Speak to self
Speak to Ghost
Team RWBY and Their Weaknesses
"Huh? What's this?" Ruby picks up a usb drive.
"Hey Rubes, "whatcha got there?" Asked Yang.
"Must be Joseph's. Look" she points at the writing on the usb:
J.A: Important stuff
Yang snatches the usb from Ruby. "we should see what's inside!" She said as she headed towards the computer.
"I don't think we should…" Ruby said.
Yang scoffs, "oh please, he wouldn't even know that we went through his stuff, besides, he might hide something interesting in this little thing." She said.
"Well we all know who to blame if this goes south." Said Weiss.
Yang puts the usb in the computer and sees lots of video files.
"Woah… that's a lot of videos…" Ruby said.
Weiss points at one title, "look at that one, it has our team name." She said.
Yang nods "Yeah… 'Team RWBY' Yang clicks on the video as it starts to play.
It starts off while Joseph is in a gunfight with the Fallen. The recording coming from his helmet.
"Kill the Servitor!" Said a guardian.
"Got it!" Said Joseph. He starts running towards the Servitor, he jumps up and launches a nova bomb at the Servitor, killing it.
More fallen ships appeared and started dropping drones.
"Arc shielded Shanks! Kill them before they get underground!" Said Lillie.
"Got it!" Said a Warlock. He throws a grenade towards a group of Shanks as it starts to pulse with arc energy.
Joseph reloads his sniper as it lights up in blue, he takes aim and shoots the Shanks as they blow up.
"Alright! I got what I needed!" Said a guardian,
"Me too!" Said another
"Alright, got mine as well, Joe! Kill it!" A guardian said.
"You got it!" Joseph aimed for another arc shielded Shank and shot it, he reloads as he aims at another Servitor, he used the whole magazine to kill the Servitor
Three guardians came out of the underground and started to ride their sparrows.
Joseph continues to shoot the fallen, tanking shots from snipers as he shoots the Shanks.
Then, huge explosions were coming from the ground area, he looked down to see three tanks shooting, to what it looks like, a fueling station for a huge robot. The tanks kept on firing until it wasn't fueling the robot.
The battle was over and the fallen retreated.
"Hey I think we're clear!" Said a Guardian.
"Echo's right. Don't hear anything." Said Lillie.
"Kay. Echo, Lillie, Wraith, Jarachi and Drake meet me in the map room." Joseph said.
Joseph jumps down the building as he runs to the map room.
"That's Joseph?" Ruby said.
"Must be… where are they?" Asked Blake.
"That might be… Mantle?" Weiss said. "What happened? It's all in ruin!" She said.
"Must be the thing that the three tanks have been shooting…" Yang said.
"Must be…" Weiss said.
There was chatter from Joseph and his team and then Echo asked Joseph a question.
"So, I heard that Lillie that you teach kids now. Who are you teaching? Four year old kids?" Echo said sarcastically.
"Might as well, they act like children even though they're almost adults." Joseph laughed.
"Now that's insulting…" Yang said.
"Yeah… they act like kids, but they are one helluva team though…" Joseph said.
"What, did they kick your ass Joe?" Asked Wraith.
Joseph scoffed and laughed, "not in a fucking long shot. They are one helluva team but they won't stand a chance against me."
Weiss scoffs, "We shall see Joseph!" She said.
"Team RWBY's leader Ruby, her skills with a scythe is really admirable but that's the only thing she's good at, combat with HER weapon, you disable her like shooting her leg, breaking her arm or even taking her weapon, her hand to hand or weapon combat is as good as her socializing skills, it's shit." Joseph said.
"Wow… that… kind of hurt…" Ruby said
"But that's just the tip of the iceberg. You take out Ruby, then Yang, her elder sister will be pissed and will have a temper tantrum. When she uses that ability, she can throw punches harder than any other experienced Titan. But like a Titan, who eats crayons daily, she just punches first, and thinks later. I swear I'm now believing that her only way to victory is her temper tantrum. Yang is strong but her thinking in the midst of a battle is as weak as her dad jokes."
"But they are improving." Said Lillie.
"Of course they are, and I'm happy to see that. But sometimes, we have to be stone cold hearted bastards to show them the reality we live in. We fight gods that can cause extinction level events, they fight monsters. They have a lot to go, but where they're at, is good enough for me." Joseph said.
"Oh look, he's starting to care for the kids." Teased Drake,
"Oh ha ha. So then, where was I? Weiss, I think she doesn't like me, hell, wouldn't blame her, I sure do make a lot of enemies. Weiss, she's fairly skilled with her rapier. Just imagine a rich girl with top notch training from high class teachers. Her utility with her glyphs is certainly a sight to behold, buuuuut she's not very durable. Same goes for her glyphs. When she fought me, I unleashed a chaos reach, she made a glyph to shield herself but it broke with ease, the thing was that I was holding back. So that's one thing, another thing I guess will be her family name. The Schnee family produces dust which is like their everyday thing for power, weapons and more, hell if it were possible, they can use it as crack cocaine. Anywho, she's doing this huntress gig because she's trying to prove something with her dad, hehehe, kid got some daddy issues. The father must be a real bastard to make such a brat. Hehehe, though I like her feistiness." Joseph said
"Oooohhhh Joseph hitting on a kid? Lillie, you should sign a lawsuit and a divorce." Drake said.
"Oh shut up." Lillie and Joseph said.
Drake laughed as the rest laughed as well.
"You haven't talked about Blake Joseph." Lillie said.
"Oh yeah. Blake, she'd make a good nightstalker-blade dancer hybrid. She's quick and lethal, but like her team, she also has a weakness. She is very secretive and when her team found out she was part of a terrorist group called the 'White Fang' she fled out of fear. She keeps to herself too much which may cause problems. Who knows, she may have some vital information about the White Fang or even this one guy named Torchwick who is working with them."
Ruby looks at her scythe and then her hands, "I never knew Joseph would speak so lowly about us…" Ruby said.
"Yeesh, we must be an embarrassment to him," said Yang.
"Speak for yourself! I'm not a brat! That jerk!" said Weiss. As she crosses her arms.
"Must be tough talking about them to us, ain't it Joe," asked Jarachi.
Joseph shook his head, "nah, though they have great weaknesses, they're improving nonetheless, besides, whatever weakness they have, I will exploit them whenever we do sparring sessions. I'm hard on them as well as this one student called Jaune, turns out he's not combat material, but he has potential, they all do." A soft hearted chuckle came from Joseph.
"Alright, I can tell that you're smirking Joe, spit it out." Said Echo
"No, it's just, aside from teaching soldiers and rookie guardians who want to prove to Lord Shaxx, these kids, have been the most fun teaching with." Joseph said. He gets up and picks up his rifle, "alright Fireteam, we need to finish off Siviks and after that, we can go to a bar and you guys can drink, I'll pay for everything." Joseph said.
"Hell yeah! Free beer! Hey, let's go to the one where Shaxx used to go." Suggest Echo.
The team got up and picked up their guns and started to join Joseph as the video ended.
"That was pretty cold of him… but… Joseph's right. We are practically amateurs, so we need to improve guys!" said Ruby
"He could've at least been nicer to us to his friends." Weiss said.
"But he is speaking the truth." Ruby said. "I'm no use if my Crescent Rose is taken away from me." she said
"I guess, I do fight without even thinking…" Yang said as she softly chuckles
"But that's why we have our weaknesses. We know our weaknesses and so we should fix that." Ruby said.
Ruby's scroll rings, it was Joseph. Ruby answers her scroll. "Hey Ruby," Joseph said, "You know where my USB Drive is? I think I left it in your guys's dorm." Joseph said.
"Uhh… nope! I don't see it anywhere! Sorry!" she lies.
"Oh, well… shit…" Joseph sighs, "Well, if you do, please notify me." Joseph said.
"Ok! Will do!" Ruby ends the call.
"Why did you lie to him?" asked Weiss.
"Well, there is much we don't know about Joseph and I believe this USB can tell more about him." Ruby said.
"I see where you're going Ruby, but he won't be happy if he finds out that we went through his stuff." Yang said.
"Oh please, once he comes back, we can just tell him that we just found it," Ruby said.
The door opens as Lillie enters the room. "Hey girls, what's up?" She asked.
The girls were a bit shocked but quickly shook it off.
"S-sorry, we were just talking about… what we should do on Friday," Ruby said.
"I have an idea, why don't we improve on those strengths and while at the same time, exploit the weaknesses you have to counter them in the future?" Lillie suggests.
"Yeah, that will do! Thanks Lillie!" Ruby said.
The Crucible
Joseph watches Wraith as he dominates in Control.
Wraith is an excellent sharpshooter, whenever he isn't assisting the Vanguard or Joseph, he'd mostly spend his time in the crucible.
"Man, is Luna's Howl that deadly?" Joseph said to himself. "Well… two precision hits would increase it's damage and give it a boost of range? That is one interesting gun…" he said as he watched. He noticed that the gun shot considerably fast. "Hey Lord Shaxx, what frame is that Hand Cannon?" Joseph asked
"It's a Precision frame." Shaxx said
"What, precision!? No wonder why Guardians are hunting for this gun! With it's easy-to-control recoil and it's fast fire rate, WITH the addition of it's special perk!" Joseph said in awe.
"It's a shame that I had to ban you from the Crucible Joseph." Shaxx said.
"A shame indeed, but hey, at least Wraith is entertaining you eh?" Joseph said.
"He is. His skills with precision based weaponry knows no bounds. He is certainly deadly from afar even in close quarters, he can obliterate his enemies." Shaxx said.
Joseph continues to watch the Crucible feed, "Hey look at that, Styx is also in the other team." Joseph said.
"Ah yes, Styx. The young Arcstrider. Though he's been resurrected a year ago, he is an excellent combat sniper. Those two have a bit of a rivalry." Said Shaxx.
Joseph chuckles, "Really now? Well, at least they have each other to reach higher heights." Joseph said.
Joseph continues to watch the feed in Wormhaven with Shaxx as an entire fireteam are fighting against one another.
"What's this? The entire team is having an argument?" Shaxx said.
"Yeah, and it looks like they are turning against each other…" Joseph said
They start aiming their guns at each other but before they start shooting at each other, a titan thundercrashes killing all six of them then as one respawns, the titan then gunned down the Hunter with Sweet Business.
The sound of Shaxx's voice filled the Tower, "SEVENTH! COLUMN!"
Joseph was very disappointed with the opposing team letting themselves get killed like that. "Wait a minute… Echo!" Joseph laughs as he finds out who wiped them out. "Though that was the easiest Seventh Column, that was his first seventh column he ever had." Joseph chuckled, "oh ho ho, Jarachi won't be pleased about that, they were competing on who would get their first Seventh Column and whoever loses, gives the winner 250k glimmer." Joseph said.
"Oh, did Echo get his first Seventh Column before Jarachi did?" said Wraith as he walked to Joseph and Shaxx.
"Hey Wraith! And yeah, he did" Joseph said.
"Thats nice, with the money that Jarachi owes him now, you think he will even pay up?" asked Wraith.
"Eeehhh… no, he's gonna argue with him and knowing Echo, he's gonna get drunk and then throw him off the tower…" Joseph said.
"Well, that's yikes," Wraith said.
"It is indeed…"
Joseph, Wraith and Shaxx continue to watch the feed while Shaxx yells at the Guardians in the match. Next map was Bannerfall
Joseph notices that Lillie is in the Crucible, she dominates with the Chaperone and Last Hope.
"Ah, Mrs. Dawn, she excels in CQC. She is very quick to the draw, she can rival even the top Hunters in the crucible." Shaxx compliments.
Lillie runs outside towards the Plaza, Lillie shoots a fireball at a Titan who was shooting her across the plaza. She heads towards the Stump as she runs to the cover, she glides up the Market Balcony and enters the Assembly Hall heading to the Market. She charges into the enemy headshotting two guardians with the Last Hope. A hunter then throws a knife at Lillie but she then catches the Knife and then uses one hand to shoot the Hunter's knee and then uses the knife to slit the Hunter's neck.
"Holy shit Joseph, you Wife is a badass…" Wraith said as they watched the feed.
"She got it from you Joseph." Shaxx said. "When she found out that you were banned from the Crucible, she was shocked." He chuckles, "So, whenever she joins the Crucible, she gives the enemy team hell, whatever you taught her, she uses it in the Crucible, and I must say, you teach her very interesting techniques." Shaxx said.
Joseph was oblivious to this, "She never told me that she's an avid Crucible player…" Joseph said.
Lillie glides up in the courtyard where objective B would be for control and launches a Nova Bomb at the Ward of Dawn protecting a group of Guardians, the Ward breaks as Lillie descends, shooting two Guardians with her Chaperone, she lands and quickly forms a dawnblade sword and impales a warlock, she then get blasted with a shotgun shell behind her by a Titan, she did a sweep kick to get the Titan off his feet and while he was still down, Lillie quickly went behind the Titan and snapped his neck.
"BEAUTIFUL LILLIE! THIS IS AMAZING!" Shaxx yelled.
"Ah, the good ol Joseph classic, snapping necks." Wraith said
"What can I say, it's their fault for leaving themselves vulnerable." Joseph said as he shrugs his shoulders.
Lillie is being overwhelmed from multiple gunfire and a Hunter just summoned a Golden Gun. Lillie quickly surrounds herself in void light as a void layer similar to the Ward of Dawn, surrounds her body. She took the three Golden Gun shots and quickly fled back to her team.
"Woah woah woah, what the hell was that!?" Wraith asked.
"Did she? Holy balls, Lillie was able to do the technique!" Joseph said.
"What technique?" Shaxx asked.
"Something I was trying to do for a while. I wanted to make a protective layer around the whole body that is as strong as a Ward or even stronger." Joseph said. "Jesus, I was having trouble perfecting this technique, but Lillie! She can literally tank in anything, a Nova Bomb, Hammer of Sol, Golden Gun, even a thundercrash! The best part, while you are protected you can also shoot!" Joseph said.
Shaxx was chuckling, "I must say Joseph, that is impressive. Maybe you should start teaching some of these rookies."
"Nah, I'm more of a, putting out-of-control Guardians in their place." Joseph said. "Also, my teachings are exclusive to those I trust the most, you Shaxx, wraith and other close friends." Joseph said.
"So your going to teach me that move?" asked Wraith
"Well, not sure. You're more of a mobile type and there better things to use than making yourself a giant purple target. I'll think of something that'll prove useful to you Wraith, might be an invention or something we can do with our light, so don't worry, you'll get something useful." Joseph said.
Joseph gets an alert from his helmet.
"Joseph, it's Bulma." Xeno said.
"Answer it. Hey guys, gotta go pick up a package from another world." Joseph said
"See ya Joseph," Wraith said.
Shaxx was yelling at the Guardians who were being killed by Lillie.
"Joseph! I finished that flybot you wanted me to make! Come by when you have the chance!" Bulma said.
"Alright, Just finished what I needed to do in the Tower, coming over right now." Joseph said.
Joseph opens a portal to Capsule Corporation and walks through the portal.
Nightmare.
"Do you hear them? Singing, choirs of death."
"Wh- what?" Joseph opens his eyes, to see a void of darkness.
"Sing with us…" said the distorted voice.
Joseph tries to move, but can only move his head. "What the hell? I'm strapped down to a seat?" Joseph tries to move his arms and legs, even his body but it won't even budge. "Shit, Xeno!" Joseph called.
There was silence.
Joseph tries to use his light, but he wouldn't even let a spark of arc light out of him. "Why… why the hell do I feel so weak… so helpless…" Joseph even tries to use kaioken, but not even that could be activated. "What the hell!?" Joseph said.
Joseph keeps looking around then, a bright flash hits his eyes. As the light fades, he is still on the chair, but he sees that nothing is strapped on to him. He tries to move but he couldn't, only his head he can move. He is in a living room in a house.
Next he hears the agonizing screams behind him.
They sound familiar…
Joseph snaps, he starts to yell, "GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THEM!" Joseph said, he fights the invisible force that is keeping him on the seat. He hears sobbing then nothing. He starts to tear up, "no… Mom! Jack! Suki!" Joseph turns his head to the right as much as possible and sees a familiar face, "dad… get up…" Joseph said
The dying father looks to his son, "it's too late" he said.
Suddenly a sharp pain hits Josephs back
"Gah!" Joseph said as he coughs out blood, he sees a long blade going through his stomach. He looks down to see the bloodied katana, he looks up to see a crimson blood haired man who donned a black suit splattered with blood. His messy crimson blood hair, covering his eyes. The grin on his face as he lifted Joseph up.
Joseph grips the blade with both of his hands and utters a name, "Roseblood…?"
The man swings his sword, launching Joseph to a wall as he collapses to the floor.
Joseph opens his eyes and swiftly gets up but he sees nothing, just a dark void. Joseph walks around, not knowing what he might feel or hear.
"The voice beckons… Guardian, it beckons you, will you answer?" Said a distorted female voice.
Joseph tries to locate the voice.
"Come closer, take a look…" a light shines.
Joseph squints at the light, he sees an object.
Whispers start to flow past his ears,
"You can't save them…"
"Coward"
"You shall suffer…"
"What did you feel when I mutilated your family? I was… aroused. I love the smell of blood from fresh corpses."
"Which is it Joseph? Save your country? Or save your wife?"
"Where were you when he died, Guardian?"
"Do you even know how you got your powers?"
"It's all a lie…"
Joseph runs to the light and sees a crushed object. As he gets closer, he drops to his knees.
"Xeno…" Joseph said in shock.
A voice crawls behind Joseph's ears. "Just like everything you cared about, dead…"
Joseph turns around to see nothing then, the voice of Xeno fills the void
"Violence, Beauty, Truth. These things await inside. There's no turning back now."
How Xeno spoke, cold and dead, this isn't Xeno he thought to himself.
Joseph felt a hand on his shoulder, the hand gripped onto his shoulder, it was cold and the grip began to tighten, "Turn around" whispered the distorted female voice.
Joseph swings his arms as he turns trying to get what was behind him. He sees nothing, it starts to annoy him but that quickly fades, Joseph stands on the edge of a steep cliff, he looks around. The area gave him a grim and confused feeling. The smell of nature and metal, red and white flowers all over the ground, the stillness of the air and the green sea-like sky.
A loud whispered echo, repeating the word, "salvation" hits Joseph from behind. He turns around to see a fleet of flying black pyramids.
"Your role in this has so so much more meaning than you think in this game of ours… Joseph." said a male voice.
Joseph looks straight to see a silhouette, he walks slowly to reveal a face, "But… it is not time yet, friend."
"What the hell… that's… my face! And my armor!" Joseph said he tried to grab his gun from his holster, but it was empty.
The man chortled and continues to walk closer to Joseph, "Oh Joseph, we don't mean to hurt you I promise, but when the time is right, we shall come to you. But…" he pulls out a bloodied Ace of Spades with the Ace being crossed out, he points it at Joseph's head, point blank. "It's time to wake up."
Joseph wakes up in a shock, he looks around in his jumpship.
Xeno materializes in front of him, "Ever since you got on to the jumpship, you were exhausted and just blacked out, so, I piloted the jumpship myself!" Xeno said in a cheery demeanor.
Joseph looked at Xeno for a few seconds and gave out a heavy sigh of relief, "thank the Traveler" he said under his breath.
"Huh?" said Xeno.
"N-nothing, just… a bad dream and all." Joseph said.
"Ok… well , we're almost there, Joseph." Xeno said.
"Ok. I'll take the wheel, thanks X." Joseph said as they made their way to Europa.
Ok… I just want to talk about this incident that happened last week. On Saturday, I got the news about my AP English Language teacher passing away. I was playing video games when that happened and so when I got the news, I just stopped and sat with silence. I… was sad that he passed. We talked on Thursday and it was so sudden, I know it wasn't coroa so I'm just confused. I really liked him, he had that bit of a dark sense of humor and had a deadpan tone so it was literally hard if he was capital S Serious or just joking around. I… actually wanted to do my best in his class unlike other math classes I've had, (not a big fan of math…). Now that he's gone, I… I feel like I might not give my all, the only thing that is on my mind is how and why he died. You see, I'm a bit of a stupid guy, I'm very oblivious about what's going on in this planet we live on, I have to eavesdrop on my grandpa's news or my parents conversations about what's going on. As typing this reminded me of something, he said that his blood sugar level was low and he could've gotten diabetes. Could you die by having low blood sugar levels? If you guys still read this please, tell me, I… just want closure of his sudden death.
Nothing really exciting to say, I… just need some time… I'm sorry…