"Gory gory what a Helluva way to die," I sang to myself drifting down into the forest via parachute, not gonna describe the pain and suffering I endured with getting launched off a cliff. At least Jaune was saved by Pyrrha, and I brought a parachute.
The rest of them figured out their landing strategies on their own, "now while I'm stuck up here I may as well browse the store, could be fun," I said bringing up the shop's menu.
[Specials]
(Radio Demon Set)
Become the radio demon you know you are with this prepackaged set of equipment.
{10000 lien}
(Grand Wizard)
Mana and stuff to help you dominate the world with your magic.
{15000 lien}
(Flametrooper)
Hans Get Ze Flammenwerfer!
{4000 lien}
Alright then, looks like the shop is a complete mess, guess I'll get the radio demon set, if only for the microphone cane, always wanted to spin that thing around.
Snatching a pair of binoculars from the creative inventory I look down through them to try and spot where the temple is, "looks like it's about 1 mile or two up north from where I am," I said putting the binoculars away and bracing for the landing.
Getting down and out of the parachute harness I hear a rustling, oh great I barely landed and there's already a Grimm, Jesus. I grabbed a m1 garand out of the creative window and loaded it.
"Alright you Grimm sonuvabitch come and bi-" I said noticing a red and white outline coming closer, and then I hear them arguing about something, "never mind it's only you two," I said pointing my rifle down to the ground.
"Oh hey Brian, you know where we're supposed to go?" Ruby asked.
"Yep, off that way," I pointed north, "did neither of you own a compass or made a quick look around?" I asked pulling a compass out of my pocket.
"Guess I should've packed one with me," Ruby said rubbing the back of her neck.
"Ehh Ozpin never said too, the both of you should think outside the box on what you should bring with you," I said walking in the direction of the temple.
Looking back, I notice that the two still haven't moved, "what are ya standing around for, on me, let's move!" I shouted at the pair.
Walking around for an hour on end isn't the most exciting thing in the world, especially since miss heiress to the SDC is complaint about the age of her partner, "Alright listen up, if you two want to be huntresses you're gonna need to be able to work together, and if you can't do that I fear for your chances out in the wild," I said annoyed.
"I refuse to work with someone so childish," Weiss said indignantly.
"How about this princess, the way I see it, you've got a couple of choices, work together and pass initiation, listen to me and I'll make you pass it, or you two can both fail, I don't care what happens, I don't care about your past or status, I just care about getting through today alive understand that!" I said annoyed.
"Fine, we'll do it your way since you seem so ready to bark orders," Weiss said.
"Alright then, Ruby take point, and that means go ahead of us, Weiss you'll be in the center, and I'll cover our rear," I said directing the two.
"Got it," Ruby said walking ahead a couple of feet.
"Fine," Weiss said following ruby.
"Great, now then, Ruby if you notice anything off you get back here and report it to me," I shouted.
"Got it!" She responded.
Sighing internally I continue to think about how best to convince Weiss to not be such a … Err I'd say bitch but she doesn't deserve that, arrogant, yeah arrogant is the word I'll use. Perhaps I should just let it play out as it will, and if nothing else I'll step in and talk with her.
Walking to a clearing we run into Yang and her partner, Blake Belladonna, "hey sis, funny running into you, were you searching for me?" Yang asked
"Nope, just walking to the temple we should be there soon," she said putting away crescent Rose.
"Indeed we are, Yang I see you've found a partner," I said tipping my helmet forward.
"Yep, what about you?"
"Unfortunately not, I ran into these two," point at Weiss and Ruby, "arguing, well more like miss Schnee here complaining, while Ruby was defending herself."
"Is that so?" Yang asked with an eyebrow raised.
"It's not that bad," Ruby said trying to deflect the situation.
"Either way we ought to get moving, lest we get caught with our pants down," I said looking through my binoculars again, not seeing anything we start moving towards the temple.
"So unique eye color kiddo," I said to ruby who is walking next to me.
"Yeah, it's always been like that, dunno why," she said smiling.
"Who would know why the world works the way it does," I said chuckling.
"Yeah, life's weird isn't it," she said cutting some vines away.
"Yep, but I suppose that's just the way it'll always work," I said looking around.
"Yep," she said back.
"What are you two ramblng about?" Yang asked catching up with us.
"Nothing important, Idle chatter to calm the nerves I suppose," I said shrugging, "up ahead, we've got a clearing in this dense forest, I think we've arrived," I said pointing an area with significantly more light than where we were standing.
Reaching the clearing we all hear a scream, "so girls in trouble!" Yang said looking in the direction of the sound.
Facepalming, I sighed and speak, "guys, our objective is in front of us, grab it and then we go around saving people," I said moving towards the temple.
At which point I hear a loud caw, and by loud I mean near deafening, "Jesus what the fuck was that!?" I said halting right in front of a strafing of feathers, "oh shit, nevermore!" I said running for cover.
"What's the plan now?!" Weiss shouted.
"No idea, how about you all start shooting!" I yell.
"Are you mad?!" She yelled back.
"Possibly!" I said smiling, this is gonna be fun, what else need I say. Oh don't get me wrong I'm gonna puke from all this stress in the morning but the here and now, this has been the most interesting thing I've seen all day.
"You heard him, start shooting," Ruby said firing at the Grimm.
Looking into my inventory I find a radio I snatched from the creative inventory.
1x SCR 1080 [Creative] (Multiverse): A seeming normal radio set, it can call in support from all over the multiverse.
A standard looking walkie talkie radio set, I grab the receiver and speak into it, "easy red, easy red, I require P-51 air support, we've got an enemy bird giving us problems," I barked into the radio, now I have no clue if that is actual radio jargon, but screw it I'll make it up as I go, seems to have worked so far.
"Copy easy green, air support inbound," the radio operator responded. A portal opened in the sky above with three P-51D Mustangs flying through firing away at the nevermore quickly killing the beast, I mean I doubt almost anything living could stand up to the fire of what 18 browning 50 caliber machine guns, dissolving away into a black mist I walk over to team RWBY.
"So what do you think of that?" I said pointing at the P-51s that are now returning to where they came from.
"What was that, those don't look atleasian or mistrialian?" Weiss asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Those were P-51D mustangs, and they just saved us time, now c'mon let's get back to the school," I said pointing towards the cliffs.
"Oh not without us you aren't!" A familiar voice shouted at me. Hmm, guess the universe changed and Jaune is now feeling more confident, good, good, perhaps I should help him more, seems to do him good...what would I know though.
"Alright what-" I turn around, "the fuck is that?!, start firing!" I shouted at team RWBY.
Contemplating what to do I grabbed the microphone staff bought earlier and twirl it while thinking. Hmm wonder if I could get a bazooka and kill it, or, or I could just use one of the skill books and get some eldritch powers to kill it, "yes I think that'll do," I said aloud.
"Got a plan Brian?!" Yang shouted falling back to my position.
"Yep," I said before grabbing a skill book labeled, 'tentacle summoning and other eldritch powers made simple', funny would real funny.
"Is reading right now the best idea!" Jaune shouted joining up with the rest of us.
"Could be a worse time, in any case where's your partner?" I asked.
"Not the time!," he said back.
"Of course, just give me a second," I said clicking the learn skill button floating on the book.
You have learned a new skill
Eldritch tentacles [1/100 +/-]: I'm not gonna explain this, two reasons number one, self explanatory, number two, tentacles.
Cost: no cost since you have creative mode on.
Maxing out the skill I said "Welp here we go," before snapping my fingers.
Mere feet in front of all of us the death stalker stopped, a portal with large and small tentacles alike coming out of it holding the creature in place, I speak into my microphone staff, my voice coming out louder yet modulated with a radio crackle, "well go on it's just sitting there now,"
"Not even gonna start asking," Ruby said before running in.
Teams RWBY and JNPR all surround it, quickly killing it with its own stinger, the tentacles soon go away on their own accord and the portal closes, "Well I'm starved, who wants jambalaya, a demon friend of mine showed me a great recipe for it, in fact you could say that kick was straight out of hell" I said laughing before looking at the group of students.
"Yeah I could go for some food right about now," Ruby said, the rest of them nodding in agreement.
None of them laughed, Ehh makes sense demons don't exist in remnant, I mean unless Grimm count, does Grimm count, I say it does until proven wrong, "well I'm sure the cafeteria will be open for lunch, it's about that time in any case," I said looking at my watch.
"Let's go then," Nora shouted running to the staircase I made the other day.
Walking up the stairs I talk with Jaune and Ruby, "so Jaune how didja manage to anger that deathstalker?" I asked him.
"Funny thing, I thought it's tail was the relic, boy was I wrong," he said scratching the back of his head.
"Ouch," Ruby said.
"No kiddin, hey at least we're all a good enough of a team together that we were able to kill it," I said patting his back.
"I mean you seemed to do most of the heavy lifting," Ruby said mock punching my shoulder.
"Hey we still work well as a team nonetheless," I said chuckling.
"Suppose we should stick together," Jaune said.
"Yep," I replied.
"Welcome back students," Ozpin greeted us.
"Afternoon sir," we all said in some form or another.
"Interesting display there at the end mr Nash," Ozpin pointed out.
"Yeah well, I try," I said, smirking.
"Indeed you do," Ozpin said before taking a sip of his coffee, "well since you all finished early you get to hear who your teams are," he told the group.
"Which are?" Weiss asked.
"Teams RWBY and JNRP," Ozpin said.
"What about Brian?" Ruby asked.
"He'll be interspersed between your teams since you all seem to work well together," Glynda said walking to us and taking our relics.
"Lovely," I said rolling my eyes, looks like he had a solution to the problem of uneven numbers, clever girl Ozpin clever girl.
And that's initiation done.
Not much else to say, have a nice day.