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"Actually I'd prefer if you asked the whole team but this is technically your mission. I'm just an extra wheel so to speak. and don't worry about it. I know Ruby will give you the answer you'd want to hear with her even knowing it."
"Alright if you insist."
By the time Aodh and Dr Oobleck finished there conversation Team RWBY finished off the last of the Beowolves. "Heh. Piece of cake!" Ruby proudly stated.
"Do not celebrate yet, for I am certain this is the first bout of many. Shall we continue?" Dr Oobleck asked as the girls continue'd to show enthusiasm.
Volume 2: Chapter 10: Search and Destroy.
Excellent work, girls! Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any signs of criminal operations in this sector. Oh, well! Moving on!
Scouring over the city bit by bit Aodh, Dr Oobleck and Team RWBY were making short work of the Grimm residing within the abandoned city. After clearing one area Yang groans in slight frustration over Dr Oobleck's lack of fighting. "Hey, Doc, y'know, I was actually looking forward to seeing a pro Huntsman in action. Like,fighting, or at least, helping us fight?"
"Ah, but I am in action! Scouring the ruins of this once-great city for any signs of irregularity! Not every mission is filled with daring and heroism, girls. Sometimes it's just a heightened form of extermination!" Dr Oobleck informed Team RWBY.
"Girls while we are clearing the area Dr Oobleck is looking for clues. It's part of the job you've signed up for. You need to remember that." Aodh added to Dr Oobleck's statement.
"Well, yeah... O-Of course!" Yang nervously answered back. Aodh then slowly nodded towards Dr Oobleck away from the girl's attention.
While they moved towards a new area to search Dr Oobleck thought now would be the best time to test the girls of Team RWBY. He felt it would be best to start off with Yang. "Tell me, Yang: Why did you choose this line of work?
"Huh? Well, to fight monsters and save."
However Dr Oobleck cut her off from finishing. "No, that is what you do. I want to know why you do it. The honest reason as to why you want to be a Huntress."
"The honest reason? I'm a thrill-seeker. I want to travel around the world and get wrapped up in as many crazy adventures as I can. And if I help people along the way, then that's even better. It's a win-win, y'know?"
"I see." Dr Oobleck stated before leaving Yang with her thoughts.
"You okay firecracker?" Aodh asked as she stood still for a few moments.
"Yeah I'm fine." Yang slowly answered Aodh back before rejoining the rest of the group.
The group then spent nearly an hour clearing another block of the city out of Grimm. But Dr Oobleck continue'd to interrogate Team RWBY. "And you, Miss Schnee? A girl born into fame and fortune such as yourself certainly doesn't need the extra work. So... why choose this over a cushy job in Atlas?"
"It's exactly as you said. I'm a Schnee. I have a legacy of honor to uphold. Once I realized I was capable of fighting, there was no longer a question of what I would do with my life... It was my duty."
"Interesting." Dr Ooblack stated as he wrote down in his notebook. However he noticed Blake clear out a building of miniature Nevermores and made his way over to her. "And what about you, Blake? You seem to carry yourself with a sense of purpose."
"There's too much wrong in this world to just stand by and do nothing. Inequality, corruption...Someone has to stop it."
"Very well. How?"
"I, Uh..." Unable to answer the doctor's question he soon left leaving Blake uncertain if she could ever answer that question.
Dr Oobleck was about to question Ruby however when he spotted the Team leader playing with Zwei he thought more on what Aodh said earlier. Until he watched Ruby he noticed one thing stood out about her compared to her team mates. Her innocence. Ruby however noticed the Doctor and quickly stopped playing with her dog Zwei. "Sorry! uhh... Are we ready to keep going?"
"Nope! I believe that will have to do for today. It's going to be dark soon." Dr Oobleck then threw his bag and was caught by Yang. " You three and Mr Branwen will set up camp in that building. Oh, and please do make sure there are no more of those... creatures. Team RWBY's leader and I are going to secure the perimeter. Come, Ruby"
"Well I'll leave you girls to it for the time being as well."
"Hey where are you off to!" Weiss shouted out.
"To take a piss and a have a smoke. I haven't had both all day." Aodh blankly replied back.
"It's an abandoned wasteland you can take a bathroom break and have a smoke anywhere!"
"Still not pissing in front of you girls. Sorry but no show tonight. And I don't like smoking around kids if I can avoid it." Aodh waved back to the remaining members of Team RWBY as he turned around the corner.
The girls then made there way into an abandoned building a cleared an area in the buildings second floor.
"I can't believe we didn't find anything..." Yang sighed in annoyance as they worked.
"We've always been fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time. I guess we can't always have luck on our side." Blake tiredly responded.
"That's not what I meant." Weiss groaned.
"Huh?" A confused Blake asked.
" Earlier, about... upholding the legacy. There's more to it than that."
"Yeah... No, me too. I mean... I don't know." Yang stumbled in her response.
"I don't know, either. I know what I want to do, but I figured I'd always take things one step at a time."
"Well, it doesn't matter. We know why we're here... Right?" Yang asked the rest of Team RWBY but found no quick response.
"You're here because you want to be here." Aodh answered Aodh as he walked around the corner and into the clear area. Dropping down a few sticks he collected he started to build a fire. "As for your reason for being huntresses... Well, you know when you know. If you get want I mean."
"How long have you been standing there?" Weiss asked as she place her hands on her hips.
"I arrived when you said that's not what I meant." Aodh shrugged as he answered back.
"That long huh?"
"Hey Aodh... What made you become a Huntsman?" Yang asked Aodh for his opinion.
Aodh thought for a few moments before he showed the girls the burnt scar on the knuckles on his right hand. "Ten years ago this happened to me. I was stupid and reckless and nearly died in doing so." Yang visibly couldn't look at Aodh as he showed his scar. Blake and Weiss however looked on stunned.
"But I don't regret it any of it. I did what I have to do and I know if I failed ten years ago. This world we live and know now would've been so much different. I've tried to live my life the same way I did that day. Of course with less of this." Aodh laughed as he covered up his scar with his glove.
"But another reason I don't stop was because of a mission i took during my time in Beacon."
"What happened?" Weiss asked.
"Have you girls ever heard of a company called Obsidian before?"
"They went bankrupt after there workers sued them isn't that right?" Blake asked.
"Yeah but do you know the reason why?" Aodh asked again but did none of the girls were able to answer.
"Well... It was one of the first mission we took during our final year at Beacon. The job was to protect several workers as they mined iron ore. We were to stay there for a month but roughly a week into our stay a worker slipped and died in an accident. Unfortunately with the much negativity surrounding the mine we were soon surrounded by Grimm. We fought as best as we could be it came down to a choice I had to make. Stay and complete the mission or get all the workers out as soon as possible,"
"You chose the second option right?" Yang asked.
"Of course... We saved ninety percent of the work force but we got over four hundred workers back to there families. That's when things started to turn. Y'see Obsidian didn't like the fact that we didn't take all of there fancy and expensive equipment with us when we came back and they demanded we go back into that Grimm filled mine to go get them. When word got out that they were more upset over losing there machinery over possibly losing there workforce the workers sued them for negligence."
"Serves them right. But why is that the second reason you wanted to become a huntsman?" Yang asked.
"I held the lives of my team in my hands at all times when I was the leader. During that mission I felt so out of place. Here was a teenager leading a team of adults while protecting over four hundred workers who were all either fathers or mothers. During that first week I was under so much pressure i couldn't think straight. I kept trying to be a hero... But when that first Grimm arrived as he began fighting them off it slowly dawned on me. It's not about killing all of the Grimm. What important is the lives we're protecting, the lives we can save. It only hit me then because the people I needed to protect were right behind me for the first time. The real reason i'm a huntsman is because I want to protect the lives of everyone in this world. Either if I can see them or not be it one or hundreds of lives at a time.. Granted I've failed plenty of times when i say i live this way... But, it hasn't stopped me. And I've learnt from them. I'm a Huntsman, because I wouldn't want to be anything else."
(Several hours later)
Currently Aodh was fast asleep in the abandoned building in Mountain Glenn. Not long after he finished his story to the girls Dr Oobleck and Ruby arrived back as the young hooded leader agreed to take the first watch for the night. Aodh sat above Team RWBY along with Dr Oobleck as Yang just finished her shift in keeping watch for potential Grimm in the area.
"Hey Weiss, it's your... Ruby? Hey, where's Ruby?" Yang asked in a panicked state.
"What?" A just woken Dr Oobleck asked in a confused tone. Suddenly Zwei rushed into the room barking madly.
"Zwei?"
"What's going on?" Blake asked as she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.
Dr Oobleck then slammed his fist on the wall causing Aodh to fall from his perch and crash onto the ground. "What the hell!" Aodh shouted in anger having been woken in such a manner.
"Grab your weapons! Team RWBY's leader may be in trouble." Dr Oobleck calmly stated to the girls of Team RWBY and Aodh. Aodh then grabbed Zwei and pulled him up to his face.
"Take us to Ruby." Aodh ordered Zwei. However the dog simply licked Aodh's face causing him to drop Zwei. One on the ground Zwei ran off and was quickly followed by the ground. Yang couldn't help but snigger at Aodh as he muttered under his breath something about a mangy mut.
Having lead the group trough parts of the city they had checked earlier in the day Yang spotted something familiar to everyone. "Ruby's scythe!"
"Oh no." Blake spoke in disbelief as she spotted a large hole in the ground where Ruby's scythe was found.
"Do you think she fell?" Weiss asked in hope
"I'd say most likely." Aodh simply stated as he looked into the large hole. Due to his faunus night vision however he could just make out workers of the White Fang below. "And she found the jackpot as well."
"Of course! Of course, OF COURSE, OF COURSE!" Dr Oobleck stated like a madman.
"What is it?" Blake asked. "Oh" Blake stated as she too looked down inside the hole in the street.
"How could I be so stupid?!" Dr Oobleck cursed himself.
"In fairness I didn't think to look there." Aodh added his two pence worth confusing the girls.
"Dr. Oobleck, Mr Branwen, what's wrong?" Weiss asked hoping to find out what the two senior Huntsmen were talking about.
"Mountain Glenn! Yes, an expansion of Vale that was inevitably destroyed by creatures of Grimm! Previously home to thousands of people! Working people commuting to the city, the main city! Developed a subway system to the inner city! Grimm attacks increased! Population in danger, now desperately searching for shelter! City evacuates into the metro tunnels and what do they find? The southeast quadrant of Vale is known for wild forests and deep caves!"
"Doc, what are you saying?" A confused Yang asked.
"He means Yang that we were looking for a literal underground crime network." Aodh simply stated as he pointed to the large hole.
"They've been working in caves?" Blake looked shocked when she put the information together.
"No, no, Mountain Glenn was Vale's first serious attempt at expansion. It worked for a short period of time, thanks to an aggressive perimeter defense, and unique transportation. The city developed an elaborate subway system to carry citizens safely from the new territory into the main Kingdom! Sadly, without the many natural barriers Vale had to protect its borders, Mountain Glenn was doomed from the start! As the end drew near, the citizens of the territory made one last attempt at survival. They took up shelter beneath the city! In massive caves that they had cleared out for the subway. And they had cut themselves off from the surface!"
"An underground village?" A confused Yang asked with her eyebrow raised.
"Well technically yes. It did act as a safe haven, that was until..." Aodh answered but slowly drifted off from finishing his sentence.
"Until an explosion opened the mouth of another cavern, filled with subterranean Grimm. After that, the Kingdom officially sealed off the tunnels, creating the world's largest tomb." However Dr Oobleck finished the sentence Aodh started.
"If Ruby is down there. We have to find her!" Aodh calmly spoke as he pulled out Scath and Solas as Dr Oobleck activated his weapon as well. The girls seemed nervous for a moment but brushed there nerves aside as they looked to rescue Ruby. Blake picked up her scythe as they jumped into the hole.
And Cut!
Another few changes to the original story. and I've added a story i was gonna have in Volume 0 but shortened it down so I could have it in a single chapter. Now two questions for this chapter's Q&A so let's get cracking!
1) Of there was a 3 way Death Battle between Cinder (RWBY) Azula (Avatar) and Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) who do you think would win? Wesker all day. The other two wouldn't even stand a chance against him even if they teamed up.
2) Have you heard of the Batman story the Killing Joke and if you have what do you think about it and Do you believe that all it takes is one bad day for some one to lose their mind like Joker? I love the Killing Joke! And I'm so excited about the upcoming animated movie there are doing. Why? MARK HAMILL IS BACK BITCHES! And yes I do think 1 bad day is all it takes but the Joker never had a bad day. He had a nightmare!
So that's all for this chapter folks. If you have a question do feel free to post a review or PM myself. If I don't answer your question on next chapter's Q&A I will try to reply via PM. Thank you for reading this chapter. I hope you've all enjoyed it. Till next time!