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Jaune started his sword training and Ace wasn't kidding when he said the training would be hard. But he got a grip of his stance and his swings were somewhat decent. Ace was using a stick for his training. A STICK! And he can smack and poke Jaune easily until Jaune started to get better. Later, he changed it to an Ursa Major's back spike. First of all, when did he get that? Secondly, could he be a bit softer in his attacks? This forced Jaune to get better in his training and improve his aura control. It was a slow process but Jaune had a small sign that he was improving. For shield, Pyrrha was the one who took that as well as his sword training whenever Ace was busy. For his fight against Cardin, Jaune finally landed a blow. Yeah, it was weak and Cardin won, again, but it was like an achievement that the dork was finally able to stand on his feet. Still, Cardin continued to bully Jaune.

But this wasn't Cardin's biggest focus. Ace was.

Ace knew that the humiliation he gave Cardin on the first day might put him into some problems and doing it with the rest of CRDL in the sparring classes or the normal classes. Previously, Cardin didn't think of messing with Ace because he knew that he was stronger than him and barely interacted with him after some behind-the-scenes talk. But, with Ace's new mindset and the previous encounters with him and his team, Cardin didn't think well enough to know who will he mess with. CRDL tried to do anything to find a weakness, hole, embarrassing stuff, and anything that can be used for their advantage but they didn't find any because Ace can hide so much stuff.

One of his nicknames was Mr. Unknown and the reason why was he's a guy that many people, before or after Beacon, tend to tell him their secrets. It was either for his nature or simply a guy that people can be relaxed with whenever someone was sitting next to him and talking about anything. Ace knew so many things that there was a file in his brain that had crazy and weird secrets that seem a bit sensitive for others. There were other attempts to get anything like hearing his conversations from the dorm's door, sneaking, finding any information, but none was too big or sensitive, it was general or useless stuff.

The same thing went through Carl, Violet, and Skyler. CRDL tried to get anything but they failed because Ace secretly asked them to keep their stuff away from some people which made CRDL struggle to plan a good idea. They had tried to bully them but failed. CES was not as good as Ace, but they knew how to handle bullies, even if they had to hurt them without making it any eye-catching sometimes.

The best example was Violet.

The turtle Faunus had planned on upgrading her teammates' scrolls, the weapons, and any ideas. So, she used any time available with her like Port's classes, lunchtime while not forgetting to eat her food, and any time she can use to work on something. This made her open to anyone but Vi had a solution. She used her Little Poppy to shock anyone who dared to annoy her or touch her stuff without her permission. She used it on guys like Russel and Dove who comes and try to insult her, mess with her stuff, etc. which made her a hard person to go through.

Anyways, in CRDL's room, Cardin was moving around himself, frustrated from the hard and mysterious Ace Storm and his team. Cardin knew that it would be difficult to appear strong against certain types of people. Weiss Schnee and Pyrrha Nikos were good examples that their leagues would make him in a very bad position despite coming from a family as big as the Winchesters. Yet, even with this big name, he knew that his name wouldn't be enough for some, heck, a lot wouldn't give a shit. Still, he showed that he should be one of the students that should be respected and feared from, but his bullying of the weak students made it worse and his racism, as well as his team involvement, dug the hole of disrespect more.

He might be angry at anyone who tried to fight back and will try to pay back with any possible chance, even if he will use dirty stuff to win. Ace was that and more. He didn't care for his team as much as the blue-haired boy. However, Ace was complicated in many things. He hated him with a passion more than anyone, but he wasn't the type of person that you can put your influence on them that easily. He didn't show any sign of weakness despite not looking like he was trying to hide anything. Looking for his history, he didn't have anything big besides going to Signal Academy before Beacon. He had a family that lives in Patch with his parents and 4 other siblings. His files looked like there wasn't anything suspicious with them, so files are useless.

Watching him closer and seeing his schedule didn't help that much. He went to his classes like normal, he went to the gym with his team and he exercises 2 or 3 different exercises. He saw his muscles and they're toned so well, it could make a lot of males jealous and ashamed of themselves. Like seriously, Cardin wished he had more of Ace's muscles for him and his team to show how strong they are. Sometimes, he saw him and his team to the Emerald Forest after asking permission to go and the only thing he could think of was that he or they had training on whatever.

"Why is he so difficult?" Cardin asked in frustration.

"Because he's too good at his job," Russel answered.

"I had enough of that sucker! We can't do anything that will make us win on him. Him or that blonde idiot or that turtle monster or even that blue-haired bitch." Cardin examined.

"Okay, how about going to other ones? Come on, Cardin, we wasted a lot of time on him that we might have gone for other teams." Dove asked.

"Not available. We pretty much showed our power for most of the first years' students and a few older ones like that bunny girl. Going for the another might use the same time we had spent on Ace." Cardin answered. "Still, I will make him pay for his insults on us and show him and sooner his team who messed with Winchester and team CRDL!" Cardin closed his fist in anger.

"Any ideas you had, Cardin?" Sky asked.

"Oh! You will see! I had a few more I had in my sleeve."

Cardin was attempting suicide. His hatred towards Ace was reaching a new limit that either would be his greatest success or the biggest failure. He might have his bullying with Jaune, his racism with the Faunus, his arrogant self that showed how good he was (Which's laughable with others), and hope for huge positions after graduation weren't as big as making Ace submit. Ace wasn't like Weiss Schnee or Pyrrha Nikos in terms of fame or any of that crap Ace didn't give a shit. So, Cardin wouldn't find a problem to influence his superiority on him.

Unknown to them, one was able to know this dirty stuff.

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"Told ya!" Ace exclaimed.

In ACES dorm, the team was sitting in a square form and listening to Cardin's plans. Because of Cardin's continuous attempts to win, he asked Violet for a small mic that could be easily hidden and connected to the scroll. Violet didn't understand it at first but after her leader sneaked to CRDL's room from the window without anybody noticing made her realize what her crazy leader was trying to do. Now, they were sitting in the middle of the room, listening to Cardin's talk and plans. They discovered how much Cardin hate Ace with a burning passion. Ever since the times he and his team, mainly Ace, showed how worthless they are and they try to show how good they are but fail at it. This made CES angry, disappointed, and many negative emotions that you could describe.

"I don't believe it. They went too far this time!" Skyler said angrily and hit the ground with her fist.

"Exactly, which I will finish this non-sense once and for all in a way it will make them listen this time." Ace cracked his fingers.

"But, how? We can't hurt them very badly. It will backfire on us and will result in us getting expelled or we will study the entire library and clean Beacon for the end of the year as a punishment." Carl said.

"Which's why I will use a good way to ensure these dumb idiots what they were putting themselves into. If it didn't work, we can use records as a final move." Ace explained.

"Let me guess, you will use your demonic side on them?" Violet tried to guess.

"Depends on where CRDL and I stand. You started to understand me, Vi." Ace pointed his finger.

"Okay, if it happened, make sure you record it. It will be fun seeing them so scared." Carl said before he stood up and went to rest on the bed with Nevan.

"Got it."

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A few days later and things went in a very quiet way.

Ace knew Cardin will get his plan. This focus resulted in him losing against Jaune Arc. He didn't realize that he got defeated until he focused on his surroundings and saw that Jaune somehow beat him. While yes, the bully landed hits on Jaune but the blonde dork returned and delivered the final blow that he was able to beat Cardin after weeks of fighting. But Cardin didn't care. As much he wanted to make Jaune pay to break his long streak of wins on him, the focus on Ace made Jaune on his plans after he beats Ace. This made everyone cheer, not from Jaune's win as the knight thought, but as they finally Jaune wouldn't fight Cardin again for the hundredth time. The 'YEAH' and 'FINALLY' would have made an ear rape for bad mics. Team RWBY and JNPR were the happiest the most and the only ones that Arc was able to fucking WIN!

So, on a familiar day, students went to the Forever Fall Forest, where Jaune made Cardin learn his lessons, but this time, Cardin focused on Ace, using the same plan he tried to use on Pyrrha but failed due to Jaune stopping Cardin. However, this time, beating Cardin after hard training gave Jaune a lot of confidence to move forward but it resulted in having Cardin use Jaune to carry the jars.

After Glynda's instructions, everyone headed to collect the sap jars. Ace asked his team to follow him away from the group and headed deeper into the forest, followed by CRDL minutes later.

"A-Ace? Where are we heading?" Skyler asked concerned.

"We're heading to a good place where it had high-quality saps. It's not that far for quality that good and will have one of the plans prepared." Ace explained as they finally reached the spot. The reason why he headed a bit deeper is last time, they headed to the same spot without realizing how deep they went and after collecting the jars, they realized how deep they went so they headed back without anyone noticing their disappearing. Except maybe Glynda.

"Okay, guys! We're here! Now, we have a lot of time to fill this amount of jars we have." Ace pointed at the jars. "This place has an A+ in Peach's class and good pancakes in the morning if Nora didn't invade them. Lastly, keep your guard up from the Grimm or any sneaky bugs." The team nodded and started to move in different directions. Ace carried a bunch of jars and went a bit away from his team to make it safe from CRDL's move on them. He arrived at his point and put the jars on the ground and picked a one to start filling it.

Not far from behind, Cardin arrived at the place where ACES stopped, smirking proudly as he will win. Behind him, his team had sap jars and a box full of Rapier Wasps. The plan was simply throwing a jar at Ace, spreading sap in it in Ace's body, opening the box, and having the wasps' attack Ace and his team as a bonus.

"You heard that? No wonder why he went a bit deeper. This place has a good sap we can take from them as well." Cardin smirked more at the thought.

Back at Ace, the blue-haired boy knew he will come to do the same plan he tried to do last time. He was waiting to make the surprise, so he will pretend he doesn't know he was behind him. His acting started as he inserted the jars in the trees to collect the good sap from them while he listened to music via ear pods. So far, he completed most of the jars because of another clone helping him to finish faster as he had the most jars out of the team.

As he was collecting the jars, CRDL is hiding behind a bush and ready to execute the plan. "Wait for the right moment! He put ear pods which will make it easier on us." Cardin whispered as he took a jar from Russel.

Ace knew they were behind as he sensed them and still act like he didn't know. He knelt next to the jars for his idea to work like a jar fell by accident. Cardin waited for the right moment and this was the biggest opportunity before he leaves. "That's for humiliating me, Storm!" Cardin said quietly as he threw a jar at Ace.

Ace chuckled silently as the bully threw the jar at him and sense its coming. So, he gripped the handle of the Demon Sword and moved to the back to catch the jar from the Kojiri without breaking the jar or looking at it. He pulled the jar that Cardin threw at him and smirked, "Oh, boy! Don't think you can fall without me noticing." He said as he put the jar next to him and continued like normal.

CRDL was shocked to see Ace catching the jar without seeing it coming. It made Cardin furious and threw another one higher. As Cardin threw it, Ace stood up and went to another tree coincidently and avoided the jar from breaking on his head. A few steps in and he grabbed it again with the Kojiri. "Woah! That was close." Ace sounded like he was surprised and he made a good job making Cardin furious.

"I had enough!" Cardin said as he took another jar and jumped out of his hiding. He stood behind Ace and threw the jar, hoping he doesn't catch it this time.

For a second, he thought he finally succeeded, the jar will land on his head, but no, he saw Ace tilt his head, making the jar move above his shoulder, and grabbed it with his hand.

"Hehehe!" Ace laughed lightly making CRDL surprised. "Oh, Cardin, did you think for one second you will win that easy?" Ace turned to Cardin and pressed a button on his scroll to stop the music and pull the ear pods inside it. "I knew you were hiding, I just loved to mess with ya." Ace pulled his tongue out.

"WHAT?!"

"I know that you're trying to get your stupid revenge on me, that shows how worthless you and your team are." Ace pointed his finger at Cardin and his team. "No wonder why are you guys weak and failures in your job."

Cardin was beyond furious and might attract the Grimm nearby, "SHUT UP! I will make you learn where you put your mouth in its right place!" Cardin said as he pulled his mace and attacked Ace.

"Me too." Ace said as he blocked it with his gauntlets and stopped Cardin's attack without effort.

Russel, Dove, and Sky pulled their weapons and went to help Cardin. Ace saw them and chuckled. He pushed Cardin away and gave him a dropkick at his face and armor, pushing him towards his teammates. Russel was the only one who dodged the coming Cardin and processed to attack Ace with his daggers. Ace grabbed Russel's hands and disarmed him. Then, he kneed the Mohawk-haired boy in the stomach and his face, making him stunned before he kicked him away.

Cardin stood up and grabbed his mace. His blind anger controlled him and without thinking, he swung his mace at Ace. Ace crossed his arms and dodged his predictable swings like Neo did with Yang at the train. Dodging the bully's attacks didn't have any problems, some swings got blocked with his legs until Ace kicked Cardin's knees, making the ginger head bully fall on his back.

Dove and Sky attacked Ace from the sides. The short idiot on his left and the idiot with stupid hair on his right raised their weapons and attacked Ace. The red-eyed boy blocked both of them with his Sabrewulf Gauntlets without making any effort and kicked Dove in the stomach followed by kicking Sky in the same position. He kicked back at Dove's face and Sky's right cheek before grabbing the long-haired boy by his hand and throwing him at Dove.

Russel got back on his feet, grabbed his daggers, and approached Ace. Russel swung fast but without any thinking, as Ace dodged them easily before he countered a missed swing with a strong punch to Russel's left side of his face, nearly knocking him out.

BOOM Ace heard an explosion sound from his behind and stepped aside from the coming attack. He turned to see Cardin, standing on his feet, anger drawn in his face, and his mace slammed at the ground to shoot the dust in it, "WHY DON'T YOU STOP, MOTHERFUCKER?!" Cardin yelled.

"Because you won't stop from attacking me." Ace answered sarcastically but it's technically the truth.

It's obvious that Ace was trying to make Cardin learn his lesson but someone like Cardin was hard to go that stupid skull of his. He didn't try using his demonic side because the screams of Cardin might attract many things to them so he won't use it, except for closed places. While hitting him won't solve that problem, that didn't mean he wouldn't knock some sense to him. Cardin charged to make another one of his stupid attacks but had a smirk on his face. Ace tried to move forward but he saw Dove grabbing his right leg to prevent him from moving. Without any concerns, Ace looked at Cardin, who was ready to hit straight to the head, Ace chuckled at him.

"Oh, please."

Ace grabbed the Demon Sword from its Sageo or the hanging cord and reflected Cardin's attack, making the bully feels like he was flying from a single reflect and without waiting for any second, Ace spun the Sword where the Kojiri was pointed at Cardin and thrust it at Cardin's chest plate, making a loud CLANG from the sound of the metal got bent with Cardin flying towards a tree, followed by hitting Dove's face to push him away from his leg.

Ace got tired of fighting such amateurs but they wouldn't stand down that easy as Sky Lark raised his halberd and slammed it at Ace, yet, the blue-haired boy blocked it with the Saya of the Demon Sword before he kicked his opponent's right knee, smacked him with the Demon Sword twice, and gave him a strong thrust at his chest, making him fly towards a boulder.

Ace started walking towards Cardin, while he was walking, he kicked Dove's face and elbowed Russel's gut. Ace saw Cardin's face. It was full of anger, defeat, humiliation, and so many things that attracts the nearby Grimm, "You will cough pay you little cough!" Cardin said between his coughs.

"No, Cardin. This will result in you getting into the worse. I recommend you and your idiots start to think again about your activities. It will either result in you getting expelled or worse! So, please, stop this nonsense, or I will show it!" Ace warned with eyes that send chills towards the spine. Ace wasn't kidding this time, the last sentence screaming 'You should stop fucking around him'.

As Ace started to walk away and took the jars with him, Cardin growled in fury. He tried to do anything to make his payback possible but Ace put them down easily like a bunch of bandits or thugs. Cardin hit the ground beneath him from frustration.

"How such a person humiliates me like that! I'M CARDIN FUCKING WINCHESTER! My family is one of the biggest families in Remnant! Everyone in Beacon, those little trash bags, they should respect me, fear me, and not this!" Cardin yelled. "I will show you, Storm! Do you hear me? I will-" GROWL

Cardin stopped his yelling and turned to the sound's noise. He saw an Ursa Major in front of him. All of that amount of negativity attracted it. With absolute horror on his, he grabbed his mace and stood shaking at the beast in front of him. The Ursa didn't hesitate and attacked Cardin, breaking his remaining aura and disarming him. Cardin crawled away from the Grimm and looked for any help but found that his team was in a weak state after Ace's hits. This felt like it was the end for Cardin and his team. All of that wouldn't have happened if he didn't spread all of that negativity and the hatred towards Ace wasn't there. Cardin closed his eyes for the final attack, preparing to have his flesh got cut.

ROAR Cardin was ready for the hit but it took longer than it should. He opened his eyes to see…Ace? The blue-haired boy stood behind the Ursa with his sword, the Dust Decoded, on the Grimm's shoulder. Ace used his strength and ran the sword at a 45-degree angle in the Grimm's body, cutting it with the cut bones of it scattered around.

Ace placed the Dust Decoded back and moved away silently. I guess the message got inserted in his mind. Cardin and the rest of his team looked shocked at Ace's move. When he thought he was the best, Ace proved how worthless and scared he was. More than Jaune, who started his training recently and beat him in the last sparring match. Ace could have easily left them for dead, but no, he saved them from an undeniable fate. It was the thing huntsmen and huntresses were born for and Ace was doing that. Cardin looked down, feeling ashamed of himself. How was he supposed to impress his family as huntsman if he couldn't protect himself from the situation that happened? He was so lucky that Ace was generous enough to save him. If he didn't have to save him, then what would happen if his death happened?

For Ace, he knew the bully started to receive the message. Ace would have CRDL being killed but he chose not to do it. As huntsman moral, and learning a lesson. This might have Cardin and his team helping them in future battles or maybe not. Needless to say, he secretly recorded everything and would show it to the rest of his team. He didn't use the Demonic side but that was still an option if Cardin returned to his stupid plans again and when does, Ace will show them why they should not mess with a Storm anymore.

He arrived at the cart and began to put the jars in it. He saw that his team filled many jars too, so that's good.

"Hey, Ace! How was the beat-down section?" A voice came in front of him to be Carl and the girls carrying the jars with them.

"This might knock some sense to Cardin and with evidence." Ace said as he showed his scroll. "No demon yet, but I will do it once needed." He continued to put the jars,

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After Ace told them the details and showed them the record, CES was laughing at how CRDL looked.

They looked weak and worthless and that's how anyone likes to see them. If they can't defend themselves against a skilled person or even an Ursa, then how are they supposed to be called huntsmen. It's the type that needs to stop fuck around and doing something or you will be killed at the end of the process with most not feeling or faking their empathies towards them. As they were sitting and laughing at the point where everyone should meet up after they collect their jars and luckily, nobody was there, so extra time for laughing and chatting. Later, everyone filled their jars and Glynda checked to see anyone was missing and as soon as she start asking where CRDL are, screams came out and everyone looked to see CRDL running away from the Rapier Wasps they had in the box. ACES couldn't contain their laughter as well as a few others before Glynda went to help the bullies. Karma caused them to go to the infirmary because of the number of stings they had and said they need to stay in their beds for days. Which was hooray for many who got bullied for weeks.

For Peach's class, the professor was surprised by how good the sap was. It felt like they went very far without Glynda's permission but ACES were able to convince her that they didn't go so far and they weren't so dumb to dive deep into the forest and lucky to have good sap. So, A+ in this subject was in the pocket. The others heard that and got jealous at how lucky they were while they dove in less than 5 minutes-walk to have that quality.

The next morning, Ace prepared pancakes with the sap they had, alongside coffee and tea, and had what felt like it came from heaven.

"These pancakes are so gooood!" Skyler squealed from the taste and sounded a bit muffled from the pancakes. "You better tell us how did you know about that location!"

"Nope. That's a beeeg secret." Ace responded in a playful tone.

This was the one million lien question. How did Ace know about that was a secret. While Ace knew that after a happy accident in the past, he wouldn't tell them at all. If he had to tell some stuff, he had to know how to excuse himself with exaggerating, half-truths, or anything to not reveal his secret.

'Okay, with CRDL are done, the next thing is having Blake reveal her identity. Which's a week from now, so let's talk with the kitty for a bit.' Ace said in his thoughts as he ate his pancakes. 'After that, we will have the break. I will visit my family, meet the bird, and head back to Patch while having Violet finish the scrolls' upgrades and the Demon's rider crazy upgrade before that. Right now, If the bird was convinced to help then it will be a good card for us to beat SALEM.'

Every time Ace thought of the witch, his anger would rise. Mentioning her name or thinking of her could make Ace angry, sometimes but meeting Salem in person? Boy, the rage might get released all at once. The thought can be felt from the outside as Ace was burying his fork so deep in his pancakes to the point it will dig the dish. Ace looked like he was about to unleash his anger but trying not to. As he kept burying the fork in his dish, few more seconds and it will break it before going to the table underneath it.

THUD

All of the sudden, a fist came straight into his jaw sending him and the chair backward.

"GAHH!" Ace grabbed his jaw and saw Skyler, standing with her fist.

"S-Skyler! You should have slapped him, not punching him!" Carl cried out loud.

Realizing her mistake, Skyler covered her mouth. "I-I-I'm s-s-s-sorry! I-I thought this is the right way to have the attention of someone overthinking."

"Well, first of all," Ace said as he put himself back with the chair at the table, "It's with OPEN palm!" Ace explained as he showed his palm, "And secondly, thank you for that fist. If you didn't stop, I would have broken the table." Ace thanked Skyler, making her and the others surprised at the reaction.

"Okay, as I said before, have you seen Pyrrha lately?" Skyler returned to her previous point.

"If you're talking about how much she spent time with Jaune in training more than I do then, yes." Ace nodded. The plan of making Jaune and Pyrrha a thing was simple. That's why he asked Pyrrha for her help to train Jaune as Ace was focusing more than Pyrrha in the blonde dork's training. Then, he was start to give Pyrrha more time and Ace had less time every day to the point Ace goes to check Jaune every couple of days to see the process or anything related to Jaune's training not to make Jaune think that Ace abandoned him.

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Blake was the silent, mysterious and deadly type. Ace wasn't anything new to them. He encountered several people with similar or better than Blake's type. His reflection and the ability to sense this type made it was hard to have a sneak attack sometimes. Yet, he shouldn't underestimate that kitty because she can scratch the heart in an instant.

As for her place, she was in the library, researching, hard nights, and so much effort to find the White Fang and stop them. She should have some sleep to her focus better and not get tired all of the sudden in the battle. Like come on, Ace SLEPT despite the hard time he had. Yeah, nightmares and shit were happening but he was sleeping to have some energy before he went unconscious for most of the day and having Luna and Adrian protect themselves from a danger that could kill them.

But luckily, she didn't have the focus on that as Blake was reading her favorite romance 'Ninja of Love'. Ace read that before and never understood why Blake liked that. She might have a thing for how she wanted her big night to be with Sun. 'I mean, Skyler read it before and she nearly went wild. I hope her future ideas don't get wilder than what the books did.' Ace laughed at the memory and went to the sitting cat.

As Blake finally finished reading, she seemed to feel satisfied. It was always a nice way to relieve herself from the pressure she had.

"Hi, Blake." Ace came from behind and sat next to her. "How's your 'Ninja of Love'?" Ace asked teasingly.

Blake blinked as she know what he was trying to do. "Just get to your point, Ace."

"What? Can I talk with the kitty about her favorite stuff?" Blake eyes wide opened, was he nicknaming, or was he- "Or maybe she will hide from her past?" The last part made it obvious. Did he know her real identity?

"W-What do you mean, Ace?"

"Well, how does it feel to sleep with a bow that covers your ears from your teammates? And Besides, a well enough hunter will notice them." Ace was right. A good enough hunter will know that she hid her ears behind a bow that didn't hide it 100%, especially that it twitched now and then "Also, Belladonna, you're the daughter of the founder of the WF, Ghira Belladonna. So, yeah. My team and I noticed that for weeks but didn't say anything."

All of that, and Ace was telling her about her secret and origin in a low voice despite being in the library.

"What do you want, Ace? I-"

"I know about leaving the White Fang and all of that shit." Ace interrupted her.

In seconds of deadly silence, this was shocking and frightening for Blake. Ace might know about a lot of things that won't be good in the right hands. Blake raised her blade and pointed it at Ace's neck. Showing what's in Blake's mind.

"You don't need to do that. I came here for a small talk." Ace said as he lowered Blake's blade with his finger. Blake narrowed her amber eyes and put Gambol Shroud away.

"It's about your team. They will know sooner or later." Blake kept her glare at Ace. Courage and confidence showed in Ace's face. "You should know that whatever you reveal them by accident or not, they will know and have to know or many problems will start to rise and you're without them. Trust me. To end the WF, you have to show them before it's too late or else."

That was it? He didn't try to pull her back to WF or threaten her. He was honest and tried to say his advice.

"They have to do nothing with it, Ace. I'm the one who will end that nonsense that called the White Fang." Blake said before she took her book and went outside.

"Don't think that your team, JNPR, and other people won't interfere." Ace stood behind her and whispered. "Adam will go beyond to make the Faunus the strong and humans weak. He will do anything to get you, girl. You will get fucked if you went on your own to fight an entire army and with them a fucking psycho that will get you. He will even REMOVE Sienna from her place and make a deal with the devil to make this place for Faunus. While yes, you can kill him and finish the White Fang…but at what cost?" Ace finished and moved away from her. Blake closed her eyes and closed her palms. How does he know about what Adam WILL do? He won't kill Sienna to find her…would he? "Before I leave," Blake opened her eyes and saw the standing Ace in front of her. "Don't try to kill me in the night. If you tried, I will break a few bones and teach you manners on not entering our room. See ya later." Ace delivered the final message before he went out of sight.

Blake took a deep breath before she went on her way. How did he know about this stuff? Why was he specific about this stuff? Blake asked herself and knew that Ace was talking about crazy stuff. While yes, Adam will try something dirty to complete the White Fang's goal but was he go far and beyond with killing the high leader, Sienna Khan? If you think about it, Sienna was angry at many risky moves Adam did in her time at the White Fang. If he had full control of the White Fang, then humans wouldn't hesitate at finishing the White Fang right on the spot. ADAM won't hesitate to use his worst and sacrifice many Faunus to win this bloody war.

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As the day finished and ACES finished their assignments, they were sitting and doing their stuff. Carl was changing the strings of his guitar, Violet was finishing something she had, and Skyler was writing something, maybe it's weird fantasies or her diary or something private, Ace didn't find out what is that and won't bother to find it. Ace was resting on his bed, reading about time-traveling theories and waiting. What was he waiting for? Violet's move to lend her their scrolls to upgrade them. Unfortunately, the old upgraded scroll wasn't with him so he was waiting for her and it was close like really close.

As for the book he was reading, Ace read about time traveling a lot and pretty much knows how crazy it can be. This book is fully written by Professor Paradox. A man that tended to put crazy ideas and details on time traveling and alternative worlds. It can be confusing, like confusing as fuck, but it's crazy how such an undiscovered subject can be this wild. But this can be interrupted as a sudden bounce next to him had cut his focus.

"Hey, Ace, what are you reading?" Ace looked at his left to see his not deceased friend resting next to him after she finished whatever she wrote and on her face a smile and joy. It's something that brought a big smile to Ace's face. His heart feels happy to have his old friend okay next to him.

"A book about time travel. It's interesting if your mind can keep up with the number of things this book provides." Ace answered while rubbing his hands on her head.

"Yeah, time travel," Violet said as she finished her writing and turned to the duo in the bed. "Something that kept scientists' interest for decades. Do you think I or someone can build a time-traveling machine?"

Ace thought and placed his hand on his chin. "Hmm. Depends on the tools you had and how you can open a hole through space and time." Ace said what was in his thoughts before he closed the book.

"Yeah, you're right. It will be crazy when we go back and reveal secrets that were hidden from our eyes." Violet thought while resting her head on her hand. "Oh, before I forget, can I have the permission to have the scrolls of yours tomorrow?" The turtle Faunus asked.

"Finally! I have been waiting for you to ask! Of course, you can upgrade mine." CES jumped from the sudden outburst of Ace before he pulled his scroll. "Just make sure you don't mess up with the data."

"Okay, how did you know that I will ask?" Violet narrowed her eyes at him.

"I wanted to ask you, but you were shocking lately?"

"Right...Don't worry about that. I had backup if anything happened." Violet reassured Ace before she took Ace's scroll with her semblance.

"Wait, what upgrades are you doing?" Skyler asked.

"Oh, things like better security system, improvements on the design of the scroll, improve the programs in it while adding things like x-ray, motion sensor, and other stuff. I will make these the best without someone noticing any difference. I had this idea for months and consider this my thanks gift for spending a great time with you." Violet counted.

"Okay, since tomorrow is Saturday, we won't do something except the training in the morning," Carl said before he pulled his scroll and gave it to Violet.

"Sure, why not," Skyler said before she also pulled her scroll and threw it at the turtle Faunus.

"Don't worry about it. The upgrades will take a day to finish yours so don't worry about anything." Violet reassured before she put the scrolls on the tables and start the upgrades.

As Violet started, Carl went back on checking the strings of Nevan. Ace and Skyler stayed silent before the blue-haired girl cut the silence, "S-So…do you have any other books?"

"Nah, they aren't that interesting for ya. Maybe we can talk about something else." Ace answered as he put the book at the desk on his right.

"S-S-Sure."

"Do you have any love interest?" Ace asked teasingly, making Skyler blush so hard.

"W-W-W-W-WHAT?!" Skyler stuttered loudly. She didn't expect this question, especially, in front of her crush that easily and that fluid.

"I noticed that you tend to think of someone that you like now and then. Can you tell me who's that guy?" Ace asked more. He knew but he tried to make himself look like he was ignorant.

"I-I-I-I…N-N-No. I-I mean Yes. I had on s-s-someone." Skyler didn't know how to respond. The whole situation was so hard and embarrassing for her. She took breathes, fast ones because that sudden question made her a blushing mess with fast heartbeats.

"Really? Then who's the lucky guy?" Ace continued his teasing. This might get her either to go outside or hide in the bathroom or become unconscious.

"N-Not telling you anything. Y-Y-You will h-have to guess. Yes, guess who's he." Skyler said while she got up from the bed and went to hide in the bathroom.

Ace smirked and turned his head to see Carl and Violet, who couldn't contain their laughter and laughed in low voice. They either think that Ace was ignorant about that or Ace knew but he messed with her. Ace chuckled as it's similar to the way he teased his not deceased friend in the past to know if she liked him or not.

Meanwhile, Skyler was sitting on the toilet and got her knees close to her chest. She finally calmed down and progressed what happened.

"Okay, this was sudden, he nearly knew that I love him so much," Skyler whispered before she slapped herself. "Not now, girl. But what if he likes another girl." She slapped herself again. "No! Don't think of something like this." She covered her face and squealed. "I have to do something." She stayed in her position before she heard a knock on the door.

"Girl! Don't stay in the bathroom for so long! We would eventually like to enter after you finish." The voice behind the door was Ace, snapping her out of those thoughts.

"O-Okay."

…

Days later, the Vytal Festival in Vale was already on the door. Students from other academies were coming slowly into Vale and tend to explore the city for the first time.

Well, nothing was very big or important this day. ACES visited the town and had a little fun in it. Once they returned to Beacon, a coming figure bumped into Ace, and it was revealed to be Blake who was running away from someone. Now, Ace pretty much knew why but she ran in the blink of an eye. But before she ran, she gave Ace that glare of her, a glare that said, 'I don't know how but I don't care. Don't follow me.' And Ace responded, 'Yeah, thought so.'. All of that happened in slow motion. You couldn't understand what happened unless you had that type of speed.

Anyways, Blake was missing for a while and her team tried to get her. They would also meet our favorite and very miserable android, Penny. As well as Sun Wukong who already met Blake in the night she revealed her secret. But it wasn't Ace's focus because he made things run fluidly and did not need any moves for it. Instead, he was sitting and waiting for the right moment to ask Violet in upgrading the Demon Rider and it was the day.

"Ace! You have to help us. I can't stand against Violet searching in the room like this." Skyler begged in a squeal.

"Yes, you know something big she will focus on for most of the week, aren't you?" Carl grabbed his hand and begged similarly to Skyler. While Carl, as much as he liked her, can be annoying sometimes as to how Carl portrayed.

"Fine! You could have asked normally. I have an idea." Ace pushed away Carl and Skyler and stood from his chair.

This was around the time that Violet upgraded her weapons as well as Carl's guitar ax Nevan as she was able to apply dust usage in the guitar and can cooperate with Carl's semblance so he could release shockwave with dust applied to it. She also finished the scrolls' upgrades but that wasn't enough to fill her up. So the Demon Rider was the big thing that can finally fill her up and not have this similar mode again for at least a year or so.

At the moment, Violet was sitting and struggling to find something to fix or upgrade but she didn't know that her savior is coming.

"Vi! Look at me." Violet turned to see her savior calling for her.

"Ace! Please tell me you have something I can work on!" Violet hissed as she pulled his collar and looked at those red eyes.

"Well, I had something. Get your stuff and follow me." Ace answered before he removed that grip of her.

Ace went to the garage where the Demon Rider was sitting and showed it to Violet. Before the turtle Faunus ask, Ace pulled a blue sheet where he had the plans for the upgrade.

"Vi, this is a big task. I want you to finish the idea that I worked on with my old friend when we made the Demon Rider. We didn't have the equipment for it but I'm sure you had." Ace said and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Vi, I trust your big brain and crazy determination to make this idea come to reality. And if you weren't able to make it, that's okay as long as the Demon Rider works normally." Ace gave her the design of the Demon Rider and in it, the ideas he want to add. Violet's eyes wide opened. This looked like the biggest project she might have made besides the BFG 3000. It brought a huge smile to her face.

"Don't worry, Ace. I will make that baby into a monster." She put her goggles on her eyes and cracked her fingers before going to work on the project.

Ace smiled as another task was done. Now, he would wait a week until she finish and it meant that she will end them before the semester break. So, he wouldn't spend a lot of time traveling.

As he left, Carl and Skyler were standing outside, questioning whatever Ace's plan would work and looked like it did. So, they embraced Ace very tightly, making Ace struggle in breathing.

"Thank you, Ace! You're truly the savior of us!" Carl and Skyler exclaimed happily while hugging tighter.

"You're… Welcome…Gods, I can't breathe!" Ace said in his struggle.

…

A week later and it was near the time Violet finished the upgrades. Around that time, she didn't focus on the project all the time as she went to classes, spent some time with her team, ate together, etc. Eventually, the turtle Faunus finished the project after a week as Ace remembered and so, he asked for permission to go to the Emerald Forest to try out the Demon Rider's new upgrade as a training excuse.

"Remind me again why are we here, Vi?" Carl asked while putting his hands on his waist, next to him Ace and Skyler. Violet was in front of them with a cloaked figure next to her.

"Well, my good friends. Today, one of the biggest and craziest ideas I had ever made is finished. I present to you, the new Demon Rider." Violet presented as she revealed the Demon Rider like a big invention she made. The blue motorcycle looked the same except that from the inside, it's not.

"Wait…does it look the same?" Carl asked confused which had Skyler nodding.

"You see, my good friend, it might look like the same as before but it's not as the inside is the monster. A monster that I don't know where Ace got the idea from and every time I ask Ace responds 'Storm's mind' so I stopped giving any damn about it." Violet explained warping her arm around Carl's neck and turning to Ace. "So, Ace, will you try it out?"

"I'm eager to do this shit for a while, Vi." Violet threw the keys of the Demon Rider to Ace, which he caught.

Ace pressed the button for the auto work and rode it. Ace took a deep breath as the Adrenaline was going through his vines slowly but surely, this will get crazy.

Ace charged forward with high speed into the forest to find the nearby Grimm. After a few seconds, he found some Beowulf which was a good amount to try on. He smirked and went to the rock to fly above them. As he flipped in mid-air, he pressed a button in the middle of it, making handlebars appear in the spot where the gas tank meets the seat and the motorcycle splits in half. The tires then open up into large spiked buzzsaws.

As Ace landed in the middle of the Grimm horde, he started cutting them like a mad lad. With his strength, he swung it like a sword to the Beowulf on his right, cutting it in an instant. Doing the same to the left before he started running towards the Beowulves, cutting them in the process. He continued running until he stopped to see a rushing Ursa coming to him. Ace smirked as he dodged the attack and made the right part of the Demon Rider runs on the Grimm's back. After he cut the Ursa, the blade moved on the ground like a wheel with Ace balancing on it before he jumped and spun in the air and the ground as he made a circle of death on the Grimm before he stopped to take his breath.

"Now, that's what I would like to say an Adrenaline Rush." Ace chuckled before he went to find more Grimm to kill before a lot of Grimm parts behind him.

This crazy rampage made CES from behind shocked and the jaws nearly dropped on the ground. And holy shit! This 'Storm's mind' really says don't ask. Skyler crouched and hugged her knees, Carl put his hands on his head to register what was happening.

"We're still in the first semester and already went to this level!" Skyler squealed making Carl and Violet nodding. "Vi…is there anything else Ace asked for?" The blue-haired girl turned to her turtle Faunus friend.

"I add what he asked other than this…crazy shit he asked…a better engine, a fuel system which can use different resources especially that blue electricity that has so much power in it. I add a smart screen to it that had a similar function we had in our scroll and it's connected to Ace's scroll." Violet explained before She jumped out of excitement, knowing that she made something feels like Atlas production but on her trademark. "Hell yes! It's fucking works more than I anticipated!"

A while later, Ace came back after a Grimm massacre, his body covered in sweat and dirt, his face had a huge smile and a tear of joy was in his eyes and the Demon Rider returned from the buzzsaws mode to the normal Motorcycle mode.

"Wow! This was the first time in a while I felt this excitement! WOOOHOOO!" Ace exclaimed happily. After that, he embraced his Faunus friend tightly. "Thank you, Violet! Thank you!" Ace thanked. Truly, this was the first in years he felt something like that. The first time he used the Demon Rider was less crazy than this time.

"You're welcome." She replied. "…Can you take a bath, please? Your smell is bad!" Violet complained after.

…

In another location, in a gear-style office, the Headmaster of Beacon, professor Ozpin was sitting and watching the clip he saw. Next to him, Glynda Goodwitch who still trying to understand what the fuck happened.

Now, Ozpin was a man that likes to see his students go to the best they can. He wanted to see the potential of who can break the limit to see who can be helpful against Salem in the war. Now, in his life, he saw many things and met many people and this was the time that needed to make a good move on Salem.

The plan was to have team RWBY and JNPR help in this war. He wouldn't send them to their doom because they need many things to improve to keep up against the powerful and deadly witch who was previously his lovely wife. And looking at the progress of both teams, they were improving but not to the point where he could send them to that wildness. Especially how Blake Belladonna returned to her friends and teammates recently after disappearing for a few days. There was also Jaune Arc who started to have a shape of an above-average huntsman. With the help of Pyrrha Nikos, he could get better to the point he can get used to some challenges and also a possible relationship development between the Blonde knight and the Mistralian Champion.

But today, a new potential entered the race and it seemed like it was going way better than expected. Now, Ozpin saw much bizarre stuff in his life, and Ace going crazy with very bizarre weapon choice was like top 10. Ace was the person that seemed ready the most, especially how he used that weapon as he used it before. His other teammates were still not ready but they can get there.

"That was certainly interesting," Ozpin commented before he took a sip of his usual coffee.

"For the sake of Remnant...and I thought Zack was crazy. His son is worse." Glynda commented.

Now, Glynda knew Ace's father Zack storm as she met him before and Zack was known for the crazy things but today, it wasn't compared to most things Zack made in Beacon.

"Now, Glynda, I think this is a result of having a child with Mrs. Reigns. While I met many Storms in my long life. Ace is reaching as one of the craziest and best ones I met so far. Still, we have to wait before we do any move. You're dismissed." Glynda nodded before she left the office.

Ozpin took another sip of his coffee and thought. Ace would likely be a great weapon to use in this war. But it stopped on whether Ace would agree or not. He couldn't make it with Zack or Regina because they didn't want to get involved in this and as he saw how they had five children, one of them was graduated from Beacon and the other entered this year while the other two still have a long way to get here. He could think of that in the second semester as it was only a few days and many either will stay here or go to visit their family.

This year was indeed interesting.

AN: Hello, everyone.

I want to say that I'm sorry but I'm not a guy who can finish a chapter quickly so that's why I take so much time in it. I didn't promise about having a schedule so you have to be patient.

Anyways, I felt like I want to rework the story and start in the middle of Fall of Beacon instead. If you want that, then tell me because the idea doesn't seem to go away.

The last thing, I might release an Alt ending for the prologue where Ace was able to get the relic from Salem and used it to fix everything. Do you like to see it later or not because I wrote a good portion of it in the last days when the internet was bad?

Don't forget to favorite, follow, and review,

Sincerely, Eslam.