A/N: This chapter take place during 'New Challengers...' and 'It's Brawl in the Family'. Enjoy.
City of Vale: During 'Round One', 'New Challengers...', and 'It's Brawl in the Family'.
Within the darker, more dingy and dangerous side of the glorious city of Vale. A man walks down the dungy streets with a comic book in his hands. 'The Curse of Evil Tim' it read. It would be unusual indeed for this man to be reading it, but he wasn't reading this for fun. He was doing his own investigating. Since he knows Ozpin and the other authority figures of the Atlas military and teachers of the academy were hiding something big from him. And he didn't like it when he's kept in the dark. Baron Semdi already looked over the comic book he got from Ed over a billion times and had no leads. But from what he read in the comic book... He usually manipulates others into helping him, like in the book how he manipulates others to get what he wants either from his words or his magic.
"Hmm, can't really be sure where this Evil Tim is... But if he manipulates people like he says he does, maybe I can stop by and ask Redcaps boys what they know about him." Said Baron as he closed the comic book, drank the rest of his black coffee that was in his plastic cup, as he walked over to the night club where he knew that Robin's boys hanged out. Being a scam artist and somewhat involved in crime for parts of his life he knew many criminal hideouts throughout the city. He remembers everything he used to do back in the good old days. Ahhhh... Those were the days. Like when he would commit the obscure crime of people stuffing squirrels down their pants and gamboling on it, or when he illegally smuggled pandas across Remnant, or cheating in poker games and running off with peoples (more precisely criminals) money that he tricked out of them, or trying to raise an emu farm... Ahhh... The good old days...
Anyway after he put his comic book away and threw out his coffee he walked over to the club under the bridge. As he walked in front of the doors he pushed them open to see the regular typical type of bar that you would see. With a dance floor, tables, multi colored lights, a bar counter, and dozens of people dancing on the dance floor, at the tables, or at the bar counter with friends talking and guys flirting with girls. Not to mention as Baron walked in he looked around him to see several men in black suits, red ties, black hats, and red sunglasses eyeing him. He either smiled at them or just ignored them. He knew they were supposed to be security, he knew that they were supposed to take care of any type of 'problem' that happens. He wasn't going to cause trouble unless they provoke him. He make have been a questionable guy when it came to tricking others out of their money and just in general... But he was actually not a very violent bloodthirsty person. He only fights if others start it off first.
Samedi walked over to the bar counter as he saw a tall man standing there. A tall man with short hair and a black suit as he was cleaning a glass with a rag. He was focusing on cleaning the glass until he looked back up and saw a man in a dark suit and hat walk up to him with a skull cane in his hand. Junior instantly gave a suspicious look as he put the glass with the rest of the clean glasses as he reached under the bar counter and gripped his bat bazooka. Just in case. As the man in black walked up to Junior, he stopped and leaned on the bar counter looking at Junior remaining silent.
"Can I help you?" Asked Junior.
"Yeah, I'm looking for one of the Red Cap's hangouts. And I know this place is a magnet for gangs and criminals, so would you mind pointing me in their direction, sir?" Asked Samedi nonchalantly.
"I'm not sure what you think, but any criminal that comes in here should be reported to the cops. Because it is ILLEGAL to be harboring a criminal, or criminals." Said Junior. Baron just remained silent as he smiled and reached into his pocket. Junior's grip on his weapon tightened as his henchmen who were sitting near by began to grab ahold of their own weapons. But as Samedi pulled his hand out of his pocket he had Lien in his hand as he threw it on the counter. Junior looked down at the money as he lossened the grip on his weapon and looked back up at his henchmen, signaling them that there was no threat at the moment. Junior grabbed the lien as he looked through them. There was over 10,000 worth of Lien there. He placed it back on the table as he looked back at Samedi.
"... Your not a cop or a hunter right? Because that's something I don't need." Said Junior as Baron rolled his eyes and took the lien back.
"Fine, I'll just look somewhere else then." Baron was about to leave, but was stopped.
"Wait, wait..." Baron turned back back. "Your not gonna cause any trouble in my bar right? Because I had some REALLY bad experiences with hunters in my bar."
"I promise, I only want to talk to the Red Caps... No harm to you, your bar, or your men... Just where their hiding out." Samedi put his money back on the counter. Junior looked back at Samedi for one more second as he took it and put it in his pocket.
"There in the back, they also have guns and stuff just to give you a little warning." Said Junior.
"The weapon under the counter." Junior was about to flat out refuse, until Baron pulled out even more lien then before and put it on the counter. Junior looks at him again, and takes the money. Junior reaches under the counter and took out his bat bazooka. He unloaded the ammo putting it on the counter and handing the weapon to Samedi. Samedi simply took the ammunition from the weapon and put them in his pocket. Junior gave a confused look as he put the unloaded weapon back under the counter.
"Anything else I can get you?" Asked Junior as he started to smile.
"Radio contact your security, and tell them if they see me at all, no matter what I do, don't attack me." Junior was yet again extremely suspicious of this. But that all changed as Samedi pulled out five times the Lien he gave Junior before and put it on the counter, causing Junior to easily forget his suspicions as he snatched the money up, pulled out his radio, and spoke into it.
"This is Junior, attention all security, if you see a man walking around in black DO NOT engage, no matter what he does. Understand?" All the security on the line responded with a united 'yes'.
Samedi nodded as he said. "Thank you." As he walked to the back. He kept walking until he made his way to the door at the very back end of the bar, a more uninviting darker part. As he made his way to the door. He came across two large men with guns in their hands and holding guns. They spotted Samedi as they looked over him, both men being pretty tall. As Baron stopped in front of them he looked up at them as they spoke to him.
"What do you think your doing?" Asked one of the thugs in a threatening tone.
"Hello young men, I'm just here to talk with the other members of your little pride meeting that's going on in there. I just wanna ask them a few questions." Samedi said smiling.
"...You have five seconds to get out of here before we blow your head off." Threatened one of the thugs as he started to count "One... Two..."
"*Sigh*... It could've been much simpler." Sighed Samedi as he turned to the thug counting and quickly punched him in the face knocking him out. The other thug quickly tried to shoot Samedi but Baron quickly bashed the thugs joints with his cane until he finished off his attack and knocked the man out cold with a kick to the head. After he took care of the guards, he walked up to the door and knocked on it a couple of times. There were a few collective groans behind the door as another second passed and one of the Red Caps got up and opened up the door. He was wearing the standard Red Cap uniform. Basically regular clothes with a red bandana on his head.
"For the love of Oum, what do you two idiots want this ti-..." The Red Cap stopped talking as he saw the man in black standing in front of him and smiling. The Red Cap member looked down and saw the two guards knocked out.
"Hello there sir, I'm selling girl scout cookies for my troop. Would ya like to buy one?" Asked Samedi joking as the man just stared at him. "No but seriously, I'm trying to hunt down a guy called Evil Tim, so if you can just help me that would-"
(SLAM!)
The man slammed the door in Baron's face as there was more muffled talking behind the door that sounded a bit panicked. "Couldn't say I tried to be civil." Said Samedi as he kicked the door open to see a nice looking room with about ten Red Cap members sitting there either playing cards or getting a little friendly with the girls that were in dresses that were hanging out with them... Looked to be four ladies of the night. Anyway.
"Hey there, I need to talk to you. Ladies, please excuse us." The four women didn't respond to Samedi and just sat there. Samedi let out a sigh of frustration as he held the end of his cane to the ceiling and activated it's gun mode, putting three holes in the ceiling.
(BANG!) (BANG!) (BANG!)
The women panicked as they got back up and started to run out the door. "Yeah, go and be free girls. And while your at it go find a more dignified jobs and ones that benefit society." As the girls left, he turned back to the Red Caps as they were visibly gripping their weapons ready to fight.
"Look, I'm not really looking for a fight here and go through this little song and dance. I just want some info, and you can leave without a scratch." Said Samedi. But the thugs didn't listen as they got up and aimed their guns at the man.
"*Groans* Okay, I guess we're fighting then." Said Samedi as half of the men started to fire at him while the other half grab a hold of their knives and blunt beating objects. Baron twirled his staff at such a speed blocking the bullets and bouncing off of his cane and ricochet off of it. As the thugs stopped firing for a second Samedi immediately hopped in as he used his vicious kicks and cane combat to knock all the jokers around. Kicking one into the wall. Knocking another one out with his cane. As several tried to jump him Samedi dodged as he activated yet another mechanism on his cane making the skull on the top to protrude spikes all over it as the skull part fell off of the cane, falling to the floor revealing that it was connected to the cane by a chain. Baron whipped the spiked skull around knocking most of the thugs into the walls and the ceiling.
One thug tried to run up to him and hit him with a crow bar as Baron used his chain to wrap around the crow bar and snatch it away as he kicked the man away. Using the crow bar that was still wrapped around his cane chain he hit another man that was running at him with a knife. But Baron didn't see that another man ran up from behind him and tried to brake his arm. But Baron managed to combat this as he grabbed a hold of the mans arm and flipped him into a table shattering it. Baron quickly bent down and asked.
"What made you think it would be a good idea to take me down without a weapon princess?"
"...Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." Moaned the man in a pained high pitched voice.
"Oh calm down you baby, you should only have like four broken bones at most." Quipped Samedi, bit he wasn't paying attention as out of nowhere a man tackled Samedi sending him back. As he looked up at the man he saw that he had two gauntlets on with what looked to be barb wire wrapped around them.
"And who are you supposed to be young man?" Asked Samedi, smiling.
"The names 'The Stinger'! And your going down!" Yelled the young man with a cocky smile.
"Hmmm... Is that what your mommy named you? Your do all your ex-girlfriends call you that ironically?" Asked Samedi angering 'The Stinger'.
"Oh, you are gonna pay!" Yelled the Stinger as he started swinging at Samedi who dodged every attack, but as Stinger was about to throw his seventh punch Baron threw the man up against the ceiling as he used the ice Dust in the skull part of his cane to freeze him to the ceiling.
"I got a new name for you when you get to prison. How about 'The chump'? I think it has a good ring to it." Said Samedi as he was about to turn to the two leaders of the group that he left for last.
"Alright guys, I want you to tell me everything you-" He looked around him and didn't find anybody. He looked over to the entrance and saw that the door was hanging ajar and swinging. "...Know... Ugh, darn it!" Yelled Samedi as he ran out of the room. As he ran over to the front of the night club he saw the two men running out of there. Baron caught up with them as he loaded his cane up with fire Dust and blasted it at them, but only managed to severally damage the night club as the two men ran out the door. The henchmen saw this, but didn't act do to Juniors orders. So they just let the man in black run out the door. The Malachite Twins noticed this as they made their way over to Junior was still wiping down one of the tables.
"Umm, Junior. You know that guys just caused thousands of lien's worth of damage right? Why can't we go after him?" Asked Melanie.
"He can wreak this place all he wants. Because that generous, generous man just gave me over 1,000,000 lien." Said Junior happily as he handed Melanie the lien he received.
"With this money, we won't just rebuild whatever damages happen. But we'll also be able to upgrade this place and even give the employees a higher pay grade." Said Junior happily as the two girls continued to look over the lien, with faces of realization.
"Umm... Junior these are fakes." Junior looked at them as Miltia said that.
"What?"
"Yeah see, there's no picture of Remnant anywhere on them, there are no numbers anywhere on them, and finally... They are printed on some type of crackers." Said Miltia as she took a bite out of one of the counterfeit lien.
Juniors eye slightly twitched out of pure rage.
Outside, the two thugs dashed out of the bar as Baron was on their tail. As they were getting into their drive away vehicle, but they stopped as they looked over, and they saw Baron standing there, aiming the face of his skull cane directly at them loaded with lightning Dust. The two thugs didn't want to find out what would happen if he shot the car they were in with it, so they just sat there.
"Okay, now that I have your attention. I want you to tell me everything you know about Evil-" But Baron wasn't able to finish as what seemed to be a regular person walking on the street, run up and scratch him like some type of wild animal. Baron quickly jumped back as the lady who attacked Baron, turned back to the thugs with glowing purple eyes as she said, in a more haunting voice.
"Leave, now." The thugs fearfully complied as they started up their car and drove away.
Baron looked over at the lady as he yelled. "Lady! What the heck are you doing?!" The 'lady' didn't respond as she slowly stumbled towards Baron in a jerking motion with glowing purple eyes. Baron gave a confused and slightly frightened look. This was no normal lady. But he knew he could take her on. But as he was about to prepare for battle he heard more inhuman screaming as he looked around him and saw several more normal looking civilians crawl his way. Yes. They were crawling on their hands and feet like lizards or bugs as they made their way towards Samedi with their glowing purple eyes.
"Wait... Glowing purple eyes?..." Baron realized that these things were connected with Evil Tim in some way. They saved the Red Cap thugs as they were crawling closer to him and growling like animals.
"This is bad, really bad." Said Samedi as he grabbed ahold of his cane and pulled out the blade that was seethed within it. Many of them got back up on their two feet as they started to charge at him. Samedi held his blade in front of him as he blocked an attack from one of those 'people'. One of them ran closer to Samedi as they started swiping their hands at him. But as Baron was blocking their attacks, he accidentally cut one of their fingers off. He looked at that 'person' in shock as it said.
"I'm so sorry about that! I never meant to cut off your- WOAH!" Samedi wasn't able to finish as the same one whose fingers he chopped off before tackles him to the ground as the ghoul held him down and tried biting at him. But Baron managed to hold off the vicious creature with his cane. The savage tried to bite at him, but Baron held him back. But as he looked over to the creatures hand, the one were he cut off it's fingers, he saw that it had no blood. As he looked back up at the creature that was still trying to take a bite out of him, he pushed it back by its face. Until Samedi just punched him and sent the creature flying back. As Samedi quickly picked himself back up, he looked at his gloved hand only to see skin colored residue on his palm and his fist. As he looked back at the 'person' he knocked off he saw that half of it's face looked rotten and dead looking, while the other half looked bright, normal, and living.
It took another moment until Samedi realized that these were not humans. He remembered the battle from several weeks ago with the Ed's, they fought several zombie like creatures with glowing purple eyes. These were just Evil Tim's undead minions, walking around as normal people wearing makeup to hide their undead appearance until they see something that's a threat to Evil Tim. They were already dead, Samedi pulled out his blade once more as he held it in front of him. One of the creatures screamed at it lunged at him, but he promptly cut it in half with his blade. The others roared as they lunged into the blender as well.
Each one of them were cut to pieces, never to rise again. But as he could see if he could somehow get any information out of them, their 'dead dead' bodies dissolved into mush. Baron managed to quickly scoop up a sample of the slime as he put it in a safe place. He looked back up at the last monster, the lady who attacked him before, as she dashed over to him as Samedi was holding her back. Just as he was doing this cop cars pulled up as police got out of them and aimed their weapons at Samedi.
"Step away from the person and put your hand in the air right now, Mister!" Yelled one of the cops as they walked closer.
"I don't think you understand! They attacked me! This is CLEARLY NOT how people are supposed to act!" Yelled Samedi still struggling with the creature. Until he had enough and kicked the creature back. The undead monstrosity hissed at him as she tried to attack him once again. But was promptly sliced down the middle by Samedi.
"Open fire! Open fire!" Yelled one of the cops as they started firing at Baron. But Baron managed to dodge the bullets as he turned around and park core his way up a nearby small building. As he landed he said
"Ugh... Has the whole world gone insane?!"
An Abandoned Theater in Vale: During 'Round One', 'New Challengers...', and 'It's Brawl in the Family'.
Within an abandoned theater in Vale, a young man wearing a black and dark blue suit with dark blue hair combed back sitting in a chair with the look of fear on his face and bruises all over his face. He was sitting in what looked to be a dressing room of some type with old abandoned looking mirrors and posters from old plays from long ago along with other old forgotten memorabilia. But he wasn't the only one there, as there were several Red Cap guards standing around and their boss standing in the shadows in the corner.
"Now, where were we?" Asked the man in a Irish accent as he walked out of the shadows.
"Now, let me clear this up right? I told you to tell your father to start paying us more 'funds' so we can keep our little deal going. Along with a few more weapons. Your father said 'no' and called me a 'insane freak' right?" Asked the hunched back man as he started to walk further out of the shadows with his cane in his hands.
"Wait, wait, PLEASE! I'll give you money just- OPH!" The boy was silenced as the man poked him hard in the stomach with his cane. Robin Senior let out a laugh as he walked up to face the boy, removing the cigar from his mouth and blowing a puff of smoke into the boys face as he coughed. The short man continued to walk around the boy a little more until he turned the end of his cane into a cattle prod.
"I'm going to ask you one last (ZAP!) time, Angeber." Said Robin as he crackled his prod to become even more intimidating. He walked up to Angeber and pulled his head back as he aimed the prod at his face.
"What are you going to tell your father now, boy?" Asked Robin.
"That were gonna send you more money and weapons! I promise! I'll make my father do it!" Said the boy panicked.
"You know, it's funny. Your lips are flappin', but they anit makin' the words I wanna hear." Said Robin as he started to giggle and prod at the scared boy sitting at the chair. But he was stopped at someone immediately opened the door and slammed it. Robin looked over angrily and yelled.
"What the heck are you two morons doin'?" Asked Robin as the two thugs pressed their bodies up against the door. Clearly running away from something.
"We were attacked and followed by some guy. A hunter I think, he took down most of our guys and tracked us here!" Said one of the men.
"Wait a minute, you said a HUNTER just took out my men, and was following you two, and you two idiots LED HIM HERE!?" Yelled Robin.
"Well... I think we lost him." Said one of the thugs. But before Robin could yell at them any more they heard the sound of a car driving, as it was getting closed and closer.
"What's that?" Asked one of the thugs in the room. As the sound grew closer and closer, it sounded like a car was driving towards the...
"Oh hell..." Said Robin as a car crashed into the room through the door where the two thugs were trying to hold the door close.
(CRASH!)
As everyone in the room tried to pick themselves back up, Baron was in the car sitting in the drivers seat while a petrified looking woman was sitting in the passenger seat. He looked over to her as he said.
"Thanks again for letting me borrow your car lady." She remained quiet. "... Are you alright?"
"I think I'm dead." Responded the woman still scared.
"Yeah, your find." Said Samedi as he got out of the crashed car and closed the door.
"If any cops come around. Tell them you've been drinking." Said Samedi as he walked over to all the Red Caps that were in the room as they got up. As Robin got up and waved the dust away he yelled.
"Get him!" The five Red Caps in the room did as their boss told them as they charged at Samedi with knives, blunt objects, and guns. Samedi would take care of them with no problem. First one that charged at him with a knife. He simply grabbed the man's arm, twisted and broke it, as he flipped him and in mid-air he kicked him into a wall. As Baron looked over to see the other four thugs charging at him, Samedi pulled his hat down as he smirked and quickly loaded his cane with lightning Dust. The skull of his cane crackled with electricity as the spikes protruded around it. Baron hopped into battle as he started pummeling all the thugs with his electrical cane as he knocked each of them down with one hit. Probably due to the beating of a cane with over 200,000 volts of electricity surging through it. After he finally took the last man down, he turned and looked at Robin. Robin gave a bit of a nervous smile as he started to back off.
"Now hold on..." Robin said backing off, but Baron walked forward holding the cane in his hands like how a golfer would.
"NOW HOLD ON ONE BLOODY MINUTE-!"
"FORE!" Samedi hit Robin with his cane sending him flying into a mirror breaking it.
"Okay! Please let's just talk about- AHH!" Baron grabbed Robin senior again and tossed him to the other side of the room as he placed his foot on Robins back.
"Damnit! Can you let me finish one sent- Agh!" Baron applied pressure to Robin's back.
"Evil Tim, I know you work with him. I'm trying to hunt him down. Tell me where he is."
"You think I keep every tab of every geezer in this city?! And what make you think I'm gonna tell you anything bloke?" Asked Robin as Baron flipped him over and punched him twice in the face. As he grabbed him by his collar and pinned him against the wall.
"Look, I'm not usually this violent, but today I was attacked by nine zombies who were disguised as people with glowing purple eyes and then the cops shoot at me for defending myself! I am sick and tired! Tell me what the heck is going on! Tell me where Evil Tim is!"
"Okay! Okay!" Said Robin as he was about to talk, as a looming shadow was on one side of the room. "I don't know exactly where he is or what he's planning, but I know he's taking refuge in the abandoned tunnels underneath the city, and he has DOZENS of those zombie things disguised as normal people to spy for him I guess. But if I had to guess, I would say Evil Tim-" Robin wasn't able to finish as Baron suddenly lost his grip on the crime lord as something was wrapped around his leg and he was dragged across the floor until he was hanging up side down in front of an open door that led to the second set of seats above the abandoned stage.
As he hung up side down, he saw a man still encased in shadows walk over to him with a huge metal hook for a hand. He tried to slash Baron's head off, but Baron head butted the man in shadows and managed to cut himself free. Baron made his way to the abandoned theater itself standing in front of the stage. Looking at where he once was, he saw his assailant jump off the second set of seats and land in front of Baron. He could be seen in full view now. He was standing around 6'4 tall, was black, short hair, a thick overcoat, black clothing under it from what Baron observed, and a giant sickle-like hook were his right hand was supposed to be.
The man stared Samedi down as they started to circle one another.
"And you are?..." Asked Samedi.
"Why do you care?" Asked the man in a gruff voice.
"Well, if your going to kill me I might as well know your name."
"Fine. Daniel Robitaille. I already know yours." Said the man pointing at Baron with his meat cleaver of a metal hook.
"Course you do, you were sent to kill me. So, let me guess, Evil Tim sent you, huh?"
"I don't disclose my clients to my targets." Said Daniel as he took a step closer, then another one, then another one until the two men collided with one another. Baron using his cane and Daniel using his hand sickle. The theme of Riven by Mark Petrie started to play as the two started going at one another. Daniel swinging his sickle but Baron using his cane to stop and dodge Daniels blows. Daniel gave a series of strikes but Baron managed to dodge them all successfully and counter Daniel's last attack by redirecting his sickle and smashing him in the ankles and the face with his cane as he managed to kick him back a few feet. As Daniel picked himself back up, he charged at Baron with his sickle. But luckily Baron jumped out of the way and the only thing that Daniel hit was a few seats in the theater causing them to fly in all directions. Daniel was still constantly trying to hit Baron but Baron was just too fast. That was until Daniel got luckily and managed to hit baron three times with his sickle as he grabbed him and tossed him into a wall splintering it. As Baron picked himself up and pulled himself together he saw that Daniel charged at him once more with his sickle. But Baron managed to block it with his own blade that he keeps in his cane as he kicked the other man away.
Baron quickly seethed his blade as he loaded the skull up with fire Dust as he started firing it at Daniel. Daniel managed to dodge most of the blows but two managed to hit his right arm.
"Direct hit!" Said Baron. But Daniel just turned to him and gave out a laugh as his right arm was burning. As the arm fabric started to burn away, Daniel used his left arm to tear the faric off revealing that his entire right arm was mechanical with a huge hook-sickle at the end of it.
"A robotic arm? That's pretty cool." Admitted Baron.
"I hope you like it, because it will be the weapon that will strike you down!" Yelled Daniel as the hook from his mechanical arm fell off and hit the ground. Revealing that it was connected to a metal cable. Daniel smirked as he started to swing the sickle around the entire room at ludicrous speeds. With enough force to make tears through the walls, ceiling, and floor but also cause seats to fly around. Baron jumped out of the way of the incoming hook multiple times as he started running and jumping on the balconies of the theater using the gun mode of his cane to fire at the assassin. But Daniel either dodged them or blocked them with his metal arm. Daniel already knew he was going nowhere with his attack as he retracted the hook back to his arm. As it retreated back, the hook flipped back as it was revealed to now be a Dust cannon. Daniel saw Baron as he was speeding towards him, but managed to use a blast of ice Dust as he managed to freeze the hunter in place.
That's when Robitaille walked up to him and started slashing him with his sickle, as he then grabbed Baron by his throat with enough strength to tear him out of the ice he was stuck in and hit him three more times with his sickle, as Robitaille flipped his sickle back and aimed the cannon directly a Baron's face. Firing it with wind Dust. Sending Baron directly into the wall, basically shattering it. As Baron was on his knees, he picked himself up and looked at his attacker, who was walking closer to him. Baron picked himself back up, still felling all the pain of his injuries. As he reached into his pocket and pulled out his spherical small orbs filled with his own personal ingredients. He pulled one out and threw it at Daniel. Daniel instinctively sliced the tiny orb in two as it instantly surrounded him in a white fog. He looked around confused as he asked.
"Wh-What is this? Why do my eyes burn?" Asked Daniel as he started to rub his extremely irritated eyes. It must have been something in the tiny orb.
"A little potion I made. It's ingredients includes sand, tiny glass shards, chlorine, a chemical meant to keep all of it in a gas form for a while, and some Dust put in there as well." Said Baron as he loaded his cane with water Dust as he dashed back and forth through the fog using his blade as he slashed at him. With the water Dust he managed to use his blade to absorb more and more water from his body, effectively massively dehydrating him. As Samedi manage to land his final hit, it actually caused Daniel to be launched from the fog and into the old stage shattering it. As the assassin picked himself up from his knock down, he looked over at Samedi. As Samedi asked.
"Had enough?"
"Not...*Pant* yet..." Said Samedi as he stood up on his two feet and a terrible buzzing sound can be heard. Baron gave a confused look as Daniel lifted his hands and closed his eyes. And before Baron knew it, through the open abandoned doors of the theater, thousands upon thousands of bees started flying into the room and around Daniel.
"Oh, this isn't good." Said Samedi as the bees started to swarm around Baron and viciously attacking them. He had basically no way of defending himself besides loading his cane up with fire and lightning trying to burn the bees to death. But there was just to many of them an d their attack was just too overwhelming. Baron was about to scum to the bees. But at that moment, someone out of nowhere broke into the theater. Both Baron and Daniel wore faces of confusion as the person dashed into the room, faster then either of them could clearly see. The man sped up to Daniel as he started viciously beating him. Daniel was unprepared as the man kept viciously pummeling him with his fists so fast and so powerful. The man had sharp razors on his knuckles as he caused sever lacerations all over the man, but it stopped as the man gives one last solid punch to Daniels face that it caused him to go flying through the wall to the outside. As Daniel picked himself up from the alleyway he was now in, he looked up at the man who beat the living heck out of him. As he glares at the man and says.
"Another time then." As the bees from before swarm around Robitaille, the swarm was so thick that Daniel was no longer visible. It only took one more second as the bees departed and Daniel disappeared. The man huffed as he turned back and walked over to Baron who was picking himself back up, as Baron assessed himself. He looked over at the man who was walking towards him.
"Look buddy, I don't know who you are but thanks for saving my-" Baron stopped talking as he got a crystal clear view of the man.
"Tiburon? Is that you?" The man just remained silent. The man himself, stood around 6'4 tall, wearing white pants, black shoes, a blue armored looking vest, blue under long sleeve shirt, blue gloves with glowing blue serrated blades on his knuckles, white hair with his white sideburns, razor sharp shark-like teeth, three gills on each side of his neck, and his trade mark weapon from when Baron and Tiburon were in Team BATL together, his five foot long wood carved long-made dust carved shark toothed Koa club chainsaw.
"Where have you been Tiburon? I haven't seen you in twenty years! Boy have you changed." Said Baron as he took out his wallet and took out a group picture with younger versions of him, Tiburon, and two other members in a group photo.
"Wow... You look really different." Said Baron as he looked at the picture of the younger Tiburon, that looked smaller, had nerd glasses, and basically looked like an all round geek. But as Baron looked at the current Tiburon Akheilos, who looked like a complete badass. Tiburon's only response was to walk up to Baron and sniff him.
"You ACT like Baron...*Sniff* *Sniff*... But you don't smell right. Your one of them..." Said Tiburon as he started to back off and get into his battle position.
"Like who? Like... Wait! You can smell the-?" Asked Baron referring to the creatures that attacked him earlier.
"Yeah, and your one of them!" Growled Tiburon as he took out his wood carved shark/Dust toothed koa club chainsaw and revved it. He immediately sped over to Baron and tried to slash at him with his huge weapon. Tearing apart the remaining seats, floor, and pillars as Baron was dodging them. Baron had no idea why his old team mate would attack him like this, the only thing he has on him was the... The sample he took of them after they permanently died and took the slime they turned into afterwards.
"Tiburon! It's me! I'm not one of those things, alright? I'll prove it!" Said Samedi as he was dodging the vicious shark Faunus' attacks. "The first day we met in Haven and we were put on the team together, I tricked you out of all your money!" Yelled Samedi as apparently that didn't work as Tiburon was still attacking him and he was still dodging. Baron then managed to grab ahold of the earth Dust that he stored in his pockets as he put them in his hands and used his aura to create spiked rock fists covering his hands. As he started to bash them against Tiburon's face.
"Remember when you were taking a shower? And I pulled the fire alarm causing you to run out and run into the fully packed lunch hall with everyone laughing, seeing your little fish?" Asked Baron.
"RAAAAH!" Roared Tiburon as he dashed forward and tried to swing his chainsaw club at him, but Baron jumped out of the way and Tiburon only managed to destroy a pillar.
"I mean big fish!" Yelled Baron as he dodged another one of the Shark Faunus' attacks as Baron still tried to speak. "Remember when you were sleeping and I shaved your head completely as a prank? Remember how angry you were?" Asked Baron giggling a bit, as he stopped seeing Tiburon dashed at him and punching him in the face with his serrated knuckles as Baron tumbled back. Baron quickly picked himself up and rubbed his bruised cheek.
"Apparently you do." Said Samedi as the two were about to charge into one another again. Until Tiburon suddenly stopped and held his hand up stopping.
"Hold on there!" Both hunters heard the noises, as they saw the undead civilian disguised creatures from before crawl in with their glowing purple eyes making inhuman noises. "Clever of you to bring your PALS along." Said Tiburon pointing to them. "Don't go away now..." Tiburon told Baron as he lunged into the crowd of the undead, Baron followed along as the two hunters began to tear the creatures to shreds. Tiburon was 100% focused on the undead as he was swinging his chainsaw club around cutting the ghouls to pieces with Baron fighting by his side taking out his blade as he started to cut the undead to pieces along with his old teammate. Both hunters were tearing through the creatures as a rapid pace, but as one of the creatures tried to attack Baron. Someone came in and knocked the creature back with a vicious kick. As Baron got a good look at the assailant he saw to his complete and utter shock that, it was another one of his old team mates from BATL.
"Li? What the Dust are YOU doing here?!" Asked Baron shocked. Li smiled as Samedi as he said.
"I'm investigating just like you and Mister Anger Issues over there." Said Li as he assisted the two with fighting off the monsters. He stood around 5'11 tall, he had a straw hat on his head with his panda Faunus ears sticking out of them, a blue tang coat with matching pants, the black and white Yin Yang symbol on his back, black around his eyes, having a bit of a pot belly, and had a regular yellow bamboo staff as a weapon. He used his glowing golden aura as he used it to create shielding for himself and enhance the power of his staff, easily smacking the creatures all around without a problem. As the three's assault on the monster continued, it wasn't long until the three hunters wiped out all the beasts.
"Okay so... Since we took out all these things can we just sit down and- UGH!" Tiburon grabbed Baron by the throat and pinned him up against the wall.
"Prepare to join your friends..." Said Tiburon as he revved his weapon right in front of Baron's face.
"Tiburon, stop this madness! He's not-" Li was interrupted.
"Wait Li, I can handle this." Said Baron looking back at his assailant.
"During the Vytal Festivals when we were still a team, you had a serious crush on that girl from Vale. I think her name was Raven, yeah Raven! You tried to ask her out a dozen times but each time she coldly rejected you. Even when she hooked up with one of her other teammates, you still liked her! To this day you have a picture of her in your wallet!" Yelled Baron as Tiburon's grip was tightening around Baron's throat. Tiburon brought his weapon closer to Baron's face revving it until... He thrust it forward and collides with the wall right next to Baron's head. Tiburon pulled his weapon out of the wall as he let go of Baron and took a few steps back as Baron breathed in air that his lungs were dying for.
"Alright, your not just irritating... You ARE Baron..." Said Tiburon.
"Yeah, happy we could figure that out without you trying to make my insides be outside." Said Baron.
"But if you DO turn into one of those things, bringing your insides out is still an option. Got me?" Asked Tiburon as he walked up to Baron and showed his serrated knuckles up to his face showing them off. Baron grabbed ahold of the spikes with his fingers and pushed them away from his face.
"Maybe you should keep those things out of my face." Said Baron as Li placed his hand on Tiburon's shoulder.
"Remember, we're on the same side here. And were trying to get answers to the same questions." Said Li as he calmed Tiburon down.
"Are you two looking for Evil Tim as well?" Asked Baron looking at the other two hunters.
"I felt a disturbance, coming from the city of Vale. So, I'm trying to investigate." Said Li.
"And what about you?" Baron turned to Tiburon.
"I'm a huntsman. It's my job. And you?"
"Been transferred to teach at Beacon, teaching three alien boys. Actually, Evil Tim comes from a world that parallels there's and-"
"FORGET IT! We'll talk about it later. Right now we need to find-" But Tiburon was interrupted as a film projector turned on and showed Robin Redcap senior sitting there with a smirk on his face.
"Ello hunters! I see you three idiots are fighting each other rather then trying to get to me, I suppose ya wanna get to me now and ask me your questions, huh? Well bugger off! I'm protected by ten inches of reinforced steel! So go ahead, kick it down and make me REALLY feel it. So piss off! HAHAHA!" Laughed Robin as the projection of him turned off.
Back within Robin's safe room he and his men started to walk to the exit, knowing that THREE highly trained hunters will eventually break their way through the metal door. But as Robin and his men were walking, they stopped as they all saw a tall dark figure near the window and a few crates. The man shapeshifted into Baron as he started to speak.
"You have not spilt the beans on any of my masters plans, right?" Asked Jib as Robin and his men walked up to Jib shapeshifted as Baron Samedi.
"No. Course not. But, I'm starting to have second thoughts about this little 'alignment' of ours. I haven't had this much unnecessary attention before I aligned forces with your 'master', 'Jib'. And I'm not intending to get any more unnecessary attention either, we're done." Said Robin as Jib then morphed into Ozpin.
"You are making a GRAVE mistake, Mister Redcap." Said Jib in incredibly threatening tone.
(BANG!)
Robin, Jib, and the men all looked over to look at the metal door the sound was coming from.
"Ow! My wrist!" Yelled Samedi.
"Hold on, I'll try!" Said Tiburon.
(BANG!)
"Ow! Now MY wrist!" Yelled Tiburon.
"I think it's made out of some type of metal!" Yelled Baron through the metal door as Jib, Robin, and all the thugs were just staring at the door.
"I'll try my shoulder!" Yelled Tiburon.
"Umm, I don't think that's a very good id-" Li was interrupted.
(BANG!)
"Ow! Now my shoulder!"
"Oum, they're loud." Said one of the thugs.
"As I was saying, you just made a very big, mist-"
(BAM!)
One of the thugs pulled out a gun and shot Jib directly in the face. "Consider this alliance over." Said Robin as he blew out a puff of smoke from his cigar. But, before Robin and his men could leave, they were terrified to see Jib shapeshift back to his original form, and silently pick himself back up as he rapidly healed the wound on his face.
(BANG!)
"Ow! My shoulder!... Again." Yelled Tiburon.
"Nothings working. And I think I heard a gunshot in there. We better hurry." Said Baron.
"*Sigh* Step aside." Said Li as he walked in between the two other hunters and in front of the metal door. Li rubbed his hands together rapidly as his eyes started to glow with Aura. With it, he could see all the weak points on the metal door. Li pointed out his index finger and middle finger as he strike the weak points of the door with Aura enhancing his power as he tore through the door and tore it open. Baron and Tiburon stared a bit in shock at this.
"I forgot how good at Aura manipulation you are." Said Baron as the three ran into the room. Only to see all of Redcap's men dead and lying on the floor along with Robin Redcap himself. Except Redcap himself was still alive, but seriously injured along with an inhumanly tall man standing there with long claws. The three hunters stood there another moment before the creature turned up it's head and noticed them.
The hunters had no idea what this thing was, but considering it's appearance, it might be working for Evil Tim. The creature itself started lumbering towards the three hunters, the huntsmen in response to this all pulled out their weapons as they charged at the creature. The tendrils on the back of Jib's head started to sharpen and extend as they tried to strike the huntsmen, but luckily the huntsmen managed to dodge each and every one of them. Li and Baron were striking him in the face and torso as Tiburon jumped in and tried viciously attacking him with his chainsaw club. But after each and every attack, Jib healed himself up without a problem as he started carefully aiming his fingers and extended them. Stabbing them through Li's right leg, left arm, and managed to graze his neck. And stabbing through Baron's right leg twice and grazing his left arm making the two huntsmen collapse to the ground. The only one left was Tiburon as he attacked like a vicious animal.
Jib still managed to stab through Tiburon in multiple vital areas many times, but Tiburon just ignored the pain as he was still attacking Jib ferociously. He managed to sever one of Jib's arm and create a severe laceration across Jib's face with his club. Jib had enough of this as he started to go all out and produced spikes and spiked tentacles from his body as countless spikes and tendrils started piercing Tiburon viciously as he was screaming in pain. He could handle a little pain, but this was starting to overwhelm him. As Jib thought this shark Faunus was no longer a threat to him he threw him aside into a crate smashing it. Jib was already reconnecting his severed arm as he looked at the other two hunters on the floor, he pulled out his index and middle fingers as he grew them both to inhumanly long lengths as he has his two very long sharp fingers hover over Li's and Baron's heads. But before Jib could finally finished the deed, he noticed something at the corner of his eye. As he looked over he saw Tiburon limping and leaning on the wall next to him with more holes on him then Swiss cheese.
Jib just continued to look at Tiburon as he started to wonder what Tiburon thought he could POSSIBLY do now. But before Jib knew it, Tiburon made his way to the Fire Alarm that was nearby, and pulled it. Luckily for Tiburon the fire system still worked as the sprinkler's started to go off and shower everyone and everything in water. Jib looked around confused, 'Did he think water was really supposed to hurt me?' Jib thought as the waster continued to shower over everyone. But as Tiburon stood there holding his wounds, they started to visibly heal up to Jib's surprise as Tiburon brought his head up with a razor sharp tooth filled mouth in the form of a smile with black eyes like a Great White Shark's eyes.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... Let's party, shall we?..." Asked Tiburon with a predatory look as before Jib could even react, Tiburon lunged at him with an open mouth full of razor sharp teeth and his weapon on hand. Tiburon pounced on Jib as he started using every weapon available to him in order to tear Jib to pieces, he used his club to cut off BOTH of Jib's arms, used the serrated spikes on his knuckles to tear through Jib's torso and face, and even used his mouth to bite large chunks of Jib off. Jib tried to fight back but it was no use as Tiburon constantly just healed himself as his onslaught on the tall man was endless. Just as Jib found his opening shot, he took it as he smacked Tiburon across the room and into a brick wall smashing it. As Jib got back up, he started to heal as he quickly as he could as he regenerated his arms and started climbing up the wall like a spider as he crawled out the window nearby. Disappearing.
As the fight was over, Tiburon got back up as he started walking around like a wild animal as he started to snarl and growl. Baron and Li started to pick themselves back up as they got a look at their friend. He was using his semblance as he was engulfed in his blue Aura. The two other huntsmen have seen this before. Baron looked over at Li as he said.
"You turn off those sprinklers while I try to knock some sense into him." Said Baron as Li nodded and started using his golden Aura to block off the water from the Baron ran up to the snarling Tiburon he pulled out his cane as he quickly loaded it up with Lightning Dust as he raised it up. Tiburon stopped snarling for a millisecond, as he turned around to see Baron running at him holding his electrified cane like a baseball bat, even with Tiburon was much stronger and faster at this state he still wasn't fast enough to properly react as Baron cracked Tiburon in the face as he fell on the floor unconscious. Li successfully managed to turn off the sprinklers off as Baron turned over Tiburon on his back, Tiburon was still very much knocked out. But Baron started to shake him as he said.
"Tiburon, Tiburon you need to wake up. You were in one of your berserker states, and we had to knock you out so you wouldn't lose control and attack everyone... Tiburon? Tiburon wake up! If you don't wake up I'm going to start slapping you." Baron got no response as he lifted his hand, and before he brought it down Tiburon caught it with his hand holding it back, as he growled.
"Slap me, and I'll give you a colonoscopy with your cane." Tiburon said opening his eyes back up.
"Happy to see your back to normal." Said Samedi as he helped his old teammate back up.
"What are we gonna do now? I don't think Redcap can tell us anything when's he's on the ground dying from that hole in his stomach." Said Tiburon as everyone started to gather around Robin Redcap who was still on the floor bleeding out.
"Can you save him, Li?" Asked Baron turning to his panda Faunus friend.
"I'll try." Said Li as he got on his knees and placed his hands on Robin's wound as he started to surge his golden Aura through them. Within a few more seconds, Robin's wound was all healed up. As the crime lord opened his eyes, he was greeted by the faces of the three hunters.
"Hehehe... Stupid buggars..."
"Your welcome." Said Li.
"You have nowhere to go, tell us EVERYTHING we wanna know." Said Tiburon.
"Go to hell..." Growled Robin as Tiburon was about to beat him, but was stopped by Baron as he looked over to the two other huntsmen and said.
"I think I have a better idea." Baron reached into his pocket, as he pulled out what looked to be white powder. As he held it in front of Robin and blew it in his face. Robin was about to cuss him out and ask what he just blew in his face. But Robin turned to a completely quiet and emotionless figure, and not the loud rude crime lord he was. Li and Tiburon looked at Baron with faces of confusion.
"What... What was that you just blew in his face?"
"My own personal concoction I create, a unique mix of Dust along with the crushed remnants of a rare flower only found in Vacuo. In short, it turns off the victims own will, leaving ANYBODY to tell them to do anything or just tell them anything and they'll do it." Said Baron as he turned his attention back to the drugged Robin.
"Now Robin... I want you to tell me EVERYTHING you know about Evil Tim and what you've both been planning..."
Beacon Courtyard: During 'It's a brawl in the Family'.
Weiss, Eddy, and Ruby were running up the main avenue towards the docking bays.
"Weiss just hold it, will ya? Who is she supposed to be?" Asked Eddy as he and Ruby caught up to Weiss.
"Winter." Said Weiss as she stops and smiles at the sight of the woman exiting the airship.
"Wait... Your sister?" Asked Ruby as Eddy stared in surprise, though how Weiss talked about Winter, he was definitely going to be cautious... Considering it was very similar how he would talk about his brother.
"Winter!" Yelled Weiss cupping her hands around her mouth as this caught the older woman's attention. The three students ran up to the woman as Weiss was still calling out to her.
"Winter! I'm so happy to see you! Oh..." Said Weiss pausing as the three approached her.
"Your presence honors us." Said Weiss suddenly curtsies.
Winter silently looked around Beacon as she then spoke. "Beacon... It's been a long time. The air feels... different."
"I mean it is fall, so, eh, it's probably colder." Said Ruby.
"Yeah, Rube is kinda right. The leaves are falling and, it is pretty cold." Added Eddy. Weiss punches Ruby in the shoulder, causing her to gasp in pain then smacking Eddy over his head, before turning back to her sibling.
"So, what are you doing here?" Asked Weiss as Eddy angrily pushed the bump back into his head.
"Classified." Said Winter.
"Oh, right. Well, how long are you staying?" Asked Weiss.
"Classified..." Said Winter again.
"Of course." Said Weiss smiling and nodding in understanding as Eddy mumbles.
"Gee, can't ya say anything else but classified?" Asked Eddy quietly, as Winter heard him and glared at him. As Eddy gave a startled look and Weiss once again hits him over his head. Ruby remained silent as she looked at Winter, Weiss, and Eddy still rubbing his head.
"Well... this is nice... I think." Said Ruby rubbing the back of her head.
"You're going to love it here! I know you travel a lot, but so much of Beacon is different from Atlas!" Said Weiss excited as she started to whisper discreetly. "Vale, too. The government and school are completely separate! Can you believe it!? I-" Weiss was interrupted.
"I'm more than familiar with how this kingdom handles its... bureaucracy. That is not why I came." Said Winter coldly.
"Right! I'm sorry!" Said Weiss as Eddy looked at the two sisters inquisitively.
"Nor did I come here to watch my own blood fail so miserably in battle. But it appears that I have no choice in the matter." Said Winter as Eddy started to forward his brow a little.
"But, we won!" Said Weiss puzzled.
"Only a novice would refer to that as a victory. I counted at least three strikes missed." Said Winter as she turned to her security. "Leave us." The Atlas Knights obey, walking two steps backwards into formation as she sighs and smiles a little more warmly at Weiss "How have you been?"
"Oh, splendid! Thank you for asking. I'm actually in the very top ranking of our sparring class! And the rest of my studies are going wonderfully, too! I'm-" But Weiss was silenced as Winter's hand as she slaps Weiss, leaving a massive bump on her head.
"Silence, you boob! I don't recall asking about your ranking, I'm asking how you've been. Are you eating properly? Have you taken up any hobbies? Are you making new friends?" Asked Winter.
"Well, there's Ruby and Eddy." Said Weiss motioning to the girl in red and black and the scam artist.
"Heh, boob." Said Ruby pushing the bump back into Weiss' head. Eddy continues to stare at the siblings as he thought.
'Wow, and I thought Pipsqueak was humiliating.'
"I see. So this is the leader you wrote of. How appropriately... underwhelming. And... This 'Eddy'..." Said Winter.
"Uh... Thank you!" Said Ruby.
"What she said." Said Eddy pointing to Ruby.
"Greetings, Ruby Rose and Eddy. I wish to thank you for taking an interest in my sister." Said Winter.
"Umm, yeah sure." Said Eddy, not wanting to offend her, basically because of how intimidating she came off as.
"Oh! Uh, yes, of course!" Said Ruby as she attempts to salute and curtsy. "The honor is in my... court!" Said Ruby nearly losing her balance with this gesture, waving her arms until she can get back up.
"Hmm, and what about a worthy... Life companion?..." Asked Winter.
"Umm, I'm not sure that I-" Weiss was interrupted
"A boyfriend." Said Winter as Eddy and Weiss blushed, as Weiss wrapped her arm around Eddy's and pulled him in.
"Yes, there's Eddy. And, If you heard about three aliens that came to Remnant that come to Beacon... Eddy is one of them." Said Weiss still having her arm wrapped around Eddy's, as all Eddy could do was wave and smile nervously.
"An alien, huh?... You look like a normal human." Observed Winter.
"I'm not really sure why but... I guess I'm just a human from another world." Said Eddy.
"...Well then, 'Eddy' I am happy you've decided to be a suitor for Weiss." Said Winter as Weiss and Eddy blushed.
"Well... Umm... Now I see where Weiss gets all her good looks from hehehe..." Said Eddy as Weiss looked at him angrily and Winter looked down at him coldly.
(SLAP!)
Eddy was smacked to the ground face first by Winter with her palm out. "Why me?" Groaned Eddy as Winter turned to Weiss.
"Next time Weiss, keep your... 'Beau' in line." Said Winter as Weiss nodded as Eddy started picking himself up.
"Now I see that temper runs in the family too." Groaned Eddy as he picked himself back up.
"I have business with the General and your Headmaster. But, seeing as I'm early, why don't you take me to your quarters?" Asked Winter.
"Really?" Asked Weiss excited as she and Winter started walking towards the academy with the Knights following them.
"Yes. I wish to inspect them and make sure that they are up to my personal standards." Said Winter.
"Of course. Just so you're aware, the bunk beds only look unstable." Said Weiss as Winter grew a puzzled look.
"Bunk beds?" Asked Winter as Eddy and Ruby were still standing in front of the airship. Ruby was waving goodbye as she said.
"I'll catch up- I mean, I will... reconvene with you both... at a later..." Said Ruby as she pauses with her hand on her head, wracking her brain for the right word. "juncture! She raises her finger, before stepping out of sight to the left. "At a juncture. Yeah." Said Ruby leaving as Eddy just slowly followed along.
"Good work Ruby, you couldn't have made that anymore awkward." Said Eddy.
Weiss, Winter and the androids walking towards the courtyard, before a certain someone dizzily sneaks up behind the Atlas Knights and promptly decapitates one, before kicking its head towards the group.
"Hey!" The group turns around to see the man who was previously seen in the Crow Bar along with three boys by his side. The one in the green shirt shaking his head with his hand on his face. "Yeah, I'm talking to you, Ice Queen!" Said Qrow as he tosses the decapitated machine aside. one of her automated soldiers advances, rifle raised.
"Halt!" Said Winter.
"Excuse me! Do you have any idea who you are talking to!?" Asked Weiss after she angrily walked up to Qrow.
"Stop this now Qrow before you do something even more stupid." Said Kevin as Weiss turned to face the three boys.
"Are you his keepers or something?" Asked Weiss.
"One-who-smells-like-failure Qrow? Yes!" Said Rolf, but before Weiss could ask any more questions Qrow placed his hand on the girls face as he said. "Sssshhh. Not you." As he pushed her aside.
"Hey!"
"You." Said Qrow pointing at Winter as a crow is seen perched on a lamp post before flying off and circling past the group.
"Wow mister Qrow! Is that the woman you keep talking about how she drives you crazy at your every waking moment?" Asked Jonny as Qrow grows a bit of a shocked an embarrassed face as he turned and whispered to Jonny.
"Your killing the mood kid."
"Oh, sorry Mister Qrow. It's still better then what Plank was going to say, about how when your alone you say that woman's name while you Jack-"
"KID! NOT COOL!" Whispered back Qrow a little embarrassed, as he turned back to Winter. With a cool yet, intoxicated look. Winter stared coldly at him and the kids as she asked.
"Are these your students?"
"Nah... They're aliens. They came with me here so we can find their interdimensional portal so they can get back home to Lego land." Said Qrow.
"..."
"Okay, that last part was the alcohol talking."
"Do you think it makes you any more of a man to drink and destroy Atlas military property?" Asked Winter, as Rolf started to laugh. Turning her head towards him.
"Hohoho! You think THAT makes a man?" Asked Rolf as he turned around.
"Prepare yourselves, for THIS!" Rolf rips his shirt off to reveal an extremely hairy blue back as everyone looked on in disgust, along with Weiss and Winter. Especially Weiss and Winter.
"Is what it means to be a man!" Said Rolf.
"Oh my Oum! That's sick!" Yelled Weiss with a face of complete disgust.
"*Sigh* Just forget you saw that." Said Qrow as he walked forward and tried to bring the mood back to life.
"So... Saw that gaudy ship of yours in town. I guess you're here, too." Said Qrow stepping forward as Winter cleared her throat, trying to forget what she saw as she started to speak.
"I'm standing right before you." Said Winter as Qrow squints at her.
"You realize you just destroyed Atlas Military property." Said Winter.
"Oh, oh I'm sorry. See, I mistook this for some sort of... sentient garbage." Said Qrow sarcastically apologizing.
"I don't have time for your immature games, Qrow." Said Winter stepping forward.
"Wait, you two know each other?" Asked Weiss walking up to Winter.
"Geez, you Atlas Specialists think you're so special, don't you?" Asked Qrow.
"It's in the title." Said Winter.
"Well, you know what you really are? A bunch of sellouts. Just like your boss." Said Qrow.
"I'm not sure what you think you're implying, but I've heard enough." Said Winter.
"Oh I heard, too. I heard ol' Ironwood finally turned his back on Ozpin."
"Ozpin?" Asked Weiss.
"Weiss, it's time for you to go." Said Winter shoving her little sister aside.
"What-"
"Listen to big sister, Weiss. She'll protect you. Just like Atlas is going to protect all of us, huh?" Slurred Qrow.
"If you won't hold your tongue, then I will gladly remove it for you!" Threatened Winter as she pulled out her sword spooking Kevin, Rolf, and Jonny.
"Umm, Mister Qrow, Plank says that you should tone it down a bit and stop acting like an idiot before the scary white haired lady turns us all into chopped liver." Said Jonny as Qrow just waves it off.
"Don't worry kid, it's all under control." Whispered Qrow as he turned back to Winter.
"Alright then..." Qrow says slicking his back his hair. "Come take it."
The square clears before Winter charges at Qrow, making several quick, but futile thrusts at Qrow's head as he swiftly bobs away from the blade, teasing her with several faces until he mockingly bows towards her. A downward strike is blocked by the base of Qrow's sword, right before he tosses it in the air and draws it towards Winter. The two openly clash blades as Qrow lands a downwards strike, and aggressively swipes at Winter, forcing her to do a series of back handsprings away from the greatsword and eventually block it.
During the fight, the two started spinning and trading blows as Ruby and Eddy enters the crowd next to her teammate and Eddy's girlfriend.
"Hey, what's going on?" Asked Eddy.
"Some crazy guy just started attacking my sister!" Yelled Weiss pointing at the fight.
"Oh no! Who would do such a th- That is my uncle!" Squealed Ruby excitedly as Weiss and Eddy looked at her in surprise.
"What?" Asked Eddy and Weiss in unison.
"THAT'S YOUR UNCLE?" Asked Eddy.
"Kick her butt, Uncle Qrow!" Yelled Ruby.
"Uh... Teach him respect, Winter!" Weiss said, cheering her own encouragement as Eddy looked at the two girls, confused of what to say next.
"Umm, go Winter!... I guess." Said Eddy as a familiar voice caught Eddy's attention.
"Show the elder-white-as-snow-maiden how mighty you are one-who-drinks-too-much-Qrow!" Yelled Rolf.
"Show her whattcha got Qrow!" Cheered Jonny.
"Just try not to get killed." Yelled Kevin as the two were still fighting. Eddy turned his head and in between where Qrow and Winter were fighting, he saw his three friends as he waved over to them getting their attention.
"Hey Kevin! Rolfy boy! Jonny boy! What are you guys doing here?" The three turned their heads to Eddy as they smiled.
"Hohoho! Three-haired Ed-boy! Rolf and our fellowship has been looking all over for you!" Cheered Rolf. "And to make things even greater, travel guide Qrow is doing the dance of commitment with his soon to be!" Said Rolf excited.
"Maybe we should talk after these two lovers are done with their quarrel!" Yelled Kevin as Qrow and Winter, still fighting, yelled in unison.
"WE'RE NOT DATING!"
Mercury casually walks by, until he looks in the crowd when he witnesses the two fighting. "Huh?" Mercury then runs off from the impromptu duel, as the two continue their battle.
Both Winter and Qrow parry each of their foe's strikes with rapid speed, as Winter dodges a two-handed swing before smacking Qrow's left cheek with the pommel of her saber. But Qrow is grinning as his left eye flashes brightly. Winter is forced to leap away with a glyph as Qrow slams his sword on the ground, shattering the pavement.
Winter then breaks away from the midair crane stance as she lands near a lamp post, which is subsequently destroyed with a swipe from Qrow. Winter then leaps above him, and dodging his swings, finally leaping on top of his sword, then giving him an excellent view of her foot as she kicks him in the face. Winter backflips onto the stump that used to be a lamp post, but then leaps off onto a railing high above, right as Qrow throws his sword at the stump. Qrow transforms his weapon, firing a cannon shot at Winter and forcing her to jump onto the side of a concrete, arched pillar. She uses her sword to stay on the vertical surface until Qrow runs forward and tries firing more blasts at her, which she dodges by scaling the pillar's face and eventually leaping onto the archway itself. Qrow follows suit on the opposite structure, firing off round after round at his distant opponent.
Qrow then searches for Winter as he sees a cloud of white steam consume her, narrowing his gaze. Suddenly, Winter flies towards him, separating her bifurcated saber into two, and Qrow blocks the attack. The arch collapses from the force, causing the two to crash back down to ground level, continuing their furious attacks towards each other. Qrow is forced backward and drags his sword in the ground to slow to a stop before holding it in a one-handed stance, to the cheer of the audience.
Winter then stabs the ground with one of her swords, summoning a glyph that creates a flock of small white Nevermores, which begin flying towards him. Qrow swings his sword at the flock, causing a few to burst into small clouds of steam. He then sends an Aura arc at Winter, causing her to jump back and putting an end to the birds. Winter angrily summons a second glyph behind her, and the blade of Qrow's sword begins to transform in a sequence initiated by its clockwork gears. But suddenly, his gaze travels elsewhere, and he suddenly sheathes his sword, instead beckoning his bewildered rival to come at him with his right index finger. The glyph fades away, and there's a bright flash of light, followed by Winter propelling herself forward, screaming in rage and preparing a thrust towards Qrow. But as he blade was inches from Qrow's throat...
"SCHNEE!"
Just before a commanding voice is loudly heard in the courtyard, stopping her blade's point mere inches away from Qrow's neck. Winter looks behind her to see General Ironwood standing behind her, with Penny behind him, peaking out from behind him. Winter lowers her blades as she addresses Ironwood facing him.
"What in the world do you think you're doing?" Asked Ironwood as he approaches Winter with Penny by his side.
"He started the altercation, sir!" Said Winter.
"That's actually not true. She attacked first." Said Qrow with his hands behind his head in a relaxed stance.
"Is that right? Asked Ironwood as Winter searches for words, only to realize Qrow is right. She looks down in shame.
"And you." Said Ironwood as Qrow points to himself in mock confusion. "What are you doing here?"
"I could be asking you the same thing." Said Qrow.
"I-" But Ironwood was interrupted as Ozpin and Goodwitch came into the scene.
"Now, now, everyone." Said Ozpin "There is a sanctioned fight happening just around the corner at the Colosseum, that I can assure you has better seats... and popcorn. Ozpin says swirling his coffee.
"Break it up, everyone! We will take care of this mess." Said Goodwitch as she glares at the three.
"Great work, blockhead." Said Kevin turning to Qrow as Qrow just gave him a mocking smile.
"Let's go." Said Ironwood as Ironwood and Winter leave, Penny notices Ruby and quietly waves to her, while Ruby waves back. Ruby then leaps giddily onto Qrow's arm, shaking her legs in delight.
"Uncle Qrow!" Cheered Ruby super excited as she hangs on Qrow's outstretched arm. "Hi. It's so good to see you! Did you miss me? Did you miss me!?"
"Nope." They share a grin as he pats his niece's head. as Ruby lets go she notices the three boys by Qrow's side.
"Umm, who are they Uncle Qrow?" Asked Ruby pointing to the three boys.
"Oh, I guess you guys weren't introduced yet." Said Qrow. "I found these guys in a bar as they fought off a couple of thugs. They say they came from another world."
That's when it clicks in Ruby's head. "Wait! Do you guys know-"
"Hey guys!" Everyone looked over to see Eddy running over to everyone.
"Greetings Ed-boy!" Said Rolf.
"Hiya Eddy!" Said Jonny.
"Hey man." Said Kevin.
"How did you guys get here?" Asked Eddy.
"We tried looking for ya, you guys were missing for MONTHS! We walked into Double D's garage where we found a portal machine, and thanks to cactus head, we were sucked in and landed here." Explained Kevin.
"Head-in-Sock Ed-boy had already created another magic gate machine correct?" Asked Rolf, referring to the portal machine.
"Oh yeah! He's just making a few more adjustments, and then after that we'll be home in no time!" Said Eddy.
"*Ahem*" The four boys looked over to look at Qrow and Ruby.
"Oh, right. My name is Kevin." Said Kevin with a smile.
"I am Rolf, son of a Shepard." Said Rolf with pride in his voice.
"Hi there! My name is Jonny and this is my best pal Plank!" Said Jonny holding up the Plank of wood in his hands as Ruby got a confused look, as she leaned over to her Uncle.
"Umm... He KNOWS it's just a piece of wood right?" Asked Ruby.
"Believe me kid, if you saw how it took down all those thugs back in that bar. You'd think it's alive." Whispered Qrow back.
"My name is Ruby Rose." Said Ruby turning back to the boys.
"Nice to meet ya!" Said Jonny.
"Qrow!" Yelled Ozpin as the Huntsman turns to look at the headmaster along with everyone else. "A word, please." Said Ozpin as Goodwitch repairs the courtyard using her telekinesis.
"I think I'm in trouble." Qrow whispered to the kids.
"Gee, I wonder why..." Said Kevin as a pillar nearby collapsed.
"You did kinda tear up our courtyard." Said Ruby.
"Yeah, I did." Said Qrow as he winks and gives her a fist bump "Catch ya later, kid." He walks off to join the others, but was stopped by Rolf.
"Wait! Rolf wants to know where the fellowship will stay in the evening." Said Rolf.
"Don't worry guys, I'll talk with Ozpin over here and I'll convince him to allow you to stay. For now, just enjoy the Vytal Festival, see ya." Said Qrow as he walked off and Weiss walked in with her arms crossed.
"And suddenly, your recklessness makes sense." Weiss said.
"You're just mad because he whooped butt." Said Ruby with a cheeky smile.
"That was a draw, at best!" Said Weiss.
"Plank says, get some glasses girlfriend!" Said a bald headed boy as Weiss turned to face the three boys. "Who are all of you?" Asked Weiss annoyed.
"Easy Weiss, these are just friends back from my home world." Said Eddy getting in front of the boys as he started introducing them.
"Weiss, this is Kevin, Rolf, and Jonny." Said Eddy as he then turned to the three boys and said. "Guys, this is Weiss Schnee." Said Eddy.
"Well... I guess if your a friend of Eddy, then your a friend of mine too." Said Weiss as the blue haired boy laughed aloud catching everyone's attention.
"We have finally united and created new friends! Let us celebrate!" Said Rolf as Eddy grew a face of concern and fear.
"Hey guys!" But they were interrupted once more as Ed came walking down the path. "What are ya guys do-... Rolf, Kevin, Jonny! How did you get here?" Asked Ed excited.
"We'll tell you later." Said Kevin as Eddy turned back to Rolf.
"Please don't tell me your gonna be putting eels don everybody's pants again." Said Eddy as Rolf laughed and Weiss and Ruby said in unison.
"What?!"
"Oh, hohoho! No..." Eddy sighed in relief. "It will be the hagfish down the pant's of reconvene!" Said Rolf pulling out two large buckets of slimy hagfish pout of nowhere as Ruby and Weiss stared in disgust and shock. Eddy reluctantly held his pants open as Weiss stared at him in shock.
"Eddy! What are you doing!?" Asked Weiss.
"Believe me, you don't want to make him mad..." Said Eddy as he nudged Ed, cooperating as well and held his pants open. Not as nervous or disgusted as Eddy or Weiss.
"There you go." Said Rolf dumping the hagfish down Eddy's pants.
"Now some for you." Said Rolf dumping them down Ed's pants. Weiss was in total shock with her mouth hanging open while Ruby tried her very best to contain her laughter.
"Oh! Oh! Me next Rolf!" Said Jonny as Rolf dumped hagfish down his pants next.
"Kevin boy! Join us!" Said Rolf smiling.
"I'll pass, dude." Said Kevin.
"Son of a gun, you insult Rolf by denying the hagfish!?" Yelled Rolf as he stood over Kevin in the anime style of Rolf standing over Kevin with flames behind him.
"Oh, umm... Nope! Nope!" Said Kevin scared with a nervous smile as he held his pants out and Rolf dumped hagfish down his pants.
"Let me join you!" Said Rolf as he dumped the hagfish down his own pants as well.
"Ruby? Weiss? Care to join us?" Asked Rolf looking at the disgusted heiress and the girl who was holding back her laughter as they both nervously tried to think of a way to avoid that fate.
"Oh, umm... We can't because... Umm... We have skirts on!" Said Weiss.
"Battle skirts!" Added Ruby. Rolf's only response was to laugh as he said.
"That is no problem! Down the front of your indoor female worker dresses then!" Said Rolf as Ruby and Weiss looked at him in shock and surprise.
"Wait, what did you just sa-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Shrieked Ruby as Rolf already poured the hagfish down the front of Ruby's dress as she started freaking out.
"What do you think your do-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Screamed Weiss as Rolf dumped the hagfish down the front of her dress to as Weiss and Ruby both started to have panic attacks as the slimy fish were squiggling around under their clothes.
"Aah! Aah! Aah!" Kevin feeling understandably uncomfortable.
"WHOHOHOHO!" Shriked Eddy.
"This feels so weird! Woo whoo!" Said Jonny, actually enjoying the experience.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! EW! EW! GROSS! GROSS! GROSS! GROSS! I CAN FEEL THEM SQUERMING!" Shrieked Ruby.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! EW! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THEY'RE SO SLIMY!" Shrieked Weiss.
"Wooooooooooooooooooooh! Hoo! Hoo!" Screamed Eddy as Blake, Yang, and Double D come walking in.
"Hey guys, we just thought we'd..." Yang stopped talking as she, Blake, and Double D were looking at everyone with squirming movement in their pants. With the exception of Ruby and Weiss who were shrieking as movement was seen coming from under the front of their dresses.
"What's going on here!?" Asked Blake as Rolf turned to the three.
"Oh! Ed-boy you brought a new friend!" Said Rolf happily as Ed started to scratch himself.
"I feel weird guys, I think I'm allergic to hagfish." Said Ed as purple lumps pop out all over his skin, and his face turns remarkably fish-like. The rest of his body follows.
"FISH FACE! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Screamed Eddy as he tries to run away, but is unable to because of his overstuffed trousers. Weiss faints on sight as Ruby freaks out even further.
"Can somebody scratch my scales?" Asked Ed smiling.
As Yang and Double D were about present their own reactions of shock and disgust. But before they did, they both looked over to see Blake staring at Ed, drooling with a knife and fork suddenly in each of hear hands.
"Double D." Said Yang.
"Yeah?" Asked Double D.
"Grab Blake's arm! Quick!" Yelled Yang as she grabbed Blake's right arm and Double D grabbed Blake's left arm as they started to hold her back as she tried to lunge out at Ed.
"Blake! Ed is friend! Not food!" Yelled Yang as Blake started struggling.
"Just a bite!" Screamed Blake.
"Blake! Control yourself!" Yelled Double D.
"FISH!" Yelled Blake.
Ozpin's Office: Later that Night.
Ironwood is waiting with his arms crossed while Winter is impatiently pacing about. Suddenly, a smirking Qrow, accompanied by Goodwitch and Ozpin, arrive in the elevator. Winter turned to Qrow as she yelled.
"What were you thinking!?"
"If you were one of my men, I would have you shot!" Yelled Ironwood.
"If I was one of your men, I'd shoot myself." Said Qrow as he pulled out his flask and started chugging it down.
"While I wouldn't condone his behavior, retaliating like you did certainly didn't help the situation." Said Goodwitch.
"He was drunk!" Said Winter turning to Goodwitch.
"He's always drunk!" The four turn to Qrow to see him drinking from a flask. His eyes widen when he notices them staring, and he holds the flask out to the side, looking at it awkwardly before grimacing. Ozpin stared at Qrow in shock, then sighs and sits down as he says.
"Qrow, why are you here?"
"You've been out of contact for weeks! You can't just go dark like that in the field!" Said Ironwood.
"I'm not one of your special operatives, Jimmy!" Said Qrow.
"General." Said Ironwood.
"Whatever. You sent me to get intel on our enemy, and I'm telling you, our enemy is here." Said Qrow.
"We know." Said Ozpin leaning over his desk.
"Oh! Oh, you know! Well, thank goodness I'm out there risking my life to keep you all informed!"
"Qrow-" Ironwood was interrupted.
"Communication's a two-way street, pal. You see this?" Asked Qrow as he pulls out his Scroll and points to it. "That's the SEND button."
"They had reason to assume you'd been compromised." Said Winter.
"And I have reason to assume you don't need to be here." Said Qrow pointing to Winter. "Seriously, who invited her?" But before anyone could answer her, they all heard the beeping sound of the elevator. As all of them looked over, they saw the doors open to see three men standing in the elevator.
"Next time, we take the stairs." Said the white haired man with the sideburns as they all exited the elevator clenching his stomach.
"Suck it up, you'll be fine." Said the dark man with the hat as three of them walked up to the four other Hunters.
"Professor Samedi? May I ask, how you got to this floor? The elevator doesn't allow you up here unless I allow it." Said Ozpin.
"I have my ways Headmaster, but we actually came to tell you something important." Said Baron walking over as Ironwood held his hand out.
"This is a private meeting, leave now." Said Ironwood.
"Yeah, I don't think so. I hate being kept in the dark about serious things like this. Now, I don't care what you do in your little super secret club here, but I want to know WHAT THE DUST IS GOING ON!" Yelled Samedi as he took out his flask and started drinking from it.
"And what makes you think we're just gonna tell you everything and let you in?" Asked Qrow as he stepped forward.
"Because we know of someone who's just as big of a threat as the Grimm." Said Tiburon.
"We already know of Evil Tim." Said Ironwood.
"Now if you morons will just stop keeping your info and secrets from everyone, we can share our own about what we found out about Evil Tim. And with what we found out about him, it's honestly pretty bone chilling." Said Tiburon as he took a step forward.
"And who are these two?" Asked Ironwood as Baron finished taking a sip of his flask.
"Both rogue Huntsmen, Tiburon Akheilos and Li Xiongmao. And were once in my Team back in Haven. And their just doing their jobs..." Said Baron.
"That's cute, I bet it's still NOTHING compared to the type of monsters I FOUGHT out there!" Yelled Qrow.
"EVIL TIM HAS ALREADY INFILTRATED US!" Yelled Li as he stopped and collected himself before he spoke again. "He has disguised his minions of the undead as normal civilians. Heck, they might even have already infiltrated the military! And with the type of power we found out what Evil Tim has, you'll want to listen to us." Said Li as everyone remained silent.
"... Schnee, we'll discuss this incident back at my ship." Said Ironwood looking at Winter.
"But sir!"
"Winter. Leave." Said Ironwood.
"Yes sir." Said Winter saluting as she turns on her heel and gives the winking Qrow a dirty look as she exits via the elevator.
"Go on." Said Ironwood.
"Your little infiltrator isn't just another pawn. They're the one responsible for Autumn's condition." Said Qrow as he takes a drink from his flask once more. "And real good work with Mars." Said Qrow sarcastically. Ironwood took a deep breathe, as he spoke.
"Mars Polemarchos is behind bars for his crimes Qrow... Besides he's not the prime concern right now." Said Ironwood.
"What was that you said before?" Asked Goodwitch.
"Despite what the world thinks, we're not just teachers, or generals, or headmasters. The people in this room, the leaders of the other two academies, we're the ones that keep the world safe from the evils no one even knows about!" Yelled Qrow getting up in Ironwood's face.
"It's why we meet behind closed doors, why we work in the shadows. So you tell me, James, when you brought your army to Vale, did you think you were being discreet, or did you just not give a damn!?" Yelled Qrow.
"All the reason more to let us in this little private club." Said Tiburon. "I can sniff out those creatures that attacked us, there's a bigger threat then the one you already know of!" Yelled Tiburon.
"We're focusing our forces on both." Said Ozpin as the elevator suddenly dinged again as someone walked through it and up to Ozpin.
"Ozpin I have the test results on the DNA back and..." The man stopped walking as he looked at everyone in the room. "Is... This a bad time?" Asked the man. The man stood around 6'2 tall, wearing a standard scientist clothing with a white lab coat and everything, had red hair, robotic hands, and glasses over his face while holding papers in his hands.
"Actually yes Albert, please come back another time." Said Ozpin as the man was about to leave. But Baron quickly ran over to him and grabbed him by the shoulder.
"Wait! Forneus! What are you doing here?" Asked Baron as Albert turned to face him.
"Samedi? I haven't seen you since... Nevermind. I'm just doing my job as a scientist working for Ozpin. Look, if this isn't a good time, I can just come back-"
"Wait, just hold on! Do you even know what Ozpin and the others are up to?" Asked Baron as Ironwood, Qrow, Goodwitch, and Ozpin started to get visibly upset.
"What do you think your doing?" Asked Ironwood.
"Trying to get us as much help as we can get." Said Samedi as he turned back to Albert. "Forneus, last time we met you were a critically acclaimed scientist. And we REALLY need your help here." Said Baron as he pulled out a vile with grey slime in it.
"Look! This came from the creatures we faced out there! They dissolved into this after we killed them! We need to know exactly what we're all facing." Said Samedi as he handed it to the doctor as Ironwood placed his hand over his face.
"*Sigh*... Fine." Said Ironwood as he started to speak again.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt to get as much help as we can get anyway. Besides, discreet just wasn't working for us anymore." Said Ironwood as the center of the room projects a hologram of Vale, Beacon Academy, the Amity Colosseum and Ironwood's fleet of Atlesian Airships, which he gestures to. "I'm here because this is what was necessary."
"You're here because Ozpin wanted you here! He made you a part of this inner circle and opened your eyes to the real fight that's in front of us!" Yelled Qrow.
"Please, we're all on the same side here everyone." Said Li as he took a step forward as everyone stood there in silence for a few more second.
"And I am grateful." Said Ironwood.
"Oh, well, you've got a real funny way of showing it." Said Qrow.
"The people of Vale needed someone to protect them; someone who would act. When they look to the sky and see my fleet, they feel safe, and our enemies will feel our strength." Said Ironwood.
"Oh yeah, because whenever you try and totally wipe out a virus, you never totally kill it. They just come back mutated and stronger." Said Tiburon.
"This is not a virus. These are monsters and criminals." Said Ironwood.
"And fear will bring the Grimm. A guardian is a symbol of comfort. But an army is a symbol of conflict. There's an energy in the air now, a question in the back of everyone's minds... " Said Ozpin gesturing to the display.
"If this is the size of our defenses, then what is it we're expecting to fight?" Asked Ozpin.
Ironwood glares at them before sighing and walking forward, picking up his Scroll just as it flashes with the image of a Black Queen. "So then, what would you suggest we do?" Asked Ironwood.
"I suggest we find our guardian." Said Ozpin as Baron, Albert, Tiburon, and Li all look at Ozpin in confusion.
"Okay, you really need to tell us what your hiding." Said Baron.
"When you tell us everything you know about Evil Tim." Said Ozpin.
"Deal." Said Baron.
Cinder's Dorm:
"And you're sure?" Asked Cinder pacing.
"Bad hair, used a scythe, and smelled like my dad after a long day. It was him." Confirmed Mercury sitting on the floor.
"What do we do?" Asked Emerald who was sitting on a bed.
"Nothing. We stay the course. They have no idea who we are, so we have no reason to worry. Besides, the last of the heavy lifting is being taken care of thanks to our clever little friend." Said Cinder as she picks up her Scroll as it too flashes with the Black Queen.
"Speaking of which... it appears we have a new access point." Ironwood is shown on the Scroll as an icon, along with a curling "W" in the other corner.
"Anywhere good?" Asked Mercury.
"You could say that. Go to your rooms. I'll prepare everything for tomorrow." Said Cinder.
"Yes, ma'am." Said Emerald getting up and leaving.
"God it." Said Mercury doing the same thing.
The Scroll reveals the roster of the Vytal Festival Tournament doubles round, which includes CRDL's Russel and Sky, SSSN's Sun and Neptune, and Penny and Ciel.
"Let's give the crowd a good fight." Said Cinder malevolently.
Cinder scrolls down each pair until she selects Mercury and Emerald to face off against Coco and Yatsuhashi in the doubles round.
Evil Tim's Lair:
As Evil Tim was looking over his minions working and setting up everything they need for the attack. But Evil Tim's mind was mostly consumed by disappointment and anger because of one of his best minions Jib, failed in his mission of killing Robin Redcap. Evil Tim was actually thinking about terminating Jib, along with that useless mercenary Daniel Robitaille. But as he was thinking this, he heard the sounds of a vehicle coming up from behind him with headlights casting over the floor he was facing. He turned around as he saw an armored prison truck drive up to Evil Tim and make a stop. Evil Tim just stared at the vehicle.
As the doors opened on either side of the truck he saw Jib come out of the drivers seat and Daniel come out of the passenger seat. Evil Tim stared at them as he asked.
"Care to explain why you failed in your mission to eliminate a midget of a crime lord and a pesky Huntsman that has been an annoyance?" Asked Evil Tim as Jib shapeshifted into Adam Taurus.
"I understand we failed in destroying them my master. But, we got a 'gift' that might make it up." Said Jib as the back door to the Jail truck opened up, as Evil Tim's ghouls were dragging out a person from the back of the truck with a bag over their heads. As the corpses dragged the man in front of Jib, they stood in front of Jib on his knees.
"What is this your presenting to me, Jib?" Asked Evil Tim.
"A 'special' person who can help us." Said Jib still looking like Adam as he walked over to the person on the very left pulling out a clip board.
"Doctor Oxford Oceanica, responsible to committing many vile experiments on the prison ship Iron Heavens, being responsible for the torture of 124 prisoners and the deaths of 102 prisoners in trying to create the ultimate living weapon." Said Jib as he removed the bag form the man's head with the man being in a blind fold, having duck tape over his mouth, and having ear muffs over his ears. As Jib pulled all those off Oxford looked around as he asked.
"What is this? Where am I? Who are you people?" Asked the man as he looked up as Evil Tim and became slightly terrified.
"Doctor... I was just told about your experiments in trying to create the ultimate living weapon... Is that true?" Asked Evil Tim as Oxford hesitantly says.
"Y-yes."
"Do not worry, I will not hurt you, I will not kill you. In fact, I want you to work for me, with the limitless supplies I have at my disposal, you may perform as many questionable experiments as you wish. Do you want the job?" Asked Evil Tim as Oxford actually started to perk up.
"Yes, actually." Said Oxford as the corpse standing behind him unlocked the mans cuffs as he stood up. Evil Tim then walked closer to the man as he put his hand on his shoulder.
"You will indeed become a valuable asset in our cause, having another enlightened mind on board..." Said Evil Tim as he then pulled his hand away and turned with his hands behind his back.
"Now for the next step of our plan, we shall strike fear into the hearts and minds of the people of Remnant... I will to tear our enemies apart... From the inside..."
A/N: Over 17,000 words, longest chapter yet. Now before I say anything else, I'd like to give a small list of the OC's characters that have come into the story and show who would voice them and in what characters voice. So you can get a better understanding of what they sound like.
Evil Tim: Frank Welker, Megatron (Transformers Prime)
Salty Sam: Kevin Michael Richardson, Tombstone (The Spectacular Spider-Man)
Babyblue: David Near (YouTube), Jason the Toymaker (Creepypasta)
Tassin Ostium: Steve Blum, Green Goblin (The Spectacular Spider-Man)/ Starscream (Transformers Prime)
Mars Polemarchos: Brian Bloom, The Punisher (Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher 2014)
Robin Redcap Senior: Nolan North, The Penguin (Batman Arkham Knight)
Robin Redcap Junior: Jason Spisak, The Penguin (Batman Telltale Game)
Baron Samedi: Geoffrey Holder, No character reference
Tiburon Akheilos: Steve Blum, Wolverine (Majority of Marvel Animated Shows)
Li Xiongmao: Greg Chun, Emperor Shaohao (World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandoria)
Albert Forneus: Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes 2009)
Daniel Robitaille: Tony Todd, CandyMan (CandyMan 1992)
Oxford Oceanica: Daran Norris, Timmy's Dad... No I'm just kidding, Knock Out (Transformers Prime)
A/N: Anyway, I know the beginning was kind of a circle jerk for me putting in my own OC RWBY Team in. But they're still side characters, and to try and get a different view of the story. And with bringing in these criminals, it's supposed to form Team DOOM like how Salem has Team WICH. But if you don't like any of the OC stuff I put in, you can just skip over it if you don't like it. I hope the voice recommendations help out. So as always, tell me what you think, give me your own suggestions to make the story better, favor and follow if you like this story, share it with your friends, and I'll see you next time. Next chapter is coming soon. Bye.
