Chp. 40: A Little Training

Unknown Building

June 3, 2020

It was morning the next day and the students, teachers, and Huntsmen were all outside a large building as Keaton and his team stood in front of the front door.

"Alright, kids. Listen up," Keaton began. "You're probably wondering what this place is. To answer your question, this is a gym meant for Huntsmen and Huntresses. What we will be doing today is we're going to watch you all spare each other and evaluate your skills, technique, timing, and weaponry."

"This will give us an understanding of what you all need to do to improve yourselves," Cassandra said.

"This training building comes with a gym, track, sparring rings, an obstacle course, and swimming pool," Steel stated.

"S-sw-sw-swimming p-p-pool?" Neptune asked, stiffing up with fear.

"Aw, yeah!" Yang exclaimed, pumping her fist in the air.

"Today we are going to evaluate each and everyone of you in the sparring rings. After that, you are all free to train in the gym," Keaton said.

"Now all of you please follow us inside," Alex said.

Cassandra and Steel opened and held the double doors as Keaton walked inside with everyone else following him. They all eventually walked up into a large circular room with raised bleachers arranged in a circle around a sparring arena. Everyone took a seat on the bleachers as Alex and Glynda walked down in the middle of the arena.

"The rule will be the same as any sparring match. If your aura reaches twenty percent or below, you're out of the match," Glynda said.

"Now we'll randomly select our first two teams," Alex said.

A holographic monitor appears displaying eight roulettes as they start spinning frantically through various teams. As the roulettes spun, the voice actors and actresses of Rooster Teeth walked in and took their seats around Teams RWBY, CFDT, GRMA, and JNPR. right after President Trump walks in with two secret service agents following behind him. He took a seat next to Professor Ozpin and the two agents stood beside him. The roulettes finally slowed to a stop, landing on CFDT and FNKI.

"Team CFDT of Beacon Academy versus Team FNKI of Atlas Academy. Both teams please ready yourselves and step into the ring," Alex said.

CFDT stood from their seats and made their way to the locker rooms.

"Good luck you guys," Ruby said.

"This is gonna be fun," Samantha said.

"I know. To watch a match right in front of use is very exciting," Jen said.

Moments later, CFDT walked into the ring with their weapons in their hands as Flynt and Neon, and two other young men approached.

The first is a tall man with dark blue eyes, fair skin and long dark blue hair styled into low pigtails. He wears a light blue shirt and blue-gray jeans under a matching vest and legging armor set, respectively. He has two large french navy shoulder pauldrons with yellow highlights, a partial duster attached to his right hip and covering his right upper leg. He has navy gloves with ultramarine and yellow accents and calf-length dark blue boots. His gloves are asymmetrical, with the left being longer and covered by a forearm-length gauntlet. This is the serious member of FNKI, Kobalt.

The second is a slim man with a taller-than-average height. He has light brown skin, light brown eyes and short, straight gray hair. He wears black glasses with yellow lenses, a white suit with beige and wheat accents and knee-high beige boots with gold accents. The suit jacket has a very low collar and he wears no shirt underneath, so his chest is exposed. The sleeves of the suit jacket also seem to be detached from the shoulders, showing skin underneath. He also wears a gold choker around his throat. He keeps his weapon, a hybrid between a whip and a pendulum, attached to his right hip. This is the mellow member of the team, Ivori.

Glynda and Alex walk out of the arena as the holographic screen displays all of Teams CFDT and FNKI's aura bars.

"Let's see what you other worldly people have got," Flynt said.

"I've been itching for a little sparring," Rebecca said.

"You've been itching alright! And it needs a good scratch!" Neon said.

"Huh?" Rebecca asked, not knowing how to react.

"You know, find a partner to help you out... if you can find one," Neon said.

"The fuck did you just say?!" Rebecca angrily asked.

"Calm down, Rebecca. She's just trying to get to you," Robert said.

Raising from the floor were some blocks, pillars, and barriers.

"Three! Two! One! Begin!" Glynda announced over the PA.

Right as it starts, Flynt raises his trumpet to his lips and blows, issuing forth a sound wave that blows Rebecca, Robert, and Kendra back several feet from the force except for Britney, who quickly planted Geminos to the floor and held on to her katanas as best as she could. Rebecca swung Hailstorm to the floor, stopping herself from sliding back further, but Neon spun into the attack and used it to push herself forward so she could charge at Rebecca in a rainbow burst of speed and push her back several feet. Rebecca quickly gets up and transformed her scythe into her machine gun form and began to shoot at the cat Faunus who skates away from the storm of bullets.

Robert and Kendra both got up from the floor and saw that Rebecca and Britney needed help.

"You help Rebecca. I've got Britney," Kendra said.

"Got it," Robert said.

As Kendra ran to Britney's aid, Robert aimed Sweet Kisser at Neon and prepared to pull the trigger. Suddenly he felt something wrap around his leg. Robert looked down and saw a whip wrapped around his leg. He was then tugged to the floor as he then looked up and saw Ivori with his whip wrapped around Robert's leg.

"Surprise," Ivori said.

As Flynt continues to blast Britney with his instrument, Kendra approaches and aims Mercy Bringer at Team FNKI's leader. Suddenly, Kobalt kicks Kendra to the ground. She quickly rolled back to her feet and transformed her rifle to her pole axe. She gave a few swings at Kobalt as he stepped away from her attacks. As Kendra swung her poleaxe once more, Kobalt caught her weapon mid-swing.

"Not bad," Kobalt said.

He then threw some punches at Kendra as she blocked and dodged his attacks. He finally lands a punch to her in the stomach, followed by a kick to the face, making her stagger for a moment.

"Not bad, yourself," Kendra replied, then charged at Kobalt.

Britney continues to hold on to her tethered katanas as Flynt continues to blow his sound wave at her from his trumpet. Britney pulled one of her katanas and switched it into pistol form. She quickly opened fire at the musician as he stopped playing and quickly slid away from the shots.

"Time I put a halt to your solo career!" Britney said as she transformed her other katana to a pistol.

She began to shoot at Flynt while running towards him as he slid and flipped away from the shots. Flynt blew into his instrument at Britney, sending her flying into a pillar and dropping Geminos in the process. The musician stopped playing and walked towards the downed opposing team leader. Just as Flynt was about to blow on his trumpet again, Britney suddenly sprung up and jumped on to him. With the help of her semblance, she double wrapped her arms and legs around Flynt's arms and torso. Flynt begins to struggle to get free from Britney's grasp.

Neon manages to roll ahead of every shot that Rebecca fires at her, becoming a rainbow blue while hitting the Earthling multiple times.

"Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat!" Neon chanted in rhythm to herself.

Rebecca grows more frustrated as Neon smirks and cracks her glow sticks, turning them blue. She comes forward again, dashing past Rebecca before she even realizes that her arms and Hailstorm are now encased in ice.

"You need to cool off! Get it? Because you're angry," Neon said with a giggle.

Rebecca growls and slams her frozen arms and machine gun into a block, shattering the ice off. Neon skates towards Rebecca as the latter switches Hailstorm to its scythe form. Rebecca swung her scythe everytime the cat Faunus skated close, but Neon would hope or dodge her attacks. Neon struck Rebecca's leg with her nunchaku, encasing it in ice. Rebecca grows more furious as she breaks her leg free from the ice.

"Y'know, you're actually kinda pretty when you're angry," Neon commented.

Rebecca paused for a moment as her cheeks went red, but brushed it off and charged at Neon.

Robert fired four shots from his sniper rifle at Ivori as he blocked the bullets with his whip. Robert transformed his sniper to spear and charged at Ivori. He tries to ram his spear at his opponent, but Ivori jumps on to Robert's spear and kicks him in the face. Ivori landed on the floor and wrapped his whip around Sweet Kisser and snagged it out of its owner's hands.

"Any surprises you've got to throw at me?" Ivori asked.

Without hesitation, Robert gave a punch to Ivori's face, making him stagger. He threw a few more punches until Ivori wrapped his whip around Robert's arm. Robert took advantage of this, grabbing the whip and quickly pulled his arm back, tugging Ivori's whip away from his hand. Robert rolled to his spear and picked it up. He whacked and slashed at his opponent and kicked Ivori to the ground.

Robert looked up at the screen and noticed that Kendra and Rebecca's aura meters were getting dangerously close to the red zone. He turned his head to see Kendra trying to get up off of the floor as Kobalt ran towards her. He grabs Ivori by his legs and throws him at Kobalt. Just before Kobalt could strike at Kendra, Ivori crashed into his teammate, knocking them both to the floor and out of the match.

"Two down, two to go," Kara said.

"Come on, guys! Kick their butts!" Ruby cheered.

"This is fucking awesome!" Michael said.

Robert ran up to his girlfriend and helped her up off of the floor.

"Thanks," Kendra said.

"No problem," Robert replied.

They turned to see Rebecca struggling to land a hit on Neon as she skated around her.

"Hold still so I can hit you!" Rebecca yelled, swinging her scythe at Neon and misses.

"If you have a boyfriend, he'd be disappointed by your progress!" Neon said.

"Not a guy person!" Rebecca replied.

"Ohh, into girls, huh? Can't get a girl if you can't get me!" Neon said.

"YOU ARE SO DEAD!" Rebecca screamed.

"Kendra, distract Neon," Robert said.

Kendra nods and Robert hides behind a pillar, transforming Sweet Kisser into sniper mode. Kendra ran up and transformed her poleaxe to rifle and began to shot at Neon, getting her attention. Neon skate away to avoid Kendra's shots from Mercy Bringer as well as Rebecca's swings from Hailstorm, completely unaware that Robert way aiming his sniper rifle at her.

"Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a..." Neon's chant was cut short as Robert fires a bullet at one of her front wheels.

She loses her balance and sheds a few quick tears.

"...beat?" Neon whimpered.

Rebecca takes advantage of this and gives a series of vicious slashes at Neon before giving her an uppercut, knocking the cat Faunus out. Robert and Kendra run up to their teammate.

"Where's Britney?" Rebecca asked.

After asking the question they all turned to see Britney continuing to restrain Flynt as he was still struggling to get loose. Flynt rushes backwards and slams Britney into a pillar a few times, forcing her to let go of him. Flynt aims his trumpet at his opponent and unleashes a sound wave at her, sending her flying into a wall flat on her back.

"Britney!" her team cried.

They rush at FNKI's leader to attack, but Flynt smirks and as he blows into his instrument again, he activates his semblance, Killer Quartet. A second Flynt appeared next to the first, and then another, and another after that, each color-coordinated musician joining their waves of noise together to send Robert, Kendra, and Rebecca flying back into a wall. The Flynts flip their hats around to the audience, then look up at the scoreboard to see that everyone's auras are in the red zone except for his. He absorbs each of his duplicates.

"And the match goes to Team FNKI," Alex announced over the PA.

"Ouch," Ricky said.

"I hope they're all okay," Pyrrha said.

All of Team CFDT and the rest of Team FNKI slowly got up from the floor and both teams confronted each other.

"That was amazing!" Neon exclaimed. "Even though we won, you guys are super crazy awesome! We should definitely party together sometime, right Flynt?"

"You guys definitely gave us a hard fight. I dig it," Flynt said.

"Yeah. You guys were a challenge yourselves. We almost had you there," Britney said.

"Almost," Kobalt said.

The two teams turned to see Glynda and Alex walk into the arena and approach them.

"Well done. You all may head back to your seats," Glynda said.

"Now to select our next teams," Alex said.


Several hours later, after the matches everyone had been training and working out in the gym as doctors monitored them all. Right now, everyone was at the U.H.L. building, in the assembly hall as President Trump took the podium and the headmasters, Keaton, and Burnie sat behind the desks at the stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have something we'd like to show you all," Trump announced.

The monitor turns on and the screen shows anchor Lisa Lavender and the VNN logo. The caption below her reads: ATLAS ANNOUNCES MEETING WITH UNKNOWN MILITIA LEADERS.

"The Academies' headmasters have announced that they had made contact with the unknown militaries. They have stated that they have no intention to seek conflict with the kingdoms and wish to seek peace relationships," Lisa reported.

Everyone began to murmur amongst themselves. Lisa continued to speak

"The headmasters have admitted that they had met up with the higher ups of these militaries and with the aid of some of their best students, planned to create an organization to help create better relations between them and the Kingdoms."

Everyone in the audience murmured even more and wondered what would happen next. Lisa continued to report.

"The Atlas Council quickly requested to hold a conference meeting with the unknown militias' leaders, to which they accepted the invitation. Schnee Dust Company CEO, Jacques Schnee had requested the Council to have the meeting at his manor, which they chose to accept."

As the monitor then paused, the crowd had mixed reactions. They were glad to see that plans for peaceful relationships were beginning to manifest between Remnant and Earth. But many wish that it wouldn't take place in Atlas first, especially at the Schnee Manor.

"The meeting will take place in five days. You all will be participating in a special event the day after tomorrow, and the day after that day, we leave for Atlas," Keaton said.

"And I wish I could stay, but I need to head back and help my family move. But everyone else that Miles and Kerry brought over will be staying for a couple more days," Burnie said. "I will definitely never forget this and hopefully things will turn out well in the future. I will miss you all, despite the short amount of time I was here."

Everyone gave a round of applause as Burnie stood up from his seat and took a bow. He turned and walked off the stage and out of the hall.

"You all may head back to the hotel now," Ozpin said.

Everyone stood up and began to make their way to the exits.


Earth

Harrison, Arkansas, USA

House of Salem

Meanwhile back on Earth, Emerald was on her laptop looking up more information on herself in the show.

"What's this? Rule 34?" Emerald wondered.

Emerald clicked on the icon and what she saw next turned her face red. She saw many pictures of herself in many lewd and sexualized positions. Many of the pictures had Cinder, Salem, and a few others on them. Mercury walked up behind Emerald and saw what she was looking up.

"Wow, Emerald. I didn't know you had such a slutty side," Mercury said with a smirk.

Emerald stood up from her chair, furiously glaring at Mercury.

"I'm not... a slut!" Emerald said.

"That picture of Cinder, Neo, and I doing you at the same time as you look like you're enjoying it says otherwise," Mercury said, pointing at one of the pictures.

Emerald noticed Cinder approaching them. She quickly forces Mercury down on the chair she had sat in.

"What are you-" Mercury gets cut off as Cinder arrives.

"What is going on h-" she stopped and noticed the pictures on the computer. "What is this?"

"Mercury was looking up pictures of us having sex," Emerald lied.

"What?!" Mercury exclaimed.

Cinder summons a fireball and holds it in front of Mercury's face.

"If I ever catch you doing something that disturbing again, I will barbecue your creepy butt!" Cinder threatened.

Victor approached the three and saw what was on the laptop.

"You people need help," he said.

Before anything else could happen, Salem approaches Victor. Before she could speak she glances down at the laptop's screen for a moment before looking at Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury.

"Whatever you are all thinking, leave me out of it," she said before turning to Nazi leader. "Victor, I have a special task for you and your men."

"Is my weapon ready?" Victor asked.

"Watts had just finished it," Salem answered.

"So what is it that me and the boys do?" Victor asked.


Marysville, California

Beale Air Force Base

Meanwhile at Beale Air Force Base, the sun was setting and a flash of light in the field near the runway. When the light died away, President Trump, Burnie, and six agents walked straight to the hangars from where the light was. As they approached one of the hangars, a soldier approached the president. He saluted the president speaking.

"The Californian senator is here, Mr. President."

"Did she see me arrive?" Trump asked.

"No, sir," the soldier answered.

"Escort Mr. Burns out of the base so he can get back home," Trump ordered.

"Yes, sir, Mr. President," the soldier replied.

He motioned Burnie to follow as he walked away as Burnie followed. A few moments later a voice called to the president.

"President Trump!"

He turned to see a woman approach him. She wore a dark blue shirt and a blue dress coat, along with a matching pair of pants. She also wore two gold-chained, pearl necklaces, pearl earrings, and a pair of black high heels. She has brown-tan skin, brown hair, and brown eyes.

"Senator Kamala Harris. May I ask why you are here?" Trump asked the woman known as Kamala Harris.

"To ask you the same thing. Many others like me, Governor Newsome, Nancy Pelosi, AOC are all wondering why you are in California and not in D.C. addressing to the murder of George Floyd," Harris explained.

"You mean the violent riots going on all over the U.S.?" Trump asked.

"They were angrily protesting the death of a black man murdered by a white cop," Harris argued.

"By looting and burning down buildings, vandalizing monuments, and assaulting innocent bystanders," Trump countered.

"Just tell me what you are doing in California," Harris demanded.

"The information is classified for the time being. When I tell the world, it will be written out in modern history," Trump explained.

"What about the protests going on?" Harris asked.

"If the cities do not control this violence, I will send in the military and solve the problem for them," Trump answered.

Harris frowned at the president before turning around and walking away. She stepped into her limousine and pulled out her iPhone. She puts it to her ear and speaks to someone on the phone.

"Hey, it's me. I want someone in Beale to find out what the president is up to."