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Beacon Academy, 4:00 pm
Any chance that the fight would be unnoticed by the people of Vale was taken away when Ozpin received a call from VNN. Apparently, Newswoman Lisa Lavender had received many calls about large plumes of smoke coming from the vicinity of Beacon. Ozpin was not looking forward to revealing the Mobians. He called up Sonic to tell him the news.
"Well, it was only a matter of time before somebody got wind of what happened this afternoon," said Sonic in between bites of a chili dog. "Actually I am surprised that it took them this long to see that something was up at this school. We didn't exactly arrive here quietly."
"Hm, true. Nevertheless, this is a delicate situation. What do you suggest we tell the media?" asked Glynda, faithfully standing by Ozpin as usual.
Sonic finished his chili dog and said, "How about we just tell them the truth? Something tells me that if we arrived here because of Eggman, he won't be far behind. It would help us tremendously if we were not just stuck in this school. No offense."
Ozpin chuckled, then said, "None taken, Sonic, I can understand your situation perfectly. You do indeed need the freedom of movement in order to stop this Eggman. However, I am worried about how the residents of this school, much less Vale or all of Remnant will react."
"Well, Prof, maybe it's time the people of this world started to stop discriminating against others with animal-like traits."
"On that, I agree wholeheartedly. So, I assume that the other Mobians agree with your sentiment? That the truth should be known?"
"Well, when we talked earlier about what would happen should the media come here, seven of us voted for it, and two were indifferent about revealing ourselves."
"Who are the two that were indifferent?" asked Glynda curiously.
"There's Omega who, quote, 'Does not care what the puny meatbags think,' unquote, and Shadow, who never really likes anyone in the first place."
"… I see. Very well, you may inform your comrades that the news crew will be here in an hour."
"Sweet! Gotta go!" And with that, Sonic ran out of the room in a blue blur.
Glynda sighed. "Professor, you would think that we would be used to strange things happening on this school by now."
"Indeed."
One hour later
To say that Ozpin was nervous about revealing the Mobians was very accurate. Anchor Lisa Lavender had just sat down and was preparing the interview. Behind her was a small camera crew setting up cameras and lights.
"Are we good?" asked the newswoman.
The lead cameraman nodded. "Yes, we are on live in three… two… one… go!" The red light on the camera lit up.
"Good evening, citizens of Vale," Lisa spoke. "I am Lisa Lavender, and we are live at the prestigious Beacon Academy, with Headmaster Professor Ozpin."
"It is a pleasure to have you here, Miss Lavender," Ozpin said, smiling despite his discomfort.
"Professor, many of our viewers have called to inform us about dark plumes of smoke not far from Beacon. Do you think you could answer some of our questions?"
"I will certainly do my best."
"Good. One viewer asks if the smoke was related to the meteors that hit last night. Is this true?"
"Well, you could say that it is somewhat true."
"We will come back to that. What was the cause of the smoke that appeared this afternoon?"
"There was an attempted robbery of the Dust stores here at this school." Ozpin adjusted his glasses, and then continued. "The ringleader of this failed attempt was Roman Torchwick."
"Goodness, Roman Torchwick?"
"Yes. And thanks to our new allies, we were able to prevent the robbery."
"New allies?" asked Lisa curiously. "Do you mean the headmasters from the other academies?"
"No, I think he means me and my friends," said a voice at the back of the room. The owner of this voice was something that Lisa had never seen before, and to say that Lisa was surprised by this was an understatement.
"Oh my god! Is that a blue hedgehog?!" Lisa shouted, standing on her chair. She was in a bit of a panic after seeing something that seemed impossible to exist.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" asked Sonic, seeming to not care about the camera pointing at him or the news anchor on a chair.
"Lisa, please sit down, I have yet to find a newswoman who successfully kept her career after seeing a Creature of Grimm for the first time. He is harmless compared to a Deathstalker," said Ozpin, who was very amused at the reactions around him.
"Hey, Professor, make that 'mostly harmless'," corrected Sonic. "I can kick butt pretty easily."
"Noted."
"I am sorry, but who and what are you?" asked Lisa, who still hadn't gained her composure, but at least she was off the chair.
"Well, Miss Lavender, was it? I'm Sonic the Hedgehog. My friends and I are not from this world, but from another we call 'Mobius'."
"So… You're aliens?"
Sonic shrugged. "Yeah, I guess you could say that. I mean, we lived among humans where we come from, so we aren't called that by them."
"How did you get here?" asked Lisa, who finally gained her wits.
It took an hour to answer all of her questions, during which the rest of the gang from Mobius entered the room and introduced themselves.
"All right, my final question- Do you mean us any harm?"
Sonic looked at her seriously and said, "Unless anyone harms us, we will not hurt anyone. We are considered heroes, and we promise to uphold that honor on any world."
"But you may be targeted by Anti-Faunus groups."
At this point, Tails spoke up. "I may be the youngest of the group here, but even I can see that some people need to grow up. So what if people are born with animalistic traits? You don't need to discriminate. They are still human. People back home made fun of me because of my mutation, but our differences make us special. If you are going to beat up someone because he has different ears or a tail, you are no better than the Creatures of Grimm."
Tails was starting to cry a bit, as he was reliving some of his traumatic experiences in his early childhood. Sonic hugged him, which Tails returned. Amy and Knuckles put reassuring hands on his back.
"Well said, Tails," remarked Blaze. All the other Mobians agreed in their own ways.
"And what of the White Fang? There may be attacks on you by them."
"Why would they attack us? We haven't really done anything to them yet. The only way I could see them attacking us is if they were working with that Roman Candlewick," said Knuckles.
"Hey, Knucklehead, haven't you heard? Some White Fang groups ARE working with him," corrected Sonic.
"… I knew that. Well, at least we know how to defend ourselves."
"OK, enough with the male posturing, we are on television," interrupted Amy.
"Apologies. Our point is," concluded Sonic, "that we fight oppression on a regular basis, and I sincerely hope that we will get along with all of the citizens while we are here. As long as you are friendly to us, we'll be friendly to you."
"Speak for yourself, Faker." "Opinions of organics do not matter to me."
"Correction, seven out of nine of us will be friendly. It's probably best to ignore those two," said Rouge while sweatdropping at her teammates.
"…Very well. This is Lisa Lavender reporting live at Beacon Academy, signing out. Back to you, Cyril."
Back at the dorm rooms, Teams RWBY and JNPR were watching the whole broadcast on the TV in Team RWBY's room.
"Well, we really should do something special for them," said Yang.
"How can we?" asked Weiss. "They all have special abilities, like our Semblances. What could we possibly do for them?"
"Didn't Tails say he was going to build weapons?" asked Ren.
"We should help him!" exclaimed Nora.
"Yeah, let's do it!" agreed Ruby. "This will be fun!"
When the Mobians arrived at their designated sleeping areas, the two teams told Tails of their intentions. Tails was dubious at first, but he remembered that seven out of eight of them designed and built their weapons, so he agreed to let assist him make blueprints that night. It was late in the evening when they finished, but Tails was getting excited about building the weapons next morning.
His only fear was the reaction of Shadow if he didn't like his weapon.
Now before you guys send me ideas about what each weapon the Mobians should have, I have already come up with weapons for each of them. I may, however, ask you for names of the weapons, cuz I am stumped over some of them. That will come in a later chapter, though.
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