Hansel inhaled sharply blinking his eyes, he would've wiped the sleep out of his eyes with his right arm but Ruby had too tight of a grip for him to move it. Very carefully he used his metal index finger to scrape out the sleep, again he woke up before the sun would rise into the sky, he contemplated going back to sleep but he just kept on staring at the ceiling.

It was strange, his friend from Armageddon and his… acquaintance from Vostroya appear at the same time on the same world as he, while he may not know the Tallarn the man at one point was associated with his own regiment. The Techpriest himself had also associated with Krieg, it was the only reason he would know about their biological enhancements for regiment breeding.

Eh, thinking was above him, stabbing and shooting was his job, so by default it is the Emperor's will that they appeared and that was alright for him.

Ruby snuggled her head deeper into the crook of his neck, Hansel took a whiff of her hair, he enjoyed the sweet strawberry smell of her hair that was one reason to keep his face unmasked.

Ruby rubbed her sleepy eyes before setting her hand back on his chest with a sleepy smile. A small smile crossed Hansel's face, those little lips were another reason why the mask can just hang at his side all day Emperor willing. He honestly had no idea he was missing out on such a lovely luxury.

But for right now he was going back to sleep, the physical tests that were going to be performed today will more than likely be very strenuous.

However whimpering and the sound of a paw scratching at the door kept Hansel up, he just realize he left Jaeger outside with Miss Greenfield.

He quietly stood up and silently walked across the carpeted floor to open the team's door slowly, Jaeger poked his head and started whimpering louder but Hansel clamped his metal hand over Jaeger's snout and whispered, "Shh! Dezent!"

The Krieghund responded by looking up at his master wagging his tail enthusiastically, obediently entering the room with his master's hand around his collar. He tugged ahead and started sniffing Ruby's feet, backing away slightly before sitting on the carpet.

Ruby stirred from Jaeger's sniffing, groggily wiping the sleep out of her eyes, "Oh, hey boy, where have you been?"

Jaeger panted with a doggish grin as he laid himself down right in between Hansel and Ruby yet with enough distance from the two lovebirds so that he wouldn't be keeping them separated. He curled up into a big furry ball and let out a sigh, wagging his tail as his master patted his back.

"Guten Morgen, mein Rosenrot." Hansel whispered pulling her back into their once comfortable snuggling position.

A sigh escaped Ruby, "Hans. Either speak normal or teach me your second language because while I like it I still don't entirely understand what you are saying."

Hansel nodded with his nose in her hair again, he couldn't get over how good her hair smelled, he dragged his face down to her cheek and started to lazily peck her, his right arm pulled her closer as his left prosthetic gently rubbed her scalp, "Du riechst so gut~"

"Hans~" Ruby giggled as the Kriegsman started going up and down her neck with his lips, "staph it, that tickles~"

"Then why stop?" He asked, whispering lowly into her ear.

Ruby playfully struggled with Hansel, pulling his hands behind his head as he gave no resistance, "Because I'm in charge of you until you leave, even then I'm your girlfriend now, so you'll do as I say."

"Or what?"

Ruby started poking his sides hoping that he was ticklish, unfortunately he wasn't, not a real big surprise though all things considering. However she soon found out that he'd twitch when she kissed him on the neck, "Or I'll keep doing that."

Without giving her much warning Hansel wrestled from her light grasp, he bound both of her hands behind her back and kept them down by flipping her on her back. Ruby wiggled to no avail as Hansel used his own body weight to keep her pinned by sliding over her.

"Looks like there's been a coup," He whispered mere centimeters from her face, "and you're my prisoner now."

Heat began to rush to Ruby's face, this reminded her of those adult movies that would come on the TV very late at night, that she totally did not watch at all. She waited patiently for Hansel to make a move, but he just lied there staring at her, almost like he was teasing her.

To test out her theory she tried to lean up and kiss him, but he moved his head back, "You jerk, let me kiss you."

Hansel grabbed her chin with his right hand and turned Ruby's head towards the left to whisper in her ear, "Ask me nicely."

He let go of Ruby's chin so she could look at him normally.

"Kiss. Me." She demanded at one moment, but in the next she pulled her dirty puppy eyes trick, "Pretty please?"

The Kriegsman was about to obey his mistress's command but whimpering and Jaeger's head trying to shove Hansel to the side distracted him. The Kriegshund made the teens split up for a moment and rapidly squeezed himself in between them further so his head was leveled with Hansel's chest.

This time the Krieghund was looking up at his master with big sad puppy eyes that demanded ear scratches.

Ruby giggled scratching Jaeger's belly, "Big baby."

"Attention whore is more like it." Hansel muttered giving his Hund a good scratching.

Ruby yawned somewhat loudly snuggling with the big dog, "He's warm though, I think I want to get some more sleep."

Hansel snaked his right arm around the adorable killing machine and grabbed her hand, "I'll see you again when you open your eyes."

Ruby pressed her cheek against both of their hands and gave a final huff before going back to sleep.


Within Vale…

Another soldier of the forty first millennium was rising for the morning as well, except unlike our previous warrior this one's skin shimmered like water as an illusion of uncorrupted flesh faded for a second.

The Champion of Tzeentch stood from his bed stretching his back.

The Sorcerer popped his finger joints one by one with his thumbs, with a quick snap he was back in civilian attire, with another snap he had a hot cup of coffee in his hand.

The groaning of a young woman drew his attention for a mere second, he had forgotten all about his little escapade with the lovely psycho woman, but taking a second to search his thoughts a crooked smile crossed his face, taking lessons from a Slaaneshi Priest finally paid off.

With a shrug he was back to his original warrior form, robes armor and all. He took a sip from his coffee mug as he observed the marvelous designs that the Khornate cultists managed to pull off all along the walls, it appears they too have been getting lessons from Slaaneshi cultists as well.

The Vraksian Enforcer was sitting up on his bed, it appeared he was looking at something in his hands.

"Enforcer," Montresor said, "what are you looking at?"

The Vraksian nearly hid the picture but decided that the Sorcerer would not drop the issue if he did, "It is an old picture, when I had a family. Wife and two daughters."

Montresor frowned under his Daemon skull mask, since when were Khornates sentimental about something as frivolous as a past life and family?

"Why do you still hold an image of a long dead past?"

The Vraksian snorted, "It gives me strength, rage, hatred for what those Imperial dogs did my family."

'Interesting.' The Sorcerer thought, "What exactly happened?"

"It was on Vraks when I and some others that remained loyal to the Great Lie held our own against our traitorous brothers. We did all we could to get messages to the Guard for assistance, for salvation. But those… those beasts in masks and coats, they bombed our position as a marker to kill off the other cultists, even then when those that survived tried to beseech them for assistance they met us with bayonets. They killed my wife in the bombings, my daughters with their blades, but missed me."

"What is your name? I must know now." Montresor demanded.

"Nero, Nero Augustas."

"Hmmmm, strong name. I have an itching feeling in the back of my head that some of your bloodlust may be sated this weekend, I sense a battle to come."

A grin passed Nero's face, "I could use some fresh meat for the fire."


Beacon…

Ruby sat up from the ground with her knees under her chin, she sighed with frustration, she finally makes a boy hers but now he has to go all the way down the hall to a different team and sleep on a different floor, without her.

On a bright side however she got the treat to see Hansel doing an early morning warm up routine of doing military styled pushups, instead of shoulder length wide his hands were underneath his shoulders with his elbows sliding past his sides, it gave her a good view of his full arm flexing, too bad he lost his other one in battle though, she also had a really good view of those flexing abs that she just couldn't ignore.

A fun idea slipped into her mind, ever since she first started feeling for Hansel she had many mini fantasies pop up in her mind, scenes that were inspired from movies and books. What she did was slide on her back right underneath Hansel as he was just about to go back down.

"Ruby, why are you in my way?"

"Just come down." She said mischievously.

Hansel raised a brow and did exactly what she said, suffice to say he sped up his routine.

Jaeger poked his head up and immediately went over to interrupt the small make out session, since dogs are natural attention whores that don't like competition with their master's affection. He started prodding Hansel's shoulders whining, lapping his tongue across his master's back as he also decided that his master would make a good pillow to lie on.

"Fuss, fuss! Pass auf! Pfui!" Hansel demanded as he wrestled with his Hund, Jaeger obeyed and immediately rolled on his back with his paws up.

Ruby crawled over to Jaeger and started rubbing his belly, "Gut!

"You're learning." Hansel said patting Ruby on the head.

"Ruff." She said kissing his cheek with a snicker.

A few groans from one of the bunk beds took the attention of the lovers, Yang rose from her bed with a messy mane of golden hair with squinted eyes, she growled lying back down, but immediately sat back up looking at Jaeger, "Where has he been?"

"Outside." Hansel said scratching Jaeger's ear.

Weiss lifted her sleep mask and almost shot out of bed to get her chance to pet Jaeger, but just settled for waving at the Hund to come over to her, Jaeger got up off the floor and started licking Weiss's hands.

"Ugh, you slimy, mangy, adorable big fluffball~" She cooed hugging the ecstatic Krieghund, running her hands all around his hide.

"Heheh," Ruby giggled, "never knew you had such a soft spot for dogs Weiss."

"Quiet you dolt! You will tell no one!"

Ruby raised her hands and hid behind Hansel so the fire from Weiss's breathe didn't burn her.

Blake was the only one that stayed in her bed, curled up in a ball, her eyes were somewhat bloodshot, she had tucked her face underneath her knees, a cold sweat ran down her back . She could sense that Jaeger was in the room but the dog wasn't the thing scaring her right now.

It was Hansel.

She heeded Edison's warning, in fact that was another thing that had her on edge, the cyborg priest knew her secret and had her bound ready to kill her if he wasn't satisfied with her answers. She shook involuntarily, the cold coils of the mechandrites left some bruises that thankfully healed due to her Aura, it still dawned on her that she was helpless and at the mercy to a- a thing that wasn't really even fully Human.

Very ironic coming from a Faunus.

Right now she just wanted to be left alone, she was bidding her time until Hansel left, she wanted nothing to do with th-that thing. Dust, is this what fear is reducing her too? Calling Edison and Hansel "Things", they were people… people that hated her and her people for existing.

But was she any better by thinking so little of them like they thought of her? They may be for lack of a better word assholes, but was- this was different. Edison threatened her life, he could've just killed her in that hallway and go to bed with gum drops dancing around in his head.

Yet he hadn't killed her, but he also mentioned that anything he could do Hansel would more than likely do much worse. That boy was a psychopath, he would kill her slowly, he'd make sure she would suffer, if he found out about her parents… she'd have to make sure that never comes up or in the very least come up with a convincing lie, or even better hope that Edison keeps his word and stays quiet.

She peaked over her bed, a false mask of calm and collected coolness over her face to appear like she was also just waking up. Blake gulped seeing Jaeger so close to her bed, of all things in an academy it's not only a dog, but a big genetically engineered dog meant for warfare in space, of fucking course it is.

It wouldn't be scary if it wasn't.

Ruby smiled up at Blake, "Good morning Blake!"

"Morning Ruby." She responded in her usual flat morning tone.

Blake's eyes were now wide open at the sight of a topless Hansel, she had to admit, racist or not Hansel was something to look at. Sex appeal aside he chilled her to the bone, just what exactly could he do to her- wait, just what could he do?

'I'm Ruby's friend, maybe she would stop him from killing me?'

Yeah, yeah! That's it! If she could stop him from murdering Cardin then she would mostly certainly do her best to save one of her friends! Maybe she should just calm down, it's not like Hansel was actively looking for a Faunus on the team, he didn't suspect a thing, she's worrying over nothing.

Everything will be just fine.


In the Warp…

Tzeentch laughed out loud at that thought bubble in Blake's head, "You couldn't be any more wrong you foolish kitty girl!"


On Remnant…

Jaeger looked up at Blake and whined at her, she hadn't pet him and he wanted to be pet, she had this odd sent that made him gravitate towards her, for some reason the scent reminded him of the abhumans from outside but this woman was not a abhuman.

Was she? *Sniff, sniff*

"Jaeger, hier!" Hansel called waving his hand.

The Krieghund happily trotted over to his master, licking his master's hand as he tried to pet the big excitable dog, "Platz Jaeger, platz!"

Jaeger sat down panting with his ears standing up, patiently awaiting another order. Ruby crawled over Jaeger and patted the Hund's head.

"Hey Hans," Yang called with a frown, "while normally I'd say this is a nice view, but I think you should put a shirt on and go to your new dorm."

"No! Hansel is staying for a while longer… and shirtless..." Ruby said, licking her lips at the last part.

"Ruby Rose! I am your older sister and I am telling you to tell him to put a shirt on!"

"No!" Ruby said crossing her arms, "I'm your team leader, you can't tell me what to do."

Hansel grabbed Ruby by the shoulder and pulled her against his side, her face smacking into his chest, "Mine."

"What?" Yang asked with blood red eyes.

"Mine." Hansel stated more clearly with an edge in his voice.

Yang's hair started to burn, "You can't just say that, you don't own her!"

"Mine!" Ruby cheered pressing her face into his chest.

Yang's hair burnt out and her shoulder's sagged with a frown, "Ruby… I'll send that picture to Qrow and Dad."

A glass shattered in Ruby's mind, much like the noise the Scroll's camera feature makes, "Yang!"

"And this new one too, you'll be in so much trouble little lady~" Yang said smugly.

Ruby sighed squeezing Hansel's bicep, "I guess you got to go now big guy."

Hansel patted her head and started reaching for his coat until Ruby pushed him to the ground, "Not without goodbye kisses though!"

Yang bristled as Ruby started kissing Hansel, from her point of view on the bed it looked like they were- she didn't even want to think of the word now.

Blake however found it kind of hot, somebody was going to be touching themselves tonight. Weiss was the only one trying to look away, though she was once again very jealous of her younger shorter yet somehow bustier leader.

'Maybe I should drink milk too…' The Heiress thought offhandedly.

Ruby sat back up with a smug grin, "Did you get a picture of that one sis?"

Yang fumed, "I ought to send these pictures to them."

"And show them that you failed to protect your sweet, adorable, innocent little sister from boys like big sisters are supposed to?" Ruby asked, "I mean sure they might lecture me or something, but you, in the long run Yang I would say it would be worse for you."

The blonde's mouth dropped wide open, she hadn't thought about that, the reason being is that the last words her father said to her was, "I love, also, make sure you protect Ruby from any unwanted boys trying to take advantage of her!"

"You, you… you little sneak. You just thought of that didn't you?"

Ruby grinned sitting on Hansel's lap, "Just did. He's staying here for as long as I can make it happen."

A ringing from Hansel's pocket took the attention of the room, Hansel pulled his scroll up and read the message out loud, "From Ozpin, I require you to meet me at your team's dorm, your testing will begin shortly."

"Fuck." Ruby groaned with shrugged shoulders.

"RUBY!" Yang and Weiss shouted at the same time.

"Oh shut up, if I'm old enough to fight Grimm, then I'm old enough to curse when I am upset."

"Oh so it's okay for you to have a little pottymouth, but Oum forbid I say something mildly bad and you go 'language' on me like you are Captain Vale!" Yang demanded, "On top of that I am older than you and I can't even get away with saying it!"

Ruby ignored her older sister as she was currently lamenting to Hansel, "I don't want you to leave yet."

The Kriegsman started buttoning up his fatigues, robbing Ruby of the view she enjoyed so much, "Orders are orders." He responded flatly.

"Fine." Ruby pouted.

Hansel rolled his eyes and caught Ruby off guard with a surprisingly passionate kiss that left the smaller girl dazed, "I will see you later, my Rosenrot."

Ruby smiled falling on her back as Hansel left with Jaeger following after him, "Love you too Hans."


JHSN dorm…

The Imperial Guardsmen stood at attention as the Kriegsman jogged down the hall with the Krieghund following at his side, Edison regarded Hansel with a nod as he stood a little off to the side of the Guardsmen.

"Nice enough for you to join us Hans, you weren't busy were you?" Julius asked with a smug grin.

"No, just received the message from the Headmaster." Hansel replied taking his place next to Julius.

Jaeger sat next to Hansel with his back erect, however his Hund armor was left back in RWBY's dorm so he wouldn't be uncomfortable in a non-combat area.

"Looks like we have a mascot." Nicholas quipped.

"Where the hell is the Headmaster?" Saladin asked as he looked left and right down the hall.

"He said he'd be here at 0825, its 0824." Julius yawned.

As soon as the minute passed the Headmaster came around the corner with Glynda Goodwitch, the Imperials stood still with stiff backs, their eyes forward awaiting the Headmaster's permission to speak.

Ozpin took a sip of coffee with a grin, "Well this is certainly a refreshing sight, usually a team would be either late or still in bed. Are you men ready for the physical?"

"Sir yes sir!" The Guardsmen responded.

"Okay, I'm not a general boys, at ease."

The Guardsmen relaxed themselves somewhat by letting their legs spread further apart but stood firm.

Ozpin pressed his lips into a thin line, "I guess that's the best I'm getting then. Alright, follow me to the testing area."

The Guardsmen turned to their lefts and started marching in single file with the exception of Edison as he instead walked alongside the teachers with Jaeger, the Krieghund was currently trying to sniff the mechandrites.

"Why are they marching?" Glynda asked glancing at the Imperial boys.

"Old habits for whenever a physical test was issued for a regiment. From my time serving alongside a few different regiments I noticed they for the most part have similar physical standardized tests, although with slight variations depending upon environment and regiment specialty."

The Professor nodded albeit with a somewhat forlorn look in her eyes, she still just couldn't wrap her head around the fact that these children are a part of elite armies in a galaxy spanning empire.

"These boys are already much more physically stronger than your male students, if not for your cheating Aura bullshrakk." Edison quipped.

"Hansel managed to beat Pyrrha Nikos, a four time winner of the Mistrial championship with her Aura activated. That should've been impossible." Glynda said with a sweat drop remembering that extraordinary fight, "I still don't understand even after watching the video over and over again.

A dry laugh escaped the Techpriest, "It doesn't surprise me that a Todeskommando accomplished such a feat. Ever since that program was started some six decades ago they only prove to outdo their Commissar's expectations."

Ozpin raised a brow, "What do you mean by program?"

"There is only so much I can tell you, I myself only learned so much from the Krieg serving Techpriests. Apparently there is much more to that program than the Departmento and the Commissar are willing to tell. So much so that it has peaked the interests of all the Ordo Majoris; Ordos Xenos, Ordos Malleus, and Ordos Hereticus. This is usually unheard of."

"Who is this Commissar you speak of?" Goodwitch asked, she wished she would give this man a piece of her mind.

"He is a veteran Lord Commissar that has served on Krieg for nearly fifty something years, longest serving so far at least on Krieg. I've met the man only once and he made quite the typical Commissarish impression. He was however different from every Commissar I've ever met."

Ozpin raised his brow, "How so?"

"He admired his men, respected them. I've only heard of Commissar's doing such a thing. Never seen it myself until I met him, whatever he has planned for the Todeskommandos it will greatly benefit Humanity."

The Headmaster spared a glance back at Hansel, just how much does Hansel actually know about this whole Todeskommando program? And what sort of results would it show on this physical test?

In the gym area several machines and racks of weights with varying amounts of weights from the double digits to triple sat on blue plastic mats. Six clothes changing dividers were set up to give the four Guardsmen the privacy that was deemed necessary for them to get dressed and undressed in.

Ozpin gestured his hand to the improvised changing rooms, "Step inside one of the dividers and change into gym ware, after that you will be given three minutes to stretch and prepare for the first test."

The Guardsmen responded with uniformed "yes sir" before stepping into the minirooms. In a half a minute they stepped out wearing black skin tight sleeveless shirts that clung tight to their frames with black shorts that stopped above their knees with the Beacon insignias on the shirts and shorts. Their boots however were replaced with running shoes, Saladin and Nicholas became a little bit shorter without the support of their boots.

Hansel of course kept his gas mask on, he undoubtedly had the broadest shoulders and overall more sculpted of the four. Nicholas, Saladin, and Julius were no wimps by no means, they themselves had figures that would send women over the edge for them but Hansel looked more in tuned to that of a Greco-Romanesque human statue.

Julius whistled looking himself up and down, "I look drop dead sexy in this~"

"Mhmmmm, that's for sure~" Came a familiar voice of a certain Fashionista, "All of you do~"

Julius turned around and whistled, "Well now, ain't you sight for sore eyes? What'cha doing here doll?"

"My team wanted to see how you guys do for your exams."

Fox coughed crossing his arms, "She just wants to ogle you four while you work out."

Professor Goodwitch sighed pinching her brow, Ozpin had a ghost of a smile taking a sip from his mug, Edison crossed his arms sighing, "Frakking teens."

"The first test is rather simple, it is a test of strength, lift the maximum amount of weight you can in three sets of ten." Ozpin stated gesturing to the machines, "The first lift series is bench press."

Three of the Guardsmen smiled at each other, this was most certainly a competition between the three now.

"Who wants to go first lads?" Julius asked jabbing his thumb at the bench.

"Wait." Edison said with a raised hand, "I need to calibrate Hansel and Nicholas's prosthetics to even out the strength in their arms and legs real quick."

"How long will it take?" The Headmaster asked with a frown.

"Just a second." The red cloaked priest said waving the boys over, "Nicholas you go first because it is just one prosthetic."

Nicholas sat down on a bench in front of Edison, the Beacon teachers and students raised a brow, the Tech Priest zapped Nicholas's leg here and there, making the mechanical limb go numb before removing it.

That's when the students and teachers turned white for a second as they witnessed the limb removal.

Glynda used all the mental power she had to not look away in shock, Ozpin however looked at the way Edison was tweaking the leg's internal workings.

'James most certainly could've used one of you awhile back.'

Edison then reattached the leg to Nicholas who grunted as the locks and artificial nerve endings reattached themselves.

"Kriegsman."

Hansel walked up to the Techpriest with his arm out ready for removal. After three minutes Edison had managed to detach and reattach Hansel's prosthetic limbs and dialed them down to same strength as his organic arms and legs.

"Alright lads, who wants to place bets?" Julius asked clasping his hands together, "Whoever, excluding Hansel, benches in the triple digits gets a Throne for every five reps. Without having to stop in the middle of a set."

"Why are you excluding Hansel? That doesn't seem fair." Professor Goodwitch asked with a frown and crossed arms.

"Hans benches four hundred easy, it wouldn't be fair to us if we bet with him. Sides, he hates gambling."

"Life is the Emperor's currency, it is the only one that matters." Hansel said with a dejected tone.

"Alright, a Throne it is then." Nicholas agreed.

"Aye." Saladin nodded flexing his bicep with the crossed Khaligs tattoo, "Easy money for me."

"Since I'm the highest rank, I'll go first, you lads ready to lose your coin?"

The two Tallarn man and Vostroyan crossed their arms and gestured for Julius to go ahead and set his weight up first. Hansel picked up two forty five pound weights and slid them onto the right side of the bar as Julius did the same on the left, to top it off they both put thirty five pound weights after the previous weights before tightening on the locks.

"Heh, I could bench this easy." Nicholas muttered rolling his eyes.

"It's not just about how much you can bench, it's about how long you can last doing it." Edison reminded.

Professor Goodwitch placed several plastic circles on Julius's arms and shirt, immediately on Ozpin's scroll did the sounds of Julius's heart beat start to play out.

"Alright mister Romano, whenever you are ready." Ozpin said as the machine recorded Julius's vitals.

"Alright, Hans, mind giving me a spot?"

Hansel walked around the machine and grasped the bar with one hand and helped Julius lift it. Immediately the Armageddonian started pushing the bar up and down with practiced ease, pumping the bar and weight up and down; his shirt tightens around his waist, sweat starts to bead up around his forehead as he reaches ten.

He pushed the bar up one last time as Hansel pulls the bar back on the rack, he waved his arms about to loosen them up before gripping around the bar again for another go.

Coco whistled at the Heir to Armageddon, by Dust was it worth getting up so early in the morning. The Fashionista licked her lips as the soldier lifted his just about twice his own bodyweight over his head several times over before reracking the weights, preparing for his last set.

"Okay, okay, phew, here we go, let's do this." Julius said in a mantra as he took on his challenge once more, he was not going to lose a prize of thirty Thrones so easily, not when he was so close to winning!

"Six… seven… eight… nine… EURGH!" Julius growled through his teeth as Hansel helped steady the bar back on the rack.

Nicholas and Saladin grumbled as the Legionnaire sat up right from his lifts, he almost smacked into the ground if he hadn't kept his hand on the bar, "Hans don't let me lift anything that stupidly heavy again."

"Okay." Hansel said blankly as the Vostroyan came to the bench next, removing the two thirty fives and adding another forty five on each side.

"Heh." The Vostroyan scoffed, "I can do more than that light warm up weight.

Hansel snorted, "And you call this weight?"

Nicholas frowned, mumbling something under his breath as he positioned himself under the bar and began his lifting with new found power after being slightly annoyed by Hansel.

The Vostroyan finished his first ten reps easy, his second however showed just how much the initial ten took out of him as he had to slow down.

"I need the drinking money." Nicholas muttered as he tried to muster up more strength to go on his third set, he struggled through the first five but as he was about to clear six he lost strength and nearly had his neck crushed if not for Hansel saving him by a mere inch, "Damn. Phew, thanks for the save, I didn't think you would stop it."

"Take a rest before you finish. Tsartrov." Hansel said crossing his arms, looking away from the space Russian.

"And there it goes." Nicholas mutters pumping out his last set.

Saladin sighs looking at the weight, "Frakk that."

The Tallarn man removes three of the forty five pound weights and puts on a thirty on each side instead, "My regiment does not do the same heavy lifting you Goliaths do. We're lucky to get similar rations."

Saladin managed his weight well at first like the rest but around his second lift he of course started to struggle on his fourth rep before having to stop, "Crap."

"Ha!" Julius cheered punching his fist in the air, "Sixty Thrones! Whew!"

Hansel spared no time in putting his weight onto the rack swiftly. Ozpin's eyebrows shot up as the weight was nearly a thousand pounds, he wasn't even sure if the bar would hold the weight without snapping!

Edison got behind the Kriegsman ready to spot him if needed. Hansel wasted no time in getting himself set underneath the bar, without having to be told or helped he pushed the bar up off from the rack and started to pump the bar up and down at a surprisingly moderate rate.

The Headmaster was completely stumped now. How the hell was he even lifting all of that weight?! Hansel was a broad shouldered strong looking young man but this, this just didn't make sense to the Headmaster on how someone without Aura was lifting nearly a thousand pounds as if it was regular workout routine.

He checked the Kriegsman's vitals on his Scroll to see if there was some sort of explanation as to why Hansel was lifting such a heavy weight at a moderately fast rate. To make sure he wasn't seeing things Ozpin pulled up the other three Guardsmen's vitals when they were lifting the weight and started to compare them.

Hansel's heart was beating twice as fast as everyone else's, even when he was at rest it was twice as fast of the other Guardsmen, that shouldn't be possible, he didn't even look like he was working up a sweat, 'Just what exactly did this 'Todeskommando' program do to him?!'

Team CFVY like their Headmaster stared with open mouths, Coco's sun glasses fell off the bridge of her nose, Fox rubbed his eyes, and Velvet as per request of Ruby was taking many pictures… for science. Yatsutashi sat silently but was also trying to find a reason as to why a what seemed like nor-… somewhat physically normal man was able to achieve such a feat without the aid of Aura or previous years of body building experience.

After retrieving her fallen glasses the Fashionista started sending out a few of the pictures she had taken to a certain Huntress that had bribed her to take some photos of her boyfriend, the reason being was… science, yeah right."

The Guardsmen started to cheer and whistle as Hansel went through his second set without even stopping.

"Yeah! That's my Stormtrooper!" Julius laughed slapping his hand against his knee.

Nicholas nodded his head in disbelief, "Blin, why didn't we just get a damn cannon for him to lift?"

Hansel finished his last rep holding the bar out in the air before guiding the bar back to its rack, he sat up swerving his legs to one side and stood up with crossed arms, "What is next?"

"Pull ups." Ozpin said still reeling from the initial shock of watching a boy lift something that some Aura users found difficult.

"Any more bets lads?" Julius asked with a sly grin.

Nicholas and Saladin glared at him before nodding their heads grumbling.

Professor Goodwitch coughed, "Boys pay attention. You need to do as many pull ups as you can do before having to stop for this next test… get to it."

The Guardsmen to cut things short did do as they were asked of one at a time using the pull up bar inside the bench rack. Julius did a total of twenty eight pull ups before having to stop, Nicholas did a total of thirty four pull ups, Saladin stopped at twenty nine, Hansel was still going however, he had just cleared seventy nonstop reps before the Headmaster realized just how tedious it would be to let Hansel to keep on going.

"That's enough Hansel, we need to move on to the next tests."

For the next few exams a reoccurring theme seemed to appear before the Headmaster, whatever the Guardsmen would do Hansel would surpass it; strength, dexterity, balance, mobility, and now endurance. It would seem that even endurance was not even a challenge for the Kommando as he was clearing a sixth mile on a treadmill without either stopping or slowing down, whereas the others had to stop around the four and a half mark.

"I'm can't believe this," Goodwitch muttered, "he is in better shape than most of the Aura enhanced student body."

"Edison, do you have any idea on what Hansel's people did to make him so… this?" The Headmaster asked with legitimate concern, "This has to have some sort of repercussions for his health in the long run."

"Long run? For a Kriegsman?" The Tech Priest asked with folded arms.

Ozpin frowned mildly irritated, "You get what I mean."

"In truth I don't know. The Tech Priests working in the Korps don't exactly gossip with their fellow Tech Priests, if anything they steadily adopt Krieg culture over time, thus being antisocial with us. Even if I did ask them at the time we worked with them they wouldn't say anything, the Lord Commissar forbade them from discussing it outside of a few sanctioned institutions." Edison then crossed his arms in a small pout, "Those bastards have customized black and red robes… I wish I had a pair of those."

The Headmaster sighed, perhaps a blood test would provide much needed answers to his questions? He waved over two staff members from the Academy's infirmary ward, they carted over a tray with a few syringes and empty vials.

"Gentlemen all that is left for today is a simple blood test, tomorrow we will do a mental evaluation to further analyze the pyscho and sociological differences between your peoples and the people of Remnant."

Three of the Guardsmen snorted with their eyes drifting to Hansel, whom was also getting his blood drawn first, the Headmaster nodded knowing full well that out of all of them Hansel was going to have the most different evaluation if not one that proves he is in need of medication and counseling that he would more than likely ignore.

After the Imperial soldiers had their blood drawn by the school's medical staff they each took a shower stall in the locker room with their uniforms by their stall doors. Being cleaned and dressed properly they made their way down to the cafeteria for lunch which was one of the three favorite things the Guardsmen so far liked about the school itself, the other two were breakfast and dinner.


Lunchroom…

Hansel carried two trays again, one his and one carrying two pounds worth of bacon for his drooling bioweapon that followed after him with a thick wagging tail. The Kriegsman set his tray of pasta with red sauce on the table and the one with bacon on the ground for his impatient Hund.

Saladin rubbed his arm where the nurses had taken the blood from his arm, "Did they really need to take that many vials? I mean c'mon, one should be enough."

"Are you really complaining about that small prick in the arm?" Nicholas asked drinking a Vostroyan coffee, thirty percent coffee with the other eighty percent being Amesac.

"I'm not, but isn't weird that they took like eight milliliters of blood?"

"Who cares?" Julius asked biting into a muffin, "It's not like it has anything really relevant to do with us, they are like the Brass, always doing shrakk that makes no sense."

"I find that highly distressing when it is coming from an officer." Saladin said with a deadpan.

Hansel sat silently eating his food, he remembered when he was younger the Quartermasters of Krieg would always summon him and his sister into their medbunker for checkups, physical equivalency tests, and the biweekly injections for a few years, but then one year they decided to put both him and his sister "under" as they called it with a strange gas while the Quartermasters and Magos Biologis further examined and "improved" them both like they were doing with others from his regiment.

He did not enjoy those damn cold tables. But he did feel much more… energetic after those shots and even more so after that operation overseen by the Tech Priests on Krieg, he also noticed that he'd easily over power the instructors and overall improved with his strength in marches and in drills.

He sincerely doubted Remnant had booster shots like Krieg.

"So Hans, how is your little girlfriend?" Julius asked with a teasing tone and a grin.

"Last time I checked she was fine. I think one of these days I will teach her Old Kriegan and push her towards the Creed."

"That's good, we could use some more loyal followers of our glorious divine master of the galaxy." Saladin said with a smile, "After wooing the Lady Schnee I plan on getting her to praying within a month."

Nicholas rolled his eyes at the Tallarn, nudging him, "But you plan to get her on her knees before that I'm guessing."

Saladin flushed red for a second, "I have no idea what you are talking about."

Julius snickered patting the Tallarn on the shoulder, "I wouldn't mind if it happened to me. I wouldn't mind if several things happened with me and that Coco woman."

"Oh Throne." Hansel groaned, "He's at it again."

Julius scoffed with crossed arms, "At what? What would you know Hansel Von Krieg?"

"I have ears Julius." Hansel said frowning, "Your chambers weren't exactly sound proof. Find the decency to fornicate somewhere with dense walls."

The Tallarn man and Vostroyan looked at each other, then at the two Germanesque Guardsmen.

"Remember, his regiment was on Armageddon, his Commissar often times visited the palace with Hansel in tow because the Todeskommandos are basically his right hand on the battlefield?"

"Ohhhhhhh…" The Guardsmen said nodding their heads, Nicholas still frowned though "okay… but why was he outside your door while you were having sex?"

Julius shrugged with a grin, "I needed someone to be on the lookout for anyone that might've interrupted my sessions with the beauties of Armageddon~"

"Frakking royals." Nicholas said nodding his head.

The Armageddon soldier shoveled a spoonful of mashed potatoes into his mouth flipping Nicholas off, "Say after this lets go get Hans's shrakk into the dorm."

The guardsmen nodded as they continued on with their lunches, Jaeger was now by Hansel's side panting and begging with his stupid doggish grin of adorableness whinnying at his owner. Hansel rolled his eyes and tossed a piece of chicken in the air, the Hund caught the chicken with a loud snap of his jaws.

Nicholas grimaced at the sound of snapping bones, "I'd hate to be bit by him."

A naughty thought came over the Korpsman's mind, "Pas auf Nicholas, brummen!"

Almost at the flip of a coin the sweet cute giant dog started growling at the Vostroyan, his eyes turned blood red and his dark fur stood up unhindered due to the lack of armor, he started to froth at the mouth as he creeped up to an perfectly still blanched Vostroyan Guardsman.

Nicholas's eyes didn't even move.

The Huntsmen and Huntresses in training in the surrounding tables fled further away from the Imperials, the whole room was silent for a moment until the most terrifying thing any of the young impressionable students had ever heard, something that shook them to their cores and would now haunt their nightmares for weeks to come.

The sound was Hansel's laugh.

It started out as a soft release of air, that steadily increased in a deep almost villainous maniacal deep belly laugh, "MWHAHAHAHAHA- BWAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Hansel nearly fell out of his seat seeing the incredible amount of fear on Nicholas's face, he started smacking his open palm on his knee, "F-f-fuss! Fuss! Braver Hund! Braver Hund! AHAHAHA! Y-your face! HAHAHA-"

After hearing the commands Jaeger just started panting again with a stupidly cute face, he liked Nicholas's face, knocking the scared stiff Guardsman over like he was a statue.

"Bruh, dick move." Julius said nodding his head.

Hansel however ignored Julius's disapproval and chuckled lightly still finding his little joke still funny, "So… so worth it."

Saladin had beads of sweat on his brow as he released a breath of relief, he was afraid that Hansel was going to actually feed Nicholas to his Hund. The beast was now trying to apologize to Nicholas, licking his face and rubbing his head underneath the Vostroyan's chin.

Nicholas released a sigh heaving as new oxygen started entering his blood again, color returned to his face as he sat himself back on the bench, "P-p-please. Don't do that, ever again."

"Relax Tsartrov, I won't… until I'm bored again." Hansel said with a slow forming sinister up turn grin.

Nicholas sighed smacking his head into the table.


RWBY Dorm…

Hansel only had a few things that needed to be picked up so he offered to do it himself while everyone else went back to the dorm to relax their sore muscles, the Tech Priest had told him that he'd be in the forge working on Hansel's more complicated parts of his gift, one that required the mechanical precision of a machine hand, he had however taken the time to alter and repair his emotion suppressor so it would be combat ready.

Just as he was leaving the team that first greeted him was arriving back to their dorm, only it seemed that two of them, Weiss and Blake, were in a heated argument, so much in fact they paid him no mind as they passed him.

He looked back to see Ruby and Yang dragging their feet with looks of extreme mental exhaustion.

"What's wrong with those two?" He asked jabbing his thumb back towards the dorm where the sounds of arguing were not very muffled by the door.

Yang walked right past him mumbling to herself, Ruby tried to smile but it fell flat, "They've been like that all day."

Ruby sighed going up to Hansel, she leans against his chest wrapping her arms around his back. He stood silently with his right ungloved hand going through her hair in an attempt to sooth her nerves, it was plainly obvious that the argument was stressing his Rosenrot out, he did not like it one bit but it was not his place to intrude in their affairs for now.

"I want to just stand here for a little while longer, unless you need to be somewhere Hans…" Ruby said almost at a whisper.

He didn't answer with a yes or a no, instead he lifted his mask up and pecked her on the top of her head. Ruby smiled lifting herself up by her tippy toes and met Hansel's lips in a gentle peck.

"I'm sure whatever petty issue they are bickering over will be resolved soon." He said running his fingers through her scalp.

Ruby cringed, she highly doubted but hoped that would be the case, the topic was a very sensitive one and she truly did not want Hansel to get involved at all in any form because she already knew that his answer to the issue would include something along the lines of shooting someone.

"I hope so," The volume of the yelling increased, "I better go, I'm their leader after all."

Hansel nodded and gave Ruby another kiss on the cheek, but he kept her from going to her dorm by playfully restraining her wrists behind her back, a small grin adorned his face as he held her chin between his thumb and index finger, he leaned down behind her ear and whispered, "You're still my prisoner."

Ruby's face flushed bright red as her blood pumped through her heart like a piston, she shuttered feeling his warm breath against her ear, Ruby's lips parted with a gasp. Hansel's thumb pulled at Ruby's bottom lip before his hand went to the back of her head, tugging her by her hair to pull her head back.

Her lips trembled as she expected him to smash their lips together and set her nerves on fire with lust. But he was being a prick again by just hovering over her lips, coming close but then pulling back just slightly, further irritating Ruby because it just made her want more. He did finally concede though, molding his lips against hers, she wrestled to have her hands free but his metal hand kept them together, his right hand went down along her waist and gave a squeeze to her butt.

"Mnph!" She gasped with wide eyes as his hand squeezed her again, this time catching her bottom lip between his teeth, gently grinding her lip much to Ruby's surprised pleasure, a soft throaty moan escaped her as her eyes flickered shut.

Hansel released her lip momentarily from his teeth and went down Ruby's neck kissing her every inch of the way. Ruby did her best to suppress any moans that tried escaping her mouth as Hansel's hand continued to squeeze and rub her ass, but she just had almost no control over herself as Hansel started to nibble at the crook of her neck.

"H-hans~" She moaned in his ear, "Aahhhhh~"

He pulled away from her and gave a final peck on her lips, "Do you feel better now?"

Ruby giggled nodding head with another satisfied dazed smile, leaning against the wall as she felt her head spinning, "Yesss… we should say goodbye more often.

"I think we just might, guten nacht mein Rosenrot~" He said walking away with his mask covering his face once more.

Ruby smiled at his fleeting form but her smile started to fade hearing the argument hadn't improved since she was outside with Hansel, 'Damnit Hans, you couldn't have kept me out here for a little while longer?'


Twenty Five minutes later…

The sounds of a person running down the hall at near light speed drew the Kriegsman from the JHSN dorm, he looked down the hall wondering just what the hell was so important for someone to run out the door so fast. He was able to see Blake turn the corner as she was in a dead sprint to leave the dorms.

"Bl-" It was too late, she was way out of earshot. Or so he thought.

"The hell was that?" Julius asked from his bed.

Hansel called over his shoulder, "Blake, she was running down the hall, I'll go see what Ruby has to say about it."

As he made his way to Ruby's dorm he heard that they were coming down the hall arguing with each other.

"I can't believe her she li-" Yang's hand went right over Weiss's mouth as the blonde stared at Hansel with wide and terrified eyes.

"Hey big guy, how's it going bud?" Yang said with as much cheer as she could, still covering Weiss's mouth.

Hansel stared at her with a very confused masked face, "What?"

"Out for a late night stroll?" Yang asked with a fake smile.

Weiss started to struggle with Yang but Ruby elbowed her side looking at Hans then back to Weiss with her big silver eyes.

The Heiress understood now, they didn't want him knowing why they were chasing that lousyscoundreltraitorFaunusspy! Ugh she was pissed! Yet, she knew that maybe letting Hansel know was not a good idea.

So she nodded to Ruby and nudged Yang, the brawling brute let go of her manish grip over her mouth.

"What by the Golden Throne is going on here?" He demanded.

"Well, um… yeah…" Yang rotated her hand rapidly for Ruby to say something.

"Blake's Mom is sick and she wanted Blake to deliver some medicine!" Ruby blurted out sweating.

Hansel stared at her with scrutiny, the story sounded somewhat reasonable, yet they trembled like leaves in front of him, it took way too long to tell him this tale and it didn't explain why Yang covered Weiss's mouth.

"Why did you cover Weiss's mouth if that is the reason?"

Yang chuckled rubbing the back of her head, "It's a personal matter you know, I mean it's not like we want it to be the world's business."

"That still doesn't explain the last few words out of her mouth." Hansel said pointing at Weiss.

"What does it matter to you anyways!?" Weiss snapped.

"Secrets and lies are told by heretics, if there is nothing to hide then why are you lying?" He responded coldly looking directly at Ruby, "Ruby. The truth."

Ruby looked between her sister and partner, then at Hansel, "Hans, promise me you won't be mad."

Hansel tilted his head, "Why would I be mad?"

"Hans, please its. It's a very… strange situation-" She stopped as he walked closer.

Yang tensed her posture, she was thinking clearly now unlike yesterday, she now knew not to even underestimate him if he was unarmed.

He was a weapon.

"Blake… Blake is-" Ruby stopped as Hansel stood less than a foot away from her, she suddenly felt so much shorter than she really was.

"A Faunus." Weiss blurted out, eyes widening after the realization of what she just said.

His head snapped towards the Heiress, "WHAT?!"

"Hans please-" Ruby tried reaching out to him but he pulled his hand away from her before she could touch him.

"You tried to lie to me. You did lie to me! How could you lie to me after telling me I could trust you!?" He shouted with an inhuman amount of rage rising in his heart, she lied to him… for a subhuman, an affront to Humanity's purity, to Humanity's perfection! She lied to him for a mutant!

Yang pulled Ruby back and took her place with her arms raised in a boxing stance, "Hans. Get back."

The Kriegsman stared the blonde down, she really had a hard time at learning her lessons didn't she? But he did not strike Yang, he turned his back on them and started to walk towards his dorm, reconnecting his once disabled emotion suppressor to try and stave off his fury.

This was something he would not forget any time soon.

The blonde brawler lowered her fists with a released held breath, she was so relieved that the Kriegsman backed off, there wasn't any promise that she would've come out victorious in that fight and to be honest she didn't want to know if she could, that would be too much of a risk in her mind with fighting a killer like him.

Weiss herself released a breath of her own after the Kriegsman left, she hated to admit it but he was as colder than ice, deep down she felt bad about the fight with Blake because of their friendship, but that's why she was also almost blindly mad at her. That girl had been lying to them since the beginning, even worse she was- as far as she knew still associated with the White Fang.

But the Heiress started to feel a deeper pain as she now laid eyes on her leader.

Ruby stared silently ahead, the last words Hansel said to her rung in her eyes like they were being said to her over and over again, even through that mask she could hear how betrayed he felt, his words stung her little heart. Not more than a few minutes ago they were kissing and hugging, acting like a cute couple… but now, now it felt like his eyes were staring holes at the back of her head.

Warm tears began to swell in her eyes, her chest began to heave heavily, her throat began to feel like it was cracking glass that was steadily cracking and fracturing even further as tears started pouring down her cheeks.

Ruby turned around towards her dorm and just started walking, her heart felt like it was sinking like a boat.


In the Warp…

The Gods sat in still in their viewing room, staring with silent interest as the first choppy waters for their favorite ship appeared in what seemed like a flash storm, they all glanced at a certain Lord of Change that twiddled his thumbs.


Remnant, back alleys of Vale…

Montresor was a simple with simple ambition, power. He once sealed a rival into a wall in his own wine cellar because of an insult, killed his Highborn Imperial family to prove himself to the Four, sabotage his planet's defenses, and then lead a revolt. He's killed many a man, many a family, tortured many a man with his Psyker power. Champion was a step towards his final goal.

Daemon Princehood.

The minds of the Faunus were far more impressionable than that of Humans, perhaps this is an attestment to their inferiority to that of Man, or perhaps they were once afflicted by the Warp and therefor are far more weaker to its influence? So many questions that he wanted answers for, but for right now he wanted all the information in the feeble mind of this one poor lad with antlers.

The poor boy in the ridiculous half face covering mask was set kneeling on concrete, his mouth wide open his voice gone as he had been screaming for ten minutes straight. They believed that they had the right to take the face of a Daemon, outcast or not, they reserved no right to take the face of a truly terrifying and powerful being, enlightened by the Warp to serve the true masters of the Galaxy. It was shameful such cowards wore the masks of a being they were nowhere near representing.

Once he had finished absorbing the knowledge he could gather from this latest… informant.

He will say this about the Faunus though, their minds even felt different, he could compare them to cherry lollipops, sweet and savory… so vulnerable, unprotected from his corruption, it was almost getting him off.

Two days as he predicted, two days until his savage friends get to indulge in bloodshed.

"Hail Chaos." Montresor whispered as the Faunus turned to ash.


Beacon the next day…

Hansel lied silently on the ground, he stared silently at the ceiling remembering that not more than thirty two hours ago he spent the early morning with someone he cared deeply for, someone he thought cared deeply for him too but now he legitimately questions this.

He had similar doubts about Ruby before but his mind wandered too far to the darker parts of his mind that day, though today would still prove to be a struggle as he knew the Imperium's laws well and the punishment for aiding mutants… he just closed his eyes and tried to inhale the emotion regulator deeper, he wanted to feel nothing.

Down a hall a certain Huntress in training was lying down on her bed, she hadn't been able to will herself to get out of bed, her eyes were red and puffy, she sniffed every now and again as she felt her heart shattering bit by bit. She didn't want to lie to Hansel but she knew how dangerous he could be and she didn't want him going after Blake.

But she did not intend for him to react so violently.

Ruby didn't like it when he yelled, especially at her because it struck a nerve deep in her heart. She had no idea how bad he would've taken her little white lie but for crying out loud he needed to chill out on the whole race thing, it was a big turn off for her, she just didn't understand what his actual problem was with the Faunus, they had cute ears damnit!

She turned on her side after glimpsing at Blake's bed, she was the only one on her team, hell in their peer group period that actually support her trying to get in a relationship with Hans, everyone else would've been fine with ignoring him or just fearing him so much that they would ostracize him from their class altogether.

Well it wasn't going to work for her, she felt something for him when he took that damn mask off and told them who he was and what he had experienced, he was this cute but hurt puppy that needed a semblance of compassion in his life, something to give him some sort of hope that would in the very least get him to see his twentieth birthday.

It was hard for her to even explain it to herself why she was falling in love with him, it seemed like love at first sight, she had realized it and was contemplating after their incident with his notebook that maybe it would've been better to leave him alone.

But then they started to talk in the garden, he told her things he made her promise to keep secret, and those secrets he told her that night forged a stronger bond between them both, he attracted her like an Ursa to sap.

Blake had eavesdropped on them that night as well and she agreed to keep his secret for her, she seemed happy that she and Hansel were getting along better. It just wasn't fair on what Hansel was doing to her, it wasn't fair of what he thought of Blake, but he was not going to hear it. He just was too damn thick headed.

Damn him, damn him for tearing her heart apart like this. Why is it that the cute ones are also the really bad ones?


JHSN's Dorm…

Julius looked at his Korpsman as the big lug just lied there on the floor, he came back livid that night, so livid Jaeger hid underneath one of the beds in the furthest part of the room. He went on a rant about how the Belladonna girl was actually a no good lying mutant whore in disguise as an obviously superior Human Being.

While the affront to his race did urk the Armageddon soldier he did reason with why the girl did it, he still didn't like it but he hoped wherever she had scurried off to it was far away from Hansel. She helped save Imperial lives once, that was a favor, to him she had just spent it.

The Tallarn was no different, the Faunus disgusted him as an Imperial but they did prove useful in his and his comrade's salvation, that was something he could appreciate, however posing as the superior race was something he did not appreciate in the slightest.

The Tech Priest nodded his head, he told that girl to come clean earlier but she just had to screw the pooch with her emotions out of check. He warned her that this would happen, he warned her that if the Kriegsman found out things for her would take a major turn for the worse, if the Emperor cares for her at all then may he find a way to calm down the Korpsman after he stops moping.

Nicholas left the room, he couldn't handle the frakking atmosphere in there any longer. Was he disturbed by the abhuman dressing up as a Human? Yes, of course he was. Did he actually care? No, he was either too dumb and too poor to really give a crap about something that in the long run didn't matter on this backwater planet as the issue held little relevance in actual fighting.

Right now he was just curious about the building they were "stationed" at, it was big and it was complicated looking, he wasn't a genius frakking architect but it must've cost a lot of money to build a place like this.

He had left his hat back in the room as it was just too damn hot to wear it in the morning, he had even stripped down to his bare red button up fatigues with the sleeves rolled up as the temperature and the warm nature did not agree with the Vostroyan.

This whole thing was silly to him, now maybe he was just a simple man with simple ambitions but a small tincy wincy little lie just didn't seem like a big deal to him. Sure it was for a nonhuman but who wouldn't lie to protect their friends from someone like Hansel?

The Vostroyan had seen his kind in combat, they were deadly and efficient with almost machinelike motions and personality, it was a surprise they didn't just become Tech Priests, though Edison was anything but machinelike in the case of his sense of humor, he was more like a cool grandfather.

"Oy blin." He groaned rolling his eyes, he had to stop thinking about this damn setback for the Kriegsman, he had shrakk to do… like… wander the school…

He was making good progress with that until he turned the corner and nearly walked into a certain busty blonde.

"Oh, excuse me." He said to Yang trying to go around her but she grabbed his shoulder, "Shrakk."

"Hey!" She said turning him around, great, she was going to be taking something out on him, frakk you very much Hansel you dick.

"Yeah?" Nicholas said with a sigh.

"Your friend made my sister cry her eyes out all night!" She said with a very hostile sneer, red eyes and flaming hair.

It wowed Nicholas for a second but he snorted, "Friend? You are mistaking, Hansel hates my guts still. Sorry about your friend and sister, but it's not my problem."

Yang looked ready to punch the Vostroyan, with a growl she stared him in the eyes, "What did you just say?"

Okay, that's it, he got in her face nearly touching her nose, "I said it's not my problem. What goes on with the Korpsman and your sister is their business but you seem to think it is my business, for some reason it is slowly becoming my business because it is making everyone so bitchy that drinking doesn't relive the headache you are all making for me! So if you would kindly just keep on walking that would be a blessing!"

Yang moved back with wide eyes as her hair fizzed out, no one ever spoke to her like that, who was this and what did he do with that scraggily drunk boy from yesterday?

Nicholas cracked his neck and went back to walking, but again the blonde stopped him.

"Hey wait… I'm sorry, it's just this whole thing has just got me on edge okay? I'm sorry." Yang said with a more relaxed posture and with saddened eyes.

Nicholas closed his eyes with a sigh, she just had to be the beautiful one, "Its fine, everyone is bitchy today, even me."

A small smile came over Yang's face but then it devolved into a small frown, "So. How is Hansel?"

Nicholas huffed with crossed arms, "He was livid last night, he went into a long angry rant about how he was going to kill Blake with his bare hands and how his 'Rosenrot' betrayed his trust for a, and I am quoting him, "mutant whore". He calmed down after midnight and he just now lies on the ground, speaking to no one. That is not unusual for his kind but for him it is out of fury and a broken heart."

Yang blinked at that, "What?"

"Have you ever been in love? Well he hasn't and he feels like she just kicked him in the heart, the Kriegs are an honest people, if they need to keep a secret they'd just shoot you rather than lie. He isn't just mad about Blake, that's a separate issue entirely, what he's mad about is that she chose Blake over being honest with him."

Now that Yang thought about, the more it made sense, "Ugh, those two idiot lovebirds. They are killing me, but they are straight up murdering each other right now, Ruby hasn't said a thing either all morning, Weiss too, I just had to escape for a while."

"No kidding…" Nicholas thought for a second with some blush tinting his cheeks, "Say I didn't get much sleep last night, is there a place to get coffee around here?"

"Oh sure, "Yang said with a lighter tone, "just follow me, its not far from here."

Nicholas rubbed his eyes as he followed the blonde from behind, he tried to keep his eyes forward and over her shoulder and tried to think about the cold tundra of Vostroya, because the temptation of keeping his eyes on those swaying hips and tight, tight shorts.

'She is lovely and scary.' Nicholas thought as she brought him to a room with several coffee pots and numerous coffee mugs along some tables.

"How do you like your coffee?" She asked with a mug in hand.

"Half full black."

Yang scratched her head, "What?"

"I mean just fill it halfway, the mug." The Vostroyan said clearer.

"Oh, okay." Yang did as Nicholas asked and filled his mug halfway, she watched as he pulled a flask from his back pocket and started pouring some of what she assumed was alcohol in it.

"You take your coffee the way my uncle does, why do you drink?" She asked.

"Tradition, habit, slight addiction. I'd say alcohol poisoning is the least likely way a Vostroyan Firstborn will die." Nicholas chuckled darkly, taking a sip of his Vostroyan Coffee enjoying the calm air about the room.

Yang nodded drinking from her own cup, "Hans did say you guys have a lot to deal with in space… what's it like out there?"

Nicholas placed his mug down and gave Yang a serious look, "From what I've seen it's mostly war. Just hope things stay relatively peaceful here, you may have some neat things but it pales in comparison to what's in space."

"I know, but is there anywhere at all where there is no killing or at least a war?" She asked.

"Unless it's a paradise world or Throne world far, far, far, far away from the frontlines of the galactic war." He said with a dark chuckle, "Emperor knows I would have never seen one of those worlds. The First Born like the Death Korps always goes for the worst of the worst worlds."

"Why are you called the First Borns? Are all of you really first born?" Yang asked with innocent curiosity.

"Well for the most part yes, our world did not send regiments to the Emperor during the Horus Heresy, out of guilt for our failure to Him our world agreed to send the first born son in service to the Imperial Guard. Some join even if they aren't the first born sons, I went in place of my brother because he was born weak and died young. But my particular unit treated me as an outcast as I was not truly a first born, all except for Ed, he's really my only friend."

Yang nodded her head with a frown, "Wow, I mean, that's just awful, I mean you are all fighting against the same thing for the same cause. But they don't like you because you aren't a first born? That is just unfair."

Nicholas had a slight blush go over his face, "You're the first person other than Eddy to say that too me. Most people are just repulsed by me because of my alcoholism and general attitude,"

"Trust me, you are refreshing compared to Hansel, you're funny, he's a jerk. Ugh! I don't know why my sister loves him!" Yang groaned smacking her head on the table, "They are polar opposites!"

"I know it is very strange." Nicholas said with a nod, he tapped his fingers against the table after a sigh, "But the why doesn't matter right now, right now they need to talk to each other, otherwise all of us will start having a harder time."

Yang rolled her eyes sipping her coffee, "The question is who will be the first to budge? Hans or Ruby."

"I don't know, just pray it happens soon."


Later that day...

The whole day seemed to kind of melt, Ruby had never left the dorm room, opting to wallow in her self-pity with the hopes that Hansel would find it in his cold heart to forgive her. The Kreigsman while upset over Ruby's dishonesty did find himself in a spiritual and moral dilemma, he wanted to fix things but found that he had no idea on how he could possibly forgive such an affront to Imperial law, how he could forgive such a betrayal from his rose so red.

Hansel stalked his way out to the garden, it was his church as far as he was concerned until a proper one was built. He couldn't believe this, he just could not wrap his head around his Rosenrot betraying him so, how could she protect that… that… THAT DAMN MUTANT!

He smashed his fist into the grass, making a nice dent into the soil, his mask filter was fixed but the filter itself was for the most part depleted so its effects were barely even touching him, it gave no calm to his nerves. Years and years of using the drug makes Kriegsmen addicts, it keeps their cool when they see something that is extremely heretical, the Commissars wanted them inhaling it so they wouldn't get tunnel vision on the battlefield, yet they ended up building tolerance to it if they lived for too long.

He fell down on his knees and looked up to the moon as he steepled his hands together, "Please, Emperor… what should I do? My heart and my mind are at war, I love mein Rosenrot with all my heart, but she has told a lie to me, her love, for a mutant. How do I forgive this? Is there a way to forgive this?"

The Korpsman bowed his head against the soft ground, "Please… I want to forgive her."

He lied there on the ground for what felt like hours, staring up at the shattered moon, countless stars, endless worlds with endless wars, all in sight yet so far away. There was nothing he could do to change the way fate and those worlds worked, but there had to be something he could do to quell the aching pain in his heart, to clear his mind of this-

Almost like lightening an idea came to mind, it had seemed his prayers were answered.


RWBY's dorm…

Ruby sat up from her bed and nimbly jumped down to the carpeted floor, she stretched her back while yawning, moping in bed and sleeping all day worked up quite an appetite. JNPR visited earlier in the afternoon, Yang told them the truth about what happened with Blake and about what happened with Hansel.

Her friends offered to help look for Blake if they needed them to, but no one could give advice on what to do with Hansel, not even Nora was giving her insane solution of leg breaking, that and blowing things up were the only solutions that girl knew.

They did however leave some cookies.

A light knocking at the door brought Ruby away from a perfectly good stack of chocolate chip cookies, whoever it was they better have a good reason for keeping her away from those delicious sweet crunchy little bastards.

Her breath caught after she opened the door, "H-hans."

"Ruby." Hansel said neutrally.

Her cheeks flushed red as her eyes avoided his stare, "What do you want?"

He pulled out a holster with a laspistol inside of it, fully charged and held it in front of her.

"What is this for?" Ruby asked cautiously, eyeing the holstered space sidearm.

Hansel removed his mask and stared at Ruby, "We will help you look for your "friend", if she is innocent as you claim then we bring her back, if she is a heretic." He grabbed Ruby's chin and made her look him in the eyes, "You. You will kill her."

Ruby stared with her eyes wide open, her heart started beating fast, "Hans, no, you can't be serious?"

"I am serious Ruby Rose, if you are wrong you will kill her. There is no escaping it Ruby. She is your subordinate, and if you really do care about me you, if I can really trust you then you will wear that pistol on your belt on Sunday and be ready to use it." He told her with unwavering conviction, "If you are right about her, then you can just give Julius his pistol back."

Ruby blinked rapidly as some tears began to swell in her eyes, "Hans. She's my friend."

"Then for her sake, for your sake I hope you are right… I love you, but I'm not sure if I can trust someone who'd lie for her kind, to me especially. If she had come out about herself with honesty instead of running and hiding like a coward I'd at least have respect for her."

Ruby's face twitched, "She ran because she was afraid, afraid of people like you, you, you jerk!" She started banging her fists against his chest.

"Ruby-"

"Don't you Ruby me! I have done nothing but try to humor you Hans! Defend you when everyone else thought you were a monster! But you are such a bigot! The Faunus didn't do anything to you, Blake supported us when no one else would! You jerk! You jerk! You jerk!" Ruby devolved from banging her fists into his chest to straight up trying to kick and punch him.

Hansel however held her in place and kept her from really hitting him, "That's enough."

The Kriegsman put the holstered weapon in her arms and pushed her back into her room, "Wear it or don't wear it tomorrow. The choice is yours… and Ruby."

Ruby glared at him with a tear rolling down her cheek, "What?"

"I am a monster. That's something I've accepted, you should too." Hansel fixed his mask over his face and left her dorm.

She closed the door with a growl, her chest heaved up and down as she smacked an open palm against the doorframe with a frustrated sigh. Ruby looked down at the pistol's holster and unclipped a leather strap, gently she upholstered the retro-futuristic weapon from its holding place.

Usually the sight of a new weapon would excite her, especially one from the Imperials… but this… this wasn't the same. This was meant for her to use on Blake if- no! It won't come to that, Blake is innocent and she knows it, she'll show him, she'll show him just how wrong he is!

With a nod to herself Ruby placed the laspistol back in its holster and set it next to her plate of cookies, a plate that quickly vanished.

In the same room the blond brawler lied in her bed with her lilac eyes staring up at the ceiling, she heard the whole conversation and suffice to say it greatly worried her. Her little sister was being pressured into murdering one of their friends if she proved to be a "heretic" in Hansel's eyes, she knew he was trouble from day one, but she did not expect that something like this would ever come up.

Yang sincerely hoped her partner would be alright and her sister wouldn't have to do anything horrible.

Weiss couldn't believe what she was hearing, how did everything go so wrong? Was this her fault for how she acted? Maybe if she hadn't been so harsh Blake wouldn't have panicked, then they wouldn't have ran into Hansel, then maybe Ruby and Hans wouldn't be fighting.

She hated the White Fang sure, they took so much from her, but that didn't mean she wanted Blake dead, no, nononononononono, "If there is a God Emperor, or anyone for that matter… please don't let anything bad happen to Blake." The Heiress whispered to herself.

Little did she know someone and a few somethings were listening.


Next day...

Daylight broke and another day began, Hansel didn't need much to convince his team to go searching for Blake in Vale, as far as they knew not a single Imperial has ever set foot within the city of Vale, from what they understood about the city it was practically the size of a block in a Hive city, yet it was considered a large city on the planet.

JHSN was already at the Bullhead docks with their regular Imperial weaponry slung on their shoulders, their psychic evaluation took all day the previous day since not only did they have to get tested but they also had to provide context of their world's place in the Imperium and how their society affected their psychological behavior.

The Beacon staff was to review the information collected so that they would better understand their new guests and to try and understand the vast galaxy of utter madness they were a part of. To say they were mortified by the state of affairs in the galaxy would be an understatement, it was a wonder to them why the boys haven't already gone insane with the horrors they had faced.

The Imperials found the examination to be a waste of a perfectly good day to search for Blake, although one of the team members wouldn't have minded if she had disappeared forever.

So far this ordeal has brought the Kriegsman nothing but misery, it drove a rift between him and his Rosenrot just when things seemed to be going right for the two of them. Julius said couples will fight at times for a multitude of reasons and that in the end things would work out, but how much Hansel believed his friend was debatable.

Hansel despised the mutant, he wanted her burning for the damage she's caused between him and Ruby, he wanted her dead because her very existence is an affront to his race, he didn't care what her excuse was he would hate her till the day either he or she died.

All he was doing was showing Ruby just how untrust worthy the subhumans really are, he hoped she'd see it and put an end to it. However if he did in fact prove to be wrong then he'd just have to ignore the creature until they graduated the academy.

Yet all of this would mean nothing if she didn't have the laspistol with her, if she didn't have it… then everything between them was void and she'd mean nothing to him anymore because of the side she chose.

At least that's what he told himself.

"Hey," Julius said bumping Hansel's shoulder, "they're coming up the ramp."

Hansel turned around with Jaeger's leash in hand and walked towards the steps with a quick pace, whispering a silent prayer to his Emperor that she wore the-

Ruby was the first up the ramp with her cloak covering herself, she met Hansel's stare with a glare, they held each other's stare for several long heavy moments, Ruby broke the staring contest and parted her cloak.

Hansel released a breath he had been holding, she still loved him.

"Ru-"

"Shut up!" She snapped, "We aren't talking!"

Jaeger's ears flattened against his now helmeted head, his master's mate was very hostile at the moment, master should offer her some food or a bone otherwise she might bite him, and that would hurt.

Ruby pulled her hood over her head and briskly walked right pass Hansel, completely and utterly giving him a shoulder so cold that even Weiss cringed at the one hundred eighty degree turn of her attitude.

Then again telling your girlfriend to kill one of her friends isn't the smartest thing to do either.

Nicholas sighed as the two teams entered the craft, Hansel and Ruby being on separate ends of the ship, "It's going to be one of those days."


Vale…

After landing the two teams were about to split but Nicholas and Edison opted to go with RWY, the reason being that if the Imperials were able to find a trail with Jaeger then they'd call them so they could lead RWY to Blake.

"Finde Blake." Hansel commanded to Jaeger.

The Krieghund sniffed the air and began to search along the side walk, taking his master out for a walk. Julius gestured to Saladin to follow him as he jogged up alongside Hansel, the Tallarn man followed without protest.

Ruby stared after Hansel with a fracturing frown on her face, he took the silent treatment very well, she crossed her arms as she still had angry thoughts in her head over what he said to her last night, she didn't know how this situation could possibly get any better.

"Why are you two going with us again?" Weiss asked with her usual bitchy attitude.

"I have a direct line to Julius's scroll, out of the five of us I'm the only one that doesn't really mind your friend's existence." Nicholas said reslinging his lasrifle over his shoulder, "They promised they wouldn't touch her if they found her, so they need someone to call."

Yang furrowed her brow, "Then why don't they just call us then?"

"They don't believe you would call them." Edison said nodding his hooded head, "So they had two people they trust to report your findings."

"Wow." Yang muttered crossing her arms.

"Oh don't take it to heart," Nicholas groaned, "we're on our toes because your "friend's" heritage slipped pass us."

Edison silently cursed himself, if he had made her go talk to her friends then maybe they wouldn't have to be out in the streets looking for the abhuman.

"Whatever, we got to look for her, Blake!" Ruby called out with both hands close to her mouth.

"Blake!" Yang called doing the same.


An hour passes…

"Weiss you aren't helping." Ruby said with irritation in her voice.

"Oh, you know who might be able to help? The Police."

Ruby crossed her arms growling out, "Weiss."

Weiss frowned, "It was just an idea!"

"Yeah a bad one." Ruby said walking further down the sidewalk.

Nicholas looked at Edison as he tested the word police, "What are Police?"

Edison shrugged, "Arbities?"

"Weiss I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to any conclusions." Yang said.

"I think when we hear it you'll all realize I was right." The Heiress said with a snarky condescending tone.

"I think for Blake's sake hope you are wrong." Edison warned.

"I think Weiss's hair looks wonderful today!" An unknown voice said causing the group and Imperial soldiers to jump.

"Ahh! Penny where did you come from?!" Ruby demanded with her heart racing.

"Hey guys what are you up too? Ohhh, who are your friends?"

"Uhhh, this is Edison and Nicholas… our… friends… yeah." Ruby said scratching the back of her head, how else are you supposed to explain two people from space to someone you met just the other day?

"We're looking for our friend Blake." Yang said

"Ohh, you mean the Faunus girl." She said causing Nicholas and Edison to stare with disbelief.

"Wait, how did you know that?" Edison and Ruby both asked.

Penny pointed at her head, "Uh, the cat ears."

Nicholas face palmed, "Blin!"

"What cat ears? She wears a- bow…" Yang said slowly realizing how she and the others missed the obvious.

A tumble weed rolled by sticking to Nicholas's leg, he kicked said tumble weed away pinching his brow. Of all of the Emperor damned illusions that elaborate mutants and abhumans have ever used to masked their identity, a bow of all frakking things.

"Cyka…" He muttered to himself, how did he and the others, partically Hansel, miss that?!

"She does like tuna a lot." Ruby said as the dots connected.

"So where is she?" Penny asked completely ignoring the literal cyborg priest and friend.

"We don't know," Ruby said forlorn, "she's been missing since Friday."

"That's terrible!" Penny said grabbing Ruby by the shoulders, "Don't you worry Ruby my friend! I won't rest until we find your teammate!"

Nicholas bumped Yang, "Who the he-" He didn't get to finish as Yang put her hand and his mouth and pulled him away.

Edison watched in confusion as Weiss and Yang took off with Nicholas, he had a sneaking suspicion that perhaps this girl wasn't really a friend and sort of creeped them out… he however didn't pursue after them, he sensed something from this "Penny"… something so familiar yet different.

"That's really nice of you Penny but we-we're okay, really, right guys?" Ruby asked but to her dismay her friends and Nicholas were gone, leaving the Tech Priest and Penny… great.

A tumble weed rolled by with a gust of wind, "This town has too many of those."

"It sure is windy today." Penny said stating the obvious.


Hansel's crew...

Hansel silently followed Jaeger on his leash, he hadn't said a word to Julius or Saladin, and they didn't seem intent on mentioning a word to the Kriegsman, they could tell when your team psycho killing tank needed alone time in his mind. Not even Julius was so daring as to bug a fuming Kriegsman.

The Kriegshund had taken generous sniffs of the abhuman he was now pursing earlier in the previous days past, he was smart enough to associate a particular sent with a name and face he had seen before as he was genetically designed to do so. The problem was that in a city that wasn't for the most part rubble and ruin the scent was blending in with the scents of many other abhuman types and Humans types, yet he could still zero out the particular scent, only it was far away in this windy metropolis.

Hansel himself however was not paying attention to the mission, his mind kept on drifting back to Ruby giving him a stern glare, the way she yelled at him, and how she totally disregarded him on the flight and the landing.

It was kind of attractive. She seemed like she had a stern side to her after all, but this stern side did not want him to kiss her, hug her, of course now even talk to him. He did not like it. It was bugging him, it was making him lose focus. The plan was not supposed to work out like this… or maybe it was, sometimes not knowing the Emperor's grand design was infuriating.

Then again Korpsmen are not the best when it comes to social situations, why couldn't things go back to the way they were just a few days ago? Why did that mutant have to ruin it all by existing?

'Damn her, damn her unclean race, damn her cowardly bloodline, damn her and her ancestors, damn her, damn her, damn her, damn her!' Hansel thought with hatred and rage building up within his heart, guilty or not he was going to make a point to that mutant that she will understand.


Nicholas's crew...

Nicholas stood outside of a shop Weiss and Yang were currently inside, he opted to wait as he was not allowed to bring alcoholic beverages within the store, he didn't mind as it gave him a small moment of respite to ease his nerves and clear his mind with a few sips.

"Few"

He stumbled with his flask as they exited the store.

"Thanks anyways!" Yang said waving to the shop owner but she had a slight frown looking at Weiss, "This is hopeless… you really don't care if we find her do you?"

"Don't be stupid of course I do, I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we find her. The innocent never run Yang."

Nicholas scoffed nodding his head, "In that case, hope you are very wrong. You know what we'll be forced to do in that case."

"What are you saying?" Weiss asked with a suspicion of what he was implying.

"I think you know damn well Ruby won't be able to shoot Blake if she turns out to be a traitor," Nicholas said walking past the Heiress, "and when she can't do that, who do you think will kill her? That Korpsman blames her for the rift between him and Ruby, do you think he'd just shoot her?"

Weiss's eyes widened slightly, he can't be serious… no… he was serious.

Yang frowned glaring at the side walk, she could only hope she was right and Blake would be left alone.


Ruby's crew...

"So Blake is your friend?"

"Yes Penny." Ruby sighed.

"And you're mad at her and your boyfriend?"

"Yes- well I'm not mad at her Weiss is. Hans… I'm just disappointed with." Ruby said with downcast eyes.

Edison rolled his, 'I frakking warned the abhuman.'

"Are they friends with Blake?" Penny asked with immense innocence.

"Well that's kind of up in the air right now, at least with Weiss," Ruby said sighing with frustration, "Hansel hates her."

"But why?"

'Dust damnit,' Ruby thought, "*Ultrasigh*, Well you see Blake not be who we thought she was."

"Is she a man?" Penny asked, making the Techpriest face palm with a metal smack.

"No, no, Penny she's- I don't know what she is she didn't exactly decide to talk to us before she ran off."

'I somehow blame myself for not forcing her to confess to her friends still, its honestly her fault though.' Edison thought.

"I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did I would want them to talk to me about things. Especially a boyfriend."

"Me too." Ruby thought with her mind now drifting back to Hansel, she wondered if he was also thinking about her.

'I miss her,' The Kriegsman thought bitterly to himself, 'ImissherImissherImissherImissher!'

"GottKaiser verdamnt!" Julius heard Hansel growl as Jaeger started off in a different direction for the umpteenth time.

"Don't worry Hans, we'll find her."

"I know we will, and I will ring her damn neck!" The Kriegsman growled back as his Hund started picking up speed, he found a strong trail as night fell.


Montresor's crew

Montresor crouched silently overlooking the docks on top of a building near the water, the Vraksians hid lower inside one of the cargo crates with axes and lasweapons at the ready, Nero however opted for the shadows over the crates. He could feel his connection with the Warp fluctuate, blood would be spilt tonight and the Gods would have their fill of death.

The airships his "informant" had revealed to him started to descend, they were of a strange design, one he had never seen before, it looked vulnerable to anti-air weaponry, it sure as hell would not last long against his Warp bolts if he were to get a direct hit on the bulky ship.

"What's this?" The Sorcerer asked himself as a abhuman girl held a very fancy looking human hostage, "This is getting interesting, Nero, have your me watch, we are unseen. Let them weed out the unfit, then show the victors the power of Chaos Undivided."

The Vraksian relayed the message to his comrades, they busted out of a crate and scaled onto a higher one to overlook the battle.

"Such skill, such power." The Sorcerer whispered to himself as he watched the abhuman girl and another abhumna boy that entered the fray do battle with the White Fang and fancy Human, "Yet such untapped potential for greatness, simply a tragedy that they are wasting it."

"Where is the blood?! They are just dancing!" One of the Vrakisans growled with frustration.

"They insult the Blood God with this fight!"

Nero started frothing behind his mask, "Let us loose!"

"No," Montresor demanded with the power of his chosen pantheon making his voice more commanding, "you will wait as ordered."

The Khornates did not take this kindly, but they did as they were told as the back of their heads started to burn.


Nicholas's crew...

"You guys hear that?" Nicholas asked as an explosion came from the docks.

"Lets go!" Yang yelled running towards the docks, Weiss followed with Mymaester drawn.

Hansel, Julius, Saladin, and Jaeger were charging fullspeed as the sounds of a fight up ahead demanded their presence.

Edison used his Mechandrites to propel himself on top of a building the two girls he was escorting already traversed with their enhanced speed, he arrived just in time to catch Ruby in his arms as an explosion flung her towards him, "Are you alright?"

"Ye- Penny wait stop!"

"Don't worry Ruby, I'm combat ready." Penny said as blades came from her back.

"By the Omnissiah!" Edison gasped, how- what- the- it can't be! Its- she's a Man of Iron!

Ruby recovered from the blast and watched in awe as Penny bisected a Bullhead with a plasma blast, "How is she doing that?"

"RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!"

The Huntress in training shuttered at the sound of the loud metallic battlecry, she looked over the side of the building she was on to witness Hansel and his Imperial engage the White Fang.


Julius blasted one mutant in the chest with his plasma pistol, the poor creature had no way of standing up to the flaming hot superheated liquid round as it burned a hole out his back, his sword parried a lesser skilled man that he promptly stabbed through the heart, twisting his blade as the creature cried out in pain.

Saladin practically danced through five mutants with his Khalig slicing through the lesser metals of the opposition's blades like they were paper, it went through their flesh as if they were made of warm brisket.

He flicked his wrist slashing a White Fang member across his belly, the man fell to his knees holding his guts in to no avail. Saladin dashed forward between two men, bisecting one in half as his Khalig Monoknife sliced though a man's legs, going through his femur with ease, separating his femoral artery.

Julius shot over Saladin's shoulder with a blast of plasma, the round took off a man's head and splashed across his friend's whole upper body, the Faunus collapsed to his knees screaming in pain as his flesh melted off like hot cheese off of a pizza.

Hansel was enjoying himself.

He bayonet a Faunus man right underneath his ribs, slicing through his aorta artery and through his spine. The man gasped in pain as his Aura shimmered away in an instant.

"Wha-" He uttered before a lasround from Hansel's Hellgun blasted a large burning hole through his back and into a fellow Faunus, the abhuman staggered as his Aura flared violently, Hansel fired once more and the round itself went through him this time.

Hansel kept his abhuman shield and upholstered him bolt pistol, with mechanical persision he fired a round at a fleeing White Fang member, the round tore through his victim's Aura as if it was a low energy shield, a hole the size of a fist from the initial entry point and a hole the size of a purse from the exit wound displayed the brutality of his weapon's munition.

The Korpsman forced the corpse off of his gun and started shooting off more lasrounds at the now fleeing Faunus, some would die instantly, while others fell to the ground with a burning circle on their backs.

"Jaeger, fass, fass!" Hansel commanded as he pointed at two White Fang members as they tried to crawl away, the Hund responded in kind by taking off at the Faunus.

The Hund pounced one of the White Fang members, crushing his back with his massive paws, he bared his canines and chomped the second fleeing White Fang grunt's head in half, he started chomping more into the abhuman's back as he enjoyed a snack.

A White Fang member attempted to slash at Hansel, but a shot to his leg staggered him. Hansel punched the man in the chest without holding back, sending the abhuman flying back into a crate with his sternum shattered to bits and his ribs snapped like chicken breast ribs, his back joined in like shattered glass.

"Weak creatures."

Edison jumped down with his mechandrites flared, he fired red hot lasbeams through any stragglers that attempted to fight.

Roman Torchwick stumbled backwards into a crate, who the hell were these people killing the animals? He didn't expect Kittycat and Monkeyboy that was for certain but just who or what were these guys!? They were slashing through Aura like it was nothing!

"No…" Blake cried as she witnessed just what the Imperials were truly capable of. Misguided brothers and sisters were being torn to pieces, vaporized, bludgeoned, burned, stabbed, they were being murder- they were being exterminated without mercy.

Hot tears rolled down her eyes as she dropped her weapons, her heart ached at the sight of their pain, her ears rung with their pained cries and pleas for mercy as they went unanswered by the merciless men she knew.

Her heart caught in her throat as she saw Hansel looking at her, she had one of the few remaining Fanus members at gunpoint, the poor soul was missing his mask with a fresh burn mark across his face, she could hear him pleading with hands raised in a desperate act as he begged for mercy.

Hansel spared none as he stabbed downwards, his bayonet going through the man's chest and out his back. The Faunus's arms dropped and his neck rolled backwards limp with a look of fear etched onto his face, tears falling upside down as he was shaken off the blade like a piece of meat.

Sun grabbed Blake by her shoulder as he had witnessed the same thing, she had described this boy before, he didn't believe at first this story of Humans coming from out of space portals but now, now he could not deny that they scared the utter living shit out of him right now.

Hansel looked down at the newest corpse and gave a stomp on the boy's head, smashing it like a cherry, getting the reaction he wanted from the filthy beast and her new companion, she understood now, she understood just what was coming for her for her sins.

Julius stabbed the final Faunus through his chest with the power swords, he pushed the poor girl off his blade with his plasma pistol's muzzle, "Should've run when you had the chance."

Saladin sheathed his blades looking over the corpses and steadily dying Faunus as they bled, he upholstered his laspistol and shot the bleeders dead. He was not a cruel man.

Ruby jumped down from the building, avoiding the blood on the ground. She was speechless. She covered her mouth as her eyes went over the faces and the remains of the White Fang terrorists that Hansel and the Imperials dispatched, tears fell from her eyes as their cries echoed in her mind, there was only one word in her mind.

"Why?"

Why did they slaughter all of these people? Why? Why didn't they wound them? Why did they kill them all?

Hansel turned and stared at her, he pulled his mask down under his eyes and stared directly into her eyes with his cold gray eyes, the words he said to her a few nights ago came to mind.

"I am a monster."

But his eyes weren't anger filled like they were the few nights before, they were just- they seemed normal, almost like he was at Beacon days prior. He was at home with bloodshed.

Ruby looked past him and sighed with relief, Blake was oka-
"Oh no."

Hansel was heading right towards her.

Blake's heart began to thump in her chest, she couldn't move as Hansel walked towards her with his coat trailing the blood of her fellow Faunus, his boots tracking crimson blood along the cold concrete ground.

Torchwick was sprinting to a Bullhead that was waiting for him, "Lets gogogogogogogogogogogo!"

The criminal mastermind ran with his non-existent tail tucked inbetween his legs, he most certainly did not sign up for this shit, there was nothing in the deal about fucking people wearing skull masks and shit firing lasers cutting through Aura like it was fucking nothing, that was not in the fucking contract!

Hansel paid no mind to the criminal, he was focused on his new quarry, "You."

Sun stepped up with his staff, "Get back!"

Blake dashed in front of Sun keeping him away from Hansel, "Sun! Don't, I-I got this… I-I deserve this."

She turned and immediately found a vice like grip from one hand pull her into the air, Blake grasped her hands around his wrist, he stared at her with his mask pulled underneath his eyes, "You lousy subhuman beast, do you have any idea how long you've made me hunt for you?"

Blake couldn't say a single word as her face stared turning a bright red.

"HANSEL!" Ruby shouted Rosewarping behind him, "LET HER GO! LET HER GO NOW!"

He turned his head towards Ruby, but then back to Blake, "Were you fighting or assisting your fellow subhumans?"

"We were fighting them! Let her go you bastard!" Sun yelled pointing his nunchuck pistol at his head.

"Put it down." Julius said pointing a charged plasma pistol behind Sun's head, "Trust me man, you don't want to look like those chaps back there."

Jaeger was right next to Sun with his large bloodied canines bared frothing at the mouth ready to tear him to pieces, Sun begrudgingly dropped his guns, looking at Blake as she struggled to breath with hopelessness.

Hansel loosened his grip, "Answer."

"F-f-fight-" Blake choked with tears streaming down her face as she started to turn purple.

Hansel retracted his arm, pulling Blake closer, "You saw what I did to your people. You know what I can do to you. If you so much as do anything close to the incident you just pulled, I will remove your eyelids and make you watch me take your whole cowardly bloodline from you. One. By. One. Do you understand?"

Blake sniffed as her throated started to bruise, she was beginning to lose consciousness. Hansel tossed her into Sun, he stumbled as he brought Blake to the ground so she could start breathing regularly.

Ruby shook, she could not believe this, she could not believe them! She couldn't believe him!

"Hansel! That was not necessary! None of this was necessary!" She screamed at him.

"What did you expect? They attacked us. Did you think we would just let them off with a warning?" Hansel demanded getting in Ruby's face.

"You didn't nee-"

"I didn't need what!?" He yelled, "I didn't need to kill them? Well guess what Rosenrot that's what I was born to do, that's what Julius was born to do, that's what Saladin, Nicholas, and Edison, that's what we are born to do! Fight, kill, and die in the God Emperor's name!"

"Damnit Hansel! I-I hate you so much!"

Silence dominated the group, Julius stared between the two of them with his mouth wide open, Saladin backed against the wall of a nearby crate, Blake and Sun were deathly silent as they watched the two stare each other down.

Ruby didn't believe what she just said. She blinked as he pushed his mask back up covering his eyes.

Yang and Weiss had just entered the scene with Nicholas, after covering their eyes of the carnage they ran up to their group of friends hoping everyone was alright, only to have their hopes dashed after hearing what Ruby just said.

'Ruby.' Yang thought with her hands covering her mouth, 'Ruby no.'

'She… she hates me.' Hansel thought with new found pain pulling his heart to pieces as if four horses were pulling it apart.

"KORPSMAN!"

Hansel was taken from his heart break by a sight he hadn't been expecting to see any time soon, but now deep down welcomed as a familiar threat and stress reliever made itself known to him so he could take the pain he felt and inflict it a thousand times fold upon the enemies of his God Emperor.

Nero jumped from a crate and landed with a loud crack as the concrete ground yielded to him, his Vraksian scouts followed but they did not break the ground with their landing, they bore axes and jagged swords, they bared their teeth growling and snarling at the Imperials.

A fifth member appear in a flash of blue light, he stood with his arms crossed, a Daemon mask covering his face as robes billowed showing off ornate armor, "I did promise bloodshed for you, and now it seems vengeance is an added bonus, Vraksians."

"Oh frakk." Julius groaned, how in the hell are there still Vraksian cultists? That war ended hundreds of years ago!

Blake shuttered at the mere sight of the new arrivals, they looked dirty, they looked mean, there was an instinctive feeling in her heart to start running for her life as the one that appeared in the flash of light turned his gaze on her. Sun put on a brave front but he could feel himself trembling, these... things just did not feel right to him, his Faunus senses were telling him to book it and book it fast.

Yang raised her fists, she wasn't going to go down without a fight to these ugly sons of bitches in burlap hoods. The Heiress held Myrtenaster up in defense but she had a distinct feeling the blue one was not worried in the slightest. Ruby's eyes bulged, she remembered seeing similar men drawn in Hansel's notebook, these were Chaos cultists, heretics, his people's enemy.

The Imperials were about to raise their arms but the Tzeenchian Champion raised his hand, holding their weapons down, "I think not. No, these men want the blood of the Korpsman first, then they will deal with you. I am feeling generous this night. If your Deadman wins, you all walk free and spread the word of Chaos's arrival to your leaders, so they may tremble in terror. If he loses, then your corpses will be our message."

The sounds of police sirens pierced the air as the drew near, Montresor simply waved his hand and lightning bolts struck the lamp posts and power lines sending them to the ground, blocking off the law enforcements path to the docks for now.

"Korpsman," Montresor said pointing at Hansel, "the Gods will have your soul. Step into this ring, or they die."

A ring of light blue fire sprung up, with an opening just for the Kriegsman.

Hansel was about to step forward but Ruby grabbed his arm, "Hans no! Don't do it!"

He pushed Ruby off of his arm and stepped into the ring, he threw his bolt pistol and rifle out of the ring to Julius and Saladin, his eyes met the Vraksian leaders, "You want me Heretic? Come and get me."

One of the Vraksian soldiers lost patience and charged at Hansel with an overhead axe swing, Hansel caught the axe with his left hand and snapped the wooded shaft of the weapon, he punched the Heretic in the face with enough force to completely pulverize his Vomer, Palatine, Maxilla, nasal, and Lacrimal bones. The Heretics eyes popped out of his head and onto Hansel's arms, they dangled to the sides as the body went limp.

Montresor's jaw fell open, "What?"

"Ohhhh, he's pissed." Julius said nodding his head.

Ruby covered her mouth with her hands, did she do this? Did she make him that angry?

Blake gulped as Hansel pulled the corpse up and threw it into the flaming Warp circle.

"Well? What are you cowards waiting for!?" Hansel shouted at the cultists, "No wonder we erased your populace, you don't know how to fight like men!"

That sent two of the Vraksians at him with unparalleled fury, they slashed at him wildly with their blades. Hansel kicked forward sending one of the men tumbling backwards holding on to his gut, puking blood out in pain as his stomach ruptured.

Hansel grabbed the arms of the cultist he spared with and squeezed hard, snapping the Radius and Ulna in both arms under his strength, he grabbed the cultist by the shoulders and pulled him down towards his metal knee, he kept on bringing him down again and again, Hansel drove his knee further into the Vraksian's chest as internal organs liquefied under the constant abuse.

With the cultist limp and hollowed in his chest Hansel tossed him to the side, the Vraksian on the ground clutching his gut looked up and got four metal fingers going through his face, Hansel curled his fingers within the Vraksian's nasal cavities and pulled forward, ripping the man's face out.

Hansel tossed the parts of the traitor's face to the ground, he stared at Nero in righteous fury, "I sincerely hope you are more challenging."

"Your people killed mine, your people killed my family when we stayed loyal against all odds," Nero flexed his arms with clenched fists, unlike his former brethren he was more mutated by the powers he was gifted from his patron Gods, "you, WILL PAY FOR YOUR PEOPLE'S CRIMES!"

The Enforcer lunged forward with a right handed punch, Hansel dodged from the side and slammed his right elbow into the vastly older warrior's side, only his bones did not collapse. Nero swiped at Hansel but missed the Korpsman.

Hansel back peddled and raised his fists, "Your whole family?"

"Yes." Nero growled with fire in his eyes.

"Good, I hope their deaths were slow." Hansel taunted.

That's when the Vraksian lost it.

He dashed towards Hansel with a roundhouse, the Korpsman took the blow and kicked forward striking the traitor in the chest sending him back towards the fire but he kept himself from falling into it, he roared in fury as he swung furiously at Hansel, the Korpsman bobbed and weaved, absorbing shots with his raised arms and rushed forward knocking the Vraksian off balance.

Nero pushed Hansel back with his right hand holding him in place by his flak armor's shoulder pad and balled his left fist up with the intention of striking Hansel in his solar plexus, he delivered his strike only to clang against flak armor, he didn't stop as he screamed furiously slamming his fist into the armor as he started to dent it.

Hansel dipped his head and brought the back of his plasteel helmet up underneath the Enforcer's skull mask sending it flying outside the ring, Hansel grabbed the Vraksian's head and started head-butting him mercilessly, breaking the man's nose, as he was about to head butt him again Nero punched Hansel's helmeted forehead stumbling the Kriegsman backwards.

Nero wrapped his arms around Hansel's waist and began to steadily apply pressure as he tried to squeeze the boy to death.

"C'mon Hans! Kill him!" Julius called out as he rooted for his Kriegan friend desperately.

"Kill the Heretic! Don't let him win!" Saladin cried as Hansel started to struggle harder against the Python like grip.

"Hans! You can do it! I know you can!" Nicholas shouted as he contemplated jumping over the flames, only for them to burn hotter and higher.

Yang looked between the Imperials and the warriors of Chaos, she growled to herself before cheering, "YOU CAN DO IT! BREAK HIS STUPID FACE!"

Weiss joined in, "Don't let that savage win!"

Blake coughed and hacked with her bruised throat, "F-fight har-harder!"

Hansel wriggled in between Nero's grasp, he felt himself getting weaker as the heat and the lack of oxygen, if this continued then he would lose too much strength to where the traitor would be able to snap his back. He couldn't give in, he couldn't let this heathen win, it was his duty to the Emperor to die-

In the struggle Hansel looked over to his right and he caught a glimpse of Ruby, a tear rolling down her cheek.

-BUT THRONE DAMNIT NOT NOW!

Hansel reared his head back and began to head butt the cultist again and again, he wriggled and squirmed with a mighty push he broke out of Nero's hold. Hansel delivered a massive right hook knocking several teeth from Nero's mouth, with a left he sent spit mixed with blood flying, with another right he broke a cheek bone, with another left he popped Nero's right eye from its socket.

The Korpsman removed his helmet and began striking Nero with it, striking the man's head, his arms as he tried to shield himself, Hansel drove his knee into the Heretic's gut making him bend over in pain. Hansel's right knuckle cracked as he balled it into a fist and upper cutted the Vraksian flying backwards into one of his comrade's corpse.

Hansel panted as he doubled over, he fell forward unsteadily with his left arm supporting him, keeping him from landing face first into the ground.

Montresor crossed his arms as the circle faded, "I honestly expected better from the Vraksians. Well done, slavedog. You've won your little fight."

"So, are we expected to trust your word, Heretic?" Saladin asked baring his lascarbine.

Montresor sighed with crossed arms, "Fair is fair. I will however return with many more, we will burn a path across this word, we will create alters to our Gods with your bones, we will tear your petty Kingdoms apart from their seams, we will drown you in the blood of your people! Chaos Undivided has claimed this world and the Dark Gods shall have their prize!"

The Sorcerer snapped his fingers and in a flash he disappeared.

With a short burst of energy Hansel stood slowly, his muscles ached, he fractured something in his right hand, his ribs were bruised, but he was alive, he'd live with his relatively minor injuries and the slight dents made in his armor from his fight.

But now he knew Chaos was here.

"H-hans." Hansel snapped his head around and saw Ruby was stepping over the corpses to reach him, wordlessly he limped toward-

"HANS LOOK OUT!" Julius shouted as he tried aiming his plasma pistol behind Hansel.

The Kriegsman turned his head and saw that the traitor Nero was still barely alive, aiming a revolving pistol at Ruby, "You-you will know loss!"

Hansel used whatever strength he had and dashed towards Ruby, he turned around with his back covering her as the cultist fired his gun.

BANG!

BANG! PING!

BANG!

BANG! PING!

BANG! PING!

BANG!

Ruby opened her eyes and saw Hansel fall forward on his knees, "Hansel?"

The Kriegsman fell on his side and rolled on his back struggling to breathe, he coughed violently as he tore his mask off, blood spat out of his mouth as he tried to put pressure on his wounds.

"NO!" Julius shouted firing plasma rounds into Nero, lathering his corpse in molten plasma.

"No," Tears began to flow down Ruby's cheeks as she fell to her knees grabbing his hand, "nononononononononononononono! HANS! HANSEL!"

Hansel's eyes flickered twice, they started to feel heavy, he felt cold, things just seemed to slow down for the Kriegsman as sound itself seemed to fade into obscurity, into a sensation that he could no longer describe as the thoughts in his mind also began fade in a cool welcoming darkness.

He inhaled sharply as the world started to turn black, his last sight and last sound heard was Ruby over him screaming his name in desperation.


End of Death Korps of RWBY Volume 1.