Chapter three isn't all that exciting to be honest; it's more of a time for the Characters to get together and just reflect on the previous events and allow them to figure out their next moves, which is quite obvious seeing as its four individuals in RWBY and all.
But shit it's more the journey over anything else.
FEN: Hi y'all, this chapter needed a whole bunch of commas, not sure if I got them all. Hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 3 Downtime and talk
"How long do you reckon those two have been out for?" I voiced both concern and curiosity as I sat at the old dining table of our current hideout.
Xero was right about being lucky since we were not that far away from the City of Vale of all places, no really within about what I think has been three hours of being in this world we managed to take on a wave of agents, a pack of beowolves, make it to the city and find an abandoned apartment building.
All in all we were beyond lucky to be where we are now.
Speaking of now I looked up from the table to otherside where Wank sat going through the current weapons we had acquired and had set them up accordingly on the table.
No longer did she wear her trench coat she showed off that she wore a plain white tank top and her upper arms were covered in bandages, her hair was no longer held back by her blood covered doo rag actually now that I notice it the only things that weren't covered in red, yellow or black blood was her face mask and her top.
That was rather bizarre, so bizarre that I had to quickly avert my eyes when I saw Wank was looking back at me under those red tinted goggles of hers, that was rather intimidating and it didn't help that she was casually cleaning the dragon sword she held in her hand with a random rag she had found around the apartment.
While the silence felt awkward at first I felt kind of comfortable with Wank around seeing as she was the one who decided to console in her own silent fashion that everything was fine and I was safe… that was until the agency turned up of course and that's when shit really hit the fan and-you know what nevermind I'm just tired and in the need of shower to get rid of this fucking blood and dirt I was covered in.
Ok if I wasn't going to have a conversation I may as well take a closer look at these damn cyborg limbs.
Looking at my legs I found that both my feet were completely metal but instead of metal feet I something akin to a built in heels and instead of toes I had what looked like claws, what did someone just look at Metal Gear Revengeance and just said 'Oh wow those or some cool metal legs, lets slap them onto a random asshole and see what happens.'
As I had seen before, the entire leg came up to my knees and metal seemed to just stop right under it.
My arms though, well they were a completely different story, they looked like they came straight out of freaking Deus Ex, I mean Adam Jenson, eat your heart out, but like my legs the cyborg limbs only stopped around the joint area. It wasn't strange when I saw it back when I woke up but at the time I couldn't exactly straight up take note of things when one is confined to a chair and all.
Would it make more sense to have the cybernetics connected to the actual body and not the biceps or knees? I mean in reality from my strength by itself from using my arms or legs that my joints should have broken under the pressure.
Unless of course they replaced the joints themselves and the only thing that covered it was the muscle and skin above it.
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I felt a shiver go down my spine as I tried to imagine how I would test this little theory of mine and just chose to leave as it is just for my own mental state.
Thankfully the door opened and Xero along with Deimos came walking into the apartment, just in time to save myself from my own imagination.
"So what's the haul?" I asked immediately as the two casually placed a bunch of bags on the ground.
"What, no thank you? Wow don't I feel appreciated." Xero sarcastically spoke, a good sign in my opinion, as it just means that Xero has probably done some thinking of his own.
"Well we got clothes and managed to get some cash so I say a pretty damn good haul." Deimos spoke rather happily as he carried a couple of bags and placed them on an old coffee table that sat in the middle of the old looking living room. "And thanks to the cash we also have some food."
"Uh, do I even want to know where you got the money?" I asked the Hacker who just grinned before he pulled out a tablet from under his black long coat.
"Once a hacker always a hacker." was all Deimos said as I just nodded my head in understanding. "By the way, I managed to connect both the electricity and water to the place, so we don't need to eat in the dark or anything." Deimos said and just to prove his point he flipped a nearby switch and immediately the above light flickered itself on.
"Noice." I said with an appreciative smile on my face. "Well if we have water I'm going to try and take a shower and get rid of this blood and stuff." I said moving over to the bags I picked up a random one that had some clothes and quietly moved to the nearby bathroom.
The apartment itself was a three bedroom two bathroom location with the major downside being that it was abandoned and because of that maintenance was a must if we continued to stay here, I mean as soon as I walked into the bathroom I had to force myself to not immediately walk out with how it looked, there was mold and grime on the walls and ceiling, the tiles looked like they were forever stained yellow and it just had that damp smell that could only come from years of straight up neglect.
"Ok this is going to absolutely suck." I breathed out before closing the door behind me.
Not even ten minutes had moved by and I was immediately out of the bathroom wearing a new set of clothes and feeling just a little bit cleaner than I was before.
"I am never taking another shower in this place unless we do some serious maintenance." I spoke to everyone as I was just putting on a shirt, gone was my patient garbs as I now wore a pair of black cargo pants held up with a belt and had a maroon t shirt.
"Was it really that bad?" Xero asked as he was taking a bite out of a sandwich, unlike before we managed to get to the city, Xero's cervical armour had disappeared and he now wore a blue t-shirt with the Xionco logo in front, a pair black cargo pants and a pair of black and white sneakers.
And his face looked like he was seventeen, shit we all looked like we were seventeen, but for me instead of being an overweight teenager I looked to be more of a semi lanky and a semi well built teen. I mean trying to explain was hard but I guess what I'm trying to say is we all looked like we just drank some kind of fountain of youth stuff.
"I feel a little bit clean but nothing more than that." I spoke as I walked to the dining table, no longer did we have guns on the table but instead had a bunch of food sitting there.
The food itself was just petrol station food like sandwiches, some bags of chips and some random fizzy drinks, honestly looked more like a budget cookout minus the cookout.
"So how much money did you manage to get?" I asked Deimos who was in the middle of eating some chips.
"I managed to get about five K out of an ATM, so we should be good for a while on cash." Deimos spoke while I picked up an unopened sandwich.
"I also managed to get a little bit more from more secretive means." Xero spoke before taking a bite. "Hmph reminds me, ahem what do we do now?"
"I say we take a look around and try to get some info, I can take a look on the web about this world and go from there." Deimos suggested while we all silently agreed.
"That's good but we could also ask this guy here as well." Xero said pointing his thumb to me, looking up from my sandwich I saw how everyone was looking right at me with questioning eyes
"Well if you want a basis of the world I can do that as well as bring the premise behind what happens in the show," I said finally getting my sandwich out of the packaging. "But it's going to take a while."
"Well I reckon we got the time, so spill." Xero said, he casually pulled his legs up and laid them on the table only for them to immediately be pushed back via an annoyed looking Wank who just stared at Xero before shaking her head.
"That also reminds me what's your name?" Hearing Deimos's question I blinked in surprise as I actually forgot to tell everyone my name.
"Oh, uh, it's Hamish." I said with a shrug, while everyone just nodded along.
"Alright Hamish, start from the beginning, what is this world exactly?" Xero said, as I immediately started cringing.
"Where do I start, because this world has three starts and I have a feeling one of them is just going to piss you guys off." I said before letting out a sigh. "Alright I will go with what has been told first, the world of remnant."
One literal big explanation of the world and another explanation behind the world's current structure, then explain how gods come into this, the witch and finally ending it with a story of how volume 1 and going straight to volume 8 later.
"-And before you know it portals are made and bluh bluh bluh shit happens, I'm sorry, just talking about this shit just makes me tired." I spoke rather tiredly as I had forgotten my sandwich and explained everything that had happened while also answering a couple questions from time to time.
"...Wow, that was a lot to take in." Deimos said as he sounded rather surprised by this all.
"Yeah well I'm going off memory, so not everything I say will be fully on point and that's not to mention the when we are in the story," I said before leaning back in my chair. "I mean think about it, we could be in volume one, two or three or we could be before that time or after it, there is at the moment no way I can tell unless someone tells me when the Vytal Tournament is." I said, rubbing my eyes.
God, how long was talking for?
Man I just want to drop dead now and just-
"I just looked up the time of the Vytal Tournament as it's going to be held in Vale in a year."
"Mofo say what now?" I immediately said looking directly at Deimos who casually held up a tablet in his hand.
"I decided to look up the Vytal Tournament when you mentioned it as well as checked to see if this fall of beacon happened, from the looks of it nothing has happened." Deimos explained as I frowned in thought before letting out a tired chuckle.
"Ok, now that tells more than enough that I need to know." said with a smirk.
"So what do we do then?" Xero asked, obviously wanting to know what we should do now.
"Well technically you guys do whatever you guys want, you can go on a murder spree, rob a bank honestly up to you I'm not going to dictate what can or should not do and that goes for the same as me." I spoke casually as I felt a bit more weight had been lifted off my shoulders. "But I say we take a day or two just to personally think to ourselves on what we personally want to do."
"There's also the A.A.H.W. we have to worry about it, even if we did take down one lot of them they are going to keep following us." Deimos said, immediately reminding of our first and only encounter with them, He was right, if the A.A.H.W. was able to come here once what makes them think they would stop coming here?
"Shit he's got a point I mean if those fucks can get here… I don't even wanna think who would come from my world." Xero said with a shake of his head.
"There are a lot of things we could do, we could do nothing and just survive or-"
"Nah fuck that, I've been through some bullshit but with what you told us I don't think so." Xero quickly spoke quite heatedly.
"Well what do you say we do then?" Demios asked the ninja, and it caught Xero by surprise. "I mean I get what your saying, I don't think we should sit back and do fuck all, but what should we do?"
"Fucking I don't know we kill everyone before shit goes down and-"
"And thanks to a little thing called the butterfly effect we end up causing an even bigger mess, suddenly volume two's finale turns into volume three's ending." I quickly interrupted Xero. "For obvious reasons we can't just straight up change shit… but then again we could and then Canon AKA the story as we know it could go completely off course, which isn't much of a surprise seeing as we have the A.A.H.W capable of coming here."
"Fucking, argh you know what I don't care I'm just going to kill this Cinder bitch."
"Oh come on, you can't just do that Hamish is right about the butterfly effect." Deimos quickly said, coming onto my side.
Before the argument could continue though we heard a knife itself into the table, we all quickly moved our attention to Wank who casually stood up with one hand on a knife stabbed into the table and she slapped a piece of paper on the table.
Removing her hand from the paper we all saw she had written something down.
WE BECOME HUNTERS!
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"C-can we even do this?" Deimos asked, the two of us looked at each other.
I had no real answer or an idea as to what to say, but quickly decided to look back at Wank.
"Are you… sure about this?" I asked, looking right into Wank's red goggled covered eyes. "That is pretty much us going to a high school filled with trigger happy teenagers that are meant to be the future defenders of the world." I spoke, making sure to slowly convey every word. "And if we go this route, we can not kill people on a whim… do you think you have the patience not to kill anyone who annoys you to absolute aggravating levels."
Just to prove my point I got up and gestured my arms to everyone. "And this goes for everyone, so do not BS yourself cause this is a pact not to kill anyone in Beacon or anyone that is innocent."
"What if they are a part of the agency?" Deimos asked casually.
"I said beacon and anyone that is innocent, the agency are fucking dead to rights, thing is we can't actively hunt them if we go to beacon." I said as I could see how everyone seemed to quietly think to themselves.
"Shit he's got a point we can't just hunt them down." Xero seemed to look more annoyed than ever by the idea.
"It's going to be difficult, but it's not like we can straight up try and track down the agency, I mean if I had the equipment but even so I'm pretty damn sure this world doesn't have tech that can out right read improbability drive's movements." Deimos pointed out with the shake of his head.
"Well then what's your answer, and let's point something out we know nothing of each other and I'm unsure if you are willing to put your lives on line for each other?" I asked reminding everyone that despite of what just happened hours ago, we still don't know each other enough to stake our-
"I mean, as far as I can tell we've literally got nothing to lose and we already work well enough with each other." Deimos spoke with a shrug as he had no problem with working together.
"Gonna be honest, you guys don't annoy me so frankly I don't mind." Xero said with no care.
Looking back to the person who was the last person to speak and was probably thinking about my previous question seriously.
"And you Wank?" I finally asked as the woman looked up from her thinking and started pointing at herself and then everyone else before suddenly tapping her finger back at the piece of paper.
"Are you sure? Again you can't kill-" Wank immediately held up her hand and I stopped talking, her head moved up and down and accepted.
"Well…" Xero let out a groan before sighing. "Fuck it, if the crazy chick is going to go this far I'll do it."
"I'm on board." Deimos said with a wide grin.
"Well… we're going to be hunters." I spoke, my voice void of any emotion while I mentally accepted this, well I may as well rip the band aid then. "Ok fine but just to let you know we will need to do a lot of work but we have a problem." from my tone of voice I immediately caught everyone's attention. "I don't actually know how to fight."
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"Huh/The fuck/…?"
Chapter 3 end