Ahh... well today is one of 'those' days for me... as in I woke up and found that my friends were emailing me about a Maths test that I hadn't studied for... and then arrived to find out I didn't know half of everything that was on there... screw my life

This chapter is really only a filler with little plot development other than some badass weapon changes.

I would also like to shout out to Michael J. Caboose the Pun God who gave me the really awesome drill sergeant speech that'll appear in the chapter... thank's man...

Naughtbeast

Chapter 26:

The school holidays… the period of time in the school year that practically everyone looked forward to… except for Weiss of course. The school term had ended a month ago and it was now time for the students to begin the next 10 weeks of their school year. It went pretty much the same as every other school holidays for everyone at Beacon.

The students from the other academies could decide if they wanted to go back or stay in Vale for a month, most choosing the first option. Weiss was forced to head back to her father's home in Atlas, much preferring if she could have stayed at Beacon for the duration of the break. Yang and Ruby both travelled back to Patch where their father was staying, trying to bring Demon along to meet him but left after said man refused, taking a dog with them that he had never seen before. Kira had managed to accumulate enough money from a part-time job at the library and paid to travel to Vale's beaches and rented out a holiday home for the duration. Jaune and Pyrrha had headed back to their families while Nora and Ren both went off to a home in the mountains they apparently owned.

Beacon didn't close over the break so that students that didn't have a family to go back to could stay and relax. Since just about everyone still had a family, that just left Demon, Rosaline, Josh, Markus, Jaeger, Tempest and Blake at the academy as well as a couple of other students. The Angels had taken the holidays to travel to Vale a couple of times and get more info on the current situation they were in… and buy weapons. Since almost everyone other than Demon hadn't yet managed to procure a mecha-shift weapon, they were treated to a shopping spree by Demon… who had hacked into Weiss' bank account and disguised the purchases as Dust cartridges.

Kira, being the sniper of the group, bought a massive 50. cal sniper rifle that, when she flicked a switch, the barrel would fold back and switch into a two-handed Kopesh. It was coloured a gun-metal grey with black highlights all along the barrel. She imbued the blade with wind Dust so that when she spun it a certain way it would create a miniature tornado that would follow wherever the point of the blade was.

Rosaline had stuck with the whole Smart Pistol gig and altered it so that when it was spun in a certain way, it would flip out and form a small Bowie knife that was imbued with fire Dust for added damage. She had also bought a second Smart Pistol from Demon and had that altered as well, this time with ice Dust.

Tempest had made sure to pick out his weapons carefully and eventually settled on something that would cause the biggest damage. He bought two lever-action shotguns, not wanting to change his fighting style much, mounted grenade launchers on the bottom of both, attaching a second trigger to fire them, as well as putting a blade that ran across the top of the weapons so that when they were fired, he could use the recoil to cut rather than bludgeon.

Josh had wanted to keep his Carbine, knowing the weapon would never fail him, altering it with new upgrades like Rosaline. He had altered the sides of the weapon to have two knives that were like bayonets on either side of the barrel, although when he flicked a switch the weapon would fold up and the knives would extend into a hand-and-a-half sword. He had changed the firing chamber of the weapon to fit Dust rounds, finding it better to be able to use ice Dust rounds to incapacitate targets rather than kill.

Jaeger had just full-out denied the chance to change his weapon, the Longbow beings something he was so familiar with that he needed it as it had always been. He had instead bought several stacks of 'Ricochet Rounds' as they were called by the attendant, allowing him to chain-kill several targets with one shot thanks to their ridiculous penetrating power and their ability to never bend of meld with an impact.

Markus had seen the opportunity to buy a weapon as something below him but changed his mind when he thought of something genius. He had replaced his prosthetic hand on his right limb with a massive gauntlet that had several scanning implements and devices attached to it. He had a blood analysing vial, an environment scanner to detect footprints as well as a hundred more that Demon didn't bother to listen to as he explained them to the team. He had also added a special mechanism so that when he flicked his arm it would release four, thick, wolf claws from the top of his gauntlet that were about a foot long and altered with lightning Dust.

They had all kept their armour and uniforms, instead just changing the colouring of it. Tempest had switched his to be full black with yellow coloured armour pieces and his wasp emblem emblazoned on his chestplate as well. Josh had switched his armour to white with gold armour pieces and having his angel emblem put on his right pauldron. Markus changed his to a grey colour, adding shiny silver armour plating. Jaeger had switched his Gillie suit so that it would automatically alter its colouring depending on the environment, providing camouflage but not turning him invisible like cloaking.

The shopping happened fairly early in the holidays so that everyone could get used to their new weapons. Demon received a couple of emails from his sisters, mostly on how they were going, Demon telling them how it was going back at Beacon. Half-way through the holidays Raven had turned up and had given Demon some tutorials on odachi fighting, greatly increasing his skill and prowess with the blade, turning him into an adept with it. He practically mastered the offensive skills of the blade, being able to manage to hit her a couple of times while they were sparring, but he still absolutely sucked at defensive tactics, not even being able to block more than 4 strikes when Raven went on the offensive. When Demon sent his sisters a message saying that Raven was here he didn't get a response for 4 days until Ruby sent him a message saying that she had to buy a new phone after Yang broke it, so he didn't decide to push any further. After spending the entire holidays training, the group was now pretty proficient in their weapons as Tempest and Jaeger had somehow managed to unlock his aura.

"Thanks writer!"

"Shut up you! I'm doing this because you paid me!"

It was one day before the term began and pretty much everyone was back. Some students had decided to leave it as late as possible and the students from the other Kingdoms weren't coming back until a week in so that freed up the campus a bit. RWBY had already arrived and Jaune and Pyrrha were back while Nora and Ren were kept back by a snowstorm and couldn't be there until the day after. They were all sitting in the dining hall, conversing over a bacon and egg breakfast, when Tempest busted in through the door and walked over to them with a massive smile on his face.

"FRIENDS! ASSOCIATES… WEISS" he started, sewing his voice with flare.

"HEY!"

"I have decided that since it is going to be the first time I've ever been to school… I am going to make this the best school term EVER! So we're going to start this term with a bang!"

Yang grinned profusely at this and Ruby, Weiss and Blake all looked terrifyingly in her direction. With a proud smile, she began her joke...

"I always start my term off with a…"

She didn't get the end as a pie was thrown at her by Demon, his other hand holding another one.

"Let me guess… with a Yang?" he deadpanned, casually passing the pie between his hands.

"Buzzkill" she grumbled, crossing her arms in sadness.

"This seems awfully familiar…" Blake stated, becoming a bit suspicious. Tempest then seemed to snap and his eyes glazed over a bit.

"Maybe it's the writer trying to develop a scene that is familiar because they missed it during the…"

His rant was cut short by a brick suddenly falling from the ceiling and hitting his head.

'HA! I HAVE AURA NOW YOU DUNCE!"

This was fixed when several bricks fell from the ceiling and hitting his head until he snapped back into consciousness. Everyone was looking at him a bit weirdly.

"What?... why are you all looking at me weirdly? Anyway... the reason I came here is because I want to host a training camp before school starts!"

"And why would we do that?" Demon deadpanned.

"Well… because you want to get stronger!" he said, smiling a bit.

"How about no…" Weiss said, laughing a bit.

"Well… that and the fact that I managed to hack Nicolai and get him to help!"

"WHAT!" Demon shouted, looking out the window to see Nicolai standing there with a rapid-fire rocket launcher in each hand and six laser pointers directed at him from the cluster rocket pods on his back. "Seriously Nicolai?"

"Wat? He likes rockets… I like rockets… and he promised me more rockets!"

"You do realise he doesn't have access to any other rockets other than the ones that are in the pod…"

"Dammit! Well ven, I betta get some extra money for dis Tempest!"

"Don't worry… I'll pay you in explosions" Tempest replied, a massive smile on his face.

Nicolai happily chimed and loaded even more rockets into the salvo just to make sure. Tempest turned back to everyone… and they looked pissed.

"Sooo… you either come along or Nicolai blasts you to kingdom come!" he said while walking off to the training area. Everyone grumbled before walking after him… except for Demon who stayed behind.

"Sir? I have been programmed to kill anyone who stayed behind! I don't want to shoot you but I can't stop…"

"Yeah, that's nice… just try and shoot me" Demon deadpanned, standing still and looking at Nicolai.

The giant mech seemed to pause for a second before talking to Demon again, surprise filling his robotic voice.

"I can't fire?"

"Yep… I fitted a system when I installed you into that ogre that stops you from hurting me"

"No fair!" he complained, lowering his rocket pods.

"Sorry, just taking precautions… head back to the pod ok? I'll make sure to upgrade your security systems when I get back"

"Aye sir!"

The giant mech walked off, his thumping steps filling the early morning, Demon being completely shocked that no one else in the entire hall had noticed the 15-foot tall killer robot. He made it to the training area and found something that surprised him. Tempest was currently standing in the middle of the training area wearing something that wouldn't have surprised him if Port wore it to class once in a while, the others standing in a line in front of him. He was wearing a drill sergeant's uniform as well as a beret with a Militia logo on it. Not even questioning where he got it from, Demon lined up next to everyone else.

"Alright, you maggots… this is going to be a boot camp to prepare you for the stuff ahead… you may not like it but you're stuck with me for the rest of the day…"

"I'll give you that rocket launcher if you get me out of it…" Demon deadpanned.

"AH! See here is a man with intellect and wit… how could I refuse such an attractive deal?" Tempest nodded and Demon walked off to the side of him, everyone else giving him various looks of anger and envy.

"HOW COME HE GETS OUT EASY!" Weiss complained, positively fuming.

"Well… he is my friend… but I also really want that rocket launcher!" '

She just groaned and mumbled a couple of things to herself. Tempest pulled a Hammond pistol out of his thigh holster and cocking back the slide.

"Now… you are going to listen and if you don't then I shoot you in the foot… are we clear?"

"Yes…" they all grumbled. He smiled a bit and fired the first shot into the air.

"You forgot two parts of that sentence… you shall address me as Sir… is that clear?"

"Yes Sir…"

He fired another shot.

"SIR YES SIR!" they all shouted, some out of fear, the others because they wanted to role-play. As Tempest began his next shouting rant, he changed his accent so he sounded more like the drill sergeant, apparently not being happy with just the uniform.

"Now… I put an order in to the boss for a crap-tonne of murder-machine wielding badasses… all I got is the sad little bunch of cupcake-eating clowns that are standing in front of me with a side-order of crap cakes. I can tell by just looking at you that half of you are just sad, shitty losers… while the other half are sad, shitty losers who don't believe in themselves. I'm going to you all so hard in the arse to get you going that I'm going to trigger an earthquake on the other bloody side of the world. You all reek of shit and sadness, your very existence being a taint to this sad little world of yours and an endorsement of the kind of shit that can pass as a warrior here. You signed up to kick ass and take names… but when you actually get to the good shit you go cry in a corner for your god and cry, even more, when he doesn't care about your sorry asses. You cried so many damn tears that you could probably sail a damn boat half-way round the bloody world before it even got close to the end of your sad, pathetic river of tears. You glitter princess, bow-toting bunch of wimps are going to get your reason to live shot down, stepped on and then forced to commit suicide. I am going to re-organise the colossal failure that is your lives and I will make sure to turn your sorry excuses for a soul up to 200%. I'm going to make your sorry excuse for a throat scream so hard that it'll make it seem as though you're going through childbirth. I'm going to cut down that tiny bit of hope that you ever had for being more than the sad, pathetic stains on existence that you are. I'm going to make you crap out more bricks than it took to build this entire damn school! But fear not you sad excuses for warriors… because before this day is over, I will turn you into Titan-killing badass mothers who don't take shit from no one. I will turn you into the best damn warriors you've ever seen so you can go home and tell everyone you know so they won't think you're pathetic and worthless anymore… only slightly less so. ARE WE CLEAR!"

By the end of the speech, literally everyone except the Militia pilots were gobsmacked by the blatant insults that were thrown their way by Tempest. Weiss was just red in the face, looking ready to make a Tempest shish-kebab, Blake was twitching her eyebrows in annoyance, Yang's semblance was already slightly activated and Ruby was just innocently going back over his speech.

"How is he going to turn us into mothers?" she asked innocently to Yang.

"Don't think about it, you're too young" she replied, looking very pissed at Tempest and looking like she was only held back from breaking every bone in his body by the promised missile barrage from Nicolai. Jaune was just wide-eyed in terror, never thinking he was every going to do anything that even related to the army while Pyrrha was just staring at him in shock. Rosaline looked to have taken it the worst and was nearly in tears from the speech, breaking Demon's heart to see her like this. Josh was in tears as well, although it was because he was reminiscing the first time he had heard that speech from Drill-Sargent Calahan back in basic training. Kira didn't really give a damn and just kept up a cold glare while Jaeger just stood there admiring himself on the shiny pauldrons of Markus.

"Seriously Tempest, did you have to give them 'that' speech"

"WHAT? I'm sure every Calahan would be very happy that I'm spreading his work" Tempest replied, smiling a little before turning back to the others with a stern look on his face. "I didn't hear any responses from you lousy maggots so drop and give me twenty… and count them out!"

Everyone groaned and began doing push-ups, except for Demon and Tempest who just sat back on beach chairs they had found and ate popcorn. Everyone from Beacon quickly did twenty push-ups and jumped up, surprised when they saw that the others were still doing push-ups. When Tempest saw them, he laughed and decided to be a bit nice and let them off just once.

"Are your puny little brains too small to comprehend the ability to count properly? Get back down and count properly you maggots and I'll help you for the first couple!" he shouted, the Beacon students groaning and beginning again.

"One… One… Two… One… One… Two… Three… Two… One… Do you get it now maggots?" asked Tempest, pissing them all off as he added as much sarcasm as he could to his words. They all responded with a "Sir Yes Sir" and about a minute later everyone was done.

"You performed absolutely terribly, just to let you know, so now we will be ensuring that you know how to perform a push-up. Give me 100 just to make extra sure that you know" Yang, Ruby, Blake, Pyrrha, Josh, Kira, Jaeger and Markus all took this in stride, getting down and beginning before he had the chance to yell at them again. Jaune and Weiss were hesitant, to say the least, both complaining before being silenced by a pistol shot to the foot. All the while, Demon looked on in mute pleasure, glad that they couldn't see his colossal smile on his face.

This is going to be the most enjoyable day of my life…

He thought just as Tempest pulled the pin out of a grenade and chucking it into the middle of the group making them scramble like chickens.

Definitely the best day ever…