filtering in. "Yes?"
"Let's work on it then." Winter was a horrible teacher. Now Moon on the other hand had plenty of ideas on how to teach summoning. She just needed a few Atlesian Paladins...
Blake found Belladonna in the library with Dragon. Which by the way, Blake found kind of amusing that Yang's future self would be the one to be in the library with her own future self.
"Hi," said Belladonna without looking up from her scroll.
Dragon waved at Blake. "Come 'ere."
Blake sat down at the table. She crossed her fingers nervously.
'You're here for information on the White Fang?" guessed Belladonna.
"How'd-right, same person."
Belladonna snorted. "No, not really. You're the same person as my 17-year old self."
"People change over time," said Dragon. She tilted her head. "That was real inspirational."
Belladonna rolled her eyes. "Sure, whatever you say." Dragon put on a fauxed hurt expression, putting her hand on her heart.
"Uh...White Fang?"
"...I think Red has some plans," said Belladonna. She frowned. "She's had that glint in her eye again."
"That glint?"
"The 'I've got a stupid plan that'll probably work somehow' glint," supplied Dragon.
"Oh."
Dragon patted Blake's head, which she won't admit felt good. "Don't worry, we've got this in a bag."
Blake blinked as something that had been bugging her came to the forefront of her mind. "Um...can I ask how Red lost her eye?"
"I think everyone on Team RWBY has asked that question," she added quickly.
Belladonna sighed. "It'd be best if you ask Red that. It is personal."
Dragon winked. "But hey! You can ask me how I lost my arm! I got over that quick."
"A few years," coughed Belladonna.
"...that was unnecessary."
"Alright…?"
Belladonna looked up. "She was very stupid and charged at someone who was way more powerful at the time."
"If I recall correctly, that was to save your life."
"I'm grateful, but seriously, think before you jump."
"You were on the floor! What was I supposed to do? Stop and ponder the meaning of life?" Dragon poked Belladonna in the head. "Besides, you were the one that ran away."
"Please don't remind me."
"And you totally ruined our relationship."
"Yup, you two totally could've been an item."
Blake jumped. She had been so enthralled in the mini-back and forth, she didn't notice Red had been walking towards them.
"Break's coming up eh?" said Red. "I always love breaks, you can do anything." She winked at Belladonna...which just looked like blinking.
Dragon snorted. "Maybe. Just maybe."
"Pfft. You totally liked Belladonna."
"That was in the past! Besides, everyone's liked her at some point!"
Belladonna and Blake blushed.
Thunk. A white-haired girl slammed into the library window. She slipped off slowly, leaving her imprint.
Blake blinked. "Weiss…?"
A white Atlesian Paladin appeared. On top of it was Moon with a smile and crossed arms. Weiss stood up, she pointed a finger and shouted at Moon.
"Aw...I want to hear what they're saying," said Dragon.
Moon looked into the library and waved. Weiss was still shouting.
Author's Notes: And here we go! Chp. 13...which is a real step down from the action in last chapter. Eh, whatever. ...my favorite part to right was Neo's letter...Neo is not a good person. Oh and Chapter ten of volume five is up! Luv it. Go Illia! ...and as it has become a tradition now...I have to make fun of it.
Omake XI: Forgiving (Non-Canon) (Chapter 10, Volume 5)
Blake stepped down the stairs and looked at the crowd that had gathered. She pointed at the fires she started.
"They did this," she loudly declared. "And you will all cheer for me and join the militia because it's inspirational speech time!"
All the faunus cheered and surged to sign up.
"I'll stand with you!" said Illia, standing up. She cast her eyes down. "If-if you'd have me."
"You're not going anywhere," the police captain grabbed Illia's arm.
"Let her come," said Blake, turning to look at them. "Sure, she tried to kill Sun, she tried to murder all of my family, she caused the death of a whole lot of innocent people, and she attempted murder on me at least five times, but forgiveness is powerful!"
Yang, take some notes.
Omake XII: May the Velveteen One Be With You
Written By: TheSetupMage
"So, can somebody explain to me how I got all four maiden's powers again? And how I know what a maiden is?" asked Velvet, frowning.
"Apparently, this guy was a really big fan of yours, because you're super nice and cute. It started with the photo weapon, but then developed into a weird obsession and now he prays to you. Then, he mailed a bomb to this evil chick's digs, making sure it also screamed 'VELVET SCARLATINA!' beforehand. He also walked into a bandit camp, offered a scarlet fever ridden child wrapped in velvet after claiming to be a bad guy, and shot a lady who discovered those things. Then he sent bombs to two other places, hidden inside Red Velvet Cakes, iced poorly with 'SCARLETINA'-probably before he learned how to spell your name- and, hey presto, you're the messiah now," said Coco, not bothering to look at Velvet. She was gazing at her own reflection in a mirror.
"Um, thanks, but why is there a rather fabulous lady behind me who's called... [DROPS OF JUPITER, was it?"
"Because the same guy stabbed you with an arrow a bunch of times. That's also why you didn't acquire that exposition dump naturally."
"Fair enough. Last question, Coco. When did you have red eyes?"
"When I took her [PHOTOGRAPH, of course."
-End-
Reviewer Responses
Mobydicks: How would that work?
Dev the snake faunus: Cool concept, dude. ...and you get your own Kingdom? 0_0. Shadowclaw...next time, I can only fit in two omakes a chapter...
snoogenz: Hell yeah! Let's make it happen!
Mew Shadowfang: Yup, should've thought of team name before I gave them their code names, lol.
merendinoemilliano: awww...I'll have to work on those fight scenes. Velvet x Jaune would be pretty neat in canon. Not to mention we'd get to see more of Team CFVY! Who have been missing since Vol 3 =). Then who do you ship Ruby with? Nobody?
TheSetuoMage: If you didn't mean for me to actually put up your omake just tell me, I'll take it off. But lol, that was good. Btw. Is this the future universe or a separate universe in itself?
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