During lunch, Yang seemed distant and angry. Halfway through, Blake couldn't take it anymore and drug Yang back to their room. This didn't stop Ruby from continuing to shoot off question after question about Blue Team's origin.
"Who are you four, like some sort of Atlas military experiment? Or-" Weiss asked, excitedly.
"Oh, oh, are you robots? Or alien Ninjas from Mistral?" Ruby interjected, jumping on top of the table and mimicking karate chops.
"Well," Kelly said, glancing over to John for what to say. He quickly signed in the Spartan's version of sign language, Affirmative. Don't. Show. Secret. Kelly understood, it meant don't reveal anything classified, which was basically the entire Spartan program.
She turned to Ruby and Weiss and said' "We've had some training already, just not specifically huntsman training. I would explain, but you should probably show us where the next class is so we aren't late."
Blake hoped that Blue Team quickly figured out that Professor Port's class was mostly stories and ramblings. You don't have to take notes (and if you do, you'll fill three notebooks of total bologna every class). If you just do the assigned readings and some additional research in the library, you'll most likely pass. However, today seemed different. Port actually included the class more this time. He was telling a tale of defeating Ursa Majors in some place in Minstrel when he said something that caught everyone by surprise.
"Today for the last fifteen minutes of the class, I will be showing you the main weak points of most Grimm in the form of an Oral exam."
He began walking around the room, asking questions. Nobody was spared. Port got around to Linda, to whom he asked:
"You there young lady, can you tell me what the main weak points of a Beowulf are?"
Ruby spoke up. "Professor, but she has never fought one, and the only one she saw was just a flash of one as she was waking up from being unconscious."
"No, it's fine." Replied Linda, "Could I see a picture of one of these Beowolves since I have not had the chance to study them?"
"I don't see why not," said the Professor.
Weiss produced a simple picture of a Beowulf on her Scroll and passed it to the Spartan, stared at it for about a minute before answering:
"The weaknesses are the eyes, hips, knees and the wrists."
"You are partially correct young lady," Professor Port stated, trying to cover up his obvious surprise.
"The knees, hips, and eyes are correct, but the Beowolves' arms and wrists are some of the strongest parts of its body, making it almost useless to attack that area. If you had heavy armor piercing rounds, you could use them to cripple the attack, which is something I have used to my advantage many a time in my long and heroic huntsman career. Say, did you ever hear my story of the tie that I used to strangle a Goliath?"
Port strode around the room recounting his tale, whether it was true or not couldn't be determined at the moment, though surely some of the details were exaggerated quite a bit. This reminded Blake of a certain huntress in training. She glanced up at Nora, who was completely engrossed in Port's story. She was the only one in the class who seemed to pay any attention whatsoever during Port's ramblings. The bell rang and Port yelled something about doing assigned readings as the class quickly evacuated his room.
Blue Team did homework with Team RWBY, as they needed help with some of the history, as they had no base knowledge whatsoever. Yang was asking Kelly where they learned to fight.
"Well, we worked with the military for a little later in our training but we spent most of our time at an outpost in the mountains. We have three teachers there."
"The history homework is especially hard for— Wow, only three?" Weiss said.
"Yup. What's so fascinating about that?"
"Nothing," Weiss replied, trying not to show her excitement about learning about a school that could be truly worthy of the Schnee family.
Pyrrha walked into the room, asking if anyone had seen the rest of her team, then stopped as she saw Bue team, "I don't believe we have been properly introduced, I'm Pyrrha Nikos," but no one was paying attention. All the heads in the room were swiveling back and forth between Linda and Pyrrha before Ruby finally spoke up, "Pyrrha you didn't tell us you had a sister." giggling a little. Linda sighed as if this had happened before,
"Calm down it is just the hair and eyes, but it is nice to finally meet the leader of team JNPR in person."
"No no no, I'm not the leader, Jaune is." Blue team looked surprised,
"So you're telling me that a scraggly blonde boy who can barely stand against the kids a few years younger than him is the leader of a team at one of the prestigious Huntsman academies?" Fred said, raising his eyebrows, "I find that hard to believe"
Pyrrha quickly responded, "He may not have the greatest fighting skills, but he has a lot of potential," looking at Fred disapprovingly.
"Ok, ok, I believe you, but I just found it surprising, anyway, it is nice to finally meet the top first year, I'm Fred, that's John and Kelly," pointing to his team members who were currently absorbed in disassembling one of the simple standard issue Atlas rifles each member of the team was given. Kelly spoke up, and your sister over there is Linda- who suddenly interrupted, "I've told you this before Kelly, just because someone has the same hair and eyes as I do, does not make me related." Shooting a surprisingly angry glare at her teammate, then went back to modifying her own rifle for more of the sniper role she preferred.
John was enthralled in Ozpin's lecture on the science of dust and its applications in the field of weaponry, mainly in ammunition, though surprisingly Linda seemed to be paying less attention than usual as she was fiddling with a few hunks of dust and some sort of small tool beneath their shared lab table. He knew she heard every word Ozpin said and filed it away somewhere, but that she wasn't taking notes and drawing schematics for new weapons and attachments showed she found something even more interesting. Ozpin continued on, Lecturing about what methods are used to stabilize when he suddenly asked, "Miss Linda, since you seem so, engaged, in our lesson, could you please tell us what the most stable form of dust is and which is the most commonly used in the four kingdoms?" Without looking up, Linda answered, "the polished dust sphere is the most stable and least reactive of the common dust forms, while the cut crystal is the most common due to its ease to use and variety of applications." Ozpin sighed and scowled a little, and went back to his lecture. "Wow she really isn't paying attention," John thought, those were words straight out of the book they had been reading earlier that morning, she must have found something that could be applied to their current mission; getting off the planet and finding a way to return to UNSC space, as that took priority to anything else. He shook his head and returned the majority of his attention to the lesson. John thought it weird that no one had tried to fuse dust together, and he raised his hand to ask the question, Ozpin answered; "well, there have been attempts, but they have ended in, shall we say failure-" he was cut off by a loud bang and John was thrown back as an explosion shot smoke in every direction. Ozpin seemed unfazed, "So that is what you were working on miss Linda, though I am surprised you got this far, even with the unreactive polished spheres I gave you, trying to fuse two together would usually blow up within the first minute and a half, please see me in my office this evening." Linda looked a little crestfallen, and was covered in soot. Ruby giggled a little at the next table before getting elbowed by Weiss. John shot them a glare just as the bell rung, before reminding himself that to them this was all a joke, and not a possibly deadly explosion that could have killed a normal human, and the teacher wasn't even concerned. John led Blue team back to their dorm, but Kelly and Fred thought they should probably head to the lab to further work on their weapons, (the standard issue equipment wasn't exactly in the best shape since most students had their own weapons)
When they were alone John asked Linda with a deadly seriousness, "what exactly were you trying to do?"
Linda responded, "Two things, one to fuse two forms of dust together, which ended badly, but secondly," she held something up for him to see.
"What? It looks like a normal 50 cal shell, but with a dust tip, I don't see what you are getting at here."
"Well you see, Remnant weapons use the dust piece as a projectile, firing the whole thing except the brass casing, we would normally put gunpowder or some other propellant behind the bullet, but as I said before, they shoot the entire thing, this results in reduced velocity, but a heavier round, making it altogether less efficient unless you are at point blank range. So what I worked on was a dust bullet, combined with dust powder behind to act as a propellant, like a normal cartridge."
"So this is something that will give us an advantage?"
"In short, yes."
"Great can you show the rest of the team how to make them? But on another note when you go to talk to Ozpin, I want to see if I can hang outside the window to eavesdrop, he seemed pretty suspicious, I want to see if he reveals anything, and I want to be there if you need help."
"Alright, fine. and when the dust exploded, he didn't seem concerned for anyone's safety, we don't know if he is a friend or foe."
John huffed, and replied under his breath, "We all saw what happened last time there were moral grey areas that I had to deal with on my own," his mind flashing back to the weight room, and the bodies, before shaking off the thought. Linda laid a hand on his shoulder, "Hey, you were still getting used to the augmentations, and the ODSTs didn't know who they were messing with, and they were being unreasonable. Don't stress it." John just sighed and said, "we should get moving, it's almost the time Ozpin wanted to see you"
AN: (Updated) I don't think I will give blue team semblances, but they may or may not get their armor back later, and just for clarification this takes place just after Sam dies and they first get Mjolnir armor, they fall into Remnant with their bodysuits (What goes under the armor plates), but hide them in their room, and as I said, could get the rest of it back.