Hello everyone and all, Melody here with a new chapter to Ace of Spades. I don't have much to say here at the moment so let's get to the chapter.

Sincerely, Melody

Betaed by ILikeHotDogs

Normal P.O.V.

After a week of waiting Six finally discovered he was now enlisted with the Atlassian Military. Before they had him go through basic training they had him show his skills to see if his claims were true. Needless to say, his superior officers felt it was unnecessary after witnessing his skills. When they had him show off his skill with firearms he proceeded to hit a target 400m's away six times through the head. They tested his unarmed skills which resulted in him nearly breaking the arm of the CQC instructor. Out of all the tests that he had to do though he was considered only decent when it came to combat with melee weapons. Everything else he passed with flying colours. In the end there was one last thing to do.

"We have to test your Aura levels." A doctor told him as he looked down at a clipboard. "The physical you were given marked you at a peak of physical fitness so your Aura should be normal." He explained then looked at Six who was scratching the back of his neck.

"And what if I don't got an Aura?" Six questioned while raising a scarred eyebrow.

"Then we'd unlock it." The doctor stated in a matter of fact tone. "It's a mostly simple affair."

Six was sent to a boring, mostly empty room where a man sat at a desk. The man had slightly tan skin even though outside the sun could barely be seen, his hair was a crimson crew cut, and his eyes were a dim amber. Atop his head was a set of wolf like ears. A plack on his desk read Flynn Blutmond. He wore the attire of a high ranking Atlassian Specialist. When Six walked in Flynn look up at him and smiled.

"Hey there, come on in." He said in a jovial tone which betrayed his slightly intimidating appearance. "I assume you're Six Sustrai?"

Six nodded. "That'd be me Sir."

Flynn chuckled and waved a hand. "Please, please don't call me Sir. Just Flynn, I'm not big on the Sir thing so most of subordinates call me by my name."

"Right, so the Doc said you'd unlock my Aura?" Six questioned which got a nod from the wolf faunus.

"Yes just give me a moment." Flynn said and rolled up his sleeves.

Flynn then placed a hand over Six's heart and mind before whispering something that Six couldn't hear. A few seconds later a ghostly greyish blue aura of light appeared around Six. As the light dissipated, the Courier didn't really feel different. He raised his hands a bit and felt as if there was a weight around him. When he looked up at Flynn he saw the man was slightly winded as he went and sat back down in his chair.

"What did you do?" Six questioned as he flexed a bit and saw the light appear again.

Flynn held up a single finger before taking a couple of breaths. "I unlocked your Aura." He answered. "Don't mind me though, this always happens when you unlock a person's Aura. You should return to the doctor now so he can check your Aura levels." He instructed.

Six gave a salute then left the room. Walking down the hallways, he got strange looks from people; As if they saw a dead man walking. They weren't really that off considering he had been dragged out of the grave before and had been in more fights that most. Six mostly ignored them and continued to walk.

The process the doctor used was simple and consisted of a scanner and a computer. Six had Aura levels similar to any other 23 year old man. After waiting a moment Six was given a few documents and was ordered to arrive at a certain base in six months time. He left the main headquarters then made his way back to the motel he was staying in. Emerald had expressed wanting to explore Atlas that day so he gave her a key to enter the room, about a hundred Lien, and his favourite knife, Blood-Nap, incase anyone tried to harm her in any way.

Emerald walked around the park in Atlas, arriving there after walking for a couple of hours. She had gotten herself some lunch around noon and was just wandering. Atlas wasn't anything like Eros so she had to figure out all of the best ways around through back alleyways and possibly rooftops depending on the building. As she wandered she bumped into a tall boy with long dark red hair and a stark white wolf tail which resulted in her falling back. When he turned and looked at her it revealed his pale pink eyes and tan skin. Beside him was a short girl with black hair, porcelain skin, and black eyes.

"Sorry about that." Emerald said as she looked up at him.

"Nah don't worry about it, no harm done." He replied and offered her a hand up which she took. "Never seen you around Atlas."

The girl let out an annoyed sigh. "Of course you haven't Lothur, it's impossible to remember everyone in Atlas."

The boy, Lothur, looked over to the girl and held up his hands. "Hey I happen to have a really good memory. Come on Fiana, you know this."

"Then why do you have a D in math?" The girl, Fiana, replied with a giggle.

"Hey! Not everyone is good with numbers!" Lothur shot back with a growl and a flash of his eyes.

Emerald just stared at the two for a moment with confusion written on her face until Fiana looked over to her. "Whatever, so what's your name?"

"Emerald Sustrai, and you two are?" Emerald answered while crossing her arms.

Lothur spoke up first. "I'm Lothur Blutmond, and this is Fiana Chernyy." He informed her while motioning to Fiana. "Nice to meetcha!" He said with a cheeky grin and offered his hand for a shake.

Emerald nodded and smiled a bit before taking his hand and shaking it. "Likewise."

"So wanna hangout?" Lothur asked as he withdrew his hand.

"Sure." Emerald replied and the trio went to an arcade that Lothur knew of.

When they arrived Emerald looked around at the arcade cabinets with fascination in her eyes. Lothur had went off to get the tokens and Fiana dragged Emerald off to one of the games which happened to be a fighting game. Once they had their tokens the trio took turns fighting against each other. This lasted for a couple of hours until they all had to head home. Promising to hangout the next day, Emerald left Lothur and Fiana to go back to the motel.

She had fun playing the game with her new friends and discovered they were both also thirteen like her. It was great, she had only been in Atlas for a little over a day now and had made two friends. This filled her with a happiness she had only last felt the day Six discovered her and became her adopted older brother. Everything seemed like it was going to go back to how it used to be when her parents were alive. When she arrived back at the motel she entered the room and saw Six asleep in a chair, when she saw the time she discovered it was around 10:00 pm. Shocked, she went and changed into her pajamas and went to bed.

The next morning she was awaken by a loud thud and curses being spewed out. Once she sat up she saw Six slowly getting to his feet from the ground. A giggle drew his attention to her. He smiled and got to his feet. Grabbing some clothes and body armour, Six went to the bathroom and took a quick shower. Once he was out he went to his bag and grabbed his pistol, A Light Shining In Darkness, and cleaned it while Emerald took some clothes and went to take a shower.

After about an hour the duo decided to go get breakfast at a nearby diner. They were both silent as they walked, Emerald insisting on holding Six's hand even though it was a cold, metal prosthetic. When they arrived Emerald saw Lothur and Fiana sitting with a group of other preteens and teens. Instantly she ran over to them to greet them.

"Hi guys!" She said as she looked at her to friends and their friends.

Lothur looked over first and smiled. "Oh, hey Em!" He replied with a large smile while Fiana offered a silent wave.

A girl with soft pink hair and wolf ears looked up from her scroll. "Oh so this is the girl you mentioned meeting last night?"

"Yup." Lothur answered with a nod.

"Who's these guys Em?" Six asked as he walked over and stood behind Emerald.

"These are friends I made yesterday." Emerald explained while motioning to Lothur and Fiana. "That's Lothur Blutmond, and that's Fiana Chernyy." She introduced them.

"Nice to meet ya sir." Lothur said as he extended a hand for Six to shake which the Courier promptly shook.

The rest of the group was introduced after that. Sitting beside Lothur was his older twin sister, Nadja, while the other three were their friends, Vivian Thorvaldsson a ginger girl, Renwin Vesperia a muscular young teen, and Maroon Roland a lithe panther fanus. Emerald asked if she could sit with them and Six allowed it as he went and sat at the counter. Behind him he could hear the group of seven kids talking about random things he had no clue about. After ordering food for himself and Emerald, Six took out the scroll he had had acquired and started reading the news. Two days ago there was a raid on a train owned by the Schnee Dust company and a village in Haven was destroyed by a strange Grimm.

Reading news of the world was an interesting thing to the Courier. He always was able to get news back in the Mojave by talking to people or listening to Mr. New Vegas but this was a more efficient way of acquiring it. Learning about how the world moved was fascinating, learning new weapons developments or technological advancements or even famous new recipes. Gaining such information was vital to growth in the eyes of the Courier. If he wasn't able to gain information about Benny then he would've never gotten his revenge, and if he never got information from Joshua Graham he would've never been set on a winding and strange path that ended with him using a teleportation device given to him by a group of floating brains.

Completely absorbed by the article he was reading, Six didn't notice when someone said his name. It took someone placing a hand on his shoulder to finally drag him back to reality. When he turned to the person he saw his superior officer, Flynn, smiling at him. Standing up, Six saluted the man.

"At ease." Flynn sheepishly chuckled as he took the stool beside Six's. "How's your morning been? My kids just told me their friends with your little sister."

"Good'n your's?" Six replied as he sat down and took a sip of his coffee.

"Mine's been fine, I have today off so I brought my kids and their friends here for breakfast." Flynn replied as he ordered a cup for himself.

"Em and I came here cause we're currently stayin' at a motel till we get an apartment." Six informed his superior.

"Really? Well you should've told me yesterday!" Flynn exclaimed loudly which caused Six to wince a bit at the sheer volume of the man's voice.

Raising an eyebrow, Six spoke, "And why's that Flynn?"

Flynn gave a cheeky grin as he was served his coffee. "Well as a member of my team it's my job to assist you in anyway I can. If you need a place to stay, I have a spare room at my house until you find a place of your own." He explained as he pulled out his scroll and showed Six a picture of his house.

Bafflement was clear on Six's face. "You sure?" He asked cautiously. When Flynn nodded Six looked back to the kids. "Hey, Em!" He called to her. The mint haired preteen looked up from her conversation and walked over to where Six and Flynn were sitting.

"Yeah Six?" She asked once she stood in front of him.

"My boss offered to let us live with him, ya alright with that?" He asked. Emerald went wide eyed then nodded enthusiastically. "Looks like we'll be stayin' with ya for a bit then Flynn." He told his boss who just smiled.

The large group stayed at the diner for about another hour before they all piled up into Flynn's pick-up truck. Before heading to the Blutmond residence, they went to the motel first so Six and Emerald could collect their belongings. Checking out was more of a hassle than Six thought it would be but after half an hour of talking he was finally able to give over the key cards and they got going. Six opted to sit in the bed of the truck with Emerald and the other kids during the long drive.

The Blutmond residence was a large, two story, grey colored house with a garage and a shed out in the country. Once they parked all of the kids got out and rushed inside to hangout, with Emerald being slightly hesitant until Six motioned for her to go with them. Gathering the bags, Six was lead inside the house by Flynn. The entrance of the house was painted burgundy and had two hallways and a staircase. One hallway lead to the living room which also had a burgundy colour to it while the other lead to a dining room and farther to the kitchen. Going up the stairs, Flynn lead Six to a bedroom at the end of the hallway. The room had black walls with a single bed, dresser, two bedside tables, a closet, and a small tv sitting on top of the dresser. Six took out his and Emerald's belongings then put them all away in the dresser and closet.

Emerald sat in Lothur and Nadja's room playing video games with the others. They were taking turns each death and she had just died so she had a while till she was going to play again. The bedroom was decorated with posters, medals, and awards that the pair of twins had acquired at school and other places. Seeing all of the medals and awards made Emerald silently envious of them which made her decide that she wanted to go to a combat school. Envy wasn't all of it though because she also wanted to be like Six. Back in Eros she had seen him fight others and Grimm, getting injured in the process. She wanted to help him in some way and becoming a Huntress seemed like it would be the easiest path.

This idea formed a discussion with the others about what they experienced at the Atlas Junior Academy. Renwin and Vivian were the greatest of help in this regard since they were at the top of their class at the school even though they were only 14. They told her stories about the school and informed her that she had a year until she had a chance at entering the school. After about an hour of playing Emerald went to find Six. After a little bit of searching she found him sitting in the dining room with Flynn and a woman. The woman was pale with pink hair and foggy light brown eyes. When Six saw her he motioned for her to come over and take a seat, which she did.

"This is Bruna, Flynn's wife." Six introduced the woman who smiled in her direction.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Emerald." She introduced herself to the woman while holding out her hand.

Flynn moved Bruna's hand to shake Emerald's. "Hello there." She said kindly.

"Now she's blind so yer gonna have to be careful while goin' around the house." Six explained.

The rest of the night was filled with mostly talking between the four until Flynn drove the other kids home and Six helped make dinner. They all ate together that night and Six showed Emerald their room. She told him that night before they went to sleep, Six opting to sleep on the floor, that she wanted to go to Atlas Junior Academy to learn how to be a Huntress. He was wary about this but agreed to let her, then they went to sleep; Ready for the future.

And that's a wrap. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Thanks ILikHotDogs, your help is appreciated. Let's get to the reviews,

Thedark2: I might throw in a character from a Tabletop RPG I played called RIFTS but I'm not big on multicrossover stories. Thanks for the review and I'm glad you find it interesting.

Ty: Well he's more of an adopted older brother since he's only ten years older

ComparedDread12: Glad you think it's good so far, the reason why I'm not going to make him atomize stuff is because of how I play New Vegas. I really only carry the bare essentials when it comes to gear which is basically stuff that he could feasibly carry. Yep, it is Graham's armour, for his huntsmen gear it'll probably be that or the Elite Riot Gear since they both look great.

Kpmh2001: Glad you find it interesting!

Anyway, leave a review cause I love getting feedback. Again I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Until next time have a great day and everything like that.