I Do Not Own RWBY

Punching Bag

Aiden pulled off one of the notebooks on his shelf so we could start the plan. We all sit in the middle of our room as we started our scheming.

"Can we not call it scheming. You're making it sound like what we're doing is wrong or something. Let's just call it planning for the future." Iris exclaimed as she laid down in between Lucas and Aiden.

Lucas responded "Yea, but it's fun calling it scheming. Now then let's get down to business."

"Okay" I start "So first things first, we should prioritize not messing with the main story. If we change anything too drastically then we lose our advantage of knowing what happens next. Secondly we should try to save as many characters as possible. Definitely Pyrrha if we can figure out how saving her will change the future. Personally I really want to try and save Roman if possible."

Iris gasps. "Really Drew? From what you told us he isn't really a good guy. If we just let him die then he won't be a problem for us in the future, so why mess with it?"

"Let me put it this way. I think I know a way to win him over to our side. With his talent for thieving and manipulating people I think we could have a shot at forming a team to help us get through this world. Plus if we let him die then we have to deal with Neo in the future for letting him die, and I would rather have her on our side then the opposing. If I can manage to win him over then maybe with a little more convincing I could maybe get Hazel on our side, and even Cinder and her two goons if I can manage it. The big problem is going to be getting RWBY and JNPR to go along with our plans. They won't abandon Ozpin until they find out his backstory. Plus after witnessing Penny's destruction they won't exactly be so keen on following us if they found out that we knew about it, but didn't stop it. Even if we tell them that she gets rebuilt in Atlas, I don't think they'll trust what we say until they see her in person. So we might need to find another way to win them over."

Lucas looks over at me, shock and worry painted over his face. "You talk like we're going to lead an army against Salem and Ozpin. Like we're going to unit the forces of good and evil to take down both sides of this war."

"We are. I'm fairly sure I know a way to defeat Salem, but we need Ms. Rose onboard with us. And I don't trust Oz at all, so after we defeat Salem he'll be next on our chopping board. We just have to figure out if there is a way to kill Oz without hurting Oscar."

"What you're planning is a suicide pact. If even one character catches on and turns on us, we'll get stabbed in the back and lose. It'll be a miracle if we even make it as far as Volume 5." Aiden adds.

"But it's the only plan that will put us on top. That will ensure that we deal out the orders. We'll have to keep them from tearing each other apart, but we'll make it happen. So, who's onboard?"

Aiden thinks to himself for a second. He looks over our plan several times before making his decision. "It's a shame this isn't Code Geass. If we had a Lelouch working with us then this plan would be perfect, but with the right amount of winging it I believe we can make it work."

Lucas shrugged. "If it's good enough for Shau… God dammit. Sorry, I'm still getting used to the new names. If it's good enough for Aiden to agree to it, then I'm in."

All three of us turn towards Iris. "Fuck it, I'm in. Don't really have much of a choice now do we? It'll be a hot mess, but we'll get through it. Together."

I stand up. "Well, if we have everything settled then I'm going to head to the gym. Break in my new weapon." I turn to leave as the others all stand up too.

"Hold on a minute now. There's still one thing we have left to do." Iris exclaims as she runs to her weapon. I turn around with a questioning smile. "Oh, and what would that be?"

"We have to name our weapons, duh. To signify our first step in this world. Anyone got a name for theirs?"

Aiden looked at her, then at his gun. "Precision."

Iris scuffs, "Really, of all the names you could have went for and you picked, Precision. Well I guess it could have been worse. Lucas how about yours?"

Lucas juggled his sickles in his hands, wrapping the chain around is forearm. "I think I'll call them, Rensa Kiba." He smiled as he spun the right sickle like a windmill.

"Chained fangs. Cool translation, but it kind of sounds a bit like someone just trying to go for a cool sounding name." Iris smirked.

Lucas just looks offended. "Well fuck you too princess. What kind of name do you have for your fucking sword bow thingy."

"Well, since you asked nicely, I think I'll name my sword bow thingy Duality's Edge."

"Wow, way to be a try hard. And you said that my name sounded like I was trying too hard to come up with a cool sounding name."

Iris stuck her tongue out at Lucas, annoyed by his constant berating. She looked at me as I turned to walk out of the room. "So Drew, what are you going to call your weapon?"

As I reach the door I stop. I take a second to think about a name, then I answer as I walk out. "Don't know, but I'm about to go find one."

As I leave, Iris turns back towards the guys. "Well, that didn't sound ominous at all. Say, while Drew's out why don't we go and chat up some of the other teams?!" She asks as she jumps, pulling Aiden to the door.

"I don't know. What if we accidentally change a character's motivation or something by talking with them too much." Lucas asks as he follows the pair out the door.

"Oh come on Lucas, what could possibly come from us just saying hello to our new dorm mates?" Iris replies as she pulls Aiden down the hall.

It took me a few minutes before I found the gym. Luckily I didn't run into any main characters or anything as I made my trip there. Just a few shadow people. Hopefully that won't be a normal thing for the near future. I allow myself in and see that there's no one there. I take in my surroundings. At the far end of the gym looks to be a stage for sparring. I remember the scene where Cardin beats up Jaune and I silently hope to see that in person. On the left side of the room is a lot of exercising equipment. Mostly ellipticals, weight lifting machines and punching bags. In the center of the room are some sparring rings for smaller fights, and on the right side of the room there looks to be a sort of holo room for testing different strategies and tactics while fighting.

I step up to one of the punching bags and take my stance. I activate my gauntlets so that they act sort of like pistons so that when I punch it creates a second impact. I unleash hell on the bag, every punch I throw dealing more damage as my intensity grows stronger. With one last hit I blast the bag off of it's holder and across the gym. I take in how much stronger I can be with this new body, this weapon of mine. What I could accomplish, and how easy it could be. I needed something more challenging.

I walk over to the holo room and try to open it. It's locked. "Dammit." I think for a second, then realized that it wasn't that much of an issue. I place my hand on the keypad and used my semblance. Turns out doors have a lot to say. After a few seconds I get the hang of it and unlock it. I step into the room. "So Danger Room, what have you got for me today." I ask waiting for a response. Unfortunately none came. I spot what looks to be a control panel on the far side of the room. I take a closer look and find that it has different levels of combat situations. "Alright then, let's start with a beginners course." I press the easy mode and I'm instantly transported to what looks to be a village of some sorts. The sky is black, and the houses were burning. Then, out from behind the houses lurked the Grimm. About a dozen beowolves start encircling me as I take my stance.

"Bring it." I launch myself at the beowolves, creating two swords to cut through them. Five minutes later a bell rings. Having slaughtered all the grimm I smile evilly. "This is going to be fun." I turn to the control panel and pick the hardest mode. Having thought the easy mode was too easy, maybe the hardest mode will offer some sort of challenge for me. I press start and I instantly sense something coming for my head. I dodge to my right and roll into a crouching position creating a sword and shield to use to defend myself. I take note that I'm now somewhere in the mountains. What was coming for me was a person wielding what looks to be a four foot long sword and a three foot short sword. There wasn't much detail in the person, just a bluish looking avatar. I guess whoever created the program wanted the students to be informed about fighting other people, but didn't want them to look too realistic for the sake of causing trauma. I didn't really care either way, as long as they put up a good enough fight. I lunge towards them and they jump at me. They speed toward me, intending to try and impale me with their long sword. I duck and deflect it with my shield and in return try and swipe at their left side with my sword, but they deflect it with their short sword. I create some distance though and come at them from the side. I bash them with my shield, making it bigger and adding more of a focused point in the center of the shield to try and deal more damage. Then I extend my leg to try and take out their legs to put them on the ground, but they jump back in time to dodge the move. I rush them again, and they move to defend themselves from the impact of my shield, but instead of just ramming them again I drop the shield and sword and create a bo staff. Just before reaching them I vault over and land behind them creating a long sword, and with all my strength I cut them down from behind.

Taking a moment to catch my breathe, I wait a moment for the bell to ring, but it never came. Instead I look up and see a few more avatars lying in wait. I take a deep breathe in and turn my gauntlets back into pistons. "Now this is more like it."

Ten minutes passed before I finally defeated the last avatar. Winded, I look at the time. "Again." This time I was prepared. I cut down the first attacker and proceeded to defeat the rest of the wave in the proceeding seven minutes. "Again." Then it took five minutes.

"Again." I turn and create a stalemate with my would be assassin. Holding their swords off with two of my own, I close my eyes and replace the avatars with my soon to be enemies. I open my eyes to see that I'm face to face with Tock. Grinning ear to ear, she jumps back and runs at me from my right. I jump to my left and spin behind her, locking the sword in my right hand into the hilt of the sword in her left, ripping it out of her grip. "Great, now the right one." I create a rapier and dash towards her, jabbing at her as fast as possible. She blocks most of the hits, but I manage to get a few cuts in. Eventually I wear her down. Dismantling the rapier I transform the gauntlets into pistons again, punching her forearm to disarm her and then with all my force I gut punch her sending her flying across the rocky landscape.

Next came Mercury and Emerald. Emerald lashed at me with her chained blades while Mercury runs up my left side. I catch the chain and look to my left. Mercury jumps off a cliff wall and goes for an axe kick to my face, instead I dodge and twist the chain around his leg, pulling him to the ground. In one move I form my piston and beat his face into the ground. Emerald rushes me, pulling her blade back and shooting me as she runs straight for me. I create a rapier and shield, and just as she gets within reach, I create an opening in my shield, stabbing straight through and impaling her. "Three down, a fuck ton to go." I chuckle as the next pair enter the field.

Roman saunters towards me, twirling his cane like he owns the joint. From behind him Neo dashes out and attacks. She tries to jab me with her umbrella, but to no avail. I deflect her, then create a mace ready to bring it down on her head. I ready my attack, but it's stopped by Roman's cane. With my arm locked above my head and my mace trapped in Roman's attack Neo races to land a killing blow, but I outsmart them. I disassemble the mace throwing Roman off balance, then in one swift movement I create a long sword and dodge to my right. With the momentum Neo built with her run up she misses me and stabs Roman in the back, and with a quick swipe I cut her down right behind him.

High off of my battle with the goons, I stalk towards what should be a nice challenge. Tyrian, Cinder and Hazel all stand before me. I grin and motion for them to come at me. Tyrian accepts my challenge and rushes me. I meet his fighting spirit with claws of my own and we hold each other in a stalemate. I notice Cinder jumping over us and rushing me from behind. I beat Tyrian's embrace with my own brute force and push him back. Dodging to my right I meet Cinder's attack with a shield. She jumps back and fires at me with her bow. I cut through her arrows as I rush her, but before I could land a blow I get tackled by Hazel. He shoulder bashes me across the terrain. As I topple over myself I correct my fall and create a sword to slow my roll. Hazel is still rushing me, so I decide to fight fists with fists. I create my pistons again and I run to bash him in, but when I get into striking distance Tyrian jumps over him and slashes at me. Guarding myself I deflect his attack to only get punched in the gut by Hazel. Collecting myself from the attack I take a quick second to formulate a strategy to take all three of the combatants down in one go.

I rush Cinder with a long sword in the right hand and a dagger in my left. As I approach her Hazel rushes from my right. I make like I'm still aiming for Cinder, but really my focus is solely on Hazel and what I can assume to be Tyrian following close behind him. As he gets within striking distance I jump around Hazel and spot Tyrian ready for me. He goes to stab me with his pincers, but I slice at them. He grabs my sword, which I use to my advantage. I pull him closer and shove my dagger between his ribs, then I focus on Hazel who has now altered his charge and is coming for me again. I deflect another arrow as I face Hazel. This time I don't just dodge him, I slide to the left of him and cut him down at his knees. Standing up I ram the sword through his back and into the ground. I turn towards Cinder and raise my sword at her, showing her that she's next. She gets off three arrows before I get to full speed. I deflect the first two and cut the third down the shaft. She brings up her swords and deflects my killing blow. I try my damndest to break her stance, but can't find a flaw. I spin around a few times to gain momentum, and before I strike I turn my sword into a hammer to rival Magnahild. It snaps her swords like twigs and before she can dodge I twist the hammer to cave in her chest, sending her flying faster than her avatar can go through the death animation. I turn around thinking she was the last only to be met with one more opponent. Standing in front of me, arms open wide, is Salem. Filling my head with anger and adrenaline I dash forward. Creating the sharpest, most versatile sword I can muster I deliver a swift and heavy blow that was sure to cut her down, but instead it was meet with naught.

I turn and see that the room had reverted itself back into the basic holo room, the battle simulation was uncompleted, and standing at the control panel was none other than Ozpin.

"You know, breaking into the holochamber isn't exactly the best impression one can make on their first day of school." Ozpin remarks making his way towards me. I turn to look at him. "Ozpin." I growl. I walk towards the door, bumping his shoulder as I pass him.

"Mr. Azzurum. I know that you are an amazing fighter, as shown by the results of your training, but don't let your accomplishments obscure your outlook. You still have a lot to learn before you graduate."

I stop dead in my tracks and look over my shoulder. "Do I now?" Ozpin's face contorts into a more questioning look. He didn't understand why Drew was being so hostile towards him all of a sudden.

I sigh, and walk towards him with menace in my step. "Let me make myself crystal clear Ozpin. I don't trust you. I know what you've done and frankly I just want you to be gone. So, in the future, stay away from my team, team RWBY, and team JNPR." I end face to face with him. My eyes piercing his. It's like I'm staring into an uncanny void. I turn and head for the door. I'm about to leave when I turn my head. "I know a lot of people fear and respect you, but frankly I don't give a damn." I open the door and walk out, but before the door closes I finish. "I don't give a damn about you, or Salem." And with that I left.

Ozpin stares at the door in disbelief. How could a student know about her? He grabs his scroll and rings up Glynda. "Glynda. Yes, I know this is a bad time but I require your assistance. I need you to find every possible record on a student of ours. Drew Azzurum." Glynda questions why specifically this student. "Call it a hunch, but I've got a bad feeling about him."

Storming out of the training room I decide to walk around campus for a bit. Thinking about what Ozpin has done, and what he's going to do didn't help my anger. I take a look at the programming in my gauntlets and find that it's synced with my scroll. As I'm walking I find that my entire music library is there. Great. At least I know that if we can't change this world by fighting it we might still have a chance at changing it with the help of music. I laugh at the idea. Now that would be a remake I would watch.

I continue to walk until I find what looks to be a sort of zen garden. Just sitting on the outskirts of the campus. A little hilly area with a waterfall and stream running through it. A stone path leading up to a spot underneath a tree. Looks relaxing enough to take my mind off of things.

I walk up the path and sit under the tree. Deciding to unwind a bit, I look around to see if there's anyone nearby, and luckily there isn't anyone to be found. I scroll through my list of songs and find the perfect one. I hit play and transform my gauntlets into a sort of keyboard. I then proceed to sing and play the unplugged version of Take On Me.

We're talking away

I don't know what

I'm to say I'll say it anyway

Today's another day to find you

Shying away

I'll be coming for your love, okay?

Take on me

Blake was walking along, fed up with dealing with people for the day. Stepping out of her dorm room when she did was probably the best decision she's made all week. Having to deal with Weiss was a handful to say the least. She was hoping to find a quiet place to read when she heard something, or rather, someone in the distance. She'd figured no one would be this far away from the main building on their first day, so she decided to investigate the voice.

I apologize for ending it on a cliffhanger, but I wanted to save the confrontation for the next chapter. I do hope I made the fighting interesting. Honestly I thought I would have my work cut out for me by making my main character have a weapon that could turn into any weapon, but instead it's just turned into what weapon should he create for each situation. It's going to be interesting to say the least. Also for anyone wondering about the character's emblems, I made them the story art. The top left is Drew's, the top right is Lucas's, the bottom left is Iris's and the bottom right is Aiden's. I apologize if the picture doesn't look good, but again I don't really have anything to digitally create them properly yet. Also if anyone knows how to add images to these chapters I would love to add concept art for their weapons and outfits. Also, I'm sorry this is a day late. I'm trying to make it a scheduled thing by trying to upload a new chapter every Sunday, but I was away this weekend so I couldn't type this up Saturday night like I usually do.

Thanks.

P.S. I know adding a song to the story is cliche but I couldn't resist. I love that scene in Deadpool 2 where the unplugged version of Take On Me is playing in the background and I couldn't help but put it in. Don't worry, I'll try not to make it a recurring thing, except when fighting. Fights with music are always the best.