2:17 AM...

The dorms where quiet as each student/soldier slept the night away. The Reds watched a movie to sleep, JNPR dealt with another 'hyper-active' Nora and the Blues where talked to sleep by Tucker on the topic of Devils and his future wife (cough- not really- cough- cough-). RWBY was a different story...

Violet tossed and turned in his hammock as his nightmare continued, but after waking and getting a look at the quiet surroundings, he he closed his eyes. Only moments later, however, he could feel a hand on his face as he couldn't breathe. He opens his eyes to reveal Wash holding a finger up just before moving his hand. "How do you take your coffee?" Wash wispered.

"Cream with two shugars." Violet wispered back. "Why?"

"C'mon." Wash wispered. Violet gets down and they both leave into the hallway. Violet was the first to break the silence as soon as they got into the floor's kitchen area.

"Ok, I'll bite." Violet said as he flicked the lights on. "Why are we awake?"

"So someone who shal not be named told me Ruby had implants." Wash said as he poured two cups of coffee.

"Damn it." Violet said in defeat. "What do you want to know?" Wash handed him a cup and he took a sip.

"How did she choke you out?"

"Wait, what?" Violet said surprised. "I thought you wanted to know why she had it."

"She was with Felix." Wash said as he took another drink. "That speaks volumes on what could of happened."

"Yeah, fair enough." Violet said before something dangerous came to mind. He shook the thought away though.

"So... Tucker told me about Rias." Violet almost chocked on his coffee.

"What did he tell you?" Violet said almost too fast.

"Oh... Just that she is a devil who can enlist anyone into her house."

Violet stares Wash down. "Your not thinking-"

"Yep."

"Damn you and your peer pressure!" Violet then put a hand out and concentrated real hard. A red circle appears in front of him with a pentagram in it.

"Told ya."

"Well all Grimories can do that." Violet said right before he was shot forward in a burst of rose petals into the opposite wall. "What the hell..." He said as the wall cracked and he slid down. Wash just stared at the rose petals as they fell to the ground. "I'm not the only one seeing a massive bird, right?"

"Sigh* Back to work."

7:21 AM.

"Mimick!" Wash said. "Your ability thanks to Rias is mimick!"

"And it allows me to use semblances from people I've fused with?" Violet said as he observed the glyph in his hand.

"Basically yes, but only one semblance can be mimicked and it's muck weaker than the original."

"Those could still be useful." Violet said as he created a shadow of himself and observed it. "Expecially with all of us."

"Well then, time to discover our semblances." Wash said right before taking a punch to the face. He recoils then counters with a backhand right into Violets cheek. When Violet looked back at Wash, his eyes where red.

"Well..." Violet said before his eyes turned gold again. "You aren't wrong."

"Hey, to release tensions, wana play a prank?"

"On who?"

"How about all of them?"

"Yeah, no."

Noon...

"Maine, Violet."

"Ironwood."

"James."

They all entered the elevator and James pressed the uppermost button. The door closed and for the next minute, it's elevator music and three trained huntsmen. The door opened and the three walked into Ozpin's office to see no one in it.

"We have a guest..." Maine said.

"He said he would be here." James said with just as much confusion as the others.

"What do we have here?" Violet said. He saw a note on the desk and when he read it, it said as follows.

"To Maine, Violet, or James... Who ever finds this first...

I have been requested, along with Glynda, by the Vale security force, as well as the Atlas military, to help secure peace between several villages spanning Vacuo's deserts. Maine is to be in charge of maintaining the school until I'm back. Violet is to keep the teams in check, specifically his own as well as the trouble makers. James is trusted by Glynda (surprisingly) to teach combat class with Maine and Violet's help. I should be back before the week is over.

Good luck to you all, and please don't destroy anything. -Ozpin."

"I wasn't informed of this." James said as he looked at the letter again.

"I'm no good at security!" Violet said as he paced back and forth. "Why isn't team SLVR on security? They're the best!"

"And why am I in charge? I'm perfect for combat class!" Maine said. He walked to the glass and saw a shine in the distance right before he ducked and a bullet shattered the glass.

"The hell?!" James said as they all took cover. "Who would attack a school?!"

"Felix the douche!" Violet said as more bullets flew. "Maine!"

"Yeah?!"

"Falling torward the sky!" Maine nods, gets to Violet, and after they fuse, sprint out the broken window.

"Psychos!" James yelled.

"Lopez!" Violet yelled as he free-fell to the ground. "Bring the gun jeep to the courtyard!

Elsewhere...

"-and I said 'now that's a katana.'." Ruby said as each team headed to their respective dorms.

"Guys?" Church said. "Hate to stop the jokes but my new girlfriend needs us in the courtyard ASAP." They all look at each other and turn to head torwards the courtyard.

"What's the problem?" Ren asked as they walked into the main hall.

"Remember what I said on-" Church was interrupted by a bullet piercing some Windows. They all get outside and see Maine and Violet popping in and out of cover as they fired at incoming mercenaries.

"What the hell?" Tucker said. The warthog came into the courtyard with Lopez in driver. They all get into cover and get their weapons.

"Later!" Violet said before getting on the gun. "Suuuuuck aaaaaaaaa diiiiiiiiiick!!" He yelled as the turret fired. Several mercenaries fell to the ground as sparks flew from their bullet holes.

"Bots!" Simmons yelled. They can see snipers right before Violet's shoulder got popped. He fell off the gun and Wash dragged him to safety.

"Nora..." Violet moaned. She looked to him right before he fired an SMG with electric dust right at her. She stumbles back, feels the electricity, then looks to the bots and charges them with her hammer.

"Charlie!" Maine said. "Discontinue all suit functions except for armor supports! Activate Wasp system!" There is a beep in his head and everything on Maine's HUD dissapeared.

"Wasp?" Pyrrah asked.

"Nora! Get to cover!" Yang yelled. Nora here's this and sprints back to them.

"Look to the sky!" Maine said. Everyone looks to see a small gunship firing upon the merc/bots with rockets and a chaingun. Eventually there was nothing but smoking suits.

"Nice show!" Cardin said from behind them. He held his scroll up with a flashing red light on it.

"Ozpin's office!" Maine said. "NOW!"

Ozpin's "destroyed" office.

"So you mean to tell me..." Wash said. "That you heard a fight..." He said, getting louder and more angry. "Grabbed a camera, got outside, LIVESTREAMED THE ENTIRE FIGHT, AND THATS YOUR IDEA OF GETTING HELP?!" He yelled at Cardin.

"Well aren't you bossy?" James commented.

"It's in his job description." Grif said, holding a soda.

"Assholes!" Felix yelled from outside. They all get to the shattered window to see Felix holding a girl with a gun to her head. "Get down here now!"

They all look at each other and Violet takes over as security. "Wash, Maine. Stay up here and get into a sniper position. Ruby, get everyone in the school locked and loaded. Everyone else, with me. Stay behind cover and don't fire until you hear 'checkmate' on coms."

The courtyard.

As they approached Felix, Violet alone stepped forward and faced Felix. When he saw the girl, he didn't recognize her.

"Who is that?" Violet asked. The girl was seen as very weak.

"You don't know?" Felix asked.

Purple highlights...

"What do you want?"

"Your sister."

Gold eyes...

"Why?"

"To elimenate you."

Prosthetic arm... Violet knew who it was.

"What's in it for me?" Violet said as he inched forward his holstered magnum.

"I don't kill you." Felix said. "Now don't even try. If you do, you die along with this girl." He then heard a click from behind his head.

"You where saying puta?" Violet said as the hologram in front of Felix faded. "Let her go, and you can leave without a hole the size of a golf ball in your head."

"Oh ho ho ho..." Felix said as he let the girl lose and fall to the ground. "On the contrary actually. I believe it was Shakespeare who said 'To be, or not to be'. You won't kill me and you know it. To be dead, or not to be dead."

"Now lower your pistol." Locus said, leveling a shotgun.

"Shit..." Violet said under his breath.

"Lower. The. Gun."

"So this is the part where you say 'checkmate'?" Violet asked as he lowered his pistol. Mercenary bots began to come into the area.

"Um... You could say that." Felix said, hoisting the girl back into a hostage hold.

"No, I mean 'checkmate'."

"Are you insisting that you want to play chess?" Locus asked, very confused.

"No! I mean, 'Checkmate'. 'CHECKMATE' damn it!"

"That's our cue!" Everyone could hear Grif yell. Two shots are heard as Felix and Locus recoil, Felix dropping the girl, Violet ducking for cover, and both Felix and Locus begin to run for cover.

"Fire!" Ruby yelled as about 200 huntsmen exited cover and began to trade fire with the robot army. Violet crawled torwards his look-alike and took cover as bullets and sparks flew through the sky. He fuses with the girl and after a break in the firing, got up and sprinted full speed torwards the school. He has no idea what happened next as he suddenly just appeared behind cover and Tucker dragged him down.

"How the fuck did you do that?!" Tucker yelled at him as bullets began firing again.

"Do what?!" Violet yelled back.

"That!" He said as he pointed. Violet looks and sees that there was a line of rose petals leading to his exact spot.

"That... I'll explain later. Right now, we need to defend this school!"