I was thinking of releasing this tomorrow but it has a terrible word count so I'm just going to release it now...

This chapter ACTUALLY has stuff from the Titanfall 2 trailer... so watch it if you haven't already...

And... we all remember THOSE twelvies in games we've played... you know what I'm talking about...

Naughbeast

Chapter 14:

Well... this is boring…

Demon was sitting in the middle of combat class watching two students duel on the stage. One was an extremely annoying male wearing a pure gold jumpsuit and continuously tried to hit the other combatant after spinning around and firing with his sniper rifle. Every time he would miss he would swear profusely in a super high-pitched voice that didn't seem right for his age. The other one was wearing full riot gear and firing two SMG's without aiming, not bothering to move closer to his target to increase his accuracy. Demon was continuously face-palming as they fired at each other for about ten minutes before finally deciding to actually fight. The one with the sniper rifle fired and managed to hit the other guy in the chest, shouting when he saw the other guys shrug it off, claiming he was hacking? The other one dropped both his SMG's and ran full-boar at the other dude before knocking him to the ground and pummelling him to a pulp with massive knuckle busters. Miss Goodwich called the match soon afterwards.

FINALLY…

Demon woke up Rosaline who had fallen asleep next to him and she nearly died from shock while shouting 'pancakes'. He laughed a bit before turning his head back to the stage. Miss Goodwich walked into the centre of the arena and began the next spin-up match. The first image stopped scrolling and rested on a picture of Demon's helmet.

THANK GOD I GET TO FIGHT…

The next image, however, showed who his combatant would be… Pyrrha Nikos. Miss Goodwich shook her head for a bit before re-initialising the random selection.

"WAIT!" yelled Demon, clearly outraged at what happened.

"Yes, Mr Demon?"

"WHY CAN'T I FIGHT HER?"

"Because she is a four-time Mistral Regional championship winner and is probably the most skilled fighter in this room other than me… and on top of that, you don't have an aura" she continued.

"Miss, you might not know this, but I can get my Kira to back me up on this… I am literally the best pilot in the entire Militia, I have beaten hundreds upon hundreds of soldiers and can boast to have beaten a sniper in a shoot-off with my pistol… I can hold myself in a fight."

Miss Goodwich looked up to Kira who simply nodded to back up Demon. She sighed before telling them both to get their stuff. Demon smiled and walked down to the locker where he had put his stuff from before class. He attached all his gear to his armour, putting a particularly large gauntlet on his left hand as he did, and hefted the rocket launcher onto his shoulder again. As he began walking out he thought of a better idea. He took off the cloaking mechanism from his armour and attached it to the rocket launcher, turning it invisible. He saw just the faintest of outlines and smiled as he picked it up and walked into the arena. He turned up the hearing modulator in his headset and heard that multiple people in the audience were placing bets on the duel… all of which were against him.

He laughed at how wrong they would be. He set down the rocket launcher as subtly as he could, and pulled out his wingman. Pyrrha walked into the arena and looked quite surprised when she saw Demon only wielding his pistol. They both setup in combat stances and waited for Miss Goodwich to start the fight. She held her finger above the button for a while, hesitating as she did, before she looked over to Demon one more time.

"Are you sure you would like to proceed… I cannot say that you will walk out of this fight alive if something were to go wrong…"

"You should be worried about Pyrrha's pride Miss," he said, smiling behind his helmet.

She nodded and hesitantly pushed the button on the scroll, starting the match, though she acted as if she had just killed Demon. The counter went down on the side of the arena and the voice of the commentator filled the arena.

3… "BREAK HIS LEGS!" yelled Yang from the sidelines

2… "You got this!" came a shout from Rosaline

1… Begin.

They stood facing one another, a standoff of wills to see who would fire first, until Pyrrha broke under the pressure. She raised her rifle and fired directly next to Demon's head to try and get him to move… but he was better than that. Pyrrha had aimed slightly to the left of his head so that he was not injured but when it passed by, he simply didn't care. The round whizzed past him and embedded itself in the wall on the other side of the arena and Demon didn't move a muscle. She adjusted her aim, this time setting sights on his armoured chest piece, and fired. The moment she fired, Demon snapped up his left arm and activated the enhancement placed on his gauntlet. A miniature version of a Titan vortex shield was fitted to the extremities of the gauntlet and when he activated the device, several rectangular arrays spread out like frills on a lizard, activating the physics defying field. The bullet went straight for his chest… then seemed to slow down… before finally reversing course straight at Pyrrha. She brought up her shield to block the bullet, still recovering from how he had managed to reflect her bullet by simply raising his arm. When she looked back she saw him holding three shurikens in between the knuckles of his left hand, his wingman in the other. Before she could do anything he threw them straight at her, so she raised her shield to block. When the hits didn't come she looked down to see three shurikens embedded into the floor in front of her.

"YOU MISSED DUMBASS!" came the voice of Yang from the crowd, a note of excitement in her voice.

As she finished that sentence, the shurikens began glowing a bright blue and what happened next could only be described as a feat of technological engineering. The emitted a bright blue field that stopped Pyrrha from moving at all. Milo and Akouo were pulled from her grip and sent to the floor by the gravity distortion field. She couldn't even say or do anything… she was at the mercy of Demon. He smiled and raised his wingman, firing a single shot and watching the aura gauge beneath Pyrrha's name go down. As he did, he pressed a few buttons on his wrist-screen before nodding to no one. Then, to everyone's surprise, he reached down and picked up a rocket launcher out of nowhere. (Just a completely normal, no mods at all Archer missile pod… *smiles*) He tapped a few buttons on the side of the device before taking aim at Pyrrha. She was utterly terrified… this guy was going to fire a missile at her!

"Don't worry… this won't kill you… it'll only hurt…"

He pulled the trigger and hell was released on Remnant. The round erupted from the chamber and the guns spewed forth fire and flames. The single rocket flew towards Pyrrha with blinding speed and slammed into her still form. The round detonated and the explosion was practically a miniature nuke (Think the Fatman from Fallout). Pyrrha's aura depleted faster than someone could say 'shit' and she was thrown across the entirety of the arena. As everyone watched in awe, they saw that Pyrrha's aura level stopped just above where it would be depleted, the tiny red mark being barely visible. Miss Goodwich hastily changed the counter to numbers instead of a bar as that would provide a better comparison… and nearly fainted. Out of the 100% full that the aura bar could be, there was only 1% left over. She wiped the sweat from her brow and was about to call the match but missed one crucial thing happening. Demon grabbed a grapple launcher from his belt and fired a line at Pyrrha, latching onto the wall next to her. As he was pulled towards her at breakneck speeds the other student could hear him saying one sentence.

"This is for letting me get knocked out!"

He slammed into her with his boot and the final bit of her aura depleted, knocking her out as well. She was falling to the floor but Demon quickly grabbed her and laid her down carefully, not wanting to hurt her anymore. He looked up at Miss Goodwich and waited for her to do something. It took her a second to actually realise what had happened.

"And it looks like Demon is the winner…" she stated, hints of disdain in her voice. He nodded before grabbing something from his backpack and injecting it into Pyrrha. As he pulled the vial away from Pyrrha her eyes fluttered open and she muttered: "What happened?"

"You okay?" he asked, still a bit worried that he may have hurt her permanently.

"Yea… what was that?"

"That… was a nuclear enhanced Titan-grade warhead, meant for taking down Titans, so I had to kinda lower the power a bit"

"THAT was low power?"

"Yea…" he said guiltily, scratching the back of his head as he did. "So… nice battle I guess…"

Before she could answer the bell rang, signalling the end of the class. He shook Pyrrha's hand without her consent and walked off and grabbed his stuff before walking back to his locker. He stored everything there and then walked out of the classroom. As he did… he felt something was a bit… off, so he stopped just outside of the door. When it finally occurred to him he sighed a bit.

"I'm not getting out of this alive am I?"

"Nope" came the voice of team RWBY, Nora and his two teammates, the sounds of cracking knuckles filling the hallway.

Well… this is going to be fun… for them…