Chp. 38: The V.I.P.
U.H.L. Headquarters
Inside the U.H.L. building, the students, teachers, and Huntsmen and Huntresses had followed Cassandra inside the U.H.L. building and up to a pair of double doors.
"All of you please enter inside and find a seat," Cassandra said.
Everyone entered through the doors and inside was a large decorative auditorium filled with rows of fold up chairs. Down in front was a stage that had two curved desks and one long desk in between the other two tables. Centered up front was a large podium with two off shot desks around it. The wall behind the desks had the U.H.L. logo centered on it and a large monitor a few feet above it. Everyone looks around, admiring the auditorium as they look for their seats.
"This is a very nice auditorium," Robert said.
"I like the attention to detail," Weiss said.
"So what's gonna happen once everyone arrives?" Jaune asked.
"Some special surprises, that's what," a voice sounding exactly like Jaune answered.
Teams RWBY, JNPR, GRMA, and CFDT all turned around and saw two very familiar men, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross.
"Miles! Kerry!" Ruby exclaimed as she dashed at the two co-writers and embraced them into a hug.
"What are you guys doing here?" Kelly asked.
"Miles and I came with the president to see you all, including the others," Kerry answered.
"Others?" Jacob asked.
"I still can't believe that all this is real right now. This must be a fucking dream," a new voice cut in.
Everyone turned to see who the new voice was and Teams CFDT and GRMA recognized who that person was. The man is dressed in a black button shirt, dark blue jeans, and black shoes. He has dark brown, short curly hair and a stubble beard and mustache and wore black glasses on his face.
"Oh my god! You're Burnie Burns!" Rebecca exclaimed, pointing at the man.
"One of the founders of Rooster Teeth," Weiss said in realization.
"And dad's voice actor!" Yang said.
"We've managed to contact Burnie and managed to convince him to come over," Kerry said. "We also brought those who voiced the characters of RWBY."
"He had a hard time believing that Remnant is real, but after a brief visit from the government he's managed to come," Miles said.
"At first, it sounded like they were spewing out bullshit and were messing with me. I mean, this all sounds ridiculous, but when the government came at my doorstep and showed me evidence, here I am," Burnie explained.
"Yeah, I'd have a hard time believing all this too," Kendra said.
"So how are things at Rooster Teeth going?" Nora asked.
"Terrible. Awful. Aside from doing work at home due to the COVID, several former employees came up and accused the higher ups at Rooster Teeth for the toxic work environment within the company and being fucking racist and sidelining people of color, despite hiring several people of color," Kerry explained.
The news took everyone by surprise. None of them expected to hear news like this.
"So what happens now?" Blake asked.
"Next week, my family and I will be moving overseas to pursue my own creative endeavors," Burnie answered. "I will come back to work on content if offered."
Everyone had sad and disappointed looks on their faces, but understood that there was another reason why Burnie was leaving Rooster Teeth, to get away from the toxic work environment within the company.
"Come on, I know you all are upset to hear this. I know this hurts, but right now it's probably for the best to go this route," Miles said.
"So come on and try to suck it up. Aside from coming here to get a break from all the bad shit that's been happening to us and getting called by the government to see the plans for everyone and everything, we all came to see you all," Burnie said. "Try to focus on the little things in life."
The sixteen Huntsmen and huntresses in training all slowly gave small smiles.
"You guys are right. I hope you guys can find a way to recover from all that you're going through," Ruby said.
"Thank you, Ruby," Kerry said.
Watching several feet away, Professor Ozpin, General Ironwood, Glynda, Winter, Pietro, and Penny watched the four teams bonding with the three members of Rooster Teeth.
"So those are the writers of the show?" Glynda asked.
"It would seem so," Ozpin said.
"I wish the show's creator, Monty Oum was here. It would have been sensational to meet him," Penny said.
"I'm sure it would have been," Ironwood said.
"Professor Ozpin?" a new voice cut in.
Everyone turned to see who the voice was and saw two people. They were surprised to see who the first person was. It was the current Fall Maiden, Amber. She was wearing a long, green hooded cloak on top of an off-white blouse with frill detailing on the shoulders, pleated lower half with a central split, alongside a brown vest that had three straps and golden lining around the collar. She had a dark brown corset with matching pants, as well as a pair of brown thigh-high boots with large cuffs and golden armour plating covering the boots up to her knees. She also had an amber pendant on her vest, a gold bracer on her left arm, and two gold bracelets on her right wrist. Finally, she had a golden spaulder on her right shoulder as well as a brown shoulder strap with some pouches slung diagonally across her body.
The second person was a boy with dark red hair and green eyes. He wears a pair of black steel toed boots and blue pants with a small chain hooked to the side of his pants. He also wore a white t-shirt, a black leather jacket, and a pair of black fingerless gloves.
"Amber. I am glad to see that you are-" Ozpin gets cut off as the boy steps in front of Amber.
"Sir, step away from her, please," he said as he put his hand out.
"Cade, it's alright. They're friendly," Amber said before turning to Ozpin. "Sorry Oz, Agent Cade here takes his job protecting me a little too seriously."
Penny tilts her head at the boy known as Cade in curiosity.
"Protecting you?" Ironwood asked.
"I was tasked to protect the Fall Maiden, Amber by the higher ups of the United States," Cade said.
"But aren't you a little young for this?" Winter asked.
"He does have an aura. I can sense it," Ozpin said.
"Yes, but still he doesn't look like he's up for protecting Amber, aside from scaring little kids with the way he looks," Glynda said. "Besides, isn't he a little too young to be an agent?"
Penny steps up to Cade, still staring at him with a curious look on her face. She widened her eyes as she finally spoke.
"You're... just like me."
"Darling, what are you talking about?" Pietro asked.
"I'm an android capable of producing aura," Cade said.
Everyone except for Amber was surprised to hear the fact that Cade was an android.
"But... how were they able to create you?" Glynda asked.
"Captain Gordon explained to me that when they were hacking into the systems to sever Cinder's access during the Vytal Festival tournament, they also copied the blueprints to Penny's hardware and aura transferring technology," Ironwood explained.
"But how were they able to give Cade a soul?" Pietro asked. "They would need a part of someone else's aura to create and manifest a soul."
"That is classified," Cade answered.
"I was told that the U.S. government captured a random criminal from Remnant and extracted all of his aura and used a part of it to create a soul for him. The rest of the man's aura is in containment," Amber said.
Everyone was shocked to hear that the government had forcefully removed a part of a criminal's aura and used it to create a soul to give to Cade in order to generate aura.
"They took all of a bystander's aura?!" Winter asked.
"But doing that would kill him. They actually did that?!" Pietro asked, before coughing.
"That man would have bombed a restaurant. He was not mentally sane," Cade said.
"Besides, the president stated that Cade will be the only American android that the government will build due finding out about the inhumane treatment of the victim," Amber said.
"That's fine. As long as no more lives are lost or crippled just to create more androids like Penny or Cade," Ironwood said with a sigh.
"So Cade, what was your purpose when you were created?" Penny asked.
"To serve and protect the United States and its people. I am a Combat Android for Direct Enforcement. Unlike you, I have more upgrades and can speak all of Earth's languages. I am a Penny 2.0," Cade explained.
"So you are also designed to be better than Penny?" Pietro asked.
"Affirmative," Cade replied.
"So Amber, how are you feeling right now?" Ozpin asked.
"Aside from only possessing half of the Maiden power and gaining some permanent scars, I've managed to make a full recovery, thanks to the doctors back in the United States," Amber said.
"That is good to hear," Ozpin said.
Alex then walks up to the group as they turn to face him.
"I would like the headmasters to please come with me," he ordered.
"Duty calls," Ironwood said.
Alex walked away as Ozpin and Ironwood followed behind him. Back with Team RWBY, the four girls took their seats and waited for the meeting to start.
"Too bad we have to sit someplace else instead of with our friends," Yang said.
"It's probably to prevent distractions and unwanted interruptions," Weiss said.
"Excuse us but can we sit with you four," a new voice asked.
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang turned and widened their eyes seeing four women standing next to them. The first woman wore a pair of black leggings that reached down below her knees and white shoes, along with a red shirt with an image of Ruby on it. The woman has blonde hair, brown eyes, and has a fat build.
The second woman wears a pair of blue jeans with worn down holes on the thighs of her pants, a pair of brown knee-high boots, and a black t-shirt with an image of Weiss on it. She has blonde hair and brown eyes.
"The third woman wore a pair of black high heels, a pair of blue shorts, and a black t-shirt with an image of Blake on it. She has long black hair, gray eyes and some tattoos on her right arm and left shoulder.
The last woman is wearing a pair of dark blue jeans and a t-shirt with the right side of the shirt is black with an image of Yang on it and the left side of it is yellow with Yang's emblem on it. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Oh my gosh! Your our voice actresses!" Ruby squealed in excitement. "Can I have your autographs?!"
The voice actresses all laughed as each of them pulled out a photo of themselves with their names autographed on them. They sat next to the four girls.
"I see you already know who we are," the first blonde woman said.
"Yes! You're Lindsay Jones, Kara Eberle, Arryn Zech, and Barbara Dunkelman!" Ruby exclaimed excitingly, pointing at each voice actress.
"This is weird and exciting to see our characters right in front of us," Arryn said.
"I'd say it's pretty awesome," Barbara said.
"It is awesome," Yang said.
"It's so great to finally meet you!" Ruby said.
"Same here, Ruby." Lindsay said.
"So has anymore of you shown up, besides you four Kerry, Miles, and Burnie?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah, the rest of JNPR's voice actors are here too," Kara answered.
"Along with my husband, Michael, and our friend, Gavin Free," Lindsay added.
"Speaking of which, it looks like they're both interacting with Team SSSN right now," Barbara said, pointing at Team SSSN.
They all turned to see two men sitting next to Team SSSN. The first man has brown curly hair, brown eyes, a beard and mustache, and tattoos on his arms. He wears a grey t-shirt, dark blue jeans, a pair of white and black sneakers, and a black cap on his head.
The second man has light brown hair and green eyes, along with a beard and mustache. He wears a grey t-shirt, a pair of tan shorts, and dark green shoes.
"So Michael... you're my voice actor?" Sun asked Michael then turned to Gavin. "And you're Scarlet's voice actor?"
"Fuck yeah, dude," Michael answered.
"Yeah. Even though I don't have many lines in the show," Gavin also answered.
"I can't believe our team is all voiced by nerds," Neptune said.
"But we're awesome nerds," Gavin said.
"I am, but I'm not sure about you, Gavin," Michael said with a smirk.
"So you're married to Ruby's voice actress?" Sun asked his voice actor.
"Yep, and I knocked her up and have got kids of our own," Michael answered.
"So are you now planning to get with Ruby?" Gavin asked Sun.
"Yeah, Sun. Are you?" Scarlet asked with a slight grin.
"What?! No!" Sun answered with his face red.
"Gavin, shut the fuck up," Michael said.
"Yeah, that goes for you too, Scarlet!" Sun said as everyone else laughed.
"He better not try to get with my baby sis," Yang growled.
"Yeah, let's hope he isn't monkeying around," Barbara said, making Yang laugh and everyone else groan.
"God dammit, Barb!" Burnie said as he walked past the eight ladies.
"I don't know what you're complaining about. I thought that pun was appealing," Yang said as Barbara laughed and everyone else groaned.
"Great now there's two of them," Weiss groaned.
"When you're around Barbara, you try to get used to it," Kara said.
"But let's see how we can handle two," Weiss said.
"Come on. Weiss so angry?" Yang asked.
"Yeah, you need to chill," Barbara said.
Everybody groaned as Yang and Barbara continued to make more bad puns.
"Make it stop. Please!" Ruby groaned.
"Stay strong, Ruby. We're in this together!" Lindsay said, wrapping her arm around Ruby.
Suddenly the lights dimmed, causing everyone in the auditorium to turn their attention to the stage.
"Oh, thank Jesus," Kara sighed in relief.
Keaton walked up to the podium as Professor Ozpin, General Ironwood, Professor Theodore, and Professor Bellerose walked to the left desk and four ambassadors of Japan, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom walked to the right desk, and all took their seats.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome you all to United Hunters League, an organization that is dedicated to serving and protecting humanity upon both the worlds of Remnant and Earth from dangerous threats that seek to destroy," Keaton said. "I would like to welcome the president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump."
The marine captain walks off from the podium and off of the stage. President Trump then walked upon the stage and stood behind the podium as everyone gave a round of applause.
"Ambassadors, RT officials, and Huntsmen and Huntresses in training of Earth, Headmasters, political officials, and academic students of Remnant, welcome," the U.S. president began. "We are all joined together to an international program to bridge and bind the planets of Earth and Remnant together in unity, and to protect mankind from threats that seek to destroy it."
Everyone gave another round of applause. Trump spoke again.
"The United Hunters League is the start of a new age and beginning for both worlds. This special organization is comprised of the best of the best Huntsmen, scientists, doctors, and military personnel. Going ahead with these plans will create better protection, better security, and better relationships towards each other. This program is gonna be great."
The crowd burst into applause again and the president spoke again.
"To answer major questions you all may have, there will be restrictions you all will have to endure when facing tasks and missions due to age, rank, history, and experience. This will prevent large numbers of lives within the ranks from being lost until you all prove yourselves to be ready, especially to the young students in the academies."
The headmasters felt some relief to hear this, knowing that this might help prevent the loss of their students.
"For the question of race, free speech and equality is a right to all persons within the U.H.L. Whether you are human, Faunus, Black, Hispanic, religious, high class, middle class, low class, it doesn't matter. Everyone has a voice."
All the Faunus in the audience felt a sense of hopefulness now knowing that this organization believes in equality and condemns racism.
"For the leadership within the kingdoms of Remnant, they will be notified of the plans that will be made, along with the rest of the United Nations back on Earth. Once both worlds are informed of each other's existence in a safe and peaceful manner, then together we can discuss open diplomatic relations to unify both worlds. And the U.H.L. will not only protect humanity for both worlds, but also show that both peoples of Remnant and Earth can work together to make the worlds better places to live."
Everyone felt hopeful for what the future held thanks to the plans but nervous about what the worlds' leaders' responses would be. Those who were more familiar with Earth and aware of the events going on Earth had one more question on their minds; What will they say to the Kingdoms about the coronavirus pandemic back on Earth? President Trump continued his speech.
"However there is a crisis back on Earth, as some of you are aware. There is a worldwide pandemic back on Earth that threatens the lives of millions known as the coronavirus, most referred to as COVID-19. But rest assured, we are currently having the best doctors create a vaccination for the virus. If the virus does manage to spread to Remnant, we will help in anyway we can."
Many Remnans felt concerned for their home planet being plagued with the coronavirus, but slightly calmed themselves when they heard that a vaccination was under development.
"There will be challenges, there will be conflicts, there will be hardships, but we will get the job done. Together this day we stand united. Together we will eradicate radicalization from the faces of both worlds. Together we will thrive and prosper under the face of God. And I know we will achieve great accomplishments for a great peace and we will shine for everyone to follow.
Everyone cheered and applauded as Trump walked off from the podium and off the stage. Keaton walked on the stage and up to the podium.
"As we speak we are having homes being constructed for each team to live in. Until those homes are complete, we have a hotel reconstructed within Mountain Glenn as temporary quarters for you all to live in for the night." Keaton said. "For the next week, you all will be under some training then will go back to your academies until further notice."
Mountain Glenn Hotel
Later at sunset, everyone was inside a large lobby within a rebuilt hotel. They all hung out with each other doing various activities. Teams GRMA, Blake, Weiss, and Burnie sat around a coffee table playing a card game called Million Dollars, But...
"Blake, a million dollars," Kelly began.
"That's a lot of money," Burnie said.
"But... every time you use an elevator, you will go back in time and watch your parents conceive you," Kelly finished reading her card with a sly grin.
Blake gagged at first but then grew a huge blush on her face.
"Or a million dollars, but... every time you use an elevator, a cult that sees you as their savior will commit a horrible crime in your name," Weiss said as she read from her card.
"I'm going with Kelly's card," Blake said as her face turned red.
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me," Jacob said.
"Geez Blake. I know you're a smut addict and all, but this is a new low for you," Allen said.
"Shut up!" Blake said, still blushing.
Meanwhile at another table, Team JNPR sat together talking to each other.
"So in a week we head back to Beacon, huh?" Jaune asked.
"It seems we do," Pyrrha said.
"We do need to catch up with our classes anyway," Ren said.
"But they're so boring!" Nora groaned.
"It was fun while it lasted," Pyrrha said.
"Everyone will be asking a lot of questions," Jaune said.
"I'm sure we can come up with an excuse," Pyrrha said.
"Hey guys!" a voice cut in.
The four teens turned to see Miles with three other people with him. The first person is a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a white and pink V-neck T-shirt, which has a pink heart with a white thunderbolt on the chest. She also wears a black jeans and black flip-flops.
The second is a woman with short black hair, brown eyes and a tattoo on each of the upper arms. She wears a black t-shirt with an image of Pyrrha on the front, and a black skirt and black high heels.
The third person is a man with black hair, brown eyes, and tan skin. He wore a green t-shirt with an image of Ren on it, dark blue jeans, and white shoes.
"Guys, I want you all to meet the rest of your voice actors; Samantha Ireland, Jen Brown, and Neath Oum," Miles introduced.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Pyrrha said.
"The pleasure is ours," Jen said.
"This is so weird and so exciting!" Nora exclaimed.
"I know, right?" Samantha said.
Ren looked at Neath who looked back at him with a smile.
"So you're my current voice actor and Monty's brother?" Ren asked.
"Yes I am," Neath answered. "If only Monty was here to see this right now. He'd go nuts."
"So what's been happening with you guys? Anything exciting?" Miles asked.
"Pyrrha and I have been dating lately," Jaune said.
"That's great! Congrats to you two!" Jen said.
"If people back on earth knew about this, they'd go crazy," Samantha said.
"Arkos shippers would be like 'About goddamn time!'" Miles said.
"So what about you and Nora? Are you together-together?" Neath asked.
Ren and Nora were silent. Nora's face turned red, while Ren gave a blank stare.
"Not yet?" Samantha asked.
"Um... Hey did you know Jaune and Pyrrha had sex one time?!" Nora quickly blurted out.
"Nora!" Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha all shouted.
Unfortunately, everyone in the lobby went silent as they all heard Nora's outburst. They all stared at the group with widened eyes as Weiss facepalmed, and Rebecca and Yang smirked.
"Well shit, dude. Alright! Way to bag Pyrrha, Jaune," Michael said as he clapped.
"Lucky," Sun and Neptune said.
"Congrats on losing your V-cards to each other, you two," Miles said to Jaune and Pyrrha.
Jaune covered his face with both his hands in embarrassment as Pyrrha looked down in shame with a red face.
"Don't encourage this!" Glynda shouted, then turned to Pyrrha and Jaune. "Mr. Arc. Ms. Nikos. I hope you both realize how potentially serious this is."
"Now Glynda, it's just young love. There is no harm done, as long as there was protection involved," Ozpin said.
"There was," Rebecca said.
"Wait, you guys knew about this?" Glynda asked.
"They also made a sex tape while under the influence," Britney replied.
"Seriously?!" Scarlet asked.
"So you two, how was your tussle?" Coco asked the couple with a smirk as she lowered her sunglasses.
"Please stop," Jaune groaned.
"Ha! Who knew the invincible girl was such a slut!" Cardin said.
"At least they didn't make a mistake like your parents," Ricky countered at the bully.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!" several students and the voice actors exclaimed then laughed.
"Damn!" Michael said.
"Shots fired," Allen said with a slight chuckle.
Cardin growled as everyone around him continued to laugh.
"Luckily I managed to save the video. They really gave me some ideas with Ren when we should get the chance," Nora thought.
Keaton approaches Jacob with a folder in his hand. He tapped on his shoulder to get his attention.
"Have you and the others look at this in the lobby tonight," Keaton said.
Jacob opened the folder and in it was a small stack of papers. He widened his eyes upon seeing the front paper titled RWBY Volume 8.
"Is this-" Jacob was cut off by his older brother.
"The scripts for Volume 8. A few of us will be joining you tonight. Don't be late."
Jacob hands the scripts to Keaton as he then walks away. Team RWBY, JNPR, CFDT, and the rest of GRMA walked up to him.
"What was that about?" Ruby asked.
"We're all heading to the lobby tonight," Jacob answered.
