Heo people, sorry about being like three months late one this one. I kept meaning to work on this and got sidetracked instantly ninety percent of the time. Anyways, I don't want to delay this anymore, so here is my horrible attempt at an story for all you people to read

One day before Beacon Orientation

Atlas: Schnee Manor

Helios R Briggs

Time: 5:39 AM

No matter how hard she tried, no matter what she did, Weiss was, and probably never would be… a morning person

The sun hadn't even risen yet when Helios woke Weiss up. Weiss was groggily sitting with her suitcases on the cart, barely able to keep herself awake as it was pulled along by Helios through the halls of the Manor

" 'Yawn' Why are we up so early again?" Weiss asked while wiping the sandman's sand from her eyes

" We are up early because I have to get us to Vale in the next few hours unless you want to miss Beacon Orientation because someone decided that she didn't want to spend one less night in her own bed then she absolutely had to"

" Hey… my bed has… has some really nice blankets" she wearily replied, nearly falling asleep mid sentence

Helios gave her a questioning look, before stopping the cart and grabbing a pillow off a random nearby couch

' they won't miss a single pillow… why do they have couches in the hallways anyway?'

Taking the pillow and moving to where Weiss was sitting. Weiss slowly looked up towards Helios with a sleepy look in her eyes, Helios set the pillow next to her on the cart before gently laying her onto it

" Alright, you sleep, and I'll deal with everything else… Freeloader"

" I'm… not…" And she was out like an light

Helios, after making sure that Weiss wouldn't fall off the cart in her sleep, moved back to the front of the cart and began pulling once again. Throughout the entire trip he didn't see a single person, not even Whitley, who, unlike his sister, was up at almost all hours of the day

Whitley was a complicated topic for the Simulacrum, the boy was like Weiss in many ways, they both shared an unwavering determination to accomplish anything they put their minds to. While Weiss focuses on becoming a huntress, Whitley tries to become the perfect heir for the SDC, constantly trying to one up his sisters, something Helios couldn't blame him for. Helios understood what it felt like to be ignored by others due to his age

The boy's age left him ignored by everyone, let it be the news or his own family. Despite the amazing achievements Whitley has to his name, he had graduated from some fancy Atlasian College not too long ago! And he's only fifteen! But not even that had gotten attention besides a mention and the news the next day. The boy had quite the head on his shoulders and that impressed Helios

Helios had talked with the boy several times over the course of his stay at the Schnee Manor, usually just brief greetings, only a handful of times had they ever really had a lengthy discussion, and those were usually cut short by Weiss requesting assistance with some kind of ability related to her semblance

Helios would admit that he was jealous of the seemingly magic abilities. Helios had first learned of the powers when he saw Weiss use them in combat to make herself move faster to avoid one of his punches and then try to block an axe kick with another, which did not help as the Glyph shattered under the immense force. He later had questioned her about the Glyphs, which she had answered with an lengthy lecture

"- and some semblances are actually hereditary, like mine though, most are just random. I'm still surprised though, your home had none of these things? No aura, Grimm, or dust? It must be so peaceful there" Weiss mused, as she drank Tea from an extremely expensive looking Tea cup

" Nope, my version of humanity never faced the Grimm, we never had aura, and we never had elemental crystals. We didn't even have those faunus that you hate so much. But just because we didn't have anything exciting doesn't mean that we don't have problems… we have a lot of problems back home, look at me for example, I'm barely a teenager and I lost my family, and I've been turned into a literal killing machine, willingly though. That's not to mention the fact that I literally died several times now. And those are just My problems. The Frontier is a mess, and the core systems haven't been heard from in years now. Honestly Remnant is probably better off than My home is, you got lucky when you were born here to this family" Helios explained to Weiss

" That's… encouraging, I think?" Weiss questioned, suddenly finding her Tea much more interesting

Eventually, after several minutes of pulling the cart of highly explosive dust through the halls of the Manor, Helios and the cart had made their way all the way out of the Manor to the field behind it were his ship sat, and began pulling the cart up the ramp towards his ships Titan-dropbay

From that point on, the trip was much simpler. That's mostly because after he got into his ship he just called over a MRVN to pull the cart for him, said MRVN only decided to turn on when he started to warm up the ship an hour or two ago.

Within five minutes of boarding the ship, Helios was in the Control room with a sleeping Weiss and several suitcases of explosive materials

' Now that might sound dangerous, but Weiss really is harmless' Helios' robotic nature not stopping him from letting a soft chuckle from escape his speakers

With getting all of Weiss' things onto the ship out of the way with, all that was left was to plot the autopilot course to just outside of the kingdom of Vales air space, at which point he would take control for landing and such

Plotting the ships course was easy, all he had to do was type in the desired location, and edit the ships AI Generated course in a few different areas

After that was done with, he confirmed the path and let the ship begin to take off so he could sit back and relax… looking towards the console Helios spotted the ETA timer, which read four hours

Looking around the room for something to keep him occupied for the next four hours, Helios saw nothing except for Weiss, which was off the table because trying to mess with her while she was asleep was asking for a brutal and painful death

' Yea, I've had enough of those for one measly existence'

Sitting in his chair for the next four hours was not an desirable way to spend his time, so Helios found something better to do, and all it took was connecting his CPU to the CCT net. He disabled his optics and the lights marking them went out, and then pulled up the CCT net search page and began his search for something Weiss had mentioned earlier

He began searching for information on Grimm.

Vale:

Vale City Airport

Weiss Schnee

Time: 6:21 PM

An irate Weiss watched the scene unfold in front of her

" This is absolutely idiotic, I don't understand why these… imbeciles insist on doing this!" Weiss silently yelled while Helios attempted to calm her down before she caused a scene

" They are all just doing their jobs Weiss, it's nothing to be worked up about" Helios said as he watched one particularly uncaring guard open another suitcase of dust and practically dump it out onto the floor, a mental grimace forming as the highly volatile vials of dust tumbled out and onto the ground, thankfully not setting off

" It is Definitely something I should be worked up about! If I had my way!-" Weiss was abruptly cut off when one of the Airport Security Guards interrupted her

" All the bags are clear, thank you for being patient Sir" the security Guard said to Helios, somehow completely ignoring Weiss' glare

After giving his thanks to the man, Helios repacked the bags before putting them on the cart and moving the cart towards Weiss

" Alright Weiss, you'll have to take the bags from here"

" Excuse me? What do you need to do that needs you to leave and make me go though Vale to Beacon alone?"

" I need to take my ship and land it in the airfield at Beacon, I can't exactly leave it here at the airport. And plus, the docks to Beacon are literally a block away from here, you don't have to walk far" the pilot explained

" Why did we even come here then? Why didn't you just take us straight to Beacon?" Weiss looked curiously at her friend

" Weiss, I thought you were going to take your father's place as CEO one day, shouldn't you know how Vale airport customs work? You can't enter Vale airspace without landing at a airport and showing identification, and it would be better for you to get into Beacon the same way as you peers, wouldn't want to miss something important" Helios answered

" Fine, but you better be waiting for me at Beacon" Weiss said threateningly, obviously annoyed by the CEO comment

" Don't worry, I will" Helios said, shrugging off the icy glare from his friend

At that the two parted ways, Weiss to go and ride a transport to Beacon Academy, while Helios would take a much more direct route to the Academy

Weiss pushed the double doors of the airport open, quickly moving through them and pulling the cart along with her, after exiting the parking lot outside of the airport she began walking down the sidewalk of the street towards the Beacon air docks which were only a block away. Along the way, she passed several people who judging by the clothing, posture, and suitcases they were pulling with them, were others who were applying to get into Beacon

Upon arrival at the air docks, Weiss found they were not what she was exactly expecting, she expected an airport-like building, but what she got was a large open platform with teller gates and two massive bullheads that were used to transport people back and forth from Beacon

Pulling herself and her suitcases with her, she approached the teller gates, she was surprised when the teller only asked for her ID, which they then cross checked with the applicant list, before letting her through

If the teller gates weren't enough to surprise her, then the way the Bullheads operated definitely did. While actual transport Bullheads had assigned seats, the beacon Bullheads were a first come first served system, something she didn't particularly like

Weiss, despite her preferences, began to move towards the first bullhead, before boarding it and looking for a seat. It took her about a minute, but Weiss managed to procure two seats closer to the door. One for her and one for her cases of dust, which, after the debacle at the airport, were strapped together. It did not take very long for the rest of the seats to be filled, and a minute after that, the doors closed and the Bullhead began to lift off the ground. Now that the Bullhead was full and she had a while to look at them, she started to look at the other applicants to see if any of them were interesting

There were not very many people of interest on the Bullhead to her surprise, those who were of interest were… well they were as one might say, kind of… eccentric? There were two girls directly across from her, one with with blonde hair and what appears to be two massive bracelets with shotgun shells strapped to them, and the other who is wearing way too much black and red with a large Scythe… which she was using to keep the other girl away

" Yang! Stop it! You hug me like that again and you'll break my back!"

" No I won't, I'm not that strong"

" Yes you are! You're literally as strong as an Ursa!"

The two continued like this for some time, Weiss looking away towards other applicants before she saw the end of their little fight. The next applicant was especially interesting, she was none other than Pyrrha Nikos. Weiss recalled that she was the winner of the Mistral Regional Tournament four years in a row, which was quite the achievement

Weiss would have gone to talk to her, but she was currently being swarmed be different applicants who seemed to know of her fame, asking for autographs and such, an few even asking if she would want to be on the same team

' humf, as if Pyrrha Nikos of all people would team up with such riffraff'

A little later the Bullhead touched down on Beacon grounds, when this happened, Weiss waited for the crowd of other applicants to rush out. After the others left she got up, placed her suitcases onto the cart, and then pulled the cart out the Bullhead, she moved a few feet from the Bullhead before stopping and looking around for Helios

After looking around and not seeing Helios, Weiss, Albeit with some annoyance, moved on to the orientation… before she was blindsided by the red and black garbed girl from before

forty minutes to an hour later

" You can't check it! It's an CARGO Hauler! It will take you hours to do it and I need to get to Orientation!" Helios nearly screamed

" I don't care. Your ship needs checked in order for me to let you walk the premises, unless you have written documentation from the headmaster you cannot walk the grounds" Ann Greene said with her dull monotone voice, not even looking at the Simulacrum, instead playing with her scroll

" Documentation!? You Couldn't Have Led With That!? I have documents here allowing the transport of my equipment to the academy grounds here!" Helios said while pulling the folded papers out of an pocket on his chest

Ann Greene grabbed the papers out of his hand before looking away from her scroll for the first time in this entire conversation for about three seconds before she handed them back and looked back to the scroll

" You're free to go kid" she said before turning and walking away, somehow never looking away from the scroll for a second time

Helios, seeing that he could finally leave to the orientation, made to move away from spare air docks behind the dorm buildings and move towards the amphitheater of the academy, it was thankfully not an long walk

But Helios arrived only to find that the orientation had finished and all the applicants along with the guide were gone. They were probably long gone, so if Helios wanted to find where the applicants had gone he would probably have to track Weiss' Scroll

But before he could even start the program to track her scroll he felt a hand come to rest on his shoulder, Helios' right hand moving towards the knife sheathed in is left arm

" Excuse me but shouldn't you be with the rest of the applicants young man?"

Turning around counterclockwise to obscure the knife gripped in his right hand, Helios found himself face to face with a faculty member dressed in green. The man held a certain authority with his presence alone, the kind of feeling that reminded Helios of a retired pilot, said feelings further solidified when the man brought a mug of appeared to be Hot Coco to his lips, Helios seeing that it was only a member of the schools facility moved his hand away from the knife

" Sorry, I got lost and only just now found the amphitheater. Could you tell me where everyone else is?"

" Of course, they are all in the ballroom, I was on my way there so do you mind if we walk together?"

"Not at all, sir"

And with that the two began their walk to the ballroom, with the man in green leading the way. After a few moments of silence, the man tried to strike up conversation

" So, who might you be exactly, might you be?" The green clothed man inquired

" I'm Helios Briggs, and you?"

" I am Ozpin, headmaster of this academy"

" Well it's a pleasure to meet you, sir"

" Helios Briggs… I remember you from the applicant list" Ozpin said, the curious look on his face matching his tone

' He remembers me? But we got the acceptance letter two months ago? No way he could have remembered all this time' the two stopped walking in the middle of a garden with several scattered benches and Ozpin began speaking again

" You have quite the record Briggs… and by that I mean there is nothing about you anywhere, you aren't recorded as a person in any government database on Remnant. Now that wouldn't be surprising, given that an astounding sixty-seven percent of people born outside the walls of any Kingdom are not recorded until their later years of life. But given the fact that you were recommended to attend my Academy by Jacques Schnee alongside his daughter, told me that you were no figure of insignificance. There is also the fact that you are not one, not two, but three years underaged to even attend my Academy… you should be only just beginning your first year in an preprepatory combat school…"

Things were now much more tense than they were a moment ago, Helios' left hand began to slowly move towards his holstered Wingman on his leg, Ozpin only smiled in response and took an long sip from his mug

" But despite that you show at least a small amount of combat training given that you have reached for one of your weapons twice now" Ozpin pointed out, giving Helios a wide grin

" And then there is your name, Helios Rook Briggs. Tell me, what colour does that refer to?"

" … None?"

" Exactly, judging by your reaction you don't know the exact depths of this. If you knew anything about history, you would know the colour naming rule, the unofficial law that everyone follows, the law that states that all children born are to be named after a colour, even if it is just by reference"

" So, to summarize, a child- young teenager with no record, combat training, and a name that so blatantly does not follow the colour naming rule is recommended to attend the most well known and highest ranked combat school in the world by the wealthiest business man on the planet… sounds like the start of an bad joke"

At this point Helios' hand now had his massive Wingman revolver tightly held to his side, Ozpin still paid no mind to this and continued giving Helios' a grin… until his face gave way to an grimace and gave Helios a harsh glare

" So Helios Rook Briggs, why are you here, in my school. And don't bother trying to lie your way out of here, you wouldn't get far" Ozpin stated with tone of finality in his voice

"... 'sigh' I'm really not getting out of this am I?" Helios asked one last time, before sitting down on a bench directly across from Ozpin and explaining himself

" Well, my full name is, as you said a moment ago, Helios Rook Briggs. I was born on December 31, 2689. I was euthanized on December 30, 2701 and reborn on January 1, 2702. I am a captain in the 6-4 PMC Pilot Division, and am a Generation 10 Pilot"

" On January 27, 2703, I was on a resupply mission when my ship experienced what I can only describe as an interdimensional anomaly that displaced me, my ship, and everything in it roughly two or three kilometers above Atlas city, which afterwards I crash landed about one thousand meters from the Schnee residence"

" After I was recovered from the crash site by Weiss Schnee, I was hired by her father to work as a combat tutor in exchange for a place for me to stay. Three months ago, Jacques offered me a place in this Academy in exchange for keeping his daughter safe while she stays here in vale… and that's it, there's my story"

Ozpin sat staring at the boy across from him with a blank look in his face, obviously taking a moment to process everything that was just said

" Did you say 'interdimensional anomaly'? Are you saying that you are from a different dimension?" Ozpin said with audible doubt in his tone

" That is what I am saying, sir" Helios confirmed

" And did you say 'euthanized' and 'reborn'? As in, you were killed and then Brought Back?"

" Yes, that is what I meant"

" So you're saying that it is possible to bring the dead back to life where you're from?"

"... Under the right circumstances" Helios evaded

" And what might those circumstances be?" Ozpin said, digging for more information

" I don't see how that applies to the conversation at hand"

" I see, back to said conversation, what are your intentions here in my school?"

" I intend to become an huntsman so I can continue to do what I'm good at, killing things"

" And that's it? You don't say, want to do something different with your life?"

" I could, but why do something other than what I was built for"

" Built for? I'm afraid I don't follow"

" Well, take a long look at me, does it look like a human or faunus could fit into all this?" Helios said while gesturing to himself and his various limbs that were much to thin for any human to fit into

"... No, I can say it does"

" Well, That's because…" Helios undid the latches next to either of his shoulders before he grabbed the corner of his front chest plate, right below his shoulder

" They aren't supposed to in the first place" he said while he pulled away the front plate of his chassis, exposing the delicate interior mechanisms of his body

Ozpin expected many things when Helios began to pry away his armor, an complex network of even more complex parts making up a machine in his to-be students chest was not one of them, seeing that one of his potential students was literally more machine than his friend James was… surprising

" I am what is known as an Simulacrum where I'm from, you could call me a synthetic-human if you looked at me right"

" I… well, were you always a… Simulacrum?"

" No, I was flesh and bone like you once, I was… gravely injured once and the only way to continue my career as a pilot was to switch"

" … Well, I'm quite impressed to be honest, to know that there is a place out there, where humanity has advanced to the point of synthetic life is something rather… uplifting to hear in the world we live in today"

And with that the conversation settled into a comfortable silence, neither man willing to drag the conversation out any longer

" Well, as I see it, there is no problem that I have with you attending my Academy. Now, let's see about getting you to the ballroom"

Ozpin, after saying this got up off the bench and began walking again, Helios following suit shortly after

And Scene! Is it just me or is this chapter slot shorter than the first one? Probably is. Also, did I do Ozpin right? I don't feel the greatest with how I portrayed him. And onto a more important note

(Review reply?)[don't know what else to call it]Al, Your review wasn't disheartening at all! It was the thing that made me go back and rewrite the first chapter! Thanks for it because it's what helped me to make this story better (least I hope I made it better)

Anyways, that's all i got to say here, Thanks for reading, and reviews are appreciated! See you all next chapter!