Morning passes and I get poked awake by Penny, "Urg mornin Penny," I get out slightly slurred.
"Salutations sir," she said smiling.
"Did you contact Taurus like I asked before I passed out," I asked.
"Yep, he said he would start the search as soon as possible," she responded.
"Alright then," I said getting up.
"Penny you join team RWBY on their search, I'll be at the Army HQ if you need anything," I said getting my trench coat on, not a particularly cold day but coats are always cool.
"Alright see ya," Penny said smiling.
"Welp off to work," I said putting my helmet on.
— Line break —
"The single quality that is common among every living creature on this planet is fear.
It's funny then that as common as fear is. We so easily underestimate its power.
Fear of growing close to someone, a subsequent fear of loss.
Fear of failure, and as more people depend on you those fears take on a greater power.
But fear itself isn't worthy of concern.
It is who we become while in its clutches.
Will you be proud of that person, Will you forgive them, Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things that they did, Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should've fear from the start...I suppose we all find out sooner or later." I repeated to Adam.
"Who said those words," he asked.
"Ozpin, in a different life that is," I said placing the sheet of paper down on my desk.
"I see, something inspirational to say when you head out for your first press conference?" Adam asked.
"Probably, can't believe they called me up instead of General Macnamara or Clark," I said annoyed.
"Well you did form the army, and managed to wrestle doctor Polendina from the clutches of atlas and the councils," he said polishing his sword.
"I wish I could say I did, I'm still wrestling him away, apparently atlas is furious that a random start up army with radical tactics and equipment managed to convince doctor Polendina away from the contract they signed," I said sighing.
"Well sir you have fun at your press conference, I have an ex to find," he said getting up.
"Yeah thanks, dismissed," I said to him.
— Something something clever joke—
"Alright Lisa I want you to understand one thing, I'm here as a captain of the army, I have classification to say what I wish, but there will be plenty I won't be telling the world," I said fixing my tie while watching the makeup artists work on her.
"Understandable it's a simple interview anyways, basic questions, the only one you should be prepared for are the ones surrounding the politics of this situation," she said getting up.
"Gee thanks," I said fixing my coat.
"Come you'll do fine if you've made an army," she said gesturing to the stage.
"Well hope the world's ready," I said walking into the stage.
I walked onto a very quiet stage, I sat down across from Lisa lavender one of Vale's top reporters...also one of the hottest, what I'm still human.
"Well Mister Nash correct?" She asked me.
"Yes ma'am," I said back
"The world wants to know, why did you form your own army, is it for personal gain, attention, fame? What is it for?" She asked.
Thinking for a second I speak, "the reason for an army is to expand vale, and to ultimately eliminate the Grimm threat, as of the current moment I don't see a proper army being formed," I said looking at Lisa.
"But the atleasian army exists would that not be enough?" She asked.
"It would be, except for a couple of issues," I said raising my hand slightly,"number one, it's army primarily consists of cheaply made robots which can barely take a Grimm down on a good day, and its main source of fire power comes from it's Air Corp," I said raising one finger, "number two, it very homogeneous army, what forces it does have that are organic is badly trained and are mostly human," I said raising another finger," and three it's forces are spread thin, atlas has forces around the world in some capacity, and the atlesian council hasn't helped in that regard," I said raising a third finger ending my statement.
"What are your own personal intentions, since you founded this army," she asked.
"My own personal intentions are just that personal, I came here to answer questions about the army not my personal life," I said looking into her eyes.
"I see, well with that we turn the questioning to the press," she said pointing into the crowd of press.
Someone gets the mic, "why did you get doctor Polendina from atlas?" The person asked.
"I needed someone to head the army ordnance board, the designs for arms manufacturing are needed to be passed through a board of engineers and officers to get approval for production, as it is doctor Polendina is at the head of this board," I responded.
"What is your response to atlas' outrage at what you did," another news reporter asked.
"I did nothing as an officer of the army to force doctor Polendina to move to vale and work for me, I simply gave a better offer than what atlas gave," I answered a bit bitter at all the doctor Polendina questions, i didn't show it of course, but that didn't mean I wasn't bitter.
This line of questioning went on for about an hour before Lisa started to wrap it up, most of my answers were either in regards to doctor Polendina or having to decline the question due to army classification.
"And the last question for tonight," she said pointing at a person with white hair, "what are your views on the white fang and why did you recruit those terrorists into your army," the person asked.
"The views of the army stands as follows, the white fang is taking action where their peaceful protests failed, reforms for Faunus workers are desperately needed, just last week as a matter of fact another hundred Faunus died inside of SDC mines, that's not my words those are the words of a foreman near the accident when the reports were officially released today by the Atlesian workplace safety regulation board. When the government has taken inaction as their course of action the people suffer, and in this situation the people has decided to fight back, forgive me if I can't call them terrorists for fighting a system they don't believe in, as that was how I was raised to believe, the idea of a democracy is power for the people, and atlas certainly has the issue of corporations gone wild and corrupt. As to why I recruited them into my army, let me answer that question with a new one, if you truly believe that their terrorists then wouldn't me getting off of terrorism and instead onto a line of work that helps people better? Either way I don't appreciate you calling the men and women who serve under me terrorists," I ranted annoyed.
"Certainly very heated captain, now do you have any closing statements for the world?" She asked me.
"I do actually, I want to read you all a short speech that I got from an old friend of mine, he works at a different area in vale and couldn't make it out tonight, but here goes," I said before I cleared my throat.
""The single quality that is common among every living creature on this planet is fear.
It's funny then that as common as fear is. We so easily underestimate its power.
Fear of growing close to someone, a subsequent fear of loss.
Fear of failure, and as more people depend on you those fears take on a greater power.
But fear itself isn't worthy of concern.
It is who we become while in its clutches.
Will you be proud of that person, Will you forgive them, Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things that they did, Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should've fear from the start...I suppose we all find out sooner or later" I said putting away a small sheet of paper I grabbed out of my pocket.
"Your friend is very inspired captain, but I'm afraid that's all the time we have today, and you must be quite busy running an army and all that," she said wrapping up the interview/press conference.
Walking off stage she patted my back, "nice job out the kid, hey if you ever are gonna make a move let me know ok," she handed me a business card she grabbed from her exposed cleavage, and winking at me when I grabbed the card...I sniff the card real quick and smell lavender...clever girl. Also I think she was coming onto me, I just hope she realizes I'm still quite young despite my six foot height, something I can thank the system for by the way, because before I got shot into this universe I was only five foot eight, now I'm six feet even, which is nice.
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Well my interview went well, anyways I know this was a bit random but it seemed appropriate considering that there was only so long I could have kept the whole army thing under wraps and snatching doctor Polendina kinda killed any stealth I had.
Anyways I'm got a kitty to find next chapter
Anyways, I hope you're all having a good day.
