"Powering training droid 43, full power in t-minus 2 minutes; please make sure to check your weapons and other essentials you'll need in battle."

Cole quickly scrambled toward a table holding his personal weapons. Ammunition, dust vials as well as crystals, guns of all types and sizes, and lastly some medical supplies for later, but he doubted he'd need them.

"Training droid at full power, beginning next round for-"

"JUST START THE GOD DAMN TRAINING PROGRAM!" he suddenly snapped angrily, as he tightly started clenching his teeth and tightening his grip on his sword he charged forward charging his power into the regulators of his sword and sliced through the bot's armor but nothing more.

"They all deserve your hate, your power frightens them, they envy you, they don't understand you" a strange voice said in his head which distracted him long enough making sure he'd receive an armored fist to the face and the droid charged him before he had time to recover. It brought down its great sword, luckily Cole had enough time to block the hit and kicked the bot away, so he could get some much-needed distance from it and brought his hand up firing off a few bolts of lightning to stun it, but it ended up blowing off its armor.

But while the rage built up, a powerful swipe to the arm and chest like a giant pair of scissors cutting the bot open exposing his goal and stabbed the crystals in its chest draining the power out and blew it up at the same time.

Memories began pouring in from a few months ago relating to Weiss, Blake, yang, jaune and Pyrrha, all who had talked behind his back at one point or another causing his anger to spike significantly. "I'm gonna take this trash out!" he thought, swinging his sword to parry the bot's swing.

four months ago*

Cole was on cloud nine, five weeks of perfecting his fighting style, Ruby helping him study on the side, and finally feeling like his life was getting better. His new friends weren't as bad as he had been led to assume, "I definitely think everyone deserves a full course homemade dinner tonight hehehe it's the least I can do for everything they've done for me" he said, pulling out his phone to call Glynda for help when he heard three familiar voices around coming for around the corner.

"All I'm saying is if Cole isn't already… arrested, he will be, and we'll all be the one's paying for it" Cole froze at their tone and lack of discretion. His chest constricted and throat went dry instantly. Clenching his fists, he took a few controlled breaths before he grabbed his phone and opened his camera app and pushed the lens towards the edge to get a look at the group and accidentally pressed the record button. It was nora, Weiss, and Pyrrha they were talking….behind his back? But why?

"Well…you have a point, he was the one who destroyed the training room last week "perfecting" his combat but I'm too concerned about how he'll react to what you did nora" Weiss added just as he gasped pulling the lens away as said girl looked in his direction and replied loudly, "well he deserves to see it after what he said about jaune; he was innocent, and he'd said that crap to Ruby. He should be happy Ren stopped me before I could do so much more" his heart dropped to his stomach and took off in a dead sprint for his room, "please let it be a joke..." his mind was swimming with hopes and fears as to what she could have done now.

He practically had to kick the door in to open it, and when he saw the room he dropped to his knees stunned in disbelief.

A slash across the bot's chest interrupted the memory and gave Cole time to create some distance. Only for him to realize that he'd broken its sword, The bot, however, looked down at its ruined armor and back at him, tossed the large blade at him and brought out its smaller sword and charged towards him.

He managed to parry the broken great sword and block the quick attacks, but a few got through his defense and cut into his armor like it was made of paper.

three months ago*

"I bet he's too dangerous to be on a team" Weiss' voice was heard loud and proud for Cole to hear from behind him in port's class. They were all busy taking notes on Velvet's recreation of the mythical kraken Grimm, but Cole was having trouble focusing enough on the notes when people wouldn't stop gossiping about him with ZERO DISCRETION.

"Weiss I told you before that he doesn't want to be in a team" ruby defended writing down notes for the class. Cole had a small smile creep on his face hearing ruby step up for him, but he needed more than one person at this side through his hard time. It was nice, though.

Unfortunately for Weiss as she tried to agree with Ruby, jaune opened his egotistical mouth "he's probably too cowardice to admit that he needs a team to fight properly in a mission" Cole suddenly went rigged and held the solid metal pencil in his hand threatening to try and break it in half.

"I swear to the gods- you're an asshole arc" Weiss began as he finished her notes and looked at Cole's wild head of white hair "he's so full of himself on add-on missions that he ignores anyone he's assigned with"

"hehe, he's better off staying in Vale as a cop or a wall guard; he'll die otherwise"

Cole's rage took hold and rooted itself into his head just as he snapped the pencil in half, glowing a fiery orange gold. Everyone turned their heads only for them to catch a glimpse of Cole storm out glowing vibrant and brightly -in Ruby's opinion like he was being consumed in resentment and rage, which worried her since her friends weren't taking her advice seriously to leave Cole alone and treat him better but of course they weren't.

Unfortunately for Cole, port was calling him back to his seat, but was being drowned out just before the doors slamming shut.

"Damn, probably shouldn't have put this on a high difficulty" he said before receiving a sidekick to the stomach and slid hit the ground hard. Rolling to his feet, he yelled "give me more!"

As the bot ran toward him, three more bots rose from the ground and charged him with a mace, a pair of dust pistols. a sword and a whip, respectively.

'That's what I'm talking about' he thought maliciously smiling, the bot with the whip caught his free arm and yanked him to the left into the bot with the mace and went flying with it.

two months ago*

"I know right? Anytime he declines to be on a team he comes back from team missions in bandages or wakes up in the infirmary" Pyrrha said holding herself in her arms, uncomfortable with seeing Cole in the infirmary bed with Ruby sleeping in his bed holding him as close as she possibly could. Weiss was there too and by the looks of things she was feeling downright dejected about the mess Cole was just in 'I should apologize for everything'.

Yang put a hand on Pyrrha's shoulder and said, "but I do think he shouldn't be alone with her; he'll hurt her soon, I can feel it"

If Cole was awake, he hid it well when Ruby woke up crying on his body, soaking his bandages and hospital gown in her tears.

after Cole had woken up that day he had been more unstable around the others and took more jobs that needed bodyguards and muscle to prevent people from being hurt or worse.

He only got worse himself as the days rolled by and almost fought outside of Glynda's classes rife with a white-hot flame that raged in his soul, but thankfully Ruby was there to calm him some and kept doing it for a month hoping he'd get better emotionally, but nope, he got worse regarding the Grimm hordes and constant missions that took weeks for the average hunter to complete but took him a few days at most.

"Cole just go blow off some steam, I'll talk to them" his rage went down a bit but not enough to bulldoze through yang and jaune hurriedly speed walking towards the training room to break the more powerful training robots. "You two really should stop poking the bear" Weiss scolded as she followed close behind in case something happened.

meanwhile in the control room*

Behind a set of one-way windows someone had broken into the room and saw the difficulty to all four bots were so high, so they decided overwriting would be a bit easier but not by much, long slender fingers danced across every key to keep up with the defense grid in the system, but this was to be expected for the best security in all of Vale.

"Sorry, but this woman knows how to work around your cute little walls" she said with a smirk looking at the system's schematics to each droid and had them all filled to the brim with lightning variant 8 dust crystal to help Cole after each bot was taken out.

one hour earlier*

As much as jaune liked being at beacon and became a leader he got bored not being able to fight anyone who'd even spar with him, even though he was still so far behind everyone else he didn't think he was that bad…well, that was until Cole got there, he didn't have a record in any of the four kingdoms, and he had no way of proving his fighting style or skill unless he fought with someone. "a nobody like him made me look like such a fool…and he's the same age as me!' he thought angrily.

While the rest of his team and RWBY (minus Weiss) were currently studying in the library jaune decided to walk around the academy riding high on his secret session with Pyrrha, and after a few minutes he got the great idea to see if Cole was interested in a spar and considering everyone made it their goal to beat Cole. he, of course, wanted to give it another try since he had yet to get so much as a single hit on him, so far only Glynda , Qrow, and ozpin had beaten him in a spar, albeit because he'd begged them multiple times to spar with him only to get beaten pretty badly, and out of the blue Ruby came close the whole school found out cause Cardin leaked those videos to everyone in beacon.

Soon enough -because he had a large pool of aura- jaune stupidly thought he could finally be capable to beat him with ease, but on that day he saw Cole thrashing training bots left from right in droves, he decided against jumping in, so he figured it was best to watch Cole fight bot after bot gradually upping the difficulty from beginner to novice, over to intermediate, then apprentice, then up to expert. The longer Cole fought the harder he pushed himself, almost as if his power were an ocean compared to his own, and jaune only got more jealous and spiteful than he already was. But would soon have a reason to fight him anyway "man's pride before the fall will cause devastation" he muttered, thinking that it was Cole that was the prideful one seeing as how he never lost to a single student.

back to Cole's fight*

as he got up, he gritted his teeth as the pain in his ribs and face finally registered it. Instead of stopping, he let his control go allowing himself to become a figurative storm of lightning and swords as he thrust his fist through the bot he was thrown into and used it as a shield as the whipping bot grabbed his leg and pulled while the sword bots charged him from behind.

He smirked and kicked out the pistol bot's legs and pulled the whip bot forward into the sword bots, but the other bot currently stuck to his arm was sparking and caught fire which he'd caused. Cole ripped the bot off his arm and threw it at the bot in front of him before diving out of the way before the four bots were blown up with it.

"He's also far too aggressive in combat class, and it needs to stop. In a month he'll be in cuffs, I bet my savings on it" jaune said watching Cole sparring with Ruby on hand-to-hand combat. Granted he was supposed to go easy as per Yang's request, but ruby told him if he went easy it wouldn't be as fun….plus he was too pissed to go easy on her anyway.

He got up and turned around just in time to get smacked in the face by the flat of the sword from the first bot, and looked better than the other bots considering what Cole was capable of.

Hitting the floor he rolled two feet away, bleeding pretty badly from his nose. And as he rose from the ground to recalibrate he grimaced at the taste of the floor and spit it out, wiping the blood from the rip in the scar on his lip. "Damn it, this just finished healing too" he said panting and coughing harshly before dodging a haymaker before he swung in a similar manner.

Seeing that he was on his feet the bot tried again, Just as Cole did the same he let out the loudest most rageful roar he could just as they punched each other with so much force that they were thrown five feet onto the ground both unmoving and out of energy.

Cole was the first to get up from the hit and noticed a lot of blood was freely flowing from his nose, the split in his lower lip, back, left arm, and right leg. His pants were ripped from the middle of his shins down and soaked in sweat and blood, his shirt and armor were no better, but then again looking over at the bot on the floor he saw that it was in even worse shape.

Looking around he took notice that it's head was long gone, two of the three bots were heaped in the middle of melting together and created a large hole in its chest plate due to the amount of heat the pile radiated, and soon some of the reinforced plastic in the visors and the rubber in the feet and hands popped loudly spewing parts and shards everywhere.

By the time he realized how high the flames were he opened his mouth to call for the extinguisher protocol if it weren't for an enormous blast of ice-cold air hit him so hard it knocked him on his back and froze the sweat all over him as well as the blood from his cuts and nearly sent his body into shock.

Collecting as much lightning out of the floors as possible, he began powering himself up for his last resort. Right as the ice began to harden around him, he let out. a roar just before he brought down a shower of lightning draining some power from the lights in the rafters and ended up creating snow that fell all around the arena and covered him in the frosted fluff. Under all the snow he let out a few chattering breaths while trying to calm down.

I'll be posting the whole fight and explanations trust me, everything is rushed out because I was a month late

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